Uzumaki Naruto, age ten, protégé and adoptive son of Orochimaru is already a chunnin. He received his chunnin title at the age of seven, same record as the prodigy Uchiha Itachi in Konohagakure.

The young blonde participated the Chunnin exam in the Earth Country three years ago. He made with two team mates from Hidden Rain in the last minute, especially arranged by his adoptive father, to test his ability operating with different shinobis in the last minute and under pressure.

To everyone's amazement, he passed the exam with flying colours. His exceptional devious mind, talented taijutsu and numerous deadly ninjutsu skills marked him a chunnin material in the final stage of Battle Tournament. Out of eight people, he was the only one promoted to mid-rank ninja, being thethird youngest chunnin in ninja history.

His record was quite flamboyant. Thirty D-rank missions, twenty C-rank missions, ten B-rank missions andtwo A-rank missions. Placed with various and different shinobis in every mission made him capable of copping new changes around him.

The father and son are now training, once a large piece of beautiful grass field, now various smouldered and broken areas were plastered on this land. Two figures standing opposite each other were in a fierce combat, or rather, one of them is, a shoulder length spiked blonde hair youngster of short stature with a white long sleeve top and navy blue shorts is bruised and battered, inhaling and exhaling rapidly because of fatigue.

His opponent, with tall stature, black long silky hair, with a beige long sleeve shirt and regular black ninja pants was amused. With his relaxed posture, arms crossed over his chest and tilted his head slightly, smirked lips grace upon his face; he eyes his young opponent in front him. Oh yes, he was very amused.

To be able to last for four hours engaging in taijutsu, ninjutsu and genjutsu with the Snake Sannin of Konoha is no small feat. Of course, he was going easy on his apprentice for the whole time, but nether the less, still impressive.

"Ku ku ku ku," chuckled the Sannin, "What's wrong, Naruto-chan, tired?" taunted Orochimaru. With an expressionless façade, the young ninja charged and made several rapid hand seals, placing his palms on the ground and whispered, "Earth element: Technique of Earth Missile," Many average-sized chakra enhanced rocks exploding towards the Snake Sannin. With speed and agility naturally born and trained for years, Orochimaru evaded every single missile and rushing toward his adoptive son.

"Hidden Shadow Many Snakes Hand"

Large boa constrictors bursting out of the Sannin's sleeve bit his son only turned into a mud clone. Sensing Naruto behind him, he turned, ducked and blocked his clawed hand with his left arm and sends several quick succession right punches only blocked by Naruto's shadow clone. Beside the clone, Naruto muttered," Hidden Shadow Many Snakes Hand," Ten cobras bursting out each of his sleeves rushing towards their master's enemy. Some coiling the body's joints and others biting viciously at their prey.

Unfortunately, it was only a water clone. Exploding from the ground comes the Sannin from the right side of the real naruto, making lighting fast hand seals," Wind element: Great Breakthrough" Slices of invisible wind blades slashed every part of naruto's body only turned into a piece of tree log.

"Replacement…hmmmm, found you, Naruto kun," He teleported right next to the hidden blonde crouching into the high bushes half a mile west of their training ground, only it was a trap fill with poison gas tags and a shadow clone. "Devious…" he muttered. Before the tags triggered he immediately sink into the ground.

Reappearing again in the center of the field, a technique of grand fireball was speeding towards him. Again with lighting speed, he leaped to his left side and without a moment's hesitation; he landed a heavy blow at an invisible Naruto's right cheek. Without letting Naruto have the advantage of disappearing again, snakes coiled around Naruto pulled him back towards Orochimaru in the air.

The Snake Sannin unleashed a combination of upper cut on his jaw, and then quickly used his left elbow to hit naruto in the stomach sending him flying in mid air only to be pulled back again. A fierce palm jamming his head on the hard ground making his body bounces on the ground giving Orochimaru another opportunity to kick him up the air with his right leg and couple of hand seals later he blew a fireball at naruto burning him in the air.

Several second later after the young blonde's landing, Orochimaru cautiously moves toward the short chunnin. Once near him, Naruto turned around and smiled the widest smile he ever did and exploded sending Orochimaru flying fifty feet in the air.

The elder ninja landed on the ground gracefully and smirked. "Oh my oh my, an explosive shadow clone. I was almost fooled." He then looked over his left shoulder only to meet his shadow clone holding a severely beaten son. He smirked again, "Well done, naruto, lasted four hours and twenty minutes this time. You greatly improved." He heartily congratulated him.

"Uh…nex tahm ah wail las lon'er" the blonde mumbled.

"Hmmm? What did you say?"

" uh…can tok layta" replied the chunnin and fell unconscious.

The Sannin walked calmly towards his shadow clone and cancel it, in the process dropping his son on his arms.

"You really did great, Naruto, I am very proud of you." With the whispered words, Orochimaru teleported away to their cottage with Naruto in his arms.