Rewrite Date: 7/30/08

Rockman Naruto

Revisiting Editor's Note (7/30/2008)

It has been quite some time since I last updated. Too long in fact, at least for me to just revive the story again.

For me, usually these things start out strong, but when I look to the future chapters, I find it that it fizzled out sometime in the seventh or sixth chapter. Continuing it from there will just be pointless and more of a drag plot like some stories.

Seeing this, I decided to rewrite the story anew. With some changes to the storyline, some plotholes will be attempted to fix and some acceptance issues will be addressed. Kind of like a renovation to be exact.

In following, the Renovation will correct some first mistakes:

Battles will be improved upon; no more will the chapters be dialogue and Naruto/Rockman taking half the chapter and will conclude the ending after the battle ends.

Interaction between characters will be improved upon; even I found it two-dimensional when Sakura accepted Naruto just like that. This will be fixed.

The prologues will be abolished; doing that first will just force me to coincide that for the rest of the story. The prologue will still be included, just not as the first chapter…kind of like a flashback

I got a couple of reviews asking if this will be a harem. I don't really write harems, it screws with the implications of the morals I have. I will write some scenes in there with various women in Naruto's life and some will be…awkward sort of. In the end though, only one will stand.

When I first started this story, I imagined everyone would have a power like Naruto, I decided to revise that. We don't need already powerful characters get even more powerful with the help of the crystals, so some won't get some.

I would also like to portray the Shinobi Academy as a more serious institution. Everyone started from the academy aside from the founders and founding civillian population. I also tweaked Iruka's attitude about teaching. He feels like a serious teacher in the classroom, but maintaining his humanity outside the classroom.

The starting will take a more sci-fi…ish theme to keep homage to the Rockman part of the story, but you can guess what that will be near the middle or so.

That will be all really, so just enjoy the new first chapter.

(On a final note, no one seems to know when the timeline is around the Naruto world, so seeing somewhat old technology in the series, I will put the starting timeline around the year 2000, with all Shinobi observed technology in there. No need for assault rifles or sniper rifles replacing good ol' Shinobi death metal!"

Chapter One: Awakening

Konoha

Year 2000

Konoha's Civilian Market

Twelve years have passed since Naruto Uzumaki's birth while in the middle of the most potentially destructive catastrophe was happening to Konoha. Twelve years since their leader of the time, a man known only as Yondaime Hokage took down said catastrophe at the cost of hundreds of Shinobi and ultimately, the Yondaime's life to end it all.

Now, you may be asking: But how was the Catastrophe quelled? Answer lies simply in the boy in front of you.

Naruto Uzumaki was a tool used in the prevention of Konoha's destruction. By having the catastrophe sealed in the boy's body.

Usually, the people as a whole would normally herald the savior of their lives by at least saying thanks and whatnot to said savior, this wasn't the case.

Naruto Uzumaki, aged twelve, was being treated like a powered down version of the catastrophe itself.

Human nature hovers over those it considers less powerful then their own, usually terrorizing or reminding said lower creature who was the predator.

So taking a small human boy and comparing it to the great catastrophe gave them the idea that since he was weaker than them, it was alright to "rule" the boy himself. Something that they did in different examples.

One was to coldly ignore him, others were to belittle him, and some were more physical than mental in ways.

Of course, then came the time the boy had an opportunity to rise against his bastard overlords by enrolling in the one of the overlord's greatest predators than themselves: The Shinobi Academy.

Shinobi were considered to be a class of their own as anyone who thinks they've got it can enroll there, usually by taking a fairly simple obstacle course or a written exam to enter the academy. Often more than not, children are the ones who enroll, although there are programs for adults that offer alternative ways into the Hokage's military service.

Over the years, less and less Shinobi teach the school year round voluntarily and have been replaced by the civilian equivalent of the Shinobi teacher. Something that was disadvantageous to our Naruto here, as nearly all of them have some form of hatred toward the boy, whether it be catastrophe, or just being wronged by the boy. As a result, they tried everything to hold back the boy from being one of the Shinobi's rank and files. Harder than normal tests, classroom humiliation, you name it; they did it to poor Naruto. Naruto, however, had struck back at them. Making their lives more like hell the only way he knew how: Pranks.

