A/n_ this should be a long chapter because it going to be about the academy years now onto the story. Sorry for the late update I should have another just as long Monday. That will probably be my regular update day for this story.
Chapter 4: The Academy
Naruto woke up the next morning, excited as ever for his first day at the Academy. He got up, took a shower brushed his teeth and headed downstairs for breakfast. "Took you long enough, little brother"Sasuke said when he stepped into the dining room "Hey, only by like ten minutes" he retorted.
"Sit down and eat, you're gonna be late," Mikoto said. "Ok," they said and sat down. After they were finished eating, they gathered the things that they would need for their first day, said goodbye to their parents and left for the academy.
They walked for about fifteen minutes before they arrived at the gate into the Uchiha Compound. As soon as they left the gate, naruto noticed it. It was the villagers; they stared at him with eyes that were filled with hate. It made him want to break down and cry, but then he remembered what his dad told him the day before. So he kept his head held high, he just hoped it wouldn't be like that every day. They walked for a little while and talked lightly about how they thought their day was going to be like.
They noticed that there were shops lining the street; shops for everything from ninja tools to clothes, there were even shops for food. Naruto smelled some food coming from a little one on the end called Ichiraku's Ramen. "Hey Sasuke, lets go there for lunch" Naruto said while pointing to the small shop. "Ok, it sure smells good," his brother replied.
They walked some more and found themselves at the academy. They stood at the gate for a few minutes, admiring the grandeur of it, before walking in. they found their teacher Iruka Umino, and he gave naruto a puzzled look. The look on his face changed, when naruto said hello, to a smile and he walked them both into the classroom.
"good morning class, today we have two new students, naruto and sasuke uchiha, say hello," Iruka said to the class. The class said hello, and the twins went to pick their seats. Iruka told them to sit wherever they wanted, so Naruto chose a seat beside who he thought was a really pretty girl.
She had kind of short bluish-black hair and wore a really loose tan hoodie and blue ninja shorts. Sasuke looked around the room again before sitting down by himself in the back. Iruka announced to the class that they would be learning about the Leaf's history. He launched into a huge lecture about how the Leaf was built.
Every once in a while he would ask a question and the class would answer. Naruto found out when Iruka called roll that the girl he was sitting be side's name was Hinata, but he was so busy taking notes that he couldn't look at her, he didn't even notice that she was looking at and blushing when class let out for lunch.
For lunch they went to the place they were talking about that morning. When they walked in the owner greeted them and asked what they were having. Naruto looked at the menu and decided on miso pork ramen, Sasuke chose chicken ramen. When they got their food, Naruto took one bite and knew that he was going to be coming here often. "What's your name old man," he asked the owner. "It's Teuchi, and this is Ayame" he said while pointing to the young girl standing beside him. "Well I'm going to come here every day for lunch, it's so good" Naruto said and finished eating. When they were done eating they said their goodbyes and headed back to class.
The rest of the day was pretty boring. Iruka would go over something in the textbook and then quiz them on it while it was still fresh in their minds. It was never hard, though Naruto thought that Iruka was a very good teacher and listened to everything he said. At the end of class Iruka announced that they would be learning about the different kinds of weapons in a ninja's arsenal, the next day, and then dismissed the class.
As the rest of the students filed out of the classroom Iruka called Naruto back. "Hey Naruto," He said "How come I've never seen you before today?" "I've never left the Uchiha compound before today, so that is probably why." Naruto said politely. "But why?" Iruka asked. "Dad wanted to protect me from the villagers" Naruto explained, "So he didn't let me leave the compound until I was old enough to understand why they hated me." "Oh" Iruka said dumbly before Naruto walked out the door and headed home.
When Naruto got home he went straight upstairs to his room and closed the door. He sat on his bed and entered his mindscape to continue his conversation from the night before with Minabi. "Hello kit, how was your first day?" Minabi asked when Naruto arrived inside his sewer like mindscape. "It was good; I got to sit by a really pretty girl." Naruto said. "Oh really, well that's good" Minabi said. "Now, I know what you are going to ask and I can't tell you anything about the jutsu that you are going to learn, but your father did tell me that I can teach you one fire style jutsu of my choice. So I'm going to teach you a jutsu that hasn't been seen for about a century. It is called the Fire style: Flame dragon bomb and we need to be in an empty training ground really far away from any buildings, so go ask your father about it."
Naruto ran downstairs and asked his dad about a training ground. "I do know of one, it's called training ground 44, but you will have to wait until Friday because of school and you will have to take Itachi and Sasuke with you because it's dangerous in there. I will tell them that you are going camping." His dad said.
The rest of the week flew by. On Tuesday they learned about weapons like shuriken, kunai, and a bunch of other kinds. On Wednesday they learned about Ninjutsu and Iruka was impressed that Naruto and Sasuke knew a few jutsu and asked if they would spar in front of the class and of course they said yes.
They went to their respective positions and bowed. Minabi had told Naruto about the first part of the flame dragon bomb, which was just a simple fire dragon, the night before. So Naruto did Shadow Clone Jutsu to distract him. The 3 clones attacked Sasuke while Naruto continued doing hand signs. "Fire Style: Fire Dragon Jutsu" Naruto yelled before releasing an adult sized dragon from his mouth. Sasuke dodged and did a Phoenix Flower Jutsu with only two hand signs, Naruto dodged and was about to do one more jutsu, but Iruka interrupted him. "That's enough boys" he said. "That was a great match you two, some Chuunin can't even do some of those jutsu, you know, you should be proud. Alright class, that was ninjutsu, and tomorrow we will be learning about genjutsu, or illusions" He said.
They did indeed learn about genjutsu, but since no one knew anything about it, they had to learn the hard performed a low-level Hell Viewing technique on them and the room was filled with screams. Iruka didn't want the other teachers to worry, so he undid the genjutsu right before class ended.
It was Friday finally. Naruto went straight to school after breakfast. They learned about taijutsu, or hand to hand combat. Iruka told them to get into pairs and spar. Naruto flattened his opponent, a chunky boy by the name of Choji. Naruto helped him up and told him it was a good fight, they spent the rest of the class talking together with a lazy boy named Shikamaru.
After class they raced home to get their camping gear and Itachi. When they got their gear, Itachi lead them to the training ground. It took them about a half a day to get to the training ground. When they arrived at the overgrown forest of a cage, the twins exclaimed "Wow this place is huge!" "Yeah I know, this is training ground 44, but some people call it the forest of death, though" Itachi told them "why?" they asked curiously. "You'll see why when we get inside, come on lets go" Itachi said and opened the nearest gate into the forest.
They followed him inside the sinister forest. They walked until it started getting dark, which was about a mile in. They fought wild animals the whole way there. Itachi told them to setup camp and go gather firewood. When they finished setting up camp, and had a fire going, they sat down by the fire and waited while Itachi got food. "Brother, why do the villagers look at you like they hate you" Sasuke asked.
A/n- That is where I'm going to end this chapter because my sis is getting tired of typing, god I love a good cliffhanger. Hope you guys stay tuned for my next chapter.
