As Tenten thought about the last year she realized how much she had learned and improved. From what she learned of Naruto he had been living from money he got from the hokage. Every day he would practice his taijutsu until he passed out. She had tried it a few times but she could never move the next day but he was always able to get right out of bed or wherever he passed out if she wasn't around to carry him to his house. Both of them could use bunshin kawarimi and henge perfectly without using hand signs. He still won all the spars they had because of his speed she tried using kunai against him but all that happened was him dodging and she was wasting time standing still and taking aim. Both of them had learned everything they could about they taijutsu styles they chose Naruto had mastered everything in the Kage style scrolls he could find but there were only three of them. Tenten had learned more techniques from her style but it wasn't as effective as the shadow style because it was brute strength and the Kage style depended on one hit kills and invisible movement.

When she tried to find the master of the Strong Fist style she found a ninja that wore a green leotard and was playing rock paper scissors with a white haired ninja. She left quietly wondering why someone that cool looking would hang out with some that looks that retarded. When she told Naruto what the master of the Strong Fist style looked and acted like he agreed with her decision to stay away from him.
Soon it would be time for Naruto to enter the academy and then they might not be able to practice together as much. She wished she could enter the academy with him but even when Naruto tried helping convince her dad it was a good idea he wouldn't change his mind. They still had a few days before it was time for Naruto to enter the academy.

"Tenten? Hello? Are you there?"

"Oh. Hi Naruto was just thinking about some things."

"Like?"

"Remember when we met?"

After thinking back for a few seconds Naruto remembered, "Yeah I was training and fell of the cliff didn't I."

"Yeah," the image of him falling down and nearly kissing her when they both crashed into the ground passed through her mind causing her to blush slightly.

"Wish your dad would let you enter the academy then we might end up on the same team."

"Yeah that would be good, but he wont let me. You think the academy is going to be hard?"

"It better be. If it's easy then that means I'm not really learning anything."

"Did you ever find anymore jutsu scrolls? All we have right now is three jutsu that could be useful but only in a couple situations need something that is useful as a more general skill."

"Nope but the hokage said he would teach me a jutsu when I can understand chakra manipulation. He wouldn't say anything else except it was a powerful but incomplete jutsu."

"I think I have heard of chakra manipulation. There's probably something about it in the ninja academy but you have to be at least a genin to get in there."

"Lets train then I think I figured out what that genin was talking about the shunshin no jutsu. You have to push chakra into your muscles and eyes to speed everything up."

"Took you long enough to figure it out that genin was fun to beat up."

"Yeah but what he said was true we would never catch him unless we learned shunshin. Luckily its an easy jutsu I thought it might be difficult with how he talked about it."

"He almost got taken out by two 'citizens' not much of a ninja I knew the shunshin couldn't be very powerfull"

"You think its weak?" Naruto suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind Tenten. "Now if I had a kunai you would have lost already."

"Okay maybe it is useful but it has to take a lot of chakra to move like that."

"Try it I don't think it takes that much but I do always seem to have a lot more then you do."

"Well lets go back to the cliff and practice it just don't fall of again."

"Hey! I haven't fallen of since that one time and that was almost a year ago."

Tenten had the lead in the race for about half the way until Naruto decided to show of his new discovery of shunshin no jutsu.

After Naruto explained how do to the new technique a little more he let Tenten practice while he kept using shunshin to see how long he could keep going at the high speeds.

When Tenten felt confident in it enough they started sparring with there new and old jutsu. Naruto having a far greator amount of chakra could keep several bunshin up as distractions sneak in with his shadow taijutsu style's techniques and force her to use a kawarimi or make her shunshin away forcing her to waste her very limited chakra supply.

"You're to good with that shunshin I can't keep up you just teleport almost everywhere. Why aren't you getting tired?"

"Maybe it has something to do with how I can train until I pass out and be fine the next day. You said you whenever you tried that method the next day you couldn't even get out of bed because you were so tired and sore."

"Or it's a result of that insane way of training. I have no clue how you do it even after you practice and spar with me you still have enough energy to continue. I'm always tired after just that."

