A new quest has been created!
Graduate!
It's time for the Academy Graduation Exam!
You have been training months just to pass. Let Konoha see all your hard work.
Quest Rewards: Genin Title, 5,000 EXP, Jounin-Sensei
Quest Failure: Attend Academy Next Year, 2,500 EXP
Naruto smiled at the sight of the blue screen as he woke up. With a lazy wave of his hand, the screen disappeared. He stretched, his bones satisfyingly popping. He walked into the bathroom and brushed his teeth, and combed his messy hair. He threw on a gray short-sleeved t-shirt, a pair of baggy black pants, and slid on his shinobi sandals. He whistled whilst spinning a kunai on his finger by the ring.
With all the confidence in the world, he strolled out onto the streets. He didn't care much about the people glaring at him. It just leveled up his [NES] - short for [Negative Emotion Sensing] - anyway. You ask why he was so confident? Well, he knew he was going to graduate. He worked harder than he ever had in his whole entire life. Failing twice in a row left a bad taste in his mouth. He wouldn't make it three.
He reached the classroom and plopped down in his seat next to Hinata. She smiled at him and he winked. Her pale face turned a tomato red. He leaned back in his chair, throwing his feet up on the table and sighed in content. It was a good life-
"Will you stop being a dumbass, Naruto!" Sakura screamed. He opened his eyes and realized that Iruka was staring at him, waiting for him to be proper. He grinned and closed his eyes again.
They could wait.
...
His hand shot out and grabbed onto something that was aimed at his face. He opened one eye and saw it was a chalk. He turned towards the man that threw it and smirked. Oh! Mizuki-sensei!
"Next time it will be a kunai, Uzumaki. Feet off the table. Pay attention to Iruka-sensei."
He sighed and placed his feet on the ground and turned to Hinata, pointing his finger at the rest of the classroom and he whispered, "Tough crowd." She playfully pushed him, giggling.
Iruka cleared his throat for what most of been the thousandth time this year, "Today is testing day. We will be testing you on what we've taught throughout the whole entire year. Academics, Taijutsu, and Ninjutsu. You must score higher than an 80% on each portion of the test to pass. You must be able to proficiently display the Academy Taijutsu. You must be able to perform the Kamiwari, Henge, and Bunshin. Any questions?"
Nobody raised their hand.
"Okay, let's begin. Mizuki, would you do me the favor of passing these out?"
"I'd love to," Groaned the man as he took the stack of papers from Iruka and began to pass them out to the class.
Quest Update!
Graduate: Exams!
Get 80% on the History, Math, Survival, and Tactics portions.
Quest Rewards: 1,000 EXP, Onto Taijutsu Exam
Quest Failure: Failing
Bonus Rewards:
- Score 100% on each portion. 500 EXP for each portion you score 100 on.
Naruto cracked his knuckles. This would be a piece of cake. His intelligence and wisdom ruled!
Quest Graduate: Exams! Finished
+1000 EXP
+2000 EXP
He had gotten top scores, but so did Sasuke. God damn it, why couldn't he better than him at one thing! If only he could prove that he was stronger than emo, dark and broody. The next thing they were going to do was the Taijutsu exam. They would fight three students. He had got a quest for the taijutsu portion. For each civilian student, he beat he got 200 EXP, and stronger/clan kids would give him 500. Sasuke would give him 1,000.
"Naruto Uzumaki v.s Sasuke Uchiha!" Mizuki exclaimed. He wanted to see the Kyuubi-Child be beaten into the ground and become a bloody pulp. During this part of the graduation exam, everything was allowed. They'd jump in when it was over if things went too far.
Naruto barely contained his excitement.
"Yatta! I'm going to beat your ass, you fucking teme!"
"Hn, bring it on dobe."
The two of them walked towards the middle of the white circle and created the seal of Conciliation. Iruka breathed in and breathed out. He knew that these two wouldn't hold back and he'd have to clean up after them.
