I will be doing as much of the story as I can, however I've only ever watched the anime up to Naruto getting Tsunade's necklace and after that I've only ever read the manga and watched the snow movie. If people want a filler arc then an adequate number of people have to request it in time for the arc, I'm not going back.
Also this will not be one of those fics where he's a god damn pariah. No daily beatings, no drunk chunin stabbing him when he was 6, no having to steal from people because when he bought things he would he ripped off or get something moldy, the worst he gets is hateful stares and hurtful words. He's lonely and that's IT!
I will try to do lemons, but that will only be after the time-skip when he is seventeen.
I've been thinking about it and I've decided to change the elemental affinities to earth and wind, because as far as I know there is no bloodline for that. And that isn't the dust bloodline because the dust bloodline is earth, wind, and fire (insert joke here). This will be the ONLY major change I'm going to do in this story.
I'm kinda surprised at the turnout too. I mean it's been less than a day and I've already got five hundred views, nineteen favorites and forty five followers. Wow. I honestly thought It'd take a lot longer to do that much. Hmm, maybe I'm underestimating the number of people on the site.
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Brown Phantom: I honestly didn't think he was told that much other than control, affinity, and capacity.
Guest 1: What?
Eagle12: I know I already PM'ed you but I thought I'd be fair. He will be reasonably smart but he will have his 'idiot moments'. The Kyuubi is going to guide (threaten) him to what he thinks his container should be like, he'll be serious, but not a psychopath
Hoytti: Yeah I know. In fact that was actually one of my main concerns as to which elements I should have picked. Your right about the Shikotsumyaku thing, though like I said earlier I'm not going back.
Xavion: Yeah the AN's weren't a good idea. For me, no matter what I right whether it's a school paper or a story, I can never find a good place to start, and like I said last chapter I have zero confidence in my righting ability. As for the poisons, it seems rather rushed but I think that his natural Uzumaki healing factor as well as the Kyuubi would take care of most but the strongest of them.
Guest 3: No Naruto/Hinata there's way too many of the damn things already while I do like her as a character; I feel she doesn't have a strong enough will to be with Naruto. Hell she'd probably go comatose from their first kiss. This will be a pure Naruto fem Haku fic
Ryuujin96: I really can't think of a way to do that.
Redhotmito: Eh, I like my way better.
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"Hello": Human Speech
'Hello': Human Thought
"Hello": Demon Speech
'Hello': Demon Thought
"Jutsu": jutsu
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Naruto's bedroom
"Kitt we need to talk"
Mindscape
Naruto once again felt himself falling into the darkness, except this time he rather welcomed it. He again found himself in front of the cage.
"What do you want fur ball?" Asked a tired Naruto.
"Screw you Kitt I just wanted you to make good on your promise to fix this abysmal sewer." Retorted an annoyed fox demon.
"What do you want me to do?' Inquired the blonde.
"I don't give a damn as long as there's more green." Grumbled the fox.
Naruto thought for a moment and then closed his eyes. When he opened them up it was an… improvement. They were now in a cave with the stalactites and stalagmites acting as the prison bars with sunlight pouring in through holes in the ceiling, which allowed moss to grow all over the place. One thing that was similar was the steady drip, drip, drip of water upon the small pools that were everywhere. All in all it was a rather beautiful place for those poetically inclined. Which sadly neither inhabitant was.
"What the hell is this?" roared Kyuubi.
"It's the best I could do on such short notice, and if you don't recall, I had a life or death struggle not two hours ago. I'm tired and I want to sleep. Also you said you didn't care as long as there was more green." Argued/whined Naruto pointing to the moss.
The fox, realizing the blonde had a point as well as not liking his own words being used against him decided to remain quiet.
"So may I leave now?" Asked Naruto.
"Not yet Kitt, I want to have a word with you about your conduct as a ninja. I want you to get your head in the game. Act serious, I have a reputation to uphold."
"What do you mean Kyuubi? I do take being a ninja seriously."
"No you don't Kitt. You treat it as if it were some big game. Well newsflash, it's not. It's a life filled with death and isolation. In your time you will have to kill and you will most likely also be killed. And before you say otherwise, look at your 'Jiji', how many shinobi are his age? How many are HALF his age?"
