A/N – Hey guys. This chapter will be the last chapter of the Academy Arc. It also will have the last of the big time skips for a while. All of the future Rookie Nine will be wearing their canon outfit except Naruto. And finally I'm trying to get a beta reader; if anyone is interested please drop me a PM, thanks. Now for review replies:
Louis Romero – Thanks man.
Ryuujin96 – Thanks. Yeah, I agree Hinata was put through too much and I thought I would lessen her heartbreak. Yes I have fixed the problem; it is a three year time skip, not one. Also all his bloodline branches are equal it just means that Naruto has to learn them in that order.
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Arc 2 – Academy Arc
Chapter 6 – Academy Years:
Four Years Later –
The night all of the Uchiha aside from Mikoto, Sasuke and Itachi were killed was dubbed the Uchiha Massacre. The house Minato promised to have built was done in a couple of weeks. They were living in the third largest house, after Minato and Kushina's and Nazo's.
It had affected the three; Mikoto became an active shinobi again in the hopes of learning any information on the killer, Itachi left the village a week after with Jirayia with the sole purpose of finding out more on the killer and Sasuke had pushed himself in training to become stronger, he broke down a few times however Naruto helped him through it and also helped him train. The two became very good friends. He also awakened the Sharingan because of the felling of devastation he felt because of this. He was trained by Mikoto until two tomoes.
Naruto had become stronger in the four years of the academy. He had learned two of the academy ranked jutsu; the Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique) and the Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Technique). The only one he couldn't use was the Bushin no Jutsu (Clone Technique), at first he was upset and frustrated that he had too much chakra to create a clone but felt better once Kushina told him that she couldn't either, so she decided to teach him the Kage Bushin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique) which required more chakra to perform.
Also because Naruto had control over his first level of telepathy he could train with the first teleportation level. He had learned how to teleport small objects, such as kunai and shuriken. However he couldn't control the first level fully yet as he could only teleport 5 objects before he had to stop and wait 5 minutes before teleporting things again.
Something weird happened however when Naruto was trying to train his Uzumaki bloodline with Kushina; he couldn't create anymore or for any longer. Kushina was confused as she knew with Naruto's chakra and better control he should be advancing. Also the chains started to behave weird, they should just be controlled by Naruto and however they would have a mind of their own.
He also helped and hung out with Hinata a lot. She grew out of her shyness and became a lot more confident in herself and was considered a prodigy in the Hyuuga's Juken (Gentle Fist). She and Naruto had trained together in their respective clan's taijutsu with Naruto training in the Kyūsaken (Absorbing Chain Fist) taijutsu of the Uzukaze.
This taijutsu style manifests chains around the users fist, which will give the target small chakra burns and steal bits of chakra from them and absorbed into the user, however the user has to be trained to unconsciously convert charka into their own without any negative effects, Naruto still can't do this to the level that is needed to master, it will take him another couple of years to fully convert all the chakra he takes.
Minato also changed the academy criteria to include children have to learn what element affinity they had. This was done to Naruto's class in the third year.
Flashback –
Naruto, now 11, was sat next to Hinata. Naruto was wearing an open black jacket with an orange stripe down the right side of the front of it, it had the Uzukaze clan symbol on his left shoulder. Under this was a dark orange top. He wore dark grey trousers with bandages tying the bottom and had black sandals. He also had his red scarf on around his neck. They were talking about how they have progressed.
"You have come far with your training Hinata-chan." Naruto said.
"Thanks, Naruto-kun. But I need to learn some ninjutsu as all I have is the Juken." Hinata said sadly.
"It's fine Hinata, remember we learn our element affinity today so once you know we can focus on that type for you."
"Oh yeah, what do you think you have?"
"Well both Kaa-chan and Tou-san have Futon (WindRelease) so probably that. What about you?"
"I don't know, Kaa-san has Suiton (Water Release) and Tou-san has Doton (EarthRelease) so I could get either."
