Cold as Ice

Chapter 1

Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto.

Unlike the other version of this story this one will not have a voting system and I will choose what the pairing will be.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"DEMON TALKING"

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Waking up is not Naruto's favorite part of the day, a matter of fact, it's probably his least favorite overall.

'Damn' Naruto thought to himself the light from the sun waking him up from his sleep, before smiling to himself and thinking 'Do you think, you've won sun cause you haven't' lifting up one hand to the window by his bed and touching the glass with his index finger, the window instantly fogged up and blocked the sunshine from coming through and disturbing him.

Smiling in victory Naruto thought to himself 'At least these damn powers are good for something' before trying to fall asleep again. Only to hear the blaring noise of his alarm clock ringing loudly the minute he closed his eyes.

Opening his eyes, he glared hatefully at the machine before giving up, and getting out of his bed.

Stretching a little by his bed, Naruto then went about his normal routine, which included a quick shower, before leaving for the day ahead.

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Now seated in his usual seat Naruto did his best to drown out the annoying lecture his current teacher Iruka was giving about being a true ninja.

'This guy must really like the sound of his own voice' Naruto thought to himself, while sitting straight up in his seat, his long blonde hair hanging down the back of his chair and stopping before it hit the ground.

Listening to Iruka go on and on, he began to wonder why people even bothered to become ninjas if they all had to listen this nonsense.

While Naruto was thinking all this on the inside, on the outside he seemed impassive, seating in his desk and paying attention like any good student would.

Naruto came back to reality just as Iruka was finishing his speech and walking into the next room.

So now Naruto sat and waited for his name to be called, and waited and then waited some more.

By the time his name was called his patience was all but expired, and so when he did finally make it to the next room and the test he was not in the best of moods.

Now standing in front of his two teachers, Iruka smiled at the long blonde haired boy and said "Okay Naruto now all you need to do is produce a bunshin and you will pass your test."

Hearing Iruka's statement, Naruto seethed on the inside, thinking to himself 'That's all they want, after how long I had to wait to get here, that's all their asking.'

Calming himself down, Naruto calmly went through a series of hand signals and then said "Hyoton: Bunshin no Jutsu(1)" and surprised both of his teachers when two clones appeared on both sides of him.

Still stunned that any of his students, let alone one that seemed to never really pay attention during class, could do an advanced version of the technique that other students struggled to do on it's own, just stared stupidly at his student. Shaking out of his current daze he smiled at Naruto and said proudly "Congratulations you pass" while handing him his Konoha headband.

Nodding his head Naruto dismissed his two clones, which turned an ice blue color and seemed to melt and fall onto the ground. Taking his headband form the smiling teacher Naruto made his way out of the room and back to the classroom.

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It was now after school, Naruto stepping out of the door that lead to the outside, looked around at the other students that were being congratulated by their parents or someone close to them.

Scoffing at the scene Naruto turned around so fast his kimono made a small whirlwind around his body, as he left the school's lot.

'Pathetic weaklings' Naruto thought to himself as he walked out.

Unknown to him two pale blue eyes watched him as he walked out of the school lot and down the road before running to follow after him.

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Walking calmly through the thick underbrush of the forest, Naruto made his way to his familiar training field, when a shuriken flew through the air only to be grabbed by Naruto inches away from hitting him.

Sighing at the familiar action, he watched as the weapon in his hand turned an ice blue before crumbling into little pieces, turning to the tree he was not surprised to see a smiling Ten-Ten standing on there and he said to her "Must we go through this everyday."

The smile on Ten-Ten's face instantly dropped off her face, she looked over at her friend confusedly, and asked "Hey Naruto-kun what's up, you seem a little tense."

Looking over to the girl, Naruto looked at her with frozen blue eyes and said "Today was a little...annoying."

Her smile returning to her face, Ten-Ten teasingly asked him "And when is something not annoying to you Naruto-kun?"

Sighing Naruto turned around and continued on his normal path.

Ten-Ten seeing this jumped from her spot on the tree, landed on the ground and ran up to her friend. Now standing next to Naruto, Ten-Ten asked "So what kind of training or we going to do today?"

Ten-Ten became a little nervous seeing a small malicious grin bloom onto the face of Naruto, and became even more nervous when he said one word "Sparring."

Stopping dead in her tracks, Ten-Ten stared at her friend and asked "Are you sure, I'm sure we could practice something else like maybe some kind of new Jutsu you thought of, or maybe practicing throwing our weapons?"

Seeing as her friend didn't even stop walking and made no movement to even acknowledge her statement, Ten-Ten nervously ran a hand through her hair and mumbled to herself "Sparring, just great."

