TWS3

Chapter 3: Emotions-An Unteachable Subject

Hello again Internet and all who inhabit it. Again I do not own Naruto and any references I make and I will make references. Many. Thanks for those who left reviews and those who favorited and followed my story. I really appreciated it. And once again please leave reviews and suggest a pairing for my OC because I have so many possibilities and can't choose. I also value your opinion as my readers. Also my wind/water affinity may have upset some and let me explain. His water affinity is not very powerful; it will get a little bit more powerful later but not so much so. I really only wanted to do a few things with it but I won't reveal what they are. NO SPOILERS FOR YOU. And one last thing, I'm trying to stick to canon as much add possible, but come on the OC is from the real world so he will know everything that will happen. So of course he will change things. And more on with the chapter.

I woke up that morning with high hopes for that day. Boy was I wrong. After getting dressed and eating some breakfast I made my way to the academy. On the way there I saw some people looking at me with some not so desirable expressions.

'So they'll probably start treating me like they treat Naruto, just great. But I and Naruto will show them all up soon.' I thought to myself.

The rest of the walk there was thankfully uneventful as the academy came into view. Again I saw all the parents dropping off their children and some of the kids were playing on the play ground equipment. And of course the Uciha's fan girls were squealing, praising, and trying to win his attention. I swear I felt my ear drums bleeding. Then the saving voice of Iruka-sensei brought the choir of blood curdling shrieks to a halt. As we made our way into the building Naruto came up next to me.

"Hey Drake, want to sit by each other in class today?" He asked with hope in his eyes. "Sure," I replied" that would be great, but I warn you, if you sleep I'll hit you up side your head."

Naruto pouted at this obviously hoping to catch some z's during Irukas lesson. The class started off pretty normal with a role call and on to normal school subjects. Even in another world full of power people and other awesome things school is still as boring as ever. During this I spent my time memorizing the hand signs and trying to see if I could channel my chakra into my pencil. The farthest I got was lightly breaking the graphite tip. Baby steps I guess.

After about four hours of that Iruka announced that we would be going outside. 'Please, let it not be another sparing day, please.' I begged mentally. Turns out I got my wish.

"We will be doing exercises and instructed taijutsu reps." OK, not the worst thing that could happen. We made our way out and then stood in a couple of lines. "Alright students we will start with ten laps around the training grounds."

I almost exploded right there. I hate running and the first thing we do out here is run around this place. I took back what I said about his saving voice and cursed him mentally. We started to run and it wasn't as bad as I thought at first. I made it at least half before I started to feel pain in my sides, lungs, and gut. When we finished I held my arms above my head for air and suck in as much air as possible. Shikamaru and Choji joined me as we were obviously in the worst shape; however, Shikamaru was just lazy and didn't ever run. After that we did pushups, sit ups, crouches, punches, and kicks. There were easier for me, thankfully. Then Iruka and another teacher with white hair set us up for inducted taijutsu. Yep that's right Mizuki was there too. I wanted nothing more than to go and beat him right there, but that would back fire faster than one of the Flash's pick up lines. So I would just have to bide my time, for now.

They stated to pair us off girls with girls and boys with boys. I got paired with Naruto thankfully, Kiba with Shino, Choji and Shikamaru, and Sasuke was with some nobody who no one could remember his name. They had us throw some punches at each other and the receiver would then block the attacks as best they could. As Naruto and I spared we both noticed that I was stronger than Naruto but that he was faster than me. Every now and again I'd get a hit out on him and every so often he'd get me, but it was becoming boring as time went on. Then Iruka called for everyone to stop and head inside for the rest of class. We continued working on some more normal school stuff but then we moved to some ninja stuff. They had us try the Bushin no Jutsu, which several kids got right. When it was my turn I was really nervous. I performed the hand signs and focused my chakra, hoping for the best. Next thing I knew there was a puff of white smoke and standing next to me was a replica of me stand straight with a non-expressive look on its face. I was shocked that I actually got the jutsu right.

"Well done Drake, well done indeed." Stated Iruka, "That was well executed and it looks as if I could come to life at any moment, good job."

I was still in awe that I did it, I guess the practice I did was worth it. Next Naruto tried and his clone looked like it was the human embodiment of the plague. It was pale, sickly, and its eyes were stark white. Everyone laughed at the poor excuse of a clone. I knew however what the problem was and planned on changing that.

"JUST SHUT UP ALL OF YOU," yelled Naruto, "you all won't be laughing for long, because I'm going to be Hokage someday."

This just made more people laugh. Naruto just went back to his seat and pouted. I left bad for him and planned on talking to him after class. Iruka continued his lecture and eventually class finally ended.

I found Naruto back at the swings and made my way over to him. I sat in the seeing next to him and waited a couple of seconds.

"Hey Naruto I want you to know that..." "That what?" He interrupted. "That you feel bad about what happened in class? Well you don't have to, because it doesn't bother me at all."

He had a big smile on and I could tell that he was hurt even through his smiling goof ball mask that he wore. "I can tell you're lying Naruto." He was about to contradict me but then just hung his head in embarrassment. "Naruto its okay, being made fun if in class happens to a lot of people."

"Yeah but not like me."

"How do you mean?" I asked knowing full well what he meant.

"I have been laughed at, picked on, pushed around, left behind, stepped on, thrown away, and a lot more for some reason that I don't understand. Parents tell their kids to ignore me and every adult looks at me with a look of disgust that I can't explain."

He keeps going on about how he felt alone, scared, and unloved. How few people genially cared for his well being and safety. Iruka was one of them and was almost felt like a brother to him. Also the people at the Ramen Ichiraku treated him like any normal person. His story was one I knew but it was still hard to not shed a couple of tears at his story. He finished on the topic of how he wanted to know who his parents were. This was going to be a difficult one for me not to blab everything right out.

