Naruto: Winds and Changes

…He was also still a hot blooded male

Thus he ended up passing out from blood loss.

Within the seal Kyuubi saw her container's predicament and shook her head, "Somehow, I'm really not surprised this has happened." Even though she was irritated that the snake woman was touching her container she could not hold in a smirk as she thought of what the blonds reaction would be tomorrow, "I can't wait to see what happens tomorrow when he wakes up."

Waking up the next morning had definitely been one of the most awkward and embarrassing moment of Naruto's life. He had passed out from another nose bleed as soon as he woke up, and it didn't help that Anko began teasing him mercilessly about sleeping with older women. Of course when he had sufficiently recovered from his embarrassment, he had gotten her back by calling her out on her seeming desire to have fun with children, immediately after saying that he had been forced to hightail it out of her apartment when she began launching her snakes and sharp pointy objects at him.

After that most of the last week had been spent with Jiraiya beating the crap out of him. He would wake up in the morning, get ready, make five hundred clones to train in various ninja aspects, then he would go spar with Jiraiya and lose every time. Often times he would be in so much pain and so tired that Jiraiya had to carry him back to his home.

Not that that was the only thing they had done. Jiraiya had taken to helping Naruto with several seals the blond Hanyou had been working on, and had to admit to being impressed by the teens genius when it came to sealing. The white haired Sannin had been particularly impressed byt the Dayuaru Sou Fuja Hoin that he had come up with to try and help get rid of Anko's cursed seal.

They had also taken to studying. Naruto knew that if he wanted to not only win in the final exams, but excel in them he would need to know more about his opponents. That meant he had to study. And so Naruto had picked Jiraiya's brain on what the man knew of the people he would face. Admittedly it was not much, but the man had a lot of general knowledge that would benefit him. Information on the Hyuga clans taijutsu and Byakugan, or Gai's fighting style, the man even had some basic information on Yugito who Naruto had a feeling would be his biggest challenge. They had spent several lunch breaks trying to formulate strategies on the best way for Naruto to defeat these opponents.

That was how it stayed for the last week, and the only other thing he did that was not training was going on that second date with Yugito that he promised. Thankfully she had realized that he was not welcome in any restaurants except one, and so they had gone to Ichiraku's. After that Naruto had escorted her around Konoha, she had been in Konoha for a little over a month but had not really taken the time to see any of its sights. And so Naruto had shown her some of his old stomping grounds, as well as his favorite spot on the Hokage Monument, right on top of the Yondaime's head.

Soon enough the day had finally came for the final stage of the Chunin Exams.

(Day of the Chunin Exam Finals)

Sarutobi watched with an impassive expression, not letting any hint of his weariness show as the carriage bringing the Raikage of Kumogakure entered the village. While it was perfectly normal for an allied nation to attend the Chunin Exams to watch their shinobi progress, it was a rather rare and unusual event for a non-allied village's leader to do so.

Konohagakure and Kumogakure had not been allies since the First Shinobi War. The Village Hidden in the Clouds had in fact been one of their worst enemies during both the second and third war, second only to Iwa in the Third Great War. It did not help matters that Kumo had attempted to use the peace talks after the Third Shinobi War to make an attempt at stealing the Hyuuga heiress in order to gain the Byakugan. By all rights, Sarutobi should have denied the man a chance at coming to Konoha.

However there were a few reasons he had not. The first was that the Yondaime Raikage was fairly new, having only been in his position for a few years, after his father, the Sandaime Raikage had been ousted for the debacle he had created when attempting to steal the Byakugan. The Yondaime Raikage, who was simply known as A, did not seem to care for the Byakugan and had in fact, sent a formal letter of apology, though due to the body being destroyed when the Sandaime had been ousted, he had not been able to send the remains of Hyuuga Hizashi.

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