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"Today is the day."

In his small one-room apartment sitting on his bed, Naruto wrapped white bandages around his hands and forearms covering the bruises and scars on his knuckles. Standing up he grabbed the black t-shirt laying on his bed and pulled it over his head covering his torso.

The finals of the Chunin exams had finally arrived.

Pulling on his black Shinobi Sandals he pulled the strap tight and tucked his burnt orange pants into them before wrapping his ankles with bandages to keep the pants from coming loose. He was going to catch a lot of flak for wearing his favorite color but it was who he was. And if he was going to change things today he needed to be the full Naruto Uzumaki.

If the things started looking bad he wouldn't hold back like he did in the forest. Too much was riding on his victory and now he was on a deadline.

"Damn fox."

He had written everything he knew down and that notebook, containing every detail that someone would need to ruin the future was sealed inside of his body. It was the safest place he could think of. He needed it to be on his person at all times if he wanted to keep it out of not only the wrong hands but any that weren't his.

"Time to go." Forming the ram seal he vanished in a puff of smoke.

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(Chunin exam Stadium)

"I don't want to be here, sensei." Tsunade hissed as she stood behind the Sandaime. Here she was standing guard for a man that all she wanted to do was pummel the bastard. Teacher or not. He had dragged her back to this godforsaken village and she hated him for that. There was nothing but bad memories here for her.

Watching the Genin mingle in the fighting arena Hiruzen sighed. he could feel his students ire against him and he was sorry for the way she felt and grieved for those she lost but the village had to come first.

"I'm sorry, Tsunade but the village needs you. I've let you have your space to grieve but it was time to return home."

Tsunade scoffed crossing her arms over her sizable bust. "This village took everything from me. I don't care what happens to it."

"Then you are free to leave." Tsunade heard the steel in her sensei's voice and knew she was dealing with the Sandaime Hokage, God of Shinobi and not her sensei who had helped raise her. "But understand the moment you and any leaf ninja that follows you walk out the gates you will be labeled missing ninja."

"Damn you sensei." Clenching her fist Tsunade looked away from her Hokage's chair. With the Kazekage a few feet away she wasn't foolish enough to attack her leader. Even if he did deserve a beating.

Using Dan's niece and her apprentice Shizune to blackmail her into staying in the village. It was disgusting. Shizune wouldn't let her leave alone and the Slug princess knew that even if she ordered her the younger girl would follow her anyway. And the Anbu sent after her would cut her down without a second thought for abandoning the Leaf village.

"Problems, Hokage-dono?" The Kazekage asked turning his head only his eyes in view as his hat and face mask covered everything else.

"Not at all. Just a student and teacher catching up after so long." Leaning forward as Hayate began to speak Hiruzen smiled. "The finals are beginning."

"Yes," Rasa nodded. "The last Uchiha is what most the audience came to see. Buy my son, Gaara will be the one crowned victor."

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Looking at the Genin he might have to fight Shikamaru sighed. He didn't want to be here. All these guys were dangerous.Way more dangerous than him. "I should just forfeit. Naruto had the right idea."

What he wouldn't have given to be able to skip the finals without his mother finding out.

"I hope you aren't thinking of quitting before the fighting starts."

Turning around Shikamaru raised an eyebrow at Naruto's new clothes. "Orange, Naruto? Not the best color for a ninja."

"Ha, I'm just that good, Shika." Naruto thumbed his chest. "I don't need to sneak up on anyone to kick their ass."

Feeling eyes on him Naruto glanced out the corner of his eye at Gaara who was watching him. Smiling he waved to the redhead who turned away. "I look forward to our fight."

He was sure Kankuro wouldn't fight his brother and there was no way he was going to lose to Neji so the crowd would get to see two Jinchūriki fight. But it wouldn't be very exciting. His fight against Gaara would have to end quickly. He couldn't afford to be weak when the invasion began.

"Auh...auh...let's begin...auh...the Chunin exam finals." Hayate's voice echoed through the stadium. "Will...auh...everyone but Uzumaki Naruto...auh...and Hyuga Neji please wait in the waiting box."

As the rest of the Genin out of the fighting arena, Naruto grinned taking his spot in front of Hayate. He was glad the sickly man had made it through the month. With his lie to the Hokage about knowing about the invasion the old man hadn't needed to send the special Jonin spying and in turn didn't get him killed. "Yuugao, that Anbu lady should be happy as well."

He was pretty sure the purple haired woman was dating this guy.

Watching his first opponent smile and wave at the crowd Neji smirked smugly. He had nothing to fear from this fight. The battle had been decided the moment he drew his number in the preliminaries. Someone such as Naruto could not beat him. It was the blondes fate to lose here.

