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

"Sup" speech of kyuubi

Jutsu

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Naruto had been patient, they had gotten their senseis that day. Naruto was teamed up with Sasuke and Sakura, Sakura was being impatient while Sasuke was just being emo. The lack of activity wasn't what was driving Naruto bat-shit, oh no, it was Sakura's pointless ranting and questioning. Her rambling stopped abruptly as she looked to Naruto, and the way she stared at him was creeping him out to say the least, "What's with the starry-eyes, Sakura? Did you just get a doujutsu out of the blue or something?"

His question broke her out of her ogling, or whatever that was, to answer, "It's nothing Naruto, just wondering what you're really like. You were all serious when you fought that Guren lady, the night when the poor district went up in flame-!" "That was you?!" Sasuke's interruption irritated Sakura and made Naruto glare at Sakura for letting that slip, "Huuh, yes that was me. Now before youstart begging me to fight you again, I'm going to say this once, it was a self-preservation thing. It's not a secret techniques or anything." Sasuke had on what one would equate to a pout for him, it made Sakura and Naruto do a double take at the sight of Sasuke showing emotions at all.

"Anyways, what were you saying Sakura?" Naruto's attempt at returning to normalcy wasn't lost to Sakura as she continued, "Well, could you tell us a bit about yourself, the real you?" Naruto took on a contemplative face as he threw the idea around in his mind. "No," his proclamation caused the other two to face-fault with shock. "W-Why not?!" Sasuke and Sakura said this at the same time and and surprised all of them in the interest Sasuke was showing to them, when the door opened revealing a man. He had gravity-defying grey hair, a mask over his lower face, his hitae-ate over his left eye, and a jonin vest on.

He was caught in a large snare inside the doorway, Sakura was laughing, Sasuke was stifling his chuckles, while Naruto was glaring at their new sensei. He recognized this man's scent from Tsume's search party. "Hello, Inu!" He growled his name out and glared daggers at the man, confusing the other two occupants of the room, "Hehehe, you're not still mad that I went looking for you with a group of jonin and Tsume-San, are you?" In response Naruto got closer and pick pocketed the pouch with his book on his left hip and took the book. "No, give me back my book, please?!"

The man was frantic, this young prankster of a genin had just robbed him right before his eyes, and his book's safety was in jeopardy. He tried struggling out of the snare, with no success. The other two genin were now outright laughing at the man's problems, not even worrying that Sasuke was showing his emotions like a white flag. The man's struggles were comical and his status as a joni was questioned, he couldn't escape a simple snare trap made by a genin, until Naruto decided to kick it up a notch with his tenant's help, "Well well, look at this, a little genin has outsmarted a jonin," They all stopped, Inu was in a near heart attack state from hearing the Kyuubi's voice, while the other two genin were confused, "oh well. Guess this village isn't all it's cracked up to be, I'll fix that when I become *coughcough* Hokage. I still have a sore throat from that voice...Uh."

'Thanks for letting me use your voice, Kyuubi. It's so much fun screwing with people, HAHAHAHA' Naruto's thoughts were heard by the mentioned demon and if Naruto were to enter his mindscape, he would have seen a chuckling demon, but all he heard were the dark chuckles from hell, "You're welcome, ningen. I still hate you for being my prison, but at least you're entertaining when it comes to memories and hobbies." Kyuubi's dark chuckles were continuing before they died down to snores. 'If the circumstances weren't what they were, we could've been friends, maybe...' "But they are what they are, besides, I wouldn't stoop so low as to be friends with a ningen."

He had finished his inner chat already, but the others in the room were pale still from the shock of hearing a demonic voice come from the local prankster. Inu was too scared to move, for fear of some how provoking the demon within his soon to be student. The silence went on for at least five minutes until they heard the laughter of Naruto, "Hahaha, you should see your faces! To think, that an ex-ANBU of a joni, would be scared shitless by a simple voice trick, HAHAHA!"

