Chapter 3: The Academy and acquiring the Blade Works

Thank you for all the nice reviews, I loved them, cause I didn't think I had that many people that liked the story, though that might have been my fault from not looking at the reviews for several months.

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Special Note:

To get this out of the way since multiple people having been asking this over and over again. The twin that was born with Benihime will not be in the story, because I have decided to go with the original format. I may bring him in as a younger sibling later on, but that all depends on whether or not I keep the bar scene that makes Kushina steril.

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Here is chapter three, Enjoy.

I do not own Naruto, Fate Stay Night or anyone from Bleach


Konohagakure no Sato

Naruto sighed as he looked out over the village from his position on top of the Sandaime Hokage's head, he had come up here this morning to take in the sight of the new morning and the rising sun, just like he always used to do with his mother and father before the attack and Benihime being born.

Today was slightly different than the norm of what had been happening for the past couple months. Today, Naruto would be joining the shinobi academy and his mother had actually talked directly to him, assuring her child that she would indeed be there to cheer him on.

The young Namikaze gave a smile as he took a deep breathe and made his way down the mountain towards the new academy building that had just been finished being built by several contractors and some old guy named Tazuna that lived in Wave.

Naruto smiled as he jumped over a log in his way as he ran through the small forest that surrounded the base of the mountain. Yoruichi and a lazy looking owl masked anbu had been helping him get stronger to help prepare him for the academy and to be ready to start learning the Neko Anbu's Hoho Taijutsu style. He huffed a little as he stopped to stand on top of a large rock and tried to catch his breath while trying to find which way he needed to go.

Currently strapped to his right leg was a small pouch that carried some kunai and shuriken that Biwako and Tsunade had gotten from the famous Higurashi Weapons shop for him after learning about Orochimaru's plan a week ago.

Despite his crippling injury, he had surprised the Sarutobi family and friends. After just a week of exercising and learning Katas from Yoruichi, the boy had regained a lot of stamina and from what Tsunade had said when she made a check up on him, he had finished healing from his injury, so the only way it would impair him further was by the fact that his chakra network was gone. The chakra network Orochimaru theorized would be copied by the Blade Works when implanted onto his body.

At the beginning of his taijutsu katas, Naruto had shown that he was a genius when it came to memorizing and performing, which would have made him very powerful if he had still had chakra.

It usually only took Naruto thirty minutes to fully understand and copy what Yoruichi had shown him. It was such a surprise that Tsunade had done a mock medical test to make sure he wasn't an Uchiha.

"I should do my stretches as well before I go to the Academy since they might make us do physical tests to make sure that I am ready," The Namikaze heir thought as he jumped down to the ground and took a stance he had sometimes seen Yoruichi take when preparing for their training. Once finished, he turned towards a tree on the opposite side of the clearing and began throwing the kunai and shuriken in his pouch at an imaginary target.

After a few minutes, the Namikaze gave a nod and smiled, deciding he had warmed up enough for today and started running in the Academy's direction. However after getting a little distance and he was only a few yards from the edge of the forest, he felt a surge of chakra and decided to go to check out who the large chakra belonged to.

In the middle of a small clearing only seven feet to the left of him stood a boy who looked to be the same age as he was. The boy had onyx colored eyes under which were small tear troughs along with jet-black hair that he had pulled into a low ponytail that reached the top of his shoulders and his face was framed by center-parted bangs that came down to his chin. The clothes he was wearing consisted of a black shirt that had the Uchiha clan symbol sewn into the back and tan pants that ended in black shinobi sandals, that were bound by bandages around his ankles.

Naruto stayed quiet as he watched the boy perform a fireball jutsu in awe, before he saw the young Uchiha toss several kunai and shuriken behind the fireball that would have made the attack even more deadly if he was older and in an actual battle.

"Who is there!?" The Uchiha said threateningly as he sensed somebody standing behind him, though he couldn't sense their chakra, and he grabbed another kunai from the pouch situated on the back of his waist. Startled, Naruto stepped out of his spot in the bushes and moved into the boy's line of sight.

"I'm sorry, I did not mean to spy." Naruto said as he raised his hands up in a calming gesture, making the Uchiha lower his weapon. "I was in the area to train a bit before I headed to the academy for my first day, I felt your chakra and thought I'd take a look to see who you were. My name is Naruto Namikaze by the way, it is nice to meet you Uchiha-san".

"Nice to meet you Namikaze-san. My name is Itachi Uchiha," the now named Itachi said with a nod of his head in respect towards his fellow clan heir, though he had never met him before… Not that he remembered anyways, he might have met him when his mother showed him off… He felt a chill run down his spine.

"How did you get all of your kunai into the tree that accurately?" Naruto asked excitedly as he noticed how the knives all had better accuracy than his did and the Uchiha hadn't been able to see through the fireball. "I am surprised someone my age was able to do such a thing."

"My tou-san taught me since I was four to be able to throw this well and how to do jutsu, saying something about the Uchiha clan having to be better than all others." Itachi said as he shook his head at his father's antics, something he and his mother disagreed with. "I was just getting prepared for the Academy since Kaa-san said that they usually do an exam to test where people are. What about you? Are you going to the Academy, Namikaze-san?" He asked as he noticed the kunai pouch on Naruto's leg, despite what he heard about the boy being crippled.

Naruto nodded, "Yeah, I learned that you don't have to have Ninjutsu and Genjutsu to be a great ninja, Gai-nii does it with Taijutsu and weapons, so why can't I do it?" Itachi nodded as he collected his kunai from the trees.

"That is a good mentality to have," The Uchiha heir said. "My Kaa-san told me to never underestimate an enemy or it could lead you to your downfall." 'Though for some reason she kept mentioning a red haired woman in that a lot.'

