Hey guys. Its a Saturday and its a time for a new story from me. This is basically a side project and is a novelisation of the Naruto anime. I hope it goes well.

Long ago, there was a demon-fox, who had nine tails. With one shake of its tails, mountains would collapse and tidal waves would rise. The troubled locals gathered together a band of ninja...

It was a dark moonlit night, there were little clouds in the sky and it was a fairly warm night. It wasn't a night you would expect to find a raging battle to be occurring, yet it was. The nine-tailed fox was closing in on a hidden ninja village. Within the huge forest, which was slowly being destroyed by the battle, the ninja of this village were trying to hold back the beast but to no avail, it was just getting closer.

However they kept on fighting. Their lives depended on it. On the side of the battlefield many injured ninja laid, waiting either to die or until they were healed. Some of the lesser injured ninja were waiting on the side-lines shouting orders to their men.

"Stall it until the Fourth Hokage arrives!" and "Don't let it get any closer to the village." they shouted.

Suddenly, far off in the distance stood a huge toad in which a tall man stood on it's back, the nine-tailed fox became distracted by this and it temporarily halted its advance on the village. The man on it's back was preparing for what he knew was going to be the end.

A single ninja risked his life in putting a seal on the demon but he perished in the process. That ninja was called the Fourth Hokage

A blinding light shone from the place where the Fourth Hokage stood, it engulfed the nine-tailed fox and it became no more. At that time somewhere in the village a baby boy started crying.

12 years later, in the village of Konoha, not far from the battlefield, the villagers carried on with their lives, as peacefully as possible.

But on this particular morning, the peacefulness was disturbed by mischievous laughing and enraged shouting.

A young 12-year old boy ran through the wide streets of Konoha. He was wearing orange tracksuit bottoms, a black t-shirt with an orange jacket around his waist, he also had a pair of blue open-top shoes on. He had short spiky blonde hair with a pair of green goggles on his forehead. His mouth was open in a wide grin laughing while he ran.

In his hands was a bucket filled with paint, which was tipping over the side of the bucket causing it to splatter on the pathway.

Closely following this child were two angry ninja shouting at him, 'Naruto! That is a terrible desecration!', 'We're not forgiving you this time!'.

The boy known as Naruto then jumped up the side of a building and all three of them were chasing each other over the building rooftops. Naruto found this the most fun and laughed even louder.

'Shut it! You lot can't do anything like that, can you? But I can. I'm pretty amazing!' Naruto shouted at the ninja. There in the mountain-face behind him, were carvings of what seemed to be of four very important men, however instead of the usual stone surface, they were desecrated with ridiculous doodles done in paint

Meanwhile in a large, traditional Japanese room, containing a few jars and scrolls and not much else, an old wise man sat doing calligraphy. Two ninja burst into the room shouting 'Hokage-sama', 'Third Hokage, it's a disaster.'

The man briefly looked up and asked nonchalantly 'Has Naruto got up to something again?'

They replied together 'Hai, he dared to draw graffiti on the rock carvings of the Hokage ancestors.'

He just deeply sighed, looked away and puffed his pipe hanging from his mouth, he knew that it would have been Naruto but he was slightly disappointed in how far he had gone.

The chase between Naruto and his pursuers still raged on. Sick of it Naruto jumped to the ground and continued on foot to catch the ninja off guard and it did, but didn't take them long to realise and land where he had, shouting after him 'wait' as they went.

Where they landed was a wooden fence make of long thick planks of wood, once they'd passed, part of the fence gave a little rustle and upon revealing, turned out to be Naruto hiding behind a wooden camouflaged sheet. He was smiling greatly when he noticed that he had fooled them and had gave them the slip.

'As if I would' said Naruto while giggling and scratching the back of his head.

Suddenly behind him another ninja had appeared and he didn't look happy. His face was one of pure rage. He had the standard ninja uniform on, a blue top and pants and a green body-warmer and his ninja headband, to prove he is worthy. He had long brown hair, pulled back into a ponytail and had a scar running along the bridge of his nose. Apart from this he appeared to be like any other person.

