Scarlet Curse

Chapter 1 - Silence Among Noise

I do not own Naruto in anyway

So, I had a very good friend of mine help me with the character for this story. If it was not for my friend then the main character would have been named Hiiro. However, now her name will be Chikara (Power). Because of her help my friend also got to design one of Chikara's abilities later in the story. Which is quite impressive and scary at the same time. Unfortunately, she does not have an account on here at this time so I can not give her any formal credit.

I snapped open my eyes when the sunlight hit my face. I wanted to yell at the sun but held it in. I got out of my tiny bed and stood up and looked around my small apartment. With a sigh I got out of my PJs and went into my bathroom. I saw the little mirror above the molding sink. I went to the mirror and looked at myself.

I saw my four foot, eight year old body. Slightly tan complexion. My long smooth blond hair that went to the small of my back which split up into nine separate lengths in the mid off my back. I had my banges curved so they would cover my left eye. I stared at my right eye it being a dark brown, almost black, color. I sighed and got into the shower. I turned it on and felt the cold water hit my back. I hated my apartment. The landlord never fixed any problems in my apartment. Be it the cold shower, the broken oven, or any other non-functional object in here.

I turned off the shower and put on my clothes. Which was a pitch black shirt with a red Uzumaki swirl. I also had dark blue shorts that I wore under a lighter colored skirt that reached my knees. With my outfit complete I walked to the kitchen section of my apartment. I grabbed an apple from the basket filled with fruits on the table and started to crunch down on it.

After breakfast I grabbed my hip pouch and senbon holder and walked out of my apartment into the glorious sunlight. I stepped out into the street and took off at full speed to the academy. Today was the first day and I was not going to be late. Even though I knew it didn't matter. I already knew everything the academy was going to teach us. The reasoning for this is suppose to be a secret. A secret that could talk to me. As I ran by I saw all the villagers glare at me.

One might ask why me, an eight year old girl, was being glared at like I was the devil itself. Simple. I held the Nine Tail Fox. Of course I wasn't suppose to know this but the fuzzy thing talked to me so not much chance of hiding. Of course I never told anyone that the Kurama-sensei, the fox, could talk to me. That would cause the villagers to actually try to kill me. Well, more than usual.

See the fourth ninja war was over. It has been for eight years. Most of the details are vague on how the war actually ended though. From what people could piece together Naruto Uzumaki, the last holder of the Fox, had gone into a one on one battle against Madara Uchiha. What happened in the battle was unknown but the results spoke even now. A rescue group was sent after Naruto and he was found dead, a hole through his chest. Next to him was two people. One was a dead Madara whose eyes were missing and then a then a small blonde haired baby. Me.

So, with them finding me at the location and seeing Naruto was dead. I heard that they checked me for seals and saw a very large one on my stomach with four seals, one on each breast and one on each side of my pelvis, interlocked with the main seal. With that known they knew I was the new holder of Kurama-sensei. Them being ninja and actually being smart they brought me back to the village. Now if this village was just ran by ninja then my life would be very normal. Unlucky me that's not the case.

With the fourth war just recently finishing the villages ninja population is very low. With that the power the ninja have in the village as also decreased. This means the civilians are a lot more powerful than before. Another bad fact going for me is that the civilian side of the village is afraid that because I'm around another Madara is going to come and start another ninja war. One that we would not survive. So, the genius they are think that if they abuse and torture me enough I'll run away and leave the village. Idiots.

I stopped thinking about my overarching life problems as I arrived at the academy. I went through the quiet halls and went to the room I was ordered to. Not that any of this really mattered to me. I sat at the very back of the room next to the wall.

Since I was able to understand words I was being trained by Kurama-sensei to be as powerful as I can. This consisted of mostly mental training when I was younger, but since I was six he had started me on physical exercises. Just a year ago I had gained usage of my chakra and had being doing chakra control exercises. I have the tree and water walking down, although they took me almost the entire time since I got my chakra to complete.

