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At last, we are at the chapter where Naruto and Namiko make their own debut. Yes it is a Time Skip. But don't worry, important events before this chapter will be shown using the famous S-Rank Jutsu known only by authors, Flashback no Jutsu.

Now to answer some reviews,

TheWateringWizard: Thank you for following my fic till now. Yes, Danzo is despicable and many of the events in the Naruto verse could have been avoided without him like Turning of Akatsuki (Yahiko's death) etc. But he also did it to protect Konoha. He did wrong but meant right, I suppose. He was the only one who had the perfect idea for Sasuke after he turned rouge, to kill him. Though he probably also wanted his Sharingan, Danzo was also an Uchiha fanboy that way.

Everyone is an Uchiha fan in Naruto verse. No wonder many fanfic authors potray him having a god complex. The only good thing that happened in Naruto in that case, was at the end Sasuke got the trash he always tried to avoid.

Well enough ranting, on to the Chapter.

"Speaking"

"YELLING"

"Bijuu/Summon speaking/ YELLING"

'Thinking'

'Bijuu/Summon Thinking'

Before I forget, I do not own Naruto.

Chapter 6: My Academy Class

Time Skip 12 Years

Sigh. Wearing a short-sleeved, tan kimono-like blouse with a dark embroidered border, held closed with a black obi, a dark short skirt and stockings that stopped at her thighs, the only thing Namiko could do while looking through her class, watching her friends' everyday antics in the academy, was sigh.

The first one was a boy sitting, or rather sleeping, on his desk just in front of her. The boy had his black hair in a spiky ponytail which made his head look like a pineapple. He was wearing a short-sleeved grey jacket with green-edged sleeves and the Nara clan's symbol on the back, under which was a green-lined mesh T-shirt. The boy, Shikamaru Nara, was from the famed Nara clan known for their ability to manipulate shadows. Sadly they were also known for their lethargic attitude. And as much of a genius Shikamaru was, he did also have their common lazy attitude. The guy found almost everything troublesome to the point that he only attended his exams enough to pass because the thought of picking up the pencil and writing was too troublesome to him. That was also why he was almost at the bottom of the class.

Right next to the slumbering Nara was a fa- plump boy eating from a bag of chips. He donned a green, short-sleeved Haori with a long, white scarf over a white shirt, with the kanji for "food" (食, shoku) on it. He had swirl like markings on his cheeks. The brown haired boy was called Chouji Akimichi, the sixteenth heir of the Akimichi clan, known for their ability to convert calories - to be read as fat - into chakra and manipulate the size of any part of their body. But even with this fearsome technique, Namiko would have given him the award of 'Being the sweetest person in the world' if not for the person sitting on her right, whom when she looked at made her sigh again. But back to Chouji, as described was really a sweet and innocent boy, who wouldn't even hurt a fly. Thats why he forfeited many of the practice spars. He didn't like fighting. Sometimes Namiko thought, how someone like him would become a ninja but then she knew how Chouji fought when he was encouraged enough, like whenever he was called fat.

Next to Chouji was a person, who used to be almost on the top of Namiko's 'Most annoying persons' list though currently the said person looked more irritated than her. She wore a purple outfit consisting of a high-collared blouse and matching apron skirt. The irritated blond was Ino Yamanaka from the Yamanaka clan of the mind walkers. They were able to invade anyone's mind to get any intelligence and also able to control their actions. Said fellow blond was irritated because she didn't get to sit next to the object of her affection, the class brooder, who currently topped her aforementioned list. She was also one of the loudest person in class bested by only one other person. Ino previously had a crush on Namiko's brother, Naruto, but because of his rather obvious attention on someone else, she changed boats and became a brooder admirer instead. She also was very weak in the ninja arts at one point. But improved a lot after Namiko's older sister, Shizune, started teaching in the academy and straightened many of the useless fan girls up.

After Ino, Namiko's thoughts changed to the 3rd loudest person in the class. The messy brown haired boy was Kiba Inuzuka with a white dog sitting on his head called Akamaru. Kiba's attire consisted of dark greyish pants reaching to his calves and a grey, hooded fur-lined coat, with the hood placed on his head. The Inuzukas were known for fighting alongside their canine partners and also for their increased olfactory senses making them exceptional trackers. Kiba, while being a loudmouth, was a good guy even though he did try to hit on her. He, like all other Inuzukas, had the pack mentality which made him to be a great trustworthy friend. His skills in Taijutsu, hand-to-hand combat, were great but when it came to written tests he was no good, thus why he was the dead last of the class. But Namiko knew that he could make a good ninja.

