Alrighty! I do not own Naruto at all! All rights and regulations do go to Masashi Kishimoto! Azuna does belong to me however! Ok now to write this fan fiction I did use the episodes and I used all of the actual sentences said from the anime so all of those rights again go to the producers, Madman Entertainment and of course the beautiful voice actors and everyone on the crew. Thanks guys... hope you like it!
Chapter One: Enter Azuna Momochi! Part One:
Azuna Momochi ran as the image of her brother circled through her mind over and over while the tears streamed down her cheeks. The thought of him made her push herself harder through Kirigakure the Village in the Mist, her home. Azuna could barely see where she was going through the tears, but she kept running, she had to, she couldn't stop.
When Azuna reached the pier she ran out onto it and dived into the water and started to swim across the ocean, towards the land, as fast as she could. She didn't have time to feel the tiredness, she had to keep going.
When she reached the land she hauled herself up onto the bank breathing heavily. Azuna pushed herself up and ran through the thick forest towards the Hidden Leaf Village – Konoha with every ounce of strength she had left.
Azuna could see the village in the near distance and so she pushed herself harder, the tears still flowing down her cheeks. She threw herself at the large gates pounding on them over and over again and scratching it with her nails until they bled.
The gates started to slowly open and Azuna fell onto her knees looking up through her hair at the three Chuunin that stood before her. "Please, please help me." She wept shutting her eyes tightly. "I am Azuna Momochi. I – I just." Azuna collapsed onto the ground before them. All the intense pain she just put herself through finally catching up with her.
Iruka Umino stared at the girl who collapsed at his feet. The girl wore a short yellow kimono like dress that was tied with a black sash. She had long dark material - like the kind many ninja wore as masks - on her legs starting near the bottom of her dress till it disappeared into her dark blue ninja shoes.
She was Zabuza Momochi's daughter. Could she be trusted? Was she a spy? And she couldn't be more than twelve years old. She must have had to run for ages to get here, maybe that's why she collapsed. Iruka bent down and picked up the unconscious girl bridal style, her extremely long ocean blue hair swaying with the wind as he did so. She looked so beaten, so tired. She would have to be questioned, but Iruka was not going to abandon the girl, not when she looked like this.
Iruka jumped through the village with is ninja abilities and brought the girl to Hiruzan the third Hokage. He looked down at the girl as she moved in her sleep, the pain flashing across her face; she winced once before she went back to being completely still.
"Iruka, what is it?" The Lord Hokage asked Iruka turning around and seeing the girl in his arms.
"Lord Hokage, this girl states that she is Azuna Momochi. That means she's from the Hidden Mist Village and Zabuza's daughter – the famous ninja known as the Demon of the Hidden Mist. I don't know what to do with her."
The Lord Hokage looked at the girl again; the pain was clear on her face. All the scratches and bruises over her body were all fairly recent. Hiruzan nodded, he had made his decision. "Get her some help Iruka. You must find out why she is here."
"Yes Lord Hokage." Iruka said respectfully before bounding back out onto the street and carrying her to the hospital. On the way some of his students at the academy saw him and the girl and peered at them in confusion.
As Iruka stepped inside the hospital Azuna cringed into him her eyes tightly shut. "No – Nozomi." She whispered her pain showing through her voice. As the doctors started to move towards them Iruka notice how much Azuna's reminded him of someone who he just couldn't put his finger on. It was someone at the back of his mind, someone he had only seen once or twice.
The doctors took Azuna from him and placed her in one of the empty beds in her own room. Iruka followed them after a few moments and watched as they used the Healing Jutsu to fix her right up. When they were done they told Iruka that she had could leave once she woke up. Iruka nodded and sat in the chair next to her bed.
He waited for what seemed like forever when suddenly Azuna's eyes fluttered open and saw Iruka staring at her. Azuna bolted upright and scrambled into the far corner of the bed staring at Iruka in fear.
"Who are you? Where am I?" She asked as her blue eyes the same shade as her hair, started to frantically scan the room before looking back at Iruka.
"I am Iruka Umino, a Chuunin and a teacher at the academy." He said lightly to her. "You're in the hospital."
Azuna was frightened. She did not expect them to show her such kindness when all she did was cry and collapse at their feet. But she relaxed slightly and gave him a small smile even though she felt like doing the complete opposite. Azuna moved her hands to the back of her dress and removed the weapons pouch she kept tied to her sash. She pulled out all the weapons in the pouch and held them in her hands.
"I want you to see that I won't hurt you." She said sadly her eyes pleading for him to believe that she indeed didn't want to hurt him.
Iruka nodded but didn't move to take the weapons from her but instead said. "I believe you won't hurt me enough to let you keep your weapons."
Azuna smiled and put her weapons back in her pouch. She then tied it back onto her sash moving her hands back quickly making sure that if she needed to she could pulled weapons out in time. Azuna adjusted the pouch a few times and then left it alone. She turned back around facing Iruka, looking into his eyes sadly.
