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It's February 2 as I start this, let's see when this goes up.

Arashi Uzukaze wonders why the yin half of Kyuubi was sealed instead of the canon yang. Well this isn't canon so I wanted yin instead, different abilities and a different personality to yang Kurama.

Chrisfragger just wants to know why Konoha won't kill their traitors. Blame the Hokage, it'll change.

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Chapter 8

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KONOHA MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON

"Good afternoon Shimon, or should I say night?"

"Very funny Gado, your lucky you don't have the graveyard shift." Shimon gave a friendly smile as he approached the gate guard of the Konoha prison, Gado.

Gado chuckled, "I'm just waiting for Miru to come, then I can go home and get some real food."

Shimon laughed back, "I know how you feel, the food here reeks."

Gado looked towards the front door curiously, "Wonder where Miru is, that bastard is always late."

Shimon made his way around Gado, "How about you head one home? I'll take your spot." In reality Miru's body was somewhere hidden twenty kilometers from Konoha, but Gado didn't need to know that.

Gado looked at him, "Really? But you have your own job."

Shimon gave a reassuring smile, "Don't worry, I saw Miru a few hours ago, he said he was doing something, that might be why he is so late."

Gado nodded, "Ok, thanks a lot Shimon."

After Gado left Shimon sat down in the front chair for a few minutes, after it looked worn he got up and walked deeper into the prison.

He quietly made his way through the prison, using hidden passageways only the guards knew of, until he made his way into cell block B.

Second cell in the second hallway. That was the cell Shimon was looking for.

He got infront of the cell, he noticed the eyes watching him, "Ready Mizuki?"

Mizuki nodded.

Shimon grabbed a kunai and a vial filled with a liquid from his pouch, he doused the kunai with the liquid and spilled some of the floor, Miru's blood was in the vial. He then took his keys and unlocked the cell.

Mizuki walked up to him, "You ready?"

Shimon gulped, "Yes, when I wake up make my way to the Hokage."

"Yes, I mean the other part also, they can tell if you didn't struggle."

Shimon ruffled his hair, "Ok, do it."

Mizuki ruthlessly punched Shimon's temple, knocking him out and no doubt leaving a nasty bruise for authenticity.

Mizuki picked up the vial and made his way to the exit.

He smirked, "It's time... time for revenge."

12 HOURS EARLIER

"Are you ready for the test?" Iruka Umino asked his class.

Of course it went unnoticed by the loud children.

Iruka sighed, "HEY SHUT UP!" The class instantly stopped speaking, "There you go. Anyways, are you kids ready for the final exam?"

His answer was multiple nods and murmurs of yes.

"Good, Choji, you first."

The chubby Akimichi boy gulped before setting his bag of chips down, he walked down the stairs and made his way to the examination room.

Uzumaki Naruto, who sat in the corner of his room with his head down, sighed.

'You should have stocked up on food yesterday when I told you.'

'I thought we had at least five cups of ramen.'

'We did. You ate all of them as a midnight snack.'

'Come on Ashura... I was hungry.'

'You are always hungry.'

"True."

Sasuke Uchiha, who sat next to him, looked at him, "What did you say?"

Naruto propped his head on his chin, "Nothing."

Sasuke looked at his pseudo-friend/ acquaintance, before grunting and returning to his own thoughts.

'You really need to keep your thoughts to me only.'

'I can't help but speak sometimes, you sound like you are right next to me.'

'I've been speaking to you for four years now. Learn.'

"Shino, you're up." Iruka announced.

Shino quietly made his way into the room.

'Holy sage I am hungry.'

'Stop complaining. And using my fathers name like that is strange.'

'Well I'm hungry, fix me.'

'Ask that Choji kid. He always has food.'

'I can't, he's nice and all, but Shikamaru is there and he'll ask questions.'

The exam door opened, "Sakura."

Naruto eyed the eating Choji, licking his lips at the sight of barbecue crisps. He felt his stomach rumble quietly at the sight.

"Sasuke, come up." Iruka's voice snapped him out of his thoughts.

Naruto looked at the Uchiha, "Good luck."

He glanced at the blonde, "I don't need it."

"Arrogant bastard."

'He gets that from my brother. A defining trait of his line."

'And I get all my badass traits from you?'

'It must have skipped a generation.'

"Oh... Oh you motherf-"

Iruka's voice rang, "Naruto! It's time for the test!"

"You did good in Taijutsu, your test scores where good too. Now all there's left is Ninjutsu, you ready?"

