Author:

Anime-boy07: thanks for reading and reviewing.

Zexion72: Your probably the only person that paid attention to that part.. . ...and after all the hard work I put into it being original...anyway, thanks for taking notice.

Sliver snow wolf: don't worry, I figured it out on my own...Lee is one of my favorite characters, I wish people would stop treating him like he's an idiot...

lunarxshinobi: Damn straight. Thanks for reading.

FF-loverHP1: I try my best...well not really...thank you for reading.

Midnight-angle-of-darkness: yes...for lee pawns all...thanks for reading.

Hope master: . ...yep...thank you for reading.

Traped soul: sweat drops yah, it doesn't really get good until the tenth chapter...well thats what a think a lot of people would agree on.

N: total wrong... . ...but at least you tried to guess it. Thanks for reading

Ecchi-Baka-Kon: ...yah, but there would be law suits and other crap to deal with. That, and she needed to get Naruto home as fast as possible.

Loaned: we'll need to get him a stick soon, or else he's going to get rapped eventually...I almost feel bad for him.

T.O.B: it's fine, as long as you enjoy the story and yourself. I'm glad to see that you fond the story again, since there have been times where I wasnt to read a story but can't remember it's name.

On the summons, I can't tell you. All I can say is that there are as of right now going to be 12 summons that Naruto has, referred to as the 'Shinobi 12' and that he's going to summon all of the boss's at least once.

I can list the ones he's summoned or mentioned so far.

Squirrel: don't know where Lee got it

Spiders: leaf

Apes: leaf

Frog: leaf

Slugs: leaf

raccoons: suna

the other six have yet to be identified XD...sucks to not be the author, don't it? Now go read the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Enjoy the fic.

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The intertwining of another.

Naruto looked around the area with mild interest. It had been an hour since they were a signed to gate 13 of the new test field in cloud country. It really didn't have a name from what he could tell, so he just called it CC Area, which is not that all creative. They were right next to the edge of the field it's self, since apparently the people that built this place wanted there to be as much room in the field as possible. Naruto looked over at his team mates.

Sakura was on the ground meditating, trying to keep herself calm before the exam. Sasuke, being the arrogant bastard that he is, was just brooding about how he had to go through the test again. Of course he had already gone through the test already, he was a jounin after all. Probably the only reason why they were there was because Sakura had failed it once. What about him you ask? Naruto wasn't a fan of higher ranks. That meant more work that you had to do after all...

Naruto sighed, as he stood up from the side of the fence that he was leading on and walked towards the gate. Sasuke Turned hi attention towards him, as Naruto stopped when he was right next to the gate.

" What the hell are you doing now?" Sasuke asked, as Naruto looked over at him.

" Waiting?" Naruto replied, as Sakura finished her meditating and stood up.

" For what?' She asked, as Naruto just grinned. A second later, the explosion tag on the gate blew, as the gigantic gates blew open. Naruto grinned, as he looked back at the other two.

" That..."

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Sasuke and Sakura ran as fast as they could through the forest, jumping from tree to tree. They moved easily and swiftly along the branches, keeping their guard up at all times. To most, they would seem like a blur, but to others...well, they were struck down before they could even see them.

They were two of the best nin in all of the village, nothing could stop them, nothing could break their concentration, nothing could slow them down...

" Sasuke-kun, Where's Naruto?" Sakura asked, as Sasuke looked back to see that Naruto was gone.

Okay, scratch that last one...

Both of them made a 180 degree turn, as they backtracked to find Naruto. He had been, in the past one or two months ( they didn't know actually date, but you get the idea ). He had berated them, made fun of them, and pretty much beaten them without even trying. It's like he was trying to break them down or something... He was relentless, always keeping it up and both of them were about to snap. Both of them agreed that if Naruto didn't have a good excuse for not keeping up with them, then they were going to kick his ass.

Not like they could anyway.

And to their surprise, when they finally found him, he was casually walking...on the ground. This actually pissed both Sakura and Sasuke to a degree of which they never thought possible. As there anger rose, they looked down once again to see Naruto reading a book. They couldn't read what the title was, but they could make out something about a 'stream'. Naruto looked up at them lazily, as the two glared down at him.

