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Naruto grinned and pumped his fist in the air. Everyone in the arena was silent after the proctor called the winner. "Haha!" Naruto laughed, jogging up the stairs. His clothes were in tatters; the jacket was ripped off leaving only the black shirt with a few pieces of bright orange cloth, also leaving a torn bloody and his orange pants. His Rinnegan eyes were twinkling with joy when he finally got up to the waiting area, and noticed everyone staring at him, shocked. "What?"

The rest of the exams went by quickly. Ino and Sakura faced off, and Sakura won by a combination of clever traps, Naruto's cheering to kick Ino out of her mind and a simple use of the bunshin no jutsu.

Sasuke faced and easily beat a genin from Kabuto's squad in a steamroll victory; it almost seemed as if he threw it. Choji ended up fighting Shino, and after a long, gruesome match, the Aburame came on top. The Akimichi was taken to the hospital for chakra exhaustion. Shikamaru fought the puppet master Kankuro, using his Shadow Possession jutsu and making faint lines along Kankuro's chakra threads, the lazy Nara won by forfeit. Tenten had fought the girl of the Sand team, Temari. The wind-user's fan was an extremely effective counter to Tenten's weaponry, and Temari won by knockout.

The final match was one of Hinata Hyuga vs. her cousin, Neji. The two fought brutally, with the match going to the older Hyuga and only after Hinata was declared too weak to battle, Neji seemed to scowl staring down at his cousin.

The old Hokage, Hiruzen, announced to the passing genin that the final round of the exams would be taking place within a month, and they would be given that time to train for the final matches. He then had Anko give everyone slips of paper, to each genin for the match up draws.

Naruto Uzumaki vs. Neji Hyuga

Shikamaru Nara vs. Sasuke Uchiha

Kankuro vs. Shino Aburame

Temari vs. Sakura Haruno

Everyone looked at the board with grins minus a certain Nara who sighed. "Sasuke in the first round, maybe I should forfeit now, would be less troublesome." As Shikamaru contemplated how to make his life less troublesome for the foreseeable future everyone was dismissed.

As Team 7 was leaving, the Hokage stopped them looking surprising somber, "Naruto-kun, I have...some news to share with you It regards to your parents."

Naruto blinked, "I thought you said you'd wait until I was ready?"

The old man scowled softly to himself looking at the ground, "a decision I've come to regret and something I'm going to rectify right now, if you would come with me." He noted the other members of team seven looked at him questionably. "Kakashi already knows of this, both he and Naruto will let you know more of what's going on if Naruto is so inclined to inform you." With a shrug from Sasuke and a worried glance from Sakura, Kakashi ushered them out of the tower. A few minutes later Sarutobi shunshin with Naruto to the hokage tower

The two arrived in front of a set of double doors, and the old man walked through these doors unsure of what was going on Naruto quietly followed. Turns out these doors led to the council chambers, where the shinobi and civilian council were in session. "What is the meaning of this Hiruzen? And why is...he here?" Koharu asked, glaring at the whisker marked blonde. Homura nodded in agreement, the rest of the civilian council minus three looked at Naruto with contempt while most of the shinobi council looked at him with interest.

"As you may all have heard by now, Naruto has awakened a very powerful kekkei genkai though none of us knows the extent of it I feel it is strong enough to warrant him to know the truth about who his parents are." The old 'Professor' stated. The civilian council erupted into arguments against it Naruto could see their eyes were both wide in fear and in denial

But a raised hand along with a frightening cold glare halted all protestation from them, "Naruto has one of the most powerful, if not the mostpowerful, dojutsu known in the shinobi world." He said. It was then the council got a good look into his eyes, and they all sat down looking at the boy's eyes looking oddly subdued.

