Chapter 3
Graduation and annoying teammates
Beta: Old man of the mountain/Darklord331
Naruto had woken up from his restless night and quickly gotten dressed.
Today was the day of graduation and he can't really say he was excited or anything. More, he was just done with the academy and he was ready to make off on the next part of his journey of doing some real fieldwork.
Training with students?
Learning history and other skills that wouldn't amount to much in the field?
Yeah he was kinda over it all and the awe that the academy was supposed to have. But then again he was use to the old hag providing more entertaining training to him and making sure he was ready with him even killing some bandits in nearby areas.
How they got this close to Konoha he didn't know but he didn't care enough to say anything.
After leaving the house and arriving at the academy he sat in the far back while looking out the window and remembering how the last month had gone since his departure from his family.
Word had gotten around quick; Naruto was no longer living in his family home and even dropped his family name. Most celebrated the news and mocked him for now becoming an orphan. Some even taunted him and dared him to swing on them, stating he can't hurt them because if he did then he would get in trouble. Many of the arrogant clan members were making it out as he couldn't touch them now due to his status as a nobody.
He didn't really pay attention to them but he remembered one day when he was walking home he found out the guys that had taunted him the day before were in the hospital horribly maimed but he was not sure how. Suspicion was immediately put on him but he was quickly ruled out and soon the mystery went unanswered since the men in question were too terrified to say who did it.
A certain old woman disemboweled an annoying bandit sneezed and screamed about how she lost control and ripped out his intestines too fast.
Naruto then had run ins with his siblings and they just snorted at him and dared him to cross their path and Naruto just ignored them. Stating he had no interest in dealing with them anymore and went on with his day.
Minato and Kushina just ignored him; as if he never existed. That was perfectly fine with him as compared to Jiraiya who was always hovering around him watching for his training sessions and trying to steal his secret techniques, they were a breath of fresh air.
Naruto didn't really care about people talking about him and making comments as personally it meant little to him as they were people that were not family or people that cared for him.
Iruka entered the room with Mizuki and they started going over the exam and handing out the worksheet in which Naruto saw his questions were harder than normal classroom questions and he just sighed.
'So not worth the energy.'
Naruto quickly wrote through his test and wrote a message at the bottom of his paper before turning it over and falling asleep.
This angered Iruka as it was less than five minutes since the test started and he was acting as if he was already finished.
Walking up, Naruto could hear him pick up his paper and some people snickering at his potential failing of the test.
But when Iruka looked he saw he had a harder test than the rest and that he got all the answers right.
He was not sure what to make of it but he looked at the bottom of the sheet and frowned even more.
Fail me on this and the Hag will come for you.
Iruka really wanted to fail him, in his mind, Naruto was the worst kind of student.
Lazy, uncaring, and believed he was above it all.
To him, he was the worst kind of person to become a shinobi.
Part of him just wanted to test it and just fail him, but he knew if he did then the Hokage would come to talk to him about this and if not him then this 'old hag' would and from what he can see she was just as dangerous as the rumors made her.
So taking the test to his desk he quickly graded the test and gave him full credit for his answers while Naruto just slept.
As soon as everyone was done they were taken outside and taken out to the target range where everyone was given five kunai and shurikens to throw.
Most of the civilians barely passed, Sakura Haruno being one of them, and the clan children either did about average or did above so.
Sasuke and his sister scored 8/10 on both while the Uzumaki children scored 9/10.
Finally came Naruto's turn and he walked up to the weapons and frowned at the design fo the weapons.
They were dull and blunted, meaning that they wouldn't stick into a target as easily and would take more effort to make them work.
He did frown at this; obviously someone was trying to get him to fail.
But he underestimated him and that was a stupid thing to do.
Naruto took the kunai and without looking at the target, flung it across. Everyone heard a splintering sound, turning they saw that his kunai had embedded deeply into the target to the point that it was a good inch or two deep in the chest. Naruto took the other kunai and did the same thing hitting the face, and the two arms with lethal precision to the point that they would have destroyed the joints on a real moving person.
