Hey people. I'm sorry that this took such a long time but life has been crazy for the last little while and my fanfic kinda slipped down on the priority ladder.

Not a lot I need to say. Disclaimer is on the earlier chapters.

Now on with the story.

The sun was barely up when he arrived at the training ground. On the advice of Kyubi, Naruto had decided to wake up early and eat a hearty breakfast before going to the training ground an hour early to get to know the territory.

'Remind me again why we're doing this Kyubi-chan?' asked a groggy and relatively disoriented Naruto. 'If I'm not well rested I won't be able to fight properly.'

'Three reasons," responded Kyubi. 'One, if you get to know the area before hand, you have a big advantage in almost any situation and we're not even sure what this 'survival test' is about so knowing the battlefield is a good thing to do.'

'I get that, but why can't we get the others and have them know the place as well?' asked Naruto.

'That's the other two reasons.' Replied Kyubi, getting slightly frustrated that Naruto was interrupting her. 'you don't know if their on your side during this test thing, and their not supposed to know about your powers. That brings me to the third reason and the reason that you're here in the morning. The old man said that this was the best time to use the "Sun speaker" so we're here to get you the lay of the land. You're here alone because even if they are on your team, you shouldn't show them everything that you can do. And you're here in the morning because the Hokage said you could use your powers once the mission starts and you might not have time to use the "Sun Speaker" in the heat of battle because you've never used it before.'

'All right all right all right. Fine. We'll get the lay of the land and I'll charge my self up but I still thin we should have brought the others.' Complained Naruto. He really didn't mind the work, but if it was a team effort then wouldn't it be better if they all knew everything about one another? On the other hand, he wasn't supposed to show them his new techniques until the exorcise had started, and he was eager to try it out.

Naruto closed his eye's and lowered him self to the ground. 'First, the lay of the land' he thought as he spread his red chakra into the earth and rocks below him. He felt along every rough spot and bump or dips in a six hundred yard radius around him. The topography mapped itself out in his head. He knew the location of every tree and the exact number in the forest around him. But that just wasn't enough. He knew the location of the tree but not the shape of the branches. He didn't even know what type of tree they were. 'Ok, now comes the new one' thought Naruto as he focused his mind onto his white chakra and bled it into the air around him. He suddenly felt a rush as the chakra was suddenly not in the air, but the sunlight streaming down onto him. Suddenly everything around his showed up in incredible detail. His eye's still closed he could see everything the light touched. The trees, the leaves, the bark, the grass, it was all clear as day to him. It was also an incredible rush. Just like the feeling he got from the "Rock Speaker", he felt connected to a great seemingly endless supply of chakra. However, when he used the rock speaker, there was a feeling of great stability. Nothing could move him and nothing would break him. With the new "Sun Speaker", he felt a great speed of motion and great warmth of comfort. Nothing could catch him and even if it did it wouldn't be able to harm him.

"Wow" he said aloud. "Now I'm starting to get how the all fit together." He remembered how during his training session with the third Hokage he had mentioned something about it.

(Flash back)

"Naruto," said the third after copying what Naruto translated of the white section. "From what you've translated so far, I feel that you should not focus too heavily on any one color."

"Why not? Asked Naruto. "I mean, don't most ninja just get good at a couple of things and then leave the rest not as good?"

"Yes, for the beginning of their ninja career's, but then for jonins it is needed to be good at a great many skills." Replied the Hokage in a sage like voice.

"But I have so much more red chakra then anything else." Said Naruto with more then a little annoyance at being treated as a kid. "How can I concentrate on all the colors evenly when I don't have even amounts?"

"From what I can tell, there is one of these speaker jutsus for every colors," explained the Hokage " so the amount of chakra you have of any given color doesn't really matter if you tap into that colors source and use that to boost your own supply."

"Ohhh, so I guess that means I can do any jutsu right?" asked an exited Naruto.

"Not if you don't concentrate on your training you won't." said the Hokage in a stern authoritative voice.

"Yes sir!" shouted Naruto eager to keep up his training.

(End flash back)

Naruto thought back on the training lesson fondly. He had such an arsenal now that he was already prepared for many situations that he could encounter.

Just then he felt feet and saw that Hinata was slowly approaching his current location and had just entered his current sphere of knowledge. 'I wonder what time it is he thought' '6:51 am' answered his own voice. He was so shocked that he almost missed Shikamaru entering the training ground and Hinata was starting to get dangerously close. 'I guess that I can feel the time because of the sun,' Naruto thought. Just as he stopped the two techniques and gather up all his chakra along with as much as he could hold of the chakra of the earth and the sun, he felt his new teacher enter his field.

'Guess their all here. Finally' thought Naruto with a huge grin on his face.

Just then, Hinata entered the clearing he was in.

(Minutes earlier.)

'It's all going to be ok, just go out and try your best. Oh I hope Naruto is there. I hope he doesn't think I'm just a little shy nuisance.' Thought Hinata as she walked towards the training ground. She looked into the forest with fear and worry evident on her face.

