Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Naruto characters so no one sue.

Dart Tension is mine though.

Author's note: Glad I got some reviews for the first chapter! The first one was pretty slow since I had to introduce all the main characters and descriptions. Now we can get to more Dart development and NaruSaku romance! Also as a side note. If you are confused about the "lemon" part, just letting you know that won't happen till' later on in the story. Right now I'm slowly building up Naruto's and Sakura's relationship realistically as in the manga or anime. So don't expect that until some ten chapters away if that's all you are reading this for. Also I'm sorry if the characters seem OOC. I'm trying real hard. Warning! There's bad language here!

Also I've been raising some confusion on Dart calling Naruto "neechan" in the last chapter. I believe it means brother & sister. If I am wrong, someone please correct. After all I'm a little new to this honorifics stuff. UPDATED! Fixed Neechan thing to Neesan.

Final note:

' means thoughts.

" means speech.

After time skip

Naruto- Hey Dart.

Dart- Yeah?

Naruto- If this take place three years ago, then why are we still older?

Sakura- I've been wondering about this myself.

Dart- Yeah. About that…

(Poof)

Dart, Naruto, and Sakura come out of smoke in pre-time skip ages.

Naruto & Sakura- We're kids again!!!!! No!!!!!!!

Dart- (sigh) Don't worry! The story will go back to the shippuden era in time!

Sakura- I liked my body!!!! (sobs)

Naruto- Hey I'm short again!

Dart- (Hugs both) It's alright because we can grow up together now!

Naruto & Sakura- Fine…

Naruto- Start the episode!

screen fades

Chapter 2: Preparation: "I will be a ninja!"

It was morning and Dart woke up to the sound of Naruto making breakfast. "Damn. What time is it?" "5:30" Naruto replied. 'I haven't been up at this time since…. forever!' Naruto was already dressed and was making scrambled eggs. Dart got up from the couch and took a shower. Coming out in a towel around his legs and waist Dart frowned.

Naruto, who was already eating his eggs, looked up and noticed the reason why. "You don't have clothes, do you?" Dart nodded and Naruto got up from the table and smiled. "Don't worry you can borrow my clothes until we get you your own!" Naruto lead Dart to his closet. Dart looked through and examined. There were some black undershirts, numerous orange jackets with matching pants, some white shirts, jeans, and various shorts. Dart picked out a black shirt that Naruto wore under his jacket and some light brown shorts. After eating breakfast, they both head out.

The sun was barely rising when Naruto and Dart met up with Sasuke and Sakura at their normal meeting spot on a bridge. Sakura and Sasuke looked at Naruto & Dart and waved. 'Damn. If I'm right, we're going to be waiting for a while!' Dart thought keeping in mind Kakashi's record for tardiness. Naruto leaned against the side and looked into the water next to Sasuke. Dart was on the opposite side next to Sakura with his back leaned against the railing.

Sakura looked at Dart and giggled at his clothing because she recognized it as Naruto's. Dart noticing this, made his face turn slightly red and hid his expression. Sakura thought about the day before in the Hokage's office. Dart said he was from a different world. She was curious on what his home was like. "Dart, can I ask you something?" Sakura asked. Dart turned back to Sakura and replied "Sure." "What's it like on your home world?" Sasuke and Naruto turned towards Dart because they were curious about this also.

Dart looked at the three of them and thought 'Well at least they've accepted the fact I'm not from here. I hope they can take it.' "I'm glad you asked Sakura, seeing as how I would have had to tell you sooner or later. But you can't freak out because of my origin ok?" Dart said with a look of sadness. Everyone nodded. "Ok. Well where to start. Hmm…, For starters, there are no ninja. Where I come from ninjas are a thing of the past and were no longer used in some countries and as time passed they became unneeded because the neighboring countries were able to hold piece or have some tolerance. We still had wars though, just not as often." Everyone remained silent. There was nothing wrong with that and made Dart's world seemed peaceful. Dart continued, "Technology is far more advanced than it is here. Where I come from, we are probably a couple thousand years ahead than you guys here." "Wow." Sakura said in amazement and began to wonder what life would be like in the future in Konoha. "Besides that it's pretty much the same as this world. I can't go in to too much detail without raising more questions than necessary." Dart said thinking he made an excellent conclusion. "Interesting," Naruto said.

