Naruto, the Hidden Genius of the Leaf

Chapter 11

After the rookie teams week of helping out at the hospital and the dinner at Hinata's shortly afterwords, they all tried to figure out what caused Sakura's behavior. However non of them came up with anything concrete and decided to just keep an eye on her till they do. Not that she noticed them doing so

Another thing that happened from that week was that the parents of the rookies, minus Naruto, mentioned that they had a degree of interest in learning medical jutsu they were rather surprised by it. Especially Kiba's mother who didn't think he'd find medicine interesting at all. His sister Hana was glad to help him out as she was a vet and her team's med nin

Over the course of two months the teams trained hard and learned a new skill or two. Sasuke opened up to the other rookies, minus Sakura, and got to know them better. He also found that Ino wasn't as bad as he thought especially since she gained control over her fan girlism and could hold a normal conversation with her

Ino also tried to repair her broken friendship with Sakura, but the girl wouldn't hear of it as she just thought Ino was trying to get her to lower her guard and then steal Sasuke away from her. Ino however refused to give up and kept at it

Teams 8 and 10 also helped out at the hospital again during the two months, but Team 7 did not as problems were beginning to rise within the team. Mainly from Sakura constantly trying to get Sasuke to go out with her and her repetitively put Naruto down anyway she could. She also tried to sneak into Naruto's library multiple times, only to be caught red handed by either Naruto, Kakashi, Inari, Haku or Iruka as they all used the library often. Inari once he got used to the idea of studying after Naruto pointed out a way to make it more fun for him

All that led to Team 7's teamwork to plummet extremely far and kept them from doing any missions as on top of everything Sakura would spread lies about Naruto's behavior to their client and other nasty things, like sabotage his work. Causing Naruto to not get paid or other similar consequences. The only one that got hurt by them not taking missions really was Sakura herself as the others had large bank accounts to keep them going, plus Naruto had his own business as well which racked in a lot of cash. And she had the gall to complain about not getting money or missions

"Kakashi sensei, when are we going to do another misssion?" asked Naruto one mourning before the two headed off to meet with the rest of the team

"I don't know Naruto" replied Kakashi "Things just haven't been going very well since you and the other rookies helped out at the hospital. Speaking of which I heard something the other day while I was at the jonin lounge"

"What?" asked Naruto who had an idea what Kakashi was talking about

"I heard that for doing such a good job at helping out at the hospital during your free time that they're finally are going to let you assist directly with an operation" said Kakashi

"Yeah it's tonight" said Naruto with a shrug "It's nothing major mind you, but yeah they trust me enough not to mess up or cause any problems for them"

"I'm very proud of your progress Naruto" praised Kakashi "I know learning medicine isn't a top priority for you, but the team does need someone with medical knowledge just in case it's needed"

"Thanks Kakashi sensei, well we better get going" replied Naruto "We don't want to keep Sakura waiting"

"Agreed" said Kakashi as the two Shushinied to where Team 7 meets up

Sadly again Sakura made any of the teamwork exercises Kakashi put them threw fail, much to the others extreme annoyance

"Head home, no missions today" said Kakashi after another failed exercise

"But how am I supposed to make a living if we don't?" asked Sakura

"I don't know, find something that you can put your skills to use when you're not training" suggested Sasuke "I did, and I'm sure Naruto has as well"

"I thought training was all you did?" asked Sakura

"I found something to make up for the lack of missions" said Sasuke "I do have a life to live"

"Well... what is it?" asked Sakura

"It's non of your concern Sakura" replied Sasuke in the normal cold tone he uses with her

"But..." started Sakura

"No buts!" snapped Sasuke "Get a clue Sakura!"

Sasuke then stormed off in a huff

"Look at what you did!" yelled Sakura as she pointed a finger at Naruto "You made Sasuke leave!"