He shouted at him 'Naruto, you little' causing Naruto give a little scream in fear, jump in the air from fright and land on his behind.

Naruto put on a face of innocence and said 'Iruka-sensei, what did you do that for?'

To this Iruka replied 'and what are you doing, during class time?' while pointing at him, to give added emphasis

Later on after lots of pushing and shoving, Iruka was standing in front of his class at the academy with Naruto tied up at the front with him. All the children in the class were staring at the pair up front. Iruka giving Naruto a lecture.

'Listen Naruto. You failed your graduation exam last time, and the time before. This is no time to be getting into trouble!'

Naruto looks away with an indignant face, thinking what he'd done wasn't wrong at all.

Iruka became pretty pissed off by this and instantly took it out on his class. 'Today we'll do a revision test of the Henge no Jutsu! Those who have already passed must also do it!'

The whole class groaned at this, they didn't want to do a test because Naruto couldn't behave himself, they wished he would just leave them alone.

After a few minutes of getting prepared they were arranged into a line. First up was a girl who had pink hair tied up in a red bow, blue eyes and she wore a dark pink dress and a pair of grey shorts underneath. She was forming a hand sign and said 'Here I come, Haruno Sakura! Henge!'

There was a small bang and Sakura was surrounded by smoke, when it cleared Sakura was shown to now be a perfect transformation of Iruka.

Iruka said 'Very good.' and made a note on his clipboard. Sakura ended the jutsu and was celebrating and giggled 'Yatta!' but inside she was thinking 'Damn it.' She turned to the boy after her and asked 'Sasuke-kun, did you see me do that?'

After that Iruka said 'Next – Uchiha Sasuke!' and the boy took Sakura's place. He wore a pair of white shorts coupled with a blue top. Iruka was distracted while making notes and when he looked up Sasuke had already performed the jutsu and transformed into Iruka. Iruka's response was 'Good'.

Sasuke returned to normal as Iruka called for Uzumaki Naruto. Sasuke moved out the way as Naruto prepared himself. Behind him on one side was a boy called Shikamaru and said 'This is such a pain.' to Naruto. The girl on Naruto's other side, a girl called Ino, said 'It's all your fault.'

To both of them Naruto replied 'Don't blame me', even if it was his fault he didn't want other people to think it was, and walked up in front of Naruto. Further down the line was a girl called Hinata was there thinking 'I hope you can do it Naruto-kun'

Naruto tried with all his might to control the chakra within him to be able to transform his body, it caused blue waves of energy to go all around his body. He shouted 'Henge' then there was the familiar bang and cloud of smoke, but once it cleared there was a tall thin girl with long hair in pigtails. She was naked but wisps of cloudy like smoke prevented anything being seen. She winked at Iruka and blew him a kiss. From this Iruka was shocked and caused him to be flown back through a huge fountain of blood from his nose.

Naruto returned to normal and was laughing as hard as he could, 'How's that? I'm calling it the Oiroke no Jutsu!'

Iruka's nostrils flared up and shouted 'You idiot! Don't invent such a stupid jutsu!'

At the end of the day of the academy, Iruka marched Naruto to the rock-face with the Hokages faces on. His punishment was to clean every piece of graffiti there.

Naruto worked in silence for most of the afternoon, until its started getting late and Naruto was complaining.

'God damn it' He moaned while scrubbing a Hokage's cheek with a cloth.

'I won't let you go home until you've cleaned it all up' Iruka called from the top of the mountain, with his arms folded in frustration.

'I don't care! Its not like there's anyone at home' Naruto said with contempt, he quickly dropped his head as if to hide tears which may come.

Iruka looked down at him and couldn't help but pity him. Suddenly inspiration came to him and he said gently and cautiously 'Naruto...'

Naruto looked up at him with a suspicious look at Iruka due to the change in tone of his voice, he was also a little irritated by him talking. 'What now?' he called up.

