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Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf	By : Pokemaster12 Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 8578 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 11
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Chapter 7: Academy Days pt. 2

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

It was the start of a new year at the shinobi academy. Naruto, clad in his orange monstrosity and with a large grin on his chibified whiskered face, ignored the glares and scowls sent his way as he ran towards the academy. When he got to the room with the number of his classroom on it he slammed the door open and walked in.
Several of the other students who were already inside looked over to see who had made such a loud entrance, several of those people became blinded by the bright orange jumpsuit the blond was wearing, and more than a few wondered if Naruto wasn't color blind. Why else would he wear such a hideous bright color?
Naruto ignored all of this as he kept his grin on, walking towards an empty seat in the back where he could observe the class. He sat down and spent the rest of the time keeping his idiot-grin-façade up while discreetly looking at any and all of the noteworthy students in the classroom. Out of all twenty-six students besides himself, Naruto saw seven that stood out the most.
Seated over the front-left hand corner of the room with a bored look on his face was a kid that could pass off as a younger Itachi. He had raven black hair that was spiked at the back and oddly enough, reminded the blond of a ducks ass. He was wearing white shorts, blue shinobi sandals and a blue Uchiha style shirt with his clan crest on the back. Currently, he was looking out of the window while all of the girls in the class gave him a dreamy stare.
Must be Sasuke, Itachi-nii-sans younger brother, Naruto thought, remembering a few times Itachi had told him about his brother when he took Naruto out for ramen.
In the middle row on the right were two more that caught his attention. A tall kid with fairly long jet black hair tied in a spiky ponytail, narrow brown eyes that had a lazy half lidded expression to them. His attire was rather plain, consisting of a green lined mesh T-shirt under a short sleeved grey jacket with green edges, adorned on both the sleeves and the back with a circle with a line through it, brown pants, and blue sandals.
Definitely a Nara, Naruto frowned in thought as he brought up the information he knew on the Nara clan. If I had to guess, I'd say it's the son of the current clan head Shikaku, if he's anything like the notes on Shikaku that my old man left than he'll be the purest definition of lazy genius.
"I remember them," Akane piped in, "even when they had first joined Konoha that clan was the laziest bunch of people I had ever seen. They make the Sanbi appear hard work, and that damn turtle is the laziest son of a bitch I ever knew." Naruto snorted in laughter at her comment, causing several people to look at him. He ignored them and continued his observations.
Next to the Nara was what could only be an Akimichi. The kid was very large, a necessity for the Akamichi due to their clan techniques, and had brown hair, and swirl marks on his cheeks. He wore brown shorts, a rather long white scarf, a short-sleeved green jacket over a white shirt with the kanji for "food" (食, shoku) on it, ring earrings, and his legs and forearms were wrapped in bandages.
If the Nara is the son of Shikaku, I'll go on a limb and say that this kid is the heir for the Akamichi clan.
A little ways away from the two clan heirs was a girl that caught his attention. The girls most noticeable trait in her appearance were her blue eyes and her long blonde hair, which was currently cut shoulder length and had two short bangs framing her face. Her attire consisted of a short purple vest like shirt with a raised collar, a skirt that was cut off on the sides and bandages on her stomach and legs. She also wore purple and white elbow warmers with this. She was obviously a member of the Yamanak clan, the only other people in Konoha with blond hair and blue eyes like himself. He had to wonder about why someone who was only eight years old would wear clothing that revealed so much skin.
It's not like she has anything to show off, thought Naruto, his mind straying to Akane. Before a blush could make its way to his face he continued his survelaince of the room.
Several seats from Naruto himself was a brown haired kid who had a wild appearance to him, giving him some traits that were akin to an animal. He had messy brown hair, sharp black eyes with vertical slit-like pupils, pronounced canine teeth, and nails that looked slightly clawed. He also had the distinct red fang markings of the Inuzuka clan on his cheeks. Tsume's kid, Naruto decided with certainty, remembering the few times he had seen the woman around the village. She was one of the few people that was actually nice to him.
His attire consisted of dark greyish pants reaching to his calves and a grey, hooded fur-lined coat. On top of his head sat a small white puppy that only confirmed the boys Inuzuka heritage in Naruto's mind.
Another to catch his attention was a girl with dark blue hair, fair skin and white eyes, with a tinge of lavender. The eyes were completely pupiless, meaning she belonged to the Hyuuga clan, one of the most prominent clans in Konoha and the rivals of the Uchiha clan.
Her hair was in a hime-cut style, with chin-length strands framing her face. She wore a cream-coloured hooded-jacket with a fire symbol on the upper right and left sleeves and fur around the cuffs and hem, with navy blue pants. Naruto was kind of amused to see that the girl looked completely intimidated by everyone around her, as evidenced by how she seemed to be trying to hide in her jacket. That, or she was just attempting to do her best impression of a turtle.
The last person to really catch his attention was the boy sitting right next to him. This kid had dark bushy brown hair, pale skin, and seemed to be the tallest kid in class, besides himself when he was out of his transformation. His clothing consisted of dark sunglasses and a sea-green jacket with a high, upturned collar and a hood that was currently brought up to hide most of himself from the class. Naruto heard a light buzzing coming from him and assumed he was an Aburame, a clan that utilized bugs to fight.
