The week went by fast and found Naruto standing in front of the Hokage. "Hello Naruto, what can I do for you today?"

"It concerns what we talked about earlier this week." Sarutobi held up his hand to signal Naruto to wait, before running through a sequence of hand seals and coating the office walls with his chakra. After the chakra enveloped the whole room, he motioned for Naruto to continue. "Not really sure that was necessary Ojii-san, but whatever, I figured out what I have to do to mold chakra properly again, and I'm going to need your help more than I realized."

"Really, why's that?"

"Well for starters, you can mold chakra properly, I can't write with my left hand, and even if I could, I'm probably going to be a little lightheaded."

"So I'm basically going to do everything? I don't have a problem with that, but you still haven't told me what you have planned, and I'd like to know why you'll be lightheaded."

"Written seals on my body in the form of each hand sign's character written with my blood endowed with an equal amount of my chakra and Kyuubi's yokai. The reason I'll be lightheaded is because the chakra and yokai will make the blood dry faster than it normally would, so I may have to give more."

"Couldn't we just use ink?"

"Unfortunately no, Kyuubi's yokai destroys any foreign substance in my body before my own immune system can start to work. What I need you to do after writing each is to seal it with the corresponding hand sign. This will make it so when I push chakra into the characters, they'll mold it the right way. So, are you willing to help?"

"Yes, but I'd like to do it as quickly as possible, not only so you don't lose too much blood, but also because I still have all this damn paperwork to do." He sent such a heated glared at the pile of papers that Naruto was surprised it didn't burst into flames, and chuckled. Naruto pushed up his sleeve and tucked it inside of his trench coat.

"Sounds good Ojii-an." Naruto pulled out a scroll from his kunai pouch and from it he unsealed a large ink well and a brush, the latter of which he handed to the Sandaime. Taking out a kunai, he cut his forearm and held it over the opening of the ink well while clenching and unclenching his hand to speed up the flow of blood. When the blood stopped, the ink well was about a quarter of the way full. 'Okay Kyuubi, it's time.' He got a mental nod and a red aura appeared around his right hand, while his left arm showed itself for what it was. He placed both hands at the opening of the ink well and both started to drain into the blood, the blue faster than the red. As soon as both were gone, the Sandaime grabbed the ink well and started his task.

Throughout the process, Naruto was mostly out of it due to the amount of blood he had lost, but he could feel when each of the characters were sealed, so after close to five minutes, you can imagine his surprise when he felt a thirteenth character sealed. "There we go, all done and you didn't even need to give any more blood, but it was close, the amount that's left over is getting crusty." Naruto tried to shift in his seat, but fell forward and Sarutobi pushed him back up straight. "You should just rest for now, you gave a lot of blood and it will take a little while before you're well enough to get up."

Naruto's face was a little pale, but his eyes hadn't lost any of their brightness. "What was that last one Ojii-san? There are only twelve hand signs."

The Sandaime smiled. "Well Naruto, while I was doing the others, I thought about what you told Iruka and I and realized that even with these seals, you wouldn't be able to use the normal Bunshin because your chakra reserves are so high, so I placed another character that represented the single hand seal for an advanced version of Bunshin called Kage Bunshin."

"If it's an advanced version of Bunshin, why not get rid of the normal one and teach it to Academy students?"

"It's a Kinjutsu." Naruto's eyes got wide and he stared at the Sandaime in shock, to which the old man laughed. "Don't worry, I wouldn't have done what I did if it were dangerous. The reason it's a Kinjutsu is because these clones aren't illusions, they're solid and your chakra is split between every clone evenly, something you have in spades, unless you want it otherwise. It's also because of the strain they put on the user's mind, but only if used in large quantities."

"I don't understand, why would there be strain on the user?"

"Well, because when they are dispelled, dispelled mind you, not destroyed, they send everything they learned during their 'life' back to the original, but if too many are used, the strain could be so much that the user could become comatose."

"So they're solid clones, that can send information back if they're dispelled?" He got a nod from the Sandaime. "So they could be used for… I don't know… doing paperwork?"

