True Jinchuriki

The Last Days before the Tests

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, the absence of Sasuke-groin-kicking is proof of that.

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"This is a waste of my abilities."

"Ano, at least it won't take long." The girl's voice was little more than a whisper.

"Every cloud has a silver lining."

"How very true!" said a voice from the trees, as three forms jumped down onto the road to surround the Genin.

Naruto sighed, and now he had to fight nitwits.

--Flashback--

"Naruto-kun, Hinata-san I am sending you on a D - rank mission to bring medicine to an old lady who lives just outside of the village." The Hokage said.

Hinata turned red and nearly fainted.

--End flashback--

"At least I guess this can count as training." Naruto said in a bored tone.

"Hand over the girl and we won't hurt you."

Naruto looked over at Hinata. She looked scared.

"So, you aren't after the medicine?"

"No"

"Sigh…so I guess I can't change the level of this mission to a C-rank"

"Just get out of the way."

"Make me."

The enemy ninja looked at the infuriating boy with twitching eyes.

"A-Ano, N-Naruto-kun, they're cloud jonin, you should go back to the village."

"If I did that it would count as betraying a comrade, those who betray their comrades are worse than trash." He said calmly.

"An admirable motto kid, but you're out of your league."

"How about I make a counter offer," he said as though he didn't hear the ninja talk. "You withdraw, and I won't go out of my way to kill you."

"You really are stupid Gaki."

"No, just bored."

"At least you have some dignity." With that said he attacked.

Naruto sighed, and then vanished from sight.

The attacking ninja just fell, a bright red bladed sword sticking out from between his eyes.

The other male jonin was struck with an uppercut to the jaw that threw him into the air. As he flew up the young, blond Genin appeared above him, he had no time to defend, as the boy preformed a series of hand signs and smashed his hands into the man then quickly disappeared and reappeared on the ground.

As Hinata and the third jonin watched the man was spun around by the winds to face directly downwards and began spinning rapidly while upside down. Finally the poor man was launched directly downwards at incredible speeds to smash face-first into the ground.

Hinata looked at Naruto in awe, he was incredible.

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He's good for a Genin, the last cloud-nin thought.

She readjusted her belt and turned to look straight at him.

Damn she thought, the boy is impressive, I really wish I didn't have to kill him.

She frowned, I don't want to do anything for that bastard, the Raikage, but I have no choice. I have nowhere else to go.

She didn't want to fool herself, no one else would accept her, she was a monster, but at least someone had some use for her.

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Naruto frowned, she was just his own age, or not much older, how could she be jonin?

There were two answers: she had special powers, or she was very talented.

Even after these conclusions Naruto felt his eyes go wide as small wisps of violet flames began to swirl around the cloud nin.

"Kit, those are the flames of Nibii no Nekomata!" the fox practically shouted as he forcefully pulled Naruto's consciousness to his cage, "she's the Jinchuriki of the two-tailed Cat!"

"I noticed, how do I beat her, she wants a fight?"

"Summon my Chakra, she fights with fire you will need my regenerative power."

"Right, can your chakra barrier protect me from her attacks?"

"Doubtful, better rely on healing."

Naruto woke up, only a second had happened and his opponent was waiting to see his first move.

He frowned; he needed to subdue her without killing, no assassination techniques.

The two Jinchuriki circled each other. Each waiting for an opening, Naruto obliged,

Quickly shifting, he intentionally allowed his body to become slightly off balance.

Quick as a cat, the girl struck, flames burst from her hands and completely covered Naruto. As the flames receded she was shocked to see that he wasn't there.

Where was that boy?

Just as she turned to examine the area behind her, he struck. As soon as the flames had hit him, Naruto had quickly focused all the demon chakra he could into healing the burns as he set a genjutsu around himself to hide. He had counted that she would think that he dodged and would not check for his genjutsu, it was a gamble and he had hit the jackpot.

She knew what happened, he had tricked her, but surely now he would be injured and unable to fight at his best. She had never Fought Uzumaki Naruto.

