Disclaimer: Kishimoto Masashi created "Naruto" not me.

A/N: Bass Clef here with chapter four, I'm on spring break right now and this fic is coming to an end soon. I may get a fifth chapter up by the end of the week but that is very unlikely. I tried to make this chapter around 4000 words long but that's too much for me. I have enjoyed writing this, but once this fic is done with its possible sixth and final chapter I'm through with writing fics. Sad huh?

Anyway here's chapter four, hope you enjoy it!

Key:

The entire previous text key is the same for all the other chapters.

~ Chapter 4: Longest chapter? Friendship turns into love? The truth is revealed? What's going on? Too many questions… @_@ ~

Weeks have passed and life has been going better for Naruto, he had a home, he made a friend, and he was having fun without sadness. For once he was happy and he knew people were starting to think a bit differently about him, in a positive way. He also was looking forward to every passing day, wanted to make new friends and of course seeing Sakura.

But then again, today was going to have a test. The Third and he studied for hours on end last night since Naruto had come to the academy mid year. Though you could say the Hokage had the answers to the test since he did set the base for all tests the academy gives out (including the answers), so in a way you could say they were… cheating.

~Flashback~

"Oi Naruto, I heard you have a test tomorrow. How about we study a bit?" asked the Third.

"Sure, but can we study the answers again?"

"No, that'd be cheating, besides I think Iruka is catching on to our scheme."

"Liar!"

"Naruto if you cheat all your life you'll really never going to get very far in life, so lets just try and see how studying the facts effects your test score, ok?"

"Fine…"

~End Flashback~

Just in a few moments the test will be handed out and testing will occur being followed by the tapings of pencils on paper. If you stood in front of the classroom you could easily pick out which students would fail and pass. Though Naruto was the exception. His face held many mixed emotions on several topics especially ones about the test. Many thoughts ran through his head like, 'did I study enough last night? I'm gonna kill the old man for not giving me the answers last night!' and some thoughts that weren't about the test, 'I wonder what Sakura-chan is thinking…she looks real pretty right now…I wonder if she likes me. I wonder if we'll end up married…'

As Naruto's thoughts were cut off by Iruka who started to hand out the test. Naruto tried to peek at the sheets of paper hoping to see what kind of questions are asked, but he failed to succeed, so by the time his copy of the test came to him his mind started to race trying to remember all the things he really did study the night before. Iruka's voice once again cut off his long train of thought with this comment, "alright class you have five minutes left to complete the test!"

'WHAAAAAAAT?! How could have I dozed off?! When did Iruka-sensei give the signal to start?! Ok, don't worry Naruto you can get this done before-'

"One minute left!"

'OH NOOOOO!!!! OK! First question, "When is Kawarimi no Jutsu most useful?" oh that's easy… uh… hold on… OH NO! I forgot!!!'

"30 seconds left!"

'Just my luck…when I actually study for the first time I bomb the test! I guess there's no point in actually trying to finish this test.'

"Time's up!" Iruka shouted, "anyone who is not finished please put down your No. 2 pencils and pass the test to the center of the classroom. Whoever did not finish or did not think they did well please remember this is not the only test this month, so you will have plenty more chances to pass a test. OK everyone, class has ended now and your usual 60-minute recess has started afterwards lunch begins and then after that we have the afternoon class, I will see you all this afternoon now please play safe outside."

Immediately after Iruka finished speaking all the students rushed towards the door to go play, but he had one more thing to say.

"And I need to speak with Naruto."

Upon hearing his name being called Naruto came rushing up to his sensei wondering what was wrong.

"What did I do this time sensei?" pondered Naruto.

"Well Naruto, I noticed that you struggled with the test today. I was wondering if something was wrong, and by the looks of your answers to the test I can see that you didn't study like you usually do. I can still let you pass if you complete the test during recess, so you up for it?"

"Yeah! Thanks for letting me finish the test Iruka-sensei!"

"No problem Naruto no problem at all."

-------- Outside During Recess (where all the students are) --------

"Sasuke-kun! Why don't you come over here and play with us?! Sasuke-kun!" several girls shouted in glee seeing the Uchiha crossing the playground. Even to this day he never really pays attention to the swarms of fan girls that call out to him or surround him.

            Sasuke just "hmph-ed" and continued to walk across the playground. Completely ignoring all the other children, while idly carrying a kunai and shuriken in each hand.

Though after all the groups of girls failed attempts, not including Sakura and a few others, they got tired of shouting Sasuke's name they resumed the activities they were previously in. Mostly everyone did not notice that Konoha's most hyperactive soon to be ninja and hopefully soon to be Rokudaime was not outside, but inside taking the test everyone supposedly finished and passed. And he was surely taking his sweet time going back through all his answers making sure everything accurate.

When only ten minutes remained in the recess hour Naruto had finished knowing that he got everything exact to what the textbook and notes he had taken… but who knows if his notes were correct?

Sakura had been wondering where Naruto had been for the past 50 minutes until she turned towards the door to see her friend walking out. When Naruto saw her he quickened his pace to greet her.

