Chapter 2: Truth And Academy
It's been four years since that fateful day, where Naruto found out about everything. Since that day Naruto had been training like crazy, first he learned the basic three academy jutsu, then he learned Shadow Clone Jutsu which helped him quite alot in training. No one, other than Kurenai and his tenants, knows the full extent of his abilities and skills, not even the hokage but they knows that Naruto is strong, infact too strong for someone his age, but that's to be expected as he was trained by Minato, Kushina, Hiruzen, Kakashi, Kurenai and his godparents.
Speaking of his godparents, his Godfather was Jiraiya of the Sannin, the legendary toad sage and a legendary pervert for which he got beat up by Kushina when Naruto invited him into his mindscape as he spied on her when she was alive in a hotspring. He was the current spy master of konoha and had to be out of the village for that, so he could protect his village from any invasion that might happen, he was also the author of the most hated book (or rather smut) by the female population, The Icha Icha series. When he told Naruto that he was Naruto's Godfather, he first got a hard kick where it hurt the most.
His Godmother was Tsunade Senju of the Sannin, the best medic and strongest Kunoichi in the shinobi world, she was also a legendary sucker at betting and an alcoholic. When she found out that her Godson was alive and she was told a lie of his death, she did the best thing that anyone in her position would do, she beat up both the hokage and Jiraiya to a bloody pulp.
He was trained in Ninjutsu by Kakashi, Jiraiya, Minato, Hiruzen, Tsunade and Kushina, in Sealing Arts he was trained by Kushina, Minato and Jiraiya, in Medical Ninjutsu he was trained by Tsunade, in Kenjutsu he was taught by Kushina, in Taijutsu he was trained by Minato, in history of konoha and ninja world, tactics, strategies and politics he was taught by Hiruzen and Minato and Genjutsu was taught by Kurenai, though she was also trained in Ninjutsu and Taijutsu by others.
Since he could use all the chakra natures, he was trained by all of his teachers in their own chakra natures, Kakashi trained him in lightning nature, Minato trained him in wind nature, Jiraiya trained him in fire and earth nature, Tsunade and Kushina trained him in water nature and Hiruzen gave him tips, though since Naruto had Sage of Six Paths memories and knowledge, it was rather easy for him in learning. He soaked up everything they taught him like a sponge whether it was Ninjutsu, Sealing Arts, Medical Ninjutsu, Kenjutsu or Genjutsu. As for his sub elements and dōjutsu, Naruto trained from some scrolls and from Sage's memories and from the tailed beasts.
But that doesn't matter right now as we find Naruto, Hiruzen, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Kurenai in the hokage office as they got ready to reveal Naruto's heritage to the village, "Are you ready, Naruto-kun?" Hiruzen asked.
"Yep Jiji! I'm ready, let's go," Naruto asked. He had changed alot in the last four years, he now stood 5'4", his hair were spiky and had jaw length bangs on either side of his face, his face was now more sharper with no baby fat, which was the result of his training, all in all he looked a mini version of his father if you remove the whiskers. As for his clothes he wore a black shinobi full-sleeved shirt, black ANBU pants, a white hood with three red strips on either side of his sleeves, and a pair of shinobi sandals.
"Alright then let's go," Jiraiya said and all of them went to the council meeting chambers, where the Hokage called for the meeting.
Council Chamber
The council chamber was a round room with three sections in it, first section was the Hokage section, second section was the Shinobi section, in which all the Clan Heads, jounin commander and the ANBU commander sad and the third section was the Civil section, in which all the elders and the civilians seated.
On the Shinobi section side, there sat all the clan heads and commanders except for the Uchiha clan as it was massacred by one of it's own member in a single night about a year ago, the person who slaughtered every member of that clan was Itachi Uchiha, the greatest prodigy among the Uchiha clan after Madara Uchiha.
On the farthest side of the shinobi council sat the ANBU commander who was wearing a Dragon mask, a large black coat and ANBU uniform, on his eight side sat Tsume Inuzuka, she was the Clan Head of the Inuzuka clan, on her right sat Hiashi Hyuga, he was the clan head of the Hyuga clan, on his right side sat Shibi Aburame, clan head of the Aburame clan, on his right side was the clan head of the Yamanaka clan, Inoichi Yamanaka, on his right side was the clan head of the Akimichi clan, Choza Akimichi, on his right side sat the Jounin commander, Konoha's greatest stratigiest, clan head of the Nara clan and one of the most laziest person on the planet, Shikaku Nara.
