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AN: First chapter of the remake! An Ultimate return! Review!

"Inventor" humans talking

'Inventor' humans thinking

"Inventor" demons talking

'Inventor' demon thinking

Enter the Inventor!

Haruno Sakura was happy, well to say that she was happy would be an understatement. No, She was far more than happy. She was utterly joyful with an odd combination of hopefulness and excitement. She finally was on a team with the boy of her dreams and to say anything about her being 'happy' about this was going as far as being wrong. Stealing glances at the young man was the main thing she seemed to be doing at the moment. She couldn't help but wonder if he was looking her way only to see out of her side vision the raven haired boy seemed to be staring off as if he were leering a hole through the blackboard below.

It had been a good hour since they had been all assigned to their genin teams and as it would seem everyone had left already with their jounin sensei only to leave the remaining group of team 7 to their lonesome in the empty Academy classroom. Their teacher Iruka-sensei even soon left as he had finished the rest of his work before waving the unlucky genin goodbye as he retreated from the classroom. Sakura was quite annoyed with the fact that their jounin sensei was irresponsible enough to be 'this' late for meeting his genin team, as if he had completely forgotten about them all. She didn't really mind that much though considering that as long as she was with her darling Sasuke anything waiting period was okay with her.

While occasionally stealing glances from the Uchiha boy she couldn't help but notice the figure of her third teammate get up and move towards the classroom door. She quickly adjusted her attention to the figure and called out in a half hearted shout.

"Hey Naruto, you can't just walk out…we have to wait for our jounin sensei, remember?" She didn't know the boy too well but she could still remember his name as if it were yesterday. The figure stopped and turned his head just enough to look over his back towards the pink haired girl. The boy wore forest green goggles that seemed to shield his eyes from any view from outside, it didn't exactly help that he kept his hoodie over his head as if he were hiding something. He wore a pure white hoodie with orange flames on the lower hems and an orange spiral on the back. He sported pitch black long shorts along with a matching pair of pitch black shinobi sandals.

Sakura looked to his face to find him carrying a menacing grin across the surface where his mouth should be. He turned and fully faced his body towards her as he continued to grin menacing at her. Now we could see that his white hoodie was fully unzipped revealing his Konoha headband being worn as some kind of sash from his right peck down to the left section of his stomach. Under the headband, he was wearing a bright orange shirt to finish it off.

He held two feet of ninja wire in his hand tossing it up the roll playfully as if not afraid of it dropping. His menacing grin released what sounded like somewhat of a maniacal cackle causing Sakura to look at the boy with slight fear in the process. Sasuke glanced over towards the boy with a hint of curiosity while Sakura sat still in her creeped out state.

"I'm not leaving…as a matter of fact I've decided to take it upon myself to test this sensei of ours. Umino-sensei stated that he was the great Hatake Kakashi who is known well in the shinobi world." The boy stopped his careless tossing of the wire and clutched it tightly in his hand before walking back over towards the classroom entrance.

"I'm going to test this man to see if he is fully capable as is described in scrolls and Ninja info books…" Sakura continued to stare at the boy as if he were playing with fire.

"Why would you do that? He obviously wouldn't fall for it since he's a jounin and all!" Naruto continued his business as if he hadn't heard a single of Sakura's words. He began to tie the string awkwardly around the lower area of the door as both Sakura and Sasuke watched intently. He stood and grinned slyly with a light cackle. Sasuke stared the hooded boy down, following his every move throughout the classroom as he seemed to be gathering random objects and hanging them in weird places near the classroom door.

Naruto's goggles gleamed as he picked up a nearby bucket and filled it with sharp pens before tying it intuitively within the ninja wire hanging it high above the classroom door, a decent 3 feet away. A repeated cackle could be heard as the boy turned towards the two as his grin found its way stretching incredibly across his face, his whiskered marks stretching the process. Sakura couldn't help but feel creeped out while Sasuke leered at the boy.

"I suppose that should be enough to test his abilities efficiently when his guard is grounded…genius…" The hooded boy began to walk slowly back towards his desk right of Sakura and plopping down all the while resting his legs on top of the desk in relaxation. He pulled an unfinished rubix cube from his jacket pocket and began to unravel the small puzzle. Sakura snuck stares at the mysterious headed boy but could only be further creeped out by the everlasting ghoul like grin that stayed glued to his person.