The only other person that was caught his attention was a girl with bright pink hair and an abnormally large forehead. Cause I mean really, what kind of shinobi had pink hair?
The door opened and two people walked in, the two chunin instructors Naruto assumed. The first was a man with brown hair that was kept in a ponytail, dark eyes and a scar across the bridge of his nose. He was wearing the standard Konoha shinobi outfit complete with forehead protector, sandals and flak jacket.
The other was a man with white, shoulder length hair was in a bandana style forehead protector and the standard Konoha shinobi outfit.
"Alright class settle down," the brown haired man said. The class seemed to quiet down, eagerly awaiting their introduction into the shinobi world. "My name is Iruka Umino and this is my assistant Mizuke," Mizuki seemed to scowl slightly at the mans words but only Naruto caught it, "I would like to welcome all of you to the start of your first year in the Shinobi Academy. Each one of you is here because they wish to serve and protect Konoha as a ninja, and we will do our best to insure that you all become the best ninja you can be!"
Many of the students seemed to smile at this.
"Now, when I call your name I want you to come up to the front and introduce yourself by telling us what your reasons are for being a shinobi. Aburame, Shino!" One by one the students were called, Naruto ignored all but eight of them. The seven clan heirs, all of whom were from the most prominent bloodline clans of Konoha and the pink haired girl who he felt might prove useful in keeping with appearances.
It seems like this is going to be an interesting class with so many prominent clan members in it, Naruto thought to himself.
"…Uzumaki… Naruto…"
Naruto looked up and saw the look of hatred on both Mizuki's face, and the look of distaste on Iruka's. this is going to be a long four years, the blond figured as he walked down to the front.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki!" the blond shouted with his wide grin, "AND I'M GOING TO BECOME THE GREATEST HOKAGE SO THAT PEOPLE WILL LOOK UP TO ME AND RESPECT ME! DETTEBAYO!"
His proclamation was met with several minutes of stunned silence before the entire class started laughing uproarisly.
Yep, definitely a long four years, Naruto held in a sigh as he went back up to his seat, I wonder how the boss is doing?

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"Hey Naruto-kun?" Akane said as Naruto continued going through the Katas of the Kitsuneken taijutsu style. Two years filled with long hours of practice had insured that Naruto now had the movements down by muscle memory, all he had to do now was work out the kinks and improve his physical fitness.
"Yeah?" asked Naruto with a grunt as he flew through a particular fast Kata where he struck his imaginary opponent with lightning fast knife-edged jabs to where the floating ribs would be located. Moving back out he jumped in the air and spun around and did a heel kick that would have hit his now disabled opponent in the neck. Landing back on the ground he continued his katas.
"I was thinking, with how much traveling you're going to be doing it may be a good idea to find a way to earn money."
"I was thinking about that too, ten thousand yen is quite a bit of money, but it won't last forever." Naruto paused as he made several kicking combinations, switching from his left to his right foot all the while spinning on the balls of which ever foot he was standing on at that given moment. "I was thinking of selling my seals, not only do I have a lot of seal designs but most of the seals that I found at the ninja stores were complete crap."
Akane listened with no small amount of amusement as Naruto went on a rant about the terrible quality of the seal paper, ink and the seals themselves. "The paper they use is completely shoddy, what with all the creases the paper has, not to mention the poor quality of it. The ink has absolutely no special properties and tends to fade within a year and don't even get me started on the seals themselves, it's like a fucking child drew them!"
The red head decided not to mention that technically, Naruto was considered a child. Instead just listening to him talk about something he obviously held a passion for, even if she had no clue what he was talking about.
"I have nothing against you selling your seals, that can actually be a pretty lucrative business since very few people can make them."Akane paused, "Of course, you should keep all of your more powerful seals to yourself, that way they don't get into the hands of someone who may be inclined to use them against you. Also, we'll need to find a way to protect your seals so no one else can copy them before we sell your customized ones."
"That's why I'm going to start hiding my seals into specific designs, like the Uzumaki clan symbol," Naruto told her. It was common practice for a seal master to hide his seals within something, like the Shiki Fujin (Dead Demon Consuming Seal) on his stomach that was in the design of the Uzumaki clan symbol.
"That's a good idea, I would suggest making some more clones to get to work on that right now so you can begin making money soon."
Having already been thinking along the same lines of the vixen Naruto created fifty more clones with orders to begin finding a way to disguise his seals. Half an hour later Naruto ended his taijutsu kata and walked over to where he had set down his towel, picking it up and wiping the sweat off his body.
"Alright, on the ceiling, it's time for your kenjutsu training."
Naruto sighed as he grabbed his bokken and did as told, it was going to be a long night.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"Alright class!" Iruka called out he finished his lecture on the Shodaime Hokage, a boring lecture on the man's Mokuton (Wood Release) jutsu and how he founded the village, at least it was boring in Naruto's opinion. "I want all of you to head outside to the training logs with Mizuki, it's time to begin target practice!"
The class all scrambled out of their seats excitedly, Naruto included as they ran outside. They met Mizuki who looked at all of them, scowling at Naruto before he began giving instructions on what to do. "When I call your name I want you to take these kunai and throw them at the training post," he said, looking down at his clipboard, "Aburame, Shino!"
