Well! Second Chapter! I hope you like to story so far:)

DISCLAIMER : I do not own Naruto. All the characters were created by Masashi Kishimoto.

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Chapter 2 : A New Start


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The mayor of Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi, arrived at the academy on 8.05 am. He was wearing a black tailored suit with a dark blue shirt and black tie. His hair was silver, and his beard was thick around his neck. How old was this guy again? Whatever, he hoped that the ceremony will clear his clogged brain right now.

Mayor Sarutobi climbed to the podium and adjusted the microphone in front of him. Then he cleared his throat a few times, and lift up his head to view all the audience.

"A very good day to all of you! My my.. so this is the city's new hope," he gently smiled and nodded to the audience. Every eyes were looking at him now. "An officer should help and protect the civilians, and brings justice towards the town. You are the green leaf now, taking care of the city, and you will be replacing the old leafs like myself that are withering away. Spread our Will of Fire! Do not let your spirits fade away!" Even Naruto, the boy with one of the worst attention span, was leaning forward now, listening to the mayor's words. His eyes were almost shining with determination.

Now comes the part of the ceremony where all the participants will be called forward to receive their police badge. Naruto tapped his foot and played with his fingers while he looked at others being called to the front. The emcee of the ceremony would call up to ten names one by one to the stage. The people that were called will be assigned to a certain police station, based on their statistics. The decision were made by the police instructors.

"Next group; Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, Ino Yamanaka, KIba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuuga, Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno. Please come to the stage to receive your badge."

Naruto jumped from his seat and rushed to the front. Oh gosh it was his turn! He was going to be an officer!

"Oi, slow down there. You don't want to trip on the day you're receiving the police badge, right?" Naruto glanced to his back to see who was talking. Ah, it was Shikamaru, one of his friends.

"Naaah don't worry bout me, Shika! I'll be fine!" he replied gleefully to Shikamaru. Shikamaru just shook his head and smiled. "That idiot is always overjoyed."

All of them lined up at the stage according to the names that were called. Naruto was extremely joyful until he saw the person next to him. Damn, it was the Uchiha. They remained silent together, but the dark aura remained there. The mayor placed the badge on each their shirts and shook each of their hands. When he reached Naruto, he took a moment to stare at his features, as if his face triggered a memory or something. Then, he proceeded to clip the badge on his shirt. Mayor Sarutobi shook his right hand and smiled gently.

"Do your best, Naruto Uzumaki. I have faith in you."

Naruto grinned and replied the elder, "Yosh! Officer Uzumaki at your service!"

The mayor smiled at him, and move to Sasuke. His expression changed to a more serious one. After placing the teme's badge, he shook his hand and said something that Naruto couldn't hear clearly. The raven replied to the mayor with a single nod.

After distributing the batches, Mayor Sarutobi returned to the podium.

"You will be appointed to the central area of the town. This group, your group, is a special one, I heard. You will be guarding the city closely. I hope to hear great progresses from all of you." said the mayor. The nine of them bowed to him, and returned to their seats. It turned out that they were the last group to be called. The mayor returned to his podium to announced his last words for the ceremony.

"I hereby announce you, Batch 57 of the Konoha Police Academy, officially officers on duty!"

Everyone stands and claps cheerfully. They started tossing their hats to the sky, some of them whistled and some of them cried as well. Naruto jumped and threw his hat along with the crowd, he was laughing and shouting cries to others. He glanced at Sasuke, who was standing, but he didn't join the others. He had a very troubled expression on his face. Naruto wondered what was that guy thinking about right now. But then Sasuke met his eyes, and both of them scowled at each other and looked somewhere else. Naruto knew that he needed a friend, but he's still a prick.


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After the ceremony, they were guided to different rooms to be briefed once more by their instructors. The nine of them enters one of the classes with Iruka, their police instructor. He was a brown-haired man with a straight horizontal scar across his nose, with his hair tied into a ponytail. His eyes were soft dark brown. This guy had always been a good instructor, well the only good one, according to Naruto. He sat on a chair and let them stand in front of him.