"Yea…" Sarutobi slapped his hand against his face. "How didn't I think of that before? I knew giving you this jutsu was a good idea, not only did it solve your Bunshin problem, but gave me the ultimate weapon to defeating the terror known as paperwork!" The Sandaime started to cackle evilly as he made a cross with both of his pointer and index fingers. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." In a small cloud of smoke there were five more of the aged Hokage, which immediately started to tear through the stacks of papers, pens in hand. When he turned back to Naruto, he was looking at the seals on his bicep. There were three bands of four, the top being: Bunta (Pig), Hebi (Snake), Tora (Tiger), and Ohitsuji (Ram), The second being: Nezumi (Rat), Uma (Horse), Ryuu (Dragon), and Tori (Bird), the third being: Inu (Dog), Usagi (Rabbit), Oushi (Ox), and Saru (Monkey), below all of which was a single character, Juuji (Cross).

Naruto pushed a small amount of chakra into three seals one at a time and they glowed blue for a second before he was gone and in his place was one of the Sandaime's clones, who was looking around confused. "Thanks Ojii-san, for everything. They work perfectly, so now all I have to do is get use to using them without looking at my arm and I'll be set. I'm going to go get started Ojii-san, Genin Exam's coming up soon after all."

"Alright, but don't over do it, your body won't replace all that blood for a few more hours, and good luck with the exams."

"You don't have to worry about that Ojii-san, she'll find someway to stop me if I'm pushing myself too hard, she always does."

Sarutobi chuckled. "At least one of you know when to call it quits."

The following month went quickly and it was time for the Genin Exams, and in the time since he learned about his parents, he had moved up in the standings of the class, not much, but he was no long the dead last. Also in that time, he had removed another three of the seal tags from the door in his mind, and it seemed that a new daily activity was taken up by most of the class, trying to dispel Naruto's genjutsu. Naruto sighed as he walked to his seat beside Shino when he felt another massive pulse of chakra tear though the room. There was another pulse when he sat down, followed by another every five minutes till Iruka walked into the class with a silver haired, bandana wearing chunin. Upon seeing them, the class settled down with little provocation. "Class, this is Mizuki-sensei, he's here to help with the exams today, I want all of you to give him the same respect you would me. That being said, let's get things started with the written test."

Iruka handed out the papers to one side of the class, while Mizuki did the other, the last person being Naruto. As soon as he got close to Naruto, the blond could feel the genjutsu and when the silver hair man turned around, Naruto passed his left hand over the paper, dispelling it. 'Idiot, that genjutsu was pathetic, only someone as stupid as he is would fall for it.' He then made quick work of the questions.

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In the Hokage's office, Sarutobi was standing with the jonin who were chosen, or volunteered, to be the senseis for the genin teams this year. In front of them was a crystal ball that showed the classroom. One of the jonin closest to the Hokage spoke up upon seeing a blond dispel a genjutsu over his test, she had wild black hair and ruby red eyes with darker red pupils and wore a dress of woven stripes of white cloth with a single red sleeve on the right side. "Hokage-sama shouldn't someone do something, that instructor just tried to make that student fail using genjutsu."

One of the other jonin snorted. "Who cares, it didn't work. Beside I say the guy's do everyone a favor in preventing that dem…"

The man found a kunai at his throat, which was held by a man with gravity defying gray hair, wearing a standard jonin uniform wit a mask covering the bottom half of his face and his hitai-ate tilted over his left eye, while glaring at the man with his uncovered eye. "Finish that sentence and I kill you where you stand."

"That's enough Kakashi." The man now known as Kakashi nodded his head to the old man and removed the kunai from the now smirking man's neck. "And you." The man looked towards the Hokage only to receive a glare and enough killing intent to make him drop to his knees. "If you ever refer to Naruto in such a way again, you will find yourself striped of your rank and in a cell getting a visit from Ibiki." He then focused it on everyone in the room. "And that goes for all of you as well." He received a stuttered 'Yes sir' and then like it never happened the killing intent vanished. Sarutobi smiled and said in a cheerful voice. "Good, now let get back to why we are here."

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After the written test, the students were taken out side for the weapons and Taijutsu portion of the exam. Currently they were standing in front of the target range. "Listen up class, in this part of the exam, you will be given five kunai and five shuriken, to pass you need at least ninety points. On the round targets, a bulls-eye is worth ten points, the inner ring worth five, and the outer ring worth one. There are four of these targets. On the human shaped targets, neck is fifteen points, the head ten, the chest five and anywhere else is one. There are six of these kinds of targets, two of which will be moving. All together, you could get one hundred and thirty points, but it's not likely, only having been accomplished by three people, Orochimaru of the Sannin, Kakashi Hatake, and the most recent being Itachi Uchiha. Shino Aburame, you're up first."

