A/N: Yo! Neptune back, As you may have noticed, I edited the story a bit. I narrowed it down to two chapters and fixed the grammar errors. I also toned Naruto's strength down a bit. This isn't a god-like Naruto story, he is not OP, In fact, he's barely mid-chunin level right now. As for Naruto and Satsuki's relationship, I don't plan on strengthening it until the Land of Waves arc. P.S: for the Mizuki Incident, a couple of ANBUs caught Mizuki. In the Original Show, the only reason it happened in the first place was so Naruto would find about about his secret and so he could graduate. Since Naruto already graduated, it would be pointless. I don't remember the last time I updated this story, but starting from now, I think I'll update it every Friday. Alright, on with the story!
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'This week has been a crazy one.' One Naruto Namikaze, publicly known as Naruto Uzumaki mused. Quite a few things happened... including a few rather unexpected ones. He was thinking over the events of the week as he did his morning rituals.
(Flashback, 6 days ago)
Naruto was practicing his Taijutsu katas. He sensed Satsuki and Itachi spying on him earlier, but he decided to humor them for a bit, so he acted as if he didn't notice anything.
He did notice one thing, Satsuki was masking around 65% of her chakra signature, which was usual for a genin, but Itachi was only masking around 80% of his signature.
He knew as an ANBU, Itachi was supposed to be able to mask at least 85% of his chakra, so more than likely Itachi was testing him to see if he would realize it or not.
Naruto finally had enough of it, so he flicked his wrist, and immediately snickered as he heard a "KYAA!" come from the tree, as he threw two shuriken, one in front of Satsuki, and one in front of Itachi.
Itachi noticed it coming way before it hit, so he jumped out of the tree, and landed gracefully on his feet, meanwhile, Satsuki wasn't so lucky, and she fell to the ground with a thud.
Both Itachi and Naruto chuckled at her, as Itachi already knew Naruto had spotted them if the occasional glances towards him and his sister meant anything.
She glared at Naruto, who was whistling innocently and marched up to him with a huff, and crossed her arms. "What the fuck was that for, dobe?" Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? I didn't notice there were two people spying on me, I was just practicing my shuriken throwing..." Satsuki blushed when he said that and looked away. "Whatever, it was my nii-san's idea anyways." She mumbled. Naruto turned to Itachi, who was watching all of this with an amused expression.
He looked at him as if saying 'Well?' Itachi, catching this expression continued. "Hello Naruto-kun. I was merely watching you train, but I had no idea my imouto-chan was following me."
Satsuki blushed even harder at this. Chuckling, Itachi continued; "I was wondering if you wanted to come over to eat dinner with us, this lovely afternoon?" Itachi half-asked/half-stated.
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "May I ask why?" He questioned. Itachi shrugged. "Well, it would be interesting having someone that can pull off such high-level pranks, and can maintain a facade for 4 years eat with us." Itachi elaborated.
Naruto smirked at that, even Satsuki was quite impressed. Acting like an idiot for such a long time when your really not can damage your dignity, and it would be really annoying, she probably wouldn't be able to do such a thing. After all, who could?
Somewhere deep in a hidden cave in Amegakure, a man wearing an orange mask with black swirls sneezed.
Naruto thought over this. Obviously, Itachi had some ulterior motive from this, maybe Mikoto knew of his heritage, and asked Itachi to ask for her? Well he really had nothing to lose.
Besides, when you only have a grumpy old fur-ball to talk to, it gets really lonely, Naruto mused, ignoring the indignant "OI!". "Sure, Itachi-san. I don't see a problem with this.
Well, I'll see you two in a couple of hours I guess," Naruto said with a wave.
Without waiting for either to reply, he vanished in a leaf shunshin. Satsuki blinked at this. "Nii-sannn, when'll you teach me how to do that?" Satsuki whined.
Itachi inwardly cursed at Naruto for this. He KNEW Satsuki would pesk him about this, and decided to be flashy anyways. Itachi sighed. He poked her forehead with two fingers.
"Later, Imouto-chan. Now, let's go back before kaa-san scolds us." He replied, and began tree-hopping back. Satsuki puffed her cheeks and shook her head, and followed her brother.
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Naruto arrived at the Uchiha District, with his regular cloak, his dirty-blonde hair still messy, the purple eye-liner underneath his eyes still there and a bored expression engraved on his face.
He knocked at The Uchiha clan head's doors, and not a minute later, Mikoto answered the door. When she noticed Naruto she had to fight off a mild blush on her face.
