"SOMEONE KNOCKED THE HOKAGE OUT!"
"SOMEONE SAW NARUTO SNEAKING OUT OF THE HOKAGE TOWER!"
"Waitaminute, 'Dead last' Naruto?" asked a voice in the assembled crowd of jonin, chuunin, genin, civilians, etcetera. "Someone who flunked the graduation test three times managed to sneak past all the guards, defeat the HOKAGE, and steal a scroll from inside a sealed vault?!"
All the members of the angry mob looked at each other, trying to figure out who'd said that, and absolutely not think about how incompetent that made them sound.
"Uhm, I had to go to the bathroom, that must have been when he snuck past," offered one of the chuunin.
"Yeah yeah, that's it," muttered several others.
"So you ALL went to the bathroom at the same time?" chided the same voice.
"Uhm, must have been," muttered most of the people present. Unsurprisingly nobody wanted to take responsibility for not having been able to stop Naruto.
"Gee," said the same anonymous (disguised) voice, "it was a good thing it wasn't an assassin from a foreign village or something. Just Naruto pulling yet another prank."
"It must have been the demon fox!" yelled one chuunin.
"Right," said the anonymous voice. "A giant ninetailed demon fox bent on destruction managed to SNEAK past all of you to pull a prank? How many people died because a creature that delights in violence STOLE a scroll?"
"Err," said the one chuunin. "I got a bruise on my pinky from something..."
Dead silence reigned for a moment before a cricket started to chirp.
"You know," said another chuunin, "this makes us look pretty bloody incompetent, doesn't it?"
There were a few thoughtful nods.
"Just find Naruto, would you?" asked the Hokage, who'd spotted Shikamaru using a henge to impersonate his father and a voice-distortion jutsu. Not that he was going to say anything, as the boy had raised an excellent point.
"Hmmmm, okay," said Naruto. "That's 'Shadow Clone' down. What else is there?"
"Where the hell IS that brat?" asked Mizuki, so frustrated he was now talking to himself. "Why are there trails leading everywhere?"
Another flash of orange in the trees turned out to be yet another scrap of cloth hanging from a branch.
Mizuki screamed in frustration and continued searching.
"Ooooooh!" said Naruto. "Bunshin Daibakuha? I can make EXPLODING shadow clones?! Wicked!"
Hinata placed another piece of orange scrap cloth on another branch, then used her Byakugan to look around again.
Once she was sure she was clear, she went quickly to the next site.
"Naruto!" called out Iruka, landing next to the genin. Then he spent a couple of moments trying to catch his breath.
"Iruka sensei!" said Naruto happily. "Watch this! I learned THREE techniques from the scroll! Now you've got to let me graduate!"
"Eh?" asked Iruka. "What?"
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