I wanted to try something different. I think a female Naruto would make the story incredibly awesome. Enjoy!


A blond girl woke up on the day of the final exam at the Ninja Academy in the Hidden Leaf Village of the Fire Country. She stood up and stretched. She was wearing a white tank top and some boxers. She walked into the bathroom and took a shower. She then stopped at the mirror in the bathroom and looked at her face. She had deep blue eyes that were filled with emotion. She had full lips and strange whisker-like marks on her cheeks. She tried everything to hide the marks on her face, even getting desperate enough to use a genjutsu on her face, but no luck. She sighed and walked into her room..

She pulled her long hair into a single pony tail at the top of her neck. She got dressed in an orange pair of shorts and an orange half shirt, stopping over her belly button, with a black mesh shirt underneath that. She pulled some black training socks (thick stretchy material designed to squeeze the muscles and make them work harder, usually missing the toe and ankle portions). She then pulled the ninja shoes over that. She took off out the window, heading straight to the Academy.

She arrived at the Academy, instantly going to her seat in the back of the room. She looked at Sasuke, a black haired, black eyed, pale skinned kid sitting a few rows ahead of her in order to stare out the window. The rest of the kids were rowdy, causing a lot of noise and making her want to tell them to shut up. She even contemplated doing that when Iruka-sensei, the teacher for the class walked in.

"Alright everyone, when your name is called proceed into the next room. You will be tested, then you will return out here to wait. Once everyone has completed their test, you will be told your result. The first examinee is," Iruka stopped to look at a list, "Akimichi Chouji." Chouji walked into the next room. The rest of the students milled about until their name was called, still talking but quieter than before. The blond girl sat glancing up at Sasuke everyonce in a while.

Sasuke eventually felt that he was being stared at and looked around, meeting the blond girls eyes after a moment. The blond girl blushed slightly and stuck her tongue out at Sasuke who frowned and furrowed his brows. His face then twisted into a smirk. The blond girl then glanced around, her blush growing deeper. Sasuke returned to staring out the window.

Out of everyone that claimed to be in love with him, and even those that didn't, the blond girl was by far the cutest in Sasuke's opinion. She openly challenges him, made him her rival and was fairly strong in her own right. Sasuke liked this girl. But this girl's name was a mystery to all those but the teachers. The teachers knew everyone by name so it was unnecessary for them to call role, they even received pictures on the first day of school so they didn't need to do it there. Today would be the first day in hearing this girls name. Sasuke hid his interest by being disinterested and trying to stay as far away from everybody as possible.

"Uchiha Sasuke," Iruka called after about half an hour. They were already reaching the end of the test entrants. Sasuke stood up and looked at the blond haired girl one last time. She had a defiant look on her face, thrown off by the soft blush on her cheeks that were accented by the strange whisker marks. Sasuke smirked again and walked into the next room.

The blond girl knew she was next, there were only two people with a 'u' in their last name. Sasuke was one, she was the other. Sasuke came out a few moments later and looked back up at her. She stood up even before Iruka called her name.

"Uzumaki Naruto," he called. Naruto walked down the steps, bumping into Sasuke on the way down. She walked into the exam room and stood in front of the Hokage and a few teachers from the school.

"To complete this exam, you need to successfully do the transformation jutsu followed by the clone jutsu," a teacher said. Naruto sighed in dismay, she never could do the clone jutsu. She put her hands in the ram seal position and started focusing his chakra, before transforming successfully into Iruka.

"Good, now for the clone jutsu," a different teacher said.

Naruto dispelled the transformation jutsu and put her hands in the ram position again to focus chakra. Then she immediately switched to the snake, then tiger positions and tried to do the clone jutsu. Around her, four clouds of white smoke appeared. Four clones of her appeared, and stayed. She was amazed, then she realized something. She'd been focusing too much chakra into the jutsu. Previously she'd only been trying to create one clone, she created four using that same amount of chakra.

"Good, go wait outside," a teacher said.

"Hai," Naruto said, her voice was light and slightly melodic. She caught the eye of the Hokage, who before then failed to recognize her. She was the only daughter of the Yondaime Hokage, born on the day he died. He had lost track of her since 5 years ago, when she started working at a ramen shop. What was the name of it? Ichiraku's he thought.

"Hokage-sama, this is the list of passing ninja from the class. We need you to look over the list and approve everyone before we can hand out the hitai-ate's," the teacher sitting to his right said.

"Yes yes, of course," the Sandaime Hokage, also known as Sarutobi Hiruzen, replied distractedly. He looked over the list reading each of the names as well as how successful they were at the jutsu required of them. He noticed that Naruto wasn't on the list. Even though he didn't really see the jutsu as he was reading mission reports when he glanced up as it was dispelled he thought it was a passable transformation. "Why isn't Uzumaki Naruto on this list?"

