The Heart of the Demon
Chapter 1
The Demon's Graduation
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters
Authors Note: This is the first story I've ever written so bear with me. I am not going to describe what most characters look like because this is a Naruto fanfiction and I'm pretty sure everyone reading knows what the characters look like so I will only describe the ones that are different. If for some reason you are reading this and don't know what the characters look like I would suggest looking them up the Naruto wiki is a good place to find pictures of them.
The streets of Konaha were bustling with busy civilians and shinobi alike all going about their business. Today while a normal day for most of Konaha's citizens was a special day for a certain class at the academy, it was graduation day and the students of the graduating class were sitting excitedly in their room waiting for their sensei to arrive to start the much anticipated graduation exam.
Naruto was among the graduating class and like all of them she was excited to start her shinobi career though that didn't stop her from trying to get some sleep while the teacher was away. She wore a dark red shirt that went just below her breasts and ended just after the shoulders, black arm bracers over her forearms, a dark red shinobi skirt, black shinobi sandals and mesh armor under the shirt and skirt leaving her stomach bare. She had long yellow hair that went down to her lower back and was tied into two pony tails leaving bangs that framed her face which had 3 whisker marks on each cheek.
Naruto sat in the back of the room with her head down trying to get some more sleep before Iruka arrived but it was rather hard with everything going on in the room. Sasuke sat by the window one row down from her looking at the sky cursing the two annoying girls screaming at each other to try and get the spot next to him. Naruto finally had enough of the two's fighting "Would you two please shut up! Some of us are trying to sleep!" she barely brought her head up to speak and put it back down immediately after finishing. Sakura and Ino froze after the outburst really not wanting to be on Naruto's bad side so when they saw the glare she was sending them they decided to try and get near Sasuke later and quietly went over to sit in the row across from him settling with staring dreamily at him. Sasuke smirked happy that Sakura and Ino were gone.
Shikamaru who was sitting next to Choji and Kiba in the row across from Naruto was also very happy that Sakura and Ino had finally shut up so he could go back to doing the same thing Naruto was trying to do and get some sleep before Iruka showed up. Sadly for both of them Iruka showed up less than a minute later and called for everyone's attention "Alright class quiet down it's time to start." Iruka looked over the class proud of every one of them finally stopping as he saw Naruto still trying to sleep in the back "Naruto! Wake up this is an important day so treat it like one! You too Shikamaru!" Naruto looked up and glared at him for a second before sitting all the way up and leaning back in her chair and Shikamaru just propped his head up in his hand.
"Alright then now that I have everyone's attention let's start. The graduation exam will consist of three parts, first a written exam that will start after I finish explaining. Second will be a test of your taijutsu skills and your skills with basic ninja tools like shuriken and kunai. Finally there will be a test on your ninjutsu skills. After all three parts of the exam have been gone over you will either be given a Hitai-ate indicating that you passed or you will not and you will have to spend another year at the academy before you can try again." Iruka looked over the class again none of them seemed phased by the explanation and none looked very worried about actually failing.
Iruka handed out the tests and after he was satisfied that everyone was ready he started the test "Begin!" the class started the test and quickly finished, as it turned out if you paid attention in class it made the test very easy. After getting the test back Iruka handed them off to the newly arrived Mizuki who took them to some other sensei to grade them before meeting the class outside. "Now is time for the taijutsu and ninja tool part of the exam so let's get out to the training ground.
After everyone was out at the training ground in the back of the academy the next part of the exam began. Iruka handed this part of the test over to Mizuki to explain "Alright each student will be given 10 shuriken and 10 kunai to show their skills with, I will call a name and that person will have 1 minute to use their ninja tools and try to get the best score possible." With that Mizuki began calling names. Since Naruto's surname started with U she knew she would be one of the last to go and so she went to lean against the academies wall. Sasuke saw her and went over with her to Sakura and Ino's dismay as they didn't want to go near Naruto.
Sasuke leaned against the wall next to Naruto and she opened her eyes and looked at him then over the two girls that constantly followed him. "Trying to get away from them again? I don't know why you don't just tell them to fuck off."
Sasuke smirked "Well we can't all be as brash as you Naruto"
"oh you just want to keep up the image of you clan" she grinned at him "you should really let loose sometimes it would do wonders for you, I honestly don't know how your clan can walk what with those giant polls stuck up their asses."
Sasuke couldn't help but grin slightly at that, she was right that letting loose once in while might be good but it wouldn't look good for the clan if the clan heir went around telling people to 'fuck off' as she had so callously put it.
It wasn't long before their names were finally called and it was no surprise that both Sasuke and Naruto got perfect scores. They moved on to the taijutsu portion of the test and Mizuki again explained "I will call two name and those two will go into the sparing circle and spar to show off your taijutsu skills, you don't have to win to pass just do your best, your scores will be evaluated by me and Iruka." Sasuke and Hinata were among the first to fight while Hinata was quite skilled with her clans gentle fist taijutsu style she didn't have the speed or power that Sasuke had and it was only about a minute before Sasuke knocked her out of the ring. Sasuke smirked at Naruto as he walked out of the circle as if to say 'beat that' and Naruto was eager to accept the challenge.