The civilian teachers rued the day that they made contact with Naruto's pranks as one by one, they quit. It had gotten so bad that their current leader, the man known as only Sarutobi and the Third Hokage, had to part a small detail of Chunin grade ninjas to fill in the gap that Naruto's retaliation had left in the aftermath which quelled some, but not all pranks that the blond hellion produced almost daily.

It has been twelve years since Iruka Umino lost his parents in the great catastrophe that can never be mentioned in fear of the Hokage's wrath. Coincidentally, it has been three years since he started teaching the catastrophe's container, Naruto Uzumaki. At least he had help from his best friend, Mizuki, to do crowd control whenever Naruto went AWOL during one of his "Prankathons".

Today was the third day of yet another "Prankathons".

He noticed that during these "Prankathons", it is usually a competition between him and another troublemaker from either the same grade and age, or younger or older. The victor is usually Naruto as he is really creative in his highly amusing public desecration tactics.

Iruka growled, he knew that his lectures were boring, he has to be there too, you know! Now, he had to pause in his lectures to track down the number one clown before he does something that not even the Hokage can bail him out of!

Stopping for a bit, Iruka looked at his surroundings for a moment. If he was as a good a prankster as Naruto was, then he would be hiding somewhere until the heat cooled down.

"Hm…if I did this, I would hide…in the alley!" Iruka concluded as he searched the seemingly normal alleyway. When he heard movement, his confidence in his tracking skills rose as he heard shuffling in the dumpster.

"Ah, ah, Naruto! You know you can't hide from me!" Iruka paused to give a moment for Naruto to give up. When the shuffling continued, Iruka frowned. Surely, Naruto couldn't hope to make him believe that he wasn't there, could he?

"Oh Naruto…c'mon now, give up while you still can. If you do, I'll give you ramen!" Iruka baited, surely this was foolproof! Naruto would gladly give up personal secrets for a bowl of that delectable, but unhealthy food.

After a moment, Iruka had enough. It looks like he was going to wrangle his target the hard way.

"Alright, Naruto, you forced me! You'll do double cleanup duty for this back at the academy!" Iruka shouted as he rolled up his sleeves and jumped into the dumpster. The sounds of struggling and grunting as a major scuffle made for comical scene that attracted many a villager and ninja alike to the source of the scuffle.

"Ah hah! Got you…Naruto?" Iruka trailed off questionably as he noticed his crowd and blushed in embarrassment to the amusement of the crowd. He looked to what he was holding…that wasn't Naruto.

A really pissed off Alley Cat was staring back at him, Iruka had no time to shield his face as the cat attacked with righteous fury for his subsequent capture.

Five minutes later, Iruka stumbled out of the alley smelling like trash and having numerous scratches and lacerations. Iruka winced as he held his face in agony… he hoped that the scratches wouldn't leave yet another scar on his face.

All of his time, wasted and all he got for it was smelling like-

"Oof!"

"Oof!"

Two grunts sounded as two bodies toppled to the ground as the air exhaled out of the bodies. Iruka, being older than the second body, regained his air quickly and looked down.

Bingo, it was Naruto!

"Naruto!" The stern tone in Iruka's voice caught the renegade student by surprise.

"Uh oh…heh heh…hi Iruka sensei!" Naruto laughed nervously as he brought up his hand to the back of his head and started to scratch it. An action often done in embarrassment, he noted.

"So…how are you doing this fine day, Naruto?" Iruka faked politeness as was custom in their little escapades. Naruto started to sweat slightly; he knew the ritual all too well and started to back away because of it.

Iruka was quick to the draw and grabbed the boy before he could bolt; shaking his head at the speeds that Naruto can get to sometimes while being chased.

Having captured his prey, Iruka hauled back Naruto like a dangling piece of meat by having him swinging periodically with his arms and legs tied together.

Konoha, year 2000

Konoha's Shinobi Academy

Sakura Haruno was waiting patiently for her teacher Iruka to show up with the last…classmate, so to say. Honestly, she thought that boy didn't deserve to be a student at the academy, much less a ninja. She reasoned within herself that anybody who would skip nearly two thirds of the entire academy program wouldn't have the knowhow to survive in the field, from what her teacher was saying about the standard Shinobi conflicts of the past were any measure.

