an:/Have I told you guys, I love you? well now you know. Thanks guy for liking my story! So much motivation to write these chapters for you! At the moment, since I have no social life, let's just say I have a lot of time to spend on writing these stories. Sadly, this weekend, I'm not sure I can because I have a math test on Monday (curse high school). Anyways, thanks again for all the reviews and follows. I hope you continue following this story!

(TA TA TA TIMESKIP: Age 12 (4 year time skip))
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"This mask is stuffy as hell"

"Deal with it, gaki"

"You can't talk, you're not even wearing one!"

"Didn't you say you looked cool? What are you, bipolar?"

"Shut it. That was when I didn't have to wear it for a straight 10 HOURS!"

"Well hold onto it a bit longer, 15 minutes till Konoha"

"Finally..."

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"Names, Identific- Jiraiya-sama!"

"Yeah, yeah, signing in. Get the paperwork done for me, wouldja, Kotetsu?"

"S-sir, of course"

"Cool. Me and my buddy of here are gonna go to the Hokage. See ya"

The two figures walked down the main road of konoha, receiving stares from the villagers, whispers about the sannin and the smaller kid next to him. The two ignored them and quickly shunshined to the Tower. They entered the Hokage's office and was greeted by Minato.

"Well hello, Minato"

"Sensei! Naruto!"

Naruto ripped off his mask and ran over to his dad, launching himself in the air and latching onto his dad in a bear hug.

"I missed you, Tou-san!"

"Me, too! Kaa-san, too"

Minato brought naruto at an arms length and looked up and down at his son.

"You've grown haven't you, Naruto!"

Naruto gave his signature grin. The three talked about what happened in Konoha in the past four years and politics.

"So Naruto, I'm interested in what you've done over this trip, from the reports, it seems you've done more than training..."

Jiraiya and Naruto scratched the back of their heads awkwardly.

"It says in some reports of some 'sightings of a yellow flash' in the civil wars of Kiri, 'Daimyo's relatives saved by a mysterious blond boy', '300 A to B class bounties collected by a blonde haired boy' along with more. You've been quite busy haven't you, Naruto?"

"You've seem to have done your homework well, Minato"

Minato turned to Jiraiya who had a straight face on.

"It's true. Naruto has done all these while on our way. He has improved drastically. You wouldn't believe the level he is at now. Last time we checked the bingo book, while the information doesn't link him directly to Konoha ninja, he has a 'proceed with extreme caution' order and is known for affiliation with Konoha. Talk about a feat at such a young age."

"You have any idea how much paperwork I was in charge of thanks to your participation in the Kiri wars? Treaties. And a crap ton of them."

"Sorry, Tou-san, I just couldn't leave them!"

"Well, whatever's done, it's done. What I want to know is, how much did you improve? Considering you're still a genin, you're up for personal promotion for Jounin, if you're ready that is."

"Of course, dattebayo!"

"Tomorrow, Training grounds 72, 7:00 sharp, don't be late"

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"MY LITTLE BABY~!"

"K-Kaa-san, y-you're choking me!"

Kushina let go of Naruto from her death grip and started to tear up.

"I just missed my little Naru so much. You've grown, too. Oh look at you"

"Thanks, Kaa-san"

"That reminds me! I have 4 years of birthday gifts to give you!"

"wha-"

"Come along~"

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"WAKE THE HELL UP, NARUTO! Someone whack this child with a pan, please!"

Naruto opened his eyes. He was in his room again, his mom was calling him again. After being on the road for so long, these small things tend to be the first to be missed. Naruto took a deep breath in and looked at the clock. 6:45. Haa. it's too early, it's not even 7:00- HOLY CRAP, THE JONIN TEST!

"WAKE UP, YOU LITTLE TWERP!"

"I'm up!"

Naruto ran to the bathroom and started getting ready at lightning speed. He darted to the kitchen, grabbed the toast Kushina was about to bite into, then flashed away.

"GET BACK HERE, NARUTO!"

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"I see you've made it, Naruto"

"Thanks for waking me up, Tou-san"

Naruto glared at the blonde Hokage who returned a smile.

"Are you ready, Naruto?"

"You bet!"

At that moment, a silver haired jounin walked up to the two blondes.

"Oh? Naruto? Is that really you?"

"Kakashi-sensei!"

Kakashi stared wide eyed at Naruto. He really grew. The young boy now had hair identical to Minato, same childish baby blue eyes. The boy had black anbu pants and wore a grey hoodie with fishnet underneath. There was a ninjato strapped to Naruto's back with the sword holder forming an x on his chest. Naruto smiled at Kakashi.

"You know why Kakashi's here, right, Naruto? He's gonna be your test proctor"

"EH, WHAT!"

"That's right, Naruto. I'll be testing you for your jonin rank."

