The Nine Tailed Sage

by saveme57

a what if story of what naruto's life would have been like had his parents survived the kyubi incident.

6. chunin exam

Disclaimer: I as I've said in every chapter before this, I do NOT own Naruto. If I did, there would be some major changes, like Jiraiya not dieing and Sasuke actually being killed by Itachi in the Uchiha massacre. Enjoy! XD

The Exam begins

While Kakashi was talking to Minato, Naruto and Sakura were walking to Naruto's house together since Sasuke had already left for his house. While they were walking, they came across three unfamiliar people. One had dark burgundy hair pushed to the side to show a tattoo on his forehead and a large gourd on his back, another was dressed in all black and had strange purple makeup on his face, and the girl among the three strangers had medium-length sandy-blonde hair, up in four big buns like a panda with extra ears wearing a single light purple-colored garment that extended from below her shoulders to halfway down her thighs, all together with fishnet stockings on her legs.

Naruto then noticed that the one dressed in black was holding a kid up and seemed to be ready to hit him. Naruto then noticed the headband around the girl's neck was unfamiliar to him and said "What are shinobi from another village doing here?" This caught the attention of the three foreign shinobi.

The girl then spoke up, saying, "We're here for the Chuunin exams. Now leave before you get hurt, kid." The one dressed in the strange black outfit simply grinned in agreement with the girl on his left.

Naruto glared at them and said, "Put the kid down, or else". The foreign shinobi ignored him and went to hit the kid, but Naruto caught his fist. Then he said, "I'm Namikaze Naruto, son of the Hokage and if you don't let the kid go right now, I'll have you thrown out of the village for assaulting the Sundaime Hokage's grandson." Naruto spoke with utter confidence and authority, having gotten close enough to recognize Sarutobi Konohamaru, a mere child just learning the way of the ninja.

Naruto's words caught the attention of all three foreign shinobi and the boy in black dropped Konohamaru. However, the girl spoke again and said with a cruel grin, "Then maybe we should beat you up instead of this kid." The one in black voiced his agreement with his comrade, saying, "I like that idea, Temari," with a grin.

Naruto just smirked and said, "Go ahead, but all you'll accomplish is getting beaten and being locked up by the Leaf ANBU for attacking a Leaf Village ninja."

The smirks the two shinobi had won moments ago vanished when Sakura said, "I'm sure Sunagakure wouldn't too be happy if you caused trouble and ruined it's reputation." She knew exactly where they were from, having recognized the symbol on Temari's forehead protector.

The red-haired Sand gennin, who had remained silent up to this point replied by quietly saying, "Let's go, Temari, Kankuro. We'll deal with these weaklings and the rest of the weaklings in this village during the exam." The three Sand shinobi turned to leave when a small rock hit Kankuro's head, then rebounded to hit Temari, and it would have hit the third, but the rock was stopped by sand that slithered out of the gourd on his back so fast the others didn't even have time to see it before the rock was already harmlessly on the ground.

Kankuro spun around and shouted "Who the hell threw that?" He got his answer when Sasuke stepped out of a tree's shadow, standing on a branch. He then said, "Me. I am Uchiha Sasuke, and you would do well to not compare my teammates to weaklings. If you dare to do so again, I will gladly show you a fate worse than death."

What Sasuke failed to notice was that the Sand shinobi weren't listening to him. Temari and Kankuro were too busy glancing nervously at their quiet companion. Konohamaru took this opportunity to run over to Naruto and Sakura and hide behind them.

Once the red-haired Sand ninja had calmed down, he looked up at Sasuke with a murderous glare. The Sand shinobi then turned to leave without a word, but Sasuke stopped them by saying "Hey, you. The loser with the gourd. What's your name, tough guy?" with an arrogant, confident smirk. The other two Sand gennin froze when their companion looked over his shoulder and spoke in his dark voice, "My name is Sabaku no Gaara. You would do well to remember it." The Sand shinobi trio then left without another word.

Naruto turned and looked at Sasuke and groaned, "Man, why'd you have to steal my thunder by being all dark and mysterious, man?"

Sakura just sighed and turned to Konohamaru and asked kindly, "What did you do to get those guys so mad at you?" At this, Konohamaru scratched the back of his with a sheepish grin on his face.

He then whispered something in Naruto's ear. When Naruto heard what Konohamaru said, he was shocked and said loudly, "Damn, kid. Are crazy or do you just have a death wish?" Konohamaru didn't answer so Naruto continued, "When you do things like that, the first rule is never get caught."

Sakura was confused by what Naruto was saying since she hadn't heard what Konohamaru had said. Sasuke, however, could not have cared less. Now that the Sand trio had gone he had no reason to stay, so without a word to either of his friends, he left. Sakura then looked at Naruto sweetly and asked, "Naruto-kun what did Konohamaru do?".

When Naruto looked at Sakura, he noticed she was cutely pouting and he couldn't help but answer her. He told her, "Konohamaru here accidentally ran into that girl from Suna". Sakura didn't see this as anything worth beating up a kid for but, Naruto wasn't done. He then said, "Then this perverted bakka grabbed her ass, and if that weren't bad enough, when she picked him up he grabbed her boobs."

Konohamaru then said, "I just wanted to see if they were real or not! What's so wrong with that?" At this, Naruto cringed and backed as far away from Konohamaru as possible. Then, without warning, Sakura slammed her fist into Konohamaru's face.

As she sent him flying into next week, she shouted, "You damn filthy pervert! Just wait 'til I get my hands on you! I'll beat that pervetedness right out of you!"

Naruto then cautiously walked up to Sakura and said, "Now, now, Sakura-chan. Calm down. We don't need you killing him. It was a stupid mistake on his part which, I'm sure won't happen again."

Sakura then turned to him and sighed. "Alright, if you say so. I'm gonna' head home to shower and take a nap. Traveling all day's got me exhausted." But before she left, Naruto decided to return the favor from when they were in the Land of Waves. So, as she was leaving, he caught her wrist and spun her around then kissed her on the cheek and said with a huge grin, "Bye, Sakura-chan." Sakura's face was now as red as a tomato as she said stammered, "Bu-uh, bye, Naruto-kun. I'll uh, s-see you tomorrow."

