"There they are! Get them both!"

A mob of angry people were yelling, all of them holding torches. They were chasing two very young kids, one the boy and the other a girl.

"This way," The girl whispered, grabbing the boy by his hand as they went down a dark alleyway. Both of them stopped running, seeing a dead end.

The boy stood quiet, trying not to cry. The girl faced him saying, "It's going to be alright. We are going to be alright."

"We found them!"

The mob cornered the two kids, who were now trembling in fear, afraid of what the adults were going to do to them. A man with a black cloak walked forward, heading to the two kids.

The little boy was fed up, tired of running as anger boiled up inside of him.

He screamed, "STAY AWAY!"

His whole body erupted in blue flames, scarring the people away except for the one man who stood his ground. The man spoke, "So it's true, you're the son of the demon who killed thousands from our land. If your his son, then you must be a demon also!"

The mysterious man grabbed the young boy by the hair, dragging him away from the girl who stood frozen with fear.

The boy yelled out in pain, "But I'm not a demon! No I'm not!"

"(Y/n), help me!"

"(Y/n)!"

I woke up in fear, shaking. My eyes held tears behind my long (h/c) bangs, threatening to come out. I wiped them away, looking at my digital clock that was beside me on my cabinet. It read 7:25.

'Crap, school starts in 5 minutes!'

I got up from my bed and dressed up in my normal attire, minus no shoes. I still wore the green cuffs on my ankles from yesterday, scratch that, I always wear the cuffs. Before I left, I debated whether or not I should wear my midnight blue scarf.

I decided to wear it, wrapping it tightly around my neck and headed out the door.

When I was walking, I felt footsteps stomping on the ground. The strange thing was that the stomping was being caused by more than one pair of feet.

"Hey, watch out!"

Someone bumped into me, causing both me and the unknown person to tumble down on the ground. The person got up from the ground, rubbing his head.

"Sorry about that, I didn't mean to knock you down." He looked down in embarrassment, giving me a chance to look at him.

He was around my age, light blue eyes, yellow blonde hair, and green goggles on his forehead. He held his hand out for me to take it, which was what I did. At first, his expression was all normal until he saw my appearance.

Noticing my long bangs covering my eyes, he yelled, "No wonder you didn't see me! That stupid long hair was just covering your eyes up, so it wasn't all my fault!"

"Naruto, there you are!"

Behind the blonde boy was a certain someone I recognized immediately, Iruka.

'Naruto' jumped up, crying out in shock, "Where'd you come from, Iruka Sensei!? What are you doing here?"

Iruka pointed at 'Naruto', "No, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be in class." He turned to me, "I'm sorry that I wasn't at the Academy earlier, and I would like to also apologize if Naruto here did something to you. Let's head to class, shall we?"

We arrived to the Ninja Academy, but before we went inside a classroom Iruka tied up Naruto. Finally stepping into a room, I saw a couple of kids that were staring at Iruka and Naruto, but mostly me.

"Sorry for coming late, I had to get a certain knucklehead."

"Who're you calling a knucklehead Sensei?!"

Iruka cleared his throat, "Anyways before we begin, I would like you all to meet a new student we will have here in the Academy." He looked at me, "How about you introduce yourself?"

I shook my head indicating a no, which made everyone stare at me even more. Iruka sweatdropped, "Well uh, this is (Y/n) Beifong. She isn't from around here so I want you all to treat her nicely."

"Yes Sensei!" The whole class said.

Iruka nodded, then turned to Naruto who was struggling to be free. "I'm at the end of my rope, Naruto. You failed the graduation test last time, and the time before that. Next week you've got another chance, and you're messing up again!" He scolded Naruto, who just grumbled and looked away in anger.

Iruka eye twitched in anger and he pointed at the whole class, "Fine! Because you missed it, Naruto, everyone will review the Transformation Jutsu!"

Every kid in the class groaned, but lined up to take their turns. A pink haired girl walked forward and said, "Transform!" Smoke came up from around her, then disappeared, revealing a transformation that resembled Iruka.

Iruka smiled, "Transformed into me, good."

