FLUKES
FLUKES
CHAPTER TWO
BY RISHIANDSQUEE
A/N: Well, that was a small success! Thank you to everyone who reviewed and put my series on their alert lists! I'll do my very best to improve!!
FLUKES, CHAPTER TWO
Iruka sighed. "You're just like your father." He commented, his eyes hiding a smile. "Now get in line. The graduation exam has already started."
Naru shrugged, stepping in line, Sasu standing in front of her. "You suck." Naru hissed. "You made me take all the blame while you snuck in line!"
Sasu also smiled. "Sorry, Naru." He whispered back. "But if I get in any more trouble, I'm screwed over."
Soon, it was Sasu's turn to step into the other room. "Do your best." Naru said, a red tint making its way to her cheeks. "I'll do fine."
Sasu nodded, smiling as he entered the graduation examination room. A few minutes later, he emerged, grinning broadly, a headband latched firmly to his head. "I did it!" he said happily. "And now you will, too!"
Naru nodded, pushing Sasu out of the way and into the examination room. Iruka, along with a female teacher, stood at the long desk. Naru approached them. "I'm ready." She called out.
"Produce at least three doppelgangers to pass." Iruka said.
Doppelgangers? Crap. Naru thought. My worst frickin' jutsu. Why is it always my worst?
Naru made the necessary signs. "Bunshin no jutsu! Art on the doppelganger!" she commanded. A cloud of smoke enveloped her. When the smoke cleared, two sickly doppelgangers lay on the floor. Naru cursed. "No!" she exclaimed.
Iruka stared at Naru. So she is exactly like her father. He thought. His worst jutsu……
Naru quickly looked away from her sensei. "Whatever." She mumbled, hiding her eyes as she reached the window. "I don't care anymore!" she exclaimed, jumping out the window. Iruka followed suit, leaving the female sensei to take care of the class.
When Iruka found her, Naru was sitting on a swing, the one Naruto was always on, if Iruka recalled correctly. He stood next to Naru, not saying anything as the tears dripped out of Naru's eyes. "Hey." He finally said. "It's too bad you didn't pass. But there's always next year, right?" He looked down at the former Hokage's daughter.
"I'm not coming next year. I promised myself if I didn't pass this year, I would never come back. It's not like I'd be any good as a ninja, anyway." Naru muttered, kicking a nearby rock as she sat on the swing.
"Don't say that. What would your father say if he was still alive and heard you say that?"
"Father's dead. And so if mother. So it's no use thinking things like that." Naru replied sharply. "And he probably wouldn't even care." She added.
Iruka sighed, placing his hand on the twelve-year old girl's shoulder. "You know," he started. "your father wasn't the best at the Bunshin jutsu either."
"Liar."
"I'm serious." Iruka smiled, kneeling down to Naru and facing her. "When he was my student here, he couldn't even produce a doppelganger, let alone a shadow doppelganger." Iruka paused. "Actually, he only passed after he learned the Kage Bunshin." It would actually have been around the same time as right now…after he failed his third exam. He added in his head.
Naru stood up, walking off. "I'm leaving." She said aloud.
Iruka smiled. If she's as stubborn as her father is, I'd bet she's going to the hokage towers.
And he was right.
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Naru opened the door to the Hokage towers. She looked around for a minute, until she spotted who she was looking for. "Uncle Kono—I mean……Hokage-sama!"
An older man, in his early thirties, looked up. He had on standered Hokage attire, and his brown hair poked out of the Hokage hat. "Naru!" he exclaimed. "What're you doing here?"
"I failed the exams again." Naru muttered, looking down, ashamed. "I didn't want to go home, so I came here."
"Ah! So you did." Konohamaru smiled. "And don't call me Hokage-sama. Call me Uncle Konohamaru."
Naru looked up. "Can you tell me the story?"
"Which story?"
"The one about how my dad became Hokage." Naru flopped onto on of the chairs.
"Ah…That story." Konohamaru stroked his chin. "Let's see…There was another Sasuke retrieval mission. Your father was about eighteen years old. It had the same five people…"
"Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, Neji Hyuga, and Kiba Inuzuka, right?" Naru interrupted.
"That's right. They infiltrated the sound village to find him. They were able to sneak in."
"But they were found out."
"So the entire Sound Village started to attack the five heros. But while they were—"
"Konoha ninja were attacking the village from the front!"
"That's right." Konohamaru smiled. "And then they defeated the Sound, all in one day." He continued. "But Sasuke wasn't there. Apparently, he had betrayed the sound years before."
"He came home a few years after, with a baby, right?"
"Correct. I've told you this story too many times, haven't I?"
Naru looked away sheepishly. "Maybe…"
Suddenly, Konohamaru remembered something. "Today's your birthday, isn't it?"
"Yeah."
"Wait here." Konohamaru disappeared for a moment, then returned, holding an orange and blue jacket. "Happy birthday." He said, smiling as he tossed the jacket to Naru. Naru caught it. "It was your fathers jacket."
Naru put the jacket on slowly. "It's perfect. Thanks, Uncle Konohamaru."
Konohamaru smiled. "Go get them."
A/N: Well……I decided: Screw the world! I'm doing another chapter! By the way, Naru and Sasu's names are a pun on the paring 'NaruxSasu'. XD You probably figured that out already, though…Please review!