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Sorry, everyone, if these took to long. This is my first multi-chaptered story.

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Naruto cursed as he fumbled with the keys to his small apartment, once again ignoring the crass graffiti decorating the peeling, white walls. When he finally shoved the creaky door open, he was met with the unsettling darkness of his home. No, he could not call it home, for he felt more comfortable among the cold stares of the village streets. At least there were people to acknowledge him.

With a sigh, he banished such thoughts from his head. He had promised himself that he would never again be surrounded by his own self-pity, the scar on his arm testifying to that very promise. He leaped onto his bed, trying to dispel the tingling feeling spreading up his nose and into his eyes, forming into unshed tears.

"Don't cry. Don't cry. Don't cry! Crying hasn't ever helped before, and it never will!" he chanted, like a mantra, inside his head.He successfully managed to prevent these tears and soon drifted off into sleep.

Naruto's sleep was soon disturbed by the loud wailing of the bane of his existence: the alarm clock. With an intense chakra spike, the alarm clock quickly exploded. Such a sight would normally crack a smile across Naruto's face, but he was already almost asleep again.

" Otoutou. Otoutou… OTOUTOU!" screeched the loud voice of the resident of our favorite blonde. At least, tried its best to screech, which was hard when one is inside of another's head. With a start, Naruto flailed his arms about madly before finally rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Whaa? Whazgoingon?"

"You already forgot? It's the genin exams, baka!" And so, with a loud scream, Uzumaki Naruto made a new world record of taking a shower, getting dressed, and eating… all at once. Naruto bounded out of the steps and raced towards the academy… only to find that he had set his clock one hour early. With a disgruntled… well, grunt, Naruto sneaked into Iruka's classroom and quickly retreated his head into his arms and fell asleep.

"Alright, otouou, you actually gonna try today?"

"Damn straight, aniki! I'm sick of playing the underdog… no offence, Kiba, but from now on, im going to show them all what the 'dobe' can do. Those idiots won't know what'll hit 'em!"

"Just don't go too overboard. Otherwise…"

"I know, I know. Trust me, I won't go that far. They'll never see how far I've gone."

Naruto was rudely interrupted from his conversation by an angry, super-big-head-mode Iruka, poking him with a kunai. Naruto groggily raised his head at the sight of all the academy class staring at him. He grinned evilly as he flipped them off, while he did the sign for 'up yours.'

"DOUBLE WHAMMY!" cried out an excited Naruto, earning him death glares from stick-up-the-royal-ass Uchiha, and an extremely hard poke from Iruka.

"All right, everyone, settle down. As you all know, it is time for the Genin exams. You will be called up to the front of the class one by one. Each of you will be required to make 3 Bunshins to pass." Lectured Iruka.

"First, Inuzuka Kiba." Said dog-lover made his way to the front of the classroom and created three Bunshins with a look of concentration.

"That's my boy, Kiba! Good job!" congratulated Iruka.

"Be careful, Iruka-teme, you wouldn't want to show favoritism now." Naruto thought with disdain. A now cocky Kiba returned to his seat, just as the Angst-King took his place at the front of the class. He easily created five Bunshins without a bead of sweat.

"YEAH! SASUKE-KUN ROCKS!" Shouted a certain Pink-haired girl.

'Aw, god, she is so annoying! Someone, please, kill her!' Thought both the Uzumaki and the Uchiha.

"Okay, next is… Uzumaki Naruto." Growled Iruka, his mood going from pleased to pissed in a moment. Naruto stepped up to the front.

"C'mon dobe! Just go home, you've already failed twice before!" accused Yamanaka Ino.

"Can it, woman!"

"Naruto! Don't talk that way to your classmates!" shouted an angry Iruka. With a sigh, Naruto focused his chakra as it was visible, swarming around him.

"BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" Immediately, the atmosphere changed from bored to amused as the class burst out laughing at the half-dead clone lying in defeat by Naruto. Non the less, Naruto grabbed a hitai'ait(1) before Iruka's hand clutched his wrist.

