Chapter 2: Exams and catching a traitor.
Talking
Thinking.
Demon/Boss summon talking
Demon/Boss summon thinking.
*Jutsu*
Naruto sighed as he finally settled down for the night in his bed, after spending all day with his friends and his sister he was ready to turn in for the night and go visit someone else.
He played down and closed his eyes, feeling a small pull in the back of his mind. He latched onto it and immediately was out like a light.
When he opened his eyes he smiled as he sat up infant of the large cage that held his mother.
"Have a rough day?" His mother asked stepping out of the shadows and laying down, he was the only one besides Natsumi who could enter the mindscape that held the cage.
"Yeah just dealing with the rest of humanity was annoying." Naruto said with a chuckle as he walked through the bars of the cage and climbed on his mothers back.
"I know, I was watching through your sister's eyes. Very nice job on the transformation I would like to say, however next time young man no using me." She said lightly scolding him and making him laugh.
"Sorry, sorry it was a spur of the moment thing." Naruto said calming down and let things settle into silence for a minute.
"So, tomorrow you graduate from the academy and become a full shinobi. You excited?" Kyubbi asked.
"Excited and a bit nervous, but also ready." He said smiling.
"And I'm guessing you finally plan on bagging that traitor of a substitute teacher Mizuki?" Kyubbi asked cracking open one eye.
"Yeah, he's had it out for Natsumi since we began the academy, that man needs to be brought down at all cost." Naruto said growing serious.
Kyubbi sighed and moved one of her tails, wrapping it around Naruto in a hug like way. He smiled and held the tail, with the size difference it was how they hugged.
"Just promise me you won't get yourself hurt." Kyubbi said in a worried tone for her little kit.
"Don't worry mom, I'm not a kit anymore. I promise ill keep myself safe." Naruto said.
"All right then, get some sleep you'll need it." Kyubbi said, Naruto nodded and closed his eyes drifting off to sleep for real this time.
When morning came Naruto yawned as he pulled himself out of bed and went through his usual morning routine before heading downstairs to get breakfast.
"Hey Naruto, you all ready for today." Minato asked looking up from his paperwork, he often tried to eat at home with his son and daughter.
"Yeah dad, I'm all ready." Naruto said, he still called Minato his dad and Kushina his mom, adopted or not they treated him like family and he still loved them for it.
At that moment Natsumi came stumbling down the steps still looking half asleep.
"Have a rough nice sweetie?" Kushina asked.
"I feel like I barely slept at all, I am so screwed today." Natsumi said with a groan.
"Relax sis, you studied hard yesterday with me and the others and you know the Jutsu's inside and out. You'll do great." Naruto said smiling and patting his sister on the back.
"You think so?" Natsumi asked.
"I know so." He said.
"Speaking of which, you to better hurry up and eat before your late." Minato said.
The two nodded and hurried through breakfast, after gathering their gear they said goodbye to their parents and rushed off towards the school.
After a good ten minute sprint race the two arrived and headed in to see for once they weren't late.
Naruto gave his sister one last reassuring pat on the back before heading up and joining Kenji and Kiana.
"You ready for this?" Kiana asked him as he sat down.
"Please this will be a piece of cake." Naruto said, he wasn't cocky he just knew this would be easy.
Twenty minutes later Iruka finally walked in.
"All right everyone quite down." Iruka said, the class instantly was silent which impressed him since he didn't have to use his Big Head Jutsu.
"Now listen up, today is the graduation exam. The exam is broken into multiple parts, the first is written, next is target practice where we test your accuracy, third is a sparring match, and finally a test to see your performance on the three academy Jutsu's." Iruka said, he and Mizuki soon began passing out the tests.
Naruto kept a blank face as Mizuki passed, he hated the white haired man especially when he caught the small sneer he sent towards Natsumi.
'Kept acting like an ass buddy, tonight I take you down.' Naruto thought.
"All right everyone your time for the written test begins, now." Iruka said.
Naruto flipped the test over and began to read, five-seconds later he smirked and began to write.
After the hour given to them was up they headed outside to the target range where they threw shuriken to see who had the best accuracy, some were good, some we downright awful, others excelled.
He watched as in front of him Sasuke Uchiha went and hit all but one bullseye.
"Ha beat that loser." Sasuke said as he passed Naruto, the two were hated rivals, sasuke because he didn't believe that anyone was better then him an Uchiha and Naruto because Sasuke and his fan girls bugged the hell out of him.
"All right Naruto, your up." Iruka said, however Naruto instead of walking up turned to leave.
"I'll be at the sparring ring." Naruto said as he tossed all ten weapons over his shoulder, not a single one missed the center.
Iruka dropped his pen at the sheer accuracy Naruto demonstrated without even so much as looking, Sasuke on the other hand was fuming.
After the others had finished they moved to the sparring ring, like with the target practice thing's were a mix of good and bad. Natsumi finished her match having taken on one of Sasuke's many fan girls and pounded her into the dirt and now stood with Kiana and Kenji as they watched the two prodigies enter the ring.