After that, the two of them continued walking towards the Academy, where both of them would be joining for their first day, much to their joy.

Itachi told Naruto about his family, how his father was named Fugaku Uchiha and was a very militarized man that led the Police force of the village who respected only power. So much so that he had made Itachi start training at a young age to bring even more power to the clan, something Itachi hoped to spare his new little brother that had been born a month before Naruto's baby sister. While his mother was very kind and disliked her husband's mentality.

Naruto told Itachi about how the Kyuubi's chakra had destroyed his chakra network in the attack and how his Ero-Jiji and Baa-san's teammate, the Hebi Sannin, had found a possible way for him to have a faux chakra network much to the Uchiha's shock.

After growing tired of talking once Naruto finished telling his new friend about his adorable little sister. They left the forest and traveled to the academy to start their new lives.


The Academy

Minato smiled at the soon-to-be students from where he stood on the stage several genin had set up the day before. At the back the parents of the children stood as they proudly watched their children get ready for their first day in becoming shinobi.

"Hello everyone! Today you all shall take your first steps into becoming a leaf shinobi and becoming the future of this village like I and many of your parents were before you. All of you will be starting your journey to become splendid ninja. Your comrades and this village will depend on you in times of war and strife. Please remember that the only true way becomes strong is when they have something that they are willing to protect. So please come forward when your academy teachers call out your names and make everyone standing in this village proud." The Yondaime called out with a smile on his face as he gave the children their speech before signalling the teachers and disappearing in a yellow flash as they came forward.

As he disappeared, Naruto sighed as he looked down at the ground. 'Looks like Tou-san forgot that I'm here...' "Are you okay Naruto-san?" Itachi asked as a sickly looking boy with short brown hair, dark-colored eyes and dark markings under his eyes, while wearing a long-sleeved red haori with bangles around his wrists and legs and a katana strapped to his hip looked over at the Uchiha and Namikaze heirs from a couple rows behind them in confusion about why the Namikaze heir would be sighing.

"I'm ok. I was just hoping he would stay to wish me good luck." Naruto said, further put down when he couldn't locate his mother either. "Naruto Namikaze," Naruto heard as the the crowd grew silent at the mention of a Namikaze being in their midst and Naruto walked over to the woman who had called him. She had long brown hair that was braided down her back with dark green eyes and she was wearing a longsleeved shirt which had her mint green chunin uniform over it. She also was wearing a pair of shorts that stopped at her knees, just barely concealing a deep red scar that looked recent and was covering her left leg from hip to knee and she had a pair of forest green shinobi sandals. Lastly, she had three claw-like scars that stretched from her right ear to her nose.

"Namikaze-san, I will be your instructor for however long you are in the Academy." The woman said as she looked down at the miniature model of her leader. "My name is Rinku Yamakichi."

"It is nice to meet you Yamakichi-sensei," Naruto said with a small bow to be polite. "Please take care of me."

A little later, Naruto was happy when Itachi was called by his teacher to stand with his class. They also got his friend Hana Inuzuka and the boy that had looked at them in the crowd, who he later found out was a sword enthusiast named Hayate Gekko, who just happened to be a year older than him and Itachi, his parents having not had enough money to enroll him the year before.

Hana had long brown hair that was tied into a ponytail that has two locks of hair framing her face along with large, black eyes with slightly tanned skin and she had the red Inuzuka clan fang markings on each of her cheeks. She was wearing a pair of form-fitting shorts cut just above the knees with wrist warmers and a sleeveless grey shirt. By her feet were three small puppies that were scrambling over each other for the scratching her fingers were providing at the moment.

Walking through the academy, once all of the children had been sorted into their classes. The large group of seven year olds arrived in their classroom and quickly took their seats. Naruto and Itachi both sitting in the back row where they could see the entire class. They were also joined by Hana a little after the class started, the girl of course starting off with her customary greeting of making fun of the fishcake side of Naruto's name.

The only ones that peeked the two clan heir's interest was a girl in the front row of the class that had a sword strapped to her back that had long straight purple hair and brown eyes. She wore a blackish brown shirt with longsleeves and skin tight pants that had a kunai pouch bound to both legs and blue shinobi sandals. She was currently cleaning her sword, while at the same time paying the instructor rapt attention, showing that she was probably going to be one of the high achievers and overly serious shinobi that Rin had told him about… Making Kakashi at the time call out a strangled hey when she motioned to him as an example.

The only other was a boy that Itachi told him was named Shisui and was one of his cousins. He had short, unkempt black hair and a relatively broad nose and well-defined eyelashes that made the Namikaze mistake him for a girl for a moment. He was wearing a high-collared, black shirt like Itachi and had black pants that came over his dark blue shinobi sandals. Around his chest and right shoulder he wore a sort of harness that held a tanto to the back of his shoulder.

Naruto paid close attention to his sensei's words even when Hana fell asleep from the lecture on Konoha history. 'I don't think the academy is everything that Ero-jiji and Baa-san said it would be.' The Namikaze thought to himself as he looked at Itachi with a sigh when the instructor began getting into a lecture about how Konoha was made and how the clans came to be. He had learned all of this from Hiruzen and Biwako since they had first hand experience with meeting the founders, the old Sandaime having been taught by the Nidaime Hokage.

Hana was sent out into the hall later after trying to relieve her boredom from listening to the lecture by creating spitballs and launching them at the more stiff members of the class, one being the purple haired girl in the front.


End of the First Academy Day

As the Academy day came to an end, mostly all of the children went home to brag to their parents about the new people they had met and what they had learned from their senseis, a few bragging about how they had the Uchiha and Namikaze clan heirs in their classes.

