"Bunshin no Jutsu"

"Naruto, you fail!" Said Iruka as he saw the pathetic clone Naruto made.

"Iruka," said Mizuki trying to reason with his fellow instructor, but inside he had a sinister smile because now his plan could be carried out," this is his third attempt and this time he actually made a clone I think we should let him graduate.'

Mizuki and Iruka then looked at the expectant Naruto. With a sigh, the Chunin shook his head.

"Impossible," said Iruka. "Mizuki everyone else made at least two clones and Naruto only created one, and it was useless, we can't let him pass."

Naruto looked at Iruka with a face that reflected betrayal and anger. The aspiring Shinobi lowered his head again and began to leave the room, again experiencing failure.

"Damn it! Why did it have to be the Bunshin no Jutsu again?" Naruto raged as he stormed down the halls. "That damned Jutsu never works in battle. I'm the only one who didn't t pass the damn test, if it was a fight I would have won.

Naruto stalked into the courtyard of the academy, he sat on the swings sulking, and looked towards the entrance of the academy where the Chunin began greeting the parents of students who passed the exam.

Meanwhile in the halls of the academy, Iruka began his speech by congratulating the new graduates. Finishing with the instruction that the new Genin should be enjoying the next three weeks of vacation because once they enter active duty as a Shinobi of Konoha, free time will be very limited.

About thirty minutes later, Naruto still sitting on the swing, saw the newly promoted Genin. The children left the academy with their heads up proudly showing their hitai-ate with the symbol of the Leaf.

Naruto watched sadly as their parents embraced and congratulated their children. Naruto imagined what it would be like in their place even for a few minutes. Unable to endure the hardship, the young blonde, the only student who failed the test left quietly, sure that no one noticed him.

"Iruka, I wish to speak with you" said the Sandaime exhaling the smoke from his pipe and then left.

"Hai. Hokage-sama," Iruka said with a nod before glancing toward the empty swing, slowly swaying in the wind, before making his way to the Hokage's office.

As the Sandaime and Iruka were having a serious discussion about Naruto, the young blonde was wandering through the streets of Konoha. He had his hands in his pockets, ignoring the looks of resentment from adult population. He was used to the looks, but that didn't make it any easier to bear, today he just wasn't in the mood to pay attention to the idiots of Konoha, who looked at him like that every day. His mind was occupied by his recent failure to become a ninja; and that once again he would have to endure another year of boring lectures at the academy. It wouldn't be so bad if most of the teachers didn't ignore him whenever he asked for help in Tai- or Ninjutsu.

He walked for a while on autopilot, before he heard a familiar voice calling his name pulling him from his thoughts.

"Oh, hey Mizuki-sensei" Naruto said as he turned around to see Mizuki just a few feet away smiling at him.

"Naruto, come with me so we can have a nice talk," Mizuki said with a smile. Naruto looked puzzled for a few seconds and decided to follow his teacher.

After several minutes of walking Mizuki and Naruto came to a cliff, which overlooked many buildings in Konoha and they sat watching the streets and people of the village.

"Naruto" said Mizuki after a few moments. "You shouldn't get mad at Iruka." He smiled at Naruto's look, "He just wants to see you become a strong Shinobi in the right way. He has high hopes for you Naruto. You do know you're one of his favorite students, right."

Naruto blinked up at Mizuki, "I am?"

"Yeah, he says it all the time in the teacher's lounge."

Naruto lowered his head; happiness bubbling up inside, Iruka considered him one of his favorite students.

"Naruto, he also grew up without parents. He knows how hard that is, when he looks at you it's like looking at himself when he was younger."

Naruto sighed and looked towards the horizon with his eyes focused and full of determination.

"I wish I could've graduated," said Naruto." Then Iruka-sensei would be proud of me."

"Well, in that case let me tell you a little secret." said Mizuki smiling devilishly.

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It was night time in Konoha and the streets were virtually deserted. Only Shinobi patrolling in the village and people in various bars and night entertainment spots were out in the dimly lit streets.

Naruto ran quietly in the shadows around the buildings and dark alleys of the village leading him towards the Hokage Mansion, residence of the Sandaime and his family. When the building came into his field of vision, Naruto dove to the ground so he wouldn't alert the ANBU squad patrolling the area. Quietly Naruto observed the ANBU patrolling the mansion and its immediate surroundings in a complex pattern that few people would recognize. Fortunately he was one of the few people who could do it. After years of watching the patrols of ANBU, Jonin, and Chunin for his pranks Naruto knew almost every type of patrol variation the Leaf Shinobi used, he knew where they were going to be and how long they were going to stay in each position.

