AN: Yo Mina-san how are you doing? Sorry that I was late but I started a new job and school is a bitch. I will make it up to you guys. I am doing just great thank you very much. Anyways I was tempted to stop writing and forget about the story but the manga chapters and Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 rekindled my interest. Therefore, I hope you like this chapter, I have some jutsu belong to me, and I will no repeat myself anymore. I wish I owned Naruto and co. because if I did I would have made it Naruto and Hinata and Sasuke would not be as much as a jerk. Sakura would not be as fanatic about him as in the anime also. Alas, I do not own Naruto and that is that. PS : I was having some idea of making it into Harem or mini-harem with a minimum of 2 or 3 girls, but you guys tell me what you think? Ya by the way I will have most characters take a more realistic approach towards life after a certain incident they may look Out of Character. I have to ask you readers who of the girls in the Naruto world do want in to have a part in Naruto's Harem or mini-harem. Please tell me on PM. As always, I am open to suggestion and advice so please help me. Thank you and here without any further ado on with the story…

. . . - stopping for a while

Naruto - Normal/Human speech

Naruto - Human thinking speech and Flashbacks

NARUTO – Shouting speech, many clones speaking at the same time or using a voice jutsu etc…

Naruto - Demon, Summon, Pissed off Jinchūriki & human normal speech and Human jutsu casting

Naruto - Demon, Summoning thinking speech, important words or items

Naruto – Location and time

Twelve years after Kyūbi Incident

Twelve years have passed since that dreadful day but it was not the only thing that had happened to the village. To be more specific, there were two different events that had affected Konohagakure no Sato. The first was the kidnapping of the Hyūga heiress and the second was the Uchiha massacre.

It was a peaceful morning in Konohagakure no Sato, until a certain loud mouthed boy of the age of 12 or maybe going 13 was laughing his head off. The reason as to why he was laughing is simple; he painted the Hokage Monument in slang graffiti. The people of Konoha were shocked to who might do this. But the Hokage already know who would. Some civilians entered his office telling him about prank and him though he takes a look at the monuments to believe them.

He looked at it and thought "Look at all those doodles. He even did it to my face as well. That Naruto is really annoying but this is his way of attracting attention to himself. I feel sorry for him and he did not even show his real potential at the ninja academy. After all both his parents were prodigies in many aspects of the way of the shinobi." The Hokage sighed as he left his gazing and returned to his office.

Meanwhile with Naruto

Naruto can be seen on the faces of the Hokages as he was still painting his graffiti on them. He had paint smeared on the right cheek on his face and Naruto's outfit was an orange jumpsuit with blue on the upper shoulders area as well as up and down the front, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, a red swirl on the back, a big white collar, orange pants, blue sandals. He had a pair of green goggles around his forehead. Naruto was finishing doing the finishing touches on his masterpiece with buckets of paints. Naruto was having tons of fun as he shouted, "I will surpass all the previous Hokages and I will be the greatest one. My name is Uzumaki Naruto and you not get me! Ha ha ha! " He was laughing as he waited for his chaser to gain on him.

Naruto saw that a dozen or more Chūnin were giving chase. But Naruto was easily faster and more cunning than them. He was laughing telling them "You never get me since I am the great Uzumaki Naruto-sama." He ran and jumped towards an alley only for his chaser to continue as he had tricked them using the camouflage cloak technique to blend in with the alley's wall. He was giggling and laughing and out of nowhere someone shouted his name loudly behind him. It was jumped in the air in surprise as he turned to see who it was. He came face to face with his academy teacher Umino Iruka. He looked angrily at Naruto and shouted "What do you think you're doing, Naruto? Aren't you supposed to be in class?" Naruto scratched the back of his head smiling and this pissed off Iruka. He tied up Naruto and used the shunshin no jutsu to teleport.

Ninja Academy

In a certain class, the teacher Iruka was standing in front of the class with the class clown Naruto, tied up and on the floor. He turned to Naruto and said with a hint of anger in his voice, "Why haven't you come to class today?" Naruto turned away from him and hoofed. Iruka got really angry and shouted to everyone there "Okay surprise-test everyone. Hurry up and form a line and do the Henge no jutsu to look like me." The students all groined as he said that and quickly formed the line. Iruka said "You're up, Haruno Sakura." Sakura replied "Hai, sensei." and she stepped forward and did some hand seals and ended it in the ram seal. She shouted, "Henge!" there was a poof of smoke; she appeared as the exact replica of Iruka. Iruka looked at her, and then wrote something on his teacher's notepad. Sakura depleted the jutsu and was smiling as she thought "How do you like that Sasuke-kun?" Then another Sakura appeared in her mind and looked like her except she was in inverted colors; grey body color with white lines. She had white eyes and had the kanji for Inner Sakura written on her rather large forehead and she shouted "I kicked butt, Shanaroo!"