"Well let's see."
Just after Naruto said this the door slid open and Iruka and Mizuki walked in. They walked to the middle of the room and turned to the class. "Good morning class." Iruka said.
"Good morning sensei." They all replied.
"Ok as I said we are going to teach you element affinity today. So I'm going to call your name, when you hear your name come down."
To this all the class nodded.
"Ok first, Shino Aburame."
Shino stood and walked down to the front, Iruka handed him a small square of blank paper.
"This is chakra paper, which is from tree grown in the Aburame clan compound. All you have to do is push chakra into."
Shino just nodded and pushed chakra into the paper, after a few seconds the paper turned to dirt and crumbled away. Shino then looked back up to Iruka.
"It looks like you have Doton Shino." Iruka commented and he wrote the result down on a clipboard.
Shino just nodded and walked back to his seat.
"Ok, now Choji Akimichi."
Choji stood up with a bag of chips and walked down to the front. Iruka handed him another sheet of chakra paper. Choji put the bag of chips on the front desk and pushed chakra into the paper and again the turned to dirt and crumbled away.
"Looks like you have Doton as well Choji."
"Cool, that'll help with my family's jutsu." He replied as he picked up the chips again.
Iruka wrote down the result and said. "Ok you can go back to your seat Choji."
Choji nodded and walked back to his seat munching. Naruto lost interest until he heard another of his friend's name.
"Ok Sakura Haruno."
"Cha!" Sakura shouted as she shot up and walked down and got a sheet of chakra and pushed chakra into it and once again it turned to dirt but only most of it crumbled away and the rest turned to mud. This confused the pinkette as she looked up at her sensei.
"Well, it looks like you have two affinities Sakura, you have Doton and Suiton, with Doton as your main." Iruka replied as he wrote it down.
"Cha!" Sakura shouted as she turned to Ino. "Ha, beat that Ino-pig, you'll never beat me and I'll get Sasuke-kun."
"Dream on Billboard-brow!" Ino shouted back.
"Girls stop, now Sakura back to your seat." Iruka interrupted.
"Yes sensei." Sakura replied as she walked back to her seat.
"Now Hinata Hyuuga." Iruka called out.
Hinata stood and looked down to Naruto, who gave her a small, warm smile. "Don't worry." He mouthed.
Hinata nodded and walked up to the front and was given a sheet of chakra paper. She pushed chakra into the paper and it started to become wet until the paper became drenched and fell apart.
"You have Suiton, Hinata." Iruka said as he wrote it down.
"Thank you Iruka-sensei." Hinata said, she then walked back to her seat next to Naruto.
"Looks like you take after your Kaa-chan, Hinata-chan." Naruto whispered.
"Looks like it Naruto-kun." She replied.
"Next is Kiba Inuzuka." Iruka said.
Kiba stood and walked down with Akamaru on his head. "Let's do this Akamaru." Kiba said to the pup who barked in agreement.
Iruka handed Kiba a sheet of chakra paper. Kiba pushed chakra into the paper and after a few seconds the paper once turned to dirt and crumbled to dust.
"Another with Doton, interesting." Iruka said as he wrote it down.
"I thought so, so Kaa-san can train us properly Akamaru." Kiba said and Akamaru barked.
"Back to your seat Kiba." Iruka said to which Kiba ran back thinking of the training Tsume would give him.
There were a few more people until the next clan heir was called. "Shikamaru Nara." Iruka said.
The boy sighed and said "Troublesome." As he walked down to the front and got a sheet of chakra paper from Iruka. He pushed chakra through it and watched as the paper wrinkled up into a ball.
"Hmm, Raiton (LighteningRelease) looks like it even more troublesome for you Shikamaru." Iruka said with a small chuckle and wrote down the result.
"Hmpt." Was all Shikamaru said as he walked back to his seat next to Choji.
