Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO
Okay, now to clear some things up. Naruto and every one else in the Academy is 8. Kakashi has never met Naruto and neither has Iruka. Iruka is the new teacher with Mizuki as his assistant. Even though Naruto is super strong, he cannot beat most of the Jounin in the village. And since he is so powerful with his wind manipulation, he hasn't had time to become too powerful with any other elements. His ninjutsu is basically high just because of all the wind techniques under his belt. With other elements, he is probably in high chuunin to low jounin efficiency. His genjutsu is also high because he has enough control and endurance to increase the affect of low jounin genjutsu.
Now that's done, ON WITH THE STORY!
Chapter Three: One Day After, Four Years Gone
One Day After
"Good thing I actually got up early."
Naruto was walking calmly throughout the streets of Konoha. A number of villagers were muttering whispers to each other. No one knew though that Naruto could hear every single word.
The words ranged from curious questions, "Hey, what happened to him? Didn't he disappear 2 years ago?" to the more hating comments, "What the fuck? Didn't the demon brat die?"
Naruto was annoyed by none of it. In fact, he knew all about the Kyuubi. He had to before he got into ANBU. He remembered the day he found out exactly, well at east the part where he was in control. He wasn't told what happened. All the hokage did was give Naruto a push in the right direction.
But let's save that story for another time. Because currently, there was a slightly more pressing matter. Or two.
Problem one, a group of giggling girls, hiding from an untrained eye's view, following him.
Problem two, Sasuke running, from screaming girls, with hearts in their eyes.
Sasuke screamed one thing while passing Naruto.
"RRUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN!!!"
Even Orochimaru didn't deserve a death of being trampled by fangirls.
So Naruto did what anyone with a brain would of done. Run.
But this also made another set of fangirls run.
Now usually, two groups of fangirls who adored two different guys would stop and argue over whose better. But because they were already so close to their targets, they wouldn't stop to show those bimbos whose better (that of course is what the fangirl groups thought of each other).
Naruto was getting pissed. If he didn't do something quick, he would be late for the academy, again, and it would be a new teacher. So gathering chakra to his feet and legs, he grabbed Sasuke's collar and with combined temporarily super strong legs and wind chakra, he was able to launch himself, while dragging Sasuke along with him, through the air, and right over the Academy and then 5 miles from it.
Naruto landed on the ground, causing the wind all around him to blow out in a circle and leaving a small crater where he landed.
"Fuck," was all Naruto could say.
"Could you let me go, dobe?"
"Ha," Naruto laughed, "You still laugh at me when I showed you up in every possible way yesterday, and just saved you from a bunch of fangirls?"
"Hn."
"Hn? Wow, you have some vocabulary," Naruto said sarcastically.
"Hey, shut up. 'Cause of you, we're gonna be late."
"Well, I was gonna bring you along with me when I was gonna pull off that trick again, bu-"
"FINE. Sorry. Just bring me along with you."
"Okay."
Naruto had already gathered the chakra required to make the jump so as soon as he replied, he grabbed Sasuke's collar and jumped.
Before Sasuke could even register it, they were soaring through the sky at about a quarter of a mile high.
"Don't worry, I was in a rush last time and over estimated. But this time, we'll land safely. Theoretically. If there was even the slightest disturbance that I wasn't expecting, We could for well as end up as a gelatinous slop in front of the Academy."
If you're wondering how Naruto could be heard, Naruto was manipulating the wind so it wouldn't take the sounds he was making along with it. Unfortunately, he wasn't doing the same for Sasuke. So when Sasuke tried to explain he was about to sneeze, his words were lost to the wind. Right before he sneezed, he tapped Naruto on the shoulder only to sneeze and head butt Naruto when he turned around.
Even though the results weren't fatal, they were still pretty painful.
"Tai Hori?"
"Here."
"Uchiha Sasuke?"
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
CRASH
"Ugh."
"Dobe."
"Shut up, teme. You sneezed."
"Uh, Uchiha Sasuke?"
"Uh? Oh, here."
