Now that that's taken care of I would like to say that this will stick to the story of the manga at many points but is in fact an AU so many things will change. I wont just give him all his skills cause he doesn't have many at this point in time in the manga. He will learn most of the same skills but I just can't get a few ideas for new and different techniques out of my head so I will include any new jutsu info in the post chapter author's note. I also decided that having these new jutsus would change their individual fighting stiles so I have sacrificed Naruto's rasengan and Sasuke's chidori.
Any other qualms will be dealt with after you bring them to my attention but any complaints about things I've already explained will be fed to my Ork hordes.
On with the show
He looked up at the building in front of him and swallowed a nervous lump in his throat. 'This is it,' he thought 'this will show whether I've got what it takes to be a shinobi or not,' He looked up and stared at the clouds. How fitting that the day of his birthday should be the same day as his 'birth' into his ninja career, was completely lost on Naruto. He spared not a thought to the irony that the day no one would acknowledge as his birthday was the day he would have to prove himself worthy of recognition. He had only three thoughts on his mind at the time.
He was nervous, he was hungry, and he was, most importantly, 15 minutes late! He dashed into the already full classroom and took his customary seat at the very back. He was lucky that the instructor was Iruka sensei, as he was allowed to enter at all with this tardiness. He had been awake long into the night training in every skill he could think of just for this test, and had slept just through his alarm.
"As I was saying," continuing his lecture, thankfully without drawing any more attention to Naruto's rather late and rather hasty entrance. "The genin exam consists of three main parts. The first being an obstacle course to be completed without the use of any jutsu to prove physical readiness, a single random jutsu test to check your basic skills, and a target practice game to test your aim and mental readiness,"
'Ok,' thought Naruto on his way to the target test. 'I can defiantly make the obstacle course and the jutsu shouldn't be too hard but what's this target game?'
Once out on the practice field, Iruka sensei handed everyone sheet of sealed, folded paper. "on my mark you will unseal and unfold your paper. You have 30 seconds to hit as many proper targets as you can without hitting an improper one. The targets are marked with one of the symbols; sun, water, fire, leaf, and spire, and the color; red, white, blue, green, black, and gray. Hit your targets in the order they appear in on your card, and how far you get will be your grade," He said with a smile.
'Wow' thought Naruto. 'This could be harder then I thought'
'Don't worry about it,' assured Kyubi. 'You'll do great!'
'You think so?'
'I know so'
With his new confidence and Kyubi's belief in his mind Naruto stepped up to the mark and readied his paper.
"Ready?" asked Iruka sensei.
"I'm ready," replied Naruto
"GO!"
Naruto unfolded his paper and saw; white sun, red flame, blue water, black spire, and gray leaf. He drew his five kunai and looked at the target field. White sun. Toss. Hit! Red flame. Toss. Hit! Blue water. Toss. Hit! Black spire. Toss. Hit! Grey leaf. Toss. Naruto looked at where his fifth kunai had landed and was disappointed. He had hit the green leaf instead of the gray one. Having all the other symbols as their natural colors had thrown him off and so he had aimed for the green leaf as naturally the leaves where green.
'Stupid, stupid, stupid!' Naruto mentally berated himself. 'I should have had that one!'
'Hey, calm down. You did really well,' Kyubi said, trying to alleviate his fears and get him to stop beating himself up. 'You hit four out of five targets. That guarantees that you pass this test,' Kyubi always hated to see him beat himself up for things like this. He always made himself relive his failures; ever since she had known him he had never accepted his true skills. He acted big and strong and even somewhat arrogant on the outside but only as a safety measure. If he could convince everyone that he was good at everything then they wouldn't try to hurt him like that man had when they were three. He had little actual confidence in his skills but put out the brave face and loud personality to gain acknowledgment from the villagers. He starved for an attention he could get. Even negative. But his constant self-deprecation often saddened her.
'Come on, you have to buck up,' attempted Kyubi. 'I bet no one hit all five' as soon as the words left her mouth she wished she could take them back as not only had someone hit all five, but it had been Uchia Sasuke. Ever since they had first met three years ago Sasuke and Naruto had been on bad terms. Having had his whole clan wiped out, Sasuke had been almost as much a loner as Naruto. But Sasuke had everything Naruto had ever wanted other then a family, which the lack there of, they shared in common. Sasuke had acknowledgment and adoration of adults and many of the girls in the academy. Sasuke had near perfect skills. Sasuke could get whatever he wanted if he just asked and this was why he and Naruto had never been friends. Sasuke had all these going for him and all he did was train and act like a jerk. He never once asked for or gave advice or encouragement to anyone. He never spoke to anyone and never went out with friends. Never even had friends and it just drove Naruto nuts.
Naruto scowled at the back of Sasuke's head and tried to bore into his skull unsuccessfully. His rival had upstaged him again and it made him angry.
'Naruto listen to me,' pleaded Kyubi. 'You need to calm down for the jutsu test,'
But her pleas fell on def ears. Naruto refused to calm down and would show that bastard Sasuke. He watched stewing in his anger as Sasuke executed a perfect three-bunshin jutsu and was suddenly very worried. Bunshin no jutsu was his worst skill. He had almost no talent in making clones of him self. It was in this state of mind that he attempted the jutsu on his turn.
