-2 months later-

In the last few months Naruto skills improved at a fast pace, thanks to his new senseis, he learned the basics of kenjutsu and was learning his mother's whirlpool style, even though the blonde was unaware of this. Naruto switched from kodachi to a longsword, since the whirlpool style required it, and the blonde also explained that the kodachi didn't feel right to him. While they were training, he was introduced to Ten-ten, who stumbled upon them and was drawn to the two sword users immediately. Naruto soon bonded with the girl since he discovered they were both orphans. Yugao decided to train her a bit as well since it would be beneficial to Naruto if he sparred with someone his own age and plus she grew fond of Ten-ten.

Anko was using the weights Naruto was wearing to her advantage, she brought Naruto to the forest of death, and to her surprise Naruto thought it was awesome, showing no fear, but that soon changed when Anko and Naruto dodge kunais and shurikens all day. After training Anko and Naruto would go out to ichiraku's or the dango shop to eat and hangout, which again, Anko took advantage of. She would tease Naruto most of the time and it made her feel attractive whenever he would blush around her. It wasn't hard to say Anko developed a crush for the blonde and very attached

Kurenai made Naruto perform the tree walking and water walking exercise while using clones and sticking leaves to them. She was impressed by Naruto's development which confused her. From what Kiba told her, Naruto was the dead last of the class, but she was seen telling her otherwise. When she confronted the blonde about it, she was livid to find out that most of the teachers sabotaged his learning and didn't help that no one taught him basic taijutsu. But admiration grew for Naruto when she learned he wanted to be hokage regardless of how the village sees him.

Might Guy is probably the toughest one of them of them all, especially since shadow clones would do any good, he did 10 laps around the village, following up with 500 push-ups, sit-ups,and crunches. And after he would spar with either him or his mini-clone Rock lee. Naruto knew after facing the genin that if they ever fought he would be a threat. But what scared him the most was the performance of the horrible genjutsu the two green beasts were able to perform.

Kuruma was probably one of the biggest help, with his knowledge on jutsu and fox style helped with Naruto's stamina. The kyuubi was also training him on using his Chakra by feeding it to him getting used to it. Kuruma also messed with Naruto genetics by unlocking his Senju bloodline giving him earth affinity and he developed a fire affinity because of the kyuubi chakra. But Naruto also learned that the fox was a pervert always trying to get him laid. His excuse was that Naruto was the first male jailer he had, and he deserved to have all the vixens to himself. Naruto was about to dismiss the idea until Kuruma informed him that most of the girls around him were slowly becoming attracted to him and he would hurt their feelings, playing into the blonde weakness.

At the moment, Naruto along with the rest of the team was at the hokage office receiving their next mission. "I'm glad your team canmake Kakashi, now that you're here, I have a special mission. A B-rank mission, there's a bandit camp located outside the village I need you to eliminate them. I have sources that say they are selling Konoha weaponry" Sarutobi said. Sakura was nervous when she heard the word eliminate, and Naruto noticed.

"Excuse me Jiji, but when you say 'Eliminate', do you mean?" Sarutobi nodded, causing Naruto to sign. "I see." Naruto gave Sakura a side glance which went unnoticed by everyone but the Hokage.

"Don't worry, we'll get it done. Now come along my cute little genin." Kakashi soon The three followed their sensei trapped in their own thoughts.

'Finally I can finally test my skills, and soon I will be one step closer to killing him.' Sasuke thought with a smirk.

'Do I really have to kill some, I mean I know we're ninjas and all but..' Sakura thought to herself. Naruto was behind the group, watching from from behind. When they made it outside Kakashi instructed them to pack for a three day trip. When Naruto arrived at his apartment, Yugao was there smiling holding a katana with a red hilt.

"I think you're ready for this." she said, holding out the sword. Naruto slowly took in his hand, unsheathing it half way. It felt so familiar to him but didn't know why. " it's called Akai Arashi (red storm) or Arashi for short, it belongs to your mother. Naruto's face shot up so fast with mixed emotions, Yugao noticed and decided to clarify some things. "Yes I knew your mother, she was the one who trained me. But under orders from her very last breath, I was told not to inform you until you 're at least chunin level. She had multiple enemies and yes I knew your father, but we can't inform you until you are a jonin level. Understand"

"I understand, and thanks for training me." Naruto responded.

"Do misunderstand me, we are not done with your training, but goodl uck nonetheless." Yugao bent down and hugged the blond. She stood back up and gave Naruto a devilish smirk. "But before you leave anywhere, no student of mine is wearing a kill me monstrosity."