The next day, Team 7 was waiting on a small wooden bridge for Kakashi to show up. They had been waiting for over an hour when Naruto said "Why did we have to get here so early when our sensei has no sense of time?" Sasuke nodded his head in agreement while Sakura fumed inwardly about having to get up so early for no reason. Just then, Kakashi appeared on the bridge's railing.

He then said "Good morning, team." Naruto shouted angrily at him, "Kakashi-sensei, you told us to meet you here an hour ago!" Kakashi just smiled (with his eye) serenely and replied "Yeah… sorry about that, but I was just lost on the path of life." Then all three gennin, even Sasuke, shouted back, "Kakashi-sensei, you liar!" The masked shinobi just chuckled before looking down at them seriously and saying, "I have something very important to tell you." He then held out three small pieces of paper, handing one to each of them. He then said, "I have nominated you for the Chuunin Exam, but whether you take it or not is up to you." Naruto was barely containing his excitement And while Sasuke remained impassive on the outside, on the inside, he too was excited. Sakura, on the other hand, was more than a bit nervous. Kakashi then said, "If you decide to take it, then it starts at 4 o'clock sharp in room 301 today. Just fill out the back of the forms I gave you". And with that, he left in a puff of smoke.

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke remained silent at first, thinking about the Chuunin Exams when Naruto broke the silence, saying, "I'm going for it! After all even if we fail, we can just retake it next year." Sasuke nodded his head in silent agreement. All that was left was for Sakura to decide if she wanted to take the exams or not. Finally, she agreed to take it as well.

They then went to the academy to take the exam. But when they got there, they noticed a crowd in front of the door. In front of that crowd were two Leaf ninja who looked a little older than Naruto. One of them then hit a girl with hair in buns when she tried to get by. Sasuke said to the two shinobi in front of the door, "There's nothing wrong with thinning out the competition a bit, but you'll let me pass and remove this surrounding Genjutsu. I'm going to the third floor." Those around the door looked confused, since they hadn't even realized that they were really on the second floor, due to the Genjutsu cast by the two mischievous shinobi. He then turned to Sakura and said, "I'm sure you noticed it too, Sakura, you're the best at analytical thinking." This gave Sakura a boost of confidence, getting rid of any anxiety she may have had beforehand.

Then one of the ninja blocking the door said with a laugh, "So, you noticed. But did you notice this?" He then attempted to kick Sasuke, only to be blocked by a guy wearing a green jumpsuit with a bowl cut hair style.

The jumpsuit kid's teammates sighed and said, "What happened to not drawing attention to ourselves, Lee?" Lee just mumbled, "Well…" and blushed. He then walked over to Sakura and said "Please be my girlfriend! I'll protect you with my life!"

Sakura backed away from him and said, "No way! You're lame!"

Then one of Lee's teammates turned to Sasuke and asked him, "What's your name and how old are you, kid?"

Sasuke then said curtly, "If you want to know someone's name, then you should give them your's first. Anything else is none of your business." Sakura then grabbed both Naruto and Sasuke and pulled them behind her telling them to hurry. As they were leaving they heard Lee yell, "Wait!" He then looked at Sakura, giving her the creeps as she hid behind Naruto.

Lee then jumped off the balcony he had been standing on and said to Sasuke, "I am Rock Lee. Now tell me your name and fight me!"

Sasuke smirked and said "Uchiha Sasuke." But before he could say anything else, Naruto interrupted him.

Naruto yelled, "Wait! If you want to fight Sasuke, then you're gonna' have to beat me first. Otherwise, this would be a waste of time." Sasuke had no problem with this since it would give him the opportunity to see Lee's techniques.

Lee then said, "I do not wish to fight you. I wish to fight Uchiha."

Naruto then charged at Lee and shouted, "I am Namikaze Naruto, son of the Hokage and your fight is with me first!" Lee dodged Naruto's punch with ease and went to kick Naruto, only to have his kick blocked by a shadow clone. The real Naruto then punched Lee in the gut. Lee then vanished, only to reappear under Naruto and kick him in the jaw, sending him flying straight up into the air. While in the air, Naruto made a series of hand signs and, right as lee was about to hit him, shouted, "Fūton: Daitoppa!"

Naruto released a powerful blast of wind that sent Lee plummeting right into the ground. Naruto then said with a grin, "Sorry, Lee, but the air is my domain. You're strong and fast, but my dad is the fastest shinobi in the world! Compared to him, you seem like you're standing still.". Lee had started to remove the bandages on his arm and was about to try to attack Naruto again when something odd happened.

Right when Lee was about to charge Naruto, a huge pink-and-red tortoise appeared in front of him and barked gruffly, "That's enough, Lee! You know that technique is forbidden!" Lee bowed his head in shame as the tortoise said, "Are you prepared to face your punishment? Lee nodded his head then the tortoise said, "Good. 'Cause… here comes Gaaaiii-senseeieii!"(I refuse to describe Gai's entrance. It's the same as in the manga. If you've seen it, you'll know it's too creepy for words).

Gai then declared, "As punishment for your actions of almost using that technique, you will run 500 laps after the exams!" Lee saluted and shouted, "YES, GAI-SENSEI!" And then he randomly started to cry. At this, Gai (also randomly crying) hugged him and cried, "Lee!", who cried back, "Gai-sensei!" This odd and slightly creepy display of emotion continued for a few more minutes.

Then Naruto said, "I don't see what the big deal is. He had already lost and he didn't use the technique. And besides, even if he had used it, he still would have lost."

Sasuke then said, "Naruto's right. Lee had no chance. He had already lost. The crater from his impact is proof enough, and that's Naruto's weakest Ninjutsu." He then continued, "Lee was lucky that was a wind technique. One of my fire jutsu would have just killed him."

When Gai heard this, he shouted, "Since you lost, Lee, you will run 1,000 laps!" He then turned to Naruto and Sasuke and asked, "What are your names? I would especially like to know the blonde kid's since he beat Lee."

Then there was a brief flash of yellow and Minato appeared next to Gai. "This is my son Naruto and his teammates Sasuke and Sakura. Though if they don't hurry, they'll all be late for the exams, as will your student, Gai". He turned to regard everyone in the room and said seriously, "That was a good fight. I had been passing by when I saw it, and was impressed by Lee's Taijutsu skills as well as Naruto's timing on that wind jutsu."

Sakura then said to her teammates, "Come on, Naruto, Sasuke. We don't want to miss the exam because you two were too busy standing around!" Then she turned to Minato and bowed, saying, "Excuse us Hokage-sama". Minato shook is head at her formality as Team 7 left.

