A/N: Welcome Citizens to another chapter of our story, I appreciate all the support I got last chapter.
Vekugenks: Thanks I tried to make Radic a bit different from most parents. And Cress will learn about his heritage gradually as the story progresses. And Danzo will get his good sir.
Without further wait, let's get started.
Years have past since the fateful day of the Nine Tails attack and the destruction of planet Vegeta. Since then, the Leaf Village had managed to completely rebuild their home with help of their leader.
Even though good things have happened, not everything has been perfect. The entire Uchiha clan was slaughtered by one of their own. Many lives were lost thanks to Itachi, but one of them were spared. His younger brother. Sauske, Kohona's "Prized Uchiha". Witnessing the fate of his clan, the boy went from a cheerful young boy to a emo hell-bent on revenge.
And life has not been particularly nice to our heroes, Cress and Naruto.
The people of the village took it upon their selves to see Naruto as the Kyubi incarnate himself, believing the innocent boy a demon. And Cress as the demon sent from above to help the Kyubi to destroy them all.
The boys had to undergo endless shunning from their peers and elders, plus a monthly game called monster Hunter, done by the villagers to harrass the boys. Though luckily they would never go too far thanks to Hiruzen. But today, Hiruzen was in a meeting today, leaving our heroes unprotected.
An eight year old Naruto and Cress sat in an apartmenr, their own home provided by the rolled around in the bed, boredom making him irritated. "Cressss, I'm boredddd " He complained as he rolled off the bed.
Cress was shooting paper into a bin, trying to cure his own boredom. "Let's go to Ichiraku's?' He asked and suggested.
Naruto jumped up and grabbed Cress by the arm and pulled him to the door. "Yeah, let's hurry! I want some Ramen!" He let Cress go and ran out, hopping over the railing, to land in front of the entrance in their slum of an apartment.
Cress followed after him, and the quickly began their trip to about the only place that would let them eat like Nornal people.
Cress stopped as he blinked, he felt like he felt a lot of something behind him. He blinked and turned around, seeing a huge mob chasing after the two. Cress grabbed Naruto's arm and began running in the other direction. "Run Naruto!"
"Wha-?" Naruto being confused, turned back and his eyes widened in fear. Seeing that large amount of people behind them filled his tiny heart with fear.
He complied with what Cress said and the two children ran like their lives depended on it.
Yells could be heard from behind as the mob began to gain on the two.
"This way!" Cress led Naruto down an alley, thinking they could escape from their pursuers, but unfortunately it turned out to be a dead end. "No!" He yelled as he put his hands on the walls. "There has to be a way out!"
But there wasn't and the mob eventually cornered the two. Cress got in front of Naruto, as he glared at the crowd.
The man in front wiped some sweat off his forhead as he approached. "You two little bastards made me do all that running!" He said. Cress spit on the man's face, earning him a kick to the side of the head, knocking him to the side.
"Ahhhh!" He groaned as he held his head. Two members of the mob picked him up by his little arms.
"Since you want to be a tough guy, we'll go ahead and beat up your so called, brother instead. Get the demon boy!" With that order, they began poking and stomping the young boy out, forcing Cress to watch, and hear Naruto's pleas for them to stop.
"S-stop it!" Cress yelled as he struggled to get out of the older men's grasp. Tears began to leak out of his eyes and something began bubbling inside as he began to shake in rage.
The man who ordered this went over to Cress with a laugh. "Oh, is the little demon crying? How about i-"
"LEAVE US ALONE!" He screamed and everything bubbling inside released an explosion of ki, launching the mob away from the two boys.
Soon, the ki stopped and Cress fell from his floating position, falling onto the ground, unconscious.
The third arrived on the scene with Anbu minutes later. "What possibly could have happened here?" He mumbled, walking into the destroyed alley, to the two boys. "Which one of you caused this?" He picked the two unconscious boys.
"Lord Hokage, what would you like us to do with them?" He asked, gesturing to the people shaking off the explosion.
"Imprison and question then, I want to know the truth about what happened here." Without waiting for a response he hopped out of the alley towards the Hokage's tower to get the boys fixed up.
"This whole thing is on me."
And since that day, not much has changed, other than Hiruzen keeping a closer eye on the two boys.
The now twelve year old boys are now getting ready for their final day at the academy, but how were they getting ready you say? Well they were training in a way only the best ninjas train...By painting the Hokage monument and running from the Shinobi trying to catch them.
"Too slow!" Yelled a familiar brown skinned spiky haired boy with a grin. He wore a black long sleeve shirt with a white vest over it, along with black shorts and white and black boots, his own unique style along with his black headband.
"Can't catch me!" And our favorite orange jumpsuit wearing knucklehead jumped into the fray as the two continued to run away from the Ninja.
They landed after the felt they got away and laughed before highfiving each other. "Man, that was to easy." Cress said as he rubbed his head.
"They will never catch us, believe it!" Naruto said with a thumbs up. Cress blinked and pointed behind him.
Naruto turned around and was met face to face with a very angry looking Iruka.
"You two KNUCKLEHEADS!"