She knew for a fact that Naruto wouldn't be able to pick out a set of edible mushrooms from poisonous ones if they were out of supplies out on a mission…

Sakura shuddered, heaven forbid she was ever on a team with that childish brat! Now someone mature someone who attended the Shinobi program without fail like her, which was the kind of someone she could put her trust in! Someone like…

"Oh, Sasuke-Kun!" Sakura greeted cheerfully. Sasuke Uchiha was a highly trained prodigy in just about everything the academy threw at them! He acted so mature…so cool! Sakura screeched gleefully inside.

A sudden scuffling could be heard outside their classroom door and she just knew who it was…pity; it would've been nice to fantasize about Sasuke a little longer…but she could just chalk it up to Naruto on her blame list!

After a round of laughter at poor Naruto's expense, Iruka cheerfully announced since Naruto messed up today's schedule, they would have to make up for it in the form of a physical exam. Some of the class groaned, while others just accepted it. They learned far too often that Naruto will just do this even more in the future, so it was best to get it over with…

Ino Yamanaka was considered to be the best female physical ninja in the class, even if her background should say otherwise. The Yamanaka family were considered to be weak in the physical department, but extremely strong in the mental areas; often using their minds to control other people into doing their bidding out on their assigned missions.

Ino was smart by her own means but for now, her talents are divided elsewhere. For example, like all adolescent teenagers, she has a high attraction to a certain dark haired boy, one named…

"Good Morning Sasuke-Kun!" Ino greeted. If you heard closely however, you would've noticed that Ino's greeting was a tad more cheerful than Sakura's.

Sakura growled how she dare drive the wedge between the destined love between her and Sasuke! How dare she indeed!

Thus began Ino vs. Sakura Stare off # 2439…

After the class ended, Iruka let everyone leave before turning over to the tied up Naruto, who was looking away, bored out of his mind. Iruka sighed, how can he get through to this boy? His final test was tomorrow!

"You know Naruto, for a boy wanting to be the Hokage; you sure aren't doing a very good job." Iruka started, making Naruto flinch slightly. While he didn't trust the boy to do his dream job right, he trusted his student to pass the trials he created. So far, Naruto wasn't doing very well and would face yet another year in the academy…a pity really, he could've been one of the best and brightest on the fields if he graduated in the first place.

"The final exam is tomorrow, Naruto. It's a simple test that anybody could've done, more or less you if you bothered to come to the practice fields instead of making a fool of yourself in the village." Iruka continued, his voice taking an edge to it. Seeing Naruto start to shake, he realized he went a bit too far. He let his past memories start to interfere with his judgment again…that will not do.

Iruka sighed, and continued without the edge.

"Because you are a returning student, you should know the final test. You have to study hard and practice hard or else you have to repeat the academy again…or that was how it was going to be."

"W-what do you mean sensei?" Naruto asked, startled by the last bit.

"Three years ago, the council decided to limit the enrollment tries of each new student to only three times, whereas as in the past, as long as you could pay the tuition, you could take it as much as you could."

"You have failed two times already, Naruto. You should've technically graduated last year with your former graduating class, with last year's rookie of the year, Neji Hyuuga. If you bomb this year, not only will you be left on your own as a civillian, you will not be able to try again as a ninja ever again." Iruka finished harshly.

"No! I can't be kicked out! I just can't!" Naruto pleaded. Iruka pitied the boy, but rules were rules.

"Maybe you should've thought of that before causing thousands of ryo of property damage…but what's done is done." Iruka said, looking away to the classroom window.

"This is your last chance, Naruto. No matter how friendly I am to you, I can't overturn the Council's decision. If you fail, the next time we meet…you can be sure I will treat you no differently than any other civillian." Iruka headed for the door, leaving a still tied up Naruto on the floor.

"H-hey! Iruka sensei! What about these ropes?!" Naruto cried out, how was he supposed to get out? He heard a small chuckle from Iruka at that, making Naruto growl. He's being mocked now?!

"If you bothered to come last week, you would've learned about genjutsu. Don't feel bad though, the classroom thought you were tied up as well. Just concentrate and say 'Kai'!" Iruka said and left the classroom.

"Huh?" Naruto asked confused. Shrugging, Naruto concentrated his mind to the ropes and shouted out…

"Kai!"

The effect was instantaneous; the ropes vanished to thin air as he could move his arms about. His arms were sore though, like they were actually bound to real ropes, but no signs that there was any rope was present on his arms or legs…

"Heh, ninjas rule!" Naruto smiled and got out of the classroom, he had to study on the final exam, and he could not fail!