Naruto sat there trying to think of a comeback.
"Listen to me and maintain my image and I will do all I can to help you, but know this. If I catch you slipping up, I will devour your soul in an instant. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!"
Naruto after a moment's thought nodded. "Alright Kyuubi, if you think you can help me, I will do as you say. But so help me, if you lead me down what I think is the wrong path I will not hesitate to turn around." Said Naruto to the fox, with eyes shining with determination.
After a brief stare down both parties grinned, this was going to be an interesting relationship.
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The Next Day
As Naruto awoke from his slumber he began to remember the events from last night.
"Man that was one crazy dream." He said as he began stretching.
"I agree with you Kitt, I am too good to be true." Said the kitsune, startling Naruto enough where he fell out of bed.
"What the hell?" Yelled Naruto as the Kyuubi laughed at him from inside his head.
"Wow Kitt, you really are dumb as a brick." said the Kyuubi ignoring the indignant 'Oi' "Weren't you supposed to do something today?"
"Hmm… OH! I get assigned to my genin team today!" Shouted the ecstatic blonde ninja.
As he started to get dressed he suddenly found himself flinching at the sharp reprimand coming from within his head.
"I swear to which ever god you believe in most that if after today you wear those disgusting orange eyesores I will follow my brother and give you such horrible nightmares you won't sleep for a MONTH!"
"What's wrong with my jumpsuits?" shouted an indignant Naruto.
"They are abominations and to throw them out would do a disservice to the trash! As well as they are highly impractical in the field. You might as well just hold up a gigantic sign that says, 'over here come kill me'. Also you don't have to say your answers out loud. While it would be funny to see the villager's reactions to you talking to yourself, I'd hate for you to be in a room for crazy people."
After a little more arguing Kyuubi managed to convince Naruto to give up the jumpsuits.
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At The Academy
As Naruto was walking in to get assigned to his team he nearly bumped into another person. This boy was Kiba Inuzuka another graduate who had fang tattoos on his face and what to Naruto seemed like a strange obsession with dogs.
"Hey dobe what are you doing here? Only the people that graduated should be here." Asked Kiba, shouting for no real reason.
As Naruto was opening his mouth to respond, he listened to what Kyuubi told him to do, and so he just smirked, pointed to his Hitai-ate, and walked past the flabbergasted dog lover.
Looking around for a seat he decided to take one near the middle of the class, in an empty row, and just observed the rest of the class. After a while, twin purple and red blurs shot into the class room (1). As they stopped just inside the door you could tell it was two young girls, one a platinum blonde, the other a pinkette. As they went off on each other about kami knows what Kyuubi decided to strike up a conversation.
"What kind of kunoichi has pink hair?"
'Shut up Kyuubi, Sakura-cha-'
"Silence Kitt. Why do you even like her? All she does is hit you while fawning over duck ass over there."
'Come on Kyuubi she's not that bad"
"For once Kitt you're right. She's worse."
As they had their silent argument Iruka walked in and saw that everybody was there, so he decided to start (all teams are cannon, too lazy to do anything else).
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Team seven had been waiting for over an hour and they had gotten bored. Sasuke was simply brooding in a corner, Sakura was fawning over him trying to strike up a conversation, and Naruto was hovering somewhere between states of consciousness.
"Naruto!" yelled Kyuubi startling Naruto out of his semi-conscious haze.
'Yeah?'
"If you're bored why don't you practice with that gift I gave you?"
'Because I…hmm…I don't know. Eh, why not. Nothing else to do. What do you have in mind?'
"Why not simply try to make shapes out of the blood?"
Shrugging, Naruto held out his right hand palm up, which didn't go unnoticed by his 'team mates', who were wondering both what he was doing and why he was even there. To their shock, Naruto's hand suddenly split open and some kind of black substance was pouring out. Neither could really look away from the spectacle, but for rather different reasons.
'I think I'm gonna be sick' thought Sakura, turning a little green.
'How is the dobe doing that?' wondered Sasuke, finding himself interested despite his self-imposed aloofness.
Then the liquid began to form shapes. It first turned into a slightly lopsided sphere, then a star, then a rectangle, a heart, a pyramid, switching to seemingly random shapes at seemingly random times, though as time passed, the shapes got less defined and he was starting to struggle.
