Bonds

Genin Exams

"I'm tired of you, you bastard, how about we settle this right now!"

"You're a waste of my time, so why should I fight a weakling, dead last like you?

"Sounds like an excuse to me Sayu!"

"Just making sure you understand that you won't last in a fight against me."

ENOUGH

ENOUGH

Naruto opened his eyes and looked up to see his sensei, Iruka, using his infamous big head jutsu for the second time today. What was with that dream? What was that from, like last year? Well, it shows that Iruka-Sensei hasn't changed, always yelling at us, I wonder if it'll ever change. Ever since the age of nine, Naruto took it upon to himself to make Sayu his rival, meaning he started trying to do everything better than her, but failing, well to the class he failed, when behind the scenes he was actually excelling. Actually understanding everything, most things history wise he already knew, so when he complained about it in the class, he wasn't really lying about it being boring and a waste of time, the reason why Naruto in class and Naruto out of class disliked it was different though, in class was because he thought it was worthless information, and outside of class because he already learned it all.

Naruto was pulled from his thoughts when a piece of paper was placed in front of him by Mizuki, another sensei of his, a close friend of Iruka's was really all the class, including Naruto knew. He had a smile on his face, trying to hold the glare back, but Naruto saw it perfectly. I'm guessing he's another person who thinks I'm the kyubi reincarnated, I swear, some people just can't tell the difference between a kunai and a scroll, it's honestly sad.

"Okay, the first of the three stages will be a written test, you'll have thirty minutes to finish the front and back of the test, when you're finished, just wait for the rest of your classmates to finish. Got it? Okay, 3. 2. 1. Start!" Iruka said as everyone started reading the questions and writing the answers, the only person who didn't was Naruto, who started reading through the ten questions on the first page, then flipped the paper over and read through the other ten. After memorizing all twenty questions, Naruto started writing all of the answers, quickly if the answer was a longer one, and slowly if the answer was shorter. After five minutes of writing answers on the front, then flipping it over and doing the same for the other side, Naruto flipped it back over to the front side, put his pencil down, and then put his head down. So, I get what, twenty-three minutes of sleep, that's nice, even though I've slept through most of the class, this is good.

Iruka looked at each of his students. Some were calm, others were visibly freaking out. Iruka hesitated to look over at Naruto, he didn't want to see him, he would look the most stressed, the most freaked out. He finally forced himself to look over and saw Naruto with his head down, surely out cold. He instantly grew worried for Naruto; he probably just went to sleep thinking it wouldn't matter. I want to go over and wake him up and yell at him for slacking, especially at an important time like this, but I know until those thirty minutes are over, I can't interact with the students, I'm sorry Naruto, but I can't do anything.

After twenty minutes, a timer went off and Iruka cleared his throat, which caused Naruto to look up. His eyes adjusted to the light as his eyes landed on Iruka.

"Okay, that's it for the writing portion of the exam, make your way outside and go to the training grounds, the weapons portion of the exam is next." and with that, everyone filed out of the room. For a moment, Sayu waited for Naruto to leave so she could leave last but ended up moving herself out of the room. Naruto started making his way out of the classroom but was stopped by Iruka who looked at him sternly for a moment before his eyes softened.