A windy morning blew orange leaves through the city as autumn announced it's arrival. The wild wind noisily strutting through the empty village. The village of empty streets and waking animals. The village of stone faces in the mountain, the village of ninjas, the village of leaves. In an abandoned building in an old abandoned sector of the village. In a cold apartment with books sleeping across the floor. A small being moved through the sheets trying to find its escape to freedom, when an abrupt and annoying sound beat him to it. It hadn't been a second and the alarm clock was shut up with a gentle touch to the temple. The soft hands led up to a tiny child whose face was doing it's best to avoid the sunlight yet failed as the windows flew open revealing the bird's morning melody, and the sun's warm light invade his privacy. As he flung his feet down to the ground the floor creaked. He escaped his warm bed with a funny sleeping hat and a toad teddy bear. He carefully moved through the highway of books and made his way inside the bathroom but not before leaving his good sleeping buddy at a nearby shelf consisting of books and a picture of him laying in the grass with his head on an old man's lap as he read to him. He made his way inside the bathroom and found it to be getting colder every time he discarded a piece of cloth from his body. He found himself giving a yelp as stone cold water touched his body but not before he put two fingers to the side of the shower tap and excluding his life force into a small parchment making the cold water warm as he moaned in it's comfort. It took a few minutes as he escaped the bathroom. He came out with long shaggy blonde hair that had two bangs on each side of the face reaching to his chin. A white hoodie with the leaf symbol in the front and the whirlpool tag on the back. He tightened his loose black sweatpants and put on his white socks with green toads on his feet. And a pair of frameless glasses giving view to the big sky blue eyes. He comes to the mirror in his living room to give a final nod at being dressed. He looked through his teddy bear's home finding a book for the day as he landed on the historical volume 4: Leaf alliances and treaties. He pulled the book out and looked at it for a good minute as he scratched his whisker birthmarks on his left cheek. He gave it a nod and grabbed a set of keys as he locked himself out of his home before applying his chakra to another parchment that went invisible right after.

He left the building and adorned the fresh light as he took in a deep breath. He looked around found that he was a bit hungry so he decided to head towards his favorite shop which was probably opening for breakfast anytime now. He walked along the street for some 11 blocks before making a few turns into the shopping district. He came upon the smell of many different breakfast dishes being cooked and served but he didn't care as his mind was in the book that he was reading. As he came in front of his destination he squeaked by and found his regular spot as he rang a little bell to let his hosts know that he was here. Not a moment went by as a young matron came out in white clothing and apron tying a cloth over her brunette hair to enslave it.

"Ohayo Naruto-kun, how are you this morning?" she said in a tender voice.

"Ohayo Ayame-chan, you know same old stuff just a different chillier day, how about you did the old man give you any trouble for waking him up?" He replied not taking his eyes of the words.

"You know him! He's always lazy in the morning, anyway do you want your regular breakfast?" she replied turning the stove on with a pair of matches.

"Yes, but could I also get a couple strips of crispy bacon?" he asked midst turning a page.

"Of course, any special occasion?" she asked bringing out a couple eggs.

"Well today is the first day of the academy for my third year, and I'd rather have the extra calories to burn while going through Iruka-nii's lectures. You know how boring he can get?" Naruto replied as he continued reading.

Giving a chuckle Ayame cracked a few eggs in a mixing bowl and added some spice, she also took out a loaf of bread and butter. "Yeah he certainly can make education boing, but you know that they're important, and if I was to guess a part of you even likes them!" she exclaimed as she put a little bit of butter on a pan and put a slice of bread on it and stirred it and flipped it around the till the bread was crispy. She then did that again with another slice.

"Well they're not as fun as my books but I do like it when he calls on me to answer his questions, since he always thinks I'm not paying attention he is always dumbfounded when I get them right" at that they both shared a hearty laugh.

Ayame finished with mixing the eggs together after adding a couple of spices drooled them on the pan to make a perfect round omelet. While preparing to fry three strips of bacon on the side. "I've always wondered what his face must look like during those encounters, you really do love to mess with him don't you?"

"Well Ayame-chan he can't have the most beautiful ramen chef in the world and peace. It's either one way or another, and I believe it is my right as little brother to tease, prank and beat up any man who dates you" he replied as he turned another page.

