Within the next two weeks word had traveled fast about the last loyal Uchihas down fall and his implanted eyes. Ino surprised him, he'd expected her to be mad, to blame him for Sasuke's death, to wish for his death, to try and have the eyes taken, but not what she actually did. Ino had hugged him and cried into his chest, when she calmed down enough she started to talk to him about all of her memories with the Uchiha before and after the massacre, and she said it wasn't his fault and that she was glad it was him who got Sasuke's eyes instead of someone else because she knew that he'd put them to good use in the name of his best friend.

Now due to Naruto being someone's apprentice instead of being apart of a team he'd been forced to join other teams for the chance to gain experience in the field so he was now after two weeks of nothing but training in his ninjutsu and taijutsu on an extermination mission with team 9 or as they're more commonly known team Gai.

From the very beginning of the mission the Hyuuga of the team kept trying to say something to him but either one of his teammates or his sensei would keep interrupting him and it was really getting on Naruto's nerves. Finally he had enough on the third day of the mission. "Will you three quit interrupting Hyuuga-san, I do believe that he's been trying to speak to me for the last three days."

Gai, Lee, and TenTen all backed off and had looks of dread. Neji nodded and smirked. "What was it like? To see the Uchiha die? I for one am glad he's dead, such weaklings don't deserve to live."

That was all it took and before the Hyuuga boy could even register how bad he'd just fucked up Naruto had punched him through two trees and a boulder before slamming him into another boulder with a chidori aimed directly at his heart. "Listen here Hyuuga, if you ever disrespect my friend again I'll kill you where you stand and I could bet everything I own your whole clan will thank me and make sure I get a full pardon, they may even reward me with training in your oh so precious jiuuken. This is your only warning."

With that Naruto dropped him and walked back over to the rest of the team. The mission went by without a hitch after that, bandits were killed, the nearby village payed them for the mission, and they returned to Konoha where Kakashi thanked Gai for letting Naruto tag along and then took Naruto to an empty training ground. "Alright, the chunin exams are coming up and I signed you up, you'll be tagging along with team 8 on this one. Join them at the academy in two weeks."

Naruto nodded and Kakashi left so he decided to go to the Uchiha clan compound and get to work on a few new jutsu he was working the kinks out of.

(Two weeks later)

For the next two weeks he worked solely on his ninjutsu and taijutsu.

He'd been able to create and master six lightning style, four fire style, and a water style.

With his taijutsu he mastered the interceptor fist.

Now he stood in front of the academy in anbu style pants, a padded black T-shirt, and combat boots with four storage seals tattooed on to him, one on the back of his left hand, (holds water inside) one on the back of his right hand, (holds water inside) one on the inside of his right wrist, (projectile weapons) and one on the inside of his left wrist. (Projectile weapons)

After about ten minutes Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji appeared and they walked in together. As soon as they saw a bunch of genin surrounding a doorway that two people were blocking off team 8 wanted to try to get past them but Naruto held them back. "That's not the real room it's a dummy room to weed out the weaklings, simple genjutsu hidden by the fact that two so called genin are attempting to stop them from getting through who are both Izumo and kotetsu under genjutsu to look younger and have different facial features. I'm able to see through the genjutsu due to the sharingan."

All three nodded and signaled to any other Konoha genin the truth of the area before making their way up to the next floor where the real room was.

When they reached the door Asuma was waiting for them. "Good job making it past the genjutsu but that's the easy part, the next three tests will get increasingly harder."

He turned to Naruto with a smile. "Kakashi said to tell you that he'll be watching you and 'rooting' for you."

On the surface that would be sweet but Kakashi always said look underneath the underneath. 'Danzo is gonna be watching me huh, then let that old war hawk watch, I'll give him the best damn show he's ever fucking seen.'

Naruto walked into the room with team 8 and was hit with a large amount of KI but to him it felt like a piece of paper sitting on top of his head while to his temporary teammates it was like 12 ton weights on their chests.

