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"talking"

'though'

"Ninjutsu/Genjutsu/Taijutsu/FuinJutsu"

Uzumaki Naruto, the boy had the most chaotic life than anyone. His childhood was the hardest, no family, hated by everyone for reasons he didn't know. He desperately tried to makes bonds with the villagers, ninjas and others kids. But it failed, actually some tried to make an attempt for his life. This is where he started to shift from the energetic and prankster to a more a serious and calculator kid. He decided to put a mask on his real identity, he continued to play the idiot for many years, but during night, he went into an harsh training, physicals and mental. Since his teachers hated him and clearly sabotaged his course. He studied every book that he was handed and wrote shit in his test sheet. He had more than enough from this village, has he was about to getting a plan to flee from this village. The Hokage wanting to be more present in his life made the plan to be in danger so he had to postpone for a few years. The old man had always told him about the will of fire and how it has helped this village in staying together and he always 'funny that this unity of the will of fire, wishes my death' he didn't know why at every time he had thought that, the Hokage looked sad. Maybe the old man could read his mind? No matter, he had enough with the lies of the old man. At the first occasion he would flee from this cursed place. Most of the other kids ignored him, not because they hated him, but because their parents told them to. And one kid actually went along with, the boy name was Uchiha Sasuke, he was a prick and was full of himself. But the first he made was with him, he never let his mask out not even for his best friend, but somehow Sasuke knew he was playing stupid and told him that he was wearing something similar. Both were the best friend, playing the hateful rivals in front of the other, training like brothers in the shadows. Sasuke was getting popular over time, but this just made irritated because his best friend was labeled as the loser of the group. Sasuke let go of the mask partially and let the other knows that Naruto was the only other kid he acknowledged enough to call him friend. Naruto continued to play the idiot for many years to come. With time, he completely forgot about his plan of fleeing of this place, because he actually found something that keep him in. And that was his best friend, Uchiha Sasuke, the only survivor of the Uchiha Clan. Both youngster opened up to each other, Naruto heard the tragedy of the uchiha clan and Sasuke heard the horrors of Naruto life. Sasuke was watching the village under a new light. Disgust was the only thing he feel about it. Sasuke saw Naruto as his younger brother and Naruto saw him as his elder brother. Sasuke was the best among the two since he was a genius, but he helped Naruto to get his level, he couldn't teach Naruto like how he was taught. He had to explain it in a different way and he managed make Naruto use the Katon style jutsu his clan was expert at. It been 4 years since Naruto and Sasuke had been labeled as the demons duo. Everyone had tried to lure Sasuke away from Naruto but everytime, he told to mind their damn business. Thing were going nicely for both young boy until a group Chunin tried to attack Naruto and kill him, Sasuke tried to save him, but both chunnin were dead in the hand by Naruto. The Sandaime forbid Sasuke from coming into contact with Naruto until due time, which was very badly received by both youngster. 3 years later, when Naruto reached the age of thirteen, he was assigned to team 7 with Uchiha Sasuke and Sakura haruno. Both had planned their evasion of this village when they sneaked behind the back of the ANBU ninja that was assigned to each of them. Both would become Nuke-nin and be put in the Bingo Book.

"I honestly don't know how to put up with Naruto" said the Sandaime to Kakashi

"I'm no expert but a young boy life to be like this…. is…. Just….." started Kakashi knowing full well who this kid was. He had protected that kid when he was still in his mother womb.

"What should have I done?" asked Sandaime to Kakashi, but Kakashi was a loss of word. He was no parent but he might have tried a different approach than just forbidding the village to talk about the nine tails fox incident.

"He hate the village and he have every right to. The villager are just a bunch of ungrateful assholes to hate the legacy of the Yondaime. I failed to keep my promise to the Yondaime. I really can't blame him for wanting to destroy it" said the Sandaime who was now crying, Kakashi had never seen the old man. The sight made him feel uneasy and it was very hard to make kakashi feel uneasy. Hiruzen job was to keep the village united, but he failed with Naruto, not only that but Sasuke has been the only friend to Naruto life prior to his entry to the ninja academy. He saw that friendship to be treat to the village, now the village shunned Sasuke for hanging out with Naruto. To at least save Sasuke from that hatred, he passed that act, but it was just another mistake that made them hate the village even more.

