I do not own Naruto no matter how much I wish I did.

the editing was not done thoroughly so if make any mistakes i apologize.

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INARI BLESSED

Chapter 6

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Naruto, Yumiko and Kyoshiro sat at the back of the class. No one had noticed them yet, except Iruka. They had arrived right when Iruka came in, and sat in the back after a quick nod to Iruka.

The trio were wondering who their teacher will be. They knew they would pass and Hiruzen had said that they would be placed on the same team as well. The only thing they weren't sure of was who their teacher will be.

Iruka had finished his speech and was calling the names of the students to take the exam. The written test was easy and all three of them made sure that they had full marks. It was when everyone went out for weapons throwing that the other students really saw the trio. Nearly all of their eyes bulged, the trio was quite good looking. Most people couldn't stop ogling.

Naruto sighed, having gotten used to these emotions whenever they had to go in public.

"So the losers are back." Kiba Inazuka said arrogantly, he had gotten over the surprise at seeing the three. Naruto was the one who was almost unrecognizable, how that midget had grown into this, they could only guess. And with the whisker marks almost invisible, it was hard to recognize him.

The only answer he got was a scoff from Naruto, a fanged smirk from Kyoshiro and an indifferent look from Yumiko.

Shin stared at the three, as always Kyoshiro was with Naruto and Yumiko. Whenever shin saw them, that bastard was with them, but that didn't stop him from ogling the object of his desire. The power he could always feel from Naruto was now absent, which confused him. (Naruto had made a seal so that none of their chakra could be sensed by those except a select few people)

Kyoshiro looked at Shin with a cool glare that clearly said to back off. Shin growled.

But Iruka interrupted by starting calling names. One by one each of them went and did the weapon throwing. So far Sasuke and Shin had highest marks, the only girl with decent marks was Hinata, but even that was not much.

Shin smirked at Kyoshiro, who in turn just ignored him. Finally when it came to the trio, most people had their jaws on the ground as all three of them scored perfect marks. They did nothing flashy but their scores were surprising enough.

"Sensei, there something wrong, those three cheated. There's no way those losers could beat Shin sama." Sakura Haruno an annoying pink midget screeched.

"Geez Haruno, stop screeching. Some of us have sensitive ears." Kyoshiro said annoyed, her screeching hadn't bothered him due to the seal Naruto had designed, but it was worth seeing the look on pinky's face.

"You... you cheater." Pinky screeched again.

"Yeah sensei, they cheated..." the rest of the Shin fan club (SFC) agreed.

Naruto was the one who answered, "So what you are saying is that we cheated to get perfect scores in weapon throwing, how exactly we cheated?"

"We don't know, but you did." Ino Yamanaka said in her great wisdom.

"That means that you are accusing us without any evidence." Yumiko drawled. "Sensei, did you see us cheat?"

Iruka and the other white haired chunin; Mizuki, who was with him, shook their head in negative.

"So there is no evidence at all." Kyoshiro said.

"But you did." Pinky again.

"If we did, then we must be quite the ninjas, to be able to cheat in front of two academy instructors who are chunin and fifty academy students without leaving any evidence behind. Go find the evidence pinky or just admit that we are too good either way." Naruto said smirking.

"Alright that's enough." Iruka cut in and stopped the problem before it got too bad.

Next was the ninjutsu portion. They aced it. And walked out with their head bands, Naruto winked at Sakura as he passed by, earning a growl in return.

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"Let's go to Ichiraku and celebrate." Naruto said grinning.

"Sure. But I want Sushi later." Yumiko said.

"And tofu." Kyoshiro added.

All three of them sat inside the Ichiraku ramen shop after placing their order, this was the only place they would often visit.

"Hey boys!" Ayame, the ramen chef's daughter called out.

"I am a girl." Yumiko mumbled, no matter how many times they argued Ayame always calls her a boy just to tease her.

"So you are ninjas now huh!" Ayame said happily.

"Yup! And we are soon going to surpass the Sannin." Naruto said grinning.

"Well good luck with that, I'll get your orders."

As Ayame left, Naruto turned serious.

"Did you do it?" Naruto asked Kyoshiro who scoffed.