"Do you think that's really going to work on a jounin? I mean, if it doesn't he's probably going to get really mad at us for it." She trailed off as she tried her best to reason with the creepy hooded boy. He turned his head slowly towards the pinkette making her spine rattle as his gaze met with his glaring goggles.

"Hehehe…there is a 45.98 percent chance that the man known as Hatake Kakashi would fall for a simple booby trap as such. I am only doing such a menial thing just to brighten the tone of the room and observe something…something very crucial …" The hooded boy chuckled to himself as Sakura just laughed nervously along with him. He turned his attention back to the rubix cube in his hands and began to twist and turn the object.

"Heheheh…crucial indeed.." Sakura stopped her nervous laughter and quickly forwarded her gaze downward onto the surface of her desk as if afraid to ever make eye contact with the boy again. She soon found herself occasionally glaring at the boy as if trying to be completely unnoticeable.

'This guy is crazy….insanely creepy…' Was this guy ever really like this back in their beginning academy days? Sakura could say that she known Naruto since their first year of the Ninja Academy. She couldn't really say 'known' since they weren't really on speaking terms but she could say that she knew who he was and like everyone else, either completely ignored him or took it upon themselves to judge him and insult him. During their first years in the Academy she could say that the blonde boy was easily the smartest kid in the classroom.

Next to her, he was one of the top 20 students when getting high scores of any test or academic exam. During those days, she remembered the boy , being a rather quiet kid who liked to write in his notebook all the time and observe everyone while they played during recess. Uzumaki Naruto was kind of outcasted from the rest of the kids and picked on with names such as 'Geek' or 'Nerd' or 'Dork'.

He was not only smart but he was good at crafting and making things which soon gave him some popularity as being ' The kid who made cool things' amongst the upperclassmen but whenever she saw him he always alone with his crafts, inventions, and books. Now the boy before her had changed a lot from when she last observed him. This guy was just plain creepy in her opinion, even creepier than Aburame Shino with his bugs. Something about this Naruto just seemed to freak her out. The hooded boy turned to her giving his now 'trademark menacing grin' to the pinkette girl who was now steadily staring him down.

"What is it Haruno-chan? Allured by something?" The boy trailed as he gave a slight cackle at the end of his sentence making her innerly shriek. Sasuke noticed the situation. He seemed to be able to feel how the freakiness rolled off of his hooded teammate which kind of unnerved him. He tried his best to ignore it as he absently watched the blackboard but he couldn't help but feel curious of the boy.

" I was just wondering…do you still make those crafts like you used to?" The boy suddenly stopped his twisting of the cube in his hands and his grin widened to impossible lengths. Sakura kicked herself for asking this question. A twitching of the ninja wire could be heard.

"Here he is.." Naruto stated as all the genin including Sasuke looked up to see the slide door of the classroom open and a foot trying to find its way in. The ninja wire bended at the force that was being applied to it by said foot and all mechanisms began to fall in place. The Ninja wire gave in allowing for stray pencils laying balanced on the connecting wire to fly off the wire from the reaction of the kinetic energy. The momentum caused all pencils from both sides of the connected ninja wire to land on target of the figures foot.

It was soon visible that the figure winced at the sudden pain clouding his foot and tripped over the next accurately placed set of wire which caused the loosening of the wire of the bucket. Gravity gave the metal object filled with sharp pointy utensils its momentum as it came falling at a swift speed. The figure fell at a 45 degree angle with his head pointing upwards preparing for the pain of hitting the floor only for him to be hit in the head accurately with the incoming bucket. The figure shouted in pain as the many pointy objects preceded to slide out of the bucket and jab into the smooth skin surface of his face. Thus the events ended with a loud thud leading the victim to fall painfully to classroom floor.

Sakura looked on in amusement and a little disbelief as she watched what had just happened. Their jounin sensei or who ever it was had just fell victim to Naruto's trap and it all seemed too accurate as if the boy had rigged to work out….perfectly. Every nick and cranny was on point and this freaked her out but slightly amazed her. She watched as the 'boob' tossed in turned on the floor in pain with said bucket covering their entire head while the pens inside exiting with each thrust.

"What a pity…" Naruto stated as Sakura shot him a confused look. It worked didn't it? What could be wrong?