"Were they ashamed of me?" He asked. "Did they even want me? Did they even love me? And if they did love me where are they now? All I wish is that they would have left something to tell me why they did what they did. Sometimes I imagine that they were great shinobi and did great things for Konoha and protected everyone in the village." Little did he know but he just had it about spot on for the description of his parents.

"I also imagine that dad was on a spy mission and he found mom one night and once they meet, they fell in love but had to keep it a secret to protect each other." Again he wasn't far off. Although that one reminded me of a story back home involving a young man and a certain blue dragon. He went on about how he wished his parents could be with him now. He would see all the other kids get picked up by their moms and/or dads and see how happy they looked and see the love in their eyes. "Shikamaru thinks his mom is really scary and troublesome, but I think he still loves her regardless."

I chuckled to myself a little at how he wants parents so much and some kids think that having no parents would be the best thing to ever happen. But of course with every scenario like that the kids learn that having their parents is one of the greatest things ever. All he wanted was to have someone in his life to tell him they love him and appreciate his presence.

"So Naruto I heard you say that you wanted to be Hokage, why do you want Sarutobie's job? When I was meeting him he looked as though he had a lot of paper work to do." I said.

His attitude suddenly shifted from solemn and slightly depressed to energetic and happy. "I want to be Hokage so that everyone will acknowledge and finally respect me." He said with his big goofball smile bill boarded across his face.

I just looked at him and sighed. "I don't think that's a good reason Naruto."

"Why?"

He asked with a mixture of disappointment and sadness. "Well, because it's just selfish. What I can tell from the Hokage is that he does what he does for the sake of the entire village. What you're saying is that since people don't accept you hope that if you were to gain that position they would be forced to accept and respect you. But if you were to do that they still wouldn't respect you because you wouldn't have earned it."

After this the blond kid just looked sad rather than sad/angry. "What can I do then to earn their respect?"

"Well you don't need to give up on your dream to become Hokage, but instead of gaining that title for respect and acknowledgement you should maybe focus on what it means to be Hokage." To this he looked a little confused. "For example, can you think of any aspect of the current Hokage that is different for any other shinobi you know?" He pondered this a bit and then came to a conclusion.

"He's older than most of them."

SMACK

Face palm. Naruto just cocked his head to the side and looked at me like I was weird. Which I was. "No, I mean more along the lines of personality and his actions." And to this the blond pondered again. This time it took him a couple of minutes.

Finally he said, "He always is nice you people and checks up on me from time to time to see if I'm doing okay."

"Alright and why do you believe he does this?"

"Because he cares for me and worries about me?" He said this as if he was guessing showing he didn't understand it fully. I decided to explain it to him.

"Yes he does this cause he cares for you but I believe that he does it because he not only cares for you but also cares for all the other people in the village. Whether that be a street vender, ordinary citizen, or a shinobi. He wants to protect everyone because he cares for them and because he loves this village."

Naruto just sat there with an expression of awe and wonder. "That sounded incredible, I never knew that's how jiji felt about his job and the village.

" "I mean it's only a guess but an educated one at least."

We sat there for a couple more minutes as Naruto thought about the conversation. As we sat the sun was slowly descending into the horizon. It was a beautiful sight as the giant ball of burning gas changed from yellow to orange and with a hint of red at the bottom.

"Fine then," Naruto had finally spoken on what had just transpired, "I won't have my goal of be Hokage be about getting respect and acknowledgement from those people who mistreat me. From now on being Hokage will be a symbol of my strength that I've attained and the love that I have for this village and its people. DO YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE, I'M GOING TO BECOME STRONG ENOUGH TO BE HOKAGE SO THAT I CAN PROTECT YOU AND THIS VILLAGE OR MY NAME I'SNT NARUTO UZUMAKI!"

After rubbing my ears after that abuse I finally got my wits about me. "Okay, okay, just chill." Still thinking that my ear drums could start bleeding at any moment. "Man dude you yell any loader and you may give Sakura a run for her money."

"Hey, don't insult Sakura like that. She has an amazing voice."

SMACK. Next thing that Naruto felt was a strong hand to the back of his head. "OW!" Exclaimed the blond. "What was that for?"

"Many reasons; first for thinking that her voice amazing, second that you obviously deaf, blind, and clueless about her, and third was for yelling right in my ear."

"What do you mean I'm deaf, blind, and clueless about her?" Naruto questioned.

"I think I'll leave you to figure that out on your own." I said as I started to head off. Then I stopped suddenly and asked, "Naruto?"

"Yeah?" He replied.

"Do we have to go to the academy tomorrow?"

"No, there's no class on the weekends."

"Thanks, and that leads me to my next question. Do you want to train on Saturday from now on with me? That way we can both get stronger."

Naruto again lit up in anticipation. "Sure, that would be great." We then looked at where the sun was and noticed that it was late. "Well see you tomorrow then Drake." Said Naruto as he was about to speed off, but then stopped suddenly. "Wait, Drake which training ground do you want meet at?

"I then tried to remember which training grounds were where. "Um, ground 13 I guess." I replied not sure of myself.

"Okay, see you then." And with that he was off.

I made my way back to my apartment and went inside. There was no one there, which if I remembered correctly, Ibiki would only check up on me every other week or so. So that was always something to look forward to. I ate a light dinner and performed my exercise routine again. After that I was off to bed to think on today and the future.

Chapter End.

Well another one knocked out so again I hope you enjoyed it. There isn't any action, but I promise there will be some in the next. Again please leave a review and tell me what you think especially what pairing you want for my OC. Until next time, enjoy

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