The first day at the academy, Naruto had arrive an hour before he needed to. Because he was early, he sat on the swing in front of the building. He heard barking and a loud yell follows, the barking was moving closer. "Hey Akamaru what's gotten into you?" The small dog stops in front of Naruto and growls. "Knock it off Akamaru, leave him alone."

Akamaru barks again and the boy opens his mouth, but Naruto speaks up first. "So what if I smell like a fox. I train in the forest and the smell was bound to stick to my clothes."

The boy's jaw dropped. "You can understand him?"

"Yeah, kind of. I hear both the barking and the words behind it." Naruto noticed the red marks on his cheeks. "You're an Inuzuka right?"

"Yeah, my name's Kiba. Who are you and how can you understand Akamaru?"

"My name's Naruto Uzumaki, and I not sure how I can understand him."

"Uzumaki huh, I don't think I've heard that name before. Sorry about Akamaru."

"It's alright, I've had worse greetings. He's just being cautious."

"Why are you here by yourself?"

"I'm starting at the academy today, and I'm by myself because I'm an orphan. How about you?"

"I'm also start at the academy, but my mom's on a mission and my sister watching the animals at my family's clinic."

"I not sure what time it is, but I'm pretty sure that they're not opening for a little while."

"Not for another hour or so. You're not planning on sitting out here till then are you?"

"I lose track of time really easily, if I leave, I'll probably be late." 'Probably picked that up for Kakashi, next I'll be reading those Icha Icha books and wearing a mask.'

"At least come and get something to eat, there's a ramen place not far from here."

"I know that place, Ichiraku Ramen Bar. The old man there's really nice and the food's great."

"I like the food too, but I like the girl more."

"Ayame, she's twice our age."

"So, that isn't that big of a gap. That only makes her twelve."

"True. Good luck with that though, her dad may be a cook, but I think he would kill you before letting you date her."

Kiba just snorted and picked up Akamaru. He placed the dog on his head and started off towards the ramen stand.

The two of them stepped under the flap and sat down. Teuchi come out and smiled. "This is a first Naruto, normally you don't come in until after eleven."

"I'm going to the academy today. I'm just going to get three bowls of miso."

"Okay, and you?"

"A large beef."

"Alright, they'll be out in a bit."

"Thanks old man."

"Can't keep my best customer waiting now can I?"

"I don't come here that often."

"Maybe not, but when you do, you eat quite a bit." The voice came from behind them and a scarred man wearing a chunin vest came in.

"Hey Iruka, going to join us?"

"Sorry, but I can't today. I have to go get ready for class, in fact as of today, I'm your teacher."

"That's great, but don't lecture us too much, it's our first day."

"You know me Naruto."

"Which is why I said it." Kiba started laughing and Iruka waved as he left. Ayame came out of the kitchen and set down their orders. "Thanks Ayame." Both boys were practically drooling, Naruto over the food and Kiba as he watch Ayame walk away. "Kiba, if you don't eat it soon, it's gonna get cold.

Kiba looked over at Naruto, who was starting his second bowl. His jaw dropped. "What the hell, do you inhale it?"

"I got three bowls, I don't want it to get cold so I eat it fast."

"It was gone in less than a minute. I know it's noodles but still, I surprise you don't choke."

"You got a large and if you want to be to class on time, you'd better start." Kiba broke apart the chopsticks, and started eating.

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They made their way back toward the academy a half hour later. "You're a bottomless pit Naruto, I think you could keep up with a Akimichi in an eating contest."

"I seen some of them eating at the BBQ place downtown, and there's no way in hell I could. And I do have limits, it's just that I rarely have enough money to reach them."

When the arrived, they saw two girls standing outside, one with blonde hair the other with pink. "Did you hear, there's an Uchiha in our class."

Kiba groaned. "What so special about them, their no better than anyone else." Naruto looked bored.

"You don't know anything!" The blonde girl looked pissed and it made Kiba shudder, Naruto had seen worse by being around Anko.

"Actually girls, the Inuzuka is right, the only difference between us and everyone else is the Sharingan."

The four children turned to see Itachi and a smaller version of him walking up to them. "Hi Itachi."

