Naruto was woken up by one of the three banes of a school student, his alarm clock. He was still tired as he had stayed up late last night setting up some seals for a grand introduction.
Reluctantly getting up he walked to his closet to get dressed.
He walked out of his closet sporting a pair of orange pants, and an orange windbreaker jacket with blue shoulders. He had seen the jacket in the window of a shop and wanted it but the shop owner refused to let the demon brat shop in his store. He later found this outfit sitting on his doorstep the day after his birthday. He had noticed that for the past few years he had been receiving gifts from an unknown person and no matter how had he tried he could never find them to say thank you, so he had planned to wear the jacket around the village in order to show the mystery gift giver that he appreciated the gift.
Stepping out of his bedroom on his way to make some ramen for him and Kitsudo, Naruto was surprised at what awaited him.
"Good morning sleepyhead," came a voice from the living room.
Looking over to the voice, all tiredness and fatigue left his body as he tackled the red head he saw shouting, "Uncle Akira!"
"It is good to see you to Naruto," he said with a chuckle.
"Why are you here?" asked an excited blonde.
"Hey you didn't think I would miss your first day at the academy did you?" asked Akira ruffling the blonde's hair, "So you want to hear while I was away this time?"
"Yeah!" screamed the blonde before a pillow hit him in the head. Looking over he saw a visibly tired and annoyed Kitsudo in his human transformation.
"Shut up unless you have ramen prepared," growled out the fox boy before walking over and flopping onto Naruto's bed.
"He seems grouchy today," said Akira attempting to hide his amusement.
"Yeah, he doesn't like that he has to get up so early," responded Naruto ignoring Akira's failed attempt at hiding his amusement to head into the kitchen
"Well he doesn't have to get up with you. It's not like he is the one going to the academy," said Akira following Naruto to the kitchen.
"Actually he is," stated Naruto as he put a pot of water on to boil.
"What do you mean?" questioned Akira.
"Kurama warned me that some of the teachers at the academy might try and sabotage me because of my status as his jinchuriki," explained Naruto. "I brought this up to Jiji and he agreed so we came up with a plan to have Kitsudo enter the academy under his transformation. If the teachers would give me false information, or not give me any at all, Then later Kitsudo will give me the unaltered version," he finished offering Akira a bowl of instant ramen
"Clever plan," responded Akira accepting the offered bowl.
Kitsudo walked out of Naruto's room still half asleep as he sat down and started eating the bowl that Naruto had placed in front of him.
"So how long until we have to be there?" asked a now awake Kitsudo to Naruto.
"Jiji said it starts at eight and it is," he paused in his eating to look at the clock on his wall, "seven twenty."
"In that case we should be heading out soon," said Akira as he stood up and headed for the door.
Naruto and Kitsudo quickly finished their ramen and moved to follow Akira after finishing their ramen
-Academy-
Konoha's ninja academy was a large building located near the base of the Hokage monument. In the front of the academy was a courtyard with a small tree in it. A swing hung from one of the larger branches.
Among the gathered children only eight stood out among the crowd to Naruto. The first was a boy with narrow brown eyes and a typical expression suggesting he is either bored or irritated though it was more likely the former due to his position of starring up at the clouds. He has shoulder length black hair tied in a spiky ponytail shaped like a pineapple. He wore a gray shit and black shorts.
Another sat next to him. He was a rotund boy wearing a green short sleeved jacket with the top third being a lighter shade of green. He had on a dark gray pair of pants. His brown hair was short and spiky. He had a red swirl on each cheek, and a bag of potato chips in his hands.
Not far away two girls sat picking flowers. One had platinum blonde hair that reached the base of her neck. she wore a yellow tank top with a purple flower pattern, and a pair of shorts. The other had bright neck length pink hair. She wore a small green T shirt and a blue ribbon holding back her bangs.
The two girls both kept glancing over at a boy who had raven hair styled like a duck's butt with onyx eyes. He wore a black high collar shirt with light gray shorts. His shirt had a large red fan with a white handle on the back, signifying his status as an Uchiha. From the looks of it he was being stared at by every girl in the class, well almost every one.
The one girl that was not looking at the Uchiha was hiding behind that tree. Naruto recognized her as the girl he saved from the Kumogakure shinobi a few years ago. Rather than looking at the Uchiha she seemed to be looking at him. She had on a light lavender jacket with a pair of purple pants. When he looked towards her she ducked back behind the tree with a red face. He just shoved that though to the side when his attention was grabbed by another voice.
