NARUTO-MY OWN SELF

by vatsalpuma

Naruto is caught cheating in the chunin exams and thus has been disqualified and stripped off his headband by Minato, but why did he do it? There has to be some reason... will Naruto let go of his pain and hate, how will this effect him and his future... Read on to know as the story unfolds.

1. Chapter 1

NARUTO: MY OWN SELF

I do not own Naruto because Kishimoto- Sensei does and does an awesome job making it awesome, which I would have never been able to do.

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The Chunin Exams were heating up and the excitement was going through the roof. It itself was a proof as to the great crop of Genin that had participated in these exams. Surprisingly enough only ten genin were selected to participate in the knockout finals of the chunin exams. The matches were as follows-

Namikaze Naruto vs Hyuuga Neji

Nara Shikamaru vs Temari

Aburume Shino vs Gaara

Kankurou vs Dosu

Ten Ten Higurashi vs Uchiha Sasuke

Not surprisingly the only two major villages participating the exams had a dominating presence. Dosu was the only candidate from the hidden sound village.

Namikaze Naruto vs Hyuuga Neji

Both the participants took their respective stances as the Hokage box filled with Namikaze Minato, fourth hokage of leaf and Rasa, fourth Kazekage of sand. Both were not on very good terms because of the fact that the Wind Daimyo started giving many high profile missions to leaf which has caused the sand to see a budget cut and financial crisis. Minato and Rasa were both very different people party to the same choices but in different circumstances. It was something which made both the kages respect each other although grudgingly. Along with them stood their bodyguards, Kushina and Hiashi Hyuuga for Minato while Baki and Yashamaru(A/N TELL ME IF THATS GAARA'S UNCLE'S NAME OR NOT) stood for Rasa.

Back to the battle field, Genma gave the signal, "Hajime" and both the combatants charged at each other. Neji using the coveted gentle fist in lieu with the Byakugan and being a prodigy was the favourite of the match eventhough his opponent was the Hokage's son. The track record Naruto had was not impressive to say the least, deadlast in the academy, failed the genin test twice, loudmouth with average skills. Only his physical abilities had made it possible for him to reach here and that too could not be credited to his hard work but the Uzumaki genetics he had. Nobody thought it was possible for Naruto to beat Neji.

As the made the first testing blow to each other and retreated, Naruto looked upto the Kage box to see Minato talking to Rasa. He clenched his fist and grit his teeth before turning back to Neji. This was not lost to Neji. They both charged to each other, Neji with fluid taijutsu and Naruto with his beat'em up brawler style, Neji said, "I do not know the source of your anger, but do not let it take over you." Another thrust from Neji on Naruto's chest was barely avoided by him as Naruto came back with a left hook to the face. A graceful parry from the Hyuuga was followed by a gentle fist to the shoulders to close its tanketsu and pushing Naruto to the ground. He spoke up again, after getting some distance between them, "You should give up and save yourself and your clan from disgrace. It will be my final warning to you." In response Nauto only stood up shakily and glanced at the Hokage box again. He saw Minato talking to Hiashi, who looked prideful at the performance shown by Neji. Naruto only looked back at the ground and stood there. Neji now having seen this whole scene and the tears that shimmered in Naruto's eyes could only be sypathetical. He knew how not having parental love felt. "You will not believe me, Naruto, but I know how you feel... But I am sorry, I cannot lose, because you are in my field of divination, Eight Trigrams- Sixty Four Palms" Neji said before rushing in and delivering- Two Palms, Four Palms, Eight Palms, Sixteen Palms, Thirty two palms and finally Sixty four palms.

Naruto, who did not even try to dodge the said attack, was promptly pushed to the ground from the force of the attack as the Hyuuga prodigy turned around to beckon the proctor. Genma was walking upto to Naruto to complete the formality of checking on the candidate but in his mind he knew that no one could simple take the dreaded gentle palm technique head on and continue fighting. Two metres from Naruto, Genma stopped in his tracks as he saw Naruto struggling to come back to his feet. Suddenly, Naruto raised his head, smirked at Neji and stood upright cracking his neck muscles. The whole stadium looked in shock as they saw Naruto practically unhurt from that assault. Minato looked up at Hiashi and nodded while they started concentrating on the fight. Naruto seeing Minato now looking at him, smiled before making a cross seal and shouting KAGEBUNSHIN NO JUTSU as a hundred clones took the field alongside him. There was one thing Naruto had on his side was numbers and hell would become cold if he did not use it. Neji, without a word activated his Byakugan and started decimating the army of clones. But as they say, an ocean is only made of many drops of water, the hits from the clones along with his depleting chakra reserves started to take a toll on him. He saw one Naruto standing away from the whole throwdown and smirked deducing that this was the orginal and ran to him o strike him, only to see it disappear in smoke as the original seemingly came out of the ground and hit Neji with an Uppercut. But the Byakugan was not called an all seeing eye for no reason as Neji seeing Naruto underground was able to strike Naruto on the chest as he came up. Both the competitors fell to the ground and the match came to an apparent stalemate. Genma went and checked up on a passed out Neji while he turned around to see a grinning Naruto who was basking in the cheers from the stadium and announced, "Winner Namikaze Naruto!"

