Here's the first chapter for this story, I wrote it quite a while ago and have finally started putting the story up. I am trying to work out if I should make it Yaoi or no relationships, what do you people think. If Yaoi it would probably be SasuNaru/NaruSasu but it would be slightly slow in the making, they are 12.
Disclaimer: I am female.
Chapter One – It's only the Beginning
Iruka felt upset for the situation Naruto was going to be put into; the boy already had had a hard enough time in the academy as it was. He felt that he was, sadly, one of the only people who actually pay attention to the boy so to his knowledge the boy was probably stunted in most areas but they didn't really know. The boy seen to understand everything that was said to him but hid anything he had learned. His tests were complete rubbish but when taken unawares he could answer them correctly. He hid himself from the harsh attitudes of those who wished him harm; Iruka just hoped that he would be accepted into his team so that people finally understood what they had overlooked for so many years.
As he arrived at the Graduation Room's door, he could hear the commotion they were making about Naruto's graduation. He had only failed because he couldn't make his chakra output small enough to perform the academy level Justus they had been teaching them; the fact was made even more obvious when he had learnt the Kage-Bushin, which used a large amount, in only a few hours, probably even less if he had learnt anything else from the scroll. He hadn't even seemed surprised about being the Jinchuriki for the Kyuubi. Iruka had found out afterwards that the boy had known about it for years.
Iruka put a hold on his thoughts as the ruckus from the room escalated and knew that if he didn't stop it soon someone was probably going to get hurt. When he opened the door he couldn't help but be ashamed of the way the children were seated. On one side were most of the boys, including most of the Clan heirs that were in the class. There was only one girl, her pale eyes looking shyly into her hand that were clenched in front of her.
On the other side was most of the girls, their deafening squeals were causing major headaches to those with better hearing, who unfortunately was most of the clan children from training. How they listened to their own voices was a mystery to almost everyone. They were surrounding a boy, who looked as if he could have been anywhere else. Not that anybody pitied him but damn all fan-girls to hell.
In the middle of the room was his favourite student, his blond hair falling haphazardly over the desk. His face buried into the table as if that could keep out the sound. He looked about to cry from the pain in his ears. Naruto had the best hearing in the class; the only person close was the Inuzuka who was in much the same position as him.
Iruka clapped his hands and surprisingly they all stoped, which just proved how exited they all were. He had to stifle a laugh as they all turned to stare intently at him. It seemed that they were all excited, about which teams, though the fan-girls were mostly going to be disappointed. "Okay, I congratulate you all for passing and hope you all understand how to keep yourself alive. I will now present the teams. Team 1..."
By the time he had arrived to the clan children most of the class was getting impatient. "Team 7, Uchida Sasuke" The boy had extremely pale skin with solid black eyes, and black hair was moulded into spikes at the back. He was wearing a large blue jumper with a collar that reached up to his chin, white shorts and wrist bands. He was one of the 2 known surviving Uchida and the only one loyal to Konoha.
His family had been massacred when he was only 7. Since then he had been withdrawn from the rest of the class and the only people who could actually get a response out of him were Naruto with his continues challenges and the teachers. Iruka hoped that being on the same team as Naruto might open him up.
All the girls looked hopefully as he read out the next name. "Haruno Sakura" He was cut off from continuing but the loud squeal that the bright pink haired girl presented to the class. She was wearing a red dress that had a white circle outline on the top of the back and small black pants, her hair reached mid back and she was using the proudly held Hitate as a headband, a headband... does she have no respect? It was even covered in a small film of muck after only one day. She ignored the death glares that were sent her way to goggle a green looking Uchida. God that girl has no self preservation at all. Even older Shinobi were afraid of fan-girls; more often than not the people of their admiration either went insane or gay. There was speculation that this was what happened to Itachi, Sasuke's older brother and the murderer of his family.
"Uzumaki Naruto" There seemed to be complete silence, then the first girl started yelling. Naruto seemed to almost collapse onto himself and had paled to a degree that rivalled the Uchida next to him. Fan-girls were defiantly a force of nature, as Naruto shrunk from them. The boy was wearing his normal fluoro orange jumpsuit and pants, Iruka didn't even want to know who had made it but had a long standing suspicion that he had made it himself as the stitching wasn't very hidden but was tight. Iruka guessed that he had found the fabric somewhere or was even given to him in spite. It was just saying 'come kill me'.