Everyone was discussing among themselves about what could have happened for the Hokage to call an emergency meeting. Suddenly the chamber's doors opened and walked in Hokage, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Kurenai and a younger version of the Fourth Hokage who had whisker marks, through which everyone recognised him as Naruto Uzumaki, causing the civilian side to fume at him, as they thought that the demon was impersonating their beloved Fourth Hokage and mocking them not that they would voice it out loud in front of the Hokage.
Hiruzen didn't even reached his seat, when one of the elders, Koharu asked him, "Hiruzen, why did you call this meeting?"
At that instant Hiruzen flared his KI causing everyone to sweat bullets, while Koharu was having trouble in breathing. When the Hokage was seated on his seat he turned toward her and looked coldly at her, "You will do well to remember this elder Koharu that this is my village and I'm the Hokage, you all answer to me, not the other way around understood, so next time before you demand something remember you work for me and you will do as I say, when I say no matter what. And Koharu, that is Hokage-sama to you, next time remember this as I am your superior," Hiruzen said in a dangerous voice while also leaking a small amount of KI at the council members, which caused all the elders and civilians to shiver in fright and the shinobi side to grin, as they could see that the God of Shinobi is back in business and he is not going to take any shit from anyone.
"Hokage-sama, may I ask why is that thing here?" a fat civilian spat in digust while pointing at Naruto, but soon he lost all the color from his face as he was bombarded by a heavy amount of KI from Kakashi, Kurenai, Jiraiya, Tsunade and Hiruzen.
"His name is Naruto councilman, you'd do well to remember that and he is here because this meeting concerns him," Hiruzen coldly said before he continued, "Today I am going to reveal his heritage to you all and you will ask any questions after I am finished, is that understood?" he said daring for anyone to disagree.
"Naruto-kun's full name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, son of Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze, Red Death of Konoha," gasps could be heard all around the council, before anyone could even say anything, Hiruzen continued, "That's right, you've all always praised both of his parents, while you hated him, scorned him for something that he had no control over, you all dishonored the last wish of his father for seeing him as hero for keeping the Nine Tailed Fox at bay but you all did the exact opposite, I'm very disappointed in everyone in this village except for a few people and I'm sure his parents also would have been if they saw how their own son was being treated inside his own vilage. And before any of you idiots deny that or something, I have the marriage certificate of his parents that was held in secret, only attended by me, Jiraiya and Kakashi, along with Naruto-kun's birth certificate and blood tests," he presented the copy of the documents to the council which was inspected thoroughly by the idiots. Soon after everything was confirmed council was in uproar, demanding why they weren't informed about this, or saying something along the lines that if they had known they would have never treated him like this but all of things came to an end when Naruto started speaking.
"You know I think my father's faith in this village was misplaced when he thought that his last dying wish would be fulfilled. Almost everyone in this village see me as a demon and accuse me of things that I've never done before but for what, for something that I had no control over or for not having a choice in the matter, but I was never the one to hold grudges against anyone no matter what they have done to me because if I did, then I'm no better than anyone else in this village and I also understand why have you all treated me like this but did anyone ever stop to think how I have felt, that I have feelings too, did anyone of you know how much it hurt to hear people call you names like demon, murderer, or thing, never ever acknowledging you. Tell me something if the Fox was sealed inside of you and you'd been treated like me how would you feel or better yet imagine if it had been your child instead of me, would you have treated them like me or let others treat them like me and beat them up, the answer is no," Naruto said in a shaky voice and everyone in the council chamber was silent, some had the look of guilt on their faces, some were disappointed in themselves at how they treated him and some had a look of total horror on their face while Naruto's friends and family had a sad look on their faces, but Naruto wasn't finished yet.
