The Uzumaki twins

by Tensa-Zangetsu102

The Uzumaki twins have been living alone all their lives. The older twin, Hiromi, has her father's smarts and her mother's appearance, temper, and brute strength, while the younger brother, Naruto, has both his father's appearance and pacifist nature and his mother's personality. Strong!smart!OCs Sister Strong!smart!Naruto later in the chapters. NaruHinaHarem May contain violence

3. Haki: Naruto's growth

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN Naruto! I only own Hiromi Uzumaki Namikaze

Author's Note: I do NOT own Naruto, One Piece, or Kekkaishi. Near the end of the chapter, you'll probably find elements from the manga/anime series, Special A and no I don't own Special A.

Chapter 3: Haki: Naruto's growth

It's been one month and a half since Naruto had started his training under Jun and his family. His chakra control took a huge jump from what it was before from the training that he got from Tsukasa and Akio, his taijutsu had improved dramatically from the sparing he participating with his sister, Ryu, and Atsumi, and his strength and speed increased a lot from the harsh training that he got from Jun. Ever since he knew about the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and its ability, Naruto had taken a great advantage of it to increase his intelligence, but not a whole lot, but enough to where his grades for lecture had improved so he can pass. Iruka was happy that one of his favorite students was actually passing his pop quiz although, reading those books are somehow hurting his brain when he dispels the clone jutsu. Right now, the Uzumaki twins were doing their evening lap through the pathway of the village. As they jog pass the Hyuga compound, they hear a pain filled groan and they notice a Hyuga with short brown hair and well-defined and broad nose lying on the ground.

"Who's that!?" Naruto asked

"A Hyuga? He's hurt!" Hiromi replies, as she and Naruto rushes over to his aid and Hiromi turns him over, "What happened?"

The Hyuga replies, weakly, "G…Get…Hi…Hias…shi-sama…or the ANBU…!" The Hyuga opens his pale eyes to the twins and gasps, "It's…you two!"

"Hey pal, just what the hell happen to you 'ttebano!?" Hiromi exclaims, seriously until he recognizes the Hyuga, "Hey, I know you! I've seen you with Hinata-chan a lot of times 'ttebano!"

"Hinata?" Naruto says then realizing, "Wait! That weird, gloomy girl with those pale eyes from our class! I know her now 'ttebayo!"

"And if you're here…Where's Hinata-chan!?" Hiromi yells out, seriously.

"Hinata-sama has been captured…by the Kumo (1)…again!" the Hyuga replies, weakly.

"Kumo?" Naruto says, confused

"That's one of the shinobi villages that live in the Kaminari no Kuni (2) and they were our enemies during the first three great wars until they became our allies, but that doesn't make any sense, why would they want to kidnap an heiress to one of our noble clans dattebano?" Hiromi states.

"Please…you must get Hiashi-sama…he's with Hokage-sama right now…! We must not let Kumo gain the Byakugan (3) or…!" The Hyuga groans in pain and Hiromi grips her scarf.

"Naruto, go to Jiji right now dattebano!" Hiromi orders, taking off her scarf, which makes a loud thump as it hits the ground, surprising the Hyuga, "He'll get some ANBUs to get those Kumo ninja!" Hiromi then removes her armguards and headband and threw them to the ground, surprising the Hyuga once again.

"What are you about to do, Nee-chan?" Naruto asked

"I'm going to stall those Kumo bastards from leaving with Hinata-chan long enough for the ANBUs to get there 'ttebano!" Hiromi replies seriously, "Judging the fresh footsteps on the ground, they couldn't have gotten far dattebano!"

The Hyuga's eyes widened at this declaration, "You fool! They're Jonin level ninja! A mere academy student can't hope to confront them and survive! You'll only die!" he yells out.

"And if I don't go to stall them, then Hinata-chan will be gone forever dattebano!" Hiromi retorts, "Now, Naruto-kun get going 'ttebano!" Hiromi then disappears in Shunshin with Naruto, himself, taking off his weights, believing that it'll slow him down. After he removes the weights, Naruto pretty light, but doesn't have enough time to enjoy them as he races over to the Hokage Tower with new speed that he never had before. Just then, he collides with a person around the corner, which knocks both of down.

"Watch it, you idiot!"

Naruto looks at the person that he collided with to be Uchiha Sasuke, looking at him with an annoyed look on his face while sitting up. Naruto jumps onto his feet, "Look, I don't have time for you, Sasuke-teme 'ttebayo! I have to get Jii-chan or Nee-chan and Hinata are going to die!" he exclaims, running off, leaving Sasuke with a crossed look on his face. Sasuke then registered the words about Hiromi 'dying' as he gets onto his feet and runs over to Naruto. Sasuke was surprised at Naruto's new speed, believing that he was never that fast before and it would have usually not take him long enough to reach him.

"Hey dobe, what do you mean by Hiromi dying!?"

Naruto grunts in annoyance, "It's like I said! Ninjas from Kumo came and kidnap that weird girl, Hinata, from our class and Nee-chan is going over there to stall them from leaving with Hinata 'ttebayo!" he replies.

"Hn." Sasuke then runs the opposite way to the exit to find Hiromi and the Kumo ninja, "As skilled as Hiromi is, there's no chance that she can defeat them on her own! They have to be at least Chunin or Jonin level to actually come over here! This could be a test of my skills in order to defeat HIM!"

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Hiromi runs down the path toward the exit as she spots three Kumo masked ninja, one female and two male, running toward a secret pathway, leaving with a bag in the arms of one of the male Kumo ninja, large enough to hold a seven year old.

"There they are!" Hiromi exclaims as she takes out a red ball from her pouch and threw it in front of them as they hit the ground and red smoke appears surrounding them. They cough and sneezed as they stopped.

"What is this!?" One of the male Kumo ninja calls out

"This is chill pepper smoke screen!" The female Kumo ninja exclaims, "Which means that we've been found out!" Just then, there was a pain filled scream as another Kumo male was knocked down and another pain filled scream was heard as the female Kumo kunoichi turns to see her comrade fall to the ground. She didn't have time to react as she was kicked in the back of her head, knocking her to the ground, stunning her. Soon enough, Hiromi with a gas mask leaps out from smoke cloud and lands further away. After removing her mask, Hiromi opens the bag to find Hinata with her eyes and mouth covered in a blindfold and her hands and legs tied inside. Hiromi unties the blindfold and gag from Hinata's eyes and mouth.

"Hiromi-san!" Hinata exclaims with surprise

"Hinata-chan, we have to…" Just then, Hiromi grabs Hinata then leaps away as barrages of kunai and shuriken come and hit the ground that she and Hinata were. Hiromi lands away and looks at the smoke cloud that disappears to reveal three logs lying on the ground, causing Hiromi and Hinata to gasp in shock and horror.

"Kawarimi no Jutsu (4)!" Hiromi exclaims, jumps with Hinata in her arms away as the three Kumo shinobi appear behind her.

"Nice moves…for a brat that is!" One of the male Kumo ninja says with a sly tone

"To think that a little girl manage to get the drop of us like that!" The Kumo kunoichi says, with a sneer and she was getting angrier by the second for the humiliation.

"It looks like I've come just in time!" Everyone looks to see Sasuke appearing with an arrogant smile on his lips, much to Hiromi's annoyance.

"What the hell are you doing here, Ahouchiha dattebano?" Hiromi yells at him, annoyed, knowing that she may have to save two bloodline clan members now.

Sasuke replies, "Naruto told me that three Kumo ninjas came to our village to kidnap Hinata for her Byakugan and since you haven't defeated them yet, I'll have to do it for you!"

The first Kumo male scoffed, "Really, kid, I don't think that you any idea who you're dealing with." He tells him, "Now, you and the red head better leave and pretend that you didn't see us or things will be very ugly for you two."

Sasuke smirks, "Really, it's you who doesn't have any idea who you're dealing with! My name is Uchi…!" Sasuke was interrupted when Hiromi takes out another chili pepper smoke bomb and throws it to the ground, then grabs Hinata and leaps away while grabbing Sasuke also in the process.

"Hey Hiromi, why are we running away!?" Sasuke yells at her, annoyed.

Hiromi grunts in annoyance, "You do realize that they are Jonin level ninja, right!? There's no way that we can take them all on and survive 'ttebano!" she tells him, nastily, "We have to wait for the ANBUs to come and capture them since I've sent Naruto to Jiji dattebano!"

Still stubborn, Sasuke barks at her, "Good! That dobe of a brother of yours is actually doing something useful for once in his life! Furthermore, they entered into our village without permission so we should teach them lesson! In case that you've forgotten or stupidity happens to run in the Uzumaki family, I'm an Uchiha! There's no opponent that we, Uchiha, can't beat!"

"Except for one that is!" Hiromi retorts

"Those were ties and you know that!" Sasuke exclaims seriously, "Just because our spars ended in ties, it isn't the same has you beating me!" Just then, Hiromi jumps back as a barrage of shurikens appear from the air and hit the ground that she, Sasuke, and Hinata were at and the three Kumo shinobi appear surrounding them.

"They caught up with us!" Hinata exclaims, fearfully

"An Uchiha I see!" The second Kumo shinobi says, with a wick smile, "Talk about a lucky bonus!"

The Kumo kunoichi says, with an evil smile, "Indeed! We get both the Byakugan and the Sharingan (5) to take back to our village! We'll be greatly rewarded for this!"

"Oh great!" Hiromi grunts in annoyance, "Did you have to open that big mouth of yours about you being an Uchiha 'ttebano!?"

Sasuke scoffs, in reply, "That doesn't matter they're not going to kidnap us!" he claimed.

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Oh the meanwhile, Naruto finally appears within the Hokage Tower and runs through the hallway to get to the Hokage's office. He rushes pass the secretary's desk with the secretary trying to tell him to stop. Naruto slams hard onto the door, getting it up to see the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, at his desk talking with another Hyuga with long brownish black hair and similar pale eyes, wearing very traditional, loose fitting robes with a long-sleeved, brown haori. Both of them were looking at the youngest Uzumaki twin, who had a frantic look on his face.

"Naruto-kun, what's the meaning of this, young man!?" Hiruzen asks, with a stern look on his face.

Naruto replies, seriously, "Jii-chan, help! Nee-chan and Hinata are in trouble 'ttebayo!" Both men were alarmed with the Hyuga coming up to him.

"What do you mean that my eldest daughter is in trouble?! Ko is supposed to be with her!" the Hyuga told him.

"If you're talking to that Occhan that's always with her then you're out of luck, because he was taken down by these Kumo ninja guys 'ttebayo!" Naruto exclaims, seriously.

Hiruzen and the Hyuga's eyes widened at this with dreadful look on their faces, "Kumo!?" the Hyuga yells out, worriedly and angrily

Hiruzen was in disbelief, "That's impossible! How could we not detect them!?" he says.

"The boy is telling the truth!" Just then, the Hyuga that the Uzumaki twins came into the office with a slightly pained look on his face with Iruka carrying him with his arm onto his shoulder.

"Ko!?" The Hyuga that Hiruzen was talking too went over to him, "Ko, you were supposed to be protecting my daughter, what happened!?"

The Hyuga, Ko, looks away in shame, "My apologizes, Hiashi-sama, but Hinata-sama and myself were walking home from Hinata-sama's training until three ninja from Kumogakure no Sato (6) came and attacked us by surprise and took Hinata-sama with them. The eldest Uzumaki twin is on her way to safe her!"

"Hiromi-chan went to confront them!" Hiruzen exclaims, horrified

Iruka grits his teeth in annoyance, "That little fool! She'll get killed!"

"I have to save Nee-chan!" Without a word, Naruto races toward the window, opens it.

"Naruto, wait!" Iruka calls out, but it was too late as Naruto rushes out the window and to the direction were his sister went to find the Kumo shinobi.

"I'll round out all available ANBU to go and apprehend those shinobi and save both Hiromi-chan and your daughter, Hiashi!" Hiruzen tells Hiashi with him nodding in reply

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The Hiromi Kage Bunshin were thrown away by the Kumo kunoichi and Sasuke was tossed away by the second Kumo male ninja. Sasuke does a few backflips and leaps into the air while performing hand signs and takes a deep breath.

"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (7)!"

Sasuke fires his fireball from his mouth toward the Kumo ninjas, seemly engulfing them. Sasuke then lands onto his feet with an arrogant smile, but he gasps in shock as he sees the three logs in front of him. He doesn't have time to think as he's kicked in the chest hard, knocking him to the wall, rendering him unconscious.

"Sasuke-kun!" Hinata cries in shock and horror.

Hiromi scoffs in annoyance, "Great, now I have to save you too!" Hiromi rushes over to Sasuke's aid only to be kicked away and slams onto the ground hard.

"Hiromi-san!" Hinata cries out, horrified as she watches helpless as Hiromi is pinned onto the ground by the Kumo kunoichi, who gets out a kunai from her pouch, and goes in to stab her chest.

"Get away from my Nee-chan!" The Kumo kunoichi is kicked off of Hiromi and Naruto lands by his sister's side, "Nee-chan, are you okay?!"

Hiromi gets onto her feet, "Baka! Why did you come here!? You were supposed to get Jiji to get the ABNU here dattebano!" she exclaims, seriously

"But I did 'ttebayo!" Naruto exclaims, seriously, "I told Jii-chan to call ANBU!" Naruto then notices Hinata looking at him with a wide blush, "You're alright, Hinata!"

Hinata looks away as her face was getting more red, "I…I'm f…fine…Naru..to-kun!" she stutters

The Kumo kunoichi then gets onto her feet, "You little brat!" she screams out, angrily, "I'm going to kill you!"

The first Kumo shinobi asks, curiously, "Where are these brats coming from!?"

"We better kill the blonde and the red head fast!" The second Kumo says while carrying Sasuke's unconscious body onto his right shoulder.

"Sasuke! What's he doing here!?" Naruto asks, curiously

"Kamo Shiri (8) here decided to try to take them on 'ttebano!" Hiromi replies. Soon enough, the Kuno kunoichi charges after Hiromi with the intent to kill.

"Nee-chan!" Naruto goes in to rescue his sister only to be interrupted by the first Kumo shinobi with a kick to his face, but Naruto ducks away from the kick, then response to a punch in the face which was blocked with the Kumo shinobi's right forearm. Kumo shinobi then punches Naruto's stomach, knocking the wind out of him, throwing him away and hitting the ground.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata cries out, horrified

"Naruto-kun!" Hiromi tries to go to her brother's aid, but is dragged back by the Kumo kunoichi by the back of her kimono and slams her onto the ground, hard.

"Nee-chan!" Naruto cries out, horrified

"Now you die, you brat!" The Kumo kunoichi then goes in to stab Hiromi's back as Hiruzen and a group of ANBU along with Hiashi and Iruka appear to see this

"YOU LEAVE MY NEE-CHAN ALONE, RIGHT NOW!" Naruto screams out as an unknown power to him comes out like a huge wave which got the Kumo kunoichi to stop her assault onto Hiromi and a loud animal like roar comes from Naruto's subconscious which gets the three Kumo shinobi to drop the ground, rendering themselves unconscious as well as Hinata and a few members of the ANBU. Of course, Hiruzen, Iruka, Hiashi, and Hiromi tries to withstand Naruto's 'hidden power' with Iruka falling to his knees.

"Naruto, omae (9)…!" Iruka murmurs out while trying to withstand it.

"This power…it can't be…!" Hiashi grunts in surprise and Hiruzen, himself, wonders if Naruto had awakened THAT power or could it be the Kyuubi's doing. Naruto stops screaming as he sees the unconscious bodies of not only Sasuke, but the three Kumo shinobi, Hinata, and a few members of the ANBU.

"Arrest those shinobi!" Hiruzen commanded as the ANBU goes in and grabs the Kumo shinobi from the ground.