"Start it already, Iruka-teme!"
A wave of irritation came over him. He wished Sasuke would beat Naruto into the ground the same as Mizuki did, just not for the same reason.
"Fight!"
Both boys quickly ran through hand seals, finishing on the last one as they jumped back. Their voices intermingled as they said the name of the jutsu.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
A huge fireball came from both of their mouth's. It was obvious that Sasuke's was stronger. It burned hotter and was brighter. Naruto cursed as his jutsu was turned around on him. He didn't expect for Sasuke's to be stronger than his. That was a bad play on his part. He activated Chakra Skin and put up a guard, the huge fireball hitting him dead on and exploding in a fiery explosion.
Iruka waited, already preparing to create healing chakra in his palm but was surprised to see Naruto's clothes and hair were a bit singed and seemed to grow back. Was that a seal? A jutsu? Iruka would be lying if he said he didn't want something like that.
Naruto cursed. That caused a lot of chakra to blocked. He poured in about half of his. That put him at a disadvantage, but not that bad of one since his chakra levels were almost at the same level of Sasuke's. But the problem was that he wouldn't be able to keep up with that, the Uchiha had a greater chakra control level than his. He really fucked up.
He cursed his stupidity and rushed forward, pushing chakra into his feet to launch forward. Sasuke jumped backward as Naruto's fist slammed into the ground, jagged rocks flying towards Sasuke. The boy pulled out a kunai and deflected the rocks, but was distracted enough for Naruto to rush forward and slam another Power Strike directly into Sasuke's gut, sending him reeling. His body skidded and bounced across the ground for a good time before he stopped.
The Uchiha stood up and began to brush himself off. He channeled chakra to where the hit was going to connect so he took minimal damage. Fuck. He was smarter than Naruto as well, and tactics-wise knew more than Naruto. Even if he did score high scores on the test and it said that they were matched, the boy must have had experience with his family or something.
He took a look at his stat page and realized that his chakra was recovering quickly. He just needed to survive for another seven or eight minutes. His hand took a faint glow and then blared. It looked almost static like with the amount of chakra being pushed into it. It was his Destructive Taijutsu. He really needed to rename that until he made a style out of it, but for now, it was fine.
He hit the ground with another Power Strike a huge slab of earth coming up. He then hit his other palm with the Destructive Taijutsu on it, it explodes into hundreds of little shards. Sasuke cursed and tried to begin deflecting them with his kunai but they were too fast and small. They cut into his skin and embedded themselves in his flesh. He winced in pain but didn't have time to recover as Naruto tried to use the same tactic again.
Amature.
"Phoenix Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke screamed, blasting multiple smaller but still blazing hot fireballs from his mouth. Naruto smirked. He hid behind the huge slab he had made. He wasn't going to use it to attack, but to make Sasuke think he was so he could cause him to waste more chakra and he would already have a defense set up. He hid behind the slab and placed two hands on it.
"Chakra Projectile."
A slow stream of chakra began to surround the slab of rock.
x - o - x - o
"You can't hide there forever, Uzumaki," Thought Sasuke. The boy should be damaged enough to where he could finish this. He knew that Naruto recovered quickly and if you gave him enough time it'd be like if he wasn't even hurt in the first place. You needed to hit strong, and fast, and not give him room to breathe. The fireballs slammed against the slab and he smirked.
But the smirk instantly vanished as a huge slab was sent hurtling at him. Sasuke tried to move, but he knew he wouldn't be able to in time. Naruto had won. He had used the terrain to his advantage. It was terrifying how he was able to use the Earth and control the battlefield like that when he could only use fire. It must've cost him lots of chakra, and he knew that. If only he had more defensive or destructive jutsu to gain back control of the battle. But alas, he had not. Nothing destructive enough to destroy Earth. Only if he had lightning.
