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Chapter 2 - A new Rookie

Silence. Nothing but silence filled the room as the young blond entered.

"Please take a seat Naruto." said Iruka with a smile as he gestured his arms to the rows of seats. Naruto gave a nod then looked to the class. The stares he was receiving was weird and new to him. Almost all the girls had a pink streak going across their cheeks and most of the boys were just bug eyed. Only one boy wasn't looking. He had raven hair and was just staring out the window. Then Naruto looked to the left of him and saw a pink haired girl looking down at her paper, he guessed trying to avoid eye contact with him as she too had a shade of pink going across her face. 'What is with these weirdos?' thought the ever so clueless Naruto. He walked up the stairs, ignoring the 'eeps' from the girls as he walked by them, into a empty row in the back left corner of the room, two rows behind the raven haired boy.

"Well then, now that our class is all here, how about we start today's lesson?" said Iruka while the class groaned. Iruka started re-teaching the basics, what tools that ninja used, taijutsu, ninjutsu, and genjutsu differences and so forth. Naruto seemed to tone Iruka out right after he started the lesson. All he cared about was getting through these stupid few days that he had with this academy and get out of here for more training with the pervy-sage. Naruto sighed, and then began to stare out the window just like the raven haired boy. 'Hehe, i see why he does this... gets your head away from this stupid place.' he thought.

"Naruto! Sasuke! Were you paying attention to this lesson?" asked Iruka while glaring at both of the boys.

"I really don't care..." said both the boys at the same time, in the same calm tone. They both glanced at each other, and then turned a differnt direction while mumbling a 'Hm'.

'Looks like Sasuke finally found someone like him.' thought Iruka. He looked at the time, "Well class, it's time for lunch. Be back here on time, because today we will be reviewing your Taijutsu techniques before your final test in a few days. Dismissed." he said as the students began to leave the classroom. The girls began to gossip right after Iruka dismissed the class. Of course the topic was the new blond boy and Sasuke. Naruto didn't really care, he wasn't hungry. He just watched as the last student left the room, who happened to be Sasuke. Iruka turned back to look at the rows before leaving the room. He noticed that Naruto was still there. "Say Naruto. Why aren't you with the other students at lunch." asked Iruka, while erasing the chalkboard.

"I'm not hungry." he said flatly.

"I see, but maybe you could get to know the other students a little better. You know, make some friends here before you graduate. After all, when you graduate, you're going to be put on a team with students in this classroom."

Naruto flinched a bit, but nodded as he left the room, hands in his pockets. "Oh, and Naruto, try to make friends not enemies." Iruka said with a smile.

Naruto groaned a bit and exited the hallways and onto the playground, he noticed almost everyone was glancing his way. He wasn't nervous like he was two years ago, in fact, he was a bit bored of this place already. 'Why can't they just give me the test so I can get out of here?' he mentally whined. Then a blond haired girl with teal eyes brought him out of his thoughts.

"Hi there! I'm Ino Yamanaka. What was your name again?" she said enthusiastically while Naruto twitched a bit at her yelling. 'Why do girls have to be so damn loud…' he thought.

"Naruto Nami…" he sighed "Naruto Uzumaki." He corrected himself.

"Nice to meet you. Want to come eat with me and my friends for lunch?" she asked, never stopping her smile.

"Hell no…" he whispered, more to himself. Then he remembered what Iruka said to be nice.

"Huh?" she asked.

"I mean err… sure." he replied as he put on a fake smile, while his eye twitched, obviously annoyed.

Ino led the way to a small bench where there was a brunette and a pink haired girl. 'Wait a minute. That must be that girl I saw sitting alone.' Naruto thought as he sat down next to the brunette, but he really could care less about her. 'I wonder if her hair is naturally pink. Hmm… that's a bit weird.' he thought, paying no attention to the brunette introducing herself. He looked at the brunette and just replied again by saying "Naruto." hoping that she was asking for his name. Then, Naruto returned his gaze back to the pink haired girl. Her emerald eyes met his sapphire blue for a second, but she quickly looked down with a blush on her cheeks. "What's your name?" he asked.

"S-Sakura Haruno…" she replied, never looking up.

When she did look up, she saw him sticking his hand out over the table, "Naruto" he said, waiting for a hand shake from the young pink haired girl. She nervously took his hand.

'Geeze, what is with these girls… they act like they have never talked to a guy before…' he inwardly frowned.

Their conversations were rather boring to Naruto, they were surprised that Naruto has been out of the village, since none of them have ever been out. All the girls knew was the life of the village, and to be honest, it was a life they didn't want. Then a question came up that the Sakura has been avoiding all of her time in the academy.

"So, why did you guys want to become Ninja?" asked a curious Naruto.

"Well, I want to become the greatest Kunoichi ever, and protect my village." said Ino with confidence. "The other reason I became a ninja," she blushed "I can't really tell you that, it's a girl thing." she then gave a small glance to Sakura, who understood perfectly what she was talking about.

'Girl thing?' Naruto thought, then sighed deeply remembering them staring at him and that raven haired boy. 'girls…'

Then Naruto looked at the Sakura, "What about you?" he asked.
"Okay class gather around!" shouted Iruka a few yards away. Sakura gave a sigh of relief, 'At least I won't have to lie to him this early on.'

Naruto began walking to Iruka, the girls not far behind. "Okay class, today we will be reviewing your Taijutsu." the class groaned. "Yep, that means you're all going to be sparring with me one on one. But first, we will do a warm up of performing the clone Jutsu. Okay so how about first up we have… Sasuke Uchiha."

The girls of the class cheered loudly, much to Naruto's Annoyance. Sasuke pushed through the crowds, "Hn, The clone jutsu? Child's play." He mumbled before disappearing in a puff of smoke. After the smoke cleared, two identical Sasuke's were in his place.

"Wow! I can't even tell which one is the real one!" Ino shouted in a fan girl tone.

"It's kind of obvious…" Naruto said, getting a lot of the crowd's attention.

"Really now?" said one of the Sasuke's "Why don't you come and find out?" the other one challenged.

"Hehe. Are you challenging me? Why don't you come out of the tree first?" Naruto said with a smirk.

The Sasuke's on the ground frowned, and then both of them disappeared in another cloud of smoke. To say the rest of the students were shocked was an understatement. Sasuke then hopped down from the tree a few feet away, before flashing a glare at the blond then started walking behind the other students.

Iruka decided to cut the tension by saying other names to perform the clone jutsu. All of the students passed, including Naruto.

"Okay, the rules are you have to land a solid punch on me within two minutes. Let's see… first up, Naruto Uzumaki." Iruka called out. Naruto walked over to the middle of the field where Iruka was. He had his hands in his pockets, never bothering to get into a fighting stance. Iruka got into his own Taijutsu stance and said, "Begin!"

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