(Chapter four is back folks.)
At Ichiraku Ramen Stand Naruto, Hinata, Hanabi, and Tenten were sitting down enjoying some Ramen, "Well Hinata-Chan, Hanabi-Chan in a few more days we'll be graduates and Genin Shinobi." Naruto said before wolfing down his bowl.
"Hai. I wonder who we'll get paired up with once we graduate?" Hinata pondered.
"So long as I'm not stuck with someone like Sasuke I'll be fine." Hanabi said finishing her bowl.
"Well you three may be surprised, I mean I sure was when I was told Lee and Neji would be my teammates." Tenten said.
Soon when they finished Naruto paid for their meals, "How about I take you girls home?" Naruto offered.
"Ok." They agreed as Naruto used his portal to bring them home.
Meanwhile at the Hokage Tower in the Meeting room where Sarutobi, was gathered with his two old teammates Homura, and Koharu, Danzo the war monger, and along with them is several heads, some of clans and some of just families.
"Ok what is it that you all called me here this evening?" Sarutobi asked.
"Sarutobi we're here to discuss of Uzumaki Naruto." Koharu began.
"Oh?" the Sandaime asked.
"We've decided he cannot be allowed to graduate his academy exam." Homura spoke.
"What was that?" Sarutobi shouted.
"Sandaime-sama listen to reason, the boy has been a problem, and now that he's got these powers it'll only make him more liable to attack the village." A family head spoke.
"Excuse me, but Naruto hasn't even once thought about destroying the village."
"Where did he even acquire these powers anyway, Sandaime-sama." A random head asked.
"I am not liable to tell any of you."
"So you're siding against the council on the account of one boy?" Danzo asked.
"This one boy is the fourth's legacy, and in case you want to go against his will and destroy all that remains left of him. I suggest you stay away from Naruto!" Sarutobi warned them.
"Yeah, as troublesome as it was the Yondaime never let us down, and we should do the same by not letting him down." Shikaku; head of the Nara clan spoke up while looking tired.
"Yeah the Yondaime was our friend too. We cannot let his sacrifice be in vain." Chouza; head of the Akimichi clan added.
"Yes, the boy is a talented one. With those powers he will be a great shinobi." Hiashi added knowing how well he helped his daughters.
"If that's the case we should instead…" Danzo began until the Sandaime shot up.
"No Danzo, he will not be added to your Root division, he's already had enough traumas in his life we will not be turning him into an emotionless killing machine," Danzo knew he couldn't do more so he stays silent, "If this is all you have to call me here for I suggest you leave. Tomorrow the academy students will be graduating and I have to go over the matching…" He begun to leave before he turned back, "And if I find out that Naruto fails his exam, I'll know one of you set it up." He said before leaving. The main houses left followed by Danzo who was frowning at the Hokage's choice.
While at Naruto's apartment he was sleeping peacefully while in his subconscious was talking to the Kyubi, "Well Fox it's finally come down to this."
"Yeah once you graduate tomorrow, you won't have to put up with any rabid Uchiha fan girls." The fox laughed.
"Yeah there's that, and the fact that I'll be one step closer to becoming Hokage of this village." Naruto added.
"Why do you want to become Hokage anyway kit?" the fox asked seeing as how nobody wanted him.
"At first it was just for acknowledgement of the village, but I found a real reason. I want to help those who need it," Naruto began, "That's why I aim to be Hokage, believe it!"
"Well kid you got quite a reason, and if you ever need help you can always use a portion of my power."
"Thanks fox."
"No prob, you should get some sleep now, if you're going to graduate tomorrow you need your rest."
"Night Fox." Naruto said as he falls asleep.
When morning arrived, Naruto went through his daily tasks of bathing, changing, and eating. He put on his sunglasses and grabbed his coat before slipping it on. Naruto stepped outside, "I should avoid using my hands for travel and I can bet lots of people wouldn't want me to graduate. So I'll take the easy way." Naruto vanished into the ground as a shadow and traveled through the village.
