"Tadaimasu"
"Okairinasai, Naruto! Dinner is ready, come eat a soon as you're ready!"
"Okay, Kaa-san!"
Naruto chucked off his shinobi sandals and walked to his room only to be yanked by the collar.
"Now where do you think you're going with those shoes chucked around?"
"T-tou-san...heh heh, I was gonna fix it!"
"Damn straight you were, now go fix them, we can talk about your first day at academy at the table"
Minato let go of Naruto's collar and watched his son rearrange his shoes. It was funny how similar Naruto looked like to his genin days. Naruto had a hoodie on like him, except it was orange. Minato frowned, apparently Naruto picked up on Kushina's knack for bright colors. Now Naruto was spouting non stop about being the orange flash or the orange hokage. As if. There's only room for one Flash in this world, and it was him. Minato chuckled a bit, Orange Hokage, huh. Minato flashed a quick smile and walked to the Kitchen to greet Kushina.
"Naruto! Eat your damn peas before i shove them down your throat forcefully!"
Naruto involuntarily gulped, taking the peas that were stuffed into his mouth down his throat. Naruto then made a face and started clawing at his throat. He took a deep breath and stuck out his tongue.
"Quick! Give me ramen! Anything to wash away the taste of peas!"
"No, thats what you get for stuffing all your peas in your mouth and now swallowing. You could have choked!"
Kushina glared at Naruto. Minato passed a cup of juice under the table to Naruto who chugged the whole drink when he thought Kushina wasn't looking.
"I SAW THAT! YOU TOO MINATO! GET BACK HERE, YOU TWO!"
Minato and Naruto scampered off leaving Kushina in the dining room, standing up with one foot on a seat, ready to pounce, with three forks between her fingers like kunai, glaring at the door way. Meanwhile, Minato sat next to Naruto on the couch in the living room.
"So I heard from Iruka that you are going to move up to grade 5."
"Yup! Today was too easy, they couldn't even throw a kunai! It was ridiculous"
"That's great and all, but remember, nothing-"
"-replaces hard work. I know, I know. Its just that I already went through the 'hard work' with kunai and history and taijutsu. Genin is too easy! You know my skill! I'm like a jonin!"
"While you have a large sum of jutsu, most, if not all, are mid to high level chuunin. It's only the number that makes you High Jonin. Sure the number rivals Kakashi, but the level isn't there yet, and you don't have experience and I'm not prepared to send a 6 year old into A to B ranked missions, let alone my son. Genin first, Chuunin second, then we talk about Jonin. Not to mention, you don't even know my jutsu, we'll have Jiraiya train you"
"Cool! A Sannin as a teacher!"
Naruto raced out of the living room to his room. Then a voice came from behind Minato.
"Don't you dare send my son to that pervert to train"
"Ah Kushina, he isn't really a pervert, he's-"
"-A SUPER PERVERT!"
Just then, The white haired sage bursted through the door. Kushina whipped her head around to face Jiraiya then sent her fist into Jiraiya's face, launching him out the window next to the door. She huffed, placed her hands on her hips then turned around to face Minato.
"Did you hear him? The more reasons to NOT send our son with that thing."
Minato just looked at the broken window with a hole and sweat dropped.
"Only my wife can send a Sannin through Konoha with a punch, wait scratch that, Tsunade too"
"Did you say something, honey?"
"N-no, not at all, sweetie"
"Anyways, on a more serious note. I know Naruto is a genius at a lot of things, he isn't ready for the world yet. Don't you think genin is a bit too early? He's only six! At least Kakashi was a bit older"
"No, I think Naruto is ready. He's got the skill, he just needs the experience, besides, genin just does yard work and gardening, no big deal."
"Yeah, but..."
"Relax Kushina, It will be okay"
"Fine. Then who is his sensei going to be?"
"Hmm, I was thinking about..."
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Naruto woke up early in the morning, it was going to be his first day at academy, as a grade 5 student. A better improvement to the grade 1. Seriously, what were his parents thinking? Anyways, his first step to Hokage, genin.
"It would suck if I was a genin forever."
Naruto frowned. A shiver was sent down his back as he imagined himself still a genin at age 15 . Too old if you ask me. Naruto jumped out of bed and dragged himself to the bathroom. (an:/hahahahaha, oh the irony)
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"Naruto, here is your breakfast, don't be late! Punctuality-"
"-is key. IF its so important, why is Kakashi always late? And by several hours on top of it?"
