Alright this is a story I had in mind around September, I hope you enjoy. Just letting you all know that I'm not dead, this is what I've been working on in my limited spare time, I won't quit my other story but updates will be slow, don't expect much even by Christmas, too much work and some writers' block. Thank you to all who review.

"Speech"

'Thought'

Stressed word

-Why would I-

The sun had long risen on the village hidden in the leaves. Children were playing, families were shopping, a cat was sun bathing on a roof top; everything seemed peaceful, relaxing, and cal-

"NARUTO, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!" The growing mass of rookie and average ninja were starting to voice their anger. A young boy replied with a curt grin.

"You're just yellin' at me 'cuz you don't have the guts to do what I can do!" The blond hung lazily on his rope admiring his work, the prank he had been working on was finally complete. 'Looks better like this, hehehe, not!' Down on the roof top the crowd began sharing ideas of how to make him fall when a man, closing his eyes in annoyance, silently walked through the parting crowd, he took a calm deep breath.

"Naruto, what do you think you're doing during class time!" Many around him stepped back at his outburst. The demon container flailed on the end of his rope.

'Is that Iruka-sensei... I'm dead... well.... if I'm caught.' Naruto gave an large grin, grabbed the rope holding him up and with a quick pull of a knot he was falling to the ground. 'I'll give you a chase today.' With a swift kick to the wall he shot off toward the village.

"Why are you standing there get him!" The Hokage yelled appearing on the roof moments before, several chunin blinked before turning to where Naruto had gone and dashed off as well.

"I apologies lord Hokage, I'll take the blame, he was my responsibility during class period and I-"

"Iruka calm down I will not punish him... well as long as he cleans up his mess..." The Hokage looked out across the village. "He really deserves more than having to act out just to gain the spotlight for a few seconds."

"Hokage-sama?"

"Hehe, there I go rambling again, just find him Iruka."

"Yes sir."

Naruto was racing across the village; this chase had be going on for what seemed like hours. It was only about forty minutes but a feat none the less for running from trained leaf ninja.

'Time to end this.'

"Where'd he go?"

"Don't know, go look that way." The two who had stopped took off in a different directions, the second they left a rectangular outline appeared on the wooden fence they had been next to, the painted sheet dropped and Naruto broke out laughing.

"What idiots." He grinned to himself; a dark shadow loomed over him seconds after the remark making his eyes widen in fear.

"You think this is funny Naruto!" The blond leapt several feet in the air before crashing down on the earthy street.

"S-s-sensei." He crawled back a bit.

"It's class time Naruto." Iruka pulled a rope tightly in his hands.

The door of the senior academy class burst open showing Iruka dragging a bound and flailing Naruto.

"Free time is over!" He ripped the tape from the young Uzumaki's mouth.

*Ahhhgh* The tape especially hurt since Naruto's whiskers were actually very sensitive.

"Get to your seats." The class obeyed. "Now thanks to the leaf's very own prankster, you all have a pop transformation test, everyone line up and transform into perfect copies of me." The class let out a loud groan as the chunin teacher pulled one knot releasing Naruto. "Naruto you're up first."

"But Iruka-sense-" Iruka gripped the rope again, not wasting a second after seeing it Naruto brought his hands together. "Transform!" The smoke cleared, showing a slender blond woman, who was only covered by smoke. The guys of the class stared in shock and slight awe while others passed out as the girls turned red. Naruto reverted back and pointed at his teacher laughing. "Haha got you sensei, that's my sexy no Jutsu, it really works well don't you think?"

"Naruto...." Iruka gained an evil glint in his eye when he recovered. The blond's courage was quick to leave.

"I probably should have waited on showing that move, detention?"

"Yep."

Naruto served his detention, cleaned the monument, and was able to talk to Iruka over a bowl of ramen. The day of the genin exams had come, for once Naruto was there early, sitting in a desk in the second row with the others filing in the blond was motivating himself.

'You've failed this twice already, not anymore, you can do this!' He was so into it he didn't notice the growing crowd.

"Hey Naruto-baka, move."

"Huh, oh Sakura-chan, what do you want?" With a turn of his head he noticed Sasuke sitting next to him and turned back to his crush. "Why not sit next to me than that teme?" Sakura almost look insulted.

"Sit with you, why would I do that?"

"Because I'm going to be Hokage, and I'm way better than Sasuke-teme." He pointed his thumb at himself with his fox like smile showing on his face. Sasuke sat uncaring to the annoying boy beside him.

"What did you just call him?"