Naruto smiled and nodded, "Hell yeah I am ready!"

Iruka got out a clipboard, "Ok Naruto, do a Substitution with the chair over there."

Naruto looked at the chair for a moment, before he vanished out of sight and a chair took the spot he once was. Iruka turned his head to see the blonde standing at the chairs original position.

"Impressive, you didn't even need to use hand signs or say the name."

"Because I'm awesome and don't need to!" Naruto poked his chest as he bragged.

'Or because I thought hand seals took to long and saying the name was stupid.'

Naruto rolled his eyes, 'This is my moment, don't ruin it.'

Iruka wrote something down, "Do the Transformation now."

"Into?"

"I don't care."

Naruto smirked and and only activated the last hand seal of the sequence, Ram. A plume of smoke engulfed him for a few seconds.

Iruka found himself looking at a tall, lean young man with black hair, blank headband, and white clothing. His eyes where so black it seemed like there where no pupils to them.

In reality there actually where no pupils, since Ashura Otsutsuki has strange genes. Iruka didn't realize that he was looking at the most powerful man in his current time.

"Is this good." Naruto's disguised form actually spoke with an altered voice. Deep and powerful, but it seemed... safe.

Iruka nodded slowly, "Yeah, it's extremely good."

Naruto dropped it, "Beautifully executed right?"

'It was only beautiful because it was of me.'

Iruka gave the blonde a smile, "Amazingly executed. Finally it is the Clone."

'Well... we tried.'

Naruto smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his neck, "Umm... about that sensei..." He avoided eye contact as he trailed off.

Iruka knew exactly what he was meaning, "You can't do it. Can you?" He deadpanned.

Naruto chuckled nervously.

Iruka sighed and shook his head, "Naruto... you do know you can't pass without it?"

The boy gulped.

Iruka reached behind him, "A student can't become a genin without knowing the three techniques under normal circumstances." The corner of his lips tugged up, "But a normal student doesn't kick the ass of chunins on a regular basis."

He tossed a headband at the boy, "Congratulations. The Hokage told me to pass you know matter what."

Naruto took a moment to absorb the information, before smiling brightly, "Hell yes!"

'Good, now we can actually fix the world.'

Iruka looked at the boy tying the headband around his head, "Naruto, I do want to ask one thing."

"Yeah Iruka-sensei?"

"You obviously put extra practice into the other two techniques, couldn't you of learned all three of them regularly instead of mastering two of them?"

'The clone one was useless, that's why.'

"The clone one was stupid, that's why!" He rubbed the new metal of his headband, "And besides, the test didn't even matter in the end."

Iruka chuckled, "Well, can't argue with that. Anyways, I'll meet up with you in an hour to celebrate at Ichiraku's."

"Congrats Naruto."

"Thanks Shikamaru." Naruto smiled at the Nara on the outside, but on the inside he was swearing that he got into this conversation.

'Hey, I can here these thoughts, where did you learn such foul language? Tone it down.'

Naruto ignored him.

Shikamaru leaned against a desk, "How did you find the test?"

"Easy." Short, if he seemed uninterested them maybe Shikamaru would leave.

Shikamaru nodded, "Do you have any guesses on who will be teamed up with who?"

That actually got blondes attention more, he shrugged, keeping up the act, "Never put any thought into it."

"My team will be with Choji and Ino."

Naruto gave him a shocked look, "What? How do you know?"

'So much for the act.'

'I tried Ashura.'

Shikamaru smirked a little, "I just asked my dad. He has a say in these things, and since his team was so effective the Hokage decided to make it again."

"So... do you know everyone's group?"

"I know a lot of them."

"How about mine?"

Shikamaru got up from his leaning position, "Ok, but you got to answer one of my questions first.

Shit. Ashura.

'What? It's only a question.'

"Fine, shoot."

"Do you realize that you randomly talk to yourself right? You don't do it like a crazy person though, you do it like you're having a legitimate conversation with someone, can you tell me why?"

Naruto blinked, "Uhh..."

Well shit.

At that moment Iruka walked out of the exam room ,"Ok guys! Let me tell you one more thing before you are dismissed. Shikamaru! You may be a ninja now but get back to your seat."

Naruto sighed in relief.

Shikamaru frowned, Naruto will probably escape after Iruka stopped talking, his question will go unanswered.

Shikamaru had his guesses, but the thought of investigating was too troublesome.

Actually the thought of Naruto was too troublesome to even think.

