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Academy The Next Day
It was the next day at the academy, while most of the kids who passed were excited to be paired on teems, Naruto was dreading it. It didn't take Saizuchi's lessons to know he would be paired with the best, and the average person for a team. This was the only time he cursed at himself for not returning earlier so he could get on a better team. But he could only just wait for the inevitable.
It was about that time Iruka called out the members of his team.
"Team Seven: Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno-" he would have continued except Sakura squealed and jumped up and down like she just won the lottery.
"Take that Ino-pig!" she taunted.
"Shut up forehead!" Ino snarled.
Iruka cleared his throat loudly to get the two kunoichi to stop bickering. "Thank you. The final member of Team Seven is Naruto Uzumaki. Your Jounin sensei will be Kakashi Hatake." Sakura spared a frightened glance at Naruto, and then sat down hopping he didn't see her.
"Team Eight: Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame. Your Jounin sensei will be Kurenai Yuuhi." the scarred Chuunin blushed a little thinking about the exotic Jounin.
"Team Nine is still in circulation from last year."
"And finally Team Ten consists of Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, and Chouji Akimichi. Your Jounin sensei will be Asuma Sarutobi." Ino groaned when she was teamed with the lazy bum and the fat ass, though she dare not say it in front of Chouji.
Two Hours Later
As the Jounin sensei's appeared to take their students, the teams left one by one until Team Seven were the only ones left.
"Argh! How can a ninja be so late? It's been TWO FREAKING HOURS!" Sakura screamed out in frustration.
Sasuke did his absolute best to block out her useless bitching, while Naruto himself was barely holding himself back from cutting her tongue out.
After a few more minutes a screeching the door finally opened. It revealed a man in dark blue cargo pants with his kunai holster strapped to his right thigh, shinobi styled sandals, long sleeved turtle neck, and fingerless gloves with metal plates on the back of them. He was wearing the standard forest green Jounin flak-vest with two scroll patches on the right and left breast with a zipper going up the middle. A dark blue mask covered the bottom of his face, his silver hair defied gravity, and had his hitai-ate covering his left eye.
"Are you guys Team Seven?" he asked.
"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura screamed, causing the two unfortunate teens to cover their ears.
Kakashi just smiled under his mask, "My first impression is...I hate you. Meet me on the roof in one minute." with that said, the lazy Jounin left in a cloud of smoke.
Naruto simply disappeared in a swirl of leaves, leaving the other two insanely jealous but they reluctantly took the stairs.
Roof Top
Sasuke walked onto the roof a minute later followed by Sakura. They saw their third teammate and their surprised sensei already waiting for them.
"Alright then. Let's get to know each other! You know likes, dislikes, hobbies, and goals. You go first, pinkie." Kakashi pointed at Sakura, who took offense to the nickname.
"Why don't you go first sensei?" Sakura asked.
"Okay then my name is Kakashi Hatake, my likes are none of your concern, my dreams...goal for the future well I haven't thought that far, I have lots of hobbies..."
'All we learned was his name.' the three thought with a sigh.
"Now pinkie tell us about yourself."
"Umm...sure my name is Sakura Haruno, I like..." she glanced at Sasuke and giggled, "I dislike Ino-pig and..." she then glared at Naruto who simple shrugged her off, "My hobbies are..." she glanced at Sasuke and giggled again," and my goal is." she glanced at Sasuke again and squealed loudly.
'Great a rabid fangirl.' both Naruto and Kakashi thought with disdain.
"Now you, Mr. Sunshine." Kakashi said, pointing at Sasuke.
"Hmph. My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I like nothing, I dislike everything, I have no hobbies, my goal...no, my ambition is the kill and certain man and revive my clan." Sakura just stared at Sasuke like he had just said the coolest thing in the world.
'Great an avenger/emo.' Naruto and Kakashi thought again.
"Alright now you." Kakashi pointed at Naruto.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki that is all you need to know." Naruto said in his emotionless voice.
