A/N: This is my first try as an author so bear with me.
So many good reviews in less than a day, thanks. Never realized until today how long it is to actually write those chapters, I'm trying to have mines between 2K and 3K words each, hope it's not too short and convey enough each time.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Chapter 3: Genin Exams
Naruto's apartment
It's finally the day of the genin exams as Naruto wakes up in his comfy apartment.
It was a pretty well equipped apartment, Naruto remembered when he first got here everything was old, dirty and barely usable. He went over the money the old man gave him for the week and decided to make a list of what he would need and how much he could save each week to buy new furniture with the help of Natsuki.
They were surprised the first time Naruto tried to buy groceries at a nearby store, the shop keeper gave Naruto a scowl and tripled the price when the time to pay came. Naruto didn't think much of it except for the fact that he would need to save money for a long time before he could afford new things for his apartment that were not of great priority.
Of course Natsuki knew better than the gullible young boy and explained to him that the shops were ripping him off. With the vixen advice he went to the old man and asked why prices were doubled or tripled for him, needless to say the old man was pissed and went himself with the boy to each store he would need to buy things from in the future and discretely threatened each store with the closure of their business and removal of their license in Konoha should they try again to rip off the young boy. Needless to say life went a lot better for Naruto after that event.
He finally got out of his bed and started his morning ritual. After that, he changed clothes and put on his ninja gears. His shinobi gears consisted of white ANBU style pants, a white long-sleeve shirt with a black jonin style protection vest, black fingerless gloves and finally black shinobi boots.
"Are you awake Na-chan?" asked the twelve years old teenager.
"Yes Naru-kun I am, so are you excited? It is finally the day you become a shinobi." replied the vixen in his mind.
"You bet I am! What level of skill do you think I should show during the exams?" Naruto said.
"Hmm, if we look at this considering who would be in your team after the exams I think you need to take the spot of rookie of the year" she answered.
"What do you mean? Can you predict who will be my teammates if I graduate with the best scores in today's exams?" he asked a little confused.
"Yes, remember when we learned about previous exams to prepare you for today and how Konoha tends to team up the rookie of the year with the top kunoichi of the class and then with the student scoring the lowest score." told Natsuki.
"Yes you're right, this way I won't have to be with the Teme, looking at everyone's previous grades I'd say Hinata or Sakura would be the top kunoichi while Kiba or Shikamaru would be the lowest student who passed." Analyzed Naruto.
"Yes that is correct, you can't stand that spoiled brat with the god complex and you know that I hate his guts too so there's really no point to keep on hiding your skills at this point." she added.
"Furthermore, you should limit your exposure to chunin skill level as to not be too suspicious, while rare that kind of skill isn't impossible to reach for an academy student in his last year" she said to reply to his question.
"That makes sense, I will hide my more powerful techniques for later then, thanks Na-chan" he finished their conversation.
With that he left his apartment, locked the door and then used shunshin to get to the academy's roof.
Konoha Academy
A small poof was heard on top of the academy's roof and Naruto slowly made his way to his classroom for what he swore would be his last day in this building.
Upon entering his classroom, he saw that he was the last to arrive. His class was composed of most of Konoha's future clan heads.
Aburame Shino heir to the Aburame Clan and a guy Naruto never talk to up to this day.
Akimichi Chouji heir to the Akimichi Can and someone Naruto never saw without some food.
Hyuuga Hinata heiress to the Hyuuga Clan and a girl Naruto never saw finish a sentence without a stutter.
Inuzuka Kiba heir to the Inuzuka Clan and someone who always liked to pick a fight with the Uchiha, some kind of alpha male thing as he remembered Natsuki explaining to him.
Nara Shikamaru, heir to the Nara Clan and laziest person Naruto ever met.
Uchiha Sasuke heir to the Uchicha Clan even though said clan was in fact only him as the rest died in an obscure accident years ago. The Uchiha had to be the most arrogant person Naruto ever met and even though he had some skills he thought of himself being God's gift to the shinobi nations.
