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TheRokudiameHokage

The New Sensei and The Old Friend?

It was still early in the morning when a certain little blonde, although not so little anymore, made his way down the hall. Almost automatically making his way to the kitchen and then into small adjoining dining room. Naruto sat down without realizing his father was watching every step he took with curious yet worried eyes. Naruto rubbed the sleep from his eyes before finally looking around. He looked into the kitchen and saw his father watching him with a plate and a dishrag. Minato turned around placed the rag and dish on the counter and walked into the dining room. Naruto smiled up at his father as he ruffled his hair.

"Naruto, you're up early," Minato said as he kneeled down so that he was at the same level as his son.

Naruto's only reply was a slight nod.

"Are you okay?" Minato asked very concerned.

Naruto nodded again.

"You sure?" Minato eyed his curiously.

Naruto only shrugged.

"That's not very reassuring," Minato gave him a weak laugh, "Couldn't sleep?"

Naruto shook his head.

"Oh, I see," Minato nodded, "Why couldn't you sleep?"

Naruto shrugged again.

Just when I thought Naruto was starting to open up to me, something like this happens and I have to start all over again.

Minato sighed, "Was it a nightmare?"

Naruto looked down and nodded.

"About last night?" Minato asked again.

Naruto nodded again.

Minato sighed. He pulled Naruto into him and held him tight, "I'm so sorry, Naruto. I haven't been a very good father. I haven't been able to protect you. If Kushina was here, then…"

"Stop, tou-san," Naruto whispered and gently pushed his father away.

"What?" Minato responded.

"Its not your fault, tou-san," Naruto shook his head, "You've been the best dad. I think that if anyone else were my dad, they would hate me for being the Jinchuuriki. But you, you love me for me! And I know mom would too!"

"Oh, Naruto," Minato smiled at Naruto and pulled him into another hug.

Maybe I was wrong. Maybe this won't affect Naruto as much as I thought it would.

"And besides, what doesn't kill me, only makes me stronger," Naruto whispered.

"Who told you that?" Minato pulled back to look at Naruto.

"Hachi!" Naruto smiled.

"Oh he did?" Minato laughed.

Naruto nodded.

I'll wait to ask Naruto what happened last night. He's got a long day and I don't want to ruin his first day as a shinobi.

"Tou-san? What's for breakfast?" Naruto asked.

"I don't know. What would like?" Minato smiled.

"Um," Naruto thought for a moment, "Tamago kake gohan and Mom's Ramen!"

Minato laughed, "Well aren't we hungry this morning!"

Naruto nodded.

Minato stood up and held his hand out for his son to take and Naruto did. The two men headed to the kitchen and started their routine for the day.

"Okay," Iruka started as everyone had taken their seats in the classroom for the last time, "You will be separated into groups of three. The group will be lead by a Jonin."

Naruto was listening to Iruka talk about the duties of a genin, while unknowing that most of the other genin were watching Naruto. Whispering about his lineage and the secrets he kept from them.

"Alright, lets start with groups," Iruka smiled.

"I wonder who is going to be with Naruto," Ino whispered to Sakura.

"I don't know, but it would be pretty cool to be on the same team as the last Uchiha or the 4th's son," Sakura smiled.

"Yeah it would," Ino replied leaning down on her elbows.

"Hn, I pity the guy who is with you," Shikamaru huffed.

"And Team seven is Uzumaki Naruto, Hanuro Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke," Iruka said.

"Really? I'm on the same team as Naruto and Sasuke?" Sakura blinked.

"Lucky," Ino rolled her eyes.

"Team eight, Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino and Hyuuga Hinata," Iruka continued.

I'm not on the same team with Naruto… Hinata thought to herself.

"Team ten is Nara Shikamaru, Yamanaka Ino, and Akimichi Choji," Iruka finished up, "You will meet you Jonin leaders this afternoon, until then you are on break."

"Oi! Naruto!" a voice called from behind.

Naruto was walking a familiar path to his father's office. His hands were shoved in his pockets and his head was hanging. When he heard the voice, Naruto stopped in his tracks and turned around to find Shikamaru, Choji and several others standing in a group. They seemed to be following him.

"Yea?" Naruto replied without fully turning around.

"Where are you heading?" Choji asked munching on a bag of potato chip.

"Uh…" Naruto mumbled, "Tou-san's office. I didn't bring lunch."

"Your dad? You mean the 4th?" Ino asked.

"Uh, yeah," Naruto nodded as he turned around to face the group.

"How come you never told us that the Hokage was your dad?" Sakura asked.

Naruto only shrugged in response.

"You have to have a reason," Shikamaru pushed.

"I do, but that doesn't mean I have to share that reason with you," Naruto argued.