'Great, I have a fangirl, an avenger, and a wildcard. Was the Hokage on crack placing these three together?' Kakashi mentally sighed.
"Alrighty then, meet at Training Ground Seven for your first assignment tomorrow morning a seven o' clock. See ya' then! Oh, and don't eat breakfast, you'll just puke." the masked Jounin then disappeared in a cloud of smoke before anyone could say anything.
"Do you want to go out Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked hopefully.
"No." Sasuke replied flatly.
Naruto not finding this amusing, sighed at the two idiots and took off to his old apartment.
The Next Day
The next day Naruto found himself walking towards Training Ground Seven after doing his usual morning training exercises, cleaned up, and had a light breakfast. Walking through the viallage was peaceful once he ignored the harsh glares, and angry whispers. You would have thought nearly seven years would change some things but it was still the same. The angry whispers, the foul looks and glares, the sneers from shop owners. A long time ago he would've done anything for their respect. But with what he went through for the last few years, he just didn't give a ratsass anymore.
Lost in his thoughts he didn't hear a few drunks who caught sight of him, and began bellowing about demons and how he destroyed the village. Not happy about being ignored the drunks decided some discipline was in order.
They ganged up on him, some took out pocket knives, while the others smashed their empty saki bottles to make them to make temporarily weapons. One threw a bottle at Naruto. The blond caught it and crushed it with his hand. Undaunted three of the drunks tried to stab him, the first aimed at Naruto's head who ducked and punched the guy in the face making his head explode. The two drunks who saw their friend get killed tried to run, Naruto anticipated this and used speed that no one his age should possess to get in front of them. He unsheathed his katana and swung it at the two drunks turning them into walking bonfires.
Naruto smirked seeing the men fall to the ground as the flames ate their flesh. But was disappointed to see that the other four ran away. Sighing he sheathed his katana and walked to Training Ground Seven without anymore interruptions.
Not that anyone would try to stop him after that display of ruthless killing.
Training Ground Seven
Just as Naruto arrived to meet his teammates a familiar scarecrow-like ninja appeared before them. "Yo." he greeted, not looking up from his little orange book.
"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura shrieked, making everyone cover their ears.
"Sorry a black cat crossed my path and I had to walk around the village to advoid it." Kakashi mearly responded, causing the three to sweat-drop.
"LIAR!" the pink-hiared banshee screamed at him.
Undanuted the masked Jounin only eye-smiled at them, "Alright team, we will now begin your test."
"What kind of test?" Sasuke asked.
"A survival test." Kakashi responded keeping that damn eye-smile on his face.
That response caused Sakura to groan, while Sasuke merely scowled deeper, and Naruto just stood there with his eyes closed.
"But we already did that in the academy!" the pinkette protested.
Kakashi merely chuckled at her, "Yes, but not this kind of survival training." the Jounin then took out two bells attached to a piece of string. "You have to take these from me." he then took out a timer and sat it on a stump, "You have until noon to do it. Those who can't get a bell will not eat lunch for today."
Sakura looked horrified, "B-but there's only two bells when there are THREE of us!"
Kakashi simply eye smiled, "Exactly." he said making her even more confused.
"Remember to come at me with the intent to kill, or else you won't get anywhere." Kakashi just eye smiled again, "BEGIN!" he shouted. Instantly the three went into hiding.
In a nearby bush, Sakura was watching her sensei just standing there. 'I must get a bell if I want to pass with Sasuke-kun.' she wondered where he went. She looked around before hearing a noise. She turned her head to see the face of her sensei. Her eyes widen as she saw him holding up a seal.
Kakashi held up his hand in the snake seal,"Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Jutsu!" he whispered.
Sakura saw leaves whirling around her as her vision went blurry. She ran out from her hiding place in hopes of running away from her sensei. She saw her beloved Sasuke-kun leaning against a tree, with blood coming out of his mouth and wounds all over his body. It was a gruesome sight for the poor girl. "Sakura...run." those were the words she heard before he fell over dead. She let out a high pitch scream before fainting.
