Fangs in Your Throat

Necessary Deception

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That was the night the Uchihas were killed by Danzo ...

That was the night Danzo fled the village ...

And the night one child learned the truth ...

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As Minato Namikaze entered the classroom ready to give a congratulations speech to this years graduating genin he could honestly say that he was proud of many things. He was proud of his 16 year old son Menma who was this years 'Rookie of the Year' and seated in the front row surrounded by his fans. He was proud of himself for making a treaty with Cloud, but there were some things that the fourth hokage was not happy about ...

Danzo and 40 of his men killing most of the Uchihas and escaping is one of them. Thankfully, he made it in time to save Mikoto from being killed and having her eyes harvested. He was also lucky enough to destroy the sharingan that Danzo's men collected before he got away, but there is one thing that pisses off the hokage even more than that ...

A blonde boy in an orange jumpsuit was jumping up and down while yelling, "YAY! SEE Kiba! I TOLD YOU I'D PASS AND I WILL BE HOKAGE ONE DAY!"

Kiba reached over and whacked the loudmouth blonde on the head, "Would you shut up, Naruto! The hokage is going to speak!"

That's right, Naruto Inuzuka ...

Minato has tried to hurt Naruto in anyway possible from arranging beatings to sabotaging his grades, but still the damn blonde managed to survive long enough to pass. Of course, did all this secretly since he couldn't have anyone see the 'honorable' hokage being anything, but indifferent towards the blonde or Minato would lose face with either the ninjas or civilians. Can't have that now can we.

Minato took note of the two boys who were glaring hatefully at Naruto. He didn't want to saddle Menma with deadweight so he was going to change the traditional deadlast and rookie of the year combination. Minato was going to put Naruto with the students who hate him the most, Hinata Hyuga, Sasuke Uchiha or his abusive brother, Kiba Inuzuka.

The one thing about Naruto that pleases the hokage is that he's a stupid, loudmouth, orange jumpsuit wearing deadlast. All qualities that will make it very easy to kill him in a mission, which is something that Minato was looking forward to.

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"Thank god that's over! I'm sooo bored." said the short blonde a little too loudly as he walked out of the academy.

A pink haired girl named Sakura glared, "Would you be quiet you, idiot?! How did you pass anyway?"

Naruto grinned, "Cause I'm awesome! Hey Sakura can we go out on a-"

"Eww! No!"She cringed and walked away.

Naruto pouted and walked away ... and he continued walking all the way to the chasm that is rumored to be bottomless ...

As he walked along the edge his posture became straighter and more confident. He took off his orange jacket revealing a skin tight black sleeveless shirt and strong muscular arms. He carelessly tossed it into the chasm. Then he undid a hidden button on the hem of his pants and ripped away his pants or, at least, the orange layer revealing black anbu pants underneath. He tossed the orange layer and kicked off his blue ninja sandals into the chasm. The second the shoes left his feet Naruto gained 6 inches in height making him a tall 6 feet 3 inches and lost all the baby fat in his face. Those instant changes were do to appearance changing seals on the blue sandals.

*poof* A pair of black ninja sandals and a strip of black cloth appeared in a puff of smoke. He put the new sealless sandals on and popped the blue cloth on the headband off the metal plate to change it out for the black cloth. The strip of blue fluttered into the chasm. As he fixed the black cloth to the metal plate he continued walking along the edge until he came to the Inuzuka compound where Tsume, Kuromaru, Akamaru, Kiba and Hana were waiting.

"You look better already. I hope you ditch the idiot routine for good you were giving us all headaches." said Tsume with a smirk.

Naruto chuckled, "I know. I think I gave myself an aneurism yelling so loudly, but it had to be done. After all, there's no way Minato would let me pass if he thought I'd survive the life of a ninja."

Kiba walked over and hugged Naruto, "I'm sorry about hitting you."

The blonde leaned over and whispered in the dog ninja's ear, "You can make it up to me." Kiba blushed and pressed his lips to Naruto's.

Hana chuckled as she watched the two kiss, "If Minato is really out to get you then he won't be able to resist making you suffer, which means we've narrowed down who your teammates will be."

Tsume smirked, "Yeah, everyone thinks that Hinata, Sasuke and Kiba either hate you or are, at least, annoyed by you so you will most likely have two of them as teammates and no way will he put you with your 'crush'. " Naruto cringed, he hates Sakura, "and if our theory is true you've narrowed down your possible candidates for senseis too."

Naruto smirked, "Yep. Kakashi, Mikoto and Jiraiya figured out Minato's lies long ago, but they kept quiet and Anko pretends to hate me so I will most likely have Anko or Kakashi for a sensei."

A large German shepherd came out of the forest and sat next to Naruto, "Hey Eliot, where's Lazarus?" asked the blonde as he scratched the dog behind the ear.

"I'm over here." said a large white wolf as he trotted towards Naruto. "I understand that sometimes deceit is necessary, but it's about time you dropped that annoying mask ... I can't wait to see the look on those fools' faces when they see what the bearer of the wolf contract and dog contract is truly capable of."

Tsume frowned, "You know, things are going to get difficult when Minato finds out about your ruse. He will give you highly dangerous missions and probably back to back."

Lazarus growled, "That will be a problem, but if need arises he can reverse summon himself to either the wolf realm or the dog realm. Time in the summoning world runs at a different rate. 1 hour here is 1 day there. He could recover in peace there between missions."

"That's right, I'm glad I had you guys sign the wolf contract and that Kakashi had you sign his dog contract, Naruto. You're going to need all the help you can get ... watch your back Naruto because Minato will send a shit storm your way." said Tsume.

Naruto nodded, "I know, believe me."

Everyone went into the house and started planning for what was to come. At one point Naruto looked out the window towards the Hokage Mountain more specifically the fourth head.

(I'm prepared so let's see what you've got, Minato.)