A/N: Well, my people, I must say that I am planning to be a dick to Naruto soon. I mean, he'll still have a life, but shit is gonna hit the fan in a chapter or two. I don't have too much else to say here, other than the fact that I'm sorry about the dealy, since regents week has me with no full days of school for a week, but multiple test that impact my grade vastly, so on with the story.

Kage Bunshin - Jutsu(I don't think I'll be having NINJAS call out their moves that much though. It will probably be made fun of a lot in this story.).

You hurt my bunnies! - Extreme anger or demonic speech/thought.

Well, ain't that a bitch? - Thought/Flashback stuff.

I has CUPCAKES! - Emphasized speech or shouting.

Anything in apostrophes, 'blah blah', occurs within the mind, be it mental communication(which will be present) or just plain thoughts.

And any combination from here on out is up to you guys to decipher.

Last Chapter:

..."Ah, don't bow to me Kosen-san. I was just following my own form of justice. Oh, and please drop the -san. It makes me feel... old." With a more childlike personality back in place, he got up and put his hands behind his head, grinning. "So, how is little Hanabi-chan." Seeing her confused look, he said, "Hinata-chan told me about her when we were talking yesterday."

Nodding in understanding, she smiled down at the bundle in her over slightly, she said, "Why don't you ask her yourself?"

Naruto jumped up and peered into Hanabi's face. As he saw her curious eyes, he smiled before tickling her neck. "Well, how are you, Hanabi-chan?" As she giggled, she grabbed his finger, beginning to play with it.

As he pulled his finger back, smile fading a bit, he asked, "So, how about we go meet up with your family? I was getting kinda hungry out here." With that, they made their way to the dining area, where Hinata, Hiashi, and some other main branch members were waiting for them.

And Now:

As he walked into the dining area, he felt a clone dispel from reading one of the anatomy textbooks a single time, though another one was apparently taking its place(A/N: I won't be writing in all of these instances anymore, unless they play a role. Just know that clones are generally going to be doing things like this.). Focusing on the around 10 Hyuuga Main family members assembled before him, he quickly took to bowing. "Hello, Hyuuga-samas. It is an honor to be here." He was well aware that some of the Hyuuga were still sore about the itching powder incident, so he didn't want to make it any worse.

They had all noticed him as he walked and turned their heads. Half nodded in recognition of his greeting, while the others either narrowed their eyes in his direction or just turned away. Deciding that they were just being, well, Hyuugas, he removed his sandals, so as to not damage the seemingly expensive tatami mats before making his way to the table. 'I gotta thank Haitatsu-baa-chan for those lessons on manners. They've been REALLY useful lately.'

As he sat down, he remembered to kneel, as this seemed rather formal to him. 'This family isn't too warn, is it, Ko-chan.'

'Nah, they're just extremely formal. Your tou-san was pretty good friends with Hiashi when they were on a genin team with Kushina-chan, but that's when it was just them. In public, he was the poster boy Hyuuga: cold, detached, air of superiority, etc. It's kinda like their job, being the proverbial royalty, the generic kind.'

As they were talking, Kosen took her seat and all the Hyuuga were ready. Taking notice, he said a hurried 'Talk to you later.' to Kogo and snapped to attention. They all put their hands together and gave a soft "Itadakimasu" before they began to eat.

Once they were finished, Naruto made his way over to Hinata, grinning widely. "So, Hinata-chan," he began, "I have no clue what to do right now. Oh, and did you see Ko-san during breakfast?" He began to snicker lightly now. "You could still see part of the balls on his face! He was REALLY trying to make sure no one saw. I'd say we did a good job, though."

Hinata was giggling behind her hand, and Naruto was trying to hold it in... and failing miserably. As they both were having their moment, Naruto just barely noticed Ko approach them, and he couldn't react in time. Since all the Hyuuga member, sans him, Hiashi, Kosen, and Hanabi, had left, he got behind Naruto, made a fist, and brought it down on his head with a considerable amount of force. Naruto bit his tongue and it started to bleed, though said bleeding was over in under 5 seconds.

As he swallowed the blood, figuring he didn't want to damage the mats with it, and glared at Ko, who glared right back. After their little staring contest came to an end, both of them turning away with a "Hmph!", Naruto noticed that Hiashi was giving him a look that said "Just apologize already".

Sighing, Naruto turned back to Ko and said, "Ah, gomen. It's just that you were asleep and I couldn't pass up the opotunity to say I get the better of a Hyuuga. It won't happen again... probably."

He shrugged at the last part. 'You suck at apologizing sooooooo much,' Kogo chimed in. '

Meh,' he responded. 'I wasn't sorry; it way too funny for me to actually be sorry.' Looking back at Ko, he noticed that Ko seemed disbelieving, and rightfully so.