Naruto took the Shuriken and did the same thing but had two of them embedded in the legs of his target where their knees would be immobilizing them.
Naruto yawned and walk back to the group,
"So easy, moving targets are better."
Everyone scoffed and the students were either shouting in defense of the idols (Uzumaki and Uchiha) or were shouting about him cheating.
Iruka however was shocked; Naruto had not only managed to land lethal strikes but he also managed to do it without missing a single one.
He didn't know what to think but he knew that Naruto mentioned moving targets meaning this was child's play for him.
After calculating the scores and walking away Iruka required the students to survive against Mizuki going at Genin level speed and power.
Most of the students really struggled at this but some did better than most with the Uzumaki and Uchiha siblings scoring big in this part with only Hinata Hyuuga also scoring big but stared shyly at the Uzumaki girl.
Naruto rolled his eyes and wondered if the girl was a yandere in the making.
Walking into the arena, Mizuki grinned and quickly dashed at him with Genin level speed and power.
But the minute he was in range, Naruto had swept his leg from beneath him leaving him floating in the air and Naruto slamming his swinging leg into his neck. Causing a crunch to be heard and him falling to the ground in a thud unconscious.
"Naruto!" Iruka rushed over to Mizuki and saw that his friend was alive but he wasn't moving and he was worried. Turning to him he glared, "There was no reason to go that hard against the instructor!"
Naruto shrugged,
"That's how the Old Hag and I train, not my fault he can't handle me holding back." Naruto turned on his heel and rubbed the back of his head. "What should we have for dinner tonight I'm feeling Chow Mein."
The class just glared at him and shouted for his score to be a fail due to him hurting their teacher badly.
But Iruka groaned, he defeated the teacher thus getting full marks but he did mark down at how brutal he was with his friend.
Hoping this at least gets him put far away from the other students and possibly is a demerit in his career.
Naruto and the class entered the classroom again while Mizuki was healed by a healer on campus.
In the end, Naruto saw the last test was to see if they could do the three jutsu they studied all year.
He couldn't do the last one; he could do the shadow clone version of it but that is about it. Personally, he had no interest in learning a move that was useless to him unless you were going into Genjutsu.
He wasn't so it was pointless.
Some students returned without headbands, some returned with them, and all the clan children came back with theirs until he was the last one. Walking out of the room he heard people snickering and insulting him as he passed.
"Don't worry Naruto you were never meant to get this far." Naruto turned his head and saw Sasuke smirking with his sister also nodding her head.
"How's the head wound?"
This made Sasuke bristle and when he tried to stand up his sister restrained him and glared to keep him in place.
Naruto rolled his eyes,
"Grow thicker skin or your going to be killed in the field. Although it might be a blessing as one less idiot in the gene pool walking around would be a blessing."
Sasuke growled and tried to rush him but others were jumping to stop him while Naruto walked out of the room and saw Iruka in the observation room.
"Okay Naruto-"
Naruto rolled his eyes and three clones appeared next to him.
One transformed into Lady Kure with the same scowl and wrinkles on her face.
Another switched places with a chair and then switched back.
Finally the other just picked his ear in boredom.
"I think this is it right?"
"B-b-b-b-but you-"
"Yeah I know I'm a slacker and all that jazz right?" Naruto sighed, "Look give me the fucking headband so I can go home."
Iruka mechanically picked up his headband and handed it to Naruto while trying to process what he just saw.
Naruto just shrugged his shoulders and walked out of the room.
Leaving the room he walked by the classroom and waved at everyone showing his headband on his forehead; angering most of the room and making some annoyed at his passing.
Naruto left the Academy and sighed,
"Wonder what I can do today?"
"Brat!"
Turning his head he saw the old woman,
"Hey hag had a good walk?"
She looked at his forehead and sighed,
"I see that you finally are done with stupid shit. Meaning we don't have to worry about you going back to this stupid Academy?"
Naruto shrugged his shoulder,
"Well, I still have to come back for the teams and then have team training but other than that? Yeah."
Lady Kure scoffed,
"I doubt your teacher will be proper."
"Probably so."