I was knocked out of my thinking when I heard the door slide open and I saw an older black haired guy walk in. He had a chuunin vest and hair tied in a high ponytail but the biggest feature on him was a scar across his nose. I saw him glance to me. His eyes lingered on me just for a second too long and I felt a shiver down my back. I really hope I didn't get a pedophile for a sensei. 'He is not a pedophile. He recognizes you from Naruto. He was his old sensei.' I gave a look to the man. So this man had a connection to Naruto. Like I cared. I hated Naruto for what he did to me. I saw him go to his desk and start to work on something. Seeing nothing was going to happen I took out a scroll from my hip pouch and started to read from it. It was a scroll about a C-ranked water jutsu called Suiton: Teppōdama.

"Chikara Uzumaki." My head shot up and I looked around. I saw the entire classroom now filled with people, all of which were looking at me. I nodded to my sensei and saw him make a checkmark. I looked around and saw every seat was taken except the one next to me. Good. I really hated when people got close to me. I heard whispers among the students.

"Is that her?"

"I don't know. She looks like a freak."

"She'll never find a boyfriend."

"Is she reading? What a nerd." I just shook my head. So what? If these people thought negatively of me? I didn't care. I was far past that stage. If they made it past the academy then I would just let them die if they hated me. I went back to reading my scroll when I heard a deep male cough.

"Chikara, are you paying attention?" I shook my head. "Why not." I shrugged. I saw the man frown. "Well can you tell me the handsigns for the henge?" I nodded. I saw the Sensei's face get annoyed. Like I cared. "Then please show the class." I nodded and did the handsigns. Dog → Boar → Ram. With that I added chakra and transformed into Sensei. I saw Sensei stare wide eyed at me. "That's enough Chikara, please release the jutsu." I nodded and saw smoke as I returned to my normal body. "As you can see…" With that I turned back to my scroll.

I looked up when the bell rang. Was it the end of the day already? I looked out of the window and saw students in the front eating. No. It was lunch time. I sighed and took out another scroll from my hip pouch. I opened and saw the kanji for food in the center of the scroll. I added a little chakra and saw a poof of smoke before seeing my bento box I had made yesterday in the scroll. I put away the scroll and started to it the rice and sushi from the box. This was a special treat for me.

As I finished I saw Sensei walking up to me. When he got to me I looked down at me with a critical eye. "So, Chikara, why are you not listening in class?" I sighed. I really didn't want to talk, but this wasn't a yes or no question. "Look, I don't want to make you feel like you're in trouble. In matter a fact I'm impressed that a new student is able to do a henge." I sighed. Was he trying to sweet talk me into giving an answer? "You don't like to talk, do you?" I looked at he man. I gave a slow nod. If that giving him that info on me got him to ask simple questions then good for me.

"Okay, do you already know the three jutsu required to graduate?" I nodded. "Who was your Sensei?" I shook my head. "You didn't have a Sensei?" I nodded. It was half true. Kurama-sensei only told me what to do, not how to do it. "Can I see that scroll you were reading?" I pulled out the scroll from my hip pouch. I saw him open and read it. "A elemental jutsu? I think that's a little too advance for you Chikara." I shook my head. I pulled out a canteen of water from my pouch and opened it. I poured the water into my hand and used chakra to form it into a ball. I put the water back into the canteen without spilling a drop. I looked to Sensei and saw him wide eyed. I waved my hand in front of him and got no response.

I shrugged and sealed my bento box back into the scroll. I heard Sensei gasp. "You know how to seal objects to?" I turned and nodded to the man. "You're nothing like your tou-san." I glared at the man. I hated Naruto, even when people said I was so different than him, it angered me. With that I got up and left the man alone in the empty classroom.

I walked to the academy yard with anger inside of me. How dare he compare me to the monster that put Kurama-sensei in me and made me the monster to the village. I shouldn't have to worry about my life when I was little but I did. And it's all because of him. Even me not being able to show my left eye was because of him. But worst of all he took away my kaa-san before I ever met her.

I walked past all of my 'peers' eating their lunches with each other. I was about to exit the academy grounds when two girls stepped in my way.

I looked at the two girls. They both had raven black hair and wore white traditional grabs. There most notable feature was their white pupilless eyes. They were from the Hyuuga clan. I stared at the two girls and they stared at me. The one to my left stepped forward slightly. "Chikara, right?" I nodded my head. Not knowing what these two wanted. The other girl stepped forward.

