So, this is a new story. Normally, I would just put all the stuff that I intend to change in the story here, but for once the only thing I really have to change slightly is his age, Naruto is 14, but only so he is closer to the pairing's age.

Other than that, there isn't much to say, it's a Naruto x Mei pairing, how it will work will unfold on its own as the story goes on. Also, just in case any of you might get the wrong idea, this isn't a fiction that has intentional bashing of characters, other than maybe Sakura, I really hate her if some of you that have read my other stories didn't know, xD.

I guess that's it for now, if you have any further questions after reading the chapter, they might be answered at the bottom of the chapter, if I feel like there might be something in the chapter after writing it, that's needs answering. Anyway, go ahead, read, and enjoy.

Pairing: Naruto x Mei

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"Naruto..." - Demonic Voice/Bijuu/Boss Summon/God Thinking.

CHAPTER 1 - Foreign Help

Walking through the streets, with a storm cloud over his head was a blonde orange-clad boy at the age of fourteen, his fists were clenched tightly as he ground his teeth together with narrowed eyes.

He suddenly pulled his T-Shirt up to cover the lower part of his face along with narrowing his eyes as much as possible as he gave a peace sign and mockingly said. "Mah, mah, I have to train Sasugay! He needs help, Gaara will slaughter his ass! But don't worry, your trustworthy sensei, the almighty great Bakashi have the perfect solution for you! Here take this closet pervert, and go get you ass grounded into the ground! The moron couldn't even teach me water walking properly." Naruto finished his impression of his sensei as he kicked a dumpster away.

"ARH! Damn idiotic sensei! Screw you and that closet pervert, I don't need any of you at all! I will train and get strong on my own, and I will kick Neji's ass! No! Not only that, I will kick Neji's ass, Gaara's ass, Sasuke's ass! I will kick everyone's ass and win it all, just watch me!" He proclaimed loudly, making everyone narrow their eyes at him as they huffed and turned away.

He glanced sideways and glared daggers at them with gritted teeth, making them gasp and sneer back at him, 'What gives you the right to judge me, huh?! You don't know me! You don't know anything about me! I will show you all…' He mentally growled clenching his fists so tightly that his nails dug into his skin painfully, drawing blood that dripped from his clenched hands and onto the ground.

He walked over to the training grounds to get some privacy, he threw his jacket into the air with so much haste he almost ruined the zipper before he kicked it into the lake located at the back of the training grounds, 'Stupid foolish orange clothes…'

He walked over and got ready for training before his facial expression turned somber, and his upper body slumber slightly over. "Man, who am I kidding, I don't even know where to start…" He whined as he sat onto the ground in a thinking pose as he heard some footsteps behind him.

'Great, who is now coming to interrupt me, I just it isn't that closet pervert, because if it is I will use my special technique on him again, and make his nosebleed so bad he flies to the moon and black again!' Naruto sighed mentally, getting back to his feet.

"My, you have quite the spirit young man." A kind female voice said from behind him making him turn around confused, he laid eyes on the stranger and a pink blush spread onto his face making him feel hot as he scratched the back of his head.

The stranger is a tall, slender woman with fair skin. She has green eyes, and ankle-length, spiky auburn hair with a top-knot tied with a dark blue band, and with four bangs at the front. Two bangs are short, with one covering her right eye, and two are long, crossing each other on her bust, just below her chin. Her outfit was quite simple, consisting of a dark blue tank top and some black mini shorts with black heels to finish it off.

"Oh yeah, hah hah, well you got to have spirit if you want to be the next Hokage!" He grinned cheerfully with a huge smile on his face, as he gave a thumb up. The stranger narrowed her eyes and huffed.

"Drop the act already, it's so painfully obvious that it's painful to watch. Why go around pretending to be so dumb when you could be yourself?" The woman asked and Naruto's fell into the more neutral expression that it was before instead of the cheerful mask.

"Because it's so much easier acting dumb, people drop their guards because they think you are too stupid to understand them, making them recklessly spill their guts out with their opinions and thoughts." He explained while crossing his hands over his chest, making the woman raise a brow surprised.

"Oh, and you are not the reckless one? I mean, look at you, your outfit screams 'come and kill me' so it can be heard miles away, aren't you a Shinobi? You headband indicates you are." She teased leaning against the trunk of a nearby tree while pointing a finger at his forehead as she studied studying his body language.

