Hiruzen Sarutobi the Third Hokage of Konoha sighed as he looked over the various documents that contained both things retaining to the world known to everyone as well as the world of Flame Haze and Crimsion Denizens.

There was not much good news in either as he got word that their had been sudden increase in lost to both ninjas and Flame Hazes in recent years. In some case their seem to be an overlapping where the lose of ninjas was directly connected Flame Hazes that were reported to have actually helped Denizens that threaten the balance of this world or took an active part in doing it themselves.

Thus Konoha was under the most scrutiny since they had the largest well known Flame Haze population of the five Great Nations. Not only that but the others have notice that attacks by denizens and amount of torches has gone down in and around Konoha itself in recent years thanks to the fact of Kyubi finally picking a Flame Haze. Though they did not know was that said Flame Haze was currently a five year old boy who still growing like normal child despite having made his contract with Kyubi as a newborn. News of a Flame Haze that could actually grow like normal person would have floods of people from Shinobi(This story version of Outlaw which is a Flame Haze Organization in Shakugan no Shana) to examine him. For normal protocol in making contract with Crimson Lord is that once its made that it, what appearance and age you were at the time is locked until the day come that you are finally killed or the world ends(Flame Hazes are immortal against everything but death through critical injuries and certain other things designed or capable of killing them ).

Kyubi just shrug it off as one of the many unknown of the world as that what made life interesting after all. Living a life where you knew everything and the reason behind every single occurrence that happened. Could that even really be consider living as their was no mystery and nothing to imagine since you knew it all already. What the strongest of the tailed Crimson Lord did say that he expected nothing less of the person that he chose to be his Flame Haze as exceptional Crimson Lord like himself could only be matched by equaled exceptional Flame Haze.

It was at this moment that the door to his office busted up and he could see the Flame Haze was thinking of arguing with the guards who he was actually dragging along behind him. Making it look rather strange that guards in charge of guarding the Hokage's Office were being dragged by a five year old.

"Hey Old Man! Tell these guy to buzz off, I have something important to tell you" Naruto said.

"Hokage-sama you can not condone this type of behavior from…him" one of the guard said pleading thinking this was the chance to put Naruto away for good.

"I am serious Old Man. This is serious matter that need to be discuss right now" Naruto said as his eyes flashed red for a moment.

"Leave this very moment and never speak of what happened here" Sarutobi said.

"Hokage-sama! You can not be serious as…." the guard said but stopped when he noticed the glare he was getting from his leader.

"Remember the other law that was past over five years ago when Kyubi appeared and part of Konoha was destroyed?" he asked all of the guards who nodded their heads. "Then leave before I am forced to carry it out right here and now"

"Yes Sir" the guard said rushing out and never looking back.

Naruto started chuckle but stopped when a black pole that would bashed him in the skull struck the floor beside him as he had moved in time.

"This better be important that you go through all the trouble of getting here like you did and even use the secret code for important Flame Haze matter" he said

"It is of the utmost importance" Kyubi replied as he explained what the issue was.

A few minutes later….

"You are not serious are you" Hiruzen said absolutely stunned at what he was told.

"There was no doubt in what we said and no mistaking it either" Naruto said having told the Hokage of what happen with torch in question and their flame.

"Could it be something like the Reiji Maigo in action" he asked.

"Not possible as the Reiji Maigo is one of kind and there no way to make a another one because of just how detail and complex it is. This is something completely different as the time was too random and there is no treasure located anywhere with the torch in question we checked multiple times and from various different angles before coming here" Kyubi told him.

"So what do you plan on doing?" The Third Hokage asked

While he might have ability to tell Naruto what to do when it came to things regarding ninja and civilian life, yet when it comes to things regarding Flame Hazes only Jiraiya and Kyubi could tell Naruto what to do.

"It simple I am going to look over the Torch while keeping up with what I was already doing" Naruto said.

"How could you do that as according to the what you told me the Torch of Sakura Haruno is two years under you in the academy" he asked.

"A simple matter, I am just going to fail the final exam twice. I am only in the class that I am because Kyubi said I need to be expose to other kids and normal academy life. So what's two extra years in the Academy going it hurt. It was not like the teacher were actually teaching me anything that Kyubi has not already in far more detail. On the plus side it will give me a chance to be around kids my own age" he said nodding at how good he thought his plan was.

"Then what about Hinata as you been looking after her because she give you this strange feeling. How would you keep up that up if you are looking after Sakura" The Third asked.

"Again another simple matter since Hinata follows me around anyway. I really do not have to do anything yet to keep both them unaware I just pretend I have a crush on Sakura and constantly bother her. Thus if I follow Sakura around then Hinata will follow me around. That will allow me to keep my eye on both of them at the same time" Naruto said nodding his head in what appeared to be sagely manner.

As once again he seem pretty proud of this plan that he had made up.

Author's Notes:

About Naruto faking having feeling for Sakura simply so he can keep an eye on her. It pretty much just an idea I thought up to have a reason not only for Naruto to same back but also explain where (for this story only) his crush on Sakura came from.

If Naruto is simply faking having feeling for Sakura does that mean he is not interested in her. Between the age of 5 to 11 the answer would be no. Naruto would be faking it the whole time as it would simply be a persona he puts on to fool her and everyone else unaware of it into thinking he less dangerous and threatening then he really is. Once their both 12 and Sakura learns about Naruto being Flame Haze, her being a torch, and other things. From there real feeling beginning to developed between them after awhile. Also Sakura will not be only one wanting Naruto's affection when she does start falling for him. As she ends up with one of the major Shakugan no Shana characters(whose acutally known Naruto longer then Sakura) as her romantic rival.

I would like to thank:

Ignisha and Fan of Fanfics21 for reviewing this story

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