"That's true," Shikamaru nodded, "But I think we are going to push until you do."

"Fine, the reason I didn't tell anyone is because I didn't want to be treated like some celebrity just because of my lineage. I wanted to be a normal kid," Naruto explained.

But I guess my plan backfired. I wasn't treated normally. I was treated horribly. If those Shinobi knew who I was, then I wouldn't have been treated to badly. Hindsight is always 20/20 I guess.

"Makes sense," Shikamaru shrugged.

"Do you know who our sensei is going to be?" Sakura asked.

"No, I don't. Tou-san doesn't share information with me," Naruto shook his head.

"So why did make everyone think you were stupid?" Kiba snorted.

"Because there are several smart people in my class. If a kid like me were determined to be a genius then they would have put two and two together. My looks plus my grades, someone would have figure out my link to the Hokage," Naruto explained.

He really is a lot smarter than we thought Shikamaru thought to himself.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I would like to eat and normally Tou-san will buy me food," Naruto said as he turned around and waved to the group.

Naruto started to walk away from the group, and silently thanked for the silence until he heard some feet running up to him. Naruto sighed heavily and looked over to see who it was that followed him. The blonde was surprised to see the dark hair and blue clothes.

Uchiha Sasuke?

Naruto gave the raven a confused look and it was returned with a "leave it alone" look. Naruto rolled his eyes and made his way to his father's office. The pair walked in silence as they headed towards the Hokage tower. Naruto was tempted to ask the Uchiha why he was tagging along but decided to drop it seeing how, Sasuke didn't really have a family any more, and Naruto really didn't mind. They walked up the stairs, down the hallways and pass the secretary to the Hokage's office.

"Tou-san?" Naruto called as he walked through the door.

"Oh, Naruto," Minato blinked as he looked away from all the paper on his desk.

The office was empty except for basics. Minato was sitting at the large oak desk that sat in the center of the room facing away from the wall of windows that over looked the village. There was a pile after pile of paper on the desk. Minato put the pen down and sat up. He then noticed that Naruto wasn't alone.

"I thought you were at the academy," Minato asked.

"I was but we have an hour break and I didn't bring lunch… again," Naruto explained.

"Oh and you brought Sasuke with you?" Minato motioned towards the raven standing by the door.

Naruto shrugged, "He tagged along."

"You know who I am, Hokage-sama?" Sasuke asked.

Minato chuckled lightly, "Of course. I know almost everyone in the village."

"Oh," Sasuke replied.

"Tou-san, can we go get lunch?" Naruto asked

"Naruto, I am swamped with paper work. I can't get lunch right now," Minato sighed, "I can give you money, then you and Sasuke can go get some Ramen."

"I guess that's fine," Naruto shrugged.

"Ok," Minato nodded.

Naruto strolled over and received the money from his father then started heading out the door.

"Oh! Tou-san," Naruto asked, "Who is my sensei?"

Minato laughed, "It's a surprise."

"Dang," Naruto pouted, then headed to one of his favorite places.

The future rivals walked silently side by side until they reached the ramen stand. They each sat down on one of the stools, not next to each other of course, placed their orders and waiting in silence to receive their lunch. It was strange for both boys to eat with another classmate. They both had been alone for some times during their time in the academy, that they didn't know how to act exactly. So they remain silent. When their food arrived, they considered it a good excuse to remain quiet. Of course Naruto finished his first, and waited on the raven to finish as well.

"So, why did you tag along?" Naruto asked almost scaring everyone.

"Uh, if I didn't I would have been mobbed by fan girls," Sasuke shrugged.

"Oh," Naruto replied.

"Your dad seems pretty nice," Sasuke mumbled.

"Yeah, he is," Naruto, agreed, "We better head back to the academy. We don't want to be late to meet our sensei."

"Hn," Sasuke huffed.

Naruto paid for their food and stuffed the change in his pocket. The pair walked silently back to the academy. The rest of the class was already in the classroom, gossiping, talking, and the like when Naruto and Sasuke walked in. Iruka followed shortly afterwards and told everyone to take their seats. Iruka explained that each Jonin would come in and pick up their team, after that the genin were instructed to follow their sensei's orders. Each Jonin came and left with their team, leaving Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura waiting for theirs.

"He's late," Naruto mumbled.

"Hn," was Sasuke's only reply.

"I wonder why," Sakura thought aloud.

After two hours of waiting, the three genin starting getting restless. Naruto started pacing. Sakura watched Naruto walk back and forth while Sasuke had fallen asleep. Then suddenly, scaring the three, the door opened and a head popped in. Gravity defying silver hair, a dark blue mask and only one eye visible was the first thing the genin saw.

