Hey, sorry I couldn't update faster. I have to study for the ACT next weekend and I have a ton of homework at the moment. But honestly, don't expect fast updates at all from me. My schedule is pretty much full from now until Spring Break. Until then, this story will be put off to the side. I'm not planning another story…yet.

3cho: Yep, I did just that. If you don't like it, then you don't have to read. You can write your own story.

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Now enough about me. Let's move on to Chapter 2!

"NARUTO, WAKE UP BEFORE I HEAVE YOUR SORRY ASS OUT THE WINDOW AGAIN!"

"I'm up!"

The clock read 7:00 as the sun was just rising. The sky was still tinted orange among the clouds as fall was quickly approaching. This meant that the Academy was starting today for Naruto. Plus, since Naruto was already high-chuunin or low-jounin level, Minato entered him into the last grade of the Academy.

Naruto lazily woke up out of bed, showered, and got changed into his orange jacket and black ANBU pants his dad gave him for his birthday. Having been trained by the Yondaime sure had its benefits. Naruto already had three affinities in wind, water, and fire; plus, he knew several jutsus for each element. In addition, Naruto had total access to the Hokage's library and personal gym. (AN: yes, I made Naruto read)

Naruto walked into the kitchen where breakfast was already made; thankfully, Kushina was the one who was making it this morning. Let's just say that Minato tried and failed terribly in making meals in this household. All he could do was make toast and cereal, barely. Again, let's just say thank goodness their kitchen had a fire extinguisher.

"Have a good first day at the Academy, Naruto." Minato encouraged his son to try and make friends the first day. Just because he was the Hokage's son doesn't automatically meant everybody liked him. Well…some of the girls in the village still find him very attractive.

"Where do you think you're going without saying goodbye, Naruto?!" Kushina asked menacingly.

"Jaa-nee." Naruto said as he flashed off to the Academy. (AN: "See ya")

"Honestly, Naruto needs to learn his manners around adults. Right, Minato?" Kushina asked. However, Minato was completely ignoring her reading the paper.

"MINATO, HOW DARE YOU IGNORE ME!" Kushina yelled as she went over to smack her husband in the face.

"S-Sorry, Kushina" Minato apologized as he sheepishly rubbed the back of his head where he was just hit and smiled apologetically.

"And I wonder where he got such poor manners…" Kushina questioned rhetorically as she walked away.

Once Naruto got there, he was bewildered at the sight of some many kids that were waiting outside the Academy. Most of them were just wanna-be ninjas just for show, while others were waiting to prove their worth to their families, who were generations of shinobi. However, before he could think about it much longer the bell rang and children started to enter in. Naruto, having been here before with his father, immediately spotted Iruka, who would be his teacher this year.

As soon as Naruto entered the classroom, all the students perked their heads up to see the Yondaime's son was entering their grade. Naruto, seeing that he was the center of attention all of a sudden, became really shy in front of the class. Everyone was taller than him because Naruto was placed in the last grade before becoming a genin. Even though he could spar with anyone and still win, he was really nervous when it came to public introductions.

"Good morning class. Today we have a new student with us, Namikaze Naruto" Iruka stated to the class.

"Namikaze Naruto, isn't that the Hokage's son?" were among the murmurs that the class started to talk amongst themselves.

Too nervous to speak, Naruto turned to Iruka, who knew about his shyness in public. "Alright, you take that seat up in the back of the class next to the window, now."

Quickly moving to his seat, Naruto glanced over at everybody shyly as he took his seat. Everyone else was bewildered, however. Shouldn't the son of the Yondaime Hokage be more social than he is right now? Naruto, wanting to distract himself from the attention turned to his classmate.

"Nice to meet you, Naruto. Name is Sodan Nara."

"Nice to meet you too, Sodan"

'Nara…oh yeah. That's the clan with really high IQs, even though they're really lazy.' Naruto thought.

The rest of the day went by like a breeze. History and strategy were two of the most boring class, yet Naruto was able to impress both the class and Iruka with his superior knowledge and complicated strategies that compared to those of the Nara clan. Later, the class moved outside to practice kunai and shuriken throwing.

'At least these people know how to throw a kunai' Naruto thought as he looked over at the first graders who were just starting out. They didn't even know how to properly hold a kunai. However, there were two people who stood out amongst the smaller kids. One of the girls had pink hair, and Naruto had never seen her before today. 'Must be from a civilian family' he thought. The other boy was the only person who could throw the shuriken somewhat accurately and not completely fail to miss the target from 10 feet away.

After kunai and shuriken training, the last part of class included sparring with others in the group. Naruto, being the smallest of the bunch and the Hokage's son, was chosen a lot by the bigger kids who challenged him to duel. However, despite their size difference, Naruto easily took down each of the people who challenged him. It wasn't even close. Naruto could find the weakness in any fighting technique and counter every one of them. The only difficulty here was that the kids were twice his size, but that just made sparring all the more fun and challenging. At the end of the day, his muscles were pretty sore due to all the challenges.

