The sun was beginning to rise over the village hidden in the leafs and everyone was just starting to stir but for one Naruto Uzumaki it was late, he had been up for 5 hours so far because he couldn't sleep. Sitting atop the Hokage mountain on the fourth Hokage's head was a boy around 5ft high with golden blonde hair and vibrant blue eyes with 3 whisker marks on each cheek was the boy who was contemplating what to do about the choice that lay ahead of him in the coming hours; he could drop his mask and show everyone how good he is and earn a name for himself or he could fail the genin test again and wait for the next years test to make people underestimate him more by practising his favourite pass time known as deception.

'Huh dad, what would you do? I could continue to play the fool and have a better chance at surviving when I do chose to become a ninja or I could show them all how much of a natural I am? I could make them realise their mistakes or continue to live alone.'

The sun had just finished rising and he decided to go get some breakfast before the test but this wasn't before he finished placing his personal sealing tags on different parts of the mountain for what could possibly be his last prank due to the choice he would make. Finishing with the tags he walks to the ramen stand and gets the usual before finally seeing people starting their morning routines so he decided to activate the seals. Out of nowhere it appears the Hokage Mountain has been animated and the mouths start to move on their own lip singing to several songs.

People were asleep when suddenly everyone got the rudest wakeup call possible and heard the theme tune for the portal game and the mouths on the mountain started moving to the song still alive. Naruto just sat eating his ramen smirking because the song suited him perfectly when he was remembering how his life used to be but he still acted the fool because of his mask, he finally finished his ramen and decided he would flunk this year's test so that he could live a semi-normal life until he became a genin.

Realising what time it was he decided to head to the academy with the song still playing in the back ground loud enough for everyone to hear it, he arrived at the academy with a while to spare and just left the song on repeat. The class finally started to walk in and all glared at him because they knew the prank was of course done by their resident prankster from hell.

"I know what you're all thinking but no, it wasn't me. I swear honest."

They just continued glaring till what must have been the laziest kid ever lifted his head off the desk and said "Of course it couldn't have been you, the mountain looks like it's been put under a powerful genjutsu and you can't do a genjutsu to save your life... troublesome."

"Shikamaru I swear sleeping would be troublesome for you if you didn't enjoy sleeping so much."

Shikamaru just put his head back on his desk and muttered something about troublesome blondes being smartasses. The class's sensei walked in and just looked around at everyone and smiled because he might not see them for a long time after this.

"Alright class, today we're going to take the genin exam, I will call your name out and you will come do what I ask and you pass or fail, it's rather simple."

Naruto just smiled as he performed a set of discreet hand signs that went unnoticed by all except Shikamaru who just raised an eyebrow at the action and suddenly the song changed to Monty python's life of brian and look on the bright side. Shikamaru kept his eyebrow raised and just smiled.

'How on earth did he do that, he can't cast a genjutsu to save his life and he just made it change songs as well which means he must have cast it somehow? Troublesome blonds.'

Everyone turned to look at Naruto and he just had a dumb look on his face as per usual and claimed that he had no idea what happened and people should just stop staring at him for no apparent reason. Everyone done the exam and it came to Naruto, he passed everything so far except the jutsu section; he was asked to do the basic bushin jutsu but he had so much chakra and so little control that he literally killed the clone with chakra.

"Naruto I'm sorry but you fail again."

"Now hold on Iruka, his clone was almost perfect? Surely we can pass him since he passed everything else?"

"No, Mizuke if we pass him and he goes into the field unprepared I will never forgive myself"

"Ok, ok you made your point" 'hehe perfect you fool, he will steal the scroll and I will get away scott free'

Naruto just turned around and left with his usual idiot mask on and when out of site he performed the hand seals again and the song Bad Day started playing whilst he had to go and continue his act so he sat down on the swing outside of his class with a sad smile so he looked like he was sad at what happened.

Naruto couldn't help but here people speaking about him, calling him a demon and saying how the Hokage could allow him to take the genin exam. This actually did make him rather sad but he got over it quickly. He looked up at saw his teacher Mizuke walking over to him. 'This is going to be easy, that demon will do my work for me'

"Hello Naruto, you know I tried to help you earlier; I'm sorry you couldn't pass."

'What is Mizuke up to? Sneaky bastard must be doing something.' "It's ok sensei, these things happen."

"Well, you can still pass. There's an extra test that you could take, all you have to do is manage to take a scroll from a heavily secured place of my choosing and pass it to me and you will make genin."

'That is what the fool is after? There is only one scroll that would fit such a description and that is the forbidden scroll in the Hokages office, I'll play along for now; maybe this could work for me.'

"Alright what scroll and where do I meet you."

"There is a scroll in the Hokages office hidden via genjutsu on a shelf, get it and meet me tonight in the forest behind the Hokage mountain."

