Ashi: Hey everyone, how's it hanging? -Dodges more kunai and a windmill shuriken-

Aschlyn: I'm surprised you haven't been hit yet.

Ashi: It all works out, ne? Anyway, welcome to chapter 4 of GG&P!

Aschlyn: Which I now admit sounds like some sort of clothing store.

Ashi: (Don't worry; she's still mad from what happened in chapter 16 of 'From Songs to Ashes')

Aschlyn: Anyway, can we hurry up and get on with the story?

Ashi: Right right, anyway, on with the story and such! -Blinks- Ooh! I almost forgot!

Aschlyn: What now? -stares at-

Ashi: Yeah, after this chapter, it's going to go onto the main storyline of the fan-fiction, but Naruto will be put on a team with two OC s for Team 7, and Sakura and Sasuke will be put on as Team 6 with an OC member and captain. That's all!

Aschlyn: Right, DeathhunterAshi does not own Naruto, but she owns the OC s and the Shugohikari clan. Steal and I'll hunt you down.

Chapter 4

(Naruto- Age 12)

"Damn it, I'm going to be late AGAIN!" Naruto shouted while trying to put on his black ninja shoes and eating cup ramen at the exact same time.

Naruto was now sporting the goggles he got for his tenth birthday, a black coat with two big pockets and one sleeve, black shinobi pants, black bandages around his left arm, an orange shirt with mesh under it, his scarf, and black fingerless gloves. It was a gift from his loving older brother-Sakuraba Aster.

"I've been telling you for the past hour! You just refused to listen to me!" Kurama yelled/growled as Rukio poked his head out of his room.

"Oh hey Naru-chan. You're leaving for your Genin exams today, right? Rukio said with half-lidded eyes.

"Yeah, but Kura-nii forgot to wake me up. I couldn't help that I heard strange moaning noises coming from my head from in the night!" Naruto groaned as Rukio's eyes widened in the wrong thought and started to blush madly.

"'O-Oh geeze…' Well anyway, I'll come to pick you up afterwards okay? I'm gonna catch a few more Z's since I don't have any missions today. Good luck!" Rukio said as he gave Naruto a quick hug before said blonde dashed to the Ninja Academy.

"Just in time!" Naruto yelled as he slid into the classroom.

True to his own word, he was the second-to-last person in the classroom and Iruka wasn't there yet. Naruto was grinning while he sat next to Shikamaru, one of his childhood friends, along with Chouji and Neku.

"Ohayo Shikamaru, Chouji, Neku!" Naruto said while bro-fisting Shikamaru.

Along with all of them in the group, Naruto was the shortest of them while Neku stood as the tallest. Speaking of the lazy-eyed Shugohikari, not much has changed about the purplette, except that he carries around a fox kit he named Sasume with him in his hoodie.

"Hey Naruto. I'm guessing you're ready for the exams?" Neku asked while yawning for the nth time.

"Yep! Ruki-nii went over everything before going to bed!" Naruto said while grinning at Neku, who blushed and turned away at his smile.

"Alright class! It's time to start your Genin exams today! We'll now start the first part of the written test and afterwards, head outside for the Taijutsu test." Iruka said while walking to the center of the classroom.

Several students (including Naruto) groaned at the thought when suddenly, a red and black blur shot thru the classroom and tripped over Iruka.

"Shimatta…Sorry I'm late Iruka-sensei!" The blur said as it revealed itself to be a boy with blonde hair styled in a mullet, sunglasses that hid his sky blue eyes, and was wearing a red Chinese styled jacket over a mesh T-shirt, black shinobi pants, a sash with three black stripes, and black ninja shoes.

There was a burn scar that marred his left cheek that Naruto always thought to himself looked familiar.

"His scar kinda reminds me of that Lal Mirch person who visited Sandaime-jiji a few years ago…Didn't she say she was from Amegakure though?" Naruto thought to himself (since Kurama was still pissed at him).

"Gouichi, you're late again." Iruka said as his eyebrow twitched, showing his major annoyance.

"Ha ha ha, sorry Iruka-sensei, but pet store was on fire and I had to save all the cute puppies!" Gouichi shouted happily as Naruto (and several others) face palmed at the declaration.

"Hayabashi Gouichi, the third-to dead-last of the class and third most popular, next to Neku and the emo Uchiha of course." Aster said while nodding.

That was one of the other feats, he knew that Neku had a fan-club dedicated to him, but didn't know it was majorly a yaoi fandom with the Shugohikari and Naruto, named 'The Guardian and his Fox'.

