Sup people. I apologise for the long wait before this chapter but real life issues took priority I'm afraid. But never fear, chapter 2 is here. Enjoy.

It had been three weeks since the attack on Naruko, and the villages Ninja and ANBU had been working overtime arresting, and in extreme cases executing, those responsible for organizing and/or leading any/all attacks on her, not just one. With these actions, people realized that there Hokage was in fact serious when he announced the dissolvement of the civilian council, and authorised the actions currently been taken. At first there was uproar and chaos, but things had calmed significantly since.

All of Naruko's classmates where at first confused about what was going on, and in the cases of some, worried about there fun loving prankster friend. The worried ones? They where the children of the clan heads themselves, who had encouraged there children to befriend the lonely pre-teen.

First was Ino Yamanaka. She was the only daughter to Inoichi Yamanaka, she wore a purple shirt that was cut off just above her belly button, under which she had bandage wraps and light mesh armour underneath. She wore a matching skirt, which went down to her knees, with tights underneath, mesh armour on her knees, with her tool pouch on her right hip, showing she was right handed. With blonde hair and teal eyes, she was one of the first friends of Naruko, and while she never took part in her pranks, took her training a bit more seriously, and much to the relief of Sasuke, stopped pestering him. While she still had a crush on him, thanks to Naruko's influence, she focused mainly on her training.

Next was Sasuke Uchiha. He is the last remaining Uchiha in the village, thanks to the work of his brother Itachi. While it had only been three years since the Uchiha massacre, and he had sworn vengeance on Itachi, he wasn't the moody and brooding pre-teen he was, Thanks to his best friend Naruko. Many where surprised to find that the last loyal Uchiha, who was quiet, and reserved barely talking unless needed, ended up been best friends with the village pariah, who was loud, always chatting while bouncing around like a kid on a sugar rush. If asked how it happened, he would reply that she understood him, and him her.

He wore a blue shirt with the Uchiha crest on the back, and white shorts that just went past the knee. He also had white arm warmers over his elbows, over which he had some mesh armour. His tool pouches where set on either hip, showing him to be ambidextrous.

next was Shino Aburame. The quiet boy was an enigma to others, and while his clans ways and techniques freaked others out, Naruko found it interesting. She could be seen some days talking with Shino about different types of insects, and how he could possibly incorporate them into his already formidable arsenal. It was because of her genuine interest that won him over, and they had become fast friends. He wore a large overcoat, with full length pants. His pouch was on his right hip.

Next was Hinata Hyuga. Another surprising friendship in that Hinata was a shy quiet person, Whereas Naruko was a loud confident person. What made this friendship work was that Hinata was slowly becoming more confident, with Naruko's Influence, While Naruko was becoming less loud, seeing as Hinata would never be a fan of much attention, Despite her growing confidence. She wore a beige jacket that was zipped up, and dark blue three-quarter pants. Her Ninja pouch was on her right hip.

Then there was Kiba Inuzuka. this wasn't a surprising friendship. Both where loud competitive people, who loved a good joke or prank. There where a few days where one would catch the both of them together running from an unfortunate victim of there latest prank. He wore a light coloured jacket, that was mostly unzipped showing a black shirt underneath, and three-quarter length shorts. His pouch was on his right hip.

Then there was Shikamaru Nara. He was the epitome of lazy, always looking to do the minimum effort possible for anything, always preferring to watch clouds. that was how his friendship with Naruko started. she had very nearly tripped over him, and when asked what he was doing, she decided to join him. it was from then on that if she ever wanted to relax, she could be found with Shikamaru watching clouds. She was also the only one, besides his father, who had ever beaten him in Shogi. He wore a white shirt with the leaf symbol on it and open jacket and shorts cut off at the knee. His pouch was on his right hip.

Choji Akimichi. The rotund friend of Naruko's they both shared a love of good food, and could often be seen discussing about different types of food and what would best go with certain dishes. He wore a green shirt with the symbol for food on it, a matching vest and three-quarter pants, with pouch on right hip.

When they had all noticed Naruko's absence, they became worried about her, wondering where she was. When they had found out what had happened, six days after the attack, and even then only because Ino overheard some adults talking about it, they all went to there parents, and demanded to know if it was true. When their parents confirmed this, they nearly went on a killing spree, however in the end, once they had calmed down, took turns to sit by Naruko and keep watch over her, so that at least one of them would be there when she woke up. However there was one thing that bothered them the most, and that was what had she done to deserve such treatment. However no amount of asking or pestering could get anyone to open up, unless they went to the Hokage, and none of them wanted to test the waters, as they knew the Hokage currently had a short leash when it came to Naruko.

