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Summary: After a murder attempt towards Naruto when he was seven, he unexpectedly merges with Kyuubi. Fearing how the villagers might react towards the change, the Third sends Naruto off to train.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Kyuubi"

(AN) or (thoughts while talking)


Chapter 3:

'This is really starting to get annoying…' Naruto thought irritated.

Team seven was waiting for their sensei for… over three hours… The other students and teachers already left; leaving the room enclosed with an eerie silence. No one was talking, lost in their own thoughts.

'ALRIGHT!' Sakura thought excited. 'Sasuke-kun's on my team! Take that, Ino-pig!'

'I'm stuck with the dobe and the president of my fan club… Teammates are liabilities.' Sasuke thought, brooding.

'If sensei doesn't show up soon… I'm going to—' Naruto trailed off, chuckling darkly to himself.


Another hour past, and the tension in the room increased ten-fold. Murder intent seeped out of the three shinobi, while each of them grinded their teeth in frustration.

"All right… That's it!" Naruto exclaimed out loud. Ignoring Sakura's annoyed look, Naruto got up from his spot on the floor and moved toward the doorway. Grabbing a smoke bomb from his kunai pouch, he placed it on top of the door so that when it opened, the bomb would drop. On the bomb, he attached an explosion note.

Chuckling evilly when the task was completed, he sat back down and waited.

"Kit, he's coming!"

Slightly cursing himself for being unable to detect the sound of footsteps until now, he stiffened. Normally, he was able to hear noises almost a mile away, however, just before reaching Konaha, Kyuubi advised him to appear as a normal shinobi. Using an advanced henge, he was able to hide his tails and ears completely out of view from even the Sharingan. The henge had its bad point however. When used, his sensitive hearing was lessened to just slightly above a normal human's.

Turning back to the matters at hand, he instantly stilled and waited.

He wasn't disappointed when a strange, silver-haired man came into the room, carrying with him the air of calm laziness.

When he stepped inside, and was about to greet the genins, the bomb fell and blew up on impact; leaving the man's face and hair covered in dust.

Sasuke scoffed, obviously expecting more from a Jounin, especially one known as one of the most powerful in Konaha.

Recovering from his momentary shock, Kakashi glanced upward, silently asking God what he did to deserve this team. He was assigned to a brooding, dark-haired brunette, a love-struck pinkie (currently fawning over the said brunette,) and a smug-looking, cheeky-faced, blond.

Kakashi sighed inaudibly. 'Just my luck… Troublesome looking kids…'

Clearing his throat, and trying to save any self-dignity he had left, he surveyed the kids. Coming up with his final decision, he said, "My first impression of you guys is that… I don't like you."

Trying to hide his amusement when they all sweat-dropped, he stated, "Meet me up on the roof." And with that said and done, disappeared in a puff of smoke.


Turning to her teammates, Sakura asked, "So what do you think of our new sensei?"

All three shinobi glanced at each other and grumbled out, "He's weird."


Up on the rooftop of the shinobi academy, Kakashi turned to the new genins and asked, "So why don't you all introduce yourselves? Likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams for the future, stuff like that."

"Why don't you start first sensei?" Sakura demanded.

"Well…" Kakashi started. "I'm Hatake, Kakashi. I have no desire to tell you my likes or dislikes. Dreams for the future…? …Well I have lots of hobbies."

Sweat dropping, Sakura turned to her two teammates and whined out, "We only learned his name!"

"Alright, you next Pinkie." Kakashi drawled out.

Bristling at the nickname, Sakura said, "Well… I'm Haruno Sakura. I like… my dream is … my hobbies are …" Sakura trailed off, glancing at Sasuke occasionally. "I hate Ino-pig!"

Naruto sweat dropped. And he thought their sensei was weird!

"You next, the brooding one." Kakashi said, pointing to Sasuke.

"Uchiha Sasuke. There are many things I dislike, but I don't really like anything. My dream? To kill a certain man…" Sasuke stated, playing with the tip of a kunai.

"Alright. Next."

"Name's Naruto. I like… training and scrolls (and blood). I hate… everything annoying or loud (and Konaha). My hobbies are… perfecting and creating jutsus (and killing). My dream? To be respected (and feared) by everyone.

(AN: Naruto's introduction was kinda hard for me. I still haven't decided if I wanted Naruto completely dark yet. So I just settled on semi-dark.)

"Alright then!" Kakashi stated cheerfully. "Meet me at the training field at 7 sharp. You're required to pass a test before you become official genins."

"I thought we already took a test to become genins Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked doubtfully.

"That was to see who had the potential to become genins. This is the real test. Your chances of failing are 66. If you fail, you're sent back to the academy for another year of schooling. Oh ya, don't eat. You'll throw up." And with that, Kakashi disappeared in a poof of smoke.

Naruto rolled his eyes mentally. 'Show off.'

Turning to his teammates, he saw Sakura clinging like a leech onto Sasuke, while Sasuke was trying, in vain, to get her off. Snorting in disgust, Naruto turned away and started the long walk 'home;' forgetting about the advice he was about to give to his two teammates.

