Disclaimer: Naruto would be a little different in case you're wondering ( that's the point of a fanfic isn't it ?). He will use his head a little and make some practical or rational decisions (no he won't be genius like Shikamaru . He'll just have normal thinking process like average people .Also he won't be super powerful. He'll gradually gain power and will not be an almighty god).

Chapter-1 Everyday life

It was a regular morning in Konohagakure, also known as the village hidden in the leaves, as konoha was located in the land of fire the weather was mostly warm all year round.

The village barely received any cold in winter. A distinct feature of the land of fire was it's vegetation among all hidden villages konoha was surrounded by huge swathe of forests, most of them of natural origin but some forest were the courtesy of the first Hokage (shodaime) of the village Senju Hashirama belonging to the illustrious Senju clan who had co-founded the village along with the a very powerful shinobi some argued even slightly stronger than the shodaime himself, the genius of Uchiha clan, Uchiha Madara. Not only the surroundings of the village were a forest cover but most of the land of fire had similar huge forests.

Naturally the amount of forest meant a very great or bad monsoon depending on the person you asked.

This was all supposed to be general knowledge or not if someone was to ask a batch of really young children that were attending the konoha Ninja Academy. As their sensei( instructor) droned about the geography of their country intermixed with some brief history, a general overview of most of the kids paid attention or tried hard to which could be more than one asked for considering they were 6 years old and restlessness came to them as second nature, a small group of kids were outright distracted.

This group consisted of a black haired boy with shoulder length hair tied in a spiky ponytail. He wore a short-sleeved grey T-shirt along with brown tracks and a pair of his clan's traditional silver hoop earrings. There was a rudimentary Nara clan symbol at the front of his shirt. The boy was obviously a Nara, to be precise he was Nara Shikamaru who was currently much to his instructor's annoyance was sleeping beyond any care.

Beside him was his best friend Akimichi Choji who was a light brown haired plump kid, very gentle and considerate if not a bit shy in nature. He was dressed in shirt of green and light green colour along with blue tracks and hda swirl markings on both of his cheeks as per his clan tradition. He was busy finding his packet of chips that he had misplaced somewhere in his bag, besides him sat another brown haired kid he was wearing a beige shirt and light blue short had a red inverted triangle marking on both of his cheeks, giving it away that he belonged to the Inuzuka clan. He was Inuzuka kiba , a troublesome child by the looks of it apparently he was playing with his dog called akamaru and finally a short distanced away sat a spiky blonde haired kid. The kid had three whiskers on each of his cheeks, deep sky blue eyes. He was wearing a plain white shirt that had the swirl symbol, a symbol that practically all leaf shinobi(s) had at their back of the issued vests of chunin rank and above, along with a blue short trouser.

The boy was the resident jinchuriki not that he knew of or for that matter the entire current generation courtesy to the order of third hokage who had made it an S- class secret and anyone found revealing the secret would be punished severely i.e. a minimum of 25 years imprisonment or even harsher punishment even death. But this did not stop all those who knew ,to speak ill of the kid, they hated him with fierce passion and held him responsible for death of their loved ones and destruction that the nine tales demon, the kyuubi-no-yoko had caused. Naturally they found their ways around the law issued by the third warning their kids and like a domino effect the influence was huge enough that the kid was cut-off from his generation kids too, not that any of them had any inclination of this truth it was just that "the kid was bad" according to the kids of civilian background and "not worthy of association" according to kids of shinobi clan in the shinobi ranks some held similar notion in regards to the kid while some were not of that thinking but even those were apathetic to the blonde. Although they believed their leader Sandaime's words that the kid was not the demon , the demon was sealed inside him. Similar to how a kunai was sealed inside a storage scroll and the kid was harmless but the kid had no connection to them hence not their concern, "out of their eyes out of their thoughts" philosophy if you had to put a name on their thought process.

Currently the kid was looking out of the window as to what he was looking at was a mystery. The kid was known as uzumaki naruto, the village outcast, the upcoming prankster if some of his fail attempts were taken in consideration. It was quite clear naruto had a fierce pranking streak and given a few years he would cause chaos in the village which was also the reason the third had put naruto in academy so that he could concentrate that energy into something positive and maybe build positive relations with the rest of his peers of his age.

