A couple days had passed since the prelims. It was agreed that we would all take a couple days to relax and not train. While we could just be cocky and don't train at all for the entire month. That's just not our style. Plus you can never know what your opponent might pull. So it's best to be as ready as you can be for anything.

During those days of rest, we did nothing but watch movies and play games all day. Naruto even taught me and Sasuke a bit on gardening. Which I always thought was one of the cutest things Naruto does. Today we were all walking around the village. Tomorrow is when we are going to start back up our training.

We all already talked about what we wanted to improve on. Sasuke and I wanted to try to reach the master level of fuinjutsu this month. Naruto wanted to keep practicing the chidori. Me and Sasuke could both do it. And he didn't want to be the odd ball out. So he wanted to master it before the finals. Sasuke and I knew it was gonna be awhile before we add an element to our rasengan. Plus I wanted to work on my wood release more and get a start of my ice release. Then we all also agreed to go volunteer at the hospital to get more practice in with our medical ninjutsu.

Overall we had a pretty solid training plan. Kurama-sensei also said that this month is when we are going to start learning how to use his chakra. Naruto even came up with an idea of making a seal that will allow me and Sasuke to draw on Kurama's chakra at will. So that way Naruto wouldn't have to always touch us to share his chakra. It was a genius idea that we all wanted to work on together. I swear that boy is so smart when it comes to fuinjutsu.

Sasuke did mention how he wanted to try to create something more out of the chidori. I hadn't thought about that. But I already have my own super powered jutsus I needed to improve on.

We were passing up a hot spring. That's when we heard somebody giggling. That's when I noticed this was the area that Naruto met Jiraiya for the first time in the anime. I could already feel my fangirlism rising.

"Guys I think that's Jiraiya. From my visions this is the place Naruto meets him at." I told the boys.

"Wait he was the one who giggled like that?" Naruto asked.

"A grown man can actually giggle?" Sasuke wondered.

A laugh escaped my throat hearing what Sasuke just said. "Yes I'm sure it was him. So let's go introduce ourselves."

We all walked up to Jiraiya. He was doing his research as usual. I wonder if he even noticed we are right by him. So I spoke first. "Hey Jiraiya-sama having fun?"

Jiraiya turned his head to look at us. "What do you brats want? Can't you see I'm in the middle of doing precious research?"

"You mean peeping?" Naruto smirked.

"I call it research, it's for my novel Icha Icha Paradise. I'm sure you brats have seen it at least once." Jiraiya said.

"Oh yeah our former sensei is a huge fan of them." Sasuke voiced.

"See? Now if you'll excuse me." Jiraiya turned back around.

"Sorry Jiraiya-sama, but your research has to wait. We have much bigger issues ahead of us. We really need you to come with us." I said.

"What could you kids have that important that you need to tell me about?" Jiraiya questioned.

"Oh I don't know, how about Orochimaru planning to invade the village? Or better yet the akatsuki coming after your godson who is a jinchuuriki of the kyuubi? Oh this is a good one. You being killed in 3 years by your former student who you trained in Ame. Who might I say also possesses the rinnegan. Do the names Yahiko, Konan and Nagato ring a bell?" I replied.

Jiraiya slowly turned his head and looked at us with a shocked expression. I swear everybody either looks shocked or surprised. Hopefully that stops soon.

"How do you…?" Jiraiya spoke.

"Like I said, we have much to discuss Jiraiya-sama. So if you could please follow us to a private location. We'll be happy to explain everything to you." I said.

And that's what we did. After we found a private are to talk in. We explained everything to him that's happened so far. I told him about my visions of the past and future that I dream about. I told him in detail what happened to Yahiko, Konan and Nagato. How Nagato is being manipulated. Yahiko being killed. How Nagato killed him and how Naruto defeated Nagato to avenge Jiraiya. How we met Minato and Kushina inside Naruto's seal. And us being on good terms with Kurama. Literally we told him everything. The whole conversation took at least an hour.

"Well you brats sure are something alright. Those visions of yours sure are a unique ability. You three even fought Orochimaru and lived to tell it. But I'm afraid you're going to have to prove that you are worthy of me training you guys." Jiraiya said.

