Road to Konoha Present Day:

"How did he manage to fail with you teaching him Jiraiya?"

"I told you he was bad at Genjutsu, his test had a Genjutsu on it, and Iruka missed the Genjutsu on his rule book too. Boy was he was pissed when he found out."

"Jiraiya-sama did Naruto really steal the Scroll of Seals?"

"Was this the plot you said Danzo had?"

"One of them, yes, now shut up and let me tell the story, Hime!"

Road to Konoha Present Day:

"Naruto, what are you doing in my office?"

"Um…Um…Orioke No Jutsu!"

Road to Konoha Present Day:

"WAIT!"

"I'm trying to tell a story here Hime…"

"He beat sensei with his 'sexy' jutsu?"

"Isn't that what I just said?"

Konoha Twelve months Fourteen days ago:

Naruto made it to the meeting ground almost 2 hours early. "Let's see what's in this scroll…." Naruto unfurled the scroll. "It's full of Kinjutsu! Did I grab the wrong one? This seems like an awfully dangerous scroll to retrieve for an initiation… Never know when I'll get another chance to look at this scroll better make notes." Naruto pulled a scroll out of his pocket and began writing down interesting looking jutsu. "Huh, the first jutsu is the Kage Bunshin and its derivatives, Tajuu Kage Bunshin no jutsu, huh I didn't know that had a name, Bunshin Daibakuha, oooh that that sounds fun, the ability to make my clones explode? Hell yeah! What else is in here? Crap. Crap. Why the hell would I want to do that? Okay, that's just gross. Edo Tensei? What's that...Okay that's just wrong! Is there anything normal in here other than Kage Bunshin? Oh wait here's one, Chidori? Hm… isn't it that move Kakashi-ojisan refuses to teach me? the fourth put it in here, oh so that's why! You need a Sharingan to make it useful; maybe I'll save it for Sasuke." Naruto scrolled through Jutsu after Jutsu that killed you or did something gruesome to your enemies, often at the same time. "Well that was a bust… I learned one jutsu that I can actually use from the Scroll of Seals…" Naruto furled the scroll when he got to the end of the jutsu in the scroll. Then it hit him it. "The Seals!" Naruto quickly unfurled the scroll again opening it up to the sealed artifacts section, "Okay there's got to be something good!" after spending half an hour pouring over the sealed items he settled on Uzu no Tsubasa (The Wings of The Whirlpool) which was apparently covered Uzumaki style Fuinjutsu, the problem being that it absorbed the user's chakra to power it's seals, the last three people who tried to wield it were killed when it sucked their chakra completely dry. If you didn't have enough chakra to power the thing the first time you picked it up it would kill you. "Sounds cool! Let's try it!" Naruto wiped a bloody thumb over the seal, there was a poof of smoke and… "Well that's not what I was expecting." At ten feet long, the weapon was easily twice his height, at each end there was a two and a half foot long five inch wide dark green blade, with silver edges and seals carved into the flat of each blade. From a distance the complex shape of each seal faded and blended together to form the shape of a wing the wing on one blade pointing in the opposite direction as the wing on the other. The narrow handle was wrapped in blood red leather, and was five feet long. "How the hell am I supposed to use this thing?" Forgetting that if he wasn't going to use it, he probably shouldn't touch it, Naruto bent down and picked up Uzu no Tsubasa, intending to seal it back into the scroll. What he got instead was excruciating agony as his chakra was ripped away.

"What's going on kit?" the chakra drain had woken Kurama up from his long nap, (Hey, The academy is boring)

"Stupid staff is eating all my chakra!" Naruto managed to croak out through the pain.

"That thing! I thought they sealed it away!" Kurama growled in anger when he saw the staff.

"They did, I kinda unsealed it…" Naruto would have sounded sheepish, if it wasn't for the fact that it had eaten half his chakra already

"Feed it my Chakra until it stops." Kurama began shoving his own chakra into Naruto, his distinctive Fox shaped energy shroud forming at two tails. The shroud held for all of three seconds before it too was sucked in. "Okay, this is bad Kit, what were you thinking?"