"Lazy as ever. Anyway next is…" Iruka went through a few people before the next clan heir came up. "Sasuke Uchiha."
Sasuke stood up from the seat behind Naruto and Sakura and Ino developed hearts in their eyes. He walked down to the front and got a sheet of chakra. He channeled his chakra into it and it wrinkled a bit and burst into flames.
"So you have Katon and Raiton, with Katon being your primary affinity." Iruka said.
"Thanks good." Sasuke said as he walked back to his seat.
"Now it's proven, you are a hot-head." Naruto said.
Sasuke just smirked and shook his head.
"Naruto Uzumaki your next."
Naruto smirked as he stood up. "Good luck Naruto-kun." Hinata said to the young blonde.
"Thanks Hinata-chan." He said to the blue haired girl.
He walked down the stair and to the front, Iruka handed him a sheet of chakra. Naruto pushed his chakra into the paper and the paper was cut in half, however the two pieces also reacted as one side burst into a small flame and turned to ash. The other side, however, turned black and started to spin and launched into the wall.
Naruto was confused, along with the rest of the class, and looked to Iruka for answers. "What's up with that half of the chakra paper Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know Naruto-kun. I'll have to find out. But the others are Futon and Katon." Iruka said as he wrote down the results.
"Cub the third part of your charka affinity is Koton (Steel Release) you gained it from me, just like you gained Katon from Kurama." Byakko said, through the mental link.
"He's right Kit." Kurama added.
"So I got affinities off you two?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, all Jinchuriki (Human Sacrifice) gain abilities from their beast, you gained Katon from me along with another that will awaken when you gain more control over your Shinseigyo bloodline but it is affecting it in a small way and you got the Koton from Byakko." Kurama enlightened the boy.
"Cool." Naruto turned to Iruka. "Actually sensei, I read about that somewhere I think it is the Koton."
"Really, Naruto? I'll just double check with that." Iruka said with a smile.
"Ok." He replied and walked back to his seat.
"That's amazing Naruto-kun." Hinata said.
"Thanks Hinata-chan."
"You real are full of surprises aren't you Naruto." Sasuke said; who was sat behind the two.
"Of course, I'm amazing."
"And now it's proven, you're an airhead."
"Good come back."
"And finally Ino Yamanaka." Iruka said.
Ino stood and walked down. She got a sheet from Iruka and channeled chakra into it as it wrinkled up into a ball.
"And you have Raiton Ino." Iruka commented as he wrote the final results on to his clipboard.
"Ha, I said I was better Ino." Sakura commented.
"Yeah, but my affinity beats your main one." Ino replied as she sat at her chair.
"Ok that's all of you. You will be trained in your affinities wither by your family or your gennin teams." Iruka said to the class.
End of Flashback.
Eventually the Academy Test came up. This is where Naruto is now; he is sat in the classroom next to Hinata. Iruka and Mizuki walked into the classroom with a stack of papers each. "Ok class, today is the day of the Academy Test. First is the Written Test, you will have one hour to complete this portion of the test." Iruka said as he and Mizuki handed out the papers. "Starting… now." He finished as he returned to the front of the classroom.
The next hour went by with all the students doing the tests, the only sound that could be heard in the class were pencils scratching paper. Naruto finished about 40 minutes in, with Hinata finishing 5 minutes later, once an hour passed Iruka call out. "Ok times up, pencils down." Everyone put their pencils down. "Ok now will be the taijutsu portion of the exam. You will be split into three groups and each group will be against a different chunnin. When you hear your name, come down to the front."
Iruka called out the groups; in the first group were six civilian students along with Sakura, Kiba and Shino against Iruka. In the second group were six civilian students along with Ino, Shikamaru and Choji against a chunin named Ranka. In the third and final group were six civilian students along with Naruto, Hinata and Sasuke against Mizuki.
"Ok Group One will come with me to Training Ground One, Group Two will go with Ranka to Training Ground Two and Group Three will go with Mizuki to Training Ground Three." Iruka said.
