Waz up! This one's gonna take a darker turn on Naruto's personality and a tiny bit of his history as he...'opens up' to the group that he's with for the moment besides his team. I need to vent my negative emotions and this does that for me. I don't own Naruto.

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

"Yo" speech of Kyuubi.

Jutsu

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Naruto was running, he didn't know why or from what, all he knew was he was running. His body hurt, his heart was bursting, his soul started to sear and leave him, but he didn't notice. all he knew was to run and never stop, so he didn't stop and he didn't question. He abruptly sat up and gasped, it was all a nightmare.

"Damn, I'm never going to be truly rested with my life the way it is, am I?" This question was to no one in particular, but he could tell someone was listening. His instincts were on high alert, his nails grew long and sharpened, his eyes were slitted and still blue. He jumped to the ceiling quietly and began to crawl, using his clawed hands and feet to stay on the ceiling. The person behind the door wasn't a shinobi, that was obvious, if it was a shinobi they wouldn't have been discovered. Naruto put two and two together, seeing as that left a civilian he was even more tense. The life he lead before 'dying' once, left him especially untrusting of civilians, even if they didn't know him or weren't from Konoha.

The door opened slightly, revealing a little boy around seven or eight years-old as he looked in. His face was one of disgust and an obvious amount of self-proclaimed superiority. That look made Naruto's blood seethe, to make a point to the little runt who entered his temporary accomidations, he released just a little killer intent. The affect was immediate, the boy gasped and knelt to the ground holding his throat. As the intruder tried unsuccessfully to breathe properly, Naruto took this time to look at him.

He wasn't that tall, he wore a white hat with two blue stripes on it, his hair was black and spiky, the clothes he wore were a farmer-like bib and a white shirt. Naruto dropped to the floor, startling the little runt as he failed at regaining his breathe. When Naruto looked into the boy's eyes, he saw loss and pain. He looked into the boy's eyes and showed him what he had endured, scaring the little kid into another gasping fit. A woman burst through the door at the sounds of gasps, the next moment she wasn't faring much better than the kid.

The lady had long blue hair, her shirt was a short-sleeved pink with red on the sleeves ends as well as on her collar, and a skirt going down to her shins. The door opened again, revealing Kakashi and Tazuna. Tazuna started gasping slightly, Naruto saw him as a threat because of his strength to stay standing, and increased the amount of killer intent. The two on the ground were gasping frantically as Tazuna fell to the ground and followed suit, "NARUTO, STOP! You're safe, they won't hurt you like the villager-!" "SO THE VILLAGERS HERE WILL ATTACK ME TOO!" He said it as a statement more than a question, "BECAUSE I'M NOT RELIVING MY CHILDHOOD, or lack thereof...I was treated like the very incarnation of the PLAGUE! Then that runt," He glared at the little boy as his voice and eyes became more and more demonic, "Mocks me with the pain he carries like a badge of honor in his eyes and the false concern or whatever it was to try and spy on me!"

At this, the child tried to speak, failed horribly but tried none the less. Naruto took notice and saw he was beginning to tear up and by the look in his eyes he was wanting to knock Naruto down a few pegs. This knowledge amused Naruto immensely, so he let up on the killer intent just enough to let the little runt speak, "*gasp* I'm not a runt! And I'm not carrying my sufferin-!?" He was interrupted by contemptuous and mirthless laughter from Naruto, "Suffering!? HAHAHAHA! You don't even know the meaning of the word...Tell me, runt, what's your name?"

The boy was surprised at his direct mockery of him and the sudden question, "I-Inari..." Naruto looked contemplative for a brief moment, "...Then tell me, 'Inari', what have you 'suffered'?" The way he said Inari's name and the word, suffered, rubbed him wrong enough to make him raise his voice, "I'm positive I've suffered more than you! You're a shinobi, you have it all; the power, the knowledge, the weapons, and the resolve to kill! I lost my stepfather, he was the hero of our town and he died! YOU NINJA WILL ALL DIE FIGHTING GATO IF YOU KEEP THIS UP!"

Inari was in tears at this point, Naruto looked unphased that this little runt doubted his skills and mad that this little runt was so cock-sure that he was superior in this situation, "Are you done?!" His tone was that of someone who didn't care whatsoever about Inari's problems as he reapplied his killer intent to Inari, "You're so pathetic, you think you're 'suffering'? HAHAHA! It's so sad, it's hilarious! You lost something, someone, but! You seem to think that if you are pitied that you'll be listened to! You think you'll be treated nicely and gently...You're lying to everyone, you lost someone and at this age you want all the attention, that's why you're acting like a total PRICK! AND DON'T YOU EVEN TRY TO DENY IT! I WAS YOUR AGE ONCE, AND I'VE BEEN AT SHINIGAMI'S VERY FEET PLENTY IN MY LIFE!"

