Hi, everyone. I'm back and i have second chapter!

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Thousand Tailed Holy FlashFang, sh8ad8ow, nm1716, FumetsuKaji, evilfrog1, geetac, thank you!
Demonkid, i'll think 'bout that.
ElRusso, i also don't agree with shunshin being D-rank jutsu, but this was the only rank i found for it, so...

jutsu list:
Shunshin - (D-rank) Body flicker - 'teleportation' jutsu
kawarimi - (E-rank) Change of body stance - substitutes user with nearby object
henge - (E-rank) Transformation - allows user to transform into another person or object
Doton: iwa bushin - (B-rank) Earth style: stone clone - (credit for this jutsu goes to PalXan from animeforum(dot)ru) creates stone-made solid copy of user. Stone clones are physically strong and have their own mind (although very weak so are most effectively used as a 'puppets'). Stone clones are easily affected by genjutsu. They are pretty hard to destroy physically, but have limited lifetime (the more chakra they are given when created, the longer their 'life' is). To create stone clone user must be near any sourse of material for clone (stone/brick-made walls, stone blocks, stones, sandy/rocky ground etc.)
kage bushin - (A-rank) Shadow clone - creates solid chakra-made copy of user (to be destroyed shadow clone must get moderate damage). Shadow clones have perfect copy of user's mind and memory. When dispelled, shadow clones return experience of their 'life' to user. Shadow clones split user's chakra by clones number +1 (if you create 3 clones you'll have only 1/4 of chakra left (minus chakra needed to create clones)) that's why they are mostly used for information gathering.
Sennen goroshi - (E-rank) Thousand years of pain - taijutsu move, based on a strong chakra impulse through bare hands or any weapon, directed to target's weak point. It is not letal, but still very painful.
Fuuton: Reppushou - (C-rank) Wind style: gale wind palm - strong gust of wind sent towards his target. When acting in conjunction with another thrown weapon, the wind can increase its power and deadliness.
Doton: Doryuudan - (unknown rank. must be B or A) Earth style: earth dragon projectile - using chakra, user creates dragon head from mud. Dragon head will shoot mud balls at its taget.
Raiton: Hooharu - (D-rank) Lightning style: shock - my original ninjutsu (i hope). User creates discharge with lightning natured chakra and sends it to its target directly or through any conductor (e.g. wire)

Disclaimer: still don't own 'Naruto' or any of it's characters...

"speaking"
'thinking'
"speaking of higher beings / Naruto while using Kyuubi's power / jutsus / Iruka's 'demon head' speaking"
'thinking of higher beings / Kyuubi talking to Naruto through mental link'

AN:
* I don't like Sakura. So if you are her fan, LEAVE!
* there will be no major changes up to chuunin exams, so ...wait.

Konoha's young sage
chapter 2: Team 7

First thing Naruto did in the mourning, after two laps around the village, shower and breakfast, he went to market district and, with many difficulties, like people who didn't want to sell him anything, bought new clothes. He decided that he was to change his style a bit since he was genin of Konohagakure now. After that he went to Hokage tower to make photo for his ninja registration. As it was still a bit early in the morning, there was no one except photographer.

With his photo made, Naruto went to Hokage to give it to him. Again, there were no visitors, so he had no need to wait. Naruto give his registration form, now completed with photo, when someone else ran into the office.

"Get ready, Old man! I'll defeat you today!" Naruto saw eight-nine year old darkhaired boy. Most conspicuous detail about this boy was very long green scarf he wore around his neck. Boy tried to attack Hokage, but tripped over his own scarf and fell on the floor face first. Naruto snatched him by his collar and lifted him into the air. "You! Put me down! You know who i am?!" Boy shouted.

"I don't care who you are. You tried to attack Hokage." Naruto stated.

"I'm Hokage's grandson! Put me down!" Naruto looked at Sarutobi. Aged man nodded.

"Yeah... Naruto, meet my grandson, Konohamaru." Blond shinobi nodded and put Konohamaru boy down. "So, Naruto, your mission starts in a few hours. Are you ready?"

"Mission?" Konohamaru asked. Boy looked at his grandfathers table and saw Naruto's papers. "He is just giving you ninja registration form!"

"True, but he already completed B-rank mission. Naruto is much stronger than everybody thinks." Hokage said.

"Here you are, honorable grandson. You again tried to attack Hokage-sama?" Panting jounin in dark glasses entered office. Man shot glare of hatred towards Naruto, who decided that this was his time to disappear.

Naruto was walking towards academy. And somebody was following him using awful camouflage: parallelepipedal 'stone' made from old cardboard. Deciding that he had enough, Naruto stopped and in a single movement of his foot sent 'stone' flying leaving camouflageless Konohamaru on the ground.

"What do you want from me?" He asked younger boy.

"Grandpa said you are strong. Teach me something cool!" Konohamaru asked.

