~Official disclaimer~

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, any of the characters from the Anime, Manga, or franchise, nor will I ever own any of them that honour belongs to Kishimoto Masashi and any other publishers and producers of such an awesome franchise, no offence, ill will or the like is intended by this fan-fiction which is not for profit.

A/n:Firstly...cos you were silly enough to remind me about it on msn...Icewisperer you're a massive pain in the ass, thanks for continuously bothering me about writing _ ... you should be ashamed of yourself ;)

secondly:cant remember if I said it, or if I knew it before, but according to my plot, academy is 12+ to start, 3 years of classes to leave, the thought of villages getting anyone younger than 15 in possible fatal situations outside of war is absurd, they lack maturity and focus, I remember the years well after all xD...

The reason it's not longer is because there isn't "school holidays" or the like.

Add to this they only need to learn 3 jutsu, plus strategic and practical maths and history/battle theory, and some basic taijutsu,which upon thinking about it, wouldn't take that long.

School only takes so long because of time wasted and all the excess crap that is taught, if the teachers went through the curriculum, not stopping to help everyone(which they obviously don't in most stories) and weren't like most school curriculum's

(language(AFAIK English),maths,science,sport,language other than language(French or W/e)

,religion,option 1, option 2)

without the useless crap they all include as well,then people could go through it all in a short time.

Kunoichi classes, aka seduction, floral arrangements and fitting in with other women in various countries etc. etc. would come in towards chunin level and above and would be taken at the same time as the male ninja would be doing training with their sensei/s on their weaker areas.

Any-ways on with the story...

Current – Academy 1st Year 3rd Day(March 13th~)

(Naruto 12 ½ , Kakashi is 29, Anko is 27, Hayate 25).

Naruto, feeling something warm on his forehead, slowly opened his eyes to see what was happening to him, and quickly regretted doing so, he knew what was happening would be something that was likely to cause problems for a while, for all he could see was Anko's chest region, which meant she was kissing him in public, again, at least this time his hope was that she wasn't wearing that lipstick again, it took him days to scrub it of last time.

Anko took a step back, grinning wildly, while Naruto rolled his eyes "see, that didn't hurt you big baby" she said in her sing song voice, to which Naruto replied, quite annoyed "I hate you sometimes".

Anko put on a pout and put her hands on her hips, while getting a tear in her eyes "that's mean Naru-chan how could you hate your onee-chan...and I thought you loved me...well...I suppose I'll just go then..."

Naruto, feeling guilty quickly closed the distance between them and hugged Anko around the waist "I'm sorry onee-chan, I...I do love you..." he choked out, his voice full of guilt, to which Anko merely ruffled his hair, bending down she gave him a little hug before standing back up and turning to face the to this point unbelieving Uchiha.

"well my little Naru-chan, for a treat, how about I cook you and your little friend dinner hmm?" Anko said, giving a small eye smile of her own, that fitted her cheesy grin perfectly.

Naruto hearing little friend turned to where she was looking, and having forgot the Uchiha was there got a nasty shock to find his raven haired classmate there, giving a gulp he suddenly realised what Anko had said, however before his embarrassment could fully register, his stomach told his brain he had just been offered an Anko cooked meal.

"STIRFRY!" he exclaimed , quickly moving to grab the Uchiha survivor by the arm, before saying "dinner, come", nodding as if it had made perfect sense, before running off towards home with a grin on his face, dragging a still shell shocked Uchiha behind him.

Anko gave a smile at the boy's antics, he was so flippant in his personality sometimes, although she hated his negative sides, when this happy go lucky childish side came out she couldnt help but feel happy, but her thoughts soon drifted to the raven haired boy, hopefully having a friend his own age would do Naruto some good, quickly shaking her head to clear her thoughts,she shunshined to the apartment, knowing Naruto wouldn't waste time when her meals were involved, and she certainly wouldnt waste a single second of this happy mood...while it lasted.

'friend?' Sasuke thought, although it wasn't an unknown subject, he had only had a few friends, but those had been before...'it', now a days most people didn't want to be his friend, they just sucked up to him, and to be honest, it was starting to annoy him and at times it was quite depressing and lonely, though he did have to admit sometimes it did come in handy as today had shown.

Coming to his senses, he realised he was being pulled through an apartment door and sat in a chair at a table, quickly taking stock of his surroundings he noticed Naruto sitting at the table with a smile on his face before he notice Sasuke was looking at him oddly.

Raising his eyebrow, Naruto asked "what, you cant say you have lived till you have tried Onee-chans stir fry" he said, starting to drool slightly while getting a far away look in his eyes.

"It...It must be nice...having a family...that loves you so much..."Sasuke softly spoke as he looked around at all the pictures, seeing a happiness on Naruto's face in them he hadn't seen at the academy.

