Hey there long time no see... I am sorry for this lat update but there were problems concerning my internet... They aren´t really solved yet so I am using another´s computer... or internet... Well whatever I wanted to thank all those that reviewed and of course those who actually read this story! Anyway let´s get this on... Here we go...

But before that of course I don´t own anything! So now for real, here we go...

Five years later...

It was sunrise and a mild breeze blew through the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Trees swayed orderly in the wind. The darkness was slowly replaced by the warmth of the orange light of the sun making it´s way over the city. The village was still in a peaceful and quiet slumber only a few guards being awake.

Out of nowhere a young boy appeared , sitting on top of the Hokage-Monument on the Fourths wore black shorts with a few pockets and an orange shirt with black sleeves. He gazed over the city with a nostalgic look, but a grin slowly spread across his face. The boy stood up dusted himself off and slowly walked forward towards the edge. A few words escaped his mouth before he disappeared again in a seemingly yellow flash...

I am back!

The old Hokage too was already awake as he had much work to do. He gazed out of the window overlooking Konoha with a sigh, not wanting to see the piles of paperwork behind him. He closed his eyes for a few peaceful moments, but was brought back to reality soon through a disturbing noise and with smoke. As he opened his eyes a toad sitting on the window ledge stared back.

"Yo! I have a message for ya from Jiraya..." The read toad gretted with on of its ´hands´ raised.

The old man just nodded without a change of expression and took the scroll held by the messenger.

"Well anyway... See ya!" With this he again disappeared in a white cloud. Sarutobi wasn´t really fazed by the toad and turned his attention immediately towards the scroll given to him.

Hey old man...

I brought the brat back. He is quite the genius, just like his father but still an irritating loud mouth.

I have to go on a mission and he wanted to take the genin exams anyway so have fun...

A small smile made it´s way on the old face. He was glad that Naruto was alright. It has been a long time since he heard from the young blonde, but he always hoped he would return someday. Also he was glad to hear that he didn´t change much. Yet he was reminded of his failure to grant his successors last wish... For a moment sadness clouded his eyes but then he looked back up again.

"Kakashi." With this said a figure appeared out of a shadow in the corner of the room.

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

"There is something I want you to do..." The ANBU said nothing in return and just waited for him to continue.

"It´s time for you to take a Genin-team again. As of now you are a Jonin again." Kakashi frowned a bit but otherwise said nothing.

"Take off your mask please." The ANBU just did as he was said.

"I am not really attached to being an ANBU and all but do you think that is a good idea... I mean no team has ever passed my test anyway..." At that the Hokage smiled mildly.

"I think the ones that I have in mind will succeed." Kakashi nodded with mild interest in his eyes but then he lazily reached for a book and began reading before looking up for a moment.

"Excuse me." With this he disappeared in a whirl of leaves. The Hokage took his pipe and began smoking while gazing out in the distant. A gust of wind blew through the window reaching the Hokage. He smiled again warmly and lowly whispered.

"Welcome back, Naruto..."

Ino laid in a peaceful slumber in her bed when the first rays of light reached her room. They glistened through the window and were reflected by a bracelet worn by Ino. She turned in her sleep and moved her hand with the bracelet attached to it to her heart and smiled warmly as if she thought about happy times. Her sleep was finally interrupted by an annoying ringing noise. With a loud crash it died down and she was about to drift off into sleep again when her eyes finally shot open.

"Today is the Team meeting!"

She jumped out of her bed and began to get ready really fast. Ino took her time to look as good as she could , but immediately after that she stormed down the stairs and out of the house barely grabbing a toast to eat on her way to the academy.

She ran through the streets avoiding several people while at the same time eating her toast. Ino ran around a corner, now being on the direct road towards academy. A pink haired girl appeared next to her also racing down the street.

"Hello Sakura..." Ino´s eyes narrowed.

"Good morning Ino..." The two of them stared at each other while still running.

"Well then I will see you at the academy Forehead girl!" Ino began to run a little faster.

