Naruto sat at his table as he ate a breakfast that consisted of a ham omelet, he had a big day today which means he needed all the energy he could get. He wore a plain black shirt with the Uzumaki swirl in the center of his upper back and a pair of cargo shorts.

Once finished with his meal he deposited his dishes into his sink before slipping on his ninja sandals and walking out the door. Today was a fresh start for him, he couldn't afford to be the class clown he once was he had a future to prevent and nothing would get in his way.

He walked through the streets in full view of everyone, he didn't care for the hateful glair's or sneer's he receives. This was him and he wasn't going to feel ashamed for who he was, admittedly Naruto had muscle though he hid it well underneath his usual baggy jumpsuit.

He walked into class and immediately he could feel eyes on him. He looked up and saw the majority of the class staring at him, a multitude of this running through their minds like how he wasn't wearing his usual orange or the fact that his muscle mass was rather impressive for someone of his age. He took a seat next to one of the only people he could call his friend, Shikamaru Nara. The Nara heir was a genius there was no doubt about that but his incredible brain was ever only matched by his incredible laziness.

"Hey Naruto, ready to fail again," exclaimed the voice of Kiba Inuzuka from behind him, he turned and saw the feral boy smirking as if he had said the funniest thing in the world. He didn't offer much in the way of an answer other than a confident smirk of his own that seemed to work for Kiba.

He turned around just in time to watch the daily spectacle of Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka racing into the classroom in hopes of sitting next to Sasuke Uchiha.

"Ha, beat you again billboard brow!"

"Are you blind pig, I was clearly ahead of you."

"By a forehead maybe," Naruto mumbled, he had grown out of his crush for the pinkette banshee, all she cared about was Sasuke. It mattered very little what kinda awful things he had done she would always support him. The two had actually dated before Naruto had fallen for Tenten, in fact, that may have been one of the deciding factors in his current relationship.

One day while he and the pinkette were getting intimate she moaned out that traitorous bastards name, that was the last straw for Naruto. He didn't know what to do but one thing was clear he had to get away from her, in the end, Tenten comforted a depressed Naruto and he ended whatever remained of his relationship with Sakura. Last he had heard she left the leaf saying she was going to find the man she loved.

"Alright class, take your seats," Iruka Umino said as he walked into the room. Naruto had to make a conscious effort not to run up to the man and tackle him with a hug. Iruka had been the one to attend his wedding in place of his own father. Then came the man Naruto most hated, Mizuki.

"Alright, let's jump straight into it. Mizuki-san and I will be conduction your graduation exams."

Mizuki nodded and plastered a fake smile onto his face, "The exam will be broken up into four portions, the written test, kunai and shuriken throwing, a taijutsu test and finally the ninjutsu test were you will be expected to do three jutsu. The henge, kawarimi, and bunshin."

Naruto sighed as they started calling students. Sometimes he hated being an Uzumaki it always meant that when something was done in alphabetical order he would always be towards the last. He zoned out the chunin as he began thinking about his beloved, she had done so much for him already and he felt the need to do something for her. She uprooted her whole life and accepted a demon inside of her in order to travel back in time to be with him, what could he possibly do to repay that.

-break-

While Naruto was busy with his genin exam, Tenten was busy watching her father freak out about how his 'baby' girl having her first boyfriend.

"Tou-san! Calm down," she exclaimed having become tired of watching the man paise back and forth. He sighed before sitting down at the table in the chair just opposite from her own.

"Ok... What's his name," he said with a smile. He was very proud that his baby girl had found a boyfriend, he was worried that she would end up with one of the guys from her team. Not that they were bad guys but they were strange, Neji was arrogant while Lee was... just strange.

"His name's Naruto Uzumaki," she said dreamily, her father stiffened a bit before relaxing. He knew of Naruto and it pained him to see how others treated him, being an ex-shinobi as well as owning a weapons shop he was quite knowledgeable when it came to sealing scrolls. Naruto was just the scroll while the Kyuubi was the kunai.

He smiled, glad his daughter didn't just follow the other children's lead and bully the boy. "What else can you tell me about him?"

"He's the kindest most caring person you'll ever meet, his dream is to become Hokage his favorite color is orange," there was a glint in her eyes as she talked about him.

"Yeah, I remember he wears a bright orange jumpsuit."

"I talked him into some new clothes,"

"How long have you two been together?"

She knew this was coming. "A year now," she lied. "I wanted to tell people but Naruto figured it would be best to keep it secret."

Ojiro narrowed his eyes, "Why?! Is he ashamed to be dating my daughter!"

"No! no... it's not like that, it's just. . . you know how he's been treated around the village. He figured if people knew about us, then they would try to hurt me." Ojiro smiled, he didn't know this Naruto kid well enough to know for sure but if he's that concerned with his daughters well being than he sounded like a good guy.