The boy was ignoring the looks to stare at Sasuke who seemed to be shaking silently. When he noticed Naruto looking he sat up straighter and looked as if he had gotten over whatever had forced him into suppressing his laughter. Naruto looked towards the front and caught his eyes and pouted, crossing his arms as well and just acting like a child. He suppressed his chuckles as well and moved on to the next team.
"Team 8 Aburame, Shino," The boy was wearing a very large grey coat that went from his ankles and to his chin and even it the Fire countries heat he seemed perfectly fine with the hood on as well along. He was also wearing dark glasses, so the ending effect was a mask-like cover.
"Hyuuga, Hinata" Hinata was probably the most quite in the class and defiantly the most shy person he had ever met. She had short almost black purple hair. In her eyes the iris and pupil are barely noticeable with both being a milky white in colour. She was wearing a light grey jacket also and was the heiress for the Hyuuga family even if she didn't act like it.
"Inuzuka, Kiba." The boy was wearing a fur-lined hood and jacket. He had messy brown hair was and hazel eyes, under those were red 2 inverted triangles that started from just under his eyes to the bottom of his cheeks. He had a cheeky grin on his face.
"Team 10 Nara, Shikamaru," The boys brown pineapple shaped hair was all that he could see. The Nara clan was known not just for their intelligence but also their laziness. He also had black eyes that were always at half mast, looking as if he would fall asleep at any moment.
"Ino, Yamanaka," The blond haired girl seemed to be quite upset, not only because Sakura had made it to her crushes team but because she was stuck with someone that she had grown up with and was completely lazy. Her blue eyes flashed with annoyance when the before mentioned team-mate muttered his family's trademark 'troublesome'.
"Akimichi, Choji." He also had brown hair but it was a lighter version than his other male team-mates as was split by the ribbon part of the Hitate through the middle of his hair. He had two swirls on his chubby cheeks. His pinprick like eyes that were normally closed but at the moment they were opened to watch the interactions between his two new team-mates.
"Can you be quite?" The whole class stoped yelling; after the teams had been called the fan-girls had gone crazy, most telling him to change the team line-ups. All that he had said in response was that the Hokage had put the teams together and it wasn't possible to change them. The class turned to stare surprised at a glaring Sasuke. In front of him was Naruto, he had curled up into a ball with his hands on his ears.
-****-(line)
Sasuke couldn't believe the noise that only a few people could make, sure there was 30 something people but still; they were Shinobi right? It was common knowledge that they had better hearing than others and then there were people who were extremely sensitive to sound like so clans. He looked around and couldn't help but notice how some people kept wincing at the sound.
He spotted Naruto as he collapsed onto the floor; he was crying his eyes out with his hands covering his ears and looked like he was in actual pain. He decided that enough was enough when he saw some of the girls look at Naruto and completely ignore him, he had noticed how most people in the class didn't like Naruto but oddly enough they were mostly civilian children. The clan children seemed almost kind but wary. He was getting up to check on the curled up blond, when someone kicked him making him tighten into a ball. The boy glanced down dispassionately and continued to ask the teacher questions.
"Can you be quiet?" He asked just loud enough to be heard by everyone in the class, some turned to look questionly at him while the girls giggle and blushed. He mentally sighed, remembering why he didn't talk to them and sat back down. Iruka looked gratefully in his direction and walked over to Naruto. When he reached out to pick the boy up he scrambled back until he hit the wall, the action bringing the rest of the class's attention towards the blond.
-****-(line)
"What, can't handle a bit of noise." Sakura said sharply from the other side of the room, completely ignoring the fact that Sasuke was the one who said it and glared at Naruto, who was to occupied to notice anything, let alone her question. She flinched as almost all the clan kids glared at her, not really understanding why they were angry at her. She decided that it must be Naruto's fault, just as her mother had told her, that the monster had control over other people's feelings. Otherwise why would Sasuke protect that, that – thing.
Ever since she was a child, her mother had told horror stories about what the little blonde boy would do if he ever gained power, or caught her unaware and alone. If the boy could do that then he's better off dead. She needed to kill it before it killed them all.
-****-(line)
Sasuke helped the blonde get back to his seat, hiding the concern he was feeling from the dazed look that was on his face. It had been ten minutes since Iruka-sensei had let the class out for a quick break before their Jounin-sensei's arrived and the boy still looked like he was in pain and extremely confused. Sasuke watched worriedly as Naruto tried to regain his balance on the table, and failed miserably, Sasuke saved him just in till to avoid a nasty face-plant to the floor.
