All right, because I got tired of waiting I'm going to go ahead and start up my second poll fic. This one's going to be the Hulk-Fic I hope you all like it.

Chapter 1: Birth of the Beast

Naruto sat on the floor at Tazuna's house looking out at the moon through a window. Kakashi was still unconscious after his fight with Zabuza. Sakura and Sasuke were by Kakashi's side. Sakura was making sure that Kakashi was ok, Sasuke because he wanted to drill him on his Sharingan and how to get stronger. Tazuna was sitting at the table while his daughter Tsunami was in the kitchen and her son Inari was in his room.

There was a knock at the door. Tazuna stood nerviously. Naruto held his hand up and walked to the door with Sasuke, kunis in hand. Naruto opened the door slowly before he sighed and opened the door. A second later a purple blur shot into the room and tackled Sasuke.

"Sasuke!" Ino squeeled, hugging the Uchiha.

"Ino-Pig, get off of Sasuke." Sakura snapped, jumping to her feet. Tazuna and Tsunami were starring at the scene in silence.

"So you guys are our back-up?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah," Shikamaru was walking out, "it's a pain but we were the only team available."

"Food smells good." Choji commented. "Got any barbeque?"

"You must be Naruto." Asuma said standing in front of Naruto. "Shikamaru, Choji, and Dad talk about you a lot."

"Dad?" Naruto asked.

"My name is Asuma Sarutobi." Asuma said as Naruto's eyes widened. "The Hokage's my father."

"Y-You're dad's the Hokage?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, it's a pain." Shikamaru said taking a seat at the table.

"You think everything's a pain Shikamaru." Naruto said, sitting down from his old academy friend. "Well, of all the teams I'm glad you guys came, it'll be nice working with people we know."

"I think that that might actually be part of a problem." Choji said, pointing over at Sakura and Ino who were wrestling on the ground.

"Good point." Nauro said. "Still, it's good to see you guys." Naruto added with a smile. Asuma smiled. He'd heard a lot about Naruto from his dad and he was nothing like the demon the villagers idiotically saw him as. But there would be time for pleasantries later.

"Sasuke, update me on everything that's happened." Asuma ordered.

"We were on our mission to bring Tazuna back here to his village and protect him while he finished his bridge." Sasuke said. "After we went up against the Demon Brothers, we sent word back to Konoha for reinforcements. Before you could arrive however, we went up against Momochi Zabuza, the Demon of the Mist. We fought him and defeated him and then his corps was carried off by a hunter nin." Asuma was silent for a moment, deep in thought.

"It wasn't a hunter nin." Asuma said finally. "If it had been then Zabuza's body would have been destroyed on the spot." Sakura gasped and Sasuke scowled, wishing that he had known that. Naruto meanwhile just clutched his fists tightly.

"So, he's still alive." He said, voicing his teammate's thoughts. "Which means he'll be coming back to take another shot at Old Man Tazuna." Naruto slammed his fist into his palm. "Then we're going to have to work on getting stronger. Would mind training us until Kakashi-sensei wakes up Asuma-sensei?" Asuma blinked at the boy's request. He had always heard that Naruto was the absolute dead last at the academy, and yet here he was already getting for the next round.

"Just tell me what Kakashi's taught you." Asuma said.

"Not a damn thing." Sasuke said. "He's been so focused on teaching us teamwork and hasn't taught us anything useful." Naruto rolled his eyes.

"Is he always like that?" Choji asked.

"Sadly," Naruto said. "I tell you the village has spoiled him rotten."

"Sounds like a pain." Shikamaru said.

"It is, about as much of pain as Sakura practically worshiping the ground he walks upon." Naruto confirmed. Asuma nodded.

"All right, we'll get started with your training tomorrow morning." Asuma said. "But for now, you all had better get some sleep."

When everyone was in bed, Naruto was sitting up on the roof looking up at the night sky. He reached out towards the moon, hand outstretched as if grab it.

"Figured I'd find you up here Whiskers," a voice said from behind Naruto. The blond looked back to see Ino standing there with a smile on her face.

"You know me so well don't you Piglet." Naruto said. Ino giggled at the pet name as she walked over and sat next to Naruto. Growing up, the two of them had been best friends along with Shikamaru and Choji. While they were all extremely loyal to Naruto and none of them wanted to leave him alone when they entered the academy. Shikamaru and Choji had stuck with him but Naruto had managed to convince Ino to act like every other girl in Konoha their age and be another Sasuke fangirl when the two of them were in public. The nicknames were things they'd been 3 years old and had stuck every since. When Naruto had found about the demon fox, he had told them about it, and they had accepted him for it regardless.

