Hello everyone! Thanks to those who review, it's really kind and it gives a boost for writing. But now I have a question to you. Do you prefer if I put the chapters up as fast as possible or that I spend time on them to make them better? The choice is yours, but anyway, here's chapter 4.

Chapter 4

Naruto stood above a small town. The streets were more than filled, something he had been expecting seeing as the rain they had had had been heavy and that the sun was more than welcome. It felt good to see so much life, free and not destruction and death as far as the eye could see. He leaned on the rail that stood there to prevent anyone from falling. He smiled. He went down the stairs that were on the left and joined the crowd. He went to get some ramen, which he noted weren't thought they didn't rival with Teuchi's. After he left the sand he was about to make his way out of the town until he heard a laugh. His foot froze mid air. His eyes widened. It couldn't, could it ?

Back in Konoha, the third Hokage found himself sitting with Iruka having breakfast. He knew why the ninja was here and was waiting for him to bring up the subject yet, he still hadn't and the old Hokage still had paper work to do. He sighed, he would have to speed things up a little.

"Iruka, I know you wouldn't come here just to have lunch with an old man." he started. Iruka jumped slightly having been lost in his thoughts.

"What do you mean Sandaime? You're not old at all!" he exclaimed but the stern look in the Hokage's eyes made it clear that he already knew. "Naruto... What happened? The only thing I know is that you promoted him to the rank of special jounin and that he would be leaving the village on his own, no question asked."

The old man sighed. "I'm sorry Iruka, but Naruto made me promise not to tell anyone even you. Thought he did leave a letter for you." he said as he gave the chunin a letter.

Iruka took it yet he wasn't satisfied. "But still! Promoting him to the rank of special jounin? No one knows about them are almost, they all know of the ANBU but not Special jounin."

"You are correct Iruka, if you make one organization secret then sooner or later it will come to light. The answer to that is the ANBU. Create two organization, one that has an other name and is supposed to be secret while letting some info go so that people will concentrate on that giving the other separate organization the shadow to live. As you know special jounin have the right to kill and are let on all the 'need to know' happenings as well as having to give account to no one but the Hokage. Naruto was strong enough for that position." the Sandaime said

"What! Naruto could make real clones but he's no where near the level of a jounin!" Iruka yelled. Surprising him the Hokage's gaze hardened.

"We will discuss this no longer Iruka, Naruto has been very specific on this, no one, is to know, heck he didn't even tell me the reason behind it and although it could just be one big prank, I don't think so. And for his level, don't worry, he's stronger than Kakashi."

"What?"

"This is all Iruka, but this is under a need to know rule, break it and even you will suffer the consequences." he warned. He didn't like shutting the subject like this, nor had Naruto, but he had given the boy his word. "Iruka, I know how you feel, but trust me, he can take care of himself, and if anything happens to him, I'll send 3 ANBU units to assist him and you will be allowed to go, ok?"

The chunin was taken by surprise but it helped, it wasn't much but it was something. "Ok, thank you Hokage-sama." the chunin agreed, he walked out, if the Hokage saw it right then he wasn't one to change that. He sighed and hoped that it would all go ok for the boy.

For his part the Hokage sighed. Recalling the event that had occurred.

Hiruzen was having some tea while resting in his office on this lively day. It was perfect, tomorrow the children would start their ninja life. There was a knock at his door.

"Come in." he said, he was surprised to see that it was Naruto, and that he had grown a lot overnight. More than anything, he had actually knocked and waited for an answer before entering.

"Hokage-sama." he started. The third was taken by surprise, not once had the kid called him like that.

"Hokage-sama? When have you ever called me that?" he asked a slight tinge of amusement in his voice, his eyes weary looking for anything that could show a potential prank.

"I called you like that, because I come to you not as a friend but as a ninja of the leaf." Naruto explained. The third was surprised by his tone, his posture, his voice, his words, this wasn't Uzumaki Naruto.

"You are not yet a ninja of the leaf Naruto. You will be tomorrow." he said turning to look out the window. Silence filled the room for a minute or so.

"I want you to make me a special jounin." he said. The Hokage turned around. He laughed, how could Naruto seriously expect him to get the rank of special jounin so fast. It didn't last long. Things weren't right, he shouldn't know about special jounin. Heck the only one's to know were the special jounin themselves and just maybe a hand full of other ninja that had learned it because of the situation, so how could Naruto know about it.