When Naruto arrived at the academy he wandered inside and when he entered class he got angry glares from the Uchiha fan girls mainly the Haruno and Yamanaka, an arrogant frown from the Uchiha, and smiles from Hinata and Hanabi. He strutted his way down to the Hyuga girls and sat in between them as always, "So how're you girls this morning?" Naruto asked with a foxy grin.
"We're doing great Naruto-kun." Hanabi replied while resting her head near his arm.
"Yes I'm excited, after today we'll be full fledged ninja." Hinata agreed.
"Hmm, some of us anyway." An arrogant voice said which got Naruto to look over at Sasuke, "And just what would you know about being a ninja Teme?"
"Plenty more than you Dobe." Sasuke replied which got Naruto a bit angry but didn't show it.
"Oh sure you only want to be a ninja so you can kill one measly person." He mocked instead.
"Shut up!" Sasuke growled.
"Did I touch a nerve?" Naruto asked hopefully, "And what's with this Dobe stuff? Both you and I are on equal chances for Rookie of the Year."
"No one is my equal!" Sasuke flared with anger.
"Yeah well we'll see when the day is over." Naruto continued.
"NARUTO-BAKA, LEAVE SASUKE ALONE!" Sakura screeched.
Naruto looks over to the Haruno girl, "Haruno, will you just butt out? You're no fit to be a ninja just as much as you think your precious Uchiha should be Kami."
"What was that?" she asked with a tick growing on her abnormally sized forehead.
"What hard at hearing?" Naruto played it cool which got her madder until Iruka and Mizuki enter.
"Good morning class I hope you're ready for your final exams." Mizuki said earning nods from the students while the Uchiha brooded.
"The exam is set up as followed. You must perform a henge, a kawarimi, and make at least two clones," Iruka explains the details, "Only then you will be allowed one of these." He motioned to his forehead protector.
"We will call you up by alphabetical order," Mizuki began, "First Akimichi Chouji."
As time went by Hanabi and Hinata were each called and came out with their headbands around their necks. Naruto congratulated both of them, and continued waiting for his turn. When Sasuke came out he gave Naruto an arrogant smirk motioning to his forehead protector. Finally Naruto was called and he entered their office.
He stood before Iruka and Mizuki who were sitting at a desk, "Ok Naruto first perform a henge, and if you use that lame move like last time you automatically fail." Iruka warned the blonde.
"Always a step ahead Iruka-sensei? All right then." Naruto formed a hand sign, "Henge!" he shouted and in a poof of smoke where Naruto was standing was the Fourth Hokage. "What do you think?" the transformed Naruto asked as he transformed back.
"Very good Naruto, wanting to be more like your idol so much you turn into him?" Iruka asked.
"Yeah, something like that." Naruto replied.
"Now try a kawarimi." Mizuki instructed.
"On it." Naruto said concentrating and in a poof of smoke he was replaced with a stool at the end of the room.
"Excellent Naruto, now all you need to do is make two clones of yourself to get a perfect score." Iruka finished.
"Does it have to be the bunshin no jutsu, Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked curiously.
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"Well not really, why you have something else in mind?" the scarred instructor asked.
"Yes. Due to my poor chakra control I cannot perform the basic Bunshin no Jutsu," Naruto began, "So I'm trying another approach." He said holding his arms out to the side as light energy poured from his palms and they take the form of two life like Naruto's standing next to him with both giving the instructors a thumbs up.
"Marvelous Naruto, you pass." Iruka said proudly while handing Naruto a leaf headband.
"Yes Naruto good for you." Mizuki smiled happy.
Hinata and Hanabi waited for Naruto to come out and when he did they saw him wearing the headband on his right arm, "Congratulations Naruto-kun." They said together.
"Thanks girls." Naruto replied and looked over to Sasuke and gave him the same arrogant smirk just to throw it in his face.