"Who do you take me for? Yes I placed the tracker on that white haired bastard when you two made the distraction."

"So he is going to act today huh." Yumiko asked thoughtfully.

"Ever since that bastard started teaching at the academy, I had gotten a bad feeling from him. He is incredibly nervous today; he is going to act soon. It may not even be anything serious, but better safe than sorry." Naruto said.

"Does the hokage know yet?"

"Not yet. We don't have anything solid to start disturbing the hokage." Kyoshiro shrugged.

"The whole village seems busy." Yumiko mumbled, "Do you think they placed the graduation on their 'hero's birthday on purpose?"

Naruto scoffed, "With these people, it is a possibility. And the party provides enough distraction for Mizuki to do what he wishes."

"I feel bad for the other one..." Kyoshiro said. Naruto understood who Kyoshiro was talking about. 'Sasuke Uchiha' the hero's brother.

"A shame really. That kid has a lot of potential and he waste it all being broody."

"We can't blame him when everyone who used to put him in a high pedestal suddenly acts as if he is not worth it." Yumiko said.

"That's no reason for him to be like that. He still has a loving mother and older brother (Itachi) yet he chooses to ignore them." Naruto said.

Their further conversation was interrupted when Ayame arrived with their food.

They gladly dug into the food.

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"He is going to get here in 5 minutes." Kyoshiro said as he used shape shifting to change into a tree branch. Naruto and Yumiko nodded at each other and Naruto disappeared into the foliage.

Mizuki didn't know how it happened, but one moment he was sailing through the tree branches with the forbidden scroll and the next, a 'tree branch' had tripped him and he had fallen face first into the ground. He swears that he heard the tree branch snicker.

'The excitement must have got to my head' he thought.

"Sensei, what are you doing here?"

Mizuki surprised by the new comer, turned and saw a tired looking Yumiko standing looking at him with a curious expression. She had dirt covering her attire which was ripped in several places and sweat dribbling down her forehead. She looks delicious, the pervert thought idly.

Naruto was doing his best in his new found ability; to boost the emotions of others. He made sure to boost the self confidence Mizuki had, into over confidence and arrogance, he didn't really had to do anything with the lust that was growing on its own. 'Perverted pedophile' he thought disgusted.

'I have time. It's not like anyone knows that the scroll is missing, I made sure of that. I have time so, why not indulge a little?' Mizuki stood up and looked at Yumiko in such a way that it made her shiver in disgust.

"Well I was just going somewhere." Mizuki said as he stepped towards the girl.

"Sensei... Is that the forbidden scroll?" Yumiko asked wide eyed.

"So you recognized it, huh?" Mizuki gave a dark chuckle; he knew the girl was starting to get it.

"But but, what are you doing with it?" Yumiko asked alarmed.

"Oh, I was just going to give it to Orochimaru so that he would make me his right hand man, am sick and tired of Konoha." He chuckled as he stepped forward. He saw the fear in the quivering girl's eyes. Before she had time to act, he jumped forward and had her pinned her against the tree.

"Let me go you bastard!"

"Is that the way to treat your sensei, Yumiko chan? Now I'll have to punish you." Mizuki bought his lips down on her lips in a bruising kiss. His other hand roamed the body of the terrorized girl and he began to...

"Well that was easy." Naruto said looking at the frozen form of Mizuki, the effect of Yumiko's genjutsu.

"Disgusting pig!" Yumiko growled, she could guess what he was seeing inside the genjutsu.

Kyoshiro knocked him out and tied him up.

"We should get back to the hokage and report."

"Yeah... let's go." Naruto said, but a voice from behind him made him freeze,

"Well that was quite impressive for fresh genin." The mysterious male voice said with a chuckle.

Naruto didn't even get a chance to turn back before a powerful kick to his back sent him through a tree.

"Naru!" cried Yumiko. While Kyoshiro stood frozen as he saw the masked man before him. It was him, the same masked Uchiha that had released him from Kushina. The orange swirl mask with only a single sharingan eye mocked him.

He was snapped out of it, when the masked man appeared before him and delivered a powerful kick to his abdomen, he suffered the same fate as Naruto.

