TEACHER I
The forth had died and in doing so, he had saved the village. The sacrifice was his life and the curse of his newborn child, with his dying breath, the forth made a request to whatever beings of higher power would hear him. He just wished for his son to be given the strength to survive trough the burden he had placed upon him, but most of all he asked that he would find some one that would teach him to become a great warrior.
"Just help him to become strong"
He asked the sky and then darkness over took him, yet before his soul faded he was pulled from death's grasp and a man with a goofy smile greeted him. His black hair was pointing upwards in weird angles; he was dressed in a bright orange suit.
"I will"
Were the only words he spoke before a bright yellow light engulfed him and he faded into a figure of a great golden dragon, the third smiled and knew his son would indeed become strong.
5 YEARS LATER:
The small infant that contained the demon had grown, and much to the village is annoyance they had not been able to break his spirit, despite the glares and the beatings the boy kept smiling and screaming that he would become hokage. All the while one watched and smiles at the boy is perseverance and inner strength, despite all of his ordeals he had not given up or turned his back on the village, for some one so young to show such strength of character was impressive. It was time for him to make his move. So in one of the many days that the boy ran to the forest in search of a hiding place he appeared before him, the reaction he had gotten was not what he was expecting.
"Who the hell are you?"
The man smiles.
"I am here to train you"
"Train me? Why would you do that?"
"You want to be hokage right naruto?"
"Yeah but…. Hey how do you know my name?!"
"I been watching you and I think you can become pretty strong, with my help of course"
"Yeah?"
He was hesitant but he had to be realistic, every one on the village hated him so there was no way that some one would offer to train him. This was an opportunity that came once in a lifetime and if the man wanted to train him then he had better take him up on his offer less he takes it back.
"Yes. so what do you say?"
"I don't know…I mean you look strong but"
He was no fool, just because the man looked strong didn't mean that he was strong or could help him to become strong, The man smiled and focused his energy into the palm of his hand and a small energy ball appears a second later it is unleash causing a massive explosion miles away.
"That was just a sample so interested?"
The hell he was, he had never seen that kind of jutsu nor had he ever seen chakra like the one he had; but this guy could generated it and redirect it. Not only that the explosion he had just seen had rocked the whole village.
"YOU BET I AM!"
"Good, I'll come for you tomorrow"
"OH YEAH….hey wait what's your name?"
"I'm Goku"
CHAPTER I
"THE NINE TAIL BRAT"
"Naruto come back here! When I get my hands on you"
"You punk!"
The citizens of konoha could only hear the laughter and the teasing of the blond as a bunch of shinobi ran after him, they had seen the hokage monument all covered in paint and had guessed it was naruto, they just hope that when those shinobi caught up to him they would finally do something other than simple chore punishments. That how ever was not to be; despite being, the dead last in the academy the boy was surprisingly fast and agile, well at least for some one who was sure to fail the genin exam again.
"Your just jealous cuz you don't have the guts to do what I do you losers! You will never catch me!"
That had only created more of a riot as the chase continued on, this time the two pursuers found themselves a bit over there heads and decided to call for back up. In the hokage tower, the third was interrupted yet again.
"I hope your not bothering me with some trivial matters, and don't tell me its naruto again"
To have called it an emergency made the old man frown in annoyance, sure naruto is pranks were troublesome and annoying but shinobi tended to be a bit over dramatical when it came to naruto.
"But it is naruto again he climbed into the great stone faces!"
"He put graffiti all over them too!"
That had been a new one for the old man, far as he could tell, the kid admired the forth and wanted to become hokage, taking a puff of his pipe the old man shakes his head, he knows why he has done it tough, it is because tomorrow is the genin test and naruto is nervous. That is always the pattern with him, as soon as the day arrives his pranks double and they get more and more extreme, usually pulling his grandest one on the day before the exam just like today. He just hopes that this time the boy does pass and doesn't get left behind, if there is one thing the old man can't stand is to see him depressed.
"Go about your business and don't bother me unless it's important"
"But lord hokage shouldn't we"
"Tell iruka to find him, he will know what to do"
He can see the frown and disagreement on the two shinobi before him but he doesn't care, he knows that out of all of them iruka will be the only one to not beat naruto or hurt him.
