Hello everyone and welcome to chapter 9 of my Naruto fan fiction. And I like to thank all who had review, since that really does mean a lot to me, and I like to welcome everyone new to the story.

Right off the bat l would like to say that these chapter doses have a lot of details, like action senses and descriptions, and I know I already mention that being detailed is not easy for me. And if I confuse any of you, please let me know in the reviews.

I also like to saw that my Auto correct is acting a little weird and that it's fixing my chapters in an odd way.

Any ways enough said; let's get on with the story.

I don't own Naruto just this story idea.


Story Keys

(Normal Talk)

('Narration Talk')

(Normal Thinking)

(Summoning/Jutsu Talk)

(Demon Talk)

(Demon thought/talk within mind)


Chapter 8: Where We Stand

Six Days Later

No one has heard or seen Naruto since that night. No one never knew where he lived and/or to come in contact with him. The only ones that knew about his whereabouts were Kura, Kat and Aki, but they were told to not tell anyone of his location and to say that he would show himself when he needed to.

Sadly, Anko and Yūgao wanted to find him to get a few answers but were empty in their searches. Little did anyone know that today will mark the day that will change many people's lives forever,

Naruto Uzumaki had arrived.


(Hokage's Office)

Sarutobi was currently trying to convince both Anko and Yūgao not to worry about Naruto and that he will appear when he wants to.

"I know Hokage but I'm starting to worry about him." Anko said, "I mean we haven't even given him the money for that B-Rank mission." The old man wasn't buying it; he knew that the two had some question for Naruto like he did. Thankfully the Hokage knew that Naruto would have to come by his office today.

"Don't worry Anko," he said, "Have you forgotten that Naruto has to turn in his ninja photo and information to me. If he doesn't then he won't be able to be assign to a good team."

Knock, Knock

Everyone looked at the door; they couldn't tell who was on the other side and they could only sense a little bit of chakra, but that wasn't enough to tell who it was.

"Who is it?" the old man asked.

"It's me old man. It's me Naruto."

Everyone was a bit shock. They were used to Naruto's chakra around. Sure being able to hide from a squad of ANBU was in pretty respectable for someone his age. However, the ANBU never really would think much, coming from a child.

"Come in we were just talking about you Naruto?" Naruto had already entered the room by the time the Hokage had finish. None of them could believe what they were seeing.

As the door closed, there stood what they guess was a 6 feet tall Naruto. However, the height was one of the few things they noticed that was different with Naruto. For example, the next thing they notice was that he no longer had any baby fat on his face or the rest of the body. In fact his body now had a strong tone to it. The two ladies in the room could tell that he had muscles underneath his shirt that a boy his age shouldn't have and from what they could tell from his arms and legs, they may be right. The next thing that caught their eyes were that his blond hair now had some dark red highlights on the edges of his spiky hair and that his whisker like marks on his cheeks were now darker, and made them look like deep cuts. Sadly, they weren't darker then how they normally saw them. The last thing that caught their eye was Naruto's new wardrobe.

Normal Naruto would be seen in an orange jumpsuit that made him look like a moving target. His new shirt was a dark navy blue that almost looked black, a black pair of ninja pants, the ones that are usually seen worn by the ANBU, and a pair of black sandals, normally the same kind that he has always worn.

Naruto was currently holding a file in his hand but was a bit freaked out that they were looking at him like they seen some sort of ghost. About a good minute or so, Naruto broke the silence. "Are you three alright or something?"

At the sound of his voice, everyone broke out of their trance. "Oh sorry Naruto," the Hokage said, "you just surprise us, that's all."

"Yay brat," Anko said, "it's not every day you look... will like that."

"Geez thanks," Naruto replied with a bit of an annoyed tone, "I came here to drop off my ninja file. Everything has been fixed, so to make sure that it matches how I look."

"Brat, how were you able to change so much in just six days?" Anko asked. She couldn't believe that he had changed so much in a short time span.

Naruto sighed and said, "If you must know I woke up like this. And no I don't mean my clothes or hair. Somehow I grow over a couple nights. I don't know what could have happen, so I went to see Aki to see what had happen to me. She told me that I just had a growth spurt and to not worry about it. As for the hair, the hair had been like this for a while to be honest. It started to change one day and Aki cheeked it out. She said that the genes of my mother were starting to show. The reason none of you had seen it was that I had a transformation jutsu on every day. It really was a good way of training in that skill." Naruto paused for a few moments to let them take in the information. Knowing full well their next question, he said, "As for the clothes, both Kura and Kat took me clothes shopping and picked this out. Don't you like it?"

"Yay it suits you." Anko replied. "It's better than that orange jumpsuit you always wore."

"Yay but it really helped me out when I trained inside the village." Naruto replied. That's when Anko remember that she had a little bit of questions from that night.

"Oh yay that reminds me, we all had an interesting talk with those three on that night. Mind filling us in on a few things, since you are here."

"Anko we must not question Naruto judgment," Yūgao said, "I'm sure that Naruto will tell us what he wants to know when he wants to."

"Right this coming from you," Anko replied, "I bet your try to see how good he is with his swords." Yūgao didn't reply. Although, she would be lying if she said that she didn't want to see how good Naruto is in the art of sword combat.

"Anko you must not pressure the boy in telling you things he doesn't want to." The Hokage said.

"Can he at least answer some questions I have for him?" Anko replied.

Naruto let out a sighed one more time and said, "Fine I'll answer what I can. The rest you will have to wait for the right moment to tell you."

"Fair enough," Anko said, "Very well first question, since I know you won't talk about what happened that night, tell me what is this 'weapon seal' that you made? More importantly what are the other seals you made?"

Naruto couldn't help but raised an eyebrow at this and said, "I know for a fact that the Explosive Tags were explained very well. So to sum it all up, I can make three types of Explosive Tags. They have the same markings of that of a regular Explosive Tags. The only difference is that it has an image of a paw print. I trust you already know what they are and how strong they are." Everyone in the room nodded, "Good, to save time lets jump to the weapon seal. I know that you all seen the seal on Kura's blade, correct." Again everyone nodded.

"Good. I made that seal by using other key parts that other seals have. The seal is meant to make the weapon stronger than before and gives the holder easy ability to mold their chakra into the weapon. It also gives the user to summon the weapon in to battle like a summoning. The last little thing that the seal dose is that it allows the weapon to have a special cloak that not only makes the weapon stronger but also prevents anyone the holder doesn't want to hold it." Naruto paused for about a good second or two, allowing them to take in the information.

"The seal has two forms, paper and engraved form. The engraved form means that the weapon must have the seal somewhere on it, while the paper from is to just write the seal on a piece of paper and then must be wrapped around the weapon in some way to work. Each form has specific effects to the weapon, for example, the paper form allows the holder to use his or her chakra easily with the weapon. However, it cannot repair itself and it is not that stronger than before. The engraved form gives the weapon all the abilities I stated but since it has to be engraved on to the weapon, make a mistake will be sad since you will have to get the weapon fixed or get a new one. However, I don't think anyone would really do that so paper seems to be the best bet for so. With the seal the weapon becomes stronger but not indestructible. If the weapon ever dose brake then the seal can repair it to look brand new. Another good thing is that since the weapon can be summoned into battle it can also be de-spelled from the battlefield with all its parts."

"What do you mean by that?" Yūgao asked. Naruto simple bit his right thumb and let out sum blood.

"The key to the seal is blood, without it the seal won't work." Naruto clamed, "You see in order for the seal to work, the caster must cover the seal with their blood. When that happens, the seal will make the blood cover the entire weapon from head to toe in the blood. The blood is the key to every function the seal dose. The seal binds both the caster and the weapon together, that's how the weapon knows when an enemy touches the weapon and how it easily lets chakra flow through it. The owner will have to be careful since he or she will be adding chakra to the seal for this to work. If too much is added, the weapon will break, too little and the seal will fail." Naruto paused so that they could take in this information.

