Rated M for Depiction of violent scenes and suicidal tendencies.
"Words"- Quotes or speech.
'Words' - Thoughts.
Words- Kyuubi's voice.
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Chapter 4: Who Are You?
The fox was living in a nightmare as the blonde boy was living in his dreamworld. The fox didn't expect Naruto to adjust to the additional gravity of the gravity seals, as fast as he did. Normally he would be proud of the boy's achievement, but right now he wasn't marching in victory, but rather going through ,in terms of the fox, 'The Walk Of Shame'. It wasn't a walk by any means, but it was shameful to other ordinary humans he used to know and now wished to be jailed in rather than the blonde. Yup, Naruto was doing his trademark 'Skipping through the streets while humming' move. The fox didn't want to hurt his tenant's feelings or ruin the mood for him, but it was too painful to hear his high pitched humming, and seeing the world shake up and down through the mind link certainly didn't comfort him. Well, everything has to come to an end. The fox slapped his paws together, the shock wave from slap split the water puddles in front of him. Had the blonde been inside this mindscape, his body would have ripped to shreds from the palm's shockwave. But to merely crack a few walls in this mindscape wouldn't be enough to stop the blonde's dangerously precise pattern of movement right now. Naruto took each of his steps with grace. After every step, he would make a precise jump with the toe, and land on his other feet, and with a step he would hop again. His fluid movements held the resemblance to that of a ballet dancer.
He kept skipping forward in his path of life until he heard through his mindscape , "Seal Activate." and then 'THUD'. The fox didn't mind spending some chakra healing the red Akimichi clan look alike face that Naruto had developed after his hasty moment of intimacy with the solid concrete. The position of intimacy was bound strongly due to the added force of the recently activated Gravity Seals.
"Oi brat, your Ino isn't in the concrete, so stop kissing it already." The annoyed grumble coming from the boy was payment enough for the misery his host put him through while skipping and humming. But it wasn't done with him, he wanted more for payback. "Maybe your intimacy with the concrete was bound, by the 'laws of nature'." The fox's stomach emptied out as he blew out an enormous amount of air with his roar of laughter, as he rolled on the floor. Naruto held his head in his hands in pain, not from the collision with the concrete, but from the pain of hearing a painfully bad joke. He wasn't concerned about the fact that his face was red from pain from the 'intimacy' with the concrete floor , that was caused by the laws of nature, gravity. He was more concerned that the mightiest of Bijuus only had the ability to come up with a joke of that level. He realized now, Kyuubi could destroy someone's brain cells with means other than using chakra, yes his jokes were dangerous on a whole another level.
He was brought out of his thoughts as he saw people whisper and glare at him, and some actually happy to see his swollen face.
'Freaking villagers, you better be grateful I am saving you from Kyuubi's wrath and his jokes.'
After dusting himself, he realized something. The fox actually activated the seal, not him. "Oi, furball, how did you activate the seal? To affect my chakra, doesn't the seal need to be provided with only my chakra?"
The fox stopped his rolling to make a serious face to answer his question. "Brat, remember what you learned about seals? Seriously you need to pay more attention to your lessons on seals. You could actually become a pretty good fighter with seals if you try."
"How can someone fight with seals?"
"Well just a few moments ago I used my chakra to activate the gravity seal on you. If you train enough you too could do it, and make people drop to the ground in an instant."
"Oi, then why don't the others do it too?"
"First of all the seals are very complicated if you try to do it fast, and also you need a vast amount of chakra. Only one clan's members met both of these requirements." The fox kept rubbing his cheek for a while before saying, "Dammit I can't seem to remember the name of the clan. More like whenever I remember the name my head blanks out. All I could remember are 'usumari' 'zumani' 'makizu' or something. Probably the doing of my previous Jinchuuriki."
"Well then how am I qualified to do those seals then, when you don't even know much about it?"
"Well you have abnormally high chakra reserves like my first container in Konoha. She used to know about a lot of seals. So I too know a lot about those seals. So I could teach them to you, and you can use your huge chakra reserve to put those seals on others fast and easily."
"Yeah I guess. By the way, when are you gonna teach me that awesome jutsu that could help me train faster and make my own army in fight?"
"Oh you mean the Kage-bunshin jutsu?"