"You all say that if you guys had known who my parents are you would have treated me differently, if what you are saying then that means that nowadays names hold more value than the person himself. If that is the case then it is not the konaha that the First Hokage created, he created the village so that people can treat each other equally whether it be civilian or a clan head, to give everyone a second chance, if him or any of the other Hokage saw the state of the village now, they will be very disappointed,"
"Now as for calling me a demon, let me tell you a something and then you will answer a question of mine. What I'm going to tell you about is the story about how the Tailed beasts came to be. Long ago before the shinobi world was even created, there was a terrible demon, it was a walking, breathing definition of catastrophe, it was called the Ten Tails, it destroyed many planes, mountains, nations, killed anyone that got in it's path. When it looked like it was the end of the world, a human fought the beast, that human was none other the Sage of Six Paths, he fought the beast for a long time and it was a very hard battle, neither one giving an edge to the other, their battle literally shaped the very eath, but after sometime the sage came to a realisation, he realised that the beast was too strong to be killed, so he did the next best thing he could, he sealed the spirit of the beast into himself and became the very first jinchuuriki and sealed it's husk in the moon."
"The sage knew that after his death, the ten tails will be released again and wrack havoc, so in order to prevent that he separated the beast's chakra into nine different beings and created the nine tailed beasts, everyone of them had their own traits, quirks and feelings. When he created them he hoped that humanity will coexist with them and live peacefully. He even ordered them to watch over humans and help them in order to presevee the peace that he achieved by uniting everyone as their guardians, but every human saw them as nothing but mindless animals with tremendous powers and tried to use them for their own benefits, because of which all the tailed beast went into hiding, well that was until the First Hokage captured them against their own will and distributed them among the other villages, which I think was the most foolish thing he could have ever done, but he did it for a noble cause, he did it to secure peace among the elemental nations but it only started conflicts and wars among them for increasing their powers."
"Didn't anyone of you find it weird that the Nine Tailed Fox never attacked any other village except Konoha, well that was because both time he was being controlled. The first time when he attacked was during the battle between the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha, at that time he was being controlled by Madara and the second time when he attacked was on the day of my birth, when he was forcefully extracted from my mother by a masked Uchiha who claimed himself to be Madara Uchiha and put the fox under a strong genjutsu and controlled him into attacking the village. And that's right my mother, Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze, was the second jinchuuriki of the fox, while Mito Uzumaki being his first jinchuuriki when she sealed the fox inside her during the battle between Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha. Now let me ask you this, tell me who is the real demon here in this world, those tailed beast who were created for the sole purpose to protect humanity and have never attacked anyone unless they were provoked or controlled or us human who do nothing but fight, start wars and crave for power for nothing but their own personal agendas?" Naruto asked, everyone in the council room was stunned by the level of maturity that Naruto showed and the new information that was provided to them by Naruto.
"And one more thing, the way everyone treat the last Uchiha, Sasuke Uchiha, will cause some major problem for the village. You all treat him like he is some kind of royality, increasing his already large arrogance and ego more, but did anyone ever stop to think of the consequences it will cause, you are doing nothing but creating another Madara Uchiha, who was nothing but a power hungry maniac just how Sasuke is becoming, I'm not saying that you should treat with hatred either but I'm saying that treat him like you treat any other human," he said before he turned toward the hokage and asked if he could leave now.
"Everyone, this meeting is adjourned, all of you go home and think on what has transpired here," Hiruzen and left the council room with Naruto and others.
Namikaze Compound
After returning back to his family compound, Naruto and the others sat down and couldn't help but sigh in relief, "Well that went better than I imagined," Hiruzen said.
"Yeah! I know what you mean, I initially thought they were going to cause much ruckus over this and would very strongly deny Naruto his own heritage. But I think it didn't happen because of Naruto," Jiraiya said.
"Yeah, I agree with you, good job brat in shutting up those idiots," Tsunade said.
"Thanks Baa-chan," Naruto said with a cheeky grin, as he knew how much she hate to be called old, while others simply snicker but shut up because of the look the that Tsunade gave them, which promised a very painful and slow death.
"I'm not old brat," Tsunade said with a tick mark on her forhead.
"Yes and I'm not natural blonde," Naruto retorted causing Tsunade's eyebrows to twitch furiously out of irritation.
"Well I must say you did a very good job in the meeting Naruto, and I think what you said about Sasuke is correct too, I have seen how he behaves toward the shinobi of the village, demanding them to teach him," Hiruzen said in order to change the topic and save the young boy whom he consider as his own grandson from Tsunade's wrath.
"Well what I said was true, as the way they treat him, they are doing nothing but increasing his already rather gigantic ego more and causing him to become even more of a power hungry maniac then he already is," Naruto said honestly before he turned toward Kakashi and asked, "Nii-san, are up for a Kenjutsu spar?"