"Do as I say"
Both shinobi can only bow and puff out, the hokage smiles and shakes his head, so naruto painted the hokage monument, that boy was getting more creative on his pranks. Half an hour later iruka is rushing towards the sight of the disturbance and smiles and angry smile, for a kid who flunks every course in his class he sure as hell can run, not only that he can hide as well. He takes a deep breath and prays to kami to give him patience, rushing towards the sight he smiles when naruto lets down his guard and drops his cloak jutsu, if the kid only applied himself more on his schoolwork instead of his pranks he could actually become a decent shinobi.
"Ha that was too easy!"
"OH YEAH NARUTO!"
Iruka smiles when naruto jumps five feet into the air, the kid was good at running but you could sneak up to him wearing bells and the kid wouldn't sense you were behind him until it was too late. He either was too distracted or did not care; both were bad traits if you wanted to be a shinobi. Naruto lands on his butt and smiles up at iruka.
"Were you come from iruka sensei and what are you doing here?"
"No the question is what are you doing here? You are supposed to be in class"
The blond simply smiles and stands up, dusting himself off he smirks at iruka with a bored expression.
"Come on iruka I already been trough all those boring lectures"
"Yes and you have learn nothing, naruto this is your third year"
"Pah so what"
If stubborn was a quality to become a good shinobi naruto would be the greatest, the kid could be as stubborn as a mule and iruka knew that not matter what he said or whatever words he would use they would only enter trough one ear and come right out the other. That was just how naruto was and that worried him, today was the genin exam and if naruto failed it there was no way he would be able to take a forth one.
"You have a test today remember"
Naruto rolls his eyes and looks away.
"What's the point you're going to do the same test and I will fail it just like all those times before"
"Naruto"
Turning his back to iruka he is about to run away before the man stops him.
"Why don't you try a little harder, if you weren't to slack off so much"
His hand is slapped away and naruto turns back to him fury clearly written on his face, he is about to say something but nothing happens and iruka frowns, how can the kid be so head strong and yet not applied himself he didn't know but he knew that as soon as the test was given he would fail it.
"Let's just get to class ok"
"Yeah what ever"
The truth was that iruka was at the end of his rope with the kid, he had tried every thing that he knew to motivate him but nothing seems to work, it was as if he just didn't care, he had this way of showing off skills that he couldn't possible have and was as arrogant as they came. Now back in the classroom he believed that a little reprimand in front of the class would do him good but all it did was made him even more spiteful and snobbish, as if to prove that he would not submit to him. Iruka frowned, when would the kid learn that he was not trying to humiliate him or force him to do stuff, all of it was for his own good.
"You failed the test last year and the year before that naruto you're messing up again"
The only reply he got was a hump and a turn of his head, even being reprimanded in front of the entire class didn't fazed the kid, losing his temper he did what all teachers did when some one challenges there authority they dish out punishment and that is what he did to all of the class. So here, he had the student form in a line in order for each one of them to review the transformation jutsu. As always the other would do great and some would complain but naruto didn't care, after all none of them knew about his handicap and if they did, they didn't care, so his philosophy had turned out to just not care.
"Naruto uzumaki"
Naruto smiled, just because he couldn't advance as fast as the other didn't meant he couldn't have fun while he was at school. Summoning his chakra, he pulls out one of his favorite techniques and iruka is sent flying, the blood oozing out of his nose is enough to drop any ordinary man but lucky iruka is a shinobi and naruto knows that he will recover in no time.
"No one beats my sexy jutsu"
"CUT THE STUPID TRICKS!"
The blond smiles and waves him off, he knows iruka is treats are only made to scare him, slowly he turns around and goes back to his seat, there is no point in standing in front of the class being reprimanded yet again.
"I'm taking a nap, call me when there done testing"
"Ok smart mouth I'll see you at the hokage monument, your cleaning you mess"
"Tsch fine"
He knew the punishment was coming any ways, he always was punished be it his fault or not, no one listened no one took the time to do so. Leaning down on the desk his eyes close and he remembers that some one did listen, the memory is faint but he remembers him all to well.
3 Hours later and they stand high on top of the hokage monument, true to his word, iruka had punished him and now here he was cleaning all the paint from the faces of the great heroes of konoha.
