The Perfect Jinchuriki
Author's note
Katana- Sup. This is KatanaXXX speaking, and I have only one thing to say before I start this, my first fanfic.
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!!
Iruka looked up at his rowdy class, the noise generally emanating from one single blonde-headed person. The chuunin sighed. "Does that kid ever run out of energy?" he thought to himself. He picked up his attendance sheet and started to take role.
"Ino?" he called.
"Here!"
"Kiba?"
"Yo!"
"Sasuke?"
"Hn."
"What about Akamaru?!"
Iruka sighed. "Akamaru?"
"Arf!!"
"Naruto?"
"Believe it!"
"Sakura?"
"(cough cough)H-here…(cough)" Sakura weakly answered.
Iruka looked up from his role-call list to see the sickly pink-haired girl. She looked horrible, in a word. Her eyes were watery to the point of tears, and her skin was pale. She trembled and coughed uncontrollably. Even her hair seemed to have lost some of its luster. He frowned.
"Sakura? Do you want to go to the nurse?" the chuunin asked.
"(cough) No… I'm (cough) okay…" Sakura mumbled. Iruka looked at her for a moment before shrugging.
"Okay. Just let me know if you change your mind." Iruka assured her, the finished up role. At the very end of the list, he saw a name he didn't recognize, and looked up at the class confusedly, seeing nobody new.
"Um, is there a Chirai Zakaryu in here?" the teacher asked. Everyone stared back at him blankly. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. "Yes? Come in," Iruka called.
The door slid open with a loud bang, and a boy walked in. The slight gust born from the action ruffled his stylishly messy golden hair. The tint of red in his hair matched amazingly with his cheerful-looking red-gold eyes, or so the girls thought. He walked over to Iruka, his blood-colored trench coat flapping about as he moved. The students could see that the coat had a strange black marking they had never seen before on the back, and that underneath he wore black ninja pants and a red shirt, with the same strange black emblem on the front. In short, he looked like no one they had ever seen before.
"Hello," he said, in a pleasant, comforting kind of voice, "My name is Chirai Zakaryu, and I'm a new student here. Nice to meet you." Half the girls in the room swooned by his voice alone. (And one boy, but we'll get to Lee later)
Iruka looked at the role sheet and nodded. "Okay. Take a seat, if you will. We were about to begin class," the chuunin advised.
Chirai nodded and walked up the aisles of desks until he found one with an empty desk, right between Naruto and Sakura. Naruto looked up at him and grinned.
"Hey! My name's Naruto Uzumaki! Nice to meetcha!!"
"Chirai grinned back. "I'm Chirai!! Nice to meet you too! I think this class is going to be great!!" Chirai responded, just as loudly.
Ino groaned. "Great. Another Naruto," she thought to herself as she stole a glance at the new boy. She couldn't help but blush slightly. "At least this one has some fashion sense. And he's pretty easy on the eyes, too!"
Naruto and his new friend were getting along greatly, laughing and talking joyously. Chirai suddenly came to full attention when he noticed that there was someone else sitting next to him, with her bright pink head in her arms. Chirai cautiously poked her arm. She raised her head slowly, coughed, and turned to look at him.
"Hello…" she managed to whisper, her throat raw, and eyes streaming with tears of pain and exhaustion.
Chirai took notice of her teary face and frowned. He gently wiped the tears off her face and joked, "Geez, I didn't think I was THAT ugly!! I'm making girls cry at the sight of me now!! Nobody hold up a mirror!! Aren't I a terrifying monster?!"
The entire class laughed, along with Chirai himself, and Sakura smiled. She was touched that someone that didn't even know her was trying to make her feel better.
"I'm (cough) not crying because (cough cough) of you. I'm just sick. You're (cough) actually quite the (cough) looker. And you are definitely (cough) NOT a monster," Sakura responded.
Chirai leaned in towards her, brushing aside a stray strand of pink hair off her cheek. She blushed due to his sudden closeness. He whispered into her ear, "If only you knew…" She looked at him, confused, but he just chuckled and returned to his seat.
Iruka, who had just returned from the bathroom, spoke up. "Alright, as you know, the graduation exams are next Friday. So, until then, we practice. Can I have three volunteers, please?" Sasuke, Naruto, and Chirai all ran to the small practice area at the front of the room. Iruka set up three targets, each about one hundred feet from each boy.
"Alright. Let me explain the rules. I will hand each of you ten shuriken, and you are to try ant hit the target with them. Six hits is passing. Now, once you all have your shuriken, you may start," Iruka explained.
The boys nodded, and Sasuke stepped up. He threw the shuriken slowly, only releasing one once the previous had made its mark, one at a time. Eight of the weapons landed true.
Naruto tossed all of his one after another, seven of them making it. He frowned. Sasuke beat him by one…
Chirai grinned maniacally, flinging all of his shuriken at the target at once. The entire classroom rang with the sound of metal on metal as the weapons hit each other in mid-air, breaking into shards. Amazingly, all of the shards hit the target. Even more amazingly, when the class looked a bit more closely, the shards seemed to make a picture.
"It's a…taco?" Shikamaru said aloud. Chirai laughed awkwardly and rubbed the back of his head.
"Oops. Guess I'm a bit hungry!" Chirai explained to the now-hysterical classroom. The bell for lunch ironically rang then and the entire class was gone before you could even say 'ramen.'
"Hm. Such talent at such a young age… I should keep an eye on him…" Iruka muttered to himself.
So, whatcha think? It's my first fanfic, so don't be too vicious with the reviews, please. And trust me, it WILL get better, once I get deeper into the storyline.
'Til next time,
KatanaXXX