Disclaimers: For the hundredth... okay... maybe not a hundred times... but how many time must I tell you that I don't own Naruto?! Sheesh!
Warning: OOC-ness ahead! You have been warned!
Pairings: Not yet decided.
Author's notes: Gee...! Thanks a lot everyone! Your reviews were great and encouraging! I never thought that you guys would actually like my story! Thanks a lot! And for that, I'll update sooner than expected! This may be my fastest updation just yet! Here are the replies to the reviews!
Maliciously Creative: (sweatdrops) Well... err... about Kisame... Ehehehe... I just find it funny to give Kisame that kind of attitude. Yup! He'll still be teamed up with team seven! Even though I really don't like Sakura. Well... thanks a lot! I'm glad you like it!
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!!!! (sorry, the 'at' symbols won't appear on screen): A pair? I don't think so. Maybe I would, maybe I wouldn't. But most likely I wouldn't. I also like it the way it is. This is more of a loyalty fic. Thank you!
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Author: Wah!!! I really love you guys! Thank you a lot! I'm glad that you like this fic! That's why I'm making this update fast! I'm in the mood right now so I updated early. Here's chapter three then!
Chapter 3:
As the hidden leaf inhabitants slept peacefully, they don't even have the tiniest feeling that their destruction would soon come...
...given by the boy who they thought that they mercilessly killed during the forest fire four years ago.
The kyuubi has now returned.
Now= = = = =
/Where are we going next, kit?/
Naruto smirked. ::Of course we're going to talk to the hokage, fox.::
The blond boy stayed outside for a moment as they waited for the people to scatter on the streets. When the sun was already clearly seen in the sky, the boy then started to slowly walk towards the hokage's office.
As he walked, he scanned the place as well. He snickered as he noticed that nothing much have changed over the years. The only difference was no one really gave him any notice. Naruto smirked again under his mask.
'It seems that no one really missed their kyuubi child. Hah. What a bunch of foolish humans.' He thought. A few more minutes of walking, he finally reached the hokage's office.
"Excuse me," He said calmly as he faced the officer. "May I speak with the hokage?" He asked. The officer stared at him for a few seconds.
"I don't recognize you from here young man. Who are you and what is your identity?" The officer asked. Naruto sighed inwardly.
'This is where the personality thing comes in. Now for a name... hmm... aha. I got one.' He thought as he faced the officer again. "Uyoma Naiki (a/n: I seriously can't think of another name)." He said.
"From what village?"
"None. I'm a wanderer. I wish to be registered here as a leaf shinobi." Naruto said as he silently stared at the officer calmly even though his rage was starting to grow every single second he stays in that place.
Finally, the officer nodded and told him to meet the hokage. There they will discuss the more important matters.
Naruto nodded and went to the hokage's office. The hokage first looked shocked to see him but shrugged it off as a look-alike. After all, the Uzumaki Naruto that he knew was already dead.
"You're Uyoma Naiki, am I correct?"
"Yes Hokage-sama."
"And you would like to be registered as a leaf-nin."
"Hai."
"This could be arranged. Today is the graduation day of the academy. I will give you a special permit to join. However, you would start at the genin level, whatever your skill level may be. Am I clear?"
"Yes Hokage-sama."
The hokage nodded. "You may leave now as I will now make your papers for you being an official leaf-nin of the village."
With that, Naruto nodded and went out of the tower as he headed towards the ninja academy.
/Hah. Hey kit. This exam would be a piece of cake./
::Yeah right, kyuubi. Genin only? Che. This will be a total waste of my time.::
As the blond continued to walk slowly towards his destination, the rage would start to build up on him. He can't believe that he was back in the hell that he once lived. He was lucky that no one actually noticed him.
He has been walking for a while before he jumped on top of a post to see if he was in the right direction. He saw the ninja academy a few more blocks where he was and nodded grimly to himself. He jumped down and started walking again.
'I'm back in this hell-like place that I once called home. Hn. It's too peaceful here. All that this village knows is peace, but what I know about this is darkness and despair. I will send this village to the ground when I am given the signal without a second thought. They shall all be toppled to the ground and be stomped at mercilessly. That I will do. They just wait.'
