Ok so here ya go.
Key:
Normal speaking: that looks weird.
Biju/summoning speaking: What do you want Gaki?
Normal thoughts: his eyes are wrong for his age.
Biju/summoning thoughts: I'm bored.
Ok so here we go.
Ghost child
Chapter 1
It was a beautiful day in Konoha 12 years after the Kyuubi attack and at the Namikaze household we find a tall spiky-blonde haired male standing next to a red headed woman looking fondly at their daughter Narumi, the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki, it didn't even cross their mind when Naruto walked in the door with scratches and bruises forming all over his arms and face, his black shirt was torn and his face carefully neutral, no one needed to know what he was thinking.
Seeing his sister and 'parents' celebrating her birthday with a large cake and an even larger pot of what smelled like ramen behind them he didn't even feel jealous anymore. Narumi was smiling at her parents while opening the presents next to the cake. She didn't even notice her brother staring at her back. Just like her parents she didn't notice him. The door was well maintained so when Minato, the father, came back from the hokage's office he didn't make any noise opening the door to the house. Of course it was to Naruto's benefit as well, after walking home from the beatings and just wandering around the village sometimes staying away from his 'family' or just staying outside to explore the village.
Now all he had to do was get to his room and fall asleep… after locking the door of course, couldn't have his parents or his sister to wander in his room and wonder why he had all these books and scrolls after all. Walking up the stairs he only heard what he needed to. "Happy Birthday Narumi." coming from both of her parents. They might have been twins or he just might have been adopted, He didn't know either way it was best to keep quiet around them. He had read enough books and scrolls and heard enough times from the civilians to know why everyone hated him. Sure he might have been the Kyuubi or the one that contains the monster. That would surely warrant enough hate from the civilians. There was only one problem. He didn't have a seal on him. He had checked after researching for a week straight when he was 6 he had found the incident about the Kyuubi and read enough about sealing to figure out why the civilians kept calling him 'demon' or 'demon spawn'. The clans didn't though; the Uchiha… well they participated in most of the beatings, he knew because he could see the read eyes with the commas in the eyes of his attackers to know they had participated. He had read about all the clans in the library wanting to know more about the styles and the people of the village he lived in.
Now even though his parents and classmates mostly ignored him, he preferred it that way, he flourished when he was by himself to study and gain what he called important, knowledge, strength, friends… when he could get some anyway.
Finally he was upstairs away from the noise and into the quiet. He liked the quiet it was nice, it didn't do anything to him, it assured him there was no one near by. Now he should focus on his studies. Sighing he went to his desk and brought out his homework, a history write up on the Hokages. Well…. Better get started then. That in mind he started writing his history paper on the Hokages.
Waking up he got up and got ready for the academy. After putting on his clothes he stood in front of his mirror looking himself over. He wore Dark ANBU styled pants with pouches in them to hold things for him, dark blue and black shirt shinobi sandals, and finally his backpack that had his homework in it with some other stuff he might need.
Half an hour later he stood in the door and like his footsteps and very presence in his house said "I'm leaving." No one replied but he always said it waiting for the day someone replied. With his pack in hand he walked quietly to the academy. His sister would wake up later as it was always extremely early when he left.
Narumi was having a good morning so far. She had woken up early and was finally going to turn in that ridiculous paper that her sensei at the academy had assigned for homework over the weekend. She had a good breakfast and was already ready for the academy. She was just waiting for the- "I'm leaving." A soft voice said by the door she had barely heard it but had only heard it because she had enhanced her senses with chakra. Smiling in triumph she ran out of the kitchen and to the door hoping to at least say goodbye to her brother this time. She had been waking up progressively earlier for the past two weeks trying to get ready by the time her brother was. It was 6:30 for crying out loud! Who in their right minds leaves the house at 6:30 for the academy! It started at 8:00! It barely took ten minutes to get there walking leisurely without a care in the world, looking at all the distractions! "Ugh… better go find him, in case he gets into trouble again." Oh yes, she knew the civilians beat him, she had no idea what for though, she didn't want to ask her parents because she feared what would happen to Naruto when they found out. She didn't want them to beat him too. She heard the names and the insults. The one thing she didn't know, and it irritated the hell out of her, was how in the world her brother just stood up, dusted himself off and started walking again to wherever he was going. She had no idea how he did it. She would see the bruises and cuts at school but no one ever asked and some of the teachers even smiled a little at seeing her brother like this. Not that he would care. In fact he would just stare at the teacher until the lesson got started again. No one knew how he had such a high pain tolerance he just did. He was smart too. She had seen some of the homework he had done and was swirly eyed by the halfway point in it, too many big words and too many details her child-like mind couldn't understand it. But that wasn't important right now. She had to see her brother.
