Naruto, From Ninja to Autobot

Hey everybody! First of all, I would like to thank all of reviewers for their support. So, without further adieu, here's the second chapter. Hope that you all enjoy it. I don't own Naruto or Transformers Armada

'Blah' - inner thoughts (both humans and Transformers)

"Blah" - talking

"Blah" - talking in the Mini-Con's language

'Blah' - demon talking

"Blah" - jutsu being performed/really angry yelling

--Blah-- - someone talking through a radio/communicator link

#- scene change

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Chapter 2: Contact

'Oh crap! Crappity, crap, crap, crap! I can't believe that I lost track of time!' thought Naruto as he jumped over rooftop after rooftop. He usually took this route since it was less crowded than it was on the streets. This way he could get to his destination a lot faster than he would have if tried to make his way through the crowded streets every morning. And as an added bonus, there weren't any people to shoot him with angry glares on the roofs.

Finally, after what seemed like ten minutes of nonstop roof-hopping, Naruto finally made it to the Ninja Academy. To his dismay, however, he saw that the courtyard was completely empty. 'Crap! I didn't realize that I was that late. Iruka Sensei is going to kill me if he catches me late again!' thought Naruto as slowly opened the front entrance door of the building, and began to creep towards the classroom that always held his first class of the day. Naruto's relationship with Iruka was what many people would consider to be a complicated one. Iruka, even though he was the one responsible for exposing the academy instructors' conspiracy to the Hokage, didn't believe in giving any student special treatment. This meant that Iruka was more than willing to punish Naruto when he ever failed a test, tried to disrupt class by pulling pranks on him, or , in this case scenario, arrive to class late. Naruto had already been through Iruka's punishments for tardiness to know that if he were caught that he would practically have endure all nine circles of Hell in one afternoon.

'Hey, maybe this is my lucky day.' thought Naruto, as he crept closer and closer toward the classroom's doorway. 'Yeah, that's it! Maybe Iruka slept in today, and is just as late as I am. Or maybe he even decided to cancel class for today.'

"Now Naruto, you should know by now that I would never be capable of such laziness. By the way, you do know that you're fifteen minutes late to class, right?" said voice that sounded like it was directly behind Naruto. Acting on his basic instincts, Naruto turned to see what the source of the noise was, only to be face to face with an angry-looking Iruka Umino. Before Naruto had a chance to move, Iruka, with speed that the blonde had never seen from his sensei before, tied Naruto's arms to his sides with rope that the scarred ninja had with him, causing the boy stubble and then fall to the floor with a crash, with his back on the ground. Naruto tried to escape his bindings through the use of the Substitution Jutsu, and then with the Escape Jutsu, but neither of them seemed to work.

"You might as well save your chakra, Naruto, because there's no use trying to escape by using ninjutsu." stated Iruka. "I infused the ropes with my own chakra so that it'll negate any jutsu that you try to cast. Although, it's good to see that you can perform those jutsu, so maybe your time here wasn't a complete waste of time." And with that grabbed Naruto by the ropes and started to drag the captured student towards the classroom.

'So much for my lucky day.' thought Naruto bitterly.

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The classroom was filled with the conversations of the many students. The moment that they saw Iruka drag the tied up form of Naruto Uzumaki into the classroom, everyone became silent. This silence, however, didn't last long as it was soon replaced with full blown laughter. Even though Naruto occasionally liked to make himself the class clown every once in a while, there were times where Naruto wanted to be taken seriously, and this was one of those times.

'Thanks a lot, Iruka Sensei.' thought Naruto, angrily. 'You could have just kept me after class and make me run laps around the village, or make me do chakra control exercises until night fall. But no, you had to humiliate me in front of everyone. Now they'll never take me seriously.'

After what seemed like another minute of laughter from his peers, Iruka began to speak, which was the signal for everyone to be quiet.

"Naruto," he began, "do you have any idea on why you were brought in tied up?"

