DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO...OR MABYE I DO....checks papers NOPE, STILL DON'T OWN IT!

(AUTHOR'S NOTES: Hey all, Sasuke and Naruto finally duke it out. Now remember, if you have a problem with Sasuke losing horribly...well too bad because he hasn't gotten his speed training from Kakashi-sensei. Chuunin exams are coming up too and there'll be new characters joining the party so things will get interesting...and the girl situation...we'll see how that goes. ENJOY THE STORY!

TRAVELS AND JOURNEYS

I watched Sasuke lower himself into a fighting stance, his hand holding steady over his kunai pouch. I continued to stand solid with my hands crossed in front of me, I don't know if it was possible but I could've sworn that my smirk grew broader as I thought up something to say.

"You know what, I don't even need to see you to beat you. So I'll just put this over my eyes and we'll see how you do with this advantage."

He frowned angrily and narrowed his eyes as I loosened my hidden leaf forehead-protector and tying it tightly around my eyes. My smirk quickly turned into a soft smile as I looked up at where the sky would be, I'll fight like this for you Tatsumaki-chan...I would fight like this in honor of her, until I was able to fulfill my promise.

I heard five quick whisks of air rush at me; I quickly drew a kunai and reflected each kunai that Sasuke had thrown at me. I could hear his foot dig heavily into the ground as he pushed off it and leapt at me. I dodged it swiftly; he was fast that I was sure of, but nowhere close enough. I could feel his attacks come at me and miss, he flipped backwards and everything stopped.

Suddenly I felt a surge of chakra in his direction and I heard him take in a deep breath and I took to the sky.

"Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"

I felt a rush of heat blast underneath me, I began to feel myself begin to fall when I formed three seals and landed on solid air. I sighed and wiped my brow; I could feel the heat from here.

"Where did he--?"

I heard him say before I'm guessing he eventually looked up at me and saw me standing in the air. Maybe I shouldn't have fought blind so I could see the dumbfounded look on his face. I shook my head; I looked to where he would have been standing and smiled.

"You'll have to do better than that."

I heard several more whisks pierce the air and I moved out of the way as nearly a dozen shuriken flew by me. I was forced to jump off my solid air platform as he threw another round of shuriken. As I hit the ground I heard several quiet snaps. A trap? I felt the sudden whoosh of air on all side, with my back to the tree. I'll have to do this quickly. I thought in a panic as I formed several seals and began spinning much faster than I was supposed to.

I could feel the wind finally stabilize around me as I continued to spin, I heard nearly a dozen or more pings as the kunai and throwing knives collided with one another and rolled into the mediocre size cyclone I had created. I heard Sakura scream in the distant and then suddenly another surge of heat, I felt the fire roll around the cyclone momentarily before the fire stopped again. I began to slow down and eventually stopped twirling. I shook the dizziness from my consciousness and darted my head from side to side.

All I could hear were the soft hits of the knives as most decided to stab the ground. I strained to hear any sound when I heard the wind above me begin to break so to speak. I flipped back several feet and landed on my feet, skidding backwards. I broke to the right as several more kunai came into my direction. This was beginning to get old; I couldn't see anything so the fight was as enjoyable as I thought.

I wasn't about to remove the hitae-ate before the fight was over or he would think he was wearing on me. No one wore on Naruto, or at least I wouldn't let anyone see the fight wearing on me! I heard him rush towards me and I drew my kunai and held it up just as he brought his down, I felt his other hand whip around and I barely caught his wrist. I felt a slight sting, as he was able to poke my arm with the end of his kunai. I pushed away from him and drew another kunai to compensate.

The fight continued for another five minutes, we had turned several times and pushed each other back several feet but I had pushed him back nearly the entire way until I heard a gentle splash under my feet. An idea lit up brightly in my head and I leapt back away from Sasuke. I threw the kunai in my left hand down into the loose dirt. I wasn't sure why there was a puddle, but I wasn't one to ask a question at the moment.

I formed a small string of seals and landed on the Ox seal.

"Hidden Mist no Jutsu!"

I could feel the moisture against my bare skin after a few moments, I took a small peak from behind my hitae-ate and with a satisfied grin I pulled it back down. The mist jutsu had actually worked and I didn't even need that much water. Or at least I didn't think I had a lot.

"Where the hell did you learn that?"