When Namiko first saw Akamaru as a puppy, her first reaction was to squeal, and then snatch the puppy out of Kiba's hands and hug the poor dog, very tightly. Even now she thought Akamaru was the cutest dog around and the fact that he seemed to listen to Namiko more than Kiba had nothing to do with it.

Beside the 3rd loudest was the most silent person in the class, silent to the level of being anti-social, but Namiko knew better. When she first met Shino Aburame, she pegged him to be very shy but then she recalled that almost everyone from the Aburame clan were the quiet type. Shino was sporting the same style as the rest of his clan, consisting of dark sunglasses and a sea-green jacket with a high, upturned collar. The Aburames were a clan who controlled parasitic beetles which supposedly lived inside them. Shino was … well he was quiet and logical but his skills in ninja art were indeed admirable. He may not be as good in close-range fighting but he was very good in long-range.

After Shino, Namiko put her sights on another quiet person, though for a completely different reason. The person wearing a navy blue, short-sleeved shirt with a high collar and white shorts, was the aforementioned class brooder, Sasuke Uchiha. He was from one of the founding clans of Konoha, the Uchihas. They were famous for their powerful Doujutsu (Eye-Technique) type Kekkei-Genkai, the Sharingan, said to be able to copy opponent's justus and moves and also predict what the person is going to do next. Sadly though this clan now only had two alive members with one being the said brooder and another being the person who was the one who killed the rest of the clan, Sasuke's older brother, Itachi Uchiha. Since the dubbed 'Uchiha Clan Massacre', Sasuke had become this broody, lone ranger type. He used to be cheerful, Namiko remembered, and had this friendly rivalry going on with her brother. But now after the massacre, instead of rivalry it seemed he had some kind of hatred towards her brother and …well almost everybody, but as much as she didn't want to admit it, he was the only one aside from her who could at least put up a challenge against her brother, given that her brother held back, a lot, but even so it is indeed undeniable that Sasuke is strong and is only matched by the three people sitting on her bench including her. His brooding attitude also made him cool in the eyes of lots of the girls in the class, almost half of them, making a fan club for him.

Speaking about his fan club, its president was sitting right next to him, looking at him with hearts in her eyes. Sakura Haruno was not from a prestigious clan but she did come from a Shinobi family. She had unusual pink hair and a big forehead and was the former topper of her 'Most annoying person' list alongside being the loudest in the class. She was wearing a red qipao dress that had a zipper and white circular designs with tight dark green bike shorts. She, like half of the other girls in class, including Ino, formed the Sasuke Fan Club. They, as far as she knew, drew lots on who will get to sit next to Sasuke and Sakura seemed to win it more than often. She was also one of the girls who had improved improved because of Shizune-nee's classes. Like Ino, She also didn't have much skills in Ninja arts and had a very small Chakra reserve before it. She, Hinata, Ino and Sakura used to be friends before they came to academy but now as long as the Last Uchiha was around, Sakura's and Ino's attention was almost always on him, straining their friendship.

The person who was her best friend even now was sitting on her right. This was the person who Namiko would probably give the above mentioned award of 'Being the sweetest person in the world'. Hinata Hyuuga was indeed a very sweet person with also being shy, very shy. She had on a cream-coloured hooded-jacket with a fire symbol on the upper sleeves and fur around the cuffs and hem and navy blue pants. She was heiress to the famed Hyuuga clan, which after the fall of Uchiha clan, was considered to be the strongest in Konoha. Though it now faced competition with the newly revived Senju clan, the clan Namiko hailed from. The Hyuuga, much like the Uchiha, also had a Doujutsu type Kekkei-Genkai called the Byakugan which Hinata too inherited, evident from her pale lavender eyes devoid of any pupil, a characteristic of the Byakugan. Unlike Sharingan though, it allowed its user to see all around him/her in a full 360 degree field of vision, gave them a telescopic vision to see anything at a long distance and also allowed the user to look through solid objects. Though its greatest power would be the ability to see a person's Tenketsu (Chakra points). Because of this ability the Hyuugas developed their own fighting style known as Juuken (Gentle Fist), in which they shut off or open Chakra points to disable their opponents, by injecting chakra to that point.

