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Wow thanks guys I was expecting honestly maybe like 2 or 3 people to actually see this so great that more did. Did not realize how short that chapter was ill try to make the next ones longer

Chapter 2: Graduation Day

"Naruto-kun come on get up you're going to be late!" Minato yelled at his son who was currently dead asleep upstairs in the Namikaze estate.

Minato had requested that he'd receive a house not a full compound seeing as it was just him and Kushina at the time. The house was huge to say the least three stories tall with a sub level that served as a training area. The first level served as the living, dining room, and guest area with 4 master sized bedrooms for any guests. The second level held four additional bedrooms meant for the owner and their family two of them occupied by Minato and Naruto. The rooms were huge and had privacy and protection seals to make sure no one uninvited could sneak in, well they could but they would be attacked by various poisons and kunai. The final level held every last bit of knowledge that Minato and Kushina had on their respective clans, they even traveled to Uzushiogakure to find if there was any left over scrolls or anything of knowledge left. They had in fact found several scrolls and heirlooms which were all held there as well as scrolls passed down and written by Minato on his clan techniques and his own.

The years had been well to Minato and the only noticeable difference was that his hair was considerably longer with it reaching the middle of his back and his bangs fell just passed his chin.

"Coming dad just finished getting ready." Naruto shouted as he jumped over the stairs. He wore a black shirt that served as armor due to various seals hidden on it. His Shinobi pants were a dark grey with several pockets with the same seals as his shirt. Over this he wore a black cloak with an orange flame pattern across the bottom. As much as his father tried Naruto refused to not have any orange on his attire since it was, according to him, the best color possible. On his right hand he wore a gold ring with an orange stone set in place, all along the ring were patterns of spirals in honor of the Uzumaki symbol and his mother. Minato consider the ring one of his best creations as there was two seals on it one for durability and the other one was a huge breakthrough for him, it allowed the user to transfer chakra into the stone where it would be held indefinitely until the user chose to draw it out. It could hold an indefinite amount of chakra, seeing as Naruto had huge amounts of chakra and could afford to dump copious amounts into the stone, it would be amazing for if the case should arise that he'd somehow be in a conflict and ended up with hardly any chakra.

"Alright dad I'm ready to go."

Minato went to his son and hugged him. He realized he hardly needed to bend down any as his son had gone through a growth spurt going from 4 feet 5 inches to an even 5 feet putting him at one of the tallest in his class.

"Your mother would've been proud of you Naruto, now let's head out and get you your headband, I'm so proud of you."

They walked out the door.

Other side of town

"Sasuke-kun enough training you don't want to be late or be sweaty and dirty for your graduation!" Mikoto yelled at her son who was currently training with his older brother Itachi

"Yes Sasuke-kun we need to leave soon we have to meet with Hokage-sama and Naruto-kun."

"Hn good let get there soon want to have enough time to get in a spar with the dobe" Sasuke said with a slight grin. Itachi just rolled his eyes, ever since they were young his brother and surrogate brother had a strong rivalry but it had advanced their strengths and gave them a huge drive to constantly train resulting in both being easily the strongest in their class. Itachi and Sasuke then shunshined to the Namikaze estate meeting Minato and Naruto right as they walked out

"Ah Itachi-kun I've told you before contrary to what the elders believe, I don't need a bodyguard." After the Kyuubi incident and once Minato moved back to the Namikaze estate after spending three years at the Uchiha compound, the council deemed it necessary that Minato was to have a bodyguard with him at all times on top of the Anbu patrol. At first this manifested itself as Kakashi Hatake who was around constantly and even moved into the estate. Once he became a jounin sensei at the urging of Minato the council assigned Itachi who at the very least agreed to not move in with them.

"Sorry hoka-"

"Minato is fine Itachi you know that."

Hai, Hokage-Sama." Itachi said with a small smile on his face. During this exchange Naruto and Sasuke had been glaring daggers at each other with a thin stream of lightning flying between the two.

"Don't take it too hard when I show everyone today that I'm the better ninja Teme."

"Hn in your dreams dobe I've wiped the floor with you the last few spars."

"Alright you two try not to cause too much damage to the school please I can't deal with the paperwork." Minato then sighed and repeated more to himself than anyone else that damn paperwork. "Alright Naruto, Sasuke good luck to both of you Itachi and I will be there when you two get out we have a surprise for the both of you IF you pass." Minato said with a smile as he saw the determination almost visibly show as tiny flames appeared in both of the boy's eyes.

