Chapter 1: The Academy Exam Pt1.

Umino Iruka walked into his classroom, and saw that everyone save a certain blonde was seated in his class, granted the blonde shouldn't be in the Ninja academy anyways (not being able to mold chakra in any form what so ever).

"Ok class, you know the drill." Iruka says before picking up a scroll and a pen, then quickly beginning roll call, never noticing the shadow at the window.

Iruka gets to the last person, every other student calling out here at their name, before reaching the missing blonde, "Uzumaki Naruto."

Silence is Iruka's answer before a certain emo with a duck's butt for a hair style lazily says, "What's the use Sensei, The dobe isn't gonna show."

Iruka opened his mouth to answer, only for a pair of blurs to enter the room, the smaller of the two being a rather large red wolf with a tattoo on its shoulder of XIII. The wolf is odd in appearance, it fur is a rusty red color, and around its feet are wide bangles with odd writings around them, the wolf also has a pair of blue feathers dangling behind its ear. The taller said blonde, though gone is his usual orange monstrosity. Replaced with a simple black t-shirt with baggy black cargo pants tucked into combat boots with roughly quarter inch thick steel plates on the toes and heels. Over the blonde's shirt is a blood red cloak with a hood that is down and a very odd symbol on the back; a white blade breaking into seven and a black wing behind it. The blonde grins and salutes before crying out, "Uzumaki Naruto, Reporting to kick ass and take names."

Iruka sighs at his admittedly favorite student's rather odd entrance, before nodding and saying, "Well as you all know, today is the final exam."

"Sensei, I still don't understand why the baka is being allowed to take the exam when he can't even mould Chakra." A certain pink clad howler monkey in human flesh says, more like whines out.

"Did you seriously forget about Lee?" Naruto questions, reminding the entire class of their upper class man who had graduated with out use of chakra by excelling in the taijutsu and written portions of the exam.

The pink haired banshee opens her mouth to retort, only for a rather strong voice to call out from the back, "Sakura, leave him alone would you?" which causes the entire class to turn and see a pale eyed girl with a tan hoodie on with the hood pulled up. The girl is Hinata Hyuga, Naruto's strongest supporter in the class, though admittedly the quietest. The class is silent in shock allowing Hinata to continue her statement, "You're just mad because your precious Uchiha couldn't lay a hand on Naruto-kun."

That statement is met with mixed results, all other female students crying out in outrage and claiming flukes; while several of the male students laugh at the angry visage of the afore mentioned Uchiha.

Iruka calls out for silence, only to be ignored, though when Naruto smirks and cries out "Silence!" the entire class it muted, thought their mouths continue to move, and around them all are small clear bubbles that seem to pop then reform as they lazily float around.

"Uhh, Naruto, what did you do?" Iruka asks with concern for his students, who are all slowly realizing they are making no noise.

"He cast a spell known as Silence to prevent them from talking. Though the actual use of the spell is to prevent your opponent from casting any spells of their own for anywhere from a handful of seconds to a couple minutes." The large wolf replies, shocking Iruka.

"How did you…."

"My name is Red XIII; I am a friend of two of Naruto's ancestors, and a former enemy of the third." The large wolf says by way of introduction.

At this point the spell wore off and all the students stare at the blonde with a mixture of begrudging respect or slight anger, though all sent wary glances towards the odd wolf.

"Troublesome blonde." Shikamaru says, laying his back on his desk with a barely hidden smile, though few realized it, the Nara enjoyed the un-expected, being insanely smart tended to allow them to forecast almost exactly what those around them would do. So the unpredictability of the blonde made him a very welcome sight to the Nara clan, though they would never tell anyone that.

Iruka sighed as Naruto walked to his seat and another chunin walks into the room. "Now then this will take roughly two hours for the written exam, afterwards we will go outside and do the accuracy tests, and then break for lunch and finish up with the Taijutsu and Ninjutsu tests." Iruka says as the other chunin begins to pass out the written tests.

As the final test is laid down Iruka calls to begin and the students flip their tests over and begin. Though a certain blonde mentally face palms as they had, once again, given him a test geared for a higher ranked test, probably a Jonin, maybe even the Anbu, though the blonde quickly discarded that thought, like some academy teacher could gain access to the Anbu testing room.