"Sasuke-tem*Wham*" The Jinchuriki was punched out of his seat flew over the desk behind him and landed on his back near the wall several feet away from the seat. Sakura stood in the same place, many of the girls had grouped behind her had looks of rage as well.

"Don't call my future husband that!" She yelled as she rubbed her burning red fist.

"Your future husband?!" A girl behind her questioned, killer intent freely leaked out among the group.

"You got a problem with that?" The large group of girls started a fight, Naruto just sat on the floor once again in deep thought.

'She hit me just because I insulted Sasuke.... does she really not like me?.... no, no Teme probably did something to her and all of the other girls' heads to like him anyway, I just got to pass then she'll be all over me.... I gotta' pass now!' Naruto stood up and walked to the back with pure determination on his face. Iruka and several teachers that had come to judge the exams had to break up the fight putting some random girls next to the Uchiha and a furious Sakura in the desk behind him with two other fan girls.

Naruto stared into the thick leaves of the tree above him nothing really important going through his head. He had done it again, he had failed the exams and once again got to see the proud families congratulating their kids for a job well done while he sat alone.

'It's always a technique I can't do, first it's the substitution, and when I get that down the next year they change it to Bunshin, two years of training it and I still can't do a simple Bunshin, how Lee passed it I'll never know, I wish I did...... I wonder what happened to him...'

Several miles away on the other side of the village Lee sat cross legged jotting "Gai-sensei's great wisdom" onto a note pad when he sneezed; he looked around before realizing he had missed a sentence of his master's speech.

"GAI-SENSEI WOULD YOU PLEASE REPEAT THAT LAST LINE OF YOUR YOUTHFULL KNOWLEDGE!"

"LEE, YOU MUST NOT LET YOUR YOUTHFULLNESS BE SWEPT AWAY BY COLDS." He wacked the kid into a tree with a punch to the cheek and started to cry. "I'M SORRY MY STUDENT BUT THIS IS TO TEACH YOU A LESSON, TAKE CARE OF YOU'RE HEALTH!"

"GAI-SENSEI!" The boy pulled himself from the tree and started to weep as well.

"LEE!"

"GAI-SENSEI!" The two ran to each other and embraced.

"LEE!" Neji stared at the crazy half of his team.

'Those two need to learn how to behave and quiet down, such insanity has no place next to a genius.' Tenten sweat dropped at the common event.

Back on the swing at the academy.

"I'm sure he's fine."

"Ah Naruto just the kid I wanted to see." A cheerful Chunin peered down at him from the branches.

"Mizuki-sensei, why would you be looking for me?"

"Well Naruto personally I think that test is too unfair for you not to be able to pass it, but what's done is done, however there is an alternative way for you to become a genin."

"Really you mean it."

"Of course Naruto-san." A kind smile spread on his face as he leaned forward to rustle the blond's hair, when Naruto's eyes closed a dark and blood thirsty grin grew from his happy expression. "This is a brand new makeup exam...."

'Why, why, why!'

"Oh, did I hurt the poor demon?"

"Why, why are you calling me that, no... why do they all call me that!" Naruto screamed back finally asking what had given him that name, the one the villagers always called him every time he was beaten.

"Do you really want to know?"

"No Mizuki, it's forbidden!" Iruka blurred from the trees and skidded to a halt in front of Naruto with his arms stretched in a protecting manner, but the damage he had already taken was clearly effecting his body.

"Iruka... you hate him.... right?" A playful tone came from the man's mouth.

"Sensei?"

"Shut up Mizuki!" Blood dripped from the chunin's back where a gaint shurikin had barely missed his spine; he was prepping himself for a final lunge before he passed out.

"But he killed you parents, he's a demon... that's what they call him.. all because..."

"I said stop!" The man was ignored as Mizuki gained a manic look in his eyes.

"You are the nine tailed fox!"

'What?' Naruto's face was a mix of fear and shock.

"No, Naruto you are not the fox, it's only sealed in you... I'm sorry; you were never supposed to know!"

"Touching, but you see that look in his eyes that of a cornered animal ready to kill those that surround it without a second thought; today I become a missing nin and also a hero..." He looked Naruto dead in the eyes. "…the one to finally finish off the demon fox!" Taking the remaining shurikin, Mizuki threw it at the two.

"Enough!" Naruto grabbed the weapon on sheer instinct and held it back with some strain due to its speed. He was confused, nothing in his life seemed to make sense anymore, yet it also seemed to fit perfectly with everything that never made sense before, he'd been called a murderer when he was only four, he'd been ignored, beaten, and almost killed every day until he was seven, what Mizuki had said seemed too right to be wrong but Naruto still would not accept it. "I don't know what the heck you talking about..." A cold glare was set on Mizuki; the shurikin fell to the ground. "...but if you ever touch my sensei again, you're dead."

