Chapter five.
Naruto smirked as he walked out the doors of the academy, sighing contentedly as Mizuki's shrieks echoed throughout the building.
Okay, maybe Mizuki hadn't deserved that little makeover (Yeah right!), but the blonde believed that since he was never willingly setting foot in the academy again, he felt his last prank had to leave a lasting impression on someone, and Mizuki's name had come up in the, admittedly rigged, draw.
Looking around the palyground in apparent dissinterest the masked graduate spotted his peers celebrating their success with their parents, cheers and praises filling the air.
'Guess the unlucky ones left already.' he rationalised, seeing as only half the number of students seemed to be in the immediate vicinity. With a shrugg of his shoulders, the blonde turned on his heel and moved toward the exit, eager to get a head start n plnning his traps for the next day.
As he did though, his sharp vulpine ears detected the conversation between two women who, if he recalled correctly, once pettitoned to have him banned form the academy.
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"That's him, THE kid." one muttered, face twisted into a smug looking smirk, "Looks like he didn't graduate."
The other sneered, tossing her hair slightly as she glared balefully at the blonde not ten feet away.
"Good, could you imagine it if they actually allowed that THING to graduate?"
"SHHH!!!" the first hissed, looking over her shoulder towards the teen, "You want it to hear you?"
The second sneered, waving a hand dismissively.
"What's he gonna do? He's only a civillian, there are Shinobi all over the place right now! Even he wouldn't try anything stupid here!"
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Naruto snorted, amused at the woman's overconfidence.
'Clearly they have no Idea who they're dealing with.'
Stopping in his tracks, the blonde slowly turned on his heel until he was facing the two women, looking them in the eyes eeriely.
When he was certain that they were watching, he slowly moved one hand towards his mask, pulling it down to reveal is bandaged face, letting the tip of a fang poke out over his lip as he smiled at them. The smile slowly changed into a smirk, as he reached into his coat pocket, pulling out his Konoha Hitai-ate. The women froze, looks of shock adorning their features, as the blonde slowly tied the headband on, his smirk having changed into the trademark kitsune leer, showing off his canines quite well.
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Naruto was well aware of the effect the leer could have on a person, which was the reason he kept his face covered most of the time, unfortunately he was so focused on traumatising his past tormentors that he didn't notice the effect he was having on the surrounding populace.
Let's just say a lot of people would be either seeking therapists or seeking out the coldest showers they could find over the next few days. A couple of female teens had already passed out from having caught a passing glance, when they awoke the next morning they wouldn't remember a thing.
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Naruto stood there leering at the women for a few minutes, before turning on his heel and waving at them, from over his shoulder, twirling a kunai in his other hand. As the two stared at his departing back in shocked relief, a crowd of people passed in front of them, blocking their view for a moment.
When it eventually cleared, Naruto had apparently vanished into thin air.
It wasn't until later that same day that the poor women discovered that the contents of their purses had also vansihed, but they never managed to prove that the blonde had been responsible.
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Naruto sighed as he closed the door to his apppartment behind him, looking around the sparsely decorated room with habitual disgust. Kyuubi had decided that it was time for his charge to move on, for a perfectly logical reason: Once word got out that he was an official genin, he could be expecting the villager's making a last ditch attempt on his life before he got too powerful.
The fox doubted that the weekly spending money that Naruto received would cover the costs of one of the newer apartment building constructed for shinobi, which were far away from civillian eyes, but also put him under the direct scrutiny of his shinobi peers. And if the information the blonde had gleaned from Iruka during homeroom had been true, you needed a specially signed permit to build your own home, not to mention land, something he would have a hard time obtaining at his age, Kyuubi or no.
Therefore, it was time for them to utilize their prior covering of the area around Konoha.
During their free time, Kyuubi had Naruto go around taking detailed notes of the surrounding woodland and forests within the village, even going so far as to sneak inside the monument's tunnel system to discover a few unregistered caves which they had used on occasion. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to truly appeal to either of them. There had been one particular forest that had caught the duo's eyes, but it was surrounded by a masive gate, and was under constant guard by chunin and ANBU alike, not exactly hideout material.
