Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto


"Ok class, I am Umino Iruka and this is Nana Mizuki," a brown haired man stood in front of the new students. "We will be your instructors while you are in the Academy."

Naruto tried to act like he was sleeping during the long speech that followed. In reality, he was listening to every word. Seeing a boy with his hair in pineapple shaped pony tail napping, Naruto tried to copy him.

"Hey, you two sleeping," Iruka had finally realized that Naruto and the boy snoozing. "Tell me your names and what I was saying."

The pineapple hair sighed, "Nara Shikamaru. You were talking about how if we worked hard, we will get stronger, but if we study hard, we can succeed at almost everything."

"Good," Iruka was kind of shocked that Shikamaru had been listening. "Now you."

"I am Uzumaki Naruto!" Naruto had stood up and was striking a pose, causing the class to sweat drop. "Even though I have no idea what you told us, I plan on working hard in order to get stronger and studying hard to succeed!"

The reaction was mixed. Some students were whispering that their parents had told them to stay away from him while the rest were still sweat dropping. Mizuki was glaring at Naruto with murderous look.

Iruka had recovered from his shock, "How can you not listen to what I said and yet tell me exactly what I was talking about?"

Naruto's only answer was a shrug.

"Moving on," Iruka had decided that he would not waste any more time on the blond. "Here are the text books for this year."

Naruto started faking sleep again, Iruka chose to ignore this.

"Mommy! I like school!"

"How was your day?"

Naruto ignored parents and their children as he left the school yard. Only a few noticed the glares the blond received as he passed.

"Hey!"

Naruto turned around, seeing Shikamaru behind him with a boy eating potato chips, "What?"

"You want to watch some clouds with us?"

Naruto smiled, "Sorry. I already promised the old man I'd tell him about my first day. Maybe some other time."

Shikamaru nodded, "How about tomorrow?"

"Sure."

Naruto, waved good bye and raced to the Hokage tower.

Shikamaru stood watching the blond go, 'He's hiding something, but what?'

"And tomorrow I am going cloud watching with Nara Shikamaru!" Naruto had just told her day to the Hokage.

Happy that she finally got a friend who was her age, Sarutobi chuckled, "That's good. The Nara family is known as the family of lazy geniuses, they are one of the few clans that do not hate you."

"So I won't get Shikamaru in trouble with his family?" Naruto was excited, most people her age would be punished for talking nicely to her.

"Yes."

Naruto started dancing around the office. She was doing pretty well until she tripped over a chair.

Sarutobi chuckled, "Careful, you still have to meet Kakashi today."

Naruto's eyes widened, "I'm late to meet Kakashi!"

When the Hokage opened his eyes after wincing do to her scream, it was too late, she was already gone.

Kakashi had arrived on time for once, much to his disappointment Naruto was late. The pounding of feet alerted him to Naruto's presence.

"Sorry, my meeting with the old man ran late."

Kakashi eye smiled at the boy, "So how did it go?"

"Pretty well, I might have made a friend," Naruto didn't want to repeat the whole story.

Kakashi nodded, "As a surprise, I will teach you how to do this high level technique the fourth created."

Excitement showed on the boy's face, the fourth was his hero.

"I can't show you it due to the fact that you have to manipulate chakra and the only part that was used so far was shaping it, but I know the steps to learn it. The technique is called Rasengan. You start by trying to manipulate chakra into a water balloon to pop it."

Kakashi tossed Naruto a water balloon. Remembering what his sensei had said, funneled chakra into the balloon, creating a whirlpool within. The whirlpool started spreading outward, the pressure caused the balloon to pop.

Kakashi, who had snuck behind a tree to read, heard the pop, 'That was fast!'

"Kakashi! What's next?" Naruto yelled.

Coming out of his hiding spot, Kakashi eye smiled, "The next step is harder; you have to break this balloon."

