It's been a while I guess, I was working on my other story I started on (a crossover)


Naruto made his way to his designated classroom after signing in at the office. His new teacher – sensei – to be was Iruka. Naruto rushed inside without knocking at the door to see thirty heads staring at him.

There was an awkward moment of silence that bypassed the room until Iruka decided to break it. "Well fellow students, today we have a new student by the name of Naruto Uzumaki I presume." Iruka turned his head to Naruto to confirm.

Naruto nodded. "Hi everyone, my name's Naruto. Nice to meet you all."

"Now about attendance," Iruka began. "Class starts at nine o'clock and I expect NO ONE to be late. Today is your first day, so I'll let it go, but if it happens again in the future, it'll be thirty laps around the school."

'Thirty laps only?' thought Naruto. 'I might as well be late everyday.'

"Please find yourself a seat in the classroom," said Iruka.

Naruto looked around and saw Kyoti, but she was already sitting with someone, presumably her brother. He looked around and saw only one seat open which was beside a white-eye girl. 'A member of the Hyuuga Clan. This might be fun.' Naruto took a seat beside the girl.

"Hey, what's your name?" ask Naruto, staring at the ceiling.

"H…Hinata," stuttered Hinata, turning her head towards Naruto before quickly turning back in a blush.

After listening to Iruka for five minutes, Naruto turned to Hinata out of boredom. "Is class always like this?"

"Like what?" asked a confused Hinata.

"Like is class always this boring?" rephrased Naruto, rolling his eyes to the ceiling again.

"Err…" replied Hinata. "I guess so. But we really shouldn't be talking."

"Why not?" asked Naruto. "It's not like Iruka-sensei has eyes on his back."

"NARUTO!" shouted Iruka. "Do you wish to share with the class about your little conversation."

"Actually, I think he does have eyes on his back," Hinata softly whispered with her gaze averted to the front of the room."

"Yes we do," Naruto answered Iruka. "We were discussing how wonderful your story was."

"Is that so?" Iruka spoke with a slight hesitation before shouting back at Naruto. "It's not a STORY. It's HISTORY.

"Oh woops," Naruto scratched his head. "Please continue. I won't interrupt you again."

True enough, Naruto didn't interfere with Iruka's lesson. It turned out that Naruto fell asleep halfway through.

The bell rang for lunch and woke up a startled Naruto who found Iruka glaring at him.

'Oh crap,' thought Naruto. "Iruka-sensei, look! There's someone's at the door."

Iruka turned knowing that Naruto was fooling him, but there was no way Naruto could escape since there was only one door in the classroom, so Iruka played his game. When he turned back, Naruto was gone. 'What the hell?' Then, Iruka looked to the side and found the window open. 'Sigh.'

Naruto walked around the courtyard, looking at the activities the children were playing with. Some were playing shogi, others were sparring. Naruto walked towards the kids that were sparring. They stood in a circle with two people inside.

As Naruto watched the fight foldout, he realized Kyoti was standing beside him.

"Hey Kyoti," whispered Naruto. "Do these spars happen every lunch break?"

"Yes," answered Kyoti. "It's usually entertaining to watch."

"Hey look!" cried one of the kids. "It's that new kid. Naruto right? Want to have a little spar?"

"Haha," laughed Naruto uneasily. "I'm not so sure. I mean, I just got here today. I don't know much jutsus."

"Jutsus?" the kid laughed. "None of us knows any jutsus in particular anyways. We just spar using taijutsu. So what do you say? Just a little spar won't hurt."

The other children began to continually pressure Naruto until Kyoti encouraged him to give it a try that he decided to go.

Naruto walked towards the center of the ring, surrounded by fellow classmates. His opponent was around the same size as him, showing no particular talent on the outside.

"And begin," muttered a voice from the circle.

"Your shoelaces are untied," Naruto pointed down at his opponent's shoes.

Naruto's opponent looked down to see himself wearing sandals. But as he realized he had just been duped, a punch connected with his face and he fell back to hit the grass with a thud.

"Wow," cried one of the kids. "A one-hit KO."

"Sorry," Naruto said to his opponent. "I might have overdid it. Are you okay?"

"I'm partially alright," replied the kid. "Although that punch really did hurt."

Naruto was about to say something, but the bell rang, marking the end of lunch break.

Iruka led his class outside for the afternoon to show them various throwing weapons. He started with the kunai, displaying its deadliness. After showing the principles of how it is used, Iruka demonstrated how to throw it. So he threw it, showing great accuracy as the kunai buried itself in the center of the target.

A majority of the students had their eyes wide opened as many of them first saw a kunai thrown. Iruka then gave his students several training kunai as trails to attempt to hit the target.

"Hey, that's dangerous," shouted a kid, pointing at Naruto who was spinning his kunai in circles with his index finger.

"Naruto, please don't play with the kunai," said Iruka. "It can get dangerous if you swing it incorrectly."

Naruto stopped spinning the kunai and walked up to the line to throw his kunai. He threw the kunai and it hit dead center of the target.

"Very good Naruto," said Iruka. "Do you have any training previously?"

"Yes," replied Naruto. "But only a bit."

They class ended as the bell rang.

"Do you wanna get some ice-cream together?" Kyoti asked Naruto.

Naruto looked at her for a moment. "Sure." And the two walked off into the distance with someone not far behind trailing them with her eyes.

FOUR YEARS LATER GRADUATION EXAM

"I thank you all for making it this far in the course," announced Iruka. "I know many of your peers had dropped out and I congratulate you all for making it through. But before you all become official ninjas of the leaf, a final graduation exam is to be taken here."

Naruto passed the exams with flying colours with the exception of the regular bunshin.

It came to a point in the exams where Naruto was paired up with Sasuke in a one-on-one fight.

"A dope like you who has no clan will never be able to top the elite," said a dark raven-like boy.

"Says the guy who has three people left," retorted Naruto.

Kyoti, who was standing behind Naruto, bonked him on the head for saying repulsive words.

"Sorry," said Naruto. "I meant four people. There's still one more isn't there?"

Hearing Naruto's words enraged Sasuke and he charged forward before Iruka announced the fight to start.

Sasuke's left arm aimed for Naruto's head, but was easily dodged. Naruto countered with a knee to Sasuke's stomach, but Sasuke took half a step back and caught the knee. Before Naruto knew it, Sasuke had landed a kick to his side and he fell to the ground.

The Naruto disappeared with a "puff".

'A shadow clone,' thought Sasuke who was very familiar with Naruto and his clones during previous encounters in the past. Acting upon pure instinct, Sasuke moved to the right to narrowly dodge a blade that hit the ground, creating a mark six-inches deep.

"NARUTO!" shouted Iruka. "NO SWORDS! AND WHEN DID YOU BRING THAT TO SCHOOL?"

"I always had it with me," said Naruto, confusing a large amount of the population. 'Yes, it was always behind my back with an invisible seal attached.'

"Well," said Iruka, thinking upon his choice of words, "no swords in this fight."

Naruto didn't answer Iruka. Instead he looked at Sasuke. "So, got any jutsus or will it be 'dodge Naruto the whole time' thing?"

"Katon: Grand Fireball Jutsu," muttered and irritated Sasuke, releasing a deadly breath of fire.

Naruto dodged it, but immediately looked at his sensei. "So he can use deadly fire jutsus and I can't swing my sword? That's not fair. It's like you're trying to side with him."

Iruka sighed, realizing how difficult the situation has become and the dilemma he was facing. But before he could respond, Naruto spoke first. "It's alright, I'll put my sword aside. We don't want the Uchiha heir to be cut into pieces do we now?"

Sasuke gritted his teeth in search of a witty response, but couldn't think of one as he knew how deadly that katana could be.

Naruto strapped his katana to his back. "I want to try this new jutsu I made up since after this battle, my career as a ninja begins. So I guess showing the world this jutsu will be the first step towards my goal."

'Made a new jutsu?' many people thought. 'Is that even possible for an academy student? Is it powerful?'

'Naruto-kun,' thought Kyoti. 'Don't tell me you've perfected that jutsu.'


Short Chapter, big time skip. Once again, things will be told in flashbacks. Even though I love writing about Naruto's pre-ninja life, the story has to move.

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