Naruto Namikaze walked down the street donning his new outfit that he had bought the day before with his older brother figure Itachi Uchiha. His mother's best friend was Mikoto Uchiha the Uchiha matriarch so it was only logical that their children got together well. Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Suki were Mikoto's two children with Itachi being the clan heir and older than the other two. Suki was the daughter of Mikoto and was six years old, just like Naruto yet she is 3 months older.
Suki was a spitting image of her mother with her dark hair flowing down to her mid-back contrasting against her pale lavender skin with the signature charcoal eyes of the Uchiha, she had her hair up in a high ponytail that reached her shoulders while bangs framed her face from the sides like curtains that were pushed back. On the flip side of the coin, Naruto was the spitting image of his father with his bright yellow hair and seemingly electric azure eyes, making him an adorable little boy. He did not have his father's feminine features though because his mom's side kicked in and gave him a more round face.
Naruto was taken out of his musings by arriving at the front of the academy and immediately brightened at the thought of getting strong and being a better Hokage than his father. He immediately deflated though when he noticed everyone with their parents and couldn't help but pout. His mother was on a C-rank mission with her gennin team and his father was working either in his office or somewhere else. He was broken out of his sullen mood when a hand landed on his head and ruffled his hair, instantly causing him to look up at the owner of the hand only to see the whole Uchiha clan head family.
Suki was on Itachi's shoulders and sticking her tongue out at him while Itachi smiled kindly at him since he saw Naruto as a brother and vice versa. Mikoto Uchiha was to the side giving an eye-closed smile with Fugaku having his normal blank look on his face just with a tad less grumpiness, showing he was in a good mood. Naruto gained a megawatt smile upon seeing the Uchiha family. "Good morning Naruto-kun." spoke the clan heir in his usual soft voice and Naruto couldn't help but return the greeting.
"Naru-baka-" whatever else Suki was about to say was cut off by an abrupt finger poking to the forehead by Itachi. She hissed in irritation and pain as she rubbed the spot. "Why'd you do that!" she whined, a cute scowl on her face. Itachi shook his head and reached behind him before picking the girl up by her armpits and placing her on the ground in front of Naruto.
"You shouldn't call Naruto-kun an idiot when he has done nothing to deserve such a name." he chided the girl who shrunk slightly under her brother's chastising. "Apologize," he ordered her and she instantly turned defiant and rounded on her brother but he simply poked her in the forehead again.
She grumbled while rubbing her forehead again, a red spot forming from the constant rubbing, and turned her attention to Naruto. He was wearing a sleeveless burnt orange hoodie with a dark blue t-shirt underneath and his signature visor on his face. He had dark green cargo shorts on with a pair of blue shinobi sandals on his feet. She rolled her eyes when she saw the orange visor on his face, she didn't know why he still wore those stupid goggles, it had been a weak gift.
Flashback
Suki was walking through the market area of the Uchiha compound with a slight frown on her face. Today was Naruto's fifth birthday and she had to think of a gift to get him in ten minutes and she was coming up with nothing that he deserved. For her fifth birthday, he had gotten her a wooden training bokken inside an elegant box with the Uchiha fan on it. She had been training with it since then and she wanted to get him something he would like and be able to use just as well as she can use the gift he gave her.
She passed by a store when she suddenly stopped dead right next to it before turning and looking at something in the window. She didn't know why, but for some reason, it screamed Naruto and so without a second thought she used the money her mom gave her and bought it before darting back to her house to get it wrapped.
The Uchiha's were the last ones to the party due to them having to wait because her father got slightly delayed due to a random case they had to run by him in the district.
When they did arrive at the Namikaze compound her mother went and hung out with Naruto's mother and her father went to talk business with the Hokage while her brother went to go talk to a silver-haired man. She decided to go find Naruto, her gift wrapped in her hands. She found him out back surrounded by the other clan children, Ino Yamanaka, Chouji Akimichi, Shikamaru Nara, Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka, and Hinata Hyuuga. She looked over at all the unwrapped gifts and saw all these expensive gifts like training weights and kunai sets and she looked down at her gift.
A small tear slipped out as she thought about it, he got her an amazing gift and she was supposed to be his best friend. She walked away and to the direction of the stairs to hide from everyone so they didn't see her cry.
Naruto had been listening to a story by Kiba on how his mom's companion dog lost its eye when out of the corner of his eye he saw Suki walking away, almost running. A frown came over his face and after a quick excuse, dashed off after her completely abandoning the others. He came to the patio door where he had first seen her and the direction he saw her going was the stairs so he decided his best shot at finding her was to head up the stairs.
