Disclaimer- I do not own Naruto. I wish I did though.

Characters may be OOC, first story so no flamers please.

Chapter 1

Naruto laughed at Kiba as he felled out of the tree. Naruto, Kiba, Shikamaru, and Choji were all hanging out in the small forest next to the academy. Kiba and Naruto were racing up the trees as Choji ate and watch them, sitting down next to Shikmaru, who was laying down saying it was to troublesome.

Naruto gave out another belly of laughter as he heard Iruka's screams. He must have realized that they were once of again skipping his class. The heard more than saw Iruka as he stormed into the forest.

When he burst into the section of trees they were in Kiba and Naruto were already standing on the ground with their hands behind their back as they tried to act innocent. Of course, Iruka saw through it and yelled at them for skipping his class.

"Iruka-sensei," Naruto tried to explain, but Iruka would not have it.

"If this is how your going to act then don't bother becoming ninjas!" Iruka exclaimed. The four eight year olds eyes went wide as their dream of becoming a ninja started to fall apart in front of their eyes.

"Iruka-sensei," This time Shikamaru tried to explained

"No ands or buts. ONE last chance to get your act together or leave the academy, and don't think I would not be able to do it! All four of you need to pass the exam with a 80% or higher if one of you fall, all of you will fail!" With that Iruka face, which had turned red with the screaming, left with four kids eyes staring at him with shock and doomed.

"What do we do," Kiba exclaimed, "It's not like we can become super genius in four weeks. We all know the only one that has a shot is Shikamaru if he gives a damn that day!"

"Were dooooommmmeeedddd," Naruto cried out.

They all were in Naruto apartment wondering what the fuck they are supposed to do. Kiba and Naruto were pacing around; Choji was going through his food faster then usual, and Shikamaru was for once wide-awake.

They panicked for a long time trying to figure out what to do before Shikamaru finally had enough.

"We have to get serious"

Shikamaru twitched a little as the rest stared at him with the same looked of shocked or doomed they gave Iruka earlier that day. He sigh as he ran his hand through his hair, giving a small mutter of troublesome, before he explained why,

"Do we have a choice? Kiba, is from the main family and is the only son of right now so he is expected to be a great ninja. Choji and I are the first child of the main family and the heir to our clans. Naruto, you want to be the HOKAGE how can you expect to do that when you are a civilian? We need to take this serious." Shikamaru explained only to twitched again as they stared at him with amazement. Their short minds taking awhile to catch up with what he said.

Choji gave a big smile at understanding where his friend is going with this. Kiba gave a small frown before mentally agreeing, why Naruto looked at the ground tears threaten to fall as he understand that his very reason, his drive, is threaten to be taken away from him.

"We have to give it 100%"

With small nods and teary smiles they crack down ready to give it their all.