While unconscious Naruto was in his mindscape but now there was a small purple goop sitting just outside Kurama's sphere of influence which just so happens to end at the large bars.

The blonde looked over at it then to the giant fox which had singe marks on his tails and other parts of his body. "Am I to guess that thing is the representation of the thing that pedo put on my neck?"

Kurama nodded and they both masterfully ignored the things agitation. "Yes, as far as I can tell the more you use its power the more the hatchling will be able to influence your thoughts and actions but due to the seal your father used I'm unable to influence anything permanent about your body until we find the seal key to unlock my cage. While ingenious against something that would harm you it's foolish in situations like this where I need to destroy the influence part of this thing so you can use the power without losing your free will."

Naruto was thinking when he suddenly started fading. "Guess someone is waking me up. I'll look for a solution to this problem and if I find anything I'll let you know."

(Scene change)

Naruto woke up to find himself in a medical area with team 8 (including Asuma) and Kakashi sitting in guest chairs.

He groaned as he rubbed his head. "Did we win?"

Kakashi chuckled. "Against a sannin? No, no you didn't but he did leave a second present for you." He held up the heaven scroll. "He left this with you to make sure you passed."

Naruto looked over to his sensei. "Can you please call jiji in here?"

The silver haired jounin nodded and spiked his chakra in seemingly random intervals.

As soon as Hiruzen had arrived Naruto showed him the thing on his neck. "Let's get straight to the point, this thing on my neck is able to give me an edge in a fight but each time I use it I'll become easier for Orochimaru to manipulate, I want a seal master to change the seal enough to where I can use it without the drawbacks."

Hiruzen was in hokage mode now. "That can be arranged for after the second part of the chunin exams are over. Now, how much can you tell me about Orochimaru? Did he mention any plans?"

Naruto shook his head. "No sir, all he said about plans was he intends to make me stronger than Itachi, his body language was calm, confident to the point of arrogance, and calculating. He'd thrown taunts around as if trying to get a measured response like he calculated exactly what taunts to use at different moments to push me in a certain direction."

Hiruzen nodded. "That's exactly what he was doing, he's hoping to rile you up and to make your hatred grow stronger so that's all you have left and that would push you right into his arms where he'll train you, mold you into the perfect weapon against Itachi then when you finished that mission he'll aim you at whatever he so desires."

Naruto clenched his fists. "That just means I have another target, no one will ever use me or Sasuke's eyes as their weapon."

Soon Naruto was left to rest and he did just that but as soon as he was about to sleep he felt an extra weight on the medical bed and a head lay on his chest. Opening his right eye he saw Inos blonde hair. As if she could feel him staring she decided to answer the unasked question. "I decided stay in here with you, you fought a sannin and allowed me, Shikamaru, and Choji to run when most kids our age would have attempted to run in the opposite direction. Thank you for helping us."

Naruto put an arm around the girl and held her close. "Your welcome, if you've decided that you are sleeping here with me then get some rest because I have a feeling we'll need it to get through tomorrow."

(Next day)

Naruto was awoken by the feeling of being watched and found that Inoichi was watching him curiously. "Hey Yamanaka-sama, you here to speak with your daughter?"

The man nodded. "Yes but I'm also curious, most people your age would have tried to take advantage of this kind of situation. You just saved a girl and she's crawled into your bed with you and all you do is sleep."

Naruto chuckled as he held the girl. "To be perfectly honest with you sir I've had the biggest crush on your daughter since the first day of the academy, she'd caught my attention with her confidence and hard work in classes, her natural beauty, and her quickness to catch on to new techniques, and that's not to mention her kindness to anybody that she met."

Naruto then gained a bit of steel in his eyes. "That fight between me and Orochimaru could have gotten her and the other two killed in the crossfire and it makes me so angry."

The softness came back as he looked down at his fellow blondes sleeping face. "And yet this angel could only see me as a defender rather than a monster that could have gotten her killed and she laid by a beaten and broken boy who had nothing to give. How could even a thought of taking advantage of her vulnerable state come into my mind."

Inoichi smiled. "You have a long way to go before your the man your father would be proud of but you're on the right track. If you and my little princess decide you two want to be together you have my blessing."