Hiashi goes over to Hiruzen with his unconscious daughter in his arms, "Hokage-sama, did that boy just unlocked THAT power?" he asks.

Hiruzen grunts, "I don't know, Hiashi, if it's THAT power or the Kyuubi! I definitely don't want to reveal that to the twins just yet." He replies, as he sees Naruto going over to Hiromi.

"Nee-chan, are you okay?" Naruto asks with concern.

Hiromi nods her head, "I'm fine, Naruto-kun 'ttebano." She replies, looking at the ANBUs taking the unconscious shinobi away.

"Good!" Naruto looks at Hiruzen, "Hey Jii-chan, do you know who or want did this 'ttebayo?"

Hiruzen looks at Naruto then looks away, "I…haven't the idea, my boy." However, Hiromi had a feeling that Hiruzen was lying to them, but she couldn't find the reason why not to believe him or how to explain the Kumo shinobi collapsing and a loud animal like roar that she heard, but she dismissed it as nothing.

Iruka walks up to the twins, "Okay, you two, go home! Your midterm is tomorrow and I need the two of you to have a good night sleep."

Naruto yells out, horrified, "Midterm!"

-.-.-.-.-.-.-

The next morning came around as the Uzumaki twins got into the classroom within the academy and went to get to their seats.

"Hey Hiromi!"

The twins turn to see Sasuke walking towards them, "What do you want, teme!?" Naruto asks, nastily.

"I didn't come for you, loser! I'm talking to the talented one in your family!" Sasuke says, with a sneer, "Hiromi, those ninja that were in the village last night! What happened!?"

Hiromi thought about since she couldn't make sense out of it. All she knew that there was… "Sorry, don't remember!" she replies, simply

Naruto raises an eyebrow in confused, "But N…!" Naruto tries to speak, but Hiromi nudged his side hard.

"Jiji and ANBU came and arrested those Kumo bastards and that was it 'ttebano." Hiromi replies

Sasuke tries to speak, but a familiar pair of screeches came calling out, "SASUKE-KUN!" Soon enough, a pink and yellow blur appear and glares at the Uzumaki twins, more especially Hiromi.

Hiromi places a snide smirk on her face, "Oh look who's hear," she spoke, "I'd thought that you losers would have left the classroom, especially you, Haruno-yowai!"

"What's that supposed to mean!?" Sakura yells at Hiromi.

"I guess that you two didn't see who your opponents are for this midterm posted!" Hiromi says, pointing at the sign posted by the entrance and Sakura and Ino along with Naruto and Sasuke see that Sakura's first opponent happens to be…Hiromi, "Told you! The first round is as far as you go, Haruno dattebano!"

Sakura growls at Hiromi in annoyance as Naruto looks at his opponent to be Hibachi, which made him raise an eyebrow, remembering that he was one of the boys that nearly got him killed at the backhills and got expelled for it or so he thought. Naruto looks around to find Hibachi and he finds him, in his seat, giving him a devious smirk on his face, believing that he got the 'weakling' as his opponent. Naruto, secretly, places a wide smile knowing that his classmates will be in for a very big surprise.

A minute later, Iruka entered the classroom which signaled for everyone to take their seats.

"Good morning everyone," Iruka greeted, "Today, you will be taking your midterm to determine where you are in the class."

"And we all know where Naruto-baka will be in the end…the dead last as usual!" Ino jeered, which caused many snickers in the class and a glare from Naruto.

Hiromi smirks, snidely, "Don't you mean that today is the day where I, an orphan, once again make the third-rate heiress of the Yamanaka clan as usual kiss her boyfriend…THE DIRT 'TTEBANO!" She jeered, making Ino's face red with anger and embarrassment, which also caused more people to snicker and Naruto to laugh.

"I'll make you eat dirt, Hiromi!" Ino retorts, angrily.

"Bring it, loser!" Hiromi exclaims, getting ready to fight

"THAT'S ENOUGH, YOU TWO!" Iruka roars out, doing his big-head no jutsu, "Anyway, let's get this exam started." Soon enough, Iruka passed around the tests to his students and many of them were finished. After the students were finished with their written part of their exam which Naruto found it easy thanks to the studying that he's down with his Kage Bunshins, the practical part came about outside, with Iruka measuring his student's chakra control, henge, kawarimi, and bunshin with him just finishing Sakura's control, after she performs.

Iruka stops his stopwatch, "Three minutes total! Perfect score as always, Sakura!" he praises.

Happy with her results, Sakura walks over to Sasuke, "So Sasuke-kun, who did I do?" she asks, with anticipation.

Sasuke ignores her and just as Naruto was going give his opinion, Hiromi steps in with a scoff, "Oh please, Haruno! You think that 'Ahouchiha' actually cares how you did with chakra control!" she says, rudely, which makes Sakura glares at her angrily.

"Shut up, Hiromi! I wasn't even talking to you, you jerk!" Sakura screeches, angrily, as she makes her way to the line. Iruka went through the names and when he finished with Sasuke, who manage to get two minutes and fifty second total, which earns him praises from most of his female peers, much to the annoyance of the Uzumaki twins and he performs two perfect clones, transformations, and kawarimi as well as his Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu.

"Okay Uzumaki Hiromi!" Hiromi steps up with confidence, much to the annoyance of many of her female peers, knowing that she's going to show off, again.

"Okay Hiromi, I want you to use a henge, a substitution, and a clone for me." Iruka says, with a smile.

Hiromi nods her head as she concentrates and transforms into the exact copy of Iruka. The real Iruka nods his head with approval and Hiromi releases the henge. When Iruka throws an eraser at Hiromi, the red haired girl does a substitution of a log, and then creates ten Kage Bunshins.

"Very good, Hiromi!" Iruka says, with a smile as he gives a leaf to Hiromi for her to put it onto her forehead and starts her control as Iruka presses the go button on his watch. Hiromi does a fake yawn as the leaf is still placed onto her forehead and the timer stops at three minutes. "Times up! Great job, Hiromi! A perfect score again!" Iruka praises as Hiromi moves back to the line with many of her female peers glaring at her back seething with jealously and anger.

"Next Uzumaki Naruto!" As Naruto steps up, he could hear many of his peers jeering at him, believing that he'll fail, "Okay Naruto, I want you to transform into me!"

"You got it, Iruka-sensei!" Naruto exclaims, as he does the hand signs and transforms into a perfect copy of Iruka. Iruka nods with approval as Naruto release the henge and Iruka throws another eraser at Naruto's head, only for Naruto to perform a perfect substitution. Iruka then reluctantly tells Naruto to perform a clone jutsu only for Naruto to perform the hand signs of the Kage Bunshin and ten Kage Bunshins appear around Naruto, much to the shock of his peers, except for Hiromi, who places a smirk on her face.

"Naruto can perform those Kage Bunshins like Hiromi!"

"No way! How did he do it?"

"Oh great! One show off was bad enough!"

Iruka gets out of his stupor, "Whoa! Naruto, I can't believe that you manage to master an advance clone jutsu like Hiromi can!" he says, with a proud smile

Naruto giggles as he rubs the back of his head, "Yeah! Nee-chan actually taught me how to do it dattebayo!" he says, "Also, I've got an amazing jutsu to use with this jutsu!"

"An amazing jutsu?" Iruka raises an eyebrow as Naruto and his clones perform the henge hand sign and in a huge poof of smoke, Naruto and his clones took on forms of multiple naked female older versions of himself, doing sexy poses, made Iruka's nose gush out blood and he falls to the ground. Many of the girls, especially Hiromi, there were not amused at all by the stunt Naruto pulled also knocked a few boys out from nose bleed, even the stoic Sasuke had his nose bleeding. After releasing the jutsu, Naruto laughs out in amusement, "That was my Hāremu no Jutsu (10)! A more advanced version of my Oiroke no Jutsu dattebayo! How was that, sensei?" Just then, Naruto is kicked in the head, hard, by Hiromi, throwing him to the wall.

Hiromi's hair was rising in separate strands, "What do you think, you idiot dattebano?" she barks, angrily as Iruka slowly stands up while holding his bleeding nose and glares at Naruto, annoyed that he would use an advance clone jutsu for useless things like that. Hiromi looks at Iruka, "And you, Iruka-sensei, how could you have fallen for that stupid jutsu of his dattebano?"

Iruka calms down, "Naruto, I'm going to let you pass as extra credit with that jutsu…BUT I NEVER WANT YOU TO USE THAT JUTSU IN THIS CLASS EVER AGAIN!" he screams while performing his big head no jutsu again at the last words and threw a leaf at Naruto's forehead. To everyone's surprise, Naruto's control went three minutes with many of his peers, especially Sasuke's 'fan girls' calling bullshit on it, claiming that Naruto-baka cheated, but with Iruka's big head no jutsu, they went down.

After everyone had arrived at the training field Iruka broke them up between boys and girls. He had them line up and stand in front of the targets.

"Okay, you will be given five kunai and shuriken. I want you to throw them at them at the targets." Iruka commanded.

The boys went first with Shikamaru simply throwing them while not caring where they hit and went to take a nap under a tree. Choji hit the target with 3 of his kunai and 2 of his shuriken. Shino was able to hit the bull's eye with 1 kunai, the others landed close, and hit the target with all of his shuriken. Kiba did the same as Choji, which was expected as neither of their respective clan techniques relied heavily on throwing projectiles. Sasuke stepped up, much to the joy of every girl with the exception of Hiromi and Hinata, and took his position. He threw all of the kunai and shuriken at the same time and hit the bull's eye with all five kunai and four shuriken.

"Sasuke-kun is so amazing!" every girl, with the exception of Hinata and Hiromi, thought.

Hiromi scoffs, "I'd thought the Uchiha clan was so supposed to be the best of the best…oh my mistake…the elite of the elite. I would think that you would have gotten a perfect score, but I guess that's all your capable of 'ttebano." She sneered, which earns her a glare from Sasuke and his 'fangirls'.

"Hiromi, just shut up!" Sakura yells at her.

"Yeah! I don't see you or your loser brother do any better!" Ino joins in.

Iruka steps in to stop the fight, "Okay girls, that's enough!" he tells them, "Good job, Sasuke! Naruto, it's your turn now."

Naruto steps in position, "Try to actually hit something this time, dobe." Sasuke said as he passes Naruto, who glares at him in response, and Hiromi calling out to ignore 'Ahouchiha', which earned her more glares from girls, except Hinata. Naruto picks up all of the kunai threw all at once as well as the shuriken. Everyone except for Hiromi, who was placing a smirk on face, had to pick their jaws off of the ground when they saw that every one of the projectiles had landed in the bull's eye.

"How was that, Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked with a self-satisfied look on his face.

"That was amazing, Naruto! You just got a perfect score!" Iruka exclaimed with a proud smile. He didn't know how Naruto improved so quickly, but he was happy that he was progressing.

"Don't act so smug, Naruto-baka! You were just lucky, you're still not as good as Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled. Many of the other female students agreed but a few of them were looking at Naruto in a new light.

"Screeched Uchiha-baka's the large foreheaded mutt!" Hiromi jeered, which earns her an annoyed glare from Sakura, "Naruto-kun, don't listen to this loser dattebano! She's just jealous that she couldn't make that score even if her life depended on it 'ttebano!"

"Why you…!" Sakura is about to go over to Hiromi to hit her, but Iruka goes in to stop her.

"If you two want to settle your arguments, wait until the sparring match later!" Iruka told them.

"Iruka-sensei is right! The day is still young and I've got many ways of proving how big a loser that you can be, Haruno dattebano!" Hiromi sneered, which Sakura returns with a growl.

"JUST YOU WAIT, HIROMI-BAKA! YOU'LL GET YOU FOR THIS! SHARRANO!" Inner Sakura yells out.

As Naruto goes to the back of the line, he sighs knowing that not only Sakura wasn't impressed with his progress, but Hiromi had to make Sakura angry again. Naruto then saw Hinata looking at him with a small smile and bright red blush.

Naruto waves at her as he walks towards her, "Hey Hinata! Are you okay from last night dattebayo?" he asks, curiously.

Hinata's face gets even redder as she looks away, "Y-Yes, I'm f-fine, N-Narut-o-kun!" she replies, with a stutter.

"That's good! I guess we have to thank Nee-chan and Jii-chan for the help dattebayo!" Naruto says, with a smile, "But why were those would want you for anyway?"

Hinata's face gets redder from Naruto talking to her while Hiromi looks at this with a proud smirk on her face hoping that nothing will stop her brother and Hinata's relationship to stop. Of course, Sakura notices this and she gets annoyed, "Naruto-baka, what are you doing with poor Hinata!?" she screeches, making Hiromi annoyed.

"Oh great! There's no way that I'm letting Naruto-kun's happiness go doing the drain because of this lame-o here screwing things up for him dattebano!" Hiromi thinks in her mind as she goes to grab Sakura by the collar before the pink haired girl goes to hit Naruto, "Take just one step towards them and I'll make that forehead of yours even larger, Haruno-baka dattebano!" Hiromi says, with a deadly sneer as her hair rises up in strands.

"Hiromi, what are you doing!?" Iruka exclaims, with a serious glare

Ino steps in, "Iruka-sensei, Hiromi was threatening Sakura as usual!" she accused.

"It's true, sensei!" Sakura nods, trying to get Hiromi back, "I was just minding my business until Hiromi came and went to hit me!"

"Oh please, Haruno! You're lying 'ttebano!" Hiromi yells at her, angrily

"It's true, sensei!" Kiba says, seriously, "Sakura went to hit Naruto just for talking to Hinata, but Hiromi went in to stop her from doing so!"

"Quiet, dog boy!" Ino yells, angrily

Choji nods his head, "Yeah! That's right! Sakura was in the wrong here!"

"What Kiba and Choji are saying is true, sensei," Shino spoke, "Naruto was just talking to Hinata, but Sakura accused Naruto of bullying her and went to hit him. However, Hiromi went to stop her from doing so."

Iruka looks at Naruto and Hinata, "Naruto, Hinata, is this true?" he asks.

"Y-Yes! It's true!" Hinata replies with Naruto slowly nodding his head while sending Sakura an apology look.

Iruka glares at Sakura, who looks away from it, "Sakura, today you have lunch detention and the next time that you cause even more trouble, you automatically fail the exam! Do we have an understanding?" he tells her.

Sakura slowly nods her head while glaring at Hiromi and Naruto for getting her into trouble and swears to get them back as Hiromi throws her to the ground. Later, the girls went next. Sakura was able to hit the target with three of her kunai and 2 of her shuriken.

"How did I do, Sasuke-kun!?" She asked. Sasuke for his part simply ignored her, which Naruto glares at him for the disrespect and Hiromi smiles snidely.

"Oh wow, Haruno-baka! You suck dattebano!" Hiromi commented, which got her a few laughs from many of the students.

Sakura glares at Hiromi, "Shut it!" she exclaims, annoyed as she makes her way to the back of the line and Iruka sighs, tiredly.

While knowing that she's next, Hinata looks at the bull's eye and saw that the Uzumaki twins were looking at her.

"Oh no! Hiromi-san and Naruto-kun are looking at me! What if I mess up!? When if they, especially Naruto-kun, think that I'm a failure!" Hinata thinks nervously as her hands start to shake.

Hiromi noticed that Hinata was shaking slightly and she picks up a small pebble to throw it at Naruto's head, causing her brother to yelp in pain. Naruto looks at Hiromi, who notions to Hinata's nervous expression, and Naruto turns to see it. He then walks over to her and grabbed her hand to stop it from shaking.

"Just do your best, Hinata!" Naruto says, with a small smile, "I mean if I did good, then you should be able to do it 'ttebayo!"

Hinata barely heard his words as she is frozen from the fact that Naruto, the boy that she has a crush on, is holding his hand and is desperately trying not to faint, "N-Naruto-kun is holding my hand!" she thought, with a blush that threatened to spread over her whole body, "Must not faint! Must not faint!"

