Authors Note: Wow, been a while since I've updated. Oh well. Time Skip! They are now twelve and taking the graduating exam! And a surprise fight is also in this chapter. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, I obviously wouldn't be writing fanfiction on this site, would I?

"Hurry up Sasuke! We're going to be late!" Naruto shouted at his adopted brother.

"Oh, shut up Naruto. You're the one who didn't get up until five minutes ago." Sasuke said with obvious sarcasm.

"Teme!"

"Dobe." Naruto was shaking in frustration by this point.

"Whatever! I'm going! Cya!" With that he took of for the academy. Sasuke sighed before following him. It took them just over three minutes to get to the school, and when they did, all the rest of the kids were already in their seats and Iruka was standing at the front of the class. When he turned to face them, they had to gulp in fear. His expression was murderous.

"H-hey Iruka-sensei! Sorry we're late!" Naruto stuttered out nervously. Sasuke just went to his seat while shaking his head in obvious annoyance. Naruto could be so annoying sometimes. Oh well, not much he could do about it anyways. At least he was serious in fights.

"Come on Naruto. Stop antagonizing Iruka-sensei." Sasuke said. Naruto just sighed before going over and sitting beside his brother. Iruka for his part continued to look annoyed but got back to the class.

"As I was saying before we were interupted." Iruka shot a glare at Naruto and Sasuke at this. Naruto just snickered quietly while Sasuke sighed. "The graduation exam will consist of the henge, bunshin, and kawarimi. If you cannot perform one of these jutsu, you will fail. When your name is called, come into the room in the back." Iruka went into the room and soon the first persons name was called. He came back out with a headband. Soon Sasuke was called, and he came back out wearing a headband.

"Well, that was easy." Sasuke said.

"Hah! You probably came close to failing!" Naruto shouted. Sasuke just sighed and shook his head before walking away. There was no point arguing with Naruto when he was like this.

Naruto didn't have to wait long before his name was called. "Naruto Uchiha!" Naruto got up and walked into the room. At the desk were Iruka and Mizuki with clipboards.

"Alright Naruto, perform the kawarimi first please." Iruka said while pointing at a chair to the side of the room. Naruto performed a quick kawarimi and Iruka nodded at him. "Good job Naruto. Henge now." Naruto just henged into the Sandaime. Iruka looked at the henge and nodded. Naruto dispelled the henge and grinned. "Last is the bunshin." Naruto performed a quick kage bunshin and three perfect clones popped up next to him. Iruka's eyes popped open before he visibly calmed himself. A genin who could do kage bunshin. Who would have thought. "Alright Naruto. You pass! Good job! Your now a proud ninja of Konohagakure!" Iruka said with a grin on his face. Naruto smiled happily at Iruka and grabbed a headband with a black cloth. He quickly tied it around his head and gave one last smile at Iruka before running out of the examination room to show all his friends.

It was now just after lunch and Naruto was sitting with Sasuke and all their friends on top of the roof. Their friends hadn't changed much over the years. They had learned some of their clans techniques but other than that they were exactly the same as when they first met them.

Naruto and Sasuke still trained every day after school with their brother, but now Naruto was focusing more on learning and mastering all his clans jutsu. So far he had gotten about halfway through the yoton scroll, a quarter of the way through the doton, and halfway through the katon scroll. He could perform lower level genjutsu, although the higher level ones were still beyond him. His taijutsu was now up to the standards of a rookie jonin, although he didn't have near the experience needed to actually be a jonin. He had also picked up a katana a year ago, although he wasn't great at using it yet.

Sasuke had learned most of the Uchiha clans fire jutsu and his sharingan was at two tomoes in each eye. His taijutsu was overall at a level where he could go all out with Itachi for roughly a minute. Only if he had his sharingan activated though. He was also getting better at learning how to cast genjutsu using just his sharingan, although he wasn't at the level Itachi was at yet. He had also been training with a couple of wakizashis. He was proficient at wielding them, but he would need improvement if he was going to use it in battle.

