Sup, we're gonna see Naruto's reaction to havin' not one but two jinchuuriki from other villages in his territory. Let's see 'ow 'e says hello. I don't own jack shit for Naruto.

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

"I'm back..." demon speech

jutsu

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Kakashi was not in the most comfortable position, publicly anyway. Naruto had awoken on the trip and didn't like being carried piggyback so he decided to henge into a fox and jumped onto Kakashi's head which is where he fell asleep for the rest of the trip. He was still on Kakashi's head and the villagers were giving him weird looks, not that he payed attention, his focus was on the rapture he felt from reading his Icha Icha.

They got to the Hokage's Tower without many interruptions, just the occasional 'hi how are you doing' or the very popular 'congrats at surviving the demon brat'. Those comments got Naruto-fox to sink his claws into Kakashi's head and stir in his sleep. The one person that the Sharingan wielding shinobi was hoping they wouldn't run into just so happened to come across their path.

Anko was eating her dango happily when she spotted a head of gravity-defying grey hair, with a bunch of red in it. Anko was Kakashi's second biggest fangirl and she was always jumped at the chance to make situations awkward or dangerous when she was around Kakashi. The moment he saw her, he knew things were about to get bad for his team and more so for him.

"Kashi-Kun! You're back, and with all your chibis too, that's great! How about a date to celebrate?!" She then got really close to the technically one-eyed jonin, "Sorry, Anko, but we've got a mission report to give and some...troubling news for Hokage-sama..."

His tired voice was all Anko needed to know that she wasn't wanted, but she needed to know where the 'brat' as she called him whenever they crossed paths was, "Okay, I understand Kashi-kun, but where's the brat? It's kinda boring here in the village with him gone, and he was always nice company as well as a sparring partner..."

Kakashi suddenly stopped walking and turned to the now silently standing Anko, "You sparred with him?" His voice was almost afraid with how it shook and how it sounded weak. Anko looked confused as she nodded affirmative, Kakashi's one visible eye widened and he flashed right in front of her with urgency evident in his voice, "HOW ARE YOU NOT DEAD!"

The shout drew all of the villagers nearby to look at them and the group that was Team 7 and Team 8 then stole Anko away to Training Ground 44, Anko's Playground, the Forest of Death for questioning. The genin found themselves looking at a tall wire fence with barbed wire on the top with a warning sign on it.

"Oookkkaaayyy...What am I missing in this picture? Why are you acting like I said the location of a secret organization or something?" Her voice was suspicious and guarded at their strange behavior. She would have asked if the red fur in Kakashi's hair got up and yawned, it was a fox and the only fox that Anko could recognize, "Brat! There you are, what were you doing in Kashi-kun's hair?"

She picked him up and held him close to her chest, but not too close to make him lash out for freedom. He made a baby cry, squeaky noise that was cute and at the same time irritated with Anko for taking him away from his newly discovered, nice warm 'bed'. She just smiled warmly at his half-assed attempts to get out of her grip before just giving up and resting in her arms.

"Yea, I sparred with him," She gestured with her head at the now fox-purring furball in her arms. "He and I met when he was just starting out on his own in that wreck that was an apartment. He wasn't too far away from my apartment and he had decided to explore the neighborhood, he had gotten lost somehow and he found his way to my doorstep. He's always been, in a way, my responsibility from that day; I fill in the gap of an overbearing mother-ish figure as well as an older sister that enjoys pissing off the brat here! Hehehe, now why are you guys acting like he and I sparring is illegal?"

Naruto-fox suddenly took interest in the conversation, he made this known by barking in agreement then whine/crying in frustration if they were trying to take him away from Anko. She nodded an affirmative to his high pitched noise of frustration and held him closer, just enough to get her point across seeing as she didn't want Naruto to die of embarrassment from death by bosom or struggle for freedom.

Kakashi saw the protective side of Anko and the devotion Naruto felt towards his mother/older sister figure. He waved his hands frantically in front of him, not wanting to be on either of their bad sides, "NO NO NO! It's not like that, you see...We saw him take down Momochi Zabuza, the Demon of the Mist, a member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist! So we were wondering how you're alive after sparring with him, if Zabuza was DAMN NEAR UNCONSCIOUS!"

