The next morning Naruto walked into the Academy like the past few days, except now everyone parted from his path and moved away from his seat in the corner further 'It seems as if they found out' And this was true, the kids had gone home to ask about the enigma that was Naruto Uzumaki, their parents told them nothing except that he was dangerous and to stay away from him. They trusted their parents and did as instructed, and stayed as far from him as possible. No one came to talk to him at lunch that day. 'feh. Was only a matter of time before they learned, ignorant fools'
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The rest of the week followed this new trend, with all the other kids shunning away from Naruto, after school he would go to his hidden training ground and work on his chakra control, by the end of the week he was able to easilly bound up and down the trees jumping from tree to tree.
'Ne, Kyuubi what is the purpose of improving my chakra control, I can see it being useful, but shouldn't this be used later, like when I know more jutsu's?'
"Kit, do you really think I would have you learn something in vain? This training will help you in many ways"
'Really, and just how is that?'
"First, you can use your chakra to sneak into, and away from places now, such as climb along the walls and ceilings like a spider, and with the training I'm starting you on today, it will allow you to do even more, such as cut through the strongest of materials, which is something almost no one else will be able to do"
'Hmm, cool but why will almost no one else be able to cut through things like me?'
"Because Kit, Your chakra reserves are unmatched, even at this age and stage of training you have the chakra levels much higher then most jounin's, and this technique burns more chakra then most Shinobi can spare"
'Good to know others wont be able to copy it, so how does it work?'
"It's fairly simple really, and incredibly ingenious, you focus chakra to your hands, similar to the tree climbing, except now you concentrate the whole flow to the tips of your fore and middle fingers, and force it out in a concentrated beam, the intense force and heat of the chakra being expelled can cut through the thickest of steels like this, but this type of thing is useless against items infused with chakra, like explosive notes, or chakra strings. Try it out on that tree, try carving something into it"
Naruto nodded, it sounded simple enough right? He walked up to the tree and brought his hand up in front of him and started focusing chakra to his hand, which started to glow bright blue, he then concentrated it to his fore and middle fingers and forced it out, it came out as a beam about 1 inch away from his fingers. 'It's a little...small' "It will get longer with practice, now try it out!"
Naruto leaned on the tree with his off hand and started engraving into the bark, smoke rose from the bark as it was incinerated by the chakra and turned to ash, leaving a burnt trail behind his fingers. He finished his engraving and pulled away, revealing a fox in a lunging position, nine tails fanned out behind it.
"Very nice Kit, announce that you're aware of me why don't you, on you're own personal training ground"
'Aww fuck' he grumbled he then placed his palm over the picture and forced a layer of chakra out of his entire palm, burning the whole image to ash. "Nice work Kit, looks like that could be used in combat to burn your enemies."
'Right so...anything else to do today?'
"For today I want you to keep practicing cutting things and burning things with your hands, also get used to using your hands on the trees to climb them as well, it will be much more useful to climb walls on all fours then just your feet. Tomorrow we will begin training your body, with taijutsu and heavy training, we are going to turn that frail body of your's into a powerhouse by the time you graduate the Academy"
'Ok, sounds good, you gonna teach me some more jutsu's too?'
"No. I will not teach you any more jutsu's until after you become a Genin, we are going to train your body, mind and chakra control until then"
'Kay, you're the boss Kyuu-chan'
That's how things went for the rest of Naruto's time in the Academy, training everyday after school and robbing stores when they ran out of money, he went around town casing stores from time to time to train his stealth skills. In school he maintained a look of low skill, making sure to look like a weak kid that didn't know anything. He adopted a mask of stupidity and happiness, pulling pranks from time to time to keep his act up.
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It's the day of graduation at the Academy, Naruto is twelve years old now and has changed a lot since when he first joined, he is no longer the thin bony child he started as, he also grew a lot now that he was always eating and gets all his nutrients he isn't the dwarf he started out as, he stands at a solid 5' 3" which is pretty tall for his age, and although his clothes hid it all his efforts over the past two years were not in vain, he now sports a very tone body, with a full six pack and big arms and powerful legs.
Iruka took his place before the class room and cleared his throat to gain their attention "Today is the day of Examinations, we will call you in by name into the next room over where we will test your skills, good luck" he and Mizuki walked off into the side room, a moment later Iruka stuck his head out of the room and called "Shino Aburame, please come take your examination"
"For the love of god it's alphabetical?" Naruto yelled out, keeping up his idiotic mask, but in truth he was pissed.