Naruto smiled as he felt Ino move around until she was sitting up. The first one she looked directly at Naruto with her half lidded eyes from just waking up with a small smile. The young Uzumaki smiled back at her. "Hey."

Ino rubbed at her eyes a bit. "Hey yourself, your a very comfortable pillow."

As Ino went in for a kiss Naruto moved his head slightly and put his lips near her ear. "Your dad's in the doorway watching us."

The Yamanaka heiress was now fully awake and jumped out of bed. "Daddy?!"

The older Yamanaka chuckled. "Don't stop on my account, you seemed very comfortable their."

Naruto chuckled at Ino's expense. Said Yamanaka girl glared at him. "Oh you knew he was there didn't you?!"

The blonde boy nodded. "Of course, talked with him while you were drooling on my chest."

She huffed. "And to think I was worried about you, you're an asshole!"

She stomped out of the room with both her father and Naruto laughing. "Don't worry too much kid, she'll come around soon enough."

Right then Kakashi came in. "Hey kid, time for your morning training."

Naruto was up and dressed in his training gear in seconds before following his sensei as he gave a wave back to the Yamanaka clan head.

The blonde followed his sensei down three basement levels to an indoors training area. When the silver haired jounin turned around he forced Naruto into defensive movements, he dodged and blocked as many attacks as possible but even at full focus with Sasuke's eyes he was being kicked and punched on all sides.

When Kakashi stopped he was beaten and bruised on the ground with blood leaking from his nose and lips. "What did you learn?"

The beaten up kid groaned as he sat up. "That my sensei is a child abusing maniac."

Sighing Kakashi spoke again. "No, the first thing you should have seen is that you let your guard down because of your familiarity with me, the second is while you've mastered the interceptor fist you rely on those eyes way to much, the third is I didn't even use 10% of my speed or strength and both Orochimaru and Itachi could beat me while I'm going all out without breaking a sweat, and finally even after getting more sleep than usual you're not at 100% due to those eyes constantly draining you of your chakra."

Naruto growled, Kakashi was continually downing him and his anger is slowly increasing. The silver haired jounin sighed. "Your new training regime will be to increase your chakra control, learn to fight using chakra sensory, and increase your speed and strength. This fight against Orochimaru was the first of many times you'll find someone stronger than you that will not show mercy so you'll need to prepare for such inevitabilities. Now, have the fox heal you, I'm not done with you."

So for the next month Naruto trained even harder and closed himself off even more to the point where he didn't even go to breakfast, lunch, or dinner. He has made tremendous progress in his control and his 'blind' fighting but his speed and strength have been slow to increase. Now it was the day of the preliminaries which had been announced on the third day in the tower and Naruto has changed his outfit.

He wore a black Uchiha clan t-shirt, tan shorts, and combat boots. His head band had been moved to cover his eyes, and his mouth was set in a scowl.

Ino watched her fellow blonde in worry, he was far more distant then he'd ever been before and it scared her.

Soon the proctor called out two names. "Choji Akimichi of Konoha vs. Karin Uzumaki of Sound! All other chunin hopefuls up on the catwalks."

Along with Choji staying in the ring was a short red head that looked like she would break in half if he breathed to heavy near her.

Seeing her small frame Choji looked to the proctor with confusion but Naruto stopped him. "Think before you talk Choji, she made it through the forest of death which means she has to have some kind of notable skill. Don't let the small frame fool you."

Choji nodded and got in his clans fighting stance. Ino looked at her fellow blonde. "How did you know he was about to say something or that this Karin girl has a small frame?"

Naruto smirked. "Chakra sensory allows me to feel people's emotions plus I get a basic shape from them as well. For example I can't tell what anyone's wearing right now but jounin Kurenai Yuhi is bent down to Hinata's level most likely giving her words of encouragement, Kiba and Akamaru are jumping around in excitement to begin their own battle, the sand genin are staying in one spot, they most likely are attempting to look indifferent but the oldest two are scared of the youngest one, and finally Kakashi is attempting to hide in the shadows to read his porn in peace."

The young Yamanaka's eyes widened. "How the hell can their chakra tell you that much?"

