Once they all finished, they sat on the floor around Kakashi. "That man, Zabuza,he's not dead." Everyone was dead silent, they looked at their teacher more afraid than ever. "I believe the boy was his accomplice and when he threw the senbon, it didn't kill him, but rather made him seem dead so he could run away."

"So what will we do," Sakura started shivering.

"I'm going to train you," Kakashi placed a hand on the girl's shoulder, "we will find a way to make sure that when he comes back, and he will, you will work with me and together, we will take him down." He smiled at her, trying to calm her nerves.

"But Sensei, you're still hurt." Naruto looked at the man, "how can you train us if you can't move?"

"Well, that will be part of training as well!" He grinned at the three of his students, "one of you will carry me to and from our training spot, taking turns on the way there and back." Kakashi sat back a little when he saw all three of his genin give him a death glare. "Well, training starts in an hour, who will carry me first?"

Sakura and Sasuke pointed to Naruto at the same time, "why me?" he looked between the two before sighing, "fine I'll go first."

"Good! Naruto can rest and Sasuke and Sakura, you both will go to Tazuna and ask him to show you someplace that we can train without accidentally hurting innocent people." At this Sakura yelled about going on a date with Sasuke, while he glared at his Sensei with contempt.

An hour later, Team 7 hiked out about three miles into some nearby woods. Tazuna had told the two genin about a clearing that was right outside an old shrine. Upon arriving, Kakashi stiffened on the blonde's back, "What is it Kakashi-Sensei?" Naruto looked at the man's face.

The shrine in front of them was old, it had been built into the base of a tree and now had roots growing around it and the back was embedded into the tree. Inside an opening in the front was a bowl and places for incense to be burned and a fox statue sitting with pride. Above the opening was what made the man feel like he had seen a ghost, "that symbol," he said. "Do you three remember who the wife to the Fourth Hokage was?" He looked at Naruto, waiting to see if there was a reaction.

"It was Lady Kushina Uzumaki-san," Sakura said, looking at her Sensei with confusion.

"That symbol on the shrine is that of the Uzumaki Tribe," he said as Naruto sat him down by a tree still being able to see the shrine well. "They were an ancient tribe, known for their sealing Justus and Adamantine Chains. They where one of the many tribes whipped out during the Third Great Ninja War, Kushina-san was one of the only remaining survivors when she came to Konoha." He looked at the ground, remembering his Sensei's wife, and how excited they had been about Naruto. "Okay, that's enough for now, time to start your first lesson." Kakashi looked at the genin and explained, "you saw during the last fight, that Zabuza and I could walk on water, well today you'll learn the first step."

"Yes!" Naruto jumped in the air excitedly, "how do we start?"

Kakashi looked at Sakura, "first you need to climb trees, Sakura, go to the base of the tree over there," he pointed to a tall tree behind her, "put on one of your feet and channel chakra into it. Put enough in that you 'stick' to the tree." Kakashi did quote symbols as he talked and waited for Sakura to get her first foot connected to the tree. "Great job, now repeat it with each foot as you go up the tree." Sakura stuck her other foot to the tree and began walking, she smiled as she got more used to it and began climbing faster.

"I did it!" she exclaimed as she reached a branch about 20 feet in the air.

"Great! you have exceptional chakra control, so I want you to practice hanging from a branch while doing various activities, and you boys," he looked at the others, who were looking at their teammate with jealousy, "take out a Kunai and climb the tree, mark your progress, whoever doesn't make it the highest after training is over has to carry me back." He smiled at the two as they looked at each other then glared. over the next few hours, Sasuke and Naruto had both only made it about 8 feet up their trees, and Sakura had mastered standing upside down. "Sakura, why don't you give Naruto and Sasuke some tips."

"Well, if you're slipping you aren't using enough chakra," she stands beside her Sensei with her hand on her chin in thought, "but if you find yourself getting launched off, you are using too much chakra." She looked at their trees, Sasuke's was covered in skidmarks and Naruto's had small digits from his feet, "so I think Sasuke needs more chakra and Naruto needs to use less!" she smiled at them both, feeling proud that she did something that they couldn't do yet. The boys went back to climbing, and using their teammate's advice, gained another few feet in mear minuets. Sakura looked over at the shrine and frowned. "Kakashi-Sensei, if the Uzumaki's where destroyed, why would this be out here?"