After that everyone was pleased and began resorting to their business again. "I'm glad I was here to hear about your own dimension Dart." Everyone turned towards the front of the bridge to find Kakashi sensei reading through his book. Naruto and Sakura responded angrily and began yelling at him for his lateness. A half hour later, team seven found themselves at one of the several training grounds found throughout Konoha.

Kakashi sensei spoke, "Ok team. This whole week we don't have any missions. Instead you three will be training Dart before his exam to deem if he is worthy to become a genin or not." Dart gulped. 'Damn! This is going to be one long week! Well maybe I can still have some fun.' Kakashi continued, "In a sense, it is a mission. Insure the success of the soon to be new member of the team. I will not supervise and it will be up to you three to train him as you see fit. On the exam day, I will be the proctor and I will determine his grade. He will do it alone. Understood?" "Hai!" team seven replied. Then Kakashi sensei left in a poof of smoke.

Team seven huddled up together with Dart and conversed. "So…how are we going to do this 'tebayo?" Naruto asked.

"We should have Dart spend time with the each of us during the week as we each teach him skills," Sakura suggested.

"Better yet, we should each teach him in a certain area of traits," Sasuke concluded. Everyone nodded.

"I got it! Sasuke-kun; you can teach him about chakra and Ninjutsu along with Naruto for assistance, Naruto; you will focus on his Taijutsu and physical training with Sasuke, and I will teach him about chakra control, shinobi principles, and everything I know about Genjutsu." Sakura said brilliantly. "Wow you sure are smart Sakura. You have the pairings perfectly." Dart said with a smile. "Yeah Sakura, I wouldn't have been able to think of a better plan myself!" Naruto added. Sakura's face turned slightly red. She normally would have punched him for such flattery, but something compelled her not to. 'I guess I am the only one smart enough to think of such a plan.' Sakura thought.

"One question though," Dart intervened, "You have it so that the main person teaching me has someone for assistance. Sasuke has Naruto for Ninjutsu, Naruto has Sasuke for Taijutsu, but who do you have?" Sakura thought about this. It's not like Naruto or Sasuke could help too much in that area. Naruto was pointless and Sasuke was… well not all there. Before Sakura could put her thoughts in words Dart talked first. "I have an idea! I understand Naruto's chakra control is kind of horrible, maybe he can hone his skills along with me?" "Hey! Wha…!!!" Smash!!!! Dart slammed his foot on Naruto's foot while trying to keep on a smile. Dart whispered, "You do want to spend some time with Sakura right?" "I guess…" "Then be quiet, I'll apologize later."

Sakura was about to reject this idea of Darts but his smile somehow mesmerized her. She knew already Dart had taken a liking to Naruto and having Naruto help him out would give him more confidence. 'Well maybe Naruto can learn something along too.' "Fine. Since you need all the help you can get!" Sakura stated while pointing a finger at Dart. Dart stepped back a little. "Uh, thanks Sakura."

Sasuke spoke, "Well it's settled. Today let's just have a normal sparring day. Besides let's see what Dart has to offer already." Sasuke had a small grin. Somehow Dart didn't like what he had in store for him. "Yeah! Let's begin!" Naruto yelled in joy. Dart stepped away from the group. "How are we going to do this?" Dart started smiling slowly and found him self with a large grin. He was excited.

"One on one for now," Sasuke said, "Naruto, you first." Naruto got into a fighting stance and thought 'I'll go easy on Dart-san for now.'

"Go!" Sasuke yelled. Naruto charged at Dart. 'As expected.' Dart stood still with his fists ready. Naruto shortly reached him and began punching him towards the chest. Dart had no choice but to block as he walked backwards absorbing Naruto's blows with his arms and hands. Then he didn't see it coming. Naruto did a kick sweep and managed to get Dart in the air while grabbing his torso and flinging him ten feet away.

Dart landed on his butt and fell to his back. 'Damn. He's pretty tough! And from the looks of it, he's going easy on me!' Naruto yelled to Dart, "Oy! You won't be able to become a genin with those moves!"

'He's right! I got to pull myself together! I know I can do this! Remember last night in the bathroom! I have special abilities! I just need to awaken them!'

