~7 years later~ First Person POV

Staring into the mirror, I took in my raggedy bed headed self, my steel grey eyes dull as usual, my short ash brown hair, and my near perpetual look of disinterest, "Eh." I turned away and surveyed the room, my new room for the time being.

"Ton'neru! Do you have your wrappings on?! You need to get ready for the academy!"

I sighed, "Not yet Jak-Jak!"

I walked over to my 'closet', if you could call it that, it was just the corner of the room.

Mumbling came from outside my door, "I'm your aunt! At least call me Jakun if you aren't gonna call me that!"

A smile crept onto my face, "Of course Jak-Jak!"

THUMP

I recoiled shaking a bit, "My bad!"

I could hear her mumbling again, but she stalked off to waiting in the living room of our small flat. Letting out a breath I reached into the pile of clothes and pulled out some gauze under a heavy jacket and began the tedious task of covering my body head to toe.

~15 minutes later~

The sound of me biting though the last bit of wrapping was the only noise in the room. I grabbed my heavy brown jacket and normal black pants, throwing them on. I started off out of my room.

"Well there you are ya little mummy."

I deadpanned at her almost equally mummified form, although she had her face free from the gauze, while I only had my eyes uncovered, "We're almost the same height and I'm eight."

She froze, "Shut it Ton'neru."

I shrugged, "When do we leave for my future?"

She sighed, closing her eyes, "We're leaving in a few hours so ya have some time to explore our new home."

I nodded and made my way to the door.

"Stay safe and make sure to check on the weather before you go."

Nodding again I looked out the window.

Clear skies and no strong breezes, perfect.

"Well I'll be back in about an hour, is that alright?"

Her eyes narrowed, "Not 'til ya finish your breakfast young man."

I turned back to her with a disappointed look, "Really?"

She stared at me with a frustrated look, and I stared back trying to look as pitiful as possible, a battle of wills between nephew and aunt.

She huffed, "Fine, but only an hour."

I smiled, I had won.

"Alright, I'll see you then Jak-Jak."

The sound of a spoon smacking the wall behind me was all I heard as I made my way outside.

I strolled down the streets of Konohagakure, getting the typical looks you'd expect from people seeing an eight-year-old mummy with heavy clothes on in the heat, but outside of that, everything felt like any other place we've settled down at. Not that I was complaining, at least I had something to do now.

The chatter of the streets was annoying, but the village was pretty, and definitely lively, so I'd say it was worth the trip.

"HEY! MUMMY KID!"

How polite.

I turned to the voice, "Yes?"

It was a girl around my age with violet hair and dark mesh clothing. Who let someone so young wear that?

"Why're you all wrapped up?!"

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, "It's-."

She stepped closer with curiosity in her eyes, "Are you a burn victim?"

I stared.

"Is that a yes mummy kid?

I deadpanned, "Are you a child prostitute?"

She immediately narrowed her eyes and bared her teeth, "HEY! What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means you shouldn't assume people are what they look like,"

I sidestepped a punch, "Ok, maybe I was a liiiiiiittle bit rude."

She pounced at me with her fists at the ready and I rolled to the side starting back throughout the streets and around multiple stunned onlookers towards my home.

"GET BACK HERE YOU DICK!"

Wow, I sorta screwed this right off the bat huh?

"STOP CHASING ME! I'M NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR SERVICES!"

She screamed and sped up.

Shit.

I turned a corner, turned into smoke in my wrappings and clothes and rose up to the roof of a nearby store, just before the purple prostitute ran around the corner.

"WHERE THE DID THAT BASTARD GO!"

I sat back on my hands and let out a few breaths, she didn't know I was up here.

Getting into a crouching position I made my way to the other side of the rooftop to drop down from the roof when I saw another figure up there with me, a ninja in a military police uniform staring at me with arms crossed. He was a young man with dark brown hair, onyx eyes and prominent lower lips.

I shifted in place, "Hi, could you possibly help me down from here?"
He continued staring at me, but nodded, and started towards me, and in a gravelly voice asked, "Where do you live?"

I relaxed, "I live at the flats in the southern district at number 37 sir."

He nodded once more and put his hand on my shoulder. I looked up to the man, "So, how are we-, "but to my dismay, I was thrown over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

"Hey what're you-," and once again I was cut off by the sickening sensation of going from stationary to sub-sonic levels of speed in less than a second.

He put me down in front of my door where I proudly and with dignity threw up all over the ground.

I looked back up from my hands and knees, but the man was already gone.

"Hck..Asshole…"

I looked back to our little rundown flat and noticed the door open with a frustrated Jakun glaring down at me.

I sighed, "Guess it's time for class."

I tightened the gauze around me as I looked to the academy, "Might as well get this over with."

Walking over to the main doors I noticed a tired looking kid with medium length brown hair covered by a bandana. He wore a semi-long blue shawl, and standard black pants with sandals.

He was standing at the doorway in deep thought. Might as well try to make friends while I'm here.

"Hey," he turned to me, My names Ton'neru Iburi, what's your name?"

He seemed to be slow on his reaction because he just stared for a few seconds before shaking his head, "Ah, sorry, My name is Hayate Gekkō, it's nice to meet you."

I offered him a smile which he reciprocated, "What class were you assigned to?"