/Kit,/ The kyuubi cut off his thoughts. /Are you sure about agreeing to this mission?/ He asked (the kyuubi's a male here). Naruto snorted.
::Of course I am. And the first people that I'm going to destroy are going to be my 'teammates'. They are going to be the unfortunate one since I would make them suffer the most. But let us play tell with them for a while, all right kyuubi?::
The kyuubi sighed. /Sometimes I wonder on what's wrong with you./
::There is nothing wrong with me, fox.:: Naruto then looked at the falcon that is resting on his shoulder. "Fen, you better leave for a while. Things will get suspicious if they see you flying behind me." He said.
The falcon nodded in understanding as it disappeared in a puff of smoke. Naruto walked for a little while longer before he entered the gate of the academy.
"Excuse me," He said as he tapped a shinobi on the shoulder. "Do you know which room the graduation exam is being held?" He asked.
"It's at the last room in the left hallway. Why? Are you late?" He asked.
Naruto made a fake nervous laugh. "Yeah. I'm new here and I kind of woke up late so... you know."
"Ahh... of course. Go on now."
"Thank you." Naruto bowed down a bit politely but was pucking inwardly. 'Yuck! Why do I need to be polite to these people?!'
'Last room on the left hallway. There.'
Naruto knocked on the door slightly as a brown haired chuunin opened the door and smiled. Naruto gasped behind his mask. 'Iruka-sensei...' He wanted to glomp the chuunin in happiness but he decided to keep his cool.
"Ahh... you must be the new kid that Hokage-sama was talking about. Come in." As Naruto entered the room he stood in front of the class and stared at them coldly. The students were quiet at the blond's mysterious behavior.
"Will you introduce yourself?" Iruka asked. Naruto nodded.
"Ohayou. I am Uyoma Naiki. I do not belong to any village since I'm a traveler. Now I wish to settle here in Konoha, and become one of its loyal shinobis. Any questions about my identity cannot be known. It is classified. Thank you." Naruto introduced.
/You're a good liar, kit./
::Is that a compliment or an insult?::
/Haha.../
"Thank you Uyoma Naiki. Since everyone has now graduated and we are just waiting for you, please perform ten bunshins." Iruka said.
Naruto stopped the urge to twitch his eyes in annoyance. That's all that he needs to do in order to graduate? My gosh! He expected more than that. He closed his eyes and made the proper hand seals as ten bunshin silently appeared.
He could do the technique without any hand seals anyway but he used the hand seals so as not to draw any unwanted attention.
Iruka nodded as he gave Naruto his forehead protector. "Congratulations."
Naruto wordlessly accepted the hitaite and tied it on his shoulder bag's handle for the meantime. Iruka pointed to a vacant seat in the back and told Naruto to sit there.
The blond silently walked towards his seat and looked outside the window, not paying attention to whatever Iruka'a talking about giving the lecture early to the new genins and how it is being genins.
He never experienced all those crappy class-D missions before. Ever since he joined the Akatsuki, he was always on killing sprees with Itachi and Kisame. He's on with those entire dangerous missions in where blood will surely be spilled.
Naruto shifted his attention to Iruka as he started to announce the teams. "Team seven will be composed of Uyoma Naiki..."
'Hn. Now who will the unlucky people be?' He thought as he smirked behind his mask.
"...Haruno Sakura..."
Naruto turned around to see a pink haired girl who was the one referred as Sakura. She seems to be bickering with her friend who gets to be teamed up with some guy.
'A female?' Naruto's eyes narrowed in annoyance. 'I hate girls. They're nothing but trouble.' He then turned his attention back to Iruka who was about to announce the third member of the team.
"...and Uchiha Sasuke."
Naruto was a bit shocked to know that his older brother's younger brother was on his team. 'Great. Itachi-niisan's little brother. I think I already know what he would really be like.'
The blond then turned to Sakura who made a peace sign to the other girl. Naruto's face even with his mask shows that he's clearly annoyed by now, but he decided to keep his cool.
