Kay, now if Naruto seems a bit OP...I'm sorry, but I can't retake a stroke of my writer's blade. Also, it gets better, for Naruto that is. It's gonna be a NaruIno pairning, cause I just 'ave trouble puttin' Naruto through the hell that is Sakura. NaruSaku fans I'm sorry, but I can't put 'im through in this one.

"Sup"/'Sup' speech and thoughts of people

"Sup, bitches" speech of demons

justu

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The academy students were a week away from graduation and the ex-dropouts felt like shit, they had in a way betrayed a friend, got tongue lashings from their mothers for keeping secrets from the village, and also for the cold shoulder Naruto was giving by avoiding them. The day started out as any day where you were sulking would start, then Ino and Sakura were at it again with arguments about who sits next to Sasuke, when the door open and killer intent came crashing on the ex-dropouts. They all had one thought go through there minds, 'Oh shit!'. In stepped a pissed looking Naruto, he was dressed in all black and he had a face that seemed blank until someone looked in his eyes, they were a maelstrom of anger, hurt, betrayal and many more that kids their age shouldn't be feeling.

Naruto gave the class a once over and he looked unimpressed and bored, as well as unhappy. He took a seat next to Sasuke, hoping to be left alone by the emo king, unfortunately he had no such luck, "Hey Dobe, where have you been? We haven't seen you in months, and what's with the new clothes?" When he looked past Naruto, he saw that Kiba, Akamaru, Choji and even SHikamaru were mouthing the words, 'Don't screw with him! He'll murder you in cold blood!'. But their 'words' fell on deaf ears, Sasuke's gaze returned to the blond before him and when he looked into his eyes, his heart almost stopped at what he saw. He saw a volcano of rage, just waiting for the right trigger to blow sky high.

Sasuke's look of horror and fear got the girls who pined over him to back away from him in fear. The drop-outs no more breathed a sigh of relief, then Iruka-sensei spoke up from behind them, "Oh, Naruto. Good to have you back, hey you okay?" He reached out to him to get his attention, and he got it. Naruto got a look of a cornered animal and he grabbed a kunai out of his pouch then held it at the ready for an attack, he stood there for a moment until he saw Umino Iruka, "Oh, it's just you Iruka-sensei. You startled me, I must have been daydreaming, sorry." His eyes spoke for him as Iruka stood stunned at his student who used to be the drop out.

As he got his bearings he decided to leave Naruto to his own devises for the time being. He found his composure, right next to the 'let's never piss off Naruto' isle of his mind. The class was dumbfounded at their old deadlast, he'd changed a great deal for those who knew absolutely nothing about him, while the four who knew him could tell that he wasn't in the best of moods.

The class began with what they would be doing in the time until graduation. The window was open and Naruto caught a whiff of a scent he didn't know, but really ground his gears. He growled lowly and looked out the window with his eyes turning into red fox eyes. His growl didn't go unnoticed though, when Iruka turned around from using Chakura Hankyouteii no Jutstu and what he saw frightened him, Naruto was staring out the window with the Kyuubi's eyes and a growl in his throat. Iruka deduced that what ever was bothering Naruto must be trouble to get him this riled up. He made a split-second decision, "Alright, class we're going to be practicing taijutsu. Now let's get outside before we have trouble." He looked to Naruto, willing him to catch on to his plan and he wasn't disappointed. For when they made eye contact, the Kyuubi jinchuuriki gave an ever slight nod to his teacher.

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Outside in the training field for the academy, the students were busy about, trying to decide who they would fight. Naruto was given special permission from Iruka to find out whatever it was that got him riled up. He was about to leave when Sasuke came up with the brilliant plan to fight Naruto, "Dobe, fight me!" "No!" Naruto's rejection of Sasuke surprised everyone, Iruka was half-surprised because he knew what was on Naruto's mind. "What do you mean, no?!" Sasuke was now agitated with the dobe who had the gall to deny him a battle, him an elite, an Uchiha! Naruto just shrugged and walked leapt away by infusing chakra into his leaps for greater distance in his leaps.

