The truth behind it all(Itachi x Naruto)18+

Chapter 13: Team seven

Naruto entered the classroom and sat down in the middle of the room.

“Oi Naruto, only those who passed the test are allowed to be here,” Shikamaru told him.

“I passed the test Nara… I´m a shinobi like the rest of you guys,” Naruto talked back. “Only because I was the last one to take the exam it doesn´t mean that I failed it.” Naruto hated to be this loud… but he had promised Kyuu and Itachi to keep up the stupid act of the class clown in public and he had to admit that it was the best way to avoid a lot of unpleasant questions about his person… and about the source of his power.

Naruto briefly wondered if anyone would be willing to accept him as their teammate… and he looked around in the classroom to figure out who he would prefer to be paired up with as Iruka entered the room to let them know who they would team up with.

“Good morning class,” the brunette greeted them. “Congratulations on passing the test. I will now announce the team parings for you too work in to gain experience and respect.”

“Hn.”

Naruto turned his gaze to see who hn´ed next to him. He hadn´t paid attention to whom had sat down next to him as he usually didn´t care because no one talked to him much anyway. He glared at the seemingly bored Uchiha who was sitting way to close in the blonde´s opinion.

´Of all the people in my class… why does he have to sit next to me? Isn´t the room big enough? Wasn´t there enough free seats? ` Naruto thought as he looked around in the half empty classroom. ´I thought he hated me after I accidently kissed his a few days ago. `

´He´s probably only sitting next to me to keep his fan girls of him… He´s such a bastard. `

“Team seven will be… Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke.”

“Yatta!” Sakura cheered and pointed a finger at Ino. “Ha Ino-pig, I was selected to be on Sasuke-kun´s team.”

“Yeah but you have Naruto on your team as well!” the blonde girl talked back.

“…” Sakura glared daggers at Naruto who just buried his head in his arms with a sigh. ´Sakura… and Sasuke… oh crap and with dad as our sensei. I´ll survive less than a month. ` The blonde thought.

“You will be picked up by your sensei shortly… please behave and good luck in the future,” Iruka smiled warmly at his class before giving his foster son a worried look. ´Poor Naruto-kun, I hope he´s not too sad about the selection of his teammates… though he seems down. I guess I´ll talk to him about it after their meeting with ´Kashi. `

~ # ~

Two hours later they were still waiting somewhat patiently for their sensei. Naruto had decided to sit near the window and stare enviously at the warm and pleasantly sunny weather outside. He had ignored his other two teammates as he decided that they would soon enough find out that he wasn´t a grinning fool all the time.

Sasuke sat on the desk next to Naruto´s while Sakura paced the room; muttering angrily about their sensei’s lack of responsibility and respect.

“I wonder who has been appointed to us,” Sakura asked the Uchiha who just hn´ed at her while he looked at the whisker-marked blonde.

“Something is off about you today Usuratonkachi,” Sasuke said with boredom.

“…”

“Naruto! It´s rude not to answer if someone asks you a question.” The pink-haired girl chirped while pointing at the blonde.

“What?” Naruto asked without interest.

“Where is your never ending smile, Dobe?”

“Maybe I just don´t feel like smiling today Teme.” He replied harshly.

“… Hn. It´s not like I care anyway.” Sasuke growled back while Sakura just stared at them and turned his back on the blonde.

´What is going on? Naruto is cold and emotionless and Sasuke-kun acts all concerned? ` She asked herself with worry. This was so unlike both of the boys and it confused her as she actually found the blonde boy quite cute when he was acting like this… Naruto was… kinda cool today.

Just as Sasuke was turning to face the blonde, about to say something the door to the classroom was slid aside and a masked face peeked inside.

“Yo! Are you team seven?”

“Yeah… and you´re late sensei,” Naruto told the silver-haired man.

“Really? I am? Well you see there was this cute little dolphin which had to be rescued from some evil paperwork and… never mind. Please follow me.”

