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Uzumaki Naruto is a village prankster and class clown who has failed to graduate from the ninja academy. He discovers that he has the Kyuubi no Kitsune sealed inside him and that the village hates him because of it. Naruto finally masters the Clone Jutsu and becomes a ninja. He is assigned to Team Seven with Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke, but they dislike each other. Their new sensei, Hatake Kakashi, gives them a difficult test to obtain two bells. Naruto challenges Kakashi to a fight but is easily defeated. The Uzumaki Tales, Return of the Whirlpool Book 1 Chapter 1 This year's new gen in teams today was the day. Today was March 5th, the day that this year's class would finally end their time in the academy and become full-fledged ninja of the village. The graduation exams had been held just two days ago with all but one student graduating. This student was Uzumaki Naruto. Naruto was the village prankster and the class clown. He was also considered the dead last of the class and everyone thought of him and his proclaiming that he would become Hokage as a complete and utter joke. No matter how much Naruto tried, he couldn't manage to succeed for some reason. Even the simplest jutsu, such as the clone jutsu, were too much for Naruto and as such, Irika was reluctantly forced to fail Naruto. Irika didn't want to fail the blonde child that he had become emotionally attached to, but seeing as the child had failed to perform even the simplest jutsu, was forced to decide that Naruto was not quite ready to be a ninja. Frankly, Irika was beginning to doubt that Naruto would ever be able to graduate. And then that event happened. On the evening of March 3rd, Naruto stole the forbidden scroll of sealing as an attempt to earn some extra credit and pass the exam. It was on this night that Irika and Naruto did battle with the traitorous Mizuki, one of the now former academy teacher. It was also on this night that Naruto finally learned why his life had practically been a living hell. He was the Kyuubi no Kitsune, or rather the Kyuubi was sealed inside him. Just under twelve years ago, the Kyuubi no Kitsune attacked the village, resulting in many deaths and a great deal of destruction. Seeing no other way to defeat the beast, the Yandame Hokage, the greatest shinobi of his time, sealed away the great beast into a newborn infant. This infant was Uzumaki Naruto. Now, Naruto wasn't the Kyuubi nor was he some manifestation of the Kyuubi. The Yandame had made one last wish that Naruto be regarded as a hero of the village for keeping the Kyuubi at bay. Unfortunately, the Yandame's dying wish was ignored and the village began to torment the child. This upset the Sandame Hokage, who had returned to his former position after the death of his successor, and many laws were enacted. The most notable was to forbid the village from even mentioning the Kyuubi. Unfortunately, this resulted in the village shunning Naruto, leaving him to contemplate why the village hated him. What was worse was that the child was an orphan, not knowing the love that only a parent could give him. Whenever he would ask the Sandame about his parents, the Hokage would just bypass the answer to the question by saying they were great people. This and the shroud of secrets surrounding Naruto only served to further the young child's misery. And then it happened. After years of constantly failing to master even the simplest of jutsu, Naruto finally did it. In a time where his and his sensei's life, one of the few people who had actually acknowledged him, Naruto finally performed the Clone Jutsu. Dot, or rather the Shadow Clone Jutsu. This was a Jonin-level technique that told Airaka enough Naruto was in fact ready to become a ninja. As such, Airaka decided to pass Naruto by giving him the leaf headband off his own head. Looking around the classroom, Airaka couldn't help but feel an overwhelming sense of pride come to him. All twenty-seven students in his class had managed to pass. This was a rare accomplishment that he would be sure to rub in the face of the other teachers later. He only wished that all of his class would become true Jenin. Alright class, I would like to congratulate you all for becoming ninja the instructor announced. I have your team assignments right here. After I call out your teams, you will be dismissed for the morning and report back here this afternoon to meet your new senseis. With that Airaka began announcing the team assignments. Team seven will be Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto, and Uchiha Sasuke. Sakura was happy that she was on Sasuke's team, but mad that Naruto was also there. Naruto was happy for being with Sakura, but