Naruto:Uchiha's Apprentice
chapter 1
A/N: This is my first fanfiction ever... please go easy on me.
Disclaimer: I don't not, not own Naruto...
Flashback
Naruto was picked up by a figure wearing a black cloak with red clouds on it. "Itachi" said a voice nearby "keep Naruto safe. He has been attacked many times over the last couple of years". "Of course Hokage" came the response. He looked back down at the 3 year old and jumped out of the window.
Konoha, 9 years later
Iruka yelled at his class to quiet down. Shikamaru and Kiba looked bored. Shikamaru was actually trying to stay awake. He looked out to the clouds. He continued to envy them.
Gate to Konoha
A figure wearing a cloak with red clouds and a shorter one wearing a black cloak with the Uzumaki simble on the back and two tri pronged kunai on the sides. They walked up to the gate. The guard standing there just stared. "Y-y-you" he stuttered at the two figures. "You're not supposed...". He didn't finish his sentence. The guard crumpled under the Tsukyomi. The two continued to walk through the village.
They drew a couple of bewildered stares from civilians. Finally, the two reached the Hokage's tower. The secretery didn't even get to utter a single word. Itachi knocked on the door to the Hokage's office. "Come in" said the hokage. Itachi and Naruto walked in taking off their straw hats.
"His training is complete" said Itachi and with that he body flickered away. The sandaime Hokage looked at the boy. The boy had grown and his eyes seemed more mature. "Okay, Naruto" began the Hokage "I trust Itachi has told you everything". The boy nodded. "All right, time to meet the people in your academy year".
Back at the academy
Iruka decided to train the class more about the transformation. He showed them what they had to do for the test tomorrow. He promptly transformed into the Hokage. There was a knock on the door and the real Hokage walked in. After the smoke cleared, the class was thoroughly confused. Were there two Hokages? As soon as Iruka noticed that the Hokage had come, he promptly transformed back again.
"Hokage" began Iruka. The Hokage just put up a hand for silence. Iruka promptly shut up. "Now" began the Hokage "I would like to introduce a certain somebody who hasn't been here in over nine years". He gestured to the boy wearing his cloak and hat. He pulled up his hat, revealing the six whisker marks on his face and his blue eyes. He pulled his hat off completely to show short, spiky blond hair. The thoughts that crossed the mind of a few people was that the Yondaime Hokage had come back but that was impossible.
"This" said the Hokage "is Naruto Uzumaki. A few of you might remember him". The class looked stunned. That was the boy that many had called the "Three Year Old Prankster". "Yo" Naruto said as he looked up at the class.
Training Ground 7
"Gai" said a Jounin with white hair that seemed to defy gravity "ever get the feeling that someone stole your entry phrase".
Back again in the academy
Iruka just stared at the boy. This was the boy that had previously been living on the streets. "N-Naruto y-you sit by Sasuke" announced the teacher rather shakily. Naruto just took his place next to the Uchiha.
The Hokage suddenly left. Iruka continued to show them what they had to do to pass tomorrow. Naruto just stared out into space. "So boring" he murmered. He couldn't wait until the Chuunin exams.
The next day Naruto had gotten up really late. He put on his favourite cloak and shirt and body flickered to the academy. He was just in time. "Naruto, glad you could make it" said Iruka as Naruto walked in. "Did you say something" asked Naruto.
Hokage's Office
Kakashi sneezed. He felt like someone had used his catchphrase again!
Academy
All the class burst out laughing. Iruka's eyes burned with fury. "Why you little" screamed Iruka. "What"? Deadpanned Naruto. This just caused the class to start howling with laughter. Clearly Naruto was turning into quite the Kakashi. "As I was saying" Iruka said trying to clam down "the test will begin shortly".
An hour later
"He said shortly, right?" asked Naruto to Shikamaru. The boy just smirked. He was beggining to like Naruto. "We will begin the test with a test of acurracy" said Iruka, leading the class outside. There were different targets around the area.