Hinata like all the other Hyuugas was adept at Gentle fist though it was not the case from the start. When Namiko first met Hinata, she was not only extremely shy but also timid and didn't like fighting. This hate of fighting caused her to fail at her clan's Taijutsu hence failing to measure up to the clan's requirements and becoming even shyer and under confident. This changed after she met her and her brother. She would train with them in extra. Just the praises from her brother and also her mother gave her more confidence. Though she still remained shy, she was no longer timid which further caused her to improve her Gentle fist. There were some other factors too, one of them being her obvious attraction and admiration towards Naruto. Even a single encouragement from him lit a fire inside Hinata to become stronger. Though that same attraction and now apparent crush is what made Namiko sigh. Hinata was so shy that she hardly could utter any word to Naruto regarding her feelings.

But she was not the only reason, the other reason was sitting on Namiko's other side. Her twin brother, Naruto, her Onii-sama. Don in a tracksuit with three stripes on the sleeves, mesh under-armour, a pair of black pants, and sandals, her brother was also a genius maybe not like Shikamaru but a genius nonetheless. But somehow even with all that genius, he failed to notice the obvious affection Hinata had towards him and for her life of it, she couldn't understand how. It was not like her brother didn't like Hinata, no quite the opposite, Hinata was the reason why Ino quit on her Onii-sama. Just like Hinata, Naruto's attraction towards Hinata was public knowledge bar Hinata. Ironic really how Hinata was actually oblivious to that. Namiko didn't know how to figure this situation out at all. She knew Hinata was oblivious because she asked her, in a roundabout way, and did confirm that Hinata thought that Naruto liked someone else, a part of her old low confident self being apparent. But she didn't know for sure what her Onii-sama thought. He never came out with a sure answer no matter what way she took and she didn't want to tell him about Hinata's feelings because it would ruin a very cute moment she had conjured up in her thoughts.

Except for his obliviousness or whatever her brother had concerning Hinata, she considered her brother to be perfect. Namiko adored her brother, to the point that her older sister, called her a bro-con, a testament of her calling her brother Onii-sama. Namiko knew that her brother was the strongest among all in their class and maybe even stronger than anyone from the newest Genin. He held the best in class position from the very start of their academy followed by her and then Hinata and Sasuke sharing the third position.

As soon as Namiko finished her thoughts about Naruto, the door to the class opened revealing their homeroom teacher Iruka Umino. His head somewhat resembled that of Shikamaru's with the ponytail and had a scar going across his nose. He was followed by a silver haired person, their other teacher Mizuki. She liked Iruka-sensei more than Mizuki-sensei simply because Mizuki-sensei always seemed a bit odd to her and not in a good way, a thought shared by her Onii-sama.

Just as both the senseis entered the room, a fox like mischievous grin spread on Namiko's face, a grin similar to the one of her Onii-sama's face. At the same time a small smile came upon Hinata's face and if anybody saw Shikamaru's face at that time they would see a half smirk. Kiba looked like he was trying to hold in a laugh and careful inspection of Shino would reveal a slight upward twitch on the corner of his lips.

Almost simultaneously a shout came from outside which urged both the senseis to look out through the window. The sight shocked them greatly.

There the revered Hokage Mountain, where the faces of the past and the present Hokages were carved had a lot of paint smudges on it. The first Hokage's face had tears going down his cheeks while the Second's serious expression was changed into a lecherous one shared by the Third Hokage with something akin to a trickle of blood coming through his nose. The Fourth face looked like he had his eyes closed with blush covering his cheeks. The Second and the Third Hokages eyes were painted so that it looked as if they were looking towards the book that was drawn on the side of the Fourth's face. The book showed an image of a man chasing a woman and was named 'Icha Icha Paradise'. Seeing the look on his senseis' faces, Kiba lost it and started laughing loudly while the rest of the culprits were struggling to school their expressions even when their cover was likely broken.