Naruto then gave his father a hug and Sasuke gave Itachi a hug then gave a small bow to the Hokage and then both used a shunshin to appear in the classroom in an instant while also knocking a desk over and scattering papers everywhere.

Iruka using his head grow jutsu screamed at the two soon to be Shinobi "DAMN IT YOU TWO HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I SAID TO NOT USE THAT JUTSU IF YOU CAN'T CONTROL YOUR SPEED NOW PICK EVERYTHING UP" his head then shrank down and he gave a small smile as the Jinchuriki and the Uchiha heir scrambled to pick up the most papers. Despite their antics he had to admit it was interesting to say the least to have two students who weren't even genin yet to be able to use the shunshin among other jutsu. They had already proven in their first year to be able to do the clone jutsu so their parents had requested their exam be different than anyone else's. "Alright everyone take your seats we will now begin the exams to pass, first up is Shikamaru." He looked around and saw Shikamaru asleep already in the back of the class and proceeded to grab a piece of chalk and launch it at his head waking up the lazy Nara. Once he got him on his way he continued the exams with everyone passing perfectly, well everyone except the young Uchiha and Namikaze.

"Iruka sensei what about me and Sasuke-teme?" Naruto asked

"Shut up dobe" Sasuke said to Naruto, glaring daggers and yet again the stream of electricity sparking between the two.

"Yeah why haven't they gone Iruka how're they supposed to pass, become ninja and inevitably fall in love with me?" Sakura yelled

Both sweat dropped at this not wanting to hear the same speech again as they had heard it countless times.

"In your dreams forehead they're mine!" Ino yelled at the pinkete who then proceeded to stick her tongue out at Ino. Chouji then had to grab Ino to prevent her from attacking Sakura and causing a scene, as what usually happens almost everyday. The whole commotion was enough to wake up the lazy Nara who only uttered a simple "troublesome" before putting his head back down.

"Alright enough, Enough….ENOUGH LET ME TALK." Iruka yelled having to grow his head to comical proportions again to gain the attention of his students. It was times like these that he wondered if he would have been better off forcing the two to graduate after their first year, it sure would've saved him the trouble of girls constantly causing commotions to gain the attention of the heirs. Unfortunately for them ignoring the girls only seemed to make them try harder to gain their attention.

"Anyways if you had let me finish I was about to say that they will be given a different test seeing as they were able to perform the clone jutsu already. Now if you all would follow me outside we can finish the exams.

The student followed Iruka outside to the training grounds. "Alright Naruto, Sasuke, I was given special instructions from your parents Naruto your test will be to mak WHAT there's no possible way you know this jutsu. And Sasuke th-this isn't possible neither of you can do these tasks."

"Common Iruka sensei what's the test? We kind of need those if we want to graduate!" Naruto said to his teacher. Sasuke gave a simple nod and a "what the dobe said."

Iruka sighed, "alright Naruto your test is to make a rasengan with one hand and Sasuke you will need to perform the fireball jutsu using only the tiger seal. I don't know how either of you are possibly expected to perform these-" he stopped and could only stare at Naruto as he created a perfect rasengan and as Sasuke used the fireball jutsu using the one seal.

Naruto and Sasuke looked at him and raised their eyebrows as if to say "was that it?" Meanwhile the various girls of the class were going crazy about how cool they were. The young heirs could only roll their eyes. After Iruka came over his initial shock he could only smile at the idea of how powerful these two were. "Alright well I'm happy to say that all of you have passed, please come back inside to get your headband and tomorrow teams will be assigned first thing in the morning, I'm very proud of all of you today you begin your careers as Shinobi of Konoha and from here on out the challenges will only be tougher and tougher as your caliber as a ninja grows, today you are all adults in the eyes of the world and are no longer kids, I congratulate all of you my former students and new genin of Konoha."

"Alright teme I think now would be a perfect time for a spar so I can kick your ass in front of everyone."

Sasuke looked over at the blond and gave a small smile " just what I was thinking dobe don't take it too hard when you lose."

