Chapter 4: First Academy Day (1/2)

It was early August, and Naruto was just waking up. He wouldn't consider himself a morning person, but when your Tou-san wakes you up at 5 AM every day, you start to get used to it, looking at his clock it shone 4:50 AM. Looking around his room, he was satisfied, it looked great in his opinion. He made a deal with Tou-san, if he could control his Mokuton to a certain degree, he was allowed to remodel his room as he pleased, as long as he didn't make it bigger. So when he was seven and was allowed, he remodeled his room. He had a big desk, attached to two tall pillars with a slight opening in them, like a very thin bookshelf, with one shelf and space for only a few books. This was so he could send and grab books from the top shelf easier with his Mokuton, his own creation, and quite genius if he had to say himself, which he did, repeatedly, to his Tou-san. This entire establishment was attached to the biggest wall in the middle, and it was surrounded by bookselves, which were stocked with books, which were mostly focused on Chakra, Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, Fuuinjutsu, Kenjutsu, History, Anatomy, Lore and coincidentally, architecture and living arrangements. He did have to read about how to design his room after all!

His Tou-san and Kaa-chan had praised his remodeling of his room, and his sister, well, her words were "Nii-chan is so cool!" with shining eyes.. while hanging on him.

He stopped his musing and got out of bed. took a shower and got dressed. He had new clothes now that he started in the academy, which he picked out with his parents. He looked up to his Tou-san as his role model, so he took a leaf out of his book and just decided against wearing anything on his upper body except a black coat with no sleeves, each of his clan symbols on the back. Leaving his chiseled, for an eight year old at least, exposed to the weather, he had visibly marked upper arms, and a budding six pack, not yet completely visible, though it was definately starting to show. He, like his Tou-san, had his clan symbols tattoo'ed on his upper arms, two on each side, whereas his Tou-san only had one on his right arm. Convincing his Kaa-chan was not easy, that much he would willingly admit, and every time she saw them she would scowl. One of the things that sold the idea was the fact that the tattoos also served as storage seals for his weapons. She was not pleased, that much was certain, but she would agree they suited him, sadly she never voiced that thought out loud for anyone to hear. What she did let them hear however, was about rebellious sons and husbands influencing her naive, cute and innocent children in a bad way. Why did she say children in plural you wonder? Because her beautiful and cute daughter lived by the creed "Nii-chan does, Ena does!", one time too many she had to stop her daughter running around with her fathers way too big coat wearing only her pants and the coat, though it was amusing to watch for a bit, considering two thirds of the coat was dragged on the ground.

He had lost his train of thought for a second there, once again falling into musings, so he continued getting dressed, wearing some baggy ANBU pants with some dark red, almost the color of dried blood, bandages around them to hold them in place properly. He decided to once again follow the footsteps of his father, wearing some comfortable combat boots that weren't overly big and wouldn't make quick and stealthy movements impossible. He continued with the dark red bandages and had them wrapped around the bottom of his face down his neck, as well as loosely around his lower arms, it was wrapped in a way that both ends hung loosely down the sides. His hair was slightly on the longer side, but it didn't reach his shoulders. It was wild and spiky, flowing towards his neck, with majority being a beautiful welcoming yellow, and streaks of either deeply dark red stripes as if those strands were dyed in blood entirely, his mothers enchanting shiny black in stripes as well, and some white stripes from his father that just pulled everything together as a whole. No color was attached to any particular part of his head, no it was like a field of mesmerizing roses in different colors. And his 'horns' had grown in size, flowing up each side of the top of his head as if directing his hair backwards.

In his tattoos he had his four weapons of choice, that he was trained in, and all of them served a different purpose. When he decided on them, he was asked to give a reason as to why he decided upon them and their situational useage.

He had his greatsword, a massive thing in both length and width. It was 134 centimetres in length, for now, and 34 centimetres in width. It wasn't very heavy considering the multiple weight modifying seals applied to it, though before they were applied it took him a while to be able to even swing it. It was designed so the length would correspond with the width, 100 centimetres as base, and for every centimetre was added after that, it would have a centimetre added to the width. His reasoning for this weapon "Tou-sans favorite weapon is a greatsword. It's cool. It's useful against many opponents who are less skilled than you, and it can function as a shield due to the width being able to cover most of your body if angled properly".

His greataxe, also a massive thing, yet nowhere near the size of his greatsword. It was pretty much summarized as a circle of death attached to a stick, his Tou-sans joking words to his scowling Kaa-chan. His reasoning was somewhat simmilar to the greatsword "It's cool, can be used against many opponents, but unlike the greatsword it is more offensive, however it still provides a certain degree of defense if used properly".

The third one was what his Kaa-chan approved the most of, as it, according to her at least, suited him the best. It was a pair of weapons in fact, a ninjato and tanto to perform dual wield combat. His reasoning for this choice was, in accordance with his Kaa-chan who nodded the entire time "It's cool. The ninjato will serve as the main weapon, and the tanto as support and as a defensive option. It allows for quick precise combat, mostly useful against a single opponent, and if used properly, is very deadly in single combat".