Ayame giggled at her dear otouto's reasoning and even though she was a bit irked at his protectiveness of her she doesn't mind it rather she finds it very cute. "Alright Naruto-kun, whatever you say but please do take it easy on him this year I'm sure he would like your final year in the academy to be a bit memorable and I mean that in a nice way!" She said in a stern-ish voice. She puts on the readied omelet on the butter fried bread and take's two slices of cut tomato, cucumber, onions, and mayo and ketchup a little bit of salt and pepper. Topped with the other slice of bread, cut diagonally in half. Puts the bacon on the side also adding potatoes to the side with dipping ketchup on the side. She turns around to find Naruto's book neatly marked and placed on the side while his hand pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose and giving her a small graceful smile.

"As you wish Ayame-chan, now time for that delicious sandwich, thank you for the food!" Ayame saw her precious little brother gulping down food, as he gave him a loving smile. Meanwhile being totally surprised as her father's voice capture their attention.

"You just go on ahead and ignore that kid, I want the man who takes my little girl away from me to suffer!" He says in a joking manner. As he put his apron on and gave his daughter a morning hug.

"Dad!" Ayame whined with a smile on her face.

"I wasn't really planning on it old man" Naruto smiled as he gulped down his first half. As they all shared this hearty laugh. They broke apart to prepare for the morning. While Naruto worked on his meal, and the other two preparing to cook for their guests.

As a few minutes passed Naruto finished his meal, cleaned himself in bathroom, paid for his meal and exited with a promise to see them in the evening supper. Naruto usually appeared on times when Ichiraku's was empty to help not rid the place of guests. As he didn't want to hurt the business of his dear adopted family. He walked himself in his usual manner with a book open in one hand while the other in a pocket. He passed by this older gentlemen who seemed to be doing the same thing but with a questionable book, who gave him an eye smile for his action since the rest of his face was covered. He just gave him a small smile and a nod as he walked along his way. He kept walking till he found himself in his new classroom finding his spot in the third row on the right all the way in a corner. Naruto kept on reading for another half an hour till the classroom slowly filled up. As the bell rang an older gentlemen with a scar crossing his nose came marching in as he stopped at his desk to settle his scrolls and books down. As he looked up he found his class in the same fashion he usually does…. Screaming.

The class was bustling with noise with a pinkette and a blonde arguing, a boy with a dog loudly proclaiming. A fat one eating, a pineapple head snoring, a few civilians messing around, and an Uchiha groaning around while a blondie is reading god knows what in a quiet corner. Not to forget the Aburame who was buzzing around next to the shy Hyuga. Iruka using his big head jutsu or whatever silenced the classroom.

"Now since everyone is settled, Welcome back to your final year, I hope your summer was quite fun and exciting. Since this is your final year we will be going through some advanced Jutsu's that you will have to pass, and some other information that will be proved helpful in the field. I hope your last year at the academy is memorable and you all make great ninja's. Now before we start with our curriculum and syllabus I will take attendance, please raise your hand and yell here to acknowledge your presence and keep quiet till called upon. Now shall we begin? Alright, Aburame Shino!"

"Here!" replied the boy in a large hoodie and sunglasses.

"Arugami Shion!"

"Here!"

"Bura…." he continued on till he reached the last of his students.

"Uchiha Satsuki!" he yelled

"Here!" A soft voice gently out spoke as Naruto escaped his book to notice the figure sitting next to him. He hadn't notice the last Uchiha heir come in and sit next to him. He suddenly realized he had overtook her usual spot, something that usually she would mind keeping but today she didn't say anything. He found this very interesting as he studied her feature as he saw her Shoulder length black hair reaching to her blue top blouse that reached down to her long trousers with white tape on her left leg.

"Uzumaki Naruto!" A silence took over the class as many people looked at the blonde sitting next to the Uchiha.

"Here Sensei!" he replied. As Iruka ticked Naruto's name glad that he was here and on time. He proceeded to put his notepad down as he heard his favorite student's voice again. "Say Sensei, have you not been training? You seemed to have grown a few sizes"

"Thank you for your observation, if you must know I have kept up with my training requirements as needed." He replied as he heard silent giggles around the class.

"That's good to hear, wouldn't want you to get your but kicked by some measly little academy student now would we?" he replied as he turned another page in his book.

