Naruto awoke to smells of several different breakfast foods.
"Huh… I wonder what all that is?" Naruto thought as his nose led him to the kitchen where he was greeted with the sight of pancakes, bacon, eggs and orange juice.
Naruto's mouth watered as Gohan smiled at his new friend's reaction.
"Hey there. Like what I made?" Gohan laughed as Naruto nodded energetically.
"Yeah, let's eat!" Naruto yelled as he dug in, eating with manners akin to Goku as Gohan laughed while he ate with a bit more class.
"Whew, that was so good!" Naruto belched as he rubbed his satisfied tummy while Gohan laughed at his friend's reaction to his food. Thankfully he managed to remember his mother's recipe.
"Hey thanks! Yeah I made it just like mom—"Gohan was about to say before his expression turned grim as he was suddenly reminded of his lost family. Naruto noticed this and frowned apologetically.
"Hey Gohan, I'm sorry, I wasn't try—"Naruto tried to apologize as Gohan held a hand up.
"It's fine. Besides, we should probably get ready for school, right?" Gohan suggested as Naruto groaned.
"Oh, right!" Naruto said, albeit a little reluctantly, before going back to his room and getting dressed in his orange and blue outfit while Gohan stood there silently for a couple seconds as he lamented on how if he hadn't been so selfish and arrogant, he wouldn't be in this situation but then he assumed that perhaps this was perhaps a second chance of sorts in order to make sure he didn't repeat his same mistakes.
As Gohan made this thought he decided to change his clothes as he realized that he was kind of sweaty in his current ones and since this was his first day at a new school, he wanted to make a strong good impression. The half-saiyan then dressed himself in a white Chinese style shirt, black pants and black slippers.
"Alright, ready to go?" Naruto asked his new friend who nodded.
"Yeah." Gohan replied before the two left the lovable blonde's apartment. As the two made their way to the Ninja Academy, the two were greeted with the same usual stares of disdain and disgust but unlike yesterday, Gohan noticed how while a lot were directed at him, there were a great deal directed towards Naruto too.
"Hey, Naruto?" Gohan was about to ask before Naruto turned around and smiled.
"I don't know why they're like that towards me." Naruto replied as he had an idea of what the son of Goku was going to ask.
"Do you ever wonder why though?" Gohan asked as Naruto sighed.
"I do… But it doesn't matter… Because one day I'll get their respect and become Hokage!" Naruto grinned a grin akin to the one Gohan saw on his father. At that moment, Gohan had a strong inkling that Naruto would become a shinobi stronger than anyone in this village.
"You do that, Naruto." Gohan smiled at his friend as the two continued their walk until they reached the Ninja Academy.
"So this is it huh? It's sure a big school…" Gohan observed as Naruto could make out nervousness in the half breed's voice.
"Nervous?" Naruto asked as Gohan nodded.
"Yeah, I've been homeschooled pretty much." Gohan explained as Naruto grimaced at the thought.
"Wow, rough?" Naruto grimaced as he couldn't imagine having the horror known as school within his home.
"Haha, it's fine. It's really not that bad." Gohan chuckled while internally he was excited at the thought of interacting with people his own age. Aside from the Z-Fighters, he had no real friends his age other than him meeting Lime.
Gohan was snapped from his thoughts as the two were approached by Iruka.
"Ah, so you must be the new student? I'm Umino Iruka." Iruka introduced himself politely as he held his hand out making Gohan smile as he was happy there was another person not hostile towards him.
"Yes sir. I'm Son Gohan. It's a pleasure to meet you, Mister Iruka." Gohan introduced himself as Iruka smiled at how Gohan was way more polite than the students he was currently teaching.
"A pleasure to meet you as well, Gohan." Iruka introduced back before turning to Naruto.
"Naruto, you go and sit down while I bring Gohan in." Iruka ordered the blonde who waved his hand.
"Yeah, yeah." Naruto rolled his eyes before walking into the building as Iruka and Gohan followed him thereafter.
"I'm glad Naruto didn't scare you away from the village." Iruka chuckled as Gohan return the gesture.
"It's fine. He's my first friend here. The villagers on the other hand…." Gohan trailed off as Iruka smiled.
"Don't worry about it. They're just confused but don't worry, they'll come around." Iruka said before the two reached his classroom.
"Alright, now please wait out here while I get you ready." Iruka said as Gohan nodded in understanding.
"Yes sir." Gohan replied as Iruka entered the classroom.
"Alright class, today we have a new student who'll be joining us today. He's new to the village so please be friendly and welcoming to him." Iruka ordered everyone as several students looked interested about the possibility about who the new person might while others just didn't care.
"If you'll please?" Iruka ordered Gohan who walked in.
"Hello everyone, I'm Son Gohan." Gohan smiled politely as he gave a polite bow while everyone stared at the new comer with shock. The Half-Saiyan could hear various comments about him:
"Hey I heard about him! He's that kid who fell from the sky!"
"Whoa seriously? He's definitely not normal!"
"My parents told me to stay away from him…"
"I know I am…."
"What a freak!"
"He definitely looks too soft to be a fighter….."
Were the majority of the comments Gohan heard while he heard some positive comments;
"Whoa, talk about a cutie!"
"Yeah, he's just as cute as Sasuke!"
"I think he's even cuter!"
