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Chapter 1: Step One the Hirashin

Naruto edged along the side of the building, the moon was high up in the sky, indicating it was early in the night*. He shuffled along the edge of a small roof, quite high up from the ground. He was nervous, if he pulled this off, not only would he pass the Genin qualification exam, he would also get a pretty sweet jutsu out of it.

'Mizuki-sensei said it shouldn't be too hard, and I'm Uzumaki Naruto dattebayo, I will be able to take that scroll easy'

He finally reached his destination, it was a small window, a small window that was part of a very large building, this said building was known to all Konoha ninja as the Hokage Tower. The tower where the Hokage resided in from time to time, where he conducted meetings, assigned missions, and where his office was located. However more importantly, it was where the Hokage stashed away all the forbidden scrolls away, such as the Forbidden Sealing Scroll, the Yondaime Hokage's last will and testament, which he had written on his first day on office as all other Hokage's before him had done, similarly where it also held the Sandaime, Nindaime and Shodaime's will. It held the deep dark secrets of Konohagakure, all in all, it was a very well-guarded and secretive place. This was where Naruto, our young head-strong hero was heading, his prize was the Forbidden Scoll of Sealing itself, the said scroll said to hold all of Konoha's forbidden jutsus.

Naruto walked softly in the wide hallways of the building, trying oh so hard not to give away his presence, this was the biggest thing he had done ever since he broke into Konoha's ANBU forces to draw on Dog-masked ANBU's dog mask. In fact that was what got him the sweet as Orange getup he wore these days, a personal gift from the Hokage himself, as he kept telling his ANBU guards in his younger years.

'Eh…Ever since I got this jacket, it became a lot harder to sneak past people when pulling my pranks…Nah that can't be it, I just need more training dattebayo!' Our young hero thought to himself.

But back to the task at hand, Naruto knew it was his lucky day today, why might you ask? Well today was the day the Hokage decided to stay at the tower and finish any of his excess paper work, it was the very day he decided to send his ANBU elite guards away to go home to their families, if they had any. All in all, it was the most ideal time for Naruto to sneak past the Hokage as he had done before countless of times. It should be easy, yet the pressure was getting to him, he was sweating furiously, the sweat was falling into his eyes obscuring his vision. He wiped it off using the sleeve of his orange jacket. This resulted in him missing the loosened floorboard in front him.

CREEEAK

The sound echoed through the empty hallways, Naruto froze in fear, and kept a sharp ear out for the sound of any movement, just like the way the Crow ANBU had taught him when he first was caught doing a prank. Only move if his position was given away. If it was, you move, and you move fast.

However it seemed he got away this time, there wasn't any movement from the Hokage's office, a place he had just past a few feet back. He breathed a sigh of relief and continued onwards. He wasn't too far away from the Forbidden Scroll Room any way, just down the hallway. Slowly and carefully he crept on. The door he was heading for only got closer and closer. Suddenly he heard movement behind him, he abruptly turned around, was his position given away, had the Sandaime found him out. There was dead silence behind him, the hallways still dark with only the moonlight lighting the location up. He was safe.

He turned around and immediately walked into a sturdy figure, which belonged to the man Naruto was trying to avoid tonight, The Sandaime Hokage, Naruto's jiji in all but in blood.

"What are you doing at my Office at this Time?" The elderly Hokage asked Naruto.

"Heh…heh…" Naruto chuckled nervously, he was caught, and said ,"Sorry bout this jiji, but I gotta pass the exams dattebayo"

The Hokage quirked an eyebrow at this, but before he could think about what the young ninja to be said.

"OROIKE NO JUTSU!"

"WHA?" The next thing he knew, the Sandaime was staring at very beautiful young woman posing seductively, however that was not the only problem, the young woman herself was very naked, her female parts just barely being covered up by whisps of smoke floating around from the after effects of the transformation. That was soon followed by fountain of red before all he saw was black. The esteemed Konohagakure's Sandaime Hokage, who was revered to be the strongest Kage in Konoha's history was out for the count.

Now back to our hero, who was now in the forbidden scroll room, searching furiously for the only scroll he was looking for, the one Mizuki had asked for.

"Damn…Where is that stupid scroll… Shodaime's Will, Nidaime's Will, Old Man's Will, Uchiha Massacre, ANBU Roster, Secret Alliance with the Mist…damn it where is it?" Naruto cried out in frustration. He had been here for a few minutes now and he still hadn't found it.

'Damn it, where is it?'

Suddenly in the corner of his eye he spotted a large scroll, one he had yet to check, 'Could it be? It is'

Naruto had found the Scroll of sealing, this was it, and he was going to be a genin. Naruto did a quick fist pump and made his way out of the room. He quickly scanned the hallway on either side. The Old man's unconscious body was still right where he had left it.

