A/N: woohoo, I'm almost at my goal of getting at least 100 reviews for this story. Alright, in regard to Naruto and summons, here's the deal. The first thing to point out is that Naruto will not summon the shadow fox clan, he has one with him and uses shadows himself, it would be redundant to have him summon them also. As for summoning the other members of the demon fox clan, I leave that up to you guys. I didn't want to over do the whole fox thing, but if you guys want him to have the other members of the demon fox clan, then I might add it. However, if I do, it will be gradually over time. I don't want to give him all of them at once. Besides, he probably wouldn't have that many occasions when he would need to summon them. Oh well, enough of that, on with the story.

Shadow Fox

The past week had seen a lot of training and progress Naruto. His team hadn't been given any missions since their last mission, and had spent most of their team training time sparing. This was not a problem for Naruto as it gave him a good chance to work on his shadow style taijutsu. After having worked out his trouble with Zaku, he found Zaku willing to help him with his work on his shadow style, since he needed a partner to practice the style to its fullest potential. He had also occasionally sparred with Dosu, who was constantly trying to beat him to prove that his first victory was just a fluke.

During his free time, Naruto had a lot of things that he needed to practice with. He typically began with his practice of his taijutsu katas, followed by work with his shadow skills. Next, he would practice summoning using only his chakra, and lastly, he would practice with his chain whip and sword. He was getting better in all areas, but he seemed to be slowing in his learning with the chain whip and sword. There was only so much that he could learn without proper instruction. He had grown into a constant routine of training like this, so he was a bit surprised when on this day he found his raven haired teammate waiting for him at the training field he usually visits.

'I wonder why she is here. Does she need something from me?'

Figuring that there was no way of knowing unless he actually went and talked to her, so he continued walking out into the field. Kin took notice of him and walked over towards him.

"Hey, Naruto. Ummmm, I was kind of wondering about something so I cam here to talk to you about it?"

"Well Kin, what is it that you want to talk about?"

Kin looked a bit nervous before she replied "I was wondering if you could help me train to become stronger. I don't want to be useless anymore." Her voice began to trail off towards the end.

"Sure Kin, I would be more than happy to help you train." Naruto replied with a smile.

Kin looked at him a bit surprised. She had asked people to help her before, but they usually told her that they didn't want to waste their time on someone so weak. Yet here was this boy saying that he would be happy to help her get stronger.

'Naruto, why are you always so happy to help me? Is it because you said I was just like you, or might there be something more to it?"

Kin broke out of her thoughts and gave Naruto a small smile as she thanked him.

'She looks really pretty when she smiles, I should try to get her to smile more often.' Naruto thought to himself.

"Ok, well the first thing that I think that we should do is stop by a weapon shop and see if we can find a good weapon for you."

So Naruto grabbed Kin's hand, not noticing the small blush on her face, and led her to the weapon shop that he had gone to when he got his chain whip.

"So what weapon do you think that you would like to use?" Naruto asked her

Kin looked around the weapon shop until her eye fell upon a scythe with a dark black handle and a blood red blade. It was quite an intimidating looking weapon, and one that she felt compelled to learn. Kin paid for the scythe and she and Naruto returned to the training field.

The rest of the day was spent with Naruto helping Kin train with her new scythe, as well as contemplating different attacks that would suit her style instead of only having her illusions. When they were finished, Naruto began to walk off.

"Meet me back her again tomorrow, I am going to go see if I can find someone to help us with our weapons training."

Kin nodded as she watched Naruto and Kyo walk away from her. She was happy at the thoughts of future progress that she would make.

'I am going to get stronger, and then I'll show people that I am not a burden, that I can hold my own.'

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Orochimaru was pissed, it just seemed like the paper work would never stop coming. Why oh why did he decide to start a village as opposed to just forming a large band of powerful ninja like Akatsuki. No, he just had to make his own village, and now he was swamped with paper work.

"Orochimaru-sama, you have a genin here to see you sir."

Orochimaru jerked up at the sound of his secretary's voice and his secretary was sure that he would be killed for disturbing Orochimaru, he had a tendency to fly off the handle over things like that. The secretary became even more afraid when she saw the smirk plastered on Orochimaru's face.

'Oh shit, I am going to die, why oh why did I take this job.'

