Disclaimer: Still don't own Naruto characters, only own the various OCs in the story.

A/N: Sorry for the delay, I was occupied with my school work and the like. Thankfully it is close to summer break and I may have some time to write. But here is the latest chapter.

Chapter 7: Training, Training and More Training part 2

Naruto met with his two close friends Sasuke and Hinata. They were walking down the streets of Konoha. The civilians were sneering at the blond boy. The civilians knew that the second son of the Hokage was close friends with the young son of the Uchiha head and the heiress of the Hyuuga Clan; however, they were afraid of the boy. Naruto was getting too similar to Orochimaru, Itachi and some would even compare him to his father Minato, and Minato's only living student Kakashi. The civilians were afraid that Naruto would get too strong, and that when the time comes and he gains control over the Kyuubi that he would have more than enough power to leave the village should Naruto wishes. However, what the civilians did not know was that their hatred towards the young jinchuuriki and their influence towards his siblings were no help at all. They were just making Naruto more determined to get stronger, the only reason Naruto never thought of leaving was because of his connections in the village and that most if not all the Shinobi Clans respected him and would help him when he gets mobbed by some of the close minded fools.

Naruto knew that he was being glared at once again and he would do anything for their acceptance, "Why?" He asked quietly.

Hinata and Sauske noticed that the villagers would glare at their friend; however, whenever they asked their parents they would get the same answer every time, "Naruto will tell you when he is ready." The two were beginning to worry for their friend but they knew that everything will be fine, after all they were the best trio in the Academy. However, they worried that after the Genin exam that they would be separated, with Naruto and Sasuke both likely be tied for Rookie of the Year and Hinata being the likely Kunoichi of the year, they did not know if their teamwork would allow them to be a team when they become Genin. The trio continued to walk towards the training grounds that they knew that Itachi and Kakashi were waiting for them.

"Hey Kakashi-nii, Itachi-nii!"

Itachi greeted, "Hello there Naruto. Hello little brother, Hinata-san."

Sasuke asked, "So what are we doing today?"

Kakashi's eyes twinkled with amusement and looked at Itachi. Itachi shrugged. The two ANBUs were studying the three academy students in front of them. They knew that Sasuke and Hinata were strong for Academy Students, being able to be quite impressive with Taijutsu, or Ninjutsu in Sasuke's case. However, they knew that Naruto would be most likely to be named the heir of the Uzumaki Clan despite being the second son of Kushina and Minato. They heard of the comparisons around the village, and they were curious how strong Naruto really was.

Kakashi responded, "For one, we are curious how strong each and one of you are currently and after the assessment, we will be testing you three for your nature affinities. We already spoke to Hiashi, and he was okay for you to learn of your nature affinity, Hinata, actually he was hoping that it would help you with your clan training."

Hinata nodded.

Itachi said, "Alright, so who wants to go first?"

Sasuke stepped foreward. He knew that he was no where close to being able to face against his brother or Kakashi, but he would not step down from a challenge, not when he wants to be stronger than Itachi one day.

Itachi smiled. He got into the Uchiha's Taijutsu Style, which consists equally of defense and attack; however, it lacks in speed due to the lack of fluidity and constant changes of katas.

Sasuke quickly rushed in. He was quickly overpowered; however, he managed to place a hit on Itachi's chest, even if it was just a graze, it was still a hit. Itachi nodded and jumped back, 'Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu'

Sasuke was dodging the water bullets to the best of his ability; however, he knew that it was impossible to win with his fire jutsu. He waited for the bullets to stop, when he did a sequence of hand signs, 'Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu'

Itachi dodged it, 'Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu.'

Sasuke took out his kunai and tried to deflect the shurikens; however, he was not quick enough as some still managed to graze him.

Itachi knew that Sasuke could release the easier genjutsus, and he knew that Sasuke did not have the control to release the stronger once, so he just stopped the assessment there. "Well Kakashi? What do you think?"

