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A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry that I didn't update sooner. I was waiting for something to happen, and you'll know what it is by the time you finish reading the chapter. Have fun reading and don't be stingy with the reviews. Haha!

Konoha's Demon Fox

Chapter Ten : And You Thought He Wasn't Social

The one month of training had come and gone like they were nothing. Naruto's team had improved just as he had predicted. Though it was nothing amazing, the progress was still made, his own included.

During the first week, he had mastered his Jidougan completely. The next week, Tsunade gave him an S class mission with a two week time limit, which was to use his Shunshin to spend time in Earth and Cloud country and use his Jidougan to copy as many techniques as he could from them. Naruto got quite a few new and powerful jutsu from the mission, though he favorite type of jutsu quickly became Raiton, and he stayed there an extra two days to get all of the good jutsu while watching a Jounin train. He got back just in time to meet with his team to discuss their progress, since he missed the last meeting. Apart from that, the rest of the month was spent in the Hokage Library with Jiraiya, where they researched and invented new sealing techniques. Right before the last day, Naruto got an idea and rushed to the tailor, having him make him two coats for each member of his team. The coats that Naruto had made were different for each person, but it still had basically the same format.

Anko learned some earth jutsu, which she seemed to enjoy a lot, since the pain it inflicted was just like her personality. Often, she combined them with her snake jutsu, which allowed them to travel easily underground. The other element jutsu just wouldn't work with her. Her curse seal was still there, and she could now use it without any ill affects now that Orochimaru was dead. Her poisons were extremely deadly, and she had even coated her sword with a paralyzing poison. The coat that Naruto had given her was like his, in that it was black and long, but had the kanji for 'Mamba' on the back in purple, whereas Naruto had the kanji for 'Kyuubi' in red. Where Naruto had red fire on the bottom, Anko had purple snake heads, and looked like they were slithering up the jacket. The sleeves were made long and spread out at the hands, so she could still use her Senei Jashuu jutsu.

Itachi learned many new jutsu, and was more familiar with them than his other jutsu since he had to actually practice them to perfect them. He learned many other things than jutsu in the library, like different field operations and battle tactics that he hadn't known. By the end of the month, he was happy to be able to use the Sharingan again. The coat Naruto had gotten him was a dark red, but didn't have any kanji. In its' place, there was the a black outline of a weasel head, and it had the Mangekyou for eyes. Black fire was at the bottom like Naruto's, and it symbolized Itachi's technique, Amaterasu, his black fire that could burn through anything.

Kurenai made amazing progress with Tsunade, along with Sakura, who kept asking where Naruto and Kakashi have been. Kurenai had learned many advanced healing techniques, and she also learned to use chakra enhanced punches and kicks to make her strength rise. She had also learned to remove poisons, to Naruto's relief, since accidents were prone to happen with the dangerous Anko around. The coat that Naruto had given her was white, with the kanji for 'Star' on the back. There was nothing on the bottom, since Naruto could think of nothing to put.

Lee had improved the most. He mastered his weapon style with the help of Gai, and his weapon of choice were a pair of gloves what had small spikes on his large knuckles. After that, Naruto had came to him with a new sealing technique that he had made, with the help of Jiraiya and Arashi. The seal made it possible for him to use chakra. After two days in the hospital, Lee went on to learn chakra control from Gai, as well as a few jutsu that would work well with his taijutsu. Lee still focused on taijutsu, since he was still a master of it. To Naruto's advice, Lee mellowed out his voice, but still had his stamina to express his attitude. His calm voice made many other ninja come to Naruto's house one day and thank him for the change, surprisingly, Tenten and Neji were the most gracious. Gai cried. The coat that Naruto had gotten him was a dark green like his old uniform he used before him and his team started to wear ANBU uniforms. On the back, in orange, was the kanji for 'beast'.

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The second month trained the two team's teamwork to where each know what who was going to do what in different situations. It had taken awhile, but they all got used to being able compliment each other's style. They went over different battle situations where both teams may be involved, or any pair may be in, like Kakashi and Lee in a pair and getting ambushed, or both teams combined and what each would do if the village was attacked.

