there will be time skips, I won't change big events, perhaps the out comes but it will stay pretty damn close.
Carry on! - Jackie
Two years later…
Naruto was lead to the academy yard by his mom who gave him a hug and a kiss on his forehead. "have fun ok Gaki?" he smiled and took off meeting up with Sasuke and Hinata at the doorway. Itachi stood next to her as well as Ko. Their first little play date two years ago was almost a disaster. When the Hyuuga and Uchiha saw each other, but after watching Naruto play with both so easily and the latter not even caring who it was they were playing with, made them relax a bit. Hinata was bolder and outgoing, Naruto was a bit shy, and would occasionally stutter, and Sasuke was the one who came up with all the schemes they would pull, the master mind behind the new alliance of Uzumaki, Uchiha, and Hyuuga. now they all entered the academy and sat next to each other in the front row.
Sasuke had helped Naruto calm his energetic side enough to actually learn from Anko when she would teach them secrets they wouldn't learn till they were almost graduates. Naruto was definitely a happier kid. He had two best friends and a few other close friends they had made along the way. Naruto would cloud gaze with Shikamaru, and eat BBQ with Choji. Kiba helped Sasuke and Naruto pull pranks around the village, though he tried one alone once and ended up having to clean the hokage mountain.
The three best friends sat waiting for their new sensei to arrive and talked quietly. Naruto and Hinata decided to grow out their hair, Hinata's was a lot longer, but Naruto's was thicker. They all wore similar ninja clothing, except Sasuke's had the Uchiha symbol on the back of all of his clothing. Naruto had a tight black shirt with a mesh under armor that came down to his elbows. Black shorts with leg warmers that were tight against his calves so they looked like long tube socks. And chakra weights under his leg and wrist warmers. Hinata wore a dark blue long sleeve shirt with the end of the sleeve in a hoop to go over her middle finger to keep them in place, matching wrist warmers that also hid chakra weights. She wore long pants that gripped her nicely with her leg warmers in place. She didn't wear a jacket to hide herself anymore. In fact being friend with two boys gave her the will to keep up with the boys and not let them get stronger without her right behind them. And her jacket was just always in the way. Her hair was past her shoulders and always tied up into a tight ponytail with her bangs free to frame her face. Sasuke decided to wear black as well, his shirt was sleeveless, showing off his arms up to his shoulders, but were wrapped to his wrists. Where again he had the chakra weights hidden by warmers. He also wore shorts but kept his legs free of wraps, until the warmers on his knees. He kept his hair relatively short, but was slowly catching up to Naruto's in length of his bangs.
the three were rudely disturbed when the girls squealed at Naruto and Sasuke. They both hid their faces in their hands while Hinata laughed at them. "Hinata stop crowding Naruto!" "Hinata don't laugh at Sasuke!" all she could do was laugh harder. She sat between the two boys and only stuck out her tongue at the girls and said something the boys groaned at. "you girls are just jealous because I get both boys and you can't even get one to speak nicely to you! My boys, back off!" she was hanging around Anko too much.
With the sound of breaking glass the class looked up to see a banner supported by kunai knives was presented to them. "my name is Anko and I will be your teacher for the first two years!" Naruto paled. Anko saw his speechless face and decided to embarrass him. "oh good my son is in this class! Naruto honey you forgot to bring foxy!" she reached into her pouch and pulled out the stuffed fox toy. Naruto hit his head on the desk, his face bright red and the girls who liked Naruto went crazy. "it's so cute!" "I didn't know Naruto liked foxes!" they began to bicker back and forth until Anko threw a Kunai to the back of the class causing them all to stop, as it was right above a girl with pink hair, one of Sasuke's fan girls, head. "now, as Ninja I will expect you to be able to see when your weakness is obvious. Naruto and Sasuke are a lot of you girl's weakness. If you were to be placed on the same team later." The girls' squealed. "I SAID IF! You would be more of a liability than help! You could cause the enemy to get to them and kill them before you even had a chance to realize it. Crushes are the first things that need to remain a secret on a mission! You show no emotion!" the class calmed and looked to their new sensei. Those of the few who had been sent back for a year liked how this teacher was different. Didn't sugar coat it and went right to the point.