"Yes finally, I don't have to look at that horrible jumpsuit ever again!" Kuruma cheered. Naruto sweat dropped a bit.

"It's not that bad is it?" Naruto argued. Kuruma and Yugao gave him a deadpan look. Naruto signed. "Fine, anything else?"

Yugao smiled. "I'm going to show you a sword sealing jutsu, that way you can seal it on your arm. And that'll be all."

-village gate-

Sasuke and Sakura were waiting at the gate for their third teammate, and their sensei. Sakura was getting impatient while Sakura was trying to find a way to talk to him. "You should ask him what he thinks about us, that way you could see where they stand." Sakura nodded, and approached the emo.

"Umm, Sasuke-kun," Sasuke didn't even spare a glance, but she continued. "What do you think of me as a person." Sakura asked. Sasuke turned his head towards her with a cold look, making the girl shiver.

"You want to know what I think?" Sakura nodded. "I think you are just useless dead weight, just an annoying fangirl who can't take no for an answer. I don't even know why you became a ninja. And just to make another thing clear, I will never like you or that useless Yamanaka. You're better off with the dobe." Sasuke finished before turning back around. Saskura's heart took a nosedive and she fell to her knees beginning to cry until another voice was heard.

"Well, you know what I think?" Sakura and Sasuke turned to the voice and saw Naruto but in a different attire. He was wearing a blue jacket opened with a fishnet shirt underneath that showed his muscle gain from his training with the green blue jacket had orange stripes coming down the sleeve with the Uzamaki swirl on the back. He wore black cargo pants and sandals with his headband tied around his neck letting his hair free, which seemed longer than before. Sakura was blushing up a storm at this new look.

"Is that Naruto, he looks so cool, so mature, so..'

"So hot! Damn it, we shouldn't have rejected him all those times he asked us out, if I knew just a change of clothes was enough to turn him from an idiot to a smoking hot stud arghhh." inner yelled, with Sakura nodded in agreement.

"I think Sakura is pretty smart and beautiful to add. So she's a fangirl, a step in the right direction she can become stronger than you." Naruto's comment caused Sakura to blush, and Sasuke to stomp towards the blonde standing face to face with him.

"How dare you, no civilian bitch can become stronger than a Uchiha, especially an elite like me. After all, only a Uchiha can beat a Uchiha." Sasuke sassed. Naruto glared back causing Sasuke to shiver and step backwards a bit.

"First of you Uchiha asshole, Sakura isn't a bitch, she's our teammate, and our comrade. Second, if it takes a Uchiha to beat a Uchiha, tell that to the first, second and fourth hokage, Haku and Zabuza who kicked your ass, and me who beat you in our spar two months ago." Naruto argued. Sasuke threw a punch at Naruto but the blonde disappeared making the emo confused until he felt something sharp against his neck. "What happened, I thought a Uchiha could beat a Uchiha, yet you're the one with a kunai at his throat." Sasuke turned around to see Naruto glaring at him while releasing some ki. Sakura was amazed at Naruto and her opinion on him shot up. Sasuke was seething.

"Alright, calm down everyone, we have a mission to do." Kakashi said, appearing out of nowhere. Naruto moved away from the Uchiha, who was glaring daggers at him, to stand next to the pinkette giving her a warm smile. "Is everyone ready?" the three genin nodded. Kakashi then leaped into the trees with the others following with Sasuke in the front, Naruto in the middle, and Sakura in the back. Naruto slowed down a bit to move next to Sakura, grabbing the girl's attention.

"Don't worry, no matter what happens, I'll protect you and if you need to talk after the mission I'm all ears." Naruto said, giving her a warm smile.

Sakura returned it, grateful that the teammate she used to bully was being so nice to her. It's weird, she always pictured Sasuke as her knight, keeping her safe, feeling her with confidence and giving her the warm feeling she currently has, but Naruto was doing it instead. "Thanks Naruto-kun." Naruto nodded and the two proceeded to follow the two sharingan wielders.

-a day later-

Team 7 arrived in the trees outside the bandit camp, trying to gather whatever intel they could. There were two huts, big enough to hide at least ten people, but Jonin was unsure, he needed to figure out at least an estimate. "There are twenty-three people." Kakashi turned his head to the blonde, giving him a questionable look. " I said there's twenty-three bandits."

"How do you know that dobe?" Sasuke asked.

"Naruto, are you able to sense other people's chakra?" Kakashi questioned. Naruto nodded.

"But it's strange."

"What is Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked.

"Well, from my understanding, normal bandits have chakra levels of an academy student correct?" Kakashi nodded. "Then we have a problem, there are two chakra signatures between yours and the teme. I think there are two chunins here." Naruto added. Kakashi narrowed his eyes.