"One week, one week until I get my team and do ninja things."

'Yeah.'

"Hmm... Ashura I'm bored."

He could here Ashura sigh in his mind, 'Ok you are bored. What are you going to do about it?'

Naruto didn't feel like training today, and the only other things he did was prank people or mess with the Hokage.

'I would do a prank.'

"Really?" Ashura never condemned him for pranking, but he never encouraged them either.

'I think the Hokage monument would look better in color.'

Naruto felt a smile rise on his face, "Everything looks good in color... YES Ashura!"

'Hey! People are giving you looks!'

"Oh." The blonde forgot he was walking down the streets of Konoha, many passerby were looking at him strangely due to his outburst.

"Hokage-sama you cannot allow this desecration of our villages biggest pride!"

Hiruzen glanced at the raving chunin for a moment before looking back to the now colorized Hokage monument.

He slowly took a puff of his pipe, "Personally, I quite like it." The boy had nice artistic hand actually.

Naruto yawned as he entered his apartment, "Holy sage I'm tired."

'It is ten, and that is late for a child.'

"Child!? I'm a ninja!"

'A ninja child.'

Naruto shook his head and collapsed on his bed, releasing a massive yawn.

'You are not going to change?'

'Who the hell cares? I'm tired.'

'Such an attitude.'

'Yes, I do have an attitude.'

He heard Ashura laugh a little in his mind, before his senses started to slowly dull.

'Shit! Get up!'

"WAahbtg!?" Naruto ungracefully shot out of his bed and onto the floor.

'A fluctuating chakra is approaching rapidly. I sense distress.'

Naruto channeled a small amount of Ashura's chakra to sharpen his mind. He opened his window and grabbed onto a pole, he climbed up so he was ontop of his roof.

He noticed a figure running by his apartment, a giant cylinder on his back and blood on his clothes.

'He has a Konoha headband.'

Naruto saw the look of terror on his face, "Hey!" He called, "Over here!"

The figure saw him and broke into a sprint towards him, "Oh thank the gods another ninja."

"What happened?"

He took rapid breaths, "Holy shit... A fellow ninja stole the Hokage's forbidden scroll and tried to escape the village, I found him and tried to fight him but he was to strong, I just barely managed to stun him and take the scroll. Please Help me!"

Naruto grabbed his arm, "Calm down, tell me your name."

He started to take deep breaths, "Tonbo. My name is Tonbo. Chunin."

Naruto nodded, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto."

His eyes widened, "Yes! The one who betrayed the village, Miru, used to be one of the chunins who chased you. You can easily outrun him and hide while I set up an ambush or trap or something."

"Shouldn't we call for help?"

"Of course! But we don't have time! Get the scroll out of here while I get to the Hokage, no doubt the ANBU will be notice soon." What? That sentence confused the blonde more then clarified.

'Ashura?'

'The scroll is unbelievably valuable, we cannot let it get stolen. Lets take it and hide.'

Naruto looked at him in the eyes and nodded, "I'll go to one of the southwestern training grounds, those are the most dense. You and the back up find me there!"

He saw Tonbo nod and jumped away, running at full speed.

After a few moments Tonbo turned around, a smirk forming on his face, "Way to easy..."

Naruto leaned against a tree, in the most hidden spot of training ground 47 he could find.

'This is so nerve racking.'

He didn't get a response.

'Ashura?'

'One moment Naruto...'

"Do you sense it Kurama?"

"Yes... the scroll."

"I thought you would have sensed it earlier, given your previous hosts."

"It must of been activated after we found the first one."

'Naruto open the scroll.'

"What!? It's forbidden!"

'I sense some of my uncle's chakra in it. A disk must be inside of it.'

Naruto's eyes widened, he grabbed the scroll and attempted to open it, only for nothing to happen.'

"Kurama?"

"You need the pure blood of a Hokage, the boy is only a half blood."

"So he can't open it? Damn."

Kurama stayed silent for a moment.

"He actually may be able to."

Asira raised his eyebrow, "Elaborate."

"The scroll was made by the First Hokage, and most of the sealing array was oversaw by his wife, who was much better at Fuinjutsu then him. Her blood is also keyed to opening it."

"The First's wife was Mito Uzumaki, and Naruto has the blood of an Uzumaki and a Hokage."

"It's worth a try."

"Damn it!" Naruto tried to claw the scroll open, "Open you stupid thing!"

'I have an idea.'

"Shoot."