"I'm ashamed of myself" said Sandaime regaining his composure "I've betrayed the man who I entrusted to protect the village. He did as he was told and sacrifice himself for this same village. How can I face them when I die? How can I explain that to Kushina and Minato that I let village almost kill their son?"

Kakashi felt responsible as well, he should have put up something like trying adopt Naruto but the Sandaime always was against it. Not pestering him about it was his mistake.

"The first time that he was sent to the hospital. Do you know what he told me?" said Sandaime reminiscing his past. "Is : why did the adults tried to hurt him like he was some kind of monster. He was only 4"

"…." Kakashi didn't know how to react to this. He was not a leader much less to weight the live of one boy over the rest of the village. He didn't know how he would put up with something this heavy in his mind and be able to continue living with it. He only saw that it weighted very hard on the old man mind. He wanted to ask him if it was Konohamaru fate to be the Jinchuriki, would he let the other bully him like how he did to Naruto? He was not courageous enough to face the anger of the Hokage. Sandaime power was legendary, he trained the 3 most powerful ninja of this era. He wanted to do something about the hatred that being built inside Naruto Psyche, he decided to write a letter to Jiraya and let him know that it was about Naruto.

With the coming Chunin exam, it was said that Naruto would not be part of it. Tomorrow was the day Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were to meet with their new sensei. And Kakashi wanted to train the young Naruto but got order to make it to minimum by the Hokage. It was another mistake by the old man, he wanted the boy to feel the will of fire, but didn't do anything for the boy to comprehend it. He would try to bypass that order and make sure that the boy was trained properly.

"I want you to watch over Sasuke Uchiha" said the Sandaime "I've already contacted someone who will take care of Naruto"

"Understood" said Kakashi vanishing a cloud of smoke.

The next day.

Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were waiting for their sensei to come. Sakura tried to get Sasuke attention and tried to use Naruto as a leverage to start a conversation. But both boys simply ignored her like she was a plague. This shattered Sakura resolve to dust, none of them were interested to her. Not the idiot of the class nor the genius. She wanted to sit next to Sasuke but Sasuke didn't let her pass so she reluctantly sit on another desk waiting for their sensei. Kakashi who saw what was happening just sighted, he will have one of the hardest team to have ever trained. Both of them had potential, he didn't deny what Sakura could do, but for both boys to simply ditch her on the side. She must be hurt, it doesn't that much to hurt a girl feeling. He was hesitant to enter, but he had to do it. He promised the old man and with it, he could keep an eye to Naruto and Sasuke.

The door opened and a Jonin with his green vest entered, he had his headband cover his right eye and had grey hairs.

"Say, Sensei… Can we switch Naruto for someone else?" said Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto stared at her. So she wanted Naruto to leave, the only reaction Kakashi had was face palming. This girl is really stupid. She has only eye for Sasuke, but couldn't see that Sasuke and Naruto were like brothers. If she believe what most of the village whisper about Naruto, Kakashi would have to switch HER for someone else to protect her from both boys.

"Sakura…" started Kakashi to which both boys stared at him "I'm sorry, but that is not how it works…"

"Why? He is just an idiot who will slow us down!" said Sakura firmly to which Naruto responded by getting up and leaving the room which was soon followed by Sasuke. None of the boys acknowledged the girl and now she was seen as a pariah by both of them.

"You just made an enemy out of your crush" said Kakashi to which he decided to leave her too and train the boys instead.

"Oy, boys where are you going?" said Kakashi

"What do you want Kakashi-san" said Naruto and Sasuke at the same.

"Train you, what else?" said Kakashi, both boys stopped. He was really going to train them and not try to separate them like the Sandaime did?

The boys stared at each other like they were having a conversation just by Staring. Kakashi was impressed to see such strong bond from two people coming from different clans. Both boys went back to the room, Sakura was having red eyes, she had cried when Kakashi abandoned her too. Well, for first they had to go outside of the academy and went to the training side of the village for their first lesson.

"Let begin with your presentation, your likes, your hates…" said Kakashi " I'll begin, my name is Hatake Kakashi, my likes… you don't have to know them and my hates… you don't have to know them either…. Alright Next"

"Uzumaki Naruto" said Naruto

"Uchiha Sasuke" said Sasuke remaining silent after saying his name like Naruto

"Haruno Sakura" said Sakura still not healing from the blow from earlier.

