Time Skip

It's been nine months since I met Tenten that day in the forest. I barely saw her after that due to her doing missions, but we trained together once every blue moon. Kiba returned to the academy a week later, good as new. The old man forced me to apologize to the Inuzuka family over dinner. It was awkward to say the least. After that I had no problems with kiba. Nothing much has changed since then other than my grades and my clothes. I now wore orange pants that weren't very long but didn't classify as shorts. I had on a short sleeved black shirt with a blue vest over it that had orange streaks here and there. Even though I hated orange it felt wrong parting with it after wearing it basically all my life. On both my hands, I wore a white wrist band with a red circle in the middle, but on my left hand I had bandages that covered my arm, behind the wrist band. I also had on standard ninja sandals that were black in color.

Right now Iruka was giving one of his boring speeches about what we learned this year, the graduation exam was two days away. I wasn't worried and I could tell a lot of other people weren't either. Sasuke of course was confident in his abilities. Shikamaru wasn't worried if him sleeping in class was any constellation, but yet again, he always did that. Choji was munching down a bag of chips as usual, and Shino was, well being Shino, Quiet and mysterious. The only one who I didn't understand was Hinata. I am one hundred percent sure that she'll pass the exam but it was obvious she didn't feel the same way. She got pale at the thought of the graduation which looked strange on a hyuga to say the least.

I couldn't wait until the graduation exam. I would learn about the secrets that have been kept from me, well a portion of it anyway. I was hoping that he would tell me who my parents are. I was also interested in becoming a ninja, obviously since I joined the academy, but not because I want to be the hokage. I just wanted to be able to protect myself from the villagers at first, but after my fight with kiba I had a dark feeling inside. I wanted to take down my enemies and watch their pain stricken faces as I kill them, or hurt them etc. I guess you could call it my dark side, but enough about the sadistic stuff.

We were going over how to do the transformation justu. Iruka had us, one by one turn into a perfect copy of himself, our at least attempt to for some people. It was a fairly simple justu and it didn't require a lot of chakra. I, as expected did it perfectly, which earned me some glares from some of my classmates. I was no longer the dead last. I didn't acted stupid and my grade have improved significantly but it didn't stop them from hating me. They couldn't make fun of me because I didn't do anything stupid or laugh because my grades were better than most of theirs, so they just give me a glare.

I haven't talked to anyone in the my class except for Shikamaru, Choji, and of course Iruka sensei since the incident with Kiba. I hated everyone else in the class with the exception of Shino and Hinata. Shino just wasn't very talkative and Hinata was shy. Everyone else was considered an enemy and I'm sure they feel the same way about me. It was the only thing in konoha that we mutually understood.

Class felt very short because I spaced out for most of it. It was lunch time. I didn't stay at the academy for lunch, instead I snuck out and headed for Ichiraku ramen. It was too awkward and uncomfortable for me to sit a lunch with everyone. Something troublesome was bound to happen. Plus I'll take a bowl of ramen over the shit they feed us at lunch any day. "Welcome Naruto, what can I get for you today", asked Teuchi as I entered the store.

"I'll take three bowl of miso ramen please."

"Coming right up" said Teuchi as he turned around to work in the kitchen right behind him. Minutes later he place three bowl of miso ramen in front of me. My love for ramen was the only thing I didn't fake in my time as an idiot. It was indeed the food of the gods as far as I'm concern. After I devoured my three bowls of ramen I asked for more, then more, and more. This continued until I had 20 bowls of ramen. I checked the time and realized that my lunch time was almost over. I rushed out of the store, leaving my money on the counter. I made it in time to class to sit through more of Iruka sensei boring lecture.

The next two days went by the same way. Well not exactly the same way but you get drift, hopefully.

Two Extremely boring days Later

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG came the annoying sound of my alarm clock. I threw my pillow at the alarm clock knocking it off my shelf and also breaking it. I got with a sigh making a mental note reminding myself that I needed a new alarm clock. I headed to the bathroom and brushed my teeth and took a shower. I got up early today because it was Thursday, me and Tenten sparred on Thursdays if she wasn't on a mission that is, which she was for the past two weeks. She got back on Tuesday with her team from a C-rank mission outside the village. Things apparently didn't go as planed but they pulled through.

Tenten and I had recorded our wins and loses each time we sparred. My record was 40 wins, 50 loses, and 5 draws. I guess you could say we had a rivalry going on like her sensei and that white haired jonin. After my shower I got dressed and headed to training ground 9. I could see Tenten on the training ground doing some light exercises. "Hey Naruto, long time no see", said Tenten with a cute grin plastered on her face.

