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Chapter 1

Naruto huffed, she was extremely annoyed, this would be her second year in the Academy and she hated every minute of it. Not only that but, no matter what she did or tried to do, the results were always the same. She got a zero on every test and people looked at her differently than everyone else, and she hated it and them.

And now here she was, sitting in front of her gramps, waiting for punishment for pulling yet another prank. But then again, the only time anyone besides her gramps looked at her was when she was pulling a prank, there wasn't a thing in the world he or anyone else would be able to do that could dissuade her from that fact.

"Naruto… what are you doing? I know you entered the academy because you wanted to be a ninja, but you don't take things seriously." Sarutobi frowned, looking over the small girl in front of him. Her golden blond hair had gotten longer, and was held in loose pigtails that ran down to her hips, those bright blue eyes were holding an angry hurt that shouldn't be in a girl her age.

Naruto snorted, "Why should I even try, old man? I mean, I study all the damn time, and you know what? It doesn't matter because even when I get something right on a test they mark it wrong! Why do I even bother? I should be some were in the middle of ranking! BUT I'm LAST! Last, because they all hate me!" she continued shouting, trying not to let the tears fall.

"Naru, come here." Sarutobi sighed, he would have to place her in a new class, things were getting ridiculous. They shouldn't be treating her like this in the Academy. Most of the shinobi in his forces understood what she was going through.

Naruto sniffed before walking to stand directly in front of the Hokage, within minutes she was pulled into a large hug before she managed to bury her face against his robes. Sarutobi continued to hold the small girl, stroking her hair, "Naru, I'm going to do things a bit differently. I'm going to give you an extensive exam over everything that you've learned at the academy. If you do well enough, I'll be able to move you out of the class you're in."

"Fine…" She tried not to cry, she hated to cry, it made her feel weak.

Sarutobi sighed, there really wasn't anything that he could do. He would have to speak with Iruka tomorrow. He knew that the young chunin held nothing against Naruto, but he wasn't sure how the young man would act if forced to teach her, and there was no telling how the clan heads and parents would react when he put the girl in the more advanced classes.

"Inu, take Naru to be tested." Sarutobi ordered, before sending someone else to get Iruka to the tower. The Anbu member nodded, taking the small girl's hand, the two walked away. Why did things have to become so frustrating, not for the last time Sarutobi damned Minato for leaving Naru to face these things alone. If he'd allowed Sarutobi to do the sealing, the girl would have had so much more protection!

A young man poked his head into the Hokage's office, he was young about 19 or 18, he had brown hair and eyes with a scar running across the bridge of his nose. "You called for me, Hokage-sama?"

"Iruka… I hate to ask this of you, but I've recently come into a problem with a number of the teachers at the Academy."

Iruka felt his eyes widen, "In what way?"

"As you know, Naruto Uzumaki is attending the academy and there have been a number of issues with teachers purposely grading her incorrectly. Sabotage of one of my ninja is pushing their rights more than a bit. I know you're wondering why you've been brought in, depending on how well she does on the overall testing will depend if she gets into your advanced class."

Iruka blinked in surprise, "I have no problems teaching her, Hokage-sama."

"I thought not, I would also ask that you personally hand out each test and check them for Genjutsu. For all classes, there has been a 30% drop in students outside of clans making it through the academy, I think someone is personally trying to ensure that these civilians or first generation shinobi fail. That is not acceptable, after the war and then the incident we need all the able bodied ninja we can get our hands on." Once again, Sarutobi felt his age as he rubbed his hand over his face.

Iruka blinked, that was going to be a big job and he wasn't entirely sure he could manage it by himself. "Ah…will I be the only one on this job?"

"No, Kurenai will be helping you, as well." The aged Hokage replied, before looking up to find Inu patiently waiting at the door. "Well, how did she do?"

"She was correct when she accused the academy member of changing her answers or failing her on purpose." Inu replied, while it couldn't be seen, the man was trembling in rage.

"So, how did she do?" Iruka asked, he'd heard horrible things about the young girl. From being a disruption in class, to picking on others, he wasn't sure how many hateful things had been said.

"Perfect, she didn't miss anything… Taijutsu needs to be pushed up to par, and she has Tsunade's… quality strength, which makes up for it, if she hits someone they will be down for the count." Inu twitched at the thought, he'd asked her to punch one of the training dummies and it had literally exploded. "And she definitely needs to get some chakra control exercises under the belt."