I heard him yell through the mist, he was about 14 feet away from me but I could figure he didn't quite know where I was. I formed another group of seals, concentrated my chakra out from the bottom of my feet and into the ground. Finally I landed on the dog seal and manipulated my chakra that had seeped into the ground.

"Da-su Sude no Sabure"

(AN: Dozen Bare Hands of Sand)

I heard a muffled grunt as I could feel two of the grainy tentacles wrap around his legs and another manage to wrap around his waist. I struggled to push my chakra even further to find more sand in the already moist dirt. I relented and focused on the three tentacles I had already created. I gradually made my way forward as he struck his kunai against the tentacles furiously.

When I was only about 6 feet away from him, I felt yet another surge of heat and he blasted the tentacles on his own body. I winced and jumped back. I could feel my chakra seep back into my body as the tentacles were blasted into worthless particles. I frowned and released the mist jutsu. The only tentacle that was still present was the one that was wrapped around his torso.

He was panting and he finally managed to break free of the tentacle and landed further back, he was now standing about 18 feet away from me.

"So I guess you have learned a few measly ones."

I smirked and finally decided that it was time to end this cockfight before it went along too far and I had to show more jutsu before the exam. I began walking towards him and soon as he broke out into a run, I snapped into a dash and closed the space between us. I felt everything slow down to a snail's speed. I lowered myself to the ground as low as I could get. My muscles tensed tightly as I prepared for my favorite finishing move by far, the Hisame Dageki combo.

I pushed forward; I placed my hands open palm forward; each wrist laid on one another. I brought my hands back to each side and balled them tightly. I dashed forward to his slowly falling body as it was being pushed back through the air as his body had hit my oncoming fists. I brought myself upright and began smacking my closed fists against his body in rhythm with the bottoms of my hands. I felt the vibrations pulse through my fists as they left their mark. I struck him three times in the chest and spun rapidly in a complete circle, my left hand came around and struck him in the side of the chest while my other hand connected with the side of his head. While he was still in motion, I moved fluidly through the next string of attacks.

I turned slightly and struck him thrice in the stomach, his body very slowly began to bend forward in mid-air. I sped past his slow-moving body and struck him another six times in sporadic places. I could feel his body quake from the attacks and I ended it with a vicious attack to his chest that sent him into the ground with a rather loud boom. The ground trembled lightly and the ground had cracked somewhat.

I could feel everything slowly catch up to me and I stood over his body with my fists still outstretched and holding steady where I had actually struck him. Which would probably be about 3 feet above where he currently laid at the moment.

"Hisame Dageki Combo!"

I sighed in relief and relaxed my posture and removed the hitae-ate from my vision. I smirked and looked back at Kakashi.

"Is that a good start?"

He shook his head in a helpless manner and gradually made it over to where Sasuke was laying prone several inches into the ground. He squatted down and checked his vital signs as Sakura finally made it over to where we stood and squatted along with Kakashi, her face covered in worry.

"Is Sasuke-kun okay?"

He nodded and looked up at me.

"No, I didn't break anything. I just gave him a bit of trauma, I almost broke something but I tried my best not to."

"Then yes Sakura, he'll be just fine. Just get him into bed and he should be alright by tomorrow."

I nodded as he stood back up to his full height, which was still taller than myself. He looked down at me and put a reassuring hand on my right shoulder.

"Welcome to team 7, Naruto-kun."

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The next day was rather slow. I had met up with Kakashi-san and told him that I was going to be unable to catch up with them today because I had to speak with Hokage-sama. He understood from what I could tell since he held no argument to my plans. I walked up the stairs that lead to the Hokage's office and knocked on the screen. There was no answer the first time. I was about to knock a second time when a rather miniature kid slid the door open to the left and answered with a haughty tone.

"What do you want, punk? Grandpa and I have some pressing business to tend to. We can't be disturbed."

He was about to shut the door in my face when I placed my hand firmly against the top of it as he pulled desperately with all of his strength to close it. I scratched the back of my head with my right hand.

"Uh, Hokage-sama, who the hell is this brat?"

He shook his head and let loose a large cloud of smoke from his mouth.

"Konohamaru let Naruto in."

He growled lowly and released the door allowing it to open completely. I bowed slightly and closed the door behind me as I entered. I looked around, briefly before looking back at Hokage.

"So what is it that you wished to speak with me about Naruto?"

