Okay, here is the second chapter, enjoy!

Disclaimer:- I do not own Naruto.

"Zaku! Are you alright?" Dosu shouted, jumping out of the tree and running towards him when his team mate fell to his knees.

"I'm alright. Kin?" Dosu shook his head as he surveyed his team mate's pale face and gestured to where a fully conscious Kin was watching him.

"She's fine."

Whatever that chakra was. It took a lot out of him. And his eyes are still the same amber, but without the bloodlust or anger. What on earth happened to him?

"You blockhead. You should be more careful when dealing with an opponent of that level." He scolded as he knelt down and started checking for injuries. Zaku scowled but said nothing. He really wasn't in the mood for a lecture on being cautious when fighting. Plus he had kicked Sasuke's ass.

"What the hell are you?" Both boy's heads shot up at the shout and Zaku felt a strange, sickening jolt at the fear, disgust and even hatred on some of the Leaf Genin's faces.

Are they looking at me like that? Why?

"He's human. And I think that you should be a little more grateful. Who knows what would have happened if Sasuke had stayed in that state." Dosu said sharply not liking the way the blonde girl was gripping the kunai in her hand.

"There's no way that he's human! He's a demon! Only a demon could do what he did to Sasuke!" She shouted, pointing at Zaku. Zaku recoiled as if she had hit him. Sure he was suspecting them to be a little angry at the fact that he had beaten their precious Uchiha to a pulp. But to call him a demon.

I'm not a demon. Am I?

"HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT! ZAKU IS NO DEMON!" Dosu shouted, his body shaking with rage.

"How can you be so sure of that? No human has the chakra that he used. If he is not a demon, then what is he? " The boy on the branch said, the veins round his eyes in the same way they were before Sasuke had woken up and attacked them. Dosu's good eye was brimming over with anger as he fought back the urge to attack the pair of them. What the hell was their problem? He had known Zaku for three years, long enough to know for certain that he was no demon. Suddenly the blonde girl threw the kunai at Zaku, hitting his arm.

"We don't want your kind here! You've done enough damage, demon!" She shouted and ended up on the floor a second later, a furious Kin standing over her.

"Listen you little bitch, one more word and I will gut you like the pig you are. Got it?" She hissed before shooting a worried look at Zaku as he yanked the kunai out and threw it aside. They couldn't see his face, but both Sound Genin knew from his shaking body that their looks and words were affecting him.

"Zaku..."

"I'm fine Dosu. Look you and Kin just get to the tower okay. You've got both scrolls on you, they should let you in."

"But…"

But Zaku, jumped into a tree and took off into the forest before Dosu could finish his sentence.

"Hey wait!" A voice shouted and an orange blur shot in the same direction despite the shouts for him to come back.

I'm not a demon. I can't be a demon. I just can't. I'm as human as they are. Aren't I?

Zaku chanted in his mind and furiously blinked away the tears that were threatening to spill over. He couldn't believe how easily they had turned on him, even though he had saved them from getting hurt. Suddenly his foot caught on a branch and he was sent crashing to the ground.

Pup! Are you alright?

But Zaku ignored the voice. It was to balme for what had happened. If it hadn't appeared then he would still be sure of himself. Now he had no idea if he was even human.

Don't you dare think that Zaku. You are human.

"Shut up! Just go away! I hate you!" Zaku shouted, wishing that the strange voice would leave him alone.

"Come on, you don't mean that." A voice said and Zaku felt himself being lifted to his feet. It was one of the Uchiha's team mates. The blonde loudmouth.

"You alright? That fall looked pretty nasty from where I was watching."

"Go away! I don't need any more of that 'demon' crap your friends were spouting!" Zaku snarled, violently wrenching his arm from the boy. At that the blonde's happiness changed into a seriousness that surprised the Sound Teen.

"What makes you think I'd do that? And they're not my friends. I've never really had any."

