Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 14
Konoha Ninja Academy
Naruto walked up to the main gates of the Academy, but was surprised when he turned the corner only to see the whole area in front of the gates completely barren and devoid of life.
He had expected many children and their parents to wave them off and he checked the time on a streets clock to see he wasn't late. It was still nine and they were supposed to be at the Academy timings at 9:30 so he was a little early in fact.
He walked into the building, looking around the hallways which were going to be a big part of his life for the next few years with unbridled curiosity. His heart soared when he heard the several hushed voices coming through the closed doors making him smile.
He walked to the assigned room number he was given when Tobirama had given him his assigned form and took a deep breath, standing outside the door with a smile.
He slid it open, instantly turning nervous when he saw the population residing in the room clearly wasn't what he was expecting. The parents were in there too along with their children and all eyes were on him as soon as he opened the door.
But he saw most of them narrowing their eyes at him after a moment and he looked down a bit to ignore them, but it still hurt him to see those on his first day.
"Can I help you young man?" he was startled by a male voice when a man wearing a green vest and shinobi clothes along with the village's headband stood in front of him with a start.
Though he did smile a small relieved smile seeing the man's warm smile and kind eyes looking on at him in pure curiosity. He pulled out his signed form, handing it to the man who took it with a curt nod.
"I am assigned to this class sir." he spoke softly and as politely as he could making the man smile. He turned his eyes back to the blonde with a raised eyebrow.
"Then why are you so late? All children were supposed to be here an hour earlier with their parents for an introductory orientation. Didn't the lady handing out the forms inform your parents of this?" he asked making Naruto look at his feet and shake his head negatively.
"I don't have any parents, and my form wasn't taken from the Academy sir, someone gave me an extra." he answered the man's question in his soft voice making the man turn a bit saddened at his reply.
"An orphan, such a small age at that…" he thought sadly, and nodded at the boy. He looked onto the details of the form he was handed. He rose an eyebrow reading his clan name, quite happy he had got an Uchiha to teach. Though they did narrow in dangerously on the paper when he read his father's name on the sloppily filled paper.
His gaze turned up to the boy, now with a slight glare instead of the warm eyes he had treated him earlier with.
"He is related to them huh?" he thought venomously, while the blonde boy in question was now looking at his feet to avoid those venomous eyes glaring at him. He put the form down for him to take back.
"Go and take a seat." he spoke dismissively while Naruto trodded away from the man who wasn't the least bit amused at his presence right now.
Instantly his heart broke, seeing all the parents and guardians pulling their children away from him harshly as if he were the plague. His eyes watered hearing their hushed whispers telling their children how he was a 'bad boy' and to stay away from him since he was nothing but trouble like his forefathers before him.
He stood all alone in a corner and stared at his bag with a bitten lip to control his tears from falling.
The teacher told them all to take a seat when the bell rang and the parents started making their way out. He walked up, instantly seeing all the children covering the seat by their sides with their things so that he could not sit with them. He ignored them all and walked up into the corner seat by the window with a small sad smile.
"Looks like I won't be making any friends any time soon…" he thought sadly, looking up when the teacher opened up his register and started calling out rolls. He looked out the window at the bird's nest in the tree knowing his name would be in the end with his surname being Uchiha.
SWISH…CLACK….HUFF HUFF….
Naruto looked back, his cheek resting in his palm at the sudden commotion that had made it's way to the door of their classroom curiously.
It was a huffing blonde girl, with hair a little less golden than him and hazelnut honey brown eyes, she was wearing a simple white thigh length kimono and her hair were done up in a high pony tail.
"Sorry sensei, I slept it…" she mumbled her apology quickly, panting while she walked in and handed the man her scrunched up form. He read it and his eyes perked up when he read her surname along with her parents and guardian's names in it.
He handed her the form back with a smile, forgetting any and all scolding or punishment from the shock of having just had the heir to the prestigious Senju clan walking in.