"Well... Why do you want to defeat old man and take his place?" Naruto asked in response.

"Everybody sees me as 'honorable grandson', but i want them to see me for who i am, not who i'm related to!" Younger boy almost shouted.

"Hm. That is a good reason. But are you ready to be Hokage?" Konohamaru looked at Naruto not understanding what older boy meant. "I mean, Hokage must be strong 'cause he needs this strength to protect everyone in the village. He is responsible for everyone and if he makes mistake people may be hurt or killed and Hokage would be the reason. If you aren't ready to be responsible for everyone there, you shouldn't be Hokage." Konohamaru thought about t and became a bit sad. "But as i said, you reason for power is good enough, so i'll teach you something." Younger boy's face lit up.

They turned from the street and entered park and found secluded clearing.

"Here we are. I'll teach you modified henge. It doesn't create smoke clouds and is a bit more stable than usual, but requires more chakra - this will be D-rank jutsu, not E, like normal. Ah, in this version you can make minor changes without doing jutsu over." Naruto did handsigns slowly enough and blue ring rose from his feet changing him into perfect replica of Hokage. "When you do this jutsu you need to have clear picture of whom or what you want to transform into. Just like it is normal henge." Konohamaru nodded and did handsigns Naruto showed him. First attempt, of course, could be counted as a failure... Hokage's grandson looked like something, only distantly resembling human.

Hour and fifteen minutes later Konohamaru was finally able to do modified henge normally. Naruto looked at sun and suddenly remembered something.

"Sorry, but need to hurry. I have team placement in ten minutes." Naruto ran from the park. When he entered village streets, he immediately jumped to the roof and ran there to reach academy faster. Naruto entered academy when he had only two minutes left. He entered classroom and took his usual place, when he was 'greeted' by Sakura.

"Why you came here, idiot?! Only those who passed exams can be here!!!" Pinkhaired banshee yelled. Naruto checked if he was deaf now. When he was sure he wasn't, he answered.

"If you stop bitching and take better look at me, you'll find the reason." Naruto said, pointing to hitae-ate on his head.

"Where did you, loser, steal that?!" Blond boy put his hands on his eas, so Sakura's screams weren't hurting them. "You should go to its owner now and give it back!!!"

"SILENCE!" Iruka yelled, saving Naruto from further torture. "Thank you. We are here today for you team placement."

"But what is Naruto doing here. He stole somebody's hitae-ate!" There's no stopping for Sakura.

"Sakura. Hokage personally passed Naruto, so if you question his desicion, ask him. If there are no more questions, let's start." Iruka-sensei read list of teams along with their future sensei. "...Team seven: Sasuke Uchiha..." Silent 'Hn' was heard from Sasuke. "...Haruno Sakura..." Pinkhaired girl yelled 'YES!!! Take that, Ino-pig'. Naruto had to use all his will not to yell 'NO!!!'. "...Sakura, be quiet. Last member of team seven will be Uzumaki Naruto..." This time Sakura yelled 'NO!!!'. "...Your sensei will be Hatake Kakashi. Team eight..." Naruto wasn't listening to Iruka-sensei anymore. He took his scroll with jutsu and began reading...

Two and a half hours later only team seven was there in the classroom. All other teams already met their senseis. Sasuke was, as usual, brooding about his revenge, Naruto was reading his scroll and Sakura was dying from boredom. Then door opened and silverhaired jounin in standard attire with mask on lower part of his face and headband over his left eye looked in.

"YOU ARE LATE!!!" Sakura yelled. Jounin ignored here.

"First impression: one of you is loud, others are boring. Meet me on the roof in five minutes." Jounin disappeared in a poof of smoke before anybody could say him anything.

Three young genins walked to the roof where they found same silverhaired jounin sitting on the railing with orange book in his hands. When genins sat on the rungs, he closed his book and hid it in the pouch.

"Well, hello. Let's introduce ourselves. I mean your likes, dislikes, hobbies and plans for the future."

"Why don't you tell us about yourself first?" Sakura asked.

"OK." Jounin smiled with his only visible eye. "My name is Hatake Kakashi. My likes and dislikes..." He paused. "Well, i have many hobbies and i really don't have plans for the future." All three genins thought along the line 'Hell, the only thing we learned is his name.' "You're next, pinky."

"...My name is Haruno Sakura. My likes are..." She looked at Sasuke and squeaked. "My dislikes are Ino-pig, This idiot." She pointed at Naruto. "And unpunctual people. My hobbies..." Sakura looked at Sasuke and squeaked again. "My plans for the future..." Looked at Sasuke squeaked and blushed crimson. Uchiha boy shivered.

'fangirl.' Kakashi thought. "Blond, you are next."

