Disclaimer: Only Natsumi and the plot are mine everything else belongs to the respective owners.
Thank you to those who reviewed and for the input. At least some people read the random ramblings of the lowly author. I have decided that Naruto shall be six heading on seven and that while the Uchiha Massacre is going to happen there shall be some changes to that so that the pairings are still available. The massacre occurred when Sasuke was about seven so the Massacre should occur in this chapter or the next one. Again I asked for suggestions about pairings.
The choices are:
Itachi
Shisui
Shino
Haku
Kankuro
If I get three more suggestions I will put up a poll. Remember no Sasuke, Naruto, or anyone who is nine years older or younger than her. There is no harem pairings in this particular fic.
The Next Day in the Classroom
Naruto was dreading going to class today. Yesterday he had found out the teacher was sabotaging his education. When he tried to show his sister what he learned she had looked ready to murder someone, but Naruto could only feel sad when she explained. She had left him with Anko-nee before stomping off to the Hokage Tower.
He wasn't sure what she said but now he had Iruka-sensei to teach him. He seemed really nice and he had passed Anko-nee and Natsumi's tests. Not only that, but he didn't look at him with those cold eyes like everyone else. He was really happy he had met someone else that treated him a person. Kohaku-sensei always made him leave and Naraku-sensei had apparently taught him wrong.
He opened the door and quickly scurried to his seat avoiding the other students and attempting to hide himself from the sensei's wrath. The others filed in and took their seats. Sasuke-teme ended up sitting in front of him and the girls all began freaking out. When the bell rang for class to begin a strange man walked in looking extremely irritated.
"Hello class. Kohaku and Naraku are out and are going to be so for the rest of the year and so the Hokage as punishment for my attitude problem on a mission has assigned me to be your teacher until further notice. My name is Asuma Sarutobi. You may call me Asuma-sensei." When he finished a bunch of students raised their hands and Naruto could have sworn he heard laughter coming from the roof. "Yes I am related to the Hokage. He is my dad. No I do not get special treatment for being his son if anything he is harder on me. No I will not tell you what it is like being the Hokage's son and no I will not tell you anything about what he is like at home."
Asuma-sensei turned to the board. "I believe you are learning about the history of the past hokages. The first Hokage was Hashirama Senju…"
Eventually lunch rolled around and everyone went outside to eat. Naruto happily pulled out the lunch Natsumi had made him and was about to dig in. Unfortunately some of the kids decided to be mean and take it. "Well looky here the dobe has such a pretty lunch. Did your mommy make it for you? Oh wait," the bullies began to laugh. "You don't have a mommy. You don't need this lunch." Naruto wanted to do something, but every time he tied the teacher took the bullies side and gave him detention. Looks like another lunch wasn't going to be eaten by him. He didn't really expect what happened next though.
POV CHANGE
Asuma had been watching the children and had seen what was going on. He had walked up and plucked the lunch from the head bullies hand. "Now what have we here? Three little monkeys that have detention, I see." The bullies and Naruto looked startled. "What are you talking about sensei? That's my lunch. He took it earlier. He does it all the time," the head bully said smiling innocently while the others nodded. "That is a lie. I watched you take his lunch and I heard you make fun of him. For lying to my face all three of you have detention for a week. Congratulations on your accomplishment. Your other teachers may have allowed such behavior, but I am not them."
After lunch Asuma decided to address the issue. He had the three bullies tied up in front of the class. "Okay everyone I'm sure you recognize your classmates. These three have done something I really dislike and that is actually against school rules. These three are bullies and decided it would be fun to take Naruto's lunch from him. Then they lied to me about it. I will not nor will I ever permit such behavior in those I teach." One of the students raised their hand. "Asuma-sensei, they told us that we could do whatever we wanted to him because he wasn't human and encouraged us doing stuff like that."
Asuma was livid and if the killing intent that Kakashi was leaking was any indication he was too. "That is a lie. Naruto is as human as you and I and you are to dismiss any one who says otherwise. People are cruel and often look for people to place their anger and fear on others. Naruto had the unfortunate circumstance to be born on the day the nine tails attack and for those that lost loved ones he is a constant living reminder of what they lost. They use him as a way to take out the feelings they have for the fox since they cannot on the actual fox due to the fourth killing it." That wasn't technically a lie and didn't break his dad's law. He was probably going to get a lecture though.
The children looked to Naruto and the kid himself seemed surprised. "They hate me because of my birthday? I can't help the day I was born, believe it!" Some of the other kids nodded along with that. "My mommy says stuff about him being a monster. Is she doing that too?" Asuma sighed. "Did your mom lose someone close to her?" The kid nodded. "Then she is likely reminded about that person and she doesn't want to be sad so she turns that into anger. Then she takes it out on Naruto. While it is not right there is nothing that can be done to change that attitude."
"Let's change the subject though. No bullying. Now you three get to your seats and pay attention in class. Chakra is the elemental energy that…"
Asuma was more than ready for that day to be over and he had an all new respect for the poor chunin that decided to teach here. "He's not going to be too happy with you toeing the line about his law." Asuma looked up to see Kakashi reading his book in front of the desk. Asuma rested his head on his hand. "It's not like it is any secret when his birthday is or the day of the nine tail's attack. I just told a liable excuse for their treatment of him. He can't fault me for that. It's not really like he can give me a worse punishment than teaching the brats. Even gate duty would be better than this."
"Let's go to his office and explain before someone goes complaining," Kakashi said. Asuma groaned.
TBC…
Well now the kids have a 'reason' for Naruto's treatment. The next chapter should be more about Natsumi and her class since she is about to graduate. (She is eleven and they graduate at twelve usually.) Who should I have her sensei be? Please read and review.