Deciding that he'd had enough, he began to take his leave. "Well, I think that I better get going. Even though it's a holiday, the training must continue!"

Hinata looked sad at that. "C-can't you just t-train here, Naruto-kun?"

Naruto thought for a moment, even consulting Kogo. 'Should I? I doubt I can train my nor your youki here, or much of anything else, really. If any of them had just seen my chakra in the air, I'd have been questioned relentlessly and brought to the Hokage for gaining strength without their knowledge.'

'Ah, I doubt the old monkey would be mad at you, but he is the village leader. He'd probably just want to make sure you weren't a threat. The council, on the other hand, would tear into you. Regardless, you shouldn't stay. I remember one of Kushina-chan's favorite training grounds; I'll lead you to it.'

'Ah, okay then.' With his mind made up, he answered Hinata. "Sorry, Hinata-chan, but shinobi have got to have some secrets, and with your clan's "all seeing eyes", it'll be kinda hard to keep mine. But don't don't worry," he quckly continued, seeing her hopeful look become downcast, "I'll leave a clone here to train/play with you." He sighed in relief as he saw her face light up again.

Kogo saw a chance to tease him and took it. 'Aw~! You're so sweet, Naru-kun!' Naruto ignored the comment, though one could see a light blush on his face.

He quickly said his goodbyes, made the clone he promised Hinata, and Shunshin-ed out of there. Appearing in the middle of his roof, he dropped to one knee. "Holy shit, that took a lot of chakra! Didn't think going that far would be so... taxing." As he waited for his chakra to replenish, which it was doing at a steady rate, he talked to Kogo. 'So, where is this place. Should I go first, or should I go get the rest of the intermediate and the final tier fuinjutsu books from Haitatsu-baa-chan.'

'Both. Have some clones read and practice that, though you should practice it yourself afterwards. Ya know, to build up muscle memory.'

'Doesn't that get transferred too?'

'Well, kinda. It's not your hand doing it, so YOU aren't used to the motions, you just KNOW them really well.' At this point, Naruto, who had his reserves refilled enough, had two very sudden, but rather important, thoughts.

Getting up, he asked Kogo said questions. 'I have two questions, before I start that. One: do you think I could create a variant of the kage bunshin that DOESN'T halve my reserves? And two: when my reserves refill so quickly, is it from increased flow from you?' Kogo was surprised at both questions, though for different reasons.

The first because she hadn't thought of that one and the second because he hadn't noticed it on his own. 'Well, Naru-kun, I'll answer these in order. You probably can create a clone like that, though it will take a lot of trial and error or some sort of seal... probably. You need a certain amount of chakra for the physical apparition of a clone to be able to interact with its surroundings, similar to solidifying chakra, as I'd shown you earlier. Similarly, you don't need the physical appearance there for there to be an interaction, just a dense enough concentration of chakra or youki. It is much easier with youki, but you don't have the control yet; keep practicing that.

'Now, onto the other question. No, there isn't much of an increased flow, though it is a little. I'm surprised you didn't notice this, but YOUR youki filters into your own chakra system, and it's still, and will probably always be, more potent that your chakra. So, in essence, this means a hypothetical drop of youki is the same as a, let's say, mouthful of chakra. Your youki has a direct line from mine, since it is pretty much the same thing. This is how it's purified and leaked into your chakra, through your youki. I'll just sum this up before I get into advanced theories that I've created over the years. Your chakra is being constantly being refilled by your youki at a rather large rate, now that you've awakened it, and said youki is being refilled by my youki, since the seal just drains it into both systems. Your body has easily adapted to the constant flow, letting you expend your chakra and get an auto-refill from both me and your youki. Like I said, since you awakened your youki, it's the preferred path for my youki to flow, so MOST of it flows there, where it passes through into your system. It's actually rather efficient, since the youki refining process that is done by the seal can be skipped almost entirely. Once you master fuinjutsu, you can just edit that process out, since you can take direct youki now.'

To say Naruto was stunned would be like saying Hashirama and Madara had a minor scuffle every so often. 'Damn it Kogo-chan! This opens up sooo many possibilities, now that I actually KNOW! I would've focused on fuinjutsu a long time ago, not just since you told me about my father.'

At this Kogo nodded. 'And that's exactly why I didn't tell you about it. If I had, you wouldn't be able to beat an experienced chunin into the ground using pure taijutsu, without youki mind you, while they were pulling out all the stops. You are strong enough to really begin branching off now, so it's now that I'm telling you these things.' At that bit of wisdom, Naruto came down from his temper tantrum and apologized.

'Sorry, Kogo-chan. I wasn't thinking. So, what should I do first.'