Iruka thought about how best to word it, so he said slowly, 'Erm. If you clean it all up, ill treat you to Ramen tonight.'

Iruka looked down and saw Naruto's ecstatic face looking back. He shouted 'Right then! I'm going to get this clean!' and within 30 minutes he had it cleaned.

After they had put all equipment away, they went to the Ramen shop in the middle of the village. They were the only two people in the shop so it was easy to have a private conversation.

'Naruto,' Iruka started and when Naruto acknowledged that he heard, he continued 'Why did you do that graffiti? You know who the Hokages are, don't you?'

Through a mouthful of food Naruto replied 'Of course I do', He cleared his throat and carried on 'In short, those who received the name Hokage were the best ninja in the village. The fourth was a hero who protected the village from a demon-fox.'

Iruka had turned towards Naruto and asked 'Then why...'

Naruto simply put it that 'Eventually I'm going to take the name of Hokage and I'm going to surpass all the Hokages of the past!' Naruto pointed his chopstick at Iruka as if to put his point across easily. 'And I'm going to make everyone in the village recognise my powers.'

Iruka was amazed by how passionate this boy was about becoming Hokage. Iruka thought that he believed it was an easy path to becoming Hokage. Iruka realised he had some noodles hanging out his mouth so he sucked them up so he didn't look dumb-struck.

Naruto changed his tone of voice to a more pleading way, 'By the way... there's a favour I'd like to ask...'

'Seconds?'

'No.. let me wear the tree-leaf headband for just a little while.' Naruto asked as nicely as he could.

'Oh, this?' Iruka reached for his headband, 'No this is proof that I've graduated and am recognised as a fully-fledged ninja. You could get yours tomorrow.'

Naruto shouted 'You're mean!'

Iruka laughed and said 'That's why you took your goggles off!'

Naruto called for seconds before Iruka could say anything, but when he heard what Naruto had said he shut up quite quickly and gave a little shout in complaint but he got him seconds anyway.

Next day, at the academy. Naruto was sitting in his usual seat, waiting for Iruka to appear and tell them what the test was going to be on. He hoped that it was going to be on something he was good at.

Iruka appeared holding a piece of paper 'We'll now commence the graduation exam.' The chatter in the room died down immediately. 'Come to the room next door when your name is called. And the topic is the bunshin no jutsu'

Once Naruto heard this his head started spinning, and he started sweating, he thought 'Of all the possible jutsus, its the one I'm least good at!

Naruto was called forwards relatively quickly and followed Iruka into a room down the hall. In the desk in front of Iruka and a ninja Naruto had never seen before, were rows of leaf headbands.

Naruto stepped up to his place in the middle of the room and prepared himself, he thought 'I'm going to go for it! I'm not going to fail this time.' Naruto started gathering his chakra and the familiar blue chakra swirled around him, he called out 'Bunshin no jutsu' and the bang of cloud surrounded them. Once it had cleared Naruto looked to the side and seen a very badly performed clone of him, it was lying flat on the floor with it's tongue sticking out.

Iruka got very agitated at this, with his dream being so high he found that Naruto was never going to make it if he kept making clones like this. He instantly shouted 'Fail!' at Naruto.

The other teacher sitting next to Iruka, with shoulder length white hair, said 'Iruka-sensei, he scores highly in terms of movement and stamina and he has technically performed bunshin no jutsu. Perhaps you could pass him...' Naruto got his hopes up at this and started getting excited.

Iruka sighed and looked slightly down, 'Mizuki-sensei, everyone else has split into at least three bodies. But Naruto has only produced one. Moreover, this replica would just get in his way! I cannot pass him.'

Naruto started getting angry, he started to resent Iruka because of his comments.

Later on, after everyone was tested, it was found out that everyone but Naruto had passed. The kids were laughing between themselves and the parents were congratulating them on their graduation.

Two particular people looked over at a swing and on it sat a sad, depressed Naruto.

'That kid. It's you know who. Apparently he's the only one who failed. Serves him right'

'It would be a disaster if he became a ninja because he's actually...'