Sasuke couldn't help but twitch at the scene before him. Was their jounin sensei really this weak or was his 'teammate' this 'strong'. Naruto left his seat and proceeded towards his victim pulling the bucket off only to find…

"So its as I suspected…Umino-sensei, why did you return, you completely sabotaged my allurement…." Iruka was far beyond angry right now as he flashed a glare towards the accused genin. Naruto took off his hood to reveal long unruly golden blonde hair that was tied in a short pony tail.

"I apologize Umino-sensei, I am rather shocked that you managed to flamenco your way into my trap instead of the intended person.." Iruka stood unto his feet all the while giving Naruto lectures on how not to set dangerous booby traps in the class when he was there or absent. The hooded boy could only nod with an uncharacteristic seriousness plastered on his face which Sakura mistakenly saw. She leered at the boy strangely as if he had grown a third head. Where was that creepy grin? As if on cue, the classroom door slide open to reveal a silver haired masked man wearing the traditional green jounin/chunnin shinobi vest and navy blue pants. Everyone in the room turned to meet the newcomer. The man simply stepped over the loose ninja wire as if it was the simplest thing to avoid. He watched the objective massacre that had covered the classroom and could only stare.

"Wow, who would set such a booby trap up, someone could easily trip and fall." The jounin said with an eye smile which made Sasuke and Sakura shoot him a weird gaze while Iruka glared as if the man were making fun of him. The silver haired jounin just did a smile that no one could really notice but if you looked closely you could see it in his one visible eye. Naruto gave the man his now trademark grin (evil wide grin) which made Kakashi sweatdrop at the kids behavior.

'Man….what a creepy kid…'

"Uh, my name is Hatake Kakashi and I am your current jounin sensei. Meet me on the roof top ASAP." The man soon disappeared in a poof of smoke. Sakura could only think on how lazy and unadult-like her new sensei's attitude was which kinda annoyed her.

She looked over to her darling Sasuke to find that he was leaving his desk and making his way towards the exit to meet up with her sensei. She soon decided that it was a good time to meet up with Kakashi also and followed suit. She stopped and looked back and wonder if her creepy teammate was behind them or not (mostly because she didn't really want to be near him and was afraid of him trying something funny to her behind her back.) The boy was indeed behind her, walking at a steady pace as he fondled his rubix cube.

The hooded boy looked up from his cube at her once he noticed that the girl was glancing behind her back at him. He grinned with a quiet cackle.

"Can't take your eyes off me eh little Haruno-chan?" The pink haired girl shivered as she tried to speed up her walking pace to spread the distance between herself and this maniac of teammate.

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The masked man stopped reading his little orange book and packed his book away to stare back at his group. His eye soon turned into what seemed to be an eye smile.

"Okay kids, I want you to tell me a little about yourselves." He stated regaining his bored exterior. The group minus Naruto stared back at the man with confusion. The boy was too busy twisting and turning his rubix cube with what seemed like enjoyment. Sakura said what was on her mind.

"What do you mean by that sensei?" She questioned. The man sighed lazily. This was going to be a long day.

"Your likes, dislikes, hobbies, and dreams for the future. You know, stuff like that." He said with a hint of boredom. Sakura still wondered.

"Can you demonstrate it to us?" the man sighed again. He stared up as if staring at the sky with a dull gaze.

"My name is Hatake Kakashi, my likes and dislikes are none of your business. My hobbies… never really thought about them, and my dreams for the future is also none of your business." Stated the man known as Hatake Kakashi with a familiar eye smile. He pointed towards Sakura, most likely motioning her to introduce herself. She blinked but then caught on.

"Oh yeah, my name is Haruno Sakura, my likes are a certain someone, my hobbies are….my dreams for the future…." She blushed bashfully all the while glancing left in Sasuke's direction after every pause.

"And what do you hate?" Kakashi asked. Sakura paused. She stared over slightly to her right and gave an unsure stare towards the hooded boy who was too busy twisting and turning his rubix cube. He grinned at the rubix cube and Sakura could have sworn she saw his eyes from beyond his goggles. The eyes that seemed really really cold. She shivered madly as she quickly turned her gaze back to her sensei.

"Creeps…" She stated.

Kakashi looked at the boy himself and couldn't help but kind of agree with the girl.

"Okay, how about you Mr. Happy." Kakashi turned his gaze to the raven haired Uchiha boy who looked up from his unguided gaze. His hands placed in a relaxing position under his chin.

"I am Uchiha Sasuke. I don't like anything or anyone…" He paused and glared towards Sakura who stiffened.

