Naruto of the Nerima Wrecking Crew

by erickmenk

RanmaNaruto xover. Two years before the genin exam, Naruto was chased out of the village only to be saved by a pigtailed stranger. Two years later, he came back, bringing along Nerima's superpowered members.

2. Chapter 1

RANMA-NARUTO XOVER

i do not own Naruto or Ranma so don't sue.

CHAPTER 1

"HEY HOKAGE-JIJI! I'M BACK!" Shouted the blond boy cheerfully as he entered the Hokage's office escorted by half a dozen ANBU, half of which are glaring at him behind their masks for addressing the Hokage so informally.

"That you are, my dear boy." The Sandaime said with a warm chuckle, gaining a few raised eyebrows from the ANBU escorts. The old man then turned towards the ANBU and said, "Thank you for escorting him here. You may now leave. And please tell my secretary that I am not to be disturbed by anyone today. And I do mean anyone."

"Hai, Hokage-sama." The lead ANBU with a crow mask said as he bowed before walking out the door along with his squad.

As soon as the door was locked, the Sandaime walked in front of his desk, smiled at the young boy, and gave him a brief hug before saying, "I'm glad you're back, Naruto!"

The old man was fully expecting the boy to flinch at the contact, but instead, he felt him hugging back as the boy said, "Yeah, Hokage-jiji. I missed you too." Tapping each other's backs, they let go. Besides, they were manly men and they're not supposed to be into mushy stuffs like hugging people of the same gender.

The Sandaime then sat back on his chair behind the desk while Naruto sat on the desk itself facing him. "So, Naruto, first things first, why did you vandalized the Hokage Monument?"

"Many reasons. One, because I want everyone to know that I'm back. Two, I missed out on doing pranks to the village for a few years so I had to come up with something big. Three, the Hokage faces seems so dull so I decided to lighten them up a bit." Naruto said, showing a wide grin on his face.

There was silence for a moment, which actually cause Naruto to fidget a bit. In fact, he was sweating so much at anticipating the punishment he would have been likely to get for degrading the Monument. Then, the Hokage smiled at him and said, "Very well. So where have you been?"

Not expecting the sudden change of topic, Naruto face-faulted on the desk, hard. As soon as he got up, he stared disbelievingly at the Hokage and asked, "That's it? You're not giving me any punishment? Not even cleaning up that mess?"

"No." The Sandaime said flatly before smiling at him. "Besides, I've already assigned a group of genins to do the task."

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Meanwhile, at the Hokage Monument:

"YOSH! IF I DON'T CLEAN THIS UP IN TWO HOURS, I WILL RUN 500 LAPS AROUND KONOHA ON MY HANDS!" Cried a young boy with huge eyebrow, a bowl cut hair, and wearing green spandex.

"MY BEAUTIFUL YOUTHFUL STUDENT, LEE! I COMMEND YOU FOR SHOWING SUCH DEDICATION TO FULFILL SUCH MONUMENTAL TASKS! NOW SHOW THEM YOUR BURNING PASSION FOR THE SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH!"

"HAI, GAI SENSEI! I WILL MAKE YOU PROUD AND SPREAD MY PASSION OF YOUTH!"

"OH LEE!"

"OH GAI-SENSEI!"

"OH LEE!"

"OH GAI-SENSEI!"

"OH LEE!"

"OH GAI-SENSEI!"

"Oh brother!" Tenten groaned helplessly as she watched her teammate and her Jounin instructor at it once again. Shivering a bit, she then turned towards her other teammate who was already starting to do their mission objective of cleaning the paint off of the Hokage Monument.

Neji, her other teammate, on the other hand, was desperately trying to do this mission without slaughtering the two spandex-wearing members of his squad while silently cursing the name of the person that defiled the monument.

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"ACHOO!" Naruto sneezed suddenly, feeling that someone was thinking about him.

"So anyway, where have you been, Naruto?" The Sandaime asked.

The blond boy gave him a cheerful smile and answered, "Nerima."

"Nerima?"

"Yup." And before the Sandaime voiced his follow-up question, Naruto immediately added, "I really can't tell you where it is exactly, Ojiji, since it's nowhere near the Shinobi Continent. And I can't really tell you how to get there either since I promised those people that took care of me there that I won't tell anyone unless they allowed me to. Besides, Ryoga-sensei is the only one who could come and go from Nerima to here whenever he pleases, which he does mostly just to visit Hinata-chan."

The Sandaime was a bit peeved at that information but didn't push any further. "Oh, yes. There was a report about a man with a large red bamboo umbrella and a yellow and black tiger stripped bandanna that usually visits her a few times a year. But neither the Hyuugas or the ANBU can keep track of him."