Dart stood up. He readied his defensive stance with his arms down his sides with his hands open and his legs spread out for any evasive movement. Naruto charged again. 'I just need to focus on his movements. If I remember correctly, I should have advanced reflexes.' Dart looked at Naruto coming closer. He reached Dart and started to punch. As if though time slowed down, Dart could see the hand slowly move towards his chest. He turned his body sideways and dodged the attack. Seeing the fist graze his shirt, he noticed Naruto's left leg rise up towards his chest. Dart hopped to the right just enough to evade the attack. 'I can the movements. It's like time is too slow for me.' Then he noticed that after hopping, everything reverted back to its original speed and Naruto's onslaught of attacks was barely able to be dodged. 'It doesn't last forever, but with training maybe my reflexes can last longer.'

Sakura glazed at the fighting duo and thought, 'He's able to kind of keep up with Naruto's attacks. He's kind of fast.' Then as Naruto pulled back his fist for another punch, Dart's reflexes kicked in again. 'Wait there's my chance!' Catching Naruto's fist, he held it and aimed his hand towards Naruto's chest. Remembering the bathroom wall, Dart changed his fist into a palm and struck Naruto sending him a few feet backwards.

"Not bad Dart." Naruto said with a smile.

"Now let's see how you do with all of us on top of you!" Sasuke said coming out of no where. Sakura getting the hint appeared behind Naruto and Sasuke. "Don't you think all three of us are a bit too much Sasuke?" Sakura whispered. Naruto surprisingly responded, "No it's alright. By his movements, I have a feeling he can take more people on. He's stronger than you think." Sakura nodded staring at Dart. "Charge!" Naruto yelled. Sasuke sighed and followed. Naruto leapt in the air for a tackle. Dart saw this coming and jumped.

Naruto was about to grab his victim when Dart simply leaped over his back in a leapfrog position, pushing from his back for more distance. Naruto fell to the ground on his stomach. Dart noticed Sasuke immediately in his face and started attacking with a series of punches and kicks. Sasuke made a swipe towards his head when Dart ducked, 'Whoa, that was too close.' Then Dart saw his chance with his reflexes still on, he grabbed Sasuke by the stomach, and threw him over his head behind him towards a laying Naruto. 'Nice.'

Dart turned around to find a punch to his face from Sakura. "Don't forget about me!" Sakura said with a smile. Dart stumbled back a few steps with his head dizzy. He turned back and then his reflexes kicked in.

From the corned of his eye, he saw several shuriken coming his way. They were too close for Dart to dodge. Dart didn't even have any Kunai knives to deflect them! He had to think of something quick! Then he saw a large rock sticking from the ground by his feet. It was in place in the ground. It had to be the size of a wheel from a wagon. It would have to do. Still in slow motion he grabbed the rock and without any hesitation and heaved with all his might. It came out without wasting a second and Dart held the rock out towards the shuriken deflecting it.

Everyone stood shocked. Dart let out a sigh of relief. He dropped the rock and it made a huge thud on the ground which made everyone gape with their mouths open. (Damn he's strong!) Inner Sakura stated.

"If Sakura hadn't punched you, you would have dodged those shuriken sooner," Sasuke said with his eyes closed. "Luckily you had your strength to back you up." Naruto walked towards the rock and tried to lift it. He found he could only get it past his shoulders without his knees shaking and forcing him to drop the rock. "Dart-san you are pretty strong!" Naruto said with a smile. "Yeah I guess I am. But I'm tired. You guys wore me out!"

Sasuke looked at the rock. "Dart, how strong are you?" Sasuke asked. Dart glanced back at him and replied, "Not sure." Sasuke continued looking at the rock and said. "Punch that tree over there as hard as you can." Sasuke pointed to a nearby tree with a serious face. "What? Are you joking?" Sasuke's expression remained unchanged.

Dart sighed, "Fine." 'Well I did punch a hole through the wall yesterday. I am kind of curious what exactly I can do.' Dart walked over to the tree and stared at it. 'Well here goes my hand.' The rest of team seven looked in curiosity. Dart raised back his fist and swung with all his might. It soared through the air making way towards the soon to be demolished bark. Then a giant crack roared from the tree.

