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Chapter 2: relation to the boy

Naruto made his way to class as he was once again ignorant to the glares the teachers in the academy were giving him, as his smile showed no indication of noticing. He opened the door to the classroom and saw that most of his classmates were already in. looking around he saw Satsuki sitting where she sat the previous day and began making his way towards her.

Satsuki was going through the hand signs for the great fireball jutsu at a very slow pace to make sure she got them right. "Ram…..monkey…..boar….horse….. And um….." she paused for a second as she tried to remember the last hand sign. After a second she remembered "tiger!" she was so focused and excited that she remembered that she didn't notice Naruto in front of her

"Morning Satsuki!"

"AAAAHHH!" The sudden voice caused her to burst her chakra and she accidentally sent out a small burst of fire from her mouth as she screamed. She almost fell under her seat from being startled but caught herself on the desktop. She took a breath to calm her rapid beating heart and looked up as she gave a pouting glare to the one that scared her only to shift to shock.

The small burst of fire was sent upwards in the direction of Naruto but the boy didn't react to it or move so one of his hair spikes caught fire with a small flame but he had not realized it.

Naruto tilted his head as he saw Satsuki look slightly panicked. "What's wrong?"

Satsuki jumped from her seat and shouted out "your hairs on fire!"

Everyone else in the class had turned to the pair when they heard Satsuki yelp. They didn't see what happened but they did see Satsuki jump out of her seat and pat Naruto's hair trying to put the small flame out.

Naruto looked up as if to see his hair but he was unable to see anything. But Satsuki said his hair was on fire so he believed her and thanked her after she pulled her hand back from his head. "Thank you."

Satsuki thought it was odd how he didn't seem to react to the fireball she almost scorched him with but shook her head as it wasn't that bad. She sat back in her seat as she watched him sit right next to her. "Morning."

Naruto smiled at her as he was happy she had greeted him. "What were you practicing?"

Satsuki sighed as she thought it was obvious what jutsu she was trying to get right. "I was trying to get the hand signs for the fireball jutsu. I thought it would have been obvious."

Naruto palmed his fist as he spoke. "Oh, so that's what you were doing. I've never seen anyone use it before."

This confused Satsuki since as far as she knew, Everyone in Konoha should know it, maybe not use it but they should know it since it is the most common jutsu in the village. "How can you not know about it? I'm sure you can go out there and ask any shinobi and they could show you the hand signs even if they don't use it. Heck, I'm sure even some of the civilians can show you."

Naruto smiled as he shrugged "no one showed me anything before, so I didn't know."

Satsuki rolled her eyes as she just figured that he didn't really go looking for the info. She sighed before giving a small smile and spoke "maybe, I can show you later."

Naruto nodded excitedly as he was happy to learn something. It was then that he remembered something. He reached into his bag and pulled out a small clear plastic bag with the handkerchief that was given to him. "Here, I washed it and put it in a bag so it can stay clean as I give it back to you."

Satsuki actually forgot about it since it was such a simple thing that had no real value to her. But she smiled as she took it from him "thank you, Naruto"

It was at that moment that Iruka and Mizuki came in with Iruka calling out to the class. "Alright everyone, take your seats."

Mizuki looked over the class before his eyes landed on Naruto. His face darkened at the sight of the jinchuriki but he hid it when Iruka turned to him

Iruka brought up a clipboard as he spoke "ok, everyone, today we will be having a practical spar. We need to understand where your skill level is so that we can figure out where specific students need to improve."

Many of the kids actually cheered at this as they thought it would be fun

Iruka smiled as he figured that many of the kids would like this since he knew that they didn't like the lessons. He coughed into his fist as he raised his hands. "ok , everyone, I want you all to line up so we can head out to the practice field."

The kids all got into a line with Naruto in the middle of it with Satsuki behind him and a girl with short pink hair and a red bow in front of him that was talking to another girl with platinum blond hair that was being held back with an aqua green hair clip. He was bouncing on his feet as he was excited about it.