Konohamaru was watching as Hokage was carefully filling out yet another document, I glanced at the kid momentarily before I stepped to the right of his chair.

"I was meaning to ask you if it would be possible for me to visit the Lightning Country?"

He raised his eyebrow and took another hit from his pipe.

"Hmm...Why is it that you seek to return to the Village of the Hidden Cloud so eagerly?"

I smiled meekly and scratched the back of my head, I knew there was probably an unwanted blush on my cheeks but there was nothing I could do about it now. He smiled lightly and shook his head.

"I see. I would Naruto, but right now with the Chuunin exam only a week away. The Kages from each country have agreed to not to do any further missions until after the Chuunin exams. I must abide to this rule too."

I frowned and nodded.

"Thanks anyway."

I turned and silently left the Hokage's office, I felt so cheated and a hint of anger struck me. I reached the end of the staircase and made my way out side and down another short stack of stairs. I looked back up at the mammoth building that Hokage was residing in. I hadn't really heard that they had done that before but I wasn't sure how the Chuunin exams went on exactly anyways. I disregarded it and made my way to the training field where we had all been the other day.

I walked onto the field and saw Kakashi standing silently in the field. I stopped and glanced around, I swiftly made a quick switch a Kage Bunshin and watched as he walked out as nonchalantly as I would have, He had his hands behind his head and was taking quick glances around the brushy cover that surrounded him. He walked up to Kakashi and I heard a quick gasp as I heard several twangs spring forth within the brush. I heard six before the traps actually let loose their fury.

The first two were kunai traps which my clone had barely missed as ordered to, I knew if the clones really had a choice of their own, it definitely wouldn't be walking into their own demise. He turned around to see a large tree hunk whip past him, he sighed and looked back as it slowly rolled back, the other side was littered with explosive seals.

Without skipping a beat, the seals decided to ignite and explode fiercely and erupt the entire open space into an impressive roaring fire. I wiped the sweat from my brow and looked around to see two more groupings of a baker's dozen worth of kunai pierce the crackling inferno where my Bunshin had just been standing. At last, I watched as a rather large shadow fell over me in the brush and continue on very shortly and landed exactly where my fallen Bunshin had been standing tall just previously.

A few seconds past and a gush of wind followed by another explosion ripped through the area creating a large plum of dust to rise several stories high into the air. I held in my coughing fits as I watched several shadowy figures walk from the brush to check out the damage they had done.

The dust began to clear, I watched with anxious intent to see who my attackers had been. Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura were standing over the darkest part of the small sized crater. It wasn't deep, only about a foot deep but it had span the entire length of the open area. He leaned over and peered with a slightly cocked head at the smoldering spot. Sakura had a slightly balled up fist to her mouth.

"Don't you think this was a bit much, Kakashi-sensei?"

Kakashi looked over towards Sasuke who sneered and turned his head away from my general direction. He stood back upright and looked back in my general direction. He swiped a kunai from his kunai pouch and flung it at me. I caught the oncoming kunai; I smirked and took a quick glance at it.

I deadpanned, this wasn't good, an explosive seal. I quickly tossed it away and jumped in the other direction. Unfortunately the blast had already gone off and it sent me careening five yards. I slowly rose up and rubbed my head, I looked around at the three Nins that were standing around me. I smiled lightly and scratched the back of my head.

"Hey guys, umm where did you guys come from?"

Sasuke turned his head and hadn't bothered to say anything. Sakura smiled somewhat while Kakashi shook his head. I pointed at Kakashi angrily, my arm and hand shaking slightly.

"What the hell kind of trap was that?"

"I just wanted to test you. You passed."

"Huh?"

Kakashi smiled and shook his head.

"Don't worry about it. Now let's get back to training."

We ended up doing some rather simple training of chakra control and a bit of speed training. Neither really helped me in the least but I didn't mind, it was actually nice to take it easy. Unfortunately Jiraiya had decided to stop by for a small visit.

"Naruto-kun!"

He waved with a simple hand up as he walked up to our group. He exchanged a simple look with Kakashi before looking at the three of us.

"I hope all of you are training hard."

Sakura nodded while Sasuke merely huffed and turned his head in the other direction with his hands buried in his pockets. Jiraiya looked down at me.

"What kind of training have you guys been doing?"

