Impact

May 14, 2012

Read carefully and you might find something for the future.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Flashback

Demon and higher beings

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, plain and simple

Chapter 1: Taking Action

Mamoru started by saying specifically, "How far is the class in the history of the Elemental Countries, Haruno-san?"

A young girl with pink hair and a red ribbon tied in it looked slightly nervous as Mamoru picked her out of everyone, she then thought back and said, "Chapter 6, Page 133, paragraph 3."

Some of the children were amazed that she was able to remember it in such detail.

Mamoru nodded in approval. He could see that few of the students expected her to be able to answer the question so accurately. He looked around and took note that some of the students seemed to have expected it. With his observations done he said to the class, "Stop gawking at your fellow student, pull out your history books and flip it to that page."

They all nodded as they did so.

Mamoru looked at everyone and decided to find out something for himself, "Alright." The red-haired instructor looked at the blonde from earlier and said, "Uzumaki-san, if you will, stand up and start reading out the third paragraph."

Naruto was now starting to get nervous as he looked at the symbols, trying his best to recall what they meant.

Mamoru gave Naruto an appraising look as he started to sweat from being so nervous. He sat down and opened his notebook and wrote in it. When he was finished he looked at Naruto again and said, "That's quite enough, Uzumaki-san. You may sit down."

Just as Naruto sat down, another boy with spiky brown hair and a red triangle tattooed onto each cheek said in outrage, "What do you mean? He didn't even say anything. Why should he sit down?"

Mamoru sighed and took his glasses off briefly and pinched the bridge of his nose. Before he said, "Inuzuka Kiba?"

"I mean, come on, it's not like he can't read or anything," the boy continued, completely ignoring Mamoru when he said his name.

Mamoru sighed again, as this was going to get annoying for him, 'But on the upside, at least I'll be able to set a few of the kids straight.'

Everyone but Mamoru looked at Naruto as he bowed his head in shame. It was only a few seconds later that most of the class burst out laughing at Naruto's expense.

Mamoru sighed again as he pointed out the students that weren't laughing. 'This is going to take a while,' he thought to himself as he wrote down five names. He then put his hand up again and said, "Quiet," in that loud and booming voice again, forcing the students to cover their ears again.

When the students quieted down again, Mamoru then asked, "Inuzuka-san, it seems I've missed some sort of punch line, so why don't you indulge me."

"Huh?" was Kiba's oh so intelligent reply.

"Tell me what was so funny," Mamoru said in laments terms.

"Oh, come on, Naruto not being able to read, it's hilarious," Kiba replied, with no sugar coating.

"Then am I supposed to gather that means you know how to read?" Mamoru replied.

"Of course," The boy replied smugly.

"And who taught you?" the red head asked.

"My mom mostly, nee-san helped too," Kiba answered.

"Alright then, everyone stand up," Mamoru instructed to them as he stood up himself.

The students followed his instructions.

"Now raise both hands," Mamoru told to them demonstrating.

Seeing that the instructor was doing it, they had no excuse to do otherwise.

"Now everyone who wasn't taught how to read by their parents or other family members put their right hand down," the instructor said to them.

Naruto put his left hand down.

"Other hand, Uzumaki-san," Mamoru told him.

Naruto chuckled nervously as he switched which hand was raised. Quite a few of the other students snickered as well.

"Now, those who didn't have their family teach them anything at all put their left hand down," Mamoru instructed.

Naruto put his left hand down.

"Everyone put their hands down, and besides myself, everyone who has family that they know of, sit down," Mamoru spoke with a firm tone as he lowered his arms.

Everyone but Naruto and Mamoru sat down and dropped their arms.

"Uzumaki-san, please step up front," Mamoru told him in a tone that said to listen to him.

Naruto walked up front.

"Uzumaki-san, stand over by the window while I call out a few names, and please face inward," Mamoru said to him as he picked up his notebook from his desk.

Naruto did so as Mamoru opened his book.

"Now, when I call out your name, please walk to the front of the classroom," Mamoru said. "Aburame Shino," he started listing off.

A black-haired boy walked up, he was wearing sunglasses, a heavy coat and a sweat band on his forehead stood up and walked to the front.

