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Chapter 4

Naruto couldn't believe his luck, out all the things he could do, Iruka just had to pick that one. 'If I do Kage Bunshin, Iruka-sensei might let me pass but he'll be suspicious.'

During his time outside training and with his friends, Iruka had always been kind to him and could sometimes know what the boy would be planning next….sometimes.

Before deciding on what to do, Naruto felt a bad vibe coming from Mizuki. He looked to the chuunin who was smiling at him encouragingly. Naruto didn't buy it, 'He's up to something.'

"Bunshin No Jutsu!"

Picking his chosen ninjutsus, a plume of smoke appeared and a sickly Bunshin was on the floor. Its skin was pale white and it looked like it had eaten sour milk. Iruka sighed, he knew that Naruto couldn't do a normal Bunshin because of his condition of being the vessel of the Kyuubi. He had seen, however, the child performing Kage Bunshin. When he had reported it to the Sandaime, the Third coughed and slightly blushed saying that he allowed Naruto to look at some of his scrolls.

"I'm sorry Naruto, but you fail."

Naruto sighed as well, he really did want to pass but using an advance version of the Bunshin wasn't fair to the other students. Besides, he had to check on the other instructor. Mizuki cut in, "Why don't we let him pass Iruka, he was able to make one."

Naruto had heard the slight stress on some of the words Mizuki had used and was inwardly seething. 'I'm so going to kick his ass for this.' Iruka shook his head, "I can't Mizuki, Naruto hadn't been able to properly produce a Bunshin. So I can't let him pass.

Naruto nodded his head and putting on a look of disappointment. "Don't worry Iruka-sensei, Mizuki-sensei, I'll try again next time." He said sadly as left the examination room.

As the door closed behind him, Naruto removed his fake look and immediately went out to meet Hinata, and hopefully Sasuke. The Uchiha and the lycan had been good friends during the four years of Naruto's training. The two treated each other as friendly rivals, more like Sasuke using Naruto as a measuring stick to see how far he himself had progressed. Sasuke had also found out about Naruto's secret of being a vessel because the said vessel told him.

Sasuke was surprised when he found out why most of the adult population had always hated his blonde companion. When he did, he found Naruto to be more of a kindred spirit than ever. Both of them had lost their parents, both of them had no family left, both were isolated from the rest (though differently) and both wanted to be the best they could be. Being friends with the blonde was also helpful to the brooding boy. His friendship with Naruto allowed Sasuke to think clearly, keeping him from being lost on revenge for his clan as well as learning a few tricks on how to dodge his fan-club.

Leaving the academy, Naruto spotted his two friends talking to one another. They spotted Naruto and walked over to him. Upon seeing that he had no hitae-ate, they began to ask. "Hey dobe, where's your hitae-ate?" Sasuke asked. "Didn't you pass Naruto-kun?" Hinata followed.

Naruto shook his head but he reassured them. "Don't worry about it, something didn't feel right. Hopefully my plan won't backfire and I'll be joining you guys tomorrow."

The Uchiha and Hyuuga nodded, they had a lot of faith in Naruto.

As the graduates left with their respective guardians to celebrate, Naruto sat down on the swing in front of the academy looking at the ground. His advanced heard the talk of a couple of adults but he immediately ignored them, he already had an idea on what they were talking about.

A few minutes later Naruto was able to pick up Mizuki's scent but he continued looking at the ground. "Hey Naruto, you okay?" Naruto looked at faked his surprise upon seeing Mizuki. "Mizuki-sensei?" he asked

Naruto and Mizuki sat beside each other on a ledge somewhere in the academy. "Mizuki had started to tell Naruto about Iruka, about how he wanted attention since his parents died fighting the Kyuubi and whatnot. Naruto, however, only paid half-attention as he was trying to ascertain Mizuki's intention. 'Right now, his attentions are pure….yet…'

"Naruto, how about if I tell you another way to graduate?" the instant the chuunin said that Naruto had felt the same vibe he had felt earlier from him during the exam. Naruto nodded as he planned out what to do.