"Screw you Sakura, I have more important things to deal with than your whiny ass" snapped Naruto as he also stormed off angerly

"Be here on time tomorrow Sakura" ordered Kakashi "And hope that they aren't still angry"

Kakashi then left to go after Naruto to help calm him down

"Naruto you need to calm down before you have to head to the hospital for that operation" said Kakashi when he caught up to Naruto

Naruto took a deep breath before saying "I know sensei, I am trying but it's harder for me to calm down. You know that"

"I know Naruto, I know" replied Kakashi "Just try, it's all I ask"

Thankfully Naruto had calmed down before he had to leave for the hospital. He grabbed the scrubs he was given from that first week, modified with special seals mind you, and headed out

"Hey Naruto you never did tell me exactly the operation was" said Kakashi as Naruto passed him

"If I remember right they said that it was to fix someone's hand or something along those lines" replied Naruto turning his head to speak as he walked down the stairs

"Ah I see, thanks it's been bugging me all day" thanked Kakashi as he headed back into his apartment

(Line Break)

Naruto arrived at the hospital with plenty of time to spare and headed over to the surgical ward to let them know he was there

"Ah good you're here" said one of the doctors "Lets get you all ready for this operation, even though you're not going to be actually preforming it yourself"

"Ha! Like that'll happen anytime soon" laughed Naruto as he was led to the prep room

Naruto was soon all scrubbed clean and was wearing a full surgeon's outfit that hid both his blond hair and whisker marks on his face

The patient saw Naruto come in after the other surgeons and asked nervously "Who's the short guy? He seems a little young to be a surgeon"

"Oh don't worry, he's just an intern" assured the lead surgeon "He's not going to be preforming the procedure, we are"

"That's good to hear" said the patient

The operation was done with great success and Naruto learned some valuable insights. During the operation there was a meeting going on in the Hokage's office with all the current team senseis standing before him

"It's that time already?" asked Asuma

"Indeed the Chunin Exams are beginning shortly" said Hiruzen "I've already sent out word on when they'll start, so do we have any nominations?"

"I Might Guy of Team 9 hereby nominate my youthful students Neji Hyuaga, Rock Lee and Tenten to take part of the Chunin Exams" said Might Guy as he stepped forward

"I Kakashi Hakate of Team 7 hereby nominate Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha... and Sakura Haruno for the Chunin Exams" said Kakashi as he stepped forward

Asuma and Kurenai also nominated their students for the Chunin Exames as well, this came as a shock to everyone as it had been some years since all the rookie teams were nominated to take part in the Chunin Exams

"While I agree that most of my former students are ready, we all know Sakura is far from it" said Iruka

"I'm aware Iruka, but rest assured that Naruto and Sasuke will make sure she lives" assured Kakashi "Plus it might snap her out of her behavior"

"Good point" agreed Iruka "Wish them luck for me"

"We will" said Asuma "Don't worry"

The next day before the team meeting Naruto was wandering around enjoying the scenery when he came across Konohamaru trying to sneak up on him with his friends Udon and Moegi, as well as Inari who were all hiding behind special cloaks that made them blend in with the wooden fence they were standing next to

"Nice try you guys" called Naruto "But even though I can't see you, I can still sense your chakra and smell you fairly well"

"Aw man, but hey at least you couldn't see us" complained Konohamaru

"You've improved a lot the last time I saw you, that I can't deny" said Naruto with pride

"Hey Naruto can you play ninja with us?" asked Moegi

"A ninja playing ninja? That's stupid" mocked Sakura as she walked by

"You clearly don't understand the point of it" said Naruto with annoyance

"Hey is she even a girl?" whispered Udon to Moegi "I mean she's so flat, and that forehead you could put an ad there"

Sakura heard that and suddenly became rather threatening as mentioning that type of stuff caused her inner strength to come out, and it's not pretty

"Run" ordered Naruto when he sees Sakura become enraged

"But" argued Konohamaru until he saw the danger they were in

"Get back here you little twerps!" roared Sakura as she chased after Konohamaru and his friends

