Chapter 7

Over the past four months Naruto had been training every day consistently and diligently for hours. Most of his time was spent attempting to master his Radiance bloodline, but this had proved to be a near impossible task. On some occasions the Sandaime had come to his training sessions and had given him advice on how to activate the bloodline. As yet he was not able to control it fully, and it seemed as if the bloodline became more powerful and prominent when he was over emotional or in danger, and it was much easier to activate it at these times too. When he was not emotional the aura would simply shield some incoming attacks and give him greater speed and strength, however when he was emotional he could use the very aura as a weapon, as he had done against the Rock nins.

However, at the same time Naruto had not let his other skills drop, and trained in them too everyday. This lead to Naruto worker much harder for a much longer period of time, and some of his classmates were beginning to think he was running himself ragged. Sasuke and Hinata would often train with Naruto too, but they found themselves worn out long before Naruto's stamina had even begun to thaw.

It was finally the day Naruto and his Academy friends had been training for, after four years of hard work it was finally the day of the genin exam. Iruka-sensei had very kindly told them that the test would ask for them to do the Bunshin jutsu, the Kawarimi jutsu and they would be allowed to show one skill for extra credit, to decide who would be the top ranked genin of the year. As he and Sasuke left the Kazama compound that morning Naruto could feel his stomach churning in apprehension.

Naruto sat outside the academy before the test with Sasuke, Hinata, Shikamaru, Kiba, Shino and Ino. Ino was the newest member of their group, and Shikamaru had introduced her to them as a family friend. All of them knew Ino was also trying to get Sakura in too, but the girl was evidently too shy to talk to them, although she would join in on rare occasions. Their group was admittedly comprised of all the coolest and strongest kids in the class. While Naruto was willing to talk openly with everyone in the class, Sasuke was less willing to let them sit with the group.

The bell finally rang and Naruto bounced up onto his feet, and started walking to the doors briskly, spouting gibberish.

"Naruto, do you have to be so troublesome?" Shikamaru asked. "We all know you're the best in the class and that you're gonna be top ranked genin of the year, so please... please just shut up," Shikamaru said. Naruto reddened in embarrassment at the compliments.

They all shuffled into their seats and Iruka told them of the procedures. Naruto watched as one by one the class was called up to perform their jutsus. Most people passed easily, but very few of them did an extra credit technique. He watched as all his friends passed. Shikamaru had done the best extra credit jutsu, with his Shadow Bind, by the time Sasuke was called up. Sasuke did both test techniques perfectly and his extra credit jutsu was one that Naruto had taught him, it was the Fire Jutsu: Art of the Flailing Dragon Jutsu, a mid B-Ranked jutsu which was a less powerful version of the Fire Jutsu: Srt of the Great Dragon, which Naruto had yet to teach Sasuke. Iruka watched in surprise and awe at the technique, before clapping and congratulating Sasuke.

"Uzumaki Naruto," Iruka called to Naruto, and Naruto froze for a second before Sasuke pushed him up from his seat. He moved to the front of the class.

"Go on Naruto, do the Replacement jutsu first," Iruka said, smiling at him. Naruto nodded and put his hands together in the seal for the jutsu. After a few seconds Iruka threw a kunai at Naruto, and Naruto made no action to move. The kunai hit him and he poofed and turned into a log, a moment before the real Naruto materialised behind Iruka and held a kunai to his neck. The class clapped and cheered for him and he flashed a grin to them.

"Very good Naruto! Now just do the Clone jutsu for me too," he put his hands together and wordlessly a set of ten clones appeared behind him. Iruka smiled signalling he had passed, however if Iruka had tiouched the vclones he would have known that these were not normal clones as they were actually sold, they were Shadow Clones. Kage Bunshin no jutsu was a jutsu that Kakashi had recently taught Naruto when Naruto had told him he could not do the regular Bunshin. The jutsu roduced a number of solid clones that could aid the user in battle, apparently if used correctly it could take out A-class shinobi.

"Okay Naruto, if you want extra credit then you can do an extra technique for the class," Iruka said, his voice full of anticipation.

"We're going to have to go outside to the training grounds for my technique," Naruto told Iruka, all of the class quickly got up and ran outside wanting to get in a good position to see the technique. By the time Naruto got to the grounds Iruka and the rest of the class were waiting impatiently.

"Go on Naruto," Sasuke said.

Naruto stood still for a moment his head bowed in concentration as he began to pull on his chakra. For this jutsu his chakra control had to be precise and accurate, otherwise he could end up harming himself. Naruti flashed through a set of handseals too fast for the students and Iruka to follow. He manipulated the chakra into fine blades and forced the wind around the chakra blades. He made the blades into a constantly fast-moving layer over his body. In this way he had made a great defence against any weapons and taijutsu attacks. The constantly moving winds would easily deflect any blows, as well as cut or harm an opponent.

"Oi Sasuke!" Naruto said. "Shoot one of your Katon jutsus at me," he ordered. Sasuke merely raised an eyebrow before moving so that he was directly in front of Naruto.

He flashed through some seals before shouting, "Fire Jutsu: Grand Fireball no Jutsu". The class were afraid that Naruto would be harmed, as none of them could see the chakra wind blades moving over his skin and clothes, except Hinata who had her Byakugan activated. Naruto stood there, making no move to avoid or stop the fireball. When it reached him the class was shocked to see it dissipate against his wind blade armour. The Naruto jumped toward one of the large trees bordering the training ground. Using his right arm he slashed once at the tree, cutting it cleanly.

There was a brief pause of shocked silence before Iruka began to clap, and everyone else followed suit. Kiba cheered loudly from the back and Sasuke sent him a smile of approval.

"Naruto do you want to tell us a little bit about that jutsu?" Iruka asked.

"Sure. It's a jutsu I made myself, I call it Wind Jutsu: The Armour of the cutting winds. As you saw before it's an offensive as well as defensive jutsu, and it would probably require genjutsu or at least a B-ranked ninjutsu to over come it, even then the ninjutsu would be severely weakened. However, the best thing about this jutsu is not just that, it's the fact that it can be used in multi-elemental attacks," Naruto grinned, however he saw that most of the class did not know what this meant, so he explained, "A multi-elemental attack is when you use jutsus from different elements which compliment one another. For example, if I was to use this jutsu and use a water jutsu on top of that then I would have water based armour, so Fire jutsu users would have a harder time beating the armour."

"Naruto, you have got to teach me that," Sasuke whispered so that only he could hear.

"Sure, but since your elements are fire and lightning you'll never be able to use it to its full potential, because it's a wind jutsu. But it could still be very useful. I'll teach you and Hinata the handseals today," Naruto whispered back, Sasuke nodded slightly.

"Well the rookie of the year is going to be Naruto," said Iruka, a small cheer went up from the class at this. "Even though his written performance in the class has been slightly below what would be expected, his practical performance is the best the Academy has ever seen, and he has shown ideals, skills and potential essential in any good shinobi." Naruto blushed slightly at the praise and attention he was getting, he had never got used to being complimented.

"Everyone, I want to see you here o'clock sharp so that I can issue your genin teams!" Iruka told hem before he dismissed the class.

Boring chapter, I know.

Anyway, I wnt u peeps to vote for pairings, NaruHina is already decided but other options are:

ShikaTema

ShikaIno

SasuSaku

SasuIno

NejiTen

NejiOC

SasuOC

GaaOC

I've probably missed out some apirings, but if you want any others then please let me now.

Satansrogue

GaaIno