Do you really think that if I owned Naruto he would still require a shadow clone to do the rasengan? Specially because he somehow is able to do the fuuton: rasengan one handed (look the part where he and Yamato save Kakashi from Kakuzu's fire and wind attack)how that happened it's beyond me.

"Normal speech"

"Thoughts and flashbacks"

"Kyuubi"

"Inner Sakura or ????"

"Kyuubi's thoughts"

(AN): authors note.

AN: sorry about the delay, but I have a lot on my plate. Now on other things, have you seen the new chapters of the manga?!

PARTIALLY UNLEASHED

The morning was calm in every area of the village that wasn't near the Kazama compound, for you see since Naruto and his family moved to the house that was rightfully theirs the young man has retaken an old habit that took a lot of his mother's efforts to snap out of,

daybreak trainning.

BOOM!!

Kaori sighed while sipping her coffee and using her free hand to rub her forehead in a futile attempt to make her headache go away, the minute the day arrives Naruto gets up and goes to train. Giving her another reason to curse most of her clan or at the very least the lightning elementals, a rational thougth considering they were the ones that instilled the stupid habit in the first place.

"he's at it again?" asked the mirthful voice of her sister to Kaori's left.

Kaori jsut rolled her eyes and resisted the urge to hit her sister in the back of her head, nobody should be this cheery in the morning.

"yes, I thought we broke him of that stupid habit of his."

"you can't blame him, the time when he's going to become a ninja is coming, he's just making sure he's as ready as possible"

"yes, but there's a limit to how much trainning the body can withstand before it snaps!"

"stop being such a mother hen! He's fine"

the talk was interrupted by the sound of the door opening, both women turned their sigths to the direction of the sound to see Naruto enter the house in the rags that used to be his trainning gear, a pair of black pants and an orange and black t-shirt.

Normally the mother would be fawning over his son if the said child arrived like this for the first time but the reality is that naruto arrived a lot of the mornings since their arrival in similar or worse states. Besides Kaori knew it was not as bad as it looked.

"how was practice?" the mother asked.

The blond frowned for a moment before answering " for some reason I hit a stalemate in my trainning that I can't surpass"

"well that's to be expected you can only grow so much without any type of instruction" added Misao to the conversation.

Before the blond could retort Kaori usered him to change clothes and get back to have breakfast lest he wanted to be late for the academy.

Sarutobi was seated in his office, thinking very hard on how balance the new teams that where going to be formed for the next week graduation, the task was not that difficult the problem was the kid that was in all but name the rookie of the year, Uzumaki Naruto.

Since his arrival to the academy Naruto took the position as the strongest and most skilled student of his class (and Sarutobi suspected that he was the strongest in the whole academy) the only eason he was not the rookie of the year was that technically he didn't take all the course in the program, as such he doesn't have the same grades as Sasuke.

Then there's the fact that hs bloodlie and abilities were only partially awakened, the fact that every jounin that was taking a team wanted him in their roster and that the council was preassuring him to make Kakashi take the last loyal Uchiha, put all that together and you have one big migraine making problem.

One thing it's for certain, there was no way whatsoever he was going to be put with Sasuke in a team.

As Naruto walked towards the academy in Shino's company he couldn't help but remember how was his time when he arrived.

Back in those days Naruto did everything he could to keep other people besides his family at arms length, the only one that partially managed to pass the measures he put around himself was Shino and to some extent, his female classmate Yamanaka Ino. And while they did try to be closer to him he refused the advances. A rational action considering what event was that partially released his bloodline. thanks to that he felt he was betraying his friends.

It was Ino of all people who broke him of that line of thought.

Flashback starts.

It's was during a rainy afternoon, Naruto was walking back to his house after the academy on his own, he had rejected many propositions to date by several of the girls and to 'hang out' by several of the boys, the only thing that prevented everyone from thinking he was the blond version of Sasuke was that he talked back when you talked to him and the fact that he was polite in his rejections.

"why do you do that?" He was brought out of his mussings when a voice that sounded annoyed spoke up.

He turned to the left to find a platine blonde girl that was the perfect picture of an annoyed female: narrowed eyes, hands on her hips, and a frown on her face.

"do what?"

