A/N: So guys it's been a while, but I had a lot of stuff on so yeah. I know I said that chapter 4 would be out by Friday but, it wasn't. Really sorry, hope you enjoy!

Team Naruto Uzumaki

Chapter 4: Sage mode.

(Two months later)

"Ring ring, ring ring..." Ino was woken from her sleep by the sound of Naruto's new alarm clock. However she did not the hear the sound of Naruto destroying it. She rolled over to the other side of the bed to silence it.

"Strange, he never gets up before the alarm goes off..." She imagined that he had probably gone training so she got dressed into her usual outfit. During the 4th great shinobi war she had gotten quite attached to her shinobi vest, and now wore it unzipped over her standard clothes. She then went downstairs to find the resident Kazekage eating cereal, in the kitchen.

"So Gaara, you never actually told me why you are here..."

"Let's just put it like this: My girlfriend, Matsuri, is having mood swings, due to her pregnancy, so we are just leaving her alone for a few months."

"Wow, so you're going to be a dad Gaara."

"Yeah,"

"That's great news." She said smiling, "Me and Naruto haven't thought about kids yet..."

"Anyway, Ino do you wanna go out and see how naruto is doing with his team, I hear that they are predicted to all pass the chunin exams next week."

"Well, it's funny you should say that, I was just about to head out there."

The two of them headed out to training ground 7 where they found Kiba and Tenten, being very talkative, Tenten blushing a bit, and Naruto insructing Kirizuki, Kushino and Shikakuma while they were sparing.

"Good Shikakuma, use your shadows, Go Kushino, hit him with your attack!" The blond haired sensei was shouting at his students.

"RASENGAN!" Kushino shouted.

"Wood Style: Oak Prison Jutsu!" Kirizuki shouted, as a wooden cage encased him. "Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!" He shouted as a huge dragon twirled through the air and smashed into Kushino sending her flying into the ground.

"I'm not done yet." she said under her breathe. She then opened her eyes... Her pupils had turned into horizontal, black oblongs, her iris had turned yellow and the space between her eyebrows and eyes had turned red. "Sage Mode! Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Suddenly three identical copies of her appeared and began to swirl chakra into a shuriken. As soon as it looked like the move that Naruto was credited for, only on a smaller scale, she hurled it at Kirizuki's Oak prison. Unbenounced to her, Kirizuki had snuck out of his prison, once Shikakuma had released his Jutsu, and was behind Kushino with a kunai held to her neck.

"Great work guys!" Naruto shouted running over to his team. "Kushino, we need to work a bit more on you Rasenshuriken, but you've really improved on your sage mode. Kirizuki great work, remember not all enemies are Kushino's level; you need to find better ways to defeat your opponents. Shikakuma good, you need to put more effort into fighting."

"Hai!" They all shouted.

"Anyway watching you guys train has made me really hungry. Who's up for lunch?"

"Sensei, it's only 10." Kushino said.

"Well I'm up for a break." Shikakuma said.

"Yeah, I'm pretty hungry too." Kirizuki said. Ever since his sensei had told him what he was acting like, Kirizuki had started acting more like Naruto when he was younger.

"Great! Ichiraku's!" He yelled putting on a face that made him look like a six year old. He was just about to leave the training ground when he saw Ino, Gaara, Kiba and Hinata.

"Hey Kirizuki, Kushino, Shikakuma I'll meet you at Ichiraku's later. Go and enjoy yourselves for a while."

"K sensei," Kirizuki said turning away.

"Kiba, long time, no see mate!"

"Same Naruto!" Kiba said showing his fangs like he normally does when he smiles.

"How are you Ten Ten?" Naruto asked another of the Konoha 11.

"Yeah, pretty good, yourself?"

"Yeah, been looking after my cousin and Gaara for about two months."

"Hey I'm the freaking Kazekage, I don't need babysitting!" They all laughed at Gaara's comment.

"Hey do you guys see what I see?" Naruto said putting on a very happy smirk. "Looks like my boy's finally grown up."

They all turned to see Shikamaru walking through the training ground holding hands with Hinata.

"No way..." Ino and Tenten both said.

"Hey Shikamaru!" Naruto shouted to his best mate.

"Naruto!" He shouted back, him and Hinata walking over to join them.

"Hinata, didn't know you were into the lazy type?" Naruto said joking.
She laughed a bit. She had gotten over her crush on Naruto long ago, and now was able to spend longer than 10 seconds near him without fainting.

"Hey guys." she said. Her appearance had changed. She now wore her headband around her forehead and her hair covered one eye. She wore a jounin vest over her fishnet vest and standard jounin trousers.

"So why did you call us over then?" Shikamaru said.

"Just checking up on everyone, oh and how are you guy's teams doing?"

"I hear not as good as yours." Shikamaru said, Naruto scratching the back of his head. "But yeah,we got a good chance at the chunin exams. I've got a secret weapon on mine, that I bet none of your team can stand up to!"

"Well my team got the highest overall scores for genin!"

"Well we'll just have to see about that then!"

"Mother Fucking bring it!"

"Believe Me, I Fucking Will!"

"Will you just shut the fuck up, both of you?!" Gaara shouted, much to the appreciation of everyone else.

The two of them glared at each other, eyes slitted, growling.

"Sooo..." Ino said breaking the ice. "Naruto's meeting his team for ramen soon, so if you two want to come over for lunch thats fine."

"That'd be nice." Shikamaru said, no longer having a stare off with Naruto.

"Well it was nice meeting up with you guys, but as you know, duty calls..." With that Naruto disappeared using Flying thunder god.