"Bunshin or whatever, yeah that clone thingy."
"Yeah, I will teach you that only after you have precise chakra control."
"Oi, just teach it to me now, cause it would take me ages to get good chakra control anyway."
"That's exactly why. I don't want you to learn a new jutsu, before you are good at chakra control. Plus there's not much ninjutsu you can do with your clones unless you have good control." Naruto kept whining for a while, until he stopped, his face forming a smile more feral than the shinigami captain of squad 11, Kenpachi Zaraki. His eyes were now covered in the shadow from the bangs of hair hanging down. His low chuckles began to worry the Kyuubi. And then he began to laugh with full force in front of his door, with a glint of insanity in his eyes. "Oi furball, I will master both within the next week."
Maybe he was a bit too harsh on the boy. Maybe his jokes were truly unbearable to him, and instead of those jokes strengthening his mind's resolve to survive through harsh conditions, the jokes actually made him lose his mind. And it was all the fault of the Kyuubi. He felt guilty in his heart, he should have considered the boy's low intelligence as a sign that he wasn't ready to bear the harsh training regiment, listening to his puns and jokes at the same time while training.
"I am sorry boy, I shouldn't have been so harsh with you, even after knowing you are so dumb." The fox wiped an invisible drop of tear in sadness.
"Oi furball, stop, I'm getting serious. I was also about to tell you about the speech I was going to deliver after I master both the Jutsu and the control exercises within the next week." He said while pouting like a baby.
The fox merely face palmed at the boy's stupidity. "Oi brat, how many times did I tell you I'm not teaching you the jutsu before you have good control. And also it would take more than a few months."
"That's why I told you to teach me the jutsu right now, so that I could finish the control exercises right now."
"Brat, have you lost all your brain cells or are you trynna get me annoyed."
"Oi, remember how you told me that I could spar with myself and train my taijutsu using that Jutsu?"
"Yeah."
"And remember you told me that I would gain information of what was wrong with my taijutsu stance and also I would gain fighting experience from both myself and the clone?"
"Yeah."
"And remember you told me that I do not need good control to make the clone, I only need large amount of chakra which I already have."
"Yeah, what are you getting at?" After a few moments it clicked in his mind. "I get it, so you want to create clones and do the chakra exercises, so it could speed up your progress? Not a bad idea Gaki."
"I knew one day you would get smart enough to understand my plans." He was clutching his hands near his heart as if he couldn't contain the happiness from seeing a few signs of intelligence radiating from the fox. The fox on the other hand had gained a few tick marks on its orange furry forehead, but let it slide since he had already tortured Naruto enough for the day. He was brought out of his thoughts as Naruto started speaking again, "By the way, how come you didn't teach me this awesome Jutsu earlier?"
"My knowledge of the jutsu was sealed up. From what I can understand the seal is getting weaker, or something is allowing the memory seal in my head to get weaker. Anyway, remember those scrolls about ninja academy in Konoha? You have to do three basic jutsus, the henge and bunshin. I know you don't have enough control to do the bunshin. So when I tried to search for alternatives I remembered the Kage Bunshin, the solid shadow clone technique. And also watching that one eyed silver haired ninja do that technique helped me clear my memories." The fox's eyes went wide in realization, "It is a forbidden jutsu, so you need to come up with a good excuse to cover it up in front of the Hokage."
"Wait I could just tell him I learned it from you."
The fox facepalmed, his host probably stores all his brain cells to be used really well for one instance, and then seal them up again, like those super moves that you can do once in awhile. "Remember what we talked about last time? The Hokage, no matter how nice, will have to take measures if he suspects you are being controlled by me."
"Oi, that would be bad, really bad." The fox nodded, as Naruto understood him correctly. "Being controlled by a fuzzytail with the worst jokes can mean disaster for the village. As the future Hokage I will stop this calamity from happening in Konoha." The shining orbs in his eyes reflected determination that was brighter than Might Gai's toothy smile.
"Not again you shitty brat. Now that I think about it, you could force the Silver haired ninja to show you or teach you the jutsu. He doesn't need to go in details, cause I could teach you in details. But you have to somehow make him teach it to you."
"Yup, thanks furball. I know something that he would give his life for."
