Disclaimer: I do not have the good fortune for having come up with Naruto.

Under the cover of darkness, Naruto made her way into the Hokage building, with all the skills in stealth she had gain in escaping ninjas after her past pranks, keeping her hidden from the guards who hid in the trees around the darkened building. She quickly made her way to the Old Man's office, instantly spotting the camouflaged door leading to the scroll room. Tearing her eyes from rows upon rows of scrolls housed inside the special room, Naruto spotted the scroll she was looking for on a stand. She knew it was the scroll due to the convenient label proudly proclaiming it the 'Forbidden Scroll'. Grabbing the scroll from the podium, Naruto sprinted out of the scroll back into the office, and was on her way out of the office when the sounds of a toilet flushing stopped her in her tracks.

Naruto could only look in on in frozen horror as the Third Hokage, her self-proclaimed jiji, shuffled out of his personal bathroom, a trail of toilet paper on his left foot while he fiddled with the front of his robes. The snort she let out as she tried to hold in her shocked amusement at seeing the Old Man in this sort of position, informing him unwittingly, that she was there in the room watching him.

Looking up from the area that had held his undivided interest, the kind man eye's caught those of the somewhat amused Naruto. "Naruto, my dear, why are here in my office at," here he took a breath and shifted his gaze to the wall clock that rested along the wall that housed scroll room and to the right of his desk, "10:30 at night, and why pray tell, do you have my Forbidden scroll?"

Ever one to be quick on her feet, Naruto started to stutter out, "Um…well…" then she crossed her fingers into familiar looking hand seals, then yelled out, "Oiroke no jutsu!"

As soon as the words passed out of her mouth and the chakra sent out, Naruto was enclosed within a fluff cloud of white. The Hokage just stood there wondering what his cute little granddaughter of his heart was doing not only with the scroll but yelling out what seemed to be a made up jutsu in his office at this time of night. His wondering did not last long as most of the cloud drifted away in an alluring way leaving behind someone who he thought was his cute little granddaughter. The sight of the woman who remained was enough to send the sturdy old man back on his back with a massive nose bleed. Something about a mature looking, blond with a rather large chest, all but naked except for the remaining cloud that floated over her more feminine areas, was enough to push whatever platonic thoughts he had at the moment for Naruto and flip every hidden perverted switch he had in his brain.

Once he was down, Naruto sprinted out of the room, having to jump of a puddle of blood, so that she could finish her graduation exam. She figured that the appearance of her jiji was just another faucet , a surprise of sorts, in the exam that Mizuki and Iruka set up for her that she needed to get past so that she may graduate. Outside of the building, once she was back in the familiar trees, she put aside the giant mock scroll and pulled out the hand drawn map that Mizuki handed to her earlier.

Contrary to what some at the academy thought, those who claimed that Naruto was the very dead last in the class, she excelled at orienteering. Naruto's skill with reading a map were well honed, inn much the same way as her skills with stealth were, honed through hard work and her various pranks.

Using the soft light that made its way from the lit, open windows of the Hokage tower, Naruto spotted the black, jagged 'X' that Mizuki had placed on the map. The 'x' was placed in the center of a tan area surrounded by thick, dark green coloring. The colors told Naruto that the practice area was in a nice clearing surrounded by thick, hard to pass through forest. A single strand of dotted brown showed the path, most likely a deer trail, to get to the clearing on the map.

Targeting her path, she grabbed the oversized scroll and made her way to the area marked with the 'X' so that she could practice. The path that Naruto took was clear of all people, both ninjas and civilians. Upon reaching the clearing without hindrance, she plopped to the ground and pulled out the scroll.

Muttering under her breath, Naruto started to read the jutsu on the scroll.

"All right…let's find a jutsu to learn… kage bunshin no jutsu…another stupid clone jutsu…oh well …creates a clone of the user…blah blah blah…solid, can take multiple hits. Wow, that actually sounds really cool. All I have to do is the ram seal, this looks really cool." Naruto allowed the scroll to snap shut as she jumped up to start practicing the jutsu.

Not too long after she started practicing, a very satisfied Naruto was cooling off by lying on the ground, having finally made a fully functioning clone.

The graduation party was still in full swing at the Inuzuka compound. Everyone was enjoying themselves immensely, everyone but Kiba and Akamaru who were both still worrying over Naruto. Their worry must have shown because Kiba's mother took him aside after the party became established.

