Key:
"Speaking"
'Thought'
"Mystical being speaking"
'Mystical being thought or jutsu'
XxXxX=Scene break
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'It's another one of those days' Naruto thought as he entered the classroom. He looked up and found the entire classroom talking amongst themselves as he made his way to the back of the classroom. It has been a week since he joined the academy and he has made no friends. Sure, he thought about it but he was so busy training with Itachi that he didn't have time; that and nobody in the class seemed to like him anyways.
As he walked up the stairs to his seat he look amongst the soon-to-be ninja in the class that seem to not completely hate his guts. First was one Shino Aburame. He seemed to show no emotion what so ever but also showed the look of understanding in his eyes that is not shared by many people in the class. Second was Shikamaru Nara. Even though he looked stupid and got bad grades Naruto knew Shikamaru's brain was always moving and thinking on something thus making a genius; he was just to lazy. Third was Choji Akimichi. Naruto noticed that Shikamaru and Choji where best as they left the school grounds with each other almost everyday. Choji seemed to be extremely caring to all close friends, which is a great trait to have since that is not seen in this village vary much. Fourth was Hinata Hyuga. She was the shy type that was nice to everyone she was around except when he waked around her. She would just turn red then fall asleep 'Am I really that boring?' thought Naruto as slid into his seat at the back of the class.
"Alright class lets begin the class," Iruka said to the class though seemed to not hear him. "WILL EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Iruka yelled, as his head seemed to expand. The class became dead silent after that as everyone's thoughts where of how scary Iruka-sensei could be except for Naruto's. 'How did he do that jutsu without using handsigns? Hmm… I'll have to ask Itachi-sensei about it this afternoon.' Naruto thought as he began for a plentiful sleep as Iruka commenced on with the class all the while wondering what to through at Naruto next.
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The bell rang for lunch as everyone got up to go to lunch. Naruto walked down the stairs to the front of the class and stopped placing a staple on his desk as he kept walking toward the door.
"Nice throw Iruka-sensei" Naruto called back over his shoulder smiling. His relations with teacher have gotten tighter over the last few days. Iruka seemed to be a person you could to if you where need. Hopefully he would get to Iruka better of the course of the rest of the year.
"Thanks I've training," Iruka yelled back smiling as Naruto waved back over his shoulder.
As Naruto walked out of the building and out onto the roof where he normally went to for lunch to get away from people there other people there. 'Shit, people have found the one quiet spot in the whole area. Well, better go searching for another spot…' Naruto thought as he turned to leave only to hear "Alright give me all your money!"
Naruto stopped and returned to his hiding spot next to the already open door. "And don't give me the excuse that you don't have any because you three are in three of the most famous clan's in the village!" said the bigger one of the group of five. 'Must be some bullies trying to get some quick cash' Naruto thought as he watched from his hiding spot.
"But we wont be able to eat tomorrow!" Choji yelled.
"I don't care give me the money!" the leader yelled.
"No!" Choji yelled as Shikamaru and Shino seemed to agree but all three seemed scared.
"Well let's hope your parents know first aid," the leader said smiling evilly as he walked up to punch Choji in the face. Choji squeezed his eyes shut he awaited the pain to smash into his face but it never came. Choji slowly opened his eyes to find a hand twitching in pain in front of his face and a hand held tightly onto the wrist of said hand.
"You know it's not a vary good idea to assault a son of a clan head. Three at that matter making your trouble three times as worse," Naruto said in an emotionless voice as he tightened his grip a little more. At the moment Naruto guessed he broke the guys wrist.
"Who the hell are you to tell me who I can and can and can't beat the shit out of for money?" the leader spit out as Naruto let go of the boys wrist rather harshly.
"Only an onlooker that can rat you out to a teacher, or worse the clan heads," Naruto said with an ever so slightly smile at their reactions. They gulped at the thought of being punished by not one, but three clan heads!
"Fine we will leave them alone if you promise to not tell anybody," the leader said with scared eyes. Naruto loved physiological warfare.
"Deal now leave before I do worse than break your wrist," Naruto said in his emotionless voice. The five bodies tripped over each other running from the person threatening to rat them out.
Naruto watched as they ran out of sight until he felt a poke on his shoulder. Remembering that three other people where still up here he turned around to the three behind him.
"Thanks for the rescue," Choji said smiling.
"I'm glad you stopped that guy from punching my friend in the face," Shikamaru said kindly.
"Its no problem," Naruto smiled his goofy smile.
