The shape of things to come
I don't own Naruto or its characters I do however own the Ocs
Chapter 1: the youth
Naruto walked quietly down the road towards the academy. As he walked he saw the same look of gratitude from the villagers of Konoha that he saw everyday since he became the Hokage. The defeat of Pain and Madara was the tipping point which turned him into the town hero. While, Sasuke was a major part of defeating Madara, it was him they love, because he had battled for them even when they hated him, and despised him. In short, that was the diference between him and Sasuke, while they both were heroes and ended the threat of Akatsuki, he had been always loyal to Konoha, where Sasuke had not.
It did not take Naruto long to arrive at the Academy for the days events. It was the graduation day for the students at the academy, and he was going to be damned if he was not there to see it. He had actually seen both graduations before this one, figuring it was something that a Hokage should do. Then again, he also knew the teams for the classes, and found the reaction of the youngsters to be pretty funny to watch. This year he also knew the parents of a handful of the grads pretty well too.
Walking though the doors, he came face to face with the closest thing he had to a father, Iruka.
"Iruka sensei, how are you holding up. I have to say if I had your job, I would of lost it years ago," Naruto said with a quick laugh.
"Naruto, you would of lasted 3 minutes with Konohamaru, or a couple of the others, but if would have been fun to watch," Iruka replied with a laugh.," So you want to give the speech to this years group."
"Nope, for this years group, I am just here as a proud parent," Naruto said with a large smile, "Iruka sensei, do you want to get some ramen after this, my treat this time."
"Of course, Naruto, that would be wonderful."
Naruto made his way into the classroom sitting in the front behind Iruka desk. Naruto smiled as he noticed the students of the graduating class walking in. His eyes followed a small group of children who made there way into the room, focusing on a young blonde boy who seemed to follow them quietly. Looking at his own son, Naruto could see the differences between them, while Naruto was always loud, this boy was quiet, reserved, and in many ways his opposite. Naruto had never really shown his son that much of his own skill, and with how busy he was, he never was there for him as much as he wanted to be. Sometimes, Naruto wondered if this is how it would have been like for him if Minato had lived. Still, from what he knew about the boy's skills and grade average, he seemed to be a pretty decent little shinobi. His attention then went to another dark haired shinobi, this one a young kunoichi. She he knew well, she demanded his time, and he could see a lot of himself in her.
Naruto listened quietly to the speeches about how a good shinobi should act, hearing his own name mentioned as an example a few dozen times. He had heard all those speeches before, by many different people, and they did get old rather quickly, even for him, who used to make himself look better then he was in mission reports.
"Now for this years team assignments," Iruka announced causing Naruto to smile as he looked at the group of children in front of him.
"Team one, Uzumaki Jiraiya." Naruto noticed the attention of his pick up quickly, "Nara Shinjitsu, Hikari Tenshi."
Naruto noticed why the naming of his teammates caused the boy to smile, it was for the most part a neutral reaction. He also noticed that his son's teammates seemed a bit happier about the choice of teams then did little Jiraiya. Naruto laughed as he looked at the team members though, he could call this team blonde, cause each team member had blonde hair. Shinjitsu, was the son of one of his best friends Shikamaru, but had got his hair color from his mother. Then why he did not know Tenshi, she also was a natural blonde as well. He reminded himself to look up the files on these two more closely.
"Team three, Uchiha Itachi, Haruno Shinn, and Momo Midori."
Naruto smiled as he thought of the idea of his two teammates offspring on the same team. Naruto also thought it was funny how Sasuke named his own son after the man he wanted to kill most of his life, who became his hero only at the end. Itachi though was sure a copy in appearance of his old man, while Shinn looked a good deal like her mother, but with darker hair. Naruto clould tell from the reactions, of the two that he should feel sorry for Midori for having to endure his two teammates.
"Team ten, Lee Ryuu, Akimichi Okashi, and Uzumaki Yume."
Naruto smiled proudly at the exicited reaction Yume gave to being on a team, it was really something, but he also noticed her two teammates covering their faces as they heard the news that they would have to put up with the female Uzumaki.
"Now, your Jounin instructors," Iruka announced, "You will meet your instructor tomorrow morning here, at the academy."
Naruto already knew who had been picked for each team, actually he had a hand in the selection for a number of the teams himself.
"Team one, your jounin instructor is Hyuuga Neji."
Naruto smiled when he saw a positive reaction from Jiraiya, who knew his old rival and Jiraiya and Yume's uncle very well.
"Team three, you have been assigned to Hozuki Suigetsu."
Naruto remember that this shinobi had worked with Sasuke on Team Hawk, and decided to stay with Sasuke when he returned to Konoha. Sasuke had demaded that he also teach his only son, calling him the only shinobi worthy for the job.
"Team ten, you will get to have Sarutobi Konohamaru."
Yume almost jumped though the roof at the announcement, and a small smile came across Naruto's face. This was payback for all the annoying things that Konohamaru had done to him, when they were younger, but also he knew, Konohamaru was the only one who had even a chance to keep up with the girls energy.
"That is all, you are all dismissed for the day," Iruka said with a smile.
Naruto was going to get up and talk with his two kids, but Yume was standing next to him a second after Iruka made the announcement.
"Father, can you go with me to training ground 7 to train, I really want to show how amazing I am tomorrow," Yume asked excitedly, "I still can't believe that you got Konohamaru to be our Jounin teacher, he is almost as good as you father."
"I don't know, I have a lot of paper work to do," Naruto weakly argued back,
"What, come on, you can do the paperwork any day, you will only have your daughter graduate once, come on please," Yume gave with the perfect pleading look on her face.
"Fine, but first we must have lunch with Iruka sensei," Naruto said knowing he would lose the argument anyway.
"Sure of course, ramen is the best," Yume reacted with a smile knowing she would get her way.
Naruto looked around for Jiraiya, but noticed his son had already left without a word to him. He was always like that, Naruto wondered what made this non-identical twins so non-identical.
A/N- the tempation to write a chapter to at least introduce new OC characters was to tempting. Anyway, if you liked this please review, I would love to hear ideas for this story, it would be helpful for me to hear. As long as I get reviews period, and there seems interest, I will continue on it.