Iruka nodded, "What about weapons? And does she know any of the basic ninjutsu?"

"She can do Henge and the Replacement technique just fine… I don't think she'll ever be able to do a simple clone unless you torture her with chakra control, and her throwing is decent…" Inu replied.

Iruka nodded, this wouldn't be too terribly hard to fix but it would look bad if she made it into the "advance" or "top" class if she didn't have the skills to keep up with the others. Then again, these so called advance classes or top classes weren't really all that fair to everyone else, they just happened to have ten clan heirs in it.

"Iruka, how is Yakumo?" Sarutobi asked, Naru had said something several month ago that had sparked an idea in the old man's head and with the help of Jiraiya things seemed to be going a long swimmingly.

"Sense the sealing? Stunning actually, she's much healthier physically. Ido has regressed to a minor personality, while strengthening the body. She's in the middle of the ranks, were as she was unable to do much of anything before. Kurenai has done a lot to bolster her confidence and she seems to be making friends." Iruka smiled, just two years ago Yakumo hadn't even been able to walk without becoming winded, while she couldn't spar as well or nearly as long as the others, her throwing abilities with senbon and Genjutsu overcame just about all her other obstacles. He was rather happy that he was being allowed to help her.

Sarutobi smiled gently, Kurenai had come to him about sealing away Yakumo's ability to use her Genjutsu. Kurenai had become afraid of the strength of the Genjutsu and worried that Yakumo's altered demon Ido might hurt the girl or others. After some offhand comment from Naru, a brilliant idea seemed to come to life for him, if they fused the two together and forced Yakumo to become the stronger personality then things would change. When the fused sealing was applied to the girl, all of them had been surprised when the girl's health began to improve at a rapid rate. When he and Jiraiya came together they theorized that the "demon" Ido had been stealing Yakumo's health so that she might take over the body completely. When Ido was cut from her host, Yakumo was able to regain her health.

"When will… when will Naruto be joining the class?" Iruka finally asked, after several moments of silence had seemed to overtake the room.

Sarutobi sighed, "More than likely, sometime next week… Naruto has asked to be moved out of the orphanage and I see no real reason to deny her."

Iruka nodded, "I see, well, I'll be waiting then." Bowing once, Iruka left the room wondering how he was going to get along with this new student. He was conflicted with his dislike of her parasite, and his pity for the girl.

Inu sighed, before removing his mask "I want Naruto to move in with me."

Sarutobi blinked in shock, he hadn't expected this response. "Kakashi…"

"I know. I know it would put her in danger, but she can't keep living like this, Hokage-sama. She's utterly miserable, and she knows me well enough to stick around, instead of running off again." Kakashi finished, he's been taking care of the girl since she was placed in his watch, from giving her birthday gifts, to showing up for things like her induction to the academy. She was in almost every aspect his kid.

Sarutobi groaned, pinching his nose he glared at his Anbu operative. "Very well, you'll be the one responsible for her, do you understand? Including all her pranks."

Kakashi tried not to grin, he'd asked the small eight year old when he'd taken her for her testing. He couldn't really remember seeing a smile like that on her face, not in a very, very long time. "Hai, Hokage-sama. I really do hope you don't expect her to stop pranking, though."

"Kakashi, go, shoo! You have things to do, like getting your house ready for a small, impressionable eight year old girl." The Hokage tried not to think about what this could lead to, only the heaven's knew that Kakashi, Minato, and Jiraiya were perverts, was that going to be telling? He also had to wonder how the council members would react.\

Kakashi nodded before disappearing in a swirl of leaves and gust of wind.

Sarutobi glared at the floor which was now covered in a mass of leaves. "Damn Jounins, always using body flicker leaving their leaves and petals and water all over the place. Why can't they use the damn door? Or at least the window, like Jiraiya?" Huffing, Sarutobi made a mental note to up the janitor's salary.

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Kakashi grinned, before grabbing a small blonde turning her upside down within seconds. Her laughter was sometimes the only thing that really made his life worth anything. His parents and friends were dead, and he had no real connection with the jounin of the village beside Gai, or Asuma. Though, he could only take so much green spandex, or cigarette smoke.

"What do you want, Kashi?" Naruto asked, the blood was rushing to her head and making her light headed.

"Well, I was wondering if you were ready to move in with me." Kakashi asked.

"NO WAY! You convinced jiji? HOW?" Naruto promptly struggled to get back upright from the strong arms holding her upside down.

