In these past five years,

  Naruto has been living a very fulfilling life, following his routine. After the Uchiha was annihited, Konoha entered a period of "true" peace. The other major ninja vilges like the Cloud Vilge and the Stone Vilge didn't know the specific details of the Uchiha 's annihition. Konoha still had its past reputation to uphold, and the major ninja vilges hadn't fully recovered from the Third Great Ninja War. The possibility of a Freat Ninja War had been forcefully suppressed.

  During this rare period of peace,

  Naruto tinued with his daily life, ign whatever was happening iside world. He lived by a strict three-point schedule: Ninja Academy, home, and the training ground in the forest. Naruto never wasted time on other things; he focused on his own training, stantly gaining knowledge tthen himself.

  Moreover, during these five years,

  Naruto could clearly sehat the ANBU who had been monit him had gradually withdrawn. Maybe it was because he was about to graduate from the Ninja Academy and bee a true Konoha ninja, or perhaps it was because Naruto's siitude over the past few years had finally earhe trust of the Third Hokage.

  In short,

  About a year ago, Naruto no longer felt that stant surveiln his daily life. When that feeling, like a needle in a cushion, pletely disappeared, Naruto almost couldn't help but cheer. After all, this was the only way for him to slowly implement his pns instead of alretending to be timid.

  Everything was going smoothly.

  Now, all he had to do was wait for the graduation assigs, and he could move on to the step of his pn.

  However, at this critical moment, Narutot something crucial.

  That was the graduation qualifying exam at the Ninja Academy!

  It wasn't until the day of the graduation qualifying exam arrived,

  Ihe examination room,

  It was Naruto's turn.

  "e Jutsu!"

  "Poof!"

  A familiar golden figure,

  That calm voice,

  Faced with the white chakra burst that seemed quite imposing,

  But,

  The moment,

  The dissipating white smoke revealed not the expected two es,

  But rather two inexplicable, e-colored objects sprawled on the ground. Yes, they were e and uifiable objects. pared to a few years ago, you could say Naruto's e Jutsu had improved slightly. At least now, you could see some colors and a rough humanoid shape if you were willing to admit it.

  However, the current situation was genuinely not ughable.

  This was the examination room at the Ninja Academy.

  Now it was the year 60 of Konoha, and Naruto was already 12 years old. He had always been iop five of his css, with theoretical knowledge sistently iop three. Occasionally, he even ranked first. Naruto, who was supposed to take the graduation exam, had failed the e Jutsu again.

  Even though Naruto was someone who learned quickly, whether it was the e Jutsu or the Transformation Jutsu within the Shadow e Jutsu, he had learhem in just a few days. His performan theoretical knowledge and physical training had always been excellent, pg him at the forefront of his css in overall performance. Even three years ago, Naruto had quickly mastered a k Wind Release jutsu that Iruka had taught him after a lot of pestering. Naruto could trol it within a short period (the chakra nature, whiaruto mentioned casually three years ago, was tested by Iruka, who gave him a k Wind Release jutsu. Although Iruka wasn't a Wind Release user himself, jutsu like this wasn't limited to a specific chakra nature; it was only the chakra ption and final power that would differ. Iruka, as an experienced in, being able to use one or two k Wind Release jutsu wasn't stra all).

  However, it just had to be this e Jutsu.

  No matter how he approached it,

  This kid couldn't learn it.

  This made Iruka wonder if this kid was naturally inpatible with this jutsu. Still, the graduation exam almost always included the e Jutsu. Iruka relutly let this kid try it out with the attitude of "Let's see what happens." Well, the result was as expected.

  What he created wasn't a e but...

  Ahem...

  Iruka didn't know what to say at this moment.

  "Sigh..."

  Iruka sighed silently in his heart, then immediately put on a serious fad looked at Naruto not far away, saying sternly.

  "You failed!"

  Although Iruka also wanted Naruto to graduate, rules were rules. The graduation exam at the Ninja Academy was already a reasonably arranged system. Only those who passed could bee genin. If you didn't pass, you had to go bad study again. In this regard, Iruka was slightly inflexible.

  And the words he lightly uttered made Naruto's expression ge.

  Really? If he couldn't graduate this time,

  Wouldn't that be a real bst?

  Directly back to the drawing board.

  Naruto didn't have the time or leisure for that.

  Of course, even if he didn't learn e Jutsu, he could learn other physical e jutsu iure!

  "Iruka-sensei, I think I ..."

  However,

  Before Naruto could finish his sentence,

  Iruka waved his hand and interrupted directly.

  "No, Naruto, you failed. It's not iable. This is the rule and the system. The graduation exam at the Ninja Academy is desigo prehensively assess your abilities. The e Jutsu is fual, and if you 't trol it, you don't qualify to bee a genin!"

  Iruka pced his crossed hands on the desk and looked at Naruto with a solemn expression as he spoke.

  (End of this chapter)