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"Talking"
"Thinking, Flashback"
"Demon Talking"
"Demon Thinking"
(Previously)
As she lied down, she went through her mental list for the last time that night.
"1st Naruto-kun stood up the villagers, 2nd Naruto-kun is serious about the academy, 3rd Naruto-kun found his kaa-san, 4th Naruto-kun did not get in trouble in class today. 5th Naruto-kun is a clan heir. 6th Naruto-kun is the son of a Kage. 7th Naruto-kun finally trusts me with his secret. 8th The Kyuubi is a girl. 9th Naruto-kun gave me the glove as a gift. 10th Naruto-kun stopped wearing that 'Kill Me!' orange jumpsuit. 11th Naruto-kun looks h-hot. 12th Naruto-kun hugged me. 13th Naruto-kun finally called me Hinata-chan. Best… day… ever!" she thought with a smile as she went to sleep. Waiting to see what tomorrow brought her.
Hinata woke up from one of the best dreams she had ever had. In the dream Naruto was a clan heir and had a beautiful home. She got out of her bed and stretched her muscles that where stiff from sleep. To make the dream even better, Naruto had giving her a pair of gl… she stopped that line of thought as she looked at her hand and saw the gloves of her dream.
Nervously sending a stream of chakra to them to test if they were real or just an illusion, she was pleasantly surprised when the three white claws appeared and started to shine in the morning light.
"I-it, it wasn't a d-dream… it was r-real." She thought as she admired the bladed.
She started to slowly go through the motions of the Gentle Fist staring at the claws the whole time. The way they moved with her and the potential she saw in them, it made her wonder if the gloves where meant for her.
She frowned when she got to the more uncomfortable parts of the form, at those parts of the form her body just did not move from one step to another and made the claws all the more difficult to use. Oh well she just have to work at it and improve.
"Hinata-sama," came a voice from the other side of the door.
Caught off guard by the sudden noise, she fell on the floor in a somewhat dramatic fashion. Hoping that no one had their eyes activated she gave a shaky response, "Y-yes?"
"Hinata-sama Hiashi-sama wanted me to inform you that the academy would be starting soon." The voice said and went away.
"Eep," Hinata forgot all about the exam she had to take, being completely caught up in her daydream.
Now rushing to get ready she had a quick breakfast and hurried along to the academy. Wondering what the new day was going to bring her.
Naruto was sitting in his seat in the corner in the class reading a book he had found in his library the night before.
Many of the students were already there, but they had not noticed him. They just did their own thing, some even openly wonder if he would even show up.
Naruto had been the first to arrive to the class. He could not believe that by just reading a book and wearing a new change of cloths could turn him invisible the a class room full of genin hopefuls. So far the ones to have noticed him were Shikamaru and Shino. The former felt that it would be to troublesome to make an announcement of the blonde's change, while the latter could not find a logical reason to care about some one else's business.
Naruto was reading a beginners book on fuinjutsu. He had figured that if the Uzumaki were masters in the art then he would give it a shot even though it was said to be one for the hardest things to learn. He did not know why though, so far everything he has read had made since.
He was so absorbed in his book that he hardly notices the presence of Hinata sitting by his side until she said her greeting.
"Huh, did you say something Hinata-chan?
(Elsewhere in Konoha)
Achoo!
"Hmm someone just stole my line. I hope it is a pretty girl. Now were was I," thought a masked man as he found his place in his book.
"Oh Azumi-chan… you naughty girl."
Hinata blushed as memories of when Naruto had hugged her while calling her that last night replayed in her mind.
"G-Good morning Naruto-k-kun," she said, as she looked him over.
He was wearing the same cloths he wore the other night but added a jacket that matched his outfit that he left unzipped. He had a regular looking sword strapped around his back that could never be compared to his mother's. She guessed he wasn't going to show it in public like he said he wouldn't. Also his hair was his spiky blond and not the red she saw last night, much to her disappointment. She would have never thought that she would prefer a color over the blond but the red looked soooo much better on him.
Shaking her head to rid her self of the blush that appeared on her face, she looked back at the object of her affection to see his nose in a book.
"Naruto-k-kun, What are you reading?"
It must have taken a while for the sentence to reach him because it took him a moment to acknowledge to question and respond.
"Hm? Oh yeah, this is a book I found on fuinjutsu. And well I thought since I am… who I am, I figured I give it a shoot. It is really easy to. I don't see how it is one of the hardest things for a shinobi to learn. I find it quite simple so far," he said showing the book to Hinata.
Hinata looked at the book and was utterly confused at first glance. It was full of weird shapes and symbols that made no since to her. Having to learn symbols that did one thing, doing the same one only a tad different causing something like death or injury was not something that Hinata felt like doing. So she just shook her head and handed the book back.
When Naruto had given the book to Hinata she looked completely lost, which confused him. The book seemed easy enough to read and understand, but if Hinata's reaction was anything to go by then he guessed not.
'Oh well, must be an Uzumaki thing', he thought with a shrug as he got his book back.
"N-Naruto-kun?"
"Yes Hinata-chan?" he said as he turned the page in his book.
"Did you manage to m-make a clone?"
"Don't worry Hinata-chan", he said giving her a confident smile, "I will pass for sure."
She adverted her eyes with a small blush on her face at be called –chan again. She still was not used to hearing her name with the suffix but she loved it all the same.
She looked at his face and felt warmth spread throughout her body. Naruto's confidence and smile were having a positive affect on her. She knew that because her stuttering was going down. Just his smile alone was enough to make her want to believe in him, so like all the other time before she would. She let the conversation drop as she started to focus on her techniques to pass the exam. Noting that he had not answered her question.
The two fell into a comfortable silence as they concentrated on their respective task, oblivious to the world around them. It was nice until…
"Ha! I won Ino-pig. You will never beat me when it comes to gaining Sasuke-kun's love."
"Yeah right Forehead. You only won because that giant billboard of yours blocked my path."
Naruto gave a sigh as he heard Sasuke's biggest fangirls argue. I mean come on, it was like this every morning and it was not like it would get the boys attention any way.
He brought his book down just below his eyes to see what they where doing now, only to see them fighting over the last seat that was next to him. Giving another disappointed sigh he continued to read about the theory behind the possibility of storage scrolls.
A collective gasp that sounded through out the class brought Naruto from his book again, only for him to go wide eyed like the rest of the class.