"I dislike lots of things…I do not have hobbies…a dream is not what I shall call it. It is an ambition, to revive my clan and kill a certain man…" He stopped. Kakashi nodded as Sakura blushed and turned her gaze downward as she shifted in her position as if she were excited that Sasuke looked her way.

Kakashi turned to his last student who he might add was a rather weird one considering how sat in a hunched position seemingly oblivious from the common world as he played with his object. Kakashi pointed to the boy.

"How bout you last, Goggle face?" Kakashi said loud enough to gain the hooded boy's attention. Naruto soon enough stopped twisting his cube and placed it carefully and slowly back into his pocket which annoyed Kakashi. The boy looked up with plain look on his face.

"You may address me as Uzumaki Naruto…I like junk such as hunks of used metal or fiber glass and copper wires…I dislike ignorance...my hobbies are scavenging said junk and making use of them…" at this point the boy flashed a wide evil grin that cause to Kakashi to gain a serious expression. The boy sat up, straightening his back and began to adjust his goggles which caught both Sakura's and Sasuke's attention. Sakura wanted to know the dreams of a boy like Naruto, what types of dreams did he have when he were to grow up.

"My dreams…if that is the proper word….is to create and take…with this mind of mine…" Naruto grew a maniacal grin that seemed close to reaching ear to ear as he pointed his forehead with his thumb to add affect. The boy laughed maniacally which scared the shit out of Sakura which caused her to quickly shuffle inches away from the boy. Sasuke glared at the boy from the corner of his eye. He had never met a person like the hooded boy before and questioned whether one could exist; in this village at least.

Kakashi leered at the young man in a mixture of amusement and slight confusion. What exactly was with this kid?

"Okay students, starting tomorrow at 7:00 A.M. you will be taking a survival test to see if you are truly genin material." Sakura's face change from fear to confusion.

"Hey uh, Kakashi-sensei, but didn't we take a test like this before at the academy?" Sakura stated curiously while Kakashi chuckled suspiciously. Sasuke's eye brow arched as he stared at the masked man. Naruto sat up wondering where the chuckling was coming from. Sakura scratched her forehead.

"Why are you laughing sensei?" Sakura asked. Kakashi gave them a sheepish expression, you could only notice it by his eye.

"Well…if I tell you, your goinna flip." He stated. Naruto let his curiosity get the better him.

"I highly doubt it but humor us.." The boy kept his amused gaze as Kakashi began to explain.

"Well, out of the 27 genin that passed the academy exams. Only 9 of you will ever become true genin. That's why we are doing this test. But I warn you. The failure rate of this test is an average of 66.66 percent and below…" Kakashi explained. Sasuke and Sakura grew shocked while Naruto laughed bringing attention to his person.

"66.66 percent eh…that's well over 50.0 percent…but I must say…" Kakashi continued to listen to the boy's words.

"…this brain of mine is 100 percent efficient…" His two teammates stared at him wondering what he was talking about. Kakashi gave the boy a unfazed look before he eye smiled at the boy.

"Well.. I'd say that your rather confident Goggles.." The jounin sensei jumped until the ledge of the roof. The hooded boy chuckled at the comment as Kakashi turned to face them all, balancing perfectly on the railing.

"Now again, meet me at training ground 7 at 7:00 A.M tomorrow morning sharp. Bring your shinobi weapons for you will need them. Don't be late, oh and one more thing…" The group paused. Sakura still seemed to be rather shaken up by the statistics that Kakashi had just stated but continue to listen to his last words.

"Do not eat breakfast….. or you'll puke." Two of the three genin felt their heart drop when they heard this.

'Puke?' Sakura thought to herself.

The man soon disappeared into a poof of smoke leaving the three genin by their lonesome on the roof of the academy. Sasuke soon stood from his seat on the steps and began to walk away towards the ledge of the roof. Sakura recovered from her shock as she noticed the raven haired boy leaving.

"Wait Sasuke-kun!" The boy turned before glaring at the pink haired girl.

"What do you want…" Sakura blushed before gazing down at her shuffling feet. Naruto just continued to observe the situation.

"I was wondering..uh…would you like to go grab a bite to eat…you know…together?"

"No." the boy soon stood up onto the leg before hoping off the rooftop. The pinkette gaze at the spot where Sasuke previously stood before sighing in disappointment. From behind her she could her some motion before turning to see her third (creepy) teammate who was now standing to his two feet before grabbing for his rubix cube. Sakura leered at the boy as he began to walk off in the opposite direction towards the entrance back into the academy building.

