disclaimer: i do not own naruto, or anything else that is present in canon. if i did then i wouldn't need to worry about financing for school now would i?
"Hina-hime! We're gonna be late!"
Hearing his shouting, Hiashi walked out of his study and gave him a look. He then said, "Naruto come in here I need to speak with you a moment." certain that he was going to be yelled at for shouting in the main house...again. Naruto hung his head and followed Hiashi into his study. The clan head didn't say anything until the door was closed. He then turned to Naruto and his expression softened somewhat.
"Don't worry Naruto you're not in trouble."
"Then why did you ask me to come in here?"
Because, I needed to talk to you about something very important." Naruto looked up at him surprised. Hiashi continued.
"You have done well these last few years Naruto, you have mastered the gentle fist, albeit a greatly altered and much more archaic form than any Hyuga ever has. You have managed to surprise us in every way possible. Just when we think you have gone as far as you can go without byakugan, you figure out a way to go farther. You have even managed to create a jutsu for yourself which allows you to see almost as we do, and all before your first day at the academy...and the council is completely frustrated with you." he gave a very confused Naruto a hug, "you have made me very proud, but I have something very important to tell you. I know it will be hard but you cannot reveal your byakuzen jutsu to your peers at the academy. It is your greatest weapon, and you must ask anyone who knows of it not to reveal it as well. I know you probably wanted to use it to show off on your first day, but I think you should use something else. You can use it when you spar, but no showboating please...Now, have a good day and listen to the teachers. But no matter what happens today, remember that I am already proud of you, and that goes for you too Hinata." he said as he opened the door to reveal...nothing.
Hiashi was perplexed, he was sure he had felt his daughter's chakra signature outside the door listening in. then he heard a giggle from the window, "father I never use the same method twice in a row. You taught me better than that." Hinata was sitting on the windowsill watching them.
"Oh that's right I did," he said as he picked up a giggling Hinata from the window, soon he knew she would be too old for these little games, he would miss them when they had passed. But he still had one more daughter to raise, so the fun wasn't over yet. He put Hinata down next to Naruto and knelt down to their level so that he could look them in the eye.
"What I said was true, I am immeasurably proud of both of you, and no matter what happens in the future you will always be safe here within the walls of our estate." He gave both of them another hug, then stood up and tuned to leave but before he got to the door he turned around and said, "You know that if you tell anyone of this little meeting I'll deny everything right? We Hyuga need to keep up our reputation you know. Can't let the council start thinking I've gone soft."
He chuckled at their confused expressions. "Now come along children, I'm going to walk you to school on your first day, as any good father should."
Hinata and Naruto just shook their heads in wonder at the experience as they followed him out of the main house and to the academy. They were two of the very few people who knew of Hiashi's softer side, and part of the even smaller group that he showed it to. To Naruto he was just as much of a father as Hizashi was, since even though Naruto knew they weren't related by blood he saw all of them as his family, with Neji as the older brother, Hanabi as the younger sister, and Hinali as his mother, but Hinata was something more to him, he just didn't realize it yet.
When they got to the academy they bid farewell to Hiashi and went inside. Once they entered the classroom they found two seats in the back row and sat down. soon enough their teachers came in.
"Good morning class, I am your teacher Iruka, you will address me as Iruka-sensei. This is my assistant, Mizuki. Known to you as Mizuki-sensei." he had each student stand up and say their name. Once that was done he got down to business.
"As you all know, this is the Konoha Ninja Academy. Over the next four years Mizuki and I will be teaching you what it means to be a ninja and the skills required to survive in this line of work. Now that introductions are out of the way, let's see what we have to work with. How many of you know any jutsus already?"
Naruto and Hinata, along with several others raised their hands.
"Naru-chan,"Hinata whispered to him, "father told you not to show them the byakuzen."
"Don't worry Hina-hime," he whispered back, "I've got something else to show them instead."
They were each called up to the front of the classroom to demonstrate their skill. Shikamaru started it off by capturing Mizuki in his shadow and making him do a waltz, Hinata demonstrated her byakugan, Choji demonstrated his weak expansion jutsu (knocking Mizuki back into the wall by accident when he fell over), and Naruto used chakra strings to write 'wow' on the chalk board, but when he went for the eraser with his chakra string he lost control and instead of erasing the word he hit Mizuki with them instead.
"Sorry Mizuki-sensei, I guess I don't have complete comtrol yet." he said in apology.
"That's ok Naruto, at least it was only chalk." He replied.
When it was Sasuke's turn he requested to go outside to demonstrate his technique, Iruka consented, seeing as it was almost break time anyways.
When they were outside, Sasuke shot a fireball using his family's great fireball jutsu, straight at Mizuki. Naruto quickly shot several chakra strings at Mizuki and pulled him out of the way, and into the trunk of a tree. Iruka angrily turned to Sasuke, "Why did you shoot the fireball at Mizuki?" he asked in an angry voice. Sasuke looked unfazed by this show of anger.
"I thought it would be funny Iruka-sensei." he said simply. "Everyone else attacked him with their jutsus."
"No Sasuke, they didn't. Choji tripped, Naruto's was an accident, and Shikamaru demonstrated a non lethal technique. Those situations aren't the same at all. I'm afraid I'm going to have to notify your parents of this."
