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A.N. Please tell me if anyone has done this idea before, because if someone has, I really want to read their story then.

Chapter 7: The Cat

It was finally graduation day. Naruto was extremely excited because he wanted to start missions as soon as possible, no matter how dull they are.

Naruto was especially feeling good, because so far his 'family' had not shown up to torment him further, which just solidified his belief that they had really abandoned him and only wanted to give him false hope that he still had family that cared.

It had now been 3 years. Iruka, though still not happy about Mizuki's death, had forgiven Naruto a long time ago because Mizuki had always been a little unstable. Though they were best friends, they still tried to kill each other every now and then.

The Genin test was extremely easy, like always. All they had to do was be able to do 20 pushups in a minute, 30 sit ups in a minute, and run 1 mile within 20 minutes. (Though the mile within 20 minutes does not sound too hard, I unfortunately admit at one time I was unable to do that. So within 20 minutes is not TOO easy for the Genin exam.) After the run, the students then needed to score at least an average of 40 points with bull's eyes being worth 50 points. After the accuracy test, the students were supposed to take the written exam, however it had mysteriously disappeared. The students' final test, however, was the hardest one. The teachers had set up a tournament bracket. There were 10 students in each bracket, and 3 brackets. Whichever students made it within places 1-3, would officially become Genin. There were no rules for the matches, except no killing. Naruto's match had been the funniest one, because it was for 1st or 2nd place of bracket 2. His opponent had been one of the Uchiha's fan girls, and thus had no skill. The only 

fan girl that had any skill, actually, was Ino. Ino only had skill because Naruto had finally talked her into taking training seriously.

All Naruto did was taunt the fan girl saying that the Uchiha was worthless. The fan girl had instantly went into a frenzy and tried to rip Naruto apart, however he dodged and the fan girl could barely stand up after rushing in like that. So Naruto, being the naturally hyperactive guy he is, picked her up and tied her to the edge of the academy's roof, upside down, showing off her limited collector's edition underwear of Uchiha Sasuke's head on a pink background, saying "Hn."

Unfortunately, that was the most exciting match. All the other losers had been defeated by a single punch from the winners. The final 9 students left were told to come back within an hour to be told who their senseis would be.

Within an hour, tons of things can be accomplished. However, Naruto only sat at his desk, looking into the distance, as if he could see the whole universe lying at his feet. Hinata, though she use to be shy, was a naturally inquisitive person, and wanted to know everything possible. So, when she saw Naruto starting to shake as if from some kind of internal conflict, she had to know why.

Naruto's answer, however, was definitely unexpected. "Hinata, which do you think is better, miso ramen, or chicken ramen? I can't decide which I want for lunch." After hearing Naruto's answer, Hinata burst out laughing. She had thought it was some kind of life or death decision or something from the way Naruto had been shaking.

After thinking for a little bit, Hinata put on a devilish smirk. "I don't know, Naruto-Kun. I personally think I would taste better."

"Yeah, you're right Hina…… Wait! What!" After taking a moment to process what she had said, Naruto blew back with a massive nose bleed, making Hinata laugh mercilessly from her cruel prank.



When Naruto finally woke up from going to lala land, Hinata just started to laugh even more from his, obviously, perverted thoughts. "Naruto-kun, you should have chicken. You had miso last time."

Naruto, after thinking about it again, agreed. "Yeah, I suppose I shouldn't over eat one flavor, huh? I don't want to get sick of the heavenly substance called ramen after all. So, when do you think they are going to announce the teams?"

"Right now. You took up your entire lunch break just trying to decide which ramen you wanted for lunch."

"Okay class. This is unfortunately the last time I will see you unless by coincidence, or we are assigned the same mission. From now on, you are shinobi of the leaf, and you WILL act like shinobi of the leaf. I will announce your senseis to you now, so you can finally start down the path of becoming well respected members of the shinobi of Konoha. Teams 1-6 are still in circulation, so team 7 is Naruto, Kiba, and Sasuke. Your sensei is Hatake Kakashi."

Naruto instantly recognized the name. He had done some research about what the murderer of his father looked like. The evidence found had pointed straight to Kakashi. "What the fuck do you mean Iruka sensei?! Why the hell is the bastard who killed my father, MY sensei? I would kill the man the first chance I received, regardless of the consequences! Why would you put me on his team?!"