It's not like you could blame her, could you? It's been 6-7 years since her husband's died, and with no Kushina to call her a cradle-robber, there was nothing to stop her! He thought evilly. She was broken out of her musings when she noticed Naruto talking. "Uchiha-san?" He asked.
Mikoto shook herself out of her thoughts. "It's fine Naruto, call me Mikoto, please." She replied with a motherly smile and motioned him to come in.
"You have a nice home, Mikoto-san" Naruto complimented. "Thank you, Naruto. We were just about to eat, why don't you sit down?" Mikoto offered him.
"Thank you, Mikoto-san" Naruto replied, with a gentle smile on his face, which would make most girls swoon over him. As he walked in, he noticed Itachi and Satsuki both at the table, sitting already. Satsuki looked at him and nodded, to which he nodded back, and after exchanging greetings with Itachi he sat down.
After Mikoto put the food on the table, and a chorus of "Itadakimasu" they dug in. "Your food tastes amazing, Mikoto-san, but I have to say it's a lot better eating with others." He said with a soft smile. They frowned at this, realizing how lonely it must be, to have lived alone since the age of six.
"Don't worry, Naruto, you can come here to eat anytime you'd like" Mikoto told him.
Itachi started some small talk. "So, Naruto, I hear you graduated as rookie of the year" Naruto shrugged. "As you said earlier, I put a facade the past four years. I should graduate as rookie of the year, but I wouldn't be surprised if the instructors sabotaged me." Naruto replied.
Satsuki raised an eyebrow. Why would the instructor's sabotage Naruto? She knew his pranks were annoying, but surely sabotaging him would be taking it too far?
Both Mikoto and Itachi frowned. They, unlike Satsuki, knew why Naruto was treated this way and shook their heads at the stupidity of most of the citizens.
"Oh, that's right, Satsuki doesn't know, does she?" Naruto questioned. "Know what?" Satsuki asked suspiciously. Before either Mikoto or Itachi could intervene, Naruto replied "The Kyuubi is one of the 9 Bijuus. There's the one-tailed raccoon, the two-tailed cat, the three-tailed turtle, the four-tailed monkey, the five-tailed horse, the six-tailed slug, the seven-tailed beetle, the eight-tailed ox, and the nine-tailed kitsune."
Itachi was slightly impressed with Naruto's knowledge of the Bijuus. He deduced that if Naruto knew this, he must have a relationship with the fox.
"What most people don't know is that a Bijuu is a creature made out of chakra, with a soul in it, So technically a tailed beast cannot be killed. Instead, the Yondaime sealed the Kyuubi inside of me, and people believe that I am the reincarnation of the Kyuubi." Naruto said, with a scoff at the end.
Satsuki was shocked and angry at this. She now knew why people would glare at him so hatefully but did they really not trust the Sandaime's word, or the Yondaime's fuinjutsu skill?
Naruto continued, without waiting for a response. "The Yondaime would've sealed it in himself, but it has to be sealed inside of someone young because the chakra coils would fry if an already developed system were to merge with demonic chakra, and the Yondaime was too noble of a man, so he wouldn't have sealed the Kyuubi in a random orphan. After all, who better to trust with such a burden, then your own son?" He stated carelessly. Whether Satsuki would hate him, or kiss up to him, or react indifferently wasn't his problem.
All three widened their eyes when he said this. Itachi already knew this, Mikoto suspected it, and Satsuki had no idea. "However, my Jinchuuriki status is an S-Ranked Secret, and as for my heritage, not even the Hokage knows I know this. All evidence tracing back to my father, Minato Namikaze, and my Mother, Kushina Uzumaki, the Red Death, has been erased or redacted, except for one file, locked in a top-secret vault in the Hokage's office, which he'll use to prove my heritage when the time comes."
"And how do you know this, Naruto?" Mikoto asked with a raised eyebrow. Naruto shrugged. "It's not hard to notice. I read Kushina Uzumaki's file. It said she was in a relationship with the fourth. I was born the same day she died. She was the previous host of the Nine-tails, I have the same blonde hair & blue eyes as the fourth. Isn't it a logical conclusion that they are my parents?" Naruto asked with a deadpan. Itachi sweatdropped, Mikoto sheepishly nodded, and Satsuki was still too shocked to say anything.
"Perceptive of you, Naruto-kun," Itachi commented. Naruto merely shrugged. It wasn't hard to notice if you weren't so biased against him, which, most of the village was.