Naruto chuckled. "It can tell me so much more such as how strong they are, if they have any injuries, any physical abnormalities, and more. For example, I can feel that there is a pregnant woman here at this very moment."

Ino looked around and attempted to find someone with a baby bump. "Not that far along yet, she's about a week and hasn't even noticed herself."

Ino was worried. "Is she a genin?!"

The blonde nodded. "Yes, a sound ninja. Don't worry though, I'll make sure that the pregnancy isn't terminated from her fight."

They turned to the fight to see that Karin had Choji on the defensive with two golden chains made of chakra attacking him.

Choji dodged the chains and punched the ground with a partially expanded fist.

The ground shook and threw the redhead off of her balance for a split second. This split second was all Choji needed as he threw a volley of shuriken that held her chains in place and he punched her hard enough to knock her out of the ring.

The proctor called it. "Winner! Choji Akimichi!"

The Akimichi clan heir helped the girl up with a smile. "You were amazing out there, your speed with those chains definitely made up for the lack of physical strength 10x, you pushed me to my limit."

Karin was able to see the truth in his statement from his laboured breathing and the sweat dripping from his brow. Smiling she wiped the sweat from her own face. "Thanks, I still need to increase my stamina but I've worked really hard to master those chains so I can increase the number."

Naruto came down and put out his hand which the girl shook with a raised eyebrow. "You're Karin Uzumaki? Glad to finally meet a fellow clansman."

She took one look at his blonde hair and didn't believe him and he chuckled. "Don't let the hair fool you, my mother was Kushina Uzumaki and well my father's identity is an S-rank secret so I can't tell you that."

She reached out with her meagre chakra sensory skills and felt out his chakra and believed him instantly.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "I never learned all that much about the clan, all I know is they were known for kenjutsu and fuinjutsu but nothing else."

Karin smiled as they headed for the catwalk. "Well the chakra chains is our clan's kekkei genkai and it can be unlocked by simply training, since you're an Uzumaki I'll teach it to you while the exams are still going on and as for kenjutsu and fuinjutsu that was more the main family then the branch family but I know for sure that the clan heads had all of their knowledge inside of a library on Uzushiogakure that was sealed with blood key seals. If you can get their then all of that knowledge will be yours."

Naruto smiled. "Thank you Karin." He lowered his head where his lips were close to her ear. "If you wish to live turn yourself into the third, I've already discovered Orochimaru's plan and it's doomed to fail. I'd hate to have to lose the only other clan member I've found."

Before she could speak he walked away. The preliminaries flew by quickly (naruto was pleasantly surprised to find that Hinata had gotten a confidence boost since the academy and came close to beating Neji all without the use of the caged bird seal on the boys head saying that she didn't use it because she was going to change the clans ways when she became clan head) and finally it came down to two people. "Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha vs Tayuya of sound!"

Naruto walked over to the steps and calmly made his way down with his hands in his pockets. As he stepped into the ring he could hear his opponent laughing. "Is this a fucking joke? You want me to fight the fucking blind guy?!"

Naruto smiled kindly. "I can promise you that you won't be disappointed Tayuya-san."

The proctor raised three fingers. "Three. Two. One. FIGHT!" Tayuya attempted to punch Naruto in the gut but he side stepped it.

The sound girl then sent a round house that he ducked before jumping backwards. This continued for a total of ten minutes with her attacking and him dodging effortlessly and it was working at her last nerve. "Will you just fight already!"

He smirked. "Alright." He spun around her and pushed her out of the ring. "Winner Naruto Uzumaki!"

The blonde smiled. "You may want to go get a pregnancy test done by the way, you're already a week into it and soon any strenuous activity could kill it."

With that he walked away. Tayuya was in shock. 'I-i'm pregnant? But how? With who?!' and then it hit her. That snake bastard let his pet medic have his way with me!' thoughts of terminating the pregnancy just to spite them both entered her mind but then a side of her she'd never known existed showed itself, a side that loathed the idea of killing her own flesh and blood, her maternal instincts. 'Maybe if I turn myself in to the hokage I'll be spared execution and if not then they'll at least let me live long enough for my baby to be born."

