Making a Difference chapter 2
Hello everyone. Hope you're liking this story, because I know I like writing it. Enjoy.
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(Time Skip-six years)
Sitting in some trees, Nick and Naruto were talking to each other. In the six years that he had been in Konoha, Nick had changed. He now wore a green camo jacket with the hood pulled up to cover his features, black fingerless gloves, and brown ninja pants. He still wore his Nikes for traction and for confusing enemies. Plus they were pretty fashionable too. Naruto also changed under Nick's tutelage. Gone was his old orange jumpsuit, which he switched out for a orange and black track jacket. He also had black ninja pants and black fingerless gloves just like Nick. The difference between the two was that Naruto wore dark blue ninja sandals. "You ready for the graduation exam Naruto?" Nick asked his best friend. " I think your plan's going to work, but I still feel kinda nervous." Naruto replied. Nick just shrugged his shoulders and jumped off his tree, landing perfectly on his feet. Naruto followed him wondering what he was doing. Nick then turned around to face him. "How about a friendly spar, to see how good you've gotten. Maybe that'll ease your mind." Nick explained, already getting into a taijutsu stance. "Hah, I'll beat you this time Nick, believe it! Naruto exclaimed. Then Naruto charged, throwing a punch at Nick's gut. Nick easily dodged to the side,while simultaneously kicking Naruto away."Is that all you got?" Nick mocked. Naruto hastily got back up making his favorite hand sign. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Ten Narutos appeared, all of them holding a kunai. Nick pulled out a shuriken, which made Naruto laugh. " Um Nick, what are going to do with just one shuriken when I have eleven kunai?" Naruto asked, having all his clones throw their kunai. "This!" Nick yelled, throwing his shuriken while making hand signs. "Shadow Shuriken Jutsu!" Nick said. What used to be one shuriken became hundreds, all of them aimed at the Naruto clones.
They all dispelled, making Nick smirk until he saw logs with many shuriken sticking out of them in their place. 'Holy crap, he did a substitution for all his clones AND himself, that's impressive.' Nick thought as he looked over his shoulder to see all the clones and Naruto charging at him. ' He's not stupid, he knows he can't just charge at me. What's he trying to pull here?' Nick wondered. Nick eyes widened as he jumped, barely dodging the deadly storm of kunai and shuriken that came from where the logs stood. In a poof of smoke, Naruto and his clones appeared, without a scratch on them. "I see, you didn't do any substitutions. You just transformed you and your clones into logs, making it seem like you did substitutions. Good job." Nick praised. "But how did you dodge all the shuriken in time?" Nick asked. Naruto laughed as he put his arms behind his head. "Sorry sensei, but that's a secret." Naruto said, with a mischievous grin that made Nick even more curious. "Let's get serious then." Nick said while crouching. "Yeah!" Naruto agreed. Naruto pulled out a fuma shuriken and threw it at Nick. Catching it, Nick started chuckling. "That's the best you can do?" Nick mocked. "Not even close!" Naruto retorted, making shadow clones and jumping towards his sparring partner. Hearing a poof, Nick looked down only for a shadow clone to give him a mean uppercut. Before he could recover, he was kicked into the air by the two clones. "Uzumaki Barrage!" Naruto exclaimed, landing an ax kick on his friend's head. Nick groaned in pain as he collided with the ground. "Stop faking it Nick, your not hurt." Naruto said, not letting his guard down for a minute. Grinning, Nick's shadow clone dispelled while the real Nick stood in it's place. "If that was anyone else, I'm sure you would've knocked them out with that move. Good work. Now, I think that's enough for today. Ready to ace that exam and beat Sasu-gay?" Nick asked, getting a furious nod from Naruto. The two then made for the academy, hopping from rooftop to rooftop without fail. After a few minutes, they arrived. "You ready?" Nick asked, waiting for an answer. "Let's do this!" Naruto yelled.
