Hey everyone Konoha Civilian here! I would like to say some things to my awesome reviewers!

The Gallant Jaraiya, Adharsh, thewolvesofwar- I want to thank all of you for making it clear to me that I need longer chapters. I would like to take the time now and say that I will start to have longer chapters. Unfortunately I will also need more time to write the chapters just so you are aware.

BR0TH3R MENACE- I totally did not mean for that to be on his shirt this early. I guess I messed up when I had the idea in my head. I did fix that and it is no longer there.

Also I did notice that I misspelled "Gaara." It should be fixed by the time you read this.

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Okay now to the story!

-six years later (Naruto age: 11)

Naruto grinned as he finally set foot back in Konoha. He wouldn't say it out loud but he had missed the place he was born, even if everyone had treated him badly.

It had been so long he doubted anyone would remember him. He wore the same style of clothes but had replaced his white jacket with a white trench coat that had short sleeves, and had "Disciple" on the back. He had grown taller, had lost any trace of baby fat, and his hair had grown almost as long as Jiraiya's and was in a loose ponytail that fell down his back.

Naruto took to the roofs by pumping chakra into his legs. He watched the city fly by until he got to the market district. He scanned over the shops until he found a fairly large ramen stand, Ichiraku's. He pulled the flap aside and walked in and sat down on one of the stools.

The cook had his back facing him so Naruto called out to him, "One Naruto ramen please."

The man turned around with a content smile, "Coming right up."

Naruto gaped, "T..Tuechi?"

The old man looked back at the customer with surprise, "Naruto? Is that you? Sheesh you've grown."

Naruto rubbed the back of his head, "You think so? I see that you got a bigger stand. I bet your ramen making skills have at least doubled."

Tuechi smiled, "Well there's only one way to find out."

He turned around and not more than a minute later there was a huge bowl of Naruto ramen sitting in front of Naruto.

Naruto took a bite and got stars in his eyes, "Oh Kami thank you for sharing the recipe for the best ramen in the world!"

Tuechi rubbed the back of his head, "I see you've been taking lessons in drama from that other gentleman."

Naruto smiled like nothing in the world was wrong as he devoured his bowl and let out a loud sigh, "I have to say your ramen is definitely the best out of all five countries."

Tuechi gave him a warm smile, "Well thank you. Where have you been all this time?"

"I have been traveling around for the last six years learning everything I could from Jiraiya-sensei while he has been learning everything he can from the women's bathing areas. He made me come back so I could attend the academy, probably so he could focus more on his book writing." He said the last part with a pout.

"Oh come now Naruto. Everyone needs a boring education. It builds character."

Naruto glared at him while he smiled innocently.

"Well whatever, I have to go build character now. See ya."

With that Naruto disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Naruto appeared out of sight of the academy, 'just like Jiriaya-sensei said rule number one deception. I don't need them to know my true strength yet.' He walked from the ally to the academy with his hands behind his head. Naruto looked around, 'where the hell is everyone?'

Naruto arrived at his classroom and groaned, class had already started. He opened the door slowly and walked in.

The man teaching the class turned to him with an irritated smile, "Hello, I am Iruka. Why don't you tell the class your name."

Naruto looked at the man apologetically while he rubbed the back of his head, "My name is Naruto Uzumaki."

With that he took a vacant seat beside a kid that was sleeping face down on the desk. Naruto smiled and followed his example and drifted off to sleep. When the lunch bell rang Naruto and the kid next to him instantly woke up and went outside and fell asleep in the grass.

Soon a crowd started gathering asking who the new kid was. One emo looking kid noticed that he wasn't being fawned over by everyone and decided to put this issue to rest. He walked up to them and cleared his throat. Neither of them responded to the noise.

A tick mark formed on the boys head, "Hey! Dope, what's your name?"

Naruto let out a snort of laughter and turned to the boy lying next to him, "I think this guy wants to know your name."

"Tch, Troublesome." The boy opened one eye, "My name is Shikamaru Nara. You should know that Sasuke."