"You're not going home till you clean up every single drop of paint"
That was a laugh, he couldn't get in trouble even if he did stay out all night, and he had no one waiting for him at home so why bother to finish in a hurry.
"Then what you'll tell my parents how badly I been behaving?"
Iruka flinched and shock his head, the kid could infuriate him to no end but he could also make him want to punch himself some times, of course, naruto wouldn't want to go home early, the kid would ratter work all night and spend it with some one than to go back to an empty apartment. He needed to change his strategy, naruto would spend the night if need be, taking a deep breath he knows that he has to become the friend and not the teacher.
"Say naruto?"
"Yeah?"
"Once we finished how about we go get some ramen? My treat"
If warnings and threats didn't work try bribery, it always worked and before he knew it, the whole deam monument was clear and naruto was cleaning him out in the old ramen stand. Iruka looked at the teen seated beside him and frowned, there was a whole bunch of layers covering the blond is actual persona and he knew that no matter how many layers he took off, naruto would always put more barriers in front of him. Naruto even tough enjoying his ramen was wondering what had brought on the offer, it was not like iruka and him were close, oh sure the man treated him nice in fact he was the only one who didn't treat him like a worthless bothersome kid and for that he was thankful.
"So tell me naruto why would you paint the hokage monument?"
"Cuz"
"Naruto you do know who the hokages are don't you?"
"Course I do"
"Then why would you do what you did?"
"Cuz ill be better than them some day"
"Naruto"
"I'll show them all what I can do…then they will stop disrespecting me"
With that he stood up and walked away from his sensei, iruka frowned and shock his head, how was the kid ever going to achieve his goal if he couldn't even pass the graduation test. Turning towards his meal, he decided to pay the bill and leaves; tomorrow was going to be one hard day. While the sensei contemplated tomorrow is heart breaking test one naruto uzumaki rested on high of one of the konoha buildings, tomorrow was going to be his final chance at graduating and becoming a ninja and yet despite all of his training he had yet to gain control over his chakra.
He had yet to control one let alone the two, shaking his head he wonders if tomorrow will be the clone jutsu test, he knows that if that is the one that is picked as the final exam then he will fail, looking a the moon he wonders if this will ends his dreams.
The next morning iruka frowns and slams the papers on the desk, it is the clone Justus again, looking at mizuki the man smiles and just takes a deep breath.
"What did you expect?"
"Yeah, it's just"
"Were teacher iruka that's what we do"
Iruka knows that mizuki is right but he just wishes that it would be a lot easier; entering the classroom he reviews the papers in front of him and takes attendance, once every one is counted for he drops the bomb. Naruto freezes and smiles, so he fails and loses his shot at becoming genin, he should be surprised but some how he is not, not only that he is one of the first ones that is called in. His luck is getting better, he fails and simply leaves with out waiting for what they have to say, he knows that this was his last shot, once in the hokage monument he wonders what his next move will be.
In the school mizuki smiles, the brat hadn't even stuck around for his little speech, but now he had him all to himself.
"Iruka can you finish here?"
"Ah yeah but why?"
"Well I got something to tend to"
"Ok then, there is only sasuke and sakura left so I guess its okay"
"Thank you I owe you one"
Minutes later, he has found naruto and his plan can be set into motion, the demon brat will be perfect for this, the boy will steal the scroll he will help him of course and then he will take it from him. After that he would sell it and make a pretty profit from it, not only that he would become the village is hero by both capturing naruto and killing him, after all stealing from the hokage is tower was a crime punishable by death. Jumping near the boy he is surprised to see him just calmly staring at the village before him, odd he should have been surprised when he had just appeared like that but he seem to just be annoyed by him.
"So how you doing"
"How do you think I'm doing?"
"Iruka is tough but he is not against you"
"Then why?"
"He wants you to be strong with all of his heart…he is like you, you know"
"That doesn't help me much mizuki sensei, this was the third and final time I could take the test….I won't get another chance"
"Oh there is a way, it's a secret but"
Back in the academy iruka looked at the proud parents and smiled congratulating both the parents and children, in the midst of all of this he had caught the hokage is gaze and smiled to the old man, sarutobi returned the smiled and signaled for him to follow. Excusing himself he walks towards the inside of the classroom and noticed the hokage is crest fallen expression.