She trudged up the steps, seeing a couple of empty seats by some children still available. The first one had a boy with a smug and prideful smile along with two red tattoos marking his cheeks. She ignored it, and walked up leaving a seething Inuzuka there who was quite angry at being dismissed so simply.
She saw yet another seat, this time belonging by a boy who had the classic onyx black eyes and hair and that same high almighty attitude she knew too well about.
"Uchiha…" she thought with a frown and ignored this seat almost immediately. Her eyes scanned the room, finally resting on the back corner of the class where a blonde haired boy sat, with peculiar baby blue eyes she hadn't ever seen before. Though she did smile at having found a seat for herself and hopped in by his side with a grin.
Naruto looked on surprised when the girl took a seat by his side instead of all the other vacant ones. But he was even more surprised when she placed her bag in her desk sloppily, with it's handle half hanging out and turned her gaze to him with a wide smile.
"Hi I'm Tsunade, Tsunade Senju. Nice to meet you…" she trailed off putting her hand forward for him to shake. Naruto had a wide smile himself as he looked on at the offered hand and nodded, beaming in joy.
"I'm Naruto, Naruto Uchiha. Nice to meet you to…." he trailed of halfway in his words when the girl pulled her hand back with a huff.
He pulled his hand back and looked away towards the window to hide his misty eyes, filled with unshed tears threatening to break free of their confines. She hated him too as soon as she knew his name.
He didn't glance in her direction for the fear of aggravating her any further than he already might have done.
Tsunade was surprised when the boy had extended his hand along with an introduction even after hearing her full name. But she wasn't going to be falling for any pranks or snide remarks from him, those damned Uchiha kids always did that with her and she hated them with a passion.
She did feel a little sad though when she caught sight of his sad gaze while he stared out the window. She had half expected some sort of arrogant remark or a revers taunt but nothing of the sort came from the boy.
He sat in silence with her doing the same, and looking back to the front with a blank face.
Her day couldn't start off any worse than…
"Tsunade Senju!" the voice rang in the room making her ears perk up at her teacher's call and she called out a 'Hai', and concentrated on the man now.
"Naruto Uchiha!" she couldn't help but see the small glare the teacher sent her side partner's way when the boy mumbled a soft 'Hai' and looked away.
"Alright class we'll start with some history lessons today…" the teacher called out making Tsunade let out groan inwardly. She hated history with a passion, it made her sleep when her granduncle tried to drill their clan history into her thick skull.
The teacher went through his text book lesson, while she tried not to pull her hair out in frustration to not fall asleep from that thrice damned history lecture.
Her cheeks puffed up childishly in annoyance seeing many of the kids around her had already dozed off halfway through the long lecture and turned her eyes to her side.
Her eyebrow rose in surprise at seeing her partner paying rapt attention to the lecture as if it was the most interesting thing he had done all morning and she frowned seeing him jot down little notes in his notebook in between the teacher's pauses.
"Only these stupid Uchiha's can pay so much attention to these boring lectures…" she pouted to herself and slammed her head on her desk to keep herself awake through the lecture.
Naruto opened up his book for reference, seeing many little side notes made there which were quite helpful to him as well as gave him some additional knowledge on the topics being explained, while he kept up with both the book and his sensei in full attention.
The teacher looked up when he heard a small yawn only to see half his class asleep and sighed tiredly. Well he couldn't expect anything else in a history lesson, he supposed.
RRRIINNNGGG…..
The bell rang making all the children jerk awake in unison, when the teacher snapped his book shut and told them of the taijutsu lessons after the lunch break was over.
Naruto packed his books and took out his sandwich, unwrapping the plastic wrapping and munched a soft bite out of his self made lunch. Everyone pulled out their home made lunches and bentos.
Tsunade grinned, taking out her back and popping her hand in to pull out the bento her mother had made for her. Her eyebrows furrowed while she rummaged for her lunch only for it to turn into a full blown scowl before her face marred one of pure horror.
She remembered her mother calling out to her and keeping her lunch on the table but she didn't remember herself putting it in, while she was running around the house due to being so late…
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