A/n: Okay, thank you for your reviews; I'll have the results thus far at the bottom, as all polls will be. Just so you know, I'm beginning this chapter at 1:02 AM on Friday. I'll probably just do this A/n and then hit the bed. Anyways, if you have ANY questions what so ever...and they will not reveal to much into the story, I'll answer them.

It had been two and a half years since the beginning of Naruto's training. The blonde had increasingly been advancing through his physical abilities, his muscle mass, while before non-existent, was up to that of a seasoned nine year old martial artist; lean and compacted. Nearly thirteen months into training, Piccolo had generated Naruto clothes, as his current one's were barely hanging on. Currently, thanks to Piccolo, Naruto's attire consisted of an orange under gi and black martial arts gi; weighted down by one hundred pounds. His gi pants, black in color, were weighted down by two hundred fifty pounds. Equipped upon Naruto's wrists was a pair of dark orange wrist bands that were around seventy five pounds each, while on his legs were a set of three hundred pound leg weights. Naruto's hair had now grown out a bit; mirroring Minato Namikaze's...though a few centimeters shorter. Currently, Naruto stood around 3'11'' slightly taller then the average five year old.

The jinchuuriki had learned several abilities centered around strengthening his physical attributes, as well as increasing his flight skills. Currently, the young Uzumaki could become airborne for six hours however, if forced to fight, that time decreased to two hours, though it was slowly increasing. Piccolo had also taught him a few more ki techniques; Solar flare, great for blinding one's enemies, as well as a great ki control technique. From the green warrior he had also learned the Light Grenade, and was beginning to learn the Hellzone Grenade.

Piccolo had also begun teaching him in other subjects as well; Language, culture, as well as etiquette. He often shivered during these lessons, remembering Goku's wife and her dreaded 'frying-pan-o-death' that she used continuously to beat these lessons into both Gohan and himself. These languages and cultures however, were human and Namekian rather then all of the species that lived on Earth back in his time. It was quite nice that, including himself...only humans existed...along with the occasionally demon or two.

Currently the overcast morning skies blocked the rays of the rising sun as well as the heat that would otherwise be radiating down onto the little 'training clearing', or 'home' as the two occupants called it. The chirping birds and leaves blowing in the beginning autumn winds brought a seemingly peaceful feeling upon the clearing.

That would be incorrect if the two humanoid shaped beings fighting within the air had anything to say about it. The two competitors soon became nothing but the occasional blur, louder shockwaves then what the clearing had ever seen rocked throughout the space sounding like clapping thunder. Soon, the shorter of the two was grabbed by his neck and whirled around twice before being thrusted into the ground, creating a large cloud of dust and one hell of an artificial earthquake.

A burst from the overflowing dust revealed a white aura surrounding the blonde trainee as he went back up against his sensei. Punches were thrown, kicks were administered as were the occasional ki blast. Finally, in the last portion of the training spar, the two competitors flew over opposite sides of the forest. Gathering ki, characterized by the growing auras and sheer sound of the power, the two got into position: Piccolo; bringing his arms into position for his new technique; Light beam, which in essence was merely the Light grenade in a beam formed…fired the exact same way. Naruto however, attempted to work on something the he had recently been learning. The blonde pressed his calloused index and middle fingers against his forehead as his ki gathered quickly.

Finishing the charging up at, amazingly, the exact same time, they quickly fired their attacks at the same time; the white beam of energy flying towards Naruto, while the orange needle-encased spiral began spiraling towards Piccolo. Without much delay, the two attempted to dodge each other's attacks. Piccolo cleared the Special beam cannon, Naruto, however, got clipped in the arm with the light beam.

Not making much of a fuss about it, they both flew onto the "living ground", a small space that was further into the river then any other piece of ground. "Good job kid, you've really grown. Now, we will still be training physically in ki and training, don't forget.", spoke the green man. Naruto nodded before his face scrunched up in confusion,"Wait, why are we cutting down on training Mr. Piccolo?"

Grunting, Piccolo got into his patented lotus position and began to explain,"Kyuubi explained to me that in two and a half year's time, I was to bring you into the seal to learn from him; the arts of chakra." Naruto nodded, a slightly confused look upon his face,"Uh huh, alright...so uh, how do I get into contact with the fox again?" Piccolo sighed and motioned for him to do exactly what Piccolo was doing, after which he explained,"You meditate, and during the point of nothingness, search out the feeling of Kyuubi."

Naruto gave Piccolo a look, but did as he was told. Soon, he reached his point of nothingness and began to search within himself for Kyuubi. For what seemed like hours his search came up for naught however, he soon felt a vile, evil, bone chilling aura within himself. Deciding to focus in on that, he was soon unceremoniously dropped from mid-air onto his ass, right in front of the cage.