As he looked at the first question, something to do with a Hyuga in a large clearing with multiple shuriken coming at him from multiple angles and speeds, a voice in his read says, 'Do they seriously expect a kid to know this crap?'

Naruto gives a mental shrug as a reply, and a new voice, this one much deeper says simply, 'Come and visit when you finish, we have things to discuss boy.'

Several minutes later Naruto finishes, and will later learn that he made the second best score, only to Shikamaru. Having finished his test Naruto shifts slightly and begins to slow his breathing before his surroundings turn into a black and white still frame that slowly becomes a shapeless and colorless space, before the image of a lake that seems to glow a myriad of colors, as well as a forest of crystal trees with a rather impressive crystal castle over looking the lake.

"Well that was fast." The first voice spoke, causing Naruto to turn and spot three figures. The first was a tall silver haired man by the name Sephiroth, his blade Masamune held in a reverse grip as he read a small book. The man sitting to his left is known as Cloud Strife, and is the one who spoke first, with his back leaning against the Tsuurugi. Beside Cloud is Vincent, looking up through the crystalline canopy to gaze at the starry sky.

"Hey, where is-" What ever it was that Naruto might have said is cut off as a oddly human shaped red blur tackles him and pins him to the ground, revealing a stunningly beautiful woman with long blood red hair wearing a rust red collar around her neck, and nothing else.

"Naruto-kun! I missed you!" The woman cries out as she straddles him and leans down over him, her bare chest hovering over the short blondes face.

"Kyuubi! Put some clothes on and GET OFF!" Naruto shouts, managing to twist and launch the red head off him. As the woman flies through the air a skin tight red cocktail dress shimmers into existence on the woman.

"I'll never understand why she does that." Vincent says, still not quite used to the… eccentric being sealed inside his descendants body.

"Especially when he always manages to throw her off him like that." Cloud adds with a shrug. "Guess she's just a very forward person."

Sephiroth simply remains silent as he continues to read his small book, which is a book of spells that he plans to give the blonde.

"So… Seph, what did you want to talk about?" Naruto asks, looking at the tall silver haired ex-SOLDIER in curiosity.

"Your training." He replies simply, snapping the small book closed and handing it to the blonde, "That is a book of level 2 spells. I do believe you are ready for them."

The small blonde looks in wonder at the book then up at the ex-SOLDIER and shouts joyfully before leaping and wrapping the silent man in a hug, "Thank you Sephiroth-sensei! I won't let you down!"

The other took looked on in amusement as Sephiroth looked at the small blonde with an annoyed look before a small smile grace his face and he said softly, "You are welcome Uzumaki-kun." That got Cloud and Vincent to raise their eyebrows; neither knew the silver haired man to be very affectionate, though he just used a suffix denoting close attachment. "What?" he asks, looking at the other two, Kyuubi having missed the exchange looks at the scene in bemusement.

"You actually like someone?" Cloud asks bluntly, earning a sigh from Vincent and a nod from Sephiroth.

"The kid may be the single most annoying thing on this planet: Family. But he has shown great talent and a vast amount of love to those he cares about. The kid's earned my respect, and therefore earned my 'affection' as it were."

"Ah" Cloud says with a nod.

"Now then, I do believe it is time for you to get out of here and get back to your test." Vincent says as Naruto nods, then realizes something, Sephiroth hadn't thrown him off, of even let go of him, holding him on his hip like a cherished child.

"Umm Seph, could you let me down?" Naruto asks, causing Sephiroth to blink before unceremoniously dropping the blonde on his arse with narrowed eyes.

"No one is to speak of that." The tall man says as Naruto's surroundings turn grey and blur back into his classroom, with Kiba standing in front of him with a curious look.

"What is it 'dog-breath'?"

"Where the hell did that sword come from?" Kiba asks, pointing behind the blonde, who turns and blinks as sitting propped against the wall behind him, almost as if it had been there all along, was Tsuurugi.

"It's my gift Naruto. I know you'll pass so I gave it to you now. You already know how to use it, so I figured you could use it for bonus points with the 'Jutsu demonstration' test." Cloud's voice rings out from Naruto's head as the blonde's face lights up in a brilliant smile.