Running to the door it was already closed. Opening the door she smiled in triumph at catching her brother until- "Where did he go?! He just said he was leaving!" he was nowhere to be seen. She just stared at her front yard demanding it to tell her where her brother was. Unfortunately a twelve-year-old stare wasn't potent enough to demand anything from nature it seemed as the lawn just sat there with the grass swaying occasionally. Dropping her shoulders in resignation she trudged back inside to wait for her parents at the table. So she did the only thing she knew how to as a twelve-year-old to wait. She sat at the table listing ways her brother could have disappeared that fast. Each suggestion was more farfetched than the last. With one including him knowing the Hiraishin her father had invented. The last was that alien monsters had beamed him on their ship and he was being held prisoner as they interrogated him. Oh if only she knew the truth.
"Hey sweetie, what are you doing up so early?" her mother had appeared in the kitchen with her father just behind her.
Not even turning around she asked them, "Does Onii-chan know the Hiraishin?"
Shocked at their daughter asking this they asked the only thing that came to mind, "Why do you ask?" anything more complicated than that just didn't make it to their minds.
"So, I got up early enough to hear Onii-chan leave this morning at immediately went to the door to say goodbye like a good sister. Well as soon as I opened the door, he was gone. No blonde hair turning the corner, no sound except the wind, nothing. How in the world did he manage to get across the lawn, out of sight by the time I got to the door? I RAN THERE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! HOW DOES HE KEEP DISAPPEARING?" by the time she had finished her pen had broken making her blink dig into her backpack and grab another one to finish her by now beyond reality list. Some of which were quite in depth.
Her parents behind her were quite confused at this. How did he get out of sight so quickly? They had trained her quite well so when she says immediately go to the door they knew she had gotten there in less than five seconds, which means he must of jumped, or something. Kushina getting her mind together faster than her husband responded with "Why not ask him at school?" it was a good suggestion in her mind they were siblings they should stick together especially at school. The reply wasn't as encouraging.
"Because when I do find him. He is just in time for class and only then do I see him with all the br-… never mind I'll just ask him at lunch." She said hurriedly grabbing her stuff and then leaving the kitchen to the door trying to escape whatever they would ask what she was about to say. She succeeded apparently as she got to the door before they said anything and left to go… Now where should I go? I still have an hour until the academy starts. Meh I'll just go to the library and start reading something interesting. I wonder if they have anything that would trap my brother? Still deep in thought on traps to use on her brother she completely missed entering the library and started walking to a table and then regretted not paying any attention due to her not knowing exactly where she was.
Of course the silver lining to this was that across from her was her long time friend Hinata Hyuuga. Hey wait a minute. "Hinata-chan, I have a favor to ask!" Narumi says with the most serious face a twelve-year-old can have.
Being the shy girl she is Hinata stutters back, "H-h-hai N-narumi-san?"
"Can you use your Byakugan to find my brother? He disappeared this morning." With Hinata having a huge crush on her friend's sister she did the only thing that came to mind.
"Byakugan!" she shouted out pumping a lot of chakra into her eyes looking for the elusive blonde. Something Must have happened. He never disappears and Narumi never asked before so something must have happened. She was on a mission now. To find her crush! She couldn't fail! Well she did find him. Not where she expected but she did find him. "Ano… N-narumi-san… H-h-he's r-right t-there… " she stuttered out with a full on blush at seeing her crush. She had pumped a lot of chakra in her eyes so she could see every tiny detail… Every. Single. Detail… … Thump goes the Hyuuga.
Narumi was now gob smacked. How had she not noticed her brother sitting not ten feet away from her and Hinata… Hinata… wait where did she go? ... She had just turned her back and now she was gone! Why did this keep happening to her?!
Well oh well. She could now talk to her brother. "Onii-chan!" she said loudly not even trying to keep her voice down in the library. Well that was until he turned around looked full on at her and brought a finger up to his lips and hushed her. Man did that bring her back to reality. With everyone in the library looking at her weirdly and even her brother hushing her she quickly was brought back to earth. "Sorry." She whispers to the audience. Now that everyone's head was turned away she looked back to her brother. He was just sitting there with books all around him. Reading the titles she could see: Advanced chakra theory: Yin and Yang, advanced guide to journeyman sealing, Elemental Composition: the Big Five, Medical Techniques: How to Save a Life, and many more under the books. Now she was confused. Does he leave so early every morning to go study?! "Onii-chan is a nerd!" she shouted out again all previous mentions of being quiet fled her mind at the proclamation.