"Dobe what are you doing and what is that…stuff?" Sasuke asked rather awkwardly.
"Well teme, I'm trying to control it and as for what it is. It's my blood." He said casually as if simply remarking on the weather, though his new comrades almost threw up.
"What the hell, why is your blood black, I mean I've seen it before and it was red, and how the hell are you controlling it?" Screeched the pink haired kunoichi, nearly deafening both of the males.
"Worse"
'Shut up!'
After digging in his ear with a finger so he could hear again, he simply responded, "It's my kekkei genkai, I unlocked it last night."
For his part he and Kyuubi were holding their laughter in at their flabbergasted expressions. Sasuke was the first to come out of his stupor, and seemed to take it personally that the "dobe" could have a bloodline and that he unlocked it before Sasuke himself unlocked his, so he once again retreating to a corner to brood.
Sakura returned to the world of the living a few minutes later and decided not to believe him since him having a bloodline would put him somewhere near 'her Sasuke-kun', not at the same level 'of course', but close enough.
Naruto was simply content to, for the moment ignore his companions and focus on his new training, trying to keep his focus and make more and more complex shapes. But he could only keep his focus for at most a few minutes, and make the most basic of shapes. And then the 'fun' of his team mates bickering over dating rights would begin again and would make it harder for him to do anything.
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This was the scene that Kakashi walked in on (another hour and a half later). A black haired one in a corner seeming angry for some reason, a pink haired 'kunoichi' fawning all over him outrageously, and the third blonde one sitting near the windows, with a black mass hovering over his hand, forming shapes.
Kakashi had been told of Naruto's new abilities, yes. But being told was one thing, seeing was another. While he was slightly intrigued, he hid it well behind his mask of indifference.
"Team Seven?" He lightly asked which apparently startled the new genin, as the brooder shot to his feet, the pink haired one jumped so hard she fell out of her chair, and Blondie lost all concentration and the black liquid just fell to the desk.
"You know you're cleaning that right?" deadpanned the jounin. After some mild cursing he continued with, "Meet me on the roof in five minutes." Before vanishing in a swirl of leaves.
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"So how 'bout we introduce ourselves, you know likes, dislikes, plans for the future, dreams, things like that." Said Kakashi lightly.
"Well sensei, how 'bout you do it first and show us how it's done?" asked Sakura.
"Hmm. Alright, my name is Kakashi Hatake, I like many things, I dislike a few things, and I really don't have a dream. Now you pinkie."
Slightly miffed at the nickname and the lack of information Sakura said with some obvious strain in her voice. "My name is Sakura Haruno, I'm the best kunoichi in the class. I like Sasuke, and hate Naruto, and my dream for the future? Well…" she looked at Sasuke at this point and gave a squeal that sent a slight shiver down the spine of the three men.
Pointing at Sasuke he said, "You're up sunshine."
Sasuke 'Hmphed' and began, "My name is Sasuke Uchiha, and I don't have very many likes, which means I have a large number of dislikes. I don't have a dream but I do have an ambition. To kill a certain man and restore my clan."
Kakashi sighed as Sakura blushed at both his ambition and how 'cool' he was.
"Alright Blondie, you're up." He said pointing to Naruto.
Naruto paused for a moment, and then, once again following the advice of Kyuubi, simply shrugged and said "Naruto Uzumaki"
After a few moments of silence, Kakashi asked, "Well"
"Well what?"
"Are you going to finish?"
"I did"
"No you didn't, all you gave was your name"
"But isn't that the same amount of information you gave Kakashi-sensei?"
Kakashi once again sighed, and decided to let it slide for a bit, as Sakura was berating Naruto for trying to be 'cooler than her Sasuke-Kun'
'So I have a brooding avenger, an annoying fan-girl, and a petty blonde. I'm screwed'
"Well now that we're introduced," at this point Sakura just 'hmphed', "Let me tell you about your next test."
"What do you mean Kakashi sensei? I thought we already passed our genin test." Asked Sakura.