"What are you doing, Naruto? You fail! Go home!" snapped Iruka. Naruto simply smirked and pointed to the ceiling. Iruka gasped as he saw Naruto clones hunched over the ceiling, sticking to it with their chakra. All at once, they turned their heads to reveal creepy smiles, unnerving the whole room until they all disappeared with a large cloud of smoke. When it cleared, Naruto and one Hitai'ait were both gone.

A glum-looking Naruto sat cross legged on the roof just above the door, hitai'ait tied to his arm. He watched as the parents congratulated their children who passed, which was everyone. Even though everyone saw him, all he got for his efforts were cold glares and harsh words.

"After twelve years, they're all the same."

"Ignore them; they just fear what they do not know."

"I know, aniki, and now I can change that." a ghost of a smile illuminated Naruto's face before Naruto disappeared.

Naruto reappeared in a small glaive in the forest. This was his secret corner, the one place where he felt comfortable. He closed his eyes for a moment before reopening them, a new light of determination replacing the dull shade he had atoned all day. It was time for training!

Quickly, Naruto got to work moving rocks into the air with his chakra. After an hour of this, he practiced taijutsu on the surrounding trees. He was about ready to turn back when he spotted a crazed Mizuki running through, before Mizuki spotted him and immediately stopped.

"Ah, so the demon is here. I've always wanted to kill you, you annoy me." Mizuki replaced the scroll he had with a fuuma shuriken strapped to his back. Naruto simply took off his Hitai'ait and placed it into his pocket.

"Don't want to get it messy." He explained as he got into a basic taijutsu stance. Mizuki released the shuriken to watch it get deflected by the newly-arrived Iruka.

"Stand back, Naruto, I can handle this. You are a mere genin." Iruka readied his kunai as Mizuki retreaved another giant shuriken.

"Naruto, you should know why the village hates you." Whispered an insane Mizuki

"No, Mizuki! It's an S-class secret!"

"You are… THE DEMON FOX, KYUUBI! YONDAIME COULDN'T KILL IT SO HE SEALED IT INTO YOU!"

Naruto looked shocked for a moment before averting his eyes, hidden by his hair.

"He. Hehehe.heheha. HAHAHAHAHAH! YOU REALLY EXPECT THIS TO BE NEWS TO ME? DO YOU THINK I'M STUPID! IT'S OBVIOUS!" Shouted Naruto, bloodlust in his eyes.

"Now I'll show you what a real demon can do." Said Naruto in a faint tone, before disappearing and reappearing behind Mizuki.

"Do you fear me? I know you do, I can smell it!" Naruto whispered into Mizuki's ear, before clutching his head with his hands and crushing it. Pieces of Mizuki's brain slithered out of Naruto's hands, along with fragments of his skull.

An aghast Iruka could only stand in awe as Naruto slowly made his way towards him.

"Mind Whipe jutsu" muttered Naruto, hands forming the Inu Saru and O-hitsuji(2) seals. Iruka fell to the ground, fainting, as Naruto walked to the corpse of Mizuki and clutched the scroll tied to his back.

"Hmm, Forbiden Scroll of Sealing, huh? Let's see what this has. Kage Bunshin? Know it. Rasengan? That's useless. It doesn't make your enemy bleed very much." Naruto's head snapped up as he sensed foreign chakra signatures approaching.

"ANBU! Run!" And Naruto did just that, leaving the scroll on the ground, quickly re-entering the village with Shunshin. From there, he slowly made his way to his apartment and opened the door to be greeted by… no one. Naruto locked the door and stripped of his horrid orange jumpsuit, burning it with a katon jutsu, and stepped into the shower, washing all the blood off of him.

He emerged clad only in boxers and fell onto his bed. His last thoughts before drifting of to sleep were "So this is the path I lead…"

This long enough? Or should I make it longer? Also, I need help with a translator. Does anyone know of a website that translates into Japanese text, not kanji? If so, please tell me as I think that saying it in English is stupid.

is this how you spell it? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Inu Dog, Saru Monkey, and O-hitsuji ram.