Kakashi stared at his student when she let out a scream. 'She fell for the easiest genjutsu? Isn't she supposed to have good chakra control? I wonder how reliable those reports are?' the masked Jounin sweat-dropped as he saw how easily Sakura fell to his genjutsu.
Sasuke, who was hiding in a nearby tree, heard a girlish scream. 'That must mean he got to Sakura. Heh, easier for me now since there are two bells and I only need one.' he continued to keep his eyes open for his sensei.
Naruto turned his head to the voice of the scream. 'Pinkie went down hard.' he mentally chuckled to himself before finding a tree with a nice spot to watch the "fight".
Kakashi walked back onto the field. 'One down, two to go.' he wondered how the infamous Uchiha would do, and how strong Naruto was.
Sasuke saw Kakashi just standing there, leaving himself wide open. 'There! He left himself wide open.' he threw a kunai with an exploding tag attached towards Kakashi. Kakashi heard a whizzing noise coming towards him and dodged at the last second. He was caught completely by surprise when he noticed there was an exploding tag attached to it.
The note exploded, causing a loud 'boom', sending mild shock waves from the area. Sasuke saw Kakashi jump away, towards the left. He saw his chance to attack. He leaped up from his tree and flung shurikens with his right hand and several kunai's with his left. The shuriken's went for Kakashi as the kunai's went below him.
Kakashi saw the kunai's flying under him, missing him by a wide margin while the shuriken's were coming directly towards him. Kakashi heard a loud thumping sound before seeing a rain of more kunai's and shuriken's flying towards him from every direction.
Sasuke was standing nearby as he saw his sensei get impaled by his trap.
'Over already?' Sasuke though before he went on high alert when he saw his sensei's bloody body turned into a log. 'Substitution! Shit, that means he knows my location.' Sasuke ran from the tree and into an open area.
'So that's where he was.' Kakashi jumped up from his own hiding spot before confronting Sasuke.
Naruto yawned as he watched his teammate try and best the famous Copycat ninja. 'This test is so obvious, I'm surprised the so called geniuses didn't figure it out first.' the blond continued to watch the fight between Sasuke and Kakashi with little interest. He knew Sasuke was way in over his head but it was funny to see the one-sided fight.
Sasuke took out a pair of kunai's before raising it to guard himself against his sensei. He was about to throw it when Kakashi reached into his weapon pouch. Kakashi noticed Sasuke hesitating.
"Why didn't you attack me? I was just going to take this out." Kakashi pulled out his little orange book. "Don't worry you probably won't even stop me from reading."
That infuriated the last Uchiha. He was supposed to be one of the elite, and yet he was getting mocked by his sensei. Sasuke threw his kunai before rushing towards Kakashi. Kakashi caught the kunai with his right hand, and stepped back just to avoid his student's punch. the raiven-haired teen swung his right hand towards his sensei's face. But the Jounin dropped the kunai before catching the fist. Sasuke then turned his body around and threw a kick from his sides, which Kakashi caught by using his left hand.
Kakashi began to spin his body, increasing his momentum and using the boy's momentum as well to throw the Uchiha away. Sasuke landed on a tree before replacing himself with a log.
'Substitution?' Kakashi turned around to see Sasuke finishing up some hand seals.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke finished the seal and sent a huge fireball towards Kakashi.
'An academy student should not have this much chakra reserves to pull this off!' he mentally yelled to himself. He dashed towards the incoming fireball and disappeared. Sasuke's attention was being diverted to the scorching of his sensei in front of him.
He didn't notice Kakashi going underground until he heard a muffled voice shout out, "Earth Style: Head Hunter Jutsu!" and he found that his head was above the ground, and Kakashi rising out of the ground in front of him.
"Nice try Sasuke." he taunted the teen before going off to find Naruto.
Unknown to Kakashi Naruto saw the "fight" between the two wannabe ninja. He picked Sakura up and unceremoniously dropped her on her ass when they got to Sasuke, which startled the Uchiha because he didn't hear him walking up besides him.