Soon, they were all friends with each other, and often went out to eat, or went out to a ninja friendly bar and drank in celebration, like for Neji's birthday. It was there that they all found out that Lee should never drink. Now, when they went to the bar, they would give Lee a juice and tell him it was beer so he wouldn't feel left out. They laughed as he often claimed that he was 'smashed'.

To add to their horror, they had also found out that Gaara became extremely cheerful when drunk. It was weird to see him jumping around with a huge smile and talking loudly. It kinda reminded them of the way that Naruto used to be, and the blonde had to constantly tell them that he had never drank before.

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Sakura was walking towards Naruto's house, Ino by her side. The blonde had insisted that she tag along, saying that she wanted to get to know Naruto ever since Sakura started talking about him and Sasuke back when her team started. Sakura ignored the blonde as she remembered when she finally got to talk with Naruto.

Flashbacky goodness

Sakura had found the courage to go apologize to Naruto. When she got to his house, he had invited her in and told her that he had to do something for a moment, but she could wait in the living room for him.

Thinking nothing of it, Sakura was surprised when she walked in and found the Hokage, Jiraiya, Itachi, Arashi, Kakashi, and the person that Arashi had told her was the Kyuubi, who Naruto put in human form. They were all talking about the old days, and Kyu added about the old, old, old, old days since he had been around for a while. The conversation stopped whenever they noticed her walk in, and they greeted her kindly and offered her a seat.

Sakura bowed and sat down. It was awkward to have all of these powerful and famous ninja in one room, just talking to each other in a normal fashion. It was then that she realized that no matter how great a person was, or famous, they were still normal people in the end and it made her smile to think about it. She was brought out of her thoughts whenever Naruto came into the room with a tray with eight cups and a large bottle of chilled sake.

He poured everyone a cup, Sakura as well after she had promised not to tell anyone that he let her drink. Not mentioning that he was underage as well, she greedily accepted the cup and tried not to act giddy to have this drink that she always wanted to try, "Th-thank you."

Naruto gave her a small smile and took a seat. Turning towards the others, he started a conversation, "So, pervert, who gave you the black eye? You get caught peeping again?"

Sakura turned and glared at the man with the black eye, but he had denied it while chuckling nervously and pushing what looked like a spyglass deeper into his pocket. Instead, Sakura turned back to Naruto, "Naruto, do you always have guests coming by?"

Naruto sighed, "Only recently. It's kinda weird, but I like it. I'll let the old hag come by any day. She really sucks at poker, but she can't refuse a bet."

Sakura figured that he meant the Hokage, and was shocked that Naruto would call her that. So, she did nothing as Tsunade yelled and slammed a fist into the boy's skull.

As time went by, the guests slowly departed, and the ones that lived in the house went to do their own thing. Then, it was just Sakura and Naruto. Figuring that it was time for her to go as well, she got up, "Naruto, I wanted to come by and apologize to you for everything that I've said and done. You've been very kind to me today, even though I don't deserve it."

Naruto gave her a small smile, "No problem. Come back anytime.

Sakura smile brightly and nodded, then left back to her house.

End Flashbacky goodness

When Sakura came back to her senses, she saw Ino looking strangely, "Heh, sorry. We almost there."

Ino raised an eyebrow, but nodded and the two continued on until they arrived at Naruto's house, just in time to see four ANBU leave out the front door, Naruto right behind them. Ino quickly pulled Sakura and herself into the bushes so the wouldn't be caught. From their hiding place, they could hear Naruto speak.

"Finish what you were doing and check back in at the end of the week," He paused then looked right at the bush where the two girls were hiding, but turned back towards the four ANBU, "You are dismissed."

The four nodded and took off and Naruto stayed on his porch, "You two can come out now, they're gone."

A few moments later, two very guilty looking girls walked out with the bushes and up to Naruto. While Sakura figured it was none of her business, Ino was curious, "Naruto, why were they here? Why were you able to order them around?"