And for some unknown reason, Zaku suddenly felt guilty at jumping to conclusions like that. But if he wasn't here to mock him, why had he followed him?

"It's okay. I know how much it hurts. I'm Naruto by the way."

Why is he so trusting? Doesn't he realise that I could kill him if I wanted to?

Zaku wondered as Naruto sat down on a boulder and motioned for him to come over.

"Okay, I know that this is going to sound really crazy but I'm guessing from your reaction earlier that you have no idea what happened back there and you really need to know."

"Need to know about what?" Zaku asked, feeling a little frightened at the serious and sad look on the Leaf Genin's face. Was it really that bad?

"You might not know but there were once two demons, the Ten Tailed and the Eleven Tailed, but the Sage of the Six Paths divided the Jyuubi into nine different tailed demons and gave them to the Elemental Nations to be controlled. Nowadays most of them are sealed inside people. I…I have the Nine Tailed Fox inside me."

No way. This kid has a demon inside him? I never would have guessed.

"But what has this got to do with me?"

Naruto didn't answer right away. Then he took a deep breath.

"Fenrir, the Eleven Tailed Wolf was thought to have been killed a long time ago. But that doesn't seem to be the case any more. Because…according to Kyuubi…he's inside you."

For a few minutes there was silence. Then Zaku burst out in nervous laughter.

"No way…there's absolutely no fucking way that I have the Eleven Tailed Wolf inside me. I mean I would know right?"

Actually pup. He's telling the truth.

Zaku now found it very hard to breathe. It couldn't be true. He couldn't have a demon inside him. It was impossible! People would know, Lord Orochimaru, his old senseis, Dosu, Kin, they would know!

They have no idea. I kept myself hidden. Even from you.

"No…how…why…"

Fenrir sighed sadly. How was he going to explain this now?

I saw the way that your kind were treated and I didn't want that for you.

What the hell do you mean by that?

Jinchuuriki are feared and hated throughout the Elemental Nations, often seen of the incarnation of their demons. Think back to the clearing. That was exactly what I wanted to prevent. But after you got your arms broken I had to do something.

Zaku said nothing. He couldn't help but feel angry at the wolf demon, even though the reason he hadn't revealed himself until now was a logical one. Why hadn't he helped him back in the village? All those times when he was being beaten, when he was starving and cold, when he was outnumbered and fighting for his life, why had Fenrir just stood by and watched?

I didn't want to put both of us in danger. But maybe I was wrong.

Zaku said nothing and felt a little relieved when Fenrir retreated. He was beginning to get a headache. Plus, he needed time to think things through.

"He's stopped talking then?" Zaku jumped at Naruto's voice. He had completely forgotten that Naruto was there.

"Yeah. How did you?"

"The look on your face."

The two boys stared at each other for a few minutes. And it was then that they both realised something. Their eyes were roughly the same. They both shone with the same pain and loneliness. Both held the craving to be acknowledged for who they were. And if they looked deep enough, both could see the eyes of the other's demon reflected back. And Zaku could see that Naruto's happiness and idiocy was just a mask that he used the exact same way that Zaku used his arrogant and hotheaded persona. To hide the scars that had come from the pain and loneliness that he had lived with all his life.

He knows what I'm going through. He knows it all to well.

Just then the silence was broken by a loud rumbling sound that made both boys jump. Zaku yanked out a kunai and looked round for a predator or enemy ninja.

"Um…Zaku…when did you last eat?" Naruto said, his face red from embarrassment, making Zaku realise that his stomach felt empty.

Don't tell me that that noise was us?

At that moment they heard it again an it was Zaku who turned red. He had been so wound up that he hadn't realised that he hadn't eaten anything since yesterday and it was nearly the end of the Fourth day. He and Naruto both looked at each other and then burst out laughing.

"So, where do you think your team mates are?" Naruto asked a few hours later and after the two boys had found something to eat. Zaku stiffened and swallowed his mouthful nervously. He wasn't really looking forward to facing Dosu and Kin. After all he had bailed on them and if he did go back, then he would have to tell them about Fenrir.

