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For Those I'll Live For
The Blue Blur
Naruto wakes up and goes through his normal routine. As he walks outside, he sees his father standing one of the many trees in the very back of the yard. "Hey! Why are you all the way back there?" Kakashi just waves him over.
"Nartuo. Today, I'm going to teach you how to climb this tree," he says, motioning towards said tree.
Naruto looks at his father like he is stupid. "Otou-san, I've climbed that tree a million times before."
Kakashi eye-smiled at his son. "Yes, but today you will learn to do it with no hands! Watch and learn." Kakashi places one foot on the tree and pushes off of the ground with the other. Naruto, waiting for his father to fall, is disappointed when his father starts to walk up the side of the tree.
"WHAT! How are you doing that?" Naruto yells this in surprise.
"By putting a set amount of chakra in your feet," Kakashi lift a foot to show Naruto. "You can stick to just about anything." He jumps down and tells his son to get a running start, as it would be easier to do.
Kakashi watches his adopted son run up and fall down dozens of times before seeing him rocket off the three and across the grass. "Naruto… I think you put too much chakra in that attempt."
Naruto stands up in hard movements, his face red, more from embarrassment than anger. "YA THINK?"
Naruto practices his tree climbing, much to his father's surprise, for the next eight hours before he starts to get the hand of it. That is, of course, after many, many, failed attempts. When he finally gets it down, he makes the mistake of jumping in joy.
Kakashi, who had just come back outside not even a minute before that, catches the young boy. "Naruto, just because you can defy it, doesn't mean that gravity won't rip you down given the chance."
"Got it, Otou-san!" Naruto gins at his father as he sets him down. "I'll be the best ninja when I go to the academy!" The young blonde smiles wildly and holds his hands behind his head.
Kakashi agrees with him and leads him inside to eat. 'No doubt. You'll be the best there, son. I wonder when he will start bugging me to teach him my special jutsus…'
Four months later…
Naruto wakes up with more energy than usual, a result of knowing that today is his first day at the academy. He runs into the showers, cleans up, and gets dressed. He ties a black headband on, one with extra length in the back so it touched his shoulders. He is wearing black shinobi shorts, a green t-shirt with and orange cross stretching from shoulder to waist, and a white vest, unbuttoned, with a Konoha symbol on the back.
The hyper little boy runs into his dad's room and starts jumping on his bed to wake the poor man from his slumber. "Wake up! Wake up!" Naruto's attempts at waking his father are becoming less effective over time and he can't seem to wake him today, no matter what he does.
Naruto looks about the room and conjures up the best, and potentially the worst, idea he has ever had. Standing in the doorway to his father's room, so as to make sure he wouldn't be in attacking range, Naruto yells as loud as he can. "NO~ DON'T BURN MY OTOU-SAN'S BOOKS!" With a movement thought only capable of the Fourth Hokage, the Yellow Flash of Konoha, Kakashi is fully dressed in his old ANBU armor and weapons sprinting to his book shelf in the front room.
Naruto laughs hysterically, literally rolling on the floor with tears to his eyes, at how protective his father is of his books. Kakashi never even let him read them! Naruto walks over to his father, who is in a guard stance in front of his book shelf. "Otou-san, what're you doing?"
Kakashi seems to snap out of whatever mode he was in and notices that the house was empty except for him and his son. "Uh… Getting you off to the academy?"
The father and son duo laugh at the extremely lame excuse. Kakashi always wakes up the moment Naruto walks into the room. His ANBU training doesn't let him sleep deep enough for his son not to wake him up. He just liked to give the boy a hard time.
"Seeing as you don't smell like grass and old ramen, you must have taken a shower already. How about we stop at Ichiraku's before we go to the academy?" Naruto almost hits the ceiling with his jump of joy.
On the way to the academy, after eating so much Ichiraku Ramen that Kakashi cries over the money spent for breakfast, Naruto is walking, hands behind his head and humming a happy tune, and Kakashi tredges to the destination with a heavy heart and an extremely light wallet.
When the pair gets to the academy, Naruto notices all the other kids. Saying goodbye to his father, he runs off with the hope of making new friends. Kakashi knows that his boy would have no problems making friends, but he is bound to make at least one person an enemy.