'Stop there! You shouldn't say any more'

Naruto sat there and put on his googles, as Mizuki came sneaking up on Naruto, Naruto noticed him and decided to follow him.

At the front of the group of celebrating kids were Iruka and the Third Hokage

'Iruka... I need to talk to you later.'

Iruka was looking at the swing in which Naruto had just departed from and replied 'Hai'

Naruto followed Mizuki until they were sitting on a balcony of a high building, watching the sun set.

Mizuki started a bit cautiously since he didn't know how Naruto would react 'it's not that Iruka-sensei is being spiteful, you know.'

Naruto didn't look at him and sounding like he was close to tears he replied 'Then why am I always failed?'

'He want you to become strong in the true sense. As a fellow orphan.'

Naruto's eyes widened at this, he didn't know Iruka was an orphan just like him, but he didn't need to know that and said 'But... I really wanted to graduate.'

Mizuki gave a sneaky laugh and said 'I guess I'll just have to tell you' Naruto finally looked at him in surprise and Naruto made a little confused sound, 'I'll tell you a special secret.'

There was a hopeful, confused and amazed look on Naruto's face and said 'A secret?'

It was late in the night and Iruka was lying in bed thinking about what the Hokage said to Iruka earlier.

The Hokage said 'Iruka.'

'What is it Hokage-sama?'

'I can understand how you feel. But like you Naruto has grown up without knowing the love of parents.'

His mind wandered to the night his parents died, he was there and some ninja dragged him away from them, 'let go! Mum and dad are still fighting!' he shouted as much as he could, however it done nothing to help.

He must have fell asleep because the next thing he knew there was a banging on the door and someone was shouting 'Iruka-sensei, please wake up!'

Iruka jumped out of bed and went to open the door. He opened it up to a distressed looking Mizuki.

'What's happened?'

'Please come to Hokage-sama's. It seems that Naruto has taken the seal scroll'

Iruka couldn't believe it, 'The seal scroll!'

In the middle of one of dark forests surrounding the village, Naruto sat down and opened the seal scroll. He opened it up and read 'Right then! The first jutsu is Tajuu Kage bunshin no jutsu. What? It's one of my weak skills!'

Meanwhile, at the home of the Hokage, dozens of ninjas were gathered to be briefed about the situation. One ninja said 'Hokage-sama, this time it can't just be treated as a bit of mischief!'

Another ninja agreed, 'The seal scroll is a dangerous thing, sealed by the first Hokage! Depending on how it's used. If it's taken out of the village that really would be a disaster.'

Iruka and Mizuki appeared on the scene then while the Hokage thought for a minute, 'Right. You are to bring him back here.' Then that way the Hokage could determine his fate. It can't be gone unpunished but he cant hurt him.

Then all ninjas replied 'Hai' and sped off to find him.

Iruka sped along the rooftops trying to find him first, since the other ninjas would be more rough with him, and Naruto didn't need that.

Iruka was breathing heavily after a while, he thought 'Naruto, where have you gone?'

On the ground, Mizuki raced along, he had two huge shurikens tied to his back. His thoughts were all about Naruto, 'I'll spread this around the village and then get rid of Naruto, then the seal scroll will be mine!' He faced was twisted in a crazed smile.

After a while of training to use the Tajuu Kage bunshin no jutsu, Naruto finally collapsed from exhaustion and was breathing heavily and sweating buckets.

Someone was walking up to him slowly, but with purpose. Naruto looked up to see Iruka stooped over him with an enraged face on. 'Naruto, you...'

Naruto gave an innocent smile and laugh, he didn't seem to realise he'd done anything wrong, Iruka was confused by this. Naruto said 'Oh you've found me. I've only learnt one jutsu so far.'

Iruka thought 'He was practising his jutsu here? Till this hour?

Naruto said very excited 'Hey, hey, I'll show you an amazing skill now. So if I can do it, let me graduate! If I perform a jutsu from this scroll, graduation is guaranteed, right?'