Shikaku Nara was fond of Naruto and while it had been troublesome Shikamaru admitted the blonde wasn't all that bad if a bit troublesome; the retired jonin was like most on the shinobi council and didn't see the blonde as the demon any more than they see the Kyuubi as a human. "So that's what the Rinnegan looks like, Shikamaru is right the kid is troublesome," the Nara stated shaking his head earning a snicker from the whisker marked blonde. The old hokage smirked but nodded, and the council fell silent awaiting the old man to speak. The shinobi clan heads were rapt with attention while the civilians for the most part, were having a harder time processing what they were seeing, but none of them spoke waiting on baited breath.

Hiruzen turned to Naruto, who looked up at the old man in anticipation, "Naruto, this will not be easy for you but. Your father was named…Minato Namikaze, however you knew him as the Fourth Hokage and Konoha's 'Yellow Flash'. As for your mother, her name was Kushina Uzumaki, in the academy she was given the title the Red Hot Habanero," Hiruzen stated carefully, gauging the boy's reaction.

Naruto's eyes widened he falling back into a chair that was placed behind him, his head reeling. Immediately he was filled with questions. What were they like? Why did his father seal the Kyuubi into him? Why didn't anyone tell him before now? Did his parents hate him? Did they love him?

The civilian council then started to yell, though what Naruto heard confused him wondering what the Act was. The only ones who didn't seemed to like this were the shinobi side of the council arguing it should be Naruto's choice. When things grew quiet on of the elders spoke up. "Hiruzen, we have a proposition for the boy." Homura said. The shinobi council looked at the elder eyes narrowing while the civilian council minus three seemed to take extreme at what was about to be said.

"By section 72, part 6 of Konoha's clan and family laws, Naruto Namikaze-Uzumaki, we wish to put you in the CRA, or Clan Restoration Act. You, being the sole acting heir of a significant clan and have a strong bloodline, we strongly recommend you have a large number of heirs to rebuild said clan. It would resurrect the Uzumaki clan." Koharu said.

Naruto paled a bit and frowned. She makes it sound like I had a clan before what's up with that. He turned to the old man, "Okay I know I'm not the sharpest kunai in the holster so could someone please tell what this Clan Restoration Act is?" He heard a few chuckles from Tsume and Inoichi which he gave a thumbs up too. While he might not get along with Ino, he did like her for helping Sakura, as for Tsume she was one of the few women in Naruto's life that doted on him and allowed him to play with her son.

The old hokage frowned. "Naruto the CRA is a policy for rebuilding a clan that is near extinction it requires you to have three or more wives."

Naruto did a double take looking at the old man he considered his surrogate grandfather in disbelief. "What?! Hell No! I'm not going to be some baby making machine!" Naruto yelled, standing up the weak knee feeling at who his parents had been now gone replaced by this bombshell glaring at the elders, his rippled eyes flaring

Koharu shakily replied. "N-Naruto there is nothing you can do its law, unless you're already m-married by the time you're 14, you'll be forced into the program." Most of the men in the room thought the boy would jump at said chance to have as many women as he wanted. Only a rank few knew how much a hassle that would be.

Most of these men don't know how troublesome one woman can be, dealing with two or more, I'd rather die. Shikaku Nara thought shuddering.

Naruto turned glaring at the civilian council who were ready and eager to throw their daughter's at his feet. "Don't even think about it, for most of my life you've had people stare at me with cold eyes, over charge me or kick me out of your stores. Now that I'm worth something to you, you have the gall to even think about throwing your daughter's at me as if the last thirteen years didn't matter. Well it matters to me!" He roared, he slammed his hands on the table, glaring at them. "My 14th birthday is a day after the finals so I have 32 days before that stupid Act is put into effect. Mark my words I'm not going to be some breeding machine for you people. I'll find some way out of this...and you." He said, casting his gaze on all of the civilians, "I wouldn't marry any of your damned daughters, even if they were the most beautiful in Elemental Nations," he paused blushing slightly seeing Mebuki Haruno looking at him with a proud smile on her face, "well maybe I would marry one, but the rest of you can kiss my hairy jinchuuriki ass, I'm out of here!" he walked toward the double doors glancing at Sarutobi, "Thanks for telling me about my parents, old man. I'll see you around," the whisker marked blonde stormed out of the building.