The other genin were confused, but when his words sunk in they joined him in laughter. "Huuh, okay. So my synopsis of you guys, I hate you three." His statement sent them to new heights of laughter, they finished and then dragged Inu up the stairs to the roof. "Why didn't you untie me?!"

His voice was raised to get them to realize that they weren't showing them any respect, but he got more than he bargained for with that plead, "Oh, I'm sorry sensei, would you like us to untie you? Well, I'm sorry sensei, but Sasuke has training to pick up on that e's late for, Sakura has to get her fan club to have a meeting, and well I have other things to do. Besides, you're a jonin, a simple snare shouldn't be such a problem for you..." The three who Naruto were speaking about were scared, he had nailed them in behavior and skills with ease. Sasuke was in need of training to do, Sakura was planning on gossiping and Inu was a jonin that should be able to get out of the trap.

"Now, Inu! Do you know where I live?!" Naruto's voice wasn't cheeky, cute or adorable anymore, his voice was serious and demanding. Inu knew he wasn't in a position to be doing the questioning and had no alternative, "No, Naruto, I don't know where your den is. You're a slippery little fox, you know that?!" When he said all this, Naruto nodded with a smirk of victory as he released his new sensei.

"What do you mean, 'slippery, little fox'? He's not a fox, sensei, he's just an amazing prankster." Sakura's naivety got Inu to chuckle and lie straight to her, "It's an expression my dear, now introductions are in order. I already know Naruto, through events that I don't need to speak of," When he said this, Sasuke and Sakura exchanged looks of curiosity and just a hint of concern about what Naruto did to the jonin in front of them, "Now, Naruto calls me Inu because that was my codename when I was in ANBU, my actual name is Hatake Kakashi. I won't tell you my hopes, dreams and so on, because I don't want to talk to you three more than I have to..."

His complete lethargic personality was obvious to the genin and they decided unspokenly to get him up and running somehow at a later date. "My name is Haruno Sakura. My hopes are*looks at Sasuke*...My dreams are*looks at Sasuke*...My dislikes are idiots, annoying people, and Ino-pi!" At that point Naruto made his existence known to them with an irritated tone in his voice, "Hey, Sakura, how 'bout you shut up! The world doesn't circulate around Sasuke and your rivalry, if you were to fight against a ninja in a real battle, you would've died within five minutes! I mean, seriously! If you want to be a kunoichi, you have to act like one and take the shinobi life serious, it's not a game." When he finished he decided to leave the roof top and blow off some steam somewhere, but Sakura's sense of 'pride' made her think she could fight him, "Oh yeah, well how about you prove it, DOBE?!" The moment she finished, Naruto had a kunai at her throat and a look that said, 'Creation cares whether or not you live or die, so think before being stupid'.

He backed away from a terrified Sakura, stunned Sasuke, and a worried Kakashi. They had all thought he had had a crush on Sakura, but it looked as if the opposite was true. After the initial shock wore off, Sakura decided that a few answers were in order, "W-What happened to you, Naruto? Where's that little, fun-loving idiot we all knew? Where's the Naruto who would ask me on a date almost every chance he got? What happened to that Naruto?"

Naruto looked to them all with half-lidded eyes, they weren't completely open because he was running through the memories he had of the three before him, "That Naruto, died. He died a long time ago, Inu here was supposed to protect me from the villagers' abuse, but...Seeing as that the Old Naruto is dead, I think you three can connect the dots...An S-Class sercret is my life, my parents, my status. I've figured out my status and my parents, now I just have to escape the life the village set up and made for me...Sasuke, it's your turn, and also, don't think you're suffering is anything to hold like a badge like normal, I'm heading out, I have some meditation to catch up on..."

With that, he left. He left no wayward glance to tell if they took the 'bait', no words were used to draw them nearer to the 'end of the story', no...anything, it was unnerving for his classmates and frightening for his perspective sensei. Kakashi was now horrified at what he had let happen, all those years ago. His possible students, looked to him for answers and with anger in their eyes that they were out of the know and that the Naruto they 'knew' was gone because of the jonin before them.