"Well Sakura, that was just to weed out the hopeless. This next test is to sift out those with actual potential, and has a sixty six percent failure rate. This test will take place at Training Ground Seven at around seven o'clock tomorrow, don't be late. Oh, and you probably shouldn't eat breakfast or else you'll throw up. Ja ne~e." The silver haired jounin then disappeared in a swirl of leaves with an evil chuckle, leaving the three of them with their own thoughts.
'Hmph, I'll no doubt pass this test. These losers probably won't and then I'll be apprenticed to a jounin and I'll get strong enough to kill him'
'I don't care if Naruto passes; I just want to be with my Sasuke-kun'
'I really hope I don't have to do all this crap again. Too many life or death struggles are bad for you.'
"Speak for yourself."
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Somewhere in Town
Walking around, Naruto was simply wondering how to pass the time.
'What do you think Kyuubi?'
"Well you could go shopping for clothes, or do that clone thing the decrepit old man was talking about"
'Hey Jiji is not a decrepit old man, dattebayo!'
"Whatever just do something, you're boring me."
Naruto then walked in to a shop called "Higurashi's" considered by many to be the best place in town for ninja supplies.
"Hello, can I help you?" Asked the girl behind the counter.
"Umm, yeah. Can you direct me to the ninja clothing section?"
"Not if that's what you're going to wear. It's in the back just past that rack of swords. If you need anything I'm Tenten."
Naruto after grumbling about how no one appreciated the color orange, thought for a moment and just couldn't help himself, "What's your name if I don't need anything?"
After dodging several kunai, he made it to the clothes section and started picking stuff out.
After about ten minutes he walked up to the counter and placed down several sets of the same outfit. Black shinobi pants, black shinobi sandals, with a dark green camo jacket, and an orange sash (he just couldn't completely give up the orange), along with a new set of kunai and shuriken. He didn't buy any shirts since the Kyuubi decided that the black undershirts he usually wore would suffice.
"Is that all?" asked Tenten.
"Unless you think there's something that could help me train." Said Naruto
"We have some weights if you'd like some."
So Naruto picked some arm and leg weights as well as a vest, all of which were adjustable, then after paying for everything, Naruto took the clothes to his apartment, changed, put on just enough weight to make it hard to move and went to go train for a bit, since it was only around noon. (2)
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Random Training Ground
Naruto was wondering of what to do when Kyuubi told him, "Why not send a clone or two to the old man and ask him for one of those exercises, and go send a couple to the library for some books."
'Aww, but books suck! They're boring!'
"Hmm, perhaps I phrased it wrong Kitt. Send about ten clones to the library NOW! Although, you should probably henge them so nobody wonders why there are ten of you at the library."
'Fine you stupid fox.'
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About three hours later over one hundred Naruto clones were lining up with their own separate trees, all had bruises and scratches, and all were panting. Another hundred clones were working on controlling the black blood. All the while that this was happening, the real Naruto was simply working on his body, pushups, pull-ups, sit-ups, laps, punching and kicking a training log, and throwing kunai and shuriken. This was the scene that Iruka walked in on as he was about to take Naruto for some ramen.
'Wow, he only heard about it yesterday and he's already using the Kage Bunshin (shadow clone) to help him train. He's going to be terrifying in his prime.'
"Hey Naruto! How 'bout we get that ramen I promised you and you can tell me about your new sensei."
"Sure Iruka-sensei just let me do something," he responded as he turned back to his clones, "Alright, if you're almost out of chakra, dispel! The rest of you henge and go to the library and just read whatever."
At this point most of the clones dispelled, leaving only around ten with the original Naruto and those at the library, giving them a massive case of memory overload and a huge headache.
"AHH. What the hell?" screamed the blonde.
"Well that's what happens when you get several weeks' worth of memories in a single second." Explained Iruka.
"So dispel slowly next time, right?"
"Yeah."
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Naruto's Apartment Next Day
Naruto was about to leave, when Kyuubi asked, "Kitt, why haven't you eaten anything?"
'Well Kakashi-sensei told us not to since we would puke."
"No, he suggested you not eat. There is a rather large difference. Besides if he is going to work you as hard as he said, then you're going to throw up regardless of whether or not you have something in your stomach, and if he's as late as he was yesterday then anything you eat now will have been mostly digested by then."
