Naruto: The Students of Ryuu
By Last of the Time Lords
Chapter 1: The Start of Something NewBeep, Beep, Beep Smack came the sound of a small boy's hand hitting his alarm clock in a desperate attempt to stay asleep. But still the infernal machine continued to ring to a point where the boy could no longer take it. In his dazed state, the boy unknowingly grabbed a kunai out of his new weapon pouch and forced it deep within his clock, giving the six year old a nasty shock and sent him flying across the room crashing into the far wall.
As he slowly recovered from his shocked state he could hear the hurried steps of his family running down the hall. When the door opened, he could see the burled image of a girl, slightly taller than him with two buns in her hair. "Sano-chan, are you ok? I hear a crash." said Tenten worried that her otouto had hurt himself…again.
"Morning nee-chan, I'm ok, I just got into a fight with the alarm clock." yawned Sanosuke as he sheepishly rubbed the back of his head.
"Baka. Look, I'm heading to the academy early to practice a little. Just make sure you're on time for your first day of school, 'Kay."
"Hai, hai, nee-chan. And you take it easy on the poor sap you use for target practice."
Tenten giggled at her brother's comment and smiled. "No problem Sano-chan." She leaned down and kissed his forehead and left for the academy.
"Eww." Sanosuke rubbed his forehead and started to get ready for his first day at school. He couldn't be happier; today was the beginning of his training to become a shinobi of Konoha. Like most kids his age, he was most excited about learning Ninjutsu and weapons training. Coming from a family that owns the only weapon shop in the village, it was kind of a given.
"Sano-chan, hurry up or you will be late!" Yelled his mother, Mina, from downstairs.
Confused with what the current time was due to the loss of his clock, Sanosuke searched his black cargo pants for the pocket watch he get on his fifth birthday and opened it up to check the time.
"Holy crap, its already six! I'm going to be late!!" Thought Sanosuke.
It took Sanosuke all of thirty seconds to throw on his dark blue hoody, black pants, and run out the door with a bento box caught tightly between his teeth.
Meanwhile, at the same time
A blond haired child buried his head deep into his pillow, trying to keep the annoying buzz of his clock from interrupting his dreams of being the Hokage while swimming in a giant bowl ramen. With the ringing working on his last nerve, Naruto attempted to stop the buzzing by trying to strike it but ended up falling to the floor, tangled in his bed sheets.
Angered at the fact that he was now fully awake, Naruto began to get ready for his first day at Konoha's ninja academy. Naruto obtained permission to attend the academy from the Sandaime Hokage as a present for his sixth birthday. His second gift, probably the one he was most grateful for, was his own apartment. Naruto did not know why the old man was so kind to him when no else would but never being one to look a gift horse in the mouth Naruto accepted each gift with a fox like grin on his face.
Picking up the device that once had caused him much strife, he was shocked to see it was already six o'clock. "The academy starts at six thirty. Crap, I'm going to be late!" With that in mind, Naruto quickly put on clothes that were more than twice his size, grabbed a cup of instant ramen, and headed out the door.
"Sweet Kami-sama, what did I do to deserve this?" Panted a blond haired boy wearing a gray short sleeve jacket with a mesh undershirt and tan pants. He had been running for a few hours to get to the academy. He had no idea whose bright idea was it to built the clan compound in the farthest part of the village but he really needed to bring it up with his mother at the next meeting. 'Speaking of which, where is she?' the boy thought as he caught his breath. If she found him now, she would surely have his head. It wasn't that she was a bad mother, far from it. She loved her son like any mother would, she just had an 'interesting' way of raising him involving a rather large battle-axe.
"Shouldn't you be at the academy Hiro?" A sickly sweet voice asked the boy. Hiro froze in place, not wishing to look at person who had addressed him. He knew who it was, but he was too afraid to look because if he did he would be staring into the eyes of the devil herself. His fight or flight response kicking in, Hiro took off like a bat out of hell down the street, avoiding his mother's axe as it came down. Hiro's attempt to flee was shortly interrupted when he crashed into a boy around his age wearing a dark blue hoody. Both boys quickly recovered from the accident and gathered their belongings. "Yo, what's the rush?" Sanosuke asked as he dusted himself off.