He shrugged.

I hadn't been told either, good. "Come on, lets head inside."

He shrugged again and motioned for me to take the lead, and so I did.

As we walked in behind all the other ninjas to be, we noticed that chunin instructors were in front of every class room with a list of names.

We let out a shared sigh, this was going to be annoying.

After going through each line, we finally found our class, which luckily, we shared. As we filed in with the rest of the students, no one really caught my eye, but what did was the desk with three seats free near the window. I tapped Hayate's shoulder while pointing to the seats, "Hey."

He turned to me and looked over to the seats nodding.

We walked over to the desk, him taking the seat closest to the window and me taking the middle seat.

Everything was going as expected, kids coming in and talking, kids already sitting and talking, and a few that were just sitting in the corners as far from everyone else as possible.

Good, and going as planned, maybe this year won't be too bad.

"WAIT! I'm not late right?!"

And the purple prostitute ran in to the room panting.

Well shit.

I slowly raised my hood and put my head to the table, confusing Hayate, "Ton?"

"Shhhh."

I felt him shift back to looking out the window. I silently thanked him.

Since the teacher wasn't here yet, some kid from the front row responded, "Nope, you're on time."

I heard her sigh and that's when I felt a pang of fear, she had to choose a seat, and there weren't many left in the room when we got here, not many except for the seat next to me.

Come on world, kami, whatever the fuck, just give me this, just this one thing and I won't ask-

"Oh hey, why're you sleeping so early in the day?"

Fuck you kami, and your mother.

I slowly rose and kept staring forward, "I just, uhh, didn't get that much sleep last night."

"Hmm, you sound familiar, mind taking down your hood?"

I looked to my right at Hayate pleadingly, but he was busy people watching at the window.

I take back my silent thanks ya lazy traitor.

All the sudden my hood was pulled back.

"It's you! I'm gonna beat the ever loving-."

The door slid open again, and a cold aura filled the room, cutting purple off and making Hayate freeze in place, staring back at the epicenter of it.

A small lady with horn rimmed glasses.

"Hello class, if you could all quiet down then we could get to the introductions, and you all might actually learn what I just used."

Everyone sat down and shut up, probably the smartest move.

The short lady with auburn hair stood at the forefront of the class, "Now, would someone please volunteer to introduce themselves first."

Shaking off the symptoms of the odd aura, PP, purple prostitute, stood up.

"Y-yeah, I'm Anko Mitarashi and I'm gonna become a great kunoichi!"

The teacher didn't even move at her loud introduction, "that's amazingly unoriginal, next."

The newly dubbed Anko glared with a snarl on her face at our new teacher, but still sat down. How nice, she's angry now.

"You, mummy kid, introduce yourself."

Every time, it's mummy kid, can these people be any more creative?

I stood, "My name is Ton'neru Iburi, feel free to talk to me if you want, and please don't call me mummy kid."

The teacher just stared, and then went on to the other students.

After the final ninja aspirant finished their cookie cutter introductions, the teacher went back behind her desk and looked out to us.

"My name is Meinu, but you all will address me with Teacher, or ma'am, is that understood?"

A chorus of yes's and affirmatives filled the classroom.

She turned to look at the board, "Now, we'll start off with the basics of chakra theory."

"Now, before everyone leaves, I'm going to show you a chakra control exercise to practice at home."

Meinu proceeded to pull a leaf out of her desk, sticking it to her forehead, "You achieve this via running chakra through the point of contact and leaf to stick the leaf as I am doing now."

Some of the students seemed shocked at the exercise, but I had seen this and much more on our travels before we reached Konoha. It seemed multiple other kids also seemed to already know the exercise.

"As homework you guys are to practice this exercise until you can sustain it for at least 3 minutes."

With that final order, class was dismissed, and I stood to leave, "No you don't mummy, we're gonna talk."

I turned to Anko exasperatedly, "Look, I'm sorry for insulting you, but after you hear the same misconceptions for a few years it gets frustrating."

She seemed taken aback by my apology, "Oh, well, uhh," She shuffled in place uncomfortably, "That doesn't change the fact that you thought I was a prostitute!"

I deadpanned, "You thought I was a burn victim, and actually asked me."

She recoiled, "Uhhh, well you…," She looked at me and our surroundings as if trying to find a reason to be mad, finally, she just gave up, looking defeated, "Fine, I guess I'm sorry too."

I nodded, "Apology accepted, now," I weighed my options and decided that she'd be better as a friend than an acquaintance, "I know we didn't meet on the best terms, but how about we clean the slate and start over?"

Once again, a look of confusion adorned her features, "Aaaalright," She stuck out her hand, "My name is Anko, it's nice to meet you."

I took her hand, "Likewise, my name is Ton'neru, I look forward to our time in the academy."

And all the while Hayate stared at us in total, and utter confusion.

A/N: Alrighty then, this chapter was annoying just because of the extensive research I had to do to find the time period all of this so far could have taken place, what characters would canonically be the age they were, and all that fun stuff. Also, the characterization to me felt weak, but then again, they are 8 year olds, but any feedback on how the characters acted and grammar would be appreciated, anyway, I'll hopefully see ya next chapter, and I hope ya enjoyed.