Konoha, 2000

Konoha's Shinobi Academy – The final test

Today was it, the day that would define Naruto's destiny, Ninja…or civillian? He couldn't help but shudder in excitement, but also couldn't help but shudder in fear. Iruka's words shook him up and he would have crammed all night to find out what the last test will be on when he remembered what the man's words were earlier in the lecture.

"Because you are a returning student, you should know the final test."

Thinking back to his failed tests the years beforehand; he noted that the tests only differed in the final portion, usually by having a test of bunshin or kawarimi as the final point in grading the student.

As he reached the entrance, he started to remember how it went. If he was right, he should be engulfed in a genjutsu of sorts, a fairly simple one that just messes around with your sense of direction, having each door room number the same one as Iruka's. He failed this way on his first try by going to the cafeteria instead of his classroom, but wasn't relieved of the genjutsu till the next day.

A wave of familiar energy engulfed him and he nodded, the technique was starting. Keeping his hand to the wall, he started to concentrate on the door handles. He started to feel on certain markers he made on the door handles from the results of pranks he did on the school early on in his career as a student. Thankful he didn't waste his time completely, he kept feeling the door handles.

The first one he felt on had a roughness to it; it wasn't his classroom, but the bathroom. He remembered this as the exploding room prank, where he taped over firecrackers to the doorway and ignited them when the bathroom was full of students and staff barfing over some food he tampered with the night beforehand.

He snickered; he got in soo much trouble for that one!

Continuing on, he felt another door…this was it!

Grinning confidently, he opened the door…to reveal Iruka and some students having arrived. To his credit, most of the class were shocked that he made it through where his track record suggested that he would've thought the roof was his classroom.

"Glad you made it Naruto, how did you do it?" Iruka asked, interested at how his wayward student made it through. He was certain that his student couldn't have made it the normal way, as he expected of his other students. He looked backwards and saw that both Mizuki and the class were just as, if not more interested how the dead last student ever to attend the academy passed this portion of the test as opposed to how more able students are still wandering the hallways for their own classrooms.

"Well…I just felt the door handles!" Naruto replied with a large grin.

"Door handles?" Ino asked, getting confused.

"Yep! Every prank I ever did at this school left a mark on the door handles, and using those marks, I made my way here!" Naruto finished, proud of his pathfinding skills.

Iruka was impressed, that was a very good method of genjutsu training, but while it wasn't exactly the correct way of doing the test, it was a better action than just the "Kai" function. Still, not to leave out the students who did the simple action, he decided to remind Naruto.

"That was impressive, Naruto. However, your life would've been a little easier if you just used the "Kai" Technique." Iruka said to a now snickering classroom, but Naruto just let out a hardy laugh.

"But Iruka sensei, I just love a challenge!" Naruto shot back.

Iruka laughed softly.

"I guess you do love challenges, Naruto, your pranks say that for you all too well. Take your seat and wait for the next part." Iruka instructed and continued looking at the door for more students to take his test.

While Iruka was waiting, all of his cleared students were having their own reactions to Naruto's method of passing their teacher's test.

Sakura wasn't impressed, she was sure it was all luck.

Ino was quite impressed, seeing that the dead last used such an advanced training method to pass a simple test, even if the solution was a bit overboard.

Sasuke was frowning; the dead last stumbled onto a training method he could've used to beat that man's genjutsu techniques someday. Growling to himself, he stored that bit of information away for his next training regimen.

As the personal thoughts and comments rolled on and on about how it was pure luck to hidden talent that Naruto scraped by on, Iruka nodded and turned to the half empty classroom and started to address his hopeful students.

"Congratulations, you passed the first part of the Final Exam. Now is the more lighter side of the examination, but the most crucial part of it." Iruka started, but was interrupted by Sakura.

"Crucial?"

Iruka nodded.

"Correct, Sakura. Although this is a simpler part of the exam, we base the grades heavily on this part. This will determine your abilities on the fields as a Shinobi." Iruka spoke to the enticed classroom, he just loved having the room focus on his words than anything else when he was teaching…if only it were like this every day, he would have been content just talking the days away like this.