'Give me control of your body for a while.' As she felt he was about to protest, she quickly continued. 'I promise I won't touch you in any place you wouldn't like.' Feeling his face shift into a deadpan, she revised what she just said. 'Okay, I won't touch anything you don't want me to. Better.' At his nod, he made the clone to get the books from Haitatsu and about 30 to read, reread, and practice the books and their contents before he went and got a change of clothes. After changing into a black t-shirt and dark green cargo-pant, he relinquished control and was pulled into his mind.

His hair became wild, his already rather defined canines became, in essence, fangs, his whisker marks dakened considerably, and his sharper than average nails became claw-like. "Oh, it's been a while since I was out," said Kogo in a more feminine yet vastly more powerful voice that one could mistake for a man's, flexing his/her hands and stretching a bit. "You've got to let me stretch my limbs some more Naru-kun; I haven't come out for 3 months now!"

'Ah shut up. I am working on a way to let you out without killing me anyway. Fuinjutsu mastery will help a lot, so you just gotta wait.' As a pout appeared on Kogo-Naruto's face, she just did a seal-less shunshin to the place she wanted him to go, knowing the layout perfectly from being inside Kushina.

Unnamed(for now) Training Area

As she appeared inside a fenced off area, she told Naruto 'Here we are! My favorite place in this shithole village, and Kushina's third favorite,training ground 44! Or the Forest of Death. Whichever you prefer. It was her favorite place to train though.' As she let Naruto come back into control of his own body, she said something that left him feeling somewhat uneasy. 'Make sure you pay attention to EVERYTHING in your sensory range. That one skill is the only reason I think you can handle this place. Oh, and Kushina was always confronted here by this Orochimaru guy and his student. I think her name was Anko. Regardless, by now, the most dangerous thing in here is probably her.'

He nodded, and pushed his chakra to its maximum range, trying to make sure he wouldn't miss anything. He immediately regretted it. As soon as he did, he found that all of the life was more, well, alive, pulsing with enough life energy that he didn't need natural energy to sense it. And it was dense too, vastly different from the plants and animals he'd sensed before. It was almost as if... 'Holy shit, Kogo-chan. These plant have youki running through them! It's not as potent as ours, but it's definitely there, mixed in with the natural energy. And... and it seems to be reacting with me an my chakra.'

Kogo was impressed. 'Wow, it didn't take you long to figure this one out. Yes, they do have youki, but they are visibly reacting to your chakra because it's, for lack of a better term, demonic. It has, and probably always will have, traces of youki in it, just mixed in. Youki has been running through you since before you were you, so it only makes sense. This wildlife will actually be devouring it at a pretty fast rate, so this is a perfect place for you to increase your reserves while maintaining control. You keep this level of control, and even increase it, while putting a strain on your coils from being constantly drained, which they will recover from by being able to give more. Before you leave for the trip, I want you to be able to spend three days and nights in here, without restocking on nature chakra directly. Also, this place is the easiest to teach you how to take in your surrounding energy. Now get to it; your time is limited.'

Following orders, he found what seemed like an abandoned burrow of some large animal under a tree. Checking with the tracking abilities that were mandatory to learn under Haitatsu, he found that there was nothing here for a long while. Taking that as a good sign, he sat in there, making sure he was in the shade, and got into the same meditative sate he was in before. Immersing himself in nature, he made sure to anchor himself to his own being this time, not wanting another scare of being lost in nature's embrace.

Kogo felt that he'd accomplished it, so she began to instruct him. 'Okay, now we're going to have to take this slowly; this is your first time after all. Hehehe... Moving on, try and maintain this feeling of immersion and come back to your body. You should only take in an amount that you can balance with your mental and physical energies, so don't take too much, but you can just take in as much as the chakra you have in your body, proportionately. It is as potent as your youki, so use those proportions to take in a good amount. The training here will eventually bring up the potency of your chakra, but until then, you'll have to be very careful. Now, try to grab a "hold" on the natural energy.' Naruto tried to do as he was told, finding it actually rather difficult. It was like trying to contain the water in a pool while you were submerged... without knowing how to water-bend.

It wasn't listening to him, which was getting him a bit frustrated, but eventually, Kogo decided to help him. 'Naruto, stop trying to just grab onto it and pull it in. I think I explained this poorly earlier. This is more like diverting a small stream of water from a raging rapid. You just have to divert a bit of the flow towards you, not subjugate it before attempting to assimilate it. No one can subjugate it. No one SHOULD subjugate it. Now, try again.' Taking her advice to heart, he began again, slowly trying her method.

He found that, though it was just getting his proverbial feet wet, he was learning the ratio for his chakra to nature's. Eventually, he managed to take in an amount that balance with his chakra in two halves, though he found that natures was beginning to take over and he was freezing up. Sensing that he was about to panic, she stopped him with a solution. 'Don't worry, Naruto. Just release your hold on the flow and let your youki run freely through you. It'll easily balance out, trust me.' Naruto found it easy to trust her, and did just that.