"So I need to ask you a few questions. Where have you come from and why are you here?" Iruka asked her crossing his arms.
"I'm from the Village Hidden in the Mist Kirigakure, and this is the closest village I could remember. I – I'm here because – because my brother was." She mumbled the tears staining her cheeks again. "My brother was killed, by –by my father."
Azuna wept into her hands her sobs loud and full of anguish. "I – I didn't know what to do! I didn't know where to go!"
"Aren't you afraid that they'll mark you as a Rouge Ninja and send Tracker-Nin to kill you?" Iruka asked her seriously, did she not know that she could get killed for this? For just leaving her village without permission?
"No, because I'm not a ninja yet and if they do I don't care. Anyway I haven't graduated yet – haven't become a proper ninja." She said as she started to calm down.
"Would you like to graduate?" Iruka asked as she still held her head in her hands, trying to make her feel better.
Azuna nodded mutely whipping the tears off her face, trying to be strong.
"Classes start tomorrow, I hope to see you there."
"Thank you Iruka, Iruka-Sensei." Azuna said quietly.
"You may leave now if you like." Iruka said walking to the door. "I'm sorry for your loss."
"Thank you." Azuna said without turning around but she lifted her head. "Me to."
Iruka left the girl hesitantly and walked out of the hospital hoping that she would be ok.
The next day
Iruka had met up with Azuna and was about to show her to the academy so she could start training when he looked up and saw the graffiti on the rock monument of the Hokage. His eyes nearly bludged out of his skull and he apologised to her before he took off after the culprit shouting out 'Naruto'.
Azuna was left to find the academy herself and was wandering around for ages until she came across it. She walked inside and found her class room where she entered in slowly an apologetic look on her face. All the other students were lining up and everyone turned their heads to look at Azuna with confused gazes.
"I'm sorry Iruka Sensei; I couldn't find my way here." She said quietly gazing at the floor.
"It's quite alright Azuna, it is partially my fault. Everyone this is our new student Azuna Momochi be kind to her." Iruka said as he gestured for her to line up as well. "We are practicing our transformation Jutsu's."
Azuna smiled slightly and lined up and everyone turned back to the front again. Azuna watched carefully as Iruka called up a girl named Sakura Haruno. She had light pink hair and wore a red shirt and dark green tights; she also had a red ribbon tied in her hair.
"Aright Sakura here let's do it! Transform!" She said holding her hands in the right position as she transformed into Iruka.
"Transformed into me. Good." Iruka said as she turned back.
"Yes! Yay I did it!" She said in a high voice jumping up and down. "Sasuke did you see that?" She asked a handsome bored looking boy with dark hair wearing a dark blue shirt. He didn't move or make a sound so Sakura retreated to the back of the line as the next person was called.
"Next, Sasuke Uchiha." Iruka said looking down at his clipboard. The dark haired boy stepped forward and changed into Iruka before he could look up.
"Uh, good." Iruka said as Sasuke turned back still looking bored. He walked to the end of the line and then Iruka called out the next person. "Next, Azuna Momochi, let's see how good you are, hey?" He said with a slight smile.
Azuna stepped forward slightly afraid and walked in front of her new Sensei. She placed her hands together in the right formation and stared at Iruka until she turned into him, which only took about a second. Once she got approval, she changed back and walked to the end of the line next to the dark haired boy.
"Next, Naruto Uzumaki."
Azuna looked down the line and saw a very unhappy blond boy having two people on either side of him saying things to him but Naruto shook them off and stepped forward. That's the boy who defaced the Hokage; if I ever did something like that to the Mizukage I would surely be killed. Azuna thought as she bit her lip.
Naruto held his hands in position and concentrated. "Transform!" He shouted and he turned into a busty naked blond woman. He blew a kiss to Iruka and Iruka's mouth dropped open as blood started to pour out his nose. Iruka fell to the ground with shock and Naruto turned back into himself having a fit of laughter. "Got ya! That's my sexy Jutsu!"
"CUT THE STUPID TRICKS!" Iruka yelled. "THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING!"
Naruto just laughed and Iruka dismissed the class, clearly not wanting to deal with anything more today. Sasuke rolled his eyes and walked out of the classroom and Sakura gazed dreamily at him from her place.
Azuna stepped toward Sakura and smiled at her wanting to be friendly, she wanted to try and be happy even though she was slowly dying inside. "Hey, I'm Azuna –"
"Move you're in my view of Sasuke!" Sakura shouted shoving Azuna out of the way so she could see Sasuke, she then followed him out of the classroom and Azuna was left standing there alone.
Naruto, who was feeling bad for Azuna at that moment walked towards her shrugging. "Not all of them are like that." He told her as she gazed out the window.
But all of them seem to be obsessed with the dark haired boy. Azuna thought to herself before she turned towards Naruto. "You're quite the trouble maker huh?" Azuna said to Naruto smiling slightly.
