It's been three months since I started to cultivate. I have already reached the fourth layer of Chi Gathering. Apart from the lack of resources, my speed can be called impressive. Evry days I was spent cultivating, training in the forest, and getting food. Although I was receiving the orphan's allowance, the prices in the market were three times higher, for me because of Fox.
But we had a good relationship with the fox. He is a conversationalist. Honestly, even though I have lived for five thousand years. I have no experience in communication. It is one thing to observe interactions from the third point of view. It is another thing to participate in them. The fox was very paranoid, but a person, he was pleasant to communicate.
During this time, the third grandpa came to me. It is unusual to call somebody a grandpa, who is smaller several times than you, but now I am weak, and a cardinal betrayal in personality will be very suspicious. And yesterday when he came to me, he said that I could enter the academy.
flashback
Naruto was sitting at a fire in the forest, preparing fish with the spices he found in the forest. Hiruzen sat down beside him.
- Hi Naruto, I see your catch was good today. Mind if I join you? Hiruzen asked.
- Yes, of course, the third grandpa, swear. Naruto said when giving in the freshly cooked fish.
So they sat in silence until they ate all the cooked fish.
- Thanks for the treats. You have a great meal. Do you still want to be Naruto's Hokage? You haven't talked about this for a long time. Maybe you don't want to become one anymore? Hiruzen asked.
Naruto was shocking when heard his question. Because before being in the Azure continent, his dream was to become the Hokage. Every second of his proposals was from the fact that he will become Hokage. And he realized that he had made a mistake, he forgot to pretend to be himself, he tried to behave like a simple six-year-old child so that he would not be Westernized, but he forgot the specification of his personality.
- Yes, the third old man, I will become Hokage, I just realized that I will not become him if I am not strong enough for this, so I devote all my time to training.
-This is good Naruto, but to become an excellent Hokage requires not only strength but also knowledge. After tomorrow's enrollment in the Academy, I enrolled you there, you can go there with this letter. Hiruzen said as he handed him the letter.
End of Flashback.
Having stopped cultivating, I went to bed, tomorrow is my first day at the academy.
Getting up in the morning, I went to the kitchen and made myself breakfast. After finishing breakfast, I went to the academy.
Right now, I'm standing a little further from the motley crowd of parents and their offspring. I took up a position a little further behind a huge tree.
And while the Hokage was giving instructions to the children, I carefully examined the others. Yes, simple children, of whom there were many. But everyone is so different. Here is the familiar charcoal black hair of the Uchiha in traditional black robes. A little further away are the white robes of the Hyuuga. Akimichi's oversized robes. On the opposite side, either wolves or dogs are running - the Inuzuka clan.
And many, many others.
The speech ended. And we were all taken inside for ... tests. I wonder what they have here, I remember how new students were accepted into the Su Yang sect, he was lucky to be born the son of the patriarch of one of the largest sects in the Azure continent, but the new students suffered, only ten percent of all participants remained alive, but only one percent was able to join the sect.
- Guys! - a couple of claps and we all looked at the young shinobi.
- We go into the offices. After the results are given to you, we will distribute you into groups. I beg.
All the children rushed to the door. Even the clan ones could not resist. Everyone wanted to read the truth about themselves. Well, okay, I'm in no hurry.
After standing for ten minutes, I went into the room, the inspector looked at me, and said that I was in room 103. We hand over the shinobi leaf and follow to room 103, where I was assigned.
So, let's go. Wow, what a colorful class. Here you are all clean, well, that is, from each clan, one representative, and a bunch of simple hereditary shinobi or only future shinobi in the first generation. Only twenty people. After looking at the audience, I found the most inconspicuous place so that I could cultivate when it was boring, and sat there.
- Children! - the same sensei, to whom my family did something, entered the office. Hmm, bad. But I hope this will not affect the quality of training.
"My name is Umina Iruka, and I will guide you to the rank of genin. I hope we'll be friends. Oh, come in, Shikamaru, again! - barked at Iruka, who had just entered the audience. And apparently, the guy slept on the go. It's clear.
- Come on, sit down.
"Yes, yes," muttered a brunette named Shikamaru. Walking lazily in my direction, he plopped down next to me and just fell asleep.
"Um, okay, okay. Let's get acquainted. We all come out one by one to me and introduce ourselves. If you want to say something about yourself, I don't mind. Let's start from the bottom up.
The first to come out was the fair-haired boy.
- Ahem. I am Aira Kanra. Pleasantlyget acquainted.
The rest of the children went further. Someone seemed interesting to me, but someone frankly not. But the most important thing was the children of the clan shinobi. I'll even say more: they are all heirs of clans. Ino Yamanaka, Chодji Akimichi, Aburame Shino, Shikamaru Nara, Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka, Uchiha Sasuke. A whole flower garden of those with whom, in theory, you need to be friends. Even vital. But ... now it's my turn.
- Hello, my name is Uzumaki Naruto. Nice to meet you.
- So. We met. I am happy to say that I will teach you all subjects, from start to finish.
For today are free. But from tomorrow I ask you to bring notebooks with pens and paper with tassels. Everyone is free, see you tomorrow.
Well, see you tomorrow, then see you tomorrow. And it's time for me to train.
Walking in the direction of the forest, I heard someone's voice, although I pay no attention to the inhabitants of the last time, I became interested, and I went to look.
- Ay. Forgive me! - Someone squeaked in the depths of the park.
A little further, in a small clearing, three guys, obviously a couple of years older, ran into a little girl. Hyuuga Hinata was my new classmate's name.
I found a stone, and with a quick movement threw it to the three children, although I put a minimum of force for this in the head, this was enough to knock them out.
Approaching Hugo Hinata, who noticed me, and raised a timid look at me, noticing that I knocked out these youngsters, she became even timider.
I felt sorry for her, it's not for nothing that children become timid, especially in shinobi clans.
"Hi, are you Hugo Hinata? I'm Naruto, your new classmate." They didn't hurt you. Are you okay? Why did they bother you? I asked her.
-Thank you. I'm Hinata, I know Naruto-kun. I'm fine, thanks. Hinata said very timidly and quietly, if I was not already on the fourth layer of Collecting Qi, I probably would not have been able to hear her.
-It's good, are you lost? Let me walk you to your clan quarter. Having said this, I did not wait for her answer and take her hand. I went to her clan quarter. I don't know why I do it. She looked a lot like Lu Nan. Only her eyes were different. I remember that she always followed Su Yan and loved him, but unfortunately, Su Yan did not love her, but I always liked her. if I were in Su Yang's place, I would marry her.
Hinata was shocked by Naruto's actions. At first, he helped her with the bully, and now, he holds her hands and leads her somewhere.
After walking Hinata to her house, he went to the forest.