Hana went to walk her Haimaru triplets before heading home to tell her mother about her day and play with her baby brother Kiba and Itachi decided to get some training in before he returned home. Naruto however sighed as he walked home, while he had had fun meeting new people and hanging out with Hana and Itachi; he had the feeling that he was going to be disappointed when he got home, having never seen his mother the entire time he was at the Academy.

His eyes widened and became filled with hurt as he walked through the marketplace of the village and he saw her laughing while walking with her former student Kurenai Yuhi with Benihime strapped to her chest. Kushina never even noticed her son as she walked right past him with her red eyed student, teasing Kurenai all the while about her crush on the sandaime's youngest son. Naruto bowed his head, letting his hair cover his eyes and turned around before walking home, ignoring the waves of the civilians and that of a concerned ramen chef that was curious as to why the son of his number one customer was depressed, especially at such a young age.

Once he arrived home after a couple hours, he avoided the kitchen where he could hear his mother cheerfully bragging to his father about what a fun day that she and Benihime had walking around the village. The young blond just sighed again before he opened his bedroom door and collapsed on his bed before falling asleep with an aching heart.


Uchiha Clan Main House

Itachi gave a tired yawn as he walked into his house and moved into the dining room after slipping off his sandals at the door. Already inside, his mother was sitting at the table, feeding his new baby brother Sasuke through his baby bottle, a tired look on her face from having to deal with his crying during the night.

"Hello Itachi-kun. How was your first day at the Academy?" Mikoto asked as she spotted him when he sat down, vowing to make her self righteous husband change Sasuke's diapers and feed him next time he was crying at night since she hadn't sensed her eldest child.

"It was fine Kaa-san. It was fun except for the teacher recounting what I have already learned," the stoic Uchiha heir said as he grabbed a stick of Dango from the bowl on the table, making his mother growl a bit at him taking her energy inducing snack. "Hello Sasuke-chan, are you being good for Kaa-san?"

Mikoto just smiled happily at her two sons when Itachi tickled his giggling brother's stomach, the baby and his older brother having already created a strong bond since the time they first laid eyes on each other.

"Where is Tou-san?" Itachi asked as he looked around for the Uchiha clan head, who was usually home by now.

"Fugaku-baka is at a Jounin meeting for the upcoming chunin exams since his genin Yashiro, Shun Li and Jin are participating this year," the beautiful Uchiha matriarch said with a calm smile that was a little strained at being forced to play housewife while her husband got to stay as an active shinobi.

"I see," Itachi muttered. "I made a new friend today."

"Really?" His mother asked as she looked over at her eldest in surprise, her joy audible on her face due to Itachi not having many friends due to Fugaku's tirade about how friends drag one down, though that was probably just from Minato performing the thousand years of pain strike on him when they were in their own chunin exams in front of so many people. "Might I ask who has befriended my adorable son?"

"Naruto Namikaze," Itachi said with a blush at being called adorable and became a little embarrassed when his mother started one of her happy dances. "Oh that is wonderful. You two will be just like me and Kushina-chan!"

"I am going to go to my room. I feel a little tired from today." Itachi said as he moved to escape from Mikoto wrapping him in one of her motherly hugs.

"Aww! Fine then, I will see you tomorrow Itachi-chan," she said as she planned on bragging about her son's first friend being Kushina's son like she had been with Kushina in the Academy, the next time she met up with the mothers to show off their children. Her little Sasuke already in a semi-competition with Kiba over Benihime, the two boys always fighting for the chibi redhead's attention even though they were only a few months old, much to the pleasure of Tsume, Mikoto and Kushina, though the chibi Inuzuka was also attracted to Honoka's daughter Hinata, making Tsume worry that he might take after his ungrateful bastard of a father.

Once he reached his room Itachi collapsed on his bed and stared up at the ceiling, just imagining what the next few years would bring.


Several Months later

Some time had passed since Itachi and Naruto had started the Academy and the two had quickly become friends through their will to take their future occupations seriously, sharing secrets with each other and Hana like the closest of friends, like their hopes and dreams. While Naruto and Itachi simultaneously helped each other with the avoidance of their unique clubs of fangirls.

Orochimaru and Tsunade had pulled Naruto out of his class during the middle of his eighth week in the Academy and had with his consent used the scroll the snake user had found to imprint the blade works into his body, which was an extremely painful process for the blond, especially when it automatically created a new chakra network inside his body, making him stay inside the hospital for a couple of days to let it set where he met Orochimaru's nine year apprentice, Anko Mitarashi, who despite being a little spoiled by being the Hebi Sannin's first apprentice was nice to hang out with, since they both found they enjoyed pranking the Hospital staff when extremely bored.


Flashback to the First Night of the Procedure

Later that night Naruto closed his eyes to stave off the pain that accompanied the procedure and he dreamed of a massive fire.

He dreamt that he was standing in a large burning town that was filled with screams of pain and agony from the people trapped by the flames that burned at the buildings and streets around him.

Naruto just walked past all of them with glassy eyes.

Piles and groups of corpses all surrounded him, bodies that screamed for some help in removing their seemingly endless pain, yet they were all denied the peace they sought until they expired from their injuries

Somehow, he knew couldn't help them. He knew he couldn't stop. He felt so damned helpless, miserable with despair at being unable to help anyone.

His body was covered with burns and cuts, his head was leaking blood from a piece of falling mortar that had clipped him when this chaos had begun, yet he kept on walking because once he fell down, he knew he could never get up. So, without taking his blank eyes off of the horizon, he continued walking.

Finally after an undetermined amount of time, his limbs became too tired, too damaged to physically walk any more. So he fell to the ground…

The boy looked up towards the sky, a sky that was once bright blue and full of lazy clouds and was now filled with smoke and the screams of the dying. Soon the screams become silent, and he just knew it was a matter of time before he joined them in the eternal slumber that awaited him. He accepted all of it with calm sigh. He was going to die.