Four more people entered the clearing. Three jounins and a medic. A few of the top jounins were gonna watch Naruto. Asuma, Kurenai, and Anko lined up next to a girl. She had purple hair and- Rei!

"Rei? Is that you?"

The girl looked up at Naruto and was surprised. She then smiled and ran up to Naruto hugging him.

"Oh my Kami. You're back!"

Minato coughed, interrupting the reunion and got down to business.

"Okay, kids. I brought three other jounin here for confirmation. We will have Kakashi as test proctor. We are going to split this up into the test of the three main categories Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, and from what I heard from Jiraiya, we'll have to test Fuuinjutsu as well, so make that four."

"Seriously? Naruto? Fuuinjutsu?"

"Correct, Kakashi"

"You're making my job real hard, Naruto. I can't really compete with that..."

"Don't worry Kakashi-sensei, it's just a jounin test?"

"You make it sound like it's easy, Naruto"

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Kaaton-Aki Kitsune odori no Reimei!

Naruto breathed out fire which took form of a large fox. The fox began to jump around, leaving the sound of bells at each leap. On the 15th jump, right in front of Kakashi, the fox dissipated.

"Naruto, that was anticlimactic. And here I thought the fox was gonna destroy me-"

The ground shook, interrupting Kakashi's taunts. In a split second, Kakashi jumped back to reveal 15 columns of fire shooting out of the ground, one of which was where Kakashi stood before. The columns surrounded Kakashi as he tried to find his way out.

Fuuton- Bofu shinden shugo!

Wind blew towards the fire columns and Kakashi quickly kawarimi before the columns blew up and decimated the field. As Kakashi touched the floor, another call of jutsu was heard.

Fuuton-Rasengan!

Everyone went wide eyed, including Minato. Did Naruto just add a element to Minato's infamous rasengan? The very goal Minato had been working on for years?

Kakashi was quickly launched away as the wind rasengan was driven into the ground, releasing a powerful shock wave. Kakashi was being cornered by the 12 year old which was no easy feat. Kakashi took off his headband and revealed his sharingan. The boy yelled again.

Raiton- Kaminari Suzume!

Douton- Doryuuheki!

Kakashi slammed his hands onto the ground bringing up a huge wall to protect himself from the flying lighting projectiles. Then he heard a whisper next to him.

Hiraishin no jutsu

Kakashi went wide eyed as Naruto appeared next to him ready to strike him with a normal rasengan.

Raikiri!

Kakashi countered the rasengan with his raikiri and the two ninjas were blown away from the blast. Naruto hit a rock and was knocked out. Kakashi landed on his feet but quickly fell to his knees. Panting heavily, he looked at his hands and saw his sleeve and glove shredded up. Rei quickly went to heal Kakashi by Minato's request. The jounin and hokage met back at the center of the field. Naruto barely woke up, now being healed by Rei. Asuma broke the silence.

"Well that was one heck of a fight. How are we going to continue if the boy's blown to pieces and the proctor to chunks?"

" Kakashi is out for now. Ninjutsu is done. We'll give continue the test. The next test is Genjutsu. Kurenai!"

"Hai, Hokage-sama"

Naruto lifted himself off the ground and stood in front of Kurenai, the rest of the group standing next to him.

"Okay, Naruto-kun, I'll start off with genjutsu starting with d-rank and progress to a-rank"

There was a silence as Kurenai went through seals, putting Naruto under genjutsu only to have them break right after. As the jutsu progressed to b-rank, Naruto started to take his time, but still delivered the same results. On the last a-rank Kurenai casted, Naruto dispelled the genjutsu but fell to his knees. Prodigy or not, Naruto was never good at Genjutsu, he was just lucky this time.

"Very good, Naruto-kun. Now we need you to display some of your genjutsu..."

"Uh, like which ones?"

"I guess, for time restraints why don't you show your most powerful one up to date"

"I'm not really a genjutsu kinda guy, the highest I've got is b-rank or a low a-rank."

"Its fine really, see Asuma over there can only do high c-rank"

"hey!"

"Uh-okay then, here I go"

Naruto made handseals and then stopped. Kurenai was confused.

"Was something suppose to happen?"

"Uh, I think so..."

At that moment, Asuma let out a blood curdling scream as something started to morph into something. He got onto all fours and growled. Asuma had taken form of a gigantic fox. He roared at Kurenai. She looked around to see Naruto, Minato, and the other jounins were screaming in pain while morphing...Kurenai started to tremble.

"N-Naruto-kun, is this suppose to happen?"

Something caught the corner of her eye and saw masses of foxes exit the forest and into the clearing, all with glowing red eyes, coming towards her, baring their fangs.

Jigoku no akumu: Kitsune-ou no Koushin

And with that she was snapped out of the genjutsu, Naruto by her side, pumping in chakra.

"Are you okay, Kurenai? I thought you would be able to get out of that one..."