"I..used to...have a family..but...I don't really remember them...and sometimes...things are fuzzy...I...ugh...why am I telling you this dobe.." Sasuke said, getting a sad look as he shook his head, only to notice Naruto's hand on his shoulder and an unusual on his face.

"I suppose that's what friends do, they help each other" he said, a pensive expression showing on his face.

Sasuke gave Naruto a weird look at this, still the concept of being friends with the blonde boy before him sounded foreign, but someone to be there to talk with did sound nice...he would try being Naruto's...friend...and see what happened.

The next morning

Sasuke Awoke in an unusual bed to the sounds of people moving around and what sounded like cooking, if the clatter of pans and delicious scents were anything to go by, and that's when it came back to him, he had eaten dinner with Naruto and his family, and admittedly it had been fun, and well...the dobe did have a point, the purple haired woman did have quite an ability with Stir fries.

Plus the odd gray haired man was funny to watch as he was threatened about his choice of table literature in front of younger individuals.

Sitting up and stretching he heard a familiar voice "hurry up teme, or your breakfast will get cold, and we have to go soon" Naruto said, sighing at the last bit,Sasuke could only sigh in agreement, the academy was certainly not becoming any more amusing as of late.

Quickly getting out of bed, he put his outer layer of clothes back on and went out to tentatively sit at the table, still feeling a little unsure about being in a strange house.

"don't worry squirt, we wont bite" Kakashi said giving an eye smile while reading his Icha Icha at the other end of the table.

Sasuke was about to object to being called squirt when Anko walked over to Kakashi and whipped him with the dish towel, causing him to whimper like a puppy and look at her quizzically "I thought I told you to stop reading that at the table, especially when Naruto is around, you have corrupted him enough" she spoke, glaring at the Cyclops, who embarrassedly put the book into the recesses of his vest before scratching the back of his head while eye smiling "uh...sorry...I...uh...forgot" he said while giving an eye smile.

Anko placed the towel on the table before putting down the plate with all the cooked vegetables and meat, before turning to Kakashi and kissing his cheek " your a silly pervert sometimes Kashi, but I suppose your my silly pervert" causing the man to give a slight giggle.

"can you two kinda...not...some of us are about to eat you know" Naruto said, before saying thanks for the meal and digging in, while Sasuke just sighed and did the same, knowing that this was probably a frequent occurrence in this household.

Quickly finishing up their meal, Naruto and Sasuke both grabbed their bags, while Naruto gave Kakashi and Anko a quick hug before they left for the academy for another day of mindless boredom.

After walking for a few minutes, they started to talk about a few things, before coming to the topic about the academy, and how the classes were fairly dry.

"Oi teme... I'm sure you know as well as I do how boring War history is, so I have an idea"

"It wouldn't happen to involve ramen would it?"Sasuke questioned, having heard of the boys excessive appreciation of the stuff.

"uh...no...I was going to lend you a scroll or two...and maybe let you have a look at my notes on this seal I'm trying to make and see what you think...but maybe I won't"

"Oi dobe...I...uh fine...I'm sorry, just give me the damn scroll"

Naruto gave a smirk before pulling a scroll out of his back and waved it in front of his face a few times "I knew you weren't that much of a teme all the time" Naruto said before handing the scroll to Sasuke who only smirked.

"And if your making seals, I suppose your not as much of a dobe as I thought, maybe miracles do happen"

Sasuke was quite surprised at Naruto letting out a chuckle at this, something had never heard the blonde do, deciding it was nothing he quickly caught up to a quizzical looking Naruto, before carrying on towards the Academy, feeling that a lot more of...interest..would be occurring from now on.

Timeskip – Academy 2nd Year 4th day(March 13th~)

(Naruto 12 ½ , Kakashi is 29, Anko is 27, Hayate 25).

Much had changed in the past year in Konoha, both important and non important things alike, for in a village where life can be over in less than the blink of an eye, things never stay the same for long.

Naruto and Sasuke had slowly become more than simple friends, discovering they shared many things in common, and began to view each other as more of brothers of sorts than mere friends or fellow ninja, and now were quite quick to stick up for each other, as well as help the other out whenever needed, which held many bonuses for those who had seen the changes.

Anko and Kakashi had noted the rapid changes in Naruto's personality in the past twelve months, he had gone from having little interest in most people to starting to be more likely to acknowledge them, and he was starting to smile more around them and Sasuke, as well as going as far as to starting to laugh more than usual, even smiling and laughing on rare occasions at the academy something even Iruka had asked the two about.

Sasuke had also made progress personality wise, become less like an Emo avenger, and more easy going and yet at the same time still slightly suspicious about people, Naruto and him had ended up talking about almost everything in their lives, and although it made things easier, scars from the past took time to heal, and after hearing about stories on certain people, both grew to dislike certain elements of the community.