He looked and thought about it, "after the destruction of their village Uzushiogakure, surviving members ran to other villages to hide, it is possible that some may have come here seeking refuge and built this when they arrived."

Sakura went to it and began to clear away brush and roots, removing enough to see almost all of the shrine in its former glory. She then knelt down in front of it and clasped her hands, after about a minute, she returned and sat beside her sensei, who watched in wonder as she did this, not knowing there was an Uzumaki just nearby.

Another two hours passed and Kakashi called to the boys, "you should take a break, you'll run out of chakra if you push too hard."

"If I do, I do," Naruto called back, running up the tree again. Both the boys were reaching 30 feet by now. Sasuke gave one of his Hn's and ran up his tree as well.

Kakashi sighed as he pulled out his book. Sakura sat beside him, she had been talking to Kakashi about what she could do with her chakra control, but now she has dozed off. Another hour passes and the boys made it another 5 feet, but Kakashi sensed something he hoped he didn't have to happen now. He looked at Naruto, he was growing increasingly angry, and with his own chakra reserves so low, the Kyuubi's chakra started to inhabit naruto's body, slowly changing his appearance, his whiskers got deeper, his eyes grew slits and turned red. His claws came back, his canines grew longer and his hair stood on end and had two small lumps began to form. "Sasuke, get away from Naruto now!" Kakashi screamed, his eyes growing wide as Naruto was on the verge of losing control. Sakura woke up and looked at Naruto, she gasped and yelled for Sasuke too.

Sasuke looked at his teammate with terror, "he looks like," Sasuke thought, "a monster," he finished out loud.

Upon hearing this, red chakra whirled around Naruto throwing Sasuke back a few feet. Sakura knelt beside her sensei as both of them covered their eyes when the blast of burning hot air raced towards them. Naruto yelled loudly, almost as if he was in pain, and ran on all fours at Sasuke.

The said boy jumped over the other and drew a Kunai, "Naruto, snap out of it!" Sasuke yelled, then blocked a swipe from "Naruto's" clawed hand, "you don't want to do this!" He pleaded, hoping his teammate would come to his senses. Another yell came from Naruto as he started flailing his hands at the Uchiha, seemingly having lost all sense of who anyone was around him. Sasuke activated his Sharingan, and blocked and dodged attacks. There were many narrow misses until finally, he saw what he was waiting for. The blonde pulled back an arm, leaving him with no way to defend, and Sasuke did the signs for his fireball jutsu. What he didn't know was that Naruto knew this is what Sasuke would do. When Sasuke blew the fire, the creature ran at impossible speeds for a genin and circled behind the black-haired boy. Naruto slashed Sasuke's leg then kicked him in the head, sending the unconscious boy barreling at Sakura. She caught him falling back from the overwhelming force.

"Sasuke-kun!" She laid the boy down and checked to see if he was breathing, "thank kami he's still alive." she thought, the looked at Naruto. "Naruto-kun!" she called, making the boy look at her, "come back!"

"Sakura be careful! Naruto isn't himself," Kakashi was bringing his hand to uncover his eye, but Naruto saw this and charged his Sensei. He punched the man in the stomach then again in the chest, Kakashi louses his breath and starts violently coughing, unable to breathe for a little while.

Sakura stands up and walks to the blonde, holding out her hand, "Naruto-kun? You there?" She asked the boy quietly, moving slowly as if she was approaching a wild animal. "Hey, come back to us, we promise that you won't have to carry Kakashi-sensei again today!" She smiled kindly to the boy, her shaking hand held out in front of her, waiting for him to take it.

Naruto calmed down at the sight of Sakura, he looked at her, then her hand, he moved his own so he took her hand. His whiskers faded along with his eyes, his claws retracted, and his teeth got a little shorter but were still prominent in his mouth. The largest change was on top of his head. The lumps from earlier turned out to be long yellow fox ears that faded to a brown-red at the tips. Naruto looked at Sakura, tears forming in his eyes, "I'm so sorry Sakura," he let a tear fall when he heard something move behind her, looking he saw Kakashi hunched over in pain and Sasuke sitting on the ground wrapping his leg that Naruto had slashed. He fell to his knees and looked at his hands, his right one had blood from when he attacked Sasuke. Suddenly he felt the urge to throw up, keeling over, he dry-heaved and cried, not wanting to look at anyone. "I- I'm sorry, I'm so s-sorry, I'm a Monster, the village is right." He started repeating these short phrases over and over, never letting his eyes leave the ground. He felt a hand on his shoulder and jumped back, "don't touch me, I'll hurt you!" Naruto's eyes shot wide and he crawled backward away from Sakura on his hands.