Naruto notices that Hinata has failed to respond and he saw that she has a dazed look on her face, "Hey Hinata, you okay?" He asked, clueless about what's really going on.

Hinata snaps out of her stupor and looks at Naruto, "Y-Yes!" she replies, with a stutter

"Hinata, you're up!" Iruka calls out and Hinata runs, quickly, to her spot while leaving a confused Naruto behind.

"Man, she's weird 'ttebayo!" Naruto murmurs.

Hinata looks at her target and becomes nervous again until she looks at the Uzumaki twins and sees smiles of encouragement on their faces.

"Just do your best, Hinata-chan dattebano!" Hiromi calls out

"Yeah like Nee-chan says! You can do it dattebayo!" Naruto cheers out.

Suddenly feeling more confident, Hinata throws her kunai and shuriken and 3 of her kunai hits the target with one hitting the bull's eye as well as 4 of her shuriken hits the target, though none hit the bull's eye.

"Good job, Hinata! So far, you've got the highest score of the girls!" Iruka comments, "Now, Hiromi, you're up!" Hiromi then walks up to her spot with many of the girls are glaring at her back in annoyance.

"There goes that no good show off again!" Ami snorts

"Man, I swear I hate that girl!" Ino growls

"Knock them dead, Nee-chan!" Naruto cheers out

Hiromi walks pass Hinata, who starts to walk back to the line, "Good job, Hinata-chan!" she says, with encouragement.

"T-Thank you, Hiromi-san!" Hinata says, with a smile.

Hiromi grabs her five kunai and shuriken, looks at the target, and throws them as every one of the projectiles lands in the bull's eye.

"Way to go, Nee-chan!" Naruto exclaims, excitedly

"Great job, Hiromi! A perfect score as always!" Iruka says, with a smile which earns her many glares from her female peers, except for Hinata.

Hinata smiles, brightly, "H-Hiromi-san is incredible and Naruto-kun did surprising well today!" she thinks and sighs solemnly, "Compared to them…I'm...!"

Ino growls angrily, "Again! What will it take to beat that girl!" she complains.

"A lot more than you can produce in your lifetime, Yamanaka!" Hiromi replies, snidely, "If you really want to challenge me, come back and face me in a hundred years, loser!"

"That's it!" Ino yells out, launching at Hiromi, but Shikamaru, Choji, Kiba, and Naruto grabs her from doing so, "Let me go, you jerks! One punch! One punch!"

"Ino, don't…!" Choji tells her.

"In case, you don't remember…Nee-chan will destroy you dattebayo!" Naruto says, "And not that I care what happens to you, but I don't want Nee-chan to get into trouble for nailing your ass to the ground during the exam 'ttebayo!"

"Shut up, baka!" Ino screeches, "As if that sister of yours can beat me! Now, let me go!"

Shikamaru groans, "Troublesome! She has already…four hundred twenty-five times to be exact!" she tells her

"And that's almost catching up to Naruto's losing record!" Kiba comments

"Hey!" Naruto complains

"Hey, you guys keep it down there!" Iruka commands as Ino calms down while glaring at Hiromi with anger and hate in her green eyes, "Now the stats shows that both Uzumaki twins having the highest score in the weapons test!"

"Wait both Uzumaki twins…!" one student exclaims.

"…that would mean that Naruto of all people got the highest score of the boys!" another student says, in surprise.

"Oh please…it shows that goon, Hiromi, isn't the only cheater in the Uzumaki family." One female student, who is a part of Sasuke's 'fan club', snorts, which Naruto glares at her angrily.

"Ignore them, Naruto-kun!" Hiromi says, with a snide smile, "That's more like a loser's whining!" This earned Hiromi a glare from the said female student and Sasuke, on the meanwhile, is staring at Naruto's back, seriously and a bit annoyed that the dead last of his class happen to score high than him. Soon enough, Iruka tells them that the obstacle course was next for the exam. While everyone follows Iruka, the Uzumaki twins walk toward Hinata, more like Hiromi was dragging Naruto by the back of his shirt.

"Hiromi-san and Naruto-kun are coming this way! What if Naruto-kun thinks that I didn't do well because I couldn't beat Hiromi-san!?" Hinata thinks, fearing Naruto's reaction.

"That was great, Hinata dattebayo!" Naruto says, with a kind smile.

Hinata blushes and starts to twiddle her fingers, "T-t-thank you, N-n-naruto-kun. I think that b-both you and H-Hiromi-san did great a-as well." She says, with a stutter while looking away from the Uzumaki twins

Naruto is stunned for a second, other than a few people, no one usually complimented him. Other than Hiromi, Hinata was the first person in his age group who had actually given him a complimented him, hell, not even Sakura did that, "So, you don't think that it was luck, right?" Hiromi asks her, with a smile.

"Uh…No of course not!" Hinata replies, with a stutter, "I…really think that N-Naruto-kun did really well."

What Hinata said just now, made Naruto happy as well as Hiromi, who was having a party in her head, hoping to push it even further, "Thanks, Hinata! Come on, we have to get to the obstacle course." Naruto says, with a smile, but genuine smile on his face. He then grabs Hinata's hand the close contact, however, causes Hinata to faint.

"What happened to her 'ttebayo!?" Naruto exclaims, in panic, but Hiromi sends him a bored look while totally oblivious to what's really happening.

"Naruto, carry her over to Iruka-sensei to check to on it!" Hiromi tells him with Naruto picking Hinata up bridal style and begins to run to Iruka.

At the obstacle course, Iruka looks at his students and notices that Hinata and the Uzumaki twins are missing until he sees Naruto running towards him with Hinata in his arms with Hiromi following him.

"Iruka-sensei! Hinata suddenly collapsed! Do you think that I should take her to the nurse 'ttebayo?" Naruto asks, worriedly. Hinata seemed to be someone who would be his friend and he didn't want anything to happen to her.

Iruka could only smile, only Naruto would be oblivious to Hinata's crush toward him, "She'll be fine, Naruto. Just give her some room." He tells him with a smile.

Naruto places her under a tree and went to stand in line behind Hiromi. When Hinata woke up, she looks around to see everyone in line to take the obstacle course. She hurriedly got into the line behind Naruto.

"Hey Hinata, you feeling better?" Naruto asks, with concern

"He cares about how I feel? Oh Kami (11), if this is a dream please don't wake me up!" Hinata thinks, "Y-yes N-Naruto-kun, I feel better!" She replies, with a small smile.

Naruto smiles, "I'm glad!" He says as he went to take the obstacle course.

"N-N-Naruto-kun, do you best!" Hinata says, with a blush.

Naruto looks at her and once again feels happy that someone else besides again Hiromi in his class actually believes in him, "I will, Hinata dattebayo!" He says, with a wide smile.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

After the obstacle course, the students went outside to have lunch with the exception of Sakura, who got lunch detention while Iruka evaluates their scores so far. While walking, Naruto sends an annoyed glare at his sister because after lunch started, Hiromi went out of her way to tell Sakura, 'Enjoy your lunch detention, Billboard Brow' and dragged Naruto outside before he could say anything to make Sakura feel better, though it would automatically fail. Soon enough, the Uzumaki twins look around for a place to sit when they see Hinata sitting all by herself.

"Other than Nee-chan, Hinata has been the only person nice to me today. I wonder why." Naruto thinks in his mind, confused, "Maybe it's because that I've done a good job so far! She went out of her to congratulate me while everyone else except for Nee-chan just ignore and belittles me." Naruto wasn't used to being accepted and acknowledged, especially from his peers with the exception of Hiromi, so he was interested in why Hinata was so nice toward him when everyone else treated him with indifference or scorn and while Hiromi treats almost everyone like garbage, especially their female peers, Naruto noticed that Hinata was the only girl in his class that his sister doesn't treat like complete and utter crap or decide to have her face onto the ground.

"Hey Hinata-chan, do you mind if we eat with you?" Hiromi asks while she and Naruto walk toward her.

Hinata snaps out of her thoughts as she was thinking about the Uzumaki twins, especially Naruto. Hinata believed that Hiromi would come up on top as always, but she was very surprised with Naruto's progress. Naruto became much better at throwing projectiles and if what she had heard from Iruka whisper to another teacher, then Naruto had done very well on the obstacle course as well. Another thing that she had noticed was Naruto's smile. While Naruto used to smile at seemingly everything in the past, even if it was ridicule, that smile seemed fake to her somehow. She noticed how Naruto never had his eyes open when he gave that smile. She could see the sadness that he tries to had behind that smile, even from his own sister to prevent her from beating up the students that do it since if Naruto isn't sad then Hiromi won't have a reason to beat up students, and it made her sad that he had to hide his emotions.

Like Naruto, Hinata also admired Hiromi, because she was so strong willed and the best of her female peers. Unlike them, Hinata didn't express the same jealously and anger that they've displayed whenever Hiromi came up on top. Hinata wanted to be as strong as Hiromi is one day. Hinata sees the great anger and hurt in Hiromi's eyes whenever someone goes out of their way to make Naruto's life miserable and to make herself feel better, she would either talk down to that said someone or beat them down to a pulp, causing many of their peers to be afraid of Hiromi and stirring away from making her angry. Hinata, herself, dislikes any forms of violence and she could tell that Naruto hates it whenever his sister gets into fights, especially for his sake. Hinata was also upset at herself for not being able to comfort them when Naruto was sad or Hiromi feels the need to beat people up because of her own insecurities.

The smile that Naruto had now, however, was not as large as his previous smiles nor did they appear as frequently, but she could see that these smiles were more real. They didn't hide his pain. They expressed his joy and happiness. She much preferred the smiles that he used now.

She looks up at the Uzumaki twins, "I d-don't m-mind, Hiromi-san!" she says, with a small smile as well as a blush.

The twins sit down and begin to eat their lunches. Naruto was glad that Hinata didn't seem to mind him all as well as his sister, given her infamous school reputation. Everyone else still picked at him and called him names as well as being afraid of Hiromi, but Hinata didn't. She didn't seem to judge them and actually encouraged them. He still didn't understand why she would blush so much around him or why she always seemed to stutter, but so far she was the friendliest student in his class toward them.

They sat in silence for a long time until Naruto decides to ask the question that has been bugging him from the beginning of the class, "Hey Hinata, not that I don't mind but why are you different than the other students 'ttebayo?" He asks, with Hiromi staring at him, "I mean you don't look at me as you're above me or ridicule me. You actually congratulated me when everyone else tried to put me down, hell, not even Sakura-chan is this nice 'ttebayo. You did even say that Nee-chan cheats in her tests like many others have told them. You even defended her when Sakura-chan tried to get Nee-chan in trouble with Iruka-sensei. Why do you act so differently toward us 'ttebayo?" Naruto couldn't understand why Hinata would be so nice to them. She didn't even know them and yet she was the only one to look at him with kindness and approval. He wanted Sakura to look at him like that as well and getting off of Hiromi's 'ass-kick' list to boot. The other students went right back to ridiculing him and treating him like an idiot. They were just like the villagers in his opinion, but Hinata was so different that she wasn't on Hiromi's 'ass-kick' list and he wanted to understand why.

Hinata was at a lost as to what to say. She certainly couldn't tell Naruto that she had a crush on him and at the same time she didn't want to fail to respond. He might take her silence the wrong way and Hiromi angry with her, "I can't tell him my feelings, but I also don't want to hurt his feelings by staying silent. Why should I do?" Hinata thinks, anxiously. Thankfully, she was saved from answering why the bell rang. Hinata let out a sigh of relief as she stood up.

"I t-think t-that we s-should get back to class." She says, wiping the grass from herself.

Hiromi could see that she was relived for the distraction. She was also annoyed with Naruto bluntly asking about a girl's feelings like that though. Unlike Naruto, Hiromi could see that Hinata had a crush on Naruto and could see that Hinata would be perfect for him, strong, talented, and actually trains unlike that the piece of garbage in her opinion that Naruto would like. For someone as young as her, Hiromi had a very mature way with relationships, so she could see that Hinata would be a perfect future girlfriend for Naruto. Hiromi hoped that Naruto would at least accept her friendliness and wouldn't pressure her. If she wanted to tell him her reasons than that was her decision and her decision alone.

"It's okay, Hinata, you don't have to tell me. Just tell me, would you like to be our friend?" Naruto asks, quietly, afraid that she might not want to be friends with someone like him or be intimidated by Hiromi's presence as well.

Hinata was currently on cloud nine. Naruto, her crush, Naruto, wanted her as a friend. She was so happy that she almost fainted, but she knew that he might take that as a rejection and that knowledge kept her conscious, "I w-would l-like that Naruto-kun!" She says, with a small smile and blush on her face.

A wide smile appears on the twin's faces, knowing that they just made their first friend and the day wasn't even over yet!

"Great! We'll be the best of friends, Hinata dattebayo!" Naruto exclaims, with a smile, "Come on, we don't want to be late to class 'ttebayo!"

"H-hai!" Hinata says, also happy about the recent development.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Next was the sparring exam with Shino went first and it was rather quick as it started. Then, Naruto and Hibachi went to the ring, facing each other with Hibachi gives an arrogant smirk.

"Get ready to lose, Naruto-baka!" Hibachi says, with a smirk.

"I'll say the same for you!" Naruto says, with a wide smile. What Hibachi didn't know was that, Naruto was training heavily with Jun and Hiromi to strengthen his body. The two boys got into their stances with many others were looking at Naruto, who was actually getting the Academy stance right for once, surprised at this. Iruka then starts the match with Hibachi, thinking to end this quickly, rushed forward in a burst of speed bringing his knee up to Naruto's stomach.

Naruto reacts instantly by shifting his weight to his back leg, turning his hips, and twisting his body to flow around Hibachi's attack. Hibachi flew past Naruto, his forward motion too much for him to completely stop causing him to lose his balance and stumble. Naruto took advantage of the opening and in a burst of new speed, dropped down to the ground, swipe his right leg to Hibachi's right foot, knocking it, causing Hibachi to fall onto his back, knocking the wind out of him as he notice Naruto on top of him with Naruto's right fist was near his face. Everyone, except for Hiromi, was surprised about this as well as Iruka, who then got out of his stupor with a proud smile on his face.

"Winner, Uzumaki Naruto!" Iruka exclaims

Naruto gets off of Hibachi, who was stunned that he lost to the dead last, and he was not happy about it at all. Hibachi growls at Naruto, "Y-Y-You fre-freak! The grow-ups were right! You're nothing but a monster!" he accused which got him a glare from Iruka

"Baka! Don't be a sore loser! You lost because you underestimated Naruto-kun 'ttebano!" Hiromi says, seriously, "You believed that since he was the 'loser' of our class, you underestimated him and lost! Accept your loss with the dignity you have left or get out of the academy 'ttebano!"

Iruka sighs, knowing that Hiromi was right, but wished that she had some tact into her words, "Hiromi is right, Hibachi! Think of this defeat as something to learn from the next time." Hibachi gets up from the ground while glaring at Naruto's back as he walks back to his sister and Hinata, both who were congratulating him.

Sasuke scoffs, believing that Naruto's win as nothing, "Even if the dobe did manage to beat Hibachi, it means nothing! Hibachi was a weakling to begin with! He could never stand against a true elite like me, an Uchiha!" Sasuke thinks in his mind as he places a cap onto his jealous at Naruto's skills at the weapons test and the fact that he made it pass the obstacle course after Sasuke did, but he shoved it away and believed that Hiromi had helped him as always.

"Alright! Takeda Ami vs Hyuga Hinata!" Iruka calls out.

Ami looks at Hinata and smirks, "Hinata's so quiet and weak! This should be easy!" she thinks as she and Hinata walk to the sparring field, "I won't be going easy on you, Hinata!" she says, clenching her fists and putting them in front of her.

