Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO
Chapter Two: First Day of School
8:30 AM
'Crap. CRAP. CRAP!!'
Naruto was running throughout Konoha, having no idea where he was going. He was about to lose all hope until he saw an entrance with two words above it.
Ninja Academy
7:00 AM
School starts at 8:15
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
CRASH!
Beep beep beep fizz
"Stupid alarm clock."
Naruto was never much of a morning person. He hated mornings. The only reason he was ever really up at this time in ANBU was because Cat made it part of his morning person routine to wake Naruto up with a nice bucket ice-cold water. And because of the lack of his much hated wake up call, he would make a very bad first impression on his already tainted record.
"Time for more sleep." Naruto said, cuddling his pillow.
8:13 AM
"Ugh," Naruto groaned. Naruto sat up, stretching his arms and yawning a pretty deep yawn for his age.
"What time is it?" Naruto asked looking at his clock, finding it destroyed.
"Crap, now I'm gonna have to buy a new one." Naruto took a look at his watch and saw it was 8:14.
"Why does it feel like I'm forgetting about something?"
He proceeded to take a look at the calendar and see if there was anything important. When he saw what was on there, he just sat there, his mind taking a little while to register it.
Then it clicked.
"CRAP!!! I'M GANNA BE LATE FOR SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!"
Naruto was so freaked that he got ready so fast that he made a record of taking the shortest time, ever, to wash up, change and eat a warm meal. A record which he would continue to break throughout his time in school.
But unfortunately, that record meant nothing if you didn't know where you were going. And that was exactly the case. He was supposed to find his way earlier, but without a wakeup call, he had no time.
Which leads us back to our hero running throughout the streets of Konoha, and stumbling upon the Academy.
"Well class, we were supposed to have a new student today, but seeing as he is not her-"
KNOCK KNOCK
"It seems I spook to soon." Spoke the sensei as she walked over to slide open the door.
"Your late Uzamuki-san."
"Sorry," Naruto said sheepishly, scratching the back of his head.
"Well, please come in and introduce yourself, and take off the mask while you're at it."
"Why?"
"Because I do not allow masks in this class. And I highly doubt any other teachers would like it either."
"Fine," Naruto said, knowing he was defeated. And for the first time in two years, he showed his face in public. After all the time wearing the mask and rarely every taking it off, his face had become paler. The fact of this spooked some of the students while it intrigued some others.
"Now introduce yourself to the class, please."
To the class Naruto looked like a miniature ANBU, except there was no mask.
"Hello, my name is Uzumaki Naruto."
For many in the class, this name rang a bell. A few, for being told that Naruto was a monster that ate any that talked to him. And the rest for being told that by their friends and in turn had dealt with it the same as the others. They avoided him. And with that story still being drilled in their heads, they feared him.
The reaction Naruto got from the class slightly (except for a brooding emo and a kid hiding behind glasses and a collar) saddened him. But having killed many and tortured far more, Naruto stood as stoically as he could.
"Now Naruto, would you please take a seat next to Sasuke." She said, pointing to Sasuke's general direction.
Naruto began walking up the stairs to take a seat next to the brooding Uchiha. As he passed by each row, he felt eyes filled with fear of him watching his every move. He didn't like it. So he decided to have some fun on his way.
He made a quick move in the direction of a girl with pink hair and a rather large forehead, and sneezed. The girl, and about almost everyone, that actually was intimidated, had visibly paled, thinking he was about to kill them all.
All Naruto could do was smirk. A few of the more observant ones noticed. Naruto quietly took a seat next to the brooding Uchiha.
"Now, as I was saying, I have an announcement to make. I will no longer be teaching here at the Academy."
"WHAT?!" was the reaction from the portion of the class that actually cared.
"I will be taking missions again so I can have enough missions to qualify for the Jounin exam?"
"But Kurenai-sensei, your just gonna leave us here with a teacher we know nothing about!"
"Don't worry, the senseis that are coming to teach you would have taken a test that makes sure they are qualified for the job."
"Tomorrow, a new sensei and his assistant will take over from where we left off. And so a treat for the last day I will be with, we will have a field day!"
"YAY!!" was, yet again, from those who actually cared.
"Okay, first target practice. We will proceed in alphabetical order…."
About 30 minutes later
"Uchiha Sasuke!"
"GO SASUKE-KUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!" was heard from Sasuke's cheering section.
Of course, all of that was ignored. All Sasuke knew at that moment was the bull's-eye, the kunai and shuriken in his hands, and himself. He threw them. All hitting somewhere in the 10-inch wide bull's-eye.
"YAY SASUKE-KUN!!!" screamed fangirls who were ignored by the smirking Uchiha.
"Finally, Uzumaki Naruto!"
Naruto made two movements, 10 ft behind the line where you were supposed to throw your weapons. The first was to quickly draw kunai and shuriken in his left hand, even though he was right handed, and then to casually flick all the weapons in the direction of the target log.