"Begin" said Iruka as Naruto droned out. When it was finally his turn, Naruto decided to hit both points perfectly in the center with two shuriken. Then he decided he would throw the other two with enough force to slice the Shuriken in half. "What?" asked Naruto to a bewildered class "haven't you been practicing?".
"On to the next test" said Iruka, slightly scared. Naruto aced every other test, even closing his eyes on some. One of his personal favourites was the Genjutsu. He had to break the genjutsu on him and cast one on his sensei for as long as possible.
Naruto just broke the genjutsu without handseals and placed one on his sensei. He didn't even realise that the next few sudents to take the test were just part of Naruto's genjutsu. He was finally released when one of the students asked when it was their turn.
"The highest scoring student" announced Iruka "is Uzumaki Naruto with 101/100. "How is that even possible" asked Sakura Haruno. "Well the extra point was because I would have been kept in a genjutsu for as long as Naruto wanted if not for the intervention of a student. Plus for his excellence on the accuracy test". Naruto just shrugged at the looks of his fellow students.
"Come back tomorrow for the squad assignments" said Iruka as the class left for home. Naruto decided it would take to much effort to walk so he just body flickered back to his appartment. He would have to ask the Hokage for his Dad's mansion soon.
At 6 in the morning, Naruto decided to put some training in. He walked up to the gates of a training ground. He saw Gai and Kakashi spar. "Yo" said Naruto as he came up to them.
"So you must be the one who stole my catchphrase" said Kakashi. Gai looked to the boy. "You have the gift of youth, use it to it's fullest potential" shouted Gai. Kakashi saw the look on the boy's face and didn't need the sharingan to see what was going to happen next.
"Did you say something" asked Naruto looking up at Gai. The man in the jumpsuits began cursing incoherently so Naruto only heard "just like Kakashi". "Well" said Naruto, looking at his watch (yes, he has one) "It's about time for me to train and then head over to the academy".
"You could train with us" said Kakashi. "Only if you let my try something I've been wanting to try for ages". Kakashi nodded. "So what is it".
Kakashi's only answer was him being taken to a room with the whole Icha Icha collection in front of him. Kakashi's eyes widened and picked up one of the books. Gai was looking at Kakashi curiously.
"It's genjutsu" mouthed Naruto. Gai could guess were his sparring partner was. He gave Naruto a twinkling smile and a thumbs up. Naruto sweatdropped as Gai suddenly punched Kakashi in the head. The Jounin looked around, a little dissapointed. It was genjutsu. This genin had just put him in a genjutsu that could easily beat Kakashi. "Time to train" said Naruto a foxy grin on his face.
A few hours later Naruto was in the academy next to Sasuke. Iruka calmed the class down. He was quite surprised to see that Naruto had his headband on his leg, next to his shuriken pouch. "I will now announce the teams" stated Iruka looking down at a piece of paper.
"Team seven will consist of Uzumaki Naruto, Aburame Shino and Nara Shikamaru, Team eight will consist of Haruno Sakura, Yakamichi Ino and Inuzuka Kiba, Team nine has already been taken and Team ten will consist of Akimichi Chouji, Hyuuga Hinata and Uchiha Sasuke".
Naruto met up with his soon to be teammates after the class was over. Shino just stood still looking through his sunglasses, Shikamaru was half asleep. "Hey Shikamaru" said Naruto "wan't a game of shogi".
"Sure" came the response. Shino decided to take a nap. Shikamaru could take ages when playing a game of shogi.
A few hours later Naruto looked at Shikamaru a smile on his face. "Beat you" he stated. Shikamaru looked agitated.
Hokage's Office
Kakashi looked up at the Sandaime. "Team seven or team ten, the choice is your's" said the Sandaime. Kakshi wanted to train the Uchiha because of his heritage but Naruto had placed a Genjutsu whish was only broken by Gai's punch. Plus if Shikamaru was a bit like Shikaku then Kakashi would have a chance to teach him aswell.
"Team seven" was the Sharingan users answer.