"My name is Hikari. My sister's." She pointed to the other girl "Name is Mei-san." I just looked at the two girls. They wanted something. That's the only reason anyone would talk to me. Mei-san stepped right up into my face.

"I don't see what's so impressive about her. If anything she's a freak." I heard Hikari-san sigh. I got annoyed at having the girl in my face so I walked around her. As I was about to pass Hikari-san I felt someone grab my arm roughly. I looked back and saw Mei-san holding on to my arm. "Where do you think you're going? I wasn't done talking to you." I glared at the girl and pulled my arm away from her and kept walking away. I didn't need my time wasted.

"Byakugan." I turned and ducked the strike Mei-san just tried hitting me with. I was inside her guard and uppercutted her chin. I launched the girl slightly upward. I watched Mei-san land on her back. She slowly got back up and saw her glare at me with her active doujutsu. I watched as she got back into her family stance. I glanced around and saw the other kids all watching us. I saw Mei-san run at me. I saw bored so I put a little chakra into my legs and jumped a few feet above Mei-san. I twisted in the air and landed behind Mei-san with my back to her. "How…" I turned and looked at Mei-san whose back was still to me. Probably thinking that I didn't know about the byakugan. I knew she could see me. I heard the bell ring and started to walk to the academy. "This isn't over bitch." I turned my head to Mei-san and shrugged. Not like I cared.

I entered the classroom before anyone else and sat in my spot. This time I watched my 'peers' as they entered to see if anyone caught my attention. I saw mostly bland civilian kids made up ninety percent of the class. Then there were the few clan children.

The Hyuuga twins, Hikari-san and Mei-san. They are both from the main family. Meaning that one of them had to be sealed and be put into the branch family. So far a choice as not been made because while Hikari is more of the quiet personality that is hated in the Hyuuga. She is the one who is better than everything than her sister Mei-san. This has lead to problems to which one to seal. Not like it really mattered to me.

The one Inuzuka, Shiga-san, son of Hana Inuzuka the current head of said clan. The Inuzuka clan was hit really hard during the ninja war. They were targeted by Madara and systematically destroyed to the point that there are only ten of them left, including Shiga.

Then there was Jiyū Nara, he is from one of the the side branches of the Nara. There was nothing too impressive about him. He was just a standard Nara from what I could gather.

I scanned the room for the last clan member and probably the most surprising. Mugen Uchiha. Son of the infamous Sasuke Uchiha. Mother unknown. He was the truly the last of the Uchiha and was treated as such. He was powerful, smart, overconfident and thought he was better than everyone else. He had already activated his sharingan making him dangerous to our peers.

I turned my attention to my hip pouch and pulled out a scroll on Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu. After reading through it I thought about the jutsu. So, the user transports themself under the target and pulls them underground. But how are you suppose to get there? There has to be a complementary jutsu for this. I know that I didn't have it since it's going to be another doton jutsu and I only grabbed one. Crap. Whatever. I turned to the clock and saw the day was almost over. Good then I could get some real training in. I went back to thinking about how to get to the target with Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu.

The bell rang. I rolled up my scroll and slipped it in my pouch. With that done I got up to leave but saw Sensei wave to me. With a sigh I walked up to Sensei's desk and walked right past it. I need to get stress out and dealing with him would only increase it. I knew he was chasing me down so I used chakra and ran out of the building and out of the grounds.

I arrived at my house and unlocked the door. I walked in and dropped my hip pouch at the entrance. The only thing in there were scrolls. I walked to the closet in the bedroom and opened it. I pulled out a box and smiled. 'Ah, so you are training using that today?' I open the box and pulled out a obsidian black bow and black leather quiver.

'Yes. Do you have a problem with that?' I head Kurama-sensei snuff at me.

'It makes little sense to me to use such an odd weapon, but considering your gifts it works well.' I couldn't help but agree. 'Speaking of which I should be almost done fixing the main problem in a few months.' I smile slightly. I was glad Kurama-sensei had the ability to manipulate features of my body. Like how my hair was always the perfect length and always stayed over my eye and my muscles are extra dense making me stronger without looking like it. At first it was weird to think that the fox could change my body but I got use to it quickly. I wanted him to change my hair color but he said that it was more colored like my jii-san's hair and not like Naruto's. I left it alone after that.

