Walking into the room that housed the first phase of their exam's Naruto was hyper-aware of all the murderous looks their fellow exam takers were given them. Sakura had a look in her eyes that was an odd mixture of concern and determination, he smiled at this and patted her on the shoulder. He liked that look in her eyes it showed that she was confident in her ability to pass and showed that she wasn't cocky, unlike their third teammates. Sasuke Uchiha both Sakura's childhood crush and Naruto's worst enemy, the Uchiha had an arrogant look in his eyes that spoke of how 'superior' he was compared to the rest of these genin.

"SASUKE-KUN!" Came the ear-piercing shriek of one Ino Yamanaka as she glomped onto the object of her affection. Naruto sighed and shook his head, 'I suppose some things never change.'

"INO-PIG, GET OFF OF SASUKE-KUN, " Sakura exclaimed, yeah somethings never change. Even after all the training and progress, they had made in making Sakura a splendid Konoichi in hopes of garnering the affections of the last Uchiha and subsequently keeping him from breaking all ties with the village, after all that Sakura's still a fangirl in some aspect.

"Oh forehead girl I see they let you in," Ino said as she took her hands off Sasuke and placed them on her hip's as she taunted Sakura. "I see they'll let anyone enter these exam's, speaking of anyone where's that loser dead last."

This got Sakura angry not soly because she insulted her but because she insulted her best friend. Natuto had selflessly sacrificed his spare time, which he could have used to better his own training or spend more time with his fiance but instead spent it correcting her own skill's. The pinkette was about to say something in defence of her friend but was stopped by a hand on her shoulder curtacy of Naruto.

The blonde time travler didn't want a fight between the two breaking out, especially not in a room full of enemies. So to end the argument he placed a hand on Sakura's shoulder and shook his head, the pinkette back down fully understanding that Naruto could protect himself. "My, Ino-chan I cant believe you've forgotten me," the boy said gaining the attention of the group, "and here I though what we had was special."

The girl in question was speechless at the sight of her fellow blonde, was this Naruto? Where was the hideous orange jumpsuit? While the boy in front of her did have Naruto's spiky blonde hair, sapphire blue eyes and those whisker marks on his cheeks his outfit was something that was very unlike the Naruto she had last seen at the academy all those months ago.

The boy wore a black sleeveless muscle shirt that hugged his body a little too well for Ino's comfort, over the shirt he had a dark green jacket that cut off just above his navel. He wore black anbu issue pants with similarly black ninja sandles, the only shred of orange on him was anarmbandd he wore on his right arm just under his shoulder. "N-Naruto is that you," the boy nodded, "When did you get so ripped."

Naruto tilted his head in confusion as to how he should answer this, sure yeah hr could say he busted his ass ever since they graduated and while that was true they would ask why and frankly he couldn't get into it. "Hard to show muscle, while wearing a baggy jumpsuit."

A boy walked up to them "Troublesome," the pineapple headed genin said. "Whats with the whole change, what happened to the orange monstrosity."

Naruto hummed in agrivation, "My fiance burned them," this was not a lie, when they had moved into the Namikaze estate she had set the lot of them on fire with a fire jutsu the first chance she got. The remark about a fiance got everyone's attention.

Sakura shook his head, "It wasn't so bad Naruto-kun," Ino's eyes widened. "You can still wear orange, just not a 'kill me' orange full body outfit."

The boy in question rubbed at the back of his head, "I suppose." If he had planned on continuing his sentence no one knows for they were interrupted by a hard thud as a head of platinum blonde hair fell hard. Ino had fainted and to everyone but Hinata they had no idea as to why. The lavender eyed Hyuga was devastated at the implications of Sakura referring to her Naruto-kun and '-kun'.

"You guys are quite loud," everyone turned and saw a silver headed boy, it took everything in his now to scowl or out right attack the boy in front of him. Kabuto Yakushi stared at the group before looking down and seeing a very unconscious Ino, with a sigh he knelt down and began using his medical ninjutsu to wake her up. "If you hadn't noticed all these genin are on edge, it would do you all well to keep quiet and lay low."

Kiba looked at the boy as he finished healing Ino, Naruto placed a hand on his own stomach as a way to calm Kurama who was snarling at the snake's right hand man. "Who are you," Choji said as the boy stood, Naruto never took his eyes off him, "My names Kabuto Yakushi, and I've been to these exam's enough times to tell you what's what around here."

