Hello everyone, I'm back lol. I know it's been a while, but honestly I stopped writing altogether so I guess I'm going to try coming back and see how it works. I'm only working on this story right now though because it was my most well received. I just want everyone to know that I might be going slowly because my laptop is broken and I need to get it fixed. However, I will try to update as quickly as possible and work out the story. I hope that the enthusiasm continues and you guys continue to review. Well I won't keep you all waiting and I'll get on with the story.

I do not own Naruto

The first thing that Naruto saw when he woke up was a white ceiling. He was lying on something soft, but he couldn't tell what it was. He was a little disconcerted because he didn't understand where he was or how he got there. At first Naruto thought that it might be a dream or maybe he was dead. A couple of other crazy notions flitted through his mind before he finally remembered everything that happened. He shot up straight and realize he was in a hospital bed. The room was completely devoid of anything but the bed and the medical equipment next to it. It was as if he only warranted the most basic attention from the doctors and nurses. However, that was only secondary as a thought was running through Naruto's mind.

"Where is Iruka-sensei?" Naruto started to panic and was about to jump out of the bed when the door to his room opened.

Naruto looked up and was instantly filled with an unpleasant feeling because the person who walked through the door was none other than his oh so perfect brother Arashi.

"Oh Naruto, you're awake!" Exclaimed Arashi as he closed the door behind him.

"What do you want Arashi?" Said Naruto coldly ignoring the seemingly worried expression on his brother's face.

"Well I was worried about you after I heard what happened." Replied Arashi, "You seemed like you weren't hurt but you were out for a whole day."

"I don't care about what happened to me. Where's Iruka-sensei?" Came Naruto's cold reply. He didn't seem to care that his brother took the time to come visit him. He was only worried about his sensei, who was one of the few people that actually cared about him.

"Oh, he's fine," replied Arashi seemingly unperturbed by Naruto's tone, "He was discharged earlier and told to take a day off from work. The doctors also said that when you wake up you could leave."

Once Naruto heard that Iruka was fine he sighed inwardly in relief. Then he realized that the doctors didn't really care that much about him. Firstly, when he woke up there was no one there to attend to him. Also, he was told by his brother about being discharged instead of a professional. However, he came to terms with it pretty quickly as that was how he was normally treated, and got up to leave with Arashi. On the way home, Arashi seemed pretty eager to talk to Naruto about what happened.

"So, what happened? How were you able to fight off Mizuki like that?" Asked a very curious Arashi.

Naruto sighed and then explained everything that happened, but changed it up to make it seem like Iruka was the one who fought off Mizuki and got injured. Arashi, however, didn't buy it because of one particular fact.

"How could Iruka-sensei have turned Mizuki into a vegetable. Maybe something happened with Naruto like that day and he's not telling me." Thought Arashi as the brothers made it to the Hokage's residence.

"Oh yeah, dad wants to talk to you." Said Arashi suddenly.

"Ok" said Naruto quickly.

In his mind however: "Well shit, wish you would have told me earlier. Now I gotta listen to this geezer yell at me!"

Just as Naruto suspected, as soon as he got into the house, he was berated by his father.

"Naruto what the fuck were you thinking? Why were you fighting a chunin?" Minato exclaimed more than asked.

"What do you mean? You must have talked to Iruka by now and he would have told you that it was a fucking surprise attack! What? You want me to just stand there and get killed?" Replied Naruto. His blood was boiling. He knew that his father would yell at him, but he never expected to be blamed for the whole situation.

"No I didn't expect you to do that, but you should have ran for help!" Replied Minato who was now seething.

"And left Iruka to die?!" Roared Naruto. He had had it with his father and the bullshit. All the pent up frustration was let out.

"Dad, I think-" Arashi tried to interject, but his father wouldn't allow it.

"Arashi, you be quiet right now. Naruto, it's good that you were able to take out a chunin, but I don't know where these abilities are coming from and I definitely don't want you using them. Also, we couldn't get any information from Mizuki because you did something to him. I don't want you to leave this building until the genin teams are announced." Said Minato rather calmly.

Naruto was about to say something when Minato's words registered in his mind. He was going to be a genin? How did it happen? Did Iruka do it? No that wouldn't make sense because his father had to approve. Naruto looked at his father and couldn't help but think that his dad wasn't neglecting him. He quickly dispelled that notion and turned to leave.

