17 Chapter 016

"You're Hinata," Naruto inquired. She nodded, "Y-Yes I am. I'm Hyuuga Hinata."

"You're from that Hyuuga clan," Naruto said, "That's cool. I heard a lot of interesting things about you guys and that really cool bloodline limit you guys have."

Hinata smiled and blushed again from Naruto compliment. Before a conversation could start, Iruka started speaking, thus beginning the first day of class. As the class went on, Naruto, in pure boredom from hearing things he already knew, laid his head on the desk and drifted off to sleep. Hinata giggled a little from Naruto's antics.

(Six Months Later)

During his early days in the academy, many of Naruto's peers, girls in particular, asked him a bunch of questions about his personal life with Tsunade and what cool jutsu he knows. After Yamanaka Ino and Hinata's fathers, Inoichi and Hiashi, both of whom are part of the village council, learned that Naruto was in their class, both of their fathers encouraged their daughters to associate more with Naruto, both fathers knowing fully well that aside the fact that not only is he the adopted son of Tsunade but also the son and sole heir of Yondaime Hokage who's seal inside him. Ino had little, if any, trouble complying with that which was more than what could be said of Hinata who was a bit too shy to be as opened with him as Ino was, as were several other girls; not that Naruto didn't like the attention however, it was starting to annoy him.

During the end of the second month, Naruto, out of boredom and frustration, started pulling pranks on whomever he saw could give him a good adrenaline rush. His first target was none other than Iruka who was given a nice size apple by Naruto after walking into class. Iruka thought it was highly thoughtful of Naruto while others thought he was being a kiss-ass. Those thoughts however were instantly changed after a seal of some sort appeared on the apple, causing the apple to explode in Iruka's face with a small batch of red paint thrown to his face and a sticker tag thrown and instantly fastened to his forehead from the exploding apple that stated, "Watch what you eat! A true shinobi is never too trusting!"

"How did you like them apples Iruka-sensei" was what Naruto said before he and the entire class burst into a fit of laugher, which only added to Iruka's fury towards Naruto's prank, who was made clear when Iruka started yelling and berating him for the stunt he just pulled. Naruto told him that if he truly intended to kill him then he'd already be dead from having needles burst into his face instead of the red paint and sticker tag on his face. The thought that Naruto's prank turned a Chuunin into a live-action joke and lesson within seconds had the class look at Naruto in astonishment.

Since then Naruto started pulling several other pranks on unsuspecting Chuunins and Jounins, and once in a blue moon, a few ANBU. This led to Naruto being occasionally chased around the village by the Chuunins and Jounins he'd pull his pranks on. This in effect gave the villagers some good laughs that were well needed. The idea of seeing the son of the Slug Sannin pulling childish yet cleverly planned pranks on Chuunin, Jounin and ANBU level shinobis and finding ways to evade being caught by them much to their irritation was quite comical.

Of course his pranks didn't go unnoticed by Kakashi, Shizune, Jiraiya, Tsunade or Sandaime. The Hokage himself was given some good laughs from watching some of Naruto's pranks on the Chuunins and Jounins, happy that he wasn't on the receiving end of those well-devised pranks. For Kakashi, Shizune, Jiraiya, Tsunade and Sandaime, not only was the very thought of an eight-year-old Yondaime, namely Naruto, pulling off those well thought out pranks on unsuspecting shinobis quite comical, but it also re-enforced the fact that Yondaime Hokage was indeed an excellent strategist during his younger days before becoming a Hokage.

Though none of his pranks actually hurt anyone, it only served to make Naruto look like a mischievous troublemaker among the Chuunins and Jounins. When confronted by the 'victimized' shinobis in front of Tsunade and Sandaime about his pranks, he told them that it was all in good harmless fun. It annoyed the Chuunins and Jounins to hear Naruto's childish sense of logic, however there was more to Naruto's pulling his pranks than he let on.

In spite of all this thought, it amazed many to see how smart, strong and fast Naruto was for his age with the stamina his possessed, which unfortunately made him the envy and an unpopular figure among some of the guys. One older bully tried to fight Naruto with the intent to prove that Naruto was nobody special just because he was the son of a Sannin. Needless to say, the older bully effortlessly had his ass handed to him after Naruto planted one swift punch into his gut, instantly knocking him unconscious in front of the body of students, some of whom were expecting a long fight. That incident only served to heighten Naruto's reputation among the students who were aware of Tsunade's monstrous strength. They figured that he inherited it from her. Through all this, none of the students or academy teachers for that matter have ever seen Naruto without his ninja mask on, not one time.

Sasuke was another attention grabber among the girls since he was part of the Uchiha clan. However his focus at the time was trying to match his older brother Itachi who was also well known throughout Konoha for his superb achievements. Because of this, he started considering Naruto as his rival believing that Naruto would reach Itachi's level before he does. Naruto though tried to be friends with him, however Sasuke wasn't interested and instead told him that he has to surpass him in order to match his brother and gain his acknowledgement. It saddened Naruto that Sasuke rejected his offer of friendship. Naruto felt that he and Sasuke could relate to each other in that they were both annoyed at how people considered them of any worth just because of whom they were related to or what bloodline limit they had. Still Naruto was persistent in trying to gain Sasuke's friendship in whatever way he could.

In regards to Iruka, it annoyed him to no end that Naruto would use his class to sleep in and yet have the capacity to pass and even ace his tests, but what did you expect when your mother is a Sannin and medic specialist. Some in the class found it humorous, some of the girls found it cute, one Nara Shikamaru found it, troublesome.

During the end of the fifth month, the Uchiha massacre occurred. Men, women and children of the entire Uchiha clan were ruthlessly slaughtered in one night with only two survivors. These survivors were Sasuke and his older brother Itachi, a former ANBU captain who was responsible for slaughtering the clan and leaving Sasuke alive for unknown reasons before leaving Konoha as an S-level Missing-nin. Sasuke was crushed and devastated by the horrific event carried out by the one person he held in high regards and wanted acknowledgement from most. Naruto, after learning about the massacre, tried to console Sasuke in whatever way he could. He had little success at first, but Sasuke slowly started opening up to him, although not as much as Naruto would have like it, but it was a start.

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