He walked down the hallway of the second floor in wonder, trying to figure out where Suki would go at a moment like this. That was when he heard a sniffle. He stopped dead and strained his ears and there he heard it again, coming from the direction of his room. He walked to his room and found the door open slightly so he gently nudged it open and saw her on his bed, face in his pillows as she cried. Naruto was at a loss for what to do because he had never had to deal with a woman or girl who cried so he proceeded carefully.
He walked over to her before sitting on the bed next to her, noticing her freeze when he did so. "Ne Suki-chan, why're you crying?" he asked the raven-haired girl who stayed laying face down to avoid him seeing her tears. He noticed she wasn't going to answer him so he laid down next to her and poked her before repeating the question. She huffed before covering herself with his blankets. Naruto didn't understand why she was acting like this so he decided to find out and went under the blanket with her.
She still had her face in the pillows and he couldn't stop a frown from coming over his face as he thought of what to do. His eyes lit up in mischief before he decided to try and be nice. "Please tell me why you're crying," he whined but she shook her head to the best of her ability with her face still firmly planted on the pillows. Naruto let a predatory smirk come over his features as he reached down to her stomach and started tickling her with no remorse.
Itachi had once told him she was very ticklish and Naruto hadn't used it until now and now he was upset he hadn't used this before, her reaction to being ticklish was quite possibly the funniest thing he had ever seen.
She yelped before reaching down and trying to stop his hands but failed since she was too busy laughing and soon both children were laughing up a storm. In her struggle to get him to stop tickling her, both accidentally fell off the side of the bed in a tangle of limbs, sheets, and pillows. Naruto leaned his back against the bed as he got the blanket off his head to the point where his upper body was sticking out yet his legs were still under the covers.
Suki did the same as him a moment later and both sat there, panting from their little game. They both sat there for what seemed like forever before Naruto caught something out of the corner of his eye and couldn't help but let his childish curiosity overtake him and he grabbed it, much to Suki's horror. The wrapping was a bunch of fishcakes over a light blue background, instantly making Naruto pout. "It's maelstrom." he moaned as he tore into the gift while Suki was doing her best to look away.
Inside was a slim black box with the Uchiha fan on the front in red and white. He gently took off the top part of the lid and saw his reflection staring back at him from the orange-tinted glass. He softly took the orange visor like goggles from the box and looked at them. They were amazing in his opinion and he would definitely be wearing them for the foreseeable future and just to prove it he put them on covering his eyes in an orange tint. "It's great Suki-chan, dattebayo!" he exclaimed happily as he saw everything around him in his favorite color.
Suki still kept her gaze away from his, he might say he liked it but the other gifts were still much better than hers. "Why didn't you want me to see 'em?" he questioned the Uchiha girl next to him and that seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back as she started sobbing about how she was a bad friend and how he deserved a better gift for the one he gave her. He wrapped his arm around the hysterical girl's shoulders as he simply smiled softly. "Their gifts were good and so was yours. But it's not the gift, it's 'cuz it came from you." he whispered, instantly stopping the girl's sadness and tears.
"Besides, you look great in orange." he murmured and she couldn't stop the giggle that came out at his silly joke. She laid her head on his shoulder as he leaned his head on hers. "I'm tired Suki-chan." she would've rolled her eyes if she had the energy, she was tired too.
"Than go to sleep baka," she mumbled and both children were soon fast asleep, both having a content smile on their faces.
A few hours later everyone was about to bring out the cake for the birthday boy when they realized there was no birthday boy to be found. Everyone looked all around the compound while Itachi went up the stairs to the boy's room since he figured it would make sense for someone to be in their room. He was proven correct with a twist when he opened the door only to find his little sister and Naruto both laying against each other while sitting against the bed and the blanket covering their legs. The part that truly made him smile was when he saw the goggles and the smiles on their faces.
He activated his Sharingan to burn the image into his head before deactivating it. He stayed there simply watching them sleep when he saw his mother, father, Kushina, and Minato appears behind him in the hallway. Kushina then pushed in front of the group as she took out a camera. "They're cute together," whispered Kushina and everyone nodded in agreement to her statement. Kushina suddenly squealed and looked over at Mikoto, "Imagine blonde-haired Uchiha babies!" she delved into mother mode as she thought of all the possible children and everyone else couldn't help but shake their heads at how much she read into it.