Hinata whimpers at this, but the Uzumaki twins cheers her own, "Go for it, Hinata!" Naruto cheers out.

"Yeah! This should be easy for you! Your opponent is a joke 'ttebano!" Hiromi says, with Ami glaring at her, "Plus, I actually want to face you in the next round, so win this one, already!"

"Shut up, Hiromi!" Ami screeches.

Sakura glares at Hiromi, "And besides, you're getting ahead of yourself! You have to get past me to get to the next round!" she says, in a sneer.

Hiromi scoffs, "Like I said, Hinata-chan, I want to make you at the next round 'ttebano!" she says, completely dismissing Sakura, "Besides, if you let Takeda beat you, then it would mean another loser for me to fight 'ttebano!"

Sakura growls at Hiromi while waiting impatiently for her chance to beat her and make her pay for looking down on her.

Hinata sighs, "Don't underestimate me, Ami-san." She says, before taking her Juken (12) stance

Ami scoffs and turns towards Sasuke, "Oh Sasuke-kun! Watch me, okay! I'm going to fight now!" She notices Sasuke was ignoring her and it annoyed her, "Oh, Sasuke-kun! Ow!" Ami yelps as he fell to her butt, "Hinata! What the heck?"

Hinata smiles at Ami. She had done a low spin kick and kicked Sakura off her feet, "Don't take your eyes off your opponent. It could prove fatal, Ami-san."

Most of the kids snickered at Ami's failure, "Heh! Loser!" Hiromi comments.

Ami's face went red with anger and embarrassment and Hiromi's insult just added fuel. Ami stood up and charges at Hinata with rage which Hinata in response sidesteps and threw a palm strike to the right side of Ami's ribcage. Ami yelps and held her ribs. "How'd you do that?" Ami asks, dumbfounded. Hinata was never this strong before.

"While you were fawning over Sasuke-kun, I was training hard to become stronger." Hinata replies, with a smile, "I told you not to underestimate me. Now you will lose."

"Yeah! You tell her, Hinata dattebayo!" Naruto cheers, which made Hinata's cheeks turn slightly pink, but she didn't take her eyes off Ami.

"I won't lose, Hinata!" Ami cries as she run towards Hinata and throws a punch at the girl's face. Hinata counters with a palm strike and strikes Ami in the chest with another palm strike. Ami skids back several feet and places her hand to her chest.

"Jeez, Hinata! Do you have to hit me so hard!" Ami complains while panting.

"Hey don't blame Hinata-chan with your poor performance 'ttebano!" Hiromi says, with a glare, "Do you think, if you're fighting an enemy ninja, they'll go easy on you? Guess again! I heard that everyone that graduates from this academy goes on missions that would most likely get them killed 'ttebano! At least in this spar you're getting a good taste of what's to come! If you can't take it, then drop out of this academy already and stop wasting Iruka-sensei's time dealing with a weakling like you 'ttebano! At least Naruto-kun understands this!" Hiromi adds, harshly.

Ami growls angrily at Hiromi and Iruka tells her, "Listen Hiromi, you may be right about ninja graduating from the academy may get themselves killed, but you don't have to be so harsh on Ami."

Hiromi scoffs as the fight between Ami and Hinata continues with Hinata dominating Ami with a double palm strike at Ami, who manages to barely dodge it. Ami threw a kick towards Hinata's chest, but Hinata bent backwards and lands into a bridge position. She then preforms a back walk over, kicking Ami in the process. Ami gasps and stumbles backward, landing on her behind again, holding the left side of her chin. Ami is in complete shock, "How did Hinata get so strong?"

"Winner, Hyuga Hinata!" Iruka calls out.

Hinata bows to Iruka, thanking him, and then turns to Ami. She holds out her hand to help Ami up, but Ami slaps it away, "I don't need your help, Hinata! I can get up on my own!" she snaps as she did got up on her, then walks over to Sasuke to ask him how she did.

Hinata sighs as she returns to the Uzumaki twins, she was then welcomed back with a hug from Naruto, "N-Naruto-kun?"

"You did so well, Hinata! I couldn't believe how strong you were 'ttebayo! You were amazing dattebayo!" Naruto exclaims, excitedly.

"Yeah! You completely wasted Takeda!" Hiromi comments.

Hinata blushes the twins' praises and Iruka then calls out for both Shikamaru and Choji to come to the find, but Shikamaru states that he forfeits the match, much to Iruka's irritation, declaring Choji the winner.

"Uzumaki Hiromi and Haruno Sakura, please step forward!" Iruka calls out.

"I'll be right back, guys! This won't take long!" Hiromi says, stepping up while cracking her knuckles, menacingly with Naruto and Hinata winching at the dreading outcome knowing that Hiromi will win and Sakura leaving with a broken pride.

As Hiromi and Sakura step to the ring, the turn to one another with Sakura glaring at her, believing that she will beat Hiromi today.

"Hey Haruno, don't feel comfortable in this ring, because this fight won't last than a minute 'ttebano." Hiromi says, with snide in her voice.

"Oh shut up, Hiromi!" Sakura yells at her angrily, "I'm going to win and put you in your place once and for all!"

"Funny! That's what you always say, but you end up failing to deliver 'ttebano!"

Sakura snarls in reply while clenching fists wanting to beat Hiromi to a pulp and have Sasuke admire her. If someone like Naruto got lucky with his win against Hibachi, then so can she.

"Begin!"

As the fight starts, Sakura charges after Hiromi and threw a punch at the red haired girl's face, but Hiromi sidesteps from the punch, then Sakura quickly twists her upper body to throw another punch at Hiromi's face, but Hiromi ducks and harshly kicks the back of Sakura's right foot as the pink haired girl tries to regain her balance. When Hiromi's foot hit the back of Sakura's foot hard, Sakura is knocked off her feet, which had almost went upwards had not it been the back of Sakura's head hitting the ground, hard, causing her to cry out in pain and falls onto her right side. Sakura rolls around on the ground, crying out in pain while clutching her head where she was hit.

"Winner, Uzumaki Hiromi!" Iruka declares as he runs to Sakura's aid and Hiromi leaving the ring, walking to her brother and Hinata.

"Nee-chan! Did you have to go that far 'ttebayo?" Naruto exclaims, annoyed

"Hey! She was asking for it 'ttebano! Maybe that it got her brain working and decides to either train or drop out of the academy 'ttebano!" Hiromi retorts.

"Man! There no sense in arguing with you dattebayo!" Naruto complains

"Hn! Your sister is right, dobe!" Hinata and the Uzumaki twins whip their heads to see Sasuke staring at them.

"Teme! What do you want!?" Naruto exclaims, angrily.

"Even though you got lucky on that win against Hibachi, dobe, you're still a loser!" Sasuke insults while walking away from Hinata and the Uzumaki twins with Naruto glaring at him with anger.

"Man! I hate that kid 'ttebayo!" Naruto says, annoyed.

Iruka walks Sakura, who was still nursing her head, and tells her to go to the nurse's office to recover. While walking towards the building, Sakura glares at Hiromi, angrily, knowing that she won't be able to cheer for Sasuke because Hiromi and swore that she'll get her back for this. Iruka then calls for Kiba and another student, which was another one of Hibachi's friends, Unagi, steps into the ring. Iruka then calls for the fight to begin and it ended quickly as well with Kiba winning. Iruka then calls Ino and another female student, which was another Sasuke 'fan girl', to the ring and it lasted for a while until Ino manage to barely win and glares at Hiromi swearing to avenge Sakura, even though they were no longer friends due to the fact they were competing for Sasuke's heart, but they both have an understanding that they both hate Hiromi for gaining Sasuke's attention.

"It doesn't matter whether you won that match, Yamanaka-yowai! You'll still be a second-rate kunoichi in my book!" Hiromi jeered.

Ino just glares at Hiromi with annoyance muttering that she's going beat the red haired girl. Soon enough, it was Sasuke's turn to fight and it was against another one of Hibachi's friends, which ended quickly in Sasuke's favor much to the delight of his 'fan girls'. Soon enough, the first round ended and Iruka had the students who made it past the first round draw slots to determine to will be their opponents. Iruka then made a list on who will fight who.

"I get to fight Kiba!" Naruto exclaims, which had the said name come over to Naruto.

"You may have gotten lucky with that win against Hibachi, Naruto, but you won't win against me!" Kiba boasted.

"Oh yeah! Just you wait, Kiba! I'm going to blow you again 'ttebayo!" Naruto brags.

"Not likely! That win against Hibachi shouldn't even count, because he wasn't even here for a month and you sure as hell won't beat me!"

"You wanna bet on that, dog breath!"

"Bring it on, loser!"

Soon enough, Hiromi comes in and brains them hard with her fists to their heads hard telling them to shut it. "At least, you got a worthy opponent, Naruto!" Hiromi complains, annoyed.

"Who are you fighting?" Kiba asks as Hiromi points at Ino.

"I get stuck fighting not one loser but two in the same day dattebano!" Hiromi complains, "And Hinata-chan is on the same boat as well!"

"Th-that's okay, Hiromi-san!" Hinata says, with a small smile, relieved that she won't be facing Hiromi in the second round.

"Okay Naruto-kun, take them off!" Hiromi commands

"Why?" Naruto asks, curiously

"Inuzuka Kiba-kun isn't like Hibachi 'ttebano! He comes from the Inuzuka Clan where they specialize in hit and run tactics while leaving their opponents barely any time to launch a counter attack. You'll need all the speed that you would need against him 'ttebano."

Naruto nods as he rolls up his sleeves to reveal the weights that he were wearing, which he is taking off as well as the ones attached to his legs too. He places them on the ground.

"Alright everyone…I will start the second round with Uzumaki Hiromi going against Yamanaka Ino!" Iruka declares at the two mentioned girls walk into the arena while glaring at each other. Iruka then starts the match with Ino charging after Hiromi, jumps in the air, spins and throws a kick at Hiromi's face. However, Hiromi dodges and slams her palm hard onto Ino's stomach as the platinum blonde girl lands, knocking the wind out of her. Ino dropped to her knee, but recovered quickly and throws a punch at Hiromi's face. Again and again, Ino tries to hit Hiromi, but Hiromi's speed and agility are outpacing Ino, who is frustrated. Ino then throws another kick to Hiromi's side, but the red haired girl grabs Ino's leg and throws the platinum blonde girl into the air. Ino quickly recovers as she lands to the ground with her feet, but is surprised when she sees Hiromi near her as her feet hits the ground. Hiromi then slams both of her palms onto Ino's chest hard, knocking her out of the ring.

"Winner, Uzumaki Hiromi!" Iruka declares as Ino slowly sits up, frustrated that Hiromi beat her again.

Hiromi smirks at Ino, "Better luck next time, moron!" she remarks, making Ino even angrier.

Hiromi leaves the ring with Iruka calling out Naruto and Kiba's names and the two boys walk into the ring.

"Get ready to get flatted, dobe!" Kiba exclaims, nastily, "Dead last means dead meat!"

"Funny! I was going to say the same about you too, dog breath!" Naruto says, with a smirk.

Kiba took his clan stance, Shikyaku no Jutsu (13), and Naruto takes a different stance with his feet slightly further than his shoulders, his left leg leading with his hands and arms forward and bent slightly at the elbow while his upper body remains erect. Just then, within Naruto's mind, Naruto sees an image of Kiba's first attack and the amount of damage he'll receive. When Iruka declares the match to begin, Kiba, thinking to end this quickly, rushes forward in a burst of speed bringing his left elbow to Naruto's stomach.

Naruto reacts quickly by shifting his weight to his back leg, turning his hips, and twisting his body to flow around Kiba's attack. Kiba flies past Naruto, his forward motion too much for him to completely stop causing him to lose his balance and stumble. Naruto sees an opening and in a burst of speed, slams his right leg into Kiba's waist knocking him away for him to hit the ground. Kiba quickly recovers and shakes off the surprise by Naruto's counterattack, then attacks Naruto. Naruto then sees the image of Kiba's next attack within his mind and he sees Kiba lunging at him with his fist coming to Naruto's face, but Naruto quickly dodges it. Soon enough, Kiba starts to send a barrage of punches and kicks to Naruto, but Naruto kept dodging them, much to Kiba's frustration as Kiba sends the last kick to Naruto's legs, but the blond jumps over Kiba and lands further away from him.

Everyone is surprised by this even Hiromi since she didn't think that Naruto would do this well against someone from the Inuzuka Clan and Naruto, himself, doesn't even know what's going on. He's seeing every one of Kiba's future attacks. He doesn't have time to think as he sees Kiba's kick to his head, which made him duck, but is caught by surprise when Kiba pulls an upper cut, striking Naruto in the chin.

Naruto flew back several feet and lands onto the ground with his feet, rubbing his now sore chin. Just then, Naruto sees Kiba's next attack within his mind again and dodges the punch that was meant for his jaw. Naruto throws a punch at Kiba's face, but Kiba blocks it with his forearm and brought his knee to Naruto's gut, which Naruto blocks with his own knee and slams his forehead onto Kiba's knocking him away from him, causing Kiba to howl in pain. While clutching his forehead in pain, Kiba didn't notice Naruto's kick until it hits Kiba's chest, throwing him away.

Kiba quickly recovers from the blow and charges after Naruto in full speed, determined to end this fight. However, Naruto jumps into the air to dodge it, but Kiba didn't stop there as he jumps up to attack Naruto with a kick to his face. Naruto blocks it, but the added strength behind Kiba's kick throws him away and hits the ground. Kiba goes in and hits Naruto in the chest, but to his surprise, Naruto turns into a log, indicating a Kawarimi, and a kunai blade is placed near Kiba's neck to the owner's surprise, revealing Naruto is behind him.

"Winner, Uzumaki Naruto!" Iruka declares, which made many of the student getting surprised.

"Hey wait a minute! Iruka-sensei, Naruto-baka cheated! Do over!" Ino screeches, trying to discredit Naruto, which a few students agreed with her.

"Baka! Last I checked, jutsus within E-rank and D-rank can be used in this exam, right?" Hiromi scoffs, "So, the Kawarimi no Jutsu, an E-ranked jutsu is legal, even Naruto-kun knows this 'ttebano! You should really brush up on your jutsu levels instead of trying new ways of impressing Ahouchiha, moron!" This comment brought a few chuckles from students.

Iruka nods, "Hiromi is right again! The win is totally legal so Naruto has won and will advance to the third round!" he declares much to Ino's annoyance and glares at Naruto as he made his way to his sister and Hinata.

"Hey Naruto!" Naruto turns to see Kiba walking over to him with blank look on his face. Kiba smiles, placing his hand to Naruto in a shake, "Nice fight, man!" He says with Naruto returning the smile and the hand shake.

"Thanks!"

"I was wondering how you got that good, anyway!" Kiba asks, curiously, "I mean, you were never that fast before!"

"Training! Nee-chan decided to let me train with her for once 'ttebayo!" Naruto replies.

"Well, you won this one, but I'll beat you the next time!"

"That's what you think 'ttebayo!"

On the meanwhile, Sasuke is looking at Naruto with a very serious look, "That's twice the dobe actually won! Not only that, he's gotten a bit faster than before! Something happen! But what!?" he thinks.

"Okay Aburame Shino against Akimichi Choji!" Iruka calls out. Shino was the first to step forward and Choji was snacking on a bag of barbecue potato chips. He puts his bag of chips in his pocket and wipes the crumbs off his mouth. "I'm ready!" he says, clenching his fist, squatting down a little. Shino assumes his position as well. They knew that they couldn't use any of their clan ninjutsu for this match Iruka then starts the match with Choji being the first to charge head-on and threw a sloppy punch at Shino, who easily dodged it. Shino then countered with a kick of his own to Choji's stomach. The large boy stumbles back a little bit and rubs his stomach. "Ow…!" he groans. Choji then threw another punch, but he is once again kicked by Shino. Chojii groaned again and raised his hands up, "I give!"