"What the hell do you want?" he scowled.
"For a person who just got his ass kicked, you sure are an idiot." Naruto calmly replied, "Why don't we work together to get a bell?"
Sasuke dug himself out of the ground with some help from both Naruto and Sakura, "I don't need help from a dead last like you. And stop doing that!" he demanded as Naruto dusted him off a bit.
"Yea we can do it ourselves." Sakura chirped in.
"You two need to learn to respect your superiors, or I might have to kill you two." Naruto started to walk away but turned his head to look at the two idiots again, "Don't say I didn't help you." he disappeared in a cloud of smoke, hoping to find Kakashi so he can get the bells.
And a second later the blond reappeared in the field with Kakashi standing by the tree reading his book.
"Ready to fight Kakashi-san?" Naruto asked.
"Nope." Kakashi said until a kunai sliced his cheek open.
'What the hell! Where did he get that kunai? I guess I really shouldn't underestimate him.' Kakakshi grimaced.
'Good thing I stole a few things from the Uchiha, pickpocketing really comes in handy.' Naruto thought until he saw Kakashi pull up his hitai-ate showing off his famous Sharingan eye, he slide into the Iron Fist stance. While he slid into an unknown stance.
They charged each other. Naruto sent a right hook which was blocked and followed with a side kick by the masked ninja. He caught the man by the leg and went to throw him to the ground. Kakashi flipped in mid air and caught Naruto's right fist, which the used to rebound off of to spin in mid air and send a right kick which was blocked as well. Kakashi grabbed Naruto's leg and threw him into the the river only for him to land on top of the water.
Naruto started doing seals which Kakashi responded to by doing his own.
"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!" Naruto yelled as a giant dragon made completely of water rose from the stream.
"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu!" Kakashi yelled back as a equally huge dragon made of fire appeared outside his masked mouth.
The two dragons collided with each other creating a huge cloud of steam. Kakashi was temporarily blinded as the steam hit his eyes, he then felt something throw him against a tree. After coming to his senses he realized he was tied to a tree with ninja wire. He looked where the wire came from, only to see Naruto with the wire in his mouth.
"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu!" Naruto muttered his technique as a orange and red flame came out of his mouth, and caught the ninja wire on fire, traveling along the wire as the dragon flame collided with Kakashi. As the flames died down Naruto saw a burnt log in Kakashi's place.
"You have to do better than that Naruto." Kakashi taunted twenty feet from Naruto.
"I guess I should stop holding back then! Earth style: Hand of Judgment!" Naruto called out as he slammed his hands on the ground. Quickly a large hand made of stone almost three times Kakashi's size appeared behind him and slammed on top of him bringing up a large cloud of smoke.
When the smoke cleared Naruto could see the hand on top of what looked to be the splintered remains of another log, "I'm afraid you'll need to be faster than that Naruto although I'll admit it was a good try." Kakashi said from behind the boy.
"Okay, then how about this? Earth style: Stone Dragon Assault!" the blond shouted. Suddenly several stone dragons came from the ground and snaked their way towards the silver-haired Jounin causing him to jump in the air.
"Grand Dragon of the mountain!" the teenager continued.
Kakashi was surprised as a shadow grew over him and he turned to see a dragon twenty times bigger than the others bearing down on him quickly. Before he could react the creature had slammed its head into the ground and swallowed him in the process.
Naruto walked towards the stone dragon, but he stopped when a strange chirping sound came from the stone dragon. Suddenly, a hand covered in lightning ran down the body of the dragon and into the ground in front of him causing the creature to split in half and a large explosion of dust to fill the area. When the dust finally began to settle a haggard Kakashi stood in front of Naruto.
"That was a very good try. You almost caught me with that one. I wonder what else you have up your sleeve?" Kakashi said to Naruto.
"Not much just this!" Naruto responded as he slammed some smoke bombs into the ground. As the smoke enveloped the Jounin, Kakashi was blinded, but that didn't stop him from dodging a punch from Naruto. As he dodged Kakashi saw Naruto's fist hit the tree the was standing by burst into splinters.
