Hey guys, i know it's been i while since i updated on my last story and a scarce few of you may wonder where it went, in answer, i simply deleted it. I had this sudden idea and i can't let it slip past. So I'll put the old story up again eventually, if i even manage to finish this. I just can't seem to get any interest in a story beyond a very small point, but I'll try and get one or two chapters up on this, we'll see.
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Leaf village ninja academy-exam day
"We will now start, the final exam, when you're name is called proceed to the testing room. the final test will be on, The clone jutsu." called out a man from the front of a classroom full of twelve year olds. He had brown hair, which was pulled into a high ponytail, along with a navy blue suit, green flack jacket with a red spiral on the back and a headband with a piece of metal attached with a leaf symbol. His most distinguishing feature was a scar on his face that formed a straight line across his nose. "Also, Naruto, due to your condition you will be given an alternate test" he continued. "first candidate, Shino Aburame
-30 minutes later-
Naruto was standing in a large circle with Mizuki standing cross from him "Naruto Uzumaki" he began "you are taking this exam instead of performing the clone jutsu due to your inability to use chakra" a man sitting to the side of Iruka explained, he had the same clothing as Iruka, with straight, shoulder-length, white hair. "your test will be simple, but difficult, you need to prove that you can match a gennin despite your lack of chakra, you will have to face me in an all out fight, if you can 'survive' two minutes you pass. You will have three chances and one will be used up every time Iruka see's an opening that i could have exploited and killed you with in a real life battle situation, any questions?" Mizuki finished. moving into a stance. Naruto just held up his fists, a confident smirk plastered to his face.
"No problem at all sensei" he grinned. "just don't get too sad when you lose"
-ten painful seconds later-
"Naruto" Mizuki said, standing across the circle from Naruto, who was splayed out across the ground and covered in bruises "do you know why you lost" he asked.
Naruto got up cautiously, making sure not to touch any part part of himself that was hurting.
"yeah" he started, grimacing before he continued "because you're way too tough to be the person to test for this exam" he ground out, causing Iruka too speak up in a calm and specific manner.
"no Naruto, you got beaten, and quite badly at that, because you simply don't have the skill in tai-jutsu to become a gennin on that alone" Naruto's eyes widened.
"now, now Iruka" Mizuki said consolingly "that's a bit harsh, very few people suffer from a sickness that can cause them to lose there ability to use ninjutsu" he started "and fewer have the guts to continue through the academy when they discover it. Only three or four people have ever managed to pass a ninja without the use of it in the history of the leaf village, and most of them haven't made it far. Don't you think you could cut him some slack?" Mizuki reasoned. Iruka solemnly shook his head.
"I'm sorry Mizuki, and you too Naruto, but he can't pass, his form is sloppy and he either overextends his punch's, causing a loss in balance and a huge opening or doesn't reach a great enough distance to cause damage." Iruka explained "Naruto, put simply, you just don't have the physical build to get by on tai-jutsu, you don't have the money to get an effective ninja weapon and even if you did, without chakra you can't enforce it, it would be incapable of withstanding situations in combat. You have to face facts, there have been ninja who can't use ninjutsu, but you, you're different Naruto. You have more physical strength than most jounin, but you can't even use chakra. Because of this your physical strength can be countered by even the gennin in your class because they can boost there own strength. It can't be done, and the only reason you're still in the academy is because we can't actually drop a person from the shinobi program without some form of confirmation from the Hokage. You know all this but still you try. The fact is that without chakra the human body reaches a limit, and that limit is surpassed by even new gennin." Iruka continued in a tired tone, glancing up at Naruto he said one last thing. "the truth is that you can never be a ninja, no matter what."
-8 hours later-
'I'll show you Iruka sensei' thought Naruto, a determined look on his face Mizuki sensei said that this scroll would have something that would let me use chakra. And I've already copied down every jutsu in it, he said that using the correct two jutsu in concert would give me the ability to use chakra as well as enough power to pass as a genn-.