"So," Sasuke said as he looked at Kabuto, "Your like what.. an informant."

The snake with glasses hummed, "Yeah, I quess you can think of it like that," Kabuto said as he took a scroll out of his back pocket and placed it on the ground before pushing chakra into it and a stack of card appeared. "See these, these are my ninja info cards. Im real good at gathering info on just about anything. People, places you name it."

The group looked amongst themselve's, begrudgingly Naruto had to agree. No informant was as in-depth as Kabuto, not even some of Jiraiya's spy's. "Do you have information of Rock Lee of the leaf, Garra of the sand, and Naruto Uzumaki of the leaf."

The group where shocked at this as two of those three names were fellow leaf ninja, and one of them was his own teammate. Naruto looked at him incredulously, as if he could not belive what the Uchiha had just said. "Oh, you know their names," Kabuto pouted, "Thats no fun."

The boy shrugged, "Oh well, lets see first up Rock Lee," he said as he pulled out a card and channeled chakra into it. "Rock Lee, current age is 15. Is a member of team 9 along with his teammates Tenten and Neji Hyuga, his sensei is Miato Gai. He has practically no skill in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu while his Taijutsu is spectacular, he's completed 57 D rank missions, 23 C rank, 32 B rank, 4 A rank and 1 S rank as a genin."

"Next is Garra of the sand, lets see," the boy grew shocked, "He's completed 89 D rank missions, 74 C-rank, 55 B-rank, 22 A-rank and 15 S-ranked missions as a genin," everyone was shocked at this, "Apparently he did all these without getting a scratch on him."

"Finally Naruto Uzumaki, it say's he's a war orphan of Konoha," Naruto rolled his eyes. "He's on team 7 along with Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, his sensei is Kakashi Hatake, He' apparently completed 32 D-rank missions, 0 C-rank, 1 B-rank, 1 A-rank and 0 S-rank missions as a genin. He's currently engaged to Tenten from team 9," this surprised everyone that didn't already know.

Kiba glared at Naruto, "What the hell man, you skipped C-ranks all together and did both a B and A," the dog boy was angry for sure, he was supposed to be the kick as genin of the rookie 9 not the dead last. Naruto narrowed his eyes at Kiba but wasn't really annoyed by him, that B-rank wasn't supposed to be known by anyone but the Hokage, after all, it was the night that he had killed the traitor Mizuki.

"Alright," a man wearing a black jacket said as he bursts into the room, Naruto recognized the man as the proctor Ibiki, also known as the head of torture and interrogation."Everyone sit down and shut up."

-break-

Naruto sat down next to Hinata and sighed as he saw the girl flush and fidget, this was something he would have to deal with. He couldn't let her still be chasing after him romantically, he was engaged after all, which meant this was a job for Naruto Uzumaki professional matchmaker. The first choice was obviously Kiba, but the dog boy was far from the ideal boyfriend material he believed Hinata deserved, sure in the future he was kinda good enough but was he good enough was the question.

Shikamaru was also a good choice, he was smart and caring, but he ended up married to Temari and there was no way in hell he was going to mess that up. Shino was a good choice being on the same team as her and all, Choji was an option but that made Naruto shudder at who may end up with Karui in the future. The blonde sighed as he thought about it, who was left?

Shrugging these thoughts off the young Uzumaki returned his attention to the sheet of paper before him. He might as well answer at least some of these questions, nothing else to do until the 10th question was announced. The blonde got to work, was it technically cheating if he was using future knowledge he had obtained, after all, he didn't know this stuff until after he became the Hokage. This question perplexed him so much that he didn't even notice when he had answered 5 of the 9 questions, with a sigh he turned the paper over to the blank side and began to write a note to Ibiki.

"Keep an eye on Kabuto Yakushi, he has information that only the Hokage should." He wrote before turning the paper back over and resting his arms on it and his head on his arms. Knowing Ibiki the young time traveler knew he would report this directly to the Hokage and without a doubt, Naruto would be called in to talk with the old man.

"Alright, " Ibiki said when a large majority of the teams had been eliminated. Naruto raised his head and looked at the man, "It's time for your 10th question."

People cheered as this signaled the approaching end of the first exam, this test made Naruto a mental wreck the first time around so he could relate to everyone's elation. "But first I want to give each of you the chance to back out now."

