Chapter 1

A.N. Hey guys this is my first story and I don't know how good or bad its going to be. So, if you don't like it, keep in mind that its the first story I've ever written.

Chapter 1

Introduction to the new life

[RING] [RING]

A alarm clock sounded in the messy bedroom of one blonde teenager named Naruto Uzumaki. He grumbled in his sleep hoping that the sound will go and he can go back to his sweet dreams. But after ringing three times it still didn't stop, he pulled himself up from his bed and stopped the alarm.

He looked at the clock to see its 6:00 AM one and half an hour before academy starts. He stood up went to bathroom. He saw his reflection in the mirror above the sink and thought to himself about his unique situation.

'I still can't believe I am here in this world, in this body. The body of original Naruto Uzumaki. Yesterday evening, when I woke up in this body, I thought I was dreaming but after last night's sleep I gained all the memories of Naruto and the fact I am still here proves that its all real.'

'I don't remember what I was doing before I came here though. And the fact that I am still calm after all this somewhat bothers me. Cause' I remember that I wasn't this calm and collected before this, for sure. I guess whoever put me here did this or it can also be that original naruto's soul isn't gone as I previously thought but maybe it merged with mine.'

'Anyways, the fact is that I am Naruto Uzumaki now and I have to live his life. I still haven't decided what to do with my new life as Naruto Uzumaki, but I think I should still go to ninja academy.'

After thinking what to do for now, he finished his business in the bathroom and after dressing up in a white T-shirt and black shorts he arrived in the kitchen and started to look for something to eat. He found nothing but packed Ramen. With no choice he cooked ramen and started eating it.

'I have to admit this ramen tastes very good. But, I don't know if this actually tastes this good or its the original naruto's love for ramen speaking'

While eating ramen, he assessed his situation further,'From naruto's memories, I know that today is the first day of academy after orientation last weekend. It means that I don't have to worry too much about being out of character since nobody really knows naruto that well aside from the Ichirakus and to some extent the hokage, as he also doesn't know naruto that well cause' he doesn't have much time to spend with naruto. Comes' with being a hokage, I guess. I don't want anyone to know that I am not the original Naruto, atleast not yet.'

After eating breakfast, he looked at the clock and saw its 7:00 AM and knowing from naruto's memory that it took about twenty minutes to reach the academy from his apartment he left for the academy.

While walking through the village, he saw the glares the villagers sent his way. It didn't affect him much as he never really cared what others thought of him even in his previous life. After following Naruto's, or rather his, memories he arrived at the gates of academy.

After entering the academy, he looked around for the his classroom. He found it easily enough and entered it to find it empty save for a few kids none of which he knew, except one.

Sasuke Uchiha, the son of Uchiha clan head, the little bother of Uchiha prodigy Itachi and the sole survivor of yet to happen uchiha massacre. He was sitting in the front row all alone. In his eye, you could see the excitement he had for the first of ninja academy, wondering what amazing things he would learn here to become a ninja just like his beloved brother. You could also see the innocence of, well, a child in his eyes.

Naruto wondered how much time is left until that look in his eyes will be forever gone, only to be replaced by the dark abyss of hatred. While thinking this naruto moved to sit next to sasuke. He thought that while he may not be capable of stopping the uchiha massacre, maybe he could save Sasuke from being consumed by his own hatred by being his friend.

Naruto turned to Sasuke and said," Hi, my name is Naruto Uzumaki. What is yours?"

Sasuke looked at Naruto out of the corner of his eyes and said," Sasuke Uchiha" wondering what the blonde sitting next to him wanted.

Naruto said," Say sasuke, this is our first day of academy, aren't you excited? I wonder what cool things they are going to teach us today. Maybe they will teach us how to jump buildings like I saw some Ninja doing when I was coming here."

Sasuke said," Yeah, I am also excited. But, I don't think they will teach something like that on the first day.I think they will give ninja practicing tools and the books that academy has for new students and to let us become comfortable in the academy, they won't have us do much work today, I guess."

