Sasuke stood in front of Iruka, copying his brother's emotionless mask perfectly. Added with his sharingan he'd probably look intimidating, if he weren't twelve.
Iruka had his hand in a cast and was standing with his body in front of the injured appendage. "Alright, Sasuke. Begin."
Sasuke walked forward slowly, methodically placing one foot in front of the other until he stood directly in front of Iruka.
"Are you even trying, Sasuke?" Iruka asked.
Sasuke glared. "I won't fight you as hard as I can. You're injured and running low on chakra. I'm better than the dobe at taijutsu, you'd only get hurt."
Iruka's eye twitched and he threw a punch with his good hand.
Sasuke sidestepped the punch and slipped his arm around Iruka's neck. The hold was good but if Iruka had both arms or his chakra he could've broken it. "Sorry Iruka-sensei, you can't do this right now. Just be glad I was last and aren't trying to hurt you."
Iruka struggled. "You think you're-"
"No. I don't. You're a chunin, you obviously outclass an Academy student." Sasuke leaned close. "But I was trained by someone who was stronger than most jonin by the time he was twelve. You know my brother, the Crow of Konoha..."
Naruto hid a smirk as Iruka whispered back. "The way you move, it's similar to Naruto. Did Itachi train him as well?"
Sasuke released him. "Maybe, but we can't show our full strength.
"Alright everyone. Next, is the ninjutsu portion. Everyone will perform substitution, clone jutsu, and henge. Extra points may be earned by demonstrating another jutsu. Karah Namikaze, I've been informed by your father that you are exempt from the clone portion because your reserves are too high to do such a small jutsu." Iruka explained.
Naruto scoffed. She had that much chakra because she was a jinchuriki, a jailer. Naruto understood the need to cage the tailed beast but stealing it's power didn't sit right with the boy.
Everyone performed their jutsu with no failures and only four people wanted to demonstrate an extra jutsu.
"Alright Karah, you can go first." Iruka told her.
Karah nodded and stepped up and did transformation and substitution. Then held up her hands and smiled. Blue chakra began gathering between her palms and spinning wildly. After a few moments, she had a wobbly looking ball of pure spinning chakra. "Rasengan. My Daddy's famous jutsu."
She let it dispel and stepped back looking proud of her display.
Naruto stepped up and performed all three jutsu without any hand signs. He went to step back in line, going to skip the extra credit when he heard his sister snort. "Figures Naruto doesn't know any ninjutsu..."
Naruto stopped, narrowed his eyes and did two hand signs, then aimed a hand. The air in front of his palm compressed until it made the air look a bit lighter in color. Then he whispered. "Wind Bullet!" The air balloon blasted forward at incredible speeds and blasted through the open window and blew the bark off the side of a tree it hit.
Papers flew around the room as people looked at Naruto in astonishment.
Naruto smirked at his handiwork, had he spent a few more seconds building air pressure he could've vaporized a good portion of the tree and uprooted it.
No one saw the spectator outside, wielding an invisibility jutsu made infamous by a famous pervert. The spectator glared at Karah. "You have to be stronger..."
Naruto twitched, the familiar Ping of a chakra signature getting close to him. Not seeing anyone he shrugged but kept up his guard.
_a week later (bc I'm lazy af)_
Naruto jumped up from his bed to find an elderly man in his room. The man had horns on his head, dark purple ripple patterned eyes, long mangy red hair, and he wore white robes. But none of that explained why he was floating atop a staff that was made of a black metal substance.
Naruto took a fighting stance. "Who in the hell are you?"
"I am known by many names. God of Shinobi, Slayer of the Ten tails, Master of-"
"Being humble? Tell me your name and why you're in my room or if you will hurt me." Naruto told the elderly man.
The elder glared, the air around him shifting slightly. An air of unimaginable power filled Naruto's senses. "You would do to show respect boy. I am the most powerful being on this planet and I have taken an interest in you."
Naruto tried to move, but found his limbs totally immobilized. "-the hell?"
The man dropped to the ground lightly. "I will have one more to do tonight so don't make this difficult. The gift I have for you is a power for you to fight the Dark One with. Something happened to this time line and you did not recieve the powers you were supposed to. So I'm giving you a power just as strong..."
"If I fail to use it right?" Naruto asked.
The man paused momentarily. "I won't force you to use it the right way...but if you do the earth will perish."
Naruto's mouth opened partway. He could feel the truth in the old man's words. "Fine...but why me?"
"Many reasons. Most I won't divulge, but the long and short of it is you exist in every dimension as a focal point. Your fate determines everything else in every universe." He held out a white ball of energy surrounded by blue chakra like flames. "It will drain your chakra quickly at first, however as it's used, you'll learn to wield it properly."
"Alright... what do I do?" The old man grabbed Naruto's right wrist and closed his eyes, then pain blasted through Naruto's veins, like molten glass being poured into his blood stream. A small white sun marking appeared on Naruto's wrist and he felt something swell inside him.
"I just gave you half of my power. Don't misuse it, boy..." Then everything went blackā¦