'tak','tak','tak','tak' sound was produced suddenly when four pieces of chalk had hit 4 of the children in the class simultaneously thrown by their instructor who had his hand in a swung motion . He had brown hair that he kept in a ponytail, dark eyes and had a scar that ran across the bridge of his nose. He wore the standard Konoha shinobi outfit complete with forehead protector, sandals, and flak jacket and his sleeves were rolled up about ΒΌ of the way. This was their instructor Umino Iruka or Iruka sensei. As the class turned to see who had incurred the wrath of their sensei.

Their sensei spoke up 'Shikamaru wake up, kiba cut it out this not a playing field , Chouji and naruto!'. While the former three looked at their sensei albeit Shikamaru rubbing his eyes, Kiba looking annoyed and Chouji a bit embarrassed. The latter of the group if you could call it the group was still looking outside the window evidently fascinated with something to be more accurate by a cat masked shinobi petting a cat that had climbed a the tree in the academy training field. By the looks of it the cat was probably frightened after getting up the tree and the kunoichi (female ninja) was calming the cat down by petting it. The cat masked shinobi had long purple hair and was dressed in proper ANBU attire and had a katana strapped to her back from the looks of it.

'Aren't anbu supposed to super duper elite ? aren't they all about being sneaky and super powerful and doing impossible stuff like protecting princesses and royalties, creating god level jutsu , beating villains with just their pinky finger and eating free meals without getting caught ?

But sure is amazing, it's rare to see a neko-chan (the ANBU) petting a neko-chan.'

While the blonde was busy pondering and getting amused by the little observation a few metres away the ANBU operative felt somewhat irritated as if someone had complimented her but made a very ridiculous remark as well. Shrugging the feeling off she had more important stuff to do that was petting this adorable kitten . The kitten adorably meowed in her lap.

' Oh my god! cute, freaking cute, cute, cute, I should keep it . right ? I mean I can't take care of it but still what to do ? what to do ? if I let her go and then some stray dog kills her, I won't be able to sleep . I should find the mama of this kitten right ? ' her thought process was interrupted by her captain exasperated voice that came through her earpiece ' Neko! neko report ? '.

She responded by placing her right hand's index finger on her mic located at the base of her neck ' What ? taicho I was in the middle of something'.

' Any update on the mission ? '

' The mission target is safe as usual and currently in the academy in his class.' there was a hint of irritation in her voice as she answered back.

' Anyways remind me why are you sitting on the tree and that to; visible to all ?'

' There was a helpless kitten on the tree I was getting her down' she replied with no hesitation at all. The captain a bit confused and irritated by her response.

' Tell me what is more important the priority of our mission or a worthless kitten ?'. Apparently it was wrong question to ask as she said the kitten because it was a helpless and cute little thing . Also she pointed out her watch was almost over and it was weasel's turn to babysit Uzumaki-san.

"Ugh! women and their weird priorities" the taicho grumbled out but it seemed he had forgotten to mute his mic. Suddenly he heard neko responding in a sickly sweet voice 'I didn't hear what you said taicho. COULD YOU REPEAT IT FOR ME ?' .

'No-...noth...Nothing. Just saying weasel will be there you're relieved. Go home. Good work today Ne-...neko'. There was a hint of fright in his voice as he instantly answered back.

Meanwhile back in the class. Naruto felt as though the temperature of the room had fallen by 20 degrees. He could swear he felt chills as he turned his head away he saw his sensei standing beside him . His gaze dark his right foot tapping in a constant rhythm it was obvious he was angry . Naruto immediately said in a frantic voice 'sensei, I um...I can explain.' Iruka was not pleased at all and he moved forward to deliver a finger flick on the blonde's forehead. He immediately squatted down rubbing his forehead clearly exaggerating his pain in hopes of not a repeat performance by his sensei.

'All four of you pay attention and do not get distracted anymore.' Iruka said as he descended down to take his place and continue his lesson.

After a long two hour class the students were given a lunch break. While some left the classroom most of the students decided to eat with their friends. Naruto neither having any "friends" so to speak of nor having lunch decided to just observe his surroundings. He saw the Yamanaka heir eating alongside her friend who had surprisingly pink hair. Naruto thought to himself 'wouldn't hair like that be noticable from like miles away ? But I can hardly be critical my hair also stands out a lot'. He noticed another figure in the corner dark hair , he had the Uchiha crest on the back of his black t-shirt and he wore dark navy short trousers. He seemed a bit aloof as a result and looked quite out of the element.