With a tick forming Iruka continued on to the class and started going over the semester syllabus. He started on the requirements, and current points transferring over to this one kicking off at the positions they left at last year.

As the day went on Naruto kept teasing Iruka and reading his own book during the classes. Apparently people thought him to be careless but those like Shikamaru knew that he was actually pretty smart to be able to multitask the way he does and still be at the top of the class.

Most of the time Satsuki ignores her classmate, so she can stay focused but her bookworm of a classmate can get on her nerves. On the boys side of the class he was the rookie of the year, and on the girl's side she was the Kunoichi of the year. Yet every year when they face each other they usually end up at a stalemate or her being defeated. It wasn't like this always, during the first year, Naruto was actually very annoying and the class dobe. He used to wear an orange jumpsuit and proclaim his desire to be Hokage every other second. Though something happened and he came in one day in regular civilian clothes and started going toe to toe with her. It turned out he was holding back all that time. From the class dobe to rookie of the year in six months. She suddenly remembered him submitting a 45 page paper to Iruka as a guideline to the next year's dobe. She found it surprising that Iruka actually made it an actual thing for class dobe's. He was always a mystery to her, she didn't understand him. What can an annoying dobe like him go through. After all she finds her grief to be an incomparable one. No matter one day she decided to follow him, and suffice it to say all he did that day was spend the day in the library reading books and making notes on kami knows what. She wanted to know how he grew so strong so she decided to take a look at the copy of the paper he wrote. But all she found was a couple of weird techniques where you cut things and build things with the only the use of chakra. She later found out those were chakra control exercises to the extreme. Suffice it to say she found it a waste of time. If it wasn't a nin, gen, and taijutsu techniques she wasn't interested. Everything else was a waste of time, she thought of confronting him but how or when? So she followed him one day and found him to have sneaked out of the village and find himself to be at a nearby mountain clearing where he had set up a small shrine with a couple of stones which had carved scribbling inscribed saying "Naruto's parents". But it was what happened next that surprised her. Naruto had started crying, no sobbing as he continued to tell them how much he wished that they were still here and with him. Something she can really understand now. And apparently he had passed out next to them. She decided to be nice for that one moment and started a fire next to him and kept a watch on him from a nearby tree top so she wouldn't be spotted.

After that day she started to keep her distance and avoided goading him or following him around. Of course he didn't know anything about this nor like she wanted him to know anyway. So now she was stuck confused about the bookworm blonde. And as her classmate she will most likely always will be, or at least that's what she thought.

"Alright class I know that this is the first day of class and I don't want you to leave with Homework and you won't but what you will be assigned is a group project that will be required to be submitted at the end of next week. So please do think about what you want to to do, your prompts are important wars/fights/treaties. I don't want a fuss about partners so please choose wisely and if there is trouble about it I will pick them myself and I won't be going with your choices. Understood?"

"Hai Sensei!" was the group reply as the bell rang for the class to come to an end.

As people started getting together a group of girls and boys came around Satsuki to ask her if she will be their partner. She swiftly replied a no and moved past them to find Iruka as he walked out. As she caught up to him she yelled for him to stop as he turned around to answer.

"Yes Satsuki? What can I do for you?"

"Iruka-sensei would you mind if I did this project alone, the people who volunteer or want to be my partner are not really wanting to be my study partner, and to be honest I prefer working alone" she said/asked.

"Hmm su…" he was cut off as another voice came.

"Neh Iruka-nii! I am doing this project alone, Nobody wants to be my partner so yeah? You coming to Ichiraku's or what. Your boring lectures make me hungry!" Naruto said in a soft and calm voice.

"Well looks like I have found you two a partner! And No Naruto I can't make it today I have a meeting with Hokage-sama, but please do give Ayame-chan my regards!" He replied.

"Sure and you give mine to Jiji and tell him he owes me a book, I'll come to collect it tomorrow!" he replied as Iruka walked away with a small wave of his hand irked about the blatant disrespect Naruto shows to his betters.

"Great you had to come right when I was going to get the permission to work alone!" Satsuki replied with anger in her eyes. Naruto simply stared at her with a deadpanned look and continued on out the building. "Hey! Where do you think are you going I'm talking to you!"

