Hello everyone and welcome to chapter 7 of my Naruto fan fiction. And I like to thank all who had review, since that really does mean a lot to me, and I like to welcome everyone new to the story.
Any way on to the story.
I don't own Naruto just this story idea.
Story Keys
(Normal Talk)
(Normal Thinking)
(Summoning/Jutsu Talk)
(Demon Talk)
(Demon thought/talk within mind)
Chapter 6: Making the Cut
(Konoha's Ninja Academy 4 Years Later)
Today was the day for ten year old Naruto Uzumaki. Today would be the day where he would receive his ninja headband and become a ninja.
Naruto was currently sitting in the back seat of his home room. There were very few students there, but there were enough so that he wouldn't be kicked out. He knew that when he came back people would hate him more than ever and of course he was right.
Sometime between the day of his arrival and the following morning he had to attend the first day of the academy word had gotten out to many civilians that they tried to stop him from making it to the school. Sadly their plan was stopped and many paid the price for it. That however didn't stop them from letting him from entering stores and giving him stares behind his back, all of which he could care less about.
Naruto's learning environment was also effected. Seeing as he was not allowed in stores, the idea of being around other children was also out of the question. Then again he really didn't want to hang out with others. He had his own friends he know wouldn't betray him. One of which was Tenten. However, since she had graduated last year he had Hinata, Mia, Kira and Kyo to keep him company for his final year.
Naruto was currently putting his head down on his desk. He couldn't help but think about what he has done over the past four years since he was back. He was known as a prankster, a loser, a nobody, a dead-last.
A dead-last, a person who has no skills in anything, some say that they should give up and not even bother. That they would never be good and that they will never be better at life.
That wasn't Naruto. No he had to smirk at the idea. The little game he played with his classmates in order for him not to be noticed, so that he could show them what he was truly made of.
He soon recalled the day that had made him different from everyone else. The day he left with Kura seven years ago to train him.
Flashback Seven years ago
Five year old Naruto was slowly waking up from a very strange dream he had. He dreamt that a woman had come for him and took him some place to train him. He thought that it was a pretty cool dream, but remembered that a dream was a dream.
"That was no dream kit," said a voice.
Naruto open his eyes and shot up from his position try to locate the source of the voice, but saw nothing. He took the chance to look around his surroundings. He was in a room that he guessed was a living room due to the couch and coffee table he saw. He also took notice of the kitchen that was across the room, which had cabinets that went from the corner of the wall, a stove, a refrigerator, a sink and a five person fit table. He then took note of the hall way next to the kitchen.
Naruto quickly looked back at the couch and notice that there was a blanket that must've covered him during the night. "This isn't my house. Where I'm I?"
"Good morning young pup." said a female voice behind him. Naruto looked back to see a women he thought was from her dream. The women looked about the age of a twenty year old with a body of an angle. Her body was also well build make him think to not upset her. She had fair like skin with dark brown eyes and dark black hair that reach to her mid-back. She wore a gray turtleneck with, what he guessed a back mini-skirt. However, what really caught his attention were a set of black pointed objects on the edges of her hair and black tail like objects behind her.
"Naruto," she said. That pulled him out of thought and listen to what she had to say. "Please take a seat at the table and I'll make you some breakfast to eat."
Naruto did what he was asked of and sat at the table as he watched her go to the fridge and then got a pot and turn on the stove. His mind however, didn't really care what she was doing, it was wondering about the pointed things on her head. Since he was now able to see her beater, he notice that the 'pointy' objects looked a lot like ears, the one you would normally find on a dog. He also noticed that she had nine black tails that reached to the floor.
"Is she part dog or something?" he was pulled out of his thoughts however when a plate of food was placed in front of him. It was a standard meal of packages with eggs and some meat.
"I hope you like it." she said with a heartwarming smile.
"Thank you." was all he could saw to the nice women. He grabbed some chopsticks that were on the table and began to eat.
He had gone thought half the food when the woman placed some orange juice beside him. Not trying to be rude, he took the glass and began to dink the juice.
"Good morning you two." said a new comer. Naruto looked back at the hallway to almost have the juice that was in his mouth to be spit back out.
There in the hall way stood the women from his suppose dream. She looked like the other women but was wearing an orange/red turtleneck with tan mini-skirt, again he thinks. She also had read hair and red eyes. However, the eyes look different from what he remembered. Instead of the standard pupil eye, there were slits where the pupil should be. Alongside that he noticed that she had the same dark three whiskers like marks on both her cheeks. Similar to the other women, she had rabbit like pointy fox ears and nine tails that hit the floor, behind her.
"Kura?!" he thought, "So it wasn't a dream."
As he was thinking this, the other women had placed two more plates of food down on the table. "Well I see you are up and ready for the day."
"Yup, today is the day we start to train Naruto for his future." Kura replied.
"Good, now shut up and eat. You won't get much done without energy and I'm sure you want this boy to take on army by the time he leaves this place." the women ordered.
"I wouldn't go that far in the way he'll be train but I say that I do want him to know more than when he got here." Kura said.
"Um… Kura," both women turn to face the boy in question, "Not that I'm happy that I'll get to train, but can you please tell me where 'here' is and who is the lady I have to thank for the food?"
The women couldn't help but smile at the young boy. "So cute, so young this will be fun."
"Ah… I'm sorry but where are my manners." she said, "My name is Katsumi and I'm the…"
"You are in another dimension. Naruto." interrupted Kura, "This is Katsumi here and the best thing I can say about her is that she is my sister."
Naruto, who was drinking what he had left of the juice, almost spit out the juice he was drinking. Seeing that the two looked alike, he asked, "Wait you have a twin sister?"
"Your sort of right there young pup, I'm Katsumi The Nine-Tailed Wolf sister to Kura The Nine-Tailed Fox." Katsumi said with a confident smirk on her face. Although, she had given her title to the young boy, that made him get more questions than answers.
"Wait how can they be twins but be different animals? I guess the number of tails is right, but I've never heard of the Nine-Tailed Wolf before?"
"Everything will be explained in due time kit."
Again Naruto looked around for the source of the new voice. This was now the second time he has heard it, but couldn't tell who was. This voice was different from what he had heard the other times. The voice he was used to be a women's voice which he found out it was Kura all that time. However this voice seemed to be of a male.