"If everything works out will, the will now weapon be bonded to the owner, it is easy to summon your weapon into battle with a thought, however you must remember every detail the weapon has or else it won't be summoned. From its height, weight and any other details it has. And I'm pretty sure you need a clean head to do that during battle. In fact if the weapon breaks and it was summoned from a scroll, if it's de-spelled then all the parts will be put back into the scroll. When the person has any spear time, all he has to do is put the weapon back together. Think of it as a puzzle. Put every piece back in its place, then the blood will connected it back together and the seal will repair it. And that is the weakness of my seal. If the weapon is never sealed in a scroll, if it breaks the owner will have to look for all the pieces on his own and put the thing back together. If it's missing pieces then the weapon will become weaker. I would suggest getting a new weapon or remove the seal and have a blacksmith fix the thing and replace the seal. Which brings me to the last thing, if the seal is damaged in any way, then it will stop working. That's why the seal should be place in an area where it won't be damage."

Everyone was impressed that Naruto was able to explain all he could about his seal to them in such detail. They just stared at him for a second or so before Naruto said, "Anything else?"

Anko blinked for a second and said, "Yay one last thing, Kura said that you trained since you got back. When and how did you do that? What did you do and where did you do it?"

"Ah a simple one," Naruto said, "As I already know that you all know that I have learned the Shadow Clone Jutsu,correct?" Everyone nodded. "You see every day I would send out six clones out to train when I went to class, they would train in stealth, all combat forms and the academy basics. As most of you know I did drawings all over the village to improve my drawing skills to make seals. I also did plenty of pranks just to improve my stealth skills and learn how to make some traps for an enemy outside the village's walls. I even went so far to put on an orange neon jumpsuit just to have a challenge and I still got away."

Everyone couldn't believe what they heard. Naruto had basically trained right in front of their eyes and didn't even notice it. "As in where I trained, will you be surprise in how knowing you Anko would help someone."

Anko blinked for a second or so and until she said, "Wait you trained in the Forest of Death?"

Naruto nodded, "Yup, knowing your schedule and the fact that no one goes near that place really helps to get some peaceful training done." Once again everyone was shock to hear this.

"But why did you hide you true strength?" Yūgao asked.

"Easy, to get the council off my back," Nobody said anything. "I mean it was easy to tell that they didn't take the news of my return so easily. So I had to hide my skills so that they wouldn't think that the 'demon' was getting to strong. Not to mention Mizuki helped out by sabotaged my grades to make me look like a dead last. However, now that I'm a ninja a bets they have on me are now off since they have no say in ninja affairs."

Sarutobi couldn't help but smile in seeing how much Naruto had planned a head just so that he wouldn't be have a hard time again. 'You are growing up well Naruto. Your mother and father would have been proud of you'

Naruto took this moment and place the file on the Hokage's desk. He was about to head to the door but Yūgao spoke out,

"Naruto if it isn't too much, can I look at your sword." Naruto stopped for a second or two before he slammed his right hand to the ground.

PUFF

Within a cloud of smoke Naruto said, "Catch." Very soon an object came out of the smoke heading straight to Yūgao. She caught it and began to examine it. To a common person the object would look like a big black stick, however, after a second or two Yūgao figured out that the object was Naruto's sword.

The sword was about 39 inches long and its scabbard was a pitch black color. Its handle was wrapped in a cloth that looked about the same color. The cloth gave a light red diamond pattern on both sides along with dark red fox's paw print on both sides. Yūgao slowly pulled the sword out from its scabbard. The first thing she noticed was the silver collar that had the same seal Kura's blade had. She continued to pull the sword out and notice that the blade was cloaked in a color of a dark blood red color. She finally stopped about half way and noticed the perfect mix of dark green and light mint green flames pattern on the blade's sharp edge. Yūgao knew that Naruto's blade was a beautiful work of art and wondered how much skill he was with it.

'So this is what Kura was talking about,' Yūgao thought, "His blades look like a Chokutō blade since it has no guard like most other swords. However, it's still a Ninja-to due to its size and that it is a straight sword. I wonder how skill he is at using these things in battle."

"I know what you're thinking about." Everyone looked at Naruto as he continued, "Your wondering how skill I'm with my blades? Don't worry I know many forms of skills that can help me. I know the basics to Kenjutsu and often use that, however the art of Iaido is my bread and butter. I seem to work good at speed that's why."

Yūgao couldn't help but smile underneath her mask. She slowly put the sword back in its scabbard. When she was done, she tossed it back to Naruto. However before it could even come close to Naruto, it burst in to smoke again. 'So that's how his seal work,' they all thought.

Anko walked up to Naruto and pulled out an envelope from one of her cloak's pockets. "This is your payment for completing your first B-Rank mission. Welcome to the ninja ranks Naruto."

Naruto took the envelope and smiled at them all. He headed to the door but before he could make it to it, everyone felt someone with chakra coming this way. Both Anko and Yūgao disappeared into a swirl of leaves.

'Oh boy,' the Hokage thought. As if on cue, the door to the office burst open.

"Alright old man I'm here for your hat!" yelled a childish voice. In the door way stood a boy, but when he took a few steps, the boy gave the floor a face plant by falling flat on his face.

Naruto closely looks at the boy in detailed. The boy looked about seven if not eight years of age. He wore a gray helmet but Naruto didn't pay much into detail at that. The boy was wearing a yellow shirt with the Konoha symbol in red and with a pair of gray shorts. He was also wearing a blue scarf that looked about three times the size of the boy. 'That thing is going to kill him.' Naruto thought. He assumed that was the reason he felled down.

"Honorable Grandson," Naruto stared back at the door and notice a man at the door. Off the bat Naruto could tell that he was a Jōnin ninja. The man wore the standard Konoha shinobi outfit, all but the flak jacket. He was wearing his forehead protector like a bandanna and covered his hair and was wearing sunglasses.

"Honorable Grandson, are you alright." The man noticed that Naruto was in the room and couldn't help but give a hatful stare. "Great the demon boy is here. I have to get him away from the Honorable Grandson."

The boy in question slowly got up. Once he was back on his feet he notice Naruto, "Hay you tripped me."

"Honorable Grandson, get away from him." The man said.

"But he tripped me sensei." The boy replied.

'Sensei?,' Naruto thought, "This kid wasn't any of the ones who had graduated from the academy and from the looks of it he might barely start it," Naruto looked back at the man by the corner of his eyes, "If this guy is his sensei then that means that he is a Tokubetsu Jōnin. A special class of Jōnin who all have unique set of skills that make them special to the village's military. Anko is one because she is a member of Konoha's Torture and Interrogation Force. So that makes this guy the ones that train specific kids to become elites quick. But I heard that these guys can only teach the kids so little before they have to attend the academy like the others."

Naruto looked back at the boy and said, "You tripped on your own two feet. I would be careful with that scarf of yours if you don't want that to happen."

"Show some respect you brat!" the man said, you are speaking to the Third Hokage's grandson, so know your place!"

'The third's grandson…?' Naruto thought, as he raised an eyebrow at the news. He looked back at the boy, who was smirking

"What's the matter tough guy," boy mocked, "nothing to say after finding out that the Third Hokage is my grandfather."

Naruto didn't really care to what he had to say, "I don't care who your relatives are. All I said was that you tripped over you scarf, so watch your step next time." Having said enough, Naruto walked out the office, passing the boy and man along the way. However, the boy was impressed by Naruto's action that he followed him.