They both dashed forward meeting in the middle as their fists collided creating a small shock wave where their fists collided. Both jumped back and Naruto dashed forward sliding on his knees to avoid Sasuke's punch. Immediately after his fist passed over the blonds hair he turned around aiming to punch the back of sasuke's knee. Sasuke jumped and spun connecting with Naruto's chin on a roundhouse kick sending him flying, Naruto flipped in mid-air and landed on all fours immediately pouncing back to the Uchiha. They exchanged a flurry of punches and kicks none of which connected until Naruto focused chakra into his fist then thrusted forward shouting "fuuton:Gale fist!" The attacked released sending a ball of condensed air straight into Sasuke launching him away. Taking advantage of this the young Namikaze sped forward and jumped using the same roundhouse kick the Uchiha used previously, sending him flying into the building. Sasuke bounced off the building and Naruto ran under him, grabbing his leg and slammed him down into the ground. He then began to charge chakra into his fist again for the same attack and right as he sent out the compressed air Sasuke flipped around shooting a small fireball the resulting explosion giving him enough time to get away. Naruto had quickly pulled his cloak over him protecting him of all damage from the explosion. They ran forward again and at about 20 feet from each other both simultaneously shouted "Katon: grand fireball jutsu!" The attacks flew at each other creating trenches as they moved. They collided and canceled out in an explosion that sent both heirs flying back.

"Alright you two that's enough for today" Minato said as he appeared right in between the two with Itachi appearing moments later.

"Hogake-Sama, Itachi-Sama, I'm sure you will be pleased to know that they both passed the exams." Iruka said with a small and a hint of pride in his voice.

"Did they now, well Minato I suppose they do deserve their surprises then do they not?" Itachi asked.

Minato smiled and pulled out two scrolls and tossed them to Naruto and Sasuke. "Alright boys see what's in them, I'm sure you will like them." They put a small amount of chakra into the swords and with a poof their gifts arrived; two nearly identical katanas with a gold round cross guard and for Naruto's an orange hilt and for Sasuke a black hilt. Naruto's blade had a slight green tinge to it and Sasuke's had a slight red tinge to the metal. The swords edges were serrated.

"There's special seals on them as you can see by the color, Naruto channel chakra into your blade and Sasuke you do the same." Minato said to the new genin. They did as they were told and sasuke's blade immediately lit aflame and Naruto's gained a slight blue haze around it that also lengthened the blade considerably. "Naruto yours channels wind chakra regardless if you change your chakra nature and Sasuke yours does the same with fire. This feature can be turned off if you quickly put two burst of chakra into the blade and can be turned on the same way. The scabbards for the blades attach to your back with a special seal on them all you have to do is put it on your back and it'll stay, only you two can use your blades as I've put seals on them that prevent anyone else from using them. If someone were to well the blade would first send a jolt of electricity and then become dull."

"Thank you dad, thank you Itachi Niisan." Naruto said. Sasuke looked at his older brother and his Hokage and gave similar thanks, truly appreciating the swords and the work that must've gone into crafting them.

"Alright how does bar-b-que sound to you guys?" Minato asked them. All three agreed and they headed over to the nearest spot to celebrate.

The next day

"Alright everyone settle down I know you're all excited to see your teams now team one will consist of." Iruka went through the list of teams the reached team seven. " Alright team seven will be Naruto Namikaze, Sasuke Uchiha, and-"

Both Sakura and Ino could be seen at this point crossing their fingers and saying prayers to kami to be on that team.

"And Sakura Haruno."

"YES YES YES A TEAM WITH BOTH OF THEM TAKE THAT INO-PIG LOVE ALWAYS WINS" Sakura and Ino then proceeded to toss insults back and forth while Naruto and Sasuke dropped their heads on the desk with an audible "thud"

"Of all people we got stuck with the fan girl, of course, she better not hold me back I'm not babysitting her while we're on missions." Sasuke said

"Could be worse teme she is smart so she has that going for her, as far as everything else though...well she's book smart I should say." Naruto said with a forced cheerfulness as he attempted to find a silver lining with the pinkete being the third member.

"Alright team 8 will consist of Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, and Hinata Hyuuga." The three new team members all looked at each other and gave a smile indicating they were, with the exception of one blue haired girl, happy with the overall team.

"And team 10 will be Chouji Akimichi, Shikamaru Nara, and Ino Yamanaka." At this the blond haired girl dropped her head complaining about the team while thinking that she couldn't believe her parents were forcing them into the Ino-Shika-Cho tradition. "Troublesome woman" was all the lazy Nara had to say.

"Alright everyone get with your teams your jounin sensei's should be here any time now."

One by one their sensei's came and went until only team 7 was left, two hours after everyone else had already gone. Naruto and Sasuke, who figured out already that their sensei had to be Kakashi as no other jounin would dare be this late, just sat and worked on chakra control exercises while Sakura switched between complaining about their sensei being late and trying to get either boy to go on a date with her. Finally after 2 and a half hours Kakashi arrived.