"I notice a blood seal on the front, if I channel some of my pure chakra into your blood and then put it on the seal then...'

"It might actually work!" Naruto didn't put a lot of thought into the holes of the idea, which was fine with Ashura.

Naruto took out one of his new kunai's and cut his palm, he swiped the open cut onto the seal, the seal glowed for a moment before the blonde heard a clicking noise. The seal unraveled onto the floor.

"Yes!"

Naruto felt the cut on his hand heal and propped the open scroll on his lap.

"Tell me where."

'Left. More left. Keep going. Wait until I say stop... Stop! Right a little and... there!"

Naruto eyed a very complex seal on the scroll, it looked... different. Different then any other seal in the scroll.

Naruto activated the Chakra Transfer Technique and channeled Ashura's chakra into his hand placed in on the seal. As he retracted his hand there was a glowing ball in it. The ball slowly started to take shape and morphed into a glowing disk, the light started to fie and Naruto found himself holding a white disk.

The boy stared expectantly, "Sooo... What now?" The disk wasn't reacting to anything.

'I guess we keep it and wait, maybe we need all of them.'

Naruto looked around the forest, "Oh crap, I forgot about the thief and Tonbo! Where is ANBU and our backup?"

'I am sure they will come. Well while we wait there is something to occupy ourselves with.'

Naruto glanced at the scroll, "Ashura... I don't think we are suppose to learn these."

'We won't learn suicide techniques, only really helpful ones.'

There was a reason it was called 'Forbidden', but the thought of all those powerful and cool techniques right in his hands...

Naruto nodded enthusiastically.

Naruto exhaled as he wiped a bead or sweat of his forehead, "Wow that was a challenge, and it was only one technique."

'I've committed a few to memory, I will be able to teach them to you in the future.'

Naruto smiled and nodded to himself, "Good. But that Shadow Clone though, it is actually useful compared to the regular clone."

Ashura was quiet for a moment.

'A chakra is approaching.'

Naruto closed the scroll and looked to his left, "Tonbo?"

The chunin jumped out, "Naruto, thank the gods I found you!"

"Where is the backup?" It has been an hour or so.

Tonbo started to walk towards the blonde, "I tried to get them and-"

Naruto eyes widened as Tonbo's blood landed on is face, the kunai that destroyed his head missing Naruto's own head by centimeters, leaving a small cut on his face.

Tonbo's headless body landed on the floor, "Oh shit..." A dark voice echoed, "I was looking for a double kill."

Naruto swallowed the vomit in his throat at the sight of his dead comrade, "W-who did this!" His shaky voice rang.

"It's me?"

'Oh no. I know this chakra."

"It's me..."

'Mizuki...' The former teacher revealed himself.

Naruto's fear was replaced by anger, "You... you asshole! Why the hell are you here! Why kill Tonbo!"

'Remember what Iruka said, he is a traitor.'

Mizuki chuckled, "Merely tying up loose ends."

Naruto felt the fury inside of him, "I have no idea why the Hokage didn't kill you in the first place traitor."

"Because my seal prevents the Yamanaka from invading my mind. And the Hokage wanted information..."

'That means he lasted through physical torture. Be careful of his strength now.'

Naruto nodded, "Mizuki... I kicked your ass once and I'm going to do it again!"

"I will kill you!" Mizuki yelled.

Naruto used the Chakra Transfer Technique and created an arm of chakra, shooting it at his foe.

Mizuki ducked under it, "Earth Release: Underground Movement!" He sunk into the ground, leaving no trace.

Naruto looked around the battleground for any sign of Mizuki.

'Behind you and to the left.'

Naruto turned and saw Mizuki launching his Fuuma shuriken at him.

The blonde swatted it away with an chakra arm.

Naruto brought up his hands and made a seal, "Kage Bunshin."

Five copies of the blonde appeared and rushed the traitor.

Mizuki ducked under a flying kick and punched a cloned in the stomach, making it disappear, "Earth Dome!" He called.

Mizuki crouched and allowed the ground to cover him, the clones, not being able to attack, got around the dome at all angle, waiting for him to release the technique.

A muffled voice yelled, "Earth Release: Earth Dome Spears!" Out of Mizuki's dome hundreds of spikes shot, the original Naruto created a shield of Ashura's chakra to protect him, and winced as the memories of his clones being impaled assaulted him.

Naruto created a few more clones, the entire group of blondes rushed the traitor. Mizuki leaned away from a tackle and used a roundhouse kick against another, he turned around only to see a glowing fist smash into his face.

