Don't Own Naruto. Or X-Men
Text for this chap
"(Yo!)" English
What to do? Thinking
"As a day" Japanese
"WIND STYLE: !" Jutsu
{AN:} Authors Note
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-Chapter Four-
The month passed slowly for Naruto and Laura. Both had found the level of training at the academy to be so frustratingly inadequate that they took to training in the D-Room that was part of the secret base hidden below the Uzumaki Estate at the weekends and after the academy was dismissed at the end of each day.
Today was the day of the final exam for graduation, both Naruto and Laura were ready for it as they had both worked hard for this chance.
"So Laura you ready to show those pathetic fan girls how it's done?" Naruto asked Laura as she poured the Milk over her Cheerios.
Looking up Laura gave Naruto a grin "You bet your cute butt I am." answered Laura as she sat down to eat her Cheerios and watched as Naruto ate his Oatmeal.
=X=
Eight am rolled around quickly, Naruto and Laura sat once again in their usual seat at the back of the classroom waiting patently for Iruka to arrive to administer the final exam.
Every once in awhile a certain duck haired boy would turn to glare at both Naruto and Laura, he had not forgotten the defeat at the hands at Laura on their first day, then he had lost to Naruto a few weeks later and broke his arm trying to block a round house kick from the blonde. His arm had been taken out of it's cast that morning.
Soon Iruka entered the room and saw the usual chaos that seemed to rule his class and began to make hand signs. Seeing the hand signs Naruto, Laura and Kiba plugged their ears before. "SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN!" Iruka shouted using his Big Head Jutsu.
"Very good now today is the day of the final exam to see if you can become Genin of the Leaf. First there will be a written test followed by target practice then a spar with Mizuki. Following the spar you will be aloud a five minute break then a individual jutsu test, after the jutsu test you will break for lunch then return to the academy to be tested on the Academy three basic tests." Explained Iruka who then motioned Mizuki to pass out the written test.
"You all have forty-five minutes to complete the written portion of the test, good luck." Said Iruka and gave the signal for the students to begin writing.
The forty-five minutes passed and by that time everyone had handed their paper to the front desk. Once the last test had been handed in Iruka stood to address the class. "Very good now that everyone has finished it is now time to go to the target range. Everyone follow me and Mizuki please." ordered Iruka as the class stood and filed out heading to the target range.
Once everyone was outside at the training area everyone formed a single file line and waited for their turn. The results varied from piss poor those being Sasuke's fan girls. To arrogantly perfect courtesy of the brooding queen him self.
When it came to Naruto and Laura's turns there was no dramatics, there was no flare just a quick sharp accurate throw each earning a perfect score.
"Very good everyone. Now it is time for the spars against Mizuki, you all must last for a full five minutes for full marks, now everyone around the sparing circle." Called Iruka as everyone surrounded the circle and waited for their turn.
Again like the target practice all but two of Sasuke's fan girls were piss poor attempts lasting only one minute against Mizuki. Sakura's was the second best of the fan girls with a time of two minutes thirty seconds before she was defeated. Ino had the best time out of the fan girls managing to last a full three minutes before her own defeat. That of cause lead to a five minute argument with Sakura over who Sasuke would go out with, there by missing one of the spars.
Hinata had the one of the best times for the female students managing to last four minutes thirty-five seconds before she was defeated. The males of the group overall performed better than the females. But Sasuke caused many of the others to growl in his direction when it became obvious that Mizuki had taken it easy with Sasuke allowing him to last the full five minutes, then preceded to congratulate him loudly for the effort.
As Naruto entered the circle Iruka approached Naruto. "Naruto, due to your unique bone structure you are to try and fight with out injuring Mizuki as Laura has yet to take her turn at the spar, Understand?" explained Iruka and Naruto nodded in understanding.
Once Iruka had left the Circle Naruto took up a stance that his friend Shikamaru deduced was based entirely around defence over offence.
Using this style Naruto managed to last the full five minutes. "Congratulations for going the full five minutes Naruto, and for using that defensive style you are awarded a bonus point to your final score. Laura you're up and you have the same stipulations as Naruto." explained Iruka and watched as Naruto and Laura gave each other a high five as they passed each other.
