Chapter 6

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|Timeskip. Age 9-year-old.|

Naruto sat in class and really paid attention. He had never experienced a teacher. he knew that Iruka didn't liked him.

Iruka made learning interesting. he spent most of the day training how to really be a good ninja, not only having to listen to boring things like history or politics. No, in Iruka sensei's theory lessons they learned about strategy during a fight, trap building basics, important ninjas of other nations to prepare them when they were out in the field, which included all their cool specialties, infiltration techniques and much more.

Naruto was very interested in all of this. He would become a great shinobi if he could learn this. Naruto didn't want to be a Hokage, why would he protect peaple, who've treated him like trash ever since he can remember.

Naruto for the first time got praise if he did something well. Iruka had praised his speed and endurance in training. He had been given pointers how to improve his techniques.

Naruto even started training at home,

Naruto didn't known about the importance of a balanced diet for your body. Nobody had ever told him before.

Iruka had told him that to be a good shinobi his body needed different nutrients. Naruto had followed the suggestion they were acceptable, even if he would never really like them.

Getting the food is going to be troublesome, so he had to ask the Hokage for help.

The one area where he needed most work was chakra control. For some reason he had the biggest problems with controlling his chakra.

But he would only be taught cool jutsus if he mastered the exercises. So he worked on this every free minute he had. Iruka sensei kept his word.

If Iruka sensei said that he would teach Naruto a jutsu once he had the chakra control exercise with the leaf mastered he would do so. Four students had already been shown the first jutsu.

For some reason all of them had been girls. Perhaps girls were better with chakra control generally? It didn't matter. He would get the jutsu. He would become a cool ninja with Iruka sensei's help. He wanted to prove himself to his sensei.

Naruto pretty much has all thr time to do anything he wants, but he didn't just waste his time, as each day after he came back from the academy, he would immediately start training Chakra controle.

in just a year time he managed to learn ten times more of what others in his class did. Iruka gave everyone a stack of books to memorize. The books where about Politics, strategic, Medics, and how to lay traps and stuff like that.

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The results of the year at the academy were always shown to the Sandaime Hokage as he wanted to be informed about the progress that the future shinobi made.

A student could choose to graduate early. But it was rarely done. The teachers were encouraged to keep the students at the academy until they were twelve. The Sandaime didn't like having early graduates in times of peace.

He looked over the students from all years. He was very surprised seeing his surrogate grandson in second place of his class.

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Naruto hadn't communicated with anyone except Iruka ever since Makoto had brutally beaten him. Naruto couldn't help himself, but have grudges against that boy.

"Just you wait Makoto, I will get my revenge"

"Naruto? Do you have a problem?"

Iruka asked the boy that stood in the door of his classroom.

"Yes, You see, I've learned the leafe excercise. so what other Chakra controle excercise can I do?"

Naruto was the last in his classroom to learn the leaf sticking excercise. Naruto figured it was because his chakra was more than everyone else.

"Have you memorized the books I gave you"

Iruka gave Naruto a handful of books just a month ago.

"Yeah, I did. I even memorized how to use the clone Jutsu."

"That's good the show me the Jutsu Naruto."

Naruto immediately nodded.

< Clone Jutsu>

Poof×22

About 22 exact clones of Naruto appeared. Iruka was surprised, but he didn't show it. Naruto took a note of this behaviour.

"I guess a promise is a promise. Here are the books on other Chakra exercises. also here is another Jutsu."

Naruto thanked Iruka and ran back home. He was going to get his revenge on Makoto. Naruto knew that the Hokage only visits like him once a month and that was yesterday, so for the next month the third would visit him.

meaning Naruto could get his revenge. Naruto wasn't dumb, he knew that Makoto is stronger than himself, thus Naruto had gotten a kunai with him.

He wouldn't stab Makoto only scare him.

Naruto knew where Makoto lived. he also knew that Makoto comes to his apartment, before it turn night to best him with his friend.

Naruto entered him apartment, and waited for Makoto to arrive. he was starting to get sleepy.

his eyelids where starting to get heavier.

*Boom*

Naruto startled awake. he Immediately shifted his gaze towards the sound. It was Makoto who had banged the door open.

"Wake up, you little bastard!"

Naruto equipped the kunai, and dashed towards Makoto not saying a word. Makoto analyzing Naruto's body to find any weapon, but what he found shocked him.

Was this fox trying to kill him?

but before Makoto could even react Naruto's kunai was right inches way from his neck.

"Do you want to die?"

Naruto's face was calm devoid of any emotion.

Makoto subconsciously swallowed his saliva.

Makoto then remembered Naruto's personality. He knew that Naruto didn't have the guts to badly injure him let alone kill him.