It didn't take them that long to reach the academy, only a few minutes at most, and as soon as they entered their classroom, they went to their friends.
Haruna went over to Hinata and started a conversation immediately with the shy, but kind girl, Haruki greeted Kiba with a loud yell while Shikamaru and Choji nearby responded with their own greeting as well, and Haruto headed over to a girl sitting by the window in the far back, whose features was covered by the shadows.
When he reached the girl, the shadows disappeared and Haruto got to see what the girl looked like.
The girl in question was shown to be a beautiful teen with long smooth black hair, two bangs framing her face, High C-Cup breasts, and the figure that some would describe as a goddess. She was wearing a black high-collared shirt with a symbol of a red and white fan on the back, dark blue shorts that went as far as the middle of her thigh, and black shinobi sandals.
This was Satsuki Uchiha, twin sister of Sasuke Uchiha and 1 out 3 Uchiha's left in the world, due to her older brother, Itachi, massacring the entire clan, only leaving her and Sasuke alive, when they were 8 years old.
After that day, many people looked at the twins with pity.
Sasuke thought the looks were of them mocking him so he would always scowl and stay silent. His thoughts were now only about Itachi and how he would kill him to avenge his clan, totally ignoring the existence of her sister all together as he spent all his time training.
On the other hand, Satsuki, unlike her brother who was pissed off, was incredibly depressed and cried for several nights as she remembered coming home to see all the dead bodies of her family, especially her mother, who she was close to the most out of everyone.
After she couldn't cry anymore, Satsuki almost fell in the same path as her brother, but was saved from a certain redhead swordsman who didn't look at her with pity and told her to train so that when she faced Itachi, she would be strong enough to get some answers for his actions, which confused everyone greatly as Itachi was seen as a pacifistic person, and that she would also have the power to protect those close to her.
Satsuki, ever since the day she met Haruto, got out of her depression and was friendlier and kinder, like Mikoto, to everyone.
Thanks to this, she was able to make several friends, with her closest being Haruto(obviously), Shino, and Yakumo.
Also, unknown to Haruto himself, Satsuki developed a huge crush on her best friend and was determined to do everything to get him to like her.
Haruto smiled at Satsuki, who responded with a smile in kind and a very unnoticeable blush on her cheeks, and said,
"Good Morning, Satsuki-chan. How are you?"
"I'm great, Haruto-kun, thanks for asking. How about you?"
"You're welcome and I'm doing fine."
Haruto sat down next to Satsuki and they continued their conversation, just talking about things like being Genin and everyday things, while students started to come into the room.
Shino Aburame and Yakumo Kurama arrived after 10 minutes or so and joined up with Haruto and Satsuki.
The story behind how all four of them became friends takes place around a year after the Uchiha Massacre.
Haruto and Satsuki came to the Academy early one day and decided to walk around the academy since they had so much time.
As they walked together, with Satsuki blushing as she glanced at Haruto from time to time, they found Shino crouched down on the ground by bushes while some kids around him called him a freak for liking bugs.
Haruto and Satsuki almost instantly were upon the group and scared them off. Satsuki then asked if Shino was okay and Shino thanked them with his usual monotone voice before going back to watching some bugs on the ground.
Satsuki was a little miffed at the way Shino thanked them, but Haruto didn't mind and was actually crouched by Shino, who had his eyebrows raised to show his surprise, as he watched the bugs with him.
Haruto commented how cool he thought the Aburame clan was, due to him studying about the clans in Konoha and outside of the village, recalling how they used bugs to fight for them and thought it was an interesting way of fighting. Also, he thought that the ability to track someone with bugs was also cool.
Shino, from that day, started to hang out with Haruto and Satsuki, considering they were the only ones to ever not be freaked out by bugs crawling on his face and actually thought it was cool.
With how they became friends with Yakumo, Yakumo was introduced to the class and was told of her special condition that Minato along with Kushina and Jiraiya was still working on at the time.
Most of the students thought she was a freak and didn't even try to keep their thoughts to themselves as they made fun of her for several days, but Haruto, Satsuki, and Shino didn't know this due to the students making fun of her when they weren't in the vicinity.
It wasn't that surprising when Yakumo finally had enough and lashed out at them with her Genjutsu, causing some students to be injured, but not that bad as Minato appeared in a flash and was able to knock her out before anyone got too hurt.
When she was brought back to class the next day, the students gained terrified looks on their face and Yakumo brought her head down to hide her face, but was surprised when Haruto, followed by Satsuki and Shino, stood by her and defended her, saying how they deserved what they got.
Yakumo cried tears of joy that day and was accepted into their group. The best part about it was that was around the same time that Minato and Kushina finished the seal, sealing the Ido and making its power her own, causing her complexion to brighten up and her strength to improve tremendously, which she took advantage of by training with either Satsuki or Haruto.