Anyhow, the test was pretty easy, considering he had three, yes THREE, Spartan teachers teaching him the basics and expert stuff, along with bringing his top speed up with weights. Now, it's time for the second part of the Genin exams- Taijutsu.

"Today our Taijutsu test will be a little different from the other ones. Each student will be assigned a partner to fight with in a two-on-two battle." Iruka said as Mizuki came up and handed each student a paper.

"Number 4. If I'm guessing right, then I have to look for someone with the number 3." Naruto thought as he got up to look around for his partner when Gouichi stood up.

"Oy, does somebody have the number 4 to go with 3?" he said clearly and saw Naruto stand up in confusion.

"Eh?" Naruto said while blinking and visibly paled at his partner.

It wasn't that he thought that Gouichi was a bad person or anything; it's just that he gives off a strange aura and always has really cold hands. Some people say it's because he's a ghost see or something of the sort.

"Oh cool! It looks like you're my partner, Chibito!" Gouichi said while laughing and patting Naruto's head.

"Eh? Why do I feel a strong presence besides Kyuubi or that other redhead near him? It feels like one of the previous hokages or something." Gouichi thought as Naruto shivered from his naturally (by his standards) cold hands.

"Alright, teams 1 &2 and teams 3 & 4, please come up to the center." Iruka said as the two blondes complied and walked to the center of the ring/field.

After walking up, Naruto looked in surprise as he saw Neku and a boy with black hair like a duck but and black eyes walked up to them.

"'Looks like I'll need both of my hands for this one.' Iruka-sensei, could you hold onto Aster for me please?" Naruto asked and Iruka nodded, taking the plushie from the short blonde.

"What? You're still playing with dolls, Urasatonkatchi?" the boy Naruto recognized as Uchiha Sasuke taunted as the girls were cheering him on.

"Haven't you learned not to underestimate people, teme?" Naruto said as he eyes turned to an ice blue color.

"What the-? There's that presence again-" Gouichi started to think as he was cut off from Iruka yelling.

"Begin!" Iruka shouted as Neku dashed at Gouichi and threw a right hook at him.

Dodging swiftly, he grabbed Neku's arms and flinged him over in a judo throw. Jumping back, he ran at Neku and threw a series of punches at him, seeing the purplette dodge each one and then tried to kick him. To his silent dismay, the taller blonde fall back in order to dodge, only getting slightly grazed by his kick.

"You're not half bad Neku. If that had actually landed, it'd probably really hurt." Gouichi said as he pulled his left arm back while fisted and his right arm forward in a palm thrust.

"So, you're going into that stance already. I have no need to hold back then." Neku said as he ran forward to attack Gouichi once again.

Naruto flipped back while dodging Sasuke's punch and quickly kicked him at his side, catching him off-guard as enough for the shorter blonde to fall back on his hands. This fight had been going on for too long, so now it was time for Naruto to finally counterattack.

"A handstand? What could Naruto possibly be thinking?" Shikamaru thought as Naruto gained a look of determination on his face.

"Rolling….THUNDER!" Naruto yelled as he front kicked Sasuke into the air and jumped up, kicking him back down to the ground.

When Sasuke hit the ground, he was clearing unconscious and several of the girls screamed as Naruto landed with a silent thunk.

"Heh heh, I win." Naruto said while giving Iruka the 'nice-guy' pose.

Finally deciding to end this, Gouichi dashed in front of Neku and caused a feint, catching the purplette off balance and drop-kicking him out and away.

"This is it!" He shouted and pinwheel kicked Neku into a tree, knocking him out as well.

"Ha ha ha! It looks like we won after all, Chibito! Good job!" Gouichi shouted happily while patting said blonde on the back.

Naruto laughed as well while grinning, the two of them giving peace signed to the rest of the class.

"He-they cheated! There's no way that those two dobes could be able to beat Sasuke-kun's team!" A girl with pink, yes, PINK hair yelled out while the other girls (save for the NekuNaru and Gouichi fan girls) agreed.

"Tch, stupid girls. If you're so blinded by your, so called 'Sasuke-kun', then you should just quit being Konoichi. Ah, save for you two, Hinata, Akihiko." Gouichi said as the two girls turned towards him.

The first one had dark-blue hair and pale white eyes, while the other one that was taller with dark green hair and green eyes.

"Huh, did you say something Hayabashi?" Akihiko said in a hoarse voice

She was busy rubbing her throat while sitting down and waiting for their turn to fight in their spar with Hinata as her partner.

"Meh, nothing much Aki. Is your throat okay though?" He asked while noticing her rub her throat.