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Iruka was lying down on his bed thinking of his youth. He was brought back to the real world when he heard loud rapping on his door. The chuunin got up and opened his door and was surprised to see his friend Mizuki on the other side. The said chuunin was panting heavily and perspiring.

"Mizuki? What's wrong?" the academy teacher asked. Mizuki took a few deep breathes before answering. "It's Naruto…he stole …the forbidden scroll. The Hokage…has ordered everyone to look for him" Iruka was shocked when he heard this, he never thought that Naruto, of all people, would steal the scroll. 'Not after seeing him train so hard for so long.' he thought

Iruka, immediately dressed and rushed out the door. He didn't see the devious smile plastered on his friends face as he left.

Naruto was panting slightly upon mastering his newest skills, the Kage Kunai and the Kage Shuriken No Jutsu. The Forbidden Scroll was behind him against a tree, lying innocently untouched.

Naruto didn't open the scroll, he just practiced with his Kage Bunshin technique so he could properly use it to its fullest extent. The blonde boy decided to sit down and rest as he waited for the silver haired chuunin to arrive. 'Oh, that teme is really gonna get the beating of his life.' Naruto thought.

He knew that Mizuki was just using him, he agreed to take the scroll but he wasn't going to give it to the chuunin. He was going to use it as bait to turn Mizuki in, besides, he had already read the scroll once and he had already learned the Kage Bunshin, and once was enough. As he sat there waiting, he failed to see a shadow creeping on top of him. When he finally did, he cursed inwardly. He turned with a fake smile….only to see Iruka towering over him with a rapidly twitching right eyebrow.

Naruto sweatdropped, he wasn't expecting Iruka and by the way his teacher's eyebrow was twitching at an insane rate must mean he must've really pissed him off. "Naruto, please tell me what you were doing?"

Naruto rubbed the back of his neck and answered, hoping he would live to see tomorrow. "H-Hi Iruka-sensei, looks like you found me." He said sheepishly. Naruto heard someone coming, it was Mizuki. Naruto looked to his right with a serious expression, Iruka seeing this, looked at the same direction.

Both student and teacher jumped backed to avoid being cut in two by a large shuriken. Mizuki dropped down from a nearby tree a sadistic smile on his face. "It seems I didn't give both of you enough credit." He said

"Mizuki, what's the meaning of this!" Iruka asked, outraged that his childhood friend would do something like this. "The Forbidden Scroll holds all the secrets of Konoha, once I get my hands on it I'll be as powerful as the hokage." The silver haired ninja said.

Iruka turned to his student, "Naruto, don't give Mizuki the scroll." he exclaimed. Naruto nodded but did not reply formulating how to defeat the traitor without showing most of his abilities, but he had a gut feeling that Iruka knew a bit of what he could accomplish.

Still smiling, Mizuki called out to Naruto. "Hey Naruto, do you want to know why everyone in the village hates you?" Naruto had enough of Mizuki, he didn't want to stand around listening to the traitor of a secret he already knew and just plainly, he wanted to pound Mizuki on how he tried to get Iruka to pass him.

"You mean about me being the vessel of the Kyubi?" he asked blatantly before Iruka could say anything. This question shocked both adults, especially Mizuki, who thought that Naruto could go berserk if revealed with this information. Mizuki just smiled again and tried to get Naruto become a berserker, tried being the keyword. "So you know that you're the Kyubi?" It was a statement, not a question. Naruto just looked annoyed when Mizuki said this, he just rolled his eyes. "Hardly, I know that the Kyubi and I are two separate beings. I'm not that stupid." The blonde said as he readied himself.

The smile on Mizuki's face disappeared, replaced by a snarl. "It doesn't matter! Now hand over that scroll!" he demanded before the smile returned "I might make your death as painless as possible if you do."

"And why would I want to do that?" Naruto asked with a smirk on his face. "Why you little…." Mizuki had enough of this, he unhooked his second fuuma shuriken and rushed towards the boy, the weapon spinning rapidly in his left hand.

