I was nervous. This was going to be my first attempt at graduation. So far, things were good, or at least as good as it could be with the amount of glares and stares directed my way. There were even few attempts at sabotaging my education but a quick help from others and checking out stuff from the library were enough to correct those mistakes.
The written portion of the exam seemed ridiculously easy. I knew that there was no genjutsu on the paper, my friend in the gut had ensured that, but still it seemed way too easy for someone about to go on a path to kill people. In any case, I breezed through it. The physical portion of the exams was good enough. I knew that I had not done well enough to be the rookie of the year, but I knew that I would at least not fail.
Finally I reached the bane of my life, the ninjutsu portion of the test, or what I fondly refer as the ninja magic.
"Uzumaki san, please tranform into the Hokage."
With a nod I transformed into the second Hokage. No one really specified which Hokage I had to transform into and I had a feeling that it didn't really matter as long as it was a believable transformation.
The proctors just nodded and noted down something.
"The Body Replacement Technique..."
I substituted myself with one of the logs that was present in the class. Once they noticed it, I replaced myself back. And finally...
"Make at least two clones."
This was it, the do or die situation. With a hand seal there were now about thirty clones in the class. The proctor raised his eyes at this.
"You didn't have to make so many clones, Uzumaki san."
"Aah... I apologize for this sensei. But this is the least number that I can make without any problems."
"Is that so..."
I just nodded. He made a note of something.
"Well Uzumaki san. You pass the academy graduation test. You have a week to get yourself registered. There will be team placements next week, please be here on time."
With that I took the forehead protector that was offered to me and I walked out of the classroom, knowing fully that I had already messed up the canon.