Anko looked to the obviously relaxed fox in her arms and then looked up in thought, before putting Naruto-fox at arms length, "Is this true brat?" She received an affirmative bark and a madly wagging tail of excited happiness. She smirked proudly as she returned Naruto-fox to his position in her arms, "He never went very far in respects to power when sparring with me, he would only ask about the snakes I used and he made his own versions with kage bunshin no jutsu and henge. He's a pain in th-OW!" At that point a smugly wagging tailed Naruto-fox had nipped her arm, to get her to chill out so he could nap.

But Anko wasn't having it as she put him on her shoulders, much to his chagrin that was voiced in that squeaky baby cry that foxes make when frustrated, "Yeah, well, maybe that'll teach you to bite a lady's arm when she's speaking!" He kept making the noise, until he got on top of her head and rested his tired little body, "Ungh! You're encouragable, you know that?!"

Naruto-fox's only response was a small yip and a yawn, "What did you do to him?! He had so much life in him, and now...he's sleeping, SLEEPING ON ME! What did you do, I'm half grateful and half pissed off!" She glared heatedly at Kakashi, who by now was sweating in fear of Anko's games and torture techniques.

"N-Nothing! He tired himself out, I swear!" Anko stared at him suspiciously until she gave up on interrogating him for the time being. She just left Naruto-fox to his own devices for now, if he had tired himself out than he needed all the rest he could get. She got an evil idea though, one she knew Naruto would love. She beckoned the fox to her shoulder for a second, as she whispered her plan, the fox on her shoulder had a tail that was wagging like mad with mischief.

The people who couldn't hear the nefarious plan in the making were scared at Anko's mischievous gleam in her eyes and what Naruto had become so enraptured about that had to do with said gleam. They all left the fence of the Forest of Death and made for the Hokage Tower. Anko caught up to them and put Naruto-fox on Kakashi's shoulder with a simple, "For luck!"

They got back to the tower where they found Anko waiting for them. They reported everything that happened, including Naruto's badass display of power, to the Hokage. He was in a state of, 'WTF!' and no one could awake him from it for a few minutes. After he woke up from his 'trip' he asked the obvious question, "Where is young Naruto-kun?"

Kakashi gestured with his thumb to the fox on his shoulder, what he didn't know was that Naruto had started to play dead and slowed his pulse a little bit. The Hokage's reaction was priceless, "YOU KILLED HIM?!" Kakashi looked at him like he was crazy until he looked on his shoulder and indeed, there was a 'dead' fox. Anko came over, clicked the 'corpse' and the henge disappeared. When it did, she grabbed the body and threw it on the Hokage's desk like there wasn't anything wrong in the world.

The genin were horrified at Anko's apathy towards the body of the young man she said was like a son/little brother to her. Sakura voiced this before anyone else could, "ANKO-SAN! HE'S DEAD! WHY ARE YOU TREATING THE BODY OF YOUR LITTLE BROTHER/SON FIGURE LIKE THAT?" Anko chuckled evilly at Sakura's and the other genin's faces, as she looked to the jonin she broke down cackling as well as the 'corpse' of Naruto.

"Y-YOU SEE?!HAHAHAHA I TOLD YOU THEY'D FALL FOR IT! It's simple chibis, Naru-kun was never dead!" Naruto wasn't done laughing as Anko stared warmly at the life that returned to him, the Naruto she loved as family was back even for a little while, "I SHOULD'VE NEVER, HAHAHAHAHA! NEVER DOUBTED YOU ANKO-CHAN, HAHAHAHA!" His laughing was cut short by a pair of fists to his face, courtesy of Ino and Sakura.

"YOU BAKA/BAKA," They yelled in unison. The young man on the ground was now unconscious again and Anko just smiled at him when he turned to smoke, only to be found as a fox again. "Aaahhh, Naru-kun figured it out huh? Well, he wanted to have a way to henge without hand seals, so I guess he took it a step farther by training himself to subconsciously henge into a fox..."

The room was deathly quiet before Anko picked up the sleeping ball of fur and taking him to her apartment for the night. That night, strangers came to the village for a special test.

