A Fox and his kit
chapter 3: Gradutation
Disclaimer: I don't own any rights to Naruto this is fan made project.
"Demon talking"
'demon thinking'
justu/technique
scene transition/time skip
2 years later Leaf Academy
'Can you believe it Kurama sensei? It's our last year stuck at this boring school,'
"yeah you can finally graduate with your friends, I suppose as a gift for getting this far I could teach you some new justu,"
Kurama taught Naruto a lot after became a sensor, how to sense and break genjustu, how yin and yang chakras work to make justu and seals albeit Naruto was still struggling with this, and few new sealing justu tricks like barriers, and weapon forging and curse seals, He only needed to teach him a few more things before he deemed him a capable ninja.
Naruto had grown a few inches but he was still short, clad in an orange tracksuit with blue on the upper shoulders area as well as around the waist, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, a red swirl on the back, a large white collar, orange pants, blue sandals and same green goggles on his forehead.
'Cool sensei, but can we wait til tomorrow, I sorta promised the gang I'd train with them today.'
"sure," Kurama yawned taking his usual nap.
"Naruto, did you hear what I just said" Iruka shouted getting the blonde's full attention.
"Umm, yeah," Naruto obviously lied.
"Then come down and demonstrate will you,"
Naruto went down in front of the class to make a fool of himself,
"well were all waiting Naruto," Iruka chimed, Naruto did nothing.
"Can anyone help him?"
"we were reviewing transformation justu Iruka sensei," A girl helpfully chirped.
The girl has bright pink hair, large green eyes, fair skin and a rather large forehead. She wears a red qipao dress with white circular designs, short sleeves, with a zipper, tight dark green shorts, and red ribbon to accentuate her face.
"Oh that sure thanks Sakura," he winked.
"I wasn't helping you, you idiot was answering Iruka sensei;s question?" She screeched.
"Just do the justu Naruto," Iruka said rubbing his temples.
'Time to try my new justu,' Naruto thought with feral grin on his face.
A puff of smoke encased the blonde and dissipated leaving a beautiful, nude woman in a very seductive pose with mists of smoke covering her privates. Knocking out and giving his sensei a nosebleed of epic proportions. The technique dispelled and Naruto now rolling on the floor laughing at his latest prank, but his joyous moment is interrupted by a punch to the dome from quickly recovered Iruka.
"Don't waste your time making stupid justu, you brat!," with that Naruto returned to his seat next to Hinata, rubbing his sore head, and ignoring the cries of out rage from the girls.
"Naruto was that really necessary?" Hinata sighed in annoyance.
"heck yeah I wanted to see just how good my justu is,"
Hinata only shot him her infamous glare byakugan flaring and all, there are very few things that intimidated Naruto, Hinata glares unfortunately were one of them, a cold stare that seems to pierce your very being and warning sign that you were going to be on the bad end of her gentle fist style.
"I'll be good," Naruto muttered quickly.
Hinata returned her eyes to normal with a satisfied smile on her face.
Later at the Hyuga compound Naruto the gang were training, under normal circumstances no such thing would be happening, but Hinata's father, Lord Hiashi head of the Hyuga discovered something worthwhile. Hinata was struggling with her taijustu spars against her younger sister Hanabi with to her father was disappointed to say the least, he didn't either of to become part the branch family and fall prey to curse seal that separated him and his brother. One day Ko, Hinata's bodyguard came with possible solution to help Hinata, He allowed Naruto to train with her and overlooked their spar. She seemed to improve vastly and boy's encouraging words seemed to a great for her confidence. Of course it was an easy decision to let the future clan heads of the Nara and Akimichi clan train with her as well.
"Just think guys after this year we'll all be ninja," Naruto beamed throwing his shuriken almost hitting the bulls-eye on the dummy.
"Naruto, you could have a ninja years before we have why are you deciding graduated this time," Choji asked while throwing shuriken missing his target by a few inches.
"So I could be with you guy's," Naruto said, though in actual truth Kurama held him back for so long Naruto could become a genin by his standards.
