Naruto Sarutobi
Chapter 7: The big exam
Two years later
Naruto for the most part was a decently smart kid but was a bit goofy. His father did teach him a lot of the fundamentals for things he needed like maths and geography but not history since like his father said he should just focus on the future.
Two years and now was the big exam to wittle out the civillians mostly that didn't really have anything going for them besides having the ability to use chakra.
The exam was all about practical stuff so he didn't have to worry until Iruka-sensei dropped a bombshell saying that your performance in class was 30% of the entire test marks so he basically could only get 70% since he basically never listened in class since it was just so boring.
The only one who probably listened in class was Ino's ex-best friend Sakura Haruno but she was just bad at practical stuff so she had to suffice with book smarts.
Speaking of Ino, she had begun to well open up to Naruto ever since his father setted up a meetup between him and the heirs of the Ino-Shika-Cho clans. It turns out Shikamaru, Choji and Ino were childhood friends but Ino was the odd one out since she was a female and didn't really have much in common with the two aside from being part of the famous trio their fathers were.
Ino really was a nice person just she always put up this grand image that she was some sort of princess. He did ask his dad why she was always so stuck up and his father simply put said that Ino had the entire image of the Yamanaka clan to hold up so she had to have a good image.
That did make sense since Shikamaru could be lazy since the Nara clan was known for its laziness but dormant tactical mind that only came out in dire situations. Choji also could be a glutton since the Akimichi was known for needing food for their clan jutsu so it was fine. Ino on the otherhand couldn't so she just resorted to being a stuckup princess type when in truth she was really nice when she wanted to which he did see that side of her multiple times during the time in the academy.
Now back to our favourite little blond jinchuuriki, Naruto being watched by a his aunt who was watching him like a hawk forcing him to study for the big exam. Jeez why was life so troublesome.
Slowly but surely he went through the history textbooks that wasn't that boring. He did enjoy reading the parts about his father but he just couldn't find anything about the Uzumaki's which he so everly wanted to find out about. He tried to ask his jiji but his jiji always just gave him and answer that diverted the question. He could still remember the day they got back from the festival and his father told his Hiruzen that Naruto knew his heritage.
Hiruzen didn't speak to Asuma for a entire week since the old Hokage planned to tell Naruto at the earliest when he became a genin but no, Asuma just had to go and ruin everything.
Hiruzen entered the room where Naruto was studying giving him another stack of books to read which made the blond groan in displeasure which made his aunt and his jiji chuckle.
"When is the exam Naruto-kun?" Hiruzen asked already knowing the answer
"In about two weeks." Naruto replied
"That should be more than enough time for you to learn all of this if you just cut out your bojutsu training." Naruto eyes went wide as saucers and he then proceeded to beg for forgiveness "Sheesh, if only you could care this much for anything besides bojutsu, fine but you can only train an hour a day." Naruto the pumped his fist in the air happily but then got bonked on his head by his aunt who told him to continue reading.
Bojutsu was honestly his best tool since he was a level 1 out of 10 bojutsu master so he still had a long way to go but he finally had gotten to the starting point. He was borderline level 2 but just not close enough.
The way you got to a new level was mastering someform of item related to the bo. Level 1 was easily the easiest by just having to master a bojutsu stance and fully master it. Obviously he went with his clans monkey style which relied on flexibility and speed which he had but needed to work on to polish it perfectly.
Level 2 was being able to use a bo against a decently skilled katana user which was a challenge since katana's usually had more force than a bo since a bo was used mostly for flexibility. He was trying to pass this step by beating Tenten who was definitely no slouch. Tenten was definitely above average in skill with a katana since it was her favourite weapon in close combat.
Mangetsu was the one who graded him on his level so he probably was level 2 but Mangetsu wanted perfection in weaponry so yeah he had to deal with that. The furthest he could get as a kid was level 4 since everything after that needed an adult sized body since you needed an adult sized bo.
Taijutsu was his second best since he was still the fastest in his class and probably the fastest in the whole academy. His goal for the runs were to beat Itachi Uchiha's records but he still wouldn't feel that accomplished since Itachi set it at a much younger age. He probably could be better with taijutsu since he just couldn't really use the taijutsu monkey style too well since he just didn't really understand it.