"Now, as you were listening, my assistant Mizuki was preparing the room next to us for your test. It will be a random academy jutsu, as well as a simple questionnaire before that." Iruka coughed and pulled out a roster of names.

"Now, I'll call you up for your test and we'll begin with alphabetical order, starting with…Abuko Hikari." Iruka pointed to a startled girl with casual civilian dressings and motioned for the girl to follow him out the door. The students inside could hear some of their classmates plead with Iruka to allow them to take the test to no avail.

One by one, students were called in to pass and become professional ninjas or for them to try but fail and have no choice but to become one of the poorly trained civilian population members of society. All in all, it was nerve-wracking.

"Uchiha Sasuke? Come with me." Mizuki's voice prompted. Naruto impatiently waited for them to call him, he would show them that he could pass that test!

Ten minutes later, his chance came in the form of Mizuki.

"Uzumaki Naruto? You're up." He said cheerfully, while exiting quickly. Naruto followed him, excitement written all over his face.

In the classroom next door, a desk full of headbands were displayed in folded position and recently polished.

"Wow…" Naruto breathed out as he saw the shiny headbands, which made Iruka smile. He was just like that when he was a lad as well. Digging from a bag on the desk where the headbands were also, he pulled out a yellow piece of paper.

"Alright Naruto, here's your test: Just do a couple of Bunshin, and name a famous technique from the First Hokage. Simple, right?" Iruka asked, a small smile on his face. Naruto smiled brightly, while Mizuki scowled inwardly, the plan had gone awry! Where was his suggestion he especially made for Naruto go to?

"Ok! Here I go!" Naruto exclaimed while putting his hands into the correct position for the Bunshin Technique, something that Iruka noticed happily with, since Naruto often jumbled that with the Kawarimi seals, making his bunshins seem like crap.

Of course, the test got a little rocky as the energy needed for any technique, Chakra, started to flail up and about the boy. Iruka was a well read person, so he was amazed that the over lashing chakra didn't seem to hurt the boy, contrary to what the advanced book on Chakra did to a normal person's body said so.

Unfortunately, while Naruto wasn't a normal boy in terms of anything, he was sure that his chakra wouldn't be as harmless to the two proctors in front of him…

"Ah, Naruto stop for a moment!" Iruka shouted out, breaking the boy's concentration. Seeing the boy confused, as well as Mizuki, he clarified.

"Just a moment Naruto, I need to move some of the desks so you can have more room for your bunshin."

"Wha…huh?" Naruto asked confused, an action humorously imitated by Mizuki as well.

Dragging Mizuki to a far corner of a classroom and whispering to his ear about how Naruto's chakra could very well destroy them by standing near him if goes off prematurely, Mizuki was now all for the idea of moving the desks to observe him from afar, even if it was to protect his limbs from total obliteration.

"Ok Naruto, try again. This time, just let it all out and do as much bunshin as you like." Iruka shouted slightly, yelling from the furthest corner of the classroom, away from him. Mizuki nodded from behind Iruka, a desk overturned was in front of him just in case.

Naruto sweatdropped at the supposed shield and sighed at the somewhat childish barrier that Mizuki put up before gathering his hands in the bunshin technique's seals.

"Ok…" Naruto said nervously as he stepped forward unconsciously, much to Mizuki's dismay, his carefully constructed seal…that brat!

Iruka noticed that the chakra lashes started up again, but not as violent as before the…changes in testing arenas. Giving a glance to Mizuki, he seemed to be seething before calming himself into an interested face, maybe he was terrified at the prospect of having his head blown off?

"Here we go! Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted. The chakra seemed to glow for a minute and for a small moment everything was silent.

Outside the Ninja Academy

Sasuke was currently trying to focus on other things than the endless chattering of these fangirls! He would try to escape, but they always seem to put their pitiful tracking skills to use and somehow find him again in a few hours…what he wouldn't give for a distraction right now!

KABOOM!

The shattered windows of the testing room and their normal classroom rained over the panicked populace of the proud ninja wannabes as the parents covered the passing and failing students' heads with their own bodies as the glass rained down.

Fortunately, the glass was shattered into harmless pieces from the explosion and the worst injury was a scraped knee from falling into the pavement and dirt surrounding the academy.

For some reason, Sasuke could only think of one person who could've done this…

'Naruto.' Sasuke thought and looked around his immediate area; no one was paying attention to him…that worked out fine!