Instead of being angry, Naruto smiled, "We all have secrets, Ino-san. If you two would like, you could come inside."

The girls nodded, and Naruto led them inside the house. He started out giving them the basic tour of the house, showing them various rooms and the training grounds outside. When he led them back into the house, he went to the last room that he had not shown them. Before he opened the door, he told them, "This is the library."

When the two girl walked inside, their jaws hit the floor. There were giant stacks of scrolls all around the room on shelves. As they looked around, they noticed that there were jutsu scrolls, history scrolls, mathematic scrolls, and much more. Sakura noticed that there were five seals on different parts of the walls. Walking up to touch one, Sakura turned to Naruto, "What are these seals?"

Naruto and Ino walked up and the boy smiled, "Those are blood seals. One for myself, one for my father, one for Itachi, one for Jiraiya, and one for Kyu. They open up our personal libraries."

"Personal libraries?" Ino asked.

Naruto nodded, and used his sharp fingernails to cut the pal of his hand and wiped it over his seal. The wall slid over and inside was another room full of books and tables, as well as a few chairs. Ushering them inside, he explained as they looked around, "See, each ninja has different skills and draws them from different places. Instead of getting them all mixed, I devised this was so each of the people that live her or stay here to have their own personal study. It's a place where we can put things in that go around our abilities. Another reason for this is that there may be some things about us that we might want to keep hidden from other people to give us an advantage."

The girls understood and nodded. Walking around, they found various different scrolls on Raiton Jutsu. Ino raised an eyebrow, "Naruto, where did you get these lightning techniques? These are supposed to only be in Hidden Cloud."

Naruto nodded, "I went there recently by orders of the Hokage to copy as many juts as I could. When I got home, I just wrote them down."

Ino was impressed, but she hid the fact that the Hokage actually told him to steal jutsu. Sakura looked at the table and saw some sealing techniques with what looked like Naruto's notes written on a pad next to them, "Since when were you a sealing expert? Not only can you do them, but also understand them enough to break them down and reconstruct them. Only top experts can do that."

Naruto smiled and scratched the back of his head, "Well, I was studying them a few months ago to help out a friend. After that, I just never stopped. They're really fascinating. My father knows a whole lot about them, and Jiraiya-sensei knows how to stop or get rid of them. They teach me a few here and there, but most of them I get from these scrolls, or I just make them myself."

Ino's eyes lit up, "Like those seals on your arms that you used to defeat Hyuuga Neji? That giant frog came from a seal, right?"

Naruto nodded, "A friend of mine made those for me. My left arm can summon Gama-Bunta, but I had to sign the summoning contract first. My other arm used to have a summoning seal on it, but it disappeared whenever the summon disappeared. I was actually going to make me another one before you two showed up. Would you like to help me make it?"

Both girls vigorously nodded, and Naruto went to his room to get the things he needed for the seal. He came back a few minutes later with a needle, some ink, and his sword. He sat down in a chair and took off his jacket and shirt, leaving on his red muscle shirt and two blushing girl.

"Okay," Naruto began, "I'm going to seal my sword into a tattoo in my arm. Since I'm right handed, I can't do the seal myself very well. I need one of you to do it."

Ino immediately volunteered and Sakura glared at her, but sighed in defeat. When Naruto turned around to get the design for Ino to use, Sakura's eyes went wide, and Ino turned to see what she was looking at, then her jaw dropped. On Naruto's left arm was the tattoo of ANBU, in black ink with red around the outline. Both girls knew that a pure black ANBU tattoo meant that the person was of the organization, but when it was outlined in red, it signified an ANBU captain. (Not true by the way, just an added part of my fic. Also, Kakashi had his red tattooed over in black since he's just regular ANBU now.)

Naruto turned back around with the design in hand but stopped when he saw the looks on their faces. Following their gazes, Naruto felt the need to slap his forehead repeatedly, "Look, it-"

Ino interrupted him, "It's okay. We don't care and we won't tell anyone. Right, Sakura?"

