Hi guys, sorry I didn't update in so long, I was out of the country with no internet access of over two weeks of the time and my weekends have been relatively bussy. Also after I asked the question, only one person answered so I'll ask again, considering Ino is basically Naruto's sister in this story, should I make it NaruIno or NaruHina. I was planning on making it NaruHina, but I'll change that if more of you guys say NaruIno. Anyways… don't own Naruto on with the book!
Chapter 6- From a "Rookie" to a Ninja (pt. 1)
Everyone was still staring at Naruto, his muscular physique, his new, matured, eyes and face, and his badass cloak. From Sasuke, to Sakura, to Iruka and every last kid in the class, nobody could believe that this was the same hopeless, immature prankster they have known for the last four years.
"Is that really Naruto?" Sakura thought to herself.
"Am I being surpassed by HIM… no… it can't be," Sasuke thought to himself, but keeping his stern, emotionless look on his face.
"So this is my hero… the one who saved me all those years ago," thought Hinata to herself, "It was strange that he was stronger as a four year old than at twelve… and the one standing here, he's the one who stole my heart… His deep blue eyes, gorgeous face and power radiating off of him. He's the one who saved me that fateful night… The one I love"
After that session of silence, Sakura decided to be the one to break the ice.
"Naruto you Baka, a transformation jutsu doesn't make you stronger than my Sasuke-kun," she said, clearly denying the class's recent discovery, "You're the same old Naruto."
"You're right Sakura, I am the same old Naruto," Naruto said, "But it's what you call Naruto that's wrong."
Hinata's interest has reached its peak, so she decided to check Naruto's chakra network, and the discovery blew her away.
"S-Sakura… you may want to take back what you said about Naruto-kun," said Hinata.
"And why is that?" asked Sakura.
"Think of it this way," stated Hinata, "take you, me, Sasuke, Iruka, and the rest of this class's chakra reserves combined and multiply it by about eight. That's how big his is."
The whole class looked at her like she was crazy, and someone else was about to speak until…
"Guys we have a graduation exam to get to, so if you don't want to spend another year at the academy, let's get a move on," said Iruka. After those words everyone sat down pretending that their focus has changed, but they still showed obvious signs of interest on their faces.
"OK, now that you're in your seats, time for the written exam," said Iruka. Then two teachers started passing out tests to all of the students in the class, but made obvious looks of confusion when they felt the aura of this new Naruto.
"Now, this is a 20 minute, 20 question test about what we learned over our time at the academy," said Iruka, "everything from what shoes are best for infiltration to basic math that will be useful on the field. Spend your remaining time studying, the test starts in 12 minutes."
Then everyone groaned, Naruto's "Great Revelation" has costed the class a reduced study session for the test, so they had to hurry it up. In a rush, Naruto didn't notice that he ended up sitting next to Hinata, so he decided to tell her something he's been holding in.
"Hinata… Thank you," Naruto said quietly to a now blushing Hinata, "Thank you for not following the example of others, thank you for treating me nicely when you had no reason to do so."
"D-Don't thank me Naruto-kun, you saved me all those years ago so I have every reason to be nice to you," said Hinata, "so yes, I did have a reason to treat you nicely… it's because… you're my hero, Naruto-kun." Hinata then realized what she said so she seemingly teleported over to a corner and curled up into a ball of sheer social anxiety. Naruto then blushed and smiled before he continued doing what little studying he needed.
"Everyone the test starts in two minutes, get ready," Iruka said. This was followed by a minute of people putting their studying materials away and then another minute of people staring intently at the clock before they could flip their tests over.
"Three… two… one… you may begin," said Iruka.
Then everyone turned their tests over and Naruto was surprised at how easy the test questions are. Questions like: "What kind of missions do you take for the first 6 months of being a Genin?", "What is the name of the pill you use to replenish chakra?", and "If you have 3 days to make it to a location 2000 KM away and you spend a third of the time taking breaks (sleeping, eating, etc.) what is the average speed you need to go to make it with the least time to spare?" were present and Naruto didn't even need any tricks to answer them.
"FIVE MORE MINUTES," yelled the teacher, not loud enough to be a scream, but loud enough that even Naruto, Hinata, and the five other people in the back could hear clearly. As of that point Naruto just finished his last question, and he seemingly started a chain of test finishers that started with Sasuke, Sakura, Hinata, Shikamaru, some random person and then Shino. This constant stream of people kept coming until the time was up and two people complained that they didn't finish on time.