'Naruto…you may be the deadlast, but thanks for the distraction!' Sasuke turned and sped off to his apartment, its location guarded by the council in fear of abduction and whatnot.

When the smoke cleared, Iruka and Mizuki were coughing while patting themselves for any missing ears or arms from the explosion when he was helped up by a small hand. Iruka was a little regretful that his unadmittingly brightest student would fail but was surprised when three more pairs of hands helped him up.

Wait a minute…bunshin were transparent, they wouldn't be able to touch paper let alone human skin…but how?

No way…the thought shocked Iruka greatly; surely the boy couldn't have discovered a more advanced version of the Clone Technique, could it?

"Hey, sensei?" Naruto asked from the still smoky room.

"Yes, Naruto?" Iruka called back. Mizuki was still dazed from the explosion.

"I think the first Hokage had a tree technique, Mokuto…or something." Naruto said into the room, the smoke was clearing up and he could see the outlines of his teachers.

"Its Mokuton, Naruto, but close enough." Iruka said, now able to see Naruto clearly with a smile on his face.

"Does this mean I pass?" Naruto asked hopefully, eyeing the scattered headbands.

Iruka chuckled, picking out the least dirty of the headbands off the floor, and giving it to a brightly smiling Naruto.

"Congratulations, Naruto Uzumaki, on making Genin class!" Iruka said warmly, not expecting a hug from his explosion causing student.

"Yahoo! Thanks Iruka-sensei!" Naruto shouted albeit painfully into Iruka's ear while speeding off past curious students like Ino Yamanaka and Ubimi Shelko.

Iruka simply turned toward his remaining students and said…

"Next?"

While Naruto was proudly showing off his headband to anyone who would care to listen, Mizuki was forming a plan while watching some other student bomb the simplest test in the world.

His "suggestion" seemed to disappear from the bag of suggested tests and figured that Iruka must've checked it for hard tests that other academy teachers might've put in the bag. Another was the carefully hidden seal that he crafted painstakingly the night before.

Ever since he came across a necklace that a peddler sold him a long time ago on a mission to the grass village, he had discovered that he was sold a very potent necklace made of chakra and glass fused together. It also seemed to alter his chakra to a point where he got other gifts from the necklace like an increase to his speed and something even more astonishing.

He was able to transform into something very powerful, a being made of the hottest flames with a large increase in his already natural abilities.

Not that Iruka needed to know that, no sir. This was his power to keep and this was his key to ruling this pathetic province that they call "The strongest ninja village in the elemental countries"…

His trigger was that of Naruto Uzumaki falling the test and he, like the good assistant would tell him the next phase of his plan wrapped around the delusion of having a second chance at the test where he would be able to become a ninja just yet was laughable in his eyes, but he needed that dunce to fail…yet nothing seemed to go his way that day…

That little brat had passed!

Trying to salvage the plan was to find a freaking needle in a haystack! It seemed impossible but of course it was always found eventually…

"Mizuki?" A voice cut through his thoughts, it was Iruka.

"Hm?" He grunted, cut off from his thoughts.

"This young lady passed, give her the headband please." Iruka instructed. Sighing, Mizuki did as told.

That damned Iruka, always thinking he was better…wait a minute…

A feral grin reigned inside and outside of Mizuki, of course!

The grin didn't fade at all making another student's confidence falter and ultimately fail like others before him, much to the sick pleasure of Mizuki.

Heading home toward his apartment, the excitement of passing was fading slightly in Naruto's mind, but was instantly refilled when he thought of his future career as a kick-butt ninja elite! What would he able to do was left to his imagination as he went toward his favorite eating spot for his dinner, good ol' ramen!

As if expecting someone to be inside, he called out.

"Hey, Iruka-sensei!"

Iruka Umino was a tough as nails teacher in the academy, but when outside those walls, he was a pretty damn decent guy. At least, in Naruto's eyes.

"Yo, Naruto!" Iruka smiled in greeting, a bowl of ramen just served stood before him. He took a set of chopsticks and started to eat a bit before turning back to Naruto, who was ordering a bowl of his own.

"Looks like I got you in a good time Naruto, I had something to talk to you about." Iruka started and continued as he got Naruto's attention.

"Its about your test today."

Now that caught Naruto's attention for sure.

"What about it, sensei?" He asked, confused at the revelation.

