Naruto, Soldier of Root

Disclaimer: If i owned naruto sasuke wouldve died when he fought haku

Hey guys this is my first ever fanfic that I have written the part of naruto investigating orochimarus base and then jiraiya finding him and the stuff related to that has been used with Kenchi618's permission everything else is all mine. I will probobly have the chapters longer than this unless its necessary. this will be a strong/smart naruto fic its an AU he wont be dark and this will NOT be a harem this will be strictly Naruto/yugito simply cus i love this pairing they wont meet until the chunin exams so it will be a little while. ther will be minor to medium sasuke and sakura bashing its just plain fun. Naruto's about kakashi's level without the sharingan i just dont want to overpower him right now ok well i hope you guys enjoy and R and R i enjoy constructive criticism so I can write better.

revised 8/10/2012

chapter 1 A proposition.

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Jiraiya hopped from building to building with the unconscious anbu on his shoulder. He rapped on the window of the hokage tower, to take his 'fun way' in. A few seconds later he was greeted by the old kindly face of his old mentor, "what exactly would it take for you to come through the door like a normal person? The old hokage asked.

"Normal? Where's the fun in that? Besides when has anything about me ever been normal?" Jiriaya responded.

"Well your never gonna change and act like a respectable shinobi so we may as well get on topic, how did your mission to the sound village go?" asked the wizened warrior taking notice of the short anbu across Jiraiyas shoulders but decided to ignore him for now.

Changing to a more serious tone the white haired pervert spoke "I didn't find too much on Oro-temes actual plans actions but I was able to find plenty on the base itself such as the number of troops and its fortifications but nothing extraordinary. However I was unaware that you had sent an anbu there, you know I work better alone Sarutobi-sensei." Sarutobi wore a confused expression on his face "an anbu?" he inquired. "I never sent an anbu to the sound village." Jiraiya flicked his thumb back towards the body across his shoulders; "well some way or another this guy was there, I found him near the border on my way back in a lousy condition, although now that I think about it his wounds seem to be all healed and he just seems to have chakra exhaustion so it might be a little while until he wakes up."

Jiraiya placed him down on a couch in Sarutobi's study, Hiruzen removed his mask only to see a young boy with three whiskers on each cheek, bright blonde hair, and a scar above his left eye. "Naruto-kun!" the old man gasped in surprise. This caught Jiraiya by surprise as well "Wait did you say Naruto? As in Uzumaki Naruto my Godson?" questioned the green and red clothed man.

"The one in the same" said the sandaime while inspecting the boys mask noticing a kanji for root in the top right corner, "Danzo…" he growled out. "Danzo must of somehow gotten his hands, pardon me 'hand' on Naruto-kun without me knowing, no wonder both Danzo and Naruto-kun have been so quiet lately, Danzo had always requested Naruto-kun be given to him for training, for all we know now Naruto-kun here could be an emotionless drone right now." Sarutobi said. "I think I had better have a word with Danzo to see what all he has done and try to remedy the damage he has caused, it'll be pointless to question Naruto-kun, Danzo probably has his ways to keep his subordinates quiet about him and his actions." Hiruzen stated to his student.

He snapped his fingers and an anbu appeared "Yes hokage-sama what do you require?" the boar masked anbu asked. "Boar, go to Danzo's residence and tell him I request his presence in my office." Ordered the hokage. "Hai hokage-sama" answered the anbu before he disappeared. "Now all we can do is wait and keep an eye on our little blond friend here" said the old pipe smoker.

30 minutes later

There was a knock on the door, "Enter" spoke the old war veteran glaring at Jiraiya who seemed oblivious and wishing Jiraiya would take notes on this action revolving around the use of doors instead of taking notes on girls. Danzo walked in flanked by the boar masked anbu Sarutobi had sent, "you called for me Hiruzen?" spoke the old war hawk.