Training Ground Three –
Naruto, Hinata and Sasuke along with the rest of the group followed Mizuki to Training Ground Three. Mizuki stopped in the middle of the ground and turns to the group. "Ok, as Iruka-sensei said you, each, shall fight me individually. Of course I will not be fighting at full strength and will only defend or counter not go in for the attack and all you have to do is land a single hit on me, so before we start any question?" He asked.
Naruto raised his hand. "Yeah, sensei I know this is a taijutsu test but can we use Kekkei Genkai (Bloodline Limit)?" He asked.
"It depends."
"Like my Kongō Fūsa in my Rensa Kyūken (Chain Absorbing Fist), Sasuke's Sharingan for his Sekkendō (Intercepting Fist) or Hinata's Byakugan for her Juken tousethemfromtheirfulleffect?"
"That's ok."
"Ok thanks."
"Now first is…"
Mizuki went through the civilian students a couple of them put up a decent fight but they were mostly trained with the Academy style taijutsu. After each fight Mizuki wrote down his results. Next was Hinata.
"Hinata you're up next." Mizuki said.
Hinata nodded and stood opposite to Hinata and bent her right leg and out stretched her left in front of her, she did the same with her arms. She channeled chakra to her eyes causing the veins to protrude around her eyes along with some small ones in her eyes.
Hinata then jumped forward and thrust her right arm out to Mizuki's shoulder to which he blocked the arm without touching her hand and kicked her back. "I know the limitations of the Juken Hinata." He said calmly.
Hinata just steeled her gaze and ran at him again and thrust forward however Mizuki side steps and trips Hinata over. Hinata reacted quickly and put her arms in front of her onto the ground. She then pushed back and spun kicking Mizuki's left shoulder and landed perfectly.
It was then that Mizuki's left arm went limp; he looked at it in shock and back at Hinata. "How? The Juken can only strike with the hands?" He asked.
"That's where I'm different. Where all my clan are stiff, I'm flexible and I changed the Juken to use it to my advantage. I can disrupt my opponent's Tenketsu (Charka Points) with my hands and feet." Hinata said with a smirk.
"That's good Hinata. Well done. Now could you open my Tenketsu back up?" Mizuki said, Hinata nodded and placed her hand on Mizuki's shoulder and pushed chakra into it the open the Tenketsu back up.
After a minute Mizuki's arm was working perfectly again. "Ok now Sasuke." Mizuki said.
Sasuke nodded and stood opposite to Mizuki. He stood side on with his legs bent and arms out. He also channeled to his eyes as the turned red and two tomoes appeared. Sasuke then ran at Mizuki ready to punch him, however Mizuki grabbed his fist and went for a roundhouse kick but with his Sharingan activated he narrowly ducked under the kick and pushed up taking the leg up and making Mizuki fall on his back.
"Well done Sasuke. Good use of the Sharingan to duck under my kick." Mizuki said as he stood up, he wrote down the results on his clipboard. "And now Naruto."
"Let's do this." Naruto said as he stood opposite to Mizuki. He punched his fist into his open hand causing small versions of his Kongō Fūsa to appear around his knuckles. He then put his hands up in a boxer's pose.
Naruto ran at Mizuki and looked like he was going in for a punch so Mizuki went to block but he didn't feel a hit as Naruto slid between Mizuki's legs. He turned and went for a punch but Mizuki turned of instinct and blocked the punch, however Naruto smirked then it happened; Mizuki felt chakra leaving him.
Mizuki let go of Naruto's fist and pushed him back and looked down at his hand and saw the small burn. "So he can steal chakra." He thought to himself.
Naruto had an emotionless expression on his face as he stared at Mizuki. "That bastard." He thought.
"What is it Kit?" Kurama asked.
"My second level telepathy kicked in and I read his mind, he's planning to steal the Fūin no Sho
(Scroll of Seals) tonight."