As soon as Laura was in the circle she took up the same stance as Naruto. Laura like Naruto lasted the full five minutes. "Very good Laura you too are awarded a bonus point for the defensive style. Now everyone you are aloud a five minute break before we move on to the personal Jutsu portion of the exam. Shouted Iruka and watched as the students drifted off into their small groups.
Soon the small groups were gathered, the two main groups being the fan girls of Sasuke Uchiha all trying to get his attention. The other group was Naruto, Laura and their small group of friends. Those friends being, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuga and surprisingly Sai who thanks to Naruto had managed to break out of his emotionless shell. This was because as Naruto had explained to him 'An artist without emotion can never truly be an artist.' those words had aloud Sai to become more than a simple tool as his adoptive father Danzo had intended. In return for having his emotions back Sai had painted a beautiful picture of Laura and Naruto at the summer festival that he had titled Serenity.
Currently the Group of friends were discussing the metal that Laura and Naruto said was on their bones.
"Naruto, Laura is there any way you can prove this metal is on your bones as many don't appear to believe you and think it's all Chakra manipulation." explained Shikamaru the look he got from Naruto and Laura was not what he was expecting
"There is away Shikamaru but it will cause us some pain" answered Laura
"Laura-san, Naruto-san if it will cause you pain you don't have too!" said Hinata as she looked at her friends who had helped her lose her stutter.
"No Hinata we don't. But we will." said Naruto as he rolled up a leg of his Urban camouflage pants and took out a kunai, and the others saw that Laura had done the same. Unexpectedly though both Naruto and Laura bit down on the kunai's handles before detracting a single claw each surprising their friends.
Moving quickly Naruto and Laura shaved a large area of their shins exposing the silvery glint of metal that was covering the bone that quickly healed before their friends eyes.
"That's cool!" said Kiba "is it some kind of Jutsu." he then asked referring to the healing.
"No Kiba it is our Kekkei Genki. Which we both share even though we are not related by blood we both have the same kind of Kekkei Genki and hope that our children will have it when we decide to have kids of our own." explained Laura to the group as a whole as Naruto then turned to Shikamaru.
"That enough proof for you?" and Shikamaru just nodded a yes.
The five minutes passed quickly after that and every one made their way to demonstrate a personal jutsu. Unfortunately mainly students failed this portion of the exam as they had no Jutsu's other than the academy three, even Sakura failed this portion. Much to her own dismay as she knew it would lower her chances of being with Sasuke. {AN: like the arrogant Emo gives a damn.}
Obviously the clan heirs performed well in this test due to knowing their clan's personal jutsu's. when it came to Sasuke's turn like always he decided to show off by using the 'Great Fireball jutsu' a C-rank jutsu thinking his was the best as he smugly left the display area.
Soon came the turn of Naruto and having spotted the smug look of the Uchiha decided to go one up on him. Facing a training dummy Naruto made a few quick hand signs before saying "WIND SWORD JUTSU!" The training dummy in front of Naruto was completely torn to shreds from the powerful attack.
"Naruto what rank was that jutsu?" asked a clearly shocked Iruka
"A-Rank, Iruka-Sensei." Naruto answered and caught the enraged look on Sasuke's face from the corner of his eye.
"Err ok Naruto well done. Laura your up next" said Iruka and hoped that Laura did not know an A-rank jutsu as well.
Laura approaching the last dummy stopped before going through her hand signs and saying "WATER STYLE: WATER SHARK MISSILE!" the water in the near by pond swirled and rose out of the water taking on the appearance of a shark that sped to the last training dummy obliterating it.
Great not A-rank but B-rank thought Iruka before saying. "Very good Laura. Now everyone break for lunch, then return for the academy three test. Dismissed"
Naruto, Laura and their friends made a quick exit before they could be cornered by Sasuke, who would no doubt demand to know where they got their powerful jutsu's from.
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Later at Ichiraku's Ramen stand the close group of friends sat enjoying the ramen they had each ordered.
"So Naruto. How many Jutsu ranks do you and Laura know?" asked Choji as he ate his beef Ramen.
"We both know Jutsu's from D to A rank and hope to one day create our own S-Rank" answered Naruto
"CREATE AN S-RANK!" shouted Kiba, which earned him a smack to the back of the head from Laura.
"Could you of shouted that any louder? I don't think they quite heard you in Kumo." said a slightly irked Laura.
