Naruto, the jinchuriki of the nine tails, is beaten, berated, used, and scarred. He has had a rough life, but he will never give up. He will rise again.
He has vowed to rebuild his clan and rebuild his homeland, and he will let nothing get in his w...
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*Naruto's POV* *2 year time skip* It was finally graduation day, and I couldn't be more ready to leave this practically useless place. I decided that today I was going to go all out, they couldn't try and say I didn't do well enough to pass if I did better than the entire class. Of course I'm not going to show them everything, just enough to beat everyone else.
The other 5 that trained with me will also out preform everyone else, that I'm sure of. I pushed them, not to their limits, but definitely more than their clans would have. They have all improved leaps and bounds in many areas including, learning tree walking, water walking, the shunshin, and getting started on their elemental manipulations. I also had them practice throwing and taijutsu to near perfection, but made sure they could be flexible.
Hinata really stood out though because she had training with them, and then separately with me and Anko. She had gained a lot of confidence in herself and her strength, mastering many different things including her own unique version of the Juken after learning that her elemental affinity was water, which works directly against the earth style Juken. She was almost like an entirely different person though no one knew that. She also decided to hide her abilities and stay where she was previously in the class as well.
Now though, we were jumping roofs together towards the academy for our final exam which was honestly going to be a joke. All we had to do was take a written test that most ordinary villagers could pass, throw a few shuriken and kunai with questionable accuracy, spar without being knocked out or surrendering for 1 minute, and do the three basic academy jutsu. I don't know how the rest of the class is going to survive the real world if this is the standard.
Once we got close, I hid in an alley so that we wouldn't be seen together yet, as not to give away our relationship. Though I was glad to find out that Hinata, Ino, Anko, and Hana were all ok with being in a relationship with me despite having to share because of the CRA. It was a little touch and go at the beginning, especially with Hana and Anko because of their strong distrust in men and high partiality to maim first ask questions later, but eventually we worked everything out and they trust me again.
I walked into the academy a few minutes later, taking my seat close to the middle next to Shikamaru and Choji with Shino and Hinata setting a few rows behind us and Ino closer to the front talking with Sakura.
"Ready for the exam," I asked, more in a joking tone than serious.
"If we aren't ready, then I quit. After all the training you made us do, we better get the top scores," Shikamaru complained, not even lifting his head off of his arms.
"Yeah, I don't think we'll have any problems. If anything, I think we're over prepared," Choji agreed between bites of the chips he was eating.
"You can never be over prepared. Once we graduate and become shinobi, lives will be on the line. It's our job to protect ourselves, our village, our teammates, and our clients. So, the more prepared and skilled you are the better," I countered, reminding them what our futures would really be like once we left the academy.