Kakashi said, "Not bad for an Academy student, Taijutsu and Ninjutsu both at C-rank and Genjutsu if I heard correctly from Itachi, D-rank, so I would probably place you at low to mid-genin level."

Sasuke nodded and was happy that he reached genin level at the age of 8; however, he knew from the comparisons from the villagers that Itachi was around chuunin level at his age. Sasuke sighed in disappointment. Itachi frowned and poked Sasuke's forehead, "Be proud Sasuke. You're stronger than most kids your age."

Sasuke nodded.

Kakashi said, "Alright, I guess I'm next. Who want's to be next getting assessed?"

Hinata came foreward, and went into the Gentle fist style.

Kakashi smiled. He went into the Hatake Taijutsu style, which consisted of defense. He knew that his taijutsu style wasn't equivalent to the Uchiha style in attack, but the style is better in defense. But like the Uchiha style, he needed to work on the speed. He knew that the Hyuuga's Gently Fist style was similar to the Uzumaki's style, which consists of Attack and speed; however, the Hyuuga Clan's 'Rotation' manage to grant them a way to defend themselves, unlike the Uzumaki style, of course unless your Naruto who put some Uchiha Style in his Taijutsu, the Uzumaki's has the worst defense in their taijutsu style.

Hinata quickly rushed in and tried to land a hit on Kakashi. Kakashi stopped Hinata with ease, but the spar was just starting. It felt like forever until Hinata started to slow down. She was losing breathe and Kakashi quickly ended it with a strike to Hinata's shoulder. The two jounins were impressed that Hinata managed to keep up with Kakashi for this long, and they knew that Hinata was definitely at mid-genin level when it comes to her taijutsu. Kakashi asked Hinata, "Do you know any ninjutsu outside of the Academy three?"

Hinata shook her head, so Kakashi proceeded to genjutsu, and because of Hinata's Chakra control she released them with ease, then she did some hand signs,'Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu.'

Kakashi knew that it was just a genjutsu, quickly releasing the jutsu, but it did not mean that his greatest fear did not haunt him, and as soon as Kakashi freed himself, Hinata stacked another genjutsu, 'Magen: Kokoni Arazu no Jutsu.' Kakashi was quickly caught in the genjutsu, it was so realistic since he began throwing kunais at a fake Hinata, but when Kakashi realized that it was a genjutsu he was tapped on the shoulders by Hinata. Kakashi sighed.

Itachi chuckled, "Impressive genjutsu and taijutsu. I would say that both are easily C-rank and ninjutsu is at low D-rank. So overall, I would say low to mid-genin rank as well. Hinata was really proud, and could not wait to tell her father.

Itachi said, "Alright, Naruto so are you ready?"

Naruto's eyes became serious and he quickly went into the Uzumaki style, as Itachi went into the Uchiha's style. Unlike Sasuke and Hinata, Naruto is waiting for Itachi to make the first move. Itachi was impressed that an academy student would be able to be patient enough to examine the opponent. Meanwhile Naruto was twitching his hands, inviting Itachi to have the first move, which he did, throwing a kunai at Naruto, which Naruto responded by throwing one of his as well. As the kunais collided, the two sprinted foreword and met each other equally. Naruto knew that Itachi was going easy on him, so he decided to put his skills to the test.

Naruto is dodging Itachi's strikes with ease; however, the strikes were just getting faster and his speed is not enough to keep up. Naruto was tempted to release his gravity seals to keep up, but he wanted to see if he could spar with Itachi with his seals on. Naruto was blocking the strikes and dodging, but he knew that he had to attack as well. He quickly aimed a kick at Itachi's chest, as it got blocked, he spun on his hands and kicked with his other foot. When that failed he backflipped and landed on his feet with a kunai in each hand. Itachi knew that this was not getting anywhere so he started using ninjutsu, 'Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu.'

Naruto dodged the giant fireball and responded, 'Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu.'

