(Welcome back, guys. In my new chapters Naruto's going to be getting additional allies, a new ability, and a new vision. Enjoy away.)

A few days had passed since Naruto began training under Jiraiya, as did Sakura under Bolin. One afternoon, Naruto was currently training in his bending ability with Ming and Naomi training with him. Off to the side was Mitsuki who was cheering the three on.

"Come on, Naruto. Just because you're the Avatar and we're friends doesn't mean we should hold back." Naomi instructed, as she used her Firebending.

"Especially you." Ming added, while using Waterbending on Naruto.

Naruto was using Airbending to propel himself around to avoid their shots before launching his own Firebending at them.

"Go, Naruto!" Mitsuki cheered.

When Naruto landed back on the ground he used Earthbending to send fissures at his two training partners. The two were jumping to avoid the splits in the earth, as Naruto spoke.

"You girls won't be able to dodge forever." he used Airbending on the two who were in mid jump to knock them to the ground, "Now I've gotcha!" he was going to use Earthbending again, but when he tried bending the earth he ended up creating a fissure of molten lava.

Mitsuki gasped, "Naomi, Ming, get out of there!"

The girls realized what was coming their way, and quickly jumped out of the way. Ming used her Waterbending on the lava turning it to rock.

Naruto powered down and panted, "What the hell just happened?"

Naomi spoke, "Naruto, you just Lavabended."

"Lavabend? Like Master Bolin?" Naruto asked.

"That's right." Ming confirmed.

Naruto looked at the trail that was once lava, before a smile curled upon his face, "I can Lavabend!" he cheered, while grabbing the three girls making them jump up and down with him in excitement.

"Congratulations!" Mitsuki cheered.

"This is unbelievable!" Ming gasped.

"I know." Naomi agreed.

"We gotta tell the others. They need to know about this." Naruto said, as he hurried off followed by the three.

The four found the group at Sakura's place, where they were enjoying some tea with the Haruno's. They came inside, "Master Jinora! Everyone! Great news!"

"Easy, Naruto. What's all the commotion?" Mako inquired.

"Ok, the girls and I were practicing by the training ground, and in the midst of our spar I tried to Earthbend, but I ended up Lavabending instead." Naruto explained with a calmer tone.

The adults were flabbergasted, while Sakura looked confused, "Lavabending? What's that?"

Bolin answered, "A special form of Earthbending in which the bender can manipulate molten earth. I should know I have that ability as well."

"Really?" Sakura asked.

"He sure does." Naruto confirmed.

"This is truly remarkable," Jinora said in amaze, "Naruto, you are first Lavabending Avatar since Avatar Roku and even Avatar Kyoshi."

"I am?"

Jinora nodded, and spoke, "Years ago Avatar Roku used that type of bending in order to save his home island from an erupting volcano. And Avatar Kyoshi used that same bending to split her land from the Earth Kingdom mainland, thus creating Kyoshi Island."

"And years ago I fought the Red Lotus member Ghazan who was also a Lavabender. During that time it's how I discovered I could Lavabend after failing to learn how to Metalbend." Bolin put in.

Naruto continued to look excited, "This is amazing. I mean I actually have one of the sub-bending abilities. Like how you said Korra was the first Avatar to learn Metalbending."

"That's correct. So now that you have this new bending ability, you must learn to master it and use with the utmost care." Jinora instructed.

"Yes, Master Jinora," Naruto bowed his head, " Come on, girls. Let's see just how well I can use this ability." he said, as Naomi, Ming, and Mitsuki followed him.

Bolin turned to Sakura, "Why don't you go and join them? It's important to witness other forms of bending in action. Even the sub-bending abilities."

"Thank you, Master Bolin," Sakura thanked him before calling out, "Hey, wait for me!"

Bolin spoke to his friends, "Looks like I may also have to help Naruto with his new Lavabending." They nodded in agreement.

They returned to the training ground, and the girls watched from the side as Naruto was prepared to do it again, "Have to concentrate just like I was before," he held his arms out to the ground. He focused on the ground concentrating hard and suddenly rising up from the ground was lava, "Yes!" he raised it up higher forming a wall of hardened lava, "If I practice with this new bending ability I'll be able to take on more dangerous enemies." he smiled.

The girls got up and went over to him, "Naruto, you did it!" Sakura cheered.

"Lavabending's awesome." Naomi added.

"Thanks, girls. But this is just beginners ability. With more training I can really use this bending to its fullest." he explained.

Mitsuki suddenly gasped, "Everyone we're being watched." she whispered.

"How do you know?" Sakura asked.

"I can see it from the flowers," the girl answered while motioning to several plants and flowers in the grass around the area, "Over there." she pointed to a tree."

Naruto spoke, "Whoever's there come out. We know you're there."

To their surprise, coming out from behind the tree was Hinata, "Sorry. I didn't mean to come off as spying."

"Hinata?" Naruto and Sakura asked.

"Who is that?" Ming inquired.

"That's our friend, Hinata," Naruto answered, before calling out to her, "Hinata, come over here."

Hinata nervously went over, "Yes?"

"Hinata, these are some friends of mine I made when I was just a kid," Naruto explained, "This is Ming, Naomi, and Mitsuki. Girls, Hinata Hyuga."

"Hi, Hinata." Naomi greeted her.

"It's nice to meet you." Mitsuki greeted Hinata.

"Anyone who's a friend of Naruto is all right by us." Ming added.

Hinata seeing they seemed like ok people answered, "It's nice to meet you three."

"Hinata, how long were you behind that tree?" Sakura wondered along with the rest.

Hinata suddenly became nervous again, as everyone looked at her, "Uh, long enough?"

"Then you saw?" Naruto asked.

Hinata sighed, "I did."

Sakura looked at Naruto wondering what he's gonna do next. Naruto walked up to Hinata, as the girl was curious as to what was going to happen, "Sit down, Hinata. I've got a hell of a story to tell you." Hinata tilted her head to the side wondering what he had to say.

Later on Hinata was sitting before Naruto and the others, as the blonde told Hinata the full story about why he wasn't in the village for half his childhood, as well as the events of what was happening.

"And so here I am learning how to further use my bending abilities and my ninjutsu to become the world's newest protector as the Avatar." Naruto concluded.

"Naruto." Hinata gasped.

Sakura nodded, "Hard to imagine but he's got a lot on his plate with this responsibility."

"I had no idea." Hinata said, while looking at Naruto with concern.

Naruto smiled at her, "It's true. Being the Avatar means putting the world before yourself. And I'm not going to break that."

"Naruto," Hinata smiled, "You really are the bravest person I've ever known."

"Thanks, Hinata. And I'd advise you to keep this secret to yourself. Don't worry everyone will soon know the existence of the Avatar in due time."

"I promise, Naruto."

"Thank you."

Ming spoke up, "Hinata, why don't you join us girls for a bite?"

"Me?" Hinata asked.

"Yeah. We wanna get to know more about you." Naomi added.

"If you don't mind." Mitsuki finished.

"Well, I'm not doing anything right now. So ok." she answered.

"Great. Come on." Naomi said, as she and Mind linked arms with Hinata and escorted her off followed by Mitsuki.

Naruto and Sakura chuckled before the girl spoke to Naruto, "I may as well join them. I'll catch you later, Naruto." she hurried off.

"See you, Sakura," he bid her farewell. He stood still before speaking, "You two can come out now."

Suddenly landing from above in the one tree was Yugito and Bee, "How long did ya know?" Bee asked.

"Since Hinata arrived."

"I was certain you wouldn't have sensed us so easily. We'll have to be more stealthy." Yugito said.

"Probably. So why would you two Kumo shinobi be doing spying on me?"

"We had no intention of spying on you," Yugito assured, "We were actually looking for you."

"Looking for me?" Naruto asked suspiciously.

"Ease up on the suspicious face. I promise ya fighting ya isn't our case." Bee rapped.

"Who are you two?"

"My name is Yugito Nii. And this is my comrade."