Naruto was completely and utterly unemotional when he heard his sister and her friend behind him. Ugh… who knows how long this will last until I get to go back to my reading. Most would be a bit surprised at seeing someone who avoided studying in every possible way at the library, of course right now he couldn't care less. Processing everything that happened, like when a teacher walked by and tripped knocking his books over, of course he didn't really care at the moment there was no reason to get mad at someone knocking some books over when they weren't being read, completely useless. So he just picked them up and placed them in order of advancement and subject again, with beginner on bottom and advanced on top. Now with everyone staring at him again… he didn't need that. No now to hush his sister again. The nerd comment gained her no favor points with him. So he just hushed her again. And watched patiently as her shoulders dropped and realization struck her again at where she was… again…
Huh?... wah?... how?... were the only things going through Narumi's head as she processed what just happened. She found her brother, got shushed by him, called him a nerd after seeing the books he was reading and then got shushed again and finally realized where she was by the tap on her shoulder. Turning around she turned into the hazel eyes of the Librarian staring at her.
"Uzumaki-Namikaze-san please leave Naruto-san alone until he is done, you have disturbed him and everyone else enough for now." She said looking straight into the scared girls eyes. She had no idea why the poor girl was terrified of her she was just a normal librarian. The fact that she had told and shoved the ANBU out of the Library just because of his noisy behavior, shadow guards her derriere, might have something to do with it but that was not her problem. She had been a high level jounin before retiring to be the librarian she was. Didn't really care about much just helping people find what they were looking for in books or in her library archives of scrolls. When she had met Naruto the 'demon spawn' of Konoha she had looked at him blinked and then moved on… of course that was right before he had asked for tips in finding books and annotating things after copying scrolls for his own personal use. Nice boy, very polite, good help in organizing things when she needs help.
"Yes mam." Narumi said quickly and quietly trying to get away from the scary librarian.
"And please take your friend with you. I do not like her drooling near the books."
"Yes mam." Narumi replied not even caring about being ordered around, that woman was scary. Looking over the table at her friend she found her on the floor with a dazed and happy look? Why did she look like that? Never mind just got to get her and myself out of here. With that in mind she picked her up and carried her out of the library. Of course it was now 7:30 from wandering around the village and the library happenings so to the academy. Besides it was graduations today. Finally going to become a fully-fledged shinobi.
"Thank you again Naruto-san for your help in returning the books, but shouldn't you get going? Its almost time for the academy to start." The librarian said.
"Ah, thank you Taira-san, I'll leave now, thank you again for allowing me in the library." Naruto replied to the nice librarian, she was nothing but helpful to Naruto in finding books and scrolls on what he wanted to study. Walking out of the library he hefted his backpack up with the new scrolls and notes on the older scrolls and books he had just finished. Walking to the academy most would wonder how he got along so well with everything considering his family doesn't pay any attention to him and the villagers hate him and most shinobi didn't like him as well, well he would keep a straight face and reply and say 'It doesn't matter if they hate me, it doesn't do anyone any good. Even if I was the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki they wouldn't have much reason to hate me and even then most of it would be toward the biju and not me. It would do me no favors if I remained visible to everyone, I would rather be a ghost than be up on display for everyone to see.'
By now he had managed to make it to the academy where he would sit in his normal spot, the back, didn't want anyone behind him, he would rather be behind everyone, and considering no one paid him any attention it worked rather well. Now all he had to deal with was-"ONII-CHAN!" why does this happen every day?
"Good morning Narumi-san." He said as she sat next to him in the back as he completely ignored the pout/frown on her face.
"SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN." Came the normal shout from their sensei, Iruka Umino. "Now as you all know, today is the academy exam to become fine shinobi, it is a three part test, a written exam, a projectile exam, and lastly the ninjutsu portion. No talking as I pass the tests out." Walking through the desks he passed the test out looking at everyone's faces to see them go through the last obstacle in their way to becoming a true shinobi. Well the last obstacle that they knew about at least. Walking back to the front he was almost there until "Excuse me sensei." The quietest student he had ever had spoke up. Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze was a practical ghost. He rarely spoke and when he did it was always a whisper. Rarely participated in activities, got mediocre scores on tests even though his intelligence was much higher than that. He had seen the homework he knew Naruto's intelligence level.