Naruto was a little surprised that sasuke replied at all. He said," Wow Sasuke, you know quite a lot." While thinking,' I guess its understandable though as Sasuke was a good kid from what I remember of manga and anime, after all'

Sasuke was pleased hearing that and puffed his chest out a little while saying, " Ofcourse, I know a lot, I am an Uchiha, after all. And besides, my brother told me about it when I asked him."

Naruto said," Wow, your brother must be quite knowledgeable Sasuke."

" Ofcourse he is. He just became a chunin and he is only 10 years old. He is a genius." said Sasuke feeling proud of his brother.

Naruto said," It must be amazing having an awesome brother like that, right Sasuke?" while thinking,' Hmm, since Itachi just became a chunin it should be about 3-4 years before the massacre.'

Hearing that question reminded Sasuke of how everyone compared him to his brother and somberly said," Yeah, it is."

Although he knew what was wrong. Naruto still asked," What's wrong, Sasuke?" He got "Nothing" as his answer.

" If you say so" saying that Naruto didn't push too much as this was the first time they met and he didn't think Sasuke will tell his problems to someone he just met.

After that when naruto looked around, he found that while he was talking to sasuke the classroom had filled up. He found that all the main characters are in the class.

' I think I should start thinking of them as real people and stop judging them from what I know of their character from canon and start building my own opinion from what I see here. Cause' who knows what differences are there in the canon and this world, other than me, I mean.' while naruto was thinking the class suddenly quieted down as a teacher and his assistant entered the class. They were carrying packets of some sort. The teacher had a scar on his nose and the assistant had white hair giving naruto an idea of who they might be.

And sure enough he was right as the teacher opened his mouth and said," Hello students, my name is Iruka Umino and this is my assistant Mizuki. I am sure that you guys are wondering what's going to happen today. So let me explain, today we are going to give you the tools with which you will train to become a ninja and the books which will tell you how to do so. Since, this is your first day here, there will not be that much lessons today. We will let you mingle among yourselves for today."

After that they distributed, the packages inside which the training tools kit and books were held, they left the classroom. Iruka was the one to give Naruto his package. After receiving it he immediately checked to see if the things inside his package were messed with or not. Seeing that everything was alright, he relaxed.

He thought, ' Looks like the various fanfictions I read were exaggerated, it doesn't seem like everyone wants to mess with me in konoha. From what I've seen so far civilians are the only one's who outright hated me, even then not all of 'em. As for shinobi, most are more or less indifferent towards him, meaning they won't do something to sabotage me nor will they help me. Some are scarred about kyuubi breaking out, but they don't hate me, they just want to maintain there distance. Iruka is one of them, I suppose. And there are very few shinobi who really hate me.'

He was surprised to notice that Mizuki didn't seem to hate him. It seems like he said all those things in the canon to mess with naruto's mind, he himself didn't believe about naruto being the kyuubi. Or maybe something changed later on. Or it could also be that this mizuki is different from the canon one.

Naruto rubbed his head to ease himself as his head started to hurt after thinking so much. Sasuke saw the blonde next to him acting weird but didn't comment on it.

The students started to talk among themselves, Naruto also decided to join them, he also asked Sasuke to come with him to which he declined. Civilian children were hesitant to allow him to join them. Seeing that naruto just smiled and shook his head then left them. He approached Shikamaru Nara next, who had his head down on the desk. Next to him was Choji Akimichi who was eating potato chips.

Naruto reached their desk and said to Shikamaru," Hey why are you sleeping? Don't you want to make new friends?"

Shikamaru raised his head from the desk with a yawn to look at the troblesome blonde who disturbed him from his sleep. He finally registered the question he was asked and replied with a " Troublesome" then put his head back down on the desk.

Seeing that Naruto sweatdropped and turned to the boy next to the sleeping Nara and asked," What's up with him?"

" Don't mind him. He is always like that. He just likes to laze around all day and do nothing else. My name is Choji Akimichi, by the way" Choji answered and while jerking his thumb towards the sleeping Nara he said," And he is Shikamaru Nara."

