Arthor's Note:

Hopefully, you have recovered from the last chapter by the time you read this one. (More evil laughter). Some of you might have guess that more then one mask would be broken.

To those of you that didn't believe the s in the title was a typo:

Naruto isn't the only one that will breaking free of what the cannon forced on him. Hinata didn't become worthy of Naruto until the attack of Pein, and this was because she had never feared losing her beloved Naruto. Now, Ino could steal him away. To prevent this she will make a Devil with the Devil. To those of you who didn't pay attention Anko has always wanted to teach her arts...(Insert more evil laughter)

Sakura has to come to grips with losing what she didn't realise was precious to her. She has now realised feelings for Naruto that she didn't even know she had for Naruto until post time skip. If you want to tell me thats not true, look how she describes Naruto at the literial beginning of Shippuden. She will seek out a teacher to capture Naruto's attention back...(Insert hystarical evil laughter)

Ino must come to grips with the differences between Sasuke and Naruto, and define herself in the process. To come to grips with Naruto's mind, she must seek out someone that knows the mind better then her own father. (Insert Evil Demon laughter)

Naruto, himself, must take off the mask that the village has forced on him. He must answer the calls of his heart, blood, and past. All this as a war for his heart rages on, and his blood tries to awaken when needed most. What power's will his blood show, and can they make them his own?

Finally, who will reveal themselves as the ones that seek to control Naruto. The poor life and training of Naruto didn't happen by itself. Someone was responable for the death of his parents and others responsable repressing him. How far will the rabbit or rather fox hole go?

Chapter 5: Dreams and Teams

Ino half asleep turns to the warm body cuddling to her back and plants a passion kiss on their lips. She had been having dreams about that first kiss with Naruto, but she wakes suddenly as she is pushed off the bed. In mere moments, she realises her mistake.

"Ino just because you kissed Naruto doesn't mean you get to kiss me on the lips too!" Sakura screamed at Ino. "You stole my first kiss!"

Ino knew it was she had used Naruto's jacket as a pillow. It still smelled like him, and it had caused her a very sexy dream about Naruto not stopping the kiss merely on her lips. In the dream there wasn't an inch of her he didn't kiss or nibble on.

"Why did you kiss back?" Ino teased.

"I was having a hot dream about Sasuke!" Sakura told her. 'I am not tell her that blasted jacket and our conversation about Naruto made sure it wasn't Sasuke I was dreaming about'

Sakura hadn't minded the kiss really. Ino used to be her best friend, and surely kissing another girl didn't count as a first kiss. She wondered if it counted as an indirect kiss with Naruto, and the scolded herself that she was suppose to be with Sasuke.

Sakura, also, would never admit that Ino that Ino had let her mind wonder and that she was pulled into Ino's dream. It wasn't the first time it had happened either. When they slept over together as kids, it was a common occurance, but Ino had trained her mind it happened less and less. She guess her confusion over her own actions was why Ino dream walked again.

Ino and Sakura were both trying to hide the fact that their panties were soaked. There was a time that they were close enough to experiment with lesbianism, but that never panned out as it was when they were too young to think about sex. Sakura and Ino wouldn't admit that if there friendship was fully repaired they would consider sharing a guy.

"Mind helping me pack?" Sakura suddenly asked to defuse the situtation.

"Why do you need to pack?" Ino asked.

"I have to find another place to live. My mother thinks it is a bad idea to have a ninja living here so close to the gate. I can see her point, and there are suppose to be ninja barracks. If we were a clan it would be different there would be others to watch my back while I slept." Sakura informed her.

It took all of an hour to pack all of Sakura's things. They headed off to the supposed barracks only to find out it was Jonin only. This left Sakura wondering what to do as she already agreed to move out.

"I would offer you a place to stay but it is already crowded at my house. I was thinking about moving out myself." Ino sadly told her.

Sakura was about to tease her about sharing the same bed being since they had the night before, but she never got the chance. She had run right into Naruto who was wear a huge scroll on his back. She almost fainted from shock when Naruto spoke.

"Not like I asking the two of you to marry me, but I just got done with my paperwork. I, now, posses my parents house, and it is too big for me if you two want to take up a couple of rooms." Naruto informed them. "Oh yeah sorry for being a sudden wall Sakura but you should look where your going.

After sharing Ino's dream the night before, she could feel her body responing to the sudden realisation that Naruto had grabbed her before she fell, and she was now in his arms. She looked over at Ino to see her fuming that she hadn't pulled away from Naruto. She had to admit there were way worse things then being in Naruto's arms.

"Are you alright, Sakura?" Naruto asked her because of the far off look in her eyes.

Sakura's heart almost broke as she noticed the lack of -chan. She was really starting to hate herself for not realising how much the little things Naruto did meant to her. She decided to pull an accident to see if she could get the -chan back, and making it look as much like an accident as she could she 'tried to kiss him on the cheek and missed'.

Sakura had to admit it did feel good to kiss Naruto. She almost laughted and the preplexed look on Naruto's face. She however noticed that he looked at Ino as if he was afraid the kiss somehow was something he needed her promission for.

"Well if the two of you want I will show you the house." Naruto remarked.

They agreed, and they spent the time to help Sakura now in. Ino would move in after the assignments that day. None of the even thought about the one bathroom being a problem.

Naruto left the girls to make there own way to the academy as he still had a couple of things to do before the assignments. With merely a glance between them after her left, they agreed the best one got Naruto if Sasuke turned them down one more time. They had both forgotten that neither of them had to guts to ask out a boy let alone Sasuke.

For Ino, it was simply not how things were suppose to work. Boys asked out girls and that was all there was to it. She saw girls that asked out guy as desprite, and she wasn't desprite.