Flashback end
That was one of her happiest memories, not that she would reveal that to anyone. "Oi! Suki-chan ya there?" asked the visor-wearing boy as he waved his hand back and forth in front of her face.
She scowled at the boy in front of her and she would have slapped the hand away if she didn't have to apologize. "Sorry about calling you a baka, you ba-" a finger poke to the forehead "Ugh, sorry about calling you a baka Naru." she pouted as she rubbed her forehead.
Naruto let a natural foxy grin come over his face as he dashed to the side of Suki and wrapped his arm around her shoulder and sweeping his other arm in a dramatic posture to the Academy. "A whole new world out there Suki-chan, and it's our job to beat it!" by now his eyes were shining with confidence and Suki couldn't help but be swept up in it and believe him. She didn't show this though and simply rolled her eyes, forgetting to remove the arm from her shoulders.
"Hey Itachi-niisan?" asked the young Namikaze heir.
"Hm?" the dark-haired boy replied dutifully.
"When'd you graduate the Academy?" at this question Suki looked up too, curious about her brother's prodigy-like skills.
"I graduated after four months in the Academy. Although I do not expect you to graduate that early Naruto-kun, neither of you." In an ideal world, Itachi would rather have both his sister and Naruto to grow up slowly not having to face the horrors of the shinobi world as young as him. They were not raised in a war, for that he is grateful but he doubted there would never be a war again and most likely in their lifetimes there would be another war but the question is what part would they play in such a war? He shook his head of the thoughts as he returned to the present and was about to say something before Naruto interrupted him in an explosion of childish confidence.
"Imma beat your score and graduate in three months Dattebayo!" he shouted and Fugaku scoffed in the back of the group while everyone else rolled their eyes.
"How about this Naruto-kun. If you graduate in three months I will have a good friend become your teacher on the side and he will gladly teach you everything he can, Deal?" he asked the boy, holding out his hand for the blonde to shake. Said blonde did gladly and without another word started walking away. "Where are you going Naruto-kun?" Questioned the dark-haired teen and without even turning Naruto answered.
"I gotta train hard!" and continued on his path.
"He's actually going to try and do it." Mikoto was in shock that Naruto was going to try and do such a thing and while she knew he was talented, she doubted he was that talented, Itachi wasn't even that talented and the boy had a bloodline to help him!
"Who would you get to train him?" asked Suki, now very curious why her brother would even say such a thing.
"I would have Shisui teach him. Shisui has been saying he needs someone to train and if Naruto can beat my time than Shisui could easily teach him since he has been dealing with me for years," he explained his reasoning and Suki nodded with a frown on her face. If Naruto really did finish that fast then he would be leaving her behind in the academy.
Itachi saw the look on her face and while he felt sympathetic to her, he didn't think Naruto could really get out of the academy that quick anyway so there was no reason to be sad. He walked behind her and quickly poked her in the back of the head making her lurch forward. "Go, don't be late on your first day," he told her and she gave a hurried nod and wave before darting off in the direction Naruto went.
"Class doesn't start for another twenty minutes." murmured Mikoto from behind Itachi and he didn't bother turning since he knew that already.
Suki found Naruto arguing with an Inuzuka and some other boys. She was going to come over when suddenly she saw Naruto punch the Inuzuka in the jaw making the brown-haired boy fall on his butt as the other three boys went to hit Naruto since he was smaller. Suki assumed the Inuzuka and others were a good three years older than them and she doubted Naruto could beat them all. She watched mesmerized as the bullies advanced on Naruto the blonde slipped in between one of the boy's legs before punching him in his private area.
The boy he hit collapsed as Naruto rolled away from the other two. They were, of course, bigger and stronger so Naruto had to dodge and use speed to his advantage. One swung at Naruto and he moved his head to the right to avoid the blow but forgot about the other bully and was hit in the stomach. There was suddenly a poof of smoke and instead of a blonde six-year-old, there was nothing there. The bullies didn't know what a Kage Bunshin was so they were stumped. The bullies looked around in confusion before one of the bullies got hit in the side of the head with a small stone, making him fall over in pain.
Naruto stood there panting slightly as he looked at the one bully on the ground and the one standing up. It took his mind a moment to register that there was three of them before he was suddenly grabbed from behind by the one he had punched. The boy had both of Naruto's arms trapped and the other bully was running at them, fist cocked back to hit Naruto in the face. They were not expecting the boy to fling his head back suddenly, hitting the boy holding him in the neck making him let go of Naruto to hold his neck.