"So the Dobe actually knows his alphabets? Never woulda guessed" Sasuke said
"Stuff it teme, I'm not in the mood for your shit today" Naruto then put his head down on his arms and 'went to sleep' as he often pretended to do in class, in actuality he just started meditate to pass the time. Thankfully it worked and before he knew it his name was called "Naruto Uzumaki, come take your examination"
Naruto got up from his seat 'sleepily' and walked off towards the exam room, dragging his feet the whole way, "Good luck dobe, you'll need it" Sasuke called behind him, Sasuke had just come back right before him, with his new hitai-ite.
Naruto ignored the jab and walked on, into the exam room and before the two teachers.
"Okay Naruto, lets get this over with, to start with, Kawarimi into something from this room" Iruka said
Naruto frowned "Really? Is that it? It's soo hard though!" He 'pouted'
He decided to get it over with as fast as possible, he hated acting. He didn't even bother with hand seals, but in puff of smoke he was replaced with a textbook from a desk
Iruka continued "Next I want you to Henge into something famous in the village"
Naruto tapped his chin in thought for a second before nodding "Just how famous can it be? And does size have to be perfect? Because I'll need to change to scale a little for the room"
Iruka looked confused "As famous as you can think of, and if size is a problem then I suppose you can scale it to work"
Naruto nodded "Sweet!" and again, without hand seals (His chakra control kicks ass now after two years of training, low level jutsu's are extremely easy for him) and disappeared in a poof of smoke, when the smoke cleared there stood a miniature Kyuubi, in all it's glory, nine tails fanned out behind waving around happily, it wasn't too miniature, being larger then a horse.
Iruka and Mizuki both freaked slightly, considering who it was that turned into the fox, "Naruto why did you turn into the Kyuubi of all things!"
Naruto 'poofed' back into his normal shape and shrugged "Dunno, Kyuubi just always stuck out as being really cool and powerful looking, and definitely has to be the most famous being in Konoha's history"
After they got over the shock of seeing the Kyuubi Iruka continued "Alright Naruto, finally I want you to create between 2-5 bunshins"
Naruto frowned "Man, I hate bunshins, they're so useless, whatever" And once again without using any seals 4 bunshin's popped into existence around him, all five Naruto's took a bow before the clones dispelled.
Iruka frowned, he really didn't think the kid had what it took to pass "Congratulations Naruto, here is your hitai-ite. I must say, you surprised me"
Naruto took the hitai-ite and rolled his eyes "Thanks for the confidence boost" He turned on the spot and walked back into the classroom with the headband in his hand, after he took his seat he put the hitai-ite on his desk and looked at it.
'Uh, this blue band is so ugly I'm going to have to get some black cloth to put it on' His inner ranting was interrupted when Iruka and Mizuki came back into the room and Iruka started a speech about how he was proud to have taught them and to have been the one to bring them into the life of a Shinobi, Naruto tuned most of it out except for the ending, where they were told that they would be assigned teams and a Jounin instructor tomorrow.
"Kit, as congratulations for becoming a Genin, I'm going to teach you a jutsu that is going to help you train extremely fast, and very effectively"
Naruto was hooked by the time Kyuubi said 'teach' everytime Kyuubi taught him something, it was either very important or very cool 'Sweet so, what is it and how's it gonna help me train?'
"The Jutsu is the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, what's great about it is that the clones are solid entities and can attack or be attacked, meaning you can spar with them. But that's not the best part, when the clones are dispelled all the knowledge or memories the clones gained are returned to the creator. So if you were training your chakra control alongside 100 clones, you would gain 100 times the experience in the same time. But with your chakra reserves you could be training with about 1000 clones at a time, you could learn years upon years worth of training and knowledge in no time at all"
Naruto was flabbergasted at the idea, learning 1000 times faster then normal? In one day with one thousand clones he could accomplish 3 years of training. It was phenomenal.
'Kyuu-chan you're a diabolical genius! I can become so powerful now, Imagine if I trained for one solid year like that...one thousand years of training and practice, and also I could use this by sending clones to the library and such to read all the time, further increasing my knowledge on important subjects like sealing or styles of taijutsu to try and such.'
Kyuubi smiled warmly from behind the bars of her cage "Indeed Kit, the possibilities are endless, you could easily surpass all those who have ever come before you like this, and with my guidance you will surely become the most powerful person in the world, I have no doubt in my mind"
After they finished their conversation about the possibilities with this newly revealed training method Naruto ran out to his 'private' training field where Kyuubi showed him the needed seals, and the relative chakra needed to make the relative amount of clones. After about 20 minutes of practicing the hand seals and chakra flow Naruto was confident he had it down, so he felt he should give it a try.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" He yelled, and forced a lot of chakra into the jutsu, and the field was covered in smoke. A moment later a light evening breeze blew the cloud away, revealing well over 500 Naruto's crowded in the field.