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Naruto growled as he got to the training grounds and instantly started taking his frustration out on the thousand clones he summoned. As he kicked, punched and repelled them using his dojutsu, his mind was reeling. How dare they do this? After what they've done to me, they really just expect me to just up and fuck their daughters, marry into my clans just so they can reap the rewards, and what about that? If my clan was so awesome in the first place why did they treat me like shit, it makes no fucking sense! After an hour of sparring, he Shinra Tensei the last clone into a tree, destroying it. He leaned back against a post, running a hand through his sweaty hair. As he calmed it slowly began to manifest itself again the overwhelming urge of his kekkei genkai to seek out the bodies of the three hokage and the red-headed woman which now he could assume was his mother. He brought up the image of the woman again drinking in her presence slumping forward tears pouring from his eyes. Mom.

After a few minutes Naruto looked up to see his sensei approaching him. Kakashi crouched down next to Naruto. "You okay heard your first council meeting didn't go so well," the silver haired jonin said carefully.

Naruto grunted and nodded, "I have…until my birthday to get a girl that I want, fall in love with her and get married or my life will be shit," the whisker marked blonde growled, "I'm thirteen for fucking sake, I wanted to wait you know beg Sakura-chan to go out with me, at sixteen after we dated for three years I get down on my knees and then ask for her hand," he said, palming his face tears beginning to fall down his cheeks again. "What's worse it's not even the council's fault this time, it's a damn law written into the books a good hundred and fifty years before I was born," the blonde blinked a few seconds, "how'd I know that."

Kakashi was both trying to frown and chuckle at the same time at his student's plight. He's right this is a lot to shoulder for one person. What can I do for him, sensei? "Naruto...you know, most guys would kill to be in your position right now, six wives? Come on, that's awesome!" Kakashi said, trying to lighten the mood.

Naruto looked up giving him a dry deadpanned look, "sensei, I'm having trouble even getting Sakura-chan interested in me again, after kami knows what caused her to forget about me. I mean three years of playing together, we made a promise if we became chunin that we get married," Naruto frowned sadly, "she and her mom come to see me on my birthday, that chunin followed them, he knocks out Mebuki-obasan. He nearly kills me," the blonde shudders.

"Yes, Itachi and I stopped him a little too late for my taste," Kakashi sighed heavily, "Sometimes Naruto mental trauma can lead a person to block things out. I saw Sakura that night she went catatonic seeing you lying there. She might be actively suppressing remembering you because of that event."

"Now I feel worse," Naruto stated sadly looking down, "I caused Sakura-chan pain."

"Judging by her reactions during the preliminaries and near miss in the forest I think her head got a kick start, wish it happened differently, but what can you do. Come on, I'll buy you some ramen." Kakashi said.

Naruto nodded reluctantly not really liking Kakashi casual talk about Sakura nearly getting raped but secretly he hoped that Kakashi was right as his thoughts drifted back to the only girl that he would ever want to marry. Sakura-chan. His rippled eyes scanned the village as he and Kakashi notice a huge crowd of people were bustling in front of the Hokage tower. The whisker marked blonde groaned instantly knowing why. He pinched the bridge of his nose, clenching his eyes shut feeling a sudden headache coming on, I seriously wish I was back to being a clueless moron, As a group of ANBU appeared in front of the two members of Team-7."Er...Uzumaki-san, the Hokage requests your presence at the top of the tower, he wishes to reveal your heritage to the populace," The Bear masked shinobi said, "sorry that I had to be the one tell you that, got to be a major headache for your, Naruto-kun." Naruto smiled a little at him; this was the captain of the ANBU squad that took over when Kakashi had resigned by the old man that watched over him as a child. Boar, Neko, and Falcon were always kind to him, even though their rules and regulations didn't allow them to show emotion.

