I do not own Naruto anime, manga, games or other materials. This is a fan fiction

The thing that the team feared most happened the following week. The seal was not to level 2 and they had to do 200 of everything. The only upside to this was that they were beginning to learn some basic chakra control and some jutsu. So the only thing they needed to do was be taught the one thing that made practice a lot easier. The team was taught the shadow clone jutsu and they could do at least one each. The tree walking exercise proved to be quite fun to watch.

First Shikamaru tried to run up the tree and fell head first to the ground. Luna made it half the tree before she too fell down, but at least she had the sense to point her feet down. Saiya made it to 1/4 up the tree and fell down much like Shikamaru. Naruto was laughing so hard that tears were coming out of his eyes. "Hey, we are trying our best with these seals. I like you to do the same with a seal."

He took his vest off and pointed at where his heart was. He told them the tomoe number was the level the seal was at, they each had 2 marks since they were level 2. But Luna counted her teacher and he counted 12 of them it was all around the center of the seal but she missed the ones outside too. "So you want me to walk up a tree to show you how it's done? Ok, but no complaining afterwards."

He jumped up where he was seated and walked up the tree made it all the way to the top and walked down and stayed half way down and did a little dance and when he saw the look of surprise from his team he walked down again. "Tree walking is the basics of the basics when it comes to chakra control. Which is why I had you learn the shadow clone jutsu." He made a single shadow clone and he walked along side him to the middle and down again.

The clone dispeled and he continued with the reason why, "Whatever the clone learns I learn. So with this this exercise should be done much quicker. And with better chakra control it also means you will be eventually be able to do more shadow clones, and they will help you get better at chakra control, you get the picture, right?"

Shikamaru just flat out asked him how many could he make without getting tired? Naruto looked at him and told him that at the moment 300. Saiya had to ask 300 what? He told them 300 shadow clones. But then again he mastered the jutsu even before he was a chuunin. "The jutsu can be deadly if you go and try to make more shadow clones that you are capable of doing. So for you one shadow clone is enough, and when you reach chuunin it will be two or three, by the time you make jounin maybe seven or eight."

From hearing that they decided to use the shadow clone jutsu from that moment on, with every single chakra control practice session. By the end of the week they all reached the top of the tree and made it back down. This jutsu really did cut down the times they had to do the exercise. The D rank missions were also done more quickly since they had 3 extra hands to help.

"Well I think we should turn off the seals and let your bodies get used to the new strength", so one day he turned it off and they could hardly get used to how much faster they did the warm up exercises and the chakra control exercise. The mission was done in a fraction of the time. "Well since you did so well this week, you get a present, you get an new level on your seal, and you get 100 more times to your exercises for your warm up routine.

"Level three and 300 times all our warm up exercises, how can you call that a present?" Saiya clearly wanting an explanation. "You might complain now, but trust me, this might just save your life one day." The rest of the week they crawled into bed and fell asleep as soon as their heads touched the pillow. In the morning their parents would ask how would they describe their teacher, and all three gave the same reply as they were given their breakfast. "He is a slave driver."

The next week was just as bad as the previous, but now they were doing the water walking exercise. Luna had asked why they were only doing chakra control and the shadow clone jutsu? He told them when they get the next exercise all the chakra control exercises would make learning what came next much easier.

By the fifth week they managed to get the kunai to float on their hands and Luna managed to get it to spin once. They each had 3 shadow clones to practice the exercise and they were very proud of their accomplishments. Naruto told them to dedicate the entire day to doing nothing but the kunai exercise. They understood why the following day. Thanks to their chakra control being so high, they could now do 5 shadow clones and their chakra has increased significantly more than their peers. You ask how you could tell. Well when other girls were still wearing A to B cup size bras. Saiya and Luna had been wearing what seem to be a very respectable C cup bras.

"Why did this happen?" Luna asked her teacher. "Most men store the most of their chakra in their veins, but women store theirs in their breasts. So if you see a woman with a rather large breasts you know that you will have a difficult fight on your hands. Seeing how you can actually do the kunai exercise, the next step of your training is upon us. Elemental Jutsu, but for that we need this special paper."