"He failed again"
"Yes lord hokage, he couldn't make a clone"
"I see…Iruka I know how you feel, you related to the boy because you also grew up with out a family"
Iruka nods and the conversation continues and even tough the time has passed and now it is night time the conversation remains with him; even now gazing at the moon he can remember the hokage is words and can relieve the night the nine tails arrived in the village. The most horrible day of his life the day his parents were killed.
"IRUKA!"
The peaceful night turn into chaos as an order is give out to all available shinobi; naruto has stolen the sacred scroll, the scroll of sealing. One of the most powerful scroll the leaf has at its disposal its on the hands of a kid who didn't even graduate from the academy, while on there way to the hokage is tower iruka wondered just how the hell he had managed that feat. However, that would have to wait, the other shinobi were ranting about how important that scroll was, about how much damage it could do to the village if it fell to the wrong hands.
Naruto couldn't be doing what they were all thinking, he was just a kid who had been played, that had to be it, there was no way he could have gotten trough the hokage is personal guard with out some form of help. Looking at the face of the third he saw the same expression on his face, he didn't believe that naruto would betray the village, nor that he had done this alone. Never the less he was the leader of the village and as such hard decisions had to be made.
"Very well bring naruto here at once"
The order spelled doom for naruto, if any of the other shinobi were to find him before he did it was all over for the boy, none of them wanted him alive and they would used this excuse to finally get rid of him. Iruka frowned and hoped that either he or mizuki could find him before the others did. He had been all around naruto is usually hang out the only place left was the old work shed on the abandoned training grounds, that place was like naruto is second home, at least when he was running away from villagers or things were to rough on his apartment complex.
Rushing towards the area he fails to noticed the man following him. Mizuki smiles and follows behind iruka, he knew that following him around would be the fastest way to find naruto, no one knew the brat better than he did.
"It's all over for you brat, as soon as iruka finds you, you and him are both dead"
On the old training grounds a worn out naruto smiles and falls to his knees in exhaustion, it took him almost the whole night but he has finally mastered one hell of complicated jutsu, the shadow clone jutsu. He smiled and frowned at the same time, the only reason he had been able to do that deam technique was that it required a hell of a lot more chakra than any ordinary cloning technique. Good thing he had chakra to spare, taking a deep breath he puts the scroll away and drops it over his back, it time to return it after all he only needed to learn one technique to graduate.
"Naruto"
Iruka, naruto smiles and looks up at his teacher so the man wanted to test his medal and wanted him to become a good shinobi well this was the perfect time to show him his new technique.
"So found me already, I wish I would have had more time with this scroll and learn other techniques"
"You have been studying a new technique?"
"Yeah and I learned it too, so once I show it to you I pass right?"
Iruka frowned, and the look of confusion did not escape the blond boy. Something was wrong.
"Were you get that idea from?"
Naruto frowned and raised an eye brow, how could iruka not know about the loop hole, it didn't make sense, iruka on the other hand saw the boy before him thinking and knew that something foul was at play, focusing on his surroundings he felt the presence of some one else. Naruto on his part had felt the chakra of mizuki and frowned, something was definitely not right here.
"LOOK OUT!"
Before he knew it naruto was being pushed away from the flying kunai, he rolled on the ground when he came to a stop he saw iruka being impale by them, glancing at the area were the kunai had come from he saw mizuki.
"I see you found our little run away"
Naruto glared at the man, he had been used.
"So that's the way it is I should have known"
Mizuki turned away from iruka and glanced at naruto the boy was glaring at him, the kid had realized what had happened.
"Naruto give me the scroll!"
"The hell I will I….."
He tried to move and failed, something was wrong with his body, standing up he felt it and cursed, he had used too much chakra on his training. Looking at iruka he saw the condition the man was in and wondered if he could at least be able to distract or keep mizuki occupied long enough for him to recover.
"Naruto run! If that scroll falls into his hands our village is doomed"
"What?"
"It contains forbidden jutsu and secrets known only to our village we must keep it safe!"
Not good his body was hurt and by the looks of it naruto was exhausted from his training, he had to at least hold mizuki off while the kid when to get some help. Pulling the kunai out of his leg and arm, he wonders if he still has enough to distract mizuki, both of them were good teachers but mizuki was a better fighter. He had no choice, as much as naruto hated to do it he needed to run, to at least catch his breath, there was no way he could fight off a full fledge ninja all on his own, specially one who was prepared for a fight.
