"Kyuubi talking"

'Kyuubi Thinking'

"Regular Talking"

'Regular Thinking'

I Do Not Own Naruto

Naruto the Crimson Chain Wielder

Naruto is now headed to the Hinata's house to pick her up and walk to the academy together like they do everyday. "Good morning Naruto-kun, ready for us to become genin?" She asks confidently as she has really changed to the liking of her clan and herself. Her father had been very encouraging of her being close to Naruto even if the elders are not too pleased about the situation.

"Hell yea, Hinata-chan. I've been ready for years now. So lets hurry to Shino's house and get him." He replies confidently and they head out on their way. They have been doing this together for years now, so she just nods and follows him.

As they approach the Aburame clan home, they see Shino waiting for them patiently like he always does. Naruto sees him and smiles, "Hey Shino, how are you today?"

"I'm good, Naruto. How are you and Hinata-chan doing today?"

"I'm doing good today, Shino-kun, thanks for asking." Hinata replies, while she is inwardly nervous. This was the day that she would confess her feelings for Naruto. 'I wonder how he'll take it.' She wonders.

"I'm good too, so are you ready to make genin?", He asks as they begin their journey to the academy. "I think all of us are going to make it no problem."

"I think I am ready Naruto, but you have been ready to be at least a chunin for a couple years now, maybe more and everyone knows it at the academy." Shino replies with a light chuckle as Hinata joins in giggling too as they continue on their way.

They soon enter the academy and sit in their normal seats that they have always sat it every since they first met on the first day. They always enjoyed sitting in the back of the class and talking to each other and their other friends while Iruka-sensei taught the others the things they already knew.

"Hey, Naruto! Whats up bro, are you ready to pass this test and become ninja?" A voice calls out and Naruto turns to look at his best friend Kiba.

"Hey Kiba, I'm a hundred percent sure I'm gonna pass, and I'm doing good today. How about you and Akamaru, think your gonna pass?" He questions back with a smile.

"Of course were gonna pass Naruto, what do you take us for?" Kiba replies back with a laugh, which Naruto joins in on and Shino, Hinata, and him take their seats after wishing him luck.

"Troublesome, hey Naruto hows it going?" His good friend Shikamaru replies from in front of him sounding bored.

"Hey Shika, I'm good how about you? So you gonna pass or just say its too troublesome and give up?" Is his humorous reply with a hint of sarcasm, meaning it to be a joke and not an insult.

Shikamaru just grins at his friends comment and replies, "You know my mom, it would be way too troublesome to hear her nag about me failing this test, so I guess I have to pass."

"Well I know you don't need it but good luck anyway man." Naruto says back as he knew about the Nara clan, having been invited over before.

"Alright, class settle down." Iruka says trying to calm the teens down, it doesn't work. "Quiet down please..." Still nothing, "SHUT UP YOU IDIOTS, I'M TALKING TO YOU" He Screams with his patented big head jutsu. Seeing the fear stricken students' faces is always hilarious which is another reason he likes to do that to them. Seeing that they are calm he begins, "alright class today is the final day of the ninja academy. I just want to say its been an honor teaching you all these last five years. When I call your name you will follow me into the dojo for target practice and the the academy jutsu."

"Shino Aburame" he gets up and starts to walk up but feels someone grab his arm and turns around.

"Good luck Shino." Naruto says, and Shino just nods in understanding with a quick 'thank you' to his friend.

Shortly, later he comes out with a smile on his normally stoic face and goes to Naruto and gets congratulated.

This goes on for a while, with Naruto giving Hinata a kiss on the cheek and she also passed the test.

"Naruto Uzumaki" he then stands up but feels an arm grab him, Hinata was hanging on his arm and she kisses him on the cheek. He blushes a bit but can stand up to it more with all the teasing he gets from Anko, Kyoshi, Ayame, and Hana.

"Good luck Naruto-kuuuun" She says with a beautiful pink tint to her face and a smile.

"Don't worry so much you, I'll pass no problem then we'll all go out to dinner, my treat." He replies as he is walking away.

