Mizuke cursed Naruto under his breath for the 9th time that day, but if he was going to get what he wanted, he would have to carry out the operation himself, and if anyone got in the way, he would kill them, no matter who they were . Though, he silently prayed he would see Naruto, so he could Kill him . He didn't care if he was the Fourth Hokages son, he would kill him was his fault this was about to happen anyway.

Mizuke sighed. He drew his sword then He slid open the window to the Hokage's palace, and began his operation.

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The Hokage went through the academy teams , deciding who should be with who. Many teams were hard to decide. Especially Naruto's. Naruto had become an incredible ninja over the past few months. His grades had exceeded Sakura Haruno's . Hardly surprising. According to Iruka, she and most of the girls in that class seemed obsessed with Sasuke Uchiha. During the time Sakura had obsessed over Sasuke, Naruto had actually been (remarkably ) paying attention, and working. That had happened a lot since Naruto had forged his friendship with Hinata, and after the speech the Hokage made. The Hokage guessed that last part had something to do with his biased teachers. Still, he had overpasses Sakura Haruno, as had Hinata. Hinata's sudden increase in grades was unexpected, though the Hokage expected Naruto was involved. Maybe when he trained with the Hyuga. Regardless, both were in a position to be on the same team, and either way, the Hokage had decided to put them together anyway. They worked well together, defended one another, and never gave up, so that worked out nicely. But there was person who needed to be in the team. How about...

CRASHH!

The Hokage heard a crash, down the corridor to his office. He got up, and walked to the door. He heard scuffling, moving around, on the other side.

The Hokage opened the door.. To reveal Mizuke , carrying the forbidden scroll.

"What." The Hokage said, calmly " Are you doing in my house?"

Mizuke didn't react. Then he chuckled slightly " heh heh heh heh heh... I'm only here to reclaim..." Mizuke turned to face the Hokage. "... What is rightfully mine." He smiled, without fear.

"You have no claim to the hidden scroll. Mizuke, you have been a ninja of this village for many years. You transferred from the serving unit to teaching, saying you wanted to train the next generation. Why? Why betray the village like this?" The Hokage asked. All he was doing was stalling for time. The ANBU would hear all the noise and be up in a few minutes.

"Heheheheheh... I never cared for those students. All I needed was one student...one so desperate, Dumb and naïve enough to steal the scroll for me. I thought I had found him in Naruto Uzumaki. But you had to reveal who he was didn't you? At that point, I knew you would be distracted setting up teams. But unfortunately, I wasn't expecting this little encounter." Mizuke chuckled

"Well, here we are." The Hokage said, hearing the ANBU footsteps.

"Indeed. I'll be taking the scroll now. Try and stop me, and I'll kill Uzumaki. The fourths son's blood will run through the streets." Mizuke threatened, knowing how much the boy meant to the third. He had raised Naruto until he was able to look after himself.

"I'm afraid you won't get the chance." The third said

The ANBU ran down the corridor, blocking Mizuke's escape.

'Three. Two ANBU, and the Hokage. ' Mizuke noted

"Such a shame." Mizuke spoke. He reached for his weapons pouch "I'm Sure Uzumaki would have made a fine ninja. Consider it a leaving present. I'll be ridding you of the fox."

Just then, a blast of smoke erupted into the room, seemingly originated from Mizuke.

'A smoke Bomb!' The Hokage realised, covering his face.

The smoke cleared eventually, revealing that Mizuke had escaped. Mizuke had been a great ninja, using distraction as a weapon. He had tricked them, by keeping them talking, and unexpectedly pulled the pin of a smoke bomb while it was still in his weapons pouch, was a great way of tricking your enemies. It would leave them in confusion, unsure as to what happened, giving Mizuke his chance to escape.

"Order the ANBU to proceed to Naruto Uzumaki's house! Mizuke is a traitor! He intends to kill the boy!"

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Naruto and Hinata had gone into a separate room to speak in private. Nothing important. They were just speaking about tomorrow. They were excited, yet terrified. They had no idea what to expect.