"Uzumaki Naruto?"
"Here," Naruto said, trying to brush of all the dust and debris off him.
"Yamanaka….."
"Ugh," was all Naruto could say as he walked to his seat. Sasuke right in front of him, was trying to look as dignified as possible. As soon as the two were in their assigned seats, their new sensei introduced himself.
"As you know, your old sensei, Kurenai, has moved on to advance to jounin. I will be teaching for the rest of your time here. My name is Iruka. You will refer to me as Iruka-sensei or sensei. Since my assistant apparently has the runs," Iruka was smirking as he said that, "we will begin with-"
BANG
"IRUKA!! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SUB!!"
"Never mind. Class, this is my assistant Mizuki. You will address him as sensei or Mizuki-sensei."
"I thought class started at 9:15?"
"Nope."
"Oh." Mizuki took a look around the class. Several students stood out and he mentally noted each of them.
'Aburame Shino, Uchiha Sasuke, and wait. What the? THE DEMON BRAT?! WHAT THE HELL?! DIDN'T HE DIE?!"
Of course, Mizuki was able to hide his emotions and keep a straight face. And fortunately, Iruka was looking towards the class, resuming his speech. Unfortunately, the second he laid eyes on Naruto his mind became to clouded to notice that Naruto, who was the only other person who could read a person's emotions through their eyes, noticed the way Mizuki looked right before he snapped out of his thoughts.
"Seeing as Mizuki and I have no idea what your skills are, you will each have a one-on-one with either me or Mizuki."
"But sensei, what if we hurt you or you hurt us?"
"We will go easy on all of you. If you happen to exceed our expectations, we will raise the bar. Any more questions?"
"Are their any rules?"
"There are no restrictions on attacks. You may use any force you deem necessary. If you push us out of the ring or pin us, you win. If we pin you, we win. Of course winning and losing will not effect your grade. This is just a test of your basic ninja skills. Any more?"
There was no reply.
"Okay. Here's how it'll work. Mizuki and I will take turns fighting you guys in alphabetical order. And seeing as there was massive damage to the training grounds, it looks like we'll be having a little field trip."
"FIELD TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Training grounds 19
Training ground 19 looked for all like a park, albeit one with slightly damaged trees, a few craters here and there, and a couple of traps.
It was a rather large clearing with a large lake in the center.
"Okay first up, Aburame…."
Several Hours later
"Okay, Uchiha Sasuke, you will be fighting me."
"Begin!" Mizuki shouted.
Sasuke instantly formed seals and blew a giant fireball.
"KATON: GOKAKAYUU NO JUTSU!!!!"
The ground where the attack hit exploded. When the cloud cleared, there was nothing.
Sasuke knew enough that at least something had to be left. But no. There was nothing. So he looked around, knowing that Iruka would come from another angle.
'Back? Right? Left? Above?'
"BELOW!!"
"DOTON: SHINJUU ZANSHU NO JUTSU!!"
Sasuke's body was now trapped underground. Iruka proceeded to pop out of the ground and smirk at the buried Uchiha.
"Impressive Sasuke. But it would have been smarter to hide your skills so I'd go easier and leave me open. An enemy ninja who underestimates their opponent usually loses. Unless of course, the underestimation is right on the dot."
As soon as Sasuke was out of the ground, Mizuki was inwardly celebrating. Because this was a friendly spar, he could "overestimate" Naruto and "accidentally" kill him.
"Uzumaki Naruto, you're up."
Naruto nonchalantly walked up, right next to the edge of the lake. Mizuki just stood right in front of the group.
"Begin!"
Mizuki instantly threw a bunch of kunai and shuriken at Naruto. Naruto flipped backwards towards the lake. But in the middle of the flip, Naruto caught one kunai and threw it and made a cross shaped seal.
"KUNAI KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!!"
To the surprise of Mizuki, instead of one kunai being hurtled back at him, ten were. And instead of Naruto falling into the water, Naruto, to the shock over everyone, landed on it.