The fox wasn't really focused on listening to his plans as his eyebrows kept twitching. "Oi, stop switching my names, either call me Furball or Fuzzytails, not both."
"I see you like that name." Naruto's creepy wink even grossed out Kami.
"Both of them are cancerous, but still I would rather have one form of cancer than two."
"Well too bad, I will have to call you both, since you call me Brat and Gaki at the same time."
The fox decided not to argue. He was in charge of Naruto's training regiment tomorrow, and also he could give Naruto motivation to fulfill his suicide training regiment on grounds of not getting a chakra enhanced stick dick in front of Ino. Boy, he was going to regret troubling the mightiest of the Bijuu. Oh, also he had his awesome jokes to add salt to the wound.
It had been a minute since Naruto had been standing outside the door. Communicating through the mindlink was not as fast as doing it in the mindscape, but it was still fast enough to do a 10 minute worth of talk in one minute. Naruto was starting to freeze a little in the cold breeze, so he turned the doorknob which granted him entrance to his room. The optimism nowadays in his mind after meeting Ino, allowed him to ignore the freezing water in the shower, the heater that blew air colder than A.C., the window that had more holes than a fishnet, and the bed that seemed to have experienced many bone fracturing blows. He fell on his back on the bed, and fell asleep, looking forward to waking up to another day of his newfound happiness.
In the morning
"Oi Furball, good morning."
"Nice and shine ma boi. So are you ready for the training?" Naruto narrowed his eyes in suspicion, but decided that the fox was going to respect him at last or was at least being sarcastic. But the glint of evil in Kurama's eyes, unknown to Naruto, meant that Naruto was going to severely enjoy the day.
"Yup, I'm always ready let's go to train!" He decided to skip on breakfast to finish the training faster and eat ramen for lunch.
Nearly 2:00 P.M in the afternoon
Naruto was groaning in pain as he got off the ground. Naruto was extremely dizzy and lightheaded right now, and completely oblivious of a fox rolling in his head in a fit of laughter watching his host suffer terribly. After a while Naruto got sober enough to use his apparently costly brain. According to Kurama Naruto's brain would fetch a high price in the market if sold, because it is completely unused and new. "Dammit, and the creator of Kage Bunshin to hell."
Naruto was unaware of the side effects of dispelling too many Kage bunshins and once. And the fox was barely containing his laughter in thoughts of how his host would suffer after dispelling the clones, so he waited for the grand moment. Naruto dispelled all 200 of his clones at once with a smile on his face, since he would be gaining the knowledge of training for 200 times more than what he did. But the word 'Kai' came out of his mouth, followed by thousands of Poofs and then the screams of Naruto and in his mind the howling laughter of the fox. Kage Bunshins are a pain in the ass, quite literally from what Naruto experienced in the morning.
Flashback
8:AM in the morning
"Oi, Gaki, so what's your plan to getting the technique from the silver haired ninja?"
"Maybe if you had listened yesterday it would have been better. Well for now let's keep it a secret. You will see the show when it starts." The fox immediately knew with his sixth sense that something bad was going to happen.
Few minutes later outside the Hokage's office.
A silver haired Jounin was walking through the streets, his left eye covered by his headband, while his hair flying off to the moon. People nearby, mostly the ladies were gaining tick marks as they passed by the jounin, since the perverted giggles and the orange book titled 'Icha Icha Paradise' in his hands didn't please the female population. The killing intent radiating from each of those ladies in the street would have easily subdued someone of a weaker heart, but being in the front lines during the third Shinobi War Steeled this man's resolve. He didn't back down to fear. Truly a man worthy of an S rank bounty in the Bingo book.
He was walking through the streets peacefully, 'His pollen sprayed into the moist pink Sakura flower Petal' Bam! He couldn't finish his reading, as he was on the floor scratching his head, wondering how he didn't notice the presence of a boy with so many books coming up to him. " I am really sorry, I got lost in thoughts of my path of life to even notice my surrounding. I can help you pick up those books."
"Thank you. I am in a hurry, so see you later!"
Naruto left running with his stack of books. Meanwhile Kakashi saw the boy vanish into the corner of a street. He looked down and opened his book again.
'These things won't bite you
They just want to have fun
Then came out
Thing two and thing one.'