~ # ~

“My name is Hatake Kakashi and I have been appointed to the three of you… and let’s get one thing straight from the beginning… I don´t like you so you’ll have to earn my trust and respect,” the silver-haired nin told the three teens. Sasuke and Sakura glared in disbelief at their sensei while Naruto just rolled his eyes at his dad’s tough act.

Kakashi had brought them to the park near the Hokage wall and had asked them to sit on the stairs.

“… Why don´t you tell me a little bit about yourself? Let´s start with our only female ne.”

“What do you want to know?” Sakura asked.

“ … How about name… um what you like, dislike and what your goals or dreams are.”

“Sure sensei. My name is Haruno Sakura. I like… um… (Sasuke) My goals… (to marry Sasuke) eh… well I hate Naruto!” She glared at the blonde boy with an annoyed look on her face. Naruto just chose to ignore her and focus on Kakashi instead.

“… Do you now?” Kakashi mumbled with a hint of disappointment in his voice. How dared that snobby girl imply that she would hate his kid… Naruto was so easy to love.

Why did everyone focus on the things that Naruto had done wrong instead of all the good things he did. The blonde didn´t pull that many pranks anymore as he got a lot of attention and love from Iruka and Kakashi… and he did spend most of his days training… there was really no time to pull pranks… and those he did pull when he was with Konohamaru were harmless.

“I´m Uzumaki Naruto,” the blonde told his teammates and foster father after a few seconds of silence. He felt kinda silly to have to introduce himself like this to his own dad… but only a few knew or was interested enough to know that Naruto had been adopted by Iruka and Kakashi… and that the two men were a couple… the little family liked their privacy and usually kept to themselves to enjoy the company of the little family they had created together.

“I love ramen… I dislike the three minutes it takes for the noodles to get done and my dream… I want to become the Hokage of Konoha-gakure and to win the respect of everyone datte bayo!”

“Alright Naruto… and the last one,” the copy-nin said while he looked at Sasuke who was staring at Naruto.

“I´m Uchiha Sasuke. I´m not gonna tell you what I like or dislike… It is my goal to renew my clan and kill a certain man…other than that… I don´t really care.” The raven told them.

“… Ma ma… alright that was enough information for one day,” Kakashi told them. “Tomorrow I´ll put you through the final test which will show me if you really deserve to call yourselves genin.”

“What?!” Sakura chirped. “But we already passed the test.”

“You passed the first part of the genin test… tomorrow you´ll have to pass the second part.”

“Why do we have to take a second test?” Sakura asked.

“Twenty nine brats passed the genin test… that is way too many. Only three teams… nine brats will be allowed to become shinobi.” Kakashi told the girl.

“Where do we meet you then?” Naruto asked. He didn´t care what kind of test his dad would put them through. He was certain that the Hokage and his dad were sure that they would make it… why else would the Hokage have selected someone as strong as Kakashi as their sensei.

Kakashi had never accepted to train a genin team before… as he thought it wasn´t worth the trouble… But here he was, training the Uchiha, the last Uzumaki and the clever Haruno girl.

“Meet me at the old bridge at sunrise and kids’… don´t eat anything for breakfast… or you´ll just throw up. See you tomorrow – dismiss.” And with that Kakashi disappeared.

Naruto shook his head and let out a sigh. He rose to his feet and walked off.

#Shouldn´t you ask the girl out? #

´Not today Kyuu-san, I don´t feel like getting rejected today. `

#You´re sick of pretending aren´t you kit? #

´Yeah. I don´t even like the girl and you still want me to hit on her. `

#She is rather bossy… and must blind as she doesn´t see that your bastard resents her just as much as we do, # the Kitsune chuckled in the back of his mind.

´… She believes that she´s in love with Sasuke… and love makes you blind they say. ` Naruto thought. ´Say Kyuu-san… you still haven´t taught me that awesome wind jutsu you promised me. `

#I know, # the demon said with a smirk. #Let´s go to our usual spot and I´ll show it to you. #

~ # ~

Both Sakura and Sasuke stared at their blonde teammate as he wandered off without a single word to any of them.

“Something is off about the Baka today,” Sakura told Sasuke as she moved closer to the raven.