A loud boy was in the middle of another group boasting loudly that he was going to be the strongest one of their year. He wore a gray sweatshirt and black shorts. A small white puppy sat in his brown hair. Two red fang markings sat on her face one on each side. He had slightly elongated canines giving him a slightly feral look.
Just past the boisterous boy another boy this one wearing a grey jacket, his lower face hidden by the high collar. His sunglasses covered eyes were focused onto a small anthill.
"Well looks like this year's class is full of clan heirs," commented Akira looking at the kids that stood out.
"What do you mean?" asked Naruto.
"You see the eight kids that stand out? Five of them are clan heirs," he pointed to five of the eight kids. "Nara, Akimichi, Yamanaka, Hyuga, Aburame," he said pointing to the lazy boy, the rotund boy, the platinum blonde, the one who was an obvious Hyuga, and the boy looking at the anthill, in that order. "The boy with a fan on the back of his shirt is the younger of the Uchiha clan's head family. The boy with the puppy on his head is the same for the Inuzuka."
"Wow," was the blonde's only response.
Just then the bell rang and all of the kids in the courtyard entered the building.
"You might want to head inside before your late," said Akira gesturing towards the door.
-In the Classroom-
"Settle down now everyone," ordered a large man wearing the standard chunin attire with bandana style forehead protector. When the class settled down he introduced himself, "My name is Daimoku Funeno, I will be your instructor for your first year."
The class room was fairly large with high ceilings. The rows of desk were set up like stairs with each row being higher than the last.
"Now one at a time you will be called up to the front so that you may introduce yourself to the rest of the class." Pulling out a clipboard he read the first name on the list, "Shino Aburame."
The boy who had almost his entire body covered walk from his place in the back of the class.
"My name is Shino Aburame. I care for insects and dislike any who mistreat them," he said in a monotone. His fascination with bugs sent a shiver down the spines of most girls in the class.
"Choji Akimichi."
The rotund boy from earlier got up from his desk in the front row and walked to the front of class.
"My name is Choji Akimichi. I like chips, barbecue, and my friend Shikamaru," he introduced.
"Sakura Haruno."
The pink haired girl walked to the front of class from her spot next to the platinum blonde.
"My new is Sakura Haruno. I like," she paused in her introduction to look at the Uchiha boy who just face palmed.
"Fan girl," thought the instructor before calling out the next name.
"Hinata Hyuga."
From the back of the class Hinata timidly got up and walked to the front.
"M my name is H Hinata H Hyuga. I l like flower p pressing and s sweet things," she stuttered out before discretely looking towards Naruto though only Kitsudo noticed this and realized what was going on.
So the Hyuga like Naruto
"Kiba Inuzuka."
The loud boy jumped from the second row of desk the puppy still resting on his head.
"The name's Kiba Inuzuka and this is Akamaru," he shouted in a boisterous tone, "I like dogs primarily Akamaru. I also hate cats."
"Kitsudo Kitona."
Kitsudo got up from his seat next to Naruto and walked to the front of class.
"Hello I am Kitsudo Kitona. I like foxes my friends and my older brother Kitsuma. I hate anyone who mistreats others for no reason," he said giving a respectful bow with one arm horizontal across his stomach and the other in a similar position on his back. At this some of the girls in the class looked at him the same way that they looked at the Uchiha.
"Shikamaru Nara," when nobody moved the teacher called his name again. This time the instructor noticed the sleeping boy sitting next to Choji. Annoyed at the boy he moved to wake him but was stopped by Choji.
"Hold on I got this. Shikamaru the teach just said we can go outside to play Shogi and watch clouds," he whispered onto the Nara's ear.
Shikamaru's head shot up and he was at the door in less than a second.
"I never thought I would see a Nara move that fast, I didn't even think they could move that fast," thought the teacher in surprise. Clearing his throat the instructor grabbed Shikamaru's attention before he could leave the classroom. "Shikamaru Nara would be so kind as to introduce yourself to the rest of the class."
With a sigh and a mutter of "troublesome," he moved to the front of the class. "My name is Shikamaru Nara. I like anything that isn't troublesome, and I dislike anything that is troublesome," he said before walking back to his seat and promptly falling asleep.
"Okay, next Sasuke Uchiha."
When the duck haired boy got to the front of the classroom every girl in the class, except Hinata, stared at him with heart in their eyes.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, and hope to one day surpass my brother Itachi," at this declaration the hearts in the girls' eyes got bigger much to the Uchiha's discomfort.