"This paper is made from a tree that grew by injecting chakra into it. It is very sensitive to chakra, if the paper burns your strongest element is fire. if it becomes soggy, water, crumbles then its earth, crinkles then its lightning. Which ever shows is your strongest and there have been cases that it shows more than one. No matter which shows you will always be able to learn any elemental jutsu, it just that the ones that show will be a lot easier. Why don't I demonstrate."

He took one paper and he channeled some chakra through it. The paper fit cut in 4 pieces, one pieces burned off, the one next to it became soggy and one after crumbled and the last piece crinkled." Now which element am I? that was the question. But Shikamaru could only tell him he had all 5. "Which is why I am prefer to fight using ninjutsu."

Now each take a piece of paper and lets see what your elements are. Shikamaru had lightning and earth, Luna was wind and water, and finally Saiya who was fire and lightning. "Well looks like you will definitely be learning a lot of very interesting jutsu. Now he gave each a scroll that contained the elemental manipulation exercise for each of their elements. "To celebrate, some interesting reading materials. You see that is the initial manipulation exercise and some D rank jutsu for your elements."

"Elemental Manipulation is no joke, you will find that the things I was pushing you to learn before were for a reason, and now you will see thee benefits of all that training. Tomorrow we will do the warm up exercises and I will spend a little time seeing how you do with one of your manipulation exercises. But the person who practices this exercises on his or her own. The very best tomorrow, I will teach that person a C rank jutsu."

Naruto once again found Kurama and this time it seems the fox was actually waiting for him. "So you really expect me to believe, that I was your mother in that time you came from?" Clearly Kurama either learned to trust after she was placed into Kushina or the jinchuriki before her. "I know this seems incredible, and you have absolutely no reason to believe me. But you can't imagine finding the one person who took care of me as a child, alive and well."

Kurama of course wanted details, so details she would get. Naruto told her how he was once considered her jinchuriki, that she had been placed by his father after his mother was close to dying and she came out trying to avenge her best friend. He told her every detail of what he lived through with her. The many nights he cried in the orphanage and her being the only comfort he had. The sleep that he was only able to get because of her singing she did as she stroked his hair.

How it was her that kept him alive, when everyone around him seemed to want to kill him. How she was the one to teach him everything he knew, and how to behave as a person of good morals, and the beliefs and ethics that he had today. "Without you, Kurama I would not even be speaking to you. I would be dead. You decided to send me back when I was unconscious and you did it for me to find peace and happiness. But I am still alone."

Kurama could smell the tears that were almost coming from his eyes. "So this Kurama from the future meant a lot to you, didn't she?" Naruto answered her question, that she was his mother, his whole family and his only real friend in the world. Naruto began to see think that this Kurama maybe looked like his mother, but it was clearly not the same person.

"So I guess it is true, my mother died, and I will never see her again. I saw you and I hoped that she would be back to me. But I guess I was wrong. Forgive me for troubling you, I shall not insist on this issue again. I hope you find your happiness, as my mother wished for me." Naruto's tears began to flow as he was about to leave. The sadness in his voice and being close enough to smell his tears made her realize he was not lying, this boy truly loved her as his mother, and she apparently once loved him as her child.

The mistrust and fear of being used or betrayed began to wash away as she saw this young man cry. She didn't know where the urge came from or the need to do as she did came, but she turned into her human form and she ran towards Naruto, in a swift move she hugged him. "Big boys don't cry, Naru. Big boys don't cry. " She was stroking his hair much like she would her own child.

"You really are such a cry baby, when are you going to learn to live by yourself, and not depend on me? I guess it is true, no matter how big the boy gets he will always be his mother's little baby boy." Kurama did not know why but she wanted to tell him all these things, seeing him cry was just painful, she would do anything to prevent that from happening. But deep down inside there was a void in her heart that began to fill as she held him.

"Don't worry, mama is here. You are not alone. But you do have to work hard to find your happiness, I want some grandkids to teach to, and to tell them stories of how big of a cry baby their father was once he was small." Naruto looked at her and asked if he would return with him to his home to their home. "But how, I have no way to pretend to be human."