The two proceeded to walk through the village,
"So want Chow Mein tonight?"
"Sure brat, at least your suggesting something tasty."
"Hey, I just figured it be easy on your dentures."
Naruto jumped into the air and dodge a mid-swing of the woman's staff that revealed a blade on the inside.
"Keep running your mouth brat and you might regret it."
"We'll see old hag."
Naruto and Lady Kure quickly arrived at a nearby restaurant and got their food but they were not able to enjoy it as everyone was either staring at them or just weary of the aura the master was making.
She didn't care for most small fries but the way they were looking at Naruto was really starting to piss her off.
The child was practically emotionless and uncaring about the world; he didn't even care if he lived or died. Just saw it as another thing that wasn't worth considering and that is terrifying to even her.
Children should never feel like this; they shouldn't develop such a mentality and even then this near 16 year old child is developing such a mindset, how sad. She really wanted to kill Minato and the others but knew that this would just mean that someone more stupid would take over. At least this way, they could monitor the situation and if he did start to get too big about himself; well it wouldn't be the first time a Kure had to kill a kage just ask Tobirama.
After dinner both master and student retreated to the forest where they did some light sparring leading to Naruto having his femur shattered by her well placed kick and them heading home for the night.
Naruto could hear partying going on in the district and even heard the voices of his former family and their friends. Most were talking nonsense but there was one subject he heard that was of interest.
"Can you believe Naruto's attitude lately?"
"I know right, we went wrong with him somewhere but I just don't know where."
Naruto rolled his eyes at his former mother's words.
Raised him?
'What a joke.'
Naruto quickly shut his eyes and went to sleep.
On the outskirts fo the village; Mizuki was running out with a big scroll on his back. He was making a steady pace and was almost away from the perimeter of the village but he knew that he could still be caught if ANBU got wind of his actions.
Mostly; he had found a student that was jealous of the others and offered him some extra credit to help boost his confidence and reputation. The child blindly followed this knowing that his family would be proud of him topping the clan children thus earning prestige for his father who is on the council.
Sadly for him; the minute he arrived Mizuki took the scroll and revealed what he really did horrifying the child.
Iruka had shown up to stop him but Mizuki managed to get the drop on him and injure him. The student on the other hand? He ran for the village but he threw a kunai into the back of his head and thus killing the student in one fell swoop.
Next to he retrieved the scroll and murdered Iruka knowing if he left him alive there was a chance someone would find them sooner before he had a chance to disappear over the border.
Right as he was about to exit the tree line he felt something behind him.
Turning his head he saw a black blur with black eyes rushing at him. Frowning he quickly dashed into the open field hoping to get the better of his opponent.
Once standing there he pulled out his giant shuriken and smiled,
"Come on out! I know your there, there is no point in hiding it!" he licked his lips, "If you come out quickly I'll make your death swift."
Emerging from the tree he saw it was Lady Kure.
She was staring at the boy and sighed,
"You murdered two people who looked up to you and trusted you for what? To run off to some dilluded idea that your master was going to bless you with some infinite power or something?"
Mizuki laughed,
"Shows what you know the minute I drop this scroll off for Lord Orochimaru, I will be the most powerful shinobi in the world and will become his right hand man!"
"Really now how does that work?"
"Simple," he pulled is arm back and threw the Shuriken, "He promised me that he would teach me everything I could want from this scroll and thus making me one of the most powerful warriors in the entire world. Nothing will stop me, not even your stupid family!"
Lady Kure seeing the weapon coming sighed.
"Youngsters all so eager to rush head first and not take notice of what is going on in front of them. Even the brat knows better than that."
The staff went into the center of the shuriken and soon turned sideways with the cane buried in the ground. Preventing the weapon from coming even close to her face or eyes or any other part of her body.
"Bitch!" Mizuki started going through hand signs.
But soon screamed.
"What the fuck ha-,"
A sickening crunch was heard and the field went silent.
Mizuki's body fell to his knees and his head was looking backward to the old woman standing behind him with her hands palm open and her fingers spread.
"How easy." She turned around revealing her face covered in a purple color distortion and veins bursting around. Her eyes were darker and an aura was flaring around her.
