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Chapter 6 – Testing…

Naruto woke up first and attempted to and succeeded at extracting himself from both girls, as nature was calling very loudly. He left the room, but didn't notice two shadows follow him to the bathroom. He stood relieving himself and turned when he was done, only to see both girls looking at him with his boxers pulled down. Naruto sighed, as he knew he was now in trouble and quickly pulled up his boxer and flushed the toilet. "So are you now happy women?" Naruto asked teasingly.

Haku moved over and kissed him solidly on the lips then backed off as Hinata followed suit. "Seeing you naked or not, it doesn't matter. We're happy to be with you, Naruto-kun," Haku exclaimed, as Hinata nodded agreement. "You may remain and join us in getting ready for today, as we have already seen you naked. It is only fair that we return the favor, and no, we will not be doing anything until the marriage if we can help it," Haku teased lovingly.

Naruto smiled, as he walked back into the bedroom and got out his clothes for the day, Haku and Hinata followed suit, as they grabbed three towels. They entered the bathroom and cleaned themselves. All three blushed profusely, as they attempted to hold back nose bleeds, Naruto had a harder time as he also couldn't conceal his erection.

The three left the left the bathrooms with their virginity intact, if only the physical portion. All three dressed in silence. Naruto put on his new black, orange, and white outfit. The shirt and pants were modeled after a tiger and its stripes. Hinata wore dark purple pants with a striped lavender and dark striped coat. Haku wore a blue and brown patterned battle kimono. All three wore black sandals.

Naruto smiled, as he placed breakfast on the table. "See, I told you I could find a good outfit that had orange on it and it should help me with camouflage," he exclaimed.

Hinata giggled, as Haku laughed. "Yes, Naruto-kun you did," Haku replied.

Naruto shot a concerned look at Haku, and asked, "I hope the wrapping aren't too tight and restrict your breathing or movement."

Haku smiled and kissed Naruto, as she sat down. "Thank you for your concern, Naruto-kun. I'm used to wearing them now, as I usually don't wear them at night. It does limit my stamina some, but it also helps to push me harder to increase it also. I also think I do better, when I play as a boy. Hinata-chan can act like a girl, as we will need to keep up the perception of a two male, one female squad, if we want to be shinobi for Konoha," Haku said reminding Naruto.

Naruto sat down and began to eat after Hinata had also seated herself and she also began to also eat. The next hour was spent going over possible answers for questions on the written test, as both Haku and Hinata knew Naruto would have his biggest problem there. After cleaning up the dishes the three left the apartment and locked up.

They met Kurenai on the way to the academy. "Are you three ready to take the test? I'm sure you should be able to pass the practical skills, but I know Naruto might have problems with the written test," she pointed out.

Naruto scowled, but then he then smirked. "Well if there is a genjutsu I will destroy it and then do the written test. Otherwise, I should do fine," Naruto exclaimed. "How is Zabuza-sensei, Kurenai-sensei?" he asked in a concerned voice.

Kurenai looked up, and thought for a second. "Last time I saw him, about thirty minutes ago, he was having a nice conversation with Ibiki. They actually seem to be getting along," Kurenai commented in confusion, as the trio laughed.

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The group was group was greeted by Iruka at the academy. "Morning, I hope you're ready for the test," Iruka commented, as the group quietly entered the academy. Iruka was disturbed by Naruto not proclaiming that he was going to pass the test without a problem.

Naruto smiled, as he passed Iruka, and calmly said, "I think I'm ready for the test, Iruka-sensei."

This brought a smile to Iruka's face. "Good, I hope you do better this time. I also made sure that there were no genjutsu on your paper, so you will not have to do genjutsu without that being on the test," Iruka said, as he attempted to reassure Naruto.

The three were separated to different tables to take the test, in an attempt to make sure there would be no cheating, this had been a stipulation set down by the Hokage. All three waited for the signal to start. "Begin," Iruka stated, as he sat down at the desk at the front of the room with Kurenai sitting in a chair next to him watching the three. Both looked at each other, as Naruto smirked and both girls blushed. Both adults looked at each other and wondered what was going on.

