Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
AN: Prepare for chapter two. If the story seems like it's confusing now, I'm sorry. All will be explained in time. Now, ON WITH THE STORY!
Chapter 2
It was Naruto's first day at the academy. Of the all of the emotions he thought he should have felt, boredom wasn't one of them. Yet that was what he was feeling right now. To make matters worse, the class hadn't even started. Hell, he was the only person in the classroom at this point in time. All because he showed up early.
The class room was set up with the teacher's desk on the floor at the front of the classroom. To the left, from the student's point of view, was a sliding door. On the right side of the classroom was a set of windows that looked out over a great forest. The student's seats were arranged in rows. Each row was raised higher than the one in front of it, the writing surface extending smoothly to the aisle. There were five rows and three aisles. All of it made of a deep brown hardwood.
Naruto sighed as he stared out of the polished window. So far it seemed today was going to be a very boring day. At least dinner was somewhat interesting.
Flash Back
Naruto and Hiruzen were sitting at the dinner table, just catching up on recent events.
"And then Jiraiya-sensei sneezed, letting all of the girls know someone was watching them. Of course, since there were eight other guys there he released a paralytic agent before he ran. So the girls didn't see him this time, but they did find the unfortunate eight guys that were with him," Naruto said.
Hiruzen couldn't help but laugh. "I wish I could have been there to see the look on his face."
Naruto grinned and pulled out a picture. It showed Jiraiya running for his life while twelve women, obviously kunoichi, were assaulting the other eight men in the back ground. The look on the toad sannin's face was priceless.
"Dinner is served!" Reisu said as he emerged from the kitchen. Around him floated several plates in the air, each one laden with steaming rice, beef, soy sauce, and a healthy set of vegetables.
Hiruzen's eyes widened to the size of the plates that were floating in the air. "H-h-how?"
Reisu looked at Naruto. ~You didn't tell him?~ he asked the blonde.
~No, I wanted him to be surprised,~ Naruto mentally responded.
Both Reisu and Naruto laughed as the plates settled on the table in front of the three men. "This is one of our abilities," Reisu told Hiruzen. "I won't go into detail about how it works, but we do things with our mind that seem impossible."
"Like reading your mind," Naruto said.
"And your memories," Reisu added.
"And moving things with our mind," Naruto said.
"And other things that we're not going to tell you yet," Reisu finished.
"We're not?" Naruto asked, causing Reisu to sweat drop.
"No, we're not," Reisu said.
"Okay," Naruto said. He picked up his chopsticks. "Itadakimasu!"
End Flash Back
Yeah, last night was fun. Naruto couldn't help but chuckle to himself at the memory.
"Hey, you're in my seat," a voice said to Naruto from the aisle.
Naruto turned to a see a boy about his age in a blue shirt and white shorts. The boy had spiky black hair with blue highlights and pure black eyes. On each arm he had a set of white arm warmers with blue trim. He had on standard blue shinobi sandals and bandages over his shins.
"And?" Naruto asked.
"I would like it if you would please move," the boy said.
"Since you asked so nicely," Naruto said. He hopped up and moved to the aisle where the boy moved to the seat. He saw a particular fan shaped kamon on the boy's shirt, near the collar. "You're an Uchiha?"
"One of the last three," the boy said as he sat down. "My name is Sasuke."
Naruto moved to sit in the seat next to the boy. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto. I just returned from a six year training trip."
"That would explain why I hadn't seen you before," Sasuke said. "Who was your sensei?"
"My sensei was Jiraiya of the Sannin," Naruto said.
Sasuke looked at the boy. "That's cool."
"I suppose it is," Naruto said. "I was also taught in other skills by my shishou Murasaki Reisu."
"Never heard of him," Sasuke said.
"I'm not surprised. He only arrived in the elemental nations about six years ago, and he's been keeping a low profile," Naruto responded.
"How would you like to train with me after class?" Sasuke asked.
"I'd love to," Naruto said.
The boys were soon talking about training methods, ignoring the strange looks that everyone gave them as the newcomers entered the classroom. It continued for some time until the teacher walked in.