"Yes Naruto-san." What could he want now? During the last day of class what is so important?
"What do I about the genjutsu on my test?"
"What?" that was not what he expected.
"I can answer these questions but none of them were covered in the three years of academy what would you like me to do about it?" behind Iruka a blue haired man named Mizuki widened his eyes a fraction. How could he have detected it? He's not even a shinobi yet! Iruka not privy to his assistant's thoughts walked up to the back and looked at the test.
What is the proper way to catch a thrown shuriken?
What are the symptoms of chakra radiation and how do you treat it?
What are two jutsu used for defense and what are the hand-signs?
The test went on further on way more advanced things that they hadn't covered. So why? Genjutsu? "Kai" he said pulsing his chakra and dispelling the genjutsu on the test. Showing the real test.
"Thank you sensei." The boy said before looking over the real test. It was ridiculously easy. He breezed through it no problem. He might have over studied a bit. Just a bit. Ok… last question, what are the two components of chakra?… Ok I really over studied. Well might as well put my all into it. With that thought he wrote down all he knew and all he theorized about chakra itself including manifestations of Killing Intent (KI) the presence used on newer shinobi to bring them into line, and the spiritual affect of chakra has in the use of jutsu. By the end of the bell he had written over two pages on the subject and looking over it he sweat dropped at the entirety of it. Giving it to his instructor he carefully maintained his neutrality and moved outside to the practice range before they could yell at him for overcomplicating answers to the problem. Knowing his 'rival' in knowledge Sakura Haruno glaring daggers at his back he shrugged it off. She had never liked him. Her parents told her to bully him at school and she tried… but him being as neutral as he is it didn't really work except for making her look like a fool. Obviously she hadn't met the Librarian yet. Though he had a sneaking suspicion that Sakura wouldn't go near the library from the horror stories about the librarian floating around Konoha. Some were very detailed about what she did to people who were loud and rambunctious in her library.
Outside Naruto saw the training posts lined up and their instructors waiting with clipboards and boxes of shuriken. Next was the projectile portion of the test. Waiting in line he stood next to Shino Aburame. A respectable boy, quiet, intelligent, and logical, never over estimating anyone no matter how low his or her scores were, analyzing everything. A nod passed between them both. They had a mutual acquaintance of the Librarian; Shino interested in bugs and insects while Naruto focused mostly on the Shinobi arts.
After everyone was in line Iruka spoke up, "Alright when we call up your name come forward and throw twenty shuriken and ten kunai at the posts for your score. You have to get at least ten shuriken and five kunai to pass."
Still standing next to Shino Naruto whispered over to him, "Are you going to hold back at all?" all he received was a look from the boy that clearly said 'what makes you think I'm holding back?' chuckling at the poor teachers he readied himself for whenever.
"Aburame Shino." He went forward and carefully shot out 12 shuriken and 7 kunai. Passing lowly but still passing. Of course the glint in the boys glasses were enough to say he was holding back a lot not that the teachers knew.
"Ok 12/20 and 7/10 good job needs a little work but acceptable, next Akimichi Choji." A rather plump boy walked forward and threw the weapons at the post getting a solid 16 shuriken and 8 kunai. "16/20 and 8/10 nice job Choji. Next up…" Naruto stopped listening and started thinking up who would be put in whose squad if they passed. The villages needed a good tracking or capture team to chase down criminals so a hyuugas to find and incapacitate and an Inuzuka for their sense of smell also their ninken partners were very useful in the battlefield and an Aburame could be used for a larger area and their insects to drain an opponent's chakra for easy capture. The next Ino-Shika-Cho combo was a for sure, their parents always did things together and always brought their kids along for the ride. Of course Ino Yamanaka, a blonde haired girl with a large bang covering one eye, was a fangirl but that could be fixed with training.
"Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze." Hearing his name he walked up and thought about how many to hit so he did what he thought was passing. "Perfect score..." Iruka was shocked. This had never happened before. Was he holding back beforehand? Last up was the pretty boy Sasuke Uchiha who thought everyone should bow down to him because of his clan name alone. "Sasuke Uchiha. Score 19/20 and 10/10 well done Sasuke." (A/N no I did not go in alphabetical order. No I don't care about it either.) "Ok lastly the Ninjutsu portion, before we go inside does anyone have any ninjutsu to show off before the test for extra credit?" Iruka called out to everyone listening. Of course Sasuke being an Uchiha did the extra credit and breathed out a fireball much to the fangirls amazement if the oohs and ahs heard were any indication. Thinking about it it couldn't hurt to have a bit of extra credit so Naruto raised his hand and was called forward.