He closed his eyes, readying himself for the pain of being hit. He wanted- needed power. If he had it then he would've won, he wouldn't have been embarrassed in front of all his peers and his classmates. He wouldn't have to see the damn annoying grin on Naruto's fucking face. This was going to hurt a lot, and there was nothing he could do but accept it, no matter how much it damages his pride. But when he opened his eyes Iruka sensei was in front of him a hand seal at the ready.
"Fuinjutsu: Protection!"
Ink spread out on the ground and a barrier of chakra appeared around all sides of them. The rock slammed hard into the barrier causing Iruka to almost fall, but he held his ground tight until the rock settled back against the ground and the chakra left it. Iruka turned to Sasuke and smirked, "Nice eyes you have there, buddy."
His Sharingan blazed.
x - o - x - o
Even though he had won he was disappointed.
His Fireball Jutsu wasn't as Sasuke's! All his training, for nothing! He guessed it made sense, he had been training with it his whole life and Naruto had only been using it for a month. Sasuke probably even held back, not expecting his to be that strong, or for him to know it at all. But he almost got it! Next time, he thought he should just pour all of his chakra into the attack to make it super-charged. Even if it was a low-level, nobody could beat his chakra levels! Muhaha!
"NARUTO!"
He turned just in time to be punched hard in the jaw. He fell backward on his butt.
"DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT COULD'VE CRUSHED SASUKE? COULD'VE KILLED HIM!?"
Naruto rubbed his jaw, "But- but I thought he would've used some Sharingan cheat or some shit! Like creating some armor or teleporting it into another dimension!?"
That only caused Iruka sensei to raise his fist again and get ready to pummel him; but Naruto cowered, "I'm sorry Iruka-sensei!"
The teacher sighed, "Next time, don't do that against an ally. Also, learn to preserve your chakra more or become more proficient in your chakra control. I can tell that you are almost at the brink of Chakra Exhaustion, no matter how fast you recover, you need to learn to pace yourself. You can't just keep spamming jutsu. It might've worked here, but what if someone had more chakra than you? Or knew how to deflect your attacks? You'd waste all your chakra and be a sitting duck."
Iruka turned towards Sasuke who was messing with his Sharingan. Iruka smiled at the boy, "You did great. You pushed hard cause you know you would've lost if you had done anything else different. You also didn't know all of your opponent's moves, so you didn't rush in. You thought quickly on the spot, you held on tight, and knew when you had faced defeat. Keep up the good work."
He turned back towards Naruto with a softer smile, "Keep up the good work."
Naruto bowed. He turned on his heel and headed towards Hinata who sat by Shikamaru and Choji. Over the past month, their [Relationship] had served to grow stronger. These three were good friends, and Kiba respected him. Sasuke was just a little more than an acquaintance, a rival. He didn't really talk to Sakura, but he helped her out with training sometimes with tips. Ino and Shino were acquaintances but they were close to becoming his friend. All-in-all, he had almost gotten everyone to like him or to at least dislike him instead of hate.
He was pretty glad about that.
"That was great, Naruto! You're just like Tsunade! Except, instead of a slab of stone she would've made a boulder and threw it at you in a split second!"
He chuckled, "I'm not that good yet, Choji. But one day I'll be able to hit the ground and make a mountain."
"That'd be a sight to see," Shikamaru sighed. Choji chuckled as he ate chips.
He turned to Hinata who smiled at him, "Great j-job, Naruto-kun."
"Thank you, Hina." He said patting her head. She blushed and leaned into the touch. Shikamaru smirked and raised an eyebrow at him but he smirked in return, throwing him a sly wink. If he hadn't had this power then he would probably not have realized that Hinata had a crush on him. Now? He was able to find out his feelings for her and become better friends before he decided what they wanted to be.
But he couldn't lie if he said he wasn't still attracted to Sakura, the color of pink associated with her hair. Or the smell of ramen, Teuchi's beautiful daughter Ayame. Even Ino's platinum blonde hair was cute. But even then, Hinata was probably the most attractive to him.