Even though Naruto was in trouble, he still wanted a little payback for the embarrassment that he had just endured. "Is it because you wanted to practice your rope-tying skills so that you can quit your job as a teacher and become a rodeo clown?" Naruto asked in an innocent tone. This caused the classroom to erupt into laughter again, only this time, they were laughing at Iruka.

"NO!" shouted Iruka, who had tick marks visible on his forehead. "This is the twelfth time that youarrived late to class! A real upstanding shinobi is always punctual, and takes his work seriously. So, what's your excuse for being late to class, Naruto?"

Naruto wanted to tell Iruka about the weird pentagon that he had found in the Hokage Monument, but decided that it was better to wait after class, when his teacher had cooled down a bit. "I was sitting on the Hokage Monument, enjoying the sunrise and contemplating on the meaning of life." Naruto answered semi-truthfully. This caused the class to renew the laughter that had already died out. This little exchange of banter only made Iruka even angrier.

"AARGH! You've got some nerve Naruto! May I remind you that tomorrow is the day that your class takes the graduation exam, which would make this the third time around for you. I would think that someone that who has already failed the test twice would be taking this matter a little more seriously." finished Iruka, hoping that he had gotten his message through to the blonde. He didn't like being so harsh with Naruto, especially with all that he went through with his past instructors, but someone had to prepare Naruto for the real world, and what the village expected from him.

Naruto, on the other hand, was looking out of one of the classroom's windows. He then turned to face Iruka and said, "I'm sorry, did you say something?", as if he didn't hear a single word of Iruka's lecture. That was the final straw for Iruka.

"Today class, we will start with a review on the Transformation Jutsu. All you have to do is transform yourselves into me." announced Iruka, which brought a groan from everyone's lips. "Hey, don't complain! This is good practice for your graduation exam, so don't take this lightly. Now everyone get in a line by alphabetically order according to your last name." added the scarred teacher. And with that, the class grudgingly got up from their seats and made their way towards the front of the classroom. As they began to get into a line, each student either sent an angry look towards Naruto, or sarcastically thanked him for the tedious punishment that the whole class had to endure because of his tardiness.

"Yep, this day just keeps on getting better and better." Naruto muttered quietly to himself as Iruka freed him from his bindings and he made his way to his place in line. As he got there, some students still wanted to give Naruto a piece of their mind.

"Thanks a lot, loser. Why can't you just arrive on time like the rest of us?" snorted a raven-haired boy, who was wearing a dark blue shirt that had a red and white fan on the back. The boy had a look on his face that practically had "pompous, arrogant jerk" written all over it.

"Shut up, Uchiha, I'm not in the mood to deal with your "mightier than thou" attitude today, so why don't you do us all a favor and just stick your head back up your . . . OW!" What exactly what Naruto was going to say next was never heard as an angry, purple and body-bandage wearing girl, with light blonde hair and sky blue eyes, slapped him hard across the back of the head before the boy could finish his sentence.

"Don't you dare talk to Sasuke like that, you brainless jerk!" shouted the girl.

"Yeah, shut up Naruto!" added a girl with long pink hair and emerald-colored eyes. She was also wearing a red shirt-like skirt with green shorts. This girl was also Naruto's current crush known as Sakura Haruno.

"But Sakura," began Naruto, " I was only . . . "

"I don't care what's your excuse, Naruto!" Sakura said abruptly. "If you ever insult my Sasuke every again, I'll beat you to a bloody pulp!"

"What do you mean your Sasuke, Forehead?" asked the blonde girl incredulously. "Sasuke is going to be mine!"

"Get real, Ino-pig!" Sakura shot back. "It's my destiny to live happily ever after with my Sasuke!"