"No wonder you don't have any parents," That's when Naruto stopped, "you're a coward. And in their shoes, I wouldn't want a coward to dishonor my family name as a shinobi!" Sasuke smirked in triumph when he saw Naruto was trembling, though he thought Naruto was crying but the Kyuubi jinchuuriki was trying to hold his hatred and want to kill down. As he calmed down, Sasuke used one last sentence to break the barrier, "You are a coward and your mother must have been a bitch in li-" Naruto lunged with blood lust and red in his eyes. "List here, Teme! I've been nice over the years, but I have had it with the insults and name calling! Let this be a warning..." He let Sasuke go and ran up a wall with little to no trouble, until he started slipping and had to use his long nails to climb.

"Damn IT! Not enough chakra control for this, oh well. I gotta hurry if I'm gonna catch whatever or whoever that scent is!" He climbed the academy and ran through Konoha's busy streets with a purpose, a purpose to find out why he smelled another jinchuuriki.

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Mei Terumi was a reasonable woman by nature, she was also a woman no one wanted to mess with if they had a choice in the matter. Who ever had tried to destroy her with that jutsu, apparently, didn't get that memo. She looked at the boy who'd attacked her, he was not too short but he wasn't very tall either, he was probably about twelve from his stature. He was glaring at her with a great deal of malice, and she could tell it wasn't her that had angered him, she just didn't know what had made the kid blow a gasket.

"Why'd you attack me?" She asked this in a sickly sweet voice that always worked against her enemies. His response frightened her, "You're carrying the scent of one such as me, the power of human sacrifice, a jinchuuriki! What number and who is it that is the jinchuuriki of your village?!" He had no fear in his voice. This rubbed Mei the wrong way, this little boy wasn't afraid of her, she would have to rectify this. "You are a strange little boy, you know that?" Her voice was calm in tone, but there was an underlining way she spoke that said, 'You'd better not cross me, little boy!'.

Naruto got a good look at the woman. She was a brunette with her hair in a tamed mess, he right eye was covered by her hair, she wore a blue dress that fell just below her knees. She had green eyes that were serious while her facial features were friendly to him, even after he attacked her, this behavior was the same as the villagers and Naruto was not thrilled at the memories. He gave her a look that displayed hurt and betrayal, depression and hatred, and finally, a promise to forever be untrusting of humanity. This look struck her heart cords and brought a few stray tears to her eyes before she was attacked again.

"YOU'RE JUST LIKE THE VILLAGERS! YOU ACT NICE, THEN WHEN NO ONE'S LOOKING, YOU STAB US IN THE BACK!" She could hear every word was filled with so much pain, betrayal, and hate that she was starting to have second thoughts on fighting him. He began gathering chakra and when she was about to say she didn't want to fight, he struck. He spun and turned into a bladed, clawed and pissed drill. She saw this and could almost hear the words of a song in his little vortex as it neared her, "Tonight I'm so alone...This sorrow takes a hold...Don't leave me it's so cold, never wanna be so cold," His memory of the lyrics to a song like that surprised her more than the fact that he was singing in the middle of a one-sided fight. "I'm, falling in the black! Slipping through the cracks, falling to the depths can I ever go back?!"

He spun towards her and she jumped away from the attack. She was astounded to see that the attack left a small crater in the middle of the street she was in a moment before. "What are you?! There's no way a child could-!" He appeared behind her and kicked causing her to fly into the side of building, scaring the occupants out of the building to see what the commotion was, "Oh no! Not the demon brat again!" "Haven't you tortured our village enough demon!" "Yeah, go away, you damned fox!" Hearing all these things, Mei looked to see they were directed to the boy and he was trying not to kill them and she felt confusion at the names and anger that a child his age was subjected to this, 'Why do they say these things? What do they mean by fox and demon? Why doesn't he tell them off?' She got up and was surprised to see the boy staring heatedly at her while he spoke up.

"You're just like them! You act kind in public and in the light of day, but in the light of the moon? HAHAHAH," The laugh had such an mirthlessness that she was scared for the boy's sanity, "you attack us and try to kill us, just for LIVING! We wouldn't attack at first, not unless provoked. But, then you people can't figure that out! You can't tell the difference between prisoner and prison!" Mei was beyond confused at his behavior now, 'What does he mean, we? We who? What is he, to be able to pull off a technique that strong and so young...Could he be?'

