First Day At The Academy
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Naruto lay in his bed staring at the ceiling and waited for his alarm to go off. Time seemed to stand still for the masked blonde as he lay there. Glancing over at his clock it read 06:50 the alarm was set for 07:00.
Naruto couldn't take it any longer and quickly got washed and dressed in his usual attire. Black mask with a purple trim, his brown trench coat that had a silver trim to it, he also wore a casual shirt that was orange and loose as well as a pair of dark blue trousers and a pair of sandals. Naruto placed a repairing seal on the sandals so he didn't need to fork out for new ones all the time- another one of his crazy ideas that worked.. somehow.
After getting dressed Naruto ran to Kakashi's bedroom and saw something. Anko and Kakashi were in a bed together. Naruto simply turned around and took a deep breath.
"FINALLY YOU TWO!" he shouted wakening up both of the bed's occupants.
They both grunted at first then realised what had been said. It had been oblivious to everyone, Naruto included, that they liked each other. They both shot up pulling the covers with them to see Naruto's back in the doorway.
"Well? Are you to going to get dressed or what?" Naruto asked not turning around. "I'll be at Ichiraku's ramen stand and don't be late I have school today!" Naruto said rather loudly without turning round.
Both Kakashi and Anko stared at the boy and noticed he was holding two things. An orange book and a familiar headband. Anko quickly touched her forehead and realised that he had taken her headband and they both knew the orange book was Kakashi's. They hurriedly got dressed.
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Naruto had made his way over to Ichiraku's ramen stand and was happy to see that it was open. Of course it would be Teuchi-san the owner knew what day it was and knew that Naruto would be there early.
"Hello Naruto-kun what can I do you for today?" asked Teuchi with out turning round.
"Hello Teuchi-san and Ayame-chan I'll have my usual thanks I have a big day ahead of me!" Naruto proclaimed with excitement ringing in his voice.
Ayame was Teuchi's daughter and they flirted a bit mainly Ayame teasing Naruto about if he was slightly older she would consider him boyfriend material.
"You're going to the ninja academy today aren't you Naruto-kun. Are you nervous?" Ayame asked him.
"Nervous nah I'm looking forward to it. To see what new cool techniques I can learn and more jutsu's. Oh Oh you will like this one Ayame-chan." Naruto told her while bouncing up and down on the stool.
"Let's see it then." Ayame said with a smile.
"Here we go." After a poof of smoke a tall man sat in front of her. Ayame blushed heavily. The man had blonde hair that was tied up behind him and very handsome, he didn't wear a mask he had a slight beard but nothing major, he had piercing blue eyes that she could get lost in and a very toned chest that shone through his tight shirt.
Ayame blushed furiously and began panting. She reached over the counter and placed a hand on his face and let out a happy sigh. After that the man disappeared.
Naruto then just sat staring at Ayame who still had her hand outstretched.
"Take it you like him then Ayame-chan." Naruto said with a smile under his mask.
Ayame nodded not saying anything for a while. She spoke again when Naruto finished his second bowl. "Who was that based off of?" Ayame asked because if there was a man like that in the village she wanted him.
"Well." Naruto began "It might be me in a few years. I threw in some of Kakashi's and Anko's looks into it as well as my own."
"What?!" Ayame shouted and Naruto almost fell off the stool backwards. "That.. That can't be you! I don't believe it!"
With a laugh Naruto quickly paid for his meal and stood up "Well You don't know what I look like under this do you?" Naruto said while pointing to his mask.
This left Ayame wondering what Naruto actually looked like and she swore that one day she would find out one way or another.
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Naruto sat on a roof across from the academy. Two people then sat down next to him. He looked left and right. It was Kakashi and Anko.
"How are you kid?" Anko said while putting her hand on her shoulder.
"I'm a little worried of I'm honest. What if they don't like me? And here." Naruto told them while giving Anko back her headband.