Cutting off the flow of nature's energy, he allowed his own youki to flow freely. As his energies balanced, he felt his body regain its mobility and then get stronger. And stronger. And stronger. And then even stronger. He felt like he did with his youki, but it was AT LEAST tripled. Opening his eyes, he wasn't aware of the changes to his body, but got up to try out the power regardless. He jumped into a tree with the same amount of chakra he would normally, but found himself above all the trees in the blink of an eye. Far above them. Looking down, he could only think 'fuck me' before gravity resumed its job and slowed him to a halt.

Panicking at his lack of movement, he contacted Kogo. 'WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO!?'

She just laughed and said 'Chakra arm. You could've done this in your normal state; it should be easy now.' Nodding hastily as he began to fall down to earth, he focused on the chakra he still had around him, noting offhandedly that his chakra wasn't being devoured by the wildlife anymore, and created a crude arm of chakra. In his panicked state, he didn't really pay attention to the amount, so he created an arm of chakra that was so dense that is was solid, not just dense enough to physically interact, having a majority solid black color, though it had a sort of green, teal-tinted outline(A/N: Think Ulquiorra Cifer's reiatsu.)

As he pulled a bit, he ended up falling down faster, though he swung as he reached the bottom of his fall. As he was coming back up, he began to really enjoy himself, as evident from the large grin that was beginning to form on his face. "This. Is. AWESOME!" As he shouted that, he felt, if only barely in his excited state, a large human female chakra in the direction he was headed, with a smaller, male one near by. Shrugging, he just kept swinging, slowly coming to a speed he could stop at easily.

With his casual speed, he arrived in about a minute, perching himself on a branch high above the scene. Taking it in, he couldn't help but sigh. What he found was a scantily clad, Konoha kunoichi, wearing just a short purple skirt and a mesh shirt, what looked to be her trench coat discarded on the clearing floor, and a rather plain looking chunin wearing the generic Konoha flak jacket and had a bandanna with his hitai-ate on it. As he focused on what was happening, he watched her walk up to the chunin, his face being cut a considerable amount and his legs shaking visibly, even from his vantage point.

With all the power running through him at the moment, he didn't even need to try in order to hear what she began saying. "So, you though you would play the "snake charmer" did you?" As she was saying this, his back was pushed up against a tree, his tree, and she was closing the gap. For the added effect, she licked a kunai that had a relativley large amount of blood on it, enough for it to be dripping. 'Uh, even though I think that blood is his, Kogo-chan, I still think that looked rather... hot.'

'Oh, Naru-kun, I didn't know you were into that. I'll be happy to oblige, though.' As she said this, she giggled suggestively in his head. Naruto was actually rather entranced, not even blushing at the suggestive words of his resident perverted kitsune.

Slowly, his eyes hardened as he registered the negative emotions radiating off of the lady. Trying to discern what exactly she was feeling, he asked Kogo, 'Do you know what the hell that feeling is, Kogo-chan. I've only felt a couple different feelings, but I can tell it's not a good one.'

Agreeing with him, she answered, 'That is the feeling of betrayal. And I'd recommend you get used to it; you're going to be entering the shinobi world, a world full of lies, deceit, and ordered betrayal of the ones you once called comrades.'

Having informed Naruto on the little bit of information, Kogo fell silent. Naruto just stayed silent, staring at the scene in front of him whilst processing the information he'd been given. 'She's putting on such a convincing strong front, but... the emotion was, no, IS so strong that it's affecting me from here. I... I don't think I should interfere, since, from what she is saying, this guy may deserve it, but it seems like she might kill him. I don't think it was that serious; she may just be overreacting.'

'Then how about you find out. You should probably be careful though; she looks like that Anko girl I told you about.' Taking her warning to heart, he dropped down, just as she had stabbed two kunai into his legs and was going for his arms.

Sighing at the feeling that things were about to get really troublesome, he said, "Oi!" Both of their heads snapped to him. "I'm not sure what's going on, but I don't think torturing him is gonna solve anything."

Anko just scoffed, making the man flinch, and responded, "And I don't think you know who you're talking to, gaki. Now, I'm not sure how you got in my forest, nor why you're here, but I think you should be getting the fuck out of here. It's called the forest of death for being deadly, and I don't need the counsel accusing me of murdering a kid because you entered this place and got your sorry as killed."

Turning back to the chunin, she didn't notice Naruto's look of surprise. 'I thought most, if not all of the jonin knew me by this point. I understand a chunin maybe not recognizing me, but a jonin?'

'Oh, you didn't know? Well, make a clone to look at you then dispel it. You'll understand.' Taking her advice, he silently created a clone, making sure to use only chakra and waste none so that it wouldn't create any smoke, then he dispersed it once it got a good look at him.