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The Kyuubi jinchuuriki awoke to a soft bed, 'Wait a second, a soft bed?' He looked and saw Anko's room, it had dango sticks arranged in interesting patterns and it had trench coats in the closet. He looked for said Tokubetsu jonin, she was sleeping on her couch with the television still on, "Anko-chan? You should wake up," She made no move to get up, all she did was catch Naruto in a groggy headlock.

"Ahck, Anko-chan, Kakashi's going t go out with you!" His reward for that comment was a swift punch to the stomach. Anko groaned in protest at her surrogate little brother/son's way of waking her up, "Ungh...Brat, you know that's not funny and that I hate that method of waking up! Now, what do you want?"

"Well, didn't you say that there were foreign ninja coming to Konoha for the exams? Shouldn't you be ready for that?" Anko looked at Naruto for a moment before it clicked and she dashed around the apartment, completing her morning ritual of eating breakfast and brushing her teeth. Naruto looked to the village as villagers walked the streets, he took notice of three strange teenagers. One of them had what appeared to be a very large make-up case on hr back, another had a mummy looking thing tied to his back and the third had a gourd of what appeared to be...sand, 'Wait a minute! Sand gourd? They're Suna shinobi!'

"Hey, Anko-chan! It looks like some Suna genin got here early!" Anko came to the window Naruto was looking through, and there were indeed, Suna ninja walking the streets. Her response was a groan, "Ungh, some ninja just have to get up early and come here at the break of dawn! Oh well, might as well let you loose on them, now remember what I said!"

Naruto nodded vigorously, excitement at the prospect of meeting new ninja enticing him, "No killing, no extreme pranking, and definitely no fighting unless they start it!" Anko nodded approvingly at her job well done of nailing that knowledge into his head, "Very good! Now, you should hurry if you want to catch them!"

He opened the window, henge'd into a fox, and ran away to find the foreign ninja to give them a 'proper' Konoha welcome. He found them, or more like Konohamaru found them for him. The one in black with warpaint on his face and what looked to be a mummy, or a wrapped up puppet,was holding Konohamaru by the collar of his shirt, "What are you doing?! Let me go!"

'That's Kono all right, he's always getting into trouble. But he never got punished for it, I guess this is karma being a bitch for all the times he got a free lunch?' Naruto's thoughts were interrupted by the voice of the assumed puppeteer, "It's howdy duty time! I don't like kids, and I especially don't like kids who run into me!"

"Kankuro put him down, we don't want to make a scene," came a very feminine but strong voice, "This isn't Suna, we don't want to make bad blood between our villages!" The now named Kankuro groaned irritably.

"Come on Temari, I'm just going to teach this kid a lesson!" Th feminine voice was silent after being addressed, 'So...Temari's the blonde one with the thing on her back, and Kankuro's the puppeteer in their trio, eh? Then who's their third teammate, I smell nothing but sand and blood off him!' His musings were cut off by the sound of a rock hitting the hand of someone and a yelp from the voice of Kankuro.

"OW! Small un-sized rocks, my only weakn-" "Shut up, Kankuro! Your jokes aren't funny!" This was Temari berating him, as the voice of Sasuke came from the tree Naruto-fox was in, "Leave the Sandaime's grandson be! Also, Naruto, you can greet them now..."

The two Suna-nin were about to ask who he was talking to, when a decent sized red fox jumped out of the tree's leaves and onto Kankuro's shoulders. The fox was now standing on Kankuro's head and was batting at what seemed to be cat ears underneath his black suit. The two from Suna were in a state of confusion until Sasuke broke that spell, "Huuh, we haven't gotten him to a doctor that won't reject him on sight but we're pretty sure he's bipolar! he seems quiet fond of you two, or he's just spell bound by your," He blinked perplexed at Kankuro's cat ear things for a moment, "Cat ears. Why do you have those on anyway?"

"They're just to distract people's attention so I can switch with my puppets." "Oh, that clears up a lot! Naruto, why are you looking at the girl strangely?" He was answered by Naruto-fox jumping to Temari's shoulders and him messing with her four pigtails, "Oh...Of course he's curious today, Naruto drop the henge already!"