Naruto was blazing through the test sure of each answer until he saw ice forming on his desk. The ice formed the kanji for 'good luck, love Haku and Hinata'. Naruto smirked, as he knew that Haku had done this at the prodding of Hinata. Naruto finished the test just after Haku and Hinata turned over their papers.

Iruka was surprised that Naruto had finished so quickly, the questions were somewhat harder than the last genin exams they had taken. Iruka looked at the three, and asked, "Are you all done with your tests? Do you need to double check your answers?" He got nods to his first question and all three shook their heads to the second question. Iruka collected the tests and quickly graded them. He was impressed all three had perfect tests, although Naruto's essay was a little lacking. His answer for what is the Hokage's job was short and concise, but Naruto added a commentary to the end about the 'Third attempting to make up for something that he should have never had to do in the first place' brought a smile to Iruka's face.

All three moved to the dojo for taijutsu test. Iruka decided that he would test them himself with Naruto first, Haku second and Hinata third so that he could recover if she used Juken style. Naruto's taijutsu was sloppy, but well above the academy requirements. Haku's taijutsu was concise and left little for him to fault her on. Hinata's Taijutsu was much improved, he had heard about her match with Ame and wondered what had happened to improve both Naruto and Hinata's skills so much. Kurenai was also pleased, as she noticed that Naruto and Hinata were more relaxed in their fighting styles and wasted less effort with their strikes and blocks. While Naruto's still needed a lot of improvement, it was still quite an improvement from when she left them in the coastal town. She would have to thank Zabuza for training them so well.

"Given what I've seen so far. None of you should have any problems with passing this exam, but don't let it go to your heads," Iruka complimented, but his warning was directed at Naruto, who just gave a big foxy grin.

Next, was the weapons test and Naruto looked at the training dummies. "You got rid of the one with magnets, didn't you?" Naruto asked, as Iruka nodded. "How many do we need to throw and what type, as we have brought our own weapons, Iruka-sensei? You know, so we don't get junk, no offense, but after last time I want to be sure about what we are doing," Naruto commented, as Iruka nodded.

"You will need to hit the targets with ten shuriken, ten kunai, and ten senbon. There are a possible thirty points in this portion. Yeah, I know makes the math easier for grading," Iruka admitted, as he rubbed his finger under his nose. Naruto began to laugh as the girls began to giggle. "We have enough targets for all of you to use one target for each type of weapon. We want you to hit the targets not critical locations. This is an accuracy test not a test to find out if you know how to kill or disable," Iruka pointed out, as the three lined up and pulled out shuriken.

All three studied the targets for a minute then threw their shuriken. They moved on to the next dummy and followed the same procedure, as they did for the last set of dummies. Iruka moved to the dummies and scored then, while Naruto had the lowest, with score twenty-eight out of thirty, they all scored near perfect. He appeared to be lacking skill with senbon. The three collected their weapons and waited for the ninjutsu test.

This test went quicker than before as all three did the 'Transformation' technique at the same time. The 'Substitution' technique went quickly too, as all three just used chairs around the room to replace with themselves. Naruto looked sheepishly at Iruka, "do I have to do a regular clone?"

Iruka shook his head. "I need you to make at least three battle ready clones, either one at a time, or as a group," Iruka replied, as Naruto sighed in relief. Haku made three water clones, as Hinata made one water clone and two standard clones, Naruto made five shadow clones. Iruka smiled, as he looked at Kurenai, and said, "You all pass with near or perfect scores. Naruto lost two points on the weapons testing otherwise you all passed with perfect scores. I might add that you all did better than the rookie of the year," Iruka commented, as he knew Naruto would be pleased to know that he beaten Sasuke.

Naruto and the girls smiled, as they heard the news, they weren't surprised, but were happy. Kurenai stood and looked them over. "Meet me at training ground seven in five minutes. There we will conclude the genin test," Kurenai said, as she disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

Iruka looked up and saw all three make a single hand seal and disappear in a swirl of leaves. "When did they learn that one?" Iruka questioned, as he began his report to the Hokage.

