"Blah": Talking

'Blah': Demon speaking/Inner Sakura

'Blah': Naruto's thoughts/other people's thoughts

'Blah': Harry talking to Naruto

You have on your screen the third volume of the tale of Naruto Ignotus Uzumaki's journey of coming of age. He wishes to become the next Hokage of his village. He wishes to become the greatest wizard of all time without the notice of the forces that seek to shun and be rid of him. But before he can jump ahead to his future, he will have to work hard. And this next challenge, Naruto is in for a real treat in his shinobi career. This time, Naruto will be entering in a traditional event held each year in one of the five Shinobi Lands.

The Chunin Selection Exams.

Naruto and his teammates Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha are most eager to join in and work behind the scenes of the festivals, fights, and contests held each and every exciting year. But soon after he and his friends have joined, Naruto and his spiritual companion and older brother Harry Potter will learn the truth of these so-called traditions and be back on the worn out tracks of the Triwizard Tournament as the wizards prepare for the threat of a new snake-like nemesis.

Fighting terrorist shinobi over scrolls, heartless missing-nin, and corrupt businessmen were just the beginning. Now the blonde-haired child must face perverted new teachers, toads with loudmouths, and forgotten friends from his past.

What other obstacles will Naruto Uzumaki have to overcome this time in his complicated life?

Azeroth44: (snorts) You are so full of shit, boss.

K: Shut up, Azeroth.

Naruto: C'mon, that sounded so cliché!

Iruka: Yeah, it was also kind of lame.

K: OH, SHUT IT!

AZ44: Random Titanic movie line!

K: CRAZY RANDOM FRIEND!

Reviews are welcome and wanted!

Disclaimer: Naruto is the property of Masashi Kishimoto,

Harry Potter is property of JK Rowling and Warner Brothers

Chapter 1: The White Cliffs of the Southeast

{{The Hunger Games + Katniss Afoot by James Newton Howard}}

The mists from the mountains that surrounded Konohagakure no Sato rolled down their faces and spread into the magnificent village. The large and famous civilization started to rise with the morning sun as it rose out from the eastern horizon and bathed the village with sunlight. Storeowners and workers could be seen out of bed and opening their stores to await their costumers. At the same time, some shinobi and ANBU marched back to their homes from missions while some marched out of their homes to attend to missions and earn to care for their families. There were also ANBU that were seen all around town and monitored the streets for crime and maintained order. Other than that, no one else seemed to be out and about at this hour.

But on this morning, there were two people that tried to sneak out of the village and into the forests. One of the two was a chunin-level shinobi that was rather tall, muscular, had tan skin, and was rather handsome. He wore his extensive, brown hair up into a perfect warrior's ponytail. He looked strong and appeared to have had some experience on the battlefield, because he had a thin scar that ran across his face at the middle of his nose. With him, there was a child no older than twelve that walked at his side. This child wore an orange and blue tracksuit and had ruffled blonde hair. The blonde child also had a number of birthmarks all over his face, which included a matching set of faded whisker marks, and a scar on his forehead that looked like a bolt of lightning, but was hidden under a headband. The child looked excited and anxious to move forward while his adult companion looked conflicted and confused once the two of them had entered the forests.

The two shinobi crossed one or two rivers and tread over numerous natural obstacles until the two of them found a trail that entered into a massive field. The duo crossed the field and walked passed a tall and dark forest that was closed off from the rest of the world with a tall steel fence. The two of them could hear noises and sounds that almost sounded like voices coming from the forbidden woods. The tall and tan man did not give the forest a second look and even looked determined to ignore that it was even there. But the blonde child close to him took an interest to it.

"Iruka-aniki! What's that place over there?"

The man named Iruka Umino looked over at what his little brother motioned towards and his expression darkened when he thought about the time when he was sixteen and went into that forest. He shivered a little when he remembered what was inside those forests and what he had to do in order to survive.

"It's called the Forest of Death," he said, "It's the village's most unstable training area. It's forbidden for all shinobi and kunoichi to enter without proper clearance."

The blonde child stared at the ominous forest with a mixture of fright and inquisitiveness, "Why is it forbidden, aniki?"

