Chapter 2

Naruto looked at himself in the mirror. He was able to tame his spiky hair and tone it down to a pale, ash, blonde hair clean bob cut starting short from back, getting longer to the front, bang framing his forehead.

For many boys his haircut is girly but he never cared about other comments because Ma'am approves his hair style and this is the only important thing here. She even told him with his wakashu style he will be good asset for infiltration, assassination and intel mission. Thinking about her, makes him remember how much he missed her and turned to look at his mostly plain and maybe over clean house.

He moved to this house 2 years ago with Ma'am's advice. Which dormitory houses are given to academy students. House is a small one room house with an arm length kitchen bed, shelf, desk and small table with 2 chairs on the top of the table plain vase white paper made flowers.

He once again looked to the mirror, his eyes showing his determination. This day is a graduation day. He will graduate and make his Ma'am proud and he will be closer to his goal, becoming an elite shinobi, he will be an ANBU most valuable asset for the village. With this determination he fixed his short hip length black kimono with dark pink collars finished with black trousers and shinobi sandals. With a satisfied smile he took his way to the academy.

He entered the class and started walking toward his only thing close to friend. As usual his hand folds under his chin with a stoic look on his face wearing dark blue high collar with Uchiha clan symbol on his back and white shorts and blue shinobi sandals. After sitting near him and giving him a nod as a greeting only receiving a small nod as response.

He started to think about their relationship. He approaches him 3 months after the Uchiha massacre after seeing him training non-stop but he has many faults. He wants to correct this but he keeps to himself, first he needs to ask Ma'am if it's a good thing to approach the last Uchiha. After Uchiha finished his training he got out the bush he was hiding and started to follow Uchiha and he realized villagers were looking at Uchiha the same way they looked at him. With that he left to consult Ma'am.

With Ma'am's approval he approached the Uchiha when he was training by himself, Uchiha first scowled but after demonstration from him he accepted and this turned to rutin. Once a week they meet, eat breakfast, which his idea, in one of Ma'am's friends owned. After eating breakfast in a complete silent they move to training ground and sparring with each other with only taijutsu and with minor jutsu included one, Which Ma'am's advice, and they correcting each other's fault most he was correcting Uchiha's there is no way his Ma'am stop teach him until it's perfected.

While knowing he came early he took out a few white standard papers and started to push his chakra on it. With his chakra on the paper, the paper turned into straight and still no longer one side hanging. He started to fold it manually while his chakra moved according to his moves. With this way he memorized how to shape paper and increase his chakra control.

Sasuke glanced toward Nartuo, the closest thing you can call as a friend. He started to watch his friend folding paper while his chakra following every fold like one who holding paper is the chakra itself. He also glanced at Naruto. His posture shows he is relaxed but he knows better how ash blonde's switch relax to battle ready mode, his false approach caused dislocated shoulder which is painful as relocating itself.

He was already used to his friend's unusual fashion sense; he also came to realize, blonde actually enjoying people denying he is male when wore a full kimono or yukata.

Turning his thoughts to Naruto again. Blonde enigma to him one day when he was training himself, blonde approached him and told him that he was doing wrong he first scowl but after blonde demonstrated to him he accepted and started to with each other once week sun turned into tradition, something he was looking for. With blonde his training partner and as a friend he felt improve insane speed.

Then there is Ma'am, the orphanage's matron who takes Naruto her care and tutored him. Which he doesn't understand even now. But he needs to accept one thing about her: her advice and instruction is useful and efficient and perfectionist. With her instruction he not only worked on jutsu but also worked on his affinity until he could fire a match with his chakra alone.

With all those years training and meeting with Naruto he felt his hatred lower down or mostly tamed down also he started to become more controlled over his emotion. He also adopted Naruto's sharp smile and sharp eyes, maybe a little bit of the sadistic side of his friend. Blonde is incredibly observant and while they walk he asks random people's clothes or one of their features and full outlook explanation. First it's hard but now it's become like a normal thing.

With Iruka-sensei entering the class and he looked at to his friend's, who holding a detailed paper flower with dark pattern. It looks beautiful and harmless but he knows this pattern is not for decoration, mostly explosive seal or poison gas seal.

Also because of his fangirl's fear from Naruto, after Naruto gave them a paper flower he made but with small explosion goo like thing with a horrible smell spread onto the girls while his sharp eyes on them and his usual sharp smile with small release of killing intent doesn't help it anyway. He couldn't help but allow the same sharp smile to appear on his face. After that they stopped bothering him in class.

Iruka gazed at his class white proud smile on his face. After a long 5 years of teaching his students and seeing how much they growed, he felt proud of himself and his students. While there are interesting groups his eyes landed on smiling Sasuke, he can't help but shiver from that smile. He doesn't know when but Naruto and Sasuke became short of a friend and Sasuke started to adopt few habit from Naruto but he doesn't know if he personally like those or not he doesn't know but he can tell after friending with Naruto Sasuke became more relax no longer had stressed posture.

With that Iruka turned to his class and explained to them how the graduation exam will follow and what they will do. After explaining Mizuki started to hand out the exam sheet and retried back after final glance Mizuku started the timer and writing exam started. Few minutes after writing exam Iruka gazed at his class. From the look on students' faces they were doing good if not troubled by a few questions. With the end of the writing exam he announced the start of the practical exam and called the first student to the exam hall.

When Naruto saw Sasuke walking back to class room with Konoha Head-band he gave him a quick congratulation with his usual smile only receiving a similar but more Uchiha added smile and grunted "of course". After waiting a few minutes his name was called and he walked to the exam hall with his usual facade and confident posture.

He done as instructed substituted (kawarimi no jutsu) with log without using hand sign then transformed (henge no jutsu) into İruka and finaly create two normal, one paper clone. Iruka congratulate him with a smile and "You passed writing exam and practical exam, and your physical grade B+. Passed" informed and handed him. He took it and ripped the metal part from the fabric and attached it to a specially made choker and wore it to his neck. Iruka smiled his now graduated studen's antic.

Sasuke gave his usual sharp smile when his friend walked into class with the Konoha symbol attached to the choker and other student's reactions, Naruro's smile far sharper than the his usual one. He expected something like that from Naruto then congratulate the blonde instead of receiving thank he received "Ma'am invite you to dinner" he looked his friends sharp blue eyes with long eyelash and he is death serious he gave nervously agreed and started to prepare his mind to meet women rise Naruto and tutor many shinobi including himself. He gulped his salvia nervously.