The whole class were outside watching a match between Satsuki and a civilian student

Satsuki dodged a punch to her head and brought her fist up to uppercut him.

He fell to his back a few feet away and panting. He raised his hand and called out "I…..give….."

Iruka nodded as he marked a few things on his clipboard about the skill level of Satsuki and the civilian student. "Well done, Satsuki…..Tsukama. Make the sign of unison so we can move on."

The boy got up and rubbed his chin before he walked up to Satsuki and brought his hand up to to the sign

Satsuki nodded as she brought her hand up and completed the sign.

The two broke apart and moved to join their classmates with many of them congratulating Satsuki and giving pats on the shoulder to Tsukama.

Iruka then looked at the sheet of paper to see who was next. He then called out "Naruto Uzumaki and Ino Yamanaka, please make your way to the field."

Naruto looked to see that the blonde girl he saw was talking to the girl called Sakura walking up to the field. He ran up to his position and smiled at the girl "my name is Naruto, nice to meet you."

Ino smiled at his enthusiasm as she also introduced herself 'I'm Ino, nice to meet you two Naruto."

Iruka cleared his throat to get this moving on as he gestured to them. "Now are you two ready?"

The two nodded as Ino got into a stance while Naruto stood there still smiling

This confused Ino as she was expecting him to get into a stance. Sure she knew for a fact that her stance was sloppy but at least she was in a stance. She tilted her head as she asked "aren't you going to get into a stance?"

Naruto tilted his head as he answered "I don't know any stances so I will just do my best.

Iruka immediately knew that this fight would be Ino's win. Despite how it was said that it was meant to see where the students stood, it was still a sparring session so he already marked Naruto at the lowest level in taijutsu and was just going to observe Ino to see her level

Mizuki chose to keep this information since he saw an opportunity

Iruka raised his hand before swiping it down "begin."

Ino ran at Naruto and threw a fist at Naruto's head

Naruto yelped in surprise as he tilted his head to dodge it but he was not ready for the follow-up punch that hit him in the nose. He took a few steps back and held his nose as it hurt. He looked up at Ino before glancing down at his fist and chose to copy her. He did the same move as a way to retaliate

Ino tilted her head to avoid a punch and saw the follow-up. She tilted back to avoid the hit before she jumped back. She puffed out her cheeks as she saw what he was doing "hey! Stop being a copycat!"

Naruto gained a question mark on his head as he said "I'm not a cat."

This caused everyone to face fault at his answer with a couple of them chuckling

Ino's face went red before she ran at him again. Instead of a punch, she stopped in front of him and spun around, seeding a kick to his stomach. 'Gotta thank Daddy for teaching me that." though she grew worried when she saw that Naruto was sent into a tree with his head hitting the trunk hard. She grew concerned when she saw him fall face-first into the dirt. She ran over to him as he didn't get up. "Hey, are you ok?" she felt relieved when she saw that hit was getting up

Naruto got into a sitting position as he held his head and had tears in his eyes. He lifted his head and looked at Ino. "I'm ok. That was a good kick."

Ino felt relieved to see that he was smiling but she thought it was weird. He had been smiling the entire time, and not once had he dropped it. She shook her head as it wasn't important. She brought her hand out for him to take and once he did, she pulled him up "looks like I win." she said in a cocky tone in an attempt to rile him up. She was disappointed with his response.

Naruto gave a wide smile "yep, you did. Looks like I lost."

Ino scrunched her nose as she thought "weird kid."

Iruka called the two of them over and gave an order "Well done, Ino. now do the sign of unison you two."

Ino and Naruto did the sgn before Iruka spoke to the rest of the class

"Alright, everyone. I now know where you all stand. We will be working on each of you to improve so please pay attention to our instruction."