"Who's your money on." Kenji asked her smirking, he knew who he was betting on.
"My brother hand's down." Natsumi said smirking as well.
"All right, this is the last match of the day. Sasuke Uchiha." Iruka said getting cheer's from the fan girls." And Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze." Iruka said, the two then got ready.
"Just give up now loser, save yourself the beating." Sasuke said.
"Yeah, you keep dancing in fairy land, ill be here kicking your ass in the real world." Naruto said dropping into the opening stance of his and his mother's style, fox fist.
Iruka called it and the match began, Sasuke immediately came out swinging but Naruto easily avoided the blows. The fox fist was an interesting style, rather then just pound on a person you let them wear themselves out by trying to hit you while you dodged and blocked.
"Stand still loser!" Sasuke yelled five minutes into the right when not a single blow hand landed.
"Now why would I go and do that." Naruto said smirking.
"Naruto, please take this seriously." Iruka called, he had been watching and realized that wasn't the academy style so he assumed Naruto was messing around.
"I am Iruka-Sensei." Naruto said flashing him a fox like grin.
"Naruto, just end it we have other things to do today." Kiana called from the sidelines.
"All right you guys are no fun." Naruto said rolling his eyes, faster then anyone else could process Naruto got under the Uchiha's guard and slammed an open palm strike to his face launching him back and knocking him cold in one blow.
The field was silent as they watched Naruto return to his friend's side, Where had that come from?
"A-all right everyone back inside for the last part, Mizuki will be handling it while I take Sasuke to the infirmary." Iruka said picking up the Uchiha.
Everyone else headed inside to complete the final piece of the exam, most waited in the classroom as they waited for their name to be called and watching as those who did either came out with a headband or came out without one.
Naruto hung out in the back and smiled when he saw both his friend's leave the room with headbands, a moment later he was called down.
"All right Naruto, simply show me you are proficient with the three academy Jutus's and you pass." Mizuki said,
Naruto nodded and smirked mentally as he did the hand sign and poofed away as a log took his place.
"Very good, now the others." Mizuki said, however Naruto didn't reappear.
"Who said I didn't." A menacing voice said behind Mizuki, he turned and yelled as three miniature Kyubbi's stood behind him ready to kill him.
"NARUTO." He yelled clearing trying not to piss himself.
The two clones poofed out and the real Naruto transformed back laughing like crazy.
"I SHOULD FAIL YOU FOR TAKING THAT ACCURSED FORM." Mizuki yelled.
"Oh, have a sense of humor Mizuki-Sensei, not like I was actually going to hurt you." Naruto said still laughing.
Mizuki growled, however knowing he couldn't hurt the kid he simply gave him the headband and told him to leave.
Naruto smirked as he walked out of the building and found his friends.
"So did you do it?" Kenji asked.
"Oh yeah, he damn near wet himself when I become mini version's of mom." Naruto said in a low voice so other's couldn't hear.
"Very nice, makes me wish I could have seen it." Kiana said, however before they could say more all three saw Natsumi dejectedly walk out of the building and over to a swing.
"Tell me he didn't do what I think he did." Naruto growled, Mizuki had access to the records and scores and he knew from the past he wasn't afraid to change his sister's grades.
"Apparently he did, so what are you going to do about it Naruto?" Kenji asked, watching as they all saw Mizuki appear and talk to Natsumi.
"Get some payback, Naruto style." Naruto said smirking.
Later that Night Naruto was hopping along the rooftops following his sister's scent, earlier his father had told him Natsumi had broken into the hokage vault and stolen the forbidden scroll, now he had to find her along with the other Jonin and ANBU of the village.
'Already I can smell that traitor's scent moving towards her, I just hope she has enough time to learn something.' Naruto thought, he had been actually pretty proud of his sister for doing that and hoped she could learn a Jutsu from that scroll.
He suddenly stopped and sniffed again.
'Iruka-Sensei, what the hell is he doing this far out. Well, I guess it makes sense he would find her to. That man has a better sense of tracking then even I do.' He thought pulling the hood up on a cloak he had brought with him and kept moving.
Soon he reached the outskirts of the village and went into the forest, keeping to the trees he soon came across the scene of Iruka and Natsumi talking. Frowning when he heard how his sister had been tricked he had to inwardly suppress a growl when the traitor arrived armored to kill her and take the scroll.
'So, that's your game you white haired bastard.' Naruto thought, he kept pace with them when they began moving again and kept close to his sister. All he did for the moment was watch however, he inwardly suppressed a bigger growl when Mizuki threw the giant shuriken at Natsumi and went wide eyed when Iruka jumped to save her.
'I guess he got over his hatred of mom, all right now you crossed a line you shouldn't have.' Naruto thought as he brought his hand's up and went through a series of hand signs.
"*Fox Clone Jutsu*" He whispered, next to him two copies of himself appeared without smoke or noise.
"Whats the plan boss." The first asked.