'What if I'm not good enough to become a genin? My father will be so disappointed.' She shook the negative thoughts from her head and walked forward into the forest with as brave a face as she could manage.

"Hey Hinata-chan" smiled Naruto as she approached the log he was sitting on. "Grab a seat. Looks like we're the first ones here"

Hinata blushed and sat down. Mustering as much courage as she could she scooted down the long till she was right next to Naruto.

Inside Naruto's head, Kyubi was fuming. She had spent the whole morning with Naruto in her second favorite pastime. She loved to meditate and sit and map surroundings with Naruto because she could fit into near perfect synch with Naruto. The only time she liked more were the few times other then out and out battle with Naruto when he was using his chakra and physical exertion at the same time as talking to her because she would naturally synch with him perfectly. Then this Hinata girl had so come and not only ruin the moment, and thus spoil the morning for her, she had the audacity to come sit right next to Naruto. At this close proximity it would only be a short time before she picked up on the most recent, and in her mind enjoyable, change in Naruto. Since the separation of chakra, he had an improved physique and she wasn't the only one to notice that. But she realized now that the separation itself wasn't the thing responsible, but the training in red. It had given him great strength. The speed she had thought she had seen she realized now came only in the leaps and they were more strength then speed. The training in white had also had a change on him. He was moving faster then normal but what it was that she really liked was the aura. He gave off an aura of warmth and safety that made her feel like nothing wrong could happen to her. She also felt that she should stay near him. To here that was alright because she was in him and could never leave, but to Hinata that impulse might be translated into a need for closeness or even contact with Naruto, and she couldn't and wouldn't allow that.

Just then, Shikamaru entered the clearing at exactly 6:59. He walked lazily over to the same log Naruto and Hinata were sitting on and lay down on the ground using it as a pillow to look up at his clouds.

"Hey Shikamaru" smiled Naruto "how's your morning going?"

"Troublesome. Why do we have to be here so early? That teacher better not be late"

As if on cue, the clocks in the village, and in Naruto's head, struck 7:00 am and their teacher exploded into the middle of the clearing in a puff of smoke. "I'm right here Shikamaru, so you needn't worry about me being tardy" she smiled. "I'm glad that you all thought enough of me to show up on time for our first official day together for this all important genin test. So let's get to the actual test. It's like an information and artifact retrieval mission. You have to get these bells. They will be secured to my waist, and to pass all you need to do is get one. The one who doesn't get a bell will fail and be sent back to the academy for further training and gets another shot next year." She explained in a cheery demeanor. " There's no time limit so take as long as you like but this will e a serious mission so I expect you to come at me with everything you have. Any questions?" she asked.

The three genin looked at her in shock. They had to compete against each other and a jonin for their chance? That just couldn't be fair. Naruto raised his hand.

"Yes Naruto?" asked Kurenai.

"We're aloud what ever we want to get one of the bells? It's no holds bard?"

"Yep" affirmed Kurenai with a quick nod and never losing her cheery smile.

"Then I think it's only fair that I tell my team mates that there are three bells on your belt." Said Naruto. "One is hidden under a genjutsu"

"Wow! You saw that one?" asked a slightly shocked Kurenai. "I thought it would be the Hyuga to notice first for sure. Well I guess that since you passed the first and second parts already I think I should just get rid of the pretence. There are three bells because this exercise is really all about teamwork" smiled Kurenai "I wanted to see if any of you would notice the third bell and if you did would you work as a team when you realized that you could all get a bell. You did so good job for you but you still need to get the bells to pass so I think it's about time we started this test. So lets GO!"

With the word go, all four people currently standing in the clearing, vanished. The first thing Naruto did was reactivated both his "speaker" techniques and locked onto his two teammates. They were both off to his left and not too far away so he leapt straight to Hinata.

"Hinata. Stay quiet, and follow me." She nodded and fell into step behind him. He led her quietly through the brush towards Shikamaru. After a minute of walking through the forest quietly to avoid the teacher's gaze, they came to Shikamaru hiding half under and half behind a bush in the perfect position to be able to move to either side of the bush and stay hidden with relative ease.

"Hey, Shikamaru, since we know working as a team is what we should do, how do you think we should do it?"

"You want me to think of how? How troublesome." Sighed Shikamaru; "Well if we get near her then we could pretty well corner her, but first we have to find her. Plus we don't really know what she can do other then she's a genjutsu specialist, which means she could have any number of illusion traps set up around her."

"Well, I can find her." Said Naruto. "plus, can't you see through genjutsus Hinata-chan?"

"Well, I-I-I can k-kind of, it's more l-like I-I see if there's any chakra being used" explained Hinata stuttering quietly

"Hmmm, so you could tell us where the genjutsus are but not necessarily what they would do. Naruto you say you could find her? Well if you can find her then Hinata could find out where all the genjutsus are and help you avoid them, plus the Hyuga gentle fist stile is one of the most deadly stiles of tiajutsu in the village so she could engage Kurenai sensei up close and buy Naruto time to pull off an offensive jutsu to drive her into the trees. if we can get her close enough to the trees then I can use their shadows to elongate my own and trap her, leaving you free to grab the bells."