Mizuki jumped back and wiped his mouth, "You've learned some new tricks huh?"

Naruto glared and didn't reply.

The traitor went on, "How about I teach you one last thing as your teacher? The reason nobody likes you!"

Mizuki chuckled at Naruto's surprised face.

'Ah shit.'

'Ashura?'

'Listen, and keep your mind open. Most of what he says will be lies, but your secret will be revealed.' Ashura really sounded like he really wanted to be elsewhere right now.

'Huh?' Naruto was desperately confused.

Mizuki's smirk grew, "12 years ago the Kyuubi attacked the village. You learned that the Fourth killed it... but he didn't. The Fourth defeated it by sealing it away into a newborn child..."

Naruto new exactly where this was going, "Ah shit..."

Mizuki caught that, "So you understand... that YOU are the Kyuubi! You are the reason the village was destroyed! You killed Iruka's parents! You killed my parents! You killed our Hokage!"

Naruto gritted his teeth, unable to take the information.

"W-what? I... Kyuubi?"

"Well Hello there..."

Naruto stumbled back, "What the hell!?" The sudden deep voice scared the crap out of him.

"Well the secret is out maggot. The babbling idiot over there is only telling a half truth. You are not, and will never be me. WAY to weak."

"Ashura!" Mizuki looked at his foe in confusion, who the hell was Ashura?

'Naruto concentrate.' Ashura's voice was firm, 'Deal with the asshole then we will talk.'

Naruto nodded rapidly, "Ok ok...ok. Calm down. Calm down." He took calming breaths.

Mizuki started to laugh hysterically, "And now you die you demon!" Mizuki rushed him...

Then suddenly stop, eyes widening.

He fell over dead seconds later, kunai in his spine.

Naruto saw the newcomer, "I-Iruka!?"

The scarred teacher smiled slightly, "And company, a few Jonin and ANBU. How are you?"

Naruto kept his composure as he wiped his pants, "A little disgruntled at the new information. But physically fine, I was about to take Mizuki down with my Shadow Clone underneath him."

The backup looked down a few feet infront of Mizuki's body to see a hand shove out of the dirt, an carbon copy of Naruto crawled out of the ground before disappearing.

If Mizuki took a single step foward the clone would of grabbed him, and no doubt Naruto would have finished him, however the blonde would of wanted it.

Iruka walked towards the boy, "Did he tell you?"

"Yeah." The blonde sounded hesitant.

"Are you alright?"

"I knew about the seal for a while, it makes sense actually." Naruto was actually a bit overwhelmed, not about the Kyuubi being inside of him, it was that Ashura knew and never told him.

'I was going to tell you at a better time. Which was going to be soon.'

A Jonin, who Naruto recognized as the Hokage's son, looked at Tonbo's corpse. "What happened to him?"

"He caught Mizuki's accomplice named Miru take the scroll, he managed to take it and run. We ran into each other and went to hide the scroll. Mizuki killed him." Naruto's face tightened at his fallen comrade.

An ANBU shook his head, "Poor man, he'll get a proper burial."

The same ANBU looked to a small group of masked people, "Shimon said he couldn't recognize the one who fought him. Bring his kunai with the blood to be analyzed, I want Gado questioned and the rest to fan out and find Miru."

The group all nodded simultaneously and jumped away.

Iruka looked at Mizuki's body distastefully, "I'm glad he's dead." He looked back to the blonde, "You want to see the Hokage I guess?"

"Yeah, that would be nice."

"You are taking this rather well." The Hokage observed as he smoked his pipe.

Naruto shrugged, "Freaking out won't help me. The best way to understand the situation is to look at it slowly."

The Hokage nodded, "Well how are you understanding this situation?"

"The Kyuubi was sealed into me as a newborn, I understand that, but I would like more details on why, and a little on how." the boy stared expectantly.

The old man took a long drag, "I will answer to the best of my abilities."

Naruto caught a subtle undertone, "The fox was sealed into ME. I would think that no information would be classified."

The Hokage sighed, "Naruto, the Kyuubi incident is much bigger then you, much bigger them me. There where things at play there that not even I understand."

Naruto looked the man in the eyes, keeping eye contact as he thought, finally he shrugged again, "Ok, tell me all you can."

"The Kyuubi needed to be sealed, the Fourth was already tired by another circumstance and wasn't at his full abilities. He had to use a last chance jutsu to defeat it. It was a sealing technique that summoned the death god to seal something, in this case the Kyuubi."