As Asuma and Kurenai took their teams away Naruto knew who would be their sensei. Another sharingan user. "Our sensei will be late so I suggest we all take a nap" said Naruto as the other teams left. "How can you be sure" asked Shino. "Easy, I know him and according to his arch-rival he is always late".
Two hours later Kakashi finally arrived to see his students all getting up from a nap. "Naruto, I can guess you told them" Kakashi said with a grin under his mask. "Meet me on the roof" and with that he left. Naruto and his teammates just closed their eyes and slept for another hour before finally deciding to go to the roof. As Naruto half expected, their sensei wasn't there. The trio decided to do some cloud watching.
Finally, Kakashi came up to the roof to see his students discusing clouds. Kakashi sweatdropped. Clouds? They were looking at clouds? Why? Kakashi decided to break the silence. "All right. Enough looking at the clouds. Time to introduce yourselves". Everyone looked at him. "Why don't you begin, Sharingan Kakashi?" asked Naruto sweetly.
Kakashi knew he shouldn't be surprised that Naruto knew his knickname. "Okay" he began "my name is Hatake Kakashi. I like to train and read certain books".
Naruto snorted at this. "I dislike" continued Kakashi "being put under genjutsu by certain genin and my dream is to not have it done to me again".
Naruto started laughing at this. Shino and Shikamaru guessed what happened when Naruto met their sensei. "Starting from the right" said the now quite annoyed Jounin.
"My name is Aburame Shino. I like insects. My dislike is when people kill insects. My dream is to become head of my clan".
"My name is Nara Shikamaru. I like shogi and I dislike work. My dream is to become an excellent strategist like my dad".
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like putting our sensei in a genjutsu that he hasn't even realised he's in and I dislike being bored. My dream is to become the Hokage's secretary".
Kakashi gave him a deadpan look and released the genjutsu. Naruto was on the floor laughing his head off. "Very funny" said Kakashi. Once Naruto had calmed down he said what he really wanted to be. "Meet me at training ground 7 tomorrow at 12 and I suggest you don't have breakfast" said Kakashi and with that promptly left.
Naruto smiled as a plan formulated in his head for tomorrow. Oh how he loved genjutsu.
Training Ground 7
"Man" complained Shikamaru "is he always late". "Well since he's not here how about some ramen" Naruto said. "He told us not to have breakfast" answered Shino. "Wrong" said Naruto "he wanted us not to have it and besides this can be considered brunch". Then he glanced at the three posts in the training ground.
Kakashi's plan became clear in Naruto's head. He looked over at Shikamaru and they both came to the same conclusion. "We need a plan" began Naruto.
"Sorry I'm late but Naruto always ends up stealing my catchphrase so I had to come up with a new one". "Well at least you're not lying" chuckled Naruto. Kakashi began explaining the rules. All three nodded once he was finished.
"Hajime" said Kakashi and all three immediately substituted. This must be Naruto's idea thought Kakashi. Suddenly he felt his chakra leave him. He looked at himself to see beetles over his body. Shikamaru then used Shadow Possession Jutsu and reached to where the bells where with Kakashi and threw them at Naruto who smiled and said "I love genjutsu".
Kakashi realised what had happened. He broke the genjutsu to see Shikamaru asleep and Shino next to him resting. Naruto was holding out the two bells. The Naruto decided to break the second genjutsu to allow him to see Shikamru holding a bell and Shino the other. But Naruto was also holding one. "That's what I call teamwork" said Naruto.
They had seen right through his plan. Naruto gave Kakashi a smile and then suddenly revealed that instead of just three ramen he had had four. "Grubs up" said Naruto handing it to his sensei. Kakashi smiled but then thought of what he was going to say to the other Jounin and the Hokage.
This was embarrasing.
"Our teams first C-rank mission" said Naruto excitedly. They were on the road out of Konoha. Then he spotted a puddle. He decided to play along with it. Shino also noticed as did Shikamaru. When the two decided to finally show themselves, they cut apart Kakashi, killed Shino and Shikamaru with Naruto surrendering and let them kill the bridge builder, Tazuna.