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. My likes are... Nature and its serenity, my senseis, my friend and precious people. I like training and tasty food." 'And love you, nee-tyan' "My dislikes are traitors, those who hate others without knowing them or a good reason to do so. My plans for the future... I don't really know yet, but i want peace for everyone. Or at least for as many people as possible." Kakashi nodded.

"And brooding boy."

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I have few likes and many dislikes. I don't have hobbies. My plans for the future... No, ambition, is to kill certain man and revive my clan." Uchiha boy ignored 'Sasuke-sama is so co-o-o-o-ol' from Sakura.

'Avenger, his fangirl and pacifist... I have interesting team this year.' "OK. For today you are free, but tomorrow at six o'clock at third training ground you'll have your real genin test."

"WHAT?! We are genins already!" Sakura yelled.

"No. Academy test is only to see if you're capable to be genin of Konohagakure. Your sensei, me, will decide, if you'll became active duty genin. Remeber, there is sixty six percent of failure in this test... And a piece of advise for you: don't have breakfast if you don't want to puke. Bye." Kakashi disappeared in a whirl of wind and leaves.

***

Naruto was the last one, save for Kakashi, of course, to arrive at training ground number three. He was greeted by tummy rumblings from Sakura and Sasuke. In was five fifty seven in the morning... And they waited for Kakashi... Sasuke was brooding, Sakura was thinking about the ways to go on a date with Sasuke... Naruto was reading his scroll...

"Yo!" Kakashi, who had big backpack greeted.

"YOU ARE LATE!!!" Naruto and Sakura shouted. Well, it was almost nine now...

"Sorry, black cat crossed my road so i had to walk long way to avoid bad luck." Silverhaired jounin smiled with his visible eye.

"LIER!!!" Sakura yelled. Kakashi ignored her.

"Anyway..." He took big alarmclock from his backpack and set them for ten thirty. Then he took two bells and tied them to his belt. "...Your test will be to get one of these bells. Those who won't do that till time goes off will go back to academy..."

"But there are only two bells..." Sakura began.

"This means one of you will definetely go back to academy. Oh, almost forgot..." He took two bentos from his backpack. "...After the test is finished, one of you, the worst from this team, will be tied to a tree, while other two will eat lunch in front of him... You can use any jutsu or tools and remember, come at me with intent to kill or you won't get bell. You have ninety minutes. Start!" Sasuke and Sakura disappeared from the clearing, but Naruto remained there. "Aren't you going to hide?"

"If we must attack you, then why run and hide from you?" Answered Naruto. Then he reached for his pouch and took smoke bomb from it. Next second there was big smoke hiding Naruto from Kakashi.

'Interesting move...' Then two dozens of shurikens, glowing with chakra, flew from the smoke, most with Kakashi's belt as a target. 'If they connect with me, he can draw first blood there...' Jounin leaned right avoiding shurikens, when wind chakra from them created elongations for the blades. And one of these chakra blades cut wires with the bells.

"Got them!" Naruto burst from his smoke screen, trying to catch falling bells.

'Shit! I underestimated him.' Kakashi did first thing that came to his mind to save bells from advancing genin. He kawarimied with them. Naruto, who already thought he had his bell, tripped over Kakashi. Silverhaired jounin caught bells and spun around, his hands doing false handsigns, finishing with Tiger seal. "Konoha secret taijutsu art: Sennen goroshi!" Jounins fingers connected with Naruto's ass. Next moment blond genin turned into stone dust, creating another smoke screen. 'Stone clone?.. Shit!' Years on battlefield allowed Kakashi to react on time to block attack from the behind. Kakashi moved with the speed that clearly said that he wasn't jounin for nothing and his knee connected with Naruto's stomach. This Naruto poofed out of existence as a cloud of smoke. 'Shadow clone? Naruto is a way too strong for 'deadlast' genin...'

"Fuuton: Reppushou!" Wind jutsu in a form of hand hit ground in front of Kakashi, rising clouds of dust. On his reflexes Kakashi blocked incoming attack and threw Naruto backwards. Jounin charged and delivered punch to Naruto's chest, sending him into the nearest tree. Before Naruto rose back to his feet, Kakashi knocked him unconscious. Then Kakashi tied him to the tree.

'OK... One is temporary down... Let's find two other...' Then silverhaired jounin disappeared from the clearing via shunshin.

'Loser. I can do better.' Thought Sasuke, who was watching this short fight from his hiding spot. 'Though that wind jutsu pretty strong. I need to learn it.' Uchiha left his spot to find Kakashi and take a bell from him.

'If that idiot can fight like this, what my Sasuke-sama can do?' Thought Sakura, who also saw Naruto fighting Kakashi.

