an:/ another slow update? You got it! Sorry, but life is getting a bit more hectic. Teachers are bustling about, giving enough homework to fill up a pool. I swear, everytime I get home, I'll have a stack of homework. It's actually a miracle I was able to update so fast for the previous chapters. Let's hope that the miracle magic doesn't run out just yet. Alright.
Review responses?

saltine cracker-Naruto and Rei hook up? Sorry but I can't let Naruto do that, and I guess you'll find out as to why later. It's gonna be strictly a progressive Narusaku.

The Keeper of Worlds - Holy crap, that genjutsu is definitely a freaking Kinjutsu, right next to Edo tensei XD Freaky stuff.

foggraven- Yup, but later, when lee get's more acquainted with Naruto.

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Crack.

Naruto flexed his back as he arched over the back of the Ichiraku bar stool. He turned to Reno and Kakashi on his right.

"Gee, fighting the stupid swordsman got me up in knots. He swings pretty fast even with the damn monumental sword"

"Maa, he is taller and more buff than you, Naru-shit, or should I say, chibi-Naru"

Naruto flashed a glare at Reno who laughed it off and Kakashi chuckled at the side. Teuchi brought over their orders, handing Reno and Naruto five bowls each. Naruto and Reno dug in while Kakashi speedily and silently finished his bowl. Naruto and Reno's inhaling of ramen was halted when they heard Kakashi put down his chopsticks.

"How the hell does he do that? It's like we'll never see what's under that damn mask. Even I couldn't hold out my mask for that long"

"Maa, Naruto, this face mask doesn't crack under anything since it's cloth. Your mask wasn't standard ANBU either so it's a lot more fragile. Besides, you're a thousand years too early to beat me at hiding identities."

"Che- Reno was right, you are a baka, Kakashi."

"Whoa! Naru-shit agrees with me? It must be the apocalypse...again!"

Naruto promptly whacked Reno across the head. Kakashi turned to Naruto again.

"So Naruto, I am aware that you've completed your first c rank. As great as that is, what are you going to do about the chuunin exams?"

Naruto froze in place, ramen hanging from his mouth. He paused a moment and ate the rest of his soup before turning back to Kakashi.

"I'm not too sure my genin are ready. I personally have never taken the test and from what I've heard, they are a pain in the neck."

"Ha, tell me about it, Naruto. Your dad has required all the Jounin to 'help' with the preparation process. Lately, I've been swamped with paperwork for this damn test."

"Not to mention, when you were gone, Rei-chan took the test. She kept complaining how it was really difficult. They even had a written test! I would've failed that for sure!"

Naruto and Kakashi chuckled a bit and Reno joined in. But, Kakashi stopped first and changed to a more serious demeanor.

"Unfortunately, I'm not too sure your opinions on the team's skill will matter. Uchiha Fugaku will do everything in his power to get his son to rise in ranks. He wants to nurture the next, you know, Itachi. And when I say everything in his power, I mean as clan head, ninja council member, Jounin, and war veteran. He could probably bribe his teammate's family to take the test with his son to fulfill the three participant requirement."

"As true as that is, I'm one hundred percent sure that the Sarutobi accepts no bribes. Their pride and will of the fire runs too strong to stoop so low. As for the Harunos. They don't have much reputation considering they are only a civilian family, but I assure you, Sakura's intelligence will help her realize what is going on. I'll ask my team anyways. I have lots of power too. I'm practically the heir of two prominent clans, the Hokage's son, a jounin, a war veteran, and a host"

Kakashi flinched at Naruto's last title. Reno narrowed his eyes.

"What do you mean you're a host, Naruto?"

"I'm-"

"-That's classified information, Naruto."

Reno looked even more suspicious and confused. Naruto had classified information and from Kakashi's reaction, it's pretty serious.

"-Fine. I won't ask but, Naruto, if it's really that serious to be classified information, maybe you shouldn't flaunt it out in a public place."

Naruto looked back at his empty bowl and sighed. He gave a dry chuckle.

"Well well well, the deadlast finally grew a brain, at last"

"Hey shut it, Naru-shit!"

"Make me, Loser!"

"I may not have both arms but I've been studying one handed seals, and I can still bend chakra!"

"Come at me with your best shot, loser!"

The bickering continued as Kakashi sweatdropped and pulled out his orange book. The bickering became a full out fight as Naruto grabbed Reno and Kakashi and flashed to a training ground to go all out. Kakashi sweatdropped for the umpteenth time as he watched the two fight.

Same as ever.