"Yes I did, your dismissed for now boar" answered Sarutobi and the anbu swiftly left the room. As soon as he was gone Sarutobi quickly went to business "Would you care to explain to me why Jiraiya here found Naruto-kun dressed as an Anbu, with a root symbol on his mask, covered in wounds near the border in the direction of the sound village?" Questioned Hiruzen.

If Danzo was surprised that Naruto had been found like that he sure didn't show it he merely answered truthfully to try and salvage as much as he could and clean up this mess. "I know you will simply just see through any lie so I shall shoot straight, I've trained young Naruto here for about 7 years to the best of my ability, he is quickly becoming one of my best men and I had sent him on an espionage mission to the sound village." spoke the bandage covered man.

"So is there any real reason why I shouldn't just kill you for turning Minato's child into an emotionless weapon?" said Hiruzen with barely repressed rage."

"Well let me stop you there, against my best attempts to turn him into an 'emotionless weapon' as you called him he has in fact resisted any and all attempts to turn him into one, the best I could do was have him be able to switch his emotions off at will and then be completely normal the next second, which is actually a better thing. He's even resisted my personal seal that I place on all of my men more times than I can count so no need to worry about that or me controlling him or anything, but I was planning on giving you a proposition as soon as he returned, seeing as he is here now I might as well give it to you" spoke the root commander.

Hiruzen raised an eyebrow, "a proposition you say?" he asked gaining interest. Danzo nodded and responded "Yes in order to show you that my methods of training are best I wanted to place Naruto here in the academy, its most promising student seems to be Fugaku's youngest son Sasuke, he will be Naruto's competition, compare the two of them at the end of their time at the academy in two weeks from now and you shall see that my way is best. If Uchiha is better than him at the end I will disband root and place all members into appropriate ranks depending on their skills and age. If I am correct and Naruto is better then you shall implement some of my training methods there, I'm not even gonna ask for the emotional training I know there's no hope of you agreeing to that but we shall make sure to create real shinobi and kunoichi, not useless fan girls this village is so full of. What do you say Sarutobi?" asked the cyclops.

After a few minutes of contemplation Sarutobi spoke "Well my old rival you have yourself a deal, now when Naruto-kun wakes up we will see what he found out about my wayward student and then you may tell him about what he must do."

"Glad you agree Sarutobi, I'm confident you will be impressed with what he can do said the old war hawk.

1 hour later

Naruto slowly opened his eyes and was welcomed to the sight of three old geezers staring down at him. 'it seems I'm back in konoha and in hokage-jiji's office' he thought to himself.

"Welcome back Naruto-kun" Sarutobi said with a warm smile. Naruto groaned while he struggled to sit up "Good to be back Hokage-sama" the blonde answered.

"Was your mission a success?" asked Danzo not wasting time beating around the bush. 'Looks like the old man already knows all about Danzo training me so I don't have to play the fool around him anymore but I better act respectful right now.' Naruto thought to himself before answering back "Hai Danzo-sama, I had completed my mission without a problem until some idiot rookie blew up the information department near the time I was preparing to leave and ended up blowing my cover."

Jiraiya flinched at this while Naruto continued "as I was trying to make a break for it I was engaged by Orochimaru's elite bodyguard, dubbed the sound five, I was winning and about to finish them off when I was confronted by their fight member who appeared to be their leader named Kimimaro Kaguya. All five of them now ganged up on me while in the stage two of their curse seal, I'll place everything I know about that in my official report but anyway after that I was getting killed and wouldn't last long as long as Kimimaro was there, I was almost out of chakra by then so I was forced to use a burst of Kyuu-chan's chakra to get away and sprint all the way to the border and that's all I remember before things went black and then I woke up here." stated Naruto.

Both Jiraiya and the sandaime were shocked that he could use the kyuubis chakra let alone knew about it. "How long have you known about the kyuubi and did you say kyuu-chan Naruto-kun?" asked Sarutobi.

"For about two years, oh and yes the kyuubi is in fact a she, she told me what had really happened eight years ago when she was forced to attack, in fact she's actually quite nice but I'll discuss more of that later" answered the root member.