"He's already strained himself too far, and you aren't even a genin, how could I possibly be beaten?"

"There may be a huge gap in our power, but..." Naruto made a cross with his hands; blue chakra began to spiral around him. "... this might even the odds, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" The forest filled with orange, Mizuki was surrounded.

"Y-you brat." His body tensed at the sheer number and the fight they would bring.

"Charge!" The blonds all leapt and attacked, the sounds of beating went on for twenty minutes, when the clones finally dispelled Mizuki was barely breathing but alive. "Iruka-sensei?"

"Yes Naruto." The man shakily got to his feet the blood loss almost made him faint.

"Am... am I really a demon?"

"No, you do hold one within your body, but you are completely human." He placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder, though the action was partially to stop him from falling to the ground again.

"Hmm." Naruto looked up past his sensei and the trees towards the sky.

"Uh?"

"Wanna' go for ramen?" The events were pushed back for the time being, he still needed time to cope.

"Sure, just a quick trip to the hospital first alright?"

The day had ended, the Hokage had allowed him to become a genin and Naruto was eagerly sitting in his seat early once again and ready to meet his team and sensei.

"Hey Naruto-baka what are you doing here?"

"Can't you see my forehead Sakura-chan, I passed." He touched his forehead protector and smiled at his crush.

"How'd you pass? And don't call me Sakura-chan!"

'They told me not to talk about last night, and why doesn't she not want the Chan?' Naruto thought up a quick lie. "I... uh... retook the test."

"Whatever." She walked away not really caring as the class filled in for their last class together.

"Ok class, now we will be going over who has which jounin sensei, you will train under this person until you become strong enough to take care of yourselves, now team one...." The teams were given one through ten.

'Why haven't I been called yet, some Sai kid and Sasuke-teme are on MY Sakura-Chan's team! This is so not fair!'

"And finally team eleven: Tenshi, Joriha, and Naruto, under Amahai Renkin." Naruto looked around.

"Who?" Two students, one in the back and the other on the left of the class, were staring at him insulted. 'Oh... never heard of them in my life, weird.'

"The Jounin will now come in and take their teams."

"Whoa, hold up, why am I, the greatest ninja ever stuck with two nobodies!"

"Shut it, Uzumaki." The boy member of his team yelled at him with a cold glare.

'What's his problem?'

"Alright, to stop any fighting, team eleven come with me." An average set man with short black hair and regular ninja uniform said from behind a loose black cloth hanging over his mouth, he had just come through the door.

"You're our sensei?"

"Yes, meet me behind the school in five minutes by the bench." He was gone in a burst of smoke. When they had all arrived at the spot Renkin asked them to be at, he told them describe their personalities, hopes, dreams, ECT. After he showed them how it was done himself. "My name is Amahai Renkin, I like things, hate things too, I have accomplished some dreams and have others, and I'm a ninjutsu specialist."

'He didn't tell us anything.'

"I'm Urayu Joriha, I love sweets and the beach, I excel at taijutsu, and my dream is to find true love." She was a relaxed looking girl with long light brown hair in a ponytail; she was one of the many fan girls of Sasuke.

"Ok how about you squinty." The boy growled a bit at the name.

"Norwari Tenshi, I like blowing stuff up, paper bombs, fire, and matches, I love ninjutsu the best, and one day I want to set fire to a whole army of enemy ninja and see a live volcano." The boy was a bit chubby, had shaved black hair, constantly closed eyes and a bandage on the left side of his forehead. He seemed to love burning things which made the other three move a bit away from him on the bench.

"Ok...... and you blonde?"

"Don't call me that. My name is Uzumaki Naruto, I love eating ramen, trying new types of ramen and Sakura-chan, I hate the three minuets it takes to cook ramen and that stupid Uchiha, and one day I will become Hokage, dattebayo!"

"Well alright then, meet me here tomorrow at ten, we'll be going over some training schedules, but don't eat breakfast, I am going to treat you to it since we are now a ninja squad." He smiled at them as they walked away. 'So, he dislikes Sasuke-sama, what a strange kid.'

The day came and went and in the morning the three genin stood next to the bench, the masked jounin appeared several minutes after they had all arrived.

"So where are we goin' to eat?" Naruto asked not really minding the short wait.

"You're not going to eat at all." They went wide eyed at the man's answer.

