Chapter Three: Rise of Darkness pt. I
Naruto woke up to the sun's morning light that came through the window. Naruto placed his hand in front of his face to block out some of the light. Since he obtained the darkness, Naruto has held an irritation for the brightness.
He sighed as he got out of his bed and proceeded to his daily routine. Once he was dressed he left his home.
-(Training Field)-
Naruto exhaled slowly as he got in a different stance; he readjusted his sword and waited. He heard the bushes rustle behind him; he spun around and deflected three kunai's. He leaped off the ground to avoid a downwards slash, spun around, and slash one of his clones across the chest. Naruto jumped back into his stance and waited for the next wave.
Suddenly five clones charged at Naruto with a variety of weapons. Naruto jumped and spin kicked the nearest clone and broke its' neck. Using the air time to his advantage he stabbed one of the clones where its shoulder met its neck. He landed, used the momentum of the land and cut the throat of another. He blocked another clones attempt to stabbed him; they stood at a stand stall and tried to overpower each other. Out of the reflection of the blade Naruto saw another clone coming at him with the dual scythes. When the clone was close enough Naruto kick it back and punched the one in front of him in the throat. Naruto turned around and slash the clone across the chest, reversed the grip on his sword and stabbed the clone behind him.
Naruto got back into his stance and waited for another attack.
'That was six out of seven clones I made, so where is the last one hiding?' he pondered.
Suddenly Naruto heard a whistling slicing through the air; he turned and caught the arrow inches away from his face, he snapped the arrow and threw his sword in the direction the arrow came from. When he heard a thud and a 'poof' after it he knew he finished the last of his clones.
He summoned back his sword and sealed it away. Suddenly he heard someone clapping; he turned around and saw the Third Hokage smiling at him.
"Well done, Naruto, well done." Sarutobi admired, "You are truly ready to be allowed to take the Genin test this year. Knowing that you have your own set of skills and not rely entirely on your unique bloodline qualifies you to join Konoha's military ranks."
"Thank you Hokage-sama," Naruto smirked. "Don't worry... I'm going to ace that test. After all, I aced every test that life had shot my way. This will be a piece of cake!"
Sarutobi smiled at Naruto's enthusiasm "The test will be tomorrow at eight in the Academy, so try not to be late."
"Don't worry Hokage-sama!" Naruto laughed.
Naruto used his shadow shunshin to take him back home to rest and prepare for the test, for tomorrow everyone has a surprise waiting for them.
-(Academy)-
"Good morning class!" Iruka sighed. It was the same morning as usual.
He used his Big Head Jutsu and screamed," SILENCES!"
The class immediately ran to the closest seat and followed Iruka's instructions.
Iruka sighed and announced," Alright then. Before we begin I would like to say that we will have an extra student take the exams with us."
Many of the students were starting to gossip about the new kid. Some were talking about who it would be, why he was getting to take the exams so late, and what would they be like, but they all stop talking when the room started to get colder, to the point that everyone could see their breaths. Then an almost immense pressure came over them.
Then the lights turned off for a moment with every passing minute in the darkness, the pressure in the room seemed to increase and the temperature decrease. They started to hear horrid, demonic, moans roam through the hall.
The lights suddenly turned back on, washing out the darkness and with it the pressure lessen, the temperature rise back to normal and the moans stopped. And there stood in front of Iruka a teenage boy wearing a white long sleeve button collar shirt with a vest over it, long black pants, leather boots, and a black cloak. He stood there with a questioning look.
Iruka shook his head to regain his bearings and looked back at the ebony haired kid.
"Who are you?" he asked.
The boy gave a bow to Iruka, "I am Naruto Uzumaki, and I've thought the Hokage would have mentioned my arrival for the exams by now." Naruto stated.
Iruka nodded, "Okay, you can have the seat next to Hinata over there. And please do not ever place my class under a GenJutsu like that again..."
Naruto looked at the scared man and chuckled, "Sorry, but that was no illusion. I tend to get a little over excited from time to time and I accidently let loose some of my spiritual side of my chakra. But none the less, I promise not to let it happen again." Naruto said as he ascended the stairs to take his seat.
Iruka just narrowed his eyes at the boy before continuing with his lesson, "Alright class, it's time that you begin the written part of the exams…" Iruka started a short lecture for the class, which gave Naruto timed to talk to the girl seated beside him.
Naruto seated next to a paled skin, lavender eyed girl with cascading indigo hair; the definition and example of beauty as he saw it. He reached under the table and grabbed her hand and brought it to his lips.
