Well, I'm starting this as soon as i published my last chapter and i will keep on working at it for a week until Saturday next week at which point it will hopefully be 5k on words. I know many of you may think that I made Minato to emotional, but trust me right now its refined compared to what i could have done, i was honestly considering making them have a bloodline move called "puppy dog eyes jutsu" and have him say he used that to get Kushina to say yes to his marriage proposal. I was also considering making their chakra control based on the types of clothes they wear, and a bunch of other things so random i abandoned them early. Protocol, lets get this over with:

DEMON/SUMMON TALK

DEMON SUMMON THINK

Voice from in head talk/think

Human talk

Human think

Disclaimer: i do not own Naruto, I can honestly say this to you.

Chapter two: The return to the leaf.

As the Fox nine walked into the hidden leaf village, all but Naruto were immediately assaulted by a feeling that they were unfamiliar with. Naruto was struck be the sensation but was used to it anyway. It seemed to the eight that voices were whispering on the edge of their mind telling them do ridiculous things like paint the Hokage monument or to simply go to some place. They knew they couldn't hold out forever, so gave in to the voice telling them to go to a certain place, Naruto was already ahead of them though

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Teuchi and Ayame both stared in shock, in their shop were nine miniature whirlwinds devouring every noodle of ramen that touch them. The pink one with small green streaks began speaking between slurps "Naruto*slurp* how come you never told us this stuff was *slurp*so good" a golden blonde one that dwarfed all the others replied, also between slurps, "I*slurp* tried guys, but you *slurp* never listened to me." Soon, as in the amount of time it took the two ramen chefs to make several hundred bowls of Ramen, the Ichiraku Ramen stand was all out of supplies. But they had more than enough of a pay source to begin to get new supplies, and new cooks, it was obvious they would need them. As the nine fox hanyous walked out of the ramen stand all of them were lifted up by the collars of the shirt and before they could even tell what was happening they were standing in front of the Hokage.

To put it simply the Hokage was shocked, here were nine people with fox ears and tails. "Well" he began, in his deep gravelly voice, barely hiding his shock "Now that you've all had some food i think an explanation is in order" Kakashi stepped forward explained the mission and what he knew of the unexpected occurrence. To most of this the Hokage nodded, although he went a bit bug-eyed through most of the speech about the unexpected occurrences and the bloodlines. He looked down and rubbed the bridge of his nose, "well then, all your teams are now merged, you will meet at the same place as the others." he rubbed the bridge of his nose "the council is not going to like this, and if you've all become pranksters I'll have to keep an eye on yo-" "RED NOSED THIRD HOKAGE" came the sudden and very loud followed by shouts from the rest of the fox nine. The Hokage, as well as everybody else, snapped their heads up so suddenly that it was a wonder none of them broke any bones. There, on the Hokage monument were nine forms, barely visible, the only feature that anyone could make out was that all of them had at least one more appendage than they should and were using every limb they could other than their legs to paint the Hokage monument. Only the fourth Hokages face was spared. If you could call it that. It just had less paint one it. The Hokage lowered his head again yep, the council is definitely going to demand their deaths, more specifically though, Naruto, their going to think killing him will get rid of these effects, I'm going to need to reveal a secret to keep them at bay the aged Hokage sighed, "I'm way too old for this" he muttered. As the Genin filed out the Jounin remained, prepared to tell the Hokage of one piece of information that they didn't want the Genin to know yet. Kakashi walked up to the Hokage, "Hokage, there is one piece of information i must tell you, when Zabuza died he told us to take Haku, his student, with us, but he was unwilling to come, we have had to leave him with the people of the land of wave" at that all three Jounin walked out. The Hokage rubbed the bridge of his nose, "way too old."