Naruto ran at the boy running at him and ducked under the blow to kick him in the shin, causing him to fall in a tumble before getting up shakily. Naruto noticed how the blow to the shin had obviously hurt him and he used that to his advantage and ran at him as fast as possible which wasn't too fast considering his height and age. Naruto wasn't prepared for the Inuzuka to suddenly come out of nowhere and tackle Naruto making them roll as the bigger boy tried to get above him.
The Inuzuka was soon straddling Naruto and was punching him senselessly. After about the third punch Naruto replaced himself with the other bully which took a massive amount of stamina and chakra since replacing with a living being was very hard. Now Naruto was beaten up and tired but refused to give up. It took the Inuzuka a little while to realize he was punching the wrong person and by then the other bully was too injured to do anything.
One bully was knocked out by the rock to the side of the head, one had gone unconscious from asphyxiation, One had just been beaten up and now all that was left was the Inuzuka who had a small bruise on his jaw but other than that seemed okay. The Inuzuka rushed the smaller boy in a rage, his clan had short tempers so Naruto was somewhat expecting this and slid away as the boy tried to hit him but the bigger boy was fast so Naruto was constantly dodging so he didn't get hit.
The boy threw in a random leg sweep that caught Naruto off guard and made him fall, causing the Inuzuka to jump on him to keep him down. As the Inuzuka was swinging down on the boy to hit him, his arm was suddenly held back by Suki who was using all of her strength to try and hold him back. The Feral-looking boy snarled before launching his arm back, hitting the girl in the chest and making her fly back in pain. The next thing the Inuzuka knew was a blonde blur hitting him to the ground before barraging him with kicks punches and every kind of attack possible. He soon went unconscious from the pain of being hit so much.
Naruto growled before giving the bigger boy one last harsh kick in the ribs. He instantly dashed over to Suki and ended up sliding to her halfway there, his Uzumaki stamina was finding its limits. His face was bruised and his side was cut slightly and he was dog tired. He had a black eye but despite all of this he was still making sure Suki was okay. The girl herself was in a fair amount of pain for her but she powered through it and opened her eyes to see Naruto, bruised, bloody, and tired hovering above her. "You okay?" he asked her, despite his slightly cut lip he got the words out and Suki gave a shaky nod as she took in his features.
"Can you get my goggles?" asked the boy and she noticed they were a few feet away, they must have been lost somewhere in the fray. "You're more important right now," she spoke frantically as she swapped positions with him and hovered over him, curious about his condition. "Just go get the school nurse," he mumbled, eyes closing as he let darkness claim him. Apparently fighting four people bigger and stronger than you wasn't always the best plan.
Suki dashed off to go get the academy nurse but before she got ten feet the nurse was already there along with three other teachers. One teacher walked around and examined the other boys while the two other teachers looked at Naruto in wonder. The nurse was healing Naruto first before going to go heal the other kids. The nurse finished a few moments later and Suki was instantly right there, sitting next to him and waiting for him to wake up. "Go ahead and take him to his class Unai, he will be out for at least another hour or so." the nurse said, not taking her eyes off of the Inuzuka.
One of the men scanning Naruto suddenly walked up and picked the blonde up before walking off with him, Suki and the other teacher following.
Three hours later Naruto's eyes fluttered open as he took in his surroundings. His head was lying on something soft, there were walls and someone was talking. The memories hit like a blunt kunai and he instantly shot up into a sitting position, looking around frantically. There were dozens of kids in the class who were actually all looking at him now, including the teacher. A hand landed on his shoulder and he snapped his head around to look into the concerned dark orbs of Suki.
"We're in class and your dad was told about what happened," she answered all the questions in his head and he slowly nodded before laying back down in her lap. He didn't notice all of the other girls glaring at Suki or all of the guys glaring at him. The teacher resumed his teaching and most students returned their attention to him. Suki was ignoring it though and chose to instead run her hands through Naruto's blonde locks, they were unbelievably soft and very bendy. She and his mother had one time braided it and it looked awful but also hilarious.
Naruto's eyes watched the peaceful look on her face and he was glad she hadn't been hurt by those bullies. He didn't know if he would have stopped hitting that Inuzuka if she had been hurt badly, he absently wondered if he had broken any of their bones but disregarded the thought since he didn't care. Black locks fell in front of his face and he blew air out of his mouth only for them to return right in front of his face. He scowled as he blew it away again only for it to repeat it's actions. He absentmindedly continued to do that for the next twenty minutes and would have kept going if he wasn't stopped.