"Do you think I like looking like a damn orange meant for target practice? This is the only stuff in the left-over department in the shittest store I could find! And they even overcharged me for it!" Naruto whined pulling his orange pants as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

The woman raised her brows even more now, this was surprising for her, why would the stores treat a boy like this? "Why do they overcharge you? I mean, while following you here it was quite obvious the villagers around here don't seem to like you, and you don't really seem to like them either. My question is simply why?" She asked crossing her arms under her cleavage.

Naruto sighed and shrugged and lied, "I don't know, I guess it might be pranks I did on the population when I was younger, I guess they can't really get past the fact that I painted and boobytrapped their stores and put stink bombs in their dumpsters so when they opened them the stink bombs exploded." Naruto shrugged as if it was the smallest thing in the world.

She didn't really seem to buy it but decided to let it pass, for now, it was after all never a good idea to open up to a total stranger after all. "Hmm, is that why you were so angry, because of the treatment they give you?" She asked sliding down to sit against the tree in the shade.

"No… I'm one of the participants for one of this year's Chunin Election Exams, and my Sensei just waved me off to train my teammate, leaving me with a closet pervert to train and get my ass handed to me in the first round, where I have to face last year's top dog!" Naruto groaned loudly.

"And the Hokage doesn't do anything about this? I mean, it's his job to make sure that all of his Shinobi do their best to represent their village in these exams, isn't it?" She asked closing her eyes while relaxing.

"You seem to know quite a lot about how this work, who are you anyway? You never told me your name." Naruto pointed out, and the woman shrugged.

"I guess I haven't, well as the answer to your first question, I am from a Shinobi village as well, and also a Shinobi I am just on a day off. And for my name, well you can call me Mei." She said with a smile that made the slight pink blush return to his cheeks.

"Well, I'm Naruto Uzumaki. Wait, you said a Shinobi village, so it's not Konoha I presume, which one then?" He asked curiously.

"Look at you, not so stupid after all. Well, I am from The Village Hidden in the Mist, and I got to say, the population there is much smarter than to hate a boy for some simple jokes, even though they seem kind of harsh, and the Mizukage isn't going to let things run as they do here in Konoha, I mean come on, a Shinobi forced to dress up as an orange with a neglecting sensei. Your old Hokage must be going senile." She smirked kind of victoriously confusing the blonde, but also angering him slightly.

"Hey, don't go around making fun of the old man! He might not be able to fix all my problems, but at least he is trying, he is the only reason I even had a chance here, and the council not helping on the matter, they are a real pain the ass…" Naruto protected the old Hokage, sure his life wasn't the easiest, but if it wasn't for him it would have been a whole lot harder!

"Alright, alright, I'm sorry don't get your panties in a knot." She teased him while waving her hands in front of her, further annoying him slightly. He

growled slightly at her annoying teasing making laugh at him.

"Sorry, sorry, I will make it up to don't worry." Mei apologized calming him down slightly.

She hummed a bit as she stared at him with a smile, confusing the blonde. "Who's your sensei, Naruto?" She asked curiously, Naruto raised his brow a bit and shrugged.

"His name is Kakashi Hatake, he is supposed to some kind of big deal, but I don't really see it. I mean come on, he is three hours late all the time, reads porn in public, and has the worst excuses ever." Naruto shrugged again making her snicker slightly, and Naruto couldn't help but snicker with her.

"The Kakashi Hatake, he is said to be one of the strongest Jounin ever, to think he is such a… What do you call it? Lazy unmotivated hypocrite?" She laughed, and Naruto almost choked on his own spit laughing so much.

Wiping some tears away from the corners of his eyes he laid down back on the grass, "Even though he might not be the best sensei, he is still a good friend, I can talk with him about some problems, and I have to admit his lame ass excuses are kind of funny." Naruto joked, and Mei couldn't help but agree on Naruto's view of Kakashi.

Mei walked over to Naruto, and crouched down beside him confusing him, "What's up, is there something on my face?" She hummed a bit and moved a bit closer, and Naruto's blush returned full force as he was actually slightly afraid that her breast might fall out of her clothes in the position she was leaning over him to stare at his face.

A grin appeared on her face, "I'll make you a deal, if you let me touch your whiskers, I'll train you." Mei said in a sultry voice making Naruto blush intensely.

"What? M-my whiskers are sensitive, why would you want to touch them anyway?" Naruto Asked with a blush on his face making Mei smirk, oh how she was going to tease this blonde boy relentlessly.

"I promise to be gentle, Na-ru-to-kun." She whispered hotly in his ear, pretending not to hear his question. Naruto's face went bright red that it put a tomato to shame.

"Y-You can touch t-them I guess." Naruto breathed out in embarrassment, this had never happened to him and yet he'd was a female who was a goddess in human form wanting to touch his whiskers.