"Hmm…. Which to choose, which to choose. Ah, all right then, Futon: Great Breakthrough!" he called out just barely above a whisper causing a great wind to blow the targets away from him.
"Nice job, Naruto-san you get extra credit. Is that all?" All in all the clan heirs had jutsu from their clan and Narumi had the chakra chains from her mother. After writing the extra credit down Iruka brought the kids inside and started working on the academy three tests. The list was reverse what came from the projectile test so Naruto went second after Sasuke came out with a smug smirk with his forehead protector on his forehead shown off for all to see. Naruto went in next. In the room Iruka and Mizuki were waiting for him in chairs with an extra chair ten feet away. He walked and stood in front of them.
"Ok Naruto-san please make three bunshin." Iruka said.
Naruto made a hand sign and poof, smoke appeared around him with his three clones behind him in a triangle.
"Well done Naruto-san only one hand sign." Writing something down on his clipboard he told Naruto, "Ok now please transform into someone."
Thinking for a minute he nodded to himself, focused his chakra and poof smoke appeared around him and out stepped the Librarian in all her terrifying presence. For a minute no one moved the teachers knew it was a transformation but it was detailed to the extreme, including her eyes that bore into the soul of the fool who would meet her gaze.
"A-alright Naruto-san please drop the transformation. *Poof* thank you Naruto-san. Alright lastly please replace yourself with the chair over there." Naruto merely looked at the chair and replaced himself with it.
"Very well done Naruto-san no hand signs, you pass take a forehead protector, you deserve it. When you walk out please send Narumi-san in please." Iruka was excited. He knew that the boy was holding back. And this is all the proof that he needed to rub it in the staffs faces.
"Are we allowed to leave when we walk out?" Naruto asked in his normal whisper.
"I suppose just make sure to come back in two days for team placements."
"Thank you sensei." Naruto said with his hand on the door. Opening the door he saw the others get more confident. After all if the loser in just about everything could do it then it should be a breeze. They hadn't paid much attention to the last day. It was probably luck. Naruto had kept himself low on the grading scale as possible without failing so as to get people to underestimate people. He had understood everything no matter how many people tried to kick him out of class if they did he would just walk to the library, and the Librarian would not be pleased about it. Those teachers never kicked him out again. The Librarian was not to be crossed. She was a scary lady to those who she didn't like. And the academy teachers were on that list, except Iruka she saw his professionalism and had no dislike for the man.
Walking out he found his sister talking to her friend Hinata and walked up to her and told her that she was next. "Ok Onii-chan I'll see you in a bit after I get my forehead protector." With that she walked into the room with the instructors and Naruto walked out of the academy to a training grounds. He had something to test out.
It was dinnertime in the Uzumaki-Namikaze household and Narumi, Kushina, and Minato were eating silently while Naruto had already finished and washed his dishes. "So how was the academy this morning, how were the tests?" Minato asked Narumi.
"They were pretty easy but Onii-chan got his easily I think. I know that he did a lot on the writing portion though. The way Sakura-san was glaring at him meant he probably kicked her butt on the written portion."
"Oh? I've seen her grades and they are nearly perfect, your saying your brother could beat her in academics?" Minato asked with an eyebrow raised. He never saw any homework from his son it was disturbing. He knew it was getting done he just had no clue how. He had also seen his son's report card. It was horrific, how did he match up to the genius of the class who had near perfect grades?
"He could destroy her in academics. Every time she gives answers it is word for word what the book says but when he gives answers it is the definition plus his understanding of the material. It has confused the teachers on occasion as well. Sakura-san would not be able to match up to him in anything. Plus she is a weakling." She was proud of her Onii-chan. Even if she is more distant than she would have liked. They were family! They should be close. Too bad her parents hardly saw him and never paid him any attention. That brought up a question though. Why did they not pay him any attention? Deciding to voice her question she looked at her parents, "Kaa-san Tou-san?"
"Yes sweetie?" her mother responded.
"Why don't you pay Onii-chan any attention when you see him?" Now that stumped her parents. Why didn't they? They were his parents and yet they had to focus on her because she was the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi. She couldn't lack any training. They were worried that if they focused on him they might miss something that could lead to it getting out and causing untold amounts of destruction. Of course they had their reason. Just have to figure out how to tell their daughter that.