"Ichiraku's come on Uchiha we might as well get this over with" he said continuing on.

"Ugh! Why do you have to be so annoying dobe!" She exclaimed.

"Why do you have to be so rude?" he retorted with his nose in his book.

"Are you really asking me that, the most rudest and disrespecting person in the world!" she replied walking right next to him.

"When have I ever been either of that?"

"Are you kidding me just now when we were leaving you were disrespectful to the village Hokage not to mention your constant messing around with Iruka-sensei!"

"Oh that, well I don't think I disrespected him, sure I call him Jiji but that's because he really is my Jiji albeit adopted but still Jiji nonetheless. And Iruka-sensei well it's just payback to make sure he knows that if he ever hurt my nee-chan his life will have much worse problems then grading a few tests on time." he replied. Satsuki just stared at him dumbfounded.

"You have a nee-chan?" She asked while ignoring a few civilians trying to get her attention.

"Adopted" he said. She face faulted.

"Do you have anyone who isn't adopted?" she muttered silently.

"No…" he whispered but she caught it as she suddenly remembered Naruto sobbing on the cliff side. She let her dark eyes wander over him as she thought about that. It reminded her of herself when her family was killed. But she knew that he couldn't possibly understand what that is like. Having your loved ones get taken away from you. Suddenly a thought hit her, is it better to not have anyone or to have someone and losing them. She mused on that for the remainder of her walk as they came upon their destination. She wondered why they were at a ramen shop of all places, wouldn't dango or takoyaki be better?

Just like his normal routine Naruto found himself in an almost empty Ramen stand where his seat was waiting for him. He took his seat acknowledged his presence to the old man who was facing his back to him with the regular ring of the bell.

"Ohayo oji-san! I'll take the regular Miso please. Also I have brought a friend along as well!"

"Ahh Naruto" he proclaimed as he turned around "I was just done preparing for you, oho, who's this young lady?" He extended his hand towards her as she introduced herself.

"Satsuki Uchiha, nice to meet you" she replied, surprised that she had to. Usually people knew her because of her name and clan. Often they even begged her to have anything in their shops for free. She shook his hand for a few seconds before he continued on.

"The pleasure is all mine, my name Teuchi Ichiraku, owner of this fine establishment and chef of the greatest Ramen stand in the village. What can I get you?" he asked confidently.

"Can I just get a chicken ramen with extra tomatoes and chicken please" She asked politely.

Meanwhile Naruto had turned quite a few pages on his book, some would be in pure disbelief about it but nonetheless it was true that Naruto had started this book in the morning and the sun hadn't even fallen yet for the book to be coming at an end. He finished the last page and carefully set the book down. He took his glasses off and squinched his eyeballs to give them a moments peace. As he came back to it he put on his glasses to find Satsuki staring at him.

"What?"

"Why do you wear glasses?" she asked "I know you don't need them after all you have perfect eyesight. I know because I have seen you spar and throw kunai and shuriken with perfect aim without them.

"They help me read and I kinda like them" he replied "Anyway I think I know what our project should be on"

"And who said you will be the one deciding what we do our project on?" she replied a little irked.

"Alright then why don't you tell me what you want to do?" he asked knowing that she probably doesn't have a clue.

"I don't know but I am willing to take suggestions unlike some people" she replied facing the other way with a pout and a little embarrassed that she didn't know what their project should be on..

"Well since our prompts are, War/treaties/fights, not to mention that you are an Uchiha and I an Uzumaki why don't we do the great war. The era of the warring clans where Konoha was first formed. The fight between the Uchiha and Senju?" he replied.

"That's fine but I do have a question, what or should I say how does you being an Uzumaki matter to this?" she asked with a frown on her face.

"Well looks like someone hasn't been reading their history, the Uzumaki's wrote the treaty between all the clans that currently exist for them to come together and create this village.

"Wait a minute you're saying that it was your ancestors helped write the treaties, I thought you were an orphan?" she asked a little ticked about not knowing something so important.

"I am an orphan, my people, or should I say my clan died with my mother" he replied.

"So you found out who you're parents are?" she asked.

"I wasn't suppose to, apparently my clan had a bunch of enemies namely my parents so I'm not suppose to be talking about it but to be honest they're my clan and I do have some pride in it".