"Will you two shut up, or do you I have to make you run laps around the village after class?!" shouted Iruka, who was wise enough to stop the girls' silly bickering before the other members of Sasuke's fan club joined in. The threat was a success, as both Sakura and Ino didn't say another word and waited quietly for their turn to perform the Transformation Jutsu for their teacher. Naruto, on the other hand, was irked at how Sakura had just treated him. No matter what he tried, Sakura always treated him like he was a little kid that constantly tried to get on her nerves, when all he wanted was for her to give him a chance. Naruto thought that if he tried hard enough, then maybe he would catch a lucky break with the girl. But lately, he began to think that Sakura was never going to give him that chance.

"I can't believe that I'm saying this, but I agree with Sasuke on this one. If you had just came to class on time, then none of us would be in this situation." said another voice, only this time, it belonged to Naruto's lazy classmate Shikamaru Nara, who was standing right behind Naruto as they waited in line.

"Aw, come on, not you too Shikamaru. Don't tell me that you're siding with Sasuke." said Naruto desperately.

"Hey, don't group me in with those loud, troublesome fan girls. I'm just saying that people wouldn't give such a hard time if you took your lessons more seriously and didn't act out as much." said the Nara defensively.

"Heh, this coming from the only student in this class that fails his tests because he's too lazy to even pick up the pencil?"

"Touché, Naurto. But seriously, a lot of students are betting that you'll just mess up on purpose." added Shikamaru.

This didn't surprise Naruto at all, given the recent turn of events. "Is that so? Well then, I guess I'll just have prove them wrong, won't I?" said the blonde, just as Iruka out called his name, signifying that it was his turn. As Naruto stepped forward, several students began to think several different thoughts.

'What's this loser going to do now?' thought the arrogant Sasuke.

'Ha! This ought to be good for a couple of laughs.' thought Kiba Inuzuka, with his puppy Akamaru sitting on top of his head. He was expecting that Naruto was going to pull off his Sexy Jutsu again. The dog boy had been laughing so hard that it took him a full half-hour for him to calm down.

'Please, Naruto has no chance of passing. Sasuke's transformation was perfect, no one can top him.' thought Sakura, in her usual fan girl mentality.

'Good luck, Naruto. I hope that you do well.' thought Hinata Hyuga, as she watched her secret crush, with a small blush visible on her face.

As Naruto stood in front of Iruka, he felt everyone's eyes watching him, waiting for him to make his move. 'Look at them, they're all waiting for me to make a fool out of myself. Well, I 'll show them.' he thought as he brought his hands together and began to make the necessary amount of chakra that was necessary for the jutsu.

"Transform!" was the shout that came from Naruto before he disappeared in a puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared, Naruto was replaced by an exact replica of Iruka Umino standing in front of the original.

"Very good, Naruto. Well done." praised Iruka as he made a check mark on his clipboard by Naruto's name. Seeing that he passed the review, Naruto cancelled out the jutsu and made his to the back of the line.

"I guess every class clown catches a lucky break every now and then." said Kiba, as Naruto walked past him. Kiba didn't have any sort of grudge against Naruto or anything. Heck, he thought Naruto was hilarious to watch. But none the less, Kiba also enjoyed trying to get a rise out of Naruto when the opportunity presented himself, which in his case was right now. But to the Iunzuka's surprise, Naruto didn't immediately turn around and start shouting at him. Instead, Naruto just stopped walking, and didn't try to attack him. He didn't even turn around to face him.

"Words coming from someone who falls for the same traps over and over again mean very little me." said Naruto in a serious, yet calm voice. And with that Naruto continued walking towards the back of the line, all the while ignoring the angry growls of the dog boy and his little companion that was on top of his head. As Naruto walked further down the line of students, he heard another voice call out to him.

"Cccongratulations Naruto, yyou did really great job." said a quiet shy voice. Naruto turned around to see that it was Hinata who complimented him Hinata was one of the very few people that Naruto tolerated in his class. Unlike most of the girls, Hinata didn't see Sasuke as a god that was meant to be worshipped by everyone. Additionally, she was always nice to him everyday, and was always the first to encourage him whenever he was having trouble with his private training sessions after class was over. Hinata was a true friend that Naruto was glad to have.