"Well…I was looking through the tests after you left and found out something interesting about your written portion. Now normally, it would just be looked over in favor of the student's abilities in talents like the bunshin test, but in your case…" Iruka trailed off to eat another portion of the rapidly cooling ramen, unnerving Naruto a bit. The next words could break his career before it even lifted off the ground!

"As I was saying, in your case Naruto…your ability test could not score high enough to make up for your paper's dismal test, so…that headband is totally worthless right now." Iruka finished while cleaning out his bowl of ramen by drinking the broth from the bowl.

"W-w-what?! What does that mean Iruka-sensei!?" Naruto was horrified at the conclusion. He balked a bit on the paper, yeah, but to take away his hard earned right to become ninja?! How would he ever become the Hokage this way!?

"Calm down Naruto! I said that its worthless right now. Get it? Right now." Iruka waited as he saw his student calm a bit before continuing.

"I have another option for you, a secondary test if you can call it that. Do it for me, and you'll be in the roster for the team selections." He was about to continue, but was stopped by Naruto's confused face.

"Team Selections?" He asked, making Iruka put his face to his palm.

"Ah, right I forgot. You weren't here, seeing as you were causing hell in the village." Naruto grinned sheepishly at this, but wasn't regretful in the slightest.

"Basically, every graduate gets placed in teams of three with a Jounin class ninja-"Iruka was interrupted again.

"Jounin?"

"Naruto…man, to not even know what a Jounin is…" Iruka sighed and answered Naruto's query.

"A Jounin is a third class Ninja, Naruto. First is Genin, which was you were supposed to be, but I was explaining on how to redeem yourself, but whatever. Second is Chunin, which is what I am. Anbu can be considered a fourth rank, but since they consist of second and third level ninjas, it really isn't."

"Anyways, about your second test…" Iruka started whispering in Naruto's ear, while the boy was nodding eagerly, as he was desperate to stay as a ninja at all costs…

Konoha, 2000

Hokage Tower Courtyard

"This has gone too far!"

"Send out squads for his extermination!"

Bits and shouts of enraged conversation were briefly heard as ninja of all classes were assembled in the Hokage's tower on how to proceed with the problem at hand. It produced headaches of infinite ranges of pain for the old leader as he heard crap and more crap from biased people trying to rally the immature in mind to mobilize and strike down the problem at hand.

The problem? Naruto Uzumaki has stolen a very important scroll that documented pretty much several village secrets and moves considered barbaric to even try.

While he wasn't worried too much about the scroll, since it came back eventually before any vital secrets were discovered, he was worried about a certain secret that was written by him in the scroll that contained the boy and his…powers.

This wasn't the time to lament, as he had to restore order.

"Silence!"

The pumped up group ceased to aggravate things further and stood facing the Hokage, waiting for orders.

"Find the boy alive, and retrieve the scroll by any means necessary. I'll decide the boy's fate when he is brought before me. Go!"

At the leader's words, the group of gathered ninja dispersed, willing to do the leader's will. The old Hokage sighed before calling to the being behind him.

"Ah, Kakashi. Come with me for a moment."

Konoha 2000

Konoha's forest: 100 Kilometers south of the village.

Naruto was waiting at the drop point that Iruka told him to wait at…but it was so boring! He needed something to do around here and there was nothing but waiting and keeping an eye on the impossibly large scroll on the side of an abandoned hut he was told to wait at.

Sighing, seeing as Iruka said nothing about looking through the scroll, started to unfurl it and found…

Techniques! Lots and lots of techniques! Score!

Giggling like a schoolboy (which technically, according to Iruka-sensei, he was), he started reading, remembering what he could about the interesting techniques he saw written in the scroll.

Kage Bunshin: Using a large burst of chakra, one can create combat efficient clones to use as the user's wishes to be used.

'Kage bunshin, huh? Sounds a lot better than bunshin, that's for sure!' Naruto smiled and started to work on the seals that was used to create them. Surprisingly, it was just an alteration to the regular seal the regular bunshin used.

Using as much chakra that was needed to in the bunshin, he shouted out the move's name before exploding in smoke.

Much to the chagrin, it didn't go so well…

But there wasn't anything to feel bad; it was just like the bunshin. He had to keep trying…

After a couple hours of looking at the scroll for hints on how to do it right, he finally mastered the move known as Kage Bunshin.