Seeing their struggle he released his own KI and aimed it at everyone who attempted this fear tactic which made them all cower back in fear which took the weight off of team 8. "Next time any of you decide to join the big leagues again…" his eyes changed from the sharingan to the Kyuubi's eyes. "Come prepared."

All of the people who he was aiming his killer intent at nodded in terror. As he reeled in the KI he smirked. "Thank you Kurama, best training ever."

The tailed beasts chuckled from within the seal. "No problem, glad to see my work hasn't gone to waste."

Before anything else could be said a silver haired boy with glasses on came over. "Be careful kit, this one smells like snakes, could be one of Orochimarus spies that the old monkey was worried about."

Watching the boy carefully as he spoke with Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji he found that he had ninja info cards on everyone of the contestants. Ino asked about any kumo ninjas and he pulled out three cards.

The first card showed a blonde girl with her hair in a braid. "Yugito Nii, genin, gone on 6 D-ranks, 18 C-ranks, and 2 B-ranks, specialty is ninjutsu, and has an affinity to fire. She also seems to have an obsession with seafood."

The next card showed another blonde girl but she had hers in a short bob cut. "Samui, genin, just as many missions as Yugito, specialty is kenjutsu. She has no food related obsessions."

And finally the third card had a dark skinned male with white blonde hair. "Ao, same amount of missions as the last two, specialty is ninjutsu but is skilled in kenjutsu, has an affinity for lightning and learned to use the third raikages black lightning. No known obsessions."

Naruto glared at the card. 'Kumo would definitely keep that kind of information quiet if for nothing else to keep attention off of the kid who's apparently the apprentice of the third Raikage. I'll have to talk with these guys and warn them about spies.'

Naruto made a silent shadow clone and left it to keep suspicion off of him just in case he was right about this guy Kabuto.

Sneaking over to where he saw the kumo genin he tapped the shoulder of the one with the black lightning. When he turned around Naruto got straight to business. "I've come to warn you, that guy talking to my temporary teammates has ninja info cards that seem to have too much information on you specifically."

The guy raised his eyebrow. "Oh really, and what kind of information is that?"

The blonde shrugged. "Oh I don't know, maybe a bit to much information on your training in your lightning ninjutsu."

Ao stiffened a little and Naruto started to walk away. "I gave you the information, do what you will with it."

As soon as he was by his teammates again and his shadow clone had dispersed (giving him it's memories) he noticed some sound ninjas running at them or more specifically Kabuto where the lead sound ninja attempted to punch him but he moved his head ever so slightly so that he punched air instead. The silver haired boy smirked and was going to speak when his glasses cracked and he was forced to empty his stomach of all it's contents on to the floor.

Naruto glared again. 'That was staged, he knew exactly what was about to happen and when it would happen, and the sound ninjas were to coordinated for them to have just attacked out of retribution for being disrespected. As a matter of fact the three sand genin didn't seem to surprised by the event either. I'll need to report all of this to lord third soon, but how?'

That's when his sharingan noticed the one way mirror up above him. 'The jounin lounge is right above us so the sensei's can watch us of course and Kakashi-sensei is the only one up there who'd know the most recent Konoha anbu hand signs.'

Naruto moved his right hand behind himself as if to reach into his pouch and signaled to Kakashi.

(With Kakashi)

Kakashi was reading from his copy of icha icha Paradise when Kurenai tapped his shoulder and pointed down at Naruto from the one way window. "What's your student doing?" (this got the attention of a hidden ROOT ninja who watched and was just as confused as Kurenai at the seemingly random hand movements

Looking over his book and through the window he saw Naruto with his right hand behind his back and using the konoha anbu hand signs. 'Cards. Spies. Traitors. Call hokage.'

Kakashi acted like he had no idea and excused himself. As soon as he was out of the lounge he shunshined straight to the hokages office. "Lord third I must talk to you immediately, it's important."

