Hello, I'm the Lady of Gaia and this is a Naruto Fanfiction!

I know that this is a little weird to do a Naruto and Sasuke fanfiction…with one of them as a girl but I'm slightly pissed off.

The three most popular anime that I know of…does not have a main girl character heroine and I thought that I would be a total bitch to Naruto and make him a girl to show the world that girls can be better than guys.

But that's not all!

Nope, Naruto will find love in her teammate before this fanfiction is done! But the question is well them have a happy ending or not!

So I hope you enjoy The Way of The Female Ninja!

Please review what you like about it too, please.

And one more thing before we start

I don't fucking own anything involving NARUTO, GOT IT!

Chapter 1: Enter the Female Naruto!

"Naruto! You get back here! When I get my hands on you!" shouted one of the Ninja that was chasing her as the other started telling her off for what she did. But she didn't care, she was had fun doing her prank and laughed at the face of her pursuers. She smiled at her handiwork of painting the four Hokages as she started the building to her advantage. "Give it up, you're just pissed that you don't have the guts to do what, losers!" She laughed. "You'll never catch me!" she was starting to get the feeling that the Third Hokage was going to hear about this but what did she care.

The Ninja followed her were starting to begin speed up to her, figure it was time to give them the slip before Iruka sensei joined them. Using the clock of invisibility technique, losing her pursuers was easy as ramen. Losing Iruka sensei was not, had heared what she did and seen her escape tricks countless times before. He had been dubbed be the Teacher of Hell for his skill in catching Naruto. "man…that was too easy," she giggled to herself, unaware of the Ninja behind her.

"oh yeah, Naruto!" Iruka sensei shouted from behind her, making her jump from the fear of what he was going to do to her as she screamed like a little girl. He was the one person that she feared, she could face the Third Hokage like it was nothing but the glare in her teacher's eye would make her the sweetest girl that you ever knew.

"Where did you come from, Iruka sensei?" She asked as she got up and slowly backed away, hoping that if she moved quickly enough, she would get away from the lecture that he was going to unleash on her. "What are you doing here?"

"No, what are you doing here… and don't even think of running on me," he said as he grabbed her and tied her up with the rope that he had carried with him for when he caught her. "Come on, Naruto…back to class," forcing her to walk with him back to the academy and beginning the lecture of how she should stop her stupid pranks and how it was she who would clean all the paint up from the stone faces of the Hokages.

She was not looking forward to that.

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Naruto wanted to cry when the lecture didn't when they entered the classroom, her classmates were not happy to see her but she could care less if they were or not. But there was one glare that she felt was really annoying…and that came from Sasuke Uchiha. Annoyed with the glare, the lecture, and still being tied up, she glared back at him before sticking her tongue out at him.

That causing the other girls (except for Hinata) in the class to hiss at her like they were cats for her actions towards their beloved Sasuke, and for Iruka sensei to hit her again for not listening to his endless lecture. She was in hell; she just knew it deep down. "I'm at the end of my rope, Naruto." He said as he tried to calm down. "You failed the graduation test last time and the time before that. Tomorrow, you have one last chance but you failing at that again," He told her, hoping that it would get through that thick head of hers. She was one of his favorite students but she screwing her life up, and he wished that she would just open her eyes and see that.

But it didn't and it only made him angrier that it didn't. Turning to the class, he was make her do the lesson whether she wanted to or not and the class would join her. "Fine! Because you missed it, Naruto! Everyone will review the transformation jutsu!" The class groaned at the order, and Naruto groaned at the complaints that were going to head her way for it.

Everyone moved to the front of the class as Iruka sensei untied her, getting up from the floor and moving into the line, she had Sasuke whisper something to her that made her blood boil. "Nice going, Naruto…you're really a dork."

She glared at him and did everything in her power not to punch him in the face for his words. God, did she hate him with a passion. She turned to watch as Sakura went first like always, "Alright, Sakura here. Let's do it, Transform!" she said before turning into Iruka sensei. Iruka sensei was happy with the result and so was Sakura as far as Naruto could tell as Sakura asked if Sasuke saw it.

