A/N this chapter edit has the biggest change to it.

Chapter 5- Nogitsune

Iruka Umino knew it was a bad idea to tell the children who was joining them two days before going away. Many of the parents were already upset that the 'Demon Child' was going, but the presence of Naruto's self-proclaimed older sister was the catalyst for a major uproar. Her association with Naruto caused her to be at odds with the civilian population. Iruka himself had often faced the same ridicule and scorn, but what Shinaka faced was worse.

There was a certain darkness about her that many shinobi talked about. With no one to teach her how to properly control her bloodline ability she often gave into her instincts and lost control.

While they were weary with her from the begging, they became terrified of her a few years ago.

There was an incident on Naruto's seventh birthday, the same day of the Kyuubi festival. He had heard a child screaming out from down the street and ran towards the sound. As a new teacher, his instincts shouted at him to find the child. He sprinted down the street as the screams got louder. As he ran past he saw villagers scattered on the ground nursing various injuries. Many were deep and were going to scar, but none appeared life threatening. The degree of injury got worse the closer he got to the screaming, along with a deep reverberating sound.

As he turned a corner he saw several people scattered outside a dark alley. Quickly he knelt beside the nearest man and checked his pulse. It was weak, due to blood loss as he noticed the jagged stumt just above where the man's lower leg was meant to be. The other bodies were just as mangled; a few with deep gashes, others with chunks bitten out of their flesh, as if they had been attacked by a large animal.

After wrapping a bandage from his shinobi vest around the wound in a tourniquet to stop the bleeding he peered into the alleyway. It was barely lit by a hanging streetlight, flowing into the darkness and illuminating a dark figure crouched over the body of a weeping and injured child. Iruka approached slowly in a crouch to get a better look. As his eyes adjusted to the dim lighting he encountered a large Fox. Its fur was a dark, iridescent black. With streaks of light blue running down its back and coating the tip of its tail.

It was facing away from him, slowly staggering towards an injured Naruto. He was lying on the ground, one bloodied arm curled around a gash in his stomach the other over his head as he whimpered in pain.

The fox stumbled closer, shaking its head as if it was walking in a daze. It kept knocking into the narrow grey walls, the closer it got the more it staggered as if trying to shake something from its head.

Iruka slowly moved sideways slowly until he could see the fox's eye. Its eyes were a dark purple that deepened as it glared harder at the boy laying in front of it. They shined with an ethereal glow, the pupils were in stark contrast; black, like a starless sky. Blood smeared the Fox's fur, but it was darkest around its paws and maw. Its mouth pulled back over gleaming fangs dripping with blood as it growled out. Realizing how close it was to Naruto, Iruka ran suddenly to its right and delivered a roundhouse kick to the side of its head.

Its head flicked to the side with the force of his kick, before turning to him. Its glare deepened, and it growled louder. He rolled away just as its teeth clamped together above him, but he was not quick enough as a stray fang caught the fabric on his vest. The fox flung its head and sent him crashing into the brick wall behind Naruto.

The hit knocked the breath out of him and his vision swam. Through the murkiness he saw the fox prowl closer, eyes growing hazy as it focused back on Naruto who lay before him. He was too dizzy to get up. He and Naruto could only watch as the creature grew closer to them.

When it was close enough that he could smell its rancid breath a dog-masked anbu appeared behind it. Surprisingly when the anbu approached with soft whispered words the fox did not attack, only looked at him with an almost pleading look. When the Anbu had got close enough it delivered a swift hit laced with chakra to the back of the fox's neck, knocking it unconscious. As it fell it slowly shifted into the form of a white-haired female. One he later recognized to be Shinaka. The dog-masked Anbu picked up the bloody girl while a weasel masked Anbu had picked up a shocked Naruto, who looked at the girl with wide betrayed eyes. Naruto let out a sob and turned his face into the person holding him as the two anbu sushined away.