Naruto runs up to a boy with wild brown hair, enlarged canine teeth, and red, upside-down triangles on his face. "Hey! I'm Naruto! What's your name?"
The dog-like boy grins, distorting the triangles on his face slightly. "My name is Kiba! Kiba Inuzuka! And I'm going to be the best ninja in this school!"
Naruto looks at the boy with a large, foxy grin. "No you're not! I am! I'm going to be the best ninja to EVER come from this academy!"
Kiba laughs at the prideful blonde boy and puts his arm around him, leading him towards a small group of kids. "Well, looks like we have competition in each other, now don't we?"
The group of kids consists of two boys and one girl. The girl, with a red ribbon in her pink hair, has bright green eyes, a red shirt with a flower design, and black shorts. One of the boys, the one who is sitting under a tree and snoring away, has black, pineapple-styled hair and a grey shirt. The last boy, the one with raven-black hair and eyes, is wearing a black shirt and gray shorts. He seems to have a permanent scowl glued to his face.
Kiba introduces Naruto to the group. Sakura Haruno, the pink-haired girl, greets him politely enough. The pineapple-haired boy, known as Shikamaru Nara, simply grunts and goes back to sleep. Sasuke Uchiha, the scowling boy, simply grunts to show that he knows Naruto is present.
After the ground is acquainted with the new member, the bell rings, signifying that it is time to head to class or be late on the first day of school, as some people like to do. Naruto is fighting off every fiber of his being which is telling him to run in there and be the first. He's even more ecstatic when he finds out that his new friends are in his class. Naruto sits next to Sasuke and Kiba sits on the other side of the raven-haired boy.
Iruka, Naruto's new teacher, quiets the class and explains the basics that they would be learning, which is all theory, basic strategic practices, and light physical exercise. Naruto raises his hand, practically standing up in his seat, when the teacher stops talking. "Iruka-sensei, what if we already know this?" Almost every kid from a clan and the book worms were very interested in the answer.
Naruto completely stands up now. "I would like to take the test, Iruka-sensei."
Iruka looks at the boy, raising an eyebrow. 'Well, it can't hurt him to take it, even if he fails.' "Anyone else want to take the same test?" Iruka is shocked to see so many hands in the air. The kids from the clans like the Uchiha, Inuzuka, Nara, Haruno, Akamichi, Aburame, and Yamanaka were basically a given. But over a majority of his class wanted to take the test as well!
"Fine. Since so many of you want to take the test," Iruka grabs the test from his desks and hands them out to all of the students who wanted them, having to send a student to get a few extras from another teacher. "The rest of you who do not wish to take the test, grab a book from the front. These will be your text books. Read pages five through thirty."
After class, Iruka collects the tests. It takes him a full two hours to grade all of the tests and recheck them, unbelieving the scores these kids are getting. 'I can understand the clan kids passing, but the civilians too? Over HALF of my class passed!' "Hey, Mizuki, come here and recheck these tests for me." Mizuki rechecks the tests and shows an expression as shocked as Iruka feels.
"Looks like we will have to move the people who didn't pass into the class next to ours. Turns out several of their students passed this test." Iruka was stunned that so many students could pass this test on day one of school. "Seems like we will have a really talented generation, won't we, Mizuki?" All Mizuki can do is nod in agreement.
Iruka goes on his way to inform the Hokage of the test matter, being that academy students count as ninja and fall under the Hokage's jurisdiction.
Naruto is jittery, impatient for class to start and to know how well his did on the test. As Iruka walks into the room, he is rushed by all of the students who had taken the test along with Naruto. Iruka sees this coming and is at his desk before the students can bother him further. He quiets the class and addresses them. "I will announce who has passed in just a moment, but before I do, I would like to have those who did not take the test report the class one, to the right of this class."
When they are gone, he addresses his little geniuses. "It seems that all of you here have passed your tests, to the point that all of you here are considered 3rd year students now. That means you all go straight to the physical and chakra related material of the academy. Congratulations." He smiles as his students and then ducks for cover when they all explode with cheers and outburst of joy.