"Ignore him Honorable Grandson, now it's time for your…" the man stopped himself after noticing that the boy had left the room, "Honorable Grandson, Honorable Grandson where did he go!?"

"I think Konohamaru followed Naruto, Ebisu." The Hokage said. As soon as those words left the old man mouth, the man now known as Ebisu panicked and ran after the boy called Konohamaru.

The Hokage sighed and thought, 'You really are growing up Naruto, let's just hope it's for the best.' The old man picked up the folder Naruto had left on his desk and opened it.

Meanwhile outside on top of the office's roof, both Anko and Yūgao had overheard everything. Since they knew what Ebisu was like, they knew they had to follow Naruto to see what was about to happen.


(With Naruto)

Naruto was walking though the inner woods of the village. He really wasn't in the mood to have the villagers to stare at him and talk bad behind his back.

About ten minutes of walking, Naruto couldn't help but feel he was being followed. He took a cut after passing a big tree and disappeared. Not long after the boy, Konohamaru walked passed the tree. However, when he looked at the path in front of him, no one was there.

"What are you doing?" Konohamaru jumped and looked up. He noticed that Naruto was standing up in the tree.

"Hay you scared me!" Konohamaru yield,

"So, you're following me." Naruto said with a boring tone, "What do you want?"

"Simple, I want you to be my new sensei."

"What? Why," Naruto couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at this.

"Simple, you were the only one that didn't call me 'Honorable Grandson'; instead you treated me like a normal kid. So I want you to train me to be just like you."

Naruto was surprised at the boy's answer. Sadly, he knew that he couldn't be his sensei since he was fresh out of the academy. However, he could tell that this kid needed a role model or a friend. "What's your name?"

"Konohamaru, I'm going to be the next Hokage."

"The next Hokage…?"

"Yay, I don't want to stay in the shadow of my grandfather. So I'll be come the next Hokage and make a name for myself then nobody can call me…"

"Honorable Grandson," both Naruto and Konohamaru looked behind each other and notice that Ebisu had finally caught up. Ebisu looked at Konohamaru and then he spotted Naruto up in a tree. "Honorable Grandson, get away from him right now!"

"No!" Konohamaru yield and then pointed at him, "You're not my sensei anymore," he pointed up to Naruto, "he is and he is going to teach me how to become Hokage."

Ebisu stared at him for a second and then burst into laughter the next second. "There is nothing that brat can teach you to become Hokage. I can get you there in half the time and half the effort. All he will teach you is how to fall flat on your face." Ebisu mocked.

Konohamaru was about to say something when…

POOF

Konohamaru looked up, but his eyes soon went to the ground as Naruto landed right in front of him. Naruto now had the sword, he had out not too long ago, out and was strapped onto his right hip.

Ebisu just chuckle at the form of events, "So the brat wants to fight. Please you are in no position to hurt me since I'm at a higher level."

"I don't care about your rank." Naruto replied, "However, I do care about people putting down others for their own gain. I bet you only train him so that you could be notice when he became the Hokage and that you 'helped' him get there." Naruto look back at Konohamaru, "Konohamaru, if you really want to make a name for yourself, than stop complaining and start making your mark on the world. In life no one was ever noticed or remember those who were cowards. And cowards always take shortcuts. Don't let others drive your life, man up and take action for once."

Konohamaru couldn't help but feel motivated by Naruto's word. However, Ebisu didn't have the same idea, "Very well then, lets settle this in a little fight. If you win then I would gladly back away from this. However, if I win, then I will train Konohamaru my way and he will forget about you and what happened here today."

"Hum… I can handle this in five seconds."

"Hu…Cocky much aren't you. Remember I'm in a league higher then you could ever reach brat, so show some respect."

"Alright then, three seconds," Naruto answered with no emotion.

Ebisu was really getting mad, but controlled himself when he remembered he had nothing to worry about. "Very well, you have three seconds. In those three seconds I won't move or try to doge any attack that isn't lethal. Once time is up, so is yours."

Anko and Yūgao were both hiding in the trees in the middle of the two. By far they didn't know what to think of the situation. However, they remembered something that Kura told them.

'Anyone who fights Naruto really needs to be on their toes.' They remembered 'He would never fight any one that is stronger than him. After all you yourself said it… Naruto is full of surprises.'

'Looks like we are going to see what they meant by that.' They both thought.

Naruto placed his hand on the sword's scabbard and Ebisu just stood still. "Ready brat," Naruto didn't answer. Ebisu was done with Naruto's lack of respect.

"Three" Naruto did nothing.

"Two" Still nothing.

"One" At this point, Ebisu was reaching into his pouch for his kunai. Sadly, what happens next was nothing that anyone saw coming.

"Zer…"

POP

CLANK

SLASH

Nobody could believe what had just happen. In fact they didn't even know what just happen.

Ebisu felt nothing but pain throughout his body. He couldn't move. All he could do is fell flat on his face. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of Naruto's blade entering the scabbard.

CLANK

"Zero" Ebisu moved his head to the side, and with what little angle he had; he was able to see Naruto behind him with the coroner of his eye.

"What just happened?" Ebisu forced out.

Naruto didn't even bother to look at him but he did answer him, "You blinked."

"Cute brat, but what the hell d-id yo-u do to m-e." Ebisu couldn't figure out what had happened. First, Naruto was in front of him and the next thing he knew he was on the floor in pain with Naruto behind him.

"If you really want to know then don't talk until I'm done." Ebisu could only grunt at this, "Good. Now if you remember when I came down from that tree, I had my sword out. While you were talking, I was adding chakra to my blades lower part of the scabbard. This is one of my sword combat moves. You see by adding chakra to a blade's case, the blade would be forced out. However, I was holding the blade back into place, allowing the chakra to build up. When I let go, POP, my blade bursted forwarded. Thankfully being up in that tree also helped me see how far away I was away from you. We were about 12 feet apart, knowing that I was able to add the right amount of chakra. Since you were so sure that you would be the victor in this fight, you were not able to see my blade come right at your head. After you lost your balance, I dashed to my blade. I caught it in mid-air and thankfully my blade bounced back enough so I could use my new technique. This attack is able to use the force of my normal slash attack and create a shockwave. When the shockwave hit you, it felt the same as if I had cut you with my blade. I call it the Paralyzing Slash. What do you think?"

Ebisu didn't answer. "Oh well it's a work in progress. You were very lucky that I didn't catch my sword earlier. If I did then I would have really cut you." Naruto looked at Ebisu, "The attack should wear off in about ten minutes. I held my end of the deal so I expect you to hold your own."

Even in pain Ebisu couldn't help but laugh at the boy, "Ha… What makes you think you'll be off the hook for this. Once the Hokage learns of this, you will be in deep trouble and would lose you rank as a ninja for going agents your superior. Face it brat I still win."

"Your right there," Naruto said, "But you're missing two things. One you challenged me so you can't go saying I attack you for no reason. If you chose to deny this, will I have two witnesses that can say otherwise," Both Anko and Yūgao's widen at this. "Konohamaru and Anko," he looked up to the tree that he knew Anko was in, "Anko I know you're up in that tree, so come out."

Anko popped her head out from where the tree was covering her. "I knew there was someone fallowing me. Number two is that if you tell people that you lost to a little boy, will I don't even want to know what would happen once word got out that you were beaten by someone who had barely become a ninja." Ebisu couldn't help but growl at the fact but his pain stopped him.

"Well said Naruto, now I'm sure you have somewhere to go so go." Anko said. Naruto just nodded and just like that he vanished. Everyone couldn't help but bugged their eyes out at this. "Frist was Mizuki, then your skill agents Ebisu and now this. Just how strong are you Naruto?"