"Next, Sasuke Uchiha!" Iruka sensei ordered and Sasuke moved to take Sakura's place as Ino and Shikamaru moved to stand beside her. Sasuke also transformed in Iruka sensei, Naruto smirked for a moment as the lack of creativity from him. She was so going to show him up when it was her turn. "Next, Naruto Uzumaki!" Naruto moved towards Iruka sensei. "This is a total waste of time, Naruto." Shikamaru complained to which Ino commented, "We always pay for your screw ups."

"Like I care," she replied…feeling a little sorry for the trouble that she caused her classmate…except Sasuke, she love to cause him trouble but he always escaped her pranks meant for him. "Transform!" she said, transforming with her new technique of a sexy older form of herself with ponytails. She blew a kiss to Iruka sensei, causing the old pervert's nosebleed so bad that he turned white as a sheet and send him flying. Naruto smiled at how she was, she knew that she was no dork and totally better than that loser Sasuke.

She laughed as she changed back, happy that she was better than Sasuke, "gotcha! That's my sexy jutsu!" She told him with a smile. "CUT THE STUPID TRICKS! THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING!" Iruka sensei shouted at her at the top of his lungs, tired of her stupid behaviour and wondered where the cute little girl that told him that she was going to become stronger than the Fourth Hokage. Naruto quickly moved away from Iruka sensei as he started glaring at her and called for the next person to go.

It continued until the bell rung telling the students that it was time to go home, Naruto glared at the clock…she hated it when it was time to go home. It always meant that she would walk home alone as everyone else would go home with their parents there to pick them up. It hurt so badly to see it every time but it didn't hurt as bad as when she was she was the last person to leave though. She glared at the floor as she remembered how she cried at home when she was the last person to leave the academy. She was so stupid to cry over something like that.

"Come on, Naruto…you got a job to do." Iruka sensei to her, putting a hand on her shoulder and walked her to the stone faces in silence; she kept her eyes to the ground as they walked there. Iruka noticed but didn't say anything…he knew that she would only beat herself up for it more later when he was gone.

When they reached the stone faces, Iruka simply told Naruto what to do and when to sit on one of the heads and the cleaning began.

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"This suck," Naruto muttered to herself, bored of clean paint off the Fourth's stone face. She stopped for a moment and wondered what kind of person, the Fourth had been? "You're not going home until you clean every single drop of paint," Iruka sensei told her, wanting her lesson to sink in and stay in for once instead of it go in one ear and out the other.

"So what, Iruka sensei? It's not like anyone will be there waiting for me!" She yelled up at him before muttering to herself, "We both know that." Hearing every word that came from her mouth; he glanced down at her, she was such a hard worker and knew that this prank was just her way of telling everyone that she was lonely and wanted be seen as a person and not the monster inside of her. "Hey Naruto…I was think just that after you're done here, we can go and get so ramen at Ichiraku Ramen." Knowing it would cheer her up and was happy to see a smile on her face.

"That sounds great, sensei! You sure know how to get a girl inspired," she said happily and started cleaning like a madman…or woman in her case.

He was simply happy that he was able to make her smile again. Iruka didn't know why, but he somehow felt that the world became brighter and purer in nature. It was like she made the world a little bit more innocence, taking away some of the cruelty and hatred in it. "I'm done, sensei. Can we go now?" Naruto said as she appeared beside him.

Iruka did a quick check to see if she was being truly or not, to see that she was done. "Alright…Naruto, let see who can get to there first, huh?" Naruto's smile only grew at his words. "You're on!" she shouted happily before taking off, Iruka didn't take off after her right away, but instead watched her as she spin around in the air. Her blue sundress moved with her spin, her blonde shaggy layered bob shine in the moonlight, the bangs that often hid her lovely face. Iruka was happy that he made her that happy that she was dancing in the sky as she liked to called it. But little did Iruka know that he wasn't the only one watching Naruto at that moment, Sasuke watched from a rooftop as Naruto spin in the air.

It was odd, but the thoughts of his failure always fade as he watched her, listened to her gentle voice, looked into her beautiful blue eyes…she gave him a sense of peace that he constantly yearned for. Though he yearned for the peace of mind that she gave him, Naruto was also the most annoying girl in his class…second only to Sakura and Ino. But it was one of those moments where she living perfection as he watched land and take off running faster than a jet.