Moments ago after Ino and Sakura where done pulling each other's hair and what not, they had chased each other around the class. As they were running they bumped into a civilian girl who was one of the only other non-fangirls in the class. As she was falling she had rotated her body to brace her self for the impact of the ground. Instead of hitting the ground, thought, she fell on top of an unsuspecting Sasuke, lips locked.
The entire class was silent as the two kissed, completely frozen, for at least 10 seconds before Sasuke suddenly ended it and started coughing and muttering under his breath. The girl on the other hand had not moved form her position. All emotions and facial expressions were gone from her face.
Until she let out a girlish sequel that was so high pitched, it almost shattered all the glass in the immediate area.
It was at this time that all real kunoichi in the Elemental Nations felt a feeling of loss and anger. Everyone of them from the old and retired to the ones in the middle of some fierce battle for their lives, all of them stopped what they were doing and bowed their heads. Mourning the lost of one of their own to the mostly incurable disease that made their most hated foes, fangirls.
After Naruto had regained his hearing, he looked to see that Sakura, Ino and the entire Sasuke fanclub were chasing the bragging civilian girl for stealing 'their Sasuke-kun's' first kiss.
Having enough, he looked at Hinata who had a cloud of depression above her head. A sweat-drop appeared on the back of Naruto's head as he looked at his friend's current state. He know she did not get this way over Sasuke's kiss, because they where not exactly friends, so he had no clue what she was upset about. Filing it as 'girl problems he couldn't possibly understand' in his mind, he gave a small cough to wake Hinata from her state of mind and continued to read his book.
Unfortunately his cough was not small enough as it attracted the attention of the pink menace… I mean Sakura.
Turning her head to where she heard a cough, Sakura saw a cute looking boy sitting next to Hinata. Said boy was wear black pants and a black and red shirt with a matching jacket that was left open.
"Those clothes look good on him…, but not as good as Sasuke-kun," she thought as she took in the rest of the appearance of the new boy.
"Blond hair, pretty blue eye, and whisker marks… wait WHISKER MARKS. That's, that's NARUTO!" she thought as her anger increased.
How dare he dress like that, trying to take my attention from 'her' Sasuke-kun.
Naruto could hear the girls approach and lowered his book to see Sakura with her hands on her hips and a scowl on her face. His eyes then eyed the rest of the class who attention was on the two of them wanting to see what would happen.
"May I help you?" he asked, his eyes returning to his book. He could have sworn he saw a tick mark appear on her head.
"Naruto, you baka, what do you think you're doing?"
He said nothing for a long time before he slowly turned the page in his book. He could feel Sakura's irritation increase and it made him smile. This could be fun.
"I am reading a book?"
"Wait you can read?" she asked in mock surprise. The rest of the class laughed at the jab at his intelligence.
"Obviously," he said in a bored tone, not looking up from his book.
"Why do you have a sword, and why have you not given it to Sasuke-kun?"
"I would never give Sasuke my 'sword'. In fact I thought for sure that he was going to use his own 'sword' on his own teammates until that stunt from before. But I still keep my 'sword' away from him, there is no telling what he would do with it," he said with a straight face trying not to laugh. (A/N: If you don't get this than good for you.)
The entire class was quiet thinking of his words, wondering why he was implying the Sasuke would turn traitor if he gave him his sword.
All was quiet until Kiba fell onto the floor crack up laughing. The class looked at him wondering what he was laughing at. The sound of a head hitting a desk turned the classes' attention to Shikamaru who muttering something about, "troublesome blonds."
Angered that she could not understand the baka's words when the class mutt and lazy-ass could, she settled a glare at the blond.
"Why are you even here anyway? We all know that you're such a failure of a ninja that you can't even do make a simple clone, so what hope do you have of passing. You should just go home now and save yourself the embarrassment."
Hinata, who was sitting quietly, couldn't take the girl insulting her friend like she had been. She had been gathering up her small courage and was about about to stand up for Naruto when she saw him slowly shaking his head. Confused, she saw amusement and a hint of mischief in his eyes. That along with his smile that was still on his face was enough to want to see what he was going to go.
"Is that right?" he said finally turning to face her with a dangerous smile.
"Yeah it is."
"Ok than how about a bet?"
Sakura had been expecting him to protest, to scream to the heavens that he would be the Hokage or something like. Not this.
"A-A bet?"
"Yeah a bet." He said taking a thinking pose.
"I bet that I pass the ninjutsu part of the exam… no scratch that. I bet that I will score the highest in the ninjutsu portion of the exam. That means that I will do better than everyone, including Sasuke." He said with a smirk.
The class instantly started to whisper amongst themselves at the new development. Naruto Uzumaki, the dead last of the class, just said that he was going to do the three required jutsu better than Sasuke Uchiha, the guaranteed Rookie of the Years, when his could not even do one of them.
Sakura was silent. She was having an inner conversation about what to do.
'Why are you hesitating? This idiot just said that he was going to do better than our Sasuke-kun punishment must be dealt. Cha!' Inner-Sakura said as she hammered an outline of Naruto.
"I don't knew,"
'What?! You think that this nobody is better than our Sasuke-kun?!'
"What? No!" Sakura thought trying to defend her actions. "It is just…" she looks at Naruto's smirking face, "That look he has. It's like he thinks he can do it."
'So what?! That baka thinks he can do anything. We all know that our Sasuke-kun's the best ever. Cha!
Naruto, who was unaware of the inner conversation in the girl's head, could see the indecision on her face and his smirk grew.
"Oh no Sakura how could you," he said in mock surprise, "How could you claim to Sasuke's number one girl if you think he can be beat by the dope of the class?"
Sakura could feel her anger from before rising. How dare him. How dare he question her love and commitment to her Sasuke-kun.
"OF COURSE I KNOW SASUKE-KUN WILL BEAT YOU! He is an Uchiha, an elite. Your just some clan less nobody who can't even compare to him," she screeched shaking her fist, threateningly at him.
Naruto quickly pushed down his anger about her comment about his clan and resisted to use her last sentence back at her, instead his just kept his smirk.
"So you accept?"
"OF COURSE I ACC-"
"Before you agree. How about I make it more interesting?" he said, cutting off her annoying screeches.
Sakura was a little pissed he interrupted her but that was replaced by curiosity.
"How?"
Naruto's smirk vanished as he took a mock thinking pose.
"Hmmmm? How about if I win and score the best in ninjutsu, then you can't talk to me for one week, no you can't talk to any boy for a week…. Including Sasuke," he added as an after thought.
Hey he may think of him as an arrogant prick with a stick up his ass, but no one should have to endure Sakura's screeches 24/7. And this way no one could say he never did a nice thing for the Uchiha.
"And WHEN I win?" she said after considering it.
Naruto's face spread into a foxlike grin.
"Then I will tell you one Sasuke's biggest secrets. A secret that has only three certain letters."
The class, who had been quiet during the conversation, started to whisper again. How did the class dobe know one of Sasuke's secrets if he told no one anything?
Some of the students looked in Sasuke's direction to see nothing about him had changed… except that his eyes were wide and there was sweat on his brow.
"How does he know about that? HE can't know about that, could he? Yeah that is, he doesn't know. He's bluffing, but he said three letters. SO HE DOES KNOW!" Sasuke thought as he whipped his head around. Looking at Naruto with desperation in his eyes.
Naruto was laughing on the inside as he looked at the normally stoic face that belonged to the Uchiha.
Yes he knew about the CRA or Clan Restoration Act. It was a law that said if a clan's numbers were near extinction, than a clan male had to take multiple wives to restore the clan.
He found out about it when he opened one of his mothers letters. She had written in great detailed about what the program was and how it could be applied to him, even a loop-hole that could get him out of it if it was forced on him. She also said that if he truly loved the girls and they loved him then he had her blessing, but if it was anything less than she would find a way to revive herself, torture and kill him repeatedly.
Even if it was in a letter and his mother was sadly dead, the threat seemed all too real to him. Not that he was going to tempt her.
Sakura had turned her back to Naruto and had taken what she thought was a cute thinking pose.
As she weighted the pros and cons of the bet, these were her main thoughts: If the dobe, by some miracle, won then she would not be able to talk to any boys for an entire week. This would allow the other hussies to make a move on 'her' Sasuke-kun, not that they had a chance though.
But if she had more time to make plans for Sasuke, go over details and to make a fool proof plan, then it might not be so bad if she lost.
But when she won, Naruto would have to tell her one of Sasuke-kun's secrets and by the looks of his reaction it was a big one. And if she knew his secret than he would want her to tell him one of her secrets, which she would. And then he would feel more comfortable around her and in time he would tell her another secret. Then she would tell him one of hers and so on, and so on. Until he realizes that they have told everything about each other and that they are perfect for one another. Then he would ask her to marry him, and she would say yes. Then….
Her face turned red and she let out a schoolgirl squeal as she thought about what they would do after the wedding.
Deciding that the squeal was a sign that she'd made up her mind, Naruto broke her out of her thoughts.
"So… is it a bet?" his grin in place.
Breaking out of her argument with her inner self about what to name their children after becoming Mrs. Uchiha, she looked at his hand before shaking it with a little to much enthusiasm.
"Yeah it's a bet. You better prepare to loose because NO ONE CAN BEAT SASUKE-KUN!" she screeched, then looked over at a horrified Sasuke and gave what she thought was a sexy wink.
Sasuke gave a shudder as turned to the blank board and gave it a death glare. As he thought of the situation he was in, he was conflicted. On one hand when he beat the dobe, he would once again prove that he was the best and that would cause Naruto to lose he stupid bet, but if Naruto lose (he gave a shudder) than he would tell his number one fangirl about the CRA who would then screech it to the heavens. If they found out about that then his fangirl would stop focusing one competing against each other, they would focus all the attention on him. And that could NOT happen.
But if Naruto won the bet than the banshee would leave him alone for an entire week. That idea was very tempting but for that to happen Naruto would have to win his bet and he, the Uchiha elite, would have to be second in something and his pride would not stand for that. So either way he lost. Not willing to continue thinking about it, he began thinking of all the way to kill his brother… and torturing a blond.
It was at this time that Iruka and Mizuki came into the room. They both were surprised by Naruto's new outfit and that sword on his back but did not think anything of it. As they walked to the desk, they picked different parts of conversations. Mostly concerning something about Naruto making a bet with Sakura and who they thought was going to win.
Once they both got ready for the day Iruka tried to calm the class.
"Alright class," he said but was ignored.
"Class," again he was ignored.
"It is time to be quiet now," no one seemed to hear him or they just did not care. Naruto, Hinata, and Shikamaru all covered their ears because they new what would happen next.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SIT YOUR ASSES DOWN!" he yelled activating his Big Head Jutsu.
Instantly everyone in the room was in their seats and quietly waiting for instructions.
"Thank you," he said with a kind smile, "Now as you all know today is the day you take your genin exams so you can become a shinobi of Konoha."
All the genin were excited to, hopefully, become official ninja and because they caught a hidden meaning in Iruka's words, they didn't have to stay in the academy any longer.
"Now," Iruka continued, "Your test will be divided into four different parts: the written exam, taijutsu, accuracy, and ninjutsu. The taijutsu exam will be a spar between students that will take place after the accuracy exam, and the ninjutsu are over the three require jutsu will be held after that. Now we will begin the written exam," he said looking around the room, "any questions?"
No one put their hand up. They were all too excited to take the exam to want to delay it any longer than necessary.
Nodding in satisfaction, Iruka and Mizuki started to pass out papers.
"You will have 105 minutes to complete your exam. You can turn it in whenever you finish though. You may begin as soon as you get your test." He said laying down the papers.
When Mizuki got to Naruto, though, he released his paper in the air causing it to catch air and float to the front of the class. Mizuki had be expecting him to have an outburst saying something like how he purposely did that and demand him to pick it up for him, if he did then him could dock points off of Naruto's score for disrupting the class. But no, all he got was an annoyed huff as Naruto went to get his test causing Mizuki to frown and finish passing out papers, then return to his desk to sleep.
When Naruto got back to his seat and looked at the questions on his test, he know something was up. All of his questions had to be at least jounin level, none of which should be on a genin test. The question's wording was also so complex that he could not even read one sentence without being confused.
Now this has happened before on his test and quizzes, him not understanding the test because it was overly hard, but all those times he had not really cared. But this time was different.
Looking at the sleeping form of Mizuki he wondered if he had switched his test with a harder one. He would not put it passed him to do that; it was no secret that Mizuki hated the last Uzumaki; the paper stunt was proof of that.
But after thinking about it, he didn't think his test was switched. For one he had seen Iruka pull out the exam pile and handed a section of it to Mizuki, and he knew Iruka did not hate him anymore. He was not overly nice to him either, instead he was treated like everyone else; nothing more nothing less, and he was okay with that.
So that meant that his test was tampered with.
After checking that the Iruka and Mizuki weren't looking, the former feverishly grading papers, the latter still asleep, he lightly tapped Hinata to get her attention.