I liked my jii-san and baa-san. Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki. They were people I could respect, most baa-san though. I felt tears threatening to break through as I thought about the family I will never know. I shook my head and put the quiver and bow on my back. They were a gift from my jii-san on my kaa-san's side. I felt a tear run down my face thinking about him, now that he passed away. I shook my head again and stood up. I needed to train. With that thought I ran out of my apartment.

I got to my usual training area. Training ground fourteen. No one ever used it because of the amount of animals and trees around. But it was perfect for me. I jumped from tree to tree in the area. Looking for any animal that was edible. I gave three more jumps before I saw a rabbit. With seeing my target I took my bow and notched an arrow. I shifted my hair to cover my right eye and uncover my left eye.

I saw the world much clearer and crisper. I drew back on the arrow and released. I saw the arrow fly through the air and hit the rabbit in the heart. I shifted my hair back and jumped over to the rabbit. I pulled out the arrow and grabbed the rabbit. That's dinner for tonight. With that done I made the clone seal. 'Kage Bushin no jutsu.' I saw a poof of smoke and saw another me standing there. I wanted to make more but then people would question why there was so many of me running around. In fact the only reason I had this jutsu was because of Kurama-sensei.

I saw the clone take the rabbit and start to skin it. I left the clone to finish. I went to the small stream in the area. I made the tiger sign and felt water build up in my chest as I added chakra. I felt it reach its peak and shot the water out of my mouth. I watched the glob hit a tree and saw the water break apart. Well that didn't work. I made another clone sign. 'Kage Bushin no jutsu.' I saw another three of me appear in smoke. I gave a light pant. Four clones was about my max for now before I got noticed the effect of the jutsu. I saw the clones go to work on Suiton: Teppōdama.

With that done I started to run around the forest. I wanted to build up speed more than strength right now. The reasoning is that I wanted to be a ninjutsu and kenjutsu user. Meaning that the faster I was the farther I could get from from enemy to use ninjutsu and speed beats strength in a sword battle. Not to say I neglect strength training but for every five sessions of speed training I did I did one strength. This meant that I was fast. Really fast. I was about chunin in speed and genin in strength. I stopped thinking and just let the noises of forest occupy my mind.

After running for two hours I felt the clone that was cooking dispel itself. I walked out of the training ground and back to my apartment. I entered and smelt the cooked rabbit. I dropped my sendon holder by the front door and put away my bow. With that done I went and sat down at the table with rabbit stew sitting there for me.

After eating I washed the bowl and put it back in the cupboard. That being done I walked to my bedroom and got out a large white shirt and loose black shorts. I walked to the bathroom and took a cold shower to get the grime off of me. With that done I went to the bedroom and went to bed ready to repeat today, tomorrow, and I planned on doing that until graduation.

Four Years Later

I snapped my eyes open. I looked out of the window with little interest. To others today was a big day but to me it was just another day. I got out of bed and went to the mirror. I looked at my twelve year old body. My hair was the same color but I now had both my eyes shown. My right eye being the same blackish brown while my left eye was a deep black color. This caused people to freak out when I showed up to the academy with my hair not covering my eye. I had to have Sensei explain heterochromia iridium to my peers to which people thought I was even more freaky. I was happy with my hair because it looked exactly like baa-san's hair. My body had grown a lot more to. I was now five feet exactly with decent sized muscles that were very lean. No doubt thanks to my speed training. I grabbed my customary black shirt with red Uzumaki symbol on the back. I looked through my clothes and decided to wear white shorts and a long white skirt. With my clothes I went to the bathroom and took a shower.

I got out of the shower and grabbed the bindings I left in the bathroom and wrapped it around my chest. In the four years my boobs started to come in and with the civilians hating me I could not buy any bras from the stores and ninja stores didn't sell them. So I had to use bindings. Not that I cared. Same difference to me. With my outfit assembled I went to the my basket on the table in my dining area and took out an orange. I grabbed my hip pouch and senbon holder and left my apartment while peeling the fruit.

I entered the academy before anyone else did just like I normally did. I went to reach into my pouch like everyday when I stopped and looked at the black circle tattoo with multiple triangles inside of it on the back of my left hand. I thought back on how I got it.