"It's a gift from a dear relative." The blond replies as he reaches out and gently places his hand upon the blades wide side and smiles softly as he feels the small and slow current of Mako energy within the blade.

"I seriously doubt that." Sasuke says arrogantly, walking up and giving the blade an appraising eye, "Like you, some clanless orphan, would be able to use that blade. Give to me; I'll be able to utilize it better than you."

"Oh really now?" Naruto asks, crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow, "then why don't you try to lift it?" he continues with a barely hidden smirk. The Mako energy inside the blade would react negatively to the Uchiha, and not allow the raven haired teen to loft it, though Naruto would be able to loft it without worry, being a Mako conductor made using Mako Enhanced weapons so much easier.

The Uchiha smirks arrogantly and grabs the handle and lifts, only to blink as the blade doesn't budge. Frowning slightly the Uchiha grabs the handle with both hands and strains, his eyes bulging out and growls as the blade remains still.

Naruto then breaks out in laughter as Iruka collects the last test and sighs. "Here, allow me Sasuke." Naruto says, standing up and grasping the handle in one hand and hefting it with only one hand like it weighs nothing. "The blade will only allow me to wield it."

"It's sentient?" Kiba asks with an awed look upon his face.

"Somewhat, it's a Mako Enhanced weapon, at it has just enough sentience to recognize my Mako signature, as well as what it is I wish to do with it." Naruto states as he props it on his shoulder. "Hey sensei, when we do the Ninjutsu portion, can I demonstrate a technique of Tsuurugi?"

"What is Tsuurugi? Doesn't that mean sword?"

"Yup. Its full name is Tsuurugi no Sachi (Sword of Seven), it's actually made up of seven different smaller blades." Naruto says with a shrug as Iruka leads the class outside.

Naruto steps outside the academy building and blinks when he sees a head of bright yellow hair as well as silvery hair that belongs to only one person. The hyper active blonde then shouts out joyously and runs towards the two, and is stopped by another person grabbing the blonde's jacket collar and lifting him to eye level, revealing Vincent with a small smile on his face.

"What are you guys doing here?" Naruto asks, barely noticing the curious stares of the other academy student's family and relatives.

"Simple," Sephiroth's smooth voice says, "We are here to watch our family member ace these 'exams'."

"Though, they oddly don't seem that tough." Cloud says handing Naruto a leather harness for Tsuurugi with a smile. "Oh, and Uncle Vince wanted to give you something as well."

Naruto tilts his head in confusion as he looks at Vincent, only for the man to produce a tri-barreled gun and extend it handle first to Naruto. "Whoa. You're seriously giving me Cerberus?"

"Yup." Vincent replies in a low whisper, "May he be as good to you as he has been to me."

Naruto grins maniacally and accepts the gun, sliding into a holster that had been attached to Tsuurugi's harness then sheathing the massive blade as well. "Thanks guys. I swear you won't regret it."

"I would hope not." Red XIII says walking up. "I must say it is good to see you three again, especially the ex-Soldier First Class on friendly terms."

"Same to you, mutt." Sephiroth says with a small smirk.

The large wolf merely looks at Sephiroth with a smile as three other walk up, they being Hinata, Kiba, and Shikamaru. "Ok you troublesome blonde, tell us who these three are." The lazy genius says with a sigh.

"The blonde is Cloud Strife, the silver haired 'giant' is Sephiroth, and the guy holding my jacket collar is Vincent Valentine." Naruto says, before being unceremoniously dropped onto his arse, again, and proceeding to mutter about it.

The three academy students smile and say there greeting, then Kiba asks, "So which of you gave Naruto the bad-ass sword?"

"That'd be me." Cloud says with a smirk towards Sephiroth.

"Is it really made up of seven different blades?" Hinata asks, her stutter and hoodie gone, which the group just realized.

"Yup. It's also enhanced with Mako energy, giving it special abilities. One of which is as a fight wears on, it stores energy that can be used later in a variety of ways.

"Most of which are flashy and deadly." Naruto says, remembering how the taller blonde had taught him how to dodge.

"Troublesome." The Nara says lazily as Iruka calls on Hinata for her turn at the shuriken range.