"Its been two weeks huh, so anyways how was your mission."

"It went surprisingly well."

"Well that's good."

"So are you ready to get your ass kicked."

"You wish, its time I got ten wins ahead of you, which means I plan to win 20 times with losing."

"Big words, but can you back them up blonde."

"I can and I will."

I dashed at Tenten ready to close the range between us, she had an advantage if we had a long range battle. Tenten threw three shuriken at me to try and slow down my progress, but I threw my own shuriken to intercept them. Tenten had taught me a few things and now I'm pretty good a throwing both shuriken and kunai alike, but I'm still no where as good as Tenten. As I close the distance between us, I could see Tenten had a Bo staff in her hands ready to fight me from a safe distance. She lifted her Bo staff up and brought it down trying to hit my head. I dodged to the right but before I could start running towards her she swung her Bo staff to side continuing her attack. I docked bellow the Bo staff and did a back flip to get out of her range. Getting close to her wasn't going to be easy.

I threw shuriken at Tenten and then charged, ready to try again. I needed to get the weapon out of her hand, Tenten was 10 times harder to beat with one than without one. Tenten deflected my shuriken with ease with her Bo staff. Instead of trying to attack my head this time she attack my stomach. She jabbed her Bo staff at me, trying to knock the wind out of me. The Bo staff hit me, but once it did my form shimmered, it was a bushin. I made multiple bushin and we surrounded Tenten in a giant circle. We walked in a line that had the shape of a circle in a rather hypnotizing manner, never taking or eyes off of her, like a predator stalking their prey, waiting for the perfect time to strike. I could see Tenten trying to keep an eye on us, searching for me the original. All at the same time, we charged at Tenten.

Tenten started to takeout bushin, franticly searching for me the original. I though, was never apart of the army of bushin. I was in the trees watching it all from the shadows, while doing the hand signs necessary for the gen-jutsu Demonic Illusion. It was a D-ranked gen-justu I had found in the library. It wasn't strong, but it would serve as a good distraction for Tenten. Once I when through the hand seals I released the justu upon Tenten.

TENTEN POV :)

I was starting to get annoyed with all the bushin I had to destroy. Once I found the original, he was in for a world of pain. I got out two scrolls, and with a twirl, released a barrage of shuriken effectively destroying all the bushin. Strangely though, after the bushin all disappeared, the sky turned dark and hands started sticking out of the ground. Emerging from the earth were mythical creatures, werewolves, zombies, gorgons, and vampires. I quickly noticed that I was under the influence of a gen-justu. I made a hand seal and released a large amount of chakra and shouted, "Released", effectively breaking the gen-justu which was rather weak.

Once I broke out of the gen-justu I checked my surrounding, quickly trying to locate the enemy. When I turned to the right all I saw was a fist, right before it connected with my face.

NARUTO POV/ ORIGINAL POV :)

As I noticed that Tenten was under my gen-justu, I ran as fast as I could towards her ready to deliver a punch to her face. Right before I punched her, I noticed Tenten had turned around, she had broken out of the gen-justu, but it was too late. My fist connected with her face, sending her flying. Tenten did a back flip and landed on her feet in a crouched position holding her face. I dashed towards her ready to try and end this now that I finally manage to engage her in a close range fight, I had and advantage now, especially since she dropped her Bo staff. Tenten wasn't bad at hand to hand combat, I mean her sensei is Might Guy, but it wasn't her strongest soot like her two teammates.

Tenten stood up quickly and got in a defensive stance. I threw a punch at her face which she caught in her hand. Tenten threw a kick at my face which I dodged below. I threw a punch at Tenten stomach but she jump over me, placing her hand on my head to help balance herself. I quickly turn around to blocked at punch aimed at my head by Tenten. I kicked at Tenten's chest which she blocked with both hand. I jump in the air, doing a backflip. While in the air I did the hand sign necessary for my justu. Once I could see Tenten I shouted, "Wind style: Air bullet", and shot multiple bullets from my mouth at Tenten. Tenten jump from her position on the ground before my attack could hit her, causing the air bullets to puncture the ground. I turned around to see Two scrolls twirling around Tenten before she shouted, "Ninja Art: Twin Blade Storm", as multiple different types of blades shot out of her scrolls heading towards me. "Earth Style: Rock Wall", I shouted, placing both hands on the ground as the earth shot out of the ground as a square shaped wall, protecting me from the incoming onslaught of weapon.