I was about to step in and say something that would satisfy his curiosity enough that would get him to leave. Yet again, fate decided to step in when Sakura chimed in and began explaining what we had been doing in almost full detail. Jiraiya nodded and looked at me from the side with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh really?"

She nodded and Jiraiya stepped away over with Kakashi, the two whispered amongst one another. I watched as Kakashi shook his head but Jiraiya had already pulled something from inside his shirt. I strained my eyes and peered closer, it was a small book, and I read the cover slowly. "Come Come Paradise 5" I felt so cheated. I could quickly tell the happy disposition that Kakashi was now in. He nodded and the two walked back over to Sakura, Sasuke and I.

"Alright, back to training guys. Sakura and Sasuke, you two need to train your jutsu. Naruto, do a thousand vertical push-ups, then hmm..."

He looked around and Jiraiya had again whispered something into his ear pointing to his right. I peeked in that direction and saw a rather large boulder standing there, rather solemnly as I can remember.

"Then kick that boulder until you break it."

I felt my jaw slacken and my mind sort of sputtered out of service. I stood there motionless for nearly a minute. I hadn't even noticed Jiraiya coming back up to my side and clapping me on the back.

"There you go, you should have fun doing that."

I slowly turned, a death glare in my eyes. If looks could kill, I would have killed him nearly thirty times before he hit the ground. I pointed at him, my arm shaking in anger again.

"Ero-sennin! What the hell are you thinking? I can't kick the boulder in half."

"He didn't say half. He said until you break it, so try breaking it into as many pieces as you can."

I clenched my jaw from falling and growled.

"Dammit get the hell out of here and go peek or something!"

He shrugged and smiled perversely with a small blush on his face.

"I was planning on doing that anyway, heh heh."

I shook my head and walked away from Ero-sennin with my head hung slightly lower. Dammit, I always had to jump the gun on my luck. I flipped up and held my legs high into the air. I took a deep breath and began pushing up and down with my legs dangling above me the entire time.

"One, two, three, four..."

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The week had passed by much faster than I had anticipated. The training routine went on like as usual until the day before the tournament when Kakashi had given us all passes that would allow us to compete in the Chuunin exams.

Many a night returning to my apartment I had to check to see where Ero-sennin was, at least he was rather easy to find but I loved using my

I remember Sakura looking at hers sadly. I ended up giving out a long spill on how good she was compared to some other nins I had encountered and how her chakra control was way above many other genins that were going to be trying out.

She had smiled and said 'thank you'. When we had finally made it to the actual testing building. I gazed up at the building that stood three stories high; I took in a deep breath and looked at my two comrades. Sasuke still wore a sour face while Sakura seemed a bit pretentious. I sighed and shook my head.

"Sasuke, will you stop being this way. If you really want to beat me, then let's get to the Chuunin exams and there you can show me what you're really made of."

I gave him one of my signature haughty smiles; he smirked back at me looked up at the building standing before us. I turned to Sakura.

"And you don't have anything to worry about with your control of chakra, we just have to try to do the best damn job we can do."

She smiled and nodded; we walked into together and up a couple flights of stairs before reaching a crowded area with dozens of ninja standing about. I quickly scanned the room and noticed shinobi from all over, several from the cloud who I would have to check out later. Quite a few from the sand, and a nice amount from the hidden grass, rain, hidden stone, and some from the hidden sound village.

I looked over to the wall to my right and noted that there were quite a grouping of hidden leaf Nins leaning back and looking over in our general direction. I noticed a boy with the same eyes that Hinata had. I mentally scratched my head and try to put two and two together when a boy with a bowl style hair cut walked over to two genins guarding a door practically straight ahead of us.

He was quickly pushed down by the two laughing hidden leaf shinobi.

"Kid, you don't deserve to be here. We've been here for the last three years and only Nins that have potential to be real ninjas should be allowed to pass. And you definitely aren't one."

I watched as the kid stood back up and brush his chin, before anything went further with that situation I noticed Sasuke step forward and point at the door sign above the two genins. It seemed a bit hazy; I squinted and saw the numbers shift back and forth from 203 to 302. I shook my head, genjutsu. I guess the test started now.

"Why don't you go ahead and remove that genjutsu. We're still on the second floor."

He wore a cocky smirk that I really didn't like much but as long as he was able to continue on so that I could actually make it to the Chuunin exams. The genin kids snickered released the genjutsu, which revealed the real number to everyone around that, hadn't already seen through the disguise.