Then his eyes opened once more as the rubble cleared away from around him and he saw the face of a man with a slightly scruffy appearance, he was smiling. Tears of joy were spilling down the side of the man's face at the simple fact that he had found someone still alive in all of the chaos.

The eldest Namikaze child saw the smile that graced the man's face, a smile that was full of such happiness and the boy was instantly filled with a great amount of jealousy.

What made them so different? How could he smile like that even though they were surrounded by the inferno? By Hell?

At that moment he desperately wished he could have been as happy as that man…


After his operation, he took a few days off from the Academy to learn how to use his new powers by training with Yoruichi and Gai and make sense of the dreams he gained every night that Tsunade and Orochimaru believed to be the memories of the Blade Works creator.

Gai had shouted to the world about how 'Youthful' Naruto was for wishing to not give up his dream and even finding a way to overcome his disability, for some reason making the young blond shiver at a premonition of a future Gai and a miniature clone of himself creating a man hug that would scar thousands. Gai had even decided to show him some of the Goken style that he was proclaimed by many as a master in. After the first day of learning about his new power, Naruto found that he could create different weapons before growing tired and he even had several images of elaborately designed weapons appear in his mind that Orochimaru theorized had been used by the previous wielder of the Reality Marble. The last part before the Academy was the part where he began having dreams of the life of a man wearing a red coat and black armor that had silver hair and tanned skin.

After that, the academy quickly proclaimed Naruto and Itachi as the type of prodigies that only came once a generation, despite Naruto's inability to use ninjutsu and genjutsu. Itachi for his skilled show of his knowledge of a few katon techniques and the ability to flawlessly pull off the henge, Kawarimi and clone jutsu on the first try at such a young age, even showing his quickly learned fire clone jutsu, leaving their sensei in shock. Naruto was praised as a genius of hard work and taijutsu, while also quickly rising to gain a title as a genius user of Bukijutsu, much to the annoyance of the sword wielding purple haired girl that he found out was named Yugao Uzuki, who was a daughter of a retired samurai that had once been a part of the Guardian Twelve, when Naruto defeated her in a kenjutsu match.

Tsunade, Yoruichi, Kisuke, Hiruzen, Rin and Gai had all been surprised about his new title of genius, the Sarutobi clan head calling all of the boy's friends and the Uchiha head family to celebrate; at which Mikoto had wrapped him in a hug close to her bountiful chest while crying about how adorable he was; yet he was disappointed once again when his parents never showed up despite being told in person by the previous Hokage, saying that they had to take care of Benihime.

As the year progressed further along, Itachi, Naruto and Shisui quickly became the idols of their peers with several trying, Yugao, yet failing to surpass them and Naruto met a young girl named Soifon that was Yoruichi's newest protege, having turned four when he began in the Academy and the blond could easily tell that the young girl was a bit of a hero worshipper from the way she stared at their dark skinned teacher with stars and hearts in her eyes and the way she hugged a black cat plushie to her chest when not training.

Now towards the end of the year, Itachi and Naruto having turned eight and Shisui nine, the three of them were taking the genin selection exam much to the amazement of their teachers and peers at taking a test when they had only been in the academy for a year.

"So, how do you think we are going to do?" Naruto asked a bit nervously as he stared at the curtain separating their classroom from the examination room with several of the older students staring at them in curiosity and jealousy.

"I don't know," Itachi said as he stared impassively at a glaring Uchiha clan member that for some reason greatly disliked the clan heir, while a lazy looking twelve year old named Izumo walked out from behind the curtain with his headband acting as a bandana that was wrapped around the top of his head where he was greeted by his apparent best friend, a boy named Kotetsu, that had his own headband wrapped around his forehead.

"Itachi Uchiha…" The teacher heading up the exam called from behind the curtain. "Good luck, Itachi-Kun!" Naruto said with a small cheer getting an embarrassed grunt in Uchiha speak. Once he was behind the curtain all of the older kids returned their attention to Shisui and Naruto, some surprised that there was a Namikaze in their midst, while a few were seething in jealousy at what they believed to be a show of favoritism by their Kage, though they didn't really know that the only show of favoritism the Yondaime gave was directed towards his year old daughter. Shisui of course helped Naruto ignore them by playing a game of shogi while they waited and wondered what type of exam they would have prepared for the Namikaze heir due to his disability.

"Naruto Namikaze!" The teacher called out as Itachi left the room with a small smirk on his face and a black headband covering his forehead. With that Naruto stood up from his game with Shisui while Itachi patted him reassuringly on the back before moving to wait outside in the hall for the blond.

"You are Naruto Namikaze?" A platinum blonde woman asked from her seat behind a table of headbands without looking up from her clipboard. "Yes sensei," Naruto said as he took his place before the table.

"Okay then, my name is Kyoka Hinamori," The woman said in a bored tone, probably from having to deal with all of the annoying brats that would be graduating. "We have been informed that you have a small disability by Sandaime-sama to where you only use Bukijutsu and Taijutsu, would you please show us your skills."

"Yes sensei."

The woman nodded before finally looking up at the child before her, noting how mature he looked for an eight year old and stood before motioning him to follow her to the door behind the table that led to the school's sparring ring.

"Here we have set up a test where you will be fighting against one of our village's few weapon users," Kyoka said before she motioned to a bald man who was standing in the ring wearing a black battle kimono worn by samurai that was left open at the chest to reveal his muscular chest and stomach with his eyes each having a small red marking at the outer corners. Lastly, he wore a pair of wooden samurai sandals with the exception of there being no tabi. "This is Ikkaku Madarame, he is one of our best Tokubetsu Jounin that specialize in Bukijutsu with the main use of Bojutsu and Kusarigamajutsu, he will be your tester for the test."