'I suppose you have a rather good point Kyuubi. Do you think I should send some clones to the library now?'
"Sure Kitt. You should also leave a number here to practice wall walking and then ceiling walking."
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Training Ground
"Hello Sakura-chan, teme." Said Naruto casually.
"Dobe, what are you wearing?" asked Sasuke.
"Yeah Naruto! Stop trying to impress me! It's not going to work. Sasuke is my one and only!" Yelled Sakura.
"Why is the first thing you think when you see me doing something different, is that I'm trying to impress you?"
'Are you really that full of yourself? How could I not have noticed?'
"Because you're a moron."
"Because that's the usual reason" replied Sakura smugly.
Naruto shrugged, not able to deny the truth behind the words and simply said, "I felt like a change. I'm a ninja now, so I should at least look the part."
"Whatever dobe, new clothes or not, you're still going to fail this test. Once a loser always a loser."
Naruto shrugged again and sat in the shade to work on his blood control, which with the work of his clones had increased dramatically.
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Three And A Half Hours later
Training Ground
"Yo!" said the silver haired jounin.
"You're late!" screeched Sakura
"Heh, well my alarm clock was broken" he said as he pulled one out of his hip pouch which was working perfectly, and a pair of bells. "Alright your job is to get these two bells from me before noon, which is an hour and a half away. If you can't get a bell in that time, you will be tied to a stump and I will eat your lunch in front of you."
As Sakura and Sasuke's stomach growled, all three genin had the same thought.
'So that's why he didn't want us to eat'
Everyone noticed that Naruto's stomach hadn't growled and stared at him.
Naruto, for the umpteenth time that day, shrugged and said, "It was only a suggestion"
"You only have to get one bell. There are only two, so one of you will definitely be tied to the stump…and the person who doesn't take a bell fails. So at least one of you will be sent back to the academy. If you want, you can use shuriken and kunai, you won't succeed unless you're actively trying to kill me." Said the jounin much to the shock of the three genin.
"But, you'll be in danger! Shuriken and kunai are lethal weapons!" shouted the 'smartest' member of the team, Sakura.
"I highly doubt that, in fact, I'm pretty sure you're more in danger of hurting yourselves with those pointy objects than you are of hurting me." He replied cheerily.
At this the three genin were seething and ready to attack the man. He let the statement hang in the air, just to get that extra juicy dose of weak killer intent from his genin.
"Now…begin!"
As he said this, all four of them jumped in different directions, with Kakashi going to the middle of the clearing. A rather nice breeze began to blow across the training field, the jounin looked towards the forest.
'Eh. Not bad. I can sense them of course, but they could probably hide from any genin to low level Chunin opponent.'
As he thought this he felt a presence behind him and turned to see Naruto just standing there nonchalantly.
'Or not.'
"You know that you're supposed to be hiding, right?" wondered the jounin.
"Something tells me that even if I tried to hide from you, I wouldn't be able to. I mean you are a jounin for a reason. If a genin could sneak up on you, then you suck at your job." Said the boy to the jounin.
'Thanks for bringing up that point Kyuubi.' Thought the boy to his demon.
"No problem Kitt, though I am going to have to stop spoon feeding you the answers." Said the Kyuubi.
"Oh, you caught that?" asked Kakashi.
"There's also no way that a fresh from the academy genin could so much as touch you without a direct line to lady luck, so something else is going on. I don't know what that 'something else' is, but there you go."
'Impressive, he figured about half of it out. I'll have to silence him before he can tell the others.' Thought Kakashi.
"As a jounin-sensei, I am supposed to teach the three basic Shinobi arts. Lesson one, Taijutsu." He told Naruto as he placed one of his hands into his hip pouch.
"Isn't Taijutsu hand-to-hand combat? So why would you be reaching for a weapon?" asked Naruto.
"A weapon? Aren't you cocky? You are nowhere near the level required for me to use a weapon on you." Replied Kakashi as he pulled out an orange book with the title 'Icha Icha Paradise'.
"Um…sensei? Why do you have a book?" asked the confused as all hell genin.
"Why, so that I can figure out what happens in the end," responded the silver-haired Cyclops.
