AN: When I had first started writing this fic I did not expect to have it hit off like it did. I had a lot people react to this and I thank you all for it.
Warning: If after reading this you see there are spelling errors or mistakes please feel free to let me know.
'Thought'
"Speak"
'Kyuubi thought'
"Kyuubi speech, Inner Sakura or Izzy(AN: they are the same person to lazy to type inner Sakura all the time.)"
Summary: During Kumo's attempt to kidnap Hinata the ninja also attempted to kidnap the Uchiha heiress, Suzuri. Naruto helped stop the ninja and opened Hiashi's and Fugaku's eyes to what was happening to Naruto in the village. They took it upon themselves to train Naruto to be the best he can be. Watch as Naruto trains and works to protect his loved ones and fulfill his dreams.
Fugaku and Naruto reached the Uchiha compound in a span of 10 minutes, and Naruto was getting hungrier by the minute. Fugaku, with Naruto on his back, headed towards his house. A few minutes later they reached it and Naruto could smell the delicious food wafting through the air. "Hmm smells delicious. What is it?" Naruto asked his mouth watering and eager to eat.
Fugaku smiled. "Don't know. Let's find out, but I can assure you it will be delicious. And my wife makes enough to feed a small army." He set Naruto down and headed in. They both kicked off their shoes and headed towards the kitchen. Once there Naruto noticed 4 people already sitting at the table. Fugaku coughed, getting everyone's attention. "Listen everyone, this is Naruto. He will be staying with us from now on. And he will also be training with you, Sasuke and Suzuri, when the time is right. Also Hiashi-san will be training him as well." They all nodded at him understanding the situation. "Naruto meet my family. The beautiful lady at the stove is my lovely wife Mikoto. The one next to her is my eldest son, Itachi. And the two at the table are my twins Sasuke and Suzuri. But you already met Suzuri haven't you?"
Naruto shook his head. "No not really. I saw her but I never met her." Suzuri looked closely at Naruto and realized he was the kid that had stalled the meanie long enough for her father to find her. She stood up from her seat at the table and walked over to him.
"Thank-you for helping save me last night. I appreciate it." She told him. Naruto was shocked. Never before had he ever had someone thank him for something. It had always been when a kid wanted to thank him the parents would call them over or snatch them away before they tried. So he never knew any gratitude or what it was until now.
"Your welcome." He answered shyly. Suzuri smiled, happy about Naruto joining the family in a way.
Taking his hand she began to drag him towards the table. "C'mon Naruto it's lunch time. Hope you have a big stomach cause mommy always makes extra all the time, but it's ok mom is an amazing cook." She said speaking a mile a minute. Naruto stumbled slightly as he was pulled towards the table. Fugaku and Mikoto smiled at the spectacle, glad Suzuri made another friend.
Naruto looked up at Itachi as he came to the table. "Are you in the Anbu?" Itachi nodded his head. "Are you Itachi in the Anbu?" Another nod. Naruto smiled. "Thank-you for the pocky. It was nice of you to give it to me."
Itachi smiled at him. "Glad you think so. You didn't eat to fast, did you? It was one of my favorite flavors." Naruto shook his head.
"I still have the box. I had like two sticks and decided to save the rest of it." Itachi smiled and nodded. Naruto turned to Sasuke and looked him over. "Hi. I've seen you around with older people."
Nodding his head, "Yeah that's my aunt and uncle. They're really nice. They take me out for my favorite food. It's nice. I like the way the village looks. I find it pretty in its own right." Naruto nodded in agreement.
After lunch Fugaku took Naruto up stairs to get him settled in his new room. "Mikoto is getting you some of Itachi's old clothes. We'll take you shopping tomorrow." Fugaku told Naruto. Naruto nodded as he looked around the room. 'Kami this room is big.' Naruto thought. Mikoto came in moments later with some old PJ's and some extra clothes. She smiled at him while she put the clothes on the bed. "The kids are out back playing. Get changed and you can go outside to play with them." Mikoto said smiling at him. "They're playing hide and seek with Itachi." Naruto nodded and Mikoto and Fugaku left the room closing the door behind them so he could change.
Naruto looked at the clothes Mikoto placed on the bed. There was a pair of black cargo shorts and a navy blue t-shirt that said 'I love POCKY'. 'Wow Itachi really likes pocky. Wonder how his obsession started.' Naruto stripped down and changed into the new clothes. He went to the bathroom and noticed everything he needed was already there. 'They move fast. Didn't expect them to have all this ready. I thought his decision was made on the spot.'