"Whatever." Naruto said, but inwardly, he was excited.

He went upstairs and went to bed. However, as he left, Naruto didn't catch the almost imperceptible flicker of pain in his father's eyes.

The couple days prior team placement went by fairly quickly. On the day of the actual placement, Naruto made sure that he got up and out early. He didn't want to be late to join his team. Naruto made his way to the academy as quickly as possible. When he got there and arrived in the classroom, everyone turned to stare at him. There were people murmuring about how they thought Naruto had failed. Naruto of course heard all of this, but he simply ignored it. That is, until one rahter annoying person came up to him.

"Hey stupid, why are you here? Didn't you fail the exam?" Snickered the person.

"Can you please get your forehead out of my face?" Came Naruto's reply which caused the other students in the class to chuckle under their breath. Even her beloved Sasuke laughed. This set Sakura off. She grabbed Naruto by the collar and started shaking him.

"You piece of shit! I'll kill you!" Screamed Sakura as she cocked her hand back and sent a punch at Naruto's face. The punch was about to land when a dry cough came from the front of the room. Sakura stopped and looked up, and then proceeded to put Naruto down and apologize to none other than Iruka.

When Naruto turned around and saw Iruka, his eyes went wide. He didn't expect that his sensei that he was so worried about and hadn't seen in a the days since the attack would show up and just be alright. When he made eye contact with Iruka, the latter just smiled at him with a knowing smile and started to address the class.

"Good morning class," started Iruka, "Today you all will become official genin of the hidden leaf village." Iruka said with a smile. He pulled out a list with the names of each of the students grouped into teams before he continued.

"Once you are placed in your teams, you will go with you sensies to get to know each other a little better and to complete different missions with your senseis. You will probably start off with the lowest of missions, which are of D rank, and then you will will work your way up. However, before I announce the teams I'd like to introduce you all to someone. Come in Aihara."

As Iruka finished speaking, a boy walked in that caused everyone to gasp. He was tall, about as tall as Choji which made him also the tallest of them. He had black hair that flowed down into a pony tail (AN: Think trunks post HTC). He wore a thin shirt and pants that had armor on his arms and all around his torso, covering all of the vital areas. He had black eyes and a handsome angular face which caused some of the weaker willed girls in the room to immediately squeal. This caused Naruto to roll his eyes because there was now another pretty boy in the class to further take the attention off of him. Even as the class started murmuring Iruka continued.

"This is Aihara Senju. He has been in private training while you all were in the academy. However, he will be joining a team with some of you here so I hope that you will be able to get along." Said Iruka as everyone gaped in shock. Did Iruka-sensei just say Senju? As in the legendary first and second Hokage of the village? The latter Hokage was considered to be even stronger than the current one with his younger brother being on par with the fourth Hokage. That meant that this Aihara must be very talented. Everyone came to that conclusion as they awaited Aihara's response. Even Naruto was paying attention now that he heard the guy's name.

"Hello everyone, my name is Aihara Senju and I will be joining the other genin on a team. However, I hope to get to know not just the people on my team but also everyone in my class." He said with a calm and collected voice. He seemed just so perfect. His perfectness even rivaled the likes of one Arashi Namikaze. Everyone couldn't help but subconsciously nod their heads in approval as Aihara walked to join the rest of the class.

"Alright, now that you've met your new comrade, we can start placing you into teams." Said Iruka as he picked up the papers and started calling off names.

Team 7 consisted of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. This was an interesting dynamic seeing as Naruto was friends with Sasuke, but loathed Sakura. Sakura Hated Naruto but was in love with Sasuke, and Sasuke was indifferent towards the both of them and he found Sakura very annoying. Sakura didn't know whether she wanted to shout for joy or bawl her eyes out which led to a strange expression on her face where she was grinning, but also crying. The other Sasuke fangirls were just bawling because they wished they could replace Sakura and Naruto. Some even thought of hiring assassins to take out the two.

Team 8 consisted of Kiba, Shino, and Hinata. Shino seemed indifferent to the matter of his teammates while Kiba was ecstatic that he got to be on a team with his beloved Hinata. Hintata, however, seemed a little sad as her eyes imperceptibly flickered to one Arashi Namikaze.