Iruka looked at the line and yelled "Next, your turn Uchiha Sasuke." Sasuke stepped forward with his hands in his pockets. He did the same thing as Sakura did and transformed to an exact copy of Iruka. Iruka did the same thing again and Sasuke depleted the henge. He went back to the line again silently as he came. Iruka looked at the notepad to see who was next and yell "Uzumaki Naruto, you're next." As Naruto was about to walkout of the line heard Ino Yamanaka and Shikamaru Nara whisper "It's your entire fault for this surprise test, baka!" Naruto did not even turn back at them and said "Like I care, Dattebayo?"Naruto stepped forward and as he did a certain girl called Hyuga Hinata wished him good luck. He placed his hand in the ram handseal and bend his knees as he concentrated on his charka and a fury of chakra surrounded him in a dome. He shouted "Henge no Jutsu!" a cloud of smoke appeared as it covered him from sight. Then suddenly when the smoke started to disappear, a nude girl with a beautiful body, whisker like marks on her cheeks and long blond hair tied in a pair of pony tails appeared moaned and winked sexily at Iruka. Since Iruka was a normal guy, he blushed and flew back as blood shot out of his nostrils exaggeratedly as the scene was too much for his senses. Luckily the other students didn't see it because of the smoke and even if they did small bits of the smoke covered her important parts. Naruto was laughing as he saw his teacher's reaction, "Ha ha ha ha, I created that jutsu and I call it Oiroke no Jutsu!" said as he continued laughing. Iruka got up and ran to Naruto and bumped him on head with his fist while shouting "Don't make such useless jutsu! Baka! " Naruto placed both his hand on his head as that punch really hurt.

Later That Afternoon

On the Hokage Monument, Naruto sat on the nose of the Sandaime and was washing the paint off. He was angry and frustrated mouthing of a couple of cussing word every now and then. Iruka was supervising him with strict eyes and he then shouted "Naruto, you but clean the whole thing by sundown." Then Iruka's eyes soften and he called Naruto. Naruto looked at him with narrowed eyes and said "Nani?" Iruka continued and said "How about you eat ramen with me after you finish this?" while he was scratching his nose. Naruto looked at him, smiled and yelled "Now that's great! I will finish this in no time! " Iruka chuckled at his antics and shook his head.

Evening at Ichiraku ramen

Naruto is seen eating ramen at happily with Iruka. Iruka was smiling and then asked Naruto "Why have you done that to the Hokage Monument, Naruto? Don't you know who the Hokage are?" and started to eat from his bowl of ramen. Then Naruto replied "Of course I know who the Hokage are, Dattebayo and among them is the Fourth Hokage who saved the village from the Kyūbi no Yōko. That's why I did it, and my dream is to be the greatest Hokage! That way, people will stop disrespecting me and start treating me like I'm somebody. Someone important! " Iruka just listened to Naruto and continued to eat. Then Naruto called him, he looked at the young boy. "Iruka-sensei, can I ask you a favor?"

Iruka looked at Naruto with a suspicious look, and said "What do you want Naruto? Do you want seconds?" Naruto placed his in a begging position, "Ne, ne Iruka-sensei can you give me your hitai-ate? Please? " Iruka looked surprised by the request, replied as he was adjusting it "Dam, dam Naruto you will be allowed to wear one of these only when you graduate." Naruto was not happy about it. He said "Come on Iruka-sensei don't be so stingy."

Iruka then came to a conclusion, "Oh…so that's why you took off your goggles! Hahahaha." He started to laugh but his laughter was cut short. Naruto was now annoyed and to Iruka's dismay he shouted, "I want seconds!" "Ehhh!" shouted Iruka since Naruto was going to bankrupt him.

Next Morning in Ninja Academy

In their usual class, the academy students waited in their seats for their assigned sensei to arrive. But all of them know that today marked the day of the Genin graduation exam which made a certain blonde loud mouth boy quite shaken up. As students waited the heard the door slid open and the classroom sensei Iruka enter.

He enters the class and the class students greet him saying "Good morning Iruka-sensei!" who with a smile addressed the students. He started stated by saying "As you all know today is your graduation exam, it will be held in the next room come over there when you hear your name being called and the test is the bushin no jutsu." At that very moment Naruto whole collapsed and he was agitatedly grabbing his spiky yellow hair while thinking in the lines of, "DAMN! What that one? That is my worst jutsu!"

Iruka had started to test the potential genin. He called in Naruto's name that entered the room and went to the center of it right in front of his teachers. Iruka said, "Naruto know the test so are you ready?" He saw Naruto nod at him and he did a familiar set of hand seals and shouted "Bushin no jutsu!" Smoke erupted totally cover Naruto and Iruka and Mizuki were staring at the smoke cloud. As the smoke disperses they saw Naruto with only one clone and a utterly useless dead clone at that.

Iruka was face faulting and looked in disbelief while Mizuki was thinking, "This is pathetic… the Kyūbi … the most powerful biju in existence is reduced to this failure of a child. It can't do event an E-rank jutsu like Bushin." Mizuki started to smirk "Maybe I can use the Kyūbi brat…" As Mizuki was scheming Iruka shouted "FAIL!" to which Naruto felt depressed and upset about. Then Muzuki said "Iruka-sensei" grabbing the Chūnin's attention. "This is his third time and he did technically make a clone. We could let him pass…" Iruka replied while fanning his hand in the negative "No way Mizuki-sensei. Everyone else made at least three clones and Naruto did only one clone and it is useless one. Therefore I can't let him pass."

