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Chapter 4Konoha Ninja Academy
Naruto sighed as he entered the empty classroom. He had been to anxious and despite his morning workout that Logan had drilled into him from his first days at the Institute, he was still early.
He pulled out a deck of cards and shuffled them deciding to play some solitaire. Tousan named me Solitaire as my codename, and I liked it. Naruto was halfway into a third game when Iruka showed up.
"Good morning Umino-san." Naruto said and watched as the Chunin jumped and spun about looking at him.
"Oh…um, good morning Naruto."
He's scared. Naruto realized. "Sorry if I startled you, I got here early." Naruto explained as he picked up and shuffled his cards.
Iruka looked at the shade covered eyes. He'd seen this young man take the measure of three jonin and killed one of them.
Lord Hokage says he no longer contains the Fox. Iruka thought and he remembered the council meeting as he was acting as the Hokage's secretary. The disbelief and the shouts it must be a trick on the Fox's part.
Hiashi Hyuga using his Byakugan on the boy and reporting that the chakra was there, but the seal was totally gone.
Shaking his head he looked at his blond student. "Are you ready for the exam Naruto?" he asked.
"Hai. Thank you for giving me a general idea on what's to be expected Umino-san."
"You can call me Iruka and in class you can call me Iruka-sensei." Iruka said. he had spent most of Sunday thinking about the blond. He admitted he like many prejudged the boy and now he was finding his original thoughts were false. This whole village was blinded by hatred, and this boy suffered.
He'd watched Naruto with his quarterstaff fight Asuma off and was impressed with the younger man's accuracy with kunai and shuriken. His test with Kurenai was not what he expected and the Genjutsu mistress was shocked when Naruto said they didn't work on him due to his kekkei genkai being on all the time and finding her no matter what she tried.
Iruka remembered the blue on black eyes with the slit. He calls it the atomgun. But I wonder how many will think it's the influence of the Kyuubi. Iruka thought then shook his head.
He already said the fox mutated it and made it permanent. He studied Naruto who had gone back to his game.
Those cards don't look like much, but in Naruto's hands each card can be as explosive as hundreds of tags.
He had been there in the afternoon on Saturday as the Hokage talked to Naruto about his parents, his birth parents and then about his adopted parents.
Remy and Marie Lebeau. Outsiders see him as a wonderful young man and accepted him as he was. His birth village tried to kill him and despised him for matters outside his control since his birth.
Iruka had vowed he would get to know Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze Lebeau.
The first bell of the morning sounded and Iruka could hear the student entering the building. Several entered his room and took their seats, none of them noticing the blond at the back of the room.
It was then that he realized that Naruto was sitting in someone's seat. And then he realized whose he groaned. She's going to be loud. He thought, but decided not to say anything and see how events unfolded.
Most of the class was here. Sasuke at his seat in the front row by the window, Sakura's seat empty still…he went thru the mental checklist and sighed, as the warning bell sounded.
Ino and Sakura. This is not going to be pretty. Iruka noticed that Shikamaru had noticed the new student in the classroom, but hadn't said anything. Probably cause it would be too troublesome. Iruka smiled at how well he knew several students.
He saw Shino in his corner in the back row on the opposite side had noticed Naruto as well.
Well they aren't all lacking skills.
He saw Kiba was too engrossed in talked with Hinata, and Akamaru was asleep on his owners head.
Choji is next to Shikamaru, but he's eating his chips.
Iruka noted several other students and shook his head.
A noise drew his and most the students attention to the door where Sakura and Ino tried to wedge thru at the same time as the final bell sounded.
"YES!" Sakura yelled as she shoved in. "I WIN!"
"Think again forehead. I was here first, but you used your giant forehead to push yourself in." Ino snarked.
"Girls." Iruka said.
"What was that Ino pig?" Sakura snarled spinning about, her eyes holding a hint of danger.
"You don't understand? Guess your forehead is in the way of your ears." Ino shot back.
"Ino…Sakura…." Iruka tried.
"Yeah, well at least I don't need trough at meal times piggy." Sakura shot back.
Iruka winced seeing the fire in Ino's eyes now. Oh this is not going to end well. Iruka thought.
"OH, THAT IS IT BILLBOARD BROW!" Ino roared.
Got to end this now. Iruka thought, but before he could say anything he heard laughing and looked up to see Naruto clapping as well.
"Oh, this is priceless, non?"
Iruka thought the blond had gone crazy.
"All de femmes need now is a pit of jello and we could make a fortune."
Heads turned to see Naruto. Iruka had to admit, it had defused Ino and Sakura's anger at one another.
But now their focused on him. Iruka thought as both girls saw him.
"Who the hell are you?" Sakura demanded.
"And what are you doing in my seat?" Ino followed up realizing where the masked boy was sitting.
"Your seat chere? Apologize. I arrived to class early, unaware there was a seating chart."
"Who the hell are you?" Sakura said stomping towards the back of the room. Her hand reached out to grab Naruto, but found him not there.
"Well, hello pretty-pretty."