Speaking of our favorite blonde, on the twenty second day after her attack, when the Hokage was visiting and about to leave, he noticed movement in her hands and twitching face, as well as a slight increase in her heart rate. He immediately called for a doctor, who quickly walked in, and started checking up on her. He then ordered everyone who wasn't the Hokage to leave the room, as to many people could shock or scare her, and they didn't know what her reaction would be. Since it was Ino and Hinata who had been watching her today, they straight away went to go get the others, even though they knew the chances of seeing her were slim, on the chance they could, they wanted all of them to be there.

When Naruko awoke, she could feel cramps in her arms and legs, and a fabric over her eye, which after feeling discovered was a bandage. She wondered why it was there, before the events of that fateful night assaulted her. She immediately sat up and looked around wildly, fear in her eye.

"Its ok Naruko, your safe, no one can hurt you here." The Hokage calmly stated while holding up his hands.

Looking at him at the sound of his voice, She knew she was safe, relieved even, yet she couldn't help feeling fear for the kind old man in front of her. After taking calming breaths, she asked the first question on her mind.

"Why me old man? Why do they hate me?"

Hiruzen sighed. He debated what to tell her, or how much, then thought better of it. After what she had been through, she deserved to know everything. So he told her. How she was the container of the Nine Tailed fox, who her parents really where, everything.

There where a myriad of emotions that Naruko went through, the most dominate been anger at her father, for condemning her to a life of pain, though she could understand why, she didn't have to like it. However due to all this, she had an emotional break down. The Hokage did the only thing he could, and hugged her. At first she tensed in fear, as flashbacks started, however she eventually relaxed when she knew he would never intentionally hurt her. But there was one other side effect that no one could foresee.

Naruko became a mute, due to the trauma of her attack, and rollercoaster of emotions from finding out why, and new found fear of men. No man, aside from the Hokage or those she trusted totally, would be able to touch her without her having an episode or attempting to kill said man. It would take a lot of time before she got it under control.

Time skip: 2 years:

If one was to look at the Villages training grounds, they would be hard pressed to call them training grounds. There beauty was really something else. That was until that is the moment was ruined by Ninja training, throwing around there techniques like no tomorrow.

Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Jutsu!

Earth Style: Mud Wall Jutsu!

Ninja Art: Shadow Kunai Jutsu!

All that happened within seconds, as Sasuke launched his fire balls, Choji erected the Mud wall to stop them, while Shikamaru had thrown a Kunai at Sasuke, before replicating them to number fifteen. However quickly drew two of his own Kunai, and with skill and speed, deflected or dodged all of them, before throwing both at Ino, who had tried to attack him from behind. While she easily dodged, she had to retreat to Choji and Shikamaru due to what was coming at her.

Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!

The attacker? Naruko. She had come along way since her attack. hey all had. Even after she had told them all about the fox, and what her father did, they had still stuck by her, and helped her as she helped them, like true friends. However, because she was a mute, constantly having to write out what you wanted to say was annoying, so together, they created a way for her to speak. Similar to using hand signs, they used that as there foundation, and created what they called sign language, which just as the name suggested, using her hands, aloud her to speak, if one knew the language. It was quite tricky, and hard to learn, taking the eight of them six months to finally get it down perfectly without thinking, so as soon as they saw it they could immediately understand it. The only downside was that one had to be looking at the speaker to "Hear" so to speak. The only time Naruko used her voice, was using Jutsu, even then unless you were next to her, you couldn't hear her.

"You put enough Chakra in that Naruko?! you would have ruined my hair!" Screamed Ino

Naruko raised her eyebrow. "I didn't know you had a beauty pageant to go to, would you like a bath instead?"

Ino was about to reply, Violently, before a whistle was heard. Turning, they saw Iruka, There academy instructor, and former ANBU, waving them over.

Iruka had been helping them with there techniques and fighting skills outside of the academy. Since he couldn't actually teach them, he didn't, however he used the loophole granted to him by the Academy itself. Since he was there instructor, he had to be available if students had questions he could answer, or ask for help getting scrolls needed for learning from the library, etc. It was when he noticed there dishevelled states a few weeks in a row, that he decided to follow them. After what he saw, he was very impressed, and had to make himself known.

Flashback:

"Puff... Puff... Your not easy to bring down Sasuke." Said Kiba, while he was trying to regain his breath.

"That's because he is not wasting unnecessary energy defending your attacks or attacking you, whereas you are wasting a lot, in flashy moves to take him down. you need to learn patience Kiba. And you, Sasuke, there's nothing wrong with been a bit flashy to finish the fight, like you could have at several points, because toying with your opponent could return to bite you in the ass." Came a voice that was familiar.

All of them turned to see there favourite instructor there, however despite this they were still wary of him, as he had snuck up on them, and seemed stronger than he looked.

