The revelation of crossover is in my reviews but as of yet all theories of colors are WRONG!
Don't own so don't sue me.
On with the show
The old man was tired.
Being Hokage wasn't an easy gig. You had to organize nearly everything in the village from children to young for even school to the elderly, and from the unemployed to the highest level of jonins. It was all very tiring. But as the third sat behind hid desk during one of his rare free mornings, he couldn't think of anything more rewarding. In the eyes of many he was like an adopted grandfather to the whole village. So when he had seen how people had treated Naruto, he had nearly gone into a rage and punished them for their ignorance. But he was a smart man and knew that ignorance was no crime and that if he'd done that he'd have had a revolt on his hands and he couldn't afford that. He'd punished any that broke the village rules but other then that he'd not been able to do more then comfort the boy.
It was a real shock when they found the plot on the part of Mizuke. Of coarse it wasn't Naruto's fault, he'd been deceived by the treacherous chunin, but the rest of the village wouldn't see it that way. They would see the fox demon, which had caused them so much pain, with a scroll of forbidden techniques and automatically jump to the conclusion that he was either trying to break the seal or that he was after revenge.
The Hokage doubted this very much as it was almost impossible for any Nin to use the techniques in that particular scroll. It involved a complex meditation technique that separated chakra somehow but no one was sure exactly how because even the best scholars had yet to translate more then the first half of the first paragraph. The characters were unlike anything anyone in the elemental countries had ever seen.
The Hokage had no doubt that Naruto would return the scroll as soon as he found out he couldn't read it and then the village could get back to normal and Mizuke could be interrogated as to why he had wanted it. For the sake of appearances however, he'd had to send out hunter Nins to retrieve Naruto and the scroll. He personally was more worried about Naruto hurting himself then him doing anything to harm the village, but it had cost a large sum to get that scroll and he wanted to at least be able to read it before he lost it or it was stolen.
Naruto was amazed. No that wasn't it, he was beyond amazed, he was absolutely astounded. Had he not been nearly eighty feet in the air he'd have been floored but here he was leaping from village building to village building like a grasshopper on blades of grass. The fact that he could leap from building to building wasn't what amazed Naruto and terrified his internal occupant, but the sheer height and distance of his leaps. He was effectively leaping from district to district. Covering whole clan grounds and more in a single step of his foot.
'I'm not sure if you noticed or not,' sounded a very timid Kyubi, 'but I'm not exactly comfortable with this!'
'What's up?' questioned Naruto, 'I thought you liked heights.'
'Heights aren't the problem.' She periled now with a more irritated voice.
'Then what's up Kyubi-chan?'
'YOU!' came a near defining response. 'Have you not noticed your newfound ability to leap nearly ten times what any human has a right to? How are you doing this?'
'I honestly don't know.' Replied Naruto flatly, 'I just seem to float from the lightest jump.'
'Well are you using any of those new techniques?' questioned Kyubi
Naruto, feeling rather foolish looked into his chakra pool to see if there was anything going on. He was quite surprised when he did by all the activity in there. Right before he would land, his feet would push out a small burst of white chakra. This made the landing light and easy. Once his foot touched down a small seal was formed with both blue and green chakra to keep him from slipping dew to his forward momentum. When he went to take off, black chakra filled his leg muscles but wasn't consumed in any way. Then he saw why. The black chakra shielded and coated his chakra pathways for the veritable flood of red chakra that rushed down his legs and out his feet breaking the seal and sending him soaring back into the air to repeat the process all over again.
'Whoa,' thought Naruto and Kyubi together having both watched the process.
'Well that explains that' thought Kyubi. Just as she thought it she felt a burst of mischief from her companion. 'What are you planning Naru…!' came out of her mouth before with a massive and obviously conscious wave of red chakra sent them to the highest and farthest leap yet taking them way atop the village. Kyubi had time to marvel at the site beneath her for about half a second before screaming at the top of her mental lungs.Naruto started screaming as well but not in fear but in the shear joy of such a feeling of flight and total freedom of weightlessness.
Far below, people walking in the streets had to pause and look around for as he descended his cry's of joy and exhilaration were hear throughout the entire village of Hidden Leaf, and by one bewildered Hokage right before the young and thoroughly exited young boy came right through the window holding a massive scroll and wearing one of the brightest smiles the old man had ever seen on his face.
"Hey Old man, how're you doing?" Naruto asked casually walking over to one of the chairs and sitting down as if nothing unordinary had happened. He was so calm and generally serene that it had taken the Hokage a minute to pick his jaw up off the floor and get into a better position from which to scold the boy. Seeing the shift, Naruto decided to head the old man off.
"I want you to train me," He stated simply, causing the third to lose track of his thoughts and his argument.
"What?" asked the bewildered old man.
"I want you to train me," the boy repeated. "I figure since you're the best ninja in town, and that it's your scroll you'd be the best to ask for help with it."
The Hokage sighed and looked down at the boy in front of him. This could be difficult. The boy was convinced that one had to be the absolute best and most powerful to reach Hokage status and thus had to know everything. It would be hard but he had to explain to Naruto why in this case it wasn't possible for him to help.
"I'm sorry Naruto but I really can't help you."
"Why not?" asked a Naruto uncomprehendingly
"No one in the village can read that scroll," said the Hokage tiredly.
"What? Is there some kind of law against it?" questioned Naruto even more confused and slightly worried. People gave him enough trouble already, if he had broken so village wide law it would be eve worse. Maybe taking the scroll had been a bad idea.
"Not really, no need for one," replied an even more tired sounding Hokage.
"What? Now your just not making sense," Said Naruto.
"Did you even open the scroll?" asked an incredulous Hokage.