Kushina's face faltered for a second, "Don't follow Kakashi, he's another lazy perve..."
Somewhere in Konoha, a silver haired man sneezed.
"Get going, I don't want you to be late"
"Hai hai kaa-san, I'll see ya 'round"
Naruto grabbed a toast and shunshined out of the house.
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"Class, We have a new student!"
Murmurs were heard around the class. Naruto shifted around where he stood, he looked up to see students older than him. He never really was one for attention but when its from people older than him, he suddenly becomes shy. When he was brought to a council meeting with Minato on Bring Your Child to work day, he was really shy and couldn't look at any of the adults in the eyes when they came to greet him.
"Uh- Namikaze Naruto, Nice to meet you -ttebayo". Naruto blurted.
"'-ttebayo'? Namikaze? Yondaime!" The other students were whispering to each other. Dammit. He was jonin level, introductions should be a piece of cake, why was he so nervous?
"You can sit in the empty seat in the back, Naruto"
Iruka pointed out to a seat in the back corner, next to a girl with Pink hair. Naruto sat down and looked at the girl. She had short pink hair with a red ribbon tying her bangs back. Her emerald eyes were big. She was young, his age kind of young.
"Namikaze Naruto, Nice to meet you."
"H-haruno Sakura, N-nice to meet you too."
"Nee, Haruno-san, aren't you a bit young for this class?"
"U-um, I'm only here for the Strategy classes, I'm book-smart, but not athletic, I go back to grade 1 for Physical Education."
"Wah, awesome, Haruno-san!"
Naruto never heard of a ninja clan called Haruno, he presumed she came from a civilian family. He was least to say, impressed. While she said she wasn't physically ready to be genin, she was already taking strategy courses from grade 5. This was definitely a feat for a civilian family. Too bad he won't be on a team with her, a strategist like her or even maybe that Nara guy would have been really beneficial. Naruto shifted his attention back to Iruka and listened to the course.
Grade 5, though it was still easy in the strategy classes, was bit more challenging with sparring. Sure he could counter the style used, but he couldn't counter the power. The other students were just too big compared to him. While he could fling his hands up to block the attack perfectly, the attack would be too heavy and he would be knocked to the floor. 3'7'' 6 year olds were just not made to fight 4'10'' 11 year olds. Naruto got by with small scratches, mostly from being hit to the floor and rolling around to dodge. All Naruto thought was Kaa-san is going to have a field day.
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"DAMN STRAIGHT I'M GOT A FIELD DAY, LOOK AT ALL THESE SCRATCHES! MINATO GET HERE RIGHT NOW"
Minato flashed to the Kitchen where he found Naruto on a stool covered in loosely wrapped bandages. Frankly he looked like a horribly wrapped mummy thanks to Kushina's poor medic skills.
"I'll help. Now Naruto, care to explain what happened?" Minato responded, taking the bandages from Kushina's hand. Kushina huffed and turned away.
"Ah, the older kids were a bit too big and the floor was covered in twigs, I wasn't careful when i rolled, cut myself with twigs. At least sparring is a bit more challenging and fun."
"You gotta be more careful Naruto, I can't let you get hurt"
Minato unravelled the bandages only to find that most of the cuts were already healed. The fox, huh. Minato thought. he threw away the wasted bandages and turned to Naruto.
"Get going, you gotta train more now, I don't want you getting pushed around. Show them who's boss!"
"Osu!" Naruto pumped his fist in the air and ran out of the room.
"Don't give him any ideas, Minato. He's already really hard, I don't want him to push it."
"If he doesn't train, you will have to heal his scratches every day. I'll give him some pointers but he needs to be able to adapt to his disadvantages and turn them into his advantages. It will be fine, he'll be Genin before you know it. Also, I got Jiraiya to agree to training him when he's older"
"Urg, fine. Stupid pervert better not brush some of that perverse thoughts on Naruto, or I will personally deal with the stupid Sannin."
Minato gulped and hoped that the Sannin knew the consequences for his inevitable actions.
And thats a wrap. Haha, update got here a little faster than normal so don't expect two day updates :P Its going to take a while before the action really begins, we just gotta get Naruto at the level i want him at. BTW Naruto is a prodigy not a GOD, he will not go around being the rikudo sennin and don't think he's gonna get some massive harem. AIN'T HAPPENING dont get your hopes up chillin's. har har har, see ya soon! please review!
time skip will happen soon...
until next time...