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Naruto has always been lonely, how could he not be?
Dead parents, no close relatives and hated by the entire village without even knowing why, this was a cruel reality for a 5 year old child, but even with all this pain, Naruto got up hopeful, this was his first day at the academy !
Even before going to sleep he had already prepared everything for his big day, when he would finally formally begin his ninja training and take his first steps towards his goal of becoming Hokage!!, and most excitingly, the possibility of making friends from true!
Of course, most kids his age avoided him too but they couldn't do that in a classroom where part of the lessons were about teamwork, he just needed a chance for them to see how cool he could be.
As soon as the alarm clock rang, Naruto jumped out of bed, almost tripping over the sheets and ran to the small bathroom for a long shower, an important day like this deserved this care, it didn't take long for him to go out and choose his best clothes, which he only kept for special occasions, like your birthday or the launch of a new ramen flavor at ichiraku.
Right after a hearty breakfast with one of his award-winning ramens, he went to the mirror for one last look.
- Today is the big day! without discouragement!
And with high expectations he was already jumping across the rooftops of Konoha towards the academy, tightly holding the notebook and the book of lessons that Grandpa the Third had given him a few days ago, he tried to read the book a little to better prepare himself for the class, but the words kept getting mixed up in his head, he's always had this problem since he learned to read, he had several books in his house, most of them about jutsus and shinobi techniques since the old man said that every hokage had studied and learned lots of jutsus and special techniques, but I couldn't even read half of them because the words kept getting mixed up!
He wanted to learn but it wasn't his fault if the books didn't want to be read, it took days of notes and re-reading to get something useful and even then there would still be several chapters with more disconnected sentences and words that changed places to finish the book.
Because of this, Naruto preferred to focus on training the parts he already understood rather than continuing to break his head with a book that he clearly didn't like, he was actually doing well, he had already understood what chakra was with Grandpa's help. third and even learned the transformation jutsu, in addition to practicing taijutsu with a book of illustrations that he had because weren't all books like that?
As soon as he approached the academy he could hear the excited voices of new students and parents who had gathered to watch the opening ceremony, he could already feel the large portion of chakra like several fireflies in front of the school, the parents were excited and encouraging The children talking about their own childhood experiences, Naruto had already accepted the reality that he would never have something like that but it still hurt to see how everyone had someone to accompany them and be with them at such an important moment in any ninja's life.
Naruto landed on a large tree in front of the academy, hiding among the leaves in the hope that none of the adults saw him, he didn't want to have to deal with their aggressive looks, as if he had broken something important that couldn't be fixed, The kids always looked at him with disdain but the adults seemed to see him as a rat or something.
He observed the crowd for a while looking for a familiar face, he managed to see that girl with silver eyes who sometimes appeared in the market and in the woods, always hidden behind a tree or an adult next to two other adults with white eyes. the same, they didn't look very happy, he also managed to make out a head of pink hair that belonged to one of the girls he saw playing in the playground near the house, next to her there was a boy with a little dog on his head and red marks on his face who looked so as excited as naruto himself, maybe he can try to make friends with him, looking further he can see a dark-haired boy next to someone who seemed to be his older brother, since the boy looked too small to be an adult but too old to be a newcomer, naruto's gaze lingered on the brunette, who despite having an ordinary appearance caught his attention in a way that no one had before.
After thinking for a few moments he decided, this would be his first friend.
Naruto got down from the tree he was in and went towards the pair of brothers, he could feel the heavy gaze of people burning the back of his head but he didn't want to think about that at the moment having all his attention focused on the pale boy with black hair, after the It seemed like an eternity before he managed to get close enough to greet him, and that's what he would have done if he hadn't tripped over someone's foot and knocked the boy next to him to the ground.
-OH, what the hell.- said the boy who was trying to compose himself and get the strange boy off of him, - get off of me, who are you?
-Oh sorry- said Naruto, standing up and offering his hand to the fallen boy - I tripped over someone, I'm Naruto Uzumaki, what's your name?
The pale boy accepted the other's hand and stood up just in time to look at the intense blue eyes that the boy in front of him had, they reminded him of the clear and cool sky after a summer rain, when the ground is still damp and you you can smell grass in the air.
In his entire short life, he had never seen eyes like that before, much less accompanied by a smile so bright as if he didn't even remember having just embarrassed himself in the middle of a crowd, still a little dazed and curious, he releases the hand of the boy in front of him.
- My name is Sasuke, Sasuke Uchiha.