"I can think of a way. Sasuke, Naruto just as we planned." I smirked.

Each of us all held our left hands to form a rasengan. To top it off, we used hiraishin to surround Jiraiya with our rasengans aimed at vitals area on his body.

Jiraiya was really shocked at what he just witnessed. He thought he was in a genjutsu for a second. So he tried to break it but quickly realized that what he was seeing was actually real.

"You three can perform the rasengan and the hiraishin? But how, you have to be at least an expert in fuinjutsu to even understand the sequences of all of the seals integrated to perform the hiraishin." Jiraiya voiced in a stunned tone.

All three of us smirked at him before releasing our rasengans and backing up a bit. "We are experts in fuinjutsu. Well me and Sasuke are. Naruto is a seal master. Me and Sasuke are trying to get to mastery level before the finals." I told him.

"Amazing…" Jiraiya croaked out.

"So are you gonna train us or not ero-sennin?" Naruto asked.

"Ero-sennin? Show more respect to your elders brat!" Jiraiya yelled.

"Hey whatever fits the shoe. You are a pervert and a sage right? That makes you ero-sennin." Naruto grinned.

Jiraiya glared at Naruto before sighing. "I don't really have much of a choice but to take you three as my apprentices. Especially after everything you just told me. My question is how come you guys didn't tell any of this to the old man. I'm sure he would've loved to know you all are this strong. I mean a genin knowing the two jutsu's that made Minato famous is pretty big."

"Because we couldn't afford for him to go around and tell the council anything. I didn't know if he was going to try to have my mind probed. Plus I didn't want him having anbu to spy on us. It's several reasons why we didn't tell him anything. And we want to keep it that way Jiraiya-sama." I said while narrowing my eyes at him.

Jiraiya held up his hands. "Hey hey don't look at me like that. I understand that you want to keep this a secret. But how many people know of your visions?"

"Besides us 4, our sensei Anko Mitarashi does and Hinata Hyuga. I plan to tell Tsunade-sama and Shizune as well once we go search for them. Along with anybody else who seems trustworthy enough down the road." I replied.

"I see, damn so the old man really has to die then." Jiraiya said.

"Yes unfortunately he does, his death plays a key role. We already changed a few things like Sasuke not getting his curse mark. And we still have to change even more in the upcoming years. I'm trying to keep most of the key events the same. At this point though, I don't know how successful we will be in doing so." I shrugged.

Jiraiya didn't say anything for a moment. Suddenly he spoke up again. "So do you three already know what you want to work on?"

We all nodded. "Good that saves us a lot of time. How about you guys spar separately against me. So I can get a good idea on where your current level is at."

So that's exactly what we did. We each sparred against Jiraiya so he can see our current levels. By the time we were done he said this to us.

"Kami what the hell have you kids been doing?! How the hell are you already this strong?! Hell I can say for certain that you three are stronger than most of our jounin. Matter of fact, you may already be S-rank material." Jiraiya yelled at us.

Well we kinda didn't hold back against him. So we fought him seriously. Can't say I'm all that surprised that this is his reaction.

"Well I guess we can't thank Kurama for that. He really pushed us hard the last several months." Sasuke said.

"But even if you say that ero-sennin. We still aren't at the level required to fight against the akatsuki." Naruto added.

"Uhh I don't know kid, you guys are pretty much up there." Jiraiya told him.

"No he's right Jiraiya-sama. Our current level of strength still isn't good enough to fight most S-rank ninja. I know my strength technique isn't on the level of Tsunade-sama's yet." I voiced.

"I'm pretty sure we don't need another Tsunade junior around here. One Tsunade is already enough. Then again all three of you can use her strength technique and have unmatched talent in medical ninjutsu. Oh I bet she's going to love taking you three on as apprentices of her own." Jiraiya snorted.

And finally my fangirlism broke through. As I could no longer help myself anymore. "JIRAIYA-SAMA!" I tackled him into a hug.

"What the hell?" Jiraiya said.

"That's Sakura's showing her love for you. She's a fan of a lot of people. You being one of them." Sasuke laughed.