"That I have four times the Chakra of Ero-Sennin?" Naruto was sweating bullets now the staff had eaten more than three-quarters of his huge reserves and was still going strong, even with Kurama feeding it too. Just as Naruto thought he was going to die the chakra drain ended as suddenly as it started. Naruto collapsed in a heap, his body felt as if it was made of jelly, he had so little chakra left, that he was sure the only reason he was alive was that Kurama's chakra was still flowing through him, keeping him alive. "Thanks' buddy I owe you one." Naruto's palms itched, wondering why he looked at his hands; the Kanji Tsubasa (Blades/Wings) glowed briefly on his palms before fading away like it was never there.

"Next time leave the sealed weapons alone Kit, They're sealed for a reason." Kurama groused, "You look like shit Kit, get some rest." Naruto drifted off for half an hour.

"I found you Naruto!" Iruka growled looming over the dozing blond.

"Iruka-sensei? Are you my contact? Mizuki-sensei said I had to give this scroll to the person who showed up here and I could join a secret Anbu subgroup!"

"Mizuki? ..." Suddenly, Iruka palm thrust Naruto across the clearing, getting him out of the way of a barrage of Kunai; Iruka wasn't fast enough to dodge them himself however. "Naruto run back to the Hokage tell him what happened."

"Give me the scroll Naruto." Gone was Mizuki's friendly demeanor from this morning, now he was cold, whether with hate or rage Naruto wasn't sure.

"Don't listen to him Naruto! The Scroll of Seals is full of dangerous Kinjutsu and deadly artifacts! He used you to get his hands on it!"

"There's no point in lying to you, I guess. OH! I know! There's something that everybody's been lying to you about!"

"Shut UP Mizuki! That's an S rank secret!"

"You killed Iruka-chan's parents did you know that? He hates you."

"Oh, you're talking about the fox?" Naruto stood up shakily, faint flickers of red chakra coursing up and down his body, and "I thought you had a real secret to tell me. I know all about the Kyuubi No Kurama." Turning from the shocked Mizuki to equally stunned Iruka, "If we knew your parents were among the dead we would have apologized sooner, Iruka-sensei. Kurama was under a Genjutsu cast by a masked man with a Sharingan, he had no intention of destroying Konoha. Honestly, he's rather lazy."

Mizuki was shocked, as far as he knew Danzo-sama still believed that the boy hadn't found out about the fox yet. He had to get this information back to Danzo before it was too late. This could ruin all of Danzo-sama's plans. "I'm afraid you're going to have to come with me to meet someone Naruto, Just as soon as I kill this meddler." Mizuki threw his oversized fuuma shuriken at the already injured Iruka.

Naruto managed to tackle Iruka at the last second possible. "Why?" Was all Iruka could get out.

"You were the only teacher who was nice to me." Still exhausted, Naruto called on more of Kurama's Chakra, His whisker marks thickened his nails lengthened and the blue part of his eyes turned blood red, and the pale purple turned a much darker shade of purple. Naruto's normally contracted pupils dilated and then bent into vertical slits. The faint flashes of red that had surrounded him before thickened into floating balls of red Chakra and began to slowly coalesce into a solid shroud. Naruto raised his left arm, the kanji on his palm was glowing a sickly green. There was a whirling noise and Uzu no Tsubasa flew through the air and into his outstretched hand. Twirling it over his head Naruto charged Mizuki.

"Nice weapon, Demon. Shame you don't know how to use it. It'll make a fine trophy. Along with your HEAD!" Mizuki rushed in, only to be stopped by a flash of silver-green he narrowly avoided. Naruto had swept low, forcing Mizuki to jump to avoid losing his legs. Spinning the blade around his shoulder the other attack came at Mizuki from a high angle while he was still in the air. Mizuki managed to block the attack with a kunai, but the force of the swing was enough to send him crashing back to the ground. Standing up, Mizuki saw his kunai was almost cut all the way through.