"I wouldn't be surprised. Ryoga-sensei can disappear on you in a split second." Naruto said with a knowing smirk.

"Well, anyway, about those people that you lived with, did they took good care of you?"

At this, the young boy gave him a genuine smile and said, "To tell you the truth, old man, I've never been more happy in my life. I've finally found a place where I can be myself. No one in Nerima ever treated me like the villagers here do. Everyone there had been a sensei to me at least once, and taught me some pretty cool stuff. They made me part of their family. Ranma-nii-san had saved my life in more ways than one. Despite all the chaos that surround the place, it has been the best four years of my life."

Sarutobi doesn't know how to feel about the boy's revelation. On one hand, he was very grateful to those people for taking such good care of Naruto. On the other hand, he was quite sad at the fact that it took total strangers rather than him to finally get Naruto to come out of his deceptive shell. Momentarily choosing the later, he was about to ask him more about those people when something Naruto had said came into his thoughts. "Naruto, did you say you were gone for four years?"

Putting on a confused look on his face, Naruto asked, "Um, yeah. Hasn't it been four years here?"

"No. You've only been gone for two years, not four."

Naruto thought hard about that little bit of information before shrugging and said, "Well, I guess time here moves slower here than in Nerima, which would also explain why the spiritual gravity here is at least five times lighter."

"Spiritual gravity?"

"Yup! The old troll said it was the reason why it took me three months of constant training in that place before I was able to bring out my chakra again. It's also the reason why, right now, my chakra is going haywire."

"What do you mean, Naruto?"

"Well, basically, it means that I won't be able to use my chakra efficiently for a while since it's adjusting itself to the spiritual gravity of this place. I can't do any jutsu unless they require a very large amount of chakra."

"How long will it take before your chakra stabilizes?"

"I don't really know. Probably a couple of months."

"I see." The Sandaime said before asking, "Can you tell me more about what had happened to you since you left?"

"Sure, old man. Just get yourself comfortable since this is going to take a while." Naruto then proceeded to tell the Hokage about his life in Nerima since he got there. He told him how the entire Nerima Wrecking Crew easily warmed up to him after a few awkward first impressions. He told him how they, particularly Kasumi-nee-san and Nodoka-kaa-san had help him get rid of his defensive mask of cheerfulness. He also told him how each one of then had thought him some very useful techniques, as well as lesson in life. He told him some of the very unique and strange places he's been to. He also mentioned some of the troubles he had gotten himself in.

Throughout the entire story, the Sandaime had paid raft attention, only asking some questions to get a better description of what Naruto has been talking about. Some of the stories he heard seem too weird to be true. Just think about it, a boy who could change gender with the application of cold water. But he saw no reason for Naruto to lie.

Two hours later, Naruto had finished reliving his story, or at least most of it that he was willing to share with the old man. At the end of his tale, Naruto said, "And then, I told them that I needed to go back. I took me a year to finally convince them that I had a promise to keep."

"Oh? And what promise is that?" The Hokage asked smiling, already having a thought of what kind of promise it would be.

At this, the boy gave him a confident smirk and said with all the confidence he could muster, "What else? It's to take your job as the Greatest Hokage of all time!"

At this, the Hokage gave him a heartwarming chuckle and said, "I'm sure you would, my boy. But," the Hokage stopped at this point for a moment, putting up a teasing smile, "you do know that you need to be at least a jounin to be Hokage? And that the genin exam is just two weeks away?"

"WHAT!?"

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Nara Shikamaru was enjoying something that has been quite rare at his current location. He was sleeping. Inside the classroom. During taijutsu class. And his teacher, Umino 'Punctuality' Iruka, has been nowhere in sight for the last hour. Throughout his academy years, his teacher, Iruka-sensei, had only been late in class once, and that was two years ago. He knew that whatever it is that was keeping the teacher must be something big, and whatever it is, he hope that it would keep the older man away, at least until he finishes his nap.

Don't get him wrong, he likes Iruka just fine. His teacher never bothers him when he naps during lectures. And although he wouldn't admit it out loud, he was thankful for the man for finding ways in motivating him in practical courses, despite how troublesome it is. It was the only reason why he wasn't as weak physically as he should be if his laziness was left alone.

He was just making himself comfortable, when the blond-haired, blue-gray eyes, banshee, also known as Yamanaka 'The Vane of His Life' Ino, decided to interrupt his well deserved nap by saying, in a louder than necessary voice, "Hey, Shika! Did you see what happened to the Hokage Monument this morning?"

