Naruto could only sigh at the scene before him. It was finally time for him to join the academy and he admittedly found himself a little nervous. He watched as parents escorted their kids to the school dropped them off and stood around with other parents talking about how great their kids were. Well most of them anyway. He took notice of one little girl with white eyes who was just standing there with a blank expression on her face as an older boy who didn't look too kindly towards her left her outside the school without so much as a wave. He could see a similar pain in her eyes, but she didn't seem to posses the anger or emptiness that most saw within his own. The other parents and children all seemed to be avoiding her taking care not to bump into her only sparing a few polite pleasantries before scurrying off.
She suddenly turned and looked at him like she was studying him, but he saw no hate or anger in the look so he faked a smile and waved at her. She quickly turned hiding the blush that was spreading over her as she walked into the academy. Naruto frowned at the weird actions of the girl, but soon his focus was turned to the angry group of people coming towards him. Naruto decided that today wouldn't be like the other days. He had played the good little victim during the last year all the while training and getting stronger, faster, and maybe more importantly smarter under his sensei's direction. Now that he was entering the academy both thought it was time to show Konoha that they had lost their punching bag and scapegoat.
He just stood there with his eyes closed as they circled him and started their taunting and jeering. "What are you doing here demon?" There was no response. "Answer him you little demon shit!" The shrill pink haired woman was ignored as well. After a few minutes of this went by with the boy saying nothing and a gathering crowd cheering them on one of them went to strike the blonde boy. Naruto's eyes suddenly opened and he grabbed the fist of a pink haired woman that was inches away from his face. "Why are you trying to hit me?" Naruto asked in a voice that reminded all involved and those watching that he was still just a child. "Cause you're a monster!" The pink haired woman shrieked as she tried to wrench her fist back from the boy's grasp.
The only response she received was a laugh as he shoved her fist away and walked by her and through the crowd that parted for the demented blonde. 'What the hell was that? Do you think he's finally breaking? Have we gone to far? I know my kid would have snapped a long time ago.' Those were just a fraction of the many questions and thoughts that ran through the crowd until the sounding of the school bell broke their thoughts and they went about their day. They all left with thoughts of telling their kids to avoid Uzamaki Naruto at all costs when they saw them later. In his office watching everything from his office thru his crystal ball Saratobi was wondering the same thing.
Naruto continued walking and had almost reached the front doors of the school when a group of teachers quickly came out and surrounded him. They mirrored the earlier mob in their taunts, jeers, and questions. Naruto merely flashed the registration papers signed by the Hokage himself and walked by them easily pushing past the Chuunin blocking the door. As he walked through the halls he could see the teachers all looking at him evilly and he just smiled at each and everyone giving a little wave. All had two thoughts 'Is he really so dumb that doesn't notice I don't like him' or 'Is that little demon shit mocking me? I'll show him!' Naruto just kept walking until he reached the door of the class the hokage assigned him to.
Opening the door he was greeted to the sight of his future classmates trying to stare a whole through him, well maybe not all. The girl from earlier was looking at him, but he still couldn't sense anything bad from her so he slowly walked up to her ignoring the stares and glares the others were giving him. She was sitting in the fourth row near the middle with two empty chairs beside her so he asked "mind if I sit here?" She just shrugged her shoulders and looked away from him. Naruto calmly rounded the desk taking the aisle seat and slid the chair out, but just as he was about to sit down someone decided to put their hands on him.
Naruto looked at the window as he watched the reflection of the person behind him. "I would appreciate it if you would remove your hands." Naruto says calmly not wanting to fight on his first day as he sat down. "And I would like for you to get up and find another seat." Said a scruffy looking boy with dark eyes and red marks on his face with what looked to be a white puppy on his head barking. Now it was true that Naruto hadn't started to learn anything outside of chakra control and a few seals that according to Kaen-sensei would help make him faster, stronger, and quicker if he kept up with his exercises and other physical training. However, that did not mean he hadn't experimented with a few of his gifts and the scruffy haired kid was about to feel the result of one those experiments.
"I will ask one last time please remove your hand. There is another seat next to the lady if you wish to sit next to her other wise leave." The other kids had watched as all this happened and except for a certain white eyed girl thought the new kid or demon brat as they heard their parents refer to the blond was about to get his butt kicked. "Make me demon!" At the scruffy kids shout all Naruto did was give a wide grin still sitting in his seat. The smile lacked the eye piercing gleam that Matao Gai was known to produce, but it still gave off an innocence that would belie what was about to happen.