"Naruto, how to you know about them?" he asked his attention solemnly on the boy, surprising him again the boy didn't flinch. He didn't look away or show any signs of discomfort under the Hokage's heavy gaze.

"That is something I cannot tell you. I know it doesn't seem right, that you can't understand, but for you're safety as well as the safety of the leaf, I have no choice but to ask this of you with you knowing. As a Hokage, you know that in certain situations, one must sacrifice everything for his village, this is what I am doing here today." The Hokage's eyes widened, Naruto was so different, so mature, he couldn't understand what happened? It wasn't possible. But this was no laughing matter, he knew by the boy's eyes, he was totally serious.

"Then you must know what is the test for passing into special jounin, don't you?" the Hokage asked

"I know and I am fully prepared to go all out on you for 5 minutes, and I shall be victorious." he said coldly, he couldn't fail because either he passed special jounin and was allowed to leave either he left on his own and was marked a missing nin, either way he couldn't stay.

"Very well, follow me." the old Hokage said. He led Naruto into some underground secret caverns. Having already been special jounin under Tsunade, he knew about them, the secret secret meeting place. Finally they arrived the secret training arena. No one was here today as you it was the special jounin's rest day. They opened the door and both walked in, the door shut itself, seals spreading like wildfire. "They're the same kind of seals that the one you have which holds Kyubi." the old geezer said.

"I know." Naruto replied. Finally they were into position. They face each other in the arena. It wasn't anything special and darkness ruled over most of it but the few lights, here and there allowed him to see the bleachers, the doors were made out of heavy metal. Naruto's gaze fell on the Hokage.

"I will remained you of the rules. You must survive 5 minutes against the Hokage, going all power and still be able to fight afterwards. You can use anything you want, this place will stop any sound as well as any chakra from escaping." he said, Naruto let his shoulders fall, like his he had been carrying something heavy for quite some time.

"Good." Naruto said. Suddenly there was a blast of red chakra. The room was illuminated for a brief instant before it disappeared.

"Ready?" the Hokage asked.

"Sure am." said Naruto, thought the voice was no longer coming from in front of him but from behind. The third suddenly became aware of the cold metal, razor sharp blade, kunai which was under his throat.

"Kage-bunshin?" the third asked?

"Nope, a mix of concentration and my fathers Hirashin no Jutsu." the jinchiriki said, smiling gently to himself. The Hokage's eyes widened. That was another thing he shouldn't know about.

"Well, I was taken by surprise but..." the third said before turning into a log.

"A kawarimi without handsigns at your age? Is that safe?" the Uzumaki chuckled.

"Ha, I'm still young!" the Hokage yelled. A sudden pain in his back alerted him, Naruto had just punched him in the back.

"Are you going to take me seriously or what?" he asked.

"Fine."

The Hokage got a shuriken out and threw it before doing handsigns, one shurkien became thousands. Naruto smirked, the Hokage was going to fight as a Hokage would. The Hokage couldn't believe his eyes when all the shuriken stopped less than an inch from Naruto. They turned around and were sent back in the Hokage's direction. The old man's reaction didn't wait, putting his hands together his dispelled the shuriken cloning technique and caught the original effortlessly. Naruto sighed and went to a wall before flipping a switch on. Hundreds of light turned on. The room was huge!

"My element is the wind old man, you're wasting you're time." Naruto said

"You just made one of the biggest mistakes a ninja could make, you reviled your chakra element!" the Hokage yelled

He did handsigns before a huge fire flame came towards the boy who surprisingly smirked. The fire started to die down as he reached the boy. But it didn't disappear, the boy started breathing heavily as he cursed under his breath, he had to remember that he wasn't as strong as he used to be. It was too late, he hadn't managed to kill the fire in time and it came crashing down on him. The Hokage grew worried for a second. The fire slowly disappeared and there he was, enveloped in his unique red chakra.

"Ha, that's nothing!" he exclaimed. He put his hands in a cross sign. And thousands of Naruto appeared. They got in pairs and started concentrating some chakra in the palm of their hands, thousands of rasengan's appeared as the clones jumped in the air and came down on the third who was doing countless handsigns.