"Oh, and Vincent just gave me this." Naruto says while displaying Cerberus from its position under his left shoulder, which is where Tsuurugi's handle was. "And Sephiroth gave me this spell book." Naruto adds, pulling the small book out and opening it to the first page, which had, of all things, a summons for the first spell. "No way." The blonde whispers with a devious grin. The summons being for, of all things, Shadow beasts, which the small blonde realized he could use as large part of his fighting style, which revolved around distracting his opponent and capitalizing on it. (A/N: no, I will NOT be have Naruto somehow figure out how to use Ninjutsu, so the Kage Bushin is OUT)

"What?" Kiba asks curiously, stepping up to the blonde's side and looking at the book, which is written in a language he had never seen. "Hey Shika, you know what this language is?"

Shikamaru gave a curious grunt and walked over and blinked. "No I don't." He said seriously, giving Naruto and then his three compatriots a curiously glance, but something tells me that these three taught it to the Blonde."

"It's called Ferrum (A/N: I honestly don't know what the really language is called, so I'm just using the FFVII font, which is called Ferrum, PM me with your address and I can send you a copy of the font) and I knew it ever since I was born, my family line have what's known as imprinted knowledge, which allows me to just know how to do or use certain things." Naruto says offhandedly, as he begins to memorize the summons mantra, smirking as he feels the knowledge of summoning familiars settle into place.

"This first one will allow me to summon, 'Shadow Beasts', which will aid me in battle or whatever I need, all I gotta do is just have a good idea on what I need, and I can call upon it." The blonde adds as he hears his name be called and smirks at Vincent before pumping Mako into his cloak, which lengthens then shortens, turning into a floating piece of cloth which flies rather quickly over to the 'firing range' and the tell tale 'click' of and action clicking into place causes Vincent, Cloud and Sephiroth to smirk as Red XIII shakes his head at the theatrical blonde, while mentally wondering how his friends had rubbed off on the blonde in their own way.

Everyone jumps as a sound of thunder issues forth from the scrappy cloak, which is followed by five more similar sounds and a poor target dummy exploding into pieces of kindling. The cloak floats in place for a moment before Naruto's voice cries out, "Now I know why he does it! This is AWESOME! DATTEBAYO!" before the cloak lengthens and said blonde is revealed as the cloak returns to its normal form.

Iruka blinks at his enthusiastic student before smirking and saying, "Well, due to both being flashy and effective, Naruto gets bonus points for his test." This causes a certain raven haired avenger to growl as his rival holds up a tri barreled gun and rubs it with a black cloth to remove imaginary blemishes from the beautiful weapons barrels.

"Very good Naruto." Vincent says as Naruto walks back, "I had never told you how to do that, but by merely watching me do it during spars you figured it out."

"Actually… I knew all along. The first time you did it I gained the knowledge, seeing as you are my distant relative… on mom's side I think…. The knowledge was there for whenever I might need it." This got Shikamaru attention

"You three, you aren't really 'alive', are you." Shikamaru says with all boredom gone, this gets curious looks from Hinata and Kiba.

"How'd you guess?" Cloud asks with a smile.

"Simple, the blonde dropped enough hints, apparently he can learn anything his ancestors knew, that and Ferrum is and ancient text that hasn't seen use for eons." The lazy genius said with a shrug, "But what I want to know is why you here now."

"I accessed my lineage, and these three where who I called upon first." Naruto says, and as for the physical bodies, well that's a bit more complicated."

"We had to take 'familiars', we each picked an animal, and when we want to manifest, we simply pump our Mako energy, commonly referred to as mana, into our familiar." Sephiroth says. "Though we had foresight and picked animals that were strays and had no human interaction, so they won't be missed."

Shikamaru nods and shrugs as he is called for his turn at the 'firing line' and the blonde grins, "Hey Hinata, would you like to join me for lunch?"

"Sure thing Naruto-kun." Hinata says with a smile, "Though my cousin will have to join us."

"As long as he doesn't go on about that fate bs we're cool." Naruto says as Kiba looks to Naruto with a confused expression.

"Huh?" Kiba asks.