I nuzzled with Jiraiya's long white hair. "Kami/Pain-sama I've always wanted to do this to your hair Jiraiya-sama. Don't worry I never thought of you as a loser like Orochimaru did. You were awesome as a kid and even more awesome now." I cooed.

Jiraiya chuckled as he patted my head. "Alright kid I think you're my favorite student already. But come on let me get up already."

Reluctantly, I stopped nuzzling against his hair. Oh man I couldn't wait until we meet Tsunade and Shizune. Tsunade is soooo going to be my mom. Then Shizune will be our big sister. It's all going to play out correctly. Good thing our house has plenty of space.

"Hey boys, if Tsunade-sama agrees to be our stepmother. Will you be fine with that?" I asked them.

Sasuke sighed. "You know what, I don't have a problem with it actually. Somehow someway I can see you figuring out a way to make it happen. So I already know it's going to happen now."

"I'm down, this means our family is going to grow even more!" Naruto grinned.

"Man you kids sure are weird, but who knows Tsunade may actually agree as crazy as that sounds." Jiraiya commented.

"So Jiraiya-shishio, do you mind if we sign the toad contract. We already have our own summons but we want to be able to have more than one summon."

I asked him.

"Sure but you have to show me your summons first. But we'll get to that another day." Jiraiya answered.

"Hey Jiraiya-sensei, you should come over for dinner. Sakura's cooking this time. She's the best cook out of all of us." Sasuke offered.

Jiraiya had a raised eyebrow. "You three live together?"

"Yes, we already told you this ero-sennin. We've been living together for months now." Naruto reminded him.

Jiraiya had a thoughtful look on his face before his eyes widened in realization. "Oh yeah you did." He laughed it off.

"So are you coming Shishio?" I asked him.

"Sure who am I to turn down free food from my brand new students. This way you guys can show me just how good you are in fuinjutsu." Jiraiya agreed.

And that's how Team 7 met Jiraiya. Dinner was entertaining as usual. Anko had came over to spend the night again. Hinata also stopped by saying she wanted to hang out with us. So it was a dinner for 6. Our little family was expanding little by little. I can't wait until it expands even more.

The next day Kurama-sensei decided it was time for us to all learn how to properly control his chakra. So far he's only taught Naruto how to call on the initial jinchūriki state. You know chakra they can use before actually developing chakra tails. While Kurama-sensei believed that we could handle Shukaku pretty well. He still wanted us to all know how to properly use his chakra. Just in case things get complicated.

So here we were in the forest of death. Because of Anko, this is pretty much one of our go to training grounds now. Out here was me, Sasuke, Naruto, Jiraiya and Kurama-sensei.

"Alright kits, are you ready to learn how to control my chakra somewhat?" Kurama asked.

We all nodded. "Yeah hopefully we can get that seal done before the month is over with." Naruto said.

"Knowing you kits, you definitely will. Now Naruto I want you to concentrate and try to draw on more of my chakra than you are used to." Kurama instructed.

Naruto closed his eyes. He concentrated on summoning Kurama's chakra. It didn't take long for him to feel the usual sudden rush of potent chakra. But he kept on digging down further to bring out more of it. Little by little, red bubbles started seeping out of his body. Eventually he was covered in the one-tailed form.

Kurama looked at Naruto with pride in his eyes. "Heh good job kit. You did it perfectly on your first try. Let's see how far you can it up to three tails without being affected at all mentally by the negative emotions laced in my chakra. If I was inside the seal, I would normally take care of all of that while you handle the rest."

Naruto nodded and concentrated on bringing out more of Kurama's tails. The second tail sprouted after about 15 seconds. Soon Naruto was able to draw out the third tail. His facial features were definitely more of the feral side. It was still cute tho.

"Alright Naruto how do you feel?" Sasuke asked him.

"Yeah this is definitely a lot more potent than I expected. I can feel the negative emotions making me feel more...wild? But other than that I feel perfectly fine. Kurama's chakra does feel hot but it's not burning my skin." Naruto answered.

