Yea… I'm not even going to make any excuse about why I haven't updated in 8 FUCKING MONTHS. I will just say this, I'm extremely disappointed in myself and quite embarrassed as well. I put very little work in the first chapter in the rewrite for Naruto Chronicles, I never proofread it, and I used half-baked logic and personality changes without thinking about the repercussions that those actions might have had.

You see, this story and idea looking back, had a lot of potential and I intend to actually have it live up to the potential. Truthfully, I have a goal now. By the time December rolls around, I want to have at least 500 favorites and at least 250 reviews. I'm determined to make chapters longer and I'm determined to actually make a decent story without a thousand grammatical errors in each chapter. I'm smarter, I've done a lot of research and I have more common sense. So, it's time to improve.

Things have changed, I've written some plans for the fanfiction and I'll something that changed.

First, is that Naruto's initial character was okay, him being a childish kid, like any kid should be is going to change within the story, I had no problem. But, I intend to make him OOC. By how much you might ask, well he'll be a lot like Itachi, except a little more selfish, brutal and more of a smart ass. My initial plan for Naruto's character was stupid. I planned to make more like Minato than anything, but I realized that stupid. You see, my opinion on Minato is pretty low. I mean, it's not that I don't like Minato, but hate how many ass pulls there were to actually get him in the anime once more. First, Minato was actually supposed to be sealed inside the Shinigami, so how did he get out? Well, a mask that Orochimaru used is supposed to magically allow that. HA! Ass pull number 1. Sage Mode, do I even need to say anything more? Kurama Chakra Mode, he was already powerful enough, now you give the guy even more power? Doesn't make any sense.

Okay, I got off track with a small rant, but never mind that.

Now, before I get on with the story, I want everyone to know that this will be a harem, but I will be drawing the line at ten members. And the start of them are down below.

Konan, Pakura, Anko, Kurenai, Tayuya, and Karin. So, the rest is up to you guys to list the other 4 members are up to you guys.

Now that that's done, let the story… begin.

»»—Story Start—««

It was a cloudy day in the Konoha Forests, the temperature was warm, the areas were clouded out and the breeze was refreshing. The tall trees were shadowing out most of the sunlight, so the area was a little darker than normal.

A blue and blond blur ran forward on the tree branches, with every step, he jumped forward to another branch as he traversed through the thick Konoha forests with his eyes wide open. His eyes occasionally darted from side to side, a common show that he was being aware of his surroundings.

Suddenly, his hand darted right to his pouch and pulled out a kunai before he twirled it around on his pointer finger before he threw it upwards, seemingly at a random location, but if one looked closely, they could see a small target hidden on tree branch with random small branches protruding from the tree, obscuring the view of the target if only slightly.

It didn't even take a second before a small 'thunk' was heard before the kunai slammed directly in the center of the target. He hummed lightly in apparent satisfaction before he leaped forward once more before and traveling through the forest.

He never once let his guard down and always did a fifteen-second sweep of his surroundings. He did this, so he wouldn't get ambushed or at least surprised, as that ambush or surprise could lead to the loss of his own life and he had no intension of dying.

Naruto lightly twitched before he jumped the side just in time to dodge a barrage of shuriken a few kunai mixed in between. He quickly hid behind the tree that he jumped in between, 'Okay, those shuriken and kunai were thrown a fast rate and were accurate enough to my vitals all at once several times over, only a good practitioner Bukijutsu could manage that… so I'm most likely dealing with a mid-range fighter… Mikoto.' With that thought on his mind, he started doing a string of hand seals with a moderate pace before he landed on the tiger hand seal and whispered lowly.

"Meisaigakure no Jutsu (Chameleon Jutsu)!" He intoned before his body started shimmer out of existence. Soon enough, his entire body became transparent and invisible. So, with that, he jumped forward onto another tree branch. He didn't know if the jutsu he was using now would work against a natural born sensor, be now was a good time as any to try.

Though, after about thirty seconds of traversing, he heard a distinct female voice yell from behind him.

"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Grand Fire Ball Jutsu)!" She yelled before her she breathed out a very large fire ball of bright red and orange flames. The fireball sailed through the air at a surprising rate before slamming into something after a few seconds. The fire ball dispersed in a wisp of air before he teen ager's form shimmered to life with a few burn marks and slightly burned clothes.

'Well, that answers my question.' He thought.

The teen was a little taller than average height for his age, which was sixteen years old, he had shaggy, spiky blond hair that leaned ever so slightly to left with short bangs hanging down on the side of his face. His face was lean, and it was devoid of all baby fat and he had three, thin whisker marks on each cheek. He had bright violet eyes and with a dark black pupil in each eye. He had muscular frame and his muscles were ripped and any sudden movements caused them to flex, but he still had a form that was built around agility and speed. He wore a sleeveless blue shirt, black weighted wrist bands on each wrist. He also had blue fingerless gloves that had a metal plate on the back of his hands, just above the knuckles. He wore a pair of blue pants that had multiple pockets going down the side of his pant legs. On his hip were three pouches, each one of them were for shuriken, kunai and miscellaneous stuff in the last one. Lastly, he had black, high ankle shinobi sandals with silver wrapping tied around his left calf.