Naruto quickly followed them to make sure they aren't injured too badly

Suddenly Naruto heard a what sounded like someone crashing into someone, hard

"Hey watch were you're going you little punk!" yelled a voice that Naruto didn't recognize, making him move faster

What Naruto found was a guy in a black cat suit holding Konohamaru up by his scarf with a blond girl standing behind him looking slightly worried about something

"Hey! Put me down!" complained Konohamaru

"Come on Kankuro you don't want to make Garra mad do you?" asked the blond

"Relax Temari, this will only take a second" replied Kankuro

"Will it?" asked Naruto who suddenly appeared by switching places with Konohamaru and punching the other ninja back onto the ground

"Why you little" growled Kankuro as he wiped some blood from his mouth "You're going to pay for that!"

"Stay down puppeteer" warned Naruto "You should know who's grandson you're threatening when you come to another village"

"Oh yeah, who's his grandpa?" asked Kankuro in a snarky tone

"Oh no one special" replied Narto "Just the Hokage"

Kankuro's eyes went wide from that little bit of info

"Hey, how do you know what my brother's specialty was?" asked Temari

"Well seeing that you're form Suna and he has that bundle wrapped up I'd say it's a fair guess" replied Naruto "Just like I can tell you're a wind user like I am by that large fan on your back"

"You're rather smart you know that" complemented Tamari "But we really should get going before our younger brother gets upset with us"

"I think that's a little to late" said Naruto as he looked up into a nearby tree as he sensed a large amount of bloodlust and dark power from it

Both Temari and Kankuro went pale as everyone looked over to where Naruto was looking and saw a red headed boy about the same age as Naruto standing upside down on a tree branch

"Kankuro you're an embarrassment to our village" said Garra in a creepy voice when he Sana Shushied down to the ground and next to his older siblings

"Naruto that Garra has that old tanuki Shukaku sealed inside of him" warned Kurama "But something seems wrong with both of there mental state"

"Hey, you're name's Garra right?" asked Naruto

"Yes, why?" replied Garra with confusion

"You're one, I'm nine" said Naruto as he put a hand on his stomach "And nine says hi"

Only the Suna siblings knew what Naruto was talking about and they were surprised as Naruto was completely sane, unlike Garra who's own tailed beast warned him not to threaten anyone close to Naruto, or they'd be killed in his rage. That was a shock as Shukaku never told Garra not to kill someone, meaning Naruto was a very big threat

"Hey what are you doing in our village?" asked Saukra "I see you're from another village, even if it is our ally"

"They're here for the Chunin Exams obviously" said Naruto "Now we need to get going, we're running late for our team meeting"

"Hey what's your name?" asked Temari

"Who me?" asked Sakura

"No, the blond" replied Temari with disgust

"Naruto Uzumaki" answered Naruto

Sand siblings quickly realized that messing with Naruto, or those he holds dear, is a bad idea

(Line Break)

"What took you?" asked Sasuke when Sakura and Naruto arrived ten minutes late

"Ran into some Suna ninjas who're here for the Chunin Exams" answered Naruto

"I wonder if we'll get to take part" pondered Sasuke

"Of course we are!" cried Sakura "I mean they should just make you a chunin with how strong you are without the exam"

"You're kidding right?" replied Sasuke "I know I'm good, but I'm not sure I'm ready to become a chunin"

"Well do you want to see if you are?" asked Kakashi as he appeared in a swirl of leaves

"You're late!" yelled Sakura

"You were late as well" noted Kakash with a deadpan look

"Are you saying we've been nominated for the exam?" asked Naruto

"Correct" answered Kakashi as he pulled out the application forms to Team 7 "Now it's up to you if you want to take part or not"

"I'm so taking part" said Naruto

"Same here" agreed Sasuke

"If you're doing it Sasuke, then I'm doing it also" said Sakura

Team 7 then signed the application forms and handed them back to Kakashi who then said "Well, now next week head to room 301 at the academy for the first part of the exams"