What if they turn on me like those Leaf ninja? What will I do then?

I don't that they will. Remember how they reacted to the accusations. But if they do, then they are not your real friends and therefore not worth crying over. Fenrir growled, but it didn't help Zaku's nerves. If only he hadn't gone all demonic back there, then he could have kept the wolf demon a secret.

Fat chance of that happening now.

Well maybe you should have been more careful. I still can't believe that you challenged him head on like that.

"Haven't you got to be getting back to your team mates too?" He asked Naruto in an attempt to change the conversation and shut Fenrir up before he really started tearing Zaku's head off for earlier. Naruto bent his head but Zaku could still see the anger and sadness in his eyes.

"Like I said before. We aren't close. Sasuke is always looking down at me and calling me a dead last dobe. Sakura's okay when she isn't fawning over Sasuke but we aren't real friends." He said in a low voice but Zaku still heard every word.

Figures. They had seemed pretty dismissve of him back in that building.

"Zaku!"

Both Zaku and Naruto flinched and shot to their feet as Dosu and Kin burst out of the bushes.

"You idiot! Don't you ever run off like that again, do you have any idea how worried me and Kin were?" Dosu shouted at Zaku, surprising the teen. Dosu almost never lost his temper, he was always the mild and sensible one of the Sound Trio. But now he was looking angrier than Zaku had ever seen him.

"Dosu I…"

"Look Zaku, me and Kin are your team mates and hopefully your friends. We've known you long enough to know that you're no demon despite what you hold. After all, you didn't hate us for our differences." Dosu snapped, not giving Zaku a chance to say anything.

"How…how the fuck did you know that I had a demon inside me?" Zaku snapped the instant he had been able to get a word in. Dosu shrugged his shoulders.

"The only person that can produce demonic chakra is an Jinchuuriki or a demon in human form. I didn't think that you were a demon so I went with the Jinchuuriki theory and it looks like I was right." The mummy nin said, smiling that eye smile that Zaku really didn't like.

"Smart ass." He grumbled, annoyed at Dosu for showing off his intelligence but also glad that he knew about his tennant but didn't care.

"So, which one are you?" Dosu suddenly asked and Zaku knew instantly what he meant.

"Fenrir, the Eleven Tailed Wolf

"NANI! BUT HE'S JUST A LEGEND!"

"Apparently not."

Zaku was enjoying the shocked look on Dosu's face. He very rarely got the chance to give out information that his bandaged team mate didn't know in the first place.

"So, are you two alright?"

"Yeah. Those jerks took off for the tower without a second though for us or the gaki over here. I mean, I know we're hard and all but we don't leave our team mates behind no matter how annoying or stupid they are." Kin said and Naruto looked very sheepish at the jibe that was obviously directed at him. Almost like he did whenever Kin and Dosu told him off for something.

"Aw come on, I couldn't leave him like that. Not after Kyuubi told me that he was like me and they way that Ino and the others reacted to him."

"You're too caring. He could have attacked you." Kin snapped and lightly clouted Naruto round the head.

"Ouch! That's not fair!"

Zaku laughed started teasing Naruto about being 'whipped'. After about five minutes of their bickering, Dosu gave a small cough that got everyone's attention.

"Um…in case you lot have forgotten. We need to get to the Tower in a few hours or we'll fail this test."

It did the trick and within a few hours the four teens were hurtling for the tower as fast as they could.

And that's it for now. I know that some of you might think it's a bit soon for Zaku and Naruto to meet, but I thought that he was the most suitable person to tell Zaku the truth since he's also an Jinchuuriki and Kyuubi might have reconised Fenrir's chakra and alerted him. And yeah, I know that the Sound Genin attacked on day two of the second exam but i decided to change it for the sake of the story. Next chapter is the Prem rounds.

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