Iruka sighs, "Alright Shino, you're the victor!"

Shino helps Choji up, who smiles at the quiet boy, "Thanks!" he says, and the two walk back to the group as the fights went on and the next round came around with Sasuke, Hiromi, Naruto, Hinata, and Shino beating their opponents. Iruka was proud of Naruto as he got to make it to the semi-finals for the boys division with Shino as his opponent. In the semi-finals, Hiromi and Hinata defeated their opponents and went to the finals for the girls division to face each other, much to Hinata's dread. Sasuke had once again defeated his opponent easily, much to the delight to his 'fan girls' and they weren't that loud since Sakura had yet to recover from her injury from Hiromi. Next up was both Naruto and Shino with them facing other each and Naruto having his weights put on, so he wouldn't hurt Shino that much.

"Begin!"

Naruto then charges after Shino and throws a punch to his face, but Shino blocks it with his left forearm and follows with a sidekick to Shino's waist, but Shino blocks that too. Shino then follows with a punch in the face, but Naruto dodges it from hitting him. Shino then throws another fist at Naruto, only for the blond to block it. Naruto then followed with a kick to Shino's waist, but the Aburame dodges it and followed with his own kick to Naruto's head, only for Naruto to duck in time and moves away as Shino lands to the ground on his feet. However, Naruto kicks the back of Shino's feet, knocking him to the ground on his back and places a fist to Shino's face.

"Winner, Uzumaki Naruto!" Iruka declares with a wide smile.

There are many of the students that are looking at Naruto in surprise while there were looks of suspicion, "Iruka-sensei, are you sure that Naruto isn't somehow cheating?" Ino asks, glaring at Naruto, "He's been winning his matches lately and it's really weird!"

Iruka sighs, "Yes Ino, I know that Naruto isn't cheating. If he was, I would have spotted it by now, but I didn't so he's not cheating. I am a chunin, you know."

"Well, something's up!" Hibachi says, seriously while still sore from his loss by the blond Uzumaki, "No way could that idiot have be that good! I know that I've been gone a month, but no way improves from dead last to this in a month's time!"

Sasuke looks at Naruto with a serious stare as well after seeing all of Naruto's matches so far. Naruto then helps Shino onto his feet and the two walk back to the group. On the meanwhile, Shikamaru is looking at Naruto with a serious look on his face. As lazy he may be, he knew that something didn't add up with Naruto's progress. For the time that he's known the younger blond Uzumaki, he knew about Naruto's past progress and it didn't show in today's midterm.

"Wow! Naruto is on fire today!" Choji says, while munching on his bag of chips.

"It must have been that training that Naruto must have done with Hiromi." Kiba said.

Naruto was deep in thought about his earlier fights. During those fights, he kept getting images of his opponent's next move and acted upon them and it happened mainly during his fights with both Kiba and Shino, but the other civilian born opponents, they were moving too slow for him to dodge. He wondered why he was getting these images.

"Hey Naruto-kun, what's up?"

Naruto turns to Hiromi, who is giving him a questionable look, "It's the fights that I've been getting into." Naruto replies, with a whisper, "It's been really weird dattebayo. In my fight with Kiba and Shino, I've been getting images of their next attacks and I guess that's how I've been able to win against them dattebayo."

Hiromi's eyes widen in shock and realizing what's been happening, "I think I know what you're talking about but we'll check later dattebano." She replies with a whisper

Iruka decides for those in the finals to take a drink of water with a ten minute break. Naruto wanted to check up on Sakura, but Hiromi convinced (more like forced) him to reconsider, telling him that to worry about the 'loser' later since he has to fight Sasuke next in the finals. Right now, Hinata is seen in the group outside after getting a drink of water while panicking knowing that she has to fight Hiromi. Someone who she admires a lot as a role model and someone to measure up to as a person in ability. She is worrying that she may not be able to beat Hiromi at all since there was talk among her female peers, saying that they feel sorry for Hinata to have to fight that 'brute' and believing that she will not only be defeated, but Hiromi will be ruthless to her.

"Yo Hinata!"

Hinata turns to see Naruto walking toward her, "You're alright!" Naruto asks with a smile.

Hinata looks down while un-answering to Naruto's question and dwindling her fingers, nervously. "Don't worry about it!" Naruto tells her, "Just try your best dattebayo! I know that Nee-chan is strong, but if you try your best it won't be that bad dattebayo! Like me, I'm not going to let Sasuke-teme beat me! I've gotten a lot better and it's not going to end with him getting an easy win like he's been getting in the past 'ttebayo! I will be rooting for the both of you to do your best."

Hinata feels a lot better by the encouragement words from Naruto and Iruka comes out calling out to Hiromi and Hinata to come to the rings. The two girls walk to the ring with many of their peers whispering about how that they feel really sorry that Hinata has to fight the Akai Chishio no Sukeban.

"Poor Hinata! She has to fight…that girl!"

"And she was doing so well too."

"The Akai Chishio no Sukeban is gonna eat her alive!"

Hinata could feel her confidence crippling down after hearing those words, but she remembers Naruto's words to her to never give up.

"Hey Hinata-chan!"

Hinata looks up at Hiromi, who gives her a smile, "Let's do our best okay dattebano." She says with enthusiasm, "We've made it to the final round dattebano!"

"Hai!" Hinata replies with her own smile, regaining her confidence.

"Go for it! Nee-chan! Hinata!" Naruto cheers out.

Iruka smiles, "Begin!" He calls out as Hiromi goes for the attack with a fist aiming toward Hinata's face.

Hinata quickly moves away to the side while Hiromi follows it with a strong sidekick to Hinata's left side, but the pale eyed girl blocks it and pushes it away while winching at the feel of Hiromi's kick on her palm. Hiromi goes in to punch Hinata's right cheek, but Hinata blocks it before it hits her and goes in for a palm strike to Hiromi's chest. Hiromi quickly moves away from Hinata's attack and goes to smash her right forearm to Hinata's face, but Hinata pushes away with her other hand and hits Hiromi's right rib knocking her away, surprising many people as Hinata goes in for another attack, but Hiromi grabs Hinata's attacking arm and throws her over her shoulder. Hinata quickly lands onto her feet and gasps in shock as she sees Hiromi's fist coming to her face. She tries to dodge it, but the fist hits her face hard and Hiromi continues to hit Hinata's chest and stomach, knocking the wind out of her, then drops and performs a sidekick to Hinata's feet to knock her down. Hinata, however, places her right hand onto the ground before she can fall to the ground and uses the momentum to push both her feet to Hiromi's face, knocking her away from her.

Iruka and everyone else are surprised to see Hiromi actually having trouble defeating Hinata.

"Whoa! I didn't think that Hinata could be this good 'ttebayo!" Naruto says, with disbelief.

"Yeah! No kidding!" Kiba comments.

"No way! Hinata managed to kick Hiromi's face!" Ami says, shocked.

"If she keeps this up, Hinata could finally beat that jerk!" Ino exclaims, happily, "Get her, Hinata! Make that thug suffer!" Soon enough, there are many cheers for Hinata to beat Hiromi, mainly from the girls that have lost to Hiromi so many times and had enough of her winning all the time.

Hiromi wipes the blood from her lips, "Nice hit, Hinata-chan! However, it's far from over!" she says, charging after Hinata to continue their fight. Just then, images of Hiromi's next attack appears within Hinata's mind as Hiromi throws multiple punches at Hinata, but the Hyuga heiress manages to either block or dodges them and she goes in to hit Hiromi with her palms, but it's the same with Hiromi dodging and blocking them.

"Nice Hinata!" Naruto cheers.

"Can it dobe!"

Naruto glares at Sasuke who looks at him with a bored look on his face, "What do you want, teme?" Naruto asks rudely

"Hiromi is only toying with Hinata! We all know that she could just end the fight if she wanted to. I don't see why she would just drag it out." Sasuke says plainly.

Back to the fight, Hinata jumps up in the air from a sidekick from Hiromi, spins her body to send a kick to Hiromi's head, but Hiromi grabs it, rotates her upper body to throw Hinata away in the air. Hiromi then jumps to the air after to kick her even further, but Hinata moves her feet higher to land onto Hiromi's attacking leg and uses it as a springing board to kick Hiromi's face, but the red haired girl grabs Hinata's leg and hurls her back to the ground. Hinata then lands onto the ground with her feet, but Hiromi appears behind her and Hiromi kicks Hinata's back hard, throwing her into the air and have her hit the ground hard.

"Hinata!" Naruto exclaims, horrified.

Soon enough, in a poof of smoke, Hinata becomes a log, indicting Kawarimi and Hinata appears behind Hiromi, but Hiromi grabs Hinata by the collar and throws her to the ground with a fist by her face.

"Winner of the girls division, Uzumaki Hiromi!" Iruka says, with a smile which is followed by protests from the girls.

"No way! Hiromi cheated!"

"Yeah! There was no way that she could have known that Hinata would pull a Kawarimi no Jutsu!"

Ino goes to Iruka, "Iruka-sensei, Hiromi is cheating!" she exclaims, angrily pointing at Hiromi, "You've seen it!"

Iruka sighs annoyed with the accusations towards the Uzumaki twins' progress, "Ino, I did not see Hiromi cheat at all today!" he says, with a stern tone, "I really wish that you all will not accuse your classmates of cheating without the facts."

Ino looks annoyed that she was not getting anywhere, "Facts! Hinata used Kawarimi no Jutsu, which is used to escape from attacks, and Hiromi grabbed Hinata from the back to stop her counterattack! It was as if Hiromi knew where Hinata was going to attack! Hiromi may be a lot of things, but physic isn't one of them!"

When Naruto hears this, he begins to think what had happen during Hiromi and Hinata's fight was similar to what he did with Kiba and Shino. Like him, his sister may have that kind of power.

Iruka had to admit, but Ino did have a point. He may have few ideas on how Hiromi knew where Hinata would attack, but he had to make sure, "Sometimes Kawarimi no Jutsu may not very be effective! It all depends on the users speed!" Iruka says, seriously, "Now, enough with the accusations already!"

Ino looks as if she sucked a lemon as she glares at Hiromi, who helps Hinata up, heatedly and a hint of jealously.

"Hey Hinata-chan, are you okay?" Hiromi asks, concerned walking with Hinata out of the ring.

Hinata looks down in the ground her eyes getting watery, disappointed that she lost as Naruto went over to them, "Hey you guys fought good, especially you Hinata! You were awesome dattebayo!" he exclaims excitedly.

"Naruto is right! There were a few times that you had me on the ropes dattebano!" Hiromi says, with a proud smile, "You should feel proud that you tried your best today!"

Hinata nods solemnly with a sad smile still disappointed that she lost. Hiromi goes over to Naruto, then whispers to his ear, "Naruto, listen…about that power. Don't try drawing it out! You're too inexperience to know about to control it dattebano! If you do see images of Uchiha's next attacks, then you can rely on it. Just mainly, rely on your own senses for now. Also, you may need to remove your weights though, because you'll need the speed advantage against Uchiha."

Naruto nods his head and Iruka calls on both his and Sasuke's names, much to the delight of Sasuke's 'fan club', which got many of the boys as well as Hiromi and Hinata to close their ears. Naruto removes his weights to increase his strength and speed and places them onto the ground. As the two boys walk into the arena, Naruto could hear many of peers saying that he'll lose to Sasuke again, but he ignores it.

"I don't know how you manage to get this far, but this is as far as you go, dobe." Sasuke says, with an arrogant smile

"We'll see about that, teme!" Naruto retorts.

"Go for it, Sasuke-kun!"

"This is as far as you go, Naruto-baka!"

"Naruto, ignore the losers' words and go for it dattebano!" Hiromi cheers out

Naruto gets into his own stance and Sasuke got into his clan stance, the Interceptor Fist. Iruka calls out, "Begin!"

Soon enough, the two boys didn't make a move, much to Sasuke's confusion, believing Naruto to make the first charge, "What's the matter, dobe? You scared!" Sasuke taunts.

Naruto gives Sasuke an annoyed look, but he reframes from attacking since Jun and Ryu told him about the Uchiha stance, the Interceptor Fist. He knew that should he attack, then it would end badly for him, because the Interceptor Fist is known to counteracting opponents who make the first move.

"If you're not going to make a move, then I will!" Sasuke calls out and he dashes toward Naruto with a fist cocked back to punch him, but Naruto moves away from Sasuke's punch and with new speed and agility, kicks Sasuke hard in the chest and punches Sasuke's face hard, knocking him away from Naruto much to every students' shock and surprise, even Iruka is surprised by this. Sasuke skids back from the strength of Naruto's counterattack as he regains his composer.

"Did that just happened," Shikamaru asks, too shocked to believe what he and everyone else saw.

"That's what I'm trying to believe," Choji remarks.

"He caught Sasuke completely off guard," Shino comments, in a rare surprised tone.

"It was just a lucky shot," Ino replies in denial, "There's no way Naruto could have hit Sasuke-kun that easily! It was just a case of extreme dumb luck!"

Regardless of what was being said, Hinata and Hiromi looked very happy and pleased that Naruto managed to hit Sasuke for once. Sasuke, hot with anger by what just happened, swipes the blood from his mouth.

"What's the matter, teme?" Naruto says, in a taunting tone, "Surprised that I've managed to hit the so called 'great Uchiha Sasuke' for once?"

"You're gonna regret that, dobe," Sasuke replies as he charges after Naruto again.

Sasuke throws five punches at Naruto, who dodges them no problems as well as the high kicks to the face, and when Sasuke throws the last punch to Naruto's face, Naruto jumps up to Sasuke's attacking arm and kicks Sasuke's face, hard, knocking him away. Sasuke uses his right hand to stop his fall and maneuvers to his feet. Sasuke glares at Naruto, heatedly and annoyed that none of his attacks are even working against Naruto, today. Naruto then rushes after Sasuke with a punch to his face, but Sasuke follows through with moving away from Naruto's right fist, grabbing his right arm, flipping him over his shoulder to smash him to the ground.

However, Naruto maneuvers by moving his feet to land on his feet, catching Sasuke by surprise, throwing him away from him. Sasuke does multiple flips to regain his balance, but Naruto appears by him and does a sideswipe to Sasuke's feet, knocking him over. Sasuke lands on his right hand, moves around to land onto his other hand, and goes around to smash his feet to Naruto's face, but Naruto moves away from Sasuke's feet, surprising him as he flies past him.

"It's over, teme!" Naruto declares, quickly kicking Sasuke's chest, knocking him into the air and landing outside of the ring. However, turns into a block of wood, indicting a Kawarimi and Sasuke appears by Naruto's right side and delivers a swift kick to Naruto's chest, knocking him into the air, and hitting the ground outside of the ring. Sasuke smirks, believing that he's won, but Naruto turns into a block of wood, indicting a Kawarimi, really surprising Sasuke as he didn't have time to act as Naruto appears by Sasuke's right side and side back-kick him in the stomach, knocking him away. Naruto then charges after Sasuke, who tries to regain his balance, and hits him in the chin with a strong upper cut and jab to the chest, throwing him away and he hits the ground, but jumps onto his feet. Iruka and many of the students were surprised to see the current Rookie of the Year was having a hard time defeating the current Dead Last. Hiromi and Hinata were surprised by this as well, they didn't think that Naruto would last this long in a fight with Sasuke, since all their past fights ended with Naruto kissing dirt, earlier on.

"What's going on?" Kiba asks.

"That's twice that Naruto manage to get Sasuke off guard!" Choji remarks, with disbelief.

"Damn it! It's like the fight between Hiromi and Hinata!" Ino exclaims, angrily, "Naruto is somehow predicting every one of Sasuke-kun's attacks! He even knew when Sasuke-kun would use Kawarimi no Jutsu and hit him! It has to be some kind of a trick!"