From behind his back, Kakashi brought out another balloon. The difference between it and the previous one were obvious, this one was made of a stronger material and contained only air. When Naruto tried to pop it the same way as the last one, it flattened but wouldn't pop. Trying it again brought the same results.

"Why won't it pop?" Naruto growled at it.

Kakashi laughed, "I told you it was harder."

"Not this much!"

Kakashi rubbed the back of his head, "Well, since I never did this, I didn't know. The good news is, that you have something to work on while you're not busy for the next month or so."

"Month or so?"

"It should take you that long. I have to go now though, I have a mission that will last until the end of the week, so this is the perfect homework assignment."

Naruto groaned, "You won't be able to help me any then."

"I have not been helping you," Kakashi eye smiled at his student. "I only told you the steps to learn the Rasengan."

Naruto was deep in thought, trying to figure out how to pop the balloon in his hand, not noticing that Kakashi had left.

'Who can I ask to help without revealing how strong I really am to the village,' Naruto was thinking hard about it until he realized the perfect person.

"And why do you want to know that?" Shikamaru asked.

Naruto had thought of an answer the night before, "It's for a prank that I am planning on doing."

Shikamaru and Choji shuddered; they both did not want to know what he was planned to do with a balloon popped by chakra in a prank. Choji, the boy who was with Shikamaru the day before, was trying to hide his worry by eating even more potato chips.

Sighing, Shikamaru started to explain a way that should work, "Troublesome. To start you should…"

Kakashi stared as Naruto popped the balloon for the second time in front of him.

"So how did you figure this out?" Kakashi inquired.

Naruto acted smug, "I asked Nara Shikamaru about it using the guise of a prank idea."

Kakashi sweat dropped.

"I guess I should now tell you the final step."

Handing Naruto yet another balloon.

Kakashi began the final instructions, "Now instead of trying to pop the balloon, you need to channel chakra similar to the way you did in the previous step except without popping it."

"How will that work?"

Kakashi sighed, "The compressed ball of chakra increases the power of the second step to incredible proportions. Even though the Rasengan is not finished, the premature stage is still powerful enough to be considered an A ranked technique."

"Ah, I get it now," Naruto was about to start working on it when he remembered something. "Kakashi, since you are teaching me this, you have to help me figure out a prank to use the second step in."

Kakashi sweat dropped. The blond was smiling at him evilly.

Sarutobi sighed; there were two furious Academy teachers in his office.

"He created a balloon that was filled with pepper and popped it in class!" a red eyed Mizuki yelled. "He should be expelled!"

"No, his pranking talents can be a valuable asset to our forces if used correctly," the Hokage tried to make an excuse for his adopted grandchild.

Iruka didn't want Naruto to be expelled because he secretly viewed Naruto as a younger brother, tried to reason with the Third, "Why not punish him by cleaning the classroom?"

"That is a great idea, Iruka," Sarutobi was secretly glad that the teacher had not agreed with Mizuki. "Now, how did Naruto prevent himself from being affected by the pepper again?"

Iruka explained that Naruto had covered his eyes with a new pair of goggles. Though they had appeared to be pretty old, they still kept the itchy dust from his sensitive eyes.

The Hokage chuckled after sending the duo out of his office. Naruto had told Sarutobi the day before about hi plan, but the result was still surprising. Also, he was impressed at the speed in which Naruto had gotten to the third step in Rasengan, not even the fourth had taken that little time in reaching the final step.

'Naruto will be a great ninja, Minato.'


Thanks for the reviews! Here are the results of the polls:

HakuNaru 0

ShikaNaru 6

GaraaNaru 2

Kakashi 4

Iruka 0

Kyuubi 2

So, the pairing will be a ShikaNaru and Kakashi is the fatherly figure. I still plan on Haku and Zabuza surviving, but they will play an important role in the story.

I just want to say thanks again for the reviews and I still am welcoming names for the clinic owner because I am thinking about making him have minor part that will require a name.