"pushing people away, some of us just want to know you"

The blond snorted "yes, I'm sure those girls only want to know me better out of sheer curiosity."

"fine! I get it the fan girls are annoying, but what about the rest of us! You're not giving us a chance because some bunch of drooling fools you're cutting everyone from you!"

"no, it would be hypocrital of me to do that, there's another reason for my actions"

"then why! It's not like you're going to kills us by letting us be your friends!"

Naruto didn't answered that one and just stood in the same place in silence, making Ino's eyes widen as the implications of the silence hit her.

"oh god! I'm sorry I didn't.." her tirade was cut short by Naruto's voice.

"don't worry you didn't know" he said with a tone of finality that was rewarded with silence, he was glad that the conversation had ended as the girl had the uncanny ability to see underneath his mask. He was ready to leave when her voice said something that stopped him cold.

"you're not betraying their memory you know"

"e-excuse me?"

"your friends, you're not betraying their memory by letting other people be friends with you, I'm sure they wouldn't want for you to remain alone like that"

"That's none of your business" he said while greeting his teeth, his voice starting to sound angry.

"Just remember Naruto that we're not better or worse than them, we are just different, we are not trying to replace your friends. Just think about that okay?" and with that she left leaving Naruto standing alone with his thoughts in the rain.

Flashback ends.

That talk changed Naruto, from that day he began to open to other people (not much mind he still mantained some distance) while he made some acquantances like the Ichirakus and in the process he became their best customer (much to his mother's open chagrin) he and Shino finally became friends, to the blond it felt good to let his shield down once in a while.

It also had the efect that Ino seemed more focused on finding his secrets, so far he had been putting a great figth, but considering that she's a bit like her father she had already make him spill a couple of them.

As the two genin hopefuls were arriving at the academy Naruto was brought out of his mussings when the dreaded feeling assaulted him, he gave a slight nod to Shino and he moved to look for another way to enter the academy, there was not a chance in hell he was going to be the target of the rabid beings known as fangirls again, ever.

In the classroom some kids awaited eagerly for the arrival of their senseis so they could start the test for the genin rank, while others were desperate to ge some extra study, these ones were the ones that Naruto had to control the need to roll his eyes. If they didn't study for the test when it was time then they will have a serious problem when they graduate.

The exams were something standard (AN: I'm not going to write those) and most of the students didn't have any problems with them, that is until the jutsu test at that portion every kid that came out from the designated classroom with a headband in their possetion or a dissapointed face on them.

Soon it was Naruto's turn, as soon as he entered the classroom the chunnins watched him with care, considering that he was the rookie of the year in all but name.

"okay Naruto start by transforming into Iruka"

The blond did as told effortlessly.

"very good, now use kawarimi to avoid the attack" Iruka said before launching an eraser to Naruto's head, he was hit in the forehead sending him to the floor before a cloud of smoke enveloped him and showed a bewildered looking Mizuki.

"o-okay Naruto now I want you to make three bunshins"

"sensei will any type of clone suffice?"

"yes Naruto"

The blond made several hands seals at high speed before stopping on bird "tei bunshin (air clone)" the air around Naruto compressed itself and took his shape before transforming into tree perfect copies of Naruto.

The blond accepted the congratulations and looked the headband in his hands for a moment before tying it to his forehead, this was the beginning for him.

The assailant was jumping as fast as he was capable, his mission was a success, it was incredible to believe that it was so easy to break in such important place. But in his hurry to flee Touji Mizuki didn't noticed that the path he took brought him close to one of the isolated parts of the Kazama trainning grounds, where coincidentally Naruto was trainning in that moment, seeing his former teacher running like that with a big scroll that had the words forbidden imprinted on it he put two and two together and decided to stop him.

The next thing Mizuki knew was that he was flying foward before slamming face first into a tree courtesy of one of Naruto's fuuton jutsus.

"I'm pretty sure that particulary scroll is not for everyone to see Mizuki-san, so what are you doing with it?"

"None of your business brat! And if you know what's good for you'll leave now!" the chunin growled.