'What the fuck am I reading?' He slowly closed his book to look at the orange cover which said in bold letters 'Thing one and Thing Two' by . Then he realized, the boy smuggled his Icha Paradise into his collection after he intentionally fell. "Gaki, I ignored your pranks before, but now you just made it personal."
On some training ground
"Oi gaki you really think that lazy Cyclops gonna follow you here? Just for that book?"
"Oh I know he will. He has to."
Flashback within flashback
A 6 year old Naruto was standing near the Hokage's desk, being lectured for his pranks, while tied up.
"Naruto, you shouldn't be doing things like th-". The Hokage couldn't finish as he was cut of by a silver haired Jounin who just entered the room.
"Reporting in Kakashi Hatake. The mission to Suna was a success, the target has been successfully assassinated. Here's the report." He said while handing the file to Hokage. As soon as the Hokage began reading the report, the Jounin took out the orange book from his vest. The Hokage's eyes widened at this. His hands were trembling, his eyes widened in shock. He slowly raised his finger to point at his book.
"Is that the latest volume of 'Icha Icha make out tactics' that haven't even been published yet? How did you get it?"
The jounin did his trademark eye smile, "I must thank you for assigning me to the mission. I just happened to cross by your student Jiraya-sama, who was on his way to the ruins of Uzushiogakure. It is mentioned in the report. Anyway he gave me this copy of the book as a thank you gift for taking him to a safe hiding spot in a women's bathing house."
"That's great to hear he is doing so well. So Kakashi, would you mind lending me the book right now for a while. I will be sure to increase your payment for the mission."
The stern look in Kakashi's eyes told the Hokage he was not willing to agree. "Sorry Hokage-sama, I apologize that I can not agree with your suggestion."
The Hokage was not going to give up so easily. "As the Hokage of the village, I, Sarutobi Hiruzen, order you, my subordinate, Hatake Kakashi, to hand over that book to me at this moment."
"I am sorry, but I will have to give up my official rank then if I must."
"Seems like you won't listen, I will have to take it by force." He went through a few hand seals, and bit his thumb to drop and smear a bit of blood on the ground, before yelling out "Kuchiyose no Jutsu", suddenly out of the smoke a large round bow staff appeared in his hand.
To this Kakashi had only one thing to reply, "Over my Dead body." He grabbed his headband with his hand and pulled it up to reveal his left eye which had a bright red pupil. The pupil had few tomoe marks in it that were spinning around. Both crouched back a little to move into the attack when the door opened up to reveal a ninja from the information's department. "A letter has been received from Jiraya-sama regarding the secrets in Uzushiogakure." He then looked up from his clipboard to see an S-class ninja with his Sharingan blazing, facing the Hokage, master of all five elements, and summoner of monkey King Enma. The two came to their senses as they got to a relaxed pose.
"I am sorry to threaten you over such a small matter Kakashi. You are dismissed for now. But you better hand me the book as soon as you finish."
The jounin vanished into a swirl of leaves as soon as he said, "Hai, Hokage Sama."
The boy in the corner, tied with ropes, was just trying to comprehend what happened and what could have happened if they went at it for real.
Flashback within flashback end.
Naruto stood in the middle of the field, and as expected the Jounin showed up, not four hours late, like he was to every single timed meeting.
"So Naruto will you hand me the book or not." The calm voice not hiding the anger anymore behind the mask.
"Over my dead body."
Naruto blinked to see Kakashi's hand go through multiple seals, and then sparks flying from his hand as he said, "Chidori." Naruto knew that he was serious, considering he almost gave up his shinobi career and life for the book earlier. But Naruto planned it well.
"If you kill me, the book will become unreadable within 2 hours, oh by the way,I hid the book somewhere you won't find without me."
Kakashi knew it was a defeat. He would give up anything at this moment for the book, "So what do you want?"
"Show me how to do the Kage Bunshin Technique."
The ninja blinked at his wish. Even though it was a forbidden jutsu, he didn't bother to deny him, Naruto was going to be a future leaf shinobi, had high chakra levels for that jutsu, so he should be able to handle it.
