A/N: Hey guys I'm back with a new chapter for you and I just wanted to let you know that I know the chapters are short and my two main reasons for that are: 1 This is my first story ever so I'm still getting used to it. And 2 these chapters are kind of leading up to the main part of the story which will be when they graduate from the academy and become genin, I estimate the main part will start in about two chapters or so. Well that's pretty much all I have to say so…
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Narration
"Speaking"
'Thinking'
"Demon speaking"
'Demon thinking'
It was two years after the kidnap attempt on Naruto and Hinata, as well as the last time Hinata heard from what she now knew was the Kyuubi. Today was the first day of the academy and Hinata was very nervous.
"Hinata are you almost ready?" Asked Hotaru from the kitchen followed by a few loud coughs.
"Almost I just have to brush my teeth," Called Hinata from her bathroom. "Are you ok? That sounded like a pretty bad cough"
"I'm fine, just get ready; you don't want to be late on the first day do you? Replied Hotaru while packing Hinata's lunch.
A few minutes later Hinata came out of the bathroom wearing a purple jacket that had a lighter purple trim over a plain white shirt. She wore blue pants and blue ninja sandals. Just as Hinata finished her breakfast there was a knock at the door.
Hiashi got up and walked over to the door and asked who it was. What he got in response was a very loud "MEEEEEE" He knew that voice, as he heard it many times before. He opened the door and told Naruto to come in.
"Good morning Hinata-chan," Naruto greeted with a smile "are you ready for the first day of school?" He asked her as she got up from her chair to put her dirty dishes in the sink.
"Good morning, y-yes I'm ready it's just th-that I'm a little nervous" Hinata replied while grabbing her lunch off the counter.
"There's nothing to worry about Hinata-chan, it'll be fun!" Naruto assured her while giving her his trademark smile that always seemed to cheer her up.
She smiled back at him and then realized the time "Naruto we've got to go or we'll be late!" Hinata exclaimed. She told her parents goodbye and they both walked outside to see an ANBU with a dog mask waiting for them, Naruto and Hinata both knew this ANBU and have come to see him as family, like an uncle.
"You kids ready to go?" He asked in a lazy tone "If you don't hurry you'll be late"
As soon as they heard that they bolted toward the academy as fast as their seven year old legs could go, Naruto had to slow down a little bit for Hinata but he didn't really mind.
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They arrived at the academy two minutes late, but luckily for them the instructor was running late as well, so they quickly took two seats right next to each other and waited for their sensei to arrive.
"Sorry I'm late class the Hokage wanted to see me for something," Said the instructor who looked like the average Konoha chuunin, he wore the same blue jumpsuit with the green flak jacket that most ninja chuunin and above wore. His hair was silver and mostly covered in a bandana style forehead protector. "Now then let's get started, I guess introductions come first. My name is Mizuki; I am ranked as a chuunin and I will be your current instructor. Now you guys go, just give me your name and one thing interesting about yourself," said Mizuki as he started looking around the room. "How about you go first pinky.
Then a pretty girl with pink hair stood up, a little embarrassed at being called pinky. "Hi, my name is Sakura Haruno; an interesting thing about me is that I want to be the first ninja in my family." Said the girl now known as Sakura.
"Ok next up will be you there with the bag of chips." the boy he called on got up and began introducing himself.
"My name is Choji Akamichi, MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH, and I want to try everything on every menu in every restaurant in Konoha, MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH." The pudgy boy said while still eating his chips.
"Okayyy that was very… interesting," Said Mizuki while surveying the room for who should go next."You there, Hyuga girl you're next."
"Umm o-ok," Said a very nervous Hinata. "H-hello, my name i-is Hinata H-Hyuga, there i-isn't really anything interesting about me so-" She was cut off as her friend next to her got up and started talking.
"Hinata is kind, smart, pretty, and a great person," Naruto started "but she is also shy and that gets in her way a lot, but she's been getting better!" Naruto finished, meanwhile Hinata was red as a tomato.
'Did he say I was pretty?' Hinata thought to herself 'what's this feeling? It feels… strange but, I like it'
The class stared at Naruto who just sat back down in his seat and smiled at Hinata, meanwhile she was trying to hide her face from the class.
"Well then, since you're so eager to speak, why don't you go next?" Said Mizuki as he gestured to Naruto, who then stood back up.
"My name is Naruto Namikaze," everyone gasped "I like ramen, especially from Ichiraku's, I am going to be the best Hokage ever, even better than my dad, I like to hang out with my best friend Hinata, and I'm scared of my mom…" He sat back down and everyone instantly had a thousand questions for him.
"What's it like being the Hokage's son?"
"Do you have your own personal servants that do whatever you want?"
These were just some of the many questions that came from the students, except for a few of them, like the kid with the duck-butt hairstyle, and the kid with the chips form earlier. What Naruto wasn't expecting to hear was…
"I'm scared of my mom too" came a dull voice from the back of the classroom
Naruto turned around and saw that the comment came from a sleepy looking kid in the back that had his hair done in a pony tail that made him look like a pineapple. Naruto smiled at the boy and turned around and focused his attention back to the instructor.
