CHAPTER FOUR.

AN/ hey there yall. first of all there is a timeskip now up till Naruto's academy days. second thanks for sticking with me. thirdly i do not own Naruto.

It was a warm summer day. Konoha's famous trees wafting ever so lightly in the wind. Young children were running about without a care in the world. Absolutely no problems at all que eye roll.

Let us now focus our gaze apon the academy. The place where all ninja's start. The place legends are born and the place geniuses slept in. Speaking of geniuses we will now turn our attention to a young, 12 year old, yellow haired boy. He wore an atrocious orange jump suit that said, "Target me. This dude wearing me is a target. If you can't see him then you must be blind." He was sleeping on his scar free arms. If you were to look past his mask of happiness and stupidity you would come across such a dangerous and dark creature that even Kami would be afraid.

Naruto yawned loudly, his eyes smushing together like a pervert and a hooker. Miles away a white haired pervert sneezed. Right in a girl's mouth...He went home alone that night.

Naruto stopped yawning. His mouth wide open. He knew it was coming. He could sense it drawing nearer. But he forced himself not to react...

Suddenly his mouth was filled with chalk. He instantly spat it out. The broken, wet chalk piece travelled across the room and hit another sleeping boy right in his pineapple shaped hair. "hey...quit that..." he muttered.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes to see the entire academy class gawking at him. Naruto was internally screaming at them to mind their own damned bussiness. But externally he gave a moronic grin and scratched the back of his head. "Sorry, Iruka-sensei. I won't fall asleep again." Naruto said sincerely .

"That's what you said 5 minutes ago." Iruka was yelled at him. Iruka was clearly irritated and angry."What was the Shodaime's bloodline called ?!"

Sakura had her hand up so quickly it looked like a part way shunshin. "Mokuton no jutsu," Naruto thought. "The downwatered version of my ability."

"Uhm. I don't know." Naruto said stupidly with a smile. Iruka was looking dissapointed for a second but then he masked it up with a teacher's mask. "No. I'm afraid you are wrong. Sakura tell our class what the First Hokage's bloodline was."

"It is known as the Mokuton. Or wood style release." she said snootily. While she was speaking Naruto was making the yak-yak movement with his hands. Lucky for him Iruka didn't notice because he had his back turned.

"Ok class before you leave remember to go through the basics for tommorow's graduation test for you to be able to pass. The clone jutsu. The substitution justu and the henge. If you know how to do these then you are halfway through the test." Iruka preached."Naruto you stay behind."

"Damn it all." Naruto said shaking his fist at the door.

About a minute later Iruka closed the classroom door. He turned around his scar blinking in light of the sun. Iruka started but was interupted by Naruto,"Oh Iruka! Thank you for the extra lessons. I truly appreciate it."

Iruka understood immediatly and started to focus his chakra into a privacy seal installed in the room when the academy was founded. Suddenly a blue hue enveloped the class but died down after a second or two.

"Naruto... Why didn't you take that opportunity to relieve yourself of your mask..."

Naruto blinked and said, "Iruka...it isn't time for that yet. I can only do that when I graduate, if only to prevent riots breaking out. You know how the villagers would react if I weren't stupid. Plus it would trick people into thinking that I am weak."

Iruka sighed heavily," If that is your decision. Well go home Naruto. Go get some rest."

Naruto felt a wave of emotions when he heard those words that he would have loved to hear in his younger days. But now he disregarded these feelings and tossed them away like last week's leftovers. "Iruka is the only one who cares about me."

Naruto thought back when they first met...

Flashback...

Naruto felt sweat pouring down his back by the multitudes. He ducked and stabbed at the stomachs of a...clones of sorts. He was stabbing at them with a rusty katana he found on the ground of a training ground. For some odd reason, Naruto felt that he should know how to handle a sword. And this is the best he could do. Naruto ducked a punch of a "clone", though if you looked more closely then you would find that the 'clone' was made up of earth. A normal ninja would think that the clone was merely an Tsuchi-bushin (Earth Clone). Normal people would probably also ask why would a 10 year old work so hard. But Naruto was not normal by any means. If one should look on the training ground one would find ruble and pebbles scattered across the training ground. After a bit all the clones were destroyed and Naruto was heaving on the ground. He was so tired he couldn't even eat...ramen. That is how tired he was. As Naruto was resting on the ground he heard people whispering in hushed voices.

