Chapter 2: Playing The Genius

Sorry for not updating! I was busy with getting my mom off my back wanting to make me go shopping, or other horrors. I only just got away, but she's formulating a plan, so this may be short. If you are reading this, please review. If you have time to read this you have enough time to type a short message. Truthfully, I'm writing this in the short 5-10 minute periods I have, so don't harp on me about it. Well actually, you can if you bother to review.

Tou-san had gotten colder, stricter in the past few months after Kaa-san's death. I could see now why Hinata and Hanabi had turned out that way, but I'm not going to let that happen to my little sister. Maybe it's because I always wanted a little sibling, but I feel fiercely overprotective of her.

Deciding that we all needed some motherly spirit back in the house was easy. Becoming determined to do everything Kaa-san did was relatively easy as well. The hard part was actually doing it all.

In my petite five-year old body, I couldn't reach anything high up when cooking, and I didn't know how to handle a baby. Luck was on my side though, because Tou-san had a branch member help out by taking care of the baby. She didn't mind when I asked for help cooking, and she even gave me some recipes to try. I only recently got her to call me Hinata-san instead of Hinata-hime, but she was careful enough not to say it when others were near.

Naomi, the woman who was helping us out, took me to met her son. Agreeing, I had gone with her, and found myself face to face with a little Neji. He was quite bitter, and I assumed that it was because his father had already died. I hadn't paid much attention to the gossip that went around, and I guess I have to pay for that now.

I did my best to cheer him up in the only way I knew. Slapping some sense into him (quite literally), disregarding everything he thought he knew, and told him to get on his feet and man up. The part about manning up angered him a bit, because I called him 'ponytail man', but it was worth it.

Neji had been my other source of info because I can't read history books without getting pissed off and slamming the book shut. Therefore, Neji became my history teacher.

I took it upon myself to teach him any techniques I had learned that he would have had to reverse-engineer in canon. Most were the more simple stuff, because even a main branch 'prodigy' wasn't allowed the better ones 'till they made genin at least. Foo.

It stayed this way until I was of age to be in the academy. It was quite boring actually. Neji had drilled all the answers into my head (he was still a hard-ass, even after my 'comforting'. Wow.), and they never even taught us to mold chakra. So when we're genins, we just have to automatically know how to do something we were never taught? And face off in the chunin exams as well? If you weren't from a clan, you had almost no chance at even getting into them. That was sad. I even brought it up with the Hokage and he seemed to share my worry.

The only thing other than that was when I tried to help Naruto get control over his massive chakra reserves. I didn't know what to do with it. I went to the Hokage with my problem, and he was able to whip up a modified chakra storing seal, that was kind of like Tsunade's, but he put the excess chakra in there instead. He still had to train without it, but it was easier for him now.

I had tried to convert Sakura and Ino to non-fangirlish ways, but that failed for Sakura. But then again, Sakura never stopped fangirling over Sasuke even after he betrayed Konoha, went to Orochimaru's side, killed Orochmaru, joined the Akatsuki, and tried to burn down Konoha. She probably was the only fangirl not to declare him a lost cause and move on. That showed a lot of devotion, sure, but also was a sure-fire way to get sent to a mental hospital raving about how your true love would save you.

I am happy to say that I have only displayed such fangirlish tendencies when I see, say, yaoi and mine are (almost) always for pairings, not myself. That didn't mean I couldn't check out a hot guy! Well, not one of Hinata's age. I'm not a pedophile! If you add how old I was when I died to Hinata's age, you get around 16 years of age. It's too bad all the cute - I mean handsome - guys were almost all over 20 years old. What's worse, is that they all think I'm 5 years old. Foo.

Off of that topic, Ino was getting better. I was lucky that I stopped this early. Ino started to take her training more seriously, and didn't start to bother with diets or makeup. I shudder to think of 5-year-olds wearing makeup. Or anyone if they don't do it well enough.

Me and Naruto came to a system where I would teach him things, and in return, he wold show me or help me make prank jutsus. Together we modified the sexy-no-jutsu into one that actually had clothes and looked a bit different so he could buy things without people ripping him off. I made sure to tell him the dangers of doing that technique, and to only do it during a fight if he really needed to gain the upper hand and to dispel it quickly after. I made sure he could protect himself if he had to do that though.

And now I'm rambling. Sorry. Right now we are in the middle of the second practical part of the academy exams. I made sure that if Naruto passed or didn't pass, The scroll would be defended by me and Naruto, or would be copied upon being stolen. Either way, it would work out.

The exams ended, leaving me with a hi-ate and Naruto with a bruised ego. I hid for a bit untill Mizuki was gone, then went with Naruto to grab the scroll. Instead of blundering around like he had, I brought a rock with me, set it down, replaced myself with the scroll, and again replaced myself with the rock. I got out of there with a scroll and without a pebble. Simple as that.

We copied down all the jutsu as fast as we could after Naruto learned the Kage Bunshin. It certainly helped to have nineteen others copying as well. When Iruka came, which was quite later than I had expected, (Had they not seen that the scroll was missing for a longer time?) we were already done copying. I let him lecture us and Naruto did his little oblivious explanation. Mizuki came by, got beaten up by us much quicker than in canon, blah de blah. I managed to slip away unnoticed after telling Iruka to leave me out of the explanation he gave the Hokage or anyone else because ' The Hyuuga clan can, and will be... unreasonable when it comes to their heiress. If they catch wind of this, they may try making me into the perfect little girl. That's not me. I don't want Hanabi subjected to that either.'

That was actually mostly true, but I was also worried about the council. They only allowed Naruto to become a shinobi because The Hokage allowed it. If I was there, they would heap all the creddit on me, instead and dismiss the Hokage. That couldn't, and wouldn't happen now.

A/N: I know, it wasn't much longer than the other chapter, but I'm trying! The next chapter may just be a collection of plot bunnies that I couldn't write in. Truthfully, I could have, but I am shit at focusing on doing this. I just want to get the chapters over with. Oh, and thank you, LostName for reviewing. Anyone else want to?

Salutations,

Moron the first