"You don't want to know. Trust me," he stated and then stepped over a bush and then he asked, "How much farther is this place, Naruto?"

The two brothers then marched deeper into the trees where the blonde preteen responded with, "It's a little bit further. I had to hide so no one could find it on accident."

Iruka ducked under the tree branch and felt cold mud sink in between his toes when he avoided hitting his head. There was a rainstorm the other night so it was no shock that there was so much mud all around them as the duo marched deeper and deeper into the woods. The tan-skinned chunin frowned a little bit and looked over to his little brother, as he was so much more ahead.

"Well, I think we're taking this a bit too far, Naruto," he tried to reason, "We're getting close to the border."

But the blonde child smiled and continued onwards, "Trust me, Iruka-aniki! It'll be worth it."

"What is it that are you going to show me, Naruto?" he asked the child.

The blonde child answered him with enthusiasm, "You'll see! We're almost there!"

Some time had passed and the pair soon arrived at what can be assumed to be their intended destination. The two shinobi arrived in the middle of a massive meadow, filled with six-inch tall grass and a small amount of exotic flowers. There were trees that surrounded and protected the meadow, while the sun that started to rise more and more filled the area with the sun. The dew over all the grass and flowers were reflected and let the meadow shine with life and radiance that left both the brothers mesmerized. Iruka, while mesmerized with the area, was a little bit lost to the reason Naruto wanted to show him this. Soon, Naruto held his arms out wide and ran into the meadow as he smiled. The tan chunin walked into the area and stared at all the flowers around him and noticed that there were no insects, such as bees, around to bite them or pollinate. There was something about the life around them that almost seemed to drive out the creatures but still sustained the life that surrounded them. Iruka then wondered what was it that Naruto wanted him to see other than this small but beautiful field. It felt like there was another reason for this meadow to be so significant.

Naruto swirled around a little bit and showed his older brother the field as he asked, "You remember this place, aniki?"

Iruka looked bamboozled and then looked around to piece his memories together and think back to where he last saw this meadow. He looked over a tree across from his location and froze when he noticed a massive shuriken that was lodged into a tree at the center of the trunk. It all came back to him at once when he realized this was the field where Naruto had saved his life, battled Mizuki to the death, and then mastered the Shadow Clone Jutsu. The chunin smiled as he felt the sun burst through the trees a little bit as he was also reminded that this was where he had let Naruto become a shinobi and offered him his own headband.

"Your graduation was here… This was the same exact meadow… You mastered the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu here…" he sighed with a smile.

Naruto smiled some more and he told him, "Look at what I did to it!"

"Wait a minute," he answered back as the chunin looked over the meadow, "You did all this?"

The blonde shinobi's smile widened as he showed him his wand, "It was an accident back when I tested out this wand here, I think about the second or third time I tested it out. I was a little bit wild and decided to use the Herbivicus Charm on the area and run around a bit. It's a charm that causes accelerated growth in plants and I sort of overloaded the area with life. So I had a Fidelius Charm set around it so no one would find it and decided to make this a secret little hideout."

Iruka was amazed when he looked the meadow over and noticed all the flowers and realized the reason the bees weren't around because of the magical radiance from the charms his little brother mentioned scared them from the flowers. But soon he noticed Naruto had a small twitch in his smile and his amazement soon turned into suspicion.

"Wait… What else is there in here?" he questioned, "I bet there's more to this little meadow, isn't there?"

The child knocked his foot into some dirt and then said, "Yeah… But hold on a minute. You have to see this! It's brilliant! It'll be so worth it!"

Naruto beckoned his adoptive older brother to come closer and showed him an old and blackened teakettle. It was worn out and looked decades old, like someone had fished it out of the trash. It was cracked here and there and the color was worn out, which meant its conventional use was out of the question. Unless Naruto used his abilities to fix the teakettle, it was useless and deserved to be thrown out. Iruka stared at the teakettle with a flat face and looked over to the blonde child that beamed at him and showed him the kettle like it was buried treasure.

He asked him, "You're kidding, right?"

"You had to see it! It's a new charm Nii-san and I wanted to use," he told his older brother, "It's not a normal old teakettle, it's a portkey! We came out here to test it out!"