Lee then left as well to rejoin his own team. Minato turned to guy and said, "It seems the Chuunin Exams will be very interesting this year." Gai smiled his brilliant grin and said, "Indeed they will be, Hokage-sama". The two then left.

When Naruto and the team got to the real room 301, they saw Kakashi outside the room. On seeing them, he walked over and said, "Good. All three of you are here, which means you can enter." The trio didn't even answer as they were too focused to even notice Kakashi standing there talking to them.. When they walked right past him and into the room, he slumped to the ground thinking to himself, "THEY DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE ME!"

When Team 7 entered the room, they saw shinobi from all over the world. Then, out of nowhere they heard a loud voice: "Sasuke-kuuuunnn! I haven't seen you in forever!" Naruto and Sakura turned around to see a girl with platinum blond hair jump onto Sasuke's back.

Sakura shook her head, holding in a laugh and said, "Ino, get off him and calm down before you hurt yourself." Ino looked at Sakura and decided to do as the pink-haired kunoichi suggested since, oddly, Sakura was smiling.

Ino then thought to herself, "Sakura really is over Sasuke-kun. If not, she would've gone nuts." Ino then said, "So Sakura, what's it like to have one genius on your team," then she glanced toward Naruto and said, "along with one idiot?"

Naruto was ready to tell Ino off for that, but Sakura cut him off, saying, "Naruto-kun isn't an idiot, Ino-pig. You'd know that if you focused on other things besides Sasuke. If you can't, then you'll never become a chuunin".

Ino, as usual, ignored Sakura's advice and said obnoxiously, "So it's Naruto-kun now, is it? Well, it seems you've found someone new." But before either Sakura or Naruto could comment on that, Ino's teammates, Akimichi Chouji and Naara Shikamaru walked over.

When Naruto noticed them, he smiled and said, "Hey, guys! How've ya' been? I haven't seen you since graduating from the academy." Before they could respond, however, Hyuuga Hinata, Aburame Shino, and Inuzuka Kiba with his dog Akamaru walked over. When Naruto saw Hinata, he grinned and said, "Hey, Hinata! I haven't seen you since the last family reunion! How are you?"

Kiba and Sakura were surprised by this statement and Sakura turned to Naruto and asked, "How are you two related?"

Hinata answered in her timid voice, saying, "My mom is the Naruto's dad's younger sister. We're cousins". This made sense since Sakura knew Naruto couldn't be related to Hinata's father by blood. Otherwise, he would have had Byakugan.

As Kiba and Naruto started to get into one of their pointless arguments, a young man with silver hair and glasses came over and said to the nine gennin, "You really should keep quite. Everyone is staring. Oh, by the way, my name is Yakushi Kabuto." Naruto and Kiba stopped bickering and saw that Kabuto was right: everyone in the room was staring at the group of gennin.

This unnerved Sasuke and Sakura a bit until Naruto spoke up. He said loudly, "Listen up! I'm Namikaze Naruto and I'm going to win this exam!" Everyone in the room went from staring to glaring. Although the rest of the room was mad at Naruto, those that knew him were rather expecting this kind of reaction from him.

Kabuto smiled and said "You people really are interesting, especially the loud blonde kid." He then pulled out a deck of cards and said, "So, I see you guys are new to this. Care to learn a bit about the competition? With a little chakra from me these cards can display information on anyone." Kabuto then looked at Sasuke and asked "So, who would you like to find out about?"

Sasuke thought for a moment then said, "Namikaze Naruto and Sabaku no Gaara". Naruto was interested to see what the card would say about him so he leaned closer to them. He also wondered if the card would show that the Kyuubi was sealed inside him.

Kabuto smiled and said, "We'll start with Naruto. Since he's a Leaf ninja, I'll have more info on him." Kabuto pushed some of his chakra into a card and swiped it in front of Naruto. The card then showed a picture of Naruto, the number of missions he had done and the ranks of those missions. Kabuto then said, "Namikaze Naruto: Wind element style jutsu user, multiple D-rank missions, zero C-rank mission, and one B-rank mission. Very interesting. Few gennin get a B-rank mission…. Let's see…. You scored high in Ninjutsu and Taijutsu, but failed in Genjutsu; unique traits are increadibly high chakra, more than even some Jounin."

Kabuto paused in his description when he noticed something strange on Naruto's card. Kabuto then said, "Now this is very interesting indeed. It describes the source of Naruto's great amount of chakra."

Before Kabuto could say anything further, Naruto took the card from him and said "You should know the secret behind my chakra level is an S-class secret. So unless you want to be arrested, I suggest you don't talk about it." Kabuto was surprised how one minute Naruto was a hyperactive idiot, and the next second he was cold and serious.

Sasuke was surprised, so he then told Kabuto, "Forget about Gaara. Tell me my own stats, then his." Kabuto did as he was asked and read Sasuke's card, saying, "Uchiha Sasuke: Fire element style jutsu user, same amount of missions as Naruto. You both scored the same in Ninjutsu, Naruto scored a bit higher in Taijutsu, and you scored much better than Naruto in Genjutsu."

Sasuke smirked, glad that he was better than Naruto for the most part. But Kabuto wasn't done. He then said, "Naruto has higher chakra and more advance jutsu, though. Also, his stamina is higher than your's." This wiped the smirk off of Sasuke's face. He was about to say something when there was a huge blast of black smoke at the front of the room.

When the smoke cleared, a man dressed all in black with a headband worn covering the top of his head as well as the forehead, with horrible scars all over his face appeared, along with several other people behind him. The scarred man growled to the room, "Everyone shut up and take the seats I assign you!" Everyone was quick to do as the strange man said. He then informed them, "I am Morino Ibiki, the proctor for this exam. So listen up while I explain the rules!" Ibiki then told them how they would be taking a writing exam to test their knowledge and how if they got caught cheating 3 times they, along with their teammates, would fail the exam. Then he barked, "Now, begin the exam!"

As the exam progressed, many teams were failed due to a member getting caught cheating. Sakura, thanks to her book smarts, was having little trouble with the exam. Neither was Sasuke thanks to Sharingan. Naruto, on the other hand, was having an extremely hard time since he was never good at written tests. As he was freaking out mentally, he remembered when his mom had taught him to enhance his sight, hearing, or sense of smell using chakra.