"How'd you find out about it?"

"I found a book on fuuinjutsu and Konoha's sister village Uzushiogakure. When I researched it I found a lot of things I shouldn't know about me. Things that I don't how to feel about. But that doesn't matter right now" he replied. Opening his chopsticks as he saw his meal was about to be served. Which caught Satsuki's attention, apparently she was so engulfed with his family history that she didn't know that her food was already served.

"Thank you Ichiraku-san" she said as she started to eat. The old chef just gave a wide smile.

"Okay let's do the project then" she said after finishing her meal. What she hadn't noticed was while she had eaten her fulfilling one bowl Naruto was on his fifth and finishing it. Where did he put it all she most likely wondered.

"I will be at the Uchiha compound over the weekend we can start it then" he said "I have to gather some books, actually tomorrow why don't you come with I think I can get us some inside information on the whole fiasco"

"How are you gonna do that?" She asked wiping her mouth with a piece of napkin she found supplied to her.

"Did you forget who my Jiji is?" he shook his head "And here I thought the Uchiha's were smart, hmm no wonder you're not the rookie of the year anymore" he replied as he paid for their meal and with a salute of see ya later exited the shop and started walking home. But Satsuki was still sitting there twitching her left eyebrow uncontrollably. As she got up and left she promised to herself to deliver just pain and humiliation to that 'spikey haired bookworm bastard'.

Naruto left Ichiraku's in his regular nonchalant, like he had been doing this routine as long as he could remember. He left all the glares and whispers and found himself going towards his home. Though not stopping there he continued on till he ended up on top of a small hill that looked towards the abandoned and damaged area of the village. He quickly took a minute to check his surroundings with the best of his abilities and when he found himself to be completely alone. Looking over to the scenery of an abandoned grass field that had grown wild after the road that was directly underneath him. He jumped down and made a three point landing to find himself in front of a pipeline that was converted into a more or less tunnel for the rats to go to the other side of the village gates. He turned around to see his regular route with a smirk he took of with all his might. One step after another he kept going after he exited the makeshift tunnel into the forest and towards the high trees where he soon found himself on top, jumping branch to branch till he came to a stop at a small waterfall. He looked at the beautiful waterfall as it was not the biggest or the prettiest but beautiful nonetheless. He was at a high point of the hill that led to down to the shore of the waterfall where he saw the small lake the waterfall created, and the little exit to the left where the lake created the exit for the water. He ran down at the bottom of the hill and came to a stop as he put his hand over a piece of paper and entered a small amount of chakra and suddenly the entire shoreline was changed and instead of the sand and dirt there was sand and dirt but with training dummies at a distance with two desks and a chair with papers and kunai and shuriken. A few first aid kits, with heavy chains and a weapons rack which contained daggers, bow and arrow, crossbow, bolts. Oh and of course a standard katana.

"Time to train…." he said as he took of his hoodie and glasses and neatly put them on one of the desks with a paperweight on them. He looks at a piece of folder which has 7 pieces of paper on in the one he was looking at had labeled Sunday. He took the paper and moved it to the back of the pile so now he was facing Monday. And quickly saw the first thing on the list and started towards the other desk to and opened a drawer in it to find what he was looking for. It was a red rope with two hand covers on each end. He took it to the shoreline where the water was coming to an end and when he was on stable solid ground he started skipping on the rope. Everytime he did the dirt under his feet would crack and dig itself deeper into the ground. He kept doing this till he was out of breath. He stopped and started doing push ups till he was out of breath again. Then stopped and exactly hundred and twenty seconds later he started again. This time after skipping he got on the push up position and started doing spiderman push ups till he was out of breath. He kept going and going till he had gotten through his warm up exercises. Next was weapons training, time to hit the weapons rack. For some odd reason Naruto didn't favor many shurikens. He wasn't even a big fan of katana's or heavy weapons, no he preferred something faster, something smoother, something long distance. He picked up a small handle that sat between four different shaped sticks. He picked up a dark green one and entered a tiny miniscule of chakra. As the stick seamlessly transferred into a bow. He strapped a quiver full of arrows too as he headed of into the center of what looked like a hand built sparring arena. He closed his eyes and said out loud. "Level 27, stage 1, aim and dodge". Not a moment later did the seven practice dummies around him came to life. They started moving around in different taijutsu styles like Goken, Crane, Dragon, Swan, Panther, Tiger, and Snake styles. As Naruto opened his eyes he got to work.