Iruka's mouth opened in shock, 'Who on earth said that?'

Naruto said as if nothing was wrong, 'Mizuki-sensei did! Mizuki-sensei told me about the scroll and this place'

Iruka's eyes widened, he never thought it could have been Mizuki, 'Mizuki did?'

Just then Iruka sensed that someone else was there and from the treetops came kunai knives aimed straight at Iruka and Naruto. Iruka had seconds to react before they hit, so he pushed Naruto out of the way and took the blow. He was pinned again a wooden shack.

'You did well to find this place.' Mizuki called from a nearby tree.

'I get it. It's like that, is it?' Iruka called up wearily, it was clear that his wounds were draining his strength.

'Naruto, hand over the scroll.'

Naruto looked to and from Iruka and Mizuki, 'What's going on?'

Iruka, in one clean motion, pulled a kunai out of his thigh and threw it away, 'Naruto, don't hand over the scroll, whatever you do. It's a dangerous scroll with forbidden ninja arts sealed in it. Mizuki used you in order to obtain it!'

Naruto looked at Mizuki angrily, he had been used.

'Naruto, Iruka is afraid of that scroll being in your possession.' Mizuki said with a sly smile on his face.

Naruto's jaw dropped, he couldn't believe what he was hearing, he didn't know who to trust anymore.

'How dare you, Mizuki? Don't be fooled, Naruto.'

Mizuki laughed at Iruka's weak attempts to keep Naruto on his side. 'I'll tell you the truth.'

Iruka panicked and shouted 'Don't, you idiot.'

'A certain rule was created in the village after the incident 12 years ago.' Mizuki said matter of factly.

Naruto was intrigued by this, 'A certain rule?'

'It was a rule that was never to be revealed to you and you alone, Naruto'

'Me alone? What is that rule?'

'Stop it Mizuki' Iruka shouted.

'A rule that nobody must utter the fact that you are really the demon-fox.' Naruto's eyes widened. 'In other words, you are the nine-tailed demon-fox who killed Iruka's parents and destroyed the village!'

'Stop it!' Iruka shouted again his clothes ripped as he pulled away from the wooden hut which he was pinned to.

'You've been fooled by the villagers all this time. Didn't you think it was strange that you were so hated by everyone?' Memories flitted across Naruto's mind which disturbed him, all he could was shout no over and over again, anger building up in him, causing his chakra levels to rise and swirl around him.

Iruka seeing this made him start to worry about what was going to happen to Naruto through knowing this secret.

And, as if to rub it in, Mizuki had to dig the knife even further and said 'Nobody will accept you. Iruka hates you too.'

The pain in Iruka's leg distracted him but as he did, he remembered more of the Hokage's words spoken only to him. 'Iruka, Naruto doesn't know parental love and is rejected by the villagers because of that incident. So he has no recourse but to make mischief, in order to attract attention. He wants the worth of his existence to be acknowledged, in whatever form. He acts as if he's strong, but it's he who is suffering the most.'

Up in the tree, Mizuki grabbed one of his shurikens from his back and started swinging it. From what was most likely fear Mizuki shouted 'Die Naruto.' and let it loose.

As it came flying towards Naruto, Iruka shouted 'Get down, Naruto!'

Naruto ducked and put his hands over his head. When he looked up he seen Iruka force himself over Naruto to protect him. The giant shuriken had lodged itself in Iruka's back and Naruto was unharmed. The pain was immense, the pain in his leg felt only a scratch to this pain. Blood couldn't help but come spurting out his mouth.

'Why?' Naruto stuttered.

Words full of pain, not from the wound but from his past experiences, Iruka told Naruto, 'Because we're the same. After my parents dies, there was nobody to praise me or accept me. I turned out badly, and often played the fool in class because I wanted to attract attention. I couldn't attract their attention by being brilliant so I always played the fool. I really suffered.' Long hidden memories came back to him as he thought about it, he involuntarily started crying. He never once tried to understand Naruto and now he just realised that they were the same. 'Isn't that right, Naruto? You were lonely, weren't you? You found it hard, didn't you? I'm sorry, Naruto. If I'd been better, I could have prevented you from feeling that way.'