'Bet he doesn't have any social skills which is why he is sitting alone. Huh'. Sasuke Uchiha another prodigy of the powerful Uchiha clan. "Mr. Popular".

Even though Naruto was somewhat accurate in his assumption yet he wasn't as he saw most of the other kids gravitating towards a Sasuke and the said aloof guy actually actively participating in conversations.

'So much for me calling him a loner, huh. Buddy is dripping char-charis...what's the stupid word... can't remember. Forget it . Point is he is after all the Uchiha who are a well known powerful clan . They mostly form the police of the village and serve as internal security . Not only that even a clueless person like I know of his elder brother, Itachi was it ? I have heard a lot of people call him that he might even become our future hokage. Apparently he broke a lot of records for a lot of different things.'

Naruto looked around and saw a shy girl mumbling something. She had pale white eyes, short bob-cut type blue hair and very well dressed as well. ' Another rich clan kid I suppose ? She seems harmless and probably nice. A bit weird but who cares ? People think of me as a weirdo as well.' Finally he noticed a very stoic boy who had shades on. His lower face covered by his high collar kid looked quite creepy if naruto was to be honest and he thought he must be imagining as he saw grey clouds on the kid as if the other kid was in a constant depression.

Naruto used his time looking around at different people and things in the class. Eventually break got over and their sensei retuned. After all there classes were over the kids returned to their homes. Naruto was also walking back to his place as he heard all the people whispering something. It was obvious they were saying something regarding him. His hands tightened into fists as he walked on. He couldn't for the life of him figure out why they always reacted to him like that. They treated him as if he was a plague; no one saw him, if they did see him they always said something harsh to him and told him untrue things, called him names. Same thing happened to him when he went to buy stuff ,most of them did not want to sell it to him. His thoughts turned even more morose as he remembered when he got kicked out of the orphanage , before he had his own place given to him by his 'Sandaime - jiji', that was a dark 3 months .

Naruto was too proud to accept anything of this sort to anyone else but he had to admit having to stay on the street , scavenging for food from bins and miscellaneous places was probably the harshest thing he had encountered up till now. His thoughts turned for better when he heard a ramen shop owner called Teuchi calling his name.

'Hello teuchi jiji.' he said jovially. Teuchi and his daughter Ayame were the only people besides his Sandaime jiji that actually liked him. In fact Teuchi was the first person besides his Sandaime jiji to treat him with kindness. Just earlier when he was recalling these moments he remembered how this kind ramen shop owner was also a part of it, the better part. He was the one who had offered him ramen to eat when he had caught a dirty looking tired boy drenched in rain looking through the bins behind his shop hoping to find something edible to eat.

Coincidentally, the Third Hokage had dropped there for a meal, a few minutes later. He had talked to the Hokage after which Naruto had landed himself an apartment. He was really indebted to teuchi jiji and which is why he was a frequent customer of the shop. He walked up to the shop and took a seat and decided he might as well have his dinner here. '

2 bowls of miso-pork soup ramen and 3 bowls of beef ramen please' .

'So how was your day ?' asked Ayame. She was a brown haired girl 3 years older than Naruto. She had hazelnut eyes, her hair was tied by a cloth and she wore plain clothes and had an apron on.

'She definitely takes after her Kaa-san. No disrespect to Teuchi jiji but he looks a very a strict and kind of scary. Plus he gets all weird whenever a boy around her age shows up. He starts acting all crazy and scary with all his tirade about "how he would die before he would let Ayame marry him". It's seriously scary. ' This was also a reason why his stall was not much popular that and the fact that Naruto showed up here to eat ramen from time to time.

To the onlookers Ayame looked quite comical, a 9 year old helping her father to cook but to her it was how the daughter and father could bond as her mother had died during her birth, her father was the only family she had.

But back to the blonde kid who was patiently waiting for his order. 'It was meh. I would rather have slept all day in my bed than attend the slow pace lecture on what makes Konoha great. We get it, our village is awesome, but can't they mix slow lectures with some awesome training too ? Taijutsu and throwing practice starts in our next year. Only thing interesting is we get to unlock our chakra in about 3 months. Till then we have to survive more history, geography ,reading and whatnot.' She sweat dropped on listening to the whining of the blonde kid.