Anko looked at Konohamaru and said, "Konohamaru go home, your training is over." Konohamaru just nodded and began to walk home. Anko turned to look back at Ebisu, "If you tell anyone what happen here, I'll make your life a living hell."

With those words, she too despaired, leaving Ebisu on the ground.


(The Next Day: Academy)

Today was the day that main of the graduates were waiting for. Today they will become ninjas of the Hidden Leaf and be assigned into a three man squad lead by a Jōnin sensei. Naruto at the moment didn't care. He was sitting in the back like he always had. No one really paid much attention to him, will any of the civilian children.

In fact almost all of the clan head kids were looking at him. Sure it may not be directed eye contacted but they were looking at him with the corner of their eyes. Growing up with people staring at him behind his back, Naruto easily devolved a way to tell when someone was looking at him.

Right now most of the boys were trying to figure out what Naruto was hiding. After last week's performance, some of them knew that there was more then what Naruto was showing.

However, Naruto really didn't care for this. He slowly stretched in his seat and waited for the assignments to begin.

He looked to his right and notice that Hinata was taking a nap. He couldn't help but notice that she had a new change to her wardrobe. From the look of it, Naruto knew that both Anko and Yūgao had something to do with this.

Hinata was wearing dark lavender shirt with a fishnet body suit underneath. He noticed that because he could see part of it around her neck. On that note, he noticed the dark purple overcoat with the Ying and Yang symbol on the back of the seat.

'That spells out Anko if I ever knew it.' Naruto also that she was wearing black ANBU pants like he did. The only thing that stayed the same was her black sandals.

"Hinata wake up." He shocked her a bit and she slightly woke up. She yawned a bit and looked at Naruto.

"Morning Naruto what's up?" she said calmly. Naruto was a bit surprise at her form of speech.

"I see you dropped the shy girl act."

"Yay, why you wanted to spank me or something," She answered with an evil smirk.

Naruto only had one thing run though his mind after that comment. 'Yup, this has Anko written all over it.'

"Jeez… what did we miss?" Both of them looked forward and noticed that Mia, Kira and Kyo were looking at them.

"Nothing really Mia," Hinata answered, "I was just answering Naruto a question to the best of my abilities."

"So how did your answer come out to that?" Kyo asked.

Naruto stopped listening to the girl talk for a little bit and looked at everyone in the room with the corners of his eyes. He tried to see who in the room he would be able to work with but none fit the bill.

Every civilian child would be a terrible idea since none of them really liked them or their families didn't like him.

The clan heads didn't help since many of them wouldn't see eye to eye on some things. Both Kiba and Sasuke were out, since he knew that he might kill them just by getting on his nerves. Choji and Shikamaru were beyond lazy and he was more energetic, so he knew that wouldn't work. Plus Shikamaru had this bad habit of sticking his nose were it doesn't belong and he didn't want anyone to know much about him, staying away was his best beat. Then there was Shino, Naruto didn't have much hate agents the guy since he often keep to himself. However just like Shikamaru, he also had a bad habit of sticking his nose where it didn't belong.

In fact the only people he could work with were Mia, Kira, Kyo and Hinata since he got along with them so will. Now that he thought about it, Ino would also work since she too got along with him and she really cared about her life as a future ninja unlike others who think that it's all fun and games.

"Forget it Ino-pig, I'm sitting next to SASUKE!"

'Speck of the devil,' Naruto thought. Naruto turned around and noticed Ino standing behind him. She was staring off at another direction. Naruto didn't look since the sound of girls arguing about who would sit next to the last Uchiha. Naruto couldn't help but noticed that Ino had a sword on her back.

From what he could tell, the sword was some type of Katana and that it had purple handle with yellow diamond pattern. The sword had a red scabbard.

Ino had enough of seeing her former friend and many others argue over the simplest thing like sitting next to Sasuke. She notice that Naruto was sitting down in front of her staring at front of the class and that the seat was empty next to him.

"Naruto may I sit next to you?"

"Sure Ino go ahead." Naruto replied. Ino smiled and took the seat. She looked forward and waited for the team assigning to beginning. However, she couldn't help but look at both Naruto and Hinata through the corner of her eyes. She could tell that the two were not the same from a week ago.

'So the both of you dropped your masked,' she thought. 'I don't know why you two had them on but it's good that you do,' she looks at the other in the room, 'because I have a feeling that things are going to be harder from here on and we need every strong person we have.'

She was pulled out of her thoughts when the door to the room opened and close. She looked forward and noticed Iruka standing in the middle of the class with a clipboard in his hand.

"Good morning class," he said.

"Good morning Iruka-sensei," they replied.

"I would like to say congratulation on all of you for making it this far." Iruka then frowned, "However, I'm afraid that I have some bad news. About a week ago, Mizuki was killed. They told me that he was trying to steal a scroll that was very important to the village. So he was killed for that. I unfortunately was caught in the crossfire and I'm lucky to have survived." He paused to let this sink in and then continued, "The reason I'm telling you this is that now that you all are about to become ninjas, you must be careful on how you live on from here own. You must all help each other and make sure that none of you dose anything wrong. All I ask is that you all be safe out there. With that said, you are all being place in a three man team with a Jōnin as your new sensei." Iruka pulled the clipboard out and read what it said, "Team one is…"

Everyone listened for their names; they all hope to be with people good or with their friends. "Team 7 is Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno…"

"WHAT!" Sakura screamed.

"Let me finish." Iruka claimed, "…and Sasuke Uchiha."

"YES TRUE LOVE CONQUERS ALL!" she turns and looks at Ino, "Take that Ino-pig"

Ino said nothing. In fact she didn't even look at her. This of course pissed Sakura off since she thought that she is just trying to act cool in front of Sasuke.

With nothing more said, Iruka continued, "Anyways, Team 7 your new sensei will be Kakashi Hatake." Naruto narrowed his eyes at the name that was given. "Team 8 is. Hinata, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame, your new sensei is Kurenai Yūhi."

This time Hinata was the one who narrowed her eyes at the name that was given. "Team 9 is Mia, Kira and Kyo, however, your sensei is not mentioned on the list."

"Don't worry," answered Mia, "We were already told our sensei already."

THUD

Everyone turned to the sound of Sasuke slamming his hands on his desk. "Why do they get a special teacher?"

"It's not special when our sensei is our own mothers." Mia replied, "After all our families studies similar combat styles. Since we already get training from our mothers, we won't be having any training with them."

"They will only be around when we go on missions." Kyo said, "Since our mothers will go on missions themselves, they will switch over time. So if you look at it we will have three senseis, but only one will be with us and we won't be learning anything new."

"I don't see why you're complaining," Kira asked, "I mean you have Kakashi Hatake, one of the village's best ninja." Sasuke narrowed his eyes at this, "After all, I heard he was pick especially for you, Sasuke."

Sasuke said nothing and looked forward with his usual look. After a few seconds of silence, Iruka spoke, "Very well, before I forget, last year's Team 9 is still active up to day. So you guys are really Team 11."

The three nodded and Iruka continued, "Very well moving on, Team 10 is Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka and Choji Akimichi, your new sensei is Asuma Sarutoni."

'Great,' Ino thought with a sarcastic tone.

"Now your senseis will be here in an hour to pick you up. Until then you all have the time for yourselves." Iruka said as he walked to the door, "Be safe all of you, it was an honor to teach you all as my first class." With that he walked out.

Many students did the same not long after. Naruto noticed that Kiba walk towards Hinata. "Hay Hinata," he said, "Seeing that we are team on the same team. I was wondering if you like to have lunch together or something."

"Sorry Kiba, but I already promise Naruto I eat with him." She answered. Kiba got angry by her response.

"Naruto has his own team to eat with." He said with anger building up, "This could be a good time for use to bond together as a team."