"Where are they?" Kakashi asked.

"There is one in each tent. If you don't mind, may I recommend something." Kakashi nodded, giving the ok. "Now that we know there are at least two ninja, I think we should capture one for interrogation."

"Hmm, good idea Naruto, I'm proud of you. Now I think we should split up, you three go to the left hut, I'll capture the one on the right, so don't hold anything back." Kakashi instructed.

"I don't plain, time to show these guys why you shouldn't mess with the elite." Sasuke said with an arrogant smirk. Naruto just shook his head in disgust, while Sakura found his attitude disapproving, so Naruto being the smarter one of the two decided to voice his opinion.

"Fine you can have the shinobi, but let me at least make some Shadow Clones to take out the bandits." Naruto offered. Sasuke scoffed at the offer.

"Who do you think I am, a Uchiha doesn't need help from two nobodies, I-" but he didn't get to finish because Naruto grabbed him by his collar, bringing the Uchiha to eye level. Sakura was nervous, she wanted to defend her crush but she didn't want to ruin her new relationship with Naruto.

"Listen here Teme, we're on a mission for the village, and I will not have us fail this mission because of your reckless ego. To you it might just be a way to test your imagination strength, but you will not put me and Sakura-chan lives at risk." Naruto spatted, causing Sasuke to hissed and Sakura to blush. He then threw Sasuke to the ground and made eleven clones. "Listen, I want you to quietly take out any one with lower chakra reserves than Sakura, and do it quietly." the clones nod and disappear. Sasuke was seething with anger and walked up to the blonde.

"How dare you treat me like that, I'm an elite and you should bow to me. I wanted to fight them to test my skills and I will not let you get in the way of my ambitions." Sasuke practically yelled. Naruto glared at the emo ready to knock him out until he started throwing up. Sakura ran towards the blonde, worried for her blonde teammate, while Sasuke took the opportunity to leap away.

"Naruto-kun, are you ok? What happened?" Sakura asked.

"My clones...huff... Took out all the bandits." Naruto answered. Seeing Sakura's confused face, he decided to explain. "When a person has their first kill, they experience trauma right?" Sakura nodded. "Well, since my clone killed eleven bandits, and I just gained their memories, I just experienced it 11x." Sakura's eyes widened and began to hug the blonde, rubbing his back, in an attempt to comfort him.

"Why would you do that, Sasuke and I would've been able to help you."

"It's Sasuke now? No Sasuke-kun?" Naruto teased, making the pinkette blush trying to lighten the situation. "But to answer your question I saw how nervous you were when we were handed the mission. I figure you couldn't bring yourself to take a life, so.." Naruto was cut off.

"You.. you did this for me?" Naruto nodded, causing the girl to hug him tight before her, making the blonde blush. "Thank you Naruto-kun." Naruto smiled and hugged the girl back.

"No problem, Now let's go find prince emo, before he gets into trouble." Sakura was about to argue until he put a hand on her shoulder giving her a warm smile. "I'm fine, but if you want we can talk after the mission." Naruto offered, Sakura agreed and together they proceeded to follow their other teammate.

-In the hut-

"What's going on, and why did it get so quiet? Stupid fools, can't trust no one these days." yelled a shinobi wearing what seems to be a chunin vest.

"Well that's something we can agree on." the shinobi turned around to see Sasuke standing there with a smug look. "You should feel honored, after all it's not everyday someone has the honor to face a Uchiha elite."

"An Uchiha, ha ha ha like I give a damn, I'm still going to kill your ass brat." the ninja charged at Sasuke with a sword in his hand, while Sasuke whipped out two kunais and activated his sharingan. The enemy nin brought his sword down into a horizontal slash towards Sasuke, which the Uchiha blocked but to his dismay forced him down to one knee struggling to get up. The enemy then kicked Sasuke into the gut sending him back, but Sasuke regained his balance tossing the two kunai at his enemy, which was parried by the sword user. "For a Uchiha, you're sure not nothing great." the enemy taunted, making Sasuke glare at the shinobi.

"You dare mock the great Uchiha clan!" Sasuke yelled in anger, then went through a couple hand signs, which didn't go unnoticed. "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu! (Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!) Sasuke shot out a huge firell towards the mystery shinobi, but he was not prepared for a counter. "Suiton: Suidan no jutsu! (Water style: Water bullet!)" Both of the jutsus headed directly for each other and when they met, the water jutsu pierced Sasuke fire, hitting the Uchiha sending towards the wall.