For Sakura, she had never had any male friends or any friend other then Ino. She still was in the stage of punching guys she liked. She couldn't even figure out how to ask a boy out.

It had tooken everything Sakura had back then to ask Shino to find out what the coolest boy in school liked. She had been shocked to find out he already knew exactly what he liked in a girl. She wasn't the only one that was getting dirt on the school hearttrob through Shino after all you want information go to the bug clan.

While the girls went to the academy, Naruto was helping out one of his good friends, Shino. He would often help him search for bugs or just turn over bugs to him that he thought was rare. This time however was different. Naruto had to help him find a little bug or rather a five year old cousin of Shino's who was playing hide and seek with Shino since the day before.

Shino hadn't even known he was in this game until his cousin's father asked if they were still playing hide and seek from the day before. Of coure, he immeditately sent a bug to Naruto. If you want to find someone good at hiding get someone better at hiding to help.

Naruto had found the little bug in a matter of minutes. They were soon heading to the academy after wards. They talked like they were the best of friends, but it helped when you really were best friends.

"You know Naruto you really are the coolest guy at the academy. I don't see why all those girls try to make you jelious by pretending to like the bug crusher Sasuke." Shino remarked as they got to the academy.

Naruto merely rolled his eyes. He knew Shino was probably the only one in the entire academy that thought he was cool. He hoped no one ever asked Shino what the coolest guy in the academy liked then more girls would have long hair and wear tight clothes.

Naruto could never figure out how Sasuke like all the same things as him. Well almost since the girls weren't building up womanly muscle. He didn't have to worry about Hinata as she kept her hair short and didn't know how to be a bitch when nesscary. He knew she had a crush on him but why would she dress like a boy?

As they walked up to the classroom, Shino was talking about how he couldn't understand how the dead last Sasuke even made it to final year. He would never let go of how Sasuke used to be sickly all the time, and how until after the Uchiha masacre Sasuke would only train if Itachi was the one training him.

Naruto had his own opinions of Sasuke. Itachi had spoken of him more then once. It was almost always in annoyance. Naruto had always had alot of things in common with Itachi, and they became like brothers quickly. They both hated how people only knew one thing about you and in their eyes it was the sum total of your value. Both of them were always treated a certain way for a fact they had no control over.

"You know I saw Sasuke checking out Hinata yesturday. I think he must love short boy like hair." Naruto remarked to Shino contimuing their conversation.

This met with alot of girls including Ino and Sakura stareing at him. They all then looked at Shino like he grew a second head. Finally, it was Ami that asked the question that would causes most of Sasukes fangirls to freak out.

"Who do you think the coolest guy in the academy is Shino." Ami inquired.

"Naruto, of course. If the bushin wasn't on the last three test he would have past all three times. What you don't think his pranks require alot of skill? He out runs Ambu for pete's sake. He can even disappear in kill me orange. He created the sexy jutsu by himself, and no matter what you think of it it is a great stun tactic and hard to master. He can sense and count the number of bugs I have on me at any given time. He even passed the academy this time by defeating a chunin ranked traitor." Shino listed off like they were stupid for not knowing this.

"Who do you think the dead last is then?" Ami asked afraid of the answer.

"Sasuke, of course. He was always sick back before the guys and girls classes join together. He still misses more then he hits the target. If it wasn't for the partial activation of his sharingan during the Uchiha masacre then he would probably failed out of the academy by now." Shino informed them. "I mean his own blood brother avoided that egomaniac as much as he could."

Most of the class felt as if the world had turned upside down. It was all true, but most of the girls and alot of the guys didn't remember Sasuke's earily days in the academy as he was sick more then he was there. None them had ever paid attention to why Naruto had failed the academy enough to know it was over only a single jutsu. Most of the guys wouldn't admit it, but if it was their third time taking the same class they would skip too.

Even Sasukes fan-girls had to admit they hadn't even noticed Sasuke until after the masacre had made him the talk of the village. They always thought that he had been skilled enough to protect himself, but if he was so horrible at the academy before it happened then he simply was spared since he wasn't a threat.

Before the class could process anything else Iruka came in and silenced them. He went through a long speach of what was expected of them. As soon as the speach was over he started to list down the team assignments.

"...Team 7 will be Sakura Hurano, Naruto Uzumaki, and Sasuke Uchiha with Kakashi Hayake as squad leader. Team 8 will be Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuyuka, and Shino Aburame with Kurenai Yuli as squad leader. Team 9 is still in service from last year. Team 10 will be Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi with Asuma Sarutobi as squad leader..." Iruka droned on. "You are dismissed for lunch when you come back you will meet your Squad leader."

Arthor's Note:

If you are wondering why it is cannon teams, the hokage doesn't have the power most of you think he does. Most of the day to day decisions like team placement is done by the ninja council not the kage. The kage's sole duty is to be the last line of defense, commander in chief of war efforts, and repersentive of the village. He does actually deal out punishment to the ninja, but the ninja are tried by the council. Thus if the kage wants rid of you, the only real way he can do this is to send you on a sucide mission. Thus lies the power of the kage he is in charge of mission into and assigned. (Insert evil laugh) This is because of fear of the rank and file breaking down if the Kage dies suddenly or abuses what would be absolute power under the lord or king. This also prevents the kage from rebeling against said noblity.

I know this chapter is super short but I wanted it that way. Do not think the teams can't be redone. Yes there will be more changes from the cannon, but like I said I will not change the bones of the story to make something AU.

Please do not repeat for me not to do something because it makes me want to do it all the more. Human nature at it's best. Don't do this makes you WANT to do it.