Team 9 consisted of Arashi, Aihara, and Fuyumi. This was the team that caused waves throughout the class. All three of them were perfect. Aihara wasn't very well known, but he gave off an air of perfection. Arashi was already established as the king of the guys, even beating out Sasuke who was a close second. As for Fuyumi, well what guy didn't like her? She was undoubtedly the most beautiful girl in the class and was also the smartest and strongest. The only one who could even attempt to take that away from her was Hinata who was too shy anyway. Naruto stared in shock. He, along with just about every other guy in the classroom, excluding Sasuke of course, wished that they could magically become one of the two most perfect people in the class. Naruto even felt a little extra loathing for his brother. This was the same for the girls who wished they could trade places with Fuyumi. Some of them were even frothing at the mouth because of fantasies that were popping up in their heads.

However, what almost no one noticed was the blush on Fuyumi's cheeks as she tried not to look at Arashi. I say almost because the person that did notice it was Naruto, and he was pissed. He was even more so because he knew that his father was the one who made the teams. However, he didn't say anything and just let the team placement continue.

Team 10 consisted of Ino, Shikamru and Choji. This didn't leave anyone surprised because they knew about the famous InoShikaCho combination. The three genin accepted it because they also knew they were going to be paired and knew their duty. After everyone was placed on their teams, Iruka decided to wrap things up.

"Ok everyone, those are the teams. I hope you all enjoyed your years at the academy. I know I personally did. However, it is time for me to turn you over to your new senseis. I hope that you can all keep me in your hearts." Said Iruka as he smiled at the class and turned to leave with a tear in his eye. As he left, everyone waved to him and expressed that they would miss him. Even Naruto because Iruka-sensei was one of the few people close to him and who had done so much for him. As Iruka left, the jounin started to enter the room using a shushin technique.

Everyone was more or less indifferent until their sensei came. That was until an explosion occurred inside the room where everyone was at. Out from the explosion came a man with a katana strapped to his back. He wore a red gi and pants and had traditional samurai sandals instead of nin sandals. He had auburn hair that was spiked up and a full goatee (He basically looks like the dude from samurai champloo).

"Yo, I'm here to pick up team 9." He said as everyone gasped. The rest of the people in the classroom started murmuring amongst themselves.

"Isn't that Isobe Yahiro? He's like a legend."

"I heard that he's already a kage level shinobi, but he doesn't want to do anything official and that's why he's still a jounin. I heard that out of his class of genin, only Kakashi Hatake could actually hold his own in a fight against him. Even then I heard he still could never beat Yahiro-sensei."

"I heard he has three nature transformations and two kekkei genki!"

"Are you serious? Well of course he would be the sensei of team 9. That's just a perfect combination. Man I'm so jealous."

...

The students couldn't contain themselves as the members of team 9 walked up to the front of the classroom where they walked out with their new sensei. Naruto was basically seething at how things turned out. Their father was always doting on his favorite son and had to make everything perfect for him. These were Naruto's thoughts as everyone's senseis started coming into the classroom and begun taking their teams away.

Team 7 waited for two hours. Sakura was visibly seething and Naruto and Sasuke seemed slightly annoyed. Finally a shushin justsu was used as a man with silver hair appeared in the classroom.

All he said was "roof... now," before disappearing in a swirl of leaves.

"Are you fucking serious?!" Shouted Sakura as the trio made their way up to the roof.

When they got to the roof, they saw the silver-haired jounin sitting down on the railing. He motioned for them to come and sit. They grudgingly walked over and sat down with their sensei. Of course, Sakura decided to start talking.

"Why the fuck would you ev-" She didn't get to finish because the silver-haired man interrupted her.

"I hate you." He said with and extremely straight face. This caused Sakura's face to twist unnaturally.

"What?" She asked somewhat incredulously.

"I hate you the most." Came the reply as the silver-haired man shifted his eyes to her, causing her to shiver before he continued, "Well, let's introduce ourselves."

"Why don't you go first to give us an example." Said Naruto as the silver-haired man shifted his gaze.

"Ok that's fine. My name is Kakashi Hatake and I hate you all." He said causing all of them to sweat drop. Although, Naruto was slightly surprised that they had gotten the Kakashi Hatake as their sensei. While not as strong as Isobe Yahiro, he was still the second strongest of his class.

"Ok then. Well I'm Naruto and I just want to be recognized." Said Naruto calmly.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha and there is someone I must kill." Said Sasuke darkly causing everyone to look at him nervously.