'Dammit when I said come at me with the intent to kill, I didn't think he would take it seriously. And so far he nearly killed me three times already, come on Kakashi pull yourself together and finish this.' Kakashi thought as he backed far away from Naruto.
Sasuke and Sakura had to slap themselves to make sure they weren't imagining things. They each thought that the fight between the two would be Naruto getting his ass kicked. But this was the complete opposite, they saw the blond stand toe-to-toe against a Jounin of all people. So far they saw him move at speeds that no Genin should possess, walk on water, cut Kakashi when they couldn't land a hit on him, steal from one of his teammate without being obvious, use C to A-ranked jutsu's, and destroyed a tree with one punch.
Sasuke was clearly mad if his red face was any indication, 'Where did he get this power? I should wield that kind of power not him! Wait calm down wait until the test is over, and go ask the council to demand him to teach me his techniques.' the last Uchiha thought as he kept watching the fight along with Sakura who was wondering how strong Naruto was.
The two stared at each other trying to find any weak points in their defense. There were none, both of them kepf their bodies tense and ready to react at a seconds notice.
Then without warning Kakashi went through three hand seals.
After Kakashi finished his last seal he called out, "Lightning Blade!" and then grabbed his right arm as lightning appeared on his right hand.
Naruto called out, "Blazing Glory!" as his right hand got covered in pure red and white flames.
As they stood they ran towards each other and met in the middle as they extended their right arms which covered their techniques. The results was a chakra struggle which lasted for a good five seconds until the jutsu's couldn't handle the strain anymore and exploded sending the two flying away from one each other.
At that same time the bell rang signaling the end of the test.
"Well it looks like you failed." Kakashi sighed with a relief.
"I don't think so Kakashi-san." Naruto taunted as he held up the bells, making Kakashi freak out making him look for them until he sighed in defeat.
"How did you?"
"Pickpocketing comes in handy."
"I see well...then it appears that you passed the test. Sasuke, Sakura you can come out now." the Jounin announced looking toward the tree where his other two students were the spectators that witnessed the entire event, and they were beyond shocked.
Kakashi watched as his two students arrived behind him. "Since you two didn't even get a bell and Naruto got both of them, you two fail." he then watched for reactions as he said his statement calmly. Sakura had her head down while Sasuke was gripping his fist. "Do you have anything you want to say to them Naruto?"
Naruto looked towards his fellow Genin's. "You two idiots turned down my offer, and you can fail by yourselves. This village has no need for weak shinobi. However this test is about teamwork, so I'll take pity on you and give you the bells." Naruto said tossing the bells at their feet.
"Damn you dobe I don't need your pity!" Sasuke threw a punch towards Naruto.
Naruto took one step back and threw his own punch into the Uchiha's ribcage. A loud crack could be heard as Sasuke was sent flying back from Naruto's punch. His hands were covering his now broken ribcage.
Sakura ran over to Sasuke. "Sasuke-kun, are you okay?" she glared at Naruto, "You monster why did you hurt him?"
Naruto glared right back at her, "I don't like surprise attacks. If you get in my way, I'll kill you too." Naruto stated, and disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Leaving Kakashi wondering if he can actually make this team a team.
Hokage Tower
"Ah, Kakashi, there you are! May I assume that you deprived yet another team of youthful youths from their pursuit of being a ninja?" Gai greeted the Copycat-ninja.
Kakashi had expected Kurenai and Asuma to be here when he arrived, but he had never expected Gai of all people to be here. Unless he was here for some sort of a mission debriefing, since he had no business actually being here when the newest Jounin sensei's reported their team's success or failure.
Of course, he couldn't let Gai know that, "Hmm? Did you say something?" this got the requisite reaction out of the "Green Beast", as he began prancing around the room shouting something about being "Hip", but he didn't really listen.