Sakura nodded, and Naruto let out a sigh of relief. He sat down and showed Ino how to make the tattoo as Sakura watched for a little while, then got some scrolls and sat down to read them with Naruto's permission. It was about four hours later whenever Ino was done. She was amazed that the cuts from the tattoo healed almost instantly. Sakura had finished the last scroll about ten minutes before that, and the girls were now watching as Naruto went through the seals to make the weapon summon sink into his arm. In awe, they saw the giant sword that Naruto had received from Zabuza raise from the table, align it's handle in Naruto's palm, then slowly sink into the tattoo until nothing was left. Panting slightly, Naruto flashed them a silly grin, to which they slightly blushed.

The sat and talked for awhile, mostly about how the gennin teams were doing, and about how Sakura had taken Shikamaru's place on team ten. Then they talked about how Sakura's training was with Tsunade, along with Kurenai's. The girls both noticed how attentive Naruto was about that. Naruto ended up telling them about his bloodline limit and what it did. He also told them what it was like to be around Sasuke's brother, Jiraiya and Tsunade, and the Yondaime. Naruto told Ino about him being Yondaime's son, and she took it pretty well. Ino and Sakura told Naruto that they both recovered from Sasuke abandoning Konoha and both had gotten over their crushes on the Uchiha.

Looking at the clock, Sakura realized that she was late for dinner. In a surprise move, before she ran out, she gave Naruto a kiss on the cheek and told him to stay safe on his mission. Giving out a goodbye to both of them, Sakura ran out of the room.

Naruto and Ino were both shocked by what Sakura did, but soon fell out of it and began talking again. Ino usually didn't go back home until midnight, since she often trained out at night. Eventually, Itachi, Kyu, and Arashi came in and Naruto introduced Ino to them. It was getting quite late and Naruto walked her out.

Ino looked to her side and frowned, "Naruto, you're not such a bad guy. Why does everyone hate you?"

Sighing, Naruto stopped and looked at her, "Ino, look, I don't really feel like telling the story right now, and it would take hours. Here's what I'll do. Go talk to Sakura tomorrow. Tell her that I said that she can tell you about me. She'll know what it means. Also, I'm free tomorrow afternoon. If you still feel like it after you heard the story, why don't you come by and we'll go out for ramen or something, ok?"

At the thought, Ino nodded happily and gave him a goodbye kiss on the cheek that Sakura didn't kiss. She rushed out into the street to make her way back home. Naruto stood dazed for a couple seconds, then went towards his room to read his Icha Icha Paradise book with a foxy grin on his face.

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The next day, Ino was excited the entire day during practice. Sakura and Chouji kept asking her what she was so happy about, but Ino would just tell them it was nothing, but would shoot Sakura looks ever now and then.

Soon, the training for the day was over, and they were walking back home. Chouji's house was closest, and soon it was just Ino and Sakura. Out of nowhere, Ino turned to Sakura, "Tell me about Naruto."

Sakura stopped dead in her tracks, "What?"

Ino growled impatiently, "Naruto said that you knew his secret and that it was ok for you to tell me."

Sakura looked around at the people, then leaned closer to Ino, "Let's go somewhere more private.

Shortly after, they were in Sakura's room, and Sakura was telling the entire story. Ino listened as Sakura told her about Yondaime sealing Kyuubi into Naruto, the village's hatred, the mission to wave, the fight with Orochimaru during the second test. Naruto quitting the team to go to Wave Country, finding Itachi, Naruto's deal with Kyuubi. Then went on to explain Naruto being a Sanin, calming down Shukaku, Naruto becoming the new Kyuubi, the old Kyuubi turned human by Naruto and who Kyu was, plus all the things up to where she knew. Sasuke holding a demon as well, Naruto almost becoming Godaime Hokage before Tsunade, Orochimaru dying, and Arashi coming back to life.

Ino sat there stunned. Never had she ever hear a story so exciting, so weird. It was so much to take in. She remembered little Naruto in the academy and knew that she was just as bad as everyone else. She'd make it up to him. Somehow.

Ino looked over at Sakura, "I got to go. Thank you for telling me."

