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Hello again! Today, I felt like making time mad by completely refusing the idea of writing in chronological order. Therefore, I skipped ahead to the final matches of the chunnin exams, and I will be describing all that I skipped with flashbacks that will not only be out of chronological order, but will be from multiple people's perspectives as well. Even so, it should still be easy to understand while providing additional insight into situations.

Moving Towards the Future's Past

Flashback

Naruto sat awake in his apartment one night. He had spent most of his time with Ero-sennin practicing his summoning jutsu each day, but he still had made little progress at all. Afterwards he would spend hours making another self-summoning scroll. Today he was getting annoyed at the amount of time it used to make each scroll.

Naruto grinned in relief after finishing the scroll, with this one he had a count of ten ready for use. Ero-sennin said he could skip summoning practice tomorrow, at Naruto's request of course, so long as he did some form of training. He soon drifted to sleep with anticipation of tomorrow's 'training'. He could cause a lot of mischief with even ten scrolls.

Naruto awoke early the next morning, ready for a very fun day. He shoved nine of the scrolls in a backpack, and made his way out. After finding how useful it proved to be in escaping Jiraiya, he now always kept a one in his apartment, promising to himself not to use it to run from a battle.

The first scroll he slipped into the cart of a merchant who was headed back to the newly restored Water Country. It was soon afterwards that he ran into Hinata on her way to leave for a mission. He gave her a scroll and told her to open it if she needed help during the mission. He left before the confused girl could question him about it, not being able to stop and talk with all the 'training' he had to do.

The third scroll he threw as far as he could with his eyes closed, not knowing where it would end up. The fourth he hung around Kyuubi's neck like a collar, making sure the fox demon couldn't get it off by himself. He then hid three more around Konoha, and distributed the others as he saw fit.

A girl with long blonde hair and piercing blue eyes walked to the last known location that anyone had seen him, a small plateau on the outskirts of Konoha. In her hands she carried a mysterious scroll with a shiny red ribbon wrapped around it. She had her doubts, but if anything that knuckle-head had told her was true, she had to try it out. She ran the quick conversation from that morning through her mind again.

What do you want?

Relax, umm…what's your name again?

It's Ino, baka!

Yeah, whatever, Just take this. He handed her a scroll.

What's this thing for?

It's a rare scroll I found, and I'm sure Sasuke would love to receive it as a gift.

That's when she just ran off with the scroll in hand.

She was now almost to Sasuke's last known whereabouts. She broke into a run when the plateau came into sight.

End Flashback

Naruto was now standing in a large stadium, along with six other genins. Genins, for now, that is, as this was the final part of the Chunnin exams, a tournament for another group of shinobi to prove their abilities to a panel of judges.

There were three sand genin present, as well as four leaf genin. One sound genin and one leaf genin hadn't shown up yet, and the proctor had just announced that they would begin without them. "The first match…" he called out, loud enough for everyone in the stands to hear, "…will be between…"

Flash-forward

Hinata sat in the stands watching Naruto's fight. Next to her was her teammate, Kiba. In each of their laps was a furry animal watching the match as intently as they were. One of which was a small white dog by the name of Akamaru, who followed his partner around anywhere. The other was a fox with nine long tails, who for once seemed to be relaxed.

Naruto had introduced both Kiba and Akamaru to his pet already. They turned out to be jealous more than anything else. It wasn't the fact that Naruto's pet was the Kyuubi; they were jealous of Naruto having an animal partner just as Kiba did.

Kyuubi lay comfortably in Hinata's lap, its tails draping down over the seat of the chair and his head turned towards the stadium in which his former host was fighting. This person he could get used to. Being a demon, he had never really had anyone pet him, or even scratch behind his ears. She wasn't a loudmouth who was constantly insulting his respectability, much unlike the one human he had grown to know. She just sat there quietly, stroking his back as all her attention was focused on the match.

Naruto-kun wasn't doing too bad. Even though he had taken much more damage than his opponent, he was able to keep fighting. She could tell he hadn't been using all his power yet, but his actions worried her none the less.

She had been coughing a bit since the matches started. Those around her noticed it, but she didn't seem to. She just had to finish watching Naruto-kun's match, after all, he was fighting for her.

Flashback

"Thank you, Hinata."

"I've always been last place in everything. I was nervous over nothing. I was a bit depressed, but I feel better now!"

"I'll be going to the matches now," he continued, "I'll get him back for what he did to you. Oh yeah, I have a favor to ask."

"Yes, Naruto-kun?" she asked, wondering what he could possibly need her for.

"Could you take Kyuubi here with you to the matches? He mentioned looking forward to seeing some good fights for once."

"Hai, Naruto-kun!" she answered enthusiastically, glad that he would entrust such a responsibility to her.

