Naruto: Xenonin
Disclaimer: This will be an Aliens X Naruto fanfiction. With that said, I hope you enjoy my literary contribution.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Gaping at the sight before him, Iruka asked, "N-Naruto?"
Grinning Naruto replied, "In the flesh, dattebayo."
Staring at the boy, Iruka asked, "What happened to your clothes?"
Obviously sheepish, Neruto explained, "Well… they all kind of got ruined and I had to make do with rags."
Nodding, the girl telepathically explained, "Fight and hunt lots in forest."
While Iruka was shocked at the girl's unusual method of talking, which the other children must have realized as well by their equally-shocked expressions, Naruto explained on her behalf, "What Hoyuki-chan meant to say was we spar a lot and do lots of survival training in the forests nearby."
Now understanding how Naruto's clothes could have gotten ruined, Iruka then asked, "And this is… Hoyuki?" He may had heard from the Third Hokage about receiving a new student bearing that very name but he was certain that the old man deliberately left out a number of details including the fact that she has a tail.
Naruto's grin widened as he replied, "She's my little sister!"
Everyone in the class other than the two Uzumakis gaped at Naruto's happy proclamation as they two could not possibly look more different. Inclined to believe the boy as he saw her surname in the class register Iruka asked, "As in your adopted little sister?"
Shrugging, Naruto admitted, "Kind of, but she's still family."
Satisfied with the explanation, for now, Iruka turned his attention to Hoyuki and said, "Would you mind introducing yourself to the class, Hoyuki?"
Nodding, the girl turned around to face the class and introduced herself, "Name, Uzumaki Hoyuki. Like, eating meat and sweet food, hunting, fighting and cuddling. Hate, bitter food, cold and bad humans. Hope, have a big family."
Staring at the girl, the students were at a loss until a pale-blond girl with light-blue eyes named Yamanaka Ino asked, "Just… how did you meet that Naruto-baka?"
Hoyuki's usually neutral-blank expression changed into a slight frown as she replied, "He brought me. Almost killed him. Became his sister." The silence that followed was oppressive as they tried to understand what the strange girl had just said. Many of the students agreed one thing though, "Okay… definitely freaky!"
Unperturbed by the freaked-out children, Hoyuki turned her attention to Iruka and asked, "Sufficient?"
While a little disturbed himself, Iruka had enough faith in both Naruto and the Third Hokage that the girl was not a threat to anyone, at least for the moment. "Yeah, you both may take a seat."
Bowling slightly, the girl then followed Naruto until the both of them were seated. However, due to her tail, the girl opted to instead simply squat beside the blond who was sitting at the edge of a bench, using her tail as a prop to support her. Worried, Iruka asked, "Do you need a stool, Hoyuki?"
Shaking her head, Hoyuki explained, "Often."
Confused, Iruka turned his attention to Naruto who explained, "She does this all the time and it never bothers her."
Iruka sounded dubious as he replied, "Right, now then, before we start our class…"
Scene Change
"So, what do you think about that new girl?"
Turning her attention to Ino, a pink-haired girl with green eyes and a prominent forehead named Haruno Sakura replied, "What girl is definitely odd." Her paradoxically silent inner persona on the other hand shouted, "She's a super creepy-freak! How can she squat like that for the whole class?"
Nodding in agreement, Ino glanced at the two and asked, "Do you really think that Naruto took her in as his little sister even though she almost killed him?"
"No idea but some of the boys seem to like her looks at least for some odd reason." Neither Sakura nor Ino realized that the more "observant" boys liked what little they saw beneath Hoyuki's rags, especially her posterior. The fact that she wore nothing under the rags must have something to do with it.
"Yeah, I bet Kiba would be drooling over her like a horny dog if he and Akamaru weren't so scared of her. Hell, even Shino seems nervous."
Incredulous, Sakura asked, "Wait, Kiba and SHINO scared? Sure she's creepy but what can be so bad about her?"
"I don't know but if Shino of all people feels nervous about her, we should be careful too." Ino barely held in her grimace as she added, "I mean, she speaks with her mind of all things, even my clan can't do that so naturally!"