"Yo," Ikkaku said with a raised peace sign as he caught sight of the boy and teacher. "How ya doing kid, come at me whenever you are ready."

Naruto nodded as Kyoka moved out of the way and sat down on a wooden stump to observe the match. Taking a step into the ring, Naruto materialized the iron club Gai liked to sometimes use and took a stance before Ikkaku. The man just smiling as he unsealed a naginata with a wax-wood shaft and a red horsehair tassel at its pommel from a seal on the inside of his wrist. "Let's go wild brat!"

With that said, Naruto was forced to move out of the way as the man's spear crashed down where he had been standing with the blade embedded into the ground. Spinning the boy swung his club and Ikkaku dodged before swinging his naginata at the blond again. "You're gonna have to do better than that kiddo!"

Naruto leapt back and let his club dissipate when the other man's spear left a massive dent in the side. Moving forwards and dodging a couple strikes from Ikkaku, Naruto summoned a tanto, making Ikkaku wonder if he was using seals like he and his teammate Yumichika did. Before he slashed at the bald man and made him move back to avoid the kid that had somewhat gotten past his guard.

Ikkaku smiled gleefully at the boy before spinning and surprising Naruto when the spear split into three sections attached by chains and his tanto was smacked away where it embedded itself into the ground and dissipated into fine particles. "Damn kid," Ikkaku said with a smirk. "I may be holding back since you're a brat, but you are doing pretty good!"

"Thank you Ikkaku-san," Naruto said before he held out his hands and envisioned two blades that the red clad man appeared to like in his dreams. "Trace on!"

Ikkaku jumped back quickly to avoid a strike as Naruto surprised the man and his teacher when he appeared in front of him holding a black blade in his left hand that had a yin-yang symbol on the guard, while in his right hand was a pure white blade that had a similar symbol etched into its hilt.

Ikkaku smiled fiercely, "It looks like things have begun heating up!"

The older man charged forward and showed the young blond why his weapon was so unpredictable as he was forced to dodge blow after blow of the snake-like spear that caught him off guard everytime he dodge one strike. Finally having enough, Naruto slammed through the man's guard after making him over extend his spear, though the Namikaze heir did receive a shallow cut across his forehead over his left eye, and he slashed the man across the chest with his two blades, leaving a cross-like wound.

"Ahh, Kenpachi-sensei would love to meet you when you're older kid," Ikkaku said as he and Naruto moved across from each other to check their wounds. The blond growing slightly annoyed when the spear user pulled a small vial of ointment from his kunai pouch and applied it to his wound, stopping the bleeding while his own cut bleed profusely, covering the vision of his eye.

"I'll be guessing that I'll meet him someday," Naruto said with a smile while Kyoka watched on in interest at an eight year old being able to injure one of the lunatics from the battle squad, even if the bald man was holding back.

"By the way kid," Ikkaku said as he looked at the blades in his hands in interest. "How do you do that and how did you get those swords, they look like they'd cost a fortune?"

Naruto gave another smile as he held up the two blades he was holding. "The black one is named Kanshou, while the white is Bakuya." The Namikaze said. "This is my disability, while I cannot use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu due to having absorbed the Kyuubi's chakra when it smashed into my house with one of its tails, I have gained an ability to create any weapon I have ever seen and reinforce any object I touch to make it stronger and more durable."

Ikkaku whistled at that, while many of the Battle Division would frown at a chakra using technique, a lot of them would love to have a power where they could summon any weapon they wanted from thin air.

"That's a nifty technique," Ikkaku said as he lowered himself into a stance with his weapon back in spear mode. "Lets continue!"

"Yes let's," Naruto said as they both moved forward and met in a clash of weapons.


One Day Later

"I would like to congratulate the three of you for passing the academy in just one year." Rinku said as she stared proudly at the three students standing before her in front of their fellow students that had only been in her class for a single year, yet had already become genin. "Just know that I am very proud of you as you take your first step as true shinobi of the leaf."

Naruto and the two Uchiha that had been a part of the class stood at the front of their classmates with smiles, or in Uchiha terms, light smirk, as their classmates clapped for them. The only ones not doing so being Yugao and a few of the bullies that were annoyed at them for passing early.

"Thank you sensei," the three of them said at the same time, creeping some of the students out when they said it in the same monotone voice, making Naruto grin at Itachi and Shisui, the three of them having planned this.

"You will find out who your new Jounin sensei will be with the rest of the graduates later on today once all the the other classes get out." The Kunoichi said as she smiled proudly at her three students, hardly waiting for the bar party she and her friends had planned to boast that she already had three newly made genin from her first year as a teacher.

The three new genin nodded to her and left to wait in the sparring field till the classes left, Naruto giving a wave to Hana as he left, the young Inuzuka girl a little jealous of her friends' abilities.


Three hours later, Naruto gave a silent sigh as he sat in the back of the classroom that had been used for the exams with Itachi and Shisui next to him, the two Uchiha engaged in a shogi game, while also watching all of the older graduates walk into the room to find out who their teams and senseis would be. He had tied his Leaf headband around his neck after finding it to be more comfortable there than anywhere else. Once they all filed in, most laughing and boasting how they would be the strongest shinobi in the village just because they were now genin, except for a few that seemed to be determined.

The three friends spent the next thirty minutes in relative silence, holding themselves back from laughing with the rest of the class when a young boy Naruto had sometimes seen around the Sarutobi compound came running in, only to trip over his feet and faceplant into the teacher's desk after skidding.