By this time Naruto had larger reserves than eight years ago with jonin level chakra control skills, which was needed to master the higher level sealing, even though the exercises in general annoyed him, he already mastered tree and water walking the more exciting exercises in his opinion, as well as kunai and senbon balancing, meditative exercise which he said the most boring thing he ever had to do the exercise relied on stay perfectly still and controlling the chakra in his body to find the chakra points within his own network, all three hundred sixty-one of them. His taijustu skill went up a bit but nothing really major since he really hadn't worked on them, His sealing skills however went up superbly inventing seals than most people would even think like a modified paper bomb which he dubbed the 'bang seal' which discovered after screwing up a paper bomb the result just created a concussive blast, and the 'anti gravity seal' which causes a floating effect, though it's mostly used for his outlandish pranks.
It was then that Kurama discovered the actual genius of the Uzumaki clan, his previous host had been taught sealing justu before he was sealed in them, therefore he assumed that Uzumakis were just gifted with sealing. Which was true to an extent, the Uzumaki clan chakra was ideal for sealing and making strong seals, but the real genius is how innovative they were when came to making them. Kurama remembered both his previous hosts and Naruto's train of thought when ever they made new seals, It was uncanny, they all thought differently but the seals they came up with were equally amazing.
"Well Choji and I are likely to be on the same team, Ino too, troublesome." Shikamaru said lazily throwing his shuriken not bothering to even look at the target.
"how do you know that Shikamaru?" Naruto asked.
"Because all of their dads formed the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, it's likely they'll form that team again." Hinata informed throwing hers as well hitting the bull's eye dead center.
"Wouldn't it be cool if we were on the same team huh Hinata? We would be unstoppable!" Naruto exclaimed.
Hinata blushed a deep red color thinking about Naruto and her on the same team.
"Oh and Sakura too, that would be awesome," He chirped.
Hinata's blissful thoughts of the future were now replaced with ones of rage, she didn't have anything against Sakura personally, she was infuriated about how Naruto didn't notice her, though in Naruto's defense he always though of her as one of the guys, she harshly threw her shuriken again, it hit its mark but flew beyond the target & imbedded itself deep in a tree. She then stormed off into the manor leaving Naruto confused about why she ran off.
"So troublesome, you think Naruto will ever figure it out?" Shikamaru asked.
"No way...even if they were on the same team." Choji answered nosily munching on the chips he got out of his storage scroll.
Naruto was back at the academy bored out his skull with Iruka constant lectures he need some kind of excitement something new happen today it was a few short weeks away from graduation.
'Maybe an awesome prank on the whole village but what would work?'
*smash
Naruto musing were interrupted by a something that broke the window, Naruto jolted up to see Anko with a weird black banner attached to the ceiling by kunai that read "THE SEXIEST KUNOCHI ALIVE! ANKO MITARASHI" in white kanji, on Anko's back was a large red scroll.
"Hey! It's the Snake lady," Naruto beamed. The class looked at him in confusion save Hinata.
"It's Anko, you brat! An-Ko get it?" Anko shouted aggravated at the blonde.
"anyway why are you here? And would it have killed you to use the door!?" Iruka yelled, annoyed himself by Anko's antics.
"I'm here to payback the brat for a favor owe him, with a present," she said tapping the scroll on her back.
"Really was is it? A new justu,"
"Yep, remember that justu kept pestering me about,"
Naruto got to thinking pose squinting his eyes with his index finger on his chin.
Flashback 2 years ago inside forest of death tower
"hey, crazy snake lady,"
"It's Anko, squirt and what is it? Is there a problem?"
"No, I was wondering, where do those snakes come from?"
"Oh that, it's a summoning justu,"
"summoning justu?" Naruto asked 'come to think of it Choji talked about this before didn't he.'
"yeah one of the more useful things got from that bastard Orochimaru," she said spitting his name with venom.
"how does work?,"
"well you draw some blood do the boar, dog, bird, monkey, ram seal- ,Anko slapped her head as if she forgotten something important.
"wait you need to have a contract for the summon first other wise who knows where you'll end up."