Naruto enters the dojo to see Iruka smiling at him and he smiles back. He then notices Mizuki glaring at him from behind Iruka and mentally frowns. He has always treated him a bit unfairly from the chunin.

"Alright you have 10 kunai and 10 shuriken each, you have to hit the targets from 30 meters away. 10 points for every bulls eye, 7 for other miscellaneous kill shots. You need at least 70 points to pass on each, not like that's a problem though, you always do way better than that." Iruka finishes smiling. "Good luck"

Naruto heads to the line, and slows his breathing, He feels the weight of the kunais in is hands and pictures where he wants to hit the targets. After a short while he lets them all fly at the same time. All 10 kunais sailing through the air at a good speed and great balance. They each impact the target and Naruto just turns around for the shuriken to see the faces of his instructors. Both of their jaws are now touching the ground. He just got a perfect score each one of the kunai hitting a the middle circle of the target.

"100 points huh, that's my best yet. Awesome!" Naruto nods happily.

"You, just got 100 points, how is that possible. 70, I could see, but 100 that's highly advanced, especially for throwing them all at the same time." Iruka states in disbelief. Mizuki just looks pissed off, 'damn demon, I need him to get the forbidden scroll of sealing, how can I convince him if he doesn't fail.' He keeps to himself.

"Well, I'll record that for the record books, here are the 10 shuriken now. Throw them whenever you are ready." Iruka says proudly.

"Alright" Naruto says as he takes the shuriken and heads back to the same line he was at before. Concentrating once again, he looks to the targets with all the shuriken in his hands. Soon, he lets them fly and like the kunai he gets perfect scores. The teachers are now gaping, it wasn't luck like they thought after all, he is really that good.

"Congratulations Naruto, but your not done yet, you have to do the Henge, Kawarimi, and the bunshin jutsus." Iruka stated proudly.

"Alright, easy." He replies as he Henges into Mizuki, and the replaces himself with the desk both of them were sitting behind. "Can I do a different bunshin though, I have too much chakra to perform the regular one." He asks with his voice filled with hope.

"I suppose that's ok Naruto, any type you know will do." Iruka replies kindly, while Mizuki is fuming inwardly. He would have to find someone else to get the scroll.

"Sweet, then here goes kage bunshin." Naruto says as 15 solid clones appear in the room in perfect rows of five with three in each row.

"Kage bunshins, how on earth did you learn that jutsu, that's a jonin level bunshin. Who taught that to you?" Mizuki questions barely hiding the venom in his voice.

Naruto and Iruka can sense a little of the hostility and frown, "Anko taught it to me when I couldn't perform the regular bunshin and I just asked her for help. The Hokage said that it would be alright it I learned it too." He replies calmly not letting the man's words get him down.

"Well, either way you pass Naruto. Congratulations." Iruka replies happily and hands him a hiate. Naruto accepts it and switches the regular blue cloth for a crimson one and puts it on his head and spins it so the plate is on the left side of his head instead of the on his forehead.

Naruto then enters the regular class room with a his best smile making most of the girls blush from his good looks. He actually had many fangirls in the village instead of Sasuke because of how he acts all the time.

He takes his seat in between his two best friends and they congratulate him on a job well done.

"Hey Naruto, how many points did you get on the target practice test." Hinata whispers while Shino listens in as they were both wondering how good he did on the test.

"I got 200 points." He whispers back like its no big deal and grins both of their shocked faces.

"Team placements will be next week in this same spot around 8:30 am, so don't miss them for anything." Iruka states as the new genin leave the school as he watched them all leave while smiling happily.

With the day at the academy done, Hinata, Shino, and Naruto head over to his favorite spot, Icharaku's. "Hey Ayame-chan, can the new ninja of the leaf get some service over here?" Naruto asks playfully as he sits down. Ayame then looks at him and smiles while walking to the other side of the counter and hugging him tightly. This didn't seem to sit well with Hinata as she glared at her for a bit before letting it go, as she just hoped it was a brother and sister type bond.

Ayame saw this and was a bit worried as she, Hana, and Anko were going to try and share him but she was just a normal ramen girl and not a ninja. She felt like she would lose him to the others and didn't really want any more girls in their group.