Inside the classroom, was every teacher's nightmare. Two boys were throwing kunai at the chalkboard, making sure to not let Iruka see them doing it. On the other side of the room, Shikamaru was asleep as Choji was eating some chips noisily. Other inhabitants of the room were Sasuke, who was brooding like he usually did, Ino and Sakura, both trying to ask Sasuke out, Hinata and Shino, who were the only ones sitting quietly, and Kiba, talking to Akamaru, who would occasionally bark happily to it's owner. Over all, the room was in chaos. 'I didn't want to pull out my secret weapon yet, but this is a necessary time to use it.' Iruka thought as he prepared to use his beefed up Teaching Jutsu. Before he could however, the door to the classroom was kicked down, drawing everyone's attention to the two figures that came in. 'Oh great, it's the dobe and the other loser.' One person thought while still brooding. 'Ah it's Naruto and his loud friend, this is going to be troublesome.' A certain lazy ninja was thinking. Iruka, finally over his surprise, started yelling at the two. "What the hell did you two idiots bust the door down for!" Iruka yelled, employing his famous Teaching Jutsu for effect. Ignoring their teacher, the two took a seat. Naruto sat by Hinata, who instantly started blushing while poking her fingers together. Nick sat by Ino, flashing her a smile that made her blush as well. "Hopefully you two were prepared for the Exam today, right?" Iruka stated, trying to intimidate both of them."Iruka-sensei, we all know I'd kick this exam's ass so why don't you just hand me my headband now?" Nick questioned. "Well we'll just have to see about that huh?" Iruka challenged. "Now anyway, everybody come outside for the taijutsu part of the exam." Iruka finished.
Once outside, Iruka addressed his students further. "Alright class, your going to pair up for a 2 minute mock spar. You're only allowed to use taijutsu which means no ninjutsu, genjutsu, or any other tricks got it?" Iruka explained. "Alright let's see...Nick and Kiba come on up. When Nick faced Kiba, he got into his new fighting stance while Kiba looked at him questionably. "What kind of stupid stance is that?" Kiba asked, taking up his family's fighting stance. "It was called mixed martial arts where I come from, but I beefed it up from its original form, effectively making my own style!" Nick said excitedly. "Alright, you two ready. Go!" Iruka yelled, jumping away from the two. Kiba charged at a fast speed towards Nick, only to see him vanish from sight. Turning around, Kiba met a punch to his face that connected, then got his legs swept from underneath him. Before he could get up, Nick had a kunai to his neck. "I win Kiba." Nick said, bored from the confrontation. Everyone else, save Naruto, was shocked that it only took five seconds for Nick to win. " You cheated! You used ninjutsu." Kiba declared, pissed that Nick made him look bad. " Nah, your just too slow to keep up with my movements." Nick said in a matter-of-factly way.
Then Nick returned to Naruto, who was cheering for Nick. "Alright, next is Naruto and...Sasuke." Iruka said reluctantly, while fan-girls and people who didn't like Naruto period rooted for Sasuke. Sasuke smirked as he stood next to Iruka, while Naruto acted nervous. "Hey Naruto, for this one time only, you can go all out." Nick said quietly, making Naruto very happy. It wasn't every day that he was allowed to go all out on someone, especially since Nick told him not to.
(Flash back)
Standing in their secret training area, Nick and Naruto sat by a fire. "Naruto, since you've started your training you've become very strong. In my opinion, you'd probably be a high- ranking chunin by now," Nick said making Naruto cheer quietly until Nick continued. " but you have to follow the ninja way bro. That means you're not allowed to show your true strength, unless its a life or death situation." Nick said, shocking Naruto. Then Naruto had a serious expression on his face as he understood his teacher's intentions. " I get it, you want to make sure that enemy villages don't get information on my abilities. If they did, they could easily come up with a strategy to overpower me." "You hit the nail on the head Naruto." Nick said, proud of Naruto for thinking so quickly and intelligently. Then again, Nick did force his friend to learn academic skills that would rival a jounin so it was only natural that he would be this smart. "Of course, it's not like anybody could beat the future hokage." Nick said, happy to see his friend dance around happily while going on about becoming hokage.
(Flashback over)
Shaking that thought from his head, Nick prepared to see Naruto slaughter Sasuke. "Let's do this Sasuke-teme, I'm gonna kick your butt from here to Iwa!" Naruto exclaimed, pumped up for being able to fight his victim. "There's no way you can win against me dobe, so why don't you just give up?" Sasuke said arrogantly. Naruto only shifted into a taijutsu stance he invented in response. "What's that style?" Sasuke asked, only for for Naruto to laugh. "Well it's a new style I made with my sensei, it's called Hunting Fox. In your case however, you can call it your doom." Naruto said, crouching on all fours to imitate a fox stalking its prey. "Your funeral dobe." Sasuke said, tired of talking. Naruto ran forward on all fours aiming a palm strike for Sasuke's stomach, only for Sasuke to dodge to the left. Using his momentum, Naruto spun on his hands and delivered a bone-rattling kick to Sasuke's jaw, making him step back in pain. Not letting up for a second, Naruto continued to assault Sasuke with various palm strikes, punches, and kicks before he finished with a punch to Sasuke's stomach, making the boy double over in pain. "Heh, that was easy." Naruto said, spitting in the dirt next to Sasuke. To say everyone was shocked would be the understatement of the year. "Holy crap, that idiot beat Sasuke." someone said softly, not used to those words in a sentence. Naruto turned around only to hear Sasuke get up slowly. " There's now way a dobe like you could beat an Uchiha this, Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!" Sasuke yelled. As the fire ball came, Naruto just flared his chakra, making the ball dissipate. By now, people's jaws were on the ground. The supposed dead last of the academy easily defeated the rookie of the year and destroyed a high ranking fire jutsu only using chakra. Nick quickly grabbed Sasuke's collar, holding him up in the air. "Alright bitch, listen up and listen good. You do some shit like that to Naruto again, I'm going to make sure you can't make children anymore." Nick threatened menacingly, whipping out a kunai to get his point across. Sasuke nodded dumbly before being reluctantly released by Nick. Iruka, now out of his shock, announced the other pairings.