"That was too easy, now it's time to finish this." the Shinobi charged Sasuke with the sword in hand preparing to strike the final blow, while Sasuke had his eyes close waiting for it to be over, but the moment he brought his sword down, it was blocked by another. Looking up the shinobi saw a boy with blonde hair standing in front of him holding a sword with a red hilt. He then jumped away a few feet with a smile on his face. "Well, well, another swordsman. Tell me what's your name gaki?" Before Naruto could answer, Sasuke interrupted from behind the blonde, while Sakura was tending to him.

"Why are you here?!" Sasuke asked, Naruot didn't answer since he was focusing on the enemy, which frustrated the uchiha more. "Answer me damn it."

"Sasuke we're here to help you, after all we're a team and we have to stick together." Sakura answered with a small smile. Sasuke scoffed at the reply, pushing Sakura away from him.

"I don't need help from someone as pathetic as you, I'm a Uchiha elite, I could handle this guy by myself. I'm not weak like you." Sasuke spat causing the girl's heart to crush, he then turned to Naruto who was still focused on the enemy. "That goes for you as well dead last, this is my battle and I will not be out done by you." Naruto looked over his shoulder glaring at the Uchiha, which made the emo shiver, but didn't respond and turned his head towards the enemy.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki. And you?"

"Kiska, I want to request a battle as a fellow swordsman, I might be an enemy but as a fellow swordsman it will be an honor to fight a holder of Arashi," he pulled out a new longsword from a scroll, similar to Naruto's, but the hilt was light blue. "I'll be using this, Umi bunkatsu(Sea split)"

Naruto could feel power coming from the blade, just like his Arashi. "What's with the aura coming from our swords.i can feel the power radiating towards each other?" Naruto asked, getting the attention of a power hungry Uchiha at the mention of the word.

"If you win, I'll tell ya." Kiska charged at the blonde a jonin level speed, slashing down. Naruto reacting fast enough, thanks to Anko's training, countered with a horizontal slash. When the two blades met it cost a shockwave sending a gust of wind everywhere. Sasuke and Sakura had to cover their eyes to block out the wind. Meanwhile, Naruto and Kiska were at a stalemate. "For someone so young, it comes to a surprise that you're able to block my attack." Kiska then started to release a barrage of attacks towards the blonde, which naruto was struggling to parry.

"Kid, this guy is way more experienced than you are, I was coming up with a new dojutsu for you. I'll explain what it does later but for now, hurry and focus some chakra in your eyes." Naruto nodded and did as instructed and when he looked at Kiska it seemed he was moving slower than before. Naruto then started to attack back which was blocked. Kiska started to get excited.

"I'm not sure what just happened with your movements, but this is great." Kiska and Naruto jumped back from each other, both smirking at the other. "Nice gaki, but can you stop this." Kiska started to surround his Umi bunkatsu with water, but Naruto could feel the power building from whatever attack was coming.

"Kit, start to do the same by focusing your wind chakra around arashi, and when Kiska releases his attack, you do the same." Kuruma instructed.

'Got it thanks Kuruma.' Naruto replied, before taking a similar stance as his opponent, doing what Kuruma instructed. Kiska blade had a water vortex around it, while Naruto's had a tornado. After a few more seconds of charging, Kiska thrust his sword forward. "Mizu ransu!( Water lance!)" Kiska yelled, thrusting his sword with the water vortex coming out heading towards the blonde, but Naruto was ready. "Kaze yari!( Wind spear!)" Naruto thrust his sword forward sending out a spear made of wind towards the water attack. When they collided, there was a huge explosion sending everyone flying, creating a huge dust cloud.

Sakura was coughing, trying to get a clear view. When the dusk cloud cleared Naruto and Kiska were standing across each other breathing hard. Sakura was impressed at the blonde performance. 'Naruto-kun is so strong, he is amazing. I feel so useless, maybe after the mission I can get him to train me.'

'Yeah, you go Naruto-kun. Kick his ass cha.' Inner cheered. Sasuke was seething in jealousy at the blonde strength.

'How is the dobe so strong?' he then eyed the weapons both the shinobi was using. 'That's it! The swords, I'll get the dobe to hand over the sword, after all I'm an Uchiha and I deserve it more than that clanless nobody, he can't defy me.' Sasuke thought with a greedy smirk getting up and walking towards the battle field.

"Sasuke where are you going? We shouldn't" Sakura tried to say, but was cut off.

