Whaz up ladies, gents and other! Since Naruto's been away for three years, the 'kids' are gonna have questions for 'im an' I've a great and stupid plan for what he did over those three years away. I'm also gonna have our favorite sporadic knucklehead try and get along with his only known, living relative. I don't own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden, if I did then the entire canon storyline would be a fanfiction and I'd be someone else. Meanin'? NOT SOMETHIN' YE WANT, KIDS!

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Naruto stared at his superior in irritation. Sure, he and Tsunade weren't going at each other's throats anymore, but they weren't on the best of terms either. Hell, the first time they met Naruto tried to kill her for running away from her problems. But here he was, trying to make up for his rash behavior as a kit. "You still are a kit, Kit. You've a long way to go before you can get even close to reaching my power. As formidable as you are, you aren't ready or wise enough to fight me at my best. When the time does come, however, you'd best be as strong as me to give me a challenge!"

Although Naruto was sitting in the Lotus Position on the ceiling, a habit he'd gotten into when he'd learned to control his chakra to avoid danger as a gaiden, he was still rolling around holding his stomach from the pain that was laughing-so-hard-someone-couldn't-breath. Tsunade, Jiraiya, Shizune, Inu and Sakura, of all people, were there staring at him in confusion. Sure thing, Kyuubi. I just need to get close enough and then you can train me in simple kitsune techniques. I'll surpass you before you know it, Datteboyo! Even the demon locked inside of the blonde was laughing heartily and good naturedly, they were by no means friends but they had their moments when they found equal ground to at the most tolerate each other's existence.

"What's so damn funny, Naruto-baka?!" Sakura's irritated tone only made him laugh harder, "I'm Sorry-I'm Sorry-But-Huh Huh-Hahahahaha! My...'Other' self just said something that shouldn't be repeated around kids, Kid! Hehehehe!" It was a few more moments before he calmed down enough to be conversationally correct, "Huuhhh! What did you need, Ro Fujin?" His cheeky quip made the Godaime Hokage 'toss' a paperweight at his head, which he caught with a very pained grunt using a chakra claw around his hand like he did in the woods.

"I wanted to know why you tried to kill another Konoha shinobi. Also, why your student decided to try and kill your new guardian!" Naruto groaned at the last part, seeing why she wanted the man to keep an eye on him, "I caught scent of wood and Senju, one of Orochi-Kusu ttare' experiments I'll take it?" He received a nod from the buxom blonde, "Yes, and I was told that you went five tails on an innocent chuunin, care to explain that?" Her gentle voice was clearly a front and everyone knew it.

"...Kiba decided to flirt with my student." He said with a huff, when Anko flew through the window in a tarp again. This tarp read, 'Mother of the Kitsunin in the house', in big, blood-red letters. Naruto, being the grown man he is, rubbed his temples with a soft smile on his face, "Hey, Anko-chan. Why'd you say 'mother'? You're not my biological mother, why didn't you say 'sister' or 'aunt'? Those'd make more sense than-"

"Shut up, Gaki! I knew your mom as a genin and she helped me through a lot after the Teme kicked me to the curb, so don't tell me what I'm not. Besides, she let me help around the house she lived in when I was around, so I'm the closest thing you've got to her." Getting off the desk like she'd done nothing wrong, she stood underneath the kid she'd half-raised and looked to the Hokage expectantly.

"Anyway, why did you have to use five tails. Couldn't you have at the least used two?! I've gotten complaints from the elders to kill you, and I'm starting to think that might save us more than doing the opposite..." Tsunade said this while resting her chin on her hands, "You realize that's just prolonging the inevitable and that since I'm the last known Uzumaki, you'd basically be committing village-wide suicide, right?" And the Hokage's face hit her desk, "I hate it when you talk sense, I really do."