'Summoning the Shinigami... my god. I know that the Shinigami does not like to be trifled with.'

The Hokage continued, "The Shinigami took the Fourth's soul, but sealed the Kyuubi into the vessel of the Fourth's choice."

"Me."

"Yes."

"Why." Not a question, but a demand.

The Hokage stayed silent for a while. And for even longer.

"Jiji? Naruto spoke slowly.

He looked up and started at the Hokage portraits, "I'm going with my heart for this one..."

He looked at the blonde, "The Kyuubi... has been in the village since it's creation."

Naruto felt his eyes widened, "Inside the village walls!?"

The tired old man nodded, "Mito Uzumaki, the First Hokage's wife and relative to you, sealed the Kyuubi into herself. Making her it's first Jinchuriki, a person who has a tailed beast inside of them. She then transferred it down into another Uzumaki Jinchuriki. Twelve years ago, on October Tenth, something went wrong with her seal, the Kyuubi was released into the village and rampaged."

"How was it released? I heard that my clan was sealing masters before they died." Of course Naruto knew of his clan, Konoha actually had a day to remember Uzu's destruction.

"I wish I knew, but only the Fourth and the Jinchuriki knew what happened, and both of them died."

Naruto slowly took a deep breath, absorbing the info, "And how do I play into this?"

"A child is the best choice to seal a tailed beast into, they adjusted to the beast's chakra easier. And the Uzumaki have strongest lifeforce and body in the world, they could handle a beast for much longer then anyone else."

"I have blonde hair though. I thought all Uzumaki have red hair?" Naruto had a small part of his mind that believed the name Uzumaki was just given to him, he didn't have any noticeable features that Uzumaki are said to have.

"Your half Uzumaki, you just got your non-Uzumaki parents hair and eyes." Eyes? Naruto never asked about eyes.

'Well obviously you got your eyes from one of your parents, it wasn't that big of a slip up.'

Naruto continued his questioning. "So I was the only Uzumaki in the village?"

"With the Jinchuriki dead, yes. The only other person with Uzumaki blood I know of is my old student Tsunade, who left the village years prior to the attack."

"Plus you taught her when you where young, so she must be ancient." Naruto couldn't handle being so serious, it wasn't in his personality.

Hiruzen couldn't resist a smirk, "Are you satisfied?"

"One more question."

The Hokage's silence gestured him to speak, "My parents... can you tell me?"

The old man shook his head, "Soon, I promise. Your parents used to be big, many will try to harm you if they find out."

"I can keep a secret." Only he would know, who else would find out?

"There is more then that. I don't want you to chase after your parents shadows. I want my successor to be a self made man."

Naruto sat is silence for a few minutes, "I... completely understand. I can wait."

As Naruto left Hiruzen said one more thing, "I'll tell you one thing though. you have your mother's heart and you father's mind, the best of both of them."

Naruto smiled a little as he shut the Hokage's door.

'My mother's heart and my father's mind... I like that.'

'You're parents must have been great people then.'

Naruto could see the sun start to rise over the horizon, he sighed and got back into his bed, his muscles refused to relax though.

He stared at his ceiling, "Hey Ashura." His voice was quiet.

'Yes?'

"Can we umm... talk about, or with..."

'Close your eyes.'

Naruto did and was instantly to sleep.

"Holy sage..."

Ashura gave him a look, 'Whats wrong?"

"It-it's huge!"

Naruto felt the sharp red eyes hone onto him, "I am a HE you midget."

Ashura shook his head, "Guys... try to be civilized alright?"

"No."

Ashura sat down on top of the shallow water, "Can we try to at least talk then, we are all sharing this body."

Naruto gulped, "Ok... Uh Kyuubi... I was wondering..." He looked down and trailed off.

"Finish your sentence. Do not keep me waiting."

"How did you break out of your previous container?" Naruto spoke the words quickly.

The Kyuubi stared at him for a moment, before looking at Ashura, then back to the blonde.

Ashura sighed, he knew what Kurama was going to say.

"You."

"Huh?"

"You are the reason I broke out old my old host."

"I... I do not understand." Naruto was trying not to be intimidated by the giant fox infront of him.

"When a female Jinchuriki is about to give birth her seal weakens immensely. With Mito Uzumaki there where helpers to tend to the seal, but Kushina Uzumaki's labor was much more intense and the seal was released."

"Wait so how am I involved in th-"

Naruto's eyes widened.