Dart's arm pierced through the tree reaching all the way to his shoulder. 'Damn. My hand feels kind of sore now!' "This can come in handy," Sasuke stated. "Wow Dart!!! That's amazing!" Naruto said with a laugh. Sakura looked at the tree. "Well he's strong for our age. But a Jounin could probably do that!" Sakura said with an unimpressed tone. (Damn he's strong! Who cares about some Jounin! Dart-san could kick their ass! I wonder what his body looks like!) Inner Sakura yelled.

Dart looking at everyone's expression, sat down by the tree and rested. "Hey I'm tired! You guys keep training! I'll take a break." Everyone nodded and resumed to their sparring. After a half hour, Dart resumed training with the group for the rest of the afternoon. Everyone took a break before sunset.

Sakura rested against a tree and looked at Naruto & Sasuke who were about to eat their packed dinners. Then Dart came over. "Hey Sakura. What are you doing?" Sakura quickly averted her eyes away and stared into her lap. "Umm. Nothing just thinking." "Well I was wondering about something." Sakura looked at Dart. "What is it?" she asked. "Well I kind of wanted to get as much training as possible so, do you think you could tutor me at Naruto's house since it isn't necessary to take me to a field to train me about chakra." Dart stated.

On the inside Dart had a devilish smile. 'Oh man this is brilliant! Sakura at Naruto's house. Not only can she train me, but she can also spend some time with Naruto!'

Sakura thought about this. 'Well this could be a benefit and a good use of time. I also haven't been to Naruto's house before.' "Ok. However, if Naruto does something stupid, I'm leaving!" Sakura stated seriously. Dart made a very blank face. 'This might be harder than I thought. "Sure Sakura!" Dart quickly ran over to Naruto who was eating his dinner.

"Hey Naruto!" Dart said to Naruto. Naruto looked up from his Ramen cup and looked at Dart. "Yeah?" "Sakura's coming over!" "Nanni!!!!!" "Shh! She's going to train me!" Naruto reflected on this. 'I do like Sakura, but this might be too much.' Dart interrupted his thoughts. "Besides. I know you liker her." "Eh!?" "Come on! You were practically uttering her name in your sleep last night!" This was a lie since Dart was the first to fall asleep the night before and wasn't sure if this was true or not. "Ok. I guess it's alright." Naruto said in defeat. "Ok, it's settled. Just don't do anything perverted because I won't be able to protect you." Naruto made a frown. "Like I would do something like that in front of Sakura-chan!"

Sakura winced from the sound of her name. Dart and Naruto turned their gaze away and quickly started packing nervously. "Jeez, next time scream it out to the world why don't cha?" Dart whispered. "It was you with perverted thoughts dattebayo!" Naruto replied.

Later Dart, Naruto, and Sakura headed back to Naruto's apartment just after sunset so it was getting dark. Halfway there Dart stopped. "Damn! I forgot to get some clothes! I'll be right back! I'll meet you at the house." Dart turned away with a grin hidden on his face. Naruto quickly ran over to him and whispered, "What the hell are you doing?!" "Leaving you alone of course. Don't do anything stupid." Then Dart was gone in a flash.

Naruto sighed. "Well it's just you and me now." Sakura nodded. "Ok. Just lead the way." "Right." Naruto walked with Sakura towards his apartment making sure to keep his distance. However by the time they reached the stairs to his apartment she was within an arm's reach away due to her fright of something awaiting in the dark.

Naruto opened the door and lead Sakura inside. 'It's kind of small.' Sakura thought. "So where are your parents?" Naruto shocked by the question turned his head down. "I…don't…have any." He said with hesitation.

It was at this that Sakura became mad. She was expecting adult supervision, but instead she would be alone with two boys for a couple hours. This wouldn't do. This was very irresponsible. Who knows what she happen to her if she was left by herself with two stronger boys.

Then she looked at Naruto. He still had his head down. She couldn't see his eyes, but she knew they were probably on the verge of tears. 'Wait I shouldn't think about that. Besides, Naruto would never do something like that!' Sakura walked over to Naruto and put her hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry. You must get pretty lonely here."