A few hours went by and weapons practice turned into meditation and chakra control. After which training turned into studying as he started off into his notes and a small journal. He was using calligraphy in a different style. Rather than writing he was drawing, it looked like scribble but some would call it a painting or a story written in ancient texts. As the sun started dipping he noticed that time had come for him to return home. He did just that, making sure everything was back to the way he had found it, he turned back the way he came and slowly crept back towards his home. After reaching it he went inside to find that there were a few people there trying to get in but as soon as they used their chakra to enter they were blown out of the building and onto the street crashing into a troupe of traveling merchants and their merchandise. Not a moment later did they find themselves under the watchful gaze of the nearby anbu who apprehended them and escorted them to no doubt the Hokage. Meanwhile the wall they had blown through had rebuilt itself and just for a second before the wall returned to normal a small scribble was visible. Naruto entered his apartment with the help of some chakra and ended up straight into the bathroom.

After a quick shower and a change into more comfortable clothes (Small orange boxers with green and blue toads on them, with a large white t-shirt) he made his way into the kitchen. Where he proceeded to make himself a fulfilling meal to make sure he didn't go to bed hungry. He made himself a nice big bowl of stir fry. Which was made with garlic, shrimp, chicken, vegetables, noodles, sweet thai chili sauce, teriyaki, and soy sauce. Stirred together till they blended perfectly. He found himself in his balcony where he looked at the starry night with a wry smirk he ate his dinner with a tall glass of water. A couple hours later he found himself in his room where the room was at his temperature of cold as he snuggled into his bed with his bear tucked tightly next to him he let the day's exhaustion take him to sleep.

The Next Day….

A new day and with a new book in his hands he was settled in his spot like yesterday, with his eyes focused on the book. He was wearing a black hoodie with a dark green leaf symbol on the front and black track pants with white socks and black slip on shoes. His sleeves were pulled to his mid forearms where he felt an elbow tug him to get his attention. It was his classmate and partner for the next couple of days. Satsuki Uchiha, she was wearing a dark blue top with the Uchiha symbol on the back with white trousers with a brown belt and dark blue sandals. She was staring right through Naruto's glasses at his blue eyes before she spoke in a soft whisper.

"Do you usually get here so early?" She asked with an eyebrow raised as if he had annoyed her.

"Yes, why?" he replied as he returned to his book.

"You took my spot again" she replied simply.

"Oh, is that why you're here so early to try to take it back from me?" She simply moved her face so she was facing towards the front indicating that she had. But now there was no point, so she simply ignored him.

"Are we going to get started on our project today?" she asked.

"No" she turned her face towards him obviously pissed.

But yo-" she got cut off.

"I said we will get the book, and interview Jiji, I never said about actually starting on it. I want to do proper research from different sources combine it and then it present it. For that I can't just sit down and prepare something I read from one textbook, written by some civilian who wrote it to make a quick buck" he replied taking a moment away from the book.

As he finished he saw Iruka walk in the front door, as he stopped in front of his desk to notice his two top students already here and ready to go.

"Well, I didn't expect you two to be here this early?" he asked.

"I am always here this early, Suki here just wanted her seat back from me" he said as he returned to his book. As he said that Iruka started smiling to see his two favorite students were getting together so well. When suddenly he felt a little shiver go down his back.

Satsuki gave Naruto the death stare as she slowly replied "DON'T EVER CALL ME SUKI AGAIN!"

"I don't think Sat is a good nickname" he replied as he turned a page ignoring the Uchiha's flare.

"Don't give me a nickname then" she replied.

"Why?" then he stopped in his track and looked up suddenly he had a smile. He turned to face her and said "Are you scared that if I got to close that I will become your friend, or someone you care about?"

This got the other two occupants to freeze. What the hell? Where did this come from? Satsuki's mouth was open but there were no words.

"I know what happened to your clan, are you trying to push me away?"

"This is none of your business. You don't know anything so why don't you just shut up and go read your stupid book in some corner" she said as the atmosphere got cold.

"Hmm, anger I guess that means I'm right" he said as he got back to his book.