"Yeah but today I think I'll only continue about an hour after you leave. The shunshin no jutsu does seem to get you tired a lot faster. Oh yeah should you be going home its starting to get dark."

"I didn't even notice. I hope I didn't miss supper. See ya tomorrow."

The next day the two followed a the same routine telling each other any new discoveries they made looking for some information at the library which was none. Then going to practice for about an hour then an hour or two of sparring followed by a little see you tomorrow talk.

"You enter the academy tomorrow right?"

"Yeah but we can still practice together. When they teach me something then I can teach it to you."

"Yea then when I enter I'll already know everything and I can show of to everyone in my class."

"You better tell them it was me who taught it to you if you do that so I at least get some kind of credit."

"Fine take most of the fun out of it. Well I got to go now see ya"

Naruto decided to walk home instead of training until he dropped like he normally did. 'Tomorrow I start the academy and I wont be able to meet with Tenten as much. Will I make new friends? I got an idea yeah that will make us on the same team hope it works though.'

Naruto was walking to the academy for his first day there. When he entered he heard someone whisper while looking at him, "The council is actually letting that person enter?" Naruto just continued to walk to his classroom after hearing the comment. He had gotten used to people disliking him for no reason. The only time it bothered him is when they said something about Tenten.

When he entered the classroom and noticed that everyone in the room was two to three years older then him he started to feel uncomfortable. Waiting for the lesson to start he looked around to see if he recognized anyone from when he walked around Konoha occasionally. The only one he did recognize was a person wearing a blue shirt with black pants he didn't know his name but he had seen him before a few times. 'Spending a year with these people is going to suck.'

When the lesson started he noticed to his complete disappointment it was the very basics of chakra control. 'Wait I learned all of this crap a year ago that means this is going to really really suck.' As it continued the teacher went on to how to hold kunai and shuriken properly. 'Oh crap Tenten is going to get pissed when she realizes how easy this is.'

After all classes were over Naruto went to Tenten and his usual training spot next to the cliff. It took him a few minutes to get there but he slowed down when he got close because someone was already there with Tenten. It was a bow with black hair a little longer then his blonde hair. He had a white shirt with black trimming around the collar area and a strip going down the middle of the shirt. Everything seemed normal about him except for the huge eyebrows that looked like they may crawl of his head. 'Only one thing to do I guess. Go meet him.'

"Hey Tenten who's that?"

"I am Rock Lee."

"I met him on the way to the training spot he wanted to know how I was so fast I guess."

"You think she is quick?" Naruto appeared behind Lee using shunshin."

"What! Where did he go?"

"Behind you. I wasn't using shunshin he wouldn't have seen me then. So what did you learn at the academy?"

"Yeah about that Tenten the academy starts out at what we were figuring out a year ago when we first met."

"..."

"You are in the academy? That's so cool can you teach me some things?"

"Tenten please stop giving me that look its not my fault." Naruto said while taking a few steps back.

"Oh no it's not you I want to kill. But now I realize the reason my father wouldn't teach me anything until I graduated from the academy is because THEY WERE TEACHING THE BASICS THERE!"

"You mean the academy isn't very hard?"

"Tenten its okay j-just calm down. This just means we have more time to learn more advanced things then we will be the best in the class."

"We? I'm not in the academy yet. You mean you're going to fail on purpose or do you have a way for me to get in?"

Are you two listening to me?

"Try asking your dad it might not be to late to enroll just tell him you know everything they teach already. That or I think I will fail once so we can be on the same team."

"How would we be on the same team? One of us would have to fake it so they wouldn't think were both the best."

"Next year I'll play the role of best since I will have been there and failed so it will kinda be funny fail and ace it. Then you can be the exact middle or worst. You can still show off though just not when its graded."

"Then that leaves us with the worst on our team."

"Okay I am just going to leave then bye."

"Wait. Lee are you going in the academy next year?"

"Yes, or at least I hope so."

"Good. Then you can take the spot of being the worst in the class then we will all be on a team."

"If were going to catch him up to us it will take a month or two."

"Lets start now then. Lee what jutsu do you know?"