"Why would he use the door if he could just jump off? Weirdo….." Sakura mused.

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Naruto made his way into his apartment. He slowly motioned inside and roamed to find the nearest light switch. A click could be heard and soon the room was flooded with illuminating light. Around the room laid many pieces of rusted metal and wire. The hooded boy looked over to his kitchen table to find a hunk of defined metal. He smirk as he grabbed a chair, not bothering to clean up the mess around him. He grabbed his mini torch and began to slowly burn the hunk of metal. He smirked as the sparks began to fly off the object.

"Excellent…This is making true progress…" A yawn escaped the boy's mouth and he could only chuckle at the audible muse. Well turned off his mini torch and stood from his chair. He stretched tightly to loosen his joints as he slowly removed his hood. His blonde hair dropped over his goggles. With a sigh he removed the green object to reveal his dull blue eyes that could show no emotion as if they were deep voids. He threw them onto the kitchen table along with the burnt heeps of metal and slowly retreated down the hall towards his bedroom.

"One day closer to complete evolution…such a pretty little term…"

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"Yo," he called, with a raised hand.

"YOU'RE LATE!" an angry Sakura yelled at him while Sasuke glared. A gentle breeze swept through along with the forest area around them.

"Well, a black cat crossed my path," Kakashi said, trying to sound convincing. "So I had to take the long way." His lie was met with two glares.

"Greetings…." Everyone turned to spot a hooded boy playing with a rubix cube as he slowly made his way towards them. Sakura turned towards the boy and gave him an indiscriminating glare with her hands steely placed onto her hips. Naruto smirked as he placed his rubix cube back into his jacket pocket.

"And where were you?"

"At Ichiraku ramen having breakfast with sweet Ayame-chan." Came his simple reply as his lips twisted into a monsterous grin. Sakura's face turned into a mixture of embarrassment and fear as she looked at the boy.

"E-E-eating? …B-But sensei said not to eat!" Naruto chuckled lightly and shook his head in since of mock pity which the pink haired girl took slight offense to.

"Heheheh…My sweet little Haruno-imouto…Hatake-sensei only said such lies to make sure that we weren't at 100 percent when the test had begun…" Sakura faced extremely red at what the boy had called her. She was really pissed at this guy but….he was right. Sasuke looked at the boy with a hint of amusement. Kakashi couldn't help to feel mildly interested in the situation.

Sakura turned to the man and saw that he was eye smiling. Kakashi stared at each one of his students as he tossed a pair of jingling bells in his hand. The sound easily caught the attention of the three pre-teens and they each looked up at the man in confusion.

"I guess we should begin the test now shall we?" The matured shinobi walked over towards a nearby tree stump and sat an alarm clock safely onto the base of it. He walked back over towards the three genin and gave them a cheery eye smile.

"I guess I'll give you guys a good 2 hours….your test is to take these 2 bells from me…" He held out his hand to present the shiny silver bells to the genin.

"The two of you who manage to get the bells will pass the test…while the odd man out fails and gets sent back to the Academy…" Sasuke and Sakura leered at the man in shock while Naruto grinned in amusement.

"Interesting…." The hooded boy stated as he adjusted his forest green goggles. Kakashi nodded towards the boy with his solid eye smile.

"I guess you could say that Naruto…now, when I start the test, I want you all to come at me with the intent to kill." The 3 genin stood their ground as they awaited eagerly for the jonin to initiated the test. Kakashi slowly raised his hand.

"Go!"

Sakura and Sasuke vanished from sight, hiding and obviously looking for the chance to strike while Naruto stayed right where he was all the while gazing at Kakashi with his menacing grin.

"Well, you at least have the proper spirit if not the brains that Hokage-sama speaks so highly about," Kakashi stated which only made Naruto's grin larger.

"Hmmm…Hatake-sensei, do not try to humiliate the very brain that is going to defeat you…hehehe"

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Chapter 1 rewritten, I decided to make the chapters shorter because this way I could actually update faster. I don't know but I've always been the type of person that liked to update a lot but rarely write long chapters. I guess I'm just a lazy ass or medium sized chapters keep me more motivated to write…I don't know. Well here it is. Hope you enjoyed it. Like any changes? See any mistakes? Got any ideas? Let me know

Bakimo for the win!