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A.N You know what? If I owned Naruto I wouldn't be writing a Fan Fiction about it would I? No the story would have gone the way I wanted it to from the start.

It has been a month since the meeting with Kurama. It has also been both, the happiest and the most exhausting month of Naruto's young life. It was happy, because for the first time in his life he got to experience some of what kids with parents got to experience.

On the down side of that. He finally understood what Kiba and Shikamaru meant when they said mothers were scary. He found that out first hand, the first morning of training. He had just gotten dressed and was heading for the door to start his day. When his mother stopped him. She had made breakfast for him and his dad. Sadly as is often the case with Naruto, his mouth had jumped ahead of his brain.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flash Back~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Naruto breakfast is ready." Kushina with a smile. His dad was already at the table drinking a cup of coffee.

While Naruto would love to eat some more of his mom's cooking. After all, the supper she had made the night before was delicious. But Naruto wanted to get his training started, after all the sooner he got to training the sooner he could become Hokage!

"No thanks mom I'll just grab some toast." Said Naruto dismissively. Not really trying to be rude, just in a hurry to train. Apparently his mom did not cook for him NOT to eat! For right as he was turning around to leave, He felt a massive blood lust that would have made KURAMA run with all nine tails tucked between his legs.

Frozen in his tracks Naruto heard the deceptively sweet voice of his mom

"You wouldn't let all this food I made go to waste would you Naruto-Kun!" Said Kushina, in a falsely sweet voice.

Turning around slowly what Naruto saw would forever be tattooed on his brain. His Mom's hair was waving behind her, like nine tails of DEATH! And the look in her eyes promised pain to whoever had upset her.

Naruto could have sworn he saw the shadow of the Shinigami Behind her. And of course his dad was nowhere to be found. Minato was not called the smartest shinobi of his time for nothing!

"O-of c-c-course n-not mom! I-I'm suddenly s-starving!" Stuttered Naruto quickly. And just like that his mother was back to normal.

"Such a sweet boy!" Said his mom smiling. At that point his dad walked back in the dinning room and sat down at the table.

"Oh where did you go hun?" Asked Kushina as she made Naruto's plate.

"Bathroom!" Said Minato a little to quickly.

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Naruto shuddered as he remembered that event. After that he was always careful to stay on his moms good side. Sadly this also meant he could no longer wear what his mother called a "Kill me orange jump suit."

He now wore clothes like his dad used to wear when he was a genin. Except Naruto's was black instead of white. The jacket had three stripes down each sleeve, since his mom wouldn't allow him to wear orange. He compromised by having the stripes Yellow, Red, And Yellow.

The color yellow was for him and his dad, and red for his mom. On the back of his jacket was a red Uzumaki swirl along with his clan patch on his right shoulder. His Hitai-ate was now black also, not because he didn't like the one Iruka gave him. He just didn't want something to happen to it. So he keep it in a safe spot so he would always have something of Iruka Sensei.

Naruto got up and stretched. Sighing softly he wasn't lying when he said this last month had been exhausting. His new Senseis where real task masters. They all pushed him to his limit and then some.

None more then his mother. Kushina loved her son more then life itself. As she proved when she jumped in front of Kurama's claw to save him. But she saw no reason for her son to be the dead last of his class!

It would have been different if he had a handicap or something. But just not paying attention was not a good reason! So while Naruto was out training a group of 20 clones would stay with Kushina.

She would have them learn math, spelling, and history, both clan and village. And on top of all that. She would still drill him in the Uzumaki sealing style at night. Naruto would go to sleep at night, feeling like his head was going to explode.

And that was just from his mother! His dad on the other hand while calmer and more calculating. Like to push him just as hard. He would always tell him

"If you wish to become Hokage. You first have to know your limits so you can push yourself past them."

His dad was full of sayings like that. For instance

"To master ones enemy, One must first master himself."

or "The true test of skill isn't ending a fight with one hit. Its ending the fight without having to hit."

His dad would make a shadow clone of himself that would take a group of Naruto's shadow clones off to train in his wind element. Thanks to the Rinnegan Naruto had all five elements. But his father said to focus on one for right now.

Naruto chose wind because that was the one that both his parents had. Minato was also teaching him his signature techniques, The Rasengan and The Flying Thunder God. Though Minato did explain that he could only learn the theory behind the Flying Thunder God. Until he got a good grasp on sealing.

While his clones where off learning all that his six Senseis had to teach him. Naruto and the real Minato would work on his speed, strength, and taijutsu. His dad put gravity seals on both his ankles and wrists.

From what he understood about them. They didn't increase the gravity so much as it just increased the resistance to his arms and legs, making it harder to move. When Naruto asked what the difference is. His dad told him.

"For example Naruto if you weighed 94 pounds before you put the seals on. You would still weigh 94 pounds after you put them on. It would just feel like you've got an extra 20 or 30 pounds on you."Said Minato. When Naruto had asked. why not just use real weights?

His dad explained, That say Naruto got up to the weight of 200 pounds on each limb. thats a total of 800 pounds plus his body weight. And that most tree branches could only take a couple hundred pounds before snapping.

His favorite training done with his dad was when they would stop for lunch. While they ate his dad would tell him all about being Hokage, What he did, Why he did it, And he would go over the finer points of being a leader.

When lunch was done they would play a game of Shogi or go. His dad said it was to help him learn strategy but all Naruto cared about was that he was getting to play a game with his dad.

While all that was going on Naruto also had groups of clones with his other Senseis. Hashirama Sensei would teach him how to use his Yang Release to mix water and earth chakra too get Wood Release. He would also teach him some basic Medical Ninjutsu. Luckily Naruto's Rinnegan gave him perfect chakra control or else Naruto doubted he would have had any luck with it. Medical Jutsu was really hard even with perfect chakra control.

