Okay people this is my first fanfic, so be nice.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
"Akai!" shouted Ryoko, the woman who had taken care of Akai for two years. "Breakfast is ready!" A few seconds later, a young boy with red hair and red eyes came down the stairs. "You didn't have to yell," he said. "I had to make sure you didn't oversleep," said Ryoko. "You stayed up late last night." "But I guess I shouldn't worry, since that's what you do just about every night." She always wondered how and why he did that, considering that he was only seven years old. There was a reason for that, but she would never know. "You know what today is, right?" Ryoko asked. Akai sat down and took a bite out of his toast, before answering, "Yeah." "Are you excited?" "No." Ryoko gave Akai a long, hard stare. "Now just what do you have against going to school?" Akai didn't answer, and drank some of his orange juice. "Is it because you're afraid of having to meet other people your age?" Ryoko asked. Akai still didn't answer, but his face became almost as red as his hair. "You need to stop being so shy." Ryoko said, fixing herself some coffee. Another thing that she could not understand about Akai was his shyness. He only talked to adults when he had to, and he had never once talked to anyone his age since he had been adopted into the Leaf Village. And that had been two years ago. "You can't be a ninja if you keep acting like that." Ryoko said. "You'll have to talk to lots of people." She started drinking her coffee, and went out of the small kitchen. Akai ate breakfast as slowly as he could, but soon he was finished eating. Ryoko came back with a red backpack, and a brown paper bag. "Everything you need for school is in this backpack, and your lunch is in the paper bag." she said. Akai got his things and walked out the door. "You know where the school is, right?" Ryoko asked him. "Yeah it's about four blocks from here," he answered. He began walking down the street. "Have a good day!" Ryoko shouted. Akai turned around and stared at Ryoko with his crimson eyes. Ryoko frowned. Those eyes of his were beautiful, but they were also frightening in a way. She knew that that was the real reason why he was so shy. Akai was afraid of how the other children would react when they looked at his red orbs. "It'll be okay." She said to him. Akai just blinked and turned around to start walking again.
Akai was scared to death as he walked towards the Academy. He could feel the eyes of other people on him. They had never seen him before, and he stood out with his dark red hair. He wanted to turn around and go back home, but he couldn't let Ryoko down, and besides, he really wanted to be a ninja. He wasn't really sure why though, it just seemed like it would be fun. He knew that it was a dangerous life to live, and that most didn't live to be very old. But for some reason he still wanted to be one. But could a ninja be as shy as he was? Akai realized that he'd have to get over his shyness if he ever wanted to be at least a Genin. Still, he didn't know how people would react when they saw his eyes. What if they- BANG! Akai ran straight into the brick wall of the Academy. He'd been so busy thinking that he hadn't been paying attention to where he had been going. He looked at the school building, his mouth suddenly dry. "This is where it begins." Akai thought to himself. "My life as a ninja." And he found the entrance and walked in.
When he walked into the classroom he saw no one else there. "I must be early." he realized. He looked up at the desks and saw that they were set up in rows (A/N: I don't exactly remember how they were set up in the show, but that's what I'm going by.) Akai noticed that there were name tags taped to the desks. He saw one that said 'Sasuke Uchiha'. Akai's eyes widened. As solitary as he was, even he knew about how great the Uchiha clan was. He looked around a bit more to see if there were any more names that he recognized. His eyes widened again, when he saw the name 'Hinata Hyuuga'. The Hyuuga clan was another famous clan. "Wow." Akai thought, "I'm going to be learning how to be a shinobi with people from important clans." He saw the name 'Ino Yamanaka' on another name tag. The name sounded familiar to Akai for some reason. He decided to find his own name tag. He looked around and finally saw his name, 'Akai Hisakata', on a desk all the way in the back row. He sat down in his chair, put his things on the ground, and waited. After about ten minutes, some people started to come in. Akai kept his head down as the other children took their seats. He looked up to see who sat at the Uchiha and Hyuuga desk. A raven-haired boy with bangs was sitting at the Uchiha desk. He looked smart and dedicated to Akai. "He looks like a nice guy." thought Akai. A blond haired girl sat down in the Yamanaka desk. Akai frowned. He still couldn't figure how the name sounded familiar, he'd never seen her before. Of course, he had never tried to really look at anyone too hard for fear of how they would look at him. He saw an indigo-haired girl sit down at the Hyuuga desk. She looked about as shy as he was, and her eyes were even weirder. He couldn't tell if they were gray or white. The fact that he wasn't the only one with an odd eye color gave Akai a bit of comfort. More people started to come in and soon, of the seats were filled. Akai wanted to try and see who was supposed to sit there, but before he could, there was a 'poof!' and a man with a spiky ponytail appeared.