"So how is it working with Sakura and Sasuke?" Ino asked.

"You don't want to know." Naruto groaned. "Sasuke's got that goddamn high and mighty attitude that he got because of the damn village and Sakura practically worships the ground he walks upon. I would love to just beat them down a few pegs and give them a reality check." Ino sighed and wrapped her arms around Naruto's shoulders and gave him a peck on the cheek.

"Well you've still got me and the guys." She said. Naruto smiled at the thought.

"When we all don't need to be on these stupid teams, remind me to talk to the Old Man and get us together on the same team." Naruto said. "Team Ino-Shika-Cho and Fox,"

"Sounds funny," Ino said with a giggle and leaned into Naruto's chest. "That's the best thing about being around you Naruto, you can always make me smile."

"What can I say?" Naruto said, wrapping his arms around her shoulders. "It's a gift."

The next day Teams 7 and 10 were standing in a clearing. Kakashi had woken up but he still couldn't move, so Asuma was in charge.

"All right, before I start you guys off with chakra control exercises, I want to know what your nature types are." He said, looking at Team 7.

"Nature types?" Naruto asked.

"Everyone has a type of Nature type of chakra where there jutsus specialized in." Asuma explained. "Like if you're a water type of chakra you'll specialize in water type jutsus," Naruto nodded. When they found out what their types were it turned out that Naruto was a wind type, Sakura was an earth type, and Sasuke was a fire and lightning type. After that they worked on the tree climbing exercise. Sakura mastered it without a problem and so did Team 10 on the first try, first time Naruto didn't use enough chakra but after asking for help, he got it down, and didn't stick and Sasuke used too much and was blasted back bur refused to ask for help and kept climbing at a slow pace until the end of the night when they called it quits for the day.

The next day Kakashi had started moving around and told Sakura and Naruto to protect Tazuna with Team 10 while he helped Sasuke. While helping, Naruto was being trained by Asuma with his wind element since Asuma was the same type.

(A/N: this is the time skip where I'll switch to when Sasuke gets "killed" by Haku. Team 10 is gonna be staying behind to watch Tazuna since Shikamaru couldn't properly use his shadows and Choji and Ino couldn't aim their jutsus. Everything else is cannon to the main series.)

Naruto starred at Sasuke. He had thought that Sasuke had hated Naruto and here he had saved his life at the cost of his own.

"It's the first time you've lost a comrade isn't it?" The Fake Hunter Ninja said. Naruto gritted his teeth, his blood beginning to boil.

"You," he growled as red chakra began to leak out of his body and the seal on his stomach seemed to have a crack form across it, "I'm gonna kill you!" He screamed. His body began to grow as his muscles expanded, ripping through his orange jumpsuit. As he grew, his skin changed from a soft pink into a crimson red. His blond hair darkened to look like fire. The wrapping on his headband started to rip until the metal plate fell to the ground.

While Naruto was normally about 5 feet 6 inches, the creature that had taken his place now stood 7 feet tall with bulging muscles and crimson red skin. It's only cloths were the tattered orange remains of Naruto's pants. Outside the dome of mirrors Kakashi, Asuma, and Zabuza froze as they felt the giant blast of chakra.

"What the hell is that?" Zabuza asked out loud, barley noticing that the blast of chakra was dispelling his Hidden Mist Jutsu.

"Kakashi, has it?" Asuma asked.

"No, there's a crack in it, but I don't think we're in any real danger." Kakashi replied. The beast that was Naruto roared inside the dome causing all of Haku mirrors to crack.

What is this chakra? He wondered, stunned by the power radiating off the beast. The beast looked directly at Haku and charged forward. Haku just managed to get out of the way as the beast punched the mirror he'd been in, shattering the ice mirror. I've got to take this thing down hard and fast. Haku thought, watching the creature from above. He shot down, senbon needle in hand and stabbed the beast's shoulder. It didn't flinch as the needle pierced its skin. The only movement was that it looked at what caused it. Haku looked up into the beast's eyes and was sunned as it raised its hand; middle finger tucked behind its thumb, and flicked Haku off its shoulder as if he were a bug. Which compared to this monstrosity, he might as well have been.

As Haku was sent flying out of the ice dome, Kakashi, Asuma, and Zabuza starred stunned at the boy. Zabuza's mist had completely disappeared at that point and everything was clearly visible. All eyes widened as they saw the giant crimson beast walk out of the dome.

"What the hell is that?" Zabuza asked.

"No way, it can't be," Kakashi muttered.

"Naruto," Asuma said, voicing what Kakashi was thinking. The beast that was Naruto gave a roar and bounded for Haku. The Ice ninja looked up at the creature that had raised its fist with then intent of finishing him off. Haku closed his eyes and waited for death, but it didn't come. Cautiously, Haku opened his eyes and found that the creature had pulled its fist back and was looking at Haku curiously.