Hinata has been having an interesting day. She had witnessed everything that had happened in the class thus far along with everyone else. After watching how Naruto had handled all the taunts and insults, she had realized that she still was not strong enough. If she had been the one that everyone made fun of then Naruto would not hesitate to defend her, and yet she did. Why did she?
Granted he had asked her not to because the whole thing with the bet, which she knew he was going to win, but that did not excuse her behavior for all the time before.
She gave a sad sigh and started to berate herself again when Mizuki had his paper go to the class. At least he was not using his happy-go-lucky mask.
The test so far had been easy enough with only a fourth of it being difficult. She was about to answer another question when she felt something bump into her leg. At first she had thought it was an accidents but he kept on doing it.
Looking up form her test, she looked at her friend wonder what he could want in the middle of such an important test. Surely he did not want to cheat off her?
Her sight fears were put to rest when instead of looking at her test Naruto was looking at her. (Making her blush a little bit) He then pointed at her, then his eyes, then back to her, and finally his test. This confused her until she realized that for some reason he wanted her to use her Byakugan on his test. Curious, she did as he wanted.
Her eyes activated, she immediately saw what was wrong. Her eyes could see all chakra weather it is inside a person or be used in a jutsu, and she saw what appeared to be a layer of chakra on the paper. But why was it there? She knew that Naruto did not cause it; his chakra control was not good enough to preform the feat. So who did it?
Gasping she turn to Mizuki and she saw the satisfied smirk on his sleeping face and frowned.
Naruto saw Hinata's look of confusion and that had confirmed his suspicion. Placing his finger on the paper, he channeled as little chakra into it as he could. Moments after he did this the illusion on his paper faded away revealing the true genin exam.
Giving a smile to his friend and mouthing a 'Thank You' he started his test and the first of the four exams.
Naruto and the others exited the academy and had entered the training area in the back of the school. The second and third portion of the exam would be held here.
The written had gone good enough. After the genjutsu was disabled, Naruto had gone though the test at a moderate pace. The question were easy with only a few giving him trouble, though he knew for a fact that he did not ace it but he did do enough to pass. He just wished he paid more attention to Iruka's boring lectures.
The second part of the exam had focused on accuracy with kunai and shurikens. It was really straightforward: ten Kunai and shurikens, each with ten targets. The closer you get to the center the better you did.
As always Sasuke did the best hitting the center with all twenty projectiles, but the class was surprised when Naruto took the second spot. He'd hit the center of all the targets but the last three did not stick. The class had laughed at him saying stuff like his arm was to weak to through twenty things in row or that his luck had run out, but in reality the weapons were just to dull to do anything with.
Naruto had a smile on his face as he walked to the sparring area. He had done better than he thought he would in the last test. Throughout his entire time in the academy, he had purposely avoided hitting the center target when it was his turn to practice his accuracy, this time he tried to hit the center and he did.
Now that he though about it, he guessed he had been hitting his target for a while now which was anywhere but the assigned one. His musings were cut short when Iruka began to speak.
"All right class," Iruka said getting everyone's attention, "We are about to begin the taijutsu part of the exam. The rules are simple; each spar will last for five minutes or until one of the participants scores five point or is unable to continue sparing. A solid punch is worth one point, a kick is two, and a kick to the head is three. OK, any question?"
"Umm Iruka-sensei?"
"Yes Sakura?"
"What would happen if the time runs out but no one has five points?"
"Did I not just answer this? "Then the spar is over with no official winner."
"Oh okay." She said with an understanding smile.
Iruka nodded then took out a clipboard and looked at the paper on it.
"The opponents have already been decided so if no one as any more questions?"
He looked around and called out the first name since no one asked him anything
"Shikamaru Nara vs Choji Akamichi"
Naruto was board as he waited for his turn to fight. So far all of the fights had either been one sided or had as much excitement as a toddler's brawl. Most of the clan heirs had already gone; they had faced an opponent that they had beat in two to three hit so theirs was less then entertaining. The only heirs that hasn't fought yet were…
"Uchiha Sasuke vs Uzumaki Naruto," called Iruka.
Damnit, speak of the devil.
Unstrapping his sword and giving it to Hinata, who wished him luck, Naruto made his way to his spot in front of Sasuke. Along the way, ignoring all the shouts and insults thrown his way by Sasuke's pink banshee and her army of howler monkeys, I mean Sakura and the fangirls.
"Fighters ready?" Iruka asked.
"Why don't you just quite now dobe and save yourself the embarrassment of losing to an elite like every dobe should," Sasuke said with an arrogant smirk as he slid into the Intercept-Fist stance, the fighting style of almost all Uchihas.
"YEAH YOU TELL HIM SAUSUKE-KUN!"
"YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO SASUKE-KUN BAKA AND GIVE UP!"
"THERE IS NOWAY A LOOSER LIKE YOU COULD EVER BEAT SASUKE-KUN!"
Naruto ignored all this as he into a stance that no one recognized instead of just throwing his fist up like he normally did.
"HEY WHY IS THE BAKA STANDING LIKE THAT?" came the voice of a fangirl.
"I DON'T KNOW BUT IT LOOKS STUPID!" answered another.
"NARUTO-BAKA, WHY ARE YOU IN A STANCE LIKE SASUKE-KUN. YOU SHOULD STOP TRYING TO COPY HIM. IT'S WRONG. AND YOU WILL NEVER BE AS COOL AS SASUKE-KUN, SO STOP TRYING." Screeched Sasuke's pink banshee known as Sakura.
Naruto felt angry about how his clan stance was called stupid, but let go. The insult was coming from the mouth of a fangirl, so her opinion did not mean anything. The night before, when he was working on his cloning jutsu, he had come across the Uzumaki taijutsu style and had memorized a stance to one of it's forms, though that was all he knew so he would have to wing it in the fight. He was tempted to mention that the Uchiha clan was known for copying and stealing jutsu, though. It was amusing to think the Sasuke-teme's number one fangirl had just insulted him.
Iruka studies Naruto's stance while the students were trash talking each other, it was one he did not recognize. As he picked it apart he saw that with the positioning of his hands and feet, Naruto had set himself up for what ever came at him. He could attack, defend, or dodge if he had to. He wondered where Naruto found it.
Seeing that everyone was ready to begin, Iruka began the fight.
"Hajime"
Sasuke, wanting to end the fight quickly, charged at Naruto with his arm pulled back.
