Hey, it's me! I'm back again and the christmas special is going along quite nicely, with the first introduction out of the way. I would say more but, well, there's a story to be read here isn't there? Anyway, let's go
Super hero time!
Ex-aid: School days? it's like a life simulator.
Naruto: It's time for a raid! You better not die out there!
Ex-aid: Do you have any keys for helping with homework?
Naruto: I can't use Megaranger, Liveman, Fiveman and Turboranger like that!
E-a + N: Game start! Showtime!
"Naruto, You've been a constant annoyance since the first day you arrived at this fine establishment and have tormented many of your peers without due cause. I am well within my right to have you expelled immediately and make it so you can never return!"
Naruto had received this speech so often he was practically able to copy it verbatim. The 'charges' against him were often frivolous and baseless, yet with an entire school apart from a few against him, there was little he could do.
'I swear I got a detention for breathing too loudly.' The pirate mentally commented to himself. He had removed his coat in the early months and resorted to a dulled down version of his original jumpsuit, for there was far too great a risk of damage occurring to it; after all, they had already attacked his clothes before. Fortunately, the risk of alienating the Hyuugas meant that Hinata bore little of the brunt, yet she was still berated by her family (Though less so since her father's defeat.) Of course, this also meant that Naruto had to take the rest of the blame, because it was obvious that he was 'corrupting respectable heirs with his manipulative and rude mannerisms.' That was a quote.
"So what do you have to say for yourself then!?" the headmaster had leaned forward, emphasising his ragged features and allowing spittle to fly through the air.
"I don't see the need to answer you seeing as you have blatantly disregarded my truths and claims for the past 3 years," Naruto reminded the man, much to his displeasure. "But I suppose I can tell you."
"There had been a group of students, all in the year above, that had been antagonising my friend, Rock Lee. They were specifically targeting his lack of chakra, which I also remind you, is something that he has surpassed the need for. Obviously, I was not going to let them get away with such things, so I interceded." He was surprised that the man had managed to remain quiet. Typically, he would already be raving about how he lied and how his students all have model behaviour – how it was his friend's fault and most likely was simply trying to act like him. Continuing on, Naruto recounted,
"They had made multiple threatening remarks, so I thought it best to try and politely ask them to leave." Okay, perhaps that was a little off the mark.
"Yo, would it be possible for you to not bully my friend? He's kinda close to me."
"Ha, a runt like you sticking up for the dead-last? I don't know who's more pathetic!"
"Perhaps you three need to focus on your own work before criticising others."
"You think you can beat all of us on your own!? You really are an idiot!"
"No, that was wrong… I'll tie my hands behind my back to make it equal, okay?"
"You idiot! We're taking this to the training grounds!"
The headmaster smirked, much like a cat that had played with its prey far too long.
"And I suppose that you ended up mobbing them to make it an uneven fight did you? It's the only way that could explain how these upstanding boys ended up brutally beaten." The smile was victorious, even as Naruto placed his face within his palms.
"Nope. I did it all by myself. I really couldn't care if you didn't believe me." Naruto drawled, preparing for the incoming spit storm.
"Well, whether or not you did use a gang, you still left three boys beaten and didn't even care to tell anyone! You shall stay behind after school, where we shall… talk about your misbehaviour." Attempted beatings. It was the typical stuff he had become used to by now.
"Yes. I look forward to it this time." With not a by-your-leave, Naruto abruptly stood up and turned to the door, making his way out. He didn't mind. It was all simply part of the plot.
If there was nothing else that he had learnt in the academy, it was that deception was a ninja's best friend (which was ironic considering that most ninja battles had been straight up brawls with brightly coloured clothing and not a single sense of subterfuge or stealth.) thus, he had planned with Hinata to hide their true potential, his by acting as the dead-last with just a fancy way of speaking and Hinata's, by acting the princess: shy, well-mannered and delicate. The secret was withheld from all but them and one other, for everyone had taken it at face value; it was easier to believe when it was exactly how they expected them to be. The only one who they had admitted it too was Rock Lee, soon after his bout with the bullies.
He had not even dreamed of being able to use chakra, so when he had been approached by the pair and told that he could use it alongside many other things if he joined them, he was understandably doubtful. It had taken but a simple demonstration, with budding flowers, scorched trees and crumbled rocks to sway his mind, the chance being far too great to pass on. He was sworn into the crew and had been secretly scouting his year for any potential members. So far, there were few candidates, the mostly likely being Tenten, whom he was close friends with.
It was this quiet search and secret that meant that many of their own peers looked down on them, while their teachers, who were supposed to be responsible for their protection at least, had free reign to ask questions they wouldn't learn at all in the academy syllabus, forge test results so that they would be unable to rise too high (For Naruto, preventing him from ever rising at all) and providing faulty materials and blaming them for the failures that had resulted. What really irked the red pirate so much however was that there was a certain someone who had received much of the opposite during their time at the academy and he was sat with a pompous smirk at the back of the class, waiting for the next lesson to start.