"Naruto he is lying, he doesn't want you to become strong!"
That froze him, he looked at mizuki and saw the smirk on his face, something else was going on here, and he sounded sure of himself.
"Stop lying mizuki!"
"Oh? Then perhaps you should tell him"
"No mizuki!"
Naruto frowned, iruka was nervous and for some reason did not want mizuki to talk, he needed to hear what the other shinobi had to say, especially if it concern him.
"They been lying to you naruto, since the day you were born 12 years ago a decree was give out"
"What decree what are you talking about?!"
"The decree is that no one can tell you what you have inside you"
"NO MIZUKI!"
The two charkas? Naruto shock his head, no iruka is voice was now filled with panic so mizuki had to be talking about something else. Looking at the man he knew that he was enjoying this and was doing it to break him, but he wouldn't let his mind games over power him, he was trained by the best he wouldn't let this man beat him like that.
"Tell me already!"
"No one can tell you that the nine tail fox is inside you! The fox spirit that destroyed our village has taken over your body you are the nine tail demon"
A demon…naruto closed his eyes, no that couldn't be true but…his two charkas, the way his body healed over the course of his training, it couldn't be, looking at iruka he saw the surprised and worried look, and it told him every thing he needed to know. Mizuki wasn't lying he had the nine tails inside of him. He now knew why he was treated the way he was, why no one wanted him and why every one hated him just for being alive, they didn't hate him they hated the demon but if it was inside of him then that would mean that he was the demon. His chakra began to flare and his anger grew, that is why no one accepted him, he now knew the reason behind his misery.
"Every one hates you even iruka"
Iruka frowned, this could not be happening naruto couldn't lose control, clenching his leg he remembered what the hokage had said to him, he remembered his own pain as a child and how he wished that some one was there for him. Just like naruto he never had a mother or father but unlike him he was never hated, he was not shut out from everywhere and no one turned there backs against him with out never knowing why. The villages they wouldn't even look at naruto….if his pain as a kid was bad then he couldn't even begin to imagine how big naruto is pain was. He had been taken care of by the orphanage and yet naruto, he never had any one that cared for him.
"Die naruto!"
Naruto saw the shuriken and froze, he couldn't duck and he couldn't run, he had been to distracted, he had been too focused on the why and the how, he had let mizuki is mind games distract him and he was going to die.
"Naruto get down!"
Before he knew it he was on the ground and iruka was covering him wit his own body, the shuriken sticking out of his back.
"W-why?"
"Were the same….like you I had no parents….no one seem to care but were the same, I should have been there for you more often naruto….I'm sorry"
The hokage watched trough his crystal ball and frowned, iruka was hurt badly he had saved naruto, but in the process lost the battle. Now there was no one who could keep mizuki from taking the scroll from naruto not only that the boy is anger was reaching it peek if that continued to go on the seal could be in jeopardy. The only question he had was whom was naruto is anger directed at. If it was towards the village he didn't know if he could stop him.
"This is bad mizuki is big mouth might cause a fracture on the seal…if that happens"
The scroll was his second concern now, even tough it contained dangerous and powerful jutsu it was not as dangerous as an unleashed demon.
"Oh come now naruto don't look at me with those eyes"
Mizuki smirked and shock his head, the kid was angry but he was a loser he was no treat him.
"Iruka?"
"Oh don't worry about him naruto he is still alive but not for long"
Naruto turned to his teacher and saw his strained breathing, he was alive but knocked out, pushing iruka away from his body, he pulls out the shuriken and turns towards muzuki.
"Oh you want to fight me little beast?"
"No, I'm going to kill you!"
He throws the shuriken and mizuki side steps avoiding it, it seem that the brat is anger is not directed at the village but at him, he smiles, this would make things simple, he could take both of them out at once.
"You're a joke kid and as soon as I kill you iruka is next"
"You are the one who will die in this place"
"Oh and how will you do that?"