'Shit this is bad.' Mizuki threw the damaged kunai at Naruto, who batted it out of the air. Pulling two kunai out Mizuki advanced cautiously this time. He managed to parry the first few attacks without damaging his kunai by making sure to only parry with the point of the kunai against the flat of the blade. But even though he was managing to keep his weapons intact, the superior range of Uzu no Tsubasa prevented him from getting close enough to directly attack Naruto.

Just as Mizuki felt he was getting used to Naruto's twirling style of combat, Naruto jumped backwards and changed his grip on his weapon; instead of holding it in the middle, like a staff, he held it at the back, like a spear. Despite the increased range, Mizuki was relived, 'he can't thrust as fast with one blade as he can swing with two. I've got him now!' Dodging out of the way of a thrust aimed at his head by tilting his upper body to the left, Mizuki began to close the distance. Dodging the next two thrust easily Mizuki's confidence began to grow, dodging the fourth and fifth attacks, Mizuki was almost in range.

Suddenly spinning his weapon around Naruto now held it towards the front. 'What's he up to? All that weight behind him will work against him.' Naruto seemed to over extend his last thrust. 'YES! He's mine!' Mizuki charged in raised his weapons for the killing stroke, and only barely noticed the smirk on Naruto's face before lightning bolts shot out of the handle and blade, stopping Mizuki in his tracks.

Once more twirling the staff over his head Naruto charged the semi-paralyzed Mizuki. Mizuki barely managed partially dodge and block the downward stroke meant to split him in half. This time however, instead of only cutting half way through the kunai he used to block, the Uzu no Tsubasa cut all the way through, and through Mizuki's forearm behind it, and through Mizuki's bicep behind that.

"AAAARRRRGH!" Mizuki was lying on the ground, clutching the stump where his arm used to be. His eyes widened as he saw the Uzu no Tsubasa descend, Naruto clearly meaning to decapitate him with this swing.

"Naruto stop!" Iruka grabbed Naruto's wrist through the chakra shroud, his hand immediately began to burn, but Iruka didn't let go.

"Why? So he can try to kill me again? Because he's more human than I am?" Naruto's voice was deep and animalistic under the effects of his two tailed chakra shroud.

"Of course not! If anyone here's a monster it's him, but Naruto he might have valuable information." Iruka was still holding Naruto's wrist with his blackening hand. "At the very least, he's a traitor and being killed in these woods is more than he deserves. Take him back to Konoha and let the Third pass judgment on him." Naruto's Chakra shroud slowly died down.

"Sensei! Your hand!" Naruto finally realized what had happened to Iruka's hand. With tears in his hand he asked, "Why?"

"Because if you killed an unarmed prisoner, then you would have taken the first step to becoming the monster he wanted you to be."

"No I meant, why are you so nice to me? Even now knowing that I know about the fox, that I'm friends with the fox, how can you be so concerned about me?"

"I saw a lot of myself in you Naruto. We're both orphans, both pranksters in the academy, I'm sorry I didn't do a better job as your teacher, if I had allowed myself to play favorites, you'd have been mine." Iruka collapsed, leaning against a tree, "come here Naruto I have a present for you." Iruka tiredly beckoned Naruto over to him. "Close your eyes." Naruto felt his goggles slip off then something else was clumsily tied to his forehead, "Sorry my left hands a little stiff." Iruka said while tying the knot. "Open your eyes."

Naruto opened his eyes to see a tiredly smiling Iruka, who wasn't wearing his hitai-ate anymore. "What is it?"

Holding up Naruto's goggles so he could see his reflection Iruka said, "I know it's not Anbu, but congratulations, you pass!" Iruka tried to stand but fell over, "Um…could you help me up?"

Naruto helped Iruka up, after making three shadow clones to tie up and carry Mizuki; together they headed back to town. "So do I really pass sensei?"

"I think what you did tonight deserves some extra credit don't you? Come on we need to find the Hokage, and then get me to a hospital." Coming out of the woods they found themselves surrounded by an angry horde of ninja.

"Oh bugger."

A/N I'll give one Internet cookie to the person who can tell me where I got the design for Naruto's weapon from. And yes that terrible pun was intentional.