if naruto truly person not saint, he will never like konoha and never has dream become hokage,, because become hokage you protect villagers wich make you suffer,, or you become hokage for order to them sucide mission("this is perfect goals")

The first half of this chapter is as far as I go reading this story. It had a good start but it becoming really stupid. Wasn't Naruto supposed to hide his real talent? He should have failed the test and fought in the coming invasion surprising his enemies. Now going blow for blow with a joining. Why the secrecy with the hokage test if now everybody will see what is capable of? No genin should be that good. You are taking this story in a direction that leads to another stupid hopefully abandoned fic. Good luck!

Love it so much! Can’t wait for more

When's the next chapter?

I am in love! Please update~

fucking shit weak naruto

YOU HAVE TO UPDATE I BEG YOU WE NEED THIS, DONT LEAVE US HANGING. PLEASE!

This was awesome. An excellent AU and for want of a nail. After the exams are over, I look forward to seeing how the characters develop, and have developed in the past. Especially Hinata.

Once again, thanks. I look forward to the next installment.

Bit of a tautology, mokuton-release is just wood release-release. A little redundant.

Ooooooh my god, this was such a good read - really glad I found this story!

this is really interesting! i love your naruto. he's very powerful, of course, but i quite like it in the way you wrote him. i really like the story in general, so i'll be looking out for updates! i'm curious about your hinata and how things will turn out for her.

Well that was nice I can’t wait to see where you are going to take this story

Beautiful story.

Keep it up, I like the storyline and how naruto has progressed! Hopefully you will have a new chapter soon!

Urgh, is it over? What the hell was that, 10k words worth of fighting? Alright. I will do my best to keep it civil but hear me out, please. Action cannot be conveyed in pure words the same way it is in movies or comics. When it comes to action, pictures, moving or not, take the cake. The result of this very simple truth is that 10k words worth of a deathmatch is incredibly dull, boring, unsatisfying. This chapter was uninteresting for me.

Also, I like how the proctor (was it maybe Genma?) states that any EXCESSIVE violence will stop the match yet allow Gaara to turn into a sand monster. It's a rule I see every author mention yet they never logically make any use of it. But let's say this proctor was blind, deaf, and retarded.

Now on to the story in general. It's well written if maybe a bit dry in the beginning -it gets better as t goes- and there's not a lot of grammatical mistakes, all in all, those are good points for you.

As for the action, it is mildly entertaining to see Naruto steamroll over genin but it gets old soon and it badly distracts from a serious problem: plot and character motivation. The plot is extremely vague at best and nearly entirely reliant on canon: we did not see first-hand anything of the relationship between Naruto and Jiraiya, we are plunged immediately after a time skip into the chunin exams (oh joy, please end my suffering), which is just a giant opportunity for fights that are again, just a distraction, with the usual threat of Orochimaru looming in the background.

The result of that is that, after 12 chapters in, I've no idea of any overarching plot nor the slightest clues on what drives Naruto. Now I could assume the plot will stay the same as in canon (so Orochimaru's gig and then Akatsuki) so I'll give you that. However, your character is definitely not properly motivated enough to follow the canon happenings. If you had a clear, set-in-stone scenario explained to your readers and Naruto was only a pawn in a scenario-driven story, that would be acceptable; many books do that. It's clearly not the case here. So, what does he like, what's his goal in life, what's his story... You either gave us nothing or flew above the subjects from quite far away.

The only point you did visit in passing is a part of his mindset. He does not like to kill (... sigh), he has a strong sense of justice (m'kay why not but why tho?), and... I'm kinda coming short. He likes his own buzz? I personally have no clear reading on who Naruto is nor on who he wishes to become.

And frankly, that makes a story stale.