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Hitting the ground hard, a dirty looking Ten-Ten mumbled to herself "Sparring, just great" as she slowly got back up and got back into her ready stance.

Across from her standing in the middle of the practice field was Naruto. Arms crossed at his chest, standing their almost as if he was bored.

Raising an eyebrow at the slowly raising brown haired girl, Naruto taunted her saying "You'll have to do better if you expect to beat me."

Ten-Ten hearing his taunt smirked before taking out a staff and flipping it around her body a few times before getting in a ready stance.

Naruto made no move at her little show, and simply stood where he was and crossed his arms over his chest.

Seeing that Naruto wasn't going to be making a move anytime soon, Ten-Ten took it upon herself to make the first move. So with staff in one hand she charged at the still form of her opponent.

Sighing at Ten-Ten's action, Naruto muttered to himself "How pointless" before simply side-stepping at of the way of a jab with her staff and then bringing up his right arm and blocking the next attack with his elbow.

Not wanting to give Naruto enough time to mount an offense she continued her assault upon Naruto, but finding that everyone of her attacks were either sidestepped or blocked with the smallest of movements.

Deciding to try another tactic, Ten-Ten jumped back from Naruto and threw several shuriken.

Naruto seeing the shuriken flying at him just smiled at her, but made no move to block her attack.

Ten-Ten watched surprisingly as Naruto allowed the shuriken to strike his body, causing the thrown weapons to reap apart his body.

Just as she was about to walk over to her friend, the still smiling Naruto turned a ice blue color and fall to the ground, causing a puddle to form where his body was previously.

"What" Ten-Ten said surprise clearly written on her face "A clone, but when did he make that."

"A long time ago" a voice answered from behind Ten-Ten.

Turning to the voice, Ten-Ten wasn't surprised to see the impassive face Naruto staring at her.

"She must not have seen" another Naruto said to the left of Ten-Ten.

"Then she should pay closer attention to her opponent's movements" a third Naruto said from the right of Ten-Ten.

Seeing the three Naruto's, Ten-Ten reached behind her to where she put her staff from earlier and got into another ready stance.

When the water in the puddle behind Ten-Ten, caused by the destroyed clone, started to rise again and reshape into another Naruto without her knowing and said "And what do you think your going to do with that."

Ten-Ten's eyes widened in surprise before she turned around, spun her staff around and it right through the clone of Naruto causing to once again form break apart and form a puddle.

Not taking anytime to admire her work, Ten-Ten ran from her position in the middle of the Naruto's, and just in time to dodge a swipe of a weapon from one of the Naruto clones.

Sprinting across the open field, Ten-Ten turned and looked at the standing still clones and saw them each holding some type of icicle shaped weapon in each of their hands.

Ten-Ten starred at each one of the clones, holding her staff tightly.

When the clone she destroyed for the second time rose again from the ground, and now like the other clones, it was holding the same type of weapons.

Seeing her confused look, the Naruto furthest on the left said "Hyoton: Kito Bunshin no Jutsu.(2)"

Then the one closet to it on the right started right where the other left off saying "As long as I" stopping after saying that, the next one in line continued "Keep pouring my chakra into my clones" stopping once again, only for the last one in the line to finish "My clones will keep returning."

Ten-Ten's eyes widened, and before she could react properly all four Naruto's charged her, swinging their icicle like weapons at her.

Ten-Ten soon found herself completely over whelmed, and eventually on her back side where one Naruto held his weapon at her head, another Naruto inches from her throat and then one more aiming her heart. While the other just causally watched from a little in front of the downed Ten-Ten.

The Naruto standing back casually said to his downed friend "Do you yield."

Ten-Ten smiling dropped her staff and said "Yeah I yield Naruto-kun."

The Naruto in front nodded his head before falling into a puddle of water, and the rest of the clones around her soon followed.

"What a minute" Ten-Ten said sitting up looking around her and seeing that every Naruto she fought was just in fact a clone.

From behind her the real Naruto said "You have improved" impassively.

Turning around and seeing Naruto standing behind not a mark on him, she called out "Your kidding me, that whole time I was fighting nothing but clones."

Shaking his head Naruto stated "At the beginning you were in fact fighting me, but not to long into the fight I switched with one of my clones and then proceeded from there."

"But how?" Ten-Ten questioned "I didn't see you use Kawarimi(3)."

"That is because I didn't" Naruto said while turning to the tree line.

"Then what did you use?" Ten-Ten asked.

Looking back at Ten-Ten Naruto said "That is my secret" before looking and turning one more time into the trees and calling out "What can we do for you Ino-san."

Looking surprised that someone else was there, Ten-Ten instantly turned towards the forest, and watched as Ino nervously walked out from where she was watching.

Laughing nervously, Ino said "How are you two doing?"

