AN: oh my god! It has been way, to long. And anyway I have a free day so instead of reading fanfiction(mmm… yes Maya, dominate Aiji… NO! Kaka you idiot! Naru loves you…Back off Sasuke! Kyuubi has dibs!) I'm going to write it.
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. " the ANBU just stared down at the long blonde hair and closed eyes, the body reclined on the lowest branch in the tree he was currently occupying.
"Excuse me?" bewildered, he spoke without a care, not even paying attention to the training exercise he was supposed to be doing. He watched as the little blonde boy stretched, moving the long fringe showing the famous scars. He sucked a breath in when a eye cracked open revealing red and blue mixing, fighting for control.
"you weren't paying attention. I just brought you out of your thoughts. You should be thanking me." The little blonde said, turning on his stomach, looking like a content cat, his arm under his face and one leg of the branch. The blonde took in a small sniff, catching a sent.
"Oi, heads up. Old scar head is around 165.7 paces away and coming quick. Good luck old man." The ANBU shook his shock off and snapped his head up when the leaves rustled, telling him their secrets. The kid was right. Ibiki was only a good 160 paces away, and soon he would have been found.
"Thanks kid, by the way, what did you mean?" he was crouching about to jump to the next tree and make a get away, waiting for the Kyuubi container to answer.
"Who knows. Oh and move your 'band might need both your eyes, Old scar head might be old but he isn't a push over." And with that, the silver haired ANBU left the tree.
Once the silver haired ANBU left, Naruto rubbed his stomach. "Shh, it's okay. What about that man has you dreaming those memories? He's not an Uchiha." It has been three years since he could understand the animal language that the demon inside of him spoke, before only a comforting growl to him. But now it was his turn to comfort the strange demon who was plagued once again by a nightmare of the Uchiha who controlled him, it was that Uchiha's fault that Kyuubi was a prisoner in Naruto's body.
Sighing, the six year-old swung off the branch and started to walk back to the village, all the while trying to calm down his demon so his eyes could go back to normal. "You're going to be the death of me, furry. I just know when you wake 'll get fury instead of the thanks I deserve."
Sighing once again, he started to skip and hum high and loud, adding a huge smile on his face. Time to play the fool once again. He was almost out of the ANBU section of the village when he passed the familiar crow mask that hid his protector and friend, the only Uchiha to date he could stand.
Throughout the years he held his powers and intellect back, and when Itachi was labeled a missing-nin he just happened to find the right papers and over hear the right words to know the truth. He played his role beautifully, only letting the Hokage know he had the potential to pass the genin exams. His peers were blinded with prejudices long held by their parents. The only one he couldn't hide from was Iruka, the kind ex-Hunter-nin knowing the most about Naruto.
And as the years passed, he gained new skills, hidden by his mask, and a best friend he could let that mask drop around. He and Iruka were always together, secretly and out in the open, no one guessing the depth and real friendship hidden behind their happy-go-lucky masks.
He failed on purpose, but he heard about Mizuki, he posed a plan and with Kyuubi perfectly sleeping, he almost killed the boyfriend of his best friend for betraying the village and Iruka. And just like that, he passed.
And now here he stood in front of the ANBU he helped long ago, in a three man cell team with the two people he couldn't stand.
"All, right! I hope no one at breakfast! Now lets get started!" smiling the jounin dodged Sakura's thrown kunai. It didn't even stick into the tree behind the sensei. Pathetic. He watched the visible eye give a twitch and he could barely hold his laughter in at the mental cries of 'why me!' the jounin no doubt was thinking. He knew from experience, he did the exact same thing when he found out who his teammates were yesterday.
"You are late! It's eleven in the morning, you made us get up at five! You-you-" the fuming girl was ignored by all males, Naruto stomping and grumbling like he was expected to. Honestly, the jounin was never on time, yesterday just proved what everyone was supposed to know, their sensei was known for his lateness, even the civilians knew about it.
He ignored the screaming and explanations, only paying attention when Kakashi-sensei gave them the directions. Waiting for go, he realized he had to push his sensei a little. Throwing a loose punch, he managed to get a loud and clear go from the difficult man.
He watched his teammates go their own separate ways, already spelling their failure.
He followed Sakura. "Sakura-chan! Lets work together to take down the Cyclopes!" the pink haired girl rounded on him.
"God shut up Naruto and leave me alone! Your useless, go die in a hole or something or bring Sasuke here, I'll work with you if you get Sasuke." The girl stuck her nose in the air, and walked away from him with a prideful sneer. They needed to work together and the bitch can't figure it out and now if they had to work together, he had to talk to Mr. Ego on legs? Fuck no.
knowing the outcome, he just resigned himself to his fate of waiting one more year before actually passing. Noticing his teacher in a tree not far away, probably listening in on him and Sakura, he jumped into a middle branch and relaxed, reminding him of that day long ago. He waited, flaring his chakara, letting it rush out, he masked it to a point that not even most jounin could find and label the chakara. He felt his sensei's eye bore into him, the intensity proof that his sensei knew it was him that was letting the chakara out.
"I would be lying you know if I said I wasn't cynical or cold hearted or a killer." He mumbled.
"Is that so? You pretend why?" now his sensei was only one branch away.
Chuckling, he replied. "Deja vu right? And you as much as anyone should know why I need to pretend." Kakashi-sensei looked him over, his eye narrow.
"Hmm. This is very Déjà vu for me, but you are not the person who I was with." The suspicious look never left Kakashi's eyes.
Naruto raised an eyebrow and lifted his large collar, showing another headband around his neck, kanji etched around the leaf.
"Permanent henge. I made it when I was little, a mix of genjutsu, ninjutsu and the basics of sealing. All thanks to the scrolls Iruka let me borrow." Forming a one handed release, the yellow spikey hair dissolved into the long silky hair Kakashi remembered of the boy he could honestly call a genius. The chakara released from the henge that was held for years, backlashed, pulling out chakara from Naruto, another spike of chakara was released, the wind blew out, tinted with red malice filled energy.
"Who dares to wake me!" the Kyuubi no kitsune was awake.
AN: review. Sorry it took so long. Next chap coming soon! Also, my secret santa made me a fox! It is so adorable!