Naruto waited by team 8 as the third part of the chunin exams fighters we're matched up. "The first fight will be between Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha vs. Neji Hyuuga of Konoha." Naruto and Neji nodded.

"The second fight will be Shikamaru Nara of Konoha vs. Temari of the sand." Both of them nodded with Shikamaru yawning.

"The third fight will be Yugito Nii of kumo vs. Choji Akimichi of Konoha." Both nodded with Choji munching on a bag of potato chips.

"The fourth fight will be Ao of kiri vs. Kankuro of the sand." Ao nodded while Kankuro was repairing his broken puppets.

The fifth fight will be Ino Yamanaka of Konoha vs. Samui of Kumo." Both girls smirked as they nodded."

"And the sixth fight will be Gaara of the sand vs. the winner of the first fight. You all have a month to prepare for the final part of the chunin exams. Good luck to all of you and may the best shinobi/kunoichi win."

Both Karin and Tayuya walked out and we're intercepted by Naruto. "I see both of you are willing to turn yourselves in, I'll bring you straight to him."

With that he used shunshin to get to the hokages office with both young ladies (16 years old) in tow. As soon as they touched down he pushed both of them into bowing positions. "Lord hokage, these two sound ninja have willingly come here to turn themselves in, the one with the big mouth is a week into her pregnancy and my fellow Uzumaki is untouched as far as my chakra sensory can tell."

Hiruzen nodded. "Thank you Naruto, you have done well bringing them to me. Both of you will be given full pardons due to your surrender before the actual attack but for now I'll need both of you to pretend this meeting never happened. You'll both return to Orochimaru and await his signal where the pregnant one will be escorted away from the battle and the Uzumaki will fight for Konoha."

Both girls nodded knowing this was far better than anything they deserved. When they were dismissed they left quickly but Naruto stayed behind on Hiruzen's orders. "Naruto my boy, you've grown distant lately and I'd like to know why that is."

Naruto sighed. "Sir, I know with everything in me that I'm growing stronger at a much faster rate than any normal human being should be able to and yet I still feel like I'm not growing at a fast enough rate, like I'll never be able to catch up to Itachi in time."

The third nodded. "I suspected that this would happen. That blob within your mindscape may not be strong enough to manipulate you into leaving us for Orochimaru just yet but it can put little ideas in your head that can mess with you like for instance that your training is having no real effects or that you'll be weak for the rest of your life without the power my old student can provide you. It will all end soon, Konohas residential fuinjutsu master will be here in three, two, one."

A scream of 'PERVERT' rang out and a white haired guy came flying through the window of the hokage's office.

On instinct Naruto threw a volley of Kunai that stuck the man to the wall. The guy looked at all of the projectile weapons sticking him to the wall and grinned. "At least I know I won't have to teach you to throw right."

This confused Naruto then as realization hit him he groaned. "My only chance at keeping my free will is an old pervert who can't go a whole minute without watching women undress?! And you want me to train under him?!"

Hiruzen nodded. "Yes, he's very skilled and even Orochimaru wouldn't go against him without being completely sure his plan is full proof or he has a perfect escape route in place."

Gaining a new found respect for the guy Naruto nodded. "Alright ero-sennin, let's get this over with."

Groaning at the name Jiraiya took out all of the kunai with no trouble whatsoever and stepped forward with a calligraphy brush and a bottle of ink. "Let's get started, take off your shirt."

Doing as told Naruto placed the shirt right next to him. Sitting in a lotus position Naruto waited as he felt the brush glide over parts of his skin around the mark then a hand touched it.

A burning sensation ran through his entire body before he slumped over in exhaustion.

Jiraiya picked up the prone form of the blonde and threw him over his shoulder. "I'll be taking him out of the village for his training, he's going to need as much time as he can get to train and this seal will only hold back the whispered words for so long so I'll need to get to work on a more permanent seal as soon as I can." With that the toad sage sunshined away.

XXXAN: hello and welcome back. Well for starters I have to tell you that I've posted another story called the cursed seven and have a second chapter in the making.Well now that my shameless self promoting is done I have one question for you, should Naruto end up with just Ino or should he have a small harem? If you guys and gals choose harem it will be limited to a total of three girls with Ino being the main wife.Please vote in a review and as always MCL homies.