"A contract how do I get one? How many are there? What kind- "
"hold it brat, your still in the academy, and even if you were a genin you can't go searching for contracts without approval from the Hokage first,"
Naruto was a tad dejected after hearing that.
Flashback end
"Oh yeah I almost forgot about that,so kind of summon is it?" Iruka gaped at Naruto's question.
"That a surprise, squirt" Anko winked but in actuality she didn't know either she found it in some random Uchiha ruin somewhere in the Land of fire.
"W-wait Anko, he's an academy student, summoning is to advanced for him," Iruka said.
"yeah there's no way an idiot like Naruto could perform that justu he's dead last." Sakura butted in.
The rest of the class seemed to agree with statement with exception of Shikamaru, Hinata and Choji, Causing Anko to release a small amount of killing intent to shut the brats up.
"I know potential when I see it little girl, and by looks of you, I know you won't last a day as a real kunoichi," Anko spat out.
Sakura was too stunned by Anko's statement to even retort.
Iruka sighed but deep down he knew she was right Sakura had plenty book smarts no actually shinobi skills beyond the academy curriculum, to add her borderline obsession with Sasuke was liable to get her killed.
"wait till lunch Anko, to give it to Naruto, otherwise something troublesome could happen." Iruka muttered to Anko, she sighed at the idea of waiting with these brats but complied.
For the first time at lunch everyone eyes were on Naruto, well Naruto and Anko anyway.
"Alright brat first," Anko grabbed his hand and pricked his thumb with a kunai.
"oww," he winced.
"Shut it, wimp," she said as she rolled out and old scroll that had a bunch of names written, in black dried up blood, the most notable is that every name had Uchiha or Senju as a surname the last being Izuna Uchiha. Kurama noticed it from inside his host, his eyes widen at what summon it could be.
"now write your name and put all your fingerprints below it," She instructed.
"Na-ru-to Uzu-ma-ki, there," he covered the rest of his fingertips in blood and pressed them below where he wrote his name.
"good you remember the hand seals right?"
Naruto nodded and did the boar, dog, monkey, bird and ram seals,
"Naruto the key to summoning is making dense chakra to accompany weight of the summon," Kurama butted in making sure his host didn't mess up the justu.
Naruto nodded, focused his chakra in his hand and slammed it on the ground and formula circular array spanned out and a puff of smoke revealed a small fluffy black fox kit with a white tip on its tail and gold eyes,
'I knew it! How did she find that contract? It's been lost for ages, I suppose it's nothing to really worry about this might actually be a blessing,' Kurama thought grinning madly.
Meanwhile outside the class was laughing, mostly the boys, the girls thought his summon was cute, Iruka was impressed and Anko merely grinned in satisfaction, they both knew that summoning justu is a high chunin level technique even the small summon takes a decent amount of chakra to make.
The small fox look at it's surrounding confused and scared.
"where am I, where's yuki?!" the kit asked, the class looked at it as if it had a second head, it could talk. Naruto noticed how scared and alone it was and approached it.
"Oy, it's alright, I summoned you dattebayo," said in a soft tone as if he could identify with it.
The small fox looked at whiskered boy for a moment and finally realized what occurred a jumped around yipping, but suddenly stopped,
"hey whiskers, could summon yuki too," black fox asked.
"hey who are calling whiskers, furball! I have a name it's Naruto Uzumaki"
"Well I have name too ya know, it's Tsuki," the fox shot back in its squeaky voice.
"Anyway can you summon Yuki she's my sister," the fox said impatiently getting back on topic.
"Fine give me a sec," Naruto went through the same set of hand seals and summoned another fox but it was full grown and had bright red fur with a white tipped tail and gold eyes as well.
"Hey this isn't Yuki it's Honta, Yuki is my size and she's white." the kit chirped angerily pointing at it's tail.
"well how the hell was I supposed to the summoning thing is new to me!"
The other fox was more calm carefully taking its surroundings when notice Naruto arguing with the kit.
"excuse me, but did you by chance summon me," Honta politely asked the orange clad boy.
"yeah, but he was supposed summon Yuki so we could play you can go back now," Tsuki interrupted.