And the next one hour was spent with Kakashi showing in the jutsu. He was amazed to see Naruto able to produce 50 clones in the first hour. Kakashi could barely make 5-10 and that boy at that age made 50 clones with horrible chakra efficiency. The boy was going to wreck havoc in the future.
"Thanks a lot Kakashi-san, by the way here's the book, I was just lying about it being hidden." He took out the book from his vest.
However the ninja was clearly angry, he wasted one hour to train the boy when he could have finished another chapter of the sacred book. He took it upon himself to educate the boy some self control. He put his palms together, as he formed the shape of a gun with two fingers from each hand. He appeared right behind Naruto, and slammed his hand into Naruto's butt as he yelled out, "Konoha's Secret Finger Technique: Thousand Years of Death.". Naruto's flight into the air marked the very first flight of a human being, even before Wright Brother's famous flight.
Flashback end.
Naruto was holding his butt in pain of the memory. "Yup, definitely a pain in the ass." And then he remembered the training regiment he went through after that using his shadow clones, just so he didn't get a stick dick in front of Ino, "Pain in the ass in more than one ways."
Naruto slowly got off the ground and started heading towards home. Naruto ignored all the glares on the street, just like he ignored lectures on balanced diet. And talking about balanced diet, he was now sitting on a stool in Ichiraku's store, chugging down bowls after bowls of ramen. He finished 15 bowls under 10 minutes, that because it took them quite a bit of time to prepare the batches of ramen. He paid from the bit of money he had, and left for his home. He needed to take his nap to re-energize himself and to go to play with Ino by 4:00. He fell on his back on the bed, the creaking noise let him know that repairs were needed to be made to the bed pretty soon. He closed his eyes and warned the fox of the imminent pain awaiting the fox, should he fail to wake up Naruto by 3:30.
As promised the fox woke him up, by a pretty unusual process, however. Normal people would use their voice loudly to get through the sleeping man's senses, but the fox had his own ways. He forced chakra into the body to flow blood into Naruto's reproductive organ, which swoll up like sugarcane in a good sandy ground. The cramped organ which was demanding freedom through Naruto's tiny boxers, sent waves of pain to Naruto's brain, which forced him to wake up. A success on the Fox's watch.
"Hey brat, see I kept your promise?"
"Thanks a lot furball, I am eternally at debt to you for your kindness."
The usual bickering continued, as Naruto got dressed and left for the playground. Naruto walked towards the ground at a steady pace, not skipping anymore, since he was reminded of his intimacy with the concrete floor the last time he was skipping through the streets.
His excitement faded away as he saw the ground empty, no traces of Ino's smell blowing from any direction. Not again, it was the same story yesterday, and he cringed at remembering how much work he had to do to find her. He took off to her house in a hurry, hoping to find a trace of her whereabouts or her smell.
Ino's scent never reached outside the house for a while, which meant that she could only be in her house. He was about to knock on the door, when Ino's mom came up to him.
"Get away from my house, why are you here?"
"I came here to see Ino, she didn't come to pla-" He was cut off by her.
"She won't be playing with you anymore. And don't you dare come near her ever again. Don't let me catch you hanging around this place again."
Naruto dropped his head down in shame, anger and mostly sadness, why does it happen every time. What do they think would he do? If he hasn't harmed Konoha in any way, then why would he harm konoha now? Why couldn't they just believe his innocence for once. Why do they try so hard to devoid him of any happiness in his life. Why don't they understand it was a person from their highly worshipped Sharingan Wielders who led Kurama into a rampage. He would have told everyone by now that it was a sharingan wielder who forced Kurama to attack the village, but then again, chances were that Naruto would instead be tortured in fear that he was conspiring with the Kyuubi. The world was a hard place, especially when everyone around you is as Hard headed as Konoha civilians.
Naruto left for home, what could he do? Force her mom to let Ino play with him? Sneak Ino out to play, with the possibility of her mom calling help from all the villagers afterwards? Or maybe just give up on her? No, of course not. He chose to believe in his friend's words. He wouldn't even dare to think that she would leave this friendship, so neither should he. He would at the ground day after day, waiting for her to show up. Hoping that she finally managed to convince her mom. Hoping that she would finally come.