"Well, I'm gonna go now. Thank you for the invitation, Itachi, and thank you for the meal, Mikoto-san. Well, I'll see you next week, Satsuki." Naruto said, and left the house with a shunshin.
(Flashback end)
(Another Flashback, 2 days earlier)
Naruto was sitting on top of the yondaime's head, on the Hokage monument, with his legs dangling over the edge, watching over the village, when suddenly he sensed a presence behind him. He threw a kunai behind him, in speeds that would make most chunin envious, and when he looked behind him, he saw an old man, with black spiky hair, an 'x' shaped scar on his chin, a bandaged left eye & arm, and a cane. Naruto narrowed his eyes, the man seemed familiar, but he couldn't put his finger on where he'd seen the man before.
The man suddenly disappeared, and Naruto's danger senses screamed at him to move, at the last second he narrowly dodged a whack from the man's cane, and barely dodged another vicious kick to the stomach. 'Damn, this old dude is good. He must be a veteran shinobi...' Naruto mused, as he exchanged blows and dodges with the mysterious man.
Just as Naruto thought he was about to gain an edge over the man, he threw his cane in the air, and in High Jonin-level, bordering kage-level speeds, he hit Naruto in the chin with a round-house kick, and shunshinned behind Naruto, and pinned him to the ground, arms behind his back, and his right leg on Naruto's back.
"Hmm, very good for your age and rank, rookie genin, I'd give you a low-chunin rank, mid-chunin tops." The man stated calmly. "Who are you? I can tell you're a veteran shinobi, and judging by your lack of a Konoha hitai-ate, I can rightfully deem you a threat" Naruto stated with a cold tone, he was sweating on the inside, however. 'Who is this guy? He's so strong, but he has to be at least the age of the Sandaime- wait... He must be Danzo Shimura, The War-Hawk, a student of the Nidaime Hokage, and Jiji's old rival, that's why he's so strong'
Danzo chuckled a mirthless chuckle at this. "Boy, you may be good for your age but your years too young to even hold a candle to me, which is what I wanted to talk to you about." He stated. Naruto narrowed his eyes. He knew of Danzo's ROOT ANBU, and his militaristic ideals.
"My name is Danzo Shimura, and I protect Konoha from the dark. I am one of Nidaime's students and an old teammate of Hiruzen Sarutobi's. I can train you if you'd like. With my help, I can make you a force to be reckoned with... I can already tell you have potential so high that you can surpass the likes of Madara Uchiha, Nidaime Hokage & your father." Danzo noticed Naruto's eyes widen and smirked a little.
Naruto knew if Danzo knew of Naruto's heritage, he obviously knew of Naruto's jinchuuriki status. He deduced that Danzo wanted to mold Naruto into an emotionless tool under his command, and would obviously decline, but he decided he would humor the man.
"...I'll think about this." Naruto said calmly." Danzo turned around with a rare tiny grin on his face, thinking he'd won. 'Soon... Konoha'll be under my rule... Just you wait Hiruzen, I'll take good care of the tree that is Konohagakure...'
(Flashback end)
Naruto was getting changed into his clothes right now, getting ready to head to the academy for team assignments. After getting changed, brushing his teeth, and a bowl of rice, he shunshinned to the academy.
"*Yawn*, morning, brat. Today's the day you get your sensei, correct?" Kurama questioned Naruto, as he stretched inside Naruto's cage. 'Morning Kurama. Yeah, Today's the day I get assigned to a Jonin cell. I wonder who I'll have on my team?'
Soon enough, Naruto arrived in front of the door. He sensed multiple chakra signatures inside the classroom, so he thought he'd... "entertain" his class a bit. He opened the door, grabbed the ledge of the door top, and using chakra manipulation swung onto the ceiling of the class, walked over to his desk and sat down, gaining stunned and awed looks from the students, even Iruka had an impressed look on his face.
Back in the Hokage's office, The Jonin sensei's and the Hokage were gathered and peering into the Hokage's crystal ball.
Needless to say, Hiruzen was sporting a huge grin on his face, and the Jonins were stunned, while Kakashi had an eyebrow raised. "...Using chakra manipulation to stick onto surfaces?" Asuma Sarutobi, the son of Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned.
"But that's a chunin level technique!" Replied Genma Shiranui, one of the few shinobi who had nothing personal against Naruto. "But isn't the Uzumaki boy the dead last of his class?" asked a baffled Kurenai Yuhi, the girlfriend of Asuma Sarutobi, and a recently promoted Jonin of Konoha, also the Genjutsu Mistress of Konoha, only bettered in the art of Genjutsu by Itachi Uchiha.