"Now, now let's not be so rash kit, It's been over eighty years since someone used our contract, I for one am curious to meet our new summoner," Honta coolly said.
Honta circled around and sniffed Naruto, 'strange he smells a little like us,'
Then he felt a strong vile chakra surface suddenly making his fur stand on end.
'Lord Kurama?!, I get it he's been sealed inside of this child I must report this to the clan elders,' he thought.
"I have to report to elders about this, interesting development. Oh and if you wish to summon Yuki use the same amount of chakra that you did for Tsuki I think you overshot it when you summoned me," Naruto nodded at Honta instructions as he poofed away.
Naruto tried once more and small white fox kit appeared this time.
"Yuki!" Tsuki cried with joy.
"huh, where are we Tsuki?" Yuki asked.
"I dunno, we were summoned here buy this guy," Tsuki chirped climbing up Naruto body and sitting on his left shoulder.
"summoned!?," Yuki looked up a saw the blond whiskered kid.
"Tsuki this isn't time for us to play games, he probably needs us to do something."
"Like what?," Tsuki asked.
"I dunno delivering messages, carry supplies, fighting-"
"Pranking?" the black fox interrupted tilting its head.
"you guys prank too that's awesome, dattebayo," Naruto shouted with glee.
"Are you kidding it is our specialty no one's knows pranks better than then the fox clan." Tsuki said proudly,Yuki simply shook her head at her brother.
By this time some of the students got bored with Naruto and the foxes antic and left to eat, a few girls stayed to play with the cute kits twins. The foxes stayed with the person they came to know as 'boss' who was walking home with Hinata.
"I still don't get how manage to pull off such advanced justu Naruto if you actually applied yourself you might become rookie of year," Hinata said as gently stroked the sleeping Tsuki curled in her chest.
"Nah! Too much work for a title that doesn't mean anything, Hokage jiji told that not even the Fourth was rookie of year when he graduated and he was the greatest Hokage ever. Besides being the dead last dobe, makes me unexpected when I show how strong I really am." Naruto jerked his thumb to himself.
Hinata, and Yuki looked at him took back by his logic, he was right no one in their right my would expect the dead last to be as strong as he was.
"Well, see you tomorrow Hinata hime," Naruto grabbing Tsuki who sleepily muttered something about ' fluffy pillows' causing Naruto and Yuki to look at him strangely.
Hinata blushed furiously and quickly walk into the compound, meanwhile in the trees Anko was listening in on their conversation, She grinned at his statement and watch the two part ways at the Hyuga compond.
'Naruto Uzumaki I definitely want to see how far you can go as a shinobi...'
"Geh, What am I thinking, I'm startin to feel old now!" she exclaimed and hopped off to nearest dango shop.
6am Graduation exam day Naruto's Apartment
"Alright time for the final test with flight seal."
Naruto actually made the 'anti grav seal' or the 'float seal' at he calls it, for flying. He wanted to be the first flying ninja ever, until Kurama burst his bubble saying that the Third Tsuchikage already beat him to the punch, so he aimed for being first flying ninja in the Leaf.
Naruto jumped off the roof leaping to an incredible height and leveled off but soon landed in front of the Academy a few meters behind his friends.
'Damn it's still glides perhaps I should take of some of weigh formula off first?'
"Naruto where did you come from?" Choji asked.
"up there," Naruto gestured at the sky.
He nonchalantly walked right up sat next to Hinata.
" Hinata and can you activate your byakugan for me, need to adjust this suppression seal." Hinata sighed and did so.
"Alright let's go for... Sasuke," he whispered not wanting to let anyone know what he was up to.
He rolled up his sleeves a pressed a small gray tag with formulas on it
"you need a little more Naruto," Hinata observed.
"How's this?" he said tweaking the seal.
"close enough," she said shutting off her byakugan
The students meanwhile where all a buzz with the excitement of becoming ninja when Iruka came in.
"alright everyone settle down." he said but students were still talking.
"Okay that's enough settle down we need to get started." he said even louder alas the students seemed to talk over him.