One by one they all went up, most did terribly, very few kids hit the log, most of their throws going wide. Though there were a few lucky hits. The ones who did good were the clan heirs, well most of them. Shino, Kiba and Sasuke all did well enough, with Shino getting nine out of ten, Kiba getting seven out of ten and Sasuke getting all ten, even deciding to show off by throwing them all at once, much to the excitement of his fangirls.
Ino, Choji, Hinata and Shikimaru, however, did not do as good. Ino got three out of ten, not only was her aim completely off but her throws were weak; Choji got five out of ten, which wasn't bad and he had strength behind his throws, but lacked accuracy; Hinata's hand was shaking so hard that she only managed to get two out of ten, and left with her head in her jacket to hide her embarrassment; and Shikkimaru didn't even try, claiming it was too troublesome and ended up getting a zero out ten.
"Uzumaki Naruto!" Mizuki said, and only Naruto caught the light growl in his voice, it made the blond wonder why this man hated him so much.
"Hey! Hey Sakura-chan! Watch how awesome I am!" Naruto shouted to the pink haired girl, Sakura Haruno, a girl who was wearing a red qipao dress with white circular designs, with or without sleeves, tight dark green shorts. After the first two months of the new year, Naruto had decided to use this girl to keep up with appearances, acting like he had a crush on her.
"SHUT UP NARUTO NO BAKA!" Sakura shouted as her face turned the same color as her hair. She shook her fist at him in a violent manner, something she always did when he was not close enough to hit. The girl was one of Sasuke's biggest fan girls, along with Ino Yamanaka who Naruto felt was a disappointment to her clan due to how she seemed more concerned with Sasuke then being a better ninja. Because the pink haired girl was a civilian and extremely violent she was the perfect cover for Naruto's idiot persona.
Naruto walked up to where Mizuki was and took the kunai from him, absently noting that they were so dull even if he hit the target they were unlikely to stick, unless he used chakra to strengthen his throws. Not that it mattered since he wasn't trying to hit the targets.
Pretending to take careful aim with each kunai the blond, orange clad genin missed each one. Everyone around him laughed and began to make fun of him, since even the civilian children got at least one. Naruto pretended to get angry at how all the kids were laughing, and moved back into the crowd.
The class soon went back inside where Iruka began another lecture. Naruto sighed, Kami I hate the boss! I wish he were here instead of me.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

The months passed by in a blur for Naruto as he continued his training, increasing the number of clones he could make from two hundred to three hundred. Once again this increase in kage bunshin also produced a remarkable increase in the amount of jutsu he learned. He was very proud of his accomplishments and couldn't wait until the day that he could show everyone how truly powerful he was.
He had also finally finished working on his seal designs, having decided to hide them within a symbol he had made himself. The symbol was essentially the Uzumaki Clan symbol, except that it was done in a way that looked like the swirl was made of a fox tail. The tail was subtle enough that people would likely never realize what kind of animal it was, even if they bothered to actually look at the seal when they ised it.
Now, all he had to do was find a store that he could sell his seals from.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

A young man who looked to be around eighteen years old with spiky red hair that had two jaw length bangs framing his face and a spiky fringe that covered his forehead was walking down one of the many streets of Konoha. He had dark, purple eyes, a rarity in any country and was fairly tall, standing at six foot five and had an athletic build that spoke of long hours of training. He was wearing what looked like Ronin Samurai clothing; a traditional dark blue kimono with a pair of black Hakama style pants underneath. His footwear consisted of tabi socks and Waraji sandals.
He was very handsome, with a chiseled face that held a roguish charm to it. In fact, if one were to look at his general face shape and hair style, they would almost assume he was the Yondaime Hokage, were it not for the red hair and purple eyes.
The smile he wore made several of the women near him swoon, causing the men around him to scowl. Not that he was paying any attention to the people around him. The young man was too busy spending time looking at all of the stores, trying to find a good store to sell his wears to notice the drooling looks the women were giving him or the scathing scowls the men were sending.
"Let's see Kinsei's Hoisoi Heiki (Kinsei's Fine Weapons), nope. Shinobi Chuuou (Shinobi Central), a bunch of assholes that I ain't helping," the young man sighed. "Geez, there doesn't seem to be any shinobi stores around here that I want to sell my seals to. Oh, what's this?"
He had stopped in front of a nondescript building, with the only decoration being a kunai and the titles Higurashi's weapon shop on top of the entrance. Curious, the young man entered the shop.
Looking around the first thing the young man noticed was that the place was easily a shinobi's wet dream, lined all around the walls and on several stands in the store were some of the most beautiful and well-crafted weapons he had ever seen. Everything from axes and lances, to ninja-to's, he even saw a few broad swords that were said to have been imported from the east many years ago during the Second Great Ninja War. The place was obviously a store that took their job to supply ninja with the proper tool seriously.
"Can I help you?"
Turning the red haired young man was soon staring at a bull of man. Large and built like brick shit house. The man had muscles on every part of his body that the red head could see; he even had muscles on his muscles! He had dark, spiky brown hair and brown eyes, and was wearing an off white shirt, brown pants and a pair of brown boots.
"Maybe," the young red head said with an easy going grin. "I was actually here because I saw your store and was hoping that the two of us may be able to enter a partnership for mutual benefit."
Oh?" the large man said with interest.