Being a Uzumaki I had a fascination with seals. Even though I was young I would work on very complex seals with Kurama-sensei teaching me what some seals did. He had just recently taught me the effects of seals on a human body and how to seal objects onto someone. Most people thought it was just like sealing a object on a scroll but it was different. The difference is living tissue to dead tissue of the paper. The seal on a human body had to be made so it did the object sealed did not harm the person. If this was done wrong then the person could suffer from malformations to other nasty effects.

It took me two weeks to get the seals down and learn how to seal objects onto myself. My most important object being the one I did first. My bow and quiver. However, I could not use normal ink since it would wash away and destroy the object and also could kill me. So I used Kurama-sensei's chakra and burnt the seal deep into my left hand. No matter what the seal would never go away.

Putting that out of my mind I grabbed the lowest rank jutsu I had in my pouch, Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu. I had the basic idea down but I never was close enough to a large body of water to use it. With that thought I started to think about my special chakra. Thanks to baa-san and Kurama-sensei my chakra was super dense. This meant I could make chakra object, like chakra chains, but mine was yet to be as powerful as that but much more diverse. I could make anything from bowls to arrows out of chakra, if given enough time. Oddly enough this was a female only trait of female Uzumaki. Meaning that Naruto could never use this ability and I was happy about that.

I heard the door slide open and saw Sensei walk in. Though the four years I had been in here I still never bothered to learn his name. I went back to my scroll. I still had not spoken to a single person since I entered the academy, well before the academy too, but I talked to Kurama-sensei…. I have not spoken to a human in a long time. There. I saw students start to pour in the room. I could feel each one being energized. I went back to my scroll but I saw someone walking towards me.

It was Mei-san Hyuuga. I glanced up and saw her glaring at me. She never got over the 'fight' we had four years ago. She always tried to be better than me in everything and always failed. "So, you ice bitch ready to talk?" I went back to my scroll. Mei-san and other civilian girls called me ice bitch because I would never talk and never seemed interested in anyone. Of course I'm not. I'm twelve and soon going to be a ninja, a kunoichi no less. One slip up and it was a fate worse than death. "Look at you. Think you're so cool because you hate everything?" I ignored her. If you don't pay attention to idiots they either get mad and leave or attack. Mei-san was the latter category.

I saw a quick movement and leaned back as Mei-san's palm went past where my head was. I grabbed her arm and put tension on her elbow. I saw Mei-san's eyes widen as I put just a tiny bit more pressure. "Chikara, let go this isn't funny." I saw Mei-san's eyes were tearing up. With a sigh I let go. I watched as Mei-san went and walked back to her sister. I saw Sensei walk in front of his desk.

"Well as you know this is the end of the academy for you…" This was just sappy. Knowing that I went back to my scroll. I heard paper russel in front of me. I looked up and saw Sensei walking back to his desk. I looked over the paper and saw that it was a written test. With an internal sigh I got out my pencil and wrote down the answers. With that done I went back to my scroll.

"Time's up." I looked up from my scroll and saw Sensei go to the door. "Please hand me your paper as you go to the training circle." I saw all the students get up and leave. I got up to after everyone was almost out, gave Sensei my paper, and left the room.

I walked to the training circle to see another instructor. "Okay. I am Miko and I will be your sensei for the taijutsu part of the exam. This will be a tournament style competition. First place will get one hundred and ten percent, second will get one hundred and so one and so forth. Girls and boy will be separated. Boys will go first." I sighed and walked away from the group. The only person able to give me a challenge was the Uchiha and even then it was so dull to me. I tree walked up the tree and saw down on one of the higher branches. I pulled out another scroll. This time it had my experimental jutsu on it.

I had two affinities. One was suiton and the other was doton so I started to think of ways to use those to their max. Mostly using doton for defensive shields and covers while using suiton for offensive. Currently I was trying to fuse the two together and see what I could get. So far all I got was huge wastes of chakra. I think that mixing those elements were useless. I perked up when I felt the tree shake ever so slightly. I looked down and saw a civilian boy looking up at me, or more exactly up my skirt.