Iruka took a good look on each of them, and started talking. "As you heard from the mayor, all of you will be working at the central station of Konoha. That means you will be working on the Main Police Headquarters. I do hope you will be on your best behaviour there," he stole a quick glance to Naruto, "And don't forget what you learned here. The real world is harsh, very harsh. I hope you understand that." After his quick pep talk, he took a paper out from his desk and reads it for a while. The nine of them were stealing nervous glances with each other, well except for Sasuke.

"I wrote some recommendation to the inspector at the headquarters. His name is Kakashi Hatake, a very smart man. He will make the decision of placing you on which division you will be on, based on your overall scores and my personal notes. Please don't disappoint him." said Iruka while folding his hands above his desk, after flipping the paper upside down. Naruto wonders whether it was top secret or something. "You will start your shift on Monday at 8am."

Iruka stood up and pointed to the seats behind the nine. "One the seats there, you will find your police uniforms. Wear them on monday, and don't be late."

They walked to the seats and finds a stack of police uniforms wrapped in plastics. Ino and Sakura squealed once they found theirs, while Hinata just held it to her chest with a shy smile on her face. The guys were calmer, with the exception of Naruto and Kiba who were just jumping and slapping each other's back.

"Man, dog breath, who knew that we will be working on the same building!" Naruto messed with Kiba's hair while he laughed out loud. Kiba groaned and replied, "Aw man don't mess with my hair! But yeah we'll be on the same team!"

Naruto laughed back and looks at his new uniform wrapped in plastic. In contrast to his current uniform, this one is mostly dark blue all over. The matching cap was there as well, with the emblem on the front of the peaked cap. Damn he'll look good in this!

Kiba suddenly taps his shoulder and said, "Yo Naruto, wanna join us to hang out tonight?" Naruto broke out of his trance and faces his brunette friend.

"Sure! Who's up for drinks?"

"Pretty much everyone I guess, except for ice princess over there," replied Kiba while glancing at the Uchiha, who was just standing silently while looking at his uniform. There it was, another troubled look on his face. Naruto looked at him, feeling that he should approach the brat. He just knew that he should do something about the teme.

So he approached Sasuke.

The Uchiha looked at Naruto with raised eyebrows.

"What do you want?" said Sasuke with a cold glare.

Naruto just exhaled a lot of air to remain calm. "We're going to a bar tonight to celebrate our graduation. Do you want to—"

"No."

"I'm not even done yet."

" I know what your pea brain was thinking, and I overheard your conversation. So, my answer is no."

Naruto bit his lips, he had the feeling to persuade this brat. Maybe he felt bad about the incident that happened before the ceremony.

"Err— how bout if I pay your drinks?" offered Naruto nervously. Now this definitely got Sasuke's attention. Instead of replying with verbal communication, the Uchiha just raised one of his eyebrows again.

Naruto scratched his head and tried to explain, "Just accept this as an apology to err, what happened earlier."

Sasuke went silent for a moment, maybe he was thinking for an answer. After a little while he replied, "Hn. Fine."

Naruto grinned and tapped his shoulder. "Yossh! See you at 8pm tonight at Blue Jazz?"

"Hn."

Naruto smiled once more, and joined Kiba and the others to a conversation. He stole a quick glance at where Sasuke stood once more, but he was already gone. Maybe he was just lazy to mingle with others. Such an asshole. But he didn't know why.. He just can't leave him alone.

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After some time talking, the eight of them walked to the entrance and waved goodbye to each other and went home for the afternoon. They will meet at the club in the city by tonight. All of them are 21 years old now anyways, it was already legal to drink, even for officers. It was TGIF anyway!

As he was walking towards the train station, his stomach started to hurt.

"Shit, I bet that was the milk from this morning!" Naruto thought to himself. He ran again, pushing other pedestrians one more.


My second chapter! I'm still editing the third one, I hope it will be nice!

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