"Your brother likes his space sweetie we are just respecting that." Kushina said twisting what he said concerning his room organization to this conversation. Even if she knew it was for the better to focus on their daughter Kushina never saw it like that and would have gladly focused on him but now that it was so far into their lives it hurt her to follow Minato's advice on him. It only got harder now that he was nearly emotionless just being a shadow around the house not causing any ruckus or disturbance surely he was a lonely child. But now that they graduated they needed to train him anyways so they would include him in training sessions since that was what Minato had promised her. "But since you both have graduated I promise we will start training you both in the Uzumaki and Namikaze styles of taijutsu. How does that sound?" Kushina told her daughter in hopes of getting a positive answer.
"Really? Yes! Onii-chan!" she yelled running out of the room towards the upstairs and his room.
Upstairs in his room Naruto was continuing his reading on the separate parts of chakra and writing down annotations for help later when he looked over it again. After coming back from dinner he had not done much and was finishing his journeyman-sealing scroll up. He kept it neat though he had annotations in a separate scroll labeled journeyman-sealing scroll annotations. Finishing up he was just about to reach for his chakra theory scroll until he heard a knock at his door. Now who could that be? No one ever knocks on my door. The only person who does is usually Kushina-san and that is when we have guests who want to see me for some reason. Well let's see who it is. Standing up he walked over to his door and unlocked the seal and opened the door to see Narumi standing there looking like she had won the grand prize at a festival.
"Onii-chan guess what? You get to start training with me! We can train together now! Come on let's go talk to kaa-san and tou-san about it!" she exclaimed making him confused about why he was getting trained finally after they graduated. She then grabbed his hand and almost dragged him downstairs to 'their' parents.
Downstairs Minato and Kushina were arguing about what they had just offered their daughter. "How are we going to notice if something goes wrong with the seal if Naruto is there, Kushina?" he argued.
"If something was going to go wrong it would have proven itself by now it's been twelve years Minato. The seal is sturdy. We both worked on it. Nothing is getting out of that seal."
"Agh fine Kushina they are almost down anyway so we had better get a schedule planned out."
Just as he had said that Narumi came running down and Narumi was beaming with joy while Naruto only looked… confused? Why was he confused?
"Narumi-san could you step in the hallway for a moment please?" Naruto asked surprising her a little but she nodded and walked into the hallway for him. Surprising the adults Naruto merely whispered and put his palm on the ground while a small burst of chakra was felt. He was checking for something. But what could he be checking for? This was the Uzumaki-Namikaze household nothing would hold here except what they allowed. Cocking his head to the side he then flipped through ten hand signs and sealed the room up to talk to his parents. "Why are you just now starting to train me?"
Now that was not what they expected. For one their relatively unknown son just placed a strong silence seal on the room, since when did he know advanced fuuinjutsu? Second, why would he question learning two very powerful styles from arguably the best shinobi in the village? Minato got his mind together first instead of his wife and asked, "Don't you want to be trained in our styles?"
"That's not what I'm asking. I am asking why give me training now? After the academy, after we set ourselves in certain ways that would impede a change in routine for our shinobi lives. It doesn't make sense to me. Why pay me any attention after ignoring me for twelve years? Because Narumi asked you so she can be with her 'brother'? Because you feel guilt for leaving me alone all the time? What is it?"
Now that was certainly not anything near what they expected. He may have just broken their minds with those statements because he could see a glaze over Kushina's eyes and Minato had closed his eyes and was looking at the ground.
"Obviously you didn't really plan this out well so I will return to my room. Goodnight Minato-sama Kushina-sama. I would suggest you explain why I am not training with Narumi to her, she will be disappointed with this. If you want me to leave because by some chance I was an orphan who just happened to look like you I will move out if you want to keep focusing on Narumi-san. Although I will need a few weeks to gather funds to get an apartment." Naruto said turning around not seeing the crushed look in his father's eyes and the self-loathing in his mothers.