Sakura turned and saw him standing by Ino and taking her hand, and giving her knuckles a soft kiss without taking his mask off. "A true beauty hidden amongst the leaves." He said and Ino found herself blushing.
Most of the class was shocked at how fast the masked blond had moved. Iruka who had seen him do it before was still in shock at the speed Naruto seemed to possess.
Deciding to use the classes surprised silence to gain control, the chunin called for everyone to take their seats.
Sakura took her seat, her head turning to watch as the masked student led Ino to her seat and after pulling her seat out and getting her to sit down took the next seat over.
Some of the male students were studying him. Sasuke just snorted and went to look out the window once more deciding that the new student wasn't worth his attention as he was pandering to useless kunoichi.
"Alright settle down." Iruka said and waited a moment before continuing. He saw his assistant Mizuki enter the door and slide it shut silently.
"Today is the day you all take your Genin exams…"
Naruto sighed at the back of the room to himself. He'd prevent the girls from fighting, but he brought attention to himself. He could feel the blond next to him eyeing him and the pink haired girl kept glancing over her shoulder and glaring at him.
Hn. Something about her has my danger senses tingling.
Naruto had a built in danger sense. He thought it wasn't a power, but the amount of times its saved him from being hit, along with the rest of the X-men and New Mutants, even in the Danger Room, he never ignored it after the one time that he had put him in the medbay for a day. Of course Logan spent the same day being chewed out by Marie, Jean and Storm. Naruto thought. He also looked like he had a run in with the rest of the 'family' come to think of it.
Mentally shaking himself, he tried to pay attention. He always found lectures boring. He did fine on tests, and practical applications, but lectures put him to sleep or cause him to zone out.
Good thing I still have my true gift as back up. Naruto thought as he remembered the paces that the Hokage and the Jonin put him thru on Saturday. Keep that well hidden, no need to show them what I can do without chakra.
Naruto accepted the test that the other instructor passed out handing one to Ino who blushed at him and he gave her a smile thru his mask.
He felt other eyes on him and noticed that the girl with white eyes was looking over at him and would blush before facing her test once more. He also saw some of the guys looking at him and measuring him.
Show them nothing. I'll show some to whomever is on my team, but those that aren't get nothing. Naruto thought.
Seeing some of the other female's in the class eyeing him like a side of beef he sighed mentally. Man, Tousan was right. Maybe I should go without the mask. He's right in girls like the mysterious stranger thing. Looking at the test he began answering questions.
Name the First Hokage…Sigh, this is boring. I read this when I was five. Naruto thought as he went down the page answering the questions. He noted they got a bit better as they went on.
Question twenty-six, explain how the Yondaime killed the Hokage and…SONOVABROOD!
Naruto put his pen down and raised his hand.
"Yes Naruto?" Iruka asked.
"Iruka-sensei, I can't answer question twenty-six, as it is wrong in what it is asking." Naruto said.
The whole class looked at him and many of them flipped the test to that question and he saw them reading it.
"What do you mean dobe?" Sasuke asked from the front row. "Everyone knows that the Fourth Hokage killed the Kyuubi." The Uchiha heir said with disdain.
Iruka winced. How the hell can I answer this, the Sandaime has yet to speak of it to the whole of Konoha.
Naruto laughed. "I see." He stood up and walked to the front of the class. "Allow me to educate for a moment Iruka-sensei?"
Iruka's eyes widened. Naruto's going to tell them…oh sweet Kami. He shot a look at Mizuki who was looking on with a questioning look on his face.
"Very well Naruto, as only you, or Lord Hokage may speak of it until he releases the penalty." Iruka said swallowing, his throat becoming really dry.
Naruto nodded and reached up pulling his mask down and his shade up into his hair. Gasps from the students and Iruka noticed several of the kunoichi get lust filled eyes as they took in his features.
Clearing his throat Naruto stood with his arms crossed behind his back and a relaxed stance. "Now, as many of you know sixteen years ago, the Kyuubi no Kitsune attacked Konoha. Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage and many valiant ninja of the leaf tried to hold back the nine tailed fox, but their efforts were in vain."
Naruto smiled. "In a moment of desperation, the Yondaime used a forbidden jutsu, a pact with the Shinigami to seal away the Kyuubi in exchange for his own life."
Many of the students were listening intently. Iruka saw Mizuki's eyes narrow as Naruto spoke and he saw Mizuki finally notice the whisker marks on Naruto's now exposed face.
"But the Yondaime knew he couldn't seal the Kyuubi into an adult, for the jutsu required chakra pathways that would grow over time as the seal would purify the Kyuubi's chakra. Thus, with a heavy heart, the Yondaime Hokage sealed the greatest of the demon lords inside his newborn son not less than an hour after the loss of his wife in childbirth."
Gasps from many students as they realized the implications. Some like Kiba blinked. Iruka noted Sasuke was scowling, his eyes narrowing as they rested on Naruto then looked out the window towards the Hokage monument then back to Naruto, hatred now in his eyes.
"But the tale does not end there. For the young Namikaze, orphaned and alone would for the next five years be hated and abused by the village his father gave his life for." Naruto's blue on black eyes hardened.