"I'm sorry but I can't do that, seeing that you are invading clan propiety"

The chunin said nothing as he unclasped one of the fuuma shuriken on his back before spinning in by the ring and tossing towards the blond perched on the tree behind him in hopes to cleave the genin in half, Naruto just stood there with his eyes closed and Mizuki could swear that for a moment Naruto was outlined by a nearly invisible aura of green before he pushed off the branch towards teh giant shuriken much to Mizuki's shock and glee, then he front flipped and used the shuriken as a board sending the piece of metal to the floor with a loud clang before throwing several kunais making Mizuki tense and prepare to avoid them, as Naruto reached the apex of his jump he made several hand seals and clapped his hands gathering chakra in and around them at the same time, when he had enough he shouted the name of the attack

"fuuton: reppusho!"

As soon as those words left his lips the chakra around his hands began to spin at a high rate before blasting forward in two dual slipstreams of wind slamming into the still soaring kunai and speeding them up surprising the chunin who was stilla ble to dodge most of them with the exception of the one that was logged into his left leg.

Seeing that a quick win was out of the question he tried a different tactic "it doesn't matter if you capture me now they will never accept you! They'll always fear you and scorn you!"

"you're wrong"

"that's what you want to think! But you know I'm right, they'll never accept you! Thanks to them you'll nevr be safe! Thanks to them anything you hold dear will be destroyed!"

the traitor saw hism relax his guard and he took the opportunity to launch his last shuriken as Naruto was raising his face he expected to see the gaze of a broken person, instead he saw that his eyes were filled with determination.

"it doesn't matter! If they refuse to see me I will make them!! If they shun me I will find others! if they try to stop me I will beat them!! I will find the way! I WILL BE HOKAGE!!!" the genin shouted a top of his lungs.

"it's time" a voice said into his ear and before his eyes the green energy stared to swirl in front of him while verything else seems to stop in time "you have shown the determination to keep going in spite the obstacles in front of you, you've shown to be capable of seeing other paths towards a goal, you've shown that you ahve waht it takes. Enjoy the the gift I give you. until we meet again, farewell young chosen one" .

as soon as the voice stopped the green energy started gathering at his feet before starting to climb before concentrating in his eyes, when the energy was gone Naruto's eyes were no longer blue but solid jade green instead.

Then everything began moving again and he took notice of the instrument of dead moving towards him he clapped his hands together before trusting them foward and a gale several times more powerful than before stopped the fuuma shuriken cold, he noticed that his ex-sensei was misterioussly missing, not that it would make him any good to hide not with his eyes in their current state anyways.

Mizuki was hiding behind a tree panting in a mixture of fear and exhaustion, just what the hell ahppened there? One moment that kid was a sitting duck and the next he was stopping a ponit blank attack and attacking with some sort of powerful fuuton attack that didn't even require handseals! Jsut what the hell was that?!

"Touji-san it's impossible to hide now" said Naruo standing in front of Mizuki's hideout. Freaking out the chunin.

"H-how?"

"that's not for you to know" he said before a strong, howling wind hit him and he lost conciousness.

After deactivating his eyes Naruto just stood there contemplating what to do now, he could wait there as he was sure the ANBU were on their way, he could go home, he could drag the guy to the HQ himself. Decisions, decisions; then he spotted the giant scroll lying opn the ground and a grin came to his face. He was sure the hokage wouldn't mind if he gave one peek to the contents, after all he did aprehend a criminal, it was a good reward, besides it's not like he's going to blow up konoha with it.

Unknown to him a cloacked figure saw the whole thing before dissapearing into the night, the chosen one aws ready now to start the challenges.

At the same time Sarutobi Hiruzen was wachting the whole thing and couldn't help but ask what changes will these development will bring to the leaf and then he shuddered when he saw Naruto reading the instructions for the kage bunshin jutsu.

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AN: shorter than normal, but so much has happened not only in the manga but in real life. And I did say that this fic was going to get the least attention due to my some sort of weird block that comes with writing for it, now as for the bloodline trust me, it's more complex than it looks but I will say this: it requires elemental chakra.

Maybe now I can stat writing the prologue for the missing hokage that I wanted or update another chapter of any otehr fic that's not on hold.

Please review. Flames shall be ignored but criticism; constructive criticism is more than welcome.

So JA NE.