/Hey kit, you got a good team./
::Shut up, fox. I got one heck of a team composed of an annoying girl and Itachi-niisan's younger brother. What's next? Kakashi-san?::
/Possibly. It may happen though./
Naruto sighed. ::Thanks for the encouragement, fox.::
The blond boy just looked outside the window again as he ignored every word that the chuunin said as he just thought about how he would survive in this mission. He sighed in frustration inwardly.
A few hours later, all of the students were now with their jounin teachers and team seven were still there inside the room, waiting for their so called sensei to come.
The pink haired girl named Sakura silently scooted nearer to the onyx-eyed Uchiha. Naruto rolled his eyes at this and looked outside the window as he remained where he was sitting, making occasional small conversations with the kyuubi.
Just then, he felt the piercing eyes of the cold Uchiha on him. Small little shivers came on his spine, but he reminded himself silently that this isn't Itachi. This was just his younger brother.
Naruto sighed behind his mask. "What do you want, Uchiha?" He said blankly without even sparing the younger Uchiha a glance. "I could feel that glare of yours up to here."
Sasuke and Sakura were both sitting on the middle of the second row while Naruto decided to stay at the corner of the room, totally ignoring the rude comments that Sakura was giving him just to defend the Uchiha.
Sigh... girls these days...
Just then, the door opened and a silver haired jounin with his forehead protector covering his left (?) eye came in. Naruto's eyes twitched a bit.
'I knew it.' He thought before giving the late jounin a cold glare. He could feel that the other two were glaring at the jounin as well. The jounin sighed.
"For my first impression on you three is... with your glares on me... I don't like you." He said. The three silently sweatdropped.
"Meet me at the rooftop then." Then with a puff of smoke, the jounin disappeared. Sasuke was the one who stood up the first.
"Let's go." Sakura then followed him. Naruto sighed again for the hundredth time this day and followed them as well.
=On the rooftop=
'Sigh... don't tell me that Kakashi-san's still reading those perverted books that I always see him read when I was still a kid? Konoha will never change.' The blond thought as he sat down on the ground and got out a kunai and twirled it on his finger due to boredom.
"Alright. Introduce yourselves. Tell your name, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and dreams for the future." Kakashi said.
"Uhh sensei," Sakura interrupted. "I have a suggestion. Why don't you introduce yourself first so that we would know you?" She asked.
Kakashi was about to introduce himself when the blond stopped him. "You're Copy Ninja, Hatake Kakashi. The shinobi who copied over a thousand jutsus due to your..." Naruto smirked at the surprised look of the silver haired shinobi. "...let's just say... your special ability."
Kakashi looked like he was going to faint at that moment as he had the how-the-heck-did-you-know-that look. However, he merely made a fake cough and remained calm. "Right. Anyway, I am Hatake Kakashi. I don't plan to say what my likes and dislikes are. And my dreams huh? Well... I have a lot of hobbies."
"Sheesh... all we learned was his name." Sakura whispered. 'However, what is this blond saying a while ago. I don't understand. Copy ninja? What does he mean? Oh well... we'll find out soon enough.' She thought.
"Alright. You first, the girl with pink hair."
Sakura nodded. "Okay. I am Haruno Sakura. I like..." She glanced at Sasuke with a blush. "My hobbies are..." She lanced again as she blushed. "My dream is..." Then again, another blush.
Kakashi nodded. "Alright. What do you dislike?" He asked.
"I hate Ino-pig." She said.
Kakashi nodded. 'So this girl is more interested with love affairs.' He thought as he took a glance at Naruto who was still playing with a kunai. "How about the boy in a black cloak with the mask."
Naruto nodded as kept playing with the kunai. "Well... I am Uyoma Naiki. I like training, scrolls, tough opponents, and anything serious. I dislike prissy people who just want to be a ninja for prissy affairs. People like that are just sad excuses for a ninja. My hobbies huh? Well..." Naruto paused.
'I can't tell that my hobby is killing, right? That would be too suspicious. I got to think of a simpler one.' He thought. "Hobbies... I guess training and fighting. And my dreams are... well... I guess I want to be strong, and I want to protect someone very important to me." He said.