Little did Naruto know, Mikoto and Fugaku had often had arguments about him with Mikoto being on Naruto's side. She had wanted to do so much more for him than Fugaku was but Fugaku had held firm, stating Naruto's life wasn't that bad and the Hokage was taking care of everything concerning him. It wasn't until last night when he had heard that Naruto had been kicked out of the orphanage at 4. He told his wife what he was thinking and she immediately got the room ready, glad her husband finally saw things her way.
Naruto wet his hair, having to use the shower because he was to short for the sink. He dried it so that it was damp and brushed out his hair. He had found having his hair wet worked better when grandma had told him so. His hair flopped down. It was still spiky but not as wild. Shaking his head to get his bangs out of his face, he walked out of the bathroom and out the door of his room. He walked down stairs and had to find Mikoto to find out how to get to the backyard. She led him to the yard and told the kids Naruto was going to join them. Suzuri's grin could have lit the village at the prospect. She dragged him towards the center of the yard, spouting off the rules a mile a minute. Naruto had trouble keeping up but got the gist of it. Sasuke clarified on anything he didn't get. Itachi started counting and the kids were gone so fast Gai would be jealous. Mikoto and Fugaku smiled as they watched the kids playing with Itachi. And so Naruto's new fate began.
-timeskip (3 years beginning the academy)-
Mikoto walked into Naruto's room to wake him up for his first day at the academy. Naruto would be going a year later because the Hokage wanted him to be in this year to even out this year's academy class. He was going to do an experiment with his class, which was consisted of all the clan heirs, on the graduating age and the teachings of the academy. If things went well, then the graduating age would be raised to 15.
Reaching the bed Mikoto shook Naruto. "Naruto it's time to get up. The academy starts in an hour and you need to get ready." Naruto gave a sleepy grunt in answer and began to stir. He turned on to his back and Mikoto took that as confirmation that he was awake and left to go wake up her twins. Naruto took a moment to get oriented. He slipped out of bed and headed to the bathroom. He turned on the shower and stripped out of his clothes. Naruto stood at 4'4" and weighed around 55 pounds. He was slightly bigger than average 7 year olds. His life had gotten so much better since that night 3 years ago.
Taking a quick shower he got out dried off and left the bathroom heading to his closet. Grabbing a pair of boxers on his way there out of a drawer he slipped them on before dropping the towel. He picked a red t-shirt off a shelf. Pulling a pair of black cargo pants off a hanger he slipped them on and followed it with his shirt. 'Hmm vest or zip-up?' Peeking his head out the door and looking at the window noticed the sun shining. 'Alright vest it is' Heading to the back of his closet, he pulled down a white vest. Quickly slipping it on and zipping it up half way he sped out his room to go down to the kitchen to get breakfast. He met Sasuke in the hall and they nodded at each other. "Excited about your first day Sasuke?" Naruto asked
Sasuke nodded. "Little nervous but it's nothing I can't handle with the training father has put us through. How bout you?"
"Same as you. Though don't know how exciting these first few years are goin to be. Hiashi-sama says all we really learn is a few different chakra control exercises, the shinobi code and village history, sounds boring if you ask me." Naruto responded. Sasuke nodded his head in agreement. They reached the kitchen and sat at their respectful places at the table. Suzuri came in a few minutes later and joined Naruto and Sasuke on their discussion on the academy. Minutes later their breakfast was placed in front of them. They tucked in quickly wanting to leave for the academy as soon as possible. Itachi had left for a mission yesterday and would sadly miss their first day. They were headed to the academy in a little under 10 minutes.
-At the academy-
The Uchiha family plus Naruto arrived a good 5 minutes before the bell rang as everyone was heading into their classroom. They headed to room A113 where they were met with clan heirs and clan heads. Fugaku and Mikoto headed to the back where all the parents were mingling. Naruto, Suzuri, and Sasuke noticed Hinata being bothered by a young kid with red upside down triangles on his cheeks. Sasuke and Suzuri were confused and looked at Naruto for clarification since Hiashi was teaching him about the clans of Konoha. "Inuzuka clan. Their clan has a close relation with canines. He probably is not old enough to earn a canine companion yet. Normal age if I'm not wrong is between 7-9years old. That's Kiba, the clan heir, as is the rest of this class." Naruto answered their questioning looks. Tsume who was talking with Hiashi and learned that Naruto's studies at the moment was concerning the clans and was amazed at his knowledge of Inuzukas, especially his knowledge on clan heirs. She had noticed that most of the kids didn't know each other. The bell rang but none of the kids seem to notice, considering there wasn't a teacher to tell them so.
"Hinata!!" Naruto called out hoping to save Hinata from Kiba seeing that she seemed rather annoyed by him. Hinata looked up and spotted Naruto, a familiar face, and gave him a grateful smile.