Alongside that, Kura was looking at him. She had a good feeling as to why he was acting so weird.
"You're going to scare the kid to death if you keep doing that."
"If you would have told him about me then this wouldn't be a problem now would it."
Kura just ignored the comment and sat down at the table with the food in front of her.
"Naruto," she said, "I know you have questions, but, please understand that if I answer them now, they would only cause more questions than answers. However, I can tell you that you will be getting training like no other." This of course peeked Naruto's interested.
"You will receive 21 years of training…."
Flashback End
"Naruto wake up."
Naruto woke up and notice that the class room had more people in it and that the class will begin shortly.
He looked over to his right and saw that Hinata had arrived and was sitting next to him. Over the year both of them had gone under many changes. Hinata was seen as a shy girl, this being one of the things Naruto hated since he knew what she was made of, but was force to hide it a due to her clan. It's true that the Hyūga clan was shocked to find out that their little 'failure' had return, however they were pleased to hear that she no longer had their eyes. That made her completely useless to the clan and was happy to have gotten rid of her and no longer bother her.
Speaking of her eyes, Naruto was still lost at what he had done four years ago. The 'Dōjutsu Metamorphosis' was meant to give Hinata a new Dōjutsu and remove the seal that was on her head. Although he was successful in removing the seal, he was at a loss of what the new eyes could do or how to use them for that matter. That was another reason that she made this shy girl act, to hide her new eyes from her so called 'clan' since if they knew that she had a Dōjutsu that was stronger and better then the Hyūgan's Byakugan, then she knew that they would do anything to get their hands on it.
"M-morning N-N-Naruto." she said with her head down and both of her index fingers trilled with each other to give off more of her shy girl act. She wore a big puffy tan-ish like hood jacket that had fur around the cuffs and hem. She had navy blue paints on with her black sandals.
Naruto looked into her eyes and saw how they changed over the years. She had a mix of honey-brown and purple color eyes with the usual black center. To put it short, her eyes looked like it had three sections to it. With the middle being the black pupil the next part being the iris being the light brown and the outer edges of the iris, being the leftover of her old eyes, the purple.
"Morning Hinata, class is about to begin right." She nodded and looked forward with a smile on her face. Naruto looked forward too and notice that Mia, Kira and Kyo were sitting in the row in front of him.
Those three were known as the color triplet over the course of the years due to the fact that they wore only one color type shirt and that they looked all but the same. They all were black pants with black sandals and a blank shirt, however Mia wore a red shirt as Kira wore a black one and Kyo wore a brown shirt. They all just stared forward and waited for class to begin. All three of them along with Hinata were conceded decent students from book smarts and combat smart. As to Naruto who was labeled a dead-last, but just like him those three know more then what they what they show.
Looking around the classroom, Naruto looked over to who he would believe would pass today's tests. His class was by far most different from the others. Parts of his class were children that came from normal civilian life, from business owners or some of whose parents were ninjas. Others were those who had parents of the civilian council. The last parts were those whose parents were on the shinobi council or the clan heads, meaning that Naruto had been studying in the same classroom of that of future clan heads of the Hidden Leaf.
Naruto knew that the clan member kids were sure to pass due to them having clan training before they began the academy. The first to catch his eye was a boy who had spiky brown hair with swirl marks on his cheeks. He was a chubby person as one would say. He was wearing black shorts with a short-sleeved green haori over a light-green shirt with kanji for "food" on it, and with a long white scarf on top. He also had small hoop earrings and his legs and forearms were wrapped in bandages. The boy looked like he was eating a bag of chips. That boy was Chōji Akimichi, future clan head of the Akimichi clan.
The next person was also a boy who had a pineapple style like haircut with narrow brown eyes. He wore a simple pair of silver hoop earrings. He had consisting of a green lined mesh T-shirt under a short sleeved grey jacket with green edges adorned on both the sleeves and the back with a circle with a line through it. From what Naruto could tell he was taking a nap. This was Shikamaru Nara, future clan head of the Nara clan.
"Leave it to Shikamaru to be napping even when class is about to start. All I have to say is he really takes laziness to the next level."
Both of those two were sitting in the front row opposite side of where his row was. The next person Naruto looked at was a boy who was sitting in the last row on the opposite side from him. This boy was Shino Aburame, the next clan head to the Aburame clan. Naruto really didn't know much about him other then he was a little bit creepy. Shino has fair like skin and was one of the tallest member of his class. He has dark bushy brown hair and dark sunglasses and a sea-green jacket with a high, upturned collar.
"Even with though all this years, that Shino guy is still a wild card. All I know is that he likes bugs and often uses them. Maybe they play a part of his clan's techniques or something. At least he has the skills needed to pass."
The next person he noticed was someone who he personally wasn't found of. Just like the rest, this one was a boy. He had brown wild spiky-like hair and brown eyes. He also had fang-like tattoos on each of his cheeks He wore dark greyish pants that reached to his calves and a grey hood with coat with fur-lined. Alongside that a white dog was sleeping on top of his head. The boy was Kiba Inuzuka, future clan head to the Inuzuka, and his pet dog Akamaru. Naruto couldn't help but narrow his eyes at the boy. The history between Naruto and Kiba weren't the most happiness of times due to the attitude Kiba gave to him or anyone else for that matter.
"Kiba your clan's dog like attitude has caused you to act like you are unstopped. If only you knew better."
Moving aside from those thoughts, Naruto focused on the last boy in the class he believed would pass. Sadly, similar to Kiba, this boy was one that he wasn't too fond of. This boy had fair-light skin with dark brown, almost black, eyes and black chin-length hair. His hair is spiky in the back with bangs that were to the sides of his head that reached the sides of his cheeks. He had a navy blue with a short-sleeved shirt with a high collar and the crest on the back and white arm warmers and wore white shorts. This was Sasuke Uchiha, the only member of the Uchiha clan that was in the village. The Uchiha clan were one of the most powerful and honorable clan of the Hidden Leaf. They had one of the most powerful Dōjutsu the ninja world had ever seen, the Sharingan. A Dōjutsu that many would have done almost anything to get it and it is manly the reason that the Uchiha clan was so powerful. However, about two years ago, the clan was slaughtered by one of their own of the night. Sasuke was the only survivor and the other member went missing. Ever since that day, Sasuke had become a distanced person. He acted like he was the best due to his Uchiha blood and really never cared about anyone but himself.