She appeared in front of his body next and his body exploded into a pile of gore covering the field in a red mist and liquid.
"Well now that mess is dealt with." She walked up to the scroll on the ground and growled, "Damn brat why wasn't this secured better. He is going to hear from me in the morning. I had to cancel my advance training session due to this mess."
She picked up her cane and started her trek back to the village in boredom wondering how her student was going to take the new team thing that he was supposed to take part in?
Oh well, she'll just train him harder in between as a way to make up for his lacking of a teacher.
In the Hokage's office, Minato and the Jounin were going over the situation and the new teams that were going to be formed.
Most of the issue related to the missing scroll and the issues related to the traitor were already taken care of as ANBU was sent out to find out what happened and bring back the results of their hunt.
Minato was glad that he had sealed a second copy of the scroll in the Hokage's mansion and that he and his wife are the only one's that could remove the seal on it otherwise this could be worse for all parties involved.
However he knew with the scroll gone from the tower this meant they had to beef up their security and manage their seals more effectively.
But for now he would let the ANBU report back so they can update the security measures promptly and hopefully have the scroll back in the Hokage's vault.
Standing before him was Kakashi, Kushina, Kurenai a black hair red eye jounin, Asuma Sarutobi, and Obito his wayward student.
Obito had returned to the village about four years ago revealing that he had survived a near death experience but states he can't recall all of his time in this unknown place. Stating that a few years ago, he had encountered someone in the cave he was in and learned that they had saved his life. So to repay them he quickly recovered and started training himself up more in the hopes of getting back to Rin and Kakashi. Sadly Rin had died durin the mission with Kakashi to prevent another 3-tail monster attack but Obito was horrified about this outcome. He was heartbroken but soon recovered from the incident but he states that his time with the mysterious figure was unclear.
Inoichi revealed that his memories had been altered if not erased outright so they don't know who the figure in question was but this made him apprehensive and worried about what they could want and why they bothered to save Obito.
But that was not important; what was important was assigning the teams as they had discussed all night after the celebrations.
"Okay as of this time we have Teams 1-6 figured out, but Teams 7 will consist of my son Menma Uzumaki Namikaze, Kyoa Uzumaki Namikaze, and Sai Shimura and they will be co-lead by Kushina and Kakashi."
Both smiled proudly at having such a powerful team while the rest just groaned at not having one of the children on their teams.
"Team 8 will consist of Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuuga, and Shino Aburame lead by Kurenai Yuuhi."
The woman nodded happy to get Hinata on her team and hopefully help her work up the confidence for her crush on Menma or help her get past it if nothing good comes from it.
"Team 9 is still in circulation, so Team 10 is Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, and Chouji Akimichi under Asuma."
The man smiled happy to have the next generation of the Nara-Yama-Akimichi trio.
"Team 11 will consist of Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Ami Hayate, under the teaching of hayato Gekkate."
A pale skin swordsman coughed and smiled knowing he had at least an interesting team to work with.
"Finally, Team 12 will consist of Yakumo Kurama, Tara Uchiha, and Naruto under Obito."
The room soured at the mention of the black sheep and how he was, Obito sighed figuring he got his work cut out for him. Especially since he thinks of the three he is the most unqualified with being a shinobi due to how unreliable he is in a fight. While strong he was not reliable when it matters the most and that can get a team killed in the field.
In his opinion he should have dropped from the academy to save everyone the trouble.
The door opened and Lady Kure walked in.
Minato stood up,
"Lady Kure, we are currently in a meeting, please-"
"Shut up brat here you go." She drops the scroll on the ground. "The asshole that stole it is dead, his guts and organs spread all across the grass, and he left some poor sap lying against a tree dead while having killed a potential genin." She turned, "Do better brat, you'll find that your not irreplicable."
"Wait! You said-" she slammed the door shut.
Minato was flabbergasted at this treatment and frowned,
He would have to remind her of her place in this village, but for now he would just get the teams signed off and try to figure out who was the traitor since she never gave a name.
It would be another busy night for the Hokage.