The look of shock at Naruto's harsh words was evident on everyone's faces. Kakashi wanted to say something, anything! To stop his verbal torture to this little boy who had lost his father to Gato's thugs. But alas, no words came and none would come, for Naruto wasn't even close to finished, "Have you ever been starved? Have you ever been at Shinigami'sama's feet? Have you ever been in an apartment that was intentionally set alight? No? THEN YOU CAN SHUT THE FUCK UP! You don't have anything to be pitied for, Sasuke has lost his ENTIRE FAMILY in one night! And YOU, a lowly runt, think you have something to be pitied for?! HAHAHAHA!"

Inari was damn near tears from this verbal butchering, the killer intent was lifted for anyone else to speak against him and get the same treatment. Inari's mother got up then hugged a silently crying and slightly hesitant, Inari. She had mixed feelings about Naruto now; he had suffered through a living hell so he was venting his pain out on people, but he was emotionally killing her son. With an attempt at fierceness, she looked into Naruto's now red eyes, 'Red eyes?! His eyes were blue, and why are they slitted?!'. She steeled her resolve and looked to Kakashi, "Is what he said true?!" No response was given and wasn't even attempted as he looked at what he created through inaction. "ANSWER ME DAMN IT!" The whole room except Naruto jumped at her angry voice, "Is what...He said, true?!"

Kakashi could only look to her with empty eyes as he nodded slowly and solemnly, "Y-yes...it's all*sob*it's all true. Every word..." She looked horrified at his honesty, she had wanted to hear that this young man was making up things and being mean. She didn't want to hear this, this revelation of humanity's cruelty, "T-then...That monster must have deserved it!"

At that remark, there was an almost evil and truly sadistic laugh at her poor 'zealous' attempts to defend humanity, "HAHAHAHA, you...You really don't know what humanity will do, HAHAHAHA!" Just after he said that he ran at her, grabbed her by the throat and held her against the wall, "I have seen and experienced things a young man my age should never, NEVER, have," He leaned to her ear to whisper what he went through as a child, "The villagers didn't see a three year-old when they starved me in the orphanage, they didn't see a little boy who had no friends, they didn't see a little boy trying to buy clothing and food that 'suddenly' became too expensive! No! They saw none of those things...They saw a chance at a scapegoat for what they lost twelve years ago, they saw someone, no, something to blame. They even went so far as to, hehehehe, 'have their way with me'..." SHe couldn't believe what she was hearing, the civilians of Konpha had been that evil? That couldn't be! "Before you try to pitifully defend them, take into account, that I had no idea why they did this...Now, what's your name?"

She was shocked that after all he said, he would ask what her name was, "T-Tsunam-mi..." Naruto's smirk grew feral and cruel as he reached the climax of his musical, "Well then, 'Tsunami', if I'm a monster...Than humanity, is the mother of my monstrous nature! You should also thank Kakashi over there, if he'd done his job and not been so biased, I would've stayed happy and carefree, but..." He got up and spoke normally as he walked over to the open window to leave, "I'm how I am now, because Kakashi failed my dad by being so narrow sighted and biased like the civilians. Who, might I add, have no idea about anything shinobi related! HAHAHAHA! So long, I might as well get some training while I'm here...Have fun explaining this Kakashi, after all, the law circulates around me. If I tell the whole village when we get back home, I can't get executed. Everyone else on the other hand...HAHAHAHA, they're all screwed over if they try!"

He left so quick, they wondered if he had even been there. Kakashi, in his stupor saw that his student realized who his father was. Which meant he also knew who and how he had been failed. Kakashi slumped to his knees in his self-deprecating depression. He saw that to fix this mess, at least for awhile, he would need someone to level with Naruto fundamentally. He also saw that it would have to be either someone his age, or a team of them. Sasuke woke from his stupor to speak in a falsely-calm voice, "I'm not surprised he said these things. He's kept it all bottled up for twelve long years, he only lets it out in battles, which require strong opponents to survive. He doesn't kill if doesn't ave to, which means that his outlets are almost none. The last fight before Momochi Zabuza, was when he fought that jonin from Kirigakure trying to get help from Konohagakure for the civil war. The whole academy heard the fight, it was at gate in Kiri's direction. That's a lot of ground to cover, and yet, he did it with a happy-ish face afterwards..."

