the black of the eyes

by comrad

when a stone is kicked it sends fragments all through its path. this is the story of Naruto in a world that at first glance is the same but at a second look isn't even close (slow updates)

NOTE: when you're stepping on butterflies as early in the timeline as I am, you can take liberties in how the timeline and characters are.
Ps i dont own naruto but i own several slav-

The nine tailed fox a being of pure hate and fire. It would burn down the countryside without thought. The assault wouldn't stop until it met a certain senju. The battle went on for 2 moons, the beast struggling and escaping every time it saw death's shadow. On the second full moon of its rampage it let out a scream as it laid dying that dyed the moon crimson.

"Now class what did we learn from that proverb?" a chunin with hair done up in a ponytail and scar across his face.

"The nine tailed fox is scary?" a small child 4.5ft tall black hair with blue eyes says and puts his hand

Iruka sighs and looks around the classroom and spots two kids sleeping in his class "NARUTO SHIKAMARU WAKE UP!"

"Ugh" a kid who you would think is cosplaying a pineapple with his hair style moves to a more awake position to fall back asleep

"AHHHHH!?" a small kid with bright yellow hair with stands of bright red dispersed amongst the sea of yellow yells at the top of his lungs "Don't scare me like that sensei." he calms down from his shock

"I wouldn't have to if you didn't sleep all the time." he stops to think about what he was going to talk about before he had to wake up his students "Ohh yea the genin exam is tomorrow." the class room falls quiet "Well see you all tomorrow." iruka makes a motion like a sweeping and the kids start filing out the room.

"Sooo Sakura wana go ou-" the blond was cut off mid sentence by the pink haired girl

"No." she said as fast as she could once she understood what he was asking

xXx

Naruto sulked off to his apartment up the several flights of stairs and into his room 'Man i would kill for some ramen.' he walks in to his bedroom finding box in wrapping paper and a note on top he begins to read the note

Hey kid sorry i couldn't come see you finally the old man won't let me and my work won't let me. So I bought you some garments, a special edition ramen packet, and a jutsu scroll. You have to read it to find out what it is. Hopefully i'll see you when your a green as grass genin

Your godfather

Naruto smiles and opens his gift he immediately goes for the ramen and starts boiling water he walks back he looks through his gift finding a mesh suit and small metal pads for vitale spots. at the bottom there is a small scroll with gold coating on the end. When he fully unfolded it the name was the fireball jutsu.

He goes back into his kitchen and takes the noodles, puts them into a bowl, pours the hot water into it, then adds the seasonings. The best way to describe how he eats his ramen is vacuum cleaner.

When he finished his ramen he scurried into his bedroom, grabbed his scroll and ran out the door to the academy training grounds.

After bumping into several people in his rush to get to the training grounds he finally gets there he sits down and starts reading

Fireball jutsu

One of the most basic fire jutsu. It is one of the oldest jutsu tracing all the way to the sage of six paths. The way to perform this jutsu is to make the hand seals snake ram monkey boar horse tiger then take a deep breath in and when breathing out add chakra while imagining it heating up into fire. (there's also a diagram of the steps)

"What are you reading Naruto?" The chunin teacher walks up to him

"I'm learning a kick ass jutsu!" The boy said with a smile on his face wider than the sea.

"Where did you get it from?" Irucka looks at him like a criminal

"I got it from my godfather." he says not picking up on iruka's tone

"Ooh good thought you stole it." He thinks for a bit then says "wait you have a godfather?" His mind starts racing thinking about Naruto actually having family "Where is he? Why have I never heard of him"

"How should I know he leaves notes and gifts on holidays and my birthday!" He stops for a second then starts up again "I've never met him because his work keeps him out of the village most of the time!"

"Naruto I'm sorry I got you worked up. I know it must be a touchy topic." Iruka walks closer to Naruto "Do you need help with that?"