"Hello Naruto-kun. How are you?" she asked as he walked up with the twins following him.
"I'm good. And you?" Naruto answered.
"Nervous but that's because it's the first day." Hinata returned.
Naruto nodded and turned to Kiba. "Hey. I'm Naruto, your Kiba right? The Inuzuka's heir?" Kiba nodded surprised by his knowledge. Naruto smiled. "Cool. Nice to meet you"
"You to. How do you know my name?" Kiba asked still stunned.
"Oh. The Hokage told me what class I was goin to be in and who was in it, so I would know what to expect out of my classmates. He held me back a year." Naruto nodded.
"Yeah what is that about anyway?" Sasuke asked. Naruto shrugged and didn't answer. The Hokage wanted him to keep the reason a secret.
"Oh right Hinata, Kiba this is Sasuke and Suzuri. They're the Uchiha heirs." Hinata and Kiba nodded. Then Hinata noticed something.
"You're twins." Hinata said shocked. Sasuke and Suzuri nodded and smiled.
"Most people ask instead of just state." Suzuri said excited about meeting new friends. Naruto and Sasuke knew what was coming and within moments Suzuri was asking questions of both Kiba and Hinata at a mile a minute, hardly giving them anytime to answer. Hinata and Kiba were wide eyed at Suzuri. Naruto and Sasuke broke out in laughter at Hinata's and Kiba's face as Suzuri spouted off question after question.
Kiba leaned toward Sasuke. "Is she always like this?" Kiba whispered not sure if it was a good idea to interrupt her rant of question.
Sasuke and Naruto slowed their laughing so they could answer. "Only when she meets new people. She'll be like this for the next few days. You should have seen her when she was 3 and Naruto was brought into the house. She wouldn't leave him alone for a week." Sasuke answered as he started laughing again at the mental picture of Naruto's face.
Naruto blushed and shoved Sasuke. "That is not funny. She wouldn't even let me go to the bathroom without following me and she kept asking questions." As Naruto glanced at Hinata who had been left to Suzuri's string of questions. She gave Naruto a pleading glance for help. Naruto smiled and turned back to Sasuke. "I think you should stop your sister before Hinata's ears fall off." Sasuke nodded and grabbed onto his sister and whispered in her ear. Suzuri looked at Hinata and realized she had scared the girl.
"Sorry. I get excited when I meet new people and sometimes go on a rant and stuff like that." Suzuri apologized to Hinata. Hinata nodded still a little freaked out by her. Just then the door opened to reveal 2 teachers. One had brown hair and had it up in a spiky ponytail. He had a scar across the bridge of his nose. The other had silver hair and wore a bandana for his hitae-ate. They both wore basic chuunin outfits.
"Alright class let's begin. My name is Iruka and I'm going to be your teacher for the next 9 years. This here is Mizuki and he will be my assistant and will be helping me teach you guys and girls." The one with the scar that identified himself as Iruka said. Mizuki nodded his head to confirm Iruka's statement.
A little girl with pink hair raised her hand. "Iruka-sensei, I thought we would only be in the academy for 6 years not 9?" she asked
Iruka smiled at the little girl. "Ah yes your Haruno Sakura. Yes you are correct normally it would be 6 but the Hokage has this class under a special program..." There was a knock at the door and it opened to reveal the Hokage himself. "Hokage-sama what are you doing here? I thought you were in a meeting." Iruka asked surprised to see his leader.
"Yes well I thought that it would be better if I explained why I'm keeping these students longer than normal, don't you agree?" the Hokage answered. Iruka nodded his head. The Hokage turned towards the student and spotted Naruto sitting in the third row, in between Sasuke and Suzuri. Naruto gave a grin and winked at his jii-san. Hokage smiled and winked back. "Alright I'm planning on completely redoing the entire academy standards. But in order to do that I need a comparison on which way would be better. So I am going to use your class as the experimental in this comparison. You will be kept until you are 15. This way you learn more and are more prepared for things out there. You will be placed on teams of 5 as well, 4 genin and your jounin-sensei. Now are there any questions?"
Sasuke raised his hand. "Sir what does Naruto have to do with this? He should be in the year before this shouldn't he?"
"Ah yes Naruto-kun's birthday is in October and the standards now don't allow anyone to join once the academy has started. Of course there are those who slip through the cracks. But because we are receiving 3 more students for this class, then if we go through with this then it would be uneven and so Naruto was placed in this class to even it out, and besides Naruto asked me to do so. He said specifically that he was not going to let you two to fend for yourselves." the Hokage answered truthfully. "Anyone else?"