"You should give up now. Before you embarrass yourself."

"Heh, sounds to me like you're scared to fight me." Naruto shot back craning his neck side to side. "Just get ready, Neji. I'm gonna kick your ass and show you fates what you make it."

"Begin!" Hayate called and jumped back from the two young Shinobi.

Neji's eyes narrowed and the veins on his face became more pronounced as he channeled chakra to his eyes. "Byakugan!"

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Next to Naruto two clones popped into existence crouching on the ground and running through the hand seals.

"String Light Formation!"

Around Neji ink appeared on the ground. To the civilians and Genin in the crowd, it looked like scribbles but the higher rank ninja nodded seeing Naruto's plan. The Hyuga clan was dangerous and Neji was a prodigy among them. Trying to fight him head on would have been a foolish move.

"I...I can't move."

Smirking Naruto stood up and drew a Kunai. Walking towards Neji who was shaking as he tried to force his limbs to move.

Stopping just outside the largest of the two circles keeping Neji inside the seal Naruto tossed the kunai at the Hyuga's feet and then drew another.

Holding it up he showed Neji and the proctor the paper bomb tied to the hilt.

"Neji, you can't leave the barrier. You're trapped."

"Then throw it. Don't think I'll surrender to a loser such as yourself. Fate as already decreed me the winner of this fight."

"Stubborn bastard." Naruto threw the kunai frowning as he channeled a small bit of chakra into the tag before letting it go. He didn't want to hurt Neji, the Hyuga was his friend and would be helpful when the real fighting started during the invasion but he couldn't lose.

"Kaiten!"

"Shit!" Leaping away as his kunai was sent back at him Naruto cursed himself. How could he have forgotten about the Kaiten? It was a super bad ass Jutsu.

"Still, Neji can't move and I can't attack."

Brushing dust from his shoulder he sighed. "Looks like we're at a stalemate."

"No, once I find a way out of this trap you will lose. Fate has decreed me the victor."

Naruto sighed shaking his head at Neji's pride. The Hyuga was really annoying with the whole fate stuff.

"Alright time for this to end."

Neji frowned and activated his Byakugan his hands straight out ready to defend with the Kaiten. "There is no attack that my ultimate defense can't stop."

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In the stands, Sakura frowned watching Naruto fight Neji to a standstill. "When did he get so good?"

Less than six months ago he had been the worst in their class. Not even capable of even performing the standard Bunshin.

"Now he's fighting guys like Neji. Last years rookie of the year."

"Wow, Naruto's doing pretty good isn't he?" Ino asked. snapping Sakura from her thoughts.

"Yeah, I guess. But he's still not as good as Sasuke-Kun, right?" Sakura waited for confirmation from her old friend but it never came.

Turning her head the pinkette saw Ino biting her lip and watching Naruto run toward Neji who began to spin again.

"Ino-Pig, you don't seriously think Naruto can beat Sasuke-Kun do you?"

"I don't know, Sakura." Ino shrugged. She could still remember Naruto knocking those sound ninja in the Forest of Death. He had beaten them so easily and those guys had knocked Lee around like he was nothing. Then he had fought Kiba and kicked his butt too. And made it look easy.

Now he was fighting-, no beating Neji.

"If I was comparing the two I don't...I don't think Sasuke would win."

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"Kaiten!"

Skidding to a stop Neji glared at his opponent. "I already told you. Nothing can get past my defense."

Naruto crossed his arms, kunai, and Shuriken littering the ground around him. "This fight is over, Neji."

Underneath Neji, the ground cracked and a clone came bursting through.

"Nothing is changing." Naruto frowned as his clones fist slammed into Neji's chin knocking the Hyuga into the air. He could have used his new Jutsu and fought Neji differently but why change what wasn't broken? This plan worked last time, it would work again. "I warned my clone not to hit him too hard so he should be good for the invasion."

Maybe a slight concussion but Shizune nee-Chan or another medic-nin could handle that.

"Hyuga Neji is unable to continue! Uzumaki Naruto is the victor!"

The crowd erupted into cheers and Naruto nodded to them, waving as he made his way to the wall and started walking up to where the other Genin were waiting while Hayate called down the next two fighters.

"Will Kankuro and Gaara come down!"

"He won't fight." Naruto knew that for a fact. Kankuro would never fight his brother. Not only to keep to the plan but also because he was terrified of Gaara.

Sure enough, Kankuro raised his hand. "I forfeit, Proctor!"

Grabbing the railing next to the Sand ninja Naruto pulled himself into the box and patted the puppet user on the back. "Don't feel too bad, I wouldn't want to fight my family either."