This was Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto.

Naruto currently was doing something he had done many times. It was a training exercise that he would do with his mother, Mikoto, Itachi and even sometimes Hiruzen the Third and current Hokage. The training exercise was simple. It was a search and destroy exercise that had two members each searching for each other and each of them when they met, had to fight and who ever came out the winner, won the exercise. For Naruto's case, it was random. He never knew who was coming after him and he could only guess, or he could figure out some patterns. Just like how he knew Mikoto was better at weapons then anyone he ever faced, even comparing against the Hokage's skill. The exercise promoted tracking, stealth, strength and intelligence. It was a commonly used exercise that a lot of ninja preformed, but most of time, tracking teams did it most and even some ANBU did it in order to practice their individual skills.

The one who shot out the large fireball was a tall woman, she stood at a good five-foot-nine. She wore a black long sleeved shirt with a green jonin vest strapped secularly on her chest. On her neck was dark blue clothed shinobi headband tied loosely around her neck. She also had on a pair of dark purple ANBU style pants. On her arms were silver arm guards that went up to the bottom of her elbows. She also had black gloves that were fastened on by red wrapping that tied around her wrists. Resting on her back was standard tanto with silver medical wrapping tied around it's handle, and it had a dark grey scabbard. Her long black hair flowed down in a tight ponytail. She looked really attractive, with smooth, light pale skin, dark coal colored eyes and womanly figure that would turn many heads.

This was Uchiha Mikoto, former ANBU Captain and the infamous Red Eyed Apocalypse. Mikoto was known for her exemplary use of the sharingan, that was rumored that nothing ever escaped her gaze. She's also a member of the Hunter Nin Corps. Mikoto currently, was the second strongest kunoichi in all of Konoha, which was an amazing feat in itself. Especially when she had to compete with Uzumaki-Uchiha Kushina.

She broke out in a playful grin on her face before she landed smoothly on a thick branch. "My, my Naruto. Don't tell me that was too much for you to handle." Mikoto said with a forced sigh and her eyes held a lazy glint.

He stared at her impassively when she stared at him right in his eyes. His eyes flashed a whole different design for millisecond before they returned to their normal violet. Suddenly, he ran through hand seals at rapid pace and her eyes widened as she was about to react. But, as soon as she formed her first hand seal, he was already finished with his before he called out.

"Magen: Shōten no Yugami (Demonic Illusion: Distortion of Focus)!" Naruto shouted as his chakra flared, causing his form draw a thin outline of black chakra.

Mikoto stumbled slightly as her vison started blur and disorientate. Her surroundings started change colors randomly at a slow pace and everything was viewed in slow pace. All of sudden, it started raining, disorientating her even more. She raised her arms shakily before forming a ram hand seal and flared her chakra wildly, forcing herself out of Naruto's impressive genjutsu.

After that, the world went back to normal and her view regressed to what It was before he put her under his genjutsu. But, Naruto was nowhere to be found. She looked around everywhere, but before she could do anything, her world went black for a quick second. Once she could see again, she came face to face with Naruto, who had his fist raised. She didn't have anytime to react before she punched clean across the face, smacking straight through a thick tree before Naruto disappeared and burst of speed.

He reappeared a second later before he heel kicked her straight into the ground, creating spider web cracks on the ground due to the extensive force he delivered. She opened her eyes groggily and she had just enough time to hear his next jutsu.

"Suiton: Kasukēdo Suinami (Water Release: Cascading Water Waves)!" Naruto shouted before a great amount of water funneled out of a nearby sizable lake and it started forming itself into a construct. The formation in which the water forming into was a large wave, maybe twenty feet in height and over fifteen feet in width. In its entirety, the jutsu was powerful shorter sized tsunami that had multiple inside wave currents that made the jutsu even deadlier.

Mikoto's eyes widened before she ran through hand seals so fast, Naruto couldn't even track before she landed on the serpent hand seal. She jumped up before she built a large amount of chakra inside of her body.

"Doton: Doryū Jōheki (Earth Release: Earth-Style Rampart)!" Mikoto shouted before a wide, thick and durable wall of pure brown rock shot up through the ground and pillared up, reaching well over thirty feet in total height with Mikoto standing on top of the enlarge earth wall with her arms crossed, pushing her bust up even higher and she wore a small smirk of triumph.

Naruto watched as his strongest Suiton jutsu fail and his entire plan go straight to hell just because she could actually react that fast, even without the sharingan. He frowned slightly before looked up to her and a nod.

"There went my entire plan." Naruto muttered, but Mikoto heard him due to her enhancing her senses with chakra in order to perceive things faster. She looked at him questioningly before he sighed nodded once more.

