Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Only the OC in the story.

Warnings: May be a little bit sweary that's why it's rated T. Violence in later chapters.

I was perched on a nearby roof as Naruto pulled his latest stunt. I stared in silent amusement as he painted ridiculous faces on the carved heads of the Hokage mountain, laughing his head whilst he was at it. He had splatters of paint all over his clothes and face, I was surprised that he wasn't covered head to toe in the stuff.

I turned my head to look across from where I was, the roar of enraged shinobi that had gathered on the large open space near the defaced mountain, grabbing my attention. I saw Iruka in front of the angry crowd, glaring at Naruto.

'Well,' I thought, 'Naruto's in for now.'

Suddenly, the shinobi fell to quiet murmurs as the Lord Hokage strided to stand next to Iruka.

'He's definitely in for it now.' I thought, sweat-dropping. I looked over to Naruto. He hadn't noticed them yet, too indulged in his painting. But he started to panic as soon he heard Iruka's shouting. I took this as my cue to head back to class and teleported away with a quiet poof.

I landed back in front of my seat. I have left a doppelganger in my place so no-one would notice my absence. It swiftly disappeared as soon as I sat down. I quickly glanced across the room to make sure no-one had been looking. Phew, everyone is too absorbed in their own thing to notice. Good.

I sat back and relaxed in my seat, ready to doze for a bit. I was placed in the back corner of the class where it was shadowed but still near a window. The shadow concealed me from the view of my peers. But people would still be able to see my if they knew where to look. I know Iruka-sensei can see where I am but he never asked me to do any demonstrations or drawn attention to me. I think it's because he was more concerned for the other students, since I passed almost all of my courses.

A loud slam broke me out of my train of thought. I looked across to the front of the room to see Iruka-sensei with a tied-up Naruto in his wake. He plopped Naruto in the middle of the open space in front of his desk. He had an angry look on his face and Naruto had a grumpy expression and was pouting.

'Well there goes my nap.' I thought irritably, wincing at the loudness when Iruka started yelling.

"Tomorrow all of your classmates will pass the final exam and graduate from the Ninja Academy! But the last two times this day came around, you flunked every course you'd taken in the Secret Arts!" Iruka-sensei lectured, pointing his finger at Naruto who was still pouting like a five year old. "So you chose now for your stupid tricks?! You moron!"

Naruto just grumbled and sulked, "Sir, yes, sir."

Iruka gave an irritated glare at Naruto and turned to the rest of the class.

"Today in class we'll be reviewing the Art of Transformation," he instructed, both Naruto and the rest of the class yelling out in outrage at the news.

'Oh good, this'll be easy then. A waste of time for a good nap, but easy at least.' I thought, staring lazily at my sensei.

"All you have to do is…" Iruka purposely dragging out the sentence. "Conjure a form that looks like me!"

Groaning, the students formed a line and all glared at Naruto, blaming him for making them do this. I made my way to the back of the line silently and with bored eyes watched as one by one the students did the task set for them. It soon came to be Naruto's turn and I inwardly cringed, knowing that the Art of Transformation were one of Naruto's worst jutsus.

Naruto padded across to the space as soon as his name was called and with a gush of chakra he transformed. When the dust cleared, in his place stood a beautiful female version of Naruto, that giggling and winking at Iruka.

I resisted the urge to face-palm at Naruto's antics. But I had to hand it to him, he made that jutsu all by himself and for being a bottom of the class dunce, this was an impressive feat. I was pretty impressed by that fact.

But despite his efforts, Naruto was once again scolded and class was over for the day.

Later that day, I was walking in the park not really having any idea as to what to do. Bored, I looked around for anything to quench my boredom and to my luck I saw Shikamaru and walked up to him. As usual he was dozing under a shady tree. I smiled fondly at the sight and sat down next to him, leaning against the bark of the tree.

I notice Shikamaru cracking one of his eyes open to see who had disturbed him from his nap. I lifted a hand up in greeting.

"Hey, Shika." I said, my small smile turning back to it's normal expressionless way. Shikamaru yawned and gave my lazy smirk in return.

"Hey Reicheru, come to nap here have you?"

I gave a quiet chuckle. "Yeah. I'm kinda sleepy right now. Watching Naruto earlier today was tiring." I stretched my limbs getting comfortable while Shika replied.