Nearly everyone passed, but almost everyone doing so just barely, in fact there were only four that scored over a hundred points, Shino had got 105, Hinata also gotten 105, Sakura got 102, and Sasuke had top score with 115. Naruto stepped up and Iruka was standing by with a clip broad to take down the numbers Mizuki called out. First were the round target with one positioned every twenty-five yards. Naruto took four of the kunai and threw them getting a bulls-eye on each. As they moved on the second set of targets, Naruto took a glance at Mizuki. 'At least he's not stupid enough to lie when Iruka-sensei's there to verify.' When told to begin on this set, he launched his final kunai at the furthest swinging target, and Mizuki called it a head. The first shuriken was sent at the second swinging target and was called a chest. The second shuriken, Naruto watched closely as he threw it at the furthest stationary target, he saw it hit the neck range, but was called a chest. He watched the next two hit the neck as well and were called a chest and head respectively. Naruto glared at the silver hair man. 'He's purposely trying to make me fail.' Then an evil smile appeared on his lips. 'Fine, if he wants to play, I'll play.' He held his last shuriken in his hand with his eyes closed, and if his right arm were visible, the people around him would have seen a kanji for Ohitsuji (Ram) glowing blue. He threw the shuriken and it hit the closest target in the neck, but it didn't stop, it cut the head clean off and did the same to the other three stationary targets.

Iruka's jaw was hanging open, along with almost everyone else who was watching. "Si…sixty points. Bringing Naruto's final score to a hundred and thirty-five points." Naruto smirked at Mizuki's shocked face and then realization that he'd have to replace the targets before the last person could go.

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In the Hokage's office, the old man and Kakashi were smirking alongside of Naruto, though they too were surprised at what he did. A man with spiky black hair and a short beard, had his mouth wide open with a cigarette threatening to fall from his lips. One of the other jonin was the first to speak. "What was that?"

It was the beard man who answered instead of the Hokage. "That was manipulation of wind chakra, but even if he does have that affinity, he should be able to use it with basic shuriken, or at all for that matter. The only person in this village that could train him in wind manipulation that I know of is me, and I've never meet the kid."

The female jonin for earlier spoke up soon after he finished. "This kid's just full of surprises, spotting and dispelling a genjutsu when his file says it's his worst subject, being able to use his elemental affinity to such a degree without being trained, and getting five points over the supposedly highest score possible. Makes a person wonder what he's going to do next." Everyone else in the room couldn't help but nod.

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For the Taijutsu test, students had to go up against Mizuki. The rules were simple, still within the ring and Taijutsu only. The longer a student stayed in the ring, the better the score, if a student was able to knock Mizuki out of the ring, they got full score, and were rewarded extra points depending on how long it took them to do so. Naruto stood in line waiting for his turn while watching the students lose one by one, at least till it was Sasuke's turn. After a few exchanges, Naruto saw Mizuki purposely leave himself open for an attack that knocked him out of the ring. Iruka wrote down Sasuke's score on the clip broad. "Well done Sasuke, Naruto, you're up."

Naruto walked into the ring and when Iruka called for the match to begin, Mizuki shot towards him with full intent to end it quickly. Naruto saw that there was no way for Mizuki to slow down enough to avoid an attack and reared back his left arm. Mizuki saw this and crossed his arms in front of himself for protection, and when Naruto's hand made contact, there was a slight cracking sound as Mizuki went flying out of the ring. Not even waiting for Iruka to say anything, Naruto walked out of the ring.

There went back inside for the Genjutsu and Ninjutsu portions of the exam. Genjutsu was just dispelling one and using henge, while the Ninjutsu was Kawarimi and Bunshin. One by one the students left the room to be tested away from the eyes of the others, so they wouldn't know what they were up against. Iruka came and got Naruto when it was his turn and they went into an empty room except for them and Mizuki. "Okay Naruto, you have to dispel a genjutsu and use henge, but you don't have to worry about it if you fail to dispel the genjutsu, it will only put you to sleep for a short time." Iruka nodded to Mizuki and turned back to Naruto while the silver haired man started making hand seals. Iruka and Mizuki disappeared and then Kyuubi appeared before him with her claws aimed to kill him and hatred in her eyes. Naruto looked straight into her eyes knowing it wasn't real and let out a blast of chakra enough to dispel the illusion, knock both chunin off their feet, and to be felt at the Hokage tower.