the break for lunch came swift for all the kids, Anko never skipped things and would explain it to them roughly and harshly. Those who didn't pay attention would find a Kunai knife on their desk, close enough to their head or other body parts to make them jump.
the trio sat by the tree where the rope swing was and ate their boxed lunches in peace. A few girls would try and come talk to the boys but they were ignored. Naruto would repeat himself saying "we will talk to you and be friends w-when you start behaving like r-real ninjas." His slight stutter made his fan girls squeal and giggle. Hinata was quiet most of the time when they would approach until she was brought into the question, then her voice became like a lions as she voiced her opinion in the matter.
Anko watched from the window as the kids ate together and would ignore all the girls that came to them. When Naruto first rumored to be the best friend of Sasuke Uchiha, the girls began to notice him. And when they saw how good he was with ninja training they began to faun over him. At first Naruto liked the attention, but when they began to follow him home or talk down about Hinata he began to ignore the girls. In an act of defiance he would hold Hinata's hand when they went places, causing the girls to get depressed, Hinata didn't mind so much. In fact Anko could tell of her little crush on Naruto, but being a ninja who also trained with Anko, she hid it very well.
Anko watched the kids until it was almost time to come in, when she turned Itachi stood in the doorway. "what's wrong Itachi?" he looked at her with somber eyes, they looked as though the Uchiha who show no emotions was about to cry. "can I talk to you please?" Anko checked the clock then nodded. He closed the sliding door then did a hand sign to make sure no one could hear in. "the council has ordered me to execute the entire Uchiha clan." Anko gasped and clenched her fists. "I have to do this and become a missing Ninja, but I cannot do this to Sasuke… please Anko, tonight take Sasuke over for a sleepover. I will forge a document from father saying if anything were to happen to them Sasuke would go into your care. Tell him I went on a mission heard of the murders and decided it would be safer for me to run and for him to stay with you. I can't have my younger brother hate me, and I know he won't understand… so I wrote him this letter explaining why I had to do it, and that I didn't want to, but I had no choice or they would kill him. I know that's not what they'd do if I said no. but maybe then he will understand. My father was planning a coup, and I told the council. Anko… what should I do?" he had tears in his eyes now. Anko was the one person he could tell anything too. Anko placed a hand on his shoulder. "you have to do what they say, I know you don't have the heart to kill so many innocent people. But you know what your father is planning is wrong. I will raise Sasuke to still hold respect and love for his brother and village. I went down the path of revenge once." She touched her neck subconsciously. "and I regret it every day. Now I have a son… no… sons in the three of you. And I know it would never have happened unless I did it. So I understand this will not be easy. He will still need to learn the clan ways. So tonight before you have to proceed, get any and all information you can for Sasuke to learn from." Itachi smiled softly feeling better than before. "thank you Anko-chan. Please, make sure he does not go down that path. I will send word by code when I have settled somewhere. Maybe he can visit me one day." With a slight bow, then a quick glance around to make sure no one saw, he gave her a hug. For it would be a long time before he could get one again.
Once the kids were back in their seats, Anko began to teach again. Naruto was eager to help with demonstrations, as well as the other two. Naruto had the task of henge, since he knew it well to go buy things in the stores, he did so, but just not in the personality he used for shopping. There were some civilian raised children here who would tell their parents. Sasuke and Hinata then helped others who were struggling with basic henge like hair color, or eye color.
when the class was dismissed the trio looked at Anko and smirked. They had all agreed at the start of lunch they would all race to the training ground on the Namakazi estate. They all went to a separate window; Anko was not allowed to use any jutsu, nothing but straight speed. They wanted to release their weights to see how fast they had gotten over the course of three days of the new weight, and then increase them when they got there to what they needed. "three…two…" Anko smiled and jumped before saying one. They all yelled at her following at a brisk pace. To any civilian it looked like four shadows danced across the sky.