He wore the standard officer uniform. Long sleeve blue shirt and blue pants. On the each sleeve of the shirt was a red circle with a black line inside, giving it a spiral look. Over the shirt was a green flak vest that was issued to chuunin, though it was also worn by the jounin. The man had tan skin a lighter colored scar across his nose. His medium brown hair was tied into a spiky knot at the back of his head.
"Alright class, settle down," the man said. When no one listened to him, he grew a tick mark on the side of his forehead. "SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!" Everyone immediately settled down. "Alright this is the beginning of our second week here. We have a new student today. Would you please stand up and introduce yourself? Tell us of some of your hobbies and interests."
Naruto stood up. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like to train, pull pranks, and annoy Jiraiya-sensei. Can I ask what your name is sensei?"
"Of course," the man said as Naruto sat down. "My name is Umino Iruka. I will be one of your two instructors from now until you graduate. Your other sensei's name is Touji Mizuki."
"Arigato, sensei," Naruto said.
"Now then, history lesson," Iruka said. "Who can name all four of our Hokage, and what they're famous for?" Naruto, a pink haired girl, and Ayame all shot their hands into the air. "Well, Naruto, since you're new, why don't you go."
"The Shodaime Hokage was Uchiha Madara, founder of the Uchiha clan. He was not only the first to obtain the Sharingan, but the Mangekyou Sharingan. However prolonged use of it degraded his eyes. When his brother Uchiha Izuna, who had also obtained the Mangekyou Sharingan, was mortally wounded on the battle field, he gave his eyes to Madara.
"This gave Madara the Fuumetsu Mangekyou Sharingan. This eye gave Madara several abilities, immortality and the ability to control the Bijuu. He was forced to fight Senju Hashirama at the Valley of the End. After the battle, neither body was recovered so it was assumed that they died," Naruto said. "A scroll in the Hokage's office stated that in the event of disappearance, Senju Tobirama was to assume the position of Nidaime Hokage.
"Tobirama was Hashirama's half brother, and wife of Uzumaki Mito. He had what was at the time an ungodly control of water. With his ability he was able to calm any bijuu to the point of domestic docility. With his control over the bijuu, he helped turn Konoha into an actual village rather than an overly large campsite. When the completion of the village was reached, he sealed all of the Bijuu except for the Kyuubi, which was already sealed into Uzumaki Mito, into separate containers and shared them out with other villages to assure their alliance.
"Only, the villages decided to use the bijuu as weapons, starting the Second Great Shinobi War. Eventually there came a lull in the war and the Sandaime Hokage was chosen. Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Professor, master of over a thousand jutsu. Shortly after his arrival to leadership, the Third Great Shinobi War broke out. This war quickly escalated to horror beyond the other wars, as it dragged other countries such as Oni no Kuni into the war, unleashing demons and beasts into the fray.
"Near the end of the war, a single Konoha jounin was taking the world by storm. Namikaze Minato, the Kiiroi Senko, using his ingenious mix of seals and kunai, along with a variety of self created jutsu, took to the battle field. Using his Hiraishin seal on his special kunai, Minato was able to almost single handedly defeat the armies of Iwa and Kumo. Suna had already dropped out of the war due to their low numbers and the capture of their elders.
"After the war, the Sandaime Hokage announced that he was stepping down from the Hokage mantle, and the Yondaime Hokage had been chosen. Namikaze Minato was chosen as the Yondaime Hokage. He married Uzumaki Kushina, the next jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi. During the next four years, Konoha no Sato flourished under the rein of the Yondaime Hokage. But then, twelve years ago, on the night of October the tenth, Kyuubi was somehow released from its seal.
"Many of the village's shinobi, including the retired Sarutobi Hiruzen, fought valiantly against the beast. However, the bijuu are nothing more than masses of chakra and could not be killed. The Yondaime used a forbidden sealing technique to lock the beast away into his own newborn child. The name of this child is actually a SSS ranked secret of the village and cannot be revealed," Naruto finished. "However, following Minato and Kushina's death, Sarutobi Hiruzen came out of retirement to become Hokage again."
"Wow, that was a bit more detailed than I expected Naruto," Iruka said. "But there are some things that you mentioned that aren't taught in class. How did you know that?"
Naruto shrugged. "Jiraiya-sensei and Sarutobi-ojisan told me."
"Naruto, show respect for the Hokage!" Iruka shouted.