"The Demon is near. We should remember to thank Danzo-sama for giving us that information."

Shinobi had come for him. Instantly Naruto dove into some bushes against his bodies protest. Naruto gulped in fear, because he knew that when they found him he was going to die. He was drained of his chakra and was tired as hell. As soon as he jumped into the bush, the two genins came into the training field.

"Wow! What happened to this place?" said one of the shinobi pointing at the rubble on the ground.

"Shut up! He might still be here." another yelled...let that sink in for a moment...

Naruto chuckled silently at the shinobi who yelled. Suddenly a knife punctured his lung, spilling blood. Naruto started coughing up blood. Naruto turned around to find the cold lifeless mask of the ANBU to greet his dying form. Somehow Naruto gathered the strength to jump out of the bushes. But as the saying goes: out of the frying pan and into the fire. Literally. One of the shinobi noticed him and started dousing his poor tired body with red hot flames. The fire burt his scarred body to a degree but stopped after a time. His body was so damaged he layed there accepting his death.

"Oh, look the demon survived that. Come on lets all burn him to ash." They cheered at the suggestion and started preparing. Naruto closed his eyes. he knew the ANBU who should be his guard was just going to watch, probably with a smile. In Naruto's mind he took the glimps he got of the ANBU's mask and saved it under a file he made called:"ASSHOLES WHO ARE GOING TO DIE BY MY HAND." The mask had some resemblance of a chipmunk. Naruto had seen him a couple of times around the Hokage.

As Naruto waited for the death blow. He waited and waited and waited and waited. But no harm befell him. As he opened his eyes he came across quite a sight. A chunin was pulling the 2 genins by the ears as they wept. Their faces showed bruises across their cheeks. Clearly someone had punched them quite hard. His gaze finally rested on the person pulling on the genins ears. He had a scar running horisontally across his face just by the bridge of his nose. He had his hair up in a pineapple style one. He was fairly tanned. His eyes screamed anger at the 2 genins. As he noticed Naruto's gaze, his eyes grew to ones of kindness. But then he recognized Naruto's hair and eyes. His eyes grew hard but still had an undertone of kindness. Naruto knew then 2 things.

1. This person would not harm him.

2. he knew that he was in good hands.

Naruto's eyes rested as unconsciousness took over.

Flashback end.

After Naruto was nursed back to health by Iruka. They started bonding and became a sort of mentor/student to each other. Naruto felt that he could trust Iruka and told him about the seeds, but not about Konoha's destruction. Iruka went with the flow and just took it in stride. Naruto then told him that he would place a mask apon himself to prevent any drastic measures from the council. After Naruto finished reminiscing he noticed he was back at his apartment. Naruto sighed and walked in. Over the years Naruto became fed up by the villagers constant vandalisms and went to the Hokage. The Hokage helped by putting an self-repairing seal on it. Anything the villagers abused grew back over night, this seal would only work for Naruto as he was the one who powered the seal and over the years his capacityhas grown to say the least. Naruto walked in and started to go to his bedroom. Inside was a clone made up of air. It was reading a scroll about healing chakra. As soon as the clone noticed him he disintergrated and all that was left was the seed. Naruto ate the seed and was suddenly overcome with medical knowledge. Neat huh! By now Naruto had figured out a coupleof things about the seed. 1. He can't create more seeds. 2. he can't eat more that one seed that was filled with knowledge, but he can fast forward the exiting process of the seeds he ate(it comes out of his hands). 3. And by his knowledge so far, his normal chakra can't possess people and can only create elemental golems.

Naruto held the seed he just ate and set it down on the rack next to him. This rack was very special. It held all of Naruto's seeds. The inside was layered with seals that worked as security. As Naruto lied down he lifted up his arms. There you would find storage seals filled to the brim with more seeds. Naruto never left home without them...in case. Naruto lowered his arms and climbed under the covers and slept.

AN/ and that is a wrap. that settles that. Naruto and Iruka get along.