18.Graduation

After leisurely travelling for days, Naruto reached the leaf village and stealthily entered inside the village at night and reached his apartment. Naruto looked a lot different than his clone now. His clone looked like the anime Naruto, whereas the original looked more like kid Minato, but with whiskers. Naruto then took out a scroll from a bracelet he designed as a storage bracelet and sealed the blood clone inside the scroll, placing a stasis seal on the clone. Then he cleaned the apartment a little and went to sleep.

In the morning, Naruto left the apartment and went to the academy. It was the day of the Graduation test. So he went early. He entered the class and sat in a corner. Chouji saw him and spoke to the sleeping Shikamaru "Shikamaru, doesn't that Naruto seem to be looking way different today?" Shikamaru lifted his head seeing Naruto he too was shocked "What happened to him? How did he change so much?" Choji replied "Yeah. That's what I'm asking as well". Many others also saw the changed Naruto and were surprised by the changes.

At this time, Iruka entered the classroom and was also surprised by the changes in Naruto, but he didn't enquire much and announced "Everyone, today is the day of the Graduation exam. First is the written test. I'll provide the question sheets. Once you finish them, it's the practical test. When your names are called, you are to come to the next classroom and perform clone jutsu & transformation jutsu, then you pass the exam. Now get started." Then he handed question papers to all the students.

As the written test in Naruto world were just basic knowledge that a junior school student on earth can solve easily, Naruto had no trouble whatsoever in the exam. He finished the test in just 10 minutes and submitted his paper. Then after waiting for everyone to finish, the practical exam started. Iruka started calling everyone's names one by one. Then Naruto's turn came by and he went and performed the shadow clone jutsu instead of clone jutsu and transformed the clone into Iruka and passed the test with full marks. Iruka was surprised as well seeing the shadow clone and thought of reporting it to the Hokage later.

Naruto was not afraid of anyone in the Village now. He was strong enough to hold his own against Hiruzen or Danzo and if he fought with everything he got, he might be able to even defeat them. He also had the Mangekyou sharingan of Fugaku as a final trump card. He could use Genjutsu similar to Tsukoyomi but different. Also Amaterasu flames, but not Susanoo. He didn't know why he was not able to activate Susanoo. The main ability of Fugaku's Mangekyou sharingan was to predict the future and see into the future while fighting, which worked like Observation Haki in One piece. Also with Flying thunder god, he can escape anytime and Nobody can catch him.

In the evening, Iruka who corrected the papers, was shocked seeing Naruto's answers. He hurriedly went to the Hokage and reported it. Hiruzen was also surprised hearing that Naruto came first in the test both written and practical surpassing Sasuke by a long shot. He just nodded and thought 'Naruto has got the talent of Minato. If only I had known before, I would have paid more attention to him. He's too smart and must have understood why he's hated by the people. I need to check if he's loyal to the village.' He then dismissed Iruka.

In the root headquarters, Danzo also heard the news and frowned. He said "How is it possible for the Jinchuriki to suddenly become smart? There is more to it than that. You two go keep an close eye on him and report to me any other changes in the boy." As he gestured to two of his men. The men nodded "Yes lord Danzo" and flickered away. Danzo thought 'You are making a mistake Hiruzen. When you first found out that the boy was smart, you should have given him to me and I would have trained him to be a perfect tool. It's not too late now as well. I have to plan more things now'.

After completing the test, everyone went home, but there was one person that was very upset and angry. He gritted his teeth and clenched his fist seeing the results of the exam muttering "How is this possible?" This person was Mizuki. After the academy closed in the night, Mizuki silently went to Naruto's apartment to attack him, but Naruto was waiting for him in the roof all along. He had already stealthily knocked out the Hokage Anbu watching him and killed the root Anbus that were watching him with senbones.

As soon as Mizuki appeared, Naruto spoke "Oh!! How nice of you to come here Mizuki, are you after this?" He said unsealing the 'scroll of seals' and showing it to Mizuki. Mizuki was surprised seeing Naruto holding the scroll which he planned to make him steal after he failed the exam, but things didn't go as he planned. So he decided to personally eliminate Naruto, steal the scroll and leave the village, but now his target Naruto had the scroll on him. He thought 'This is a good thing. I can take the scroll after I kill that demon'. The mistake he did was he didn't think how Naruto had the scroll and how Naruto knew that he was after the scroll.

He then attacked Naruto, but Naruto just shook his head saying "Wrong move for a Ninja Mizuki. You didn't even think how I got this scroll or how I know what you are after. You just try to attack me and for that You die". Mizuki was startled and started thinking, but before he could think anything, Naruto threw a senbone through his head killing him on the spot. He then sealed back the scroll in his bracelet and went back inside his apartment and went to sleep.