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Kurenai sat on the training log waiting for her three charges to enter the area. She was quickly surprised when all three appeared in swirls of leaves. "So you have learned that technique. Good, but it is only good for leaving an area, and isn't a good one for combat," Kurenai commented. "Now we will begin your last test to become genin. I don't normally use this test, but the Hokage insisted that I should," Kurenai said, as she pulled out two bells. "The genin test fails out sixty-six percent of all those that pass the academy test. So as it stands I'm adjusting it so that two of you can become genin and one of you will go back to the academy. I need you to come at me with the intent to kill."

Naruto scratched his head. "Um… Kurenai-sensei?" Naruto queried.

Kurenai nodded, and replied, "Yes, Naruto. What is it that you need?"

"Well, there are two things. First either we all pass or we all fail," he said, as both Haku and Hinata nodded their agreement at his comment. "Second, how in the heck could we hope to beat a jounin, delay maybe, kill not a chance. I know we are good, but we aren't that good, even if you're not at Zabuza-sensei's level, all three of us have no chance. I know you're a genjutsu specialist, my weakness. If say your taijutsu is at high chuunin level all three of us might have a chance to scratch you, but beat you, no," Naruto replied with much conviction.

"What Naruto-kun is trying to say is that, while we are skilled and work well as a team, but we cannot compete with a jounin, and we know it. We could give you a run for your money, but we know we would ultimately lose, as we lack both the training and the experience to fight on even close to an even playing field," Hinata explained, as Haku nodded.

Kurenai looked angry. "So either all of you pass or all of you fail, is that correct?" She asked, as all three nodded. "Very well then, I have no choice…" Kurenai paused for dramatic effect, then she smiled, and said, "You all pass, but I still want to do an assessment of your skills. So we will have a battle"

All three genin nodded, they waited for Kurenai to make a signal, "Begin." She proclaimed, as the three disappeared. 'Good they all have hidden well for genin, Naruto must be having problems with hiding his chakra, as I know where he is but Haku and Hinata have hidden well, no chakra signature or traces of them otherwise,' Kurenai thought to herself.

Naruto appeared on the small creek running through the training grounds. "You're not hiding very well Naruto," Kurenai proclaimed.

Naruto smiled and ran through several hand seals, and said, "Hidden mist jutsu!" As mist suddenly erupted from the stream and encompassed the area. The visibility was almost nothing, as Kurenai couldn't even see her hand in front of her face.

Kurenai suddenly felt a touch on her right shoulder and felt her arm go limp. Kurenai felt the next attack coming and jumped out the way, as the area she had just occupied was filled with senbon. She landed only to have to jump again. The mist lessened, but was still thick. Kurenai reached out with her senses to hear the next set of senbon came in. She jumped to find herself landing on the water with a splash. 'This game of cat and mouse has to end or they will beat me,' she thought in a near panic. She was impressed by the strategy they had come up with. Naruto would conceal their movements while Hinata snuck up on her and disabled her arm taking away her ability to do jutsu. Lastly using Haku's accuracy, as long range support, 'I'm just worried if they use either 'Shadow clones' or 'Shadow clone shuriken' jutsu to spam the area with either clones or weapons. That might just kill me. Not able to take on a jounin as a team, my foot,' Kurenai complained mentally.

"Do you give up Kurenai-sensei?" Naruto asked, but his voice came from all round her.

"I surrender," Kurenai proclaimed, as the mist fell and she was surrounded by a hundred Naruto. Hinata was standing on a tree next to Haku both holding senbon ready to throw them at a moment's notice. She shifted from her ready position, she then said, "I'm impressed. You work well as a team, better than most. Were you trying to lull me into a false sense of security about your skills? Or did your skills truly increase by that much?" she asked, truly wanting to know.

Naruto scratched the back of his head, as his clones dispersed. "Not sure what you mean, Sensei," he admitted.

Kurenai motioned for all of them to gather around and sit down near her in the training field, they all came and sat quickly. "I was quite surprised when they were able to hide their chakra, but you weren't able too, Naruto," she explained. "But when you did the mist jutsu, I figured you were going to use that to hide. Instead Hinata went on the offensive and disabled my arm, while Haku sent senbon into disable me further. Then you also positioned me to be on the creek so that I would make more noise and thus be an easier target. You should be proud of yourselves. You beat a jounin within several minutes, even if you had me surrounded with Naruto clones. Also, if the clones know anything about kenjutsu, then I would have been in big trouble. Will you accept me, as your sensei and authority?" she asked.