"Simple Naruto." The answer, surprisingly, did not come from Iruka, but from the doorway. "I did not kill your father. Your father was killed by a Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu. I do not know that jutsu. The only person who had known that jutsu within the time that the village had been attacked was Danzo. It was Danzo who killed your father, Naruto. Not me. That is why I am your sensei, because your father was my sensei and the council thought it would be easiest for me to explain it to you. So, team 7, meet me on the roof." With all that said, Kakashi used a Shunshin to quickly get to the roof.



"I'm sorry Iruka sensei. I thought it was Kakashi who had killed my father. Since it is you that makes the teams, I thought that you had put me with Kakashi out of spite. Or, perhaps, from revenge for Mizuki. I'm sorry, Iruka sensei."

"It's okay Naruto, but you better get to the roof for your team meeting."

After walking for a few minutes, Naruto and his team came up onto the roof to find an extremely unpleasant surprise.

"Naruto, it is time I told you some things. I never abandoned you. Your father wanted me to leave Konoha with your sister so that we would be protected from any possible enemies. He was supposed to live and be able to protect you while you guys lived in Konoha. If the town's people became too violent, you were supposed to come to Uzumaki no Kuni to live with some of your relatives from my side. Unfortunately, that did not happen. I was supposed to come back when you became a chuunin, but some stranger had talked me into coming back when you became a Genin. Naruto, I hope you can forgive me for not being here to protect you all these years. Your father unfortunately had a seal on both me and him, that if we ever broke our word, we would instantly die. However, with just 1, at most 2, years taken off, it does not count as breaking my word, because it is still at a close enough time period." After all of this was said, an average sized woman with long flowing red hair turned around. Though she seemed to be sincere, everyone on the roof knew it had been too long to have Naruto just accept them back with open arms. "Please Naruto, just tell me what I can do to prove to you that I did not abandon you."

Naruto thought long and hard on what he had just heard. Then, he thought of the perfect solution. "There is one thing I can think. If you are telling the truth, then Ibiki would be able to tell. If you want me to believe you, you would have to do that." Naruto closely gauged her reaction. IF she seemed hesitant, then it is obvious she was lying. If she accepted it, then most likely she was telling the truth.

"Okay Naruto. Tell me one thing first though, why do you want me to visit Ibiki? I know he was always a nice boy, but that does not tell me why I should visit him."



Everyone just stood the gaping. You could even see it through Kakashi's face mask everyone was gaping so hard. "You do really that Ibiki is now Konoha's top torture expert, right? And I hope for your sake that he does not hear about you calling him a 'nice boy'."

Now, it was time for Kushina to gape. "Ibiki a torture expert? The same Ibiki I use to give free cookies to? That I use to babysit even? Damn, where the hell did his parents go wrong?"

"You use to babysit Ibiki? Are we talking about the same Ibiki? Ibiki Morino?"

"Shit. I must have been a bad influence on him. I use to let him watch that kind of movie with me when he was younger. I never thought he would take those movies to heart."

"Yes, I did. And you know you have plenty of things to explain since you disappeared. One way you can worm your way back into Naruto's heart, however, would be to teach him some jutsu, and make those cookies you were talking about." Everyone suddenly spun around at the voice. What they saw, was Ibiki standing there, with smoke still drifting around from Kakashi Shunshining him there.

"I can't believe it. It really is you. So, just how many of my habits did you pick up? I hope not too many."

"No Kushina, not too many. The only one I picked up was watching torture movies. Besides that, I became an expert torturer and have yet to fail to break anyone. So Kushina, I don't care if you use to take care of me, your son has suffered too much. So if you do not mind following me, we can get this finished pretty fast. Now Kakashi, you better start their exam soon, or you will be the next person I break."

After hearing Ibiki's threat, Kakashi instantly started to shake like a Chihuahua facing against a fully grown Akita. (Akitas are dogs that can get really big. Mine was a hybrid of an Akita and a Husky, and was up past my waist.) Suffice to say, Kakashi instantly started the test. "You guys are to try and take this bell from me. Whoever gets the bell becomes a Genin. The other 2 instantly go back to the academy. The academy test was only to see if you could become a 

Genin. This actually will tell if you have the knowledge that your skills require. Now, come at me with the intent to kill!"