"The one day, an outsider came, he saw villagers abusing a child. He rescued the Yondaime's heir and after negotiating with the Sandaime Hokage took the boy to the world above. There the Yondaime's heir learned his history and how to control the Kyuubi's chakra. Then, one day…the Kyuubi after a decade of fighting, gave up and was absorbed into the seal, and on that day, the Namikaze heir learned more and the seal shattered, he was free from the curse his own father placed on him." his gaze swept over the class.
"The Kyuubi died in the seal, never to be released, it welcomed its passing, as captivity had robbed it of all it had."
"And how do you know this dobe?" Sasuke sneered.
Naruto smiled. "Cause I was the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. I was the living sacrifice my birth father used to save a village that after five years of being abused by, I thought didn't deserve to be saved."
Naruto dodged to the left as Mizuki attacked before he finished speaking.
"I'll kill the demon now and be well rewarded.
"MIZUKI, STOP!" Iruka yelled and tried to restrain his fellow Chunin, but was kicked to the side. He crashed into the desks, and students screamed.
Naruto back flipped out of the way as he looked at the chunin. "Mizuki-teme, I ask you to stand down. I already killed a Jonin for trying to kill me, I ask that you do not force my hand and add your name to the list."
"Yeah right. I doubt you could kill a jonin." Mizuki spat pulling out a pair of kunai.
"Yet, you claim I am the damned fox and are trying to kill me for its sins." Naruto countered as he spun away and the kunai buried themselves into the wall behind where he'd been.
"You are the fox. Look at the truth. Your eyes, those whisker marks." Mizuki snarled pulling out several shuriken and reading himself to attack.
Iruka was there attacking, trying to maneuver Mizuki out of the room and keep the children, and Naruto safe.
Naruto was about to relax his stance when he sensed danger yet again and dodged to the side, his atomgun turning to see Sasuke Uchiha trying to attack him.
"FIGHT ME!" the Uchiha snarled. "FIGHT ME, SO I CAN BEAT HIM!"
Naruto shook his head and used a simple 'wax on' 'wax off' blocking technique he picked up watching movies on Saturday nights at the Institute.
Heh, the Karate Kid was Hollywood fluff, but it did have some idea's. Naruto thought as he continued to block the Uchiha's attack. With a light palm strike he sent Sasuke staggering back, he looked to see Iruka had managed to force Mizuki into the hall.
Where the hell are the other teachers? Don't they hear this ruckus? Naruto thought. He turned in time to see Sasuke finishing several hand seals.
A fire jutsu? Indoors? He's insane! Naruto thought and his hands were a blur as he called out his attack the same time Sasuke sent out his own attack.
"FIRE STYLE, DRAGON FLAME JUTSU!" Sasuke roared.
Shit, no choice. "WATER RELEASE, GUNSHOT!" he spat the wad of water and felt his chest clench as he'd taken no time to convert the moisture in the air for it.
The two attacks slammed together and the explosion knocked Sasuke head over heels and he was upside down in the second row, a fan girl squealing in joy as her face was in his crotch.
"Stupid idiot!" Naruto roared as he kicked a charred chair out of his path and stalked towards the dazed Uchiha. "Using an assault jutsu in the confines of a classroom."
Then Naruto did something would endear him to the males of the class and resentment of many of the Uchiha fan club. He grabbed Sasuke by his ear, dragged him to his feet, bent him over his knee and gave Sasuke Uchiha his first ever spanking in his sixteen years of life.
Sarutobi and the gathered Jonin laughed as the blond gave the Uchiha what many of them had wanted to do since he entered the academy.
"Have ANBU pick up Mizuki." He said to his new secretary who nodded.
"Well, I already know Naruto is going to be Genin, the question is, who wants him on their team?"
Sarutobi sighed as several hands went up. Kurenai and Asuma's amongst them.
"Sir, what of the Uchiha? With Kakashi's death, who will teach him?" a Jonin asked from the back.
Sarutobi thought about it. "We'll see how the others do, and decide about the teams later…"
The Hokage and Jonin went back to watching as Naruto dropped the Uchiha on the ground and stood up.
"Anyone else want to act like a spoiled brat?" Naruto asked, his gaze moving around the room. He noted that while many of the girls were glaring at him. That pink haired one really wants to say something, but she's too cowed right now.
He heard laughter and saw the blond he'd been seated by laughing and clapping. Ino…chere, I think I like you.
AN: Yes, Sasuke's an ass. The group knows now about the Kyuubi. Naruto's mutant power is going to remain a secret for now as he doesn't see a need to flaunt it. His ninja skills are skilled enough and it will be seen what he knows in coming chapters. YES, the X-Men will appear here, for now in memories and thoughts, but later there will be mutants in Konoha. I am glad so many of you like this story. I recently found one called "Naruto Fists of the Demon" by NineTailed-Battousai. Its good and it has Logan as Naruto's adopted father. Give it a check. The skills Naruto's gotten from the Forbidden Scroll will soon be discovered. Stay tuned true belivers.