"Follow me," the Jonin instructed.

The genin did as they were told and followed the tall Jonin up the stairs to the roof of the academy. The silver haired man instructed the three to sit on the small steps as he leaned against the railing.

"Alright, lets introduce ourselves," the Jonin said.

The three younger sat there for a moment before the older man got the notion that he should start, but hesitated to see what those three would do. He had their files, so he knew what he needed to know about each one. Although, judging their skills versus their personalities was definitely different. He knew the blonde extremely well, based on their past experiences, and he knew Sasuke from the psychological analysis that was done on him after the Uchiha Massacre, but the pink haired girl her knew nothing about, besides that he personality…

"Sensei?" the Rosetta raised her hand.

"Yes?" the Jonin replied jumping him from his thoughts.

"Would we get to know something about you first?"

"Uh, oh yes," the man nodded, "My name is Hatake Kakashi. I have no desire to tell you my likes or dislikes, and as for my dream for the future… hmm."

Kakashi looked at each of the genin's face. It look like he was going to have to drag it out of the, "You. Blondie. Introduce your self."

Naruto looked at the man with a curious expression. It was almost half surprise or what you would call the "dear-in-the-headlights" look mixed with confusion and suspicion, but the boy did as he was told, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen, especially ramen from Ichiraku's. I dislike school. My dream is to become better than any of the Hokages!"

"Ok, next," Kakashi nodded.

"My name is Hanuro Sakura. I like reading and training. I dislike…. Hmm, my dream is to become the best kunoichi in the village!" the pink haired girl said.

Kakashi nodded.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I don't have many likes and several dislikes. My dream, or ambition rather is kill a certain man and resurrect my clan," Sasuke said with a serious face.

"Good, now that we have all introduced our selves, we can move on," Kakashi said pretty much ignoring the introductions, "tomorrow we will start your duties as shinobi."

"What are we going to do, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi- i…. I could get used to that…

"We are going to be completing a survival exercise," Kakashi said bluntly.

"But we did plenty of those in academy," Sakura said with a slightly confused tone.

"I know," Kakashi shrugged, "But this time, I am going to be your opponent."

"You? A Jonin with a presumably high rank, versus three recently promoted genin? That hardly seems fair," Naruto complained.

Kakashi just shrugged in response then pushed off the rail he was leaning against, "Meet me at training field seven at six am tomorrow. Here are the details," he said handing them each a piece of paper, "oh and don't eat breakfast, or you'll throw up."

Each of them nodded, before the silver hair Jonin disappeared in a puff of smoke.

The three genin sat in silence for what seemed like an eternity.

"What now?" Naruto suddenly said to no one in particular.

"I don't know," Sakura replied, "We could go train?"

"I'm going to head home," Sasuke said as he stood up, "I'll see you three in the morning."

"I'm going to head home too," Naruto said as he followed suit, "See ya, Sakura."

"Bye guys," Sakura waved to the two boys and headed home as well.

"Tou-san?" Naruto said as he opened the door to his father's office.

Minato looked up from his desk and found his son standing half way through the door of his office. The older blonde smiled and waved the young genin in. Naruto stepped in and clicked the door closed behind him, then stepped over to his father's desk.

"You wanted to see me after school today?" Naruto asked.

"Yes, I wanted to talk to you about what happened last night," Minato explained waving Naruto around the back of the desk.

"But did Ibiki already look through my memories?" Naruto ask puzzled.

"He did, but there were some missing," Minato continued as he leaned his elbows on his knees so he was more at Naruto's level, "So I wanted to ask you, plus I wanted to be sure that you were okay."

"I'm fine, tou-san," Naruto replied.

"Well, good," Minato chuckled, "So do you want to explain what happened last night?"

"I'll try to," Naruto shrugged.

Minato nodded, "Go on."

"Well, Mizuki attack me just after you left me last night. He had mom's scroll. I don't know how he got it. He told me that I needed to retrieve the scroll and he would trade me. I didn't want to give him the scroll. I knew you would be mad and it would end up bad, but he had mom's scroll," Naruto explained and his voice started to break as he continued, "So, I thought of a plain where I learn the Kage Bunshin from the scroll and make a fake. I sent the fake to field were I knew no one would find it. Then I deceived Mizuki with the fake, then…"

"Then what happened Naruto?" Minato pushed starting to get slightly worried.

"I'm not sure," Naruto shook his head, then grabbed one side with his hand, "It's kind of hazy."

"Try, please," Minato said.

"I think I made a thousand or so shadow clones, but not with my chakra," Naruto tried to explain, "It's like this red chakra, almost like it was from my anger at Mizuki."