"301, got it" said Naruto

"So what do we do now?" asked Sasuke

"We're going to go over what skills you have and make sure they're mastered to the best of your ability" answered Kakashi

(Line Break)

Naruto and Sasuke worked hard to master what skills they already have, Sakura on the hand really didn't train any of her skills. Not that she really has any to begin with

Team 7 headed to the academy and as they handed towards to the third floor they saw a large amount of genin standing outside a door that said that it was 301, even though they only went up one set of stairs

"Please let us pass" begged a leaf kinochi that was a year older than Team 7 and had her hair up in two buns (Tenten)

"No way, these exams are to much for you genin" said one of the two men standing in front of the door

"Yeah, people die in these exams" added the other man

Naruto noticed the genjutsu on both the door number and on the two older "genin" recognizing them as the two eternal gatekeepers, but didn't say anything as to prevent extra competition taking part in the exams

"That is enough, drop this foolish illusion lets move on" said Neji in a commanding tone as he came up behind everyone

"Great... the mighty Hyuga prodigy has arrived" moaned Naruto "Quake in fear of his prowess with the Gentle Fist"

Neji glared hard at Naruto before moving on. Naruto's comment drew the attention of the rest of the group before them, especially Lee who saw Sakura and immediately asked her out on a date

"Eww no! You're a creep!" yelled Sakura in revulsion

"Lee, she's not worth it" said Naruto "She's far too focused on getting laid by Sasuke to go out with anyone else"

Sasuke's look of absolute horror from that comment was one to remember "Naruto never suggest that ever again"

"Sorry" apologized Naruto sheepishly "Anyway lets get up to the real first test"

As the three of them headed towards the stairs Lee suddenly appeared and called out "Sasuke Uchiha, I would like to test myself against your Sharingan"

"What do you think Naruto?" asked Sasuke

"Considering I know Lee and how strong he is" replied Naruto "I say it'd be worth using your Sharingan to pick up some new taijutsu moves, but you'd still most likely lose"

"How can you say that?!" yelled Sakura "Sasuke can defeat anyone, no matter what!"

Everyone gave her a look like she was crazy or mentally ill (Which isn't too far off from what the problem truly is with her)

"Alright, Lee was it" said Sasuke as he activated his Sharingan "I agree to a quick friendly spar, but lets not go to far seeing how we have a test to take shortly"

"Alright lets fan the flames of our youth!" shouted Lee as he got into his Gokan stance

"Ooooh the Strong Fist, careful Sasuke otherwise you're going to be sore after this" warned Naruto

"Indeed if you aren't careful my youthful blows with indeed leave you reeling" agreed Lee

Sasuke was suddenly not so confident, but proceeded with the spare anyway. He lost, badly thought gained some new taijutsu moves out of it. As soon as the spar was over Might Guy appeared to wish Lee good luck, and wound up doing the dreaded Sunset of Youth. Luckily for Sasuke Naruto turned him away, while Sakura bore witness to it once again. Causing her to scream so loud that it broke all the glass within a two mile radius, and severely hurt those with sensitive hearing's ears. This included Naruto who was right next to her and had collapsed to the ground due to the pain

"My ears!" cried Naruto as he held his ears in extreme pain "My poor sensitive ears!"

Kakashi appeared suddenly and used the Mystical Palm Jutsu to heal Naruto's ears and told Sakura "Watch how loud you are, especially when your teammates and allies have a strong sense of hearing"

"Sorry sensei" apologized Sakura

"Just get going" said Kakashi as he helped Naruto stand "Now Guy lets go make a little bet"

Kakashi led Guy away as the Team 7 headed into the room where the test was to take place. Upon entering the room they were hit by a large amount of killer intent from the other participants. Which caused Sasuke to pause and Sakura to start shivering, however

"You call that killer intent?" asked Naruto who was unfazed "Let me show you how to unleash killer intent"

