New chapter after a week of inactivity! Sorry for the delay, had a bunch of shit that you probably don't give the slightest of a damn about, but here's the next chapter!


"Oh, I hit the fucking jackpot!" said a certain blond haired boy as he read from a large scroll. Naruto was currently in a forest, one of the many that surrounded Konoha. He'd been tasked by Mizuki to steal the scroll from the Hokage's Tower and then learn a single jutsu from said scroll.

"Now let's see..." he muttered, his eyes browsing the entries. He stopped on the first one, or rather, the variation of the first one.

"Explosive Clone no Jutsu? Hell to the fucking yes!" he exclaimed, "Let's do this!"

He paused for a second, idly wondering if he should take time to learn the original jutsu, seeing as to how Mizuki said he could only learn one jutsu.

'What he doesn't know, won't kill him. I'll just write it down for later use. Technically I'm not learning it, I'm merely taking notes!' he thought.

Flashback

Naruto had just finished his Genin exams, where he failed spectacularly. He was sitting on a swing, looking on at the crowd of jubilant children who had successfully graduated from the Academy. He tried to ignore the cold glares and half-whispered insults on his person.

Thankfully, one of his senseis had come to distract him.

"Hey, Naruto. I know Iruka can seem a little harsh sometimes, but it's only because he cares for you," Mizuki dropped down next to the blond, startling him from his thoughts.

"I know, I just wish I hadn't let him down. He had such high expectations of me."

"You know, Naruto, Iruka-sensei didn't want me to mention this, but there's a second way to graduate from the Academy."

"Really?" Naruto hopefully said.

"It's an exam that takes in all of the factors needed to become a shinobi and incorporates them all at the same time," Mizuki informed his student.

"You're being serious?! What is it?!" Naruto excitedly asked.

'Hook, line, and sinker,' the teacher thought, inwardly smirking evilly, 'That's right you little bastard, trust your sensei. Soon, I will have my revenge and ultimate power!'

"It's a rather simple task, Naruto, You only need to infiltrate the Hokage's Tower, get into his safe, steal a scroll and learn a single jutsu from it!" Mizuki said, making it sound like a walk in the park.

"The fucking Hokage Tower?" Naruto deadpanned.

"Yea.. Uh... Don't worry! The Sandaime knows and won't go hard on you! And uh..." Mizuki stammered, obviously not having thought of how Naruto would react to the idea of having to go into one of the most heavily fortified buildings, try to sneak into the Hokage's office, steal one of the most prized possessions of Konohagakure, and then manage to escape. It was flawed in so many ways and there was no possible way that Naruto would agre-

"Alright! I'll do it!" Naruto exclaimed.

"And- Wait, you'll do it?" Mizuki asked, befuddled by this fortunate turn of events.

"Hell yeah! If word gets out that I managed to get into the Hokage's office, people would have to acknowledge me!"

"Okay... Well then," the man said, obviously taken aback by his strange student and his fixation towards acknowledgement, "The safe is in the corner of the office, and the code for it is '742'. Meet me at the cabin in the north-west forest at 9 PM."

"You got it, sensei!" was his exuberant reply, complete with a good guy pose.

'What have I gotten myself into... There's no way in hell that he'll manage it...'

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But fate seemed to be on his side tonight, as Naruto, the lovable idiot that he was, had actually managed to somehow steal the fabled Scroll of Seals. How? Well, it involved lots of stealth, a certain technique, a very surprised Hokage, and an ass-load of luck.

They say the Hokage couldn't get the bloodstains out of his robes for weeks.

Flashback end

And so that's how we find ourselves with Konoha's self-proclaimed Prank King and the Scroll of Seals.

"Time for some extra credit!"


It had been several hours since Naruto's little escapade, and a village-wide search had been declared. After, of course, the Hokage had recovered from massive blood loss.

We find our hero panting on the ground, visibly exhausted from intense training.

"It was a bitch to get down, but I think I got it!" Naruto declared.

"Naruto!" a voice roared, "What in the name of the Hokage's wrinkly ass do you think you're doing?!"

"Hey Iruka-sensei! I'm learning a new technique, just like Mizuki-sensei said! Now you'll have to allow me to graduate!"

"What are you talking about?! The Hokage has declared a city-wide search for you! Do you even know what that scroll is?!" Iruka screeched at wits end with his student, who had almost been declared a missing-nin.

"Uh... It's a scroll... of... awesome techniques?" was Naruto's pathetic attempt at an answer.