Iruka laughs and stands back up, straightening his clothes. "Now, one by one, I want you all to line up and show me if you can tap into your chakra," he started. The class lines up, Naruto at the end of the line. One by one, as he asked, the class showed they could indeed tap into their chakra. Sasuke Uchiha impresses Iruka most until Naruto is called. "Naruto, I want you to call up as much chakra as you can," he says, just as he said to the other children.
"Uhmm…" Naruto looks at his teacher nervously. "Are you sure we should do this in here? Why not outside?"
Iruka is convinced that the boy is just nervous that he won't be able to tap into his chakra the first time like the others had. "Look, Naruto, everyone else did it in here. You can too."
"Well, if you're sure," the blonde mutters so softly, that Iruka isn't sure if he even heard it.
Naruto slams his hands together, creating the Ram hand sign, and lets as much chakra out as he can, knocking the students to the walls, Iruka right out the door, and all of the furniture was sent to the wall with the students. Except the teachers desk. That one went straight through the wall, revealing a terrified group of kids that just left their class. Their little heads peek over the massive hole in the wall.
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!" Iruka yells, "How did you manage that?"
Naruto looks at the ground, ashamed at his destruction. "I told you we should have went outside… I'm sorry…"
Iruka couldn't imagine what Naruto had done to get such massive chakra stores. "Naruto, its ok. I told you to do it and you did warn me."
The rest of the day went normal, by Iruka's standards. All of the questions were are answered quickly and correctly by the small Haruno girl, which he knew was coming. The Haruno clan is known for its braniacs. But Iruka couldn't get his mind off of Naruto's chakra levels, which the gaping hole in his class reminded him of at every second. After class is over, he decides that he should ask the Hokage about the boy.
"And then! And then I blew up the room with my chakra," Naruto excitedly explains to his father of what happened at school that day.
Kakashi is laughing, getting a kick out of his son's exuberant story. "Naruto, you can't go long without blowing up a part of a building, can you?"
Naruto takes offense to his father's statement. "Name ONE time I ever blew anything up!"
Kakashi's eyes level with his son's. "Guy's house: the day you met Lee."
Naruto just shrugs his shoulders. "I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe you're getting old and forgetful." Naruto gives Kakashi his patented fox grin. Kakashi, being the logical person he is, gives a logical response to being called old by your son. He tickle-attacks him.
Naruto gives up trying to break free from his father's grasp, gasping for air in between laughs and complaining that it isn't a fair fight. "Naruto, you blew up a house and a classroom. How is it not fair?" Naruto glares at his clever, silver-haired, scarecrow of a father.
Naruto is eventually let free and starts playing with a small blue ball that had a lot of bounce to it. "Hey, Otou-san? What's this?"
Kakashi glances at the object in the boy's hands and shivers. "That's called a racquetball, and it used to be my favorite game. Until Guy kept challenging me to games… You can have it if you want."
Naruto falls in love with his new toy, bouncing it off of any surface he could find. After hours of bouncing it, he drives his dad crazy and is forced to go play in his room. "Hmm… I wonder what would happen if I put chakra into it…" Focuses a little chakra. Well, a little by Naruto's standards. He tosses the blue ball at his wall, only for it to gain at least ten times its speed as it bounced off of everything in his room. Including himself.
He yells in pain as he gets assaulted multiple times from the blue ball and runs to hide under his bed.
Kakashi feels a big chakra spike, almost as big as when he uses his famous Chidori jutsu. Hearing his son yell out in pain, Kakashi runs into the boy's room room, only to be hit square in the face by the blue racquetball. He falls into the room like a ragdoll and the door slams shut from the ball that is trapped behind it.
Kakashi repeatedly mimics his son's shouts of pain as the toy slams into his side with tremendous force. "Dad! Crawl under here!"
Kakashi listens to his son and crawls under the bed. "Naruto, what happened? Why is there a blue blur attacking us?"
Naruto gives a nervous chuckle and avoids eye contact. "Well, I put a little chakra in the ball, since it was hollow, and it kinda… went Guy crazy on me."
"Naruto, that was enough chakra to do my Chidori jutsu," Kakashi tells him.
