A/n: Sorry for the wait. Anyways, as I was re-reading the last chapter, I noticed I made a lot of errors I didn't even notice on my second check. So I'm asking, would anyone like to be my beta? And I'd like to thank marina-potter and LbcLostKid for your reviews. Hokuto should be slightly older than Naruto, so about Neji, Lee and Tenten's age group. On with the story!

Birds of Prey: The New Life

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Naruto woke to the sight of sunlight streaming into the hospital room.

"Naruto! You're awake!" Hokuto cried happily. "Are you okay? How do you feel?"

"I'm alright now," he grinned.

"Ah, I see you're finally awake. Excellent," a figure in white and purple robes walked in.

"Hoshikage-sama!" the two replied.

"You're very lucky Naruto, this young lady's been by your bedside the whole time," said the Hoshikage. Naruto turned to give an inquisitive look but found that Hokuto had turned to the other direction, blushing and unable to meet his eyes.

"Naruto, I'm afraid I have to tell you something very important," the Hoshikage spoke gravely.

"What is it Hoshikage-sama?" Naruto asked.

"I must ban you from further training with the star," was the solemn reply.

"What!" two young voices simultaneously shouted.

"Naruto, your condition is very similar to the other children who have gone through this training. Admittedly, the other children were older but that's why I am so worried." The Hoshikage said.

"Your concern is appreciated Hoshikage-sama, but I'm fine," Naruto try to explain. He bounced up and down a few times just to prove his point. "See, I'm perfectly alright."

The Hoshikage sighed and was about to refute Naruto's point when he saw something he never thought he would ever see. 'What is the will of fire doing the eyes of a star-nin hopeful? This is certainly interesting; perhaps even something of great importance.' Giving another tired sigh, "Fine, you may train, however, if this happens again, you will never be able to train with the star again! Understand?"

His question was replied by two bright blue orbs, "Really? Really! Yay! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much Hoshikage-sama! Hear that Hokuto? I can train with the star!"

Hokuto giggled at Naruto's antics. "That's wonderful Naruto!"

"Alright! Now I'm going to train and be the greatest shinobi ever!" Naruto ginned preparing to run out of the room.

"Now hold on there young man! You still have to checked over be the medic-nins before you are let out of the hospital," the Hokshikage said grabbing Naruto's collar as he was about to run by. Naruto sulked but found that the Hoshikage was right and was forced to cooperate. Shortly after the testing was complete, Naruto ran out of the hospital with Hokuto in tow. The Hoshikage chuckled at their antics.

"Hoshikage-sama, there's something interesting about young Naruto," said a medic-nin bringing Naruto's reports.

"What is the problem?" the Hoshikage asked.

"Ever since his last check-up, Naruto's already huge chakra level as gone through the roof!" the medic-nin exclaimed. After a small nod he continued. "Whereas prior to this check-up, Naruto's chakra-level was at about jounin-level incredible for a boy that young, but now, his chakra-level has more than just doubled!"

'This is certainly an interesting development,' thought the Hoshikage. 'However, I am still quite concerned with the will of fire appearing on my ninja's face. I'll have to confront Naruto on the subject of this matter when he is more mature.'

"Thank you for your report. You are dismissed," the Hoshikage said.

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"See you later Hokuto!" Naruto waved to his friend.

'Now to see what I can do," Naruto thought as he began to mold his chakra. He was surprised at the amount he had and found himself to be quickly losing control.

'Wow, there's so much power! So this is what its like to train under the star,' he thought. He quickly dismissed his chakra.

'Looks like I'm going to need to do Kakashi-sensei's chakra control training,' Naruto thought as he headed for the thick forests of Bear country. His training was watched over by a pair of mysterious eyes unknown to Naruto.

'How can a young child like that know of such training techniques?' the figure thought, 'this is an interesting turn of events.'

Over the next few weeks Naruto's training progressed. As he gained more control with his newly powered chakra, he moved on to different activities. From tree climbing to water walking, to basic ninja techniques such as henge or bunshin, his training and self-teaching was all watched over by the mysterious figure. While working on some basic taijutsu, Naruto decided that it was time for him to return to the star training.

'How is it that this child knows of such ninja techniques? Most of these techniques are not taught in Hidden Star and are more commonly found to be taught in one of the five major ninja countries,' the figure wondered. Suddenly,

"Excuse me, but, I'm gonna go train with the star now. So you can either follow me some more or just leave," Naruto proclaimed. The figure was shocked.

'Impossible!' the figure thought, 'no ordinary child could sense me.' The figure decided to appear before Naruto.

"Who are you and what do you want with the Hidden Star village?" the figure questioned.

'So, it was Natsuhi-san,' Naruto thought, "Relax oba-san, I'm from the Hidden Star Village. Aren't you Sumaru's mom?"

Natsuhi was speechless.

"Don't worry, I won't tell Sumaru that you're alive if that's what you're worried about," Naruto calmly said. Natsuhi's eyes narrowed.

"What do you mean train with the star? Star training was forbidden by the Hoshikage two weeks ago."

"Well, I wasn't there for the announcement and either way I'll just self-learn if I have to." was the calm reply. Determination was rolling off Naruto in waves. Natsuhi decided that if there was no other way, she'd have to stop Naruto the hard way. She charged at him. A grin appeared on Naruto's face.

"Well if that's the way its gotta be, kage bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto cried, several clones appearing before him charging on Natsuhi.

'Heh, I'll just do the same thing I did last time!' Naruto thought.

"Mysterious Peacock Method: Beast," was Natsuhi's reply to Naruto's shout as her chakra decimated several of Naruto's clones.

'This is all too predictable Naruto thought as he changed from being a rock at Natsuhi's feet to a vicious upper cut. Landing on her back, Natsuhi shook the cobwebs from her head.

'Such a determined boy, but I won't be beat that easily,' Natsuhi thought as she summoned more beasts of chakra at Naruto.

'Damn, she's tougher than last time,' Naruto thought, his mind racing with different battle plans and strategies to avoid Natsuhi's beasts. 'Guess I'll just wing it.'

With a cry, Naruto charged at Natsuhi and her beasts, with last minute inspiration, he tried to form the rasengan.

'Shit, if I don't get my rasengan to work, I'll be dead meat! Work!" was the desperate thought that ran through Naruto's head as the beasts neared him. Trying to imagine the first time his rasengan had worked on Kabuto, his adrenaline level peaked and for a brief second, everything slowed down for Naruto.

"Rasengan!" the ball of chakra formed in Naruto's hand, whereas it was normally blue, the new rasengan was pink to match with his star chakra. The ball tore through Natsuhi's beasts and would've hit her had it not been for her cry of surrender.

"You are very determined indeed. But you should know that training with the star has a dangerous side affect that –"

"Yeah, yeah, I know all about it," Naruto interrupted her. "I'm not gonna die from some star training, I've got a special "circumstance" as I should put it that won't let me die."

Natsuhi signed in resignation. "In this case, I'll train you, self-teaching might be useful, but its very dangerous especially with the star."

A/n: Unfortunately, this one's shorter than the last. Any help will be appreciated.