He stared into the two glowing red eyes, three stories tall. Had he never seen them before, he would probably be wetting himself at the moment; regardless of Piccolo's training. A snort was hear from the direction of the fox demon within the cage, which soon turned into a near-chuckle. "So…your training with the Namek is up I take it?", deduced Kyuubi. The blonde Jinchuuriki nodded before he cocked his head to the side,"Why am I in here anyways, fox?" The dark being chuckled inside of his prison, before an ominous feeling fell around the young boy,"You will now be learning Chakra and its control from me brat, as Piccolo has told you…"

Grinning at the fox, he began to dance around for about a second before he stopped, muttering a sheepish "sorry" The great fox growled under his breath for a few seconds before he gave what could be assumed a shrug. Grinning his pearly white sharp teeth in a full-blown evil vulpine smile, "Let us begin…Chakra ultimately is the life source of every being within existence. It is, in essence, energetic blood. Should you ever run completely out, you WILL die…and I WILL NOT have this brat. Now, since that is established, controlling chakra is like attempting to control exactly where water goes, hard but not impossible. I expect you to get somewhere with this by the end of tonight! I will not have a weak container. I will first explain how one such as you goes about gaining chakra; the more knowledge one gains and the more physical strength one gains equals to the amount of chakra said being has total. If one is entirely off balance however, their control will falter along with such a thing…such is the case with you brat."

Naruto nodded as he took in all of the information he was acquiring, although he could not understand some of it at this point, he chalked it up to exactly what he was about to ask,"So basically, if I'm smart but have no muscle, or I'm strong but dumb…my control is..What's that word...shit…yeah, shit, right?" The fox began to chuckle at his young containers antics,"Yes brat that is exactly what I am saying."

"Alright kid, walk up here to the bars…I am going to teach you the most basic of control exorcises that I have observed your kind partaking in." Naruto raised an eyebrow, however, he walked up to the thick golden bars. As he arrived, he looked questioningly at the Kyuubi. "Now what?", asked Naruto. Kyuubi moved a little inside of his cage, before beginning, "Feel within yourself that energy that I made you use to summon the Green bean here, that is chakra. I want you to focus it into your feet, understand?" a nod. "Good, when you have that, I want you to run onto the bar while using your chakra to stick to the cage bars. You will not be done until you finally reach the very top of my cage."

Naruto glanced upwards and no sooner groaned,"Are you serious? That's gotta be what? A thousand feet?" Kyuubi chuckled,"No brat, exactly seven hundred thirty-four feet." "I did NOT want to know that!", groaned Naruto as he began to gather chakra, and soon ran up the bars.

For the next four days, Naruto continued to attempt to make it up to the top of the bars, his attempts proved mostly futile however, as he only managed to make it at most, two hundred feet up. Unknowingly to him, his progress was being made quicker due to Kyuubi slipping some knowledge into his head slowly over the next six days; allowing for a more balanced out manna supply. In the middle of the ninth day, Naruto was finally able to reach the top of that dreaded cage. As soon as he did however, he quickly dropped to the ground in lack of energy.

Letting his container lay there for what seemed like four hours, he took the time to actually implant some more then useful knowledge into his host's mind. These things included a few good years worth of arithmetic, a good, but not pro understanding of the elemental countries; couldn't let the brat sleep through ALL the lessons at the future academy.

The Kyuubi also put within the boy's mind some knowledge of one of the best hard-working styles of fighting that he had come across. Remembering how he had been attacked by a practitioner of the style during his attack, one that actually did him damage, he finalized his decision.

"WAKE UP BRAT!", The great demon fox yelled at the lump lying near the bottom of his golden cage. With a scream, the child jumped up into the Namekian style defense kata. Grinning, the fox began to laugh his furry ass off within the cage. Yelling at the fox to shut up, he soon got control of his anger,"Alright Kyuubi, how long have I been out?" "Hmm…in here…about six hours.", this statement by the nine tailed demon lord confused the blonde greatly. "What do you mean "in here"?", Naruto Inquired as he looked skeptically towards Kyuubi. "I mean that time passes differently in here then out in the world of the living; every four hours in here is one out there."

"What, you mean that its been twelve hours!?" "Yes brat, it's been exactly twelve hours and forty minutes, now stop yelling you little shit!", Kyuubi yelled and his paws, humorously covered his large ears. Naruto nodded and apologized, before quickly realizing he felt…smarter then before. Setting in his lotus position he quickly went throughout his mind, searching all the information that was there.

Glancing up at Kyuubi, he told the fox that there was going to be a few things to talk about later. Kyuubi merely grinned back before he looked towards the floor and, once again, got his malevolent vulpine grin. "Leave…but know that whenever you return, you will learn the water walking exorcize…", the large fox chuckled out.