Yumiko engaged the man in a taijutsu match without wasting a moment. But the man was too powerful for her to handle, she soon joined her friends. Yumiko coughed out blood as she was slammed into the tree, at least a few bones were broken. As soon as the man kicked the girl away, white chakra chains shot out from behind him and he jumped away from them gracefully.

"Oooh... that seems familiar." The man said in fake curiosity, "Ah... I get it. You are Naruto Uzumaki, or should I say Namikaze?"

The slight pause that Naruto gave was enough for the man as he passed through the chains like a ghost and took a hold of Naruto's neck. Naruto chocked, blood was still flowing from the wound he received when he had crashed into the tree. Out of nowhere, he got a kunai and buried it into Naruto's stomach. Naruto let out a strangled cry.

"Your father and mother caused me a lot of trouble..." the man giggled.

Kyoshiro tried to kick the man from behind, but he simply took a hold of the extended leg and used it to slam the red head into the ground and again into a tree. But before he could do more, a kunai whizzed past his hand forcing him to drop Kyoshiro. Naruto, who was hanging from the man's arm, kicked him in the face so that he too was released. He then removed the Kunai, the skin healed, stopping the bleeding, but for some reason, his healing had became too slow for his liking. He could also feel a huge and rapid drain in his chakra for some unknown reason, well suffice to say, they were in deep shit.

The trio regrouped and took the scroll, the man stood there watching as the three battered children stood trying to protect the scroll, even though they knew he wasn't exactly interested in the scroll alone. The scroll disappeared as Naruto sealed it within a storage seal in his palm, in the blink of an eye. The man kept watching the trio with interest, will they run or will they fight? Both options were not in their favor.

Yumiko gave a nod to the boys; they will have to wait till reinforcements arrived. So stalling and trying to survive was the only thing they could do, clearly the man was beyond them in every way.

Kyoshiro unsealed Senshi and Tamashi. Yumiko and Naruto began rapidly going through the hand signs. Kyoshiro rushed forward to fight the man, but even he knew it was useless, the swords would simply pass through him. But to his immense surprise, the seals on the two Katana glowed as they passed through the man. Kyoshiro smirked when he understood what was happening. The man felt his chakra reserves draining rapidly as each cut passed through him, that's when he noticed the seals; 'annoying Uzumaki seals' he deduced. After that he avoided each cut, but his chakra reserves had taken a major drain. He growled as he side stepped another slash and then delivered a devastating upper cut to Kyoshiro.

Kyoshiro was thrown aside but then only the man saw the dragon made of intense red flames heading towards him, he stood there not bothering to dodge, the attack would just pass through him anyway, but to his and everyone else's surprise the dragon hit him dead on.

Blinking out of their surprise, they used the opportunity presented to them and escaped sealing Mizuki inside a scroll as well. The masked man laid there among the flames, he wasn't dead, that much was sure and they didn't want to be anywhere near when he recovered.

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Earlier that evening...

Sasuke stood bored while getting congratulated by the nobles and villagers who came to the party. The party was not even meant for him even though it was his birthday as well; he knew that. Everyone present here had came to see his hero of a twin brother. Though Fugaku would never say it, this party meant for Shin and Shin alone, but it would reflect badly on the Uchiha name should Sasuke be absent. So Sasuke could not skip this even if he dearly wanted to. So far the only ones paying attention to him were the people who couldn't get Shin's attention, so had to settle for Sasuke instead. This fact was clearly annoying and the smug smirk on Shin's face was even more annoying.

His mother who was standing with Fugaku and greeting the guests; as expected of the Uchiha matriarch, looked at him apologetically every time she got a chance, unlike Fugaku who ignored his third child altogether. And even though Sasuke would never admit it to anyone; to not even himself; the small glances sent by his mother meant more than anything his father could ever provide.

Sasuke looked around, there was no one left to arrive. He had greeted every important guest who had arrived. So it was time for a strategic retreat; unless he wanted to create a scene by using a fire jutsu on that ass of a brother of his. So he went to his father and mother and carefully excused himself, saying that he was too tired. Fugaku didn't care, but Mikoto looked at him concerned, but she understood her son's need to get out, so didn't delay him by any unnecessary questions and simply nodded with a small sad smile.