I landed next to the boy without a sound. I saw him looking around for me. Was I really going so fast that he lost track of me? I shook my head and left to sit in another tree hidden in the leaves. That is why I hated people. They only wanted to use me for their betterment. The only person to not fall into this was my kaa-san's tou-san. With no one to bother me I went back to my scroll.

"Okay the boys are done. Girls please line up." I sighed and jumped from the tree. I walked over to the other girls. "Okay since there are ten of you this should be quick." I stopped paying attention listening only for my name.

"Chikara Uzumaki and Soyokaze Hinoko." I sighed and walked into the center of the ring. I saw my opponent walk across from me. She was a short redheaded girl wearing a deep green shirt and black tights. I saw her get into the academy stance. She was a civi girl. Meaning that I had no worry for her hurting me much less beating me. "Hajime!" I saw Soyokaze smirk.

"What are you to afraid to fight me?" I just kept my uncaring eye on her. I saw her run right at me. I blocked a hook to the right. I jumped over her sweep. I leaned back as she tried to punch me in the stomach. While leaning I kicked her upward. I saw her rise off her feet ever so slightly. I ended up leaning on my outstretched leg she being supported by my leg. I put my leg back and saw her fall to the ground. She was out cold. I sighed. I got out of the ring. I saw the instructor go and get the girl. I wanted to go back to the tree but knew that I would have to fight again. With that know I started to think of ways I could use my chakra to form new weapons.

"Chikara Uzumaki and Mūn Purūmu." I sighed and stepped into the ring again. Another civi girl. This time girl had violet colored hair though and wore and had a gray battle kimono on. I saw her take her stance as I stood like I normally do. "Hajime!" I saw the girl run right at me. I was preparing to block the right hook to my stomach but got a kick in the stomach instead.

"Ha, I hit the ice bitch." I kept my gaze on her. She closed her eyes and I ran past her. I was looking at her from behind as she was looking around for me. I gave her mid back a solid kick and watched as she tumbled to the ground and land on her face. I didn't understand why the girls always gloated when they got a hit on me. I saw the girl get back up with blood running down her nose. I saw her walk out of the ring with tears in her eyes. Was that really it? She just walked off from a bloody nose? I shook my head and walked out of the ring. One last fight.

"Okay the last fight will be a three way free for all between Chikara Uzumaki, Mei Hyuuga, and Hikari Hyuuga." I saw the twins enter the ring. I entered the ring. I saw the twins look at each other, nod, then both turned towards me. Now this was a better challenge. "Hajime!" I saw the twins walk slowly towards me in their family stances. I got into my own stance. The Shadōfokkusu no mai. A style made from the ideals of Kurama-sensei's massive power fitted into a shadow like strike. A very hard and incomplete stance and I did not have enough strength to use it to its full extent but effective nonetheless. The only time I had to use this was fighting Mugen until now.

I kept my vision on both of them but mostly on Mei-san. I knew she would charge first and then defeat her. Then the main problem Hikari-san, who was almost at Mugen-san's level of taijutsu. I heard the sound of running coming from my blind side. I leaned forward and kicked Mei-san in the stomach hard. I heard Mei-san lose her breath and I focused on Hikari-san. I ran forward and let off a faint kick. I twisted and punched Hikari-san only for her to bend out of the way. I used chakra and jumped up to dodge Mei-san's strikes from behind. I landed away from both of them. I saw Mei-san was still recovering from the kick while Hikari-san looked fresh still. I sighed and ran at Mei-san. I went for a right kick but twisted and used the momentum to deliver a left kick to Mei-san who took it to the ribs. I saw her fly out of the ring.

I looked to Hikari-san to see her palm near my face. I reacted and grabbed her wrist only to feel a palm in my stomach. I quickly put distance between us. My injury was already healed but no need for Hikari-san to know. I grabbed my stomach where she hit me and I acted that I was in pain. I slowly got into my stance. I saw Hikari-san look at me and run at me. I weakly dodged a few of her strikes to make her think I was still hurt. A palm past my face. She over extended her arm on that strike. I smiled while she went wide eyed. We both knew it was done. I grabbed her arm and flipped her over my back, launching her out of the ring. I turned around and looked at the students that were watching. I sighed and walked out of the ring and back to the tree. I knew that there was going to be lunch before we had the final portion of the test.