"Man, these teams..."'Naruto sighed " Talk about stress. "

"I-I know." Hinata said

"Man, I really don't wanna be on Sasuke's team. I hate that guy." Naruto said

"W-Why?"

"He's a cocky pretty boy. Makes me sick."

"..."

"Well, if we're lucky, we'll be on the same team" Naruto smiled

Hinata didn't say anything after that. She seemed... focused, like she was...

"Get down!" Hinata suddenly threw herself at Naruto, knocking him back, just before a Kunai ripped through the paper window. When she realised what was happening, Hinata found herself on top of Naruto. If Naruto hadn't nearly been killed, she would have fainted, though she did blush. So did Naruto.

"What the hell was that?" Naruto asked, picking himself up off the floor.

Hinata put her hands together "Byakugan!"

Hinata saw a ninja, armed with a large scroll, and plenty of Shuriken. White hair, a leaf headband... Mizuke Sensei?...

"I-It's... M-Mizuke S-Sensei!" Hinata gasped. What was Mizuke doing?!

"Eh?! Mizuke?!" Naruto yelled.

Just then, several Hyuga ran into the room." What's going on?!"

The shadow that was Mizuke threw one Shuriken at the room, then performed handsigns "Art of the Shuriken Droppleganger!"

Almost at once, the one Shuriken became about 30 , and ripped the room apart. Naruto And Hinata ducked down, while the Hyuga took cover behind the door frame.

"Die, Demon!" Mizuke shouted, jumping down from the tree he was positioned in.

Naruto sighed. Someone who still thought he was a demon? "I thought that I was past this."

Naruto jumped out of the window, to face Mizuke. "What do you want? For gods sake , I thought i was past all this."

"I want your blood, spilt on the streets!" Mizuke shouted, throwing out a Shuriken and performing the art of shadow Shuriken a second time.

Naruto acted on instinct. He performed his Shadow clone Jutsu, to create a large amount of Clones, and used them to shield himself from the Shuriken.

Hiashi, who was watching, smiled. Clever. The shadow clone Jutsu was used for infiltration, And to use it for Combat was a really impressive skill, but to such an extent like that, was expected of A Jonin.

The clones dispersed , to reveal Naruto, looking weak from the move. His chakra was low, Mizuke knew. He could go up and slice him down right now.

So that's what Mizuke did. He ran towards Naruto and swung his sword.

POOF!

Mizuke took a second to realise what happened. Naruto had used a clone while the other clones he used as a shield to take his place. But then where was...

"Hyaaaa!"

Mizuke, before he realised what happened, was thwacked in the face and flew a good 10 foot.

"Your good." Mizuke said, wiping blood from his face. " more clever then I expected."

"What do you want?... " Naruto asked

"Your blood. I don't care that your father is the fourth Hokage. in fact thats just more of a reason. You're my revenge." Mizuke spat.

Naruto was puzzled "Revenge?"

Mizuke spat on the ground "Your father threw me out of the Armed forces of Shinobi, the job I loved and gave my life to, and threw me in a classroom, full of Snot nosed brats! Then, I found out about the hidden scroll...From a rouge ninja.I could get my revenge, but your moronic father got himself killed. A peace Nick. Your average idiot."

Naruto nearly snapped right there and then, but he kept his composure.

"Pathetic moron he was. he was your peaceful idiot. He put lives at risk, to bring about the imaginary peace he desired. what rubbish. i'd have Done the whole village a cavour by killing him. but now i cant. Now i can't kill the fourth, but I can kill you. That's enough for me." Mizuke said, throwing kunia at Naruto.

Naruto grew angry. He wasn't about to let Mizuke talk about his father like that, that's for damn certain. He ran straight for Mizuke, until the Kunai reached him, then disappeared into a cloud of Fog, and was replaced with a log.