"I can't tell you what his secret is, if I do, we may all be executed. Also, I know that what I have is wrong now, I wish I could fix it. But...I can't, just like all my other mistakes, I can only try and make amends. Now, as he said, Sasuke it's your turn..." Sasuke went on ahead to tell them his likes, dislikes, ambition, and hobbies. What the genin didn't know, was that Naruto had decided to meditate in the front yard of the academy. He heard everything they said and made sure to eventually pay them each a personal visit. His musings were broken by perverse giggles being heard from the roof and the groans of two unamused graduates. when Naruto heard this, he whispered the only thing that came to mind, "Ero-Inu-sensei..."

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The trio reached training ground 7 on time, Kakashi didn't. They waited for three hours straight, the need for food overpowered the preference to obey, Naruto went and got food for them. In that time away, Sakura and Sasuke were debating whether or not to trust Naruto, "Hey, Sasuke-kun?" "Hn?" His response was bored, but she could tell he was interested, "Do you think we can trust Naruto? I mean, we know next to nothing about him, really. It's scary how well we took him for granted and we lost him, I don't like that..."

Sakura's confession surprised Sasuke greatly, all he'd seen of Sakura and Naruto's interaction was Naruto goofing off which got Sakura angry and she lashed out on Naruto. He didn't have an answer and they both knew it, all they could do was hope that the 'new' Naruto was a good person. Unbeknownst to them, Naruto had heard it all and was now scheming their 'demise' for talking about him like a stranger, ironically, 'Hmm, what should I do to them? What to do...I got it! Hehehehe, this is gonna be fun!'

The two had been talking for awhile when a little red fox came out of the forest. The little thing looked harmless, but there was something very strange about the furball. A fox didn't just walk up to a pair of human children, especially not in a village that hated foxes. Sakura recognized the critter though, and she voiced this knowledge, "Hey buddy, I remember you. Ino and I ran into you a few weeks ago, what were you doing that close to the village?"

The fox responded in barks, yaps, and the like, causing Sakura to giggle in a giddy manner which got Sasuke chuckling at the abnormal behavior of the fox. When the fox stopped making noise it started to pull at Sakura's skirt, trying to get her to follow it. They noticed this and went with the furball, where they were was a shocker and an eye-opener. They were not that far from a make-shift burial ground, on closer inspection they saw that on the stones was written i scratches and pawprints. The two couldn't read it, because they couldn't understand the language of the foxes and they saw the sadness that was on the fox's face.

"I'm sorry for what human's of our village have*sob* done to you buddy, I'll help how I can. I can't make*sniffle* any promises, but, I will do what I can..." Sakura's words were choked up with tears at the number of foxes buried, there were at least thirty, and they didn't know if this was the only site of burial. The fox how ever, had a slowly wagging tail at her determination as it then looked to Sasuke. And the emo king was...silently, crying?!

His voice was choked up as well, but he spoke with a determination and understanding evident, "I understand now Naruto, you can release the henge. I now see what you have suffered when you left for three months, you were trying to help...Your people? I guess, you could call them. I will help how I can, I swear we'll help how we can. No promises, we are genin and children, but we won't back down from this cruelty."

Sakura nodded at each word, her surprise was evident when she realized what Sasuke meant about the henge, but she was still determined. "Thanks you guys. This place is sacred to me, I heard you guys and I don't blame you for the mistrust. Huuuh, I found this place by chance when I first henged into a fox, I smelled others and I followed the scents. I...Looked on at the number of graves, and...I saw what humanity really is, a sick and twisted race!"