"So do you think we will pass" Asked Hinata and the others heard the worry in her voice. Where Naruto and Laura had managed to help get rid of Hinata's stutter they were still working on her confidence but each day it was getting better.
"Us? Yes. Sasuke? Of cause. Ino and Sakura? Maybe even though I would not be surprised if Sakura failed." answered Naruto
"And the fan girls?" asked Kiba
"HA fat chance." answered Laura.
=X=
Lunch ended and the group of friends had made their way back to the academy, and now sat waiting their turn at the academy three exam.
Soon Naruto's name was called and he went to the room were he would be tested to see Iruka and Mizuki sat behind a desk that was covered with head bands.
"Ok Naruto in order to pass this test you need to perform a substitution, henge and Bunshin. Begin when you're ready" explained Iruka
Naruto nodded indicating he was ready and Iruka threw a dull kunai and Naruto replaced himself with one of the spare chairs that were in the room.
"very good, now henge into some one please" once again Naruto nodded before he henged into the Hokage. "again very good , now perform the Bunshin" ordered Iruka
"Iruka-Sensei I have too much Chakra to perform a simple Bunshin so may I use another type?" asked Naruto after explaining his reason for asking.
"The exam only says a Bunshin so you may." answered Iruka who became worried by Naruto's grin
"WIND CLONE JUTSU!" Said Naruto, as the air next to him swirled and condensed in less then a second and a perfect copy of Naruto appeared.
"Wind clone?" asked Iruka surprised but at the same time clearly impressed.
"Yeah. Took me a year to create" answered Naruto
"well then, very good Naruto and congratulations you have passed " said Iruka as he presented Naruto with his headband and watched as Naruto tied it securely around his head and left to return to his seat back in the main room.
After a few minutes Laura went to take her turn and after five minutes she came back out with her headband securely round her head as well. "Nice one Laura-Chan" said Naruto as Laura came over to him and sat in his lap.
"Thanks, now why don't we celebrate in our own way tonight? …Naruto-Kun." Asked Laura and Naruto did not miss the gleam in her eyes and smiled
"Are you sure?" he asked and Laura nodded before giving him a quick kiss on the lips.
"Well then lets not tell the folks" said Naruto which caused Laura to giggle.
Soon when everyone had passed or failed and Iruka and Mizuki came out to address the class.
"congratulations to those of you who passed. Now you have until Thursday to get your Ninja ID and handed in to the Hokage's office. Return to this room on Friday to find out who your team-mates and Jonin instructors will be, and again congratulations. Dismissed" said Iruka who watched as everyone filed out.
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Naruto and Laura woke the next morning naked in a tangle of black silk sheets, the aftermath of their celebration evident by the glow that Laura seemed to have.
"Morning Hime" Naruto said as Laura snuggled into his bare chest as he gently ran his fingers down Laura's spine causing her to shiver at the gentleness of his touch.
"Mmmmm. What do you want to do today?" Asked Laura as she sighed as Naruto continued to stroke down her spine.
"Well I was thinking we could take a shower first. Then get our ID's sorted before we go see Jiji. That message we got yesterday said he wanted to see us regardless if we passed or failed" suggested Naruto, Laura did not miss the suggestion of what they could get up to together in the shower.
"Mmmmm, ok" said Laura who giggled as Naruto picked her up and carried her to the bathroom so they could take that shower.
That shower ended up taking twice as long as it would have normally.
Thirty minutes later found Laura and Naruto before the Hokage wearing their black leather Kevlar weave X-Men uniforms. Naruto's uniform had several areas with orange trimming were as Laura's had Purple trimming. Naruto was also wearing his jacket and Laura was wearing her duster.
The Hokage was currently looking over their ID's "hmm…very good your ID's are in perfect order. Now as to why I asked you both here the council has requested that you both appear before it." explained Sarutobi much to the surprise of the two dangerous teens before him.
"what do the Council want to see us for?" asked Laura.
"Three reasons mainly. One, they want to see your healing factors in action. Two, despite the X-rays provided by Xavier-san they want an independent to check for the metal on your bones. And three, knowing my old team-mates and Danzo they will want proof that you are indeed Minato Namikaze's son and a way to gauge your loyalty, understand?" Asked Sarutobi after explaining the purpose behind the council meeting. And saw Laura and Naruto nod in understanding.