"Yes, if you want we can have a Kenjutsu spar," Kakashi said with an eyesmile.
"Great," Naruto said, as everyone started to the training ground behind the house, Naruto called Kurenai, "Kure-chan, can I talk to you in private," Naruto said nervously, Kurenai first looked at her long time crush and thought about what it could be that he wanted to talk about but shrugged her shoulders before she nodded, seeing he got his answer he turned toward the others and said, "You guys should go to the training ground, we will be coming shortly," at that they just nodded and went outside, although they had an idea about what could it be that he wanted to talk about, afterall it was not a secret that both of them had crush on each other, and everyone knew about it, well everyone except those two.
Now that he was alone with Kurenai, he was feeling rather nervous, he had called her to speak privately because he wanted to confess his feelings for her but now he was serously regretting it, numerous questions were running through his mind, what if she don't feel same about him, what if she says that the age difference was big, what if-,
"Oh for the love of god just tell her. I swear you're just like your father, when it comes to fighting there is no one more brave than you but when it comes to a girl you act like a wimp," Kushina's voice came and it sounded like she was annoyed.
"Mom!" Naruto asked in surprise.
"No I'm someone else. Ofcourse it's me, who else do you have inside your mind other than me, your father and the Tailed Beasts," she said.
"Sorry, I'm just nervous," Naruto confessed.
"I know but don't be, I know that she feels the same way about you," she said reassuringly.
"Okay," Naruto said to his mother before looking at Kurenai who was looking at him with a confused look on her face.
'Well here goes nothing,' "Kure-chan, there is something that I wanted to tell for sometime now," he started, "I don't know how to say this, other than I love you Kure-chan, I love you more than anything, you are the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, your eyes are the most beautiful thing that I or anyone could ever see."
At this point Kurenai was looking at Naruto with wide eyes and tears running down her face, she could hardly believe what she was hearing, the guy she love more than anything was confessing to her that he loved her.
Naruto waited for a few moments for her answer while looking at her expression, when she didn't said anything, he assumed that she doesn't feel the same way and his mother was wrong, so with a heavy heart he again started, gaining her attention once again, "It's okay Kure-chan if you don't feel the same way, I just wanted to say that. You can forget what I said and we will ac-", whatever he wanted say was cut off, when he felt a soft pair of lips on his, for a moment he looked at her with wide eyes before he closed his eyes and kissed her back, pouring all the love he had for her in that kiss, sending her a message. After few moments of a passionate and full of love kiss, they both separated and a silence fall over them.
This time it Kurenai who broke the silence, "I love you too Naru-kun, you are everything that I want in a guy and more," she said, she was about to say something else but she was cut off when she felt Naruto kiss her once again.
After the kiss ended Naruto rested his forehead against her's, "We should go outside for my spar with Nii-san before they come inside," Naruto said, at which she nodded and went outside toward the training ground along with him while holding his hand.
Others noticed that both Naruto and Kurenai had come outside in the training ground, before all of them smirked except for a grumbling Tsunade, who was handing her money to Kakashi, when they saw them holding hands, "Well look at that, finally the love birds have arrived, we were wondering if you were doing something in there," Jiraiya while letting out a perverted giggle, which was soon followed by the peverted giggle of both Kakashi and Hiruzen, while both Naruto and Kurenai blushed at the implications.
"Shut up Ero-sennin, and keep your perverted thoughts to yourself," Naruto yelled.
"Damnit gaki, when will you stop calling me that," Jiraiya asked.
"I will stop calling you that when you stop being a pervert and that means never," Naruto retorted.
"Now, now no bickering you two," Kakash said.
"Let's get started shall we," Naruto said, as he and Kakashi both unsealed their respective swords from the storage seal on their hands. Kakashi was holding a white chara sabre while Naruto was holding a beautiful katana, it's blade was of red color while it's handle was black color. His katana was able to conduct chakra as well as chakra nature.