"She still had the whisker marks on her cheeks when she transformed into Iruka, and her clones were pale," the teacher to his left said.

"The whisker marks can't be removed or covered up. Kurenai, the queen of genjutsu, couldn't make them unseen with her stongest genjutsu. Her chakra supply is large, thus her chakra control is minimal. You were lucky that she was able to make them stand. However, if it is a proper clone jutsu you want, then I will show you one," Sarutobi said. "Iruka!" he called.

"Yes Hokage-sama?" Iruka said stepping through the door.

"Tell the kids that their graduation will be announced at sunrise tomorrow, and tell Uzumaki Naruto to report to my office immediately."

"Hai Hokage-sama," Iruka said stepping back through the door and relaying the information to the students.

A few minutes later found Naruto standing in the Hokage's office, looking out the window over Konoha. She didn't even realize that the Hokage was in the room. The Hokage was looking at her with a small smile on his face. None but the Hokage ever looked out the window like that. The reason for that is the need to see what they so cherished and reconfirm their protective thoughts over the village.

"I see you found my favorite view of the village," he said walking up to his desk.

"Sorry Hokage-sama," Naruto said walking back around to the front of the desk.

"Don't be sorry, it is a nice view isn't it?" Sarutobi said looking out the window like Naruto just was.

"It is a very nice view, I wish my apartment had such a good view. However, I was told to report to your office. It would be appreciated if we could get to business so I can go train," Naruto said politely.

"Hahahahaha, very eloquently said Naruto. I guess I shall oblige you," Saruto said. He walked over to his bookshelf and pulled out a scroll. He opened it to the first jutsu on it and tossed Naruto a blank scroll. "Copy all the notes and everything about this jutsu onto that scroll. You have until an hour before dawn to get this jutsu down. At that time, you are to report to my office."

"Hai Hokage-sama," Naruto said pulling out a marker. She began copying the jutsu notes, the single hand seal, and chakra levels necessary for the jutsu. It took her almost 10 minutes to copy everything. She then rolled both scrolls up and returned the original to the shelf and started to walk out.

"Naruto?"

"Yes?" Naruto said before stepping out.

"Tomorrow, after the graduation ceremony and you meet with your sensei, report here."

"Hai," Naruto said and left.

She went straight to the nearest training field and pulled out the scroll. She already memorized the hand seal and name of the jutsu, but she read the jutsu notes such as: 'Start off only making one clone. This jutsu consumes more chakra than regular clones due to the fact that these clones are solid. These clones can help you in battle and even do damage to the opponent, but are easily dispelled. They usually only take one hit to be dispelled.' Naruto practiced for hours, working until the sun had set and moon had risen. At around midnight, Naruto was sitting on the ground reading the scroll again to try and pick up on any tips she might have missed.

Naruto then stood up and focused his chakra. She made the handsign for the jutsu and said "Shadow clone jutsu!" and a cloud of white smoke appeared. When the smoke cleared, standing in front of her was an exact replica of her. It had a shadow, which meant that it was solid. Naruto looked at it in wonder before she felt the drain on her chakra. She winced a little before continuing to study the clone.

"You know, if you keep staring at me like that I might get nervous," the clone said. Naruto jumped, she wasn't expecting it to be able to talk as regular clones couldn't. She then understood why this clone jutsu wasn't taught at the academy. It was a higher ranking jutsu, probably A-rank, and could communicate and interact with its environment as if it were real.

"Well this is my first time creating you, I wanted to check out how well I did," Naruto said.

"I think you did pretty good. I mean, I am standing right in front of you, I am talking to you, and I am solid, so I'd say success," the clone said.

"Hey, wanna have a quick sparring match?" Naruto asked a little perkier than she was feeling at the moment.

"Sure, remember what the scroll said though. One good hit and I will be dispelled," the clone stated before falling into a fighting stance.

"I know, I know. I'm not going to lose to myself though," Naruto said jumping at the clone.

The clone ducked under the roundhouse kick and sent a punch up at Naruto. Naruto twisted in air to avoid the uppercut. She put her hands on the ground and spun on them sending another flying kick at the clone. As soon as the clone blocked it, Naruto pushed off the ground and punched at its stomach. The clone jumped backward before switching from defensive to the offensive. It sent a punch at Naruto, who dodged leaning to the side and then kicked at her. As soon as it saw the block being brought up to block at the ankle, the clone retracted the kick at the knee and rammed the knee into Naruto's stomach. Naruto stumbled backward, out of breath for a moment. The clone jumped forward to try and knock her out, but Naruto jumped to the side to avoid it and then punched at the clone. The clone ducked under it and sent a punch to Naruto's face. Naruto leaned her head back at the neck, and brought up a knee into the clones stomach. The clone disappeared in a cloud of white smoke, same as it entered, and Naruto breathed a sigh in relief.