Naruto, Hinata and Haku all nodded agreement, as they agreed to follow Kurenai.

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Naruto, Haku and Hinata were all dressed in white kimonos and sitting under a waterfall, as Kurenai supervised their advanced chakra control training. Naruto seemed to have the biggest problem meditating, either something was bothering him or he just couldn't concentrate. "Naruto, you need to relax and allow your chakra to flow, use your chakra to shield yourself from the water," Kurenai instructed.

Naruto knew Kurenai was correct, but there was something just beyond his grasp causing him not to be able to concentrate. He was at ease, but every time he would relax and try to concentrate his chakra to his shoulders and head, it would build then suddenly it would burst out. It wasn't a big burst, just enough for him not to be able to do the exercise. After what seemed like the hundredth time this happened, he opened his eyes, and said, "Kurenai-sensei, my chakra doesn't seem to flow right, it seems to come in waves."

Kurenai, Haku, and Hinata were all surprised by this statement, but Kurenai wanted to get to the bottom of this problem so, she said, "Hinata, use your Byakugan and watch Naruto do this exercise."

Hinata nodded and activated her doujutsu. Naruto relaxed and began the exercise. She was surprised that she had not noticed this before during their earlier training, but Naruto was right. His chakra did flow in waves like a heartbeat, as best as she could explain it. She looked closer only to find the wave caused by concentrated chakra that was wrapped around a small amount of red chakra. "Naruto-kun is correct, in a way," she explained.

Kurenai was confused, and asked, "What do you mean, Hinata?"

"Naruto-kun's chakra has dense chakra that is surrounding Kyuubi chakra, as it passes through his system. The chakra surrounding the flakes of Kyuubi chakra is denser than his regular chakra. There is a rhythm to it though," she answered.

Naruto continued to try to focus, as he began to feel a wave coming on, he lessened the chakra output. Hinata watched in amazement, as Naruto appeared to be getting the rhythm of his chakra and the chakra began to shield him from the falls. Suddenly, a large pulse went ripping through his coils and his concentration was lost. Naruto couldn't understand, until he heard a yawn in his head. After the yawn the rhythm became softer and less intense.

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Naruto opened his eyes and found himself sitting in a tunnel, more like a sewer system with a small amount of water on the floor. He sniffed the air, and found it to be stale and held a light mildew smell, but not the smell of an actual sewer. He stood and began to search around.

Naruto came to an opening that was larger than any others than he had found so far. He entered to see an enormous room. The ceiling was so high as to be out of his view. Two large barred doors stood in front of him. He also noticed a paper stuck at the cusp of the gate doors that said 'Seal'. He continued forward not knowing what or who was behind said seal. He had he knew, though.

He looked into the area behind the bars only to see darkness. He listened carefully and heard rhythmic breathing coming from behind the bars. 'Must be the Fox,' he thought to himself.

Suddenly a pair of eyes opened, they had red pupils, and had an eerie glow to them. "You would be right on that one, you pathetic excuse of a mortal!" a booming voice came from inside the cage.

"So this is where you hide yourself, fox?" he asked.

The eyes elevated to the middle of the cage before a toothy grin appeared. The fox then spoke, "So what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?"

"You're messing up my chakra, quit it," Naruto demanded.

The fox chuckled, and said, "I have done no such thing! I like your spunk, though. Seek out the other seals upon yourself, you will find your answer there. Now, disturb me no more, as we have no need of each other as of yet," Kyuubi ordered, and laid its head down and closed its eyes.

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Naruto shook his head, and sat down. He closed his eyes, and then felt the water hitting him again. Naruto opened his eyes only to see three sets of worried eyes, one brown, one other white with a lavender tinge, and the final set were red. Naruto smiled, as he looked at the girls he had come to care for so much. "What's wrong?" he asked.