"I said no." Kiba was about to grab her by the shoulder, but to his shock, Hinata grabbed his wrist.

"Leave or you'll spend the next days in the hospital." She said. All this time she had not even looked at him. She let go of him and Kiba just walked out.

"Hay Naruto, mind if I eat lunch with you guys?" Ino asked

"Sure I don't see why not." Naruto replied.

"Hay Ino, are you coming or what?" Ino looked at the front of the class and noticed both Shikamaru and Chōji ready to go out and eat.

"No thanks, I'm eating with Naruto for today." She replied.

"Troublesome." The Nara said, as both he and Chōji left the room.

Shino was about to leave, but was stop by Naruto. "Shino get them off."

"Pardon?" he asked.

"The bugs that are on both me and Hinata get them off." He said in cold tone, "If you don't, I'll get rid of them myself and I know you won't want that."

Not soon after a couple of bugs came off of Naruto and Hinata and even the table they were at.

"Good," Naruto said, "If I find any more of your bugs around us, will I hope they said their goodbyes to you and the hive in your body." With that, Shino walked out and said nothing.

Now only five people were in the room, Team 11, Hinata, Ino and Naruto. After a good minute or so, everyone pulled out their food and began to eat.

"So Ino why didn't you want to eat with your own team," Kyo asked.

Ino swallowed a bite from her sandwich and said, "Because I have already gotten to known those two for years now. So I wanted to interact with other teams, sadly, you guys are the only ones that I can stand being around and I know that you will take your ninja job seriously."

"I see," Kyo looked and noticed the sword on her back, "I take it you are interested in learning in the art of sword combat?"

Ino swallowed some water from her bottle, "Yes I'm. I like my family style and I'm hoping I can add more to it by adding a sword." Everyone raised an eye at that, in curiosity. "After all you can never be too careful as a ninja, so it would be good to have another form of combat under my belt."

"Thinking ahead Ino, not bad," Kira said, "At least you are trying to survive out there." They both smiled and continued to eat. However, Hinata was the next to bring a topic up,

"Speaking of swords, Naruto what is this that Anko is telling me about you using them."

Naruto swallowed the bread he was eating and said, "I was seen using them and told her everything about them. In fact," he looks at Team 11, "their moms were the ones that taught me in sword combat."

"Really, because I heard your good at it."

"Thanks but really wouldn't say I'm good, just decent."

"Hay," everyone turned to look at Ino, "that reminds me, what was that thing you said about you guy's mom becoming your senseis."

Mia was the one to answer that, "Well, that's easy Ino. We three have a unique way of fighting, that only our mothers could teach us. However since our moms are important ninjas, they will swap out once and awhile due to missions they have to do. Sadly, they will only be around to teach use very little and watch over use when we go on missions."

After that clearing up, the five all ate and talked about their futures, how they are in life and many other things. In fact Ino had asked Naruto if he would train her in the art of the sword. Naruto agreed to this and planed out how they would do this.

Not long after the hour was up, and all the teens from earlier came back into the classroom and wait for their new senseis. One by one they were picked up by their new teachers till only four teams remained.

The doors opened and Kura walked in, "Team 11 with me."

The team in questioned got up and said good-bye to the three they were talking about. Once they were out the door, it didn't take long for someone else to come in.

It was another women, Naruto looked at her and took in any noticeable details. The woman was fairly tall and light-skinned woman, who had a slender body build. She has long black, shoulder-length untamed hair, and had red eyes, with an additional ring in them. From what Naruto could see, the women wore red lipstick and purple eye shadow. Her outfit however was what got Naruto's interest. Her outfit consisted of a red blouse with only the right sleeve visible and wore regular shinobi sandals. Overall, her outfit resembled a bandaged up look with a pattern on it, but couldn't tell what pattern it was. Her hands and upper thighs were wrapped in bandages and she wears the Leaf's forehead protector on her forehead.

'So this is Kurenai,' Naruto thought. He turned to look at Hinata, 'I hope you are ready Hinata. From what you have told me, you aren't really too fond of her, since she reminds you of the past. And if you're not ready then this will be your greatest challenge yet.'

"Team 8, your with me." She said. Naruto looked at the other two who had gotten up and notice that Kiba was giving a look at Hinata that he didn't like.

"Hinata if they do anything let me know." He whispered to her.

"Don't worry I can handle it," she whispered back. She grabbed her cloak and walked to her team. However, they both noticed that Kurenai was staring at them with her eyes narrowed. When Hinata was next to them, they left.

Not soon after they left, a man enter the room.

"Team 10 with me," he said.

The man was tall and had brown eyes, short black spiked up hair, and a beard. He wore the standard Konoha ninja uniform with the sleeves rolled up half way, a flak jacket, regular shinobi sandals and forehead protector on his head. He also had a weird sash around his waist that had a big red circle with the kanji for fire, in black.

'So this is the old man's son,' Naruto thought, 'Asuma, former member of the Twelve Guardian Ninja. That must be what that sash is for.'

"Bye Naruto," Naruto was taken out of his thoughts by Ino.

"Bye Ino, see you around." With that, Team 10 left and left Team 7 there to wait. They waited and waited but no one showed up. Sakura complained a bit, but Naruto paid no mind to her.

Finally after three hours, the door opened and a man's head popped in.

"Team 7," he said. This caught everyone's attention. "My first thought on you guys is that you all suck." This of course didn't suit will with both Sasuke and Sakura mad, Naruto on the other hand could care less.

"Meet me on the roof in five minutes." He disappeared with those word were said. Both Sasuke and Sakura looked at Naruto and noticed he wasn't there anymore. Wasting no more time, the two ran up to the roof.


(Academy Roof Top)

Both Sasuke and Sakura burst through the door of the academy's roof. They noticed that their sensei was looking at the village from the view of the roof and was reading some orange book. They soon noticed that Naruto was sitting on some steps right behind their sensei. They both noticed something off about him but they couldn't tell what.

"What the hell dobe," Sasuke said, "How did you get here so quick?"

Naruto said nothing. This made Sasuke mad and not unnoticed by Sakura, "Answer him you baka," she said, "Just because you have a new look doesn't mean that you are any better than Sasuke."

Naruto turned to them and gave them a blank but cold stare. This made both of them nervosa, but that didn't last long and Naruto turned to look at their sensei.

The man was very fit and very tall. He had silver spiky hair. From what he saw earlier, the man had a dark colored eye and his left eye was covered by his forehead protector. He even wore a mask to cover the lower half of his face from nose to neck. He wore the slandered Konoha ninja uniform with the sleeves rolled up half way, a flak jacket, regular shinobi sandals and a pair of blue gloves that had the finger tips ripped and a silver metal plate on the middle of the gloves.

The man turned around and noticed everyone was here, "Good you are all here, now take a seat so we could begin."

Both Sasuke and Sakura quickly took a seat were Naruto was.

"Now why don't we begin with some introductions, so that we can become more acquainted with each other, gives your name, the things you like and dislike, any hobbies you may have and your goals for the future." the man said.

"Why don't you model for us sensei?" Sakura asked.

The man closed his little orange book and placed it in his back pouch. "Very well, my name is Kakashi Hatake, my likes and dislikes are none of your concern, my dream for the future…" he paused and went into a thinking pose, "I have plenty of hobbies."

'Great all we learn was his name.' were the thoughts of the three teens.

"Okay grumpy your up," He pointed to Sasuke. Sasuke was about to get mad but realized that, that will prove his point.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I don't have like anything and I hate about everything, can't say I have any hobbies, my dream for the future isn't a dream because I'm going to make it a reality. I'm going to find and kill a certain someone and bring pride back to my clan." Sakura had harts for eyes now after hearing that and Naruto had no thoughts on the matter.