"Come on," he said softy, reaching out to stable Naruto, but he flinched away from the touch, almost recreating the curl that he had been in before. Sasuke showed no change in his expression but mentally took note of the reaction. He took another glance to the unstable boy near him, and the pale face that dripped with exhaustion, and if he wasn't making a mistake, there was obviously a slight bleeding coming from his ears.
Sasuke wasn't a friendly person by nature, and almost all of the slight caring nature he had had as a child had been removed by the massacre of his family. But there was something in the blonde in front of him that brought whatever was left to the surface, and that slightly scared him but also excited him. It had been quite a long time since he had cared even slightly about anyone.
He came out of his light daze by a soft snore next to him, glancing over at the now sleeping boy he couldn't hold in a slight laugh. Naruto had settled down on the top of the table, his arms and legs were hanging of the edges; his face was set into a calm look, none of the distress he had shown before. Sasuke placed his head next to Naruto and waited for their sensei to arrive.
-****-(line)
Kakashi looked at the door, wondering if there were any pranks set on the door. He had been warned about the traps that Naruto liked to set on people, and he had read to ANBU reports about the hours long chases that the neon orange clothed boy had lead them on. If the boy could hide wearing that thing it was quite obvious that the boy was a stealth expert. But the main thing that worried him about the reports was the fact that Naruto had many meetings with Ibiki and/or Anko.
As he opened the door, he waited for whatever was suppose to be set of do so. When nothing happened he looked closer into the room, wondering if it was on a delayed reaction or it just failed to the open. But he was surprised by what he had found.
Sasuke seemed to have fallen asleep while...watching? - Sitting or something with Naruto, while the orange clad Genin was curled around him, resembling a cat more than a fox. It was quite a cute image, now if only Anko hadn't destroyed his camera; the blackmail that that one picture would have brought was enormous.
Kakashi noticed that there were only two of his prospective Genin, the girl, Haruno Sakura or something was missing. He settled down in the teachers chair and pulled out his orange book.
"...Kano stilled as Zana's hands trailed south, the sensitive skin rising in pleasurable goosebumps, drawing a soft gasp. The light worn skin on his fingers caught softy on the small clear hairs..."
He looked up when a small whimper sounded from the two on the table. Naruto seemed to have woken up, bright blue eyes looked confused. Sasuke's hand had tightened on his orange jumpsuit, stopping any movement that Naruto may have wanted to do.
Kakashi watched in slight awe as Naruto slowly removed his top, being careful not to disturb the sleeping boy. There was a small gentle smile, not the usual broad grin that everyone was used to. Kakashi knew then that there was much more to the village Pariah than anyone knew, maybe not even the Hokage. And he had front row seats.
His mirth filled giggle brought him to the attention of the only other conscious person in the room, the boy's eyes not even widening in surprise, making Naruto glare in annoyance. Kakashi was about to ask him to wake the other child but was stopped by a tanned hand closing over his mouth.
"Do not wake him." Was the harsh whisper in his ears, sounding threatening in a way that no child Naruto's age should be. "He gets even less sleep than me or the Old Man do. Just let him sleep." Kakashi nodded, all the while wondering where the kid got his knowledge. As the hand was removed he couldn't help but let loose a small sigh of relief. That kid could become quite scary if he learnt to control his presence more.
As both of them were facing away the door they didn't really pay much attention to Sakura as she crept through the door, but they were made aware when a high pitched squeal sounded right behind them. Kakashi only saw Naruto's eyes flash in anger before he disappeared from his sight.
-****-(line)
Sasuke was drifting in the blankness of sleep when a loud noise brought him back to consciousness; sleep training helped him skip from being completely asleep to completely awake in a split second. And even that was almost too slow to see what Naruto did. At first he saw Sakura pinned up against the classroom wall, feet of the floor, being held by the darkly tanned and that was clasped around her throat. Even though he could only see the back of the person it was quite obvious who it was, the expanse of orange made it almost impossible to get it wrong.
Sakura's face was drawn in fear, an expression that no Shinobi should easily show, especially for females because there were some people who got off on the fear shown by others. But he could understand why she was scared. The air was basically dripping with Intent, and not the pleasant type.
