This is a Naruto Fan Fiction only.

Most people would feel nervous about the final exam that would decide their future path in life. Most people would also be nervous enough not to be able to sleep the previous night, or lose their appetite or even their breakfast. Not me, I had a wonderful night sleep, great breakfast, and was running on top of rooftops towards my last day in the academy.

How am I feeling you ask? Am I nervous like so many of my classmates? No I am not nervous at all. I am mad as hell that either this exam they will mark me as a failure, or finally give me a trophy for being the consecutive dead last every single year.

"Class you only need a piece of paper and a pencil all of which has been provided for this portion of the exam. I shall also handle the Ninjutsu section since Mizuki is apparently late this morning. You got thirty minutes to answer the written exam. Hand up if you finished so that I can collect your test and you don't disturb people still answering their test."

The test took me a grand total of five minutes to answer. I checked it, and made sure everything was answered correctly. I raised my hand and it turns out I was the first to do so.

"Teacher I am done with my test. Please tell me what you want me to do." Iruka walked to my seat and glared at me with such hate I couldn't help but to smile. He took my test and looked it over. What he said next caught me by surprise.

"So Naruto you knew so little that you think you can guess the right answer? With you sleeping through all my classes I was not expecting much. You want to know what I need you to do? Shut up, be quiet and let the students that actually paid attention in class finish their test. Do you think you can handle that?"

I looked at my teacher and just nodded my head. He left and began to read my answers on the test more carefully.

I took a book from my belt pouch and began to read. It was a book on different animal languages my mom dictated to a few shadow clones. I still couldn't figure out how she was able to do that from inside me, but she never gave me a single clue. She only said figure it out in your own.

Kiba by my estimation was not doing so good on the test. I saw Iruka take the test sheet way from him and heard him complain that he could have used five more minutes. The Ninjutsu section was pretty standard affair. Transformation, followed by Substitution and finally Clone technique.

I change into a perfect copy of the Hokage, switched places with Kiba. Not that Akamaru mind at all. I made a clone and a shadow clone both then transformed into me and Akamaru.

Iruka told me to stick to the test, and not be a show off. Kiba walked over and picked Akamaru off my head. "Guess we can chat later. Hey Akamaru don't hold back in the test alright?" Akamaru flat out said that he wasn't planning to hold back anyways.

Guess the smell from my summons was making him a bit irritated. Can't blame him panthers were felines and he was a dog.

Mizuki finally arrived as the Ninjutsu part was over. I wanted to ask him why he was late but that would cause a delay in our exams. Both me and Sasuke got perfect scores in our thrown weapons test. Kiba hit about three thirds of the targets and some even got ninety percent of the targets.

My fight against Kiba was fun if anything else. I left towards my apartment feeling pretty confident on my exam result. You know the old saying to be careful what you wish for? For years I wished I wasn't the dead last, and after how I did in the exam I went to sleep finally feeling like I was going to get my wish.

I woke up bright and early eager to hear my results and receive my headband. All graduates received a metal band headband with the symbol of the village. It served to identify where a ninja came from and what village he or she was from. Akamaru flat out called a dog collar.

I sat waiting as Iruka read the class roster and each of the final grades for each in our class. You can imagine my surprise when I heard Kiba actually graduated. I thought that he choked on the written test, guess he made it up in the other sections.

Finally he got to my name and I guess I got my wish, and my worst fears came true. "Naruto Uzumaki, grade F. You will have to pick a trade job to learn." Sakura and Ino were laughing so hard that they fell from their chairs. Since I didn't graduate I was excused as what Iruka had to say was for graduates only.

I decided to sit on the swing outside the academy to contemplate what my options were. I saw the happy looks of other students and how proud their parents looked. They all left muttering something that was supposed to be impossible for me to hear, but I heard every word.

The parents that muttered were saying how happy they were that I failed. Some even said that it would be a disaster for a thing like me to become a ninja.

'Don't let it get to you son, we both have heard worse. Never expected they would do this to you, but I guess when dealing with humans I really should have expected it.'

Iruka was the last to exit the academy and surprisingly he look rather sad as he walked towards me and stood next to me. "I don't know how you failed Naruto. You had perfect marks on the test and ninjutsu part. I often thought you did great in physical skills. Once we averaged your score your grade dropped and we couldn't allow you to graduate."

I guess the whole baby brother talk was just to get me to lower my guard, and Mizuki was the one that doctored my grades all along. "We can't let you graduate if you can pass the exam, it would be a death sentence."

I looked at him and was shaking my head as he said that, "I should have known this place would never let me graduate. I got perfect scores in my physical skills part of the exam, but why did it matter anyways? They were going to fail me anyways!"

Iruka placed a hand on my shoulder, "Naruto I guess you think this is unfair, and you are right. This is unfair, so I decided to give you a practical make up test. Pass this and you graduate!"