Next day
Naruto was sitting with his potential team and he was just wanting someone to kill him.
Both Tara and Yakumo made it clear they are not happy with him as a teammate and separated themselves from him and even isolated him on the other side of the room. Naruto didn't care mind you, but it was still annoying.
How were they going to work as a team if they don't at least try to put their pride aside? Naruto just knew they were doomed from the outset.
Didn't help they were sitting her for more than hour waiting for their teacher to show up and he was nowhere to be seen.
'Maybe I should just go and see what the hag is doing, maybe she can help me master my lighting affinity so I don't take so long in drawing it out.'
The door soon creaked open and entering the room was a black hair man with two black eyes and smile on his face.
"Sorry got lost on the road of life."
The girls screamed and Naruto just stared out the window.
"Alright everyone meet on the roof."
He shushined and Naruto just sighed,
'To the roof I guess.'
Naruto soon shushined himself thus appearing on the roof near Obito who was surprised by his movement.
'When did he learn to do that?'
Naruto took a seat by the fence and waited for his teammates to show up after about five minutes of waiting and all of them were sitting on the ground.
"Alright everyone I think it is important we get to know one another so how about you girls start?"
"Can't you start sensei to show us how it is done?"
Obito shrugged his shoulders,
"I guess; My name is Obito Uchiha, my likes are my sensei and my teammates, my dislikes those that don't take their jobs seriously or take others for granted. Hobbies; reading and going out with friends. Dream; to make someone proud of me."
The girls nodded and Yakumo started,
"My name is Yakumo Kurama, I like painting, shopping, and training in Genjutsu. I dislike people who are lazy or taking things for granted. My hobbies are painting and training on my off time. My dream is to be the new Genjutsu Mistress."
Obito nodded his head before turning to Tara.
"I'm Tara Uchiha; I like my family, training, and being able to call myself an Uchiha. I dislike losers, assholes, perverts, and those that dare to stand against me when they are in the wrong." She growled at Naruto who just ignored the growl.
'What a cute cloud.'
"My hobbies are training and learning politics. My dream is to avenge the humiliation of my family and make someone pay for their sins against us."
Naruto continued to ignore her but he heard a cough and knew it was his turn.
"Naruto; likes? I guess the old hag, making fun of her, training with her, and irritating her. Dislikes? Stupid people, people who think I should think a certain way, and the idea of controlling fate and destiny. Hobbies? Training and sleeping I guess. Dreams for the future; Not sure I just wake up knowing I lived to see another day who has time to dream?"
The group was shocked by his introduction but Obito quickly shook his head,
'He truly shames Minato-sensei, it is a shame though. He could have seen the world finally united under peace, but now he will never see this world come to fruition.'
Naruto just sat there bored out of his mind and was about to fall asleep.
But Obito said,
"Okay all of you report to field 9 tomorrow for your real Genin test."
The girls broke out in shouts,
"But we passed the Academy!"
"We are Genin now!"
Obito shook his head,
"You proved that you could be Genin but you are not real genin just yet. So, make sure to show up at seven and don't eat anything."
Obito vanished and the girls quickly start talking about this real test and wondering what they should do. Never noticing Naruto just walks away without a sound and just heads through the school while picking his ear.
'Wonder what is for dinner?'
In the shadows of the village stood a man with black hair and blue eyes and he frowned,
"So this is the one master is interested in? Doesn't look like much."
A voice chuckled,
"Don't let his looks fool you. That kid is like that because he is strong. Anything else and he wouldn't be worth the time." The man released a puff of smoke while having his grin noticeable by his pearly white teeth. "Besides I have seen the kid fight against the old bitch, he is no doubt one of the most dangerous fighters. Might even be stronger than HIM in the near future."
The person in question turned to the man and glared,
"Don't ever insinuate that, the master would never lose to him. He is absolute."
The man shrugged,
"Nothing is assured but whatever I can't wait to see how this kid fights tomorrow." His grin grew but his glasses tilted to reveal gray and black eyes, "The Wu Clan never loses sight of a potential rival and he has all the makings of one hell of a rival."
Chapter End