Gohan blushed before making his way to sit next to Naruto who he bumped fists with, much to the shock of everyone save for Iruka who smiled at the scene before him.
"To think he and Naruto have a sort of bond only after a day. Hehe." Iruka chuckled interally before opening his book up.
"Alright Gohan, we're on page 100 so try to follow along with Naruto." Iruka said as Gohan nodded before looking at Naruto's book. The son of Goku was stunned to learn how people around here used a force called Chakra instead of what he used, Ki.
The discussion went on for a couple of hours before Iruka led his class outside for an outdoors lesson.
"Now since Gohan is new here, I'd like to gauge his strength so Gohan if you don't mind I'd like to see you attack these five dummies and try not to be too hard on them." Iruka instructed while he sat out five different practice dummies.
"Alright then." Gohan agreed before easily destroying all five of the dummies without even breaking a sweat much to the amazement of everyone.
"Hopefully I didn't over do it." Gohan thought as everyone stared at him in agape.
"W-whoa…." Choji stammered while he couldn't bring himself to eat his bag of chips.
"How… is he that strong?" Shikamaru pondered just as shocked as Gohan rubbed his head sheepishly.
"G-Gohan? How did you do that so fast?" Iruka asked the half-saiyan who laughed sheepishly.
"I've been training all my life since I was four." Gohan nonchalantly admitted much to the amazement of everyone, sans a certain duck haired youth.
"A-amazing…." Iruka said as Gohan decided to speak a topic on his mind.
"By the way Mister Iruka, I noticed how everyone here uses Chakra but that's not what I use to fight." Gohan said as everyone's expressions became even more bewildering.
"Y-you don't?" A shocked Kiba asked.
"Yeah that's right. I use Ki." Gohan began as everyone's shocked expressions only grew.
"H-how? I've never heard anyone use Ki nowadays…" Iruka stammered.
"I see… That explains why I couldn't sense anybody here. But it's not as dangerous as you all might think it is. Ki is the physical manifestation of your fighting spirit and it's very useful for various techniques." Gohan explained before channeling his Ki until a small yellow sphere came from his hands before firing it at one of the Shuriken targets, hitting it but not incinerating it as Gohan made sure to conserve a lot of his energy.
As everyone was dumbstruck, Iruka managed to collect himself somewhat.
"I see… so it's basically akin to Senjutsu…." Iruka theorized as Shikamaru decided to raise his hand.
"So would it be possible for us to be able to use it?" Shikamaru asked as Gohan nodded.
"I don't see why not. It may be a little troublesome for you all and may take a little while but I'm sure you all can learn it." Gohan replied as everyone was amazed for the thousandth time today at the new ability for powers available to them.
"Although with Chakra being akin to pure energy, I can sense you all and I can say Naruto is the strongest of all of the students." Gohan said as everyone's jaws dropped to the ground save for Naruto and Sasuke.
"What!? Seriously!?" Naruto yelled, ecstatic with how his dream may be closer to him than he realized.
"Yep, with some training you'll definitely be a very powerful person. Although I'll need to learn chakra…." Gohan said
"But Naruto's the dead last of the class though!" Sakura tried arguing as Gohan shrugged his shoulders.
"That's just a title and titles mean nothing." Gohan thought, a little exasperated as he thought of Hercule and how he was called "The World's Strongest Man." He was one hundred percent sure Raditz would've killed the bumbling man as Iruka smiled.
"We have around four months left until you the graduation exams but I'm sure you can learn the fundamentals of chakra." Iruka pat Gohan's shoulders as he smiled.
"Right!" Gohan smiled before Iruka called the class back inside and everyone went back inside except for one Uchiha Sasuke who stared at the back of Gohan.
"Son Gohan ... If I can use Ki like him… I'll definitely be able to kill Itachi… Definitely!" Sauske darkly thought before following the rest of the students inside.
The rest of the day went on without any sort of hitches before the day ended and Gohan decided to go to the library with a reluctant Naruto.
"I hate libraries!" Naruto groaned as Gohan laughed since his father hated them too.
"Just chill while I try to find out more of the history here." Gohan suggested as Naruto went off to find off things to read before coming across a couple of… dirty books… for a lack of better words as Gohan looked up only to catch a glance at what Naruto was reading before sighing and choosing to say nothing.
"Something tells me Naruto and Master Roshi would be the best of friends if they met…" Gohan rolled his eyes as he read on the history of the Leaf village.
"Wow… so this village was founded by Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara with Hashirama becoming the first hokage while Madara went rogue and left the village before he was killed by Hashirama Interesting…" Gohan read the book with interest as Naruto decided to get Gohan's attention.
"Hey Gohan…" Naruto began as Gohan looked up from what he was ready.
"Yeah?" Gohan replied.
"Do you think you can teach me all that Ki stuff sometimes? It looks really interesting!" Naruto pleaded as Gohan smiled.
"Sure, why not. We can start on Saturday." Gohan suggested as Naruto beamed.
"That sounds great! Thanks!" Naruto grinned.
"Haha, you're welcome." Gohan replied as he continued reading on the history of the village as Hiruzen smiled at the day's events from his crystal ball.
"So, it looks like Gohan is not only a strong person but he can use Ki… He definitely will be a benefit for this village." Hiruzen thought with glee as his thoughts trailed to the future ahead…