mad that he got stuck with Sasuke. Sasuke, well he hated both of them. Hinata was also a little disappointed that she would not be with Naruto. Team eight will be Hyuuga Hinata, Inazuka Kiba, and Abyurin Shino. Team ten will be Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, and Akemichi Chiruji. The class was dismissed. With the newly minted Jenin given the rest of the morning off, Naruto figured now would be a good time to ask his crush and now teammate, Haruno Sakura, to grab lunch with him. Unfortunately, this turned out like any other attempt to get to spend some time with her. She rejected him, rather harshly. It was no secret who Sakura liked as it was the same guy most of the other girls in his class. She was an avid fangirl of Naruto's other teammate, Achiha Sasuke. Naruto didn't like Sasuke, simply because of all the attention Sasuke got and the slight rivalry the two had developed during the academy, although Naruto constantly got his ass handed to him by said Achiha. Unfortunately for Sakura, she was shot down just as harshly when she tried to see if Sasuke wanted to grab lunch. Instead, Sasuke simply went off to brood about some unknown issue. It was then that she realized what she was treating Naruto fat, this actually got her to think about being nicer to the blonde the next time they ran into each other. All of the Jenin met back at the classroom after lunch break and awaited for their new senseis to come and collect them. While the other teams left with their senseis, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were left alone in the classroom, waiting and waiting and waiting. They had been waiting for just over two hours before someone finally came into the room. It was their Jenin sensei, who had somehow managed to fall for one of Naruto's more obvious and ridiculous traps. Naruto had wedged an eraser in the door, which would fall when the door opened. For Naruto, the trap worked perfectly and their new sensei was bunked square on the head as the eraser bounced off his gravity-defying silver hair. For their sensei, this gave him a bad fist impression. All he really said to them was, my first impression is, I don't like you before taking them away to the roof of the academy for introductions. Their sensei went first, introducing himself as Hataki Kakashi, a Jonen in Kanoha. Unfortunately, this was all Team Seven got out of their sensei as the remainder of his answers were rather vague. Naruto followed up. Unlike Kakashi, Naruto basically read off his autobiography for the most part, stating his dream to become Hokage and his absolute love for ramen. His hobbies included eating ramen and pulling pranks. Kakashi sent him an intriguing look, almost as if he knew Naruto from a long time ago and was slightly curious as to how the boy had grown. Sakura was next. Like Naruto, she didn't hold back, although she really didn't say much. No, her expressions told the entire story. In short, she was a diehard Sasuke Uchiha fangirl who was probably only here to impress Sasuke. Sasuke finished off the introductions. His introduction was much darker than the two before him, stating that he disliked many things and liked very few things. His dream, or should I say ambition, was to kill a certain man and to rebuild his clan. Hmm, a ramen-obsessed failure, an emo avenger, and an obsessive fangirl caught Kakashi as he made his impressions on the team sitting in front of him. Sadly, this was going to be like every other team, they would fail his exam. He hated to do it as one of the children given to him was the last member of his late friend and former teammate, Uchiha Bito, and his senseis… well, I'm not allowed to talk about that because of the sand dame's laws. Kakashi gave his team the dreaded news of the actual Genin exam, telling them to meet him at Training Ground 7 tomorrow morning at 8am. This test would determine if they were amongst the 33% of their class that passed the exam. Oh, and he told them not to eat breakfast or else they would throw up. Kakashi was a lazy liar. That was Team 7's second impression of Kakashi and one that they got before beginning the exam. They were told to meet up at 8 o'clock, but Kakashi didn't even bother showing until just after 10 o'clock. Furthermore, the don't eat breakfast part turned out to be a trick to simply make them suffer more. Kakashi explained to them that the objective of this test was to obtain the two bells that he had tied to the side of his belt. However, because there were only two bells, only two people would pass while the third would be sent back to the academy, that is if they even managed to get a bell. Instantly, Naruto began to shout out against this, questioning the whole point of the test. Kakashi began the exam, giving