When Ino got up and ran to the door, Sakura grabbed her arm, "You like him, don't you?"

Ino froze with her hand on the doorknob, "I-I think so…I'm not sure."

Sakura let her arm fall, "I do. Does this mean that were rivals again, Ino? Are we going to have to fight for him?"

Ino turned around to face her friend. Sakura had tears running down her face. Ino stepped forward and grabbed the girl into a hug, "No, Sakura. I don't know what will happen, but we'll think of something, okay? We're both too sexy to not get what we want."

Sakura sniffed and giggled, "Thanks, Ino."

Ino smiled, "There we go. You know what, Naruto invited me over to get some ramen later. How about you come with us? We'll make sure that Naruto can't resist our charm. He'll love us both."

"How would that work, Ino? Share him?"

Ino laughed, "Why not? With his energy and attitude, I know that I can't handle him myself."

Sakura sighed a little, "Naruto is too innocent for that."

The blonde smile, "Well, let's just focus on being his friends first."

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After Ino and Sakura got ready, they went to Naruto's house. While he was surprised that Sakura was there, he welcomed her and the three left to go eat some ramen.

It was fun. They sat and talked about more nonsense, like how they heard that Shikamaru hooked up with Temari. Though Ino said that she doubted that it was true. Shikamaru was too lazy to date someone.

Their meal was cut short when an ANBU came into the Ramen stand, and headed strait for Naruto. The cat masked ANBU bowed slightly, "Naruto-Sama, the Hokage requests your presence immediately. There is someone there that she wants you to see."

Naruto nodded, "Thank you. You're dismissed."

The ANBU disappeared, and Naruto turned to Ino and Sakura, "I'm sorry to cut this short, but business calls."

They nodded and Naruto teleported away in a puff of smoke.

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Naruto walked into the Hokage tower and nodded to the secretary as he walked part into Tsunade's office. Opening the door, he walked into the room and noticed that Tsunade was talking to someone. When he looked over at the person he froze, "Yugito…"

Tsunade and the blonde girl turned to face him. Tsunade smiled, "Ah, Naruto Nice to see you. Do you know this girl? She said that she knew you."

Naruto nodded as he stared at the girl, "I met her while I was in Hidden Cloud. She's Yugito, the two-tailed Jinchuuriki."

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End chapter. You won't know Yugito unless you've been reading the Manga up to chapter 313, which was released today. Review!

The Naruto Rants. Which is basically where I point out certain things that irk me about some fan fiction, and they speak about fan fiction in general and will not be aimed at any specific fiction. If you're the type to get offended easily, then don't read past this point.

The Third Rant: Unexpected Yaoi

For all of you Yaoi lovers out there, read all of this before you start to get pissed off. To begin with, I'm an open-minded reader. I can sometimes read a Yaoi fic when I feel like it, but there are certain things that piss me off. Often I start a Yaoi fic that sounds good, but then fall to hell all of a sudden. Too many times have I seen this:

Sasuke stepped into Naruto's apartment with all intention of getting his blond crush to bend over. He didn't know why he liked the boy, but, without any indication to show any sign of being gay before this moment, he wanted Naruto. Walking up to the blonde, Sasuke forced a kiss on the boy, "I want you, Naruto."

Naruto went to kiss him again, "Well, I wasn't gay before, since I made it known that I like Sakura, but today will change everything that I have ever believed in. After this, I will somehow realize that I love you, and always did, even though I never thought about you like that in any way. Either that, or you will pound me so hard, that I will have no choice but to be your boy toy for all time and thank you for basically raping me."

"Oh, Naruto!"

"Oh, Sasuke!"

See what I mean people? Come on! Even weird strait pairings like Naru/Shizune don't happen without a good reason!

Point is: Hell, do I even have to tell you what my point is! And, yes, by taking into account that over three quarters of Naruto fan fiction is Yaoi, I do realize that this will piss off almost everyone. Too bad! If you make a Yaoi pairing, then at least make it realistic. I like a good Yaoi fic as much as the next person. Keyword: Good