Everything had happened so suddenly that Akai freaked out and fell out of his chair. He fell on his face, but luckily he hadn't fell down too hard, so he hadn't been seriously hurt. He got up quickly, hoping that nobody noticed. Apparently nobody had, the man who had appeared out of nowhere had stolen everyone's attention. "Hello everyone!" he said. "You can all call me either Master Iruka or Iruka-sensei." He smiled at the class. The class just stared back. "Um… okay so how about we get you all into your homeroom classes?" Iruka asked sweat dropping. It was obvious that he had thought that the children were less mature than they actually were. "What do you mean homeroom classes?" a girl with red hair asked. "It'll be where you come to class every morning." Iruka explained. "Doesn't that sound like fun?" he asked, underestimating the students' maturity again. "Just get on with it." someone muttered. "Um, okay, so I'll just pass these papers out to you all." Iruka said, sweat dropping again. He then passed out blank papers to the students, and the students just looked at the papers. "Um…" Akai said quietly, but to his surprise, Iruka turned his way. Akai's eyes got smaller and he looked away quickly. "I know, l know, the paper is blank." Iruka said, smiling. "But there is a way to make words appear. "…." Akai was scared to death. He knew that all eyes were on him now, thanks to one little word that had slipped out of his mouth. Then he remembered what Miss Ryoko had told him. "You can't be a ninja if you keep acting like that." "You can't be a ninja if you keep acting like that." "You'll have to talk to lots of people." So Akai gathered up the few guts that he had, and looked at Iruka straight in the eye. Iruka looked a bit taken aback because Akai had done this so suddenly. Akai found himself being amused by this, and suddenly asked, "And what way is that?" Iruka was now angry, he had kept on underestimating the children, and now one of them was starting to humiliate him for it, thinking that he was some worthless wimp. "Okay, you do it like this.", Iruka said in a strained voice. He snatched up Akai's paper, and put it on the floor. "This is your first ninja lesson.", he said. "First, raise you hand, like this." He held his hand up in the air. "Master Iruka are you okay your face is looks kinda-" "Then make a fist.", Iruka continued, interrupting Hinata. "Raise only your index and middle fingers. Press them against each other, and then put the tips of them onto the paper." Iruka waited for the children to do what he told them to, breathing heavily. When they did, he then said, "Now, try to focus on bringing your chakra to those two fingers."
Akai had closed his eyes while he had been trying to do what Iruka had told him to. But hearing the unknown word 'chakra', he opened them with a start. "Chakra? What's chakra?" He looked around to see what the others were doing. Apparently, no one else knew what to do either. Then, out of the corner of his eye, Akai saw Sasuke do something with his hands. He turned to look, and thought that he saw something blue outline Sasuke's fingers, and then he pressed his fingertips against the paper and spun it around. Eventually smoke erupted from paper, and Akai could see hiragana written on it. Everyone looked at Sasuke in amazement, even Iruka, who had been preparing to explain to the students that they weren't able to use chakra at their skill level yet. "Um, well that's how you do it!" he said, even though he didn't fool anybody, they all knew that he hadn't planned for that to happen. A lot of people to be impressed by what Sasuke had done (especially the girls). Akai was impressed too, and he was more dedicated than ever to learn how to use his chakra, whatever that was. He concentrated as hard as he possibly could and then he felt something explode inside of him.
Okay that's the end of chapter 1! Please review, and tell me what I should do to make it better!