When the teacher, a tall, handsome man with black hair and brown eyes, walked into the room, clipboard in hand, everyone fell into an excited silence. Naruto watched with calculating eyes as the Chunin stopped in front of his desk at the front of the class after directing the Sarutobi boy to his seat, a proud smile on his face as he took in the sight of all of the students that had been in his class that were present.

"Alright everyone, I would just like to say congratulations to all of you for getting to this point," The man said with a smirk. "Everyone in this class has worked hard and earned their place here as potential genin and of course, shinobi."

After the cheer from the older students died down, and snapping the Kotetsu boy awake, the older man looked down at the clipboard in his hands. "Alright… Let's start off with Team One…"

Everyone went silent, except for the moans of the newly made Genins of Team One were heard, they apparently didn't like who they got as teammates. But they soon quieted down when the man glared at them, he hated the whiners of the class with a passion. "Team Two will consist of Itachi Uchiha, Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane." The teacher said once his students quieted down and Naruto clapped Itachi on the back, much to the Uchiha's annoyance. "Your sensei will be Nika Yamanaka."

After seeing the nods from the students to show that they had listened, the man's jaw dropped as he looked back down at the clipboard and looked stunned as he read on, "Orochimaru of the Sannin has requested a team to be joined with his pre-existing apprentice. Namikaze Naruto and Sarutobi Ryo, congratulations and good luck, your sensei and new teammate are already waiting for you on the roof."

Naruto and the Sarutobi boy from earlier nodded to their friends and walked out the door to head towards the roof as several looks of jealousy were sent their way at being taught by a Sannin, the older boy chatting excitedly in an attempt to get to know the boy that would be joining him on his new team.

Arriving on the roof, Naruto greeted a grinning Anko, who seemed excited at the prospect of having new teammates. The three then sat together on the floor, in front of Orochimaru, who was currently looking over a file on his new team, even if he already knew two of them.

"Now then, now that we are all here," The Snake Sannin said as he sat down before Anko and his new students, not planning to do the genin test since he already knew that he wasn't going to fail the two younger ones. "We can introduce ourselves as I heard is customary when getting a genin team."

"So tell the rest of us your name, whatever your likes and dislikes may be, your hobbies and dreams for the future. I will start." The Hebi Sage said as he sealed the file he had away into a scroll in his vest. "My name is Orochimaru, I am a member of the Legendary Three Sannin, I currently like learning any new jutsu I can get my hands on and upstaging my dope of a teammate, Jiraiya. My dislikes are being annoyed by Jiraiya's perverted nature, others making the assumption that I am gay just because my skin tone is a lot paler than a normal humans and having my missions fail. My hobbies are learning whatever jutsu I see and studying new things. My dream was once to be the Yondaime Hokage, but since that never happened, I am currently looking for a new one."

"Anko-chan, it is your turn." The Snake Sage said as he looked to his first student, getting a nod and grin from the purplette.

"My name is Anko Mitarashi. I like making new friends due to my life in the orphanage, eating the delicious dango, learning new styles and how to make my enemies squeal," she said making Ryo a little scared at the last part, not wanting to know what she did to her enemies. "My dislikes are the perverted bakas that like to touch even if they aren't welcome, sexist idiots who put down kunoichi just because of the actions of fangirls, the arrogance of large clans and people who diss the great dango. My hobbies are pranking, learning new ways of getting information out of someone, eating dango and creating several pictures out of the dango sticks I collect. My dream for the future is to be a great shinobi like Orochimaru-sensei!"

Her two teammates both nodded to her in respect, the Namikaze heir bumping fists happily with the hyperactive Mitarashi.

Ryo smirked as he smoothed his hair back a bit and smiled in his own unique way of being charming, "My name is Ryo Sarutobi. My likes are my Great Uncle Hiruzen-sama, my mother's cooking, learning ninjutsu and bojutsu like Hiruzen-Jiji and girls. My dislikes are those who make fun of me for being hyperactive and those that would seek to harm people I like. My hobbies are practising my Bojutsu, drawing landscapes and scenes that I like and training to be a good taijutsu and Ninjutsu user. My dream is to become a great shinobi like Hiruzen-Jiji if not stronger."

"And now our last recruit," Orochimaru said with a smirk, while he was cocky about being strong, he knew that even he would have trouble fighting the old man despite him being retired. It was certainly a dream that was going to take a long time to come true, after all it takes an immense amount of work to be proclaimed a god of shinobi.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze," Naruto said as he sat up straight. "My likes consist of my friends and family, those that believe that I can become a great shinobi despite my disability, the glorious ramen." At that a spark appeared between Anko and him, their dango and ramen rivalry having started in the hospital. "As well as learning new ways to fight with Taijutsu and Bukijutsu. My dislikes are people who always try to put me and a few others down since we can not perform ninjutsu or genjutsu like they can, along with people being ostracized for something out of their control like a few shinobi and civilians around the village that dislike my little sister Benihime for holding the Kyuubi. My hobbies are training in different styles of taijutsu and bukijutsu, challenging Anko-chan in occasional contests on which food belongs to the gods and I have found that I like learning how to metal work." He got curious looks from his teammates about the metal working part and a small blush from Anko at being addressed with 'chan'. "Also, my dream for the future is to become a strong shinobi to prove all the ones that put me down wrong and show that even if you have a disability that you can be a great shinobi, as well as being able to protect all those precious to me; lastly, I dream of having a big family to call my own."

"That is an interesting dream, Naruto-kun." Orochimaru said as he looked at the Namikaze heir in interest, impressed at the raw show of determination shown by the boy.

"So what now?" Ryo asked as he raised his hand to get his sensei's attention. "I heard from Kaa-chan that there was usually a genin test administered by the Jounin sensei to see whether or not the Academy genin are truly ready to become shinobi."