He shook his head and looked at the blue screens, ignoring the pout Hinata gave him when he stopped patting her head.
Power Strike has leveled up: 20 - 21
Chakra Skin has leveled up: 10 - 12
Chakra Projectile has leveled up: 8 - 11
Chakra Manipulation has leveled up:
You have won 500 EXP from the fight.
+1 INT
+2 VIT
Naruto smiled at the Chakra Projectile leveling up. It took him almost the rest of his chakra to throw that stone at him, and it was so slow to encase his chakra on it. If it didn't level up from just his sheer determination of it not breaking against Sasuke's Phoenix Fireball Jutsu, then he would be upset.
A few more matches passed and it gave him enough time to get about 1/4 of his chakra back before he was called to fight again.
"Naruto Uzumaki vs Hinata Hyuuga!"
She gasped but Naruto rested a hand on her shoulder, gently squeezing it.
"Don't be afraid, Hinata. I want you to give it your all. Wouldn't you upset me by not trying against me? Calling me weak?"
She instantly shook her head, "Of course not!"
"Then I'll do the same," Naruto smiled and began to walk to the circle, "Let's make it a match to remember."
She nodded determined running to the circle. They made the seal and Iruka wasted no time.
"Begin!"
Hinata blasted forward as Naruto jumped backward. He knew that he couldn't face a Hyuuga straight on with Taijutsu. He would have to use other abilities in his arsenal to beat her or come up with some new attacks. Hinata claimed she was finding ways to over-power his Chakra Skin, and he wasn't going to risk it here.
He cursed as he dodged her palm strike and a jab. She was quicker than he thought.
He frowned as he ran through the technique he had in his mind. Everything he had was physical except for the Great Fireball Jutsu, and his Chakra Projectile - which really didn't count since he needed something to blast at her. He'd have to face her head on.
His chakra skin developed around him as he charged a Power Strike, trying to finish it quickly. She wouldn't let it happen. She spun through his attack, dodging the strike which disrupted the air with its force and slammed her palms twice into his stomach, a huge amount of chakra surrounding them. His Chakra Skin rippled like the ocean and disappeared.
Naruto moved quickly before she could get the advantage on him. He knew that their stats were almost even. But if they had a stat for determination, he would be hundreds of points ahead of her. He settled into the Academy Style, throwing a punch. She deflected it, sealing his chakra. He instantly abandoned the plan of attacking her head on, she helped him train in this style. She knew all of his moves.
He needed to take control of the battle.
He charged another Power Strike which her Byakugan caught up on. He threw at her and she dodged backward. He smirked - he wasn't aiming for her! It hit the ground hard, and a huge slab of stone appeared once again causing her to jump back further. He charged his Destructive Taijutsu and tapped the stone. Thousands of pieces rained upon her.
She smirked and spun, her chakra exploding around her. Naruto groaned. She was beginning to learn the Revolving Heaven! No, it wasn't complete at all. She couldn't get it to spin and the chakra around it was too thin. Some pieces fell down, but most hit her. He smirked. She over-estimated the technique and it cost her chakra. He would keep doing that attack over and over again, but he realized he was low on chakra as well.
He ran through hand seals, "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!"
A huge fireball flew from his mouth. She jumped sideways and batted away the embers that came at her after the attack ended. She hissed at her burnt hands but still rushed forward towards her crush. He knew this would be their final clash. They both were very low on chakra. He needed to finish this and finish it now.
He summoned the last bit of chakra he had left into his palm and put it forward. He hoped this would work!
"Chakra Blast!" A small orb of chakra shot out of his hand. He held back a scream as he arm was sent backward, twisting unnaturally. The blast of chakra made Hinata stop. She tried to use her flexibility to move out of the way, but it was too fast. It hit directly into her chest and imploded, sending her flying out of the circle and leaving a bruise on her chest from the force. Her clothes were still intact as it was a simple orb, but it hurt like hell to her.