"Why the hell would we back out now!" Kiba's unmistakable voice shouted.

"Because, if you were to get this question wrong you would be barred from taking the chunin exams ever again, " gasps of shock where heard all around the room. Naruto internally chuckled at this and remembered once when he had acted as a proctor for these exams, it was fun messing with the kids.

"What the hell, there are people here who've taken this exam before. You can't do this, " Kiba shouted in aggitation.

"Oh I can and I am, these other kids didn't have me as a proctor, " Ibiki said with a smirk as he saw some genin squads leaving. Naruto remembered how hopeless it felt for him and it made him angry, he remembered how Sakura had tried to quit for him.

"Yeah right!" Came the voice of the blonde as he stood up. "Remember this and remember it well, the ninja who will become Hokage is me, Naruto Uzumaki. I don't care if im a genin for the rest of my life, believe it."

His little outburst seemed to do the trick as a trio of students who were about to stand sat back down, their confidence renewed. Ibiki smiled as he glared at the young boy who had single-handedly given the entire class the confidence to continue, "Is that so?" He said with a cocky smirk that promised pain, when he saw no one make a move he smiled, "Congratulations, you all pass."

-break-

Standing outside of the forest of death the trio know as team 7 were listening to the proctor, Naruto was listening extra intently. "Alright maggots, when you hand in you waver's then come to that tent, " she pointed to a tent with two large crates and a table. "We're you will be given 1 scroll, by the end of these 5 days you will be expected to get the other scroll and be at the tower in the center of the forest.

Team 7 was first to enter the tent with their handouts, Sasuke smirked as he slid a earth scroll into his back pocket. No one was any the wiser when the young blonde slipped away from their view for a moment before re-appearing moments later, Naruto sighed.

" Hey wait," came the voice of Anko, the blonde silently sweated as he turned toward the purple-haired jonin with confusion etched on his face. It was a risky move trying to swipe a heavens scroll out from under the nose of the woman, even riskier when using the stealth skill's she helped him cultivate. Of course she would notice his movements, after all, they were based on her own. "Your Naruto Uzumaki right?"

The time traveler nodded, "Yeah?"

Anko nodded, "I hear your getting married, be careful for her sake."

The blonde would have sighed a deep sigh of relief if he wasn't currently in the woman's presents. He bowed slightly and offered a quick 'I will' before leaving and walking toward his team, Anko smirked as she watched the kid who had just skillfully stolen a heaven scroll out from under her nose walk away. "Damn that kid's good."

Team 7 waited patiently for the gates in front of them to open and when it did the trio lept into the tree's as blur's before landing in a clearing about 4-5 miles away from the starting gate. Naruto turned toward his teammates who looked at him, Sakura had an expectant look in her eye as she smiled warmly at best friend and Sasuke had a slightly annoyed expression married to his face. "Guy's I have a plan."

The Uchiha scoffed, "Now you have a plan," he said as a soft jab at his blonde teammate, Naruto blew him a raspberry before pulling out a white scroll from his ninja pouch. The blonde smirked as did the ravenette.

Sakura gasped, "Naruto-kun, you stole a heaven scroll!" The boy looked at her with a slight pout, "You could have gotten us in trouble."

"Relax Sakura-chan," surprisingly this did not come out of the blonde's mouth, the pinkette and blonde look surprised that Sasuke Uchiha had referred to his teammate with such affection. Sakura blushed as she looked down as if her feet became the most interesting thing in the world, Naruto smiled as he saw his plan starting to bear fruit. "We are ninja and Ninja don't play fair," the Uchiha turned around as to walk in the direction if the tower.

Naruto looked from him to his female teammate and smiled as he saw her blushing, he leaned in. "He called you '-chan'," Naruto said in a teasing manner before Sakura playfully slapped his arm and began walking. The blonde chuckled at himself as he bagan walking with his hands cupped behind his head.

-break-

There it is at long last, it took me forever but finally I have something im proud enough of to share. Even if it is a tad on the short side, I realise that people may not like that Naruto is keeping Sasuke from being bit by Orochimaru but the snake has more chance's before the end of my story. In fact the Orochimaru fight was partly what her me up so much, I just couldn't wrap my head around it.I'm slowly starting to think that I suck at writing action, what do you lot think.Anyway sorry it took so long and hopefully my next chapter won't take as long.