"You will never beat me Ino-pig!" Sakura shouted angrily after her and also ran faster, both of them leaving a cloud of dust behind.

Ino was so occupied with her rival that she didn´t notice a blonde sitting in a tree looking after her. His legs hung loosely from the branch and he had a sad smile on his face. He then jumped down an walked the other way glancing back one last time before disappearing in the wind...

The door to the academy was slammed open and Ino and Sakura tried to enter at the same time resulting in them falling through the door. The two girls laid one above the other and groaned.

"Get off me Forehead!" There was alow growl from the girl with the pink hair but she stood up.

"I clearly won this time!" Ino exclaimed loudly.

"Like hell you did, Ino-pig!" Sakura said but then her eyes caught someone.

"Don´t call me that!" Ino countered but Sakura was already jumping towards Sasuke and tried to speak... stammer to him.

Ino glared for a moment but then a tinkling sound caught her attention. She looked down to her wrist to find the glistening silver bracelet. It was a token of her blonde childhood friend, of her best friend. For a moment a warm smile appeared on her face remembering the old times but then her face fell again. He said he´d come back... Ino shook her head. He is gone... I can´t stay in the past! I have to move on...

"Quiet down!" Ino was taken out of her thoughts and jumped onto the seat next to Sasuke, Sakura being on the opposite site.

"Starting today, all of you are real shinobi, but you are still Genin... the hard journey that lies ahead has just started! Now you will soon get mission to help the village, so today we will create three man teams and each team will have a Jounin-sensei!

The whole class was excited to finally meet their team and take on missions. Ino hoped to be teamed up with Sasuke, but she knew that she would end up with Choji and Shikamaru thanks to the Ino-Shika-Cho formation. She rolled her eyes thinking about it.

She didn´t really listen until a certain name perked her interest.

"Team 7..." Iruka looked at the list and seemed a bit surprised when he looked up and called out the name. "Naruto Uzumaki..." The name mostly caused confusion in the class. Most of them didn´t even remember him anymore and for those who did it was confusing that he was a genin.

Ino was surprised to say the least. Her eyes widened and she looked around for the blonde. Her heart began to race for whatever reason and thousands of thoughts rushed through her head.

"... Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha!"

Sakura jumped up in triumph at hearing Sasukes being on her team. She didn´t know who the other guy was but didn´t really care. As long as he didn´t get between her and Sasuke that would be fine.

She looked over to her rival to find her in utter disbelief and confusion.

"Well too bad that you aren´t with Sasuke ehh Ino?" She asked in a mocking tone. Ino snapped out of her shock and nodded dumbly.

"Yeah... Sasuke..." Ino almost didn´t catch her name when Iruka finally called out.

"Team 10... Choji Akimichi, Shikamaru Nara and Ino Yamanaka!" Ino didn´t really react to it anymore as there were other thoughts running through her.

"Okay that´s it! You will meet your Jounin-sensei this afternoon. Until then a break."

Ino ran out of the room and ran through the streets. He can only be at two places... Ichirakus or the Hokage monument... She came to Ichirakus but found nothing except the old chef. She immediately ran to the other location.

"Naruto! Are you there?" She was now in the forest behind the monument, but there was no sign of Naruto anywhere... Ino sighed in defeat. It was to good to be true... right?

"Great..." She looked at her bracelet again, and then took it off in frustration. Sadness filled her eyes and then she threw it away in frustration. She glanced back and then decided to stomp away.

After she was gone a shadow moved from behind a tree. A blonde boy walked towards the bracelet picking it up carefully. His Konoha head protector was strapped to his upper arm and he still wore black pants and an orange shirt with black sleeves. He looked a bit saddened for a moment until he looked towards the horizon noticing the sun already falling.

"It´s time to go..."

Suddenly he leapt high into the sky. Jumping from the top of the monument into the abyss. He rushed to the ground fast but before he crashed into the roof top his fall slowed down and he landed without making much of a sound. Then he leapt into the sky again, the wind ruffling through his hair.