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Naruto placed a carrier scroll on the ground, placing his few personal belongings in front of it and made a series of seals. There was a flash of light, and where the belongings were lay a rolled up scroll. he repeated the procedure with his growing horde of treasure, which ranged from swiped cash to stolen undergarments, before pocketing their scrolls.
Turning to look at the scroll of seals, which still lay against the wall collecting dust, Naruto frowned, irritated.
He'd already finished memorizing every jutsu written in the scroll, even the yondaime's shiki fujin seal, bereft of further purpose, he needed to return the scroll, as it was too much of a liability to hold onto it for anylonger.
Naturally the kitsune part of him hated the idea of returning the thing, but it could also understand that it would only be a matter of time before someone noticed that the scroll in the Hokage tower was a fake.
As if to clarify this, a shiver ran up the blonde's spine, alerting him that something big was going on. He cocked his head to the sidfe slightly, smirking as he heard an alarm go off in the distance.
'Speak of the devil...someone stole the fake scroll.'
Shaking his head, the blonde grabbed the real scroll, opened hs window, and leaped out into the night.
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Mizuki, still Afro-fied, darted through the woods, trying to put as much distance between himself and Konoha as he could without breaking the sound barrier. The only thought running through the traitorous chunin's mind was the rewards Orochimaru would grant him for pulling this off.
"Nice night, Mizuki-sensei."
Snapping out of his delusions of grandeur, the silver haired chunin darted around and grabbed one of the shuriken off his back, eyeing the forest around him warily.
"Who's there?" he called out, sensing for enemies.
The voice chuckled, "I love what you've done to your hair it's very…unique."
With that, Naruto stepped out of the shadows, eyes dancing in the moonlight.
Mizuki blinked at the sight of the blonde, then snorted stashing the shuriken away.
"It's only you, Naruto, I thought it was something serious."
He frowned as the genin stepped forwards, not liking that look in the boys eyes.
"Are you here to join me?" he asked, arms out wide, smirking as he felt his bravado creep back.
"Of course you are, why else would you…"
"You know something, Mizuki-sensei?" Naruto asked, locking eyes with the man, silencing him with the same look. "Since I was small, people have hurt me, humiliated me, deprived me of even a moments peace…"
Naruto took another step forward, whilst Mizuki sub-conciously stepped back.
For some reason he couldn't begin to understand, the chunin's instincts were telling him to run, to run like hell, to run and never stop running, anything to get away from the blonde figure that seemed to be drilling a hole through him with his eyes alone.
"Throughout it all, I was called a monster, a demon," Naruto chuckled dryly, "I'm sure you get the idea. The point is, having endured all of this, I often wondered, was I really as bad as that?"
He closed his eyes, much to Mizuki's relief and smiled behind his ever present red mask, looking almost serene.
"I realized, that if they wouldn't accept me…then I'd give them a reason to FEAR me."
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Before Mizuki could react, Naruto's eyes snapped open, their peircing blue gaze apparently drilling into the chunin's own startled orbs. The startled traitor felt his muscles freeze, locking into place as if Rigor mortis had set in despite his still being alive.
He tried to yell out in shock, only for his eyes to widen as his jaws refused to move. He couldn't feel any of his limbs moving, they all felt like they'd been frozen at the joints, it was an struggle to even blink.
Then his eyes widened in horror as he realised that he didn't appear to be breathing either. It was like they had been turneed to stone.
Slowly, almost catlike, the blonde genin slowly made his way towards the terrified man, a dangerous light in his slit-pupiled blue eyes.
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"Shin no Ippo," the blonde muttered as he walked, not breaking eye contact with his prey, "otherwise known as Isukumi no jutsu, a paralysis technique that relies on focusing ones killing intent through eye contact."
He smirked behiund his mask, "I wouldn't be expecting to move again for...say an hour if I were you."
Walking up to the chunin, the blonde snorted derisively as he liberated the scroll from Mizuki's unresisitng person, before looking up at the man in mock pity.
"All this trouble for a fake scroll of seals…you really are pathetic." he mocked, opening the fake scroll to show it was empty, earning a look of confused hatred from the man.
Noticing the look in the man's eyes with little worry the blonde sighed, tossing the scroll to the side where it promptly burst into flame.
