||My Ninja Way||
Chapter 1 : Enter! Akane Takashi!
Briiinng!
Briiinngg!
Briiinnngg!
I slammed my hand down on my alarm clock, rolling over in my bed.
"Akane, sweety, you need to get up! I don't want you to be late!" My mother called from downstairs.
I sat up and rubbed my eyes yawning. I pushed my knotty red mess of hair out of my face and swung my legs out of bed, the cold hitting them and making me shiver.
I pulled some skintight black pants out of my dresser along with a long sleeved fishnet shirt. I grabbed a white shirt that had my clan symbol on the back out of my closet. It went up to right above my stomach and it hung off my shoulders.
I walked into the bathroom and took a shower, quickly washing my hair and body then getting out. I got dressed and dried my hair as best as I could then brushed it. I parted it and put in my holders then looked at myself in the mirror. Vibrant aqua blue eyes stared at me with intensity while my bright red made them stick out more. My face was still a little pudgy but I am the youngest in my grade comming to the age of 12. I had a pudgy nose and my lips were plump but to me they just looked fat.
I sighed and blew some bangs out of my face. I made my way down stairs to see that everyone was already there and finished eating.
"Morning everyone." I said sitting at the table and grabbing the bacon and eggs.
"Morning sweetheart." My mother said as she took her dish and set it in the sink.
My brother, Kai, got up putting his plate in the sink and kissing my mother on the cheek "I'll see you in a few days."
Kai turned to me and ruffled my hair "I'll see you later imōto." I hugged him and he made a hand sign and was gone in a poof.
I finished and gave my mother a hug "I'll see you later!" I waved and made my way twords the academy.
*small time skip*
I layed my head on my desk, quiet annoyed with all the loud chatter going on around me. I glared at the obnoxious pinkett and blonde who were bickering over who know what.
A sigh came from becide me "There so loud and troblesome."
I looked over at the sorce of the voice. Shika was laying his head down on the desk like me and had one of his eyes opened, telling me he was sleepy.
I nodded and growled a bit "It's too early for them to be this... active."
He chuckled as a fimilar face appeared from behind him "Come on Shika! Time to wake up!"
I smiled and waved from the place on my desk "Hey Kiba."
He looked over and waved "Hey Akane!"
Akamaru barked happily and jumped off his head, causing his hood to fall off. I sat up as Akamaru happily licked my face and I laughed, petting the small dog behind the ears.
He barked and curled up in my lap as I looked down at the adorable furball. I looked at Kiba with a serious face "I'm gonna steal your dog."
He smirked and replied "Do it and I'll steal you.
I playfully gasped and cuddled up to Shika, making him put an arm around my shoulders. "My knite here will protect me and my fathful hound." Akamaru barked causing me to giggle and Shiak just rolled his eyes with a light pink dusting his cheeks.
He rolled his eyes and was going to reply when an angey looking Iruak-sensei stormed in, carrying a tied up Naruto.
"Uh-oh," Kiba wispered sitting down next to me. "Here comes a lecture."
(A/N: im gonna base the first few parts of off the manga and the anime k?)
"SO YOU CHOOSE NOW FOR YOU STUPID TRICKS? YOU MORON! Tomorrow all your classmates will pass and graduate from the ninja academy, but the last two times this day came around, you flunked every course you'd take in the secret arts!"
I felt kinda bad for the kid. I mean being ratted out infront of the whole class has to be humiliating. I didn't know him very well but he seemed toatlly unfased by the rant. If anything he seemed a bit irked.
Iruak turned to us "Now because of Naruto I want you all to do a proper transformation jutsu!"
The class groned but I didn't really care. I was up for any pratice I could get. Iruak called my name and I stepped forward quickly doing the transformation justsu. He nodded and I went back getting a little bit of praise from friends.
Iruak called Naruto and he stepped forwerd and mutters followed in his wake, blameing him for this, and just being plane rude in general. I frowned but didn't say anything to make them stop, feeling like it wasn't in my place to.
Naruto once again did his sexy-no-justsu (i think?)causing Iruak-sensei to get a nose bleed. I giggled and my cheeks tinted slightly. Hey compared to a lot of these kids I was still way more innocent then them!
We all went back to our seats and once again was getting lectured about the graduation test. After that we were dismissed.
I gathered my stuff and shoved it into my satchel. Standing up only to come face to face with the person I loath.
"Hey Akane!" Ms. Prissy shouted, smirking.
