Chapter 3: Diamond in the Rough

Orderly: Hello again avid readers I gotta say that this story is really going in a good direction. To be honest I really didn't expect this story to be this well received so far I am surprised.

Ganetto: Well what did you expect to happen?

Orderly: I really don't know to be honest but I will say this I'm happy people actually like it. So I will continue this story for them. So Amejisuto do the disclaimer.

Amejisuto: Fine Orderly does not own Naruto or any other stuff used besides original characters, bloodlines, and jutsu.

Paru: Really... That was the disclaimer... That was completely disappointing.

Orderly: Don't care on with the story.

=Konaha Ninja Academy/ 10 year timeskip=

"Naruto Namikaze and Sasuke Uchiha please step into the ring." Asked a chunin with tan skin with a scar going across the bridge of his nose wearing his hair in a spiky ponytail. This was Iruka Umino a chunin instructor at the Ninja Academy and standing beside him was a chunin with pale skin and silver hair wearing his leaf forehead protector has a bandana, his best friend and assistant instructor Mizuki. The two students hearing that their names was announced had entered the ring

Standing at 5,10 on the left of the ring we can see our favorite blond whose changed a lot over the seven years and so did his appearance no longer was he a short happy go lucky child. He became cold and distant to those that was not precious to him. His attire changed the most. He was now wearing black long jeans with two studded belts crossing over each other forming an 'X', a mesh sleeveless top under a sleeveless orange hooded vest with a silver star on the back and lastly orange combat boots with black steel toes. His hair grew out reaching the center of his back and gained black streaks.

Standing across from him was the self-proclaimed 'Uchiha Elite' Sasuke Uchiha one of the last living Uchiha of the leaf village. You see a couple years ago Sasuke's older brother Itachi Uchiha slaughtered all of his clan except Sasuke and their mother Mikoto Uchiha and soon became a S-rank missing nin. Ever since then Sasuke swore to find the rogue Uchiha and kill him. Sasuke was wearing a blue short sleeved shirt with the Uchiha fan on the back, white shorts that stops at the knees and blue shinobi sandals and to complete his outfit was white arm and leg warmers with blue trims. His hair was black with a dark blue tint to it shaped in a ducks rear end framed by two chin length bangs.

"You should just forfeit to save yourself the trouble of being defeated by an Uchiha elite." Our resident jackass stated arrogantly while dropping into the Uchiha clan 'Interceptor Fist' taijutsu stance. On the outside of the ring was a group of girls cheering for the Uchiha with the loudest one being a pink haired girl with green eyes, this was Sakura Haruno daughter of Suki Haruno and the president of the Sasuke Fan Club.

"Yeah Sasuke-kun knock this loser into the dirt!" She all but screeched causing the other students to wince. Iruka after stopping the buzzing in his ears turned to Naruto and Sasuke asking if they are ready. Naruto standing with arms crossed nodded while Sasuke in his clan taijutsu stance nodded his head with an arrogant smirk. Iruka seeing this raised his and brought it down while yelling "Haijime" signifying the start of the spar.

Without wasting any time Sasuke decided to try and end the spar with one punch and rushed Naruto who did not react and stood his ground. As he neared his opponent Sasuke lashed out with a right hook aimed for Naruto's head, but was intercepted by the blond raising his left arm stopping the attack before driving his right knee into the Uchiha's gut forcing him into a hunched position. Even with the pain he was in Sasuke forced himself back to his feet and rushed Naruto once more jumping going for a overhead axe kick. Seeing this Naruto sidestep the kick letting it slam into ground before lashing out with a side kick to the Uchiha's ribs knocking him out of the ring into a target dummy.

Iruka seeing this ended the spar with Naruto as the victor which was not well received by the Uchiha's fan girls who started to make idiotic claims. "Iruka-sensei Naruto-baka cheated he should be disqualified." Stated Sakura. "And what should he be disqualified for Sakura?" Iruka asked.

If he was paying attention he would see Sasuke standing back up and go through three hand signs before stopping on tiger. "Take this dobe 'Fire Relase: Great Fireball Jutsu' he shouted firing a large ball of fire towards Naruto who stood calmly. As the attack hit there was a small explosion that kicked up a large amount of dust obscuring the view of the instructors and students who were giving the Uchiha looks of shock and disgust. The Uchiha stood there with an arrogant smirk while Sakura was cheering for the Uchiha for getting rid of the 'loser' for good.

Suddenly the sound of clapping was heard from the lingering dust before the cloud finally cleared up showing Naruto standing there surrounded by a crystalline orange bubble completely unscathed. "That was a cowardly thing to do Uchiha runt but, since you are so intended to kill me than it is only fair that I return the favor." He stated as the bubble dispersed while there was a yellow glow in the palm of his right hand before a bright flash obscured everyone's view. As the light died down Naruto stood holding a large star shaped shuriken that was yellow in color and had black stainless steel edges on one side of each point.

Naruto started to spin the large throwing weapon like a buzz saw around his wrist before launching it towards the Uchiha. As it sailed through the air it made a high pitch humming sound showing just how hard it was thrown. As the shuriken rapidly approached it's intended target the Uchiha quickly preformed the 'Substitution' jutsu replacing himself with a student. Naruto seeing this put two fingers to his lips and let out a loud whistle that was heard all over the village. The star shaped shuriken was 3 feet in front of the student who quickly shut their eyes and waited for pain to explode through out their being but nothing happened.

Shyly opening their eyes that quickly opened in a mixture of fear and awe at the sight before them they saw something that they wouldn't forget. Standing before the stunned student was a horse sized black fox with blue tipped fur ears and tail and in it's fanged maw between it's teeth was Naruto's shuriken. If you looked close enough you can see a diamond shaped sapphire on it's upper chest.

Naruto made his way over to the black and and blue fox unfazed by its size or appearance but Iruka was extremely cautious about the abnormal fox. As Naruto got near he got a closer look at the student. It was a female that came up to his chest and had pale skin. She had azure colored hair that was straight and stopped at her shoulders, pale grey pupiless eyes with a heart shaped face with small nose and pouty lips.

Her attire consists of a sky blue mandarin gown with long sleeves that covered her hands that stops at her mid thighs with tidal wave decals. For her lower body wear she had black biker shorts that ended at the knees and on her feet instead of shinobi sandals she wore straw sandals. Iruka rushed over to check on her to make sure that she wasn't injured and sighed in relief when he found nothing broken or life threatening ended the school day letting everyone go home early for the day.

After all the students walked or in the case of a certain emo limped out the academy three people remained and those three was Naruto, Iruka and the Azure haired student. Naruto was about to walk off before the unnamed student stopped him. "Arigato Nii-sama for saving me from your shuriken." She spoke while bowing at the waist. Naruto hearing this lifted an eyebrow at being called 'brother' by the student he prevented from being on the wrong side of his shuriken. "If you don't mind me asking but who are you and what is someone your age doing in the academy?" He asked with an almost nonexistent edge lining his tone.

Hearing the faint edge in his tone she quickly apologized and answered his questions. "Gomensai Nii-sama my name is Razuri I'm an orphan and the reason for why I'm here is that I have this energy that I can use, to do what I don't know so I was allowed to enter the academy a little earlier so that I may be able to find out." She informed. Naruto gained a look before turning walking off with the fox by his side.

=Ichiraku Ramen Stand=

We can find Naruto in his favorite ramen stand with his pet fox eating his fifth bowl of miso ramen trying his hardest to ignore the short girl sitting beside him who as been starring at him for half an hour now. "Any reason why you're following me squirt?" Naruto asked. Razuri hearing the question blinked before gaining a little blush before answering with a sheepish smile. "I forgot how to get back to the orphanage and was hoping that Nii-sama would help me get back." She admitted in embarrassment.

Naruto looked at Razuri with no expression on his face hearing why she followed him all the way to Ichiraku and was completely silent. Razuri was about to say anything to break the silence before Naruto spoke "You mean to tell me that you followed me this whole time just because you got lost?" He deadpan. Remaining silent Razuri nodded her head and waited for a reply from the apathetic blond. Sighing Naruto gave her his half finished bowl of miso ramen. "Eat that and after your finished I'll take you to the orphanage, your lucky kid if was anyone else you'd be on your own.

Razuri hearing this gained a megawatt smile and nodded her head and quickly ate the ramen offered to her while making sure to savor the flavor. After finishing her ramen Naruto paid for the food and bid a farewell to to the owner and his daughter with Razuri waving goodbye to nice people. As Naruto, the fox and Razuri made they're way to the orphanage Naruto picked up some of the whispering of the villagers.

"Look at it walking around the village thinking it's one of us."

"Why is that girl with it?"

"The demon has kidnapped a little girl."

Hearing the whispering Naruto lost focus of his destination to the orphanage and turned down a familiar alley way (AN:If you haven't read the first chapter you might want to) and ended up at a deadend. Naruto seeing this turned around only to come face to face with a mob of civilians and A handful full of ninja. Razuri seeing all the gathered people quickly hid behind Naruto's legs and gripped his pants leg. The fox growled and got ready to pounce before Naruto placed his hand on it's head making it stand down before turning his attention to the mob.

"What do you simpletons want?" Naruto asked not in the mood for the villagers idiotic nonsense at the moment. A brave or stupid, depending on how you see it, villager decided to step up. "What we want is for you to release the girl you kidnapped and get out of our village." He shouted making the rest of the mob shout in agreement. Naruto hearing that scoffed at the mob before he let out a small chuckle that exploded into loud laughter making some of the mob feel nervous and some annoyed. When Naruto finished laughing he threw a lazy smirk at the mob "What makes you clods think that you can do anything to me?" Naruto asked.

While Naruto and the random village was bickering Razuri saw a ninja wearing a porcelain mask with the kanji for 'ROOT' on the forehead of the mask make a handsign. After she saw this she heard the sound of hissing before looking around the alley seeing explosion tags stuck to the walls and got Naruto's attention. Naruto feeling Razuri tugging on his pants leg turned to her to see what she wanted until he saw her pointing to the alley walls. Naruto seeing the explosion tags about to go of reacted on instinct and threw Razuri up onto the roof of the building on the right of the alley right as the tags went off.

Razuri hearing the explosion peeked over edge of the roof she was on gained a fearful and and horrified expression seeing Naruto embedded in the wall at the back of the alley. Looking for a way to get down Razuri saw a ladder to the right of her made her way down to see if her Nii-sama was alright. As she finally got to the bottom of the ladder she got down and quickly made her way to the blond still embedded in the wall. When she got in front of him she took in his appearance his clothes was covered in burn marks and the bottom of his left pants leg was missing, he had blood cascading down his face from a large gash on the top of his head from the impact of the wall. But what caught her attention was the the way his right arm was bending knowing for a fact that arms are not supposed to be twisted.

Razuri covered her mouth with her hands and fell to her knees at the sight before before she heard the mob cheering about getting rid of the demon and becoming the village's heroes. Razuri hearing everything they said quickly became enraged and turned to face the mob with an expression of hate and grief while unnoticed by her or the mob the sky started to darken and it started to to rain.

A ninja in mob seeing that it was raining turned his attention to Razuri and walked over to her. "Hey girl come on I will take you back home." He offered and reached out to touch her but before he knew it there was a spike made of water impaled into his chest. Following the spike he saw that it originated from a puddle of water surrounding the still kneeling girl. He was silent for about two seconds before he let loose a blood chilling scream that caught the attention of the rest of the mob. Before the impaled ninja could react a second water spike shot of the puddle and embedded it self between the ninja eyes killing him instantly. Seeing the death of the ninja caused a reaction from the mob which was complete fear.

"Why d-did you d-do that f-for you s-stupid girl?" A random villager asked fearfully trying and failing to put on a brave front. Razuri hearing the question stood to her feet and turned to face the villager who asked the question but instead of responding Razuri raised her right arm with the rain puddles raising off the ground and before the mobs eyes the levitating water formed into a dragons head with glowing white eyes and fangs of ice.

The mob turned to run for the alleyway exit but froze in place seeing that a black fox with blue tipped ears and tail blocked the only way out but what caught the mob attention was that they could've sworn that the fox was smirking, the fox seeing this pointed it's tail towards the end of the alley way.

They turned around and went pale but not because of the giant water dragon head no they was looking behind that. Because there standing at the end of the alley was. . .

Cliffhanger.

Amejisuto: Aww come on Orderly that was just getting to the good part.

Orderly: Sorry but I think that suspension was needed. What about you two Paru Ganetto any thoughts on this?

Paru: I must say that though it came out of nowhere the cliffhanger did peak my curiosity to see what happens.

Ganetto: *Thumb of Approval*

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