Sasuke glares at Naruto while spitting blood to the ground, "Damn it! What's going on here? None of my attacks are having any effect on Naruto! In fact, so far, he's been one step ahead of me as if he knows every move I make. If the dobe was cheating, then Iruka-sensei would have caught it since he's a Chunin! Could the dobe have gained physic powers or something?" Sasuke thinks in his mind and he glances at Hiromi, "As a matter of fact, during our spars, Hiromi did the exact same thing as Naruto is doing now! It's how we've manage to tie our matches up till now along with my speed and agility! She predicted every one of my attacks and acted accordingly, even most of my surprise attacks didn't work! It's similar to how my clan's Sharingan works! Is a Kekkai Genkai (14) or something? If it's a Kekkai Genkai, then could Naruto have just unlocked his own or something like Hiromi has! That's impossible! There's no way! They're both orphans and would have had their own clan by now! What could it be? I've got to figure it out before times up and I would rather not have another tie with Naruto of all people! I could stomach it better with Hiromi, but NOT with her loser of a brother!" Sasuke thinks and charges after Naruto in full speed and throws a punch at Naruto's face, but Naruto blocks it and counterattacks with a punch of his own, but Sasuke moves away from it and bashes Naruto's left cheek, knocking him away. Naruto counterattacks with a hard sidekick to Sasuke's ribs and right cross to Sasuke's nose. Naruto then performs another kick to Sasuke's legs, but Sasuke jumps up to avoid it, but totally misses the other leg coming for his stomach, knocking him to the ground. Naruto then goes for the finishing blow, which was a fist to the chest, but he hits another block of wood. Then, a blade appears by Naruto's neck, indicting that Sasuke was behind him.

"Winner, Uchiha Sasuke!"

All of the girls, but Hiromi and Hinata, cheers for Sasuke, while most of the boys, who lost to Naruto, just laughed at him.

"Psychic or not! Naruto-baka still can't beat Sasuke-kun!" Ami sneers.

"If you idiots are laughing at Naruto-kun's loss, you're just admitting to us that you're just more pathetic than he is giving the fact that you've lost to him dattebano!" Hiromi remarks, which got the boys to stop laughing at Naruto and looks away in embarrassment and Hiromi looks at Ami, snidely, "And who's more of a baka, the one who just lost or the one, who didn't even make it past the first round of the tournament dattebano." She sneers.

Ami glares at Hiromi, angrily, "Shut up, Hiromi! I wouldn't have lost if…!"

"…if what? I hope that you're not thinking that Hinata-chan is some cheater too! Now, that sounds like a loser's excuse, but then again, Takeda, it's an excuse more suited for you…a loser 'ttebano." Hiromi insults, which made Ami's face turn bright red with anger, promising that she'll get the red haired girl for the humiliation.

Sasuke puts away his kunai while panting and walks away from Naruto, who was glaring at him in anger and frustration that he lost to Sasuke, again. "Damn it! I've lost to that jerk, again! Why? How could I lose to him 'ttebayo?" Naruto thinks in his mind, frustrated as he walks back to the line. Naruto's eyes widened, "Wait! That weird power! The way that I could predict attacks as if I'm psychic! I have to ask Jun-occhan about it! That way, Sasuke won't have a chance to beat me again dattebayo!"

"Hey Naruto-kun!"

Naruto turns to see Hiromi and Hinata walking toward him, "Great fight! You had Uchiha sweating dattebano!" Hiromi says, with a smile.

"Really?"

"For sure!" Kiba says, walking towards them with Shino, Shikamaru, and Choji.

"You manage to catch Sasuke of guard a few times! I don't even know how you did it!" Choji comments, "It was like you knew exactly how he would move! It was almost like how Hiromi would fight and Hinata did very well too."

"Yeah! Who knew she had it in her!" Kiba comments.

"I know what you mean dattebayo! She was amazing!" Naruto remarks, smiling at Hinata, who blushes red from Naruto's words and smile.

"I guess that's what to expect from the heiress of the Hyuga clan dattebayo!" Hiromi says, with a wide smile, while made Hinata's head go down with embarrassment and her face getting even redder.

Iruka steps into the ring, "Okay everyone, I'm very proud of everyone's progress in this midterm, especially Naruto's progress." He says, giving the blond boy a proud smile while a few students glare at Naruto's way out of bitter of being outdone by the dead last of their class. "Now, to start the match between the winner of the boys' division and the girls' division to see who gets to be number one." Iruka states as both Sasuke and Hiromi walk to the ring with many of the girls cheer for Sasuke's name while Naruto, Kiba, and Hinata cheer for Hiromi.

"I know that Nee-chan is going to win this dattebayo!" Naruto says, with a wide smile, "Don't you think so, Hinata?"

Hinata nods her head slowly with a smile, "I know!" she says, softly.

Naruto gets even nearer to Hinata, making the girl blush red, "Hey can you keep a secret? It has something to do with my fights against clan kids." Naruto says in a whisper with Hinata looking at him with confusion, "Well, I get these weird images in my head anytime that my opponent goes in for the attack 'ttebayo."

"Images?" Hinata says, confused and then her eyes widen in shock and amazement, "N-N-Naruto-kun…th…these 'images'…do they…show you your opponent's next move?" she asks, believing that she may have an idea what Naruto is talking about.

Naruto looked surprised at Hinata's question, "Yeah! But how did you know?" he asks.

Hinata looks away with a blush with Naruto's eyes on her, "Th-th-that's what's been ha-hap-happening to me during my fights today." She confessed.

Naruto yelps in surprise and shock, "You too!" he says, in disbelief

Hinata nods slowly, "I've manage them randomly." She replies, timidly.

"Nee-chan did say that she has some idea about it. We'll just have to wait until she wastes Sasuke-teme afterwards dattebayo!" On the meanwhile, Sasuke's 'fan girls' are cheering Sasuke on.

"Go Sasuke-kun!"

"Yeah! Beat that no good tomboy like you did with her loser of the brother!"

"Your 'fan club' are just as noisy as ever." Hiromi comments.

Sasuke snorts while ignoring Hiromi's remark and the cheering his 'fan girls' and spoke, "Before, we start…take them off!" he declares, arrogantly.

"Take what off!" Hiromi asks, perplexed.

Sasuke is getting annoyed, "Don't play dumb! I noticed that your brother had weights on during his fight with weaker opponents and only took them off when fighting against me and Kiba and since you trained with him, I figure that you may have weights on you, so take them off! I'm not going to settle for a tie again with you holding back, again!" he declares.

Hiromi smirks at Sasuke while gripping her scarf, "You're right, Uchiha. I am wearing weights, but mine are a lot different than Naruto-kun's are." Hiromi removes her scarf from her neck as well as her armguards and headband. Hiromi uses her scarf to tie up her armguards and headband together and throws them outside of the ring with them making a loud thud when hitting the ground, surprising a few students and Iruka. Iruka goes to the bundle of possessions that Hiromi had taken off and thrown away and puts up, only to be shocked at the sheer weight. Iruka was surprised to realize that Hiromi was wearing them the entire tournament and looks at Hiromi, hoping that she'd won't take the fight too far, since he got a good look at the strength the red haired girl is capable off. Iruka then walks over to the ring and declared the match to begin and Sasuke rushes at Hiromi in near Genin level speed, swings his fist only to have Hiromi easily dodge it. The Uchiha growls and continues his assault only for Hiromi skillfully dodge each one, like a child trying to take on an adult.

"What's the matter, teme? I thought the 'great' Uchiha could handle an orphan!" Hiromi mocks as she moves to Sasuke's right side and trips him causing Sasuke to the fall on his back. Annoyed, Sasuke jumps onto his feet and continues to try to hit Hiromi, but Hiromi's speed and agility are making it impossible for him to even lay a hit. On the meanwhile, Sasuke's 'fan girls' scream for their 'idol' to defeat the 'delinquent'.

"Pummel that delinquent like you did with that brother of hers, Sasuke-kun!"

"Yeah! You're the greatest man in the entire village, Sasuke-kun!"

"No one can beat you, Sasuke-kun!"

"Go Sasuke-kun!"

"Win this for me, Sasuke-kun!"

While Sasuke is trying to hit Hiromi, Naruto and Kiba were holding their ribs while laughing at Sasuke's 'failure'.

"This is too rich!" Kiba howls with laughter, "Sasuke can't even lay a hit on Hiromi! So much for the 'great Uchiha' being the 'elite of the elites'!"

"And here I thought that Sasuke-teme was so unbeatable! By do I feel silly for actually believing that dattebayo!" Naruto laughs out, "Rip him apart, Nee-chan!"

Fail after fail, Sasuke's annoyance has risen to great anger as his fist completely misses Hiromi's face. Hiromi then jumps onto Sasuke's fist as it hits through Hiromi's afterimage, runs onto Sasuke's arm, and kicks Sasuke's face hard, knocking him down to the ground. Sasuke's 'fan girls' are getting annoyed that their idol is getting beat, but what's really pissing them off is that he's getting beat by the one that they agreeable hate the most.

"I don't get it! How is Sasuke-kun having a hard time with this no good delinquent?" Ino exclaims, angrily while her fists are clinching.

"You got him now, Nee-chan!" Naruto cheers out.

"Yeah! Now finish this jerk off!" Kiba adds with a wide grin

In the fight, Hiromi keeps dodging every one of Sasuke's high speed punches and kicks with no effort. "What are you? How are you just avoiding all my attacks like that?" Sasuke pants while getting angry.

"It's simple really," The eldest Uzumaki twins spoke as she appears behind Sasuke in a shunshin form, "I'm just better than you, Uchiha-baka! Now do believe that it's my turn! Let's see how you handle my attacks…" Hiromi says, with a snide smirk, "…Ahouchiha-sama!" Hiromi gives Sasuke's back a good kick, knocking him back and Hiromi appears in front of him with a hard kick to his chest, knocking him back and it went in a pattern with Hiromi kicking and punching Sasuke in every direction that he ends up falling towards.

"What's this? I thought that the Uchiha Clan is supposed to be better than this dattebano!" Hiromi spoke, kicking Sasuke's back causing Sasuke to howl in pain as he's pushed back. "I just didn't think that the Uchiha Clan was this weak!"

Sasuke spits out blood from his mouth and glares at Hiromi with great anger, frustrated that not only he's losing, but Hiromi is bad mouthing his clan, "Or is it that you're only the black sheep of the clan? No wonder Uchiha Itachi left you alive: you're no match for me much less him 'ttebano!" Hiromi sneers, making Sasuke's anger at her skyrocket at when he mentioned his brother, who massacred the clan members, including his parents. Sasuke roars out in anger as he charges after Hiromi in great speed to punch her, but Hiromi flicks out of the way and smashes her right fist to Sasuke's chest, causing him to cough out blood, knocking him out of the way and hits the ground, which he was replaced by a log. Sasuke appears behind Hiromi, believing that he'll crush her, but Hiromi's flicks from his view. Sasuke feels a strong blow to his stomach by Hiromi's right fist, surprised that the red haired girl knew exactly where he will attack. Hiromi then processes to bash Sasuke's chest, stomach, and face repeatedly and Sasuke, himself, feeling helpless from doing anything.

"Oh man! I knew Hiromi was strong and fast, but I didn't think that she'd waste Sasuke this much!" Unagi spoke, horrified.

"That's the Akai Chishio no Sukeban for you!"

"Sasuke-kun is getting pummeled! How is that freak so strong?"

Hiromi continues to pummel the helpless Sasuke while trying to keep him on his feet so the fight will continue do to a technicality, "Now, for the finale…" Hiromi goes in for her final attack and on the meanwhile, Sakura comes out of the academy and she sees in her horror, Hiromi giving Sasuke a hard to the stomach, throwing him into the air.

"SASUKE-KUN!" all of Sasuke's 'fans' cries out in horror as they see their idol, getting thrown out of the ring on his back, in Hiromi's favor. All of them were watching to see if it was another Kawarimi no Jutsu, but it wasn't…everyone is in shock to see that Uchiha Sasuke, current rookie of the year…lost and unconscious.

"W-winner of the midterm tournament, Uzumaki Hiromi!" Iruka declares as he rushes over to Sasuke's aid.

"Oh man! Did Sasuke just lose?" one student murmurs in disbelief

"Dude! He did and to Hiromi no less!"

"Sasuke-kun!" Many of the girls rush over to Sasuke's aid with Naruto, Hinata, and Kiba running over to Hiromi congratulating her.

"That was awesome, Hiromi!" Kiba exclaims, excitedly.

"Yeah! You totally destroyed that jerk dattebayo!" Naruto exclaims too as Iruka picks up Sasuke's unconscious form and brings him over to the nurse's office. After Iruka goes inside, the Sasuke's 'fan girls' glares heatedly at Hiromi, who was the one knocked Sasuke out.

"Is there something wrong, ladies?" Hiromi asks with mocked innocence and notices that Sakura was with him, glaring at her with great hate, "Oh Haruno, you…uh…still exist!"

Sakura glares and she seethes with great anger, "You…winner…of the midterm taijutsu tournament…FUZAKERU NA (15)! You cheated that win from Sasuke-kun, didn't you! That's how…how…!"

"If you have a problem with how I won, take it up with Iruka-sensei dattebano," Hiromi scoffs, "It's not my fault that he can't take a few punches! Oh well, that's what he gets for acting all high and mighty because of his clan name 'ttebano. What I did was give that jerk a taste of reality and if that didn't wake him up, then…he's already a lost cause."

"I'm warning you…don't badmouth Sasuke-kun, you…!" Ino growls angrily along with many of girls as their hate for Hiromi skyrockets.

Shikamaru groans tiredly, "Oh man! Please tell me that Hiromi isn't trying to rile them up, again!"

"You know! I can actually feel your anger grow as you continue to hate me, but I really couldn't care less about how you feel about me." Hiromi sneered in a condescending tone, "In the end, I'm still stronger than every single one of you losers, but hey feel free to attack me if you really miss your 'precious Sasuke-kun', who's resting in the nurse's office, but for Loserno's case…it'll be the second time today dattebano."

Sakura growls at Hiromi, glaring at her with great anger and hate, "Hiromi, I'll get you for this! You and that brother of yours! I don't know how that baka got through the finals with Sasuke-kun, but I will find out and you'll see to it that you'll be taken down!" she yells out, angrily.

Naruto's mood was darkened which brought Hiromi's anger rising with a smirk on her face, "The only reason why Naruto manage to get into the finals with your 'precious Sasuke-kun' is through training dattebano! Something that you failed to see and the same goes for me 'ttebano! He lasted longer than usual against Ahouchiha than the other times and he still lost. That shows how far that he gone with his training, but you fools…you haven't improved one…bit! My fights with you all were the same as always…under two seconds. The only girl that has managed to get me past two seconds was Hinata-chan and last time I've checked, almost half of you all lost to her dattebano."

"Wait Hiromi-san…!" Hinata squeaked, nervously to the red haired older Uzumaki twin

"But hey if you don't believe me, why do you try for yourselves, hell, I'll take you losers on at the same time dattebano!" Hiromi declares.

"Wait Nee-chan!" Naruto tries to say.

"What? It's going to take me five seconds to take care all of them dattebano!" Hiromi states.

"Alright! That's quite enough!" Everyone turns to see a woman with long, curly, black hair and wears oval glasses along with makeup, wearing red lipstick walking towards them with a stern expression. Her outfit consists of a simple pink kimono with mesh armour underneath and a pair of baggy red pants with flip-flop-like sandals worn with socks.

"It's Suzume-sensei!" Naruto spoke.

Suzume walks to the middle of the crowd, saying, "Alright, everyone just go on with your business there will not be any fighting going around here." She says, with the girls except for Hiromi and Hinata walking away with a few glaring at Hiromi. Suzume turns to Hiromi with a disapproving glare, "Hiromi, I still see that you're still picking fights with the other girls." She scolds.