Iruka was about to run to his students aide until he found out he couldn't move. He found that his legs were being held by wires. Mizuki smiled, he was able to get those wires around Iruka, but he didn't put any on Naruto thinking he wouldn't need it….big mistake.

Mizuki slashed Naruto across the boy's chest, when he made contact, Naruto however, turned into a puff of smoke. "Nani!"

'Kage Bunshin?" Iruka thought, then smiled. 'I knew he could that move.' He thought something was off when Naruto didn't perform the Kage Bunshin to pass. Something caught the eyes of the chuunins. A shadow had started to run around Mizuki so fast, that he looked like he was inside a black tornado.

Suddenly, Mizuki's body had started to jerk and twist around. Iruka heard Naruto's voice echoing around him as Mizuki was being used as a punching bag.

"Kage Ookami Style: Tatsumaki!"

After a couple of seconds more, Mizuki was lauched into the air. Naruto blurred into view in front of his opponent and delivered a spinning heel kick to the side of Mizuki's face. This caused his opponent to hit a tree out cold, the fuuma shuriken that was used fell beside Mizuki sticking out of the ground near his head.

As Naruto landed and turned to free Iruka, the said chuunin was in awe of Naruto's display in power, speed and skill. When Naruto got the last of the wires off of Iruka, he spoke up. "Naruto could you close your eyes for a moment?" he asked.

Naruto hesitated for a moment, not sensing any malicious intent coming from the man, then nodded. Closing his eyes for minute Naruto felt something placed on his forehead. He heard Iruka say "Okay, now open your eyes."

Naruto opened his eyes and saw his teacher without his hitae-ate. He touched his forehead and felt the cool metal. He smiled as he started to cry happily, all his trainin and hard work had finally paid off. "Congratulations Naruto, you passed."

Inside the boy's mind, Kyubi snorted as he watched the boy. He could always have his fun of torturing Naruto another time. He didn't like these any of these sappy moments….most of the time

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Naruto woke up the next day early feeling quite happy. He looked at his new konoha hitae-ate proudly. He was about to put it on his forehead but decided to wrap around the upper part of his right arm.

After doing his daily routine, which is breakfast, training/torture and a bath, Naruto left to go towards the Hokage tower, leaving his chakra sword and sakabatō. A few minutes later, Naruto was seated in front of the Hokage who was looking at his record.

"Congratulations on passing Naruto." The old man said with a smile, he had seen the boy defeat Mizuki through his crystal ball. Naruto returned the smile. "Arigatou, ji-san." Before anything else could be said, the door to the room opened and a kid, a few years younger than Naruto, charged at the Sandaime.

The kid was wearing a weird head gear which only a small tuft of black hair could be seen poking from the top. He also wore a yellow shirt, with the leaf symbol stitched on it, khaki shorts, blue shinobi sandals and a long blue scarf. The kid was holding a training shuriken and shouted. "Ji-san! Fight me!" Before tripping on his scarf and hitting the floor nose first.

"That hurt" the kid looked around and saw Naruto sitting in front of him. He got up and pointed at the blonde angrily. "You tripped me!" Naruto fought the impulse to bash the kid's head in. How dare this kid accuse him of the cause for his own clumsiness, before Naruto could retaliate, a man wearing black pants, a black long sleeved shirt and black sandals with a pair of black, round sunglasses and a black bandanna came to the boy's aide.

"Konohamaru-sama, daijobu desu ka?" he asked worriedly. The man spotted Naruto and his eyes narrows into slits. He was still seen by Naruto however. The man then pointed accusingly at Naruto like the kid, now known as Konohamaru, did a while ago.

"You should show more respect to the Sandaime's grandson." He said sternly. Naruto stood up and looked sternly at the man, the Sandaime's grandson then the Sandaime himself who just sighed at his grandson's antics.

He looked at the kid again before walking out of the room, before walking the door everyone hear Naruto say, "Respect is earned, not given." Ebisu just glared at the boy before looking at Konohamru, instead he saw an empty space.

