A/n. Ok Chapter two is up. I write short chapters, but hopefully ill write a lot of them, that's the plan anyways.
Disclaimer: I don't Own Naruto and I Never will. DON'T SUE ME PLEASSE!?!
Tales of An Uzumaki-Chapter Two
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7 Years Later….
A 12 year old Naruto was getting ready for his big day. Today was the day everything would change. It didn't matter that he had just the day before written all over the Hokage Monument. That was in the past. This is his future, and there is no way he could fail. He had been working so hard over and over again just to make sure everything went right.
As long as they didn't do bunshin, he should be fine. Iruka was his friend right? He bought him ramen, he must like me, Naruto thought. He had this in the bag. Today was the day he passed this god-forsaken test. Then he would graduate with Sakura, who couldn't seem to remember him and everything would be alright.
He would be Hokage and no one would stop him, not Iruka, not this test, not even gramps. And especially not Sasuke. That basterd. All I try to do is be nice to him, since were the same but he won't even talk to me, just that frustrating "Hn" of his. But today was the day he surpassed him. Everything would change today, he could feel it. Although Mizuki's creepy smile freaked him out.
Naruto's confidence soon began to waiver though as he realized, that today's test was Bunshin, his worst art. If only he had Sakura's control, but every time he tried to do make a bunshin, at the last second chakra would push out, without his control.
Behind him Hinata, with her new Headband, was sad for Naruto, her secret crush. If only she wasn't a failure then she could go up to him and cheer him up. But sadly she did not have his confidence.
Meanwhile, Sakura and Ino were swooning over Sasuke and plotting how to make him there's now that they both passed. Most of the plots included him being on there team, but others were much more crazed, such as sneaking into the Uchiha compound in the middle of the night and "expressing" there love for him.
The increasingly nervous Uzumaki meanwhile realized it was finally his turn, as he was the last to go. He wanted to scream aloud, but then, everyone would think he had given up, and if there was one thing Naruto did not do, it was give up.
Iruka looked at the boy with what looked like sad compassion in his face, but the test had been predetermined and there was nothing he could do about it now.
"Ok Naruto show us what you got, and do your best." encouraged Iruka.
He just hoped he wouldn't embarrass himself, like all his pranks ended up doing. He knew why he did it, as he was an orphan himself, and he knew Naruto just wanted someone to pay him some attention. So as of late he had been trying extra hard to befriend Naruto, and teach him how to be a ninja, considering his dream. In the beginning he hated him for what he saw, the Kyuubi, but when he really looked, he didn't see the demon; he saw a scared young boy just trying to find his way in a world that hated him.
"Here it goes Iruka-Sensei…" and the boy quickly made the hand signs for a bunshin.
Just as he thought it was about to work, since he created the proper amount, the smoke cleared away and he saw how deformed they were. The tears that threatened to come were swallowed as he waited for judgment.
Painfully Iruka said the words he dreaded most "You fail, Naruto, I'm sorry, there is always next year"
Mizuki churned in " Well we could make an exception just this once, I mean he did get the proper amount"
"No" replied Iruka "I cannot in good conscience send him to be a ninja when those bunshin can't even come close to tricking a couple of teacher chunnin."
After his hopes were raised and then dashed Naruto could not handle it. He ran out of the room with tears in his eyes. How could they failed him, after all his hard work? How could Iruka betray him like this, he knew that was his worst academy technique.
He sat on the swung and slowly rocked himself as he watched all the parents so proud of there children. The families all so happy, so painfully happy. Except for when they glanced at him. Even now he could imagine what they were saying. Calling him a demon who will never deserve to be a ninja. All the rumors, all the hate. It stabbed into Naruto like a knife in the night.
The only consolation was that Sasuke had already left, he couldn't rub it in his face.
And then Mizuki walked up to him and said "Do you still want to pass?"
As Naruto beamed on the outside, Mizuki beamed on the inside.
A/n I'm looking for a beta reader to make sure I'm not screwing everything up, otherwise enjoy, and read and review…!
