A/N: Here we go for chapter 5... Anyone else pissed off with what Kishimoto is doing with the manga? I am... I swear most fanfics I've read recently have had better plots. Oh well. Hmm... Please remember to review guys!

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto it wouldn't be so fucked up right now.

Chapter 5

-Jace and Co's apartment-

The three children awoke to what sounded like someone singing. Naruto yawned and rubbed sleep from his eyes. In his opinion it was far too early to be in the realm of the conscious. Spurred by irritation he opened his door to find out the source of his irritation. As he opened his bedroom door he looked and saw his two siblings had done so as well. The three of them looked at each other, shrugged and wandered into the kitchen. What they saw stopped them in their tracks.

Jace was not normally a morning person. This is mostly because he almost never slept at night, preferring to grab a catnap here and there. To his own surprise he had awoken in what could only be called an irritatingly chipper mood. Acting on his new found mood he had whisked himself away to the kitchen making breakfast in the form of scrambled eggs, bacon, pancakes and sausages. Which was another thing he didn't get, he almost never ate breakfast. Shrugging it off he continued, not quite with the realization he begun to sing as he cooked. Which is the sight his adopted children were greeted with.

There, in the middle of the kitchen, with a frying pan in hand, clad in white fuzzy pajama bottoms, Jace was half dancing around singing to himself.

"I want a girl with a short skirt,
And a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong jacket

I want a girl who gets up early
I want a girl who stays up late."

He deftly flipped a pancake into the air, spun around catching it back into the pan.

"I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity
Who uses a machete to cut through red tape."

At this scene, only one phrase came to the kids' minds.

"What."

"The."

"Fuck?"

-2 hours later-

"So, what the fuck was up with Dad this morning?" Tayuya said to her two brothers.

"Dunno. Creepy as hell though." Naruto said as they walked out of the building.

"Meh, he made good food though." The other two looked at Gaara, then shrugged and nodded in agreement.

"True that. Later, Tay." Naruto waved to their sister as she split and went off towards her usual meeting point with Anko, the dango shop.

"So Gaara, whatya think this extra test is gonna be?"

"Probably some overly simple test to see if we can work as a team or not. Seems to be the norm from what I've over heard." The red head said with a slight shrug. "We both know we work well as a team, so make sure you get your crush to work it out as well."

Naruto blushed slightly, "She's not my... Ok well yeah she's hot. But she's a fangirl... We gotta fix that first."

"Agreed. Fangirlism gets people killed."

"Fangirlism? Is that a word?"

"It is if I say it is. Now shut up; I gotta try to think of how to get our teacher to notice me. And you will not screw it up, you will help me or, by god, you will be haunted by sand for the rest of your natural life." Gaara said. To emphasize the point some sand crept out of the gourd and lightly hung around Naruto's neck.

"Right... Gotcha back on this one." Naruto gulped, giving his temperamental brother a thumbs up.

"Good. Now let's get a move on, I have no wish to be late." Gaara said as he picked up in a burst of speed. The blond sighed and dashed after him.

-Outside the Dango shop-

"Where the fuck is that Ol' Hag at anyways? She's never late!" Tayuya fumed as she waited ever so impatiently outside the store.

"Right here brat." A voice from above the red head said, amusement in her voice. Tayuya looked up and scowled at her teacher who was standing upside down on a light post, eating dango. She hopped gracefully down and landed in front of the teen. She flashed a cheshire grin, "We got a nice easy B rank mission, think of it as a way to celebrate the fact you're a full Chunin now."

Tayuya flashed her own grin at that, "Fuckin' A. Lets get going."

A few hours later the two found themselves observing a small group of Nuke-Nins, 2 Chunin level and 1 Jounin level. The group wore mist head protectors and all were packing large swords.

"Fuck, think they're compensating for something?" Tayuya whispered to her purple haired teammate.

The snake mistress laughed silently, "I think they are... I'll take the one on the left, you take the one on the right, whoever finishes fastest gets the poor sap in the middle?"

The red head smirked, "They ain't gonna know what fucking hit them." She pulled out a worn flute and began to softly play a melody, and in doing so cast a fairly low level genjutsu. One that made you sleepy, nothing major, just enough to drop your guard.

As one of the nuke-nins yawned, which was the moment Anko needed, she dropped from the tree branch she had been in and dashed forward. The target looked up at the incoming sound sleep dancing in his eyes before they snapped alert as he realized what was coming. About 10 seconds too late for him though as a poisoned kunai, courtesy of Anko quickly found itself buried in his gurgling throat. The other two nins quickly went into guarded positions, drawing their blades. One with shoulder length black hair sneered at Anko, "You bitch, you're gonna pay for that."

He crouched forward ready to dash at the Kuinouchi when a cry of "Katon: Divine Phoenix Lance." interrupted him. He looked over just in time to see and narrowly dodge a brilliant blue-white stream of fire erupt from the treeline around the camp. The nin swore as he rolled to avoid the stream of fire. His companion started to go through handsigns for a jutsu, but was cut off by a snake bite to the throat, well, multiple snake bites to the throat. Anko retracted her shadow snake hands and smirked at the swearing nin before them. "Looks like you're fucked pal."

