Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, I'd be looking for fanfics with no disclaimer to sue. But I don't so everyone is safe .

AN: Man this chapter took me longer than I wanted to. It's not a long chapter (not that I intend to make my chapters longer), but it got this part of it done and now I can get to the good stuff. I would like to thank you guys. This fic is getting a lot more fans that I thought it would. All fans stay tuned because I have some cool things planned. I have Sakura's skills planned out, half of Ino's, and one of Hinata's. They are going to be cool, trust me. Also my plan for the matches for the Chuunin exam when I get to it. I'm thinking of doing it randomly! You know, pull names out of a hat. But that's far away (not REALLY). We have a decent amount of cool real ninja missions before then.

Thanks to MissyNaye for helping by being my Beta!

ANx2: I don't know why, but I have to urge to say this every chapter I make. I have a different view of what a ninja, and ninja battles are, so please don't assume anything. Not all missions involve beating bad guys up.

DarkSyde24: Yes, the shuriken jutsu I made up. It has a few more stages before it gets to the final form Naruto uses it with. Yeah, I'm the type of person who doesn't understand why people do everything cannon, I might as well watch the anime. About Wave, thanks for the input, and I decided what to do!

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Chapter 5: Choice of Mind

Naruto was with Ino when he felt it. He was being called by one of his tri-kunai, the one he left with Hinata. He gave it to her to call him if she was in danger, so if he was being called he had no time to waste. It only took an instant for him to warp to where she was using Hiraishin No Jutsu.

When he get there he was right in front of her. She had her back to the tree with her head down, he could also here her crying softly. After another few seconds he noticed she only made it to the second spot and that this spot would only be safe for another minute. She must have given up and called him because she couldn't make it. 'She could have called a clone down, but I guess this is fine.'

"Hinata," he called. Her head popped up and looked at him, and then she started crying a little more than she was. 'I failed. I'm useless like I always was. I knew I couldn't do it. I can't do anything right.'

"Hinata!" he said a little louder. "Why are you crying? Did you get hurt… or is it because you can't continue? If it's the later stop crying. That's no reason for a kunoichi to cry. The traps in this area will go off in a few seconds so stay where you are." said Naruto.

'Stay here? What is he going to do?' though the girl. She was looking at the boy who now had his back towards her.

What Naruto didn't tell her was that all the traps were made to miss. Even if she didn't call him, or even just randomly walked around, she would never be hit. He expected her to be able to dodge traps as if they were nothing in the future.

He then held up his hand to signal the clones in the area to start triggering the traps. Once the first kunai started flying towards him, he jumped over them. When he was on his way up more kunai were coming at him from his left and right. He used two of his own shuriken to block the weapons. After that, he leaned back and started to fall back down. Only being half way through his flip, feet in the air, a kunai was coming from directly above him. Just as it was about to pierce the soul of his sandal, he expelled chakra from his foot to block the weapon.

Hinata was watching her sensei with her eyes wide. Here was this boy, the same age as her, doing things she believed she would never be able to do. She was not even aware, being so caught up in watching him, that she activated her Byakugan. To her it looked as if he was dancing, a choreographed performance that she should not be able to see. He was dodging and blocking the weapons with weapons of his own and sometimes with only chakra. She had no idea how long how long this was going to continue, as it has already been ten minutes since the start.

She also had no idea that during those ten minutes that a seed has been planted in her mind. Its name: Admiration. Who knows what this scene will grow into with time?

Two more minutes later and he was done. He then walked back in front of her. She was no longer crying. He also noticed that she had she was using her bloodline limit, well until he was close to her.

"Hinata, you don't have to worry about being able to complete this course. You pass the first section, which is good enough. Even if you didn't, it would be fine. You just graduated from the academy so you're not expected to be able to do a lot. That's why I'm here for help you with anything you can't do, anything you don't know, and anything you need to learn. Any problem you have, whether it's about a jutsu or your family, just come to talk to me. Even if I myself can't help you I know people who can. Some Jounins fail their teams because they don't work as a team. I think that's stupid, as it is our job as a sensei to teach what our students lack," said Naruto.

Hinata just nodded her head not knowing what else to say. She was quite happy she didn't get a teacher who would just deem her as trash and ignore her. She decided that moment she would do her best to become a great ninja, and to impress her sensei.

"Hinata, all three of your test is done now. Follow me and we'll meet up with the others so I can talk to you girls about a few things." After he said that he started walking to where the others would be.


With Sakura:

Sakura was looking at Kurenai and one of Naruto's clones with an annoyed look on her face. She believed she had every right to be annoyed since she thought she was exhausted from running for her life. She never had a test like this before. At the academy she did well in class, perfect scores on everything, but this was the first time she ever had this kind of 'test'.

Flashback:

Sakura had been running from the dogs for about fifteen minutes now. There were no trees, buildings or anything to hide from them with. After about five more minutes of running, she noticed she could no longer hear the barking or footsteps on the dogs. Then to her horror, she realized the only thing she could her were her own footsteps. She decided for the first time to look behind her and she didn't like what she saw, or rather what she did not see. "Hinata?"

'Where is she? She was right behind me. Did she run a different way? Or did….' "SHIT!" said Sakura as she thought of the most likely possibility. If she was right, the dogs caught her teammate.

She looked around to see if she could see them anywhere. No luck with that, she couldn't see anything but the ground. She took one step towards the direction she thought Hinata was in, but hesitated to take another. 'If I go back they will catch me too. If they caught her that long ago, she's probably dead. Where the hell are we? Why the hell are those dogs here? And why the HELL did they have to chase us,' she thought. At this point, tears were forming in her eyes. "We just became ninja and teammates and this happens already. Damn dogs." Now she was angry.

She then grabbed two kunai, increased her grip their handles, and took off to where her teammate was. Her trip only lasted a few seconds, because the wide area she was in suddenly turned into a forest.

The pink haired girl was confused when she saw a woman with long black hair and red eyes smiling at her. A clone of her sensei tapped her on the shoulder and they explained that it was a genjutsu. The clone was acting like Hinata the whole time.