"Wow you guys are on edge. But understandable, never trust anyone unless you know them very well." he said with a smile.

while they all smiled, they still didn't move, until they saw Naruko move up to him, and to there surprise, hug him. They knew about her fear and mistrust of men, same as Iruka, so for her to hug him, showed the absolute trust she had in him. Only the Hokage could boast the same.

After getting over his shock, and hugging her back, he pulled out several scrolls, and started to help in the limited way he could, letting them to the hard work themselves, and teaching them to see the flaws of the others work, to help them, while also been the sounding board for there ideas. When they asked why he got them to spot flaws in there friends techniques and styles, his answer was simple.

"If your facing an enemy, and know how to spot flaws and weaknesses, you can spot there's, and have the edge in a fight. the sooner you learn, the easier it gets with time and experience." After hearing that they could see the logic in that.

Within two weeks of Iruka starting to help them, he managed to secure Chakra paper, and so tested there Elemental affinity's, and was only a little surprised at the results.

Shikamaru had Earth and Water.

Choji had Earth and Fire.

Ino had Fire and Water, which surprised all as they both cancel each other out.

Shino had Lightning and Water.

Hinata had Water and Wind, Which showed why she was unsuited to the main Hyuga fighting Style, As it was Earth oriented.

Kida had Lightning and Water same as Shino, making them a deadly pair.

Sasuke had Lightning and Fire.

And Naruko had Wind and Water. While she was shocked and a little disappointed, she realised that she was the perfect match for Sasuke. Both where considered the strongest in there group, so to find she was the perfect counter to his attacks, or perfect ally, made her smile.

End Flashback:

After sitting down and talking bout the sparing match they had just had, they all went there different ways, Shikamaru to watch clouds, Choji with him with customary bag of chips, Ino to her parents shop. However no on knew where Sasuke and Naruko went.

Ever since she had woken from her attack, Sasuke had made it a point to always be around her and go with her everywhere. At first, she was freaked out, but after a little time past, she grew used to it and thankful, as it meant she always had someone near her to translate what she said, therefore giving her a voice of sorts. And since the Hokage had gone on an arrest spree, And since Sasuke was always around, No one attacked or belittled her in any way.

They where currently on there way to the Hokages office as they had both been summoned earlier in the day.

When they arrived, and where let in by the secretary, They saw there leader seemingly finishing his work for the day.

"Ahh Sasuke, Naruko, how are you today?"

"Fine Lord Hokage."

"Good old man. Still trying to finish those papers?"

"The work load has gone down considerably since you stopped pranking so much Naruko."

After seeing the savage grin on her face, he knew he may have made a big mistake. However, since her attack, and consequently what he had told her after, she preferred training to pranking. Plus with Sasuke always around, he wouldn't allow it to happen. However by the grin, and slightly turned head, he knew that while he'd be there, he wouldn't stop her. But back to the matter at hand.

"I'm sure you both remember Danzo?"

How could they? After his subordinate's had broken him out of jail, the first place he had gone was Naruko's house. It was lucky that there where ANBU nearby, who upon seeing who it was, attacked straight away. The commotion, and thanks to smart thinking of one of the ANBU, large amount of Chakra with a Fire Jutsu to the sky, allowed the Hokage to arrive, and while Danzo fled, realizing he was outmatched here, never got to leave the city alive, since the Hokage chased him down and fought him alone, and only just winning, testament to Danzo's own power. After he had recovered, several days later, and telling Sasuke of Danzo's secret on his right arm, needless to say, he was pissed.

Both nodded, with sour looks on there faces.

"Well we have finally finished the Autopsy, and found an unused Sharingan in his right eye."

Sasuke, while livid, was happy that it had been found and secured, meaning no one would be able to be like Kakashi, and have an implanted eye. Naruko signed her thoughts.

"That's all good and well old man but why am I here?"

"That's because, with Sasuke's permission, I'd like to offer it to you."

Naruko and Sasuke where shocked. To be offered the famed eye, was a great privilege , as aside from Kakashi, no one had been freely offered the eye.

Naruko looked at Sasuke. While the three in the room knew that secretly, Sasuke had awoken the eye, he didn't rely on it. Which was a good sign, since he knew it was a tool, not the only thing that mattered.

And everyone knew how much Naruko wished she had her eye back, or at least a replacement, but knew she wouldn't go around asking or moping about it. She also knew the eye would have to be hidden, as constant use was draining, and showing it off was asking for trouble.

The Hokage was watching the thought processes on both of them, as they communicated in a way that only those close to each other could. He could only guess what they where thinking.

They then turned to him and gave there answer...

Before you all complain my story, my way. no one is going to be OP in this so don't twist your knickers. Till next time.