Outside of the Academy

The students that graduated were very happy and excited but not everyone. Naruto failed but not because he did not study but that he cannot perform a rather simple E-level jutsu. What he didn't know was that he couldn't perform the jutsu because of his exceptionally high charka capacity but he had nobody to tell him that. While he sat sadly on a swing on the opposite of academy, he saw the other students were happy smiling and talking among themselves while their parents praised them. Naruto sat there sad and depressed as he heard the praises the children received from their parents.

Two women were chatting about their children when they noticed a boy sitting alone on a swing underneath a tree. Their faces scowled as they recognized who the boy was. The first one said, "Hey isn't that kid …" The second one replied, "Oh yeah. That's 'THE' kid and did you know that he was the only one who failed." The other woman answered "Well that's good. We don't want him being a shinobi." Both of them looked at the boy with ice cold eyes and filled with hatred and contempt.

The Hokage who was there to congratulate the newly made Genin noticed how the villagers felt and acted about Naruto and he felt sorry for the boy. As he was about to talk to Iruka, Naruto was placing his goggles on his forehead. Naruto's eyes were covered by his hair bangs as if to hide his extreme loneness and sadness. He then vanished leaving an empty swaying swing. The old Hokage saw him and told Iruka that he needed to speak with him in private. Meanwhile Naruto was walking back home depressed when all of a sudden someone shouted his name, he was startled and thought that he had angered someone by mistake or something since everyone seems to hate and despised him for whatever reason he did not know of. He turned around to face the direction the heard the shout from to his surprise he saw Mizuki and he shouted, "Mizuki-sensei?" Mizuki gave the attention starved boy a gentle smile and told him told him to follow him.

Rooftop of Naruto's Apartment Building

Mizuki hated to be this close 'Demon Child' as the villagers usually call Naruto but in order for his evil scheme to work he would need to fool Naruto into trusting him and he can't do that without actually talk to the brat. So here he is listening to this 'demon' talk about how people should act. It's ironic really since demons do nothing but destroy everything around them including human life and do not consider human of any value. He signed then said to him, "Naruto you know that Iruka-sensei is a very serious person. His parents were killed when he was young and he had to everything by himself." Naruto looked at him and asked, "Then why does Iruka-sensei always picks on me?" Mizuki took a minute and looked at Naruto then looked away saying, "He probably sees himself in you…try to understand Iruka-sensei's feelings since you have no parents too…" Naruto actually never thought of it that way and silently mused. Then he said sadly, "But I wish I had graduated…I really do…"

At that moment, Mizuki smirked as looked at Naruto he had now caught him in his scheme. He then turned towards Naruto saying, "Oh well…" That caught the attention of our little friend and his only intelligent reply was, "Huh?" Mizuki smiled as he was reeling in the catch so to speak and continued, "Let me tell you a little special secret on how to graduate…" Naruto was shocked and happy at the same time since he would finally graduate and so sat there listening to Mizuki-sensei with full attention. This action got a chuckle out of Mizuki since the kid didn't know what he was up to.

Nighttime Hokage's Residence

Later that night, Naruto had just entered the Hokage's Residence and on his way to the Hokage's room. Mizuki-sensei told him that there was a secret room that contain a vault that contained all the scrolls of the village and told him how to get there and which scroll to take. Mizuki-sensei also told him to be conscious of the ANBU and other ninja that usually work in the tower. He also told him that it was a test to see that he can infiltrate a secure location or not. Naruto looked around as he walking down the hallway to the Hokage's room. He saw the door and silently opened looked around to see if anyone was there. Naruto signed as he had held his breath when he had started to open the door. He walked in and took a deep breath, he walked to the center of the room and said to himself, "Oh Thank Kami-sama … nobody is here, Dattebayo." But as he was about to walk towards the secret room when he and jumped as he heard someone talk to him. That someone was the Sandaime Hokage and he said to the boy as he exited the secret room, "Naruto what are you doing at my home in my office at this hour?"

Naruto did not know what to do. The old Hokage walked up behind him. So he did the first thing that came to his mind and shouted, "Oiroke no Jutsu!" That jutsu was too much for the poor old hokage not that he was weak but because he was an old pervert. It surprised him, he just took one look at the girl that Naruto had transformed, and he shot back with nasty nosebleed to fall on the floor. Naruto looked at him in his henge and saw that the old man had been knocked out cold. Naruto reverted to himself and signed thought, "So much for the strongest ninja in the village…I am disappointed Jiji … I never thought you were like everyone else…hahahaha!" He started to walk to the secret room. As he entered, he found an enormous vault with a large number of writing that had started from the center of the vault and stretched to the corners of the said vault. In the center was a square that had a handle on it to open the vault.

Luckily, the vault was not closed shut so Naruto pulled at the handle to open it. However, he found out that it was a little too heavy for him but he kept pulling and pulling until he felt it moved. He pulled it a bit more and saw that he can enter. Therefore, he stopped, started to walk in to the vault and found a room bigger than the Hokage's office and was covered with scrolls of every size and color. As he walked on in the vault, he saw a table with a few scrolls on it but did not seem to interest him. Then he came across a furthest wall had a rather large bookcase a sign on it saying in big bold red kanji "For the Hokage's Eyes only!" Naruto saw that as a challenge and when to the wall with the bookcase and he saw a closed area in the middle of bookcase. He saw a little crack and used his nails to open it and to his surprise, he found a secret compartment containing three scrolls. He started to look around and register everything he saw inside secret compartment.

