A/N: I'M SO TIRED! Four hours sleep each night. Whatever hope you enjoy the next chappy. There will be a training time skip of six months so we can skip to the chunin exams. Prepare for ALOT of action in chapters to come. Enjoy!

Kyuubi speak
Inner Sakura
Thoughts
Regular speak

Chapter 18 - Six months until action

"Naruto-kun? What happened at the Hokage tower?" Ino asked, breaking the silence of team ten following the blond haired jinchuriki.

Naruto grumbled a bit, still mad at the Hokage chasing him and almost knocking his head off. "I prefer not to talk about it..." he said.

"Anyway, now that our team has been planned out, maybe we should get right to it. After all you guys have to prepare for the Chunin exams correct?" Asuma said.

Ino and Sakura nodded, while Naruto turned to his team and nodded himself. "Alright then, i think it's time you guys start training. As soon as Naruto comes back to us, we will begin your team training. This will be crucial at the Chunin exams." Another nod from his team. "Well i'll see yah guys later then." Asuma said as he waved his hand while he walked away.

Naruto turned his attention back toward the rest of his team, causing one to blush while the other to fidget nervously. "Listen, Sakura." he said causing the pink haired girl to snap her gaze up from the ground. "You might want to keep the information you have learned from the Hokage quiet. I wouldn't want your mom to get into any danger. Just try to keep a secret." he said with a small smile.

'I knew you had the hots for the pink haired vixen.' chuckled the Kyuubi.

'Shut it!' Naruto replied.

Sakura gave a shaky nod, 'He actually cares about what happens to me or my mom? Why? If he was what mom said he was... No. He can't be a demon. Naruto-kun is not a demon.' Sakura thought, finally happy that she was able to see Naruto as a good person.

'Naruto-KUN? Cha! I knew you thought he was sexy too!' something shouted in Sakura's mind.

'Oh Kami not you again...' Sakura replied.

'Now all we have to do is get strong for him so when he gets back we can strap him to the bed and...' Sakura cut off her conversation with her Inner, but still had her face flushed. This didn't go unnoticed by her platinum haired rival.

Ino leaned over and whispered into Sakura's ear, "Remember what i said billboard brow, he's mine."

Sakura's face was still flushed but still responded in a whisper, "I don't see your name on him PIG." they both started glaring at each other with sparks flying between their eyes.

Naruto shook his head in annoyance at the two girls in front of him. "Well whatever, I'll see ya guys in a few months." he said as he left the seen via Shushin. Unfortunately he missed the sad expressions on the two girl's faces. both sighed too silent for the other to hear, "Naruto-Kun..."

The silence was short though as Sakura began to talk trash again, "What do you mean he's yours?"

"I mean he's mine! We already kissed!" Ino shouted back.

Sakura paled a bit, "You what?" she asked, stunned by Ino's remark.

"We made out, it was so great. I still can't believe that was his first kiss, because it was mine to. It's like we were meant to be." Ino sighed dreamily but Sakura was deflated.

'No! She can't be with Naruto-Kun! He never held her hand once! WE still have a chance!' shouted Sakura's inner. As weird as it was, Sakura actually agreed with her Inner. "Well he's not yours yet pig. He hasn't held your hands or shown any kind of affection to you in public!" Sakura said back.

"Because he wants to protect me..." Ino whispered. 'But what if he really doesn't like me... maybe it was an excuse not to hurt my feelings...' Ino thought gloomily giving Sakura a confident smirk. Ino's expression changed turn serious, "Listen Sakura we have to keep quiet about liking Naruto."

Sakura blinked in confusion, "What? Why?"

"He wants to protect us Sakura, have you seen the looks the villagers gave him? He doesn't want you getting people who like him hurt."

"What makes you think i like him? I just said that he's... quiet... sexy... hot..." Sakura started to blush at her choice of words, which made Ino giggle.

"Just please don't say those type of things in front of people okay?"

Sakura nodded. "Well i don't know about you pig but i'm going to go to lady Hokage so i can get strong for Naruto-Kun." with that she started to run, getting a head start on Ino, again. Ino yelled, "Forehead!" and began running to the Hokage tower as well.

Naruto was at his apartment and packing his things when he felt his 'Traveling Partner's' presence. "So you said your goodbye's yet brat?" he asked.

Naruto frowned at being called a brat again but nodded. "Well then, meet me at the gates and let's go." said Jiraiya still only able to see a head of blond hair. "What the hell are you doing?" Jiraiya asked as he began approaching his student. Right as he was about to see Naruto, there was a puff of smoke and there standing was a girl around sixteen with blond hair reaching down to bottom and smoke barely covering her private parts. She had perfect curves and as Jiraiya scanned her body up to her face she winked at him causing him to fly to the other side of the room with blood streaming out his nose as he twitched.

'I still got it!' Naruto shouted mentally in victory. There was still a bit of a prankster left in him. Soon later he began his training with Jiraiya after getting a giant lump to the head courtesy of said teacher.

-SIX MONTH TIME SKIP-

"Again we return the this crappy village... I hate my life..." grumbled Naruto. He grew about a foot in the six months of his training and his blond locks were now darker and reached a little bit further down his shoulder. He didn't wear anymore orange as he was in a jet black uniform with black sandals.

"Hey at least you will become Chunin now. Then you can come on training trips with me all the time." Jiraiya said. "If the old hag lets you." he mumbled the last part.

