'Naruto, do you know why you're here?' The hokage asked Naruto who was impatiently sitting on a chair that was way too large for him. Naruto looked at the hokage and smiled. He opened his mouth and then closed it again.

'Not really.' The young boy said while looking at his new shoes. He had needed new ones and only recently got enough money to buy new ones. They were orange and had a big black star on each of them.

'Naruto, you didn't do anything wrong but this is very important.' Naruto looked up. 'It seems that you somehow posses the ability to sense the future. You won't remember because you forgot everything as soon as you said them. And with them I mean the riddles.'

'What do you mean? Does it help people? Does it have to do with that strange man that came to visit me yesterday?' The hokage walked to the window and looked at the village below.

'I mean that you can tell the future but only in riddles. And yes it does help people. And who is that man that came to visit you yesterday?'

'Uhm I believe his name was…'

'What was his name?' The hokage asked impatiently.

'I don't remember but he looked really shady. It was really strange, the only thing he did was look at me and then poof.' Naruto told in his stupidly childish voice.

'Poof?'

'Yes he disappeared, like a ghost.' So not like the shunshin. It must have been Naruto's imagination.

'But you know, I think that being able to tell the future is cool. Bad things will happen in the future and the fact that I have been able to change it is good. Even if the future is set in stone I will break right through because I am Uzumaki Naruto and I am unpredictable.' Naruto said while nodding his head like a wise man.

'That's good. How have you been doing at the academy Naruto?'

'Horribly!' Still nodding his head.

'Well Naruto nothing is going to change if you don't practice and score well.'

'I know~. But…' Naruto grabbed his head, fingers scraping his scalp. He fell of his chair and looked like he was in great pain. He tried not to scream but it was not really working as small moans came from his mouth.

Then the screaming stopped. Naruto looked up at the hokage who was sitting next to Naruto at this moment. Naruto started laughing. That was new.

'Hey monkey, you know, the foxy boy and the rest are going to need to do great things. Preparation best start early or they're not going to make it.' Straight to the point as always. Naruto blinked and the eerie feeling was gone. He looked at his Jiji and smiled, like he knew what was going on.

'Naruto, why don't you go and make your homework, I need to think about a couple of things.' Naruto stood up and walked out of the room, he probably won't make his homework but he knew he should go.

'That wasn't like anything he said before.' This what went through the old man's mind. This riddle, if you could call it that, was different. It didn't call an event instead it gave advice to make things easier. It did say something about the future. The future wasn't going to be easy, preparations early on would greatly help Naruto's generation for things later to come. Maybe he should motivate some of Naruto's classmates, after all half the class were fangirls/fanboys, it could use some improvements. But what would motivate little kids to train to become killers, a scary speech might work but some will definitely drop out then. A goal, which they all have to get to, might work, if they don't get to that goal in a certain amount of time they would get punished. This will surely work right?

x.X.x

Uchiha Shisui has been taking care of Sasuke for almost a year now and he can definitely say that Sasuke is one little spoiled kid. Itachi spoiled that kid rotten and now Shisui had to deal with him. Sasuke asked daily to train, train and eat tomatoes. The last one started to disgust Shisui, why would you want to eat tomatoes every single day and the training part isn't too bad but the way Sasuke wants to train is. That boy pushes himself to the limit every single day, he might end up sick soon that's how hard he has been working.

Uchiha Sasuke has been living with Shisui for almost a year now and he can definitely say that Shisui is an idiot. Dancing while cleaning the house, burning soup and the worst thing he keeps on talking. Shisui never shuts up, how did Itachi deal with this? Shisui talked about everything and at the same time absolutely nothing. Thing would go from serious to hilarious (not that he thinks it is funny) and then back to serious again.

The Uchiha compound had gone from lively (not in a welcoming way) to dead silence. At night you could only see lights from one house, the rest is dark, too dark. Sasuke and Shisui rarely walk around in the compounds. They leave as soon as they can to get away from the dead. Rumors began to spread, ghosts, killers, and people that want the sharingan. The houses feel dead and haunted if you would walk around the houses you would get scared. No one dared to get inside. Plans are being made to destroy the place; after all it only brings nightmares to the people.

Uchiha Sasuke had returned to the academy two weeks after the incident. He grew to himself; he rarely talked and ignored his classmates. He wanted revenge, he wanted his family back, he wanted Shisui gone (even if Shisui is the only family left). He wanted to get stronger, he wanted to kill Itachi, and he wanted what he had lost.