Sakura saw that it was her turn, "He has every right to hate Konoha, HELL, he has every right to hate humanity itself. But he won't attack with a blade or claw, not if he has to. He has the will, to protect the very place that is, for him, the Ninth Ring of Hell! No matter how we look at it, he was right about everything he said...He won't be acknowledged by Konoha-nin or the civilians of our village, not even if he were to save Nami no Kuni singlehandedly, he will forever be ostracized. Unless, he meets another such as himself... And the law he spoke of, although I don't know it, obviously is serious if anyone of our generation and under will be executed if we learn what is his torment..."

Kakashi saw that he needed to hurry, if he were to save his team and in that action, save Nami no Kuni, "I have to send a message to Hokage-sama!" With that he left, Inari was disturbingly silent, while everyone else forgot him. He then went through what he now knew; everything he said was true, so that meant...What he said to him was also...true. Inari began to tear up again, this time, because he realized he had unconsciously been trying to be listened to.

Kakashi wrote like Hell would burn the words if he didn't write fast enough, 'I've got to choose a team that Naruto has a few friends in...I don't know who that would be though, Yuhi Kurenai has Hyuuga Hinata, Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru...He's friends with Kiba, but they might try and attack the others because of how volatile their personalities are. Let's see, Maito Gai's team are his old classmates from last year, but Gai's personality isn't in the least subtle. His protege, Rock Lee, isn't either...But he tries. Hyuga Neji is a definite no, his belief in fate would rub Naruto's fur the wrong way...I am way too used to the fox henge he uses, now Tenten and he are close. They're from the same orphanage, but, again her personality might add onto Naruto's already unstable behavior...Uuhh, I didn't want a team, and now I have a GREAT reason! That leaves...Sarutobi Asuma...He has two of Naruto's old friends, Akamichi Choji and Nara Shikamaru, they were his fellow drop-outs. I understand that Yamanaka Ino is a bit of a gamble, she's able to enter minds and that might let the fox out of the bag...Oh for fuck's sake, Naruto, you better damn well cooperate with them, I'm too used to your fox henge! Ino's personality is also a bit of a wild card; she's loud, domineering, eccentric and downright difficult to deal with...Minato-sensei, forgive me for what I'm about to do...I have little to no choice.'

Kakashi finished writing and found a messenger hawk. He strapped the message to the raptor's back and sent it off to Konoha. Hopefully, the request for assistance in team functionality will be a good enough ruse to get Asuma and his team there fast. Kakashi had one thought going through his head on his request's chances of being allowed, 'Here goes the survival of Konoha, if it works, if not...Kami save us'.

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Naruto was in the forest climbing up trees with his nails-turned-claws and chakra control training. He had learned about it by sneaking into the library and reading whatever looked useful, and even what didn't cross his mind as beneficial. He had learned about the learning curb of Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, he received the memories of clones when they dispel. He had been doing that since the incident where he properly met Inari and his illusions of suffering. It'd been a few weeks since they fought Zabuza, and they hadn't seen anything about him. They had figured out that he wasn't dead, but they didn't know how long until he got back in the game of shinobi work.

Naruto hadn't been around anyone but the forest-folk. He had been in his fox henge a few times while training and was surprised at the results. His focus was increased from having to keep the henge stable, while controlling his chakra so he could remain on the tree, as well as his physical training of tying rocks of different weights to his body. He had tried using the henge and rock weights training while walking on water, with less than stellar results. He had learned to take everything in stride from being among the forest-folk and running from search parties in Konoha.

Today wasn't any different from the others, until a kunai came flying passed his small red-furred head. He looked to find someone he hadn't expected to be found by, "*fox bark in surprise*?" Ino, not understanding fox, almost mistook him for a regular fox if not for the demeanor he portrayed and that he had rocks tied to his legs and back with bandage-wrapping, "AHA! You're mine, Kawaii Naru-fox!"

With her proclamation out in the air, she lunged for him with open arms. The way she went for him reminded him of when they had chased Tora the cat for the Daimyo, Naruto still hated doing that mission. He didn't like seeing animals suffer, after his experience as a fox and among the forest-folk being animals. He almost got caught when he let his mind lapse like that, until he jumped with chakra infused into his legs.

