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Four Years Later
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This was it. The last day of the academy.
Mizuki better not fail him out of spite.
The man acted nice sure, but Naruto could see the animosity the man held for him, as he held a face that gave the impression of a violent fantasy.
Well, it was his turn. Time to go.
He walked into the room and stood in front of Iruka, Mizuki, and another Chunin who was indifferent towards him.
Iruka smiled, "Are you ready Naruto?"
"Yup."
"Alright, please perform the Henge." Iruka asked. Naruto held a sign and with a puff of smoke, transformed into a perfect replica of Madara Uchiha as he was depicted in paintings. Iruka was confused, "Why would you choose that form Naruto? He's one of the village's greatest traitors."
"There's a lot about him that many don't understand, but i thought it was ironic. Considering I am alike to him in as many ways as I am his opposite. Nevermind." He said in a deep voice that seemed to match the form he took perfectly before transforming back into himself. Iruks shook his head, "Alright, please perform the Kawarimi." Naruto nodded, and without using hand signs, appeared on the other side of the room in a puff of smoke. Iruka's jaw dropped, "Wait, how are you over there?! There's nothing over there to substitute with." Naruto grinned, "There's the air."
Iruka sighed, "Of course I should have figured you'd pull something like that out of your ass. Naruto, that's called Shunshin, an advanced form of Kawarimi. You pass that test."
Naruto walked back to the center of the room and Iruka looked apprehensive about the next one, "Please perform the Bunshin technique." Naruto grinned before he put his hands in a cross seal and his presence spiked to a point which cracked the tiles beneath his feet. "Kage Bunshin!" An explosion of smoke and there were at least fifty clones crowding up the large room. Iruka couldn't believe his ears, so he pulled out a kunai and threw it at one of the clones far to the left of where he knew Naruto was standing. The kunai hit the clone and it dispelled, dropping the kunai straight to the ground. He looked at Naruto with a smile, "I am proud to say that you pass. Here's your forehead protector, wear it proudly." Naruto dispelled the clones and took the hitai-ate with a smile and said "Thank you sensei." Before walking out of the room.
He looked at the rest of the class with triumph before holding up his hitai-ate for the room to see. Several people clapped before looking at the person who was clapping the loudest, which happened to be Hinata Hyuuga. Once she realized everyone was staring at her, and realizing how loud she was applauding, sat down with a bright red blush on her face.
Naruto smiled when he saw her. He knew she had quite the crush on him, but he himself didn't know how to approach that situation, so he let it be for now.
That didn't mean he couldn't try to invoke a reaction out of her though. He ran up and sat down next to her before smiling brightly, "You'll do great when it's your turn! Believe it!"
That got a reaction all right, as she turned bright red, "T-Thank you N-Naruto-kun. I promise I'll do my b-best!"
Naruto smiled gently, "Have a little more confidence, you are strong. I know you are better than me in Taijutsu, and you have got the three Academy techniques down pat. You'll do great."
"Hinata Hyuuga, it's your turn." came Iruka's voice from the open door. Hinata immediately got nervous and started questioning herself. Naruto frowned and thought up an idea right then. He grabbed her hand and whispered, "Go prove your strength, and we'll go somewhere to celebrate, just the two of us." She turned sharply with her eyes wide before a huge smile broke out and she nodded before getting up and walking down through the class and into the room.
Ino looked at Naruto curiously, "What did you say to her? I haven't seen her that happy in quite a while."
"Thats our business." said Naruto curtly. He knew all about her gossiping tendencies and didnt want her to go around blabbing everything he said.
"Whatever, Naruto-baka probably just offered her some cinnamon buns or something stupid. Right Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked, not getting so much as a glance in response.
"I assure you that's not what I said, but thanks for the idea." said Naruto.
Hinata emerged a few moments later with a hitai-ate around her neck, a happy smile spread across her lightly blushing face. She went and sat next to Naruto again as he nodded with a smile before looking towards the other room as several more people took their tests, with few leaving dejected. It wasn't long before Iruka, Mizuki, and the other Chunin walked out and announced the teams.
The relevent ones were:
Team 7; Sasuke Uchiha, Hinata Hyuuga, Naruto Uzumaki.
Team 8; Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, Sakura Haruno.
Team 10; Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi.
"Yes!" Hinata quietly exclaimed. Naruto looked at her and smiled as well. Sasuke looked over and nodded to Naruto. After the massacre, Naruto reached out to Sasuke and made friends with him once he noticed the growing darkness in the young Uchiha. At first Sasuke refused all help, but after a 'friendly' spar outside of the academy in which Sasuke attempted to show Naruto his superiority, but instead got his ass handed to him, Naruto and Sasuke became close comrades, aiming to improve each other by exploiting and fixing the other's weaknesses.
In truth, they were both probably low Chunin level in skill, all they needed was experience. With Hinata in a squad with them, they were bound to become the best genin squad available.
Back to the present, a woman with long curly black hair and red eyes reminiscent of a Sharingan came in and took Team 8 out of the room. After that, a large man with a beard smoking a cigarette came in and took away Team 10.
Slowly one by one each team left the room with their Jonin sensei, until Team 7 was left alone, with even the Chunin leaving the room. Ten minutes passed, then thirty, then an hour. Eventually Naruto decided to set up a bunch of traps surrounding his chair. After a little while longer a man with spiky white hair and a lazy appearance walked into the classroom and studied the people within before he noticed that Naruto had his hand in a half ram seal.
Naruto grinned as he substituted with the man who was an hour and a half late before lots of things exploded throwing paint and glitter all over the masked Jonin.
Then the same guy walked into the door of the classroom as the other one went up in smoke.
"Hey! No fair, how did you know to make a Kage Bunshin?!
"Your file says that you made the first Hokage's head on the momument look like a concubine simply because and I quote, 'That bastard has too much damn history written about him, if I have to look at him again I might just puke.'" stated the Jonin with a lazy tone, "I figured you'd try to do something about my scheduling habits."
Naruto rubbed the back of his head, "Ah. Yeah, well I'm not exactly patient, ya know?"
The man's lone visible eye softened for a bit before he said, "Meet me on the roof in five minutes." Befor disappearing in a puff of smoke. Naruto took Hinata's hand and walked to Sasuke before putting his hand on his shoulder and all three disappeared in a puff of smoke similar to the Jonin's.
This is going to be my first attempt at doing a pairing, and I am pretty sure I'm not going to do too well, seeing as I'm the wierdo that nobody likes enough to try and have a relationship with so my own experience on the matter is limited.
Anyway, review with questions and I'll give answers as long as it doesn't spoil things about the story. Speaking of which;
thor94: Yes they will, but it will be difficult for the fox to accept his Jinchuriki when he possesses the Sharingan.