That's not to say that he didn't take Gai seriously. The man was probably the most skilled and strong overall Jounin out of any of his peers, excluding himself. The man was an absolute monster when it came to hand-to-hand combat, and his jutsu skills were incredible when he was actually forced to use them, under the physical duress of opening The Eight Celestial Gates, of course. If someone were ever to actually force his true opinion of the man out of him, it would be an absolutely glowing report, and Kakashi trusted the man implicitly.
He was broken from his musings on his strange friendship with the green-spandex wearing freak across the room when the Hokage opened his office door and strode in, giving Gai a look that clearly showed amusement as well as exasperation. His act could wear on the nerves sometimes. They were all broken from their thoughts as the Hokage sat down and motioned to Gai to turn in his mission report. Gai at that moment showed his serious side, calmly walking over to the Hokage and handing in his report. With a nod to Kakashi, he simply disappeared from view and it was pure speed, too.
The Hokage glanced over the mission report, grimacing slightly over something that was particularly gruesome, Kakashi imagined. IT was no secret Gai got some of the toughest missions than any other Jounin, and he had probably killed more men than even Kakashi had in his lifetime which was saying something. The Hokage put down the mission report and calmly took a puff on his trusty pipe before motioning to his son Asuma, somewhat unacknowledged as he was to give his own report.
Asuma took a puff on his own cigarette and calmly delivered it, "Team Ten passes. Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Chouji Akimichi showed that they had ample skill and teamwork abilities to pass my test, they're not without their faults though. Ino is bossy, rude, and shows no real compunction to follow the lead of others, but when push comes to shove she does what's needed. She's mature for her age, no doubt about that. Shikamaru is almost her antithesis...lazy, uncaring, and no motivation what-so-ever, but he's smart. Very smart, I'll probably end up giving him an impromptu IQ test later, but he can come up with strategies in a heartbeat that rival even the best Jounin strategists. Chouji he follows Shikamaru with an almost blind loyalty. He's kind, generous, and while smart, he certainly is no genius. He's as powerful as his father was at his age and with the right training, he could be absolutely incredible. Altogether, they make a good team just about as well as their parents, really." Asuma took another puff on his cigarette, and the Hokage nodded to him. The new Ino-Shika-Cho line up was almost a given to pass it just remained to be seen if they really could live up to their parents shadows.
The Hokage took another puff on his pipe and motioned to Kurenai to begin, "Team Eight passes. Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, and Hinata Hyuuga passed my test with flying colors. Kiba is a blowhard and has the beginnings of being a pervert but he's strong, loyal to a fault and shows that he does have a mature side when pressed. Shino is an enigma, just as much as any Aburame is. He's good at what he does, uses logic to solve most problems, and works well in a team environment. Hinata has a definite confidence problem. She's adequate with her family taijutsu style, and shows a basic proficiency with academy jutsu, but her lack of confidence or even motivation is a definite disadvantage of hers. Overall though, they work well as a team...they'll do." Kurenai threw a furtive glance towards Asuma and stepped back, before the Hokage nodded to her as well and turned his gaze to Kakashi.
Kurenai and Asuma did the same, but they both had an almost knowing look on their faces. Kakashi hadn't passed a Genin team for his entire tenure as a Jounin outside of Anbu.
"Team Seven...passes." Kurenai and Asuma both had shocked expressions on their face, before they schooled themselves back into ones of simply amused surprise.
This would be an interesting story.
"Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno Sakura, and Naruto Uzumaki...showed me that the first two are complete idiots." everyone sweat-dropped hearing that out of him, "And I'm not going to lie they'll need a huge load of work, the Uchiha is a brooder and relies mostly on himself for everything, but he has shown at least a good amount of skill. Sakura fawns over Sasuke to a fault, and I'll need to break her of it...if I can at all. Now Naruto is something else entirely." he he noticed the confused looks of his fellow Jounin, "Naruto is by far the strongest out of all of them, he knows many high level jutsu and most of them don't have any hand seals hell there are some I have never heard of before. He is probably as strong as me." Kakashi told them, much to their disbelief stares.