Iruka looked back at the kettle and asked, "Remind me here, what's a portkey again? That word sounds familiar…"

"It's a normal object that is enchanted to take whoever touches it to another location somewhere in the world. It's a form of safe teleportation, or rather, its another form of transportation," he told him in a rare lecture-mode.

The tall and tan chunin looked back at the old teakettle and he knelt down and observed it. But he made sure he never touched it as he noticed it shine or radiate this familiar warmth that he familiarized as magic. Ever since Naruto had revealed his ultimate secret to him, Iruka learned to be a lot more cautious, but never too cautious of little things whenever he was around his little brother. Not that it bothered him too much, it made his otherwise normal life a lot more exciting than it would have been.

About over one month earlier in the middle of the summer, Iruka Umino had discovered that his adopted little brother was a wizard. But he was not a normal wizard at all; Naruto Uzumaki was the last one in the entire world, if there were ever others out there before him in their world.

Naruto was also an ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, eccentric, but brash blonde-haired shinobi that was determined to become the Hokage as soon as he could, which was a level of the highest honor and respect that a shinobi in Konoha could ever achieve. Back then when he was born into the world, little Naruto lost his parents and the Yondaime Hokage named Minato Namikaze had sealed the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox inside him. While the late leader of the shinobi regretted his action to save the rest of the village from destruction, his final wish was that the unfortunate child should be loved and treated as a hero. Which was the truth since his birth; because he was the reason the fox was never able to terrorize Konoha ever since the Yondaime sealed it. But the civilians and shinobi that resented the beast saw Naruto as the demon in human form while few others were able to look past that and see another victims, such as themselves.

What no one else realized from that incident was that a man from another world, a sorcerer that was once called Harry Potter had arrived in the shinobi world as a disembodied soul. The master sorcerer was soon attracted to the ritual that the Yondaime had used to seal the demon inside Naruto and was also sucked into the newborn child. The accident had altered the child and turned him into a wizard as well, with his own unique magical abilities that manifested at an earlier age than most natural-born wizards or witches. When Naruto was about six, he had met Harry inside his subconscious and the two started to learn to survive in the real world while the much older wizard started to teach Naruto how to use and control his remarkable abilities. The two of them were inseparable for each other and learn to love one another like two close brothers. Ever since their first secret encounter, Naruto had learned a lot of magic and he had been advised to make sure his abilities were a secret to all the shinobi in Konoha, otherwise the ignorant villagers and shinobi that made his earlier childhood hell would have retaliated with violence or decided to was far too dangerous to be left alive as he was a shinobi, a wizard, as well as a jinchuuriki, which was someone that contained a demon inside them.

The one shinobi Naruto ever trusted in the entire world with his ultimate secret was his older brother Iruka. The warm and handsome chunin-level shinobi had always been kind and supportive towards Naruto while he was his student back in school, even though the beast sealed inside the child had killed his mother and father, like it had killed Naruto's mom and dad. But like the few others, the chunin never saw Naruto like the more vindictive citizens did. That was because he wasn't an idiot and he knew that Naruto never asked for such a terrible burden. Not to mention the two of them were a lot alike in all the best traits, such as their mischievousness and their ambitions to do the world and others a lot better.

When Naruto had at last graduated from the Ninja Academy, Iruka and Naruto had become much closer as friends outside the classroom and the man had decided to take the child into his care as his adopted little brother, to which Naruto was ecstatic about. The two shinobi had decided on an agreement that Naruto would bunk over at Iruka's home whenever he wanted to or whenever it was too hazardous to sleep at his normal apartment, because his landlord was a violent drunk. Back then Iruka wondered the reason Naruto ever wanted to return to his miserable flat until the middle of the current summer.

Several months ago, Naruto had revealed his ultimate secret to the chunin when he had stumbled in while Naruto had a conversation with his other older brother about wands. From there and with a lot of trust behind the scenes, Iruka met the older sorcerer face-to-face inside Naruto's subconscious. Harry Potter then informed the chunin of the absolute truth and showed him all the events that led Naruto to who was now. As soon as he had learned the truth, Iruka trusted Naruto even more and swore that he would protect him and would hide the secret, as he knew no one that tolerated or mistrusted Naruto would ever be able to accept him or his incredible abilities. He even swore that he would never tell the Sandaime Hokage, even though he trusted and loved the old man. Ever since he learned the truth Iruka adjusted well to his new life as Harry inspired him to make his life count more and set out on little adventures like the one he was on at the moment. He was able to laugh more often and let out his more humorous side.