"So... when do I get to meet him?" It was a monumental day in fatherhood when you get the chance to scare the snot out of your daughter's boyfriend.

"I can ask if he wants to come over tonight for dinner, would that be ok?" Ojiro nodded before the brunette went out for the day.

-break-

"Naruto Uzumaki," Iruka called. The blonde stood and walked out of the classroom and into the private room they had set up for taking the test, the first thing he noticed after entering the room was a large fake smile courtesy of Mizuki.

"Alright Naruto, this is your last exam for the day, well be asking you to perform the three jutsu we teach here. The henge, kawarimi and the bunshin, any questions." Mizuki' smile seemed to taunt Naruto.

"Ya does it have to be the standard bunshin?"

"No, if you know another bunshin jutsu than you may perform that," Iruka confirmed. Mizuki inwardly sneered, 'As if this demon knows another bunshin.'

Iruka sat down in a chair beside Mizuki behind a desk. "Alright first up is the henge."

Naruto nodded, "Henge," he exclaimed as he was enveloped in smoke, once it dispersed Iruka and Mizuki stared dumbly at a perfect copy of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

"Very good Naruto, now. . . . . dodge," Iruka said as Mizuki threw a kunai at the blonde. He let the kunai implant into his chest before 'Naruto' vanished into smoke only to later be revealed as a wooden chair.

Mizuki sneered, 'How can he do these with little to no trouble. If this keeps up my plan is ruined.'

"Well done, now I need you to summon at minimum 2 clone's."

Naruto dug his hands in his pockets, his blue chakra surged and for a moment became visible. "Kage Bunshin no jutsu," he exclaimed as three perfect clones of Naruto appeared. Iruka was surprised, the Kage bunshin was a jonin level skill a mere academy student shouldn't know it, and let alone to do it without a hand sign Mizuki wanted to throttle the so-called 'demon-brat,' after all his planning and trick's Naruto passed which means he had to resort to plan B to get him the forbidden scroll.

"Very good Naruto-kun, Come get your headband and you may go for the rest of the day," Iruka said proudly as he watched his 'brother' walk up and grab a headband before turning and walking away.

Naruto walked out of the academy, tomorrow would be his last time in the academy, when he came to be placed on a team. If everything went as history depicts he should be placed on a team with Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi he was not looking forward to that.

Kakashi clearly showed favoritism to the Uchiha, whether it be because of some sort of debt he feels he owes Obito or the civilian counsel pressuring him to do it he didn't know. Sasuke was arrogant and despite being privately trained by Kakashi still betrayed the leaf for the snake sannin. Sakura was the worst part, she would hit him over the head all because Sasuke showed no interest in her.

He kept walking until he saw a familiar set of buns. Tenten was running up to him with a bright smile on her face, once she made it to him she practically tackled him in a hug. He had no problem returning it and gently rubbed her back.

"I passed Ten-chan," he whispered into her ear. She broke the embrace much to Naruto's chagrin.

"That's great Naruto-kun, as congratulations I want you to come over for dinner tonight," she said with confidence. Naruto was nervous and it was painfully obvious. "You dont have to be nervous, you've met my Tou-san before."

"Yeah, and last time he tried to kill me while screaming about how I deflowered his daughter."

"He wouldn't have killed you. . . probably."

"Yeah well, it didn't help that you jumped my bone the second you thought we were alone," Naruto said flatly. Tenten giggled as he took her by the hand, they walked in the direction of the brunette's house.

"So. . . What's going to happen now, I mean the first time around you stopped Mizuki-teme."

"Not to worry, Iruka-sensei will be enough to stop him. . . and if not I may have accidentally slipped a note onto Jiji-chan's desk about his plan and the meeting place."

Tenten smirked, "You've really thought this through," she said as they walked up to the door of the weapons shop. Naruto had to suppress a nervous sigh as she opened the door and they walked in.

Walking through the shop and up the stair's that led to the living area for her and her father, Naruto found him sitting there on the couch. He smiled to himself as he looked at the man he would one day call father.

"Hello, sir," Naruto said Tenten eyed him

He was being stiff.

Ojiro stood up from the couch and walked over toward the young couple. He smiled when he saw the glint in his daughter's eyes, "No need for any of this sir stuff. My name's Ojiro, im not some old man."

He chuckled, Naruto lightly laughed along with the man. Tenten was glad that the blonde's nervousness was beginning to pass, truthfully her father was nothing but a big teddy bear.

"So Naruto-san, tell me about yourself. Ten-chan tells me you two have been together a year but didn't want to tell anyone to keep her safe."

Naruto glanced at Tenten who shrugged before he turned back to Ojiro. "Yeah, I didn't think people would like me having a girlfriend," Naruto said completely submitting to her story. Tenten beamed being called his girlfriend again, but couldn't help the annoyance that also filled her heart at not being called his wife.