"My apologies, if I had scared you my hime…"
Hinata looked at the boy in front of her and smiled, "I can never be scared as long as you are around, Naruto-kun." She said as she held on to her lover's hand.
Naruto was about to say more, but Iruka had started the time for the test; both he and Hinata became quiet, but held onto each other's hand.
Naruto looked at his paper and scan down the paper, looking at the questions.
'Piece of cake…' He wrote down his answers and when he was done he saw that he had forty minutes left.
'Might as well take a page from the Nara's and sleep for a while.' Naruto leaned back in his chair with his hand still with Hinatas' and dozed off.
-(thirty five minutes later)-
"Alright everyone is done. We can now go outside for weaponry and TaiJutsu sparring." Iruka said.
Hinata got up and was about to follow everyone else out when she felt Naruto squeeze her hand. She looked down and saw that Naruto was still sleeping. She decided to try to wake him up.
"Naruto-kun, wake up. We need to move on to the next exam." She tried to keep waking him up, but he didn't even stir. She sighed and though on how to wake him, she smiled as she finally thought of one.
She lightly leaned over Naruto's body and whispered in his ear, "Naruto-kun…wake up…" then place her lips on his.
The reaction was instant; she felt Naruto's body lean in to hers and his other hand hold the back of her neck, after a minute she finally pulled back, and looked at him.
"I love it when you do that." he responded.
Hinata giggled, "Well in that case, pass the rest of the exam, and you'll get more of them…" she said as she walked way.
Naruto smiled as he watched his girlfriend leave, "Then let's not keep the exam's waiting any longer!"
Hinata smiled as she walked out of the classroom.
-(training grounds)-
"Alright class this proportion of the exams is to test your accuracy. You will grab a set of Kunais and Shurikens to throw them at the targets. If you hit any part of the target it will count full grade and for every bulls eye you get extra points added to your final grade.
Everyone was called and took their turns. Some failed, others did average, and some few got above average, some like Sasuke Uchiha.
Sasuke Uchiha, the last of his clan after his brother, Itachi, went mad and killed everyone in the clan; everyone except him. Since then Sasuke was filled with hate and vowed to kill his older brother and to restore the Uchiha clan.
When it was his turn he got the required amount of throwing weapons and stood in front of the targets. He took in a deep breath then exhaled, with the flick of his wrists he sent all projectiles and hit all the targets, and nailed three bulls eye.
"Outstanding as usual Sasuke, three out of seven is very tough to beat. Next we need Naruto Uzumaki to step up." Iruka called out.
Naruto stepped out of the crowd and took the Kunais and Shurikens and stepped in front of the targets. He smirked as he threw the weapons at the targets…and got all seven bulls eyes.
To say the class as a whole was speechless was an understatement. They all looked at the obsidian haired kid with astonishment and resentment.
Iruka just stood there for a minute before gathering his bearings and calling out the rest of the students. When all were done with the weapons test, Iruka had them go to the sparring dojo.
"Okay this part of the exams is to test your fighting skills you'll be teamed up in pairs of two and the winner of the round will advance to next rounds. Naruto, you'll be the sitting this one out unless the winner of the final match issues a challenge." Iruka explained.
Naruto just shrugged his shoulders and leaned back in his chair.
"Well then, whomever the winner to be, hurry up so that I can have some fun of my own." Naruto smirked.
Sasuke just looked at the new obsidian haired kid with annoyance, after everything he has seen, he wanted to fight him. If he was ever going to get the chance to do so, he would have to win.
With that in mind Sasuke went through the competition with minimum difficulty till the point he was facing his last opponent, Shou. He was one of the best in TaiJutsu, third compared to him.
"Alright last fight between Shou Mizu and Sasuke Uchiha…begin!" Iruka yelled.
Both of them charged at each other and met in the middle. Shou swung a right hook towards Sasuke, who duck under the punch. Sasuke then hit Shou in the stomach, causing said boy to bend over in pain. Sasuke then raised his arm upwards and brought it down to deliver a elbowed to the back of Shou's head, forcibly knocking him out.
Iruka called the fight and had Shou placed in the infirmary.
"Okay if that's all we can go…" Iruka was then interrupted by Sasuke.
"Sensei wait! I challenge Naruto Uzumaki to a spar before we go back." Sasuke asked.
Iruka looked at Sasuke then to Naruto, "Naruto, do you accept the challenge?" he asked.
Naruto grinned at the Uchiha, "I accept the challenge. I was wondering who was going to call me out."
Naruto stood up and stepped into the ring with Sasuke. Sasuke got into the academy stance, but Naruto just stood looking at him.
