With the battle plan now confirmed, the four ninjas leapt out of the clearing; Tenten and Naruto jumping into the air with Shikamaru and Neji opting to run across on foot.

Running and jumping quickly across the destroyed field, they entered the other side of the forest and split up to engage their opponents.

The wizards could only catch a glimpse of their quickly-fading backs.

Only seconds later, they completely disappeared from their sight.

Hermione roughly timed it as the total of 4.5 seconds...and they ran across a 100 foot field.

Naruto pinpointed Kiba's location to be near the lake, at the very edge of the Forest.

Naruto grinned and activated his Yin Nine-Tails Chakra Mode; his skin undergoing the familiar flamelike transformation and his orange-and-black clothing smoothing out to be entirely orange.

Now complete, Naruto accessed his enhanced skills and reached where Kiba was.

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Kiba smelled Naruto before he even got within 50 feet close to his hiding spot..

He turned to Akamaru, who sat next to him patiently.

"Come on, Akamaru! Let's do the Fang-over-Fang technique first," he said while wolfishly smiling at his partner.

Akamaru barked in confirmation.

Kiba stood up, did the necessary signs, and said, "Human Beast Combination Transformation: Double-Headed Wolf!"

A cloud of smoke appeared and Kiba, now joined together with Akamaru, waited patiently for Naruto. One of the heads peeled back in a excited snarl. He couldn't wait to spar with Naruto. With the training he underwent with B of Kumo earlier on, there was no doubt that he improved. The fact he united with the Nine-Tails only assured his battlelust.

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Naruto arrived at the edge of the forest.

His sensory ability didn't disappoint him; Kiba and Akamaru were waiting for him.

The double-headed wolf growled at him, "Fang Wolf Fang!" and quickly spun around to create a destructive tornado.

Naruto knew the amount of strength compacted in that gray tornado. This was one of the Inuzuka Clan's ultimate Taijutsu techiniques, there was nothing out there that withstood its heavy offensive power.

Let him tire himself out and then I'll fight him, concluded Naruto.

And so, Naruto flew out of the forest and above the lake, letting his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode to dissipate into the thin air.

Harry was wondering what was all of the booms meant.

A recent boom must have been Sakura engaging her friend Ino for calling her ''forehead.''

Harry wondered why it was so touchy about her forehead. In his perspective, it looked perfectly fine to him.

He was brought out of his brooding when Neville shook his arm.

He turned around to face his fellow fifth-year.

He pointed a trembling finger in the direction of the lake and simply said, "Look, Harry. Just look."

Harry did indeed look to where his friend was pointing to, Ron and Hermione turning as well, to catch in time Naruto flying over the Black Lake.

Pansy shrieked for Naruto; at the rate he was dropping, Naruto was going to smack right into the lake and most likely will drown. Hagrid gasped as well, but for a different reason: a double headed wolf was standing on the edge of the lake. (Harry could tell Hagrid really wanted to pet it.)

Then, the telltale puff of smoke appeared; clearing to show Kiba and Akamaru watching Naruto's descent from the sky.

Naruto got closer and closer to the surface of the lake. His classmates began assuming that Naruto wasn't going to survive when he performed a tricky maneuver with his body. He twisted his body into unnatural shapes so that his feet would be landing first on the lake.

50, 40, 30, 20, 10 feet away from the surface.

By now, Slytherin expected him to drown. They started jeering at him, laughing at how he was going to die soon. Malfoy loudly proclaimed that he knew that they wouldn't last long. Harry wondered if there was a jinx that existed to stuff a sock into annoying peoples' mouths.

He would've, he could've, but... he didn't drown. Sorry, Slytherin. Maybe next time~

Instead, he landed on the surface of the lake as if it was the ground; skidding back some few feet while displacing the calm state it was previously in.

Thanks to Naruto's naturally loud voice, they could hear what he was saying to Kiba, "KIBA! THIS IS A SPAR WE'RE HAVING! NOT A BATTLE FOR BEING THE HOKAGE!"

Kiba yelled back at Naruto, equally just as loud, "THE WAY I SEE IT, YOU AND I BOTH WANT TO BE THE NEXT HOKAGE, WHICH IS GOING TO BE ME, BY THE WAY! SO, ANY SPAR WITH YOU DETERMINES WHICH ONE OF US IS GOING TO THE ROKUDAIME HOKAGE!"

Naruto replied back to him, "NAH. YOU JUST WANNA CREATE A HOLIDAY FOR DOGS WHEN YOU'RE THE HOKAGE. AFTER THAT, YOU'LL GIVE UP ON HOKAGE! YOU"RE GONNA LAZE AROUND LIKE KAKASHI-SENSEI!"

"HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?! YOU WOULD-"

All of a sudden, Naruto said, "OOPS, SORRY. GOTTA GO FIND SHINO, KIBA!"

"AY! NARUTO, GET BACK HERE! I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU!"

To the wizards, it looked like Naruto apparated away to somewhere else in the Forest when really he just 'shunshin-ed' away back to the Forest.

Naruto cut his conversation with Kiba when he remembered who else Tenten assigned him: Aburame Shino.

He shunshin-ed away to a location close to Shino. This was going to be a little harder than Kiba, as Shino probably had tens of hundreds of those little chakra-sucking demons he called bugs.

Looks like he has to first lock away his chakra reserves, first before engaging him.

Finishing and successfully locking his clan bloodline trait away, Naruto leapt out of his hiding place only to find Sasuke holding a kunai close to Shino's neck.

Naruto's eyes grew large and pointed a accussing finger at his fellow team mate, "TEH! TEME, SHINO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WHO I WAS GONNA SPAR WITH!"

Sasuke smirked, "Well, then. You're truly a usuratonkachi, dobe."

"WHY, YOU-!"

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Long story short, Sakura struck Ino out with a single punch to the head, Tenten bested Lee to which he had hearty yells of, "The youthful Lotus of Konoha had once again beat me," Shikamaru and Sai had a draw, and Neji once again beaten Hinata (though he had to admit, Hinata's Sky Palms had drastically improved over time).

(More like I don't have any more energy to describe additional fight scenes)

Hermione's eyes were wide open the entire time. The fight ended up extending over to Potions with the Hufflepuffs, but whatever. What they had watched was better than any old day with Snape and his insufferable cold dungeon. She had learned so much about the way the ninja's fought. They might not need a wand, and sure, they weren't wizards. But they have a amazing amount of agility, can outrun the fastest Muggle runner, can handle various types of weaponry while somehow not injuring themselves, and so much more. This spar only scratched the surface of what Naruto and his friends can really do, Hermione could tell.

But what was really surprising, after all they had just witnessed, was the quick change from ninjas out for each other to friendly companions. It was like the spar had never happened in the first place. Walking back to the castle in pairs and in trios, they entered the castle. Tenten picking the grass out of Neji's hair, Sakura and Sasuke quietly talking and comparing techniques, Naruto animatedly chattering away to Hinata, Sai memorizing a flower whose coloring reminded him of Ino's eyes, said girl quietly walking by his side, and Shikamaru, Kiba, Shino, and Lee doing some kind of small talk.

Hermione quickly stripped off her dragonhide gloves which still had some dried blast-ended skrewt venom and turned to her friends. Her eyes practically gleemed in her excitement.

Ron smiled knowingly to her, "We know, we know. You're going to the Library after all this during lunch."

Harry chuckled, "We'll save you something when we'll see you again during Binn's class."

Hermione grinned widely, "You guys are the best!" Giving each a quick hug, she took off. If she was in a cartoon, there would've been a trail of dust following her charge back into the Castle. That was how eager Hermione was to enter her second home in Hogwarts.