Naruto: A New Perspective

Chapter 3

Disclaimer:I do not own Naruto or this would be true

Last time...

"Naruto...?" Aiko murmured, before whispering to Sasuke, "I think he's asleep." Sasuke scowled, "So let's wake him up, we all have to get up early tomorrow."

Aiko looked at him disapprovingly, "Sasuke, it's nearly eleven... we can't send him home like this. He can have the guest room for the night."

Sasuke looked at her incredulously, but she firmly met his eyes. The Uchiha boy shrugged, he knew better than to fight with his sister when she got like this. He stared at Naruto for a few seconds, before lifting him up gently, trying not to wake him. He carried the slumbering blond to the guest room, which was directly across from his. Sasuke then laid his sleeping teammate down, and then threw a blanket over him.

Naruto yawned and rolled onto his side, Sasuke rolled his eyes and walked out with a mutter, "Sweet dreams, loser."

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Naruto dreamt. He usually didn't, and if he did he found it hard to remember them in the morning. This dream started off alright...

He and his new team were talking in their seats at the academy, looking happy and cheerful. Then Iruka came and told them it was time for the test, but Naruto couldn't take it because he had already failed.

Naruto of course protested, so Iruka set him up with another test, throwing kunai at a stump with Kakashi to supervise. But the stumps moved whenever he threw the kunai and he always missed, and Kakashi always laughed at his efforts.

"You're pretty useless, aren't you?" Kakashi drawled, "Looks like you fail. Too bad, the others all passed."

Naruto turned to the sound of laughter, Sasuke, Aiko and Sakura stepped out of the academy showing tests with perfect scores. Their laughter turned malicious when they spotted him looking defeated.

"Naruto has failed." Kakashi declared, "He will go back to the academy for another year."

"Well at least you won't be holding Sasuke-kun back anymore!" Sakura smiled widely, "You're so annoying, Naruto!"

"Loser." Sasuke said, but instead of his uninterested look, there was hatred in his eyes, "I told you to stay away from my sister, you get what you deserve."

The two walked off together holding hands, Aiko was the last to step up, but her eyes were just as cruel as the others. "I don't know why I ever wanted to be friends with you. You're just an idiot dead last." With that, she walked after her teammates, leaving him behind.

Only Kakashi was left, but his visible eye held no compassion, "I need your headband now, Naruto." With trembling hands, Naruto handed it over, and watched in despair as Kakashi broke it in two, throwing the pieces back at Naruto's feet.

Numbly, Naruto stared down at the broken pieces of the forehead protector that Iruka-sensei had presented to him after the ordeal with Mizuki.

"I need your mask, too."

"S-Sensei... I'm not wearing a mask." Naruto stammered, trying to grin. Kakashi didn't laugh, his voice became angry.

"Don't play games with me you little demon. You hide behind that cute little face, laughing and grinning stupidly at everything that goes around you, to hide the fact that you want to kill us all... well we're not fooled. The Third should have killed you the moment he found out what you were."

"I... It's me, Kakashi-sensei; I don't have a mask-"

"Liar!" Kakashi rumbled harshly, pulling out a kunai. "If you don't take off that fake face, that mask, I'll just have to cut it off then..." The Jounin began to walk towards him slowly; Naruto found his legs wouldn't move... the Jounin grew closer...