I knew a set up when I heard one, I wasn't a fox for nothing after all. I pretended to be excited and looked really happy to hear him say that. I asked him what I had to do?

"Ninja have to sometimes infiltrate and steal a scroll from enemy buildings. You have to sneak into the Hokage's private library and steal the big red colored scroll on the pedestal. Take it to the old hunting lodge in the woods. I will find you and give you your headband once I see that you have the right scroll."

"This should pretty much show me and anyone who doubts your skills that you can be a ninja. This exam starts as soon as I finish telling you where the lodge is, you got five hours to complete this exam and you will have to evade capture by ninja of our village. If you steal a scroll from an enemy, they too will try to capture you to get it back."

I heard where the lodge was and left as quickly as possible. As I sneaked into the private library mom had something to tell me.

'Naruto this scroll is called the forbidden scroll and in terms of value it is a treasure trove of knowledge. Something tells me he wants to steal it and kill you. He can kill you and either pretend to have done it for the village to get a promotion or give it to another village and get a better rank with that village.'

I decided to hide the real scroll and have a shadow clone change into the scroll. I picked up the disguised shadow clone and took off. Sure enough everyone that had ever held a kunai was sent to capture me.

But due to my techniques and kunai they had no chance in hell of catching me. At least that is what I felt. I got to the hunting longue to find Mizuki was already there. How did he know I was going to come here?

"What a surprise to see you Naruto. Did you come to join me on my day off hunting trip?" I was speechless as he said that. I asked him how did he find me? Why did he doctor my exam scores to make me get a failing grade?

He honestly looked surprised as I said that. "Naruto what are you talking about? Iruka told me the final exam was postponed. It was supposed to happen tomorrow. That is the reason why he told me I could take the day off. Doctor your grades? Naruto you are one of the best students I ever taught. I guess Iruka did something to your grades. He often told me you got a zero in the written exams."

I told him everything Iruka told me and that was when he got really angry. "I should have checked your actual written tests myself. This entire thing is a lie. I haven't been in the village since early evening last night. Brother this whole thing is a trap! Iruka why don't you show yourself you stinking traitor!"

I saw Iruka come out of hiding. "I guess it was too much to hope for this thing killing you, and giving me another justified reason to kill it! But no you had to explain it to this thing! You mean to tell me you honestly think of that thing as your brother? You dare to call me a traitor when you clearly are willing to defend that monster!"

Mizuki threw his big shuriken and cut off a tree branch near Iruka. "Don't you dare insult my baby brother! You don't know what the hell you are talking about."

Iruka finally let his hatred of me for both of us to see. "Here is a history lesson you will listen to you damned monster! We often told you that the Fourth Hokage killed the Kyuubi No Yoko. This is a lie that we tell our students. The truth is Naruto the Kyuubi can't be killed."

"The Fourth knew this and instead he sealed it in a new born baby. That's right Naruto! That is the reason why everyone hates you. You are the Kyuubi and you murdered the Fourth and a whole lot of people some years after you were sealed. You killed my family you damnable demon! At long last I can get my revenge on you for making my life a living hell!"

I looked at him and smiled a very fox like smile. "Iruka you know you just broke the law that the Third Hokage made. You want a piece of me or do you want this scroll?"

He jumped down from the tree branch he was standing and I heard him say something I was expecting. "I will take both your worthless life and the scroll! With it I will finally be the rank I should always have been! No more teaching ungrateful snot nosed brats for me! I will get decent missions with decent pay, and all I have to do is kill the demon that made me an orphan! I couldn't ask for a better revenge!"

I began throwing kunai around him. I threw a grand total of six. I guess it pays to keep making these kunai of mine. I got twenty in my belt pouch and all in a single storage seal.

"Both you really are worthless after all, not a single kunai hit me. I guess Mizuki took pity on you when he graded your physicals skills part of the exam. He always did say he considered you his baby brother. You have no idea how much I hate the guy for being proud of you!"

I took a kunai in hand and I had everything ready. I was about to do my take on the old death by a thousand cuts. "Hope you said your farewells Iruka because you are not coming to the village alive."

He smugly asked me, "Yea, right demon brat! You and what army?"

With a few hand signs a hundred shadow clones appeared all around us. I took up my kunai and the clones followed my every action. We all used the seals on us and in a stream of flashing lights we all disappeared.

In a matter of second Iruka was cut so many times he bleed out and looked more like ground meat than having a face. He was dead before his body hit the ground. I calmly walked over to Mizuki who was smiling at me. I sat down feeling a little dizzy.

He took off his headband and placed it on my forehead. "For service to Konoha, for enforcing the law, and even saving my life I hereby say that you Naruto Uzumaki fulfilled all requirements to graduate and be a ninja of our village. Congratulations baby brother. You made me proud as you always have."