With this blatant disrespect, Naruto proceeded to pull out two kunai and shuriken and throw them at the man. He then pulled out another kunai and charged as Kakashi caught one of his kunai, blocked the rest of the projectiles with it, and then dropped it. When he reached the jounin, Naruto quickly tried a horizontal slice to cut the man's head off, which was even more quickly ducked under.
Naruto then twisted his body in order to heel kick the man, which Kakashi dodged by moving to his left. Naruto then took another swipe with the kunai only for the man to jump backwards. Naruto used the momentum for his swipe in order to spin full circle to increase the power when he threw his kunai.
But no one was there.
All of a sudden Sakura burst out of the bushes screaming, "Naruto, behind you!"
At this Kakashi started saying, "Too la-"
Before getting interrupted by four black spikes shooting out of Naruto's back.
'Shit! He has way more control over it today than he did yesterday!' Kakashi screamed in his mind.
"What were you saying Kakashi-sensei?" asked Naruto, before getting curb-stomped into the river.
'Well that didn't go as planned.' Thought Naruto to himself underneath the water.
"What the hell did you expect? You said it yourself, you wouldn't be able to lay a finger on that guy."
'So what am I supposed to do?' Naruto thought back as he used chakra to stick to the bottom of the pond.
"Think about what he said, there are two bells but three of you, which would be a sixty six percent pass rate, but yesterday he said it was nine out of twenty-seven, which is thirty three percent. That means that either only one of each team will pass, or three out of nine teams of three will pass. Now, what does that mean?"
'How the hell should I know? The only thing I can think of is that we are supposed to work together. But, having only two bells would make it so that we would fight.'
"Exactly Kitt, what better way to defeat your enemies than to pit them against each other?"
'You may have a point there.' Responded the blonde as he ceased using chakra and started to swim to the surface.
'Did I/he drown Naruto?' was the combined thought of the three people above the water as Naruto hadn't surfaced in over a minute.
All of a sudden a number of shuriken began to shoot out at Kakashi, which he simply caught.
"Hmm, so you were simply trying to get me to lower my guard, thinking that you had drown?" Asked the man.
"Not really, I was just thinking, and I think I may have figured out the true nature of this test."
"Oh? And what's that?"
"I really don't see the need to tell you." Responded the whiskered genin as he charged the man with what appeared to be a staff made of his blood.
As the two were having their conversation, a Naruto came up on Sasuke and Sakura at the same time and said the same thing.
"We need to work together."
"Whatever dobe, I don't need dead weight, and you'll just hold me back." Said Sasuke, as he went off to find a good place to fight Kakashi, leaving the clone to dispel itself.
"NO WAY IN HELL NARUTO! THE ONLY ONE I'LL WORK WITH IS SASUKE-KUN" screeched Sakura as she went off into the forest to get away from another Naruto clone, who also dispelled itself.
'Well what do you know, he really did figure it out.' Thought Kakashi as he dispelled the clone that had been 'distracting' him.
'What to do, what to do? What do you think Kyuubi?' asked Naruto from his position in a clearing.
"Maybe you should wait until they get their asses kicked, and then ask again." Responded the fox.
After having a rather pleasant discussion about which type of meat is the best (Naruto said pork while Kyuubi said rabbit), they hear a scream.
'Looks like Sakura is out of the running.' Thought Naruto to the Kyuubi.
"Probably, let's go wake her useless ass up." Kyuubi commanded Naruto.
Searching through the forest, Naruto felt a large flare of chakra, 'So teme is fighting too huh? I'll find Sakura first and then go scrape him off the forest floor.'
Soon enough they come upon an unconscious Sakura, and began shaking her to get her awake.
"Sakura-chan, Sakura-chan, you need to get up, we need to work together."
Soon enough, Sakura began to stir. As she was waking up she started to mumble and then without warning, pounced on Naruto, screaming "Sasuke-kun!"
After realizing what was going on, she immediately let go and slapped Naruto.
"Naruto, what are you doing you pervert! Stop trying to feel me up while I'm unconscious." She scolded.
"What'd I do? I was shaking your shoulder trying to wake you up when you jumped on me!" and indignant blonde shouted back.