She was not trusted by many shinobi or civilians, but the Hokage still allowed her to live after the incident. While Iruka knew it was her, no one truly knew as he and the anbu were the only ones to see the transformation back into a human. But many of the villagers were convinced she was the creature due to her affiliation with Naruto and the form she took.

When the villagers were asked if they had seen her turn into the fox no one admitted they did, they only saw a fox running out of the forest after Naruto.

Iruka never found out the reason for her turning into that monster, but he knew her enough to know she would never willingly hurt Naruto, who she viewed as a younger brother. He also trusted Naruto who, despite being attacked by her, forgave her and still considered her as one of his most precious person.

After that Shinaka had been given the name Nogitsune, an evil kitsune, which like many other kitsunes could change their shapes and were known as trickster spirits.

Shinaka grew to like the name and it was even in her ninja records, such as Kakashi's copycat ninja title. She said the name reminded her of a promise she once made, but she never told him what the promise was. And if she was anything like Naruto she would never go back on her word, in fact he was pretty sure Naruto got it from her.

She also told him, "a name does not make a person so there is no reason to fear it. I will bear the name if it keeps my family safe. Plus, I kind of like it; pretty bad ass huh." She had laughed after saying that. Her and Naruto were just so similar at times.

After hearing of his assistant, many parents, civilian and shinobi alike, attempted to force the Hokage to stop Shinaka from going. The Hokage refused, Shinaka was no threat to the children, she never attacked children or those close to her after the incidentS. After the Hokage's refusal many parents attempted to withdraw their children, but their children would fail the grade for the class and if their scores were not high enough they could end up repeating as the survival was forty percent towards their final score.

A few still took their children from the academy, their fear far outweighing any reason.

Iruka was brought out of his musing by a knock on his classroom door. He shuffled a few papers on his desk. "Come in."

"Konnichiwa, Iruka-san." Shinaka said bowing as she entered. "You sent for me?"

Shinaka's entrance made him suspicious of why she did not enter through the window like she had been doing the last couple of days. Iruka thought it was because the other times she was trying to show off. "I just wanted to go over a few things before we left for the forest tomorrow."

"Of course. What would you like to go over?"

"Is there anything I should be worried about specifically. I know you already told me of some of the dangers but is there anything you may have missed or any new occurrences?"

Shinaka came around and leaned against the side of his desk. She had changed in to more civilian clothing, consisting of an orange T-shirt and blue pants. "No. I made sure you were in a safer part of the forest, but it still has a few challengers that were accepted by you and the Hokage. I will just be there to make sure nothing too dangerous enters the area and to help out if need be." She looked down at the ground and seemed to shuffle for a bit.

Shinaka kicked the toe of her sandal on the ground before looking up. A guilty expression on her face. "Iruka. I'm sorry about some of the students being pulled from the camp because of me."

Iruka wondered how Jonins could go from being so close guarded on missions, to being completely different outside of them. He had seen how emotionless she was when on a mission, but outside of that she often wore her emotions on her sleeve.

"It's not your fault. The parents are just cautious, and if you were truly a threat to the children the Hokage would bar you from coming." Iruka consoled.

Shinaka looked at him with a calculating look, her head tilted like a dog when confused. "How can you be so trusting and accepting of me? You saw what happened all those years ago, I still don't fully trust myself." A dark look had entered her eyes, sorrow and anger at her actions from the past.

"It's because you feel remorse and horror for what you experienced which allows me to trust you, along with Naruto's forgiveness for you. Demons don't feel those emotions, they would not care about hurting others or continue to earn the respect of others after the harm and abuse inflicted on them." Iruka consoled.

Shinaka stared at him for a long while before breaking his gaze and walking to the door. Before closing it, when Iruka had turned back to his desk, she whispered so softly that he almost missed it "I'm not sure if I'm not a demon. You shouldn't too." When he turned back around she quickly schooled her face into a wide grin and bid goodnight.

Iruka watched as she left, perhaps he was not supposed to hear what she said after all.

A/N A dark turn this chapter, but I needed to clear a few things up about the title of my story and the reason behind some of the scorn from the villages. As always R&R