So, Iruka Umino stood there in the middle of the meadow as he looked down at the teakettle and then over to his little brother in a fashion that he used more often back when he was in his teens.

"So…" the chunin soon asked as he crossed his arms, "You hulled me out of bed to the middle of nowhere to use me to test a magical object that might or might not work at all?"

"I'll come too," the blonde child smiled and said, "If that sounds better!"

Iruka let his lower lip drop out little bit from his upper lip as he raised half his brow and looked a little bit bored as he shrugged and answered with a simple, "Ok."

The blonde preteen shook with excitement and fell down onto the meadow floor and close to the teakettle he had enchanted. The two of them stared down at the kettle while Iruka tried to remember where he had seen a portkey while he stuck inside the Pensieve hidden within Naruto's subconscious. He could remember them mentioned once but the memories were a little bit rushed when it reached Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts and he missed a lot of details. Still he looked down at that old but radiant teakettle as he wondered what he had to do, other than be an idiot and touch it.

"So, what are we supposed to do with it, Naruto?" he asked.

Naruto instructed him, "First, we have to hold on to it at the same time. Next, we hold on as much as we can and wait until we are close to the destination, then we release the kettle and land. It's that simple."

"Is that it? Sounds a little bit dangerous when I heard the word 'land'," the chunin told him.

Naruto nodded but then he smirked, "You're not scared?"

"No," Iruka looked a bit insulted, "I'll do this! I'm not chicken!"

The tan and tall chunin-level shinobi then huffed out his chest and tried to look even more like a brave man, which earned a little laugh out of Naruto as Iruka looked a little bit more ridiculous as he released what almost looked like steam come out of his nostrils like a bull, thanks to the cold air all around them both.

The blonde child soon smiled, "It'll be fine, I'm sure!"

"Naruto," the chunin said as his face turned blank and a little bit cross, "You said those same words last time when you fixed the toaster with magic; and we both know how that turned out."

"Oh, come on, aniki. That toaster was bad news the moment it was manufactured," the blonde child retorted, "Don't blame me for a bad mechanical internal structure."

But then the tall and tan chunin told him back, "You turned it into a monster and it chased us all over the house."

"Well… Ok, fine. We all make mistakes," he said out of stubbornness, "Give me a break then, huh?"

{{The Portkey by Patrick Doyle/Doctor Who Opening Credits (Series 4) by Murray Gold & BBC National Orchestra of Wales}}

Naruto and Iruka both shrugged as their memories of the unfortunate incident were tosses aside and looked to the teakettle Naruto looked a little bit nervous while Iruka did the same and released one or two beads of sweat on his forehead as he was about to reach the handle while his little brother was about to hold onto the rim of the old kettle. Naruto released his own beads of sweat as he looked over at Iruka and nodded to him after the instructions were reviewed but their destination was never discussed. Naruto then looked back at the kettle and started a slow countdown.

"One. Two. Three. NOW!"

The two of them both grabbed the old teakettle and in one instant, the effects of the spell were obvious. Iruka felt as if a hook had grabbed his navel and pulled him forward with extreme force. Naruto felt the same sensation, as both of them felt the feeling as if they were spun inside a tornado. Their feet left the earth and were now swirled inside the center of what was assumed to be a massive vortex that howled with intense winds and swirled with unknown colors. But as soon as the two of them entered the vortex, Iruka and Naruto both shouted with terror until the small blonde child listened to his invisible older brother and was told to release his hold on the kettle. Almost as soon as the two of them had entered the vortex, Naruto turned to Iruka and shouted at him over the intense wind, "LET GO!"