"Naruto Uzumaki," growled out the teach knowing that this was the Kyuubi's jinchuriki.
Much to the chagrin of several of the females, Naruto gave display of surprising flexibility and acrobatics by doing a combination of back hand springs and cartwheels down the stairs ending with a back-flip at the bottom landing with a bow. A large poof of smoke then appeared in front of the chalkboard. When it cleared a large white banner with the words, "Introducing Your Future Hokage Naruto Uzumaki," in the same shade of bright kill me orange as his jumpsuit.
Meanwhile in some dark and dreary torture chamber a purple haired girl paused in her attempt of skinning a man alive to look of into the direction of the academy. "I just got an incredible idea for my next entrance at a chunin exam."
"You idiot," shouted the teacher smacking the blonde across his head, "clean this up immediately.
"Yes sir," said Naruto before he walked over and places his hand on a seal. Channeling chakra to the seal caused another puff of smoke to envelope the banner.
"How did you do that," screamed a random student.
"Now now it wouldn't be amazing if you knew how it happened," said the blonde with a megawatt grin.
The teacher just sighed before calling out the last name, "Ino Yamanaka."
The platinum blonde girl got up from next to Sakura and headed to the front of class.
"I'm Ino Yamanaka," she introduced flipping her hair. "I like flowers and a certain someone," she said with a wink towards Sasuke who just slammed is face onto the desk.
"Now, I shall be instructing you in history, and jutsu," at this statement most of the boy's eyes lit up in joy, "theory," he finished and every boy's head hung in disappointment.
"My assistant Mizuki, will be teaching you taijutsu," when he finished a man with white shoulder length hair walked in. He had green eyes with the standard Chunin attire.
"Hello my name is Mizuki. Will everyone please follow me outside?" he asked.
When the last student entered into the courtyard everyone stood to the side of a small practice arena.
"Alright we shall start by evaluating your skills with some one on one spares. Beginning with the boys, will Kiba Inuzuka and random student please enter the arena," instructed Mizuki.
Kiba placed Akamaru on the ground under a tree before he entered the sparing ring.
"What are you afraid that your puppy will get hurt?" Taunted Kiba's opponent.
Kiba gave a murderous glare, "Start the match."
"Ready. Begin."
The boy got in a ready stance but it did not do much as Kiba had already planted his fist into his gut sending him from the ring.
"Winner Kiba," announced Mizuki.
"Was their ever any doubt? I'm top dog," Kiba shouted boisterously.
"Next are, Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi," stated the instructor as Kitsudo had just systematically defeated a boy who was very arrogant.
"I forfeit," came the voice of Shikamaru, "fighting is such a drag."
This was met with several boos from the other student.
"Lazy Nara," muttered the teach. "In that case will Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha enter the ring please?" requested the teacher.
The two boys entered the ring, Sasuke loudly being cheered on by his horde of fan girls while Hinata silently cheered on Naruto.
"So Itachi's your brother, I just hope you don't have his temper," commented Naruto off handedly.
"How do you know Itachi and what temper? Itachi doesn't have a temper?" questioned Sasuke.
"No you just never pushed him far enough. As for how I know him I had the pleasure of meeting him after I managed to dye his hair bright green weeks ago," answered the blonde.
"That's why he refused to come out of the bathroom for an hour," thought the Uchiha.
"Are both sides ready?" asked the instructor. Receiving a nod from both boy he continued, "Begin."
The match began with Sasuke swinging at Naruto with a right hook. Naruto dodged and grabbed his wrist. Using Sasuke's own momentum he flung the Uchiha over his shoulder.
Sasuke managed to stop himself from leaving the ring by sliding on all fours. Springing out of his four legged stance he brought his left arm up appearing to be going for a left hook but switched to an uppercut with his right arm at the last moment.
Naruto was knocked up and backwards from the hit. Landing in a handstand he swung his foot around going for a spin kick to the head. Narrowly dodging the leg sweep Sasuke was unprepared for Naruto to bring his other leg around.
Striking Sasuke with the soul of his shoe Naruto channeled chakra causing him to stick to Sasuke. Dropping into a role Naruto drug the Uchiha with him, throwing the boy from the circle.
Everyone watching was in shock and aw at the level of skill Naruto and Sasuke just preformed with, especially since they did not have any training from the academy.
"W winner Naruto U Uzumaki," stammered the instructor trying to process what he just witnessed.
"How dare you hurt Sasuke-kun," screamed the Sasuke fan club.