"I think I can muster enough strength to beat you"
Mizuki laughed and then he felt a familiar aura, he looked closely and saw the boy is body shaking, something was wrong especially when naruto is chakra could be seen. Naruto cranked his neck and smiled, the smile faded and along side it naruto, mizuki went into ninja mode and then felt a fist connect with his face. His head snapped backwards but he managed to twist and look at the place were he felt the hit had come from, but he saw nothing there. He turned around and saw naruto is feet right before it connected with his face sending him crashing into one of the trees.
"H-how?...you couldn't even use clones how can"
"There not clones fool"
His eyes widen and he reached for his 2nd shuriken, as he was about to unleash it naruto moved faster than any human could move and appeared beside him holding the shuriken with his own hand, the blade didn't even cut trough his hand.
"H-how is this possible!?"
"I had a good teacher"
Naruto put pressure on his hand and the shuriken shattered; mizuki looked at him horror in his eyes and naruto smiled.
"Y-your really are a monster"
"Yeah I am"
He threw a punch at mizuki but it never connected, it connected with the three that was behind mizuki the three immediately shattered and then crumpled to the ground, mizuki let go of the shuriken and jumped away from naruto, the boy no it could not be a boy. It was the nine tails; it had to be the demon.
"N-naruto?"
Iruka had managed to open his eyes and gazed at the blond, naruto turned towards him and smiled.
"Glad your awake sensei, now you can see what I learned from that scroll"
"Huh?"
"Don't underestimate me!"
Mizuki rushed towards naruto who smiled, focused, and unleashed some of his chakra, mizuki is eyes widen when he felt a force pushing him backwards, it was something invisible to the eye that had pushed him away from the boy.
"That's my line, but let me show you what I was talking about"
"W-what?"
"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!"
The forest filled with clones and iruka is eyes widen, the kid had created solid clones, he had mastered a technique that only a few people knew how to use. The clones began to beat down on mizuki and in a couple of minutes it was over, naruto fell to one knees, he had used way to much chakra and despite his reserves he knew that he had reached his limit.
"N-naruto"
Turning towards iruka he smiled and gave him a thumbs up, iruka nodded and threw him something, catching it he smiled when he saw his teacher is headband.
"I pass?"
"You did"
Back in the village the hokage smiled and calmed the shinobi gathering out side the hokage tower, he smiled and told them that every thing was okay, it seem that naruto had handle the situation and as much as the other shinobi protested his decision to call of the search a few stern words made them all disband. Now all he needed to do was talk to naruto and ask him were he had learned to fight like he had fought tonight, the boy seem to be keeping more than his pain hidden.
The next morning naruto looked at the instruction package that iruka had given him; he had to take a picture and fill out his bingo card, which would be empty since he was a new shinobi. Scheduling an appointment with the photographer how ever seem to be ratter difficult as he had already taken the pictures of those who had graduated on the day of the original test, but with a little help from the hokage he had managed to make an appointment for later in the day.
Now all that was left was the interview and the presentation of his document to the hokage. The old man would evaluate and welcome him as a new shinobi, but the truth was that the meeting had been made so that the hokage could ask naruto a few questions; regarding what he had seen the night iruka handed his head band to naruto, the boy had showed skill which were well beyond his years.
"Naruto"
Arriving at the hokage is office he saw that it was only him and the old man; he smirked and wondered what this was about.
"Have my documents all set"
"No stupid mask?"
"Nah thought I make it easy on you"
Sarutobi smiled and signaled him to take a seat, doing as instructed naruto sat down and smirked, there was something more going on here.
"So how did you do it?"
"Training"
Sarutobi smirked, he knew he was going to get such an answer, naruto was always secretive even as a young boy he would always hide or tell lies to hide his true were a bouts. The thing that worried the hokage most was not that the boy was training but the who that was doing the training, there were too many shinobi out there who would try to use him as a weapon, mizuki was a test that there were far too many un trust worthy people out there.
"With whom?"
"A friend, look old man I don't have time for this I"
"PREPARE TO DIE!"
Naruto jumped out of his chair and saw a small thing jump from the door way straight into the hokage, the old man moved quickly and just held out his hand stopping the blur, which it turned out was a small kid.
"Konohamaru"
"Let go old man, let me beat you so I can become fifth hokage!"
Naruto smiled and raised an eyebrow, the kid was the hokage is grandson, he had seen him walking around the village with that four eye pervert following around, he believe it was his teacher.
"If were done here?"