He turned his attention to Anko and was about to growl something out when a plethora of shurikens found themselves imbedded in his arm. He screamed in pain and dropped to the ground clutching his shuriken ridden arm. He shot one last hateful glare at the still smirking kuinouchi before him before another Divine Phoenix Lance burst out and well, lanced his head off at the neck.

Tayuya dropped to the ground with a grin. "10 Points for a head shot, bitch."

"Pfft, you got one guy after I got two. You still gotta work harder, brat." The dango lover smiled, "Now c'mon. Let's get back to Konoha."

-Around the time Tayuya and Anko left Konoha-

Jace sat and stared at his closet, attempting to will it to hand him a decent set of clothes. He sighed as the closet refused to give in to his psychic temptation and grabbed a simple black muscle shirt and blue jeans. Not the most ninja-y of clothing but it was what his mood dictated. As he pulled his shirt on he glanced down at the tattoos on his shoulders which were in fact, storage seals. His lip curled into a slight smile as he rubbed his right shoulder, memories of the weapon stored there, how he acquired it and the people involved flashing into his conscious thought. With closed eyes, he smiled... Then snapped a gloved hand summoning a large slurpee into existence, now he could afford to be content.

"The team has a test this morning. You're supposed to be there." His inner tenant said softly to him. Well, as softly as a giant demon bird of fire can.

"Yeah yeah. Since I doubt Hatake took my warning to heart, I figure I got a good... Oh, 15 minutes. Well fuck guess I should go eh?"

"Thus the point of my reminder, moron."

"Fuck you Feathers." Jace growled shaken form his inner dialogue. He paused, decided to go for a slightly different technique today and then disappeared in a swirl of electrified snow crystals. True to his timing he arrived just as Kakashi did. Needless to say the four gaped slightly as the Lilac haired man appeared in a dazzling display of ice and electricity. Well, Sakura stared at Sasuke, Sasuke and Kakashi stared at Jace and not his technique, Kiba... Had the decency to be suitably impressed.

Kakashi quickly snapped a picture before turning the Genins, "All right. This is gonna be one last test before you truly become a Genin. I'll hold one bell... Jace here will hold another." He glanced at Jace and tossed him a bell. The older man caught it, shrugged and attached it to his belt. "You have three hours to take these from us. Those who don't get sent back to the academy."

Sakura, predictably, harped on this, "But Sensei! There's only two bells!"

"...Good observational skills."

Sakura beamed a smile, her sarcasm detector apparently broken beyond repair due to fangirlism. Yes! Me and Sasuke-kun all alone without that smelly.. Uh, not-Sasuke. She thought to herself, drooling slightly as she did.

Jace and Kakashi sweat dropped. The Copy Nin shrugged it off, "Begin."

Sakura and Sasuke dashed into the bushes while Kiba patted Akamaru and looked at Jace. "Hah! You don't look so tough." He said with a mixture of confidence and arrogance. "I mean c'mon you have purple hair!"

Now, that had been a long running sore point of Jace's, being stereo typed because of his own natural hair color. He crossed his arms and shot Kiba his patented 'Murder Glare.' A look he and his dearly departed friend Dray had perfected, Dray moreso then Jace. Jace could radiate enough killing intent focused on whoever he was looking at to make even the most season of killers think twice before attack. Dray had actually managed to kill people with the look, something that had brought the man glee to no end. At any rate, Kiba and Akamaru wet themselves before stumbling backwards into the foliage. Kakashi raised an eyebrow, Never insult his hair. Noted.

An hour later Sasuke came out at a dead run, Sakura not to far behind. At first glance this looked like something of a team effort... But it was just the Uchicha attempting to escape his psychotic fangirl. But it was almost like teamwork. Jace cocked his head to the side as he let the raven h aired boy dash past him. He reached out and snapped his wrist hitting the back of Sakura's head lightly, knocking her out.

Kiba groaned, he figured he was screwed, though watching Sasuke and Sakura gave him an idea. He motioned the other Genin over and whispered a plan to him. The Uchicha heir begrudgingly agreed and the two made a team effort to get a bell and save Sakura. They failed miserably of course, Kakashi going underground and pulling Sasuke with him, while Jace shot Kiba another glare. But hey, it's the effort that counted. The adults looked at each other and shrugged. "Well, despite your epic sucking, you guys pass. I suppose." announced Kakashi. He flipped another page in the small orange book he was holding and giggled. "Anyways, meet back here tomorrow to start on training." He disappeared in a swirl of leaves as he spoke.

Jace looked at the badly beaten and slightly burned Genin. "Well, you guys take care." He half waved with his free hand before shattering apart into ice shards and disappearing in a swirl of wind as well.

Kiba cocked his head to one side, saying, "Damn, I have GOT to learn that."