As soon as the chunin had heard him and turned to ask Naruto if he was insane, he had released his hold on the handle and started to fall straight down with his little brother. Iruka could have sworn he saw a field down below him zoom towards him or rather he zoomed towards it almost as fast as he would move if he ran with full access to his chakra. As soon as he tried to be braced for whatever to zoomed down towards, the chunin slammed into solid earth and tumbled down hard while he heard his little brother land close to him. Both shinobi moaned from the alien sensation and tried to overcome the sudden nausea.

Iruka moaned, "Owww…"

"Ohh… that hurt…" said the blonde child.

As soon as his vision was clear to see again, Iruka looked around and discovered their destination. The two of them had arrived in the middle of a vast field filled with fresh wheat and there were no trees to be seen for miles.

Naruto took a breath and could smell a familiar smell of the sea and could hear seagulls scream out in the distance. The tall and tan chunin stared out at the sea with a remarkable expression and he noticed that his sinuses had been cleared for some reason, which made his sense of smell all the more clear as he took into the smell of the air as his little brother did at the moment and smiled. He could hear the ocean as he listened to waves crash close. He stood on his feet and carried Naruto with him and marched towards the source of the sounds and smells.

The two brothers marched towards the source and discovered the end of a massive cliffside made of uncommon white stone. Down below them both and out ahead of them was an endless beach, continuous cliffs made of white rocks, and then there was the vast and massive ocean that led out into the eastern horizon. Both the shinobi looked out into the east and stared at the sight of which the two of them landed in. Both of them smiled, but then Iruka slumped down onto the grass and wheat while he rested his head into his hands. Naruto looked over to his older brother and sat down next to him.

"Aniki," he asked him in a warm voice, "What's the matter?"

Iruka looked up and revealed that he smiled and chuckled to himself. Naruto was a little bit surprised to see tears about to run down his tan cheeks. But even so, he still smiled as he looked out towards the sun that was about to rise.

"It's nothing, Naruto… It's just… I've been here before," he told the blonde child as he cleaned his face of tears and still smiled, "loads of times in the summer… These are the famous White Cliffs of the Southeast… Mom, dad, and I used to vacation here each summer when I was a kid for a whole week… It wasn't until now did I remember that I've ever been here on this hill with them both… All of the memories of all those summers here … All of them came back to me all at once…"

Naruto slid closer to him and gave him a hug as best as he could. Iruka leaned towards his little brother and threw his arm around him to hold him close while all those memories came back to him.

"It's been more than a decade…" the chunin sighed, "I had such wonderful memories…"

The blonde child smiled and said, "You can have one more here, then? You can share a new one with someone now, right?"

{{Yangchen by The Track Team}}

Iruka beamed a little bit more and showed off his white teeth and watched as the sun burst out from the horizon. Flashes and bursts of gold and scarlet came out from the horizon and shined warmth down on the two brothers with such unbelievable shades and tints that left them both stunned as the two of them stared out at the heavens and basked in the warmth. Iruka then remembered how he and his mother and father used to wait on the coast and watched as the dawn broke from the horizon and showered three of them with the same warmth Iruka and Naruto felt now. Iruka wished his parents were still around to see this with his little brother, but we was still fortunate that he was alive and he wasn't alone while his little brother hugged him and he had his arm wrapped around him.

But soon, Iruka chuckled out loud and said to Naruto, "I'll race down to the ocean!"

Like that, the chunin bolted out from his seat on the floor and ran down toward the road that led down to the beach below them. Naruto stood as fast as he could and dashed towards the same road and followed Iruka to beat him to the beach. The fenced road stood against the cliffside and continued down side-to-side until it reached the beach more than a hundred feet below where Iruka and Naruto landed from Konoha. Iruka was in the lead of their race towards the ocean, as he was taller, stronger, and much more agile with his experience on the field. Naruto tried to outrun his former homeroom teacher but he was a little bit too slow and had to use his chakra to increase his speed. But even with his boost, Iruka was still in the lead and didn't look as winded, as Naruto seemed as he zoomed down to the beach like roadrunners. All at the same time, the two shinobi laughed and started to remove articles of their clothes and their shoes to dive into the ocean with dried clothes to wear. Iruka removed his chunin vest and threw it on the sands once the two of them had reached the beach and felt the warm sands kiss their bare feet. Naruto removed the torso of his tracksuit and tossed it to the side while his older sibling removed his shirt and dove into the water, in the middle of a wave. Naruto had lost the race, but didn't care much as he stumbled into the sea and dove under a wave.