Naruto then pushed chakra into his eyes and, although they remained blue, his pupils had become slits like they did when he used the Kyuubi's chakra. This was because, although he didn't know it, his own chakra and the Kyuubi's chakra was intertwined. Thusly, he constantly uses an increadibly small amount of the Kyuubi's chakra, though diluted by his own. It was just enough to enhance his long distance eye sight to were it was as good as a fox's.

Doing this allowed him to see the answers on the exam of the person in front of him. Naruto copied his answers onto his own paper. Then, right when he was done, Ibiki said, "It is now time for the 10th question! But, before that, anyone who wants to may leave and retake the exam next time. But, if you decide to stay and get the answer to the 10th question wrong, then you will forever be a gennin and you will never be allowed to retake the Chuunin Exam." Ibiki then fell silent to allow this junction to sink in. This silence unnerved many of the gennin there, who began to quit. When many teams had quit, he asked, "Anyone else want to quit?"

Naruto then slammed his hands on the table and yelled, "I will never give up! Even if I'm stuck as a gennin forever, I will still become Hokage!" Sasuke and Sakura smiled, having anticipated such a response from the Number One Hyperactive Knucklehead Ninja.

Ibiki smiled at this and thought to himself, "The Hokage has got himself one interesting kid. He was able to get rid of the doubts in everyone. It would be pointless to stall any longer." Ibiki then smiled his rather scary mile and said, "Congratulations. Everyone in here passes." At the startled expressions and questions of everyone, Ibiki said, "This test was not about book smarts. It was about information gathering, for as chuunin, you will be sent on missions where you know nothing about your target. You must be able to gather information properly." He then said darkly, "Another skill a chuunin must posses is the ability to keep secrets if he is captured." He then removed his headband to reveal scars, burns, and old puncture wounds all over his head.

Everyone was stunned by this. And if that wasn't enough, there was a crash and a puff of thick smoke. From the smoke, a woman with purple hair and a chain mesh shirt with a tan overcoat appeared. She then turned to Ibiki and said with a devilish grin, "You're slipping, Ibiki. Look how many are left."

Ibiki just smiled and said "There were many promising candidates".

The newcomer sighed and shook her head. She then smiled and said, "No matter. You all follow me to the second exam!" Everyone then followed her to a large fenced in forest where she said, "Welcome to the second exam! I am Mitarashi Anko, proctor for the second part of the exam. So all of you listen up as I explain the rules!" Then her serious expression changed to a smile and she said in sweet voice, "But first, I need you all to sign these forms since there is a chance you may die during this exam, and I don't want the Leaf Village to be held responsible."

All the contestants appeared shocked, and as Naruto was about to say something, a kunai whizzed by and cut his cheek. Then Anko appeared in front of him and licked the wound, saying, "Just sign the form don't complain or question." Then there was a long tongue holding the kunai behind Anko.

The Grass ninja with the kunai held in his tongue said "Here's your kunai back, ma'am." Anko smiled and thanked the Grass shinobi while Naruto was even more creeped out then he had been before. He thought to himself "That tongue can not be natural."

After the forms had been signed and turned in, Anko explained the rules saying "Each team will get one of two scrolls. Your mission is to get the scroll you don't have while protecting the one you started with. When you have both, go to the tower in the center of this forest. You have five days to finish this exam. You can forfeit right now if you want. If you don't have both scrolls when you get to the tower, you fail. If you don't make it to the tower on the 5th day, you fail. And if all of your teammates aren't with you and alive, or if you open the scrolls before you get to the tower, you fail." She then shouted, "The exam begins NOW!"

With that all the teams got a scroll and took off into the Forest of Death. In the forest, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura had stopped to come up with a plan. Naruto then said, "Even when I enhance my senses, I can't find any of the others. Just animals." Sasuke thought about that for a moment then said, "We need to figure out where we are in relation to the tower, since setting an ambush around the tower would work best." Sakura looked at Naruto and said, "If you channel wind chakra to your feet, you should be able to jump above the trees enough to see the tower." Naruto then said, "Alright, but we gotta' move right after that, since it'll give away our position." Sakura and Sasuke nodded their heads in agreement. So Naruto jumped up off of a high branch, and when he landed, he told his friends, "The tower is due west of here."

They headed west into the forest, toward the tower. As they were traveling, they came across three Rain ninja. They stopped and Naruto and Sasuke ran through hand signs and shouted, "Futon: Daitoppa!" and "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" The two jutsu combined to create a blast of fire so intense that no one could have created it by themselves. Right when it hit the Rain ninja, they turned into water. Naruto growled, "Damn! They were just water clones."

Then they were attacked from behind, making them jump into an open clearing. There, the three Rain ninja made their own hand-signs and said in unison, "Suiton: Bakusui Shōha!" A huge wave of water then came blasting out of the trees and filled the clearing in a dome shape.

Trapped in the water, Team7 had to hold their breath to keep from drowning. Naruto then made a hand-sign and created a huge sphere of wind giving, them time to think. He looked at his teammates seriously and said, "We need to make a plan fast, guys. I can't hold this thing forever."

Sasuke and Sakura thought of a plan while Naruto concentrated on maintaining the wind sphere. After a little under a minute, they had a plan. Sasuke then said, "Naruto, use your shadow clones to keep them busy while I focus on breaking this jutsu. And Sakura, cover me".

Naruto could only grunt in agreement since the wind sphere wasn't easy to maintain normally, let alone under water. As he let the sphere go, he gasped, "Everyone take a deep breath. It's the last one 'til the water is gone." He then made ten shadow clones, only for them to quickly be dispelled by the Rain ninjas' water clones. The real Rain ninja didn't have to worry about the water, thanks to their breathing masks.

They then attacked Sasuke and Sakura. Thanks to his Sharingan, Sasuke was able to see it coming and dodge, but Sakura wasn't so lucky. She had the wind knocked out of her by a punch from one of the Rain ninjas. Naruto saw the punch out of the corner of his eye and Sakura floating unconscious. The sight of this heinous act caused his anger to boil over in the form of red chakra.