"Sasuke, you are one of the toughest and smartest guys of the entire class. You've even been considered Rookie of the Year. Yet your ego keeps getting in your way. Just remember we could have been friends."
Naruto was annoyed at the fact that Sasuke had to be an annoying person every time just to prove he was better than the rest.
"SASUKE!"
Speaking of annoyances, Naruto, and many others, looked at the back door and saw that two girls had enter the class. One of the girls had bright pink hair with large green eyes, and fair skin. She also had a large forehead then an average girl. She wore a red qipao dress that had white circular designs, short sleeves, and had a zipper with some tight dark green shorts and standard ninja sandals. This was Sakura Haruno. She was the daughter to Mebuki Haruno, a member of the civilian council.
"Good morning Sasuke." With those words she quickly ran to the row the boy was in and took the empty seat that was next to him. Not soon after, most of the other girls got up and started to argue who would about who should sit next to the boy. The only once that didn't move were Hinata Mia, Kira, Kyo and the other girl who came in.
"If any of them get to be a ninja and don't get their act together, then may mercy fall upon their souls."
Naruto hated how every girl had to worship the Uchiha as if he was a god himself. In fact he hated how the girls would manly care about getting the Uchiha's attention by changing their looks, asking him out on a date or any other way one would try to impress another. They barely had very decent ninja skills or grades and if they didn't do anything to make them better, then they would be dead or worse.
He was taken out of his thoughts when the other girl spoke, "Excuse me Naruto, but is this seat taken?"
Naruto had noticed that the seat next to him was empty, so he gave a smile to the girl and said, "No Ino, no one sitting there. Take it if you want."
Ino smiled and sat down. Ino was also fair-skinned girl with an average height and had bluish-green eyes. The most noticeable trait she had was her long blonde hair, which she had in a high-ponytail, reached down to her waist, and had bangs that covered the right side of her face. She wore a pair of small silver hoop-earrings and purple, fairly revealing clothing. She wore a short purple vest like blouse with a raised collar, along with a purple apron skirt that is cut off on the sides and bandages on her stomach and legs. She also had these white elbow warmers that had purple on the upper part of the warmers. Ino was also the next clan head to the Yamanaka clan.
Ino was a girl that confused Naruto almost every day. She was once like all the other students in the class, making fun of him for being the dead-last in the class, blamed him for the times he had done something wrong and was the vice president to the Sasuke fan club, to even ignoring him on a daily bases. However, that all changed over two years, or so, ago. She stared acting different after a day he talked to her. She manly acted differently to him. Sure it may not had happen overnight, but she became nice to him and often defend him form the others over the last two years. She had even stopped caring about Sasuke and focused more on her ninja skills. She was second smartest in the class and one of the strongest in the class now. Unknown to him, Ino was having her own thoughts about him.
"Naruto, two years ago you helped me out on what I thought would have been a hard time for me. That day you did something that this 'idiot' Naruto you're trying to be, would do. The Naruto that day was different. He was strong and he knew what to do, unlike this Naruto. I don't know why you hide who you are, or if you are more skilled then you lead on. I just hope that today we all get to see the real Naruto."
However, she was pulled out of her thoughts when she heard the door open and two adults enter the class room. "Good morning class." one of them said.
"Good morning Iruka and Mizuki-sensei." All the students said at once. After saying that, Ino made a quick glance over to Naruto. What she saw shocked her a bit. Naruto had a clam face with a small smile, however, Ino notice that his right hand had was forming a fist underneath the table. Worried for Naruto's wellbeing, Ino was about to ask if he was okay when Hinata beat her to it.
"Naruto are y-you okay."
Snapping out of his thoughts, Naruto looked at Hinata and said, "Yay I'm fine. I'm just worried about today's test that's all."
"Don't worry too much about it Naruto. I'm sure you would do just fine." Ino said. Both Hinata and Naruto turn to look at her with a bit of shock, although they didn't show it.
"Thank you Ino that means a lot to me, and I hope both of you do great yourselves." Both gave Naruto a warm smile and looked forward. However, these made Naruto go back to his thoughts about his two 'teachers'.
Iruka was a Chūnin level ninja. He was a man who had both an average height and an average body build. He had black/brown hair that he keeps in a strange pineapple like ponytail. He had dark eyes and a scar that runs across the bridge of his nose. He wore the standard Konoha shinobi outfit complete with forehead protector, sandals, and flak jacket. He also had his sleeves rolled up about 1/4 of the way of his arms.
"Iruka, you have no idea how much I despise you. Out of all the teachers, might be the one I hate the most. You do nothing but make class harder on me by allowing others to mock me and you don't even help me in my school work. You think of me as some sort of problem that will eventually go away. I bet you were one of the few who attacked me back when I was young." He turns to look at the other sensei, "Speaking of not helping me. You let Mizuki teach me, but even I know that all he did was teach me incorrect things and when I ask for your help, you would always tell me to talk to Mizuki for help. Mizuki gave me harder work to do like high level test and homework. Well today you two are in for a treat."
Mizuki was Chūnin level ninja, just like Iruka. He had white, shoulder-length, hair with a slight hint of blue and had green eyes. He wore the standard attire of the Konoha-nin. He wore his forehead protector like a bandanna and covered most of his hair.
"Naruto Uzumaki." Iruka said with a boring tone. However, if one would listen closely, they could hear hatred mixed in of a little bit of hatred. Naruto was able to catch it and so were Hinata and the three in front of them too. Ino also heard it but didn't know what to think of it.
"Here," answered Naruto. Iruka didn't even bother to look at him and just marked something down on his clip board.
"Ino Yamanaka," said Iruka. This time he said it with a calm tone. Ino caught that and couldn't help but wonder why she was called out in a different tone than Naruto was.