Mizuki was enjoying this, he laughed at his pain and shouted gleefully 'You make me laugh! Iruka hated you all along for killing his parents. He's saying all this just to get the scroll back from you!'

Not knowing who to trust, but knowing he had to get away from there, Naruto fled further into the forest. Behind him Iruka called his name.

Mizuki jumped down from the trees and landed smoothly, 'Naruto is not the type to have a change of heart. With that scroll, he'll exact revenge on this village. You saw his eyes before, didn't you? They're the eyes of a demon-fox.'

Iruka reached round his back and pulled out the weapon he was seriously pissed off now, he said slowly through pain, 'No. Naruto..is..not..like that!' and Iruka threw it at Mizuki with all his might but Mizuki simply took a step to the side and it flew past him.

'To get rid of Naruto and to get hold of that scroll, that's all I want. I'll leave you till later!' Mizuki then took off to find Naruto as he couldn't have gotten far.

With all his determination Iruka was never going to let that happen.

Back in the village, in the mansion of the Hokage, the scene between Naruto, Iruka and Mizuki was unknowingly being watched by the Hokage in his crystal ball. He watched Naruto jumping through the tree-tops. ' dear dear. That Mizuki told him the secret! Naruto is now unstable like never before. His suppressed powers may be released. Plus he has the seal scroll in his hands. It's a one-in-a-million chance, but it's possible that he'll break the seal himself and the nine-tailed fox will appear. If that happens...'

Iruka sped along after Naruto and seen him, 'found him' he thought. He shouted at Naruto and said 'Naruto! What Mizuki said before was nonsense! Hand over the scroll, quickly! Mizuki is after it!'

Naruto quickly landed on a branch and prepared to jump, he aimed directly for Iruka, and hit him. He was sent flying backwards and landed with a crash. Naruto landed smoothly and stood breathing heavily.

Iruka muttered 'No..way..' and Naruto took the scroll off his back and leaned against an old tree nearby.

Iruka turned his head to Naruto and said with the utmost contempt, 'Naruto why... how... did you know I wasn't Iruka?' The jutsu was broken and it was Mizuki disguised as Iruka.

Naruto smiled and laughed, he returned to his normal body and sitting in the pool of smoke was Iruka and a small tree trunk. 'I am Iruka'

Mizuki smirked, 'I see.' Hiding nearby was Naruto and the real Seal scroll and could hear everything what was said, though he wouldn't look in fear of being caught. 'Why protect him to the extent of disguising yourself as your parents' killer?'

'I won't hand over the scroll to a fool like you.' Iruka replied.

'You are the fool. Naruto is the same as me.'

'The same?' Iruka said intrigued by how Naruto could be the same as Mizuki.

'if you use the skills written in that scroll, you can control everything. There is no way that Naruto – that monster fox – won't use the power of the scroll.'

'You're right' Iruka agreed.

Naruto couldn't believe Iruka could think of his in that way, he felt betrayed, as if the last person who he could trust abandoned him. 'It's like that after all, you see. Deep down, even Iruka-sensei doesn't accept me.' Naruto said quietly voiced filled with hurt.

Naruto heard Iruka continue, 'If he were a monster fox. But Naruto is different. I have recognised him as an outstanding student. He's a trier and he's single-minded, yet he's clumsy and nobody accepts him. He knows how it feels for a person to suffer in their heart. He's not a monster fox. He's Uzumaki Naruto, of Konoha.'

Naruto could feel tears were flooding from his eyes but he made no move to remove them, all he could do was hold on to the scroll in his hands.

Mizuki's eye twitched slightly, 'he seriously said that', he thought. 'You're a soft fool! Iruka, I said I'd leave you till later but I've changed my mind. It's time for you to die!' He unclipped his last weapon, he spun it around in his hand and ran forwards towards Iruka.