"You know, I was actually considering letting bygones be bygones...after all time heals all wounds and all that."
He lashed out with a kick, sending Mizuki tumbling backwards with a strangled yell, before leaping onto the stricken chunin's abused chest.
"But I always thought your face weas familliar, even though I'm certain we never met before the academy..." he noticed the look of fear that shone through the chunin's eyes and grinned, "Ah...I see you know what I'm refferring to."
Reaching up to pull down his mask, the blonde leaned closer until he was practically nose to nose with the terrified chunin, grinning in a very vulpine manner.
"I believe it's time I paid you back for that beating you gave me when I was four…wouldn't you agree?"
If Mizuki could have moved, let alone summoned air into his lungs, he would have screamed as the genin's eyes turned a very sinister shade of red.
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When Iruka made it to the clearing, followed by a squadron of ANBU, it was to find something that would hant his dreams for the next year or so.
Mizuki's lay on his back, legs bent under him. The traitors face, in his final moments, had stretched into a mask of pure, undiluted terror terror, mouth gaping open in a silent scream.
What truly got the the scarred chunin was that it looked as if his former colleague had clawed his own throat open with his bare hands., as they were still close to the wound, covered in blood and what appeared to be skin.
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"Gruesome…isn't it, Iruka-sensei?"
Iruka leapt two feet in the air at the sound of the voice, and spun round to stare in shock at the tree right behind him. Naruto was sitting on a tree root, the scroll of seals at his feet, but this was not Iruka's primary concern. He was far more interested in the fact that one of Mizuki's Shuriken was lodged in his former student's stomach, as well as the various other cuts and scrapes which apparently covered the boy.
"Naruto!" Iruka yelled, dashing over to kneel beside the blonde, wincing at the close up view of the wound.
"Shit! Medic!" he yelled over his shoulder, before looking at the blonde with worry and concern in his eyes, "Naruto, you'll be okay, just sit still for a bit."
The chunin whirled around and glared at the accompanying ANBU squadron, "Where is that damn medic?!"
A chunin wearing a bear mask snorted, turning his head to the side, "I'm not healing him, let him die for all I care."
Iruka looked ready to charge the an, ANBU or not, when he blinked at the sound of soft, mirthless laughter.
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"What's the matter?" Naruto asked, looking straight into the eyesockets of the man's mask, "Scared to come too close? Are you afraid of me?"
When the man didn't reply the blonde smirked, "Or is the big bad ANBU afraid that the Kyuubi may come out to play?"
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The clearing went silent as everyone looked at the boy in shock, causing him to snort, nodding towards the corpse of their target.
"Mizuki liked the sound of his own voice, when I bumped into him here, he must of figured, 'heck, why not bring the demon fox with me'…said as much himself."
The blonde snickered sadistically, causing the ANBU to shiver at the sound. It reminded them WAY too much of Ibiki during one of his 'Ibiki time' sessions.
"Unfortunately for him, I never did like that mouth of his."
He looked the assembled ANBU and chunin in the eyes, stood up, and pulled the shuriken out of his gut, wincing at the pain.
"Now," he muttered, walking up to the bear masked ANBU whilst holding his stomach, "I'm going to let you choose: you can heal me, and we can all go home and sleep, or you can leave me here to rot, you're choice."
Naruto could almost FEEL the smug look on the aNBU's face and raised a finger to it to cut him off befoe he could say anything.
"But just so you know, if I go," he pointed to his stomach, "then the seal goes with me."
He leered up at the shocked ANBU, eyes seeming to glint in the moonlight, "I'm sure you can imagine what THAT might mean."
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The assorted shinobi had frozen at the first mention of the seal dissapearing, the very idea of the sole barrier between them and the Kyuubi vanishing chilling them to the marrow.
"That's right." Naruto's voice called out, dragging each of them out of their own personal nightmare to stare at the smirking blonde, "The big bad Fox would come out," Naruto muttered, running a blue eye over the assembled shinobi smugly, "and I think he might be a bit…peeved, at being imprisoned for so long, wouldn't you agree?"
"You heard Iruka!" The ANBU captain snapped out, far too quickly to be passed off primarily as concern for the injured genin, "Hurry up and patch him up!"
