It was the day of the Genin exams and Naruto was already up. Usual Tsuki was the first one awake but it Naruto had been waiting for this day for a long time. After learning the Shadow Clone jutsu he practice every day with the jutsus, slowly he was able to make more and more clones. Afterward he would start training with his clones, at Tsuki's insistence, and quickly found the memory transfer helped his training immensely.
Using his clones her was able to practice evading and fighting multiple attackers. He also sent some clones to the library to read some books on the different clans of the village. He also had a few clones practice some seals he had been working on for some time, plus if the clones messed up they got hurt rather than him, though it was still unpleasant when the memories transferred back.
After a week of this training and learning, Naruto was pretty confident in his chances of passing the exam. He was recalling a bit more information from the books and scrolls he was studying and his fighting style was a bit more refined but still very rough. Despite all these changes and increases in skill and knowledge Naruto could not help being nervous.
"I can do it this time. I will pass the exam." He said as he finished cooking the bacon that was in the frying pan.
"I am sure you can do it Naruto." Tsuki said as she walked into the room and took over cooking the scrambled eggs for him as he started setting the table. "You just need to relax."
Naruto looked back at her and nodded before he sitting down in his chair and taking a few deep breaths. "Your right Tsuki, where would I be without your help." He said with his usual foxy smile.
"Oh you would be down one clone jutsu, a lot of seals and very much an idiot." She said with a playful smirk. "Not to mention one smart and caring sister, Naruto-niisan." She said before carrying the eggs over to the table and placing them into a bowl.
Naruto pouted but smiled shortly afterward. "I guess that is true." He said before placing some bacon and eggs on his plate.
Tsuki nodded and put some food on her plate as well. "Well we have plenty of time so let's enjoy our meal before heading out." She said before turning her attention to her breakfast.
Naruto nodded and started eating as well. The two of them silently ate their breakfast, Naruto finishing first followed by Tsuki. "I'll clean up Naruto-niisan, you go get ready." She said as she carried their plates over to be cleaned.
After a couple minutes and several cleaned dishes later the two of them were ready to head out. They made their way through Konoha eventually arriving at the academy with plenty of time to spare. They made their way to their usuasl seats in the back and waited for the rest of the students to arrive. Slowly the other students and clan heirs made their way in.
Upon arriving Hinata made her way over to them and took the third seat at the desk. "Good morning Naruto-kun, Tsuki-chan. I hope you two had a good morning." She said with a polite smile.
Tsuki nodded and returned her smile. "Yes Hinata-chan we had pleasant morning, we managed to wake up early so we were the first to arrive." She said. Naruto nodded in agreement.
"What about you Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked, causing her to blush slightly.
Hinata smiled at him. After joining them in training a few times over the years and the occasional lunch or dinner she managed to get a hold of her shyness around Naruto. "My morning was rather pleasant Naruto-kun." She replied.
Tsuki opened her mouth to peak but as she did so the door opened and Iruka walked into the room. "Ok everyone today is the big day. Today you take the exam to determine whether or not you will become Genin. First we will be doing the written portion of the test, followed by kunai and shuriken throwing. After that we will go over Genjutsu and finally the Ninjutsu test." He said, explaining how the test would procced. "Now if there are no questions I will be handing out your question sheets."
Iruka took some papers on his desk and handed them out to the students. He returned to the front o the classroom and turned to face the class. "You have one hour. You may begin now?" he said and watched as the studets got to work on their exams.
An hour later Iruka gathered up the tests and placed them on his desk. "Now if you all will follow me we will head out to the training yard to start the kunai and shuriken portion of the exam." He said before leading the class outside.
In the training yard there was a long table set up a fair distance away from several targets. There was 10 Kunai and 10 Shuriken for each student. Iruka walked over to the table and waited for the class to finish gathering up. "OK now you will each take 10 Kunai and Shuriken. You will then do you best to hit as close to the center of the target as you can. You will have to take turns. We will go three at a time due to the limited number of targets. Please get in three orderly lines so we may begin." He said and the students formed three single file lines and begin the test. Eventually Hinata's turn comes up and she steps forward taking some of the weapons.
'Ok deep breath Hinata' she thought as she did her best to focus. After a moment of concentration she through the kunai at the target, quickly followed by the shuriken. Once she was done she looked at the target. Most of her projectiles were in the circle and three of the kunai were near the center.
She smiled at then and stepped away for the next person to go. After a few minutes it was Tsuki's turn. She walked up and took a moment to focus before throwing her weapons. After throwing them all she takes a look, four of her Kunai and three shuriken are near the center of the target.
Tsuki nodded happily and makes room for the next student. Soon it was Naruto's turn and he moved up to the table and picked up his Kunai and Shuriken.
'Ok just like we practiced.' he thought as he relaxed and took aim. After a moment he let loose and hurled his kunai and shuriken at the target. All of them hit but only three of his Kunai were near the center. 'Not too bad I guess.' he thought before stepping back. Soon all of the students had gone and Iruka addressed the class.
"Ok good job everyone, now we will break for lunch and afterwards we will go to the Taijutsu portion of the exam." he said before dismissing them. "Naruto and suki smile before walking over to Hinata.