'Sasuke Uchiha…' He was a brat in blue that was the dream boy of almost the entirety of the female population, including the adults. After the unfortunate murder of his entire clan at the hands of Itachi Uchiha, the civilians and council had been whispering poisoned words into his ears, slowly causing an oversized ego to form and continue to grow from that day onward. He lorded his supposed superiority over the rest of his class, making enemies of the male portion but with the way that the staff had been pandering to him by fixing fights and placing magnets in targets, people couldn't question it without ending up on the bad side of numerous 'powerful' entities.
"So today we'll be going over the henge, seeing as we have someone who likes pretending to be other people!" Groans echoed across the room as angered stares focused upon the newly seated Naruto.
"Ah yes, that was particularly fun, wasn't it Hinata?" He commented, the mentioned girl lightly giggling. He had pretended to be Sasuke for a single day, taking in all of the discounts, random praise and unnecessary gifts, but had been eventually found by Iruka when Sasuke had been revealed to have not even left his home. The students were called down and each performed the technique, some with slight errors and some with massive mistakes. As you would expect, these were ironed out by the teachers. Hinata had performed hers flawlessly, earning a stiff applause and a 'well done' from Iruka but once it had become time for Naruto to be put to the test, the entire atmosphere changed.
With each step down the stairs, curious looks turned to judgements. Hidden whispers became more apparent, spreading rumours and malicious lies. Iruka's look, paired with his assistant Mizuki sent a shiver down his spine, but he wouldn't let that occur.
"Right then Naruto. Just a single transformation into a different person. Surely you would be able to do that?" Iruka said, as if knowing he would fail, to the laughter of his classmates.
"5 Ryo that he fails completely!" Came from Kiba, the child from the Inuzuka clan. He was fond of yelling out remarks, desiring the satisfaction that came with being the alpha of the class, but until he could beat Sasuke, he would whittle away at Naruto.
"I don't take sucker bets!" Another random person yelled back and the room filled with mocking laughter once more. Sure, he had fairly good temper control, but when faced with scorn like this, Naruto could only do what he knew best.
Making a show of things.
"Okay then, let me show you what I can do!" In a puff of smoke, the young child's form was replaced by the withered visage of the third Hokage, a small orange book in hand and giggles unbefitting of a wise leader. It took a couple of seconds for the change of scenario to register, but the confused gazes of the class and staff soon knocked him out of his happy time.
"What on earth am I doing here?" He asked to Iruka, who was slowly growing in anger until he bursting, saying,
"Naruto! How dare you take the form of the hokage and mock it by giving him porn! You didn't even get the pose right! He stands tall and proud, not slouched and giggling like a fangirl. Fur-" The rest of his rant was stopped when copious amounts of killing intent was placed upon his shoulders, pushing him and Mizuki to his knees and causing the majority of the class to faint under the pressure.
"Iruka, Mizuki, You better have a good explanation for why I am here just for you to insult me. Otherwise, I shall be forced to punish you harshly." The terror was briefly paused when a voice, familiar only to the adults came from outside the door.
"Yes. I would be very interested in your explanations." The figure that strode through the door struck fear and confusion into the hearts of everyone. The children had only heard of them in history, whereas the adults had been certain that he had fallen during battle. Blonde hair was draped over a muscled face, a body prepared for battle covered by a robe that had been made famous by its wearer.
"Minato? That's impossible. I witnessed your passing with my very eyes…" Hiruzen was frozen to his place, eyes stuck on the seemingly resurrected Minato before him. It was clearly an imposter, for a dead man would not be able to come back to life without the help of a certain banned jutsu, yet he couldn't deny the skill of henge usage.
"The fourth Hokage!?" On the other hand, Iruka was mentally freaking out. This incredible war hero, renowned for slaughtering an entire army in mere minutes, had walked into his classroom and believed that there was something wrong with his form of teaching.
"I hear that you've been handling this class entirely wrong Mr Umino. Blatant favouritism and discrimination among your pupils is something that should be banned in the classroom, let alone actively encouraged." The fourth's harsh words had their desired effect; Iruka began to feel guiltier and guiltier with each coming word. Mizuki however, was much braver with his vocalisation of his beliefs.
"Well, we've simply been trying to finish what you've started. Thanks to your efforts in putting the-" A raised hand silenced him and He continued on.
"This is not how I imagined the people I trust with children to be. No matter the circumstances or what they are, I expect you to be giving this your all, without favouring one over the other, do you understand!?" Two quick nods came in succession. "Good, good. Now then, who here is Sasuke Uchiha?" the questioned boy quickly stood and Minato walked straight towards the boy.
SLAP!