She took it and then pulled Naruto into a hug. "If you just be honest I'm sure you will be fine. Besides you have Kiba and Shikamaru right?" Anko said while resting her head on his.
"Thanks onee-san." Naruto said while he hugged back. He didn't think of Kakashi and Anko as a mum and dad but as elder siblings instead but he went with what everyone else thought as it was easier than explaining everything.
"Hey Naruto aren't you forgetting something?" Kakashi chipped in while resting a hand on Naruto's shoulder.
"What are you on about Onii-san?" Naruto replied with a smirk.
"Oh I don't know maybe something orange that you took?"
"You mean your Ichi Ichi book right?"
Kakashi nodded and immediately regretted it "Kakashi we are going to have words when we get back." Anko said starting the silver haired man down.
After a while they all jumped down to the ground. The group walked into the academy grounds and towards a board that had the classes written on it.
"This brings back memories eh Anko?" Kakashi spoke up breaking their short silence.
"Yeah it does..ass those were bad times for me." Anko replied punching Kakashi in the shoulder.
"I just want to know where to go and you both are acting like kids." Naruto stated.
Anko and Kakashi looked down to the ground for a second before both hitting Naruto in the back of the head lightly. They all laughed it off though.
They got to the board and Naruto read the names off to himself. He recognised four names three he knew personally they were Inuzuka Kiba, Nara Shikamaru and Hyuga Hinata. The fourth was the Uchiha survivor Sasuke. But what caught his attention the most was the teacher. Umino Iruka. He knew Iruka from the very few times he looked after him if Kakashi and Anko's missions ran over the estimated times.
Naruto felt his hair being ruffled and looked up to see Kakashi and Anko both doing it. He quickly swatted their hands away and tried to fix it back to the style he had it before (A shortened Kakashi type style).
"Well at least you won't be alone Naruto." Anko said as she pulled him into another hug. Naruto didn't mind it but it was still weird as they were roughly eye level and sometimes Naruto was glad that Kakashi gave him a mask because it hid his blushes well.
Kakashi joined in on the hug as well they looked like an odd group but they didn't care they were a family even though it wasn't blood they were a family none the less.
"Oh god not you too?" came a familiar voice.
"I swear this is just troublesome." came another.
Naruto tore himself away from Kakashi and a tear filled Anko to go and meet Kiba and Shikamaru.
"Hey guy's we're all in the same class Hinata-chan is in it to... and Uchiha Sasuke." Naruto said happily at first but begrudgingly as he tailed off.
"Hey how's Kurama been keeping I thought I could introduce him to this guy." Kiba said as he pulled out a small puppy from his coat. "This is Akamaru I was wondering if the two of them could train together?"
"You have a ninja hound Naruto-kun?" Shikamaru asked lazily.
"No but ahhh I guess I can tell you I've known you long enough. I'm the Jinchūriki of the nine tailed fox that attacked the village thirteen years ago and he was sealed inside be by the Fourth Hokage." Naruto said in complete honesty.
"That must be troublesome having a demon locked up inside you fighting to get out. Very troublesome." Shikamaru said in the same lazy voice.
"That's the thing he isn't locked in me he's just sealed in me and actually he is rather polite, too polite if I'm honest, anyway the Fourth messed up in the seal and we ended up sharing memories so I knew his pain. He was created to protect us yet all we did we see him as a monster and in some cases a weapon." Naruto explained how he made a deal with Kurama and how he could now summon him at any time and that he has been helping him with his training.
"Well that doesn't sound as troublesome as before but it's still troublesome." Shikamaru then looked at his watch "Well we best get to class or the teacher will shout at us for being late. This day is really troublesome."
The group then walked to the class. Naruto and Kiba couldn't wait to see who else was there so they dragged the Nara boy all the way there.
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They arrived at the classroom before their sensei appeared so they took some seats at the back of the classroom.
"Hey Kiba-kun about what you asked earlier I think Kurama-san would be a bit big for Akamaru."
