A/N: Author's Note: I'm glad that everyone seemed to enjoy Chapter Two.

Disclaimer: I do not, nor have I ever, owned anything related to Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto franchise.

Legend:

"A human is talking."

'A human is thinking.'

"A Tailed Beast or a summon talking."

'A Tailed Beast or a summon thinking.'

"A type of jutsu is being performed."

Chapter Three:

-The Hidden Leaf Village: Naruto Uzumaki's Apartment-

Beep… Beep… Beep…

Naruto Uzumaki woke up the blaring sound of his alarm clock before he groaned, placing an arm over his eyes. He didn't want to wake up.

Five minutes passed before the blonde sighed, admitting defeat, before he turned off his alarm clock. He got out of bed and went to take a quick shower.

He came out of his bathroom, a towel around his waist, and walked to his closet for a clean set of his usual attire. Afterwards, he looked around his bedroom was slight nostalgia as he thought of all the work he had done in the last six years.

It had been six years since he had met Terasu and had accepted the silver-colored shark's offer. During these years the blonde-haired boy had learned a variety of things.

With help from his shark summons, and Kisame's scrolls, Naruto had slowly gained control of his considerable chakra reserves. With moderate control over his chakra, he had been able to perform low-ranked Ninjutsu and Genjutsu adequately.

Naruto had also delved within Kisame's scrolls, absorbing knowledge about a variety of Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. He had also been able to come up with ways to modify several of Kisame's low-ranked Ninjutsu.

To gain more time, the whiskered blonde had purposely allowed his grades at the Ninja Academy to slowly drop until he was the "Dead Last" of his class. He had done this so that his teachers, Iruka Umino and Mizuki Touji, wouldn't become suspicious of him.

Today was different as it was the day of the Graduation Exam at the Academy. It was on this day that Naruto would shed his role of being the "Dead Last" and take his first step to accomplish his dream. He couldn't wait to see the faces of his classmates when he, the "Dead Last", managed to ace the exam. It would be priceless.

Over the years, the blonde's appearance had changed to. He now stood at a height of 5'7" and possessed barely any fat on his body. His spiky, blonde hair now held light-blue streaks, the ends tipped light-blue to. His ocean-blue eyes were sharp with black, vertical, slit-like pupils.

Naruto wore a light-blue, sleeveless t-shirt and a pair of black cargo pants. On his hands, he wore a pair of fingerless gloves. The back of his gloves had armor plating with the kanji for "shark" etched on the metal's surface.

He also wore two hip-pouches attached to the back of his belt and black, steel-toed boots. He had another belt that hung from his waist diagonally. To complete his outfit, Naruto wore a leather strap that held Samehada to his back.

After getting dressed, Naruto glanced at his alarm clock before he walked into his kitchen, grabbing a quick snack, before he left his apartment. He felt Samehada began to tremble on his back.

"I know… I'm pretty excited myself." The whiskered boy responded.

Samehada trembled again before it, and the leather strap that held it, vanished from view.

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-Hidden Leaf Village: The Ninja Academy-

When Naruto entered classroom 110, he was surprised to discover that he was the first to arrive. He quickly thought about leaving the classroom but eventually decided to stay and wait for the rest of the class to arrive.

He took a seat in the back, near the window, and had to wait for 10 minutes the first of his classmates to begin arriving. The students would then travel to any available seats, staying close to their friends, before they would break out into conversation.

Hinata Hyuga, the shy heiress to the Hyuga Clan, chose to sit next to him. She turned her head and opened her mouth, about to talk to him, when she was interrupted by the slamming of their classroom's sliding door.

Two girls stood in the doorway, both of them trying to push the other out of the way. The two girls eventually managed to squeeze themselves through the doorway before they started glaring at each other again.

"I'm first!" The two girls announced.

After this little declaration, the girls began to breathe heavily while lightning danced between their eyes. Ino Yamanaka, heiress to the Yamanaka Clan, recovered her breath and turned to look at her rival, Sakura Haruno, with a smug look.

"It appears that I won Sakura." Ino stated.

"Give it up Ino." Sakura responded. "I had to look back to see you; my toe was at least a tenth of an inch ahead of yours."

"Have you always been this delusional?" The blonde-haired girl questioned.

The pink-haired girl seemed to ignore this comment before she turned to notice the object of her, and Ino Yamanaka's, affections. She practically ran to desk in the front row, where Sasuke Uchiha sat, before she stopped and plastered a smile on her face.

"Good morning Sasuke." Sakura greeted.

Sasuke simply lifted his head out his arms and looked at her. His face was a blank mask as he stared at her.

"Do you mind if I sit here?" The green-eyed girl questioned.

At that moment, Ino appeared behind Sakura and grabbed her arm. Her eyes were narrowed as she tried to pull her away from Sasuke.

"Back off Forehead Girl! I'm sitting next to Sasuke!" The Yamanaka hissed.

"But I was here first!" Sakura protested.

"I was the first one to walk in the classroom! Everyone saw it." Ino replied.

"Actually I arrived before you two," Ami said, "So I should be the one who sits next to Sasuke."

It was then that more and more of the Sasuke Uchiha Fanclub™ began to come down from their seats and argue why they should be allowed to sit next to Sasuke. The aforementioned boy sighed and laid his head on his arms.

'They're clueless.' Sasuke thought.

After another two minutes has passed, Iruka Umino walked into the classroom with a clipboard underneath his arm. When he saw that his students were bickering, again, he sighed and attempted to get their attention. It failed.

As a vein began to bulge on his forehead, the brown-haired Chunin placed his clipboard down. He saw some of his students wisely move away from the center of his current headache.

"I WANT ALL OF YOU TO SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP! I DON'T CARE WHO SITS WHERE! TAKE A SEAT AND BE QUIET!"

