The next morning our favorite blond knuckle-head woke up thirty minutes before he usually did.

'Well, I guess I'll go ahead and take a shower', he thought as he jumped out of bed. The second his feet touched the floor his head started to feel like someone had hit him with an axe. His hands, on instinct, flew up to cup his head as he yelled out, "ow, what the fuck is this shit….kyuubi what the hell" he said as he collapsed on the floor. His eyes stared blank as his mind ran through all the new memories that he acquired as blood started to ooze out of his nose and mouth. He awoke five minutes later feeling drained and ready to pass out. He pulled himself into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror. He looked pale and had blood all over his face.

"What the hell…I'll go take a shower, that should make me feel better" he said.

He took a pleasant shower, and true to his assumption he did feel better. He got dressed, ate some toast, brushed his teeth and left for the academy. "Today I'll renew my efforts to become the Hokage, I will now actually apply myself in class. I have a year left, I can make the best of it, I know I can," he said.

Ten minutes later found our hero walking into the academy. All heads turned to him, for he had never, ever ever been on time.

The first to recover was Sakura, "hey baka, you're early for once, did you finally learn how to read a map to get here," asked Sakura.

Naruto had had it, he thought, 'I'm done with this bitch. I only wanted her for two reasons. 1) she was popular, and by getting her I could possibly get more friends. 2) She's aggressive towards me, which up until now I was too stupid to realize was a bad thing. Being so lonely I took it as affection.' He then said "No, I just got over the stench that you give off forehead-san."

Everyone in the class snickered a little, even Uchiha, the emo dipshit, had a small grin on his face.

"but, but, but…why would you say that, don't you like me or something baka?"

"I only like you for simple petty reasons. I had some more time to think, and actually did, and realized how much I don't like you like that. Now, we could possibly become friends in the future, but I will never look at you like that again," he said.

"sheesh like I care about what you think idiot" she retorted.

"I could care less" said Naruto as he took only seat that was left open.

This happened to be the seat next to Hinata Hyuuga. 'Hmm, Hinata, she is shy, nice, and has never treated me bad. She's even very cute. Wait, did I just say that' he thought.

"Hey there, I know we've met before, but I think I should introduce myself again. I'm Naruto Uzumaki, future hokage of Konoha. " he said as he held out his hand.

"a-a-a-a-and i-i—I'm Hinata-h-h-h-hyuuga., h-h-hh-eress to the Hy-u-u-uga clan." She said as she held out a hand, "n-n-n-n-n-nice to m-m-meet you".

He took her and and said, "the pleasure is all mine" then he bent down and kissed her hand, which caused her, already dark red face, to drop, signifying that she had just fainted. 'Oh well, I guess I'll let her sleep' he thought as he repositioned her to a more comfortable position on her desk.

Naruto shut his eyes to think a little bit. 'Okay, now that I truly am going to become more serious, I will have to outline a plan for how I'm going to go about getting stronger' He felt a pull at the back of his head before he was pulled into his mind by kyuubi. "What the hell Kyuubi, I was thinking" he said.

The great fox looked at him from inside of the cage, "oh you were, that's new".

"oh shut it, what do you need" asked the blonde.

"Just to tell you to be weary of some of your comrades" said the fox.

"Whatever sure…but I have a question for you" said the blonde.

"What is it" asked the fox.

"We need to come up with a plan for us to get stronger"

"Us, I the great demon fox, am strong enough without you"

"Oh really? How about I kill myself and make you wait 100 years before you can return, also you will be weakned becuaes bijuu are weaker without a container. Also, you're stuck inside me, so my strength directly reflects on you. I am like the limiting reaction in a chain of reactions. The whole can not be faster than me. Us together can not really be stronger than I am."

"Oh really, how so?"

"Even though I could probably use your powers, I would, from the memories you gave me, leave me in a weekend state where someone could possibly kill me, that is just one example"

"Whatever brat, just wake up your teacher is about to be here"

"Okay" with that Naruto returned to the world of the living.

He noticed Hinata was awake and looking at him with concern in her eyes. "What's wrong Hinata-chan?"

"Sorry, but you looked a little out of it. I've been trying to talk to you for ten minutes and you didn't respond. Are you okay?" Said the Hyuuga.

"Yeah I'm fine, just meditating you know. Got lost in my own little happy place" he said and smiled at her. She nodded.

That's when Iruka walked into the room and looked at his students and said, "Okay you kids, we have a test today…so get ready"

"Oh shit" said Naruto.

Iruka passed out the test and Naruto looked at it.

'Wow, these are easy. First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, Second was his little brother Tobirama, Thirs is JIji Sarutobi Hiruzen, fourth….Minao Namikaze, the yellow flash. Okay, who won the battle at the valley of the end, Hashirama of course. Who was Madara Uchiha, founder of the uchiha clan and co-founder of the village hidden in the leaves.' The test continued in a similar fashion. Naruto answered every question with ease, even the science and math ones. 'Fourth derivative of x to the fourth? 24 of course'

Naruto finished the test, waked up to Iruka, and handed it in. "Done already Naruto, what is this"

Naruto said, "your answer Key…made a 100"

Iruka looked skeptically towards the smirking blonde. "whatever you say, are you sure you don't want more time to work on your test?"