"I made him feel guilty, I mean, you're very good at running away." He responded easily.

The blonde pouted, "Fine, fine fine, it's not like I have alotta shit, anyway. Damnit, why didn't you try that sooner?"

"The first thing we are going to do, is get you some different clothing… that hideous orange monstrosity has to go along with that language of yours." Kakashi muttered, moving the girl from upside down to his side much like one would hold a foot ball.

Naruto pouted, "Commmmmme oooon, at least let me ride on your back. If you're going to go roof hopping, this is going to suck."

"Maybe you shouldn't curse." Kakashi replied in a singsong tone, his eyes closed while he smiled.

Naruto just groaned from the feeling in her stomach as they went up and down making her nauseated. Oh, she would have her revenge; he will never know what happened to him. The question was, what exactly should she do? She could make his mask an array of colors, but then again, it might not affect him at all.

Looking up, Naruto realized she had no idea where the heck they were. Sure she knew a lot of Konoha, but this place looked run down but in a different way than the slum that the orphanage was settled in. It was relatively clean for one thing, no random bits of trash upon the ground, no graffiti littering the sides of the building. "Where are the pot heads?"

Kakashi nearly choked, sometimes he'd forget where she'd lived, then she'd say something like this and he would once again be reminded that Naruto had been forced to live in the slums. It was the only thing Sarutobi had been able to do to keep many of the Konoha citizens from outright attacking or trying to kill the girl. "Naruto, not everywhere in Konoha has pot heads. In fact, that only makes up about 15 % of the city."

Naruto just stared up as him as if he was insane.

"Anyway, this is Kusanagi-no-tsurugi, it's a ninja catch all." Kakashi stated, "And before you ask, catch all means they sell just about everything a ninja could need, from clothing, to weapons, and just about anything a medic nin could need."

"Kay… so, what are we doing here?"

Kakashi grinned tugging on the orange jumpsuit of death, he replied, "We are getting you some appropriate clothing, kid. This is like kill-me-now orange."

"So? I make a fool outta Jounin an' Anbu… I mean, they must suck if they can't hunt down and keep up with an eight year old." Naruto grumbled, it wasn't as if she adored the jumpsuit, but it did its job and that's all that really mattered. "Can I get a mask? Like yours?"

"Do you really want one?" Kakashi asked.

"Nooot really." Naruto replied.

Kakashi rolled his eyes before walking inside the shop, putting her down he found what he was looking for. "You, clothes, get them." He muttered before walking away to pick up the things she would need for the academy, and things to practice with at home.

Naruto rolled her eyes at the man speak before grinning, it was nothing like those weird crappy stores she'd seen at the center of town, this was hardcore! They had everything from stuff for Kenjutsu users, to chakra eating mesh suits… She vaguely wondered if she could talk Kakashi into getting one before deciding against it.

"Hey… do you need help?" A voice asked.

Naruto blinked to find a girl a year or two older than herself, with dark brown buns, and soft brown eyes holding a number of items that were being restacked, or put away. "Yeah, I need some decent Ninja wear." She grinned, hands behind her head, "But I don't know what to get, and I definitely don't want one of those dresses." She rolled her eyes at the thought, it was almost insulting.

The girl chuckled, "I'm Tenten by the way, and I agree that the dresses for students and genin are way too frilly. I'll be happy to help you out, though," She grinned.

Naruto returned the smile, "I'm Naruto,"

"Fishcakes?"

Naruto just groaned, "Maelstrom."

The two girls laughed before getting down to business, it would be nearly an hour before Kakashi came to find Naruto. He never could figure out how woman, no matter the age, could take this long finding clothing that would work. His ears perked up, it seemed Naruto had made a friend.

"What do you think, Tenten?" Naruto asked.

Tenten studied the outfit, the top was a sleeveless battle kimono that was a teal blue-greenish color that fell to mid-thigh with slits running up just about the pants, the sash that kept the kimono top close was a soft yellow, the pants that she was wearing were black and skin tight just falling to the top of her knees, black ninja sandals with a similar stripe of color, and a pair of fingerless gloves covered in metal plates. "I think it works, I mean, you can change up the color and maybe make the shorts shorter if ya want to. You need to get a belt and stuff like that, but you really won't need that until graduation, or on survival tests."

"Tenten, if these shorts got any shorter they would think I didn't have shorts on." Naruto grinned.