It's been months since then. Today was the new year. The academy was going to start the next day. All he He had been training day and night to forget the loneliness over the past few months. His now elite-jounin level chakra level, and high chunin level skills meant nothing to him, since he didn't even get to meet his friend, to whom he could share the news of his achievement. Of course he could share the news to the Hokage, who would be quite happy to receive the news, however Naruto wasn't dumb. He knew the Hokage had already set 2 Anbus after him at all times to keep an eye on him, the smell letting him know that they never took rest. So he didn't feel he had any need to tell the Hokage to receive a fake reaction of amazement at his achievement. But he knew one thing, even if Ino didn't come to play, she would at least join the Academy considering she is the next heir of the Yamanaka clan. Even if she joins next year, Naruto will be waiting, for her to keep her promise. He spent the day sitting on top of the fourth's monument, looking at the moon, wishing Ino was there with him to look at the multi colored fireworks exploding in the sky. But that didn't matter much, since he was going to the academy tomorrow, and if his luck shines he can meet Ino again. Also it would be his first step towards becoming the Hokage, which he promised to Ino. Also Ino was going to help him on his journey, at least that's what she said.
He woke up early in the morning. After months that seemed like years to him, he felt excitement rush through his body. He didn't need the fix to force a stick dick in him to wake him up. Naruto woke up with sheer willpower for the first time in months. Also the fact that he had to train his body to the extreme, discouraged him from waking up in the morning. But now he was more than happy wake up early to see her face. Oh boi, now he was really convinced that actors acting in movies didn't fake being hurt after being separated from the heroine. He took off from the window after getting changed into clean outfit. He jumped from one roof to another and soon he found himself standing on the training ground right outside the academy. He went to the door and entered to see a giant board on the wall of the hallway. His name asking with a room number was posted on it. He followed the directions given by a few, unenthusiastic to see him, teachers. He was standing outside the door as he took a look inside. The floor was elevated more towards the back so that students in the back weren't obstructed visually from the lessons on the board in the front. He took a seat in the back. The teacher came in and introduced himself to everyone as he gave a disgusted glare at Naruto. Naruto just flat out ignored it as he seemed to search through the room with his eyes for someone. The disappointment in Naruto's face clearly told that he failed in his search. He sighed in disappointment, as he laid his head down to take a nap. The second teacher also introduced himself to the class, who Naruto once again ignored due to the glare sent his way. The day went by pretty fast, and Naruto decided to go to the name board on the hallway. Yes, that's the only way for him to confirm. Right now, he was going through all the names on the board, and not just from letter I, but starting from the letter A. He went down and down, until his eyes lit up in joy of success. Yes, he found Ino's name in there. He did it! So it means she is either sick or visiting someplace and she has to show up to the academy sooner or later, not the next year. Naruto this time started shipping back to his house, and his humming making another appearance after a few months. Kurama didn't subject to this disgusting change however, it was becoming really rare to see his host feel happy since he was thrown out of Ino's house by her mother. No matter how much strength Kurama had, he felt totally helpless when Naruto felt sad and not even his jokes could bring Naruto out of his stupor.
Naruto came into school the next day with the same hope of meeting Ino, but once again he was let down. To add on to his disappointment the teacher arranged for a surprise test on the very second day of academy to test the knowledge the students gained from studying before academy and on the first day of academy. The academy was supposed to send a list of books you need to study to prepare for academy, but they felt it unnecessary to send it to the demon boy. They were hoping to screw yet the boy's education to stop him from joining the ranks of the Ninjas in Konoha.
Naruto received the test booklet and opened it to see questions that not even most chunins could answer. Naruto's brain and the Fox's experience however counted for the benefit, since he easily answered the questions. After finishing the test in a few minute he was about to lay his head down, but then Unwillingly, he saw the questions on someone else's test paper. Those were what the questions for academy students were supposed to look like. The questions for him were deliberately made harder to Savage his grades. The academy tai-jutsu training later on went pretty much the same. He was ignored during the hands on combat lesson, and the basics that the teacher did teach him were meant to kill in a taijutsu battle of life and death. It was all disappointing until the teacher tried to give him a jab as an incidental mistake during training. However the jab was dodged and Naruto sent him flying with a kick to his stomach, he crashed against the wall nearby. Everyone's mouth were wide open, until a small boy with Duck ass emo hair and a blue shirt bearing the Uchiha clan symbol came up to challenge him.