"Another special talent is the Shadow clones are sentient, as they have a bit of your chakra and soul inside them, they can think their own thoughts and respond to people asking them things, they can also use jutsu so long as they have the required chakra, why not have about 10 clones henge into random people and send them to the library to study until it closes, then split up the rest to do the rest of your chakra control exercises?"
Naruto mentally nodded 'Good idea Kyuu-chan' He did as she suggested, sending 10 clones to the library to study different things, ranging from taijutsu to fuinjutsu. He split up the remaining clones to do all his various chakra control exercises. Tree climbing, water walking, Kunai balancing, and focusing chakra to his fingers to cut/burn things.
He had all the clones do all the exercises until he went to sleep, while he did physical exercise the whole time, since one of the few things the clones couldn't help with was his physical training, though they could train him for taijutsu and kenjutsu, because they were based on instincts and memories, which the clones did transfer.
Later on at night he suddenly got a slight headache as he felt a huge inflow of knowledge from all the things the clones at the library had read. 'I guess the library just closed, that stung a bit'
" Yes, that is the one downside to this training Kit, if you dispel to many clones at once, it will either give you a huge headache, or it will overload your brain with new information and make you pass out. I suggest you have the clones dispell in groups of about 5-20 clones every minute or two while you're asleep, that way the new knowledge gets filed away in your brain without overloading you"
'Mmm, Sounds like a good idea Kyuu-chan, I think I'm going to go to sleep a little early today, one of the clones at the library read something of a secondary test being given by the Jounin sensei's, and I want to be ready for anything.'
Naruto gave out a mental command to the clones telling them to dispel in groups after he went to sleep, and then left for his new apartment to sleep.
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Naruto woke up the next morning feeling great, he never had such control of his chakra in his life! It was as if his chakra was bending to his every will following the slightest mental command instantly, He was very pleased with the efforts of his training, and while walking to the Academy he searched through the knowledge his clones from the library gained. The things he learned without even having to do anything, it was amazing, It one afternoon of training he learned as much as he would have from a solid week of reading and studying, and over a years worth of chakra control training.
Naruto left his body on autopilot to get to the Academy and sit while he mused over his newfound knowledge of seals and kenjutsu, He definitely wanted to take up the art of sword fighting, the art of fighting with a zanbato really drew his attention and he definitely wanted to learn it, now he just needed to get a hold of a good zanbato.
Iruka took his place before the classroom as usual and cleared his throat to get everyone's attention "I'm very proud of you all today, we started this class 2 years ago with over 50 students, and now only 27 of you remain, I am very proud of you all and I'm sure you will go on to make great Shinobi, Today we are assigning you all teams and your sensei's, Team 1..."
Iruka continued to rattle off Team's and their sensei's, with Naruto tuning it out while waiting to hear his name. "Team 7 will consist of Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Uchiha Sasuke"
"Damn it...damn it...damn it...damn it...damn it...damn it...damn it" Naruto chanted as he smashed his head into his desk, the unnerving thing about it was with each smash of his head the desk cracked a little, when he finished the was a very noticeable head-shaped indent in the top of the desk.
"The damn emo...why?"'And his top fan-girl too!?' He finished the end in his mind, since the class believed he had a crush on Sakura, as part of his 'happy go lucky' mask. During his head-smashing and ranting he didn't hear the multiple calls of Iruka.
"NARUTO!" he screamed, finally getting his attention
"Huh, what?" he answer, lifting his head from his desk, revealing a blood stain on the desk and a small stream of blood running from his forehead down to his chin.
" I said your Jounin sensei will be Hatake Kakashi...you should go to the nurse your head's bleeding pretty heavily"
Naruto looked down at the small pool of blood on his desk from the blood dripping off his chin, and grinned sheepishly "Woopsie, nah I'll be alright"
Iruka shook his head at the moron, 'He's gonna be light headed from bloodloss' "Right, Team 8 is..."
He continued to call out the teams and their sensei's and once he finally finished he announced "Your Jounin sensei's should be here shortly to pick you up, good luck in your Shinobi careers" Iruka then walked out of the door without looking back at the kids.
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It had been 2 hours since Iruka had left, and about an hour and a half since every other student had left with their sensei's, but not team 7, they sat there waiting for their...lazy sensei.
During this time of boredom Naruto had come to the decision that now that he was out of the Academy he was going to ditch the mask of stupidity and weakness, there was no need to give everyone in the world a handi-cap by using a mask of weakness and ineptitude.