"This is going to be tougher than I expected" said Kakashi more to himself than his student.

It was the beginning of the lesson with the bells. Kakashi explained to them that had 3 hours to get the bells from him. The price was a bento for dinner, there was three bento, one for sensei and two other for the winners. For quite some time, one girl was always on Naruto Back, it was young Hyuuga, the heiress to be precise and for some reason, Sasuke didn't like her. But Naruto had told him to not bother her and let her do what she wanted, she meant no harm to any of the boys.

At the training ground.

"I'll give you 2 minutes to hide from me. Just to see if we can go on the lesson" said Kakashi

In no time, everyone was hiding, Naruto was nowhere to be found, so did Sasuke, they were using the Henge no jutsu to look like bushes. While Sakura was hiding behind a tree. Kakashi didn't know where they were.

"Excellent" yelled Kakashi "Now we can begin, I'll put you three to the test, one of you will fail. Start!"

Sakura shivered at the idea of being stripped of Sasuke, she would do anything to try and get close to his precious uchiha, even if she has to drag Naruto out of her way. Yet, she was the only one who got caught on a Genjutsu. The other two had release their genjutsu and were on a run trying to locate the bells and their sensei. Kakashi saw that none of them tried to help Sakura from the low grade Genjutsu that had her mind play a wounded Sasuke on repeat.

"Sasuke… I'll go left, you go right… I'll launch a Kunaï from my side, use your speed to grab the bells and hide, I'll grab the other when he will try to chase you" whispered Naruto.

But it was a façade, both knew that their sensei was listening closely to what they were saying. Both had other ways of communicating through reading minds. The attack got on and kakashi waited for Sasuke to come but didn't… A sudden cloud of smoke erupted from the Kunaï he ignored and that landed on a tree. Naruto grab one bell and used the Kawamiri no jutsu to get out of the grasp from the Jonin, while Sasuke launched Shuriken on him from behind to which he barely evaded.

"these two are sync like if they had done it for years, it's almost frightening" said kakashi trying to get the last bell from his belt side, but it was not there and looked down "What?!"

Naruto and Sasuke were behind him with the bells. Sakura has released from the Genjutsu but had a defeated look witnessing that she could do nothing during the lesson and felt useless.

"Sorry, Sakura. I guess you don't have to eat at noon" said Kakashi leaving with his bento "You guys have half an hour to eat. The next step is where I will decide that you pass or not. It will be a physical test. Ho and don't feed Sakura." With that said Kakashi disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Sakura was attached to a poll, she had to watch them both eat, while she was hungry. She didn't eat at all for 2 days due a diet she was doing to lose some pounds. Girls… Anyway, knowing full well of the next step, both boys were staring at each other, then at Sakura who was almost crying for failing the test.

"here" said Naruto giving what remained from his bento. Sasuke hesitated for a moment but offered his bento too. As he was about to feed Sakura, to which she was almost crying of joy to be feed by Sasuke. An explosion of smoke emerged from the ground just in front of them.

"YOU!" said an Angry toned Kakashi, Sasuke had his Kunaï at one hand and the bento on the other. While Naruto was about to use the Kage Bunshin Jutsu doing a move to protect Sakura.

"You pass!" said a Happy Kakashi "You pass!"

The three genin were having incredulous look, so this was the test. Naruto untied Sakura, Sakura wanted Sasuke to feed her waiting for him and said 'Ahhhh" at the same time. Naruto laughed hard at that to which irritated Sasuke. Even Kakashi was laughing hard at the display from Sakura. She was embarrassed and took Naruto bento and started to eat.

"Oy. Oy… Don't snatch my dinner" said Naruto to Sakura

"Just let her eat" said Kakashi "I'll treat you to Ramen later today"

"Deal" said Naruto who was now completely oblivious of her. All of them went home after Kakashi had dismissed them from the rest of the day. He had to make a report to the Hokage on how the kids did for their first day as Genin. It was with a happy face that Kakashi, Sasuke and Naruto went to Ichiraku Ramen. The family stand ramen had taken a liking to Naruto and Sasuke. Naruto for being a loyal customer and Sasuke for keeping company to naruto from loneliness. Sakura went home and told her story to her best Friend Ino Yamanaka.