"Oi, what's your name?"
"Naruto Uzumaki, and it's not polite to ask other's name before saying your name."
The boy merely grunted at Naruto's words. "I don't think I need to tell my name to some clanless boy like you. But since I'm going to beat you, I'll tell you my name, it's Sasuke Uchiha."
All the fangirls nearby were squealing in joy that Sasuke was about to show how cool he was. Sasuke went straight for Naruto's face with a first pumped back, he needs absolute win against every strong opponent if he ever wishes to face his brother Itachi. Naruto was strong in his eyes, and he needs to be defeated first, for sake of his clan's revenge course, not jealousy by any means.
Naruto saw this and tried to duck the punch, when Sasuke smirked as brought back his fist before finishing the punch and spun is body to his Naruto's face with his round house kick. Sasuke may have been guided by an S ranked ninja in his early life, he may have been trained by the former head of Konoha's police force, Fugaku, but Naruto wasn't lacking by any means. He was trained by the oldest and strongest living being in the village, and unknown to himself, he had the bloodline of two elite former clans of shinobi world. Naruto by no means was inferior to Sasuke. Naruto merely crossed his elbows to block the kick with his forearms and then quickly grabbed Sasuke's leg and spun into the wall nearby. Sasuke managed to flip himself midair and land softly on the ground instead of the wall. Naruto's defense was solid, and so was his observation. Naruto's counterattack were even stronger, since he managed to block a kick and use the momentum of the kick to send an opponent flying. If there was one way to defeat Naruto it would be by deception, but unless Naruto's observation skills are blocked, it wouldn't be possible to break his defense. Either their sand at him or make him angry to lose concentration. Yup, making him angry should be easy.
"I guess living in the streets and eating from trash cans really do help people get stronger." He smirked to see him glare daggers in into his head.
Flashback
A 6 year old boy wearing the Uchiha clan symbol on his back was walking through the streets with his father holding his hands.
"Father you didn't train me today either! Nee-san isn't teach me either, he just pokes me in the head every time. He always hangs out with Shishui-san, he doesn't even care about me!" The little boy did a really cute pout, that melted through the police head's ice cold heart.
Fugaku just nodded his head in understanding before saying, "You know he is really busy after being promoted to Jounin. And I always have to work to keep the village safe, but I will train you tomorrow." He was expecting his son to yell in joy, but was surprised to see him indifferent to his story. When he faced the direction where his son was looking at, he held back a gasp.
"Don't bother with him son. Some people are meant to live below others in the society. To the Hokage the villagers may matter the most, but to us our Uchiha clan holds the highest priority. Try to ease the clans sufferings before you move onto the villagers." But the boy seemed unconvinced as to why the boy in front of him should suffer like that. "Besides, let the boy be, he is an important key to rising the Uchiha clan above others." Sasuke, even though hesitant, chose to believe his father's word and his nindo.
'Someone who never gains any love or shelter their whole life would do anything once given even slight glimpse of hope. Son, you will one day understand how much the Kyuubi's chakra will benefit our clan, and then you would appreciate this treatment of the child.'
The child was none other than Naruto Uzumaki. He was leaning against a garbage can, looking for food. His frail body with stick thin bones somehow reflected the shapes of the dried out rotten meat bones that were left in the trash can. His face was burned into Sasuke's memory, and with hate of course. 'That boy was an useful key to the rise of Uchiha clan? I'll prove to father I will be more important in the rise of the clan. Then he would definitely train me!' Sasuke's dark thoughts of jealousy still showed signs of his innocent mind.
Flashback end
Naruto let his anger get the better out of him, as he didn't focus on stopping Sasuke anymore, he aimed to break a few of his bones to teach him a lesson. He was super pissed. He didn't care what happens to him after that. He charged straight ahead to meet him head to head. Sasuke smirked in victory, his plan worked, Naruto's concentration and logical thinking was thrown straight out, and now he was charging blindly. Now he could beat him up. He tried to dodge and block the flurry of punches that Naruto sent his way. He just needed to find an opening, but before he could find one, he found his face being pulled into a really strong punch followed by a knee to his ribs, one of which ended broken. Then the roundhouse kick to his face got him to fly across the playground to the wall. All the fangirls were quiet and in shock. "There's no way Sasuke-Kun could be defeated so easily!"