Everyone shouted out "hai!" before Iruka and Mizuki went to individual students and explained how they can improve their fighting skill

Mizuki made sure to be the one to instruct Naruto. He began to instruct Naruto how to do a sloppy outdated stance that had no use in defense or offense. Legs would not have any balance or good footing and his arms were spread out so that he would be open to any attack. "Now this stance will be good for you. Never forget it and remember to always use it. Ok?"

Naruto nodded as he made sure he got the stance right as Mizuki told him. "got it, sensei."

Mizuki gave a dark smile as he was going to make sure that Naruto never got the chance to live through anything.


~later, classroom~

The students were back in their seats as Iruka was handing out simple sheets of paper.

"Alright, everyone. This will be a simple exercise. I want you to write on the sheet of paper, 'why I want to be a shinobi'. I want you to give your reason for attending the academy. There is no wrong answer to it. It can be 'my parents wanted me to become one' or 'I want to aid my village'. Any answer you have will be accepted but please be honest with your reason." he moved to the front of the classroom and sat at his desk "you may begin."

All the students grabbed a writing utensil and began to write down their reason for becoming a shinobi. Reasons varied from everyone with some of them being simple ones such as "it looks cool." or "I wanna be like my parents."

The clan heirs had more specific reasons with the common simple one

Shikamaru wrote down "parents forced me to be one and it was too troublesome to argue. But this is also becoming troublesome."

Choji wrote a simple answer "I wanted to be with my best friend."

Kiba had a grin as he wrote his reason "I want to become the alpha of my clan and show my mom I can be!"

Ino huffed as she wrote "Daddy said I had to continue the Ino-Shika-Cho group. He also said he would buy me that pretty dress I saw in the store."

Hinata looked at the piece of paper for a second before she wrote "to become a worthy heir for the Hyuga clan and…..to make someone proud of me."

Shino quietly wrote, "to become noticed by my peers."

Sakura looked at Ino before her gaze went to Satsuki. "To become as amazing as Satsuki."

Satsuki had no hesitation in her answer "I want to make my big brother proud of me by becoming the best kunoichi I can be." she smiled as she finished writing her answer. Her brother was the pinnacle of the Uchiha clan, even greater than even her father. He was also what she strived to be like. He was strong, he was cunning, he was caring, what she wanted to be like despite how the other members of her clan seemed to act more detached to everyone in the village. Itachi acted like what she thought the Hokage should act. In fact, she figured that he might become one later on. She leaned back in her chair before she looked to her right at Naruto and saw that he was just staring at the paper in front of him. She was confused because it should have been an easy thing to answer.

Naruto sat there looking at the paper as he thought about why he wanted to become a shinobi. 'Why do I want to be a shinobi? I….don't know.' he never thought about why he entered the academy.

The only thing he could think of was because the old man had said that it would be a good idea for him to enter the academy and become a valued member of the shinobi forces. The old man had even said that if he worked hard, he could be anything in the village. Jonin, Anbu, shinobi teacher, or the biggest you could go was: the Hokage. It was with that that he said he would go for Hokage since it was the top of the list. The thing was that he didn't say he would become one because he wanted to but to make Hiruzen happy that he was aiming for something so big.

Naruto thought about that reason and it just…...didn't seem like it was what he wanted. 'What do I want?' This thought brought up the notion that he didn't really know what he wanted and it was causing him to feel sad and depressed since he had nothing. His smile faded as he put his hand on his forehead and frowned. He felt his mood continue to drop till a sharp pain was felt in his head till it instantly went away along with his growing foul mood. He smiled again before he figured that just writing he did it to make the old man happy was a good enough reason.

Satsuki had witnessed the shifting in mood and the instant change back to happy and this caused her to feel confused about it. It was almost like a switch was hit to change his mood. 'What is going on with him?' she may have only just met him and she was already…...interested in him. Not in a romantic sense but in a way as if she was looking at a puzzle and had no clue on how to solve it or what was hidden inside. She shrugged her shoulders before she went back to her own thing and waited for Iruka to collect the papers.