"Looks like Konohamaru decided to follow Naruto." Sarutobi muttered, he rubbed his temples and felt a headache approaching. Ebisu, the man who had came into the room shouted as he tried to track down his wayward charge. "Konohamaru-sama!"

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Naruto was walking along a deserted street, he knew he was being followed by Konohamaru. It wasn't because of the kid's poor effort in disguising himself, it's because Naruto heard him a mile away and could smell the kid, the blonde just chose to ignore him.

After a few more minutes of poorly made disguises and following, Naruto had had enough. He turned around and looked at the tarp Konohamaru was using to disguise himself as part of the fence.

"Alright, come out, I know you're there so there's no use trying." Naruto said as Konohamaru dropped the tarp. The kid ran up to Naruto on his face, "You really are good if you can find me."

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Naruto sat quietly on a log as he listened to Konohamaru. The latter had told Naruto that people had always seen him as the third's grandson but not as himself. He had wanted to gain the title as Hokage so that people could truly see him as himself and not as how they saw him now.

'Seems like Konoha has the same dream I had once had.' Naruto thought as he looked at his drink pensively. Naruto had chosen a different goal/s for his life. One was to be strong to protect those precious to him. The second goal, was…well…

"Oyabun, why are you blushing?" Konohamaru asked innocently. "I-I-It's nothing really…" Naruto said as he was broken from his train of thought Naruto heard Kyubi roar with laughter, the fox had seen what his vessel had thought. 'Stupid fox…poking his nose where it doesn't belong.' Naruto grumbled inwardly. He then focused on Konohamaru, he gave him a fox grin as he said, "Konohamaru, how would you like to learn a technique that could defeat your grandfather and almost any male shinobi?"

Naruto's young friend looked at Naruto, eyes wide and with a smile. "Really?" he asked hoping his new friend would. Naruto heard a snicker from Kyubi when he nodded, not only would this give the Sandaime a huge headache, and this would cause chaos to Iruka as well.

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Naruto and Konohamaru left the forest they were in and went to a bookstore Naruto had went to before. "Hey Oyabun?" Naruto looked to his new charge, who seemed quite puzzled. "Hm?"

Konohamaru looked at him and asked "Why are we at a bookstore? I thought you were going teach me something to beat my grandpa with?" Naruto waved his finger in front of Konohamaru. "Tsk-tsk, Konohamaru the greatest weapons a ninja has is deception and information." Naruto looked at the bookstore before continuing "I can't teach this technique outright. I have to give you a small mental image on what you have to know and we'll start from there." Naruto said as he formed a handseal which Konohamaru recognized, then formed his own.

"Henge"

A puff of smoke later, and both had disguised themselves as girls. Naruto had taken the form of his Orioke No Jutsu with the exception of clothes. Konhamaru looked like an ugly girl. This made Naruto grimace 'This is gonna be tougher than I thought.' Naruto thought as he and his "student" entered the store.

Naruto had shown Konohamru the mgazines he had been looking at before when he developed the Orioke no Jutsu. After a few minutes of looking, Naruto heard footsteps coming closer, he dropped the magazine he was showing Konohamaru, grabbed the said boy and dashed out of the store and into a nearby forest.

After catching their breath and dismissing their henge, Naruto had started to teach Konohamaru his technique, the Orioke No Jutsu.

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After several exhausting and frustrating hours later, Naruto and Konohamaru were sitting on the log they hat sat down earlier, drinking some water. It had taken a lot of time and tries but they had succeeded. Konohamaru was able to learn the Orioke no Jutsu.

"With that technique, you'll be able to beat your grandpa and any pervert." Naruto said as he took another gulp of water. "Yeah, Arigatou Naruto-niichan." Thanked the young shinobi in-training. Naruto raised an eyebrow at his new title but didn't say anything.