"Namikaze Naruto, what is the Shinobi village inside of Kaminari no Kuni?" asked the teacher, trying to get the blonde in trouble. "Kumogakure."(1) replied the blonde without even skipping a beat or lifting his head. The teacher cursed silently before returning to his chalkboard and lecturing the children on geography and how important it is to know where you are or where to go. "Wanna get outta here?" he asked the girl above him and she snorted in reply.
"They won't just let us leave." she murmured but Naruto simply grinned before grabbing her hand and dashing to the door. "We have to go to the bathroom!" he shouted over his shoulder as he and Suki got out to the hall. He made two Kage Bunshin and henged one into Suki and said girl gaped like a fish at his plan. Naruto was panting slightly from making two Kage Bunshin but other than that he was fine and both he and Suki walked away, going to go train in preparation for their next few months.
The three months had passed way too fast for Naruto's liking but he had the time he had been given and had not wasted a second of it. He had trained himself into the ground by weights to each limb. Every time he got used to them he would add another pound and currently they were ten's on his wrists, fifteen's on his legs and a twenty-five on his midsection. He had gotten weapon handling and throwing training from his father who literally used kunai as his weapon so now he had ten of his father's kunai strapped to each thigh. He didn't know the Hiraishin but these kunai were better due to not only the less weight but the unique shape made it easier to fight with thanks to the three blade tips.
He had basically isolated himself outside of the Academy in his families clan estate. His mother didn't like what he was doing because she was worried the boy was hurting himself but his father had convinced her to leave Naruto alone on the subject. Minato had been told by Fugaku why Naruto was doing it and he was honestly hoping the boy would do it, he could use it to hold over Fugaku's head as the better father. He had given his son the kunai after teaching him how to throw them.
His son was not yet on the same level as him with accuracy but he had years to practice and refine his skills similar to how he himself had done. He had even had an encouraging talk with his soon to further motivate him to do this and have an even stronger will.
Minato had walked to the back patio and saw Naruto practicing Katas for the Academy style. He was going to teach the boy the HummingBird later in his life but until then the boy would have to use the Academy style which while a good style was not nearly as strong as his own in terms of maneuverability nor strength. He had modeled it after the Hyuuga style with quick precise strikes and fast movements but it also contained normal fighting style elements such as kicks as opposed to the Gentle fist which was entirely made for hand-to-hand.
"Naru, come here for a sec," said the taller man as Naruto turned. The child inwardly cursed at not even being able to sense his own father who was twenty feet away but did not voice these things as he made his way over to his father, stopping his training. "This is a very admirable goal you have, beat a record and a prodigy. But are you sure you're up for it?" asked Minato as Naruto nodded with a big smile on his face.
"I like the confidence," commented the blonde as he put a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "You want a tip?" asked the man as his son looked up at him with a curious expression on his face. "Kage Bunshin transfers memories as you know." said the man as Naruto nodded slowly. "So, wouldn't that make it the ideal thing for training? You would be able to learn so many things so much faster. The only downside is that you can't use them for physical training, simply Ninjutsu and other things of that nature." The man had barely finished before Naruto had already made Fifty Kage Bunshin while barely batting an eye.
He truly envied the power the fox gave his son sometimes. That much chakra was insane, especially for a six-year-old. "Ja ne Naru!" he said as he walked back into the house, leaving a gaping Kushina at the door as she looked at the jutsu she could have been using to train with when young.
If the young Namikaze's training had been rough before, then that knowledge made it bordering on insanity. The boy would make dozens of kage bunshin every morning and have them do many separate things while he would do something physical such as running or punching a log, or push-ups and anything that would train his body. Because of this rigorous training, he had quite the metabolism and his mother and father had both refused him any ramen, making him eat nutritious things to keep his body in good condition for long days of training.
He was broken from his musings by Kushina's voice. "Sochi breakfast!" yelled Kushina as Naruto's eyes lit up in happiness at the prospect of food.
He was soon sitting at the table being greeted by a mixture of eggs and hashbrowns with sausage next to it on the plate. He greedily grabbed a fork, picking up the food and lifted it to his lips only for a hand to block the food's path. He sent an irritated glare to his father who didn't look up from the Konoha Daily paper he was reading. "You eat after the cook, you know the rules." the man said as he sent an irritated look of his own to Naruto who scowled but put his fork down.
His father and mother had only around five rules that he had to obey, he had to be in bed before eleven, no learning anything A-rank and above before being a gennin and even then they have to know of the technique, he couldn't wear a color of orange that wasn't burnt orange, not allowed to read Jiraiya's books, and you aren't allowed to eat before the person who cooked the food does. He sat there like the impatient child he was as he watched his mother wash her hands.