Hiruzen sat down his pen and looked straight to Kakashi. He was surprised to see the jounin setting up privacy seals on every corner of the room and shooing away his anbu guard with death glares. As soon as the area was completely clear Kakashi spoke. "Naruto discovered that we may have spies and traitors in our midst. When the first exam is over Naruto will need to be allowed to shunshin here Immediately to tell you everything he couldn't tell me through the Konoha anbu hand signs."

Hiruzen nodded. "Alright but he'll need to make it quick or else he'll be disqualified from the exams."

Kakashi nodded in acceptance. "Of course, rules are rules and we don't want to alarm whoever the spies and traitors are."

(With Naruto)

The first test was just ending and everyone who passed was being told to go to training ground 44.

The Kumo team walked over to Naruto. "Would you mind showing us how to get to the training grounds the purple haired lady mentioned?"

Naruto was about to agree when Kakashi appeared and started dragging him away. "Just follow the team I came in with, I'll be there soon."

Right after he said that Kakashi shunshined them away to the hokages office.

Going straight into shinobi mode he was ordered to tell Hiruzen everything and he did from the cards having to much information to the attack being to coordinated, to the sand genin not being surprised, and finally his own conclusion.

Hiruzen sighed. "How did it come to this? My old student attempting an invasion, an ally joining in on said invasion, and all just after losing such a promising young man on his first mission."

The third looked to Kakashi. "Send an urgent message to the fourth Raikage about the info cards and the possibility of an invasion of Konoha, then send urgent messages to the new mizukage and the Tsuchikage about the invasion of Konoha, if they take their genin out we won't hold a grudge but if they keep them in hopefully that means we have allies in the upcoming fight."

Turning to the blonde Hiruzen smiled. "Thank you for coming to me about this as soon as you knew about it, you may have just saved hundreds of lives by coming to me."

Naruto nodded. "I'm just doing my duty as a Konoha shinobi."

Kakashi nodded to his student. "Go on, you have a second test to finish. If you fail I'll use you as a training dummy for my taijutsu."

The blonde was gone in seconds.

(Scene change)

As soon as Naruto arrived he had to catch a kunai by the blade in-between his pointer finger and thumb. "You just made it by the last second kid, did you have something more important to do?"

Naruto smirked. "No, just making sure I had all my equipment in order, though I think I need a second opinion on my swords… durability."

Anko chuckled as she looked the blonde up and down. "Come see me in a few years after you've 'grown up' and I'll test far more than your durability kid."

The special jounin looked around. "Alright so the rules are simple, you'll be given a scroll with either heaven or earth on it and you need to take the other scroll from another team by any means, you can steal it from them, kill them, or even seduce them for it though I wouldn't recommend that one because plenty of the animals in here are attracted to sexual activity and will kill you on sight like in those horror movies most of you have seen once or twice. You all have six days to get both scrolls and enter the tower in the center of the forest."

Naruto got the scroll for him and team 8 which was an earth scroll. The teams were quickly set up at different gates circling the forest of death. As soon as the whistle was blown the gates opened and They all ran in.

After about six minutes Naruto stopped his team and looked around. Ino was about to ask why they stopped when Naruto spoke. "You can come out now snake breath, I can smell you and I can sense you."

A cold chuckle sounded from one of the higher branches. "Kukukuku, very good Naruto-kun, as to be expected from the one apprenticed to Kakashi Hatake and the person who has Sasuke-kuns sharingan."

From behind a large tree came Orochimaru in all his snake like glory. "What reason do you have to be here?"

The snake sanin smirked. "Well originally I would have been here to offer Sasuke-kun a chance at the power he'd need to kill Itachi but then I heard that he died in battle saving you." Naruto growled at the mention of his failure as a shinobi and as Sasukes rival/friend.