Ino landed face-first in the soil as the fox was now on the side of a tree next to her. When she looked up, she thought maybe it was a kitsune until it began to make a noise of frustration and fear, but sounded an awful lot like laughter, "What's *spits out dirt* so fucking funny, Kawaii Naru-fox?!" She had a tick mark on her forehead as she glowered at him and made a sickly-sweet smile evident on her face.

Naruto's only response, was to lay 'down' on the tree trunk while still regulating chakra flow to his body. The effect was immediate as Ino started yelling at him to, 'get the hell down here so I can pummel you', 'let me catch you, I'll be gentle', and his favorite so far, 'if you don't come down here now, I'll come up there and make you mine through a means of collar'. Her choices for persuasive antics was amusing, if not, hilarious to say the least. But then it hit him, 'If Ino's here, than that means...' No sooner had that thought crossed his mind, had Asuma, Choji, Shikamaru, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi walked into the little grove.

Asuma was confused about Ino's yelling, until he looked up to see a fox laying on a vertical tree trunk like it was horizontal, "Ino what are you..." He got a good look at the fox, which did the same. It was a red fox, it's eyes were blue, it had a look of irritation at the sight of everyone. Asuma took a moment then burst out laughing at the scenario, "HAHAHAHA! Ah, Ino, you know we can't take wild animals and make them pets just because it suits us. I admit the fox is quite a handsome critter, but he obviously won't come down. SO! Kakashi and I'll make this a lesson in chakra control!"

There were a set of simultaneous groans in protest, one coming from the fox laying 'down', 'Sorry, Naruto. But, if your teammates are going to be helpful to you, you're going to have to live with being encouragement...Naruto, please forgive me, you just have the best of luck in other areas.' He watched as the fox yawned, got 'up' and began to stroll towards the top of the tree he was on, "Well, our 'foxy'," A growl was heard at the demeaning nickname, "Friend is getting away, so genin of Team Asuma and Team Kakashi, go get the little furry-fucker!HAHAHA! This should be good..."

The fox in question, was thinking along similar lines, 'Well, my training's out for the moment. Might as well make them work for finding me!' When the fox was walking, the other genin were trying to get higher up the tree they chose. After a few minutes, two voices chirped, "Finished/Finished!" The two who spoke in tandem were Ino and Sakura. They both decided to rest for a few minutes, considering they didn't have large chakra reserves. After half an hour, the genin were dead tired, until clapping was heard.

There next to the fox was Naruto, clapping lightly while looking smugly at all of them, "You found me, sort of. Well, it's been fun watching you guys sweat to near dehydration, but...I've got my own regiment, so bye!" With that, he leaped to a different tree and walking under the branches to another one, until he was out of sight.

"Kami*gasp* damn it...He's such a-" The moment he spoke a squeal was heard from Ino's direction. When they investigated, they found Ino holding the same red fox from earlier, only now it was both struggling for freedom while wagging it's tail happily, "INO, WHAT THE FUCK!" Shikamaru was tired and frustrated from all the exercise, so seeing the fox they had tried and failed to get for half an hour in his teammate's arms which she obviously caught with ease, miffed him.

"I'm enjoying close proximity to Foxy-kun! Duh, now leave me alone, he's so soft! And he's fox-purring!" On closer inspection and listening, there was indeed a purr emanating from the red furball. The fox was wagging its tail like mad with happiness, but struggled none the less from a life of negative feedback. Shikamaru, Choji, and Sasuke all saw this while acknowledging it. Sakura, Asuma, Kakashi, and Ino noticed but made nothing of it. Shikamaru spoke for the poor fox, "Uh, Ino, he's uncomfortable-!" "Are you saying my breasts are small and uncomfortable!" She had a tick mark on her forehead as a vein popped and Shikamaru then tried to find a safe zone to speak in, "Uh-uh, no! But...I-uh!Ahem-!" Just when Shikamaru was going to die of Ino's wrath, Naruto took pity on him and began to bark, yip, purr,and chatter which Shikamaru seemed to understand.

"Uh, Naruto, do you really want me to say that in front of everyone?Hehehe..." He was given an affirmative yip, to which he got a small nose bleed for what he would say, "Okay then...Apparently, it's not your breasts that are the problem Ino, it's that he's not used to being you know, close to people. He wasn't given affection like you or me, so this," He gestured to Ino holding him, "Makes him both happy and uncomfortable at the same time. Now don't let him go, just don't smother him."

Naruto seemed a bit more relaxed as Ino eased up on the choke-hold, he began to speak to Shikamaru in the fox language again with everyone looking expectantly at him, "Um, okay then Naruto...He apparently wants us to know that, he's going to prank us later, and that if Ino wants to keep holding him...It's her, funeral? You've some nerve to make threats in this situation."