"Here's a question: why'd you call all of us here for this? Couldn't you have just called me in to interrogate me personally? So, what else is going on?" Shizune, seeing that her teacher was reaching for anything to throw at the jinchuuriki, spoke up, "Actually, we've got a mission that requires the combined skills of you, Kakashi-san, Sakura, and Anko-san. We have Jiraiya-sama here because we need him to check in with his spy network. Here's the mission," She tossed a scroll to Kakashi and began to gesture for them to scram, "Go go go, before she finds something durable!"

And they did so without question, fear of the Godaime Hokage's wrath driving them out of the room. When the mentioned group for the mission got out of the tower, Tsunade threw a decently sized rock at the blonde knucklehead's skull, which he caught with great pain and threw back after clawing some marks into it. "What was all that about?" "What was what all about? Sakura, if you want a direct answer you need to give a direct question. Vague questions only get you so far with people, some individuals don't process things in the same way as most people do and might take what's said literally or might not understand at all unless you're direct about it. Inu, what's the mission?"

Unrolling the scroll, Kakashi paled, getting Anko to look over his shoulder with the same result. Naruto, having been left out of most loops as a kid hated not knowing something if it was common knowledge, and when he looked he like he wanted to run away. Having had enough of the scared, paled faces, Sakura took the scroll from her sensei's hands and looked it over herself, "Jonin Exams?! I didn't know that was a real event!"

"Oh, it's a real thing, alright. All too real, actually. I hated taking the 'simple' version, I'd have preferred to be field promoted but since it's not wartime we have to do things the legitimate way..." Naruto's muttered response was a serious moral killer, and the other two Jonin weren't promoting much confidence in Sakura either.

"Well, don't keep me waiting, what's the big deal?!" Seeing that his seniors were busy trying to cope with their respective experience with the exams, Naruto explained with a heavy and tired voice, "These exams aren't made to curb the weak to try another year...They're made to thin the herd! You go in, but you never come back the same. Most Chunin who take the exams don't come back, at least seventy-five percent die during these exams. That's why Iruka-sensei never tried to get promoted from Chunin. You have to be totally prepared for absolutely anything, or you're as good as dead at the first exam."

Sakura, now getting an idea of the full picture, looked scared like she did when she was in danger as a genin, "How'd you pass the Jonin Exams? You were the Dobe of our class!" Naruto shook his head like he was a teacher, which he was, "No, no, no. I was Dobe three years running. Anyway, Ero-Sennin gave me the 'simple' version. Basically, to pass the 'simple' version, you have to fight a Jonin at their max and survive. I barely made it out of that without dying. To become a Jonin like that, you have to fight a Jonin who's trying to kill you and not holding back an inch. These are the 'safer' version of the Jonin Exams."

He let the information sink in slowly, seeing the fear in Sakura's eyes as he showed her the scars he had underneath his fishnet undershirt from Jiraiya's 'simple' Jonin Exams. Lowering his shirt and shaking his head to get the dark memories out of focus, he continued, "There are those who are proficient in only one or two areas of shinobi arts, like Anko-chan and myself. Anko-chan's skills are focused around Genjutsu and Ninjutsu, while mine are Ninjutsu through and through. Inu's an average Jonin in the fact that his skills are all-around. Ebisu, Kono's sensei? He's skilled in interrogation. Those of us like that are Tokubetsu Jonin, or Tokujo for short."

A gasp came from Anko and Kakashi's direction, only for them to find Team Asuma and Team Kurenai minus their respective sensei. "Easy, easy! They're fine. Just a shock from our mission...more like sacrificial offering, really. Anyway, Sakura, the Jonin Exams work basically the same as the Chunin Exams. Same set up, different process: Go in teams if you want, give it your all, be prepared for any plausible scenario you can think of and then anything you can't just to be safe, and try to not die. The only difference besides being allowed to choose whether to go in as a team or not, is you're not allowed to spare your opponents when you meet them." The rest of Konoha no Juichinin and a now-present Temari were wide eyed at his serious demeanor.