"My entire plan was to surprise and catch you in genjutsu with my sharingan, which I did effortlessly when you made eye contact when you thought you were safe from ocular genjutsu just because mine wasn't activated. But all I needed to do, was to flash sharingan and use a little more chakra than usual to activate genjutsu, that's why your vision blacked out for a small second. The sharingan genjutsu that I caught you was subtitle and wouldn't come out until I said so, then I would catch you another genjutsu, once that would take a small amount of time, but it was just enough time to finalize my plan." Naruto explained, surprising her greatly about his simple, yet really affective strategy.

"I have to say, Naruto-kun. That was impressive, you certainly had me worried there for a second. I should know not to underestimate you anymore. Though, neither of us are anywhere close to going all out, as none of us used our Dojutsu, except to use a genjutsu." Mikoto praised before he took out kunai and coated it in a blue shroud of chakra, enhancing her kunai's durability, piercing power and cutting power.

Naruto, seeing the action, slid into a taijutsu stance. His stance was loose and flexible, but it held a good aptitude of power. What Mikoto knew about his taijutsu style, was that it revolved around fluid moments and combos. But, it really didn't have a great weak spot. In fact, the only weak spot it had, was its transition speed between combos, as those took time to set up and deliver. But, Naruto worked around that and altered the already existing style and made it so where it didn't revolve around combos and it could be used for freestyle as well. As you could probably guess, the one thing that made the taijutsu special, was the fact it was it was diverse in its move set and principle. As, Naruto could change up between powerful and deadly combos, to heavy, quick and unpredictable strikes. That was a better suiting taijutsu style for the blond, as he hated become dependent on one form of attack. It just wasn't his style of attack.

The second their eyes met and they both blinked, time seemed to slow down for the both of them before they both disappeared in a flock of torn up small pebble sized rocks and dust. And torn up dirt and grass respectively before they both clashed midair, fist against fist and Naruto's forearm blocking her wrist from moving the kunai any further into Naruto's guard before they both kicked each other in the same spot, each hitting each other's respective knees. Mikoto grunted before pulled back her kunai before went to kick Naruto's once more in his stomach, only for him to reverse his guard and block her kick with the back of his hand and he immediately pushed down, negating the attack before smacking away the incoming kunai before he barley blocked a kick with both his hands beside his face, aiming directly at the neck before he negated that kick as well.

Naruto smirked lightly before jumped forward as they both landed on the ground and he stood up on a hand stand before he helicopter kicked her across the face, or at least he tried to before she blocked his attack easily. Only for him to disappear. Her eyes widened in surprise and understanding.

'Kage Bunshin (Shadow Clone).' Mikoto thought analytically before she impulsively dodged a few shuriken that came flying towards her direct eleven o'clock. However, a cut slipped across the left side of her cheek, an inch or so away from her eye.

Naruto shimmered to life before she was kicked in the stomach by a powerful wide arc kick, forcing her to spit out a small glob of saliva before he elbowed her face, landing two solid blows before she staggered back and blocked another relentless attack form the blond. Just as he was about jump back, she lunged out kneed him stomach, forcing some spit and blood to come out of his mouth. Naruto opened his eyes just time before he saw the back of her back come into contact with his face, back handing him back a few feet.

Naruto tried to recover fast, but Mikoto remained on the offensive and swept Naruto off his feet with a low kick at the bottom of his feet, knocking him of his balance completely. She coated her feet with chakra before she dropped to her stomach, and double kicked him in the stomach and the chest, sending him flying up in the air.

He coughed upon the contact of the attack before he opened his eyes once more just in time to see a few mini fire balls flying at him with alarming speed. He gritted his teeth before he made a single jutsu just in time before the fire balls slammed in his form, creating a small sized fiery explosion.

Just as the smoke cleared by the oppressive wind, she watched in surprise and slight horror as his body came flying down in torn clothes and burn marks all over his body.

'W-W-What!? That was only a c-rank fire jutsu! He should have been able to survive that without zero injuries what so ever!' Mikoto stated in anger and confusion before jumped up caught him form, only to freeze in surprise when the 'body' blew up into smoke, revealing a large log with about twenty explosive notes tied around the green log.

Her emotions changed from worry, anger and confusion to disappointment, surprise and anger as she could do nothing when Naruto's form shimmered to life a raised a half-ram seal without hesitation and the explosive tags glowed briefly before she was blinded by a bright flash of light. After which, the entire log exploded with multiple medium sized explosion's within one, making it great sized explosion.

Naruto hoped back immediately as he watched the explosive notes detonate into a brilliant explosion. He kept watching and he waited with a baited breath before he saw her form. Her clothes were torn in multiple different ways. One of her sleeves with burned away, revealing a good sized burn mark on her left forearm. The left side of the stomach area of the shirt was also burned away, revealing a few scratches and already forming bruise. Her left pant leg was almost evaporated entirely, but up to her thigh, her pants were completely fine except the missing pant leg from her ankle and the top of her thigh. Her face had a couple of scratches and some blood running down her face from the cut that he had gotten not too long ago from an apparent shuriken coming into contact with her.