He almost wanted to follow her but instead headed for home, planning to practice his jutsu for the graduation test tomorrow.

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"I win! I win! I win! I win!" Naruto sang as she jumped around Iruka but they sat down. Ayame gave them their ramen as they sat down, she and her father had known both the student and the teacher long enough to know what they would order for them did themselves. Naruto zipped up her long sleeved mini orange leather jacket, feeling a chill in the air and took the bowel of ramen from Ayame.

"Thanks Ayame!" Naruto said before digging into the food with gusto. Iruka watched as she did before digging into his own food, his mind wondering if he should ask or not. "Naruto?" Naruto glanced at Iruka, wondering what he wanted; normally they didn't talk over ramen.

"Why would you do that to the Hokages' faces? I mean you know who the Hokages are, don't you?" Naruto finished off her bowel before she turned to him and answered him. "Of course, I do. Everyone know who the Hokages are, they were the greatest shinobi of their time. But the Fourth Hokage was the greatest of them all and the saviour of our village form the nine-tailed fox twelve years ago." She told him, sounding like a sage telling a legend to children. "Then why did yo-"

"Because I'm going to surpass them all and be the first female Hokage of the village. Me, Naruto Uzumaki and no one will look down on me anymore." She cut in. Iruka just stared at the twelve year old girl beside him, wondering if she had totally lost her mind this time. She was a sweet and gentle girl that could barely use her jutsu unlike everyone else in her class. "Um…Iruka sensei, can I ask a little favor from you?" she asked sweetly, hoping that he would give into her request. "You want another bowel, Naruto?"

Naruto shook her head, cause her hair to dance in the light, "no…I was hoping that you'll let me try on your headband, pretty please?" She begged, she didn't know if she would pass the test tomorrow or not and wanted to know what it was like to wear the headband of their village.

"No way, Naruto. You'll have to get your own tomorrow at the graduation test," he told her. She pouted at him, a little upset that he shot her simple request down without a second thought. "Fine then, I'll have that second bowel of ramen now, please." She demanded with a cute pout on her face, Iruka couldn't help but laugh at how cute she looked, but nodded to Ayame that it was okay."You're really something, you know that, Naruto?" Naruto looked at him, not understanding what he meant by that. But she got the feeling it was something good instead of bad.

"Eat up quick, Naruto. I'll race you home, kay?" He told her…making her suddenly eating a madman with her ramen. "You got it…but you know, you'll just lose again." She laughed as she jumped off her seat and they began to race to her place.

Ayame and her father, Teuchi just smiled as they watched; they were happy to see that Naruto had a smile on her face…she so rarely did.

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Naruto glared at the ground, she had failed the moment that Iruka sensei had told the whole class it was clone jutsu. She looked at the clone that she had just made, it couldn't even stand up and barely looked like her; she was never going to become a Ninja, Iruka sensei would never pass her with a clone like this. The look on his face said it all to her, even before he shouted, "You fail!" at her.

But she was surprised when Mizuki sensei stepped in to try and save her. "Iruka sensei, she's off but her moves weren't bad and she did make one," Iruka looked at his old friend and wondered what he doing. Mizuki wasn't fond of Naruto like the other teachers so it did make sense that he was trying to help her. "this is her third try so we know that she really wanted to be a Ninja…we could just pass her."

"Mizuki sensei, the other students made least three clones, but…Naruto can barely make the one and look at it. It can't even stand up; there is no way that I pass her. We both know of the dangers that she will face as a Ninja, with that in mind, I can't pass her." Naruto hated the words that left Iruka sensei's mouth and refusing to listen anymore, left the room. Running through the hall with unshed tears in her eye, she accidently bumped into Sasuke, causing her to fall on her ass. "Watch where you're going, Narut…are you crying?" Naruto quickly wiped her tears; her day was just worse and worse and she just couldn't catch a break from it.

Bad enough that she could pass the test, but now, worse still was Sasuke seeing her cry…she just wanted today to end already and go home. "No, I'm not crying. Sorry that I bumped into you, it won't happen again." She said as she ran away from him, leaving him standing there…wondering what was wrong with her.