"Perfect, you are able to draw out three tails worth of my chakra at will without having any drawbacks. To go the fourth tail and further. I have to be in seal. Well actually that's until we get the key to fully unlock the seal and get more practice with my chakra. You still won't be able to use my full chakra until a couple more years so your body can develop more." Kurama said.

"This should be good enough for the time being though. People will be pretty hard pressed to defeat all of us if we were using just two tails worth of your chakra." I noted.

"Agreed, you all would basically be a team of jinchūrikis. That's pretty much overkill. Even if I was using my sage mode. It would be a hard win to pull out. Although Sasuke and Sakura would be more like pseudo-jinchūriki's." Jiraiya voiced.

"Well since we got this part taken care of. I'm going to go back in the seal. I need to be able to make sure to keep the poisonous aspects of my chakra separated. So Sasuke and Sakura don't get burned or get the poison into their system. Unlike Naruto, you two didn't have 13 years to adjust to my chakra fusing with yours." Kurama said as he dispelled himself back into the seal.

'Alright kit, I'm ready just go ahead and touch them.' Kurama told Naruto mentally.

Naruto did just that, he touched me and Sasuke on our shoulders. A second later, I felt a rush of fiery chakra rush into my coils. Soon enough a one tailed chakra cloak seeped out of my body. The same happened with Sasuke.

"How do you guys feel?" Naruto asked.

"Wow so this is what it feels like to use Kurama-sensei's chakra. Naruto I'm sooo jealous that you're his jinchūriki." I said in an awed tone.

"Not gonna lie, this is awesome. I feel like I could do anything with this kind of chakra." Sasuke looked at the cloak surrounding his body.

"Yeah that's what I thought too, the first time I used his chakra. Surprisingly it still hasn't gotten old." Naruto replied to us.

For the next few days, we focused on getting used to using Kurama's chakra. It was fun fighting against my boys. We caused so much destruction that I'm surprised not one anbu or root member showed up. Goes to show just how lax Konoha really became over the years. Although they did tighten up when Tsunade took over.

We all returned to the hospital to volunteer once again. We were praised by a lot of people for our efforts during the prelims. So much so that the head doctor brought us in to do a few extensive surgeries with him. While it did put our medical knowledge to the test working with the head of the hospital. Like always, me and my boys thrived under the pressure. We thrived and exceeded our past limits in medical ninjutsu. It also helped that we used shadow clones to also either practice or study medical ninjutsu. Or they would help out in other procedures. As you could probably assume, this improved our chakra control even more. So much so that we all developed better control over our strength technique. Well technically not ours, more like Tsunade-sama's but you get the picture.

Me and Sasuke also had our clones studying fuinjutsu to achieve the master level. We were really close to doing so. Naruto wanted to start on the Uzumaki fuinjutsu scroll we found in wave. But he said he'd rather we all start it at the same time. So he stuck to trying to come up with ideas for new seals. While we were all still working on the seal that will allow me and Sasuke to willingly draw on Kurama's chakra.

If that wasn't enough Kurama-sensei and Jiraiya sparred with us. I had to admit it was pretty fun fighting against really strong people. A lot more entertaining than fighting in the exams so far.

I could feel that the void of excitement that I had in my previous life. Was filled to the max, I knew it was going to overload as I experience more dangerous adventures. And I welcomed it with open arms.

Oh yeah so Hinata and Ino started coming around a lot more. Well Hinata was already around. But now she was really around. Instead of seeing her only twice a week. I now saw her at least 4 or 5 times out of the first week of this month. Not that I had a problem with it. I loved being around my Hina-sama. Sasuke and Naruto also liked hanging out with Hinata. Ino was coming along well too. While she didn't come around as much as Hinata did during the first week. She did come over at least two times to train and hangout with us. I was so proud of her that she finally started training seriously. She had all of our support. Even Jiraiya-shishio offered Ino and Hinata some advice.

As filling as the first week was. The second week was even more so. Kurama-sensei said that it was time to his personal training hell part 4. Which neither me or my brothers looked forward too. Oh yeah we introduced Ino to Kurama so we wouldn't have to be all secretive about it around her if she was going to be around us more often. So she and Hinata also joined us for this experience to hell.

