See previous disclaimer in chapter 1.

naruto's year had not started great he was late for the academy after getting home from Ichiraku's he'd found while he was away in the forest some idiot's had tried to repeat the same thing that happened alll those years ago and vandalise his apartment luckily he'd had his shushin wards up the only way to get past them would be to flare chakra of the same frequency for about a minute or more thereby overloading them something ANBU wouldn't ignore. His locks were sturdy and windows sealed with a piece of hard iron inside and out also had alarm seals on if damaged or removed in the end they'd scrawled hate messages on the door and walls they didn't seem to of realised he used the other apartments for storage as well as they were left alone he spent the night cleaning them of he was highly strung when it came to the appearance of his apartment he was always afraid a passing student would comeby and the class would start calling him Demon he knew it was an irational stupid fear but it was a recurring nightmare for him.

after getting into the class late he'd gotten jokes about his color of his armor idiot kiba had started jokes about water melons and most of the class soon joined in he wold of punched the boy nearly if Iruka didn't settle the class just then they reviewed the kawamiri like last year and added the henge afterwards their were no failures this time natural growth of chakra levels made sure of that.

Sasuke decided to add on the bunshin afterwards and smirked like it was some big achievement i decided to not disabuse him of that notion the rest of the clan children probably already knew it even Kiba if the sniggering was anything to go by. The fangirls of course ate it up he wondered how he thought that impressive personally he thought the fireball that thrown last year was better no that he wanted to admit it.

During first break he sat on the roof looking at the clouds he wouldn't be bothered here he idly watched as tthe other students fought in the ring the girls gossiping to the side one more year he repeated it in his head like a mantra he would be away from the tedious days and would get to see the outside world and the wonders of the elemental nationsIruka had said this would be a year for improvement but the only thing that he could improve in skills was the area of his Genjutsu field and elemental manipulation he'd like to learn elemental clones they were the ultimate force multiplier with his ch. akra levels and the transparency field the possibilities would be endless he would be an unseen army who needed hirashin with his eventual skills he wouldn't be ther almost instantly he would be everywhere. Unfortunatly it was a licensed skill and like advanced seals only learnable when he got his Hiate Anko promised him she would teach the water version with practice and his mist technique he'd soon be unstoppable.

One more year.

Naruto's day went downhill after break the first thing they did was a spar he of course ended up with Sasuke as always. it seemed over the break Sasuke had learned more than Bunshin someone had been teaching him the sword he had no problem with that he'd have been a hypocrite if he did his problem was Sasuke's aggression issues which as always were direcred at him he knew someone was teaching Sasuke because of the moves he was using no way did he come up with that mid air reverse flip where he tried to strike at his head he still wasn't great at it and attacked to directly to be a danger at all but some of his moves were definately taught. It seemed the girls had tried to emulate him they all brought Tanto's the fangirls didn't even know how to hold them right one of the girls Ami actually held hers in a close reverse inside grip all it would take is a shove and she would of been impaled on her own blade. Kurenai took all the tanto's away and said they could have them back after the passed a basic three hour long instruction course but that would of cut into their Sasuke watching time so they changed their minds and decided it wasn't that impressive when everyone else had the same idea.

The paper tests seemed to be getting more difficult with having to work out equations relating to angles with throwing weapons and concussive force required to destroy a specific theoretical object of a certain size it was hard but with the motivation of better missions in the future he got a ninety two unfortunatley Sasuke with his eighty seven took it as an affront and thought naruto was finally getting into the rivalry so did his fangirls who told him off for trying to show him up he learned the wrath of feminine fury that day wasn't just something Ten Ten and anko had Kurenai had to calm them down before he would climb down from the tree.

Two months into the semester he saw Anko sitting in a resturant with a Dango stick in one hand and a report in the other he hadn't seen her in a while so decided to say hi maybe she could help him out neither Iruka or Kurenai could think of a new skill he was able to learn during the year maybe she could come up with something that could work. "Hey Anko!" "hi naruto hows things Gaki school?" he rolled his eyes anko could never be serious like most adults it was a major part of her personality to be as upbeat and unique as possible. "Yeah riiight anywho i was wondering if you wanted to come over mine for dinner?" he knew he couldn't ask her in the street for idea's or lessons she said how the lessons they had were to be kept secret he wouldn't break that trust. "Sure i got nothing else to do tonight." Anko had in fact been avoiding naruto she couldn't face him after hearing the councils plans concerning his team but she couldn't avoid him forever and knew if naruto was inviting her over it was involving some lessons naruto hated to cook and preferred his privacy only meeting friend's at the nuetral ground of Ichiraku's. "make sure you have something other than ramen though." She emphasised it by waving her dango in front of his face naruto understood the small price for lessons.

TWO HOURS LATER

anko strolled into naruto's apartment like she owned the place she sat down at the table and proceeded to eat the nine sticks of dango. Naruto knew he couldn't get her attention yet it was better to yell at the hokage monument than try to get anko's attention when she went like this she was in a world of her own for some reason the word Tsukyomi flashed across his mind he dismissed the errant thought anko finished he plate trhen sighed contentedly. "So brat what'd you want? why am is my magnifent prescence here tonight?" "Well you see Anko i don't know what to do? i've got a year left in thte academy and the only thing i can work on is elemental water manipulation the only good stuff i want to do is all licensed skills i asked Iruka and Kurenai and they've got no idea either." Naruto once again felt bad about hiding his Genjutsu skills from one of his precious people but it was a Hokage's order. "well um" anko took a thinking pose and started rubbing a non-existant beard like she was the Sandaime then raised her finger in the air and shouted. "Eureka!" "what whatv'e you got tell me tell me!" Anko was grinning she'd found a way to prepare naruto for his slating and get one over on the old farts. "naruto i've got a skill for you that is perfect and one that you'll soon be able to use in public without trouble. "which one?" "two actually both fire jutsu." naruto's eyes widened fire techniques were destructive as hell they went against his water element but meshed if he ever learnt it quite well with his wind. "But how would i be able to use them without questions being asked?" "i'll tell you but you mustn't react badly or go storming off you promise." naruto was wary why would anko make him promise to not storm off she knew he held his promises highly and tried to never break them he wasn't sure but remembered these were two fire jutsu that was just awesome so he just nodded. "Uchiha like the one in your class are reowned for use of fire jutsu they almost seem to be addicted to the damn things you've seen him practicing i'm told you were almost on the recieving end of one after all. I heard and remember your promise here that you'll be on his team next year you can just say that you copied him he can't complain because that's what his bloodline does." anko smiled widely naruto wasn't sure now what mood to be in he get's two fire jutsu but was probably going to be on Sasuke's team after graduation what happened to the rule where dead last went with the rookie why couldn't it be lazy Shikimaru probably some sort of Clan deal one year just extended. Crap "what are the Jutsu's" he said glumly. "Hey hey don't be down it's not that bad i know he's an asshole as is your teacher but just do as i do and roll with the punches." "My Sensei's an asshole?" "Erm, best not think about that you got another seven month's in the academy afterall now the two fire jutsu i'm going to teach you are the Grand fireball you saw and Phoenix flower which is a few smaller ones all at once." They sounded like good Jutsu but naruto's mind kept staying back to two thought's he was on the team with Sasuke and his Sensei was apparently just as bad Fuck! he wondered who his other team member would be. "Oh and naruto i would work on your mist technique your eventually gonna be on a team with a sharingan user after all."

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