Naruto squeak whined at Sasuke, who was staring at him like he was seeing twos. Naruto just moved himself so he was practically standing his paws on Temari's collar bone. He placed his forepaws on top of her head as he looked at hr pigtails from another angle, getting a giggle from a now revealed Sakura and a grown from the woman with a fox on her, "Ungh, as much as I love having a fox's crotch in my face! I'm going to get you off of me!"

Naruto was dropped on the ground and h released the henge, disturbing the two from Suna at his personal proximity to them as a fox, "Alright Ichi, come out! Same goes for you too, Shichi!" The two genin from Team 7 were confused as to who he was talking to, until two kids about their age came out of hiding. One of them had red hair and a gourd of sand on his back, black rings around his greenish-blue pupiless eyes obviously from a huge lack of sleep and brown ninja attire. The other was young girl mint-green hair, pupiless orange eyes, tanned skin, a white skirt and top that didn't even cover her stomach, white arm warmers, and on her right arm was the hitae-ate for Takigakure.

"So, you have found us, Kyuu!" It was the monotone voice of a sleep-deprived red head, "I also see that Taki has allowed their jinchuuriki to walk freely without chaperon?" Before she could respond a shinobi from Taki came and placed a hand on her shoulder in false affection.

"Ah, there you are Fuu my love! I was looking all over for you!" Her reaction from being in close contact with him was to elbow his stomach and glare Hell's blades at the man on the ground, "HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU, DON'T TOUCH ME!" He just smiled at her like she was joking and she reached behind her and opened a rd cylinder on her back, releasing beetles upon her 'fellow' Taki ninja.

Naruto looked to her apologetically as he looked to the now writhing man on the ground, "'Relationship' problems I'll take it?" His tone was an obvious joking one, this was not lost upon her as she lightly glared at him before responding, "You have no idea..."

Th atmosphere was thick with tension as the three spoke amongst each other. Temari and Kankuro stole themselves away from the three and made their way to the rest of Team 7, Kakashi included, "*Shudders* I hate when Gaara gets like this, h's found kindred spirits...Not surprising, since they're obviously jinchuuriki as well..."

The two genin of Konoha were about to ask what a jinchuuriki was, but Kakashi spoke a different question, "How many are in your younger brother?" Temari and Kankuro looked to Kakashi surprised he figured it out, but Temari answered instead of Kankuro this time, "One. He holds the ultimate defense in and as that gourd. He hasn't slept in a few weeks now...I wish he could rest without dying the way he is..." Her voice was choking up and Kankuro placed a comforting hand on his older sister's shoulder.

Kakashi said, "I see...I'm sorry. I must know, who made his seal?" The two looked between each other, the one to speak wasn't them though, it was the mentioned Ichibi jinchuuriki. "It was Chiyo, she was the one to place this seal on me at my premature birth, the birth that killed our mother...But, unlike them, I have a mother. A mother who I thank in blood..." His calling of his tenant mother was disturbing for his siblings and Kakashi. Sasuke and Sakura were more than a little confused, Naruto spoke to them before they could swing, "Don't ask! If you really want to know, than don't! You'll be the same as the villagers of our three villages if you know what we are..."

His blatantly saying that they were shallow was a direct stab to their hearts. They noticed that the term of, 'ultimate defense' was mentioned about Gaara. Sasuke took the initiative, he threw a stone at Gaara, only for it to be halted by a wall of sand, "So THAT'S your ultimate defense!"

Sakura's words of realization made Naruto and Fuu facepalm, "Please, tell me that she's not-" Naruto interrupted her with a solemn nod, "Yea, she's mellowed out though?" He offered, getting Fuu to groan and then smirk victoriously as Gaara smirked bloodthirstily, "Them my first Chuunin Exams is going to be easier than I thought..."

Sasuke shouted at the knowledge that she was underestimating them, but mostly him, "WHY DO YOU SAY THAT, HUH? You flat-chested bitch? What's so special about you, Dobe, and Gaara here?!" His answer was in the form of a handshake from Fuu. He went to shake her hand, when Naruto turned into a fox and was suddenly engulfed in the arms and breasts of Ino.