Choji had just lost his appetite, Shikamaru wasn't complaining or staring at the clouds, Kiba and Akamaru wanted to avoid fighting other people, Shino tripped which allowed glasses to drop and they almost broke if Naruto hadn't caught them with a chakra claw, Hinata was about ready to cry, Lee was disheartened and seemed depressed like when he was made fun of as a gaiden, Tenten lost all confidence, Neji's stoic expression became horrified, Temari looked like when she was still scared of Gaara killing her, and Ino looked absolutely morbid. All of them were actually contemplating their life choices at that moment like they were about to be killed already.

Gai, Kurenai, Asuma, Naruto, and the now alive Anko and Kakashi looked to the ground sadly. They had complete faith in their students, but they knew that they had weaknesses and that there were those who would go to any means to make it to Jonin. Naruto picked up from where he left off, "As Jonin, we are required to complete missions that make D-rank missions desirable," If the Chunin weren't wide eyed and horrified before, they sure as Hell were now.

"You need to be able to make the tough calls, to lead a team of genin who's very lives are in your hands and you have to be ready to take responsibility for anything that happens to those same genin. If they die you have to be able to live with the fact that you couldn't do your duty, if your decisions lead to death you have to accept that you can't uphold your part of the unspoken deal that sensei and student make when they complete their test, and you have to live with the knowledge that if your students die you could have done better as a sensei! Nobody would blame you or even question you if you backed of this while you've the chance. The reason that Inu, for example, is a Jonin is because he learned to kill when he was a Chunin and he lost his teammates because he failed as team leader. I'm a Jonin because I don't take prisoners where I don't need to and I don't kill unless necessary."

Letting the Chunin process this information, Naruto took a swig from his flask, "If any of you want to go through with these Exams, you'll need to be trained by Anko-chan, Inu, Gai and myself to even have a prayer to make it past the first exam! Now that that's outta the way, who's gonna take their chances and take the Jonin Exams?!" He stood in front of them like a general, arms crossed and a stern look on his face. The group looked amongst themselves, contemplating what they'd do.

It was Ino who made the decision unanimous. Stepping in front of Naruto like a soldier, she saluted and smiled warmly, trustingly. The blonde male returned the smile with a nod, "You have to give this your all, hold nothing back, don't look back where you don't need to, look underneath the underneath, understand everything told to you! Are you prepared to put your life on the line for this?!" Ino's face changed to a serious one as she stood at attention and lowered her hand from the salute, "Hai!"

"Good, because I'm not going to go easy on you. Or any of you who want to tempt Fate and try their luck against plenty more candidates. You are shinobi of Konoha, taught in a way unique to our village: The Will of Fire. The determination to protect each member of your village like they were your own blood, to heal the sick and injured, to kill those who would harm, destroy that which would decimate! If you wish to show the judges, the Kage themselves, that Konohagakure no Sato is not a village to be trifled with now or ever, then step forward and take responsibility for that which we will prepare you for..."

He looked to the others, gauging their reactions. It was Neji who came next, "I'll test your theory that Fate does not exist by tempting it with my life, if it does indeed not exist than I shall at the very least survive this event." The smirk given by the Hyuga Prodigy made Naruto smile confidently, "Good, 'cause there's going to be a lot of work ahead of you, something that should strengthen anyone with the Will of Fire or...perhaps...Flames of Youth?" And Lee came forward next, more serious than Neji was on a mission, "Yosh! I shall show you that my Flames of Youth burn brighter than any who would boast otherwise."

Naruto nodded with a smile, "Don't sell yourself short, Lee. I know they burn brighter, we're just going to give them fuel to make sure the rest of the world does." One by one they all agreed to do this, until Naruto caught the scent of-"...Ink...Get Down!" And creatures that looked like they had been drawn appeared out of nowhere, zeroing in on Naruto only.

Growling, Naruto gathered chakra in his mouth, before roaring a sound that made the older shinobi think of a smaller Kyuubi. The creatures were sent flying back, giving Naruto the opening to transform into his twin-tailed form and destroy them. Each one bled ink when wounded, explaining the scent Naruto caught, Let's see how well I can maintain being airborne during combat, shall we?! "Show those scum what the jinchuuriki of the strongest of the Bijuu can do, Kit!"