"Thanks Hinata," he said, with a genuine smile on his face, "you were pretty good too." This compliment caused the Hyuga girl's blush to become even darker. Naruto noticed this, but wasn't sure to make out of it. It seemed that every time Naruto was talking to her, or even if he looked at her, her face always seemed to get red. Naruto was about to ask Hinata if she was sick or something, when Iruka had announced that the review was over and asked for everyone to return to their seats so that they could continue with the original lesson plan.

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Seven hours later

"Alright, class, that's it for today. Remember that tomorrow's the big day, so I want everyone to get a good night's rest, eat a healthy breakfast, and be ready to pass the exam." said Iruka, as he dismissed class for today. Everyone began to back up their things and make their way to the door. Sasuke, as usual, was being flocked by Sakura, Ino, and the rest of his fan girls, all asking him if they wanted to go out with them. Naruto, irked at seeing how the Uchiha was so popular with the girls, was about to follow them when he remembered about the metal pentagon that he found on the Fourth Hokage's monument. So stopped and decided to wait for everyone else to leave before he approached Iruka with the pentagon, in case that he accidentally desecrated the Fourth's monument by removing the metal object. Finally, as the final student left, Naruto walked up to Iruka, was packing up his things at his desk.

"Um, Iruka Sensei," began Naruto nervously, "I was wondering if you could please help me with something."

"Sure thing, Naruto, what's up?" asked Iruka, who was always happy to help Naruto, despite his tough attitude during class.

"Well," Naruto started off, even more nervous than before, "the reason that I was late to class today was because I sort of found something weird on the Hokage Monument that I don't remember seeing there before. And I don't remember seeing it in any of the textbooks that I read, so I was wondering if you could tell what exactly it is." Naruto then proceeded to remove the pentagon from his bag and show it to Iruka. Iruka just stood there, silently staring at the strange object that the blonde was holding out in front of him. At last, after a long period of silence, Iruka regained his enough of his bearings in order for him to talk.

"Naruto . . .," began Iruka.

"Gyah! I'm sorry Iruka Sensei! I didn't mean to disrespect the Hokage Monument! I didn't even know that this thing was part of it! I'll put it back, I swear! Just please don't turn me into the Old Man! I'll wash the Hokage Monument, I'll do any community service project you want for a whole year, just please don't let the ANBU take me away!" pleaded Naruto, all the while hiding behind the pentagon as if it where a shield.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa Naruto, slow down. You're aren't in any trouble or anything." said Iruka, trying to calm the boy. "I'm just surprised, that's all. I've never seen anything like this before."

"Are you sure?" asked Naruto, forgetting his panicked behavior instantly. "I thought it could be some ancient shield or something like that."

"No, it can't be." said Iruka. "If it was a shield, or some sort of ancient ninja tool, I would have read about it in the teacher's version of your text books. Naruto, could you turn it over for a second?"

Naruto complied with the request, and flipped it over so that Iruka could exam the back of it. But to Naruto and Iruka's surprise the back had the same design that the front had. Iruka decided to take a closer look at it anyways. "That's strange," Iruka wondered aloud, "there's no ID number, no signature, there aren't even any scratch marks on it at all. I'm sorry, Naruto, but I have absolutely no idea on what this thing is."

"You don't?" asked Naruto, sounding a little downtrodden that Iruka was just as clueless about what the weird object was.

"But I think I know someone who does. Come on, lets go pay a visit to the Hokage." Iruka said as he made his way out of the classroom, with Naruto following behind him, the pentagon tucked protectively underneath his arm. But the two failed to notice that the pentagon once again began to glow bright green for a short period of time before the light faded away once again.

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Hokage's Office

The Hokage's office was a place of great importance in the Village Hidden in the Leaves. It was the very place where the Hokage governs the village and holds conferences with the leaders of other villages. It was also the place where the Hokage does the one thing that every Kage hates the most about being a leader of a village - paperwork! Yes, everyday when there wasn't an international crisis occurring, the Hokage was battling against the evils of the mountains and mountains of paperwork that invade his office everyday.