"YOURE LATE!" Sakura yelled much to the annoyance of Sasuke and discomfort of Naruto.

"Well a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long way around" Kakashi said with his trademark eye smile.

"Your excuses are getting worse Kakashi-Niisan, you know that right?" Naruto told his and his father's former roommate and bodyguard

"Hm what was that Naruto?" Kakashi asked making his voice as sincere as possible to which Naruto could only sweat drop. "Alright team meet me on the roof." And with that the cyclops vanished in a poof of smoke.

The 3 genin quickly followed with Naruto and Sasuke leaving with a shunshin leaving Sakura behind to walk up the roof by herself.

"Finally, we've been waiting for you Sakura." Naruto said with a flat voice, while he didn't hate her like Sasuke seemed to he also didn't like her and saw her as a liability for upcoming missions. I'll have to ask her to do one on one training with me afterwards hopefully a few weeks of that should at least improve her skills enough Naruto thought.

"Alright now that we're all here how about you tell me something about yourselves hm what're your likes, dislikes, goals, things like that?" Kakashi said.

"Why don't you go first so we know what you mean." The pinkete asked her new sensei. At this question all three of the men rolled their eyes.

What's there to know the question is self explanatory. Oh well I guess I have to humor her, maybe I would've been better off watching Minato-sensei constantly. "Uh alright well I'm Kakashi Hatake I like many things as for my dislikes well I don't want to tell you those and as for my goal well that's private." Kakashi said giving an eye smile while all three of his students sweat dropped. "Alright uh pinky you go first."

She glared at him first then said "I'm Sakura Haruno, I like, well the people I like" she then glanced over to her left and right looking at her two teammates then blushed " I dislike Ino-pig and my goals" she then looked again at the two boys who only rolled their eyes.

"Uhm alrighty then Naruto why don't you go next."

"There's really no point Kakashi-niisan you and Sasuke already know about me."

Kakashi just sighed and looked at his student "just do the exercise Naruto"

"Alright my name is Naruto Namikaze, I like ramen, training, and beating Sasuke-teme at sparing, I dislike when tousan doesn't let me eat ramen for breakfast or when ero-sennin is being a pervert, as for my goal I want to become strong to protect the people I care about and become the greatest Hokage, even better than tousan."

"Sasuke you can go now."

"I'm Sasuke Uchiha, I like when Niisan and tousan train me and teach me new jutsu, I dislike the dobe, and my goal is to become stronger than Niisan and tousan and become clan head."

Alright well those two I don't have to worry about I already know their strong but Sakura on the other hand he then glanced up at her and saw her already attempting to get either boy to go on a date with her yeah that's going to be fun she's smart but as far as everything else, she needs some serious training and I highly doubt that she even knows why she wants to be a Shinobi. "Alright team well that was fun, tomorrow meet me at training ground 3 at 5 in the morning and don't eat breakfast otherwise you'll throw up." Kakashi said with a hint of malice "alright see you then." He said cheerfully then disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Naruto looked at Sakura and saw that there was a hint of fear after what Kakashi said. " you know he's lying right?"

"What? How do you know?"

"He's a ninja and not just any ninja he's a former Anbu they're trained in deceit he's obviously lying so that we show up tomorrow half starved and weak, oh and he's at the very least 3 hours late to anything so show up a few minutes before 8. Sakura if you want to join us me and teme are going to train with Itachi-Niisan with our swords, you can train with your kunai."

He's inviting to go with him! But it's to train I don't want them to see me sweaty and dirty though. "I'll just go and watch"

"If that's all you're going to do then don't come." Sasuke said already walking away

"Alright fine I suppose I could train." I'll just stop once I break a sweat.

The trio headed towards the training ground and met with Itachi who showed the boys a new style, he and Minato had taught them different ones before using wooden swords as they had wanted them to know how to properly use the blades before they got them. After Itachi showed them a kata he worked with Sakura on her accuracy and how to throw a kunai using the least amount of energy but getting the most power from the throw. They all trained until nightfall and headed back to their respective houses.

The next morning the three genin met at the training only having to wait about 10 minutes before their sensei arrived. He had been expecting to receive looks of anger or frustration at the least but nothing and on top of that they all looked like they had just ate. He glanced over at Naruto and Sasuke and saw smug smiles on the both of them. "You know you two could at least let me have some fun." He said slightly disheartened at the fact that they ruined what he considered "fun".