Naruto gloried underneath the waves as he was consumed with cool and clear salt-scented water. He never had the chance to swim n the ocean while he was in the Land of Waves, so he started to swim and had a taste of the seawater and then dashed to the surface to spit it out. As soon as the blonde preteen breathed more fresh air, he saw Iruka swim out so much further than he did. Naruto wasn't too shocked at his older brother, as he told him more than once that he was an excellent swimmer. He could even beat someone like Kakashi in a race across a lake he was so excellent. Naruto tried to look over some waves to see the chunin swim, but as soon as a wave lowered, Iruka had swum over fifteen feet out to sea and then swam back to shore. The chunin swimmer soon zoomed so close to Naruto; it caused the child to swirl in the water. While Iruka swam back to the shore, the blonde shinobi tried to backstroke but failed to swim as he sank into the water and almost swallowed some seawater. Naruto then returned to the shore and chuckled all the same and shouted out to Iruka when he discovered some driftwood that looked like a skimboard.

The blonde preteen shouted out to the heavens, "This is what I call a vacation!"

Iruka chuckled and started to run back into the water with the driftwood in his arms, he threw it down onto the water and stomped onto it as he ran. He then skid across the shore a fair fifteen feet before the driftwood lost its momentum and came to a sudden halt. Iruka then flew fifteen feet into the air and landed back in the ocean and crashed into another wave. Once he returned to the surface world, he shook some sand out of his ears and shouted as he dashed back for the driftwood and tried to skim the waves one more time, "WHOO-HOO!"

"GO, IRUKA-ANIKI!"

Several hours later, Naruto and Iruka had swam in and out of the sea, bathed in the sun as it rose into the heavens, discover small sea animals in the water, and hunted wild crab and ate them for lunch with the aid of Naruto when he created a fire to cook them with. Iruka had skimmed the shore several more times with that same driftwood until it broke when he hit a rock hidden under the sands.

The two of them would then switch activities and have fun until the two of them were exhausted and the afternoon rolled in as both of them sunbathed for what felt like the last time. The beaches started to darken a little bit and time almost didn't exist between them as the two of them had so much fun. Naruto had dried and cleaned their clothes from the seawater, but the two of them still stunk of salt and wild crabmeat. The two shinobi watched the ocean start to darken while the sun started to sink towards the west. Iruka smiled as he sat back on his seat in the sand.

Iruka soon told his otōto, "I haven't had this much fun, since I was a kid…"

"You were so extreme out on those waves, aniki…" he told him back and then he asked, "Where did that come from?"

The tall and tan chunin smiled as he stared out at the ocean, "Ah, it was something Potter told me last month in that old mindscape. He told me that he wanted me to start to live my life and have fun while I'm still alive…"

Naruto smiled, "He has some of the best advice when it's needed the most."

"Heh," the tan chunin smiled as he laid his back to the beach and commented with a small smile, "What a little smartass."

A little bit later, the two shinobi decided to return home or else someone back at Konoha would notice the two had vanished. Naruto used his wand to clean their clothes one more time and clean their hair of sand and dried seawater and then summoned the kettle to return to them at the beach. When it landed in the sand, Iruka and Naruto looked at the ocean one last time and then held onto the teakettle on the count of three.

Naruto announced, "One. Two. Three. NOW!"

The two shinobi were then forced back into the vortex but this time it was different as neither of them was afraid or distracted with their own screams. Iruka and Naruto observed the vortex a little bit and looked bellow them and realized it was the meadow from hours earlier. The two of them made sure to kick their legs a little bit and then released their holds on the teakettle and started to float down to the floor of the meadow as soon as the kettle landed next to some wild flowers. Iruka laughed as he descended towards the floor and then he landed, as he should have on his first time. Naruto followed, but he stumbled and fell when he lost his momentum. Iruka lifted him to his feet and then both marched towards the village.

