Hey, I'm starting this on the same day that I put out chapters four and five! Aren't you happy! Some one asked of a prank and a meeting between Kakashi and Naruto. Well, here you go.

Key:

"I am a spoken word! Mwa ha ha!"

'I am a thought. Hear me roar!'

"I am a written, coded or sign language word!"

"I am Kyuubi talking in Naruto's mind."

I am Kyuubi talking to Naruto outside of his mind.

I am Kyuubi's thoughts.

"I am Naruto talking in his mind."

I am Naruto talking to people with his mind and flashbacks.

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Scroll VI:

Year V.

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A tragedy had happened. Hinata had almost been kidnapped by a delegate from Cloud, and after Hiashi had killed the guy trying to kidnap Hinata, the Cloud had demanded that they have Hiashi's body. He was going to do it to stop a war from starting, when his brother, Hiazshi, Neji's father had stepped in. He had said that the Cloud only wanted the Byakugan, and since he had the Caged Bird seal, if he died it would disappear. Hiashi had tried to protest, but Hiazshi had said that he was doing this for his brother, not the clan head. It had happened and they had all gone into a period of morning for a while.

As if that was not enough, shortly after, it was found that Hiashi's wife was cheating on him. He had been devastated, and it had taken Anko, Kurenai, and Naruto together to get him out of his depression. He had dissolved the marriage and throw his ex-wife out of the clan, sealing her Byakugan.

With her mother gone, little Hanabi had been miserable. Until, that is, Anko had taken her under her wing. Anko had taken to mothering the little girl almost to death. Of course, Hiashi teased her about it. They had squabbled as usual.

After that, things had gone pretty well for a while, and it seemed like things had calmed down some. Naruto had even gotten to meet some of his families friends, and his mothers boy friend.

Meeting Asuma, his mother boy friend and the Hokage's son, had been a big surprise.

FLASHBACK

"Hey."Asuma said, popping up right behind Naruto. The younger boy stiffened, then relaxed, when Asuma made no other moves.

"Don't do that!" he snapped, whirling around, blind eyes piercing right through him. "Who are you, anyway?"

"I'm Sarutobi Asuma. Kurenai sent me here to get you." he said, raising his hands in defense.

"Oh?" Naruto asked, "And what are you to her?"

"I'm her boyfriend."

"Funny," drawled Naruto, "She's never mentioned you."

"Really, now..." Asuma frowned. "Well, she wanted me to take you to her, said it was important."

"How do I know you are who you say you are?" Naruto asked, suspicious.

"How can I prove it to you?" the Jonin countered.

Naruto frowned. "Tell me something she would only tell her boyfriend."

"Well," Asuma said, then he leaned down and whispered something in Naruto's ear.

Naruto flushed bright red. "O-okay, take me to her."

Asuma smirked.

END FLASHBACK

Naruto's meeting with Kakashi was just as strange.

FLASHBACK

"Yo." Kakashi said, popping up right behind Naruto. The younger boy stiffened, then relaxed, when Kakashi made no other moves.

"Why do you people keep doing that!?" he asked, throwing his hands up in the air. Kakashi just cocked an eyebrow in confusion.

"Doing what?" he asked.

"Popping up behind me with no warning at all!" the boy snarled.

"O-kay ..." muttered Kakashi.

Naruto sighed. "Who are you and what do you want?" he asked bluntly.

"I'm Hatake Kakashi, and I just wanted to meet the person who was monopolizing so much of my fellow Jonin's time." he answered.

Naruto waved his arms. "So you've seen him, why are you still here?"

"Because I'm bored." the Jonin answered.

"Great," snorted Naruto, "And I guess I'm supposed to entertain you?"

"Yup!" Kakashi was all to cheerful.

END FLASHBACK

Meeting with Anko's partner in crime, Morino Ibiki, had been one hell of an experience. He hadn't know anyone could make Anko do that.

FLASHBACK

"So," Ibiki said, looking at Naruto, "This has been the kid that's made you such a softy."

Anko glared at him. "I'm not a softy."

Ibiki looked amused. "Ah, so not being so brutal with the prisoner is just another way of interrogating them?"