"BE QUIET YOU BRATS!" Iruka head seemed to grow 5 times his normal size as he shouted effectively shutting up the class.
"Ahem, now today you will all be taking the written and justu portion of academy graduation exam, as you know your scores will be total with weapon and taijustu portion you took yesterday, now Mizuki sensei will be here to assist me again today." He gestured to man next to him.
Mizuki has shoulder-length, white hair that has a slight hint of blue to it and green eyes. He wears the standard attire of the Konoha , which includes flak jacket and forehead protector which is worn like a bandanna.
He started handing out first exam to Naruto with bright smile on his face, Naruto returned with a smile of his own.
"Naruto, that fool is up to something again, be careful, " Kurama warned.
'You saw too eh sensei?' he looked at his paper. 'genjustu so that's your game this time eh, time for something straight from Naruto's ninja handbook' Mizuki had been trying to sabotage Naruto from the start of the exams, he started by giving Naruto weapon that weighed heavier than they were supposed to, thinking that Naruto wouldn't notice, though mysteriously Naruto had hit his mark each time still giving him a decent score to pass. In the taijustu test Mizuki tried tripped Naruto up by using different styles that weren't even covered by the academy curriculum though Naruto had managed to last the entire time with hardly any scratches on him.
Naruto did a few hand seals under the desk a place his had on the his paper, 'Ninja art: phantom hand of plagiarism' to those who could see chakra a thin blue layer could been seen on paper as well as a thin blue line leading Sasuke's desk. In a few short seconds the answers showed up on Naruto's paper, he simply mocked writing on the exam.
'Thanks for help,' Naruto snickered.
Next was the justu portion Naruto slipped his tag under his sleeves and walked in to examination room, there was Iruka and Mizuki sitting behind the table with leaf headbands next to them, and in the back three dummies label A, B, and C.
"Alright Naruto I need to transform into me or Mizuki, substitute with the dummies and make at least three clones of yourself," Iruka instructed.
Naruto transformed to Mizuki picking his nose, much to his annoyance, substituted himself with all of dummy C and switched back and for the grand finale made 35 perfect copies of himself filled the room.
Iruka and Mizuki gaped at the display of skill, Naruto strode up to claim his headband but was stopped by Iruka.
"Naruto even though you did excellent on this portion of this test I'm afraid you still fail." Naruto paled.
'How? I did everything nearly flawless I should have top marks just like Sasuke,' Naruto got his answer we he looked at Iruka and the grades next to him,
'his chakra out of whack, and that scorecard is too, multilayer genjustu shit,'
"Sorry Naruto, maybe next time," Iruka said in a consoling tone it pained him to have fail Naruto like this despite his usual behavior Naruto was one of his favorite students.
Naruto took off angrily, jumping out of a nearby window, Mizuki gave an evil smirk.
"Naruto, wait,!"
"I'll see I can cheer him up Iruka," he leaped out after the boy.
Mizuki soon caught up to Naruto on the Hokage mountain.
"Hey, I know your upset but Iruka meant well by failing you, you remind him of himself and he just wants you try harder" Mizuki said behind a false smile.
Naruto looked back at him putting on the best sad face that he could muster, he knew that Mizuki was behind this and planned to get him back ten fold with granddaddy of all pranks.
"I know of special test that will get you to be a genin for sure."
"Really?" Mizuki smiled at the boy's naivety.
"You see there's scroll that you have to take from hokage mansion you have to learn a justu from it in order to pass, I even have place for you to practice in. Will you take it?" now it was time for Naruto to smile at his stupidity.
"You bet Mizuki sensei just watch I'll have a justu down in no time flat!" Naruto exclaimed putting on his genuine demeanor.
Later that night Naruto had successfully stolen the forbidden scroll of sealing and went to place that Mizuki told him about.
'Now let's see... multi-shadow clone justu eh, make actual copies of the user by evenly distributing chakra amongst the clones, ooh I like this one already,'
"keep reading kit it gets better,"
'Ok well... any experience gained by clones get transferred back to the user making it ideal for spying. No way that's just too cool lets get to work on this one.' Naruto rolled up the scroll and began working on the technique after just three tries he had it down.
