Chapter 1 A Ninja's Beginning

Narrator: This story takes place in the Hidden Leaf Village of the Land of Fire, also known as the village hidden in the leaves. A boy by the age of twelve is about to take his graduation exam to become a leaf ninja. He was raised by his mother never knowing his father however that is soon about to change. Once he learns this dark secret his life will change forever.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto it belongs to its creators. I only own the OC.

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POV Hiei The Academy

"When I call your name please proceed to room 121, the final exam will be on the clone jutsu. Good luck everyone," said a teacher by the name of Iruka.

He called up each individual student and walked down the hall to the room with them. Iruka has brown hair tied up in a ponytail behind his head, with a standard leaf shinobi headband over his forehead. He has a long scare across the bridge of his nose, kind and gentle teacher except when you misbehave. I heard he blows quite the gasket. I snap out of my train of thought when I saw him enter the room again.

"Next up Hiei Senju!"

'Well I'm up. As my last name suggests I am a decendant of the Senju clan on my mother's side. I never met my father, but from what I understand he was a powerful shinobi and I plan to follow in his footsteps to become the greatest shinobi much like my ancestor the first hokage,' I thought to myself.

I had short, spikey, dark hair, blackish-gray eyes, and rather tone body for a 12 year old. I got up and walked to the door.

As I walked into the exam room, I see to my right a table with many leaf-headbands and I see Iruka taking his seat behind the table. I see my other sensei Mizuki. Mizuki has white hair that goes down to his shoulders, his headband is like a scarf that covers the top part of his head. Both of them were staring at me intently as I walked to the center of the room. There is an awkward silence until Mizuki spoke.

"Well you know what to do, show us your clone jutsu and we will decided whether you pass or fail".

A smile comes across my face, little did they know was that I have been practicing a different kind of clone jutsu. I put my index and middle fingers together and form a cross with them. Then I shouted,

"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU."

With a puff of smoke a perfect clone of myself is standing beside me. Not an illusion clone but a solid clone. We both stare into their faces they both look at me flabbergasted.

"Well senseis?" I said

"What do you think?" My clone finished.

"I .. how.. where… did you learn that justsu Hiei?" said Iruka, trying to wrap his mind around the fact that I performed a high level technique.

"Well you see sensei my mother had learned the jutsu from Lord Second when she was his student and well she kind of taught me it sometime ago," I said honestly.

Mizuke then spoke,

"Either way that was impressive, you performed a perfect clone jutsu of high caliber. I believe you deserve this headband. Don't you think so Iruka?" Mizuke said to Iruka trying to get him to focus.

"Yes you're correct Mizuke," said Iruka. "Congratulation Hiei you pass the exam you are now a leaf shinobi genin. A week from now you will be put onto a three man squad which will be determined then," said Iruka while extending out a headband to me.

"I have been waiting for this day thank you sensei's for all of your help," I said accepting the headband.

"One more thing before you leave, I want you to never give up. You have what it takes to become a great shinobi one day I know it," Said a teary eyed Iruka as he watches his star pupil of the year leave.

"Don't you worry sensei I will continue to become the best shinobi I can be," I said as I ran out the door running home.

As I ran back home I ran right into someone, I nearly fell flat on my back until a hand shot out and grabbed me. I looked up and saw it was Shisui Uchiha who I had ran into.

"You need to watch where you are going Hiei, you could hurt someone," said Shisui with a smile. Pulling me back to my feet.

"Sorry Shisui, I just became a leaf genin and was on my way to tell my mother the good news," I said.

Shisui and I have known each other for years. Shisui's father and my mother were really good friends. I don't know the whole background all I knew is they knew each other since they were little. Shisui and his father would always come by to help her out with certain things. Shisui would always play with me when I was little, I look up to him like a big brother.

"Ah I can tell because of your new headband, congratulations. You know what I want to show you something," said Shisui.

"Uh sure but what is it?" I asked.

But all he said was "You'll see." With a smile on his face.

He led me through rural areas of the village until we came across a lake with a small wooden pier.

"Here it is," he said.

I look at him then back to the lake, as we walk towards it I thought, 'Strange I wonder what Shisui wants to show me.' As we walk to the edge of the pier, Shisui then says,

"Okay take a few steps back and watch me closely."

When I walked back a few feet, he then started to make hand signs, inhaled deeply, then shouted at the top of his lungs, "FIRE STYLE, FIREBALL JUTSU." I saw a trail of fire leave his mouth then the fire began to manifest itself into a giant fireball in the center of the lake, causing ripples in the water.