Naruto was confused. Either he was used to Sasuke's way of fighting over the years, or he had a natural ability to fight that he never knew he had because he never tried, either way as soon as Sasuke started to move, he knew what was coming.
Waiting until the last moment when the fist was going to connect with his person, Naruto deflected it with his hand. Sasuke, unable to stop his momentum, kept going until he had missed the blond completely and was now behind him. Angered that his attack missed he turn to face the blond again only for a pain to erupt from his stomach.
Naruto had rotated body and saw Sasuke's unguarded body, he raised his leg letting the rotation of his body put power behind it. He could see the anger in his eyes turn to shock when his foot found Sasuke's flesh, causing him to drop to the ground cradling his stomach.
Taking advantage of Sasuke's down form, Naruto put some distance between them and started to take slowing breaths, trying to calm his racing heart and excited mind. He had done something today. He had gotten a hit on Sasuke, no one had ever done that and it felt good. He should of really started trying a long time ago.
Once he was calm he again slid into his family stance. Just because his only know the stance, didn't mean he did not study the scroll. The Uzumaki's fighting style revolved around taking an advantage of opening in the opponent. It was so made to fit every individual person since every one is different. If the person was more of an offensive, defensive, or both the user can adopt the style for there own.
What made it better was that only an Uzumaki could learn the style. The style's movements were dangerous to the human body, tearing muscles slightly or breaking bones; the style could be very damaging to a person. The Uzumaki were ability to negate these effects because every Uzumaki has a healing factor that heals the small injuries before they can cause a problem.
The style that Naruto was looking into was a combination of offence and defense. Blocking and dodging when needed, he would try to anger an opponent by not allowing a hit, which would cause them to make an open he could exploit. Or he could attack. He planned on using his unpredictableness with along with his family's ways to create something amazing. But that was in the future, for now all he could really do was try to defend and make his opponent mess up. And he had a way to accomplish this.
"Sasuke, are you ok?" he asked in a mock concerned voice, "You look like your in pain. And the way you're hold your stomach, did you eat something bad? If your not feeling well then I could wait until you feel better? Is that okay?"
Naruto's words broke the class out of their shock that he of all people was able to kick Sasuke, something his fangirls did not like.
"HOW DARE YOU HURT SASUKE-KUN!"
"YOU'RE A COWARD, FIGHTING SAUKE-KUN WHEN HE IS NOT FEELING WELL!"
"YAEH, YOU MUST HAVE CHEATED AND GIVEN SASUKE-KUN SOMETHING TO MAKE HIM FEEL BAD!"
"Yeah a good kick to the gut is what I gave him," thought Naruto.
"YEAH YOU CHEATER. THERE IS NOWAY A LOOSER LIKE YOU COULD EVER DO THAT TO SASUKE-KUN. HE MUST BE SICK!"
"SHUT UP! I AM NOT SICK!" Sasuke said as he stood up, glaring at Naruto.
"Wait, your not sick?" he asked in a confusion, then he smiled, "than that means that I, the dead-last, just got two point on the Uchiha elite within the first five seconds when he was perfectly fine."
He made an arrogant smirk when Sasuke gritted his teeth and charged in again, though more carefully this time.
Sasuke was speechless and angry at the same time. This clan less nobody had gotten two points on him, him an Uchiha elite. And to make it worst the dobe even got him to admit that he was not capable of stopping him when it happened, this could not go unpunished.
Now Sasuke was even madder, every kick was dodged, every knee was blocked, and every punch he threw was deflected. He had that arrogant smirk on his face like he was not even trying and worst; he would not SHUT THE HELL UP.
"Oi Sasuke, if you are and elite and I beating you, does that means that the dead last is better than the elite?"
"SHUT UP!" he yelled finally kicking the annoying blond in the chest, but not before receiving a punch to his.
Both staggers back and rubbed their respective chest, though the Naruto still had his smirk.
"Wow Sasuke I'm honored."
"What are you talking about loser, " Sasuke said though gritted teeth as he got back in his stance.
"Sasuke? If I am a loser, what does that make you Mr. Uchiha elite?" he ignored his reddening face as he continued, "Anyway, I was thinking how you decided to follow my lead."
"What are yo-"
"That kick to the body," he said cutting him off, "I did the same thing at the beginning of the fight. … Sasuke are you trying to be like me to get my attention?"
Sasuke was shaking with rage at this point.
"Just one more push," Naruto thought with a smirk, "As much as I appreciate the jester, I'd rather not go with a teammate."
"How dare he?! This...this clan less loser makes a fool out of me! I am an Uchiha elite! This nobody should be bowing at my feet!" Sasuke was about to charge in again when Naruto's words caught him. "Couldn't teammate be used to mean those of the same gender? He had also said that if I had a sword than I would use it on my teammate. Did he mean same gender? If he did that that meant sword meant…"
"YOU BASTARD! NARUTO YOU ARE SO DEAD!" Sasuke yelled charging at Naruto, fully intending on causing his body harm.
"Looks like if figured out what I said earlier, took him long enough," he thought ducking under a kick to the head.
The entire class was amazed as they watched the fight take place. No one had ever lasted this long against Sasuke. The fangirls were cheering on Sasuke like there was no tomorrow, most of the boys were just watching the fight not caring who won, Hinata was praying for Naruto's safety, and Kiba was on the ground again laughing at Naruto's comment that Sasuke was gay.
Naruto took a breathe, Mizuki had counted Sasuke two points for a kick that didn't even touch him, just his jacket.
Naruto then caught a foot that tried to find his chest once again. Looking at the his foe he said in a serious face, "I'd like to think you Sauke, because of you I now see where I stand compared to an Uchiha."
"SHUT UP!" he yelled lifting his body with the foot Naruto held and brought his free one to the blond's face.
"Time!"
WHAM
Hinata gasped and ran turned the downed form of her frined.
"YA SASUKE-KUN DID IT!"
"OF CORSE HE DID IT. THERE IS NOWAY MY SASUKE-KUN WOULD LOOSE THE SOMEONE LIKE NARUTO-BAKA."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR SASUKE-KUN, BILLBOARD?"
"WHAT I SAID PIG, SAUSKE-KUN IS MINE."
"NO HE'S MINE."
"MINE."
"MINE."
"MINE."
"Please shut up you two," Sasuke thought as he glared in Naruto's direction panting.
"Are you alright Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked with concern, helping the blond up.
Grateful for the help Naruto sent a tired smile towards his friend, "Well besides the stinking in my chest, the bruising that I'm sure to have, and pain in my face, and the ringing in my ear, I'm fine."