Naruto walked over to where Sasuke was starting to sit up, and reached a hand out towards the Uchiha. When the boy took the offered appendage Naruto pulled him to his feet.
"That was fun. Wanna have a rematch sometime?" asked the blonde with his kind smile.
"Hn. Only because you seem to be the only here one who seems knows what they are doing," responded the boy with a pout. This answer just made the Uchiha's fan club gush at the boy's aloof attitude completely missing the fact that the insult was mostly addressed towards them.
The girls fights were mostly uneventful the only ones to show any skill was Hinata and to a lesser extent Ino.
-End of School Day-
As Naruto and Kitsudo were leaving the academy they saw a group of three boys that appeared to be a few years older than them surrounding a young girl. Upon closer inspection they saw that the girl was Hinata.
Silently Naruto nodded as he and Kitsudo disappeared.
-In the Woods just Outside the Academy-
"So you think that just because you're a Hyuga, it gives you the right to step all over us," said one of the older boys.
"I'm sorry, I don't mean to bump into you," muttered Hinata as tears began to form in her eyes.
"You think crying will get you any sympathy? Are you still looking down on us your freaky eyes you high and mighty Hyuga," said another one of the boys before shoving Hinata to the ground.
"I said I'm sorry," Hinata repeated as more tears began appearing.
One of the boys began to move as if to hit Hinata, but before he could land his hit he was suddenly knocked to the ground.
"What was that?" asked the boy holding his jaw.
"She already apologized to you, now leave her alone," ordered Naruto as he stood defiantly between the three boys and Hinata.
"Who the hell are you?" asked the second boy.
"Wait a minute isn't he the boy your mother said to stay away from?" said the third boy.
"Hey yeah it is the demon kid," shouted the first boy from his spot on the ground in realization.
"Demon? Why do they think that he's a demon? Is it because of his red chakra?" wondered Hinata mentally.
"I said leave. She already apologized now go," Naruto said in a more commanding tone.
"Or you'll do what?" taunted the first boy.
"I'll make you," responded Naruto, calmly shifting into a battle stance.
The group of boys just laughed at him before one of the spoke up, "You think that you can beat us in a three on one."
"If I must," said Naruto to his voice unwavering.
This only served to make the boys angry as one moved to strike Naruto in the face with a sloppy punch. Effortlessly Naruto caught the punch with one hand before twisting the wrist and throwing them to the ground. Not expecting the action the other two boys were understandably shook.
"Now leave," demanded Naruto having not moved from his position of throwing the boy in to the ground.
Snapping out of their shock the older boys began charging together showing no coordination. Naruto responded simply by sliding his foot under the prone boy before, like a professional soccer player, launched him up before sending the body corning toward the other two with a roundhouse kick nocking all three to the ground.
With pained groans the three boys got up and ran off.
Turning around Naruto reached a hand out for Hinata to grab. Shakily she did and stood still slightly shaking she looked up into the eyes of the one who had saved her. There she saw the blue eyes of the one who has saved her before despite them having been red at the time they still had the same light behind them.
Realizing what she was doing she immediately turned bright red and looked away.
"T thank," she stuttered out before being cut off by an older male voice.
"Lady Hinata!" shouted a man with the pale pupilless Byakugan eyes of the Hyuga clan. The veins around his eyes were bulging signaling that his dojustsu was active meaning Naruto was essentially invisible to him.
Realizing this Naruto leaned over and whispered into Hinata's ear, "Pretend that I am not here."
Confused, Hinata meekly nodded.
"Lady Hinata, what are you doing out here?" asked the older Hyuga.
"A g group of b bullies w was b being m mean b because of m my eyes," she stammered with some tears still at the edge her eyes.
"Where did they go?" asked the man looking like he was ready to beat the shit out of someone as he looked around with his Byakugan.
"O one of my c classmates s showed up and h he s scared them off," she answered.
"I see. I would like to meet this classmate of yours so that I may thank him for protecting you while I was not able to," responded the older Hyuga.
Confused Hinata looked over to were Naruto was standing next to her with a frown on his face as she could faintly here his voice, "You probably would have attacked me on sight if you didn't have you dojustsu active."
"Does Ko not see him?" Hinata wondered. She was brought out of these musings when the now named Ko grabbed he hand and began leading her away while she still looked towards Naruto who just smiled at her before turning around and beginning to walk away when a small orange fox climbed up his back curling around his neck like a scarf.
This was one of the many time Hinata will be saved from bullies by Naruto whether she know of them or not.