Though, her body exploded in some smoke, 'Kage Bunshin (Shadow Clone)?' Naruto questioned mentally just in time before he was kicked in the face, sending him back against a random tree.

He gritted his teeth in apparent pain before he wiped a line of blood leaking from the corner of his frowning mouth. 'Danm… that was fast.' Naruto thought before he stood up. He narrowed his eyes in focus and he looked around and tried to find the female Uchiha, which he had no luck doing so far.

'I have to file that technique for later use… a genjutsu covered Kage Bunshin, that's fucking genius.' Naruto thought clearly impressed.

After about thirty of seconds, he felt a small spike of chakra, leading to a large spike of chakra as well. He immediately turned to the direct position just in time to hear a shout. And the words that heard with it slightly worried him an extent.

"Katon: Sandāfurasshu Kōhai (Fire Release: Thunder Flash Devastation)!" Mikoto screamed as she clashed her fists together in a side by side formation before fire started wrapping around her form. Quickly, the whirl of flames wrapped around her entire form before they all funneled towards her outstretched arms and shot forward in a large formation of an outwards firing fire tornado, which shot forward in at an incredible rate.

Naruto watched with wide eyes, and he froze for a few seconds before he snapped out of his state and outstretched his arms. His violet eyes started changing. Instead of his normal violet eyes, they were now metallic purple in color with black rings surrounding what looked like another eye, that eye had red iris' a black pupil and three black tomoe surrounding the small pupil.

Around his form was now a light purple barrier and his eye shined a little brighter than usual before the entire Katon jutsu came into contact with him and enveloped him in a fury of flames. Or, that's what it would have done. Instead, with his outstretched hand and the purple barrier formed around him, he started absorbing the attack.

"Gakidō (Preta Path)!" Naruto intoned strongly as he absorbed the powerful Katon jutsu with practical ease.

Mikoto watched with a frown as her technique started getting absorbed. She sighed mentally before she cut the flow of Katon chakra running through her technique, causing her jutsu to dissipate with wisp of fire.

As the fire vanished, Naruto kept his barrier elevated and his harm outstretched for a few more seconds before it disappeared, and he pulled his arm back down and calmly looked across at his adversary with his RinneSharingan activated.

"What do you say we kick things up a notch, eh Mikoto?" Naruto asked, his normally calm and collected expression had a small bit of humor in it.

Mikoto grinned silently before she nodded in response his question, "Of course, after all. This will your final test from me. Beat me without my sharingan and… you pass." She told him with a warm tone that was filled with confidence.

Naruto nodded slightly before he slid in a stance once more with his Dojutsu solely focused on Mikoto's unmoving, smirking form.

With a grunt, he leaped forward at maximum speed, which so happened to be low-jonin in terms of speed. He clashed with Mikoto, fists against fists before he jumped back lightly and tried to kick her to the side of her stomach, but she reacted accordingly and blocked the kick while crouching lightly, before he used her hand to jump up even higher, while at the same time doing hand seals that would be nothing but a blur to most chunin. But, Mikoto wasn't a chunin, she was an elite jonin in terms of all-round strength, so she read those hand seals perfectly and ran through her own set.

"Raiton: Gian (Lighting Release: False Darkness)!" Naruto shouted as he inhaled sharply before he exhaled a blue lightning bolt straight of his mouth, almost at point blank range.

The attack next to no time to hit Mikoto and caused a small explosion of chakra, sending Naruto flying black from his own chakra expulsion from the explosion.

Mikoto's eyes widened before she erupted in smoke, revealing a destroyed green log and Mikoto was nowhere to be found.

Naruto frowned, 'Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique).' He observed as he landed on another tree and drew a kunai from his pouch and held it a reverse grip. His RinneSharingan caught something flying towards him at his right and immediately realized it was a fury of well thrown kunai and shuriken. He quickly raised his kunai and deflected all the incoming projectiles with little trouble due his Dojutsu's enhanced precipitation.

He also caught something in the corner of his eye when he finished blocking all the kunai and shuriken and was forced to dodge a blade strike from up above his head, which cut straight through the tree branch he was fighting on clearly in half with practical ease.

Naruto jumped forward and reached into his pouch and grabbed some shuriken which he immediately drew and sent them backwards, right above where the last attack originated from. However, they all missed and simultaneously stuck into the tree's base.

He grunted softly before he landed on another tree, but this time, he was standing on the tree horizontally with the use of his chakra. He raised his kunai and blocked Mikoto's sword strike with difficulty, as her physical strength was amazing, and her accuracy was spot on. Naruto pushed up, sending her arm up and which forced her to relent on her attack and was kicked in stomach by the blond. She was sent back a few feet before she was punched across the face a few times by a some very fast jabs. He then kneed her in the stomach, causing her eyes to bulge and to cough up some blood and saliva.