I settled into my hidden spot and pulled out a scroll. I added some chakra to it. With a poof of smoke I saw a plate with some chunks of cooked deer meat. I sighed with delight. This is what I enjoyed. Being alone in nature with prepared food and thinking about jutsu.

I heard the bell ring telling the students that it was time to come in. I sighed. I really just wanted to stay in the tree and think about jutsu. But I had to do this. I jumped out of tree and casually walked to the classroom.

I entered the class to see I was the last person in. I ignored people looking at me and looked to my usual spot only to see a group of civilian boys in my row, the perverted boy sitting in my seat. I saw the boy stick his tongue out at me. I couldn't care less. There were other spots that I could sit, even if I had to sit next to someone. I casually glanced around. There were only two open spots. One next to Mugen-san or Mei-san. I stopped to think. Which was the lesser of two evils? Mei-san. I walked up and sat down next to Mei-san. I saw her about to say something but her sister stopped her. I heard Mei-san growl slightly at me. What was wrong with this girl? I shook my head and went to reading my scroll from earlier. I knew Mei-san was peeking at the scroll I was reading but why should I hide what I am reading. It's not like she could do anything to me directly. In my peripheral vision I saw Sensei walk in. I zone out when he started to call names.

"Chikara Uzumaki." I rose from my seat. I started to walk down the stairs to the separate room. I glanced around as I walked and saw everyone else had headbands, however, there were also people missing. Meaning that around ten people failed the exam. I got to the door and walked in. I saw Sensei sitting at a wooden table in the center of the room. "Hey Chikara." I just looked at Sensei. I just wanted to get this over with. "Okay. Chikara please do a henge." I did the handsigns. My vision was covered in smoke. Even it cleared I saw Sensei look at me wide eyed. "Wow, that looks just like Kushina-sama." I nodded and released the henge. "Okay. Kawarimi." I did the handsigns and I saw my position change. When my vision cleared I saw that the log and taken my old position. "Very good. Now please make three clones." I nodded and did the clone handsign. Three puffs of smoke appeared next to me. I saw Sensei smile at me. "Good job Chikara. Come grab your Hitai-ate." I did what I was told and grabbed the cloth and metal band. I wrapped it around my neck and tied the knot. I turned to leave the room.

After exiting I saw the entire classroom look at me and I saw all of the civilian kids frown. I ignored them and walked back to the spot next to Mei-san. I sat down and waited for Sensei to come out and speak to the class. I saw him exit the room and smile at all of us. "Good job everyone. I guess all of you want to know who is the shinobi and kunoichi of the year." I heard a large murmurs go around the room. Sensei then ruffled some papers in his hands. "The shinobi of the year is Mugen Uchiha." I saw the Uchiha smirk. "The kunoichi of the year is Chikara Uzumaki." I heard the room erupt into yells.

"How can the freak be the best kunoichi?"

"The freak must have cheated!" I heard a bunch of other nonsense but none that really stood out. I saw Sensei getting very anger.

"Shut up!" I saw Sensei's head grow huge. I wonder if that was a genjutsu or if it was an actual increase of size. "Chikara got perfect grades throughout all the years without missing anything over the four years be it writing or practical." That silenced the room. "May I also remind you that not even the best ninjas, like the Yondaime-sama or Itachi Uchiha, have not even been able to do this." I could feel everyone looking at me. I started to hate Sensei now. He was drawing attention to me. "None of this matters because each of you are important to the village now as you are now genin. Please come next week for team assignments." I watched as everyone started to filter out of the room. I was in no rush unlike everyone else. I had no one waiting for me outside or at my apartment. I saw the last student leave. I got up and walked out of the building.

I exited the building and looked around. I saw all the students surrounded by their parents. I looked at all the groups and saw them all smiling. Why would they be so happy to be a shinobi? This is a serious and deadly job but they act like they'll be untouchable. I scanned over the twenty-seven other kids that passed. I wonder how many were going to die on their first mission out of the village? I shook my head and started to leave. I had more important matters to deal with, like finding dinner tonight. With that in mind I took off and made my way to hunt some food.