'Hmm… he was emotionless a couple seconds ago. Oh well, maybe just his way of treating mean people' thought Shikamaru and Shino.
"Well my name in Naruto Uzumaki what's yours?" Naruto asked already knowing their names but he still needed to keep his stupid mask up. Man did he hate acting stupid!
"Oh sorry about that, my name is Choji Akimichi and that is Shikamaru Nara and Shino Aburame," Choji said pointing to each as he said their names.
"Neat! Well I'm glad I was able to stop that guy from punching you or you would be hurting right now," Naruto said smiling.
"Yeah thanks again for that. Do you want to eat lunch with us?" Choji asked with reassuring looks that seemed to agree with him coming from Shikamaru and Shino.
"Sure! I never really ate with anybody before so this would be new for me," Naruto said a little excited that he got some new friends.
"Neat. So where is your lunch?" Shikamaru asked.
"Um… well I don't have any," Naruto said frowning a little.
"I got some you could have," Shino said simply.
"Thanks," Naruto said as he was crying on the inside. This was the first time anybody, besides Itachi, has offered anything to him.
"So how did you move so fast?" Shikamaru asked curious of how Naruto got from one point to another so quickly.
"I've been running from the villagers my entire life so I have to be quick to get away from them," Naruto said thinking acting stupid would get them off the subject.
"Why do you run from them?" Shino asked. Choji looked at Naruto curiously while sticking more food into his mouth.
"I have know idea, they just don't like me for some reason," Naruto lied.
XxXxX-Flashback
It was the night that Naruto was almost beaten to death and Naruto was seen laying his bed with a red aura around him.
Naruto quickly opened his eyes to see that he was in a large sewer with large red pipes coming out of a large to a small blue light far down the hall. Said pipes where moving pipes red chakra from the cage and to the blue light. There was a low growl being emitted from the cage and directed toward him.
Naruto turned toward the cage and stared into the intense black that shrouded the inside of the cage. It seemed whatever the caged housed was staring at him with great distrust.
"What is in this cage?" Naruto said more to himself than anything else, but apparently whatever was in the cage heard him and laughed at the comment. It was an evil laugh that only a demon could muster. Wait a second… it all adds up! His birthday, his dad, the villagers; it all adds up!
"Kyuubi! What the hell!" Naruto yelled. All the Kyuubi did in response was laugh. That laugh is going to get annoying.
"Well it's about time the kit figured it out," Kyuubi said.
"Yeah, I'm kind of punching myself for that," Naruto said.
"Do you know the reason why you are here?" Kyuubi asked.
"Was it because you finally got your lazy ass up," Naruto said smirking knowing that was not the answer.
"No, you mortal!" Kyuubi roared, "One was because you already stole 30% of my chakra and that I have noticed that not all humans are evil".
Naruto looked on in shock and curiosity. What was the Kyuubi talking about?
Kyuubi sighed "look I have seen what the villagers of this wretched place has done to you, but what I noticed even more was that you managed to keep your sanity after all this. You have earned my respect so be expecting a little something from me later on," Kyuubi said smiling a little.
Naruto stood there in awe that he has earned the respect of the most powerful demon that has ever existed. But what gift was the demon talking about?
"What are you talking about a 'little something'?" Naruto asked.
"You will see," Kyuubi chuckled "So until then good bye and good luck".
Naruto was knocked out of his mindscape to be met by a worried Itachi standing by his bed. Must have been night on lookout. Everyone else would be off in the red district.
"Naruto-kun are you ok? What happened?" Itachi said with a worried face.
"I met the Kyuubi in my head and he was surprised I held my sanity after so many beatings the villagers gave me so I earned his respect," Naruto sitting up holding his head. Naruto decided to not tell him about the little surprise just yet. He will keep it his little secret for now.
"Alright then something you don't hear everyday," Itachi said sitting on the side of his bed.
"Yeah, you're telling me. Well I'm going back to bed. Thanks for the concern Itachi-sensei," Naruto said smiling.
"No problem Naruto-kun," Itachi said returning the smile before leaving in a swirl of leaves.
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"That's weird," Choji said putting up a thinking pose.
"Yes vary strange," Shino thought out loud.
Shikamaru just sat there looking at Naruto before shrugging and lying on his back and looking into the clouds. They finished their lunch with small talk with Naruto asking most of the questions. Naruto got a lot about their clans out of the talking that took place.
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As the four entered the classroom with each other Iruka smiled. 'So Naruto finally made some friends his own age' Iruka thought.
