Chapter 1

A 7 year old bright blonde haired child with a whisker-like line on his cheek, his sharp blue eyes entirely focused onto the folded paper he is cutting with scissors slowly and carefully while sitting on the seat in front of the desk cross-legged. wearing black t-shirt with brown shorts and blue shinobi sandals.

Room kid sitting plain and simple there is no extra decoration, only a shelf covering the entire wall filled full of books and documents, in front of the shelf, a plain desk with some office necessities on top of the table. In Front of the table are two seats for the guests but mostly reserved for the young child sitting on it.

Office door was opened by a plain looking old woman with grayed hair with sharp eyes. A powerful aura around her showing She is more than a basic matron who just manages the orphanage, wearing white loose dress with black plain obi warped her waist, on her shoulder short black rope reaching her mid arm. She looked toward the child in her office sitting on her guest seat. Kid looked at her and showed her his newly finished paper angel to her small but sharp smile on his face.

"I hope you don't cause any problem" She said with a sharp and authoritarian tone while walking toward her seat. Boy responded to the matron "No ma'am I'm working on my new art" showed her his paper angel again the whole time without letting his eyes leave the matron.

Matron hummed as she accepted his answer and mused by kids' antics. She took boy under her care after seeing most caregiver ignore him or abuse him in a some way, while normally she won't care such a act or punishment which considering world nothing but unfairness and harshness they will adapt more easy to real life and hardship but this kid, Naruto, contain Nine Tailed Fox's itself, a jinchuriki.

Before being matron at an orphanage she was a kunoichi which she saw and experienced all shinobi wars. She saw jinchuriki's use at the wars and the impotence of their mental health and guidance for controlling emotions. She is already helping shinobi candidates live in orphanages, some of them even visit her for advice once in a while. Her proud achievement of knowing her guidance gained Konoha strong tools.

She collected her head and allowed a small but sharp smile on her face. Kid is progressing well and already adopted some of the important traits for shinobi and needed emotional control.

She also started train him on his physical aspect such as speed, stamina, strength, flexibility and reflex which for an outsider all her exercise are simple and she reasoned to Hokage that Naruto has more energy than normal, which is true, She basically help him to burn extra energy again, not a lie. But when this training mixed with her teaching; how to hit, which place to hit and how to stand and balance, how to walk with all combined created a shapeless but efficient and deathly fighting style which was flex toward defense to kill.

She once again turned toward the boy who was now shaping paper into a kunai. "Naruto Ninja academy starting monday at 08.00 don't be late to school" with the same tone, which can be considered casual thinking how much she used.

After making last touch and finishing his shuriken He faced her his lips quivering to the small but this time soft smile. Which means he tries to contain himself, good. "Hai ma'am" he answered with a professional manner but didn't cut eye contact.

After waiting few second "Do you wish to tell anything" Matron, Naruto nodded and "I wish to practice with my fan confetti after academy" Matron just nodded let out approving hum "only for a hour after it you will return" She stop for a while "you can go your room now" She added. Naruto bowed and left the Matron's office.

While walking to his room Naruto mused to himself with academy he can be a shinobi like his ma'am explained and protect his village and his home even if he meant to kill others or sacrifice himself.

Before meeting Ma'am he didn't know many words or many things. When he tried to learn all the caregivers ignored him but when Ma'am took him to her care he learned and gained a purpose. She may be limited to every other interrection but Ma'am knows everything there must be a reason. Even he wanted to ask her that if she can company him to first day of the academy he now she also need deal with the other childs in the orphanage.

In the morning he woke up at his usual time and practiced for an hour and did chakra control exercises, which involved sticking stones to his chest, for another hour. After finishing his daily exercises he cleaned and wore clean clothes and with last check to his bag and greet to Ma'am he left the orphanage with mostly stoic but with a nearly unrecognizable sharp smile.

Without caring the civilian's whispers and glares he kept walking to the academy. His Ma'am already told him he will witness worse than this and told him that when he becomes a capable shinobi, Hokage will explain everything to him. He is able to make out a few words like "Demon or Fox" but he doesn't know why they whisper this word and glare at him, he will learn when he becomes a capable shinobi. With a determined nod he increased his pace.

When he reached the academy he tensed a little bit to a view in front of him. All the kids came with their families with happy smiles on their faces while laughing and loudly speaking to each other. He collected himself and started to look around and analyze it. Maybe his Ma'am is not with him but he knows she is proud of him and supports him from orphanage.

He kept walking forward while giving a quick glance left and right. He was internally surprised to see nearly all major clans of Konoha in the present with their kids while the remaining ones are civilians like himself. He also heard whispers about "don't go near him or don't interact with him" He signed in his mind. "This will be long years" he taught and signed internally.

With Hokage's arrival and welcoming and encouraging speech for the new year and new generation of shinobi, parents left their kids to return to their jobs while all new students left on the ground. He found his class pretty easily considering how large the building was. He saw a few clan kids already seated. He also takes a seat back of the class which he can at least out of prying eyes. Class started to fill up slowly and finally Their teacher entered the classroom.

Iruka scanned and smiled at his student even his distaste for teaching "Nine tailed fox" but proud given a class of mostly clan kids which showed him doing something good. After introduce himself and explained basic thing they need to wait from academy brief explanation of their curriculum he started self introduction of kids.

Iruka "Naruto" called keeping his tone as neutral as he can. Said kid ,back of the class, stood and said "I'm Naruto just Naruto, I like origami and Ma'am I don't dislike many things my dream became a strong asset to the village" he introduced himself with a professional and elegant manner. Even Iruka winces at the use of assets for a shinobi even though he knows very well that shinobi's are… but hearing this from his student can't help singh.

"This will be a long academy year" he taught and looked at his other student's reaction and he can understand their confused look. With that he gave them their first shinobi lecture without giving out harsh truths.