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Chapter Two
Eight years have passed since Naruto first had met the Kyuubi. He now has a total of six tails, knows the use for every human and demon plant, can hit any target with complete accuracy with shuriken, senbon and kunai. He mastered the Kage Bunshin, Rasengan, Odama Rasengan, was step below mastery in sealing, and Chidori, along with a few others. He could also use chakra scalpels. Naruto's Ninjutsu was Jounin level, Genjutsu – High Chunnin, Taijutsu – High Jounin, Kenjutsu – Mid Jounin, and Medic skills were at low chunnin. Naruto's IQ was placed somewhere around 200 and he excelled at strategy. Kyuubi estimated he was low level A to high level B rank shinobi.
Of course, that isn't what everyone else 'knew'. Everyone else saw a hyperactive knuckle headed idiotic shinobi. Only one person ever found out what naruto really was. That person was Nara Shikamaru. Shikamaru's IQ was on par with Naruto's, so he noticed something was a little off. After sneaking around he found out Kyuubi had been sealed in naruto. This didn't bother him as he figured naruto was only the container and not the demon. Shikamaru had continued to keep an eye on him until he confronted naruto in The Forest of Death.
Ever since, the two have been best friends. At least they were outside of the public eye. In order for them to not blow Naruto's carefully constructed façade, they ignored each other in public.
As a result of Shikamaru finding out, so did the rest of the Nara clan. However, they had long ago accepted the fact that naruto was no demon. They even had come to accept the demon, when they found out that the only reason she had attacked Konoha was because a man that smelled like snakes and was wearing a leaf headband had killed her family. They'd all had a good laugh at the idea of a female being sealed inside of a guy.
At age ten, with the urging and backing of the full Nara clan, Naruto confessed to Sarutobi about his real appearance, skills, and teacher. Sarutobi, being the smart man he is, (A/N- I mean come on, his nickname is 'the professor'. He can't be an idiot), accepted naruto and his reasons for keeping quiet, and promised not to say anything to compromise it. He did, however, offer him a job in ANBU, where he could wear a mask so no-one would find out his identity and he could earn some decent money. Naruto accepted quite happily.
In the two years he was an ANBU he completed 25 – B ranked missions, 20 – A ranked Missions, 7 – S ranked missions, and 1 – SS Rank mission. He had also moved into Shikamaru's house, so very few people actually knew where he lived. He shared a room with Shikamaru. He purposely failed the genin exam twice, barely passing the third time with Shikamaru. The Genin Teams were divided up like:
Team Seven:
Sensei: Kakashi
Genin: Uchiha Sasuke
Genin: Haruno Sakura
Genin: Uzumaki Naruto
Team Eight
Sensei: Kurenai
Genin: Aburame Shino
Genin: Hyuuga Hinata
Genin: Inuzuka Kiba
Team Ten
Sensei: Asuma
Genin: Akamichi Chouji
Genin: Yamanaka Ino
Genin: Nara Shikamaru
That brings everything to the present with Team seven being the only ones left waiting for their Jounin Sensei. Sasuke was brooding in his seat, and Sakura was fawning over him. Naruto, on the other hand was setting up a trap all the while thinking "Why did I have to be teamed up with broody and the banshee. I wonder if the hokage is getting revenge on me for all the pranks I pulled on him."
After setting the trap, which was more elaborate than it looked. It involved a very subtle genjutsu designed to throw the person slightly off balance and make it much harder to dodge things. Things like a chalked up eraser wedged in the door waiting to fall on an unsuspecting head.
Truth was, and even Naruto had to admit it to himself, he wasn't certain how much longer he would be able to keep up the mask of idiocy. He was really tired off it and after two years of hard battle experience as a top level ANBU it was getting harder to act like an idiot.
Just then the door began to open and a head peaked in just as a chalkboard eraser fell on his head. "Hmmm, my first impression of you three is that… I hate you." Was the man's response. "Meet on the roof."
He then vanished in a swirl of leaves. Naruto considered shunshining up to the roof as well, but decided to walk as giving up his mask right then would have been too troublesome, (A/N- gasp… Shikamaru is rubbing off on naruto 0.0).
So, he trudged up the stairs behind sasuke and sakura, having an internal conversation with Kyuubi along the way. "Should I finally let the mask go?" he was asking Kyu.
"It's up to you kit, Personally, I think you should let everyone know you are strong and intelligent. Just don't go around advertising it. Let everyone guess. Besides, it is never good to allow others to know one's true strength, after all, isn't one of a shinobi's best tools deception?"