The punch caught her in the side, just under the ribs and launched her into a roll. She recovered quickly and countered with a lethal blast of fire. Naruto was again engulfed in flames.

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Hinata was horrified, the man she loved was being toasted alive by some strange fire jutsu and she could do nothing…she was too weak.

But surprisingly hope was not lost; Naruto burst from the flames and launched three kunai at the Cloud girl.

As the mysterious girl dodged the attack she saw something that made her nearly piss her pants. The young man who she fought had looked straight at her with red hateful eyes, eyes filled with the promise of a painful death. There weren't many things that scared the young Jinchuriki but those eyes looked more terrifying at that moment than the demon trapped inside of her, the demon if released was terrifying but those eyes were the stuff of nightmares.

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Naruto reigned in his power quickly to avoid letting her know what he was, it would only cause her to fight harder if she knew that her opponent was a Jinchuriki.

The fire came again in greater intensity; she was beginning to try harder. He knew that he had to stop this attack, even with the Kyuubi's power he would be crippled by a direct hit.

He had only one way to block it, and it would take a lot of chakra.

He had no choice. His only way to escape the attack was the Akataifuu no jutsu.

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As the fire struck there was a strange shrieking sound like nails on a chalkboard combined with strange hum and the fire was thrown away from the target surrounding it completely but not hitting the boy in the middle.

As the fire settled, she was happy she hadn't attempted a taijutsu attack under the cover of the flame.

The ground around Naruto's feet was covered in deep slash-marks in a spiraling pattern centered on Naruto and a tree that had been to close had been sliced into salad.

He stood there and his eyes were blood red, his slit pupils looking straight into her soul.

"I recognize those eyes! Kyuubi no Kitsune!" cried Nibii in her cage getting her host's attention.

"You're like me?" she said in shock.

"Now don't go telling everyone, you'll scare of all the prey." He answered with a cocky grin.

"I underestimated you, no more, now I'm serious." As she said this the flame began to swirl around her body and forming two long tails of violet fire.

He sighed, this had just gotten harder.

As she dived forward using her speed and strength to deliver a close range attack, he also released his power, or a portion of it at least.

The flaming tails were extinguished as the intense blast of pure chakra hit her and she was nearly knocked to the ground, there in front of her stood her opponent, his body covered in a layer of red chakra, the chakra swirled like fire and obscured his body completely as one single tail of chakra formed behind him, the chakra tail whipped around and knocked her to the ground.

She tried to stand but she wasn't fast enough. His fist connected with her jaw and sent her flying into the air, and then he formed one seal with his hands. "Kage bushin no jutsu"

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She was shocked, his power was incredible! However, she reminded herself, she was no pushover ether.

As his clones charged, she fell into a taijutsu stance and began to fend off their attacks.

As the clones diminished she launched a wave of fire away from her body that dispelled the remaining clones. She reexamined the field, her opponent was gone, but where.

The ground beneath her feet trembled and he burst out of the ground to strike her in the jaw once more.

The battle continued: punch, block, kick, dodge, uppercut, parry, and counterattack, dodge.

The combatants were getting tired, the cloud Nin was low on chakra, and Naruto was losing his patience.

Finally something snapped.

After another dodge Naruto back flipped away and launched a ninjutsu. "Futon: Daitoppa no jutsu"

Quickly reacting, his opponent dodged and launched two jets of purple fire from her hands.

Naruto rolled between the jets and jumped straight up into the air, just as he was above his target there was a blast of smoke and a solid ring of Narutos surrounded the girl, each drew a single shuriken and launched them shouting "shuriken, Kage bushin no jutsu" at the top of their lungs.

The girl's eyes turned as big as dinner plates as shuriken blotted out the sun, "oh shit".

She tried to run out of the way but he was ready, just as she moved three more of his clones suddenly wrapped their arms around her and all covered her just as the shuriken hit.

The real Naruto grabbed Hinata and pulled her out of the way just as the area was lit up by a massive explosion.

He rose and dusted himself off, "Bakuretsu Kage bushin no Jutsu."