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Naruto smirked behind his mask, as the medics finally left him alone. He'd pulled that off perfectly, not only had he disposed of the fake scroll without being discovered, he'd made it appear that Mizuki was responsible for everything. True, stabbing himself had been a spur of the moment thing, but that was the price of brilliance, sometimes you had to make sacrifices.
'Even a Lizard will sever it's own tail to escape from harm.' he rationalised, 'I suppose I can relate noww.'
He had already been completely healed, both from the efforts of the medics and his own impressive regeneration capabilites, but had been ordered to remain in the hospital for the Hokage to examine him. The blonde scoffed; the old geezer was probably going to check the stability of the seal.
Speak of the devil, Sandaime entered, looking as if he'd been dragged from his bed only a few moments ago, shown in the look of his eyes and the fact he was wearing his red robe back to front.
"Naruto-kun! What we're you thinking, fighting Mizuki like that?!" he said, looking the boy over in concern, wincing at the amount of bandagfes. "You just graduated from the university, what made you think you could beat a chunin?!"
Naruto sighed, shaking his head. He really had nothing against the old man, but ever since he started training he never trusted any of the adults, with the exception of Iruka sensei, who aside from being a little prudish, was generally fun to be around.
"Overconfidence I guess," he muttered, smirking, "but I DID beat him."
"And almost killed yourself in the attempt! Are you trying to give me a heart attack?"
Sarutobi sat in a chair and sighed, shaking his head wearily, showing his age for the first time since he enterred the room. "Naruto-kun, I know you wish to prove yourself to the villagers, but I don't want you to do something so foolish again."
He looked up at the boy and, to the blonde's shock, there was actual concern for him in the old man's eyes. "I couldn't bear it if something happened to you…not after all you've endured to become a ninja."
The elderly Hokage smiled at the boy, "Congratulations by the way, I knew enrolling you was a good idea."
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At this, Naruto was flummoxed.
Though he'd had his suspicions, the blonde had never anticipated that his silent benefactor was really the Sandaime Hokage himself. He merely assumed that it was standard policy for all children to be enrolled at the academy, hre now saw this as foolishness, as it would completely alienate the civillian populace.
Sarutobi chuckled, enjoying the priceless look on the boy's face, it was better than the time he accidentally walked in on Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru during a game of strip poker.
"Surprised? Not many people know this Naruto, but when the fourth sealed the Kyuubi in you to protect the village, he meant for you to be seen as a hero." He sighed, shaking his head. "Sadly though, the pain of loss was too great to be forgotten, and the people only saw you as the Kyuubi."
"No shit." Naruto muttered, scowling up at the monument at the fourth's features, "Yondaime must've been stoned or something if he thought it was worth it to sacrifice his life for those bastards."
Sandaime winced at the boys tone, earning an amused snort.
"The truth hurts, doesn't it? Well, I'm not this village's whipping boy anymore, and I can tell you this, if they try anything, they'll wish it really was the Kyuubi that was after them."
Getting out of bed, Naruto walked out, shooting a smile at the old man, trying to put him at ease.
"Relax old man, I'm not about to pull an Itachi…not with Sasuke in the line of fire." He sent a glare at the man, "But I'm not going to let insults just blow bye anymore either."
And with that, the blonde left, leaving a saddened sandaime behind.
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Sitting back in his office, Sarutobi looked up at the pictures that adorned the wall, eyes landing one of a blonde young man with blue eyes. He sighed, shaking his head in shame.
"Arashi…I only hope you can forgive this old fool for letting things get this far."
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The next day, after making sure that he was in perfect health from the night before, Naruto reported back to the academy for team assignments. To his mild pleasure, the fangirls had apparently doubled their ambushes this time, apparently blaming him for not making the cut this year.
He whistled as he watched three of them go flying through the air as a result of their trap backfiring.
'A wooden cannon?' he muttered, staring at the pile of kindling. The blasted thing had exploded due to beign overloaded with gunpwder.
'Where on they find something so outdated? And should I be flattered or worried?"
He calmly turned his head to the side to avoid a blow to the head from a club, tripping the girl up and sending her tumbling into a wall.
'Hn, that's the thirteenth one with frills.' he muttered, turning the page of his book.