What happened left everyone in a shocked silence. His weapons stuck into the ends of Sasuke's exactly. And each one matched exactly, a kunai for every kunai, and a shuriken for every shuriken. And each one stuck in at the exact angle the one it struck was at.
"That it?" was all Naruto asked.
"Hai," was all Kurenai could say, still in a state of shock.
Everyone was then shocked again when Naruto casually flicked his wrist, causing all his weapons came back at him backward, catch them, and put them back where they came from.
There were a few minutes of silence for the reason of nobody having a reason to talk.
The silence was broken by Kurenai announcing that taijutsu matches were next.
After everyone was broken out of their shock they all gave Naruto, who was leaning on a tree, curious/fearful glances as they proceeded to the small taijutsu arena. All Sasuke could do was glare at Naruto. After most of the class had left, Sasuke walked up to Naruto.
"How did you do that?"
"It's not like it was hard." With that, Naruto proceeded to leave leaving Sasuke to growl in frustration.
'It was only target practice, if he good at that, that means he's weak at everything else.' Sasuke lied to himself, thinking he could then show Naruto up in taijutsu.
"Okay, any volunteers to fight first?"
Sasuke rose his hand.
"And who do you wish to fight?"
"Uzumaki Naruto."
Many had come to the same conclusion as Sasuke and completely underestimated Naruto.
"YOU CAN BEAT HIM SASUKE!!!!"
And Sasuke actually acknowledged it.
Sasuke got into the Academy taijutsu fighting stance, while Naruto got into a stance that seemed like a mix between the Goken and Jyuuken stances. While his legs were bent and his torso positioned in the way of the Jyuuken, while his hand left hand was put behind his back and his right arm out, bending at a 90 degree angle upward at the elbow with an open palm facing him.
While many, including Kurenai and Sasuke, were wondering about the stance, Kurenai stated one rule.
"First to beat the other with only pure taijutsu wins."
"What if the attacks use chakra?" Naruto asked.
"Need a boost just to beat me?" Sasuke mocked.
"No," Naruto said, smirking, "My taijutsu uses the wind."
Kurenai was beyond surprised at this point. A kid she only knew as a jinchuuriki, who had disappeared for a couple of years, walked in dressed in as an ANBU with a mask reminiscent of Naruto's inner demon, and an accuracy that could rival that on an advanced Jounin. And now he was using a taijutsu style that bared similarities to the Green Beast of Konoha's Goken and the Hyuuga's Jyuuken that required wind manipulation to function.
All Kurenai was able to stutter was, "E-el-lement-t-tal man-nipul-l-lation ac-c-cept-t-ted."
The class, seeing as their sensei could not say anything else, yelled, "BEGIN!!!" to eager to see the fight commence.
Neither made a move for a few seconds. Sasuke, being to impatient charged with a battle cry, aiming his left hand for Naruto's head. Naruto just casually leaned back, causing Sasuke to miss and leaving an opening to his jaw for millisecond. Ample time for Naruto to attack. Which he did.
Naruto brought his open hand back, and made a strike for Sasuke's face that could of broken Sasuke's jaw, and veered to the left. But because of the wind chakra behind it, caused Sasuke to go spinning, all the way back to where he started. Sasuke got up to see Naruto simply smirking, still in his original stance and spot. Naruto had many opportunities to end the fight when Sasuke was flying, but he wanted more fun.
Sasuke just blindly charge forward, and swung at Naruto with his right hand. But before the punch connected, Naruto snapped his hand forward, grabbed Sasuke's wrist and using Sasuke's own momentum and some wind manipulation, he spun on his heel and after a full 360 degree spin, threw Sasuke back to where he came from, and then rolling another few feet. All the while, Naruto had used wind manipulation to stop his spinning right where he started.
Everyone around was amazed that Naruto had beat the class genius back twice, using only his right hand to attack, and keeping the exact same position as he started.
When Sasuke got back up, he was beyond pissed. All he knew right now was that he had to land one hit on that pale, whiskered, and smirking face. Sasuke charged, and lunged at Naruto, all the strength he could muster behind his left hand. Nothing could stop it. Well, nothing in the rest of the class could. Except for Naruto.
Naruto turned his palm towards Sasuke, gathering some wind chakra to spin in a disk in his hand. Right before Sasuke's fist was about to hit Naruto's hand, Naruto pushed his palm towards Sasuke's fist while letting the wind chakra explode in Sasuke's direction, blowing Sasuke back and out of the ring and crashing into the ground.
"Winner, Uzumaki Naruto." Kurenai said, completely shocked.
And the reaction was completely the same among the rest of the class. Naruto calmly got of his stance and walked out of the ring. Sasuke on the other had got up, not too injured, unless you counted his badly bruised ego. Sasuke also had to also fight numerous fangirls off to get to the rest of the class.