"Well, appearances can be quite deceiving, huh?" said Kakashi Hatake, the Copycat ninja, 'prized student' of the Fourth, with his trademarked eye smile, but inwardly he was just as confused. 'I had no idea Minato-sensei's son was this good! Chunin level chakra control at the age of 13, AND putting up a facade... Sensei, your son is just as much of a prodigy as you were...'
Back in the academy, Naruto was sitting in his desk, waiting for assignments, and noticed everyone staring at him. "...What?!" he snapped, shocking everyone out of their stupors.
'When did Naruto-baka get this cool?' Thought a certain pink-haired girl, with a red dress and a red hitai-ate. "Cha! that idiot is probably just acting cool to make Kiba-kun look bad, and make me fall for him! Well it ain't working, Naruto-baka!" Yelled her inner-consciousness.
"NARUTO-BAKA! STOP ACTING COOL!" Screeched Sakura, Naruto just glared at her, making her shrink back down. "Keep your comments to yourself, Haruno," Naruto said in a cold tone, making her flinch and unknowingly making a certain mask-wearing grey-haired Jonin frown.
Iruka faked a cough to get the attention of the class. "Well, now that Naruto is here, I'll start with the teams. Team 1, Shigure Uzuki, Nami Ito, Oboro Suzuki, your sensei is Genma Shiranui..." Iruka droned on, Naruto stopped paying attention and began playing with his kunai absently.
"Team 7, Naruto Uzumaki.." Naruto perked up when he heard his name. "..Sakura Haruno.." Sakura groaned when she heard this, Naruto just sighed and crossed his arms. 'It could've been absolutely anyone, and I just had to get the screecher?' It was only his training of keeping his emotions in check, and Kurama consoling him, saying something about killing her on a mission and pretending it was a bandit, making him inwardly sweatdrop, that stopped him from cursing the gods out loud.
"..And Satsuki Uchiha, your Jonin Sensei is Kakashi Hatake." Naruto sighed again. The screecher with no skills and the stubborn girl who had a superior complex? Did kami hate him or something?
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2 hours have passed, and they're the only ones left. "AHH! WHERE IS OUR SENSEI!" Sakura Haruno screeched for the 100th time. Even Satsuki was starting to get a little impatient. Naruto just sat down, his head on his palm, staring lazily at the door. Satsuki was sitting in her chair, seeming calm, but you could tell by her knuckles tightning, and her leg shaking that she was also getting quite irritated.
A minute later, the door opens and a man with Silver spiky hair, a face-mask, and a hitai-ate covering his left eye walks in. Not a second after he walks in, a kunai whizzes past him at low-jonin speeds.
Only with his years of experience as a Jonin and Ex-ANBU, was he able to dodge it, he narrowed his eyes to guess to did it, but didn't need to, as he noticed Naruto with an indifferent expression on his face, but a closer look and you could see a tiny smirk on his face.
Sakura and Satsuki both had eyes wide as dinner plates, jaws dropped. "NARUTO-BAKA! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!" Sakura yelled at him, preparing to bonk him on the head, but a little killing intent from Naruto made her freeze in her tracks.
"Calm down Haruno, I only threw that at Chunin speeds. A Jonin should have been able to easily dodge it. If he dodged it, good for him, if he didn't... Well, the Shinobi standards have dropped" Naruto said, his smirk growing into a small grin at the end of his speech.
Kakashi was shocked, but soon snapped out of his stupor. "Well, first impression, your alright. Meet me on the roof in 5 minutes." Kakashi ordered. Satsuki and Naruto shunshinned to the roof, Naruto in less then 2 seconds, arriving a split-second after Kakashi, and Satsuki took a little longer, due to her being new to the technique.
'Hmm, It seems Itachi really did teach her the technique' Naruto thought with a small chuckle, whilst Sakura had to run to the rooftop. Kakashi raised an eyebrow. Not one, but TWO of his students knew the shunshin? It seemed Kami gifted him with two prodigies on his squad.
But just because of this didn't mean he would neglect his third student. He was shortly broken out of his musings when a huffing & sweating Sakura entered the vicinity. She widened her eyes the moment she saw Naruto leaning on a rail, hands in his pockets, eyes closed, and Satsuki opposite to him, lying on the ground with a bored expression on her face. 'How in Kami's name did Naruto-baka and Satsuki both get here before me?'