"But yesterday you said you'd ta-"

"I lied." He cut off the hungry blond. "Today you will be doing a survival exam."

"What for, were hungry?"

"You're supposed to be hungry, that is to see if you would know enough to take care of yourselves and eat, this test will show if you are capable of being a genin, the teams that fail this test will not become one at all."

"But we already passed the exam!"

"But this is the final part of it; it's simple really, just grab one of these bandanas from my arms and you pass." He pulled out a red and a gray bandana, they had all suddenly been group shunshined to an unused training field.

"There are only two." Joriha pointed out getting over the shock of the quick change of scenery.

"Yes, the one who doesn't grab one will be never be a ninja again in their lives."

"WHAT!"

"Oh and that's not all, see the colors, whoever grabs the gray one will be my top student and leader of the group under me and the one that grabs the red will get more remedial classes from me because it will be on my left arm and be easier to grab, this will stop some of the fighting later on." He tied the gray cloth to his dominate hand.

"This is stupid, just let us be genin!"

"All the other jounin are doing a test so I can't let you three off the hook, you have one hour, begin!" The three panicked at the sudden start.

'But if I don't become a genin I won't be able to get Sasuke-kun.'

'You're going to burn sensei.'

"I'll get that gray thing easily, because I'm going to be the next Hokage, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Seven Naruto appeared behind Naruto and the group of eight rushed at the man. The jounin simply side stepped attacks and made quick work of the clones, he set the real one away with a sharp kick to the gut.

"Annoying sensei, Blazing Shot!" The boy spit extremely small bits of fire from his mouth that sailed slowly towards their jounin teacher who easily dodged it. The boy then fell to the ground and started to cough some smoke out of his mouth.

'He has terrible manipulation.' The long girl ran at him and tried some academy style attacks.

'She is better than some girls for her age in fighting I guess, but still nothing to be proud of.' He grabbed her arm and threw her into the trees.

"I'll get you!" Naruto had gotten behind him while he was thinking and tried to get the gray cloth.

"No." The man appeared next to him. "Secret hidden leaf style, Man's destruction!" He grabbed Naruto's left arm in a lock and stuck at Naruto's side, he picked his leg off the ground in from of them and brought it back into the blond's crotch. Tenshi winced and Joriha turned her head away.

"AHHGH!" The shout made Renkin's ears ring. Then Naruto exploded in into a field of smoke that blurred the older man's vision, the two in hiding took advantage of his blindness, and tried for the colored targets on his wrists, Naruto however....

'Ahhhhh! What the heck, why! Agh... I didn't get hit, it was a clone... how was I supposed to know I got their memories when they disappear!' Naruto was on the ground behind some shrubs grabbing his injury and was squirming in pain. The two other genin reached for the gray colored cloth but the arm was pulled away quickly once their fingers touched it.

"Too slow." Renkin jumped into the woods being chased by the genin hopefuls who had a hard time keeping up. Ten minutes later Naruto stood up.

'Thank God I heal quickly, but that kick, if that pain was from dispelling a clone then was he actually trying to do, neuter me?' He looked around only seeing trees. 'Where'd they go?' The jounin in question jumped backwards from the trees on the other side of the clearing towards Naruto, two very tired genin followed him. Naruto saw the opening and jumped. As he got close Naruto made a grab for a bandana not caring at this point which one he would get.

"Huh?" The man turned around, hit Naruto in the cheek and landed as the Jinchuriki smashed to the ground. Three clones appeared at his sides and helped him stand up.

"So close." Naruto let a ripped piece of Renkin's sleeve float out of his right hand with a grin.

'That was my right arm.' Joriha and Tenshi stumbled up to the two. The killing intent rose within the group, after a minuet of glaring the clock suddenly rang signaling the end of the exams.

"No, we didn't get the bandanas, we failed." The three sighed in defeat.

"Not quite." The Renkin held a grin under his face cloth. "You each surprised me, Joriha you have the possibility to become a very strong kunoichi. Tenshi you already have a start on fire manipulation and although it's not quite perfected you have potential, plus you two actually touched the gray bandana." His grin widened. "Naruto, you have shadow clones down, and actually got a part of my sleeve off me."

"Wait so that means we..." Joriha started to smile at the direction of his complements.

"Yes...Naruto... you fail."

Alright that's chapter one, this was rushed yes but that's because I needed to get this out of the way, yes Naruto would have known Lee I needed to get that out there and Naruto isn't twelve in this story, the answers will be in the next chapter or the one after; and an early Merry Christmas to all, please review. FlareXD