"Hey Sakura-chan! What's up?" asked Naruto.

"Not much, but where have you been? I've been waiting for you for almost 55 minutes now!" she shouted.

"Oh Sakura-chan I was uh... taking the test. I didn't really get to start on it. I guess I kinda zoned out when it was passed out," he admitted, "sorry, Sakura-chan…"

"It's ok Naruto, c'mon let's go and hurry and get our lunches I've heard we can eat outside today!"

"OK!"

-------- On the other side of the playground--------

 While Sakura and Naruto where rushing back to the halls of the academy Ino and some friends of hers were conversing over usual topics they gossiped about, especially one about Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke.

"When is she going to learn? Naruto is the worst person she can be around with!"

"Yeah, yeah we know, we know. It just doesn't make sense… but did all of you see Sasuke-kun?! I swear he was about to smile! And he was looking right at me too!" exclaimed Ino.

"I-I don't think Sasuke was l-looking at any of you though, he just grunted and sort of walked off." Stated a quiet girl.

"Oh, Hinata stop thinking like that, one day you're going to make us all feel bad to the point of us feeling like we're going to end up marrying someone like that lazy Shikamaru." Complained Ino.

When he heard his name being called out Shikamaru sighed and continued to look at the clouds trying to ignore the ranting of Ino. He didn't think much of her being more than a loud mouth whom was always interrupting his time of staring at the sky or playing chess. Even though Chouji isn't much of a challenge in chess he's still a friend of his. Suddenly Shikamaru got a tingling feeling up his spine telling him that somehow Ino, Chouji and he were going to be together for a long time.

As every soon-to-be-Genin strolled to the doors to the academy one in particular muttered, "stupid Shikamaru" as they were coming inside, fairly soon afterwards another student muttered, "stupid Ino."

------- Lunchtime! -------

It has only been a few minutes since all the students entered the academy doors to retrieve their lunches. Of course Naruto and Sakura were together talking over several topics like what will they learn in their classes and such. Though it never crossed the pink haired girl's mind to wonder more about her mothers fear and anger towards Naruto. She knew that almost every adult in the village hated him for some weird reason, but she never got a straight answer so she ended up thinking, 'maybe its an adult thing, I hope I don't end up hating Naruto like everyone else does.'  

It was a good five minutes before she broke away from the deep thoughts with Naruto waving his hand in front of her face while calling out her name every five seconds. She blinked, snatching Naruto's hand out of the way. Neither spoke a word until they reached a bench next to the playground. Naruto broke the silence with one question.

"What's wrong Sakura-chan?" asked the blonde.

"Nothing Naruto, I, I was just thinking. That's all." she replied.

"Oh, well the school year is almost over, you know. When do you think we'll become Genin?"

"I'm not sure. But the average academy student becomes a Genin at the age of twelve. Though in rare cases some become a Genin around our age, or sooner."

"Ok. Hey Sakura-chan…"

"Yeah Naruto?"

"Wanna come over to my place for dinner sometime?"

"Don't you live with Sandaime?"

"Huh? Oh you mean the old man. Yeah I live with him, since he promised my parents that…" he sighed towards the end of his sentence, "…he would take care of me…"

The silence returned, causing both children to simply stare at the ground. Yet both of their reasons were different; Naruto being depressed over the death of his parents and Sakura, whom he first befriended, caused the whole mess in the first place. The young blonde once again penetrated the stillness in the air.

"Sakura-chan, I'-"

"I'm sorry Naruto, I'm sorry for making you runaway that day when I said, well you know."

"Don't worry about Sakura-chan, if it weren't for you I wouldn't of found out that my parents got the old man to promise to take care of me. Or even finding out who my parents were…"

Sakura wanted to know whom his parents were, but she hesitated because if she did asked it may upset him again. Moments passed when she finally asked him what she have been wondering for quite a while now.

"Naruto, is it OK if I ask who your parents were?"

"Yeah it is, but I'm not allowed to tell you. If I were to then the old man would fear that the secret would get out. Maybe I can tell you if I get permission from him."

"It's all right Naruto I don't need to know. Let's just finish our lunches, we spent almost all our time talking."

"OK"

-------- Afternoon Class (Iruka's Classroom) --------

As soon as the bell rang for the afternoon lesson to start Iruka had papers in his hands, which happened to the tests they took earlier, but this time the tests were graded. All of the students cringed at the sight of the test hoping they didn't fail.

"Alright before we start today's lesson I have your tests graded. I am very impressed with everyone's grades almost all of you got a 90% or above." As Iruka passed students handing their tests he said congratulations to each,  "Here you go Sakura a perfect 100% like always."

She giggled, "thank you Iruka-sensei."

 As he approached the row behind Sakura he passed a test to Ino, Shikamaru, and Chouji, "You too Ino good job you got a 101%… here Shikamaru, uh here's your test… try harder next time, ok? Nice job Chouji keep up the good work."