Instead of encouraging Sasuke to win, that one outburst made him faint in pain, his clan's respect brought down by a mere street dweller. He would have his revenge, but for now he would have some rest. Yup, some rest from his public humiliation.
When the teacher's brought Sasuke to the hospital, no one cared to ask how Naruto was faring after Sasuke mentioned pretty traumatic personal events to him. Nope, they were too busy trying to take care of their Uchiha Sama's broken ribs. Their end reports to the civilian council and Hokage would always mysteriously change to highlight negatives of the blonde boy, and improve Sasuke's social status. Apparently Sasuke was unfairly beaten while trying to stop the blonde from harming the teacher. Naruto was now the one accused for cheating and also trying to harm fellow students and teachers. His standing in the civilian council was dominated by glares from villagers, complaining that the Demon boy was growing too wild, and that he was gaining too much courage. The Hokage of-course flat out rejected their proposals to banish him from Konoha on such a small account. However the Hokage had to satisfy the council at least a little, as Naruto was ordered to pay a hefty fine for harming his fellow students. Naruto's one witness, against hundreds of made up stories of his savageness from the Sasuke fangirls definitely didn't help his case. His options were to either be sent to correction center, fined or banned from academy. He had to meet with Ino in the academy as soon as he could, so he chose to pay the hefty fine. He understood one thing however, class and academy other than Ino, held nothing of benefit or importance to him. He couldn't perform well without the teachers trying to knock him down, he couldn't hurt their Uchiha-sama unless he wanted to get accused of fictional crimes, and he couldn't even show his strength unless he wanted to be trialed by the council on counts of being 'Demonized'. Academy was hell, and Ino could possibly be the only air conditioner in this hell.
It's been a week already since academy started. Naruto's boredom was going overboard. He would walk outside the classroom and seldom inside throughout the whole week. Pranking the teachers brought him some relief from the pent up urge in him of wanting to bite their head off. Well, at least that's what the fox suggests most of the time. It was another day of his boring school life, thinking about Ino. Ino was walking right outside the window. Yup his imagination would sometimes be surreal. Ino came into the classroom, and everyone got excited to see a pretty girl in the class. The teacher introduced her to the class, and after several minutes of scrutinizing his imagination of having Ino in the classroom, he realized, she really did come! She came at last! She kept her promise! She came to the academy, and now her mom wouldn't stop her. She went straight to Sakura since she didn't see Naruto. She was having a loud chat with her, and the gossips that were pent up in her, after being home caged for so long, finally managed to find a ear to spoil. The very moment the period ended, Naruto got on the bench. His excitement way too much for someone who seemed the least bit excited to be in the academy. He jumped from one table top to another at speed faster than the Hiraishin no Jutsu. He landed right next to Ino, the wind blowing from his run making her long blonde ponytail dance in the air. His eyes gleamed with joy, as he saw her face, still as beautiful and cute as ever, no signs of illness or injuries. Her eyes still gleaming with bright colors. Her smell radiating essence of lavender flower, and the bruises on her face and lips from last time he saw her were gone.
"Ino it's been so long! I waited for you at the playground everyday you know? And man all these days of academy without you were boring!" Naruto took a glance at her face now to see a confused look on her. Her eyes were not showing any excitement, neither happiness at seeing her self-proclaimed friend for life. At first he thought she was having the most exciting time of her life, but now he could see her eyes were as lifeless as his used to be. But her reaction didn't compare to anything to what happened next. Naruto was stabbed and axed almost to the point of his death before, but never had he felt such pain in his heart. The unknown feeling of losing someone was too great. He had no one really close to him, so he never knew what it felt like to lose someone. But now he knew, it felt worse than hell. Because when Naruto was blabbering on and on about his excitement at seeing her, she merely turned towards him in confusion, as she said something that instantly broke his heart and his hope, "Who Are You?"
Author's note:
The timeskip of three to four months, will be revisited again many times throughout the future chapters! So don't worry about missing out on even a day of Naruto's life. Kurama's cancerous jokes might just get better from now on, so watch out!