"Here," she said. With that final check, Iruka looked at his class and said,
"Alright class since everyone is here. We will begin the second part of the final. You all will have to perform a clone, substitution, and a transformation jutsu. All of you will go in to the next room one by one in alphabetical order of last names. And remember to do your best."
"I'll go see if everything is ready," said Mizuki as he left the room.
"Alright first one is…" At that point Naruto didn't pay attention. He looked over at Ino and said,
"Ino can I ask you something?"
Looking at him she asked, "Yes, what is it?"
"I was wondering if you would wake me up when it almost my turn. I want to rest up a bit due to all the stress I have"
"Sure thing Naruto," Ino couldn't help but form a small smile as he watched him go to sleep.
Naruto on the other hand, couldn't help but finish off what he was dreaming of not too long ago.
Flashback
Naruto couldn't believe what he had just heard. "What 21 years? But Kura I don't have that long."
Katsumi couldn't help but snicker at the boy's reaction. Getting both of their attention, she said, "Relax pup. You are going to have both the 21 years of training and return to your home in three years."
That however didn't help much and now Naruto was even more lost. Before he could saw anything, Kura said, "What Katsumi is trying to say, is that time works a little bit different here. Remember Naruto you are in a different dimension, so time her is different than that of your normal world."
"In other words pup, you are in the world of the wild dogs. You will see people with features similar to that of wolves, coyotes, wild dogs and foxes. You can tell what they are due to their tails and extra ears on their head. Not to mention since we live in a word similar to that of a dog, time is different here as well. A slandered human year is seven years here. This means that if you are staying here for three years, then you are really staying 21 years here. Do you get it now?"
Naruto was getting a bit of what she meant, however, since he didn't know much math he was at a loss of how many years he would train for. Thus having a confused look on his face making Katsumi chuckle and say, "Looks like we are going to have our hands full with him aren't we sis."
Kura couldn't help but narrow her eyes at her sister's comment and said, "He is not that hard to deal with and besides this is a boy who has lived on his own since he was born. He has yet to learn much about the world, so talking about a new one will cause him to have more questions." She turns to look at Naruto, "Don't worry Naruto; we will help you in the areas you need help in the most. Since we are all done eating lets go and get you ready for the upcoming years."
Naruto made a huge smile and hugged Kura, "Thank you Kura and I promise to do my best and to not give up believe it."
Both Kura and Katsumi smiled at the boy's action. "Well then," Katsumi said, "If you two are done, I say we get started already."
Flashback End
"Naruto wake up. You're almost up." Ino said as she tries to wake up the blond next to her. Naruto slowly opened his eyes and raised his head. "Good your up. Sasuke went in to take his test not too long ago. So I thought it would be a good idea to wake you up earlier, so you don't walk in sleepy."
"Thank you Ino." Just like that, Sasuke walked into the room. Not even looking at him he said,
"Loser, you're up."
With that said Naruto just got up and walked down to the entrance, passing the Uchiha along the way. Right before he got to the door, he heard Kiba said, "I still don't see why a loser like you is wasting all our time of being real ninjas. You're a loser who will never be able to compete with use."
This caused many of the other students to burst in laughter and talk among themselves since they saw truth to the dog loving boy. Ino and Hinata narrow their eyes at Kiba, while Mia and the other two couldn't help but smirk at how dumb many of them didn't know what Naruto could really do. As for Naruto, he just shrugged and walked out the room.
He walked in the room across from the home room. When he entered the next room he found the room was empty and only had a desk where both Mizuki and Iruka where siting at.
"Naruto glad you were able to make it." Mizuki said with a smile that even Naruto know was fake. However, he said nothing and took his place at the center of the room. "Alright Naruto I'm sure you know how this works. You will do a clone, a substitution, and a transformation jutsu. Just try your best and relax. Should we start Iruka?"
"Yes we should." He looks at Naruto, "Okay Naruto, let's start this off with a transformation jutsu. Transform into either me or Mizuki. How accurate it is will determine your score."
With a small nod, Naruto place both his hands together and in a puff of smoke, there stood another version of Iruka, an exact copy of the original.
"Very good Naruto," Mizuki said, "If I didn't know any better, I would say you looked like the real Iruka."
"Thank you." said the Iruka/Naruto. Both of the Chūnins couldn't believe what they heard. Naruto didn't just make himself look like Iruka but sound like him too. With anther burst pf smoke, Naruto was back and was standing nice and tall.
"He can not only make a transformation of someone, but also have it speak like the cope target. That is impressive since no one was able to do that but Mia, Kira, Kyo and Sasuke and not even they were able to get that much said." thought Iruka.
"How was he able to do that?" thoughtMizuki.
"Very well Naruto," Iruka claimed, "Now try to do a substitution. Remember the bigger or the distance you got the item can help your score." Naruto nodded and again placed his hands together and burst in a puff of smoke. What was there was a log shape object. However, both the Chūnins were left stun to see that this log had targets painted on it.
"Is that a practice dummy from the front courtyard?" thought Iruka, "How was he able to get that from the other side of the building? Sure Mia, Kira, Kyo and Sasuke got logs too, but they could get them from right outside this room."
"How is he doing this?" thought Mizuki. With another puff of smoke, Naruto reappear and the log was gone.
"Nicely done Naruto," said Iruka with hints of shock in his tone, "Let's finish this off with a clone jutsu."
Naruto nodded and place his hand together again for the final time. "There is no way he can make a clone." thought Mizuki, "This is what caused him to fail the last three times and he has yet to improve one bit over the year."
With a puff of smoke, Naruto stood there with two more copies of himself on both sides, making five Narutos in the room. Again Chūnins were shock to see that Naruto made five clones, let alone one.
"Impressive," thoughtIruka, "Everyone else was able to make two clones and Mia, Kira, Kyo along with Sasuke were only able to make three."
Mizuki on the other hand had angry thoughts in his head. "How, How was he able to do it?"
"Good job Naruto," said Iruka, "Please call in Ino would you." Naruto nodded and walk back to the homeroom.
Once he enter he said, "Ino your up." Everyone looked at him, wondering how badly the 'Dead-Last' fail the test. "Good luck Ino." he said as he passed her going up back to his seat.
"Thank you." she replied. Naruto took his seat next to Hinata who was happy to see him.