"FOXY-KUN! YOU'RE MINE! Hey, why's everyone looking at me like I'm stupid or something? And why's the flat-chested chick there glowering at me?" Fuu looked to her and then to Naruto, who was barely making an effort to escape. She suddenly was on the ground laughing her ass off, "HAHAHAHA! THIS IS YOUR FANGIRL, NARU-KUN? HAHAHA, she's hardly worthy of the title of kunoichi..."

Ino suddenly started to act as if Fuu was the manifestation of evil, "And why's that?! Ar you trying to take Foxy-kun from me, you fla-Huh?" Fuu abruptly took Ino's hand and squeezed 'slightly', getting Ino to drop Naruto-fox and try to get Fuu'f grip from Hell off. "That's why, you're not worthy of kunoichi and why most of you guys aren't going to be able to beat Naru-kun, Gaara and myself and WOULD YOU GUYS IN THE TREES STOP BEING CREEPS?"

Her yelling was answered by complaints from the rest of the Rookie 9 and Gai's team. "Neji-kun, she found us without trying to, any idea how?!" Lee's question was met with a quiet shake of the head, "No, but I know that fate will watch over me, I won't lose! Not to some no-name, rejected failure bit-!" Neji never got to finish, because Naruto punched him in the chest over his heart, ultimately silencing him for the time being.

"Neji," Naruto's voice was laced with malice and pure bloodlust, "For once, be quiet! No one wants to hear about how you believe that fate dictates all, just because you got the short end of the stick in life! She's more than capable enough to become a chunin! Oh, that reminds me, your father gave his life to prove that fate wasn't what controlled life! Now, if you want to hate someone? Hate Hiashi and his stuck-up personality!"

Everyone, except the other jinchuuriki, was scared of Naruto's sudden mood swing. Tenten was silently applauding Naruto for finding a way to shut up Neji, Lee was exhilarated at the possibility to fight Naruto, the former drop-outs were proud that their friend found people to level with fundamentally, Hinata was scared for Neji and happy that Naruto was indirectly defending her, Shino was trying to figure out why his insects were acting so worshippingly of Fuu, Sasuke and Sakura were scared of Naruto and the other two jinchuuriki, Ino was nursing her hand from Fuu's deathgrip, and Gaara's siblings were astounded at the familial defense that Naruto displayed and that Gaara was getting ready to show for Fuu.

The jonin senseis were somewhat frightened by Naruto's defensiveness over his kindred, Yuhi Kurenai was the one to attempt to find his reason, "Naruto-kun, just relax and let's talk about these problems, not hurt people who say things we don't like," Naruto and Fuu were joined by Gaara who surrounded them with sand, while Fuu brought her chakra into the visible field displaying an almost insectoid(rhinoceros beetle) armor of chakra, and Naruto went into his initial jinchuuriki state as he got down into a crouch quadrupedal in style.

Their next action was synchronized and chakra depleting. They charged chakra into every fiber of their bodies and released it, creating a unique shunshin for each of them. Fuu disappeared in a swarm of rhinoceros beetles from the cylinder on her back, Gaara vanished in a small tornado of sand that quickly dispersed, and Naruto just ceased to be there after a miniature inferno of different colors took his place for a second.

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The three jinchuuriki reappeared in Naruto's Sanctuary, where once they got there, Naruto lost his balance. He was saved from a facefull of dirt by Fuu and Gaara catching his weakened body. The other two exchanged worried glances for their technical sibling, Fuu asked the question plaguing them, "What's wrong?"

Naruto knew that they could read his thoughts through physical contact, so he told the truth, "I used a lot of my chakra in my fight with Momochi Zabuza, the Demon of the Mist. He used his Demon Shroud and I used my Chakra Cloak, in the end...He and I were equals in power, even when I made my cloak a gigantic construct, ungh! I wore off my cloak's abilities for the time being," His words were spoken through gritted teeth as his heart felt like it would burst and his coils felt like they would burn to nothing! "Now, I have to regain my cloak through training! If I use a lot of Kyuubi's chakra, like I did back there, I guess my coils are going to burn to nothing...I'll have to refrain from using my cloak until I can use the bijuu shunshin with my own chakra, UNGH!"