Naruto told her that he had created a cover story for her, just in case she accepted him as what he once was his child. "That is very cunning of you, my little Naru. I guess I shouldn't be surprised since you are the child of a fox like me." He told her everything he established and to whom he shared this information with. "So, you and this Mito that close?" Naruto told her she was going to love the house, and his friends. She made some clothes appear around her.

"So to your friends I am Kurama Uzumaki, your godmother, and sister to your mother in everything but blood. That is a nice story, Naru. But be warned I will want to tease you and embarrass you in front of this Mito girl I just heard about. I might even try to match you up with her. This is going to be a fun life." Naruto walked with his mother, who was now dressed in a very conservative kunoichi attire. Her long hair was in a single ponytail that was wrapped around her neck. Much like her son, she dressed in black, but with a little more red than him.

The gate guards at first did not want to let the woman next to Naruto enter, until he pretty much told them, to call for Mito Uzumaki. He could explain everything to her. When Mito showed up she first wasn't very happy to see Naruto with such a beautiful woman, but when Naruto introduced her as Kurama Uzumaki, this made her relax somewhat, and upset her a little too.

"So you are the missing godmother of Naruto. If you don't mind, why were you missing from his life for so long, you do know his mother and father are both dead right?" Kurama smiled at her and told her that indeed she knew that the person she consider her sister was dead, but she was not about to cry a single tear for her husband.

To Mito this sounded like she did not approve of Naruto's father. "Mind telling me why you seem to have hated Naruto's father?" Kurama told her there was no seems about it, she did hate the man. "First he has that almost genetic problem of having an entire log stuck straight up his..." Naruto has to fake a cough before she finished that colorful description. "Second he pretty much told me that if I didn't stop coming to see my sister, which he said she was just my friend, he would abandon my sister and her baby. So I had no choice but to stay away from them."

"I wouldn't doubt it that the sick bastard felt that I was his wife's secret lesbian lover or something sick, or that he might even hurt her for not obeying his orders. I did not want to be the excuse he would use to harm little Naru." Mito welcomed her into the village. "But how do you know him? and what is this name you called him?"

"Naruto didn't tell you his father and by extension his mother trained him since he first walked. So of course he found me when he was just a toddler. The demand said I had to stay away from my sister, and Naruto, but that was done when she was pregnant, and what that bastard didn't know what could it hurt. After all I am the one who taught him chakra control, the training seal he still wears, and the shadow clone jutsu."

How could she be missing, if she taught him all that. "It only took me half a month to teach him. And his father pretty much found out and again threaten to do something horrible, this time to Naruto. So I was separated truly from Naruto and my sister, Naru is what I called him when he was a toddler. Oh you wouldn't believe how much of a sweet child he was then, but it seems his father's condition is beginning to show. So when he invited me I decided to return to his life, to try and make sure that doesn't happen."

"Plus I could finally enjoy the company of my dear aunt." Kurama told him that she explained many times, she was his godmother, and as such it was her duty to look after him after his mother and the bastard died. Mito began to laugh as how they were talking to each other, you would swear they were mother and child. She told them that she was welcome to the village but she wouldn't be able to do any missions until she passed the rank placement test, and met with the Uzukage.

"I don't mind staying in Naru's house and give it a woman's touch, but if I do get bored. I might take that test. I am as strong or even stronger that Naru here, how much of a challenge would it be if he apparently passed it?" Mito was going to have a rather entertaining chat with her father. As the group walked towards Naruto's home, Toya saw the woman next to him and she was not happy and was not even hiding it.

"Naruto what is the meaning of this, explain this situation?" Kurama did not like someone she didn't know make demands on her son. "I am Kurama, a relative that he just happen to find a few days ago, I don't care if you don't approve of me, or approve that I will live in Naruto's home, which will be our family home. But talk to my Naru in such a way, and you will need to learn to enjoy a liquid diet." The killer intent was so sever that Toya was sweating.