" Yo." Naruto said, as he raised his other hand up, while the other two jumped down.

" What the HELL ARE YOU DOING!" Sakura yelled, as Naruto used he cleaned out one of his ears with his pinky. Naruto just yawned, as his eyes closed.

" Think you could keep the volume down, we are in a exam that test's if we could survive in a life or death situation after all." Naruto said, as Sasuke glared at Naruto.

" Then why the hell are you reading that damn book at a time like this!" Sasuke shouted, as Naruto raised his hand, signaling him to wait. Naruto flipped to the next page in the book, as he chucked a bit. He then read down the page some mora, while Sasuke was getting impatient.

" Naruto, DAMNIT, ANSWER ME!" Sasuke yelled, as naruto looked lazily up from the book.

" Oh Sasuke, did you say something?" Naruto asked, as Sasuke was close to pulling out his hair. Suddenly, Naruto pulled out a kunai with his other hand and deflected some shurekin with it. Sakura and Sasuke immediately got into a stance, as Naruto looked over at the enemy's.

"Wow, not even five minutes in and were already attacked. Hmm...I wonder why?" Naruto asked out loud to himself, as his team mates just sweat dropped. The other team didn't say anything. They were from grass apparently, due to their forehead protector's. Not much could distinguish them apart, since all three wore black body suit's . One male, two females, The males were slightly taller then the female, but by the way they were formed, she seemed to be the squad leader. The males had short dark brown hair, while the female had long brown hair.

" I want to fight your strongest...Who's your leader?" The female asked, as Naruto looked at the other two.

" That's a good question...who is the leader anyway?" Naruto asked, as Sasuke and Sakura looked at each other, before turning back to him.

" Who do you think?" Sasuke asked with a smirk, while Naruto just shrugged.

" Hmm...okay." Naruto said, as he turned back to the other team, the female was apparently getting impatient. He coughed a bit, before dawning a serious face. Naruto looked at the three, as they gave him their full attention. " The leader...is me."

Sasuke and Sakura face faulted, as the other three sweat dropped. Sasuke was immediately back on his feet, pissed once again.

" I'm the leader, dammit!" Sasuke shouted, as Naruto looked over at him.

" Sasuke, do you really want to fight these guy's."

" Not really."

" Then let me be the leader for a few minutes and be a good little boy by sitting at the side lines." Naruto said, as Sasuke growled at him for the remark, as he mumbled something and went to go stand next to Sakura. Naruto turned to face the female once again.

" So, what are the conditions?" Naruto asked, as the female just glared at him.

" What do you think!"

" Trust me, a man can think of a lot of things."

" Pervert."

" No, but a lot of my family members are." Naruto stated, as he got into a stance, the female following suit. A second later, they charged...

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Naruto sighed, as he went over what had happened a few hours ago. It was awkward...to say the lest. Naruto did when of course, quite easily really, but it's what happened after the battle that was interesting...

Naruto stared down at the female on the ground, her looking up at him with a glare. The battle didn't last that long, three minutes at best. The female had lost horribly and that was disappointing to Naruto. Her two team mates were standing behind her, their jaws hitting the floor. They both looked at each other, before turning back to Naruto.

A second later, then ran for their lives. Completely forgetting about their team mate. Said team mate cursed, as she looked up at Naruto. Her eye's shifting from glaring at him to just staring tiredly at him.

" Aren't you going to do it? " The female asked, as Naruto looked at her confusedly.

" Do what?"

" Kill me." The girls face showed confusion, as Naruto began to laugh quite loud. Both Sasuke and Sakura looked at him confusedly as well. Naruto then turned his attention back to the female, while she waited for him to strike. Not sure if it would be short and painless, or long and brutal.

" No." Naruto said, as the female looked up at him.

" Well then, what can I do. My team mates decided to be assholes, I've have no more points. What the hell can I..." The female stopped when she saw Naruto put out one of his hands, the female looked at him with a confused expression.

" You could come with us." Naruto stated, as the female just ignored him. " Seriously, you could and can. I mean, like you said, you've pretty much lost two very vital parts to this test. So what's there to lose?" Naruto asked, as the female glared at him, before sighing and taking his hand.