A young boy who wore a coat with a high collar and sunglasses raised his hand. "Sir if that was the case how come no other class is doing this? It would be logical to have more than one class do it so to have more comparisons." Naruto looked over and recognized him as Shino the Aburame clan's heir.
Suzuri leaned towards Naruto and whispered in his ear, "Who is that? He's smart for a 6 year old."
Naruto nodded. "That is Aburame Shino. Clan heir. The Aburames are like Inuzukas only instead of dogs they use bugs to fight. It's said that they offer their bodies and become a human hive for the bugs. The usual insects are Kikai bugs. They suck chakra from their host's enemies. Depending on the person they can have multiple hives of bugs. I think the current clan head has around 5 or 6 hives. Because they are hosts to these bugs they are misunderstood. Don't know why. I think it's rather brave of them to let bugs crawl all over the inside of them, but yeah. The Aburames are also known for their logical thinking. That would be why Shino is so smart. They start training their children's logic first and foremost." Naruto cleared up for the twins. They nodded glad they had a friend like Naruto. The Hokage who was listening in on the conversation smiled at the amazing answer. And Shibi raised an eyebrow at his answer as well. Naruto raised his hand. "Yes Naruto-kun what is it? I need to answer young Shino's question."
"I would like to answer it jiji." The Hokage nodded, curious to how he was going to answer it. "There aren't as many kids being put into the shinobi program this year because a majority of the shinobi come from the smaller clans and those civilians who want their kids to make a difference. But since an attack 7 years ago scared the majority of the village, parents are unwilling to put their children in harms way so they haven't put their kids in the program. Now the next would be the higher clans, like the Hyuuga or the Yamanaka, make up the rest. Now this year the only generation of kids to enter are the clan heirs. All the others have birthdays in the middle of the year or are too young. Because of that fact, all the clan heirs are already poised to be amazing, this class is best to do this experiment. Any other class can't do the teams of four. It would leave the classes uneven. Also the Hokage only needs one team to use the comparisons and because we have the means to make 4 teams this class is enough to do so." Naruto said looking towards the Hokage to confirm his statement. The Hokage nodded amazed at the answer.
"Yes indeed. Good job Naruto. I couldn't have said it better myself. Does that answer your question Shino-kun?" The Hokage answered turning to Shino. Shino nodded his head still surprised by the textbook like answer. All the clan heads except the Hyuuga and Uchiha were surprised. They had not expected such a well thought out answer.
"Geez Hiashi, what are you teaching this boy?" Tsume the Inuzuka head asked wide-eyed.
"Just the basics. I've started him on chakra control exercises and taught him the history and the clans. Naruto is the one that took the learning to the next level. Despite the fact that he thinks the subject is boring, he will take it far to better his knowledge and to become the strongest. He is a firm believer in knowing is half the battle." Hiashi answered smirking.
Fugaku nodded his head. "He is often found in his room studying scrolls on history and clans. So far his favorite part of history is the Yondaime's exploits and the Great Shinobi wars. He will ask me to make a test based off of what he has read every 2 weeks and he's aced every test. It's amazing how dedicated to learning he is, practically a sponge. I have no doubts in my mind that he will be an amazing shinobi. And judging by the questions being asked, this entire class is going be great." Fugaku stated. Everyone's eyes widened even further at that.
"Hmm wonder if he can play shogi or chess. Shikamaru needs a friend that can give a run for his money." Shikaku said thinking out loud.
Hiashi snorted. "Naruto has beaten anybody that he's played. I was thinking of bringing him over to see you to see how he would stack up against a Nara."
Shikaku smirked. "Now I'm glad I brought shogi and chess, though it was troublesome." Now he really wanted to know how Naruto would stack up against Shikamaru.
The Hokage raised his voice. "Alright we'll be taking a recess. Come back in about 15 minutes."
"Shikamaru come here. I got a new person for you to play." Shikaku called down to his son. A boy with pineapple hair looked at his father and grumbled as he got up and headed toward his father. A boy who was slightly overweight followed him, interested in what would happen this time.
"Naruto-kun, will you play Shikamaru in a board game?" Mikoto asked. Naruto nodded his head and moved up the stairs with Sasuke and Suzuri following. Naruto got there and looked at Shikamaru.
"Hi I'm Naruto. What would you prefer, Shogi or Chess?"
Shikamaru thought about it and decided to go with chess. "Chess is fine." Naruto nodded and sat down on the ground with Shikamaru as Shikaku got the Chess board out. Naruto and Shikamaru quickly set up the board. "This Sasuke and Suzuri. White or Black?"