"let's see..." Naruto trailed off while adopting a thinking pose. "I like ramen, I like to learn new things like jutsu and cooking. I just passed my genin exam today so im excited to find out what team I'll be placed on."

"You only just graduated?"

"Oh yeah, im a year behind Ten-chan but I have faith I'll catch up," Naruto exclaimed. Ojiro nodded, he had to admit he was worried that the blonde was too young but if it's just a year it's no big deal. Naruto sighed with relief when Ojiro got up saying the dinner was ready, Tenten smiled at her 'boyfriend' and kissed him lightly on the cheek.

-break

Naruto sighed when he woke the next morning in his old bed, in his old apartment and not beside his wife in their lovely home. 'Soon Naruto, soon.'

Today was the day of his team placements and if all goes according to history he should be placed with both Sakura and Sasuke. The thought of dealing with those two again caused him to shudder, the only solace was that once Sasuke tries to defect the village Naruto can put an end to him. At that point, he would be a missing-nin or at least should be if the stupid civilian council keeps their nose's out of it.

After eating a full breakfast and tieing his headband around his forearm hr left for the academy. In his last life, he wore his headband tied around his head where it belonged, however, Tenten seemed to like his hair being let down. His hair was short and spiky and definitely not how he preferred it to be, but that can be fixed in time. He preferred for his hair to be a bit longer, like his fathers."

Entering the room Naruto was greeted with the sight of both the pinkette and the platinum blonde fangirls arguing in front of the door. Again over something as trivial as Sasuke Uchiha.

"Get the hell out the way," Naruto growled allowing a bit of Kyuubi's chakra to seep out of him. The girls turned wide-eyed to see who the voice belonged to, only to see it belonged to Naruto.

Ino saw the deep scowl that played across her fellow blonde's face and decided to grant his request and get out of his way. Sakura, on the other hand, did not, "What the hell Naruto-baka. Who do you think your talking too."

Sakura reared back for a punch, Ino's eyes widened. Was she really going to hit him, they were the ones in the wrong they shouldn't have been arguing in the doorway, to begin with. She released a breath she didn't even know she was holding when instead of taking the punch and being sent flying into the adjacent wall Naruto caught the fist before jerking her sideways effectively knocking her off her feet, she hit the ground with a thud.

"I am in no mood for your bullshit, Haruno-san," the venom in his words was practically palpable. The class stared wide-eyed at the so-called dead last, one thought bounced around the girl's minds. 'He didn't call me Sakura-chan.'

"Alright everyone, that's enough," everyone glanced from Naruto to the origin of the voice, directly behind the blonde genin was Iruka Umino. Naruto went and took a seat next to Shikamaru Nara as Sakura sat next to her Sasuke-kun.

The blonde's jinchiriki narrowed his eyes once he saw the Uchiha, his time will come. All Naruto had to do was bide his time, his future will not come to pass.

"Alright everyone, I would like to congratulate you all for graduating. From this day onward you are shinobi of Konohagakure, be sure to represent the village well."

"Now onto team placements. . . Team 1," Naruto couldn't care enough to listen, all he needed was to be placed on a team with Sasuke, considering the bastard was rookie of the year it shouldn't be too hard to be placed with him. After all, Naruto was supposed to be the dead last.

"Team 7 will be Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno," a loud groan could be heard from both Naruto and Sakura. "and Sasuke Uchiha," Sakura triumphantly raised both fist's into the air while yelling something about true love, Naruto sighed he hated that history was repeating itself. "Your jonin sensei will be Kakashi Hatake."

Iruka read through the other two teams that made up the rookie 9. They mattered very little in the grand scheme of things, sure they each played a roll in his life but neither of them played a roll in creating the future Naruto was determined to prevent.

Waiting for their sensei was. . . just as boring as the young Uzumaki remembered 2 hours. . . 2 whole hours of Sakura trying to get Sasuke's attention. Luckily Naruto decided it best to sit at the far side of the room, away from the two.

The door slid open and a head entered the room, the silver-haired jonin Kakashi Hatake stood looking at his new team. Sasuke was currently glaring at Kakashi for being late and waisting the Uchiha's valuable time while Sakura was screaming about how he was late and how unprofessional it was. Surprisingly to him, the one not saying for doing anything was Konoha's resident hyperactive knucklehead ninja Naruto Uzumaki. Kakashi stared at the blonde, 'He's starting to look like his father."

"You're late!"

"My first opinion. . . I dont much like you," Kakashi said flatly as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Meet me on the roof," he said before disappearing into smoke.

Sakura sighed before turning towards Sasuke. "Let's go Sasuke-kun."

"hn"

Sakura turned to Naruto to find where he was sitting was know vacant. 'Where did he go?'