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"Na, Sakura-chan. Do you think Sensei-yaro will ever come on time?"

"Hn, Shut up, Loser."

"I wasn't talking to you, asshole!"

"guys, please calm down. I think sensei will be here any minute. Usually he's only-"

"-15 minutes late and on the dot. I'm here guys."

"ABOUT DAMN TIME NARU-YARO!"

Naruto walked over and whacked Konohamaru to the ground.

"Watch who you're talking to, Saru. Regardless, there is an actual reason as to why I am late. We had a jounin meeting. I have these forms to give out to you."

Naruto handed out papers to his three genin. Konohamaru looked up.

"Chuunin exams?"

"Correct, Konohamaru. I hope you make the right decisions pertaining to the test. Though I have not personally taken the test, from what I heard, it is really dangerous. So I warn you, if you do not feel prepared for this, do not rush to it. I can train you for another year before the next chuunin exams. Please think this through."

"Hn. I don't need to think it through, you know my answer. Where and when."

"You've got seven months to prepare. During that time, I will be making training doubled. I assure you, part of the test is teamwork."

Naruto gave Sasuke a pointed look only to be responded with a huff. Sasuke looked away from his sensei's stare.

"On the note of training, I think it's about time each of you choose a specialty and start training it. Also, in the next seven months, I may not be able to be there to train you. I'll be put on missions that only involve jounins. You three won't be going on any difficult missions anytime soon."

"What? Back to d ranks?"

"Sorry, Konohamaru, but I can't have anymore dangerous situations before the chuunin test. The test itself is pretty dangerous. Shinobi from other villages will be there. You will run into some friendlies and some...not so friendlies. But enough advice for now, I'll give you more on the day of the test itself."

"Alright, Naruto-sensei. So, what are we going to do today?"

"Finding elemental affinities and your next specialty"

"Elemental affinity?"

"I will explain after. First, take a sheet."

Naruto reached to his back pouch and pulled out a stack of blank card sized paper. He handed each genin a sheet. He held out one of his own.

"Alright. What are 'elemental affinities'? To sum it up, it's like a more complex molding of chakra. You're taking your normal chakra and converting it into something that resembles an element. In this case, there are five possible elements that you can get, Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, and Lighting. As genin, you should only have one. As jounin, we can have either two and three if we're seasoned jounins. Elemental affinities are the 'releases' you use for jutsu. For example, Sasuke's Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu. This is an example of a fire release."

"Wait, Naru-yaro. Can't anyone use that jutsu? Why would we need to know elemental affinities when we can use whatever jutsu we want, regardless of affinity?"

"While anyone can use this jutsu, someone with the elemental affinity of fire will have an even stronger jutsu than one that has a different affinity."

"So any jutsu that coincides with our affinity will be stronger?"

"Correct, Sakura. Not to mention some people have affinities that combine. This is a version of a Kekkei genkai. You know Haku? His kekkei genkai is the mix between water and wind. This creates ice."

"Hn, Naruto-sensei. I'm sure that there are lots of jounin that have water and wind affinities. How come they don't have the kekkei genkai?"

"Good question, Sasuke. The answer to that, in simpler terms, is that only Haku's body is compatible with mixing the two affinities. If you don't have the body that's compatible with the mix of affinities, you could well blow yourself up. If mixing was possible for anyone, everyone could have kekkei genkai and it wouldn't be as feared. Then again, Kekkei genkai aren't always a mix of affinities. As you can see, Sasuke's eyes are an example of Kekkei genkai called a doujutsu. A very powerful one at that"

Sasuke instinctively crossed his arms and puffed his chest out, blushing at the compliment.

"I, too, have a kekkei genkai that isn't based off of affinities or doujutsus."

"You do, Sensei?"

"It's not as well known since only two people in the world have it. Me and the Hokage."

"What is it, Sensei?"

"It the Hiraishin no jutsu"

"But, sensei, I thought that was a fuuinjutsu?"

"Yes, it does involve the seal, but that's only an amplifier to make teleportation easier. I don't necessarily need a seal-"

With that Naruto flashed several feet from them, paused, then flashed back in front of them.

"-but it takes longer than usual. The reason why people can't copy the jutsu, even after looking into the seal, is because only Namikaze blood can teleport like this."

"That's unfair, ain't it, Naru-yaro?"

"Hey, why are you complaining to me? A lot of other people have special kekkei genkai, not just me."

"Yeah, but, teleportation is just badass! And have you seen how you and the Yondaime uses it in battle? Just pure awesomeness!"

