Naruto decided to grab some stuff for his date. He had all the food he needed for it, but he thought that he should make it a bit more romantic. This was going to be his first date with Hinata. He decided to head over to the Yamanaka Flower Shop to pick up Hinata's favorite flower. He entered to see Ino standing at the cash register.

"Hey Ino," Naruto said as he walked in the shop.

"Hello Naruto," Ino replied. "Are you here to pick up flowers for your date with Hinata?"

"Yeah, but how did you know?" Naruto asked.

"Everyone knows. We've all waited for you to get a clue." Ino said.

"Ah, I see." Naruto thought back to when everyone mocked him for taking so long to notice Hinata. "Well anyways, I wanted to make my date a bit more romantic." he said while browsing the flowers.

"Why not buy a bouquet of roses?" Ino suggested.

"Nah, I was wondering if you had any lilacs. They're her favorite." Naruto said.

Ino was surprised by who she was talking to. This wasn't the brainless dead-last that she's been at the Academy with for the past few years. He'd really matured. "Awwww, you know her favorite flower. That's sweet~! How many lilacs would you want?"

"10 would be enough," Naruto replied.

Ino decided to give them to Naruto for no charge. Seeing young love made her all mushy inside. She wished him luck on his date and Naruto left.

Naruto made a clone and sent it to where his date was going to be. He decided to have his date in the lake. Only problem was that he didn't have a boat. So he sent the clone to find a big tree and make a nice boat. With Naruto's present skills, it was easy to pull out a kunai and apply some wind element to the blade to cut a boat out of the tree.

Naruto then performed a transformation technique and went into the local store to purchase some candles. He then ran home, prepared dinner, and made another clone to set up the date. After, he took a shower and put on his usual outfit. He still had a few minutes before he had to meet Hinata so he took the liberty of putting his trash in the dumpster before he locked up his place.

Naruto approached Hinata and she was outside waiting in a white blouse and black skirt. She looked extra nervous when she saw him arriving.

Naruto said, "Hi Hinata! I hope I didn't make you wait long."

"O-oh, n-n-no N-N-Naruto. I w-was only o-out h-here for a m-m-minute," she replied.

"Oh really? Thank goodness. You look really beautiful tonight, Hinata," Naruto said with a big grin. Hinata's face got a little red as she heard his words. "Anyways, let's head over to the lake. I think you'll like what I set up," he said.

Hinata gave a little confused look. 'I wonder what is at the lake,' she thought to herself and followed him.

On their way to the lake, they talked about their senseis to each other. Well, Naruto talked about Kakashi-sensei while Hinata just listened patiently and smiled. She was a bit scared when she heard that 66% of the Genin were going to be sent back to the Academy. But Naruto assured her that they'd do well so she felt better.

When they finally reached the lake, Hinata's eyes flew open with astonishment. There was a boat that had food and a bouquet of flowers in them. Plus there were lighted candles floating on small pieces of wood in the lake (Naruto decided to make the candles float with the extra pieces of wood from the boat). Hinata was at a loss for words when Naruto guided her to the boat. 'Maybe he really does like me' she thought.

She did notice that something was off. The boat had no paddles. As she entered the boat and Naruto pushed the boat into the lake, she was amazed when she saw that Naruto was pushing the boat while standing on the water. "N-N-Naruto? H-How are y-you d-doing that?" Hinata asked.

"Oh, this? I just picked it up after seeing some other ninja walking on water. Pretty cool, huh?" Naruto said with a snicker. Hinata always knew that Naruto had worked hard alone, but she didn't know that he'd been so amazing.

As Naruto pushed the boat a little farther, he jumped into the boat. As they got to near the center of the lake, Naruto took out his homemade dinner. There was rice and curry. He gave a serving to Hinata and then served himself. Hinata took one bite of it and her eyes began to sparkle. "N-N-Naruto-kun. This i-i-is a-a-ama-a-azing." Hinata said.

Naruto smiled. "Thanks Hinata. Maybe I will make a good husband one day." Naruto said with a big goofy grin.

Hinata's eyes went wide and her blood rushed to her face. 'Husband?! Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! Maybe he wants me to be his wife! Naruto would definitely be a great husband! Maybe he really really likes me! Okay! Don't faint! Whatever you do, DON'T FAINT!' Hinata thought while different scenarios ran through her head. Naruto took note that Hinata's face was redder than ever.

Naruto looked at the girl he loved. She was unfortunately still pretty nervous around him. He would need to break her out of her shell. He spent the rest of the time asking her yes or no questions. She either nodded or shook her head. They both enjoyed their time together, but as the time flew by and to Hinata's dismay, Naruto decided to call it a night. He walked Hinata home and said goodbye to her.

He decided to get a little training in that night to see how sharp his skills were. He walked over to training ground 7 and worked on his Ninjutsu. He used his Rasengan on a few of the trees there and practiced his teleports. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. He tested his Rasengan's destructibility on the ground, but accidentally created a large crater. It looked like he could use his Jutsu all fine. He was about to perform a Summoning Jutsu when Kurama stopped him.