Transforming again, burning and then reappearing as a five-tailed fox, he leaped into the air and ran towards the source of the scent. What he saw was a pale-skinned shinobi with a paintbrush and a scroll, Found you! You came to the wrong territory, MotherFucker. Naruto glared at the boy before he shot a Bijuu Dangan, hitting him on the first try.

Landing, Naruto placed the tip of a tail to his heart and one to his head, looking into his mind. Gotcha, MotherFucker. Datteboyo! You're supposed to gain information on my abilities and jutsu, eh? Well, then prepare to be disappointed, 'cause I've too many to be listed by simple means! Aye, Kyuubi?! The boy was dragged into Naruto's mind and restrained by his chakra in the shape of chains, "What are you doing?"

Taught to have no emotions? That's a whole new low for humanity, come on Danzo come up with something original! Kyuubi, I brought you a guest if you wanna meet him. It appears that he's working for a 'Kyuubi-as-a-weapon' supporter, wanna give him your opinion?! Stepping into the light of the seal, the daiyoukai kitsune lowered his head to look the boy in his eyes, "...RRRRRAAAAAAWWWWHHHHHH!" And the boy's eyes widened to unknown proportions, for once in his life feeling terror, betraying the way he was trained for years.

Naruto left his mind, putting the boy designated as 'Sai' back in his own mind, and yowled to at the Hokage's tower. "What are you screaming about?!" Throwing the Root operative to the window, he transformed and called up, "Tell Danzo, his puppet sends his regards! Also, tell him I'm coming for him if he tries anymore stupid tricks!" Nodding, Tsunade suddenly wanted to hug the Kitsunin for giving her something she could use against the Elders of the Council as she hated them with a passion.

Back with the group that would be going to the Jonin Exams, Naruto returned ten minutes after he ran through the air, walking to them no doubt. "Who attacked us, or more accurately, you, Naruto-kun?" Turning to look at his only official friend, he was struck by realization, "That's right, you're too young to have been around for that, damn! And son of scum, I just gave away my actual age too, Gods Damn It!" He stood there, holding his forehead in his hand before making a prayer gesture to calm down, "Okay! Let's start from the top of the list I accidentally gave you...First off: I'm not seventeen like my birth certificate would suggest, that was forged to make sure that those of the younger generations didn't catch onto anything. I'm actually twenty, and the only reason I look young is my heritage. Damn it, I really hate being what I am!"

The unveiling of his actual age caught all of the Chunin and a few of the Jonin were shocked to say the least. "Why would your age be hidden, Naruto? That doesn't make any sense." Naruto smirked and ruffled Sakura's hair, making her glower at him which he reciprocated and shut her up, "I lost my parents during the Kyuubi Attack, and since I was born from a nearly extinct clan, Hiruzen had my birthdate changed. And with that being the case, since everyone knew that my birthdate is the only one on the very day of the attack, everyone knew. My heritage would have made me become a breeding horse and get forced into the CRA and Hiruzen had a better sense of direction with his moral compass at the time. So my actual age was kept from the world-Hell, my very existence is hidden from the world!"

He took a breath and let them process this information, "That still doesn't explain why you're targeted just now! So, spill the beans!" Naruto growled demonically, making Kiba back up in fear, "I was getting to that, Kiba! My heritage, my surname in fact, are rooted in an entirely different country. This country had its own Hidden Village, the leaders of this village and country were those of the Uzumaki Clan. They're Fuinjutsu gods and Kenjutsu wonders. Danzo, the teme who founded the organization Root, must've figured it out after twenty horrid years where it was sitting right on his face and stabbing him! Let's continue this conversation away from the village please!" The hasty change of topic caught most of those gathered off guard.

But Anko's commanding voice stopped any words before they came out, "Get packed, Maggots! NOW!" And the ran for their lives.