I smiled behind my wall as the weapons slam into it instead of me, enjoying the intensity of the fight. After all the weapons were blocked by the wall, multiple Naruto ran from behind it headed towards Tenten with a smirk on their face. They were all going through some hand sign at incredible speeds, before they shouted in unison, " Wind Style: Cutting wind", as one of the many narutos shot a great wind out of his mouth. Tenten put both of her hands in front of her face, as small cuts started to appear on her skin and clothes. The gust of sharp wind lifted Tenten off her feet as she yelled. Tenten landed on the ground on her back as the wind stopped, still covered with cuts that weren't deep at all, I wasn't trying to kill her. Before Tenten got up I was on top of her with a kunai at her neck and a huge smile on my face. "I win", I said in happy tone, clearly pleased with my victory.

"You can get off now you know", Tenten said annoyed with our current position, but that was her, and her only. "Hey", Tenten shouted just noticing the cuts in her clothes," You owe me some clothes, these aren't presentable anymore", Tenten said while looking at the condition of her clothes.

"Ill buy you some new clothes, don't worry", I said trying to calm her down. I stretched out my hand towards Tenten, helping her up. "I've got to run, the academy is about to start soon."

"Yeah I have to go home and change before my team comes", said Tenten.

"Okay, ill talk to you later Tenten", I said while walking away and waving goodbye. Tenten waved back at me with a smile that cause me to blush a little.

I didn't make it on time to the academy and walked in during the attendance. My last name started with an U so I was sure they didn't call my name yet. Normally I would get a detention for being late but today was the day of the graduation exam and we were only coming back tomorrow for the team placement so I was just sent to the back of the class by Iruka sensei. There were only four people in the class I wouldn't mind being on a team with. Those people were obviously Shikamaru, Choji, Shino, and Hinata. Hopefully the old man would look out for me. To my surprise the first part of the exam was a written exam. The written test was fairly easy, which is probably why it took 35 minutes. They mostly asked us about the history of konoha, stuff like who are the hokages, and who is the founder of our village etc. They did asked us about chakra though, like what is chakra and how do we use it.

After the written exam we headed outside while mizuki sensei stayed behind to grade the papers like he normally does as an assistant teacher. I knew that they would be testing us on everything we learned this year. Once outside, we made two separate lines, one for boys and one for girls. Iruka sensei then called up two people at a time, one of each gender. Then he would evaluate their accuracy with both shuriken and kunai. Normally Mizuki would test the girl when he didn't have anything to do. I passed the with flying colors, hitting all the targets, though I wasn't the only one. Sasuke Uchiha also passed with 100% success hitting all the targets. Honesty I wanted to fight him, without holding back this time. I knew we had both gotten stronger since the last time we fought and the thought of an intense battle was intriguing. I hated the guy of course and wanted to see him in pain.

I'm hated and treat like dirty in this village when he's treated like a god. Even though his whole family was murdered by his brother no less he still has everyone love but he rejects it. Even though I could care less about the village loving me now, there was a time when I yearned for their affection, but I got the opposite of affection, hate. They glare at me, ignore my existence, and even beat me from time to time when I was much younger. But not him. He's the village's golden boy. He gets everything he wants. Heck a large group of villagers cleaned up all the houses in the Uchiha compound of all the blood just because they learned that he still wanted to live there. He gets all this attention but he pays it no mind, he's too fixated on getting revenge on his brother. But the worse thing about him is his superiority complex. His only response to people is," Hn", and he always hold his head high with a grand smirk on his face.

How it pisses me off to no end. Without even noticing it, I was giving Sasuke a death glare which he returned with the same amount of intensity which got us the attention of the class as sparks flew between us. "Okay guy lets head back inside", said Iruka as he walk over to the entrance of the academy. Once we were inside and seated Iruka told us what we were going to do next. "The next test that you will take will be your last. Obviously those who pass will become official ninjas of Konoha. I want you guys to become serious about this because the life of a ninja isn't all fun and games. Your grades in the academy doesn't matter out there in the field and you might have to do things you don't want to do. You will have to kill people and stain your hands with blood and there's a high chance of you guys dying in the field. I know that each and everyone of you have the potential to become powerful shinobi and kunoichi, so train hard and no slacking off. Okay, now when your name is called come and meet me in room 104 for your exam."