Naruto walked over to Mizuki, who was still on the ground, but looking up at Naruto. "A piece of advice sensei that technique doesn't work on a person who has lived through worse."

Mizuki smirked. "I know it worked on you."

"You misunderstand my meaning. True it may work on them, but what they see won't effect them." Naruto walked over to Iruka and helped him to his feet. "So I just have to use henge?"

The shaky Iruka nodded and Naruto stepped back from him. Naruto's form started to shift and he grew a little taller, his eyes becoming thinner but staying their blue color, his hair growing longer and slightly shaggier, but staying its sun kissed blond color and mostly covering a leaf hitai-ate on his forehead, and he lost the whisker marks. His black combat boots turned into dark blue sandals, while his pants stayed the same. His muscle shirt turned into a long-sleeved blue shirt with bands at the wrists and below the elbows and his Anbu armor turned into a green jonin vest, while his trench coat lost its shoulder armor and grew sleeves that went to just above the elbows, before turning white with red flames at the bottom and the kanji for 'Yondaime Hokage' in red on the back. Around his neck was a thin cord with eight stripes of metal hanging from the front, in his left hand was a three-pronged kunai with seals on the handle, his middle finger through the ring with his hand raised as if in a greeting, and he had a large smile on his face with his eyes almost completely shut.

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In the Hokage's office, the red-eyed woman was again glaring at the image of Mizuki. "Hokage-sama, this is getting out of hand, that wasn't Nehan Shouja no jutsu (Temple of Nirvana Technique), if I'm not mistaken that was Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu (Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique)."

"Indeed it is, but Naruto dispelled it quickly so it has caused no harm and makes me unable to do anything. He also seems to know the technique, or at least know of it." The Sandaime smiled at Naruto's choice of henge. "He did quite well at taking the form of my successor, don't you agree Kakashi?"

"Yes, from the special kunai, right down to the way he use to smile, it's almost frightening how accurate it is." 'And even more so how similar the two of them look.'

"Sir what was that technique the boy did? I know it wasn't a henge, but I've never heard of anything even remotely similar to what I just saw."

"He hasn't named it because nothing seems to fit it. From what he told me, in order to keep it's form he needs to keep a constant picture of what he wishes for it to look like, and as long as he does it will stay up till either he run out of chakra, becomes unconscious, or wants in down. Oh and that it's both nearly impossible to detect unless the person knows what they're looking for and that it's extremely hard to dispel."

Another female jonin snorted. "Like an Academy student could make a jutsu like that, the first part maybe, but making unable to be detected or dispel come on."

The Hokage caught the speaker in an unwavering stare. "He's been running around this village for five years with it on constantly, and no one noticed, myself included, till last month when he was knocked unconscious protecting his classmates from a Katon Jutsu used in a spar. So either what he told me is the truth, or the quality of our ninja is severely lacking." The jonin bowed her head.

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"Well done Naruto, now all that's left is to use Kawarimi and create three Bunshin and you pass." Naruto nodded and channeled chakra though three seals on his arm, though neither of the chunin knew that, and switched places with a chair at the other side of the room. "And now the Bunshin." Again he nodded and he channeled a moderate amount of chakra into the kanji for Juuji (Cross). He was shrouded in smoke and when it clear there were ten Narutos standing in the room. Iruka smiled widely. "Congratulations, you pass." He pulled out a scroll from his kunai pouch and unsealed a hitai-ate, which he handed to Naruto. "Your free to go for today, but come back in a week for team placements."

When Naruto walked outside, he felt a chakra signature coming towards him, but could sense any malicious intent towards him, so he ignored it, at least until he felt an arm being draped over his shoulder. "Hey there kid, you wouldn't happen to be Naruto Uzumaki would you?"

He turned to come face to face with a woman with purple hair in a spiky ponytail, murky brown eyes, and a smile on her face. From what he could see, she wore a wire mesh shirt under a tan trench coat and had a wood craving hanging around her neck. Her smile widened when she saw he didn't look away from her face. "And you would be?"

"Like you don't know, from what an old friend of mine tells me, you got a dinner with me under a false name and appearance."

Naruto turned his head and glared at the Academy. "Damn Iruka-sensei, that's the last time I tell him anything, and next time I'll be sure to eat him into bankruptcy."