After Kakashi said that, Naruto and the rest of the team quickly jumped off of the roof so that they could make a plan. "Kiba, is there any chance that you will work together with me and Sasuke to take down Kakashi sensei?" After seeing Kiba reluctantly nod his head, Naruto turned to Sasuke. "Sasuke, is there any way for you to work together with us against Kakashi sensei?" After seeing Sasuke get an extremely cold glare on his face, Naruto started to get mad. He did, however, think of an alternate plan. "What if we gave you some protection against fan girls? Be your personal body guards for, let's say, a week?"

"What do you want me to do? Just keep those fan girls away from me and I will help."

"Okay, here is my idea. One of us has to distract Kakashi. Kiba, since you are slightly louder than me, you get this role. I will use Doton: Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu to get behind him and knock him out. Then Sasuke, you quickly run in and grab the bell. If we do this right, it will only take a few minutes. If we do it wrong, we all just go into an all out brawl against him. Ready? Let's go."

3 hours later

Naruto woke up to a blinding light. He looked around the room he was in but could not see anything. The last thing he remembered was coming up with the idea to fight Kakashi, then a sharp pain in the back of his head and darkness.

After having his eyes adjust to the rooms brightness, he suddenly became afraid.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

At the sound of the scream, doctors suddenly started flooding into the room, wondering what was happening. Looking all around, they could see nothing wrong, except Naruto screaming his head off, and convulsing wildly on the floor.

When they were able to finally calm him down they found out exactly what was wrong. "I have hospitium-phobia; I have had it for years. Please, PLEASE, get me out of here!"

"YOU CAN GO NOW AS LONG AS YOU STOP SCREAMING!" All of the doctors were, obviously, not happy to come running to his room just to find out he was afraid of hospitals.

Naruto, after hearing this, quickly left the hospital to find Kakashi waiting for him right out front. "Hey, Kakashi, what exactly happened?"

"What happened was I followed you guys, heard your plan, passed you because you all realized the test was about team work, and then knocked you all out for forgetting to be more secretive. So you can all start taking missions starting tomorrow."

Naruto quickly ran to the Ichiraku ramen stand to celebrate the good news with some of his closest friends, and then went off to his father's clan compound. After Naruto received it, Tsunade had released Naruto's heritage to the people of Konoha so that the villagers would not try to kill Naruto for 'stealing' the fourth Hokage's home. Naruto was asleep before you could shinobi.

Team 7 had finished 22 d rank missions in just 5 days because they were too simple. Naruto, being hyperactive, was about to ask for a real mission when something unexpected happened.



The Hokage received an emergency signal on her radio. "….Yes, I hear you. …. What happened? ... Sakura is dead? …… How the hell did this happen? You only had Tora the cat as your mission. ….. Shit! Team 7, you are to gather every shinobi in the village and get them here immediately. Tora has started using jutsu. He has already killed Sakura with a Gōkakyū no Jutsu to the face. We need every one we can get to keep anything worse from happening."

After 10 minutes, every shinobi was assembled in front of the Hokage, wondering what was happening. "Shinobi of the hidden leaf, this is one of our darkest hours. Tora the cat has gone on a killing spree. He has killed at least one Genin with a fire technique, and multiple civilians. We may end up going to war with the daimyo for what I am about to order, but it is needed for the safety of this village. The mission is to kill the cat. It will not be easy. It will not be pretty. It is, however, necessary. Go now, and kill this menace before it can kill more than the Kyuubi did in her invasion. You are dismissed, and may the gods have mercy on us, for Tora will not."

It was a grueling battle. The forest where Tora usually escapes to was completely destroyed.

The death count had reached hundreds. No matter what strategy was used, Tora countered it. With each plan that failed, 10-20 shinobi were left behind. The injured could not even be counted. There were so many, that many of the shinobi that were present wondered if Konoha would ever be able to survive when such awful calamities kept hitting Konoha.

Tora, after hours of battle, ran back to the daimyo's palace in fire country. There, the daimyo's wife noticed the damage to her precious cat. She immediately sent a warning to the Hokage that if she ever found Tora injured again, that she would personally bring together an army to destroy Konoha herself. In her reply, Tsunade explained how Tora was killing people in Konoha and thus was given the order to be put to death.

The wife instantly told Tsunade that if she did not rescind the order, Konoha would die.

It appeared to everyone who was observant enough, war was right around the corner.

I hope you liked this newest chapter and please tell me what you think. How I can improve my writing, what you think I should write more details about, you know. Until next chapter.