~after school~

Iruka had dismissed his class and sat at his desk going over the papers that the students had written their answers on. He figured that he would do this first since it should be a simple thing. As he went through them, he noticed someone drop down in front of his desk and jumped at it. He then noticed that it was one of the Anbu and figured that it must be serious. Seeing the animal mask, he addressed the Elite shinobi with respect by standing at attention. "Kumo! What can I help you with?"

Kumo stood from his kneeling position and raised a hand to put the chunin instructor at ease. "I am here to discuss something with you on behalf of the Hokage."

Iruka nodded as he sat down and gave Kumo his undivided attention. "What is it you wish to discuss with me?"

Kumo stared at the man before starting. "It concerns one of your students. Namely your newest student."

Iruka already figured out who he was referring to since the newest student was the one that he was wary of. "Naruto, right?"

Kumo nodded. "Though I am not allowed to disclose most of the details, I need to know if there was anyone around the boy that seemed close to him."

Iruka was confused about the request. He ran his time with the boy in class and so far there wasn't anyone relatively close to the boy. Sure it seemed like Satsuki seemed to be the closest thing to a friend he had and there were some interactions during class with him and several of the clan heirs. "Well, he has started getting some good relations with some of the clan heirs but apart from that. Not so much." It was as he said this that he realized that the boy he wanted little to do with, really didn't have anyone else to look to. Sure the Hokage had said that Naruto had some similarities to him since he was also an orphan, but he had decided to ignore it and just not deal with the boy. But when he really looked at it, he realized that he was blaming the boy, who had nothing, on the consequences of an event that Naruto had nothing to do with other than being the monster's jailer.

Kumo nodded at this info but it was trivial info. "Yes, but are there any older people that interact with him?"

Iruka shook his head to get out of his epiphany and answered "sorry, Kumo. but no. The adults tend to ignore him."

Kumo nodded as he turned around and prepared to leave. "Thank you for the information." and with that, he left the chunin's sight but did not leave the area as his job was to observe anyone that the boy interacted with. 'He doesn't seem to have any positive thoughts about the boy but we cannot take any chances.' While hidden, he gestured for the other Anbu, that were watching the boy, to go join the other group that were tailing the boy while he stayed to watch Iruka.


~Naruto made it to Ichiraku Ramen and called out "Hi, Ayame, Teuchi! I'm back!"

Teuchi peeked out from the kitchen and smiled at the boy "Ah, Naruto!" good to have you back! Here for a visit or are you a customer today?"

Naruto shook his head as he looked at the old man. "I don't have much money right now so I'm just here to say 'hi'!"

It was then that Ayame came out from the back and smiled at the boy "well, either way, we're happy to see you." Ayame then sat down on the stool next to Naruto and asked "so how was your time at the academy?"

Naruto smiled as he began to talk about his time at the academy and the interactions he had with the other students.

As this went on, the Anbu watched the boy and made a note to have another Anbu watch these two since they seemed to be the most possible candidates for being this 'unknown protector' for the boy. Despite how the two were civilians and had no training in the shinobi arts to inflict the gruesome murders on civilians and shinobi alike.

Unknown to any of them, red eyes narrowed at eh Anbu watching them. It did not like being watched but knew that they could do nothing yet.


End of chapter

I know nothing much happened in this chapter compared to the first one but I wanted this one to bring in some relations with Naruto

Tsukama is a random character I made up for this

Not sure to make the next chapter a time skip or have it be another one building on this naruto. I'll think about it

Trust me, things will be explained as the story goes on

I was originally going to have Kiba spar with Naruto but since I chose to have it go by alphabetical order, by last name, it ended up with Naruto vs Ino.

Remember this is early Naruto since it was when he first started the academy so that is why Sakura and Ino have short hair

Now I know that some readers will ask about a possible pairing. To let everyone know, I have not thought about that at all. And before someone says I made Satsuki for that purpose, that is not the case, I made Sasuke female on a whim. Felt like it would be interesting to write a female Sasuke but this does NOT mean that she is a solid choice as a pairing. Just to let you know

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