Simply shrugging, Naruto began to attempt to get outside of Kyuubi's cage. His attempts included meditating, running into the walls, jumping head first into the water covered floor, and finally; asking his resident demon fox for help. By now, Kyuubi was laughing it up while trying to restrain the need to bang on something. Soon however, he gained much needed control, "Alright brat…You're going…to…close your…eyes…and…", and with that, Kyuubi forced him outside of his cage; back into his own conscious mind.

Quickly snapping his eyes opened, he noted that it was aptly around five O'clock. As his eyes further adjusted Naruto noticed that he was now laying down a little further away then where he had been meditating at. Slowly sitting up he slowly scanned the area; Piccolo had barely began teaching him how to read signatures, so it would be a bit longer until he could quickly note someone. "Mr. Piccolo, are you around here?"

A deep voice responded behind him, yet a little ways off,"Yeah kid, what do you want?" Quickly standing up and swiveling around, Naruto noticed that his sensei was floating in a meditative position my the cliff wall. "Mr. Piccolo, why are you Meditating there? It doesn't seem to useful…", deduced the blonde warrior in training. "hmm…It may seem like it's not, however I can here the running water echo here better…it is peaceful." Pondering this over, Naruto floated over next to Piccolo, too the lotus position and began to meditate along with his sensei.

For the next seven years, Naruto and his sensies would train harder and train to endure more then any other being on the planet, although they knew it to be impossible as there was always one being stronger then themselves. With Piccolo, Naruto mastered all of his Namekian language, nearly down to a 'T', He still made slip-ups now and again, as well as the occasional mispronunciation and Naruto was still missing a few words in the language.

Piccolo had also forced Naruto to master the art of teleportation quickly; attacking with numerous ki blasts with enough power to kill, as well as the occasional Hellzone Grenade technique, it didn't take long. His first attempt made him actually use kiwarimi with Piccolo; directly into the path of the Hellzone grenades. His second attempt, he teleported underwater, his third ended him in a nearby brothel…a memory that will be forever stuck in the child's mind. His fourth and final attempt was successful as he appeared behind Piccolo and delivered a strong double-hammer onto the top of the green man's bald head.

Hw was also pushed into learning, correctly, the special beam cannon. This took an agonizing six months; they needed to get his gathering rate up faster…currently it took around forty-five seconds for a successful shot. After the six months of training in his cannon; for the strongest blast, it took him about fifteen seconds to charge.

Lastly, and ultimately; Piccolo forced Naruto to create his own ki techniques, and charged him with the continuation of this act, until he had something that could honestly be called his own arsenal. While they still trained, Piccolo mostly worked on Naruto's accuracy, as that was the most important in the Namekian style of fighting, with speed being next followed by strength.

With Kyuubi, Naruto had learned several forms of chakra control; water walking, walking on your hands on water, attempting to control water, which at the moment he could half-way do; making it create a small 'blob' of water rise from the main body before it fell back unto itself. Weapon related training was out, due to him not having any weapons.

Naruto had also learned to control a very small amount of Kyuubi's chakra, and was advised never to use it unless needed due to the stress and damage caused to his body. Kyuubi had also explained the little bit of elemental manipulation that he knew about; due to he himself only having all of them, not knowing much about them.

One thing that Kyuubi had -gladly- explained to Naruto was what was going on within the brothel. To say that he was embarrassed was to say Piccolo was barely green. Naruto had become so red that it was almost purple. This would then create thousands of hours at poking fun in his host's direction.

Finally, after the seven years, Piccolo and Naruto both sat in front of the river in the surrounded area that had become known as their 'home'. "It's time for you to head back to the village kid.", Piccolo commented. Naruto silently nodded in agreement. "Yes, it is…but we still have around half a year before it is truly time." "You need to get back so that you can learn what you need of the Shinobi world from your academy…", Piccolo explained to his student.

"Very true Mr. Piccolo…", the blonde trailed off. Looking over to his sensei, Naruto smiled, "Should we go now?" Opening his left eye, and glancing at Naruto, Piccolo spoke, "We will leave in three hours." Seeing Naruto nod, he closed his eye once again. "Lets meditate, I know that with all I've trained you in kid, that you still have a small amount of that anxiety…"

XXXXXX Three hours and thirty-five minutes later XXXXX

"You will go alone from here…I know for a fact that should I go, I will be treated as some sort of insect to be experimented on.", the Namek explained to his young student, his eyes landing on the small form of the village gates about a mile and a half ahead. "Mr. Piccolo, will you be around?", Naruto asked his sensei and secret near-father figure. "Yeah brat, I don't have any other place to go, I'll be off meditating mostly…don't go and get yourself killed now, alright kid?", Piccolo, in a rare occasion, joked.