"Meh, distraction. If they are that stupid, they get what they deserve!" Tenten replied.

Naruto broke down laughing, "Is this another girls-are-stronger-than-boys thing?"

"Hell yeah!" Tenten crossed her arms thinking about one lavender eyed boy in her class. He made her so damn mad!

"Naruto, are you done?" Kakashi asked.

"Yeah… Hey, Tenten, I'll see you in school, right?" Naruto asked.

"Sure, let's have lunch together." Tenten replied, waving before once more returning into the back of the store.

"So, what do you think?" Naruto twirled, she had a number of these tops picked out and she adored them!

Kakashi nodded, "It's not something many would pick, but it looks good, kid. Do you want to wear that out?"

"Can I?"

"Yeah, get your stuff, so I can pay for it."

"Geez, you sound like a dad, Kashi."

Kakashi rolled his eyes, when things were put upon the counter it didn't take long for everything to be paid for and the two of them left to drop things off at his small home.

"So…what are we going to do? I mean, I don't have anything to do till next Monday. It wasn't as if I had a whole lot to move and stuff." Naruto stated looking up at her new… what exactly was Kakashi? He wasn't her dad or brother, but he was darn close.

"You can go tomorrow, if you really want, I won't stop you. The Hokage wouldn't mind either, I imagine." Kakashi rubbed her head, absentminded messing with her hair.

Naruto stared up at him, Kakashi wasn't usually one for affection. Sure, he would mess with her like turning her upside down or carrying her around like a sack of potatoes or a football, but no affection not like this, at least. Was she really going to be allowed to stay, or would the council once again intervene like so many times before?

"I think I want to go ahead and start… Are you going to be around a lot?" Naruto was a bit uneasy, she couldn't help it.

Kakashi frowned, "Naruto, I can't be your legal guardian or adopt you. The council will or would put a stop at every attempt, but you're living with me now. Even if I'm not your legal guardian, I will be the one taking care of you from now on. No more living by yourself, no more only eating Ramen. You need someone to look after you, wither you admit it or not, and I want to be the one to do so."

Naruto continued to stare as if she was accessing him, "This isn't an order from Jiji?"

Kakashi smiled sadly, "No, this is a choice I've been debating over for a very long time."

Naruto sighed, "Okay…" Gnawing on her bottom lip, she slammed into the taller man, burying her face in his stomach, arms locked around him.

Kakashi stiffened at the sudden movement, before awkwardly patting the girl on the head. He could feel hot tears begin to seep through his cotton shirt and the quiet muttering of "thank you" over and over again. As the sobbing died down, he felt her slowly let go, "Better?"

Naruto nodded, rubbing her eyes as if she was going to manage to hide her tears, "Sorry for crying all over you."

"It's fine. Come on, it's getting late. We'll set you up for school in a few days. The two of us need to get used to this…" Kakashi looked her over, other than the quick crying jag and the fast bounce back, everything seemed fine.

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It had been three weeks since Naruto had moved in with Kakashi, she'd gone back to visit with Tenten several times and learned a good bit about throwing weapons. But now that she was once again at the academy, she felt nervousness well up inside her, she really didn't know what to expect.

"Naruto."

"Hmm, what?" Naruto asked looking up at Kakashi.

"You'll be fine. You've been keeping up with last week's lesson, and you have the potential to do great things, don't worry."

Naruto nodded, apparently several other students had asked to be allowed to take the same test she'd been forced to take. All the classes had to be rearranged and a number of teachers have been fired, including a white haired man named Mizuki, a Taijutsu teacher that had purposely been teaching students the wrongs stances. Because of this, classes were stalled for a three week period to get things back in order. Waving at her guardian, she found herself in front of the classroom A-2. Walking back and forth she started when a tall young man came to the door, "Are you Naruto?" he asked.

Naruto nodded, suddenly her voice was stuck in her throat and she couldn't speak.

"Well, I'm Iruka Umino, I'm the teacher of this class. They were going to put you in B-2, but your somewhere on the border at the bottom of A, and the very top of B, since B was so full they went ahead and put you in this class. Because of this, you're going to have to work hard to keep up, alright?" The man asked, rubbing his nose.

Naruto nodded, "I'm going to work my hardest then."

Iruka gave a small smile of amusement, "Alright," turning he waved the girl in. Most of the students of A-2 hadn't been moved out of the class, and Naruto was the only one who had been moved into the class.