"Oh." Utter despondency in his tone.

Ashura looked at him in worry, "You alright?"

Naruto stayed silent for minutes before he finally spoke, "So why was there no one to tend to my mothers seal?"

Kurama looked at Ashura, who shrugged, "An Uchiha... who claimed to be one of the village founders Madara, put me under a powerful genjutsu and made me attack the village. He was the one who released me from your mother."

Naruto's face was lowered in thought and sadness, "I..."

He couldn't find any words.

The blonde closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "Ok... stay composed." He looked to both of his guests, "The Uchiha all died though. And I doubt the infant Sasuke could do that."

"Whoever controlled me is not part of this village."

Ashura eyed both of them, "Kurama, you and Naruto both have a common enemy. It is better to team up."

Naruto looked at Ashura confused, "Kurama?"

"His name."

"Ashura! I will not team up with the brat and I will not allow him to say my name!"

Ashura sighed, "So be it."

Naruto looked mildly confused, "Why can Ashura say your name."

"He is my brother. Probably the only brother I like."

Naruto gave Ashura a look.

"I told you that my dad split the Shinju into nine parts, Kurama is one of them."

Naruto stared for a few moments, "Well that's interesting I guess." He looked at his own reflection, "I'm... I'm just going to wake up and cry now... alright."

"Fine." "Sure."

Shikamaru was awake at 0400 for once in his life, why?

His dad left suddenly at around midnight and he had to know why.

When Shikaku walked into his house he noticed his son sitting there at the kitchen table, a cup of coffee by him.

Shikaku just looked at his son, gesturing him to speak, "The coffee is for you."

He nodded gratefully and sat down next to his son, taking a sip of the coffee, "What do you want?"

"What happened?"

"Mizuki, your old academy teacher, stole the Scroll of Seals and tried to leave the village." Shikaku trusted Shikamaru even with classified information, his son did inherit his mind.

"And...?"

"And Naruto just happened to stumble across it."

Shikamaru frowned slightly, "Was he hurt?"

"No. He did learn a rather nasty secret."

Shikamaru nodded, "He told Naruto about the Kyuubi?"

"Yup."

"How did he take it?"

"Well how did you take it when you found out?"

"I was shocked, it did answer a lot of questions however."

"He had the same reaction, shocked but had revelations."

"What else did he learn?"

"Nothing." Shikaku took one final sip of his coffee and set the cup down

"Not even about his parents?"

"He'll learn."

Shikamaru sighed, "Everything about that boy is troublesome."

"I agree."

Naruto sat in the academy, he had his headband on and still had his crappy orange clothes.

'I'm trying to help with those.'

'No, you're really not.' It took four years for Naruto to realize Ashura had no fashion sense.

The door slammed open and Naruto sighed at the arrivals, Sakura and Ino.

"I WIN PIG ASS!" Sakura's voice hurt his ears.

"NO! ME WIN!"

'Me win? That makes no sense.'

'Fangirls make no sense to begin with.'

Sasuke, who was sitting next to the blonde, sighed quietly.

"Kill me now."

Both of the girls stomped up the stairs, aiming to sit in the open seat next to Sasuke.

The Uchiha looked at Jinchuriki, "Switch seats?" Since Naruto had the wall seat and Sasuke sat in the middle of the three person desk.

Naruto smirked and shook his head, "One more day Sasuke, endure it."

The Uchiha glared at him and looked forwards, morphing his face so it was completely emotionless.

Naruto looked at the stairs to see Saukra and Ino madly climb up the stairs, Sakura, who was behind, gained a slightly demented look. She roughly grabbed Ino's ponytail, pulling it and making her fall down the stairs, the pink haired girl triumphantly claimed the seat next the the Uchiha.

'Wow. Just wow.'

'Those things are the reason I dislike humanity'

Naruto couldn't find an argument to that statement.'

Just at that moment Iruka walked in, "For the last time... Good morning!"

The class paid attention for once, finally giving the teacher a break.

Iruka smiled as he looked around the class, "After I tell teams we will all part ways. You guys will be ninja now, I'm sure you will do your families proud."

He grabbed his clipboard, "Team One will be..."

Naruto stared into space sadly, 'I wish I could do my mom proud.'

'Naruto, you could not of saved your mother.'

Naruto looked down into his lap, 'Ashura... It's my fault that she-'

'Rational thoughts.' Ashura's voice was firm. 'You where still in the womb.'

Naruto sighed, he was overreacting.