Undoing the seal on the room Naruto noticed Narumi was still in the hallway as he had asked. "Narumi-san you can come back in now. We're done in here. Sorry for taking so long." Naruto was still speaking at a whisper and had spoken quietly the entire time they had only grown used to it. Moving out would prove a problem for him but he could manage. If he hunted around the village he could find meat and could very well just grow his own vegetables and fruits for himself. Those survival guides and other books the Librarian had told him to read were very useful. Walking out of the room and up to his room he didn't see Narumi's confused face when she walked into the kitchen and saw her parents looking like a child had just died or something like that. Not knowing what to do she walked over to her parents and just hugged them until they were done feeling sorry for themselves. I guess Onii-chan isn't training in their styles after all. She thought, darn it. Just when I almost get to send more time with him finally this happens. What did he say to get them like this I wonder? Looking up she could see her father was pulling himself together but her mother still looked terrified of something. She wouldn't get answers tonight unless she talked to her Onii-chan who was probably in his room. Resigning herself to comforting her mother all night she pulled up a chair and hugged her mother who readily replied by pulling her into her lap and hugging her back. Yup no answers tonight. She thought while keeping a hold on her mother and trying to comfort her.
It had been two days since that talk and some things had changed. For one Kushina was up and ready at 3am in an attempt to talk to her son before he left. It turned out he woke up at 4 and was ready at 5:30 she started to hold him back a bit during breakfast to talk to him more and get to know him better which he appreciated but was still confused by. It was now the team placements and Kushina was talking to her husband about the teams, "I'm telling you Minato, put them in the same team with Miko-chans son that way they will be the best and have each other to rely on."
"But why Kushina? Sasuke and Sakura would be better if it was that besides they are needed for the reformation of team 7 the weakest and the strongest balancing everything out. The team should be Sasuke, Sakura and Narumi those are the top middle and lowest students."
"Are you telling me my daughter is the lowest student in the academy who graduated?" Kushina asked with KI rolling off of her in waves scaring her husband a little.
"NO! Narumi is not the worst she is the middle. Sakura is the worst with the physical stats. I went over the reports yesterday and Narumi was right when she explained the difference between Sakura and Naruto. Oh, speaking of Naruto look at this." He handed over his academy graduation paper including the extra pages trying to change the subject and not get the crap beaten out of him for insinuating that their daughter is the worst student. Kushina started looking over the paper and was mildly surprised at the level of thought in the answers and had to believe her daughter on the difference between him and anyone. His understanding would crush a jounins at this point. And then she got to the last question. She started reading and by the end of the answer was in utter shock at the entirety of the answer. It had ANBU level answers and chakra theory that was only used by the people who wrote the books/scrolls on chakra theory. And it was easy to read too. Almost like he didn't want to confuse someone when he wrote it. Then again she did say he had confused the teachers sometimes so that might be why. "Minato, how in the world did he come up with this?"
"I have no idea. Most jounin never get that far in chakra theory and here it is an academy student knowing it and having his own opinion on chakra, emotion and spirit effects in jutsu. Naruto is by all means the top in academics however; his grades do not reflect that at all. His grades pretty much say he is an idiot yet, there is proof that he isn't. There is also a note that he refused to use the academy taijutsu katas. I don't know what to make of any of it. His grades say he is stupid yet his work says he is a genius, we know he is good at fuuinjutsu because of the silencing seal a couple days ago, he knows wind style techniques from somewhere… we need to ask him where he learned everything. If we had two more like him we could have a team of geniuses and yet I doubt anyone could match him in knowledge or jutsu. If his theory goes for anything then he probably knows a lot of jutsu that uses them" he added seeing his wife's confusion at knowledge of jutsus.
"True, why don't we ask him after the team selection?" his wife suggested.
"Alright now just where to put him."
"I have an idea." Kushina says with a smirk on her face knowing her son would like it.
I have a bad feeling about this. Minato thought before she explained her idea.
Iruka was now speaking in front of his now graduated class of shinobi and was giving them some last minute words. "Be careful for I know just how brutal this world is. If you need help, it's okay to ask others for advice. I know you all will make me proud as a sensei in your journey to greatness. Good luck on your own adventure in the world fellow shinobi." He said getting a cheer from the students about finally being shinobi.
"Now for team arrangements, team …" Naruto zoned out by now and was focused on his new scroll the Librarian had given him. It was focused on wind nature chakra and theory and how it worked. He was reading for a few minutes until he heard familiar names, "7, Narumi Uzumaki-Namikaze, Sakura Haruno" Thump goes Narumi." and Sasuke Uchiha." Cue fangirl screech, and another thump from Narumi. "Team 8, Hinata Hyuuga, Shino Aburame, and Kiba Inuzuka. Team nine is still in use so Team 10 is Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi." At this point Naruto was getting confused, there had never been a one-man cell before and he was all that was left for the teams. Also at this point a chunin that Naruto had seen at the library walked into the room and handed Iruka a note, Iruka looked at the note and quietely argued with the chunin before resigning and speaking loud enough to be heard, "And lastly Team 11 is a one man cell of Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze." That caused many raised eyebrows and loud responses from the fangirls of the class arguing why Naruto was a baka and would need a team while their Sasuke-kun wouldn't. "QUIET! This was a decision made by the Hokage. If you want to change it take it up with him not me."
"Iruka-sensei?" the person in question asked.
"Yes Naruto-san?"
"Does my cell have a sensei or can I go speak with the Hokage now to see why he wanted this?"
"You do have a sensei. In fact you have multiple senseis right now. But you should go see the Hokage. It would probably clear up any confusion you have." And I have too but I probably wont get to know. He thought to himself. Naruto then nodded to Iruka and left to the academy to see the Hokage.
After naming the teams a few jounin started walking in and grabbing teams. Soon only team 7 was left with Narumi taking a page out of her brother's book and reading a scroll to ignore her teammates. Though after thinking about why they were left alone she put the scroll away and tried to get a conversation started between them. "So who do you think our sensei will be Sakura?" Narumi said trying to be civil to the fangirl and brooder.
"I don't know Narumi I just hope that whoever it is they get here soon. I don't want to wait any longer."
"Sasuke-san any ideas?"
"Hn."
Two very different reactions happened to this. One Narumi just stared at the male completely ruining her attempts at conversation with a single syllable she was also a little peeved. Two, Sakura swooned at her crushes behavior and coolness. Not even a second after that the door opened to show a head stick in with gravity defying silver hair and a mask on with his forehead protector covering his left eye. His first glance at his team is Narumi looking irritated at a brooder while the pink haired one has hearts in her eyes looking at the brooder. And the brooder was just brooding.
"Well my first impression of you is. I hate you already. Meet me on the roof." With that he vanished in a swirl of leaves. All three trudged up to the roof.
On the roof we find the spiky haired jounin and the three genins of team 7 all sitting in a row. "Now that we are all here why don't we start introducing ourselves with likes dislikes, hobbies, dreams ect. I'll start. My name is Hatake Kakashi, I have some likes and some dislikes, and I have hobbies that you don't need to know about yet and as for my dream. Hmm… never really thought about it." He said finishing with his eyelid turning into an upside down U that Narumi could only think was the masked man's way of smiling. Though her teammates were thinking something else, she was thinking is that a smile for a masked man? And they were thinking He only told us his name!
"Now why don't you introduce yourself pinkie?"
Bristled a little bit Sakura started to introduce herself. "My name is Sakura Haruno, My likes are I mean who I like is… (Stares at Sasuke giggling) my dreams are… (Stares at Sasuke giggling) my hobbies are… (Stares at Sasuke giggling) My dislikes are Ino-pig and Naruto-baka." She said finishing with a huff while Narumi frowns at the girl but kept her silence, her brother would show just where her place is.
"Okay next brooder."
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha I have many dislikes and few if any likes I don't have a dream to chase but two ambitions that I will complete. I have no hobbies other than getting stronger to obtain my ambition."
…. Three different reactions happened to the Uchiha's proclamation. One, Narumi just sat there with a forced smile thinking of getting her dad to put her on a different squad. Two, Sakura was again swooning at the coolness of her crush. And three was Kakashi's blank face taking in the revenge driven brooder.
Getting over the sheer awkwardness Kakashi motioned for Narumi to take her turn.
"My name is Narumi Uzumaki-Namikaze. I like training and spending time with my Onii-chan when I can. I dislike idiots that can't tell the difference between the past and the present, people who are jerks to people who haven't done anything wrong. My hobbies are training and spending time with my friends and family. My dream for now is… well its not important right now." She said as her dream was a little selfish, and she didn't want her new team to think her selfish for a stupid reason.
"Alright well now that that's done why don't you all meet me at training ground 7 at 6:00 am. for the genin exam tomorrow. " And before anyone could say anything about the academy exam he poofed away.
"Narumi, do you know what he meant by the genin exam? We just took one didn't we?" Sakura asked after he had left.
"No idea, why did you ask me?" Narumi asked a little peeved at the so-called 'academic genius' asking her.
"Your dad is the Hokage right? Shouldn't you know this stuff already?"
"How would I know if he doesn't tell me? This is the first time I have heard of it." Narumi said and before Sakura could argue left the roof in search of her brother.
Well this was fun. I am having a little trouble with getting through the academy in False Host but I will make it through but I will be starting school soon and work is also in the way so fun stuff… read and review what you liked disliked, flames are welcome as long as it is productive.