"It is probably Naruto-kun again, send him in."

the secretary gave a sigh of relief and left to get the boy. A moment later, Naruto emerged in Orochimaru's office.

"Naruto-kun, what can I do for you today."

"I am sorry to disturb you Orochimaru-sama, but I was wondering if you could refer me to a weapon's specialist to teach me how to use a sword. If possible, I would like it if he can also instruct my teammate in the use of a scythe and me in the use of a chain whip."

"It is no intrusion at all Naruto-kun, you actually saved me from the boredom of paper work. So you need a weapons specialist? I think I have the perfect person in mind, where would you like to have me send him to meet you and your teammate?"

"If you don't mind, could you have him come to training field 13 at 4:00P.M.."

"That will be no problem Naruto-kun, I will have him meet you there tomorrow. Is there anything else that you need?"

"Nothing that I can think of at the moment Orochimaru-sama."

"Well, in that case you are free to go, good luck with your training."

Naruto gave a bow as he left the office. Orochimaru grinned at the work that his new weapon was doing to get stronger. Soon he would be a very powerful ninja, Konoha will never know what hit them.

'But how are we going to get you into the exams Naruto-kun, we can't let Konoha know that you are there, what are we going to do.'

Orochimaru's face grew another smirk, he had an idea, he knew what he was going to do for the chuunin exams.

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After their team practice the next day, in which both Zaku and Dosu were rather shocked to see Kin carrying such a fear inducing weapon, Naruto and Kin ran towards training field 13, planning to get a bit of training in before their new teacher arrived.

"So Naruto, who did you get to teach us?"

"I don't know yet, I asked Orochimaru-sama if he could refer me to a weapons specialist, and he told me that he would send someone here to meet us."

Kin nodded and the two returned to their training. Kin however, decided that she wanted to know more about the boy, and so it was that Kin turned to Naruto to ask him a question.

"Naruto, what were things like before you came to the sound?"

Naruto sighed, not really liking to bring up his past. He was happy now, so he wanted to just forget about his time in the leaf.

"Kin, I already told you about the way things were before I came."

"You just told me a basic overview to explain how you thought I was like you, I want to know more about you."

"And why would you want to do that." Naruto replied with a smirk.

A faint blush appeared on Kin's cheeks as she responded, "It's nothing like that, I just want to know what things were like that you think that I'm like you were."

Naruto let a smile play across his face as he thought that she looked cute with a blush on her face. He sighed and began to explain a bit more detail about his past. Of course, he didn't bring up Kyuubi, he was happy here where people didn't hate him, he knew that Orochimaru told him that they would accept him, but he still didn't want to take that chance. He then began to explain to her about his old team.

"My old team used to think nothing of me. I was always referred to as either 'baka' or 'dobe.' One of my teammates was the top rookie of the academy, a genius prodigy with hordes of fan girls. As for my other teammate…well, let's say that if you thought that you were useless, then there is probably not a word to describe what she was. To tell the truth, when it came to combat, she really never did anything. She was book smart, but she never really applied it much, spending most of her time chasing our other teammate. However, that never stopped her from commenting on how useless I was to our team."

Naruto's anger was building. He had never really had a chance to vent his emotions up to this point, so he had spent almost three months keeping these feelings repressed. Now however, they were starting to pour out and he couldn't stop them.

"We were in a battle with a missing nin named Momochi Zabuza and his partner who was also very powerful. My male teammate had been attacked and killed protecting me, and the girl blames me. She blames me when she didn't even do anything the whole battle, all she did was stand in front of the bridge builder we were supposed to protect and cry over the boy's body. And yet she has the nerve to blame me for everything."

"Wow…She sounds like a massive bitch."

Naruto realized that he was getting overly angry now, he didn't really hate Sakura, but he had kept his emotions pent up for so long, this anger just came out. He took a deep breath before he collected himself. The shadow fox had taught him to control his anger, as anger would only serve to weaken a shadow user in battle.

"No, I am making her out worse than she really is. She may not have been much of one for battle, and she was a bit of an obsessive fan girl type, but she wasn't that bad."

Naruto gave a small sad chuckle before he continued to talk.

"I always had such a big crush on her, but she was always swooning over our other teammate. Every time I tried to be nice to her, she would yell at me or hit me for annoying her. She would do the same thing if I insulted or fought with our teammate. I guess I never really stood much of a chance."