The red head nodded, "this is a beautiful store, and I've noticed that all of the weapons you have are top quality, as well as your shinobi clothing and armor. However, I was wondering if you sold seals? And if so, how good they are."
"You make seals?" asked the large man, sounding both curious and interested.
The red head smirked, "yep, I've been traveling the elemental nations learning what I can about the art of Fuiinjutsu. I've been hoping to find a place to sell my seals, but very few stores here seem to really know good quality when they see it."
"There are a lot of stores that sell cheap equipment," the large man agreed. A moment later he stuck out his hand, "Kaizuki Higurashi."
The red head took the offered hand in a firm hand shake and smiled, "Arashi Kazama."
Kaizuki nodded, "I take it you have your seals with you?" Arashi nodded, "then follow me to the back, show me what you have and if I like your stuff, then we can cut a deal."
"Kaizuki-san, I like the way you think."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

It was nearly two hours later that Arashi left the Higirashi weapons shop, both him and Kaizuki being satisfied with the deal they had cut. The large weapons store owner had been very impressed with the quality of Arashi's seals, which as far as he could tell were near flawless. It took a while but in the end they had both settled on an agreement each could work with.
Arashi would supply Kaizuki's store with all of the standard seals, and any new seals he came up with would go exclusively to the Higirashi weapons store. In return, Kaizuki had offered the man the better end of the bargain, giving Arashi a sixty percent cut of the prophet on all the seals sold. It had originally been fifty-fifty, but after Arashi mentioned that he was also using his own custom made paper and ink, both of which were costly to make, the man had given him the better offer, knowing that if the red head went to another store it may decrease his own sails.
As he closed and locked the door to the hotel that he had rented out, Arashi gave a loud yawn while stretching his hands above his head.
"Long day?"
Arashi snorted at the voice before a ripple spread across his skin, his hair went from red to gold, his eyes from purple to blue, he shrunk down to a height of four feet six inches and his clothing changed to all black shinobi clothing.
"It was definitely different than a standard day, that's for sure," Naruto said as he looked around the nice hotel room. He moved towards the kitchen where he began looking into the fridge to see if there was anything good to eat, not finding much he sighed, and decided he would use his Arashi persona and go out and get something to eat a little later. For now, he would just go into the seal and spend some time with Akane.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"We must strike now Hiruzen!" stated an old frail looking man, who had one hand holding onto a cane. He had black shaggy hair, and his right eye was kept bandaged. He had an x-shaped scar on his chin, a scar that had been given to him during his youth. He wore a white shirt, with a brown robe over top of it covering from his feet, to just over his right shoulder. The robe conceals his right arm which was bandaged, and covered with three big golden braces.
Hiruzen Sarutobi gave an exasperated sigh at his old friend, "we can still work on negotiations with them, Danzo. Why are you so adamant about killing members of our own village when all this can be avoided without the need for senseless bloodshed."
Danzo nearly scowled at the man he had once called friend, ever since Sarutobi became the Hokage he had become jealous of the man who he felt was to weak to be a good Hokage, clinging to the ideals of peace that the Sho and Nidaime Hokage's had also clung to. He couldn't help but think that if he were Hokage, none of the problems they had now would be an issue.
Known as an old "war Hawk" Danzo was an extremist who preferred to directly eliminate threats through assassination and execution rather than diplomacy and negotiation. He possessed a fanatical adherence to the ideals of a shinobi, believing they must sacrifice absolutely everything for the village.
"You've been talking with them for nearly four months now Sarutobi," he said, resisting the urge to scowl as he had to keep his reputation of being emotionless up. "How long will it take you to realize that Fugaku is not interested in talking?"
For the past four months the Uchiha clan had been behaving suspiciously, there shinobi were acting weary and secretive. In fact, ever since the Kyuubi attack things with the Uchiha clan had been tense, most people remembered that Madara Uchiha had tried to use the Kyuubi as a weapon, summoning the beast and attempting to use his eyes to control it when he had battled Hasharima Senju, the Shodaime Hokage. No one really knew how the battle went, only that Hasharima had won but later died from his lingering injuries after the Second Shinobi War had started. However, many people remember the tales of Madara summoning the Kyuubi and people wondered if he could summon it, perhaps the rest of the Uchiha Clan could as well, making the people weary and suspicious of them.
Since the attack nearly nine years ago things had been getting progressively worse, it had even gotten to the point where Sarutobi had his most trusted Anbu, young Itachi, spy on his own family. What the child prodigy had found was disturbing.
"Hiruzen, I know you dislike bloodshed, especially in our own village," Koharu, an old lady who had her hair pulled back in a twin bun locked by a traditional Japanese hair pin with two pearls dangling off the side and tassels that were added at the end. She wore a simple long kimono, closed by an obi, a jacket, and a sash over it. She had squinting eyes that were barely open at any point in time. "However, the Uchiha clan is planning a coup, do you really think you can negotiate with them when they're so far along in their plans?"
Despite, or perhaps because of her old age, Kaoharu was a very assertive and strong willed woman. She held onto the belief that the group is more important than any of its individual members, which often clashed with the Third Hokage's view. Being much more militant than the Hokage she served under, the old woman tended to lean more towards Danzō's way of thinking.