"One of you sneak around and stay in Mizuki's blind spot and hit him with any and all long range weapon you can. The other transform into a naginata so I can engage from the front." Naruto said.
The first nodded and hopped off, the second poofed silently and became a Naginata with a cherry wood handle wrapped in chains, a fox head with its mouth open was biting the red and silver blade.
Naruto smirked, the Fox Clone was his own original jutsu modeled after the shadow clone. The clones however were fueled with Yokai or Demon Charka which meant they were far more durable and anything they transformed into was a solid copy instead of just and illusion.
Keeping his hood open he hoped down as Mizuki threw the second star, Just before it could hit however he appeared and cut it down the middle with his weapon.
"Don't you know it's rude to attack a lady." He said to Mizuki's shocked face, Who was this person?
"Who the hell are you?" Mizuki demanded.
"The person who is going to kick your sorry, traitor ass." Naruto said leveling the blade to mizuki.
Mizuki growled and threw a hail of shuriken at the cloaked figure, however Naruto moved faster and weaved in-between the barrage of stars resulting in not a single scratch to his cloak.
"You'll have to do far better then that." Naruto growled as he rushed up the tree and took a swing with his pole arm, Mizuki could barely dodge and jumped away as the tree branch was cut in half, Naruto was soon hot on his tail.
The site haired traitor tried to escape back into the forest but a giant shuriken came out of nowhere and stopped him, barely cutting his face.
"Oh no you don't, your not getting away when you attacked a fellow leaf shinobi and tried to make off with the forbidden scroll. Not to mention you attacked the current hokage's daughter." Naruto growled.
"That thing is not the great fourth's daughter, it is the Kyubbi reborn can't you see, all I was doing is my part for this village." Mizuki said sweating.
"She isn't the Kyubbi you traitor." Naruto said in a low voice.
"Yes, she is, she is possessed by it." Mizuki yelled.
"No, she's not the kyubbi, because I am." Naruto said ripping off his cloak, instead of being normal however, he stood as a bipedal golden fox with nine flowing tails. Naruto had discovered this trick years ago, a hybrid of his natural fox form and his human form. He called his nine tailed warrior form.
Mizuki looked stunned and terrified as Naruto leveled his blade at him again.
"Now them, where were we?" He asked and rushed forward, Mizuki's scream rang out through the night as birds flew away from the dark trees and the sound of a truly painful beating was heard.
Back at the clearing Natsumi was doing the best she could to patch up Iruka-Sensei, She didn't want this to happen, all she wanted was to be able to graduate and be a ninja with her brother and her friends. Now her favorite teacher was hurt and she didn't know if she could save him.
A rustle from a nearby bush caused her to jump up and reach for a kunai, a moment later the cloaked man returned carrying Mizuki over his shoulder, the traitor all bound and ready for processing.
"Thats close enough, who are you." She demanded.
"Aww sis i'm hurt." A voice said, one she recognized.
"Naruto?" He asked at a loss for words, Naruto smiled a cheeky grin as he took off the hood and flashed her a peace sign.
"Sup sis, nice night ha." he said, she laughed and tackle hugged him.
"Don't do that to me jerk, you had me terrified it was someone else." She said smiling none the-less.
"Yeah, yeah I hear you." Naruto said, Then Natsumi realized something.
"Wait, Naruto did you beat Mizuki?" She asked.
"Yeah the guy was a push over, he got kicked around by a kid something fierce." Naruto said making her laugh, however then behind her a groan was heard.
"Natsumi, are you ok?" Iruka asked.
"Yeah I'm fine Iruka-Sensei, Naruto came and saved my butt." She said smiling and pointing to her brother.
"Naruto, did you really?" He asked surprised.
"Course Iruka-Sensei, did you expect anything less." Naruto asked giving him his usual fox grin.
"Guess I shouldn't have." He said making them all chuckle.
"Oh that reminds me, Natsumi close your eyes for a second." Iruka said.
She looked confused but otherwise did as he asked, Naruto watched Happily as Iruka took off his headband and tied it to Natsumi's head.
"All right Natsumi, you can open your eyes now." Iruka said.
Natsumi nodded and looked confused until Naruto held up a small mirror for her to use, she gasped and her eyes widened as she broke into a smile.
"Congratulation's Natsumi, you graduated." Iruka said, he himself had gone back through the girls test scores and found the error, he had been looking for her to tell her when he heard about the scroll.
"Well, sis you ready for what comes next." Naruto asked holding up a knuckle.
"You know it." She said fist bumping him as the morning light began to shine on the duo's new day as ninja.
Hello ladies and gentlemen, its me again back with the second update.
Hope you all enjoyed the chapter, I really felt Mizuki and Sasuke needed a beating at Naruto's hands in this and I hope you enjoyed the appearance of the nine tailed warrior form, we will be seeing that more later.
Anyway quick announcement, next week I got a family trip going on so updates will be weird but they will happen.
Until then folks, like, review, and favorite ill see you later. PEACE.