Naruto followed, only to hear her teacher begin to speak, "Alright, settle down." A hush seemed to fall over the room. "We have a new student, she's the only one to be moved into A-2." Naruto could on fidget as many pairs of eyes turned to stare at her, "Please, introduce yourself."

"Ano…What do you want me to say, Iruka?" Naruto could feel her cheeks heating up as the stares continued.

Iruka hid a smile, "Your name, your dream and maybe a hobby?"

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, my dream is to surpass the person I'm nicknamed after, and my hobby? Pranks, I guess."

"OI!" A loud voice called at the back of the room, it was a gruff voice belonging to an Inuzuka from the red triangles on his cheeks, his hair was a shaggy brown, and there was a puppy resting on his head. "What's your nickname?"

"Mini-Tsunade, or Mini-Tsu by some of the others."

"Ah, why do you have that name?" A bubblegum haired girl asked, curiously.

"Ano, Iruka how much is that Taijutsu Block?" the blonde suddenly asked.

"Ah… Not that much?" Iruka was confused.

Naruto moved, pulling the revolving block out away from the wall before rearing back and slugging it with all her might. The explosion of wood and metal and dust was worthy of a small bomb. As the dust cleared, all that was left was a small grinning blonde with her hand thrown back behind her head, "That's why I'm called Mini-Tsu, that and my temper."

Iruka had heard from Kakashi that she had the strength of Tsunade but that was ridiculous! "Naruto, can you control your strength?"

"Nope." Again she grinned, ignoring the looks of horror that crossed several of the students faces, many of the boys decided then and there that they wouldn't be messing with her at all.

"I see, well. Yakumo will you please raise your hand?" Iruka asked.

A pale skinned, light brown haired girl smiled, her golden colored eyes laughing, before raising her hand.

Naruto walked upward to the middle row, "Nice to meet ya." She said before sitting down.

Yakumo smiled lightly, ever since she'd been freed of Ido, becoming a great Kunoichi had been her dream. It was nice meeting another girl that didn't fawn all over that blasted Uchiha brat, "I'm Yakumo Kurama." She leaned over to whisper as Iruka launched into a long lecture of Konohagakure's history. "You can just call me Yakumo."

Naruto nodded, grinning lightly, "Then call me Naru, most people do… or that damn nickname." She partially growled at the thought.

Yakumo sent the girl a widening smile, before Iruka sent them a look to pay attention. Both girls sighed, they looked at each other and settled in for a long lecture. The first break would be at lunch, and both found themselves outside rather quickly.

"Weee! Lunch!" Naruto spun happily, her back and butt hurt from those horrible wooden desks.

Yakumo laughed, softly "Why are you so excited, Naru?"

"Tenten and I made an agreement to eat lunch together, that and I have a lot of questions about some of our classmates… I'm just being nosy, ya know?"

Yakumo snorted, "Who is Tenten?"

Naruto grinned, "Tenten is a third year student, she's like the Kunoich of her year, and she likes extremely pointy objects."

"NARUTO!" Tenten glared at her friend.

"What? I'm just telling the truth, you're scary with those weapons. Tenten, this is Yakumo Kurama, Yakumo this is Tenten. Yakumo is about the only serious Kunoichi in our class, the rest of them… fawn over the Uchiha kid." Naruto stuck her tongue out, making a bleking sound.

Tenten snorted, "We have one of those in my year too, this one is a Hyuuga."

"Yakumo… I'm glad your clan's not snotty." Naruto stated bluntly.

Tenten gaped, "Naruto!"

"What?"

"It's alright, Tenten. Naruto is just a blunt person, I don't really mind. My family has no reason for arrogance or pride, Naruto. Over the years many of my clan haves died in war and through mission work. So, there is only a small number of us left," Yakumo sighed, she was determined to be a great ninja.

"Still, that's not something to say…" Tenten sighed.

"It's not like I know how to act like you guys do. I was raised in eastside… ya know, the slums an' stuff. We didn't learn how to talk fancy an' stuff, you had to learn how to think on your feet to keep outta trouble." Naruto shrugged.

Yakumo's eyes widened, "Naruto, that's the most dangerous part of Konoha."

"Yeah, yeah, I know. But I'm outta there, I've got a new guardian and everything." Naruto waved the concern away.

Tenten sighed, before blinking "Do you know a boy named Rock Lee?" she was relatively sure the Taijutsu boy was from eastside.