Yamanaka Ino heiress to the Yamanaka Clan and the most superficial girl in the class.
The rest of the students were from civilians families and only one or two had the skill to become a true ninja, Haruno Sakura being one of them if she ever decided to get her head out of the Uchiha's ass.
The chunin instructors Umino Ikura and his assistant Mizuki entered the classroom and described what the tests would be about.
The first part was a written exam, Naruto knew all the answers and calmly filled his exam paper with the good answers. He finished the test in half an hour and waited patiently for the rest of the time.
The second part was about weapon accuracy. Students had to throw ten kunai and after that ten shuriken at different targets placed on the practice field.
The students were called in alphabetic order,
Shino scored 7 on the kunai exam and 7 on the shuriken exam.
Chouji scored 7 on the kunai exam and 6 on the shuriken exam.
Hinata scored 9 on the kunai exam and 9 on the shuriken exam. "Excellent Hinata" said Iruka with pride while the girl just blushed and discretely took her place back in the crowd.
Kiba scored 5 on the kunai exam and 5 on the shuriken exam. He left the launching spot with a scowl on his face.
Shikamaru scored 5 on the kunai exam and 6 on the shuriken exam.
Sasuke scored 10 on the kunai exam and 9 on the shuriken exam, he had a scowl on his face as the last shuriken throw didn't have enough strength to stay embedded in the target. He left the spot with a smirk on his face looking at the next contestant. "Beat that Dobe" he said as he left the place.
Naruto went to his spot with a bored expression on his face. He analyzed the distance of each target in his mind and prepared to launch his weapons.
"High speed penetration power, straight path to the target, air resistance decreased by a factor 3, small layer of wind chakra applied to each kunai" he thought in his mind before launching all ten kunai at the same time.
The crowd went silent as each kunai hit the target in the center and embedded itself deeply inside with such strength that the support holding back each target went a few inches backward.
Iruka's eyes widen at the sight and Sasuke's smirk instantly disappeared and he said "Lucky shot dobe" while he mentally fumed at what just happened in front of him.
Naruto took the insult silently a prepared himself for the next part of the exam with a smirk.
"Low speed penetration power, curve path to the target, air resistance decreased by a factor 2, medium-sized layer of wind chakra applied to each shuriken" he thought in his mind.
This time he launched each shuriken one at a time with very large movements from his throwing arm, giving each shuriken a different curving path to hit every target dead in the center once again.
Everyone's jaw dropped to the ground, including the instructors, Naruto left the spot saying to no one in particular he said "Man I'm so lucky today, wonder what's going on" with a grin on his face.
"V-Very good Naruto, you must be very lucky today" announced Iruka before initiating the next part of the exams.
"Now is the time to assess your Taijutsu level" continued the chunin.
Students were paired two by two and the matches went on for 3 minutes each time and the student scoring the most points by hitting designated area of their opponent's body won.
Every fight went on until the last two boys were called. "Uchiha Sasuke versus Uzumaki Naruto" called Iruka.
"The dobe will pay for the humiliation he put me through earlier!" thought the black haired teen.
"Is it luck or not that I have to face the emo king here" wondered the blond.
"Hajime!" called Iruka.
Sasuke charged immediately at his opponent and launched a barrage of punches and kicks.
Naruto simply danced around his opponent making good use of the excellent footwork he developed for the Kitsune Taijutsu Style.
The "fight" went on like this for 2 minutes and 30 seconds until the Uchiha quite tired from his attempts to hit the blond tried to bait him into charging. "Don't know what kind of style you are using dobe but the one who invented it must be pretty stupid to use a style where you don't even have an offensive attack" he said with a smirk.
"Am I supposed to charge at him with everything I have while yelling to defend my master's honor? What an idiotic taunt ..." thought the blond before a grin made its way on his face "I'll give him what he wants then"
"Futon: Kaze no Yoroi" thought Naruto charging wind chakra into his body before disappearing from his original position leaving several after-images in his path.