Naruto run outside to the swing, knowing that she shouldn't leave even though she was upset about failing. She really wanted to graduation, she wanted the village to see her as a person and not some monster, but how was she going to do that when she couldn't become the first female Hokage. But she only felt worse as the hours passed and the parents of his classmates came to see who passed and did.

Hearing every word that came from the parents, both the praise to her classmates and the harsh words meant for her alone. She was about to get up and leave when she noticed, Mizuki sensei beside her. "Naruto, why don't you come with me for a bit?"

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"Lord Hokage! She's gone too far this time! She stole the sacred scroll"

"That scroll hold the secret jutsu of our village, it would mean the end of us if the enemy got it." All the ninja's around were shouting the same things over and over again; he knew the importance of the scroll. Did they think him an idiot or something; he was the Hokage for goodness's sake. Man, that girl was just one annoying girl that didn't know when to quit the pranks and behave like a good girl.

"Alright that enough, bring Naruto here at once." the Third shouted at the group of ninja before him. They disappeared, heading off to do their job of finding the girl and the scroll. Iruka thought of where she would go and what she would want from the scroll, Naruto was too sweet a girl to want to use it against the village and she wasn't the type to betray the village and give it to the enemies. But with that in mind, what was she going to do with it.

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Naruto sat on the ground with the scroll, tired from all her practicing when she notice Iruka sensei was walked towards her with an angry face. "Hey, sensei! I can't believe that you found me so quickly, I have only mastered one of the jutsu though." She told him before he could say anything. "Why are you out here with the scroll?" he asked, wanting to what was going on.

"Mizuki sensei told me that I could graduate if I mastered the jutsu in this scroll, he told me about this place too and how it's great for training." She replied. Noticeing the look of shock on her teacher's face, she wondered if it was wrong to take the scroll even though Mizuki sensei took her that it was okay to do so. "Did I do something wrong, sensei?" Iruka looked at her to see the worry and concern in her blue eyes. "No, you didn't, but Mizuki sensei did." He told as he put his hand on her shoulder. His eyes looked into hers, filling her with a sense that everything was going to be all right…then he threw her to the side, out of the path of the kuni; hitting him instead of her.

Naruto stared in horror of her wounded teacher for a moment before moving to help him. "Stay away, Naruto!" Iruka sensei ordered, she obeyed because of the fear that ran through her though she wanted to help him so badly. "Naruto!" Mizuki shouted from the tree, startling her into looking at him.

"Give me the scroll, now!" Mizuki ordered as Naruto stared at him like a deer caught in the head lights of a car. "Wait a minute, what is going on here? Why did you attack Iruka sensei?" Naruto demanded as Iruka pulled the kuni from his body, she looked to Iruka and then to Mizuki and back. "Naruto, don't let Mizuki get the scroll! It has jutsu that would put the village in great danger. Mizuki used you to get the scroll for himself, his own power and desires!"

"Don't listen to him, Naruto. Iruka is lying to you like everyone else." Mizuki told her, knowing it would grab her interest. "What do you mean?" Naruto asked as she moved the scroll into her arms and hugged the scroll to her body, wanting to know what to do. This was a dangerous situation of who to trust. "Don't listen to his lies, Naruto. He's trying to trick you."

"oh, I'll tell you who is lying. They have been lying to you, your whole life, Naruto." Naruto broke out into a cold sweat as she felt something in of her move. "Don't, Mizuki!" Iruka shouted, hoping that his old friend would listen to him if he was still in there. "Everyone but you knows about it. Twelve years, a decree was made…the decree is that no one allowed to talk about you being the nine tailed fox that almost destroyed the village." He said, crushing Naruto's heart in that moment. She stared at him as his words echoed inside her mind and heart.

"The fox spirit that killed Iruka's parents, almost the village took over your body twelve years ago. You are the Fox spirit!" He shouted at her, cutting in her heart with each word. Pain filled her in ways it never did before, inside her body was the monster that killed Iruka sensei's parents and other people as well. She looked at her hands and felt disgust, it lived inside her…it may as well have been her that killed all those people twelve years ago, she was horrible monster.