He hurried out of the building through an open window as if the devil himself was after him. His heading, the exterior forest surrounding Konoha.

'Gotta go gotta go, I might be able to snag a few techniques if I get there early before Mizuki-sensei reaches me'

Unbeknownst to our young hero, a figure was watching as him as he made his escape to the small training shack at the outskirts of Konoha.

'Stupid Demon…It's time for me alert the guards'

"Hehehe" Naruto giggled with glee as he unfurled the forbidden scroll. "What Super Cool Jutsu should I learn today," He frowned at the first entry, "Eh..Kage Buunshin no Jutsu…What the Hell? Why does it start with the one I'm bad at? I'll just skip over it and come back to it later, Mizuki-Sensei should understand dattebayo"

Naruto scratched his head as he kept pushing on through the scroll, they were all boring jutsus, except for maybe one. It had caught his eye, hidden deep within the scroll, "Eh? Hirashin no Jutsu…doesn't that sound like the Yondaime's super cool jutsu that caused him to win the last war?" Contrary to popular belief, Naruto was in fact smart, well he was smart in things he was interested in, the Yondaime's heroic attempts and his cool jutsus fell under the said category, such as Ramen, jutsus and gardening.

"I will learn it! Hirashin no jutsu dattebayo!"

'Hmmm I have to draw some sort of picture on something I want to use the jutsu on…Ehhh? That's so pointless…but the Yondaime used it so it must be super awesome! I hope it's some flashy jutsu, like something that blows something up or oh oh oh I hope it teleports me THAT WOULD BE SO COOL!'

Little did Naruto know how true he was that night.

"Anyway back to the jutsu. Draw the picture on something I want to use the jutsu on, and then do what looks like a one handed bird then a one handed boar and last a one handed tiger**…okay bird boar tiger!"

The night moved on with Naruto practising the hand signs.

Umino Iruka.

A Chuunin level ninja of Konohagakure, also Konoha's Ninja Academy's teacher, lay on his bed pondering what happened today afternoon. He felt extremely bad for failing Naruto, but it was in the rule books, that if a student failed to satisfactorily perform the require jutsu of the day, they were failed. It was bad luck that the Buunshin no Jutsu was the picked jutsu, hopefully he should have next year, he didn't do too badly in the written exam. Yet it still hurt him.

'Hokage-sama was right' Iruka thought to himself, 'He is similar to me, all alone in the world ever since that faithful day, the day the Kyuubi himself attacked our village'

He remembered the horror of that day, all that blood and death, his parents they themselves had fought against the monster, and they had died. He didn't stop crying, he mourned his loss for weeks. He was so alone, Naruto was like that aswell, left alone for something he couldn't have controlled even if he wanted to.

They both turned to pranks and acting like idiots to receive the attention they craved for, they truly were simil-

KNOCK KNOCK!

'Who could it be at this time?' Iruka asked himself as he got up from his bed to answer the door.

He opened his door to a panting and panicky Mizuki, "Iruka…heh…heh" he puffed, "Iruka, Naruto stole the Scroll of Forbidden Seals as joke! We must go to the Hokage Tower immediately," Mizuki seated furiously as if he had just done laps around Konoha with Maito Gai.

"WHAT?"

"HOKAGE-SAMA! HE'S GONE TOO FAR! HE WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS!" A ninja shouted loudly from a group that had gathered together outside the Hokage's office.

"Yes, it's a dangerous set of information Naruto has got his hands on, and they were forbidden by the previous Hokages for a reason, if used wrongly it could cause trouble! It's barely been half a day* since the theft occurred, we must hurry and find Naruto!"

"HAI!" The Chuunin shouted before scattering in various directions.

'Ohh Naruto what have you gone and done now…'

"Okay, I've been practising the signs just like the scroll asked me to. Now I have to draw the seals…hmm it says I need to assign a simple handsign to each seal I use when placing it, and I should use that handsign after using the jutsu to go to that seal…hmm shouldn't be too hard, I'll place a few of these pictures or seals as they are called around the place"

Naruto proceeded to etch eleven seals all over the place and assign a different handsign to it, the twelfth seal he wrote on a scrap of paper which he was going to put on Iruka-sensei as a surprise to show he had passed.

"Damn it Naruto where the hell are you?" Iruka asked himself, he had been searching for an hour just like his fellow Chuunin had. However it was to no avail, Naruto was nowhere in the village, "That's it! He must be in the goddamn forest!" With that train of thought Iruka took off to find our little thief.

