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It had been around three months since Naruto and Hinata had met first met, they had hung out with each other every day since then. Hinata's father approved of the friendship, as long as the boy understood the rules that he had laid out for him. He was met with no defiance from Naruto. He actually was fond of the boy and knew that he would protect his daughter. Hiashi noticed the improvements in Hinata rather quickly on account that he always observed her and her abilities often with disappointment.

She had become much more confident now, no longer stuttering every other word. This in turn also helped in her training, the new found confidence made her push herself beyond anything she had ever attempted before. Steadily but surely she improved each day. He taught her increasingly difficult techniques but she kept at it and her perseverance was paying off as she learned them all, not yet completely mastering them yet of course but at least getting the basics down. It seemed that this boy was the key in unlocking her true potential and he thanked him for that.

Naruto had not been slouching off either. Hinata would teach him basic ninja techniques; she also let him have some books and scrolls that taught the basics of being a ninja, although at first he was a bit reluctant to accept them. He felt embarrassed telling Hinata that he didn't know how to read.

"Uh I was never taught how to read" young Naruto said a bit distraught. The only reason he knew what ramen to pick when he went to Ichiraku, was because Ayame recommended it to him.

Hinata was a bit shocked but she didn't think any less of him "I can teach him!" she thought with determination. "I can help you learn Naruto-kun" she offered

Naruto looked up at her a bit astonished "Wow really Hinata-chan?! You'd help me learn how to read?" he said with an almost unbelieving tone to his voice.

"Hai, I can help you" she said

"You're the best Hinata-chan, honestly what would I do without you?" he said while wrapping an arm around her, too busy with the prospect of learning how to read to notice the deepening blush arising from Hinata.

So in time Hinata did exactly that, she taught him how to read. He picked up reading surprisingly fast. He really liked reading and he started to read anything that he could. Analyzing everything from ninja handbooks to the nutrition fact on the instant ramen cups. He soon became very analytical, going as far as observing peoples mannerisms and how they acted. It was around this time that Hinata noticed a change in Naruto's eyes. They slowly but surely began to change, no longer his bright piercing sky blue eyes. It seemed as though someone had added a bit of red to them, mixing the colors making a light purple color. There wasn't really an explanation for it either, it just happened. One day she got the courage to ask him about it, maybe he was sensitive about it.

"Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked

"Hmm? What is it? He asked lifting his eyes from a text he was reading.

"Why have your eyes changed color?" she asked very curiously

"Ahh so you have noticed huh Hinata-chan? I thought I was going crazy" he responded scratching the back of his head "I honestly don't know what happened to them, I have heard of eyes changing colors though, maybe it's that. You don't think I'm weird? Do you Hinata-chan?" he asked a bit worried. No one wants their best friend to think they are strange.

Hinata was caught off guard by the question. Of course she did think he was a bit strange and goofy but that's why she liked him, she wasn't normal either in any sense of the word, maybe that is why they got along so well.

"Of course I think you're weird!" she responded with a giggle at the facial expression Naruto made.

"You jerk! I don't want to be your friend anymore" he said with a mock pout

It was quiet for a brief moment until they both let out laughing, they had both grown comfortable around each other and usually joked around like this. Once the laughter settled down Naruto got serious.

"No but seriously Hinata-chan, I don't know what is wrong with me, all I know is that I can see much more clearly and notice things I hadn't noticed before. It must have been your good reading lessons" he said laughing

"Nothing is wrong with you" Hinata responded while laughing as well "If you say that you see things better then it's something positive right?"

"You're right, maybe I've got some special eyes like your Byakugan" he said while pondering on the idea of having a cool doujutsu like Hinata

Naruto sat in the chair opposite of the hokage, he didn't know what he was doing there. He hadn't pulled any pranks recently or caused any problems for someone to file a complaint, but knowing the villagers, they would try and report him at any chance they got.

"Look ojii-san I haven't done anything wrong, you know that. Me and Hinata have been together every day, you can ask her!" he said a bit flustered to his grandfather figure sitting calmly smoking his pipe.

"Easy now Naruto, it's nothing like that, I think you will like what I am about tell you" the man said Naruto was eager now to listen to what he had to say

"Go on old man, I'm listening!" he said

Sarutobi laughed at his eagerness "Alright Naruto, now you know that the academy is going to start soon right" he could see Naruto's eyes widen a bit as he went along "And I thought now that you are old enough to attend, I would register you in for this year, how does that sound?"