Taking in the memories, he noted that his skin had darkened considerable and his hair had lengthened. He'd actually grown a bit, coming in at about 4 ft. 5 in.(A/N: 137.16 cm for those outside the U.S.) and his clothes had gotten a bit tight on him. His irises had become a deep teal-ish green, his pupils had become slits, and his eyes themselves had somewhat thin, tear-like markings running from under them.(A/N: Think Tousen from Bleach, but his skin isn't as dark and the Ulqiorra-esk markings are much brighter, so as to stand out more.) 'Note to self, both youki and natural energy cause transformations when in large enough quantities in which I don't look as good in these clothes as I do normally. Solution: learn how to make clothes out of chakra that can be dispersed and reformed with each change. Gotta look the part... Note to self, shadow clones are better than mirrors.'

Nodding to himself, he walked up to Anko, and said, "I know who you are, Anko-san, and I don't care. All I know is that whatever this guy did probably isn't worth committing a criminal act over. I'm trying to help you here; just let him go."

Anko pondered this, or at least appeared to, for a second before saying one thing. "Okay, but then you have to take his place. If you know about me, still came in here, and got this far alone, then you'll be able to relieve a bit of stress for me, if you know what I mean."

Naruto easily said yes. 'She'll have to catch me first.' The chunin, who had been looking at Naruto with hopeful eyes when he started saying that, crawled over to him after Anko had roughly yanked the kunai out of his legs and bowed to him. "Arigato! You have no clue how much this means to me, sir. I-I was sure I was gonna die."

Naruto rolled his eyes before answering. "Stop grovelling; it's pathetic." Doing such a pitiful action in his neighborhood was pretty much suicide, so this man doing it for a child he had just met was... appalling to Naruto. "Beside, you shouldn't thank me just yet; you haven't told me what you did to get her so angry." His eyes, which had been rather calm, if not bored, hardened and began to glow a bit, sending shivers down both his and Anko's spines.

"I w-was just teaching the s-snake b-bitch a l-lesson." he answered truthfully, a bit too truthfully. Naruto, while getting rather angry on the inside, managed to keep an even visage and asked one more question. "Yes," he acquiesced, "but what exactly did you DO?" The man stopped there, seemingly debating internally as to whether he should answer.

Anko took the initiative here and answered for him. "This little fuck somehow got it in his head that if he managed to "conquer" me, he'd be able to get any woman. So he came to me, tried to sweet talk me at my favorite dango shop a few times, and even followed me here after a week or so. The moment I decided to let him actually have a chance to talk to me, the little shit-head goes on some made up tangent about loving me from afar for a long time, but being too much of a pussy to say anything because of all the hate I get. It seemed sincere enough, so I gave him a chance, ya know, got to know him a little. For two months, two fucking months, he just kept trying, even when I turned him down. Eventually, he followed me in here and just tried to rape me, and now, he's getting his just desserts. Or at least he was. Now, he's being replaced."

As she finished her little story, she observed him, to see his reaction, though his reaction somewhat scared her and almost made the chunin piss himself. His eyes started to glow. Like actually glow. He could feel his youki flaring inside him, and the natural energy around him rush inside to keep up. He didn't know, but his sclera(A/N: the whites of one's eyes, for those who don't know the power of google) had turned from white to black.

When he spoke, he, impressively, managed to speak in an even tone. "I don't really care much about your "conquest", as sad and somewhat fucked up as it was, but...," he trailed off there, though his eyes had stopped glowing and everything had seemingly returned to normal. As he continued, he grabbed the man by his throat faster than either he nor Anko could follow. "RAPE is one thing I will NEVER!-" At this, he forced all the mixing energies into the man, burning his chakra circulatory system, mainly around his throat, causing him to scream. "EVER!-" He increased the flow on this word, actually damaging his throat, making ever scream hurt him further, and even making it last into the other parts of his body through his own chakra circulation bringing his with it. "ALLOW!"

Finishing his sentence, he pushed as much as he could, and the results were rather gruesome, though they made him smile. He stopped screaming, though he was crying uncontrollably, but that was because he couldn't control any of it. The youki in Naruto's system had corroded a lot of his insides while the natural energy had made his body start to freeze up on him. While he would live, his voice would be nonexistent for a long while, even with medical treatment. Just breathing was causing him pain, and eating was out the window.

Throwing him at Anko's feet, he leaned against a tree and watched, saying, "While I hold no real sentimental, idealistic values about general sex, what he was trying to get from you are the feelings and actions that should be shared between two people who truly love one another. A commitment of a lifetime. He attempted to worm his way into your heart, and then use you for his own gain for no better reason than he wanted to. I won't bother saving this trash; do as you will, Anko-san. I still don't think you should kill him, but you've already done too much to not receive a harsh punishment afterwards. Your choice..."