"W-what was that? I thought you failed the technique and then suddenly everything went haywire. It was too real."

"I guess that ends the genjutsu. Asuma, I think you should do the taijutsu, incorporate some weapons, if you want."

"Hai, Hokage-sama. Well, you heard your old man, Let go"

Naruto was barely able to get up before Asuma charged in with two knuckle blades.

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Naruto was on his back, huffing as Asuma stood over him with his blades pointed at Naruto.

"And test is over. I'm impressed, Naruto. You managed to stay fighting with taijutsu for the past hour. Most of your mistakes were that of an amateur, fixed by missions. Your genjutsu is pretty good. Your ninjutsu is extraordinary. now Fuuinjutsu."

Minato pulled out sealing paper and chakra ink.

"Make something, Naruto."

Naruto grabbed the paper and ink. He sat down cross legged on the floor as he pricked his hand with a kunai and let the blood drip into the ink bottle. At this point, all the jounins were watching in curiosity. Only Minato knew fuuinjutsu as the fuuinjutsu master of Konoha. Naruto proceeded to lace the brush with chakra. He put the brush in the ink and started making byzantine designs with extreme delicacy. When Naruto was done, He placed the brush down, blew a little on the paper, then held it out to Minato. Minato looked at the paper, the rest of the jounins peaked over his shoulder, then Minato lit the seal on fire.

"Minato-sensei? What was that for?"

Kakashi was intrigued. Did Naruto fail?

"Naruto, don't write that seal again for anyone, you hear?"

At this point the jounins were really interested. What did the seal do that made it so secretive?

"Hokage-sama, what was the seal for?"

"It's a seal, a seal that can reveal anything in a person's mind, regardless of barriers or protections, and then it erases the victim's memory after the information is extracted."

"What so bad about that, Hokage-sama? Isn't that good? Shouldn't we make more of these for the Interrogations unit?"

"No. It cuts the user's life short. It would do more harm than good. Regardless, the seal is s-ranked, Naruto you pass this section. I hereby state you as jounin rank."

Kurenai gasped a bit as Minato took out a scroll and summoned a flak jacket. He handed the jacket to Naruto who took it and put it on. Naruto beamed as he looked at the other now fellow jounin and hokage. Kakashi, now healed better, went up to congratulate Naruto. Asuma and Kurenai did the same and left. Minato flashed away, leaving Kakashi, Naruto and Rei.

"So how's Reno?"

Rei's face was brightened.

"I'll take you to him! He'll be delighted to see you!"

Rei grabbed Naruto's hand and dragged him off back to the village. Kakashi sighed and followed his two students.

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Naruto started to feel hesitant as he reached the door of Mubira Renosuke. His heart panged at the thought of the name. The whole memory of seeing his friend during the fight of Hidan replayed itself involuntarily. Naruto mentally winced, which did not go unnoticed by Kakashi.

"You okay, Naruto?"

"Y-yeah, Kakashi-sensei. I'm just a bit worried Reno will be disappointed in me if he saw me."

Does he still hate me?

"He's fine, Naruto. He missed you."

Naruto gulped as Rei popped her head out the door.

"He's ready for visitors!"

Naruto and Kakashi made it through the apartment and entered the living room. Naruto saw a 16 year old teen in a wheelchair, still sporting some neon green, but toned down in his civilian clothes. The teen gave a familiar shiteating grin as he saw Naruto.

"Naru-shit! It's been a while, hasn't it"

Naruto almost started crying as he launched himself at Reno and gave him a hug.

"I'm so sorry, Reno! I'm so sorry!"

"What are you sorry for?"

Naruto was hugging his now, by the looks of it, older brother figure. Reno patted Naruto on the back and noticed Naruto's flak jacket.

"Oh? Naruto, have you been promoted recently?"

Rei clapped her hands in excitement and eagerly responded.

"Naruto's been promoted to jounin today! Isn't that just great, Reno-kun?"

"Oh, really! So fast! As expected of the Prodigy of Konoha!"

Reno fist pumped the air in a triumphant pose before returning his focus on Naruto who was laughing meekly.

"That's good, Naruto. I don't want my mini me to suck. You will become Hokage. For me, for the both of us."

Reno grinned at Naruto who went wide eyed and blushed. Reno then changed to evil and started laughing like a maniac.

"Then I'll become the advisor and bend you to my will! Then I will be the real Hokage in the shadows! The great, awesome, Mubira Renosuke!"

Naruto whacked Reno across the head, who was now cradling his head. Reno then started to challenge Naruto who bought the bait and started challenging him too. This got them into another bickering argument changing from being hokage to who could eat the most ramen. Kakashi and Rei sweatdropped. Team 7 was finally whole again.

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Next morning, Naruto arrived at the Hokage's office for a jounin meeting.