"Yes." He answered lazily. He would have added 'Now go away and leave me alone' but he knew it would only give her an excuse to chew him out more.

"Rumor has it that the culprit was taken to the Hokage by a complete ANBU platoon and would be sentenced to death for his crime." She gossiped, which according to Shikamaru, is truly unnecessary.

He was about to voice a retort when Akimichi Chouji, holding a freshly opened bag of chips, came behind Ino and said, "Don't you think it's a bit harsh? I mean, according to my dad, he was up earlier today so he got a glimpsed of the guy that did it while being escorted to the Hokage Tower, and he told me he was just a kid like us."

"I wouldn't worry about it too much, Chouji. I don't think the Hokage would sentence a kid to die just for vandalizing some famous landmark." Shikamaru said in that same lazy tone.

"What do you mean, you lazy ass? The Hokage Monument is one of the most sacred monuments in Konoha! It's not just 'some famous landmark' as you call it! Don't you care about the pride of our village?" Ino shrieked.

"It's too troublesome to think about it."

Ino would have bitten his head off for that remark if Inuzuka Kiba, with his faithful dog, Akamaru, and his friend Shino, suddenly joined the conversation.

"I think the entire thing was hilarious. I mean, who would have thought anyone would have the guts to do something like that? Most of the kids I passed by during the morning were laughing so hard at it, right Akamaru, Shino." Kiba said as brash and loud as ever before chuckling a bit.

"Arf!' Akamaru agreed on top of Kiba's head.

". . ." Shino said, as stoic as ever, which Kiba accepted as an affirmative.

"And I bet you'd do the same if given the chance, would you, dog-breathe?" Ino taunted.

Kiba smirked at her and said proudly, "Of coarse I would. That has got to be one of the best pranks in Konoha history. Right, guys?"

"Arf!" agreed Akamaru.

". . ." Shino said, which could either mean a 'yes' or a 'don't include me in this'.

"Boys and their stupidity!" Ino spat indignantly before adding, "Why can't you be more mature like Sasuke-kun?" She then turned to the raven-haired prodigy and said in a sweet, fan-girl-type voice, "Isn't that right, my Sasuke-kun?"

The said boy merely scoffed at her and continued to brood in his seat.

"SASUKE-KUN IS SO COOL!" She squealed in delight with pink hearts in her eyes, earning quite a lot of support from the girls and glare from the boys in class. Future members of the Rookie Nine took an involuntary step back from the clearly delusional fangirl.

"So anyway, Chouji, what else did your father say about the culprit?" Shikamaru asked.

"Well, he didn't say who it was when I asked. He just smiled at me and said that things would become interesting again."

"Well, that helped a lot." Kiba said sarcastically.

"It's Uzumaki Naruto." Said Shino in an even tone, earning a shock from almost everyone in the room not only because of finding out who the culprit really was, but also because Shino was the one who said it. Instantly, the whole room erupted in whispers.

"You mean the same Uzumaki Naruto from the Festival Incident?" Ino asked in disbelief.

"It is what my bugs had told me." Shino said in that same emotionless tone.

Almost everyone in the village had heard about the boy that had forced the Sandaime to call forth the Crimson Dolphin into Konoha to personally handle the capture, interrogation, and execution of the ones responsible for the Festival Incident. Although not many in the village knew of the Crimson Dolphin at first, by the time he was finished with half of the suspects, his name has been feared by all those who had ever mistreated the blond boy.

The Crimson Dolphin had personally captured most of the shinobi that managed to escape from the ANBU. Since most of them tried to hide in disguise in plain sight, a lot of his captures were done in public. He had used mere basic ninja-academy techniques and had captured them even though some of them were using jounin level jutsus.

By the brutality he showed at capturing his targets, many thought that the Crimson Dolphin would have killed every prisoner he had. But when all of the publicly-known suspects were released a month later, they thought the Dolphin was too soft, that is until more than half of the suspects committed suicide, while the rest either turned for the better or left the village in disgust of the said village. Rumor has it that he had put them under a genjutsu so horrible that it had changed the way they see themselves in their own mind that they either commit suicide or changed their entire way of life.

The Crimson Dolphin disappeared soon after and was never heard from again. But he had left enough of an impression that gained fear from those that mistreated the Kyuubi Vessel as well as praise for his incredible skills as a shinobi.

Everyone of the future Roolie Nine were deep in thought as they try to remember the blond boy who often gets into trouble with his pranks. Even Sasuke, who had been eavesdropping on their conversation, can't help but think about the said blond boy.