'Great he's an avenger,' Kakashi thought, 'Looks like he will do what he can to achieve his goal.'

'Sasuke is so cool.' Sakura thought.

"Alright, pinky your next," Sakura snapped out her little episode and began to speak,

"My name is Sakura Haruno, my likes are…" she blushed and looked at Sasuke, "My dislikes are…" She looked at Naruto with hatred in her eyes; "My hobbies are…" looked at Sasuke with a deeper blush, "My dreams for the future are…" looked at Sasuke with even a deeper blush.

'Great a fan girl,' Kakashi thought, bothSasuke and Naruto didn't have anything to say to this.

"Okay, blondie you're up," Naruto said nothing to this.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, I have many likes, like training, being with friends and eating Ramen. I have many dislikes as well, like people who don't help out others, people who use other for their own gain, perverts and people who judge people on the littlest things instead of other things. I don't have many hobbies except for training and playing my Ocarina from time to time. And my dream for the future is…" he paused for a moment and everyone raised a brow at this, "My dream is to find my peace in this dark place called my life to live happy with the people I care for, even if it is for a short time."

No one knew what to make of this. 'That's strange coming from you.' Kakashi thought. Sakura just thought that he was trying to act better than Sasuke and wasn't buying it for a minute. Sasuke on the other hand didn't know how to think of this, so he dropped it.

"Okay now that that's out of the way, I say it's time we talk about your next test." Kakashi said.

Before Kakashi could continue, Sakura spoke, "But we already took the academy final sensei. I thought we were done with tests."

"If you stop talking for a minute I'll tell you," with that, Sakura keep quiet, "Now as I was saying, you three will be taking a test. It's true that you took a final for the academy; however that was to see if you know the basics of being a ninja. This test will force you to use all your skills together on the battlefield. I should warn you that this test has a 60% of failing meaning you all have 40% chance in a passing the test." Both Sasuke and Sakura tensed up a bit at the info they had just heard. Naruto however, just narrow his eyes at the news. "Before I forget, those who fail the test are sent right back to the academy, no questions asked."

Now both Sasuke and Sakura were starting to freak out at the news.

'Great if I'm stopped here, I'll never get strong and I will never be able to kill him' Sasuke thought

'I just got the moment to be with Sasuke,' Sakura thought 'Now I'm at a cost of losing him. No I won't fail this test. I'll do whatever it takes to be with him. After all, true love always triumphs.'

Naruto on the other hand had a mix feeling, 'Everything seems to add up. We only learn the basics of being a ninja and in order for our new sensei to help us; they must see how we act in battle. However something still doesn't fell right and I can't tell why.'

Kakashi stood up and turned around to look at the view of the village from the top of the roof. "Meet me tomorrow at training ground 7 at six o'clock in the morning. Oh and skip breakfast because you might throw up and that could affect your score." Both Sasuke and Sakura made a note to remember that.

Kakashi pecked by using the corner of his right eye to see what they were think. However, he was shock to see that Naruto was no longer there. He didn't hear him leave nor did he even sense him leave. 'What the hell, did he use some sort of Body Flicker.I didn't even notice him leaving and if he didn't use a Body Flicker, how did he get out without making much of a sound?" Sadly, Sasuke notice the change in his sensei's behaver and looked at what he was looking at and noticed that Naruto was gone

'Where the hell did the loser go?' he thought. His actions didn't go unnoticed since Sakura was staring at him. At first she thought that he was doing what she does, the 'looking at the person through the corner of your eye when they're not looking back at you' thing. Her theory however, went out the window when she noticed that he was staring behind her. She turned around and noticed that Naruto wasn't there.

'Looks like the idiots left early,' Sakura thought, 'Oh well if he fails then I'll be on Sasuke team with him and him alone.'

Both them turn to stare back at their sensei, "You two are free to go." He then disappear in a swirl of leafs.

Having enough of this Sasuke left and was then followed by Sakura.


(Training ground 7, six o'clock)

Training ground 7 was a unique training ground then those found in the other parts of the village. Unlike many others, this training ground was located within the walls of the village. It had a nice view of the mountains and the landscape. There was a large river and the ground's had forests like areas on both sides. The odd thing about the training ground was that there were there are three stumps lined side by side at the center.

At this very moment, Sakura could be seen running in to the training ground looking tired and hungry. She was running late and put what little energy she had in running to the training ground. However, she noticed that no one was there. She panicked, thinking that she was at the wrong training ground but remember the sign she saw when she had enter the area.

She took a sit at a big tree that was in the open area. She was hoping that her beloved Sasuke would get here on time so that they could take the test already.

Ten Minutes Later

It didn't take long for Sasuke to arrive at the training ground. Like Sakura, Sasuke looked both tired and hungry. His mood changed when he noticed that Sakura was the only one there.

"Sasuke you made it." Sakura clamed with joy,

"Quite Sakura," Sasuke with a hint of anger in his tone, "Where is sensei, I thought he told use to get here at six. Speaking of where's the dobe?"

Sakura just kept her head high and with a smile said, "I don't know Sasuke, I just got here myself and no one was here. As for the baka I could care less of. After all if he fails then we'll both be on the same team together. Won't that be fun?"

"No it won't," Sasuke replied in a cold tone. Sakura was confused and a bit hurt at his response, but before she could ask him anything, he spoke again, "Look why don't you stay there and leave me alone until sensei arrives."

"I can't believe I have to deal with such annoying people. All they do is slow me down." Sasuke whisper that last part to himself, but Sakura heard him and said nothing.

Two Hours Later

Two hours passed and no one arrived. Sasuke sat on the middle stump in the field and Sakura sat under the tree. They didn't speak in the time they waited. Nothing but silence was head. Until about three minutes before the actual before the two hours had hit, a tone began to play.

Both Sasuke and Sakura caught on to the noise and noticed that it wasn't an animal making the noise.

PUFF

"Yo sorry I'm late I…" Kakashi said as he appeared with a burst of smoke. He wanted to great them but noticed that they didn't see him. Not soon after he arrived, he heard the tone both Sasuke and Sakura heard. The tone was a beautiful and soothing piece. Even thought he was never much of a music person, Kakashi know that the tone was played on a woodwind instruments, or whatever they were called, like a flute or something.

The odd thing was that it was at first hard to tell where the sound was coming from. To a normal person, the sound seemed to have been coming from almost every direction. However, Kakashi was not your standard person.

He could already tell that the sound was not coming from the outer area, but from the tree that next to them. Sadly, he was having trouble where in the tree the sound was coming from. He looked at both Sasuke and Sakura and noticed that they still had not notice him. 'It looks like they are having trouble finding the source of the sound.' Kakashi thought, 'I may have to fix that after this is over.'

Not long after his train of thought, the sound stopped.

Everyone was looking at the tree and notice movement within its branches. Before anyone could react, something fell down from the tree. Everyone was shock to see what had fallen down. It was Naruto.

However they were surprise for different reasons. Kakashi was staring at the object in Naruto's right arm.

The object had a strange oval shape that had a piece sticking out from an upper part of the oval. The oval also had about twelve holes all around the oval. The oval was a mid-night blue color and the outer parts of the holes were a light red color.

'So that's the Ocarina he said he plays.' Kakashi thought. However, both Sasuke and Sakura were staring at Naruto for two different reasons.

For as long as she knew Naruto, Sakura had never once cared for Naruto, nor did she care how he looked. And yesterday was no exception. Normally he would wear an orange jumpsuit, and yesterday she noticed he was wearing something new, but paid almost no attention to them.

However, now she was staring at him face to face. He did wear what she saw from yesterday, however, she didn't remember a few things.