While the two girls, who were also rivals for a certain boy they and many other girls like named Uchiha Sasuke, continued their discussion about the newcomer, a chubby boy with brown hair and a swirl on each cheek named Akamichi Chouji was busy munching on potato chips while asking, "Hey, Shikamaru, what do you think about the girl?"
Peering at the girl, a lazy-looking boy with his hair tied into a spiky ponytail on top of his head named Nara Shikamaru muttered, "Troublesome. She speaks with her mind, has a tail and outright admitted she tried killing Naruto of all people at least once. I don't even want to know what convinced him to take her in as his little sister."
As the two boys talked about the girl, a wild-looking boy with untidy brown hair and a pair of red fang-like marking on his cheeks glared at the girl in both fear and disgust as she simply smelled wrong, as though she did not belong to this world. Named Inuzuka Kiba, the boy muttered to his pet puppy, Akamaru, which was lying on top of his head as usual, "Keep a close nose on her buddy, that girl is dangerous!" Akamaru whined in agreement.
Another boy, with curly brown hair, pale skin and wearing a pair of sunglasses as well as a high-collared coat, shared similar sentiments with the wild boy. Named Aburame Shino, the boy felt his insides literally crawling in distress whenever he paid attention to Hoyuki. Adjusting his sunglasses, the boy silently thought, "That girl… is even more alien that she looks."
Glaring at the two Uzumakis was a boy with dark hair and eyes as well as a face which many of the girls found handsome which seemed enhanced by his brooding expression. Known as Uchiha Sasuke, the last member of the Uchiha clan and the current number one rookie of the year, the boy was unsurprisingly a fan-favourite among the girls. Focusing his attention on the girl, Sasuke mused, "So the dobe got himself a sister, doesn't make him any less pathetic and she must be useless herself if she can't even kill him." Having come to that conclusion, he quickly dismissed the two of them.
Out of the entire class, only a few people were actually concerned for Naruto although Hoyuki's currently benign interactions with him eased them somewhat. One of them was a shy dark-haired girl with pale-lavender eyes that lacked pupils named Hyuuga Hinata. Smiling shyly at the blond boy who seemed so bright with happiness even with his admittedly poor state of dress, Hinata thought, "I'm glad that Naruto-kun's little sister seems like a nice person, although I'm worried about why she almost killed him at first."
Oblivious to the rest of the class, both Naruto and Hoyuki studied their lessons as though everything was normal…
Scene Change
After attending their first lesson, the boys were sent to taijutsu class, a class which teaches physical martial arts, while the girls were sent to flower-arranging class. Hoyuki was unsurprisingly confused by the class as she deemed it seemed completely useless as far as she understood. "Why arrange flowers? Pretty won't kill prey or foe."
Suzume, a young woman with surly black hair, wears makeup including red lipstick and a pair of oval spectacles, was annoyed at the apparently clueless girl as she explained, "That's because it is a vital lesson which teaches kunoichi the importance of elegance and beauty during infiltration missions."
"But it won't kill."
Huffing haughtily, Suzume replied, "Of course not! What sort of barbaric backwater place did you come from anyway?"
"From the dark, beyond the stars," answered Hoyuki as though it was though it was a naturally obvious answer.
Everyone in the class blinked at the girl, before Ino hesitantly asked, "Um… Are you… an alien?" While feeling silly for asking that question, Ino just had to know.
Nodding, which shocked everyone, Hoyuki explained, "Parasite, from beyond. Naruto called me. Hurt him but not kill. Became his sister. No longer alien."
"… Okay… that explains a LOT about you," said Ino as she nervously stepped back away from Hoyuki. Many of the girls and even Suzume backed away from her.
"Did you just hear what she said?"
"That girl's a freak!"
"No way she's no longer alien, just look at her!"
"And that dead-last idiot actually took her in? Goes to show how stupid he really is!"
While not surprised by their reactions, her parent-species had killed enough humans to warrant such prejudices, Hoyuki nevertheless felt annoyed especially at the insults aimed at Naruto as she turned her attention to Suzume and asked, "Where taijutsu?"
Scene Change
Naruto was standing before Sasuke and was grinning as he asked, "Ready to be used to wipe the floor, teme?"
Snorting derisively, Sasuke replied, "Like you will ever be more than a useless dead-last, dobe."
The taijutsu teacher, a silver-haired man named Mizuki, was about to start the match between the two boys when he caught sight of something which mad him say, "Hey, aren't you supposed to be in the other class?"
All the boys turned their attention to see Hoyuki who was approaching them. Naruto, who knew her quirks and beliefs, sighed and asked, "You didn't like the flower arrangement class, did you?"
Shaking her head, Hoyuki replied, "No, useless. Flower Teacher and girls foolish. Pretty no kill anything."
While the other boys were disturbed by her statement, Naruto smiled and asked, "So you want to join us then?"
Nodding, Hoyuki explained, "Yes. Taijutsu teach fight and kill."
"Why is that freak always talking about killing?" asked a nervous boy who wore a beanie named Hibachi.
Naruto at least had the decency to appear sheepish as he explained, "That's because it's all what her kind used to do before she became my sister. They can't even make babies without killing something outside their hive."
While Hibachi, and many other boys, paled at the statement, Shino asked, "Wait, you mentioned hive?"
"Yeah, think of her kind like wasps that lays eggs in caterpillars but living like ants."
Shino actually gasped as he took a step back and spoke as he trembled, "A species of eusocial parasitoids…" Seeing Shino actually visibly terrified disturbed even Mizuki.
Curious, both Naruto tilted his head and asked, "Eusocial parasitoids?"
Nervously adjusting his glasses, Shino explained, "Among insects, to be classified as eusocial means that the insect live in hives or colonies which usually number by the thousands led by a single egg-laying queen. To be classified as parasitoids means that the insect lays eggs into a host for its young to feed and grow from within, killing the host in the process. To be classified as both…" Not even Naruto could deny the horrific implications.
Before the boys could panic, Hoyuki calmly spoke, "Correct. But no longer. Human."
Assuming a defensive stance, Shino cautiously asked, "How so? It is illogical for a species of parasitoids to become like their hosts."
"My kind can."
Before anyone could argue against her point, images of horrific alien creatures with elongated heads lacking ears, noses or eyes, four dorsal vents on their upper backs, a vertebrae-like tail with a bladed tip and strange chitin for skin appeared in their minds. They then saw variations of the same creature including horns for ramming, wings for flight and even fins for swimming. One variation in particular stood out as it showed both the host and the resulting creature as it bore mandibles and deadlocks like its already dangerously intimidating host. After seeing the images, the entire taijutsu class except Naruto stared at the girl as she explained, "I changed. More than any."
Still suspicious, Shino asked, "Why?"
"A deal. A promise."
Blinking, Shino's eyebrows rose above his sunglasses as he asked, "Deal?"
"S-ranked."
While not liking the lack of details, Shino and a few of the boys, including Shikamaru, decided to trust her for now. After all, there is no way the Third Hokage will allow her to be free as Naruto's sister if he had deemed her as a threat.
Seeing that a few of the boys have relaxed somewhat, the girl then asked, "Join?"
Grinning, Naruto said, "Sure you can! Heck, you can even take my place!"
Seeing the blond boy's action as an act of cowardice, Sasuke snorted, "Are you letting her fight in your place, you're even more pathetic than I thought, dobe."
The proud boy did not expect Naruto's reaction as he grinned and replied, "Nah, I'm just letting her have some fun." Skipping out of the ring, Naruto said, "Have fun, Hoyuki-chan." As soon as Naruto finished speaking, Hoyuki suddenly appeared before Sasuke.
Shocked by her sudden appearance, Sasuke glared at both Naruto and her before saying, "I will show no mercy, not even to a girl."
Hoyuki's crouched low with her clawed hands and tail ready to strike as she replied, vocally with a notable rasp in her voice, "No mercy!" Those that found her telepathy disturbing were correcting themselves as they realized that her verbal voice was even worse as it chilled their spines.
