Hey guys, Hypno here! Let me first start off by apologizing for taking so long to update but Army life has been keeping me busy and I'm working on getting my degree as well. Reading back on this story there are a lot of things I want to change so the moment I can get around to it you can expect some revisions to the story. Mostly it shall be just cleaning up the grammar and spelling mistakes but there are a few plot holes and incongruities I need to patch up as well.

I'm still rather swamped in my studies but here is a little teaser for chapter 8. Please don't hate me.

Ino was livid. It was bad enough that Naruto completely crushed her in their spar but he had proceeded to fly through the ranking tournament as if to punctuate the point just for her that they were not even in the same league. Not only had the annoying boy jumped from then tenth slot to the third slot in just one day but he had ended it with what may have been the most bad-ass taijutsu spar the academy had ever seen!

It was simply not fair! She could understand that someone who trained as hard as Naruto would naturally become stronger but he had no right or reason to be so cool about it!

And it was this and similar lines of reasoning that found young Yamanaka Ino doggedly pursuing the boy who had defeated her so effortlessly only an hour so previously. Not forgetting her training, she made sure to remain far enough behind him as to not have her presence detected and she found that she was smirking despite herself at the fact that her quarry had not seemed to notice her.

Unfortunately that smirk did not last long as almost as soon as it appeared the small blond boy in front of her stopped in the middle of the walkway and turned to her with a rather surly but still obnoxiously arrogant smirk of his own.

"Come for a rematch, Ino-san?"

And there we have it! I promise to do my very best to have the full chapter up by the fifteenth as I have two tests and a final to prepare for but I seriously want to get this story back on track.

Until next time my lovelies!