Having said his piece, Naruto just waited for her to make a move. Anko, on the other hand, had calmed down considerably, though her anger was still barely contained. She walked up to him, though he was trying to crawl away, and kicked him between the legs. Hard. When he screamed, Naruto winced and began to pity him before forcing the feeling down. 'I'm surprised he can even scream, but... Do you think he deserved that one, Kogo-chan?'

'You shouldn't ask me; I'm a girl, and I will admit that I am biased against him here.'

'True enough.'

Refocusing on the torture and probable execution of the chunin in front of him, he could only hiss in empathetic agony. He was no stranger to graphic scenes, having seen a few murders and helped out in the local whore-house for the yakuza, but to see an up-close castration wasn't pretty and made him feel... endangered. He covered his private area and prayed for the man's safe passage. In his head, he could hear Kogo loving the scene, but at the moment, he had nothing to say to her.

On a brighter note, he could feel the anger drain out of Anko as she vented, and the feeling of betrayal weakened, though it was still rather potent. After a while, she was just stabbing him in places to cause him pain, using the mandatory medical jutsu she knew to keep him alive.

Naruto just walked up to her, as she was on her knees, cutting and stabbing him repeatedly, and put his hands on her shoulder. "Okay, that's enough. You've gone past the point of justice, past even venting your anger, and now your just hurting yourself. Tormenting him any further isn't going to make you feel loved, it isn't going to bring anymore justice, and it isn't going to do you any more good."

As he was saying this, she was slowing down, eventually coming to a stop. He could feel the anger inside her slowly but steadily shift to sadness, but he felt acceptance too. "He's not even sane anymore; his body is just reacting on instinct... I don't know what you went through, but don't give up. If you truly want to find someone that accepts you, you'll look for them. Even if they aren't here, you'll find them; I know you will. Don't just accept your lot in life. Fight for a better one. Keep fighting, and fighting, and fighting, until you find someway to accomplish your goal."

At the end of his little speech, Naruto gave himself a pat on the back. 'Note to self: in case shinobi career goes no where, remember to practice motivational speaking.' As he tuned back into his surroundings, he felt the feelings of sadness increase from Anko, but the acceptance had vanished. 'She'll get better.'

At that moment, he noticed the tears that were rapidly beginning to fall from her eyes. Panicking, he asked Kogo. 'Ah, fuck! What did I do!? What DO I do!?'

'I don't know. Give her a hug or something. Everybody likes hugs when they're upset; it's calming.'

'You know more about this than me.' As awkward as he felt giving an actual hug, which he's had about 10 of in his whole life, to a stranger, he did exactly that.

Anko had been thinking on her situation; about how hopeless it was. 'The moment someone tries to get close,' she thought, 'the moment I think I can be happy, somebody has to rip it away. Maybe this is how things are supposed to be...'

When she heard Naruto's little speech, she thought even more on her situation in Konoha, but his words gave her hope that someone would accept her, despite her unwanted relations to Orochimaru. The second she felt him hug her, though, the dam broke.

The tears she'd been holding back for years just came out in this one moment in time. All the pain, all the anger, all the hatred both given and received by her, all of it came out. It was so strong, she could barely manage to say "I" before her sobbing regained control.

Naruto, on the other hand, was beginning to feel really awkward. 'I don't even know her!... Ah, shit, my shirt is kinda soaked, and she doesn't look to be finishing any time soon. Fuck.' After a few minutes of crying, she just passed out. He laid her on her back, using her own trench coat as a blanket, and leaned against a tree on the other side of the clearing.

Seeing as she wasn't going to wake up soon, he took a nap, after sending a few clones to practice with the ethereal chakra constructs like the chakra arm while guarding the clearing and taking off his now soaked shirt. 'Well, this was rather eventful, wouldn't you say, Kogo-chan.'

'I would. You are a pretty good speaker, Naruto-kun. I'm surprised you didn't sneak a peak when she passed out, though.'

'Oh, I got more then just an eyeful. They were pressed up against my chest, and she doesn't wear anything under the mesh, so they were in plain sight for my entire time here. Not that I'm complaining.' He yawned, and slowly fell into a peaceful sleep.

A while later, he awoke, feeling the blood rush to his head. Opening his eyes, he saw the dead body of the chunin from before along with Anko, her trench coat back on, in front of him while he was upside down. Looking down, well, up, he saw himself tied up by some snakes.

'Uh, Naruto-kun? I'd recommend you just release the natural energy so that you can shrink and escape easily.' Mentally agreeing with her, he put on a confused look before glaring at her. "Why in the nine levels of hell am I tied up? I helped your ass!"

Anko just smirked before replying, "Yeah, and thanks for that, but you also got a free show, and you agreed to take his place." She gestured at the chunin before walking up to him menacingly. "I hope you're more durable than he is..."