"My name is Sakura Haruno and I want to marry Sasuke-kun!" Squealed Sakura gaining looks of disgust from everyone else.

"Ok then, well we have the loser, the emo, and the fangirl." Sighed Kakashi causing various expressions from the trio as he continued.

"Well that's it for today. I want everyone at the gate tomorrow by 10 a.m. sharp. Oh and also, don't eat anything." Said Kakashi before he shushined away, leaving the trio to their own devices. They all decided to leave for the day and go home.

When Naruto got back to his residence, the first person he ran into was his brother. Arashi walked up to him and smiled.

"Hey bro, dad let me get this technique from the forbidden scroll to give to you as your present for becoming a genin." He said surprising Naruto as Arashi handed him a sheet of paper with a technique on it.

"Dad wanted Arashi to give me this?" Thought Naruto a little incredulous as he studied the technique. The title on the scroll said shadow clone jutsu and it seemed kind of complicated, but Naruto believed that he could handle it.

Naruto gave his thanks to Arashi and went upstairs to start practicing.

(In the Hokage's office)

Minato was sitting at his desk working on the tower of papers in front of him. While he was looking over the teams of genin that were just recently created, Hiruzen decided to walk in.

"Hello Lord Third, what brings you here?" Asked Minato without looking up from his paper work. Hiruzen sighed and spoke to his successor.

"Minato-kun, you know how I don't like you to call me that. You're also a kage you know. Anyway, I have to talk to you about your son." Said Hiruzen with a sigh.

"Oh, so you heard about Arashi getting rookie of the year? I'm so proud of him!" Said Minato with a beaming smile.

Hiruzen felt as if he was going to get a headache as he spoke his next words very slowly.

"No Minato-kun, your other son." Said Hiruzen placing his hand on his left temple as if to ward off the coming headache.

"Oh what about him?" Asked Minato as the smile vanished almost instantly.

"You are neglecting your son. Don't you know he was dead last at the academy? He has just as much potential as Arashi, but he isn't able to utilize it because you aren't allowing him to!" Cried Hiruzen trying to talk some sense into his successor.

"Neglecting him? No I'm teaching him to become strong on his own. If he doesn't he will just keep on making mistakes and failing people!" Said Minato almost venomously.

"NO! You're being hard on him because he reminds you too much of yourself. Just because Arashi looks like Kushina you're doting on him because of what happened in the past!" Yelled Hiruzen which in turn caused Minato's face to darken. He waved to signal his personal guard to leave the room before he continued.

"How dare you bring up my dear Kushina!" replied Minato with no respect in his voice this time, "And how dare you try to tell me how to raise my children! If you really must know, I am training Arashi because he has the Nine tails inside of him. Naruto doesn't have any such problem. He is not a potential threat!"

"But they are your children Minato! You can't just treat them like weapons or things without feelings. You also can't forget what Naruto has inside of him. The one that we did see easily took out the Nine tails, and there were 7 others. That makes 8 potentially cataclysmic beings inside of Naruto! Does that not even warrant the slightest bit of attention? Did you even check on Naruto after the event with Mizuki? No, you probably scolded him!" Yelled Hiruzen. He was fuming at this point, he couldn't believe what he was hearing from Minato. It was absurd!

"Get out." Came the calm reply from Minato causing Hiruzen's eyes to widen.

"What?" He asked slightly in a stupor.

"GET THE HELL OUT!" Yelled Minato viciously. When their eyes met, Hiruzen could only see a slight madness in Minato's eyes.

Hiruzen didn't say a word as he turned around and left the room. After sitting there for a minute after Hiruzen had gone, Minato erratically shoved all of the papers off of his desk and held his hands on his head.

Hiruzen was oblivious to this happening as he left the building and made it out onto the street. He looked very calm outwardly, but his eyes shone with determination, and inside he was formulating a plan.

"If Minato won't help Naruto-kun, then I will."

Well, that's another chapter done. Hope you guys liked it. It was definitely more thought out than my other chapters from the past have been, and that's how I'm trying to make them regularly. I know there wasn't much action in this chapter, but there will be a good amount in the next one. I hope you guys can review this chapter though and tell me what you liked and didn't like so much about it. I have a whole plan for the story now that I really like, so I'm trying to flesh it out. Thank you guys again for all the support you've given me in the past and I hope you will support the new chapters just as much.

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