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Disclaimer: Naruto does not belong to me. It belongs to Kishimoto. If it did belong to me, Sasuke and Sakura would be dead.

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Chapter 1: The life changing fall

It was September 5th and parents were greeting their children,taking them home after a long day at the academy. The new ninja's were proudly showing their headbands to their parents who were congratulating them on becoming ninja's. It was a happy occasion for all the kids of the graduating class,all except one. The young boy sat their under the tree on a makeshift swing that he had made,looking at the families with longing in his eyes. He was 10 and a half years old and would be 11 within a month and few days.

"Why couldn't I have something like that?", the boy muttered. The young boy's name was Uzumaki Naruto, the Jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tailed Fox and son of the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato and the previous container for the Kyuubi,Uzumaki Kushina(not that he knew about it).

As Naruto looked at the families celebrating, he felt a pang of sadness. He did not have someone to celebrate anything with nor could he talk to anyone about his recent failure at graduating and finally becoming a ninja. He knew the ramen stand owner and his daughter,but they could not understand his feelings about being a ninja and his jiji-the Hokage was too busy to attend to him everytime he went there. He had tried to pass even though the rest of his classmates wanted to wait.

Thinking about his failure made him remember the reason why he had failed this time.

"Stupid Clone Jutsu. I never get it right", he said. "Even though I practice so much, I can never use that jutsu properly."

Naruto had the other basic jutsu down and he could beat most of his classmates in the academy spars even though he fought like a brawler. He could hit a target most of the time and even though he barely paid attention,he just passed in all the theory tests. It was just the one jutsu that was stopping him from achieving his goal. He had even made a jutsu that took perverts down!

He had no friends(just acquaintances who he skipped class with) and no-one to help him with. His sensei recently had a change in attitude towards him and started helping him, but other than practice had no other advice for Naruto.

'Improve your control with the Leaf sticking jutsu and practice Naruto', he could just hear his sensei's words in his head.

All he wanted to do was to gain the attention of people who looked at him with such hate in their eyes and make them respect him. This was why he took up pranks. In order to get back at them and make people notice him. But his dream- to become Hokage- would never be fulfilled if he could not pass this stupid exam.

Shaking himself out of the depressing thoughts, he decided to go to Ichiraku Ramen before heading back home.

As he was walking back, he passed a few training grounds. He was so engrossed in watching the people train that he stumbled and fell. Rolling down,he hit a rock and stopped.

As he was regaining his senses, he saw two ninja's fighting. One of them had a clone with him while the other was standing upside down on a tree, staring at the other nin. Naruto thought that he was seeing things and slapped himself.

'Ouch! That hurt. Wait, I'm still seeing it. How is that clone fighting? And how is that man standing on the tree? That looks so cool!', he thought.' I have to ask Iruka-sensei about this tomorrow.'

With such thoughts in his head, Naruto rushed to Ichiraku's to eat some ramen before heading home and dreaming about fighting with hundreds of clones and standing on trees and walking on water.

Who would have thought that a single fall would have changed his life?

A.N. The story will follow canon events most of the time though there will be changes here and there according to the story. Naruto won't be overpowered, but he will be stronger than what he was in the manga since I believe that he would not have bloomed late if he had a little push earlier on which he will get here. He will also use his prank ideas more(something I will make) and not abandon them like in the manga.