His classmates tried to comfort him but they couldn't understand him and only ended up hurting him. Naruto would look at Sasuke with sadness but Sasuke ignored him. What did Naruto know? He had always been alone, Naruto couldn't understand him either, and no one could.

Uchiha Shisui was handed so many responsibilities, he could barely handle them. He was the oldest Uchiha and had to go to council meetings, he had to take care of Sasuke, he had to organize the funeral of his entire family, and he still had to do his ninja work. He had resigned from ANBU, so the stress wouldn't get too high. To deal with stress he started talking, more than he already did. It annoyed people easily but it was his way of dealing with things. Everyone had their own way, Kakashi would read his little orange books, Gai screamed and trained, Anko tortured people, and he talked. He talked about everything and at the same time nothing. The first weeks were the worst but then it got better, talking helps. He talks about metaphors, about life and about suffering but all behind a smiling mask.

But they're Uchiha's, they would continue on…

x.X.x

Uzumaki Naruto woke up on time today. He made sure he was ready on time and went to school on time, but why did he arrive early. When he arrived at the academy no one was there, it was empty. He decided to go and sit on the swing and wait for the others. It took about five minutes but then the teachers arrived, Iruka being one of them. Iruka was Naruto's favorite teacher after all he was nice. He was strict but in a good way, not like some of the other teachers.

'Iruka-sensei, good morning.' Naruto said to Iruka.

'Good morning to you to Naruto, you are unusually early today, why?' Naruto grinned and said:

'Well Hokage-Jiji is coming to class today and I don't wanna miss it.' How did Naruto know the hokage was coming today, he hadn't told anyone about it.

'How did you know that Naruto?' Naruto grinned again.

'I just had a feeling that would happen.' A feeling, why would you trust your feelings on this, he was right but that was a bit strange.

'Well you are right the hokage is coming today, he is going to tell something about ninjas and training.' Iruka explained to Naruto who only smiled.

'I know.'

'How?' Was the only thing that came out of Iruka's mouth. There was no way Naruto would know that.

'I just had a feeling.' Naruto winked and walked away into the classroom. Naruto is one big riddle.

x.X.x

Somewhere close to the village hidden in the clouds.

Tick… Tock… Tick… Tock…

The old ancient clock protected by both monks and ninja started ticking. This has never happened before and it shocked both the monks and the ninja. What could this mean? No one knows what the clock does and who made it but they could never destroy it and had been guarded as any special ancient artifact would. The clock possessed some power but no one knew what kind of power.

The ticking of the clock shocked the guardians; they had to tell the Raikage about this.

x.X.x

'Okay class, now it is time for our Hokage, he will tell you all a little story so you can go on and become an even better ninja.' Iruka told his class, who were surprisingly quiet right now. This is a good thing of course, they have never been this quiet before after all.

'Thank you Iruka, I will continue from this point with the lesson.' The hokage looked at the class who was looking at him and smiled. 'I'm sorry but I have to be a bit blunt with this.' What was he going to say?

'You kids don't seem to be motivated enough, a couple are excluded from this and those are: Sasuke, Shino, and Naruto, and maybe the Nara as well you can't motivate a Nara after all.' Was that supposed to insult Shikamaru? 'The rest just doesn't seem motivated enough. That's why I will give everyone a goal to reach before they become chunin. Every single one of you will choose an ability that contrasts but compliments your already existing fighting style. This could be something simple like medical ninjutsu or a weapon. Choose something that feels right. For a brainstorm Iruka will take you all to the library to look at different styles and ninjas to get some inspiration.' The hokage was finished with his speech and left the room. Iruka gathered the class and they all went to the library.

x.X.x

Kumogakure

'You say the clock started ticking. This might mean something. If something changes again please inform me.' Ay the Raikage said the monks that came to inform about the clock.

'Yes sir!' And they disappeared.

This might mean that something powerful is coming. Something has changed. The Raikage couldn't find out what was wrong, for now they would just have to observe.

x.X.x

The class had spread out in the library looking through the different books hoping to find something that suits them. Naruto was just walking around looking what other people were looking at. He saw Shikamaru looking at a book about seals (not the animal) and asked him some questions:

'Hey Shika, why are you looking at seals?' Naruto asked. Shikamaru looked up.