"No time to chat, I got to get out of here and you should too!" Yelled Hiro as turned tail and ran off. Sanosuke was beyond confused, he was just walking to school and out of nowhere he gets side checked by a random stranger who didn't even apologize to him. Sanosuke picked up his bento when Hiro poked his head out from a round the corner. "I'm sorry, that was rude. What's your name?"
"Sanosuke, Harada Sanosuke." Replied Sanosuke. "Nice to meet you Sanosuke, I'm Nakayama Hiro. Run for your life!" Yelled Hiro and started to run away from Sanosuke again. Sanosuke looked puzzled, 'What the fu…' his thoughts were interrupted when he hear a scream coming from behind him. He turned to see a rather angry woman with light brown hair and carrying a very large battle-axe with his family's symbol impressed into the head, signifying that his father made the weapon. Not wanting to find out why the woman was so pissed off, Sanosuke did the logical thing and got the hell out of there. Aoi stopped running and watched the boys make their way to the academy. She smiled at the work she had done, 'Not only did I get Hiro scared senseless of being late for school but if I'm not mistaken I also got Mina's son as well.' She looked at her axe and thought 'Hmm… maybe I took it a little too far with the axe. Nah.' Aoi placed the axe back on her back and walked back to the Nakayama compound to talk to her father about the future of the clan.
Hiro looked behind him to see if his mother was still chasing him but only found Sanosuke trailing behind him by a few paces. Losing his footing for a while, Hiro tripped over his own feet and rolled into a heap in front of a girl roughly his age who was standing in front of the academy wearing a sleeveless light blue vest with a white under shirt, a light blue skirt and black shorts. Hitomi had been waiting for him for a while and when he fell in front of her, all she could do was smirk and shake her head. "You almost made that look good." Hitomi said softly as she helped Hiro off the ground. "That's how I roll." Hiro said nonchalantly as he dusted himself off. Sanosuke placed a hand on Hiro's shoulder as he tried to catch his breath, "Hiro, who the hell was that lady with the axe? She looked insane and pissed." He asked regaining his composure. "Aww… auntie Aoi chased you with the axe again, Hiro-san." Giggled Hitomi.
Hiro scoffed at his cousin's sarcasm "At least she used the smaller axe this time." Sighed Hiro. "Wait, that woman was your kaa-san!? Wow, sucks to be you." Sanosuke replied upon learning this new information. "What's your name? I'm Sagara Hitomi." Hitomi asked wondering who her cousin's new friend was. "Harada Sanosuke, it's nice to meet you Hitomi-chan." Said Sanosuke giving Hitomi a friendly smile. It was faint, but Hitomi blushed when Sanosuke called her Hitomi-chan. The only other person to call her that was her uncle, Hiro's father. "Nice to meet you too Sano-san. I see you already know my little cousin Hiro." Replied Hitomi. "Hey, you're only four months older than me and plus I'm taller!" Huffed Hiro trying to counter his cousin's remarks. Sanosuke just laughed at their antics, "You guys are really related?" Sanosuke asked not sure if it was true or not. "Of course, can't you tell?" Hitomi said sarcastically as she tucked a piece of her deep red hair behind her ear. "No, not really" said Sanosuke rubbing his neck. "Her father and my father are brothers Sano." explained Hiro. "Well now that everything is cleared up, I think we should get to class now before we're late." Stated Hitomi. Hiro and Sanosuke nodded in agreement and looked at the academy. "All right, look out Konoha; the next great trio of ninjas are on the move!" Sanosuke proudly proclaimed and took his first steps to become a ninja. However, he failed to see a large rock on the ground and fell face first hard. Hiro tired very hard to hold back his laughter but failed miserably and Hitomi shook her head, mumbling under her breath that sort of sounded like 'idiot'.