"Thanks for the warning Boar, alright let's go." The whisker marked blonde stated taking a deep breath, before Kakashi gripped his shoulder and the three shunshin to the top of the Hokage's office.

They appeared on next to Hiruzen and the two elders, "Hey, Naruto," the Hokage said, frowning a bit. It was clear to the two members of Team 7 he wasn't pleased by recent events.

"Hey, old man you know I'm going to pay you back for this headache I got, so you better watch out," Naruto smirked, walking over to him. Sarutobi winced slightly knowing he would be expecting a highly devious and masterful prank in the future he handed Naruto a piece of folded white and red cloth.

"This was your father's, I believe it's only right that I give it to you," the Hokage said, with a small smile.

Naruto felt a small smile tug on his face, as the white cloak with red flames unfolded before him, his hands trembling mildly. He ran a hand over the kanji for 'Fourth' he put it on and turned to Kakashi, whose one visible eye watered slightly. Naruto looked down and for some strange reason, wearing the cloak felt right as though he was made to wear it.

The crowd continued bustling in front of the tower, awaiting the Hokage to explain the reason for a massive village meeting wondering what kind announcement would be this urgent the last this big was when he declared the Kyuubi defeated and the rules regarding Naruto's status as Jinchuuriki. What could their wise Hokage wish to tell this time, "Villagers of Konoha! It's high time I reveal one of our villages most valued secrets to the younger generation, as well reveal to all the heritage of one Naruto Uzumaki!" He stated using a voice amp

Naruto saw most of the villagers scowl in disgust. Gee, I wonder how they're going to react to this. Probably try and throw their daughters at me...literally.

The blonde saw all of the rookies at the front of the crowd with their parents. They all looking at him pensively and with some confusion, he merely grinned at them giving them a peace sign, and seeing his Sakura-chan, shot her a wave, which she returned. He eyed them carefully when the Hokage spoke next. "12 years ago, the Kyuubi attacked Konoha! The younger generation were told that the Fourth slayed the demon, at the cost of his own life. This is in fact a lie, a Biju is a being made of pure chakra it cannot be killed. The demon could only be sealed, sealed," He emphasized seriously, "And it was, into an infant boy. That boy was Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto saw everyone in the rookies pale, staring wide-eyed at their former classmate now fellow shinobi. Sakura felt tears welling up in her eyes. That's why all of the villagers hate him? Why? Her mind flashed to something, walls covered in blood, Two Anbu standing over a chunin.

The image froze with chibi-Sakura flailing her arms wildly. You're not ready for that I'm still trying to fix the damage, damn it I don't want to start over. Just a few more days.

Sakura look at the chibi and blinked, What was that? Was that a memory?

Yes, and a bad one nearly put you in a catatonic state, I had to do a hard reset of our mind, everything from before that bad moment had to be blocked out so I could repair the damage, I had to set up Inner Sakura as a failsafe to keep you out. The chibi sighed sadly, Didn't expect you to go fangirly on the teme though or Inner Sakura to trip a circuit and start encouraging your fangirlism, the chibi groaned.

But? The rosette was absolutely confused by this new manifestation in her mind but so far had been surprisingly fair if not weird.

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The villagers began yelling, screaming at the justification of having the whisker marked blonde put to death while the younger generation looked at their parents in fear. Many of these kids knew Naruto from his time in the academy and many laughed at his pranks, to be associated with a demon had not entered their minds in the least.

A raise of the Hokage's hand which slowly silenced the crowd, "I am not done, Naruto is not only Jinchuuriki to the Kyuubi and should have been seen as a hero of the village for keeping the biju sealed away! Lord Hashirama our first Hokage would be ashamed of this village, before you stands the last of his wife's clan, the very clan all of your Jonin and chunin honor," he gestures to Kakashi who steps forward, then the old man points at red swirl on his sleeve, "This clan symbol marks our duty as the grieving friends to our dead comrades and you spit on it daily by treating their clan mate the way you have!" the old glares down at the gathered villagers who look away from him in shame. "But the worse crime you've committed is not just against the Uzumaki and Senju clans but to your beloved fourth Hokage. You spit on his last legacy the one he gave for you the very one that both he and Kushina had given their lives for, to whom they wanted you to love as much they did, their son!" He yelled tears streaming down his face at the end of it.