"So this where were you went off to, Konohamaru-sama." Both turned around to see Ebisu standing on a branch of a tree. Naruto had a look of annoyance on his face as he saw the way Ebisu glared at him through his sunglasses. 'Took him long enough to get here.' Naruto thought.

Ebisu jumped down from his perch and started to walk to his charge. "Konohamaru-sama, leave this trash and come with me. I promise you that I'll teach you powerful techniques and I assure you that you'll be Hokage in no time."

"No! I'm not going with you!" Konohamaru shouted before forming a handseal.

"Orioke No Jutsu!"

Konohamaru transformed himself into a tall, slender and sexy brown, shoulder length hair. Ebisu just shouted, clearly shocked but didn't faint. Dispelling the henge, Konohamaru was surprised to his mentor still standing. "Huh? It didn't work." The kid stated.

Ebisu looked annoyed and started to drag Konohamru away using the blue scarf aroung his charge's neck, "Konohamaru-sama, be reasonable, leave this trash amd I assure you that you'll learn better techniques than that. I'm the best shortcut to being Hokage!"

Konohamaru was struggling not to be dragged by the adult but was failing.

"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!"

Ebisu and Konohamaru stopped what they were doing and saw several shadow clones appear before them. "Sugoi!" Konohamaru exclaimed as he saw the shadow clones. Ebisu looked at the clones, he smirked as he pushed his sunglasses up. "Kage Bunshin huh? You'll have to do better than that. Unlike Mizuki I'm more experienced and far stronger than he is. I'm not a tokubetsu jounin for nothing." Ebisu said as walked into the middle of the Naruto clones and took his fighting stance giving Naruto the first move.

Once again, underestimating Naruto proves to be the downfall of another shinobi. Naruto and his clones all formed a single handseal and shouted in unison.

"Henge!"

Each of the Naruto's had performed an Orioke No jutsu and started to cling onto Ebisu and started to massage his hands feet and caress his clothes, they all said in the same seductive voice. "Ebisu-sama."

This caused Ebisu to fly through the air as both of his nostrils bled dry. As Naruto dismissed his technique, he had a fox grin on his face as he looked at the KO'ed Ebisu. "I call that my Harem Ni Jutsu." He said with glee.

From inside his office, Sarutobi had several tissue clogged up his nostrils. "Looks like Naruto invented another stupid technique." The old man then looked away from his crystal ball that won't work on me….maybe."

Konohamaru sighed as looked at his prone mentor's form. Naruto noticed his sad looked and asked. "What's wrong konohamru?" The said kid looked at Naruto and sighed again. "After all that, I still couldn't beat Ebisu."

Naruto patted Konohamaru on his head. "Don't worry, I'm sure one day you'd beat the closer pervert over there." Naruto jerked his finger over to the still out coldE before continuing. "Just train hard and never give up on your dreams." Konohamaru smiled and nodded.

Naruto smiled and disappeared in a cloud of smoke, it was a Kage Bunshin. In place of a clone was a small note which read.

Take care of yourself. Be strong and never give up.

Konohamaru smiled as he read the note. He placed it in his pocket before trying to revive his mentor. Naruto whistled to himself as he made his way back to his apartment. He had to get ready for tomorrow to see who his new teammates would be.

Move list:

Here is where I'll explain some of Naruto's new arsenal of attacks.

Kage Ookami Style: Tatsumaki

Translation: Shadow Wolf Style: Tornado

Category: Mix of genjutsu and taijutsu

Description: With this attack Naruto envelopes himself in chakra to bend the light around

himself to become invisible while in the shadows. Then while doing this, Naruto runs around the opponent so fast that he looks like a black mini-tornado. This confuses the opponent while Naruto attack physically. Better used during the night where Naruto can get the jump on his opponents.

A/N:

Finally an update, I do apologize for my lateness but I am busy with school lately. I was able to finish chapter since classes got suspended and this allowed me time to do this. Hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I got the format of explaining Naruto's new moves from General Greivous' fanfic, 'The Legend of Uzumaki Naruto'.

Thanks for all those reviews and support you've given to me thus far, it's really encouraging.