Hello Everyone. Sorry about the rather odd update schedule. I said bi weekly and it definitely isn't working out as planned. I guess just forget I said that, I cannot promise when updates will happen, I can only promise that I will stick this story out until the end or I give it up for adoption (which is unlikely). That being said, let it once more be known that a poll is up on my profile for the pairing of this story, and I have had a review saying that some people were having trouble accessing the poll. I'm sorry to hear that but at the moment there isn't really anything I can do to fix it, so I hope everyone who wants to be heard in that decision can vote, despite the issues. Please Review If you have any suggestions or wish to give advice, constructive criticism is always welcome.

I do not own Naruto, I am not Kishimoto, if I were, I definitely wouldn't be writing this and would likely be rich.

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The next 3 months were relatively repetitive for the young Uzumaki. It was a cycle of waking up, making breakfast most days, getting ready for the academy, showing up about 10 minutes late every day, using a Kakashi style excuse for why, sleeping through most of class, and sparring with Sasuke every other day after school. The 2 developed a relatively fast friendship which was very surprising to most who saw, as the Uchiha clan was nearly as stuck up as the Hyuuga clan. Everything was going as usual until one day, when after the spar between the two boys, a certain conversation happened.

"Hey loser, you doing anything after this?" asked everyone's favorite young Uchiha (not actually my favorite, don't ask cause I'm not answering).

"I don't believe so, why?" said the whispered blonde. As he dusted off his shirt and took a swig of his water bottle.

"I told my mom about you, and she told me to invite you over for dinner sometime, figured tonight was as good a night as any." Answered the raven-haired boy.

"Sure, I was probably just going to go home and eat whatever I found in the house anyway." Said Naruto.

"Alright, cool, we can head there after I kick your ass again." Replied Sasuke.

"In your dreams teme," Said Naruto, before getting into his fighting stance. "as it is the record is 48 to 41 with me on top."

"Not for long." Said Sasuke as he got into his stance.

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A few hours later…

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Sasuke led Naruto to his home within the Uchiha compound, he knew his mom was going to have a fit because he had a black eye and a small split on his lip, but he didn't care cause he one upped Naruto this time who was sporting 2 black eyes in addition to a split on his lip as well.

"My mom might be a bit upset due to how we look, just fair warning."

"Eh, that's fine, It'll be cool to meet your family regardless," responded the blonde. Sasuke walked into the door with his friend and was immediately greeted with the sight of his brother, who was seemingly just getting home as well.

"Sasuke-kun, how was your day?" said the unidentified Uchiha.

"Pretty good Itachi-nii, I brought Naruto like mom said I should." Said Sasuke. Said blonde waved from behind Itachi with a wide grin.

"Hi, I'm Naruto, you must be the same Itachi that Sasuke always talks about. Are you really as strong as he says?"

"Nice to meet you Naruto-san, yes I am the same Itachi that Sasuke must've mentioned and though many say I'm strong, there are most definitely many stronger than me." Responded the long haired Uchiha. "Yeah? Like who?" asked Naruto. "Well, there is the Hokage of course, the 3 legendary sannin, and then Hatake-san. There are a couple of ANBU members, and a few other Jounin. Anyway, you two should probably head on inside and get cleaned up, after all, Mother will probably be upset if she sees you two like that." The older Uchiha walked off toward a training ground. "So cool!" Naruto said as he turned toward Sasuke. "How come you aren't that cool teme?" "This coming from the dobe?" "Whatever, let's go meet your mom!" The two boys ran inside and Sasuke led Naruto to the bathroom so they could wash up a little before going to see his mother. When he was done, Naruto went back out, leaving Sasuke behind in the restroom trying to cover a small scratch on his arm. He was greeted with the sight of a woman preparing food in the kitchen. She had a mostly average build and had jet black hair and eyes, like Sasuke, this must be his mother. She turned around and saw the small boy and smiled.

"Hello Naruto-kun. I'm Mikoto, Sasuke's mother. I was friends with your parents a long time ago. In fact, me and your mother were nearly inseparable." Naruto's eyes went wide. "As a matter of fact, you likely were not informed, but her and I used to work together a lot. Anyway, dinner will be ready in about 10 minutes. Until then, you and Sasuke can go play." "I'll tell him." Naruto said as he ran off to Sasuke.

Over the next couple of days, Naruto would eat over at the Uchiha compound a lot, spar with Sasuke twice a week, and still go about his time at the academy. Kakashi wasn't home often at this time as he was on missions a lot. This left Naruto with a lot of free time that he spent reading scrolls and books on being a ninja, and training. He spent most of his time working on taijutsu at the moment, the academy style was lame and wasn't cutting it though. From his mindscape his parents could see his dilemma, they gave each other a short look and then Minato reached out from the mind scape. Naruto, come into the mind scape, me and your mother want to talk to you. Naruto did as requested of course

:In Mindscape:

"Naruto-kun," his mother said, "We saw you training and we see you struggling with the academy taijutsu. We think we know your problem, it doesn't suit someone with your mindset and build. So, me and Minato-kun are gonna teach you a jutsu then our respective taijutsu styles, okay?"

"Wait REALLY!?!?!" Naruto exclaimed before he glomped his mother in a giant bear hug., "THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!" Kushina sat him down and stated at him with a small smile. "First, the jutsu, it's called the Shadow Clone Jutsu. Before you say something about it being a clone jutsu, this is a special clone jutsu. It uses way more chakra so it won't be as difficult for you with your crazy chakra pools as it would for others. Also, every memory the clone gets is sent back to you, the original, when it is dispelled. You with me so far?" Kushina asked and Naruto smiled and nodded. "Good, now first the hand seals." Kushina made the hand seal and proceeded to work on teaching Naruto the jutsu in the mind scape, this took about 30 minutes there as Naruto was able to do it easier thanks to his chakra pool. "Alright Naruto, now make, lets say…10 clones and 5 will be working with me and the other with Minato, meanwhile you in the real world, ought to just work on physical conditioning, as the clones can't transfer that to you.

A few hours later Naruto was laying in bed and suddenly his clones memories all hit him like a truck and he immediately passed out. Back in his mind scape now, he asked his mother, "Why did I just pass out when I got the clones memories?" "Well Naruto, sometimes the memories are extensive and cause a lot of backlash to the user, that is why this jutsu is a kinjutsu." "Really? It's a Kinjutsu? THAT'S SO COOL!" Naruto spent a little time with his parents before they sent him out of the mind scape so he could get some real sleep. After all, he needed it seeing as how he just learned the basics of 2 different styles in the span of a day.

Author Notes:

Hey guys, I just wanted to leave a few notes down here in regard to my disappearance. First, I'm trying to get back into writing these fanfics but things have been chaotic as of late. Some may notice a new story on my page, a BNHA fanfic. I will keep updating both stories of course but updates are still going to be sporadic and more or less I'll update when I update. I have had a lot going on between home and work, as well as graduating high school recently and preparing for college. I just wanted to say thank you to everybody for their patience and I hope everyone is doing great. Second, about the short chapter, I was rushing to get something out for you guys as soon as I could and about half of this has been typed on my phone rather than my computer. As always, read and review. Criticism is always welcome.