He went over to where Mizuki was just stirring, in order to help him up. When Mizuki came back to consciousness he saw Iruka standing over him.
"Are you OK?" Iruka asked.
"These kids are gonna kill me." was all he could say.
Iruka dismissed them for a 30 minute break/recess. Naruto and Hinata walked up to Shikamaru and a rather large boy who was constantly eating a bag of chips.
"Hey Shikamaru, remember us?" Naruto asked. The boy looked at them thoughtfully.
"Yeah, you're the kid who interrupted my nap last month at the park... Naruto, right? And you're...Hinata."
"Yeah, that's us. Hey listen would you mind not telling anyone about that technique that I was practicing? Uncle Hiashi said that I shouldn't tell anyone, he wants me to make it my secret weapon or something like that."
Shikamaru looked deep in thought for a second, then he nodded.
"Yeah I think I could do that, except I already kind of told someone about it, but he's trustworthy enough, and he only really talks to me anyways."
Naruto looked relieved, "That's good. Who did you tell anyways?"
"It's really troublesome, but I told Choji."
"Who's Choji?" Hinata asked
"Oh I forgot to introduce you guys. This," he indicated the kid next to him who was eating a bag of chips, " is Choji, he's my best friend. Choji this is Naruto and Hinata."
"Pleased to meet you," Choji said through mouthfuls of chips.
"It's nice to make your acquaintance Choji." Hinata said politely.
"Same here." Naruto said.
Shikamaru leaned close to them and spoke in a whisper, "He's a little sensitive about his size so never call him F-A-T."
"Why?" Naruto asked, "Because he'll get mad. If you don't believe me then just wait til our sparring sessions this afternoon. I'm pretty sure that his partner will make that mistake, they always do." just then the bell rang, ending the break and putting an end to their conversation as well.
After break was a lecture on jutsu theory for all of the students who hadn't known how to do any jutsus already. And after that came all of the normal subjects that kids learn in school, history, math, science etc. all of them centered on ninja related information of course. Then came lunch, and Naruto and Hinata ate a lunch that she had packed for them both, which despite his pleas, was not ramen since Hinata said that ramen was not healthy enough for growing ninja. They ate with Choji and Shikamaru since they were the only two kids that they had befriended so far. As they were eating they saw Sasuke and his newly acquired fan girls who were all fighting over who would get to sit next to him.
"Hina-chan, please promise me that you will never act like that around anyone." Naruto said in disgust as he turned away. "It isn't right for anyone, especially a future ninja, to act that way."
"I-I promise Naru-chan," Hinata said, "I don't really like Sasuke's attitude anyways. He reminds me of the way the elders treat you, and I don't like it."
"Well that's a relief. Let's talk about something else." Naruto said as they all 4 sat down under a tree. "What do you think they'll have us do this afternoon?"
Shikamaru looked at him, "I don't think they'll have us do much, since it's our first day. But they'll probably have us do some sparring to see where we rank in the class, and to give us sparring partners, or more likely sparring groups." he said thoughtfully.
"Sounds like fun." Naruto said.
"It just sounds troublesome to me." Shikamaru returned. "But it will be interesting to see how good everyone is. I feel bad for whoever gets Sasuke, he's probably going to try to use his jutsu if he can."
Hinata looked worried. "i don't think that they'll let him use it. It's not as if his fighting style requires it. And not very many people know how to use jutsus yet, so it wouldn't be fair."
Choji chose this point to say something. "I think Hinata is right Shikamaru, the academy probably wants us to be able to fight without using jutsus first, then they'll teach us to use them after they're sure that we know the basics."
"i hope so," Naruto said, "I don't really know any real jutsus other than the one that I showed in class." the bell chose to ring right after he said that, so they gathered up their trash and headed back inside to see what the afternoon had in store for them.
Shikamaru was right about the sparring. As soon as they had all settled down Iruka had them get up and head outside for sparring evaluation. Once they were all outside he asked for volunteers to fight in the first spar, only Sasuke raised his hand. He had Sasuke come over to where he was, and turned to the rest of them.
"Ok,, who wants to fight Sasuke?" he asked. "Anyone?" he looked surprised.
"Usually I have at leat 4 volunteers... Well since nobody wants to volunteer, I guess i'll have to pick." he looked down at the clipboard, "Naruto Uzumaki." said boy looked up when his name was called,
"Yes Iruka-sensei?" Iruka motioned him to come forward.
"You will be fighting Sasuke Uchiha in the first spar."
Hinata looked worried when the teacher said this.
"Be careful Naru-chan." She whispered to him as he left her for the indicated sparring circle.
"Don't worry Hina-hime, I'll be fine." he said back to her as he walked away.
When he got to Iruka's position the man explained the rules to them both.
"This is a practice spar, you are to use your preferred form of taijutsu, you may use any passive jutsu or dojutsu required for your particular form of taijutsu, but no offensive jutsus, we do not want anyone hurt or killed today. And we definitely don't any burns resulting from this match." he said this while directly looking at Sasuke. "that means no fire jutsus. Do you both understand?"
"Yes, Iruka-sensei." both boys answered.
"alright, points are scored when you get a clear hit on your opponent's chest or back, and the spar will be over once I call an end to it or if one of the opponents is forced out of the circle, you may begin as soon as I tell you to."
he backed out of the sparring circle
"Begin!" he shouted.
And begin they did.