The pink haired girl turned back to normal and grinned, "Yes!"

She turned to a boy who had black eyes and a strange, but alright looking haircut. However, it sort of reminded me of the butt of a turtle-duck back home...

"Sasuke, did you see that?" She walked down the line and sat back down. So I'm guessing she has a crush on him? Figures. Girls like her care more about boys, not fighting. Except for me, that is.

"Next, Sasuke Uchiha." Iruka called out for turtle-duckbutt, who stepped forward and transformed into another Iruka, making the real Iruka sweatdrop once more. "Uh, good. Next, Naruto Uzumaki."

Seeing Naruto still tied up, I decided to help him out by cutting his ropes with my kunai knife hidden in my green belt that was wrapped around my waist. Once I finished, Naruto flashed a smile to me. "Thanks for that!"

I simply nodded, seeing him walk in front of Iruka and hearing two kids mumbling:

"This is a total waste of time, Naruto." "We always have to pay for your screw ups."

I gave the two kids a death glare, but even if they couldn't see my eyes they were both terrified and stepped back a little. Both of them looked at me, but I didn't care. Now I think the blonde haired girl with the high ponytail hates me.

Naruto put his hands together, saying "Transform!"

Smoke went around him, then went down a little revealing a naked girl with two ponytails? At least the certain parts were covered...

Iruka widened his eyes in shock and fell back with a nosebleed. Naruto transformed back to his original self, laughing. "Gotcha! That's my Sexy Jutsu!" He pointed at Iruka, making the other kids sigh including me. I have to admit, it was a little funny.

"Cut the stupid tricks! This is your last warning!" Iruka yelled at Naruto, who seemed like he still didn't care.

I tugged on Iruka's sleeve, making him look at me. When he did, I pointed to the floor near Naruto, hoping he understood what I meant. He raised his brow, "You want to show me your transformation?"

I nodded, walking forward and stood right next to Naruto. "Transform." I mumbled lowly so no one could hear me, and smoke covered my whole body. The smoke disappeared, revealing the new me.

Most of the girls either blushed or fainted, and the guys just stared at me as if I was intimidating them. Look let's be honest, the way I look SHOULD intimidate others even without using the transformation.

I transformed back to my normal self and faced Iruka, who smiled. "Good job (Y/n)."

After class ended, it was lunch time and everybody was outside either eating whatever was in their bento boxes or chatting with friends. Since I didn't really know anyone, I just climbed up a tree with a swing attached to it and sat on one of the lower branches.

The branch was wide enough for me to sit criss crossed, so I did that and began to meditate. Breath in... Breath out...

I smiled a little, This is relaxing... I should sit here more often.

"HEY, (Y/N)!"

Or maybe not...

I looked at where the loud shouting came from and as I looked down at the ground, I saw a certain blonde boy. He was grinning, waving both his hands to get my full attention which worked.

I waved back awkwardly, not sure what to do. Naruto started to climb up the tree really fast, almost falling down. When he got to my branch, he sat down next to me.

"I uh, just wanted to thank you again. You know, for untying those tight knots that Iruka Sensei made on the ropes..." He rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. I smiled a little and gave him a thumbs up, like saying, "No problem."

Naruto returned the smile, but then blushed and connected both his index fingers. "Oh I also wanted to say sorry about making fun of your hair." He pointed to the long bangs in front of my face, making me feel a little self conscious about myself. I shrugged, still not wanting to talk.

He sweatdropped, "So um, where are ya from?"

I sighed softly, taking out my kunai knife hidden in my green belt and carved something on the tree near Naruto's feet. The metal city of Zaofu, in the Earth Kingdom

Naruto's eyes widened, "Whoa that sounds cool! Is the entire place made out of metal or something?" I nodded my head in response, Yeah, the ladies that take care of me are the leaders of Zaofu. I like the big palace that we live in.

"You live in a palace?! Doesn't that make you, like, a princess or something?" I widened my eyes, my face red as a ruby. I never thought of myself like that, I don't consider myself as a princess. I'm more of a bystander.