Naruto just sweat-dropped at that. "I was the one who told you to stop. Hell, you fucked up my shirt!" he responded, gesturing to his shirt that was sitting next to where he went to sleep. Anko blushed at the memory of breaking down in front of him before regaining her composure.

"Well," she began, "I have a reputation to maintain, so I can't just let you leave after that."

At this, Naruto let the grin he had been holding in split his face. "Who said you had a choice?" Here, he pushed the natural energy out in one big burst, both dispelling what were apparently summons and shrinking at the same time. Landing on his feet, he sprinted, finding himself noticeably slower than he was before. Shrugging it off, he employed his normal anbu escape tactics, weaving in and out of trees, using burst of youki to go faster than just about anyone else, and making sure to break a branch he'd used every once in a while.

Anko, on the other hand, was just shocked that it was the "kyuubi brat" she'd been talking to the whole time. Shaking it off, she just used the summons that she had station around to capture him, injecting a powerful paralyzing toxin into him so as to keep him immobile for a while. "Well, well, well, would you look at this. I just caught myself a Naruto."

Naruto glared at her as best he could from his position on the ground. The poison was quickly being worked out of his system, but the effects would last for another minute at least. "Well, since you just helped me, I think I'll throw you a treat. You can't reveal that I told you this one, 'kay?" She waited for a response before seemingly remembering the fact that she'd paralyzed him. "Oh wait, you can't even talk. Well, I'll just say it. The reason you're hated is-"

As she was about to drop what she thought was a bombshell, he got enough of the poison out to be able to talk and cut her off. "Kyuu-chan, yea, I know." Anko could only stare at him in shock, both because he knew and the fact that he was TALKING before a full minute had gone by from the poison's effects being felt.

Then, she registered the "Kyuu-chan" part and her shock increased exponentially. "Kyuu-chan?" she asked, trying to confirm her thoughts. Naruto rolled his eyes before nodding. She smiled, but before she could celebrate a win for the women, Naruto cut her off. "Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and Minato Namikaze all beat her, and Madara did it with no help and no seals. Not being sexist, just raining on your parade, as is my self-appointed job."

As he was saying this, he got up, the poison having been neutralized from his system. "So, what do you want? I can "play" for a while, though I doubt it'll be easy for you to keep up... baa-chan~."

Anko just narrowed her eyes, a bit miffed both by the fact that her small victory was destroyed by the "gaki" in front of her and the nickname he'd just created. She quickly sent some shuriken at his bare chest, making him yelp and dodge.

And so began their game, his shirt lying forgotten in the clearing. As they "played", both Anko and Naruto gained smiles on their faces. 'Looks like I've got a new playmate,' was their collective thought, but Naruto's continued, 'though we will have to talk about that crying incident after this...' They played until they were both lying on the floor of the forest, exhaustion clear on their faces, yet they were still adorned in smiles.

Naruto, with his rather speedy recovery, got up and asked, "As fun as that was, do you know where my shirt went?" Shaking her head as best she could, just laid there, envious of his speedy recovery. Gaining enough of her energy back, she popped a soldier pill and sprung up.

Before she could say a thing, he asked, "What was up with the, ya know, break down? You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, but know that I won't judge you like everybody else in this cesspool." Having said his piece, he sat against a tree, staring up at her with curiosity in his eyes.

Now, Anko was at an impasse. On one hand, she could confide in the only person who would understand what she was going through and possibly lose their new friendship, or she could not tell him and show that she didn't quite trust him... yet. Deciding to go with the option that would build trust, if he kept his word on not judging her, she decided to tell him about Orochimaru. "Well, gaki, you know about Orochimaru, right? Of course you do; everyone does. Well, I was his student."

At this proclamation, Naruto gained a somewhat understanding look. "When he was here, he was the orchestrator of the abduction, inhumane experimentatation upon, and eventual murder of hundreds, if not thousands of Konoha citizens, both shinobi and civilians. Most people in the village want him dead on more than a professional level. He's killed so many that the ones left hate him with a passion that rival's the Kyuubi. And without the object of their hate readily available for them to take their vengeance, they focus on the next best thing: Me. It's been this way since... a little before you were born." Naruto just shook his head, not all that surprised at how people reacted.

He just sighed and got up, giving her some words that sought to comfort her, if only a little. "Look on the bright side: you got to train under one of the densetsu no sannin, the most talented member of the group to boot. You had somewhere that you at least got an appearance of being loved. You weren't hated your whole life. Don't mope about it too much. Just remember: somebody always has it worse, and you're talking to one of them right now. Hehe. Besides, if you don't like it here, you have three choices. Make due with it and find some who accept you, change how your viewed, or leave. I like the idea of the last the most, though I doubt they'd let me take it."