Suddenly the room was filled with Naruto's full killer intent, which due to both containing Kurama and being part kitsune made it incredibly potent. Almost immediately over three fourths of the room bolted out the windows that were on the opposite wall to the entrance as they could not stand up to such killing intent

Garra, who loved to leak his killer intent was paralyzed with extreme fear. Seeing how killer intent comes from ones own power, so the more one can produce, the stronger that person was. And every instinct was screaming at him to run as far away from Naruto as possible

Naruto then reeled in his killer intent, just as the rest of the rookie nine entered the room

"What happened?" asked Ino when she saw the far window broken down and the room was mostly empty

"Did you not feel that killer intent?" asked Shino who was still recovering from just sensing it

"Yeah I did, who was that anyway?" replied Ino

"Naruto Uzumaki" answered Garra from where he was standing by the wall with fear in his voice "Mother does not want to provoke him at all, which has never happened before"

"Is Sakura going to be okay?" asked Kiba with concern, seeing how said girl was passed out on the floor. In her own filth, seeing that she soiled herself really bad when Naruto unleashed his Ki

Meanwhile the proctor of the test Ibiki was trying to figure out what to do, seeing how so many had ran in terror when Naruto unleashed his Ki that even unnerved even him, and he's the head of the T&I Department for Kami's sake!

"Just proceed as normal" said Hiruzen "There are still a good number left to take the test"

(It's just under the cannon amount as reference. Most of the people who left were the ones that were outside the door in the second floor due to them failing to see threw the genjutsu)

"Alright" replied Ibiki "But I'm sure my entrance isn't going to have the same effect this time"

Back to the Rookie 9

"Mind if I cut in?" asked a silver haired leaf ninja as he came over

Naruto immediately picked up the smell of snakes and medical supplies off the ninja as well as the fact that he was really a jonin leveled ninja, not a genin. This set off many red flags for Naruto as whoever this was wasn't a real leaf shinobi

"Uh who are you?" asked Kiba

"Forgive me, my name is Kabuto Yakushi" introduced Kabuto

"Isn't your father the head of the hospital?" asked Ino

"Why yes he is" replied Kabuto "But I'm not here to talk about me, I'm here to help you all seeing how you're new to this"

"Oh? And how is that?" asked Naruto suspiciously

"My nin info cards" explained Kabuto as he pulled out a large deck of cards

"They're like what our grades were put on in school so we don't try to alter them" noted Hinata

"Precisely" said Kabuto "I have information on everyone here"

"Show me" said Sasuke

"Alright, let me see" said Kabuto as he pulled a "random" card "Lets see Naruto Uzumaki"

Naruto focused right on Kabuto as a good amount of his information is classified, so if Kabuto knows any of it. Then he's indeed a spy and will be dealt accordingly

"Lets see, says here that he was the Dead Last of this year with very poor skills in everything, but somehow jumped in power and skill far beyond the Rookie of the Year Sasuke's level almost immediately. Doesn't know many jutsus, though the Shadow Clone is interesting as that requires a large amount of chakra to use. His parents are unknown, but it is rumored that his mother is still alive in a coma, under the care of a distant relative. Inherited a place known as Uzumaki Apartments and is his place of residence. The final thing is that Naruto is the most disliked person in the village, even more so than Anko Mitarashi" read off Kabuto

"Who's Anko?" asked Ino

"Kakashi told me she used to be the student of Orochimaru" explained Naruto "So you can imagine people's response when that snake betrayed us"

"I take it was bad?" asked Ino

"Very much" replied Naruto "From what I've heard, she lives in a crummy run down shack in the Red Light District, and pays far more rent than it's worth for it"

"That's so mean" noted Hinata

"Yes sad, now is there anyone you want intel on?" offered Kabuto

"Sorry but no" said Sasuke "I don't know how you even got all the information you got, so I don't trust you. Even if you're part of the leaf"

"Fair enough" shrugged Kabuto "Anyone else? I'm trying to help you rookies get threw this"