Using his own family stance, Sasuke "blocked" the strike, or he thought he did as an after-image charged right through him and he lowered his guard then the real Naruto followed after that and delivered a powerful hit into his opponent's solar plexus, effectively cutting the air circulation in Sasuke's body.
The black haired boy fell to the ground silently, already unconscious before touching the ground.
Iruka woke up from his stupor and announced the winner "Shousha! Uzumaki Naruto by K.O. In 2 minutes and 35 seconds earns maximum points" before he took the Uchiha's body over his shoulder to proceed to the infirmary.
The exam took a short recess for everyone to go eat and then resumed after that.
"The last part of this year exams is the Ninjutsu proficiency" he told his students.
The exam went without a problem for Naruto as he had already learned all the techniques that the instructors asked him to perform to pass the exam.
He took his headband and as he left the room he noticed the scowl on Mizuki's face, he left it in a corner of his mind and proceeded to the exit.
When the last part was over, every student returned to his desk and Iruka congratulated the new genins while he gave some words of encouragement to those who failed.
"Now is the time to announce the scores for the spot of rookie and kunoichi of the year" He would not announce the student who passed with the lowest grade as it was not something to really be proud of nor did said student really needed a public humiliation.
"For the spot of kunoichi of the year, Hyuuga Hinata!" he said with pride.
The girl blushed but she could stand up and bow to her teacher before sitting back.
"Now for this year top student and rookie of the year, Uzumaki Naruto!" he said again with pride in his voice.
Before Naruto could move, Sasuke stood up from his desk "What! This is not possible, how could this clan-less fool be higher than me a Uchiha! I demand you change the ranking and give me the tittle of rookie of the year!" he said with rage.
Before Iruka could put the arrogant fool in his place, Naruto stood up "Dude you're seriously messed up, did the beating earlier gave you amnesia or something? I scored higher than you in weapon accuracy and obviously in Taijutsu. Our written exam results should be pretty close and Ninjutsu proficiency is the same too since I doubt any of us failed any of those jutsus ..." said the blond.
As Sasuke went to reply again with a scowl on his face, Naruto cut him by saying: "Well I feel generous today and I'll humor you, how about a spar to set in stone who the rookie of this year is? No move restriction, only rule is to not kill. How's that sound?"
"Fine by me Dobe" replied Sasuke.
"Iruka-sensei?" asked Naruto.
"Are you sure Naruto?" replied the chunin to receive a nod from his student.
"Alright then you got 3 minutes not one second more and Hajime!" he said with a sigh.
Sasuke immediately fell into a combat stance and launched 2 shuriken in Naruto's direction.
"Wow talk about non lethal moves ..." thought the blond as he easily side-stepped the incoming weapons.
Sasuke used the weapons as a distraction to immediately attack Naruto in a Taijutsu opposition.
The fight went on again like earlier with the occasional kunai or shuriken thrown by the avenger until he once again lost his patience and started to do hand-signs.
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu" he said as he expelled a huge fireball in Naruto's direction.
Iruka was about to interfere to save Naruto when said blond lifted his hand in Iruka's direction telling him to stand down. The chunin complied fear in his eyes.
"Now not to flashy but still enough to put him in his place ..." he thought for a second before preparing for his counter.
"Oxygen concentration decreased by 100% in a small radius field and wind lateral speed reduced by 100% in a medium radius field for 10 seconds" he tough as he expelled his chakra into a field around him just small enough to cover his body for the duration of Sasuke's jutsu as the wind around him instantly stopped.
The fireball continued its course in Naruto's direction and as it reached its target, it simply dispelled itself into emptiness. This left the entire assembly wide-eyed as Naruto said "Was that supposed to do something?"
The next moment he was already behind a shocked Sasuke and delivered a powerful chop to his opponent's neck effectively taking him out.
"W-Winner Uzumaki Naruto!" said Iruka as he called the fight.
"Don't forget to come back tomorrow for team placement" he finished.
"Well lets get back Na-chan, I'm finally a genin!" he said to his tenant as he left the field.
A/N: What do you think of my first fighting scenes? Can you visualize them? And is the wind thing believable? Read and Review.