"Bushy brows? Yea, I do, indeed." Naruto's face was scrunched up. Bushy brows was a pretty cool guy, stubborn but so darn earnest. He was one, of a number of kids, that had no business living in eastside, and one of the few of them that made it out.

Tenten nodded, a bit more than amused at the comment, bushy brows?

"Bushy brows?" Yakumo asked.

"Lee's a nice guy, really nice, and honest to a darn fault. But the boy had the biggest damn eyebrows I've ever seen on somebody."

Tenten sighed, before Yakumo began to chuckle, more than a little amused.

The three girls enjoyed their lunch, not knowing that a number of students were watching this display. It was surprising that the Genjutsu wielder and the new girl, (at least to class A-2) were getting along so well. One person who was interested happened to be the same Uchiha that they had been talking about earlier, it was a surprise, there was now a total of three girls that didn't drool all over him and he had to hope that from now on one of the three would be put on his team for group projects.

After lunch, things settled into another hour-lecture before the class moved on to the last class of the day, Taijutsu.

When everyone was put into the simple Taijutsu stance position, Naruto made sure she was in the back of the class. It was so embarrassing, she'd managed to correct herself, but she really had no idea which one's were right.

"Naruto… that stance is horrible." Iruka stated standing over the girl, the class tittered in amusement.

"Sorry Iruka… I had Mizuki as my Taijutsu teacher." Naruto replied, more than a little annoyed. She was going to show all these stupid councilmen kids she was better than them, and maybe some of those clan brats to!

"Ah, I see… He really was determined to ruin your form then."

Several students frowned, finally one asked "Iruka? What do you mean?" it was a girl with light blonde hair and light blue eyes, she was also wearing a lot of purple… and one of those dresses.

"There was a reason that the Academy was closed for three weeks Ino, you see, several of the teachers here were purposely teaching their students incorrectly. Naruto is one of those students." Iruka answered, his attention completely on correcting Naruto's form. Pushing the back of her knee, he smiled when the rest of her form began to clear up, "Does that feel better, Naruto?"

"Hai, Iruka… It doesn't hurt anymore," Naruto answered.

"Good, class return to your own stance!" Iruka yelled, continuing to look over his students. He would stop occasionally, to correct a position or write notes in his grade book.

"Alright, switch." Iruka called, out and the students once more changed into another of the basic academy style stances.

When they were finished, Naruto was about ready to burst. It had been fun to work with weapons, and the stance's weren't too bad, but gah! It was sooo boring! Between the history and literature and mathematics and so on, it was like being in a regular public school back before she'd joined the Academy.

Naruto sighed, it was finally over and she could only thank the gods it ended. "Yakumo, what do you do after the academy?" Naruto finally asked, as they began to walk toward the entrance of the school.

"I generally practice genjutsu with my Uncle and father, why?" Yakumo answered curiously.

Just as Naruto was about to answer she was knocked down, looking up she found herself being glared at by an Uchiha member she'd never seen before.

"Idiot, you ruined it!" The boy yelled.

Naruto scowled, "Ruined, what?" Rubbing her arm, she winced at the slight pain.

"My scroll! You ruined it!"

Naruto frowned, looking for the scroll in question. It looked like a jutsu scroll from what she could tell, but it wasn't too badly damaged. Nothing a bit of time and effort couldn't fix.

"I didn't ruin your scroll," Naruto stated, standing.

"You did too! You're going to have to pay for it!"

"I'm not paying for a scroll that can be fixed, not only that but you ran into me, not the other way around. So, shove off, asshole!" Huffing Naruto, grabbed Yakumo's hand and began to walk away. Neither girl noticed the anger that seemed to overtake the boy's face, or the sudden hush that seemed to fall over the training grounds.

Ozuru was angry, no bratty second year was going to treat him like that, especially not the one his parents called a demon. Oh no, he was going to get her back and he didn't care if he got in trouble. He could feel the chakra welling up into his chest, forming heat, and fire building getting ready to contain itself in a large sphere, "Fire Release: Grand Fireball Jutsu" the large sphere rocketed forward.

Shouts and screams of warning would go off seconds before the technique was released, Yakumo managed to dodge out of the way. Naruto felt terror rise up inside her, chakra surged through her veins, some of it ran across the ground, and the ground and water in the air twisted together as a large mass of woody like vines appeared in front of her. Naruto could only stare in surprise, shock seemed to overtake her. What in the world just happened?