However, Naruto wasn't done yet. He crouched down lightly and kicked her chin, sending her flying into the air. Naruto knew this was the time to end the battle, so he made the cross hand seal.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu)!" Naruto said before a human sized smoke cloud erupted right next to him before it dispersed almost immediately, revealing a perfect, physical clone of Naruto.

"You know what to do." Naruto said without turning and his Kage Bunshin nodded his head before he went through some hand seals along with Naruto following suit.

"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" Naruto bellowed as he breathed out a giant fire ball that was comparable in size to Mikoto's earlier fire ball jutsu that she used in the very beginning of the fight.

"Fūton: Daitoppa (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)!" The Kage Bunshin exclaimed as she he inhaled, causing his chest to expand lightly before he exhaled a wide stream of destructive wind, catching the original's fire ball, amplifying its power to a great degree (No pun intended).

The fire ball enlarged to a way larger scale to what Mikoto could ever create. The fire ball also changed slightly in color, now burning white instead of orange and red color flames as the fire ball burned with a new intensity after being amplified by the Fūton jutsu.

"Ninpō: Kasai to Kaze no Kyōdō Sagyō: Daihonō Toppa (Ninja Art: Fire and Wind Collaberation: Great Flame Breakthrough)!" Naruto and his clone bellowed in perfect synchronization as their fire ball burned even brighter.

Mikoto groggily opened her eyes and instantly felt immense heat and looked down her eyes widened in shock and bit of worry. 'N-No, I don't have time for an Doton jutsu for defense!' She thought, clearly worried as the enhanced fire ball sailed right at her airborne form. She gritted her teeth and pulled out a kunai that had ninja wire attached to the loophole of the kunai and threw it, right at a tree. She grabbed the ninja wire and pulled herself right the tree that was right outside the range of the devastating Katon jutsu. However, she didn't get out of the jutsu range completely as she burned her right arm pretty badly. But other than that, she evaded the attack well.

Naruto breathed through his mouth from the loss of a good amount of chakra. That attack had taken a good amount to preform and his stamina was starting to get a little low, so he contacted his Biju. 'Hey, Kurama.' Naruto contacted mentally, getting Kurama's attention, who was watching the fight carry on with a good amount of interest. So, he wasn't surprised when his host was contacting him.

"What's up, Kit? You need some chakra?" He asked his host with a small fanged smirk on his orange, whiskered snout. Naruto mentally nodded and fox wordlessly channeled some his chakra into his host's body.

A dark red shroud of chakra surrounded him slowly. It took a few seconds, but his entire form was encased with thin bubbly shroud of potent, red demonic chakra and on top of his head, rested two bubbly red chakra ears, similar to Kurama's own in stature. After that, more of Kurama's chakra worked into him and his whiskers darkened and lengthened and the black pupil of the Sharingan was now a fox slit. On his tailbone, was a long, bubbly red chakra tail, roughly four feet in length and a foot and a half in width.

Mikoto watched Naruto access the fox's chakra and she stood straight and her face went completely emotionless and her narrowed dangerously. She reached for her sheathed tanto and pulled it out of its scabbard twirled it around the palm of her before settled it in reverse grip and slipped in a loose stance. 'When Naruto uses even this small amount of Kyuubi's chakra, his skill and power sky rockets… and it's enough to change the flow of entire battle…' She trailed off as she tightened her grasp of her weapon. 'This… is when the battle gets serious.' Mikoto thought seriously before she channeled her chakra into her tanto and bathed in it a dark blue shroud of chakra, enhancing its sharpness and durability considerably.

In a blur of impressive speed, clocking in a high-jonin speed, she slammed into Naruto's Version One Cloak Form with her fist coated with blue chakra enveloping her hand, strengthening her blow and protecting her from Kyuubi's poisonous chakra.

Naruto growled before he used his red chakra tail to smack her away like a bug, before he disappeared as well, but being a great deal slower than Mikoto and he heel kicked her straight in the stomach, sending her plowing down into the ground, creating a crater.

He roared before he started forming hand seals at mid-jonin speed before he inhaled deeply.

"Suiton: Teppōdama (Water Release: Gunshot)!" Naruto exclaimed before he shot out three medium sized, condensed water balls rapidly from his mouth, right at Mikoto downed form.

Seeing the incoming attack, she quickly sheathed her tanto and ran through hand seals at low-kage level before she slammed her hands down on the ground and channeled a good amount of Doton chakra through the ground.

"Doton: Chikyū no Kao (Earth Release: Face of Earth)!" Mikoto shouted as a large rock structure formed at a quick pace. The earth structure formed a large human face and incased Mikoto's form protectively and blocked the incoming water bullets with practical ease as they only became slightly damaged.

Once all the water balls came into contact and were blocked, the face opened up directly in the middle and Mikoto was standing there with another hand seal formed before she shouted once more.

"Doton: Muchū Chikyū (Earth Release: Devouring Earth)!" She shouted as the ground from underneath the airborne Naruto opened up and lifted up like an automatic bridge. She didn't stop there though, she ran through a few hand seals at blurring speed once more before cupping her mouth and started channeling a good amount of Katon chakra in her lungs before she shouted.

"Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique)!" She yelled once more before she exhaled half a dozen of small, basketball sized fire balls that all zoomed in on Naruto with surprising speed.

Naruto eyes widened in realization. He knew what she was doing! She was forcing him to going back down and be caught in her Doton jutsu rather than be hit by her Katon jutsu. He gritted his teeth, he didn't have enough time to use Gakidō to absorb the attack and he didn't want to be hit by the Doton jutsu… so he made his decision.

'Kurama, get ready to heal the injury I get from Mikoto's jutsu!' Naruto yelled internally to his partner, who grunted in acknowledgement and sent some more chakra to his host as he defended himself better as he tanked the mini fire balls into his body. He gritted his teeth in pain as he felt his skin being burned, but as soon as he felt that, the pain started leaving at the slow rate from Kurama's help.

Just as the last fire ball hit, he was enveloped by a fiery haze from the jutsu.

Mikoto watched with impassive gaze and she watched with slight pride. It was a good choice to tank the damage from fire jutsu rather then be hit by the Doton jutsu, as broken bones healed slower and inhibited the body much more than a few burns from fire balls. It was a choice only experienced chunin and higher make. Inexperienced genin and academy students would panic and end up getting hit by both jutsu and would most likely be killed by the combo.

Naruto fell out of the smoky haze with lots of small burns lingering on his body. His entire shirt was almost burned off and only the right side of the shirt that collared over his right shoulder remained, showing that he had few bad burns on his chest. His pants were burned even more, his left pant leg were burned completely off and was shown that he had some minor burns there as well. Naruto closed his right eye and breathed heavily for a few seconds as fell to the ground and on one knee.

'D-Damn, even if it's just a c-rank jutsu, with Mikoto's mastery of Katon jutsu every fire jutsu of hers should be even more deadly than normal. Eh, Kurama; thanks for the healing.' Naruto thought out the last part to his large Biju, who smirked in reply.

"Please, what kind of partner would I be if I didn't hold my end!?" He asked rhetorically with a giant fanged smirk that Naruto practically felt. "Now, what's your plan? I know your stamina is starting to decrease and using my chakra is only going sap it even more." Kurama asked seriously, his smirk wiped clean from his snout. Naruto frowned slightly at the mention of his decreasing stamina.

'I can't really think of anything. Danm, I knew Mikoto was strong, but to think she's this strong even without her Sharingan is crazy.' Naruto sighed mentally along with the giant dark orange furred fox. If she was this strong without her sharingan, then how good would she be when she used it? That was a scary thought.

"Yea, even I have to admit, even if I hate the Uchiha, she's good. At least by human standards." He added quickly, covering up the fact that he was impressed as well. Naruto chuckled at his friend's statement.

'Hey, Kurama. Can you sense her chakra, is she low on chakra by any chance?' Naruto asked seriously with a bit of hope. He needed some type of break or else he would most likely lose the test.

Kurama went quite for a moment before he mentally shook his head, causing Naruto frown once more. "Sorry, Kit. She still has at least half of her chakra left." He informed his host with a sigh of his own.

'Alright… I have an idea… but this will sap every last bit of chakra I have left, as it's still not mastered.' Naruto said, and the fox readily nodded his head know what his host was implying.

"Even If the jutsu fails, I'll still give you some more chakra, you can handle it, that will allow you to fight a little longer." Kurama stated. Hearing his Biju's response, he nodded in appreciation.

The black haired Uchiha watched Naruto stay stationary as her Doton jutsu failed and sank back into the ground and worked its way to the way before she used the jutsu. She breathed in and out for a few seconds, not once straying her gaze from Naruto's form. Those last three jutsu sapped a little more chakra then she hoped for them to take. But, doing two B-rank and C-rank jutsu could do that, especially if one did those in rapid succession like she just did. However, her attention was on Naruto even more.

Naruto went through hand seals at a rapid pace, putting Mikoto on guard. His last hand seal was serpent.

'Time to bring out my trump card…' Naruto thought before he channeled a great amount of chakra through the hands and arms before he slammed down on the roughly with a mighty shout.

"Yōton: Dai Funka Kōhai no Jutsu (Lava Release: Great Eruption Devastation Technique)!" He roared as a channeled even more chakra into the ground.

Mikoto's eyes widened in surprise and a little bit fear when she heard him shout that. Yōton jutsu? How could he use Yōton jutsu?! She mentally screamed before she jumped up to evade the upcoming jutsu.

The ground started rumble violently and numerous rocks started jumping at a high pace, making it look like they were levitating. Just then, a large pillar of red, brown, and golden molten rock shot up from the ground, narrowly missing Mikoto. She gritted her teeth, just by being close to the jutsu, she could feel the intense heat that the jutsu radiated. However, the ground started rumbling even harder, causing Mikoto to jerk in even more surprise.