Hinata brushed away the water near her eyes, either she was crying or the water from the falls was in her eyes, Naruto didn't know which. Hinata lunged forward and embraced him in a tight hug, she then said, "The red chakra increased and you would not respond to our calls, we were so worried."

Naruto returned the hug, and replied, "I got to meet the fox, if only for a moment. It said that it wasn't the cause of the fluctuations in mine and its chakra."

Kurenai had heard what Naruto had said. This worried her that he had both talked to the demon and also that it had told him that it wasn't the reason for the fluctuations. "What did it say, Naruto?" she asked.

Naruto took a deep breath, and said, "It said that I need to 'seek out the other seals upon myself', whatever that means."

Kurenai was definitely worried now, if Naruto told her that there were other seals on him it would take some time to figure out what was going on. "We'll need to talk to the Hokage about these seals, Naruto," Kurenai said.

Naruto scowled, and asked, "What if he is the one who put some seals on me? How can I trust him after what he has done and failed to do?"

Kurenai shrugged, and said, "How do we know the fox is telling the truth?"

Naruto snickered, and replied, "It had just woken up and didn't really want to talk to me."

Kurenai was happy to have dodged the question about trusting the Hokage, but she did want some answers. "I want you girls to take Naruto home and go over him with a fine tooth comb. Search every inch of him for seals, I know he is studying them, but I want to know if there are any others, other than the seal the Kyuubi is trapped in," she ordered.

Naruto sighed, as both Hinata and Haku blushed at the prospect of doing a strip search of Naruto. All three answered the order with, "Hai!"

"Now head home and do the search, have him focus chakra while you search. I would also use chakra on his body to try to reveal any hidden seals," Kurenai suggested.

The three changed out of their wet clothes and headed home, and Kurenai quickly headed to the Hokage's office.

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As soon as they got home Naruto became very nervous. "Girls, I didn't want to have you guys…" he said, in an embarrassed tone.

Haku blushed and took off her kimono and wrappings, and said, "Does this put you more at ease, Naruto-kun?" she asked standing only in her panties.

Naruto held his composure for a moment until he turned to see Hinata, who was also only in her panties. Naruto fell backwards, as blood streamed out of his nose. Hinata turned to Haku, and asked, "Do you think we over did it a little?" Haku nodded, as Hinata continued, "Let's get him stripped and on the bed so we can do the exam."

Haku and Hinata proceeded to strip Naruto and then carefully inspect him, as he lay unconscious. The girls became serious, as the minutes passed they found only one seal at the base of his neck. Haku carefully copied it down on a scroll they had set to the side so that they could have Naruto help them understand what it did. Naruto finally woke up about twenty minutes later.

"What happened? The last thing I knew both of you were nearly naked and…" Naruto immediately covered his eyes and blushed.

Hinata and Haku giggled at Naruto, and Hinata said, "Dear sweet Naruto-kun, we were, but not right now, as we have found a seal."

Naruto sighed relief, but also wondered if he should have worried about seeing the girls in that state of undress, as he had already seen them naked before.

Haku touched his arm and looked into his eyes. "We need you to gather some chakra so that we can continue the exam, Naruto-kun," she said kindly.

Naruto brought his hands together into the ram seal and gathered chakra. The seal on his stomach appeared as did several others. Haku copied all the seals, five in all on to a scroll. Hinata found a sixth on his skull under his hair. Naruto then got some clothes on and started to research the seals. He figured out several quickly, the Kyuubi seal was easiest to identify, but he couldn't figure it out totally. With his limited knowledge, he decided that it hadn't been tampered with. The seal on the back of his neck was a chakra inhibitor, more than likely to stunt his mental development, as was the one on the top of his head. Two others were set to mess with his chakra directly, they would cause his chakra to not flow to the seal in steady stream thus allowing for the leakage of Kyuubi chakra into his system, those had to go and quickly. The last seal, Naruto couldn't make head or tails of it. It appeared to be both an inhibitor, and one that would open a flood gate to something. Naruto put his notes down on the scroll and headed to dinner and then to bed with the girls in tow. Tomorrow would be a big day.

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A/N: I have little to say but I hope you enjoyed, as I finish the edits to the other chapters....