Naruto went back to the scroll a read again, 'Summoning justu: reanimation, no reaper death seal no- wait this array it looks like the one on my stomach!'
"yeah it's the one that fourth used on me,"
'I wonder Ninja art: seal decryption justu.' Naruto whipped out the scroll and copied the formula on his stomach,
"What are you doing?!"
' I've always wanted to get a good look at the seal myself, but I never knew how it was made so I could make a key to free you, now that I have this I could probably make one now,'
Kurama was taken back, the boy's words wanted free him the whole time, delight as he was to here this he still needed his body for his plans.
"wait Naruto If I leave this body there's high chance you could die," which was certainly true the only reason Kushina managed to survive extraction because her body and chakra coils were more developed than a twelve year old.
'Well I can at least adjust the seal to where won't have to be in the cage anymore, it'll still take a while to decipher all these formulas, this is way more advance than Orichimaru's curse seal.' he said looking at scroll.
Kurama was pleased by the kindness his host showed, letting him out of the cage could definitely speed things up for his plan.
He copied the instructions from the scroll of forbidden sealing via Phantom hand and rolled it back up when Iruka caught him.
"Naruto!" He yelled getting his attention.
"Oh hey Iruka sensei,"
"Hey, that's all you have to say after stealing the forbidden scroll of sealing!" he yelled.
"Oh,Yeah I need show you a justu I learned so I become a genin," Naruto chirped with mock enthusiasm, 'Mizuki is on his way I need a bit more time to catch the bastard red handed.'
"Justu what are you talking about Naruto?" Iruka was confused now he thought stole the scroll for some kind of prank.
"didn't Mizuki sensei tell you? I taking the special test to become genin he told me to grab this scroll and come here to practice one of the justu from it."
' all there is to do now is wait,' he thought.
'Mizuki? What is he up to he knows there's no special exam,' Iruka thought carefully.
"Iruka thank god you found him, you deal with his punishment while I return the scroll." Mizuki finally arrived and was sitting on a nearby branch.
"Wait Mizuki did you tell Naruto, that there was a special exam for graduating the academy, you know there isn't one."
"Well he's obviously lying, ever one knows how much of a trouble maker his is, honestly Iruka how could you be so gullible?" Inwardly Mizuki was scowling he can't afford to waste more time eventually he would have to...
'Naruto is a prankster at heart, but there's two things he'd never joke about, justu and becoming a ninja, somethings off,' Iruka tensed at the thought of his friend defecting.
"Still I'd rather talk it over with Lord Hokage he can take care of both Naruto and the scroll," Iruka was insistent with this course of action, he could kill two birds with one stone.
"Tch guess I'll have to do this the hard way," Mizuki took one the large shuriken off of his back a hurled it.
At first it seemed to be aiming at Iruka but veered around him and aimed for Naruto, who was calm though despite the shuriken's path, a hidden smirk donned his face, but something happened, something unexpected. Naruto had found himself on the ground, Iruka took the hit for him, Naruto looked up in dismay to see Iruka crying over him.
"why?" Naruto said stunned.
"Naruto.. I used to be... like you... my parents died in the attack twelve years ago... it seemed like no cared... so became the class clown and pulled pranks for them acknowledge me... I understand you so that's why." Iruka coughed out.
Naruto had to hold back the tears, he understood his pain all along, knowing about his tenant helped a bit but, their stares, those cold eyes, he kept doing pranks to make him feel acknowledged, to him bad recognition is still better than not being acknowledged at all. Naruto look up at his sensei his tears and blood fell on his face,
"Ah isn't that something one person in the village that dosen't hate your guts that's fine you can both die together." Mizuki laugh rang through the forest and penetrated Naruto's mind.
Regaining focus on situation he looks at Mizuki with nothing but contempt at Mizuki, Kurama could feel it but decided this was his fight and let him use his own charka.
"Naruto... Take the scroll and run..." Iruka wheezed.
Naruto got from underneath his teacher and grabbed the scroll, Mizuki was sure he would flee so he came up with an idea.