Naruto raised his head and Sakura was expecting tears in his blue eyes. Instead he had a smile and said, "Its ok. Besides, I'm not lonely anymore because Dart-san is my roommate now dattebayo!" Naruto made a chuckle. Sakura giggled and unpacked all her scrolls and books. Naruto turned all the lights on and made tea.

When Dart returned, he found Sakura & Naruto talking about stuff about being a ninja, everyday life, and personal questions. He noticed they were laughing. Dart came in through the door and interrupted, "I see you guys are having a good time." Naruto and Sakura looked up at Dart and both made angry faces. Sakura started, "Baka! You were supposed to be here an hour ago!" "Oy! Where are your clothes?! You were supposed to get some!" Naruto added. "Sorry, I had a hard time finding what I wanted. So instead I decided to have something tailored for me. It will be done in a week." Dart said in a cheerful smile.

Both Naruto and Sakura sighed. So Sakura went on to begin Dart's lessons. Dart hardly had a hard time. Naruto looked at Sakura and listened. To his surprise he learned a lot more than he had in the academy. He also tried to help out Sakura, whatever chance he could, by demonstrating basic jutsus. Dart was learning quite a lot and was forced by Sakura to take notes. 'Maybe I should have let her go home instead.' Dart thought with regret.

After another hour with a frustrated Dart, Sakura decided she had to go home since it was getting late. Dart just looked at his notes and reviewed. Naruto looked at Sakura walking out the door. Dart looked at Sakura also and noticed she hesitated when opening the door. He whispered to Naruto, "Hey, why don't you walk her home? A girl shouldn't be out this late at a night like this." Naruto nodded and quickly got up. "Oy! Sakura-chan! Let me walk you home! I don't want you to be by yourself."

Sakura was about to argue, but realized she didn't want to have to walk home by herself so she just nodded, but with a small blush. Naruto closed the door behind him and walked with Sakura. As Dart looked at his notes he smiled as he could hear chatter outside the door.

Naruto returned about half an hour later with a disappointed look on his face. Dart noticing this asked, "Hey, what happened?" Naruto sat down on the chair with a sigh and replied, "When her parents opened the door and saw me, they started yelling at me thinking I had kidnapped her or something until Sakura explained the situation. After that they didn't even apologize and took her in."

Naruto had a sad look on his face. Dart felt sorry for him and said, "Hey, don't worry. I don't think Sakura feels the same way as her parents do about you. She looked like she was having a great time here." Naruto's frown disappeared and he smiled, "Yeah you're probably right 'tebayo!"

Naruto went to take a shower and went to sleep. Dart became tired and looked at the table. There were notes everywhere and dishes were still out. Dart sighed. 'Guess this means I have to clean up.' After picking up everything, Dart went to bed.

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The next morning Naruto woke up Dart early and they went out for morning exercises. It was vigorous! Naruto had Dart do over fifty laps around the village, two hundred pushups, punching & kicking a stump, and finally spar with Naruto.

'Damn! This is tough!' Dart thought while repeatedly punching a tree stump. Luckily after breakfast, Dart felt refreshed.

Right after breakfast, Naruto took Dart to the training grounds. "Where are we going Naruto-neesan?" Dart asked. Naruto said with a smile, "Sakura-chan is going to teach you about chakra control!" Naruto lead Dart to a small clearing with many trees. "Sakura-chan told me to take you here yesterday." Naruto stated.

"Didn't I already learn about chakra and stuff from yesterday night?" Dart asked with a groan. "That was all from a book! Now let's see you actually try and see if you can do it in real life." Sakura leaped from the trees and landed in front of Dart. "Hey Sakura-chan!" Dart yelled.

Naruto began walking out of the clearing when Dart stopped him. "Where are you going?" "Heh, heh! I already learned this. I'm going to train with Sasuke. See ya!" Then Naruto disappeared into the trees.

'I'm going to kill him!' Dart thought angrily. "Dart-san!" Sakura called. Dart walked over. "Right now you are going to walk up a tree." "Umm, how do I do that?" Dart asked. Dart recalled the time when Kakashi taught this exercise to team seven in the land of waves, but that wasn't enough for Dart to actually learn.

"Well first, you summon your chakra." Sakura made a hand sign and closed her eyes. "Next you focus it to your feet. Then you run where you want to go." Sakura ran at the tree and Dart saw her ascend up to the tallest branch. "Amazing," Dart said in awe.