"You…remember me." Haku said, slowly getting to his feet. Suddenly, Zabuza appeared between Haku and Naruto, sword in hand with Kakashi and Asuma on both sides of the crimson creature. "Wait, I think he knows me!" Haku said quickly. "I met him the other day in a clearing when I was picking herbs for you Zabuza." Keeping an eye on them both, Zabuza took a step back, his eyes going back and forth between them both. Kakashi was about to make a move but Asuma held his hand up.

"Let's just wait and see what happens Kakashi." He said. Haku reached up and Naruto held up his hand.

"That is you, isn't it Naruto." Haku said. The creature's eyes seemed to go soft as he looked at Haku. Before anything else could happen though, an arrow flew from one side of the bridge and buried itself into Zabuza's side. Everyone's eyes widened and their head's spun around to see the source. An archer stood, his bow still out and stood beside Gato.

"Good thing that mist cleared or else my archer here couldn't have gotten his shot off." Gatos neared. Haku was about to charge forward and attack, but was cut off as Naruto roared, shaking the bridge they were on and releasing a large amount of chakra. He jumped towards the group and proceded to pummel them with his massive fists. Team 10, Sakura, and Tazuna looked at the creature that was annihilating the army of thugs that Gato had brought with him.

"What in God's name is that?" Tazuna asked.

"That," Asuma said, appearing next to them with Kakashi, Haku, and the wounded Zauza and Sasuke, "is Naruto." Upon seeing Sasuke, Sakura completely forgot about the crimson monster that was causing massive destruction and dropped down to look at him.

"That's Naruto?" Ino asked, scared for her old friend.

"But how?" Choji wondered.

"It must have something to do with the seal." Shikamaru muttered. "Naruto must somehow be calling upon a whole lot of its power."

"In any case, we have no idea what it's doing to him." Asuma said. "And while I'm tempted to let him wipe out all of those guys, we don't know what being in that form is doing to Naruto."

"Asuma-sensei's right." Shikamaru said taking charge. "Choji, think you can get his attention?"

"No problem." Choji said. "Body Expansion Jutsu!" He said, turning into a giant Sphere and shooting towards Naruto. Naruto turned, seeing the giant thing coming flying at him. He stuck out his hand and blocked thing with on hand, holding it in place as it spun. Completely unnoticed by the beast, Shikamaru's shadow snaked around Choji and attached to Naruto's shadow.

"Shadow passion complete," Shikamaru said. "Ino, get in there and see what you can do, and be careful." Ino nodded and pointed her hands in a triangle formation at Naruto. "Mind-Transfer Jutsu!"

IFN

Ino walked through Naruto's mind, which had turned out to resemble a sewer looking for her old friend. Her eyes widened when she found him, he was being held against a set of bars with red chakra seeping through him coming from whatever was on the other side of the cage.

"Naruto!" She screamed running towards him and trying to pull him off, only to have her hands burned. "Naruto, I'm not sure if you can hear me or not, but if you can, you need to calm down, you can stop fighting. Please, I need you to come back. Naruto's eyes opened and he looked down at her.

"I-Ino?" He asked weakly.

"That's right Naruto, I'm here." She reached out to pull him down, and this time her hands didn't burn as she pulled him away from the red chakra. "It's ok Naruto, I'm here for you, and I'll never leave your side."

IFN

On the outside, the creature seemed to have calmed down somewhat. All of the thugs had been beaten senseless and were laying on the ground out cold. Ino seemed to have just jumped back to her body as she looked up at Naruto, who was slowly starting to shrink back down to his normal size, his skin color lightning to its natural color.

"Naruto!" She screamed as he fell to his knees. By the time she reached him, he had shifted back completely and fell into her arms.

"Z-Zabuza," he said weakly. Ino looked over in his direction but shook her head; he wasn't going to make it.

"Looks like I'm on my way to the next life." Zabuza said weakly. "Sorry to leave you behind Haku."

"Zabuza," Haku whispered tears in his eyes.

"Haku, I want you to take my sword." Zabuza said. "Go with the Leaf Ninja, they'll take care of you." He coughed, blood flying from his mouth. "I want you to remember, that I am and have always been proud of you…my son." Haku was crying freely now as he reached over and took Zabuza's side. "I love you Haku."

"I love you too dad." Haku whispered as Zabuza died. Haku cried over Zabuza's body as Sasuke seemed to come back to life. It was the last thing Naruto saw before he blacked out.

And that's the end of the intro, tell me how you like it.

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