After learning the Shadow Clone Jutsu (Kage Bunshin no Jutsu) from their uncle, the Senju twins decided to try and teach it to their friends who had the enough chakra to do it. Surprisingly not only Shikamaru, who had the largest reserves then, but Hinata and Kiba were also able to learn it, but were barely able to make a single clone for a very short duration of time. They increased it after some training with the clones but were still unable to make more than one clone unlike Naruto and Namiko, who were able make a very large number of clones with their huge chakra reserves. Its ability to transfer the memories to the original and the rest of the clones upon dispelling made it a perfect tool for pranking. Shino got the news by his bugs planted on each clone which were of their way before even the clones dispelled hence reaching just on time. Chouji though wanted to be in on it, but could not conjure up enough chakra to make a clone so he had to sit this up.

Both the teachers turned towards the laughing Kiba then turned their attention on the whole class. They already had some idea on the identity of the culprits.

"Okay, so who do this? Kiba! Come over here and stand in the front. Naruto, Namiko and Shikamaru too. Now!" Iruka commanded angrily.

Normally their pranking group only had the above mentioned people. Hinata was mostly kept out of it because it would cause problems for her with her clan and Naruto absolutely hated getting her in trouble. Shino, while in their group, did not participate actively in the pranks, he only wanted to observe them and find different ways of infiltration.

The students formed a line in front of their senseis and just stood there.

"Now, why would you do such a thing? You know how important the Hokage Monument is to us, don't you? Naruto, you want to be a Hokage. Would you want your face to be defaced like that by somebody?" asked the irked ponytailed Sensei.

"Well, I think a good laugh is needed once in a while. Today is almost our last day so we wanted to end our academy and start our ninja career with a bang, you know." Exclaimed Naruto, Namiko nodding at his every word. Kiba was still looking like he may start laughing any second.

"So be it then. Because of what you people did everyone in the class will be punished. Everyone will form a line and perform the Transformation Jutsu (Henge no Jutsu) one by one." Ordered Iruka.

Every student came down and made a line on both side of the main culprits. Hinata came and stood next to Naruto, who was standing at the end of the line putting him in between her and Namiko. It was to make sure no one from the Naruto Fan Club, which consisted the other half of the girls of the class, decided to get lucky.

One by one, every student came forward and performed the Jutsu. Shikamaru transformed into Iruka just like the most of the class. Hinata decided to transform into her mother, who looked mostly like her, causing Naruto to start day dreaming till his turn was called. He transformed into a perfect copy of Jiraiya while Namiko transformed into Tsunade.

After everyone's turn was over and everyone were seated again their lecture started but not before Iruka ordered the guilty to clean the monument. Thankfully the paint was washable.

After the class was over, "Remember, tomorrow is your graduation test. It will have a written test, a physical test including Taijutsu, Shuriken and Kunai Jutsu and a Ninjutsu test on three basic Jutsus, the Clone Jutsu (Bunshin no Jutsu) , the Transformation Jutsu and the Substitution Jutsu (Kawarimi no Jutsu). So prepare well, if you pass tomorrow's test you will be officially recognized as a Shinobi of the Leaf." Iruka reminded everyone after which the students started filing out with the four culprits along with Chouji and Hinata heading towards the Hokage Monument. What will the graduation test have for all the promising Shinobis remains to be seen.

OMAKE 3

Sasuke was running through the Uchiha compound frantically looking for someone who was not dead. Every where he looked, there were dead bodies lying around. Some he recognized like the elderly couple who gave him a Tomato that morning. They were lying in front of their food cart. He was scared but also worried. Worried about his parents and his Nii-san. He shook his head.

'No. Nii-san is supposed to be on a mission and Tou-san and Kaa-san are strong. They are alive.' He thought, hoped.

He ran into his house founding it quiet. Eerily quiet. He moved towards his parents room. To check on them. He had picked up a Kunai he found on the street in hopes of protecting himself and maybe even his parents. He stalked close to his parents room slowly for some reason he didn't know. During all this, he remained unaware of his stalker.