“Hn.” The Uchiha hummed while stepping away from the approaching girl.

“Maybe he has finally grown a brain and realized that I hate him. Maybe he picks up some manners as well.” She told him. “Did you know that he has no parents? They surely abandoned him because he´s such a brat. It must be cool to be able to decide for yourself… with no parents to nag all the time.”

“…Don´t talk about him like that.” Sasuke growled. “The solitude… it is way worse than you could ever imagine… you should cherish your parents while you still have them.”

“… Sasuke?”

“You shouldn´t judge others by their cover! The Uchiha turned his back on the pink-haired girl and began to walk away as he couldn´t stand her company anymore.

“Sasuke-kun,” she ran up to him and grabbed onto his arm. “Do you want to go and grab a bite to eat with me? We could talk about anything you like.”

“Don´t touch me!” He pushed her away harshly and Sakura fell onto her butt.

“What is wrong? Are you angry because of what I said about the Baka?”

“Don´t talk about Naruto like that! I´m the only one who… Damn you´re so annoying. I won´t say another word to you until you treat Naruto better, understood!”

“… Y-Yes,” Sakura whispered as Sasuke walked away. She didn´t move for another five minutes as she was too shocked to move. ´Why did Sasuke-kun treat me like that? And what does that have to do with Naruto and his change in behavior? `

~ # ~

Itachi and Kisame left the company of the other Akatsuki members as soon as the Jinchuuriki hit the floor after the demon had been extracted from her body. The young woman lay on the floor; dead and Itachi couldn´t help but to imagine his little angel in her stead.

´They will never get close enough to Naruto to do this to him… I won´t allow it! ` he promised to himself.

“Itachi-sama… where to now?” the blue-skinned man asked. The Uchiha had his full trust as the raven-haired man had saved his live and treated his wounds after the battle with the Rokubi.

“I have to report to my contact. He will be waiting for me at a town called Hisoka near the border to the fire country… wanna tag along?”

~ # ~

Naruto stood in the center of his private training ground, listening to the kitsune´s instructions. He had created a clone and allowed a small part of the Kyuubi to control the clone to allow it to explain the new jutsu to his kit.

Tetsu was sitting on the blonde´s shoulder and seemed to enjoy himself as it purred into Naruto´s ear while Naruto scratched its back. The weasel had been waiting for the blonde to arrive at the glade in the forest as it loved to spend time with it´s master’s cute angel.

“So you tell me that I need a katana for this jutsu Kyuu-san?” the blonde asked.

“Yes… or a fan,” the foxy clone told him. The demon had altered the clone’s look a bit which meant that it had red eyes instead of blue… pointy ears… and the whisker-marks were deeper and darker.

“… But I don´t have any swords… and I don´t want to use a fan; too girly” the whiskered-nin chuckled at the image of fighting with a colorful fan. “I usually use weapons like a kunai or shuriken. Where do I get a katana?”

“You don´t need a katana in a psychical form. You can create a chakra katana and use that to create the ´Kaze Kiri`” the Kyuubi said while tilting it´s head to the left to look past the blonde in front of it.”

“What is it?” Naruto asked.

“Someone is stalking you,” the Kitsune whispered.

“I know… probably just few villagers who want to kick my ass. They are out of hearing range, so I don´t think there will be a problem… let them look if they want.”

“Yeah you might be right about that kit.”

“So how do I create a chakra sword?” Naruto asked impatiently.

“Here,” the clone tossed Naruto a bamboo stick which was about the same length as a standard katana sword. “To make a chakra katana you need to shape the chakra into the right form and keep it´s flow steady at all times. A chakra sword is considerate as a B level jutsu as it consumes a lot of chakra and the user has to be able to keep the flow even and the edge sharp.”

“Can you show it to me?” Naruto asked the clone.

“No I can´t use it in my current form which is why I gave you the stick. A sword would have been better but for today it´ll have to do.” Kyuubi told the blonde. “First you have to pour your chakra into the bamboo… careful! If you pour too much into it, it might break and bamboo splinters are really sharp and pierces through anything.”