Kiba was putting as much pressure as he could on the demon's shoulders trying to make him cry. He was so focused on his task that he didn't notice Naruto place his hands over his until he started to feel really warm. Still, he pressed on figuring he could cool down when the demon kid ran back to his crappy rat hole apartment. Kiba knew where he lived as he joined some other kids from time to time and threw rocks at the building the blond kid lived. He didn't know that what he was doing was wrong. He was just trying to fit in and make some friend and picking on the blond kid seemed to be the easiest way to do both. Kiba was sure he was going to be praised and become popular for what he was doing. Also, he wanted to impress the Hyuuga heiress and surely she didn't want the demon kid to sit next to her. 'No she's just to kind to tell him to get lost.' Kiba was sure of that so he pressed on despite feeling a little hot now and smelling something like meat on the grill.
Naruto just continued to smile as Kiba remained oblivious to what he was doing to the disbelief of everyone in the classroom. 'How he can he be so dumb not to notice his hands are practically on fire?' was the common thought. Naruto had spent the entire year training his speed, strength, and chakra control. However, he also bought quite a few books on many different subjects including elemental manipulation. He hadn't even done one exercise to begin to master his elements, but thanks to a strong affinity for fire and his kekkei genkai he found he could heat the area around him to ungodly temperatures, which is what he was doing focusing on the area around Kiba's hands so as not to bother the pale eyed girl who sat next to him.
It didn't take, but a second more as Naruto focused more on Kiba. "What the hell … why is it so hot in here and why do my hands …OUCH! OUCH! OUCH! …HOT!HOT!HOT!" Kiba screamed as he ran for the nearest water source knocking down their chuunin teacher in his mad scramble for the bathroom. The puppy had also fallen during the collision and after a few shakes ran barking down the halls after his master, which alerted the other classes who were wondering what was going on. The teacher Kiba ran over got up and dusted himself off before standing in front of the class. "Can anyone tell me what just happened?" asked the white haired chuunin. He didn't receive an answer, but by the looks everyone except the Hyuuga heiress was throwing towards a blond boy he didn't need one. "Uzumaki what did you do!?" The man shouted only to get a shrug from Naruto though he wondered how he knew his name when he hadn't even looked over the attendance sheet. "Fine, but until you remember you will stand outside the classroom and you better be there when I come out to check on you!" The chuunin says loudly as his classmates snicker and laugh at him.
Naruto didn't reply or look at anyone as he walked out of the room so he never saw the pale eyed girl watch sadly as he walked away. He stood out in the hall way for hours and the only thing that happened was Kiba coming back with his hands wrapped up and smelling like he rolled around in a toilet … a toilet that the previous user hadn't bothered to flush. Naruto just smirked as Kiba , and his little puppy although Naruto couldn't be sure on that one, glared at him with looks of revenge on their faces. They quickly ran into the classroom though when they noticed it was starting to get hot and Naruto was giving off some reddish-orange aura. Naruto looked inside the room to find the teacher and saw him with a similar smirk to the one he just gave Kiba. The man calmly walked over and closed the door in his face getting more giggles and laughs from his classmates.
Naruto stood outside for another 30 minutes before he'd had enough. He figured something like this would happen the moment any trouble happened in class. It's not like he'd never been blamed or punished for stuff he didn't do before. So instead of wasting more time he could be using to train he created a single Kage Bunshin and then henged himself to look like a dark haired, dark eyed, black clad, whisker less version of himself and walking up to the roof before he jumped to the next one and ran off to the Forest of Death so he could train in private for the rest of the day.
It was now Saturday and Naruto was thinking back on his previous week of school. He didn't know if he should really say that as he spent more time in The Forest of Death as he was told his favorite training area was called then actually in school. He mentally thanked his still asleep sensei for teaching him Kage Bunshin, because other wise he would have been stuck spending most of his days this week standing in the hall way. He didn't even know what he did to be thrown out these past two days as after Wednesday he had opted to avoid being near the Hyuuga heiress as it was bringing to much unwanted attention on him. It wasn't like she ever spoke to him so he really felt no loss their and he liked to be alone most of the time. It was better than being treated like a monster anyway. Letting out a deep sigh Naruto did his morning routine, which started with a nice breakfast of sausage patties, fried egg omelets, sliced apples, toast, and orange juice then took a shower and finished by brushing his hair and teeth before gathering up what he would need for school or training and sealing it up. As he checked to see he had everything he made a Kage Bunshin to cleanup and shut everything off and then headed to school the civilian way.
