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Summary: Naruto wakes up from a dream to find that the world is different from what he remembers. Or is it really? Canon Universe with an AU-like Naruto

General Warning: This story contains graphic violence, language, suggestive themes, and AU Naruto.

Author's Note: This story came to me in a dream, literally. I was dreaming about a seriously AU Naruto plot, with the belief in the dream that it was canon. When I woke up and realized how AU it was…well, the basis of this story came together.

Edit 1: Just modified the heading a little bit.

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*Pak* A piece of chalk bounced off his head.

"Naruto, wake the hell up!" A voice yelled.

Naruto opened his eyes, wiped some drool off the side of mouth and looked around, confused. He was sitting in an academy classroom. A group of what appeared to be academy students were laughing at him, and a strangely familiar man was standing in front of the classroom, glaring at him. Naruto frowned, he could've sworn he was attending a lecture by the Hokage, did he fall asleep? Dozing off while the leader of the village was speaking was a big no-no, especially for a shinobi under his command. Was this some sort of prank by the Sandaime to get back at him? His head was pounding hard.

"Naruto, are you paying attention!" The man yelled, interrupting his thoughts. Naruto refocused his attention on the man, noticing that the man wore a chuunin vest. "Sounds about right to be an academy teacher" He thought. He looked closer, checking his build and facial features.

Then Naruto gasped. With a start, he realized who the man was. "Iruka-sensei."

He was very different from the one he remembered though. For one, the real Iruka didn't have that horizontal scar across his face, and the real Iruka was a jounin. But the resemblance was uncanny.

"Naruto, what's wrong?" 'Iruka-sensei' asked, looking irritated.

Naruto grinned, knowing he was in some sort of genjutsu after all. He tried to shake himself awake more, formed the genjutsu dissipation hand seal and shouted "Kai!", momentarily stopping his chakra flow, then flaring it up to dispel whatever genjutsu there was.

Nothing happened. Naruto frowned, his chakra felt a little strange, it felt like he had used more than he had intended, but the effectiveness of the technique shouldn't have changed due to that.

"Naruto, what was that?" 'Iruka' asked, looking concerned now.

The rest of the class were either snickering quietly or giving weird looks at Naruto.

"Iruka-sensei, I think he just tried to dispel genjutsu." A boy in the back said.

Naruto glanced over at the kid, the pineapple shaped hair and facial features were a dead giveaway to the Nara Clan, but aside from that, he didn't recognize him. "What do I mean? It's just that lazy bum Shikamaru." Shikamaru? That's…right, he does know him, he's been in the same class with him for four years now.

Naruto growled, shaking his head again, his head was starting to hurting more, was this part of the genjutsu? His release should've dissipated the genjutsu, but with that strange feeling in his chakra when he tried earlier, it could've thrown off his technique.

Well, there was another, even more effective genjutsu dispel technique, pain foreign to the directives of the genjutsu would disrupt it. Naruto reached for a kunai, and frowned when he realized his weapon holster was missing. Shrugging, he just bit his thumb instead…and felt the pain. Still no change in his surroundings.

Now, he was getting worried. He couldn't break out of this genjutsu, or was this a genjutsu at all? Even pain hadn't worked. Well, he could always backtrack.

Naruto stood up, scratching the back of his head, "Sorry Iruka-sensei, I gotta go!"

"What do you mean Naruto-" Naruto interrupted by using a long range shunshin, focusing on the Hokage Tower with the precise image in mind for an accurate jump. He disappeared with a flourish of illusory leaves.

The class was dead silent with Naruto's departure.

"Iruka-sensei, where did Naruto go?" Haruno Sakura asked, staring at the blond boy's now empty seat.

"That…that was the shunshin no jutsu…" Iruka replied distractedly, looking shocked.

Uchiha Sasuke frowned, "How did the dobe know a technique like that? Even most genin don't know it."

"Troublesome." Nara Shikamaru sighed, leaning back in his chair.

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The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to just slam his face on his desk. He didn't want to take up the job of Hokage again, but after his predecessor had died, there was no one else qualified to give the job to. With the job came the greatest bane of his existence. Paperwork!

Piles of them were stacked high on every square inch of his desk. There was even some on the floor, the desk having run out of space. He desperately wanted an excuse to get out of his office, away from all these...tax forms...requisition requests, memos...Just for a break…

*Boom!*

Startled, the Hokage looked up at the sudden sound. It had come from outside his office, already, his ANBU guards were shouting indistinctly. Well, there's his excuse he supposed, he got up, smiling. His paperwork could wait.

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Naruto groaned in pain. He had seriously overpowered his shunshin somehow. That hadn't happened in years, not since before he had mastered the technique. He supposed after what happened to his genjutsu dispel, he should've known better than to use chakra, but his headache had distracted him.

He tried to get up, but hands forced him down, and ninja wire coiled around him. He looked around, and saw a squad of ANBU surrounding him. Oh right, the Hokage's ANBU guards. He supposed they were responding to his badly executed shunshin, but why were they tying him up? He tried to see if he recognized any of them, but his vision was blurring and he couldn't make out the masks.

The doors to the Hokage's office swung open to reveal the Sandaime Hokage, in his signature robes and pointy hat.

"Hey…Oji-san…" Naruto murmured, before slumping into unconsciousness, his headache proving too much for him.

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The Hokage sighed, "Naruto. I bet he's cutting class to prank me. While I appreciate you guys for stopping whatever he had planned, isn't the wire a bit much?" At least this would get him out of his paperwork for a while.

An ANBU with a hawk mask saluted the Hokage, "Hokage-sama, he got into the lobby with a shunshin."

The Hokage's face turned grim, "Are you sure?" he asked.

"Positive, it looked like he botched it a bit though. His body was stuck in the after cast, and he didn't land on his feet." Hawk replied.

Another ANBU with a leopard mask looked up from his diagnostic, "Hokage-sama, he's not under a henge or genjutsu, this is Uzumaki Naruto."

A third ANBU operative, this one with an Oryx mask came in, "Just checked, seals are fine, Uzumaki Naruto came in with valid identification seals." She reported.

The Hokage tower was heavily sealed against intrusion. An academy student wouldn't have had the necessary clearance seal to shunshin directly into the tower, let alone his office's lobby, past all the standard security checkpoints. And Naruto…last week when he visited Naruto, the hyperactive boy could barely manage a passable kawarimi, much less a shunshin.

"Ugh…maybe paperwork wasn't so bad after all." The Hokage thought. Outwardly, he sighed, "Bring Naruto to the hospital, we'll ask him about this when he wakes up. I'm going to see Iruka."

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Author's End Note: This and two other story ideas popped into my head recently. Like I said, I came up with the idea for this story when I woke up today. I'll see how much I can get down during the summer. I have summer classes though, so expect sporadic updates. This is just the start, the next chapter will more or less fully explain what's going on.