"One miso Ramen with pork, Jiji" said Naruto

"Same said" Sasuke and Kakashi

"It's coming" said Teuchi more than happy to serve his number one customer "So how was your day?"

Naruto told his day to Teuchi to which he saw him like an uncle. Sasuke had a crush to Ayame, he couldn't help but blush when he got served by her so he didn't miss any time when Naruto came here to eat. It was for her mostly. Kakashi had finished his ramen quickly and told his pupils that he had to meet with the Hokage. He said his goodbye and left the ramen stand. Damn the ramen were delicious, he wouldn't mind some Dango has a dessert. But decided against it seeing Gaï, he would pester him for another challenge and not stop until he said yes.

But kakashi made a detour to the Hospital to visit his pupils old teacher. Iruka, the guy was wounded from incident that happened earlier this month to which claimed the life of Mizuki. The guy tried to lure Naruto into stealing the forbidden scroll in the Sandaime Office. But instead, he used that opportunity to get a grip to some jutsu. This is where obtained his most lethal arsenal, starting with Kage Bunshin no jutsu, the Shunshin no jutsu and a summoning technique theory from a smaller scroll he had stolen too. He used the technique he had learned from the scroll and teared apart Mizuki leaving his lifeless body to the ANBU who were dispatched to catch the thief. He already went home using the Shunshin no jutsu to escape the ANBU ninja from catching him. Sandaime had seen the entire fight from his crystal ball, he couldn't blame Naruto for killing Mizuki, the guy was always on Naruto back and was more surprised that he had not taken the scroll for himself.

Kakashi knocked at Iruka's room.

"Enter" said a voice. Iruka was reading a book from one of Jiraya collection. It was the one named 'Tale of a Gutsy Ninja' "Ho Kakashi? How did Naruto and Sasuke did for their first day?"

"Better than expected, their above Genin level, if you ask my opinion" said Kakashi

"I had a feeling that during his time, Naruto had failed his exam on purpose, while Sasuke didn't invest much until Naruto finally made it" said Iruka.

"These two are synced like brothers" said Kakashi. "they made it through my lessons and helped Sakura"

"Hooo? They helped poor Sakura?" said Iruka

"Is something wrong with her?" asked Kakashi

"No, but Sakura always tried to Lure Sasuke away from Naruto, but he always told her to fuck off" said Iruka returning to his book "And she was not the only one"

"It was actually Naruto who help her" said Kakashi " Sasuke hesitated at first"

"Now... this is interesting" said Iruka closing his book and trying to get up from his bed

"Oy.. oy... Don't move, you didn't recover properly from that poison yet" said Kakashi

"I have to congratulate Naruto for doing it" said Iruka "He always forgave anyone who has wronged him and stopped Sasuke for wanting retribution or revenge. This is his first time doing anything like that."

"This is something i didn't know" said Kakashi getting his own book from his Ninja pooch and started reading Icha Icha Tactics volume 3. Both of them talked until late at night.

That night, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura had a nightmare which involved them all. Naruto wearing different clothe than the usual black with orange and red line on the side, Sasuke usual black with blue and grey line were replace respectively with an Orange Jumpsuit for Naruto and Blue shirt for Sasuke. Both were rivals, Naruto had a crush on Sakura and Sakura was pestering Naruto to leave her alone. What comes after is what made the nightmare interesting, they saw the battle to which Sasuke and Naruto fough in an area they never heard or went to. While Sakura couldn't do anything, feeling more useless than ever to what her teammate where doing. They've heard the name of the following jutsu.

"Chidori!" yelled Sasuke who was launching a frontal Attack against Naruto

"Rasengan!" yelled Naruto doing the same.

"Stop…." Said Sakura crying… "STOP!"

Sakura running to them, tried to stop them by putting herself in front of them to make stop them, but she took both attack directly. Both attack collide in the middle of her chest, Sakura exploded in thousands of pieces around the area. All of them woke up at the same time horrified by what they have seen. All the three of them were panting and sweating.

"That will not happen" said Sasuke on his bedroom watching the dawn from the window.

"That won't happen" said Naruto on his bedroom getting up to drink some water

"What the hell was that" said Sakura on her bedroom shivering at what happened to her having tears on her eyes.

AN : O,o don't worry i won't bash Sakura