Itachi dodged the bullets and started approaching Naruto. Itachi rushed in and aimed a well timed kick at Naruto; however, it was a Shadow Clone. The real Naruto was up in a tree, 'Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu,' enhanced with wind chakra. Itachi did not know that he shurikens were enhanced with wind chakra so he tried to deflect them; however, as his kunais were being cut, he knew that he had to dodge. But he was not quick enough to dodge the second batch coming towards him, leading two cuts on his face and one on his shoulder. Itachi nodded and knew that Naruto won since he did not want to go more than 50% of his power against Naruto, but if he won then Naruto was definitely at least Chuunin level.

Itachi knew that Naruto could dispel most Genjutsus but his ability to use Genjutsu is nonexistent due to the Kyuubi. He looked at Kakashi, "Well? What do you think?"

Kakashi was shocked that Naruto's training with Arashi and from time to time with Orochimaru and Itachi was this effective. He said, "Taijutsu is well over C-Rank and Ninjutsu is most likely B-rank, Genjutsu is C-rank... so Chuunin level... at his age, he's kind of like you, Itachi."

Itachi said, "And you, and Orochimaru and even Yondaime-sama."

Kakashi said, "So, should we test them for their affinities now?"

Itachi stared at the jounin and looked back at the Academy students. He was curious what their nature affinities were, like most Uchihas Sasuke most likely have fire as a primary or secondary, and it seems like Naruto like most Uzumakis has wind as a primary, and maybe water as a secondary which is not rare in his clan. However, what puzzles him the most is Hinata, since she does not appear to have the Earth nature like most of her clan, the way that she moves, it seems that she may have either water, wind or lightning as her nature, if so, he should probably speak to Hiashi about changing the way Hinata is taught since the Gentle fist style is an Earth nature style, while Hinata is doing fine with the style, she unknowingly already put a few changes here and there to suite her more. Itachi pulled out a chakra paper, "This paper is made from a tree that can absorb chakra. Its commonly used for jounins to test their nature affinities; however, we are testing you three for yours very early. All you have to do is focus chakra and if the paper becomes wet, your affinity is water, burn into ash, fire, wrinkle, lightning, cut, wind, and finally turns into dust, earth. For example, as you could see when I put my chakra into this paper, half burned and the other half became soggy, this means that fire is my primary and water is my secondary.

Naruto asked, "What about you Kakashi-nii?"

Kakashi took out a chakra paper and the paper wrinkled, "Lightning."

Itachi continued, "So, here are the chakra paper, good luck."

Hinata was the first to find her nature affinity and to no surprise, it was lightning. Hinata knew that she should probably tell her father that the gentle fist style unchanged won't suite her.

Next was Sasuke, his primary shocked Itachi since he was expecting Fire. Sasuke's primary was lightning and secondary was fire.

Now finally was Naruto. The two jounins knew wind and water were probably his primary and secondary; however, what occurred shocked everyone, even Naruto himself. The paper cut into three, one corner wrinkled, the other burned into ashes, and finally the largest half became soggy. Naruto had an affinity of wind, water, lightning and fire. Curious enough, Naruto asked Kurama if him being the jinchuuriki the Demon Fox had any influence to his affinity, and Kurama just mumbled a, "No jailer of mine will go running around without at least having either fire or earth nature," and then went back to sleep.

Naruto sweat dropped and sighed in disbelief. As the day ended and the trio left back to their houses, Naruto was still thinking if he should at least try to graduate early like Itachi and Kakashi, but he knew that he might be separated from his friends.

A/N: Longest chapter yet, I will try to update soon but with finals coming up, it will probably be in a month or two. I have already decided that Naruto will be training with Arashi, Itachi, Orochimaru, and perhaps Jiraiya (or Shisui or Asuma) during his time in the Academy, I mean come on, Minato will never allow his child to graduate the Academy early if he could help it. Sasuke will be training with Fugaku, Kakashi, and Orochimaru, and Hinata with Hiashi and Kurenai, and maybe Tsunade in the future.

Next Chapter- The Hawk's Betrayal

((hugs to anyone who could guess who betray Konoha))