Finally the door at the base of the room opened and a man walked in, he wore standard Jounin gear, with blue Shinobi pants and a green Jounin vest over his chest, his face was covered from the nose down with a face mask, and his left eye was covered by his sagging hitai-ite, overall the man carried himself like the lazy son of a bitch he had so far shown himself to be.
The second he was in the room Sakura screeched at full volume "SENSEI YOU'RE 2 HOURS LATE!!"
Sasuke ignored her screeching, and Naruto flinched at the high volume, as did Kakashi
"My first impression, I hate you. Meet me on the roof in 5 minutes" Kakashi then disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Naruto got up from his seat and strolled out of the room, completely ignoring his two 'teammates' once outside he walked up the side of the Academy before his teammates got outside.
Naruto's entrance startled Kakashi as he did not come from the direction of the stairs, and the Academy was 3 stories tall and he doubted any genin could jump that high.
Kakashi decided to voice his opinion "So how did you get up here if you didn't take the stairs?"
Naruto smirked "A good shinobi never reveals his secrets" A moment after that Sasuke and Sakura appeared on the roof, coming from the stairs, halting Kakashi from questioning Naruto further.
"Right so, lets get to know each other for a bit, tell me your name, likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams, aspirations, whatever"
Sakura raised her hand "Umm, why don't you go first sensei? We don't know anything about you after all"
Kakashi nodded "Alright, my name is Hatake Kakashi, I have many likes, and many dislikes. My hobbies and dreams are mine alone"
Sakura face-vaulted "all you told us was your name, and we knew it already"
Kakashi shrugged "You go now, pinky"
Sakura fumed at the nickname, while Naruto snickered at her misfortune "My name is Sakura Haruno, I like.." looks at sasuke and giggles "I don't like Ino-pig, or Naruto-baka!, my dream is..." Looks at Sasuke and giggles...again.
'Great, a fan-girl' "Alright, you're next broody" Kakashi said, pointing to Sasuke
"Tch, names' Sasuke Uchiha, I have no likes, and many dislikes, my ambition is to kill a certain man and restore my clan"
'A broody, emotional, Avenger. Oh joy' "And now you, blondie" Kakashi said, pointing at Naruto
"Names Naruto Uzumaki, at least that's what I'm told. I like training and my one friend. I dislike, no I despise those who judge someone based on here say rather then facts. My ambition...no, my future is to become the strongest being on this earth, with the help of my friend"
'Hmm, I wasn't aware that he had any friends...' "Very well, it's to late to do anything today, so meet me at training ground 7 tomorrow at 8, where going to do some survival training"
"But Kakashi-sensei, we already did survival training in the academy!" Sakura protested
" That may be true, but this is a test, A test to see if you are prepared to become a Shinobi of Konoha, in the academy you were tested if you were capable of being a Shinobi, now comes the real test, and unless you like vomiting, don't eat breakfast"
Naruto broke into an evil grin 'I knew there would be a second test! I'm going to send a bunch of clones to the library to see if I can't discover the goal of the tests, though I have an idea of what it's going to be about'
"Really now, what do you think it's going to be about Kit?"
'I think it's going to involve something about seeing how we work together as a team, if it is we're so fucked, these fools will only work with me if I force them too. Wait, maybe I can scare them into it'
"And how do you plan to scare these two into working with you? If I remember correctly the Uchiha thinks you're weak and worthless, and the Girl will follow the Uchiha straight off of a cliff"
Naruto chuckled darkly 'You mind if I borrow some of your killing intent tomorrow?'
"Ooo, That is mean Kit, and you most definitely can!"
Naruto created 15 Kage bunshins and sent them to the library under henges to study and look up about the secondary exams. Once he got to his private training ground he created another batch of about 500 clones and sent them to work on everything else again, while he went and exercised more.
That night Naruto passed out in the field, after accidentally making all of his Bunshin's dispel at once, due to a misunderstanding, the overload from the knowledge forced him to instantly pass out from the mental overload. He woke up the next morning and looked at his watch, '9:30! Shit I'm an hour and a half late!' He then took off towards training ground seven while forcing chakra to his legs to get there even faster, he arrived there alright, he flew flew up to the bridge as a black and red blur, right up to where Sasuke and Sakura were standing.
"Naruto-baka you're an hour and a half late, what the hell are you doing!" Saukra screeched
"Can it banshee, where is Kakashi?" Naruto's reply caught both Sakura and Sasuke off guard, because the normally happy go lucky inflection in his voice was gone, leaving it a cold, penetrating voice, and the words spoken, Naruto was always 'head-over-heels' for 'Sakura-chan'
"Tch, Kakashi-sensei isn't here yet, he's late again" Sasuke wanted to ask Naruto what was up with the change, but he couldn't bare to hurt his 'emo-ego' But Sakura was more then willing to bring it up.