"Akimichi Chouji."

A portly boy with light brown hair, swirls tattooed on each cheek and was holding a back of potato chips walked forward.

"Hyuuga Hinata."

A pale girl with indigo hair, white eyes and a fur-lined coat walked up with a blush on her face stood up and walked to the front.

"Nara Shikamaru."

A boy with black hair tied in a ponytail in back, making his head have a similar shape to a pineapple, and a bored expression on his face stood up.

"Uchiha Sasuke."

The last one was a boy with black hair in an odd shape black eyes, a blue, high-collared shirt with a red and white fan on the back and white shorts shrugged and walked up front.

"Now, can anyone here tell me why I've brought these five up front?" Mamoru asked the entire class. "What do all five of these people have in common with one another that they don't with any of you?"

"Did they do anything to get into trouble?" Kiba asked.

"No, they didn't do anything at all to get into trouble," Mamoru said, his eyes steadily getting into a scary tone. "And that's why they're up here."

"What?" most of the class asked.

"Everyone that is sitting down right this second is getting a week's worth of detention," Mamoru told them. "No exceptions."

"NANI!" all the students seated stood up and shouted.

"QUIET," Mamoru told them as stood and glared at the students. When the students calmed down Mamoru asked, "Now can anyone tell me why you are in trouble?"

"It is because they laughed at Uzumaki-san's misfortune," Shino said with a blank expression.

"Very good Aburame-san, but that also has a deeper meaning," Mamoru spoke to them.

"What's wrong with laughing at an idiot?" a platinum blonde girl with light blue eyes demanded.

"Yamanaka Ino, your father must be disappointed if you hadn't realized that you didn't just laugh at his inability to read, I thought for sure you would have been able to think a little," Mamoru said as he was behind the girl and in a few seconds she was tied up and hanging from the ceiling.

Mamoru walked up front and said to them, "Listen up, because I am only going to say this once. The moment you are born, you are equal to everyone around you. The moment you die, you are equal. What matters is not how you are born or how you die, it is how you live. When you laughed at Uzumaki-san, you didn't only laugh at his inability to read, you laughed at the fact that he had no family to teach him. You laughed at the fact that he was an orphan. Now, tell me, is it funny when someone doesn't have any parents? Is it funny when someone can't do something as easily as someone else? IS IT!" Mamoru yelled with his voice as loud to get the point across.

Almost the entire room was silent, everyone who was at their desks, or tied up in Ino's case looked down in shame.

"The point I'm trying to make is that, although Uzumaki-san can't read, he can't be faulted for it, nor should he be laughed at because of said fact. The same judgment will befall anyone I find bullying, I don't care what clan you're from, nor do I care about how high a position your parents, grandparents or any other family member has. From the moment I was put in charge of you, you all became my students, my responsibility. Therefore, how you act will reflect on how well I have taught you. You will be disciplined accordingly if you act up, once again, no exceptions," Mamoru told them. "Is this understood?"

"Hai," all the students said.

"I will let this one slide, but from now on you will address me as sensei whilst in this classroom after acknowledging that you understand what I'm talking about. Understood?" Mamoru asked.

"Hai, sensei," the students replied.

"Very good," Mamoru replied with a flick of his wrist, a kunai was thrown to the back of the classroom.

The ropes holding Ino up unraveled as they had been cut by the kunai, dropping Ino on the floor.

"Everyone, get back to your seats. Uzumaki-san, I will speak with you after class," Mamoru told them as he chose another student to read the third paragraph.

That evening...

Mamoru walked up to the Hokage's office with a few folders in his hand and knocked on the door.

"Enter," was the reply from the aged voice of Hiruzen.

Mamoru opened the door and walked in.

"Ah, Mamoru, I trust you didn't have much trouble on your first day?" the aged man asked. He took note of the folders in the instructor's hand, but didn't think much of them, 'Probably just some papers that need to be graded.'

"More than I would have liked, but all in all not bad, which led me to being here," the red-haired man admitted.

"What did Naruto do to trouble you?" the hokage sighed, guessing the root of the problem.