"Iruka sensei, I'm afraid that I can't work with him, either you let me present by myself or give me an F. I don't care!"

Now Iruka was in a troublesome spot. He didn't want to give her a bad grade because it was the beginning of the year and this is an important project. Where all the parents, and guardians of his student are gonna come witness this presentation. He was reluctant but he had to give in.

"Fine…. But Satsuki don't mind Naru" he got cut off as Satsuki got up and moved to the other side of the class and away from Naruto.

Naruto looked indifferent as this happened. So Iruka did what he could do in this situation, he sighed and left the class.

The day went by the lectures bored everybody to death and the rest of the time they focused on the beginning steps of the jutsu they had to learn by the end of the year. During the class Naruto and Satsuki avoided each other and would probably continue to do so for the rest of the week.

After the class Naruto ended up in his Jiji's office to collect his book. "Hey Jiji" he said with a wave and moved in around the desk to give his surrogate gramps a hug.

"Hello Naruto how have you been?" He asked with his grandfatherly smile.

"Oh you know a little bit of this and a little bit of that" he said taking his seat on the couch as the hokage followed his lead with his favorite pipe and tobacco.

"Now I hear you were paired up with young Satsuki for your project, I hope you two do well I am looking forward to your presentation" he said in a somber tone.

"I am afraid not anymore Jiji, apparently I pissed her off a little too much. It's going to be just me"

"Ohh, I am sorry to hear that I hope everything will be alright" he replied looking up as he puffed his pipe.

"Yeah, she just likes to push people away. It will be fine, though I do have a couple of things to ask of you"

"Ahh yes your book I have it ready, I hope you like it. It is one of my favorites it goes into the art of tactics and misdirection" he replied.

"I'm sure I will. Though I was also hoping I could ask you a few things. If you don't mind that is, it would be a great help towards my project."

"Go ahead my boy, I have a little time to spare, I think I can be a bit of help to you" he said as he got comfortable in his seat. He knew this was going to take a while no doubt with Naruto's curiousness this could probably take the whole night.

"My project is about the treaty that ended the great war, which formed the world as we know it now. How did Hashirama Senju come to be the Shodaime Hokage, How did the fight between him and Madara Uchiha impact this village"

"Oh ho Naruto-kun, these are some heavy questions you're asking, I suggest you settle down it will take a bit for me to explain this to you" he said as he saw Naruto nod and lean back and push his glasses up and kept all his senses towards him "Hashirama-sensei once told me this when I was very young. Long ago when the era of warring clans controlled these lands there was bloodshed and death in the very air we breathe today. Sensei was taught from a very young age that it was his duty as a Senju to fight and kill his enemy the Uchiha. But you see he was a humble man, impulsive and headstrong with a boisterous personality. Very much like you Naruto-kun. He didn't like killing, he loved meeting new people and challenges, learning new things, and growing. One day he met a boy his age in the forest who later became his best friend. Someone he respected and thought him to be his rival, together they created an idea and imagined a world where children didn't have to fight and kill. But one day they found out that the other boy he was meeting was an Uchiha, who also found out that he was a Senju. They weren't just any Senju or Uchiha they were Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha heirs to the clan who had the sacred duty to kill their enemy, each other. Sensei couldn't bring himself to do it. But Madara thought otherwise and ended their friendship. Years went by and they met each other time and time again. Madara could never defeat Sensei's superior abilities. One day Madara's little brother Izuna died by the hands of my other sensei Tobirama Senju, the Nidaime Hokage. Which angered Madara to a point that he charged through a cease fire to seek revenge. But Hashirama wanted to end the fighting and create a peaceful world. So he offered his own life instead of his brothers only to ask for Madara to end this war between them and bring peace over this land. Madara was moved… His old friend would sacrifice his life to create a peaceful world. They came to an agreement then and there, that battle led to the creation of Konohagakure no sato, the village hidden in the leaves. Named by Madara himself" Naruto stared at the Sandaime Hokage with wide eyes. He had no words for this, nobody would. "When Madara's standing in the village fell he left the village thinking their experiment their dream had failed. He left with a promise to come back and destroy this village. But this time Sensei had to defend it this time. After all he was the Hokage, he thought of this whole village as his family and Hokage his sacred duty to protect it even if it meant to sacrifice his life for it" Naruto listened intently as he stared at his surrogate grandfather and unconsciously spoke out the words.