Hinata smiled at the attitude of her friend, he lost the fight and he was still smiling. She had helped Naruto to his feet but he swayed a little before falling, but Hinata caught him before he could hit the ground.
Laughing weakly at the situation he was in he turned his head to the now blushing Hinata, "Uhmm… Hinata-chan… could you help me to my desk? I don't think I can stand on my own." He asked causing her face to go form slight pink to dark red but she nodded none the less.
They were about to go when Naruto shifted his eyes to the Uchiha and saw that he was breathing deeply and had has trade mark smirk on his face.
Stopping the two boys just stared at each other causing everyone else to go silent waiting to see what will happen. Sasuke, though, figured that it was finally time to get the attention he deserved.
"How does it feel?" he asked, his breathing finally calming down.
"How does what feel Sasuke?"
"To get beat by an Uchiha like the loser you are?" he said.
Naruto grew a confused look, "Beat me? Sasuke you did not beat me."
"What are you talking about dobe, of course I did."
Now it was Naruto's turn to smirk, "No you didn't, time ran out before your kick landed. So officially that match was a draw."
"SASUKE-KUN BEAT YOU SO JUST ACEPT YOUR LOSE BAKA!"
Naruto ignored the girl as he let out a sigh, "Just like an Uchiha, claiming something for yourself that you don't deserve." With that said he and Hinata walked back to the academy, well limped and carried, leaving behind a seething Sasuke.
Sasuke was beyond mad. He had always been the best at everything, but he took pride in his ability to fight. Now his pride and reputation of being the best was stained because the dead last had humiliated him in his element.
"Uchiha prodigies don't come like they used to ne Hinata-chan?"
"THAT'S IT!" Sasuke thought and was about to attack the blond, but a hand grasped his shoulder that belonged to Iruka. Not wanting to challenge the stern look on his face, he slowly, very slowly, let go of his anger and wounded pride. Instead he decided on focusing one the ninjutsu exam were he was determined to beat Naruto and not let him humiliate him any farther. (temporarily forgetting what it meant if Naruto lost the bet)
"Ouch! Hinata-chan I'm still sour there."
"N-Nani?" she asked, wondering what she did to cause her crush pain.
"You just elbowed my bruised rib."
Hinata blushed and turned her head away from Naruto's. Had she really done that? She had thought about doing it but doing so would be so not like her so she settled for just think it, or so she thought.
"S-stop being so mean to S-Sasuke-san."
"Huh?"
"S-Some of the things y-you said to him in the spar were k-kind of mean Naruto-kun. T-There is no n-need to make him any ang-angrier."
He looked at her and she turned her head and stared back. Neither wanting to back down. Naruto because he finally got to say all of the things he had wanted to tell Sauske-teme. And Hinata because even though she held no love for the Uchiha, her caring nature did not want Naruto to be mean to him, so she kept up her stare.
They kept it up until they both got back to their seats until Hinata got a glint of irritation in her eyes and Naruto knew he was not going to win. Banging his head on the desk Hinata heard him mumble out, "Fine I will stop being a asshole to the asshole."
Hinata smile and let gave a silent squeal of joy. She had done it. She had stood up for what she believed in, now all she had to do was do just that to the Hyuuga elders... Kami help her. Losing the confidence boost she had gained, she cast her eyes down to the desk in front of her and started to nervously poke her figure tips together. Speaking in her small voice, "Umm, N-Naruto-k-kun, could y-you also be n-nice if… when you w-win your b-b-bet?"
Hearing that his friend went back to her stuttering nervous self, he let out a fake groan, "Fine if Hyuuga-hime so wishes it than I shall do, so I will not brag about my win over the mighty Uchiha."
Hinata smile and the two of them waited in silence for the rest of the class filed in the room to their seats.
"Now class," Iruka said, "The ninjutsu exam will begin. When you hear your name called, you will go to the back room where you will do the three jutsu we tell you to preform. Once your test is over go into the other classroom, if do not manage to pass then you are to go home and I will see you next year if you still desire do become a ninja. So until your name is call BEHAVE. Now Ayumu Aya come here."
"This is going to be a long wait," Naruto thought as he watched the two teachers and student disappear.
"Naruto Uzumaki"
"FINALLY!" Naruto thought when he finally heard his name and went to the room his final test was in.
He had had to wait as one by one the students went to take their exam and it had been SOOOO boring just sitting and waiting after Hinata had left (they had wished each other luck). He would had been reading his fuinjutsu book, but it had advised him not to continue reading until he was proficient at creating a seal it showed and he do not have the supplies on hand to work. And you can only read something so many times before you no longer want to read it. He had also fallen a sleep a few times, but some asshole always woke him up with a paper ball to the face.
When Sasuke was called they had shared a glare with each other and that had been the most interesting thing that has happened. Now though it was his time to shine and show that Sasuke did not have the title of 'Best in Everything'
Entering the room, he saw both Iruka and Mizuki in front of a desk that had several leaf headbands that had different straps. Walking in front of the desk he was greeted by an encouraging smile form Iruka and a glare from Mizuki.
"Alright Naruto this is your last exam. Are you ready?" he asked and received a nod.
"Good the first Jutsu you will preform is the Kawarimi (Body Replacement) jutsu on anything in the room to avoid this kunai." He said raising a wooden kunai.
Getting the 'ok' from his blond student, Iruka threw the kunai at him with chunnin level speed.
'Poof'
"OUCH!"
'clank'
Iruka was confused he was sure that the jutsu had been successful but this cry of pain told him otherwise. The thing was that the voice that came from the smoke was not that of Naruto's, but of some one older. As the smoke cleared he saw Mizuki holding an area in of his stomach in pain, with the fake kunai in hand, glaring daggers at the spot next to Iruka. Though he is not considered a genius, it did not take him long to figure out what happened. Sighing he turned and saw Naruto in Mizuki's previous spot, grinning in amusement at said person.
Pinching the bridge of his nose Iruka sighed, "That was good Naruto. Now could you go back to your spot and preform a Henge (Transformation)?"
Nodding Naruto went back to spot in front of the desk, thanking Mizuki for switching places with him for his last jutsu, (Increasing Mizuki's anger) and went up in a puff of smoke. Standing in his place was another Iruka who was giving his smile of confidence. Walking up to his doppelganger with and impressed look on his face.
"Hmm, not bad Naruto. I see that you've been practicing." He said getting a nod.
"Good, you can cancel the jutsu now."
"Hai, Iruka-sensei," Naruto said as he canceled the technique.