"I'll be the proctor of this match. The rules are simple everything is allowed except for killing and maiming, first one who draws the blood will be the winner," Jiraiya said, "Are both fighters ready?" Kakashi nodded as revealed his sharingan and took his fighting stance, while Naruto also took his own fighting stance and nodded, "Start"
As soon as Jiraiya started the fight both Naruto and Kakashi were in the middle of the ground with their swords locked in the blink of an eye and thus began a fast yet controlled, deadly yet beautiful dance. Kakashi slashed his sword diagonally at Naruto, but it was blocked by him, this time it was Naruto who attacked, he swung his sword toward Kakashi's head but Kakashi blocked before kicking Naruto away, who corrected himself and landed a few feet away from Kakashi thus gaining some distance.
They both looked at each other again before they again rushed toward one another, Kakashi swung his sword at Naruto's chest but Naruto blocked it and kicked Kakashi on his sides, sending him flying, not giving a chance to Kakashi, Naruto went after him, when Naruto was right above Kakashi, he brought his sword downward at Kakashi who somehow dodged it but Naruto took the chance of this and stabbed his sword into the ground and put his right hand on the edge of the hilt of his sword and spun around using the sword hilt for support kicking Kakashi in the chest.
Kakashi corrected himself in the air and landed gracefully on the ground, he exhaled a slow breath before he looked at Naruto, "Well Naruto, now that warm up is over, why don't we get serious!" he asked with eyesmile.
"Sure, let's go," Naruto said before he disappeared from his position and appeared right above Kakashi while swinging his sword in a downward slash, which was blocked by Kakashi, Kakashi then swung his sword toward Naruto's sword but it was blocked as well, this went for a few minutes before Naruto swung his sword diagonally while adding his natural chakra along with wind chakra to his sword, which Kakashi saw and added his own chakra to his sword and was able to block but since Naruto's chakra was more potent and stronger than his, his guard was broken and got a small cut on his left arm, which indicated the end of their spar.
When the spar was going on, Kurenai was glad that she had been training with Naruto rather hard otherwise the speed at which both Naruto and Kakashi were going, it would've been rather difficult to keep up even for some jounin.
"That was a great spar Naruto, but I must ask you this, why didn't you used your dōjutsu during our spar," Kakashi asked and he was not the only one who was wondering this, because if he had used it then Naruto would have won the spar rather easily and fast.
"Well I didn't used it because I don't want to rely too much on my dōjutsu only and I want to train my natural eyes as well. Because if I completely rely on them then I would be at a disadvantage against some enemies," Naruto replied.
"Well said Naruto, but I must say you have improved in your kenjutsu," Hiruzen praised him, he was very proud of Naruto.
"Thank you Jiji," Naruto said, he then remembered something, something that he was working on for quite sometime, "Oh yeah nii-san, there is something that I want talk to you about which I almost forgot."
"What did you wanted to talk to me about?" Kakashi asked
"Well I found a way for you to activate and deactivate your sharingan in both eyes, but it will overwrite your DNA a bit, so I wanted to ask if you are interested?" Naruto asked, while Kakashi and others gained wide eyes.
"H-H-How will you be able to do that?" Kakashi asked still astonished by what he heard just a moment ago while Tsunade also looked interested in it as she was a medical ninja.
"Well since I can use Yin-Yang release and have more chakra than all of you have put together, I can do it, I even talked with mom, dad and the others, but only I can do this as it requires the person to use Yin-Yang release and a large amount of chakra, so are you interested!" Naruto replied.
"Yes!" that was the immediate response that Naruto got.
"Good then, I want you to lie down and show me your sharingan," Naruto said and Kakashi did as he was told. Naruto also activated his rinne-sharingan and put his hand on Kakashi's forehead and closed his eyes before they were shot open and he jerked his hand back from Kakashi's forehead in surprise, he looked at Kakashi, "Nii-san do you possess Mangekyō?" he asked, surprising Kakashi and those who were watching them.
"Yes Naruto, I do possess Mangekyō," Kakashi replied with a solemn look in his eyes as he recalled just how did he got it.
"Then am I assuming correct that everytime you use it causes a small bit of blindness in this eye!" Naruto asked, to which Kakashi nodded, "Then I have a solution for that too, I can give you the ultimate form of the sharingan to you, it is called Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, but remember this, it will increase your overall chakra level so you might want practice your chakra control and it will also give you some new abilities so you have to learn how to use them and control them," Naruto said, to which Kakashi eagerly nodded at the prospect of getting stronger and having more chakra.