He slumped to the ground, while Gaara was deep in thought of how to help, 'I don't usually help others...But this is a special case, if I kill him then Kaa-san won't be given the blood of both the Kyuubi and Shichibi jinchuurikis...I also can't kill him like this, it would be evil to kill a kindred spirit like this in a state of disrepair! Kaa-san, do you know any medical techniques?' He was given a response from a high pitched voice, "Sorry Gaara, but I don't know anything medical. I heal you with my chakra, which is in high supply so when I give you a small amount in my eyes...Your body is given a huge boost in power and healing..."

Fuu wasn't worried about the fight they would have with Gaara, she was just worried that she'd b alone in life again, 'I can't think of any techniqus to heal chakra coils! What do I do, what do I do? Shichibi! Do you have anything?!' She was answered by a medium pitch voice and a still elated tone of said voice, "No, I don't know anything that could heal his coils without interfering with his already unlucky flow...This situation isn't in our lucky stars, where did the day go wrong?"

While this was going on for his companions, Naruto was having a similar conversation with his prisoner, 'Kyuubi, is there a way to heal my coils quickly without harming me?!' The one responding was a deep, male voice with a growl in each word, "No, I can't help you, as if I would! I won't help you, you're my prison for Yami's sake! I can't heal you without possibly killing you and in that action kill myself, I can't take over because of your damned willpower and your body isn't worth taking over at the moment, I can't do much except put you out of your misery!" Naruto was clearly not pleased with his options, 'Then how long until my coils heal?' Kyuubi took a moment to contemplate the question, "A month at most, IF, you don't overwork yourself! That means, no training, and little to no pranking because the majority of your pranks and get-aways use chakra!"

Naruto's groan of annoyance and pain broke the other two's musings. He decided to learn a bit more about his comrades-in-pain, "Hey Fuu," Her attention on him, he continued, "Why was that weird guy saying he loved you?" Her worried face turned into a scowl as she answered his innocent enough qustion.

"Ungh, he's a total creep and wannabe womanizer. He tries to get under my skirt and in my shirt almost everyday, sometimes he'll try doing the same to other girls...And I'm the only one who turns him down violently!" Her tone of voice was that of pride and accomplishment. Naruto broke that spell in a minute, "If he's dead, then you can't progress in the Chunin Exams and you'll have to head back to Taki!"

She deflated considerably at his words, after thinking over the pros and cons of letting him live, she recalled her beetles to her cylinder. She gave an, 'Are you happy now?' sort of face to which Naruto nodded his thanks. The moon was rising on the horizon now, they knew that if a full moon was this night, then they'd have a bad time getting Gaara under control; what with Naruto in his condition and Fuu's lack of control of herself in her initial jinchuuriki form.

'Kami, do you hate me?' was the only thought going through the minds of the three jinchuuriki as they saw the full moon high in the sky. Gaara began to look more exhausted than usual, he was wobbling and his eyes were half-lidded. The sand gourd on Gaara's back broke and made a sphere around him as his cloak came up around his body. The sand turned into a smaller version of the Ichibi around Gaara's body and began attacking them, much to the chagrin of his companions, "DAMN IT! SONOVABITCH GAARA, COULDN'T YOU HOLD IT BACK OR SOMETHIN-!" Her shouts were cut off when a large clawed hand made of the cloak's sand held her to the ground before she broke through it.

"He hasn't slept in awhile, you can't blame him! We just have to endure his attacks and keep him from the village, otherwise this becomes an international incident and then we're all stuck as genin for the next six months!" His voice was raised, his body hurt, and now he had to take a serious ass-kicking...Naruto was pissed! He'd a horrible time on a normal day, his luck wasn't worth shit.

"Fuu," catching her attention for his plan. "I've got an idea! Use a tail or that chakra armor you made!" She looked confused for a moment, before realization hit her and she brought her rhinoceros beetle-like armor to reality. The battle was afoot and she was their only hope.

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There ya go! Naruto's got foreign friends over, and the worst-I mean best, 'as yet to come! R&R, please!