Naruto opened his eyes cautiously, still not believing that he had managed to come through time. It seemed so surreal. So impossible. But when his blue eyes opened to see the pure white walls of his hospital room, he finally believed that he truly was in the past.

He sat up and stretched his arms high above his head. He saw the two ANBU that were stationed in his room. Again he saw that one of them was Kakashi. No one else could have silver hair that defied gravity like that. The other ANBU sent a shadow clone off, Naruto presumed it was to tell Jiji he was awake.

Shortly later the door to Naruto's hospital room open and the Hokage stepped into the room. He dismissed the two ANBU.

"Morning Jiji."

"Good morning Naruto. Are you feeling up to showing me your abilities?"

"You bet" Naruto said with a smile.

"There are some clothes that should fit you in the cupboard there. Get dressed then we will head to the training grounds."

Naruto nodded and climbed out of the bed, collected the clothes and went to the bathroom to change.

When he stepped out again he was in a simple white shirt, dark blue 3/4 pants and some black shinobi sandals.

"Afterwards you can go shopping and find yourself some proper clothes" Sarutobi said as he led the way out of the hospital and away from the village to one of the training grounds.

-o0O0o-

"Okay, first we will test your taijutsu" Sarutobi said as they stood in the center of the training ground. Naruto nodded.

"I have asked our taijutsu expert to-"

"WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY TO HAVE A YOUTHFUL SPAR TO GAUGE ONE'S ABILITIES!"

A sudden green anomaly appeared pulling the nice guy pose, a blinding smile which seemed to shine. Most would have thought that this being in front of them was one of Orochimaru's experiments gone wrong. Horribly wrong.

Black shiny bowl cut hair. Green spandex. Orange leg warmers. And eyebrows that seemed to be alive and trying to eat this strange beings face.

But they would have been wrong. This was Konoha's Subline Green Beast of Prey; Might Gai.

Naruto couldn't help but smile at the man's over exuberance.

"My name is Might Gai, and it is so wonderful to be able to test my abilities against a youthful opponent that I have never fought before!"

"It is good to meet you Gai-san, my name is... Kei. Kei Seitoru" Naruto said, creating his new name.

"As I was saying, Gai here has said he will help in testing your taijutsu abilities" Sarutobi said picking up from where he had be interrupted.

"Come at me when you are ready Kei-san" Gai said taking up a defensive stance.

Naruto, now named Kei, began stretching and twisting, trying to loosen up his taught muscles. After it sounded like he had popped every vertebrae in his spine, he got into an attack stance.

Kei rushed forward, his speed surprisingly quick for the lack of practice. It was on par with his speed during the war. Somehow it had not diminished. 'Perhaps the healing from the bijuu's chakra has kept my muscles from deteriorating' Kei thought.

He closed the gap between himself and Gai in a split second and delivered a quick jab to Gai's abdomen. Gai blocked and retaliated with his own punch. Kei dodged low and swung his legs around to sweep Gai's feet out from underneath him. Gai jumped over the attack, flipped and delivered a kick to Kei's head. Kei brought his arms up in a cross above his head and blocked the kick. He then threw his arms up, attempting to unbalance Gai, but Gai predicted this and leapt away before he could be thrown.

Sarutobi watched the intense, fast paced spar with rapt attention. 'Naru-... Kei is truly talented to be able to match Gai' he thought as the two combatants stood and faced each other.

They rushed at each other again. Kei was moving slightly quicker than before. He threw a punch towards Gai's face, but missed. Gai's attention followed the attack that seemed to have missed on purpose, completely missing the incoming knee. The knee rose up and connected with Gai's chin.

The sudden attack surprised Gai, and the force behind the knee sent him into the air. Kei dashed quickly behind Gai and kicked Gai away, into one of the nearby trees. Gai managed to right himself as he was sailing through the air and landed on his feet on the tree trunk. The force from the kick splintered the trunk. 'What amazing force in his kicks!' Gai thought, his admiration of Kei rising.

A sudden rush of feet drew Gai back from his thoughts. He saw Kei rushing to him, a smile plastering his face.

"You better dodge this, Eyebrows!" Kei said as he raised a fist. Gai took heed of Kei's warning and leapt away from the tree just as Kei threw his punch.

His punch decimated the tree. Piercing through the bark and shattered the entire trunk. Kei turned around and faced Gai and the Hokage as the top of the tree crashed to the ground behind him.

"That enough Jiji?" Kei called out across the training field.

"I think that is plenty enough to gauge from. Now both of you come over here" Sarutobi said as he ushered the two to come to him.

"That was a splendid spar Kei-san! It is good to see that the fires of youth burn brightly in you!" Gai exclaimed when the two stood before the Hokage.

"I never thought I would meet someone who could test my taijutsu abilities so well!" Gai continued.

"Indeed" the Hokage concurred.

" Ah... Thanks" Kei said as he rubbed the back of his neck in slight embarrassment.

"Well I think it is apparent that your taijutsu skills are high jounin. Possibly Kage leveled. I doubt I would be able to continue such an intense spar for long" Sarutobi said. Kei just smiled in response. Ever since he was a kid, any kind of compliment would make him happy. It meant that people were acknowledging him, and while that didn't matter to him so much anymore, the feeling of happiness still persisted.

"Anyway, Gai, you can return to your genin team now. I think I can handle the rest" Sarutobi said, dismissing the spandex clad jounin.

"Very well, Hokage-sama" Gai said as he shushined away.

"Now, shall we continue?" Sarutobi asked.

-o0O0o-

AN:/ Sorry for the late update, been preoccupied with university starting up again, this also means that updates might be a bit sporadic over the coming weeks, but I will try to get a chapter out each week for you all :)

But as always, I hope you enjoyed the chapter and please, if you haven't already, review with who you think that Future Naruto (Kei) should be paired with. It is still unconfirmed whether or not I will write about a romantic pairing at the moment, but with your votes it does help me come up with different ideas for how I could incorporate it into the story :)

-LONEzy