"Alright! I did it! Goodbye, old bunshin! Hello, kick ass new bunshin!" Naruto exclaimed and looked for another sweet technique when the words faded from technique instructions to reports that were hidden away deeper in the scroll.

"Huh? What's this? Report 2568? Report 2974? What's all this?" Naruto skimmed over reports, not finding anything of value. That is until he saw something different.

"Report 4857: Kyuubi? Oh wow, maybe a firsthand look about the battle with the fourth Hokage and the great and terrible Kyuubi!" Naruto spoke excitedly about what the report contained.

Report 4857: Kyuubi

October 10, 1988

Several reports of increased wildfires were immediately ignored as the worst catastrophe since Uchiha Madara's defection since the village's founding has occurred: The Great Demon, Kyuubi no Kitsune has arrived unexpectedly 400 kilometers from Konoha itself. Dispatched teams were either decimated or seemingly burned alive from what scouts reported from the primary engagement squads toward the beast.

Using volunteers to distract the beast, Hokage-sama is meeting with Sandaime-sama to utilize the experimental container to seal the beast inside the container to utilize its powers to hopefully use the powers of the Kyuubi and to complete a pending problem with the experimental container that was brought forth by Sennin Orochimaru.

Report 4857 (b): The Kyuubi was subdued and the experimental container was a success at the cost of 485 combined Genin, Chunin, and Jounin. Anbu divisions from both normal and the root sub faction took heavy losses and are considering shutting down operations indefinitely.

"Wow…that was scary as hell, even ANBU was about to quit!" Naruto commented to himself, thinking what was the feeling these guys were feeling when they wrote about it.

Report 4857 (c): Startling reports have arisen concerning the container's status. It seems that the container mutated into a living organism, humanoid in nature…Hokage-sama has decreed that this organism is in fact human, and shall be given a name.

Naruto tensed, like any good mystery seeker. He was about to find out the container's name! Maybe he knew the guy or girl from somewhere.

The container's name shall be written here for future references, it has been called-

"Naruto Uzumaki!" A loud voice boomed throughout the forest, startling Naruto from reading the name on the report while looking up at the same time. A pissed off Iruka was holding his arms crossed, a full glare was on his face and was directing it at him.

"What are you doing with that!?" Iruka shouted at him, making Naruto confused. Wasn't this part of the test?

"Iruka-sensei?" He voiced his confusion. He was the one to give him the test in the first place!

"I don't know what kind of prank you had in mind with this, but as of now, this is treason!" Iruka said, his anger taking over his rationality towards the boy. He could get executed for this!

"Treason?! But, isn't this a test?" Naruto was shocked, how was this treason? This was a test done regularly, right?

"Test? What are you talking about, Naruto? You passed the test already! Today, remember?" Iruka asked, exasperated at the poor excuse the boy was giving. But one look at the boy's eyes told him that he really thought this was a test.

"Yeah, you know! The test you gave me at the ramen stand earlier! You said my test grades sucked enough that not even the jutsu test could cover it!" Naruto said, now getting annoyed that this was just a cruel joke by the man.

"W-whaat?! Your test wasn't the best, sure, but the jutsu tests practically override the damn thing! You were fine!" Iruka said, bewildered. Now it was Naruto's turn to look shocked.

"But what about your Second test?! You know, the one you whispered in my ear about?!" Iruka just looked on bewildered as earlier.

"What second test?! And for that matter, I wasn't at the ramen stand today, I had a meeting today!"

"Then what-" Naruto was cut off as something shiny glinted in the moonlight and it was heading right toward them.

"Sensei! Watch out!" Iruka looked behind him and quickly grabbed Naruto and pushed him toward the ground. A few seconds later, a large shuriken embedded itself on the tree that was to the side of them. A figure landed in front of him, making both look up at the potential enemy. The moonlight showed who it was, and it shocked them to the core…

"Iruka-sensei?!"

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I admit, this is more dynamic than the earlier version, but a rewrite was just begging to be born as I read over the chapters and thought that it was a little too predictable for me. It will still have the basic plotline as that Naruto will awaken his powers and etc, etc.

However, the way he will accept it, now that will be revealed later.

Sorry for not updating, but the rewrite will be much better, more "Robotic" in nature, hahaha.

Until next time!