2 years went by in a blur. Naruto had trained hard to meet expectations of his deceased parents. He thought hard about who his father might be but was content with just knowing about his mother.

He knew how both his parents were seal masters and first trained heavily in that field. He excelled quickly and found it interested him to master the art to a new level than his parents. The only seal master in the village was Jiraiya. He would have to be tested by him in order to be recognized as a seal master.

That could wait for him to graduate the academy as he could then stay away from the civilians as he did not want to give them anything. If a war came up he would have the perfect opportunity to slip away from their control. In just 4 hours, the early graduation exam for his class would be held. After learning of Naruto's high chakra reserves, Hiruzen agreed to teach him the shadow clone jutsu. He learned it in just one hour.

He had yet to check on why he felt more than just the kyuubi inside his prison, but that would have to wait until after he became a ninja. Otherwise he would be accused of releasing Kyuubi. He couldn't tell who was controlling his body when he was in his mindscape, just that someone was. He would have to tell Hiruzen after the test. He didn't want getting in the way of him getting under the old man which means better treatment.

A kunai whizzed past his head, bringing him out of his thoughts as Kakashi charged at him with another kunai in hand. He had almost forgotten that he was training with his older brother, not by blood obviously. Kakashi was strict and powerful but he believed in teamwork and favored Naruto with the excuse that it was about time for someone to care. Nothing bad about it but before he had found him to be adopted into his clan, he couldn't help but to wonder.

As a part of the same clan, the two trained together in kenjutsu, ninjutsu, and fuuinjutsu. Naruto was on level 7 while Kakashi was on level 9 when it came to sealing, and they both wore 6 resistance seals and storage seals on their bodies. Training with Kakashi made him faster and helped him learn more jutsu. He had learned that he was in fact a "true" Uzumaki. With his jutsu catalogue, his large reserves, and his mastery in his kenjutsu style, he was already jonin level. Add his fuuinjutsu skills and you get anbu level shinobi. There was absolutely no way he could fail the exam, but he had a bad feeling about it.

He practiced his jutsu until the exam was just 10 minutes away so he shunshined to school. He felt good about the written portion as he knew all the answers, but when it came time for the ninjutsu portion, He found it difficult to mold his chakra. His shadow clones looked just as sickly as his standard ones and he couldn't substitute with Iruka as he tried to. Instead he did so with a chair and his henge had some new flaws. The taijutsu portion came up and he went outside. He stopped when he felt his chakra flowing normally and turned to Iruka.

"Sensei, can I show you something?" Iruka nodded and Naruto performed the shadow clone jutsu which surprised the teacher.

"Why couldn't you do this before?"

"I don't know, my chakra became so messed up for some reason." Naruto said being honest.

"Well lets continue the exam and then go check it up."

Naruto then proceeded to beat Mizuki thus acing the taijutsu portion. Once they got inside while Mizuki went to the nurse, they found a chakra disrupter under the floorboards where Naruto stood. The chakra signature belonged to Mizuki. Iruka checked the written test which was graded by Mizuki to see that the grades were false. Mizuki was in trouble if and when the hokage found out, but that would come later.

Needless to say Naruto graduated with a very high score. After receiving his headband, Naruto was sent to the hokage's office for registration. While doing so, Naruto was to be given his jounin sensei who is most suited to teach him. After his picture was taken and the old man was putting together his file, Kakashi walked into the room and smiled. Naruto was happy when he learned Kakashi would be his teacher, but he also understood that he wouldn't be able to do any C rank missions without a team he could work with.

"Are you ok with this, Naruto?" Hiruzen knew Naruto wanted to go on missions.

"I'm fine. At least I can train more now." He said in his usual cheery attitude. Both Kakashi and Hiruzen knew he was disappointed but he was no longer under the civilian council, the pros outweigh the cons, which was something he was not used to.

With this their meeting ended and Kakashi began leading the way out of the office, but Naruto remembered what he needed to tell the old man. "Aniki, can you go on ahead without me?" Kakashi hesitated so Naruto continued. "I just need to tell jiji something."

Once Kakashi had left the room Naruto quickly explained about the second presence. He had already concluded that this second presence was the one controlling his body at times.

"Can you see if the kyuubi can tell you about him without him taking over?" Hiruzen asked.

"Not without changing the seal, which i was thinking about it." Naruto explained. "I will have to get serious about my sealing, but what do i do until then?"

"How about having Kakashi place a paralysis seal on you when you go into your mindscape? That way you can't move during the time you are being controlled."

"I guess that can work." Naruto paused before speaking again. "I hope to find a way to destroy the kyuubi without it reforming. That way we don't have another problem like when kaasan died."

Hiruzen smiled at this. "I understand, please do keep me informed."

"Will do jiji." Naruto waved as he went after Kakashi. Kakashi gave a curious glance to him, but naruto did not fall in to his curiosity. "I will tell you later. Now, I have a project if you would like to help."

"You know how to drive a hard bargain. You would do well learning politics." Kakashi snickered as they reached the Uzumaki home. Upon learning of the clan they both secretly moved here.

Most of the house was traditionally japanese, but it had a cellar that was larger than the rest of the house combined. Not including the cellar, there were 3 other floors. 2 bedrooms on each of the 2 upper floors with the ground floor holding the kitchen, living room, and library/study. The brothers occupied the top floor as the second was for guests. The cellar held the armory, seal room and dojo. The seal room and dojo remained the same but the armory was converted into an office with storage seals on the walls carrying different things like weapons, money, and journal/notes.

"So, this project of yours," Kakashi began as he was cooking lunch. "What is it?"

"Well," Naruto had wanted to tell him the next day, but he didn't see the harm in doing it here. "I wanted to find a way to destroy the kyuubi without him reforming. I dont want another Kyuubi Attack or anyone else to have this burden."

"I see. So," Kakashi finished the fish and rice before he continued. "When are we going to start?"

"I want to wait until i am at least level 8 in sealing before i do anything seal related." Naruto explained. "However, I want to research the biju to get a better understanding of why they reform."

"Of course you would sound more intelligent after you're out of the academy." Kakashi sighed. "I shouldn't be surprised."

After both of them ate, They went to the seal room and began studying. Kakashi learned that seals were more useful than he had originally thought and he pushed himself to continue learning the art in order to increase the number of seal masters in the village. Since both of them were learning, they made a competition out of it. Which ever one reached level 10 first would win and the loser would have to buy lunch and dinner for the next month with the exception of missions. So far Naruto was winning, though Kakashi didn't mind. He was comfortable learning at his current pace, even if it cost his the competition. At his current pace, he would master the art by the end of the year while Naruto would finish just before hand. It wasn't like Kakashi wasn't trying to learn, but he was also worried about finances. As long as they did some missions, they could make it through the next 4 years.

If he could, Kakashi would try to get 2 other early graduates, but he knew of none he could be expecting to try the early graduation test from Naruto's generation. He wanted to do the same thing Minato did and keep Naruto as an apprentice until he could get him teammates his age. All of this could wait until news of Narutos graduation gets out. The Village would have to calm down before they could take any missions inside the village. That would take awhile.

"This is going to be a very long year." Kakashi thought returning his attention to the seals in front of him. And a very long year it became. Not.