Disclaimer; I'm sure you all get the point by now, I still don't own Naruto and I never will, besides Naruto's cool and all, but I'd rather own Hawaii or maybe just my own Pocky factory (Yum, all the pocky I can eat) Its such a hard decision! And just so you all know, I have absolutely no intention of putting any Bleach characters in this story.

A Different Fox Tale

Chapter 4

Graduation and the next step

The morning started like any other day; it was peaceful; it was calm; it wouldn't stay that way for long…

"Oh shit! Iruka-Sensei is gonna kill me!"

He shot out of bed and ran into the closet, some faint noises could be heard, and then he dashed from the closet clad in his new favorite outfit. For the last two years he had kept wearing his usual orange outfits to the academy but today was special, it was finally the graduation exam, and with all the training Itachi-sensei put him through there was no way he could fail.

He jumped through his open window onto the wall of the neighboring building before running straight up it to the roof, he then quickly jumped from roof to roof all the way to the academy, it was faster then running through the streets at high speed and safer (there where less drunks on the roofs, though there was an occasional weirdo) and it was a good morning exercise.

When he arrived at the academy he jumped straight in through the classroom window, which was always open this time of year, and quickly took the closest available seat, just before the bell rang signaling the start of class. Iruka glanced over the room, his gaze stopped on Naruto and he glared, he was still upset that the blonde was doing so horribly, he was almost always sleeping in class, even more then the Nara boy, and he hadn't even shown up for the last to graduation exams.

"The genin graduation exam will be beginning now, Mizuki and I will be testing each of you in the room behind me" he pointed at a door behind him "enter as your name is called, we'll be going in alphabetical order, now Aburame Shino"

The test continued for well over an hour before finally "Uzumaki Naruto" the blonde woke up when he heard his name called and calmly walked to the door. He stood in front of Iruka and Mizuki patiently waiting for them to tell him what to do, they where waiting for him to start yelling about how he was going to be Hokage like he usually did, several minutes passed…

"Well Naruto, what you need to do is make a perfect Bunshin" Iruka couldn't take the silence anymore; it was just so disturbing somehow. Naruto just tilted his head to the side "what kinda Bunshin Iruka-sensei?" Mizuki glared "how about three of every kind of Bunshin you can make" he stated sarcastically.

Naruto shrugged, the performed several hand seals /Kage Bunshin No Jutsu/ thee puffs of smoke cleared away revealing exact copies of Naruto, perfect copies. Iruka was about to say something but was distracted by Naruto performing another set of hand seals /Suna Bunshin No Jutsu/ dirt and sand was dragged from all over the floor and brought up from under it between the floorboards creating three crude Suna Bunshins.

Naruto grinned sheepishly and scratched the back of his head nervously "Sorry Iruka-sensei, I can also do Mizu Bunshin but there's not enough water around here" Iruka's Jaw nearly hit the floor "well, I guess you pass…' he stated weakly, still in shock at what the "dead last" could do, Mizuki glared, all his plans had depended on the "dead last" to be, well, the dead last, Naruto happily accepted his leaf headband, dispelled his clones, and went back to his seat, several minutes later the last few students had been tested and Iruka had announced that they would be assigned their teams and would be meeting there Jounin the next day.

The rest of the day was boring, Naruto had his picture taken so he could be registered as a ninja, the old man (The Hokage) tried to make him sign a bunch of complicated papers, he escaped with a quick Oiroke No Jutsu, which he later (after much begging) taught to the Hokage's grandson, then after knocking Ebisu out with an advanced version of it he spent the rest of the night training with Itachi.

The next day Naruto sat in class waiting for the teams to be announced, he glanced around and spotted the one person he hated the most, Uchiha Sasuke. It was kind of odd because Itachi was his closest friend, but he just couldn't stand Itachi's arrogant bastard of a little brother, he jumped up onto the desk in front of Sasuke and glared at him, after a couple seconds the dark haired shinobi glared back, they both ignored the shouts of "kick his ass Sasuke-kun!" and "leave Sasuke-kun alone you dumbass!" and various other similar comments.

"Huh? What's goin on?" some kid muttered and turned around, bumping Naruto with his elbow, both Naruto's and Sasuke's eye's widened as the blonde started falling foreword, thinking quickly Sasuke landed an open palmed strike to the fox boys chest to knock him backward, but to his, and everybody else's surprise, instead of falling backward Naruto burst into a mass of water, soaking the Uchiha heir.

Everybody stared wide eyed until they where distracted by somebody laughing, they all looked toward the sound and saw the blonde boy, on the other side of the room, holding his ribs and laughing loudly "Stop laughing at Sasuke-kun, that was a horrible prank somebody just played on him!" some random Sasuke fan girl yelled, Naruto just laughed a bit louder.

The angry Sasuke fan girls where all glaring at him, well almost all of them, one blonde girl was trying her hardest to keep herself from laughing, the funny thing was she was also trying to glare at the same time. The angry mob of fan girls probably would have ganged up and attacked Naruto if it hadn't been for Iruka walking in and ordering the class to their seats.

"Well class, this has been a great year, each and every one of you has grown into…" Naruto didn't hear the rest of Iruka's speech, he decided to take a nap until the teams where assigned.

Nearly half an hour later he woke up when his name was called, a second later Haruno Sakura was called out, she cheered loudly, he completely ignored the rest of the announcement as a cold realization struck him, if Sakura was so excited it could only mean one thing, Sasuke-bastard was his other teammate.

'Screw this' Naruto thought and went back to sleep, he woke up several hours later and realized everybody had left except his teammates, there Jounin instructor hadn't arrived yet, after another half hour of boredom he had an idea, he got a large bowl from Iruka's desk (Iruka would sometime put instant Ramen in it and heat it with chakra) then he moved a chair closer to the door and placed the bowl on it after filling it with water, this just confused his teammates but they didn't say anything, they where too curious to see what he had planned.

Naruto sat next to the chair so it was between him and the door and looked as he where preparing to perform a jutsu, they waited for five more minutes before the door slid open revealing a tall lazy looking man, he was about to greet them but was interrupted when Naruto began performing hand seals at high speed /Suiton – Suiryuudan No jutsu/ A small snake like thing rose from the water bowl and lunged at the silver haired mans face, he was so shocked to see that Jutsu that he was actually hit, but because it was such a small amount of water it was about as dangerous as a powerful squirt gun.

There where several different reactions, Sasuke was furious that the "dead last" could do a jutsu he had never even heard of, Sakura was angry that Naruto would do such a stupid prank, Inner-Sakura was laughing her ass off, and Kakashi glared at them "My first impression is… though impressed, I hate you all"

Jutsu List

Kage Bunshin No Jutsu Shadow Clone

Suna Bunshin No Jutsu Sand Clone

Mizu Bunshin No Jutsu Water Clone (1/10 as powerful as the user)

Oiroke No Jutsu Sexy Skill

Suiton – Suiryuudan No Jutsu Water Release – Water Dragon Blast Skill

A/N

1

The reason Naruto didn't show up for the first two graduation exams will be explained in a later chapter.

2

In my story Naruto is stronger and smarter then in the Manga/Anime, he also knows a lot more Jutsu's, but I'm not planning to make him so strong he could beat all three Sennin's with a single finger. I think he would be at a high Chuunin level (because of the extra training Itachi had him do), meaning he would still have no chance at beating somebody like Kakashi in a fair fight…