In front of her was a Naruto wearing a dark navy blue shirt and a black pair of ninja pants. However, there was now more things added to his new look. He wore a clear white vest over his shirt that had pockets. Another thing was that he had metal plates on both his lower part of his legs and arms. He wore black gloves that Sakura knew looked a lot like Kakashi's gloves.

However, the really shock was that she finally noticed Naruto's new look. She noticed the red highlights on the edges of Naruto's hair. The fat that no longer surrounds his face and the new tone body he had. Along with that he was much taller then she last remembered.

'What the hell,' thought Sakura, 'when did the loser become so different?' she shook her head, trying to get those thoughts from her head 'No that doesn't matter he will never be better than Sasuke,'

Sasuke on the other hand was not looking at Naruto new look, although he didn't really notice his new look either. No he was shock at the fact that in the past ten minutes or so, he was trying to find the source of the sound. Now he was led to believe that the sound was from Naruto and that he was up in the tree and didn't even notice.

'What the hell how did the dobe mange to hide his presence from me' Sasuke thought 'He never once did that in the academy. What's changed?'

Naruto looked at the three and noticed their reactions, 'Great I was hoping this wouldn't happen.' Naruto put his Ocarina back into his back pouch, 'Oh will let's get this test over with already'

"Glad you could finally arrive, sensei." Naruto asked normally. He was hoping that he would be unable to hear the sarcastic tone he had when he said "sensei", sadly, Kakashi did.

With that said, both Sasuke and Sakura snapped out of their thoughts. Noticing that there sensei had arrived, Sakura shouted, "YOU'RE LATE!"

Kakashi sighed, "*Sigh* Sorry I'm late but a black cat was in my way so I had to find another way around."

"YAY RIGHT, LIAR…!" Sakura yelled. Both Sasuke and Naruto really didn't care for what was going on. They just wanted to get this day over with.

"Very well," Kakashi stated, "Since we are all here lets began the test." He reached behind him and pulled out two gray bells. "The test is simply, all you have to do is get a bell by mid-day."

"But sensei there is only two bells." Sakura said.

"That's right there are only two bells." Kakashi answered, "That means that only two of you will be able to pass this test and the one who fails to get a bell will be sent back to the academy. Why do you think 60% of the people that take the test, fail?" Sakura had a shocked look on her face.

'So in order to be with Sasuke, I have to get one of those bells before the time is up,' Sakura looked at Sasuke through the corner of her eyes, 'With Sasuke skill and my love, there is no way I'll fail this.' She then looks at Naruto, 'Tough luck baka, you may have a new look but you'll never be as good as Sasuke and will always be the dead-last.'

Sasuke had tense look on his face but quickly calmed himself, 'All I need is to get bell and I'll be one step closer to reach my goal.' He looked at both Naruto and Sakura with the corner of his eyes, 'However even with one of them out of my way, I will still have to deal with another useless obstacle to hold me back. Oh will I'll think about that later.'

Naruto could only narrow his eyes at the new info he had just heard, 'this doesn't seem to add up. Sure there is logic to this, but then what is the point of putting use in a three man team, if they were going to send one of use back. There must be something I'm missing. I'll just have to see what happens for a little bit."

"Oh and before I forget," Kakashi said, "If you want to get a bell, then you better come at me as if you were going to kill me," He then wrapped the two bells around his waist and pulled out a little orange book out and opened it. "Otherwise you won't even be able to touch them let alone me." He then began to read the book.

Sasuke slowly got angry knowing that he was mocking him by reading a book and telling him to fight him. However, he remembered that he was a higher rank ninja and if he could take him one like that, then he'll be able to teach him a lot.

Sakura on the other hand was freaking out. She thought that they would have to find the bells not fight their new sensei to get them. 'Oh no I didn't think I had to fight him. Looks like I must now truly test my love for Sasuke if I'm to pass this test and be one step closer to win his heart.'

Naruto however, had on thought on his mind, 'We have to fight him in order to get the bells. Hum… Interesting,'

"Alright now you all have until twelve in the afternoon to get a bell." Kakashi explained, "However, if none of you are unable to get the bell by that point we will try again after a lunch break, but that lunch break will go to the two who really tried their best to get a bell. The one who did the least amount of work will be tied up to one of the stumps and be forced to watch as the other two eat in front of them. Oh and if you eat during the test, you fail automatically."

Both Sasuke and Sakura's stomachs growled since they had missed out on breakfast. However, Naruto's stomach didn't growl. Kakashi noticed this.

"Alright, if you're ready, then began." Kakashi said. With that they all moved to areas that would give them an upper hand agent their Jōnin sensei.

Three and a Half Hours Later

Naruto was currently up in a tree, as he watched both Sasuke and Sakura's failed attempts to get a bell. He will admit that Sasuke was indeed trying to get the bells, but Kakashi was always ahead of the game and was able to counter Sasuke's attacks.

Sakura was well…Sakura. Naruto on the other hand was trying to find out a way to get those bells. Not that long ago he had made a conclusion on what this whole 'test' was about.

'Let's see, we are first place in a three man squad and know we are being told that we are going to be sent back to the academy if we didn't obtain a bell. Those said bells were on the Jōnin sensei that we had just been assigned to. This ninja has more fighting experience then all of use combined and we don't even know anything this guy's fighting style. Now I see why he told use not to eat and to get here earlier, so that we would be weak to fight him.

From the way things add up, it looks like this test was meant to test how well of a team we could be.' Naruto chuckle a bit as he looked at both Sasuke and Sakura; will from what he could see from his spot 'Too bad this really isn't a team that is not even close to having teamwork.'

'From a guy that thinks the whole word revolves around him and a girl who worships said guy as if he was god himself. Not to mention they don't really care much for me. Hum… some team.' Naruto then looked at the Jōnin and narrowed his eyes. 'I can't focus on our lack of teamwork right now. I have to find a way to obtain those bells with in thirty minutes.'

'From what I saw this guy is able to figure out a way to escape every attack Sasuke throw at him. Meaning that he must be keeping tabs on both Sasuke and Sakura, however, he still hasn't made any moves agents me. Is he waiting for me to make a move or does he think very little of me. I could also be out of his range and can tell that I'm not around. After all he still has that book out. Meaning he wants use to think that he has let his guard down. If that's the case how do I gain the upper hand on someone I have very few facts about and have a very limited window of opportunity to both strike and plan ahead.' Naruto stopped for a second and thought about what to do until,

'Wait that's it.' Naruto place his hand together and formed a hand seal.

(With Kakashi)

Kakashi was currently reading his book but was having a hard time since he was trying to look out for something. That something was Naruto. He will admit that fighting Sasuke was an impressive feat for a kid his age; however he was unable to locate Naruto with in the time and that was starting to worry him.

'Sasuke by far has shown that he has skill for a kid his age, however, he just needs to work on a few things and then I can teach him new things. Sakura on the other hand, needs to rebrand herself completely. With the way she's acting, she'll end up dead on the battlefield or worse.

However Naruto still remains a mystery. By far I never really believed the report I read on the kid. I always heard that the kid was the smallest and least skilled in his class. However, he now saw that he was 5'8 feet tall like the report said. Meaning that he was now the tallest in his class, not to mention that his grades were sabotage and he had scored the highest in the final exam.

So what is he waiting for? I can't even tell where he is at the moment. And if he wants to advance he has to get a bell from me and he doesn't have that much time…' Kakashi was pulled out of thought when he felt something behind.

'There you are,'

He put his book back into his back pouch and with a cloud of smoke,

PUFF

Kakashi was gone.

(With Naruto)

Naruto was currently eating some food on a rock when,

PUFF

Naruto looked behind him to see Kakashi was standing there. "Will it looks like I found you and you broke the rules." He said.