Mizuki dodged to the left knowing that Iruka could protect the rest of the kids.
Then Naruto began forming seals at a speed that no one could see them. He ended on a bird seal.
"SUITON: SUIRYUUDAN NO JUTSU!!!"
Then Naruto formed more seals at lightning speeds as a water dragon sprung forth from the lake to Mizuki. Then he clapped his hands and brought them far out. Then electricity sprung from his hands at each other and connected right in front of Naruto's face and formed a ball of electricity. Then a dragon made of pure lightning sprung from it.
"RAITON: RAIRYUU BAKUHA NO JUTSU!!!"
The lightning dragon collided into the side of the Water dragon, charging it with electricity. The dragon of lightning charged water crashed into the area Mizuki was in, causing a huge explosion. Mizuki leapt from the explosion, bruised and scarred but still able to fight. Mizuki was holding an open scroll, with the inside facing Naruto. Then hundreds of weapons appeared in front of it in puffs of smoke and were hurtling towards Naruto.
While this was happening, Naruto held his open hands out in front of him. The a puff of smoke as long as a sword appeared in front of Naruto as the smoke dispersed, it revealed a Katana, in a brilliant read sheath, and a red leather handle with nine gold tassels and, what looked like, a pure gold hand guard. Naruto slowly unsheathed the sword and revealed a silver blade with an engraving of a fox with nine tails. The sheath disappeared in another puff of smoke while he held the katana to his right. As soon as he held it out, the weapons started hitting. But not hitting him, but what seemed like an invisible shield that sent the weapons spinning.
"Kaze Tate," was all Mizuki could say, falling from the sky closing the scroll.
Only about a quarter of the weapons hit the shield when Naruto swung his sword.
"KAMAITACHI!!!"
The sickling winds completely destroyed some of the weaker built weapons while sending back some of the stronger ones along with the sharp wind themselves.
"Shit," was all Mizuki could say before he hid behind one of the thicker trees. Needless to say, the area around Mizuki was completely destroyed, trees cut everywhere, some spots just completely hacked off while weapons were sticking every where. Mizuki Picked up one of the least damaged katanas and raced out of the trees to Naruto who was still standing on the lake. Mizuki jumped at Naruto, and swung at him with a downward slash. Naruto easily held his blade up and stopped him. Mizuki landed on the water and instantly began a forward assault, making hundreds of basic slashes trying to get a hit. Naruto jumped back as Mizuki lunged forward and easily blocked every strike. As soon as they got to the center of the lake, Naruto began making advanced combos on Mizuki. Mizuki was barely able to keep up and was slowly being beaten back. And it didn't help that Naruto was constantly changing styles at random times and patterns. Mizuki was surprised that Naruto could do such a thing so fluidly. And then he noticed Naruto's face as he did an aerial spinning attack. Naruto was holding back. He could tell he was itching to just go all out but didn't want to do much damage. But this didn't change Mizuki at all. He still thought Naruto was a demon that just didn't want to draw attention to himself. Soon enough, Mizuki was beaten. Mizuki was lying on the ground with Naruto pointing his blade at Mizuki's neck. By this point, everyone in the class was amazed at how talented Naruto was. Well except for Iruka and Sasuke. Iruka was glaring at Naruto's sword.
'He's using a sword depicting the Kyuubi!!' Iruka didn't like this. Even though he didn't hate Naruto, he now didn't really like him either.
Sasuke though was thinking on the lines, 'He's so strong. How is he so strong! I'm an Uchiha! I deserve that power! I DO! NOT SOME NO NAME PUNK! I SUFFERED! I NEED THAT POWER TO KILL ITACHI! HE DOESN'T NEED IT! I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
From that moment on, Naruto was his number one enemy. Some one he had to surpass. NO MATTER WHAT.
"W-winner, Uzumaki Naruto."
Naruto smirked.
Four Years Gone
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!!
Crash
Two Hours later
Naruto bolted straight up.
"CRAP!! THE GRADUATION EXAM!!"
Naruto was late, again. Except this time, it was for something big.