We had to take a week off from the hospital because apparently we were going outside of the village for a week. Shishio was really surprised when he saw how easy it was for us to leave Konoha. He didn't even make us go tell the hokage we were leaving. He did go to mention the third that he was leaving for a week though. Kurama-sensei showed us how to make blood clones awhile ago. So we made some for Ino and Hinata so nobody would notice they are missing.

Kurama-sensei lead us a days journey away from the village. For that whole week, me, my brothers, Hinata and Ino were out through the most intense training regiment ever. When I mean ever. I mean fucking ever, even the first three time doing this camp wasn't this bad. Sadly if it me, Sasuke or Naruto didn't know medical ninjutsu. Hinata and Ino probably would have died from chakra exhaustion. But hey we didn't let that happen.

With Kurama being a knowledgeable tailed beast. He was able to offer Hinata a lot of advice on how to improve and expand her fighting style. He told her that the Hyuga's pride on only using their taijutsu and clan techniques are absolutely foolish. I agreed wholeheartedly on that statement. While limit yourself because of some stupid tradition? In the shinobi world, it's best to be prepared for anything.

Also during that week, we showed Jiraiya-shishio our lion summons. Jiro, Suki and Dulio had a growth spurt over the past couple months. While they weren't big as boss summons yet. They were definitely bigger than a normal lion. It was fun riding on the back of Jiro. He loved it whenever I played with his whiskers or pet his fur.

We also met some of the boss summons. The three we met are named. Monosuke, Tora and Ameyuri. Monosuke had blue and black fur with a scar across his left eye. Tora has teal color fur. He had longest whiskers out of the three. He seemed to be the laid back type. While Monosuke was a bit more on the wild side. Ameyuri had a pinkish-reddish color to her fur. It was softer than Monosuke and Tora's fur. She kinda reminded me of Katsuyu. Jiraiya also agreed with me on that. The three boss summons easily accept us. Saying that they would help us whenever we called on them. Apparently Jiro, Dulio and Suki all have been talking about me and my brother back in their world.

Ino and Hinata were offered a chance to sign the lion summoning scroll. But they declined, Hinata wanted to use her mother's old eagle summons. Ino didn't know if she wanted a summon just yet.

So me and the boys also signed the toad contract. We met Gamakichi and Gamatatsu. Then we summoned Gamabunta, Gamahiro and Gamaken. Gamahiro and Gamaken easily accepted us. But Gamabunta wanted to play hard ball and test us. So we each hand to stand on top of his head until sunset. Only this time Naruto didn't pass out. Gamabunta accepted us after that. But he said we still have to exchange sake with him at some point.

Speaking on sake, I have got to try that soon. Seeing how a lot of anime always have characters drinking sake. It's only right that I get to experience it. Plus I know I can handle my liquor.

Eventually after a torturous week of hell. We headed back to the village. Ino and Hinata really improved. They both learned how to make shadow clones. Ino was slowly but surely improving her taijutsu. Hinata had learn how to utilize her chakra nature with her juken. Thanks to shadow clones, she improved herself a lot in just a week.

When we got back to our house. Ino and Hinata decided to stay the night. So did Jiraiya-shisho. Anko also came over asking why the hell did we leave without her. It was funny to see her fake hurt expressions.

Oh yeah me, Sasuke and Naruto improves our ninjutsu greatly during that week. Sasuke now has two different variations of the chidori. The chidori stream and chidori spear. Naruto could make a rasenshuriken now. He could even throw it! But he still needed practice forming the technique faster. He started making his own wind jutsu. He called it wind waves. Basically he would sharpen the wind to the point where he send out waves of wind that can cut through a person like a sharpened blade. Seriously one clean cut could severe a body part. Me on the other hand just kept practicing with my wood and ice release. I could now make animals and weapons out of ice. I wasn't too interested into trying to mimic Haku's ice mirrors. And you know Kurama-sensei made sure to really put our taijutsu to the test. We became numb to the feeling of having our bones break at this point.