"Hey Kit, I wouldn't do that if I were you."

"Why not Kurama?" the confused blond asked.

"Because we traveled back in time. Even though we know you can perform the Jutsu, you haven't signed the toad contract yet. Doing a Summoning Jutsu like that will send you to who knows where." the fox said.

"*gulp* I see. Well thanks then. I guess I'll just have to wait for Ero-Sennin to give me the scroll." Naruto said.

"Yeah, let's call it a night. You've got that test tomorrow." the fox said as he let out a yawn.

"Pshhh, that test should be a piece of cake. It's basically like I already know the answers to a written test," Naruto said proudly.

"Knowing you, you would still probably fail it," Kurama snickered.

"Arghhh! What do you know you dumb fox?!"

"Shut up you brat! You're so dumb that if someone gave you a test with no wrong answers, you'd still fail!"

"Oh yeah?! Then how come I passed the written test of the Chunin Exams?!"

"That was a gift from God. He took pity on how stupid you were and made the test so easy that you didn't even have to write a single answer."

"You're just jealous because you know that if you took that test, you'd probably fail it," Naruto said while internally sticking his tongue out at the fox.

"Ughhh! Talking to you is pointless! I'm losing brain cells from conversing with you! Just go home already! You know that you need to rest!" the fox yelled at Naruto.

"…fine. But I'm not doing it because you told me to," Naruto said as he ran back to his home, showered, and went to bed. He didn't feel like worrying about waking up early because he knew Kakashi would be late.

The Next Day

Sasuke and Sakura walked to training field 7 a little before Kakashi's deadline, but were surprised to see the mess before them. A lot of trees had been knocked down and there was a big crater. They both were confused but decided to not bother about it since they were still tired.

2 hours later

Naruto arrived at training field 7 only to hear Sakura scream, "YOU'RE LATE! COME ON NARUTO! IF WE DON'T PASS THIS TEST, WE ARE GOING TO BE SENT BACK TO THE ACADEMY!"

Naruto cleared his ears and said, "Jeez, no need to yell at me. He's still not here yet."

"For once, the blond has a point." said Sasuke.

Naruto sat down as he took out a pack of cards from his bag. "Knowing our late sensei, he won't be here for a little while. So, anyone wanna play?" Naruto offered.

"Naruto, we don't have time to be playing silly games. We are full-fledged ninja now. We should act more like adults not," Sakura told him.

1 hour later

Kakashi arrived at training field 7 to see that his team was busy playing cards by the logs. "Hey guys, how's everyone do-,"

"BOOM! A house of queens!" Naruto said as he put his hand down.

"Heh. Straight Flush." Sasuke snickered as he beat Naruto's hand.

Sakura sighed as all she had was a pair of aces. 'CHA! I'LL WIN NEXT ROUND!' Sakura thought to herself.

Kakashi stared dumbfounded. "Ummm... Guys?" Kakashi asked still shocked by their lack of attentiveness. "What happened to the training field?" he asked as he looked at the destruction around.

All of the Genin just gave him a clueless look.

"Well nevermind. We got this test to do. You guys have till noon to grab these 2 bells from me. Whoever doesn't get a bell will be tied to the stump, can't eat lunch, and most importantly will fail the test." Kakashi said with his eye in a U shape.

Sakura and Sasuke's stomach's growled while Naruto still had a big grin on his face. 'Ha! This time I remembered to eat breakfast.' the blond thought.

Sakura's eyes opened a little at Kakashi's words. "But sensei, doesn't that mean that one of us will get sent back to the Academy?"

"That's right. So just make sure that you're the one that gets a bell," Kakashi said with a U-shaped eye.

Sakura and Sasuke looked a lot more serious when he said this. 'I have to get a bell at all costs,' Sasuke thought to himself.

"Ready, start!" Kakashi yelled. Sakura and Sasuke scattered while Naruto began to walk sluggishly towards the trees.

Kakashi saw him walking sluggishly towards the trees and decided to give him a little punishment for his prank. "Gack! I'm not ready!" Naruto yelled aloud.

"Ninja must always be on their toes," Kakashi said. He made the sign of the tiger and ran towards him. "Let me teach you shinobi skill number 1, Taijutsu. Konoha Secret Finger Jutsu: A Thousand Years of Death!" Kakashi said as he was about to strike Naruto's ass.

Naruto jumped backwards over Kakashi and put his hand on Kakashi's back, leaving a teleportation seal. Then he did a few backflips towards the trees and masked his presence. Kakashi stood there and was surprised that Naruto was able to dodge that. 'Hmmm, he's more skilled than I thought. If this is what dead-last can do, I can't wait to see what the others are going to throw at me.' He thought while taking out the book in his pouch.