Meanwhile with our evil Mizuki-sensei, "Good, I've spread the word about what the Demon Naruto has done, now I'll just head to the meeting spot and kill Naruto where he stands, get rid of the body and make it look like he just ran off with the scroll!" Giggling like a mad man, Mizuki head towards the forest our young thief was making himself acquainted with.

"Ha…ha…ha" Naruto puffed while sitting on the ground, drawing those seals in various locations had taken it out of him, and then remembering which signs he applied to each seal was a painfully hard process, but it would be worth it, soo worth it. Suddenly a shadow loomed over him, "Hey…" an equally tired Iruka said between breaths, "I found you."

Naruto looked up, and grinned.

"Oh Look! I found the Nose-bleeder!"

Iruka was dumbstuck, "I FOUND YOU NARUTO, YOU IDOIT!"

Naruto just chuckled, "Hehehe, You found me Iruka-sensei, and in that time I could only learn one jutsu"

'What?' Iruka asked himself, "Is that why your all beat-up?"

"Don't worry about that" Naruto exclaimed with excitement, "Hey…If I show you that skill you will let me graduate right? Right?" Naruto asked feverently.

'So you were practising so hard that it shows on your body huh Naruto?' Iruka smiled at this thought, but something bugged him, "Hey Naruto?"

"Yea?"

"Where did you get the scroll?" He asked with slight tension.

"Oh this? Mizuki-sensei told me about it, he also told me about this sweet as place train"

'Mizuki?'

"He said if I show you this technique you'll let me graduate!"

"Wha-" Iruka was interrupted before he could complete his sentence when he saw a bunch of shuriken and kunai flying towards their location. "NAUROT MOVE" He bellowed as he roughly shoved Naruto out of harm's way.

Naruto looked at his mentor and teacher in shock, Iruka was peppered with Kunai and shuriken, bleeding from his wounds from where some of the weapons had struck him. 'I-Iruka-sensei?"

"Nice job in finding him" a voice said from a tree branch a short distance away. Naruto looked at the perpetrator, "M-Mizuki-sensei?"

"I see…so that's how it is…" Iruka coughed from the wall he was pinned to.

Mizuki looked at Naruto with cold eyes, "Naruto!" He barked, "Hand over the scroll"

"What?"

"NO NARUTO! DON'T HAND HIM THE SCROLL EVEN IF IT'S THE LAST THING YOUR GOING TO DO!" Iruka screamed, "IT'S A FORBIDDEN SCROLL WITH NINJUTSU THAT HAVE BEEN HIDDEN AND FORBIDDEN BY THE PREVIOUS HOKAGES, IT'S A DANGEROUS THING AND MIZUKI USED YOU TO GET HIS HANDS ON IT"

Mizuki laughed, "Iruka…Shut your trap, Naruto there is infact no point in you wielding the jutsu within that scroll, do you know why? I'll tell you why. You know 12 years ago-"

"NO DON'T!"

Naruto ran, he ran far and fast, he couldn't trust anyone, he couldn't be the fox could he. No he wasn't Iruka-sensei had said so, he said it was his fault he was in so much pain. NO it wasn't Iruka-sensei's fault it was his, Mizuki, he was hurt because Iruka sensei got hurt because of him, the fox didn't matter, it was a small hurdle he had to climb to become Hokage and get everyone's acknowledgement.

'Iruka-sensei!' Naruto realised.

"You see, he is a demon, you saw those eyes"

"No…Naruto isn't like you Mizuki" Iruka stated simply

"Well it doesn't matter, I'll find him and kill him first, you'll come second" Mizuki stated with a sneer before jumping off to chase after Naruto.

"I can't believe it came to this Naruto, I finally find you after all this and this is what I See…" The elderly Sarutobi said to himself softly as peered into the crystal ball sitting on his desk.

"Naruto!" Iruka shouted, "I lost Mizuki, give me the Scroll!"

Naruto turned and looked at Iruka, he looked grim and jumped of his tree branch hard fast, and rammed into Iruka's body. "What?" Iruka wheezed before flying into a tree exploding in a puff of smoke.

"How did you know I wasn't Iruka Naruto?" Mizuki asked, his henge dispelled itself from the impact.

"Cause I'm Iruka" Iruka grinned when he dispelled his Henge.

"You're an idiot you know Iruka, transforming into the thing you hate the most," Mizuki laughed, "you remember, he was the one who killed your parents"

"I won't hand the scroll over to you teme, and your wrong it was the fox who killed my parents" Iruka countered.

"You're a fool, Iruka, Naruto and the fox are the same being, I know Naruto, he and I are alike" Mizuki stated offhandedly.

"Alike how?"

"You can use that scroll for whatever you want and no-one would be able to stop you…You don't think the Kyuubi won't use that power?"

"Your right" Iruka stated.