"The Rap Master, Killer Bee! Fool ya fool!"

Naruto raised a brow, while looking at Yugito for some answers, "He loves to rap. Just roll with it."

"Right," Naruto replied dryly, "So why were you looking for me?"

"We wanted to confirm something about you that we watched during the preliminaries," Yugito explained, "Ever since we laid eyes on you we felt an enormous amount of chakra radiating off you. But there was more to it as well."

Naruto had his hunches what they were referring to, "You mean you know what I am?"

Bee spoke up, "If you want answers, then meet our fists." he said holding his fist out along with Yugito.

Naruto was confused, but decided to go along with it and fist bumped the two older shinobi. To Naruto's shock he found himself on the other plane of existence with Kurama behind him.

"Kurama? Why're we here?" Naruto asked.

"Look in front and you'll see why."

Naruto did so and saw Yugito and Bee standing before him, and behind them were two giant creatures like Kurama. Behind Yugito was a blue fiery cat with two tails, and behind Bee was a creature that was part ox and part octopus, with eight tails that were actually Octopus tentacles.

"Whoa! Those are tailed beasts!"

The cat answered, "Correct, young one. I am Matatabi, the two tails."

"And I am Gyuki, the eight tails." the octopus ox added.

Naruto looked at Bee and Yugito, "So you two are Jinchuriki as well?"

"You bet." Bee nodded.

"We've been Jinchuriki when we were younger than you are now." Yugito added.

"I see."

Kurama spoke, "Matatabi and Gyuki, it's been a long time."

"Far too long." Gyuki agreed.

"But we know you aren't the only one here to see." Matatabi said.

Suddenly there was a glow above them and appearing was Raava. The two older shinobi looked up in wonder as well as their tailed beasts.

"Raava, it is you." Gyuki said in nostalgia.

"It's been so long since we've basked in your warm glow." Matatabi added.

"Matatabi and Gyuki. It's good to see you two again."

"So that's the spirit of light, Raava." Yugito gasped.

"The being of pure light and divinity. Power like hers is like one in infinity." Bee said.

Naruto spoke, "Nice to see you're all taking her well. So you guys knew I was the Avatar even before you dropped in on me?"

"We did sense a power similar to ours off you, as well as a different power." Yugito admitted.

"It was then our partners here told us the story of the Avatar and Raava." Bee added.

Naruto nodded in understanding, while smiling, "It feels nice talking to other Jinchuriki here."

"I agree. Bee and I haven't met any other Jinchuriki before." Yugito said.

"But we ain't the only three. There's another one in our presence, I can see." Bee rhymed.

Naruto nodded, "Yeah. Gaara of Suna."

"He has Shukaku inside of him." Kurama added.

"The sand was a dead giveaway." Gyuki noted.

"And based off his Jinchuriki they aren't truly cooperative like us." Matatabi said.

"Yes. Sadly Shukaku has forgotten the kindness and equality his first Jinchuriki after the sage of six paths showed him while they were one." Raava said with a sigh.

Naruto spoke, "I have this gut feeling Gaara may end up doing something bad in the Chunin Exams. Especially against my teammate."

"We feel that way too." Matatabi agreed.

"As fellow Jinchuriki we felt it's best to help one of our own." Bee said.

"Especially since we all share the same treatment from others when we first became Jinchuriki." Yugito put in.

Naruto knowing they probably had harsh treatment when they were his age knew exactly how he felt about the villagers treatment of him.

"So what can we do about it?" Naruto asked.

"Our former master Hagoromo told us one day we would come together again under the lead of one and we believe it may be you, Naruto." Matatabi said.

"You believe it as well?" Naruto asked.

"We do," she confirmed, "Because you're more than a Jinchuriki, you are also the Avatar. Two great powers inside one single human. We know you're destined to unite us all together again."

"But unless Shukaku is reminded of his role as a tailed beast then it will not come to pass," Gyuki warned them, "You may possess Kurama's chakra and the Avatar bending, but they alone may not suffice against him. Especially at your given level."

"So what can even the odds?" Naruto inquired.