Naruto grinned and nodded, "Thank you for everything Mr. Piccolo." Piccolo just nodded, before calling his name once again. Looking up into Piccolo's black eyes, he raised his left eyebrow in a questioning gesture, right before Piccolo held out his hand,"One last gift before you go brat."

With a flash of light, Naruto was now clothed in a new attire, his fifth set since the beginning of training.

Things had been rather dull within his office. Same old paper work…same old pen that refused to work…same old pictures of his predecessors. He sighed, life had been completely and utterly boring since the Uchiha clan had been destroyed and massacred, and to a greater extent, ever since Naruto had been "killed".

He had many times thought about simply leaving his position, the status as Hokage had become rather…dull. Once it held all the power one could need to make a better place. Now however…all a Hokage was, was a figure head for the council. The only power a Hokage had was the ability to execute a civilian and elect the next Hokage.

Laying his head down on the desk, he resigned to taking himself a nap. After all, what would happen? Just a pileup of paper work, like always. Closing his ageing eyes, he began to fall into a deep slumber but, time didn't seem to find that really admirable and decided to end his sleep. This worked when A fluttering noise of material, as well as a shadow loomed over the aging Shinobi.

Secretly grabbing a kunai, Sarutobi Sasuke quickly jumped to his feet, glaring down whatever figure it was on the opposite side of his desk, while his other hand was placed into the beginning kata of the Sarutobi taijutsu style.

As his eyes adjusted, he began to take in the site before him.

The person, he could not tell if it was male or female, stood roughly 5'1''. This figure was easily muscular, martial arts build particularly. The figure's head was covered by a Navy blue hood, connected onto a cape/cloak. Said navy blue cloak had extended shoulder pads, as well as a rather thick neck band. The cape went down to just around the person's ankles. A black training gi covered the person's front, while an orange under gi was also evident underneath it. Around the person's waist was a large dark green belt. Their gi pants were a darker then black color, and covering their feet were a pair of dark brown combat boots.

With a small smirk, the person began to speak, "It seems life hasn't been kind to you has it Hokage-sama?" Sarutobi raised an eyebrow, before cementing a small suspicious glare on the person. "Who are you?", the Hokage asked the person who was beginning to walk around the office., glancing at everything. "Oh, you know me…You know me very well." , the figure spoke, glancing at the pictures behind his desk. "You will tell me exactly who you are, or I will have the ANBU take you away!", Yelled an irate Sarutobi at the intruder.

The figure chuckled before lowering his hood, long blonde hair flowed out of it, down to his shoulders, spiked on the top of his head, with small spike-curls on the long flowing majority. Blue cerulean eyes with a very small hint of having slit pupils studied over Sarutobi Sasuke's tanned, wrinkled aging face. Thee whisker marks adorned the person's tanned features, as well as a scar across his eye.

Pulling off a vulpine grin, his lips stretched into a smile revealing sharper then average teeth. As well as the fact that his teeth seemed whiter then average. Finally, he began to speak, "I told you, that you have known me…I am Uzumaki Naruto…survivor of the dreaded attack eight and a half years ago, and I am here…not for vengeance, but for my own agenda…the first of which is joining the academy…if you will allow me…Sarutobi-ojjiji"

A/n: Alright, it's 1:39 pm Sunday and I've finished this chapter…I've had a lot to do this weekend, and I'm sorry for stopping this early, but it's a great place to stop…I promised a chapter on the weekend, and little cousin is having a birthday party in an hour.

Alright! Thank you all for your polls vote and here are the results. You already know the Piccolo poll, but I'll put all the results that there were.

What abilities should Naruto focus in, choose three or less…Taijutsu is a given therefore, it is not an option.

Ninjutsu - 11

Genjutsu - 6

Healing - 2

Sealing - 7

Puppets - 1

Weapons - 3

Animals (nin-animals…er perhaps a nin-vet…something of the sort…like Hana Inuzuka.) 2

What Chakra type should Naruto have? Top two will be chosen…

Fire- 5

Water- 4

Lightning- 5

Earth- 1

Wind- 8

What should happen to Piccolo?

Back into the seal- 3

Stay as a Jounin in Konoha- 4

Be Naruto's 'secret guardian'- 21

Pairings- These will not be explored until around chapter six or so…BTW remember, some girls will not fit what I plan for in the future. So far, any suggestions that can, have been placed.

Temari- 6

Ino- 0

Anko- 2

Sasame- 1

Tayuya- 2

Isaribi- 2

Hana- 1

I have also chosen to make this a harem, and I will add three girls that I doubt anyone would ever guess.

These are the chapters that the polls close on-

Foucuses- Chapter 5

Elements- chapter 7

Girls- chapter 8