Naruto winced at his broken arm. That was no good.
"The winner is, Naruto Uzumaki!" Iruka called. He then ran over to the boy and looked at his arm. He frowned, "It's broken. Have you not used that technique before?"
"I just came up with it, sensei," Naruto said with a frown of his own.
"You need to go to a doctor-!"
"No, no, just watch."
His arm slowly began to twist back and his bones cracked back into place. He swung it around a little bit and then nodded. Thank you, Kyuubi. Thank you, Gamer's Body. Iruka stared on with a look of shock, "The Nine-Tailed Fox?"
"Thank you, Iruka-sensei. I'm gonna go check on Hinata now."
He then rushed over to the girl. Iruka frowned as he watched him go, but the frown soon turned into a smile. If the boy could recover that quickly then he would be a good shinobi when he began to grow up. He was already exceptional now. He would give Iruka a run for his money. Well, he knew how to counter his stone slab. He had a lightning jutsu for that. Fuinjutsu: Advanced Protection for his Chakra Strike. A flaming kunai for his chakra skin. The only thing he'd be worried about would be that Chakra Blast.
Hm... he found himself wanting to spar with Naruto more than ever.
He hadn't had to fight anymore after that. He and Sasuke got tied for scores again. He frowned. He still wasn't better than the brooder!
Next was the plain Taijutsu, where they had to prove they knew that. He and Sasuke tied again and he grumbled and moved on. Now it was time for the test that he abhorred. The damn Clone test. He knew that he could make them, but for some reason, he shivered. It was definitely his weakest skill. Would he not be able to do it proficiently? Would Sasuke score better than him? He couldn't let that happen.
"Naruto Uzumaki, could you please come back here?"
Naruto bit his tongue and yelped, jumping out of his seat. Hinata squeezed his hand once, "It'll be okay, Naruto-kun."
The blonde looked at her surprised. Now look who was taking the initiative. He knew he would have to as well.
"Thank you Hina-hime!"
"H-Hime?" She muttered, blushing. She laid her head on the table and passed out. Naruto just chuckled and walked towards the back. He entered the room and there sat Iruka-sensei and Mizuki-teme. Naruto smiled at both of them.
"I just want to thank you for-"
"Substitution," Mizuki interrupted, chucking his kunai at him. Naruto yelped and Substituted with a chair. It hit with a loud thunk. Iruka shook his head with a groan as Mizuki smirked at Naruto. The boy glared. He was definitely going to prank this teme later.
"Henge, please, Naruto."
He ran through the hand seals and transformed into Sasuke, "Hn."
Iruka chuckled slightly and marked down something on the paper. He then looked at Naruto with a frown, hoping that he'd get this right. He had done so well in the past two tests, better than he had ever done. All he had to do was to make three clones that looked like him and were efficient.
"Clones, Uzumaki," Mizuki stated rudely.
Naruto just smirked and ran through the hand seals.
Iruka took in a breath, "Hand seals right... no smoke!? They look almost perfect!"
"You pass!" Iruka screamed. He got up from his desk and hugged Naruto tightly who hugged him back, screaming 'Yatta'.
Mizuki frowned. He would have to have a change of plans. He couldn't stand one more day looking at the demon that had killed his family and had destroyed the village he used to be loyal to.
Quest Complete!
Graduate!
Rewards:
5,000 EXP
Jounin-Sensei (go to the academy tomorrow)
Final EXP from Quest: 10,000 EXP
You have leveled up!
Name: Naruto Uzumaki - Class: The Gamer - Age: 12
Titles: Academy Student (+100% EXP Gain till Level 10)
Level: 13 | EXP: 4,350/7,000
HP: 8,800/8,800 | CP: 9,600/9,600
STR: 20
VIT: 22
DEX: 18
INT: 24
WIS: 17
LUK: 12
Unspent Points: 5
Money: 2,000 Ryo
Naruto sighed as he hit his bed. It felt so... good! He finally graduated, he leveled up, he trained hard and prevailed. He could finally move on his life. He could finally become a ninja. Now the next thing he had to do was to find out what happened with his roommate - he pat his stomach - his theorized father, the Yondaime, and Kakashi Hatake, his supposed father's student.