Naruto nodded and said," I am Naruto Uzumaki." After that they chatted for sometime, more like choji and naruto talked and shikamaru just listened. Somewhere between their conversation Kiba joined them. Naruto also dragged sasuke into the conversation and that's how they spent their first day of ninja academy, laughing and playing with their new friends.

After leaving the academy, naruto first went to Ichiraku's to eat and then after that returned to his apartment. He ordered a veg ramen that surprised. He just said that he understood now that he is starting his journey of becoming an awesome ninja and the best hokage he has to eat healthy food also not just ramen. The ichirakus were really great people, they genuinely liked him. He enjoyed the time he spent with them.

After arriving home, he rested for some time, then he took out the tools and books he was given today. He put the training kunai and shuriken, etc. to the side as he didn't know how to use them yet. And started looking over all the various books. He read the one explaining how to gain access to your chakra for the first time.

The book said that to unlock one's chakra, one must first learn how to meditate. After learning how to meditate, one must train their mind and body to create more mind and body energy as normally the energy they create is negligible. After training for some time, the energies of mind and body will combine to form chakra and this newly formed chakra will try to merge with the already existing chakra in the body. During the time, this newly formed chakra is assimilating with the already existing chakra, one must meditate and try to sense this newly formed chakra. Once one is successful in doing so, the next step is to follow this chakra and sense the merging of new and old. After doing this, one will know how to access the chakra residing in one's body and would have unlocked one's chakra.

After reading it completely, naruto began to do what was written in the book. But he didn't train his body or mind as was written in the book. He thought that since he is an uzumaki he must have very large amount of body energy and stamina. As for mind energy, since he is mentally an adult, the mind energy he creates must be more than what a child can create which is the age when someone unlocks their chakra. Usually naruto had trouble sitting in one place as he had too much energy, but now that he has the mind of an adult he can do that.

After trying to meditate for more than ten times already he still didn't give up which surprised naruto somewhat. As in his previous life, while he was smart among his peers, he never had strong determination or will power, that's why he didn't amount to anything big in his previous life. But that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Looks like the original naruto and him and truly merged and became one.

After a few more times, he finally was able to unlock his chakra. After enjoying the empowering feeling that came with the chakra running through all of his body, he noticed the red vile chakra seeping through the seal on his stomach and merging with his own blue chakra. It was very miniscule amount but he could still sense it. Knowing what it was and where it was coming from he tried to follow the trails of chakra with his consciousness as he wanted to meet the kyuubi and check something also. And after after trying a few times he found himself in the sewer system that was original naruto's mind. But it was cleaner than what was shown in the canon when naruto first came here in the canon, brighter too.

' Makes sense, I guess. The original naruto was young when I took over. He spent less time all alone compared to canon's naruto when he first visited kyuubi.' thinking this he looked down at himself to see whether he looked like his old self in his mind or not. He found that he looked like how he looked in real world, meaning like child Naruto.

' Whoever brought me here also made my mind self look to like naruto. Looks like that person or god or whatever it is that brought me here doesn't want other people to find out that I am not naruto, well not the naruto they knew, since naruto and I are one now. The only thing left to check is whether I can tell someone about my origin myself or that is also not possible. And I know just the person, or rather beast, to check it on.'

After wandering around for quite some time, he finally stumbled upon a large open area. There were two massive gates in front of him and in the place where a lock was supposed to be, there was a paper slip with words [SEAL] written in kanji. He was awestruck when he first saw it, then he peered behind the two massive gates.

Two massive crimson eyes, bigger than naruto himself, opened up. Those crimson eyes looked into his own cerulean ones. They seemed to bore into his very existence. They pinned him onto the spot. He could neither move nor look away. After what seemed like an eternity a thunderous voice that seemed to shake the whole area boomed out and said," So, my jailer finally decided to grace me with his presence?"

A.N. Let me remind you guys once again that this is the first story that I've ever written. Hell, this is my first anything that I've ever written, except for schoolwork ofcourse. So, tell me guys, did you like it or not.