'You know it was only few weeks since you started going to the academy and this is quite normal no ?'

'2 bowls of mis-pork soup ramen coming up'. Teuchi brought the ramen and placed it in front of him. 'Dig in naruto. I tried some changes in the recipe. Eat up and tell me how it is compared to previous one'. His stomach made a rumbling noise as he took in the flavorful scent coming from the ramen. He picked up the chopsticks to taste this new ramen. The noodles were the typical Teuchi style, long ,perfect thickness and absolutely beautiful. The broth however was a bit different it was surprisingly light. There was a hint of acidity to it that really helped in cutting through the heavy feeling from the the pork. There was also a bit of spice that hit you afterwards and that heavy flavour of miso was just the perfect complement.

Naruto felt his soul leaving to heaven, 'It's amazing teuchi-jiji definitely better than the previous one. If only I could eat this everyday' he in an earnest manner. Teuchi nodded with a smile and motioned him to continue. After naruto finished his meal and payed for it ,he thanked Ayame-chan and teuchi-jiji for the meal and left for his home.

Naruto's home was located in the seedy part of the village , his district was close to the red light area located in the village. Poorly built and run down houses were a common feature in his area. The area was dirty and the atmosphere screamed of poverty unlike some clean areas of the village. The people were more active at night time than the day, Naruto's area of residence was popular for cheap bars mostly for civilians and even more popular for something else though that was only known by the locals . The area was notorious for drug dealing and thefts but he was still too small to understand this now . All he knew was people of his area were poor and not really nice considering some held the same grudge like others had for him. While others had a very bad vibe to them and it seemed it was better to avoid them.

He moved to his apartment complex, and started ascending the mossy and creaking wooden stairs to the third floor where he had a small one bedroom kitchen which he called home. Naruto reached the front of his door, fished out the key from his pocket and unlocked and entered inside. He flicked the lights on, and proceeded to remove his sandals.

His home was built in the conventional style. An extremely small passage at the entrance usually provided for the getabako ( place where you remove your shoes) and a tataki (foreground - where people usually sit while removing their shoes) . Ahead the small passage was his single sized bed placed at the extreme corner to the right . A small work desk placed against the wall just opposite to his bed near the window, adjacent to it was a decent sized but old wardrobe. To the left of his bed , a few meters away was his small bathroom and his kitchen was adjacent the bathroom wall , left of the entrance passage ;ending just before a few steps shy of the workbench and a small dining table placed vertically that demarcated his kitchen and his living - cum -bedroom combined.

Naruto placed his shoes at the front and walked to his wardrobe to get his nightwear out and finally sleep as he had nothing better to do so might as well turn in early. He didn't bother to take a shower because he never had hot water, it was always cold and he didn't feel like being chilled to the bone especially at the evening time. He wore his ridiculous pajamas and shirt and placed his sleeping cap. His clothes had small faded pandas as a design on them and were mended from places, easily perceivable they were second hands but he didn't care much about that thing. He switched off the lights and got under his blanket looking at the ceiling his hands placed behind his head. There was a solemn atmosphere almost melancholic as Naruto stared at the ceiling under the darkness . An audible frustrated noise of 'tch' could be heard as he shifted and closed his eyes and went to sleep.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Hey, guys never wrote anything before in my life. It's my first piece of story. I like anime and so decided to try my hand writing a fan fiction . To be honest never fully completed Naruto used to skip fillers and stuff and because of my exams left it at the end. Never got the inclination to complete it after that but I still like Naruto. so here you go, criticism and reviews will be much appreciated.

' text in Bold and Italicized and in single apostrophe ' - represents words spoken aloud.

' text in simply Bold and in single apostrophe ' - represents inner thought process or inner monologue

" text in Bold and Italicized with double apostrophe " - represents words spoken aloud that is not specifically the speaker's belief but is being referenced as direct quotation. In some cases it represents titles/ or tags that is being assigned as a descriptive persona. Depends on the context in which they were used.

text in only Bold - represents some important words and their meanings as I tried to mix in some Japanese so that reader is reminded that he is still reading Naruto, the words and elements are of Naruto and using them might give a more informal feel. Sorry if I disrespected anyone with this but I truly am a noob.