"No can do Niisan what's usually fun for you isn't fun for me, actually it usually ends in me being injured you jerk."

"Huh sorry Naruto did you say something?" He then smiled as the blonde grumbled to himself and was visibly annoyed. Well at least that still gets a rise out of the kid. "Anyways team your mission is to collect these two bells." He held them up and they chimed slightly with the wind. "Only two of you will pass the other will be sent back to the academy to redo the full fourth year."

"YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO US THAT HAS TO BE ILLEGAL."

I can and I will do it you all are now my students, well at least two of you will be, and what I says goes I am your jounin commander. Now you have till noon to get the bells and begin." Kakashi said in a cold and serious voice sounding angry and harsh. He smiled to himself though when everyone dashed away once he said begin. Well at least they're smart enough to do that, however Naruto and Sasuke will figure out soon that this is really about teamwork.

Naruto dashed away but he kept sight of where Sasuke and Sakura went. Three man cells don't exist only four, three genin and a jounin there's no way he can send one of us back, no he'd have to send all of us back so why did he tell us only two would pass. Wait we have to take them from him there's no way a genin can take on Kakashi, hell I can't even do that by myself me and Sasuke maybe but we're not average genin so that would mean THAT'S IT. He used the scare tactic to get us to separate and build distrusts between us one person can't do this alone the actual exercise is about teamwork. We would put ourselves aside and worry about a team as a whole that's what this exercise is about. Crap I need to find Sasuke and Sakura otherwise we won't have any chance of passing and I'm not going back to school for a year. After searching for a bit he finally found Sasuke and after that it wasn't too hard to find Sakura he informed them of what the exercise is actually about then they proceeded to make a plan.

Hm it's already been half an hour and I haven't any of them. I'd like to read my book but that's not going to be possible with Naruto and Sasuke here. He heard a rustle in the bushes and Naruto walked out "You know while you may be good you're not strong enough to take me one by yourself."

"I'm never by myself Kakashi you know that." His hands went into a familiar cross shape and he shouted "shadow clone jutsu!" Two copies of him appeared and all three unsheathed their swords, one of the naruto's slashed horizontally across shouting "fuuton: wind slash" a large wave of wind with the cutting power of the blade flew at Kakashi who then jumped in the air. "You're going to have to do better than that Naruto!" One of the clones had been condensing the air underneath his feet and once Kakashi was at his peak the clone jumped "fuuton: compression jump" the air pressure released as the clone jumped launching it into the air. Right when he was slightly below Kakashi the clone performed the same attack timing it so that Kakashi would fall into the deadly crescent of wind. It appeared that the attack hit severing his knees from his body but as he hit the floor a poof of smoke appeared at the spot and when it cleared a severed log laid in his place.

Hm that was good but he's working by himself still I'd have thought for sure they figured it out. Just at that moment he heard the distinct sound of a blade being drawn and he flew out of the tree that was serving as his hiding, a large wave of fire chasing after him. The jounin landed on the ground with Naruto in front of him and Sasuke behind him.

"Dobe now!"

Naruto and Sasuke charged at Kakashi holding their blades behind them. "Fuuton: severing tornado" Naruto shouted as he jumped and spun in a circle landing with his sword point forward, a large tornado appeared and flew forward destroying the ground as it moved forward. The same Naruto did this Sasuke jumped and slashed downward shouting "Katon: tremor explosion" as his blade hit the ground a red crack appeared moving fast towards Kakashi. He raised the blade shouting "release" creating an explosion that connected with the tornado causing an even larger explosion destroying the area Kakashi had been occupying. At the last moment he had shunshined into the tree. He smiled to himself as that certainly counted as teamwork. He then felt a kunai against his head.

"Got you Kakashi sensei you shouldn't have let your guard down." Sakura said a large smile appearing on her face.

Kakashi smiled and shunshined to the middle of the field. Sakura jumped down and the boys stood by on guard still. "You all pass. The point of the exercise as you've figured out was to work together. In this Shinobi world those who break the rules are scum but those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum this exercise was to make sure you all could put yourselves aside and worry about the team as a whole I'm proud of the three of you. We are now officially team 7 congratulations.

Hopefully you all liked this if there's anything that I did wrong or just have CONSTRUCTIVE criticism tell me please again this is my first story so any advice is welcome thank you all. I should update again in a few days for the most part I know how I want this story to go so I should update within a few days constantly, although the new update for destiny did just come out...