"Be careful! You have to put in the right amount of chakra into your feet! Otherwise it won't work!" Sakura yelled from the branch. 'Okay. I can do this! I can do this!' Dart made a hand sign and closed his eyes. He pictured his feet. He focused on his feet. 'Alright! Here I go!'

Dart ran at the tree at full force! He lifted his foot upon reaching the tree and stepped on it. Without any thought he raised his second foot hoping he wouldn't fall. He was on the tree! He was still moving. He had to reach where Sakura was to prove himself.

Two feet. 'Coming up.' Three feet. 'Getting better.' Five feet. 'I got this.' Eight feet. 'This is easy!' Fourteen feet. 'Almost halfway.' Twenty feet. 'Hey is Sakura smiling?' Twenty five feet. 'Half way!' Thirty feet. 'Yeah!' Thirty one feet. 'Wait? Why am I slowing down?' Thirty feet. "Ahhh!"

Dart fell down the tree hitting many branches along the way. "Ouch! Oww! Oh god! Ow. Damn!" Boom! Dart landed on the ground on his back. "………Ow."

Sakura leapt down many branches and landed gracefully beside him. "Are you ok Dart-san?" Sakura asked with a worried face. "I'm fine Sakura-chan. I just need to rest." Dart said still lying on the floor. "Ok, but just for a little while! You are doing this until lunch!" Dart groaned.

After many aches and bruises, Dart had lunch at Ichiraku. After that he went back to the training grounds to find Sasuke. Sasuke was going to teach him about the most basic ninjutsus such as Kawarimis, bunshin, henge, and others. It wasn't difficult, but it left him drained. Sasuke and Naruto trained him until six o' clock. Naruto decided to go home as did Sasuke.

Dart remained saying he wanted to train more. When everyone left he decided to test out his new "power". He wanted to recreate the glowing aura effect on his hand. He would keep it a secret though. He once again focused on his hand and then his hand was omitting a blue energy. 'Now what can I do with it? It's not chakra.'

Dart turned his hands "on & off" repeatedly until he learned to do it instinctively for the next hour. "Damn! What is this for?" Dart walked back home in frustration. To his surprise he found Sakura making dinner. 'What the…?'

"Hey Dart-neesan!" Naruto yelled from the kitchen table. Dart noticed the suffix added to his name and smiled. "What's going on?" Dart asked. Sakura called from the kitchen, "Well Dart-san, with you living here, you're probably not getting the right diet. So I decided to make some dinner before we study." "That's nice of you Sakura-chan!" Dart said.

As everyone sat around the table. Dart and Naruto anticipated the meal. Fish, fried rice, and some curry. Dart was not used to the curry, but found it delicious. 'Sakura. Cooking in my house! I must be dreaming!' Naruto thought. "Sakura-chan, this is great! You will be a fine wife someday!" Naruto blurted.

"Eh? Baka! Don't get cocky!" Sakura yelled as she smashed her fist on Naruto's head. "Oww! Sakura-chan, I really meant it!" Dart who was enjoying his meal, started laughing. "Heh. You guys are acting like a couple." Dart muttered under his breath very quietly.

Sakura who had her back facing Dart sat still. Her ear twitched catching Dart's words. Her head seemed to turn around demonically with an intimidating face. "What…was…that Dart-san?"

Dart gulped and was in shock, but tried to hide his fear. "I…said nothing. Heh…uh…heh." Dart laughed lightly.

Sakura faced her whole body towards Dart from her seat. In a very low tone but with a deep expression in her voice Sakura spoke, "You know…I can make your training very difficult tomorrow. Better yet… tonight's study session…can seem to last…forever."

Dart sat frozen in fear. Sakura glared at him for another second and finally broke the mood, "Look's like the tea is ready!" Sakura left the table with a very bright smile. Dart's head crashed towards the table in relief. "She's scary…" he whispered. Naruto's eyes had been wide eyed the whole time. 'Dart-neesan almost got killed, dattebayo.' 'Wow Dart. That woman even scares me.' Vertilous stated. His comment wasn't reassuring.

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After their study session, Naruto walked Sakura home again. This time when he came back home, he still had his cheerful face. Dart was glad to see this and picked up the mess and went to bed.

