Sasuke was currently still inside of Konohagakure, visiting his parent's grave as he usually did when he lived in Konohagakure. Only now he wasn't tearing up as he had always done back then. He was sure no one wouldn't see him since no one ever came to the Uchiha grounds. Either they were too scared to visit a ghosted village or they just didn't care about the place. Sasuke sighed as he took his hood off. So they're holding the jonin exams here again….? Maybe I should sign up. Get my training back going. Then, I look for naruto. It still shocked him that the blond just up and left the village he claimed to love so much. He always went on and on about becoming Hokage and making people respect him and so on. The thought that Naruto left to look for him crossed his mind once, but for three years? That thought didn't seem like it made sense, so Sasuke dismissed it.

Orochimaru had soon realized the obsession Sasuke had with naruto and almost began to worry. But of course, it was Orochimaru so he didn't. Kabuto, however, kept bugging Sasuke about it. Asking and asking if Sasuke was in love with the stupid obnoxious blond which Sasuke denied every time. Sasuke sighed and left the Uchiha grounds and put his hood back on. Soon he thought soon my clan will be avenged and I will have my revenge on Itachi. He still wondered why Itachi could be so heartless. He had no idea what Sasuke was going through right now. However it was the other way around, Sasuke had no idea what Itachi was going through.

Sasuke sighed and walked to his old home to rest the night I guess I should just sleep until the morning…

Time for the jonin exams

"Are you sure I look ok Itachi…?" naruto pulled on his now jet black hair and looked at his painted nails and covered fox-like whiskers. "Yes, you look fine. Now, remember, your name is menma Uzumaki and you came here so you could look for your lost twin brother. Also, wear this for extra caution" Naruto nods when Itachi hands him a mask that kinda resembles the kind anbu wear and he looks at Itachi "I won't fail you Itachi!" He says with great certainty. Itachi had also given him some new clothing, of course, naruto was a bit bummed he couldn't wear his Akatsuki cloak but...It was for the mission. Itachi gives him a warm smile before jumping off the roof he was on.

Ok...I'm assuming the jonin exams are held where the chunin exams were. Naruto takes a deep breath, hoping his old 'pals' were either already jonin or didn't want to compete so he wouldn't have to go against them and could get through this quickly.

Once he finally landed he signed his name in and went to go sit on the bleachers to wait for this first fight. After about 20 minutes, another hooded figure sat two rows beneath him. Is he competing..? Naruto wondered. He shrugged it off and looked at the middle of the stadia "WELCOME, SHINOBI FROM ALLLLLL LANDS! TODAY'S FIRST OPONETS AREEE-" god this guy is really annoying, who even needs to yell that loud?

Naruto glared his way at the man standing by the Hokage. He was about 6 feet, black-haired, and had a stubbled beard on his chin. He looks like an addict. "SHIKAMARU NARA VS. NEJI HYUGA!" naruto inwardly sighed, he'd guess the gods weren't in his favor today. Wasnt Shikamaru and Neji like crazy strong? Well...not so much for Neji since I beat him...barely. I wonder why they were chosen to fight, this battle is going to be so long….but I guess that's good for Itachi's sake. But not so much for me.

Naruto was so busy worrying over the amount of time the battle would take that he didn't notice a woman sitting next to him and analyzing his mask "h-hey u-uh are you apart of t-the anbu?" that voice...no why did she have to talk to me.

"No, I'm not" Naruto continued to look straight ahead, hoping Hinata would shut up and mind her business. But of course, that didn't happen "oh..ok. Are you from here? You dont have a forehead protector so…" naruto sighed again looked at her wow she's grown...her hair is longer, and she looked more like a woman. He almost smiled at the thought of cutting her sweet smile off her face while her blood dripped and splattered everywhere. What land did Itachi say to tell people if they asked…? "I'm from the mist" he lied "the hidden mist? Ooh that's cool" she gave him an angel smile. Yeah, he was aware that Hinata had a huge fucking crush on him when he and she were 'friends', and yeah he didn't care, he already had his eyes set on someone. Yet he couldn't get him.

Of course, they were only kids so one could say naruto had no idea what true love was but naruto knew he felt something, of course, that's why he went to such lengths to try and return him.

Naruto's turn

"UPP NEXXTTT IS MENMA UZUMAKI AND SAKURA HARUNO!" the crowd scanned for this said 'menma' i guess it's my turn. naruto did a couple of hand signs and teleported to the middle of the stadium.

Sasuke eyed the random guy as he teleported. He's part of the Uzumaki clan? And how strong is he?, Sasuke had already done his match. Going against rock lee and of course, winning. It was the last match, now only Sasuke, Shikamaru, menma and sakura.

Sakura walked giddily down the stairs, she was so ready to become a jonin she could almost taste it. Though not knowing what she was going up against was nerve-wracking. I'll become a jonin and maybe I'll be able to be in the same league as Sasuke! And maybe he'll finally acknowledge his feelings for me. She smiled as she looked at menma. His jet black hair kind of reminded him of the fourth Hokage's hair, she had seen some pictures of him in the Hokage's office when she was training with lady Tsunade. "AND BEGIN!" The loud instructor announced.

"CHA!' Sakura tried to hit menma with a chakra-infused punched but missed and somehow got thrown against the stadium. "You got cocky…" menma announced and popped up behind sakura to kick her into the ground while she was still down. He had created a huge crater inside of the ground. Sakura coughed up blood and tried healing her now broken ribs and spine as fast as she could, failing when menma noticed what she was trying to do "healing jutsu? No matter" sakura has gotten a bit stronger from when I saw her years ago...but still not strong to come close to me. Naruto grabbed her by her hair and swung her in the air.

Sasuke wasn't only just surprised, he was confused, sakura's punch was perfect and surely going to hit this menma guy…

So why didn't it…are Uzumaki's really this strong?!

Naruto then leaped into the air where sakura was and repeatedly threw kicks at her, every one containing massive amounts of chakra and everyone breaking or bruising something on her body. Naruto was also having a kick out of this, finally getting to shut this bitch up made his heart run wild with joy.

When they finally made it to the ground naruto let sakura fall to the ground. As soon as he was about to claim his victory, she disappeared into thin air. A shadow clone?! Before naruto registered what was going on sakura had yanked his head back and punched him scare in his mask, cracking it.

The crowd gasped and watched as Naruto held his face, trying to recover from that punch "SON OF A BITCH" he screamed.

Sasuke's eyes widened and waited until his hands moved away from his face and as he glared at sakura. "Why you filthy little whore, I'm going to make you pay for that." And with that, menma disappeared and appeared behind sakura. Drawing the sword that was behind him and slicing her head off in one go. Her blood splattered everywhere as her body fell limp.

Some gasped, some people screamed 'no' while others stayed quiet. Sasuke couldn't believe menma had killed her like that, he didn't even look like he was sorry he looked….happy?

Lady Tsunade jumped out of her seat and ran to sakura, screaming at menma telling him to step away. After she did that naruto starting giggling. Giggling turned into laughter, laughter turned into hysterical laughter, and soon after he was on the ground trying to compose himself. "Finally...that pink-haired barbie bitch is finally gone!" Sasuke watched as menma started laughing again. All of his old teammates were about to jump down to attack menma when a hooded figure jumped down right beside naruto.

Naruto looked Itachi straight in the eyes and allowed him to put him in a genjutsu so he could explain the situation. "So what's going on 'tachi?" naruto put his hands behind his head and waited for him to speak "Sasuke, he's here"