"Naruto Uzumaki" came Irukas voice, breaking Naruto from his thoughts "what are you doing, stealing the scroll of sealing" he sounded angry, that was odd.
"okay sensei, just give me a few more seconds to find the right jutsu combination then I can show you that i can be a Gennin. That's how it works right." Naruto said enthusiastically. Iruka seemed to very suddenly lose the angry look to his face. "what gave you that idea, nothing in there can be used by you, the reason everybody is looking for is because of the risk that you were running away and taking the scroll with you."
Naruto held up the scroll "Mizuki-sensei told me, believe it, he told me where to find the scroll and this place and..." he suddenly trailed off seeing Irukas look.
'huh, Mizuki?' Iruka turned his head hearing a telltale buzzing "Naruto look out" he said, quickly pushing Naruto away just as a flurry of kunai came shooting at him, several of them impaling him im movement limiting position like the thighs and shoulders. "so that's the way it is" he grunted "I should have known" Naruto looked up from the place that the kunai had come from, seeing Mizuki. "Naruto" he said, his voice full of urgency "give me the scroll now" Naruto nervously looked between Iruka and Mizuki.
"wait a minute whats going on here?" there were highly visible drops of sweat falling off of him. Iruka hurriedly pulled a kunai from his shoulder "Naruto, don't let Mizuki get the scrolled" the scarred chunin commanded as he threw the kunai away "it contains forbidden jutsu, that could put this village in grave danger, Mizuki used you to get the scroll for himself, for his own power" he explained. Naruto crouched slightly, ready to defend himself.
"Naruto" Mizuki said soothingly "Iuka's just trying to scare you because he doesn't want you to have the scroll" he tried to explained, Narutos dropped his defensive position, a questioning look on his face. He turned to Iruka, who was just starting to recover from being hit by the kunai. He grit his teeth, "stop lying Mizuki, don't let him trick you Narut-"
"hahahaha, oh I'll tell you who's really lying" Mizuki said, ignoring Irukas warning to stop "they've been lying to you you're whole life Naruto, since the decree twelve years ago. Naruto stared up at him curiously. "w-what, decree?"
"everyone knows except you, Iruka's trying to hide it from you even now, he'd do anything to shut me up" Mizuki hinted, intentionally increasing Narutos curiosity. Inside he was grinning like mad, the more curious he made the young boy in front of him the more devastating the news would be, Naruto would be immobilized and Iruka would be almost useless trying to defend the weakling. It all fell into place. He grinned almost evilly, again barely paying attention to Irukas warnings that telling Naruto was forbidden, the fool was just making things easier. Saying something was forbidden would only make a person like Naruto more curious, more curiosity, more devastation. He was going to mentally break Naruto with this news. "the decree is no-one can tell you the nine-tailed fox is in you" he could see Naruto freeze up, see his eyes widen, he was now nothing but a combat liability, a few more pushes would break him.
"the fox spirit that killed Irukas parent and destroyed our village has taken over your body, you are the nine tailed fo-" "just be quiet" Naruto suddenly whispered. Mizuki raised an eyebrow "oh, is the great nine-tailed fox angry, well too bad, you can't even use chakra while your sealed into that body, the lowest of gennin could defeat you, I'm a chunin. And I'm going to show you the pain you showed those families" he taunted, closing his eyes and smirking "I didn't come here just to fight you" he began, before he opened his eyes, his smirk taking on an insane look "I came here to violently eradicate you" he said, before a sudden weight pressed down on Naruto, he immediately went to his knees, while Iruka narrowed his eyes.