"What d'ya mean?" Kiba replied with confusion written on his face.
"Well Kurama-san is about my height so he's a bit big for Akamaru sorry." Naruto said with a smirk.
Just then Iruka walked into the class. Dropped a folder of papers on his desk and then turned to face everyone.
"Hello everyone and welcome to ninja academy I will be your sensei for this year and you will address me as Iruka-sensei. Is that clear?"
"Hai!" replied the class.
"Great now if you follow me outside we will be doing some test to gauge where you are skill and talent wise." Iruka told everyone then proceeded to walk out of the class.
A few minutes later everyone was out side in an area that had a practice target board, a fighting ring and a couple of trees.
"Firstly I will call everyone by name and I want to see where on this target board you can get your kunai, don't worry they are blunt." Iruka said when everyone had assembled.
Most of the kids were bad, not a little bad but terrible half couldn't even get the kunai in the board.
It was then Sasuke Uchiha's turn and for what ever reason the girls were swooning over him. Sasuke then picked up a kunai and threw it at the board hitting in the nine point section. Iruka nodded at the boy's score and sighed at all the whoops the boy was getting.
Naruto was then called upon and he walked up to where Sasuke had been standing and raised his left hand and extended his index finger and thumb. "Bang." Naruto said quietly as he lowered his thumb and a kunai shot from his index finger and hit the target straight in the bullseye.
Naruto was about to walk away when Iruka said "Naruto I thought I asked you to throw a kunai not whatever that was"
Naruto turned and faced Iruka and smiled in a plain voice he said "But sensei you said and I quote ' I want to see where on this target board you can get your kunai' you never mentioned anything about having to throw it. Hell by that I could have walked over there and stabbed the target in the bullseye and you would be forced to give me the points for it after all there was a massive loophole in what you said."
Iruka knew that this would be a long year for him. "Fine on you go but first I want to see how well you do at throwing one."
Naruto nodded picked up a kunai and threw it at the board and it landed right next to his other one. "Happy?" he asked sarcastically.
Iruka nodded and Naruto walked back over to Shikamaru and Kiba who both high fived him.
They then moved onto fighting and once again everyone sucked. Naruto and Kiba stared at each other before Kiba said "If my mum saw me fight like they are I'd get killed on the spot."
"Yeah same here." Naruto agreed with him.
Eventually it was Naruto's turn to fight with Iruka. Kiba had pushed him to the ring edge before he flipped Kiba out. Sasuke got his cheers from the girls but his style was a mess Naruto could see nearly twenty faults with it before he got beat.
Naruto casually walked into the ring "Don't you want to take your coat off?" Iruka asked.
Naruto just shook his head. Then the fight began Naruto dashed to Iruka's left but moved even faster to switch to Iruka's right side where Naruto threw a punch at Iruka's gut. Iruka never even seen it coming. Iruka skidded back. Eyes closed with pain from the punch. As he opened his eyes he saw Naruto sitting on the ground just staring at a part of it. Iruka then followed Naruto's line of sight to see that he had been pushed out of the ring by a kid with a single punch.
He couldn't believe it and neither did the other kids by the looks on their faces bar one the Inuzuka kid. Kiba.
"Well done Naruto." Iruka said while trying to hide the pain.
Naruto smirked stood up and walked back to the crowd. Iruka wasn't surprised when most of the girls that followed Sasuke moved over to where Naruto was. Iruka's gaze then landed on Sasuke and he saw the hatred in the boy's eyes no one should have a level of hate like that in eyes of someone so young.
Back in the class the kids were greeted with a test paper. All of them sighed seeing it. Iruka then explained that it was for their benefit if they done it.
An hour went by and everyone had finished Kiba, Naruto and Shikamaru fell asleep at the back of the room. Iruka who was slightly annoyed at the three threw three pieces of chalk at them Shikamaru and Kiba woke up but Naruto managed to catch the chalk mid throw whilst in his sleep.