He glanced quickly off to the side, and relaxed when he recognised who he supposed was their Jounin-sensei, who seemed to be reading an orange book, not even paying attention to what was happening on the other side of the room. Wasn't it his job to make sure that his students survive under his care, not let them kill each other?
Sasuke quickly looked back when he heard a growling, almost too low to be heard by normal ears. He wondered what had set the boy off; Naruto was known for always yelling and being an overall happy nutcase but was almost never violent with people in the class unless they were doing tai-jutsu. Even the only time he had even seen the boy slightly annoyed was when the teachers blamed anything bad that happened to him. He wondered what Sakura had done to incite such a rage as it really wasn't an easy to do.
-****-(line)
Kakashi moved forward, planning to stop whatever damage the blonde wanted to inflict on the screeching girl. He didn't really understand what had set the boy off but he knew that he had to stop him before he did any actual damage to the loud girl. Even though Kakashi had been reading over any reports that the ANBU sent through, this was the first time that he had seen the boy in such a rage. In the reports they had only been mentioned once or twice, were someone had said something or do something that Naruto had not been able to stand. The first time had been left alone because of what had been an obvious reason. A girl had been found afterwards in the alley near where Naruto had gone on a rampage, her clothes had been ripped and she had been covered in bruises and it was obvious that Naruto had stopped her from being defiled. That was probably the first time that Naruto, at age 7, had ever been thanked by someone out of the Hokage tower.
The second incident was something that had been put under extreme classification and all that he knew was that it had something to do with the council and the execution of 5 civilian members, all male. There was much speculation on what had happened, especially given what had set the boy off before. But there was one thing that was a given, Naruto had gained the respect of most ninja heads that day; even if it was countered by a 2 week stay in hospital.
He shook himself from his wandering thoughts as Sakura started turning purple, something that clashed badly with her hair. "Naruto, that's enough. You're going to strangle her to death, and that's a lot of paperwork that you'll have to do, by yourself." Unsurprisingly that made the boy pause, there was a lot that Naruto could stand but paperwork was something that all ninja despised, even when they were good at it. "Go calm yourself down and meet me on the roof, now." Kakashi said, emphasising the last bit to get the boy moving.
Naruto looked over his shoulder in apology, looking ashamed of his actions and quickly disappeared up the stairs. Kakashi sighed and moved forward once again and helped the sobbing pink mess off the floor. This was going to cause a rift in the team, he just knew it. Naruto would not be able to stand the girl for quite some time, Sakura is going to be too afraid to approach him, and Sasuke will either choose sides or stay away from both of them. "Meet me on the roof." He muttered loudly, letting the girl lean against the table.
Well this was going to be fun.
-****-(line)
Naruto knew he shouldn't have lost his temper, and that Sakura probably hadn't deserved it but the pressure from the last couple of days had built up to much and that episode in the classroom had been the last break. Sakura should know that you never wake a sleeping Shinobi unless it was needed. Not only was it extremely rude but there was always a chance that in that split second your life would be over. All Shinobi are trained to have a hair trigger on all their weapons because if they didn't there would be a lot more dead people.
That girl was not really cut out to be a Shinobi, not only because of her hair and clothing but she liked being noticed too much, she didn't try to downplay the brightness of her hot pink hair, her light red dress or her loud attitude. Naruto had a feeling that the girl had only been placed in the academy for political connections and her obsession with Sasuke, which was probably encouraged by her parents. She may not be made for the Shinobi life but Naruto would be damned if he let her die. He was going to be Hokage and a good Hokage looked after everyone that they could. With that idea firmly planted in his mind Naruto turned back towards the academy.
-****-(line)
Sakura flinched away when Naruto arrived, not really wanting to look at the blonde boy that had terrorised her in the class room. She still remembered the red flecked eyes that had glared at her in hatred. It was just another mark against the boy and she finally understood what her mother was trying to say. When she was a child her mother had told her horror stories of a little blonde who murdered whoever went against him and that some people had no idea what the boy was capable off; they only saw a small harmless child with no power, who could do very little wrong.
Who were they kidding, that monster was the reason that her father was dead, the reason that her mother was never home. Father had been on the council and they had been living the easy life but when she had been 8 her father had disappeared and her mother had taken his place. But whatever had happened had caused lasting damage on the family reputation.