-With Jace-

Jace appeared in the middle of his apartment and quickly looked around. With a large happy sigh, he flopped unceremoniously onto the couch, "Tayuya's on a mission... The boys are with their team. All the kids are ninja and don't need me looking out for them... Why, I'm free!" He started to laugh out loud, "Freedom is mine! Wooohoooo!" He pumped a fist into the air, threw back his head and let out a long breath of air. "But... What to do? Hmm, Anko was fun to be with, but she'd be with Tayuya... Meh, now that the brats aren't around I could go practice with my bloodlines... Always easier to do without anyone to accidentally mind rape."

He closed his eyes and disappeared into a puddle at his feet, reappearing in one of the darkest areas of the Forest of Death. He opened his eyes to the pitch black and smiled. "Level 1... Active..." He whispered softly to noone in particular. His eyes shifted form the pale grey to a vivid emerald green, flecks of ebony shining in them. He opened and saw the world in perfect clarity. "Nice to see my perfect vision hasn't degraded. Fairly practical being able to see in the dark..." He glanced around the grove of trees he was in, taking in the various forms of wildlife that observed him, unsure of what he was doing here.

He looked around as some of the larger predators started to look more confident. He flashed a predatory grin, "All right then... Level 2 Illusions Master, Activate..." His eyes faded back to grey, the world going dark again, before appearing to explode into blood red, black bolts of lightning flashing in his iris'. He waved dismissively with hand a bright rainbow suddenly appearing, and a horde of illusionary rabbits swarmed into the underbrush. "Hmm, hard to practice dispelling illusions alone, but making them is always fun. Scares the crap out of some things..." He waved his other hand and a small army of snarling beasts appeared, scaring most of the wildlife away. "Hmmm, the level 3 demonic mind bridge really won't work for me. Besides I practice it enough when I speak to Shukaku and Kyuubi... Well I guess that leaves level 4."

He closed his eyes and started to hum, then dance slightly to his humming. If the carnivores around him had any real semblance of coherent thought, they would have noted to others that the dancing scared them far more then the illusions did. He snapped his eyes open again, revealing a brilliant softly glowing violet iris, with 4 pulsating silver rings in each eye. The world around him seemed to flare into life, letting him see the chakra of the world in a perfect 360 degree view. "Hmm, damn none of the critters here are cognitively advanced enough to mind fuck. Don't particularly feel like finding any either." He shrugged to himself before he deactivated his eyes. His shoulders slumped slightly at the chakra drain. Sure it didn't drain that much in use, but it exhausted you the minute you stopped using it. A potentially fatal flaw if one used it after a long chakra intensive fight. Something Jace learned the hard way on multiple occasions. He grimaced slightly as his headache abated somewhat, and continued on with some of his more practical training.

-Somewhere in Sound-

Orochimaru cackled to himself much in the way villains do. Suna had agreed to his plan, and the invasion was slated for the upcoming Chunin exams. The snake was tickled pink, much like position 47 in the scroll Mizuki brought to him, over the news. He had news form other possible allies as well. If his proposition to Kumo went over, Konoha would burn. He expressed these particular thoughts to Kimmaro, who was standing behind him.

The snow haired Kaguya nodded, a grim expression on his face, although he did have one minor concern. "Master... What of the reports of the White Phoenix residing in Konoha? How will that affect your plans?"

The Snake Sannin scoffed, "I have every possibility covered. And as for our esteemed bird friend... I have something very special planned for him and dear 'sensei.'"

The bone wielder nodded, as his master once again erupted into a fit of maniacal laughter.

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A/N: Ok so I didn't get to the wave arc yet... And the chapter is a bit shorter then usual but i cant find a way to force it out much longer so meh. Little bit of foreshadowing though... MWAHAHHA *cough pops an anti-evil-villain pill cough* phew, all better now. Anyways pleaaase review! And wow, this story has more views then all my others.. combined... not saying much but hey, those of you reading, favoriting and story alerting.. you guys rock!

Fun Facts:

Jace wields 2 bloodlines. One is as follows:

Name: Storm Eyes (cant think of a fancier name, if someone can i'd be happy to hear an idea)

Type: doujutsu

Levels: 4

Abilities: Level 1 (perfect vision) offers enhanced vision, and perfect night vision. Being able to see through heavy mist and the darkest of caverns; Level 2 (Illusions Master) Can make low to mid level genjutsu with a wave of his hand, higher level genjutsu doesn't require as much chakra. Allows him to see through low and mid level genjutsu with relative ease; Level 3 (Demonic Mind Bridge) Allows the user to open a pathway to another persons mind. Any control goes to the person with higher willpower so it does come with some feedback risk, Very useful when dealing with Bijuu's as it allows them communication without danger of being released form their seals. Level 4 (Unnamed) Allows user to 'see' chakra, the way it moves, where it is, what kind, etc.. Gives perfect 360 degree vision. Has a similar function to the Mangeyoko Sharingans Tsukuyomi allowing the wielder to, as Jace so colorfully puts it, mind fuck an enemy. Far more damaging and permanent then the sharingan counterpart, as this does NOT require direct eye contact and merely being within the 360 sight leaves you open.

Looks: Level 1 turns the iris green, with flecks of black; Level 2 turns the iris red with circular rotating lightning bolts, Level 3 turns the iris blue with yellow lightning, level 4 the iris glow violet with pulsating silver rings.