"It's nice to see you're all right Naruto. This is my younger brother Sasuke, he's in your class."

"It's nice to meet you all." (A/N Obviously this is before the massacre, so Sasuke isn't an asshole yet.)

The girls were both blushing and were speechless. Kiba just grunted and went inside. Naruto walked over and held out his hand, which Sasuke shook. "It's nice to meet you too Sasuke." A group of Hyugas walked past them, all of them glared at Naruto. They stood around a young Hyuga girl. 'Must be the heiress.' Naruto shrugged off their glares and also went inside.

Their first day consisted of learning what chakra was and how to mold it using hand signs. They didn't get to try any of it until a week later. They were called up one at a time to concentrate their chakra. Most of them did well, but as it was the first time they attempted it, some people didn't. They went by name, so Naruto went after Sasuke

'Why does his chakra feel familiar?' Unknown to him, deep within his mind a pair of blood red eyes snapped open.

'MANDARA!' Naruto winced in pain and put a hand on his head.

Iruka saw this and walked up to him. "You all right Naruto?"

"I'll be fine, it's just a headache." Iruka smiled and walked away, but kept a watchful eye on him.

Naruto stood in front with his hands together and his eyes were closed. His chakra started swirling around him slowly increasing in speed, making the sound of a strong wind. It was the best display after Sakura, the pink haired girl he had met the first day. She concentrated her chakra in her hand and made it glow. "That's enough, good job Naruto." He smiled and made his way back to his seat barely opening his eyes.

Kiba looked a little worried when he made it there. "Naruto, you all right, your eyes have barely opened since you started the exercise."

"It's nothing, I just used a bit too much chakra. I'll be fine it a minute or two." Naruto didn't like lying to Kiba, but he knew he had to, at least for now. He felt that his eyes weren't drawing on chakra anymore and check his reflection in the window to be sure. His eyes were back to normal and he looked towards the front of the classroom again.

"All right class, that's it for today. Tomorrow we'll be doing more reading on uses for chakra. Dismissed." The kid all stood up and made their way towards the door.

"I'll see you tomorrow Kiba. I'm gonna go home, I'm still kind of tired from earlier."

"All right, see ya tomorrow Naruto." Naruto was planning on going the long way home so it was less likely to run into someone, but decided to go to the Hokage Monument first.

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Naruto sat at the top of the Hokage Monument looking over the village. "Itachi, are you here?"

"Yes I am Naruto."

"Is there anyone else around?"

"No one from ANBU and no one else as far as I can tell."

"Good, because I want to ask you something that I was warned not to in public."

"What is it Naruto?"

"I was wondering how to increase the number of tomoes in the Sharingan."

"Time and experience. The more you use it the faster it develops. I would suggest that until you can put a genjutsu over them to train them in the woods trying to follow the movements of animals. Even when you can use genjutsu, you need to be careful about using it in public, because most chunin can sense genjutsu and higher ranks and other Uchihas can see through them."

"I understand, thank you Itachi. Why isn't Sasuke able to use the Sharingan yet?"

"It normally manifest when the user is in a situation where it could prevent them for dying. Sasuke has never experienced something like that."

"That's kind of creepy."

Itachi laughed. "Yeah, but under those situations, it comes in handy. Now that you have it though, all you have to do is concentrate chakra to your eyes to turn it on."

"Thanks again Itachi."

"It's your birth right, as much as it is mine." Itachi placed a hand on Naruto's head before leaving in a swirl of leaves.

Naruto continued to look over the village and then he heard footsteps coming up behind him. He turned around to see two Sharingan eyes, but they didn't belong to Itachi. The man swung his fist at Naruto and the force behind it was so intense that it spun him around.

The spinning made him step forward, but he went the wrong way and toppled over the side of the monument. The last thing he saw before falling unconscious, was one of the craved heads coming up to meet him.

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Naruto opened his eyes to see the hospital ceiling that he was starting to get use to. He sat up and saw that Kakashi was asleep in the chair next to him, orange book in hand. 'What the hell happened? My whole body hurts.'

The door came bursting in and Anko and the Hokage came in. "Holy shit he's alive!" The yelling woke Kakashi up.

"What happened?"