About 6 months ago Anko dragging a slightly puzzled Kakashi along had gone to see the hokage about letting the Uchiha live in the same apartment as them, stating the improvement in both boys personalities, as well as the leaps and bounds both had made in the physical and mental side of development, which led to a council meeting about their precious Uchiha.

After half an hour of hearing them bicker about crap that wasn't even related to the sole cause of the meeting, Sarutobi was starting to get very unamused, and an unamused professor wasn't a good thing.

Now Sarutobi didn't get the nickname "The professor" for nothing, apart from being the oldest hokage, he was one of the more powerful hokages at the same time, having a vast knowledge of jutsu that was only challenged by Orochimaru's, and even that was leaps and bounds behind his own.

The sheer amount of power this man commanded was quite well illustrated when he stood up, nothing else was said or done, but silence instantly fell over the room, resulting in Anko giving a smirk.

"we are here to discuss the issue of one Sasuke Uchiha's dwelling arrangements, if any of you find this to be beyond your capacity, I'm willing to have my ANBU escort you out of the room where you can argue like children to your hearts content"

At this half of the council shrunk into their seats, this being the civilian side of the council, while the shinobi side, excluding Danzou merely smirked at the imbeciles being put in their place, they had been getting too cocky since the passing of the fourth, while Danzou merely grumbled and looked livid.

"now that I seem to have your attention, please try and keep it on the situation at hand, I know it may be hard, but I'm sure you can manage to focus for more than two minutes hmm?" a small chuckle arose from most of the shinobi in the room at this.

"The current issue is of the...adoption of sorts of one Uchiha Sasuke by Mitarashi Anko and Hatake Kakashi, both seasoned Shinobi, of Special jonin and jonin respectively, both with exemplary mission records, and both, along with the young Uzumaki boy showing a positive relationship with the boy as well as helping with his development on the shinobi path, to be honest I see no reason to possibly let a young boy walk the path of his brother before him when there is a chance he could become a well respected shinobi of the leaf, and I believe bonds to others will be the best way to accomplish this, anyone have a problem with this, voice it" Sarutobi said, before sitting down with a tired look on his face, dealing with the council took a lot of energy these days, age was gradually taking its toll on the wizened hokage.

A pink haired woman stood up instantly, a member of the civilian council, Haruno if he remembered correctly, causing him to sigh...'this won't be good'

"This is an outrage, it would be much better for Uchiha-sama to associate with my family than...THEM and their filthy De..."

At this she noticed three ANBU had surrounded her, all with various blades pointed at her person, one at the jugular, one her lower abdomen, and another ready to run her through from her right side.

The weasel masked ANBU, the one holding a short tanto across her jugular gave a growled warning "watch your tone in the Hokage's presence...woman, you will show your betters the respect they deserve, and be careful with your next words, you know the law AND its penalty which WILL be enforced"

At this the woman gulped causing the razor sharp blade to graze her flesh, much to the shinobi councilmen's delight, however her demise wasn't to be today, much to their chagrin, as with a wave of his hand, all three ANBU stood down, and with a nod vanished in a puff of smoke.

The pinkette sat down, visibly shaken at the show of how just how far out of their league the civilians were when compared with shinobi, admittedly they were no Yellow flash who was known for his incredible speed, even among shinobi, but they hadn't even seen the ANBU in the room, much less them move to positions, and it was quite obvious the pink haired Haruno could have been dead on the floor before she even knew what happened.

"well then..." Sarutobi began " if no one else wishes to test my patience on the matter, all in favour of this arrangement, raise your hand" all but Danzou raised their hands, admittedly some more shakily than others, and seeing this, the man in question merely grunted something about 'another day' before raising his too.

"the motion is therefore passed, and with that this meeting is adjourned, I have a village to run"'and paperwork to fight...kuso' after this announcement everyone left the room, most shaking their heads as Anko cheered while Kakashi merely eye smiled 'oh Kami-sama what have I got myself into...three juveniles in the house...as if two weren't enough...maybe Ibiki was right...I am masochistic...yeah that's it" with this Kakashi gave even more of an eye smile before nodding and walking off humming to himself leaving people to wonder if he was...all there.

A/n any-ways...this chapter took a week longer than planned cos I have been recovering from a knee op, but as you can see its much less time in between than the last 2, so that's an improvement yes?

I'm thinking ill keep the chapters to between 2-4k words from now on, so it doesn't feel like such a big task, and so I don't get slack and decide to keep putting it off.

By the way, I remember from school, my English teacher said I had no imagination, and the short stories I wrote lacked depth and character development, so I have 2 questions for you guys this week,

do you think this is true, or are the wrong?

Should I add another girl to the pairing of NarutoxFemKyuu

If so should I include lemons at sometime in the future

anyhow...next chapter will be out soon as I can figure out what to write...I'm still trying to organise stuff from my head...Kami-sama above there is so many ideas in here, its just getting them to work in a plot on paper =/