Immediately, the fight broke up as the girls rushed back to their seats, fearful of Iruka's wrath, with Ami claiming the seat next to Sasuke. Several girls seethed underneath a mask of perfect innocence.

"*Ahem* Now that that is taken care of, we can begin the Graduation Exam." Iruka said. "When your name is called, I will escort you to the Room 112 for your test… The final test will be on the Clone technique."

After this announcement, the brown-haired Chunin began to call students in alphabetical order. Most of the students came out of Room 112 two minutes after they left, shiny forehead protectors tied somewhere on their bodies. Only one student came out of the room without a forehead protector, tears in her eyes.

"Uzumaki, Naruto!" Iruka called.

Naruto stood up from his desk and, ignoring the snickers of his classmates, walked down the steps to follow Iruka out of the room.

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-The Ninja Academy: Room 112-

When Naruto entered the room, Iruka quickly took his seat next to Mizuki. The desk they sat at was covered in a variety of differently colored forehead protectors, all bearing the symbol of the Hidden Leaf Village.

"In order to graduate you must be able to perform the Clone Technique and create three viable clones." Iruka said.

'In all my years as his teacher, Naruto has never been able to perform this jutsu… 'The brown-haired Chunin thought. 'Because he failed the last two years, this is his last chance to become a ninja.'

'This is perfect!' Mizuki thought. 'Once he fails I can use him to steal the Forbidden Scrolls of Seals.'

Naruto made the Horse hand-seal as he gathered the chakra necessary for his jutsu. When he felt he had enough, he opened his eyes and smirked at his instructors.

"Water Clone Technique." The blonde-haired swordsman whispered.

In an instant, Iruka and Mizuki's glasses of water shattered. The water slowly took form as four perfect clones of Naruto Uzumaki. They each had matching, predator-like grins on their faces.

"Do I pass?" Naruto asked.

'He actually did it… Naruto even managed to create four Water Clones with only two glasses of water. It usually takes at least a gallon to make one Water Clone!' The brown-haired man thought. 'I never knew he had so much potential.'

Iruka's impassive mask cracked as he smiled at his favorite student. He then gestured to the forehead protectors on the desk.

"Yes. You pass."

'No no no no no NO! That damn brat! How does he even know about the Water Clone Technique? He is an ACADEMY STUDENT!' The silver-haired man thought before he calmed. '… No matter. This just means I have to steal the scroll myself.'

The whiskered boy nodded before he dispelled his water clones, the water forming puddles on the floor, before he picked up a black forehead protector. He tied it around his forehead before he began to walk out of the room.

"Be sure to be here tomorrow for Team Placement!" Iruka said.

"Don't worry, I'll be there." Naruto responded.

The blonde then left the Ninja Academy before he went to his favorite Battle Training Ground. He wanted to test a C-ranked jutsu from Kisame's scrolls.

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-Hidden Leaf Village: Hokage's Residence-

Mizuki snuck quickly into the Third Hokage's personal library, knowing he would have five minutes to locate the Forbidden Scroll of Seals. It had been way too easy to bypass the Hokage's Barrier Ninjutsu.

He located the scroll underneath a glass case, on a pedestal, and approached it. The silver-haired man thought he spotted shadows moving across the room but dismissed it when he couldn't detect any other chakra source.

"Body Replacement Technique." Mizuki whispered.

The Forbidden Scroll disapeared from within its case as it switched places with the nearly identical, fake scroll in his hands. The silver-haired Chunin smirked in triumph; He had stolen the Forbidden Scroll of Seals.

Before he could revel in his accomplishment, Mizuki felt his eyes being drawn to the bookshelf behind the Forbidden Scroll's pedestal. He was a foot away from it when he felt his body freeze. He tried to move his body, knowing something was wrong, but failed. It felt like his body was being wrapped up in invisible steel ropes.

Mizuki then watched, paralyized, as two ANBU emerged from the shadow of the bookshelf. One ANBU proceeded to place chakra-sealing bands on his wrists and ankles before applying a Chakra-Suppresing Seal on his forehead. The second ANBU pried the Forbidden Scroll of Seals from his petrified fingers before unraveling it. There was nothing on the scroll; it was a fake.

The silver-haired man fell into unconciousness as he felt the enormity of the situation hit him. He had risked his posistion as one of Orochimaru's spies to steal a fake scroll.

Jutsu:

1. The Clone Technique (分身の術, Bunshin no Jutsu) creates intangible copies of the user. The clones are simply illusions and will dissipate when they come into contact with something. The illusions can be seen through by the Byakugan and the Sharingan. A person with normal eyes can also distinguish the clones from the original, since the clones will not disrupt the area around themselves with their movement (won't kick up dust, crush grass, etc.).

2. The Water Clone Technique (水分身の術, Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu) is similar to the Shadow Clone Technique except it creates clones out of water. Like other solid clone techniques, the clones can be used to perform tasks the user is unable or unwilling to do for themselves. The range of the clone is limited however, as it can not travel very far from the original body without losing control. Additionally, water clones only have one-tenth of the original person's power, as stated by Haku. Like other clone techniques, if the water clones are injured enough they will revert back to normal water.

3. The Body Replacement Technique (変わり身の術, Kawarimi no Jutsu) This jutsu lets the user quickly switch places with another nearby object, such as a plant (normally a section of a log), an animal, or even another person within reach using the Body Flicker Technique, the moment an attack hits. This creates an optical illusion, making the enemy think the attack was successful. The user can then use this confusion to escape or launch a counter-attack.

A/N: Author's Note:

Thats the end of Chapter Three. So what do you guys think? Please let me know in you're reviews and messages.

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