Though he was exceedingly nervous and many of the questions were hard and he wasn't sure whether or not he knew the answers to them, Naruto did his best on the test the Instructor had given him at the end of his first week of classes at the Academy. He didn't want to fail and be dropped into a lower class away from Izuna-nii who couldn't come to school today because he was sick and had to be taken to the hospital to get his appendix taken out. He was a bit iffy on the Kanji that were in the questions on the test, since he hadn't been inclined to sit still during the reading lessons Izuna-nii had given him over the years, and Izuna-nii had declared himself satisfied when he'd shown he could read Hiragana at a level that was acceptable for admission to the Academy, but he thought could get the gist of what the questions were, and attempted to answer them accordingly despite the fact that they were hard.

After he'd finished the last question, he nervously watched the expression on the Instructor's face shift after the woman had taken his written test and started marking it. When she handed it back, it was obvious that he'd passed.

Barely.

Following the written test, the instructors led him out to the training field where the class with the Important first year kids were having a lesson on throwing kunai. Izuna-nii had started teaching him how to do that shortly after he'd gotten out of the hospital after the tent incident when he was five, and he was pretty good. But, he was nowhere near as good as Izuna-nii who was constantly talking about how he needed to get back in shape though. As soon as he was situated in front of the targets, the Instructor gave him several kunai and ordered him to throw them at the targets that had been set out for the students. He got three bulls-eyes, another four of them ended up near the center of their targets, and the last three hit the targets but not near center, which was good for him.

This had obviously been either another test or another part of the test the Instructor was giving him, and he had passed this part as well, if only just.

After throwing kunai, the Instructor took him for a private Taijutsu lesson. The other kids who were out there near the sparring ring had tried to watch, but their instructor had herded them inside. He knew how to fight because Izuna-nii had taught him some of the basics when they played together at the orphanage, and taught him a few tricks to use against the Hyuuga so they wouldn't put him in the hospital again like they did after the tent incident a long time ago where he met Hyuuga-sama who had been rather nice despite the fact that he had looked and acted very scary at first. Yashiro-oyaji had taught him a few moves as well, and so had Mizuki-nii who wanted to become a Jounin Instructor one day.

After their training spar was over, the Instructor started scribbling something on a clipboard. From the look on her face during the spar, he'd not only met, but had exceeded her expectations. She had mentioned someone named Itachi as she wrote, and from the way she mentioned him in comparison, he could tell that it meant something good. After she was finished writing, she showed him his score. It was a good one.

After she had finished showing him his score, she took him back inside where another Instructor told him to demonstrate the three basic Academy Ninjutsu. Izuna-nii had laughed about those ninjutsu when their Instructor had introduced them on their second day here, and told him why later after classes got out. Back when Izuna-nii was a kid the first time, the basic three were taught to the children of the Uchiha clan in order to make it easier for the kids to escape if a fight broke out when they were in the area.

He sucked at the basic three though. Izuna-nii said it was because he had too much Chakra and no control. Izuna-nii didn't show him how to correct this problem though, because the Old Man had forbidden him from teaching him Ninjutsu after he and Izuna-nii had set the roof of the orphanage on fire during a game of Ninja. He failed at this attempt at doing the basic three just like he had on the day they had been introduced. That was to be expected though.

The Instructor groaned something that sounded like "So close" as he slammed his head against the table in front of him. As the man was in the middle of telling him to get the hell out of there and go back to the class he and Izuna-nii had with the big kids, the first Instructor who had been rapidly flipping through a book poked him and pointed at something which was printed on one of the pages.

"Stay for a second." the man said. "Is there any Jutsu you can do?"

"I can do one." he said, before showing the man the wind jutsu Izuna-nii had shown him, and the Old Man had told him to never use anywhere near a fire.

Both of the Instructors looked both slightly shocked and windblown when the Jutsu was finished.

"Congratulations Uzumaki Naruto." the female Instructor said as she picked up an object off of the table in front of her. "You have qualified for an early graduation from the Academy. Of all of the Academy students, you are amongst a rare few to have done so."

The woman handed him a Hitai-ate and then told him to go to the Hokage's office to officially register as a Genin.

After receiving the hitai-ate, he cheered loudly before running outside and through a group of students who were eating their lunch as he made his way towards the administrative complex. As he continued on his way at an exceedingly high rate of speed and not paying particular attention to his surroundings, he ran into one of the Uchiha who were in his class.

"Sorry!" he yelled as he kept on going.

"Where the hell do you think you're going pipsqueak?" the older boy asked as he caught up to him and stood directly in his path catching the attention of everyone nearby.

"I just graduated, and I'm on my way to register as a Genin." he replied excitedly.

"You, a Genin?" the Uchiha boy asked in a disbelieving tone.

"Yep!" he replied cheerfully as he went around the boy who was rather rudely blocking his path, and got back on his way to the office where he was supposed to register.

"Yeah right." the boy said before grabbing him by the collar of his jacket.

"Lemme go!" he said as he tried to pull away from the Uchiha.

"Make me." the Uchiha said.

Naruto made him.

Back at the Academy, in the teacher's breakroom, a group of instructors were quietly talking while they grabbed their own lunches which they would be attempting to eat while simultaneously gossiping, and marking their students' work in the limited time allotted to them for their midday meal.

"Well, I'm glad to see the back of him." one of the Instructors said when the two Instructors who had who had given Naruto his early graduation exam had entered the room and indicated that the boy had passed. "I can't wait to get rid of the other one as soon as he gets out of the hospital."

"So, how much did you have to pad his score?" one of the Assistant Instructors asked.

"Had to pad the hell out of the written score, and had to use an obscure loophole to get him through the Jutsu portion of the exam." the Instructor who had tested Naruto replied as she opened her bento. "Didn't have to so much on the physical stuff though. The kid doesn't know jack about the standard Academy Taijutsu form, but he's going to surprise the hell out of anyone who tries to pick on him. He fights like a drunken Uchiha who's been taught just about every dirty trick in the book."

One of the Instructors winced at the woman's last statement.

"Something wrong Matsuda?" one of the instructors asked.

"Let's just say that I know from personal experience that a drunken Uchiha is one of the last things you'll ever want to run into, and can quite easily become the last thing you'll ever run into." Matsuda replied.

The conversation was broken up at that point by a cheerful and helpful little boy who wasn't feeling all that cheerful at the moment who had decided that the best way to help rescue his kinsman from the situation he'd gotten himself into would be to fetch reinforcements.

"Help!" the small child yelled as soon as the door finished slamming open, catching the attention of everyone in the room.

"What is it Sasuke-kun?" the Instructor who had been put in charge of the more important first years because she had a way with children asked.

"Hideki picked a fight with the Uzumaki, and he's beating the crap out of him!" Sasuke replied.

"Well, there went that plan." one of the Instructors muttered before they shuffled out of the room in order to be seen doing something, since they'd get reprimanded by the Hokage who had lectured them about how the Uzumaki was to be treated before the school year started if they let the massive twelve year old beat the shit out of the six year-old boy.

When they got out to where the students had been eating their lunch though, it was to find Uchiha Hideki curled up on the ground torn between clutching his privates and attempting to nurse a bloody nose, and Uzumaki nowhere in sight.

"Where's Uzumaki?" one of the Instructors asked.

As one, all of the children who had watched the fight pointed towards the Administration complex.

"Like I said earlier, I'm glad to see the back of him." one of the Instructors said as they watched a small patch of yellow disappear through a doorway.

Edited 1-21-13