I stepped into my apartment with a sigh. I pulled out a scroll with my findings. One full size deer already cooked and ready to eat. I put the scroll on the table and slipped off all my gear. For some reason I felt that I was going to need every second to relax. I left the scroll on the table. The extra seals on the sealing scroll I put made anything decompose one hundred times slower meaning that I would be able to eat all of it without any worry. I went to my room and plopped onto my bed. "I need to talk to you, Uzumaki." I sat against the wall and closed my eyes. That was for no reason though because Kurama-sensei never let me into my mindscape.

'What is it Kurama-sensei?'

"Your fight from earlier has shown me that you are not strong enough. I remember a child named Rock Lee that was stronger and faster than you at your age. I want you to get some weights that absorb chakra and start speed and strength training to a new level." I shuttered. When Kurama-sensei got like this then I was going to be in a lot of pain until my body adapted.

'Okay Kurama-sensei. Anything else?' I heard a muffled sound from in my head. It sounded like something large and heavy moving.

"I'm starting to adapt your other eye to your 'gift' you got. Soon you'll be able to use it in both making it so you can use it to its full potential." I thought about it for a second.

'Will this make my eye change in any way?' I heard only silence. Probably Kurama-sensei looking over things more accurately.

"No, I can make it so that does not happen." I gave a small smile.

'Thank you Kurama-sensei.' I heard no response in return. He never did. I didn't let it bother me as I laid down on my bed and went sleep.

One Week Later

I entered the classroom for the last time. I saw some students already there. That was a surprise because it was still a half hour before class started. I ignored the people and went to my usual seat. I sighed and set my head down on the table. My past week was set on only training my body using my brand new weights.

I had four deep black metal bracers on my forearms and legs. They were very good protection. Plus I they held chakra. Meaning that if I added chakra they were harder and better protection but got heavier as they were denser or I could absorb the chakra and make it softer and lighter and also get chakra back. I always win. I had about fifty pounds on all my limbs separately, only thanks to my adaptive body.

I heard Sensei talking but didn't bother lifting my head. All I needed was to know what team I was going to be on. "Okay. Now that I finished my little speech I'll announce the teams." I lifted my head and looked at Sensei. "Team one. In circulation. Team two. Yajirushi Kogane, Ō Ito, and Remon Kato. Team three. Supaisu Tsurīi, Reinbō Kibō and…" I zoned out listening only for C's."Chikara Uzumaki." I looked up. "You have an apprenticeship with… oh boy.. "

I started to wonder why Sensei said that. Suddenly the window was smashed open. I watched as a huge ball of cloth was flung through at high speeds and suddenly opened up. Inside was a women who took some weird pose. I looked at the words on the cloth. 'The one and only. Anko Mitarashi!' I took at close look at the women. I knew from Kurama-sensei's information that she was in her mid thirties. However, she looked at most late twenties. She still had the similar outfit from what I was told. I think her skirt was slightly longer though. I shook that off. "Uzumaki, come with me!" She gave some weird wave and jumped out of the window. I got up and exited out of the window after her. Wondering what was going to happen to me that I my new sensei is the Hebi no joō.

Translation List

Suiton: Teppōdama - Water Style: Gunshot

Hikari Hyuuga - Light Hyuuga

Mei Hyuuga - Dark Hyuuga

Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu - Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet

Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu - Earth Style : Double Suicide Decapitation

Soyokaze Hinoko - Breeze Sparks

Mūn Purūmu - Moon Plume

Shadōfokkusu no mai - Dance of the shadow fox

Kawarimi - Substitution

Hitai-ate - Headband

Yajirushi Kogane - Arrow Gold

Ō Ito - King Intent

Remon Kato - Lemon Whether

Supaisu Tsurī - Spice Tree

Reinbō Kibō - Rainbow Wish

Hibana Arai - Fireflower Wash

Hebi no joō - Queen of snakes

So, even though I'm pretty sure no one will actually do this I'm still going to. I am putting another contest up. This is for the identity of Chikara's mother. I won't hide what is going to get though. The winner will get to decide who is paired up with Chikara (if at all, Kurama and Mugen Uchiha are barred from this as I have plans for both). I will mark down all the votes and who did them and the first person to get the name of Chikara's mother will get to decide. You can PM once a month and I will mark down your latest vote. I'll end this as soon as someone actual gets it or if no one votes by chapter three.

Next chapter - The Mistrust of Silence