"OK, you are now done with the written test," said Iruka, "you have ten minutes to get to the shuriken target field so no rush." Iruka then Shunshined out of the building and the rest of the class decided to take a leisurely stroll.
"How do you think you did?" asked Naruto to Hinata.
"The test wasn't too hard I think at least 90%," said Hinata. "What about you?"
"Same," said Naruto, "I guess it's about time to the show the world my shuriken jutsu."
Hinata just nodded in response, too deep in thought at how she talked to Naruto more today than the entire four years at the academy.
"It was smart what you did," said Hinata, "to pretend to be the class clown so you'd get picked with the better team, that was smart."
"I didn't want the people on my team to hold me back too much, so I thought about how to get the best team, and I came up with this," said Naruto.
They then talked a bit longer until ten minutes were up and the teacher gave instructions on the shuriken jutsu test.
"Ok, now comes the shuriken jutsu test," said Iruka, "this test shows me how good you are at using shuriken, your goal is to hit as many targets as possible, in as short a time frame as possible." Iruka then pointed at the ten targets behind him, each yellow, wood circles with a large black circle in the middle. They were each connected to a different tree, and about eight to nine inches in diameter. "You will each be handed a shuriken pouch with 28 shuriken in it, your goal is to hit the targets, once each, as fast as possible," said Iruka. "Hit the yellow part you get three points, the black part and you get 5 points. Now, there are a few catches, each second you take subtracts a point, each shuriken you miss subtracts a point, and if you run out of shuriken you automatically fail. You have to get at least 10 points to pass besides that, anything goes. Any questions?"
After a bit of murmuring along the students, but no questions, the scarred chunin said, "OK, let's begin, we've wasted enough time already. Step up when you hear your name"
(I will only mention the scores of the important characters)
"Aburame Shino." Shino then stepped up and grabbed two shuriken (one in each hand), got in position, and then… "GO!" Iruka said as he started the timer. Shino then threw both his shuriken, one immediately after the other, grabbed two more, rinse and repeat. When he finally managed to hit all the targets once, Iruka stopped the timer, it revealed 8.8 seconds. He looked at the landing points of the shuriken to see two missed, nine hit yellow and one bullseye. Factoring that all in got Shino 21.2 points, well over the 10 points needed to pass. Shino then stepped back to where all the academy students are and waited there for everyone else to finish. (For the sake of time I'll just make a list of all the scores in order of last name up until Sasuke Naruto… Ready, Set, Go)
Akimichi Chouji: 13.6 points
Haruno Sakura: 18.6 points
Hyuuga Hinata: 22.7 points
Inuzuka Kiba: 20.1 points
Nara Shikamaru: 16.5 points
After all of them went, as well as a bunch of cannon fodder, it was Sasuke's turn. He got his shuriken pouch ready, looked at the targets, and waited for the signal.
"Ready… GO," said Iruka as he started his stopwatch. Sasuke then quickly grabbed two shuriken from his pouch and threw one of them, he then got the second one and hit the throne shuriken with it, scoring two bullseyes. He got four more and threw them at the same time, half of them hitting bullseyes and half hitting the yellow. For the last four, he hit individually scoring four more bullseyes and Iruka starred in mild shock at the time and results.
"Zero misses, two yellow hits, eight bullseyes, and achieved in 6.2 seconds…" said Iruka as he racked up the points, "39.8 points… ninth best score in the graduation exam's history…"
All of Sasuke's fanclub cheered unrelentingly, hurting everyone's ears as Sasuke let out a smirk, content with his score.
"Hey Dobe," Sasuke let out, "beat that."
As Sasuke walked out of the way to let Naruto have his turn Naruto put on a similar smirk and said, "Gladly."
Naruto stepped up to the area, not even waiting fo Iruka to call him. Iruka stood, ready and hand on the stopwatch. Naruto stood with a determined look on his face, and his hand in the pouch ready to launch as soon as he heard *GO.
"Ready… GO!" Iruka said, immediately pressing the start button.
Naruto immediately threw the shuriken at a relatively slow speed and then flashed through four hand signs to fast for most to see.
"Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto exclaimed, all the while controlling the location that the shuriken pop up in. Nine more shuriken popped up, and immediately after, hit all the targets at once, landing ten bullseyes simultaneously.
Iruka stopped the timer, a look of 110% shock present on his face, reflecting the only thing running through his mind at that moment, "OH… MY… FUCKING… GOD!"
Iruka then finally gained his composure to a reasonably possible extent and just barely said, "Zero misses, zero yellow hits, ten bullseyes, and in 1.2 seconds… 48.8 points… highest in the graduation exam's history… moving Sasuke's position down to tenth," he said wide eyed.
The reactions of this were pretty varied, Iruka and the two other senseis watching, looked in shock, fully aware that what Naruto did was perfectly aloud and legit, just about every boy in the class except Sasuke just looked as if the three Sannin just walked into the area, Sasuke had a face of sheer horror and hurt pride, Hinata was doing somersaults and cartwheels in her head she was so happy and Sasuke's self proclaimed "Fan Club" … Well…
"NARUTO YOU'RE THE DEAD LAST NO WAY YOU CAN DO THAT!" said random fangirl #1.
"NO WAY YOU BEAT SASUKE-KUN, YOU'RE THE DOBE, HE'S #1," said random fangirl #2.
"YOU MUST HAVE CHEATED SOMEHOW, IT'S THE SHURIKEN ISN'T IT, THEY WERE JUST BETTER THAN SASUKE'S," said random fangirl #3.
"WAIT HE DID HAND SIGNS, THIS ISN'T NINJUTSU, NARUTO HAS TO RESTART" said Sakura.
This ranting of every screeching fangirl in the whole class lasted for another three minutes before the teachers decided they had enough of the meaningless blundering.
"GUYS CAN YOU BE QUIET SO I CAN ANSWER YOU COMPLAINTS!," screamed Iruka, so madly that his head seemed larger than the rest of his body.
The girls finally stayed quiet so the teacher could talk.
"Ok, now what I was about to say was that what Naruto did was aloud because…" Iruka was about to say why but the girls started screaming in complaint again. This didn't even last five seconds before the whole class, especially Naruto and Iruka, let out a shitload of killing intent, causing the girls to start start sweating, and shaking uncontrollably, but most importantly, shut up.
"Now what I was going to say," Iruka said putting a LOT of emphasis on 'going', "shuriken jutsu is trying to hit a target as accurately and quickly as possible with projectiles. Now hearing that, why would jutsu that enhance your shuriken throwing be against the rules?"
This time rather than just lash out, Sakura just raised her hand, like a student about to answer a question in class, not a raving fangirl.
"Yes Sakura," Iruka called.
"I would guess because there is supposed to be a ninjutsu test in a bit that we aren't supposed to use chakra yet," said Sakura.
"Now, if you would recall my instructions, I specifically said 'Besides that, anything goes'," said Iruka, "most people decide to dismiss it, but if used properly can cause you to do far better."
All the students in the class (excluding Naruto, just standing in the corner like a badass) looked at the teacher in interest, mentally begging him to explain.
"Before you guys came along and changed the top 10 list, there was a previous to 10, and out of them ninth place, fifth place, third place and first place all used chakra based techniques to help them," said Iruka, "Now, with that being said, very few actually bother to use techniques that would help them, because they simply don't have the techniques or don't look past the instructions."
All the students looked at him, stuck between being content with the answer and feeling that what Naruto was doing isn't correct. But they gave up and just let it be until the exams ended. They called out Ino out and she scores
"OK, now it's time for the next test," said Iruka, "it's time for the Taijutsu test."
Then all of a sudden, a man appeared. He was around Iruka's height with with light brown eyes, light skin and white hair going down to the bottom of his neck. He wore the standard Konoha uniform with a blue, long-sleeve shirt, that was partially covered by a konoha chunin flak jacket. He wore long blue pants that were bandaged around the bottom and he wore his forehead protector as a bandanna that covered the whole top of his head. This was Mizuki, one of the various chunin instructors at the academy.
"Mizuki will be the one you will face for this test," said Iruka.
To this Naruto let out a maniacal grin, finally having an excuse to beat the shit out of his least favorite teacher.
-Aaaaaaaaand… Scene-
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