A hidden Naruto looked down trodden, "Even Iruka-sensei…deep down"

"The Kyuubi definitely would, but no, not Naruto, he's different, infact he was, no is one of my best students…" Iruka looked deep into Mizuki's eyes with determination, "He is clumsy, He's a hardworker, and he might not be the smartest cookie in the jar, but he is Konohagakure's one and only Uzumaki Naruto"

Naruto was shocked, the tears were streaming down his face he looked at Iruka's back and then at Mizuki. His eyes were then drawn towards his foot when he stepped forward.

'The Seal! No Iruka-sensei!'

"Touching speech Iruka, you know what? Your speech touched me so much I have now decided to kill you first!" he pulled out an oversized shuriken from his back.

'Bird Boar Tiger Ram!'

"DIE FOOL!" He swung the oversized Shuriken in his hand towards the helpless ninja.

'So this is it huh?'

Naruto appeared infront of Mizuki, his eyes widened slightly, as did Mizuki's but it alas it was too late for Mizuki to avoid the blow. Naruto kneed Mizuki right in his nose, breaking it and causing blood to fly everywhere and sending Mizuki flying backwards a few feet into the tree he crashed into earlier courtesy of Iruka.

Mizuki was in shock as he clutched his bleeding nose, this wasn't supposed to happen, "H-How? Your supposed to be dead last!"

Naruto's eyes narrowed, "Dead last? No Mizuki-teme" he whispered, "I'm U-Zu-Ma-Ki Naruto, The Next Hokage Dattebayo!"

"You Little BRAT! How could you do that!"

"Don't even think of touching Iruka-sensei Or I. Will. Kill. You"

"Bring it Demon-punk I'll end you with one shot!"

"Try it trash I'll return the pain faster than you can even blink ten thousand times over!"

"THEN DO IT DEMON FOX! LET'S SEE YOU TRY THAT MOVE AGAIN!"

Iruka's eyes widened.

Mizuki froze, Naruto was behind him, he didn't even see him move, he just disappeared, like the Yondaime Hokage, "The Yondaime's legendary jutsu" he stuttered.

"HIRASHIN NO JUTSU!" Naruto shouted.

For the rest of the night all that was heard was Mizuki pain filled screams.

'Naruto you…' Iruka grinned with pride, 'You just surpassed all my expectations, you will make a grand Hokage, you moved faster than anyone could even predict…Well Done'

"Hey Naruto"

"Yea Iruka-sensei" Naruto replied as he looked up from Mizuki's bruised and battered body, "Yea Yea I took it too far"

"No Not that, close your eyes for a sec Naruto"

Naruto shut his eyes tightly , he felt Iruka take his goggles off and tie something on in its place, a cloth like thing. Naruto's heart skipped a beat in anticipation.

"Iruka-sensei?"

"Naruto open your eyes"

His world slowly blurred into focus, his hands reached up and he felt a cool piece of metal attached to a cloth on his forehead. A forehead protector of Konoha. He Passed.

"Congratulations Naruto on being a Genin! I'll take you out for Ramen to celebra-" He never got to finish his sentence when he was tackled hard and rough by his Student.

'I'm real Proud of you Naruto'

END

*I had a problem with the timing as the Hokage said It had been half a day since Naruto got the scroll, so I'm assuming he stole it early in the night at around 8-9 in the evening, and was working on it till about 5-6 in the morning. So hence I just assumed Mizuki gave it sometime before he reported the scroll missing or rather the Hokage woke up from his shock only a few hours after the 'theft'

**Well those three handsigns were used in the summoning jutsu so I just mixed them up and made it the Hirashin jutsu, I'm assuming at first Minato had to use the handsigns to be able to complete the formula to be able to use the Hirashin along with the seal, since handsigns help mould the chakra and overtime he just got rid of the signs as he got used to it, since he was a genius anyway, shouldn't be too farfetched, otherwise I believe how can the technique work. I mean he needs to know how the to feel out the 'void' to be able to travel through it etc.

A/N : Well here come's my first original Fic, Faster than Light, as you can guess what this Fic is all about, it took me awhile to think of this, and I started writing it after I couldn't really think of anything on Legend of the Fifth, it will come around don't worry, but this one is my precious baby as well. Sorry about most of the repetition but it was necessary and I skipped the usual most repeated parts and changed the dialogue around slightly. It should start becoming slightly different from now on. Don't worry Naruto will learn the Kage Buunshin Jutsu sooner or later but not yet, this pairing will be Kurotsuchi and it is vital to the plot. Any Rate and Review hope you all enjoyed the first chapter, I can't wait to write Team 7's expression when he first uses the Hirashin on them. By the way, Naruto only knows the Hirashin as the Hirashin no Jutsu, and no he wnt be shouting it all the time.