Before we get this started I would like to apologize many times for the enormous update time. My brain has two Modes, Gaming, and Other stuff. When my brain is set to gaming I don't really feel like doing anything else, even though I try. When my brain is set to other stuff that's when I can actually get stuff done, and I can tell you right now that it doesn't happen to often. But anyway back to why I opened this page in word.

Disclaimer : I OWN MY AKUMA and any jutsu I make until proven that someone else had it before me. I do not own, the twelve swords idea, or Naruto.

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Akuma-kitsune: My Akuma, which is different from other Akumas that may exist, is mine. Just because people have the same name, doesn't mean they are the same person. They can still be two different people. Like you meet two bobs just because they share a name doesn't mean they are the same person, both of them aren't going to like the same thing, maybe similar but not the exact. Same with things they hate or things they do they are still two different people. Which is the case with MY AKUMA and your akuma, they are two different people, who share the same name. If people have a problem with my techniques I will apologize and change mine, IT IS THAT SIMPLE. Plus all your stories, that are on here are for Yu-Yu-Hakusho, or are, as you say, free write stories, which are completely different from Naruto fan fictions. Now after this is all said one final thing if you have a problem with my story than just DONT READ IT! It is such a simple solution that even a child could figure it out.

GraityTheWizard: That is slightly untrue, I have looked and seen that a lot of people (last time I checked I think my story was at about 1700 hits) have at least looked at my story but yet I don't have many reviews. So either they don't like my story or they just don't like to review.

P5yCH0: I'm glad you think my writing is good and doesn't have flaws, but something keeps picking at the back of my mind that there is something wrong. Maybe that is something that all authors experience, but since we're not a bunch of authors, we can't say.

Now we move on to chapter 4.

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Naruto sat up in bed yawning and stretching. He looked at his bed side table and saw the longsword sitting there. He got up from the bed and picked it up, unbuttoning the strip of leather that held it in the belt. He set the belt aside and held the sword out with two hands, he gave a few practice swings then buttoned the leather back over it and set it aside. He took a quick shower, and got dressed in a red shirt with a fox surrounded by flames on the back, he put on a simple pair of black pants and combat boots. He put his black cloak on, picked up the sword. He belted the sword around his back and walked downstairs. He made breakfast, when he was finished he walked out of the house and wandered over to the lake behind it. He sat down on the edge of the dock and watched the water swirl bellow him. A little fish darted out from under the dock and swam towards the middle of the lake.

Naruto sighed and looked at his reflection "Sometimes I wonder just what would happen if I were to change and become someone else. How would my life change? Would it be for better, or worse? But of course you can't answer that question. Then again I guess my life is alright, I took all the shit that got thrown at me and I used it to better my self... Wait what am I doing I'm goin to end up just like the Uchiha." He shuddered a little at the thought, "That would definitely be horrible." He chuckled at his reflection and continued to stare at the water.

"Hello Hinata, how are you doing on this fine morning?" Naruto stood up and turned around. Hinata stood about 3ft from him with her hands spread wide as if she were about to either hug him or cover his eyes and play guess who.

She put her hands at her sides and pouted "How long have you known that I was there?"

"Umm… when you made your first step onto my property."

"Why is it that I can never make it past there without you sensing me?" Hinata crossed her arms and looked him over her eyes immediately went to the sword that was peaking over his shoulder. She pointed to the sword "Where did you get that?"

"Hmm… where did I get what?"

"The sword I've never seen one like it before."

"Oh, Its called a longsword. I got it from Achlys who's training me in a new style now. I have no idea how she got a hold of it though. She said no one has seen or used one of these in years, which kinda makes you wonder how she knows about it."

"Hm, oh well. Do you remember what's happening today."

"Probably not, what's happening?"

"We get put on our shinobi squads today."

"Oh yeah, that is happening today. Any ideas on whose squad you're going to be in?"

"No, it's all being decided by the hokage and the council. I hope we get in the same squad. Together we would be unstoppable, we already outrank everybody in the class… Oh, yeah has that dumb ass Uchiha tried to beat you lately?"