"Hey Hinata-chan, do you want to join us for lunch?" Naruto asked with a smile.
Hinata returned his smile and nodded. "I would love to Naruto Kun." she replied and the three of them walked off to one of the trees. As they start to eat they discuss how their exams had gone so far.
"The Kunai and Shuriken test went well. What do you two think?" Tsuki asked after taking a bite from her sandwich. Naruto looked up and nodded at her
"I think so too, though I wish I did better." He grumbled "Sasuke still bet me getting almost half of his Shuriken and Kunai near the center of the target."
Hinata looked up at Naruto and shook her head. "It's ok Naruto-kun, you're doing much better than before and you will only get better." She said with a small smile. "Plus you already know several chakra control techniques that he does not, so you have that advantage over him"
Naruto thought about that for a moment before smiling. "Your right Hinata-chan." He said with a smile before turning his attention back to his food.
Hinata smiled and did the same. "How do you think we did on the written test?" she asked after a few moments.
TSuki looked up from her food and took a moment to think. "I think I did pretty good but I can't be sure." She said. 'It helps that I have been alive since before the founding of the village.' She added in her head.
Hinata nodded. "I agree, what about you Naruto-kun?" she asked as she turned to look at him.
Naruto shrugged. "I'm not sure, I mean that's to my Shadow clones I have learned and relearned a lot of stuff. I just hope it was enough to pass." He replied before returning his attention back to his lunch.
The three of them sat in silence for a bit as they finished off they lunch. Once they were done they took a few minutes to rest before Iruka came outside. "Ok everyone it's time to continue the exam, please return to the class room." He said before heading back to the classroom.
Hinata, Naruto and Tsuki gathered up their things and made their way back inside. When they made it into the class room they noticed several other chunin were in the room waiting for them. Once everyone had gathered back into the classroom Iruka addressed the class. "We will now begin the Genjutsu test, We will be putting you all under a basic Genjutsu and you will need to break out of it. Once the Genjutsu is applied we will wait ten minutes before ending the test ourselves. Now are there any questions before we begin?" he asked and scanned the class for any raised hands. He did not notice any and nodded to the other Chunin in the room. "Then we shall begin the test."
The Chunin in the room all went through some hand signs before casting a basic Genjutsu on the students. All of the students eyes started to close and became unfocused, all excepte one of them. Tsuki blinked and looked around at the other students and the instructors. "Umm sir? When is the Gentjutsu supposed to take effect?" she asked somewhat confused.
All of the Chunin blinked at her confused but Iruka was the first to recover. "It already has, d-did you not notice anything?" he asked somewhat confused.
Tsuki shook her head. "No aside from all the other students looking like they are in a daze right now." She responed as she tried to figure out what happened.
Iruka looked at the other SHunin in the room and some of them shrugged. He took a moment to think before turning back to Tsuki. "It seems like you are either immune to Genjutsu or you have too much chakra for the Chunin to affect you." He said, offering a possible explanation.
Tsuki blinked before nodding and looked around the room, some of the student started to come out of their daze and Iruka started to write down the time thay they broke out of the illusion. Hinata and Sakura were among the first to return to their senses. Soon the only one left was Naruto. Tsuki turned to Hinata who shrugged before they turned their attention back to the front of the room.
After a few more moments Naruto blinked and shook his head. Iruka wrote down Naruto's time before looking back up at the class. "Ok we will now begin the file test. When we call your name you will head to the room next to this one for the Ninjutsu test." He said before walking out of the room.
One by one, students were called out and left the room before returning a few minutes later with a headband. Hinata eventually was called out and returned with a headbent hanging from her neck and a smile on her face.
As she sat back down at her desk Naruto turned to her with a foxy smile on his face. "Congratulations Hinata-chan, I knew you could do it." He said excitedly.
Hinata poked her fingers together and nodded. "Thank you Naruto-kun." She said. Soon Tsuki was called back and also returned with a head band. Finally Naruto was called back and he left the room. When he entered the next classroom he walked to the middle of the room and turned to face Iruka.
Iruka nodded at Naruto. "Ok Naruto please demonstrate the Transformation Jutsu for us."
Naruto nodded. "Transform" he said and turned into Iruka. Iruka inspected his double and nodded.
"Good worked, you can change back." He said and Naruto canceled the jutsu.
Iruked picked up a rubber Kunai. "Now please demonstrate the Substitution Jutsu." He said and throw the Kunai at Naruto.
Right was it was about to hit him he vanished in a puff of smoke and was replaced with a chair, Naruto was in the back of the room where the chair was.
"Very good Naruto, one more test, now the Hokage told me that you are unable to do the basic clone jutsu but he mentioned you had a substitute clone jutsu you can use." He explained.
Naruto nodded and crossed his fingers. "Shadow Clone jutsu." He called out and two clones of him appeared.
Iruka's eyes widened. "Well I-I didn't think that was the substitute you had Naruto Wonderful job." He said with a smile before picking up a headband and holding it out to him. Congratulations Naruto, You are now a Genin of Konoha"
I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Not a lot happened but I wanted the exam to be one chapter and then move onto the real exam. The next chapter should be in a week or two depending on how long it takes me to put out the next chapter in my Harry Potter story A Past to Change.