The water around Naruto began to boil as the chakra began to surround him in the form of a fox-like cloak with a single tail behind it. He then swung his arms, creating so much force it destroyed the water clones as Naruto charged the real Rain ninjas, using the chakra tail to move himself. The Rain ninja couldn't even move, they were so paralyzed by fear. Naruto formed a Rasengan in his right hand, and thanks to the Kyuubi chakra it became even more powerful, creating a whirlpool in Naruto's wake. As Naruto hit the first Rain ninja with the Rasengan, the backlash of water from it hit the other two, defeating all three shinobi with a single move. The water jutsu ended as well since the casters had been rendered unconscious.

As Sasuke watched Naruto, he could only wonder "What is he hiding that gives him so much raw power…?" Sasuke then went to the Rain ninja and found they had the scroll Team7 needed. Naruto was checking on Sakura, trying to wake her up. When she did wake up, she coughed up a lot of water, but was otherwise, no worse for wear.

Sakura looked at Naruto and said, "I'm alright, Naruto-kun. Thanks for making sure I was alright." She kissed his cheek then got up and said, "Come on. We cant stay here, Naruto-kun".

Naruto looked at her in confusion and asked, "Why did you kiss my cheek?" Sakura looked at him and said "Is it wrong to kiss you as thanks for saving me and standing up for me?"

As they jumped into the trees, Naruto said with a smile and blushing face "You don't need to thank me, Sakura-chan." Sasuke then held up the scroll he took form the Rain ninja and tossed it back to Naruto who took it without a word.

They rested for the night to regain their strength and recover from the attack. The next day they decided to head for the tower. As they were traveling, a giant snake came from the trees and swallowed Naruto. Sakura and Sasuke stopped, unsure what to do to get Naruto back. As they were about to chase the snake, Naruto appeared with out any harm even though he was eaten.

Sasuke doubted that the person in front of him was the real Naruto, so he asked "Hey, Naruto, how about you show me that Rasengan again?" Naruto hesitated then said, "Sure, Sasuke. He then made s hand sign as if to focus his chakra then formed the Rasengan. Sasuke just smiled as he waved his hand through the orb of chakra then kicked Naruto in the chest, sending him sprawling. He then said, "Naruto never needed hand signs to focus on making a Rasengan, nor did he need them to be a weak Genjutsu." "Naruto" then transformed into the Grass ninja that had the strange long tongue.

He said with a chilling smile, "Very good, Sasuke-kun." He then leapt toward Sasuke, who barely managed to dodge him. Sasuke had become paralyzed by fear, for somehow this ninja scared him more than anyone he had ever met. At that moment, there was a earsplitting explosion and the snake from before crashed through the woods. Naruto appeared, furious, not just about being eaten but that Sasuke was being a coward.

Naruto then shouted, "What the hell is wrong with you? You're just going to stand there and die? That's just pathetic! But fine - stay their scared while I fight this creep!" Sasuke was shocked that someone had actually called him a coward.

he thought to himself, "Naruto is a fool! He has no idea what this guy is capable of, he will get killed if he isn't careful!" Naruto charged at the grass Nin but all his kicks punches and clones were dodged even though he was moving with Kyuubi enhanced speed. He tried using his wind techniques but even they were useless against him. When Naruto started to get faster and scratched the grass Nin's face. The grass Nin then realized Naruto could become a small hassle so he hit Naruto in the gut.

The grass Nin hit right where the seal was this messing with Naruto's chakra knocking him unconscious. Right as Naruto was about to fall Sasuke used a kunai to pin him to a tree. Sakura then said "Naruto may not be as strong or as smart as you Sasuke but he is no coward even if he can't win he will fight but you stand like a coward when you can win, you are stronger than me or Naruto yet your scared some Uchiha you are."

Saskue then said "I will prove you wrong Sakura". He then activated his Sharingan and running through a series of hand signs said "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu" Sasuke launched fireballs at the grass Nin but they were all dodged. He then fought with taijutsu only exchanging kick and punches. His Sharingan was able to predict the grass ninja's every move throwing kunai every so often.

When Sasuke was falling he used wire to stop his fall. He then jumped up and attached wires to shuriken and threw them. The grass ninja then said "so you are using your Sharingan to control the shuriken and trap me you are indeed an Uchiha with great control of your Sharingan despite your age truly you are a genius."

Saskue then tightened the wires pinning the grass ninja to a tree he then made a hand sign and said "Fire Style: Dragon Fire Technique", which followed the wires and hit the grass Nin. Sakura then ran over to Sasuke to see if he was alright. But then the grass ninja began to laugh.

He said "You have talent even more than your brother Itachi I look forward to when we meet again". Before anyone could speak the grass ninja's neck shot out to an incredible length and he bit Sasuke's neck with a set of fangs that grew from his mouth. He then left as Sasuke screamed in pain for where he was bitten were now three black marks, like little dots with blades sticking off, just like the Sharingan had around the pupil.

Sakura took the unconscious Naruto and Sasuke to as safe a place as she could find and set up a tent waiting for them to wake up. As she saw to them three ninja she had never seen before appeared. She pulled out a kunai and held it in front of her defensively. She was then attacked by the kunoichi member of the three Sound Nin. She was quickly over whelmed by the Sound Nin.

The Otonin as they called themselves, then said "This was too easy all he had defending him was a stupid girl that cares more about her hair then her jutsu and being strong its pitiful." The girl then yanked on Sakura's hair, causing Sakura to scream in pain. Sakura then used the kunai she was holding to cut her hair and switch with a log. Every time she was attacked she would switch with a log. Then, right when they almost had her, Lee came out of nowhere and planted his foot in each of their faces using his Leaf Hurricane jutsu, saying boldly to the shocked Sakura, "It is my duty to protect you in repayment for losing to Naruto!"

As lee fought the three Otonin he displayed an impossible speed, dashing from one to the other, pummeling each one until the one called Dosu managed to rattle off a hand sign and wickedly hiss the words, "Slicing The Air Jutsu!", causing a high frequency sound wave to rip through Lee's body, crippling the Leaf Nin, and allowing the one called Zaku to pummel him until he was barely conscious. Unbeknownst to Lee and Sakura, Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji were watching everything from a bush and debating whether or not to help. Ino started to remember back to when she first met Sakura, which was around the same time she met Naruto. It was then she said, "We've got to help them! After all Konoha Nin don't abandon their own!" Shikamaru and Choji agreed and attacked the Sound Nin to save Lee and Sakura.

Sakura was shocked to see Ino and her team and how well they worked together. The Sound Nin were living up to their names however, since all their techniques focused on sound techniques like the device on Dosu's arm. As the battle continued it looked like the Konoha Shinobi were going to lose. But then they all felt a dark and malevolent chakra.