"I only give nicknames to the people I respect, Iruka-sensei," Naruto said. "Would you like to hear the nickname I use for Jiraiya-sensei?"
'This is not going to end well,' Iruka thought. "I'm sure you're going to tell us no matter what, so go ahead."
"Jiraiya-sensei is a self proclaimed super pervert, responsible for writing the Icha Icha series," Naruto said, "so I call him Ero-sennin."
The class started laughing. It took Iruka another ten minutes to calm everyone down. "Naruto, I'm going to have to ask you stay after class. Now, since Naruto gave most of our history lesson for the year away, and it is roughly that time, we're going to go and do our physical exercises and taijutsu sparring." The class cheered as they ran out the door. Only Naruto and Sasuke were left inside with Iruka. "I guess this is a good a time as any. Naruto, how do you really know so much about our hidden history? Sasuke, go with the others."
"No, he can stay. He will be clan head soon enough, and he will learn it eventually," Naruto said. He turned to the raven haired boy. "Remember this is a SSS rank secret. Revealing it will lead to your execution by ANBU."
"Then why are you talking about it?" Sasuke asked.
"The Hokage and I are the only one's allowed to talk about due to a law set in place twelve years ago, on the night of my birth. The night of October tenth," Naruto said. "I was the child that the Kyuubi was sealed into."
Sasuke's jaw dropped and his eyes widened. "Then that means…"
"Yes, I am the son of the Yondaime Hokage," Naruto said. "I actually know one of his seven self invented techniques."
"Does Hokage-sama know that you know?" Iruka asked.
"Yes he does. He was one of the two people to tell me," Naruto said.
"This doesn't change anything," Sasuke said. "I still want to train with you after class."
"Sure thing," Naruto said.
"Okay boys, let's go outside and do some training," Iruka said, pushing the boys out through the door.
XxXxX
Naruto looked around the academy's training field. The field was roughly three miles long and one mile wide. There was an oval shaped quarter-mile track for running in the south-eastern corner, there was a kunai/shuriken range in the northern section, a jutsu range right next to the weapons range, a set of balancing logs in the east, taijutsu punching/kicking logs in the west, several sparring rings in the center, and a rather difficult looking obstacle course around the entire field.
The class had just finished their workout, which Naruto thought was too easy, and were waiting around one of the taijutsu rings while Iruka was busy mixing around names in bowl. The ring itself was pretty simple. A barren circle of dark dirt with a ring of white tape around the outside edge. On the outside of the rings the grass grew abundantly.
"Alright, as I call out your names, I want you to come into the ring. The rules are that you can use any techniques and taijutsu styles you may know. This is only so we can make a class roster, to find out your class rank. Now the first match is Ichiraku Ayame and Akimichi Chouji."
Ayame slipped into a taijutsu style that only Naruto recognized, causing the blond to smirk, while Chouji fell into a variation of the academy style that had been adapted for use for his clan due to their larger girth. Without hesitation, Chouji charged the girl. Ayame waited in the same spot until Chouji was close to her position. She then stepped forward, thrusting both hands forward at the boys gut. He doubled over as Ayame took out a kunai and held it to the boy's throat.
"Good job, Ayame and Chouji," Iruka said. "Ayame what style was that?"
"It's the one my dad taught me," Ayame said. "It's an adaption of the samurai style he used when he was one."
"I see," Iruka said. "Okay, next are Hyuuga Hinata and Ami."
Hinata used her clan's Jyuuken style to easily take out the civilian born academy student. Jyuuken was a style used to attack the chakra points in the body and, if the user was skilled enough, the vital points and organs with the body. She then almost immediately helped the girl with first aid.
"Uchiha Sasuke and Nara Shikamaru," Iruka called out.
Using only taijutsu, Sasuke easily beat Shikamaru using his clan style, Geigekiken. Geigekiken was only name for it, but translated roughly to the Intercepting fist. It was a style that was intended to block, or intercept, all of an opponent's blows before counter attacking with the user's own. Despite being beaten, Shikamaru was still able to leave the ring without serious injury.
"Haruno Sakura and Aburame Shino," Iruka called out.
