Nine years later-

Iruka Umino was walking through the village deep in thought. He had just come from a meeting with the Hokage about his new job as a teacher at the school and was a little troubled to find out who his new student was. Naru Uzumaki, the village demon container.

It was'nt that he bore the child any ill will or anything, it was just that he really, really didn't know what to do with her. He had seen her chucking bright red and green and blue paint onto the faces of monument mountain while he had been in his meeting with the Hokage.

He had been just a little suprised by how violent the action of chucking several cans of paint over the side of the mountain had seemed. Yet the girl hadn't screamed out curses or anything, she had just tossed the paint over the side and then stuffed her hands in her pockets and walked off.

He sighed tiredly and wondered what he was going to do with her since he doubted that anyone would really be able to reach her and calm that wildness in her. He heard a man up ahead yelling at someone and looked up and stopped, his dark eyes watching the scene before him curiously.

There standing in front of a building with graffiti painted on the side was his new student, her royal blue jacket sleeves rolled up over her elbows and she was holding a soapy sponge in her hand and was trying to wash the paint off of the building while the elderly man next to her yelled curses and insults at her and occasionally hit her...

Iruka's dark eyes narrowed as he noted the area that the man used his thick wooden cane to hit the child with. The elder was hitting her across the small of her back and across the back of her head the girl shifted slightly as the elder smacked her in the back of the head again and started to take a step forward to stop the man when the girl's head snapped forward on her neck dangerously as the resounding sickening crack of thick wood smacked into the back of the girl's head and nearly saw red when he saw the trickle of blood running down the back of her neck.

She lifted her head a little bit and rolled her shoulders and kept scrubbing, ignoring the fact that she was being hurt. Or so it seemed. Iruka looked around and noted that a group of villagers had gathered and some were starting to pick up rocks and throw them at her when on man, a chunin from the looks of him, stepped forward and pulled out a kunai and smirked at the little girl when she turned her head slightly to look at him.

"I wonder if demon's scream when they're hurt." He said as he took several threatening steps towards the girl when Iruka finally heard her voice.

"Don't do it."

Everything got quiet. Everyone in the crowd went utterly silent and still, wondering what was going to happen next. Some in anticipation, others in fear. Iruka felt a chill go down his spine and stared at the girl curiously.

"What did you say bitch?" The man with the kunai sneered at the girl as she dropped the sponge back into the soapy water in the small tin bucket next to her feet and turned to look at him.

"I said, don't do it." The girl said in a voice that gave Iruka the impression of quiet thunder, soft yet intimidating and maybe a little bit frightening at the same time. The man with the kunai looked confused, as if he didn't understand why she might have just more or less warned him off.

And Iruka didn't bother kidding himself, he knew a threat when he heard one and Naru Uzumaki had just threatened the man. True that she hadn't used threatening words, but her tone was another story all together. He had never heard such a soft and frightening tone before.

Her tone meant danger to the man with the kunai. But the fool hadn't picked up on that, or he wouldn't still be holding that kunai in his hand and looking like he was ready to use it to lay open the girl's throat.

"Why would you say that? Plan to beg for you're life?" The guy smiled gleefully, his dark eyes sparkling with malice.

Naru tilted her head to the side a little bit, her mid back length strawberry blond hair slipping over her shoulder as she looked at him a sweet smile crossing her angelic little face. Warning bells went off in Iruka's mind as he stared at that expression in awe and just a little bit of fear. "No. You're not worth humbling myself for...you're too weak to really do any damage anyways. I just thought that I would warn you before you forced me to kill you." Naru said as she slowly reached her small hand back behind her and pulled a blackish grey kunai from the waist band of her pants and stood there waiting for the inevitable explosion to occur.

She didn't have to wait long. The man roared in rage as a furious look crossed his face and she smirked and stepped to the side as he charged her, sticking out her foot and tripping the guy as he ran by her and slashed at her, Iruka knew the exact moment that the man realised that he was in trouble. There was a look of fury and hatred on his face as he tripped over her foot as it connected with his shin as Naru raised her hand, the kunai glittering in the sun light ominously as the man fell.

Iruka closed his eyes as she quickly and savagely brought the kunai down on the back of the man's neck, using it to pierce his spine as she buried the blade in the back of his neck and jerked it to the left, back towards her body. Everyone watching screamed as blood spurted into the air as the man's body fell to the ground with a soft thud and started to twitch and spasm at her feet.

Naru didn't bother pulling the kunai out or saying anything.

She just looked at the crowd and walked away while mumbling something about having a headache.