"No I think he might have learned his lesson, but when he first tried is still the one of the most hilarious things ever. Just remembering the shocked and outraged looks on his fan girls faces is good enough for me"

-FlashBack-

Naruto had been walking out of the academy to go home when another boy who was a little taller then Naruto walked up to him. He wore a pair of white shorts and blue shirt. On the back of it was what looked like a poke ball on a small stick. He had black hair that came back into a point, almost looking like a crow had alighted on his head and died.

"You think you're strong, I'm going to destroy you and make sure you know your place."

Naruto looked at the boy "You don't know how dumb of a comment you just made, do you?"

"What makes you think I said something dumb?"

"You said you would destroy me, I bet you can't even touch me. So how about this you can attack me all you want, and I get one shot at you after my one shot I can't try to hit you anymore, deal?"

"So you're saying I can attack you as much as I want, and you can only try to hit me once."

"That's exactly it, so is it a deal?"

The other boy smirked at Naruto "Sure, but you made a very big mistake in underestimating me."

"I think your ego is actually causing you to underestimate all those around you, now that I think about it I don't remember your name."

"It's Uchiha Sauske, how do you not know it?"

"I'm sorry for not paying attention to a child trying to get every ones attention. Now when the kunai hits the ground we go." Naruto grabbed a kunai out of his pocket and threw it up into the air. Naruto calmly walked about 5 ft back, then he turned around just as the kunai hit the ground.

Sasuke charged at Naruto pulling a kunai out of his pocket. Naruto calmly watched the Uchiha rush towards him. Sasuke jumped over Naruto slashing at his head as he went over, but to his surprise his kunai went through air and Naruto was crouching low to the ground. Sasuke landed and turned towards Naruto getting ready for another charge. Naruto was standing facing Sasuke, Sasuke started running at Naruto for another try at hitting him. Instead of Naruto standing there like last time, he charged at Sasuke and jumped over him.

He turned and landed watching Sasuke stumble and almost trip trying to turn around quickly to face his opponent. By this time a crowd had started to gather, almost all the girls were screaming encouragement to Sasuke and most of the boys were yelling for Naruto to beat the shit out of the pompous asshole, and other very similar things.

Sasuke threw a kunai at Naruto, he simply turned his body out of the way and plucked it from the air as it sailed past him. Sasuke charged at Naruto again, scooping up the kunai that was used to signal the match start, and throwing it at Naruto. Naruto simply threw his kunai at the one sailing through the air and waited for Sasuke to get closer. When Sasuke got in range for his attack, Sasuke quickly brought his fist back and swung towards Naruto. Naruto simply side stepped the punch and grabbed Sasuke's face. Because of all the momentum Sasuke had gained in his charge, when Naruto had grabbed his head, the rest of his body had tried to keep on going so his entire body was in the air when his head had come to a sudden halt. Naruto then smashed Sauske's head into the ground, he was knocked out on impact.

Naruto stood up and dusted himself off. He turned around and was about to start walking home when he came face to face with a giant mob of angry fan girls. Naruto simply looked over and gave them all a very big and very creepy smile. All of the fan girls, being disturbed by the smile, slowly began to disperse. Naruto nodded his head than walked home.

-End of Flashback-

Naruto sat back down on the edge of the dock and looked down into the water, "Uh, when are we supposed to be at the academy for our teams?" He looked up towards her.

She sat down on the dock next to Naruto, "I think they said 9:00, and it's… 7:46 now, so we still have about another hour till we have to leave in order for us to get there on time."

"In that case, I'm going to sit here and stare at the water for another hour." Naruto turned away from Hinata and began a staring contest with his reflection.

"Is this really all you do when your bored?"

"The answer to that would be ye- no not really."

"So what is it you do in your free time?"

"Lets see, I train, I read, I sit and watch the scenery, I try to study what's happening around me, and I think that's all I really do on a daily basis. Now that I think about it I guess I'm a lot more boring than I originally thought."

"At least you have the freedom to walk around without a worry or care, I have to hope my father doesn't see me day dreaming or sitting around doing nothing. If he does than I get a huge lecture about how an heiress shouldn't be an airhead or some other nonsense."