When they saw the source it was Sasuke who was surrounded by a dark purple chakra. His whole demeanor changed; he seemed cold and ruthless, like someone who would kill for fun. He had black marks that were covering half of his face and were spreading down his body in a flaming pattern. He attacked the Sound Nin easily defeating the first two he then came to the third one who had what seemed to be holes in his hands. Saskue then hit him and grabbed his arms and said "You seem really fond of these arms… wonder what would happen if I tore them off."

The Otonin began to scream as Sasuke ripped his arms right out of their sockets. As he was about to finish pulling the arms off Sakura screamed "That's enough Sasuke! You already won, they're beat let them go!" At this point there were tears in her eyes, she was scared of this Sasuke, sure he had always been cold, but never ruthless or a killer. Sasuke calmed down as the black marks receded and once they were fully receded he collapsed unconscious again from the chakra.

After moving Sasuke back under the tent, Sakura let Ino fix her hair for her. As they were talking Ino asked, "What happened to Naruto?" As if on cue Naruto began to wake up his chakra had finally stabilized again after what Orochimaru did to him. He then looked around and noticed he was in a tent and that all around him the ground looked like a battle had taken place.

He then got up and walked over to where he saw Ino and Sakura. Once they noticed him he asked "What happened here Sakura-Chan? And why did you cut your hair?" Then thinking quickly he added, "Your hair does look nice though." Sakura who was about to hit him thinking he was insulting her hair calmed down when he said it looked nice. She then told him about what had happened from when he was unconscious to when he woke up. To say Naruto was angry was an understatement. If not for his chakra having just rebalanced itself he would probably have turned into the Kyuubi itself.

Naruto then went over to Sasuke and checked and sure enough he still had his scroll. He took the scroll and looked at the seal on his neck. Naruto then reached into his pouch and pulled out a tag with the word repress written in kanji on it. Naruto then remembered how he had gotten the tag his dad had given it to him before the Chunnin exams started saying, "This tag will suppress any chakra that isn't your natural chakra. It is designed to work on even the strongest of seals, like yours. Naruto then pressed it on Sasuke's curse mark, although it was meant for him in case he had a hard time with the Kyuubi he figure Sasuke would benefit more from it though it was only temporary.

Sakura saw what Naruto did and asked "Will that seal harm Sasuke at all?" Naruto handed her the scroll he took form Sasuke as he told her how the seal worked avoiding what its original purpose was since it wasn't just him and Sakura there. She then thanked Ino and the others, especially Ino though since they were friends again now that they weren't feuding over Sasuke. Then Naruto picked up Sasuke and they all went their separate ways.

It was another day before Sasuke woke up, but once he did he tried to remove the seal Naruto placed on him. But Naruto stopped him saying "That seal is the only thing keeping you sane right now. Without it you'd either be trying to kill us or be running around like a lunatic attacking everyone you saw." Saskue did as Naruto told him and left the seal alone. Team 7 then made its way to the tower unchallenged since Naruto was using his heightened senses to avoid people.

Once at the tower Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura went in once in they opened the two scrolls. The scrolls acted as summons and Iruka-sensei, their teacher from the academy, appeared in front of them. He then said "I'm proud of you three, you finished with a day to spare. You did good." Naruto smiled at this. He and Iruka had always been close as Iruka was the first teacher to ever accept him as a person and not just the son of the Hokage or as a monster. Iruka then said "go through the doors behind me and wait you have a day to rest."

The next day all the teams that had passed lined up and waited to hear what the next test would be. A short while later the Hokage alone with their Jounin instructors showed up. Minato was dressed in his official Hokage robes, which made Naruto laugh till Sakura elbowed him. His laughing caused those that didn't know he was the son of the Hokage to stare at him like he was crazy. Minato then said "Congratulations to all those who passed unfortunately there is a limited amount of space in the finals, which is why we will be having a preliminary round where each of you will go one on one against the other competitors in the exam. Your opponent will be chosen at random and displayed on the board on the right side of this room. He then said "Any injuries will be treated by Tsunade in the infirmary. If you want to back down now due to an injury, say so now." Raising his hand and stepping forward sheepishly Yakushi Kabuto said that he couldn't compete due to an injury he sustained early on. Upon his departure from the tower the matches began. The first matches pitted Shikamaru against the Otonin kunoichi Kin; Shikamaru used his Shadow Possession to win a decisive victory at a shocking speed. Next Kankuro of the Sand Village took on Misumi Tsuguri, one of Kabuto's team mates. Kankuro won in a gruesome display of his puppet-mastery. Neji and Lee's team mate Tenten was crushed in battle by Temari of the Sand Village. Shino bested Zaku of the Sound with a gruesome display of his bug-taming abilities.

After the first matches Sasuke's name came up his opponent was Yoroi Akado a fellow Konoha Shinobi. Before Sasuke went to fight Kakashi said "If your curse activates I will stop the fight and you will be removed from the exam." Sasuke nodded his head in acceptance then went down to the arena floor. Once the match started Yoroi started to drain Sasuke's chakra, making Sasuke rely on taijutsu only. Sasuke kicked him into the air and then came up behind him, grabbing him and starting to spin. Both Lee and Naruto recognized this as what Lee had tried to do to Naruto. Even though he never saw Lee finish the move, his Sharingan had already predicted, memorized and learned to copy the jutsu. Sasuke then spun with Yoroi to the ground and dove out of it before smashing into the ground with Yoroi. Yoroi was defeated and Sasuke was declared the winner.

Then a few fights later it was Naruto's turn and his opponents were Inuzuka Kiba and is dog Akamaru. Most thought Kiba would win with no problem but it turned out to be the opposite. Kiba lowered himself into the attack stance of his clan but before he could move Naruto shouted "Fūton: Renkūdan' shooting three wind bullets at Kiba and Akamaru. Kiba was able to use "Fang Over Fang" to withstand them but Akamaru wasn't as lucky and ended up unconscious. This made Kiba so mad that he charged Naruto without thinking only to get hit in the gut with a ferocious kick, sending him sprawling across the floor on his head. Naruto was then declared the winner.