"Doton, Great mud wall!" he exclaimed as a mud wall appeared, the clones snorted thinking that they would go through easily, when they got close they had a surprise. Dirt spikes shot out of the wall killing half the clones, the other half couldn't stop, being in mid air they suffered the same fate. The wall dropped and the Hokage was surprised to find no one there. A tornado sound came from behind, but he looked to late, the rasengan rammed itself in the old man who smirked. The geezer didn't not move but smoke started leaving his body. Naruto realized only too late. The exploding clone blew up. The Sandaime landed next to the door and waited. The dust settled down and there he was again, standing, except that this time, he had taken some damage.

He was panting heavily. Some of his clothes were burnt and he had a few blood trails going down all over his body. He chuckled to himself.

"I had always wanted a spar with you oji-san, I now see that your nickname of the master is justified. I guess I have to take you seriously now." he said. He closed his eyes and a calmed himself, for a few seconds, nothing happened, then, blue chakra started to raise from the ground his wounds healed. He opened his eyes reviling the slit red eyes that belonged to Kyubi. The third recognized them immediately.

"How can you use Kyubi's chakra?" he asked

"We happen to be excellent friends old man. This is Kyubi's eyes stage one." he said

"Kyubi's eyes?"

"Yes, they allow me to do countless things, from seeing all in thermal to knowing you're chakra element passing by the amount of physical and mental chakra you have." the jinchiriki explained

"Is there a stage two?" Hiruzen asked

"Yes, but time is running out and I am not done yet!" Naruto exclaimed.

The boy disappeared again, but this time it wasn't because of the Hirashin, because there was a small dust cloud at his feet. The Hokage felt a punch coming to his right which he ducked just in time. A kick followed, the Hokage jumped up doing handsigns, the kid was fast and he needed to do something about that. He finished preparing handsigns and out of his mouth came a huge river of water. Naruto unsuspicious landed on it, he was surprised when he couldn't move. But looking down he saw it. Inside the water, the third's chakra was rushing to him to infiltrate his own chakra network, that would wreck him for some time. Seeing it come towards him fast he had to act. He let out a burst of chakra, pure chakra. He was so dense in chakra that the chakra enhanced water lost it's balance and the chakra disappeared. He looked up to the third. His eyes saw his chakra proportion. The third still had 70 % of his spiritual chakra but only 40 % of his physical chakra left. He guessed it was because of his age. But in any case he knew what he needed to know. The Hokage's taijutsu would hurt a lot less that his jutsu. Disappearing once more he reappeared next to the Hokage who caught the incoming punch. A kick came to the boy who used the Hokage as support to flip over him kunai's drawn they were about to meet once more when the sound of a metal clock sounded through the arena. They both froze before straitening up and putting their weapon away.

"Well I guess you passed Naruto. Honestly I wasn't expecting such techniques on you're part and I get the feeling I haven't seen everything yet." the Hokage said

"You are right oji-san." the jinchiriki answered as his eyes found their blue once more.

"But explain to me Naruto, how are you so powerful all of a sudden, what happened." he asked

"I wish I could tell you, but I can't, the reason for me passing this test was to get the rank of special jounin, they're secret and are allowed to leave the village on their own. It's what I plan on doing." he said. The Hokage sighed, knowing he would get nothing else out of the boy.

"What if I refused to promote you?"

"Then I would have deserted."

"Is it that important?"

"More."

The two then walked back to the office in silence. When they arrived Hiruzen sat in his chair. Naruto stood straight.

"Well even if it was an improvised promotion I still need you to do a few things..." the Hokage said before sighing. Naruto smiled, it felt good to see the third.

"Well how about you start the ceremony?" the blond asked, the third chuckled.

"Well, I guess I could..." He sat straight in his chair. His tone became more serious. "Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto, would promise an oath to protect, love, and serve the leaf?"

"I do."

"Will you avoid killing when possible, spare the innocents, save those who need help to any price?"

"I do."

"Will you die for your village if necessary?"

"I will."

"Will you keep secrecy regarding this branch of ninja?"

"I will."

"Then I hereby promote you to the rank of Special jounin!" the third exclaimed "I will need a sample of your blood as well as a bit of you're chakra."

Hiruzen got out two scrolls, one had the kanji for Chakra and the other for Blood. Naruto summoned a bit of chakra and pushed it in the seal before bitting his thumb and tracing a line on the scrolls. A small smoke trail rose from both and the seals once white turned black.

"All done." the third said.

"One last thing, don't add anyone to team 7, I'm their final member, no one else." the jinchiriki said

"Naruto, being short of 1 teammate could cause their death's."

