Hyuuga Naruto

I do not own Naruto.

Chapter 7: Academy Year 4

The fourth and final year of the academy was incredibly boring to Naruto. It was all about chakra. Unlocking your chakra, performing chakra exercises, even mastering the basic jutsus. Substitution, bushin, and transformation jutsu. All of which, Naruto already had mastered. So while the rest of the class aside from Hinata, was struggling to climb a tree with only their feet, Naruto was standing on water for hours at a time. And while most children couldn't get their Iruka illusion just right or make a single copy of themselves, Naruto could easily make 20 clones and make them all look like Iruka's perfect doppelgangers. And this was just halfway through. However, Naruto wasn't the only one who had grown strong.

Hinata had developed her byakugan to almost his level, and was even practicing medicals techniques. Sasuke had mastered his fire release to a higher level, Shikamaru had become even SMARTER, and Choji was much more powerful. All in all the graduating class was shaping up to be a great batch of genin.

"Alright Hinata, are you ready to start?" Naruto asked while activating his byakugan.

"Sure," Hinata responded activating her own. She wanted to show Naruto how much she has improved since the year prior through a friendly sparring match.

"Ok then! HA!" Naruto charged in with a frontal palm thrust. Hinata side-stepped it and launched a palm thrust toward his shoulder with her right hand, and aimed to strike his stomach with her left hand. However, Naruto anticipated this and pushed both hands away by the wrist with one arm while sweep kicking her. Hinata jumped kicked aiming at his chest. While she was in the air, Naruto dodged and struck her leg twice, so when she landed she couldn't support herself.

"I win," Naruto said with a grin. "But you've become much quicker for sure!"

"Thank you," Hinata said. It was always nice to hear praise from Naruto. He was her role model.

Meanwhile Tenten and lee were having their own spar.

"Here I go!" Tenten shouted while unraveling her scroll. There was a puff of white smoke and out popped a puppet. It had long black hair, black eye sockets, and wore a green robe covering its body. This was her pride and joy. She had worked on it for a while now, and had finally deemed it battle ready. She called her (ya it's a her) Yami.

"Ha!" she called out, puppet surging forward. If one possessed the byakugan, they would see glowing blue chakra strings coming from all of Tenten's fingers, connected to the puppet. When she moved her fingers and hands, so did the puppet.

As soon as the puppet was in range, Lee lashed out with a powerful kick to its midsection and ran toward Tenten. However, when he was halfway there, the puppet was once again in front of him. This time he aimed a punch for its head, only to find a blade sticking out if its mouth.

'Damn' Lee thought as he quickly pulled back. That mistake was all the time Tenten needed to pick lee up with Yami and slam him down on the ground, hard.

"Ugh!" Lee grunted out in pain as he got up. The puppet was already on him again as he began batting away its strikes with increasing difficulty. Just then the puppet shot a ball out of its stomach, a ball made of a bunch of blast tags (blast tags are like paper bombs, but more used for training. They set off a fancy big explosion, mostly just stun and launch an opponent back).

Unfortunately that slam to the ground Lee took damaged him more than he thought. As soon as that ball exploded and all he could remember was flying back before he blacked out.

*Remember, this is Lee without series taijutsu training :P

MAJOR TIMESKIP!

Later that year in October, 3 days after Naruto's birthday, it was time for graduation. The whole class had passed their exams, except for nameless losers- I mean unspecified students. Naruto entered the classroom early that day. The only other one in their was Sasuke, whom he waved hello to. His only response was Sasuke blushing and looking away.

One by one, more and more students showed up. Naruto greeted his friends one by one, who each took notice of his new appearance. He still had his blond hair, whisker marks, tan skin, and pupil-less blue eyes, but his outfit had changed. His first layer was basically a black jumpsuit, resembling standard ANBU wear, but without the sleeves. Over that he wore a gray vest resembling a chunin vest, and had a black headband around his neck. Most likely for his ninja headband.

"Alright class, settle down. I am here to announce the teams and senseis of each team. First we have..." Iruka listed off teams 1 through 6. Just more losers- I mean unspecified students. However when he got to team 7, things got interesting. "Alright, team seven consists of Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno (A flat chested banshee with long pink hair and an obsession for gay, brooding males), and-"

Cliffhanger! I'm so evil :3. Another reference of slight yaoi to keep the fans from revolting. It will come in do time! And now you know Tenten's specialty! She will become a puppet master. I did this because no one pays enough attention to her in the anime or manga, and puppets are just such a neat form of fighting. So ya, mixin' things up! Read and review! Thanks so much.