"Thank you Na-ru-to-kun." She said seductively, she gently cupped his right cheek with her right hand and gently rub her thumb across his whiskers.

"Is is he purring?" Mei thought to herself as the young blonde had his eyes closed, and was purring at her gentle and warm touch.

"You're mine now!" Mei shouted and grabbed the blonde genin at the back of his head, and slamming his face into her ample bust making him flail his arms for air.

After a few minutes of hugging the blonde, Mei released him reluctantly.

"I apologize for my actions," Mei said while coughing into her hand while looking away from at blushing blonde. She was the Mizukage Kami dammit and she acted like a fangirl, no one would ever know about this ever.

"Give him a few years and he'll definitely be a heartthrob, maybe I should stake my claim on him?" She thought to herself.

"It's alright, I guess but you said something about training?" Naruto took some deep breaths, while the blush was receding from his face.

"Yeah, don't worry I am a woman of my word, I will give you training that Hatake could ever give you, so don't worry, you are going to rock the exams with my help," Mei said with a smirk, as she helped Naruto to his feet.

"How so? Are you stronger than Kakashi?" Naruto questioned curiously with a raised eyebrow while dusting his pants off.

"Let's just say Kakashi wouldn't stand a chance, I can even give a few of the Kage a run for their money." She said confidently, Naruto looked a little disbelieving at her and asked.

"Beat Kakashi and fight a few of the Kage? What's your rank?" His question amused her, and she leaned down to his height and winked at him while gracing his cheek with her hand.

"You don't need to know, but if you get cold feet after some training and think you don't really get anything from the training, you can just leave, but I can assure you, that won't happen." She clapped his cheek a few times before leaning back up.

Before he could reply Mei grabbed him by the hand and pulled him toward the market district, "Come on, I will get you some proper training clothes, we can get you some better Shinobi fitting clothes and equipment later."

Half an hour later, Naruto and Mei stood back in the clearing, Naruto was now seen wearing a black tank top with matching black pants and sandals. Mei had bought the clothes for him, so they wouldn't be overcharged, and now they were ready for some training.

Mei crossed her arms under her chest, and spoke, "Alright, the first step is to get a look at your taijutsu, your hand to hand combat is something you always need to make sure is strong. Because without a properly trained body, your life as a Shinobi will be hell. So let me see your taijutsu, come at me with all you got." Mei smirked at him, and Naruto couldn't help but smirk as well as he charged at the lady.

Twenty minutes later, Naruto was on the ground panting heavily, and Mei stood over him looking over her nails as she snorted, "Sorry to say, but your taijutsu definitely needs some work, but don't worry we got the time." Naruto just gave a weak thumb up as Mei pulled him up by his arm.

"I want to see you run five laps around the training ground, a hundred push-ups a hundred situps and to finish it off you will do two hundred punches and kicks with each hand and leg, following this taijutsu style," Mei said holding up a scroll for him, Naruto grabbed the scroll with a nod and put it beside their training gear that consisted of several scrolls and canteens of water.

Naruto quickly gave into a sprint around the training ground when he was hit by a rock on his leg, "Owh! What the hell was that for?" He yelled back at the woman who was giggling slightly at his whining.

"Your speed doesn't mean anything if you can't see what's going on around you!" Mei threw another stone that Naruto leaned back to dodge, so he was supposed to run at full speed, but be aware of the projectiles flying around him at the same time.

Naruto saw her threw another stone and grabbed a stone she threw earlier and tossed it at the stone she had just thrown making them slam together and fall onto the ground. "Nice one! Keep that up!" Naruto nodded and gave into a sprint, and did his best to move around all the flying stones.

This went on for the next ten minutes, and Naruto rubbed some sore spots as he returned to Mei's side. "That was pretty good for a start, we will do the same thing at every start and end of a training session, and then we will look at your progress at the end of the week and if I deem you ready, we can start looking at some Ninjutsu, is that fine with you?"

"Yeah, let's just get into it," Naruto answered with a smirk that Mei returned.

"That's the spirit, now, on the ground and give me push-ups, if you aren't down there in five seconds I will sit on you as you do them." Naruto raised his brow slightly as he threw himself onto the ground, and started doing push-ups.

When he suddenly felt some wight onto his back he groaned and looked up, and asked, "I thought you said you would sit on me if I was slower than five seconds…" Naruto groaned as he kept doing the push-ups.

"I never said I wouldn't if you were faster, you shouldn't trust everything said to you, despite how much you trust their word, always be ready for deception, and be aware of your surroundings, you could have predicted that I was about to sit down on you from the movement of my shadow for an example." Mei teased him as she ruffled his hair, he kept groaning as he continued to do push-ups.