"What?" asked Naruto.

"Nothing!" Jiraiya said back, happy to know that Naruto will be away from him for a little while at the least. He kept him up almost every day of the dam training trip. He only has gotten about a week's rest the entire trip. 'Stupid brat trying to run me into the ground...' he thought to himself.

They approached the gates just like last time and passed through like normal. "So what are you going to do pervy-sage?" Naruto asked. He looked around, "Pervy-sage?" he asked, mad that he just got ditched ten seconds after he entered the village. 'Stupid old pervert.'

"Uzumaki-San!" shouted one of the guards at the gate.

"Eh?"

"You are taking the Chunin exams correct?" the guard said as he approached Naruto.

"Uh... yeah why?"

"Well i think your team signed you up already, but the written exam is already starting..." he said.

Naruto's face paled, 'Oh no... if i'm late i might not be able to become Chunin this time, oh kami i can't stay in this village another six months.' Naruto thought. "Okay thanks!" Naruto shouted as he began roof hopping very fast toward the academy.

-A few minutes later-

Naruto arrived at the academy and there waiting were his two teammates. They both didn't see him until the last second when he was standing right in front of them. "Hey there." he said as he gave his team a smile that made both their hearts flutter and their faces redden.

Naruto was grabbed by Ino in a giant hug, "I missed you Naruto-kun!" she shouted as she buried her head into his chest.

Naruto's grin grew wider, "I was only gone for a little while Ino-chan." he said happily.

Sakura was a bit sad that Naruto accepted Ino so easily. The fact that he called her Ino-chan was like a sting to the heart. After all the words she's called Naruto, he would never want to accept her that way. Sakura slumped her shoulders and lowered her head, "Hello Naruto-kun."

Naruto turned his gaze from the platinum blond to his pinked haired teammate, "Oh hey there Sakura-Chan. What, you don't miss me?" he said with a smirk.

'Sakura-chan? Miss you?' Sakura thought.

'Hell yeah you missed him! Tell him after your done with these stupid exams we could go to his house and get to know his bed a...'

By now Ino had broke her embrace with Naruto, leaving him open for a few seconds before Sakura came crashing into his chest, actually knocking him off his feet. "Yes, i've missed you Naruto-kun!" she said as she cried a few tears of happiness that he greeted her nicely.

"Hehe, Okay you two we should probably go inside the class now, we wouldn't want them to start without us right?" Naruto asked while the pink haired girl slowly got off of him, much to the platinum blond's delight.

All three of them entered the classroom and took seats near the back. (A/N: Okay i you guys, same thing happens in this story as the actual manga, just Naruto was quicker to catch on.)

A short while later they exited the classroom, Naruto shaking his head at the display of the purple haired lady and how goofy she looked. "Wow she was such a goof." he said out loud as they traveled to training ground forty-four.

-Training ground 44-

Naruto's group was the last to arrive. He scoped out the competition and noticed the nervousness among the groups. There were a few teams that seemed calm like Sasuke's group. Well at least one of them seemed calmed, the other one was stuffing his face and the other was standing in the most lazy way possible.

'Something smells kit. It smells like snakes.' the Kyuubi said, as the proctor started to speak.

'What do you think it is?' Naruto asked.

'I can't quite make out who its coming from but it's definantly coming from someone taking the exams. Keep a sharp eye, this could be dangerous.'

Unfortunately the proctor caught Naruto's curious look around while she was speaking, paying no attention at all. She decided to give him a little scare. She pulled a Kunai from her holster and threw it directly at Naruto's right cheek. Naruto effortlessly dodged the kunai, caught it and spun around and held it at the proctor's throat as she was some how behind him. "Not wise to attack me proctor." he said in a dark tone.

"It's also not wise to not pay attention kid." the proctor said as she tapped a kunai between Naruto's legs. Now Naruto was a bit scared at this but showed no emotion on the outside.

'Damn, she could have got rid of the thing that determines your gender.' the Kyuubi chuckled with amusement.

'I know, that would not have been fun at all.' Naruto chuckled nervously inwardly, but on the outside he flipped the kunai in his hand and gave it back to the proctor.

"Now then are you going to pay attention or what?" asked Anko.

Naruto walked away a bit and waved his hand casually to carry on, making Anko even more aggravated. Nevertheless, she carried on and told the groups to get there numbers and scrolls and what their objective was. She then proceeded to tell them what gate they were suppose to go to and wait for them to open before entering the forest of death. Naruto's group got the heaven scroll.

"Guess we need an earth scroll huh?" Naruto asked and received two nods from his teammates. Then the gate opened and team ten leaped inside and began running through the forest.

A/N: Aw man i wish i could just go directly to the fighting already, sorry guys just please bare with me. I'll try my best to release the next chapter as soon as possible. Hope you guys enjoyed and please, REVIEW!

What happened over the timeskip: Naruto fully learned how to use the Rasengan as well as use it with his shadow clones, he worked a bit on his wind style jutsu's like air bullet and is currently working on a full wind manipulation technique. Sakura is still in the process of learning to be able to focus her Chakra to be able to deliver devastating strikes, her and Ino are on the same level as of now and they both know minor medical ninjutsu. I would have to say that Ino is better than Sakura right now because she has a few more jutsu like mind transfer jutsu and mind disturbance jutsu.