Naruto once again put his hand over Kakashi's forehead, and started channeling his chakra in his hand,
"Yin-Yang Release: Creation Of All Things"
he yelled before both him and Kakashi were engulfed in a white colored chakra before it died down revealing both Kakashi and Naruto for everyone to see. All of them could feel that Kakashi's chakra level had increase by a huge margin. When Kakashi was seating upright all of them saw that Kakashi had sharingan in both eyes before they formed into Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, their design was just like his previous Mangekyō, they looked like three triangles wrapping around the pupil, similar to a pinwheel.
"Okay nii-san its done, so I want you to stop channeling chakra to them," Naruto said, Kakashi did as he was told and stopped the flow of chakra to his eyes and they turned back to their original black color, "So how are you feeling nii-san?" Naruto asked, while others were simply amazed by what they just witnessed.
"I'm feeling better Naruto, infact I'm feeling better than ever, I'm feeling stronger than I ever was and surprisingly peacefull," Kakashi replied.
"Well that is to be expected since your chakra level has increased by several times and for peacefull it seems that it has something to do with my chakra," Naruto said.
"Well let's go home since its getting late and tomorrow is Naruto's first day at the academy, so he needs rest," Hiruzen said, everyone nodded and said their goodbyes to Naruto and left until it was just Naruto and Kurenai.
"Kure-chan! Tomorrow I want you come whenever you are free after I come back from the academy as I want to teach you the sealing arts," Naruto said with smile.
"Sure Naru-kun, I wanted to ask you about teaching the art to me anyway," she replied with a smile before she kissed him and left via shunshin.
Next Day
Next day Naruto woke up, got ready and went to the Academy, when he reached inside his class he noticed that majority of the students were clan heirs. He entered his class and took a seat next to a sleeping boy with pineapple hairstyle and another boy sat next to him eating a bag of chips.
"Hi, my name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze," Naruto introduced himself to them.
"Hello, my name is Chozi Akimichi, nice to meet you," the boy who was eating introduced himself.
"Troublesome," the sleeping boy who had just woken up said with a sigh, "my name is Shikamaru Nara," he introduced himself.
"Can I sit with you guys?" Naruto asked them, which they answered by nodding there head.
After sometime the academy instructors came one of them was Iruka Umino, and another one was Mizuki assistant instructor. Rest of the day went with studies that Naruto already knew and could only describe the academy in one word; boring.
When the academy ended, Naruto quickly went toward his home, when he was walking down the path, he noticed that the all the villagers that he met were looking at differently, some were looking at him in awe, some were looking at him with guilt, while some in admiration and respect, hell some were even apologizing for treating him badly but Naruto brushed their apologies aside saying that there was no need and went home.
When Naruto reached home he saw that Kurenai was already there waiting for him, "Hi Kure-chan, you didn't wait for long right!" he asked when he reached her and opened the front door and went inside along with her.
"No Naru-kun, I just came so I didn't wait long," she replied, "So how was your first day at academy?" she asked.
"One word; boring," he said, "I already knew all the stuff that they were teaching and if you ask me the academy curriculum is messed up, they focus more on history and academic things than on field training," Naruto said while frowning as knew just how much it is needed for a ninja to have more field training than the knowledge of history.
"Yes I know but it is done by the civilian council so that their children could also become ninja," she said.
"Well, enough about this let's get started on my sealing arts training," Kurenai said with a cheerful smile.
"Sure let's get started, remember that sealing is the most complex and difficult art, but it is also the most versatile art as well, for fuinjutsu your calligraphy should be top notch as each stroke should be precise, one mistake and it could lead to a disastrous accident. So first we are going to perfect your calligraphy," Naruto said and got started on her training, guiding her whenever it was needed, helping her, this went each day both of them would first train in fuinjutsu, then start other training.
Three Years Later
Its been three years since Naruto has joined the academy, he had made some good friends in the academy, such as heir to the nara clan, Shikamaru Nara, he's probably the laziest person Naruto had ever met even more so than Kakashi which is saying something.
Chozi Akimichi, heir to the Akimichi clan who quickly became Naruto's eating partner, Shino Aburame, while he never talked much also became a good friend of Naruto, Kiba Inuzuka who was also the self proclaimed rival of Naruto.