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The Hokage Braced himself, ready to give the news to the council. "Council, i would like to explain why i have brought you here" at this moment many people were thinking different thoughts,many of these went along the lines of worry, hope, and indifference. "I have to inform you that Naruto Uzumaki has turned all of the graduates of this year into hanyous" Immediately the reactions were evident, Sakuras mother stood up, "this is outrageous, such a thing is punishable by death" Hiashi Hyuuga stood up "is my daughter Safe?" for that one moment he was worried, but he clamped it down and sat down again, fortunately every one but the Hokage was too shocked to pay attention to this, he knew he had to be careful not to blow his cover and let the Hyuuga council find out about his plans. He immediately began to think, trying to see if there was a way to use this to his advantage. Most of the civilian council was shouting for Narutos death, the shinobi council were worried for their children. The Hokage finally had enough of the noise, "Quiet!" he snapped. Immediately everyone was silent, "I am not going to execute Naruto, I am telling you this so i can say that if you attack him ar any of the graduates of this year they have every right to strike back at you, and if they don't then I will" this last part was directed to the Civilian Council. Sakuras mother once again decided to speak up. "I am not letting a Hanyou live in my house, I want a disownment" every shinobi in the room sighed, what a shallow person. "In that case" the Hokage said, everything's falling into place he thought, he didn't need the sharingan to predict what that woman would do "Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and any others that any of you feel like disowning, will form the beginning of the newest clan in leaf" immediately Hiashi smirked, this was his chance, neither of his daughters would get the branch family curse mark, and neither would be simply thrown onto the streets, "Hokage, I would like to Disown my child, Hinata Hyuuga" it may have stung him to say that, but he would still have a final talk, and it saved both his daughters. The Hokage smiled, he knew of Hiashis reasoning, "Very well, well, i suppose you might want to know the name of this new clan, its name is Namikaze" at this point every one in the room gasped, "b-but that's the surname of the fourth Hokage" Shikaku stuttered, how could he have missed that, the hair, the eyes. The Hokage nodded again, obviously enjoying himself, and so that's where Naruto and his friends will stay, in his fathers house!"

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Sakura walked into her home, ready for one big explanation, "Mum, I'm home, and I've got some thing i need to show you" she called. When no answer came she started to feel nervous. She walked into the Kitchen, her tails twitching from nerve. In the kitchen sat an ANBU, his mask hiding all emotion. "Sakura Haruno" He said, silence greeted him in response "after hearing of your transformation into a Hanyou, your mother believes you to have become a threat to society, to try and avoid this happening she has officially disowned you and rejected you from this house" Sakura felt a part of her heart shatter, her own mother, she had just up and disowned her, just like that. Seeing her approaching tears the ANBU decided it was time to speak up, "you will be living with Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata Hyuuga and Sasuke Uchiha in the area that holds the shared Uzumaki and Uchiha grounds. Sakuras spirit lifted a bit, thats right she still had her friends.

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As Sasuke walked up to the Uchiha compound he saw a sight that amazed him, their was a team of construction workers moving the entire Uchiha compound. One of the workers, seeing him walked up to explain the situation. "We're moving you're compound to another location" he began, well done captain obvious, "the Hokage has decided that the Uchiha grounds will be moved to the Namikaze grounds in a clan merge. As such both yours and Narutos last name..." at the point of mentioning Naruto he practically spat out the words, it seemed some people still held a grudge against Kurama "...will now be changed to Uchikaze" he said, upon seeing that Sasuke had no more questions he walked of to continue with the large scale movement of houses. The Newly named Sasuke Uchikaze, one of the three founding members of the Uchikaze clan, smirked, things are going to be very different, he thought, going to the nearest worker to find out the location of his new home.

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Naruto walked into the outskirts of the village, following the instructions on the scroll the Hokage gave him to find the Namikaze Grounds. Inside his voice several voices decided to speak up, You'll love it! Kushina exclaimed, Naruto felt more than saw it but he knew that Minato had nodded, with a small smile on his he arrived he saw a large group of workers moving what looked like a large amount of houses next to the Namikaze house. As soon as he walked in there was a very noticeable silence, it Narutos tails go straight. Eventually one person came forward, "Hey, I've been told to inform you that the Uchiha clan is merging with you're own, congratulations on being one of the four founding members of the Uchikaze clan" Naruto noticed that he didn't seem to scowl at him like everyone else, one of the few that didn't despise him. Naruto tilted his head to the side, "Who's the third and fourth?" he asked, wondering who this person could be, "Sakura, shes been disowned from the Haruno family, and as such is now one of the founding members of the Uchikaze clan as well as Hinata who was disowned from the Hyuuga clan" Narutos face split into his trademark foxy grin. Alright, he thought, this is going to be awesome.

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Hinata felt as if her world was about to shatter, did her father just say that she wasn't part of the Hyuuga clan. Did she really do some thing that bad. Seeing her approaching tears Hiashi decided to intervene "Hinata, I'm not doing this because you've done something wrong" Hinatas face clearly showed her confusion. Hiashi sighed, "just before you're mother died, giving birth to Hanabi, I promised her that no matter what i would make sure that neither of our daughters were branded with the branch family curse mark. This was the best time to ensure that it didn't happen" Hinata seemed reassured and with an amazingly confident nod walked out of the Hyuuga estate to her new home.