Naruto agreed "the looks on people's faces is going to be priceless, maybe I should start carrying a camera around for a while."
Kyuubi roared in laughter "You might want to let everyone at home know what you're doing. Also, when you go home, burn every scrap of orange and any other brightly colored piece of clothing you own. And wear your other clothes. Honestly, those jumpsuits might as well have had a giant bulls-eye painted on the back."
"I thought that was the point"
"Doesn't mean I had to like it"
"True, alright, bright colored clothing has got to go." Naruto said agreeing.
"Hey Dobe, what're you doing" asked a very irritated sounding Sasuke.
Naruto started as he realized he'd lost track of time talking to kyu and had probably just been standing there for a while. He decided to have a little fun and said. "Ah, I was chatting with a cute little fox about burning orange colored things."
Kakashi looked at naruto oddly for a moment before going back to his orange book and saying "Now that we're all here and sitting down." Naruto had sat down while talking to sasuke "Why don't we introduce ourselves. You know. Names, hobbies, likes, dislikes, and dreams." Kakashi told them. "Why don't you go first, broody" pointing at sasuke.
"Wait a minute, Sensei. Why don't you go first?" came the whiny voice of sakura.
"Well, my name is Hatake Kakashi. I have many likes and dislike, I had a good dream last night, and my hobbies, hmmm….." he trailed off. He then nodded in sasuke's direction saying "your turn now broody."
"Hn, my name is Uchiha Sasuke. My dream, no my ambition is to kill a certain man and avenge my family." Sasuke managed to grind out between his teeth.
"Ooookay, you next pinky." Kakashi nodded toward Sakura.
"Um, my name is Haruno Sakura. I like…" glances at sasuke and blushes. "I hate naruto. My dream is…" glances at sasuke again and blushes again.
"Alrighty then, your turn blondie." Kakashi nodded at Naruto.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like to play Shogi with Shikamaru, train and create new jutsu. I dislike those that prejudge others, weaklings who don't try, fan girls, Avengers, and open perverts." This last was said as he glared at the orange book in Kakashi's hands, causing the Jounin to gulp slightly. "My dream is to one day be a wise and powerful hokage" naruto finished honestly. "Oh, and Kakashi, you should probably go see the hokage after this. Tell him, I told you, to tell him, to give you my real file."
Sasuke and sakura looked at naruto. Kakashi wasn't that surprised. He had seen naruto before and parts of the idiot thing just hadn't added up.
"All right you three. We meet at the training ground seven tomorrow at six in the morning. Don't eat any breakfast, you'll just end up throwing it up" with that said Kakashi poofed into the hokage office.
"Well, I'm heading home." And with that naruto too poofed to the Nara house. (His home). Leaving two very irritated people to walk down themselves.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Nara Household~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Naruto walked into the bedroom he and Shikamaru shared. Shikamaru was already there. "Yo, want to help me get rid of the orange?" Naruto asked.
"Love to" was the reply
They threw the clothes away in the garbage so everyone could see that naruto was going to be himself from now on, instead of the eyesore idiot he was pretending to be.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Hokage Office~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
With Kakashi
Sarutobi handed Kakashi a file. "You're going to need to read this ASAP. It's Naruto's real file. Everything in it is an SS-class secret. You may let Naruto know you've read. But only discuss what is in it with me, him or one of the Nara clan."
Kakashi was mystified. He went home to read the file
~~~~~~~~~~~~Scene Change~~~~~~~~
Naruto and Shikamaru were cloudwatching lying in the middle of a training ground. They had just finished sparring and were resting. Cloudwatching was a habit the two had developed together.
Naruto turned his head to gaze at Shikamaru. Shikamaru had his eyes closed and was dozing with a relaxed peaceful look on his face. Naruto felt his own face heat up with a blush. For some reason, lately, every time he looked at Shikamaru lately he wanted to kiss him. He had accepted long ago that he was probably gay, but being attracted to Shikamaru was something he wasn't sure how to handle. All he knew was that at times it took everything he had not to just stare at Shikamaru and just drink in the sight of him. Naruto shook his head, he would deal with it later. Now was supposed to be a restful time. He closed his eyes to doze off and found himself with Kyuubi. "Hello Kit" Kyuubi grinned at Naruto.
"Hello" Naruto said slowly, Kyuubi's grin starting to creep him out. It was giving him a bad feeling.
"Guess what we're going to learn to learn today!" She said in an overly sickly sweet tone of voice.
"What?" He asked, really getting nervous. That tone of voice never boded well for him.