"Kakashi you can't be serious! He's only a Genin!" Kurenai exclaimed.
"Kurenai that Genin managed to cut my cheek open," Kakashi showed them said cheek, which made them wonder how they didn't see it earlier, "he made me unveil my Sharingan eye." he stopped at their shocked looks to show the he was completely serious, "He almost incinerated me, crushed me, had a dragon made completely out of earth eat me. I had to use my Lightning Blade to get out of that dragon! He then blinded me with some smoke bombs, and almost turned my head to dust with his fist without using chakra to enhance it! Finally he made me use my Lightning Blade again against some fire attack that enveloped his fist, we locked into a stalemate until our jutsus couldn't handle the strain and blew up on us. And then the bell finally rang, but sometime during the match he stole them."
Now everyone was doing an imitation of a fish. They just couldn't that Kakashi Hatake the legendary Copycat ninja was almost killed four times by a Genin, and said Genin made him use his famous Sharingan eye, and his original jutsu not once but twice. That day everyone knew to never underestimate Naruto Uzumaki.
Later That Night
Naruto laid down in his tiny little apartment, staring up at the ceiling, bored out of his mind. His so-called Genin Test was too easy, he couldn't do any training this late at night, and he just couldn't get to sleep.
He snapped his head to the side as he heard a lot of cussing. He looked out to see a Jounin saying that the Hokage should have a good reason to wake every available ninja at this time of night. This made Naruto interested, and he followed him. After a few minutes of following the unsuspecting Jounin, Naruto made it in time to hear the Sandaime Hokage's speech about The Forbidden Scroll of Sealing being stolen.
After hearing the conversation Naruto was a little interested in this little predicament.
"This could be an opportunity to get some very powerful techniques." Kyuubi spoke up.
'Kyuubi I see you're awake.' Naruto mused.
"Yea, yea, yea now back to what I was saying. This will be a good time to lean some very powerful techniques."
'Meh sounds good to me. I got nothing better to do anyways.'
The Forest a Few Minutes Later
While the blond didn't know where the scroll was, or who stole it, he had a snaking suspicion who it was. Using his instincts on where he would go if he stole the scroll, he headed to the villages western wall. His quite arrival showed who exactly stole the scroll when he saw Iruka on the ground with a few dozen kunai and shuriken embedded in him. And saw Mizuki jump backwards, and threw a giant shuriken to finish Iruka off.
The giant shuriken made its towards towards the prone Iruka, but Naruto came in between and cut it in half with his flaming katana. Iruka saw the person who saved him and his eyes widened.
"Hello Iruka-sensei lovely evening isn't it?" Naruto said sarcastically.
Iruku just twitched and slowly turned his head to face Naruto. "N-Naruto." was all he could say as blood came from his throat.
Naruto stared at Iruka before turning to a smirking Mizuki. "So you're the traitor? Such a shame you've showed a lot of potential." Naruto sighed sadly, "However...I do not like traitors so I hope your prepared to die." he continued with venom in his voice.
Mizuki laughed at that. "Big words from a brat." he then suddenly got a devious idea and he grinned knowing it would work, "Naruto, do you wish to know why the entire village hates you?"
Iruka's eyes widened and he forced the blood out of his mouth to speak, "N-no Mizuki! I-It's for-forbidden!"
The silver-haired Chuunin's grin just widened, "Naruto, the story of how the Kyuubi was defeated and killed by the Yondaime is a complete lie. The Yondaime couldn't kill the demon, so he sealed it into a newborn. That newborn was you, Naruto! YOU ARE THE KYUUBI!" he then proceeded to cackle madly knowing he broke the teen.
Naruto instead just gave out a small chuckle.
"What the hell is so funny?" Mizuki hissed at him.
"I already know of the demon. I've known about him for years." Mizuki's eyes widened as did Iruka's, "Seriously if you think I'm that naive then you are the fumbest person I've met to date."
Mizuki just stared at Naruto in horror seeing his plan didn't work, "It does not matter I'll still kill you! And once your dead I'll kill Iruka too so I can pin everything o you!"