The Kyuubi…

"I ordered the clones to attack Mizuki," Naruto continued, "Then I dispersed them and everything went back to normal, but during the whole time, it felt like I had the red aura around me."

"I see," Minato nodded.

That's why Ibiki couldn't see it; the Kyuubi was preventing it… but why? Why did the Kyuubi lent Naruto chakra? Why did the Kyuubi prevent Ibiki from see Naruto's memories? Something's not adding up…

"Tou-san?" Naruto asked shaking Minato from his thoughts, "Why are my memories so hazy? What's that red chakra? And that red aura?"

"Naruto," Minato started, "I think it was the Kyuubi."

"The Kyuubi?" Naruto repeated, "Why would I use the Kyuubi's chakra?"

"Well, the seal I created to seal the Kyuubi into you, allows you to draw on the Kyuubi's chakra, but if he doesn't want you using it, you can't," Minato explained.

"So he let me use it?" Naruto asked.

"That's what I assumed happened, " Minato replied, "But Naruto, using that chakra can come at a price."

"A price?"

Minato nodded, "A jinchuuriki can tap into the tailed beast's chakra for his or her own power; however, using such chakra can be harmful to the jinchuuriki, with the host's body and mind being influenced or even taken over by his or her demon."

"Oh, so the Kyuubi can take over my mind and body if I use too much chakra?" Naruto asked.

"Yes," Minato nodded.

"Did mom ever have problems with the Kyuubi's chakra?" Naruto asked after a moment of silence.

"Not too many that I could recall, but there were a few missions we went on where I could tell that she drew on the Kyuubi's chakra but her seal, if I remember correctly, didn't let her draw on the chakra as much as yours does," Minato explained, "But Naruto, don't think too much about it. You are strong enough to handle the Kyuubi, if you weren't I wouldn't have sealed him into you."

"I know, tou-san!" Naruto smiled.

"Good," Minato reached up and ruffled Naruto's hair.

"Tou-san, I have one more question," Naruto looked up at his father from underneath his hand.

"What is it?" Minato blinked at the other blonde.

"What's Hachi's real name?" Naruto asked.

"Shouldn't you be asking me that?" A voice came from the window behind Naruto.

Naruto turned around and looked at the man standing in the window, "Hachi!"

Minato started chuckling behind his son, as Naruto confronted the ANBU still sitting in the window. Naruto turned around to see why his father was laughing, but turned back around.

"Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto questioned.

The ANBU laughed slightly then his hand moved towards his mask. He removed it to reveal the slightly tilted Hitai-ate and a blue mask distorting the lower half of the man's face.

"You are Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto exclaimed, then turned to his father, "Why did you make Hachi my sensei, tou-san?"

Minato chuckled lightly, "He's one of the only qualified people I trusted."

"Oh," Naruto replied then walked over to where Kakashi was still perched on the window. Naruto motioned for him to come down to his height. Kakashi stepped down from the window and crouched down in front of the blonde.

"What is…" Kakashi started but before he could finish his sentence, a fist had collided with his face.

"Naruto!" Minato shouted jumping up from his chair.

"Ugh…" Kakashi moaned as he grabbed his face.

"Where the HELL were YOU!" Naruto yelled, "If YOU had been THERE, the whole thing with Mizuki would HAVE NEVER HAPPENED!"

"Ugh, I'm sorry, Naruto," Kakashi murmured as he looked up into those blue eyes that were becoming misty, "I know I wasn't there to protect you, because I was deceive as well by Mizuki. It's not an excuse. I regret not being able to protect you, I really do. I have beat myself up about it. And you are right, if I had been there, nothing would have happened. All I want is to protect and now to be able to teach you the ways of a shinobi. I am really sorry. Please forgive me, Naruto."

"It's okay, Hachi," Naruto whispered, "I forgive you. I was just angry about it, because I didn't know where you were or if you had just abandoned me like all the others. I'm sorry for punching you."

Kakashi placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder, "It's alright. Its in the past and know that I will never abandon you, ever."

Naruto only nodded in response.

"I will teach you to the best of my ability, along with Sasuke and Sakura. I will protect you three with my live, know that," Kakashi said.

"I will, thank you Hachi," Naruto smiled.

"Ehm, you don't get to call me that," Kakashi said.

"What?" Naruto replied a little hurt.

"It's Kakashi-sensei to you," Kakashi replied.

"Aww…." Naruto pouted.

Minato sat and watch his son and his student through out this discussion. It made him feel like he was a decent father, seeing how much Naruto matured. It brought joy to his heart knowing that Kakashi seemed to love Naruto like a little brother. It was almost like he had two sons. Naruto looked up to Kakashi and now that he was Naruto's sensei, the little blonde would be in good hands.