"You idiot! It's the fucking Scroll of Seals! One of Konoha's greatest treasures, and you stole it!"

"But Mizuki said-"

"Mizuki? What does he have to do with any of this?!" Iruka was getting more and more distraught with his naive student, torn between having a mental breakdown or throttling the boy, a choice he had to make too many times a day.

"He told me that if I stole this scroll and learnt a jutsu, you'd graduate me! He said it was a makeup exam for those who failed!"

"What-" Iruka started before he was cut off by a voice.

"Tsk, such a shame you had to learn this way, Iruka. And here I had grown fond of you. I was hoping I wouldn't have to kill you, but alas, you're a witness, and I can't have any of those," Mizuki, who had just landed on a tree with a fuma shuriken strapped to his back, stated.

"Mizuki! You would betray the village?! Why?!" Iruka demanded, shocked at the revelation that his partner was an asshole. Shouldn't have been that much of a surprise.

"Why?! For ultimate power! I will become the greatest shinobi ever! I had planned to steal the Scroll myself, but getting the boy as my scapegoat was just an added bonus. Now I'll have to kill you both"

"Run, Naruto!" Iruka screamed to the boy, who was confused at the turn of events, "Mizuki wants the Scroll! Do not let him get it!"

"What the fuck is going on?!" Naruto yelled.

"Mizuki is a traitor to the village and wants the Scroll of Sealing, which is in your hands! Now run!"

"I'm afraid I can't let that happen, Iruka." Mizuki smirked, "Naruto, have you ever wondered why no one likes you?"

"Because I'm devastatingly handsome and everyone's jealous of me?" Naruto joked.

"What- No. Be quiet! Naruto, the reason why you're treated like trash in the village is because you, Naruto-"

"Mizuki, stop it! That's an S-class secret! You know what the consequences are for revealing it are!" Iruka tried to prevent Mizuki from finishing his sentence, but it was all for naught.

"-Are the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune! You are a demon! You killed hundreds of people twelve years ago! You are the Nine-Tailed Fox!"

"Naruto, he's lying! Don't believe him!" Iruka yelled, twirling around, "Naruto?"

Naruto was looking at the ground, his body shaking. Mizuki gloated at the fact that he broke the demon child.

"How does it feel to be hated? To be loathed, Kyuubi?"

"Fuck you!" the cry resonated all across the clearing, "I may have a demon in me, but that doesn't change anything! I'll make the villagers respect me and see me for who I am! Besides, I have better shit to deal with!"

Mizuki was befuddled, one moment the brat had been a shocked and immobile boy, and now he was back to being his crass usual self.

"Demon brat, don't get ahead of yourself!" Mizuki growled, throwing one of his fuma shurikens.

"Naruto! Watch out!" Iruka cried out.

Naruto's eyes widened in fear, the projectile was going to fast for him to dodge. He closed his eyes and awaited the release that was death. He heard a meaty thunk, but felt no impact. Opening one of his eyes, he was met with the pained face of Iruka.

"Iruka-sensei, why?!"

"Because you're my student. You're my favourite student, I see you as a brother I never had. When I first met you, I was like everyone else, I only saw you as the demon. But now, after I got to know you, I only see a lonely kid crying out for attention. You remind me of myself when I was younger, always playing pranks and getting into trouble. You may house the Kyuubi, but that doesn't change who you are. You are Naruto, prankster extraordinaire, trouble maker, and... My brother. Now go! I'll try to hold him off!"

Naruto could only look on at his injured sensei, tears overflowing from his eyes.

"Iruka-sensei..."

"Are you guys done yet? This is all very nice but I'm on a tight schedule, what with having to evade hunter-nin and all that," a snide voice cut through the air.

"You stay right there, Iruka-sensei, I have trash to deal with," Naruto said, slowly getting up.

"Naruto, don't. He's too strong for you," Iruka feebly tried to protest.

"Mizuki-teme! You hurt one of my precious people! For that, you must suffer. I was planning on using the technique I just learnt, but now, you get special treatment," Naruto stated, digging out a piece of paper covered in seals.

"Bring it, brat!"

The blond boy briefly channelled his chakra into the paper, making it glow a deep blue, before it returned to its unassuming colour. The only indication that anything had changed with it was the fact that, while before it had hung limply in his hand, waving in the wind, it now stood rigid.

"Was that it? You're a bigger failure than we give credit to! This'll be easier than I thought!" the traitor jeered.