That wasn't true, I was the Avatar.

I noticed all the kids were going back into the Academy, so I tugged Naruto's sleeve and pointed to the Academy. Naruto looked confused at first, but then realized something.

"AH WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!"

He grabbed my hand and ran, dragging me with him. 'This is going to be a long day..'

TIMESKIP

"This sucks!"

"You're not going home till you've cleaned off every single drop of paint."

Having no where to go, I decided to follow Naruto and Iruka to the top of the huge stone faces near the cliff side of Konoha. That and well, Naruto dragged me here too. Something about wanting company?

I was sitting next to Iruka above Naruto, who had a rag and was cleaning up the stone faces that had graffiti all over them. So that's why Naruto was running away from those other people, huh?

Naruto looked up, "So what Iruka Sensei? It's not like there's anyone at home waiting for me."

I widened my eyes. It's not like there's anyone at home waiting for me

I looked at a bucket filled with water near Naruto's feet, and I started to become nervous. I jumped down and landed next to Naruto, who stared at me in confusion.

Oh come on, just this once!

Iruka noticed me looking at the water, knowing what my intentions were. His eyes shifted to Naruto, who was starting to sweat from the blazing heat.

"Hey Naruto, I was just thinking. Maybe after you clean this all up I can take you out for some ramen. The good stuff. What do you think?"

This caught Naruto's attention, causing him to look up once more. This is my chance!

I grabbed a spare rag near both mine and Naruto's feet, grabbing it with my left hand. With my right hand, I hovered it near the water filled bucket and raised the water. Then, I quickly moved the water left to right on each of the stone faces causing the paint to wash off.

I put the dirty water mixed with paint back in the bucket, right when Naruto was about to start scrubbing again.

"Huh?!" He yelled out in shock, seeing all of the paint off of the stone carved faces. Naruto turned to me, seeing me hold up a rag as I handed it to him. I just shrugged and gave him a small smile.

Iruka, Naruto and I sat down in a booth at a noodle shop, all of us eating ramen. When Iruka finished his he turned to Naruto who was slurping up his noodles like crazy. This boy just loves ramen doesn't he?

"Naruto, why would you do that to the Hokage faces? I mean, you know who the Hokage are, don't you?" He asked the blonde haired boy who was finishing his bowl. Iruka grabbed my attention, because I don't exactly know who or what the Hokage is. Besides the old man Sarutobi...

Naruto put his chopsticks down, "Course I do. Everybody knows. They were the greatest Shinobi of their time, right? The best of the best. Undefeated Ninja champs. And the Fourth Hokage's the one who saved the village from the Nine-Tailed Fox. He was the most amazing."

Nine-Tailed Fox... Interesting. Wait, if there was a Fourth Hokage then why is Sarutobi the Third? Did the Fourth one die?

"Then why did you...?" Iruka broke my thoughts, and I stared at Naruto who was now grinning.

"Cause I'm going to be greater than any of them. Me. Naruto. The next Hokage! A Ninja legend! Then everyone will have to stop disrespecting me, and look up to me. Believe it!" He yelled out, causing me to stay frozen in my seat.

Naruto your just like... him.

I frowned and stopped eating, losing my appetite.

"Uh, by the way, I kinda wanna ask a little favor, Sensei. I... want to try on your headband. Come on, Please!?" Naruto begged Iruka, who chuckled in response.

He pointed to his headband, "Oh this? No way. You can only wear the Leaf Headband when you finally graduate from the academy and become a Ninja. You've gotta pass the test next week. That goes for you too, Beifong."

I blushed and mumbled a small 'hmph'

Naruto groaned, "That is so uncool!"

"Hey, is that why you took off your goggles?" "Uh... I WANT ANOTHER BOWL!"

I giggled at Naruto's words, making Iruka and Naruto turn to look at me. Iruka smiled, and Naruto widened his eyes. "Hey, what are you laughing about?!" He shouted, making me stick out my tongue at him.

Naruto blushed in both anger and embarrassment, making Iruka chuckle.

"AH! STOP LAUGHING AT ME!"