"Answer me, lady!" His words cut deep when he said lady, like it was a poison, and she was beginning to see why he attacked. He didn't know her, he was trying to vent steam and hatred for being mistreated. And he zeroed in on her, meaning that he could tell she was strong. "Who's your village's power of human sacrifice?! Who's your village's JINCHUURIKI?!" It all added up when he said that. The realization hit her like his attack would have had she not dodged. The emotion, the mistreatment from the civilians, the attacking someone strong enough to survive the attacks...He was a jinchuuriki, and she realized this with small tears escaping her eyes when she understood, 'Yagura, this must've been you as a little boy. I'm sorry, now, I won't let another one suffer. He'll be able to release his emotions and learn of his kindred.'

Her resolve steeled, she stood up from where she was, startling the civilians who just now realized of her existence. "Huh, the demon's attacking innocents after all this time?!" "Why am I not surprised?!" "Are you okay, miss? Did the demon hurt you badly?!" With each word that they spoke, she wanted nothing more than to kill them. But, this wasn't her village, she couldn't do that without bringing Kirigakure more trouble. "No! I'm fine, and he's not a DEMON! He's a little boy, a little boy who's led a rough life! And now, he's trying to stop himself from killing all of you ungrateful bastards! You should be thankful he hasn't removed his seal by now!"

Each word shocked the men and women, this complete stranger was standing up for the(I'm gonna hate myself in a sec) demon brat? It made no sense, it was inconceivable! Before they could retort, she returned to the matter of his emotional health through combat, "Get ready! I'm going to pay you back for that move, little boy. I'm a Tokubetsu Jonin of Kirigakure, and I won't stand for being out stood by an academy student!" With tha, she charged and engaged him in taijutsu and was surprised he wasn't having trouble keeping up with her. He was actually putting her in her place, not the other way around!

She got an opening and took it! She was out of breathe when she heard him charging an attack. She turned and saw in his hand, a baseball sized purple orb with rings around it, it made a sound like a mix between bubbling and a cat purring. "Behold, the Yondaime Hokage's third original jutsu, RASENRINGU!" He drew nearer and she that he wasn't in pain anymore as he yelled this jutsu, but she tried to dodge as it was of the Yondaime Hokage. That man was strong, and any technique of his, even in failure, could do considerable damage. Deep down, she felt like that song he was singing was still being sung. As if it were a part of her very soul and spirit now.

He went for her and she reacted intelligently. She used her kekkai genkai, in her case it was Yoton. She took a deep breathe before spitting lava at the young jinchuuriki before her. She didn't want to hurt the little boy, she just wanted to stay alive, so she toned down the strength. It worked in her favor because he got caught in the cooled lava and lost concentration, resulting in an explosion that broke his prison. He looked better than her at the moment, and she was a little jealous of his ability to heal now. He looked at her with distrust evident in his eyes and a glare set on her, trying to decide whether she was holding back or not when he decided to speak again, "Now will you answer me, lady?!"

His lack of venom in the word lady brought joy to her heart in the knowledge that she was helping him. In response to his irritated question, she wanted to make this fun, "Nope, not unless you can beat me?!" His eyes to on a look that she didn't recognize and it made her feel uneasy when he took a stance with a cross shaped hand seal, "THEN LET'S DO THIS!"

His voice was heard all the way from the academy, and he was at the gates of Konohagakure right now. He decided to get ready and to do that, he yelled out a B-rank ninjutsu that hadn't been heard in a few years, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

When he did this, smoke appeared next to him, out of the smoke stepped out perfectly accurate, and solid, replicas of himself. "Kay, guys let's show this old lady, who's strongest 'round here!" At that remark a tick mark appeared on her forehead and she made a silent promise to make him pay for that one. "Let's try that new jutsu we've been working on, ya know! The one we made in accordance with tsurga, after all, we made tsurga based off of the Inuzuka tsuga! Now, for a newer version...AAHHH!BATSURGA!"