"THE ALMIGHTY KYUUBI IS A GIRL!" both Sarutobi and Jiraiya yelled. Jiraiya waited about three seconds and then asked "Is she hot?" All three other occupants in the room sweat-dropped at this. Sarutobi bowed his head in shame of his student and thought to himself 'three seconds…that's gotta be some kind of record for him.'

"Yeah, yeah I get that whenever I tell people, granted its just been you two and Danzo that know, but that's besides the point back to my report, the most important thing that I learned while I was there was that both the sound and the sand plan to invade us during the next time the chunin exams are being held here which will be in about 6 months, I assume most of Suna will just be following orders of their kazekage and superiors who has been eliminated and then impersonated by Orochimaru." said the young jinchuuriki.

If the fact about the kyuubi had surprised them, both were now quite thoroughly shocked. Naruto continued "Whats worse is we can't really do anything to prove that the kazekage isn't who he says he is without fighting him, and so the only thing we can really do is prepare for whats bound to happen. I shall give a full report on their battle plans and strategy when I submit the report and I'll make a copy for you as well Hokage-jiji, first thing first I need some more rest to get over this chakra exhaustion it's mostly gone now though."

Sarutobi shook out of his stupor and replied "very well Naruto-kun I shall go and try to make as many adjustments to our security and fortifications as I can in preparation for this invasion until I get your report. By the way Danzo has something to discuss with you so I'll leave you two alone."

Naruto nodded and waited until Jiraiya had left as well before speaking "what is it you wish to speak of Danzo-sama?" he assumed it might be another mission so he kept his urge to make Danzo twitch by calling him jiji in check.

"Yes it's about your next assignment you are to join the academy and show off all of your skills, I don't want you to hold back, flaunt your power, however don't be arrogant, I want you to show the power of Root, just don't use the kyuubi's power, oh and don't kill any of them" he added with a smirk that Naruto shared. "And one more thing, be sure to make the Uchiha look totally pathetic."

"Hai Danzo-sama it shall be done." the loyal soldier replied. "Good I have confidence that this could be your most simple mission in terms of life threatening situations, none of them stand a chance against you, and you also seem to be very socially adept so that shouldn't be a problem either. Then he left Naruto by himself.

After a couple minutes he thought out loud "A mission where I get to show off and publicly humiliate a stuck up clan heir this just might be my new favorite mission, this'll be fun."

1 day later

Naruto was all prepped and ready for his first real day at the academy he was wearing an outfit consisting of black anbu pants with steel toed shoes a dark blue muscle shirt and black fingerless gloves with iron knuckles and guards on the top and a wakizashi strapped across his back. He had two separate pouches on his back and then two separate kunai/shuriken holsters on his legs and although you couldnt really see them unless you looked closely had a sealing tattoo on each wrist for more shuriken/kunai. He never really cared much for fashion just brutal efficiency.

He stepped out of his apartment and then simply used shunshin to teleport to the front of the academy building, scattering random passerby out of the way he walked with a gait that screamed power and deadliness while not showing a shred of arrogance. He strode in and looked around, he simply ignored all the civilian children and focused on the clan heirs his class seemed to be full, of he first spotted an Inuzuaka being dropped off by a very feral looking mother, and shortly later an Aburame who quickly went and stood off into the shadows to observe the other students, then came in a young hyuuga who looked like she wanted to melt into her jacket rather than stand proud like all the other hyuuga were known to do. After that came in a pair of children one with a lazy expression and another one stuffing his face with potato chips, clearly a Nara and a Akimimichi. After that came a girl with a purple outfit and long blonde hair that came down to her butt who clearly was popular judging by the group of civilian girls that seemed to follow her around like her 'posse,' clearly a yamanaka, I mean how many blondes other than him were in konoha? He was about to keep looking around when he stopped and looked right next to the yamanaka and saw a bunch of neon pink hair, 'talk about standing out' he thought to himself. 'That's like stealth's worst enemy what does pink hair blend with in the forest? Nothing! She is so dead when it comes to life.' Moving on he saw his target, in strode like he owned the place was Uchiha Sasuke, followed by a group of his fangirls.