He saw three large scrolls. They were different then the other ones in the room and were of different color too. The first one was a jet black scroll with white sealing rope tied around it and had no other symbols on it but it's color was petrifying as it seemed that it absorbing light but it had no evil or intimidating presence rather a mysterious and powerful one. The second one was white, not dull white no but the most concentrated and brightest white he had ever seen and it was crimson red on the sides of the scroll with a red spiral design on it. Same as the first scroll it also had a powerful aura but it had brilliant presence opposite to the first one. Lastly, the last scroll was rather plain with a light yellow base with two green lines on each of its sides and the line on the edge was thicker than the inner line and had the word 'Fūin no Sho' written on it in black.

"'Fūin no Sho' that's the scroll that Mizuki-sensei told me about…" He thought as he pulled the rather large scroll he heard a clang sound and noticed a jet-black sword that he had never seen before. "What's this? A sword…what is it doing here?" he asked not getting an answer he started to reading the sword with his eyes. The sword was total black, no shiny jet black the same color if not darker than the black scroll. The Tsuba was a tightly coiled spiral and it was same color as the blade of the sword. The Tsuka tied using black sukamaki cloth and the cloth beneath it was crimson red. It was an entrancing sword and had a deep and powerful force within it that drew Naruto towards it. Naruto shook his head he never knew anything about swords but how did he know every detail about this one in particular. Nevertheless, Naruto shook his head and stopped himself when he remembered that he had to take the scroll and use it outside the Hokage Residence. As he turns to run, Naruto failed to notice that the black scroll started to vibrate and an array of seals appeared around it indicating activation. Naruto already had left the room when the seals covered the scroll completely and then it just a flash of light and it vanished in to thin air but none was the wiser. He pulled the rather large scroll and ran as fast as his legs can carry him with the scroll tied to his back. He reached the window and jumped out.

Naruto reached his usual training place, sat on the ground, and unfurled the scroll. He said to himself, "Now, let see… What do we have here that I can learn? Okay the first jutsu says 'Kage Bushin no Jutsu'?" Naruto then growled and said, "What the hell? Why does have to start with the one I am bad at? Kuso!" Then he noticed some information the jutsu. He found out that the 'Kage Bushin no Jutsu' has some secret uses other than distraction or used to out-number his opponent. On the contrary, to common belief the 'Kage Bushin no Jutsu' was forbidden not for it being a Kinjutsu but that it could be a lethal jutsu if used incorrectly. 'Kage Bushin no Jutsu' takes user's chakra and evenly distributes it among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power. Therefore it would kill any ninja that has low chakra capacity as it will drain the user completely thus killing them. The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but they usually disperse after one or two solid blows. They can also disperse on their own. The clones created will be roughly the same condition as the original.

The clones made from this jutsu unlike the Bushin no Jutsu are real copies; therefore, anything they learn in their 'existence' was pasted on to the user of the jutsu. Thus making them perfect scouts as when they see the intended target, they dispel themselves and send their information gathered to the original without returning. It is also useful for training purposes, since the total amount of experience the user gains is multiplied by the total number of clones being used to train. For example, if a user creates one shadow clone and trains together with this clone for 1 hour, then dispels the clone, the user gains 2 hours of training in 1 hour by adding the hours of clone and the user together.

Nevertheless like all Kinjutsu it has a harmful side effect as it will strain the user's mind from the training the clones and from the mental feedback the said user receives. Naruto did not understand most of it and file this information for later as he will ask either Hokage-jiji or Iruka-sensei. Then he become aware of other jutsu that he thought would be cool and started to train on those jutsu too. He found out that some were very easy while others near impossible, he continued to cuss and train.

Outside Hokage Residence - Mizuki

Mizuki was outside of the Hokage's Residence, spying on Naruto as he entered and exited the building making sure that he had the scroll on him. He saw Naruto jump out the window with the Fūin no Sho attached to his back via rope and blurred towards the forest. Mizuki smiled evilly as his plan has started to bear fruit. He thought to himself, "Now I have to start the second part of my plan…I have to wait and let the Hokage notice that the scroll is missing and order the shinobi to look for Naruto …So I have to wait no …" Mizuki was patient because he had to be in order to trick the village in taking the Fūin no Sho. He left the area and went to hishome as to prepare himself to leave Konohagakure No Sato.

30 minutes later, he had finished everything he needed. A ninja had come to his home telling him of how Naruto stole the Fūin no Shoand Mizuki acted as if he was shocked and told the ninja that he will inform Iruka as the Hokage had order a full-scale search for the boy. Mizuki agreed and went to his 'friend' Iruka.

Iruka's Home

Iruka was laying on his bed in deep contemplation. He was thinking about what the Hokage had told him. The Hokage was explaining why Naruto acted the way he did.