"Are you kidding me ojii-san!" he yelled with excitement "This is awesome! I can't wait!" He continued to yell as he left running out of the hokage's office, making his way to tell his best friend of the news.

Sarutobi sat there with a smile on his old wrinkled face. "Just like his father" he thought "Although this new eye color worries me, I'll observe him more closely for now"

He had told Hinata of what Sarutobi had told him and to his increasing joy he learned that she had also been enrolled for that year. They went to a local weapons shop to buy basic ninja utilities for the coming school year.

Naruto was extremely excited this morning for it was the first day of the academy. He got ready and headed out the door in the direction of the Hyuga estate. He arrived there in relatively short time and asked one of the guards if they could let Hinata know that he had arrived. The guard walked off inside to notify Hinata. Naruto waited outside for a little bit, he looked up at the massive walls encompassing the entire manor. To someone of his stature, the walls looked impossible to climb or ever hope of breaching. It was only a few minutes after that Hinata came out through the gate with her father. Naruto immediately tensed up. For some reason he felt uneasy around Hiashi, it's not that he didn't like him, it's just that he is always very critical and Naruto has to act very civilized around him. He fears that if he screws up, then maybe he won't let him be friends with his daughter. He much preferred Hinata's mom, she was much nicer he thought.

"Hi there Hiashi-sama, how are you today?" Naruto asked very courteously

Hiashi smiled at the boy "Ahh no doubt young Hinata has been teaching him a few things in manners" he thought to himself. "I'm doing well today, thank you, are you excited to be going to the academy today?" he asked

Any sense of manners disappeared from Naruto at that moment as he jumped and screamed "You bet! Hokage, here I come!"

"See Hinata, Naruto here is excited to be going" Hiashi said to his nervous looking daughter

Just then Naruto noticed that Hinata looked like her old unconfident self beside her father "Hey Hinata-chan, aren't you excited? You seemed happy a few days ago"

Hinata looked up at him "It's just that I'm a bit nervous is all" she said meekly

"Nervous of what? You don't have to worry, I'll be there the whole time" he said with determination

At hearing that, Hinata seemed to be more relieved, in all reality she was scared of losing her best friend. She had been thinking that meeting other kids and making new friends would make Naruto not want to hang out with her as much anymore. "What am I thinking, Naruto wouldn't do that, he's kind and thoughtful." She said to herself, feeling a bit dumb for being scared of that. She became happier now, being reassured.

"Well come on, we should start heading there, don't want to be late on our first day" urged Hiashi

They made short time to the academy. The three of them stood at the front, Hinata and Naruto watched their what would be future classmates enter before them, waving goodbye to their parents.

"Alright Hinata this is it, are you ready?" Naruto asked

She only nodded, looking nervous but determined none the less.

"Here Hinata, your mother packed you a lunch" Hiashi said handing her the brown bag. Naruto widened his eyes in realization, he had forgotten to pack himself a lunch. Hiashi noticed this immediately and chuckled.

"Here Naruto" He said as he handed him a bag as well "My wife packed you one as well, she knew you would forget"

Naruto looked a bit embarrassed grabbing the bag of lunch from him "She's always right about everything" he thought to himself. Hinata just giggled at him.

"Alright now you two, pay attention and Naruto? Don't goof off" Hiashi said as he turned around and left

Naruto pouted at that "I don't goof around, do I Hinata-chan?" he asked

She only remained quite as she looked up innocently. At this Naruto continued to pout as they walked in to the academy.

Walking in, Naruto tried to observe and analyze all that he could, first he saw a pair of kids, one with spiky pineapple like hair who seemed extremely bored staring out the window up at the clouds not really paying attention to what the kid next to him was saying, he presumed him to be a Nara judging by his lazy appearance. His friend was a bit pudgy but judging by that maybe he had some hidden strength in there, he could tell this was an Akamichi because no real ninja was that fat and he also knew that they gained weight on account that they could turn that into chakra. Both seemed friendly nonetheless. He kept observing but no one of interest caught his attention till he noticed a boy adorned with sunglasses looking straight at him, or so he thought since he really couldn't tell with the pitch colored shades. He was also wearing a coat that covered his mouth so ninety percent of his face was covered and Naruto could not get any further information from him apart from the fact that he was an Auburame the insect clan, very useful skills Naruto thought.