With his eyes still closed he smirked.

Sasuke who now had two tick marks on his forehead, "Tell me o…"

"I said it in class. If everyone would have stopped being absorbed in your every movement for a minute they would already know."

Sasuke suddenly slammed his fist down on the ground right next to Naruto's head, who didn't even flinch. "Are you disrespecting the Uchiha clan!?"

There was a long silence, and then Naruto let out a loud snore.

Everyone present face vaulted. Sasuke's eye twitched. He prepared to punch Naruto for real.

Sasuke had just drawn back his fist when Naruto appeared standing up in front of him with his tongue stuck out, "Catch me if you can."

Naruto Turned and sprinted away. 'Rule number two always be able to escape from your enemies.'

Sasuke got on his feet and took off after Naruto, "Come back here you Dope!"

Naruto soon got bored of toying with Sasuke and slipped away. He remembered that he still did not have a place to live yet and it was already past noon.

'Not that it's that big of a deal but I should probably find a place to stay while I'm here.'

He took to the roofs and started looking for an apartment of some kind. After searching for a while he found a taller building with the top room open. He quickly found the manager and requested the room. The manager didn't recognize him so he got the room.

He entered the room and looked around. There was a mattress, wood table, and appliances. He smirked, "My own room." Naruto had never had his own room, heck he didn't even have a room before he left with Jiraiya-sensei.

Naruto laid down on the mattress and thought about how dumb it was that he had to go to the academy. 'Doesn't being trained by a Sanin qualify me as at least a Genin.' He sighed.

"Knock, knock"

Naruto turned to his door where and man even older than Jiraiya stood. Naruto got to his feet, "Hokage-sama."

The man faked a smile, "I have a few questions for you. I would like to know what Jiraiya has told you and how far along your training has come."

Naruto stared back impassively, "Jiraiya-sensei told me enough and my training has progressed enough."

The Hokage chuckled, "You know we have other ways of finding out information."

Naruto smiled back politely, "I would recommend against that. I seem to be growing tired from holding the Kuubi at bay."

The Hokage's eyes narrowed, "Is that a threat?"

"Is what you said a threat? I will not be pushed around like I was as a kid Hokage-sama. I am no longer the helpless kid left out on the street to survive on his own."

This shocked the Hokage, but he smiled and held up his hands, "That's good to know; but this is a threat, if you do anything to harm this village you will not be shown mercy."

Naruto waved him off, "If I was going to do that I wouldn't have let myself be seen."

The Hokage nodded, "Well then, until next time." He then walked out the door and shut it on his way out.

Naruto looked out his window where he knew three Anbu were watching him. He waved to them and then shut the blinds.

The school year went similar to the first day. Naruto would sleep through class and get in trouble. Whenever Sasuke would try to fight him he would run away never letting the idiot catch him. He would eat ramen almost every day and talk with Tuechi about anything that came up. Every day he would give the Anbu watching him the slip by switching with a shadow clone, and going to the most remote training grounds that no one generally used and train what Jiraiya-sensei had taught him.

On the last day at the academy Naruto was actually awake, "Finally we get to get out of here."

Shikamaru, who still had his eyes closed, grunted in agreement.

Sasuke over heard him and shouted, "Dope! Everyone knows that you're not going to pass!"

Naruto didn't even turn his head, "I hope I don't get partnered with that emo guy… umm what was his name again?"

The room got visibly darker, "Dope, if you are on my team I will make sure to beat you into the ground every day."

Naruto smiled at him, "You have some serious anger issues."

Sasuke got up to go fight Naruto, but Iruka entered the classroom right as Sasuke had taken his first step.

Saskue glared at Naruto but sat back down.

Iruka grinned at the class, "Today is the day you get to take the Genin exam. I wish all of you luck. We will call you one by one to perform the three basic jutsu, after that there will be a spare between all students picked at random."

Naruto slept until he heard his name being called. He went into the room and sleepily performed the three basic jutsu very well.