As he started to walk away he stopped to turn back towards her. He had something else he needed to say.

End Flashback

Those last words of his were still running through her mind as she and so many other people watched the fight unfold. 'I like people like you…'

As the fight commenced, her cough grew worse. At one point, she began to cough up blood.

"Hinata, are you all right? You must still be injured from that match a month ago." asked Kiba concernedly. Before he could get an answer, she had passed out.

End Flash-forward

"The first match…will be between…Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Neji!"

The crowd began to cheer at the first match of this grand event. As instructed, the other genins made their way to the waiting area, a balcony situated halfway up the stadium wall. As he saw everything was in order, the exam proctor brought down his hand with a single word: "Begin!"

Flashback

Get up! Why can't I do this! If I can't master this technique without expending all of my chakra, how will I ever beat him? I've got to keep training! I've got to keep gaining power! I am an avenger! He forced himself to his feet. After what he did, I won't stop until I've killed him! The memory of that fateful day still lingered in his head…

Flashback

Sasuke ran from the building in terror. He had to escape. He didn't want to die here with the rest of his clan. As he neared the end of the Uchiha sector of Konoha, a tall, familiar figure appeared in front of him.

Itachi needed assistance. Badly. He now had a new enemy on his hands. He didn't much mind the destruction of his clan. He had even had to use all his willpower to keep from killing them himself. He had lost control of it once, and killed a very close friend of his, one that he looked upon as a second brother. But despite the remorse he felt for his actions, he couldn't help but feel that the guy deserved it. It was bad enough for his clan to ally themselves with them, but he had found out that his friend was willingly working for them.

He knew who had killed the rest of the clan only minutes ago, or rather who was behind it. It was another close friend of his, a boy from outside the village. Though they didn't often speak of their personal lives to each other, they had still grown up together, equally matched in all aspects. It was only a few years ago that they found out about them, and they had made as promise to each other that they would kill every last one of them. Soon afterwards, they took separate paths after a disagreement on how to approach the situation. He hadn't spoken to that friend of his since. But if he remembered his friend's approach correctly, he would have made some powerful allies by now. Although they were even, he just wouldn't be able to win out against his friend's resources. He needed his own, and if understood what was going on currently, it was to opportune moment to gather them.

"Sasuke, " he started, looking into his brothers eyes. He saw innocence and fear in his young brother's eyes. He was still too young to know his part… "search for me when you can look upon me with the same eyes I show to you now. Live and become strong. Become an avenger." With that, he disappeared as quickly as he had appeared. Watching his little brother from a nearby rooftop, he began to plan the game out in his head. Well, my old friend, it appears I have countered this haphazard choice of yours. It seems the pieces are laid out in my favor now. What will your next move be?

End Flashback

"You shouldn't push yourself so hard, Sasuke. You have successfully mastered the Chidori, but your chakra capacity isn't large enough to execute it more than once. We will use the one week we have left to change that, as well as implement your sharingan to avoid any possible counterattacks that the enemy may try. For now just rest, you can't do anything more in that state."

End Flashback

It had been two minutes since the fight had been signaled to begin. Everyone in the stands was either listening intently to the words the ninja exchanged or growing bored from the lack of action, depending on their age. As the words came to a close, Naruto began with his standard opening move. He charged his opponent with his arm ready to send a punch at Neji's face. Neji simply sidestepped his attempt of an attack, causing Naruto to stumble face-first into the ground.

Naruto formed a hand sign as he made his way to his feet. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" he yelled as he was surrounded by clones. They all rushed at him, only to have him avoid all their attacks and take them out one by one. Naruto made more clones, more than double the previous amount, and had them surround him and charge from all directions. Much to Naruto's surprise, as well as a few of the Hyuuga in the stands, Neji began to spin, engulfing himself in a large orb of swirling chakra. As the clones collided with it, they flew backwards, all but the real one disappearing in a cloud of smoke.

"I'm not done yet." Neji said with a smirk on his face. "You are in my field of divination. Hakke Rokujyuuyon Shou!" He then used his fingers to repeatedly stab at Naruto's body, effectively disabling his chakra circulatory system. Naruto managed to get to his feet afterwards, shocking Neji and anyone in the stands who knew of the tenketsu.

As Neji began to fade into his own boring flashback, Naruto couldn't help but let his mind slip back to the mission he helped to accomplish just a few weeks ago, and the events that took place afterwards…

End of chapter 4

Okay, I know I said the chapters would keep getting longer, but I didn't want to leave off in the middle of a flashback. Plus, I thought by stopping this chapter here, I could grab your attention enough to have you come back for the next chapter. Anyway, if the timeline of this chapter confused you enough to have questions, or even if it didn't, please leave a review.