He stepped up, and readied his chakra and performed the proper hand seals. There was a great puff of smoke and when it had cleared there stood Naruto as a small slightly misshapen and clearly incomplete clone struggled to stand beside him.
He had failed. He had created only a single clone and it had been incomplete and incorrect. All the other students had split into at least three. He was the worst of all of them. Dead last. Unable to bare the humiliation, he ran from the class and into the village.
Iruka sighed. He had hoped Naruto would have improved his jutsu and maybe even stuck around for the obstacle course. He had no choice now but to fail Naruto.
Naruto ran blindly through the village in rage and despair, trying to flee from his humiliation. He ran so fast that only the jounin he passed ever saw more then a yellow blur and many of them just passed it off as a fellow jounin or anbu on an errand.
Kyubi raged in her cell, not at Naruto or his antics as she had long learned how he worked, but at the fact that she couldn't even get him to hear her in the state he was in. he was so upset that he couldn't even see where he was going.
And just as suddenly as he had taken off, he stopped.
He stood on the balcony leaning against one of the posts as he stared up at the Hokage monument. All he could think of was his failure.
'Hey, it's not that bad. You can try next year and you'll be even more ready for the test,' said Kyubi.
"No! It's not fair! I failed! Stupid Sasuke always beats me! Every time." He broke down in tears.
Kyubi wished nothing more than to hold him and comfort him. Cursed her imprisonment and her inability to hold the boy who she had spent her whole life with. The only one who even seemed to know she existed and as he suffered all she could do was watch and add commentary. She had never felt so useless and had never been angrier with herself. If only she could break out of these stupid bars. If only she could offer more than just words of comfort and encouragement. If only she could be a true friend to him and make him see how special he was. But she was stuck on the sidelines and he wasn't even listening to her.
He sat and sobbed for hours and never once did he try to speak to anyone. Realizing he wanted to just be silent for a while Kyubi stopped pestering him. They sat in total silence till near sunset when something neither expected happened. Naruto's teacher showed up. This wasn't the unexpected part as Iruka was one of the only people who cared and often tried to comfort Naruto. The unexpected thing was that is wasn't Iruka who showed up but his counter part, Mizuke sensei.
"Hey kid," said Mizuke. "Why'd you run off?"
"I made a fool of my self with that pathetic jutsu. That damn Sasuke always dose better then me" said Naruto, now more grumpy then sad.
"You know," said Mizuke, with a strange gleam in his eyes. "I bet you could pass if you learned a really great jutsu, and I know just the one."
"Really!" exclaimed Naruto, his hope rapidly rising. 'A new jutsu, that'd be perfect. This would be just the thing to prove how great a ninja I am. Plus I bet it'll just burn Sasuke up that I can do an amazing jutsu that he can't' thought Naruto mulling all the things he could do with his supposedly great new jutsu and how badly he'd beat Sasuke.
He was so wrapped up that he didn't see the gleam in Mizuke's eyes become more malicious and his grin become more evil. "Yeah, it's the perfect jutsu for you"
"You can teach me?" Asked Naruto becoming very exited and curious.
"No." said Mizuke with finality.
"What?" Screamed Naruto. "Then why'd you even bring it up?"
"No, no don't misunderstand," explained Mizuke looking increasingly exasperated. " I know where you can find it and what to look for but I can't teach you because this jutsu is so great, even I don't know how to do it"
"Wow!" exclaimed Naruto. " Not even you can use it? It must be a jounin technique then!" This new jutsu was looking better all the time.
"Nope," said Mizuke. " This is one of the Hokage's personal techniques. He has it all written down on a big scroll in his private library,"
"One of the Hokage's special techniques!" Shouted Naruto. "What do I have to do?"
"It's actually pretty simple," smiled Mizuke. "You go get the scroll while I distract the personal guard then meet me at the number twelve training ground out in the forest ok? Then we'll both read the scroll and I'll help teach you,"
"Ok that sounds fair," said Naruto starting to doubt the chunin who was giving him these instructions. Why would a chunin want to cause a distraction and let a genin do the actual theft? Plus Naruto was the loudest ninja in the entire village. It would only make sense that he distract everyone and that the more skilled Mizuke should go in for the theft.
'I smell a rat' thought Naruto getting Kyubi's attention
'I agree, it would be much easier if the jobs were reversed,' Kyubi paused in thought. 'It may be a set up with you as a fall guy just so he can get the scroll,'
'That's just what I was thinking but I still want to learn the new supposedly great jutsu,' Naruto paused and then mentally started to grin. 'Maybe we can switch off,'
'Are you thinking what I'm thinking' said Kyubi with her own mental grin forming.
'Oh I think I am. We do share a head you know,' by now both were sporting identical grins showing all their teeth and forcing them to squint as they began their plot.
A.N.: ok ok I know that ending it there will put a few off but I really needed Naruto's plot to form and finish in the same episode as the next big event I planed so I'll just have to ask you all for forgiveness with the cliffy ending.
In the next few chapters will be my major disruption of the timeline so pleas don't get all huffy, but a few thing will be quite different and many characters will be really OOC
Ok that's that so stick around if you can put up with me.