"Naruto, do you know why everyone hates you?" Iruka eyes widen 'Mizuki wouldn't dare.' Naruto merely looked at him in apathy.
"Don't tell him it's forbidden!" Iruka yelled too the top of his lungs.
"It's because your the Nine-tailed fox demon that attacked the village years ago, all villager's deaths and suffering are on your hands, " Mizuki smugly smirked he had won.
"Is that all?" Naruto said coldly
"Wha?"
"Is that all you have to say, in truth I knew along, I understand why everyone hates me I've gotten over that. So if that all you've got to say, I'm going to kick your miserable ass all over this forest," the two was blown of the water, by his statement.
'he knew along, this whole time but, why?' Iruka thoughts failed understand Naruto maturity. This whole time he had been aware of villager's animosity and yet he didn't resent them and still wanted to become hokage.
Mizuki recomposed himself, "hah you, beat me that laughable I'm a chunin killing you is child's play,"
Naruto made a cross sign with his fingers, making only one clone, Iruka was astonished to see him make a real clone
The clone sped off meeting Mizuki in combat.
Mizuki was being overwhelmed, by a clone no less, the clone met him with fast grapples and threw Mizuki around like a rag doll, Mizuki became frustrated with this simply threw his last large shuriken dispelling it. Meanwhile Naruto pulled the shuriken out of Iruka back a hurled it, Mizuki smirked as side stepped it, but it stopped in mid air made and beeline for him, Mizuki heard a whizzing sound and a sense dread fell over him as the shuriken was coming back! He leaped of the tree and on to ground, it still chased him, Mizuki was playing cat and mouse with an inanimate object. It finally sliced through him but he substituted with a log the shuriken hit the ground, it's momentum stopped.
"Fancy trick but it won't work on me-"
Mizuki's gloating was stopped mid sentence when he sensed Naruto behind him, he quickly tried hit him with a right back-fist Naruto sidestepped left and caught it, both arms interlocked around it. He then used his inside shoulder as a fulcrum and flung him to the ground with ease, he towered over Mizuki his feet pinning his hands and pounded him with a right open palm similar to a gentle fist strike.
He walked over to check Iruka still very much in awe of what just happened,
'That fool he shouldn't underestimate me... what?! I can't move, My chakra I can't... how did he do this? ' Mizuki panicked, he struggled to get up but couldn't move a muscle.
"Ninja art: Penance curse seal, a sealing justu that's commonly used in prisons you won't move unless I say so," Naruto said slinging Iruka over his shoulder, Mizuki was cover in black chain like markings in a spider web like pattern. He made two more shadow clones one for Mizuki and other for the scroll. He handed Mizuki over to the T and I department luckily Anko was there so he could explain the situation, He dropped Iruka off at the Hospital After making sure his condition stabilized he left, his other clone had returned the scroll, and was now talking to the third hokage.
"I'm glad you manage to bring this back Naruto, now can you clarify how all this happened."
"Yeah, jiji, you see Mizuki was trying to fail me on exams for some reason, using weighted weapons, illegal moves in a academy spar, genjustu on my paper, but I managed to get around those." Hiruzen wasn't surprised he knew the boy's skill level for some time.
"He ended tricking Iruka sensei with a multilayer genjustu and convinced him to fail me, despite doing excellent on the justu portion. Anyway he tried to tired with some false exam by getting me to take the scroll of sealing, He tried to attack me first and Iruka got hit, I managed to fight him off, and boss sent him to the T and I department while he made sure Iruka sensei got taken care of." Hiruzen eyes widen at the revelation he was talking to a clone the entire time.
"I see Naruto, I have a few questions about... your tenant."
An: After mental debate with myself i decided that Naruto with also have the toad contract the Foxes aren't really meant to for as you'll soon find out i also cut out his affinity training to make it more closer to cannon, and for future reference Naruto is still far from being a sealing master, how he dealt the curse mark in earlier chapter is completely unconventional how most would tried to deal with it. That said when Naruto combat level about the same as Sasuke in this chapter.