"Surely even you can see that trying to settle this with peaceful negotiation is impossible," said the final member of their little group. Homura was an aging man with grey hair, a beard, glasses as well as a constant frown that he always seemed to wear, even in his youth. He also had a strong jaw-line and facial structure he managed to retain even in his old age. As a member of the Konoha Council, he wore similar garb to those that Hiruzen would when acting in his capacity as Hokage.
Homura was an authoritarian and always had the village's best interests in mind. Like Koharu, he was more militant than the Hokage he served under, and as such often leaned more toward Danzō's point of view.
Sarutobi sighed as he was triple teamed, he was unsure what to do, he disliked having to shed blood, especially the blood from members of his own village. Yet at the same time, he knew that they were nearly out of options.
"Hokage-Sama, I am willing to accomplish this task." All heads turned to Itachi Uchiha, who had been patiently standing off to the side, having been the one who had just given them this information.
"Itachi, can you really be thinking of doing something like this? Of killing your own clan?" asked Sarutobi, shock permeating his features.
Itachi closed his eyes and a small look of pain swept his features as he remembered the Third Great Ninja War. He remembered the countless lives that had been lost due to all of the pointless bloodshed, ever since he had seen war first hand, the young Uchiha had become a staunch pacifist and supporter of the Sandaime's beliefs. However, he knew that if avoiding bloodshed was not possible, than the best way to save the innocent was squash any form of violence as brutally and efficiently as possible.
Opening his eyes he looked at his Hokage, "I believe this may be the only way to avoid even more bloodshed. If the Uchiha clan succeeds in attempting this coup de taut, win or lose, Konoha will be weakened, and the other Hidden Villages will descend upon us like a plague of locusts."
"You have a point," Hiruzen gave a tired sigh, it was times like these that he truly felt his age. "Itachi Uchiha, I am giving you the mission of exterminating the Uchiha Clan before they can plan their coup de taut. You are to carry this out immediately."
"Hai, Hokage-Sama!" Itachi said with a bow before disappearing in a swirl of leaves. Itachi would do as ordered, but he had one stop to make before then.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Naruto Uzumaki was woken by a loud knock on his door, grumbling he got out of bed and made his way into the living room, transforming into his chibi look as walked. Opening the door he blinked the sleep out of his eyes as he saw Itachi standing in front of him, Naruto could immediately tell something was wrong.
"Are you alright Itachi-nii-san?" asked Naruto, adopting an expression of concern.
"Yes, I am fine Naruto-kun," Itachi said with a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes, "do you mind if I come in?"
"Not at all," Naruto moved out of the way so Itachi could enter his apartment. The two of them moved into the kitchen/living room, Itachi sat down on the couch while Naruto sat down on the chair. "So why are you visiting me so late at night?"
Itachi didn't answer right away, instead taking a moment to look around the room. He had been in Naruto's apartment several times now, and it never ceased to both amaze and annoy him that the blond who had become like a brother similar to Sasuke was given such a terrible, run down dump. It was the one thing he hated about Konoha. That they would treat their hero with such disrespect.
Shaking his thoughts off he looked over at Naruto, "cicumstances are going to be forcing me to leave the village soon." He saw the blond tilt his head at the cryptic remark, thankfully the blond knew better then to interupt. "Therefore, before I leave, I wanted to give you something, and I would like to make a request of you."
"Um... ok," Naruto replied, wonderig if he should ask Itachi why he was going to leave.
"First," from the front-left pocket of his flak jacket, Itachi pulled a scroll from inside and tossed it over to Naruto. "That scroll contains the knowledge of every jutsu I have ever learned, there are over five hundred in there." The raven haired soon-be-traitor smirked at the boys jaw dropped expression, "I know you are stronger than you let on Naruto-kun. The mere fact that you can evade every Anbu officer who chases after you for hours on end tells me you have more talent then you show."
"Hehe," Naruto scratched the back of his head as a sheepish smile came to his face, "I guess it was stupid to think I could fool you. Does anyone else know?"
"No," Itachi shook his head, "even the Hokage doesn't seem to know that you are much more then you appear. You are very good at hiding yourself in plain sight when you don't want people to see you."
"Thank you," Naruto said, looking at the scroll with excitement, who knew what secrets this scroll contained. "What was your request?"
"As I said before I will be leaving the village soon, and I fear that Sasuke will be in trouble," Itachi started, "you know my little brother right?"
"Yeah, my class, arrogant attitude, black eyes, black hair in the shape of a ducks ass," Naruto said absently. "I know him," the blond looked over at Itachi, "you want me to befriend him or something? You know I already tried that, right?"
Itachi winced as he remembered the days he made the suggestion that Sasuke might be a good friend for Naruto. His little brother had simply stated that their father had said the whiskered blond was nothing but a monster and that he could not be trusted, going even further to state that was clanless orphan like Naruto wasn't worth befriending. "I do apologize for that, I was hoping he would not follow in our fathers foot steps," Itachi could understand Sasuke's attitude since he desired to prove himself to their father. But he had hoped that his little brother's desire wouldn't cause him to blindly follow their father.
"That's ok, I guess," Naruto said with an indifferent shrug of his shoulders, "I've gotten use to being hated by now." He got another wince from the raven haired ANBU, "Do you know why I'm hated Itachi-nii-san?"
"I..." Itachi paused, before really thinking about what he should say, he had no desire to lie to the young blond who had already suffered so much. Yet at the same time he could not disobay a direct order from the Hokage. "I am sorry Naruto-kun, while I do know why you are hated, I am afraid that I can't tell you."