It was only just as this announcement was given that the Hokage along with Hiashi and Kushina jumped down to the stadium. Naruto turned to face them and gave his parents a foxy grin. Minato moved towards Naruto who also ran to his father anticipating a hug from him but was caught on the shoulder by his father. Minato proceeded to unchain his Orange and blue jacket and saw chakra armour which had saved Naruto from all the chakra based gentle fist attacks. He looked at Naruto with a disappointed look on his face before taking Naruto's Hitai-ate from his forehead and telling Genma that Naruto had been disqualified for the use of illegal chakra armour.

There were gasps all around the stadium as Minato went to put his hand on Naruto's shoulder while saying, "Naruto, we will talk about this later in my office... there is no need to create a scene now, go home and do not disgrace the leaf..."

This seemed to have pushed Naruto over the limit ad he slapped away his father's hand harshly and looked up at Minato with tears streaming down his face saying, "Do you even have the time for that Tou-sama? If you did I would not have even been in this position. All you care about is the leaf, both you and Kaa-sama..." Kushina was shocked to hear the 'sama' that Naruto had used to address his parents. "... All I wanted was to make you proud of me thinking that if I won the exams then maybe you would pay some attention to me, spend some time with me, teach me..." he continued not caring about the hurt and guilt that flashed across his parent's face. ".. But it would never happen. I should have known that you never cared about me" he said now fully crying while looking at the ground.

The whole stadium heard what he said and there were murmuring that had started. Minato looked around the stadium and in a hope to quell the situation and not cause and incident and also to avoid having a bad position in the scene said, "This does not change the fact that you used an illegal tool. Namikazes never cheat; we live by the code of honour and duty."

Naruto showed wisdom beyond his years when he said, "What is illegal in war? Isn't that what these exams are? A substitute to war, you said so yourself before the preliminaries. In war one does anything he can to win, use any tool to survive because in war no one sees honour, everyone only sees victory. No matter how honourable we are, without victory our nation will fall and with it all the people in it. It is our duty to preserve this peace for the people whom we are fighting for; cheating is just another day in the life of shinobi, because it ensures victory and thus peace." Everyone was gobsmacked by what Naruto had just said, because it was arguably true. In normal life, shinobi are concerned with only one thing and that is winning so that they do not die, having an upper hand against your enemies. Ninja tactics like ambush, genjutsu, torture and interrogation were all examples of how deceit was essential for the shinobi life." Naruto continued with venom in his voice, "As for honour and duty, you saying it, makes you a hypocrite Hokage-sama as you have not adhered to it yourself. I have tried all these years to get your approval... but no more, I do not want your help, I'd rather die before accepting it..." Naruto took a kunai from his pouch and slashed his jacket sleeves from his shoulder which held the Namikaze symbol (A/N JUST REPLACE THE WHITE SWIRLS ON HIS SHOULDER WITH THE NAMIKAZE SYMBOL ON HIS ORIGINAL JACKET) and threw them behind him. Turning around and walking out of the chunin exam stadium Naruto said, "... No more, I am Namikaze Naruto no more, I am Naruto, My own person... My own self..." as he stamped on the jacket sleeves that held the Namikaze symbol in midst of a rapt silence in the stadium.

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YO GUYS! NEW STORY, THIS TIME A NARUTO STORY. OBVIOUSLY IT IS BASED ON THE BORUTO MOVIE AND WILL PROBABLY BE A ONE-SHOT OR A SHORT- MID LENGTH STORY IF I GET ENOUGH PEOPLE ASKING TO CONTINUE IT.

ON THE SAME NOTE- READ MY OTHER STORIES IF YOU LIKE THIS ONE, REVIEW, FOLLOW AND FAVOURITE PLEASE. PLEASE REVIEW OR PM ME TELLING ME IF YOU WANT ME TO CONTINUE THIS STORY AND IF YES THE GIVING ME SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PROGRESS THE STORY IN

1) PAIRINGS

2) SKILL AND BLOODLINES

3) SPECIALITY

4) HOW DO YOU WANT THE TIMESKIP

5) NEW SURNAME FOR NARUTO

6) WHETER HE STAYS IN KONOHA

7) OTHER SIMPLE SUGGESTIONS REGARDING THE STORY

THINGS THAT WONT CHANGE THOUGH

1) NARUTO WILL NOT FORGIVE THE NAMIKAZE

2) HE WILL NOT HAVE THE SHARINGAN OR MUKOTON

3) NO HAREMS BECAUSE I CANT WRITE THEM

4) HE WILL IDOLIZE SAKUMO HATAKE.

ALSO I LOVE NEJI AS A CHARACHTER ALONG WITH SHIKAMARU SO THEY WILL SEE SOME SCREEN TIMES IF I DO CONTINUE THE STORY SO SUGGESTIONS FOR THEM WILL ALSO BE APPRECIATED.

THANK YOU,

VATSAL A.