"Whatev-SASUKE-KUN! Now look what you did, you distracted me so I would lose track of Sasuke-kun and he would die, so that you wouldn't have competition didn't you?" she screeched/accused at/of him.
"I've heard blondes are stupid, but I guess they only hold second place when the pinkettes are involved."
"I was trying to wake you up, dattebayo!" Insisted the blonde as Sakura ran off into the woods.
"Well that was a dud deal." He mused to himself, waiting for something to happen.
"AHHH! SASUKE-KUN IS JUST A HEAD!"
Sigh, "Let's go check it out Kyuubi."
"Eh, I say let them stew in their own filth."
Naruto then proceeded to walk over to where he heard the voice from while arguing with the fox.
When they reached the clearing, Naruto and Kyuubi stared, and stared, and stared, and then burst out in hysterical laughter at the scene in front of them (3).
"It's a good think Pinkie is wearing pants or duck-ass would be getting one hell of a view!"
After Naruto had calmed down, he made a few clones to help him dig Sasuke out while they talked.
"Now do you believe me when I say we need to work together?" asked Naruto.
"Whatever dobe, I don't need you!" responded Sasuke, free down to his sternum.
"Listen teme, We need to work together! How many two man teams have you ever heard of? The Sannin, the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, even the fourth had a team! Why would they stick us in a team of three just to tear us apart?" shouted the blonde as he dug up Sasuke's waist.
"Hmm, I suppose dobe." Responded Sasuke as got out of the hole after his teammate finished digging him up.
"Now let's wake up Sakura."
After about ten minutes, the two of them succeeded in getting Sakura out of La-la land and after another five, they got her to stop crying and off Sasuke.
It was at that point that Naruto explained his reasoning to Sakura. She at first didn't say anything, looked at Sasuke, nodded to herself, and attacked the blonde.
"What the hell are you doing?" screamed the blonde as he jumped into a tree.
"There's no way that baka, Naruto, would ever think up something like that so that means you have to be Kakashi-sensei. If you're going to henge into someone you should at least act like them." She shouted as she started throwing kunai and shuriken at him.
"They've got a point you know." Observed Kyuubi.
'Sh-shut the hell up!'
"Sakura-chan, Relax! It's me!" Shouted Naruto as he dodged and swerved Sakura's attacks, only to be hit by a lucky shot.
It was as Naruto was on the ground nursing a gash in his arm, when the bell went off.
Five Minutes Later
It was an awkward silence that the three genin potentials shared as Kakashi walked up to them, with Sakura tied to a post, Sasuke sitting there, and Naruto with his arm wrapped in bandages.
"What the hell was that?" Kakashi near-about screamed at the three of them, "This was a total disaster. Sasuke, you decided that the others were worthless and would only bring you down, and then when Naruto was under attack, you did nothing to help him. Sakura, you did absolutely nothing but try to suck up to Sasuke, and Naruto, you tried to do everything my yourself!"
'Naruto did figure out the test, but I need to see actual teamwork, not just talk'
"Let me ask you something, do you think this is a game? You make me ashamed to be called shinobi. If I had my way, you would be dropped from the program, but I'll give you one more shot, and that's it. Eat your lunches, but Sakura doesn't get any." And with that the man left the three of them with an awkward silence.
"So what now?" asked Sakura.
"Here, Sakura-chan, I ate breakfast so I shouldn't be too affected by not eating, and we all need our strength." Responded the blonde as he held out his bento.
"Here." Sasuke said suddenly as he too offered some of his bento box to Sakura, saying, "We can all share, that way we all get to eat some food. and besides, what better way to show teamwork than to feed a starving comrade?"
As the two males were taking turns feeding the girl, a huge cloud of smoke poofed into existence and out of it Kakashi appeared.
"YOOOUUUU!" he screamed effectively making the three genin crap themselves.
"YOU...pass :3." Kakashi finished with a smile, getting a WTF face from all of them.
"Huh?" was the combined intelligent response.
"You pass. You are the first to disobey me and feed their comrade, and a true ninja must see underneath the underneath." said the silver-haired man as he walked to the stone in front of the posts. "This stone has a list of heroes. It is a list of those who lost their lives in the line of duty. The names of all my friends are on this stone. Remember, those who disobey the rules are trash, but those who don't care about and abandon their comrades are lower than that."