/Kit, it seems that you are growing so attached to that Itachi guy./
::He saved my life, fox. Without him, I would not be here. I can't just repay him with just plain loyalty, you know. So I decided that I would protect him with all costs. You would do that too if you were in my place although that would make you a bit too out of character then, eh kyuubi?::
/Well... you're right, kit. Just be careful not to spill any secrets out./
::I'll be careful. Don't worry, kyuubi.::
Kakashi's eyebrows were slightly raised. "And who would be that important person then?" He asked. At that question, Naruto's gaze turned colder than ever.
"Who my important person is none of your business, Kakashi." He said as he let a bit of his killer intent come out for a few seconds. The other two genins felt it too. Sakura was starting to sweat a little while Sasuke was slightly impressed.
"Fine. The last one." Kakashi said as he let the topic drop. Naruto then calmed down as his chakra went to normal.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I like a very few things while I dislike a lot of things. I have a dream, but it's more called as an ambition. And I won't let that ambition to just be laid aside. I want to restore my clan, and to kill a certain man... who was the cause of it all." Sasuke said.
'Sasuke's so cool!' Sakura thought as she started blushing again.
Naruto snorted behind his mask. 'Hmp. I know what you mean. Resurrect your clan, I have no problem about. But when it comes to hurting Itachi-niisan, then that's a different story. I won't allow you to hurt Itachi-niisan. If that time indeed comes, then you would be messing with me.' He thought.
Kakashi nodded. 'As expected.' "Alright. For our first mission then. It would be a survival training."
Sakura looked confused. "Survival training? But haven't we done enough of that at the academy?" She asked.
Kakashi nodded. "Yes. But this is different."
"Kakashi-san, get to the point already." Naruto said as his eyes narrowed again.
"Alright. But promise me that you won't be shocked. Okay. Among all of the graduates, only nine will become genins."
"What?!" Sakura demanded. "Then what is the graduation exam for?!"
"That is to see if you have the capabilities of being a genin." Naruto said calmly. Kakashi nodded.
"Naiki's right. So then, that means that you would have 66.6 %(?) for failing. If you fail, you'll be sent back to the academy." Kakashi said.
Sakura had the what-the-heck look, Sasuke has the darn-it look, while Naruto still have his calm expression as he even yawned. Sakura glared at him. "What the heck are you made of Uyoma?! You could be sent back to the academy because of this and what are you doing? YAWNING for crying out loud!"
Naruto gave her a cold glare that made her take a step back. "Frankly I don't care since I'm sure that I could pass the exam again. In case I fail, then I'll just wait for the next opportunity and cancel my registration papers and go traveling again. It's as simple as that Haruno-san." He said coldly.
Sakura was taken a back by his cold attitude as she decided to be quiet and sit down wordlessly. Sasuke was pretty much not minding what his teammates are talking about, but was silently being interested by his mysterious blond haired teammate.
"Alright. Meet me at the forest at five in the morning. Don't be late. Oh. And don't eat. You'll throw up. Bye!" With that Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Naruto sighed silently and mysteriously disappeared without being noticed by his teammates.
He teleported to the entrance of the forest and silently entered the forest onto a small clearing. Silently, he bit his thumb, making it bleed as he made a small swipe to a small tattoo on his arm, which says the word falcon and made a series of handseals.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu."
With a puff of smoke, Fen the falcon appeared and landed on Naruto's shoulder. Naruto smiled and quickly wrote something on a piece of paper and gave it to the falcon. "Be sure to take this to Itachi-niisan."
The falcon nodded as it flew away. Naruto then exited the forest and stretched his arms. "Alright. Now I just need to train my self-control or else I might start something drastic to this village. Kyuubi, I'll need your help for this." He said loudly but was sure that no one heard him.
/Sure. Anything for my little kit./
::Thanks Kyuubi.::
"Now to find an inn."
Author's notes: Well how's this? I hope that you like it. If there are some confusions then feel free to ask me. Oh! And if you have a flame there, then just don't type it. I'm accepting constructive criticisms but NOT, I repeat, NOT flames. Anyway, I do hope that you like this chapter. Naruto's name 'Naiki' is pronounced as Na-I-Ki in case there is some confusion there. Reviews please!