"All right class everyone take their seats," Iruka said as the class surprisingly got quiet and was ready to learn. Except for Naruto, who already knew all the things here, promptly put his head on his desk and slept.
As the day wore on nothing surprisingly hit Naruto in head until the bell rang. Someone poked him in the back signaling that he had to wake up. Naruto slowly picked up his head and looked at who poked him. It was Shikamaru and he was alone.
"Where are Shino and Choji?" Naruto asked. This was weird, Shikamaru always left with Choji or Shino.
"I thought I would wake you up and ask you to walk home with me," Shikamaru said in his lazy voice.
Naruto brightened "Sure if you want to. You would be the first," Naruto said smiling.
As they walked out the pair decided to exploring the different training fields that are located around the area until entered one that had two weird people wearing green spandexes, a Hyuga, and female.
"HELLO MY YOUTHFUL COMPAINONS," the taller spandex wearing man yelled, "What are you doing here!?"
"We where just exploring until we came across-," Naruto began.
"AH, EXPLORERS! THEIR YOUTHFULNESS BURNS BRIGHTLY!" the smaller green spandex wearing one said.
"LEE!"
"GUY-SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"GUY-SENSEI!"
Then they developed each other in a large bear hug. While this was going on the duo thought it would be better to ask the other two who they where.
Naruto walked up to the other two still in a sweat drop position that they where in thirty seconds ago. "Hey guys my name Naruto Uzumaki and this is my friend Shikamaru Nara," Naruto said.
This seemed to break them of their stares when the female of the group answered, "Oh, sorry about them they do this all the time. My name is Tenten, his name Neji, and the smaller one Rock Lee while the bigger one is known as Might Guy," Tenten said sweetly.
"Nice to meet you guys," Shikamaru said as the green beasts where done hugging and where walking up to the group.
"So this is your training ground?" Naruto asked.
"Yup, this is it. These places are where you are going to be training at when you graduate from the academy," Guy replied looking out over the clearing.
"Yeah, it's going to be fun being on a genin," Shikamaru said also looking over the area.
Naruto looked up at the sky noticing that that he was almost late for training with Itachi. "Oh shit, look at the time I got to run! Nice to meet you guys. See you all around!" Naruto yelled as he ran away until he was out of sight leaving the group to look at him strangely. Once out of sight he disappeared in a swirl of leaves to appear in their secret training ground.
"So did you have fun?" Itachi asked as he got up from a tree.
"Yes, I made new friends with some of the kids at the academy!" Naruto said smiling warming up.
"That's great. It's always nice to have friends around the village. So are you ready?" Itachi asked getting into fighting stance.
"As I'll ever be," Naruto said smirking mirroring his fighting stance.
The two ran at each other meeting in the center of the field with the sound of kunai hitting kunai.
XxXxX-One year later
It has been a year since Naruto made his new friends. His new friends where Hinata, Neji, Choji, Lee, Tenten, Shikamaru, Shino, Guy, Kurenai, Kakashi, and Asuma. Most of the older ninja he met was when he went into the Hokage's office and the Hokage was talking to them. They must have all known about the Kyuubi because they all treated him with respect. The only thing was they didn't know he knew about the demon either. His bonds with them all have grown strong to the point where he would not die protecting them as they would him.
Everyone's strength has grown as well. Naruto and Itachi where furthering their sharingan as well as Itachi training Naruto how to use one handed hang seals while Choji, Shino, and Shikamaru learned their lessons on the roof that they needed to get strong so that wouldn't happen again. Everybody that he has met has been getting stronger.
It was a normal day after class and Naruto and Itachi where standing in the clearing getting ready to train but something was off about Itachi.
"Itachi-sensei, are you feeling ok?" Naruto said with a concerned look on his face.
Itachi looked at the ground for a second before the area around them glowed a green color signaling a silence jutsu. "Naruto-kun what I'm about to tell you can't tell anybody. Alright?" Itachi said in the most serious voice Naruto has heard from Itachi in a long time.
"I promise," Naruto said in a concerned voice.
Itachi grinned on the inside. If he could trust anyone it would be Naruto. "Ok I was ordered by the Hokage to do a secret mission that sounds horrible but after being explained I know the reason behind it," Itachi said still a little disgusted a what he had to do.
"Yes what is it?" Naruto said scared at what he might hear.
"I was ordered to kill the entire Uchiha Clan," Itachi said in an icy tone.
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A/N: Hope you guys like it! I tried to make Naruto have a better social life so I entered some of the other ninja into the story. ^^