"You were probably already to see it because of your great chakra control, right Sakura?"

She blushed and nodded furiously; I shook my head and watched as everyone began to file up the next flight of stairs as the two genins disappeared into a side room. I shrugged and made my way up along with everyone else. The shinobi were sat according to teams and villages. I had somehow ended up on the front corner of the room, I growled in frustration as I looked at the test in front of me as a man with several deep scars etched into his face and a bandanna over his head stepped forward from a desk.

He rubbed his gloved hands together then placed them behind his back. He looked to the back of the class and with my curiosity I looked back to see a man with a hidden leaf hitae-ate cocked on his head, but what was even more interesting was that the entire top half of his head was wrapped in bandages. The scarred man cleared his throat and began reciting the rules.

"Alright guys, I'm about to explain all the rules to you. Now listen closely.

Rule 1:
The first rule you guys will start off with 10 points, the test is made up of 10 questions and each one is worth a point, but this test uses a subtraction system. Basically if you get all your questions right you get 10 points if you get three wrong you end up with 7 points.

Rule 2:
This is a team test whether you pass or not will be determined by the combined scores of your teammates. So each team will compete to see how many points they can hold on to from the initial team score of 30

Rule 3:
Anyone caught by the testing officers doing sneaky activities namely cheating will have 2 points subtracted for every offence

Rule 4:
Those that lose all their initial points during the test and those that don't answer any questions correctly will be failed along with their 2 teammates.

Everyone understand?"

There was a collective, "Hai." Resounding throughout the room. He looked around the room and leaned back onto his desk.

"Begin!"

I had made it through most of the test without really cheating. I occasionally would take a quick peek at the shinobi's test that sat to my left. With my speed I was able to streak by with a few of them. As the test reached its 30-minute mark, I glanced at the final question and sighed in relief.

I promptly sat back and put my forehead-protector over my eyes and tried to take a nice easy nap. After the first few minutes I felt myself slowly dozing off when I sensed something coming at me, I brought my hand up and snatched the small metallic ball that the examiner had thrown at me. When I lifted the hitae-ate away from my eyes and back around my head, I glanced at him momentarily seeing a smirk stand firmly on his features. I looked at the ball and heard a small click inside, a small jolt of electricity shot through me. I could feel my hair singe as the ball's current stopped abruptly.

I dropped the ball onto the floor and shook my head, trying to shake the confusion from my head. He glared at him.

"No sleeping either."

I frowned and crossed my arms leaning back into my chair slightly. No sleeping, I had been so excited about this that I actually wasn't able to sleep much at all last night. I yawned and before I knew it, we hit the 45-minute mark. The examiner stood back upright and looked at everyone. I took a quick look back at who were left; only three had been taken out due to cheating, which I had expected a little. There were still nearly 118 people still in the very accommodating examination room.

"Now for the last question. You must decide whether you will stay here for the final question or not. Know this, if you fail the final question, you will not be able to achieve a higher rank. You will be genins for the rest of your ninja careers. Understand?"

At that point and time, I could have literally heard a pin drop not even an inch from the ground. I have great hearing but not that good. I watched as many genins began to rise and walk out the back door. The examiner smirked as he watched more than a dozen already drop out. This was pathetic; I slammed my hand against my desk when I saw Sakura twitch like she was about to stand up.

"We can't give up like this! You have to take risks at times. I'd rather take my chance at staying a genin forever than giving up so easily!"

I noticed that the remaining genin that had stood up and were about to leave ended up sitting back down and staring back at the examiner. He looked at me momentarily before he fixated his attention back to the entire class.

"You all pass the first test!"

I heard a group of collective sighs, a few excited gasps and one or two small cheers. He looked over the room filled with almost nothing but genin.

"The last question is a leap of faith question. As a Chuunin you may have to make tough choices that could lead to your demise. Sometimes you have to take the risk to achieve the mission. No matter if you're afraid of dying, that's what it takes to become a Chuunin. You all can go to the next part of the exam."

The entire group ended up walking to a tower that stretched high above the tree line at the edge of the Forest of Death. I smirked and looked over at my comrades. Sasuke was busy looking at the competition while Sakura had her eyes fixated on the tower itself. As we made our way up to the tower's front, the group of 84 people stopped. A rather vicious but beautiful woman stood at the front of the pack, high atop a limb of a tree.