His declaration of making a justu based on a clan's jutsu reached the ears of the academy and surprised everyone there and near Naruto. His clones and he tuned into a drill of kunai, shuriken and fists within a cloud of smoke as they neared Mei. She was now very worried about her mental health for picking fun at the young jinchuuriki. Clearly a bad plan, but she couldn't worry about that now, when she had three sets of drill-like attacks coming straight for her!

She tried to run but was cut off when the two on the sides of the first broke from the straight and direct approach to appear at both her sides and they hit home with the first hitting her in the front. Now, she could tell that this little boy, no young man, wasn't a push-over. As he finished, one could tell that a bad scrape had occurred when they took a look at Mei. Her clothes were intact, courtesy of Naruto trying not to have her end up naked from his kunai and shuriken, but her arms and other spots where her skin was visible were covered in bruises and small cuts.

"Now! Will you answer me lady?!" His exasperated tone brought a chuckle from Mei's throat as she nodded an affirmative and gestured for him to lean down to hear her clearly. She whispered very lightly, so no one but him could hear her, "The jinchuuriki of Kirigakure, is the Yondaime Mizukage. His name is, Yagura, he is the jinchuuriki of the Sanbi. Huuuh, the Three-Tailed Turtle. He isn't one to mess with, he looks about your age but is in his early twenties. He is filled with a great deal of blood lust and he has authorized the purge of all clans in Mizu no Kuni."

Naruto was shocked to say the least, he had always assumed that all jinchuuriki were docile unless provoked. Clearly he was wrong, but he didn't care. He'd gotten what he wanted and was about to leave when she grabbed him by the collar and wrist to whisper to him once more, "Now, quid pro quo. I told you what you wanted to know, now, you have to return the favor. For not just the answers, but for the beat down you gave me and the old lady comment. Now, what's your name little boy and how many tails?"

He looked at her with a critical gaze, trying to judge whether she wasn't going to stab him in the back. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto, I am the Kyuubi jinchuuriki." He spoke in the same whisper she did, her eyes widened in surprise and understanding on why he was a stamina freak and where he got all his power, even though he didn't use any of his bijuu's chakra. "Okay, now we're getting somewhere. I am Mei Terumi, and I was trying to get Konoha's assistance in the civil war that Yagura started because some of the people in Kirigakure weren't in agreement with the purge. Now, can you heal me? I know you can transfer a bit of chakra and that will help me heal."

When he heard this, he nodded and concentrated on her more serious wounds, there weren't a lot of them, but the chakra control that Naruto had was shoddy at best and was a lot of work for him. He got it done in the end, but it took a bit of time. "That's better, now I can speak without hurting my throat more than it was. The last thing I need is for you to direct me to the Hokage's tower."

He just stared at her again, with the same look that showed he wasn't entirely in trust to her, but he relented seeing no harm in it, "It's near the hospital and in front of the Hokage Monument." With that, he pointed to the monument and got up then to help her up off the ground.

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Back at the academy, when Naruto got back. He was in a better mood than earlier and he didn't hate everyone. He was still a bit tense, but he was calmer now, thanks to Mei and her fighting skills. Iruka was astounded at what was able to be seen from the academy when they fought. The students felt a greater amount of respect for the blond boy. Sasuke came to him with humility in his step as he asked for a fight, with Naruto's unique justus.

"Do-Naruto, fight me...Um, please?" Everyone was surprised at Sasuke's display of humility, but Naruto wasn't going to turn down a free fight and a chance to put the Uchiha in his place, "Sure! I'll beat your ass into the ground!"

His proclamation wasn't arrogant in tone, nor was it unsure, it just was. It held confidence that didn't cloud his judgement. When the class went outside, Sasuke and Naruto took their places in the field for the academy. The whole academy(it was only one or two more classes) came out to see what the commotion was, they weren't surprised to see that Sasuke and Naruto were fighting again. The only shocker was Naruto was calm and didn't show a sign of doubt in his abilities.

Iruka started the fight and they ran at each other with power in their steps until Naruto called out his first original offensive jutsu, "Tsurga!" When he called that name, he spun and hit Sasuke dead onto the target.

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That's chapter 3 y'all, what do ya think? I personally think I did good and made it badass! Review please.