Iruka was a little surprised that he was able to do them. 'All he does is sleep in class and he did everything perfectly. Who is this kid?"

As soon as everyone had gone they announced who had failed in order to narrow the group down. When there were only a few Genin hopefuls left they went outside for the spare.

Iruka called out the first match, "The first match will be Naruto vs. Sasuke!"

Sasuke grinned while Naruto remained emotionless. They approached Iruka, faced each other, and shook hands signifying it was a fight between allies not enemies.

Iruka then stated the rules, "This is a friendly spar. You have to stay in the circle and either knock out your opponent, or force them to yield. Do you understand?"

Both Naruto and Sasuke nodded and took up their positions on either side of the circle.

Sasuke sneered, "Nowhere to run now dope!"

Naruto looked at Sasuke without emotion, "Your confidence will be your down fall. It will be good for you to be knocked down a peg or two." 'Rule number three, wait for your opponent to make a mistake.'

Sasuke narrowed his eyes and growled, "Do you really think you can beat me!?"

Sasuke charged Naruto with a fist drawn back. Naruto got in a ready position and moved his head slightly so that Sasuke's fist went by without touching him. Naruto then turned his foot just enough to turn his body and pushed Sasuke with an open palm and sent him sprawling in the dirt outside of the circle. There was a slight silence before an angry roar from the crowd that surrounded the circle. Naruto took note that not everyone was yelling at him. There were quite a few people who looked a mixture of surprised and satisfied.

Iruka looked a little surprised as well but he called out, "The winner is Naruto!"

Iruka then handed Naruto his head band while smiling, "Continue to surprise us all."

Naruto smiled back as he took the headband, "Thank you Iruka-sensei." Without another word he disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

Iruka's eyes widened, "That kid is something else."

-Back with Naruto-

"It was great! You should have seen the look on his face, it was hilarious!"

Tuechi smiled at the young man in front of him, "Sounds like you actually had fun at school today."

Another man stepped through the entrance to the stall, "Alright, free ramen!"

Naruto spun around to find Jiraiya standing there smiling proudly at him. Before Naruto could react Jiraiya had hoisted him on to his shoulders and danced around the restaurant. Naruto tried to pretend that he was mad but it was a lost cause to stay mad at Jiraiya.

"Jiraiya-sensei! Let me down!"

Jiraiya did not let him down quite yet, "Awww come on. It's time to celebrate you are finally a Genin!"

Naruto rolled his eyes, "you know that I am well above Genin level."

Jiraiya finally let him down, "So what you're saying is that you don't want the gifts I got you for graduation."

Naruto pouted, "No please. I do, I do."

Jiraiya reached into the pouch on his back and pulled out an orange book and a bottle of sake and handed them to Naruto.

Naruto took the gifts and raised an eyebrow.

Jiraiya grinned mischievously, "you are now an adult, and as such you have a right to both things in your hands."

Tuechi watched the exchange with wide eyes, "… wha… wh… That's not appropriate for someone his age!"

Jiraiya turned to him, "Oh, I see we have another fan of my work present." He took out another copy and sighed his name in it and laid it down on the counter.

Tuechi looked from side to side and suddenly the book was gone and up his sleeve. "I'll bet you will love that book Naruto!" Tuechi said with a thumbs up.

Naruto and Jiraiya laughed and enjoyed a bowl of ramen while the three of them joked and laughed the rest of the time until Naruto got up and saying thank you to each of them and bid them farewell.

Naruto returned to the academy for the team assignments that were taking place. He walked in just as team seven was being announced.

"Team seven will consist of Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura."

There was a loud squeaking screaming sound that came from Sakura. Sasuke just sneered at Naruto.

Naruto face palmed, 'someone really hates me.'

"You may all wait for your new sensei's here. They should be arriving shortly."

Every sensei came and go there group except for team seven.

After thirty minutes of waiting Naruto got fed up with waiting, "If our sensei ever does show up tell him that if I'm not worth his time then he is not worth mine."