With that Iruka left while Mizuki sent people one by one to room 104, sending someone once the person he sent before returns. Some people came back with a ninja headband while some didn't, though most people came back with their headband. I was the last person to be called as usual because the c in Sasuke's last name came before z in my name, alphabetically that is. I entered room 104 to be greeted by Iruka sensei warm smile. "Okay Naruto to pass the test you have to do the following. You will transform into a copy of me successfully doing a henge. Then you have to do a substitution. Then you have to create three bushins that are fully functional." I gave a nod before I made a hand seal and shouted," Transform", before a puff of smoke surrounded me only to later reveal a perfect copy of Iruka.

Iruka examined me before writing some stuff down. "Good, good, now substitute with something in this room", said Iruka sensei. I looked around the room for something to substitute with. I noticed a kunai resting on a table at the back of the class. figuring it was placed there for the test I substituted with it. With a puff of smoke a kunai appeared in the spot I was just stand in while I appeared in the back of the class, sitting on the table the kunai was just resting on. I substitute with the kunai again appearing back in front of Iruka sensei and also returning the kunai back to its original spot. Once again Iruka wrote some stuff down.

"Now all you have to do is create three bushins", Iruka said. I made the necessary hand seals and with a puff of smoke three bushins appeared beside me. "Okay Naruto you pass", Iruka said with smile. I smile back at Iruka sensei before picking up a blue hand band that was on the table Iruka was standing behind. I put the head band around my neck, it hanging loosely( like Hinata's). "Thanks Iruka sensei", I said before leaving the room. I went outside the academy seeing children showing off their head band to their parents. I didn't wait around to be reminded of something I could never have, a family. I headed out into the forest to get some training done before I go talk to the old man.

I walked deep into the forest until I reached the clearing where I first fought Tenten. I started to train here regularly. Sometimes Tenten would come by and train with me. It was originally where she trained anyway, it still is too. Once I reached the clearing I started doing some light exercise to warm up for what's to come. After my warm up which consisted of push ups, and jumping jacks. I do push with both hand, then I switch to using one hand. After the warm ups I decided to do some shadow fighting. I proceeded to engage an invisible opponent in a intense tai-justu battle. I did this for hours trying fix the flaws my imaginary opponent found in my tai-justu. After getting tired I decided it was time to meditate, I used meditation to sharpen my ability to sense my surrounding.

I listen to the sounds around me, trying to figure out what they were. After meditating for a while I heard a rustling of the trees coming from somewhere in front of me. Whatever it was it was approaching fast. I got up and looked around try to find the source of the noise. That's when I finally realized how late it was. It was early in the night. That's when out of the tree, dashing through the clearing with a smirk on his face holding a giant scroll was mizuki sensei. "Mizuki", I said sounding confused. He didn't stop, just ran through the clearing, his smirk never leaving his face.

I knew something was wrong instantly and decided to follow mizuki. Mizuki was moving very fast and it was hard to see him in the darkness of the night. I channeled chakra to my eyes and instantly they became slits. I was able to see better after this was done. I could do this with my ears to hear better, and my nose to smell better and from longer distances. Now able to see Mizuki I slowly but surely closed the gap between us. "Mizuki sensei, what are you doing?", I said. Mizuki didn't reply but instead started to speed up even more. I spent a lot of time in these forest and could make my way around them easily. I knew that if we kept going this way we'd eventually leave the village.

This probably meant mizuki was going rogue. I didn't care if he went rogue or not honestly, but the scroll he was carrying was obviously important. I threw six shuriken, each having a thin wire attached to it. They all missed mizuki and instead went pass him. Using the wire I was able to control the shuriken movements causing them to all turn around to attack mizuki. Mizuki dodged but barely because of how fast he was barreling forward. This gave me enough time to catch up again. I landed on a branch in front of Mizuki.

"Don't get in my way demon", Mizuki spat with a glare. It was that word again, "Demon", that everyone in konoha would find appropriate to use when I'm around. My fist clenched in anger.

"If you want to leave the village Mizuki go ahead but leave the scroll."

"Hahahaha, that's cute, the little demon thinks he can stop me a chunin." If I was angry before, I was pissed now.

"I'll give you ten seconds to drop the scroll and leave", I said. Mizuki without letting the ten seconds pass took out a kunai and lunged at me. I also took out at kunai and when our metals clashed sparks flew. I quickly jumped back not being stupid enough to engage Mizuki in a battle of strength. I landed on a tree branch and turned around fast enough to deflect a barrage of shuriken that Mizuki threw at me with my kunai. Wanting to alert anyone near by of our position I threw a single kunai with an explosive tag attached to it at mizuki. The tag exploded but mizuki got away. He appeared behind me and threw a kick at my head. I ducked and twisted my body and sent a kick a his face. Mizuki blocked the kick with his right hand and then kicked me in my stomach.