As he was talking, the three children were hanging on every word like a life-line.
'He's awesome.'
"Now that concludes the training for today! Meet me here at Seven A.M., tomorrow we begin our duties as team seven." The jounin shouted as he gave the three a thumbs up.
"YEAH" screamed Sakura and Naruto.
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Hokage's Office One Month Later
The past month became rather routine for Naruto. Wake up, send several shadow clones to library, train with other shadow clones in control, meet up with team, do teamwork exercises for a few hours, eat, do a mission, train some more, go home, eat, go to bed, sleep. Wash, rinse, and repeat. Naruto once more followed the fox's advice and started pumping as much blood as he could into a pair of sealing scrolls, which led to an incident where he had to go to the hospital from lack of blood. With his exercises in control of both his chakra and blood he is now able to make rather complex shapes for longer periods of time, however the more complex the less time he can control it.
The third hokage was sitting at his desk once again reading the report on Naruto's blood sample
Subject: Naruto Uzumaki
Full Report:
This new type of blood, while exactly like normal blood in most ways, has distinct differences to normal blood. The most obvious being that it is black (4). This is due to the fact that it has several times more iron than normal red blood cells, which given the subjects control over it could make it a very versatile and deadly weapon. It also has no discernible blood type. When placed with other samples of blood, the subject's, for lack of a better word, 'infects' the normal blood, turning it into the black blood as well, meaning that the subject could make near infinite amounts by taking the blood of others. It is unknown what would happen if it were to be placed into a living host but with the aspect of control, it could have very interesting mission aspects. However when placed with other blood with a kekkei genkai (5) it reacted in an extremely violent manner, injuring several of my assistants. When the blood infects another sample, the sample becomes like the black blood in every way.
Report end
Hiruzen sighed as he took a draw from his pipe. 'I should get Naruto a physical to see how his body has acclimated to the blood.'
Just then, a rather scratched up team seven walked in, carrying (6) a struggling brown cat with a red ribbon in its hair.
"Capture Tora mission complete, Hokage-sama." Reported a saluting Kakashi, who coincidentally didn't have a scratch on him.
"Acknowledged Kakashi. I'll have your teams pay when you walk in tomorrow." Said Hiruzen as he placed the demonic feline in a cage to be delivered to its owner
"All right, so what do you want to do next? We have painting a fence, carrying groceries, cleaning up lit-"
"Hell no Jiji! I want a real mission! Something that's an actual challenge!" yelled Naruto.
"He does have a point Hokage-sama." Said Sakura, while Kakashi just looked impassive, and Sasuke, as usual, brooded.
"Very well Naruto, I think I have the perfect C-ranked mission for you." He said as he pulled out a scroll.
"You will be escorting your client to his home in the Wave country. You will protect him from things like bandits and thieves." He then raised his voice and said "Send him in!"
After a few moments (7) the door opened and in came an old man with gray hair, a huge backpack, a straw hat and a bottle of sake.
"This is my escort? I wanted ninja not a bunch of brats!" he slurred.
"I assure you sir that I have the utmost faith in my team." Said an inwardly annoyed Kakashi.
"Whatever, as long as I get home safe and sound, I don't care. My name is Tazuna, bridge builder extraordinaire." He said, puffing out his chest.
"You leave tomorrow at seven for your mission. Good luck. Oh and Naruto, Kakashi, stay here I have something I want to give you." Said the hokage as he held up a couple of copies of the medical report.
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AAAANNND CUT! I don't know why but a lot of the stories I read cut off here. I guess it's just a good transitional spot in the story.
1: I said red and purple blurs when Sakura and Ino came into the classroom because that is the color that they have most of on their bodies, which is made up of their dresses.
2: I hate this paragraph, seems way too rushed.
3: You know the one XD
4: Do I really even need to say that at this point?
5: They used Hyugaa blood.
6: Fighting with, tooth and nail.
7: I've been saying that rather a lot haven't I?
Do you think I'm changing too much too fast?
While Haku is guaranteed to survive, do you think I should kill Zabuza
Should I Keep calling it black blood or should I start calling it Kokketsu like in soul eater?
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