"Sucks for you, but once we get our squads maybe your father will let you go a little, if anything you could just say your going to train."

"My dad seems to think I'm love struck with a boy and that's all I'm really doing, you see I tried using the training excuse once before, and as you'd expect my dad didn't trust me. So he sent some one to tail me, it seems that every time I had used that excuse he sent someone to follow me, but usually I had gone out training. However, this one time out of the many times I've used that excuse, I had met up with you before I had gotten to the training area and my follower reported it. So now my dad is convinced that every time I had gone out training I had known about the follower so I would train before I met up with the boy so I wouldn't be followed any more."

"Your dad is a total ass… so do you have a secret love for any such boy?" Naruto looked at Hinata with a grin on his face.

Hinata blushed a little and looked towards the sky, "Yes, but that is a personal matter not to be disclosed with someone as immature as you."

Naruto's face immediately turned to a look of obviously false hurt, "You find me immature, that hurts me very deep in my soul."

Hinata turned and looked at Naruto with a devilish look on her face, "So is it really that easy to hurt your soul?"

"I feel like I'm walking into a trap so I'm just going to shut up now." Naruto looked back into the water, "Actually what would you say to a quick spar my sword versus yours?" He looked up at Hinata's face.

"I would say why haven't we yet." Hinata and Naruto stood up and walked over to the training circle. They walked to opposite ends of the circle and faced each other. Naruto grabbed the hilt of his sword, pulled the leather strap open and brought the sword in front of him.

Hinata reached around her back and grabbed the handle of the short sword that was sheathed at her waist. The blade was about 15" long and the handle another 9", its cross guard was a straight piece of metal that curved upwards into five smaller points, sort of like a hand, in the center was a small silver skull with sapphires for eyes. The handle was a straight piece of wood wrapped in black leather; at the end of the handle was a piece of metal in the shape of two skeletal feet.

Hinata threw a kunai in the air and dropped low to the ground. Naruto brought the sword point to face Hinata. The kunai hit the ground and Hinata charged towards Naruto. Naruto watched her charge and set himself so he could either move away easily or make a counter attack. Hinata brought the blade back so that it was pointing behind her. She jumped towards Naruto and turned her hand so that it faced towards Naruto. As she came towards Naruto she swung her arm in a wide arc towards his left arm.

Naruto watched as the blade came towards him, he quickly moved to the right and ducked down slightly. The blade narrowly missing his face, and making a small cut on the cloak. He stood upright again and faced Hinata who had just landed to his left.

He brought the sword more to his right side and charged towards Hinata bringing the sword up and swinging in a diagonal motion, slicing from her left shoulder to her waist. He pulled the blade away from the corpse and quickly jumped away. He then watched the body turn into a split log, "so you used Kawarmi good idea."

Hinata watched Naruto start looking around the trees, as she watched him scan the trees she saw a small smirk appear on his face. 'Shit, did he find me.' She continued to watch him move around the clearing. He bent over with his back turned to her. Hinata pulled a kunai out of her pouch and brought it back to throw it. She flung the kunai towards Naruto's back, or at least she thought she had. Her arm was currently being held back by something, she turned to look and there sat Naruto with a kunai on her neck.

Using her other arm she grabbed a kunai and flung it at the kneeling form on the ground, the kunai hit it and it disappeared in a cloud of smoke. She turned back to Naruto, she brought her leg back and kicked the Naruto holding her in the face. He disappeared in a puff of smoke. She quickly got up and pulled out her blade. She jumped into the middle of the clearing.

Naruto sat under the tree which Hinata had just jumped out of, he watched her land and start looking around for him. He got up and brought his sword in front of himself, pointing it towards Hinata. He charged at her going as fast as possible. Hinata heard a noise coming from behind her, she started to turn but before she could move an inch she was knocked down by a tremendous force. She lay sprawled on the ground, a weight suddenly fell on her stomach and she could feel the cold of metal barely touching her skin. Naruto smiled down at her, "I win."

Hinata let out a big sigh, "Damn, you were playing with me the entire time weren't you?"