"Congratulations Naruto-kun, you too Hinata-chan and Shino-kun." She said shaking off her mountain of mixed feelings.

"Thanks," they all reply together while Naruto gives her a tight hug making her blush a bit as she sees him blush too giving her a lot of hope. Ayame then gets to work on their usual orders, seeing them eat there often made her remember them by heart.

"So, do you two know of anybody who didn't pass the test of our grade?" Naruto asks. He had heard about the fangirls all failing.

"Well most of your fangirls failed along with Sakura Haruno." Shino replies while somewhat happy that they will have less fangirls to deal with.

"Yea, that's all I heard too." Hinata adds in.

"Yeah, that's about all I heard too. Maybe if they would have trained harder they could have passed with us, but there's always next time." Shortly after they get their food and start to eat while talking about everyday things. Suddenly Kiba with Akamaru, Choji, and Shikamaru all run into the stand wearing their new headbands in a hurry.

"Hey Naruto, you know that one girl, Sakura Haruno right? She stole the forbidden scroll of sealing and the Hokage is ordering all ninja available to find her." Kiba says quickly while also trying to catch his breath.

"Well, catch your breath for a while, me, Shino, and Hinata will head out to search for her. I'll give you guys five minutes to catch your breath and then go the opposite way that we go. Stick together and don't try to scare her off too much alright, Hinata, Shino, time to go." Naruto states in a serious voice, the voice of a true leader. All of his friends obey him with out question and the group of three, two boys and a girl head out followed five minutes later by another group of three, this one all guys.

Alright you two, Hinata-chan I need you to activate your byakugan and search all around for Sakura. Shino I need you to send your bugs out in all the directions we aren't currently going towards. I will also send out kage bunshins to search as well, understand?" He says calmly while his two teammates just follow his orders with no hesitation. Something about the blond just made you want to help him in anyway you could.

"Hai" they both respond and get to their tasks. "I will alert you if my bugs find anything," Shino says calmly.

After spending around 15 minutes Shino's bugs finally spot Sakura. "Naruto, Sakura is about a mile to our east looking through the forbidden scroll." He says calmly.

"Alright, good job Shino, can you see her Hinata-chan?" Naruto asks.

"Hai, but that's not all it seems like Mizuki and Iruka-sensei are on their way towards her also, I estimate that Iruka will be there in one minute and Mizuki in two." She says quickly while trying to catch her breath.

"Alright we should be there in about four and half or five minutes if we hurry, start channeling more chakra to your legs and lets go." However, he sees they are tired, "never mind you two, you should rest up and I'll go on ahead alone."

"What, but we want to help you, we aren't too tired." Hinata says trying to convince him to stay.

"He's right Hinata-chan, we wont make it in time, with his stamina he will make it, plus there are two senseis there to help. He will be fine." Shino says acting as the voice of reason even if he wants to go too.

Seeing his point, she reluctantly agrees, "alright you go ahead and we'll catch up later." The two friends then sit down and watch him disappear into the night. 'Be safe please Naruto-kun,' Hinata thinks.

Naruto soon makes it to see Mizuki up in a tree and Iruka against an old shack with kunai surrounding him and one deep into his left leg. "Sakura, don't give him the scroll he is trying to trick you to take it." Iruka yells out.

"Don't listen to him Sakura, he is just trying to make it so you can't get Sasuke. He doesn't want you to find the man of your dreams." Mizuki says equally as loud as Iruka, and the worst part is Sakura is believing him.

"I'll get Sasuke-kun to love me no problem, Iruka-sensei must be jealous that I found true love and he didn't" She screeches dumbly, only with slight hesitation as she is really scared. She then starts walking over to the tree Mizuki is in and is about to throw the scroll up to him.

"Hey Sakura, I wouldn't give that scroll to him, he is a traitor to the village and your just playing right into his hands." Naruto calmly states as he walks out into the open getting everyone's attention on him.

"Haha, the demon huh, I never thought I would see you here." Mizuki taunts him. "You probably want the scroll for yourself, but first, tell me do you know why people seem to hate you?" Mizuki asks.