Overall, they had both achieved the standards Fugaku had set out for them. They were both high chuunin in overall level. They also had a secret weapon though. It came with Naruto using his seals research to give them an edge in battle. Along with improving his chakra control enough to allow him to perform genjutsu. He had come up with the idea two years ago, but had only gotten it working half a year ago.

Flashback:

"Hey Sasuke! Come over here!" Naruto shouted as he ran down the hallway of the Uchiha compound. Sasuke just sighed before going back to reading the scroll on fire jutsu he had in his hands. Seconds later Naruto burst into his room carrying a medium sized scroll. Sasuke set the scroll he was reading back onto his dresser and faced Naruto who was unrolling the scroll.

"What is it Naruto?" Sasuke asked. Naruto just ignored him and focused on opening the scroll. Sasuke started getting annoyed but waited patiently for Naruto to finish whatever he was doing. Finally Naruto finished opening the scroll that now that Sasuke was paying attention, had a bloodseal on it. Curious now, Sasuke waited for Naruto to unroll it. Naruto looked up and grinned before unrolling ti to reveal a rather complex seal array.

"Remember that idea I told you I had for improving my chakra control?" Sasuke nodded. "Well this is it! It's a seal designed to suction off half a persons chakra and store it until the seal detects a need for it and forces it back into the persons body!" Sasuke's eyes widened at this. The implications this presented. "The best part is, that as the persons reserves grow, the seal continues to only suck half of the chakra away, storing it away! There is infinite storage of chakra!" Sasuke's mind blanked out for a moment until the meaning of this finally hit him.

"You mean..."

"Yeah! All that chakra is continuously stored so that as your reserves recover from the lost chakra, the seal is absorbing all the chakra that is being recovered. It has a failsafe, so that if the persons chakra goes under a certain level, the seal releases enough chakra to refill the persons reserves up to halfway! And the forced gaining of chakra forces the reserves to grow! Chakra control skyrockets, and chakra reserves are growing! Its genius!" Sasuke just shook his head in wonder. His adopted brother may act like it sometimes, but he was definitely not stupid.

"How did you come up with this?" Sasuke asked. Naruto grinned before explaining.

"You know how my chakra control is so bad that I can't cast genjutsu's? Well, I was trying to figure out a way to fix that without losing all my chakra. I started experimenting with storage seals and found that they could hold chakra as well as solid objects. I just added on a chakra converter for all five elements, a chakra regulator to regulate the chakra flow and cancel the seals effect if the persons chakra gets too low, and a chakra detector to make sure that only half the persons chakra was drained and to detect the persons chakra levels." Naruto grinned in triumph.

"Why did you need the chakra converter for all five elements?" Sasuke asked. Naruto's face grew serious at this.

"Well, everyones chakra is naturally attuned to the elements right? Well, what would happen if the persons fire chakra was somehow converted to lightning chakra and entered the persons body from an outside force?" Naruto asked with a grim look on his face. Sasuke gulped imagining the possibilities. "If someone somehow discovers that weakness, it would be a simple task to somehow insert their chakra into the seal and into your body. The converter would convert all that chakra into one of your natural elements and insert it into your body."

"How would they do that then?" Sasuke asked.

"Simple. Channel chakra through the seal where it is on your body. The Hyuuga in particular could do this with particular ease." Naruto grinned again though. "On the upside, with this seal, the Jyuuken is pretty much useless against us now. If the detector seal detects a blockage in the chakra flow in our body, it automatically sends chakra through the seal to the body part and opens up the blockage, making the Hyuugas Jyuuken useless. That's the theory anyways. I haven't tested it yet though." Sasuke grinned as well at this.

"So when can I get one?" He asked.