Naruto remained hidden, watching quietly for several minutes. When the opening in the patrols arrived Naruto quickly slipped into the Hokage's Mansion, unaware of the shadowy figure watching him from the roof of a nearby building.

'I admit the Kyuubi brat knows his stuff,' thought Mizuki watching Naruto enter the mansion 'Four ANBU squads and a kid in an orange suit gets past them, Doing things most Jonin have problems with. He's young but his knowledge in infiltration is amazing ... too bad for him that today is his last.'

Inside the mansion, Naruto was the stalking down corridors as quietly as he could, until he reached a room with open scrolls hanging on the walls, written with different kanji. remains the highlight being the large parchment kanji "The Will of Fire." The flagship of Konoha that the Shodaime himself created by preaching the desire to protect the village and the people who inhabit it.I don't understand the purpose of this part.

Naruto pulled out a small paper from his pocket with directions to the library where the scroll was located.

Unknown to Naruto the Hokage had been following him, he coughed alerting the blonde to his presence. Naruto turned slowly, his surprise at being caught, mixing with excitement for what could happen after being captured.

"Naruto, what are you doing in my home at a time like this?"

Naruto started to sweat profusely trying to respond to Sandaime while looking for a solution to escape. "Oiroke no Jutsu! "Naruto shouted. He became very voluptuous and naked teenage blonde girl, her hair in two pigtails with smoke flowing in her most intimate parts.

The Sandaime had no chance against such a devastating technique. Just a few seconds after the transformation, the Sandaime fell to the ground unconscious bleeding profusely from the nose.

"Ero-jiji "Naruto mutterd smiling as he headed to his target.

A few moments later he he walked into the Hokage's personal library. He began sifting through the various scrolls until he found his target, the Scroll of Forbidden Seals.

Satisfied that he had the right scroll, Naruto stood and began to make his escape from the mansion, when an object caught his eye. He went to the shelf which held a scroll slightly smaller than the one he had. The scroll was closed with a spiral clasp, the same symbol on the back of the clothes that Sandaime sends him. Seeing the symbol on the Scroll, Naruto remembered the day when he asked Sandaime about the symbol.

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A small Naruto being just eight years old opened one of the many gifts that Jiji brought him for his birthday. Naruto unwrapped the box with a big smile on his face. After tearing through the wrapping, he found a box containing a black jacket with a blue spiral etched on the back..

"Hey Jiji, why do all the clothes you give me have that weird spiral" Naruto asked.

The Sandaime smiled, and ruffled his hair as he grumbled at the gesture. "All I can tell you Naruto-kun is that this symbol represents you, and more important it is where you come from Naruto," said the Sandaime. "I promise that once you are older, I will tell you everything Naruto.

Little Naruto frowned not understanding much of what Jiji was talking about. "When will that be Jiji?"

"When you mature enough not to make stupid decisions, which should be when you turn fifteen years old or when you are a Chunin."

"But Jiji, that's forever."

"Don't worry Naruto-kun," said the Sandaime as he smiled at the naiveté of the young. "It will be over soon. And it'll mean your closer to being Hokage. You know you want to take my hat."

"You bet Jiji," Naruto said standing up and showing his fist to the Sandaime Hokage. "I will take that hat away and then I'll send you to a retirement home and you will be able to read that filthy Orange Book you like all day long."

"Hahahaha I eagerly await that day Naruto-kun," said the Sandaime. And now open the gift of Neko-chan and then Inu-san."

"Yes" said Naruto as he smiled before taking a big present wrapped in orange paper.

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After a few minutes, Naruto decided to take the scroll and took it along with the Scroll that Mizuki specified.

'This has to be for me, it has the same symbol,' thought Naruto 'it might be a super cool Jutsu that Jiji prepared as a gift.'

Taking both scrolls and tying them to his back, Naruto went to the window where he entered, and waiting for the squad whose patrol watched it. Once they left, he jumped out.

Mizuki saw Naruto exit the house and smiled. Phase two of the plan was going smoothly, now all he had to do was wait to give the alarm to the other Shinobi and then to throw them off saying he saw Naruto in the village. Then he will go to the place where he and Naruto agreed to meet.