"How did it go Na-Nar-Naruto?" she asked.
"I think I did alright." He answered with his foxy grin. He then looked forward waiting for Ino to finish her part. In the meantime, Naruto was thinking hard as to what he would do next. "Kura told me that this exam would be taken four times, every time at the end of the year. Each time a student takes it, they were mark to see were they stood and what type of help they would need for the next year. In order to hide my true skills I had to fail the exam three times. The next part is the shuriken throwing test, were our accuracy can be tested. The final part of the exam is the fighting part, were we each fight each other one on one in taijutsu. If I'm correct, I'm going to be fighting Sasuke." Naruto smirk at this, "Piece of cake."
Just then Ino came back into the room and so did the two Chūnins. "Alright class," Iruka said, "so far everyone is doing great. Now we are all going outside for the shuriken throwing test. Now everyone line up and we'll head outside."
Everyone did as they were told and the class walked outside to the courtyard, were three practice dummies stood in front of a concert wall. The dummies were log shape with targets on certain areas of them. Iruka, cleared his throat, said, "Alright class, we have three practice dummies here. The objected of this test is to try to hit the four targets on the dummies. Don't worry if you don't hit the target head on, but try to hit close to the target. Doing so will help out your score, also, the speed of you throwing them will also affect your score. Finally, the deeper the shuriken can go into the target, the more points you can gain there."
With that said everyone did their test one at a time. By far the only ones that did alright were the clan children. Naruto saw no surprise there and he defiantly wasn't surprise at the performance of the civilian children. Sure some hit the target but no one was really able to score as high as the clan kids. Most of them either hit close to the targets but not close enough, or that they miss the target all together. In fact the only once that were good enough were Mia, Kira, Kyo, Hinata and Sakura. In fact that was basically the order of scoring. Mia had the highest at the moment, followed by Kira, Kyo and Hinata. Sakura was a few points below Shino, but was higher than any of the other kids.
Naruto then noticed that Sasuke had just taken his turn. He noticed that he had hit every target on the mark. He watched as both Iruka and Mizuki were having trouble removing the shurikens from the two on the sides. However when they got to the center one, they noticed that the shurikens were really hard to pull out. Not caring so much this, Naruto just walked up and took his place, placing four shurikens in between his fingers.
"Look the Dead-Last is about to go." said a random civilian student.
"Everyone take cover." said another. However, many just stood at the sidelines as others hide behind them but still watched. Mia, Kira, Kyo, Hinata along with the clan heads just stood at front of the class to see how Naruto would do.
"Naruto we can't do this right now due to Sasuke shurikens still stuck in the log." said Iruka.
All Naruto did was smile and say, "I like to have a challenge once and awhile." Both of the Chūnins just shrug, seeing there is no point arguing with him. They both took to the sidelines.
However, Kiba couldn't help but capitalize on what Naruto said, "I say the only challenge you have is just being here. Stop wasting our time loser." Many of the other students began to laugh at Naruto.
"Yay loser, you'll never be able to outmatch Sasuke. So just give up loser." said Sakura as both her and the other Sasuke fan girls laughing too. Hinata and Ino couldn't help but get angry at them for laughing at him. However Mia and the other two had nothing but a neutral look on their face. The same with Naruto, he didn't care for what they said, he just had this neutral look on his face.
"Can I go now," he said.
Iruka just closed his eyes and said, "You can try. But you won't get an accurate score Naruto due to the shur…" He was cut short, by the sound of the shurikens being thrown. When Iruka open his eyes, he saw that Naruto had thrown his last set of shurikens. When he turned to look at the dummies, he noticed that none of Naruto's shurikens were on the dummies, but were on the concert wall behind the dummies. The class again burst into laughter at seeing the horrible display by the Dead-Last. All but Ino, Hnata, Mia, Kira and Kyo didn't laugh.
"HAHA I know a loser like you couldn't hit the target, let alone the dummies." Kiba said as he continues to laugh.
"I would look again if I were you mutt." Naruto said, not looking at him. Kiba got angry at the name he had called him, however, his eyes then landed on Iruka and Mizuki who were looking at the dummies in pure shock. The class soon fallows and they all quiet down. Once it got quite, the sound of splitting wood could be heard. The sound continued for a good five seconds, as many were wondering what was going on and then...
BANG!
All three of the wooden dummies burst into pieces, shocking everyone in the class. However, the two Chūnins were the only ones to notice that the targets on the dummies were split from the middle, meaning that Naruto's shurikens didn't just hit the targets, they went right though them. What was really shocking was that the middle log also split apart, and the shurikens that were once there, were now on the ground, broken in half.
As everyone was still shock at seeing this, they didn't notice Naruto putting up new log dummies where the old once stood. Once he was done, he walked over to his shurikens and said, "Can I take this out now?"
Iruka simply nodded. Naruto tugged a bit until the shuriken finally came out. "He was able to cut though the wood of the target and from the looks of it, that wall took a hit with those shurikens. By far he has the highest score in the test." Thought Iruka
"Darn, how is he doing this?" thought Mizuki.
Naruto walked back to his spot, after he pulled all the shurikens out the wall. "Looks like you up Ino. Good luck." He said with a cheerful smile. Ino just smiled and did her part of the test. Sadly, the comments many of the students were making about his performance was really making it hard for him to watch Ino's part of the test. Manly because Sakura and many of Sasuke's fan girls keep yelling that he cheated or something along those lines. Sasuke himself was just eyeing Naruto with a hated look. He was wondering how the class's Dead-Last mange to do better than him.
"Nicely done Ino," said Iruka "You are equally tied up with Hinata's score." He turns around to the other students, "Alright class we are about to start the final part of the exam. In this part you all will go at it one on one. The first one to be knocked out of the circle wins. Remember you can only use the three jutsus we have learned this year, cloning, substitution, and/or transformation jutsu. If you use any of this then you get extra points but you must stay in the circle at all time. If you are knocked out of the circle or just knocked out in general then you lose. When we say stop, you stop."
Just then Mizuki came up to Iruka and said, "I just finish the making the circle, and here's a list of who will fight who. I put most of the clan kids against civilians so there be difficulty amongst them. Don't worry I matched them up to who I believe can handle each other."