" So...do you do this for all women who are going to fail one of the most critical test in their lives or just me?" she asked while Naruto pulled her up.

" Only the cute ones."

The girl, known as Aikusa, had been oddly quite from that point forward. Which was nice, since both of his teammates where yelling at him constantly. They seemed to not like the idea of another person joining their 'mary' group of people. Of course, Naruto just told them that it's better to have a forth man squad then a three.

"Besides, maybe Sakura-chan will bother her instead of us." Naruto mouthed to Sasuke, who silently agreed. It was going to be a long test and Naruto would like as much quite as possible.

If possible...

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" Ari-matsuri no jutsu."

A huge hand shot out of the ground, as the insect's that made up the hand slow ate at the people that it was holding high into the air. Okami did a few more seals, as she slammed her hand on the ground once again.

" Ari-kujiku." she said, as the bug's marched forward towards the hand and moved up it. A few seconds later, it turned into a large dome that was being held up by a few pillars that were made out of the bugs. Okami watched on, as the bugs ate their way through the team from grass. A second later, she heard a scream coming from inside the dome.

" Alright! Will give you are's, just please stop I-." A scream was heard from the inside of the dome. The bugs started to scatter away from the three people, a second later returning to Okami. Irvine and Hanabi looked on at the scene with a mixture of disgust and interest.

" What kind of ant's were those again?" Hanabi asked, as Okami went up to what was left of the bodies and searched them.

" Fire ant's." Okami said, as she continued to search through the belongs of the grass nin. A second later, she found what she was looking. She then turned to face Hanabi and threw the device at her.

" Here." Okami said, as Hanabi caught the device. She pulled out their teams device and began to switch the grass nin points over to their device, now giving them three. Hanabi chucked the device behind her, as she looked at Okami with a grin.

" A few hours in and we have at least three points, not bad." Hanabi said, as she looked down at the device. A second later she started to look around the area.

" Where's Irvine? " Hanabi asked, as Okami pointed towards the grass nin. Irvine was apparently searching through their equipment for anything usable. Hanabi raised an eyebrow when he sighed in relief.

" What exactly where you looking for?" Hanabi asked, as Irvine held out his hand.

" This." Irvine said, as Hanabi looked down at the green colored flare. She then turned her attention back to Irvine, who was smiling.

" So...what are we going to use this for?" Hanabi said, as she looked over at Okami, who sighed and walked over to them. Irvine smile widened..

"First...we need to set up some traps..."

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"Primary lotus!" Lee cried out, as he opened the first gate and struck the enemy...hard. The enemy was sent spiraling towards the ground, as a huge ass crater was formed when he landed. The other two team mates tried to slash Lee with kunai from opposite sides, he just stepped aside. The two collided with one another, as they hit the ground.

Lee walked over to the now unconscious cloud nin and looked through their equipment. Once he fold the device, he smiled brightly, as he then began to cry.

" I've done it Gai-sensei! I'm step closer to being like you!" Lee thought, as he continued to cry. Tenten and Neji looked out on the scene before them and sighed, before Tenten looked over at Neji.

" Is he going to do this every time?" Tenten asked, as Neji just continued to watch Lee. Who was now posing in front of a squirrel that was passing by. Neji looked over at her and slightly nodded. Tenten was starting to get pissed.

" You mean we have to stay another nine day's out here with..." Tenten pointed over towards Lee. " That!" she said, as lee stopped his posing contest with the squirrel ( yes people, it was posing with him.)and looked over at Tenten.

"Tenten, do you need anything?" Lee asked, as Tenten started to sweat.

" Yeah...um...we need that device so we can add it's points to are's." Tenten said hesitantly, as Lee just gave his nice guy pose. He then threw the device over towards her, before resuming the pose. He then began to pose with the squirrel again. Both Tenten and Neji sighed again.

This was going to be a loooonnnng test.

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Author: Read and REVIEW! Oh and I'm not sure if that was the primary lotus is the first gate.. . ...But, I'm hoping that it is, if not, can someone tell me the gates so far?