There were some other kids in his class such as Ino Yamanaka, heir to the Yamanaka clan, Sakura Haruno but he didn't like them very much as they were nothing but pathetic fangirls of of the biggest emo Naruto had ever met, Sasuke Uchiha who did nothing other than brooding all day.
Today was the graduation day for the academy students to become genin. During his time in Academy, Naruto could easily say that he hated it as nothing of greater importance was taught in the Academy, but still he aced it with no one coming anywhere near his skills.
Right now we find a sleeping Naruto and Kurenai inside Naruto's room in his home. It was around a year ago when Naruto asked her to live with him, saying that he was feeling lonely at his home and wanted company, to which she happily agreed but even though they both had been living together for about a year now, they still haven't done anything other than kissing.
It was Kurenai who first woke up from the sun rays, she looked at Naruto and smiled, she still couldn't believe that she was living with him, she smiled as remembered when he asked her to live with him, he was so nervous that he couldn't even spoke a sentence without stuttering.
"Wake up Naru-kun, today you are going to be a ninja and you don't want to be late today," she said before she pressed her lips against his to wake him up and much to her delight he returned the kiss.
After they broke from the kiss they looked at each other in the eyes and smiled, there was a content silence between them before Naruto broke it, "Good morning Kure-chan," he said.
"Good morning Naru-kun," she said with a smile on her face, "Are you excited today for your graduation today Naru-kun!" she asked
"Yes Kure-chan, I am very excited, I finally get to be the ninja. Now we can go on lot's of missions together," he said in an excited tone.
"Good," she said, before she gave him a mock-glare and said, "Now get up mister or you are going to be late. I'll be downstairs in the kitchen making breakfast."
"Roger that," Naruto said while giving her a mock-salute making her giggle and then left toward the bathroom to get ready.
It was two hours later that Naruto reached Academy, when he reached it he saw the that almost all the students had arrived and were ready for the exam. It wasn't long before both the instructors arrived and started the graduation test, first was a written exam which Naruto completed within half an hour since he knew everything in the questio paper.
After the written test it was the accuracy test, one by one all the students were called, Shikamaru scored 5/10 in kunai throwing and 6/10 in shuriken throwing as he thought that it would too troublesome to try more, Chozi scored 7/10 and 6/10, Kiba scored 7/10 and 7/10, Shino scored 9/10 and 8/10, Hinata scored 9/10 and 9/10, Sakura scored 4/10 and 3/10, Ino scored 4/10 and 5/10. It was Sasuke's turn to throw weapons who scored 10/10 and 9/10 which got squeals from his fangirls, Sakura and Ino being the loudest.
Now it was Naruto's turn to throw them. He relaxed his stance and threw all ten kunais at once while secretly coating them with wind chakra, they hit all the targets and embedded deep in them. He did the same thing with shurikens and scored another perfect ten leaving an astonished crowd of teachers and students, the only one's who weren't surprised were Shikamaru, Chozi, Shino, Kiba and Iruka. After everyone got over their shock, Sasuke's fangirls quickly yelled something about Naruto cheating, while Sasuke himself fumed, but were completely ignored much to their annoyence.
Next part was taijutsu which was completely boring according to Naruto so he decided to take a nap until it was his turn. When his name was called he noticed that he was called out against Sasuke, who smirked thinking how he was going to make Naruto pay for showing him up in accuracy test.
When Iruka started the match Sauke got into the Uchiha intercepting fist style stance while Naruto just stood there completely relaxed, as if this was nothing but a joke to him which probably was true. Seeing this the Uchiha was enraged not only Naruto didn't took his stance, he was treating the whole thing as nothing but a nuisance.
Sasuke quickly rushed toward at Naruto with high genin speed, nothing too impresive in Naruto's eyes, and threw a punch at Naruto, who dodged it, this went for a while with Sasuke throwing punches and kicks and Naruto effortlessly dodging them, before Naruto got bored and punched the Uchiha in the stomach which sent him flying outside the fighting circle into a tree.
When Naruto was declared winner he started walking toward the other student when he heard Sasuke shout at him, when Naruto turned around to face Sasuke he saw that Sasuke was doing a series of handsigns which Naruto quickly recognised. He knew that if he dodged the jutsu then it will hurt the other students which was something he couldn't let happen so he stood in his place, when Sasuke finished the handseals and yelled the jutsu name,
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu"
Sasuke smirked when he saw that Naruto wasn't moving, but that smirk turned into shock after what Naruto did.