"The Will of Fire…" Sandaime nodded his head with a wide grin to know that Naruto finally understood what he was saying. Naruto's mind was in turmoil thinking of things he never imagined he would. He closed his eyes to calm his mind and opened them to see himself standing in front of his class days later with an expressionless face staring at his classmates and parents and families staring at him with their mouth open. It was the day of his presentation Naruto had spent the last half-hour telling the story his Jiji had told him. As all eyes that had been staring at him with hatred and anger had morphed into wonder. They had listened to him with intent and had been bedazzled by this story of their Shodaime.

"It makes you wonder" he addressed his audience "what kind of time it must have been, what kind of thought had been put into this idea of bringing enemies together to create a world where children our age didn't have to see bloodshed. It makes you wonder what kind of people those two were Hashirama and Madara. Such giants and titans coined as our gods of shinobi who created a world where everyone worked together to create better lives".

Utter silence had taken over the auditorium in which they were giving their presentation. Iruka suddenly asked "Is this all true Naruto, what you have said to us?" to which he nodded.

"It was the Sandaime who provided me with this proof" he said as he held in his hand the diary of Hashirama Senju.

A loud ehm was spoken as all eyes turned towards the Hyuga clan head who was sitting beside his daughter. "If I may ask young Naruto-san, why did you pick this as your project".

"At first I chose this project because I didn't understand why so many people gave their life for a bunch of buildings, now I have come to understand why, it wasn't for the building's it was for the people living in them. I get why the Yondaime gave his life" he said. "Now I know what I will fight for I know what my goal will be."

"And what is that?" Hinata's father asked again curious of the boy in front of them.

"My goal will be to surpass the Shodaime and create world where there is no need of bloodshed. A world without hatred, a world where everyone will live in harmony. I will do this and surpass the Shodaime, Nidaime, Yondaime, and even you" he said turning to his right and stared straight into the eyes of the Sandaime Hokage the current God of Shinobi "Sandaime-sama and become the greatest Hokage in the history of this village. That is my promise!" he said in absolute finality as he got off the stage. He walked passed everybody, who stared at him eyes full of awe.

Just as he got to the door he heard his Jiji's voice "I will be waiting. I will be waiting to see you do that Naruto-kun, I have full faith in you." to which Naruto stared at him for a full minute before giving him a wide smile of happiness. As he turned around and walked out.

The whole auditorium was in shock and awe. Naruto's classmates couldn't believe that had just happened. The civilian parents were looking at him in disdain, as they remembered who he was. The ninja parents and clan heads just gave smirks and grins in nostalgia. While the Sandaime followed Naruto out towards his office.

Later that day.

Satsuki sat in a tree overlooking a pond in the Uchiha clan district. She had gotten a B on her project as she had presented on the treaties that were formed with all the clans that resided in the village. Though her project was far from her mind. All she could think of was Naruto, he had made a humongous point about her life. Even though Naruto had done this project for his own reason she knew that he was speaking to her when he was telling the story about the Shodai and Madara. Two friends who came together and created something strong. Though no matter how had she tried she couldn't understand the concept of the Will of Fire. How is she suppose to surpass her brother by forgetting the reason of her hate. How can she forget was taken from her for a bunch of strangers. She looked up to see the stars and decided it was time to make sense of all this. This is too confusing she needs to figure this out.

She made her way through the village. The streets were empty and it was dark out, it was almost 10 o'clock at night after all. She went towards the abandoned building and reached the top floor. She came to the door that looked like was the only door that held what she was here to see. She slowly extended her hand and gently knocked on the door. A full minute went by when the door opened to reveal Naruto, standing eye to eye with her in his light blue pajamas with a weird walrus sleeping hat over his head. He looked through his clear frameless glasses to see her out of breath for some reason. And staring at him intently as if he held the answers to her dilemma's.

"I need to talk to you…" she said.

Hey guys thank you for reading this first chapter. I know that this first chapter might seem a bit confusing. It's just I didn't want to start this off like any other fics I have read. Please let me know about any questions you have. Any comments, reactions, or reviews are greatly appreciated. Thank you…