End Flashback

Ever since then, the two of them had had the seal on them. Naruto's chakra control had skyrocketed while Sasuke was able to use all of the higher level jutsu's much more often than before. No one else knew about the seal except their friends, their family, and the Hokage who had scolded them for not testing it first. He had later admitted it would make a great second defense for shinobi though. With that in mind, he had said that as long as the seal worked as planned, when they turned chuunin, Naruto would be allowed to market the seal for their shinobi. If there was one malfunction though, the seal would be removed and Naruto would have to go back to the drawing board again. Naruto did not want that to happen. Luckily there had been no malfunction in the seal, so they were allowed to keep it on.

Naruto and Sasuke finished their meal, and said goodbye to their friends and heading to the training ground they were to meet Itachi for training. When they finally got there Itachi was already leaning against a tree. Sensing them there, he turned around and smiled at them.

"Well, this is the last day I'm going to be training you. From now on you have to find you own path. You both are at a level where you can survive on your own, so make me proud. This will be our last spar as students and teacher." He said this last part with a slight smile. Naruto and Sasuke took up their stances for their taijutsu style while Itachi did the same. They stayed that way for a few seconds before Sasuke and Itachi disappeared and met in the center of the field and started exchanging blows. Itachi finally got the upper hand when Sasuke left himself open after he overextended on a punch and kicked his feet out from under him. Sasuke fell directly on his back and rolled out from Itachi's foot that was descending on him. Naruto seeing Sasuke needed help, ran through handseals and breathed out a giant ball of fire at Itachi. "Katon: Grand Fireball Jutsu!" Itachi saw the fireball heading his way, and dodged to the side, giving Sasuke a chance to ready himself again.

This time Sasuke ran through handseals before saying "Katon: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" and breathing out multiple smaller balls of fire forcing Itachi to dodge into the air. Naruto seeing this, took out three kunai and threw them at Itachi. Itachi, seeing the kunai heading towards him, did a quick kawarimi just as the kunai were about to hit him. Naruto and Sasuke, seeing the last attack failed decided to take it up a notch. Naruto ran through handseals before shouting "Yoton: Lava River Jutsu!" and turning the ground below them into lava that flowed into the trees carrying them and setting trees ablaze. Itachi knew what they were trying to do and did a quick jutsu, forcing water up out of the ground around the lava, cooling it into rock. Naruto frowned at this and jumped off it with Sasuke not far behind. They quickly ran through more handseals before spitting out two giant balls of flame at the spot they felt the chakra flare from Itachi's jutsu. Itachi had already left that grove of trees and was now behind them. He quickly ran through handseals before casting a subtle genjutsu that made them think his slightly singed body was lying on the scorched ground.

Sasuke suspecting something was wrong, activated his sharingan and the body faded away.

"Naruto! It's a genjutsu!" Sasuke whispered. Itachi heard it though and activated his own sharingan and charged out from behind the two. The only hint they got was the sound of a leaf being crunched before they jumped out of the way and separated. Itachi went after Naruto this time, throwing a barrage of punches that Naruto barely managed to block before throwing a kick that Itachi grabbed before throwing him to the ground. Sasuke seeing this, charged Itachi from the back and tried to punch him in the back of the head. Itachi just sighed before moving his head so the punch just missed and jabbed his elbow back into Sasuke's stomach. Sasuke keeled over and collapsed onto the ground on his back.

"You guys are getting better, but your still not going to be beating me anytime soon." Itachi said with a smirk. Naruto and Sasuke just sighed before getting up as well.

"How did you know I was going to punch you?" Sasuke asked.

"I heard you coming, and I knew the way you fought, so I just anticipated what you were going to do and countered it." Sasuke sighed in dismay at this. Was he really that predictable? "Let's go home now. You guys are getting placed in teams tommorow after all." Naruto and Sasuke looked at eachother and then followed Itachi.

Authors Note: That's it! Hope you enjoyed it! On a sidenote, after next chapter I'm closing the poll for Naruto's summon. Looks like Wolves are winning for now. At this point, the next chapter for both my other stories should be out sometime next week. Thats all for now. Read and review!