"Normally we would do that," Orochimaru said as he looked over at the Sarutobi. "But since this is a special case due to Anko already being my pre-existing apprentice, the two of you do not need the test and are officially shinobi. Now I want all three of you to meet me at Training Ground 44 tomorrow morning at five AM. Understood?"

"Hai Sensei," the three spoke as they all stood and Orochimaru motioned for Naruto to stay behind while Anko left with Ryo, the older genin asking the purplette multiple questions to learn more about his new teammate and about what type of teacher Orochimaru was. "Naruto-kun," Orochimaru said, catching the blond's complete attention. "Are you sure you want to go through with the plan that we discussed last week?"

"Hai Orochimaru-sensei," The blond said as he looked up with determination in his eyes. "I am nearly done packing my belongings and should be done moving out of the Namikaze compound tonight."

Earlier in the week, several days before the Genin Exam, Naruto had approached the Hebi Sannin with a proposition that surprised the pale skinned man. The eldest Namikaze child had asked if he could move in with him when he became a genin much to Orochimaru's surprise. When asked for his reasoning about why he wanted to move out of his already nice home and into Orochimaru and his apprentice Anko's apartment, Naruto told him that he was getting tired of being ignored all of the time by his parents and godfather like he barely existed; plus the fact that it only felt like a boarding home to the boy, due to the fact that he had to go out to find Yoruichi, Gai, Tsunade and his adopted Jiji plus others all the time just to be able to train, having long since stopped asking his parents to be trained.

"That is fine then, I guess," The Sannin said as he looked down at the boy, still a little surprised to be approached in the first place, though he guessed it would make it easier for him as a sensei with only one student not living with him. Anko already lived with him anyways due to being an orphan when he adopted her as his apprentice. "Just bring your belongings when you are ready, Anko and I have already cleared out the third room for space."

Naruto nodded to the older man and turned around before walking off to complete his self-imposed task and Orochimaru disappeared in a flurry of leaves and snake scales, wondering what the boy would bring to the table next time to surprise the Snake using Sage.


Namikaze Mansion; Three Hours Later

Naruto sighed as he walked into his family's house, slightly tired from the small congratulations party the Uchiha Matriarch had thrown at the main Uchiha house, the woman extremely proud of her son, distant cousin and Naruto for all becoming genin at such a young age. Plus the fact that Naruto found out halfway through, that Mikoto had taken Shisui on as an apprentice like Anko had been to Orochimaru before he and Ryo joined them.

He slipped off his shoes at the door and walked into the living room to see Kushina moving about to prepare dinner for the time her husband arrived home, Benihime gurgling happily as she watched her mother making some ramen once she gave up trying to find the ingredients for something else.

"Hello, kaa-san where is tou-san?" Naruto asked as he and Benihime watched the woman finally come to a rest in front of a large pot of broth.

"Hmm? Oh its you Naruto-kun, he is at the office." Kushina said, not fully paying attention to his presence, making the Namikaze frown a little. "He has a meeting with the elders and clan heads again."

Sighing as she returned to her cooking, he shook his head as he got up while ruffling Benihime's red hair, already getting a pout from the year and couple months old baby soon to be toddler and left the room just as Kushina finished and set the food down on the table to wait for Minato to return home.

He didn't have much time to think right now anyways since today was a big day for him, what with moving in with Anko and Orochimaru.

As he walked to the stairs to begin packing the last of his belongings, Naruto stopped at a small table that sat next to the stairwell and looked at the family photo that they had taken a couple months ago. The picture had Minato and Kushina gathered happily around Benihime who had a wondrous look on her face, while Naruto stood off to the side… Alone.

Despite planning to move out today now that he was a proper genin and he had his team, he had not told his family. Mainly because he knew that if he told them, they would either brush it off or in a rare moment now a days, they would try their best to stop their eldest from flying the coup at such a young age.

He shook his head at that prospect, believing that his parents wouldn't even notice his absence until after he was already gone, he pushed his bedroom door open and he pulled out a couple storage scrolls the Sandaime had given him from beneath his bed and laid them out on the floor.

For the next twenty minutes Naruto worked on grabbing all of his remaining belongings from his soon-to-be former room as he placed his strategy books in a neat pile next to the last of his clothes.

The next things were the last of his normal kunai and shuriken that he'd use when he couldn't trace anything along with a spare kunai pouch and the two medical kits given to him by Shizune and Rin for a graduation gift, the green gem necklace from Tsunade wrapped around his neck.

Just as he finished placing the last of his belongings into the last scroll, he heard his door open and turned to see his mother walking in. "Hey Naru-chan, its dinnertime did you not hea…" The red haired woman stopped speaking when she looked up from the rag she was cleaning her hands with and noticed how bare Naruto's room was, with nothing remaining but the paint on the walls and the scrolls the young blond currently had stacked in the middle of the room.

"What are you doing…? Why is your room empty and what are you doing with those scrolls?" She asked as she looked at a slightly annoyed Naruto with a confused look on her face, trying to figure out why her son's room was bare, her call for him to come to dinner long forgotten.

Naruto stopped for a moment as he placed the last of his kunai into his leg pouch. "I'm moving out Kaa-san. I've decided that I am not going to be living here anymore." Kushina just looked at him in confusion as the Uzumaki Matriarch tried to make sense of what her only son was saying. Naruto sighed before he turned away and picked up the scrolls that held his belongings.

"I'm moving out," Naruto said again slightly annoyed at having to repeat himself when he saw her still standing there like a gaping fish and from the corner of his eye the boy saw Kushina go completely pale as her eyes widened in utter shock.

"B-But you can't move out," she said with confusion as she tried to come to grips with what her son was saying. "You are only eight and still in the Academy."

"Wrong," The blond said as he moved enough to let the woman notice the hitai-ite wrapped around his neck. "I became a genin two days ago and since I am a shinobi now, I am an adult."