{Flash Back}

"Iruka, you know why Naruto acts the way he does?" Iruka stood quietly as he knew no answer to the Hokage's question since he did care about the boy at all. He shook his head negatively. The old man gave him a small, sad smile and replied, "Naruto act the way he acts because he is looking for attention. Do know who he reminds me of?"Iruka still did not know where this is going shook his head in the negative. Again the old Hokage smiled and said to young Chūnin, "Naruto reminds me of you when you were young my dear boy." This shocked Iruka as he knew that the Sandaime Hokage knows that he lost his parents at the Kyūbi attack twelve years ago. "Naruto didn't know his parents at all unlike you Iruka. Imagine the type of loneliness he was feeling and still feeling." The Hokage left the academy teaching Chūnin to think.

Iruka was shook to the core as he thought like the others that Naruto was the Kyūbi no Kitsune. He remembered the day as the Kyūbi killed his parents. The Kyūbi attacked the village for whatever reason and started to destroy the village and kill its shinobi. He could still remember it's evil chakra, it's roar, it's size and most of all its red, no it's crimson red like blood eyes that screamed death and destruction. Iruka was never this terrified before in his twelve years of living ever. He even got a cut on his face. Then there was another shockwave and his parents who were in battle told Iruka to get out of the battlefield. However, he would not listen to them so the resorted to ask one of their friends to take him to safety. Iruka refused saying he will help the ninja just lifted him up and dragged him to safety.

{End Flash Back}

Someone knocking at his door knocked Iruka out of his thoughts. He got up of his bed and thought to himself, "Who would come at this hour of the night?" He signed and opened the door only to see Mizuki puffed, as he was starting to breathe heavily. He looked at Iruka with panic clearly on his face. Iruka did not know what to say so he asked him, "What is the matter, Mizuki?" Mizuki finally looked like he could talk shouted, "Naruto had stolen the legendary Fūin no Shoas a prank and the Hokage has ordered to meet him at the gate of hisResidence." Iruka was shocked that Naruto would do such a thing. He was scared that his fellow shinobi would not take this prank kindly. Then Iruka said to Mizuki, "Then just wait for me to wear my clothes I will be on my way." Then Mizuki said, "Iruka I will see you there." He then ran and vanished in the direction of the Hokage's Residence.

Outside Hokage Residence

The shinobi under the Hokage were furious and were about to go to kill Naruto. The Hokage had walked to his ninja and trying to calm them as they may do something that the village would regret later. A random shinobi shouted in anger, "Hokage-sama, we cannot let this slide as a childish prank!" Mizuki arrived just in time to hear another shinobi said, "The Fūin no Sho is something so dangerous that the Shodai Hokage had to seal it to protect the village! If it is used in a wrong way it may spell disaster on our village, Hokage-sama!" There was one other shinobi added his two cents by saying, "If he was to get out of the village with the scroll it would cause a major problem to our village, Hokage-sama!" Then Iruka had just arrived and was surprised by his fellow ninja's words and was so angry and had to cling his jaws as he know that they might kill him if the find him. Then the Hokage had broken his silence ordering his ninja, "Hmm, it has been more than half a day since the scroll was taken. Hurry and bring Naruto back immediately!" His shinobi all replied in simultaneously "Hai!" The Hokage then signaled his shinobi to go by swinging his hand in a rising arc and the shinobi all vanished leaving a cloud of dust and smoke.

All around the village - An hour later

Iruka had stopped to catch his breath as he was looking for Naruto in one of his favorite place. He thought to himself, "Naruto, where are you?" Then he remember a secret hut locate a bit far from his location where Naruto used to train there. "Please be there Naruto." He prayed as he took off. At the same time Mizuki was armed to the teeth and had two rather large shuriken attached on his back as he was leaping and running at high speeds looking for the blond child. Mizuki smirked and mentally thought, "I will spread word of what had Naruto done throughout the village. Then when I get to him, I will kill him making it seem that he had escaped the village with the scroll. Then the Fūin no Sho will be all mine." His smirk turned to a fully blown evil smile as he kept leaping away.

Konoha's Forest

Naruto was training on the jutsu he read on the Fūin no Sho. Since he had a couple of hours he found some jutsu he could perform easily and had grew tired sat down and started to was wheezing with his head down on the ground with the scroll attached to his back with a single line of cloth. He was busy catching his breath that he did not seem to notice someone was approaching him until his or her shadow had been on him. He then noticed and looked up to see Iruka glaring at him. He angrily said "Kora!…Naruto. "

Naruto looked at him with his a fox-like grin sniggering and started to rub the back of his head. A habit he developed when he was caught with his hand in the cook jar so to speak. Then he shouted at Iruka, "Oh! I found you. You nose bleeder!" Then Iruka reply angrily, "Baka! I found you! " Naruto looked like he did something great and Iruka had noticed that was not afraid or unhappy that he was caught and found it out of the ordinary.

Iruka also took notice of the boy's condition as he had some cuts ,scratches and dirt smudges and asked Naruto, "Hey Naruto, why are all beat up and what were you doing here?" Naruto who was still laughing said "He he he he he … You found me. I was learning some really cool jutsu." Iruka thought to himself, "So… you were practicing here? Which was enough to damage your body too? What was he doing?" "Never mind that, Iruka-sensei! Ano sa, ano sa! I have learned a really cool jutsu! If I show you that I can do it you will graduate me, right?"

