Naruto, The Blue Mage

"Talking/Techniques"

"Thinking/Written Words"

"Spirit/Summon"

"Demon/God"


Chapter 4

"Dilemma. Having sworn fealty, must I spend my life in servitude?"

A young man walked gracefully towards the Konoha Academy, raising a hand to greet the familiar people across the street. Not that they would wave back if they knew who he was. Scowling, Naruto knew it to be the truth. But then again, that was what "Snow", was for.

Shaking his head, he waved to one last person and took to the roofs. His thoughts always took a dive in this direction. Scowling once again, Naruto glared at nothing in particular as he planted his feet on the academy ground's. Walking into the academy, Naruto went through all the twists and turns and calmly took a seat once he reached his class. Glancing to his right, he saw Shikamaru talking with Chouji. Looking forwards, for other people he thought would pass was Sasuke, Shino, Hinata, and Kiba. Then there were the two fan girls, Ino and Sakura, who were likely to pass, along with the two boys at his side and himself.

Waiting for Iruka-sensei and Mizuki-sensei, he heard the class counting down. He was confused for a moment, but when he noticed the absence of Yamanaka-san and Haruno-san, he quickly understood.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1...!", and with that, the doors blasted open, the two females screeching about "true love". Naruto didn't really have any personal problem with them or their fan girl status, like most males and non-fan girls. He just hoped they grew out of that stage before they were killed.

Eyeing the fan girls as the stalked over to Sasuke-san, he shifted his eye to said Uchiha. He was just staring ahead, not giving anything in the room much thought. If he had noticed the two girls though, he probably would've slide down to the end of the three seats, having had sat down in the middle, so he would only have to deal with one of the two.

Sighing, Naruto was about to change his eye contact to another, but Iruka-sensei came in at that moment. And then Mizuki… he had this odd gleam in his eye.

Shrugging it off, Naruto leaned back, waiting for Iruka to call for "attendance". Does it really matter if some one's here or not? Their teaching us to be shinobi, not teacher's pet's.

"…Uchiha Sasuke, Yamanaka Ino," Iruka announced, the two students making their own sounds of introduction. Sasuke "hn-ing", and Ino yelping in surprise, having been arguing with Sakura.

"And, Snow."

"Go on," Snow, or rather, Naruto said, smirking.

"Right, so now that we've gone through attendance, let the Genin Exams begin.", Iruka said, giving out the examination papers.

Looking at his, Naruto immediately knew something was wrong. "What would the velocity of the kunai be if it traveled from point A to point D only to rebound to point B?" (?) These were Chunin, if not Jounin, level questions.

Rolling his eyes at the immaturity of his instructors, he raised his hand and calmly said, "You know, if you want to fail a student, I'm sure there's a less obvious way."

Iruka looked ready to burst, until he actually registered what Naruto had said.

"What?"

Naruto gave a bored stare to his two teachers. "I said, if you wanted to fail me, there's a better way then putting Jounin level questions on an academy level test."

Confused, Iruka made his way over to Naruto and examined his paper. Quickly scanning over it, Iruka put it back down and scratched his head.

"Huh. Sorry Naru-errr Snow, guess Mizuki made a mistake when handing out the test's. Not quite sure how that happened, but I'll go get you one of the real tests." Iruka said while giving a suspicious look to Mizuki.

Naruto just rolled his eyes. He couldn't believe the Hokage had told his teachers about his identity.

After the paper test, the two teachers lead the class outside. It was a test of accuracy - throwing kunai's, and shuriken at dart board. (I CAN NOT remember the real name for them. Just think a dart board. The farther out, the less points. And it goes in to a bull's eye.) - stealth - a simple obstacle course - and tracking - once again, an obstacle course.

Really though, none of this mattered. After all, if you couldn't pass the Ninjutsu part of the exam, you automatically fail. And I mean damn. What loser would get such an epic fail as that…

As the students entered to be tested, the Blue Ravager-In-Training quietly groaned. It was this that he hated the most. Waiting. He'd much rather be in the field, fighting off his worry's. Sighing, he readied himself for a long wait.

And a long wait it was.

Eventually though, his turn came. He quietly walked up and entered the room.

"Alright Snow. You have to make three Bunshins using the Bunshin no jutsu to successfully complete the exam.", Iruka announced in a tired voice, most likely due to all the students before him.

"Hmmm, Bunshin? Just great," Naruto thought, furrowing his eyebrows in contemplation. Though after seeing most jutsu, they came easily to him, he still couldn't gather the control to perform the Bunshin no jutsu, even though he can see the chakra being manipulated. It was, aggravating, to say the least.

Sighing, Naruto gave a sad attempt at the Bunshin.

"Bunshin…," Naruto whispered, trying his best to keep his erratic chakra under control.

What came out was better then what he had expected. One half dead bunshin, one semi-dead bunshin, and one fully functional bunshin. Still, Naruto looked at the two deformed illusions scowling with a twitching eye.

With a look of disbelief on his face, Iruka said, "… Sorry, Snow. You fail."

Giving a sound of annoyance, said Mage turned and left the room, wondering why the test just had to be on bunshin.

Mizuki was frowning though. He had expected the brat to have begged to pass. It was, only natural, after all. That had been the most assured way to get the brat to do his work and he had thought that every child wanted desperately to be a shinobi. He'd have to work much harder, or all this planning would go to waste. Little did he know, Naruto had had plans of his own.

Outside, Naruto was quietly cursing his chakra control. He had needed to pass this year, with the Uchiha. It was the most guaranteed way to get higher level missions quicker. And that meant more opportunity's to use and expand his collection of blue magic.

Sighing, Naruto wondered what else could go wrong…


Author's Note: Remade. Nothing much to say, really. So, yeah. I got a Final Fantasy XIII addiction and this is what it made itself to be. Anyways, after I finish this story, I'm thinking of doing a Naruto/FFXIII crossover. Naruto in Cocoon, that is. Well anyways, this is going to be the Author's Note for chapter's 1 - 4 due to them all being released on the same day. So, I guess that's it.

See Ya,

S.L.