It was all a mystery.
Except for the Kyuubi. He knew that for sure. The INT and WIS he had gotten didn't lie to him one bit. He looked at his skills where he had the question marks at that he assumed to be the Kyuubi. He had to know if he was right.
Bunshin no Jutsu (Active) Level: MAX | EXP: 00.00% [CP Cost: 5 CP per Clone]
The Bunshin no Jutsu is one out of the three jutsu that Academy Students are supposed to learn to graduate. You are not able to do the Bunshin no Jutsu thanks to your less than adequate chakra control. The reason you have less than average Chakra Control is that [?], the Kyuubi, gave you a massive amount of chakra from the day you were born.
Natural Fire Affinity (Passive) Level: 23 | EXP: 98.00%
The owner of this skill has a natural fire affinity. The Kyuubi has granted you the ability to a powerful Fire Affinity.
Increases the power of Fire Jutsu by 23%
Decreases the needed chakra for Fire Jutsu by 23%
Incomplete Chakra Mode (Passive) Level: MAX
A water-downed version of the Demon Fox Cloak where the user is usually a Jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tailed Fox. It uses all the chakra the user has to energize their whole entire body and strength it to the point where they're close to the Tailed Beast's number one transformation. Once the user uses this technique, their body won't be able to handle it for about a few days. Using this technique takes up all of the user's chakra, unlike the actual Tailed Beast transformations. Since this version is incomplete, it severely damages the user's body and could possibly be fatal.
Negative Emotion Sensing (Active/Passive) Level: MAX
Allows the user to passively sense all negative emotions directed towards them. Actively allows the user to sense all negative emotions directed at all. Skill created by the Kyuubi.
Once he looked over all of the skills he realized how much firepower the Kyuubi actually gave him. He wondered if he would be able to meet him one day and thank him for the power. Maybe he was the one that gave him the Gamer Power?
He'd think about that later. He was tired from a day of hard work. He began to drift off into sleep before-
"Wake up."
Naruto shot up out of his bed, kunai at the ready. There stood Mizuki. He had pulled a chair from his kitchen and now sat in it. His face looked creepy, and it didn't help his case that it was - he looked at his clock - midnight!
"What are you doing here, Mizuki-teme! I'm trying to sleep. And why didn't you knock!"
A look of shock came over the silver-haired man's face, "W-What? I'm so sorry, Naruto. I was just so focused on the mission I wanted to give you as your first day as Genin. Why do you think I came here at twelve?" Mizuki thanked the time for its convenience.
Naruto glared at him suspiciously, "What are you talking about? What mission?"
"The mission is a stealth mission. You're supposed to sneak into the Hokage's office, steal the village's Scroll of Seals. Once you do go to this location and-"
"That's a bunch of bull shit and you know it."
Naruto jumped out of his bed and stretched, "I know you hate me cause of the beast sealed inside of me. I don't know what the Kyuubi had done to you, but it had to have been something bad for you to sneak into my house, and tell me to go commit treason against my village, and even worse try to kill me." He cracked his knuckles and neck.
"Now, get the hell out and go home. I won't tell anybody about this. If not?"
Mizuki glared, standing up and pulling his Fuma Shuriken, "What will you do then, Kyuubi-brat?"
Naruto laughed coldly, "I'll kill you."
A new quest has been created!
Sensei vs Student
Mizuki isn't going to live without a fight. It's either kill or be killed in this situation.
Fight him to the death or stall him for five minutes so calvary can arrive.
Quest Rewards: 5,000 EXP
Quest Failure: Death