"Aren't you an orphan?" Temari asked snidely before her brother could report.

Smirking at the blonde sand ninja Naruto grabbed her hand and brought it to his lips. "We meet again. It must be destiny."

Cold steel pressed against Naruto's cheek lifting his head from Temari's hand. Wielding the steel Temari smiled. "Don't touch me."

Pouting Naruto backed away. "And here I thought we had something special, Temari-Chan."

Sitting on the floor a few feet away Shikamaru frowned at Naruto's back. He had just put seals on the sand ninja. Why? Naruto wasn't the type to cheat. So why was he putting seals on the sand Genin? Would he try with him and Shino as well?

"Hey, Shika, good luck on your match. And don't go quitting." Naruto laughed as Shikamaru sighed leaning back against the wall. He would have to think about it later.

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(Kage Booth)

"Naruto-Kun. You've been quite helpful." Orochimaru eyes followed the young Jinchūriki. The boy didn't even know how helpful he had been. Even he hadn't expected such fruits to be born from marking the Kyuubi Jinchūriki with his curse seal. "What a surprise it was to find out that young Naruto-Kun was the Kyuubi Jinchūriki."

He hadn't expected it. Nor had he expected his mark to still be on the boy. Not that he planned on skipping over Sasuke for the Naruto's body. Trying to take over the body of a Jinchūriki was too dangerous. But that didn't mean he gained nothing. "Naruto-Kun's blood has special properties."

Whether from him being an Uzumaki or from the Kyuubi's chakra slowly leaking into his body his blood was...strange in how it worked. It would heal the wounds of the person it was injected into but then poison them. "To heal and then kill. Kukuku. So interesting you are, Naruto-Kun."

"A fine match wouldn't you say, Rasa?"

"Hmm, yes." Orochimaru nodded laughing at his sensei's cluelessness. "The Hyuga boy lost the moment an Uzumaki began using seals."

Another surprise. Fuinjutsu was challenging to learn and yet Naruto-Kun had learned it in a month. Just one but the immortal snake and every other high ranking ninja watching could tell Naruto-Kun was holding back.

"Not many remember the Uzumaki clan," Hiruzen noted as Shikamaru and Rasa's daughter Temari began their fight. "Your daughter should be careful. The Nara are a powerful clan. And I hear Shikamaru is quite the genius."

"Temari is one of the best Genin in my village. Only my son Gaara surpasses her in skill. She will win." Not that it matters. This fight wasn't the one he had come to see. "Where are you, Sasuke-Kun."

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(On Battlefield)

"She won't be moving." Shikamaru sat down and cupped his fingers together closing his eyes. Temari was to wary of his shadow to move past the line she created and the tree he was hiding behind gave him cover and time to think. Not about the match which was what he should have been thinking about but instead Naruto was at the forefront of his mind.

His fellow leaf ninja had the chance to slap a seal on him when he walked by but he didn't. Which meant he wasn't trying to get ahead in exams by cheating outside the matches. However, that just made more questions? Why did Naruto put seals on the Sand Genin? Why were there Anbu in the stadium?

"Something is happening." And it didn't have anything to do with the Chunin exam finals. Which meant he had to finish his match without wasting too much of his chakra.

"How troublesome."

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"I give up."

Shaking his head as Shikamaru canceled his Jutsu and explained that he was out of chakra Naruto grinned. He should have known someone as smart as a Nara would have noticed.

The match had gone the exact same as it had in the future and he hadn't caught it last time but he was older now and not as distracted by the prospect of becoming Chunin. And he knew there was no way Shikamaru had used all of his Chakra in his match. It hadn't lasted long and Shika hadn't used nearly enough Jutsu to run him dry. "So he must have known the first time as well."

Again it shouldn't have been a surprise, Shika was a genius after all but Naruto was still shocked. Shikamaru really was the only one who had deserved to be promoted. The Jonin probably noticed that he saw what was going on.

"Naruto," Shikamaru whispered as he passed. "Meet me at the stairs when Shino's match starts."

Nodding Naruto slapped the Nara on the back and shouted. "Great job, Shika!"

"Tch, causing a scene so it doesn't look like we're being suspicious," Shikamaru smirked. "You're not the same Naruto we went to the academy with."

Out of all nine Genin who graduated Shikamaru could say with absolute certainty that Naruto was the one who had changed the most out of all of them.

Tenth chapter of my Time Travel Naruto fanfic. Let me know what you think so far.

For now, the story will stay T-rated but that will change in later chapters. So leave your choice for which girl or girls you want to see Naruto with.

Thanks for reading and See you next time!