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Chapter 2 - chapter~2 this Flames

Naruto grunts as Kakashi brings him up to his eye level. "Now you listen to me you filthy fox demon, I will not stand here and get lectured by you." Kakashi then throws Naruto to the ground, but before he can retort, Kakashi is slammed against the wall.

Looking up to see not only Asuma, but Guy, Anko, Ibiki and Hayate, with Anko holding him against the wall. Ibiki steps forward. "You have a lot of nerve to treat your student like that."

Kakashi shouts out. "Don't get involved! It's between me and my student and you have no jurisdiction here!" As Anko releases him from the wall, Kakashi looks to see all the Jonin forming a wall between him and Naruto. He spits out a wad of blood and says. "Whatever; you can have the damn brat. I have better things to do." Then he disappears in a swirl of leaves, all the Jonin turn to look at Naruto only it see he's gone.

"Damn that Kakashi; if I see him treat the kid like that again, he's going to find out how many snakes I can summon." Anko said.

"I completely agree with you, that kid's got a lot of potential." Ibiki commented.

"I couldn't agree with you more, his Flames of Youth burn very bright!" Gai added.

"We should tell my old man about this." Asuma said, everyone nodded in agreement and disappeared.

===A minute later===

Needing to let off some steam, Naruto runs several blocks away. As he rounds a corner, he crashes into Sakura, which causes them to both fall with a grunt, followed by the sound of breaking glass.

Sakura begins to sit up and sees the new glass figurine that she bought shattered on the ground; her face scrunches up into a look of pure rage. Jumping to her feet and looking down at Naruto, she starts to yell at him. "God dammit Naruto, don't you ever pay attention to what you're doing? Do you know how much money that glass figurine cost me? I have been spending months looking for it, not to mention it was a limited run. You better be able to pay for that; but you wouldn't care about that, would you? All you ever do is goof off and mess around; I bet you are running away from one of your stupid pranks, when are you ever going to grow up and stop being such a baka!"

As Naruto gets up to his feet, he began to try to apologize. "I'm sorry Sakura..."

"I don't want to hear your excuses, just give me the money; it cost 5,000 Ryo." Sakura interrupted.

Naruto looked at her wide-eyed. "I'm sorry, I don't have that kind of money right now."

"Of course you don't, you probably spent it on ramen. Whatever, I don't care, just get out of my way; all you've ever done is be a pain in my neck. Why don't you get out of this village; nobody even likes you, Naruto, you are just a clanless orphan whose parents probably threw in a dumpster because they could tell how much of a moron you were going to be. I wouldn't be surprised if they were out laughing right now, happy that they didn't have to raise a baka like you. I bet you were trying to find Kakashi-sensei, well that's too bad because he already said he's training Sasuke for the month. It's not like he was going to help you anyway; the very thought is laughable. You can't do anything right." Sakura ranted.

Naruto couldn't believe Sakura was saying all these things to him; she knew his parents were a sore spot for him. Naruto looked her in the eye. "I want you to apologize right now for what you said about my parents."

Sakura burst out laughing, and between laughs she managed to say. "The day I apologize to you is the day you become Hokage."

"You're not leaving until you apologize." Naruto said strongly.

Sakura throws a punch at Naruto's face, but before it could make contact, she's tackled by a large black dog with an eye patch. As the dog has her pinned to the ground with its teeth inches from her face, Tsume Inuzuka walks up to the two of them. "You have a lot of nerve, you little brat. Let her go Kuromaru, you don't know where she's been." After intentionally drooling on her face he walks back to his Mistress and speaks to her in canine, she chuckles. "Kuromaru says that you need to lay off the shampoo. You also need to get out of my sight before I kick your skinny ass across Konoha... as for the glass figurine you said you bought for 5000 Ryo, I know for a fact it's only 250 because I bought one the other day for my niece. The fact that you were trying to con him out of that much cash shows you are a disgrace to all Leaf Kunoichi."

Sakura scrambles to her feet and runs away, Tsume puts a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "You okay, pup?"

"I'll be okay, I'm not having a very good day." Naruto answered before telling the story of what happened with Kakashi, having known the Inuzuka matriarch since he was a small child.

When he gets done telling her what happened, she profanity even he's never heard growing up on he street. "If I see his sorry ass I'm going to neuter him and give what's left to the new training dogs as a chew toy!"

Naruto bursts out laughing, but manages to say. "If you do, let me sell tickets!"

Tsume begins to laugh with him. "Just make sure you split the winnings with me, got it? So what are you going to do for training for the month? I would offer to help you but I gotta train Kiba."

Coming down from his laughing fit, Naruto finally answers. "Don't worry about it, I'll be fine."

"Well if you need any help, come look me up, you got it?" She reaches out to ruffle his hair. "Just make sure you look out for yourself and make sure you eat something besides ramen; you're going to need the energy for training."

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