"What did she look like?" Kin asked, a bit sad at the thought that he has a crush on someone else.

'No, I shouldn't be jealous, he is just my teammate, I don't have time for a boyfriend, it will make me weak, I need to spend my time training. Damn that teenage girl part of my brain.'

"Well, she was a bit taller than me, probably around your height. She had emerald eyes and pink hair. She tended to yell a lot and sometimes get very violent."

"Sounds like some annoying, bright colored girly girl to me." Kin muttered under her breath.

Unfortunately for her, Naruto heard her and a smile grew on his face.

"Awwww, I am sorry Kin-Chan. I didn't know that you would get so jealous."

Kin grew another blush at having been caught and the added suffix to her name. "It's not that, I just can't picture with you with some loud, perky girl, especially one with pink hair."

Naruto gave a small laugh "You didn't see me back then, I was a lot louder and 'brighter' as you say."

Kin stared at the boy for a moment, She just couldn't picture this dark, quiet boy to be anything like he just described himself, "You're lying."

"Am not. In fact, my hair used to be blond and I wore an orange jumpsuit. I would pull pranks all the time and was very loud."

Kin thought at the prospect and laughed. Naruto enjoyed the sound of her laughter, it was soft and melodic.

"Your laugh sounds nice, you should do it more often."

Kin blushed and looked for a way out of this situation when she saw someone approaching.

"Look, who's that coming over here?"

"Maybe he is our new teacher for our weapons."

As the man approached, they noticed that it was a rather sickly looking man with pale skin and white hair. He had two red dots on his forehead, one over each eye. As he approached them, Kin let out a small gasp, and Naruto gave her a questioning look.

"Kimimaru-san, what are you doing here sir."

Kimimaru looked over them and then turned to Naruto, "Are you the ones that Orochimaru has sent me to teach weapons skills to."

"I believe so, my name is Naruto, and this is my teammate Kin."

"As the girl said, my name is Kimimaru, so what do you want me to teach you."

"Well, I would like to learn about using swords and a chain whip, she would like to learn about using a scythe."

Kimimaru thought about this for a moment before he replied "I can help you with the sword and scythe, however I can't help you with the chain whip, I can't make one with my bloodline."

Naruto gave him a puzzled look and Kimimaro sighed as he pulled out a bone in the shape of a sword.

"This is what I mean, I can use my weapons as bones, but I can't make a chain whip out of my bones, so I can't help you with that."

Naruto nodded and they began to train with Kimimaru on their weapons skills for the rest of the day.

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Two weeks had passed (no complaints about not including every training detail, all you really need to know is what they trained in, besides, I want to keep some surprises) and Naruto and Kin had both improved a great amount in such a short period of time. Kin had improved a lot with her scythe use, and had worked hard on the new moves that she had thought up with Naruto. Naruto had continued with his shadow jutsus and shadow style taijutsu, and was now fairly proficient with his sword. He had also improved to summoning a mid level snow fox using his own chakra, and was getting fairly good with his chain whip, despite having a proper trainer for how to use it. Naruto had also asked Kimimaru for a bit of training with two swords while he was training them. Kimimaru had complied and taught Naruto a modified version of his dance techniques.

It was at this time that Naruto and his team found themselves in the office of Orochimaru, wondering why he had summoned them.

"I have called you all here to discuss the upcoming chuunin exam with you all."

The four genin perked up, wondering what Orochimaru had to tell them about the chuunin exam.

"As you know, this year the chuunin exams will be taking place in Konoha…"

Naruto's head dropped a bit at this news, he couldn't go back to Konoha, he was a missing nin there and knew that his team was going to be sent while he was left behind.

"As you may know, only teams of three can enter the exams, so this year, I will be sending Kin, Zaku and Naruto."

This news had shocked all of them. Naruto was a bit worried about returning to Konoha, and Dosu was extremely pissed.

"WHAT, why am I being left out. Why can't you leave Kin out, I am definitely stronger then her, so why am I being left behind." Dosu yelled.

"Orochimaru-sama, I don't think it would be a good idea for me to go and participate in Konoha." Naruto had responded.

"Everyone be quiet. The fact of the matter is that we had already registered the three of you before Naruto had arrived. However, I need Naruto to participate in the exams, and the only person that he can impersonate is you Dosu, so I need you to stay behind while Naruto goes disguised as you."