'Seals are like puzzles and those interest me. You found anything yet?' He asked Naruto.

'Nah, nothing they have is awesome enough for me.'

'You just don't want to read books, right?'

'Nah, I want to find out what fits me later on, with experience and all.'

'That's actually a pretty smart choice for someone like you.' Shikamaru looked at Naruto. 'What do you think the others will choose?'

'Hinata would probably do summoning or something like that, Sasuke was looking at genjutsu and Sakura would probably choose something related to the supernatural. Shino might go for a weapon.' Shikamaru looked at Naruto and nodded, it is possible but how can Naruto be so sure. Well Naruto has always been surprise so it might actually true.

The day went by quick and only three people knew what they wanted to do: Sasuke would go with genjutsu, Shikamaru went with seal and Hinata wanted to go for summons but she hasn't found a scroll yet.

x.X.x

Years went by quick. A couple of other people have decided on their abilities. Shino went with bojutsu, Ino chose torturing, and Sakura wanted something with voodoo dolls?

The graduation exam was the next day and Naruto still couldn't do the clone jutsu. He tried everything, more chakra, less chakra, more clones, less clones but nothing seemed to work. Because of this he decided to go to the hokage to ask for help with the jutsu. He opened the door and asked:

'Jiji, can you help me with the clone jutsu. I just can't get it right?' He then did the jutsu so the hokage could tell him what he did wrong. Next to him a dead looking white clone appeared.

'You're using too much chakra, little hero.' A voice said from the window, both the hokage and Naruto looked at the window only to find Shisui sitting there.

'Shisui! What are you doing here?' Naruto asked.

'Well I wanted to talk to mister Hokage about something but then I found you struggling with something and I just couldn't stop myself.' From what?

'So what do I have to do, it never works.' Naruto asked.

'Hey mister Hokage, can I teach the little hero the shadow cloning technique?' Shisui asked the hokage.

'Sure, it might work better for Naruto.' Shisui made the victory sign and put Naruto under one of his arms and then jumped out the window.

'I didn't just doom myself, right?' The hokage asked himself.

x.X.x

Day of the graduation exam.

'Okay Naruto I now want you to make three perfect clones.' Iruka asked Naruto in monotone.

'SHADOW CLONE TECHNIQUE' Three perfect copies of Naruto appeared next to him. Iruka gave a nod of approval and the smoke of the clones that dispelled filled the room. After the smoke cleared Iruka gave Naruto his headband.

'Congratulations Naruto on passing the graduation exam. I hadn't expected the stunt you just pulled but you did well. But you still need to find the ability you want, please search for one that fits you just right.' Iruka smiled and Naruto put on his headband. They both smiled and a happy aura could be felt radiating from them both.

'Ehem' Mizuki was there as well. Both of them had forgotten he was there. They smiled and Naruto left the room.

x.X.x

'Team seven is going to be… Naruto, Sasuke and… Sakura. Naruto would learn from his smarter teammates, Sakura would get more confidence and Sasuke will-'

'Become less emo. Goth it mister Hokage.' The hokage looked at Shisui wondering what Shisui would want from him.

'What is it Shisui?'

'Well~ I was hoping you could—'

SLAM

The door flew open to reveal Mizuki, who was clearly drunk.

'I'm gonna steal the f*****g scroll of seals.' He said in a half asleep voice. Clearly drunk. Shisui shun shinned behind Mizuki and gave him a chop in the neck knocking the man out.

'Stupid mosquitos.' Really Shisui a mosquito? 'As I was saying. Can I become team 7 sensei?'

x.X.x

'I'm really happy to see so many faces here. You all are on your way to become great and grand ninjas. Team 1…

Sasuke dosed off but still listened, as his name was yet to come. On the outside he seemed very sure of himself but on the inside he was screaming and praying. 'Please no Naruto, please no Sakura, please no Shisui.' This was what was currently going through his mind.

'Team 7 is Uchiha Sasuke…' Okay so his team, no Naruto please. 'Uzumaki Naruto' damn it, please no Sakura 'Haruno Sakura' really. His teacher is gonna be Shisui isn't it. The hokage seems to hate him, putting him on a team with Naruto and Sakura. Shisui would only be natural.

'And your teacher will be…' Just say Shisui already, I am done for. 'Hatake Kakashi.'

'It's not Shisui!' Sasuke screamed throughout the room and everyone was looking at him like he was an alien.