"Umm I can't use ninjutsu or genjutsu"

"That's not good. Only taijutsu then I guess?"

"Yeah."

"You want to learn my Goken style or his Kage style?"

"I think Goken sounds better."

"Okay Tenten teach your taijutsu style if he isn't better then you in a two months he should think about a new career."

"That's a little harsh Naruto. I started learning it a year ago."

"If he is going to put everything into taijutsu he can't be just a little better in it to keep up with everyone."

"Two months to catch up to a year? I will try!"

"Okay I'll be back in about an hour. Going to ask the hokage since he is the only one that answers my questions for some reason if there is a way to build up your amount of chakra. You said that shunshin took a lot of energy to maintain for awhile so I'm going to see if you can practice something else to make it easier. See ya in a bit."

"Hey guard person is the hokage in there?"

"Yeah but he didn't say anyone could come in so go away."

"That's alright he can come in."

"Very well honorable hokage." Looking back at Naruto he whispered so only Naruto would hear, "Go in brat."

"Naruto what is it that you want today?"

"Tenten said its hard to maintain shunshin for a long time because of how fast it drains chakra, so I wanted to know if there was a quick way to increase how much chakra you have."

"I'll give you a hint like always. Climb trees without using your hands or jumping branch to branch."

"Climb trees without using your hands? What are we supposed to do run up them?"

"That's all I'm saying you have to find the rest out yourself you are already ahead of many genin so I can't just give things like this to you"
"Oh well maybe Tenten can help." he muttered to himself.

After stopping to get some ramen to go at the Ichiraku Ramen Bar for the three of them Naruto went back to the training spot.

"Got some ramen you two."

"Ramen?"

"Yeah for someone reason he thinks it's great so everyone should like it."

"Hey, ramen is great so respect it."

"What is ramen?"

"Noodles with poor flavoring."

"I said respect it. Do I have to beat you in another spar again? So Lee you any better yet?"

"No he isn't. Above average speed for a normal citizen and his strength isn't that great either. He might get better though."

"Well if he wants to stay with us he is going to have to get better. Oh yeah Tenten I asked the old man if there was anyway to increase how much chakra you have."

"And?"

"He said that climbing trees without using your hands or jumping branch to branch was a way to do it."

"Ramen is good I agree with Naruto-san."

"Climbing trees?"

"San? Really not used to that."

"Hey! Naruto listen to me when I'm talking to you. How is climbing trees supposed to help?"

"I don't know I was hoping you could figure it out. My only guess would be running up it or something"
"Hey I have an idea."

"What is it then Lee?"

"Tenten-san said that shunshin is just pushing chakra into your muscles eyes and ears so since you can put it through your entire body maybe you can stick to things with it as well."

"Good idea Lee."

"Might work you go first since your youngest."

"Okay here we go focus chakra into feat. Run up the tree. Got it." Naruto made it a few steps up the tree before it exploded beneath his feet causing him to smash into the ground with splinters flying at him.

"You just killed the tree."

"That hurt. I always put to much chakra on the first try. Lee your next."

"I can not use chakra that is why I am not able to do any ninjutsu or genjutsu."

"Oh yeah forgot, sorry. First increase your speed maybe get some training weights to help with that. You're going to need to dodge all the jutsu you can and get in fast when you get in a fight so speed will be very important. While your getting weights us two will practice this new thing."

"Sounds good and when Lee gets back we can have a three way spar."

"I am back Naruto-san Tenten-san."

"Okay then to make this a bit more even Tenten you and Lee verse me."

"You think you'll win?"

"Well since Lee was already slow with weights he wont be able to keep up at all for awhile yet. You can't keep up to me since shunshin will outrun you."

"Hey that's not fair!"

"It's a fight though. Begin."

Chapter Two done I think that I made lots of errors though. Just felt to lazy to look it over. So if you want to point them out go ahead I'll probaly fix them when I'm not feeling to lazy.

Want me to include their spar in the next chapter or start with another timeskip so I can finally get on with the story?

In chapter one Naruto says Iron fist style it's supposed to be Strong First style I have no clue why I put Iron Fist. Also need to fix the things MingShun pointed out.