"Of coarse I did," replied Naruto. "And I read up on separating my chakra and I studied all the red jutsus starting from the most simple to the more advanced ones and I can do pretty well…and…Why are you looking at me like that?"
The last question was asked because by the time Naruto had gotten to that point in his speech the Hokage had his jaw resting on his desk and his eyes as wide as dinner plates.
"You… read the scroll?"
Naruto nodded somewhat worried at the look on the old man's face
"You…read the scroll? And you understood it?" asked the Hokage, even more shocked then before.
"Yeah" replied Naruto. "Should I not have?" he asked looking genuinely like he didn't know if it was a good or bad thing.
"Naruto, that scroll is in a language so ancient and so foreign that none of our scholars have been able to translate more then half of the first paragraph!" shouted the Hokage.
Now it was Naruto's turn to pick up his jaw from the floor. "What do you mean?" he asked now in total shock. "It seemed perfectly normal to me,"
"Naruto is this a joke? Because if it is then I'm giving you only this one chance to back out of it. I'll ask again, you can read AND understand this scroll? Be absolutely sure before you answer."
Naruto took the scroll and unfolded it in his lap, and began to read. Now that he looked for it, the characters were all different from normal Japanese. The characters were loopier and seemed to flow together, but all this made them no more difficult to read for him. The words and pronunciation were not really taken into account by the young boy so when he simply started to read through the scroll's opening warning out loud he was speaking in a totally foreign tongue.
Hearing the young boy in front of him start to spout near gibberish like it was a totally normal passage had the Hokage in shock. Not only did he hear the inflection and repeated words that told him the blond wasn't making it up, but he also watched the boy's eyes trailing along the page.
"Looks the same as it did last night," proclaimed a now proud Naruto.
At the boy's proclamation, the Hokage did the only thing his mind allowed him to do at the time. He passed out and fell straight to the carpet. He never hit though. With his new speed and agility, Naruto had vaulted onto the desk and caught the Hokage before he'd hit the ground.
Just as he laid the Hokage down gently on the floor, Iruka burst into the office.
"I know it's not my place Hokage-sama, but I must insist that you let Uzumaki Naruto re take the genin exams!" he exclaimed. Then he looked down and saw Naruto helping an unconscious Hokage to the floor. He blinked and stared at Naruto. Naruto blinked and stared at Iruka. A moment of silence.
A half hour and long explanation later Iruka and Naruto sat in the Hokage's office waiting for the aged man to wake up.
As if on some unspoken cue, both looked down at the Hokage and back to each other. Losing what little patience he had, Naruto jumped down to the floor and lightly slapped the face of the Hokage, much to the indignation of Iruka, but still having the desired effect and wakening the Hokage. After a talk and several explanations, Naruto had come clean and spilled the whole story of Kyubi-chan from his age of three, his reasons for failing and running from the genin exam, the plan by Mizuke, the actual act of theft, and the overnight reading and training in the scroll.
Prompted by Naruto's honesty, the Hokage had explained about the demon.
This had caused Naruto to be the one to feint.
Inside Naruto's mind, he went to confronted Kyubi-chan, only to find her in tears. Seeing her broken and crying like that Naruto felt his anger and indignation melt away.
"I only have one question. Did you know?" he asked with as hard a face as he could manage.
"NO!" she wailed, tears flowing freely. "Naruto-kun I swear I never knew!"
"Alright then," that said Naruto walked right to the edge of the bars, reached into her cell to wipe a tear from her cheek, and smiled.
"Your not mad at me? Or scared?" asked a still tearful Kyubi.
"Of coarse not. You didn't know and no matter what you are, you still my friend and you always will be," he said confidently wile sporting their trademark fox like grin. "Your still my Kyubi-chan and I'll be damned if I'll let anyone mess with you, so why would I let myself?"
Kyubi blushed at the 'my Kyubi-chan' remark but quickly hid it behind her own counterpart to his grin. Grinning together, like a pair of madmen, Naruto faded from her sight.She found herself back in his head, confidant that they were still friends. She couldn't have been happier. Being a demon wasn't enough to break their friendship, so she was sure that they could go through anything and still be friends.
Naruto woke again in the Hokage's office and smiled. After his explanation of everything the Hokage had agreed to help teach him in the scroll.
"He'll have to do that in his spare time," said Iruka fiddling with his forehead protector. "You've defiantly proven that you're worth being a ninja so I've decided to pass you. Close your eyes Naruto."
Naruto closed his eyes, practically humming with excitement. A moment of ruffling later he felt something pressed against his forehead, and Iruka told him to open his eyes. When he did he saw that Iruka was no longer wearing his forehead protector and to his amazement that item was pressed to his own forehead. He stared at Iruka in awe.
"Naruto, with this forehead protector you are officially a Hidden Leaf shinobi. Make us proud," said a proudly beaming Iruka.
Naruto flung himself across the room and into his sensei's arms. "THANK YOU! You won't regret it I promis. I'll be the best ninja ever! I'll make everyone proud!" cried a happily sobbing Naruto. Even as tears of joy spilled down his face, Kyubi made a vow then and there that she would do her absolute best to make sure that he would make it through and would help him as much as she could to reach his goal.
A.N.: so how was that? Sappy, I know but I really needed to get the whole demon thing out in the open and somehow make Naruto a genin in time for the team selection. I'm wondering about the whole team selection though. He already has the rivalry with Sasuke, and I don't like Sakura enough to give her as big a role as in the manga, so should I keep the teams the same or not? If not then tell me who you'd like Naruto to team up with.
Sorry for taking so long to update but I'm totally taken in with this great book and I've got school so I'm not getting as much free time but mostly I'm just not really big with bran new ideas so this is it for now, and I'll try to update sooner
Ja Ne