The fourth and last one, was mostly forced upon him by his aunt Yugao, it was of course a katana, which she helped him in wielding. Once again his mother could approve, it was a reoccuring theme that she would apparantly not like him to become a carbon copy of his Tou-san. His reasoning was simpler than the rest as well "Aunt Yugao would not be happy with me if I didn't... and it's cool. It works in a similar fashion as my ninjato and tanto".

He decided that he would wear the greatsword on his back the first day of academy, like his Tou-san did. That and he had to admit the idea was totally badass.

Walking down into the kitchen he found his Kaa-chan smiling proudly at him, as if he was finishing the academy, and not only starting it. "Good morning Sochi" came from his mother to which he replied with a massive smile "Morning Kaa-chan!", she walked up to him and started sizing him up with her hands on his shoulders "Look at you, all grown up" a tear rolled down her chin "Soon you won't need Kaa-chan anymore, and you'll move out on your own and start your own family and forget all about me" que a few more tears, it appeared it was that time of the month he concluded, studying anatomy did have some information he'd rather live without "No way Kaa-chan! I'll always need you. Otherwise how would I survive in this world, huh?! And if you're not there who's going to tell me how to raise my kids as well as you, eh?" he finished and pulled her into a warm hug, her only response being "Oh you!"

His Tou-san walked down the stairs, clearly just out the shower, wearing pretty much identical clothing to himself, though his bandages were white to fit his hair and skin color. He knew his sister was still asleep, she was usually up by 6 though. He walked out to finish his morning workout, returned to freshen up and eat breakfast with his family. As time came closer to get to the academy, he grew a bit impatient.

Walking with his Tou-san, Kaa-chan and Imouto to the academy, they talked about a few things, though one particular conversation stuck with him. "Naruto, tonight we'll have a talk about some important things that will affect you, but they're nothing serious. In fact they're quite positive. You're not in any trouble, so there's no need to have that face" his Tou-san said and finished with a chuckle and his Kaa-chan nodded and followed up "Indeed, it's serious, but nothing bad. Focus on your day, and we'll talk tonight" and now it was time for his Tou-san to nod and ruffle his hair with a grin on his face.

They arrived at the entrance, and everyone was looking at them, they did stand out. A man with a somewhat of a mini-me, both with massive swords that could be categorized as meatcleavers meant for elephant parts, were quite eye-drawing. That and they all were visually appealing people. His Tou-san were the definition of handsome in a refined way, and he himself of handsome in a wild untamed way. His Kaa-chan was the very peak of beauty and feminine power, which was also visible in the bingo books they had at home, she was ranked as an S-rank nin! Even noted as stronger than Senju Tsunade, the Slug Princess of the Sannin! And not to forget his absolutely adorable and cute little sister Ena, who was hiding behind his Kaa-chans leg because everyone was looking, which only made her cuter in everyones eyes.

After the entrance speeches by the instructors and the old man himself, in person, Sarutobi Hiruzen, fondly nicknamed 'Geez' which came about when he saw the old man with a small orange book he had seen his Kaa-chan read, yes, his Kaa-chan read it, though she tried to blame it on his Tou-san who readily admitted they both read it every now and then as if it was completely normal to admit. The reaction to seeing the old man with the book was "Geez old man, not you too?" and if you combined that with the, in his eyes, obvious truth that the old goat was a geezer, well, it flowed together and just left Geez. When the old man finished his speech, Naruto was enraptured, he had, unlike most of the others understood what it meant, and it reminded him of what his father always said "Grow strong to protect everyone you care about, and then keep getting stronger so that nobody can threathen them!" so his response to the old mans speech was a natural "Nicely said, Geez!" - which was said out loud. In front of everyone. Everyone looked at him with wide eyes, he did after all just call the Third Hokage a weird nickname. He could hear his Tou-san laugh and a facepalm next to the laugh, he easily figured out that was his Kaa-chan. It finally finished and it was time to enter the classes, so he walked up to his parents and kissed his Kaa-chan on the cheek and told his Tou-san sternly "You're to pick me up in a super cool way, or I'll have Ena ignore you together with me for a week!" the harshest and cruelest blackmail known to his Tou-san who looked absolutely stricken, as if someone held a knife that was already deep in his heart and just waited for them to twist it. His Kaa-chan just giggled at this, which Ena decided to emulate, in a cute way of course. He bent down to the giggling girl "Ena-chan, Nii-chan has to go to the academy, can you make sure Tou-san and Kaa-chan behave at home?" when she heard he had to go, her eyes teared up and seeing she was about to cry he continued "Ena-chan you have to be a strong girl for Nii-chan, if you cry, Nii-chan can't go and become strong to protect Ena-chan, okay?" to which she dried her tears with her sleeve, one that was attached to her shirt her Kaa-chan forced onto her against her will, and she stood straighter and give him a firm nod "Ena-chan will be strong for Nii-chan! And I'll make sure Tou-san is good! Kaa-chan is okay" everyone looked to a nearby tree to see said man crying and mumbling "My daughter thinks I'm no good. She hates me. My life is over", after he said it the first time a rain cloud appeared and struck lightning, and it kept going. Everyone else sweatdropped when they saw Ena pat him on his head as if he was a dog.

And with that he resolutely walked into the academy for the first time.