'Let them starve for all I care.' Naruto thought, shaking his head.


Yawning widely, Naruto turned ever so slightly so that his fist had a meeting with the annoying alarm clock. Sighing in satisfaction when he heard the resulting "BANG!" and crunch of metal, he got out of bed and went to the bathroom.

Pulling on a black muscle t-shirt and black, baggy cargo pants, he strapped on his sword and slipped on his sandals. Walking out of his apartment with some sushi in hand, he decided 9 o'clock was way too early to deal with his teammates. So instead, he headed to a random ramen stand after his sushi was gone.

'How come I never noticed this place before?' Naruto wondered, glancing around curiously.

"Miso Ramen please," Naruto told the waitress.

'She's kinda cute. Don't you think Kyu?' Naruto asked, staring.

'Her type aint any good kit. Stay away from her.' Kyuubi growled out.

'Kyu?'

'Never mind…'

"Here you go sir."

Naruto glanced up at the cute waitress and grinned. "My name's Naruto."

The waitress blushed slightly and replied. "Nice to meet you Naruto; I'm Ayame."

'She's too old for you, kit.'

'What's wrong with you today Kyu? You seem moody.'

'It's nothing…' Kyuubi snapped, glaring at Ayame mentally.

When Ayame left, Naruto sat, staring at the bowl of ramen.

'You think it's any good?'

Without waiting for an answer Naruto took a small amount of the noodle and swallowed it.

'This is awesome!' Naruto grinned before gobbling the ramen down in a couple of seconds.

Naruto ordered some more, chatting with Ayame in between servings. For some reason, Kyuubi kept silent the whole time.

Rubbing his tummy after his fifth bowl of ramen, Naruto glanced at the clock in front of him.

'Oh shit! It's eleven! I'm gonna be even later then Kakashi-sensei!'

'Maybe if you weren't always flirting with that ramen girl, then you wouldn't have lost track of time' Kyuubi said frowning.

'What's up with you today, Kyu? You're grumpy. And I wasn't flirting!' Naruto thought, blushing slightly.

'Then what did you call staring at her chest and giving her compliments?'

'Hey! The ramen was good! And I wasn't staring!'

'Ah shit! I really am gonna be later then Kakashi-sensei!' Naruto yelled out, running at full speed, appearing as a blur.

He reached the training area a second before Kakashi-sensei.

"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura yelled.

'Is she talking to me or Kakashi-sensei?'

'Both of you, Kit.' Kyuubi replied, sweat dropping.

'Well I see your back to normal…' Naruto stated, rolling his eyes.

"Well you see…" Kakashi-sensei said, scratching the back of his head sheepishly. "I saw a fish swimming in the sky and had to take a picture of it!"

"Err… what he said," Naruto said when Sakura glanced at him, murder in her eyes.

"Liars…" Sakura grumbled to herself.

"Well anyways!" Kakashi said, clearing his throat. "Your assignment is to take one bell from me. The one who doesn't, fails."

"But sensei! There are only two bells!" Sakura yelled out, terrified.

"Exactly. Either way, at least one of you fails." Kakashi explained. "Come at me with the intent to kill. You have exactly two hours!"


'Good. They all hid themselves well— eh?' Kakashi thought; noticing Naruto still standing in front of him.

"This isn't what you're supposed to do!" Kakashi almost whined.

"There isn't always one way to do everything. The result is what matters." Naruto said grinning.

Shaking his head, Kakashi took out his precious orange book and leafed through it with a blush. "You guys still have a long way to go."

Bristling at the obvious insult, Naruto yelled out, "I'll show you!"

'This guy is just itching to get his ass kicked!'

'Remember… don't use your full power yet Kit. It'll cause suspicion.'

'I know… just let me burn that book of his…' Naruto chuckled madly. 'Serves him right for underestimating me!'

Naruto dashed forward, heading straight for Kakashi. 'He's gonna pay!'


Naruto pairing: (Yaoi accepted)

Naru/Hina-11111111111111

Naru/Ten Ten-11

Naru/Temari-11

Naru/Saku-1

Naru/Ino-1111111

Naru/Sasu-11111

Naru/Neji-11111

Naru/Gaara-111111

Naru/Kyu-11

Naru/Ayame (ramen girl)-11

Naru/(F)Haku-1111111111

Naru/(M) Haku-1111

Naru/whole female population-1

Naru/Shizune-1

Naru/Itachi-11

Naru/No One-1

Tringles:

Ino/Naru/Kyu-11

Hina/Naru/(F)Haku-1

Temari/Shika/Ino-1

Side Pairings:

Shika/Ino- 111

Shika/Ten Ten-11

Shika/Temari-1111111

Kiba/Hina-111

Lee/Sakura-11

Lee/Ten Ten-1

Lee/Hinata-1

Sasu/Sakura-111111

Gaara/Sakura-1

Gaara/Ino-1

Neji/Ten Ten-111111111

Itachi/Anko-1

Sasuke/(F) Haku-1

Sasu/No one-

Character Deaths:

Sasuke-11