'Very well let's began. First up is…" Naruto stopped paying attention to Iruka and found a nice tree to lie underneath in. All the fights were as Naruto thought would be, the civilian kids who went up against one another were awful and the fights against the clan's kids didn't help much ether. The only fights he thought were interesting were Mia vs. Hinata and Ino vs. Kyo. The fight between Kira and Sakura was really not a shock that Kira won. She was always a heavy hitter and Sakura stood no chance against her, since the fight lasted about a minute. He also knew that Kira was holding back on her.
However when it came to Hinata and Mia, he was shock to see that both of them were able counter each other's blow for blow. Mia was a more of a tactical fighter. She would normally let her opponent strike first and counter from there on by tricking her opponent and not letting them read her moves. Hinata was basically the same. She would strike first and counter her opponent's moves. By far both of them were equally match and it was sad that that match had to end in a draw due to the time. Ino and Kyo were also the same. Both of them keep a distance and did their best to see what each moves were going to be. Sadly, Kyo had a slight speed advantage, but Ino was still able to hold her own. Again it was sad that the fight ended in a draw due to time.
"Sasuke and Naruto you two are the last ones up." said Iruka. Naruto just shook his head. It was no surprise that he would have to fight Sasuke of all people. He took his stance at the edge of the circle. Not saying much, Iruka said, "Fight."
Instantly, Naruto place his hands together and a puff of smoke appeared. When it cleared up it showed the original Naruto standing there and what looked like a pale, dead like version of him. Everyone burst into laughter as they watched the sad attempt of a clone. Sasuke took this as the opening he needed and charge to him. The clone slowly stumbled to him, but Sasuke easily dodged it and went straight for Naruto. In a blink of an eye, Sasuke punched Naruto in the gut. "Well that was easy." Kiba said and made a cocky smirk.
Sadly, that smirk easily went as fast as it got there, the Naruto that Sasuke had punched burst in to smoke. This shocked everyone, including Sasuke. "SASUKE BEHIND YOU!" yelled Sakura.
Sasuke slowly turned his head, but was met with Naruto's right fist on his left cheek. This made Sasuke fell out of circle and land head first in to the ground. "What the hell just happened?" Kiba said.
Everyone was both shock and confused with what had just happen. "Naruto cheated again. What else?" Sakura said with an angry look that almost all the girls had.
"Hum… cheated no." Naruto said turning to face them, "I just out smarted him that's all." Seeing that most of them still didn't see what he meant, he said, "I used all three of the jutsu to outsmart him. In cause any of you didn't figure it out, when the fight started I was stand close to the edge of the circle. So when the fight began I made a clone and quickly transformed myself in to that bad clone I always made. However, since I was on the wrong side, I thought that that Sasuke would be able to tell the difference. So when I swap places with the clone, all I needed was that Sasuke charge in and to let his ego get the best of him. The rest you all saw with your eyes." Everyone was shock to hear the explanation he just gave. However, the one most shock was Iruka.
"That was very clever," he thought, "He made a clone and he made himself look like what the others were used to seeing. However, since he knew that a clone can only appear around the person who made it and not in the same spot as the original. He was one step ahead, by substituting himself with the good clone to make it look like he made a bad clone. Being able to do that and hold on to a transformation as will is impressive."
"No my plan is ruin, how he do that?" thought Mizuki "Wait there still one thing I can do."
"Not bad Naruto you pass." said Iruka. This of course didn't sit well with the pink hair load mouth.
"WHAT BUT HE CHEATED!" she yelled.
Naruto sighted and said, "For the last time I didn't cheat. I just tricked him. After all deception is a ninja's greatest tool and he just helped me prove that people only see what they want to believe and they never think of anything else."
"NEVER," came from Sasuke. Naruto turned around to look at him. "I will never be tricked by a dobe like you. I'm an Uchiha, that means I'm a million times better then you." He then placed his hands together to form jutsu signs.
"Those signs…" were the thoughts of Mia, Kira and Kyo, but Kyo was already running towards Naruto to help with what was about to come.
"Fire Style:" At that moment Kyo was now in front of Naruto with her own signs ready. "Fireball Jutsu" with those words said, Sasuke shot out a ball of fire out from his mouth. The fireball was big enough to hurt both Naruto and all the students behind him. However, Kyo was ready for it.
"Water Style: Waterball Jutsu" Similar to Sasuke, Kyo shot out a ball out of water similar to the size of Sasuke's fireball. Both element ball attacks crash into one another and from the looks of it both were neutralizing each other out and created steam. Taking the chance, Naruto dashed in using the steam as cover, what soon fallowed was anyone's guess since they heard Sasuke scream.
Within seconds the steam cleared and in its place everyone could see Sasuke was on his knees and Naruto had both his right index and middle figure on his neck.
"What the…? I can't move. What are you doing dobe?" Sasuke cried with a hit of pain and anger in his tone.
"Pressure points," he said, "I may not be a pro at it but I at least know this one. As long as I hold my fingers are here, you won't be able to move for about three minutes until I start losing my grip." Naruto looked at Kyo and notice that she was on her knees looking tired. He turns to both Ino and Hinata and says, "Ino, Hinata go get some water for Kyo she looks tired." Both of the girls nodded and quickly left to do as they were instructed.
Naruto looked back down at Sasuke and then back at Kyo, who was now being helped by Mia and Kira. "How many teme?" he said making Uchiha look at him in anger, "How many will you hurt, just so you could make a point?"
Sasuke was now getting angry that the Dead-last was demanding answers from him and was also besting him at the moment. "Screw you dobe. I'm an Uchiha. I get what I want when I want it and I don't care who I hurt because I'm better then you and I always will. I don't answer to you, you answer to me you got that."
Naruto just closed his eyes and was wondering how he was the only one to her the first part of what he said. He lets go of the Uchiha and looks at Iruka, "Are we done here?"
Iruka nodded and said, "Alright everyone lets head back so that you can collect your headband and so we can all leave."
(An Hour Later)
Naruto was leaning on a tree that had a swing build on it. He had just gotten his Hitai-ate, or ninja headband, over 30 minutes ago. He had scored a perfect on this test, he even scored higher then possible with all the bonus points he got.