"Hey stop interrupting us!"
"Shut up brat!"
Faster than the hokage or konohamaru could see naruto was in front of the kid smacking his head. He smiled and waved good-bye to the old man and the kid, far as he knew he was done here, he had to go to the school and see who is assigned instructor would be.
"Who was that guy?"
"That was naruto uzumaki"
"He hit me!"
"That he did"
In hitting him naruto had earned the boy is respect and a follower, but hat would be until his grandfather would let him down and his punishment would be done with.
SCHOOL GROUNDS
Naruto smiled, this was the first time he had been early in his life, the classroom was almost empty and there was almost no one around the school. Getting inside the room he sat down on his seat and waited for some one to arrived, one of the passing janitors shoot him a dirty look and he smiled showing off his canine teeth. The man rushed off and he smiled, he always did have a knack for scaring people off.
"Naruto what are you doing here? This isn't for drop outs, this is"
"Open you lazy eyes shikamaru"
Pointing to his head band he smirked and turned his eyes to the front, ever since graduating he had an indescribable feeling of just wanting to get out there and finished what he started so long ago, he smirked and shock his head. He was so close to achieving his goal that he didn't have time to pull stupid pranks, guess he had grown up a bit after all. Before shikamaru could say any thing else, the rustling of running distracted them, both of them turned to the back door were the two girls rushed in. sakura, and ino had arrived.
"Look at that still competing at every thing"
Shikamaru smiled and walked off to his own seat, naruto nodded and turned back to the front, there was no point in fawning over a girl if he was to achieve his goal, after all once he became hokage he could be able to get any girl he wanted. That touched another cord inside him that made him smiled, since when had he started to think so clearly? Sure, he had noticed changes but deam that was right down grown up thinking right here, he smiled smugly and nodded to himself; naruto uzumaki was going to do all right.
"MOVE IT!"
He felt something getting closer and before he realized it his instincts kicked in, turning around he grabbed hold of the hand that was reaching towards him and pushed it away. Sakura was pushed a few feet behind and naruto looked surprised, why would she rush him like that?
"S-sakura?"
"Yeah it's me you dolt so why don't you watch it!"
"Why were you rushing towards me like that?"
"Towards you? Ha, I was rushing toward…ah"
Dismissing him completely she walks right passed him and looks at sasuke, naruto rolls his eyes, of course she would go over to the one guy every girl wanted. Shaking his head, he walks away from the two and walks behind the classroom, spotting a sit next to one of the other student he smiles and leans down.
"Say is this seat taken?"
"N-no…no I no i-it not"
"Good cuz I think I just dodge a bullet"
His words become reality when ino rushed passed him and she and sakura start to argue along with the majority of the girls in the room, he smiles at the girl beside him and sees that she unlike the others isn't rushing any were but is some what frozen stiff.
"Ah you ok..Ah…hinata right?"
She feels the whole room go black and naruto frowns, the girl just passed out.
In the hokage tower the third looks at the crystal ball and frowns, at the sight. This bunch of new genin seem be a mess. He rolled his eyes and took a deep breath.
"As usual naruto is in the middle of a mess"
The crystal ball showed naruto screaming his heart out calling for help, while the other looked at him as if he was insane, those who saw hinata on the ground thought that he had done something to her. To which they began to ask him question he had no answers for, all the while he just kept shaking the girl hoping to wake her. Luckily, iruka arrived and managed to sort the whole thing out, but he did have to separate the two, as it was unknown why naruto is presence had caused hinata to faint. As for the white eye girl she still could not get her head around the fact that naruto knew her name and went to sit with her.
"Now that were all calm and back in out seats lets get started, as you all know you are all shinobi now. To get here you all face difficult task and hardships; but what will come next will be far more difficult. Now you're only Genin, first level ninjas; all the genin will be group in three man squads which will be lead by a Jounin an elite ninja"
So it was a tree man team or man girl what ever, naruto looked at the class room and frowned, no one seem to like him and for that matter he knew no one, sure he hung around them at school, knew there names but that was about it. This three person team was sounding more and more frustrating the more he thought about, closing his eyes he just hope that who ever he was stuck with wouldn't faint on the spot.