"I could have been, but you won't know that for sure."

Hinata watched as a small smile appeared on his face, "Shit, you were you little bastard. How many times have I told you not to take it easy on me, damn it." She slammed her fist on the ground.

"Hmm… I would approximate about 20 times."

"If you remember an approximate amount of times then why haven't you tried fighting me seriously?"

"That would be a very simple answer; I don't want to kill you." Naruto took a quick look at his watch, "Well its 8:50 now so we should probably be going to the academy so we can get our squads."

"Alright, but your still not off the hook for going easy on me." Hinata turned away from Naruto and walked towards the village.

"Come on what is so bad about me taking it easy on you?"

"It shows that you don't believe that I have the strength to withstand your abilities."

Naruto made a small smile but kept his mouth shut so that he didn't anger Hinata more than she already was. They eventually got to the academy and walked to the classroom.. They took their seats and waited for the instructor to show up.

Iruka walked into the room and asked for silence he took a quick roll call of who was supposed to be there and set the sheets of paper aside, "Good everyone's here. As you all know, today you will be divided into three person squads depending on your abilities as a shinobi."

Naruto sighed 'There goes the chance that Hinata and I will be in the same squad.'

"You must remember, though, that you will be working with these squads for most of your time as a shinobi. After you are divided into your squads your Jounin sensei will come in and pick you up for what ever they have planned for your first day." Iruka shuffled through his papers and pulled one out. Iruka looked at the list and his face turned to a look of horror 'What the hell were they thinking.' Iruka cleared his throat, "Team 10 will be Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, and Akimichi Chougi. Your sensei will be Sarutobi Asuma. Team 8 will be Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, and Haruno Sakura. Your sensei is Yuuhi Kurenai. 'worst team set up in my entire time teaching here.' Team 7 will be Uchiha Sasuke, Uzimaki Naruto, and Hyuuga Hinata. Your sensei will be Hatake Kakashi. Now everyone please get into your groups, your senseis should be here shortly."

As time wore on the sensei's came and got there teams until only Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke were left waiting, Hinata turned to Naruto "Do you suppose that we got stuck with a rookie that gets lost easily?"

Naruto looked up from a scroll he was writing on, "No I don't think so, from what I have discovered is that Kakashi is so hard on his students that not one of them has passed his test. So I don't think he would get easily lost, but there is always that little bit of room for surprises. If I were to make a guess he probably has his own agenda he follows." He turned back to the scroll and continued to write. 'Kyuubi I can't tell is there someone coming towards us? The charka signature is so small that I can't tell if it's a child or not. '

'Yes, I'm actually surprised you detected his presence in terms of your society's power level I believe that he has the ability to be high up in the ranks of your ANBU.'

'In that case I believe that our sensei is almost here.' Naruto looked up from the scroll and moved to the door, he turned and looked at Hinata and Sasuke. He brought his finger to his lips to signify silence. He moved his hand down and he moved back a little to give himself some room, he put his arms out to his side and his fingernails elongated slightly. He mentally started counting down to when Kakashi would be outside the door, '…3, 2, 1, Now' (1)

The door opened and Kakashi started to walk in. As soon as Naruto saw Kakashi's neck he launched himself at it trying to grab it and knock some sense into the man. The only problem is that Kakashi saw him just in time and was able to dodge and send his fist towards Naruto's gut. Naruto grabbed the fist with one hand and pulled himself towards Kakashi taking a swipe at his face with his other hand. Kakashi caught his hand in mid swing. Naruto gave a small smirk, he pulled Kakashi off the floor towards him as he brought his head back. Kakashi realizing the danger quickly let go of Naruto's hand and brought his foot up kicking Naruto in the face.

Naruto grunted in pain and let go of Kakashi he landed next to the desks, he made a small smirk, "You'll do." He turned to his seat and sat down.

Kakashi had a confused look on his face, "Well my first impression is, I don't like you. Meet me on the roof." With that the Kakashi clone disappeared in a puff of smoke. Naruto rolled up his scroll put it in a pocket in his cloak and started heading out the door. He turned back to look at Hinata and Sasuke, "You guys coming?" He turned back around and continued to the roof.