"Can't? Or won't?" Naruto already knew why he was hated of course, but wanted to test Itachi since he was the only person who treated Naruto like a human besides Akane-chan, the Ichiraku's and Sarutobi. That, and he had to keep up appearances, Itachi may know he was stronger than he let on but even he didn't know how strong, or that the Kyuubi was helping him.
"Can't," Itachi said, "there is... there is a law put in place, any who speak of the reason you are hated besides yourself or the Hokage are to be sentenced to instant death."
Fat lot of good that did, thought Naruto as he remembered all of the beatings he had in the past. He had seen every single one of the people he remembered beating him the next day as if they had done nothing wrong. "I suppose there's nothing to it then," deciding to move on he asked, "so what was it that you wanted me to do?"
"I want you to keep an eye on Sasuke," Itachi said, "I fear that thanks to our father he will walk the path of our ancestor and when I am gone there will be no one around to make sure he does not fall to darkness."
"Well, I don't know if I can keep him from falling," Naruto said, but quickly added, "however, I will do my best to keep him in the village."
"That's all I can ask," Itachi said, standing up. "I hope that some day we can meet again Imouto."
"Later... Itachi-nii-san," Naruto said as Itachi blurred out of existance.
"What do you think?"
"Something is going to happen tonight," Akane said, knowing what he was talking about, "I can feel it. I believe something bad is going to happen, and going by what Itachi is saying, it's going to happen to the Uchiha Clan." Good riddance, thought Akane, being careful to keep her feelings from entering the seal. She had never liked the Uchiha clan, after Madara had tried to turn her into a Slave. She hadn't put up with that of course, and was the real reason that Madara was dead.
She could tell you from personal experience that cooked Uchiha, did not taste like chicken.
"Do you think we should see what's up?"
"NO!" Shouted Akane, before in a quieter voice saying, "Trust me, what ever is going to happen is happening because of forces beyond you. And you don't want to be around when whatever happens happens, people may try to link you to whatever went on and that would not be good."
"Yeah, I guess your right," he said slowly.
"Of course I am, now come into the seal. We'll find out what happened to the Uchiha clan tomorrow."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Like Akane had said Naruto discovered what happened to the Uchiha clan that early that morning as he was traveling on his way to school.
"Did you hear? They say the Uchiha clan was massacred last night?"
"I wonder if it was the demon?"
"That's what I thought too, but apparently it was one of their own."
"Yeah, Itachi Uchiha, the ANBU prodigy."
Naruto continuously channeled chakra into his ears as he listened into every conversation on his way to the academy. Itachi Uchiha had killed the entire Uchiha Clan in one night, minus his little brother Sasuke. Naruto now knew what his brother figure meant when he said Sasuke might stray down the path of his ancestor. The boy might very well become a liability to the village or emotionally unbalanced if even half of the stories of the torture Sasuke went through were real.
Class that entire day was a subdued affair as news of the Uchiha's destruction spread, Naruto noticed that Sasuke was not in class and couldn't help but wonder what happened to him.
"Out of all the things I could have imagined Itachi doing, I never thought he would destroy his own clan," Naruto thought absently.
"He likely had a good reason for it," Itachi had been the one Uchiha that Akane had respected, the one she had ever seen that had not given into the darkness of his cursed eyes.
"What reason could he possibly have for killing off his clan!" asked Naruto incredulously. He may not have liked the Uchiha clan, hell! He hated that clan. But to just kill them off was wrong.
"Perhaps they were going up against the Hokage. I know you don't like killing Naruto-kun, but the Uchiha Clan is a clan full of traitors, they would betray you in a heart beat if it granted them power."
Naruto frowned, "you sound as if you have personal experience with them."
"Oh I do," Akane muttered darkly, "Madara-teme tried to use me in his battle with the Shodaime at the valley of the end. Idiot thought he could use his eyes to control me, *Laugh* but I showed that bastard that I am not to be reckoned with."
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, are you telling me that you were at the battle between Madara and the Shodaime?"
Akane snorted, "the shodaime only battled for like an hour, when Madara realized he was losing he somehow managed to summon me and then he tried to take control of me." Even to this day Akane still didn't know how that man had managed to summon her, she assumed it was some kind of space-time ninjutsu, but since she didn't know a whole lot about human techniques she had never been sure. "I was the one who killed him."
"Iruka-sensei would die if he learned that the Shodaime didn't kill Madara," Naruto thought jokingly.
"Meh, I told him to only mention me in passing, by that time people had forgotten the truth about us Bijuu and many only wanted to use us for weapons. That, or they feared us for our power."
"I guess." Naruto was silent for a moment before curiosity got the better of him and he asked, "so you know Madara well?"
"Knew, I knew him... decently," Akane said. "I didn't know much about the man personally, I had only met him a few times when he came to try and convince me to side with him against Konoha. However, I do know his clan "very" well."
"Really?"
"Yes, after all, I'm the one who created the Uchiha clan."
Naruto was so shocked by her words that he fell of his chair in surprise. Getting up he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly as he caught the attention of several of his classmates, most just snorted and ignored him, or laughed at him however, since his reputation as a prankster and idiot was already well known it didn't bother him.