With that he disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Both Sasuke and Sakura stared at where he had been with wide eyes.

Sasuke was surprised that Naruto could do a shunshin and Sakura was surprised that he was breaking the rules.

Instead of going back to his house Naruto decided it was about time he went and had another talk with the Hokage. He took to the roofs and before long arrived in the middle of the village where the Hokage's office was located. He entered in and asked the secretary if she would let him have and audience with the Hokage.

She looked up and him and waved him away, "He is very busy and does not have time for kids like you."

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Old Man! I need to talk to you!" He yelled loud enough that the sound should reach the office down the hall.

The secretary glared at him, "How dare you address the Hokage in such a way!"

Just before she could start a huge lecture the door opened and the Hokage smiled brightly at him while waving him in.

Naruto smiled at the secretary, who glared daggers back at him. Naruto entered the office and closed the door behind him. The Hokage sat down at his desk and motioned for him to take a seat as well. Naruto sat down and folded his hands on his lap.

"I need to talk to you about the Anbu that have been watching me for the last year."

The Hokage leaned back in his chair, "I see. What would you like to talk about?"

"I would like them to stop watching me because I will now be part of a team who will have its own sensei watching me. I mean really if you need more than a year to determine if I'm a threat then the security in this village is worse than I thought."

The Hokage clasped his hands in front of his mouth, "I see you have a Leaf headband on."

"Ya, so what?"

"I want you to promise me on that headband that you will do nothing to harm this village."

Naruto thought for a moment, "I will not do anything to harm this village unless I am ordered to by you or Jiraiya-sensei."

The Hokage smiled and nodded his head, "Bird, Monkey, Cat!" Three people appeared in the room on their knee. "I now relieve you of the duty of watching Naruto Uzumaki." They nodded their heads and left without a sound.

Naruto smiled, "Thank you very much, and if you have anyone else watching me who is not my sensei I will know and there will be unrest in the streets with all of the pranks I pull."

The Hokage nodded again.

Naruto saluted and disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

He arrived back at his apartment and sighed, his door was wide open. He knew he would eventually get robbed, but he wanted to be there when it happened. He pouted to himself about the lucky bastard that must have gotten away.

Naruto then heard a sound it was feint but sounded like someone just turned a page in a book. Naruto rushed into his apartment only to trip on a wire and get tangled up and pined to a wall with the wire wrapped around him. The man was sitting at his kitchen table looking at an orange book blankly.

His lone eye moved up to meet Naruto's, "I hear that I'm not worth your time."

Naruto laughed, "Only if I'm not worth yours."

The man went back to his reading, "So are you worth my time?"

Naruto cocked his head toward his bed where another Naruto was laying down reading the same orange book, "I don't know you tell me." The clone of Naruto that was pinned to the wall disappeared in a "poof" of smoke.

Kakashi looked at the book he was reading, "Yeah, I think we will get along fine. My name is Kakashi. I will be your new sensei." 'This kid is good I didn't even realize it was a shadow clone. I guess that's what happens when you are trained by a sage.' Kakashi got up and started to walk out before calling over his shoulder, "Team test tomorrow at nine on the dot."

Naruto waved him off, "Yeah, yeah, I'll be there."

Kakashi closed the door behind him.

Naruto stood up and stripped to get ready for bed. Once he was only in his boxers he heard a light knock on his door. He sighed for what felt like the millionth time that day and went over to open in without putting on any clothes. He opened the door wide to reveal his two teammates.

"Yo."

Sakura immediately turned red and couldn't seem to take her eyes away from Naruto's defined body. "Uh…Uh…We…Uh…"

Sasuke rolled his eyes, "Our Sensei, Kakashi told us to be at our scheduled training ground tomorrow at six in the morning sharp."

Naruto laughed in his head while he kept a straight face, "Okay. I will see you two tomorrow."