He was crying silently, but they knew that telling them this was a huge step for him. They remained quiet while he told them this story, "I felt that I had suffered as a child, I was wrong, oh so very wrong! These poor creatures, my kindred technically, suffered so much worse...They lost kits, Kits! All because civilians and shinobi alike, needed someone or something to blame! I made a promise that day, to never trust humanity! The majority of humanity isn't capable of reason, and I will hold that promise. There are a select few who are able to reason, but they are rare and never last that long...I am begging you, don't bring anyone, anyone! Here." His teammates were shocked that he was so trusting of them right now, he had seemed so cold and closed off the other day. Now he was showing vulnerability to two complete strangers. They could do nothing more than nod to him in a silent promise to not let his trust be wasted on them.

Sakura was the first to speak after the promise, "Naruto, I know it's none of my business, but what do the stones say? I can't read fox and I doubt Sasuke-kun can either?" She looked to Sasuke at this and received a shake of the head no to her question of linguistics, "If you would be so kind, could you perhaps, translate it for us?" Her question hung there in the air and she was about to take the question back when Naruto began to read the stone before them.

"'Michea, mother to Choko and Monara, first grey fox lost to the humans and their hatred.' I met her kits, they missed her and they taught me what I know now, I'm in debt to them and intern her." The two with him were surprised that he was so open with them right now, 'It must be hard for him.' that thought went through the minds of the two genin strangers.

He went on ahead to tell them what a few more of the stones said, then Naruto caught the scent of their potential sensei and they left. When the trio got there, Kakashi was looking kind of miffed, "And where have you three been?" His question was a personal one and they didn't know how to respond until Sakura came to the rescue, "We were bonding, sorry we're late sensei. We got a bit caught up in the stories, hehehe." The other two were shocked that Sakura, the perfect student, was blatantly lying to their commanding officer as it seemed to them.

"Hmm, okay. Apology accepted, now to the test. You three have to get one or both of these two bells, by noon. Any questions?" He received a question from Sasuke who had begun to thin outside of himself now, "Why are there only two bells?" "That's easy, one or all of you will be returned to the academy and I'll leave a suggestion that you three will never be allowed to become shinobi. Anymore questions?"

He was given three responses in the form of shaking heads and determined eyes. "No? Good, hajime!" The three disappeared into the trees and he looked a little surprised that they weren't panicking and a little put off by the seriousness that Naruto gave off. His thoughts were interrupted when he noticed the atmosphere wasn't quite right, "Ah, a genjutsu. Clever, but not enough, KAI!" Nothing happened, now this was confusing him until he focused and felt the Kyuubi's chakra was powering the genjutsu. He began to hear an assortment of songs playing, battles commencing, people's voices merging into cries, and animal calls that he identified as foxes.

"I see, this is your life Naruto, I hear your favorite songs. 'Runnin', 'It Has Begun', 'Monster', and a few I don't recognize. But, feeling sorry for you won't stop me from preventing you to become a shinobi...!" He realized his poor choice of words too late when he felt killer intent and the emotions in the genjutsu were hostile with a high volume.

"You talk just like them...The villagers, they don't want me stronger because of my tenant, good thing this genjutsu allows me to speak with out so much as uttering one word. But, that doesn't change the fact that you don't want me, you want the other two? Then go ahead and take them!" He said this and the jutsu was dispelled with the other two coming at him with the intent to kill. Sasuke was close by as he went through hand seals, "Katon:Gokakyu no Jutsu!"

Kakashi's visible eye widened in shock at this young man's skills to be able to use a C-Rank jutsu when he's just a genin. Sakura went in and did something odd, she came at him with a simple punch. What he didn't know, was that her chakra control was great and subconscious. That was why when the punch hit, he was sent flying into a nearby tree and Sakura was running at him while he was dazed, "CHA! Let's get this over with!"

With that, the bells were gotten, but they were almost over-powered by Kakashi. He was now slightly scared of his new students, they didn't over-power him. They out-smarted him, he had gotten cocky and was now paying for it. The next few weeks were full of D-Rank missions that were irritating for two of the three, Naruto was irate but he wasn't complaining.

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Next chapter, Demon Brothers and Momochi Zabuza surprise Team Kakashi.