Anko flushed, pulling the struggling Naruto closer to her. "Okay," she admitted, "So maybe I've gotten a little soft."

Ibiki continued to look amused. Then he turned to Naruto. "So kid," he said, "Ever wondered how to interrogate some one properly?"

Anko glared at him.

END FLASHBACK

Naruto and his friends had been in the academy for a year now, and were moving on to their second year, and Neji, Tenten and Lee were moving on to there third. They were all at the top of their classes in grades, except for Lee because of his disability, and they were all training very hard.

Naruto's appearance had changed even more, his hair now completely green and his eyes completely red. His ears had grown into fox ears and his first tail was now fully grown. His second tail was half way there, and his finger nails had grown into claws. His incisors were huge, and his other teeth were even a little pointed. His four remaining senses were now way beyond any of Kiba's. His sense of touch was so acute that he could even read things just by feeling the raised lines of the ink.

All of them had wore weights, though, as they had been doing it longer, Lee and Naruto wore more, and they all constantly practiced chakra control, except for Lee, who trained franticly in Taijutsu. Tenten was even teaching them all how to make simple weapons and some tricks to handling them. Naruto was getting good practice in Genjutsu and seals, what with keeping one over his appearance almost all the time and maintaining the Kyuubi's seal, which he had insisted he do himself, as the Kyuubi was his friend.

Lee diligently taught them what he knew of Taijutsu, and Neji and Hinata did the same for their own style. They also met up in The Clearing at least once a week to discuss what was going on, and it was often more then that. Also, when ever someone didn't get something in their school work, they would help each other out with it.

They were even at a meeting now.

"Hey Ino-chan, Hi-chan, don't you think that Sasuke guy in school is cute?" Sakura asked, looking up from her home work on decoding.

"Yeah, and he so dark and mysterious too!" said Ino, abandoning her home work as well.

"Ano," Hinata said, "I don't think that he's that cool."

"Good for you Hi-chan! I for one think he's a Jackass." said Naruto, not looking up from his scroll. Not that it would do him any good.

Neji leaned over to Tenten, "Three guesses to where he learned that word," he muttered to her, "And the first two don't count."

Tenten giggled.

"Naruto!" scolded Lee. "Using words like that is not youthful!" He was practicing Taijutsu on a log that they had set up for just that purpose.

Kiba snorted. "I agree with Naruto. Sasuke's a teme." Shikamaru, Chouji and Shino were nodding.

Lee turned and started in on Kiba for his language.

They ignored him.

"We should invite him into our group!" proclaimed Ino.

"Absolutely not." said Naruto. He snapped his scroll shut and left.

Ino looked confused. "Why'd he leave?" she asked, hurt.

"Ino-chan, Naruto feels like letting some one into our group would mean telling him all of our secrets." said Hinata.

"So?" asked Ino.

"You do remember what we swore we'd never tell any one about?" asked Shino.

"Yeah? So- oh. Oh!" Ino got it. "What can I do to apologize?" she asked.

"Well," Shikamaru said, smirking. "You could..." as he explained his plan, they all gained smirks.

"Well help!" piped in Chouji at the end.

Ino had tears in her eyes at the end. She had such good friends! "You don't have too."

"Hey," said Tenten, "What are friends for?"

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Anko looked out her window and smirked. 'So,' she thought, ''Kohona's Phantom Pranksters' are back are they?'

She turned, and, still smirking, went about her day.

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"Come on, Naru-kun!" cried Sakura, pulling the stubborn Shinobi with her.

"We have something to show you." said Chouji.

"I can't see, so you can't 'show' me anything." he said.

"Fine, smart ass, something for you to feel." Shikamaru said. "Bah, your so troublesome."

"Hurry up, slow poke!" said Tenten, pulling him along.

"Or we'll leave you behind." teased Kiba.

A little while later, they stopped.

"Now," said Shino, "Reach out with your senses. What do you feel?"

Naruto did so, and felt, above him, like a glowing light, the words, 'Sorry Naru-kun!' attached to Ino's chakra signature.

"W-what?" he asked, "What is this?"

"This," said Lee, grinning, "Is Ino-chan's apology."

"Last night, she went up there and painted it with her special paint, on the Hokage Monument. She also has some thing to give you." said Neji.