"You created the Uchiha Clan?" asked Naruto once he had gotten back in his seat and managed to move through his shock.
"Yes," Akane said, seeing no reason to hide it. "It was around one thousand years ago that I gave the first Uchiha his Sharingan eyes, it was during one of the many wars that myself and the other Bijuu found themselves in. This war however, was far different from the one you know of as Shinobi Wars."
Naruto found himself fascinated by the story and had to ask, "what made this war so different?"
"Because this war was not human against human, this war was a battle of demons versus humans." Naruto was shocked by her answer, but kept quiet while she talked. "At the time demons were much more plentiful and the portals to the underworld were not closed like they are today; myself, along with the other Bijuu led the war against the demons who had threatened our lands."
"Wait, aren't you and the other Bijuu demons as well?" asked Naruto, "why side with humans?"
"We may be demons Naruto-kun, but we are far different than the average demon."There was a prolonged pause before the demoness' voice was heard again, "my kind were created by the gods themselves, each one took on an aspect of our master, the one who created us. I was created by Inari-Sama, the god of Foxes, therefore my demon form is that of a fox and I am gifted with a cunning intelligence and love of pranks. The nine of us were sent down here by Kami, who gave us the job of protecting her creations."
"Demons are generally formed from the souls of the damned who's hate burned so strongly they took on the form of monsters. They are not created by Kami or any other of the other gods. We were different and it was those differences and our duty to protect Kami's creations, namely humans, that made us join the humans in battle."
"However, we could not triumph alone, and though we had a large number of humans at our beck and call who fought alongside us, we were steadily being pushed back by the sheer numbers of our enemies. We realized that without more power the humans would never win, and we couldn't use our demon forms for fear of hurting those who served under us."
"It was decided then that we would choose champions for our cause, we would grant humans we felt were worthy with some form of power that would give them an edge in battle, this is actually how the first bloodlines were formed. I myself created the sharingan and gave it to a man who would go on to found the Uchiha Clan."
"Wow... so then, why do you hate the Uchiha clan so much?"
"You mean aside from the fact that Madara tried to use me for his own purposes?" asked Akane, getting a small blush of embarrassment from Naruto. "I dislike the clan because of what it had become. The Uchiha clan of today is arrogant and have a sick sense of superiority, believing that they are Kami's gift to man and are the only ones fit for the right to rule. It makes me sick just thinking about how corrupted they have become."
"Aside from that..." Akane's voice became far softer and held a regretful tint to it. "I know from your memories that it was members of the Uchiha clan who hurt you the most during your childhood."
"It's ok, Akane-chan," Naruto said, knowing she felt guilty for what they did. "I don't blame you and truthfully, I couldn't care less about what happened in the past. In fact, I would thank the people who hurt me because it brought you to me."
Akane blushed a pretty shade of pink, and was very grateful that Naruto was not in the seal with her to see it. She mumbled a "thank you" just as Iruka and Mizuki entered the door and the lesson began.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

A year soon came and went, Naruto continued to play the fool in front of everyone. After what had been dubbed the Uchiha Massacre things seemed to get even worse then before for the blond, he no longer let the Anbu catch him as he played his pranks, and had taken to using a different room in the abandoned apartment complex that he lived in because the attacks on him became more frequent.
Sasuke had become even worse since that day, before he was just extremely arrogant and always loved to show off. However, ever since Itachi massacred his own clan the raven haired academy student became dark, broody and emo. He refused to talk to anybody, and the few who tried were either ignored outright, or verbally abused by the 'last loyal Uchiha' as the Konoha population had dubbed him.
It didn't help that the civilians and Konoha council started sucking up to the broody revenge driven boy, many likely only doing so in the hopes that they could convince Sasuke to marry their daughters in order to gain more power through being part of a clan. Naruto was unsure if that was the main reason for the increase in the Sasuke fan club, or if the girls in his class thought they could 'heal his wounded soul' but Naruto had overheard several of the civilian council members who had daughters in his class to try and convince them to gain favor with the Uchiha.
As for Naruto...
"Give me a Fuuton Jutsu!"
Naruto sped through several hand seals, ending on the horse seal. He took in a deep breath before spitting out a compact ball of wind. The wind ball shot forward at high speed, striking one of the many training dummies in the training field they were using. Like all jutsu the blond used, Akane made him do this one silently.
"A Katon Jutsu!"
His hands nothing more then a blur, the blond ran through the gauntlet as he ran through the seals for the jutsu he wanted to do. Taking in a deep breath Naruto blew out a large fire dragon that roared out in what sounded like rage before it charged one of the training dummies, it hit the dummy and exploded, leaving nothing more than ash in its wake.
He had continued his training, pushing himself past the limits that normal humans could go in an effort to get stronger. This year, he had gone on a total of one hundred bandit raids and had actually been forced to fight two C ranked missing-nin who Naruto had discovered had a bounty in Konoha's bingo book. He had even managed to get the bounties from the two ninja, using his alias as Arashi Kazama,a wondering swordsman with a talent for seals without anyone in Konoha being the wiser.
Even the Sandaime, who had actually given 'Arashi' the money for his first bounty had been unable to tell that it was him. Of course, unlike the henge, Naruto's transformation was actually a genuine transformation, not an illusion and because of that not even a doujutsu like the Byakugan or the Sharingan could see through it. The only people who could even tell something was off when he used it were demons, and Jinchurikki who had full control over their demons. Otherwise, it was like looking at a regular person.