Naruto turns ghostly pale at the information he is given. "So we're as screwed as Guy at a math contest?" Kakashi nods. "Great. You think this will be over soon?" Kakashi shakes his head 'no.' Naruto's puts his forehead on the floor and turns so his ear is against the floor. He hears footsteps. "Dad! Someone's here," Naruto tells his dad as Lee walks in.
"Naruto, are you here? I told you I was coming over, remember?" Lee closes the door behind him and notices the blur of blue bouncing around the room, catches it, and gets thrown into the wall.
The boy falls forward, doubled over and holding his stomach. Kakashi and Naruto scramble out from under the bed, tripping over one another a little, to check the young boy. Lee uncurls slightly and thrusts out his hand, which held the blue ball. "Got it!" Lee falls over after he speaks those words.
"Give you an A+ for effort," Kakashi says through his laughter at the green-clad boy.
"Eh… About a D- for planning, though," Naruto adds.
"Yosh! That averages out to about a B-," Lee says through the pain. Everybody in the room laughs, including himself, which causes him to groan after each chuckle.
Kakashi moves to leave the two boys to play, as he has to go buy food. As soon as he walks out the door, he turns right back around and takes Naruto's ball. "No ball and no going into the kitchen. For that matter, stay outside until I get back from the store."
Naruto protests, "Why!"
Kakashi doesn't even think about his reply before it comes out of his mouth. "Last time you two were put together in a house, alone, you blew it up. And you just trapped us in a room with this ball."
"Yeah, yeah…" Naruto leads Lee outside to the backyard and Kakashi takes off for the store.
"Lee! I got passed up to the 3rd year class," Naruto proudly states to his friend.
Lee looks at Naruto like he had grown a second head. "But I'm only a 2nd year," he complains.
Naruto laughs at the irony of it. "Ha ha, I'm a year ahead of you!"
At that, the boys begin to spar like they always did. And, like always, Lee is dominating the taijutsu battle. That is, until Naruto starts pumping chakra into his limbs. After getting kicked in the face and getting sent across the yard, Lee gives up and proclaims, "Yosh. Your flames of youth burn bright!"
"Lee, you've been hanging out with Guy, haven't you?"
"Yosh! And he has shown me his secret to being youthful!"
"Oh? You found his meth stash?"
"Meth?" Lee forms a confused look on his face.
"His secret to being youthful. Think you can let me try it?"
"Yosh! I shall bring it to school tomorrow!"
The next day, at the academy…
Naruto meets up with Lee, who has a can in his hand. "Hey Lee! Is that it?"
Lee smiles and gives his friend a thumbs up. "Yosh! This is indeed the secret to youthfulness!" Lee hands Naruto the sixteen ounce can reading "Metabolic Endurance: Training Helper. The most youthful drink on the market!" Naruto opens the can a guzzles down the drink in one shot. The bell rings, calling the kids to class.
"Ok, students! Today we will be going outside." Iruka herds his students outside. Naruto is extra jumpy, but nobody seems to notice. Once outside, Iruka informs his class that they will be showing off their stamina today by running through the obstacle course. "Who would like to go first?" Naruto is next to Iruka in a flash. "Looks like we have a volunteer."
Naruto runs the obstacle course in under three minutes, shattering the school's record of three minutes and thirty-two seconds. As all of the other students took their turns on the course, Naruto is running around all of the other students and even up trees, to Iruka's surprise. "Naruto! WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AROUND SO MUCH! SIT STILL!"
Naruto is practically bouncing off everything and doing figure eights around his fellow students. "Woohoo!" He screams his and continues running around.
Iruka runs up next to the group. "Naruto! Why are you running around so much?" He starts to get frustrated with the young blonde's noncompliance. "Sit still!" Naruto stops dead in his tracks and looks at his sensei. "But, Iruka-sensei! Meth is a heck of a drug!" He zooms off again while Iruka stands there with his jaw on the floor.
Hinata, the young Hyuga girl in Naruto's class, walks up to Iruka. "Uhm… Sensei?" When she receives no answer, she carefully lifts his jaw and closes his mouth for him.
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