Right now he could hear the comments that the other students' parents made. He could even feel the angry stares from them but could really care less. Having spent enough time there, he finally thought it was a good idea to leave. Seeing he had nothing better to do he just wondered around. Mia and Kira took Kyo home since she was still weak. Hinata had to get home before Anko got there. Ino said she had to help out at her family's flower shop. So he was on his own.
Seeing that the sun was about to set, Naruto thought it was a good idea to go home. However, he was stopped when he felt someone nearby. He then noticed Mizuki walk out from behind the tree that was there.
"AH, Naruto there you are." he said.
"Mizuki what are you doing here." Naruto replied.
"I came here to congratulate you on getting you headband. However, I also have to tell you something." Naruto raise an eyebrow but let him continue. "You may have gotten your headband; however, there is still one more test you need to take."
"Really, what's that?" he asked with a brow raised up.
"Don't worry you won't lose your headband if you fail or anything and everyone is going to take their own test, so you aren't the only one. Now this test is to help us put students into teams that can help everyone. So you will be tested in a category we think suits you and how you do can matter how you are placed in a team."
Naruto just looked to the sky and said, "What is this test?"
"Simple," he started, "You are to take a scroll that is hidden within the Hokage's office and deliver it to a shack located in the forest. I assume you know where it is?"
"On the outskirts of the village, an old worn out shack that is deep in the forest of the village. Yay I've seen it."
"Good," Mizuki said with a smile, "You are to get there with the scroll until I arrive. Remember even if this is a test, other ninjas are going to come at you with force so, you may have to use some force. Don't worry, they know it's a test but that doesn't mean they won't go down easy."
"So my best bet is to avoid them completely." Naruto asked still looking at the sky.
"If you can, but remember real missions won't be like that so be ready for anything."
"What does the scroll look like?"
"It's the only big one hidden in the Hokage's office. It should also be the one most hidden within the room. Oh and it should have the kanji for 'Forbidden Sealing' on it."
"Not that I'm complaining, but this test seems a bit too hard for someone who just got their headband."
Mizuki just shrug and said, "Hay this test is meant to equal the score you score on your test. You scored the highest and therefore you have a hard test. Anything else?"
"Just this one thing, how will you know that I've gotten the scroll?"
"The Hokage will inform the other Chūnins that you have gotten the scroll. That will tell me that you did your part and then I'll meet up with you as the others look for you." Mizuki turn around ready to leave but stop and said, "Oh before I forget, since this is supposed to act like a mission, you are not allow to tell anyone of your mission. Doing so will cause you to fail no matter what. You have till midnight to complete your test. Good luck." With that, Mizuki job up to the building and disappear, but not before he smirked evilly.
Naruto narrow his eyes, he never really trusted Mizuki so he wasn't about to now. "Only one person can tell me what is going on." With that thought, Naruto ran to the one place he knew would have answers.
(Hokage's Tower)
The Third was currently doing the very few things he whish he wouldn't do, paperwork. It wasn't long till he heard the door open. He looked up and noticed that it was both Anko and Yūgao in her ANBU uniform and mask. "Ah, what can I do for you two?" said the old man.
"Hokage I came to ask…" Anko started but stop when all three of them felt a burst of chakra come out of nowhere. They all looked around and all noticed that the birds outside had stop in midair. Remembering this from four years ago, they all had an idea who was doing this.
"Old man," everyone turn to see Naruto at the front of the door, "we need to talk."
"Brat didn't I tell you…" Anko cut herself short as she noticed the ninja headband around his neck. "You passed the test?" she said with shock in her tone and Yūgao had a shock look on her face but her mask hided that.
"Yay I did, but that's not important right now. I need to talk to you now old man right now."
All three of them could hear the seriousness in his tone. The Hokage cleared his throat and said, "Very well Naruto and congratulations on acing the test. Now what can I do for you?"
Naruto just walked up to the kage's desk and said, "Mizuki told me to do something that I fear is a threat to the village security." Everyone there raised an eyebrow at this, but allowed him to continue, "Mizuki told me that I had to take another test that would help me be placed in a good team. This test was to steal a scroll from your office with the words 'Forbidden Sealing' on it." With those words caused the Hokage to drop the pipe that was in his mouth. Anko and Yūgao had a shock reaction to this as well. "From the looks on your faces I assume you know what I'm talking about."
"Naruto that scroll is the most dangers thing that the village has." The Hokage said, "If it falls onto the wrong hands then the village will be left vulnerable since it holds many S-B Rank jutsus. Some of which belong only to The Hidden Leaf village."
"I see," Naruto said, "I know Mizuki must've had something planed if he asked me to do this."
"I suggest we go and get Mizuki and see what he is up to." Yūgao suggested.
"No," said Naruto, "from the looks of it, not many know of this scrolls existence, meaning Mizuki must not be working alone. Besides, he has to hiding somewhere where he would hear about me stealing the scroll. If he catches on to the fact that you are looking for him, he might try to escape and do you really want to put others at risk."
Everyone was shock to hear Naruto say these things. To think that the boy who was label Dead-Last could think on that high of a level "So what do you suppose we do, go along with his plan." Anko asked.
"Yes," he replied.
"WHAT!?" everyone shouted at once.
"Hear me out before you make any claims. Mizuki will be hiding until he hears that I steal the scroll, so I'll set a trap for him. I will take him down myself. I will met him by myself, if he finds out that others are nearby ,he will most likely run and who knows if we would get any information from him. Beside if I go at it alone it might limit the amount of people that will get hurt." Naruto explained.
"Are you insane? No way are you doing something so wreak less…" Anko stated, but stop when she felt a large amount of killer intents, or KI, coming from Naruto. Even though it wasn't much, it was still a lot for someone like Naruto to put out and it was able to surprise everyone.
"This is just the tip of the barrel. Trust me. I came here to ask you that I can be able to handle this." Naruto said, "Well what do you say old man.
The Hokage just pick up and cleaned his pipe, "If you think you are ready then go ahead, but I'll send someone to help you if you take too long."
"Thank you, now where is this scroll I had to get." The old man just pointed to a wall to his left next to a bookshelf. The Hokage was about to get up, but Naruto stopped him. "Don't get up I'll get it." The Hokage raised an eye at this, but watched and see what Naruto was going to do.