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Sakura followed the ANBU to what she had been told was now the Uchikaze clan. She saw the builders placing the Uchiha clan compound in the area but she was more concerned with finding Naruto and Sasuke, she needed her friends, her own mother had just abandoned her. No, not just that, she had made it a point to kick her out. She ran straight into the house that wasn't being moved to find both Naruto and Sasuke there. She explained the whole thing to them. Naruto immediately clenched his fist so hard it drew blood, he knew that it had happened but hearing it from Sakura was a whole different grit his teeth and deep inside his mind he felt a pressure that he didn't even realize was there before leave. Unknown to him that was his mind being overpowered by the emotional changes that came as a part of his transformation, that made two pranking fox's both aiming their full power at Sakuras former mother. That was not something she would enjoy.

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The next day all of the fox nine waited on the bridge, well that wasn't completely correct. Naruto and Sasuke, now having fully accepted his pranking nature, were setting up the most powerful trap they could for Kakashi. Ino and Sakura were encouraging them, the other two Jounin were 'mysteriously' unable to see that the two students were doing something that would cause mischief and the rest of the fox nine were doing their usual activities. After an hour of the two pranksters setting up an incredibly dangerous trap they both sat down and waited for their tardy sensei. In a puff of smoke Kakashi appeared on top of the exact post that the pranksters had expected him to. And was promptly flung by a catapult into the surrounding forest. This set off another trap, which set of another, and another, and another. Until another hour later Kakashi walked back into the clearing, everybody that was there were all laughing so hard, they certainly weren't worried about the extra hour wait, it meant they got to see the comedy show of their lives. Kakashi was covered in orange paint, mud, sticks, leaves, water, jelly, bubble gum, and all other assortments of things that basically obscured his entire face. He would have glared but the mud got in the way so instead he just sighed. "that wasn't funny, I'd be dead right now if i didn't use my sharingan" at the lack of the laughter stopping he just sighed again "okay then, I figure i should tell you, you've all been nominated in the chunin exams, here are your entrance slips, report to room 301 at 12 o'clock sharp tomorrow, you will be reporting in the teams you were in before the transformation" as he turned to walk away he heard some words that sent a chill down his spine. "Kakashi" Sasuke said seriousness in is voice, "the longer you keep us waiting with how late you are the worse the prank will be." Kakashi made a mental note to set his alarm clock on time tomorrow.

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The fox nine were walking through the streets of the village, all headed for Ichirakus ramen, and hoping that they had restocked, they had run them dry the last time. When suddenly they heard a shout, "ah, let go of me!" they turned a corner to see some guy dressed in a black cat suit what looked liked a mummy strapped to his back. He was holding Konohamaru by the scruff of his shoulder. Beside him was a girl with blonde hair, styled in four pig-tails at the back of her head, she had a fan strapped to her back. Judging from the headbands they were both from Sand. Naruto immediately reacted, seeing his friend in danger, "Put him down!" he yelled.

The girl wearing the fan gave the other person a mild glare, "you should listen to him Kankuro, we'll get in trouble if we do this, besides, what will he do when he finds out" the now identified Kankuro seemed to pale a bit before visibly gulping, "h-he won't f-find out Temari" Temari just huffed, "fine but don't blame me when he does" all the while Kankuro still was holding up Konohamaru like he weighed nothing. He suddenly noticed the ears and tails that the nine people in front of him had, he whistled, "and you thought i was going over the top with my costume Temari" Temari looked at the nine in front of her for a few seconds before Sasuke just got bored. He flicked a pebble at Kankuros wrist, stinging enough to make him let go of the small kid in his grasp Konohamaru fell to the ground and scurried to Narutos side "you can beat these guys right boss" he said to grinned and began to step forward. But was cut off by Shikamarus arm. "Naruto, we're not going to start trouble, these guys are from a different village and are here for the chunin exams, its not our business what they do as long as it doesn't harm us" he said, in a very slow and deliberate manner. Kankuro, angry at being ignored was about to charge forward when a voice, cold and harsh came from a nearby tree. Everybody looked up to the branch, there stood a boy with red, spiky hair, the Kanji for love on his forehead and a gourd strapped to his back. "Kankuro, you're a disgrace to the village" A whirlwind of sand surrounded him before he disappeared and reappeared in front of Temari and Kankuro, who both looked scared as if they were facing death itself. "G-Gaara-" Kankuro began "quiet Kankuro, or I'll kill you" Kankuro immediately shut his mouth and didn't speak another word again. Gaara walked away and the two other just followed behind him. After a few seconds of confusion Naruto spoke up "I would have beaten them anyway." everybody smiled before Sakura walked up to Naruto and gave and tussled his hair "sure you would've, Naruto" what happened next though was surprising, Naruto actually started purring from Sakura rubbing his ears, Sasuke smirked, "since when do foxes purr?" he grated. Naruto immediately jumped up "its not purring, it's happy growling!" he yelled. Everybody laughed as they headed for Ichirakus.