Iruka was expecting to die, but he didn't expect it to happened here and now, 'is this it?' he thought.

However just before he hit Iruka, Naruto sped onto the scene and kneed Mizuki in the face to stop the attack on Iruka. Mizuki was now weapon-less since it flew up through the trees.

Iruka was really shocked by the appearance of Naruto, he didn't expect his saviour to be his own student.

Mizuki simply got up and said to Naruto, 'Not bad..'

Naruto stood facing Mizuki, holding the scroll with his hand against the floor.

'Don't touch Iruka-sensei. I'll kill you.'

'Shut-up! I'll finish off a kid like you in one stroke.'

'Try it. I'll return it a thousand-fold.' Naruto said while performing a hand sign.

'Come on then, if you can, you monster fox!'

Iruka stared at Naruto, worried because he didn't think that Naruto would be able to stand up against Mizuki, he was about to tell him to run away and get help when Naruto shouted 'Kage bunshin no jutsu' and his eyes widened. He was staring at thousands of Naruto's.

'Naruto, Kage bunshin no jutsu – and advanced jutsu that reproduces the real physical entity.' Iruka thought, he sat there proud of how well Naruto had done to produce this many clones.

Mizuki didn't know where to turn to first, he didn't even know where the real Naruto was at.

'What the...' Mizuki wondered.

All the Naruto clones started shouting 'Come on then,' and 'come on, over here'

Mizuki became really scared, as the Naruto's said, 'In that case, I'll start first.' Mizuki screamed as they all rushed forward to beat him up.

Naruto ended the jutsu after they had beaten Mizuki up. He lay broken and bloody on the forest floor and shuddered.

Naruto giggled at Iruka and said 'I overdid it a bit. Iruka-sensei, are you all right?'

Iruka couldn't say anything but yes. He was amazed by how far Naruto had came in the space of a few hours. 'Very impressive. Maybe he really could surpass every Hokage' Iruka thought hopefully.

'Come here a second, Naruto. There's something I want to give you.' Iruka said a bit wearily.

Back at the village, just before dawn, the ninjas who tried to track Naruto gathered.

'Has Naruto been found?'

'No, it's no good.'

'Damn it – this is looking bad.' They all discussed.

The Hokage slowly walked up to the group and said, 'There's no longer anything to worry about.'

They all looked round at his presence, one ninja said slightly confused, 'Hokage-sama.'

Before they could ask any questions, the Hokage said 'He'll be back before long.'

Iruka had told Naruto to close his eyes, and after a while, Naruto said, 'How much longer, Iruka-sensei?'

'Right, you can open your eyes now' Naruto slowly opened them so they could re-adjust to the light levels. Once his vision cleared he saw that Iruka was missing his headband and had Naruto's goggles in his hand. The sun blazed on his already glowing smile.

'Congratulations on you graduation.' Iruka said. Iruka had put the leaf headband on Naruto across his forehead and tied in at the back. Naruto was now a real ninja. He was dumb-struck. He didn't know what to do or to say.

'Right! To celebrate I'll treat you to ramen!' Naruto was too shocked to smile but the sides of his lips twitched as if for a smile. Iruka looked and was shocked to see this, did he do the wrong thing he thought.

However Naruto jumped on Iruka and tried to give him a big hug. 'Iruka-sensei'

'Ouch, that hurt!' He replied, and then started fussing over him, like a parent would do.

'Naruto, I was going to lecture you, that the hardest part for a ninja is only the beginning... But I'll save that till we get to the ramen shop!' Iruka thought.

List of Jutsu used in this Chapter

Henge no Jutsu – Transformation Jutsu

Oiroke no Jutsu – Sexy Jutsu

Bunshin no Jutsu – Clone Jutsu

(Tajuu) Kage Bunshin no Jutsu – (multi) Shadow Clone Jutsu

As you can tell I watched the japanese anime and used english translations, so i decided to stick a list at the end of the translations of jutsu's. I hope that this chapter went well, please let me know what you think of it. Please review for me.