Non of the Rookie 9 took him up on his offer

Just then the room was filled with smoke, signaling the arrival of the proctors for the exam

"Alright you maggots come to me to get the number of your assigned seat and then sit down" barked Ibiki who was holding the bag with the numbers in it

Everyone got their numbers and sat down; in the same way as cannon. Ibiki then went on to explain the rules of the first test and then had them begin

Naruto, being the major bookworm he was easily wrote down the correct answers without having to cheat once. The same went for Sakura, who while having no practical skills was still a bookworm and was smart, if only she used her smarts better

The events play out as in cannon with a large number of the teams failing from being caught cheating to many times. Ibiki then announced the rules for the tenth question once the time was up

The response to the new rules was what Ibiki expected, but he noticed how all the rookies but one were largely unfazed. Guess which who it was

Naruto noticed Sakura beginning to raise her hand so he called out "Alright that's enough! I don't care if I'm stuck as a genin for the rest of my life, it's just a rank anyway and doesn't actually have anything to do with ones strength. Plus I'm going to be Hokage someday and when that happens I'll get my revenge, believe it Ibiki"

Naruto's little speech gave those who where faltering a backbone, and also made Ibiki shiver in fear at what the thought of what Naruto would do in revenge. Not that anyone noticed as he hid it incredibly well

"Is that your final answer?" asked Ibiki

"Try me" was Naruto's response

"Then congratulations, you pass" announced Ibiki

"Ha! Knew it" said Naruto

Ibiki explained what the purpose of the first test and the tenth question were to those still in the room. Anko then walked in from the large hole in the wall that was still there from earlier grumbling about how her grand entrance was ruined by a bunch of cowards who couldn't stand a little Ki. She'd deny the fact that it even scared her, and she hung around Orochimaru for years for Kami's sake!

"Huh, considering how many teams were here for the exams at the start. I'd say it's quite the drop off" noted Anko

"Uh, who are you?" asked Temari

"Anko Mitarashi head proctor for the second test" answered Anko in a dull tone "All of you are to report to the Forest of Death at eight o' clock sharp, or you'll be disqualified from the exams. And for those who don't know where it is, it's also known as Training Field 44"

"I see not making a lasting impression soured your mood" noted Ibiki

"Don't worry, they're not going to forget tomorrow morning" replied Anko with a smirk that made everyone in the room, except Naruto, very nervous

"I see sensei wasn't joking about your sadistic behavior" noted Naruto "Even if you're not showing us your full extent"

"Kid, you have no idea" said Anko with a snake like grin

Note: For those who are wondering when Naruto's mother is going to wake up, just know that it's going to be soon. I mean Naruto goes with Jiraiya to go fetch Tsunade after the Chunin Exams and invasion, and who is currently taking care of Kushina? Also if you don't like the cannon pairing, fine, but don't go on and make threats to me or my family. Lest you'll face the wrath of the heavens above, and the Fanfiction community as we don't tolerate that type of behavior

I personally enjoy it when I find stories that do have Naruto and Hinata together, other pairings if done properly I can live with. I'd never threaten someone just because of something like that, this is meant to be a safe place where people all across the globe can share their own ideas with one another and sometimes produce something that's far better than the original source material they used for their stories

This is my first Naruto based fanfiction, and I plan on doing at least one more along with the other stories I have in the works as well as what I already have put out. I don't have a set posting schedule as I write what I feel and have the drive to write, so if something isn't updated in a long time it's either I lost the drive, ran out of ideas, or didn't have access to my only computer during that time

It's not to say that I'm not ever going to update those stories, but until I get my drive back to continue them they'll have to wait...

Anywho sorry for ranting like that but I can not standby and let some idiot try to ruin what I'm doing. I've had some people tell me I make mistakes in a not so nice way across my works, but not to the extent that someone did to this story. The author of a story that I followed and favorited had this happen to him as well and that person was dealt with, just like whoever wrote such crazed vile nonsense at me