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The next day nine figures rolled up to the academy, ready for the chunin exams. They walked up to the third floor, kind of confused about why there were a bunch of people on the floor just below them, Chibi explained though that their was actually a Genjutsu on the door that ne had broken before they saw it. And arrived in front of room 301 to find Kakashi, Kurenai and Asuma waiting for them, they were quickly rushed through the explanation that they could only enter if all three showed up for each team before entering and sitting down to have a conversation.

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Iruka sat down rubbing his head, the idea for giving them a preliminary test didn't work. He had placed Genjutsu on all the others and used a transformation to try and test Naruto himself. Naruto acted like he couldn't even see the transformation, and upon later inspection he found out that the Genjutsu he placed on the other eight were broken before they could even sense it, that shouldn't have been possible but they did it. He smiled, this was going to be one heck of a chunin exam.

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The fox nine were just getting used to the weird stares at the ears and tails, well the first eight were but Naruto was a different story. Getting annoyed he jumped up onto the table and yelled at the lot of them "yes their real now stop staring!" a person walked up to them "you rookies should keep it down, don't draw attention to yourselves" he paused and contemplated that for a second, "actually with the ears and tails that's impossible, just don't make the people in the room hate you, it draws an even bigger target on your back, I'm Kabuto by the way" Sasuke snorted "too late for that, and why are you trying to help us anyway?" Kabuto waved his hands his hands in front of himself in defense "I just figured that us leaf ninja should stick together is all, plus i wanted to get a chance to show of these" he brought a pack of cards from his pocket. "my ninja info cards, I've gone into the chunin exams six times before, and I'd be a fool not to pick up on what a few of the people are capable of" everybody looked curious as he took a blank card from the top and placed it on the ground. He put his finger on top of it and it began to turn slowly before in a small puff of smoke a map appeared on it. "I know how many teams from each village are attending thanks to my before hand research, their are teams from sand, rain, grass, waterfall leaf and sound, the last of these, the village hidden in the sound is just a new village, a little small time really, so they've only sent one team. Elsewhere in the room a man with his face covered in bandages spoke to his teammates a boy with spiky hair and a a girl with black "a small time village hey, guess we better show him what the hidden sound can do" they all charged at Kabuto. The one with the spiky hair threw two Kunia forcing Kabuto to jump back. Before Kabuto had time to react the one with the bandages was right in front of him aiming to get him with a right hook to the face. Kabuto smirked and tilted his head back, just the smallest amount so the punch went by, just missing him. He stood their for a few seconds with the smirk still on his face before suddenly his glasses cracked. But he still kept up the smile as he straightened up "I see, so it was that kind of attack" all the fox nine just stared at him. Then suddenly he doubled over in pain. Ino and Sakura both went to his side to try and help. But before any of the others could do anything a puff of smoke came from the front of the room and a man with two scars on his face as well as 12 other people were revealed as it cleared, "alright , I'm Ibiki Morino but for now you can call me your worst nightmare, let the first stage of the exams begin"

As Ibiki explained the rules all nine of the fox hanyous felt their tails twitching in excitement. But unknown to all the sentinels all nine were already preparing what could only be described as a prank, and a distraction.

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Midway through the exam a explosion tore apart the outside training field in the academy, the cause, a large ball of paper bombs that Naruto and his friend had placed with their tails. While all of the sentinels were distracted they all, using their fox like stealth, copied every answer from the people that they knew were getting the questions correct. And the sentinels, and anyone else, never knew a thing about it. Too easy.