When every student was outside getting congrats from their parents Naruto stuck around with Hinata, and Hanabi until their father approached them, "I see you both passed your exams." Hiashi said with his trademark scowl.
"Y-Yes father." Both his daughters replied.
Hiashi's scowl then changed to a smile, "Congratulations Hinata, Hanabi. You'll both make fine shinobi."
"Thank you father." His daughters cried. It was only if they did something or accomplished something very successful he'd give a compliment like that.
The Hyuga head then looks at the blonde Jinchuriki and smiles, "And congratulations to you to, Naruto."
"Thanks, Hyuga-Sama." Naruto replied.
"Now there's no need to be formal." Hiashi replied.
"Well thanks anyway." Naruto said as he slowly walked away.
"Naruto-kun, where're you going?" Hinata asked.
"I got to bounce. If I stay around here much longer all the other adults here will probably bash me and complain as to why I was allowed to be a ninja." Naruto chuckled.
"Why do they do that to you anyway, Naruto-kun?" Hanabi asked concerned.
"I don't know for sure myself, Hanabi-chan," Naruto pretended not to know about his host, "Well I'm out of here. See you two tomorrow." He grew his armadillo shell, curled into a ball, and bounced away.
He was on his way to find Tenten and tell her about his passing until he rolled into a familiar instructor with white hair, "Naruto, can I have a word with you?" Mizuki asked as Naruto curled out of his shell looking confused.
Some time later Naruto and Mizuki were on the roof of a building and Naruto had been listening to Mizuki, "No way! If I can learn something from the forbidden scroll I can bypass Genin and straight to Jonin?" Naruto asked with glee.
"That's right. Though I'm not allowed to tell you this. So let's keep this a secret between us ok?" Mizuki asked.
"Of course." Naruto nodded.
"Good, shall we meet tonight at the old training ground?" the instructor asked.
"Sure thing."
"Perfect. Now run along." Mizuki dismissed him. When Naruto left through a shadow portal Mizuki smirked deviously.
When nighttime came Hinata and Hanabi were out for an evening stroll until they saw Tenten running up to them looking worried, "Hinata, Hanabi thank goodness!" Tenten stopped running and took a few deep breaths.
"Tenten-san, what's wrong?" Hinata asked concerned.
"You two haven't seen Naruto-kun lately have you?" she asked worried.
"Not since the end of the academy." Hanabi replied.
"Oh no." Tenten sighed.
"Why, is he all right?" Hinata asks worried for her blonde friend.
"I don't know I haven't seen him at all today." Tenten said more worried.
"What Naruto's stolen the forbidden scroll!" a voice called.
The girls heard that and followed it but stopped around a corner. They peaked around it seeing the Hokage with several Chunin gathered before him.
"I knew he'd go too far." A random Chunin said.
"This is too much to be considered a prank!" Another random one added.
"I say we bring him back and interrogate him into why he did it!" a third suggested.
"Silence!" the Sandaime called, "You are to find Naruto and bring him back here, and no harming him until he's been found!" he ordered and they took off.
Meanwhile at the training ground Naruto was reading through the scroll, "This Kage Bunshin no jutsu is so cool, and these other forms will benefit to my Meta-Human powers to."
"Naruto!" a voice shot and Iruka appeared before him.
"Oh hi Iruka-sensei." Naruto said casually.
"Don't give me that 'hi' stuff, you just graduated and are already causing trouble." Iruka replied.
"What do you mean, don't I get to move up to Jonin if I learned something from this scroll?" Naruto asked in confusion.
"Who told you that?" Iruka asked wondering why Naruto would think that.
"Mizuki-sensei said if I learned something from this scroll then I would be promoted to Jonin." Naruto explained.
'Mizuki?' Iruka thought until it hit him, "NARUTO DOWN!" he pushed Naruto down just in time for a large Shuriken to miss them.
