Author's Note: I do not own Naruto or any of it's characters
Uzumaki Naruto closed his eyes, using his other senses to visualize Kiba, who was laughing madly as he raced down the stairs with Akamaru. "Yahoo! We're so lucky Akamaru, we got the dobe!" he barked". Naruto closed his eyes and smirked. He used his sensory skills to detect Kiba's skill, and it was laughable for a clan heir. He wouldn't even have to take off his resistance seals for this one. He'd somehow managed to survive against Orochimaru in the Forest of Death, and was just waiting to see the look on the ugly snake's face when he saw that his seal hadn't affected him. Naruto had met the fox when he was five, and had started to earn it's respect. He was able to control up to four tails of the Kyubi's chakra. So Orochimaru's five pronged seal had not had any effect at all on him as he simply overpowered the seal (AN: Take into consideration that Orochimaru is not a genius at fuinjutsu like Jiraiya or Minato). He could sense the snake's foul snake scent emanating from one of the Sound Jounins, meaning he was posing as one of them, and possibly had the support of the newly built ninja village.
"Ha, I won't even need one punch to beat you, dobe" Kiba boasted. Naruto rolled his eyes at him, he was really sick and annoyed of being underestimated, and with the Sandaime allowing him to reveal his true self during the exams, he couldn't wait for the moment. Upstairs, Kurenai grinned at Kakashi, "there's no way Naruto's winning this". Kakashi replied with a mere "Hn".
"The proctor coughed "Hajime", and the match began. Kiba grinned at Naruto and was about to make his move when suddenly, he felt a fist connect with his nose, and he was sent flying backwards. Landing on his back, he was allowed no time to register the pain as he felt a sharp stomp to the gut and he was sent flying into the sky. "U" he was kicked higher, "zu" he was kicked further higher, "ma" he felt an elbow to the gut, "ki" a heel kick to his mouth, and he was sent careening downwards. From upstairs, Naruto finished his sentence as he finished with a diving headbutt straight to Kiba's shoulder, "Naruto Rendan!". Kiba coughed out blood, and as the pain got to him, screamed until he lost consciousness.
The entire crowd, bar the Sandaime and Kakashi, were stunned. Even Sakura was speechless, 'since when was Naruto-baka this good?' she questioned herself. Meanwhile, Inner Sakura was raging- ' how dare the idiot be stronger than my Sasuke-kun?!' she screeched. As Naruto stepped off Kiba, kicking him in the face one last time for good measure, Akamaru whined at the bloodied state of his companion, and sprinted to him, trying to revive him. Medics rushed in, taking Kiba away on a stretcher, as Naruto walked nonchalantly up the stairs, ignoring all the sets of eyes that were glued to him.
Kurenai was furious, and she gave Naruto a piece of her mind. "I don't know since when you thought such behavior was acceptable!" she reprimanded him. Naruto lazily drawled at her "I don't know when you thought that you had any authority over me" further infuriating her. Ino snapped at him "Don't talk to Kurenai-sensei like that you baka! She's your sensei and superior, so listen to her!".
"That's where you're wrong" Naruto replied coolly, "she's not my sensei, which I'm thankful for, if her student's lousy performance in the exam is any indicator of her own skill. And she has no authority over me, only in wartime or on a mission am I required to accept orders from her. Otherwise, it's only my own sensei or the Hokage. However, since this is the Chunin Exams, even Kakashi-sensei cannot fully control me, nor the Hokage. Only the exam proctor can, and since he has no problem, I suggest you stop chewing my brains out."
Kurenai was red with rage by this point, and turned to Kakashi, "Surely you won't allow him to just get away with this!" she fumed.
Kakashi shrugged "What can I say? Besides, he speaks the truth. Kiba had it coming, he's taunted and shamed Naruto too many times. He got what he deserved." Kurenai was about to start on Kakashi, when she was interrupted by the Hokage. "Enough", he ordered. "Naruto acted within the rules, and Kiba knew the risks involved. Let this be an eye-opener to all of you who don't know the horrors of this world of shinobi. If this were a battle, Kiba would've been dead now" the Hokage finished. Naruto mumbled something that suspiciously sounded like "he'll probably be dead anyway".
Kakashi agreed with this. He'd rather see the next generation see the reality of the shinobi world here rather than in the battlefield, where there was a much higher risk of death. He sighed, Naruto had been a little excessive with the beating he'd dished out to Kiba, and he'd have a word with him later. Naruto voiced out his thoughts "Of course, I cannot help but wonder how you'd have treated Kiba if he were to have 'taken care of the dead last'. Would he too be reprimanded, or be applauded for getting rid of the 'village's nuisance'?". Kurenai's silence told him everything he needed to. He smirked in victory and leaned against the wall, closing his eyes.
