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Chapter 1- I need a teacher

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Today was one of the most important and special days for a group of shinobi from Konoha. The prelims of the chunin exam were over, and the winners had a month to prepare, for the winners this was a great thing, they were only a step away from becoming Chunin. This was the first great step up the career ladder for the Konoha shinobi. They would now just not be members on rank teams, but now they would start to have leadership roles, and have more chances at new missions. It also was more than a little bit of a victory for the pride of the young shinobi.

One Shinobi was more than excited than any other possible person. The orange clad nine tailed holder was literally jumping up and down with energy. He was if possible more energetic then anyone, if that was actually possible. For Naruto being Chunin meant more then it meant to any of the other leaf shinobi. To become a Chunin was the first step, in the life goal of Naruto, which was to become the Hokage of the leaf village. Still, Naruto realized that his victory over Kiba had been well, by luck. He had won by farting, which had the be the most fluky thing to ever cause a victory. Now he had to go against Neji, and a fluke would not happen twice. He knew more than anyone else that he had to be ready for the fight, and that at his current state, that he was totally unready, and wouldn't stand a chance against him, or against Gaara. He even had to wonder secretly if he could beat Sasuke, not that he was actually going to admit that he couldn't win against any of them.

He had to find Kakashi, and he had to start his training right away. Naruto was sure that if he started training now, that in one month that he would be strong enough to beat anyone who stood in his way from becoming a Chunin. So Naruto was now searching the whole town for his sensei. Why did he have to be so hard to find, Naruto could almost never find him when he needed too. It only took him a whole two hours to get a lead on him, that told him that he was in the hospital. Naruto had to run all the way across town.

Naruto ran into the hospital look around he turned to the attendant who was standing behind the desk. Looking across at her, he gave her a large friendly smile, "Um have you seen.."

"Hey Naruto, what are you doing here, are you here to see Sasuke," Kakashi was walking towards him.

"Hey Kakashi, when can I start training for the prelims with you, I want to get started right away, it is going to take a lot of practice, but I know I can handle it," Naruto said loudly as he ran up to Kakashi.

"No sorry, I won't teach you, I have other things to do," Kakashi said in the most straightforward manner.

Naruto just look blankly at Kakashi for a moment, could this really be real, his sensei didn't want to train him, and how could he have something more important to do then teach him. This was just not right, wait no, it couldn't be because of that.

"Let me guess, you want to just focus your training with Sasuke," Naruto replied with a bit of venom in his voice.

"Well, it is none of your business, but to tell you the truth, that is exactly what I am going to do," Kakashi said without flinching, "Well, tell you what, I have talked to Ebisu about training with you, and let me tell you, that was no easy deal to pull."

Naruto just blinked for a second, how in the world, it was right, his sensei had decided that he was not good enough to train, that Sasuke was the only one worthy of his time. Naruto realized that it had been like that the whole time that he had been on team 7, except for the tree exercise, Kakashi spent almost all of this time training Sasuke, and not him or Sakura. It just was a joke why did things work like this, now Kakashi was going to push him off on the closet pervert. No way, he would train with anyone but him.

"What, why him, he is a pervert, and he is weak, I took him down the last time I went against him," Naruto yelled in protest.

"Naruto, you do know your weakness as a shinobi," Kakashi said again with the bluntness of a hammer, "You stink at the basics of controlling your chakra, and your waste to much of your energy, Ebisu could help you in those areas," Kakashi replied without any change in tone.

"No, I will not work with someone who I can beat," Naruto demand his tone more forceful.

"Fine, if Ebisu is not good enough then go find yourself someone else, but trust me, you will lose against Neji if you do," Kakashi said firmly.

"Yeah, whatever, go take care of your precious Sasuke," Naruto yelled storming out of the hospital.

It took Naruto a few second to clear his mind, he had to find a teacher who would be able to help prove Kakashi wrong, he had to find someone strong enough to make him strong enough to beat Neji. Naruto swore to himself, that he would prove to Kakashi, that he was just as strong as Sasuke, and just as worthy to be thought. Naruto began to think of ideas of who he could go to for his training. He had to go to one of the Jonin of the village, but who was the question. Kurenai, didn't match his fighting style, neither did any of the parents of the Ino-Cho-Nara combo. Then Asuma would be to busy working with Shikamaru, and the rest would more than likely just turn him down. That brought him to one last though, Maito Gai, Lee's sensei. Neji was his student, but Neji didn't really train much under him, he would more than likely just train on his own, mostly because he had a different style of taijutsu then Lee. Gai had said as much when he watch the fight between the Hyugas. That meant, that he would be able to help him, and he would sure need that help, and had to had to try.

Surprisingly, finding Gai was easy, it only took him about 10 seconds to find Gai walking towards the hospital, more than likely there to see Lee.

"Um, Gai, I need to ask you a favor," Naruto said nervously look at Gai.

"Well, if it isn't the youthful Naruto, what can I do for you today?" Gai replied in his normal over the top tone.

"Well Gai, I needed someone to help me prepare for the next part of the exam, and I was wondering if you could?" Naruto asked figuring the direct approach was the best.

"I am sorry, but isn't my youthful rival teaching you, and also you are fighting one of my students, that would be unfair for me to help you beat him," Gai countered.

"Well first of all, Kakashi won't train me, and second, your student doesn't really train under you, and I am sure that losing will show that he can't just rely on his genius and it I think help him."

"Well Naruto, I like your youthful energy, but I still can't it wouldn't be right for me to take you in."

Naruto smiled for a second, he had Gai thinking about it, that was the first step to getting him to agree, now he just had to land a knockout statement. He knew the perfect one that would get him to teach him, the only one that would.

"Gai, think of it this way, there are two reasons that you should train me. One is because it would prove to lee that a failure can beat a genius with training, and secondly, think of this as a challenge, if you trained me to win the exam tournament, it would prove that you were a better teacher than Kakashi, and I am sure you could rub that in his face for a very long time."

"Naruto, your youth words have convinced me, I will train you, I will help you show that lee's words were correct, but trust me, training with me will be a lot harder than training with my rival."

"Sure, I can handle anything you got."

"Ha we will see about that won't we."

A/N- It just something I really wanted to write so I wrote a intro chapter, if or how much I update it is unknown, I hope you liked it, if you have any idea, advise or anything just leave it in form of a review.