What the citizens didn't know was that this "battle" wasn't won with one single strike. The past Hokages were actually took breaks in between when ever they were tired, or just didn't want to deal with it. The current Hokage, known as Sarutobi, or as "The Professor", was in such a situation. Unbeknownst to his secretary, and the rest of the village, the formerly retired Third Hokage skiving off from doing his paperwork so that he could read more of his new "Make-Out Paradise" book that he had just recently purchased. "Make-Out Paradise" was the best-seller masterpiece that his former student, Jiraiya, had created himself. Unfortunately, it wasn't as popular with the women as it was with the men. In fact, it was the type of book that was so degrading towards the female gender, that women everywhere vowed to pulverize any man that they saw reading it. It was because of this unofficial vow that Sarutobi made sure that he read the book only in the safety of his office, and made sure that his secretary paged him if there was a visitor that needed to see him, so that he had time to hide the book in case the visitor was a woman.

Sarutobi was enjoying himself as he was reading his book, when the intercom alerted hi that he had visitor from the Ninja Academy that needed to see him about something important. Fearing the worse, the old man quickly marked his place with a book mark, and hid it underneath one of the many scrolls that were in his desk, he then grabbed another document and picked up his pen, and told his secretary to let them in.

As Iruka and Naruto walked into the office, they saw that the Third Hokage was "working diligently" on an important document. As soon as the door closed, Sarutobi looked from his "work" to see who were the visitor. Seeing that it was Naruto and Iruka brought a smile to his face. For second there, he thought it was another prejudiced teacher that was trying to get Naruto expelled from the academy.

"Ah, Naruto, Iruka, it's good to see you two again." said the elder man.

"Begging your pardon, Lord Hokage, but we were wondering if you could spare a few minutes of your time to help us with something." said Iruka.

"Of course, I can always take some time out from my busy schedule to help any villager." said the Hokage, as he tried to move some more documents over his book without drawing any attention. Unfortunately for the man, Naruto's quick eyes caught on.

"Hey, Old Man, what's that orange thing that's underneath those papers? It kinda looks like a book or something." said Naruto, as he pointed to it.

"Uh, it's nothing! Nothing at all! Just some book that I was reading a while ago when I was taking a short break from all this paperwork." said Sarutobi, as he hastily grabbed his perverted book and stuffed it in a drawer in his desk. Naruto, however, knew exactly what "type" of book he was reading, but decided to wait a little bit longer before he would tease the old man later on. Iruka just sighed at his leader's antics, and wondered just how many other books from the "Make-Out" series that the Hokage owned.

"So, what exactly do you two need help with? I hope that this isn't about Naruto being caught red-handed trying to pull one of his pranks, now is it?" asked the Hokage, trying regain his serious composition.

"Actually, it has something do with Naruto, but it's not about some prank he pulled. He found something on the Hokage Monument that wasn't there before, and we were wondering if you could tell us what it is exactly. Go on Naruto, show him." said Iruka. Naruto complied and took the metal pentagon from beneath his arm and showed it to the old man.

The Hokage's expression changed from a curious one to one of puzzlement. "Well now, that is something peculiar. Tell me. Naruto, where exactly did you find this?" asked the Hokage, as he got up from his seat to have a better look at the strange object.

"It was on the Fourth's place on the monument, on the side of the mountain, between two locks of the Fourth's hair. I was thinking that this just some sort of shield that was used during the Ninja Wars." said Naruto while the Hokage was examining the object in question.

"Was there anything strange that you noticed when you found this?"

"Well, yeah, there was. When I first saw it, it looked as if it has been inside the mountain for a long time." said the blonde.

"Interesting." said the old man as ran a hand along the pentagon's cold, metal surface. He then proceeded to look closely at the weird symbol that was in the center of the object. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, Naruto, but this isn't any type of ninja weaponry." he said after a long period of studying the pentagon.

"What do you mean?" asked a surprised Naruto.

