Fanfic: Naruto
Title: Gakuen Konoha
Genre: Shoujo
Disclaimer: Fanfic, remember?
Note: I love Naruto but I keep waiting on their crazy love stories that my brain just took hold on its own…again…
Aahhhh, my brain is just full of happiness right now
This is not a crossover, this is the flashes of memories from the Konoha Ninja School...a time when (intro…):
Naruto is still a confused bitter child, forced to live as an orphan with no one to love and with no one to cling to...
Sasuke just lost his family, and has suddenly inherited a whole lot of wealth; influence and power, all shoved to his 9-year old hands...
Hinata is a cute scaredy-cat, easily faints from the sight of blood, and everyone expects her to be a great ninja, just like her father…
Sakura is still the shy insecure little child who happens to genuinely fall inlove with our silent and cool Sasuke…
And they will all led the life as a shinobi that is nothing but darkness and death…still, love conquers all, right?
Prologue:
He is the head advisor of the Hokage. Normally, that would mean great honor and prestige on anybody's part, but for his humble opinion, it's just a pain in the ass.
Shikamaru opened the door, a stagnant air hanged on the room. Piles of paperwork were scattered all over the huge table and others raised seemingly undisturbed, collecting dust in any possible space at the dank place.
It has been like this for years that the picture of it as clean and spotless as before was already erased from his memory. Not that the former occupant was any better, but still, it is hard for him to believe that this chaos is actually considered as "clean" by that person's standards.
He sighed, tempted to burst the windows open when he remembered the firm instruction that person has given to everyone to never open the windows. Which, everyone never failed to do.
After the last incident, he still couldn't forget how his friend raged. It was classic especially the moment a cold breeze carried all his month-long work.
He snickered, vividly replaying everything complete with the colorful and inventive curses his friend shouted at the wind. Not even the construction of the Hokage Tower was spared, insisting that their ancestors has no sense at all for building a tower as high as a mountain…to put it in better terms.
That person is his friend and unfortunately his current boss. It did not surprise him when Kakashi relinquished the title of Hokage to Naruto.
Yeah, his noisy classmate who never learned to shut up even when he needed to; the same person who failed miserably in all test possibly ever created at the academe and the same person who saved his life countless times.
Uzumaki Naruto. He almost cursed the idiot for drilling into his brain the words 'I'll become the Greatest Hokage Konoha has seen' and hundreds other variations into his head. Who would have thought he really does stick to his words?
Shikamaru made his way out of the labyrinth towards the only living person, who can stand this mess. Not even Kiba, the most I-can-take-everything-you-throw-at-me kind of guy can survive in this danger zone. And even the stoic Neji cringe at the sight.
He cleared his throat, trying to gain the man's attention. The silhouette flinched at the sudden sound, and then a blonde, aged beyond his years, peeked behind the mountain of scrolls. His clear-blue eyes burdened with dark shadows clearly from lack of sleep and a major caffeine overdose.
Man, he looked beaten. A frown knitted at the blonde's forehead as if raking his head to remember the man in front of him. But the confusion was easily blinked away in a second, finally recovering from the unannounced visit.
"Shikamaru! How's the vacation? How long have you been back to Konoha?" Naruto shouted as if his spurting shouts of joy like his savior just arrived. He sighed again, from the looks of things, he might really need one.
"Just a few hours ago," he browsed one of the discarded folders, "seems like you're having progress here."
"Nah, you know you could always do better than me," he replied, obviously implying when he will go back to work.
Seriously, he's too transparent.
"Anyway, how's Temari?"
Shikamaru eased himself at the only visible stool. "This should be on squad 3," he said pointing at the request letter on the folder which Naruto received too eagerly, happy to have some help at last.
"You know women." Shikamaru answered buying his time. "She's still angry at me for proposing to her."
Women, one of the most disturbing creatures ever existed. I mean, what is wrong in asking if she would mind to raise kids with him? What's so bad about that? It's not as if they're not going out already.
And Temari is pissed?
Is she serious?He just cut his chest open, pulled his heart out and laid it out in the open for her, damn it! And for what? For a stinging slap straight on the face with a gigantic fan? Unbelievable.
Naruto just eyed him disapprovingly, "You really have no sense of romance, do you?"
"If your definition of romance is shouting at the whole village like a lunatic, then you're worse off than I am."
"At least I got the girl."
Shikamaru placed the folder at the heap next to him when Naruto stopped him. "Don't place it there! I'm still not through with that batch."
"Then where is the finished section?"
"It is just at the corner," he looked at where Naruto pointed at and saw a stack not even half his height.
"I was gone for two days and you only finished this much?"
"A day and a half," he corrected like the difference mattered.
He checked the label and his mood, which is already not that good, escalated to 'bad'. Shikamaru hit him in the head. "These are the freaking bills, Naruto!" He yelled, grabbing a handful and scanned the contents. And Shikamaru just snapped.
Right there and then, a huge cloud brewed beyond the surface. "Ne, Na-ru-to…" Shikamaru said in a voice that made Naruto's skin crawl, "Did you just use the Konoha golden seal for 300 orders of Double-Side Dish Super Bowl Ichiraku Ramen?"
Naruto's tanned face paled as he faced a homicidal Shikamaru who could rival even Orochimaru paralyzing gaze, "I-it was for the school event! I just can't leave them after they made me guest speaker!"
"You think a hundred children and a handful of faculties can consume 300 ramens?" We're talking super bowls here!
"Ahm, about that…there were bystanders at the -" He wasn't able to finish his words when a recently dumped shinobi pulled a sadistic smile. Shikamaru and a sadistic smile is never a good combination.
It was in the middle of the day when the residence of Hidden Leaf Village was rocked with an ear-shattering scream.
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"Oi, Naruto. You looked like you were just off from a Class-S mission," Neji commented. They're inside the now clutter-free office. Well, at least the papers are gone, thanks to Shikamaru.
"Yeah, it's all thanks to Shikamaru. Running me over like a slave for nineteen hours, straight, without bathroom breaks!" His body collapsed on the chair, "I feel like dying."
Neji handed his mission report. "I thought you already get used to him? You did pick him, after all."
Naruto looked at his cousin-in-law like he said something wrong. "Temari just dumped him."
"Oh," Neji said, "must have been hell."
"I'm right here," Shikamaru appeared at Naruto's side with another staggering pile of proposals for review. "I don't need your sympathy Neji."
"It's not for you. It's for this idiot you're murdering right now," both glanced at the Hokage, who just buckled at the sight of the next batch of terror.
"Maybe I went overboard."
Neji gave him a quizzical look, "Maybe? You have just burnt the few remaining brain cells in his head."
"So? As if there's anything else to burn," he replied.
Insulting the Hokage, especially at his presence would have been fatal but Naruto is an exemption. Not that he's really an idiot. Both Neji and Shikamaru, two of the best brains in Konoha, agreed that Naruto is one intelligent and cunning strategist. He wouldn't have become a Hokage or even survived any mission if he is not.
The whole idiot-thing is more like a habit. For the whole batch, Naruto would remain the class clown. Even Hinata, his wife thinks so too.
Even if Naruto became the strongest ninja in history, which is not that impossible, or suddenly have his own fan club, which is next to impossible…Naruto will always be the friend they knew.
End of Prologue
: You have no idea about Naruto's Fan Club, Neji…no idea…