First Day At The Academy
"How come I don't get to go with Oniisan?" Naruto whined, petulantly stomping his feet, arms crossed, eyes glaring out beneath his furrowed brow in a way that was meant to be intimidating, but only made the person it was aimed at squeal 'KAWAAIII!' at him and pinch his whiskered cheeks. "Hey, stop it! Stop it and answer me! Dattebayo!"
"You know perfectly well why, Gaki-bozo!" the big white haired man in red and green kimono and cloak half-screamed at the little blond boy. "Harry is starting at the Ninja Academy, and you're still too young for that. I still think he's too young to be going next year as it is," he 'whispered' to a tall black haired man in a black and gray kimono and robe outfit.
The man in black and gray shrugged, replying, "I'm still against Harry joining the Ninja Academy in the first place. How is it you convinced me to let these two live on their own again, Jiraiya?"
"I can take care of me and Naruto-otouto just fine!" Harry suddenly screamed up at his godfather.
"Is that why you go out and steal instant ramen toppings day after day?" a gray haired and scarred man in tattered robes questioned the young five-year-old.
Harry just shrugged and looked unrepentant as he answered, "We don't steal. Naruto pro-cures special rare items, leaving due com-pen-sation in obvious places while I run in-ter-ference by practicing my skills as a future ninja of Konoha."
"Wow, didn't even flinch, big words and everything," a tall 'big' woman with light blond hair done in a ponytail remarked at the kids. She put her hands on her hips of her gray and navy kimono, pushing back the folds of her green jacket as she asked him, "Been practicing that one in the mirror, eh Harry?"
The dark-haired green-eyed boy just grinned up at Naruto's godmother, saying nothing.
"Why do you do that anyway?" the gray haired man asked, sounding exasperated. "You have plenty of food here, most of it not needing any amount of preparation! And for what does, all you'd have to do is ask and we'd fix you whatever you'd like!"
Harry and Naruto shrugged together and said as one, "Cause then we wouldn't be living on our own then. We'd just be living in different rooms of the same building. We wanna live on our own!"
"But I still wanna go with Oniisan!" Naruto screamed, stamping his foot again.
"KAWAII!"
"Shizune," the 'big' blond sighed, rubbing her forehead tiredly, "stop pinching Naruto's cheeks. Those whisker marks are bad enough already, they don't need further irritation."
"Aww..." the younger black haired woman finally let go of the blond-haired blue-eyed child.
"Thanks Tsunade-obaachan," Naruto mumbled, rubbing his sore cheeks. Thankfully he missed the tick marks on his godmother's face showing up, otherwise he might have preferred going back to Shizune's pinching.
"Are we done yet here, I want to get there before I'm supposed to graduate!" Harry growled.
"Got everything you need?" Sirius asked him.
"Yes!" Harry insisted.
"How about your bento?" Shizune offered the box.
"I swear, you people are worse than every other kids parents sometimes," Harry moaned, exasperated. "Can we go already?"
"Just want to get one more picture!" Remus begged, having already snapped ten rolls worth of pictures.
"THAT'S IT! I'm OUT OF HERE!" Harry exclaimed, closed his eyes tight and wished real hard.
The explosion, what should have been a barely audible crack, actually shattered every piece of glass in the apartment building and the next few over, and knocked everyone in the actual apartment on their asses.
"Did you know he could Disapparate?" Sirius calmly asked Remus.
"No," Remus calmly replied, still clutching his camera, which was now ruined thanks to the shattered lenses. "Did you?"
"Hello? Where have you been living for the past six years? He's hard enough to keep track of as it is, and you think I'm going to show him how he can disappear and reappear wherever he wants?" Sirius's panicked reply very nearly started a panic in and of itself.
"Gentlemen," Tsunade picked the both of them up by the scruff of their necks, "Would you care to hazard a guess as to where exactly our boy went off to?"
"That was SO COOL! Can Nii-san teach me how to do that?" Naruto was begging them all.
"NO!" every single last adult screamed at the young boy, fear running rampant through their minds.
Harry reappeared roughly three feet above the waters of the Konoha Hot Springs. On the women's side of course. Standing to his feet, he got an eyeful of everything that Jiraiya wished he saw with all of his "Research" and then some. Being seven years old at the time, Harry didn't bother to appreciate this unique opportunity. Instead he did what any seven year old would do in similar circumstances, he mimicked his adult peers and followed the advice of the same.
"Helllooo Ladies," he smiled and posed. Of course his pose was much cooler (in his mind) than Jiraiya's, and on a seven year old boy, soaking wet with a silly grin on his face, the pose just made him that much cuter in the eyes of all the naked or near-naked kunoichi. Kunoichi of the Seduction Corp as chance would have it.