One hour later, three miles away from Konoha

"Now, why are you acting so skiddish, Naruto?!" Said jinchuuriki glared at his former teammate, "How do you think Tsunade's getting her ass to the Exams? I've the formula to summon her ass there memorized enough to write it backwards, upside down and with my eyes closed. Anyway, where are the exams this time?" Kakashi opened the scroll and read it aloud, "Kirigakure no Sato, and apparently the current Mizukage asked for Naruto and I personally..."

As if just to seem mysterious and superior to the younger shinobi, Naruto said, "Am I the only one who gets the feeling that the Akatsuki is behind this or some similar shit?" Inu nodded with an, 'it's possible', look in his single visible eye. Anko just kept eating her dango but growled at the death of the mood that Naruto caused. Gai seemed as serious as ever, when Temari asked, "So how will this work exactly? Are you guys supposed to register us in like the Chunin Exams, or..."

Naruto broke apart into nine foxes that split up, making her look to the spot he'd been in confusion, "Did I say something or is this just a jinchuuriki thing?!" Anko chuckled and hugged the young woman sideways, "I've done the same thing as him. Comes with being the village pariah, isn't it...Gai, Kashi-kun?"

The man with gravity-defying hair and the bowl cut nodded in affirmation, "Yes. The village avoided me because of my father, and then because of that mission..." Konoha's Green Beast picked up where he left off, "And I because of my Flames of Youth. Huuuuhhh, what Naruto-kun is going through is because he is not comfortable with human interaction. No matter how much he craves it, he will never feel comfortable with anyone unless he knows them like the back of his paws."

"Yeah, just like Anko did when..." Said Tokujo had a kunai at Kakashi's throat now, smiling sweetly with a dango stick in her mouth like a cigarette, "Finish that sentence, Kashi-kun, and I'll slit your throat! Yeah, we're all fucked up, and we're proud of it at some level. Hell, the day Kashi-kun got one of his titles was the day he slept in fits of hysteria-induced laughter. What a time that was...Hey, Gaki."

"Hey, we're all clear, but I still feel like we're being watched..." Naruto glared into the treetops as the Chunin tried to calm their nerves from the surprise appearance of the Kitsunin. "Naruto-kun, you are from a childhood of paranoia, for once let your Flames of Youth flare and relax." He glared at the Taijutsu-user with no heat behind it, but the message was clear, 'You relax'. It was at this point that Ino decided to try being a friend, "SO! What's the plan for our training?!"

Her excited tone, loud voice, and altogether upbeat personality made Naruto smile and wince from his sensitive hearing. Hitting the side of his head lightly to get his hearing back to normal, he said, "Well, since Anko-chan's Kurenai's closest friend, she's going to be taking care of her kids." Kiba, Akamaru, Shino and Hinata all looked sickly pale and fearfully to an 'innocently' smiling Mitarashi Anko.

"Inu's gonna be training Sakura, and the Root operative once we set up camp since Tsunade reverse-summoned Katsuyu nearby to give me the basic qualities of his summoning formula from Ero-Sennin. Temari's gonna get trained by either Nakamagoroshi no Kakashi or me, it's up to her not me." Kakashi imperceptibly winced, but the other Jonin caught it.

"Gai's team are his business, not mine. We're gonna be training all of you kids, focusing on your weaknesses and turning them into strengths, but each team will be given a sensei to focus their learning around." Gai nodded and looked to his stern-faced students who nodded to him.

"And I'll probably be teaching your team, Ino-chan. Since I'm a Ninjutsu user, I'll..." Shikamaru, Ino and Choji all leaned in closer to him, trying to urge him to finish his sentence so they knew what they had to anticipate. "A gigantic pain in the ass! So, business as usual. Thanks for the pick-me-up-chat, Ino-chan!" He smiled nonchalantly, making the Yamanaka heiress see the knucklehead she once called cute during the Chunin Exams.