Shino used his clan's kikaichu insects and basic academy style to drain Sakura's chakra. The chakra drained from Sakura was split between Shino and the insects, with Shino getting ten percent of all the chakra each bug drained. The Aburame clan had an agreement of sorts with their insects. The insects, which eat chakra, are allowed to keep ninety percent of the chakra they drain, and in return the Aburame clansmen give the bugs a home to rest in.
"Inuzuka Kiba and Uzumaki Naruto," Iruka called out.
Kiba grinned at the boy. "I don't care who you think you are, you're going down."
"As if someone of your caliber could defeat me," Naruto said in his flat voice.
"And what's up with those clothes?" Kiba continued to taunt. "Those don't look like something a shinobi would wear."
Naruto raised an eyebrow. Dark clothes with ANBU like body armor, accompanied with black shinobi shoes weren't shinobi clothes? The dog boy was wearing a blue jacket with fur lining and tan pants, and he dared to call Naruto's clothes un-shinobi like?
"One more word, Inuzuka, and I will turn your day into a waking nightmare," Naruto promised in his usual flat tone.
"What, can't take a little insult? Can't deal with the heat?" Kiba grinned evilly.
"Don't say I didn't warn you," Naruto said. A second later Kiba was screaming, rolling on the ground.
"Naruto! What did you do to him?" Iruka demanded.
"It's a genjutsu," Naruto half-lied. "It shows the receiver their worst fear over and over."
"I see," Iruka said. "I will take him to the infirmary, the rest of you wait here." Iruka slung Kiba over his shoulder and vanished in a swirl of leaves.
While Iruka was gone, Naruto took to reading his classmates minds.
'I wonder what Tou-chan is cooking for dinner,' Chouji thought.
The Nara heir was going through at least two hundred thoughts at once, each on ending in the word 'troublesome'.
'I can't wait to train!' Sasuke thought. 'I wonder if Itachi-nii-san will teach me anything new today.'
'I hope Kiba-san will be okay,' Hinata worried.
'Sasuke-kun is the best!' Sakura squealed in her mind.
'CHA! We'll have Sasuke-kun in no time!' a second voice in Sakura's head thought.
'Okay,' Naruto thought, 'split personality.'
'I won't let forehead girl beat me to Sasuke-kun,' the blonde girl thought. 'But that new guy is kind of cute too. No Ino! Don't lose focus. Sasuke-kun is the goal!
'Naruto-kun is very good at genjutsu. I wonder if he'll teach me,' Ayame wondered.
As soon as he made contact with Shino's mind, something felt different. It was similar to a hive mind, but with Shino himself as the King. ~Uzumaki-san, is there any reason in particular you are trying to get into my head?~
~Not really~ Naruto mentally spoke back with Shino. ~I was just looking at everyone's mind so that I could get an idea of their state of mind. I was rather surprised to find out that you can communicate telepathically though.~
~I see.~ Shino stated. ~that is a good idea. I can see why you would be surprised. However, due to the kikaichu insects in our body, all Aburame have minor telepathic abilities. However we can only usually talk with other family members and our insects. However, my family has acknowledged that my telepathic abilities are of the highest degree they've ever seen.~
~Ah, I see.~ Naruto responded. ~I think you should meet Reisu-shishou. He taught me everything I know about mind powers. He might even be able to help with yours. By the way, are you able to see my memories?~
~Yes, I can see your memories, however your secrets are safe with me.~ Shino said. ~I will meet with Murasaki-san after you are finished training with Uchiha-san after class.~
Iruka interrupted whatever was going to be said as he appeared in a swirl of leaves with a now conscious Kiba. The dog boy looked over at Naruto. "That was evil, how could you do something like that?"
"I've done worse," Naruto responded simply.
"Alright, well for the last match, Yamanaka Ino and Shimura Sai," Iruka announced.
Ino smiled at the boy, who smiled back. "I won't hold back," she promised. She flashed through some hand seals before yelling, "Shintenshin no Jutsu!"
Sai stiffened for a moment before his body dissolved into ink. The real said appeared behind Ino with a kunai to her throat.
"Very good all of you," Iruka said. "It's now lunch time. Be back in the classroom no later than thirteen thirty."
As all of the other students ran off, Shino approached Naruto and Sasuke. The three of them silently made their way into the village, following Naruto.