I sighed "What do you want Ino?"
"Nothing I was just wondering if you wanted to go out and get some ramen with me and a few friends." She said
I looked behind her to see a few girls standing in a circle. Seeing nothing wrong with the suggestion and not wanting to be rude I aggreed. She said to meet up around 7 over at Ichiraku's.
I nodded and took my leave, heading to my house to get ready for tonight.
*im sorry but I gonna do another time skip*
I looked at myself in the mirror. My wavy red hair fell in trendles around my shoulders as my aqua blue eyes were outlined in black along with a little mascara, making my long eyelashes even longer.
I was wearing a shirt that showed my mid-drift with a white tank top. It was a light teal and had the Leaf's symbol on the front. I had on a pair of black leggings that stopped a few inches under my knee along with a black ruffled skirt.
I slipped on some silver flats and told my mom I'd be back soon. It was only 6:49 but I figured it would take awahile to get there and I wanted to get a good seat. Plus I haven't seen Teuchi and Ayame in a while.
I made my way to the ramen shop lightly singing to the song that seems to have been on repeat in my head for the past few days.
Come on skinny love just last the year
Pour a little salt, we were never here
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer
Tell my love to wreck it all
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Right in this moment this order's tall
And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
In the morning I'll be with you
But it will be a different kind
I'll be holding all the tickets
And you'll be owning all the fines
Come on skinny love, what happened here?b
Suckle on the hope in lite brassieres
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Sullen load is full, so slow on the split
And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
And now all your love is wasted
And then who the hell was I?
And I'm breaking at the britches
And at the end of all your lines
Who will love you?
Who will fight?
Who will fall far behind?
Ooh, ooh
I sighed with a content smile on my face as I finished my song. I now stood in front of Ichiraku and it was only 6:54. 'Hm that took less time than I thought.' I thought as I entered the shop. A few people where scattered around the shop but not many.
I sat down at the bar and Teuchi turned to me.
He smiled "Ah Akane! It's been a long time! How's it going?"
I smiled back "Well thank you. The graduation test is tomarrow and I'm real nervous."
"Ah you'll pass kid! After all those late night study sessions and all the times ypu dragged yourself in here lookin' like a walker. It'll pay off kiddo."
I blushed recalling all the time I spent studying here along with the times I came here toatlly exhausted from depleted chakra.
I smiled sheepishly "Yeah I guess so."
"So what brings you here? I mean my ramen is great but your mom's cooking beats it any day!" He asked sturring some noodles.
"I'm waiting for some... friends." I answer not sure what to call them.
"I see. Could I get you anything while you wait?"
"A glass of lemonade would be great."
He nodded and left to the back as Ayame came out from the back, keeping an eye on the customers.
Her eyes landed on me and she gasped "Akane?!"
I awkwardly waved "Hey Ayame."
She gave me a hug from over the counter "Wow you've grown! Looking more like a young kunoichi every day!"
I blushed at that "Thanks Ayame."
Teuchi came out with my drink and said if I needed anything else just ask. I nodded as I sat, occasionally sipping on my drink. Ayame and I chatted wether it was about girly stuff or what it was like to be a ninja (almost). By the time I looked back at the clock it was alredy 8:20 and then I relized why they asked me to come.
They perously stood me up.
I sighed, I guess it was to be expected. I mean their cool and popular and I'm... well I'm miles away from that category. I went to get up when I seen one of my favorite people walk in. He could be kinda annoying but he acted like an uncle to me.
"Iruak-sensei! What are you doing here?"
He looked up "Hm? Oh Hi Akane. I was taking this one out for a bowl of ramen." Iruak patted the boys head. Then I realized who the boy was. Naruto.
I've always heard my parents wispering things about him. They told me to stay away from him because he was a bad person but when I asked why they would always tell me it was 'none of my concern'.
I hesitated "Here come have a seat."
Iruak eyes held a bit of confusion for some reason but him and the boy sat next to me.
"Excuse me Teuchi." I called softly, not wanting to disturb his work.
The said man turned at the sound of his name "What could I do for you?"
"I'd like a bowl of miso ramen and..." I trailed off looking at the other two for what they want.
"Make that three" Iruak said "one with extra chashu."
Naruto giggled, taking off his goggles "How did you know that was my favorite sensei?"
"Intuition." Sensei answered
They babbled for a bit until the ramen finally came out. Naruto finshed his first, asking for another one as he slurped up the remains of his first. I have to admit I was kind of disgusted but got used to it by abput the fifth bowl.