"Why?" Naruto asks pretending to not know, even though he has known for many years now.

"Mizuki, no its against the Sandaime's law, its forbidden!" Iruka yells hoping to stop him from telling the truth to Naruto.

"13 years ago the nine tailed fox attacked our village and killed many of our civilians and ninja. The beast was said to be unstoppable, there was no way the fourth Hokage could kill the fox, so he sealed it away into a baby boy. You were that boy Naruto, you are the nine tailed fox!" Mizuki yells and starts laughing like a crazy person.

"Wha- what, he is the fox?" Sakura asks getting confused and really scared. She never really liked Naruto, he always beat Sasuke in their spars. If Mizuki is saying he is the nine tailed fox then it must be true. 'He's a demon, I have to spread the word to everyone and then Sasuke-kun will love me. He must have been cheating in all of those spars anyway.' She thinks dumbly.

"Haha, your one hell of a fool, Mizuki. Me and Kyoshi-chan are completely different beings. I've already known about the fox for about six years." Naruto finally admits.

This seems to make Mizuki angry, "really then... well I guess its time to kill you demon." He says as he grabs his giant shuriken off his back getting ready to throw it. He then does, but something unexpected for everyone happens, as Naruto is reaching for his katana and readying a technique with his chakra chains, Shino and Hinata jump in front of him and each throw a kunai to deflect the giant shuriken. Now Naruto is worried, 'what if they heard what he said, will they still like me?' he thought sadly, but he realized that its not the time to be depressed so he issues his orders. "Shino, Hinata-chan go and get Sakura and the scroll back to the Hokage while me and Iruka stay to fight." He says calmly, while still a bit scared of their reaction to him.

They both look back at him, and he can tell that they don't think any differently about him which makes him very happy inside. "Alright Naruto-kun, right away." Hinata replies, "lets go Shino-kun." Seeing his nod both of them go to grab Sakura, when she resists, Hinata is forced to knock her out while Shino takes the scroll.

"Hey, give me that scroll." Mizuki commands as he jumps as fast as he can at the unsuspecting friends. Too bad he wasn't fast enough as Naruto hits him from the side.

"If you ever lay a hand on Hinata-chan or Shino, I'll kill you." Naruto says in a voice that would make any sane man wet himself but it reasures his two friends that he is truly a good person and a great friend. Unfortunately Mizuki is not a sane man at all.

"O, really now. What are you gonna do to stop me demon? I'll destroy you with one punch." He yells arrogantly completely missing the fact that Hinata and Shino are long gone now.

"Try it fool, give me your best shot and I'll return it one thousand fold." Naruto states in the same tone as earlier.

"Kage bunshin jutsu," Naruto called out and Mizuki's eyes then widen in fear, all around are hundreds of shadow clones. They are covering the area all around, in the trees and on the ground. "Well Mizuki-teme, if your just gonna stand their I guess we'll come to you and Mizuki's eyes widen as they see all the clones waiting and watching Mizuki.

'Incredible, he can make this many and still keep going?' Iruka thinks to himself as he watches in awe.

'What the hell, this must be the demons power at work.' Mizuki thinks as he could only stare in fear and wait for the beating of a life time. He doesn't have to wait long as all the clones jump down on him and start punching and kicking away at him leaving only a bruised body in the shape of Mizuki left on the ground.

"Heh, maybe I overdid it a little bit." Naruto says scratching the back of his head after the massive beat down.

"That was incredible Naruto, good thing you made it here when you did, I could have been much worse off if you didn't." Iruka says honestly. "Come on, you can help take me to the hospital, I'm sure Hinata and Shino have already made it back to the Hokage and are fixing the problem.

Once they make it to the hospital, Hiruzen is outside waiting for them with a couple of medics as he stares proudly at Naruto. "I see you have made it back in one piece, Iruka-kun." He said to them happily.

Iruka just smiles sheepishly as Naruto grins brightly. "I did with Naruto's help Hokage-sama. Without him, I surely would have died there." He said with gratitude while Naruto begins to blush a bit in embarrassment at their proud looks.