Sasuke glared at Naruto, "I am nobody's messenger boy, don't expect me t…"

Naruto slammed the door in his face and went back to lie on his bed. After a short while of Sasuke yelling at him through the door he finally went away and Naruto finally shut his eyes to go to sleep.

The next morning Naruto woke and stretched before going through the morning ritual of washing brushing and making sure he was at least half way presentable. He looked at the clock, 'only eight, huh.'

Naruto put on his coat. He never understood why it always felt so good to wear one. He knew his father had worn one when he was the Hokage, but it just made him feel secure. It was his way of being close to the dad he had never known. He then put his headband on his forehead to keep most of his hair out of his face and put on his bracers for his forearms and shins. Looking in the mirror he smile, "Sure looks like the next Hokage to me."

Naruto arrived at the training ground at around eight thirty and walked up to Sasuke and Sakura who looked like they were barely alive.

Sakura noticed him first and was about to yell at him until she remembered last night. She again turned insanely red and twiddled her fingers.

Sasuke noticed when he walked past and just snorted.

Naruto just sat down on the ground and started meditating. Once he was able to block out all the sounds from the world like Jiraiya had taught him, he entered his mind. There in front of him was a park that looked more like a forest with a huge gate in front of it. He entered through the gap in the bars and walked until he came upon a clearing where a huge fox was sleeping.

"Oi! Kurama! Don't you do anything but sleep."

The giant fox opened one blood red eye, "No." Then it shut its eye again.

Naruto face vaulted, after he picked himself off of the ground he crossed his arms, "So this is supposed to be a test for my team. Do you think I should show what I'm really made of."

Kurama yawned, "Why are you asking me? I would always try to keep my full power hidden. Just play it by ear if your full power is required then use it, but if not then don't show it."

"Yeah, I guess you're right. I'm just bored so I thought I would come see you for a while."

Kurama snorted, "Well as long as you're here, you should make something for me to battle. Every time you fight I feel the adrenaline and end up frustrated because the trees here just regenerate and piss me off."

Naruto smiled and closed his eyes and concentrated, in a "poof" of smoke a huge bright orange fox appeared behind Naruto. Naruto patted it on its snout, "I think this thing will even give you a run for your money. It will start fighting when I start and it won't stop until I do."

Kurama smiled, "Remember that you have not seen my true power. Now get lost your sensei is coming."

Naruto faded from sight while waving.

-Back in the real world-

Naruto looked up right as Kakashi walked up to them holding two bells. "Today you will have to get one of these two bells, by any means necessary, in order to pass the exam."

Sakura asked the obvious question, "Does that mean that one of us will fail no matter what?"

Kakashi eye smiled, "That's right. You will be sent back to the academy for an entire year."

Both Sasuke and Sakura clenched their fists in determination while Naruto just rolled his eyes.

Naruto then raised his hand and asked, "Does this mean we use lethal force in order to achieve the goal?"

Kakashi was calm and collected when he told them they would have to use lethal force, but he was silently worrying about Naruto using lethal force.

Naruto nodded.

Kakashi attached the bells to his belt, then yelled, "Start!"

Kakashi watched as Sasuke and Sakura ran off to hide and find an opening. Naruto remained standing in front of him with his arms crossed.

Kakashi put his book away and readied himself, he was not going to underestimate Naruto again. "Lesson one tai-jutsu."

Naruto got into a sturdy stance that looked as if he could spring away or toward his opponent at any time. 'I will start with the style that Jiraiya-sensei taught me.'

They both waited for a few moments and then sprang at each other and engaged Kakashi went at about a medium effort and was surprised to see that Naruto was not only keeping up but pushing him back. The stance seemed to use a sturdy stance to block and chakra to stick his feet to the ground for more stability. He also relied on grabbing over extended punches and kicks as well as pushing the enemy off balance in order to get a solid hit on his opponent. Lucky for Kakshi his own style was all about speed and dodging while finding the weakness in the opponent tai-jutsu. He found that Naruto was not very mobile because of the use of chakra to stick himself to the ground. Kakashi increased his effort level a little to get an advantage and ended up behind Naruto and attempted to punch him in the back of the head to knock him out. Naruto saw him get behind him and over charged the chakra in his feet and repelled himself from the ground and went into a backflip over Kakshi's fist and kicked him in the face with both feet. Kakashi turned into a log and the real Kakashi burst from the ground and delivered a powerful punch into Naruto's stomach sending him flying into the nearby river.