The blondes face scrunched in confusion, 'Wait... what about my dad?'

'Who knows?'

'Ashura...'

A deep voice rumbled in his brain, 'Would you believe me if I say your mom was a dirty skank?'

Naruto slammed his arm into the table, his entire arm going clean through it, the blonde payed no attention to the surprise of his classroom.

"You... you MOTHERFU-"

'VOICES!'

'Fucker! I... I will.' The blonde was seething as he angrily thought the words.

Iruka stared at the boy, "Umm Naruto? You alright?"

Naruto looked at the teacher before slowly sitting down, breathing heavily. The entire class was gibing him the 'this guy is fucking insane' look. Which the blonde didn't even notice.

'Kurama, not nice.'

Naruto twitched at the fox's snicker, 'Not nice, but entertaining.'

"Team Seven is Naruto...?" The blondes behavior still startling the class, "Sakura... and Sasuke."

'Holy sage this day is terrible. Sasuke is a ass and Sakura? Sakura of all people?' Sakura didn't need a description, words couldn't really describe her to justice.

'You missed your teacher.'

'Does it matter? The Hokage probably specifically chose my teacher.

'Starts with 'T', has an 'A' and a 'B' in it?'

'Yes, guess that word.'

Naruto's face morphed into one of thought, he has currently been waiting three hours for his teacher, and has now resorted to mind games to waste time.

'Tabby.'

'No.'

'Tabinet.'

'What is with you and fabric today? No.'

'So not anything involving fabric...'

'You know that isn't a very good hint.'

'Any hint is useful!'

'Well cannot argue with that.'

'Is it just tab?'

'Longer.'

Naruto sighed in frustration, 'Ok, hint.'

'You already got a hint, not a fabric.'

'Come on Ashura!'

'Fine... it has 'C' in it.'

'Tabescent? I think that means shriveling or something.'

'That is what it means, but wrong.'

Naruto stroked his chin, 'I got this... tobacco!'

'Close.'

'Close!? What the hell is it!'

Naruto could here Ashura chuckle in his mind, 'Tobacosis, tobacco poisoning.'

'That's new. You know the old man probably has tobacosis now that I think about it.'

'Itt might not matter for him since he doesn't fight anymore.'

Naruto leaned back in his chair and sighed loudly, "Holy sage this is boring! Where the hell is our teacher!?"

Sakura, who was quietly sitting by Sasuke, spoke up, "I don't know... I really do not know."

Sasuke merely sighed in frustration.

Naruto stood up, "You know what, I am going to prank that asshole for making us wait!"

Sakura glared at him, "You idiot! You'll only make him angry when he comes!"

"So? He deserves it!" Naruto shot back.

Sasuke decided to add his own 2 cents, "Naruto, a Jonin will not fall for a prank."

Naruto shook his head, "A Jonin might not fall for a simple prank, but we could still have hours until he arrives, more then enough time to make a godly prank."

Both adolescents looked distraught at the thought of waiting for another few hours, and Naruto's prank idea was becoming rather appealing.

TWO HOURS LATER

'Oh, I know that guy.'

"Huh?" Naruto lifted his head from his desk, drawing Sasuke's and Sakura's attention.

'Your sensei, I know him.'

"He's here?" Naruto asked

He's here!?" Saukra shot out of her seat.

All three of the teens stared at the door, they started to hear footsteps approaching closer and closer...

They heard the door get grabbed...

The teacher blinked as an eraser dropped on his head.

Naruto frowned, "I really thought he would dodge that... the rest of the prank won't be as interesting now."

The teacher looked at him confused, "Rest of the prank?"

He looked above him to see a... "Storage seal?" He questioned.

The seal glowed and the teacher found himself assaulted by hundreds of pieces of chalk.

"Ow...OW! Damn that hurts!" The teacher ungracefully stumbled out of the raining chalk, his clothes adorning multiple little chalk marks.

The teens all stared completely unimpressed, "YOU are our sensei?" Sakura questioned.

He chuckled, "Oops... Well hello!" He waved, "I am your sensei Kakashi! And I really did not like that prank, you will pay." His tone went from happy to slightly sinister, sending a chill down the blonde's spine.

He suddenly laughed with the most happy and slightly maniacal laugh ever, completely unnerving the kids.

Kakashi turned around and looked at the chalk pile. "I do have to admit that prank was impressive, well meet me on the roof." He disappeared as he finished.

'See? I like him.'

Naruto blinked. 'Who the hell did the old man pair us up with!?'