566Thought I should put this at the beginning of this story. I have put up a re-written version of this story. Read this if you want but just know that it isn't being continued and the re-write is up.
The village hidden in the leaves has been the birthplace for many legendary ninja throughout the decades. There's the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi otherwise known as the God of Shinobi and the Professor. He was trained by the first two Hokages, he became an S-Rank shinobi by the time he was fourteen and took the mantle of Hokage when he was sixteen.
Then there was the Legendary Three Ninja other wise known as the Sannin; Orochimaru, Jiraiya and Tsunade all having legendary skills and summons. After surviving a fight with Hanzo of the Salamanders they became hailed as legends and S-Rank ninja.
Sakumo Hatake or The White Fang of the leaf, a genius shinobi said to have been stronger than the Sannin and rumored to have been a candidate for becoming the Fourth Hokage.
Minato Namikaze a once in a generation genius, student to Jiraiya of the Sannin and the legendary Fourth Hokage. The legendary Yellow Flash.
However, walking up to the Ninja Academy, was a small blond orphan named Naruto Uzumaki. He has a dream, to become not only the Hokage but the strongest Hokage of them all.
Looking up from his shirt that he was fiddling with Naruto looked over the academy building "Okay, calm down. Jiji helped me and he said that the other kids at the Academy would be nicer." thought Naruto, flashing his famous grin and walking through the families wishing their kids good luck on their first day. Naruto made it a point to ignore the pang of hurt at the fact nobody was here for him and went to his classroom, room 104.
xXx Inside the Classroom xXx
Inside Naruto found that he was the third person to arrive, looking over towards the back he saw a boy with a big green jacket and sunglasses "He must be shy or something to hide in a jacket like that," Naruto thought.
By the window he looked over the other occupant, a raven hared boy in a navy blue shirt and tan shorts with a fan symbol on his back, "So there is an Uchiha in my class, interesting." Having heard from the old man about the various clans in the village he knew that the Uchiha were typically the best ninjas in the academy along with the Hyugas.
Taking a seat in the middle of the class room he waited for everyone else to arrive. Meanwhile, he was going through his backpack to make sure he had all of his books and utensils.
Kids started to rush in not wanting to be late for the first day. Sitting in the same booth as him to his right was a dark haired boy with a ponytail that oddly resembled a pineapple looking like he just woke up for the first time in his life. Next to him and further down in the right most spot was a chubby kid with swirls on his cheeks happily munching on what he guessed was barbecue chips if the smell was anything to go by.
Looking up from his row mates he saw a man in standard Chunin clothing with a horizontal scar along his nose.
Iruka cleared his throat to get everyone's attention, "Welcome to your first day at the academy, my name Iruka Umino and I will be your sensei until you graduate. Congratulations on passing the entrance exam and taking the first steps in becoming a leaf shinobi. Note however, that it only gets harder from here. Today will be an introduction day with several tests—" Some of the students started to groan, Iruka shot them all a glare. "-as I was saying, several test to see where everyones at." After explaining the daily schedule for normal Academy days and the tests they will be doing today Iruka starts passing around the written tests to everyone.
Iruka looked to see if everyone has a test and nods to himself. "Okay you will have one hour to complete this to the best of your knowledge. The test goes over information that was in the text book you were given two weeks ago after the entrance exam, begin!"
Naruto picked up his pencil and started on his test, after looking over the questions he smiled to himself it seams as though all that reading payed off. After Iruka called for everyone to hand in there test, Naruto nodded his head, happy with his answers.
Iruka organized the stack of papers before he noticed that it's time for lunch. "Now you all are dismissed for lunch, you have one hour to be back here, don't be late!"
Naruto followed the other students outside to the lunch area, looking around for a spot to eat he decides to sit under a tree that didn't have anyone near by. He opened his bag that had his lunch inside and frowned, he was terrible at cooking so he has to settle for pre-made food. So chips and water was going to be his lunch until he found out how to make ramen portable.
The two people Naruto sat next to in the classroom walk up to him as he opened his bag.
"Hi, my name in Choji this is Shikamaru. Can we sit with you?" A smiling Choji asks while gesturing to the bored looking Shikamaru next to him.
"Hello I'm Naruto, you can sit if you want." Naruto said while internally happy that they wanted to eat with him.
"So what did you two think about the test?" Asked Naruto, he was curious if he was the only one to read over the text book before class.
"I thought it was too troublesome so I just finished as fast as I could and took a nap." Shikamaru said lazily.