As he finished Mei stood up and his body collapsed onto the ground in exhaustion, "Oh, quit whining, get to situps now." She commanded and Naruto rolled onto his back and started doing situps.

"You aren't going to sit on me doing this too, are you?" He questioned with a groan, but he blushed full force when two arms snuck around his neck and Mei placed herself in his lap and whispered sultrily in his ear.

"Why are you asking? Would that make you… Un-comfort-able?" She giggled in his ear, sending shivers up his spine as his face was starting to resemble a tomato more and more.

"Just kidding." She giggled and stood and walked over to sit in the shadow of a tree, while the blond groaned while muttering. 'Damn tease…' As he kept going with his training.

The day went on, and Naruto finally got to the kicks and punches, the taijutsu style she had picked, was a style called Scorpion King Style which relied on using the opponent's movement against them and answering with quick and strong blows.

When the last part of the training was done, more specifically the last run around the training ground while dodging projectiles. The last run had severe improvement already, and Naruto didn't have to rub so many bruises when he was done.

"I guess that's all for today, but remember that training isn't going to help you much without a proper diet, so remember to eat your vegetables and not so much food containing huge amounts of calories and sugar," Mei instructed the blonde who nodded with a thumb up as he rubbed a sore shoulder.

"Alright then, I will see you here at five in the morning, and for every minute you might be late I will add a lap around the training ground where you dodge projectiles am I understood?" Mei smiled sweetly, almost too sweet and the blonde sweatdropped.

"Hai, Mei-sensei," Naruto answered as he packed is training gear in a backpack, and Mei clapped his shoulder as he exited the training ground.

"Don't worry, you will do fine in the exams, you are already improving and it's the first day," Mei assured him, and he smiled while waving as he went home for the day.

Naruto walked through the less populated streets as the sun was going down, he was supposed to eat healthier now, and that called for some grocery shopping. He quickly ducked into an alleyway and did a hand sign and he was engulfed in a cloud of smoke.

When it was gone, Naruto was revealed in a transformation jutsu, portrayed as Sasuke. Naruto swung his back over his shoulder and walked into a nearby store. But far away from a rooftop, Mei smirked at his creativity. 'He is a lot smarter than these people give him credit for, they will regret this treatment one day.' She smirked as she disappeared in a swirl of water.

He walked through the store, and the looks he received were creeping him out. The girls were looking at him from over the shelves, and all the adults and elder civilians were making room for him so he could pass through.

Naruto sighed at the treatment, why couldn't he get just a little bit of the respect this emo was getting? Then it could at least be a little bit easier getting stuff like groceries and clothes.

He got to the greens and started to pick out a few things, lettuce, broccoli, carrots, onions, squash, zucchini, spinach, mushrooms and tofu, simple stuff like that, he went on in and grabbed some rice and noodles that were low on calories. Getting further through the store, he got to the fish and meat.

He went to fruits and added apples, grapes, oranges, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. His house was pretty much empty, the only food he had was ramen cups, so he had to stack everything up from scratch, so the grocery bags were going to be heavy to get home.

Walking toward the meat he leaned over and grabbed some salmon and chicken breast, and finished with grabbing some milk, eggs, and a cookbook before he went over to pay for it all. He was kind of looking forward to seeing how cheap stuff was going to be now that they didn't know it was him.

He walked up to the cashier who was a lady in her mid-thirties who smiled down at him, and he smiled back slightly. "Good evening, Uchiha-san, I can see you are getting quite the amount today, may I ask why?" She asked as he ran through the food.

"Ugh, my home is pretty much empty for food, and I thought it was about time I filled it up." He answered in his most, Sasuke-like attitude he could bring up.

The cashier brought a hand to her mouth and said, "Oh my, then don't worry you can get it on the house this time, we can't have one of our dearest protector of our village starving to death, can we?" She winked at him and packed the items into a bag and handed him the bags over the counter.

"Oh, eh, thanks a lot! See ya!" He waved as he walked out and released the henge before going home. 'Damn, Teme even gets free stuff simply because of his fancy name? I hate him even more now…' Naruto sneered in his mind.

On his way home people gave him questioning looks, he heard a lot of questions asking about his change in clothes, questions about whether or not he had grown a brain as the day went by.

He walked into his apartment and started putting the meat, berries, and vegetables into the fridge. He grabbed a bowl and poured the fruit into it and placed it on the kitchen table, before placing the cookbook onto the kitchen counter.