After saying his piece, though the last part came out rather bitterly, he just looked up at the sky, trying to gauge how long they'd been out there, causing him to miss the somewhat piteous look she had given him. "Damn! We've been out here for a while now. I gotta work in the morning, so I better split. Can't be late for a single day! You know how to find me; I'm sure all the jonin do. Later!" Before she could correct him on her title, since the was a tokubetsu jonin, not a jonin, he was already gone in a base shunshin.

Naruto's Apartment

Appearing in his apartment, he went to take off his shirt before he realized he didn't have that anymore. Shrugging, he just tossed the pants, took a shower, and got into bed. Staring up at the ceiling, he decided to make a few clones to practice his chakra control by making progressively smaller and more complex chakra constructs. Once done, he asked Kogo, 'I wonder why she didn't ask about that transformation that happened?'

'Meh. It probably just slipped her mind, since a lot did go on today. By the way, you're a nice person. You need to watch out with that; people will try to take advantage of that... a lot.'

'I know. That's why I don't drop the chakra field, just so I can sense people's general intentions. By the way, I need to name that technique, assuming you haven't already.'

'I never bothered to. It's not like it matters; we bijuu don't yell out our technique's names like humans do.'

'Shots fired.' Satisfied with his work in the material world for the day, he let himself fade into his mind for the night.

Next morning

Naruto was awakened by a relatively large chakra signature appearing in his room. His eyes snapped open to see Anko on his ceiling, a stick of dango in her hand and another already in the process of being devoured by her.

Instead of jumping in shock, he sighed, figuring this would become a common occurrence. "What do you wa-" His question was cut off as Anko dropped from the ceiling, simultaneously shoving the other set of dango in his mouth. He glared at her slightly as he ate the forcefully fed food.

"THAT, little Naruto, is a gift, from moi, of course. That should cover the shirt too, and if it doesn't, then I can get you a few more. Regardless, I just decided to pop in. Su casa es mi casa, as they say. Now, where is your porn..." As she trailed off, Naruto choked on his stick of dango.

In his head, he could hear Kogo laughing her ass off. 'Life is gonna be interesting for a while.' Sighing, he got out of bed and let Anko search for what she would never find, a small smirk present on his face. 'Little does she know that I don't need books/videos. Working in a whore house with perfect memory and recollection skills has its perks. Besides, I'm five... fucking pedos.' With that, he went through his normal morning routine and went to work.

A/N: That's that, peoplez. I'm sorry about this being late, but I had tests going on all week, despite me being home for most of each day, so I didn't get much done. I HAD this pretty much done before, but I forgot to hit the save button regularly because I got into a good flow. I think you can guess what happened from there. It fucked up, I raged, then I got back to it 2 days later. Seriously though, when around 4,000 words goes down the drain, it's not a happy moment. It was much better before, and longer too, but such is life sometimes. Regardless of my slight moping, let's move on to the HAREM(my favorite part of the day! (^-^))

(Bold=Confirmed, Italics=Probable, Normal=Possible

Kogo(Fem Kyuubi)

Fem Haku

Fu

Hinata

Fem Sasuke

Fem Gaara

Fem Hidan

Shion: 2

Yugito: 2

Temari: 2

Anko: 2

Matabi(Nibi): 2

Shizuka: 1 (Not sure how I managed to let this one slip my mind. It's actually one I enjoy.)

Tayuya: 1

Mei: 1

Ino: 0

Tenten: 0 (No takers? Still? I see how it is guys(and girls))

Fuka: 0 (Just thought of this one. Don't think I've seen it before, so I'll let you guys choose. If you don't know her, head on over to the Naruto wiki. She first shows up in episode 56 of Shippuden.)

Fem Kakashi: 1

Kin: 0

And there's that. I had planned for a Fem Hidan in the beginning; I only asked to see how you guys reacted. Since I got no negative responses, she's in! I also enjoy Fem Gaara, so I just put that one in. If you want another in there, they'll probably need four votes, with no disagreement over their inclusion in the reviews. Hidan's name might just stay as Hidan, since I plan on making her/him a tomboy of sorts. The somewhat masculine name fits. For the rest of the genderbent names, I've already created their variations. I just need to confirm that they'll exist. Now, for anyone who complains about me making them fall in love too early, I'll throw you a bone on my plan. Every female character introduction of this sort will be more of a set up for a possible romance in the future, as can be easily seen with Anko in this chapter. They're just friends at the moment, but with a thought from me, that could all change. I just like to give myself options later on. Well, that's about all for this chapter. Anything you'd like to tell me? Just leave a review, or better yet, PM me. Either is fine; I check both regularly. Oh, and try to constrain votes to chapters that are current. If I'm on chapter five, don't vote in chapter one or two. Please. Thanks for reading! R&R peeps.