"I don't think so," Naruto calmly said, "This is my own variant of the explosive tag. I call it a Buster Seal."

"A Buster Tag? And why is it called that?" Mizuki jeered.

"Why, because it busts balls of course! Chopper, sic balls!"

He let go of the tag. It floated for a brief moment before zooming towards Mizuki at chunin-level speeds, or more specifically, towards a particularly meaty area of his person. Poor man, he never stood a chance. They say a male's voice had never gone that high before.


"Naruto," said an injured Iruka trying to ignore the twitching heap that was once his associate, "Come here."

Perplexed, Naruto walked over to his teacher.

"Close your eyes, I have something for you."

Doing as he was told, he felt Iruka take off his goggles before they were replaced with something heavier.

"Now open your eyes."

Naruto opened his eyes to see his surrogate brother, only he didn't have his forehead protector on. His hands flew up to his own, and felt an unfamiliar, cold metal substance.

"Congrats, Naruto, you're now an official genin of Konohagakure," Iruka proudly said. He wasn't prepared for the flying hug that followed his statement, and he fell to the ground with a pained grunt.


"So let me get this straight. You failed your graduation exam because you nearly blew up half the Academy, Mizuki then told you to steal the Scroll of Seals, claiming it to be another exam. You then proceeded to break into my office, incapacitate me, steal the Scroll, and head towards the forest, where you learnt a jutsu before Iruka found you. You discovered that Mizuki was a traitor, he tried to kill Iruka, and you retaliated by, how did you put this, 'bustin' his balls so that only shreds remained' and now you're back in my office," said the Sandaime Hokage, rubbing his temples. He felt like this scene was all too familiar.

"Yup!"

"Naruto... I don't even know where to begin..."

"You stole one of the most important things that Konoha has in it's possession, you invented a tag that by all rights shouldn't exist, and you permanently injured a chunin."

"He had it coming!"

"Perhaps he did... Well, I can't fault you for this, you were only caught up in a madman's struggle for power. But tell me, do you even understand how this... 'Buster Tag' works?"

"Not a clue."

The Hokage had to physically fight to urge to slam his face into his desk. Naruto was, at the same time, one of the densest yet smartest person he knew.

"Naruto, what you did shouldn't be possible. Anti-gravity seals aren't possible, yet you somehow managed to make one. You then added it to a D-rank explosive tag, along with a tracking seal and a movement seal, which again should not exist. And for some reason, the tag then targets a specific part of the male anatomy. You should know that those two seals aren't possible, you should've read that in the book I gave you," the Sandaime explained, "What I want to know is, how in the blue blazes did you manage to do it?"

"How should I know, I didn't read any of the theory! I just wanted a seal that flew towards my enemies, and so I made one! A pretty damn fucking awesome one might I add!

The Hokage pinched the bridge of his nose, it was a very Naruto-esque thing to do, inventing things that shouldn't exist. He once managed to make Ibuki cry, the man was in T&I for Kami's sake! He still shudders at the thought of what had transpired that day. So. Much. Fucking. Mayonnaise.

"I see... And the ball part?"

"Oh, that was an accident! Yup, scared the living shit out of me the first time it happened." Naruto remembered the time he first tried out his new tag. Needless to say, he was very happy he hadn't primed the tag.

"The tag just seems to be attracted to nuts!"

The Sandaime only looked at his successor's son in a deadpan stare.

"Well... Congratulations on being promoted to genin, Naruto."

"Thanks, jiji!"

"Oh, Naruto?"

"yea, jiji?"

"About the whole Kyuubi sealing, are you sure you're okay with that?"

"Hell yeah, jiji! I have better things to deal with than an oversized plushie that's sealed into my stomach!"

"Well, if you ever want to talk about it, know that I'm here."

"Thanks jiji," Naruto repeated, this time in a softer voice. He quickly reverted back to his excitable self.

"Later, I have to get to bed for my big day tomorrow!"

He quickly ran out the room, jumping happily at the fact that he was one step closer to his goal.

'Knock 'em dead, Naruto' the Hokage thought with a chuckle.


And done! Yea, this chapter was a bitch to write, I got distracted so many times. Anyways, about how Naruto reacted to the fact that he's the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, that's just how he is in my mind. He doesn't give the slightest of two shits. I understand if you don't like that but eh. I'm thinking of starting a series of one-shots to practice my drama writing skills. Well, you guys know the drill. Do whatever the fuck you want with this chapter, I'll try to update soon if I don't get waylaid, no promises though. Author signing out!