He heard clapping; Naruto turned to look at the elderly Hokage and his ANBU guards, "about time you got here old man."

"I had to fight my way through most of my body guards to get here; they really didn't want me to get near this fight."

"Understandable"

During the fight a small crowd of shinobi had gathered, drawn by the high chakra levels like moths to a flame.

Naruto walked across the field of battle, he was tired but the adrenalin pumping through his veins was keeping him going. As he passed his beaten opponent he heard her voice.

"Who are you?"

"Shinkukaen no Naruto, and you?"

"Nii Yugito, you aren't going to finish me off?"

"I still have use for you." With these words he walked on stopping by the corps of one of the fallen jonin, he gripped the handle of his Kodachi and yanked it out of the man's skull.

As he cleaned and sheathed his sword he turned to the Hokage, "when she is healed enough to talk, send Konohamaru-kun to get me, he will know where to go."

"She is an enemy who attacked you and your team."

"She is a weapon who has a foolish wielder."

With that he began to leave.

"Naruto-kun, where are you going?" asked a dazed looking Iruka.

"Hinata-san and I need to deliver medicine to a client."

The ninja stared at him like he was mad, he had just killed two jonin and disabled a highly powerful enemy combatant and he was more concerned about a D-rank mission?

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"Naruto-kun, you really shouldn't have tried to walk all the way to the old woman's house after a fight like that."

"It was my job."

"You fought two jonin and a Jinchuriki but you didn't even go to see a medic Nin!"

"Relax oyaji, knowing the konoha medics, they would probably kill me and say it was wound from my battle."

The Hokage sighed; Naruto had walked straight to the old woman's house and given her the medicine right before collapsing into a dead faint.

Iruka had tried to carry him back but found that he was wearing over three hundred pounds of weight on his body the entire time. "You should have removed your weights."

"I didn't have time."

"Are you certain you want to try and draft her into your group? She tried to kill you."

"If I killed everyone who tried to kill me half of this village would be dead."

Elder man froze and looked at Naruto, "I'm honestly surprised that you haven't yet."

"What do you mean?"

"In your position many would have gone mad."

"Who says I haven't?"

The kindly old man looked down at his successor's son, "a psychopath wouldn't have the clear head necessary to come up with all those traps and combat strategies."

"They say that there is a fine line between genius and insanity, but what they don't tell you is that it doesn't mater what side you are trying to cross from."

Sandaime looked over at the boy, "you may be right."

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Konohamaru was tired, no he was beyond tired, Naruto-oniisan had given him an assignment for training, and it was hard, very hard.

He sighed and got back to work, trying to master the difficult jutsu on the scroll in front of him.

At least it was paying off, he and his team had quickly gotten better at concealing themselves (Naruto refused to associate with ninja who used pathetic disguises) and they were the three best students in their class. Naruto had started teaching them chakra control and several jutsu that would make them better prepared than most of their classmates.

They could already do all academy level jutsu and were starting on some more difficult ones.

But why did this so called Gokakyu no jutsu have to be so hard?

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Yugito woke up to the smell she knew reasonably well, she had spent a lot of time in the hospital when she was younger, when you are being trained to be the ultimate warrior from early childhood you tend to get hurt a lot, (unless you have superhuman regenerative powers).

The guards were new, but the bed was comfortable…wait guards?

She tried to sit up, then stopped and decided to never try that again, her entire body was one giant injury.

Then it all came back, the mission, the deaths of her team (good riddance to bad rubbish) and him.

The boy, Kyuubi's container, he had beaten her into a pulp and she could feel every bit of that now.

"Oh, you're awake. I trust you remember what happened." There was an old man sitting next to her.

"Where am I?"

"In Konoha's hospital, you have some major injuries."

"Who are you?"

"I am Sandaime Hokage." The man said and then laughed at her expression, it resembled a fish.

"To what do I owe the honor, watching to make certain I don't escape before you have me interrogated?"

"I can't do that."

"Oh, and I thought the Hokage was supposed to be the head of the village, but you say that you don't have that authority."

"I am in charge of all village matters, but you are not a prisoner of my village."