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After a thoroughly enjoyable workout, Naruto sauntered into class, still reading his book. Taking his regular seat next to Sasuke he put his feet on the table, nodding his head slightly.
"I miss much?"
Sasuke snorted, hiding a smile behind his usual brooding pose. "Kiba's mutt decided to mark his territory on Ino's new dress, and Shikamaru's currently broken the record for being lazy." He scowled at the genin, who was currently napping right behind them, "How'd a bum like that pass the exam?"
Naruto shrugged, pulled out a pen, and began scribbling on the boys face, a bored expression on his own.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the blonde's antics, "Real mature Naruto." he muttered, smirking.
"Just teaching him a lesson, care to join in?" Naruto replied, offering a pen. Sasuke scoffed and turned to face the front.
Naruto, prank completed, did the same, putting his feet up and reading his little orange book, leaving the still slumbering Shikamaru with several interesting facial paintings, including a massive weiner across his forehead.
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At that moment Sakura walked in, and spying Sasuke, made a beeline for him with a delighted look on her face, which dropped like a ten tonne weight at the sight of the person sitting next to her target. Stopping before Naruto she stood there, hand's on her hips and scowled at him, waiting for her blonde nemesis to notice her.
Said nemesis continued to read his book, pretending that he hadn't noticed the girl as she began to seethe. When he sensed that she was well and truly put out, the blonde looked up at her lazily, arching an eyebrow coyly.
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"Can you be helped?" Naruto asked, giving her a bored look.
Sakura twitched in barely restrained anger and pointed at him with a twitching finger.
"I want to sit with Sasuke-kun! Move over!"
Naruto looked at her for a moment, then went back to his book as if she hadn't said anything.
"No, I don't think I will."
The pink haired girl let out a screech, and was about to clout the blonde genin when Iruka came in, followed by a scowling Ino.
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"Take your seats people, and I'll call out the teams." He said, eying the class carefully, hoping he wouldn't have to resort to his 'evil head' jutsu now that they were grown up.
Sakura sent the blonde a death glare and did as she was told, settling for sitting next to the bane of her existance, as it was the closest she was likely to get to her crush.
Once he was certain they were settled, Iruka looked down at the checklist and cleared his throat.
"Teams are as follows, team one…"
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Naruto blocked it all out, wondering whether or not he'd be on Sasuke's team or not. And while it would make watching his friend's back a hell of a lot easier, he didn't like the idea of Sasuke's sharingan copying any of his moves, intentyionally or otherwise.
If there was one vice to having a kitsue frame oif mind, it was that all fox's were secretive little bastards, who coveted their secrets even more than their treasures.
Fortunately for our hero, the fates were on his side that day.
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"Team Seven: Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and Tomo." Iruka called out, wincing as the kunoichi let out a screech of joy.
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'Guess that solves that.' Naruto muttered, sending Sasuke a look of pity whilst patting him on the back.
"Tough luck Sasuke, the blonde at least could've served as eye candy, but this one…yeesh."
This comment caused Ino to flush, not expecting such a compliment from the Uchiha's devious friend. Sakura however, snapped at him in irritation.
"And just what do you mean by that?!"
"Other than the fact that when I first saw you, I thought you were a cross-dresser?" Naruto shrugged, "Nothing much."
Sasuke snorted at this, as did a number of other students; whilst Sakura's face went red with anger.
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Iruka finnished calling out the list of teams and smiled, nodding at them all.
"That's all, thank you for your time, your sensei's will be coming to collect you in a few minutes, so please be patient."
Naruto frowned, wondering if he'd missed his name, and raised his hand.
"Iruka sensei, you forgot my name."
The chunin looked up at the teen and shook his head, wincing slightly.
"Sorry Naruto but the students were split into ten teams of three, as the thirty first candidate, we couldn't put you on a team."
"Your kidding, right?" the blonde asked, getting to his feet in a rush, sensing somethi9ng was up. "You mean I'm the only one who isn't getting on a team?"
The blonde shot a giggling Sakura a glare and growled, looking at the resident Uchiha over his shoulder.
"Sasuke you have my pity, stuck on a team with nothing but guys."
"I'm a woman you freak!" Sakura yelled, earning a snort of disbelief from Naruto.