Sasuke remembered those days when the boy with whisker like marks on his cheeks would walk by his favorite brooding spot by the lake. They never said anything to each other since no words were needed. They knew that the other was an orphan and had know the pain of being alone, and by that alone, they acknowledge each other. They would sometime give each other a silent nod as if to say, 'Hey, how are you doing' and 'I'll manage so don't worry'. They may have different ways of dealing with loneliness, one hides it behind a mask of cheerfulness and smiles, while the other behind indifference, yet the pain is still the same.

His musing, as well as everyone else's, was suddenly interrupted by a loud voice coming from outside the classroom saying, "THIS IS SO UNFAIR! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD IT WOULD BE FOR ME TO PERFORM ANY TYPE OF ACADEMY NINJUTSU UNTIL MY CHAKRA STABILIZES! CAN'T YOU JUST EXTEND MY TEST OR SOMETHING? I MEAN, YOU'RE THE HOKAGE FOR KAMI'S SAKE!"

"The Hokage?" asked most of the people there.

And sure enough, the Sandaime Hokage himself came through the door chuckling as he said to the blond-haired, blue-eyed, and whiskered-face boy following him, "Come now, my boy. Do you really expect me to change the entire academic system for such a trivial reason as that? Besides, there is always the option of getting into next years graduating batch if you don't think you could pass the gennin exam in two weeks time."

"And waste one whole year more before I steal the title of Hokage from you, no way old man!" The blond boy said as he point an accusing finger at the Sandaime, who merely gave a hearty laugh at the boy.

'How rude! Doesn't he realize he's talking to the Sandaime?' thought most of the people there.

'Who the hell is this kid? He's got some guts to talk to the Big Honcho like that! Tch! I like the kid already.' Thought Kiba with a smirk.

'How troublesome. But the Sandaime seems to see the kid as family, and by the looks of it, the kid seems to feel the same about the Hokage if the grin on both their faces is any indication.' Shikamaru thought.

'Uzumaki Naruto. So you're finally back. I wonder how strong you've become.' Came the thought from one Uchiha Sasuke, who sported a small grin, which was fortunately concealed behind the henge he was covering himself with to hide his bruised body.

'Uzumaki Naruto . . . he is strong. But his chakra is fluctuating wildly.' Shino thought analytically.

The Hokage finally turned his attention to the class and smiled at them before saying, "Good morning everyone. I hope I didn't interrupted anything."

The kids in class was saved from answering when the door to the classroom opened up once more and their instructor, Umino Iruka walked in followed by a pink-haired girl of about their age.

"Sorry for being late, class, I just had some business at the. . . Hokage . . .Tower." Iruka had his eyes on a notebook when he entered so he didn't see the Hokage standing in front of his class just until now. "H-Hokage-sama! What a surprise to see you here!"

The Sandaime merely gave him a warm smile and said, "I am sorry for barging in on you so suddenly, Iruka-san. I was just escorting a new student for your class."

"A new student? Who might this new . . . student . . . NARUTO!" Iruka said in shock upon finally noticing the distinguishing whisker-like marks on the face of the boy standing just beside the Sandaime. "I-is t-that r-really you, N-Naruto?" asked the now emotional Iruka, tears starting to form on his eyes.

The blond boy gave him one of his biggest smiles as he said, "Iruka-sensei. I'm back and you owe me two year's worth of ramen!"

"NARUTO! YOU'RE BACK! YOU'RE FINALLY BACK!" Iruka shouted in glee as he teleported from the door to the boy's side, intent on giving his long-lost son/younger brother a hug. Of coarse, such sudden action caused Naruto to step back unconsciously, allowing his old teacher to only grab his left leg in a hug.

"IRUKA-SENSEI, STOP THAT! IT'S TOTALLY CREEPING ME OUT! AND FOR KAMI'S SAKE, YOU'RE A FULLY GROWN MAN NOT A DOG!" Naruto shouted in horror as he try to shack his teacher off of him with no apparent success. The man was too emotional for the time being to think of anything else.

Such a scene was getting very different reactions from the people around them. The Hokage was trying to stiffle his laughs and was failing miserably. Kiba was laughing his heart out. Sasuke and some others were totally creep out by such a display. Ino, Shikamaru, Chouji, and pretty much everybody else have huge sweat drops on their heads.

'Man, talk about mood swings. Just a minute ago, he seems like his world was going to end. But now he seems like a kid in Christmas morning.' Thought the pink headed girl dejectedly as she watch the grown man makes a fool of himself.

