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Chapter 4 (Genin Exams)

The trio stared in amazement. Naruto was alreadt on his 7th bowl of Ramen. They had decided to eat at Ichiraku's Ramen stand for lunch, seeing as how Naruto loved it so much.

"God just seeing him eat that much makes me full" Sakura said, to which she earned a nod from Ino and a slight twitch of his head from Ameduro who was also eating his bowl of ramen. Except he was eating his bowl in a formal, much slower way, than Naruto.

Finishing his ramen in a diginified manner, he turned toward Sakura and Ino. "You might want to eat your ramen before Naruto gets to it"

They both nodded and ate their food at a moderate pace. By the time the trio was done, Naruto was on his 15th bowl.

Fed up with waiting, Ameduro slapped the money down on the table and dragged Naruto off with Sakura and Ino following.

"Hey let go, I haven't finished my last bowl" Naruto shouted in vain.

"No" Ameduro told him while giving him an intense glare that immediatly shut the hyperactive blonde up. " We are going to train. Thats final" He declared while intensifing his gaze to make sure there were no objections. Needless to say there were none.

Finally reaching the training grounds, Ameduro let go of Naruto's collar. The wearer of said collar having many cuts and scrapes due to the dirt and rocks. Sitting cross-legged against a tree, Ameduro looks up to Ino and Sakura. "So what's first?" He asked.

"Well we are going to have to teach you the basics of chakra and how to use it first. Once you've got that down, we'll move to the basic ninja techniques. They are called the Kawamiri, Bunshin no Jutsu, and Henge. After that we will brush up real quick on your survival skills and such" Sakura told him, now in full teacher mode. "The real hard part will be to teach you all about chakra"

"Why would that be hard? I already know how to use it" With that he pushed some chakra into his hand until it was the size of a soccer ball. Which is exactly what it was, and he started to play hacky-sack with it.

The trio blinked at him in shock. "Well we have chakra covered" Naruto finally said. Sakura held her head up at this and gave a small "Hmph"

Noticing Sakura, Ameduro decided to cut in. "Well not really. I know that I can use it and thats about it"

"Alright then lets get started" Ino yelled enthusiasticly.

XX 2 Days Later XX

The group of 4 friends had arrived at the school for the Genin exams and were all sitting next to each other. They were all eager to begin the exams.

"Alright class this is the test that will prove if you have what it takes to be ninja. If you fail then you don't get another chance" Shouted Iruka giving all of them a stern look.

Sakura, Naruto, Ino, and Ameduro all glanced at each other and grinned. Both he and Naruto had come along way in those two days thanks to Sakura and Ino. All of them were confident that they would pass.

"Your test will consist of two seperate portions" Iruka continued "The first is going to be a written exam. The second part will be creating a perfect Bunshin"

Naruto and Ameduro grinned to each other at this. Unknown to Sakura and Ino, Naruto had taught him the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. It had been another little secret of Naruto's.

"Here is the written exam. Begin" Iruka yelled.

Five minutes later Naruto, Sakura, Ameduro and Ino had all finished the test with ease. Collecting the papers and grading them at a rapid pace, Iruka finally announced the names of the people who passed.

"The following people have passed the written exams and will now continue onto the second exam. Hyuuga Hinata, Nara Shikimaru, Akamichi Choji, Aburame Shino, Inizuka Kiba, Yamanaka Ino, Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, Arkino Ameduro and finally Uzumaki Naruto" Iruka announced the last two names with great satisfaction.

"Now the names I have just called will stay here, everyone else must leave" Iruka said. At this only a handful of kids left the class.

Iruka waited until all the kids who had not passed left before he began. "I will call all of your names individually and you will go to room 51 which is next door. Once there you will be asked to create 4 perfect Bunshin. Now to begin, Sasuke Uchiha your up first"

Sasuke was gone for less than a minute before he walked back into the class and handed Iruka a piece of paper. Lokking it over Iruka nodded at him and he went and leaned on the wall. This pattern was continued until everyone had gone.

"Congratulations to all of you. You've all passed. Now I have two annmouncements to make. The first is who graduated at the top of the class. For the first time ever it's a tie" Iruka pauses for a dramatic effect "between Ameduro Arkino and Naruto Uzumaki"

At this everyone except Sakura and Ino had shocked looks on their faces. Shikimaru had even pulled himself out of his cloud gazing. Even Sasuke looked surprised at this revelation.

"Congratulations you two. Now onto the next peace of business. You will all recieve your Genin teams tomorrow. However there is some bad news. There are more teams than normal this year and one team will have to have four people on it. Due to this we need an extra Jounin instructer so one team will have to wait for an undefined period of time. Now dismissed" Iruka shouted.

The four friends walked out together smiling. "I can't believe that I made top of the class" Naruto exclaimed.

"Don't be so surprised, look who taught us" Ameduro replied, giving a grin to Ino and Sakura, which made them blush.

"Good point" Naruto admitted. He paused for a moment in thought. "Thats it!" He exclaimed. "We are going to have a party in celebration of us passing the exams and in honor of Sakura- chan and Ino- chan who are the greatest teachers ever"

"You guys" He said looking at Sakura and Ino " Come to my house at around 6 o'clock tonight. Now Ameduro, you and I need to get supplies" With that Naruto took Ameduro by his collar and dragged him off to the store.