As it was almost 5, Naruto rolled up the scroll and tucked it into her kunai pouch and set off to Konoha. She stopped at her apartment to shower quickly and change, then headed back out to the Hokage's office. She entered the office and greeted the Hokage and looked at the four exam teachers from the day before.

"Good morning Naruto. I wanted you to study that jutsu yesterday because these teachers here doubted your ability to create clones. Truthfully, that plain clone jutsu you did yesterday was terrible. However, I wanted to test your true abilities so I gave you a better form of clone jutsu. Would you kindly perform the jutsu for us?"

"Hai Hokage-sama," Naruto said. He did the hand seal and said, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" there was a puff of white smoke as usual. The teachers were smirking because they thought that since they couldn't do said jutsu, and not through lack of trying just through lack of the chakra resources, an academy student wouldn't be able to. However their jaws dropped to the floor upon seeing a perfect copy of Naruto standing there. The clone had a shadow, and it even had a different expression than Naruto.

"Gentlemen, I believe that Naruto passes the requirements of the graduation test therefore is able to be promoted to genin. I as Hokage, grant you Naruto the title of genin. Report to the Academy graduation to receive your hitai-ate and wear it as a proud ninja of Konoha," Sarutobi said.

"Thank you Hokage-sama," Naruto said before walking out of the room with the shadow clone.

"Oh and Naruto, don't forget to report here after meeting your sensei!" Saruto yelled after her.

"Hai!" Naruto yelled back. Sarutobi smiled. This kid was going to be strong. The teachers added Naruto's name to the list of graduating students and handed the list to the Hokage. Sarutobi signed off on it, permitting the graduation, and handed it to Iruka who just walked in.

"This is your list of graduating students, and this," Sarutobi pulled a paper from a file on his desk, "is the list of genin teams with their jounin senseis." Be sure to give it to the genins at the graduation.

Iruka took both papers and went straight to the academy. He wrote the teams on the chalkboard behind him and pulled the curtain over it. He then went out to the stage set up outside and sat in his chair.

A few minutes later Sarutobi gave a speech about the upcoming trials in all passing students' lives. He then handed the stage off to Iruka who started to call off names and stating whether they passed or not and then sending the ones who passed into the classroom. After the ceremony, Iruka went to the classroom and stood in front of the curtained board.

"Congratulations to all passing genin. You have completed the first step to becoming ninja: finishing the academy. Now you will be placed on teams and be expected to train hard together in order to be able to pass the chunin exams, but don't worry. That still has a long time yet. Written on the board behind me is your team and sensei. You will remain in this room until your sensei picks you up," Iruka said pulling the curtain back. Naruto and Sasuke looked at the board expectantly.

TEAM 7: UZUMAKI NARUTO, UCHIHA SASUKE, HARUNO SAKURA.

Naruto looked at Sasuke, who looked back. A pink haired girl threw herself at Sasuke.

"Sasuke-kun, we are on the same team. Can you believe it? You and I can work together, go on missions together and train together and," she said.

"You," Sasuke interrupted, "are annoying."

Sakura's face fell. She felt so crushed. All she wanted was for Sasuke to like her but he rejected her every time. Sakura hear laughing and looked around. She saw that Naruto, the blond with average scores, was laughing at her. Sakura looked at her angrily and opened her mouth to say something when she disappeared.

"Hey, if you don't hurry up sensei will leave you behind," Naruto said walking out the door. Sakura jumped and ran out the door. She couldn't believe that she was so distraught from Sasuke's rejection that she didn't even notice every other team get picked up and her own sensei come in and leave. She berated herself and promised that she would be more attentive. She caught up to them at the staircase leading up to the Academy.

"Nice of you to follow us Sakura, please have a seat with the rest of them." The silver haired jounin waited for her to sit comfortably on the opposite side of Naruto. "Good, now how about you all tell me something about yourselves. Names, hobbies, likes and dislikes, dreams. Stuff like that," he said smiling through his strange mask.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I have no hobby other than training. I have no particular likes, but I hate pretty much everything so it doesn't matter. I don't have any dreams, but I do have a goal. I want to remake my clan and there is a certain man I have sworn to kill," Sasuke said with what could only be described as anger in the last part of that sentence.

