SASUKE POV:
Sasuke's glowing red fist hit Naruto's black one. There was a minor shockwave as the red aura around the hand faded and he attempted to kick Naruto in the chest. Naruto blocked and spun him, making her face the ground.
As he pushed Sasuke's leg to make him fall he used his hands to twist around and kicked Naruto's left hand with enough force to use to right herself into a standing position.
He blocked a barrage of wind chakra punches before jumping high and doing some hand signs before sending out a a huge fireball from his mouth.
Naruto flipped back, dodging the attack before doing his own hand signs and sent out multiple balls made of wind from his mouth.
There was something off.
Sasuke knew for a fact that those wind balls were meant to be faster than a shuriken, yet they were coming at him at half its usual speed.
Below him, Naruto was making more hand-signs in slow motion.
His eyes widened as he recalled what Shisui had once said about it feeling the world was slower when you used the sharingan.
He grinned, and used his newly awakened sharingan to see the path of the attach before deflecting them with his ryou covered hands.
This was going to be fun.
As the two sparred, Sakura and Hinata were working on developing her water natured Ryou to the next level which they called the 'Elemental fist'.
"You gotta build it up, hold it and then push it all out" Sakura said as she punched with her blue aura clad hand in the air and a jet stream of water came out. "Fire needs your mouth and lungs every time you need to use a fire Jutsu, but if your mouth is disabled you're done for, so Sasuke invented this technique" Sakura said.
"You could do the same with water, since unless you're on the second Hokage' s level of water manipulation you need a water source to do a Jutsu, which is inconvenient"
Hinata nodded and activated Ryou in her hand. She waited, building up as much water chakra she could. To her disappointment only a tiny stream of water which went till about 20 cm came out.
"Oh damn. I got like 2 drops when I did it my first time" Sakura said as Sasuke sat on the ground and watched them train while Naruto came with a half burnt jacket and laid down on the grass near them mumbling about stupid red-eyed bastards.
"If you were expecting a bunch of water that'll take a while. It took me like 7 months to get my fire fist to even cross the 1-meter mark" Sasuke said.
NARUTO POV
As they entered the class and took their usual seat in the back, Iruka sensei, along with his assistant Mizuki sensei walked into the classroom. Ever since Naruto had started practicing with Kurama's chakra he had been able to somewhat sense other people's emotion towards him or those close to him.
After that one time where he would send out hundreds of clones to do d-rank missions most of the population saw him as Naruto Uzumaki and not the giant furball sealed in him. About 20% of the people still saw him as a demon, including Mizuki.
Mizuki had tried to sabotage Naruto multiple times, like giving him blunt kunai or putting a Genjutsu on Naruto's test to make it a test even a Jonin might struggle with.
"Alright class. In exactly two months everyone will be performing the Graduation exam to see if you're ready for the ninja world out there." Iruka sensei said," The test will consist of a written test and a practical test in which you will have to perform the clone, transformation and substitution Jutsu".
Sasuke and Naruto went back to whispered discussions about his newly awakened Sharingan and ways to improve it.
TWO MONTHS LATER
NARUTO POV:
"Naruto Uzumaki" came the call of Iruka sensei as he each student was tested individual for the practical test.
As Naruto entered the room he saw Iruka Sensei smiling along with Mizuki who was scowling but trying to hide it.
"Alright Naruto first transform into me" Iruka sensei said.
Naruto held up his right hand to do a one-handed seal and transformed into a perfect copy of Iruka Sensei.
Once Iruka Sensei was done inspecting him from all angles and gave his approval Naruto turned back.
"Ok, now the Substitution" Iruka sensei said.
Naruto made the same one-handed seal and was replaced by a log from the pile in the back of the room.
After writing a small note on his notepad Iruka sensei said " And finally, make at least 4 acceptable clones"
Instead of the one-handed seal or the seal for the normal clone Jutsu, Naruto put the index and middle fingers of both hands in a cross shape and called out "MULTI-SHADOW CLONE JUTSU" as 20 perfect copies of Naruto popped up behind him
"Congratulations Naruto, you pass" Iruka sensei said, looking like a fish had just started beatboxing in front of him.
"B-But that wasn't the clone Jutsu. We wanted the CLONE Jutsu, not shadow clones" Mizuki said, trying to prevent Naruto from graduating.
"The basic clones are just the easiest one for academy students. If Naruto can do a better version he should be allowed to." Iruka sensei said with finality in his tone as he handed Naruto the headband with the symbol of the hidden leaf village etched on.
1 HOUR LATER
"Naruto how would you like a chance to directly make it to chunin?" Mizuki said as he stopped Naruto from entering Ichiraku's.
Now while he did act like a goofball, Naruto was no idiot. He could clearly see that this was a trick but figured that since he had nothing better to do he might as well see what Mizuki was talking about.
Playing the part of the stupid brat Mizuki thought he was, he shouted out "REALLY?"