"Hinata has a cousin Neji, whose here somewhere, that keeps spouting off about fate and it annoys me to no end. Though when I beat the crap outta him he stopped say my fate is to be a loser at least."

"That is correct Uzumaki. Your fate is to be a truly great shinobi and-" a new voice says before Naruto spins in place and draws Tsuurugi, leveling it at a tall pale eyes man before he could finish his sentence, thankfully Kiba was to occupied with the new person, or he would have noticed that Naruto and Hinata had gone red.

"Neji, I've warned you about annoying the young Sage." An elderly voice says behind Hinata, causing the girl to pale and the blonde to curse and hang his head, turning to spot none other than Hiashi Hyuga, who was smirking at the blonde boy. "Besides, if the change in my daughter is any indication, then they are getting close to making that 'fate' you say is theirs that much closer."

"F-f-f-f-FATHER!" Hinata shouts her face turning bright red, the stutter retuning full force.

"The hell I miss?" Shikamaru asks, looking between a flabbergasted Kiba, a bright red Hinata and a fuming Naruto.

"What most in the village have missed actually?" Hiashi says with a kind smile appearing on his face. "My daughter is being courted by the young Uzumaki you see."

"I knew that." Shikamaru says startling the, now ousted, couple. "Actually the entire Nara clan saw it coming a mile away. I mean come on, with how Hinata used to act, stuttering over every word and not even being able to speak to Naruto; then, about two years ago I think it was, she can talk without a stutter, though it came bake, albeit a bit forced, when Naruto was around her."

"Told you your act needed work Hime." Naruto stated flatly, getting a smack from the Hyuga heiress.

"And you are now officially taking me out every night this week until our team placements, and then we will be figure out a way for you to take me out every weekend." Hinata says flatly with a sense of finality, which the blonde doesn't even argue against, instead looping an arm around her waist and smirking at her.

"Good, that means I'll be able to hold you in public now."

Then Hiashi noticed Naruto's blade and frowned, "I didn't know you were studying Kenjutsu Naruto-kun." The Hyuga leader states with a deepening frown, "And how are you able to lift such a heavy weapon?"

"I can field that one." Cloud says, "The blade, though massive in appearance, is made feather light by two things. The first being that it is made up of seven different blades, each forged out of a lightweight metal and the 'final Tsuurugi', as I call it, actually has multiple hollow spaces. The second is that it is enhanced with Mako Energy, and that energy reacts to Naruto's own Mako Energy signature, allowing the blond to swing it effortlessly." Cloud says, "Just be glad I didn't give him this," here the elder blond pauses as a massive blade appears in his hand propped on his shoulder. "This is the Buster Blade, my original blade."

Hiashi looks at the 'overkill blade' and sighs, "You would fit in with Kiri's Seven Swordsmen famously." The Hyuga leader says, emphasizing the final word.

Cloud merely grins devilishly as Iruka calls out a break for lunch and that they could leave, but had to be back in an hour.

(A/N: I would have done a lunch scene, but am just to bored, that and this story is already at 4,008 words counting this a/n)

Naruto sat against a tree, Hinata in his lap and leaning against him while Kiba, Shikamaru and Neji smiled at the two discreetly, all three were glad the two were happy.

As Iruka, and the rest of the class, walked up to the sparring ring they noticed the two's intimate position, and a certain Uchiha was down right furious, not only had the blonde shown him up in the accuracy test, he had also blown his score out of the water on the written test, gained a blade that only he could lift, now he had the unattainable Hyuga heiress on his lap and she actually looked happy. That would not go without answer.

And so, when Iruka asked who would like to go first, Sasuke stepped forward and said, "I would, and I want to challenge Naruto." Iruka gave a nod and Naruto let out a sigh, though Hinata seemed even more put off, she had to let Naruto up, which entailed getting off his lap. 'But it was so comfy!' The Hyuga laments mentally as Naruto walks up to his opponent and asks one question,

"What are the rules sensei?"

"Simple, a fight, if I call match you two stop fighting, and no Ninjutsu, you may use a weapon if you wish though." Iruka says simply before asking, "Fighters ready?" at Naruto and Sasuke's nod Iruka calls out 'BEGIN!" and leaps back.

The two are motionless, Naruto's right hand lifted and grasping Tsuurugi's blade loosely and watching the Uchiha warily. "Uzumaki, I'm gonna beat you then take your girl as mine." Sasuke says arrogantly, and then smirks at Naruto's slight frown. "Oh, you don't like that idea?"

"Naru-kun, kick his emo ASS!" Hinata shouts out, no hint of anger in her voice, though at the cry a bright blue energy surrounds the blonde who grins maniacally,

"With pleasure Hime." Naruto says before vanishing with a sound of rushing wind and insane laughter. Sasuke looks around, before doubling over with Naruto's fist in his gut before Naruto continues his attack, striking with a knee to the Uchiha's side then spinning on the ball of his foot and delivering a powerful roundhouse kick, which causes a certain bearded read head to stop and smile before saying,

"And another has learned the 'ass kicking roundhouse kick of painful justice', good." Before returning to his work in the desert of a far off land. (A/N: Bonus points for whoever can guess who I just referred to)

As the Uchiha landed, rather hard, on his side a random student commented on Naruto's astonishing speed, "So fast."

The 'last' Uchiha got up and glared at his opponent then rush forward, only to be, to his and the rest of the classes shock, thrown into a tree, and suddenly ducked as Naruto's fist embedded into the tree, creating a hole in the poor tree. "Damn, you moved." Naruto says flatly as Sasuke leaps away then snarls and quickly flipping through handseal before crying out, 'Fire ball jutsu!' and expelling a medium sized fire ball towards the blonde who sighs then shouts out, "Protect!" and a thin silvery barrier appears in the air before the blonde, effectively stopping the fireball and stunning everyone. "So you wanna play with fire Uchiha? Lemme show you something, FIRE!" At the blondes last word he flicks his left hand upwards, and launches a massive fireball into the air. "And that's the weakest fire spell I know." Naruto adds with a shrug.

Iruka suddenly calls out, "MATCH! Winner is Naruto Uzumaki!" before appearing behind Sasuke and grabbing him by the shoulder, "Ok Sasuke, what part of NO jutsu don't you understand? I'm just glad Naruto knew a way to cancel out your jutsu."

And with that Iruka led Sasuke over to the rest of the students, where his fangirls proceeded to fawn over him, while Hinata sat back down on Naruto's lap and gave him a kiss on the lips for his victory. "That's my man." She cooed as he wrapped his arms around her, "So Naruto-kun, you think we'll be on the same team?"

"I hope so. Actually I hope the four of us are on the same team." Naruto says before Shikamaru sighs as he is called up, only to return seconds later, having inadvertently knocking out a random civilian-ninja-hopeful.

"Baka, Konoha does four man cells, one being a Jonin instructor." Kiba says with a small laugh.

"Yea, well something tells me that with Naruto, anything can happen." Hinata said, before blinking. "Actually now that I think about it, you beat Neji, something that was thought impossible, an academy student beating an experienced Genin." Kiba blinked at that before Shikamaru put in his own comment.

"And he did two other things, made Hiashi Hyuga smile, and bring three people back from the dead."

"Actually, they aren't back, they are just with me until I master all they can teach me." Naruto says, "So I think they'll be gone in about three years or so."

"So they'll be here for our wedding then?" Hinata asks innocently, getting a truly hilarious reaction, Naruto stiffens as Neji glares at the blonde before threatening to castrate him with his own gun.

FIN! Well this is the revised edition of Naruto: The Lifestream sage, and whoever gets my little cameo right, and I mean dead on, will get their own oc put in. the choices are as follows:

A familiar from the Shadow Beasts decides he/she likes Naruto and stays, becoming an actual familiar.

A long lost family member of Naruto finds him after searching for years, and has either Yuffie, Cid, Barret or Tifa as their ancestor.

Or someone that Naruto meets on one of his missions and manages to save and returns to Konoha with the blonde.

Or anything you decide on.

Now then, I'll be working on the next chapter for a bit, and will eventually declair the winner of the cameo in a A/N update, wich will then be removed an replaiced with the next chapter which will be the rest of the Academy graduation, and the beginning of the Jonin's Genin exam.

Well hope you enjoyed this, read and review and until next time, LATER!

Grand total on words is 5,064 words, and a total of 9 pages