As fate would have it, Harry got a first rate ninja education his first day as an Academy Student. Unfortunately, he never quite made it to the actual Academy, which had some of the most powerful ninja in Konoha scouring the whole village for him once he'd been marked absent by the teachers that day. Of course, all that really happened at the Academy for the first day for first time students was that they learned each other's names and sat in a classroom and listened to the teachers lecturing them about what they would be learning during their three required, five recommended years at the Ninja Academy.
Harry, on the other hand, did far more exciting things with his day.
Spending the morning with the Seduction Corp, and learning all their names, (and exact body measurements and sizes), he was shown several pressure points on his own and other people's bodies, and it was thoroughly explained to him what pressure points were, as well as chakra, tenketsus, and the Eight Gates were.
At lunchtime, the lead jounin of the Seduction Corp, and their most senior and well-known member, took him to her counterpart in the Interrogation/Torture Department. There, Harry's education on pressure points, and more importantly ways of crippling another's body, was expanded upon.
After lunch, the head of the IT Department took Harry to his counterpart in the Tracker/Hunter Division, (sometimes privately referred to as Headhunter Division), where it was explained most fervently to young Harry how important it was to keep the body fit, and train it to move quickly over long distances for extended periods of time. Sprints and ninja teleports, or Shunshin no jutsu were fine if you were going from one side of Konoha to another, or dodging an enemy's attack, but if you're going to be running flat out for days at a time, going from one end of a country to the other and beyond, then all that wasted energy would wind up tiring you out before you got even a tenth of the way. Harry was shown the exercises he would need to work on in order to build up his endurance, as well as his overall speed.
Just before dinner, the Head Hunter brought him to the Library of Konoha. He then introduced Harry to one of the Library Ninja that worked there. Despite his small and unassuming stature, Harry believed the Head Hunter when he was told that the Library Ninja before them was one of the best trained ninja in all Konoha, and could probably match a Kage in terms of skill and honed ability. The Library Ninja then showed Harry all the different sections of the Konoha Library and explained to him while showing how knowledge and the wisdom in how to use it was what made a ninja most powerful, moreso than even the most unbeatable jutsu ever created.
When it was time for dinner, the Library Ninja escorted Harry to Ichiraku Ramen, where Teuchi Ichiraku happened to be entertaining a guest. An old friend of his, who just so happened to be a fabled Ninja Cook. Harry immediately pressed for information and any lessons to be learned, seeing as how much he'd learned already from all the people he'd met. Having only just learned the lesson himself quite recently, the Ninja Cook stressed how important it was to have a balanced diet, and never to overeat. He used some examples of ninja that he'd cooked for on long term missions, and how they had tended to gorge themselves on his better recipes, without taking the time to train and work off the pounds they were gaining. They were on a mission of course, and when the ninja on the mission demanded it, he had no choice but to serve it to them, in spite of his own advice, seeing as they could have him killed for interfering with the mission if he did not serve them. Teuchi even showed off a few of his 'Balanced Ramen' recipes, just to show Harry what his old friend meant.
Of course this is where Naruto and everyone else that had been looking for him finally found Harry. All through dinner, and eating the 'Balanced Ramen' Harry cheerfully shared with his brother and uncles and aunts and godfathers and godmothers what he'd learned that day. Naruto insisted that he could hardly wait until he went to the Academy and became a ninja.
Needless to say, Harry's second day of being an Academy Student was not nearly as interesting, and he was sent home shortly after lunch by the teacher, citing that he was an unruly disturbance. Sirius and Remus then spent the afternoon grading Harry on the number and quality of pranks he had pulled off that morning before and during lunch. Naruto laughed along with them as Harry recounted just a few of them.
After that, Harry showed Naruto the exercises that he was starting to do daily and sharing what he'd learned about chakra. Naruto was too young to learn it unfortunately, and Harry was still trying to apply the concepts he'd been shown with the actual practice. That he managed to actually succeed in mixing chakra from his physical and spiritual energies on his third day was overlooked by all his teachers as he also used the taijutsu lesson to beat up one of the bullies that had hurt his brother the day before. Jiraiya and Tsunade, however, were in shock, however, when they learned that Harry had unlocked his chakra a whole month before the standing average, let alone the rest of his classmates.
Of course, after finding the Academy as boring as it was, Harry decided that he would spend as little time as he could there. Therefore on the days that he could afford to (meaning no tests, important assignments, or the others threatening him) he cut class and went about visiting whatever friends he made and learned everything they were willing to teach him. On the other days, he pulled off devastating pranks and got kicked out before the day was even half over and still went to visit his growing number of friends.
More often, he spent time with his new friend Itachi. Harry and Itachi had Ichiraku Ramen every once in a while, and the Uchiha genius considered that if Pocky was Ambrosia of the Heavens, than ramen may very well be the Nectar of the Gods.
Continued...?