Kushina just stared at him in shock, wondering why she hadn't noticed the headband until now. "B-bu-but when d-did y-y-you become a g-genin? H-ho-? W-where are you going to g-go?"

"I already asked Orochimaru-sensei if I could live with him and he said yes. He said it would work since he is now my Team's Jounin Sensei."

Once he finished picking up the scrolls, he dumped them into a backpack that sat at the door.

"I will come by sometime and visit you guys and Benihime-chan when I'm free," the Namikaze said before leaving a kiss on the stunned woman's cheek, before he made his way downstairs, leaving the frozen redhead standing in his doorway.

As Naruto stood back up from kissing Benihime's forehead in a form of goodbye and he made his way to the door, Naruto saw and felt golden chains wrap around his torso and hold him in place.

"You are not going anywhere young man. This is your home and you are going to stay here and explain to me and your father exactly why you are trying to leave and how you got that headband," Kushina said with a slightly crazed look on her now tear stained face and she pressed her fingers into the Hiraishin tattoo on the inside of her wrist that her husband had given her a few days after the Attack.

Naruto took a deep breath and moved his body a bit, only to notice her chains become even more constricting and he summoned a dagger called Rulebreaker that he had seen from his dreams that could negate magic. Once he held it in his grip, he stabbed one of the chain lengths and moved forward while Kushina watched in shock as her chains dissolved into golden particles. Naruto bolted towards the door while his mother was getting over her shock at her chains being defeated so easily and was about to open it when he heard his father's voice. "Kushina what happened, are you alright!?"

"Naruto's t-trying to leave!" Kushina cried as she got over her shock at the sound of the man's voice, "Help me get him to stay Minato-kun!"

"Naruto-chan," Minato said as he looked over at his son who had his hand on the doorknob and took a step forward. "Why are you doing this? You're still in the Academy and you can't leave your family yet, not until you are a genin yet."

Naruto just sighed as he stood there, before looking over at the man and woman that had neglected him since he lost his original chakra network in the Kyuubi Attack. "I am leaving because I have grown tired of being ignored daily by you and Kaa-san, Minato-san." The boy said as he grabbed the headband wrapped around his neck, "Also I am already a genin, I passed the Exam two days ago just like I told Kaa-san, I passed it with Itachi-kun and Shisui-kun. We already have our teams."

"Wha-" Minato said as he went over his memory of when he was signing off on all of the genin graduation forms and paled as he remembered signing off on one that had his son's name on it and he remembered Orochimaru's request to have his son and a Sarutobi be added to his apprentice so he could have a full team. "Oh no…"

"No, this is your home, I don't care if you are a genin already. You aren't leaving yet," Kushina snapped as she went to bind her son in more of her chains so she could drag him back to the living room, forgetting about how he had already broken out once. Benihime just stared at her family from where she had crawled into the room and watched the events unfold, even if she didn't understand them. Naruto sighed as he summoned Kanshou and Bakuya and batted her chains away from his body, making them jump slightly at the summoning of the black and white blades.

"Let him go, Kushina-chan," Minato said as he put a hand on his wife's shoulder, knowing that if he were willing to pull blades out in order to not stay that he was going with or without their consent. The two of them watched as Naruto pushed the oaken door open and walked out of their home.

Giving an anguished cry, the Uzumaki woman ran upstairs and into her son's bedroom, slamming the door behind her before she broke down and started crying her eyes out, while Minato stared numbly at the door he had just watched his eldest child walk out of.

After a short hour, his sigil was interrupted by Benihime as the year and half old child finally crawled to his leg and pulled on his pants. The Kage looked down and smiled at the baby, before picking her up in his arms and walking off to his and Kushina's room, their ramen dinner forgotten and cold on the table.


After ten minutes of walking and navigating the streets once Naruto left his home, the blond eventually found the Snake Sannin's apartment. It was a decent looking building with at least ten floors in it, with a large lobby that had a black marble floor. It even had a small chakra elevator that was activated via the steward's chakra when Naruto told him where he was going.

As soon as he arrived at the Sannin's apartment and he entered the blond saw a tired looking Anko laying on a slightly worn, grey couch. She looked over and grinned happily when she saw her new teammate/pranking buddy.

"Hey Orochimaru-sensei! Naruto-kun is here!" She shouted, not noticing that she had added kun to the boy's name.

"It's about time," The sannin said as he moved from his little chemical lab in the kitchen into the living room. "We've been expecting you Naruto-kun…"

"Sorry about that Orochimaru-sensei," The Namikaze said as he scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "My mother had some adverse effects to me leaving, I'm surprised she noticed me though."

The Sannin chuckled as he patted the boy's head, "I know we are going to have a good relationship, now aren't we Naruto-kun?" Naruto nodded and joined the two for a slightly cold dinner that had been sitting on the table, waiting for the blond to arrive. He set his stuff up inside his new room that was right next to Anko's while Orochimaru's was at the end of the hall. "Last thing before bed children," The sage of snakes said as he looked at the two genin, getting their direct attention. "We will all be meeting at Training ground forty-four tomorrow for our first mission, so get some sleep, I don't believe in D-ranks."

"Hai Orochimaru-sensei!"


The end result for the Soifon as a harem member poll.

Yes- 45 voters

No- 5 voters

It looks like it is landslide majority! ;3

Here is the final List of the Revised Harem for Naruto: Soifon, Mei Terumi, Hana Inuzuka, Anko Mitarashi, Tenten Higurashi, Yugao Uzuki, Rin Nohara and Tayuya Uzumaki.

I brought Tayuya back to the fold because someone begged me very nicely to, since they had liked the idea of Naruto x Tayuya in the Master of the Unlimited Blades.