The third week we were back at the hospital. Apparently the staff members really missed our presence here. Even the patients who stay there long term mentioned how they missed us. It was nice to know that we had such an effect on people. We spent more time with the head of the hospital. Who I remembered was actually Kabuto's supposed adopted father. He was a very nice person. But he was very strict when it came to medical procedures. He told us that he liked working with us because he noticed how efficient we work together. Apparently we became famous pretty quickly at the hospital.

Anko decided as a gift for making it this far in the exams. She let us sign the snake contract. Sasuke was the only one who summoned one so far. Surprisingly, Aoda was the one he summoned. Aoda was even around the same size he was when he was summoned in the anime.

So now we had 3 summoning clans we can summon from. Never expected us to have 3 before we even get promoted to chunin. But hey I'm not complaining.

The fourth week, we finally got the seal down. Here's how it works. Naruto had the seal on top of the Hakke no Fūin Shiki. Me and Sasuke had the seal on our stomachs. We actually had to draw the actual seal in ink onto us. Then we used chakra to fuse it permanently onto ourselves. We found out that this also gave us a way to communicate with Kurama telepathically like Naruto does. Seems it was a function that we added on accident. But like I said earlier, I'm not complaining.

We didn't do much but just go over all that we learned so far and rest for the rest of the week. The last 2 weeks of the month, Hinata and Ino still came over. We all had gotten closer to one another. I guess that's what happens when you spend a week in hell together. You develop stronger bonds since you endured it with each other.

As of right now I was waiting on Hinata to show up. Sasuke and Naruto were in the living room watching tv. Jiraiya-shisho went to go catch up on his research. Anko was at the T&I department as usual.

I smiled when I felt Hinata's chakra signature at the door. She walked right inside, I gave her and Ino spare keys so they could just walk in. Jiraiya and Anko also have spares.

"Hey Hina…" I stopped speaking once I saw who she brought with it.

She brought sweet little adorable Hanabi here with her. I've been pestering Hinata for awhile now about wanting to meet Hanabi. Looks like she finally brought her over to me.

"Is that who I think it is?" I asked.

Hinata smiled. "Sakura-chan, this is my little sister Hanabi. Hanabi this is my best friend I've been telling you about Sakura."

"It's nice to finally meet you Sakura-san." Hanabi smiled and gave a small bow.

I couldn't even form words. It took me a full minute to register what was going on. And once again my fangirlism erupted in an explosion. "HAAANNNAAAABBBIII-CHHHAAANNN!" I squeal as I dashed at the girl and pulled her into a tight hug.

"Oh my god I finally got to meet you. You are just as cute as I thought you were. No, you're waaayyy cuter than I thought you were. Ooh my little Hanabi-chan." I cooed.

Hanabi was confused. No one has ever obsessed this much over her. Well Hinata of course but no one else. She looked at Hinata, all Hinata did was smile and nod.

"U-Umm thank you…" Hanabi blushed.

"So freaking kawaii, cuteness overload happening. Hina-sama, I blame you for not bringing her to me earlier. From now on I want you to bring her over with you a lot more. It's only right I get to spoil little Hanabi-chan." I told Hinata.

"I don't mind, what about you Hanabi? Would you like to come over here with me more often. You'll meet a lot of interesting people. And I'm sure they'll all want to help you grow strong." Hinata asked Hanabi.

"Hmm I don't mind, I kinda like being hugged by Sakura-san." Hanabi answered.

"And that settles it. Oh I am so going to spoil you Hanabi-chan. Hey Sasuke! Naruto come over here!" I called out to my little brothers.

Both of them came over to us. "What's up Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.

"I want you two to meet Hanabi-chan. She's Hinata's younger sister. We are going to be spoiling her from now on. She's too cute for us to not spoil." I told them.

"We don't have any say in this do we?" Sasuke asked.

"Nope." I grinned.

Sasuke sighed before smiling. He walked up to Hanabi and ruffled her hair lightly. "Well I have to admit, she is pretty cute."

"Hehe maybe we should introduce her to Gamakichi and Gamatatsu. I'm sure she'll love hanging around them." Naruto suggested.

"Sounds like a good idea to me." I replied.

Soon enough the day of the finals had finally arrived.