When class was dismissed the trio walked-out after Naruto woke up that is. They bumped into a group of students picking on a guy from their class.
"What are you going to do about it tubby!" One of the boys sneered.
"Yeah tubby." Said another.
"Gimme those crisps." A third said only to have his wrist caught by Kiba.
"I don't think it's wise to pick on my classmate right outside my class." Naruto said giving each of the boys a cold hard stare.
"To be honest you guys don't even know who you are picking on do you?" Naruto continued the look of confusion on the boys faces informed him that they didn't.
"He's from the Akimichi clan from the looks of things and they have some of the most destructive jutsu's in this village but they don't just feed off of chakra like others theirs feeds of their selves that's why the clan eat a lot so the jutsu takes their reserves and not important muscle." Naruto explained.
The bullies instantly looked at the boy they were bullying and he smirked. They proceeded to run away. Very fast.
"You didn't need to do that you know but thanks." the boy said to the group.
"It's no problem I'm Uzumaki Naruto these are my friends Inuzuka Kiba" Kiba nodded "and this is Nara Shikamaru." Shikamaru grunted.
"Well I'm Akimichi Chōji it's nice to meet you." he said in between eating handfuls of crisps.
The group then headed outside to a small table with benches. They sat in relative silence while they ate. "How do you know about my clan's jutsu Naruto-kun?" Chōji asked.
"That's an easy one do you know of Hatake Kakashi?" Naruto said while still eating Chōji nodded "Well that's my dad kind of he looks after me but he's more like my Onii-san anyway he saw your clans jutsu and wanted to try it at our house and it wreaked him. He didn't know about the physical reserves that you needed for it so he passed out and when he woke up I asked him why he was asleep out in the yard so he told me about it."
Chōji nodded when he heard this but couldn't help but smile. He had friends that understood him and he was happy. He was glad he didn't have to explain why he eat so much either.
Just then Sasuke stormed over to them and slammed his fists into the table and shouted "Uzumaki how are you so good you don't deserve to be that good!"
Naruto don't even look at the boy he just continued to eat his meal. "I don't deserve it huh?" Naruto said after a while before Sasuke could shout at him again.
"Yeah you don't deserve it I need that strength to avenge my clan." Sasuke said again in a cold, serious voice.
"Have you ever been hated just because of what you are Uchiha? No your loved because of what you are. That's why I train SO hard to overcome what people think of me. That's why most of my youth I trained to the point of either bleeding, passing out due to either chakra exhaustion or fatigue or both. So now you have no idea why I'm so strong so you can leave." Naruto spat back.
Sasuke then punched Naruto square in the jaw but the blonde boy never moved instead he just went back to eating his ramen which shocked everyone at the table. Kiba had jumped up to defend Naruto but when he saw Naruto go back to his ramen he sat down but glared at Sasuke. In fact everyone at the table glared at Sasuke till he left.
Some girls who seen this ran after Sasuke and others ran to Naruto to ask if he was alright. Naruto told them that he was completely fine and thanked them for their consideration and eye smiled at all of them. Making their hearts flutter a little.
Kiba couldn't help but laugh at Naruto he was used to him flirting with everyone it was weird when he done it with his sister Hana at first but when he noticed she made their training lighter he was fine with it. Naruto saved him sometimes from getting beat up by Hana because he started to flirt with her.
Kiba then proceeded to get a beating from the girls but Naruto saved him by telling the girls that he had told him a joke and that was why Kiba was laughing. The girls bought it and left him alone then asked, again, if Naruto was alright before they left.
"Fangirls how troublesome." Shikamaru said in a near zombie like voice.
The rest of the day was really boring for Naruto he didn't realise how boring the academy was Iruka was a good teacher but god did the lessons suck. Iruka was teaching them about the basic of basics which Naruto had learned when he was three and four for some of the other stuff Iruka was teaching them.