"Are you to stand there or are we going to fight?" Sasuke inquired.
Naruto just kept his grin as he looked at Sasuke, "We're going to fight, I'm just waiting for you to attack."
Sasuke just glared at Naruto and charged. Naruto waited for Sasuke to throw his punch, when he did, Naruto ducked under the punch and playfully elbowed Sasuke in the back of the head. Sasuke turned around and tried to charge Naruto again. Naruto just stepped sided and pushed Sasuke to the ground; Sasuke pushed himself back up and threw himself at Naruto, who simply dodged all the punches and kicks.
"You really shouldn't fight angry, you know?" Naruto pointed out.
"Shut up and fight, loser!" Sasuke snarled at him as he threw more punches that Naruto avoided.
"Because the funny part about anger is, if you let it consume you…" Naruto jumped over one of Sasuke's punches, and landed behind him, "…you lose sight of everything around you."
Sasuke turned around to throw another punch, but punched only air. Sasuke frantically looked around him to try and spot his opponent.
"Hey, down here…" Sasuke looked below him and was met by an uppercut that knocked him out of the ring.
Iruka, and the entire class present, was shocked beyond belief. Their top fighter in the class just got knocked out of the ring by the new kid.
"Winner; Naruto Uzumaki." He said.
They watched as Naruto got out of the ring and walked towards the fallen Uchiha with an offering hand.
Sasuke looked at the offered hand of his opponent that had just bested him in his own area of expertise. The area that he had trained in since his brother's betrayal.
Again he looked at the offered hand…and clasped it with his own.
Naruto brought the boy up and smiled, "Fight with less anger, and you and me will be able to have a better spar."
Sasuke smirked at the black haired fighter, "Normally, I say go screw yourself, but since you beat me pretty easily you must have some idea of what you're doing."
Naruto nodded with a smirk on his face, "I'd like to agree with that. Now if you'll excuse me, someone else deserves my attention." He said as he walked back to Hinata.
With the fights over, Iruka told everyone to go back to the classroom to finish the last of the test.
-(Inside)-
"Alright, the last section of the test is the NinJutsu test. When I call your names come with me to the next room where you'll be tested. First off…."
After Hinata was called into the room, Naruto leaned back in his chair and waited for his hime to come back.
"After we pass, would you like to go out and celebrate?" he asked Hinata as she sat down with a head band tied around her neck.
Hinata giggled at the boy beside her, "Let me think about it." She said.
"So, is that a yes?" Naruto asked.
Hinata giggled again, before she heard Naruto's name being called to the next room, "I'll let you know if you pass."
"When, I pass." He corrected as he stood and left the room.
-(Room)-
"Aright Naruto-san, for this test you will need to perform the Henge, Kawarimi, and Bushin Jutsus to pass. Let's start off with Henge Jutsu first, please transform into ether Mizuki or me." Iruka instructed.
Naruto nodded and Henged into Mizuki and waited for further instructions.
Iruka looked at the Henge version of his best friend and studied the real one to see if there were any faults.
"Great job Naruto. You can release the Henge now. Next we'd like you to do the Kawarimi Jutsu; feel free to use any object in this room."
Naruto switched with a random desk in the room then switched again.
"Excellent, now for the final we'll need you to do the Bushin Jutsu." Mizuki said.
"Actually Iruka-sensei, Mizuki-sensei, I was hoping I could perform a different Bushin?" Naruto asked.
Both teachers were caught off guard by the request, "Well, there are no rules as to what kind of Bushin, as long as it's an exact copy of the person." Iruka said.
"Arigatou gozaimasu." He said as he place his hands in a cross shape.
Suddenly five burst of smoke came into the air and when they dispersed, six Naruto's were accounted for.
Both Mizuki and Iruka were floored that a Genin was able to pull off the Kage Bushin no Jutsu. Both quickly snapped out of their shock and presented Naruto with a headband.
"Any Genin that can pull off that Jutsu is worthy of a Konoha's headband, but be careful of that Jutsu, if you try to force more than you can make, you will end up killing yourself." Iruka told Naruto as he left.
"Hai, sensei." 'Imagine the surprise on his face if I showed him the true amount I could make with only one eighth of my charka…'
Naruto went back into the room and bestowed his headband secured firmly to his forehead to Hinata.
"So, about that date hime…"
I thought I go ahead and make Naruto and Hinata a couple, seeing as how Jackie and Jenny were already one and then later showed how they became a coupe (somewhat anyways)
let me know how I did and any mistakes will be fixed if any are sighted.