After a good hour or so, everyone went back inside for the ninjutsu exam. "You'll all do the substitution jutsu, the transformation jutsu, and the clone jutsu." Iruka told everyone. Lining up, each student transformed into Iruka. Except for Naruto and Nick, who transformed into naked women caressing each other provocatively which caused many nosebleeds and a stern lecture (mostly yelling and screaming)from Iruka. For the substitution, both friends just substituted into everyone else's position, causing a lot of confusion and chaos. "Naruto, your next to do the clone jutsu." 'Hopefully he can do it this time.' Iruka thought to himself, worried that Naruto would fail yet again. "Um Iruka-sensei, I need to pee." Naruto said, making his teacher face-vault. "Do you really need to?" Iruka asked, not believing the timing. The smell of piss however persuaded him as he and the other students covered their noses. "Ugh, you can go. Be back before everyone's done and clean yourself up!" Iruka said, watching Naruto hurry to the bathroom. On his way down the hallway, Naruto took out the cat in his pants who now had a smile on its face. "Thanks a lot." Naruto whispered, releasing the cat. " Alright Naruto, now come with me." Iruka said, leading the blonde into the testing area after he got back. Inside, Iruka sat down before addressing Naruto. " Naruto, you can start now." Iruka said, praying to kami that Naruto passed. To his surprise, his prayers were answered as Naruto made six perfect clones. "That's...very good Naruto. Congratulations, you pass." Iruka said as he smiled, watching Naruto do a victory dance.
Seeing Naruto come out with a headband on shocked a lot of people and angered a certain emo. 'How did the dobe pass? He's the worst at the clone jutsu?' Sasuke thought to himself. ' I knew Naruto would pass, or should I say me?' Nick thought, smirking at his clever deception. Using his knowledge of future events in the Naruto world from watching the show, Nick found the perfect way to get Naruto to pass. Nick made a shadow clone and transformed it into Naruto. Naruto would come to the bathroom and switch places with his clone, while the clone took the test for him. The tricky part was switching the two back. 'I'm a pretty good ninja.' Nick thought as he and his friend exhchanged high fives. "Hey Nick, why couldn't I just make shadow clones to pass the test?" Naruto asked. Nick hung his head at his stupidity of making such a complex plan when there was such a simple solution. "Uh, it's great ninja practice! A ninja must learn to use deception." Nick said, trying to cover up his mistake. "How about we go out for ramen later to celebrate?" Nick asked, already knowing the answer. "Yes!" Naruto exclaimed, hugging his mentor and best friend while momentarily forgetting about his friend's lame explanation. "Um Naruto can I speak to you?" their other instructor, Mizuki, asked. "I'll catch up later Nick!" Naruto said turning around to face Mizuki. 'What great timing.' Nick thought in relief, no longer needing to explain his cluelessness. "Alright bye." Nick replied, making his way towards the hokage tower as his friend spoke with the instructor.
Omake:
"Let's do this Sasuke-teme, I'm gonna kick your butt from here to Iwa!" Naruto exclaimed, pumped up for being able to fight his victim. "There's no way you can win against me dobe, so why don't you just give up?" Sasuke said arrogantly. Naruto only shifted into an unfamiliar stance he invented in response. "What's that style?" Sasuke asked, only for for Naruto to laugh. "Well it's a new style I made with my sensei, so how about you SHOW ME YO MOVES?" Naruto yelled, pointing at Sasuke before charging at him. "Falcon Punch!" Naruto screamed, shoving his flaming fist into Sasuke's face. Sasuke flew, already a speck in the sky. Everyone started looking at Naruto accusingly. "Whoops."
And cut, how did you guys like that. Hopefully i had everyone acting in-character. As you can tell, this is going to be a strong, smart Naruto. Sorry if the omake sucks, but it's just something I thought on the fly. Keep on reading and review.