"Is it suppose to startle me that you can throw a measly fireball like this, get serious," Naruto said coldly which sent shivers down everyone's spine.
Naruto coated his hand with water chakra and slapped the incoming fireball away like it a bothersome fly, much to everyone's shock.
That shock quickly turned into a concern when those who knew Naruto, saw that he was angry, very angry. Naruto disappeared from his place and appeared in front of the shocked Uchiha, he grabbed Sasuke by throat and lifted him from the ground before he was slammed into the ground making a small crater giving a demonstration of his physical strength, courtesy of the blonde jinchuuriki, who was releasing a KI along with chakra to enforce it and was glaring at Sasuke.
"You should try to control your temper you pathetic excuse of a human being, you could've seriously hurt someone or worse if I hadn't intercepted that attack of yours," Naruto said while applying even more force than before, chocking the Uchiha, until he felt a hand on his shoulders. When he looked at the owner of the hand he saw that it was his jiji, the Third Hokage, who arrived when he felt Naruto releasing KI and chakra, and he was not the only one, there were some ANBU, clan heads, some council members, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Kakashi, Guy, Asuma and Kurenai, latter was looking at him worriedly. When they all arrived and demanded what was going on, Iruka quickly briefed them about what happened.
"Let him go Naruto-kun, I will deal with him," Hiruzen said while glaring at the downed Uchiha, while Naruto's parents were trying their best to calm Naruto down.
"Make sure that he learns his lesson, otherwise next time no one will be able to save him from me," Naruto coldly said before he let go of Sasuke who was taken by the ANBU toward the hospital.
"I'll make sure that he recieves the proper punishment for his actions today, but first let him complete his exams because I know that he will pass the exams and then there would be no way for the civilian council to protect him as he will be under my command," Hiruzen replied to which Naruto simply huffed, he still couldn't believe that civilians didn't heed his warning about Sasuke and never change their attitude toward him.
"Fine," Naruto said and left.
It was after two hours that the Uchiha arrived feom the hospital, completely patched up while glaring at Naruto hatefully, when the exams resumed. This time it was the ninjutsu portion, everyone was required to do a Tranformation Jutsu, Substitution Jutsu, and a Clone Jutsu, when it was Naruto's turn, he transformed into the Third Hokage, substituted himself with a chair and used Shadow Clone for clone much to the instructors surprise.
After everything was over and everyone was evaluated, Iruka called for their attention, "I am very proud to call myself your teacher, well all of you except for one," he said while glaring at Sasuke, who was squirming in his seat, "I know that all of you will make me proud, always remember that even if you all will have your jounin sensei, you can all still ask me for any kind help regarding your training,"
"Now time to announce the rookie of the year, Kunoichi of the year and dead last of the year," he said with excitement in his voice, "The rookie of the year of this batch is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, beating not only the record of prodigies like Kakashi Hatake and Itachi Uchiha, but also of his father's, the Fourth Hokage, who had the best record in the academy history up until now," he announced proudly after all Naruto was his favourite student, It about six months after Naruto joined the academy when Naruto and Iruka became very close, Naruto even showed Iruka his mindscape, where Iruka met Naruto's parents and tenants and after a quick explanation of what happened, he got Iruka out his fear and nervousness, after hearing the explanation, Iruka was shocked would saying that Jiraiya was a small pervert, he was so shocked that it took him about fifteen minutes to gather his bearings and then he bombarded poor Naruto with a huge amount of questions which were all answered, hell even Kurama apologized to him for the attack but Iruka waved it off when he learnt about the real reason behind the attack.
"The Kunoichi of the year is Sakura Haruna," Iruka said with a small amount of disgust in his voice, which no one noticed except for Naruto. Iruka was truly disgusted with her as she was totally crazed fangirl, who had no skill and didn't trained after academy, she only got the position because of her academic grades.
"The dead last of the year is Kiba Inuzuka," he announced before continuing, "All of you are required tomorrow for your team assignment. Class dismissed," he said and left the class.
After the announcement all the students left while also glaring at Sasuke for the stunt he pulled today, well all of the students except for his fangirls but even they were low in numbers since what he did today was the eye-opener for some of them except for Sakura, who was an idiotic banshee bitch.
To be continued...