"Darn my aim is off tonight." A voice said.
Both the instructor and Genin saw it come from none other than Mizuki, "Mizuki what are you doing this for!" Iruka demanded out of his old assistant instructor.
Unaware from them Tenten, Hinata, and Hanabi found Naruto but hid when they saw Mizuki attack them.
"Sorry Iruka, but I know several parties will pay me big time," Mizuki began and he turned to Naruto, "Naruto give me the scroll. Iruka will just turn you over to the Hokage."
Iruka didn't want Naruto to fall for Mizuki's act, "No Naruto, Mizuki's only using you, take the scroll and run!"
Naruto looked at both of them until Mizuki spoke up, "Naruto give me the scroll and I'll let you in on another secret."
"Mizuki what're you saying?" Iruka gasped.
"I know the truth why everyone looks down on you so much." Mizuki said which got Naruto's attention wondering how he'll come out and tell him something he already knows.
"Mizuki no that's forbidden!" Iruka shouted only to get impaled in the leg with a kunai.
"The truth is the Kyubi kitsune that attacked our village years ago wasn't killed by the fourth like history said. Instead it was sealed inside a baby the night it was born. That baby was you Naruto!" Mizuki shouted, "YOU ARE THE NINE TAILED FOX THAT KILLED SO MANY OF OUR BELOVED SHINOBI YEARS AGO, THE SAME FOX THAT KILLED OUR FOURTH HOKAGE!" he ranted which got gasps out of the girls while Iruka barely able to stand can only watch wondering how the poor boy will take it.
Mizuki waited for Naruto to drop down and cry for mercy but what he heard wasn't the sound of crying, instead he was hearing soft laughing coming from the boy, and soon that soft laughter erupted into an insane laugh which put Mizuki in fear as well as Iruka thinking the fox might take over him.
When Naruto stopped laughing he looked at Mizuki, "You're a little late to tell me that Mizuki-Teme," He began which got Mizuki confused. "I already know about the fox inside me, but to call me the fox itself, well now that's just plain rude." Naruto said as he faded into a shadow portal and Mizuki could start hearing Naruto's voice from the shadows of the trees, "The real reason you've been playing all nice and sweet was because of how the other instructors at the academy would react at your behavior."
"I'm not hearing this!" Mizuki tried to tone him out.
"Get it through your skull, Teme. You've really been so afraid you had to hide your true feelings for me. You shoulda just came out of the closet and admitted your hatred. Of course I'd have to beat you senseless after." Naruto continued speaking through the trees.
"Shut up! Shut up!" Mizuki growled trying to find out where he was.
"I mean come on if you wanted to get something, do it yourself, and not rely on others, and people actually made you a Chunin?" Naruto continued to mock Mizuki.
Mizuki growled, "Show yourself!"
"You really make me laugh, only because I think you're utterly pathetic." Naruto added and starts to slowly laugh.
"Stop that!" Mizuki shouted to wherever Naruto may have been hiding.
"So you wait until graduation at the academy just so you could use a student to steal you a scroll on some forbidden Jutsus? What's a matter couldn't do the job yourself?" he asked mocking the white haired traitor.
"I'm not listening!" Mizuki growled more trying hard not to lose it.
"But it's true. Beneath the title of Chunin and all the territory that comes with the position you're just a coward needing a genin to do a simple job for him." Naruto's mocking voice continued to fill the area.
"I'm warning you!" Mizuki started losing it.
"I hear guys like you who use words instead of their fists are all talk and no walk, which puts you at the top of that list!" Naruto continued mocking as his laugh got louder and louder.
Mizuki growled before pulling out another giant Shuriken, "Don't you dare laugh at me!"
"Why? Laughter is the best medicine, especially for ninja." Naruto continued to laugh which drove Mizuki even madder.
"YOU'RE NOT A NINJA!" he threw the shuriken to a branch where he heard the voice was which cut it revealing Naruto was right there and he fell to the ground.