They scurried off happily. Naruto stared at the two in the genjutsu. He looked at Kakashi who nodded and Naruto released the genjutsu and promptly knocked the two out. Kakashi interoggated them and they continued to walk to the village.
After a few days, they were close to the village that Tazuna lived in. Suddenly, Zabuza attacked. "Yo" said Naruto. Zabuza looked at him then smiled. "If he's here then Haku is over there" he thought to himslef. Zabuza suddenly burst forward knuckles out. They made contact with Naruto's and Kakashi was surprised to see that the two were smiling.
"Hey you demon" said Naruto grinning "where's Haku". "She's in the trees over there" came Zabuza's answer. Haku suddenly appeared infront of the two.
"Hi Naruto" she said smiling "long time no see". "How have you two been and, by the way were you sent here to kill the old man?" asked naruto. "We've been well and yes, Gato hired us".
"Hey" said Naruto suddenly "You two up for an assassination". The other two looked at each other then grinned. "Naruto you are truly inspiring" grinned Zabuza as he grabbed Haku and Naruto and body flickered away.
"Well, that was kinda awkward" said Shikamaru a few minutes later.
As Zabuza disposed of the body, he decided that he was going to escourt the bridge builder to to finish the bridge also giving Naruto time to get back to the Konoha.
As the bridge was finished, they decided to call it "The Great Zabuza Naruto Bridge".
Team seven reached Konoha a few days later. When they came so early, the Hokage asked what happened.
"Well it turns out it should have been B-rank if not A-rank at least. So Zabuza Momochi killed Tazuna and decided to let us live" said Naruto in a serious tone. He got it right even to the eyes.
Then he cracked out laughing, making people think he was mad. "Actually if memory serves the, bridge builder got escourted by Zabuza after we met and he decided to come to Konoha after the mission" deadpanned Naruto.
Everyone now started laughing out loud. The Hokage nearly had a puddle on his seat. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door as Zabuza and Haku walked in. Now quite a few had both solid and liquid in their pants. "Yo" said Naruto "what took you so long?".
"Oh, you now the occasional ninja that was hired to avenge Gato and that sort of thing". Naruto nodded a serious expresion on his face as if he had been through something similair.
"Finally the Chuunin Exams" said Naruto. "You two better get some training in. Here". Naruto summoned two shadow clones and told them to teach the two. Kakashi was reading his book, not minding that Naruto was now teaching his students.
"That is the wors't disguise ever" pointed out Naruto to a few kids in a box painted to look like a rock. The three suddenly came out, introduced themselves.
To Naruto, they looked a lot like Sasuke. "Wait" said Konohamaru "you're not Sasuke". "No" replied the genin "He went over there".
The three nodded then left in that direction. Naruto sensed a chakra signature nearby and went to investigate.
"You little brat" said Kankuro holding Konohamaru up. "I ought to stop your existence". "Don't Kankuro" said Temari "you don't want him to find out". "I'll be quick" Kankuro said an evil look in his eyes.
"Yo" came a voice. "Hi Naruto" said the sand two in unison. "You do realise" Naruto continued "that that is the Sandaimes grandson and that Gaara is in that tree up there and so is stuck up Sasuke".
Konohamaru glared at Naruto "don't say anything bad about Sasuke" the little twirp said. "Hello Naruto" said Gaara landing next to his siblings. "You want to catch up on the latest news from Sunagakure".
"Sure" said Naruto. "How do you know him" asked Sasuke. "We met about, what was it, 3 years ago when he tried to kill me". "That's right" grinned Gaara "We were basically children like you" said Gaara pointing at the 3 kids. He laughed crazilly. All three turned pale.
"You should play with Sasuke" said Naruto as he joined the other three "I'm sure he likes fankids as much as he likes fangirls". Sasuke paled at this. "Is it okay if I go with you four?".
"No" came the reply. Sasuke's scream nearly made many shinobi around the area go and investigate. If they did they would have found three unconcious children and Sasuke looking as if his mind had decided to leave to go on a holiday in sunny Sunagakure.