Pulling him into a tight hug, Tsume spoke, "Kiba, this is your party. I know you are sad that Naruto is not here, and I know your instincts are to go and comfort her, but she needs some time to herself, we all know that there are times when she needs to be alone just to get over the pain she feels. You know she will come back when she is ready, I expect her back anytime soon."

Before Kiba could respond to his mother's last statement, a messenger chuunin came running into the door.

"Inuzuka sama, the Hokage request that you and all able body chuunins and jonins are to report to the Hokage tower immediately." The slightly out of breath chuunin panted out.

"What is the problem do you know?" Tsume asked as she followed the chuunin back to the party room.

Kiba and Akamaru remained in the little room his mother had dragged him to, that is until his superior hearing caught a few words of the chuunins response, "Find…Naruto…stole…Forbidden Scroll…ran away…" Upon hearing those words Kiba and his pup shared a look then snuck out of the Inuzuka compound.

He was climbing over the hedges when he saw those members of his family who were of a higher rank than he was race towards the brightly lit Hokage tower. As soon as the streets were clear of his family with their superior hearing, Kiba took off to the woods. Kiba knew that whenever Naruto was trying to escape her pranks that she would eventually, if she were not caught by Iruka, take off towards the woods to chill.

Running into the woods he failed, with all of his super senses, to notice his sensei Iruka taking off into the woods as well taking a different path.

After resting for a few minutes, Naruto felt well rested, her stamina was always way above what it should be for a normal twelve year old girl. Jumping up she started to roll up the giant scroll when the loud crack of a branch snapping drew her attention to the forest to her right. Naruto watched as a sweaty, not to happy looking Iruka made his way from the woods with an annoyed look upon his face.

Being her usual upbeat self, she called out to Iruka first. "Iruka sensei, you came just in time. I…"

Iruka cut her off, he was a little upset. "Naruto, what in the world do you think you are doing out here…with the Forbidden Scroll of all things…what possessed you to take it?"

"Huh…it was for the makeup exam. Mizuki sensei told me that I had to obtain the mock scroll that was set up for the exam and learn one jutsu. And I did it, I learned the jutsu, so do I get to graduate?"

Hearing her but not quite computing the meaning behind Naruto's words, Iruka just stared at her.

"Um…Iruka sensei…can I show you the jutsu and pass please?"

At this point Iruka finally deciphered Naruto's little speech, but he felt that he needed to respond. "Naruto, did you just say that Mizuki told you to take the scroll?"

Before Naruto could respond, a new voice rung out across the clearing, "Of course I told her to steal the scroll Iruka, what easier way to steal it for myself than from some little student who cannot even pass the real graduate exam."

"What do you mean Mizuki sensei…I thought this was a makeup exam?" Naruto said, as she and Iruka turned to face the despicable smiling man who was standing on a tree branch overlooking the clearing in which they stood.

"What I mean little foolish Demon, is that I tricked you. I wanted the scroll for myself so that I could use it to further my goals of being more than just a chuunin of Konoha. Now I was going to just kill you for the scroll, but now that Iruka is here I have to kill him too."

Naruto, a little upset for being used by such a man as Mizuki, yelled out "You tricked me, you stupid man! I will NOT let you kill Iruka…or me."

"HA HA HA," Mizuki's laughter rang out across the clearing, "You will not LET me kill you? At least you are a funny Demon."

Iruka decided that now was the time to speak up, as he has been silent thus far, "Naruto run, get out of here, take the scroll with you."

He then gave the reluctant girl a push and trusted the scroll into her hands, but before she could take a step, Mizuki tried to stall his golden ticket from leaving.

"Do you want to know why everyone hates you girl? Why everyone goes out of their way to hurt you?"

"Mizuki you cannot tell her, it is against the law." Iruka yelled in response, then he turned back to Naruto, "Naruto, run."

"Iruka, you really are a baka, I have already had the scroll stolen, if I am tried for that, which they only have the Demon's and your soon to be dead word, I will be sentenced to some sort of jail time. But back to the Demon… do you what happened twelve years ago."

The two somewhat law abiding ninjas in the clearing tried to speak at the same time.

"Well…"Naruto started.

"You cannot tell her…"

"Shut up the two of you. Twelve years ago the nine-tailed demon Kyuubi no Kitsune attacked the village. The Fourth Hokage turned the Kyuubi into a baby girl, that girl is you," at this claim he pointed his finger at Naruto who was calmly standing in the clearing watching the man who was standing on his soap box.