Scared for her as well as her crush, Sakura continued to follow Sasuke. She had followed him from the academy in hopes of getting a date from him. Who gave an 8 year old any idea of dating instead of scaring them about cooties, very few knew. But she did anyway. He was cheerfully moving towards his home in the beginning but seeing no gate guards at the Uchiha compound gates started sprinting. Sakura didn't know why he started running, she still chased after him into the compound. But stopped at the sight she was greeted with. Blood coated the street. Fresh blood, flowing from the numerous dead bodies lying everywhere her eyes could see. She was horrified. She wanted to run away but instead ran further inside after her crush. She finally stopped inside a house Sasuke ran into. She saw him moving slowly towards a room, from the courtyard.

Sasuke reached the door to his parents room. He knocked on it first hoping either of his parent will open the door. No one did. He got more worried. In desperation, he slid opened the door and sprinted inside. What he saw horrified him more than anything. There in front were both his parents. Lying in a pool of blood, just like the others outside. He couldn't take it anymore. Tears started pouring from his eyes. He wanted to scream but he stopped when he saw something else in the room. Someone.

From the dark corner of the room, a figure stepped forward. He looked very similar to the only other alive occupant of the room. Itachi Uchiha stared at his younger brother with sad eyes. He did not wish for his brother to see this. But it had to be done. He had to make his brother walk on the path of his salvation and hopefully prevent him into turning like the others. So he stepped forward to confront his brother.

On seeing his brother, Sasuke was a bit relieved. At least his brother was alive he thought. He tearfully looked at his brother.

"Nii-san. W..What happened? Why are mother and father...?" He could not say it. He could not even think about it. "Who did this?" he asked. His brothers answer though was not what he expected.

"I'm sorry Sasuke. I had to do it." the elder Uchiha confessed.

"What? You did this, Nii-san? Why?" Sasuke asked very much confused.

"The clan was growing complacent, Sasuke. They were becoming weak by relying on the Sharingan. So I had to test myself. Test, if I was also becoming weak. This was the only way because only an Uchiha can kill another Uchiha." He did not actually believe it but he had to lie. So that his brother could bring his salvation.

Sasuke's confusion turned into anger. Test himself he said. How could he. He gripped the kunai in this hand tighter. Itachi was preparing to use Tsukuyomi on Sasuke but was interrupted by his battle cry.

Sasuke ran with all the speed he could muster towards his brother with kunai in hand. He was almost halfway there, when he got tripped by his fathers shoulder. He tried to stop his fall by putting his hands forward. He was successful. But it were not his hands that stooped his fall. The kunai he was holding before was now lodged miraculously at the exact spot his heart was. It didn't take much time for his life to leave him.

Itachi stared with his Mangekyo dumbfounded. He was going to spare his brother, so that he can grow strong and kill him. But his brother just accidentally killed himself.

Sakura heard Sasuke shout and ran inside to see what was going on, only to witness her crush killing himself by falling on his own kunai. She ignored the shocked form of Itachi and knelt beside Sasuke and started crying over his corpse, seemingly ignoring the corpse of her crush's father below him.

Itachi stared at the girl crying over his brother. He wanted to be happy that at the end his brother had someone like her beside him. But she may know about everything. He would not have confessed if he knew she was there but she had close to no chakra at all, so he couldn't sense her. And now he had to kill her as well. So before the girl noticed him, he moved his sword, piercing the girls heart through her back.

By now even Itachi had tears in his eyes. He wanted to at least leave one Uchiha, aside from him, alive. But his brother ruined his plan spectacularly. He started to leave the room, but took one last glance at his now dead family. He couldn't help but shake his head 'Foolish little brother'.

AN:

As promised, the Omake resumes from now. This time with no collateral at all. (The whole Uchiha clan died though.)

The chapter itself was a bit shorter and only informative. It was like a relaxing Chapter after all the running around done in the previous ones. So only introduction of the main characters was done in this one, otherwise the chapter would have become massive. Most of the character wear the same clothes they wore in the anime\manga. Except Naruto and obviously Namiko. Its not that I did not like Naruto's jumpsuite. Unlike others I had no problem with it. I myself am a walking fashion blunder. Fashion just does not make much sense to me. So I mainly copy pasted their outfits from Narutopedia. Naruto's outfit, in case someone was not able to figure out, is the same outfit Minato wore during his academy days. And Namiko's is the one Kushina wore. Yeah, see I'm lazy like that.

Since I already ranted at the start, I will not do so again.

So see you next time. Have a good day ...or night depending on what time you are reading this.