Even though Mizuki continued to tell her of how she was a monster, her mind was still spinning but the words that cut into her the most were that her teacher hated her. "No!" She screamed at him, wanting it so badly to be a lie but Iruka sensei reaction told her that everything was true. "Die, Naruto!" Mizuki shouted at her as he grabbed the huge shuriken on his back and threw it at her.

Naruto stood there, wanting all the pain to end and hoped that Iruka sensei and the villagers would forgive her for being alive. "I'm sorry, sensei." She whispered as she closed her eyes. "Naruto!" she heard Iruka sensei shouted before feeling something push her down.

She opened her eyes to see Iruka sensei had protected her from the attack, blood fell from his mouth…falling to her cheek. "why?" she whispered, she stared at him in shock. She was the monster that killed his parents but he saved, she didn't understand why he or anyone would save her. "We are the…same, when I lost my parents…the world lost meaning. There was no one that would look at me anymore, so I got into trouble and pulled pranks like you do. I wanted them to see me and know that I was there. I know that how you feel, Naruto. You feel lonely and it hurts inside and I should have been there for you more. I don't hate you, Naruto. I'm truly happy to have a student like you and I know that you are an amazing kid." He told her, thinking of the pain that she and he had felt for so long. Tears came as he thought of how he should have help her more and been kinder to her in the beginning.

She looked at his face as his tears fell on her cheeks, she could see that he was being truthful with her. She stared at him for a moment, not even heard Mizuki as he tried to counter Iruka sensei's words. She gave him a sweet smile as a plan came to mind; she got up from under him and glared at Mizuki. "You want this scroll then come and get it, you fucking asshole!" She shouted at him; know that he would take the bait.

She would take him down, but she needed to make sure that he didn't attack her teacher first. "You little bitch," Mizuki snarled at her like a wild beast about to devour its prey…too bad for him, she was the prey this time.

She took off; leaving Iruka sensei behind and Mizuki followed her. Iruka got up, and followed after them, determined to protect her.

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Naruto dodged Mizuki's attacks like they were nothing, moving like she did when she was dancing in the sky. She turned; ready to hide so she could get the perfect moment to take him out when she noticed that Iruka sensei was coming towards them.

Mizuki noticed Iruka as well and decided to piss Naruto off by killing her beloved teacher, only to have her appear before him and kick him in the face for it. "If you even lay one of your filthy hands on my teacher…I'll kill you," she warned him, her eyes like that of a tigress that was filled with unending anger. "Such big words from such a small girl, I can destroy you in a single move!"

"Give it your best shot, I'll return to you happily a thousand-fold!" She shouted at him as she used her new justu: shadow clone technique. A thousand Narutos surround him all with the eyes of a tigress. Letting her clones dish out his punishment, Naruto turned to Iruka sensei, her eyes innocence with worry…the tigress replaced with an innocent lamb. "Are you okay, Iruka sensei? He sure did a number on you." She said as she fish out some bandages from her weapons pouch and started to take care of his leg injury.

"We're done!" all of her clones sang in prefect unison, Naruto smiled at her clones before undoing the justu. Iruka just let her tend to him in his shocked state; she had mastered an advanced justu in a single night where the First and the Second Hokages had spent least two weeks mastering the technique.

Naruto was always telling him that she was going to be Hokage and for the first…he believed that she would. "Naruto, close your eyes for a minute. I have something that I need to give you," he told her, confused as to why he wanted her eyes, Naruto did as told. Iruka took off his headband and put it on her, it kept her bangs off her face and made her look cute. Suddenly, Iruka got the odd feeling that he was sending his daughter off to be married. "You can open your eyes now," Naruto opened her eyes to see that his headband was gone and Iruka sensei was smiling proudly at her. "Congratulations, you graduated! You're a ninja now, Naruto!"

Tears of joy came to Naruto's eyes, she was a ninja and she was now one step closer to being Hokage. "And to celebrate, we'll go to Ichiraku Ramen." He told her, thinking of the hardships that she was going to face now because of the path that she had chosen before he would tell her that over some ramen instead of ruining the perfect moment.