My name is Uzumaki Naruto; I have the dreaded Kyuubi demon inside of me, sealed inside of me by my father the Fourth Hokage, The most powerful ninja in our village's history. I am in love with a beautiful kanoinchi, or female ninja, Haruno Sakura, and she doesn't even notice me, to busy with that traitor Uchiha Sasuke... Damn him to hell for running off with that other traitor, Orochimaru… I'll kill them both if I ever see them again. No, I can't kill Sasuke without absolute reason to, I swore to Sakura I wouldn't. But Orochimaru, he is fair game.

But enough about that for now, I am now a chunin, having never become one before leaving for training with Ero-Sannin. I am now six-teen years old, and I am finally taller then Sakura! And since I last saw her, she has grown a lot too, maturing more, not just physically, but emotionally, and mentally. She is not as "CHA! I'm gonna kill you!" As she used to be, now she actually, well talks to me. Now she is more calm and collected, maybe from granny Tsunade, doubt it, her attitude could only have made Sakura worse, maybe she realized that we aren't kids anymore, we are real Shinobi, Ninja of the village hidden in the leaves. And there are real dangers now.

Ever since I got back, me and Sakura and Kakashi- sensei have been training a lot, kakashi sensei has got so much speed, and I used to think I was soooo close to beating him when I was a kid, but I was defiantly wrong, if that had been a real fight, me and Sakura would have been dead, hands down.

He almost killed us without realizing it, he used a fire style, fire ball jutsu, then a water dragon Jutsu, then an earth style: head hunter jutsu. We barley survived. But we got the bells from him, now; it's off to find Sasuke, me Sakura, Ino: Sakura's rival/ best friend, Shikimaru Nara, the lazy genius who controls the Shadow possession jutsu. And, of course, Kakashi sensei the copy ninja, the sensei in charge of keeping us all safe, in the rare case there is something we can't handle, yea right. . We all packed and met at the village gate on a sunny Saturday morning, ready to go, I yelled out "Time to move!" Everyone else groaned, then kakashi sensei piped up "We have three more coming; we have to wait a minute for them."

I looked over at sensei and said "Really? Who is coming?" He looked back at me and said "Neji, Rock Lee, and Hinata." The only one who didn't think "Oh no." was Naruto, for everyone knew Hinata was still head-over-heals for Naruto, and they all knew she would be very, very awkward around him. But they had no clue how wrong they were. Hinata, even though still crazy for Naruto, was very confident now, more like her older cousin, with now much longer hair, Neji, rock lee looked exactly the same, only taller. And exactly like a mini-guy sensei. The newly assembled team of Naruto, Sakura, Lee, Hinata, Ino, Neji, Shikimaru, and kakashi sensei. Little did they know, this would be much more then a rogue Nin retrieval mission, but that they would all find there true loves, some of them sooner then they think…..