The Sandaime frowned at Naruto's behavior. Though he understood why Naruto had lashed out, he couldn't help but worry for the Inuzuka boy. Meanwhile, the rest of the Konoha nin were looking at Naruto as if he was the nephew of the Sage of the Six Paths. Hinata stuttered out " Yo-you shou-shouldn't ha-have d-done th-that Na-Naruto kun" she stopped midway from the glare Naruto gave her. "Focus on your own match" he retorted. 'Hyuga Hinata' he thought, 'stalks me everywhere, sees how the villagers treat me, and doesn't do anything about it. Why? Because apparently daddy dear looks down upon her and she has no self-confidence. Hmmph-pathetic' Naruto thought as he saw Rock Lee sprint down to face Gaara, jinchurikki of the Ichibi. He was amazed by Lee's speed, and even with his Biju-enhanced senses had a hard time following Rock Lee's movements once he'd taken off his weights and activated 5 gates. He was sure Lee would win until Gaara was revealed to be a mere sand clone. He felt bad for Lee, who had to overcome so many handicaps to even qualify as a shinobi. Right there, he secretly vowed to himself to do everything he could to help Rock Lee, a fellow victim of ignorance and underestimation.
After Neji had decimated Hinata, Naruto vowed he would destroy Neji if they were to meet in the finals. Not out of anger for what he did to Hinata, but due his attitude and concepts on fate. He went downstairs with everybody else to receive his number, and grinned predatorily at Neji when they were paired together, who merely glanced at him with contempt.
As he made his outside, Kakashi caught up with him. Naruto sensed this and interrupted Kakashi before he could start lecturing him, "Spare me one of your lectures senpai, I'm not in the mood". Kakashi frowned at him "Just because Hokage-sama allowed you to remove your mask don't go antagonizing fellow Konoha-nin. And I thought you would know better than to address me like that in public" Kakashi reminded him. Naruto rolled his eyes at him "I scanned the surroundings beforehand. Do have some trust in me, would you?" . Anyways, I'll be off to the hot springs, I'm sure Ero-sennin is there, see you in a month senpai" Naruto greeted before shun-shining to the hot springs. Kakashi sighed, he had to go to teach Sasuke, lest the spoiled brat become even more of a flight risk and the council get on his backside again. 'This is going to be a long month. Tch, troublesome' he complained internally before heading off to discharge the most unstable of his charges.
Meanwhile, Naruto's suspicions were revealed to be true, the old pervert was glued to the fence of the hot springs, peeping and conducting his 'research' as he liked to call it. "Oi Ero-sennin" Naruto called out, "quit peeking and teach me" he demanded. "Shut up you brat!" Jiraiya hissed, "do you want to get us caught?".
Naruto snorted "More like get you caught". "Oh all right, I'll teach you" Jiraiya relented, and Naruto relaxed for a bit. He paid for his mistake as Jiraiya suddenly appeared behind him and struck him, only for Naruto to poof into smoke. Naruto quickly appeared behind Jiraiya and struck him with a kunai, only for Jiraiya too to poof into smoke, and for him to suddenly feel something sharp sticking against the small of his back. Jiraiya smirked "Your time in ANBU has done you well, Namikaze-sama. But you still have a lot of way to go before you catch up with me". He released Naruto and smiled, "though I must say, switching with one of your many shadow clones in your hideouts on the spot, ingenious" Jiraiya applauded.
"When did you make a shadow clone? I didn't even see you do the handseals or say the words" Naruto questioned. Jiraiya scoffed "Oh please, you'd think a shinobi of my stature would know how to do jutsus wordlessly or seals. I too switched with one of my clones. Ever since you've told me about your hideouts in the village, every time I'm near the village, I send a few shadow clones to check that Danzo or none of his lackeys are snooping around them".
"And, did you find anything unusual?" Naruto hoped that his secret hadn't been compromised, and was grateful towards his godfather for the extra protection. "Well, not really. But one of clones did pick up that sickly pale boy you told me about. He was roughly your age and was scouting around one of your hideouts. He had a ROOT headband like you'd told me, though I let him go since he couldn't find anything so I let him go. Boy had a bit of an unhealthy fascination with penises, if you ask me. Was muttering a lot about them". (AN: Extra points for guessing who that is xD)
Jiraiya took Naruto to one of the Hokage's personal training grounds, and set up a big pool filled with water balloons. Naruto protested at this "Ero-sennin, we have to train, not play!".
"We will be training, gaki. I'm going to teach you the Yondaime's personal jutsu, the Rasengan. There are three steps to mastering it. The water balloons are part of the first step. Mind you, only your father, your senpai and myself have been able to learn this jutsu, so you may find yourself not up to the task" Jiraiya mocked.
Naruto countered "Hmph, just watch me Ero-sennin" and picked up the water balloon, listening closely to Jiraiya's instructions.
Meanwhile, in the Hokage Tower, Sarutobi gazed proudly through his viewing ball as Naruto tried to burst the balloon through sheer chakra rotation. "My my, your son's growing up pretty fast Minato. One day he'll surpass all of us" Sarutobi chuckled as Naruto threw the water balloon into the ground in frustration and started again.
later that day...
Naruto collapsed on the ground, exhausted from the day's training. Once he quickly mastered the first step, Jiraiya exponentially increased the difficulty of his training. He had Naruto make 20 clones, 5 of which went to practice taijutsu against a clone of Jiraiya on the water, another 5 went to practice and increase his jutsu repertoire from a few scrolls Ero-sennin gave him, another 5 focused on how to dispel genjutsu, whilst the last five practiced sealing. The toll on maintaining the clones and mastering the much harder second step of the Rasengan eventually got to Naruto, as he was now mumbling sleepily "just give me five minutes Ero-sennin, and I'll start again" before yawning and going to sleep on the ground. Jiraiya laughed at this 'he looks just like you, Minato' he thought before picking up his godson and shun-shining away to his apartment.