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Sasuke went straight to a training ground, far enough so that none of the guests or any other Uchiha see him there.

His careful planning was foiled when he came face to face with another Uchiha; which just so happens to be Shisui.

"Oi, squirt, what are you doing here?" Shisui asked surprised.

"Me? Why are you here? Itachi said that he and you had an anbu mission today, so then what are you doing here?" Sasuke asked with eyes narrowed.

"The same thing you are doing, little brother." Itachi's voice from the nearby tree made him jump in surprise.

"You are here too?! Wait does that mean you came here so that you don't have to use a fire ball on Shin's ass?" Sasuke asked amused.

Shisui chuckled; even Itachi cracked a smile, "Not exactly, but almost same reason."

"There was no anbu mission, was there? You used that as a reason to skip the stupid party." Sasuke accused with a barely noticeable pout; but it was still there. "Why didn't you get me out of there too?" whining was allowed when the Uchiha was tired, irritated and cranky.

Shisui outright laughed, "Well we could hardly say that you have an anbu mission. And is that the great Sasuke Uchiha whining?"

Sasuke gave a grade a Uchiha glare to Shisui, who shrugged it off, having gotten used to an even higher level glares from the boy's older brother.

"You sure seem cranky on your birthday..."

"Sasuke, I remember that I have yet to give you any birthday gift, so here." Itachi said and tossed a scroll to Sasuke.

Sasuke looked at the scroll and back to his brother with wide eyes. "Is this..."

"Yes, the summoning contract for ravens. I obtained it several years back, on a mission. I was the first to sign the contract and now I wish to teach it to you."

Sasuke grinned (yes. He, the almighty Sasuke Uchiha grinned, but who cares when he just got a summoning contract before his annoying twin).

"Wow, it's actually kind of disturbing seeing an Uchiha actually grinning." Shisui shuddered, but even that couldn't ruin Sasuke's mood. "Oi, Sasu chan don't you want to know what my gift is?" this got Sasuke's attention. Sasuke mentally prepared himself for yet another prank.

"I am going to teach you how to use a tanto."

"Huh!" Sasuke was dumbfounded; he was kind of expecting another prank. Shisui chuckled evilly, "Let the torture begin..."

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Sasuke was dead tired. He could barely stand on his feet. When Shisui meant torture, he actually wasn't joking.

Sasuke had signed the summoning contract, but Itachi said that they will begin training to summon later. So Shisui taught him how to use a tanto. No one who knew Shisui would believe that the young man was a very demanding teacher. Sasuke found out the hard way, but even as he was slung on his older brother's shoulder, Sasuke had a content expression on his face. Best birthday ever.

"Here take this." Itachi gave him a chakra pill and some water, which Sasuke took gratefully.

Once he regained a bit of his energy, they began their trek back home, the party would've ended hours ago. As they neared the Uchiha compound, they knew something was wrong, a wave of trepidation flipped Sasuke's heart. Something was very wrong.

Itachi and Shisui were instantly on guard. They nodded at each other. Itachi made a shadow clone.

The clone took a hold of Sasuke, "Sasuke wait here." Itachi and Shisui entered the compound without giving him a chance to protest.

It only passed a second before he felt it. Like a veil being lifted, 'genjutsu' Sasuke's eyes widened. Then everything became unbearable, he could smell the blood even this far away from the compound.

'Mother... Itachi...' Sasuke felt worry grip his heart like never before.

The shadow clone gripped his shoulder in silent comfort, but there was frown marring the clone's face.

Itachi appeared beside them in a shunshin. In his hands was a blood drenched Mikoto.

"Mother...." Sasuke almost yelled. 'Not her, not her oh god please don't take her' his heart was pounding painfully as he gazed at the barely breathing form of his mother.

"Itachi what"

"Take her to the hospital, GO with the clone Sasuke and make sure she is fine. Now go." Itachi ordered before he once again vanished, probably to head back inside the compound.

The clone took a hold of his hand and the three of them vanished in a shunshin.

Everything after arriving at the hospital was a blur. The doctors rushed away with his mother, the Itachi clone