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Half an hour after leaving the Hokage's Mansion, Naruto arrived at the place Mizuki mentioned to him, in the woods a few miles east of a training area. Naruto dumped the scroll with the spiral, leaning it against a tree trunk. He sat and started to read the first scroll to learn a technique and thus pass the Genin Exam just like Mizuki told him.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Damn it! It just had to be something a clone. Whatever, I'll learn it and become a Genin."

So Naruto read the seals of the Jutsu, determined to learn the technique before dawn ,which was when Mizuki was supposed appear to see if he passed the exam.

A few hours later, an exhausted Naruto nodded and grinned at the ten clones with identical grins making the sign of victory to the original.

"Well done Boss " said one of the clones, now Mizuki-sensei will have to name you a Genin."

"Great job boss!" Said another clone animatedly, making Naruto laugh despite how tired he was.

"Thanks" Naruto said breathing fast to regain some energy. "Good thing I have great reserves or I wouldn't have made it."

Naruto and the clones looked at each other. One of the clones voicing the question they all had "Why does it take so much, most Genin don't have very much chakra, do they?."

"He's right," said another clone shaking his head. "Something is wrong here."

One of the Narutos had grabbed the scroll and was reading the details of the technique . "Boss, I think you should see this," the clone held the scroll out to Naruto, "Right there after the description."

"What?" Asked one of the clones. "Is there something wrong?"

"It's a Kinjutsu!" Cried the original Naruto as he began to read aloud "the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu is a Kinjutsu prohibited by the Yondaime Hokage because of the amount of chakra it requires. It says here if you did not have a chakra reserve of an elite Jonin, you might die from chakra exhaustion."

"A Kinjutsu, but what type of scroll for a Genin is Kinjutsu?" Asked the clone alarmed.

"Are you sure boss?" Asked one of the clones who was skeptical. You must have misread it or something."

"I'm not stupid, "objected Naruto throwing the scroll that the clone.

The clone frowned and began to read despite the poor lighting. After reading the Scroll, twice, he looked at them grinning. He turned to a random clone "Hit me," Naruto looked at him as if he had grown a second head.

"What, why do you want me to hit you? " the clone next to him asked.

"Just do it!" Said the clone and he saw the reluctance of the clones and decided to provoke the others. "Don't be a chicken Dobe."

The clone launched a right hook, sending it into a tree where it exploded into smoke. "Who's the chicken now ... huh?

Naruto scratched his head, "How do I know what the scroll said, I didn't read that far?"

The clone that hit the other clone, took the scroll and began to read "everything a clone learns is passed on to the original one once the clone dispels."

"Hey if you learn whatever a clone learns, that means if we each learn a technique from the Scroll then you'll learn all the techniques at once," said the clone. "If there is ten of us here then we can learn at ten Jutsu in the time it takes to learn one!"

Naruto grinned and jumped with his fist raised in the air. "I want each of you to find a technique in the scroll, learn how to do it. When your done pick another one.

One of the clones looked at Naruto "Boss, why not create more clones? You should have most of your chakra back by now".

"Boss " Naruto at the clone, irritated at the interruption "I think it would be better if we moved. We only have three hours before Mizuki-sensei comes.

"Why would that matter?"

"Something about this doesn't add up, Mizuki-sensei told you to take a scroll from Jiji's mansion which is full of Kinjutsu."

"What are you trying to say?"

"I don't know, maybe Mizuki-sensei just wanted you to steal the scroll, so he could take it and blame us. "

"Mizuki-sensei wouldn't do that," one of the clones said. "He only wants to help the boss graduate."

Well, it wouldn't be the first time someone lied about wanting to help me," said Naruto recalling the time when he was seven, a woman invited him to dinner at her house. He was ambushed by a group of villagers; that was the first time he had to go to the ICU.

"So what do we do, boss?"

Naruto shook his head to clear it, "We'll find somewhere to train where we can't be found easily." He pointed at a clone "You go get the survival kit that Inu-san gave me for my birthday a long time ago." Pointing to a second clone "You get as much food, kunai, shuriken and medical kits. And you" pointing to a third clone "when the sun rises, go to Jiji's tower and tell him what Mizuki did to us, but don't tell Jiji where we are. Tell Jiji, we have the scrolls and disappear, I'll send the information to the others. Are we clear?"

With a cry of "Hai Boss" the clones split into two groups.