As they talked I debated on wether or not to talk to them or not. I observed the boy. He had messy blonde hair and beautiful sky blue eyes. He was a but short for his age but made up for it with his loud, rambunctious personality. I didn't see anything wrong with him so I don't understand why I was instructed not to interact with him. He didn't seem like any of the things ,my parents described him as...
So I bundled my courage and turned to Naruto with a hesitant smile, if you couldn't tell by now I was bad at socializing unless it was with someone close to me.
I bit my lip "Um... my names Akane by the way. Takashi, Akane."
The boys turned to me making my face turn red. Iruak stared between me and Naruto ceriously while Naruto looked like he didn't know what to do. Once he relized I was speaking to him he seemed to be a bit lost for words. We sat there in an awkward silence while Naruto stared at me... well kind of. His eyes were angled up slightly. Was he looking at my-
"I like your hair. It's pretty." He blurted out pointing to the red trendle of hair
My eyes widened a little as I grabbed a lock of my flaming red hair. I had always disliked it because it was an uncommon hair color and I always stuck out like a sore thumb. But hearing that comforted me a little."T-Thanks."
Iruak-sensei chuckled "Are you going to introduce yourself?"
"Oh! I'm Uzumaki, Naruto and I'm going to be the fith Hokage! BELIEVE IT!" He shouted throwing his fist in the air.
I was a little taken aback by how quickly he accepted me and how loud he was "It's nice to meet you."
Iruak gave me a meaningful smile that held so many emotions that I couldn't even start to decipher any of them. I shakily smiled back, still unsure that I should be talking to the boy.
But as soon as we all started talking a bit more there was no doubt in my mind that he wasn't what people said he was like. He seemed nice and kind hearted from just the way he acted. His passion for becoming Hokage burned brightly and drove him to the very best he could. I just couldn't see this boy being a harm to anyone. And I admired him for all his amazing qualities.
I looked at the clock. 10:30. WHAT?! MY MOMS GOING TO BE SO WORRIED!
I reached down to dig through my satchel and relized with a sense of dread that I had left it at home on the tabel.
Iruak looked at me "What wrong?"
I sighed "I seem to have left my money at home."
He smiled "No worries the bills on me."
My eyes widened "Sensei you can't do that. That's too much to ask."
"It's fine really." He said giving Teuchi the money for the ramen.
I smiled sincerely "Thank you Iruak-sensei. Well I have to be going. I'll see you both tomorrow." I waved as I started for the exit.
All the sudden I was turmed around and strong arms rapped around me causing me to freeze. Naruto let go with a sheepish smile on his face as Iruak grinned at us.
"I'll see you tomorrow Akane-chan."
'Akane...chan?'I thought as a gave a hesitant smile "See you tomorrow... Naruto-san."
With that I left the shop and ran home. Not knowing that this was just the beginning of the bud that was going to blossom into an amazing friendship.
=Hokage's P.O.V for fun :)
Hm...I thought as I observed the three sitting at the bar. The girl looked as if she was having a mental debate about something as the other two talked. Once they silented the girl gathered her courage and turned twords them both, aming what she was saying more to Naruto.
"My names Akane... Takashi, Akane."
I chuckled at her quiet demenor. You could tell she really only acted like that beacause she was talking to the boy. I 'hm'ed quietly as I recalled the boy's father. Minato was much more perceptive and collected than his son, quiet shrewd also. He was a very respectful man, not one to pry at personal affairs if he could help it. He also didn't hold gruges, like the girl was showing at that moment. Not holding the romors that were spread about the kid to him.
"I like your hair. It's pretty."
That made me laugh. Definitely his fathers son. He always had a thing for read heads. But if anything he acted just like his mother. In her childhood Kushina was a headstrong, impulsive, eccentric, and stubborn. Just like Naruto. So really the two kids looked like Kushina and Minato just with swapped personalities. I sighed, this generation of ninjas is going to be a handful.
I watched the two for a few more minutes. It made me happy to see someone go out of there way to accept Naruto.
With that thought I went to bed.
I hope you like the intro! Quite long and boring but I want you to get a feel for what the story is going to be about. Anyway I'll have other chapters done by the time this is posted so if I can get 10 reads and 3 reviews then I'll post the next chapter. But before I do anything on posting an actual chapter I want to know your opinion on the story so far.
Read on my friends.
~ Kiya