That seemed to be all the people that mattered to him, and then proceeded to head into class. He quickly sat down at the top row in the corner to keep an eye on all that happened in the class. Soon enough after everyone had sat down, in walked a man with a scar across his nose and in wearing the standard chunin outfit, he organized his papers and silenced the class and then proceeded to call the role. (A/n we all know everyone is there and there names so ill just skip this part)

Seeing that everyone was there, Iruka spoke " today we have a new student in this class, he has had training elsewhere for the past 7 years so don't worry about him getting special treatment he's definitely good enough to be here please stand up Uzumaki Naruto!"

Naruto stood up and looked around at the class so they could all see who he was. Just as he sat down the class was interuppted by a certain canines loud yells "Hey how come he got to skip the past four years while we got stuck in this lame class that's so unfair!"

"Since when is life ever fair Kiba? Just sit down and be quiet!" Iruka said, annoyed.

After that there wasn't really any outbursts since they all knew they couldn't really do anything about it so they all just waited until it was time to go outside and do the sparring matches and such.

Iruka called the first pairing which coincidently for Naruto happened to be him and Sasuke. Although the fact that both of their surnames start with the letter 'u' makes it less of a shock. "Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke please come to the center of the circle please. Naruto simply walked in while Sasuke strode in while basking in the praise of his fan girls with Ino and Sakura leading the cheer. "Naruto vs. Sasuke Hajime!" Iruka shouted and then took a few steps back.

Sasuke spoke first "this will be over in a second, this no name loser stands no chance against an Uchih-ack!" Naruto had simply charged and threw a right hook to fast for Sasuke to even realize he had moved in the first place. Naruto followed Sasuke as he flew out of the ring and stood over him with his wakizashi at his throat before he spoke "your right it was over in a second, maybe you should spend more time fighting then speaking now concede I don't feel like killing petty stuck clan heirs." All of Sasuke's fan girls were in an uproar yelling things like 'he cheated!' and the like Naruto simply stared over at them and said "how did I cheat? The match had started it's not my fault Sasuke-teme wasted time talking and expecting me to stand there and listen."

Sasuke just stared at him with rage "I will never concede, you just got a lucky shot!" Naruto just looked at him then replied "Please define the term luck, if it even exists, is it luck that you are just too slow to even dodge a simple punch? You should try to train more instead of preening all the time and screaming about the so called 'almighty uchiha clan' and since you refuse to concede I guess I better just knock you out, night night" then proceeded to strike him on the head with the handle of his blade.

"Shousha Uzumaki Naruto!" shouted Iruka.

The rest of the fights were not even worth watching its not that they were important or amazing in any way, they are just academy students. Sasuke was woken up at the start of the shuriken/kunai, when it came to his turn he managed to hit 16/20 for shuriken and then 12/15 for kunai. "Beat that loser" he sneered to Naruto who just looked on impassively, when it came to naruto he got 20/20 on shuriken and 15/15 on kunai. Then just walked right past the fuming Uchiha muttering a 'pathetic' that only Sasuke heard.

Next was Jutsu they had learned a bit about it in class and they were asked if they knew any techniques all the clan heirs had at least one which they promptly showed after Sasuke finished his fire technique he was sure that he was the best right until naruto completely filled the arena with clones of himself and then showed that they were real. 'Better not do any of my elemental jutsu I might kill a few random gawkers who wont move out of the way.' Naruto thought to himself.

After everyone shook out of their stupor Iruka announced it was time to head back into class. Naruto merely wondered 'I have to do two more weeks of this oh well might as well just send a shadow clone to do school while I just go out and train all day. So much for my favorite mission.'

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A/N so what do u guys think? i know im focusing on sasuke and naruto a lot and their rivalry if u can call it that but u guys all know everything about everybody else so no real need to go in depth about whats goin on there well hope u guys enjoyed it and ill try to post another chapter soon and it'l timeskip straight to the graduation for genin

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