This caused Naruto to raise an eyebrow "I have seen old people with more pep in them than this guy." Naruto looks over to a chuckling Choji expectantly, "Well it was okay I don't think I failed" Choji said shyly.
Lunch turned into a comfortable silence as the three boys ate. "Okay everyone lunch is over!" The shout came from Iruka. Going back to his seat he looks at his sensei expectantly for whatever is next.
"Now, we will spend the rest of the day in the training ground to finish the rest of the tests." Iruka said before leading the students to the Academy Training ground.
xXx Academy Training ground xXx
The academy training ground wasn't anything to special, it has a variety of targets, a running track and an obstacle course for the older students to do.
"Okay everyone we will start off with shuriken and kunai throwing, you will be graded and ranked, so take this seriously!" Instructed Iruka, eyeing some of the students that didn't look all that interested.
Naruto watched everyone go up and take their test. Naruto noticed that so far nobody got higher than one or two hits and those were the clan children.
"Uchiha Sasuke!" called Iruka, the raven haired boy from earlier now identified as Sasuke walked up and took his stance before he started throwing his shuriken. He surprised everyone getting 4/10 on shuriken and kunai causing some of the girls to blush at his coolness when he just turned around and walked off without saying a word.
"Uzumaki Naruto!" called Iruka startling him out of his thoughts, he walks up to the post and picks up some shuriken. Taking a breath and letting them fly like he has been practicing.
Flashback
Sitting in the Hokage's office was Naruto, he looked up at the Third Hokage. "Hey old man since I'm going to be starting the academy this year should I be doing something to prepare or should I just show up and hope for the best?" Naruto didn't know how much someone should prepare for the Academy. The old man told him that most clans start their training as soon as they are capable.
The Third looked up from his paperwork, "Well I think that you should definitely prepare since most can get help from somebody else." Hiruzen looked at the picture of the Fourth Hokage, it was tragic that this boy was all alone and not being trained or looked after by his parents. Instead he was ignored for something that he had no choice over.
Hiruzen took out a piece of paper and started writing on it. "There are a few things you should have," Signaling an ANBU in the room to take the paper, "When you get home there will be some books I know that will really help you, not only in the academy but as a shinobi in general." Hiruzen said to small smiling blond. Naruto, happy with the response got up eager to get home to practice, shouting a thanks old man before running out.
Smiling an the small ball of sunshine the Third looked at the picture of his late successor again and sighed "It should be you guiding him not books, it should be you taking him to the academy and cheering him on or wishing him good luck. I wish I could have switched places with you Minato…" The Third gains a determined look in his eye "But since you aren't here I may not be able to personally do anything for him right now, but I will give him all the assistance I can and those books will be a perfect way to start… hell if he is like you, this may count as training my new successor." Thought Hiruzen.
End Flashback
Throwing the Shuriken like he's been practicing, Naruto had a huge grin having hit 6/10 shuriken. Looking over at Iruka sensei he sees a surprised look as Iruka wrote on his clip board, Naruto grabs the kunai and hits 6/10 again, happy at having the best score he turned to look at the rest of the class. The guys were kinda put off at a kid being so much better than them and the girls were all looking at him with awe, beating Sasuke who is an Uchiha, its just unbelievable.
"He must be a prodigy." "I know beating an Uchiha on the first day." "Plus he is kinda cute with the whiskers." Naruto blushed at the last one, he walked over to Shikamaru who was eyeing him differently than before and a frowning Sasuke who looked like someone just stole his candy.
"What did ya think of that Shikamaru? Not to bad huh." Shikamaru just looked at him for another second before turning away, deeming the who situation troublesome.
Sasuke steps forward not to be showed up by some nobody, "Don't get used to it. I will beat you in Taijutsu for sure." Challenged Sasuke, he's going to be number one like his older brother before him.
Naruto, grinning like crazy looked at Sasuke. "I don't think so, I have been training for the passed few months and I'm gonna be the best." said Naruto confidently. Sasuke just brushed it off and waited for the Taijutsu spars to start knowing with their last names they will be paired. He would show the nobody then.
After what Iruka thought was above average accuracy results for first day students he flipped the page on his clipboard. "Now we will start on the paired sparring, when I call your names come up and get into your stance, all styles are permitted, family or otherwise."
Watching the spars or in his two new friends case, mutual forfeiting. Naruto noticed one thing, that he could beat any of them. The book the old man gave him told him he should exercise daily and had katas for a Taijutsu form he has been working on. Naruto being smaller knew he would have to be smarter, so he worked on the accuracy of his punches rather than brute force, although he liked to think he was pretty strong for his size.
"Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto you two are up!" Iruka called out, he would never admit to favoring any student over another. But he was excited to see this match.
Walking up to the ring Naruto got in to the loose stance for the style he's been practicing. Sasuke got into his stance which Naruto noticed was a family style and being from a prodigious clan like the Uchiha, it was most likely good.
After hearing Iruka shout "Begin!", Naruto rushes in at Sasuke. Sasuke was taken off guard at how fast the blond was, he barely avoided the punch to his face and went for a leg sweep. Naruto vaulted over Sasuke and kicked him in the back making him tumble forward. Naruto uses the opportunity to rush Sasuke.
Sasuke who was regaining his balance from being kicked, rolled back to get to his feet and charged at Naruto. Both engaged in an impressive bout of Taijutsu. Naruto saw an opening and sunk his fist into Sasuke's stomach making him double over, Naruto follows up with a kick knocking Sasuke back and onto his back, then rushes over and points a kunai in Sasuke's face.
"Enough! Winner Naruto!" called out an impressed Iruka.
Walking back over to the class and Iruka-sensei, Naruto notices the girls and the guys were surprised that someone could beat Sasuke, the Uchiha are usually the best in Taijutsu and Naruto took him down on the first day of class.
Whispers were heard, "Man Shurikenjutsu and now Taijutsu this kid has to be some kind of prodigy no way he isn't." One civilian boy said to another both nodding, "Wow, I mean wow he beat Sasuke-kun so easily, what a guy." A blond haired girl in purple said to a wide pink haired girl who was just nodding.
"Okay every one that is all for today you can head home, the test results will be given back tomorrow." said Iruka looking at Naruto a little longer than the others.
xXx Hokage's Office xXx
Iruka stood in front of the Third Hokage going through his report.
"To be expected from a class with most of the clan heirs, they did better than average. However one Naruto Uzumaki stood out from the rest, he scored 6/10 on both shuriken and kunai and beat Sasuke Uchiha in Taijutsu, also his test score on the written exam this morning was quite surprising in that he knew most of the material, the only person that came close was a civilian girl by the name of Sakura Haruno. He has the makings of a genius, we should keep an eye on him possibly even putting him in an a higher grade so as to give him more of a challenge." reported Iruka, the Third nodded to himself.
"Where would you put his performance compared to the other years?" The Third was curious about the little blonds talent and whether or not he should be moved up yet.
"I would say years two or three possibly, we wont know for sure until we cover more material." Answered Iruka.
Hiruzen nodded, "Okay, dismissed." with a quick "Hokage-sama." Iruka left.
Taking out his crystal ball and watching a certain blond boy read a book while eating dinner and sighed, "If he continues like this people will put two and two together. He is a pretty much a clone of his father and if word spreads of a spiky blond haired blue eyed genius people will find out who he is. Which is something that would be a big headache should that spread to some other countries Iwa and Kumo in particular. I should classify his info and his parents info on a much higher level to be safe, good thing not to many people know anyway." The Third took out his pipe and puffed on his glorious tobacco before getting back to work.
xXx Uchiha Head Family House xXx
"So Sasuke-kun how was your first day?" His mother asked him from across the table, she didn't get a chance to ask him earlier since he went straight to the training ground after he got home.
"I did okay, better than almost everyone in class, but there was this boy who was better than everyone else at everything, Shurikenjutsu, Taijutsu and most likely the written test as well." responded Sasuke, he was ashamed that he wasn't on top like his brother had been when he was in the Academy.
"Who is this boy that is number one?" His father asked which could be interpreted as ordered.
"His name is Naruto Uzumaki. He got 6/10 in shuriken and kunai, and his taijutsu was faster than mine." Sasuke mumbles the last part although they all heard it, his mother sent him a sympathetic look while also thinking about Kushina and her orphan son sadly. Hearing a grunt Sasuke looked at his father who was looking like he was about to speak until his brother interrupted.
"Well Sasuke-kun, you need to start training harder, it looks like you found someone who would be a good rival." Said Itachi, nodding Sasuke looks at his brother.
"Can you help me train ni-san?" Sasuke pleads.
Itachi shook his head "Sorry Sasuke-kun, I'm very busy nowadays with ANBU so I wont have time." Sasuke looks down sadly but continued to eat thinking about Naruto and how he was going to double his training to catch up and beat him.
xXx Naruto's Apartment xXx
Naruto was going over today, he was surprised at how easy everything was. He has been training for the better part of four months in Taijutsu and shurikenjutsu but he was expecting the clan heirs to be as good or better since they had people training them. Naruto let sleep take over him, he was excited to continue his career at the academy.