Dressed in a plain white kimono, a young, raven-haired girl waited patiently for her Chuunin escort to take her to her first day at the shinobi academy outside the home of one of Konoha's most prestigious clans. To most people, if they saw her, they only saw the heiress of a powerful clan with an even more powerful bloodline limit. But if you looked beyond that, you would see the girl's quiet and timid nature.
Hinata was about to start walking on her own, but that thought was quickly stopped when out of the corner of her eye she saw a small dust cloud with an orange blur at the head of it getting larger with every passing moment. The blond-haired boy was running at top speeds, clutching something tightly in his hands. The item found its way out of his hands and land on the ground. Turning around to pick up his discarded item, the boy stumbled over his sandals and roll into a heap at the young girl's feet. As if on reflex, Hinata dropped her things and watched the boy, in clothes clearly too big for his small frame, pick himself off the ground.
Holding his sore chest and even sorer head, Naruto noticed a pair of small feet next to him. Looking up he stared right in the face of a girl around his age looking at him, shocked but with a light blush. Her light lavender eyes met his piercing cerulean gaze.
Laughing loudly and flashing a large, toothy grin, he rubbed the back of his head, "Heh, just my luck to trip huh."
Naruto walked over, picked up his discarded cup of ramen and turned around to face the dark haired female. He now had two choices laid before him; he could either head to the academy or make a new friend. He chose the latter considering the fact he had no idea where the academy was.
"Hi there. I'm Naruto Uzumaki, future Hokage of Konoha. What's your name?" He said giving the girl a fox like grin.
He was talking to her. Few people ever talked to her and if they did it were only because they wanted to talk to her father. But this boy, whose eyes seemed to pierce her soul, was talking to her, waiting for a reply.
"Hyu-hyuu-g-ga Hi-hi-na-t-ta." She stuttered quickly.
"Hyuuga Hinata?" He repeated hopping he had heard her right.
"H-hai." She replied as her face turned a light shade of pink.
He smiled. "Hello Hinata-chan. So…umm… do you know the way to the academy?"
Suddenly, her face turned a deep shade of red. No one has called her Hinata-chan since her mother died last year. Just has she was about to respond to his question, a soft voice from behind them responded for her. "She was just about to leave for the academy, Uzumaki-san."
Both children jumped when they heard the voice from behind them. When they turned around, they came face to face with a pretty, red-eyed Chuunin and looked at her with varying degrees of fear, embarrassment, and surprise. Hinata looked as if she was on the verge of fainting while Naruto looked at the woman with fear in his eyes, afraid that his new friend would be taken away from him.
Yuuhi Kurenai watched the two children with much interest. She could be blind, deaf, and dumb and still she would noticed the beginnings of a crush in her young charge. And there was no one, dead or alive, who had not heard of the so-called 'demon child's' dream of becoming the village's leader. What surprised her most was that, if she wasn't mistaken, Naruto seemed to be giving Hinata the same looks she was giving him. Glancing from one child to the other, Kurenai smiled thinking they would make a lovely couple someday.
"Come along Hyuuga-sama, Uzumaki-san, you two don't want to be late for your first day at the academy, do you?" Kurenai asked; a loving smile graced her lips.
Hinata donned another shade of red on her face as she walked along side Kurenai while Naruto followed, a rapidly growing smile making its way across his face.
Author's Note: Hello, Last of the Time Lords here. This is my first Naruto fan fiction, well first one I had written, well first one I had written and given a lot of thought to. Please note that this story is entirely O.C. story. The storyline will follow the manga in the key areas such as the Genin exams and Chuunin exams. Certain things will be changed for the sake of the story but not much. I would also like to ask any readers that if they know any very good translator programs that they would be kind enough to sent me a link.
I'll do my best to try to update as fast as I can, so if you like the story, please bear with me. I am a slow typist who mostly works on these kinds of projects on the weekends and I'm trying my best to write a story that is funny but also add a nice mix of action and romance.