Disclaimer: Kishimoto owns Naruto.

Summary: The Yondaime and his wife Kushina sealed a part of their chakra and their consciousness into Naruto's seal along with the Kyuubi. The seal on Naruto's parents consciousness was designed to be released when one of the 2 conditions happened, the first condition would be if Naruto needs to control the Kyuubi before going berserk and destroys the seal to escape. Then Minato would appear to reseal the Kyuubi once again. The second condition is when Naruto needs to control the Kyuubi's chakra, then Kushina would help him there. But what if it didn't go as planned? Naruto AU – NaruHina and other pairings.

Chapter 4

Time Skip

It has been three years since Yuugao had taken Naruto under her wing. If she was to go by how she has taught him, Naruto would be placed at Chunin level. As an apprentice, Naruto has shown an uncanny ability to get things done no matter how impossible they maybe.

Over the years, she has trained the boy in Sensory control, chakra control, which slowly expanded to various disciplines due to the fact that the boy seems to be showing a great aptitude and interest towards ninja arts. She was surprised that Naruto had not only an aptitude for kenjutsu but ninjutsu as well. Given his large chakra reserves, he was drilled to exhaustion to master the chakra exercises but Yuugao can't seem to understand why no matter how many chakra exercises he practices his chakra control still suffers. He was unable to do genjutsu. It will be his weakness. His chakra reserves were so large that to be able to execute a bunshin, he would need the chakra control of Senju Tsunade, Konoha's Top Medic Sannin, now that would be something, she thought.

The boy had enrolled in the academy much to the dismay of the civilian council, however, has failed the final exams three times, much to the dismay of Yuugao. However, when she talked to Naruto, he said that he was not concerned about failing after all he was younger than his peers. Naruto tried to graduate from the academy earlier but failed.

This year he was to be under the class of Umino Iruka. Naruto had already done a background check on his sensei just like how he was trained. All information were pertinent information as far as ANBU was concerned. Since Naruto was trained as an ANBU, his discipline with regards to ninja arts was impeccable.

Yuugao was absolutely sure that if Naruto fails again this year, heads would start to roll. She knew him, she trained him, almost certainly, she and her boyfriend raised him. They knew and understand how his mind works. They were sure that there was no way that Naruto could have failed unless it was intentionally done and his exam was sabotaged. The Hokage was also told of this, but since Naruto was still considered too young to graduate by then, the old leader decided to let it go for the meantime while Yuugao and Hayate were both fuming. The Hokage was warned that Naruto was told the same, but he will not be so forgiving the next time.

Naruto walked to the Academy, Yuugao-sensei wanted to walk with him but he said that he was okay walking alone. It exasperated her sensei to no end when Naruto expresses his independence he was after all only 9. Although he was still in her eyes virtually her baby, well she had started to think that of him. He was her baby, their baby, Hayate and hers. When Naruto reached the gate of the Academy, he was literally assaulted by a bevy of sounds that he had to lower down the sensitivity of his hearing. He was trained by an ANBU after all. His senses were all on constant alert, however since he was in the Academy where he assumed he was safe, he toned down the chakra that he was sending to his senses. This way he avoided being deafened by all the screaming that the children were doing at that moment.

Naruto entered his assigned room and saw the multitude of the clan heirs. He was trained to observe and study his surroundings so he seated himself at the very last row, making sure that he was capable of observing the students around him from his vantage point.

He spotted the present day Ino-shika-cho, Ino, Shikamaru and Chouji. The blond girl was rattling her mouth off, while Chouji was seated in between munching on chips, Shikamaru, well, dozing on his table.

Naruto saw Inuzuka Kiba talking to his puppy Akamaru, while Shino was sitting up straight and seemingly observing his surroundings as well, like what he was doing. Seated at the edge of the second row, was the shy Hyuuga princess, Hinata, who was had her head lowered pretending not to be noticed but he spotted her looking at him. He inwardly smiled.

Suddenly the room bustled with excitement and screaming was heard, lead by the very loud and screechy voice of Haruno Sakura 'Sasuke-kunnnnn!'. Naruto immediately covered his ears to protect them from the unholy assault. Oh yes, the so-called prince of Konoha has just entered the building.

He sensed the ANBU tailing the Uchiha and placed himself at the corner of the room just behind Naruto. Naruto smirked and made a hand signal in greeting. The ANBU Tora was surprised when he saw the blonde boy make an ANBU hand signal in greeting. The stealthed shinobi wondered how he was sensed by Naruto and moreover how he knew the hand signals used by the ANBU.

Naruto turned in his seat when his Sensei, he assumed, Umino Iruka entered the room. He sighed, yup, the Academy has just started.

The teacher made the roll and when his name was called, Naruto felt the twinge of annoyance coming from him. 'Oh kami, don't tell me-,' Naruto thought and blew air out of his mouth. 'Damn! Here I thought this year was going to be different.'

Naruto was aware of the sabotage done to him during the early years but then he was unconcerned as he was really too young to graduate. Yuugao-sensei was worried although she never really showed it, but he heard her talking to her fiance, Hayate-sensei one night. She was tearful in her worry, that night Naruto promised himself that he will give her time to get used to the idea of him being a shinobi. He smiled after all she was one of his most precious people.

He didn't really mind the sabotage. And as far as the senseis were concerned this Umino Iruka seemed to be a decent one. Or at least he hoped so. He would just wait and see.

However, Naruto had not really foreseen how boring the academy would be for someone like him, trained by 2 ANBUs and was not even happy with the way the lessons were going. Kawarimi, Henge and Bunshin? Really? If the Academy was so easy why the heck would it be separated from the normal learning institutions? Granted that he had never learned the bunshin, Yuugao-sensei taught him its more difficult variant, the Kage Bunshin, which was permitted by the Hokage, seeing as Naruto would never learn genjutsus due to the massive chakra reserves. Although Henge is also a genjutsu, there was no requirement to control it as it can be bypassed unlike the bunshin where there is a tendency to overcook them and produce 'dead' clones.

Naruto spent the last three years in the Academy throwing pranks. It was after all a test to his plan making and strategizing. Stealth and Evasion was when he was running away from all those ANBUs.

He was bored out of his skull that he thought that his pranks where livening up the entire Academy. Despite the initial annoyance, Iruka-sensei seemed a pretty decent shinobi after all. He treated him the same as all the other students.

Naruto learned to make friends with Shikamaru, Chouji, Shino and even with Kiba and Akamaru. They would try to escape class from time to time due to the severe boredom. Ino and Sakura have formed this Sasuke Fan Club, with all the other screechy girls in class. And boy, were they so loud! The screeches coming from them, Naruto would swear were breaking his ear drums!

Although its going to be hard and boring to repeat the process, but Naruto was hopeful this time that he would be able to graduate. After all most of the class is composed of clan heirs. He could just maneuver it in such a way that he is not going to fail this time and if he did, well, his senseis might have something to say to his current senseis and it won't be pretty.