"Yes" he says quietly

"What jutsu is it?" He says softly

"The fireball jutsu." Naruto says in a more chipper voice

"That might be a bit hard, naruto fireball jutsu is something that genin are supposed to be taught not academy students." Iruka flashes through six hand seals and shouts "fireball jutsu!" a mass of fire the size of a toddler flew out the teachers mouth and then went about 6 meters then dissipated.

"THAT WAS SO COOL SENSEI!" naruto almosts shouts at the top at his lungs

"Well that's what the fireball jutsu is ready to learn?" iruka looks over to a little yellow midget who looks like he will jump to the moon in excitement

"Yes iruka sensei!" he grabs his scroll and starts to look it over again

"So do you know how to do the seals?" he looks at naruto expecting an answer

"Yes iruka sensei it's not like you beat them into me until i was a pulp." he said rolling his eyes

"Didn't need the sas but first do the hand seals" he starts doing the hand seals slowly so he can understand

"Snake… ram… monkey… boar… horse… tiger…" he says slowly making the hand seals

"Now breathe in then breathe out adding chakra to it and imagine it turning into an inferno." iruka then breathed out making a small fireball

Naruto takes a deep breath then breathes out a puff of smoke out "MY THROAT BURNS AHHHHH!"

"Naruto, are you ok?" iruka goes up to the boy and pats him on his back "At least you did something unlike me the first time."

"I'm going home to grab some cough drops." he said in a raspy voice

"Practice your chakra control naruto!" iruka yells at naruto as he walks to his apartment

"I will sensei!" He yells back

xXx

"Today class we will be taking the genin test." Iruka pauses then look around the room 'no one is asleep thats good." He thinks to himself "It consists of 3 different tests: first a written test, the second shrunken Accuracy. And the last the jutsu test."

"Is there a time limit?" Said a kid who mostly like will end up as a foder ninja to die in the next war

"Yes there will be a time limit 30 minutes." Iruka stated deadpan "Well anyway Mizuki will be passing out the test." Mizuki as Iruka said started passing out the test.

Naruto started freaking out he didn't know what to do. He wasn't book smart he would admit that but that wouldn't stop him

The questions on the hokage were easy for him. If he wanted the position he best know who had it. Then it came to history in his own words "history is boring sensei…"

He guessed on every question except the ones on fourth he knew every battle that his hero fought. He some other ones from the old man's rambling. Like the old man's epithet the god of Shinobi.

Then he turned the page expecting a second side, there wasn't "Iruka sensei is there another side to the test?"

"Yes Naruto if you flip your paper there's another side. Why did you ask this earlier" Iruka deadpaned then his face lightened up a bit

"I assumed it did and there isn't a back for me." The confusion on his face becoming more visible

Iruka saw Mizuki smirk for a second out of the corner of his eye "Naruto just wait till the end of the test I'll take it as is." Iruka walks over to Mizuki and whispers "did you know that most of the first half of the questions cover the fourth his hero?"

"Ok sensei!" Naruto said back to Iruka with a smile

A good bit of time passed before Iruka announced "Ok class time is hand all your papers to Mizuki when heading to the practice field."

"Naruto your up first these are sharp so be careful with them." Iruka then hands him 5 shrunken

He throws one third ring from the center, another fourth, another fifth, another third and the last bullseye.

"Good job naruto." Iruka smile at Naruto cause him to smile even more than he was before "kiba your up next."

Naruto didn't really pay attention to the rest of what happened just happy he passed this part of the test.

"Now class we're going to be performing the clone jutsu. Same order we did Accuracy so Naruto you're up." Iruka was smiling that Naruto was doing good

"Ok iruka sensei ram-snake-tiger CLONE JUTSU!" three clones puffed into existence the first looking fine the other two… by all accounts they looked like they had run 50 laps around the village.