"But Orochimaru-sama…"

"SILENCE!" Orochimaru interrupted Dosu, "I have made my decision and you will abide by it, is that clear."

Everybody responded with a yes, and Orochimaru dismissed them, leaving two surprised genin, one worried genin, and one pissed genin.

Naruto fears were relieved a little bit when he was told that he would be posing as Dosu, but he was still afraid of what would happen if he was discovered. Naruto gave a sigh as he arrived home, there was nothing that he could do about it now, Orochimaru's mind had been made up, and there was no changing it. He fell asleep that night wondering what all would occur when he returned to Konoha.

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A/N: well, another quick filler chapter. Sorry to anyone who thinks I am rushing to the chuunin exam, but I really did not want to have too many chapters just describing him training, and I feel that there is not too large of a time gap between the wave arc and the start of the chuunin exam, so he wouldn't have too much time to spend in the sound before the exam. I feel like there was more to say, but I forget it, so oh well.

I don't really have any reviews that I feel like responding to, so I guess it is on to the rant.

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Today is the self insertion rant

To fangirls who have written a self insertion…this one is brutal, you might want to avoid it. You've been warned.

Anyway, to put it simply, self insertion fics are a load of crap.(and damn it, the name just sounds dirty.)

And once again, my blame falls on the fangirls.

To try to put this with as much tact as I can manage, The fangirls who write self insertion fics…..well, they are unpopular and most likely not very attractive. In real life, life sucks for them, they want to be pretty and popular, but they're not. It may even go so far as to them being ridiculed by others.

So what do they do about it…they decide that writing a self insertion fic will make them feel better. They write a story where they get sucked into the world of their favorite fiction (in this case Naruto) where they are the most beautiful girl that anyone has ever seen and they are incredibly powerful that no one can stand before their might, and all the boys like her, but she chooses whichever is her favorite and writes about how he instantly loves her and her strength and they are both happy together.

Could there possibly be anything worse than this crap you might ask? Why yes there is. When the fangirl gets with a group of her friends in the same boat and write a "3 girls get sucked into the Naruto universe" fic. You take all that was bad about the single fangirl self insertion, and you triple it.

So let this message be known here and now: Writing a self insertion fic is not going to make your life any better, go out and do something about it instead of writing a load of crap that nobody wants to read, you are wasting both your time and the time of everyone searching through the load of your crappy self insertion fics to find a story that is actually good.

And with that brutally said, it is time to write the majority of self insertion fics.

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Once there was a girl named (insert name here). She lived an unhappy life in the real world. She was homely and unpopular. She so wanted to be pretty and popular. She only had two friends, and these friends were just like her. One day, the three of them went to her house and while they were watching Naruto, they were magically sucked into the T.V. and transported into the world of Naruto.

"Hey, where are we?"

"I think that we are in the world of Naruto."

"Wow, we have suddenly gotten really strong. Look, I already know how to use just about every jutsu."

"Hey your right, we already know all of the jutsu."

"…OMG, LOOK GUYS, WE'RE PRETTY NOW!"

"Your right."

Suddenly, (insert the favorite boys of the authoresses) appears in the clearing in which they have landed.

"Wow, that girl sure is beautiful and strong."

"So is that one."

"I think that we are all suddenly in love with these strange girls who have just suddenly appeared out of nowhere. They can't be spies or anything, so lets take them back to become Konoha ninjas."

Girls : "Hooray!"

And so the girls followed their favorite male ninjas back to Konoha. In the following week, they would kill Orochimaru and all of the Akatsuki members with their incredible innate power upon arriving in the Naruto world, because obviously when they were pulled through their T.V., they gain power that all of the real ninja spend their whole life perfecting, but that doesn't matter now does it. Anyway, the ninja that found them profess their newfound love to these complete strangers and the girls say that they love them in return. The girls are much happier in this load of crap fantasy than the real world, so they never search for a way back, they just live out their days as the "beautiful goddesses of the Naruto world."

The End.

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……Damn, I'm a bastard. Oh well, tough luck.

Don't really know what I may choose to rant about next chapter. If you want to make requests, I might consider them, but remember, I have only seen up to the start of the second stage of the chuunin exams.

Until next time.