“Alright.” The blonde said while nodding. He carefully forced his chakra into the stick and made it glow in a light blue color.

“Good kit, now you need to keep the flow even all around the stick and mold it into a katana blade… Look out!” Kyuubi ducked and Tetsu jumped of Naruto´s shoulder and hid behind the trunk of a tree as the boy poured too much chakra into the stick and blew it up.

“Itai!” The whiskered-nin whimpered as he was hit by the many pieces of scattered bamboo which bore it´s was through his clothes and into his skin.

“Crap!” he growled as Tetsu helped him to get rid of the splinters before the Kyuubi found another stick so that Naruto could try again.

~ # ~

Sasuke looked out the window towards the part of the city where he could sense his blonde teammate’s chakra.

He had returned home with the intention to study… but he had only managed to read the same line over and over as his thoughts seemed to wander of to a certain whisker-marked teen.

Sakura´s harsh words had pissed him off though he didn´t quite understood why. Ever since the damn kiss he had thought a lot about Naruto… and found himself seeking the blonde´s company.

´All I´m thinking of lately is how his lips felt on mine… damn Dobe I don´t even like you. You can be so annoying, loud and you act like a fool all the time… and yet I love the way that your blue eyes shine when you seem truly happy about something… And your smiles are… bedazzling. Not the fake ones… no the rare ones… the real ones which light up his eyes… what the?! What am I thinking? ` Sasuke shook his head to get rid of the images of the smiling blonde and got up.

´Maybe I should see how his training is developing… just so I know what he´s capable of… yeah that´s a plausible reason… why else would I want to be near him.`

~ # ~

“Maybe you should create a few clones to be able to master the chakra katana faster?” Tetsu suggested after two hours where Naruto still hadn´t been able to create a stable weapon as he had a bit of trouble to find the perfect balance of his chakra. It wasn´t as simple as tree climbing as he had to make his chakra visible… and keep the shape and length of the blade even at all times.

“Good idea Tetsu-chan,” the Kitsune said in agreement. “You should make at least four clones… that way you´ll be able to learn it four times quicker than usual.”

“… Here I go. ´Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! `” Naruto formed the seal and he created four copies of himself. Kyuubi provided the sticks and thankfully they had decided to switch from bamboo to oak as Naruto´s clothes nearly looked similar to at the training dummies at the academy; filled with small holes all over.

“Alright… Aaarrgghhh,” he growled as he forced the blue chakra into the wooden stick once more… and so did the clones.

~ # ~

“…” Sasuke stared with wide eyes at the blonde from his hideout in the treetops. ´What the f***?! Since when is the Dobe capable of something like this? A chakra katana is a B rank jutsu and only the best jounin are able to use as it is extremely chakra consuming. How is it even possible to use five clones while training that hard… and for this long? ` the Uchiha thought as he had watched Naruto try to create a new weapon for about an hour.

´And why is one of the clones looking like a demon? It´s only short of a tail and it would be a human Kitsune… I need to get a closer look, ` Sasuke jumped silently from one branch to one which was closer to the sweating blonde.

´… Why would he hide the fact that he has resources like this? If people knew that he was capable of something like this… oh I see. He hides it because of the way everyone treats him… Strange, I know that Naruto can be a pain in the ass sometimes but why does everyone hate him that much? It´s not like he´s done anything really bad… or is there? ` He sat down on the branch and nearly drooled as the blonde dropped the stick to get rid of his sweat drenched jacket and fishnet shirt, leaving the blonde bare-chested.

His toned torso glistered in the rays of the sunlight and Sasuke wasn´t able to do anything but to stare hungrily at the Dobe while he moved his body so that the muscles worked deliciously beneath the tanned skin.

´… #swallows hard# Damn Dobe… you’re really hot, I wonder what it would be like to lick the salt of your heated skin and… What the?!` Coal-black eyes grew wide as a brown weasel ran up to the real blonde and tugged at the boy’s pants to offer him a bottle of water.

´… Tetsu-chan?! What the f*** is Itachi´s weasel doing here with the Dobe? `

TBC