Naruto: Primary Step Chapter 1

What if Naruto was able to get a better grasp of the basics before being put on the Genin Team 7, will this change Naruto's future and grasp on the shinobi world and the others future's, a slight different Konoha 12, Team 7 more like a team, a better teacher Kakashi. Maybe Chunin in part 1. Naruto's Primary Step

Academy Year 3 Naruto Age:11

"Alright class what are all ranks of ninja?" asked the chunin instructor Iruka seeing a pinkette raise her hand "Yes Sakura?"

"The ranks of ninja are Genin, Chunin, Jonin, Anbu and Kage with Kage's the strongest and Genin the lowest" said Sakura hearing snoring in the back of the class

"Correct now if Naruto will just wake up!" yelled Iruka directly at Naruto

"I'm up, I'm up I just wanted some beauty sleep" said Naruto while yawning

"And you definitely need it dead-last!" yelled Kiba making fun of Naruto

"Shut up Kiba if anyone needs it, it's you!" yelled Ino at Kiba causing the class to laugh at the Inuzuka

"Quiet!, now since Naruto feels like it is better to sleep during class than to pay attention, we will go back over the 3 academy jutsus again" said Iruka watching all the students groan

All the students executed the three justus successfully to a degree except for Naruto who couldn't get the clone jutsu, and struggled with the substitution but he did the transformation perfectly

Ichiraku Ramen

"You know Naruto you need to study more I you want to be able to pass" said Iruka slurping his ramen

"But I can't go to the library, the lady won't let me in saying I'm not allowed to go in" said Naruto slurping his 3rd bowl of ramen

"Well I'm not supposed to tell you this or even recommend this to you, but you can use a transformation to sneak in since the librarian isn't a ninja so she won't be able to recognize that you are not you Naruto, so try it tomorrow you might like it in there" said Iruka

"Alright I will Iruka-sensei" said Naruto

Library the next day

"Excuse me young man"said the librarian lady looking at Naruto under a transformation not noticing its Naruto with him now having black hair, no whisker marks and made himself more pale with green eyes "Is there something I can help you with?"

'What should I say?' "Um can you point me to the shinobi section please I need help with my techniques?" asked Naruto under his disguise

"Sure may I ask for your name?" asked the librarian lady grabbing a notepad for her to record who is in the library and when they leave

"Um...its Menma" said Naruto having ramen on the brain albeit is his least favorite part of the ramen

"Alright right this way" said the librarian lady showing him the shinobi section

The Shinobi Section

"Alright lets see I got Basic Chakra Control exercises, Advance Chakra Control exercises, The history of Konoha, Guide to weapons, how to have good Tactics and strategies for dummies, and elemental exercises but I feel like I'm missing somethings" said Naruto with his Menma transformation still active he saw something that caught his eye it was the books, Seals:Basic, Ninja art Clone techniques, Rules to Stealth, The Bingo book, How to Shunshin for dummies, and How to increase your speed.

"You know I never thought reading could be so much fun"'Thank you Iruka-sensei' said Naruto happy he gone to the Library to learn something

Time skip Academy: Year 4 The Genin exams Naruto age: 12

Naruto had mastered the Chakra control exercises which included the leaf balancing, tree climbing, and water walking but is still nowhere near Sakura's chakra control but he is better than most in his age group albeit no one really worried about there control since they all have low or average chakra capacity for there ages, he studied all of Konoha's history now knowing the previous Hokages, drills that happen in the village, He has gotten better at tactics and strategies he knows since he challenged Shikamaru in a game of shoji once and won 1 game out of 3 making Shikamaru question Naruto's actual intelligence.

He finally learned the clone jutsu albeit he only can make two when his classmates can make 3, along with the shuriken shadow clone which was surprisingly easy to him, even mimicking Itachi's crow genjustu but uses leaves instead of crows which he now always carries on him calling it his leaf clone which is more of a distraction jutsu than attacking, he knows how to send wind, fire, and lightning chakra into his kunai that can channel elemental chakra.