Hiromi scoffs, "Yeah! I see that you're just as closed minded as always, Suzume-baba (16) dattebano!" she says, disrespecting her, annoying Suzume even further.

"Not to mention disrespectful too! It's 'Suzume-sensei'." Suzume corrected while fixing her glasses and annoyed with Hiromi calling her 'baba' when she's in her mid-20s.

Hiromi looks at Suzume with a bored look, "If you're here to lecture me about how to be 'lady-like' again then I don't want to hear it Suzume-baba! They were the ones that said that me and Naruto cheated in our matches and as always for some reason people like you just ignore it." She says, in a dismissive tone, "If you don't believe me about Naruto's progress, then ask Iruka-sensei, at least he's not like you adults here!"

Suzume fixes up her glasses, again, "Well young lady, I have you know that Iruka-sensei did ask me to look after you children after he had to take young Uchiha-sama to the nurse's office after from what he told me…you had a part to play in his injures. You are aware that the Civilian Council will have a word to you about this?" she asks.

Hiromi scoffs, "Let those buzzards talk! I couldn't care less what they say dattebano!" she says, rudely.

Suzume grits her teeth while seething anger while looking at Naruto, Hinata, and Kiba who were with Hiromi. Personally, Suzume never thought much about Naruto apart from him having the Kyuubi sealed inside of him, his blunt disrespect towards authority with his pranks in the village, his 'low' performance in the academy, and his horrible 'table manners'. She didn't believe that Naruto was the Kyuubi, but was wary about the one day that the Kyuubi will be set free.

"Now, if that's all you have to say, then leave me alone Suzume-baba and go teach so girls how to 'proper lady-like'." Hiromi says while walking away with Naruto following her and Kiba going off to do his own thing. Just as Hinata was going to follow the Uzumaki twins, Suzume spoke to her, "Hyuga-sama, you shouldn't involve yourself with those two. It seems that they will be a bad influence to you one day." Suzume then walks off with Hinata glancing at her while inwardly dismisses her.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Hiromi gains a smug look on her face as she along with her peers looks at the list inside of the room that has the results of the midterm exam. It had Sakura in 4th place, Hinata in 3rd place, Ino in 2nd place, and herself in 1st place in the girls' division.

"Awesome Nee-chan! As always, you're in first place in the girls' division dattebayo!" Naruto praises his sister, who had a smug smile on her lips and Naruto looks at Hinata, "Good job too, Hinata! You got third place though you should have been in second since you got into the finals with Nee-chan dattebayo!"

"That's okay! It's much higher than usual, so I'm glad!" Hinata says, with a large blush.

"No way! How did I get fourth place?" Sakura yells out, in frustration, "I should be…!"

"…what first place? So sorry, Haruno-make-inu (17), but I guess that the only reason why you're at the high place is ONLY because of the written exam dattebano! Better like next time, Miss Fourth Place!" Hiromi insults with Sakura glaring at her annoyed.

"I still think that you did great, Sakura-chan!" Naruto praises with a smile with Sakura giving him a dirty look.

"Who asked you, baka?" Sakura replies, nastily.

"Hey he's actually giving you a complement, loser and it's more than you deserve! I bet the only reason why you manage to score the top five is probably by a fluke!" Hiromi insults.

"I'll show you a 'fluke'!" Just as Sakura was going to fight Hiromi, Iruka comes in with the results for the boys' division and everyone went to see the list, which results into major shocks at what was on the list. While Shikamaru, Choji, and Kiba had a much lower score on their exams, there were many boys that score in the middle, the top three of the boys' division listed Shino in 3rd place, Naruto in 2nd place, and Sasuke in 1st place. Sasuke, who managed to regain conscious, smirks at seeing his name placed in first and his fan girls were congratulating him.

"No way! I'm in second place 'ttebayo!" Naruto exclaims, excitedly, knowing that he's getting close to Sasuke.

"Congratulations, Naruto-kun!" Hinata tells him with a smile.

"Thanks, Hinata!" Naruto says, with a smile that made Hinata blush further.

"How did you manage to get that high of a score?" Kiba asks, curiously while staring at Naruto, knowing that he manage need to try harder if he doesn't want Naruto to get ahead of him.

"No way! Naruto managed to score second place!" Ami yells out, shocked.

"That's no possible!" Ino says, with disbelief

"It's gotta be a mistake! There's no way that idiot managed to get that close to Sasuke-kun!" Sakura screeched, annoyed that she may have to worry about not just one Uzumaki twin getting the better of her, BUT TWO, especially the one kid that happened to be the dead last for two straight years was totally inexcusable, "Iruka-sensei, it has to be a mistake! There's no way that garbage brain like Naruto managed to get into second place!" Sakura pleads, didn't want it to be true and if it was then it was just another way of Hiromi to get her insults.

Iruka sighs at his student's ignorance to one of his favorite students' progress, "It's no mistake, Sakura! Naruto manage to score second place and I'm very pleased with his results and I hope that he actually keeps them up." He says, with a proud smile and a stern glare at Naruto, hoping that he gets the message.

"Aw…what's wrong, Haruno! I don't blame you though 'ttebano!" Hiromi says, with a smug look, "I'd be too if I had a kid who happens to be the dead last since the beginning of our academy days had one day score higher than I did. So congratulations, Haruno-baka, you're no longer the third-rate kunoichi that I took you for, but a fourth-rate kunoichi, a much lower than a third-rate kunoichi!"

This brought laughter from many of the other students with Iruka, Naruto, and Hinata frowning at Hiromi for insulting Sakura and Sakura, herself, is boiling mad as if having Naruto scoring higher than her was bad enough, but now, Hiromi found another thing to make fun of her off.

Iruka steps in to stop the laughter, "Okay everyone, quiet down!" he says, commandingly as the laughter dies down, "Alright, I'm very proud of your performances today! I'll see you all tomorrow!" he says, with the students leaving the room with Iruka stopping the Uzumaki twins. "Hey Hiromi, Naruto, wait up!"

The twins look up at Iruka. "Huh, okay Iruka-sensei. I'll see you tomorrow, Hinata." Naruto says, with a wide grin that caused the poor girl to blush from head to toe.

"O-okay N-naruto-kun! Goodbye Iruka-sensei, Hiromi-san!" she says as she left. To her this was one of the best days she had had in a long time.

After she had left, Iruka confronts the Uzumaki twins, starting with Naruto, "Naruto, I'm very pleased with your progress so far! You manage to learn an extremely advanced clone jutsu like your sister did. You scored a high C on your written exam and you even manage to give Sasuke a run for his money. How did you do that? Did you use the trick with the Kage Bunshin?" he asks.

"You better believe it, sensei!" Naruto says, with a wide smile, "The Kage Bunshins actually helped me out a lot today and I'd wish that I learn this jutsu while wasting my time learning the regular Bunshin no Jutsu. That jutsu is so awesome dattebayo!"

"I just hope that you can keep up the pace and may be Rookie of the Year!" Iruka says, with a proud smile and turn to Hiromi with a stern glare, "Hiromi, while I'm pleased that you happen to once again score first place, I'm very disappointed at your behavior with the other students. You gave poor Sakura and Sasuke a concussion during your fight with them and you kept trash talking your peers. If you keep this up, then you may have people that will not be friends with you."

Hiromi scoffs, "Like I care! They're the ones that kept saying that both me and Naruto-kun cheat without any sign of proof dattebano. I'm not going to let them get away with insulting us after the training that we've done while they just rely on their parents' money and name to get them by through this academy 'ttebano!" she replies.

Iruka could agree with what Hiromi is saying, "I understand, Hiromi, and I understand that they may pick on you guys especially Naruto, but could you please tone down the insults?" Iruka pleads.

"I'll tone it down as soon as they get off their high horses and start taking it seriously instead of treating it as if it's a game dattebano!" Hiromi replies.

"That's all that I ask you to do and I have no doubt that they will after seeing what Naruto has done!"

Naruto steps up to Iruka, "Hey Iruka-sensei, do you know of a jutsu that sees into the future 'ttebayo?" he asks, curiously.

"A jutsu that sees into the future?" Iruka says, perplexed, "What do you mean by that?"

"I know what he's talking about, sensei. Naruto says that during his fights that he sees the images of his opponent's next attack." Hiromi replies, "I have that trick as well."

"Not just us but Hinata as well!" Naruto adds.

Iruka and Hiromi are surprised at this, "Hinata too!" Iruka says, surprised.

"Wait a minute, Naruto! What do you mean? Hinata-chan has Haki (18) too?" Hiromi questions, surprised.

"Haki? Is that the name of that jutsu?" Naruto asks.

"Wait! You two, including Hinata, have Haki abilities?" Iruka says, shocked.

"What is it? This Haki thing!" Naruto asks.

"I'll explain it to you, Naruto-kun!" a voice rings out and every one looks to see KuroKage standing by the entrance.

"KuroKage-san? It's nice to see you again!" Iruka says, with a smile.

"Same to you, Iruka-san. I'm surprised that you too possess the power of Haki, Naruto-kun. Haki users are commonly around Higher Chunin individuals and it's not all that easy to control. From what I've heard from Jun-san, that it took a while for Hiromi-chan to control hers as well. I know that giving you a lecture based demonstrating will be confusing for you, Naruto-kun, so I'll give you a visual demonstrating. Now, come with me." The Uzumaki twins walk to KuroKage and they disappear in a Shunshin fashion.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

"What do you mean that you won't look into it!?" Sakura yells at her aunt, who happens to be a woman in her early-30s with pink hair, green eyes, and wearing a business suit. This woman's name is Haruno Sakiri, who is currently babysitting Sakura, when her parents are out of town. Sakura told her aunt about her progress in midterms and she also mentioned about the Uzumaki twins' progress as well as Naruto's as well. Sakura wanted to try to get some way to find out how Naruto manage to do so well to score second place from her aunt, who was leader of the Civilian Council.

Sakiri was sitting at the table while drinking coffee and she sighs, "I'm sorry, Sakura-chan, but I can't! Unless there's proof of cheating, I'm afraid that my hands are tied at the moment."

"The Uzumaki twins are somehow cheating and Iruka-sensei can't do anything since he didn't see it! Someone like Uzumaki Naruto couldn't be so close to Sasuke-kun in rankings without cheating. It's bad enough that I have Hiromi shoving her rank in my face now that baka of a brother of his managed to score second while I get stuck at fourth!" Sakura seethes in frustration.

Sakiri clenches her teeth, understanding her niece's plight, she was another Uzumaki twin hater like many others in Konoha. She couldn't do anything to help remedy the situation and she spoke, "Sakura-chan, why does Uzumaki Naruto's sudden progress worry you so much? So the boy may have scored second, but he's still inferior to Uchiha-sama, who scored first place, right?" Sakiri wanted to end this argument as she didn't have the strength to continue.

"Yeah but still…it's just another thing for Hiromi to make fun of me for!" Sakura argues, "She's always mean and nasty to me! Always acting like she's better than everyone around her and always defends that brother of hers! Now, she managed to hurt Sasuke-kun really badly and Naruto-baka scoring better than me is just adding salt to the wound and she's going to keep doing it as long as that idiot brother of hers keeps improving!"

"Then, why don't you get that boy to stop improving?" Sakiri inquires, trying to end the argument, "That boy has a thing for you, right. Maybe if you get that boy to stop getting higher scores than you, then everything will be fine!"

"I won't do it! Hiromi probably threatened Naruto to keep improving or she'll pound him to next week and then she'll only bully me even more!" Sakura screeches, seriously.

"Then, I'm sorry, Sakura-chan, I can't help you out! Now, until I see proof of the Uzumaki twins cheating, I can't help you!" Sakiri spoke as she stands up from her seat and walks to her room while clenching her fists in anger as she closes the door to her room.

"I'm glad that manage to handle things with that niece of yours." A female voice spoke and Sakiri looks to see a female figure behind her standing at the wall with her arms crossed, in the shadows.

Sakiri glares at her annoyed, "I will do as you asked and leave the Uzumaki twins alone, now, hand over those documents!" she seethed. Earlier, Sakiri was threatened to leave the Uzumaki twins alone, should there be an improvement in Naruto's grades or everything that the female figure found out about her that was illegal will be shown to the Hokage. The female figure gives a yellow folder to Sakiri and rosette snatched it from her hands. Sakiri goes through the folder to see that everything was there to her relief.

"Now, if you keep your word to leave those kids alone, then the Hokage won't know about your illegal exports." The female figure spoke.

"Of course, he'll never know because I have the proof right here." Sakiri says, with a sinister grin, "As for that promise, you can forget it! I refuse to have those brats…!"

The female then laughs amusingly, "You really are a fool, aren't you, councilwoman," she says, with a grin, "Did you honestly think that would give you those files without making any copies of them? What you hold are the copies of the proofs."

Sakiri clenches her teeth, "You're bluffing!" she screeches

"Am I? Go ahead and do something to those kids, I dare you!" the female glares challenging her, "May have placed the original into the Hokage's office in a safe and all I have to do get to him to tell him where! You can send all the ANBU that you want since after the last batch you've sent to attack me, well, I can't say that they won't be that much help to you in the near future after being crippled to where you may need Tsunade-sama's skills to bring them back." Sakiri growls at the female in anger, "Or I can always go to extreme lengths that the Uzumaki twins are left alone by going after your 'adorable' niece. I would hate to be the one that tells her parents that she has been hurt or worse." The masked female sneered, coldly.

"You bitch! You so much of touch a single hair of Sakura-chan and I swear I'll…"

"You'll what, wench! Tell your council members this warning: leave both Uzumaki Hiromi and Naruto alone as well as the instructor, Umino Iruka-san, will be in fact left alone or be prepared to have your nephews, nieces, sons, and daughters severely hurt or dead! That threat extends to your employers as well as the majority of the village. I don't want to see any mobs of idiots trying to kill the twins, especially Uzumaki Naruto, because they can't tell the difference between a kunai and its scroll!" The female threatens with a cold glare to show that she's serious, "Also, in addition, you will allow the Uzumaki twins to shop where ever the hell they want in this village with fair prices and descent products as well. I will not allow them, especially Uzumaki Naruto, to go malnutrition because your own stupidity. I know that you're very well connected and I want you and the other council members' to treat the Uzumaki twins similar to how you treat Uchiha Sasuke or you can kiss your family good bye or your jobs good bye as well. Speaking of whom, I suspect that brat will be coming to complain to you council members about Uzumaki Naruto's progress and 'demands' to have them teach him everything they know and would use his clan name to aid him as well. You will refuse to help him or would you like to have him get seriously hurt as well! Go ahead and have protection to him, it'll be a waste of time when I send his 'bodyguards' to the hospital or worse and as for that Uchiha brat…I wonder how loud can he cry when I start banging his ribs like a conga drum!"

Sakiri seethes at the masked female, "Damn you to hell!" she yells at anger.

The female smirks in her mask, "Damn me all you want! The situation won't change in the slightest, councilwoman! I hold the cards here, Haruno, and believe me, you don't want to cross me!" The female disappears in a Shunshin while leaving an enraged Sakiri behind as she throws the folder to the ground. Sakiri goes into her own bathroom within her room, screams with all her might in anger, and punches the wall with all her might as well and swears to unmask the kunoichi that dared to threaten her when she goes in to arrest her to have her behind bars for the rest of her life. For now, Sakiri has no choice but to go within the masked kunoichi's demands in leaving the Uzumaki twins alone.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

KuroKage walk towards a bolted fence with the Uzumaki twins following him. Behind the fence is a forest of such where a loud animal like roar is heard, scaring Naruto a bit.

"Hey KuroKage, where are we 'ttebayo?" Naruto asks, curiously

KuroKage grins, "This is the Forty Fourth Training Ground also known as the Forest of Death. It's a training ground for the genin wanting to be chunin." He replies.