"I have never seen such a gross display of ego and prejudice. Know this boy, you will not be able to get away with what you've done so far. Magnets in targets? Fixing fights so you face the weakest instead of next strongest? You'll die in the first mission if this is what you think it will be like out there. News flash: life won't give you a free shot." He berated, noticing that the young emo began shivering in anger. Before any retort could be given, a puff of smoke was caused, encasing the fourth and replacing him with Naruto, smirking victoriously.
You could've heard a pin fall in the ensuing silence. It was such an unexpected occurrence that there was no response in the first minutes. Soon though…
"Naruto! I will have you expelled for this! Desecrating the memory of an honoured hokage!" Iruka was building up to another of his Rants, but the clapping, slow but steady, coming from the hokage made him stop.
"Why, I think it was far less than desecrating a memory. Why, I do believe that he has exposed some secrets at the academy that had to come to light eventually, wouldn't you say?" His posture became the tall, proud warrior that the teacher had mentioned before, hardened gaze drilling into weakened and frightened ones.
"The way you speak suggests that you have been advocating discrimination and favouritism and with the reactions of both child and adult, I'm fairly certain that I know what is happening." His footsteps echoed and his speech enraptured despite how it was essentially a scolding. "When I first heard the claim, I had shrugged it off as simple jealousy, so imagine my surprise when a shadow clone I had created chanced upon this." The mentioned clone appeared in a tornado of leaves, holding within its hands several sizeable magnets.
"I know how you came across these." Hiruzen stated firmly, pulled out a piece of paper. "Several high intensity magnets required for use in training to go against resistance. I see now that it was really meant for cheating. I'm disappointed in the both of you." Unrelenting in his verbal beating, the attention turned to Sasuke, still left standing where he sat.
"So, the Uchiha. Special treatment I see. How do you feel knowing that your achievements were entirely superficial?" The question was smug and the answer was forced.
"I have earned everything I have been given. It is not my fault that the dead-last lied to get me in trouble." Sasuke practically growled out between gritted teeth.
"I advise that you do not take such a tone with me boy. You speak above your station. However, to disprove you of that belief, I have some reading from the staff room." Reaching into his robes for another piece of paper, the third Hokage began to read.
"To all who are employed at this academy. You are to ensure that Sasuke Uchiha is to receive the highest marks as to ensure the safety of the Uchiha name and to downgrade Naruto Uzumaki due to certain reasons which I won't read out. All of Sasuke's tests are to automatically be placed within the 9o percentage range and preferable the 20's for the Uzumaki. That is all I'm willing to read now for the rest is entirely too corrupt for me to stomach right now." He made for the door, but not without a final warning to the adults.
"This will not go unpunished and the rest of the conspirators will also face similar punishments. You have been warned; take this no further." The room, sans Naruto and Hinata, shared a sigh of relief as the door slammed shut.
"Well, wasn't that a jolly discovery, learning that you have all purposely discriminated against me and hyped up the teme over there." Naruto joyfully remarked, takin his seat casually as if nothing had happened. Secretly, Hinata sighed. When she expected Naruto to go all out, never in her life would she have expected this. Exposing a conspiracy and practically ushering in a period of peace so that they could have a proper education rather than having to deal with boatloads of bias? Never, but she would take what she was given. After all, one should never look a gift horse in the mouth.
"Right… After that experience, I think we all deserve an early end. We'll see you after the weekend." Iruka wearily said, ushering the class of subdued students out of the door before slumping down at his desk, tired. Mizuki cautiously walked up to him before making an attempt at small talk.
"You know, this doesn't have to change anything if we don't want it to." The assistant remarked, peaking Iruka's interest. "With the civilian council, all it takes is a few magic words and there would be no issue eft. We could continue as we were and ensure that the right people get what they deserve."
"But what… what if we didn't choose the right people? What if we made a mistake?" He thought back on the torment that he had put on the young boy through his time there. 3 years' worth of frivolous excuses for detention, purposely failed tests and actual research into what he couldn't do to ensure that there was constant sources of humiliation was becoming increasingly harsh and unnecessary in his mind. Perhaps it was time for a change… Although his college didn't follow the same thought pattern.
"Don't worry. The Hokage will eventually come to his right mind and we can forget that this entire thing ever happened. Things Will be okay Iruka; I'm sure it will all turn out fine." The teacher watched as his assistant walked out of the door, leaving him all alone in the white room, faced with an imagined audience of disapproving faces, judging him for his actions. He took a deep breath and laid his head upon the hard oak.
"Perhaps," He pondered. "This may not turn out the way you think Mizuki."
Let's stop here. No sentai battles yet, but you all know where this all goes, right? I've got something simple to show you that came from how I originally planned to do this story and it involves something... forbidden. Plus, Lee has joined the crew, but as What colour? I'll leave you to find out.