The rest of the week maintained its daily routine. Dart would train physically with Naruto and sometimes Sasuke in the mornings, Sakura alone at noon, Sasuke and Naruto with Ninjutsu after noon, and lone training at night before going home.

He had improved dramatically. He was able to go farther in Naruto's taijustu exercises and noticed his body becoming more muscular. Dart was finally able to climb the damn tree! He could even do it walking the very last day. He was still mediocre at some ninjutsus but he was able to do them decently. The day before, Dart henged into Sakura and asked Naruto for a hug. Bring nervous, Naruto had closed his eyes in anticipation to a whack on the head. At this moment, Dart switched himself out with the real Sakura who left Naruto a nice black eye. Dart laughed like hell until Sakura found out and gave him two black eyes.

The last night before the exam Dart made a very important discovery before the exam. Dart was at the training grounds when in frustration he punched the ground while his hands were powered with energy. The ground made a small hole and Dart barely applied any force to his punch. 'What the hell?' Dart looked at the hole he made. 'This can't be right.'

He walked over to a tree and stood before it. With all his might he swung his fist straight into the tree. His fist with a swift movement went straight through the tree and caused it to fall over. 'Whoa! My training with Naruto has made me stronger! I bet I can still grow stronger! But first I need to know what this power does!'

Dart went to another tree the same size as the last one. He naturally made his hand glow and wound up his punch. He sent his powered fist through the air.

Boom!

The whole section of the tree shattered into splinters while sending chunks of the tree many feet back. 'Holy shit!' Dart impressed by his discovery ran away afraid someone might have heard the noise. He wouldn't reveal this to anyone. This was his trump card until the exam. He ran towards Naruto's home at fast pace. Dart had not only grown stronger, but faster.

Dart came through the door noticing the usual chatting Sakura and Naruto. This time Dart made dinner. Sakura had also taught him how to cook some dishes. Recalling a couple days earlier, Sakura specifically said, "I'm not going to be here everyday! And I don't want you dieing from eating only Ramen everyday!"

Sakura was successful since Dart already knew how to cook. After dinner Sakura talked with Dart.

"Dart-san, I want you to know something." "Yes Sakura-chan?" Dart replied. "You do know that mostly everything we covered probably won't be on Kakashi's exam? It will probably just be a survival exercise." That week, besides learning about chakra and what to do when caught in genjustsu, later on in the week, Sakura went over with Dart things like Shinobi principles and the history of the village, and how missions were set up and ranks of a ninja. Stuff that was irrelevant. Sakura had convinced Dart to be prepared for anything and she was successful. But why? Was it an excuse just to stay at Naruto's house? She couldn't understand herself.

Dart was meditating on the couch, but didn't stop. "Yeah I know." Sakura stared at Dart. 'He knew?!' she thought in surprise.

"It was pretty obvious that we were going over more content than necessary. However I liked learning about the village and things about a ninja's life. It made me feel more like a part of the village." Dart said without breaking his pose. Sakura stared at him and smiled. "Arigato, Dart-kun."

Dart smiled at the added suffix. "Naruto. Please take me home." Sakura said while walking towards the door. Naruto nodded and walked outside with her.

During training, Dart asked what they did on these walks home. Sakura simply said that Naruto was just escorting her and they talked about Dart's progress. When Dart asked Naruto, he didn't say anything at all.

As Dart retired into the couch he thought about this. He did notice something. Every time Naruto arrived home. He was always coming back later than the previous night. Dart smiled.

But right now he had to get some rest. Tomorrow was the big day.

He was going to become a genin!

Chapter End

More Notes: I want to apologize if people think the story is revolving around Dart too much. Right now I need to get him on the team and build his character. After he is accepted on the team, the story will revolve more on Naruto and Sakura.

Also again, someone correct me on the whole neechan thing if I'm wrong.

Another thing. I know it sounds pretty lame on how Dart reveals his strength to everyone by picking up a boulder to defend himself faster than the shuriken could hit him. However I was planning on Dart swinging a punch at Sasuke, misses, and manages to hit a tree making a hole. This would have worked perfectly, but it would have made Dart seem aggressive, which he isn't……yet. Feel free to ask any questions or thoughts.

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