Many of the villagers were shocked into silence and many again looked away in shame this time tears began streaming down their own faces. The only ones that didn't were many of the gathered shinobi knew they had tried in their own ways to make things easier some had even gone so far as to try and adopt him, Tsume Inuzuka had tried but had been denied by the council, Yoshino Nara as well, Naruto's godmother Mikoto Uchiha when she was alive had been denied her guardianship.

"Naruto, would you like to say anything?" The Hokage whispered hoarsely wiping his tears away.

Naruto looked down in thought for a moment before raising his head nodding, and stepped forward, his father's cloak swaying in the wind, he stared down at the villagers below him, at first when he started he wanted to hate them as much as they hated him, but hearing the old man's speech he let it go. To think I'm related to the wife of the First Hokage, I always wondered why everyone wore this, Naruto looked down at the white swirl that the old hokage had given him shortly after he woke up in the hospital after that near death experience when he was 6. The old man said it was my symbol Now I knew what he meant. "Fantastic day, huh?" Naruto remarked earning a few snickers behind him from the ANBU.

A villager stepped forward. "N-Naruto-sama, w-we didn't know!"

"Save it, apology accepted but I won't forget it. I'm going to take what the old man said and roll with it because of my parents sacrifice, I was all set to come up here and tear into each and every one of you people for what you have done to me for the last thirteen years! But I won't the old man did that already," Naruto sighed heavily, his eyes looking tired. "You've made my life hell, but there are a lot of you that treated me like a person and for that I'm thankful. Everyone else I want to start fresh but remember I may have forgiven but I'll never forget," he paused glancing at the two elders and sighed. "Oh one more thing…"

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Naruto's friends exchanged glances. "I knew his life was hard...but never that hard," Ino remarked, frowning. She got a murmur of agreement, even from the stoic Sasuke and Shino.

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Naruto chuckled dryly. "… this is the best part. While I already know how this is going to go. These old bastards," Naruto said, gesturing to Koharu and Homura, both gave an annoyed glare, "Unfortunately, brought up an old law one set back during the village founding, he paused looking dumbfounded, "How the hell do I even know that?!" Several people gathered both in the crowd and behind him snickered, " that states since I'm the head of a prominent clan and possess a kekkei genkai, would put me into the CRA! Wonderful right?!" He shouted the last part before slumping his shoulders.

His friends gasped, all knowing what that meant, a few of girls giggled. Naruto shot them a dirty look. Hinata looked up to Naruto in hope. The CRA? That means...he'll need a wife!

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Sakura looked at the girls in disgust. Gold-digging whores!Inner Sakura remarked, huffing.

Sakura blinked, Inner your back, are you okay?

Back andbetter than ever, CHA! Now let's round these tramps up and beat there ass for even thinking they stand a chance with our Naruto-kun!Sakura blinked as she watched her eccentric inner persona punching the air then nodded in agreement glaring at the other girls surrounding her.

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Naruto scoffed as a few men offered their daughters to him, and jumped off the roof. They all got a good look at his eyes, and when they flared, they back up making a path. Naruto ignoring everyone marched over, grabbing Sasuke and Sakura by the arms, dragging them away, in the direction of Ichiraku. He knew team 8 and team 10 were following, but he paid them no mind smirking slightly thinking if he could get Choji into an eating contest.

Author's Note: Recently on one of my premise stories namely the Naruto – Balance premise some dick hat, flamed the ever loving shit out of it. Well dick hat, that fic wasn't for you and if you don't like it fuck off. Now that's out of the way as soon as I finish editing this will be open for adoption.