Naruto stood in front of the wall and without trying, he walk right through it. This left Anko and Yūgao shocked beyond belief; however, the Hokage was not affected by it. Not soon after Naruto came back out with a scroll on his back. As he walked to the door, Naruto said, "Give me an hour to get things ready. After the time is up give the word for me to be found. That will lead Mizuki to me."
Naruto was about to reach for the door knob when the Hokage said, "Naruto before you leave I want to know were you will be so I can send help if need be."
"Two miles out northeast of the village, where that old shack is at." Naruto replied.
"Very well and good luck." The old man said.
"Old man I know that you are wondering to know how strong I'm." This caught both the two ninjas in the room and looked at their leader. "I know you've been wondering ever since I came back. So if you want to know some things, call in Kura and the others. Tell them this 'Naruto told me he wanted some dumplings.' If they ask what kind then say, 'red, black and brown' also have a copy of my test scores on hand. From there on they will answer you as much as I told them to tell you. Did you get all that old man?" Naruto didn't turn to look at him, he waited for an answer.
"Yes I got it. Now hurry up I want to hear it from you later." Naruto nodded and ran out the door. The two kunoichis in the room just turned to their leader.
"Do you really think he can handle this Lord Hokage?" Yūgao asked.
Sarutobi just added some tobacco to his pipe and said, "Naruto is someone who can surprise even the most skilled in battle of people. I don't have doubt that Naruto will surprise anyone of use tonight." Yūgao just turn to Anko, in hopes that she knew what he was talking about. Sadly Anko just shrugged with a puzzle look on her face.
(Forest 1 Hour Later)
Naruto was sitting on a stump with the scroll by his feet. He then heard the sounds of bushes rustling and getting closer to him. Getting ready for the worse, Naruto got in to a fighting stance. However, he was shock to see that it wasn't Mizuki but Iruka.
"Iruka," he thought, "Great Mizuki must have sent him here."
Iruka didn't look all too happy to see Naruto here. "Naruto what are you doing here," he asked, "and why did you steal the scroll of Forbidden Sealing?"
"Iruka what are you doing here?" Naruto asked, "I thought I was supposed to have met Mizuki here."
Iruka raised an eyebrow at this and asked, "What are you talking…" Sadly he was cut short, as he screamed out in pain and fell to the ground. Iruka now had, what looked like, a giant shuriken in his back.
"Gezz… If knew you would have taken this long to kill the demon, I might as well would have done it." Naruto looked up at trees and notice that Mizuki was standing on one of the tree's branches with another giant shuriken on his back. "I mean really, most of the others who are looking for him would have killed him the minute they saw him."
"What the hell going on?" Naruto asked in shocked and confusion.
Mizuki got an evil smirk and said, "Naruto give me the scroll and I'll tell you everything. I'll even tell you why people hate you so much."
Even though he was in pain, Iruka couldn't help but make a face of fear. "Mizuki wait," he cried out, "if you stop now you might be let off easy, but if you tell him and the Hokage finds out, you will be killed." Sadly, Mizuki just grinned more as he hears his friend try to save him but didn't. "Mizuki don't it's forbidden."
"You see Naruto," Mizuki started, "the reason everyone hates you is because ten years ago, when the Nine-Tails attack the village. The Fourth Hokage didn't kill the beast, oh no, he sealed it away in a newborn child with the cost of his own life. That newborn child was you Naruto." Naruto's eyes widen at shock and fear at hearing this, Mizuki however, was enjoying seeing Naruto like this. "That's right Naruto; the demon that destroyed our village is living with in your body. You are the Nine-Tailed Fox." Naruto began to burst into tears by hearing these words, while Mizuki just laughed at the seeing this.
"That's enough Mizuki." Iruka said, still in pain.
"Oh but I haven't gotten to the best part." Mizuki said, "You see I told you to steal the scroll in hopes that I would be able to make some money by selling it off to some other village and also be seen as a hero here by killing the demon that's been walking their streets every day. However, I was going to give that honor to Iruka since he had lost both his parents to the Nine-Tail's attack, but not even he could have done it." Mizuki began to laugh again as Naruto covers his own face with his hands.
(Hokage's Office)
The Hokage was looking though a crystal ball alongside Anko and Yūgao.
"That asshole, he is going to pay for this." Anko said.
"Do you really believe that's his plan Lord Hokage?" Yūgao asked looking away from the crystal ball.
"I don't think so." replied the old man, "He knows if he killed Naruto, he himself would be killed. Naruto must be right; he must be working for somebody."
"Hay what's going on with the picture." Anko asked. Both the Hokage and Yūgao looked back at the crystal ball and noticed that the image was bluing up. Within moments the image was gone.
"Something is blocking my chakra in that area." the Hokage answered.
"We have to go help Naruto." Anko said. However, there was a knock at the door of the office.
"Come in." said the old man.
(Forest with Naruto)
Mizuki was still laughing at the events that had just unfolded. However, his laughter died down when he heard someone else laughing. Both him and Iruka looked at Naruto, who was now laughing.
"What the hell so funny?" Mizuki asked. Naruto looked at him, straight into his eyes.
"I'm laughing at you." he replied, "To think you got your hopes up for nothing." Both Chūnins just stared at him as if he was crazy. "I'm sorry to tell you this Mizuki but you are going to die."
Finally done.
Once again I like to say thank you all that has reviewed, followed or favored my story it really means a lot to me.
However I like to explain a few things before I go and those are:
I didn't describe Naruto too much because right now he is still the same he was viewed in the show. An idiot prankster who wears an orange jumpsuit. I do believe everyone knows this.
I didn't describe the ninja uniform because it's too hard for me to do it, and again all of you must know how they look like.
I try not to be too descriptive so I don't confuse you all anymore.
For those of you who don't understand what Hinata's eyes look like, think similar to the way Sharingan, or any anime eyes really, and you have the black pupil on top of the honey brown iris and surrounded in a purple ring, which is normally black.
I hope this helps out since these are some problems most of my friends tell me when reading my drafts.
As always remember to leave a review and follow or favorite my story, and until next time.
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