The woman looked at him confused. "Who the hell is Iruka?"

Now even Naruto looked confused. "But he was the only one I told, unless… Oh damn you, you senile old monkey! I know you're watching with this year's Jonin senseis, and I just got one thing to say! Top drawer, left side, under the Bingo book, Icha Icha volume one golden edition signed by the author!"

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In the Hokage's office, Sarutobi was sweating, even though it felt like was negative ten degrees. The men were giving him looks of awe and pity, while the women were sending him icy glares. In movement unlikely to be seen by the Sharingan, he had the book in hand and was bolting for the window, cursing the blond haired boy who had give away his secret. Unfortunately for him, they had cut off his intend escape route and when they went to grab the book, he used Kawarimi to switch places with the jonin who was going to call Naruto a demon earlier. In their rage, they didn't notice the switch and beat the poor man senseless, only to realize what they'd done and return to glaring at the Sandaime, though by now he had re-hidden his book in a new location. "Well then, now that you gotten that out of your systems, let's talk teams. Before that though, I would like to say once again that if I find certain placements to be ill fitting, I will deny it. Since I know that he will be the most fought over student, Sasuke Uchiha, due to his potential ability to unlock the Sharingan, will be placed with Kakashi, as he is the only person able to teach him the uses and abilities of the Doujutsu." Most of the other jonin grumbled and left saying it didn't matter who they got, leaving the Hokage and three Jonin. "Now any specific requests?"

At once, all three people stepped forward. "Naruto Uzumaki." The three were Kakashi, the red-eyed woman, and the bearded smoker. Sarutobi smiled at this.

"Well since you are all interested in him, give me reason why he should be placed with you. Kurenai, would you like to go first?"

The red-eyed woman nodded. "From what I've seen today, he has great potential at Genjutsu and would become masterful, if not extraordinary, under the teachings of myself or another Genjutsu master."

"Asuma?"

The breaded man took a drag from his cigarette. "As I said before, I'm the only one we know of that is able to teach him in wind manipulation, and though he is capable of using it, with proper training he could very well rival elite ninja from Suna in the art."

"And you Kakashi?"

"Because of his large chakra reserves, I believe he'd be better suited with a sensei that could teach him how to put it to good use. Not to say that Kurenai's or Asuma's fields are useless, but from what I saw of his Taijutsu match, he isn't one to sit idle like he would if he focused on Genjutsu, and while his long range capabilities would increase with wind manipulation training, his single punch against the chunin suggests that he prefers close range, and with Ninjutsu that are both powerful and effective, he could become a juggernaut on the battlefield without relying on his tenant."

Sarutobi rubbed his chin in thought. "You all bring up excellent points, but I will need to think more on this, depending on how the rest of your three teams turn out, I will make my decision." After Kurenai and Asuma picking two genin and Kakashi one the teams were, Kakashi with Sasuke and Sakura, Kurenai with Shino and Hinata, and Asuma with Shikamaru and Ino. The Sandaime sighed as he looked over the profiles and recommendations for teammates the Chunin sensei had sent for the two members of each team. "While I don't believe it wise to put him on the same team as Sasuke due to the events of last month, and even less so with a member of Sasuke's fanclub on the same team, Naruto would be the best off with Kakashi's team. Kiba Inuzuka would be best suited for Kurenai's team, as it is almost already built for tracking. Asuma's team would be best for an information gathering squad, and while Naruto could provide the muscle for the team, we cannot overlook that the previous InoShikaCho squad had trained their children to work together and it would be detrimental to put them on separate teams." Through upset about not getting Naruto, Kurenai and Asuma couldn't help but agree with the old man's reasoning. "Now that your teams are settled, the remaining students will be divvied out to the jonin who were only interested in training the 'Last' Uchiha."

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A/N: That's it for this chapter, I know that I left off with Anko and Naruto, but that's for next chapter, along with meeting the team placements. In case you were wondering how I came up with the scores for Shino, Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke in the weapons test here it is.

Shino- 4 bulls-eyes, 3 necks, a head, 2 chests (40+45+10+10105)

Hinata- 4 bulls-eyes, 2 necks, 3 heads, a chest (40+30+30+5105)

Sakura- 2 bulls-eyes, an inner ring, an outer ring, 4 necks, a head, a chest (20+5+1+60+10+5101)

Sasuke- 4 bulls-eyes, 4 necks, a head, a chest (40+60+10+5115)