Naruto swallowed the food that was in his mouth and followed up with a slight grain, "Did you really?"

Before Kakashi could react,

PUFF

Kakashi was surrounded by smoke. He felt something come at him really fast, so he jumped out of the smoke.

When he was out he noticed that the sound of the bells were no longer able to be heard from his waist. He looked and noticed that they weren't there anymore. He looked back at the smoke and noticed it was gone.

In its place stood Naruto and in his left hand were the bells. "You know," he said, "just because I look like an easy target, doesn't mean that I'm an easy target. Besides I really didn't think you fell for bait that easily."

Kakashi narrow his eye at the turn of events. No one had ever gotten the bells from him, let alone one bell. Now Naruto stood there with the two bells in his hand.

"Very good," Kakashi said, "I will admit that you caught me off guard. However, there is still two minutes with in the test. So tell me can you defend them." With that Kakashi throw at least four shurikens at Naruto.

Naruto quickly moved to his left, as the shurikens hit the rock he was on. Naruto quickly noticed the Jōnin ninja coming right at him with a kunai in his right hand.

CLANK

Kakashi was shocked at what happen. Right now his kunai had just been stopped by another kunai that was in Naruto's right hand. However, Kakashi was more taken by the color of the kunai. The kunai looked like the one he had but had a dark reddish color, which Kakashi thought was black.

"A black kunai…?" the Jōnin thought.

Naruto on the other hand had noticed something when Kakashi charged at him. "That look he gave me. That's the same look I get from the villagers. Back when they tried to kill me."

Naruto quickly shock those thoughts out of his head and focused back on the task at hand.

Still having each other's kunai locked with one another, Naruto formed a hand seal with the same hand his kunai was on. Kakashi noticed that hand sign instantly.

'Wait that's…' Kakashi thought.

PUFF

Just like that Kakashi was surrounded by two more Narutos. 'Shadow Clone Jutsu and he is able to do it with one hand.'

The two Naruto clones quickly charge at Kakashi.

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"

Before it could react, the clone that was on the right of them was hit with a giant ball of fire. The clone burst into smoke and the fireball was now heading straight to the other three. Naruto and Kakashi both jumped back to avoid the ball of flames. However by doing so, Naruto lost one of the bells from his hand.

The remaining clone noted this and caught it, but by doing this he was unable to dodge the fireball. When the clone got hit, it burst in to smoke and the bell was thrown back at Kakashi.

Kakashi caught the bell and said, "Not bad, but in the end I still have a bell and you only have three seconds…"

Kakashi didn't get a chance to finish, as he was kicked in the chest by Naruto. He was launched a few feet and in the process dropped the bell. The Jōnin got back on his feet and noticed that Naruto was holding the two bells.

"You know you really shouldn't monologue even if there is a little time left on the clock." Naruto said.

"Dobe what the hell was that?" Sasuke said, finally showing up. He noticed the bells on Naruto's hands. "And give me those bells; I need those to accomplish my goal."

"Yay you only got those because of Sasuke's help." Sakura clamed as she too finally caught up with the rest.

Naruto didn't say a word and began to walk away from both Sasuke and Sakura.

Getting annoyed at not being answered, Sasuke was about to yell back at Naruto however he stopped when he saw Naruto throw something backwards.

Luckily, both Sasuke and Sakura caught the object that Naruto had thrown. They were the bells.

Finally getting off the floor, Kakashi noticed what Naruto had done. Curious, he asked, "What are you doing?"

"What does it look like?" Naruto replied, "I'm giving them the bells so that they pass this test. After all one of us should at least do what the test was meant for anyways."

Kakashi narrowed his eye at this, "Oh and by all means what was this test meant for?"

"Simple," Naruto replied, "This test was supposed to be about how well we could have all worked as a team. And I'm doing just that by giving them the bells, after all a ninja must look after their comrades."

"Ha… yeah right loser," Sasuke said, "I bet you just made that up. After all I'm an Uchiha, and if there was a meaning to this test, I would have been able to figure it out. Not some dead last loser who only made it this far by a fluke."

"YAY," Sakura yelled, "Stop thinking you belong here, you never be anywhere as good as Sasuke is. Just give up already."

All this time Naruto said nothing. In fact he didn't show any emotion to the words that were being said about him.

"Fine don't believe me then," Naruto spoke in a calm tone, "After all rather I'm on this team or not, I win." Everyone was a bit lost in what Naruto was getting at. However before anyone could question, Naruto continue, "I will say this, Sasuke dose show some sets of skills, however he lacks a lot in the attitude category. He believes that everything should be his and that we should fear and worship him, all because he is an Uchiha. An Uchiha that will do anything, just so that he can get what he wants, its thing like that that end up killing fellow ninja comrades, all because one can't see beyond their own ego."

Sasuke narrow his eyes and got a bit angry at the disrespect that he was getting. "Then there's Sakura," Naruto continued, "A perfect example of something that doesn't belong. Out of all the girls that passed the exam of the academy, you were really on the edge of passing or not. Sure you might have been the smartest in the written part but on everything else you bare met the required to pass. In fact I'm certain that on the battlefield you will really on your teammates to get you out of tight places. Meaning that you're more likely to put the team at risk and cost both yours and your team mates' lives. Isn't that right Billboard Brow?"

With those words, Sakura was at her breaking point. She clenched her fist and ran right at Naruto. All her life she had been fun of due to her forehead being bigger then kids her age. She had been mock because of that, and there was no way that she'll be mocked by Naruto.

However, what happen next shocked everyone. Sasuke and Kakashi saw Sakura charge at Naruto, but what happened next was hard for the two to figure out.

Sakura was on her knees and Naruto was holding his kunai at her throat. No one saw how it happened.

"Running head first without much of a thought," Naruto said, "Attacking an enemy because you believe you are better. These are things that get people dead in our line of work Sakura. To make things worse, you believe that your beloved Sasuke will help you out of this." He turns to look at Sasuke, "How about it Sasuke. Are you going to stand there or are you going to prove my point that she might end up dying like this in the real word,"

Sasuke knew he couldn't do anything. If he helped Sakura, he'd prove Naruto's point. If he didn't help then he proves Naruto's point. He didn't care at the moment about Sakura because to him, she was a means to the end.

After a few seconds, Naruto let's go of Sakura. She coughs and tries to breath. Naruto paid no mind to this and looked at Kakashi, "If you're going to train them, then good luck to you."

Naruto walks off, never looking back. Kakashi looks at Sakura who is on her knees still trying to breath. He turns to Sasuke who was staring at him. He then looks back to look at Naruto, but to his surprise Naruto was nowhere to be seen.

"You know," he started, "Not to add insult to injury but he was right." Both teens look at their Jōnin sensei wondering what he meant. "The test was to test you guys' teamwork and for me to see how good you guys were at combat. Sorry to say this but he pointed out every flaw point you two have."

There was no surprise that the two were angry at hearing this. However before they could saw anything, Kakashi continue to talk again, "Look I have to go tell the Hokage your results of the test. You're free to go and meet me here tomorrow morning for some training and will see how things move from there."

PUFF

With a burst of smoke, Kakashi had left. The remaining two soon left as well, each with their own thoughts on their minds.

'How was he able to do all of what he did?' Sasuke thought, 'I'm the last Uchiha and any power and skills should go to me not that loser. I need to get stronger if I'm ever going to avenge my clan.' He clenched his fists at the painful memories coming back at him

'I won't be made a fool of by him.' Sakura thought, 'I'll get stronger and teach him on where he stands. Maybe Sasuke will ask me out on a date if I do.' She blushed at the thought of finally going on a date with the boy of her dreams.


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