'WHAT?! Another one?!' Mikoto yelled mentally as an identical pillar of lava rose up right next the previous one.

Things seemed to go in slow motion for Mikoto. She didn't know what to do… she… she had to use the sharingan, she couldn't doge the attack without it and the attack could possibility kill her… and frankly, she didn't want to take that chance. 'Naruto took me completely by surprise, I don't have the time to doge it without it.' She thought with gritted teeth as time resumed and she immediately channeled chakra into her eyes, activating her three tomoed sharingan, slowing down her surroundings once more, but at much lower scale, enhancing her danger perception and more. She stared at the incoming lave pillar before she barrel rolled midair to the side and she jumped onto another tree, using a good amount of chakra to stick on before she jumped away once more, avoiding the second lava pillar.

Naruto watched Mikoto dodge his jutsu with a deep drown on his panting form as his chakra cloak disappeared in a wisp of deep red chakra and he fell down on one knee while he panted heavily. He started chuckling before his chuckles turned into mad laughter, getting the attention of Mikoto who landed right next to him after he deactivated his jutsu and the lava drained back into the ground.

She stared down at him a little weirdly, but she still hadn't gotten over her surprise of Naruto using Yōton jutsu. Slowly, but surely. His laughter left him, and she looked at him questioningly, almost as if he saw the look, he decided to explain with the little time that he could actually stay conscious.

"HA! Y-You a-activated your sharingan! I win!" Naruto told her with a victorious smirk before his eyes rolled up in the back of his head before he fell face first, complete unconscious.

Mikoto stared down his unconscious form with a shock on her face before she broke into a prideful smile. 'It's looks like you did… Naruto.' She thought silently before she deactivated her Dojutsu before she scooped up the young unconscious blond and carried him on her shoulder and left the area in Shunshin (Body Flicker Technique).

»»—Hiruzen's Office—««

Two figures sat across from each other as they stared at an all too familiar crystal ball with a small smirks on their aged face's. What they were doing, was they were watching Naruto's combat test with Mikoto.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, the old Third Hokage, The God of Shinobi sat in chair as he sipped some warm tea with a prideful glint his powerful eyes.

"So, old friend. What do you think about young Naruto's progress?" Hiruzen asked his old friend who he had known since they were genin.

Said friend, nodded his head, "Yes… it would seem that Naruto had progressed nicely of the years since awakening his peculiar Dojutsu…" Danzou Shimura stated with a satisfied glint his singular exposed eye.

"Young Naruto is special." Sarutobi started, getting Danzou's attention. "Not only is a he prodigy, but he's also driven to accomplish his goals… the boy has determination and fire that had long since overshadowed my own." The old Hokage stated, earning a curious raised eyebrow from Shimura. But, Hiruzen didn't stop. "Truthfully… if it was up to me…" He started before he clasped his hands tightly. Danzou waited patiently, as his singular eye stared right into Hiruzen's own eyes, unflinchingly. "I would have him be groomed to become Hokage, like how Hashirama-sensei and Tobirama-sensei groomed me… He would be an excellent Hokage in the future." Hiruzen ended with pride fill in his experienced eyes.

Danzou's lips curled up in a small smile and nodded his head in agreement. "Hiruzen." He spoked, gaining the Hokage's attention before he continued. "If that's what you want… then do it, I'll have your back. But the boy needs to prove himself more to receive my respect." He continued, earning a surprised look from his old friend. However, Danzou continued. "So, go ahead and train him, I'll have your back." Danzou told his friend with a rare smile before he got up and bowed lightly and left the room, passing the ANBU guards, who all bowed lightly as well.

Hiruzen stayed in his spot with a shocked look before he broke out in large smile and got up as well. 'Maybe in some time I'll groom him… however, your correct; he needs to grow more on his own.' Sarutobi thought with finality before he sat on his Hokage desk and grabbed his glasses and slid them on lightly.

He picked up a file of paper and started reading through them, occasionally signing them with a ink brush. Once he reached to another one read it through, he momentarily stopped.

"Permission to change the Shinobi and Kunoichi Academy Curriculum… signed Danzou Shimura… Your still looking out for me, aren't you.' Hiruzen thought before he started writing a long detailed document in what he wanted changed and what he read the what current curriculum was at the moment before started changing multiple things, silently wondering how it got so bad in the first place.

'The only thing you need to pace is the mastery of Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique), Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Jutsu) Bunshin no Jutsu (Clone Jutsu)… what… in… the… actual… fuck?' The Hokage thought, completely dumbfounded. He didn't approve of those changes in the first place… so who could have signed those… Hiruzen sighed as he took a deep calming breath.

"I'll deal with that later, but now; I need to correct this horrendous mistake." Sarutobi said horrendous very slowly before he started writing once more, occasionally cursing along the way in anger and frustration.

»»—Shinobi Hospital—««

Naruto laid on his hospital bed, still unconscious. His body was bandaged slightly. His entire right arm was bandaged, and his stomach was bandaged as well. On the right side of his face, directly on his right cheek, rested a white patch that was taped lightly on his skin.