them until noon to take the bells from him. As soon as he started, Sakura and Sasuke darted off into the trees to conceal themselves like a true ninja would. As for the third member of the team, well... Come and fight me, declared Naruto, not even bothering to hide himself. Baka both Sasuke and Sakura though, observing Naruto from their hiding spots. Naruto charged as the One-Eyed Jonan only to halt when Kakashi reached into his back pouch for what seemed like a weapon. To Naruto's slight disappointment, it was an orange-colored book titled Ika Ika Paradise. After overcoming his initial confusion, Naruto resumed his attack, hoping to teach the jonan a lesson for underestimating him. Kakashi managed to dodge every single blow with minimal effort, if even that, not even having to take his eye off the book. A ninja isn't supposed to get caught from behind, idiot, Kakashi said, appearing in a crouching position behind Naruto. Kakashi made a quick hand seal as Naruto tried to react in time. Too late. Hidden technique, one thousand years of pain. Naruto was sent flying while Sakura and Sasuke just looked on in embarrassment. All Kakashi had really done was poke Naruto in the ass, sending him flying into the stream in the training ground. You sure are weak for someone wanting to become Hokage, taunted Kakashi as it became obvious that the blonde wasn't surfacing anytime soon. Shut it you. I'm going to make you acknowledge me, shouted Naruto as half a dozen Naruto's burst out of the water. For the first time since meeting his team, Kakashi was actually slightly surprised. Even Sasuke and Sakura were amazed by the fact that Naruto had managed to pull off this many clones, and not just normal clones, but physical ones. You still can't beat me with that Jutsu, Kakashi said as the eight Naruto's charged at Kakashi. Before he knew it, a seventh Naruto had grabbed Kakashi from behind. Weren't ninjas not supposed to get caught from behind? Right, Kakashi-sensei? Naruto said ironically. Here comes revenge for poking my ass like that. Even Sasuke admitted that Naruto had come up with a decent plan. Naruto made a fist and punched Kakashi, only to realize that he had punched one of his clones. Before anyone knew what was happening, the Naruto's were beating up each other. Kakashi had used a substitution Jutsu to get out of that mess. Naruto spent the next few minutes trying to find where Kakashi went. To his delight, he found one of the bells sitting by the base of a tree. Hee hee, he dropped a bell Naruto said, reaching for the bell. Next thing he knew, he was pulled into the air by a rope. He had just walked right into a trap. Kakashi then appeared and picked up the bell. One down, two to go. Seeing his opening, Sasuke unleashed a barrage of shuriken upon Kakashi. All of them hit their mark as Kakashi was pinned into a nearby tree with half a dozen shuriken sticking out of his head. Poof. Kakashi turned into a log, using a substitution Jutsu to avoid any damage. Sasuke was cursing as he had just given up his position. Panicking, Sasuke bolted out of his hiding spot as Sakura did the same, not wanting to lose sight of her crush. Sakura quickly lost sight of Sasuke, only to find herself in Kakashi's trap. Hello Sakura, said Kakashi, appearing behind her as she was caught in a swirl of leaves. The next thing Sakura saw was a beaten and bruised Sasuke crawling out of the bushes, roughly a few dozen kunai and shuriken sticking out of her body. And then he collapsed to the Sakura, cried out in horror as she lost consciousness due to the genjutsu placed on her. Two down, one uchiha left. Kakashi moved to the next clearing, tripping a wire and sending a barrage of knives at him. He easily dodged the trap that Sasuke must have set for him. When Kakashi recovered, he quickly found himself engaged in a taijutsu battle with Sasuke. Kakashi easily repelled Sasuke's attacks and Sasuke was forced to resort to something Kakashi really was not expecting. Fire style, great fireball jutsu, shouted Sasuke. Jennin fresh out of the academy weren't supposed to know jutsu on this level. It was surprising that Naruto knew the shadow clone jutsu, but the fact that Sasuke also knew an advanced jutsu, he was beginning to hate the fact that he would be forced to fail them in less than an hour now. The flames died down and Sasuke couldn't see any sign of Kakashi anywhere, that is until a pair of arms came shooting up out of the ground, dragging Sasuke into the ground so that he was buried up to his head. Three down. Shortly after, the three academy students found themselves back at the posts with Kakashi facing them. Sasuke and Sakura were sitting against two posts and Naruto had somehow managed to get himself tied to one post. Kakashi gave