"You shall do no such thing." Naruto said coldly as he scraped the tip his katana on butt of his sheath, and it caught aflame, "The First Secret Sword: Blazing Soul!" the blond dashed forward at a speed that surprised the silver-haired Chuunin. Mizuki took out his other giant shuriken, and threw it at the blond. He only cut it in half and proceeded to cut Mizuki across the chest. The katana dug deep into Mizuki's chest cutting his heart cleanly in half, he then did a one eighty and sliced his head off.
Naruto smirked as his latest victim fell dead to his feet catching aflame, and his head flew a few feet away with the permanent looks of horror, pain, and disbelief on his face. He then looked over to Iruka who fell unconscious a few seconds ago. The blond walked over to the fallen man and did the Diagnosis Jutsu Yumi taught him when he was younger, only to find out that he had severe internal bleeding, six broken bones, and a light concussion. Looking around he saw his tareger, and went over to the scroll that was laying down by a nearby tree and opened it up.
"Know it, know it, know it, know it, boring, boring, useless, useless, pathetic...hmm these three look promising Kyuubi memorize them because I know I won't remember all of it." the teen muttered under his breath.
"Will do."
"What the hell is this?" Naruto whispered as a small scroll fell out of a secret compartment of the larger one when he picked it up. He was about to open it when he remembered Iruka's condition, and discretely pocketed the item.
"Oh right can't let him die." he then went over to Iruka again. While he was okay with medicjutsu he knew that he couldn't fully heal him, but he could at least stabilize him until they got to the hospital.
It took a minute to remove all the kunai's and shuriken's. Naruto then whispered, "Mystical Palm!" and light green chakra came to his hands. After moving them around to certain parts that really needed to be treated he healed his injuries. Performing another Diagnosis Jutsu Naruto found that Iruka was stabilized for the moment, strapping the Forbidden Scroll to his back, he put the injured man on one of his shoulders and disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
Naruto's Home a Few Hours Later
Once the blond brought the injured Chuunin to the hospital, he found at least a dozen Anbu members and the Hoakge himself waiting for him. After handing the scroll and the Chuunin to two random Anbu members wearing a tiger and cat mask, the old Hokage brought him into his office. It took two hours of explanation for the blond to tell the old Fire Shadow how he knew what was going on. But when the old man questioned him looking at the scroll he told him the truth. He said he couldn't resist taking a peak, but once he opened it he saw that most if not all the techniques in there were suicidal. Sarutobi only nodded before thanking him for coming clean, and then sent him away.
And now here he was holding the scroll he found in The Forbidden Scroll of Sealing. There was an emblem holding this scroll shut, wind blowing across the sea, creating waves.
Breaking the seal Naruto opened it to read its continents.
And was surprised to say the least.
To my son Naruto,
If you're reading this, then you are a Chuunin or fifteen years of age, and you know about being Kyuubi's vessel. For that I can only hope that my wishes were respected.
Lets get the introductions over with I'm Minato Namikaze; Konoha's Yellow Flash, and the Yondaime Hokage. And your mother is Kushina Uzumaki; Whirlpool Country's Red Death, and former heiress.
First off, I can't blame you if you hate me for what I did. I never wanted to condemn anyone, much less you, to a fate like this. Unfortunately, it was my only choice outside of letting Konoha fall. I just want you know that, even though both your mother and I will never get to see you grow, we both love you very much. Hopefully we won't be seeing you for quite some time. Do us proud son.
Also at the bottom of this scroll is a blood seal. In it contains the keys to my house, and a scroll containing both your mothers and my most prized jutsu's.
Know this my son your mother and I will always love you no matter what you do. And one day we both hope you can surpass us. Grow up strong, kiddo.
Love,
Your father Minato Namikaze
P.S. If you see an old pervert with white hair, and wearing kabuki clothes. Give him a hard kick in the nuts for me for spying on my wife.
"Mom...dad...I-." Naruto sighed and finally went to sleep.