"You know, Naruto, I half thought that you would use that henge you dubbed as your Sexy Jutsu."
"Well I was going to but I decided against it. Why you disappointed that I did not do it? I could still show you."
"NO!", Iruka yell, but saw a smirking Naruto and coughed into his hand, "No that will not be necessary just make a clone and you will be finished."
"Umm, Iruka, What is a clone?"
"You expect to become a ninja but you don't even know what a clone is? Ha, we should fail you right now if that is the case." Mizuki said and was about to go through with is.
"That is not what I meant Mizuki-sensei. I mean what would you defy a clone as?"
Iruka took a thoughtful look, "A clone is a perfect replica of a person's body and could take the place of said person of a certain period of time. Why do you ask?"
Naruto took a sigh of relief, "No reason. I just wanted to be sure that I could do this."
"Do what?"
Naruto smirked and formed the "T" seal he had learned the night before.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu" he said.
Five columns of smoke erupted from besides Naruto, and once they cleared a total of six Narutos stood before the speechless Iruka and Mizuki.
"Dang it. I wanted to make two clone not five. Oh well, looks like I need more practice." He thought.
"N-Naruto where d-did you learn that?" Iruka stuttered.
He and Mizuki walked towards the clone and felt them confirming their suspicion that they were real clones and not the normal illusion ones.
"Can't tell you Iruka-sensei, a ninja must keep his secrets a secret." He said thankful that Iruka was too distracted to care about his answer. "Well… did I pass?"
"No you fail." Mizuki said making Naruto frown.
"What?"
"Well you see, Naruto, you were told to make a clone but you have make a shadow clone, so you fail." He said with a sick smile.
"If that is reason, then I'm afraid that I pass."
"What?"
"Well you see, Mizuki-sensei, as stated by Iruka-sensei earlier 'A clone is a perfect replica of a person's body and could take the place of said person of a certain period of time." Naruto had a grin on his face as he saw Mizuki's face go red. "So by that definition (he looks at one of his clone before looking back) my Shadow Clones are in fact Clones." He looked at Mizuki to find him shaking with rage, and Iruka looked to be thinking about something.
"Dammit, Dammit, Kami Damn the little demon. I was going to have him steal the forbidden scroll for Orochimaru-sama as a way to prove my loyalty to him, but the brat needed to fail. Damn you Iruka. (Sigh) ok I can still do this, I just need to get my hands dirty."
"That is what I said isn't it," Mizuki stopped thinking when he heard his fellow teacher say that, and turned to idiot smiling at the demon.
"And as you said there is no reason you fail so… congratulations Naruto," Iurka said as he handed a black headband to his former student.
Naruto kept clam as he could feel his excitement rise, but his smile grew, as he accepted the headband and tied it to his forehead. Shaking the two teacher's hand, he thanked Iruka while he and Mizuke gave each other very fake smiles, and exited the room to enter the room with the rest of the ones who had passed.
All noise stopped in the graduates' room when Naruto walked in. They all saw him stare back at them before shrugging his shoulders and walked to a seat next to Hinata. As soon as he sat down conversation started again.
"Can you believe it, the dobe passed."
"Do you really believe that? I bet he just took a headband because his could not earn one."
"But Iruka- and Mizuki-sansei are in there. They would not let him just take one. Would they?"
"I think that he failed and they gave him a headband out of pity."
"Yeah your probably right."
"So who do you think is going to win the bet?"
"Is there really any doubt who will win."
"Yeah there is no way Sasuke-kun could lose."
"I don't know, Naruto did give him trouble during the spar."
"Sasuke-kun will not like you for doubting him."
"What? I believe in Sasuke-kun. I'm just saying that maybe Naruto passed because he really passed and not out of pity."
There was silence as everyone thought about what the girl said. Naruto though was thinking that maybe not everyone in the class was a jerk … until almost everyone stated laughing.
"Jerks. Oh well let's see if they can still say that when I beat Sasuke."
"Hey Hinata-chan?"
"Y-Yes?"
"I was wondering if you would like to go to the compound with me after class?"
Hinata's head perked up as she nodded in excitement, but then she frowned.
"Naruto-k-kun I have to talk to tou-sama, so I won't be able to go with you," she said with sadness. Naruto frowned at not being able to go to his compound with Hinata, so instead he gave her the address so she come by later.
A few more students came in the classroom sporting headband while Naruto talked about what they wanted to do in their ninja career, well Naruto talked and Hinata listened.
He wanted to save a pretty girl when she was in danger, save a country, defeat and/or befriend powerful people, rescue a princess, protect his friends from harms, and through his action help make the world a better place… well he highly doubted that he would actually get to do all those thing, but they were entertaining and helped pass the time.
The room went silent when Iruka came through the door and with a clipboard in hand. He could feel anticipation in the air, as all the former students seemed to lean forwards in their chair, eager for the results. While the new genin wanted to know who won the bet, While Iruka thought they all thought that they had a chance to place in the top three for one of the exam events.
"All right I will begin this by once again congratulate you all for passing the genin exam. As of now you are all no longer my students, you are now genin ninja of Konoha and my comrades," he said bowing, "I look forward to working along side you."
All of the genin in the room a some form of excitement on his or her face at the sign of respect that their teacher was giving them. Even Sasuke had on a smirk that seemed a lot more pleasant than normal.
"Now I will tell you the results of the exams you took along with the Rookie of the Year and the classed Dead Last."
"CoughCoughNarutoCough," a civilian boy said that got a few snickers, through everyone else seemed to ignore.
"First off the written exam," he started, "Third place Ino Yamanaka, Second place, Sakura Haruno, First place Sasuke Uchiha."
All of the fangirls cheered when they heard theat 'their' Sauske got first in something, while the other did not pay any attention to it. They had expected the results to the written part would be as such, and Naruto knew for a fact that his would not place in this. But he passed and that was all he cared about as far as the written exam was concerned.
Once the noise died down Iurka continued with the exam placements, "Now accuracy: Third place Hinata Hyuuga, Second place Naruto Uzumaki, First place Sasuke Uchiha."
"Iruka-sensei why did Naruto get second place? We all know he just got lucky," one of the guys said and got murmurs of agreement.
"Because, luck or not, Naruto did the second best in the class, so he got second place. Now if we don't have anymore complaints about how someone preformed better then you, I would like to continue." Not getting a response Iruka continued, "Taijutsu: Third place Kiba Inuzuka, …"
"Alright me and Akamaru are the greatest!"
"Then why did you get third?"
"… Jerks."