"Then whose prisoner am I?"

"Naruto's, he has a small group he has formed which I have an arrangement with. You are their prisoner currently, but as they have no medical facilities to look after your wounds they asked that you be placed here until you are healed."

"So I am the prisoner of some super-powered Genin?"

"Actually there are very few of them currently and all of them are higher rank than Genin with the exception of Naruto. Speaking of which, I should go and contact him to tell him you woke up."

"And then?"

The old man wasn't paying attention anymore as he left with his guards; all that was left of the ninja who had been guarding her was one team of Genin.

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"Ah, you are awake."

"Hai."

"How do you feel?"

"Like I was caught in a massive explosion."

"Oh"

"How long was I unconscious?"

"One week"

"Oh, so did you come to interrogate me and learn my village's secrets?"

"Nope,"

"Then why are you here?"

"Well I'm glad you finally asked! I am as you know a Jinchuriki, as such I was greatly hated by the villagers who only saw me as a monster even though I wasn't even aware of my…condition. I have felt the pain of being alone and I have decided that I will make certain that I am never alone again and do the same for as many others as possible, to make this dream a reality I have chosen to create an organization. So far there are only three of us," at this point Zabuza and Haku walked in, "these are my associates, Momochi Zabuza and Onikoori no Haku. We are still gathering members, as three people are hardly enough to make our dreams come true."

She looked at him, then at the two men behind him, "Zabuza as in Kirigakure no Kijin? That Momochi Zabuza?"

"Hai,"

"I'm sorry I have never heard of you," she said turning towards Haku.

"I try not to let myself be known most of the time, I am Zabuza-sama's partner at assassination, and I was at one point a Kirigakure hunter."

"Oh,"

"I can tell that you don't like your current position as member of Kumogakure." The Genin who were on duty had been listening the entire time and showed some surprise at this.

"How do you know that, Naruto-san?" she asked in a mocking tone.

"when we fought I noticed that while your abilities would allow you to have a good defense you always left yourself open to attacks while focusing purely on attacks, even after you realized that I was a Jinchuriki you didn't increase your defenses, instead they actually deteriorated and you went out of your way to intimidate me even though you knew it would only make me fight harder."

"Oh and what does this tell you?"

"That you were hoping that I'd kill you."

The entire group in the area suddenly shouted "what?"

Naruto continued, "You hate your current home, the only reason you haven't abandoned it yet is because you think that you have nowhere else to go."

She looked at him in surprise.

"I understand how you feel, it's the same reason I didn't leave konoha when I was six, though at the time I blamed it on the fact that some villagers broke my legs with a fruit cart." He said as though reminiscing about his first day at the academy.

"And you didn't kill them?"

"I didn't even find out about my abilities until after it happened and I didn't learn to use them for another couple months."

"Really? I've been able to control fire since I was a baby."

"Your powers are more obvious than mine." He said, "my abilities are very subtle, mostly just an increase in my already present abilities."

"That thing you did during our fight to block my flames was pretty noticeable I think."

"That was not my powers, it was a jutsu."

"Really? That's pretty impressive."

"Anyways, before we get too far off topic, I captured you for one reason, I want to invite you to join my organization."

"WHAT?" she sat up so fast she nearly flew out of bed, she realized too late that under the covers she was completely naked with the expiation of the many bandage covering her body.

Zabuza's eyes grew wide and Haku pinched his nose while his face grew very red, Naruto meanwhile fell backwards onto his rear end in shock.

Of the three Genin who were guarding her one who was dressed in a green spandex suit got a nosebleed while shouting something about the power of youth and beautiful flowers and his teammate who had long black hair and white eyes suddenly developed a nosebleed so bad that he fell over backwards. Their female teammate just tasked at them and hung her head in shame at her teammate's behavior.

Yugito quickly yanked the covers up to cover her body and looked at Naruto, "you…you want me to join your group? You actually want me?"

"Hai, Yugito-chan it would be an honor to have you in my little organization."

Yugito's eyes misted up as she looked at this strange boy who was grinning happily at her.

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