"At Least you could do one naruto." iruka said, patting his back "next student." iruka yelled into the crowd

Naruto sat down on one of the benches next to the building taking in everything. 'I might have still have a chance to pass' he thought to himself

xXx

"So he passed?" a rough voice said the origin of it coming from a aged man in white robes and a white and red hat with the kanji fire

"Yes lord third by the skin of his teeth but yes." the man know as iruka stated

"Good, I'm hoping for him to become my successor." the third said

"Why do you want him exactly to be your successor, may I ask?" iruka looked confused on why such a mediocre academy student would have the eye of the third

"The will of fire burns the brightest in him." the old man looked out the window of his office and smiled "watch his career and you will see."

"Hmm I will." iruka also looks at the window

"This country's future is bright with all the new talent." the third goes back to sitting down

"I can agree with you on that." iruka then starts to leave the room

"Also here iruka." the third hand over plans for the teams

"You already decided teams… Why are Sasuke Hinata and Naruto on a team? Iruka even more confused from team placement

"They all have potential I thought why not make another sannin." he said smiling from his chair

"You confuse and scare me third-sama" iruka then takes his leave

xXx

"I'm going to announcing who passed and then the teams." He takes a deep breath "Shino, Sasuke, Choji, Sakura, Hinata, Kiba, Shikamaru, Naruto, Ino." he stops for one second "you have all passed."

"BELIEVE IT!" Naruto yells at no one

" I will be announcing your teams now as teams 5-6 are taken at the moment we will start with team 7." He breaths and takes out a paper "team 7 sasuke hinata and Naruto your sensei wil be kakashi "

"DAM YOU SENSEI FOR PUTTING ME WITH TEME!" Naruto yells as hard as he can

"If ya don't like teams take it up with hokage-sama" Iruka says hating his job "team 8 ino shikamaru choji your sensei is asuma, Team 10 shino sakura kiba your sensei will be kurenai." he sighs and starts to head out the room "your senseis will be here shortly."

After a while naruto goes to sit by hinata "How are you doing? I thought I would talk to you because were going to be stuck together for a while." he looked at her

"Good." She said in a stern voice her face gaining a slight pinkish hue

"I'm going to go grab edge lord over there" he said a smirk on his face

"I'm not sitting by you two love brids." Sasuke assumed his brooding pose once more

"What is that supposed to mean." Naruto get right up in to Sasuke's face

"Your clueless dobe.." he looks at him deadpan

"Well your coming with me or coming with me kicking and screaming." He made his voice just a bit too sweet to get the point across

"I don't have a choice in this do I." He looked to the desk sighed then walked back with Naruto

"Nope" he said again in the too sweet voice

For the next few hours they waited, seeing the other teams go in the first hour.

"I'm bored" Naruto whined

"Sorry I'm late I found a black cat on my way here and took the long way" their masked sensei came into the room and waved at them "Meet me at the roof"

"Finally…" Sasuke said in the most glad voice he could muster which still sounds like his puppy died

xXx

"So why don't you all tell me about yourselves" Kakashi looked at the three newly minted genin

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki I'm going to be Hokage!" The half blond half redhead yelled

"I mean what you like and aspirations" Kakashi deadpanned

"Well I like ramen hate the time it takes to cool down I like learning new jutsu and I already told you my aspirations" he then calmed down after his rant

"I'm Hinata Hyuga I like cinnamon rolls I hate most of my family and my dream is to lead my clan out of the shit show it's in right now" She stopped then took a quiet sigh and looked back

"I'm Sasuke Uchiha I hate dumasses I like jerky I hate sweets and my dream is to show up my brother and make him give a shit about his family for once," he said finishing the last part of his speech with too much venom for a 12-year-old to have

"Well that's all good meet at training ground 8." kakashi said showing off his signature eye smile

"So do any of you know where it even is?" the blond questioned

"No…" Sasuke said realizing how fucked they are

"Shite…" Hinata said to herself

"Well, time to find Iruka." naruto proclaimed

"Once were done where do you guys wanna eat?" hinata asked

"Ichiraku ramen!"