Iruka looked at the blond prankster intimately then asked, "Naruto, where did you get that scroll from?" Naruto grinned and flipped showing his back with the scroll attached to it to Iruka. He said, "Oh this? Mizuki-sensei told me about it and where to find." Naruto exclaimed saying, "Mizuki-sensei said that if I show you the jutsu I have learned from that scroll. You will definitely graduate me!""Mizuki did what?" He mentally screamed. Then all of a sudden Iruka felt a killing intent and heard the sound of kunai flying through the air. He pushed Naruto forcefully away from him protecting him from the hail of kunai thrown at them.

One minute Naruto was talking to his favorite teacher and the next he found said teacher impaled by several kunai. He was shocked out of his mind then turned to the direction the kunai came from. He saw the smirking face of the asshole that did it and was even more surprise to see who did it. Mizuki they teacher who help him had just tried to kill him and Iruka-sensei. He did not understand anything anymore and first glanced at his favorite teacher and saw he was almost like a pincushion.

He then shouted, "Hey! Hey! What the fuck is going on here? Hey someone tell me something?" Mizuki said in a cold emotionless tone "Naruto give me the scroll!" "Naruto! Don't give Mizuki the scroll even if it costs you your life!" Iruka took a deep breath and pulled a couple of kunai out of his chest and abdomen. Luckily, he would live because his wounds were not deep enough to reach his vital organs but still hurt like hell. "Naruto the scroll you have with you is the Legendary Fūin no Sho. A dangerous scroll has forbidden ninjutsu sealed within it. Mizuki had just used you to get the scroll for himself!"

Naruto was surprised was an understatement and glared angrily at Mizuki. "You fucking bastard! I will show you …," roared Naruto at the smirking traitor. Mizuki's smirk turned to a blown laughter, smiled at the increasing anger boy, and said, "Naruto, you know that that scroll is useless to you, so hand it over to me and I will kill you swiftly and mercifully." However, thought "But before I put you out of your misery, I will add to your suffering you demon brat!" He continued saying "Naruto, do you know why everyone in this godforsaken village hates you so much? Huh, did you also know that there is a rule…" He was cut short by a shouting Iruka "Yanero Mizuki! It is forbidden…"

Mizuki smirked and continued saying "You know what happened twelve years ago, the Yondaime 'defeated' the Kyūbi no Yoko and he 'killed' it." He concentrated on the words defeat and killed. "The Yondaime did not kill the Kyūbi rather he sealed it in to a baby born on that night." This piece of information had shook Naruto badly but Mizuki did not stop. He said, "Naruto, Did you know that there is a rule? About you? Hmm…"

Naruto being the child that he is was curious about this rule and shouted at Mizuki "Rule? What rule are you talking about?" Mizuki smiled and said in a harsh and cruel way, "Oh … The rule is that nobody was allowed to talk about the fact that you are the Kyūbi no Yoko sealed in the body of a human." Naruto's reply was "HUH! WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?" Iruka was screaming for Mizuki to stop but he didn't listen. He again continued saying in a slow ecstasy tone "That means you are the Kyūbi No Kitsune…the Biju that killed Iruka's parents and was about to destroy Konohagakure No Sato.""You were sealed up the same Hokage that you admired and…" Iruka shouted "STOP IT MIZUKI!" But it fell on deaf ears as he positioned himself to deliver the final nail on the coffin so to speak. He finally said "You have been lied to by everyone. Didn't you find it odd that everyone in this village hated you? Even Iruka he is the same too. He actually hates you too!" Naruto remembered the cold stares and the hatred from the people of the village when he was younger. He started to cry in anger and sadness as he closed his eyes and continued to cry his heart out while subconsciously drawing out gigantic amounts of chakra out of his body. Naruto was shouting and cursing saying "Chikushō Chikushō Chikushō!" Naruto's body was in a crouching stance and hair was standing tall as his chakra was radiating out of him. Iruka saw the sadness and anger Naruto was releasing and felt it too. But what nobody knew was that a series of barcode like seals appeared on his head.

The ones on his forehead were horizontal bars that started from the middle and branched out to four directions making an X pattern on his forehead. But at the back of his head was a barcode seal that seemed to create the same patterned but vertical seals instead. Then the seals both the one on the forehead and the one at the back of the neck reached each other and crossed over each other. The seals have covered his entire cranium and the seals then cancelled each other out and shattered. But Naruto did feel a thing as the process occurred as the forehead seal was covered with his green goggles and the seal on his neck and the rest of his head by his hair and the burr made by his explosive chakra, so no one knew what happened.

Mizuki took of one of his huge shuriken off his back and began to spin it like a buzz saw. Even furthering Naruto's pain he added "Nobody will ever accept you!" Iruka remembered what the Sandaime Hokage told him about the boy. "He's never knew a parent's love…He is also hated by the village because of that incident…He's seeking acknowledgement of his very own existence in any possible way. So to get attention he … makes a lot of trouble. He acts tough but he is truly suffering inside."

Mizuki finally said "That scroll you carry is the same one used to seal you up! So good bye brat I hope you rot in hell!" With that said Mizuki thought it was time to put the brat out of his misery and threw the large spinning shuriken at the grief stricken boy to finish him off. Naruto saw Mizuki throw the shuriken at him and started to crawl to trying to save himself. Then he heard the sound of metal piercing flesh and bone and saw blood splattered on the ground. He looked up only to see favorite teacher take the huge shuriken in the back to protect him. Iruka was bleeding from his mouth and a few drops of blood fell on Naruto's right cheek.

Naruto asked in a quiet small voice "Naze?" Iruka said "My… My parents… After they died I had nobody to compliment me, talk to me or to acknowledge me … I was so sad back then…" Iruka started to remember what he had done as a child. He remembered that he had acted the same way if not exactly like Naruto did and it hurt him seeing Naruto like that. How lonely it was to be alive and seeing everyone happy with their families while he was alone at his home. His eyes started to water and the tears started to fall as he looked at Naruto with his emotional eyes.

Iruka started by saying "Naruto… Yeah I know that you have been through a lot of pain too, haven't you? I am very sorry, Naruto if I had done my job better you would have felt that pain…the pain of loneliness…" Naruto looked at his sensei with widen eyes as to how his sensei know of his pain. But he remembered Mizuki's words and started to run while said person scowled. As Naruto started to run Iruka called out to him but he didn't stop and kept on running.

Mizuki smirked as he used the Shunshin no Jutsu to get behind Iruka and said while laughing "Hehehehe…Sumimasem…But Naruto isn't the type to have a change of heart. He plans to use the scroll to get revenge on the village. You and I both saw those eyes of his earlier. Those were not the eyes of a human being but the eyes of an angry Akuma…hehehehe…" Iruka started to take very deep gulps of air as he prepared himself to pull out the intruding object imbedded in his back. When he reached for overly large shuriken and pulled it out. He stood up, turned slowly towards Mizuki's direction, and throws the shuriken at him.

Mizuki just smirks and lazily evade the weapon. "Naruto … is not… like that!" said Iruka as he drew his breath. "Either way it matter little to me as I am going to kill him, take the Fūin no Sho and then come back to finish you." Then as he finished what he was say Mizuki leaped to the trees using his speed to run after Naruto. Iruka started to stand thinking, "No way am I going to let you kill Naruto Mizuki!" and leaped after the traitor who was once his best friend.

In The Village

The Konoha ninja gathered in the middle of a clearing in front of the Hokage Resident and one of them shouted, "We should have killed him and save ourselves this trouble!" Another random ninja shouted adding, "We should get to him before he releases the demon's power! If you were to locate the brat then kill him immediately as he is far too dangerous now!" All the ninja shouted in approval and started to scatter in every direction in the village.

Hokage Resident

The old Hokage was using his Hijutsu Tōmegane no Jutsu with a special crystal ball. The Hokage can see and track anyone but there is a catch. The user must know that person's chakra pattern or it will not work. Also has a perverted advantage to someone who masters it. He chokes at the memory and clears his throat with a cough. "Now is not the time for these kinds of thoughts…"and signs heavily. "Naruto are supposed to be a genius who made his own taijutsu style at the age of 5. Kami-sama … what happen to you, Naruto?" He snapped out of his muse felt a high burst in Naruto's chakra pattern. He quietly said "Hijutsu: Tōmegane no Jutsu." His crystal started to glow and showed him Naruto whom was rescued by Iruka who in turn took the kunai attack instead of the boy. He saw how Mizuki broke the law and told Naruto of the Kyūbi no Yoko. This made Naruto afraid more than ever and since he has the Fūin no Sho… Naruto could break the seal on the Kyūbi and release it … But it was a one in a million possibility but still a possibility. As Hokage, he had to think of all options since the good of the village came first but he never thought that Naruto might actually do it to spite the village. He kept on looking at Naruto who was running away.

Konoha's Forest

Naruto was running from Mizuki who is trying to kill him who has Iruka following is trying to stop his once best friend from killing an innocent child. Iruka got to Naruto first, got to his side, and said "Hurry! Pass me the Fūin no Sho. Mizuki is after it!" Naruto held back on a branch and suddenly shot shoulder-tackled Iruka who fell towards the harsh ground rolling. Naruto skidded to a stop. 'Iruka' looked at Naruto with deep scowl and said "How?" then a puff of smoke appeared showing Mizuki had used the Henge no Jutsu, "How did you know I was not Iruka?" 'Naruto' slumped as he held the rather large scroll and used the tree behind him as support he lean his back on it as he fell and sat on the ground. He laughed as a familiar smoke appeared and revealed an injured Iruka and a log, "Because I'm Iruka!" Mizuki smirked and replied only with an "I see…"