She stood up and marched after the retreating blonde, she backed him into a tree, and with all of her strength, punched him on the top of his head. After a second, she knelt down in front of him and gave him a hug, "baka, that wasn't you." She started tearing up as well as she held the boy.

He sat for a moment, not knowing what was happening, but realized, this was his teammate, and they never leave anyone behind. he hugged her back and started crying into her chest.

Kakashi and Sasuke watched this happen, sadness crawling into Sasuke's heart when he realized this is what the villagers saw him as. He hobbled over to Kakashi and sat against the tree, "You alright?" He looked at his Sensei, noting he looked a little worse than before.

"I'll be fine, he's strong when he is like that, but I was able to catch his blows before they hit me too bad," he smiled at his student then looked at Naruto. Sakura and he had separated and were whipping their tears. She stood up and pulled Naruto with her as they walked over to the others.

Naruto stood in front of his team looking at the ground, "I'm sorry, I..." he paused and shuddered a deep sigh, "I lost control over the Kyuubi and his chakra took over me." He glanced at the people before them and saw a mix of shock and sadness.

"I'm sorry too Naruto," Kakashi looked at the boy, "I should've caught the signs sooner and had you take a breather."

"Wait, you're not going to yell at me, or tell me to stay away?" He watched as everyone shook their heads.

"Why would we?" Sasuke rolled his eyes, "you were just being a dobe." He threw a pebble and it bounced off Naruto's chest.

Naruto smiled and sat on the ground in front of the tree and beside Sakura. "Thanks for not, ya know..." He smiled a small smile at the group.

"Anytime, Foxy-kun," Sakura nudged his arm and giggled.

"No, Sakura-chan!" Naruto waved his hands around, smiling.

"Well, you need a good nickname to go with those ears!" Kakashi pointed to Naruto's head.

Naruto stopped moving, then looked at Kakashi, "What!" he yelled that the man.

Sakura looked at him then fell over laughing, "Naruto! You, you..." was all she could say before the was full belly chortling on the ground beside him. Sasuke stifled a laugh with his hand and looked away while Kakashi started chuckling.

"What are you laughing about. Haha, very funny. Now, how about you let me in on the joke too." He crossed his arms and scowled at them all.

Kakashi signed Dog then summoned a small puddle of water next to Naruto, he pointed at it still chuckling.

Naruto got on his knees and crawled to the water looking at his reflection. Everyone grew silent, the Naruto yelled, "Ears!" and fell backward away from the water, said ears flattening on top of his head, causing everyone to start laughing again. "It's not funny!" he looked at the group and pointed to his ears, "How, what, help!"

"I think they are permanent Naruto-kun," Sakura looked at him whipping away a tear. The others laughter soon died as well and they all stared at Naruto's ears. "Can I touch them?" Sakura asked holding out a hand.

Naruto looked at her, then nodded. She put her hand at the base of the one on the right and brushed her hand over it. It wiggled in her hand and Naruto laughed, "T-that tickles!"

They sat under the tree for a while longer, but the sun began to set, "Alright, we should head back to Tazuna-san's house. I bet you all are hungry." Kakashi looked at the group, and as if their stomachs suddenly remembered, multiple grumbles where heard.

"Maybe a little," Naruto smiled and rubbed the back of his neck. Naruto stood up and walked over to Kakashi, "as part of my apology, I'm going to carry you back. Besides, Sasuke is hurt so Sakura should help him!" He smiled his large goofy smile and turned around and lifting his Sensei onto his back.

The group walked back to Tazuna's house, talking about what might be there for dinner excitedly.

Hello again!

I know the first part was a little boring, but hopefully, I've spiced this up enough that you all enjoy it!

Thank you so much for reading, and as always, leave comments about what you would like to see, things that need to be improved, etc...

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