"Well hello, I have gathered all of you here to discuss a very important issue."

The whole room tensed. Then a Jounin in the back started to back away.

"N-no, don't tell me!"

"Correct! Genin teams!"

Jounin started to panic and the office became chaos, each jounin trying to make it out of the office. Minato quickly called Anbu to block off all exits as he grinned wickedly.

"There's no escape from your responsibility, Jounin"

By this, Minato was clearly referring to the jounin handbook (the book no one read) which stated that it was within the responsibility of jounin to become instructor on the biddings of the Hokage.
Minato was one of the fairer hokages and did the selection by random.

Acquiescently, the jounin lined up and Minato pulled out a box. The jounin all selected a paper but kept it folded. When all of the jounins had a paper, including Naruto, Minato told them to look. Naruto opened his to find a black dot on his. Kakashi, next to him, laughed out loud.

"Hey, look! The Rookie got one!"

Everyone laughed as Naruto punched Kakashi. Asuma, Kurenai, Naruto, and this other guy named Gai were selected to be the genin teachers. The rest of the Jounin were dismissed as they laughed at their unfortunate comrades.

"I'll start reading of the teams for each of you..."

"Asuma, Shikamaru, Ino, Chouji. Kurenai, Hinata, Shino, Kiba. Gai, Neji, Tenten, Lee. Naruto, Konohamaru, Sasuke, Sakura. Pick up your teams tomorrow and start your test. By the way, Naruto, I advise you to wear a mask, your team may not take it lightly that they are taught by someone the same age..."

Naruto scoffed and continued to analyze his group. Konohamaru. The Great Third's grandson. It was said that he was really bad at everything in academy. But Naruto didn't judge. Sasuke. The said Uchiha prodigy. Ha, what a joke. Prodigy? That's because the stupid Uchiha trained their children into a spartan life. Itachi is a better prodigy. The true prodigy. He remembered Sasuke in academy, his first day. The stupid arrogant jerk. Sakura. Sakura. Where had he heard this name before? Guessing since it wasn't part of the clans, she was from a civilian family. Ah! The girl from strategy class! The pink haired girl! Excellent, an extremely intelligent person on his team like he wanted. Last thing he wanted was another Reno to deal with. He chuckled a bit at the memories. It still hurt a bit, but he was healing.

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"WAKE THE HELL UP BEFORE I DRAG YOU BY THE TOENAIL AND DROP YOU INTO A POOL OF PIRANHAS! NARU-"

"I'M UP!"

Naruto shot out of the bed and looked at the clock. 8:00

"SHIT, I'M SO LATE"

Naruto quickly got ready. Instead of his usual outfit, he went for the traditional jounin uniform. Navy blue longsleeves and pants with the uzumaki swirls on them, the flak jacket, the gloves. He quickly grabbed his mask which looked vaguely like an anbu mask. It had whiskers like Naruto's face. It was a fox growling. Perfect for Naruto. Naruto looked at himself in the mirror. Satisfied, he quickly shunshined to the academy.

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He entered the classroom and quickly dodged the eraser posed a the top of the door.

"He dodged it? No fun"

"If he couldn't dodge it, he wouldn't be jounin. Grow up, loser"

"Shut it, you!"

"Boys! Please!"

Naruto sweatdropped as he saw his team. Sasuke was brooding in the back of the classroom. He wore a dark navy blue shirt with a huge collar and white pants. The back of his shirt displayed the Uchiha clan sign, big and flashy in all its glory. Konohamaru was in the front picking his teeth with a kunai, looking fidgety. Another Reno. Konohamaru had gravity defying hair like kakashi. He wore a 7 foot long blue scarf that cascaded to the floor and he wore a grey shirt on top and dark blue pants. At least it wasn't neon. Sakura was next to Konohamaru, awkwardly trying to stop them from fighting. She still had her red ribbon in her hair which was now significantly longer. Her hitai ate was tied around her neck. She wore a pink vest, a black skirt with dark green capri pants underneath. Naruto felt like he had met a mirror of his old team. Great.

"My first impression of you guys, hmm, you all suck. Meet me on the roof"

With that, Naruto shunshined to the roof of the school, leaving the genin in a bit of shock.

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an:/reason why Naruto wore a mask in the beginning, no reason in particular. I just thought it would be cool. Naruto is Jounin now! Yay! Reno is back! We will have some old team 7 moments but now we are onto the new team 7, where the narusaku is happening! Aw yiss. Sorry for the long update, I couldn't just leave you with just the jounin test (which was hard to make interesting) Naruto isn't orange anymore! Oh noes! Oh well, tough luck. See ya next update!
jutsu translation in order of appearance:
fire style-dawn of the autumn fox dance
wind style-windstorm temple guardians
lighting style-lightning sparrow
earth style-earth style wall
hell's nightmare: parade of the fox king

byee~