"No problem, Naruto-kun. Say," She glared pointedly at her temporary sensei, "you never told any of us what you did over those three years! Spill, what happened that made you so badass?" And Naruto barked laughter, making her glare deepen, "Sorry, it's just-Hahaha!-you just now realized I haven't mentioned it! Hehehehe! Haaa...Let's see...I know I've alluded to what I've done once or twice, but what I've done were low A-rank missions Tsunade sent us via reverse summoning Katsuyu."

"I've been around for one or two of his missions, believe it or not. One of them, however, really wasn't worth it..." And the bark-like laughter resumed full force, "HAHAHAHA! Serves you right, Inu! Ero-Sennin warned me of the Yondaime's kancho-like E-rank jutsu, and he said that one time you let him watch your genin trial. So, your fault! HAHAHAHA!" He was holding his eyes to prevent anyone from seeing that he was laughing to tears.

"Hm? Is he referring to Yondaime-sensei's genin jutsu?" Kakashi nodded shamefully to Gai's question, "I was almost caught during one of the missions Jiraiya-sama and Naruto got from Tsunade-sama. We were asked to escort the prince of Tsuki no Kuni, but three mercenaries were called in after we left during a storm. One of the nobles and old friends of the prince's father had taken over Tsuki no Kuni and had hired them. They had tools that would have won wars had they been made prior to them. They were hard to defeat to say the least. Naruto had to enter Jinchuuriki Mode just to take one of them down. It was supposed to be an easy B-rank mission, but like all of our 'supposed to be' missions, it wasn't. Naruto also developed a new Rasengan variation, didn't you, Naruto?"

The blonde, bewhiskered prankster from Hell nodded and scratched his nose in a way that screamed pride, "Yeah, if the conditions are right and we get most of our evening rituals taken care of...I might just show it to you, Datteboyo!" Anko then caught her foster-brat in a sideways headlock and ave him an affectionate noogie, "Itaitaitaitaita!"

"That's my Gaki for you: Stubborner than a mule, determined as a hungry beast and adaptable as a cat! What more could anyone ask for?" Just to spite her at that moment, Naruto piped up, "Someone who won't noogie me brain-dead, perhaps?!" Anko returned to noogying the headlocked jinchuuriki with more vigor than before, making him grunt in pain.

"Anko-san, we've heard you say the word 'jinchuuriki' a lot, but what is a jinchuuriki anyway?" Hinata's innocent and somewhat nervous question made the Jonin tense, especially Naruto, but Anko just simply said, "It's someone who's been mistreated because of human stupidity, that answer your question?" "H-Hai." Hinata nodded and the purplette smiled gently at her, "And would it kill you to call me sensei on this trip? Gaki, stop struggling, you'll cause yourself an aneurysm, let alone me!" She tightened her lock on his head, making him choke for a second before he stopped squirming.

"Good." It was clear to everyone, this was going to be one of those trips where someone wanted to ask, 'are we there yet', but wouldn't for fear of punishment. This was going to be a long, awkward trip...

Nightfall, campsite

The moon rose in the sky, revealing itself to be a crescent, making Naruto and Inu smile slightly. Clawing at the air in his right hand, a ball began to form out of chakra in his sky-turned palm, "...Rasengan..." Raising his orb of chakra to a point where the moon shined through it, the spinning orb began to glow brighter, "And here we have my accidental creation, Mikazuki Rasengan!" The ball grew, now accommodating a white, crescent moon with a star at the center of the orb.

He strode to the center of camp, where a fire would have been had they not been training at the moment, "Come on kids, it's time for show-and-tell!" He said this in a strange way by flexing his throat, making him sound like a stereotypical teacher with glasses and a little girl. The Juichinin no Konoha and Temari came out of the nearby woods, looking sore and uncomfortable from meditation. But once they caught sight of the lightsource that Naruto held in his hand, their eyes widened and he smiled at them.

The light created by the spinning ball of chakra illuminated the entire campsite, letting them see the environment in a new 'light' so to speak. "This," Naruto nodded to the ball of spinning chakra in his now raised hand that he soon lowered, "is a variation of the Yondaime Hokage's first original Ninjutsu he used in actual combat. This is a tool he used to help win us the war, and it's still incomplete..."