The next match was Hyuuga Hinata versus Hyuuga Neji, her older and stronger cousin. Neji completely overpowered Hinata was savagely defeated by Neji to the point where she was coughing up blood. Neji was about to deal a final blow but Minato flashed in front of him and hit him so hard he was barely standing. Minato then glared at Neji so coldly that Neji understood why the Iwa Nin feared Minato. Minato then said "That's enough, you win but you took this match too far so I'm warning you; if you ever hurt my niece like that again you will answer to me. And I'll show you just why I'm feared by all my enemies." He then took Hinata to Tsunade to be healed, leaving his predecessor Sarutobi, to watch over the remaining fights.

Naruto was just as angry as his dad since he was close to Hinata since she used to come to his house when she had problems with her father. Naruto then said "Dad went easy on Neji..." This shocked everyone who heard him wondering how that was easy. Naruto then said "Neji is a Hyuuga Branch member and Hinata's his cousin. Hinata's father is head of the entire clan since he runs the Main Branch, and the older twin brother of Neji's dad who died during the war against Kumogakure. Although he finds Hinata weak her dad would still punish Neji for hurting a member of the main branch to such a degree." Everyone but the Jounin instructors was shocked by the policies of the Hyuuga Clan.

The next match was Ino versus Sakura. When both were standing in front of each other Sakura said, "Don't hold back just because we're friends. If I win I want it to be because I'm strong, not because you held back." Ino was glad to be friends with Sakura again and didn't want to risk it by holding back so she agreed with Sakura. Neither were good at any jutsu beside taijutsu except Ino, who had her clan jutsu as well but it was a mid range technique and Sakura had to be standing still for it to work. They were equal in taijutsu so as they broke apart they tried throwing shuriken and kunai but still they were tied. Then Ino did something unexpected; she took a kunai and cut her hair and threw the cut hair in front of her.

Ino then ran her chakra through her hair creating a chakra rope to hold Sakura in place. Ino then made the hand sign and said for her Kekkai Genkai "Shintenshin no Jutsu" switching her mind to Sakura's body. Ino then tried to make Sakura tell the Jounin overseeing the match she gave up. Just as she was about to succeed Sakura heard Naruto shout "Don't give up Sakura-Chan! I know you can win!"

After hearing Naruto's voice Sakura used all her strength of will to throw Ino out of her mind. Once Ino returned to her body she was exhausted, as was Sakura. They had enough strength for one final attack. They charged each other, punching each other in the face at the same time. They both staggered back and were about to fall, but as Sakura was about to collapse she remembered Naruto telling her he believed she could win. This gave her just enough strength for her to stay standing long enough to be declared the winner as soon as the judge said so she collapsed a second later.

Naruto caught her before she hit the ground. Kakashi smiled underneath his mask he had been about to get Sakura but Naruto had actually been faster since he had been ready to jump as soon as the match started. There was one match left it was Gaara vs. Lee.

The match seemed one sided all of lee's attacks were being blocked by Gaara's sand. Lee jumped back after being blocked by Gaara landing on top of a statue he looked at Gai-sensei who nodded. Lee then took off the weights he had on under his leg warmers. Gaara's brother Kankuro laughed cruelly, "As if taking off some weights will help him beat Gaara!" Lee grinned and dropped the eights, which crashed straight threw the floor, reducing the tiles to dust and pebbles. His speed increased to where he was nothing but a green blur. Gaara looked around desperately every time Lee's kicks connected with his shield, because he couldn't see a thing even though his bizarre shield seemed to be able to follow Lee's movements. Naruto quietly gasped, "Whoah… if he used that speed against me I would have lost before I could even form a hand sign…" With his increased speed Lee was able to land a thunderous kick on Gaara's face, sending him sprawling and it looked like he might win. Lee then trapped Gaara in the Reverse Lotus, wrapping him in the bandages that normally cover his arms he then spun himself and Gaara upside down slamming into the ground. He hit Gaara so hard his Armor of Sand actually shattered and a drop of blood ran down his head. At seeing his own blood Gaara went crazy; his sand sped up and caught lee's arm and leg in a vice-like grip. Gaara then clenched his fist and said "SAND BURIEL!" crushing lee's arm and leg.

Before Gaara could proceed to kill Lee, Gai intervened, stopping Gaara's sand with his arm extended, like a clothes-line on a running person. Lee then got up, even though he was unconscious, virtually dead on his feet, saying "It's ok Gai-Sensei… I can continue…" The medics then came out and proclaimed Lee unable to fight the medic turned to Gai and said "His injuries are severe and threaten his ninja career if we don't get him out of here now." Gaara was declared the winner and Lee was taking to the infirmary.

With the preliminaries over Minato stepped forward and said, "Congratulations to all those who passed. Now come up and draw a number to see when you will fight and who your opponent will be. When Naruto went up he drew the number on making him the first to fight his opponent would be Neji. Sasuke was matched against Gaara and Sakura was to fight Temari. And Shikamaru would fight in the second round of the finals.

Minato then announced that the finals would be held in a month. He then said "Now use the month between to train and I'll see all of you at the exam. Except you Naruto, I'll see you at home where we'll discuss you laughing at the official Hokage robes."

Naruto then walked Sakura home before heading home himself. When he got home the first thing he wanted to do was sleep. After spending the last 5 days in the forest of death he was tired. Before he even made it through the door Kushina told him to come to the kitchen. There he saw his mom along with his dad sitting in front of him. Minato then said, "Congratulations on making the finals, normally this is where I tell you how I'm going to train you but since I'm the Hokage I can't since that would be playing favorites."

Naruto had been expecting this; he figured if his dad couldn't train him then his mom could, or maybe Kakashi-sensei could. But then his mom said "I've already taught you everything I can at least till you're older, that's why your father and I found you a new teacher." Naruto was curious as to who his new teacher would be he had a few guesses but wasn't prepared for who came in the room.

His parents had chosen Jiraiya as his teacher. He then said "Ero-Sennin is my new teacher?" his parents nodded. Naruto then shouted, "Great this means I won't get any training he'll be too busy being a pervert researching for his perverted books!" Kushina laughed at this since Naruto was right.

Minato then said "That's why Jiraiya-sensei will be taking you to the land of the toads, Mount Myōboku to train you where he can't be distracted." Naruto was excited now since he knew Jiraiya was strong and a good teacher since he taught Naruto's dad. Minato then said "You leave late tomorrow, now it's time for dinner."