After a few more matches Naruto's name was called along with Kiba's they both gave each other feral looking grins as they went into the sparing circle. Naruto and Kiba's stances were similar as were their taijutsu styles. Kiba fought with the Inuzuka clan's feral looking taijutsu style while Naruto's style was also very feral looking it had a gracefulness to it akin to the gentle fist. Mizuki called for them to start and they both set off into a very aggressive taijutsu match. Kiba stuck first swiping with his claw like hands over and over only for Naruto to easily weave in and out of them and retaliate with swipes from her own claw like hands. After a few swings Naruto caught Kiba on the cheek breaking the skin and leaving a claw like mark on his face before she bent over backwards and delivered a solid kick to his gut and flipped to the edge of the arena grinning at him and using her finger to gesture for him to come get some. Kiba growled and complied charging at her with reckless abandon only for her to dodge his attack and swiftly bop him of the back of the neck sending him tumbling out of the arena. She smiled at him as he stood back up and realized what had just happened "Aw man every time! How are you so good!" Kiba whined at her
"It's my little secret. Fun match though you always taste so good" she said as she licked the small amount of Kiba's blood off her index finger and walked back out of the circle. Kiba stared at her for second then smiled god she was so wiled! He loved it. Others in the class found it incredibly creepy that Naruto did thing like that but Kiba just thought it was hot.
After the taijutsu was finished they were brought back to the class room and one by one sent to be tested on their ninjutsu. Naruto sat in the back where she had before the tests outside with Sasuke sitting in front of her. Kiba went and sat next her pestering her again for a date "Oh come on just one date! After the test I'll take you to Ichiraku's."
Naruto smiled at that "well maybe just one date but you have pay" she grinned at him and Sasuke quickly responded before Kiba had the chance
"Naruto we're supposed to meet Itachi for lunch after this" he sent a glare at Kiba telling him to back off once again.
"Right lunch with the stoic brother" she sighed "can we at least eat at Ichiraku's" she smiled happily
"I don't see why not." Sasuke answered with a smirk.
Kiba's jaw dropped he almost had it and that damn Sasuke went and ruined it "Hey what about me!" he asked dejected
"Oh yeah maybe some other time. I'm always happy to have people buy me ramen!" Sasuke wasn't too happy about that but at least he had won this time and then Kiba's name was called for the ninjutsu test before he could argue farther
"fine, what about tomorrow?"
"sure I'll see you then" Naruto answered happily
"Kiba Inazuka last chance or you fail!" Kiba jumped at that and hurried to the instructor with Akamaru following from where he was sleeping on the table. Sasuke was not happy about the new lunch date Kiba was able to sneak in but he would figure out how to deal with that later.
Naruto was again the last one in class when her name was finally called for the ninjutsu test. She followed the instructor to the room where the third part of the exam would be held. She entered the room which had three instructors including Iruka and Mizuki the third wasn't one she recognized and then waited for them to tell her what to do with a grin on her face. Iruka was the one to speak "Alright Naruto first preform a Henge for us"
"Sure thing!" she formed the seals and with a puff of smoke there was a perfect Henge of Iruka.
"Very good now preform a substitution on one of those logs over there" he pointed to a pile of logs in the corner of the room
"Aw well that's not very challenging" she pouted but complied.
"Good now finally make as many clones as you can with clone jutsu."
"That jutsu is useless I've got a better one!" and before any of the instructors could say anything Naruto put her hands in a cross seal "Shadow clone jutsu!" the whole room was filled with smoke and when it cleared there were over thirty Narutos stuffed into the small room "See mine is way better!" Iruka and the others were shocked they had no idea that Naruto or any academy student could possible make so many shadow clones, a jutsu that she shouldn't even know what was much less how to preform it.
"Naruto how can you use shadow clones? Where did you learn the jutsu?" Iruka was the one who asked and Naruto just smiled and dispersed the clones
"Now where is the fun in just telling you? It doesn't really matter any way does it? The point is I can do it!"
Mizuki retorted this time "It does matter, that is a forbidden jutsu! You must have stolen the scroll of the Yodaime!"
Naruto scowled at him "fine if you must know Hokage-jiji taught me just go ask him." That shut Mizuki up.
"At any rate it is very impressive Naruto" Iruka said and then looked to Mizuki and the other instructor who both nodded though Mizuki hardly looked happy about it. "Congratulations Naruto from this day on you are officially a genin of Konaha." Iruka said with a smile as he picked up a Hitai-ate and offed it to her. Naruto wore a triumphant smile as she took the Hitai-ate and walked out of the room.
Naruto left the academy and found Sasuke and Itachi waiting for her in the court yard she smiled at them and proudly showed off the Hitai-ate she had tied around her neck. "So they actually let you pass" Sasuke said jokingly with a smirk
"of course how could not pass this face." Naruto said as she made the best puppy dog face she could before letting out a laugh.
Itachi gave a small smile "congratulations Naruto you will be a fine addition to Konaha's shinobi ranks"
"why thank you Itachi. Now to ICHIRAKU'S!" She shouted and started off towards her favorite restaurant Itachi deadpanned
"again" he sighed as he looked to his little brother
"what it was that or let Inuzuka take her I couldn't let that happen." Itachi shook his head as they went off after Naruto.
Authors note: Thanks for reading I hope you liked the first chapter! advice is always good so if you have some tell me.