He increased his weapon arsenal to fuma shuikens and ninja wires which he buys at the weapons store luckily its the store where former academy student and now Genin under Team Gai formerly Team 3, Tenten lives and works at who he gets along great with even calling each other big sister and little brother.

But to Naruto his greatest achievement in his opinion was his speed, he wears gravity seals that is 10x his weight regularly at the moment which he learned from the seals book he also learned to make storage seals and explosive tags and had another seal he is working on, and he is a master of the shunshin even learning the leaf shunshin making him the self appointed fastest kid in Konoha which may be true. Oh and lastly he has gotten stealth down if evidence to his latest prank

Konoha

"Naruto Uzumaki get back here right now!" yelled one of the chunin out of many trying to catch up to the blond

"If you want me to your gonna have to catch me!" yelled Naruto back at the chunin sticking out his tongue out at the chunin and disappearing in a shunshin

Hokage monument was covered in paint markings thanks to one Naruto Uzumaki, thanks to Naruto the First hokage had blue hair, white face and a blue mustache, the Second hokage had big white bulging eyes, with green hair and snot going down his nose, the Third hokage had a red paint dripping down his nose making it look like a nose bleed, with pink markings on his cheeks to tell hes blushing and he didn't change the fourth hokage because he didn't want to miss his genin exams and he idolizes the fourth hokage

Academy

"Alright class today is your final exam where we divide the exam into four parts writing, taijutsu, weapon aiming, ninjutsu now lets start with writing" said Iruka passing out papers

'Alright first question what is Konohas most common elemental chakra? Easy its fire thanks to the Uchiha and Sarutobi clans it spread around like a wildfire throughout the years' thought Naruto writing down his answer 'this should be easy'

Outside: Weapons (Target Practice)

"Alright now lets test your aim go up to a post and grab shuriken or kunais then launch them for your grade" said Mizuki

They went as followed: how many shurikens hit the target/10 shurikens

Sakura 8/10

Ino 9/10

Shikamaru 5/10 (he didn't try)

Choji 7/10

Kiba 6/10

Hinata 9/10

Shino 7/10

Sasuke 10/10

Naruto 10/10!

Most of the class were shocked that Naruto got a perfect score while Sasuke just glared at the dead last getting the same score as him

Outside: Taijustu

Next taijutsu you are going to spar against Mizuki while I continue to grade the written part

Well lets just Mizuki was giving Naruto a harder time than the others even though Naruto held his own quite efficiently but Mizuki because of his reasons gave him a 0/10

Ninjutsu they executed the Henge, substitution and clone jutsu

and they went as followed

Sakura 10/10

Ino 9/10

Shikamaru 8/10 (he tried)

Choji 8/10

Kiba 7/10

Hinata 9/10

Shino 9/10

Sasuke 10/10

Naruto 1/10 (realistically 9/10 but Mizuki wants him to fail)

Overall

Sakura 36/40

Ino 38/40

Shikamaru 30/40

Choji 35/40

Kiba 33/40

Hinata 36/40

Shino 37/40

Sasuke 40/40

Naruto 21/40 (really 39/40 but Mizuki) making Naruto dead-last of his graduating class

Team placement day (The Next Day)

"Alright class congratulations on becoming Genin now we will put you on a team of 4 with 3 genin that is you and 2 others and 1 jonin sensei for a quick refresher now Team 1..." said Iruka going through the teams, Naruto had zoned out until he heard his name called from Iruka

"Team 7 will consist of Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno under sensei Kakashi Hatake. Team 8 will be Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame under sensei Kurenai Yuuhi, and Team 10 is Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi under Asuma Sarutobi you have an hour for lunch then meet back here for you to meet with your sensei" said Iruka

4 hours later at the Academy

"Why is our sensei so late everyone even Iruka-sensei left" said Naruto obvious upset

"Naruto calm down he could have had something to do" said Sakura trying to get him to shut up while inner Sakura was thinking 'Cha! Naruto is right where is that sensei of ours'

The door open with an aproximately 5 feet 9 inches man with silver hair, wearing the standard jonin attire but his headband was covering his left eye , and he wore a mask that covered the bottom half of his face letting them only see his right eye of his face.

