Second Chance

A New Beginning.

Disclaimer – I do not own Naruto or the Naruto franchise that accomplishment goes to Masashi Kishimoto.

'thoughts/emphasis9you'll know which it is)' – 'bijuu/angry thoughts'

"speech" – "Bijuu/angry speech"

'memory' – "speech in memory"

A/N; I want everyone to know this is my first story on so please leave a review, any constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated, Thankyou. Now without further adieu my new chapter.

'The greatest of 'The 5 Great Villages' –Konoha, The hidden Leaf village- lay in ruins as though Kami himself had lain waste to it, smoke billowed, thickening the air making it hard for all to see, enough to signal for any Konoha nin who was out of the village to abort whatever mission they're on and immediately return to the village. In the smoke stood a single figure crackling maniacally for his dream had finally come true. The total destruction of Konoha! Without its roots no tree could live. Now all the nations would fall effectively making his latest plan come into effect. This was the start of the Fifth Shinobi War. "Kuku"..'

".. and for team 7 we have Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto, I said 'and Uzumaki Naruto." Looking around the room Iruka found said Uzumaki with his head down on the desk in deep sleep whilst snoring quietly; infuriated by this Iruka pinched the bridge of his noise before shouting "Naruto!" at the Uzumaki to wake him up to his attention. Seeing that his attempt failed, Iruka used his back-up plan, the infamous 'Bighead No Jutsu', trying his luck once more, luckily for the other 20 students in the classroom Naruto woke up this time saving their ears from becoming utterly useless. "I'm glad you decided to join us by actually listening in to what i have to say, and not staying asleep, Naruto" Iruka said lacing every word with sarcasm, enough so that even the most dense off creation would realised. This got a few snickers from the other students in the class, making Naruto's face turn red, red enough to put Hinata to shame. "Now where was I" Iruka started off again, "Oh yes, I remember now, I was about to tell team 7 who their sensei is going to be. Ah there it is, and team 7 will have Hatake Kakashi as their acting sensei..."

Zoning out again, Naruto thought back to the nightmare he was having, 'What was that about? What was the meaning of that dream? Was that a premonition of what is to come?' with his thoughts taking a turn for the worst, Naruto thought back to his team listing, then it hit him, Uchiha Sasuke was on his team, feeling the need to puke Naruto quickly tuned back into what was occurring around him, to help ease his queasiness.

Looking around the room, his team was the last ones there. 'This is great, just what the greatest Hokage to have ever live needs, a sensei with punctuality issues!' Naruto thought grimly, before looking at the clock then turning back to his desk to get some more shut eye time.

2 hours later, the unpunctual sensei finally made his appearance to meet his new victims. "Yo" he called out from the classrooms entrance, making all 3 Genins jump from their seat with Sasuke recovering the fastest to go back to his brooding, whilst Naruto just rubbed at his eyes to clear out any of the sleep they held. Looking at the new arrival Sakura pointed her finger at the said arrival accusingly before shouting "You're late!" 'So this is them huh, they don't look like much, Pinkie over there looks like the bigmouth of the group then, Emo over there is most likely as his new nickname suggests, and the villages pariah is a little less energetic than the reports says. Mou, this works better for me.' Kakashi thought to himself before addressing the trio "meet me on the roof within the next 5 minutes. Don't be late, or else." With that Kakashi disappeared in a swirl of leaves, signalling for the trio to follow pursuit and meet their new sensei on the roof within their set time frame.

Once they arrived on the roof, Kakashi had them sit, then introduce themselves to one another by telling their names, likes, dislikes, hobbies and lastly their goals for the future. This started with Kakashi telling the other 3 about himself first which left the Genins sweat dropping at the scarce information told to them, since they knew no more than they already did before their teachers speech about himself, and that information being his name. The order was Pinkie, then Emo, then Naruto last. For Kakashi everything seemed to go as he predicted it would until it came time for Naruto to speak, because unlike the 'I will be the greatest Hokage Dattebayo' or whatever other childish yet innocent speech he was expecting Naruto to say, the speech he heard was one for the ages. One he would never forget. The confidence, the aura, and the chakra rolling off of Naruto made it certain for Kakashi that this was the day he would remember as the true birth of the greatest Kage in history. The true birth of Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto!