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In amidst of the Fire Country sat a fairly large hidden village known as Konoha. Digging deeper into Konoha, a young boy of 12 lived in a small apartment. This young boy was known as Uzumaki Naruto. The boy sat at the table in his small one room apartment, quietly devouring his favorite food, ramen. He was dressed in a deep black t-shirt with a light red spiral printed upon the front, the mark of the Uzumaki clan. His pants also consisted of a deep black color, all in attempted to blend into the background. Sadly this was ill effort, since the black coloring of his clothes seemed to make his blue eyes and golden hair pop out. Another feature that seemed to attract attention was three scar-like whiskers upon both his cheeks.

He stood from the table, ignoring the mess around the room, slipped on his dark blue sandals and left his dingy apartment. He made an effort to keep his footsteps silent and his head facing straight ahead. He found out a long time ago, that less people noticed him when he kept his head up and it kept him from running into people. Still this did not mean he went unnoticed. He was determined to ignore the whispered curt remarks from the villagers around him as he made his way to the Ninja Academy.

-

He slipped into the classroom filled with his peers and sat quietly in the back of the half-circled placed desks, which faced frontward towards a single sensei in the front of the room, each desk sat three students. Naruto had sat himself between two boys, Nara Shikamaru and Aburame Shino. Naruto had placed himself there on purpose, for both boys rarely ever spoke to him. Shikamaru preferred to sleep through classes and Shino never seemed to speak unless spoken to. Naruto swiftly refocus on the single sensei, Umino Iruka, as he called order to the classroom.

“Good morning class, today is the day for the final exams to become Genin. To graduate from the academy the required jutsu to perform is the Bunshin no Jutsu. Listen carefully for your name to be called and enter the room next door.” Iruka then called the first student and walked out with them. Naruto slumped in his chair, the Bunshin no Jutsu, was his worse jutsu. He did a quick scan of the room, seeing that no one else was visibly worried about the upcoming exam. So he put on a neutral face on and tried to think of ways to pass the exam.

Slowly one by one, each student was called into the exam. Naruto very deep in thought almost missed his name being called. He promptly and soundlessly left the classroom and entered the exam room. The room was emptied of all desks but one two seater desk, where both Iruka and another sensei, Mizuki sat. In front of them upon the desk, were the blue forehead protectors with the mark of Konoha upon them. Naruto hesitantly walked in front of the desk and looked towards sanseis. Iruka smiled encouragingly at the boy while Mizuki kept neutral friendly face upon the boy. Naruto quickly put on a falsely determined face and molded some of his charka and performed the seals required for the jutsu.

A puff smoke appeared next to Naruto and all three of them had different reactions to the sickly cloned Naruto that appeared on the floor unable to even sit up. Iruka had a disappointed frown while Mizuki showed no outward reaction to the failure of the jutsu. Naruto immediately looked down at his feet and blushed, ‘I failed’.

“Fail.” Iruka spoke with clarity. Then to both Naruto and Iruka shock, Mizuki spoke up,

“We could pass him, he did create a clone.” Naruto looked up with hopefulness.

“No way Mizuki! Everyone else created two clones while Naruto only created one clone on top of that, a useless one. I cannot let him pass.” Naruto looked back down at his shoes and clenched his teeth in anger. Of course, they wouldn’t let him pass.

Without looking back up, he immediately left the room, and went outside the school building. He almost ran into peers of his standing in front of the door, all chatting cheerfully with their parents. Naruto, knowing that it be bluntly obvious that he didn’t pass, kept his head down and walked passed the grounds towards a tree a few feet away from the crowd. Two ropes were tied to a huge branch of the tree; the two ropes were then attached to a wooden board making it into a makeshift swing. Naruto quietly sat down on the swing, gloomily looking out at the crowd of his peers and their parents. He could clearly hear a few of the parents, one man spoke loudly to his son about the wonderful job the boy had done. There were two more voices that belong to women that Naruto could also hear. They were quieter, but still very loud to him.

“Hey it’s that kid…” spoke one woman.

“Yeah him... I heard he’s the only one to fail” the other woman sneered.

“I am glad; he shouldn’t become a shinobi, since he-”

“Shh! We’re not supposed to talk about that!!!”

The women quieted down after that, and Naruto clasped his fists around the ropes of the swing, ‘Why do they hate me?’ he thought miserably and fled the daunting scene in front of him. He didn’t notice the Hokage speaking to Iruka nor a shadow following him.

‘What’s so wrong about me? I‘ve never hurt anyone! If I could just become a ninja, I could get the village to finally recognize me for who I am! I am not a demon, I am not!’ Naruto thought angrily rubbing his eyes to hide the tears, ‘But I can’t even perform- no I can’t think like that! I just have to keep practicing!’

“Naruto.” Naruto jumped and looked behind him to see Mizuki. The man’s long white-silver hair blew lightly in the gentle wind, and his green eyes set in concern for the young boy. The man was dressed in the normal ninja clothes; a green vest that was zipped up with an orange spiral, which looked a lot like the Uzumaki family crest, on the back of it. Underneath the vest was a deep black long sleeve shirt marked on both shoulder blades with the same symbol and below that was pants of the same color. He also had white bandages wrapped around his ankles and feet where his pants did not cover and wore black sandals upon his feet. And on top of his head was one of the blue forehead protectors, though the one Mizuki wore covered half his hair.

“M-mizuki-sensei?” Naruto stuttered out with a rough voice, he cleared his voice and continued with a faint stutter, “C-can I help you?”

Mizuki smiled gently, “I actually wanted to talk to you, Naruto. How about you follow me?” Naruto frown slightly, but saw no harm in talking with his teacher and nodded.

In a short form, both teacher and student were sat on a balcony that looked out upon the large village. Naruto listened quietly, staring at the mountains and forests that surrounded the community, listening to Mizuki explain how Iruka functioned.

“You see Naruto, because he lost his parents at such a young age and had to take care of himself; Iruka-sensei has become quite the serious person.”

Naruto looked down at the village below and frowned, “It’s like he only picks on me…” he whispered pitifully. Naruto thought back to the women in front of the Academy, ‘maybe Iruka-sensei also thinks like that’.

“Maybe that’s because he sees a lot of himself in you and doesn’t want you to take shortcuts to become strong.” Naruto looked up at Mizuki, ‘Really?’

“You should try seeing it from Iruka-sensei’s point of view Naruto.” Naruto looked back downcast towards the village, watching the people going about their business seemingly without a worry in the world.

“I just… just wish I could have graduated this time…” He said softly, causing Mizuki to lean in a bit to hear.

“I might be able to help Naruto. Listen carefully alright? This is a secret!”

-

Naruto stood breathing rapidly, covered in dirt marks and bruises. He was in a forest clearing outside of his village. He had been practicing from a scroll, and not just any scroll, one had he stolen from the Hokage’s house. Normally, he wouldn’t do such thing; he had quite the respect for the Hokage after all. He wanted to be Hokage someday! But Mizuki had explained to him that the best way to pass the graduation exam and become Genin was by learning a jutsu from this scroll. He had almost gotten caught too! By the Hokage himself! Luckily, he had already gotten the scroll and was able to hightail it out of there.

Sadly this also meant he didn’t have enough time to practice all the jutsu on the scroll. So Naruto naturally decided to start with the first jutsu, which unfortunately was the one jutsu he was terrible with, the Kage Bunshin No Jutsu. ‘Of course it’s a clone jutsu… but I can’t give up! I have to learn this jutsu and become a ninja!’

So here, he stood, rapidly panting. He had been successful in performing the jutsu several times! He fell backwards and sat on the ground, he needed a short break. He was almost out of charka! It would be bad to suffer from charka exhaustion, with no one else around.

“I found you!”

Naruto stood up and quickly faced Iruka, who like Mizuki was dressed in the normal ninja clothes, though Iruka’s forehead protector did not cover half his hair, instead his long light brown hair was pulled back in a high ponytail. Most people though usually just saw the medium sized scar crossed Iruka’s nose before anything else. Naruto found it to be his most outstanding feature. Though currently, Naruto wasn’t wondering about how Iruka obtained the scar for once, instead he was focus upon Iruka’s black eyes. The man was currently very irritated.

The man frowned in confused looking Naruto once over, “What have you been doing out here Naruto?? Why are you all beat up?” His voice came out with small edge of annoyance and concern.

Naruto blushed, feeling as if he had done something wrong, surely not though. After all, he only did what Mizuki said. “I-I was only practicing this jutsu… b-but I only learned one thing before you c-caught me.” Naruto frowned at his stutter, he hated when he did that. He smiled afterwards though, “I-I learned the jutsu! S-so I can g-graduate!” Naruto then started to make the seals but Iruka stopped him.

“Naruto, how did you know about that scroll?”

“Um… M-mizuki-sensei t-told me about it and w-where I could practice too. He explained that i-if I could show one these jutsu on this scroll, I-I could pass.” Even though Naruto was stuttering, Iruka knew him while enough to know that he wasn’t lying and was shocked.

Before Iruka was able to completely understand what was going, several kunai suddenly flew towards them. Iruka acted instantly, pushing Naruto out of the way, causing the kunai to impale him to an old cabin that was in the forest clearing. “Nice job finding the idiot.” Naruto looked up to see Mizuki on top of branch of a tree. He frowned in confusion.

“I see…” Iruka grunted, and started pulling out kunai, that luckily had missed all vital points, from his body.

“Naruto, give me the scroll!” Naruto, still confused, did not react to the demand.

“Don’t listen Naruto!! Whatever happens, Mizuki must not get his hand on the scroll!! It’s a forbidden scroll; Mizuki only used you to get it!!”

“Don’t listen to him, Naruto. In fact, I’ll tell you the truth.”

“N-NO! DON’T!”

“It was 12 years ago…” As Naruto listened, his eyes widened in disbelief and horror. ‘I’m the nine tailed demon fox? M-me??’

“STOP IT!”

“YOU WERE THE ONE WHO KILLED IRUKA’S PARENTS AND DESTROYED THE VILLAGE!” Naruto dropped to his knees and tuned Mizuki out, ‘I killed his parents? I am the demon fox? Is that why…? I am a monster!!’ Suddenly red charka surrounded Naruto, his scar-like whiskers became more profound and his nails became sharper. The most petrifying new feature though was that his once darkish blue eyes were now a ruby red filled with hurt. “NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU!!” ‘Never love me?’

Suddenly Naruto was pushed to the ground causing all his new features to disappear, and Iruka was kneeling over him, covering him, sticking out of the man’s back was a large star shuriken. “W-why….?”

“My…” There was a long pause and then Iruka explained his own hardship without having parents, and suddenly tears rained down upon Naruto. Then Iruka continued in a tearful voice, “Naruto, you also must have been in a lot of pain! I am sorry, if I had done better, you wouldn’t feel this way!”

Naruto couldn’t stand the pain, and ran away. ‘Why me? Why did the Fourth put the demon in me?’ Naruto continued to run as fast as he could through the forest. He ran along several of the tree branches, ‘I have to get away, I-I can’t stay here!’ Naruto looked down and immediately took cover behind a tree. Iruka and Mizuki were in front of him, ‘I thought I got a head start! Damnit! I can’t let them see me!’

“You fool! Naruto and I are the same!” Naruto blinked at what Mizuki said and frowned in thought. “If one were to use the skills in that scroll, they would be able to do whatever they want! There’s no way the demon fox will pass up that opportunity!”

“You’re right, the demon fox wouldn’t.” Naruto’s eye narrowed in fury, ‘Of course, Iruka-sensei agrees. Everyone hates me, I am a demon! No one acknowledges me for me!’ “But Naruto isn’t the demon fox. He one of my amazing students! He may not be the brightest of them; he is way too quiet, clumsy and he known way too much pain in his life. But he’s not the demon fox. He’s a member of the hidden leaf village, Konoha. HE’S UZUMAKI NARUTO!” Naruto blink and tears rapidly flowed down his cheeks, ‘He… he acknowledged me!’

“Tch, whatever.” Mizuki replied. Naruto made a small growl when he heard Iruka get hurt. “Iruka, I was going to take care of you later. But I think I would rather you hurried up and died!” Mizuki pull out another large star shuriken, spinning it rapidly. Naruto appeared from behind the tree and immediately head-butted Mizuki in the face, preventing the man from finishing his attack.

“YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE DONE THAT!!!” Mizuki growled.

“Don’t touch Iruka-sensei!! I’LL KILL YOU!!!” Naruto remarked piercingly with fury in his voice.

“HAHA! You kill me? More like, I’ll kill you!”

“Naruto! Run away!!” Naruto ignored both of them and started making seals.

“You think you can kill me? THEN DO IT, DEMON!”

“Kage Bunshin no Jutsu” Naruto spoke calmly and suddenly hundreds of Narutos appeared in the Forest clearing.

“Wha-what is going on???” Mizuki dropped to the ground, surrounded by several clones of Naruto. Before he could regather his wits, Naruto and his many clones instantly started to pound Mizuki into the ground. Iruka, who was crouched by a tree, stared in amazement at the feat as several minutes later; Mizuki was bloody and out cold.

Naruto canceled the jutsu and stared down at Mizuki, ‘Might’ve have over done it…’

“Naruto...” Naruto looked over at Iruka with a blush. “There’s something I want to give you.” ‘Give me?’

-

Naruto greeted the next day with a satisfied cracking of his back, “I passed.” He gently touched the blue forehead protector that laid next to him, remembering what happened last night, Iruka let him pass! He a Genin! Naruto sprinted out of bed, advoiding a pile of clothes on the floor and several other items, and jumped to the small corner that contained his kitchen. He opened a cupboard that was filled with instant ramen and grabbed a cup. He then turned to his small refrigerator and grabbed the milk. It smelt bad, but he wasn’t concerned. After preparing and devouring the simple but filling meal, he changed out of his pale blue pajamas and his black nightcap. Today he decided to wear another black t-shirt, with no symbol, with a halfway zipped up light grey jacket over it with his clan symbol on the back. His pants were black like his t-shirt and his sandals followed that trend. On top of his head, he now wore his blue Konoha forehead protector.

He then set out towards the Academy, keeping to the normal routine of keeping his feet quiet and his head straight. Even though, he now wore the ninja symbol of Konoha, villagers still seemed to mistrust him. He could hear several of them questioning how that devil became a shinobi. ‘At least I now know why they hate me, though it doesn’t really lessen the pain of hearing their remarks…’ Naruto lightly shook his head, ‘I can’t let it get to me! I am going to be Hokage someday and they will all knowledge me for who I am!’

-

Today, Naruto was unable to sit where he usually sat. Frowning he decided to sit next to Uchiha Sasuke, another one of the quieter students in the classroom. He looked over at Sasuke as he sat down; the boy was dressed in a blue shirt with a white long sleeve shirt underneath it. He also wore grayish white long shorts that stopped at his knees. Just below his knees, he had white bandages wrapped around each leg that stopped shortly before his blue sandals. Sasuke didn’t look at Naruto as he sat down. He simply kept his hands folded in front of his face and kept his black eyes straight ahead.

Naruto looked away and frown slightly, he didn’t really like Sasuke. He was too arrogant in Naruto’s opinion. Plus-

“Sasuke-kun!!” A young pink-haired girl squeaked. Sasuke had the affections of Sakura, a girl that Naruto had a crush on. She was very attractive in Naruto’s own opinion, with her long pink hair and big green eyes. Naruto blushed lightly as she came over to the desk that he and Sasuke sat in. He noted that she was very pretty in her red qipao dress and tight dark green bike shorts. He also liked the way her hair was pulled back by her Konoha forehead protector. “NARUTO! MOVE YOUR ASS!! I WANT TO SIT NEXT TO SASUKE!” Naruto’s blush deepened and he quickly looked over at Sasuke, ‘why can’t she just sit next to me? What’s so appealing about stupid Sasuke?’ Sasuke had also looked over when he heard his name, at the same time Sakura had pushed Naruto so she could get closer to Sasuke. It had different result than she had wanted; instead Naruto was suddenly lip-locked with Sasuke.

Both boys reacted instantly, pulling away from one another, and gagging. Naruto froze in mid-gagging, when he felt a fist grab his shirt. Normally he would react to this and push the person off, but it was Sakura who had grabbed his shirt, and he didn’t want to hurt her. So he just let it happen, ‘Why does this stuff happen to me?’

Finally after a few punches, Sakura pushed him over to the side seat and placed herself in-between him and Sasuke. Naruto gently rubbed his cheek, ‘I honestly didn’t mean to kiss Sasuke… and it only happened because of her, so why did she beat me up?’ Though was Naruto was upset about getting punched, he didn’t feel his crush for Sakura leaving. He still liked her quite a bit. ‘She just got a bit of a temper, I guess. Everyone not perfect…’

“Everyone settle down and listen!” Iruka stated has he walked into the room, Naruto was instantly attentive along with everyone else. Expect for one girl, who been too loud to hear Iruka at first. “Hinata, settle down please.”

“Of course sensei, I am sorry.”

Iruka continued his lecture, “Today, all of you have become real shinobi... But you are only just Genin. It will be a long journey for all you to become amazing shinobi in your own right. Soon you all will get missions to help the village and it is my job today, to create three man teams for these missions. On top of there being three Genin to a team there will also be a Jounin sensei to help guide you all through your missions. Now listen carefully as I assign your three man cells!”

Naruto listened as Iruka went down the list, finally after several minutes, “Team Seven, Hanuro Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto, and Uchiha Sasuke.” Naruto deflated, while he was happy to be on the same team as Sakura, he knew that being on a team with her and Sasuke would suck. ‘What does she even see in him? He doesn’t even acknowledge her advances towards him! Why can’t she like someone like me?? I wouldn’t ignore her like him!’ Naruto blushed as daydreamed about Sakura flirting with him.

He stood up from the desk when Iruka finished the list and told everyone they would be introduced to their Jounin sensei’s this afternoon. He decided that all three members of team seven should eat together, “Um, S-sakura-chan, S-sasuke-” he stuttered out quietly, towards his now standing teammates, but then he paused. He was too quietly apparently, because none of them turned around, and both left the classroom without him. Naruto frowned, ‘Are they going to eat lunch together and without me? What kind a teamwork is that??’ Insulted, he turned and left the classroom and in short work was walking towards his apartment, he found that he had forgotten to pack a lunch. ‘I likely have enough time to get home, and make a cup of a ramen…’

“Naruto-kun!” Naruto turned and blinked as a girl ran up to him. It was Hinata. She was dressed in a cream hooded jacket, with a fire symbol on the shoulders, long with dark blue pants with her Konoha forehead protector looped around her neck. Her dark blue hair was short with only some strands of it touching her chin. As soon as she reached him, she took a huge breath, “You were going fast. I was wondering if you wanted to have lunch with me and my team? I saw that your team kind a left you and it be totally okay if you ate with us you know.” Naruto try to keep up as the girl rambled. He loved her eyes, they were interesting to him. He knew of the Byakugan and how the Hyuga clan possessed that blood-limit. It did a nice effect on her eyes, they were pupil less and wide, and very white. Kind a like the moon, and Naruto found it very endearing. Naruto, light shook his head to clear his thoughts, and then realized what Hinata would take from the action, so he quickly spoke.

“S-sure, Hinata.”

Hinata frowned, “What was that? You have to speak up!” She leaned closer to his face, “Do you not want to eat with us? Because that’s fine too, I suppose…”

Naruto’s blushed covered his entire face, he wasn’t use to people getting so close to his personal space, let alone a girl, “N-no, that’s not it. I-I meant that I would like to eat with y-you and you’re t-team!” He squeaked a bit at the end, and his blush deepened and he frowned at himself.

Hinata didn’t seem to notice though and simply laughed, loudly, “Alright, come on then, I packed a huge bento, so me and you can share. You can’t always eat ramen anyways. It’s not healthy!” Naruto resigned to having his blush primarily printed to his face, ‘Why does she have to be so straightforward?’

Naruto naturally followed her back to the academy; he noticed that they were heading to his favorite spot, the tree with the swing. He saw Shino leaning up against the tree, who was dressed in his normal outfit. This outfit consisted of a light grey colored jacket that hide his face up until his nose, where he had sunglasses that hide his eyes and above that sat his blue forehead protector that covered his forehead right before his dark bushy brown hair. He also wore light red shorts and blue sandals.

Naruto found him to be quite weird, since the boy always seemed to hide his eyes and always had bugs crawling all over him. Naruto didn’t mind bugs, and he understood that the Aburame clan used bugs as tool in battle, but still didn’t fancy eating with bugs crawling around his food. Naruto then turned to look over at the other boy standing nearby to Shino, who had a small white puppy sitting next to him. Naruto immediately knew him as Inuzuka Kiba and the small little puppy as Akamaru.

Kiba’s appearance was quite interesting to Naruto. This was because of the fang tattoos underneath each of his black eyes. The way he dressed was fascinating to Naruto also. With his grey jacket that had fur along the cuffs of it and along the hood, that Kiba had over his light brown hair. The hood’s fur was so spikey that it almost covered Kiba’s forehead protector. Naruto found it weird that Shino was put on a team with such loud members. ‘I wonder how that will work out…’

“Well let’s eat!” Kiba exclaimed, and Akamaru barked cheerfully in agreement. Kiba sat down with Akamaru, and pulled out his bento from his bag. Shino also sat down across from Kiba and pulled out his own bento. While Hinata tugged Naruto down and sat with him, making the group form a weird circle in front of his favorite tree. Hinata then pulled her much larger bento out of her bag and set it in-between her and Naruto. Everyone said a quick ‘itadakimasu’ and dug in.

“How come you aren’t eating with your team Naruto?” Kiba asked as he shared some of his rice with Akamaru.

“That’s because they are too self-centered! Seriously they just flat out left him to eat by themselves, some team!” Hinata huffed. Naruto frowned, he wanted to stick up for his team, but he didn’t know how.

“Man that sucks.” Kiba agreed. Naruto didn’t reply, and continued to eat his share of the bento. He was use to people talking for him and they were uses to him not always replying, though this time it did fill him with regret. ‘I really need to speak up more…’

Naruto tuned out the rest of the conversations when Kiba started to pester Shino about something trivial. He started to quietly pick at his food, pondering what he should do about his team. “Hey do you not like it or something?” Naruto, jumped slightly at the voice directed at him. He looked up to see Kiba still bugging Shino and turned to look at Hinata.

“I-it’s not that, I-I am just thinking is all. The food is g-great, r-really!! I-I like it!” Naruto blushed and continued to try and convince her. He hadn’t meant to make Hinata think the food was bad, after she generously offered to share!

“Ha, ha good! Because I made it myself! I enjoy cooking and was worried you wouldn’t like it, Naruto-kun.” Naruto frowned when he thought he saw a light blush form on her cheeks, but it was gone as soon as it appeared. So naturally assumed he imagined it. Hinata gave him a smile and went back to eating her share of the food.

Naruto, not wanting to cause any more confusion, finished his portion. He hadn’t lied either, the food was really good. ‘Hinata’s a good cook’ Naruto blushed slightly at the thought. He saw that both Shino and Kiba had finished theirs too, and next to him, Hinata had stood up after cleaning up the bento. “Well we better get going, we have to meet our sensei, and I am sure you have to meet yours too! Don’t want to be late!”

The rest of them also stood up, and Naruto stuttered out a thank you for the lunch and for letting him eat with them. They waved and walked away. Naruto turned and started to walk towards the meeting spot a little bit early. He frowned suddenly when his stomach started to hurt, and his eyes widened when he realized what was wrong. He immediately dashed to the nearest bathroom.

-

‘I can’t believe I am late! Stupid stomach!! I don’t really eating anything bad…’ Naruto ranted inwardly as he walked into a classroom that wasn’t unlike his previous classroom. As he walked in, he noticed Sasuke sitting in the desk right next to the door. Again he had his hands folded in front of his face, and he was staring straight ahead. Sakura was leaning against the desk next to Sasuke’s. Naruto nodded shyly at them both, and sat down in the desk behind Sakura’s. He knew that they made the perfect picture of terrible communication, yet he had no clue how to fix it.

After 30 minutes had passed, Naruto decided to lean his head down on his arms, Sakura was now sitting on top of her desk, and Sasuke didn’t seem to have moved an inch. But Naruto could feel the annoyance coming off the guy.

“This sucks, what’s taking sensei so long? I bet everyone else has already met their sensei and gone home!” Naruto silently agreed with Sakura, how can their sensei be this late??? On top of this, Naruto himself had been a good 20 minutes late! “It’s already been an hour by now!”

“T-they c-could be doing s-something important for the Hokage?” Naruto quietly suggested. Sakura jumped and looked back at him with a frown. ‘Had she forgotten that I was here??’ Insulted, he decided to not listen for a reply; Naruto placed his head back down on his hands. He imagined placing an eraser in the doorway as a trap for the late Jounin sensei, and quietly chuckled to himself, knowing it would never work.

After a few more minutes, the door to the classroom finally opened, and in came a man with sliver spikey hair and half his face covered with his forehead protector covering his left eye and a mask covering pretty much the rest of his face. In fact, the only part of his face they could see was his right black eye. Another difference was the man had finger less black gloves on, another than that he was dressed in the normal ninja outfit. All three of the recently graduated Genin reacted in their own special way towards their new Jounin sensei.

Sasuke’s reaction was to glare at the newcomer, who lost bit of his respect since the man had shown up an hour late. Naruto in his unsurprisingly quiet way simply sat up straight in his desk and observed the Jounin. He also shared the opinion of Sasuke and wasn’t very impressed by the man. Sakura show her disapproval more vocally.

“Why were you so late sensei?” She was expecting some along the lines of what Naruto had suggested earlier.

“Oh? I got lost on the road to life is all.” None of them seemed to know how to react to that statement, in fact, by the time the comment had made sense in their heads, the sensei was already moving. “Follow me…” the man stated dully and walked out of the classroom.

-

The mysterious sensei had led the three Genin to a rooftop not too far from the academy. All three of them had seated themselves on some steps that led to a greenhouse that was filled with large trees; while their new sensei leaned back against a railing on the edge of the building top. “Let’s begin by introducing yourselves.”

“Like what sensei?” Sakura questioned.

“Your likes, dislikes, dreams for the futures and stuff like that.” The man replied with a shrug.

“Could you introduce yourself first?”

