After breakfast Shizune brought little Naruto to the academy where she gave him one last hug. "Have a good day, listen to your instructors, make some good friends, and don't show off to much." Naruto nodded with a smile. "Ok Shizune-nii, I'll see you after school won't i?"
The girl gave an affirmative nod. "Yes, I'll be here to pick you up at three pm sharp then we'll go home to have a snack before you continue your training. I'll even make your favorite food for dinner."
The little red heads eyes widened. "You don't mean..." Shizune nodded with a smile. "Oh i do, sweet and sour chicken on white rice."
Naruto cheered happily before giving the girl a big hug. "Oh thank-you! You're the best Nii-san!"
The girl chuckled as she ruffled his hair. "I know, now go on, you don't want to be late for your first day of class do you?" The boy shook his head no then ran inside and Shizune watched him go with a smile then frowned as she made her way to the hospital for her shift. 'I don't know how Minato could hate such a sweet little child for something that he had no control over, he should instead hate the bastard that actually killed Kushina.
(scene change)
Naruto walked into classroom #145 Where he found it was mainly empty except for the chunin instructor and a few students spread out around the room. Three of the students (Who were clustered together) caught Naruto's attention with the first having short black hair in the shape of a ducks ass, he wore a short sleeve dark blue shirt, a pair of tan shorts that came just under his knees, and black ninja sandals.
The second having dark blue hair in a princess cut, she wore an over sized tan jacket, dark blue pants, and a pair of blue ninja sandals.
And the third having blonde hair in a ponytail, she wore a long sleeve bright purple shirt, a pair of pants the same color as her shirt, and a pair of black ninja sandles.
He knew the first was Sasuke Uchiha who was the youngest son of Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha, the second was Hinata Hyuuga who was the eldest daughter of Himi and Hiashi Hyuuga, and the third was Ino Yamanaka who was the only daughter of Inoichi Yamanaka and his wife Sami Yamanaka because as the hokages 'honorable' son it was his 'duty' to know all of the major clans and their heirs, he had played with these three and all the other clan heirs ever since they were two years old.
He sat with them and smiled. "Hey guys, how have y'all been?"
Sasuke shrugged nonchalantly and said 'alright' as he looked out the window, little Hinata smiled and said a quick 'fine' before sticking her face in a book that he had gotten her for her birthday, and Ino went on about the clothes she had just gotten with her mom who had paid for it all with her dads money after he pissed her off. (Both Naruto and Sasuke thought to themselves that they'd never let someone pull that bullshit on them)
As soon as the other students arrived the chunin stood up and started talking. "Alright students listen and listen well, I am Iruka Umino and i'm going to be your chunin instructor for the next four years of your academy careers then you'll be put in classes that you choose like basic medical ninjutsu or trap making. You are also the ones most likely to actually become shinobi and kunoichi because you have been accepted into these advanced classes, but that doesn't mean you can slack off, as a matter of fact it just means that you'll have to work 10x harder than the normal students to earn half as much respect from me because you've shown us your potential when you signed up."
All of the kids groaned mentally at the implications. Iruka spoke again. "Now your first lesson today is on the history of Konoha then we'll go outside and start your shurikenjutsu training."
(Lunch time)
Naruto, Ino, Hinata, and Sasuke all sat together with the school lunch when a pink haired girl that they recognized from class walked up to them with a smile. "Hey, can i sit with y'all?" Sasuke, Hinata, and Ino looked to Naruto to make the decision and he nodded before he pointed to an empty spot right in front of him at the table to which the pinkette sat.
The girl shook all of their hands (starting with Naruto's) and spoke. "I'm Sakura Haruno, I'm the first in my family to come to the Ninja academy." They all introduced themselves to her politely.
"Isn't it great that we were accepted into the advanced classes, i worked hard for two years to prepare for this day and my parents encouraged me all the way." said Sakura with a friendly smile.
Naruto shrugged. "I guess for a civilian who set that expectation for herself it's a great thing."
This confused Sakura so she decided to speak her mind. "What do you mean? Wouldn't it be great to any aspiring ninja?"
Naruto waved an arm around slowly to all of the other students around them. "Look around you, you're the only civilian in the advanced classes while the rest of us are from either top tier clans or long lines of strong shinobi, the advanced classes is what's expected of us and anything less is unacceptable in the eyes of our parents and in some cases it's unforgivable!" The blonde raised his voice as he hit the table.
The young Uzumaki-Namikaze sighed as he calmed down. "I'm the only son of the 4th hokage, my 'aunt' and 'uncles' are the sannin, my 'big sisters' are the apprentices of the snake and slug Sannin respectively, and my 'big bro' is Kakashi Hatake, the copy cat ninja or Kakashi of the sharingan." He let that sink in before he continued.
"I'm expected to be at the very top of the list of passing students or 'rookie of the year' as it's known every year until i graduate, then I'm supposed to become some second coming of the sage of six paths!" said the boy angrily.
Sakura dropped her head. "I-I didn't know that someone could put so much pressure on somebody, I'm sorry."
Naruto sighed and ran his fingers through his hair as he calmed down a little bit. "No I'm sorry, i shouldn't have blown up on you like that. It's not your fault that so much is expected of us."
The red head looked to the girl and smiled slightly. "You seem to be a nice girl how about you hang out with us, we can help you keep up a good training regiment, find you a fitting taijutsu style, maybe some effective low chakra using ninjutsu to make sure you can keep up with the rest of us. What do you say?"
Sakura was speechless, This boy had just met her and in one day ranted about how the village as a whole had placed planet level amounts of pressure on his six year old shoulders, then he offers her his friendship and training advise. 'Either he's way to trusting or he can tell that I'm not like most of the villagers. I swear i will never betray his trust in me.'