"Hey! Naruto-baka, what's with the cold attitude, do I need to get Sasuke-kun to kick your ass or something?" Her Sasuke-kun would always be there to save her, because that's what kunoichi are for, to be the damsel in distress, right?
"Sakura, one more time, shut up and leave me be. I very highly doubt Sasuke could give two shits about what you want, or have to say, but since you're so intent on getting me to talk to you, I will tell you something about this test, I'm almost positive that this test is to see how well we can work as a team, and I'll be damned if I let either of you keep me from being a Shinobi just because you wont work with me."
Sakura scoffed "You're just a baka Naruto, like a loser like you could ever figure out the meaning of the test before Sasuke-kun or myself." Sasuke nodded in agreement with her, like the Dobe could ever get something before the prodigal genius.
Naruto was fed up with their snobbish attitudes and down talking to him. He grabbed Sakura by the throat and unleashed a concentrated wave of the Kyuubi's Killing intent, Sakura's eyes widened in complete and utter fear, as she saw her own death play out before her eyes, neither her nor Sasuke could move, rooted in place by fear.
Naruto growled deeply while he held Sakura off the ground by her throat "Stop. Calling. Me. A. BAKA! When it comes down to it, in this exam if I have to I will force you to work with me, don't think you know so much about me, or my life. Because you know nothing , the fool you knew at the Academy was a fake, so shut your mouth, and stop assuming you know everything and that you're the best!"
Naruto then dropped Sakura on her ass and let off on the killing intent, as soon as she could she scrambled backwards on her hands as far from Naruto as possible and cowered in the fetal position at the end of the bridge, Sasuke had a stunned look on his face as he tried to catch his breath.
That was the scene Kakashi came upon when he greeted his team, Sasuke sitting on the ground with a stunned/scared look on his face breathing heavily, Sakura curled up in a ball at the end of the bridge sobbing, and Naruto leaning calmly against a pillar with an annoyed look on his face.
"Kakashi, you're late...again that is not a good habit for a Shinobi of your rank to partake in" Naruto stated, in his new cold penetrating voice.
Kakashi shook his head at the genin's change, granted yesterday he wasn't bubbly and cheery, but he had emotion in his voice, and his eyes didn't look like they pierced through your soul and would tear it from your body if given the chance. "Mind telling me what happened to your teammates Naruto?" Kakashi asked, since Naruto was the only one not seemingly affected by whatever disturbed the other two.
Naruto shrugged "Nothing much, just gave them a little lesson about looking underneath the underneath, and to not assume you know all you can about someone based on past experience."
Kakashi frowned and his one visible eye glared at Naruto "What did you do to them? Sakura is in a ball crying, and Sasuke is not to good either"
Naruto grinned, evilly "Nothing, just used a small bit of killing intent, and a threat to Sakura if she keeps insulting me"
Kakashi sighed, "The test is off for today, we will do it tomorrow, or as soon as Sakura is stable again, and I think you and I need to have a chat later Naruto" He then walked over to Sakura and picked her up gently, which she flinched violently when he touched her, and carried her off to the Hospital's psyche ward.
"Kit, you overdid it, you were supposed to scare the girl, not damage her mind! Not everyone is as tolerant to things as you are"
'You could have warned me Kyuu-chan! I've never tried using killing intent before, so I just used everything you gave me'
"This is not good Kit, I gave you access to almost all of my killing intent, I never thought you would use it all on an untrained 12 year old girl her mind might be significantly damaged! It seems that until your exam we are going to train you, and part of your new training will be harnessing your killing intent and using it properly"
Naruto sighed and left the bridge, no use crying over spilled milk right? Milk, killing intent same difference...right?
'Well we can't do any Kage Bunshin training till Kakashi comes around, we don't want him being clued into our techniques, so I'm just going to physically train' And that's what he did, he trained his body until Kakashi showed up about 4 hours later, looking extremely angry.
"Congratulations Naruto, your little lesson put the poor girl in the ICU for mental trauma, they tell me it will be at least 5 days until she can be reinstated, and she will probably fear you for life now"
Naruto did his best to look sorry about it "My bad, but if she would have just listened to me like I asked and stopped insulting me, then nothing would have happened"
Kakashi glared at him harshly "My bad? My bad? You put your teammate in a mental ward of the hospital on your first day as a team, and all you can say is My bad!? Come with me Naruto, we have to go talk to the Hokage to discuss your punishment"
The only word that summed up Naruto's thoughts at that moment was the one and only word he spoke, "Fuck..."