"Well I will be waiting on the roof hurry along" said the man just described

Rooftop not much later

Naruto Sakura and Sasuke were sitting on a ledge while Kakashi was standing on a square object in front of them

"Alright lets get to know each other tell me about yourselves I'll start, My name is Kakashi Hatake, I like things, I don't like things, don't have hobbies or a dream next." said Kakashi with his eye smile

'All we got was his name' thought the 3 newly appointed Genin

"Alright my name is Naruto Uzumaki my likes are ramen, my dislikes are the wait for ramen my hobbies are training and reading and my dream is to become a strong ninja." Said Naruto deciding to start off

"My name is Sakura Haruno my likes are... my hobbies are... my dreams are... and my dislikes are NARUTO!" said Sakura taking glances at Sasuke in between her pauses

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I don't like a lot of things, I don't have a dream but an ambition to destroy a certain man."Sasuke said in a dark tone

'He is so cool'

'I thought so'

'Stupid emo duck butt hair teme'

"Alright our survival test is tomorrow at training ground 3" said Kakashi confusing the kids

"What test Kakashi-sensei?" asked Sakura

"the real genin test... out of the 27 graduates this year only 9 pass after given their genin test, the purpose before you ask is so we can eliminate the kids not ready, so be there at 6 o'clock oh and I recommend you don't eat breakfast you'll just throw it up see ya." said Kakashi leaving in a leaf shunshin

"Hey Sasuke, Sakura-chan do you want to get food at Ichiraku's so we get to know each other better and prepare?" asked Naruto asking Sasuke and Sakura sitting next to him

"Fine dobe let's go already" said Sasuke already walking away

"Wait for me Sasuke-kun!" yelled Sakura chasing off after the last Uchiha

"They could have waited for me *sigh* oh well at least I'm having lunch with them" said Naruto shunshin off to Ichiraku's

Ichiraku Ramen stand

"Hey Teuchi-san, Ayame-neechan I'm having my teammates come over can you get ready for them and I'll have my usual"said Naruto taking his seat in the middle

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"Naruto how did you get here so fast?" asked Sakura which she and Sasuke got their 5 minutes after Naruto

"Well I am pretty fast if I say so myself or was Sasuke was too slow" said Naruto slurping on some ramen noodles

"What was that dobe" said Sasuke glaring at Naruto for calling him slow

"I was saying you weren't in a rush to get here like I was that's all. Are you gonna order?" asked Naruto slurping on his ramen

They ordered their ramen Sasuke asking for pork and Sakura asked for a vegetable one. They were amazed and disgusted on how much Naruto can eat since he is already on his 7th bowl. After they finished their bowls...

"So dobe how are we gonna prepare" asked Sasuke

"Yeah I thought you would like to hear about our new sensei since he didn't give us a lot of info" said Naruto pulling our a bingo book. "Kakashi Hatake 26 years old , rank jonin, stats ninjutsu 5, taijutsu 4, genjutsu 4, intelligence 4.5, strength 3.5, speed 4, stamina 3, hand seals 5, total 33/40. side note he has a sharingan in his left eye under neath his headband. Cool he sounds strong" said Naruto in awe of Kakashi's stats

"Does it say how he got that sharingan since he is obviously not an Uchiha" asked Sasuke interested in how someone not of the Uchiha clan acquired the sharingan

"No but it says it is implanted in his eye meaning he got it from someone else and since he isn't a Uchiha it drains him which is probably why his stamina is a 3 and why his taijutsu, ninjustu and genjutsu are so high" said Sakura who snatched the book from Naruto

"Makes sense" said Sasuke leaving the topic alone for now since he will question Kakashi later

"Oh I remember it saying that he values teamwork meaning we need to work together to impress him" said Naruto

"So we need to work together someway in a way to defeat or restrain hims since its a survival test" said Sakura trying to think of a plan

"Well I got a plan listen up..." said Naruto to the others listening in to Naruto's plan for there survival test