'Killing intent? Why would he use this, I can easily fight without this hindering me in the slightest, he's just wasting his energy' Iruka began to strategize to defeat Mizuki, before he widened his eyes and turned to Naruto, still on his knees 'but for Naruto, he doesn't even have chakra, this weight would press in on him from all sides it would break him, he just can't make it, how can i stop thi-'
"I told you to be quiet" Naruto whispered, slowly forcing himself to his feet. Irukas eyes widened 'this. This isn't countering killing intent with chakra, this isn't even an immunity, he's forcing his way through the killing intent with nothing but pure willpower. This should be impossible' Mizuki raised an eyebrow "what's this, you want to play, you, the demon responsible for the destruction of out village, for the death of our comrades are telling me to-" "be QUIET!" Naruto yelled out, looking up into Mizukis face, the Killing intent not even showing in his eyes "what you just told me is forbidden, you said that yourself, by telling me you've broken the law. What makes you think that have the right to say I killed our comrades, our that this is OUR VILLAGE, TRAITOR!" he said before a pillar of blue energy suddenly enveloped him. Both Iruka and Mizuki shielded their eyes.
'what is this' thought Mizuki 'this isn't chakra, but it isn't from the nine-tails either... What is he doing?!' he shouted to himself. Suddenly the energy dispersed revealing Naruto, he had a sword strapped along his back, the blade was six feet long, one foot wide with a slight curve down its length, along with a foot and a half long handle with two small tassels on them. Mizuki just raised an eyebrow, was a sword all that the demon brat could get, it wouldn't make a he looked over to Iruka, 'the fool actually got distracted' he noted, silently pulling one of the giant shuriken he had with him off of his back. He grinned as he threw it, both Naruto and Iruka noticing it "too slow Iruka" Mizuki taunted.
Iruka's eyes widened at hearing two separate sounds from the wall he was leaning on. Looking down he saw the shuriken, cut clean in half, one half on either side of him. "Iruka-sensei, you said I couldn't become a ninja" Naruto said from in front of him, his sword tip pushed into the ground with the edge facing away from him. Iruka looked around 'how did he get there so fast?' Naruto pulled the sword out of the ground and held it in front of him. "Well I'm going to prove you wrong" he continued, dirt suddenly beginning to swirl around him.
Mizuki just smirked, "It still won't make a difference, you should have listened to Iruka, you will never become strong, and today, your going to die die by my hands" he threatened. Naruto suddenly disappeared, "wha-agh" Mizuki jumped out of the tree he was standing on, turning around to see Naruto standing where he had been. "first rule of combat" Naruto said coldly "never let your opponent get behind you" he suddenly disappeared again Mizuki quickly turned around. Grabbing one of his shuriken he used it to stop Narutos sword. Both of them glared at each other as they tried to pushed back each others guard. Until Naruto did the most unexpected thing possible.
He let go of his sword.
Quickly ducking under Mizukis shuriken blade as he overbalanced and started to fall forward he punched Mizuki in the gut. Followed by a knee-strike, another punch and a kick to the shins, each one with a huge amount of force behind it. As Mizuki fell to his knees Naruto began an onslaught of punches and kicks, before using Mizukis chest as a springboard to jump back and grab his sword again. Charging up to the still dazed Mizuki he used the flat side of his sword to strike his white haired and severely beaten ex-sensei across the chest, finally knocking him out. Sheathing his sword he turned around to Iruka, who had his head bowed.
"Naruto" he said "I''m sorry, for everything. For doubting that you could be a ninja, for not being able to protect you from Mizuki, and most of all, for not being there when you were younger. And to apologize, I'd like for you to come here, and close your eyes" Confused Naruto walked forward, and felt Iruka take off his goggles, only to replace them with something else, it weighed about the same amount "alright Naruto, you can open your eyes now" tentatively Naruto did so, only to see Iruka holding his goggles, "congratulations Naruto Uzumaki, you pass, and are now a ninja of the village hidden in the leaves" He said, a grin plastered on his face. Naruto felt tears forming in his eyes as he touched the headband he was wearing, before he smiled and pointed at Iruka, "told ya I'd prove you wrong, i did become a ninja" he said, causing Iruka to laugh. "well then, how about we go celebrate with some ramen" he offered.
-end-
Short chapter, i know, but I just can't help but end it at a good part, what with how many cliffies there are in the series. My writing skill isn't the greatest, so constructive criticism is welcome.
Kit out.