"Hmm, let him." Kurama replied
"What?!"
"Just do it and follow him to whoever he is meeting. He's not doing it for himself and I can smell something off about him." Byakko answered.
"Fine but let's pass this exam."
Naruto ran at Mizuki and went for another punch, Mizuki went to deflect but Naruto grabbed the arm and swung himself to kick Mizuki in the face sending him to ground.
"Good reflexes Naruto." Mizuki commented as he stood and wrote down Naruto's results. "Now you are all done let's head back."
"Yes sensei." The group replied.
Classroom –
Naruto's group returned to the classroom and were the first group back. They were waiting for about 10 minutes when Iruka's group returned and 5 minutes after Ranka's group did. "Ok now that everyone is back I'll call you out to another room one by one to have the ninjutsu test and get your results." Iruka said as he looked at the list. "Choji you're first."
Choji nodded and followed Iruka. The class was then called one by one until it was Naruto's turn. "Naruto come on." Iruka said as he walked in.
"Cool, it's about time." Naruto said as he stood and followed Iruka. "Um Iruka-sensei can we do this outside please."
"Umm, yeah that's fine." Iruka replied.
Academy Training Ground –
Iruka and Naruto walked to the academy training ground. "Ok, now Naruto I need you to do the Kawarimi no Jutsu, the Henge no Jutsu, the Bushin no Jutsu and if you can another jutsu not taught in the academy." Iruka said.
"Umm, sensei I can't perform the Bushin no Jutsu as I have too much chakra, can I do the Kage Bushin no Jutsu?" Naruto asked.
"That's fine Naruto." Iruka replied with a smile.
"Ok. First I'll do the Henge no Jutsu." Naruto said as he weaved through hand signs and was covered in a puff of smoke. After a second the smoke cleared to reveal Kushina.
"That's a good Henge Naruto. Next do the Kawarimi no Jutsu."
The Kushina looking Naruto nodded before he weaved through seals and disappeared in a puff of smoke and was replaced with Minato who looked confused.
"Iruka?" Minato asked.
"Your sochi just replaced himself with you." He replied.
"I swear he's becoming more and more like my tsuma (wife) every single day." Minato sighed as he weaved through the same hand signs and was replaced with Naruto who was laughing.
Iruka smiled and said. "Now the Bushin no Jutsu or the Kage Bushin no Jutsu in your case."
Naruto nodded and made the Clone seal and four more Narutos came into existence. Iruka looked at the Kage Bushins and wrote on his clipboard. "Finally can you do a jutsu not taught I the academy."
"Yeah, I'll do the Ressenpū (Violent Whirlwind)." Naruto said as he turned to the Training Dummy and put his hands in front of his mouth in tunnel and inhaled a big breath and blow it out in a powerful wind destroying the Training Dummy.
"Good ninjutsu there Naruto." Iruka commented as he wrote the final result in. "Ok Naruto you pass. You are now a gennin of Konoha." Iruka finished with a smile as he handed Naruto a Konoha Hitai-ate (Forehead Protector).
"Wow that's so much Iruka-sensei." Naruto said as he tied the Hitai-ate around his head. "I'll make you proud."
"I know you will. Now you can go home and tell your parents." Iruka finished.
Naruto's Home –
Naruto ran home and straight to his living room where Minato, Kushina and Nazo were talking.
"Kaa-chan, Tou-san, Oji-san I passed, I'm a genin." Naruto shouted.
Kushina stood and hugged her son "That's great Naru-kun." She said
"You did great sochi." Minato said.
"Looks like he has earned them Minato and Kushina-nee." Nazo said to the two.
"What have I earned?" Naruto asked.
"Come with me Naruto." Kushina said.
Kushina, Minato, Nazo and Naruto walked into the basement and into a secret room.
"Wow." Was all Naruto could say at the view in front of him.
End of Chapter 5
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