"Tch, stalking Naruto are we?" He said closing his eyes again.

"Hey, I don't stalk him. He just happens to be in either same place I am or in my field of vision." I retorted, interlocking my fingers whilst they rested on my stomach.

"Suure." He said giving me an amused smirk.

"Hey, I'm serious." I gave a weak glare at Shika.

"Alright, alright. Geez, troublesome." He responded, yawning once again. I just smiled as he shifted to get ready to sleep more. I got comfortable as well... by using his legs as a pillow.

~Shikamaru's POV~

Shikamaru didn't even bother moving her off. They have done this countless of times before and to be completely honest with himself, he didn't find himself minding. In fact it was quite comfortable despite the weight on his legs and he knew that Reicheru was bit of cuddler, remembering that it was her way of showing that she was comfortable with him. He also knew that he was one of her only true friends, he wasn't blind he knew she was lonely and ever since he met her, she's been a good friend to him. So he let her do what she felt was comfortable as a way of show he cared about her too and that he was comfortable around the green-eyed girl as well.

~Reicheru's POV~

I just smiled and stated, "You know I'm not that troublesome." Shikamaru grinned slightly but stayed silent, both of us knowing it's true. Despite what others may normally think about Shikamaru, him seeing anything and everything as troublesome and all, he hardly ever found me troublesome at all.

So with that both of us settled into a comfortable silence and slept the rest of the day away.

I woke up to the sounds of birds chirping. I shuffled and realized that I in a bed. Blearily, I opened my eyes to see the dark colour-scheme of my bedroom.

"Huh, that's strange." I thought aloud to myself. "I could have sworn I was in the park with Shikamaru."

'Eeh. I'll just ask him when I see him again.' I thought, shrugging as I got prepared for school. 'And speaking of school, don't I have graduation exam today?' Remembering back to what Iruka-sensei told us in class yesterday. And indeed I did. Whelp, better go. Don't wanna be late after all and if I'm lucky I might even get a nap in before the exam. With that in mind, I teleported silently to my usual seat in class.

As soon as I was there, I noticed the anxious expressions on some of my classmates's faces. I ignored them and settled into my shadowed corner. I heard the familiar click of the classroom door opening and watched with tired eyes as Master Iruka stepped into the classroom with a sheet of paper in hand.

I listened carefully when he began to speak. "For your final exam, you must each generate a doppelganger! Wait here until your name is called out then come next door."

With that being said the first name was called up. Not wasting a single second I slumped in my chair and closed my eyes, listening out for my name.

After about half an hour of waiting, my name was finally called out. Nodding at the jounin in charge of the students, I teleported to the exam room.

The two men there were surprised at my sudden entrance. Iruka, the first to recover from the shock after recognizing who I am said, "How did you know how to do that?"

"The normal academy stuff was a bit too easy for me. So I decided to study some new techniques on my own." I replied nonchalantly, staring at the teacher with my black-ringed eyes.

"I see, Reicheru. But if it was easy for you. You could have taken the exams earlier than the rest."

"I didn't want the attention that would come with it, Iruka-sensei." I shrugged. "Besides, I have friends here that I don't wanna leave behind."

Iruka smiled slightly at my last reply. "Alright then. Let's start the exam. Go ahead Reicheru."

I nodded and readied my stance and with a few hand-signs, I conjured three perfect copies of myself, each standing in an ordered pattern, forming the standard protection formation used in squads.

Iruka studied the forms and was surprised to find them not only perfect but solid beings as well. The reason being that I've studied ahead of my classmates and found a more advanced and reliable version of the Shadow Clone Jutsu in a scroll I gained during one of my explorations of my family's home. I had trained hard to perform and perfect the jutsu.

"C-congratulations, Reicheru. You pass with perfect scores." Iruka stuttered slightly and gestured to the headbands set on the table in front of them.

Giving them nod. I walked up to the table. I noticed that all the headbands were blue. Scratching the back of my head, I looked up to the men now directly in front of me.

"Uh, don't suppose you have any black coloured headbands, do ya?"

Iruka lifted up a cardboard box with black headbands in. Taking one then nodding in thanks I made my way out onto the courtyard in front of the school, where all the other graduates and their parents were celebrating merrily about their achievement. I stared at them with sadness and longing. Having enough of school I headed home for the day to catch up on much needed sleep.

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