Today was the day he was going to take the exam and the day that would determine if he became a gennin and beat Itachi's record. He was both nervous and anxious for the exam. He knew he was a lot stronger than most his age and was very talented but he didn't know what the Exam was since no one would tell him so he had a feeling of doubt inside him that perhaps he had to survive in a spar against a Jonnin or something. He was broken out of his thoughts by the sound of forks clanking with plates and looked up to see both mother and father eating with smug grins on their faces as Naruto fumed.
He grumbled under his breath as he started gobbling down the food, ignoring the small chuckle both his mother and father shared in amusement of his misery. "So, do you feel ready to become a ninja Sochi-kun?" asked the red-headed woman across the table from him and before he could even answer his father did.
"Of course he does! He's a Namikaze and an Uzumaki, no way he's not ready!" shouted his father with exuberance, drawing an eye roll from Kushina and a snicker from Naruto.
"Yeah, I feel ready mom." the boy answered with a smile on his face and both parents returned the smile with their own as the family of three returned to eating. Breakfast soon passed and Naruto bound up with a yell as he made a dash for the door.
"Forgetting something?" asked a sickly sweet voice from the table he had just left and he turned robotically slow to see his mother with her hands on her hips, standing to the side of the table while Minato smiled as he put up the dishes. Naruto dashed back and gave his mother a firm hug which she returned happily. "Good luck." whispered the mother as Naruto smiled in her embrace. She really didn't want him to be graduating so soon but it was his choice and she would support it.
"I better receive a letter on my desk hearing that my son broke the record for earliest graduation," said Minato who had just finished putting on his cloak and patted Naruto on the head. Naruto removed himself from his mother's embrace and gave a quick smile and wave to both parents before dashing through the door. "See ya tonight," whispered Minato and gave Kushina a kiss on the cheek before disappearing in a yellow flash. Kushina smiled happily as she returned to doing housework and other things.
Naruto sat in his usual spot in the front with his head propped up on his fist as he listened to the usual morning greetings by the Academy instructor. Suki sat next to him and while she was bored too, she didn't show it as much and simply sat in her seat as she stared at the chalkboard in the front.
"... Now, any questions before I begin the lesson?" asked the instructor and Naruto sat up with a grin on his face, it was time. He raised his hand, and the instructor turned his head with a bewildered expression on his face. Naruto never really showed any interest in the class and usually either trained or it was a Kage Bunshin so these types of things never happened. "Yes, Naruto?" asked the instructor.
"I want to take the Academy Exam." said the boy and instantly children started muttering in the rows behind him and Suki stiffened next to him for reasons he didn't know. The instructor was surprised, to say the least.
"T-The Exam! Are you sure, you can only take it once every year and if you fail it won't be takeable for another year." warned the man as Naruto continued grinning like a fox.
"I don't plan on failing." said the young boy with confidence practically oozing out of him. The instructor gave a shaky nod and sat at his desk before going into a drawer and pulling out a piece of paper, scribbled furiously on it before finishing after a little while.
"Go to room J-12 and show this to the man in there." said the dark-haired chunnin instructor and Naruto stood with his grin even bigger than before.
"Wish me luck Suki-chan!" he exclaimed as he passed her and took the note from the instructor before bounding out the door, not noticing Suki be silent. She was currently biting her lip as she worried about him leaving her behind, not that she voiced these things. She secretly had the fear of being forgotten by him and she didn't want to be forgotten by him, she wanted to be his equal and do everything with him. She scowled as she realized she was going to need to train really hard to be useful to Naruto.
Naruto knocked on the door of J-12, hearing a voice allow him entry from the side and stepped through the door, note in hand. He was greeted with the sight of a normal-looking man sitting behind a desk, seemingly doing nothing but sitting there. "What are you here for, Namikaze-san?" asked the man at the desk, instantly making Naruto scowl before tucking it away. He hated it when someone addressed him by his last name, it meant they were being nice to him because of his father hopefully, that would change soon with this.
He walked up and handed the man the note his instructor had given him and after reading it over with the man's eyebrows rising and rising he turned up to the boy. "You sure?" asked the kid as he sized him up and down, no doubt not believing he could do it. Naruto nodded and the man sighed as he shook his head. "Well, to begin with, you'll take the written test." the man said as he handed Naruto a paper and a pencil. Naruto noticed how it had eighty questions making him groan internally.
