A/N: Just a little fun. Tell me if it's any good
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Hey Kyubbi!
What?
When are you gonna teach me that jutsu you said that you would last night?
Well, I did teach you a high-level jutsu yesterday, so I think never would be a good answer.
WHAT! YOU…YOU…JUTSU HOARDER! The Kyubbi's raucous laughter echoed through the hallways of Naruto's mind. Muttering about bastard foxes and miserly teachers, Naruto entered the hall where the newly appointed genins met. He met some questioning, but he just pointed to his hiate-ate and was let in, though reluctantly.
Sitting in the back with some other raven-haired kid in a blue shirt, he just mostly ignored everybody, when a girl rudely asked to get past him, he just sighed, stood up, and accidentally tripped her with one of his chair legs. He even tried to help her up but she just ignored him and even told him to shove off. Sigh. There was just no helping some people was there?
Eventually, his mind started thinking about various pranks that he could pull off on Iruka-sensei, he just sighed and dismissed that thought almost as soon as it came. Iruka-sensei did him a lot of favors over the year, and passing him even after he failed the genin exam twice was kind of him. What would it look like when he, Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage of Konoha, thanked him for all that hard work by making Iruka-sensei look like a fool one last time? Of course, deciding not to play any pranks meant that there was nothing for his mind to do, even the Kyubbi was asleep at the moment and probably wouldn't like Naruto disturbing his rest for requests for new jutsus.
Kami-sama…this is so boring, when is Iruka-sensei getting here?
As if on cue, Iruka just then entered the room with some sheets of paper. He took the center, and started a speech on how important the values of a shinobi. Since he failed last year, Naruto had already heard this speech several times in many different forms, and had pretty much slept through all of them but the first. This time around though, Naruto heard a strain of seriousness in the speech and actually paid attention to the words for the first time in three years. Iruka, of course, noticed Naruto take a sudden interest and automatically exercised his teaching instinct to make sure this wasn't some elaborate going-away prank by him. For the next three minutes that Iruka was speaking, sweat could be seen dotting his temple, as he started to casually sweep his eyes back and forth as far as they would go, and emit a fairly large amount of chakra to surround him entirely so as to get some slight warning if anything went flying at him. He was calm on the outside, but inside, he was panicking, he didn't want to leave a bad impression with his students, and if anything funny happened to him then, in that somber moment, he was going to kill Naruto. Unfortunately, his chakra field amplified that panic and slight killing intent until it started to affect some of the students sitting closer to him. Of course, having all this happening while he got through the part of valiant deaths and dying for the mission and the country didn't help the students feel calm very much.
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Naruto was confused, why was Iruka-sensei glaring at everybody, and what was with that large, almost sinister, chakra field that he was emitting? Could it be some kind of post-graduation ritual? Having the teachers test the new genins one more time? Wanting to find out what was going on, Naruto redoubled his concentration, staring at Iruka intently.
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Why did Naruto look so confused just then? Could it be that his prank wasn't working? Relaxing slightly, Iruka continued on through a small paragraph of rewards and honors for finishing a mission, and didn't notice the small sound of various breaths coming out. It came as quite a surprise then, when Iruka looked up again, and saw Naruto looking back at him with twice the levels of intensity. Iruka redoubled his efforts to be on guard for any pranks coming his way, and started on the next few paragraphs, the ones about how serious a shinobi should take their duties. His chakra field started to almost glow into the visible spectrum; it was filled to the brim with killing intent.
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Naruto smiled, he had finally figured it out; Iruka did his scary chakra thing almost every time he came to parts dealing with punishment and disloyalty. Probably one last lesson before the genins were sent into the world as official ninjas. Having satisfied his curiosity, Naruto just sat back, and enjoyed the effects the 'speech' was having on his fellow classmates.
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WHAT! Naruto was smiling, and sitting back in a relaxed manner. Was his prank already done? Impossible, Iruka would have felt at least a disturbance in his chakra field. But still…NARUTO, was smiling, and relaxed, he usually only did that when a prank that made was done, and the victim was now highly embarrassed and wished that he or she could sink into the ground and stay there, or if the victim was so far into his trap, he couldn't get out. He still didn't feel a thing, so that meant only one thing.
Glaring intently straight ahead at Naruto in the last row, Iruka backed up some until his back was touching the board-it was clean, he was sure it was clean, he saw it when he came in-Iruka assured himself that whatever prank Naruto was going to pull would now miss. He was sure that Naruto hadn't planned for him to back up like that. But just incase…
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Naruto's eyebrow rose, Iruka did the unexpected and stepped back, until he was up against the wall. Well, chakra depletion did make you feel weak, and in doing so, Iruka could now glare at everybody without having to turn his head or eyes. Naruto's smile became a grin. Damn Iruka-sensei was good,it almost seemed that he was staring right at him…
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Why did Naruto just start to grin like that? Crap, crap, crap! Iruka was in for it now, he could almost feel it, a leaden feeling in his bones, becoming tired as his body itself started to accept its eventual fate at being a laughing stock. Well, Naruto wouldn't be able to get off that easily.
Iruka started to grin wildly, he crossed his arms, stood straight as he could, and started to emit killing intent from every pore of his body, which did wonders for his now overwhelming chakra field. He didn't need to read from the page now, his speech was coming to a close, and knowing Naruto, he would be humiliated at the very end, a short two paragraphs away, right after the one about punishments and consequences for becoming missing-nins.
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Naruto's respect for Iruka-sensei had risen several notches in the past few minutes. Who knew that he had this in him? For the past five minutes, Iruka-sensei had been giving off, almost continuously, ever-growing amounts of chakra, even now, his killing intent fairly radiated off his body. Even if this was a lesson, it was a damn good one, the best one Naruto had been given all year. It wasn't fair, they gave the best lesson to the ones that had already graduated.
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Finishing up, Iruka started to let the chakra and killing intent go, there was no prank, Naruto hadn't embarrassed him in front of all these shinobi-to-be's. Finally starting to feel the effects of using so much chakra, Iruka felt that he was supported only by the board ledge that propping up the bottom of his chunnin vest. Managing to read the lists of team members, he dismissed all of the students while barely looking at him. If he had, he might have noticed that most of them were pale and were slightly puffing. Very few were fully alright, Naruto was one of them, and when passed Iruka, he whispered, "Nice job," Iruka just looked at him like he had no idea what he was talking about, Naruto just grinned back. When the last student had left, though, he allowed himself to slump from exhaustion.
"Damn…" Iruka heard someone. Lifting his head, he saw that the entire teacher faculty was at his door, peering in. Every one of their faces had the exact same mixture of awe and wonder. They were all trying to find the source of that huge chakra, and found themselves listening to the most moving graduation speech they had every felt or heard. Iruka closed his eyes and rested his head back on the wall.
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Iruka's Speech, as it was known in later years, eventually became famous among the entire teaching faculty and jounin instructors. It then became a tradition for the Academy to have the current teacher of the graduating year use Iruka's methods to turn the Graduation speech into a last lesson, forever engrained into the ninjas of Konoha. It is generally agreed that the original effect of Iruka's Speech was overwhelming, but Iruka and the other teachers never managed to fully recapture the full effect of the first speech.
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A/N: Hahahahahaha! R&R please!