No Time For Love (Naruto Fanfic)

Chapter 12

Today was the day! It was the day of the final exams for the ninja academy and Naruto was excited. After he passed his exams he would then be one step closer to being a ninja.

No more boring and repetitive classes. No more spending the day with fan girls that squealed over their precious Sasuke. No more dealing with parents that liked to side eye him and warn their children to stay away from him. Soon all of that would be over.

Naruto faced 5 seemingly long but short years of his stay at the academy. He came a long way from the lonely 8 year old who was enrolled there. Looking back then he hadn't learned much. All of his teachers with the exception of Iruka seemed to have it out for him by hindering his learning. He only really started to improve by self-study through the small library in the Tsuru clan house he stayed in and the village library.

Relations with the village had improved, but mostly with the Shinobi populace. Once he stopped acting like a goof and started acting like a true ninja they started to respect him.

Surprisingly the Hyūga clan members treated him fairly. The clan head even invited Naruto for training and dinner afterwards from time to time. That was only due to his positive influence on his daughter. Her skills had improved significantly and she no longer stuttered. Hinata was becoming the future clan head that her clan approved of. Little did her father know that as soon as she took over she planned to change the clan.

Hinata didn't like how divided her clan was and planned to unify it. It was unfair that half her clan had to be branded with a seal that the other half could activate at any moment. The seal was called the caged bird seal and it was meant to prevent enemy nin from stealing their byakugan, but it also could be used to torture the one who wears the seal. It was completely unfair that only the branch house had to get this seal. What about the other half? This ridiculous rule almost blew up in their faces when Hinata was kidnapped as a young child. She was a main house member and thus had no seal. If the enemy nin had succeded Hinata would have possibly been used as a brood mare and had her eyes stolen for the use of another ninja village named Kumo.

What is the clan supposed to do if a main house member goes missing in battle? This was a possibility that her father never discussed. If he wouldn't try to fix things then she would when she finally had enough skill and could take his place.

She voiced her concerns to Naruto who had become a close confident to her. He agreed whole heartedly with her.

Naruto was sure that he would pass the genin tests with flying colors.

Naruto made his way into his home room and sat in between Kiba and Hinata. He bumped fists with Kiba and nodded to Hinata. This was gonna be a piece of cake.

The door to their classroom opened and both Iruka and Mizuki entered the room.

"Today is the Graduation Exam. It will be consisting of 5 tests."

Mizuki took over. "First you will all have to spare against me. You only have to last a minute against me."

"Then comes the genjutsu test. You will all be put under a genjutsu and have to escape it quickly. You will be timed on how long it takes for you to escape it."

"Lastly you will have to perform three E-rank jutsu. The substitution jutsu, the transformation jutsu, and the clone jutsu." At that last part Mizuki made eye contact with Naruto and smirked.

They were all brought out to the training ground for the Genjutsu and Taijutsu portion of the exam.

The genjutsu test was easy enough. He has never been good at casting a genjutsu, but he was good at figuring out when he in one and could break himself out of the genjutsu. He ended being the placed 5th as to who the fastes people were when breaking from a genjutsu.

They then moved on to the taijutsu portion. Mizuki was particularly rough with Naruto when it was his turn to fight, but he handled him easily by delivering a jab to his eyes and stomach.

Students rested as the others did their turn before they all made their way back to the classroom to wait for their bames to be called for the jutsu portion. When it was Naruto's turn he was called into another room with Iruka and Mizuki.

"First is the henge jutsu," said Iruka.

Naruto nodded and transformed into the third hokage.

"Good. Now the kawarimi jutsu."

Naruto did the hand signs and substituted himself with a log they had set in the room.

"Excellent"

"Now perform the bunshin jutsu" Iruka said with apprehension.

Naruto did the seals for the wind clone jutsu and 5 perfect clones appeared in a swirl of wind.

"That isn't the standard bunshin," Mizuki uttered after getting over his surprise.

"No, they're wind clones. It doesn't necessarily have to be the academy standard clones does it?" Asked Naruto.

"No but-"

Iruka cut Mizuki off. "I doesnt matter what type of clones they are as long as they are complete and perfect clones. Congratulations Naruto you passed," said Iruka as he gestured for Naruto to pick up one of the forehead protectors.

Naruto picked up a protector with black cloth, bowed to his sensei, and walked towards the exit.

Before leaving he turned to Iruka and asked. "You remember your promise right?"

"Yes, your lunch tab is on me today."

"Great see you at Icharaku's at five."

"Good bye paycheck." Iruka muttered and dropped his head sadness.

Hinata was waiting outside of the classroom for him.

"Congratulations Naruto-kun, I new you would pass."

"Congrats to you too." Naruto said before tying the protector around his forehead.

Hinata turned when she heard someone calling her name. It was her caretaker who usually escorted her to the academy.

"See you tomorrow training Naruto," she said before running to her guard, Naruto thought his name was Ko or something. Yeah that seemed about right.

Ko nodded to him before escorting Hinata home.