"Ah, yes. I had heard of the success. I'm proud of you Naruto-kun and I'm sure your clan and your parents would be proud as well." He said happily as the medics took Iruka away. "I had also received the Hidden Village's scroll from Shino-kun and Hinata-chan, along with Sakura Haruno."

"What will happen to her anyway?"

"She has still failed, I'm afraid and even if she somehow took the scroll, she can't pass." He stated simply. "Now head on home and be ready to be placed on a team tomorrow, Naruto-kun."

In the Hokage's office the next day, there are a bunch of jonin standing patiently in front of Hiruzen's desk.

"Hey, Nai-chan, can you believe it. The Hokage is giving me a chance to be a jonin sensei." Anko asks standing next to all her friends pretty much bouncing up and down in excitement. She had really always wanted to be a sensei and attain jounin rank but the council had turned her down all the time. Thankfully, the Hokage had finally gotten it through and she was now a proud jounin.

In honor of her new promotion, she had decided to cover up a bit and she wore the standard jounin jacket proudly as she could now show off her new rank. Secretly though, she had put something on so Naruto would be happy that she wouldn't be showing so much. She also changed her burnt orange skirt to mid thigh burnt orange shorts instead.

"I think you would make a great sensei Anko-chan, just try not to hurt them too much." Kurenai says playfully with a small giggle, with Hana and Yuugao joining in on.

"O, that's no fun Nai-chan, I won't have my team considered weak. It would make me look bad to the village, well worse anyway." She says getting a bit sad, she was always treated unfairly and hasn't had many people like her for being herself. The only ones she worried about liking her were Hana Inuzuka, Tsume Inuzuka, Yuugao Uzuki, Kurenai Yuuhi and her favorite, Naruto Uzumaki.

Kurenai seeing this tries to comfort her, "Don't listen to what the other people of the village think Anko-chan." She whispers softly to her friend. "Think about Naruto-kun, he was hated, beaten, stabbed, burned, and other terrible things because of what he holds. If he can deal with that, then I know you can deal with this, your a strong woman after all Anko-chan."

"Yea Anko-chan don't get so down you know we all love you." Hana adds in with Yuugao nodding along with the other two women.

Anko then starts to think and a smile comes to her face, not a sadistic creepy smile but a beautiful genuine smile. "Your right Nai-chan, If Naru-kun can handle it then I can to. I also love you three like family as well." Naruto had truly become her rock and is a great inspiration to her. Ever since they met, his never give up attitude no matter how hard things got motivated her and got her through the days. Without Naruto, she would have probably been depressed all the time and distance herself from everyone.

"Alright, lets being the assigning of the jonin senseis." The elderly voice of the Sandaime Hokage calls out shaking all the others in the room from their conversations and personal thoughts. "Team one's jonin sensei will be, (I'm skipping these until team 7). Team seven's sensei will be Anko Mitarashi, teaching Kiba Inuzuka, Sai, and... Naruto Uzumaki." Purposely keeping a delay for mentioning Naruto's name, waiting to see how Anko will respond.

'NO WAY' Anko screams mentally, 'did he just say I get to teach Naruto-kun!'

"What! I get to teach Naruto-kun!" Anko screams happily, and then blushes hoping that nobody noticed the kun suffix of his name.

"Kun? Is something going on between you and Naruto?" A lazy sounding man with gravity defying silver hair says to her. He wears his headband on a diagonal with it covering his left eye. He also has a black ninja mask covering his face up to the middle of his nose.

"Shut up Kakashi." All the girls yell together, speaking in Anko's defence making him even more sure that he is right. The increasing blush on her face helps too, not that he minded. He knew who Naruto was after all.

"This is the best thing to ever happen to me." Anko says almost crying in joy while her friends all smile happily that their close friend and sister in all but blood is happy. They of course new that she was in love with the little hot blond, just like Hana was.

"Moving on, Team eight's jonin sensei will be Kurenai Yuuhi teaching Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuga, and Sasuke Uchiha. Team nine is already made from last year, so Team ten's jonin sensei will be Asuma Sarutobi teaching Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akamichi.

Chapter End

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