Quickly assuming a taijutsu stance, partly out of fear at the obviously alien girl which he would never willingly admit, Sasuke appeared ready for the match. Seeing that neither combatant were willing to back down, Mizuki sighed and said, "Alright, match start!"
As soon as Mizuki announced the start of the match, Sasuke charged at the girl only to be tackled down by her as she bent low and slammed her elbow against his stomach at a speed he could barely follow. Feeling the wind flee from his lungs, Sasuke was unable to even catch his breath as he suddenly felt her hand grip his throat while the tip of her tail hovered over his eye. Staring at the girl, Sasuke could not believe he had lost. "She's just that dobe's sister. How…?"
Naruto, the only one who was not alarmed by her actions, cheered for her, "Alright, Hoyuki-chan one, Sasuke-teme ZERO!"
Barely restraining his rage, Sasuke growled, "If you're so great, why don't you fight her, dobe?"
Placing his hands behind his head, Naruto grinned and said, "Sure, it'd be like all the sparing we already had…" Naruto frowned as he added, "…which ruined my favourite jumpsuit."
Hoyuki seemed almost sheepish as she let go of Sasuke and replied, "Sorry."
"Nah, it's ok! Besides, these rags don't look too bad either once you get used to them."
With Sasuke out of the ring, as the bitter loser of the fight, both Naruto and Hoyuki faced one another. Grinning, Naruto assumed a similar fighting stance as Hoyuki and asked, "Ready, Hoyuki-chan?"
It was at that moment Hoyuki wore a small smile which made her actually look cute before she replied, "Always, brother."
"Match, start!"
Hearing Mizuki's shout, both combatants charged at one another at the same time, clashing as Naruto's right hand intercepted her right elbow. Her tail then struck, almost striking the jugular as Naruto barely dodged it. The blond boy then threw an uppercut at her chin with his left hand only for the girl to suddenly flip, her tail lashing out thus cutting his cheek. Ignoring the pain of his two bleeding wounds, Naruto grinned as the girl as she landed back onto her feet. "That tail of yours is a real pain the ass, Hoyuki-chan."
Smiling, Hoyuki replied, "You heal faster." True to her word, Naruto's wounds started to heal and seemed to be actually smoking as the wounds closed.
Shocked by Naruto's ability and the fact that he could actually keep up with her despite the apparently unfair advantage her tail provided, the boys were at a loss for words when the two clashed again, leaving viciously bloody claw marks on the both of them as they exchanged blows. However both ignored their injuries which were already starting to heal, albeit at a slower rate of Hoyuki, as the boy leapt into the air and attempted to drive his heel into her shoulder only to have her suddenly turn around and use her tail strike at him again, sending him flying. Feeling winded by the blow, Naruto quickly flipped in the air and landed on his feet just as Hoyuki attempted to tear at him with her claws. Grabbing hold onto her clawed hands and ignoring the pair as they dug into his hands, Naruto allowed her to push him down before slamming his knee into her stomach, causing the girl to cry out in pain as her grip onto his hands loosened. Naruto then delivered a resounding slam at her forehead with his own forehead, dazing her. Letting the dazed girl fall off him, Naruto sighed and said, "That went better than expected…" The boy's words died in his mouth as he stared at the pointed tip of Hoyuki's tail pointing at his neck. Scowling, Naruto muttered, "You always beat me at taijutsu."
Hoyuki's small smile was almost impish as she replied, "Respect tail."
Naruto's scowl became a little petulant as he pushed the tail away and said, "Yeah, yeah." Neither combatants noticed the dumbstruck stared the others were giving them as they saw the fight not as a spar but as a bloody duel between savages.
"Did you see the way she uses that tail?"
"How can they heal so fast?"
"It could have been a bloody slaughter!"
"Those two are even more troublesome than they look…" muttered Shikamaru.
Adjusting his sunglasses, Shino mused, "Interesting, that girl seems to rely on her tail like a scorpion."
"And people call me wild…" Akamaru barked in agreement with Kiba.