Naruto and Cress said at their desk after being laughed at by the entire and yelled at by Iruka sensei.
Cress had his face in his desk, dreading his name being called to take the exam. Sure it was only making a clone, but his entire life, he was never able to muster out an ounce of chakra. The only actual Shinobi like thing he could do was taijutsu.
He snapped out of his thoughts as Naruto was called up. "Alright! Wish me luck Cress and Sakura-chan!"
Sakura didn't respond, because like usual she was too busy fawning over Sauske, Cress laughed as Naruto sulked.
"Good luck Naruto." Naruto nodded and left the room.
"Ha! Watch him fail!" Said an arrogant and obnoxious Kiba from behind Cress.
"Whatever you say dogbreath." Cress shot back, making Kiba growl in annoyance and stand up.
"Wanna say that to my face, monkey boy!" Cress's eye began to twitch as he shot up from his seat and cracked his knuckles. "Wanna go you little puppy!" Kiba got right in his face as the two began got into a shouting match for the next five minutes.
"Cress Uzumaki, you're up." Cress turned and walked out the room. "We'll finish this later you asswipe!" He continued to the examination room, and stood in from of Iruka and Mizuki.
"Alright, Cress, all you have to do is make one clone and you pass." Cress nodded and began to concentrate.
'Alright, alright. You can do this Cress. Just concentrate and think about what you want.' With those thoughts in his head, he got into position and began to try and make a tried and tried, but to no avail, it didn't work.
"I'm sorry Cress, but you didn't pass." Cress clinched his fist as a fallen look took over his face. He left the room, feeling crush.
'And I actually thought I could do it. I'm such a failure.' He stopped when a hand was put on his shoulder. He stopped and saw his sensei Mizuki.
"Oh, hey sensei." He said, with no emotion in his voice.
"Hey Cress, don't be mad at Iruka. He's just doing what he thinks is best for you. He doesn't want to send you out into the Ninja world unprepared."
Cress hated to admit it, but he felt like Mizuki had a point.
"But...I know how much you want to become a Ninja, so I'm going to help you." His eyes widened a bit and Mizuki could see the joy in his eyes and smirked a bit
He got down low and started whispering the plan in the eager boys ear.
Cress hopped from tree to tree as he made his way towards the location that Mizuki told him to go. This was pretty easy, if he was being honest with his self.
Mizuki instructed him to lead any Ninja on their trail, in a different direction until he lost them. And he did just that. All he could hope now is that Naruto did his part.
He jumped from a tree to the ground as he saw a frustrated looking Mizuki looking around.
"Mizuki sensei." Mizuki quickly turned around, putting his hand on a kunai, before realizing it was Cress. He relaxed, but didn't remove his hand.
"Oh, Cress. Did you lead the Ninja away?" Cress nodded, causing Mizuki to smirk. "Good job. Looks like your purpose has been fulfilled.
He tossed the Kunai straight at the boy's chest. On natural instinct, Cress dashed to the side, the Kunai only cutting his shoulder.
"What the hell are you doing Mizuki!?" Cress yelled as he put a hand over his shoulder.
The older man growled. "Stay still you little demon! You and Naruto are nothing, but demons sent here to finish your previous job. Die!" Mizuki tossed another Kunai that lodged itself into his leg, causing Cress to fall to a knee in pain.
"This is the end for you." Before he could make another move, Naruto landed next to Cress, holding Iruja in his arms.
"You've hurt my family enough." Naruto put Iruka down and form a handsign. "Shadow Clone Jutsi!" One after the other, clones of Naruto began to appear all over, quickly sorrounding Mizuki.
His mouth was agape in shock, and a growing sense of fear. "I-impossible." But those feeling soon got replaced with rage as Mizuki jumped into the air. "I will not be made a fool of by you!" He pulled out a number of shurikens, ready to impale Naruto.
Though, for some reason on instinct, Cress put his hands up and he felt something tingle inside him. "Not if I can help it!" He yelled and a golden orb of energy flew out, smacking Mizuki in a tree.
And as if that was the cue, the clones began pounding on Mizuki. Cress stared at his hands wondering what he had just done.
"Hey that was awesome! Did you read from the scroll too?" Naruto asked and Cress just shrugged in response. "Nope."
Naruto and Cress both sat on a side of Iruka after all the action had died down. The boys couldn't stop messing with their newfound abilities if their lives depended on it.
"Naruto, Cress, come here." Iruka's voice snapped the boys out of their trances and they complied. "Close your eyes for me." After they did, he removed Naruto's goggles and Cress's headband from their respective forheads.
"You two really made me proud today. You showed me that even if you two make mistakes, you can own up to them and fix them. Naruto and Cress Uzumaki, you both are now officially genin.
Their eyes open and the two looked at each other's forhead with huge grins on their faces. "Thanks Iruka Sensei!" And the three embraced for a happy ever after...Well, until next chapter.
And that is it for today's chapter folks. And I have questions for you all. When it comes to next chapter, team placements will happen. So, do you all feel like I should place Cress on Team seven with the others, or place him on a custom team, full of Ocs. Let me know your thoughts. See you all next time, peace.