When Ino received her test she flat out bragged about it to Sakura, "Heh, Sakura anything you can do I can do better." When Shikamaru saw his he just sighed and said something like "tests are too troublesome." All tests have been passed out except Naruto's. Once Iruka reached to the row Naruto was sitting in (right next to Sakura) he handed his test to him.

 Iruka smiled while saying, "Congrats Naruto you did the best out of everyone here."

"Huh? What do you mean? Huh, YATTAH!!! All that studying helped! Hehehe…" exclaimed Naruto, "I got a 120%!"

It took everyone a few seconds to actually respond, they were all too shocked of what Naruto had gotten on his test. To put it in the simplest way all the other students including Sakura yelled, "WHAAAAAAT??!!" while Naruto had a fairly large grin plastered onto his face.

--------- After school ---------

Just as Naruto was heading to his home with the Third he heard someone in particular calling his name out. As usual it was Sakura wishing to speak with our young hero. They were roughly 100 meters away from each other so Sakura ran as much as she could to catch up to him.

"Wait up Naruto-kun! Wait up!" 'Since when did I start saying Naruto-kun?'

"Huh? What's wrong Sakura-chan? Still wondering how I got that cool test score of 120%?" he said smirking.

She sighed, "Yes and no. But anyway can I come over to your place tomorrow?"

"Yeah! Sure just let me ask the old man first! … Demo Sakura-chan what about your parents won't they disapprove of you coming over?" asked a concerned Naruto.

"Yeah they will, unless I tell them that I… um... hold on what was my plan…? Darn. I forgot my plan well I'm sure if I tell my parents that the Third will be there I'm positive that I'll be allowed to stay over at your place for a bit."

"Thanks Sakura-chan for everything, one day I'm going to repay you no matter what it is. That's a promise!"

"No need to thank me Naruto-kun. That's just what friends are for; they stick up for each other. So, um… thanks for everything you've done for me Naruto-kun… this is for you…." She trailed her sentence into a whisper. A moment of silence passed until Sakura planted a small kiss on Naruto's cheek, causing both to go red. Then she spoke once again whispering in his ear, "I really like you Naruto-kun. Cya tomorrow."

'Eh, that was awkward and maybe a little too straight forward with my words and actions... but nevertheless I gave him a sign that I really like him. Goodnight Naruto-kun, wow that rolls of the tongue real well… interesting.' That's what Sakura thought afterwards that all…. Now lets see Naruto's reaction!

            Naruto just stood there staring blankly at the sky thinking about what just happened... well he couldn't really think he just had a blank thought that's all. Oh wait, here's his thought, 'Sakura-chan really likes me… SHE LIKES ME!!! YAY!'

            Well, Naruto had his day. He couldn't wait to tell the old man what happened, but we all know the Sandaime was looking through his crystal ball laughing his head off, who then couldn't wait to make fun of Naruto when he got home.

-------- End of Chapter 4 --------

A/N: Well, Chapter 4 is completed, though I kind of feel cheated from my works. So I'm going to go back through all the other chapters and redo them, adding scenes, fixing dialogue, and all the things that made them full of errors. Um... oh I found an ending theme to this fic, "Harmonia" by RYTHEM, you know the 2nd ending theme to the anime. I think it fits what I have in store for all of you guys and girls… err mostly girls.

Sorry about the confusing title as well. But it's still relevant to the chapter!

I'll be in New York City for a few days next week (the 15th-18th (Thursday-Sunday)) if any of you fans out there live near there be sure to find me. Haha though it'll be hard to find me. 

But before I sign out for the evening of this post I have some extra stuff for all of you to read. This was originally supposed to be part of this chapter, but after I got through halfway I decided it didn't fit at all. So here it is!

"Why can't I see him again?!"

"Because he's evil. He's a horrible kid and no one should be near him!"

"That's not very convincing!"

"It doesn't have to be! As long as you keep away from that boy you're safe!"

"What's so horrible about him?! He's nice, kind, funny and he's my friend,

I really like him!"

"Sakura go to your room NOW!"

"FINE! But you can't stop me from seeing him!"

"Yes we can! We'll make you stop being a ninja if we have to!"

"Then do so if it makes you happy!"

"We will!"

 With being tired of this quarrel she finally gave up, "…I'll be going to my room now…" Sakura whispered.

As she was walking up the stairs she began to cry. This was the first fight she and her parents got into which was over a boy. Her relationship with Naruto was only a mere friendship right? Or does she love him? She began to ponder on the events that have occurred over the past few years when she arrived to her room.  She closed and locked the door then slowly walking towards her bed she began holding herself while crying on her bed wishing the fight never occurred.

"Naruto-kun, I wish you were here comforting me with your smile… but since my parents hate you too we may never see each other again…" after awhile of silent contemplation Sakura soon fell sleep…

Yet Sakura soon woke up to find out that the fight… and everything that occurred afterwards was only a dream; a dream that may hold contents of what is to come? Only time would tell…

A/N: Cya when chapter 5 comes out!