"You fell fifty some feet, it's a miracle you're even alive!" 'If you can call it that.' The Hokage and Anko thought the same thing as Kakashi spoke.

"Who the hell did this to him? I'm going to find him and rip his worthless throat out!"

"I'm afraid you're too late Anko, the attacker, Shisui Uchiha, was found drowned two days ago, the day after the incident." Anko let out a string of curses and excused herself from the room.

'I've been here for three days. Iruka-sensei not going to be happy, I missed a lot of classes.' The Hokage was whispering to Kakashi, whose eye was wide. "Hey old man, would you mind if I left?"

"That's fine Naruto, but there is one thing that I have to tell you before you go." Naruto looked straight at him. "Kakashi has informed me that you know who your parents were and that he impressed how important it is that you not tell anyone." Naruto nodded. "I'm sorry to say, but it's even more important after what happened last night."

"What do you mean, what happened?"

"The entire Uchiha clan, except you and Sasuke, was slaughtered, by Itachi."

"It's not true, Itachi would never do that!"

"Sasuke witnessed him kill their parents."

"That doesn't mean anything. What about that henge thing we learned about, doesn't that make people look like other people?"

"Yes it does, but it can't copy the effects of kekkei genkai like the Sharingan, he used it to make Sasuke fall asleep while he escaped."

"Why… why would he do that?"

"We don't know. Naruto, you said you were going to ask Itachi about how to increased the number of tomoes, did you?" Naruto nodded slowly. "Good, no one outside of the clan knew and once Sasuke gets his, if he doesn't already know, someone will have to tell him."

"He'll question where the knowledge came from."

"If you aren't ready to tell him by then, we can say there was a scroll entrusted to me."

"Thanks old man. Can I leave?" The Hokage nodded and Naruto walked out the door.

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After leaving the hospital, Naruto made his way to the academy, even though he knew that class had already been dismissed, he wanted to talk with Iruka. He walked through the deserted halls and made his way to where he had class. He slid open the door and Iruka was inside, he had a surprised look on his face, but he was also happy.

"Naruto, I glad to see you're alright."

"Yeah, not sure how, but I'm fine. Sorry I missed class."

"It's alright, you had a good reason, and you weren't the only one. Sasuke wasn't here today either, but that's understandable after what he went through. In fact, I'd be worried if he didn't take off a few days."

"Families shouldn't turn on each other, no matter what the reason."

"I agree with you Naruto, but there will always be those who resent members of their family, most of the time it's due to the difference in ability."

"Iruka-sensei, could you tell me what I missed?"

"We're working on Bunshin, but you shouldn't have too much trouble catching up."

"I think I'm going to go home, see ya tomorrow Iruka-sensei."

"Good bye Naruto, try to be on time to class tomorrow."

Naruto laughed. "I'll try, but I think I spent to much time with Kakashi to do that."

"Just be sure you're here, Kiba's been moping everyday you weren't here. Between him and Akamaru, it's a wonder anyone could hear me to learn anything." Naruto smiled and waved as he left.

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The next morning, Naruto decided that he would go early like he did on the first day, even though his body didn't agree with the decision. He sat on the branch that the swing was hanging from, with his back against the trunk.

He watched as the kids started arriving, the first being Sakura and her blonde 'friend' Ino. The Hyuga heiress, Hinata, and her normal escort, who left when she went inside, followed shortly after.

Shino walked through the door looking at some insect on his arm, with the lazy Shikamaru and Choji behind him. Akamaru came running up to the tree and started barking, Kiba was running after him.

"Where the hell have you been man, it's been so dull."

"Sorry, I was in the hospital. Sasuke's not here today."

"Great, now his fangirls won't shut up."

Naruto smiled. "Iruka said that you wouldn't when I was gone."

"Shut up, I was worried about you, they'll be worried he's found someone other than one of them."

"We'll just have to put up with it, he probably won't be in for a few days."

"So you know why?"

"Yeah, but it's not my place to say." Kiba just snorted and picked up Akamaru. Naruto jump out of the tree and walked with him inside.

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Henge no Jutsu- Transformation Technique

Bunshin no Jutsu- Clone (Copy, doppelganger, replication etc.) Technique