“Me? Let’s see.. My name is Hatake Kakashi... I have no desire to tell you my likes or dislikes... dreams for the future... hmm... and I have lots of hobbies…” ‘All we got out of that was… his name?! What the hell?’ “Alright then! Let’s start with you on the right there.” Naruto paled, realizing he was the first to go. He was hopeful that maybe the other two could go first. Naruto stared down at his sandals in horror. ‘Too late now, I guess. I just have to tell them my likes, dislikes and dreams and hobbies. I-I can do this! Can I? I hate talking in front of so many people. No don’t think like that, just-’

“I’ll go first Kakashi-sensei.” Sakura spoke up, feeling bad for Naruto. Kakashi shrugged not caring who went first. Naruto immediately looked up at her, feeling grateful. He knew he still had to go but hopefully his nerves went down before then. “My name is Hanuro Sakura. What I like is... well the person I like is... um uh... my dream is for the future is… OH YEAH! What I really dislike is Yamanaka Ino! My hobby is… well that’s it!” Naruto frowned when he saw Sakura look at Sasuke several times through her introduction and went back to looking at his feet. ‘Why does she like him so much?’

Kakashi glanced at Sakura with some amusement on his face and nodded at Sasuke, “Next.”

“My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are several things I dislike and I don’t really like anything and… it’s not really a dream but an ambition to revive my clan and... To kill a certain man.” Naruto’s eyes widened at that and instantly looked back up towards Sasuke, ‘is he serious!?’

Sakura didn’t seem to see anything wrong with the claim, but when Naruto looked over at Kakashi, the man’s only showing eye was narrowed in thought. Clearly Naruto wasn’t the only one who saw that revenge was a dangerous path to take. ‘I wonder who Sasuke wants to kill? Surely not me? Of course not! I hadn’t meant to kiss him earlier and he barely looks at me, let alone wants to kill me!’

“Alright... lastly you.” Kakashi stated with boredom, easily brushing off what Sasuke had stated. Naruto looked around to see both his sensei and Sakura looking at him, while Sasuke continued to stare straight ahead; at least it looked that way. Naruto shifted his eyes to his shoes and quickly spoke with a quiet stutter.

“U-um, my n-name is-”

“Naruto... we can’t hear you very well...” Sakura interrupted awkwardly. Naruto blushed and started over bit louder, still looking at his feet.

“My name is U-uzumaki Naruto. S-something I like is ramen, and I-I dislike… uh... my dream is…. My dream is to become one of the best Hokages and then...” Naruto paused not able to continue on what his dream was, and blushing deeper when he realized he already admitted half of it.

Because of his head being bowed and his thoughts running wild, he did not notice the reactions of his teams. Kakashi seemed surprised, while both Sasuke and Sakura seem doubtful of his claim. None of them were sure that a shy boy like Naruto could become Hokage, let alone one of the bests.

“Ok!! Done with that fiasco. Continuing onwards, tomorrow we will begin our duties as shinobi.” Kakashi spoke, bring back everyone’s attention. “The first duty we will be carrying out will be survival training with just the four of us.” ‘Survival training?’ Naruto was working up to asking Kakashi why, when Sakura beat him to it.

“Why’s our first duty training? We already did all our training at the academy.”

“It’s not the usual training, this time I’m your opponent.” Kakashi explained cheerfully, and when he noticed all the bemused faces around him, he continued in the same tone. “You see, you guys are going to freak at this, this training is a very harsh exam. In fact, the failing rate of this exam is 66%! Only nine of the 27 graduates will continue on being Genin, the rest will be sent back to the academy.”

Naruto slumped back against the steps, ‘another exam? There’s no way! I barely passed the last one!’ He shook his head, trying to stay positive. ‘I’ll just have to show Kakashi-sensei everything I got! Yea! And he will recognize my strength!’ Naruto then refocused on Kakashi.

“…told you guys you would freak. Anyways, tomorrow you will need to show all your skills, so bring all your shinobi tools…. Oh... and skip breakfast, you could throw up.” ‘T-throw up? N-no way!’

“It’s that tough of an exam??” Sakura questioned as Kakashi handed out papers with the details of tomorrow. Naruto looked over at his teammates, both looked very determined, ‘Well I am too! If I am going to be Hokage, I can’t be afraid!’

-

Naruto turned recklessly in his bed that night, even though he tried to keep positive, he never really did well on exams. ‘What do I do? I can’t fail! Both Sakura-chan and Sasuke didn’t look concern… of course they both weren’t dead last in class rankings. Speaking of class… I wish Iruka-sensei took me out for some more ramen… like last night.’ Naruto smiled fondly as he remembered how Iruka took him to his favorite ramen stand, Ramen Ichiraku, to celebrate graduating from the academy. Naruto groaned miserably, ‘I can’t fail tomorrow! Not after everything!’

After several minutes, Naruto groaned again and turned over in his bed tossing his blanket to the floor. ‘Can’t sleep, might as well train until I can!’ Naruto jumped out of his bed and dragged out a training doll, setting it up. “Right!”

After several hours of training, Naruto fell back against his bed, instantly asleep. He didn’t mind the sweat or the sticky clothes at all. Slowly the last two hours of the night creeped away and the birds started to sing a melody that only morning people truly could enjoy. In this case, Naruto was not one of those people. Instead he slept right through their clatter, only reacting to it with a gibberish mumble. Though what did wake the boy up, an hour later, was when he suddenly turned to greatly on the bed, and fell ungracefully on the floor, thumping his head against his small nightstand.

Naruto sat up disorient, rubbing the side of his head, “Ugh…” He stood up from the floor and absentmindedly stared out the window behind his bed. He slowly took in the white blueish shine of the sky, blinking rapidly. ‘It’s morning….OH SHIT!’

Almost instantly, Naruto threw off his sweaty night clothes and threw on his daily clothes. Suddenly he paused when he came to his kitchen corner, wondering if he should just stuff down some toast even though he was warned. Deciding against it, he left his apartment in haste, not even thinking about the villagers this time. He was too late to overthink it.