Just as Naruto was about to reply Iruka grabbed him from the neck of his orange shirt and started to pull him out of the classroom, but not before he turned around to Azuna and smiled at her. "You wanna come?" Iruka asked.
Azuna nodded and followed Iruka and Naruto out to the Hokage faces where Naruto had to clean off all the paint. As they all made their way over to the faces Azuna saw the dark haired boy Sasuke looking at her from where he stood leaning against a wall. Azuna smiled politely and waved before she turned back to Naruto and Iruka.
Sasuke had no idea who this Azuna girl was and why she was suddenly apart of the village and joined into the academy. She was a mystery but no one but seemed to question her existence in their town but him. Azuna had caught him glaring at her but she only smiled and waved before turning back to the fool Naruto and Iruka Sensei. He continued to watch as she walked with her long ocean blue hair swaying behind her, he just couldn't put his finger onto why the girl seemed so strange.
Sakura watched as Sasuke stared at the new girl Azuna. As Azuna caught Sasuke staring at her she smiled and waved before continuing on. Sakura couldn't believe the nerve on the girl to wave to her Sasuke. Of course, Sasuke and Sakura weren't dating but Sakura had undying love for Sasuke and to think that some new girl like Azuna could think she could come in and steal him from of her was a big mistake in Sakura's book. And the girl was going to pay; Sakura would make sure of it.
Even though Azuna wasn't supposed to help Naruto clean the faces, she did anyway. She was just starting to make a friend and friends helped each other so that's what Azuna was doing. Plus Naruto reminded her of Nozomi in some ways and made Azuna feel better.
"You're not going home till you've cleaned off every single drop of paint Naruto." Iruka called down to him from above.
"So what, it's not like there's anyone waiting at home for me!" Naruto called back up and suddenly Azuna felt sorry for him. He didn't have a family, not like Azuna has – had. Azuna's father turned his back on her a long time ago, and now after what happened to her brother, Azuna felt alone.
"Naruto?" Iruka called.
"What do you want now Sensei?" Naruto asked sourly gazing up.
"Well I was just thinking. Maybe after you clean this all up I could take you and Azuna out for some ramen the good stuff what do you think?"
Naruto gazed up at his Sensei clearly happy about ramen. "Now that's some serious motivation! I'll have this cleaned in no time!" And true to his word Naruto had the whole Hokage faces cleaned in about an hour.
Iruka took the two children out for ramen, Naruto sitting on his left and Azuna sitting on his right. Naruto took his goggles off as he ate and Iruka had to ask the question that was burning in his mind as Azuna sat silently eating her food.
"Naruto?" Iruka asked Naruto as he stuffed himself with food.
"Hmm?"
"Why would you do that to the Hokage faces? I mean, you know who the Hokage are, don't you?"
"Of course I do." Naruto replied simply as he slurped down the rest of his ramen. "Everybody knows. They were the greatest Shinobi of their time, right? The best of the best, undefeated ninja champs. And the fourth Hokage is the one who saved the village from the Nine-Tailed Fox. He was the most amazing."
"Then why did you -"
"Because I'm going to be greater than any of them! Me, Naruto, the next Hokage!" He said as he pointed his chop-sticks at Iruka. "A ninja ledged! Then everyone will have to stop disrespecting me and look up to me! Believe it! Uh, by the way, I kinda wanna ask a little favour Sensei."
"You want another bowl?" Iruka asked smiling at Azuna briefly before turning back to Naruto.
"Um, well, I wanna try on your headband! Come on please!" Naruto begged.
"Uh, oh this?" Iruka asked laughing as he touched the headband all the ninja's wore. "No way, you can only wear the leaf headband when you finally graduate from the academy and become a ninja. You've got to pass the test tomorrow."
"That is so uncool!" Naruto complained.
"Hey, is that why you took off your goggles?" Iruka asked as him
"Uh I want another bowl!" Naruto complained as Iruka and Azuna broke into hysterical laughing.
After ramen Naruto went to his home and Iruka and Azuna were left at the ramen shop. Iruka could see a question burning in the backs of her eyes so he put her out of her misery. "Azuna what's on your mind?" He asked smiling at the girl.
"Uh, well, it's the final test is tomorrow right? Its graduation and I want to graduate but I haven't done all of the other tests so does that mean I won't become a ninja just yet?"
"Well, if you want to graduate that bad, hmm, if you are prepared to do all of the tests tomorrow then you might graduate."
"Really, you'd let me do that?" Azuna asked her whole face lighting up. It was some of the first real good news she had heard her whole time here. If she became a ninja she could avenge her brother's death. Tomorrow if I graduate I'll finally be worthy of being called Nozomi's sister. I'll make him proud of me and be able to make sure his memory lives on in me! I will be the greatest ninja, someone commendable of Nozomi's memory.