He disliked sitting down and answering a series of questions about so many things because it was such a waste of time in his opinion. He sat down regardless and started the test, racking his brain for the answers as he did so. He turned in the test eighteen minutes later, causing the man to widen his eyes slightly. "That was fast," he muttered as he took the test before taking out an identical paper with all of the correct answers on it. The man compared them and would occasionally make a small mark with his pencil on Naruto's paper. He finished fairly soon and put the papers in a file which he tucked under his arm as the two stood.
"Now for your throwing accuracy test." the man said as they left the room and went outside to the training field for kunai and shuriken throwing. There were five stationary targets that had the same rough figure as a human torso. Each was farther than the previous one, the closest was ten feet away the second twenty the third thirty and so on. "You need to land at least five kunai and five shuriken on the closest, four on the second, three on the third, two on the fourth, and one on the fifth. You are not allowed past that white line," Naruto looked down and saw a white line a few inches from his foot. "You got it?" asked the man as Naruto turned to him.
"Can I use these instead?" asked the boy as he held up his father's signature kunai. The man was initially surprised at the special kunai but got over it fairly quickly.
"Sure, it's a kunai." said the man as he shrugged, causing the boy to nod. Naruto walked to the line and reached down to the box of shuriken in front of him. He picked out five and fitted them into his hands before lobbing them at the target with decent aim which showed itself as the shurikens landed, five in the red circle at the center. Naruto then reached down and fit three kunai in his right and two and his left before throwing them, three landing in the red circle of the head and two in the red body circle.
He then repeated the process for the next three and got perfect's on them. On the last one, however, he only got three of his shuriken in the red circle while the other two landed in the blue surrounding circle. Naruto shrugged as he didn't plan on using Shuriken in his ninja career so he did not care about how he slightly messed that up he still passed after all.
He turned to see the man, he still hadn't learned his name, scribbling again on a paper in the file before nodding and the two progressed to the field to the side which was a training area with just white chalk lining the outside to show boundaries. "Now, for the sparring session, you will have to last for the duration of at least two minutes or better. You are not allowed to use any Ninjutsu, Genjustu, or any kind of Kekkai Genkai nor weapons in this Taijutsu spar." the man said as he put his file on the ground next to the chalk and stepped into the area.
He held up his index and middle finger in the mutual sign of respect as Naruto copied him. "Begin!" exclaimed the man as he pounced on Naruto while holding back to the level he believed Naruto would be. Naruto did not hate many things, but there were a few that he did hate. Such as people sucking up to him to gain leeway with his father, not caring about him and only his surname, and underestimating him. He narrowed his eyes as he dodged the painfully slow kick and snapped out his own high kick, impacting with the chunnin's chest making him skid back a small amount in shock.
It had hurt a fair amount since it had made his lungs constrict painfully but he shook it off and realized his young opponent was not to be underestimated as he settled into a defensive stance making Naruto smirk at his opponent being serious. Naruto attacked first this time and dashed for his opponent's legs, trying to sweep them out from under him.
This man was not a chunnin for no reason though and stepped back, avoiding the leg sweep and struck out with his own leg trying to get Naruto while vulnerable. Naruto saw the kick coming but could not get away in time and was forced to try and block it and caught the foot with both hands before tugging on the leg causing the man to lurch forward, losing his balance as he did so just like Naruto wanted as he struck out with a fist to the midsection on the chunnin.
The chunnin coughed up some mucus he had in his mouth from the pain of the blow and had to quickly act to keep Naruto from completely beating him and caught the fist the boy sent at him before responding in his own, hitting the boy in the chin causing him to fall back from the strength of the blow by the bigger and stronger chunnin. Naruto grinned as someone fighting him for real as opposed to his father or mother who had to go easy on him.
He bounced back from the blow and now both fighters stood across from each other staring at the other with begrudging respect and soon the older man ran forward at high speeds before being in front of Naruto, swinging a fist for his face. Naruto swerved to the right to dodge the blow and while diving out of the way lashed out with a kick that hit the chunnin in the side of the ribs causing him to grunt in pain. Before Naruto could fully process it the chunnin was delivering an ax kick above him and Naruto didn't even know how he got above him that quickly but nonetheless formed his arms in a cross-block to at least lighten the pain of the blow slightly.
It still hurt badly though and Naruto's bones shook from the strength behind the kick and with a hiss of pain Naruto retracted from the situation and panted as he tried to think of a plan. He was not allowed this time though as the chunnin was yet again attacking Naruto with a leg sweep which Naruto hopped over bringing his arms down and swing both on his opponents head, trying to end the fight by knocking him unconscious. The man tried to avoid it and roll backward but barely dodged his head and got hit in the chest from the fists causing him to let out a weeze as he rolled away.