He arrived at the training ground several minutes later. Both Sasuke and Sakura were already there. Both were standing next to three logs that were sticking straight up from the ground, place there for training purposes. He walked over to them, frowning when he noticed that Kakashi was not there. ‘I guess its sort a good thing he late, since I showed up fairly late myself…’

“So how come you were late?” Naruto looked around the clearing at first, thinking that Kakashi had just shown up. Then he realized that Sakura was in fact talking to him. He blushed terribly and looked at his feet. ‘She’s talking to me! I better say something! I hope she’s not mad!’

“I-I am s-sorry. I w-woke up late.”

“Well try to be on time next time, we are shinobi and it’s important to be on time.” Naruto nodded still blushing, ‘she should lecture our sensei about that…’

Naruto retreated into his mind after that, staring at his weapon pouch on his right leg. ‘How are we supposed to fight a Jounin? We need to work together, I am sure…’ He shuffled his feet nervously and wondered how late Kakashi would be this time. A noise roughly startled him out of his thoughts. Blushing, he realized it was his stomach. ‘If Kakashi-sensei was going to be this late, I should have just eaten breakfast.’

“Good morning guys!!” chirped a voice. Naruto immediately turned to look as Kakashi walked over to his team.

“YOU’RE LATE!” Naruto grimaced as Sakura shouted in his ear.

Instead of replying, Kakashi went right into explaining, “Alright here are two bells. The task is to take these from me before the time is up.” He set up a timer on one of the training polls, “Anyone who doesn’t get a bell by noon gets no lunch. I’ll tie you to one of those polls and eat my lunch right in front of you.” ‘Ugh… that’s why he said no breakfast… sneaky bastard.’

“You only need to get one bell. Since there are only two bells, only two of you will pass. The person who doesn’t get a bell fails and will be sent back to the academy.” Kakashi tied the bells to his belt. “Remember, you won’t succeed if you don’t come at me with the intent to kill.”

“But you’ll be in danger!!” Sakura protested against the idea of fighting so harshly against their sensei. Naruto quietly disagreed with her, ‘He a Jounin… the highest ranking of ninja after the Hokage! Just because he has a habit of being late doesn’t mean he weak! I doubt all three of us combined could take him.’

“From who? Mr. Deadlast over there?” Kakashi drawled and pointed at Naruto. Naruto flushed in anger and clenched his fists. ‘I’ll show him dead last! I’ll get one of those bells and kick his face in!!’

“Right when I say start…” Several seconds passed and Kakashi cleared his throat, “BEGIN!” Naruto and his team scattered in the woodland area around the training grounds. Naruto had stationed himself under a bush watching as Kakashi didn’t even move from his spot in the training area. Instead he had pulled out a book and started to read. ‘He clearly is underestimating us…’ Lucky Naruto was facing the back of his sensei and formed a plan. ‘If he distracted it could work!’ Quietly, Naruto molded his charka, performed the seals to conjure up several clones. He placed all them in the hiding spots near his. He frowned for a moment, wondering if he should enlist help from his teammates. ‘But there are only two bells… I doubt they will want to help me…it’s really every man for himself.’

He commanded all his clones to attack Kakashi from all sides. Naruto also left his spot, looking for openings to grab the bell from the sliver-headed sensei. Instead he saw several of his clones disappear in puffs of smoke. He didn’t stop though, and tried a spinning kick to his sensei’s face. At the same time two of his shadow clones threw kunai from both sides, Kakashi was able to avoid his kick and one of the kunai. The last one did make an impact. Naruto grinned and went for a bell again.

Instead the kunai made a thump, hitting a log. ‘Kawarimi no jutsu!!’ Naruto landed on his feet and signaled his clones to stop fighting. He scanned the forest area trying to see if he could find his sensei. He started having his clones to look around the forest and training area. As he scanned the area, he noticed a small shine on the ground by a tree. He canceled the jutsu and walked closer to the tree.

‘A bell! He dropped one?’ Naruto looked around then went to pick up the bell, instead of picking it up; he was suddenly several feet off the ground upside down! Naruto blushed when he realized he fell for a trap and now was hanging by a rope tied to the tree. ‘Damnit.’

“Don’t fall for such obvious traps, idiot.” Naruto blushed even more as he watched Kakashi pick up the bell from the ground. “A shinobi must be able to see what’s underneath the underneath.” Naruto’s eyes widened when Kakashi was hit several times in the face with kunai and star shuriken. ‘Isn’t that going too far Sasuke?’ he thought. But again, Kakashi puffed into a log, making good use of the substitution jutsu. Sasuke immediately ran off. Naruto frowned, wishing that Sasuke would’ve at least freed him. ‘This team sucks.’ Naruto reached into one his weapon pouches and grabbed one his kunai and cut himself down. ‘Damnit... I can’t fall for another one of those stupid traps!!’ as soon as he touched ground, he was right back where he started. ‘Damnit another one!? Seriously?? Ugh…’ Naruto was able to get hold of another kunai, and cut himself down again. This time though he jumped over the trap so that he wasn’t caught again. As he landed he noticed two bento boxes sitting on a memorial. ‘Hehe. I can just eat one of them now… then I will have easier time in fighting against Kakashi-sensei.’ Naruto paused for a second, wondering if it was another trap. He decided he should avoid the ground, and jumped right on to the memorial. Then after checking the ground around by throwing a kunai, he hopped down with one of the bento boxes. Before he could even open the bento, a voice spoke up.