"Uh, thanks? Anyways. Enough with the chit chat, we gotta find you're elemental affinities first, before we get to the fun! Alright, all you gotta do is pump chakra into the sheet."

Naruto held out his sheet and pumped chakra. His paper cut in half, one side sogging up while the other side burned up and crumbled to ashes.

"Whoa! Sensei, you have three!"

"I-I guess that's because I'm a jounin."

Truth be told, Naruto was surprised himself. Last time he checked, he only had wind and water. I guess all the training with Jiraiya got him a third affinity.

"Alright, you three, check yours."

Sakura's paper crumbled into dirt. Konohamaru's lit up in flames and crumbled to ashes (right after Konohamaru yelped and let go of the paper). Sasuke's lit up in flames as well but not before the paper crumpled slightly, signifying a lightning release developing.

"Great! I've practically taught you guys a jutsu that matches your affinities! Sasuke, we'll work on developing that second affinity of yours. It's expected that Sarutobi got a fire affinity. As for you Sakura, while I've got some earth jutsus, I can contact a friend that has an affinity like yours to help you. Alright, now that that's out of the way, go to the trees and collect a bunch of leaves and come back."

The three genin leapt to the trees to collect leaves. Once the genin were out of sight, Naruto formed a bunshin.

"You know what to do."

"On it, boss"

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The bunshin knocked on the door of the apartment several times. When the door opened, Reno limped out on crutches.

"Reno? What are you doing at Rei's?"

"U-uh N-Naruto?! A-ah, n-nothing."

Naruto's eyes narrowed but widened when Rei walked in the living room only in a shirt.

"Reno-kun, who is it- N-Naruto?"

"Well, now. Clearly, I've interrupted something, I should go."

While Reno can't walk that well, that apparently doesn't mean he is immobile, if you catch my drift. Naruto turned to leave.

"U-uh, it's fine Naruto, lemme get dressed."

Rei turned back into the halls, leaving a tomato red Reno and practically unfazed Naruto. Reading those orange books made Naruto used to these situations, in a sense.

"I see you finally got the girl, Reno."

"Shut it, Naru-shit. Don't make this any awkward than it already is."

"So when did it start? Are you two, like, 'together' together or just fuck buddies"

If looks could kill, Naruto would've died in about a thousand ways by now. Reno glared furiously at Naruto.

"Shut the hell up, Namikaze"

Naruto shrugged with a smirk. Rei rushed back out in her normal outfit.

"Alright, Naruto. Whadda need me for?"

"Well, I was hoping you could help my student with earth affinity. But, I mean, if you've got more important personal matters to attend to, I can always come back later, that is, unless you have more personal matters to attend to again."

Naruto chuckled again as he looked at both teammates in front of him, both so red, steam was coming out.

"N-no, that's fine. I-I can help. R-Reno, you can get back with your crutches right?"

"Y-yeah."

"A-alright, Naruto, lead the way."

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The genin all gathered piles of leaves and sat by them. Naruto went over the next procedure.

"Alright, what you want to do is pump your chakra into the leaf and try to make it do what your paper did. Note, this won't be as easy because the paper is a special chakra conductor, making it easier to pump chakra into. The leaf however, has it's own nature chakra in it, you will encounter resistance. Sakura, your leaf should crumble to dirt as well. Sasuke, yours could light in flames or crumple. Try to get a feel for making the leaves crumple instead of catching aflame. Konohamaru, your leaf should just ignite into flames. Let me give you an example. My affinity is wind, so I'll make it cut in half."

Naruto grabbed a leaf, placed it between his palms, and cut the leaf cleanly in half. After doing this so many times with Jiraiya, it was practically like a breeze.

"Because I have three, I have to be able to control which affinity I use. So, I can make sure that only one affinity appears on the leaf. Here I was able to suppress the other two affinities. I also isolate the other two."

Naruto took to more leaves and held them out in each of his hands. One quickly lit up in flames while the other got drenched in water. Naruto had never done this before so he inwardly let out a sigh as his gamble worked and the two affinities worked. It was really difficult to display two affinities at the same time. Naruto figured he'd have to train with the genin if he wanted better control over his new found fire affinity. He'll have to talk to his dad about it too.

"Alright, get going! If my guess is right, since you are all exceptional, this should take only a few months!"

"What? We don't have time! How long did it take you?"

"A week."

"WHAT? How did you do it?"

"Kage- actually it's a secret."

"Come on, Naru-yaro! Tell us! We don't have much time before the chuunin exams!"