As the final bell rung, Naruto was walking down the hallway again to see the girl with the pink hair once more. She wore a red ribbon on her head and her forehead was a bit larger than the others, but that didn't matter to him. He wondered if it was love at first sight. However, he wasn't going to graduate with her so he moved the thought to the back of his head and headed over to Ichiraku.

"Welcome back, Naruto!" the old man exclaimed as Naruto entered.

"Hey, old man! The usual pork miso ramen" Naruto ordered as he greeted Teuchi and Ayame, his daughter, on the way in. This was his favorite place to eat as a kid after working out with his dad in the forest.

Back then, Naruto would always have his dad's undivided attention as he was taught new justus in every element. Usually, Naruto was able to pick it up within a week. However, his dad has become much busier now with the Chunnin Exams coming up soon and rumors of Orochimaru now in control of Otogakure in his political scheme. Coming to Ichiraku and talking to Teuchi and Ayame was like talking to his grandfather and cousin. It gave him some sort of relief against his mom's antics to get him to eat vegetables and behave…like he would ever do that.

"Hey, Naruto! What's new?" Ayame asked.

"Well, I just started the Academy today" Naruto said wearily sat at his normal spot.

"Hey, that sounds fun" the old man said as he continued to cook Naruto's ramen.

"Yeah…but I honestly don't know why I can't just skip it and go straight to genin? Honestly, there are so many people in my grade, if i were to actually go the regular track, that can't even do throw kunai correctly or fight seriously against me. I want to be challenged by other real shinobi" Naruto complained.

"Well, do you want to become Hokage?" Ayame asked.

"Of course!"

"Then you have to pass the Academy first." Ayame argued.

"Here you go!" Teuchi exclaimed as he handed Naruto his food.

"Thanks, old man!" Naruto began to dig into his meal quite rapidly. Naruto was always one of their best customers. Once, after training for 2 days straight on one of his new jutsus, he was able to stomach 15 bowls of ramen in less than 20 minutes. Needless to say that nobody has ever come close to that mark since.

After thoroughly finishing his bowl, Naruto thanked the old man and Ayame and flashed back home.

"Welcome back home, Naruto. How was your first day at school?" Kushina asked.

"Easy as pie. Some of the kids there couldn't even throw kunai correctly mom. Can I please just move up to Jounin right now?"

"NO. I will not let my 8-year old son be taking on A-ranked missions when you clearly don't have the experience of the real world."

"But mom, it can't be that hard to take on D-rank missions" Naruto begged.

Kushina scoffed. "I know that. However, everyone has to go through the same process to become a ninja. There's no getting out of the Academy. Besides, tons of kids would rather just go straight to the genin test and not go to the school. You're just like Itachi. He only had to take the last two grades in the Academy before graduating. You only have to take one year, though. Be patient; after the Academy, then you can progress to a Jounin as fast as you want."

Naruto sighed. "Fine."

(1 year later)

"NARUTO! WAKE UP BEFORE I DUMP A WATERFALL ONTO YOUR BED!"

"I'm up" Naruto groggily responded to his mother's threat.

Today was the day that he would meet his teacher. As expected, Naruto passed the 1st test with flying colors. To say the least, Naruto was still really nervous. He didn't really get much sleep last night thinking about what his teacher would be like. He really hoped his dad would choose some really cool ninja as his teacher. For crying out loud, he's the Hokage's son! He was the next prodigy of Konoha!

Quickly, Naruto dressed up into his normal clothes and rushed into the kitchen for his breakfast.

"Oh, Minato. You better hope that man doesn't teach my precious son that awful habit of his" Kushina complained as Minato told her the identity of his sensei.

Curious, Naruto waited a while longer behind the wall trying to find out who his new teacher would be. However, this did not go unnoticed by his parents, as they spotted him behind the wall.

"Naruto, why don't you just come out?" Minato asked. Naruto cursed himself from not masking his chakra beforehand.

"Damn, dad. Nothing gets past you."

"Of course not, I'm the Hokage if you forgot. Besides, it was weird why our son didn't come rushing into the kitchen when he's 2 minutes away from being late for meeting his new team and sensei" Minato reasoned.

Caught off guard, Naruto frantically looked at the clock and saw that his father was right in his suspicions. 'Shit' Naruto thought. He quickly grabbed some pancakes and flashed off to school.

"Have a good…he's gone. He couldn't have said goodbye before leaving?" Kushina questioned Minato.

"Wouldn't you want to hurry to school to find out your new sensei?" Minato argued.

"True, but that jutsu will make him lazy in the future."

And that's a wrap. Kind of short…make sure to review and look for future polls.