I was knocked off the branch but safely landed on the ground. I had a smile on my face, regretting trying to alert my allies for fear of them interrupting our fight. Fighting strong opponents is the best. Mizuki appeared in front of me, a punch aimed at my face. I blocked it and sent a kick at his face. He grabbed my leg and threw me over his head. I landed behind him in a crouched position. I tried to sweeping his legs from underneath him but he did a backflip to avoid it. I jumped forward and sent multiple kicks at his face. Mizuki pushed each kick away with his hand.

Mizuki punched me in the face sending me flying backwards. I landed roughly but got up quickly. I took up an offensive stance ready to attack Mizuki. "Fire Style: fire ball justu", Mizuki shouted as he shot a fire ball out of his mouth. "Earth Style: Mud Wall", I said as I Shot mud from my mouth at the ground that quickly sprang up to protect me. The fire ball hit the wall of mud sending mud everywhere. "Water Style: Water sword slash", I said as multiple slash shaped water shot from my mouth. Mizuki jumped away as the water easily cut through ten trees before it stopped it rampage. Mizuki threw one of the over sized shuriken on his back towards me. I ducked underneath it putting my hand in the hole all shuriken had in the middle. I caught the shuriken and after coating it with sharp wind chakra I threw it back.

"Fire Style: Fire ball justu", I shouted as I spit a fire ball out my mouth. The fire ball covered the shuriken and instantly became larger and wilder than before. I covered my ears as the fire ball exploded once it hit either a tree or Mizuki. Hopefully it was Mizuki. Multiple trees got caught on fire. I needed to end this quickly before it spread to much causing a forest fire. I channeled chakra to my ears listening intensely, trying to locate Mizuki. I heard a whooshing sound as I turned around to see one of his large shuriken coming towards me.

I jumped and looked in the direct I saw the shuriken coming from. I smirk when I saw him. I knew I would be able to see him if I wasn't channeling chakra into me eyes that were still slits. Mizuki did escape the fire ball but not unscathed. He was injured by the sharp wind that was hard to see much less dodge because of the fire ball. He also had mild burns in some places. I created a bushin to take my place while I slowly and quietly made my way towards Mizuki who was hiding on a branch of the forest trees.

When I found Mizuki he was panting and had mild burns on his face. He was also holding his side that was bleeding from a deep cut wound. An evil smirk formed on my face as I approached Mizuki. I grab the hand mizuki was using to try and stop the bleeding and with my foot kick his wound. Mizuki screamed out loud. "Don't worry mizuki its nothing personal, just business." I drove the kunai I had in my hand through his heart. When I took out the kunai it was covered in blood. This was my first kill but I never felt guilty just satisfied. Maybe it was because he pissed me off before with his glare and the fact that he called me a demon multiple times. I wipe the blood off on Mizuki's shirt.

I took the scroll he had on his back and jumped off the tree. "Water Style: Water wave", I said sending a wave of water to cover the trees that were on fire. Once I stop the fire I walked away with the scroll. While I was walking towards the village, still in the forest I copied down the information on some of the Justus that were in the scroll.

20 minutes later

"Come in", Shouted the hokage as he heard me knock on the door. I walked in his office with the scroll in my office.

"I saw Mizuki leaving the village with this in his possession hokage-sama", I said while I was kneeling down on one knee.

"What happened to Mizuki?"

"We engaged in battle and I killed him and retrieved the scroll."

"Are you okay Naruto, I know ones first kill is rough."

"I fine, I just need some time to get over it hokage-sama."

"This will count as your first B-rank mission, That was done solo, and you shall be paid accordingly."

"Its been a long day for both of us so how about we postpone our meeting for tomorrow after your team placement?"

"Hai hokage-sama." I left the old man's office and went home. Once I got home I took a shower, brushed my teeth, and then started to look over the information I had jotted down.

SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT BUT I HAD LOTS OF WORK TO DO, NEXT CHAPTER WON'T TAKE AS LONG TO COME OUT AND PLEASE REVIEW

ONCE AGAIN I'M VERY, VERY SORRY FOR THE WAIT AND PLEASE FORGIVE ME. I'LL ALSO TRY AND MAKE MORE CHAPTERS AS LONG AS THIS ONE :)