Naruto bounced anxiously in her seat as people were called to test. The written was over, and now it was taijutsu. It was student versus teacher.

  "Uchiha Sasuke!"

He came out looking pleased. To her he just looked constipated.

"Uzumaki Naruto!"

Naruto shook slightly as she went into the dojo room. She steeled her nerves and walked in, radiating confidence.

Mizuki and Iruka were standing there.
Naruto sighed. If she did her best, she might win. She needed to try and go for middle, not bad at taijutsu, but good enough for genin.
Mizuki stepped forward. After what Voice-san told her, she had problems hiding her distrust of him.

"You will be facing me. It will start with me on the defensive, and you, offensive. I will counterattack. Then it will switch. You will be on the defensive and I the offensive."
Iruka brought down his hand,
"Begin!"
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Naruto smiled. She knew she had done good on the taijutsu, and now the class had been called out for shuriken and kunai.

She watched briefly as the other kids got average scores, and chuckled when Shika barely passed, knowing he was being lazy.
Then it was her turn. She moved up, smiling to Shikas whispered 'good luck' and grabbed a handfull of kunai. She was going to ace this test.

She crossed her arms, holding a kunai in between each finger, and threw them at the row of targets, quickly whipping the last two out and throwing them at two of the kunai, knocking them into the center of each target. She pulled out the shuriken, jumped to the side, and in midair, threw all eight at the kunai, grinning as each one of the points went through the kunais ring and ripped the kunai out of the target, only to pin the kunai, it hanging off of the shuriken.

Everyone's jaw dropped. Naruto gave a bow, her hood still up. They moved on to the ninjutsu test.

Naruto once again waited anxiously for her turn. She watched as each kid came out with a headband.

Soon she was called. She ran into the room, ready to get this over with.

"Okay Naruto, please do a henge, kawarmi, and clone."

Naruto henged into Iruka, before swapping places with him, and swapping back. Then she sighed.

She tugged on her chakra, trying to pull out only a few drops of the massive ocean that was her chakra.

"Clone jutsu!" She said. She didn't want to look at what popped up, but did anyways.

There was one standing, but only barely. The other was sitting, trying to stop shaking. They dissolved in seconds.

"Naruto.. You fail."

Naruto tried to stop the tears that were forming, as she nodded and walked out of the room.

She slipped into a henge effortlessly, not wanting Shika to see her walk out without a headband. No one even payed attention to the brown haired, Brown eyed, plainly dressed boy that walked out.

She went to the swing, the one no one else sat on, and dropped the henge. She allowed a few years to slip out, before stopping them, sensing someone approaching. It was Mizuki.

'Kit, I don't like this. Don't trust what he says.'

She jumped, having not heard from the voice in months, and failing to contact him yesterday, it scared her.

"Voice-san? Where where you? I was worried!" She whispers quietly.

  ' I was... Asleep.'

"I was worried! Don't do that without some kind of warning."

She looked up to see Mizuki standing over her.
"What do you want sensei?" She asked, trying not to be rude.

  "Iruka doesn't hate you, you know. He's just looking out for you. I know he's hard on you, but don't let it get to you."

"I know. I just... Wanted to pass."

"I know a way for you to pass. It's a secret test, for those who can be genin, but failed the standard test."

Kit. Be careful. Lies come from his mouth. Go with it, and you may have found a traitor.

  She looked at him 'excitedly.'

"Really! What is it!?"

"You have to take the Forbidden Scroll, learn one technique from it and meet me in the forest at the abandoned shack. You can't tell anyone either." 

Naruto grinned. "Got it! When!?"

"After sunset."

And with that he disappeared.

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Naruto snuck through the Hokage tower, slipping into the Hokages office.

"Naruto? What are you doing?"

She turned to him. "Uhh, exposing a traitor?" She half asked and half answered.

The old Kage leaned forward fingers steepled. "Explain."

So Naruto told him about Mizuki, and how he told her about a secret test, and how she grew suspicious.

"And you where planning on going through with it?"

Naruto nodded. "I wasn't gonna give him the scroll. It would be a decoy. A henged stick or something." She smiled. "And you need to be incapacitated so I can take it. And then you send ninja after me. If course you don't know where I'll be so they will need to search. Sexy Jutsu!"

And the Hokage was out.

Naruto hurriedly grabbed the Forbidden Scroll And ran. She made it through the woods and opened the scroll. Kage Bunshin. Requires lots of chakra and it returns the memories to the original.

Naruto practiced and practiced. It was actually easy. She soon had five clones standing around her. She looked at the next one. Taiju Kage Bunshin. Requires enormous amount of chakra. She smiled.

I have that in spades.

On the first try she summoned thirty. She hadn't put much chakra into the jutsu in her opinion. She could probably summon a thousand and not even get close to exhausting her chakra.

  She sensed a presence coming towards her with another not far behind.

"Naruto! What do you think you're doing going off and stealing the Forbidden Scroll!"

Naruto rubbed her hooded head and chuckled nervously, playing the clueless idiot.

  "Ne, ne Iruka-sensei! I learned a technique! Do I pass? Ne, do I?"

Iruka looked confused. "What are you talking about Naruto?"

She sensed the other presence approaching rapidly. "Mizuki is a traitor. He's coming up at three o'clock sharp ninety degrees up." She whispered before saying. "Mizuki -sensei told me that if I took the scroll and learned one jutsu from it then I would become a genin."

Iruka found his eyes widening. Mizuki, a traitor? He heard the sound of kunai flying through the air, and moved to push Naruto out of the way.

  Thing was Naruto heard it too, and lashed her arm out, shoving Iruka out of the way, and using the momentum to throw herself backwards.

"Good job Naruto-kun. Now hand me the scroll."

  Naruto shook her head. "No! Do you really think I'm that dumb? I knew you were lying the moment you tried to spin your lie!"

Mizuki looked surprised before grinning maliciously. "You did did ya? Well you know who else has been lying to you? The entire village has been lying to you your entire life."
Iruka stood and shouted. " No Mizuki! It's forbidden!"

Mizuki just laughed. "In fact, there's a law, that lets everyone except you know."

Now she was curious. What was so bad that she was the only one who didn't know?

"What's this law about?" I ask.

'Me. Kit, it's time I tell you who I am.'

Voice-san said, and his voice was sad, as if he almost wished he didn't have to tell me. As if he was scared to be ...rejected?

'I am known as Kyubi. I was forced to attack the village twelve years ago. The fourth Hokage sealed me in you.'

Naruto actually wasn't all that shocked by that. She had suspected, due to her birthday and the beatings that she would get occasionally. But she didn't know.

While she was thinking on this, she missed Mizuki revealing the law, and watched as the huge shuriken was flung at her. In slow motion, she saw Iruka, moving to intercept. She lashed her arm out, hitting him square in the chest, throwing him back into a tree.  She sighed in relief, only to jump as she saw a small blur from the corner of her eye. Her eyes widened.

Black hair

Brown eyes

Caring eyes

  Shink.

Blood.

"SHIKAMARU!"

Cliffhanger no Justu!