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Iruka rubbed his face, sighing.
He didn't exactly like this situation either, the council, upon hearing of the blonde's success in the exam, had purposely allowed another student to pass, filling in the last available slot. This, coupled with the news of what had happened with Mizuki, had set them firmly against the blonde receiving the genin title.
'Unfortunately for them,' the chunin thought wryly, 'Sandaime-sama is always three stepos ahead of them.'
"Actually Naruto, you're going to be training with someone the Sandaime personally asked to come here, so show some respect."
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Naruto raised an eyebrow at this, ignoring the looks of jealousy that crossed some of his classmate's faces.
'Someone the Sandaime knows? Probably an expert on seals.'
He looked around the classroom, not detecting any foreign auras or scents.
"So where is this guy? Or is he the shy type?".
There was a knock at the door, which Iruka responded to quickly, bpowing slightly in greeting, beforte stepping aside to admit someone. At first they couldn't see anything, then an old woman, shorter even than the sandaime walked in, shooting the group a critical gaze.
"Hmmph, the stock of Konoha shinobi has plummeted if these ones managed to graduate." She shook her head, "Times really must be changing."
Naruto raised an eyebrow, not impressed in the slightest.
"You're kidding me, this old hag is my sensei?"
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The look on Iruka's face was priceless, equal parts embarrassment and shock, wrapped up in pure, un-cultured terror.
The woman looked up at the blonde and Naruto felt Kyuubi twitch in recognition.
"Hmmph, so this is the kid?" She looked him up and down, "Doesn't look like much, probably not worth my time to train."
Naruto bristled at this, before smirking, his eyes flickering mischeviously, "And just what could a shriveled up old hag like you teach me? How to crochet? Basket weaving?" he put a hand to hsi face in mock awe, "The secrets of shuffleboard?"
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Kiba burst out laughing, which was picked up by a few others,as the blonde took a bow, still smirking at the woman. The look of fear was spreading across Iruka's face like a flood, as he tried to get them to stop, whilst stammering apologies.
The old woman merely sighed, shaking her head, before her eyes snapped open, flashing with power. With a simple yell, she sent the startled blonde shinobi flying towards the wall, where he made an indention with his whole body.
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The whole class went deathly silent, save for the sound of falling plaster and settling dust, as the diminutive woman shook her head, muttering.
"I used to be able to make guys like that wet themselves with a simple glance." She chuckled bitterly, "Getting old really sucks."
Turning on her heel, she looked Iruka in the eye and nodded towards the Naruto shaped hole in the wall.
"If the baka survived that, tell him to meet me by the river, I'll be waiting."
Iruka nodded, glad that his student hyad gotten off easy, before opening the door to let the woman out of the class.
"Of course, Genkai-shihan."
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Naruto found himself in front of Kyuubi's kage, holding his head and cursing.
"Okay...THAT hurt…" he muttered, shaking his head to attempt to clear it, "What in the heck IS that old lady?!"
"Her name is Genkai," Kyuubi muttered, catching the youth's attenhtion, "She is known as a powerful psychic and an expert demon slayer, She is known to have killed more demons than I'd like to admit."
The youko shivered in anticipation, clearly enjoying this recent development.
"There is not a demon alive that hasn't heard of her, even I entertained the notion of challenging her once, but she proved hard to find." The fox shivered again,"That, and she has apparently retired, passed the torch on to her successor, and my wits have not been altered enough to desire a fight with HIM"
Naruto watched as his Tou-san's fur ruffled at the mere thought and shivered, grinning in anticipation.
'This could be interesting…let's see what the old hag can do.'
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Lo and behold! Naruto's sensei has been revealed!
Were you surprised? R&R!
(Naruto Preview music starts)
Naruto: Damn that hurt! I'm gonna prnk that old hag so hard she'll-!
Genkai: I'll what?
Naruto: Gah! where'd you come from?!
Genkai: Hn, I would have thought your teachers gave you this talk already?
Naruto: Wha-? GAH! Not like that!
Genkai: (Fierce glare) I see you're sharper than most, so you'll know that pranking me isn't a good idea.
Naruto: (shiver) Scary woman...eh? who's that behind the tree?
(Music ends)