"Welcome to the Second Part of the test."

She had a large stack of papers and swiftly tossed them out nonchalantly into the group of genins laid out before her.

"My name is Anko and I'll be telling you about the next part of your test. First, fill out these death forms either before or after I'm finished explaining everything. I'm merely telling you now, you may die and it doesn't mean shit to me. So fill these out or go home."

She looked around the group of us and continued.

"You will be entering the Forest of Death in Practice area 44. Around Practice Area 44 are 44 locked gates, a forest, river, and a tower in the center. From the gates to the tower is about 10km. In this survival test you can use any weapons or jutsu at your disposal in a no rules scroll battle. The genins will fight over two different scrolls "Heaven" and "Earth". There are 84 people in this test, so 14 teams will get the Heaven Scroll and 14 will get the Earth Scroll. To pass the test you need to make it to the tower with both scrolls. So no matter what half the people will fail in this test. Also there is a time limit the test will last 120 hours which is 5 days and you must fend for yourself. Avoiding man-eating beasts, poisonous insects and plants. As the days go on, the distance to the goal will become further and the time to rest will become shorter. Here's the list of things that will get you disqualified:

1. Those that don't make it to the tower, with both scrolls within the time limit
2. Those who lose a teammate or those who have a teammate killed
3. As a rule there is no quitting in the middle you will be in the forest for five days
4. You must not look inside the scroll until you reach the tower

A Chuunin must be asked to handle classified information this is a test your trustworthiness. Now if you wish to continue this test you need to send 3 wavers to trade in for a scroll and to pick a gate to start at. The genins who want to take the test go to a closed curtain booth were no one can see which scroll you get or who on the team is carrying it. The test started at 2:32, on the final day if you don't have a scroll the easiest place to get one is near the tower so people sent up traps and ambushes. If you open the scrolls without being in the tower or collecting both the team that opens the scrolls are knocked out for the remainder of the test.

Once you reach the tower, you will understand what to do from there. Does everyone understand? Now make sure you hand in your sheets to the Chuunin Examiners below then you may continue on.

I signed my slip and handed it to the simple looking Chuunin examiners as I passed by. We were lead to a different gate than the others. Since there were 44 it was much easier that way and would allow everyone an equal start to get towards the tower. I looked at my teammates as we they had decided to exchanged looks with me as well.

"You guys ready for this?"

They nodded in unison and we set off to begin the second part of the test.

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END OF CHAPTER 8

((AUTHOR'S NOTES: Another chapter through, thank you all for your reviews. Thanks for all of your REVIEWS...Thanks so much to Solar Eclipse (Keltosh) for emailing me, I really appreciated it. I guess I didn't' mention much before on how Naruto learned the knowledge of Kyuubi. I perceived that Mizuki-san had told him since in the manga he did call him a demon and stuff.... and you all know that jazz. Not to mention, Jiraiya trained him and told him further about it and how to tap into it. Oh and I apologize for making Naruto a bit too powerful. I agree I did but I didn't want to rewrite the story to make him now...and stuff. Its also another reason while some of these other shinobi is really powerful. Don't forget that just because they're labeled as a genin that they are genin. Look at Kabuto, he's actual Jounin level but he's a now seven-year genin. I would explain more about characters when I introduce them but this is POV, so I only explain as much as Naruto could possibly foresee in that person.

As most of you also realize, yes, I'm going with the Naruto X Tatsumaki. I've heard many of you actually like the OC I've made and I enjoy her much too. You'll all get to know her much better soon enough. Sorry to all the SakuxNaru fans, I just think she's a bit bitchy at times and I don't like that but she has her sweet side I guess...And she's so cute as a kid in the opening! ; I am already considering making a NaruSaku fic...but not until I finish this. ; I hope you all also enjoyed the royal beating that Sasuke got, there'll be more of that to come. Sorry to all Hinata lovers such as myself too, I really wanted to pair them up but after I accidentally created Tatsumaki, I ended up falling for her myself. But don't freight, you're opinions still count!! If you guys have any more future ideas for Naruto, Tatsumaki, or any other type that they could fall upon, don't hesitate to put the idea forth. Email it, put it in the REVIEW. Whatever suits your fancy, I'm trying to put this story in the way you guys want it...and a bit in the way I want it. ;

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