{{Story Book by Jeremy Soule}}

Iruka and Naruto decided to head down to Ichiraku Ramen after their all-natural crab-lunch was dissolved inside their stomachs. The two of them headed towards their favorite restaurant and discussed their usual trivial topics such as the weather, work, missions, school, and future ideas on magical devices. But Iruka tried to dissuade Naruto when he mentioned broomsticks for the millionth time that week. Iruka was certain Naruto wouldn't be able to hide that well or if he would be able to manufacture one in time for Halloween. The blonde wizard than discussed jack-o-lanterns or wax candles that levitated around the house while lit, but then Iruka tried to dissuade his little brother once more when he told him it could be a fire-hazard if he ran into one on accident. Not to mention the burns that could come out of fallen hot candle wax.

"How is that no Hogwarts students ever suffered from severe burns?" he soon asked.

Naruto told him, "I dunno, aniki. But I bet that could be another reason not to enroll there."

"Yeah, right after a forbidden forest filled with massive arachnids, werewolves, violent centaurs, a hidden chamber with a massive snake inside, three-headed mutt on the third floor, carnivorous vines below that, a random violent tree, unstable tunnels…"

While the two of them laughed and discussed more ideas and fun activities, several civilians and vindictive shinobi stared at the blonde preteen with that same old and familiar hatred. Several of the civilians even hissed at the blonde shinobi when he checked some window-stores to scare him down the street like when he was a little toddler. Iruka then stared back at the civilians with a look so much more volatile that it scared most of them. The chunin also stared back and almost fumed at the vindictive shinobi as if he were a snake or some wild animal that defended its newborn. All the civilians and the hateful shinobi were shocked that another shinobi would hiss back at them like Iruka Umino did. He looked at them with a livid look in his chocolate-brown irises that scared them a little bit and reminded the more violent citizens that Naruto was under his care.

Iruka then rested his hand on Naruto's shoulder and led him down towards their favorite establishment while the civilians that had stared at them tried to walk or look back to whatever it was those random citizens had to attend to. Iruka smiled while he looked back down at Naruto and nodded while the two of them discussed what kinds of ramen to eat for dinner.

All was well and uneventful until the two shinobi ran into a familiar masked face, which was covered with a book with a red age-restriction label on the front and back covers.

"Well, look who it is," announced Kakashi Hatake, "its Naruto and Iruka Umino!"

Kakashi Hatake was a tall and lean male shinobi that was a little bit older and taller than Iruka. Kakashi wore a standard shinobi uniform and had silver hair that leaned to the left side of his head. He wore a dark-clothed mask over most of his face and wore his standard headband that covered his left eye. He also wore the same vest as Iruka but he wore fingerless gloves that were patted down with cold metal plates. Kakashi was Naruto's current sensei that taught him and his teammates and took them out on missions. He was heralded as one of the most skilled shinobi in the entire world, but he never talked about it. He was humorous, kind, fair, wise, and mysterious. Naruto continued to wonder what it was that was behind his mask and what he looked like underneath it, which was a reason he fascinated him. The blonde shinobi also liked his sensei because he was kind to him and was a mentor to him when he needed him the most. Kakashi was one of the few shinobi he had ever encountered that had earned his trust, and even earned father-figure status.

Iruka waved to the silver-haired man, "Hello, Kakashi-sensei."

"Hello, Kaka-sensei!" the child beside him smiled.

Kakashi smiled down at his student but then he froze and made a noise with his nose that sounded a lot like a hound would when it smelled. Kakashi leaned in towards his student and smelled him like a hound. Naruto looked a little bit unnerved at the sudden close contact and stared at his sensei until he was finished and looked down at him with a bewildered look on his masked face.

"Naruto… You smell like seawater and beach foam," he stated and then asked, "How come?"

The blonde preteen blanched a little bit when he remembered that his sensei's sense of smell was so acute, that he could have been a descendant from wolves. Naruto had to think of an excuse at once and hide the truth of his and Iruka's earlier mini-vacation to the sea. Otherwise he would have a difficult time to explain to Kakashi how he and Iruka were able to leave the village without notice, make it to the southeastern coast of the Land of Fire, and then come back to eat Ichiraku Ramen. The small blonde shinobi thought of the one area in town where he could smell like the ocean and used it as best he could, so that his mentor would believe him.