Naruto and Kurama both saw the determined glint in Sakuras eyes. "She's going to be a loyal friend to you kit."
Naruto was curious about Kuramas knowledge. "How can you be so sure Kaa-san?"
Kurama smiled from within the seal. "It's an ability of the fox clans, I'll teach it to you when you grow your second tail if you're good."
Naruto nodded mentally then really listened when Sakura spoke. "Alright then, I'd love to hang out with you guys."
(4 years later)
A now ten year old Naruto stood in his own personal training grounds deep in the forest of death (Which had been mutated by its last few years of exposure to his hanyou yokai to the point that some of the animals can now manipulate the elements and only the strongest of them have the mental capacity to reason and even speak) in his black and purple gi going through the motions of his personal taijutsu style the fox fire fist which utilizes speed, flexibility, precise palm strikes, claw swipes, and kicks along with fox fire on the fingertips. He did this for two hours which is when his Kaa-san spoke to him from within the seal.
"Hurry along kit, your classes start soon." Naruto did as told and ran home at high chunin speeds.
As he made his way home he thought about what's all happened in the last four years. With all the extra training that they did together Naruto's group of friends have stayed in the top five for the last four years, Naruto grew two more tails, mastered all of the fox fire jutsus, fox style genjutsu, chakra sensory, chakra chains, fuinjutsu, and emotion sensory.
Naruto remembered what happened when he first learned to sense people's emotions.
(Flashback:3 years ago)
A seven year old Naruto was so happy that he learned another ability from his kaa-san that he ran right into his father's study to tell him but as soon as he ran in he was hit with a wave of hate so intense that it brought him to his knees forcefully.
The young hanyou looked to his father with desperation all over his face. "Tell me it's not true, tell me that you don't h-hate me." he said, practically begging.
Minato sneered down at the boy. "So your kaa-san finally taught you to sense emotions huh? Good, i can finally stop pretending to love you within my own house."
the seven year old held back his tears. "W-why? Why do you hate me so much?"
The question seemed to have truly angered Minato. "Why? WHY?! IT IS BECAUSE OF YOU THAT MY WIFE IS DEAD! YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A WASTE OF SPACE AND A PAINFUL REMINDER OF WHAT I'VE LOST! YOU CAN BURN IN HELL FOR ALL I CARE!"
(Flashback end)
Ever since then Naruto would avoid his father like the plague when at home and only speak to him when spoken to in public to keep up the facade of a happy family. (on orders of his hokage) It wasn't all bad though, his 'aunt' and 'uncles' had loved him and would take the time to train him when they had the chance with Tsunade teaching him chakra control and how to use his chakra/yokai to enhance his speed and strength, Jiraiya taught him the rasengan, shadow clones, and many more wide range ninjutsu, and Orochimaru taught him Kenjutsu, anatomy, science, barrier jutsu, the shunshin, and precise assassination ninjustu.
Two years ago Minato had made Fugaku his right hand man/personal advisor along with reintegrating the Uchiha clan with the rest of the village and providing more funds to to the Uchiha military police force.
When the cloud ambassador attempted to kidnap Hinata Naruto had killed the guy with an earth spike through the chest.
when it was time to pick his classes he chose strategy, stealth, kenjutsu, basic ninjutsu, basic fuinjutsu, intermediate genjutsu, and trap making.
When he got home he went straight to his room, dressed in a black pair of pants, a black shirt with a red furred fox head on the back and a dark purple number nine on the front over where his heart is, and a pair of black boots. For accessories he had the first hokages necklace on around his neck and a pair of purple arm bracers on his forearm.
Naruto grabbed his katana and strapped it to his waist before he shunshined out and to the academy where he met up with his friends.
The first of them to speak was Sasuke (all black clothes with the Uchiha symbol on his back and a tanto over it) who was smirking. "You made it on time, glad to see that Kakashi hasn't influenced you too much."
Naruto chuckled. "Not yet but he's promised to train me during the weekends so he may just make me lazy one of these days."
Hinata (dark blue battle kimono and ninja sandals) rolled her pale lavender eyes. "Boys, let's hurry up or we'll be late for our classes."
Both Ino (all purple clothes) and Sakura (red t-shirt, black pants, and dark blue ninja sandals) agreed. "Yeah, let's go." said the two girls at the same time.
As the group of five walked into the academy both Naruto and Sasuke shivered. 'That is just way too damn creepy.' Thought the two boys.
XXXAN: sup guys and gals, here is chapter 2 for your enjoyment.As i know you guys will want to know here is the groups schedulesNaruto: trap making, genjutsu, fuinjutsu, kenjutsu, strategy, stealth, and ninjutsuSasuke: genjutsu, ninjutsu, stealth, kenjutsu, bojutsu, fuinjutsu, and archeryHinata: medical ninjutsu, stealth, strategy, bojutsu, taijutsu, trap making, and ninjutsuIno: Ninjutsu, stealth, trap making, medical ninjutsu, taijutsu, fuinjutsu, and genjutsuSakura: taijutsu, medical ninjutsu, genjutsu, bojutsu, stealth, anatomy, and ninjutsutheir ranks in the academy are as follows.1: Naruto (rookie of the year for the last four years)2: Sasuke3: Hinata4: Ino5: SakuraNow some of you may not have noticed but i have made Sasuke, Sakura, Ino, and Hinata Naruto's mostly silent companions in the way of that they don't bring up his father, they provide him a sense of normalcy that is impossible in his own home.anyway as always MCL homies