When Kakashi reappeared on the roof of the academy started hearing footsteps. It couldn't be his team, could it? He leaned over the edge and was surprised to see the blonde haired loud mouth of his team walking up the wall of the building.

"So I see you already know wall walking."

Naruto climbed over the side of the wall and sat down on one of the steps. "Ya, Jiji-chan gave me some scroll's to help me with basics," which wasn't completely a lie. The forbidden scroll had much information in it but the Hokage didn't necessarily give it to him.

Kakashi nodded in understanding before the other two finally made their way to the roof. "Dobe, how did you get up here."

"The window."

"Alright, you three," Kakashi said, interrupting Sasuke as he was about to say more. "Let's start with introductions. . . Ya know to learn about each other."

"How about you go first sensei, just to show us how it goes," Sakura said meekly.

"Well alright. my names Kakashi Hatake, I don't particularly like much or dislike things. My hobbies are... too old for you three and my dream is. . . I dont have one, see easy. You first pinky."

"My name is Sakura Haruno, my like's are," looks at Sasuke and giggles. "My hobbies are," glances at Sasuke, "as for my dream," still looking at Sasuke. "And I hate Ino-pig and Naruto-baka."

Kakashi sweatdropped, 'great a fangirl."

"You next Mr. Whisker's."

Naruto glared at Kakashi for the Mr. Whiskers remark. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki. My likes are Ojiro-tou-san, Ten-chan, training and learning new things. My dislikes are people that hate a person without even knowing the person, I also dislike fangirls, arrogant people and people who dont take things seriously. My hobbies are spending time with Ten-chan and training and my dream is to become Hokage."

Sakura and Sasuke arch their collective eye brow's when Naruto mentioned Ojiro and Tenten. Kakashi almost looked surprised, 'Tenten? Isn't she on Gai's team, how does he know her.'

"You next broody."

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I dont particularly like anything and I dislike a lot of things. My dream isn't a dream but more like an ambition because I will make it a reality. I will kill a certain someone."

The blonde and silver headed ninja sweatdropped.

'Sasuke-Kun's so cool,' Sakura thought to herself as she stared longingly at her crush. Naruto felt sick, he hates how consumed the boy was with hate.

"Alright... you're all different. I want you three to meet me at training ground 7 at 6 a.m. sharp," Kakashi said before turning around.

"Oh, and umm... you might not want to eat anything for breakfast. Tomorrow will be your real genin exam."

"Wait, sensei what do you mean. We already passed the genin exam?"

"Oh, that well... that was only to weed out the weak, tomorrow your real test start's. It has a 66% fail rate so... get some rest," Kakashi said before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

"So. . . Sasuke-kun."

'here it comes,' Naruto thought, he looked at her through narrowed eyes trying to give her some sort of hint but alas it had no effect.

"Do you want to go do something later?"

"No," Sasuke shot her down without a moment's hesitation, even Naruto felt bad for the pinkette. Sakura's demeanor changed and she became quiet. Sasuke left towards the Uchiha compound.

Naruto sighed having decided to try and help her, perhaps this will do it. Perhaps if Sasuke had someone left in the village he wouldn't betray them.

"Look Sakura-san," Naruto begrudgingly said. Sakura turned towards the boy angry at first. She figures he would try and ask her out like he always did after Sasuke turned her down. However, her anger subsided when she realized that he didn't call her Sakura-chan.

"Sasuke-teme will never date you as you are. He prefers strong women, you may not want to hear this but you dont really take your training seriously."

"What do you suggest I do, I love him but when I train too hard I pass out?"

Naruto turned to the pinkette and placed a hand on her shoulder, "I suggest you stop dieting. The reason you pass out during training is that you burning calorie that you dont have."

"So if I stop dieting Sasuke will look at me," Sakura asked with pleading eyes.

"Im not saying that im saying it will help."

Sakura nodded, she would consider his words. "Say Naruto-san," the blonde in question turned and looked at her. "Why are you helping me, I thought you liked me?"

"Simple Sakura-san, I moved on. I found the love of my life and I couldn't be happier," he smiled before turning around and disappearing into a swirl of leaves.

Sakura stared dumbfounded at the spot of leave's where Naruto had just been. The advice about Sasuke was sound, it would even save her life on C-rank and above mission's but what was this about him finding his true love. She felt a small pang in her heart, she had always thought Naruto would pine after her affection's but now, to hear he moved on didn't quite sit right with her.

-break-

4k word everybody, I feel like that's quite a lot. Isn't that like the number of words of a chapter in a novel or something? Anyway, Im loving this fic, I have big plans for this.

Unlike with my first fic Drunken Knightshade Marriage, I've given this one some serious thought. Not that I haven't given DKM though it's just I feel I've planned this one, DKM was more like the content for the chapters just came to me.

Anyway. W. J. Wenning out.