"I've been in countless battles since the day I became a genin, and I've seen thousands of ninja weapon throughout my career. But never, in my entire life have I every seen anything like this." said the old man.

"Lord Hokage, are you serious?" asked Iruka, who was surprised that even the Hokage didn't know what the object was.

"I'm positive, there's too many differences between our weaponry and this pentagon." the Hokage answered.

"What do you mean differences?"

"Well, for starters," Sarutobi began, "our usual weapons are made with fine-tempered steel, where as this pentagon is made out of a metal alloy that I've never seen before. Secondly, this symbol that's in the middle of this object doesn't match with any of our kanji characters."

"So, what exactly does this all mean?" asked Naruto.

"What it means," said the old man, "is that this metal pentagon could possibly be from a world that's entirely different than ours."

As if on queue, the pentagon began to glow a bright green light, just like it did the last two times, only this time the glow was brighter and lasted long enough for the three occupants of the room to notice it. Before they could react, the pentagon then emitted an even brighter and a more multi-colored flash of light that consisted of the seven colors of the rainbow. The flash was so strong that the Hokage, Iruka, and Naruto had to shield their eyes to avoid getting retinal damage. During all of the chaos, Naruto dropped the pentagon and tried to back away from the source of the of the intense light, but ended up tripping over his own two feet, causing him to crash hard on the floor.

Suddenly, as quick as the flash appeared, it disappeared almost instantly. Despite the blinding light being gone, Naruto's eyes still having trouble readjusting to their normal setting. As he looked around, he saw many blurs and was unable to tell who was who.

"Naruto, are you alright?!" Iruka's voice called out. Naruto tried to pinpoint his location, but this attempt also proved futile.

"Yeah, I'm okay, except my eyes are kind of in shock after that flash." Naruto called back. "What about you and the old man?"

"Both Iruka and I are fine, Naruto. Just stay where you are, we'll come to you." said the Hokage.

"Whatever you say." answered Naruto, whose eyesight was gradually returning to him. He was now able to make out distinct shapes around the room. Suddenly, he heard the sound of footsteps coming towards him. As the footsteps became louder, Naruto saw that the source of the noise came from a blue and gray blurry outline of a person.

"Iruka Sensei?" Naruto called out. The figure responded by extending its right hand to Naruto, in way that showed that it was trying to help him up.

"Oh thanks, Iruka Sensei." said Naruto as he gladly took the figure's hand, which then helped the boy to his feet. At that moment, Naruto's vision was almost back to normal, when even more chaos began to ensue.

"Naruto!" screamed a voice behind him. Naruto turned around to see who was talking, only to have the shock of his life. There, standing behind him, at the Hokage's desk was none other than Iruka and the Third Hokage, both of which had aghast expressions on their faces.

"Iruka Sensei?! Old Man?! Wait a minute, if the both of you are standing over there, then who's the one who helped me just . . ." Naruto, who was now really confused, turned back around and saw exactly why the two shinobi looked completely freaked out. There, standing in front of him, still holding his hand, was a metal man that was no taller than Naruto himself. The metal man had a blue head with a white face, blue shoulders, blue upper half of its legs, and blue feet. Its arms, lower halves of its legs, and hands were gray-colored. Additionally, there were two sets of grayish wings with orange-colored lines protruding vertically from both the left and right side of its upper back, and perpendicularly on its lower back. Lastly, Naruto noticed that it had orange, pupil-less eyes, and there was a weird orange-colored dome on the man's chest. Before the blonde could say anything, the metal man had already beat him to it.

"Hello there," it said, "thank you so much for awakening me."

To Be Continued . . .

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In case you're having a hard time picturing Naruto's new friend, then think of Transformers Cybertron Thundercracker, except without the Decepticon symbol, missiles underneath his wings, and the ridiculously long laser cannon for his left arm. Again, seibertron. com and transformers. wikia. com are good websites help you visualize the new Mini-Con. Anywho, that's all for now. Peace out!