"Ok, maybe there is such a thing as overdoing it." Naruto replied as Mizuki stood before him with a Kunai, "Now I'm going to finish what the Fourth Hokage started!" Mizuki was ready to stab him.
"NO!" a female voice called as two regular sized shuriken aimed for the traitor who jumped away before they impaled him.
The shuriken came from Tenten who appeared with Hinata and Hanabi at her sides,
"Girls." Naruto gasped.
"Don't you worry Naruto-kun, we're going to protect you." Hinata said getting into a stance with her Byakugan activated.
"Hai." Hanabi agreed getting in the same stance.
"What do you think you're doing? Do you know who you're defending?!" Mizuki bellowed.
"Yes we heard you and you're wrong about Naruto-kun!" Tenten shot back.
"Tenten-chan." Naruto gasped.
"Naruto is no demon, but you and all those others here in the village are too blind to see it. Even Hanabi and I know it doesn't take a Byakugan to see Naruto-kun for who he really is." Hinata added.
"Yeah, and we'll protect him from creeps like you no matter what!" Hanabi finished.
Naruto looked up and couldn't help but shed a tear hearing these girls would protect him. "So be it!" Mizuki said as he attacked the girls. Tenten used multiple weapons on Mizuki but he kept avoiding them and not even two Hyuga kids could stop him.
Mizuki threw the three at Naruto who caught them and Mizuki got another big shuriken out, "I had no intention of killing Hyuga's or a weapons kunoichi, but that no longer matters to me!" he threw the shuriken but before it could make contact, Iruka shielded the genin and the shuriken got him in the back.
"Iruka-sensei." Naruto, Hanabi, and Hinata gasped.
"I lost my parents that night when the Kyubi attacked," Iruka cried, "I don't want to lose some of the best students I ever taught!"
"How sweet, not only will I dispose of you genin but my old partner as well." Mizuki said with a sick grin.
Naruto got up and handed Iruka to Tenten, "Iruka-sensei, girls, you all did great holding him off. Now it's time I finished this!" Naruto said as he formed hand signs, "Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" He shouted and in a huge poof of smoke the entire field was covered with hundreds of Naruto's in the flesh.
"How do you like us now traitor?" The Naruto's asked.
"What a Jutsu." Tenten gasped as she sat Iruka down by a tree.
Mizuki realized he was surrounded with nowhere to go, what made him more paranoid was some of the Naruto's feet grew giant sized, another bunch of them grew giant purple bulky arms, while the remaining bunch grew light energy mallets. "Now for your punishment for attacking your own comrades' traitor!" The Naruto's called as they jump for the high pitched screaming Mizuki. Kicks and punches were heard and when the sun rose there was Mizuki lying on the ground with blood coming out of his mouth, and his face was so bruised you wouldn't recognize him.
A horde of Anbu came and were told about the whole situation from Iruka who was still too tired and weak to move. So the Anbu woman known as Yugao gave orders to a Rat masked Anbu and a Boar masked Anbu, "You two take the traitor to Ibiki for interrogation." The two nodded and collect Mizuki's body and vanish. She then turned to an Ape masked Anbu and a Rooster masked one, "While you two take Iruka-san to the hospital."
They nodded taking Iruka to the hospital as the female captain watched Naruto with his three female companions.
"I want to thank you girls for defending me back there." Naruto thanked them.
"We should be thanking you Naruto-kun you're the one who beat him." Tenten said.
"You're the best Shinobi there is and ever will be in our books." Hanabi added.
"And we know you will become a great Hokage Naruto-kun." Hinata finished.
Naruto sheds another tear beneath his sunglasses and held out his arms, "Come here you three!"
So the three girl's glomped Naruto in a four way hug. The scene zoomed out to see the Sandaime had been watching all along and knew that Naruto will do very well in the future, and that he knew the full truth.
(And that's the chapter.)