Chapter 6
As Naruto sat in his basic ass starter apartment, reading his bingo book, admiring the 8 tails jinchurruki, he thought back to the day that he realized he was also a jinchurruki.
Naruto was strolling down the streets, he was 8 years old, he felt something hard hit his back, a rock. Then another, people were trying to pelt him with rocks. Why? Because it was the anniversary of the Kyuubi attack. Naruto wondered why every year, these people always want to hurt him.
Rocks were thrown at his back, he was tripped, smacked, locked out of stores, people spat on him, and Naruto had to just endure. He started to tune out the world around him, he felt much safer in his mind, where the loneliness couldn’t reach him. He didn't want to retaliate, he didn't want the people to hate him. Call him a monster anymore.
Wait.
A monster. Why did they call him that?
Why was he an eight year old boy, being called a monster?
Why was he always called that the most on the night of the Kyuubi attack?
Why did people always curse at him, put at him, why do they want him dead?
Something clicked in his eight year old mind.
The big fox died tonight, I was born today.
How are we linked?
That instant Naruto ran to the Hokage and demanded an answer, and after Naruto threatened to run away from the village, everyone knowing he was slippery enough to do it, he got his answer.
The Kyuubi didn't die that night, it was sealed into an Uzumaki boy.
Naruto Uzumaki.
That day didn't change Naruto's life at all, but it did make things much clearer as to why he was treated the way he was.
Naruto jerked himself out of his thoughts and looked back at the bingo book, he had to find his teacher.
AHA, Naruto thought, very pleased with himself.
It was like finding his teacher's yearbook picture.
The picture was terrible, Kakashi looked completely washed out, whiter than paper, his hair was spikier, he just looked like an albino pirate really.
Naruto rolled around on his couch laughing himself to death. This was the best thing he's ever seen.
After he nearly wet himself with laughter, Naruto peeled himself off of the couch and dragged himself to bed. He had more training. Naruto was so sick of training that he actually would have preferred to take a punch from the slug princess herself at this point.
Well, he was sick of Kakashi's weak ass training, what was this bullshit he had them doing? Run around, fight each other, do pushups. Repeat. LAAAAAMMMEEEE. Naruto had much more fun on his own.
It was like 1:30 when Naruto was settled into his bed and he was ready to sleep, and sleep he did. The boy was out like a light.
Naruto woke up the next morning, he rolled himself out of bed, got dripped out because that's what being a ninja is all about, ooh bars, Naruto thought to himself. After getting his fit on, popping on his trusty hat, and making sure to lock his not so trusty door, he was well on his way out of his strategically empty apartment. Hehehe, no one can steal what's not there... Naruto thought to himself.
The blonde boy shoved his hands into his pockets and strolled down the road to the training grounds, he found that after a quick look at the time, he was a few minutes early.
Sweet.
Naruto created a clone that looked like Kakashi and hid him and checked his watch again, in a few minutes the Beauty and the Brooder would come along and do their little song and dance, bugging him about Kakashi.
Naruto jumped up into his favorite tree, pulled his cap down over his eyes, as usual, and dozed off. As planned, he could hear the two approaching, well. One of the two.
He knew that Kakashi was going to be late by about one hour and 45 minutes because he saw something that stuck out to him on the way to the training field.
A Icha Icha reboot, no shot Kakashi doesn't get one, then he'll see the other books and pevertedly giggle. Like normal. That's what is going to add on the extra fifteen minutes.
Naruto saw the two not so patiently waiting for their sensei, once Naruto nodded off for another hour and a half, he summoned his henged shadow clone, the 28 year old geezer walked down the road to the trio, supposedly.
Sakura yelled at him like normal, and Naruto's Kakashi said, "Oh, I'm sorry, a mirror broke this morning, so I had to piece it all together by hand to ensure good luck."
The pair sighed and murmur a "Typical" and Naruto knew he was doing a great job. Then, he pulled out the finishing touch, the novel. Sakura turned red like always, not embarrassed, in anger, and Sasuke just shook his head.
Right as Sakura was about to open her mouth to scold Kakashi, he stopped her and showed her the book, she accidentally scanned the words and instead of a passionate sex scene, she saw an intimate love scene. Her heart melted for her romantic sensei.
"Awwwww, Kakashi-sensei! That's so cute!"
Naruto inwardly was crying laughing, imagining his teacher's pissed off face at being called cute. He checked the time, his teacher should be coming back, Sakura had been doting on her teacher for the last ten minutes, Naruto needed to make the transition seamless so no one will notice the sensei swap.
"Alright, alright, no need to be so amazed, romance is very unbecoming of an older ninja such as myself," faux-Kakashi said, "Now, I'm glad you like my tastes and they are to your standards, but don't forget I am a shinobi and my comrades will make fun of me if they hear this love talk, keep this between you and me, Sakura." He threw in a wink and with Kakashi's looks, it sealed the deal and made Sakura blush.
With that, he was almost out of time, time to make an exit.
"It seems I've forgotten something at home," and with that and a poof of smoke, he disappeared. The two genin glanced at each other huffed. breath and sat back down, waiting for their teacher to return.
Kakashi stood in the Icha Icha isle and pervertedly giggled, he was remembering all the details from all these little books. He practically skipped to the training field, an hour and forty five minutes late.
Huh, that was weird, the genin didn't seem as angry as usual and he didn't need an excuse, they must be getting used to him. Why is Sakura blushing, why does Sasuke look so disgusted?
Why does Naruto look so unfazed with the other two? Oh wait, he's normally like that.
He opened his book and heard Sakura sigh dreamily rather than berate him, that was odd...
Sasuke actually scoffed at him, he never did that before even though he was fairly grossed out with the idea of the novel.
Naruto, as always, is a closed book, irritating as always.
He looked up at Sakura, who blushed furiously and looked away, and now Kakashi was seriously confused...
"Hey sensei, are you feeling romantic?" Naruto asked and Sakura shushed him and apologized to Kakashi. After seeing Naruto's smirk, he knew that it had something to do with the little punk.
"No, not particularly.." Kakashi trailed off, seeing Sakura's investment in his book.
After some serious questioning to a certain blonde...
"NARUTO!" Sakura shouted at the boy, trying to swing at him again, which he easily evaded, and he barely managed to dodge thousand years of pain jutsu from Kakashi, all the while out of breath from laughing so hard, even Sasuke was a little amused with it, quietly cheering the boy on as he ducked through arms flying at him.