Today was the day of His graduatin exam and Naruto couldn't be happier. He wanted to show off the skills he got from training with his mother, sari and all his friends. Naruto was really looking foreward to becoming a genin, since it was one step closer to becoming Hokage.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~In The Academy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Iruka stood infront of the class to give them a speech.

"I am very honored to have been your teacher. Weather you pass this test or not, I want to wish all of you good luck. We are going to start with a written exam, then a acuracy test followed by 3 ninjutsu techniques. The Kawarimi, Bunshin and Nippon no jutsus."

He had them all take their seats for the writin exam. Naruto blazed through the test since he studied all night with Sari on the history of konoha.

He watched the other students struggle with the answers exept for Shikamaru, who was asleep through the entire exam. Naruto was sure he was going to be the top rookie ninja and Hinata would be the top konoichi since she was the only konoichi to put effort into becoming a strong ninja, instead of becoming a fangirl.

Both He and Hinata tied for the 30/30 in the acuracy test, and when his name was called to do the bunshin part of the ninjutsu test, he asked " Iruka-sensei, do we have to use regular bunshin or can we use any variation of the bunshin no jutsu?"

"since I wasn't specific about the bunshin, you can use any type of bunshin." Iruka said with a smile.

"alright!" naruto threw his fist up in the air in happiness and prepared to do his most useful bunshin. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" he whispered, and 20 Narutos' appeared.

"Very good Naruto, You passed the exam with flying colors. My roster said that if you passed, to go see the hokage." Iruka smiled at the boy.

Hinata waited outside for Naruto by the swing with her Hitai-ate tied around her neck. She saw the boy run out of the academy with a giant smile on his face.

"where is your hitai-ate Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked.

"dunno, Iruka-sensei said that since I passed to go see hokage-jiji in his office"

"you think we are gonna be on the same genin team?"

"since jiji likes to put the top rookie and konoichi on the same squad with the dobe to balance out the team, I think we are gonna be on the same team. I think Shika is gonna be with us on the team since he was asleep during the writin exam."

"well I hope your theory is correct. I really don't want to be on the same team with Uchiha-san, he's a prick."

"Gasp, Hinata-chan said something mean! Call the ANBU!!!!!" Naruto said in a mock surprised voice.

"baka. come on let's go see why you were called into the hokage office."

Both newly made genin walked to the hokage office and knocked on the wood door. They heard a muffled "enter" and opened the door.

"Oi jiji, what did you call me here for?" Naruto asked with a smile.

"aah Naruto, I was expecting you. I have a graduation present for you for passing the academy."

The elderly hokage gave the boy a wrapped box, and Naruto tore through the paper to see a long black leaf hitai-ate inside.

"that was your father's hitai-ate, he would have been proud to see you wear it." The hokage explained.

Naruto slowly took the headband out of the box and tied it around his forehead.

"I'll wear it with pride jii-chan!"

"I'm sure you will Naruto, I'm sure you will." Hiruzen said as he couldn't help but look at the similarities between Minato and Naruto now that the boy's brown hair grew out and became blonde again.

Hinata looked at Naruto with a smile because she knew how much his father meant to him, and to receive his headband was a major achievement for Naruto.

Naruto grabbed Hinata's hand and rushed tward the compound to show his mother and for the celabratory ramen.

"Kaa-san, Kaa-san! Jiji gave me Tou-san's Hitai-ate!"

"I'm so proud of you Naru-chan. You look just like your father, so handsome." She said with a small smile, because of the resemblance, she hurt a little inside.

'This is Naruto's day! Don't Be Selfish!' she thought to herself.

"Kaa-san! I'm not a baby anymore! I'm too old for baby names."

She sighed "your right Naruto. Your not my little baby anymore, you are my brave ninja." She smiled. "Come on you two, I have your ramen inside. I'm proud of both of you."

"Yeah kiddo, you did good. Both of you are gonna be strong ninja thst will take no shit from nobody, I can tell!" Sari said as she went to join everyone at the table for dinner.

They all ate and when everone was done, Naruto walked Hinata back to the Hyuuga compound where she was greeted at the gate by Neji.

"Hinata-sama, Hiashi-sama wanted me to escort you back inside. Good evening Naruto-sama." Neji said as both Hyuugas turned around and walked tward the main house building.

Naruto walked back to the compound. When he got there he heard some fighting going on in the vault room and heard someone fighting with his mother.

"Mizuki! Why are you Here?" he heard his mother yell.

"A Demon Lover Like You Does Not Deserve This Scroll!" he heard Mizuki yell as he ran down the stairs to see Mizuki throw a windmill shiriken in his diriection, but his mother ran infront of it and took the blow to her stomache.

Yuki coughed and a trickle of blood ran down her face.

"KAA-SAN!"he yelled then turned to Mizuki.

"That's it Mizuki-Teme. It's one thing to try and steal from my house, but when you hurt my kaa-san, YOU WILL PAY!"

Naruto created hundreds of shadow clones to beat the crap out of Mizuki and return the scroll to it's place in the vault, while the original Naruto went to his mother.

"Are you okay Kaa-san? Can you walk? I gotta get you to the Hospital."

"NO! you know how much I hate that place."

"Kaa-san you kinda have to go, since you took the windmill shuriken for me."

"I would do anything for you my son even end my own life, so don't think I won't" she sighed and continued " but, I guess you're right. Sari should be unconsious near the vault door since Mizuki got her by surprise."

Naruto carefully carried his mother to the hospital while he ordered a shadow clone to carry Sari there as well.

Naruto and his clone ran all the way to the hospital and the med-nins took his mother and sari inside.

Naruto waited for what felt like years, until a med-nin came out …..

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Author's box!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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