Naruto's eyes narrowed. He could cut the time in half if he taught them a kage bunshin jutsu but they could over exert it and make more than one bunshin, exhausting themselves. He contemplated the consequences and decided the pros outweighed the cons.

"Alright. But here's the catch, I have more chakra than Kage. I can make a lot more clones than you all combined and not feel winded. But you three as genin, have really small reserves and so this for this bunshin, you can only make two. Promise me you will only make two because anymore can but a large strain on yourself. Note it's also an A-rank kinjutsu, which is why it's really dangerous and I'm reluctant to teach it."

The three genin paused. A kinjutsu? All three nodded carefully.

"Alright, watch carefully. These are the hand seals. If you get really good at it, you can changed the seal to only one, then to none."

Naruto flashed through the hand seals, letting the genin copy what he was doing. All four said in unison.

Kage Bunshin no jutsu!

Sakura got one bunshin while Konohamaru and Sasuke got two. Naruto produced one.

"Sensei-yaro! Didn't you say you could make more? How come we have more than you?"

"That's because I can control how many I make. Alright, originals stay here, clones, follow mine."

The mass of clones went to the woods, leaving the originals in place.

"Why did you do that, sensei?"

"you'll find out~"

With that, all three genin went wide eyed in shock and fear. They snapped their heads up and looked at their sensei.

"S-sensei!"

"Relax guys, it was genjutsu. When a clone is put under genjutsu, they usually dispel if they're not trained enough. Now anyone care to tell me what happened?"

"Hn. You told us you'd treat us to lunch if we got the clone exercise down. Then you summoned a katana and charged at us, right before you placed a genjutsu on us."

Sasuke placed his hand on his torso. It was ghost pains. Naruto smiled.

"Sasuke, what are you feeling right now?"

"Pain that isn't there. It was where you-"

"It's where I stabbed your bunshin. It's the experience of the bunshin. Care to explain why this is so important?"

Sakura paused for a second before realizing what it was.

"The experiences can help us train!"

"Correct, Sakura. How so?"

"The bunshin can do the same experience as us, the more people that work on the exercise, the higher chance of success. And if one bunshin find the trick to the exercise, it can disperse, giving you the memories."

"Correct again, Sakura. Good job. It's just as she says. You will be using bunshin to cut your training time short. One bunshin can cut it in half, two in thirds, three in fourths, so on and so forth. The reason I was able to get it in a few days, is because I could make a hundred without feeling winded. Are you all starting to feel a bit exhausted? You should. It's only natural since this is your first time. Since your bunshins are all gone, try summoning only one."

The genin all summoned one, though Konohamaru summoned two.

"Sorry Naru-yaro. I don't have enough control."

"That's fine, it seems you have rather large reserves yourself. I was kinda like you. You should see my normal bunshin, it puts my rank to shame."

The genin's head snapped up at that.

"What? What's wrong with your bunshin?"

"Well, since I have too much chakra to control and the normal bunshin require really small amounts of chakra. I would've never graduated had it not been for the kage bunshin."

"Naruto? What are you doing, teaching genin a kinjutsu?"

Naruto turned around to see Rei walking side by side with Naruto's clone.

"A-ah, just helping with training?"

Naruto scratched the back of his head meekly as Rei let off some killer intent. She went into motherly medic nin mode.

"You know they're not prodigies like you! Kage bunshin puts a lot of stress on the user. They could hurt themselves! Mentally exhaust themselves! Think about what you just did!"

"Uh, Rei-san? We've already got the jutsu down."

Rei looked up to see Sakura.

"Oh? You've got the kage bunshin down?"

"Well, Sakura-san, how's Naruto treating you? Is he teaching you well?"

Sakura blushed and looked away. Rei narrowed her eyes then looked at Naruto who looked confused. She realized what was going on and walked over to Naruto and whacked him across the head.

"Hell, What was that for?"

"You deserve it! Now, I'm going to take Sakura-san and help her!"

The boys watched as Rei took Sakura, more like dragged, to a different training ground.

"Alright then, now that's settled, let's get to training!"

Naruto cracked his knuckled and gave the genin a grin.

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OMAKE:

After training, Team 7 left to Ichiraku to eat dinner. Naruto left to file in some mission reports and chuunin preparations, but he still handed Team 7 some cash to buy themselves some dinner. Enjoy yourselves, bond as a team! He said as he walked away waving. Konohamaru narrowed his eyes. Today, Naruto thought a good training exercise for team bonding would be to tell your teammates your weakness. Like hell he would! Sakura was exposed to spiders and bugs. Konohamaru was trapped in a box with no room. When he said he was claustrophobic, he meant in crowds, but Naruto had now exposed a new weakness of extremely confined spaces. Next time he puts me in that hellish jutsu, I'll kill him! It was a freaking interrogation technique! What the hell was he doing, giving genin a high level interrogation technique?