Now both stood across from each other tired and panting as they analyzed the other fighter. The older man soon attacked first and swung a fist for Naruto's head which he blocked but that was what the chunnin wanted since it was a faint and Naruto's other side was wide open. Naruto's eyes widened at falling for such a cheap trick as he was hit in the ribs with a hard punch making him grunt in pain due to the blow but his eyes showed with determination and worked through the pain before leaning forward and crashing his forehead against the man's nose hearing a satisfying crunch as he did so.
The man staggered back holding his nose which bled and soon removed his hands and held up a hand to keep Naruto from continuing. "Enough, the fight is over you passed with flying colors." it sounded a bit weird due to the man's voice sounding so nasally from the headbutt to the nostrils closing. Naruto nodded before falling on his back, dead tired as he panted in the air while laying on the dry dirt. The man left and Naruto simply lay there gulping in the air for a little while.
He smiled despite his exhaustion as he thought he did rather well on his test. He felt confident about the writing test and knew he did very well on the accuracy test and was fairly sure no one their age could push the instructor that much. Regardless of these facts, there was a small amount of lingering fear inside him.
He must have laid there longer than he thought because the man returned with tissue in his nose, a bandage over the cut he gave the man his file in hand. "Sorry about your nose Instructor-san." he apologized to the man who simply waved it off.
"No problem kid, you did good, really good. For the writing test, you got seventy-seven out of eighty which was definitely passing. For the accuracy, you got forty-eight out of fifty, again very good and definitely passing. For the spar, you lasted seven minutes and almost beat me, definitely passing. So, out of two hundred potential credits you got One-hundred-ninety-five, an almost perfect score. Congratulations Naruto Namikaze, you are now a gennin of Konoha." the man said with a smile as Naruto's eyes gleamed.
In the Hokage office, Minato was signing off on an export for a special kind of food the Inuzuka needed to be imported from Fang Country for their companions when he heard it. "WHOOOOOOOO!" he heard the happy whoop of his son from the Academy training field causing him to softly smile in pride as he knew what his son had achieved. He snorted softly before returning to the paper, shaking his head at the strength of his son so young.
In the Academy itself, Suki was sitting bored in Naruto's old seat as she watched the instructor explain stuff she already knew when she heard it. "WHOOOOOOOO!" shouted the blonde boy she had a crush on and she looked out the window and saw Naruto sitting in the dirt with his arms in the air while one clutched a headband.
"What is it Suki?" asked the instructor as she smiled.
"Naru passed," she said and most gasped before flying to the windows to see what she saw. A pit of ice formed in her gut though as she realized he was going to be moving on without her.
Itachi stood in the tree inside the Academy Training Field next to Shisui and both had watched everything Naruto had done. "That is your student Shisui," said Itachi as Shisui dumbly nodded, surprised someone could possess the ability to pass the Academy so young.
"I'm lookin' forward to it," said Shisui as he donned a smirk similar to the one Naruto wore a few minutes ago.
Naruto sat at his families dinner table with a big group of people who had heard the news and had come. Minato had sent a message to Jiraiya but the man was out of the village at the moment so even if he got it it would be a while before he could get to Konoha. There was still a substantial amount of people there to celebrate Naruto being the youngest to graduate from the Academy. Fugaku's family was there, Shisui was talking with Itachi to the side as both cast glances to Naruto constantly.
Mikoto was talking with Kushina as the two did something in the kitchen that Naruto was apparently not allowed to know about. His father and Fugaku were having a macho contest by comparing whose son is better. Naruto himself was in the backyard, with his feet on the first of the three steps while his body was laying down on the patio itself with Suki next to him in a similar position. Naruto was content and thought Suki was too but he was wrong since on the inside she was a hurricane of emotions.
"So, you're a gennin now," stated Suki as she stared up at the blue sky. Naruto was oblivious to her true feelings and thought she was just making conversation and kept his eyes closed as he grinned.
"Yeah, I beat Itachi-niisan and now I gotta do the other things he did better!" he said as he raised a hand to the sky. "I gotta show I'm strong too, not just use my dad's fame for stuff!" he exclaimed as he closed his fist on the sun.
(1) Naruto knows all about the history, geography, and all things related to that after Kushina teaching him in Geography and history to show Uzushio history as well as make him more knowledgeable for future.