"Alright"

Timeskip – 2 hours

An anbu operative appeared out of nowhere in front of Naruto. "Uzumaki, the council request your presence right now. Please come with me."

"Okay anbu-san, since you asked so nice."

The anbu shunshin'd them into the council chambers only to notice everyone waiting for him. "Old man, what am I doing here?"

"Ahh Naruto-kun, it appears the council somehow got it into their heads that you are responsible for the incident earlier with the Hokage Mountain."

"Really? From what my class mates told me it was a high level genjutsu wasn't it?" getting nods from the council he continued with a smile on his face. "Council members, considering most of you hate me I wouldn't expect you to know but Jiji could you please pass out my file and then point them to the section about genjutsu and ask them what it says?"

Once the paperwork was passed out they all looked at him and he was still smirking, "I haven't seen my file directly but I presume that it says something along the lines of my genjutsu skills being non-existent due to high chakra reserves? Am I right? And even if I was wrong what proof do you have for it being me besides the fact that I have somehow become the scapegoat of this village?"

A rather annoying pink haired civilian council member had enough and started shouting at him, "Boy watch what you say, we are the council and I will be damned if I let you talk to me like that!"

"Really? Please stop me somehow, I mean you have no proof of this so shut up" turning to the old man he smiled and said "Jiji, I need a few words if you don't mind so I will be waiting in your office for you" and with that he performed the standard shunshin startling the entire room.

About an hour later, Hiruzen Sarutobi walked into his office to see his adoptive grandson sitting on the sofa waiting for him.

"Hello Naruto-kun, what can I do for you today?"

"I need to say a few things and I don't want you to interrupt when I'm speaking but I don't want anyone outside to here so... Silencing jutsu." And with that a purple barrier lit up around the room once again startling the age old Hokage.

"Ok starting at the beginning, I know my parentage. My name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. I act like a fool all the time to make the village feel better about losing their loved ones by the Kyuubi which is sealed within me; oh did I forget to mention I knew that as well? How I act is an actual mask, truth be told it helps me practise my favourite shinobi art which is deception. Truth be told, I am the equivalent to a prodigy but I learned through doing things instead of being taught by people. I have 2 nature affinities, Futon and Suiton both are extremely powerful to the point where I don't need hand signs for most jutsu I know and I have a 3rd affinity starting to manifest which is lightning. I failed the genin test on purpose because I thought that if I could make people underestimate me then they would forget about me but this is not the case as pointed out by the council a while ago. Oh and the mountain thing was me but it was seals, not a genjutsu."

There was a deathly silence for a couple of minutes and all the Hokage could say was "How?"

"How what? How do I know about my parents, how do I know about the kyuubi or how do I consider myself a prodigy with my elements?"

"All of the above"

"I know about my parents because of this ignorant village, the mobs were chasing me a few years ago and I fell against the Namikaze compounds door and the blood seal activated and let me in, it was pure luck. I know of the kyuubi because I listen to said ignorant villagers and I am a prodigy because I am self taught, I can do most of what Jonin can do and this is not counting unique clan techniques such as the rasengan."

"Damn..."

"Continuing, I am dropping my mask, I came here tonight to inform you of a spy who came to me to try and goad me into stealing the forbidden scroll that is on the shelf behind me hidden under a triple layered genjutsu. Now this is what's going to happen, I'm going to take the scroll and run to the meeting point and your anbu are going to follow me but stay out of site and when they see Mizuke-teme they will either kill or arrest the traitor, once this is done I will take my place as a genin because I can do Bushin and Kage Bushi No Jutsu which are both clones and I only failed on the clone because I didn't want to pass. Oh and I've been living at my parents house for like 2 years but your anbu you use to keep tabs on me are fucking idiots."

The Hokage just sat there with his mouth open and confused how by pure luck this boy happened to know several S-Class secrets. "Fine, go and do it already, ANBU did you hear that? Follow him and take mizuke into custody when he comes to collect the scroll."

Naruto took the scroll after disabling the genjutsu and turned to the hokage, "Jiji, this is your only warning by the way. I don't like being played, deception is my game not the other way around and for this reason I am very wary of the civilian council and Danzo; hence I reconsidered dropping my mask." Naruto said before jumping out the window and running from roof top to roof top eventually getting to the meeting point only for the anbu to arrest mizuke after being beat up by Naruto. After handing the scroll back and receiving a B rank mission pay Naruto went home to sleep and go to class tomorrow surprising everyone.

A/N: I know it was a bit rushed at the end but I wanted it finished so I could go to bed. Sorry, if you're going to bother reading and reviewing this then don't be an ass when it comes to the reviews like on my last story that I deleted because people were dicks.

If you want to adopt my last story then PM me because I still have the original documents from the upload.