Kakashi gathered his wits just in time to do another substitution to avoid becoming a pin cushion. He located Sasuke who cursed when the fake Kakashi turned into a log.

Sasuke took off in the opposite direction trying to put distance in between him and Kakashi. Kakashi took off after him and soon caught up to him and had a shadow clone engage him. Sasuke did pretty good but after he used a fireball jutsu he could hardly stand. Kakashi left him to regain his strength.

He then headed off to find Sakura and once he found her he wasted no time in putting her into a genin level gen-jutsu. She didn't realize it was gen-jutsu and screamed shortly before passing out. Kakashi just shook his head.

"Are you done testing them yet?"

Kakashi looked up to see Naruto in the tree above him. "I still need to talk to you a bit too. Were you going all out in our fight earlier?"

Naruto shook his head in the negative, "I would say I was giving about three quarters effort and I was using my secondary style."

Kakashi nodded, "how about your jutsu list?"

Naruto scratched his head, "I kinda lost count how many I have, but I have three chakra natures. Wind and Lighting are mine personally and I have control over fire because of the fox. I can only use them separately though."

Kakashi nodded again slowly, "how about your gen-jutsu?"

Naruto rubbed the back of his head, "I can't cast any, but can break almost any of them."

Kakashi nodded again, "Well I am sure you know that the reason I was assigned to this team was to teach Sasuke almost exclusively. I can give you jutsu to work on but that is about it."

Naruto nodded, "yeah, I figured as much. I have things to work on that Jiraiya-sensei gave me. I have also heard about a few Jonin that I want to ask for help in building my skills. Is it cool if I only come to the teamwork days?"

Kakashi shrugged, "you might as well. Other than standing around or climbing trees you won't be doing anything."

Naruto nodded again, "So I guess I should tell them the real point of this test so we can finish up."

Kakashi nodded and pulled out his book, "that would be nice. I have a hard time reading with all the noise."

-Later-

Naruto and Sakura ran into Sasuke who seemed to be just barely recovering from using his fireball jutsu.

Naruto looked at the other two, "okay, I think we have established that none of us can take Kakashi-sensei on alone. We need to work as a team in order to get the bells."

Sasuke sneered, "I will not go back to the academy!"

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Have you ever heard of a two man team before? This is obviously just a test for teamwork, but I'll tell you what, if one of us has to go back then I will go."

Sasuke smirked, "I'd probably be good for you dope."

Naruto punched Sasuke so hard in the face that his neck broke and he died. Now back to reality. "Yeah whatever teme."

"This is how we will do it."

Kakashi sat in the middle of the original field waiting for the genin to come up with something. He flipped a page just as several kunai and shuriken shot out from the trees. Kakashi dodged as three genin came out of their hiding places and all engaged Kakashi all at once. They all went for a bell only for Kakashi to switch places with a log and appear next to them with completed hand seals for a water prison jutsu. The jutsu caught all three of them and forced them to surrender.

All three of them sat on the ground panting.

Kakashi took in a deep breath, "Now it is my great please to tell you…you pass. Remember that teamwork is the best tool for a ninja. Those who abandon their friends are worse than scum."

They all looked dumbly at their sensei until he disappeared in a burst of smoke.

Naruto was the first to recover and left as soon as possible via shunshin.

Hope you enjoyed it. I was a little longer and I hope I spelled people's names right. Please review it makes writing the next chapter so much easier. Also you should know that now that the chapters are longer I will probably take two weeks to update. Thank you for all of your support.

-Konoha Civilian out!