And speaking of his alias, the seals that he had been making and selling had become an amazing source of income. In order to keep his cover Naruto would make Arashi while out of the village, then have him come in through the North Gate, where he was forced to fill in several forms stating his name, age, and reason for visiting. After wards, he had his business persona leave, then come back six months later in order to see how much he had made thanks to the seals he had given Kaizuki. Apparently they had been so popular that the man had run out of the seals he had been given about three months after red head left. Naruto had made a total of fifty thousand yen from his first sales.
Since then, Naruto made sure that Arashi visited every two months to bring in more seals and had given Kaizuki several of his older custom seals. Now Naruto had not only a steady income, but made more money in one month than most people did in a year.
"Do a Raiton Jutsu!"
His fingers moved in perfect synchronization as he continued to train his jutsu. When he finished, Naruto slammed his hands into the ground and a large bolt of lightning tore through the landscape as it made its way towards the last training dummy on the field. It struck gold, shooting sparks everywhere as the dummy was disintegrated.
"That's enough training," Akane said, letting Naruto finally slump to the ground from having done four hours of nothing more than shooting jutsu. Even someone who had more chakra than the current Hokage, launching so many jutsu non-stop, within such a short period of time, while having four hundred clones working on creating seals and what ever else he decided to have them do elsewhere was exhausting. "Your going to need to buy some new training dummies."
Naruto snorted, "Well they are kind of fried." All two hundred of them were completely destroyed. "I'll send a kage bunshin to buy some tomorrow."
"That's fine, we're done here for now," Akane said, "get cleaned up and come into the seal."
"Ok." Naruto kipped back up to his feet and stretched out. He looked around for a moment at the training ground he was now using.
His custom, training ground.
Using his Arashi alias Naruto had bought out the apartment complex he was living in, buying it from an aging man who was eager to be rid of the place since no one wanted to live near the demon. With no one else living their Naruto had taken one of the rooms on the first floor as his own, letting his Chishio Bunshin use his to keep up appearances.
Naruto's entire apartment room was more along the lines of a mansion sized flat. There were several different sections to the apartment, the training room, the bedroom, the bathroom, living room, kitchen, swimming pool, and the library/study. Unlike most apartments however, this one had no real walls that separated one section of the house from another, only a stair case that led to where the bed and bathroom was separated from the rest of the house.
The section Naruto had just left was the training room, only called that for lack of a better word since no other words could not really apply and that was what he used it for. It was basically just a large expanse of gravel and grass, with one section that held a lot of trees and another that held several bodies of shallow water, the deepest only going about five feet down. It was the largest section of his house and it was here that Naruto practiced his nin, tai and kenjutsu.
The kitchen was just that, a kitchen with stainless steel tops and brand new appliances. Having learned to eat healthy thanks to Akane, the whiskered blond had gained a fondness for cooking and thus, spared no expense as he bought himself all of the newest appliances.
Likewise, the living room was more or less a large carpeted space with several leather sofas and couches, a coffee table and several potted plants to give the room something extra. There wasn't much to the place, and Naruto rarely ever spent time there.
His swimming pool, was more akin to a lake with a waterfall. It was about about sixty square feet and a had a large water fall much like the one in his mindscape. The water was continuously being recycled as it went up to the fall through pipes where the water was super heated into steam and purified, before coming down the water fall as fresh spring water. There was a bridge that ran over the waterfall and it was there that Naruto managed to complete the second step of wind nature manipulation training.
His library, which was essentially the Namikaze library that he had just transported from his father's house consisted of several large book cases filled with the near one thousand scrolls and books that Minato and Kushina had gathered when they were alive. It was near the back of his flat, opposite the training ground and had a large redwood desk so it could double as a study.
The last section of the flat was the bedroom and bathroom, which were only separated by a very thin wall for modesty, as if he really needed it since no one came here. The bedroom held a large king sized bed with soft crimson colored sheets and several large pillows; a large walk in closet, the one thing that was actually in an enclosed space, a dresser, night-stand and lamp post; while the bathroom had a large jacuzzi stye tub with two shower heads on either side,a toilet and a sink.
The entire apartment room had taken several months to build, not just because Naruto had to have Akane cast a powerful kitsune illusion that she had woven over the building to make people think it 'wasn't' the apartment complex belonging to the Kyuubi brat, that way they wouldn't get suspicious when several dozen clones of himself in various henge's came in to work on the building. Another reason was because of the seals that went into expanding the interior of his room.
During his study in seals Naruto had begun to modify seals in order to suit his purpose at an early stage in his education. One of the seals he created was the expansion seal, taking the concept of the sealing scroll, which created a pocket dimension within a piece of paper and pushing that concept several steps further by creating a pocket space within another space. The apartment that Naruto was currently living in had a total of twelve of these expansion seals, located around the four corners of the first and second floor, and then again in the new corners of the expanded space of the first floor, making the entire flat large enough to hold a decent sized mansion.
Finishing up his shower Naruto spent the rest of the night in the seal, spending time with the woman who had done more for him than any other being alive. With summer coming up she had decided to take it easy on him and give him a rest, telling him more stories of her past and some of the battles she had been in before the Bijuu were feared.
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