"What do you mean, Gaki? I thought the Yondaime completed it before the attack." Naruto looked to his right to see Anko looking over his shoulder, transfixed by the glowing ball of light and chakra, "He finished the basis for what it could be. His original intention was to add in Nature Transformation and to make it usable for everyone, no matter their affinity. But, he died before his time..." The ball began to darken slightly, responding to the shift in his mood and chakra flow to his hand.

"How can it be improved exactly, Naruto-san? I mean, I understand that adding in chakra affinities would make it even more dangerous, but isn't it basically perfect the way it is?" Shino had finally spoken up, making Naruto smile kindly at the Aburame heir like he was telling a child a very important secret, "In a sense it is, but perfection isn't something that stays the same. Perfection is fluid," The ball grew slightly, its wielder's eyes closed in concentration, but it was clear he could see them fine without his eyes open.

"It changes with every being's opinion and idea," The crescent moon and star inside the orb began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. "If perfection were perfect, this world would have been destroyed! Everyone has a different idea of what perfect means or what perfection represents. People attempt to ascend to perfection, and that is alright, but once they achieve perfection-if they achieve perfection-what then? There's nothing more to it than just existing. Perfection is not a state of being, it is being. Living, in and of itself, is perfection itself." He knelt down to his knees, the others listening to him doing the same in a trance-like state.

"That is why the Yondaime wanted to improve the Rasengan, to let it grow and become more than simple perfection. I continue this dream by using it in my jutsu. The reason I like the Rasengan so much is that it's always able to change, no matter what it is already. Just like my first original jutsu, the Tsurga, it is fully capable to adapt to whatever is added to it, allowing the wielder to adapt to almost any situation they come across. I cannot use the chakra affinities of those with Kekkai Genkai or Kekkai Tota, but I can get close, and that's by adding in the base elements of most Nature Transformations..."

To prove his point, he made a pair of chakra claws hold the Mikazuki Rasengan while he made another Rasengan in his real hands. This spinning ball of chakra, however was not exposed to the light, it was given rocks from the dirt. "...Doton: Rasengan...I've been told by several people along my journey that they thought I should become a philosopher, maybe they're right. Maybe I've just been wasting my time being a shinobi!" The Doton: Rasengan changed from brownish to pitch black from Naruto's negative emotions.

The Chunin before him were amazed as the saw what Naruto had become. Seeing that the chakra orb in his left hand was stable, he resumed holding the one with moon light within it. "Maybe they're right, but maybe they're wrong. I've known nothing but the shinobi life, and in a sense, neither have you. That is why we fight," He held the two, differently colored and energy-filled orbs of chakra close to each other, making their energy flow between the two and combine them into a ball twice the size of the original two and a simple grey color.

"That is what makes us human...And that is what makes me insane!" He placed the orb in his right hand before snuffing it out by clenching his hand into a fist, making the entire camp go black, "And that is what drives you to train for the Jonin Exams..." The group returned to what they were doing, a strange sense of peace and calm fixed in their minds, "You did good today, Gaki, you did good."

"Yeah, but is it enough?" The clouds uncovered the crescent moon, granting a dim light on the world below it. With the moon uncovered, Naruto's uncertain expression became clear for any to see. Am I ready to watch my friends fight for their lives? Am I strong enough? If I can see the moon as they do, will I ever see the world as they do...Yes. That is the question...

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That's a wrap ladies, gents and other! I couldn't get this outta my head, so I decided to get it outta my brain. Naruto's last thoughts this chapter were based off of a Pokemon movie about Mewtwo and its other clone Pokemon friends. Anyway, sorry that this chapter's a bit short, but this was more for character development than anything else. I changed the timeline a little bit by changing the date of the Kyuubi Attack, 'cause I wanted to give Naruto a reason to feel like more of an outcast than he already is so he can give them even more of a reason to try and catch up to him. As always: R&R, no flamin' my ass, constructive criticism, and SEE YE-GOOD NIGHT!