Ninjutsu though was going decently since he had finally gotten down the clone jutsu but he could only do it by making nearly a thousand at a time. A good distraction tool but not that practical out of battle. He did get better with his wind affinity but could only do a low scaled version of an air bullet. His other affinity was still not going anywhere.
Genjutsu was bad since he couldn't do genjutsu for some odd reason but he could dispel more jutsu than last time so really that's all.
For some reason his father banned him from doing anything except chakra control exercises for a month which was sooooooo boring since he had to stick a leaf to his head using chakra then he had to climb a tree with chakra again. His father said something about it helping his jutsu whenever he complained but he didn't listen too much, he also heard something about after a while he would have to work on walking on water which was something he wanted to do instead of sticking a stupid leaf on his forehead.
"Thanks old man." Naruto grinned at his grandfather who just sighed as he smiled
"Now continue studying for your test." His aunt said demandingly
"But aunt I already know everything you tell me I can remember everything." Naruto replied "Cmon please I don't want to do stupid studying. I already remember everything."
"I don't care so study." She replied finishing it
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Timeskip to the day of the test
Naruto sat at his seat confident that he would do fine. Ino greeted as she did everyday by saying "Hello Naruto-kun." Yes she called him –kun. You don't sit next to someone everyday and not get close.
He greeted her back and then went over to talk to the male heirs since Iruka wasn't here yet.
"Yo wassup guys?" He greeted as he pulled a chair over to the desk
"Im screwed." Kiba said as he sweat nervously
"I think I can do ok for the performance in class so I can probably do good for the test overall." Choji added while Shikamaru just lay down on his desk.
"Don't worry Kiba just wing it and trust your insticts. I heard from my jiji that it's a multiple choice test so you can still do it." He stated "Also you could ask your mutt to help you to steal answers since its always on your head." Naruto continued
"I guess buts its still gonna be hard." Kiba grumbled
After a while of talking Iruka came in and Naruto slid back to his desk and Iruka proceeded to pass the tests around. As they waited a few moments Iruka gave to go to start and Naruto proceded to read it and found most of the questions were quite easy. He then filled in all his answers and surprise surprise there was a long answer page. Kami why couldn't the exam have just been easy.
The question was about the battle between Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, First Hokage of Konoha and you had to describe multiple things and some other stuff so he just did that and answered as he would.
Now he was finished and there was around ten minutes left so he just waited till the bell rang and it did they then went for taijutsu spars and they had to pull paper from boxes and he got 5 which was paired up with 6 who was Hinata.
They got onto the mat and they did the seal of confrontation and proceded to fight with Naruto throwing his fist at Hinata who blocked it and countered with a jyuuken (Gentle fist) strike to the elbow which Naruto then used his arm to grab around her lower back and sticked his hand there and twisted himself so he now sat ontop of her pinning her to the ground winning the match though he knew she could have probably avoided the grab.
He frowned since he knew why she did it since when he saved the her from the bullies that one time but he just didn't like her in that way so he never reciprocated her feelings. He wanted to tell her he didn't like her but he didn't feel like hurting her and he then asked his dad for advice but really all his dad told him to do was just tell her how he felt.
As he then finished the match he waited for everyone to finish their matches and they were quite interesting to watch as Shikamaru gave up for Choji and Kiba beat up a civillian kid while Sasuke just destroyed another civillian making all his fangirls go gaga over him.
As they entered back Naruto waited for Iruka to give him his results and as he read it he was shocked. He got a near perfect score getting decently scored for the written test and getting a perfect for the taijutsu section and he actually got a ten for performance in class.
Kiba actually failed and had to do his clan jutsu for extra credit. Everyone else passed except multiple civillian children dwindling the numbers to only a few prime candidates for being a ninja.
He smiled all the work on studying worked he guessed. He remembered almost everything ever since he could remember but he guessed his mom didn't believe him but he swears he remembers everything.
Now what was next for his life oh well that was the genin exam and onwards to his ninja career. Now he watched as his class went haywire and Iruka just sighed and cried anime tears wondering why he chose this life.
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Chapter done. So about two-three more chapters for academy years then its gonna be ninja career and other stories. I hope you enjoy the story and please review.