"Eh… Wait up!" Hinata quickly grabbed her stuff and ran after Naruto.

'What the hell just happened, did Naruto just get beat by Kakashi, I must learn from this man. I will force him to train me, to make me as powerful as him.' Sasuke stood up and walked to the roof. When he got there Naruto and Hinata were sitting on the ground leaning against the railing around the edge of the roof.

Kakashi was sitting on the railing, he gestured for Sasuke to sit down and cleared his throat, "Now that we are all here why don't we start off with some introductions. You, spiky you're first." He pointed to Naruto.

"I am Uzumaki Naruto, I like my friends, and learning, I hate people who take the easy way out, and my goal is to find an old friend of mine and ask him some questions."

"Alright, You Hyuuga." He pointed to Hinata.

"I am Hyuuga Hinata, I like my friends, I hate my family, and my goal is to get stronger."

"Okay, your turn little emo one."

Sasuke gave him a dark look, "I am Uchiha Sasuke, I like nothing, I hate everything, and my goal or well ambition really is to kill a certain someone, and resurrect my clan.

"Okay, my opinion of you has gone up slightly. Be at training grounds 7 by 8 o'clock. We are going to do a little survival test. Oh and don't eat."

Naruto looked at Kakashi like he was crazy, "Why the hell not I happen to need food?"

Kakashi looked back at him with a serious look on his face, "You'll throw up." He turned to walk away.

Naruto started laughing, Kakashi turned to look at him. Naruto had a very serious look on his face, "You don't me at all."

Kakashi started to sweat a little 'That is a very scary face, I wonder if that is the power of the demon showing through.' "Whatever see you tomorrow." Everyone dispersed after that.

In a small town out in the country.

"Naku-kun do you have another mission."

A man wearing a black suit was gathering some supplies and putting them in a back pack, "Yes I have to kill some bandits that have been terrorizing a village on the outskirts of kiri."

"But you said you would take me out to the forest and show me different herbs and things that can be used for medicine or cooking."

"I know but I promise I'll take you as soon as I get back." He reached into his back pocket. "Come here." The little girl walked over to him, "Put your pinky out. Good" He wrapped his pinky and her pinky together with the ribbon he pulled from his pocket.

"Now do you Manas-chan accept the responsibility of waiting here for me and not trying to do it yourself?"

"Yes, do you Naku-kun promise to take me when you get back?"

"Of course." The ribbon started to shine then started to flow into their pinkies.

Manas giggled "Why does the ribbon do that each time?"

Naku smiled, "Secret." he ruffled her hair and stood up. He shouldered the pack and headed out the door waving behind him. He shut the door and sniffed the night air "It feels good to be on the road again, time to head off." He started doing some seals "The grasses flatten beneath their gait; the runners of the land have come. The grasses die beneath their gait; the runners of the undead have come. Sprint Mortuus Equus." A small gust of wind blew around him and the grass near him started to die. The sound of hoof beats came from behind him they slowed down as they came up to him he turned and set the pack on the back of the saddle that sat on the skeletal horse's back. He pulled himself into the saddle and the horse started running down the road.

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I bet you were expecting that. But whatever everyone got their teams, and now maybe I can get the next chapter off soon. I thank you all for taking the time to read this.

Well that was the 4th chapter I apologize immensely for the enormous update time but video games rule my life so what can I say. Again if you see any problems I always appreciate CONSTRUCTIVE CRITISISM *Cough* Akuma-kitsune *Cough*. I know I sound mean but its dip shits like that, who piss me off. It is so obvious that I was not saying I owned the name. As explained in the answer I own the Akuma I created. If anyone wants to use him as a character in their own fanfic, they must ask my permission before doing so. That is all that the disclaimer meant, so lets hope there is no more confusion on that subject.

1 I am not going to make my Naruto incredibly OP, cause that just doesn't make the story fun anymore. If the hero can't lose a battle every once in awhile, the battle scenes just tend to be the same thing over and over again. That is my reasoning behind making Naruto not OP.