He finally landed on a roof top with three people. There was a pink haired girl with a huge forehead... a black haired boy glaring daggers at him and an older guy with silver hair smiling at him. Well tzhe other eye from him was hidden...

"Hey there... I am Naruto Uzumaki..." He rubbed the back of his head. " I guess I am a bit late... Sorry."

The silver haired guy spoke up first. "Hmmm well yes. We were just starting to introduce us... So how about you start." Naruto sat down ext to the two other genin,

"Alright! My name is Naruto Uzumaki! What I like is ramen, what I dislike is waiting three minutes for the ramen to cook and my dream..." Everyone looked at him oddly while Naruto suddenly got a distant look.

"My dream is to surpass all the Hokage and have people of this village acknoweledge my existence." He then rubbed the back of his head and grinned...

"Okay then … Next." Sasuke then started to speak with his ellbows on his knees and his hands supporting his head.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. There are a lot of things I dislike and I don´t like anything and... I can´t really call it a dream..." His eyes became cold.

"... but I have an ambition. The resurrection of my clan and... to kill a certain man."

Naruto looked at him seriously, while Sakura looked dreamily.

"Hmm ok … Lastly the girl."

"My name is Sakura Haruno. The thing I like is... well the person I like is..." She kept glancing at Sasuke indicating her endings..." And uhm... My dream for the future... Uhm..."

She glanced at Sasuke again. "Oh yeah! And what I dislike is Ino-pig!"

At that Naruto turned his full attention to her. "You know Ino?"

Sakura looked at him a bit surprised... " Well yeah she is my... rival." She clenched her fist and fire appeared in her eyes until it finally died down.

"Why?" Naruto´s eyes widened a bit taken by surprise. " Ahh... Uhm.. you see..."

Kakashi interrupted the stammering...

"Okay guys. Tomorrow we will start our duties as shinobi... but first we are going to do something with just the four of us... Survival Training." Kakashi said nothing for a moment.

"It´s a test with a failure rate of 66%. If you fail you will be send back to the academy... Okay then one last advise. You shouldn´t eat breakfast. Tomorrow at eight and … don´t be late."

Kakashi gave one wave with his hand and disappeared with a smile.

"Well guys I am off then... until tomorrow!" with that said Naruto too disappeared in the wind.

Ino was on her way back home after her meeting with her team. Tomorrow would be a test again... but that wasn´t her real concern. She couldn´t shake of the feeling of guilt. She threw away the parting gift Naruto gave her his last memento... It was evening and the full moon shone upon her. Looking up at it she made a descision.

Damn it! Ino suddenly ran into the other direction towards the Hokage monument. Once on top she began to search everywhere...

"Where could it be...? I didn´t throw it that far!" She looked frantically on the ground. A few tears began to well up in her eyes...

"I-I didn´t mean to... I-I am … sorry..." She fell to her knees and sobbed after not finding her the silver bracelet she had treasured for the past few years... She didn´t even really know why she was crying... It was just a bracelet... wasn´t it? Not that important... right?

She wiped her tears and was about to leave when she suddenly heard a bristling noise. Ino, being a trained ninja, went into defense mode taking up a fighting stance. She now felt like being watched.

She heard eerie noises from everywhere. Her fear slowly rising. Out of reflex she threw a kunai into a bush hitting a tree. She carefully approached the spot, when suddenly a frog or a toad, whatever, jumped out of the bush tilting his head while croaking.

Ino released a sigh she didn´t know she was holding , relieved to be out of danger. But suddenly

there was a light tinkling sound behind her. Ino´s eyes widened. She knew the sound that was...

She again took a kunai in a defensive position and jumped away from the sound while at the same time turning around. She skidded back a bit until she finally came to a halt.

She was surprised to what she saw. There stood a figure at the edge of the mountain, behind him the full moon, making him even more into a shadow. She guessed it was a him from his built. He was rather slim yet trained and was about her size if not a bit smaller. Another thing that caught her attention was the mask he wore... It was a Fox-ANBU-mask. Well it wasn´t hard to get one of those and she hoped he was just an imposter. She had to say he looked kind of cool with this scenery...