"Shut it bitch, I will not be upstage by a loser." Sasuke yelled, making the pinkette flinch, causing the attention to turn to him. Naruto was disappointed, while Kiska was slowly hating the Uchiha. Sasuke approached Naruto holding out his hand which caused both the swordsman to give him a confusing look. "Dobe I demand you hand over that sword, you don't deserve it and I'm pretty sure it would be better in my hands. After all I'm an elite and need that power."

Before Naruto could respond, Kiska charged towards the Uchiha, kicking him in the chest and sending him towards the wall. Sasuke slowly looked up, gritting his teeth, to see Kiska standing in front of him. "Kid, I never seen someone so arrogant, I might be a bad guy, but you're just scum. So I'm going to do the world a favor and rid the world of you." Naruto started to run towards his teammate, with Sakura in tow. Kiska brought his sword down towards Sasuke preparing to finish him off. Sasuke was terrified then he looked towards his right and smirked which Naruto noticed. He followed his gaze and saw he was looking at Sakura, but the uchiha smirk made him feel uneasy.

"Kit! The uchiha is planning to kawarimi with the girl, I'm going to send some chakra through your feet." Naruto was alarmed and dash forward with the help of Kurama chakra increasing his speed. Sakura was running towards her former crush preparing some kunai to defend when she felt a pull in her stomach. All of a sudden she was in front of Kiska, which the swordsman didn't notice until the last moment.

Sakura closed her eyes, life flashing before eyes and the last thing she saw was Naruto giving her his signature grin with his blue beautiful eyes gazing at her. After a while when nothing happened, she slowly opened her eyes to see Naruto standing in front of her, arms spread protecting her. Kiska and Sakura were surprised at the speed Naruto used to get there but soon snapped out of thought with the former leaping back and turning his gaze towards the emo. "What kind of sick bastard switches places with his teammate?!" Kiska yelled. Naruto fell backwards grasping his chest while in Sakura arms, the pinkette crying.

"Hm, she is expendable. She should feel honored to sacrifice her life for the ;ast of the great Uchiha clan, at least she was useful." Sakura, Naruto, and even Kiska were shocked by the Uchiha words. Sakura slowly took off Naruto's jacket and turned it into a pillow and laid the blonde on it. She then got up and approached Sasuke with her head down, making Sasuke raise an eyebrow. "What do you.." but he didn't get to finish because Sakura threw a punch at his face sending him flying with a chakra enhanced punch.

"I'm not expendable and I would rather die than help you." Sakura yelled. Causing Kiska to whistle at the girl. Sasuke slammed into the ground and was now unconscious.

'Stupid prick,because of him, Naruto's hurt.' Inner said. Sakura was angry at the unconscious emo, but was touched by the blonde for risking his life. She suddenly remembered the situation and turned to the swordsman with a kunai in her hand. Kiska chuckled.

"Don't worry, I want to fight Naruto fair and square, I won't strike him while he's down so I'll give him a couple minutes, nice punch by the way." Kiska complimented. Sakura nodded.

"You're from Kiri, aren't you?" Sakura asked.

"How did you know?"

"Well I saw your water attack, and you're a swordsman so it kinda adds up." Sakura answered. Kiska nodded, then he and Saskura heard Naruto grunting and stood back up. But what shocked them was the scar on his chest was healed. "Naruto-kun."

"I'm fine and nice punch." Naruto commented, making the girl blush. He then turned to Kiska. "I'm ready to finish."

"Fine but after your teammate little stunt, let's end this with one attack, all or nothing." Naruto nodded and both sheath their sword in a battle stance, pressure feeling the air. And for a brief moment they both disappeared and reappeared on the opposite side from their original spots. Naruto stabbed his sword into the ground using it as a crutch, but Kiska fell to the ground with a cut to his chest smiling. "Looks like you win. Come here gaki." Naruto limped towards the falling warrior slowly because of exhaustion, Sakura seeing this put his arm around her shoulder. "Grab my sword and cut your finger." Naruto was hesitant for a moment but did as he was instructed. The sword absorbed the blood and began to glow and stopped after a few seconds. "Since this is my last breath, i'm giving you the sword. By marking it with your blood, it will only allow you to wield it. Thanks for the battle by the way. The swords we hold are legendary swords, but they won't just allow anyone to use them, they choose their wielder and I had a feeling it would choose you. Sorry about the cut, didn't mean for it to happen. Before I go let me tell you, there are many legendary swords in the world so find them and master them, bye gaki." and with that the swordsman closed his eyes.

"You know he wasn't that bad." Sakura commented. Naruto nodded and sat down with Sakura next to him. She then decided to do something bold and kiss the blonde on the cheek making him flush. "Thanks for saving me Naruto-kun." she leaned on his shoulder while waiting for their sensei.