Kakashi clapped his hands. "Well, now that my students are here, why don't you introduce yourselves?" He asked. "Um, how do we do that, sensei?" Sakura questioned. "Well you know, likes, dislikes, hobbies, goals for the future. I'll start. My name's Kakashi Hatake. My likes and dislikes are none of your business. Hobbies, training. Goals for the future, don't have one."
All 3 face-faulted at this, even Kurama sweatdropped 'All we learned was his name...' was the common thought. "Pinky you next" She glared at the nickname but went next anyways.
"My name is Sakura Haruno, I like Kiba-kun.." She said with a squeal "I hate Naruto-baka!" she glanced at Naruto to see his reaction and huffed when she noticed his eyes closed, a bored look on his face, arms crossed.
"My hobbies are doing my hair, and my dreams for the future..." Her face turned completely red at this. "Alright, you next, sunshine." He pointed at Satsuki. "Satsuki Uchiha, I like tomatoes, dislike a lot of things, and my dream is to surpass my brother one day."
Kakashi nodded and pointed at Naruto. "Last, and maybe least, blondie!" "Naruto cracked open one eye. "You know me. I like my dislikes, and dislike my likes.." Sakura just regarded this as Naruto spouting nonsense, Satsuki was confused at this, but Kakashi was very, very impressed. He knew it meant Naruto had guilty pleasures, and admitted it, but at the same time, disliked the fact that he had such things. 'Looks like I struck gold with this one...' Kakashi mused.
"..My hobbies are reading, since I have an Eidetic memory, and my dream... I wish to unite the world..." all three widened their eyes at this. Kakashi half-expected Naruto to say something silly, like scream about becoming hokage, or learn a bunch of cool jutsu, and Satsuki and Sakura were just downright surprised.
"...Hmm Yes, I feel there's too much conflict in this world, even though we don't live in a time of war, or during the warring clans era, it's still quite irritating, don't you think? Getting a knock at your door, opening it to find an ANBU, or a Chunin at the door, only to find out that your dad, or wife, or your son died on a mission, or in battle. The life of a shinobi is a curse, we are nothing more then simple mercenaries, who get sent out on missions, and paid to perform said mission. There are no heroes in the Shinobi world. Only fools believe in such a thing. Where there is a light, there is a darkness. Take the Yondaime hokage for example. After he single-handedly annihilated the one thousand Iwa-nins, and ended the war, we, Konoha thought of him as a hero, right? But what about it from Iwa's point of view? Imagine yourself as a housewife, doing the dishes one day, or as a child, playing with your toys, and you get a knock at your door. You open it to find a Jonin, you recognize him as one of your husband/dad's friends, and he tells you that said man died in battle, along with 900+ other shinobi. How would you feel after such a thing? I wish to stop such things from happening, that's why my first task towards world peace, will be to become the hokage." He said with conviction in his voice and eyes.
Kakashi's jaw was on the floor, lone eye the size of a dinner plate. 'KAMI... Such Philosophies at such a young age... He already knows what it means to be a shinobi, What have you gone through, Naruto?' Thought Kakashi.
'Naruto...' Thought Satsuki with concern. Sakura was nearly in tears by the end of the speech and was questioning her decision to become a shinobi in the first place. She became a shinobi to get closer to her Kiba-kun, and because she thought ninjas were cool, spouting jutsu left and right, and kicking ass, and saving princesses... Never once did she think an ounce as deep as Naruto did.
"Well!" Kakashi clapped his hands. "That was one hell of a speech, huh? Well, you three aren't Genins just yet.." Kakashi said ominously. "..Out of you 27 Hopefuls, only nine of you will become Genin!" Kakashi continued. "Meet me here at 5 a.m sharp, tommorow morning, and by the way, don't eat breakfast unless you wanna throw up. Ja ne!" Kakashi said as he left in a swirl of leaves.
"Well I don't know about you two, but it would be stupid not to eat breakfast. He was probably testing us. See ya!" Naruto said, as he also left in a shunshin, Satsuki vanishing a moment later, leaving Sakura to her thoughts.
Boom! This chapter is finished. As you've noticed, I made Naruto's introduction quite deep. I don't plan on bashing Sakura a lot. Just a little bit in the beginning to give her a reality check. She'll start seeing Naruto as a brother figure later on. The next chapter will be the Land of Waves arc. See ya! This is Neptune, signing out.