What was even more infuriating was that Sasuke's weakness wasn't really much of a weakness. Sasuke just felt uncomfortable around fangirls. Naruto had brought along (grudgingly) His fangirls and Sasuke's fangirls and made them crowd around Sasuke. Sasuke got really shy and embarrassed. Konohamaru laughed his ass off until Naru-shit did that stupid interrogation jutsu on him!

All in all, this entire training's purpose was to scare the shit out of the genin. I bet he's even laughing right now!

Back at the Namikaze residence, Naruto stopped laughing with his dad as he sneezed.

Konohamaru looked at Sasuke and Sakura. Sasuke still looked a bit uncomfortable and Sakura was trying to reason with Sasuke. Konohamaru growled. He needed revenge.

"Hey guys, Do you think Naru-yaro has a weakness?"

"Hn. I wonder."

"Guys, I don't think-"

"Sasuke, let's find out if he has one! I bet he does!"

"Hn, bugs? Spiders?"

Sakura shook her head.

"He isn't scared of them. He squashed all of them and even brushed some off his shoulders like it was nothing. He's not scared of bugs or spiders."

"Snakes?"

Konohamaru shuddered.

"He trains with that Mitarashi Anko, the snake lady. She's insane. And the way she trains with snakes. Shudder. He's definitely not scared of snakes."

"Hn. Sakura, you were in a class with him. What do you think?"

Sakura put her hand on her chin and furrowed her brows.

"Do you think a fear can be a person?"

"..."

"…"

"N-"

"Guys! Quick, hide me!"

Team 7 whipped their heads around and saw their sensei huffing, hands on his knees.

"Sensei?"

"Somewhere! Hide me right now! Oh No! It's too late! If anyone asks, you haven't seen me!"

Naruto quickly jumped into a trashcan next to the group.

"Huh?"

A few moments later, a woman with red hair walked around the corner and walked up to them. Team 7 was slightly scared because she carried a cleaver in her hand.

"You guys are Naruto's team right? Have you seen him?"

Team 7 remembered their sensei's request and shook their heads vehemently. Kushina looked at the trashcan. She smirked. She pulled on the sweetest smile and with a sickly sweet voice she said.

"That's too bad, I'm looking for my son. If you've seen him, tell him if he doesn't come back home in the next 30 seconds, I will personally castrate him"

Unfortunately, Naruto couldn't suppress a sneeze, letting a small sound come out of the trashcan. Kushina's malicious intent peaked sending a shiver down the three genin's spines.

"Ku-kukukuku, Naruto-kun. Mi-tsu-ke-ta~!" (an:/ I found you)

Inside the trashcan, Naruto flinched and started panicking, but it was too late. Kushina raised a fist and smashed the trashcan to the floor, leaving a crater and an unidentifiable hunk of metal int its place. Naruto managed to flashed out just in time, but not far enough. Kushina quickly grabbed the scruff of Naruto's collar and dragged him away. Naruto flailed at the grip reaching for help from his students, all in vain.

"Silly boy, you didn't think you could hide your little icha icha series from your mother, did ja? Jiraiya will hear from me. All of you damn perverts, dattebane!"

Out somewhere in Kumo, a white haired sage sneezed.

The three genin were still shocked in place at the exchanged that just occurred in front of them. Their jounin sensei was panicking and then practically kidnapped! What the hell just happened!

Sasuke emptily broke the silence, eyes still wide open.

"I think that answers our question. Naruto-sensei is scared of his mom. A valid fear at that."

The two other genin nodded fervently, shaking in their places.

A valid fear indeed.

an:/ I decided to give you all an omake for fun. This chapter was rather short but since the dialogue is heavy with explanations, I figured it would suffice. Now we learn the elemental affinities of the genin, Rei and Reno are...together? Lol. You won't hear much from them since they aren't too important. Now, I made Hiraishin a kekkei genkai SO DON'T FLIP OUT and be all like "Its just a time-space ninjutsu! Not a kekkei genkai! I saw the wikia page" I geddit! But I wanted it so that only Namikaze can do the teleportation crap. Alright, tune in next time for more on training! Maybe some slight narusaku encounters next chapter? Maybe? Alright. See ya!