"… Second place Hinata Hyuuga, …"
"Good job Hinata-chan," he whispered.
"T-thank y-you N-naruto-kun," she stuttered back with a blush on her face.
"… Frist place Sasuke Uchiha."
"Yeah Sasuke-kun is the best!"
"No Sasuke-kun is the greatest!"
"I just said that you pig!"
"No you didn't you said he his the best, I said he is the greatest. Being the greatest is better then being the best!"
"They are the same!"
"Oh yeah!"
"Yeah!"
"WILL YOU BOTH SHUTUP I want to find out who won." Kiba yelled getting the class to go silent.
"Um, thank you Kiba. Now finally we have ninjutsu," he said and the whole class drew in a loud breath. Not knowing what was going on, but understanding that everyone was anticipating the results of this exam, he decided to make it dramatic.
"In Third place (he gave a drawn out pause) Sakura Haruno."
The class let out the breath they had been holding in.
"In Second place …"
The class sucked in another breath.
"… Sasuke Uchiha."
Almost everyone had a look of disbelief on their face. Sauske Uchiha, the Guarantied Rookie of the Year, just got second in something. If the classes anxiety about who got first then the loyal members of the Uchiha fan club would yell in displeasure.
"And finally the one who got First place for the ninjutsu portion of the exam is…"
"This is it." Were the thoughts of Naruto and Sasuke. If Naruto got first then Sasuke could kiss his life goodbye. If his fangirls learned of the CRA then (he gave a shudder) he did not even want to think about that.
If he got first place then he would show the village that he was to be taken seriously, also that the a new Naruto had taken the place of the old and it was up to the village to notice or not.
The silence was tense as everyone waited for Iruka to give out the name that could decide the fate to the two boys.
"Naruto Uzumaki."
A pen dropped and the noise could be classified as deafening as everyone tried to work out how the Naruto Uzumaki could out place THE Sasuke Uchiha.
Naruto wanted to shout out and rub it in the prick's face how he was not as good as he and everyone else thought he was, but he remembered his promise to Hinata and settled for leaning in his seat with is feet on his desk and a smirk on his face like he had seen Sasuke do so many times over the years. Now that he thought about it he had been smirking so much that day that his mouth was starting to hurt, oh well he could afford one day to feel arrogant.
Iruka laughed silently at the broken looks on the faces of his former students. "I guess that Sasuke losing to Naruto broke their mind. Hmm… I wonder if I should be concerned? … Nah I'm not their teacher anymore so they are no longer my concern. Well since they don't seem to be doing anything I better give them the rest of the information before their minds rebut." Iruka thought.
"Now that that is out of the way," he said with a cheery smile on his face, "This years Rookie of the Year is Sasuke Uchiha and the Dead Last is Naruto Uzumaki."
As he expected no reaction what so ever.
"Congratulations once again on passing and I hope you all go far in your career as ninja of Konoha. Now I will see you all again in two days for your team placements."
With his speaking over Iruka grabbed his things at a pace faster then normal and left the room.
Seeing as he had no reason farther to stay, Naruto took Hinata's hand (Much to her surprise, embarrassment, and pleasure) and they proceeded to leave the room. But just to finish his day of arrogance, he gave Sasuke a look of superiority before he exited, leaving Sasuke to grit his teeth and rage silently. He had to admit it that the feeling he got that day when his was being an arrogant jerk to Sasuke had felt really good, and he could see why Sasuke acted like he did all the time now. Not that he was going to behave like he did for the rest of his life, but one day was not so bad.
Realizing that the object of his anger was no longer in the room and that his teacher had already dismissed them, Sasuke left slamming the door on his way out.
The noise of the door woke everyone up from their stupor as their mind finally processed the shocking information.
"YAA-HOO!" Kiba suddenly yelled, causing everyone to look at him.
"Alright the underdog win again, right Akamaru?" his said getting a bark in response.
"WHAT ARE YOU YELLING FOR?" shouted Sakura.
Giving her a fanged grin Kiba spoke, "I just won my bet by rooting for the underdog."
"WHAT YOU BETTED ON NARUTO-BAKA!?"
"Well yeah, but I did not think he was going to win," he then got a sheepish look on his face, "The only reason I bet on him was because his was the underdog, underdog. Though the look on Sasuke's face when he lose was priceless."
"SASUKE-KUN!" Sakura gasped, "He must be devastated that the loser cheated and stopped him from taking his place as the best in everything. I must go help him." She said getting up from her seat.
"Not so fast Billboard Brow, where do you think your going?" came Ino's voice.
Stopping her exit of the classroom Sakura turned to look at her rival, "Where do you think I'm going, I'm going to go comfort Sasuke-kun."
"Nuh uh, you lost the bet remember. That means you can not talk to Sasuke-kun or any other boys for a whole week." She joyfully reminded Sakura, mush to her dismay.
"B-But, but.."
"No buts Billboard, that was the agreement and you lost." You could hear the joy in her voice. After so long now it was her time to get ahead of her rival for Sasuke-kun's love. "Sasuke-kun wait! You can cry on my shoulder if you need to." Ino shouted as she ran out the room in search for Sauske, leaving behind a depressed Sakura.
"I will see you later Hinata-chan," Naruto called as the two went in opposite direction.
Hinata had to go report her exam results to her father, while Naruto was headed to Ichiraku's for some victory ramen.
"Hmm… I wonder if ramen is in that health book back in the compound? I hope so. A world where I am not allowed to have ramen is not a world I want live in," he thought as the ramen stand came into view. His thoughts were interrupted when he felt a presence appear behind him, but he kept on walking forwards.
"Naruto Uzumaki-san," came a voice form behind him.
Turning around he saw an anbu in some bird mask staring at him.
"Hai?"
"Hokage-sama would like to speak with you at once. If you would follow me." He said as he started to walk to the Hokage tower.
Naruto stood where he was as he thought about his options. On one hand he could go to his lying former-jiji of a Hokage and see what he wanted with him. Or he could ignore the anbu and get some ramen. That was not a hard choice if he had it his way.
"Come Uzumaki-san," spoke the anbu with irritation in his voice.
But it seemed that he would not have his way now.
Sighing he started to follow the anbu away from his precious ramen and towards the Hokage Tower wondering what he wanted with him.
And Done!
Hello people of the Internet. Thank you for reading this chapter and I hope you liked it. With this chapter I wanted to show that although Naruto is better than most of the new genin when he tries, he is not the best because of his lack of trying before. As shown by his lose to Sasuke. But he will get better.
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