Also, Yakumo developed feelings for a certain red haired swordsman, causing a small rivalry with Satsuki to form.
All conversations in the room were suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Sakura and Ino, who were arguing about who was Sasuke's favorite in the middle of class.
Haruto shook his head in disappointment, Satsuki, despite being friendlier and kinder, glared slightly at them in disgust along with Yakumo, and Shino rubbed his temples.
Sakura and Ino weren't able to continue as Iruka and Mizuki appeared in the class.
"Alright! Everyone to your seats! We will now be explaining how this will go!"
Almost as fast as Minato's Hiraishin, the students were in their seats, causing Iruka and Mizuki to jump back slightly at the speed before Iruka shook his head, getting back on track.
Going over to his desk, he grabbed a pile of papers and held them up.
"Okay! For the first portion of your exams, you will all be taking a test to see if you were actually studying these past couple of years!"
A few groans were heard and Iruka gained a tick mark on his forehead.
"Shut it, you brats! No complaining!"
They instantly shut up and Iruka smirked.
"Better. As I was saying, you will be taking a written test, which Mizuki and I will hand to each of you individually," Mizuki, who was next to him, nodded his head in agreement, "A word of advice, read the instructions carefully ."
With his final instructions, Iruka and Mizuki started walking up and through the rows, handing each student a paper face down.
When they were done passing it out, Iruka held up a timer.
"You will all have an hour to finish your test! BEGIN!"
Haruto flipped his paper over and sensed something wrong.
Under his desk, he brought his hands together, forming the ram sign, and sent out a weak pulse of chakra, mentally saying,
"KAI!"
The paper, before his eyes, shimmered and revealed different instructions.
"If you are reading these instructions, you have passed the true intentions of the test, which is the ability to pick up on Genjutsu. Please turn this paper around and write 'The Will of Fire', in which you shall hand this paper to the instructor, proceed out of the room, and wait outside for further instructions."
Haruto quirked an eyebrow before shrugging and doing as instructed. He turned the paper around and quickly wrote "The Will of Fire'. He then stood up and headed down the stairs, confusing most of the students since they didn't read the instructions yet, handed the paper to Iruka, who subtly nodded, and headed outside.
Once he saw the training dummies, Haruto sat by a nearby tree and closed his eyes, waiting for someone to arrive.
A couple of minutes later, Haruto sensed several chakra signatures and opened his eyes.
He saw his siblings, friends, children from Konoha's clan, and even some civilians, which surprised him when he saw Sakura, approaching his way.
Haruto also sensed most of the civilians who inside the building feeling sad.
Oh yeah, Haruto discovered, along with the ability to sense others, he had the ability to sense the emotions or intentions of a person.
This ability proved very useful at times as he was able to tell if someone was telling a lie or not.
He stood up and dusted his pants a little before walking to Satsuki and standing by her and Yakumo and Shino.
Iruka, with Mizuki by his side, was seen standing in front of the group of students who passed the first part of the test with a clipboard in his hands.
Raising his head, Iruka enhanced his voice a little with chakra, explaining the next part of the exams.
"Alright, listen up! For those who still don't understand, you have all passed the first part of the exams!"
At this, almost every student aside from Haruto, his group of friends, and Sasuke, gave out a massive cheer.
Iruka gained a tick mark on his forehead for being interrupted and yelled out,
"Be quiet! I understand that you're all happy, but please refrain from interrupting me when I'm trying to explain the next part of the exams!"
This got those who cheered to instantly shut up, with Haruki and Haruna gaining terrified looks on their faces at the thought of failing because of their cheering, causing Haruto to chuckle.
Iruka nodded his head.
"Good. Continuing on from where I left off, you all passed the first part of the exams. For the next portion of your exams, we will be examining the level of your Taijutsu and Bukijutsu(Weapon Techniques) skills. The first thing we shall examine is your Bukijutsu skills so Mizuki and I will call each one of you one at a time to step forward, right behind this line,"
Here, Iruka stepped to the left and motioned with his right hand a drawn line on the floor.
"Where we will hand you a set of 10 shuriken to hit the logs over there,"
Iruka pointed with his right hand to the logs, which were colored into 5 vertical bars with the 2 bars near the end being white, the two closest to the middle being green, and the one in the middle being red, a couple of feet away,
"and then, after you're done with that, we will give you another set of 10 shuriken to hit a set of moving targets,"
Iruka pressed a button on the floor with his left foot, causing a couple sections of the field to open up, revealing targets attached to sticks that moved from side to side, before he turned back to the nervous or anxious looking students,
"We will then hand you a set of 10 kunai, in which the process will repeat again. The passing grade is at least a 6/10. The second part of the test will be Taijutsu, in which you can either have the choice of facing Mizuki or another student. Any questions?"