Then Naruto even got in between her and Sasuke, that was the last straw, how could he interfere with her destiny. It was a given that she would marry Sasuke and become Mrs Uchiha, and everyone would look up to her. And no-one was going to get in her way. She didn't notice the worried glance that Naruto threw her way, the annoyed on Sasuke gave her or, the suspicious on that her sensei pinned on her.
-****-(line)
"Introduce yourselves." Kakashi said once everyone had arrived. Sakura was avoiding Naruto, Naruto was worried, and Sasuke looked kind of lost. It was time to get into a routine before the whole group fell apart. "Why don't you introduce yourself first, sensei". Sakura's voice was sickeningly sweet, almost like it was dropping poisonous honey. He could almost see the small hearts floating of the girl, and cringed. He really didn't like people who tried to suck up to their teachers.
"Okay," He said, amusing her, "I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate...I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future...never really thought about it. As for my hobbies...I have lots of hobbies." He was happy when he received three glares from his adorable students. That was the same reaction that he got every time he had potential Genin and it never ceased to amuse. He heard Sakura mutter 'all we learnt was him name' and had to hold in the blooming smile that wanted at appear.
He raised him hand to point at her, signalling that she was to go next; well trying to but all he got in return was a confused stare. "You're next Pinkie." He said in annoyance after she didn't pick up the slight hints that they had all been dropping her.
"Right," she giggled, "My name is Haruno Sakura, my likes are," she glances of to the side and blushes, Kakashi inwardly laughed as Sasuke moves further away from her, "Dislikes, hmm, Ino-pig and Naruto-baka!" this was exclaimed with vehemence and Naruto looked slightly crestfallen. "And as for dreams," she once again looks towards Sasuke and blushes, "And my hobbies are shopping and," the rest of the sentence was cut off as Sakura gained a glazed look on her bright pink face, Kakashi watched bemusedly as a drop of blood travelled down from her nose.
He glanced at Sasuke, who seemed to be turning a bit green in the face but Kakashi couldn't really blame him; it was quite obvious what had gone through her pink head. While Sasuke was drowning in mortification Naruto seemed to find the whole situation quite annoying and had taken up glaring at the unconscious girl.
Okay that was unusual in and of itself, the notes put down by his teachers said that they boy had an obsession on the passed out pinkie. The attitude that he had just shown was the complete opposite of what he had expected but all morning the boy had been destroying any information that Kakashi had gained on Naruto, there was no deep seated hatred towards Sasuke, no unfailing obsession or even the customary prank that was normally done periodically through his sensei career.
"Okay, next is Gloom Boy." Kakashi waved vaguely in the direction of the frowning Uchiha. Next to him Naruto seemed to collapse his shaking body, trying, unsuccessfully, to cover his laughter. Sasuke deepened his frown but didn't say anything, choosing to ignore the irritating blonde beside him.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things, and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream, because I will make it a reality. I'm going to restore my clan and... kill a certain someone." Complete silence answered his declaration of intent to murder... for about 3 seconds then Naruto collapsed in hysterical laughter scaring Sakura to her feet. Sasuke was once again glaring murder at the blond who dared to laugh at his mission in life.
Kakashi frowned, no liking the reaction at all. He bent forward to pick the boy up but was impeded by a kunai close to his face. He watched in concern as Naruto slowly pulled himself up, chest heaving from being out of breath. "Don't touch me." The boy all but growled, silencing anything anyone may have wanted to say. They all waited quietly while the seemingly bipolar boy regained his breath.
"Okay..." Kakashi muttered to himself, wondering just how he always seemed to end up in these really weird situations. "And last but not least we have Mr. Hysterical over there." He once again waved vaguely in Naruto's direction. Naruto glared grumpily at him and sighed but introduced himself anyway.
"Name's Uzumaki Naruto, like's gardening, learning techniques and spending time with Anko and Ibiki," here Kakashi shivered, it didn't matter in you were the strongest person in the world, everyone had a slight fear of being under those to sadists attention and here, in front of him was a boy who actually enjoyed there company. What was the world coming too?
Little did he know that that was only the beginning of the mystery surrounding Uzumaki Naruto.
(To Be Continued)
So how do you like it? I know some of you are following my other stories and are probably annoyed that I'm starting a new story instead of updating the others so I'll give the choice of which one I update next to my dear readers. I will probably be majority vote but if not it will be the first one to 5, only way to submit is to review.
If there are any problems with this chapter tell me and I'll try to fix it. There will be a couple of mistakes since I've been writing this on and off for the last couple of months.
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