Mikoto sat on a comfortable looking chair with her eyes closed, however, she wasn't asleep.

The room they were in was a normal looking hospital room. White walls, numerous beds, chairs and two tables and a sterol smell. Mikoto's eyes opened a second before the door slid open, revealing Uzumaki-Uchiha Kushina and all her glory.

She wore a black sleeveless, skin tight shirt. Over that, was a green jonin vest with the Uzumaki Swirl on the two shoulders and an enlarged version on the back. She also wore ANBU style black pants along with red medical wrapping around her right calf and thigh. Kushina wore red, low calf sized shinobi sandals. Her hair was tied tightly in a ponytail and her hair reached the bottom of her back.

Kushina walked next her friend sat next to her with small frown on her face. "How is he, Mikoto-chan?" Kushina asked worriedly as she relaxed slightly in the chair as she sat next her best friend and sister, in all but blood.

"He's fine, only a dozen or so small burns and four third degree burns, which are already healing due to the Kyuubi's influence. He also has a few bruised ribs, which won't take long heal either and he has minor chakra exhaustion, which obviously healed already." Mikoto said to the red haired exiled Uchiha, who's worried look evaporated and was replaced with a relieved smile.

"That's nice." She murmured lightly, but her best friend heard clearly and nodded in agreement. But, her posture she straightened slightly. "So, how'd he do?" Kushina asked with a small excited and hopeful smile on her beautiful face and lips.

Mikoto didn't answer automatically, but she did answer after a few moments.

"He… He did really well, even better than I thought he would do." Mikoto half smiled to her friend, who beamed, and her eyes lit up with happiness when she heard her son did great in the test that Mikoto gave him. "I made him beat me without me using the sharingan, but he could use everything." The black haired Uchiha said, getting a gasp in surprise.

"Wait, you want to tell me, Naruto-kun beat you without your sharingan? C'mon, Mikoto. I know he's strong, stronger than some chunin. But your easily jonin-level even without the sharingan." Kushina raved in disbelief. While she had a lot of faith in Naruto, she knew for a fact he wasn't that strong. Unless…

Just as Kushina was about speak, Mikoto continued. "Naruto… in terms of skill is nothing short of remarkable. He's easily mid to high-chunin in terms of skill with weapons, taijutsu and Dojutsu techniques. In terms of power… he's easily very low-jonin level. And while he's using Kyuubi's chakra, which he did use today. A whole tail of it and he was completely in control. Uhh, his power when he's in his one tailed state is mid-jonin, forcing me to stalemate easily without my sharingan." She listed off, shocking Kushina even more.

"He also has a great aptitude of Genjutsu. I'm guessing he has a natural affinity to Inton (Yin-Release) just like Itachi-kun and Shisui-kun." Getting Kushina eyes to widen to even bigger sizes. Just as she was interject, Mikoto continued before she had the chance.

"Kushina… I think I we misunderstood when he said he control all elemental affinities…" Mikoto stopped before she stared right into Kushina's purple eyes. "I'm pretty sure Naruto has control of sub-elements, life for example; Yōton and Shōton elements. As… Naruto used a last resort, A-rank Yōton jutsu which forced me to activate my sharingan in order to survive, which is how Naruto won." Mikoto finished, her own coal black eyes taking on a serious glint, telling Kushina she was being serious and wasn't kidding around.

Kushina's eyes widened even more when she heard that… she rubbed her forward and sighed tiredly. "Troublesome… so we've been underestimating Naruto this entire time, huh?" Kushina muttered, but it was still loud enough for Mikoto to hear.

"I haven't underestimated Naruto at all." Mikoto scoffed, slightly surprising the red haired Uchiha. "I knew how strong he was, but I had no idea about him controlling sub-elements. That was a complete surprise to me." The black haired Uchiha reminded her rival, who just numbly nodded. Seeing how Kushina was being unresponsive, Mikoto decided to slightly change the subject.

"So, who do you think his sensei will be? As, Naruto and his graduating class are going to be graduating in a two weeks." Mikoto asked the red haired Uchiha-Uzumaki hybrid with curious look.

"Hmmm…. I don't know. Maybe Kakashi-kun or Itachi… Shisui is good probability as well." Kushina replied with shrug, letting all of her shock and stress evaporate.

Mikoto nodded thoughtfully before she stood up and faced her rival. "I'll see you later, Kushina-chan… I have some clan business to do. Also, tell Naruto-kun that he passed and tell him good luck for the graduations exams… though, I doubt he'll need it." Mikoto said with a friendly smile and wave before she walked out the door.

"Seeya, Mikoto-chan!" Kushina yelled out to her best friend before she slouched down into the chair and stared at Naruto's unconscious form with pride and wonder in her eyes.

'How far will you go… Naruto-kun?'

»»—END—««

So, how was it? I know this a stark contrast to my earlier writing style, but trust me on this, I'm back and I'm betta!

-Rose-