When Mizuki looked at her passive face he blew up, "Do you not care that you are a demon, Demon?"

After rolling her eyes, Naruto gave the crazy ninja a sweet little smile, "You really are a stupid, stupid man."

Both Mizuki and Iruka, two ninjas on very opposite sides, looked at Naruto, thinking she may have just completely cracked under all the pressure and hate she had been under since she was born.

"I already knew about Kyuubi, I have known about him since I was little. Nothing you have said tonight…besides the whole tricking me to get the scroll, has come as a shock." Naruto was still speaking in a very calm voice. "What I can say is that you will not get the scroll, and soon the Old Man will take you into custody and lock you away for a long, long time…or he might just kill you…you broke an S class secret in talking about the Kyuubi, that is punishable by death."

Silence rang out across the window clearing as the two men took in the small show of intelligence form the usually playful girl. They were used to her pranking, not quite intelligent nature; they were not used to the calm, intelligent demeanor she was displaying right now. Mizuki was the first to snap out of his shock, he quickly flipped the giant shuriken he held on his back and sent them flying at Naruto.

Iruka tried to protect his student by attempting to intercept the flying weapons, unfortunately for his goals to protect; he tripped and fell on the rock that Naruto just happened to throw under his foot. Naruto dodged the impending painful weapons, and then started laughing.

Naruto then crossed her fingers and performed her new jutsu, calling out the customary jutsu name, "Kage bunshin no jutsu!"

At the conclusion of her yell, the clearing was filled with young, twelve year old girls dressed in orange. The sheer number of the orange clothed girls were staggering, the numbers enough to stun the two men again. Naruto took advantage of Mizuki's inability to wrap his mind around the dead last using an actual forbidden jutsu, and took him down quite quickly, knocking him unconscious so that he could be taken into custody.

Once Mizuki was down and the other Naruto's dispelled, Iruka stepped up to his favorite student and spoke, "Naruto I want to say that I am proud of you, though next time do not trip any potential partners."

Naruto with her trademark grin, shuffled her foot and ruffled her hair with her right hand, "Aww… sorry Iruka sensei…I kind of got caught up in the moment of taking the bad guy down."

Iruka gave her a quick hug and then said, "Naruto close your eyes."

Naruto listened to her still trusted sensei and closed her eyes. She felt Iruka's presence walk up to her, and then felt him place something upon her head.

"You can open your eyes now Naruto." Iruka calmly stated.

She immediately opened her eyes and felt her forehead, feeling the cool metal with the Konoha insignia etched into it and seeing the absence of Iruka's own ninja headband, she broke out in an extra large grin and threw herself on Iruka in a hug.

"Congratulations Naruto you pass." He returned Naruto's hug.

With the conclusion of Iruka's word on Naruto passing the pair hugging heard an excited bark and a cheer coming closer and closer to the clearing. Naruto and Iruka turned toward the yelling in time to see Kiba and Akamaru running out of the woods. Kiba ran towards Naruto and tackled her into the ground in an excited hug, Akamaru hopping onto the three 'person' dog pile.

Iruka stepped away from the excited genin and made his way to Mizuki and started to secure him in rope so that he may be easier transported to the prison.

Naruto looked at Kiba and asked, "Kiba what are you do," Akamaru barked cutting her off and drawing attention to himself as well, "Sorry Akamaru, what are you and Akamaru doing here. What happened to the party?"

"We were at the party, I was talking to mother when a messenger chuunin came in and said something about you stealing the Forbidden Scroll. I snuck out as the rest of the family went to the tower and made my way to your calm place by the running creak you usually go to. As you were no there we started casting about for your scent, Akamaru picked up Iruka's scent. We figured that since Iruka was a chuunin, he was looking for you to, so we followed his scent. Then we found you just as Iruka said you passed."

Iruka came up on the two then, Mizuki thrown over his shoulder. "I hate to break this reunion up, but we need to get Mizuki and the Forbidden Scroll back to the Hokage, afterwards we can all go celebrate with raman."

The two new genin and pup looked at each other then agreed with a simultaneous, "Yes!" and "Bark!"

And with that the chuunin carrying the chuunin, the two genin, one with a giant scroll, and the puppy made their way out of the forest to the Hokage tower.

Once again I want to thank you all for reading my stories. I do want to apologize for the wait for this chapter; I am a very slow typer and I usually write my stories on paper first, which all lead to a slight delay. Personal thanks go to the following who reviewed or favorite.

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