The rest of the fights moved and were not of much importance, except for the Hyuuga girl, who thought of doing what Naruto did with the wind in his style with her chakra in her Jyuuken style. The opponent, who chose her because she was weak, was fairly surprised when she blew him back, releasing her chakra in a non-lethal way and effectively finding a new style. And Hyuuga Hisashi was also fairly surprised, finding his daughter using a Hyuuga style that no one had known to use for generations when she came home.
His one thought, 'what are they teaching at that school?'
Well anyways, after the taijutsu matches, the portion that Sasuke dominated came. Ninjutsu.
The task was pretty easy to say. Attack the log anyway you please. Suffice to say, a class with only a talented 7 turned 8 students, the entire class had a multitude of ways to do the task. But out of the original 7, 2 were too lazy or "busy" cough-eating-cough-cough, to do anything while another was trying to get tham to. So it was actually quite amazing.
But today, no one seemed to be trying, as if wanting to save the log for the genius and the new kid.
So when it came to Sasuke, the anticipation of it was so great, that they literally had folding chairs and popcorn, including Kurenai and he-who-hides-his-face(Shino if ya don't know).
Sasuke, who liked the attention, made a big show of taking a stance with his head down and rapidly making handseals. As soon as the set was finished, he dramatically brought his head back, made, the largest breath he could, and than shoot the biggest fireball he could while simultaneously shouting, "KATON: GOKAYUU NO JUTSU!"
Of Course the affect was the log blown to smithereens. Sasuke was completely exhausted, but held up to keep his image.
Naruto, who had stood throughout the entire activity, simply walked forward without being called. But he stopped to turn around to Kurenai.
"Sensei, may I make a new target?"
"Sure."
Naruto walked to where the target used to stand and made a couple of handseals. He placed his hands over the ash while muttering something. Kurenai was able to catch the beginning though.
"Mokuton," she whispered, unable to understand how he could do it.
As Naruto stood up a tree sprouted where the training log once stood. Naruto nonchalantly walked back to the line where you were supposed to begin the attack.
Naruto brought up one hand only, his left (and he's right handed), and began a set of one-handed seals at speeds a Sharigan could not follow. He ended on a tora seal. At first, nothing seemed to be happening. Sasuke was about to comment on this mockingly, until he felt it. The more talented ones were first to notice, and was noticed by everyone more and more. At first, it was a light breeze passing by. Then it was their uncovered toes getting colder. One by one, they noticed. The air was moving. Towards Naruto. Or more exactly, in front of him. The speed of the wind was increasing. Then the wind in front of Naruto was spinning like a giant disk. Soon, as the winds picked up, the disk began to expand horizontally and forward, making it look like a horizontal tornado. The wide end of the horizontal tornado grew wider in diameter in front of Naruto. And as fast as light, the wind around them stopped moving. But the horizontal tornado was spinning wildly; looking like it could explode any second. Then the thin end of the tornado expanded and extended going at high speeds towards the tree. But before the attack hit, it swerved off course but was still going, circling around the tree. As it did this, something started forming out of the wind. At first, it shape was indiscernible. But as it circled, a head of something could be seen. The more it circled, the more you could tell what it was. IT was a dragon's head.
'He made a dragon attack made of wind,' thought Kurenai. And while the others thought it was an amazing attack Naruto learned, Kurenai knew better. There was no wind dragon attack that was in existence. Until now apparently. Kurenai realized he had to of made the attack. And it was remarkable that he was able to make and master it to the extent to use one-handed seals at his age.
On the final circle, the dragon's head could easily be seen. But it was making not any moves. Then its eyes glowed to life.
"FUUTON: TORNADO DRAGON NO JUTSU!!"
It flew straight up above the tree then making a long turn and came straight down upon the tree as soon as it hit the tree a huge cloud of smoke and debris hid the tree from view. Then the dragon burst from the cloud coming straight at the group causing many to scream. Right before it would of hit Naruto, who was still hold his one-handed seal, it made a sharp loop, swerving to the left, proceeding to destroy the logs to the left. It then made another loop, going back for the remaining logs to the right. It mad a final loop, going to the center and then sharply turning to charge into Naruto. Naruto finally released the seal and held out hit open hand as if it telling it to stop. It didn't. Many were worried that they were going to die and were about to run when it hit Naruto's hand. And yet again, everyone was completely amazed. The wind dragon was destroyed, the wind being deflected to the sides in razor sharp wind blades. The attack was soon enough completely destroyed. Naruto held up another one-handed tora seal except this time blowing some wind the clear the field of all the dust clouds. The sight was unimaginable. What was left of the training logs and the tree was either splinters that littered the ground, or the trunks that looked like they were put through a machine that hit them with axes, saws, and any other hand held wood cutting tool known to man at thousands of random angles.
Naruto looked around to his new classmates and asked them one question, that was more directed to Sasuke.
"Theatrical enough for you."
And there wasn't a drop of sweat on him.
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KATIPUNAN'S KYUUBI: Hey, can someone recommend any English to Japanese translators that show the results in letters? Jutsus sound cooler in Japanese.