He looked around his place and frowned, 'My place looks like a homeless have slept here.' Naruto groaned before putting his hands into a cross seal and muttered, 'Shadow Clone Jutsu.' four clouds of smoke appeared around him revealing, four exact solid copies that quickly went to work on cleaning his place up.

"Guess I can take a shower while the clones work their magic." Naruto rubbed his sore shoulder where he had been hit the most by those damn rocks, he couldn't help but think despite how much it hurt, it actually helped training his reflexes.

He grabbed a fresh set of training clothes to wear after the shower since they had bought several. He walked into the bathroom and threw his dirty clothes in the laundry basket and put the fresh set of clothes onto the small counter at the handwash. He would rather wear his training clothes, instead of those horrible jumpsuits anyway.

Walking into the shower he turned on the water and frowned, 'I guess there is no warm water today either…' He sighed and started to wash his body and hair, and was soon out of the bath again drying himself with a way too small towel and then got dressed.

When he walked out of the bathroom in a new set of training gear, he noticed a quite heavenly smell coming from the kitchen and he noticed two clones cooking some food they saw in the cookbook. Raising a brow he couldn't help but thank god that these clones thought of everything.

He sat down at the dinner table and a clone came over with a plate filled with rice and vegetable and chicken curry before it gave a peace sign and the clones disappeared leaving him to eat his food in peace.

Finishing his food he stood up and put his plate into the sink and smirked as he crossed his hands again, and two more clones appeared to do the dishes. He walked toward the living room but stopped in the hallway as he looked back at the clones.

'How come I know every single ingredient they used in that meal? I wasn't even part of the cooking…' His eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at their backs, he would have to ask his new sensei about this tomorrow…

Shrugging it off, for now, he walked into the bedroom, it was nice and clean now and he sighed tiredly while dropping onto the bed, he grabbed his alarm clock and adjusted it to four in the morning before he put it back on the nightstand and slowly let sleep claim him.

He needed to be up early to get a good breakfast, and maybe even start the training off early.

In another part of town, a certain auburn beauty closed the door to her hotel room and walked in to see her companion sitting in a chair in the corner. He was a middle-aged man with blue hair which is styled in a moused-up manner. His left eye was blue and his right eye was covered with an eye-patch and wore a green haori.

"Where have you been?" He questioned as he closed a book he was holding, and put his attention on the woman who just shrugged him off before walking over to a mini-fridge to grab herself a bottle of water.

"I found someone who piqued my interest, that's all." She said opening the water bottle and throwing the cap at the man who caught it in his hand with a scoff.

"You shouldn't just wander off by yourself, we are in a foreign nation that we have been at war with earlier." The man instructed and the woman started to smile sickly as she walked over to him.

"Ao?" She questioned sweetly, and the man now known as Ao grunted in response when suddenly felt ice cold water run down his face and body.

"Shut up or I will kill you." She smiled as she threw the now empty water bottle onto his lap. Before going into the other room, and getting ready for bed, leaving Ao to shudder in fear in the chair.

Mei took a quick shower and changed into some comfortable sleeping clothes and slowly slid into bed, their hotel room was special so the beds were separated into two rooms which made her happy, she would rather fight another civil war than share a room let alone a bed with Ao.

She reached over to turn the light off, and the darkness claimed the room as she smiled in the dark. A lone thought filled her mind as she smirked amusingly. 'Naruto Uzumaki…'

The alarm started beeping loudly as a blonde groaned, he reached up and slammed the button on top of the alarm, and slowly rolled out of bed onto the floor with a thud. He stood up and rubbed his tired eyes before pulling the curtains open, the sun was only just about to rise in the distance.

He smirked slightly as he grabbed his headband and tied it around his head, he walked into the bathroom brushed his teeth quickly and packed his backpack with several wooden shuriken and kunai meant for practice. Several canteens of water and energy bars were also put there, along with the scroll with information about the taijutsu style.

He grabbed some leftovers from yesterday's dinner and heated in the microwave and ate quickly before he put the plate into the sink and made a clone to handle it. He ran into the hallway and got into his sandals and swung the backpack onto his back and grabbed the doorknob.

'Let's do this.'

So, this was the end of the first chapter of this story. Just a quick note I wish to make is that in case any of you think that it's going too fast already between them, please remember that Mei is very flirtatious by nature, just remember how she acted toward Sasuke when she saw him the first time lol.

Anyway, reviews are very much appreciated. It doesn't matter how short they are, just the fact that people take time to give a little comment is very 'refreshing'? Anyway, I will see you next time.

Huge credit to my co-writer and beta reader, DragonKyuubi. Check his works out.