"Team 7, Naruto Uzumaki, Haruno Sakura, Sasuke Uchiha"
He glanced at the two and wondered what they would be like, he knew sakura fairly well as he had obsessed about her ever since he meet her, but he knew nothing about sasuke nor did he care, the guy always gave him some weird ass vibes. Glancing at haruno, he saw the glare she sent him and he smirked, so she still remembered all those times he had bid for her affection, good for her since he was not going to doing any of that any time soon.
Breaking for lunch they all headed in there separate way and naruto found himself wondering what the others in his team would be like, seeking them out he found sasuke on one of the near by lunch stalls, he smiled and jumped just out side the window the boy was leaning against.
"What do you want?"
"Just wanting to get to know my team mate is all"
"Get lost"
"W-what?"
"I don't need to know you, but I do need to warn you"
"Warn me?"
"Just don't get in my way loser"
Naruto was taken back but smiled, shaking his head he jumped off, no point in getting into an argument with the uchiha, he was so self-centered what ever words he would say would have no effect on him, rushing towards his next meeting he hoped to have better success. He just hoped sakura wouldn't punch him before he could talk, jumping out of the building, he landed right behind her and smiled, luck was on his side today.
"Hey sakura, since were in the same group I was thinking we could have lunch together and get to know each other"
"Why would I eat lunch with you? Naruto you're annoying"
She turned around and began to call of her beloved uchiha, naruto smiled and shock his head, nice team he got there. One was obsessed with sasuke and the other was obsessed with sasuke, just what he needed a possible stalker and a jerk, he smiled and walked off. Spotting a couple of others he saw hinata and smiled, the girl seems to be trying to find her teammates.
"H-hey ah hinata!"
She froze and for a moment, he believed that she would faint again but luckily, she didn't. Letting out a breath of relief, he smiled and walked over to her. Hinata was in panic move, here she was close to naruto and all she could do was just stay up right and try not to faint, blushing from her previous memory, she mustered all the courage she had and managed to squeak out a hello.
"H-hello"
"You feeling ok?"
"Y-yes….I I am"
"Good I was worried there for a second"
"You w-w-were?!"
She squeaked and blushed three shades of red, naruto was feeling quite nervous by now, she seem to be a bit odd but he smiled. He liked her already.
"Yap so where's your team?"
"Off getting lunch"
"Oh well I"
There conversation was cut short when a dog lunched itself at him, moving quickly he managed to grabbed him mid jump and frowned at the mutt, just as he was about to put him down he saw a bug crawling on to his arm. The bug had a chakra signature. Frowning he snatched it with his other hand and looked at it, something was weird about it.
"Hey let akamaru go!"
"Who? The bug or the dog?"
Shino stepped right up to him and naruto pulled away, that kid always did freak him out, the boy raised his hand and then glanced at the hand that had the bug. Naruto smiled and nodded.
"Your friend here is putting off quite a chakra signature"
Shino seem to be taken back nodded.
"He is young"
"Here you go, oh and don't send more of them after me"
"As you wish"
The boy in the dark glasses looked at the kikai bug and smiled, it was un harm, he looked at naruto and saw the boy smiled at him, so naruto was not as clumsy as every one believes. Naruto for his part turned to kiba and threw him the dog. Shino raised an eyebrow, what could posses naruto to be nice to his bugs but not to kiba is dog?
"Hey dog breath give him a bath would you, he is starting to smell like you"
"Funny!"
Naruto smiled and jumped away from the three, he would go back to the class room and wait on his jounin instructor, after all none of his so call team mates wanted to get to know one another so who was he to argue. Unfortunately, the wait lasted longer than he had anticipated, he saw a guy with a beard appeared and take a squad, the man eyed him suspiciously and naruto smirked, he knew asuma from the hokage is office. When the red eye woman arrived however, he felt like mush, she was a knock out all right, and despite trying to take his eyes off her, he couldn't, closing his eyes he wondered if it was too late to change teams. 3 hours later, he wondered that same thing when his teacher arrived.
The one eye man peeked inside and saw the three with bored expression on there faces, entering he smiled and looked at each one, not exactly the welcome he had expected not from a loud mouth and a prankster at least.
"Lets see, how can I put this….my first impression is that you're a bunch of idiots"
"Yes well were not the ones who are late"
He looked at naruto and smiled, maybe there was hope for them after all.
Continued….