Naruto was one of the favorites for rookie of the year. If he was ever on time, it could have happened. Even though he never really tried on the written test, which he could of aced if he did. It's not like Naruto didn't like the subjects. He was actually very interested. He knew that the knowledge of science and math could help him with working with jutsu and traps. The knowledge of literacy could help him forge documents and help him see differences from a real document and a fake. A knowledge of history could help him in knowing about the different nations, their economy, their culture, and their general abilities, which would be useful for war to cut of supplies or stop trade, blend in with their kind for spying, how to fight an average shinobi there, and bring up old conflicts to blind an enemy in rage, or to persuade them to their side. Naruto knew all this. It's just that he had a different view on it.
If someone actually wanted to learn something, let them. If they didn't, let them. If a person cared, they'd read it, study it, and know it. Testing them only forced them to learn if they didn't want to. He didn't like that he had to be tested on something he learned willingly.
Well, back to the story.
Naruto proceeded to break his previously set record of 3 min and 21 seconds to get ready by 20.329 seconds.
Over the years, he had been able to learn the Shunshin no Jutsu and had been getting earlier late times because of it. Now, it was a matter of pass or fail. He had missed the hour and a half long written test and he hoped to god that he hadn't missed the practical exam.
"Uzumaki Naruto?"
No response.
'And he had potential to,' thought Iruka. Over the years, the kid had grown on him. Even though he had lost a lot of money for the times he treated him to ramen, he didn't regret one moment of it.
"Naruto?"
"Iruka, he's not here. You know what that means."
"Yeah, he fails."
"Sad, he could have been something," Mizuki said while in his mind, he was thinking, 'Well, it seems I can get him to steal the scroll. I just hope he falls for it.'
POOF
"IRUKA-SENSEI! I'M HERE FOR MY TEST!!"
"Sorry, Naruto, you're too late. You fail."
"Bu-but, isn't there something I could do? I mean, I'll do any-"
"No Naruto. I'm Sorry."
Iruka just continued on with the list.
"Yamanaka Ino."
Most of his fangirls were in shock. Their idol, or in other words, the guy they want to date, kiss, feel up, marry, and do, had failed on account of lateness. Ino, who had come to be his number one fangirl, and slight friend, walked up to Naruto as he went to sit down for the rest of the school.
"Naruto-ku-"
"It's okay Ino. It doesn't matter."
"Naruto."
"…"
The rest of Naruto's friends tried to console him but he wouldn't listen.
"RAMEN!" Chouji yelled, trying to get him to pay attention.
"Naruto, you can always try next year," Shikamaru tried to explain.
Then something came at him from behind. Naruto just dodged hit. The thing, or more precisely, a dog.
"Nice try Akamaru!" yelled Kiba from the second row in the front.
You see, as Naruto continued to beat Sasuke it everything, he proceeded to gain more trust within the male population. And since all the fame didn't go to his head, he became even more liked. He eventually had a group of friends, who all, coincidentally, were from some of the major clans. Nara, Akimichi, Inuzuka, and Aburame.
"Hey Naruto, look, after this, why don't we go and get some ramen?" asked his usually quiet friend, Shino.
"Naw, you guys go though."
"Are you sure?" asked Shikamaru, completely stunned he'd turn down ramen.
"Yeah."
Naruto was leaning on a tree outside of the Academy. He was watching the kids celebrating with their parents for graduating, or being comforted for not. He barely knew what it was like to have a family. He had a small taste of it with his ANBU team. But that was it.
Then he felt a presence approaching him. He instantly knew who it was. Just as he landed Naruto spoke.
"What do you want Mizuki-sensei?"
"You know, Naruto, Iruka really wanted you to pass, it's just that he couldn't bend the rules."
'You really think I blame him for failing? You must really be stupid,' Naruto thought as replied out loud, "Oh, okay."
"Naruto, did you know there was a secret way to pass the graduation exam?"
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KATIPUNAN'S KYUUBI: If anyone knows a English to Japanese translator, please tell me!