"Oh… Heh, Iruka-sensei and I went to the fish market to see some tuna, and I fell into the industrial lobster tanks on mistake… Heh…!"

Iruka went into the lie and chuckled as he added in real details, "Uh…Yeah, there was this area over the tank for customers to reach in and choose whatever lobster to eat and the rail that Naruto leaned on snapped and he fell right in!"

Kakashi looked a little bit incredulous about their tale and looked at them both before he nodded to them.

"Alright. Just be careful next time, kiddo," but then he turned to the chunin and smelled the air around him, "You smell like the beach too, Iruka… and crabmeat…"

Iruka almost made it look like he had lied until he told him, "Well, I had to dive in and rescue him. The tank was enormous down there; there was more than enough water in that tank to swim around in… But while we were there, we had to take some old crabs off their hands so we wouldn't be banned for life. It wasn't that bad. Crab can make a delicious lunch sometimes. Tasted a little bit wild."

The masked man blinked at the humorous tan-skinned chunin and he believed him.

"Well, ok," he said, "But I have to say that weird little tale is remarkable… You should tell all us jounin all the heroic details sometime. Makes me hunger for some boiled blue crab…"

Naruto added under his breath, "Roasted over a campfire is much better…"

Kakashi never heard the little mumble, but Iruka did and he elbowed Naruto a little while he looked a little bit unease at the idea to tell a total lie to a bunch of other shinobi he had never talk to. But still, he was earnest and nodded to the older man while Naruto fumed at him for that elbow to his side.

The chunin had answered with his nod, "Uh, sure. That'd be fantastic!"

Naruto soon tried to break the conversation between the adults and to move on towards Ichiraku Ramen with Iruka when he tugged at his trousers. The chunin looked down at his little brother, relieved that he could be distracted, as it would seem that Kakashi was about to head towards his home. The chunin faced the masked shinobi and nodded to him one more time.

"Well, that sounds like fun, Kakashi-sensei," he excused themselves, "Naruto and I are on to Ichiraku Ramen. You wanna come with?"

Kakashi shook his head, "No, I had dinner. Thanks for the offer though."

"Later then, Kakashi-sensei," he nodded one more time and then told his little brother as he attempted to pull him towards the restaurant, "Relax, Naruto, we'll be there. Our seats won't be taken once we're there."

Naruto said to his silver-haired mentor as he was distracted, "Later, sensei!"

"Heh! Don't forget about our mission tomorrow, Naruto," the masked shinobi told his student as he watched him calm down a little bit, "Tomorrow at seven o'clock this time!"

The blonde shinobi answered back, "Ok, sensei! You'll see me then!"

{{The Story Continues by Patrick Doyle}}

Iruka then took Naruto towards Ichiraku Ramen and soon carried him on his shoulders and laughed as more civilians stared at them. Kakashi watched as Naruto started to hum a tune and Iruka went with it as he marched to the restaurant. Kakashi Hatake sighed and then returned to his favorite book in the entire world and continued to read and blush as he headed back home to read some more.

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Naruto Uzumaki and the Chunin Exams

To Be Continued…

There we are! The start of the third book of the story of Naruto Ignotus Uzumaki!

Before I start, I want to apologize to anyone out there that is upset at the story deletion on October 24th of the original version of Naruto Uzumaki and the Chunin Exams. Azeroth44 and I decided it would be best that I started all over and deleted the previous version of the Chunin Exams saga. I hope all those followers I had on that previous version find this one soon, follow it, and enjoy it a whole lot more since it's a lot more improved. I'm extremely sorry about this to anyone out there and I hope they find this story as soon as possible. My most sincere apologies :'(

So on to the changes I made this time around, here they are: Better grammar, better paragraph structure, all songs have been secured inside these {{}}, I decided to mention the flashback with the monster toaster but not show it (since I never wrote the details of the endeavor before but I still wanted to make sure the story was still in tune with the previous two books), and I also deleted several random scenarios here and there, but I thought it was for the best in the end. I hope that this first chapter turned out well in this re-write.

Please be sure to review and let me know what you guys out there think. Next chapter should be out soon.