Naruto decided this wasn't for him so he created a shadow clone outside on the wall of the building then substituted with it while he went to see the Hokage. Iruka never even seen the switch happen. Naruto ran across the rooftops in order to reach the office quicker.
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Naruto arrived at the Hokage's office and entered through the window as usual. The Hokage still never heard him enter.
"Why does the academy suck?" Naruto asked from his window seat.
The Hokage then jumped out of his seat then composed himself before asking "What do you mean Naruto?"
"They are all so weak even the damn Uchiha is bad." Naruto told him with boredom ringing in his voice.
"It's not my fault that you are ahead of everyone Naruto that's because you decided to train so hard and have exceeded the academy grades." Sarutobi informed Naruto.
Naruto smirked and Sarutobi knew he said something he shouldn't have. "If I'm above their level and you know it can't I just oh I don't know skip it?"
Sarutobi had to sit and think about it for a long time yes he wanted Naruto to progress in the ninja world but on the other hand he didn't want to throw him into it either. Finally he came to a decision.
"Naruto although I'd love to, you would be placed in a three person team with a Jōnin as an instructor but all teams have been chosen for the past year and no Jōnin are free. So unfortunately you will need to wait till the end of the year." Sarutobi informed him sadly.
"What about Anko or Kakashi they don't have a team. Let them take me on." Naruto said pleading at this point.
"I'm Sorry Naruto but I can't allow parents and children to be in a group together." Sarutobi told him.
"We both know they aren't my parent's Jiji there like my Onee-chan and Onii-san you know that." Naruto retorted.
They sat in silence for a while.
Naruto sighed then fear came to his face. "Sorry Jiji-san I have to go they might know I left them with a clone. Bye"
Then Naruto disappeared with not even a trace of smoke not many ninja could do that Sarutobi could count them on one hand. Naruto and his father Minato. With a sad sigh Sarutobi turned and started working on the paper work again.
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Naruto appeared in the classroom in his seat at the back and whispered to Kiba "Hey where did my clone go?"
"Oh your back yeah your clone decided to interrupt a fight between one of your and Sasuke's fangirls and got smashed in the face causing it to dispel." Kiba said with a yawn. "Oh and Iruka didn't notice so don't worry about ditching."
The rest of the day was very boring and Naruto just wanted to go home.
When the time came for them to leave Anko and Kakashi were waiting for him. The group headed straight home but Kakashi and Anko found it weird that Naruto didn't tell them about how the academy was.
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When they got home Kakashi and Anko asked Naruto to sit down and tell them about his day. They wish they hadn't. All Naruto done was complain about the kids sucking so much that half of them didn't know how to do anything. How Iruka taught things he already knew and how the Uchiha was a annoyance and the fangirls he gathered were about the same.
Naruto then proceeded to ask both of them if they would take him on as an apprentice just so he didn't have to go back to that boring place. He did however tell them how he protected the Chōji Akimichi from some bullies.
Anko and Kakashi then let Naruto go to do what he wanted.
"What are we going to do Kakashi? He's to well off for the academy we both knew that." Anko said rather sadly.
"I know what you mean Anko I was like him when I was younger everything the academy taught me I already knew and that's probably why I turned up late every day. Then it became a habit." Kakashi said with a sigh at where Naruto had been sitting.
"Yeah? We could have a talk with the Hokage and try and get someone to take him and train him." Anko mused out loud.
"I could guess who he'd give him to and I wouldn't approve of it so I'd say let him last a bit longer and see if he changes his opinion." Kakashi said in return.
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Hope you all liked this chapter it took a while to write but I'm happy by what I have written.
A thanks to creedboy, Gazza117 and wolfmoon30 for favouriting my story and Gazza117, NipponHoshi and thebeserker for following the story. It's nice to have a few projects on the go however after the Easter break is over the uploads will become longer as I have college and exams coming up and writing helps release some of the stress. Anyway thanks for reading and hope to see your opinion on the next one. Bye.