"I know, but the mission won't be dangerous for some time, when they get there, I'll try to regroup with them and help them, besides, when all this is done and over with, maybe I'll be able to go back to a normal ninja life." he said

"When will you leave?" the third asked

"Tonight, or tomorrow morning latest."

"Will you come back?"

"If I can."

And that was it. The Hokage sighed as the boy turned and left.

"Naruto... what have you gotten yourself into?" wondered Hiruzen before getting up and leaving, he needed a walk.

Iruka went home and sat on his small bed before opening Naruto's letter. Naruto... He had been like a little brother to him, so when Naruto came in the other day saying he was leaving, it had been quite a shock. He wanted answers, he was hoping for answers so badly! He was hoping that Naruto would clear things up a bit in this letter.

Iruka-sensei

By the time you read this, I'll be gone. You're probably lost and demanding answers, answers I'm afraid I cannot give you. Thought don't worry about me. I'll be fine. I'm not very good at these good bye letters as you probably noticed but thanks, for everything. Live well Iruka-sensei.

"I will Naruto, and you better come back!" the teacher said.

Naruto's head turned to the left. A bar, of course. He entered and sure enough it was him. His heart grew harm to see him again, he had missed him like crazy. Thought in his state... He turned around and decided to let him be for the time being. His opinion was obviously not shared.

"Minato... hick! Where hick to you think hick you're going? Thought you could hick trick us all in thinking you were dead? Well no! Hick! I found you!" a man with long white hair exclaimed as he stumbled forward trying to reach the boy. Said boy sighed. He couldn't leave him like that. The owner thought was about to kick him out for being under age but a single look from Naruto froze him.

"Sorry about him, I'll take him home." The jinchiriki said as he put money on the table.

"Home? hick!" the sanin asked. Sighing Naruto buried his fist in the man's stomach. "Shut up, you annoy me when you're drunk." he said with a growing smile, he put him on his back and started walking out. He went to the nearest hotel and took a bedroom where he, quite literally threw the man on a bed. He then jumped out the window.

Even if most people thought that the sanin was just a drunk pervert, Naruto had learned with time that his sensei was never somewhere by coincidence. If he was here then he was going to meet with one of his informant. But then again, he had found him drunk and he only drank once it was over. Judging by the pervert state that he had at least till tomorrow morning or so before he woke up he went to the forest and started training. Although he was already quite strong, it wasn't his strength, it was Kyubi's and his body couldn't take such load yet. He trained restlessly, sweat pouring down his face, is he wanted to beat the masked man, then he had no choice but to train till he could no more. The sun went down and the sun went rose before he realized. It must have been 5 or 6 O'clock by the time he decided to stop. He looked around, he hadn't realized how much he had trained, the once proud forest was now ravaged, many rasengan holes covered the area, the trees had been knocked over, if he didn't know better he would say that a great ninja battle took place here. He sighed, he couldn't this place like this.

He summoned a bunch of clones who started cutting the wood and moving it. The area was naked in minutes. He then cut a few branches from trees that he then put in the ground. Last step was going to be the hardest. By summoning Kyubi's chakra he could make those branches grow into full trees but he hadn't the key to Kyubi seal yet...

"No matter, we can't leave this place like this or someone is bound to get suspicious and that is the only way of making it disappear. We both need to concentrate and we'll succeed." Kurama said.

"You're right, ok let's do this!" he exclaimed before sitting down crossed legged. His face held both concentration as well as determination. He put his hands together in a seal position and started to walk to Kyubi cage. He slowly drained the fox's chakra, careful to make it his own and then releasing it in the air, Kyubi was having a hard time as well, he had to put all his energy in his chakra without his will. A faint yellow chakra started to fill the area. Plants started reacting. Naruto felt himself being pushed in the air. He opened his eyes and smiled, it had worked. The trees had all grown. He then felt the consequences of using Kyubi's chakra at such an extent, he was out of breath and felt exhausted.

"C'mon, let's get back to that pervert."

"Yea..."

Jiraya's eyes opened slowly. He had a horrible headache. His looked out the window, there was someone sitting there, his back to him, his face rest on his arm, he was looking out at the rising sun. He had spiky blond hair and had he known better he would have thought that it was Minato. The boy turned his head revealing two blue eyes as well a whiskers.

"Yo." he said.