"I didn't expect you to be here, KuroKage." A male voice says and they see Hiruzen, Hiashi, and Hinata walking toward them.

"Jiji, what are you doing here?" Hiromi asks, curiously.

Hiruzen chuckles, "When I heard from Hiashi that not only you had Haki, but Naruto-kun and Hinata-chan has well, I was surprised so I wanted to saw Hinata-chan here the visual demonstration."

"Whoa! Jii-chan, you know Haki too dattebayo!" Naruto asks, surprised.

"Of course, my boy, when I instructed Jun to train you, I didn't think that you would awaken your Haki abilities." Hiruzen grinned while looking at Naruto's surprised look, "Now, let's get inside." Hiruzen walks toward the door with the others following him and he unlocks the door to get everyone inside. They walk through the trees with Hiruzen in front leading him and Hiruzen stops as well as the others. Hiruzen closes his eyes as he uses his senses around the forest.

"There are a lot of savage beasts!" Hiruzen says, opening his eyes, "They're uncountable! There are about five hundred living things that are beyond your capabilities now."

"How are you able to know about them and their number, Jii-chan 'ttebayo?" Naruto asks, curiously.

Hiruzen grins at Naruto, "This is something that concerns you, Naruto-kun. You and Hinata-chan must obtain and control this power and the power is called Haki." He replies.

"Obtain and control Haki?" Hinata says, confused. Just then, a really loud roar is heard and a huge yellow furred tiger appears out from the bushes, horrifying Naruto and Hinata.

"It's a tiger!" Hinata exclaims, fearfully.

"No way! It's huge dattebayo!" Naruto howls, horrified, "Look out! It's behind KuroKage dattebayo!" Naruto points at the tiger who was behind KuroKage, who was as calm as a cucumber, "Run for it!"

"Calm yourself, Uzumaki Naruto," Hiashi tells the frightened blond boy, "We wouldn't have brought you two as well as my daughter here to get killed."

As the huge tiger stalks near KuroKage's back, KuroKage speaks, "Listen, Naruto-kun. Haki is a latent and rare power that everybody has: Presence, fighting spirit, intimidation. It's no different from the senses that normal humans have. However, most of them don't realize their power or don't know how to bring it out until the very end." KuroKage closes his eyes within his helmet as the tiger growls at his soon to be prey, "Having no doubt! That makes you strong!" The tiger goes in and swipe his huge right claw like paw at the back of KuroKage to slash him while Naruto calls out to watch out. "Watch very carefully! There are two prominent types of Haki!"

The tiger goes in to attack KuroKage. "Look out!" Hinata exclaims, worriedly.

"Don't worry! He's trying to hit me with his right claw from the right." KuroKage says as he dodges the swipe from the tiger, surprising both Naruto and Hinata that he didn't even need to look at the tiger to dodge the attack. "It's the power to feel other's presence more strongly – called Kenbunshoku Haki (19)."

"Awesome!" Naruto says, with disbelief.

"If you enhance this power, you can tell where your enemy is, how many there are, and what their next move will be." KuroKage says, while gracefully dodging every one of the tiger's strikes.

"Wait! That's the same Haki that Naruto-kun and I used during the midterm tournament!" Hinata says, realizing, "We knew how and when their next move will be."

"Not just you and Naruto-kun, Hinata-chan," Hiromi says, plainly, "How do you think I was able to beat Uchiha-baka?"

Naruto gasps, silently, "Wait Nee-chan! Did you use that Kenbu-kuku-kun uh…?"

"Kenbunshoku Haki, Naruto-kun." Hiruzen says plainly.

"Oh right! Thanks Jii-chan, did you use that against Sasuke, Nee-chan?" Naruto asks.

"Yeah! I only used it against Uchiha during our fight and at the last minute where Hinata-chan used the Kawarimi no Jutsu to attack me from behind dattebano. That's how I've been doing when fighting against Uchiha." Hiromi replies.

"The Kenbunshoku Haki has half of the capabilities as our clan Byakugan and the Uchiha's Sharingan." Hiashi says, in a plain tone.

"Sharingan?" Naruto says, confused.

"That's another story for another time, Naruto-kun." Hiruzen tells him with a smile not wanting to confuse him.

Hiashi steps up near KuroKage, "Next is the Busoshoku Haki (20) and the power is the same as wearing invisible armor." He says, as the tiger comes after him intending to kill him.

"Otou-san!" Hinata exclaims, worriedly as her father grins and the tiger goes in to strike him down.

Hiashi then strikes his palm to the tiger's claw, knocking him down in impact, impressing his daughter and her classmates.

"That's so awesome!" Naruto exclaims, in awe and Hiromi pushes a nearby boulder, which makes a small crack onto it.

"If the armor is strong enough, it can be used as the offensive power 'ttebano." Hiromi states as she hits the boulder again, which the cracks get even bigger and pieces of the boulder get chipped away.

"It's official! I'm never going to disobey Nee-chan ever again dattebayo!" Naruto thinks fearfully.

"You can transfer this power to your weapon as well." Hiruzen says taking out three kunai, throwing them at another boulder, destroying it as the Busoshoku no Haki coated kunai hits it, impressing Naruto and Hinata.

"The same can be used for our clan's Juken style as well, Hinata." Hiashi tells his daughter, who look very surprised as her father hits a tree with his Busoshoku no Haki coated Juken, destroying it in the process.

"That's so awesome, Hinata! Soon you'll be able to do that dattebayo!" Naruto exclaims, excitedly with Hinata nodding with a blush on her cheeks, "If we can master this Bubu-whatever Haki thing, then we'll be smashing boulders like Nee-chan in no time dattebayo!"

"Hold on, Naruto-kun! We're not done just yet!" Hiruzen spoke as the tiger slowly tries to stand onto its' feet, "Kenbunshoku Haki and Busoshoku Haki…are the two types of Haki that we covered so far. However, there are a few rare people who can use another kind of Haki." The tiger then rushes after its' soon to be human meal and Hiruzen glares at the huge cat, unleashes a type of energy onto the tiger as it stops and it looks at Hiruzen with a shaking expression as it loses consciousness and hits the ground. This move has impressed Naruto and Hinata as well.

"No way! Jii-chan did that! That's so cool dattebayo!" Naruto says with awe.

"That was the power to intimidate your enemy and it's more powerful than a normal killer intent. This type of Haki is called Haoshoku Haki (21). The people who are the biggest names often have this power like the Shodai Hokage (22), Nidaime Hokage (23), Yondaime Hokage, and many others."

"That's awesome, Jii-chan! I want to learn how to do all those incredible things, so I can finally take that hat of yours and become Hokage dattebayo!" Naruto exclaims with a foxy grin.

Hiruzen chuckles amusingly, "Calm yourself, my boy, we're not finished yet! This type of Haki, unlike the other two, you can control the Haoshoku Haki, but you can't train yourself to use it. That's because it's the spirit itself of its owner. You can enhance it only by developing yourself!" he lectured.

Naruto pounds his right fist to his left palm, "Oh so that's what you did with those Kumo ninja that tried to kidnap Hinata, last night. You used that Hao-Hao Haki thing to knock them out, right?" he asks his Hokage, who looked unsure to answer that, as well as KuroKage and Hiashi since they knew what really happen. They do believe that Naruto had unlocked the Haoshoku Haki himself and with the Kyuubi that was sealed inside him, used its power to amplify it to be strong enough to knock out the Kumo shinobi, but they felt that Naruto wasn't ready to learn about how to use the Haoshoku Haki or learn about his burden yet.

Hiruzen coughs to change the subject, "Well, I'll inform Jun to train you to how to use your Haki abilities, Naruto-kun, but I must warn you, my boy, learning how to use Haki is not easy." He spoke with Naruto nodding and Hiromi, herself, looking at Hiruzen with a critical eye knowing full well that Hiruzen as well as Hiashi and KuroKage didn't answer Naruto's question and felt an uneasiness in the air. "Something must be going on here. I have a feeling that Jiji didn't unleash that Haoshoku Haki on those Kumo shinobi last night, but who did. I also heard a very loud roar from a distance, but I didn't think any more into that. But why would Jiji lie to us about unleashing Haoshoku Haki to those ninja?" Hiromi thinks while having a serious look on her face.

"Well, I must be going now to deal with those…urgh…paperwork." Hiruzen says, with an annoyed look in his face.

"Hey Jii-chan, why do you use Kage Bunshins to do your paperwork?" Naruto suggests with plenty looking at him, "I was told that you gain the experiences of your clones once they dispel and that really helped mine and Nee-chan's training 'ttebayo. And if you know what your clones did, why not use it for the paperwork that you need to deal with?" he asks, curiously, "That's what I've been doing with my homework from the academy 'ttebayo."

Hiruzen and Hiashi give themselves a mental slap in the head and Hinata now knows how Naruto and Hiromi improved so much and believing that it was a clever trick to do.

KuroKage grins on his lips, "Minato, you sly devil! So that's how you did it?" he thinks while imagining a blond haired adult male giving off a Naruto-like cheesy grin with his two hands in 'peace' signs.

"Minato, you little brat! I should have known! You could have told me before you left this world! You had better be glad that I won't be joining you in the Shinigami's belly! If I was, I would be fighting you for all time for leaving me with such pain and misery!" Hiruzen thinks in his mind, annoyed while imaging himself with the Shinigami and torturing that same blond haired adult male.

"Damn you, Minato! You better be glad that you are dead if you were not, I would use you for my Juken practice! You could have told me about this little secret of yours to deal with the paperwork with my clan!" Hiashi thinks in his mind annoyed while imaging himself with his Byakugan activated and chasing the same blond man.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

"Wait! What do you mean that you won't help me?" Sasuke yells at the civilian council. Earlier, Sasuke told them about the Uzumaki twins' progress especially Naruto's. Sasuke also told them that Naruto actually came close into beating him in the spar and how Hiromi defeated him as well as telling them about a strange 'Kekkai Genkai' that allowed them to predict his attacks, before he had a chance to even use them. Sasuke wanted them to confront the Uzumaki twins today as well as how Naruto manage to score higher than usual since he wasn't able to today, but for reasons unknown to him, they refused to help him.

"It's as I said, Uchiha-sama, we can't help you." Sakiri replies, in a defeated tone while inside herself seething in anger from the threat that the masked female made against her and the rest of the Civilian Council.

"Why the hell not?" Sasuke asks, curiously, "The twins fall under your jurisdiction since they're orphans themselves, so how come you can't call them over here? Whatever they're doing, it's helping them especially the dobe! Even though he managed to score second, Naruto's skills improved a great deal, hell, he managed to outrank Aburume Shino for crying out loud and that can't be an easy feet, especially for Naruto of all people! If I found out what they did, then it will help me defeat and kill HIM! Call those twins in right now!"

"Unless there's cheating involved in Uzumaki Naruto's progress and there's proof, we can't do anything and we can't make him say anything about the success of his work." A councilman says, in a seething tone not from Sasuke's demands, but he had a daughter in the academy and if he do any action against any of the Uzumaki twins, then his daughter will get hurt.

"Look I don't care if the dobe is cheating or not, all I care about his these new skills that he got in just a short amount of time! I was humiliated by Hiromi today in a spare and I don't want to go through that again! The fact that I was lost to someone that's not even in a clan, especially a girl, so easily really hurts my pride!" Sasuke exclaims, angrily, "Not to mention about that Kekkai Genkai of theirs that allows them to predict the future."

The Civilian Council members grit their teeth, believing that the 'demon brat' is gaining too much power for their liking. They were easy to let it go when Hiromi got stronger as long as Naruto stayed the dead last, but now when Naruto got to the top and too close to Sasuke, they are powerless to do anything. If they get more ANBUs protect their families, then they will be sent to a suicide mission and the Hokage will find out and it would be more problems onto their plate. They don't want to deal it, right now.

An elderly man with grey hair, a beard, glasses, and official robes sighs, tiredly, "Uchiha-sama, I understand your plight and we will get to the bottom of this, I assure you so please be patient with us."

"Whatever, Elder Homura! I just want results soon or will NOT be happy!" Sasuke yells out, as he stomps off from the council room with the door shut. After he left, Sakiri bangs her fist to the table and screaming in anger.

"Damn her! That bitch!" Sakiri screeches, enraged, "If it wasn't for her, that demon brat and his delinquent sister of his would be here and we'd squeeze the information out of them!"

"But what can we do? Our families' lives are on the line here! We have to seize control of the situation or else the Uchiha will no doubt leave the village and the demon will gain more power. The instructor, Umino Iruka, isn't doing his job properly." Another councilmember seethed.

"But if we try anything to him, the masked kunoichi will target our families and kill them! I refuse to have my family die because of that detestable demon!" a third councilmember says, frustrated.

"I've only seen that kunoichi fought and kill our ANBU and her skills are nothing to squeeze about. She could even give Hatake Kakashi a run for his money." Sakiri says, in an annoyed tone.

"If can get to this KuroKage character, then we can get to the bottom of this problem." A female elder in official clothing.

Homura looks at the elder female, "That's easier said than done, Koharu. No one has seen a hair of him in the village." He tells her.

"Then we can only assume that this KuroKage character is a resistant of Konoha, because our sensors would have detected intruders within the village." Another elderly man with his right side of his face bandaged says.

"Then, would you care to explain last night's kidnapping of the Hyuga heiress or how they even manage to get pass the barrier surrounding the village, Danzo?" Homura asks.

"Can we get to the issue at hand? How to dispose of this KuroKage, because it seems that he has had a hand in training the Uzumaki twins? We have to stop him or else the demon will get even stronger!" Sakiri asks, annoyed.

"If that's the case, then the Uzumaki twins would have to be expelled from the academy, because they are getting aid from someone that's not even their legal guardian." The first council member says, with a sinister smile.

"But we don't have proof. For all we know, they could have gotten books from the library and looked it up." Koharu says, plainly.

"But we prohibited those brats from getting into the library." The second council member says.

"The head librarian, Sumimura Tokine, allows the Uzumaki brats into the library and we can't target her since the kunoichi would see to it that our families die for our actions against her and her family." A third council member growls annoyed.

"I say we get ANBU to trail those Uzumaki brats to find out how their getting stronger and if they're getting help from someone, then they'll get expelled and show our proof to the Hokage!" Sakiri says, with a sinister smile, "We won't touch them, but just observing them!"

"That's an excellent idea, Councilwoman Haruno! If they are getting help from someone else, then they're out from the academy and that old fool won't be able to help them out this time!" A second councilman says, with a sinister grin.

~Next time~ (One Piece First Opening 'We Are' MIDI)

Naruto: This Haki stuff is so awesome! With this, I'll finally beat that jerk, Sasuke, once and for all.

Hiromi: And what are you and Miss Second Place doing following us?

Ino: Stop calling me Second Place, you…!

Sakura: Hiromi, we've had with you and your brother trying to outdo Sasuke-kun.

Hiromi: Can to make something out of it, Miss Fourth Place?

Sakura: Stop calling me Fourth Place, you jerk!

Hiromi: Fine would Billboard Brow work for you?

Sakura: Shut up!

Naruto: Next time: SA Formation; A new teacher.

Jun: I'm onto you, Civilian Council

Translations

Cloud (1)

Land of Lightning (2)

White Eye (3)

Substitution Jutsu (4)

Copy Wheel Eye (5)

Village Hidden in the Clouds (6)

Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu (7)

Duck Ass (8)

Expresses the speaker's higher status or age, or a very casual relationship among peers (9)

Harem Jutsu (10)

God (11)

Gentle Fist (12)

All Fours Jutsu (13)

Bloodline Limit (14)

Don't screw with me (15)

Old woman in a rude way (16)

Loser (17)

Willpower (18)

Observation Willpower (19)

Armament Willpower (20)

Conqueror's Willpower (21)

First Fire Shadow (22)

Second Fire Shadow (23)