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The alarm sounded signaling the end of the test and the time for the tenth question. As Ibiki explained the rules the fox nine gradually woke up from their very restful sleep. "alright, here the deal with the tenth question, and don't interrupt me, you can choose whether or not to take the question, if you don't you fail, if you take it and get it wrong then you can't take the chunin exams again. This means that you'll be stuck as a Genin for life any of you that don't want to take the question can raise your hands now and leave" as many of the Genin raised there hands and left and many began to have doubts. After a few more seconds the pressure started to get to some of the others. Soon even Naruto was feeling intimidated but then suddenly a voice rang through the heads of all the fox nine. It was Minato, kids, he can't make you unable to take the chunin exams again, you have to stop people from leaving though, so that you have enough people here to all get into the finals they all took heart in this and began planning for how to stop the people from giving up. Soon Naruto got an idea he raised his hand, nobody knew him except for the other members of the fox nine, who already could figure out what he was doing. so nobody was surprised by this, before he did something that did surprise them.

He slammed his hand onto the desk, then looked up to Ibiki "No way am I giving up, even if i get stuck as a Genin for life I don't care, I'll still become Hokage believe it!" all around him the other Genin straightened up, those that were about to raise their hands reconsidered, and those who were starting to doubt themselves reaffirmed their confidence. Ibiki smirked "Well then i have one thing to say to you all, you all pass" at this most of the Genin were dumbfounded, even the fox nine, "the tenth question never really existed, it was a test of your will, after all" at this part he removed his headband. Revealing all manner of scar and contortions on his head, signs of torture "sometimes when you go on a mission you get things like this happening, he gestured to the many scars on his head "and you need to be prepared to make sacrifices for your team, that, is what being a chunin is all about." just at that moment a crimson bundle came flying in through the window out of the bundle came two kunai, and a figure also seemed to unwrap itself. A large amount of fabric, held at the corners by the two kunai to reveal a banner saying in white print 'here comes the second tests proctor: Anko Mitarashi' "heads up boys and girls this is no time to be celebrating, I'll be your next proctor: Anko Mitarashi. Ready for the second test-good lets go, follow me" she called out, she was wearing a ninja mail suit with a short skirt and a light tan trench coat with purple on the inside. she was met by complete silence, most of the Genin were just staring blankly at her. Ibiki stepped out from behind the Banner "you're early, again" he deadpanned. She groaned, quite clearly embarrassed, before recovering "how many are their, Ibiki, you let all these guys pass, your test was too easy, you must be getting soft" without missing a beat Ibiki replied "or it could be, a stronger crop of candidates this year" Anko turned back to the class "hmm, they sure don't look it, trust me before i'm done with 'em, more than half'll be eliminated" every person in the class was taken aback, more than half? "alright you maggots have had it easy so far, but things are gonna be different starting from first thing in the morning. I'll let your squad leader know where you're to meet me, dismissed."

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Well, what do ya think, i bit short compared to the stories i like, but im getting better. After Anko shows up I've got got about every word going by the show for this chapter, it does make things slightly easier than making up the lines and it completely fits with Ankos personality so why not. Now I've decided on a different idea than weekly posting, weekly will be my minimum but I'm going to need reviews equivalent to 20x the chapter I'm writing. Thats write twenty reviews per chapter, this is because i really want to know what you think, so no nonsense reviews and no inappropriate ones. For the next chapter I'm going to need 80 sensible reviews and I've only got 1, what a shame. But i will say that at least it will be a long chapter at this rate. And if i find the same person has reviews more than three times in a row I'm deleting the extras. I'm all for constructive criticism like what to put in the next chapter but remember the final say come down to me, but your welcome to make suggestions and I'll try to mention you at the beginning in a 'thank you' section. Chibi, Kushina and Minato don't talk to them much by the way, it causes mental strain to hold up converstions. If you ask a question that i think is worth answering then I'll try that. But to put a bit of a sad face on things much as i hate to do it, I'm going to be gone for parts of the holidays and am getting new assignments at school so may not be able to update with stories as long as they should be judging form this chapter '1 week = 5k words'. however, i am so happy, i have gotten 11 followers, 5 favorites and 281 views, I'm so happy, disregarding the only one review this is awesome. Anyway if you checked there wasn't actually a poll on pairings because i couldn't put it up properly but this time i will put one up, a simple yes/no. Do you want a pairing?next poll will be one who, you have until my next update. Honestly i can't say that i have a plan for all this like some authors say they do and I'm sorry if Chibis explanation was too rapid i just needed that over and done with. But that doesn't mean that i still don't have some tricks up my sleeve that haven't been planned out, I'm two away from a magic show, just you wait and see. By the way all of the fox nine have had a huge attitude change from the transformation, so thats why Sakura hasn't gotten angry at Naruto for something obvious yet, or Sasuke hasn't planned to use his new power to kill Itachi. This reached my 5K plan, YAY. I think thats all. Anyway bye.