A couple of feet from where the Chūnin where standing was Naruto hiding behind a tree still holding that burden of a scroll. He was concentrating on hearing what they had to say to each other. Mizuki broke the silence first and said while laugh evilly, "Hehehehe… You even transformed to the one that killed your parents to protect him?" "I would not let you have the scroll you bastard!" shouted Iruka. "You know Iruka you are an idiot. Naruto and I are the same. " replied Mizuki with a smirk. Iruka did understand and asked, "The same?" Meanwhile Naruto was listening to this conversation with out most attention. "If you use the skills and jutsu in that scroll, you can do whatever you want with the powerful jutsu. " explained Mizuki. He continued saying "There is no way that that the Kyūbi no Yōko wouldn't try to use that kind of power. Unlike what you're assuming…" Iruka then surprised Naruto by confirming Mizuki claim by replying "Yeah…" Naruto felt like he was stabbed by kunai while narrowing his eyes in anger and thought "Damn! I knew it! I see it now… Even Iruka-sensei deep down …doesn't acknowledge either!" The dark thoughts in Naruto's head stopped the moment he heard Iruka say "The Kyūbi no Yōko would do that…But Naruto is different." Iruka took a deep breath and said "He is … I mean I acknowledge him as one of my excellent students." Naruto heard this and he was shocked senseless. "He may be not the hardest worker… and he's clumsy so nobody accepts him. He already knows what it is to feel pain in your heart. He isn't the Kyūbi no Yōko and never was." Naruto slumped and hugged the scroll, as he was touch by Iruka's words. "He is a member of Konohagakure no Sato. He is …" Naruto now is in full-blown tears of happiness and sadness as he received acknowledgement from his favorite teacher. Then Iruka said with conclusively "He is Uzumaki Naruto of Konohagakure no Sato!"

Mizuki cursed mentally as he looked angrily at Iruka since he had nothing to say. Then he said "Okay, whatever…" as he unbuckled his second huge shuriken. Iruka saw him and tried to move but his wounds were too extensive. He yelled as the pain increased and even started to bleed more. "Iruka …I said I would take care of you later. But I am changing my mind as you are becoming a bother." Exclaimed Mizuki as he held out his shuriken. He readied his aim and started to make the large shuriken spin rapidly while Iruka mentally thought, "So this is my end huh?" He shouted "HURRY UP AND DIE!" He leaned for the kill and at the same time Iruka thought it was his end. Mizuki was about to let it fly and finish Iruka then all of a sudden he was attacked and knocked back by none other than our young hero, Uzumaki Naruto. The shuriken missed Iruka by a mile and crashed into some tree branch as Naruto skidded to a stop while still holding the Fūin no Sho. Naruto stood up and had a very angry look in his eyes. He stared into Mizuki's eyes as he judged him. He still was holding the large scroll on the ground.

"Don't even think of touching Iruka-sense or I will kill you!" "Baka! Why did you come out? RUN AWAY!" yelled Iruka at the boy who ignored him. "SHUT UP! A PUNK LIKE YOU I'LL KILL IN ONE SHOT!" shouted back at Naruto. "Kezo yaro! Try it and I will return the pain a thousand fold!" Naruto is now placing his fingers and hands in a unique hand seal. His index and middle finger in both hands crossed each other with right hand parallel to his face while the other was parallel to the ground. Iruka was shocked, as he knew that techniques from that scroll are very difficult and dangerous but could not believe it. Mizuki blindly taunted Naruto saying "THEN DO IT BAKA KITSUNE!" Naruto obliged and with a mighty shout he said "KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" and hundreds upon hundreds of Naruto copies appeared surrounding both the Chūnin. Mizuki was shocked better yet out right scared at this development, as he looked everywhere terrified only to see the damn brat's clones started to say "WHAT? What's going on here?" He was looking all around him as he stumbled and fell on his ass out of fear. "WHAT'S WRONG? COME AT ME! WEREN'T YOU GOING TO KILL ME WITH ONE SHOT?" taunted Naruto. Iruka was speechless and only thought "Naruto … you…" Naruto and his clones all spoke, "WELL THEN IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO ANYTHING I WILL START THING OFF THEN!" Mizuki could only scream as he received the beating of a lifetime. "I think I went a little too far…hehehe" said Naruto as he rubbed that back of his head. Iruka was shocked as much as he was proud of Naruto. He now knows that Naruto will definitely surpass all the previous Hokages. Then he called the blond boy saying "Naruto, come here. There is something I want to give you."

Outside Hokage Residence

The shinobi were restless as one asked the group "Has anyone seen him yet?" "No!" answered the group. The group was shouting and acting like headless chickens then the Hokage came forth with calm smile and his favorite smoking pipe. The shinobi acknowledge their leader, "Hokage-sama! What do we do now? He might as well be gone by now!" The old professor smiled at his shinobi that puzzled them. "He'll be back soon…" was all they heard from their strongest ninja and most prominent leader.

Konoha's Forest

"Iruka-sensei, can I open my eyes now?" asked an anxious Naruto and to which Iruka answer, "Wait a second Naruto." He finished what he was doing and stepped back. He smiled at Naruto and affectionately said, "You can open them now and congratulations, Naruto. You have graduated and is now a full member of the Konoha Shinobi Corp." Naruto opens his eyes shocked in disbelieve. His eyes started to water in the rims as tears began to form. He jumped and hugged his favorite sensei forgetting that he was injured and in pain. He pushed to the ground started crying say that his teacher was the greatest and all that. Iruka had also tears in his eyes but to contrary, they were tears of pain and agony. "Itai! You I am hurt and stop hugging me! Naruto let go now!" Naruto laughed as the dawn of a new day begins.