Then he saw a wild looking boy with brown spiky hair and a sharp tooth protruding from under his lip as he grinned, he had canine like eyes and also sported red marking on his face that resembled fangs an Inuzuka no doubt, his little white puppy sitting atop of his head a dead giveaway. His eyes arrived to a congregation of squealing girls surrounding someone. He stood up on his toes to get a better view and he saw a black raven patch of hair in the center. It had to be Sasuke Uchiha, he knew of him because that's all he ever heard of. Sasuke had a fan club that was only rivaled by his brother Itachi's, the Child prodigy now in anbu. All the girls ever talked about where the Uchiha, it completely annoyed Naruto to no end. He looked away immediately not wanted to anger himself.

He turned to Hinata who was looking at all the girls conglomerate around the boy "I'm glad you aren't like that Hinata-chan, you are stronger than them, physically and mentally" he said to her.

She blushed a bit at the complement "Thank you Naruto-kun"

Just then their instructor entered the classroom. He went completely unnoticed by the class except for Hinata and Naruto, maybe the Aburame kid, who knew?, it was hard to tell what he was looking at. The man had dark tanned skin, a scar running across the bridge of his nose and he also had sported his hair in the spiky pineapple style of the Nara boy. He had an annoyed expression on his face as he was being ignored by his students.

"Alright class settle down" he said a bit loud. His face grew increasingly red and a vein bulged out from his head as he continued to try and get their attention.

"ALRIGHT THAT'S ENOUGH! SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN" he yelled at the top of his lungs, his ears appeared to let off a bit of steam but maybe it was just Naruto's imagination. Everyone grew silent at that moment and gave their full attention to him.

"Good now that I have everyone's attention, everybody grab a seat so we can begin" he said in a much calmer voice

Naruto asked Hinata if they wanted to sit together to which of course she agreed contently to. He grabbed her hand and guided her to the back of the room. They took the center two seats. Everyone else arranged themselves how they pleased, Hinata was sitting to the left of Naruto and to the right of him sat the Nara boy, immediately falling asleep as soon as he sat down with his Akamichi friend next to him.

What stirred up some commotion to a seemingly easy and non-problematic task was who was going to sit next to "Sasuke-kun" since he was sitting on the edge of a row, only one person could sit next to him. And the position was being battled out by a blonde girl and a pink haired one.

"Move it ino-pig!" the pink haired girl screamed as she tried shoving her from sitting on the desk

"How about you move your giant forehead! Billboard-brow!" the other one retaliated as she was also combating for the desk while the Uchiha kept impassive

"That's enough from the both of you!' yelled the tan man "Shino please take this seat next to Sasuke" he continued to say as he pointed to the Aburame

Shino got up without a word and made his way to the open seat and sat down much to the girls chagrin as they made their way to other open seats

"Okay now that everything is settled and calmed down, we can get started, my name is Iruka, you will be calling me Iruka-sensei and I will be your instructor for the remainder of your stay here in the academy"

Naruto spaced out after that, he had already learned the lecture that Iruka-sensei was teaching. He had read it in a book that Hinata had found on the beginning of Konoha and what the will of the fire stood for and what the ninja of Konoha worked to protect. Nothing new for him, so he began to look around the room again seeing what he could find to entertain himself. It went like that for most of that class period until lunch came and they were dismissed on to the playground to eat.

By the time Hinata and Naruto got out to the playground, kids were already running around and playing while the others sat and ate with their friends. There wasn't an open table so Naruto motioned for Hinata to follow him as he made his way to an occupied table. Hinata saw who was sitting there, it was the lazy boy and his pudgy friend.

"Hey guys do you mind if me and my friend sit here and eat with you? Everywhere else is taken" Naruto asked politely

The Nara was laying down on one side of the bench staring up at the sky tentatively with his arms behind his head while his friend the Akamichi was sitting on the other side devouring his food. The boy got up from laying down and looked at Naruto, then at Hinata. His friend stopped eating at this point. The Nara looked over to his friend and he gave him a quick nod in return.

"Sure it's fine with us" he said as he lay back down to observe the sky

Naruto cracked a smile at the acceptance. He sat down and motioned for Hinata to sit down next to him which she happily did.