"Great can we at least go home and change out of our battle uniforms first?" Naruto asked only to see the Hokage shake his head before he answered " Sorry Naruto you don't have the time to change as the meeting is in a few minutes."
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Entering the Council chamber with the Hokage Naruto and Laura saw the Hokage's old team-mates a man who had bandages over one side of his face, the clan heads and several prominent civilians. Once the Hokage had taken his seat in the centre of the council, Naruto and Laura both bowed.
"How may we assist the honoured council this day?" they asked respectfully.
"First we would like a demonstration of this s called bloodline you both possess." said an old women on the Hokage's right.
"Koharu, Homura, that will not be necessary as my adoptive son Sai as bared witness to the healing bloodline they possess. As well as the metal that is grafted to their bones." spoke the old man with the bandages. {AN: Danzo is not going to be as big a villain as normal. He will more or less give Naruto and Laura his support due to their friendship with Sai}
The clan heads who were the parents of Naruto's friends made their support for this known as well each stating that they had been informed of the small demonstration the pervious day.
"Still Danzo there are those of us on this council who would like to bear witness to it as well as have a medic nin scan them to see if this metal is grafted to their bones like they say." said the old man to the Hokage's left who Naruto guessed was Homura. Then looked at Naruto and Laura waiting for a demonstration.
Naruto and Laura proceeded to remove their jacket and duster before removing the leather Kevlar weave combat tops to reveal black cotton vests. Then like at the academy griped a kunai handle with their teeth, before detracting a single claw each. They both then ran the claw along their biceps leaving a long deep cut which healed in a few seconds.
With wide eyes the council looked on "And before you ask the Kyuubi was fully absorbed last year so he is no longer part of the picture. Which is also the reason my pupils are slits " said Naruto knowing that many of the council would think the fox was still inside him and think it was the cause of the rapid healing.
"That is true honoured council as my Byakugan can detect no trace of the fox's chakra with in the boy's system." spoke Hiashi backing up Naruto.
"under stood but given the nature of their bloodline I suggest they sire a child as soon as possible in order to start a clan of regenerators like them selves." suggested Homura
"No!" said Naruto firmly
"You would dare defy the wishes of this council boy!" Said a woman with pink hair.
"I agree with the wishes of the boy Haruno-San" said Danzo before continuing to explain himself. "They have both just begun their careers as Ninja and to force them to have a child now could very well cause us to lose such a promising future clan"
What are you up to Danzo, you are never like this when it comes top new bloodlines and normally would be demanding a child as well. thought the Hokage as he glanced at Danzo from the corner of his eyes.
"Now on to the second matter" said Sarutobi as he took a scroll from a small wooden box and many of the council recognised it as the legacy scroll of the Namikaze clan. The Hokage proceeded to hand it to an ANBU who then moved and handed the scroll to Naruto.
"Naruto that is the Legacy Scroll of the Yondaime please cut your finger and apply some blood to the seal and you will prove your heritage" explained the Hokage.
Once again Naruto detracted a claw and cutting his finger quickly wiped some blood on the seal. The seal glowed before opening.
"I Hiruzen Sarutobi the Sandaime Hokage of Konoha recognise Naruto Uzumaki as the Son of our own Minato Namikaze" said Sarutobi and several clan heads seconded the announcement.
"Very well, now onto the final matter and for it I have brought a independent medic nin to perform the scan. You may let him enter now." Koharu said to an ANBU near the door opened it and let a boy in who had silver hair and glasses. The boy bowed to the council before beginning his scan of Naruto and Laura, after a few minutes he stopped and gave his report "They do indeed have some kind of metal bonded to their bones honoured council." the council nodded at the report.
"Very good. Now that the business at hand is sorted I call this meeting to an end" stated the Hokage
Who left with both Naruto and Laura.
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"Well not that the meeting is over…" Started the Hokage only to be interrupted when his office door was opened and in ran a boy with some kind of wired helmet on and a shuriken in hand, shouted "ON GUARD OLD MAN!" and charged the Hokage. Naruto and Laura moved to intercept the boy only to sweat drop when he tripped on the long blue scarf that he was wearing.