I was completely shocked, 'whoa, wait a minute he wants to teach me the fireball jutsu. But it's an Uchiha clan specialty and only taught to its members. Why would Shisui want to teach me that jutsu,' I thought to myself. Little did I realize I had my mouth hanging open and Shisui was already done with the jutsu just staring at me.

"What do you think?" he said with a smile on his face.\

"You.. want to.. to teach me that.. jutsu?" I asked to make sure I wasn't going crazy.

Shisui smiled and said, "I wouldn't have brought you here if I didn't think you wouldn't be able to do it know would I."

I stare at him for another few seconds and he said,

"Well these are the hand signs, just imagine you are pushing chakra out of your throat. Inhale deeply, feel the chakra and force it out of your throat. Go ahead give it a shot."

He steps aside and lets me go up to the edge of the pier. I calm myself down and think, 'Okay well here I go.'

I form the hand signs then I feel the chakra coming through my throat.

I shout, "FIRE STYLE, FIREBALL JUTSU."

Then to my complete amazement, infront of me was a fireball about the same size as Shisui's. As I finished, I watched as the fireball started to disappear then turned around to see a big grin on Shisui's face.

"I knew you could do it, I must say I didn't expect you to do it on your first time though. I was planning on staying here with you for a few more hours. Anyway we should take you to your mother it's getting late." I look around and notice the sun was setting, I quickly shook off the shock and walked back to my home with Shisui.

As Shisui took me home he told me about some missions he had been on recently.

"That is so cool Shisui, I can't wait to start my mission soon!" I said in excitement.

"Well it's not all fun and games, people do get hurt you know. But I'm sure you know that. Plus you'll most likely have to catch cats for awhile." He said, completely ruining the moment.

"Wow Shisui way to ruin my excitement," I pouted.

"Don't worry you have an A rank mission when you become strong enough," Said Shisui laughing alittle.

When we got closer to my home I heard noises coming from inside.

"Hmm I wonder what is going on?" I said.

As we got closer we both heard arguing between two people. When opened the door we saw my mother and Shisui's father having an argument. Shisui's father looks exactly like Shisui except has some wrinkles across his forehead and his hair is getting gray in one spot.

"Look he needs to know the truth! He is old enough now!" said Shisui's father.

"No he's not ready yet." Said my mother. They both stopped arguing when Shisui and I walked into the room. Shisui's father spoke first.

"Ah there he is, Hiei by the looks of the headband you are finally a genin. Congratulations pulling me in a bear hug."

I sputters, "Thanks sir, could you let go of me now!"

"Oops sorry about that. I will leave that to your mother. Shisui we need to go, you have that important mission next week. Preparation is in order." He said to his son Shisui.

"Father I still have a week." Shisui argued back.

"Now, now time valuable we can't be wasting it. Congratulations Hiei," he said to me. He then looked at my mother. "Please think over what I said." Then Shisui and him left.

I turned around and my mother pulled into a hug which nearly crushed my ribs. "Okay I think I have had enough rib crushing.

"OH. Congratulations you are finally a genin. You make me so proud." She said as she let me go.

I caught my breath. "I used that new jutsu you taught me, Iruka and Mizuki were really surprised." I told her.

"Well they shouldn't be. You are probably one of the strongest child at the school." My mother replied.

"Mom I'm not the best." I argued back. She gave me a look, and I immediately shut my mouth. Arguing with my mother is an impossible thing. She knows some very powerful jutsu. There is one in particular the flying raijin jutsu which allows the user to teleport to a mark spot. She could teleport over and hit me over the head if I back talk her.

"Anyway it's time for bed, you have to prepare for you team assignments for next week. We are going to have train you until you are perfect. Maybe I can teach you a new jutsu." She said.

"Is it the flying raijin jutsu?" I hope.

"No not yet, you are too young to learn that. I'll show you tomorrow." She said. She was about to walk out of the room when I said,

"Wait. What were you and Shisui's father talking about earlier?"

"Oh that. It's nothing you should get yourself concerned with just be ready in the morning." She said as walked out of the room.

I followed suit and walked up to my room. As I entered my room, I took off my headband and placed it on my bedside table. I got into my bed and stared at the ceiling thinking about the argument between my mother and Shisui's father. 'I wonder what they were talking about. I sounded like they were talking about me? I don't know maybe it's something else. I need to get some sleep knowing my mother I'll be up at the crack of dawn.'

Well that is the end of chapter one. This is my first story so suggestions and advice is greatly appreciated.