"Thanks guys I appreciate it, I'm Naruto by the way and this here is Hinata, nice to meet you" he said introducing themselves "These two look like good allies, I hope I can befriend them" he thought

"The name is Shikamaru" the cloud watcher said lazily

"And I'm Choji" the other one said in between mouthful to which Hinata giggled at

They continued to talk for the rest of lunch until the bell rang, signaling for all of them to get inside

The next portion of the class involved learning about the different weapons a shinobi uses and also how to conceal them to not draw attention to themselves. Again Naruto already knew all of this and didn't really pay much attention.

"Alright now that we have talked about the basic weapons let's give them a try" Iruka said to everyone "stand in two lines in front of these targets, girls to the left and boys to the right" they all did as instructed.

Naruto looked at the target, it was a standard bulls eye

"Each of you will get ten tries with the kunai right now since most of you are beginners we are only going to go for how many kunai you can get stuck into the target. Let us begin with the girls first and alternating after the first one has gone" Iruka instructed

Naruto liked being in the back, being able to watch everyone that went before him. He saw the first girl throw "terrible stance" he thought to himself. She threw the first kunai and missed, nine kunai later only two had stuck. It went on like this for a while until the feral looking kid known as Kiba went up, he had gotten the highest so far with seven out of ten and the kunai seemed to have dug deep into the wooden target. Soon the Uchiha went up and with a non-caring look, threw all kunai at once making them all imbed themselves deep into the target. He walked off with a smug smirk to his seat. It was Hinata's turn now, she looked nervous having so many people looking at her, waiting for her to make a move "Oh no, what if I miss all of them and embarrass myself? What would Naruto-kun think?" she worried. She soon was broken away from her stupor by a familiar voice chanting her on.

"Come on Hinata-chan, I know you can do this, this should be easy for you" she heard Naruto say.

"I can't let Naruto-kun down" she thought as she gained her confidence and began to throw. She had gotten eight, the highest so far for the girls.

"Good job Hinata, that is the highest so far for the girls" Iruka-sensei congratulated her, she could hear Naruto cheering her on in the background. All the girls had looks of jealousy on their faces "Alright settle down Naruto! You are up next" Iruka chided

Naruto calmed down and walked up to begin his throwing. He took a quick look at the target and at the ground leading to the target then threw his first kunai, it zipped by hitting the target at the very edge of the target, almost completely missing. There were a few giggles from the girls, Hinata looked a bit worried but soon that went away as soon the blond boy threw the remaining nine kunai all in rapid succession with a great amount of force and precision, with the last kunai hitting the direct opposite of where his first one landed, splitting the target cleanly in half. Everyone was silent, even Iruka until the pink haired girl yelled out

"You show off baka! You just wanted to seem better than Sasuke-kun but you failed and broke the target! Now I can't show him how good I am!"

"Quit yelling! I'm right here I can hear you perfectly fine" Naruto said annoyed with the screaming fangirl "Besides it's not like you were going to get better than Hinata-chan" he finished confidently. Hinata blushed at the praise.

The pink banshee was just about to yell some more but they were all saved by the bell "Okay class it seems we have run out of time, we can continue this tomorrow, I will bring in a new target for you all" everyone in the room looked at Naruto except for Hinata who was already looking at him "No more breaking things" Iruka said as he directed his gaze at Naruto who simply smiled sheepishly

"See you all tomorrow" Iruka finished as he let all the students out

Hinata and Naruto both walked out to the front to meet Ko, Hinata's bodyguard.

He greeted both of them "Hinata-sama, Naruto-san"

"Hey Ko-san, how are you?" Naruto asked the Hyuga

"I am very well Naruto-san I just came here to pick up lady Hinata and escort her back to the compound, will you be joining us today?" he asked

"Not today" Hinata looked disappointed "Sorry Hinata-chan, I'm tired today, I'm going to go home and sleep, but don't worry I'll see you tomorrow morning" he apologized as he gave Hinata a hug goodbye.

"Come lady Hinata let us go before it gets too late" Ko suggested

"Hai" Hinata replied as she watched her friend leave

Naruto was lying down on his bed thinking to himself "Man this academy is going to suck with that Sasuke-teme and all of his fangirls. At least I met some cool people like Shikamaru and Choji, oh well, at least I'm with Hinata-chan" he finished thinking as he yawned and slipped in to a blissful sleep

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