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. My hobbies are stargazing, and training. I like ramen. I don't like having things forced on me at the last minute. My dream is… No, scratch that. I WILL be Hokage someday," Naruto said with conviction.

"My name is Haruto Sakura. My hobbies are flower picking and pressing, and reading. I like…" she trailed off and looked at Sasuke. "I don't like anyone talking bad about anyone I care about and being laughed at. My dream is to catch the attention of someone special," Sakura said getting quieter at the last part.

"Good good. Now, tomorrow…"

"But sensei aren't you going to tell us about you?" Sakura said.

"Oh I guess I should, huh?" the jounin said. "My name is Hatake Kakashi. My hobbies are reading. I like to train and I don't like the people I want to protect getting hurt. I don't really have a dream but if I had one, it would've already come true." Kakashi smiled at them again and then continued with what he was saying earlier. "Tomorrow, meet me at training ground three at 8 in the morning. Don't eat breakfast because you will puke. You will be doing a survival excersize for me to judge your abilities. I will explain the details tomorrow." And with that, Kakashi disappeared.

Naruto stood up and dusted off the back of her shorts. She then jumped off onto a roof and sped toward the Hokage's mansion. She knocked on the door and entered once told. "You wanted to see me after I met with my sensei," she said.

"Yes. I wanted to discuss something that probably would've been easier years ago. The issue of your parentage," Sarutobi said seriously.

"You… You're going to tell me who my parents were?" Naruto said slowly with surprise.

"Yes, I will. And afterward, if you so choose, you can move into their house. It has remained untouched since their death on your birthday," Sarutobi said. Naruto was looking at him with a desperate look on her face, a look that said 'come on, say it already!' "Your mother's name was Uzumaki Kushina, one of the last of her clan. Your father and husband to Kushina was none other than Namikaze Minato, one of the last of his clan. Their downfall was during the attack of the kyuubi thirteen years ago. At which point… maybe it is best that I share that info once you settle down a bit," Saruto said looking at the thoughtful face on Naruto.

Her face spoke of disbelief, but recognized that as Hokage he shouldn't have lied to her. Naruto looked up and asked, "He sealed… the Kyuubi… into his own daughter?"

"Wha…" Sarutobi stuttered, she was not supposed to know about that. "How did you find out?"

"It spoke to me while I was training a few years ago. I ran out of chakra while I was practicing the clone jutsu, and it promised me power if I removed the seal on it. I said no because I didn't trust it, but it said that the Yondaime … my father, sealed it in me," Naruto explained slowly, still trying to recover from the shock that her father was the Fourth Hokage.

"I see… Anyway, as I said earlier, if you want to you can move into the Namikaze house. It is rightfully yours," Sarutobi said, glad that the law he passed was still taken seriously.

"I… I think I will," Naruto said.

"Alright, just move your stuff into it whenever you are ready. Here are the keys," Sarutobi said tossing some keys in the air. Naruto caught them and turned around. "Naruto, make sure you train hard so you can make him proud, okay?"

Naruto nodded without turning around and continued out the door. She walked to the Namikaze residence, a goodly sized two story building with a small front lawn and a large fenced in area behind the house. Naruto turned the key in the lock and it clicked open. Naruto pushed the door open and stepped in the dark room. She took his shoes off at the step in the foyer and continued into the living room. The furniture had white dust-covered sheets on them to protect them from the dust. Naruto removed all the sheets and tossed them in a corner. She then looked out the window in the back of the house. There was an overgrown garden in the backyard. She walked up the stairs and went into the first room. There was a crib, obviously intended for her, and some toys on a dresser. Naruto opened the dresser and saw several baby sized outfits. She closed the drawer and left the room, closing the door behind her.

She continued down the hall, opening all the doors and seeing three regular bedrooms with empty bookcases and dressers as well as two bathrooms. She opened the last door on the top floor. Inside was a king-size bed, two dressers, two closets, and two bookcases that were full of scrolls and books. She walked in and opened the closets and dressers, seeing the clothes her parents wore. She looked through the books and saw many on fuuinjutsu, the art of sealing sealing jutsu that Minato was fond of. Naruto took the white sheet off the bed and laid down on it. She started crying into the pillows and no matter how hard she tried she couldn't stop. If you would've asked her why she was crying, she wouldn't have an answer. The tears just came. She eventually cried herself to sleep. Her dreams were wrought with tears and fire and the image of the Yondaime Hokage fighting the Kyuubi…


Author's Note:

So what did you think? I don't thnk I did too bad, I wanted to rewrite the entire story. However, if you change one small fact in the Naruto story, the whole thing changes. Anyway, please review! Please?