them a quick lecture about not working together, emphasizing his point by telling Sakura to kill Naruto or he would kill Sasuke. He didn't actually mean it, but it was just to help prove his point. Kakashi agreed to give the three one more chance, as long as they did not share their lunch with Naruto. After much complaining, Sasuke decided to go against Kakashi's rule and offered Naruto his lunch. Sakura quickly followed and Kakashi caught them in the act. The three of them prepared themselves for the punishment and Kakashi delivered. They passed. They were now officially Ninja of Kanoha. Yui Kurenai had been assigned to Team 8, consisting of Hinata, Shino, and Kiba. Like the other jonin, she had been tasked with determining whether or not her team had the potential to become an actual team of shinobi. Hinata was the current heir of the Huba clan, currently the most powerful clan in Kanoha. However, her father had labeled her as a failure due to her lack of skills and her shy and timid nature. As such, her father, Hayashi, had assigned Kurenai to watch over Hinata since a few years ago while he shifted most of his attention to his younger daughter, Hanabi. Kurenai wasn't too fond of the treatment Hinata had received at home and she was sure her father still cared for his daughter. However, clan politics had gotten in the way of what's best for Hinata. Kurenai took this as a challenge, determined to make Hinata into a kunoichi that the Huba clan would regret casting aside. It was for this sole reason that she would most likely pass her team, even before she tested them. Kiba was the younger of the two children in the Inazuka's main family. For years, the Inazuka's were renowned through Kanoha for producing some of the best hunter ninjas in the Shinobi world. Their relationships with dogs made them ideal for tracking and their own senses were more beast-like as well. Kiba's own sense of smell was about 100x more powerful than humans, not nearly as strong as a dog's, but still. Shino was the final member of her team. He was the clan heir to the Abyurame clan. The Abyurame were, in a sense, outcast by some of the population of Kanoha as they lived in symbiosis with insects, allowing the insects to live inside their own body. However, much of the Shinobi population knew of the potential the Abyurames possessed and as such, they had a great deal of respect for the clan. Shino's knowledge of the insect world and ability to make use of the faint chemical signals found in insect pheromones made him a valuable member in a team that was destined to become a great tracking team, if not the best. Kurenai saw the potential in this team to be great. She would put very little effort in testing them as she was pretty much set on passing them the moment she was assigned this team. Sarutobi Asuma had been assigned to the clan heirs of the Yamanaka, Nara, and Akimichi clans, as per tradition. Eno, Shikamaru, and Shuji were the selected members of each clan who were destined to form the next generation of the Eno Shikachou trio, Kanoha's legendary combo rivaled only by the Reikage and his brother in terms of teamwork. Eno was, and still was, one of Sasuke's biggest fangirls. Like all the other Sasuke fangirls, this held back her own potential. If she could just focus more on her shinobi career and less on the last Uchiha, she would be one hell of a kunoichi. Shikamaru, like the rest of the male populace in his clan, was extremely lazy yet possessed superior intelligence that was seen nowhere else. Like Eno, Shikamaru had immense potential, but he held himself back as it would be too much effort for him to care about much else. Shuji was the final member of his team. Shuji was the heir of the Akimichi clan. The main problem with Shuji, however, is that he cared more for food than shinobi training. Sadly, this was common in the Akimichi clan. Asuma would likely pass this team as well without much evaluation. He knew the three of them were destined to work together, like the generations before them. All he had to do was to get them out of their own little worlds and start working together. Once that happened, his team would be a force to be reckoned with. Sarutobi Haruzen, the sandame Hokage, gathered all of the Jonin instructors assigned to this year's class. Like in the past, there was only about a 33% pass rate for all of the teams. In particular, the most notable team that passed was Kakashi's team. He had been assigned to test Jenin teams for the past seven years and all of them had failed, miserably. However, this team had managed to pass. Many Jonin credited it to the fact that the Uchiha was assigned to him. Out of the nearly 1,000 students who graduated this year, only 300 were actually going to become Jenin.