"Just a sore throat Hayabashi; nothing major to worry about." Akihiko said/groaned as her voice wavered out again.

After all the Taijutsu matches (and trying to get Sasuke off of Naruto from beating him), it was finally time for the Ninjutsu test. Everyone was waiting for their names to be called out and Naruto was doing everything in order to calm himself down. That was until Gouichi got tired of seeing him pace around and firmly held Naruto in his lap until it was his turn.

"Hayabashi, Gouichi." Iruka called out and put Naruto back down.

"Just calm down Naruto; you haven't been practicing non-stop with your friends and Rukio-taicho for nothing, right?" Gouichi said as Naruto shook his head and the taller blonde ruffled his hair and walked into the testing room.

A few minutes later, Gouichi came out with his hia-te wrapped around his right wrist and showing the victory sign to Naruto.

Soon enough, after Sasuke's name was called, Naruto was starting to get nervous again, but a determination began to burst through.

"Uzumaki Naruto." Iruka called out and Naruto walked into the testing room where Iruka and Mizuki were.

"Okay Naruto, you have to make at least three functional bunshins and a henge to pass and become a genin. Iruka said as he nodded and began to gather his chakara.

"Iruka-sensei, I can't do the bunshin, but I can do the next best thing- Kage bushin no Jutsu!" Naruto yelled out as a hundred Naruto's poofed into existence with the same grin on their face.

"N-No way! How was he- the demon brat able to do the Kage bunshin?" Mizuki thought as he thought he saw Iruka secretly grin.

"Alright now, henge!" Naruto yelled and turned into a perfect replica of the Yondaime.

"Excellent job Naruto, you pass!" Iruka said as he handed Naruto the hia-te with a proud smile on his face.

"Thanks Iruka-sensei! Heh heh, now I'm finally an official ninja!" Naruto shouted happily as he hugged Iruka and ran out to show his friends.

"Neku! Gouichi!" Naruto yelled out as the two of them turned towards the shorter blonde.

His hia-te was tied around his right arm and a giant grin on his face was enough to tell them what happened.

"Great job Chibito! I told you you could do it!" Gouichi said while giving Naruto a noogie.

"Yeah, you did a great job." Neku said as he slipped his hia-te around his neck.

"Neh neh, let's all go out to Ichiraku Ramen to celebrate!" Naruto said as he bought out the puppy dog eyes, resulting in giving Neku, Gouichi, and several other males in the vanity severe nosebleeds.

"Three miso ramen, please!" Naruto shouted as he sat down with Neku and Gouichi.

"Naruto! It's been a while! How are you?" Teuchi said as he looked up from what he was doing.

"Heh heh, I've been busy, but guess who's finally a genin?" Naruto said while grinning.

"Oh, congratulations Naruto-chan!" Ayame, Teuchi's daughter said happily.

"Geeze, don't forget about us, Chibito." Gouichi said with a mock pout on his face.

"Heh heh, sorry guys." Naruto said with a foxy grin on his face.

"Order anything you want today, it's on the house!" Teuchi said as the three genin's eyes lit up as he proclaimed this.

A few bowls later, Naruto split up from his two classmates and started to head back with Aster in hand.

"Great job kit, but remember not to show off too much" Kurama said as he spoke from within Naruto's mind.

"Naruto, not meaning to mess up your good day, but I have a feeling Mizuki is planning something big." Aster said as he went into his thinking mode.

"Okay, I'll be careful. So I'll do this…" Naruto thought as he went over his plan while heading to the tower.

"Heh, they'll never expect me, the lovable Mizuki-sensei, to take the scroll of forbidden jutsus all for myself! Though, it IS a bit heavy." Mizuki thought to himself as he felt a chakara signal flare up.

In front of him stood Aster (who was currently henge'd into Naruto) with a glare on his face.

"Huh? What are you doing here Mizuki-sensei? And what's with the giant scroll and shuriken?" 'Naruto' asked innocently to the chunnin.

"Perfect, it's the Kyuubi brat! If I could use this to frame and kill him, then I'll be a hero!" Mizuki thought while snickering and missing the evil grin that passed though 'Naruto's' face.

He had other plans for the traitor at hand, and they weren't very pretty….

Ashi: Yo! That's it for chapter 4 of GG&P!

Aschlyn: Good job, but when will chapter 17 of From Songs to Ashes be out?

Ashi: Well since KarateCat211 finally got an account, we can start on it! In the meantime, there will be a special chapter coming out soon.

Aschlyn: Alright, I can settle for that.

Ashi: Right, anyway I hope I'll see you all again for chapter 5! Ja ku ne!