"Nah, I'm pretty sure I got it in the bag, so what's next?" he asked

"We will go outside to have an accuracy in throwing competition" said Iruka.

"Allright" said Naruto.

Later, after the test was over the class went outside.

"Good luck Hinata-chun" said Naruto.

"Y-y-y-you too N-n-naruto-kun" she said.

'Man she stutters a lot' thought Naruto.

"Allright everyone, lets get this over with. In front of you are human shaped targets with the appropriate points. Ready your projectiles and let em go" he said as everyone let their weapons fly.

What followed shocked everyone.

Naruto had used all but one of his projectiles to land in the dead center. "hey Iruka sensei, I don't think there is enough room left for my laast kunai to fit inside the bullseye"

Everyone looked and their jaws dropped.

Naruto had all of his kunais, except the one in his hand, bunched up in the bullseye. No one, not even Sasuke, came close to this kind of accuracy.

"Welll Naruto, if that was a real opponent what would you do" he asked.

Naruto while talking to Iruka was turned 90 degees from the human shaped target, where the bullseye was above the heart, said, "this" as he threw the Kunai sideways. It flew quickly through the air and landed point first into a tiny little red dot at the center of the forehead of the dummy.

"Well Naruto, there have only been a few people to hit that one-in-a-million shot most recently was Uchiha Itachi, the one before that was the fourth Hokage. Congratulations, if you continue to perform this was you might catch up and tie Sasuke for rookie of the year." Said Iruka.

At the mention of Itachi all eyes, Nartuo's included, turend to Sasuke. Everyone knew what had happened. Naruto saw something he didn't think he would see in another person. He saw the same eyes. Those lonely, lost, desperate eyes. 'All this time I've been caught up in being jealous of the guy, I didn't realize he has the most In common with me. He goes home to and empty house just like me. However, in some repects he's worse off than me. He had to watch as his brother butchered his family. He had them, but now they are gone. I don't even know how that would feel' thought the blonde.

"allright, that is enough for today, let's go back in and have lunch, lecture, then I'll pass back the test grades" said Iruka.

"How did you grade them while you were out here with us" asked Sakura.

"For such a book-smart person you really are dumb, although most of you don't know it. There is a jutstu that allows you to..nevermind…it's just a variant of the clone jutsu" said Naruto."

"Whatever" said Sakura.

Naruto walked over to Sasuke, "hey man, good aiming. I noticed something, we both are at the top in the aiming, wanna train with me after class some time, I live alone with no family so I have tons of free time"

Sasuke looked at Naruto and his mouth dropped, 'this guy might actually be able to relate to me a little, and he can help me get stronger' "Sure," said the Uchiha.

"I look forward to it" Naruto said.

The class went back inside and sat down. They were passed back there test and Naruto, true to his word, had a 100.

"Class, I'm disappointed in you. This was supposed to be an easier test, but you all the clunked out on it. Except a few. The only ones to do truly well were: Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Hinata, and Shino. Naruto, just like he said, had a 100".

Sakura stood up, "he obviously cheated off of Hinata, he's sitting right next to her"

Naruto stood up and said, "and you're sitting right next to Sasuke, did you cheat off of him" he asked.

"Naruto, who are the Sannin?"

"You Mean the toad perv, the medic sucker, and the snake traitor…I mean…Jaraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru"

"Yeah….what was the first Hokage's unique element"

"Didn't really have one. He had the combination of two natures and was able to manipulate them at the same time. He used earth and water" he said.

"Okay, I think we all can say that Naruto got a 100. Okay everyone, sit down, shut up and I'm gonna lecture a little more about history."

The lecture was interesting, and Naruto even asked questions and made some corrections to the lecture, which kinda annoyed Iruka in an older brother kinda way.

As they were leaving, Naruto went over to Hinata. "Hey you wanna train with me tomorrow after class. Today I gotta go home and do some things"

'Naruto-kun wants to train with me…don't faint don't faint don't faint.' Hinata didn't trust her voice so she simply nodded.

"Great" he said as he took off to his apartment.

'I wander what Fur-ball will have in store for me today' he wandered.

He went into his apartment and went to his bed, sat on it in the lotus position and went into his mind.

"Hey Kyu, how you doin" asked the blonde.

"I'm a being of infinite power and I'm stuck inside a little kid, how do you think I feel" he asked.

"You should feel better after I made the cage 100 times larger and turned the inside into a forrest" he said.

"Touché" said the fox.

"Anyways, what do you have planned for today fox," asked the blonde.

"Basically the same as yesterday, except tonight I'm going to focus on Justu rather than history and throwing kunai." Said the fox.

"all right, but down over due it. Don't wanna turn my brain into jelly now do we" said the Blonde.

"not at all," said the fox "now go to sleep"

"All right" and with that Naruto left his mindscape and then went to sleep.