"Ok everyone that's enough back to introductions." And after a couple more minutes and reminders the class settled and continued with introductions
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After the introductions were over they started going over what supplies they would need for the school year and passed out some permission forms their parents needed to sign, and by the time all of this was done it was time for recess, and all the children went out into the playground to have lunch and play with their friends, or in Naruto and Hinata's case make some.
"Come on Hinata let's go talk to them" Said Naruto as he gestured to two kids. One was the boy who made the comment about being scared of his mother, the other was the boy named Choji who seemed to have an endless supply of chips at his disposal.
"Hi, I'm Naruto we were wondering if you would mind if we played with you guys" Asked Naruto in his usual happy tone.
"It would be too troublesome to say no and hurt your feelings so sure." Said the lazy boy who was known as Shikamaru.
"Don't mind him he's always like that, I'm Choji nice to meet you Naruto," Choji looked at Hinata "what was your name again?"
"H-Hinata, thank y-you for letting us p-play with y-you." Said Hinata with a smile.
"Hey Choji, Shikamaru, I brought someone that I want you guys to meet," they heard a voice call from behind them. They then identified the voice to be that of Ino Yamanaka and she had someone walking behind her but they couldn't see who it was. "Guys this is my friend Sakura I met her a couple months ago at the park, she's going to be in our group, okay?" said the bubbly blond as she stepped aside to reveal Sakura standing there, looking a little shy.
"Hello everyone it's nice to meet you and I hope we can all be friends" Said Sakura with a smile to the group; they didn't need to do any introductions as they were all in the same class.
"Hi Sakura I hope we can all be good friends too," said Choji as he turned toward Ino "Ino you remember Naruto and Hinata from class right?" Ino nodded in affirmative "Well they're also going to be hanging out with us."
"Cool, so what do you guys wanna do first?" asked Ino
Everyone then began to think of games that they could play, discarding the bad ones and debating the other ones.
Then Naruto looked up at everybody "How about tag!" Naruto suggested. Everyone smiled and agreed, a moment later many 'not-it's were heard but Choji said it last so he was it and immediately chased after Naruto who was running and laughing. Eventually Choji got Ino who hadn't been paying attention, Ino then tagged Sakura. While Sakura was running after Naruto she bumped into someone and knocked them both over.
"Ouch, sorry that was my fault I wasn't paying attention to where I was going." Sakura said as she got up from the ground, and looked to see who she bumped in to.
"Indeed it was your fault, but not completely I should have also been paying more close attention to my surroundings and a little bit less on bug watching." Said a boy wearing a jacket that covered most of his upper body to a point where you could only see his eyes which were even blocked by sunglasses, the boy also had a surprisingly deep voice for a seven year old.
"Umm… Ok well as an apology how about I offer you to come play with us?" She asked a little bit confused at what the boy said.
"Hmm an interesting proposal, offering me to run and sweat and get tired as retribution for knocking me over, a strange way of thinking but I suppose that making friends is a fairly important thing to do as a child. Very well I'll play with you."
Again Sakura was confused but she heard 'I'll play with you' so she smiled and said "Ok, then you're it" and ran off, seconds later he ran after her.
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After recess was over the children went back to class and learned some history, math, and science. After those lessons the bell rang signifying that it was time for everyone to go home.
Naruto and Hinata walked outside and almost instantly Naruto looked up toward the roof and saw Dog waiting for them to exit the building. When he noticed that Naruto saw him already he jumped down and landed in front of Hinata which scared her for a second but she relaxed when she realized who it was.
"How were you able to spot me so fast Naruto?" Asked the ANBU in the same dull tone as this morning.
"I dunno I can just feel it. It's not just you though, Mom, Dad, Hinata-chan, a lot of people actually." Naruto said wondering how weird it was that he was able to do this.
"Interesting," Stated Dog plainly as they walked away from the academy. "Oh and Hinata-san, your parents aren't going to be home so they've asked me to take you back to the Namikaze residence after school today."
"O-Ok, did my p-parents say where they were going?" Asked Hinata wondering why her mother didn't tell her about this in the morning.
"They didn't say anything to me, but Hokage-sama or Kushina-san might know"
"Oh, ok" replied Hinata as they continued toward Naruto's house.
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When they arrived at the house the only one home was Kushina, and she was making snacks for when Naruto and Hinata got there.
"Hey mom, were home!" Naruto called through the house.
"Ok go put your things in your room and then come into the living room so you can tell me about your day." Replied Kushina to her son and Hinata
When they got into the living room they saw two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and two glasses of milk. They proceeded to sit on the couch next to Kushina, and Hinata was the first one to speak up.
"Kushina-san, where are mother and father at? Hinata asked as she took a bite out of her sandwich.
"Oh they just went out to lunch with each other." Replied Kushina as she took a bite of her own PB&J.
"Oh ok, I was just wondering because they didn't tell me anything about it this morning."
"No problem, now how was your guy's first day?" Kushina asked with a squeal of excitement.
"Well…" began Naruto as he explained their long fun filled day to his mom. "… and I hope the rest of my academy days have just as much fun in them!" Said Naruto, finishing the story (and his sandwich).
END
A/N: well hope you guys like the chapter. This chapter was basically how most of the gang met each other. And to those of you that are thinking: "why isn't Iruka their teacher?" he will be just not for their first year at the academy. Guess what this chapter was longer than my last one ^_^
Well till next chapter this is Tyler36108 see you guys next time :)