"Gyuki and I will share our chakra with you Naruto, and with that we will be much closer to fulfilling Hagoromo's prophecy."

"How can you do that?" Naruto asked.

Gyuki and Matatabi put their right hands on top of each other directly above Naruto, "I think you can tell what to do now." Gyuki said.

Naruto seeing what to do, bumped his fist upward into Gyuki's palm, and suddenly he felt two powerful chakras merge into him.

"You now share a portion of our chakra, Naruto." Matatabi said.

"May they help you and Raava in bringing peace to the ninja world." Gyuki finished, as Bee, Naruto, and Yugito were back on the normal plane of existence.

Naruto looked at the two older shinobi feeling lost for words, "Yugito, Bee, I don't know what to say. Thank you both."

"Don't be getting all sappy. At times like this ya should be happy." Bee rapped.

"Right." Naruto chuckled.

"Well, it was nice meeting you. But I need to get going. I should meditate on what's happened."

"We understand," Yugito said, "And good luck to you, Naruto."

"Thanks again." Naruto said as he took off.

"He's a nice kid isn't he?" Yugito asked.

"Reminds me of us." Bee agreed.

Naruto had went to the top of the Hokage monument and was sitting on top of the Yondaime's head. He looked around, "This looks like a good spot for some peace." he closed his eyes and began meditating. At first he was relaxed, until suddenly he started groaning and saw images flash before him like before.

He saw the village of Suna and the Kazekage was meeting with Orochimaru who appeared to be discussing plans about an alliance against Konoha. The next vision he saw was Orochimaru secretly murdering the Kazekage and posing as him to the village where he was discussing his invasion plans to the Suna council.

Naruto opened his eyes and gasped in shock, "Oh, no. Orochimaru's gonna... I gotta!" he quickly ran off.

Naruto had made his way to the administration building and pounded on the window. Hiruzen hearing the banging looked and saw Naruto.

"Naruto?" he opened the window and the blonde jumped into the office, "What is the meaning of this?"

"Jiji, we have a problem." Naruto began in worry.

"Calm down, Naruto. Tell me what's wrong." Hiruzen calmed him.

"We need privacy for this." Naruto instructed.

Hiruzen nodded, sealed the room off making sure no one would see or hear what was about to be told, "Ok, Naruto. Talk to me."

"I think Avatar Korra's trying to relay another warning message to me."

"Another message? What is it?"

"I saw more visions of Orochimaru, but he was with Suna's Kazekage."

The Sandaime looked in disbelief, "The Kazekage meeting with Orochimaru? I don't understand this."

"It looked like they were talking about invading our village," Naruto continued, resulting in Hiruzen getting more worried, "Then I saw Orochimaru murder the Kazekage and take on his appearance to deceive the village. Jiji, I think the Chunin Exams is a trap to stage an assault on the village."

Hiruzen spoke, "This is dire news. If this succeeds our alliance with Suna will be damaged beyond repair. We have to do something about it."

"What we need to do is take the fight to them," Naruto voiced an idea, "Orochimaru isn't aware that I know this information now. We can use it to launch a counter attack when he and his shinobi strike."

"Clever thinking, Naruto. Although it will be difficult to explain this to all the higher shinobi without telling them you told me because of a vision. But I will try all I can to ensure that we'll be ready."

"Thanks, sir." Naruto said with gratitude.

"But for now, you better get back to training. Because I have a feeling we'll need the Avatar if this invasion goes off."

"I know. I have a gut feeling I'll be needed to bring my Avatar A-game." Naruto confirmed, as Hiruzen allowed Naruto to leave.

The Sandaime looked out his window thinking, 'Orochimaru, how far will you go just to get to our village?'

(And that's the chapter. I've decided to give Naruto Lavabending as well as Yugito and Bee sharing their Jinchuriki chakra with him. But with Matatabi and Gyuki's chakra he cannot unlock his Sage of Six Paths mode just yet. He hasn't even fully mastered Kurama's chakra to its fullest yet. Don't miss next time where it's part one of the Chunin Exam Finals.)