Discovering his Heritage

While they Wait

Now that Naruto no longer needed to fight Grass Ninja daily, his day seemed to be much duller than it was before. Though since Naruto had other missions that he could focus his attention on while he waited for the head of the Grass Village to appear, he decided he would use his time to make a dent in one of those missions.

"Missions." Naruto muttered.

When the screen that he was waiting for appeared, Naruto searched through the list to find one that he thought would be the best use of his time. Since the list only contained four missions, Naruto didn't have much to search through and was easily able to find the one he wanted.

"I wonder who in the village would know Korin Kato?" Naruto contemplated as he sat on his bed.

As this thought slid through his mind, another came to replace it though unlike the last thought; Naruto voiced this one. "I could go and see Iruka-Sensei." Naruto muttered as he pushed himself from his bed so he could get himself ready for the day.

*

Both Naruto and Maris made their way down the streets of Konoha and as they headed in the direction of the Leaf's Ninja Academy; Naruto was glancing around the village which allowed him to notice that a rather large house was for sale though from the state of the property, Naruto figured that it would need repairs before it could be livable.

Knowing that he had more important things to do than think about a rundown house; Naruto thought that it would be best to focus on the reason that he was trekking through the Leaf Village.

Since they have already been walking for thirty minutes and have passed many of the landmarks that were near the Academy, Naruto knew that they would soon be arriving at their destination which would allow him to get the answers that he needed from his old Sensei as well as catch up with the older man.

Seconds after Naruto realized that he would soon be reaching the Academy; Naruto spotted the lone swing that he had spent much of his time after class though that time of his life was much lonelier for him than it was now. Not wanting to get sucked into old feelings that he had already buried; Naruto pushed past the swing and headed towards the entrance to the Academy though before he was able to enter the building, Naruto heard what sounded like fighting coming from outside the Academy.

Since this was a school that trained children to be Ninja, Naruto assumed that the noises that he was hearing was due to one of the Sensei's training the students in the Academy's training grounds.

Though Naruto couldn't be sure that it was Iruka who was the Sensei that was outside training the students but since he was hoping that it was the darker skinned male; Naruto decided to make a detour to see if the man he was searching was in fact the one that was training the soon to be Ninja.

With a new destination in mind, Naruto turned himself away from the Academy's entrance and made his way towards the noises he was hearing. Since Maris had no business here besides for the fact that Naruto was here, he followed Naruto and within seconds both boys rounded the corner of the Academy to see that the students were sparring against one another.

From the exhausted looks that were etched across each of their faces, Naruto assumed that they had been fighting for quite some time which was abnormal since Naruto didn't remember training so hard under the guidance of the Sensei's until he was outside of the Academy. "This has to be due to the war with the Grass Village. Tsunade must be worried that the Academy students would be easy targets if they were untrained..." Naruto contemplated as he came upon the group of students and their Sensei.

Casting his eyes across the group, Naruto noticed the man that he was looking for standing near two students who were fighting for dominance in their sparring match. Immediately Naruto started making his way towards his old Sensei though before he was able to arrive, Iruka-Sensei turned towards him.