There was pure silence so he took that as a no.
"Okay then. If there's no questions, then the second part of the exams shall begin! We will go in alphabetic order from last name. Now, Akaba and Aragaki, please step forward."
Haruto, as he watched the performance of the students, which was mostly civilians, he cringed at how badly most of them performed and wondered if they even trained at all. Although, he was glad that at least some were pretty decent or a bit better than average.
He mostly concentrated on those who came from the clans that resided in Konoha and their results were to be expected, considering they came from shinobi clans.
Shino did really well, getting an impressive score of 9/10 with the shuriken on the logs, 8/10 with the moving targets, 8/10 with the kunai on the logs, and 8/10 with the moving targets.
Choji's score slightly surprised him, remembering seeing him act a lot like Shikamaru, but only because he spent a lot of time eating most of the time, with the kind Akimichi boy getting a 8/10 with shuriken on the logs, 7/10 with moving targets, 7/10 with kunai on the logs, and 8/10 with moving targets.
Even though Sakura came from a civilian family, Haruto was incredibly surprised by her results because of her reputation as a Fan girl being well known.
Her results were 9/10 with shuriken on the logs, 7/10 with moving targets, 8/10 with kunai on the logs, and 6/10 with moving targets.
Hinata was expected with her keen eyesight her clan was well known for and her results were 10/10 with shuriken on the logs, 8/10 with moving targets, 9/10 with kunai on the logs, and 8/10 with moving targets.
Kiba's was pretty good and he got 7/10 with shuriken on the logs, 8/10 with moving targets, 8/10 with kunai on the logs, and 9/10 with moving targets, probably due to him being used to fast speeds.
Yakumo, thanks to her training, surprised everyone besides Haruto, Satsuki, and Shino with her results because they expected her to only train in Genjutsu. She got 9/10 with shuriken on the logs, 9/10 with moving targets, 8/10 with kunai on the logs, and 7/10 with moving targets.
Shikamaru, who was too lazy and wasn't even trying, barely passed by getting 6/10 for all the results, but Haruto knew that he could've got a better score if he really tried.
Satsuki, her results being expected, got a near perfect score with her only missing one for the kunai moving targets.
Sasuke, being the "prodigy" he was, got a perfect score with all the shuriken and kunai landing perfectly in the red zone, causing his fan girls to give annoying cheers.
Haruki and Haruna went after he did and expectantly got a perfect score as well, being the son and daughter of the Hokage and Red Hot Habanero as well as being trained by them tends to do that to you.
"Haruto Namikaze! Please step forward!"
Haruto shook his head, breaking himself away from his thoughts, and stepped forward.
Stepping forward, directly behind the line, Haruto looked towards Iruka, who gave him a kind smile.
"Good Luck, Haruto."
Haruto smiled at his teacher, who never showed favoritism, which he respected, and was very helpful and kind to everyone.
"Thank you, Iruka-sensei."
Iruka nodded and handed him 10 shuriken, which felt very light in his hands compared to his weights at home.
Haruto narrowed his eyes at the logs as he crossed his arms over his chest. He waited a couple seconds later before he thrust his arms out, sending the shuriken flying.
He got 9/10 of the targets, which he was satisfied with.
For the rest, he got 8/10 with the moving targets and a perfect score with the kunai.
Everyone seemed really surprised, expecting more from Haruto, but most of them didn't really care, whispering to each other that Haruki and Haruna had gained most of the talent, angering Satsuki and Yakumo who were near by.
Haruto, himself, just shrugged, not really caring that he didn't get a perfect score, and stepped back letting the exams continued.
When he stepped back, Haruto saw that Satsuki and Yakumo were very angry.
He blinked before he asked,
"Is something wrong?"
The two jumped slightly when they heard Haruto's voice before they blushed in embarrassment.
Satsuki cleared her throat as her blush died down and glared to the side, causing Haruto be startled since she's always so kind, where most of the students were whispering to each other as they stared at Haruto.
"They were talking about how Haruki and Haruna were born with all the talent and describing how you were left with none, just because you didn't get a perfect score."
Yakumo was also glaring at them and nodded her head in agreement to her statement.
Haruto's mouth opened as he let out an "aw" before he sighed, shaking his head.
"It's fine. Just let them think what they want. I don't care what they think."
They were about to retort, but Haruto gave them hard stare, causing their words to die in their throat.
With that, Haruto went back to watching the rest of the students who were still taking the test.
Ino, pretty much, got the same exact score as Sakura, causing them to butt heads with imaginary lightning to burst from there eyes, where they met in the middle clashing against one another.
Iruka marked the last couple of scores down on his clipboard before he raised his head again.
"Alright, now we will be examining your skills with Taijutsu. Follow Mizuki and myself where we'll have more space."