Ino understood, but shrugged and happily walked away with Naruto-fox in between her breasts and arms. The walk was uneventful, aside from Choji and Shikamaru warning her to put the fox down, "As I've said before, 'He's mine for the time being, and if there's a problem, than BITE ME'!" After saying bite, a mischievous smirk appeared on the fox's face. He began to squirm to try and bite her hands, but all that made her do was giggle perversely, "Stop it, Foxy-kun,hehehehe! It tickles!" After saying that, Shikamaru got a nose bleed while Choji's face was covered by a bag of chips.

Naruto began to make a whining, squealing, laughing and baby crying type of noise to which Sakura asked the big question, "What's the fox say? Hehehe!" Everyone except the jonin glared at her before Shikamaru henge'd into Iruka, "And that students, is the sound of a frustrated fox!" The group burst out laughing before Shikamaru translated, "He's...Apologizing." Choji then spoke after finishing his chips, "For what?" "I've no idea, but he's apologizing to Ino for something."

Not a moment later, the fox nipped Ino's right breast making her yelp in shock and a bit of pain as she let the fox go. The fox ran deeper into the forest, while Ino was nursing her breast(Stop laughing perversely at the unintended pun). She stood up and they all then heard the voice of Naruto behind them, "Prank starts now!"

The genin all jumped at his voice, "Damn it Naruto, are you trying to kill us?!" Sakura received a shrug and then he said something odd after putting his wrists towards them, "Take me away, but I have one thing to say first..." The group was cautious about this as Asuma said, "What is it?"

Naruto smiled, while a hand slowly and quietly came out of the ground near Ino's ankles, "YOINK!" With that, Naruto disappeared and Ino was pulled all the way underground to somewhere else.

"WHAT THE FUCK, SENSEI?!" Ino yelled from a tree. They looked and there was Naruto, holding Ino who was tied up shibari style, over his shoulder while she stared daggers at them. "Naruto, what are you doing?!" Sasuke cautiously asked, only to hear something they all didn't want to hear, "Catch!"

Shikamaru's face twisted into concern and mild fear, "Woah, hey now...YOU WOULDN'T DARE!" Just as that was said, Naruto threw her, "LOOK OUT BELOW!" He threw her at Asuma, she was screaming as tears fell from her eyes while she flew, "AAHH, YOU'RE INSANE!" Was the collective scream from the people supposd to catch Ino, when she hit Asuma right in the chest as a landing pad. She got untied and yelled at him, "DAMN IT, FOXY-KUN!" Asuma was the next to yell at him, "YOU CRAZY BASTARD, WHAT IF I DIDN'T CATCH HER?!"

Naruto just henge'd into a fox gain and began to charge chakra into a ball. The people assembled were curious about what he would do, so they staid in the grove. The ball was about as big as a beachball, when it shrank, and Naruto ate it. They all just stared pale at the crazy fox-boy before them. He opened his mouth a little after his cheeks and stomach bloated, which is when he released a blast of pure chakra at them.

The blast knocked them all back a few yards until the dust dissipated to reveal a small crater, "Sasuke's calm demeanor was lost as he yelled, "YOU CRAZY SONOVABITCH! ARE YOU TRYING TO GT US KILLED!" The fox merely shrugged and walked away, that is until he was grabbed and 'snuggled' by Ino, who seemed undeterred to hold him. Hell, she seemed even more hellbent on holding the rascal, "You're min Foxy-kun!"

Naruto then seemed calm enough to not struggle as he yawned and fell asleep in Ino's arms. Kakashi analyzed the situation from a sensei's point of view and made a wisecrack, "Well, he tired himself out with that mouthful of an attack on us. As well as his training regiment that he mentioned. He had makeshift weights on himself, he was training the steam out of his system."

The kids groaned at the horrible joke, then looked to Naruto as he snuggled closer to the closest heat source, in this case? A blushing Ino, she didn't seem to mind, she seemed content with where she was at. She decided to hug him just a little closer to herself, and she noticed that he wasn't even struggling in his sleep, 'Wow, he must have really trained to be this worn out. He must also be unknowingly trusting of me...Oh well, 's mine for now..KAWAII!'

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It wasn't too bad, yeah? I just wanted to push the NaruIno pairing a little bit farther. I also wanted to relive the scene from Bleach where Ichigo uses Rukia as a football with Renji. See ya!