Tobirama Sensei was the complete opposite of his older bother Hashirama. Where Hashirama, the God of Shinobi was goofy, happy, and a bit laid back. Tobirama was a real hard ass! Not that Naruto would ever tell him that! Naruto loved his health too much.

Tobirama Sensei would teach Naruto a few water Jutsu but for some reason would not allow Naruto to use his Rinnegan's ability to copy Jutsu. Something about

"Too much like the sharingan and those damn Uchiha!" Whatever that was about.

Tobirama Sensei also taught him the tree walking and water walking exercise. But the best thing Tobirama would teach him was how to use a sword, once a week the real Naruto would go with him to learn how to use his sword. Tobirama said it was a skill that any Shinobi worth their salt should know.

Between his Uchiha Senseis Naruto like Shisui the most. Shisui he learned was a die hard leaf shinobi, He was quiet and reserved but also kind. It was through talking to Shisui that he found out what really happened to the Uchiha clan.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flash Back~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"So Naruto tell me about yourself. Do you have any friends back in Konaha?" Asked Shisui in his usual soft and calm voice.

"A few. I mean there is Kiba, he's kind of a loud mouth like me but he can be cool some times. Then there is Choji he's nice to me for the most part. But thats just him he's nice to anyone as long as you don't call him fat! Then there is Shikamaru. He maybe the laziest guy I know but he is always willing to ditch class with me." Answered Naruto.

"Is there anyone else?" Asked Shisui with a knowing look in his eye. Naruto thought for a minuet.

"Well I suppose there is Sasuke. But he is more of a rival then a friend." Said Naruto with his head down.

"I was hoping you knew him Naruto." Said Shusui.

"why?" Asked Naruto.

"Because he is my best friends little brother!" Said Shusui. At this Naruto eyes got big and he was about to say something but Shusui stopped him.

"Listen Naruto what I'm about to tell you. You can never tell Sasuke he would not take it well." Said Shusui, and so he told Naruto all about the Uchiha massacre. After he was finished speaking, Naruto was stunned.

"You mean Itachi Killed his whole clan to prevent a coup?" Asked Naruto with his jaw all but on the floor.

"Yes Itachi Loved the Leaf village so much that the only one he could not bring himself to kill was his baby brother." Said Shisui with a sad look on his face. Naruto was now deep In thought.

'Could I kill my whole clan if I had too?' Naruto asked himself. He honestly didn't know if he could.

'Wow Itachi would have made a great Hokage.' Thought Naruto. But something was bugging Naruto.

"Shusui Sensei why did the Uchiha clan want to take over the village?" Asked Naruto.

"What you have too understand Naruto is that vary few people trusted my clan. When Madara Uchiha betrayed the leaf lots of people wondered if we would too. That mistrust grew slowly over time. Have you ever noticed how there has never been a Uchiha as Hokage? But it all came to a head when the Kyuubi attacked. People began to think the Uchiha were behind it. So our standing and treatment in the village lowered considerably. So much so that they moved us to a corner of Konoha so they could keep a better eye on us. After awhile it just got to be too much. Was my clan in the right? No! But neither was the village." Said Shusui

Naruto nodded he could understand that. Then a thought struck him.

"Why did the villagers think your clan was behind the kyuubi attack?" Asked Naruto.

"Well two reasons really The first is that it was and is a well known fact that Madara could control the kyuubi. And the second is that on the night of the attack, the kyubbi's eyes had a Sharingan in them." Said Shusui.

Naruto thought of the masked man. Just another reason he needed to die. Naruto knew that it was not Madara as his father first thought, because Madara's soul was in hell the Old Sage confirmed this.

"Shusui Sensei I promise you I will bring the one responsible to justice."Said Naruto with fire in his eyes. Shusui smiled and Said

"I would like you to promise me something else instead."

"What?" Asked Naruto.

"Sasuke's mom would like you to try to keep her son from falling into darkness. This request comes strait from her." Said Shusui.

Naruto thought long and hard on this. Finally Naruto looked Shusui in the eyes.

"Okay, I Promise to do my best. But I want it on record that I still think he is a jerk!" Said Naruto. This caused Shusui to chuckle.

"Oh yeah one other thing Mikoto-Sama would like you to do." Said Shusui.

"What that?" Asked Naruto

"If you are to ever run into Itachi. To tell him that she and his father still love him and that they understand." Said Shusui.

Naruto nodded in agreement.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End Flash Back~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Shusui Sensei would train Naruto In genjutsu and He also taught him the leaf Body Flicker Jutsu. Naruto really liked Shusui and had begun to think of him as a big brother. He was always willing to share his wisdom with Naruto. He was the one who told Naruto that to become Hokage he would need to be acknowledged first. Not the other way around.

The only Sensei Naruto did not like in the slightest was Izuna Uchiha the younger brother of Madara. Izuna was not happy to be there. He made it known on many occasions that the only reason he was training Naruto was because the Sage ordered him to.

Izuna was to train Naruto in the Sharingan and Mangekyō Sharingan aspects of Naruto's Rinnegan. So far the only one of the Mangekyo's techniques that Naruto could use was Tsukuyomi. But even then he could only hold it for a day. Something Izuna Sensei never missed a chance to mock him about.

One thing was for sure this promised to be an interesting year.

Fin

A.N I know I said I would put the whole year in this chapter but It was just too much too wright sorry. The next chapter we are going to Time skip to the six month mark in Naruto's training. Well let me know what you think. The more reviews the more motivated I am to wright.