"I guess that's where we are going there…" sasuke sighed

"OI IRUKA!" naruto yelled into the classroom

"What did i tell you about doing that naruto?" he looked at the blond

"Do you know where training ground 8 is?" he said as he looked right back at the teacher

"It's to the right from ichiraku…"

"Thanks Iruka!" Naruto beamed

"Kids these days…" Iruka mumbled to himself

" Let's go!" Naruto yelled

xXx

"Ahh your finally here." The masked man stood up from reading a book

"Why didn't you tell us where the training ground is…" Naruto looked to his teacher

"Uhhhhh…. I forgot?"

"I'm going to make him read his "literature" to the first years." Hinata muttered

"Say Hinata, how do you know about my literature?" Causing her to turn beat red

"Uuuuhhhhh I stole it from Naruto." She said pointing to Naruto

"So that's where my books were going they're signed by my godfather, I was going to read them!" Naruto said bonking Hinata

"Wait your godfather writes icha icha?" Her confusion and embarrassment growing by the second

"Is that what it's called?" Naruto even more confused then Hinata

"Could you two just fuck at this point the tension is physically killing me." Sasuke after his speak gave an overly dramatic sigh

"Wana die tonight Uchiha?" She said brandishing a knife that came from god knows where

"Children children calm down" kakashi sighs envying the kakashi of 10 minutes ago

"Sensei, what's our first mission?" Sasuke asks

"You're not even genin yet, so none." He looked to the "genin"

"Scratch making him read it I'm burning them all and making him watch." she said twitching

"Also you have another test to become a real genin." He looked harder at the kids

"Let's all agree to kill him." Sasuke said also brandishing a kunai

"Agreed." Naruto said cracking kis knuckles

"But how will we learn from him if he's dead?" Hinata interjected

"You're right on that…" Naruto said in thought

"What's the test we have to do" Sasuke pointing his kunai at kakashi said

"You need to take two bells from me, and the two people with bells pass the other goes back to the academy" he pulled out the bells in question

"Wana gang up on him and leave who goes back on Chance?" Naruto suggested

"Betters our chances since there's a flat-out chance we all fail out right by ourselves," Sasuke interjects

"I don't see a flaw in that logic," Hinata says

"Uhhhhh… you pass?" He just gives up

"Wat." Was the general consensus that they came to

"Let's do spars just so I know where you stand instead of the test that you passed before it started"

"Why did we pass?" naruto was using the two overworked brain cells to figure it out

"You all realized that teamwork makes you stronger" he said with a eye smile

" Hm" sasuke looked up to the sky

"Naruto come at me with the intention to kill me" he looked down at the child

"Okay sensei!" quickly making the snake and ram seal

"Now not the time to be practicing seals"

"O sorry sensei thought you said practice" he said

"Your hopeless naruto." sasuke yelled

"YOU TAKE THAT BACK IM VERY SMART!" he yelled making the monkey seal while no one was looking at his hands

"You should be paying more attention Naruto SECRET ART: THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH!"

The 28-year-old (i think?) stuck his fingers up a 12-year-old ass sending him into a tree holding his ass in pain

xXx

"Nagato is anything wrong?" a blue hair woman asked a sickly red sitting next to her

"I feel as if someone has truly understood pain somewhere," Nagato responded back

"Interesting," she said going back to whatever she was doing

xXX

Cutting back to the spar

"Heh" Naruto made the seals boar and hoarse then jumped from the tree still somewhat clutching his ass

"Still want to come at me?" Kakashi said a bit mockingly letting his guard down a bit

He charged tried to make a right hook missing Kakashi taking advantage of the time he needed to get back up prepared a left kick

As soon as he saw the kick coming towards him he knew he couldn't doge suddenly time slowed and he could see a network of fire within Kakashi

'The fuck' he could only see one way he kicked himself off the ground and made one seal and breathed in

"FIREBALL JUTSU" point blank should make him a bit toasty he couldn't

A log he hit a motherfucking log "Dam it I thought I got him!"

"Good job naruto didnt notice you weaving seals also why are your pupil and iris white and your sclera black?"

"What"

end