Orochimaru knew what he was doing was treading dangerous grounds but he had a goal and he would be damned if he didn't do anything he could to meet that goal. "But imagine my surprise when I hear that the boy who was dead last as an academy student had sworn to kill Itachi in his best friends place. So to answer your question I'm here to give you a taste of the power I can offer you."

The snakes neck enlongated and reached Naruto but as he was about bite down Choji had come in and hit the sannin with an upper cut by a large fist. (partial expansion jutsu)

Ino gave her fellow blonde a few light smacks to get him back in focus. "Snap out of it Naruto! Focus on reality."

Naruto had come back to his senses and growled at his own stupidity. 'Damn it! I'll never be able to keep my promise to Sasuke like this! I need to kill this snake fucker and be done with it!'

Naruto's sharingan flared to life and he sped towards the snake sannin and round house kicked him before following up with a sweep kick then as he stood up he pulled out a kunai and plunged it into the mans chest.

Ino looked over Naruto's shoulder. "Is he really dead?"

Before any of them could answer a dark chuckle reverberated around them and then focused into one single spot behind them where Orochimaru rose from inside of a branch. Looking at the corpse behind them it was already falling apart into mud.

Naruto growled. "I should have known he wouldn't go down that easily, he's got the title of sannin for a reason."

The snake like man nodded. "Kukukukuku, that's right Naruto-kun, I knew Sasuke-kun chose the right person to entrust his life goal to. But don't be discouraged, if I was a new born that would have been it for me."

The taunts were getting to Naruto and the snake summoner knew it. The young Uzumaki made four shadow clones and with them he made a five star formation around the sannin. Each of them flew through different hand seals.

Clone1: "Fire style: dragon flame bomb!"

Clone 2: "Water style: water dragon jutsu!"

Clone 3: "Earth style:mud dragon jutsu!"

Clone 4: "Wind style: wind dragon jutsu!"

Original: "lightning style: lightning dragon jutsu!"

All of them: "Five elemental dragon combo: elemental destruction!"

All five of the jutsu struck at the same time and broke the branch they were standing on. Team Asuma and all five Naruto's jumped on to a different branch. The sharingan user turned to the other three. "If that didn't work then run, run and never look back while I do my best to hold him off. You'll need to get help and he obviously doesn't want me dead or he'd have killed me by now."

When the dust cleared they saw the burnt corpse on top of the fallen branch and Naruto laughed. "Yes! I killed a fucking sannin! Next up is Ita…"

Naruto was stopped by the sounds of squelching and looked down only to see Orochimaru crawling out of the burnt corpse covered in some wierd liquid substance. "Chi… well fuck me sideways with a burning log and a rusty sword."

Naruto jumped straight into action and summoned a hundred clones. "GO! GET SOME HELP FROM A JOUNIN OR SOMETHING!"

All three genin hesitated but left to get help. Naruto was forced to witness each of his clones dying through both his own sight and their memories, each clone threw everything he had in his arsenal of nin, gen, and taijutsu at the sannin but nothing even made him flinch.

As soon as he got to the blonde he held him still and bit him on his neck. When he released him a mark in the shape of three connected tomoe appeared in the exact spot as the bite marks.

Orochimaru chuckled darkly. "My gift to you Naruto-kun, when you wake up you'll feel a lot stronger. But remember, this is only the tip of the iceberg."

The mark burned like Orochimaru had injected him with magma. The boy spasmed and screamed in pain. 'This is it, this is how I die. I'm gonna die before I was able to even find Itachi let alone kill him.'

XXXAN: hello guys and gals, I've gotten reviews asking me about how Sasuke and Naruto became friends when they were younger so I'll answer that here for everyone.In the academy Naruto had decided to actually befriend Sasuke because of him having the same loneliness in his eyes even before the clan massacre due to Itachi being his father's favorite and Mikoto not paying a lot of attention to her younger son and after the massacre Naruto had been determined to keep Sasuke from closing himself in.I do hope that this explained it enough.As always MCL homies