Iruka and Mizuki turned right and started walking, which the students quickly followed until they stopped by a fence and a clear area.
Turning around, Iruka explained the rules for this part of the exams.
"As I said before, you can either choose to fight Mizuki, who shall be going at high genin speeds, where you will have to at least get a total of 3 successful hits, or face a fellow student, where you shall fight until I say to stop or the other falls unconscious."
The students nodded and Iruka started calling names in the same order and asked whether they wanted to fight Mizuki or another student.
Most of the students chose to fight each other, but the rare ones that did fight with Mizuki were easily beaten, causing everyone else who was thinking on taking Mizuki to change their mind.
Haruto, whenever a student fought Mizuki, narrowed his eyes, watching Mizuki's facial expression, which showed a smug grin, full of sadistic joy.
He decided to think about that later, but he couldn't stop feeling sickened when he felt the dark and sadistic joy from Mizuki's being.
Anyways, the students mostly kept choosing to fight another student, with one boy actually being jealous of Sasuke and challenging him to a fight, with Sasuke easily beating the student, which he did with a smug grin on his face, thinking no one could be as strong as an "Elite" Uchiha like him.
The same thing happened to Satsuki and Yakumo, with some girls, who were Haruto fan girls, being jealous and thinking that they had a chance with Haruto if they beat them, but boy were they disappointed when Satsuki and Yakumo easily crushed them in a fight.
Kiba, due to his clan, was very proficient with Taijutsu and easily beat his opponent; Shikamaru and Choji were paired together, where both only showed enough to pass before both decided to stop fighting; Sakura, obviously, challenged Ino and they fought with the standard Academy Taijutsu, where they both knocked each other out, making it a draw; Hinata won her fight, only because she was encouraged by Haruki and Haruna, which she still tried to make the damage less painful for the opponent; Shino fought decently and strategically; Haruki fought like a street brawler with a lot of speed and unpredictability; and Haruna fought with a lot of strength, due to being trained by Kushina and Tsunade who fought with a lot of their strength, and flexibility.
Iruka wrote something down on his clipboard and noticed the last person to fight was Haruto.
"Okay, Haruto. You are the last person on the list who hasn't fought yet so what will it be? With Mizuki or another student, who is in the best condition?"
Iruka was expecting Haruto to be like the others and choose to fight another student, but was taken aback when Haruto said,
"I choose to fight Mizuki-sensei."
Iruka blinked along with the other students before he nodded a bit slowly.
"If that's what you want Haruto."
Iruka turned his head to Mizuki, looking at him questioningly. Mizuki nodded his head to answer his look and stepped up.
From the sidelines, Satsuki, Yakumo, and Haruna stared at Haruto with worry, thinking the same exact thought.
"Please be careful, Haruto-kun. "
Haruto stepped forward and got into his fighting stance, with his legs bent and left hand in a fist facing Mizuki and right arm pulled back, staring at Mizuki with narrowed yet bored eyes.
Mizuki slightly jumped back at the look in Haruto's eyes before he shook his head and got into his own fighting stance, while internally he was grinning darkly.
"This is just perfect. If I can't take out my frustration on that blond bastard who wouldn't promote me, then I can take it out on his child. "
Iruka got in the middle between the two, with his right arm raised high in the air, looking both at them, one at a time before turning to the other.
"Are you both ready?"
They nodded.
"Then let this match," he brought down his arm, "BEGIN!"
Mizuki quickly rushed at Haruto, clearly at Chunin speeds, and pulled back his left arm with a smug grin.
"I bet he couldn't even see me move and is paralyzed in fear. I'll show this brat that fighting me was a bad idea. "
Too bad for Mizuki, who didn't know that Haruto was someone who trained with gravity seals and could easily match a Jonin in speed.
Mizuki thrusted his left fist out, expecting to feel something come in contact with his fist, but was left stunned when he hit nothing and Haruto wasn't where his fist was supposed to be, stunning the audience as well who tried to find Haruto.
Haruto reappeared, a second later, directly by the still stunned Mizuki and sent him flying with a roundhouse kick with his right leg.
"One… "
Haruto disappeared again and reappeared in Mizuki's path. When he was close enough, Haruto gave him a powerful uppercut to his chin, breaking his jaw and some of his teeth and sending him flying up this time.
"Two… "
Haruto crouched and, with his powerful trained legs, jumped faster and higher than Mizuki, who was still going up.
He put his hands together and bent his arms until his hands were behind his head.
He brought them down, coming into contact with Mizuki's head, and sent Mizuki flying down head first into the ground.
Haruto fell slowly to the floor and landed gracefully on the ground, staring at Mizuki's down form with bored eyes.
"Three. "
He brought his head back up to stare at the wide-eyed Iruka and classmates before he said,
"I win."