"I hope you do forgive her Naru-kun, she didn't mean anything bad by it." Hinata said quietly.

"Yeah man, and you'll really like your gift!" put in Kiba.

"We even helped her pick it out!" Sakura added.

"She got it from my dads shop, so you better like it!" threatened Tenten jokingly.

Shino looked up. "Ah, here's Ino-chan now." he said.

Ino came up, looking shy. "Gomen, Naru-kun. When I said that I wasn't thinking." she shoved something into his hands. "I hope you can forgive me?"

Naruto smiled at her, he hadn't been that mad in the first place. "Of course Ino-chan! We're friends!"

Ino smiled, relived.

Naruto started to open his present. When the paper was off, he felt the thing. It was long and thin, and narrowed into a rounded tip at one end, and it felt like lacquered wood. On the other end there was some kind of design, but he couldn't tell what it was. "What is it?" he asked.

"Ara, it's a sword in a black wood sheath, pretty thin, and it has a silver handle shaped like a dragon head, with the mouth open over the blade. The dragon had rubies for eyes. Also, the hilt is wrapped in black and white leather, and there is a medium sized emerald on the end of the hilt. The sheath had a dragon on it with emeralds for scales and rubies for eyes. Also, it has red and gold cherry blossoms in green and white hexagons." Shikamaru described.

"Naru-kun, why don't you draw this youthful master piece so that we can see the fire it holds!" cried Lee.

"Yeah, Naru-kun! I'd like to see too!" said Chouji.

Naruto obliged. When the sword was fully drawn, his friends gasped. He frowned. "What?" he asked, a bit worried, was his new sword ugly?

"Naruto," said Neji, "That is a sword made of silver."

"Wow." Naruto clicked, running a finger along the edge of the blade, testing it. "Ouch!" he said when he cut himself. His friends gasped again. "What?" he asked again.

"The sword just absorbed your blood." said Tenten, shocked.

"WHAT!?!"

Kiba spoke next. "That means that it's excepted you as it's owner, and only you can touch it." he slapped Naruto on the back, "Cool man!"

"I know that!" he snapped. "What I didn't know was this sword would do that."

"Me neither." said Tenten.

"Well," Sakura smirked, "You can't give it back now." The others smirked as well. They all knew that Naruto would have tried to give it back if he could. He was like that.

"Any way, this is a present from all of us, we all pitched in on the price. And when Tenten's father learned who it was for, he gave us a discount." said Neji.

"Now you just have to learn how to use it." added Shino.

"Thanks guys!" Naruto said.

"No problem, my youthful friend!" shouted Lee.

"He means, 'your welcome'." said Chouji.

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Naruto did indeed get someone to help him train with his sword. She was and AnBu by the name of Uzuki Yugao, and she was very good with her sword. She took Naruto under her wing, and started teaching him about swords.

They started with the basics, and then moved up. She taught him about other weapons as well, so he could use and defend against them. In time she even became part of his family.

It seemed that things had calmed down and that they could start to relax. For now.

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1/26/07 6:29 pm: The special paint that they're talking about is paint that they bought and infused with their chakra, so that Naruto can 'see' it. Also, you may think that a sword made out of pure silver would be flimsy, but it's not pure silver, and it has been mixed with some other metals to make it stronger.

Gaa! That ending was terrible!!!

EDIT!: Added some more on the ending.

Also, you can vote for a pairing once each chapter, and for every chapter, I'll count it as one vote. Vote now, because I end the votes at chapter 12!

Voting results:

Vote:

Naruto/Harem-23

Naruto/Hinata-20

Naruto/Temari-8

Naruto/Haku-Female-6 Male-3

Naruto/Ino-5

Naruto/Gaara-4

Naruto/Shino-3

Naruto/Shikamaru-3

Naruto/Neji-3

Naruto/Tenten-3

Naruto/Sakura-2

NoYoai-12

Yoai-2

Yuri-2

If their not with Naruto, who should they be with?

Shikamaru/Temari-2

Shikamaru/Ino-1

Chouji/Ino-1

Neji/Tenten-1

Pairings that are certain:

Hiashi/Anko

Kurenai/Asuma

Kohonamaru/Hanabi

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