"It's not so much that he caused me trouble as he did concern," Mamoru admitted with a serious look on his face.

"Oh? How so?" the hokage replied, intrigued by the fact that the man in front of him seemed to be worried about the boy. Throughout all of the teachers that had Naruto, only one previous had actually shown any sign of interest in Naruto's wellbeing, and even that wasn't immediate.

"Are you aware that Naruto can't read?" Mamoru asked simply, figuring that he wouldn't get anywhere by beating around the bush. The results would have broken a lesser man, but previous experience had taught him to take a lot of situation as the temperature in the room seemed to drop by at least twenty degrees.

"Why hadn't I been informed about this prior to today," the man spoke in a tone that said that an answer better be ready.

"I can't answer for Umino-san, but I've read his reports and it seems that he was probably unaware of the situation. The other teachers, Iruka's assistant, Mizuki, included might have had a hand in that as well," the bespectacled jounin as he took off his glasses and hooked them onto his shirt collar.

"I want a list of all of Naruto's previous academy instructors on my desk as soon as possible," the man said in the tone only a kage would be able to use effectively.

"I figured you might," Mamoru replied as he held the folders in his hand in front of him and set them on the Hokage's desk. "These are every last teacher that Naruto has had before me. I would check with Umino-san before jumping to conclusions about him."

The actions and precautions that Mamoru had taken calmed the aged Sarutobi down a bit as he looked at the list that the jounin had on top of the stack of folders. He skimmed over the list, some of name surprised him a bit while other, while he could only shake his head at other names. "It never ceases to amaze me how many steps ahead you are of others."

"I had already gathered this information prior to today," Mamoru informed his superior. "I figured I might need someone to compare notes to on how the classes are instructed and how each student is treated. When I realized that Naruto couldn't read I figured that, regardless of the situation, there is no way that no one would have noticed."

Hiruzen calmed down as he asked, "Was this the only reason you came here?"

"No, I also came to inform you that you're probably going to have a few complaints about how I treated the majority of the classroom from the parents of some of the children," Mamoru warned the Hokage.

"Oh? And what, pray tell, did you do that would cause such a ruckus?" the aged Hokage asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I gave the majority of the class detention," Mamoru replied.

Hiruzen was intrigued as he asked, "And what did they do to deserve such punishment?" Never had anyone given punishment to that many students at once.

"They laughed at Naruto's inability to read," the jounin answered with a serious face.

"And, in doing so, laughed at the fact that he had no family to teach him, therefore acting like they were better than him," Hiruzen sighed in frustration as he stated the words that Mamoru didn't. "Sadly, this is a common occurrence with those who do better in some things than others. Who didn't receive detention other than Naruto himself?" he asked with more curiosity than anything.

"Aburame Shino, Akimichi Chouji, Hyuuga Hinata, Nara Shikamaru and Uchiha Sasuke," Mamoru listed off the names.

Hiruzen was a tad surprised at hearing Sasuke's name, because the Uchiha clan wasn't exactly humble, so hearing the son of the clan head not show any form superiority was a bit of a shocker.

"I know how you feel, I think his brother kept him down to earth on this part," Mamoru theorized to him.

"You might be right, being the second born with the older being such a genius would get anyone to sympathize with someone with simple misfortunes," Hiruzen replied.

"Hyuuga Hinata, although the eldest daughter of the clan head, wasn't really a surprise," Mamoru said, simply.

"I agree, such a sweet young girl, she couldn't laugh at others' misfortune if it was intentional, it's too bad she's so shy, she might be a good friend to Naruto," Hiruzen said with a sad smile.

"Akimichi Chouji, he probably had it rough with the other kids when he was younger so sympathy from him isn't surprising either," Mamoru said to his superior.

Hiruzen nodded as he said, "The Aburame clan are known for their logic and distaste of performing unnecessary actions, so their heir not responding isn't surprising either."

"And I've worked with Nara Shikaku, so if his son is anything like him, then he probably thought that laughing at Naruto was too troublesome," the red-haired jounin said with an amused smile.

Hiruzen couldn't help but chuckle at that completely true assessment.

End of Chapter

That is chapter 1, just thought about working on something else.