He made it to school with ten minutes to spare receiving the normal glares and hate filled utterances, but ever since that first day he noticed most people stayed as far away as possible from the blond. The Hokage had even sent for him on Wednesday to get him to promise not to do a repeat performance as he spent most of his afternoon Monday and the entire day Tuesday fielding complaints, transfer requests, death threats towards Naruto, etc. Then Tsume Inuzuka barged in demanding he apologize to Kiba who had told her some ridiculous story about how the demon kid attacked him when he was trying to help the Hyuuga heiress and had his back turned to him. That did get a good laugh out of him even as Saratobi frowned at him. Of course she stormed out without an apology and a bit red in the face when the Hokage relayed what really happened. She didn't care about what Kiba did to Naruto, but for lying to her and making her look silly in front of the Hokage ... well Kiba wasn't going to like what happened to him when he got home.
However, their intrusion did give the Hokage the opportunity to question Naruto about what he did to Kiba. Naruto cursed silently to himself about how much tap dancing he had to do to get around answering the man who was very insistent. 'Damn nosy old man and his stupid snitches'. Naruto walked past the parents, teachers, and other students who were giving him a lot of space without saying a word or even acknowledging any of them. Many parents had tried to get either him kicked out of the school or their kids transferred from the class he was in, but the other classes were full. The only kid who was transferred out was Sasuke who was switched with a civilian boy whose parents complained at first, but bit their tongue as the council said it was for the good of the last remaining loyal Uchiha. After hearing about the incident with Kiba they tried to force the Hokage to kill or exile Naruto, but even with a majority vote in favor of both the Hokage refused and so they settled for secretly upping Sasuke's secret training and asking for an upgrade to the watch on Naruto as he was clearly getting training from some where. The Hokage granted the request as he himself had trouble watching Naruto through his own devices and wanted some answers.
Unfortunately for Naruto when the reason for Sasuke's transfer got out his fan girls didn't take it so well. Naruto suddenly became a target for every mean spirited joke and prank they could come up with, but all had failed and in some cases back fired which only made them angrier and more determined. Kiba also took any opportunity to make a joke at Naruto's expense or insult him. Walking through the halls to his class Naruto thought about the real reason Sasuke was transferred. Tuesday the teacher Mizuki decided to take the class outside and see what their level was in practical ninja skills. He bombed genjutsu as he'd only had enough skill to break out of gennin level illusions and didn't have any knowledge of how to make one. He also bombed ninjutsu as he didn't know any. Throwing weapons he barely passed as he hadn't practiced much yet with them. Taijutsu though is where he rose some eyebrows. It wasn't because of his skill as he hadn't actually found a style he liked yet, but his speed and strength were at such a level thanks to his training that the civilian kid he was pitted against was badly hurt with just a few punches as he couldn't guard against Naruto's speed. The council didn't think he could beat Sasuke, but why risk it. To have Sasuke lose to the demon brat would ruin all their plans so for now they thought it best to keep them separate until they had no choice, which would give them two more years before the class size would dwindle to the point that it would be foolish to have more than one class.
Naruto walked into class and took his customary seat at the very back next to a window. He chuckled at the fact that since the fight he'd been given an even wider berth than before as no one would sit in his section of seats so he could lay out using the three chairs as an uncomfortable bench of sorts. Oddly enough Mizuki left him alone and didn't kick him out until he raised up and tried to participate in the class discussion they were having. At this point all the remaining students entered with Mizuki quickly following. After roll call Mizuki got into a long lecture on the founding of Konoha at which point Naruto tuned him out. It was ten minutes into the lecture when Kiba, who was sitting a few rows in front of Naruto decided to blow spit balls at Mizuki. Naruto was impressed by the range, but less than impressed when he was blamed for it and angered when just like every day this week he'd been kicked out of class.
Leaving his books Naruto got up and walked out of the class with the snickers and comments following him. Standing outside Naruto didn't even wait five minutes before creating a Kage Bunshin and once again going up to the roof henged to look like someone else and racing off to train. Part of him was glad Mizuki kept kicking him out and giving him the opportunity to leave and train instead of wasting time in a place that would only seek ways to humiliate him and hold him back. Still, he reckoned the next four years were going to be the longest of his life. Well, at least Kaen-sensei promised he would start his elemental training tomorrow so he had something to look forward to.