The next day Naruto met up with Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi. Kakashi told them "Due to the curse seal I will be training Sasuke along with members of his clan, Naruto you I don't have to worry about since you will be trained by Jiraiya of the Sannin, as for you Sakura I found an excellent teacher for you. That's when a woman who was a little shorter than Kakashi and had brown hair down to the base of her neck and purple marks on both sides of face dressed in the standard Jounin outfit showed up next to Kakashi.

The woman then said "I am Hatake Rin, Kakashi here asked me to teach you ways to use your chakra control to your advantage." But Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke weren't listening; they were shocked by her last name. She laughed at this and said, "I take it Kakashi here didn't tell you that he is married did he?" They shook their heads while Kakashi sighed; he never thought that was something they needed to know. Rin shot him a look that said, "We'll talk at home" he knew he was in trouble for not telling them.

Later that day Naruto and Jiraiya were reversed summoned to Mount Myōboku to begin training. Jiraiya then said "What I'm going to teach you is how to better use your wind jutsu." Naruto whined about this but Jiraiya ignored him and continued saying, "If you do well and impress me the toads have agreed to give you a weapon they have been making for you, but if you continue to complain you will get nothing and just sit around here for a month with no training." Naruto shut his mouth when Jiraiya said this.

So the weeks passed and Naruto found out that using the jutsu he already knew better was not as easy as it sounded; it was incredibly hard. He first learned to mold more chakra into the jutsus to make them stronger. Then he learned to channel his wind chakra into his kunai making them sharper, he could also infuse it into shuriken. This proved incredibly hard, Jiraiya and Gama-Kichi would constantly criticize him telling him "This isn't hard; just focus on surrounding the points with wind chakra and make a sphere in the center so when they spins you can use chakra strings to direct them!"

After he had mastered his wind chakra Jiraiya took him to a small hut where he met two small old toads. Jiraiya introduced them as Fukasaku and Shima. They then gave Naruto two black fingerless gloves saying "These will help you with the weapon we're about to give you." On the gloves was the kanji for oil the symbol of Mount Myōboku.

Then Fukasaku went to a back room Naruto had not seen. When he came out he had a strange looking weapon. It had a long black wooden pole and two blades, one on each end. Fukasaku said "This is a naginata, it is a weapon generally used by samurai, not ninja so I'm not surprised if you've never heard of one." He then at Naruto's silence said "The wooden pole here is just a covering, underneath is a strong metal unique to Mount Myōboku. It's the same metal we forged the blades from and we forge weapons for us toads out of it as well in the process of making this weapon we constantly coated it in oil from here, making the metals chakra absorbing properties stronger than any other metal."

He then handed the naginata to Naruto saying "Its name is Harikēnburēdo which means Hurricane Blade, a name which in time I think you can make this weapon live up to."

Naruto then began to examine the blade and noticed the top blade was jagged and the bottom blade smooth. On the bottom blade were two symbols one on each side they were the symbol for Konoha and the symbol for Mount Myōboku. On the top jagged blade there was a barely visible picture of the Kyuubi with its nine tails extending down to the center of the pole. In the center there was just a simple pole piece with what looked like a whirlpool etched on it.

Once Naruto was done examining the blade Fukasaku said "now let's go outside so I can start teaching you how to use it properly, I have 2 weeks to teach you how to use this to were your not a danger to yourself. And can fight a battle with it and not hurt those around you."

Naruto's only complaint about it was "Why is almost a head taller than me?"

Jiraiya laughed and said "The toads started forging that naginata when you were but a baby since it takes years to forge one properly, they thought you would be taller by now like your dad was." Naruto grumbled under his breath about his height. Jiraiya said "Look at it this way, one day you'll grow taller than the Harikēnburēdo and by then you will be a master with it and a great ninja with or without it."

Fukasaku then taught Naruto the proper way to hold Harikēnburēdo. He then taught him how to slash parry and dodge using it. Naruto was slow at learning all this especially since he couldn't use shadow clones. Naruto learned how to channel his wind chakra into both blades making them sharper. Once he could do that he was taught how to fire blades of wind by slashing with one or both blade when they had wind chakra in them.

The toughest part of training with the toads he found out wasn't the training, no it was the food. He was used to normal human food not insects, and he didn't want to know what else was in Shima's cooking. Whenever he ate anything he would pretend it was ramen otherwise he couldn't swallow it.

After almost two weeks of training Naruto was proficient enough to slice through normal weapons like kunai, but he was still having trouble launching blades of wind from the blades. He could fire them less than five feet which Jiraiya said "That's pointless at that range just stab or slice your opponent. Now keep trying till you can double your range and maybe I'll teach you to make a twister." This fueled Naruto's efforts to where on his last day of training he launched a series of wind blades 11 feet.

Jiraiya then said "Good work now I would teach you to make a twister, but we don't have time unless you want to miss the exam and spend another month eating bug stew." Naruto visibly paled at the idea of more bug stew. He was desperate for real ramen and not imaginary ramen.

The toads then reverse summoned Naruto and Jiraiya back to Konoha. They had a day till the exam so Jiraiya told Naruto to rest up since he was fighting first and the Hokage's son couldn't be late. Jiraiya then left to do "research" while Naruto walked home. On his way home he saw a few familiar faces but didn't stop to talk.

He had planned on going straight home till he saw Ichiraku's and he just had to stop and eat. He ordered the largest bole of miso pork that he could. By the time he was finished he had eaten nearly a dozen large bowls and it was getting dark. As he was walking he saw a familiar head of pink hair.

Naruto then ran up to Sakura and hugged her from behind. She turned around to hit the pervert who had hugged her only to see it was Naruto. When she saw it was him she hugged him saying "When did you get back Naruto-kun?" Naruto didn't answer immediately since he was enjoying the hug and being back in Konoha.

Naruto then said "I got back an hour ago and was walking home till I stopped for ramen and then I saw you as I was leaving." Sakura then walked with Naruto neither of them paying attention to where they were going.

They ended up on a cliff overlooking the village and being straight in front of the Hokage monument. Naruto then asked, "So what have you been doing besides training this whole month I was gone?"

thank you for reading now PLEASE leave a review telling me what you think. I don,t care if you praise or criticize me so long as it is honest. What i really want to know is do you like or dislike the weapon I made for Naruto. If you dislike something or just feel like giving helpful advice tell me. The next chapter may be awhile since college classes started now and they take up alot of my free time.