Naruto: The Shadow Game System.

He took one book out along with a pencil and eraser, "this is your notebook, those of you who don't have any writing instrument and the such please come down here and collect them." Ah I was wondering how they expected us to learn without any books.

I grabbed a copy for myself, it was a black book with nothing written inside, I guess this was going to be like college then, taking down lecture notes and then learning them for a later dates.

Iruka took out an older looking book and placed it on the podium, turning to face the class, "alright, let's begin."

"Wait!" came a cry as suddenly the doors were thrown open as a boy dressed in orange pants and a white shirt came crashing in. He rolled into the podium knocking it aside before jumping to his feet, "I made it in time!"

Bonk!

Iruka's fist came crashing down on his head, "no you didn't!"

I couldn't help a chuckle escaping my mouth as I looked at him. Blonde hair, blue eyes and a goofy smile. I didn't need to look at his name or title to know who he was;

Naruto Uzumaki, Jinchuuriki Lv- 5 REP- 0 During lunch:

For the first day Iruka gave us a little speech on what ninja were. It highlights the difficult parts of a ninja's life, something an innocent kid might not know. He then gave a lecture about the village itself and why it was so important. Obviously Naruto was asleep the whole time.

We were served lunch in a cafeteria down the hall. All the kids from my year sat together in four benches chatting with each other. I found most of the attention was on the three benches, with the fourth taken up my Sasuke who sat in one corner choosing to be alone and Naruto sitting on the other side, who had no choice but to sit alone.

I walked towards the table with my lunch tray in hand and looked curiously, I had a chance...meh, what the hell. I put the tray down next to Naruto's startling the boy. I smiled as I sat down, "hey."

Naruto blinked, "h-hey," he blinked.

I began to eat my lunch with him looking at me curiously. I raised an eyebrow, "what?" "N-nothing," Naruto shook his head, "it's just...it's nothing," he said with a big smile, "I'm Naruto! Nice to meet you!"

"Yami," I extended his hand shaking it, "nice to meet you Naruto. How's it going?"

"Ha ha, can't complain," he smirked scratching his head. Just then his stomach gave a loud growl. I groaned and turned to his meal seeing his tray half of what I had.

I sighed, "they didn't give you enough food huh?"

Naruto blinked, "what? No it's just," he chuckled, "I pranked the lunch ladies a few days ago, so I guess they're still mad!"

I smiled, "right, well then," I took my bowl of rice and poured half into his bowl, "eat up sparky."

"Hey, you didn't have to do that!" Naruto said looking saddened at being pitied. I shrugged, "consider it an investment, I heard about your pranks, just don't do it to me deal?"

Naruto's shame immediately turned to joy, "deal!" He grabbed his chopsticks and munched down into his meal, "this is awesome!"

I smiled, "I know right," it was true, the rice here was much better than the stuff I got in the orphanage for breakfast. I looked up at Naruto's REP score, it went from 0 to 10. Guess he likes me now.

"Hey Yami, you understand anything from Iruka's speech?" Naruto asked, "cause I didn't."

I nodded, "he just explained why being a ninja is a difficult job and how the village was an important structure in the ninja world. Nothing too groundbreaking. I don't think we get to the important stuff until later."

Naruto sighed, "yeah. Hey, you want to hang out after this?! We can go to the park and play!" I blinked, "ah, sure, I guess. Do you know any good places?"

"Yeah! There's a park right across the academy!" Naruto replied with a foxy smile.

I nodded, "sounds great," I looked over at Sasuke who did his best to pretend like he wasn't listening in on our conversation, I called him over, "yo! You want to join us?"

Sasuke paused as he looked at me in surprise, amazed I would even ask him. "Pft, that bastard? Forget it Yami, that guy doesn't do anything fun," Naruto glared at Sasuke daring him to say otherwise.

The last Uchiha looked at me and Naruto and returned to him meal without saying a word. Naruto snorted, "see?"

I shrugged, "worth a try. Alright then, it's settled, anyway, eat your food Naruto, it's going to get cold." Naruto blinked "oh, right!" He immediately began to dig in. I turned to Sasuke, who once again was caught red handed looking at me and Naruto. I raised an eyebrow and smiled at him, and he promptly ignored me, got up and left. Wonderful.

After lunch we returned back to class. This time Naruto sat down next to me in my seat a few rows back. He and I chatted for awhile, I told him that I was an orphan and live in the orphanage. He confided in me the same and that he had his own apartment.

I sighed, "damn, I wish I had my own place, it would be so much better than where I'm living right now."

Naruto chuckled nervously, "yeah, it's not all cracked up to be what it is. My place is honestly kind of a dump. It's in a bad place too."

I shrugged, "but it's yours," I hummed, I wonder, can I get Naruto to share his apartment with me? I could do it right? It would be so much better than the shit hole I live in right now.

And just as I had that thought a new box popped up;