Naruto regained conscious from the LOUD scream, that echoed through the forest on the training ground. As he was tied to the tree, he couldn't do anything himself. Without doing any handsigns Naruto summoned stone clone that untied him, before returning back to the ground where it rose from. Now free, blond genin ran towards the place from where scream came from. There he found unconscious Sakura lying in the middle of small clearing. It looked like she was knocked out with some type of genjutsu. Naruto lugged her to the trees and sent small impulse of his chakra to her to disrupt illusion. Sakura opened her eyes, saw Naruto and screamed again. She hit blond with all her might, sending him into the tree on the opposite side of the clearing.

"Why did you do that?! Why did you kill Sasuke-sama?!" She yelled, advancing to Naruto.

"What are you talking about?" Naruto could not understand what was going on. "I never saw him since this test started."

"LIER!!!" Sakura continued advancing, preparing to turn Naruto into bloody pulp. "Don't lie to me! You killed him so that you'll have his bell!" Deciding, that the best Sakura was unconscious Sakura, Naruto moved faster than she thought he could, and knocked her unconscious...

Twenty minutes after Naruto found Kakashi again. This time jounin had his orange book in front of his face. Both bells were still with him. Seeing that Naruto found him, Kakashi put his book into the pouch and got ready for attack.

"Doton: Doryuudan!" Naruto, after doing hadasings, slammed his hands to the ground and large mud-made dragon head rose. It opened 'mouth' and began shooting mud projectiles to Kakashi, who did everything to avoid being hit, at the same time advancing towards Naruto. This time blond was able to block jounins punch, but his jutsu was disrupted and he himself flew into the tree.

"You know, you are too active... You need some rest." Kakashi threw something and in the next second Naruto was tied to the tree with wire. Metal wire. And lightning that started in Kakashi's free hand made Naruto nervous.

"If any of us can't get that damn bell on his own, than we must attack together or what?" Jounin nodded.

"Raiton: Hooharu!" Kakashi sent electric current through wire and knocked Naruto unconscious again...

Naruto regained conscious only to her alarmclock ringing. Their time was over. He slowly walked towards the clearing they started this test from. He was the last one to enter clearing. So he wasn't killed by Sakura on spot, but still was throwing dark glares at him. Kakashi appeared in front of three genins in a whirl of wind and leaves.

"Seeing as none of you could get one of these bells..." Jounin pointed to two bells on his belt. "...You all fail this test." He saw three genins hung their heads. "But i'm in a good mood today, so you'll have another chance, but rules will be tougher. Now you'll thirty minutes to get some rest. Naruto will be tied 'cause he was tied to the trees twice today." Kakashi smiled with his visible eye. After he tied Naruto to the tree, he gave bentos to Sasuke and Sakura. "You two can eat. But don't give anything to Naruto or don't free him or you won't another chance to get the bell." With this silverhaired jounin disappered via shushin.

'Sasuke-sama could touch bells, idiot could cut them from Kakashi's belt. So if they work together, they'll have bells for Sasuke-sama and me. And idiot will go the place where he must be - academy!' Sakura thought. 'But if Naruto is hungry, he will be useless.'

'If i make those two to distract Kakashi, i'll get both bells for myself and will be free from the deadweight. But to do so, those two must be in their top form, so - replete.' Sasuke thought.

"Oi, Naruto, want some?" Sakura asked, pointing with chopsticks to her bento.

"No, Sakura, use mine." Sasuke moved his bento near Sakura's.

"But can't eat on my own. I'm tied to the tree, remember!" Naruto said.

"I will not feed you!" Sakura yelled.

"Than at least untie me!" Naruto yelled back. Sakura thought for a second, remembering jounin's words, but decided that she may be lucky and he won't see her acting, so she took kunai from her pouch and was ready to cut wire, when Kakashi appeared out of nowhere. He loojed VERY angry. At the same time sun disappeared in heavy clouds.

"You didn't listen to me and violated my rules. Your last words?"

"To get those bells one man isn't enough." Sasuke said.

"Yes, we must work together." Sakura added.

"Is that it?" All three genins nodded. "Then i have only one thing to say... you pass." Clouds disappeared and Kakashi's face returned it's usual neutral expression.

"What? Why?" Sakura asked.

"Objective of this test was to see if you can work together. You aren't split into TEAM of three for nothing. Those, who violate the rules are trash, that is true. But those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash. Remember this." Kakashi smiled. "And meet me tomorrow there for you training, team seven." Then he packed alarmclock to his backpack, freed Naruto and disappeared from the clearing via shunshin.

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Naruto's pairing voting results (both from reviews and from the poll):
Yugito = 22
Tamaki = 18
Temari = 15
Tayuya = 13
Ino = 9

Harem = 7
Tsume, Hana, Tsunade = 4 (each)
Anko = 3
Tenten = 2
Ayame, Hanabi, Karin, Shizune = 1 (each)

you can vote till 15 may 'cause i need to write next chapter and to move other poll to profile. harem, Tsunade, Hana and Tsume added to the poll. we start again.