But then her eyes dartted to the thing he held in his right hand. It was her bracelet...

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Ino exclaimed trying to sound self confident.

If she didn´t know better she would have said he … grinned. She stared for amoment but got herself together once again and her gaze fell upon the small shining object.

"That bracelet is mine give it back!"

The shadowy figure tilted it´s head to the side, while holding the bracelet forward a bit mockingly.

"Give it back!" Ino shouted angrily. The boy put the bracelet on his right hand and winked mockingly for her to try and get it.

"Have it your way!" She said before charging at him with her kunai in a reversed grip. The fiend stood lazily seemingly without worry.

Ino growled before trying to slash at him horizontally. He avoided by just an inch but didn´t seemed fazed in the least. Ino began a barrage of slashes which were dodged easily. Ino then tried to stab forward.

This time the boy avoided by sidestepping and pushed her forward, changing positions. Ino stumbled forward before turning around. He just toys with me... The fiend again gestured for her to attack. Ino didn´t really want to fight at first but now she was determined to win this.

"Okay... Here I come!" Ino flung two kunais at the foxy fellow. He avoided one which was plugged into a tree, while he deflected the other with a strange looking kunai. Ino formed a seal and smirked when there was a quiet crackling heard.

"Wind Step..."

She could have sworn that he said something before the explosion but couldn´t really hear it.

When the dust cleared she found... nothing. Again she was pushed from behind and again she stumbled forward.

"Damn you!" Ino again got ready to attack her opponent. A small smile formed on her face. She didn´t really know why but this fight … was actually kind of fun.

She now formed a seal and gathered some chakra.

"Bunshin no Jutsu!" A small dust cloud exploded and then there were five Ino´s standing next to each other.

Each of them took out two kunai and threw them at the quietly watching enemy, before running at him with full speed. They ran in a formation steadily changing places.

The stranger suddenly leapt into the air with a sommersault elegantly avoiding the kunai and landed

without making a noise. When he landed a immediately had to jump back to avoid a fist from Ino or one of her clones.

Ino´s plan worked pretty well. She knew that none of her clones could inflict damage yet they would at least be a diversion. The boy could now only dodge when Ino and her clones attacked in synchronization not leaving an opening to retaliate. The boy was slowly pushed back until he stood at the edge.

"Well, enough already?" Ino smirked mockingly.

Suddenly he flung his special Kunai towards one of the Ino´s but it went directly through her hitting a tree.

Ino grinned again.

"Nice try..." She didn´t finish her sentence cause she gaped at what happened before her eyes. She could swear that she saw him smirk before he let himself fall back into the depth. Her clones dispersed immediately as she ran for the edge in shock and looked down.

She then fell back still not able to believe what happened. She didn´t notice someone walking up behind her until he was just a few meters away. She turned around and was kind of relieved to see the stranger with the fox mask standing there with his even stranger kunai.

"Don´t scare me like that, jerk!" She shouted throwing a stone at him out of sheer anger. Ino was surprised to see the stone hit it´s target as was the one being hit at the head. Part of the mask broke and Ino now looked into a bright blue eye which was covered quickly by a hand.

"S-Sorry..." The boy was her age... she could tell this much and he had beatiful … familiar... eyes.

She blushed a bit thinking about it.

Suddenly a bracelet landed in front of her and she took it up surprised. She put it on and looked ahead again seeing the stranger leave. When his back was turned to her she saw the color of his hair. A bright yellow. Ino´s eyes widened.

"Wait!" He turned around one last time revealing the free side of his face with his blue eye. He gave her one last warm smile before vanishing into thin air... Ino just stared at the spot before a nam escaped her throat in a whisper...

"Naruto..."

So how did you like it? Of course I hope you did like it... anyway I will try to update soon if interest is present... So I wish you a wonderful week and hope to read you soon! Ahh and have fun reading fanfiction of course ^^ Well until next time!

Dowy Sixst Haevens