"The art of substitution?!" Mizuke shouted

Naruto leapt out of the bushes he was in, behind Mizuke, and charged for him again. Mizuke threw more Kunia, and the same thing repeated itself- the art of Substitution, replaced by a log.

Naruto then fell from the sky, and Mizuke then Repeated his attack again. He the. Began to scan the area where he thought Naruto would come from next. But he didn't come... But that meant...the one in the air was the real one!

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto created an amount of clones... So many... Hiashi counted them... 1000 clones! Amazing!

The next ten minutes was Naruto and his clones battering Mizuke to no end. Each clone struck as hard as he could. After ten worrying minutes, Naruto dismissed the clones.

"Ah... Ah... " Naruto gasped for air.

"Impressive work." Hiashi said. When Naruto looked back, he noticed that Hiashi had held Hinata back .

"And why... Didn't you help?" Naruto asked

"You looked like you were doing so well. And besides, Mizuke is not worth my time, but you had actual motivation. "

Just as Hiashi had finished, two ANBU units dropped down, without a word. One of them looked at Mizuke's beat up body." Who did that?"

Naruto held up his hand slowly" yeeeeaaah... I got a bit carried away."

"That's the understatement if the decade. Highly trained Chunin ranked Shinobi war veteran versus someone whose been a Genin for 5 hours... Real impressive kid." The other ANBU said.

One of the ANBU picked up Mizuke, while the other picked up the hidden scroll. Both nodded, and left without saying a word.

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"Get him 100CC of chakra perception! "

"I need a blood pack here!"

"Re-Dress that wound!"

"Can I get a hand over here?!"

After the battle Mizuke had had with Naruto, he had been brought to the leaf's hospital, for surgery. The Hokage demanded he be kept alive, as they needed to know if he was working with someone

He had mentioned a rouge Shinobi. If it was who he third thought it was... He ordered Mizuke to be kept alive...but it wasn't looking good...

Beep. Beep...beep... Beep...

"His heart is slowing down! Get the ccVI here now!"

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

"Forget it. He's gone."

Mizuke was dead.

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Iruka walked down the corridors of the Hokage's palace to receive the team plans. Lord Hokage Knew best who would work well together, though Iruka would voice any problems he had with the teams, and they , after a debate, would be adjusted accordingly.

Iruka knocked on the door to the Hokage's office "Enter." Came the reply.

Iruka opened the door, and found the Hokage looking over, not student files, but medical records. Iruka was confused. Why medical records.

"Lord Hokage, I've come to retrieve the team arrangements." Iruka said

"Yes, yes, on the desk behind you. I'm a little busy looking over Naruto's mess"

"What happened?"

"Mizuke was a traitor. He stole the forbidden scroll and attempted to kill Naruto. Though quite the opposite happened. Mizuke's now dead."

Iruka's eyes widened " Naruto killed him?..."

"He died of his wounds in hospital a few hours ago."

Iruka was shocked. Amazed. Most kids in the academy had never been in an actual fight, but Naruto had gone one further, and truly adapted to the way of the Shinobi. He... Did he know?

"Does Naruto know?" Iruka asked

"No. I didn't know until a few hours. I'm not sure how he will react, though I feel that he should know." The third said

"Why? He's just a kid! It could break him down!" Iruka protested

"He accepted all aspects of a shinobi's life when I told him who he was. Plus, knowing he has killed, he would have less trouble killing again when he has to in the future, once he has come to accept it." The third said

"But..."

"I obviously don't intend to tell him immediately. I will tell him after a few days, and then say Mizuke died." The third said

"I still think that's a bad idea."

"Iruka, you came to collect the team lists, correct? You have your say in that, but I have decided ,regardless of your opinion, to tell him what happened. Now, take the lists. Your dismissed." The Hokage said, with a much more aggressive tone.

Iruka sighed. Clearly he had no choice in the matter. He picked up the team sheets and left. Naruto would probably not take the news well, but it would most likely prepare him for the way of the Shinobi.

Iruka sighed. It was going to be a long day.