The boy quickly got to his feet with a sheepish look on his face and said. "Hehe, you still got it old man"
"Who's the kid?" Naruto asked the Hokage
"SO! It was you who tripped me" Exclaimed the boy while pointing at Naruto.
Konohamaru you don't know who you are speaking to. thought the Hokage and watched as Naruto moved faster than the boy expected and grabbed him by the front of his top and brought him eye level.
"You tripped over your own scarf Runt!" Naruto said as a man with dark glasses ran in and shouted
"Unhand the Hokage's honourable grandson now!"
"This runts your grandson old man? What's his name?" Naruto asked the Hokage.
"He is my grandson and he is called Konohamaru" answered the Hokage while thinking. Don't say it Konohamaru or you will regret it.
"Humph. Now you know who I am you won't dare touch me" said Konohamaru arrogantly
"I DON'T CARE IF YOU WERE THE HIS GRANDMOTHER!" Shouted Naruto before dropping Konohamaru on his butt then bashing him on his head and walked out muttering about loud mouth kids.
But before Konohamaru had time to recover though Laura walked up to him and smacked him across the back of the head. "That's for annoying my boyfriend twerp!" and walked out as well.
Once the two teens had left the man with the glasses started preaching about short cuts only to be interrupted by the Hokage. "Ebisu, my grandson has already left to follow Naruto and his girlfriend"
Ebisu had soon left to prevent the corruption of the Hokage's grandson at the hands of Naruto and Laura.
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The rest of the week passed quickly for Naruto and Laura who after meeting Konohamaru managed to teach him that there are no short cut's in life and that anything worth doing takes hard work. Friday soon rolled round and Naruto and Laura once again found them selves sat in their old class room for the last time waiting to be assigned to their team.
It was not long after that Iruka came in to find the class silent for a change Iuka could just sigh at that and thought. The last time I may see them in this room and now they are behaving.
"Hello everyone now lets get straight to the point. Team one will be… now Team Seven will be Sasuke Uchiha, Sai and Sakura Haruno, Your Jonin instructor is Kakashi Hatake." here Iruka paused as Sakura shouted about how true love prevails. Once it was over Iruka continued. "…Ok Team Eight will be Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame, your Jonin instructor is Kurenai Yuhi. And Team Ten will be Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi, your Jonin instructor is Asuma Sarutobi…"
"Iruka-Sensei what about Naruto and Laura?" Asked Ino
"Well Ino as I was about to say before you interrupted me. Naruto Uzumaki and Laura Logan you are to report to the Hokage's office were your third team-mate and Jonin instructor will be assigned to you. As for everyone else you are to report back here in one hour to meet with your Jonin instructors, dismissed" said Iruka and watched as everyone but Naruto and Laura left the room. "Yes?" Iruka asked
"Laura and I would like to thank you Iruka-sensei for every thing you taught us this last month" said Naruto before he and Laura leapt out of the window heading to the Hokage Tower.
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Later Naruto and Laura stood before the Hokage "Jiji you sent for us?" asked Naruto
"Yes I have recently lost two genin due to career ending injures" answered Sarutobi
"so we get the uninjured Genin?" Asked Laura
"Yes, You may come in now" said the Hokage loud enough to be herd in his private study.
Naruto and Laura turned to see a girl with her hair pinned up in two buns that made Naruto think of a panda. she was wearing a pink sleeveless top with red timing round the hole for the arms she also wore a pair of blue pants and blue shinobi sandals. Naruto and Laura did not miss the depressed look and knew it was because of the injures her first team-mates had suffered.
"Tenten I know it's only been a few days since the ambush. But I need you back on active duty so I have selected you two new team-mates." Explained the Hokage
"…I understand Hokage-sama. What about Gai-Sensei will he?…" Tenten left the question hanging.
"I am afraid not Tenten, Maito Gai has requested to be taken off assignment as a sensei. Thus I am assigning the New team Nine a new Sensei" The Hokage explained getting a nod from Tenten. "Now Team Nine report to Training Ground Forty-Four to meet your new Sensei." Ordered Sarutobi getting nods from each of the Genin before him.
"Come on Tenten lets go meet our sensei, we will do the whole likes and dislikes thing when we meet up, but for now I'm Naruto and this is Laura" And with that the new team nine sped off to training ground Forty-Four.
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So ends the Fourth Chapter of X-Class, as always let us know what ya think