"We're going to learn about puberty!" She now had a full blown evil smirk.
Naruto paled, then turned a deep shade of red. "We've already covered that subject"
"The human version, yes. The demon version, no. Since you're a Hanyou, you need to learn about it as well because you'll be affected by both human and demon puberty."
"Oh," Naruto said weakly, trying to find a way out of this conversation but wasn't able to find one. He really didn't want to go through another TALK.
"Once a month, around the full moon, demons go into heat. It is a time when every demon or part demon has an amped-up sex-drive. You will be experiencing it on the next full moon. Puberty started for you a year ago, but the demonic side of it didn't kick in until now. In other words. In five days on the day and night of the full moon you go into heat. It seems you are interested in guys. Normally this wouldn't be a problem. However, you have me sealed inside of you. That has caused some rather unusual side effects. You can get pregnant and bear kits. Now, I wouldn't recommend this at your young age, but it is your choice. Be warned though, you will have sex on the full moon. Your amped-up sex drive will see to that." Kyuubi stopped to see how Naruto was reacting to all the information.
"Why didn't you tell me this Sooner?!!!" Naruto practically screamed "then I could have more time to prepare, and I can get pregnant!"
Naruto continued freaking out for a few minutes before calming down and accepting the facts.
"You should let the Naras know. It is kind of important. If you want you can summon me, and I'll explain to everyone. Another warning though. If you're already attracted to someone, you'll go and try to have sex with them. SO sort out your feelings toward Shikamaru quickly." Kyuubi added the last one with considerable amusement.
Poor Naruto turned so red, he invented a new color. "All right, All right. I'll explain this to Shikamaru, but you're explaining it to every one else."
Kyuubi shrugged "Fine by me"
Naruto opened his eyes and saw Shikamaru's face only a few inches from his. He once again got the urge to kiss Shikamaru. Before he could stop himself, he gave in to the urge. His lips met Shikamaru's, and Shikamaru kissed him back. Naruto pulled back in surprise. "I was wondering if I was going to have to make the first move." Shikamaru said. Once again surprising Naruto "Yes, I am gay, and yes, I like you that way."
Naruto sighed in relief. "I'm glad. I was afraid you'd reject me if I said or did anything. However, Kyu-chan gave me a metaphorical kick in the butt to get me going. Kyu-chan will explain to everyone else. But I wanted to tell you personally."
So Naruto told Shikamaru everything (A/N- I'm too lazy to write everything out again).
"It makes sense that you'd be affected by heat since you are part demon now, and even the ability to have kits isn't that far-fetched. After all you do hold an all powerful FEMALE demon lord. The reproduction thing will even help soothe things over with my parents." Shikamaru paused and lifted an eyebrow at Naruto. "We will be together right?"
"I'd like that" Naruto said, sounding slightly shy and more than a little red in the face.
Shikamaru smiled gently at Naruto "Good and you said Kyu-chan would be willing to explain everything to everyone else?"
"Yep, because she waited until almost the last minute to tell me." Naruto grumbled. "Full moon for me is only five days away."
"You might as well summon Kyuubi now, and while we head back have her gather everyone at my place and explain it to them as we head back?"
"Alright, Summoning Jutsu: Kyuubi No Kitsune!" Naruto called out.
There was a poof and Kyuubi appeared before them in her Hanyou form. "I want you to gather the Nara heads (Shikamaru's parents), Sarutobi, and Kakashi at the Nara house and explain things to them."
Kyuubi nodded and left. First she got Sarutobi, then she picked up a very shocked Kakashi, he had just finished reading the file, and took them to the Nara House where she grabbed Shikamaru's parents and gathered them all into a sound proofed room. Then proceeded to explain to them what she had told Naruto. Also adding on that Naruto and Shikamaru were together. The Nara's were happy as was Sarutobi. Kakashi was coming out of his shocked state and had reached an acceptance of Naruto. Afterwards Sarutobi and Kakashi left, leaving the Nara's to wait for the couple's return home.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~With Naruto and Shikamaru~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The two were going through back ways to get home. Holding hands the entire time. Since Naruto was going to take off and leave off his mask, they saw no reason to hide the fact that they were a couple. However, they also weren't idiots and didn't want to attract attention. Thus the reason for the back ways home.
When they arrived, they tried to sneak in the back door, they were hoping to postpone the chat with Shika's parents, but they were caught. Mr. and Mrs. Nara sat the boys down and had a long talk about safety and protection leaving two very embarrassed teens and two very amused adults. Afterwards it was dinner time and then bedtime. They both had practice early in the morning
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