Haruno Sakura turned towards her future classmates. She knew that with her training under the Legendary Sannin Tsunade, she could ace the genin exam no problem. It was, after all, the reason she went back to Konoha. As soon as she makes chunnin, Tsunade would start teaching her the more advanced stuff of being a medic nin.

She glanced inconspicuously at the people in the room, observing one of them for a few seconds before looking at the next one. Some of them she could vaguely remember she saw around town when she was still living here, the rest are total strangers to her. Then, her eyes came to the brooding dark haired boy by the window.

'That's Itachi-sempai's little brother, the little troll.' She thought. It was strange that among anyone here, it was the one person she wanted to forget the most that she remembered the most. Her hand subconsciously went to her bright pink hair, as if remembering a phantom pain when the little troll (Sasuke) had once pulled it painfully a long time ago to see if it was a wig or not.

She suddenly came out of her musing when she heard glass breaking nearby. Turing towards the front of the classroom again, she saw that Iruka was gone, the blond kid had his leg extended upwards towards the window, and everyone was looking at the man-shaped hole on the glass window. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened.

She looked at the blond boy and said, "You do realize that we are on the third floor, right?"

The blond kid blinked at her before shrugging his shoulders and saying, "He's a chuunin. He'll live." That answer had everyone developing a sweatdrop.

"N-A-R-U-T-O!" Came an enraged shout outside. A minute later, a raging Iruka burst through the door and grabbed the front of Naruto's shirt. The older man was shaking the kid so hard as he shouted in anger, "NA-RU-TO! I SPENT TWO FREAKING YEARS WORRYING ABOUT YOU AND THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS THROW ME OUT THE WINDOW? YOU BETTER HAVE A FREAKING GOOD EXCUSE OR I'LL THROTTLE YOU TO DEATH YOU INSUFFERABLE BRAT!"

"S-see-ee w-w-wh-what I-I-I m-m-mea-mean." Naruto said to the pink haired girl with a grin as best as he could while simultaneously being throttled by an irate Iruka.

This, of coarse, got a good laugh from most of the class, as well from the Hokage himself, who settled for a warm chuckle.

"Naruto-kun?" came a familiar voice from the doorway that brought everyone in the room to a halt.

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A few minutes earlier:

Hinata walked dejectedly towards the academy with the little fox sleeping in her arms. She was really looking forward to seeing the culprit to the Hokage Monument's vandalism prank but the Hokage's secretary was adamant about not letting anyone in his office for the rest of the day. Not even the council members were able to get an audience with the Hokage despite their protest. Not only that, the Hokage's office was warded against any type of spying so not even her Byakugan was able to see through the closed office door.

She was just passing through the gate of the ninja academy when she saw Iruka-sensei smash through the third floor window and plummet to the ground face first. She gasped and was about to go and help him when she saw him stagger up on his own with a furious expression on his face.

"N-A-R-U-T-O!" He shouted in rage as he dash towards the academy building with enough killing intent bursting out of him to put S-Class missing nins to shame.

Hinata stopped dead on her tracks upon hearing the name Iruka-sensei uttered in rage. Could it be? Is Naruto really here?

With hope filling her entire being, she rushed after the enraged chuunin instructor. When she finally arrived at the classroom, she saw him being strangled by an irate Iruka. Then, she got a good look at his face.

'He's here! He's really here! Thank Kami!' she thought to herself, tears of happiness swelling on the side of her eyes. Despite missing him for two years, she was happy that whenever he had gone to, he seems to have been well taken care off. He seems to be a lot healthier than when he left. He also seems to be a bit taller now. And if chakra sense isn't deceiving her, he felt more powerful than ever before. "Naruto-kun?"

Everyone there turned to her, but she paid them no mind. All her attention was focused solely on the blond boy that gave her an honest genuine smile upon seeing her.

Naruto turned to her, gave her a smile, and said cheerfully, "Hey there Hinata-chan! I'm home!"

She almost had a heart attack when she didn't see his mask of cheerfulness that he always used subconsciously. It was either he got better at using it or he got rid of his mask altogether. When she saw the genuine smile reach his eyes, she knew that it was the latter. It wasn't a mask anymore. Where ever he had been this last two years, seems to have a tremendous positive effect on him to get rid of such a well crafted mask of smiles to hide years of loneliness and fear.

With all these emotions swirling in her head, combined with the shock of finally seeing her friend and potential life-mate back, she did the only thing her feeble mind could do in such a situation. She fainted dead away.

"Hinata-chan!" Came the concern voice of the blond boy as she caught her in his arms before the blackness took her entirely.

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