Looking at the pair in disbelief, Sasuke whispered, "That girl is strong… interesting." Needless to say the boy now saw her as a worthy rival to test his limits, which would unfortunately make her even more infamous to the fangirls. That said the one-sided rivalry between the fangirls with Hoyuki had an unexpected but unsurprising benefit which would be told at a later date.
Mizuki was glaring at the two in displeasure as he silently thought, "I shouldn't have expected anything different from the demon brat and his sister…" Raising his hand, Mizuki declared, "Winner, Uzumaki Hoyuki!"
Scene Change
Ichiraku Ramen, a humble ramen stand infamous for being the regular haunt of Uzumaki Naruto. Despite the infamy neither owners of the stand, Teuchi and his daughter, Ayame, ever regretted helping the boy back then when he was still a small hungry child. Left unsaid was that the boy's appetite and apparent addiction to ramen alone helped keep their business afloat, more so than even the Akamichi boy who would occasionally join him for some ramen. Presently sitting at the stand were Naruto, the strange girl who had become his sister roughly three months ago and Umino Iruka.
Looking at the boy who was happily slurping noodles at a rate which could rival even an Akamichi, a clan well known for their appetites, Iruka could not believe that Hoyuki was somehow able to convince Naruto NOT to make her eat ramen. To be fair, it was not for the lack of trying as Naruto did try to convince her until he realized she was just as stubborn about her love for meat and sweet food, especially fruits and honey. As such, the girl was calmly eating some sweet bean soup offered by the shop, after ravenously devouring what appeared to be a pig's entire leg which was roasted with a glaze of honey. Iruka did not even want to know where or how she got that leg much less keep it on her person.
"So your sister is actually some sort of alien from beyond this world, turned you into her host and would have killed you had it not been for your "special" chakra which also made her into a bloodline-limit human instead of her original species."
Swallowing another large mouthful of ramen, Naruto nodded and replied, "Yep, that's about it!" The only reason why Teuchi and Ayame were not shocked was because they already heard the story.
Rubbing his temples, Iruka muttered, "Naruto, you are without a doubt the most unpredictable kid I've ever known." He then wore a stern expression as he added, "And one of the most idiotic, that summoning seal could have easily been an explosive seal or brought something which could have killed you for real!"
Knowing that Iruka was right, Naruto admitted, "I get that from Jiji too. But how was I supposed to know better?"
"You could have asked me or Hokage-sama."
"And both of you would have said no!"
Seeing Naruto's point, however childish it was, Iruka sighed and had to admit that the desperately lonely boy would have tried summoning anyway to get himself a friend somehow. "That still does not excuse your foolishness. You could have brought harm not just to yourself but to the entire village as well. Imagine what would have happened if Hoyuki decided to remain as her original species, no offense meant by the way."
Shaking her head, Hoyuki replied, "None, truth."
Sighing, Naruto said, "Yeah, I got the picture."
"Good. That aside, I'm glad that things turned out for the better for you." Iruka's smile broadened into a grin as he added, "I wasn't there to see it but I heard you two had quite a spar."
Naruto's mood improved instantly as he passionately told Iruka about the spars and survival training he and Hoyuki did over the past three months. Hearing the boy's story and looking at the girl who was contently listening to it, as well as interject whenever Naruto was exaggerating or trying to hide embarrassing details, Iruka smiled and thought, "This will be an interesting year alright…"
-Chapter Fin-
Note: As cliché as it may be, this will probably be a Naru-Hina story as I doubt Sakura will ever really choose him (plus, I always find the pairing cute). Naru-Ino on the other hand "might" be possible on the grounds that Ino may try to look into Hoyuki's memories and end up seeing Naruto's as well (seeing his life experiences will change almost anyone's opinion about him, although the fact that both Hoyuki and Naruto already know about the Kyuubi will make the pairing complicated). Naruto WILL NOT be paired with Hoyuki as he sees her as a sister or cousin and the feeling is mutual. I "may" pair Hoyuki with Sasuke but I'm as likely to pair her with a different male character which I like more (either Shino or Chouji although I have to admit I made her seem unapproachable to them).