"Nice to meet you. Shikamaru and this here is Chouji. I'll take White." Just then a pinkette and blonde came up.
"What'cha doin Shika? oh I'd like you to meet Sakura." The blonde said. The pinkette known as Sakura waved shyly.
"I'm playin chess with Naruto Ino." Shikamaru answered as he watched Naruto turn the board so White was on his side.
"Oh hello nice to meet you."
Naruto nodded his head as Shikamaru made his first move. He looked around the board debating his move. "Nice to meet you. The twins behind me are Sasuke and Suzuri." Suzuri jumped over to Ino and Sakura smiled.
"Hi you want to watch? Naruto's games are pretty entertaining." Suzuri asked. They both nodded and they turned back to the game. Naruto and Shikamaru had only made 2 moves each.
-15 minutes later-
By this time all the kids had gathered around the game. Naruto and Shika were still playing, and making casual conversation while doing so. Everyone had been introduced. This was the scene that greeted both the teachers and the Hokage when they went back in. "Hey what's going up there.?" the Hokage asked.
Hinata turned to answer him. "Naruto and Shikamaru are playing chess sir. They have been playing since the recess started."
'A 15 minute chess game what are they doing? Taking 5 minutes per move.' Iruka thought as he headed up there with Mizuki and the Hokage. They looked over the kids and began watching the chess game. It was Shikamaru's turn and his eyes traveled over the board thinking hard on his next move.
'I don't think I have ever played someone this long besides my dad. This kid is good.' Shika thought as he made his move, and so continued the game. Shika would move and then Naruto would. It just seemed to get more intense each move.
-10 minutes later-
Naruto made his final move. "Checkmate." He called. Suzuri and Sasuke cheered. Everyone's jaw dropped. They all had the same thoughts. 'What the hell? Where did that come from?'
Shikamaru and Shikaku looked at the board, looking for the cause of it. Shikaku gaped as he realized that he had trapped Shika on both sides. So whichever way he moved it would end in a checkmate. 'Oh Kami. He put him into a pincer attack. He took real life strategies and applied them to the chess game. He's good and by the time he graduates he'll be a one man army. Put someone like that on a team and they'll be one hell of a genin team.' Shikaku thought.
"How...what happened? I don't get it. It looked like Shika was going to win." Ino asked confused.
"That's part of the illusion. What Naruto used was a pincer strategy. This particular one makes the receiver think he is going to win and ends up falling right into the trap that springs from his blind spot. Naruto here applied the same principle. He put Shikamaru into a position where either way he went he was put into a position where Naruto only had one move for checkmate. All in all Naruto applied real world strategies to his game. But something like that takes skill and knowledge of your opponent, as well as complete faith in your teammates. Only the Yondaime's team had been able to pull it off. It was....."
"During the Third Great Shinobi war. He had been promoted to jounin with his entire team. They used a pincer attack to completely destroy a unit of Iwa ninja. The Yondaime had gone in alone drawing their attention. He slowly but surely worked them into position and boom. His teammates attacked using their most deadly jutsus. The unit never stood a chance. Both his teammates were excellent at stealth and were never detected. It was a few days later when he earned his name Konoha's Yellow Flash because of his self developed technique the Hiraishin no jutsu, or the flying thunder god technique. It made so the Yondaime moved so fast all you saw was a flash of yellow. It was said it was that technique and his other self developed one, the Rasengan, that he was able to obliterate the Iwa army and allowed him to become the Yondaime." Naruto finished. The adult's jaw dropped at Naruto. 'Who the hell is this kid?' was the thought going through Iruka's and Mizuki's head.
"Well done Naruto. You know a lot about the Yondaime's exploits." the Hokage complimented.
Naruto nodded his head smiling at the praise. "Yeah. The Yondaime is my role model. He's skill level is what I'm aiming for. In my opinion when someone has a goal to reach they work twice as hard as if they were just doing something to do it." Naruto said. All the kids had one thought going through their heads. 'What's my goal going to be?' The parents noticed their kids' line of thought and immediately knew they were going to be trying their best these next few years.
"Well if we are done with all this. Let's get on with today seeing as we have already spent about 30 minutes of necessary time." Iruka asked trying to get back on track so he could get out of there and question the Hokage about Naruto. Everyone looked sheepish at that. And the students rushed to their seats as Iruka and Mizuki walked to the front of the room. They quickly began to inform everyone on what they were going to cover that year. 'I've already learned this but everything that happens here will help me towards my goal and my dream to become Hokage just like the Yondaime' Naruto thought. His years to become a shinobi began and he was going to make damn sure none of his precious people were going to be hurt in anyway.