"All right! That's a great plan Shikamaru!" smiled Naruto. "Kurenai is four hundred feet directly northeast of here on the ground in a well lit clearing."

"How do you know that?" asked Shikamaru.

"I'll tell you when we get the bells," promised Naruto.

With that said, the snuck off into the trees.

Kurenai sat in the middle of the clearing keeping her eye's pealed. She couldn't go into the forest, because the Nara kid would defiantly have an advantage this early in the morning. There were far too many shadows. Out here she could see his shadow jutsu coming and avoid it with relative ease. The Hyuga would be a force to be reckoned with in close combat, and her genjutsus wouldn't work well on her, but Uzumaki Naruto was the one that scared her. She didn't know anything about what kind of techniques he used other then they were unique to him and incredibly powerful.

There was a sudden rustling from the trees behind her. She turned and saw Naruto burst from the foliage quickly followed by Hinata and a shadow on the ground racing toward her. Smirking a little she created a genjutsu of a chasm directly where Hinata was about to step. It worked as she had hoped as Naruto stopped to help Hinata and Hinata paused in her advance letting her jump back from the shadow and into a more defendable position. However, she didn't expect Naruto to turn his aid to a teammate into an offensive move as he grabbed her jacket and threw her directly at Kurenai. While Kurenai was unprepared for the move Hinata was obviously expecting it as she turned her path of flight into a roll that brought her directly into striking range. The flurry of blows that followed brought her to the extent of her speed to try and doge them all. She knew better then to try to block a Hyuga gentle fist attack.

While Hinata carried out her part of the plan, Naruto pooled all his gathered white and red chakra. First white and "Hinata!" he called out. on his signal, she bent at the waist and shot out an upward palm strike leaving the teacher no choice but to jump upward. As she did Naruto brought his hands forward and began a chain of hand seals that none of the others recognized. Not waiting to be attacked, Kurenai drew to kunai. As soon as she did Naruto ended his unnecessary hand seals, having finished the needed four long before and flung his hands forward. "Terashi's Grasp!" he cried. Six long whip-like arms flew from each of his arms and towards the startled Kurenai.

Seeking to interrupt the now started jutsu, Kurenai loosed her kunai directly at Naruto. Naruto grinned. This was exactly what he had wanted to happen as the arms intercepted the kunai. The kunai and the arm that caught it disintegrated on contact with each other and the other arms encircled a surprised Kurenai. They all disintegrated and Kurenai found herself falling back to the earth weaponless.

As soon as she landed a surprisingly quick Hinata reengaged her in close combat. Without her kunai, she wouldn't be able to attack Naruto again until she could dispose of Hinata. As she tried to think of a way out, Naruto raised his foot and it began to glow. Hinata leapt into the air with a downward strike just as Naruto slammed his foot down with a cry of "Crack the earth!" three trenches flew along the ground and became a large crater under Kurenai just as she ducked Hinata's falling strike. Off balance, Kurenai feel into the crater and was unable to dodge the strike. It hit directly on top of her head and stunned her. Hinata leapt out of the crater just as she was regaining her head when she saw Naruto high above her throwing hand seals like there was no tomorrow. She leapt out in the opposite direction of Hinata and turned just in time to se Naruto spread his arms wide and fling them down at her with a cry of "Curtain of light!". A brilliant flare of light flashed down on her from her and blinded her momentarily. She brought her hands to her face and turned away.

When the light faded she went to look over the clearing to find her opponents only to find that she couldn't move.

"Success." Said Shikamaru in an oddly exited voice for him. "Don't you love it when a plan comes together perfectly?"

Naruto held up the three bells he had grabbed from Kurenai's belt in triumph. "Yep! It sure is a good feeling. Hinata you did great!" he smiled "And you to Shikamaru. Great plan!"

"I-I-It was your jutsus that did the work N-N-Naruto-kun." Said Hinata shyly.

"You all did a great job!" said a beaming Kurenai as Shikamaru released her. "That was amassing! I think you guy's are the best genin in a long time. Probably going to be the best ninjas since the legendary three sennin if you are already this powerful!"

With the three kids and their teach all happily chatting and laughing, the teacher took them all out to a karaoke place for a celebratory lunch as it was now nearing noon and would be by the time they got into town.

A.N.: so there you have it. The team and their (and my) first real battle scene. Next time they start missions. I think I'm going to give them mostly recon and spy missions as I find writing battles hard, and I think Kurenai would be of more use in an espionage mission then an all out battle like Kakashi.

"Sun Speaker" it's almost exactly like rock speaker only instead of flowing chakra into the earth, it channels it into nearby light. Used as a sensory technique as well as bringing up white chakra levels.

"Terashi's grasp" sends out six arms of white chakra from each arm that destroys any metal object they encounter, but only of the same type. For example, the first things the arms Naruto used encountered was a kunai so the others sought out all the kunai that Kurenai had and destroyed them.

"Curtain of light." Exactly like it sounds. The white chakra bends all the light in the area so that it shines in one main direction and makes it brighter, resulting in a prolonged flash of super bright light directed at only one area.

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