“What do you think you are doing?” Naruto blushed and try to stutter out a reply to explain his behavior to Kakashi, instead he found himself tied to one of the training polls. ‘Great… he tied the rope too tight… I can’t even more my arms to grab a kunai! I guess I am stuck. Does this mean I fail??? DAMNIT!’

-

Naruto didn’t have to wait long for the timer to go off, and the other two to come walking out of the forest. Naruto blushed when they both gave him a passing glance, before sitting down next to him, Sasuke on his right and Sakura on his left. Kakashi stood before them, arms folded with his face showing his lack of interest. “Wow, you guys look really hungry. Oh! By the way… about the training… none of you have to back to the academy.” ‘What?? Does that mean that we…’

“Really, does that mean all three of us…?”

Kakashi nodded at Sakura, “Yup, all three of you should quit being shinobi.”

“W-why?”

“Because all of you are just punks who aren’t cut out to be ninjas.” ‘Damnit!!’ Naruto thought. He gasped abruptly when Sasuke flew past him towards Kakashi. ‘What is he doing?? That idiot.’

“Sasuke-kun!!”

In a blink of an eye, Kakashi had tackled Sasuke to the ground with no effort at all. “That’s why you’re a punk.”

“DON’T SIT ON SASUKE-KUN!”

“Do you guys think ninjas are a joke? Why do you think you were divided into teams and are doing this training huh?” Naruto blushed, realizing what Kakashi was implying, ‘I knew that it was going to be an issue.’

“Huh? What does that mean?” Naruto blinked over at the pink-hair girl, not understanding how she didn’t get it.

“It’s simple. You guys do just not understand the answer to this exam.” Naruto looked down at his feet, feeling highly uncomfortable in every way imaginable.

“So... what’s the answer then?”

Kakashi was quiet for a second, shaking his head in disappointment, “The answer is teamwork. If the three of you had worked together, you would have gotten the bells from me.”

“What? But there are only two bells!!! Even if we were to work together, someone would still fail!! This test is set up to make us fight each other!!!”

“Exactly. Its goal is to make you forget your own interest and work together as a team. Instead, Sakura was too focused on Sasuke, to even attempt to help Naruto. While Naruto seems to be too shy to ask for help and then instead try to do it himself. Sasuke just assumed others would get in the way and tried to do everything all by himself. It’s important to have one’s own ability but teamwork is just as important!” Kakashi pulled out a kunai.

“Without teamwork, it could get one of you killed. Let’s say for instance… SAKURA! KILL NARUTO! OR SASUKE DIES!” ‘WHAT?!’ Naruto looked over at Sakura, using her panic, knowing that she would instantly kill him for Sasuke. Frowning in anger, Naruto looked away from her. ‘Typical.’

“And that’s a good example of what could happen on a mission without good teamwork, someone or everyone would die. For example the memorial over there, is filled with heroes who have died.” Kakashi stood up and walked over to stare upon the memorial. “My best friend name is craved on here.” Naruto was shocked and looked away from the sight of his sensei. ‘I wonder if my parents are on there??’

“I’ll give you guys one more chance after lunch, it’ll be even harder this time to get the bells. Those who wish to take the test again can eat lunch, but Naruto can’t have any.”

“O-oh…” Naruto blushed, this was his fault.

“This is your punishment for trying to eat the food by yourself. Anyone who gives him food will fail.” Then with that Kakashi disappeared in a cloud of smoke. The other two looked over at Naruto.

“I-it’s okay. I-I am fine.” He blushed when his stomach rumbled. ‘Damnit!! I am striving!’ His teammates both sat down and begin to eat their lunches, Naruto try to ignore the aroma floating up to his nose. Sadly his stomach could not, and it growled again.

“Tch, here.” Naruto blinked and started down at Sasuke. ‘H-he feeding me?’

“B-but you’ll f-fail!”

“Yea Sasuke-kun! Naruto said he was fine anyways!”

“It’s fine, I don’t sense sensei. Naruto needs to eat otherwise he will just be a liability. For us to be able to work as a team, he needs to be in his best form.” Naruto blushed again, realizing that Sasuke was right.

Sakura stared at Sasuke for a moment then nodded and started to also share her food with Naruto. They had to feed him, since he was tied to the poll still, Naruto didn’t really like that. He knew they couldn’t untie him without Kakashi knowing but it was so uncomfortable eating this way! After a few minutes, Naruto felt his hunger abated and was about to tell them they didn’t have to share anymore when a large cloud of smoke appeared in front of them.

After the smoke cleared, they were faced with an anger Kakashi. “What are you doing?! YOU GUYS!!!” Naruto closed his eyes as Sakura screamed. “PASS!”

“R-really?” Naruto opened his eyes in disbelief.

“You guys are the first to ever pass my test! Everyone else was just too stupid and listened to everything I said! It’s like something I heard once, ‘Those who break the rules and codes of the ninja world are called trash… but those who don’t take care of their companions are worse than trash.’ Get it?” ‘He makes a great point. He pretty cool.’

-

Naruto smiled as he dressed for bed. ‘I passed! I am a Genin! And Kakashi-sensei fixed our teamwork! I can’t wait to go on a mission tomorrow!’ He stretched, feeling the rope burns on his back. His team had forgotten to untie him, so he had to do some work to get himself untied. ‘Hopefully that’s not a daily occurrence.’ He grabbed his blanket from the floor and closed his eyes, he couldn’t wait for tomorrow.

Some lines in this chapter were taken from chapters 1-8 of the manga, Naruto.
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