Ten-Ten clenching her hands together angrily yelled out "Never mind that what in the world were you doing spying on me and Naruto."

Ino still laughing very nervously when her response was cut off by Naruto waving his hand dismissing whatever it was she was gonna say and instead said "Enough Ten-Ten she's not an enemy" then looking back at Ino, his eyes now seeming to freeze over he said to the girl in a monotone voice "Right."

Nodding her head up and down vigorously, Ino quickly called out "Right."

"Good" Naruto responded, before turning towards Ten-Ten and saying "Come on let's go Ten-Ten, I believe that's enough for today don't you."

Nodding her in the positive, Ten-Ten threw one more glare Ino's way before moving to follow after Naruto.

As for Naruto he walked, but just as he was about to walk into the forest he turned one more time and looked straight into Ino's eyes and said in a deadly calm voice "I would appreciate it, if you kept everything you saw today to yourself."

Ino nodded her head, as she stood where she was and unable to move almost like an unseen force was keeping her there.

After seeing her approval he turned back around, and walked into the forest with Ten-Ten just behind him and soon both of them became impossible to see through the underbrush of the forest.

With them out of sight Ino released a breath that she didn't realize she was holding, and could only whisper one thing to herself as she kept her eyes fixed on the place Naruto disappeared from "Scary."

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Walking away from their position, Naruto and Ten-Ten walked side by side, the only noise being the many leafs they stepped on or the twigs they broke.

Ten-Ten looked over at her long haired, confusion clearly on her face she asked him "Hey Naruto-kun why were you so nice to that girl, I would think you would be mad at her for spying on us."

Looking over at her, he raised one eyebrow in speculation before replying "I really didn't see a point in making a big deal about it, she's just a silly girl that was curious about the boy who never spoke in class and figured this would probably be her last chance to learn something."

Still looking confused at the blonde haired boy Ten-Ten asked "What happened to you, just earlier today you were in an extremely bad mood, but now something that would usually make you incredibly mad you just brush off like it never happened."

Shrugging his shoulders in reply to Ten-Ten's question Naruto answered "What was I supposed to do beat her up, I don't think the village would have exactly liked that now do you."

Ten-Ten tapped her index finger against her chin, thinking over his statement before shrugging her shoulders and saying "I guess your right, but still the nerve of that girl to spy on us."

"Don't worry about her I don't think she'll be telling anyone about what she saw" Naruto calmly responded.

Laughing, Ten-Ten jokingly said "Yeah, did you see her face I thought she was going to pee herself" then jokingly elbowing him she said "You can really be scary when you want to be can't you."

Without showing any emotion Naruto said to the brown-haired girl "You have no idea."

Still laughing Ten-Ten said "Yeah I guess I don't" then for the first time she started to look around in the direction they where going "Hey Naruto-kun where exactly are we going."

Still looking ahead, Naruto said "To the nearest restaurant, after all I won therefore you pay for the food."

Ten-Ten's mirth quickly died after hearing that, she turned towards her companion and complained "When did we decide that."

"Don't you remember at the beginning I said loser pays for food" Naruto answered while looking at Ten-Ten out of the corner of his eyes.

"Yeah I remember, but I never agreed" Ten-Ten said still complaining.

Raising his index finger Naruto stated "Yes but you never disagreed either so you pay for the food."

Stopping where she stood Ten-Ten said "But that's not far you didn't give me enough time to reply as soon as you said that you attacked."

Once again shrugging his shoulders, Naruto said to Ten-Ten without stopping "Life isn't fair."

Hearing him, Ten-Ten pouted for minute before playfully calling out to him "Naruto-kun you so mean" and running to catch up to him.

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1) Hyoton: Bunshin no Jutsu - Ice Element: Clone Technique, creates a clone of himself made of ice. Is stronger and harder to get rid of then a water clone but still not as strong as a kage bunshin. When destroyed turns to water and falls to the ground, it then evaporates soon after.

2) Hyoton: Kito Bunshin no Jutsu - Ice Element: Returning Clone Technique, creates a clone of ice, and as long as he keeps fueling the clone with chakra then the clone with keep returning even after being destroyed.

3) Kawarimi- Replacement Technique, switches your body with something near by, example would be a log.

Okay sorry this chapter took so long to get out, but I've been busy with other things. With college starting I don't know when the next chapter will come out but hopefully sooner rather then later. Also some people may be wondering why the x's that's because for some reason the thing I would normally use for scene changes doesn't seem to be working, thus I use the x's.

And even though Ino appeared in this chapter like the last version will probably not be the pairing. Except the next chapter to be even longer with the first major appearence of Sakura, Sasuke and Kakashi, and of course the bell test.

See yea next time, and remember to review.

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