Natsumi grinned as she looked down at Anko, who was laid out fast asleep on the girls bed once again with a half-empty bottle of sake clutched in one hand as she snored, completely oblivious to everything around her, and would be remaining that way for the rest of the night most likely.
Taking this chance since her teacher was indisposed for the moment, and the small voice in the back of her mind was crying out for a little bit of real violence after all of the training the pair had been doing for the last few days, Natsumi slipped out of the apartment through one of the windows, and hopped up onto the roof to take stock of the village at night.
There were a few ninja traversing the rooftops to their own destinations, but none of them paid attention to one another this late, so she knew there was little chance of her excursion getting found out until at least the next morning, which made her grin wider before she took off with a flying leap towards some of the seedier parts of Konoha.
Hopping down between two buildings across from a relatively well-known bar in the village, Natsumi found herself in luck as a group of obviously very drunken men were just leaving the bar and mumbling to one another loud enough that the girl didn't even have to strain her ears to overhear them, since they were making no effort to keep their conversation to themselves.
"Damn demon brat" the tallest man with black hair grumbled as the three made their way down the street back to their own homes "first she fooled the Sandaime into letting her live, and now she's being trained by that snake bitch about how to be a ninja."
"It's likely that she's going to reveal herself eventually, and start killing people indiscriminately after she learns enough in her new form" a mousy-looking man pointed out conspiratorially to his friends as they walked "she might have lost some of her memories when the Yondaime sealed her away into that form, but having her being trained as a ninja is just asking for her to kill everyone in this village."
"Yeah, but no one seems willing to stand up to the damn bitch," the third man with short brown hair stated "the civilian council has been doing their best to keep that damn demon from learning too much, but all of the clan heads and the Sandaime are too soft to see the truth." The man scoffed before he added in a snide tone "should have drowned the damn thing after the Yondaime sealed it away into that brat."
"We all know that old man Hiruzen is too damn old to still be the Hokage" the black-haired man told his friends, "they should have appointed the fifth Hokage instead of allowing that old codger back into office. Whoever it might have been would have probably been a lot smarter and just killed the fucking demon instead of allowing it to live amongst us for so many years while it bides it's time."
"At least right now we still have a chance of stopping the demon even if it goes into a killing rampage" the mousy man pointed out "the most experienced shinobi and the Anbu should be able to put down a fucking Genin, even if it's got the mind of the most powerful Bijuu in the elemental nations it's still in the body of a twelve-year old girl."
Having heard quite enough of the men Natsumi reached down and clicked off the tape recorder that she had brought with her to get some defence for her actions before making her move and slipping back into the shadows.
The three men stopped as they suddenly picked up the sound of what appeared to b a relatively young girl crying in a nearby alley, and they looked at each other for a moment to determine whether they had all heard the same thing before diverting their course into the alley where it sounded like the crying was coming from.
Unexpectedly they came across a girl wearing a torn-up formerly white dress crouched in the shadows behind a dumpster that looked to be at least sixteen sobbing to herself as she hugged her legs to her chest, which made the men even more curious.
"Hey girlie, what happened to you?" The black-haired man stepped forward to ask, catching the girl's attention as her crying abruptly cut out and she squeaked in surprise before jolting up to her full height, which barely reached to the tallest man's chest.
"Oh god please help me" the girl cried out before launching herself towards the black-haired man and wrapping her arms around his waist so she could begin sobbing into his loose shirt and babbled at him "these horrible men pulled me into the alley and tore up my dress to get my purse and all of my valuables, and then left me here" she explained frantically to the men.
The two followers looked at one another for a moment, trying to see whether they were thinking the same thing before grinning at each other while the largest man hesitated before wrapping his arms loosely around the teenager.
"Hey it's going to be okay kiddo, we'll be more than happy to help you home" he offered, though the girl couldn't see the malicious grin on his own face as he looked down at the torn remains of some of her clothing still on the ground next to the dumpster.
"Thank you so much!" The girl continued to cry and buried her face into his chest "I'll do anything to repay you once I get back to my apartment, but I'm afraid I don't have much money to offer you."
"That's okay sweetie" the mousy man stated as the two began to close in on the hugging pair, the girl still oblivious to their intentions as she let out all of the tension in her body, missing the dark looks that passed across the men's eyes as they blocked off her escape "we're sure that we can think of "something" you can pay us back with."
Neither man was expecting a kunai to suddenly stab through their necks, or a slim hand to wrap around the men's mouths to silence their deaths as they choked on their own blood as a pair of shadows dropped from the rooftops above with grins on their faces and hunger in their bloody red eyes.
The last man remained unaware of the deaths of his friends as he held the girl in his arms, but began to allow his hands to slide down to cup her ass just before he choked out a glob of blood as a sharpened kunai was stabbed into his heart, and his attention was immediately diverted away from his own arousal as he looked down in shock at the girl he had been comforting a moment ago.
What he saw chilled his blood, as in the place of the sixteen-year old bombshell was a twelve-year old demon with glowing red eyes that held the kunai embedded in his chest with her own malicious grin on her face. She took a moment and twisted the knife in his chest and cackled at the way he coughed up more blood before the life left his eyes for good.
Stepping back and allowing the three bodies to fall to the ground Natsumi looked at her two shadow clones which were cleaning off their own kunai before they nodded at the girl and dispelled, leaving the blonde in the alley with three fresh corpses and a smile on her face.
"I would have preferred a little more of a challenge, but I guess that every hunt can't be made of entire angry mobs out for my blood" the girl commented idly as she slipped the kunai back into her weapons pouch before jumping back onto the rooftops and making her way back towards Anko's apartment with a grin on her face while she whistled a jaunty tune to herself, ignoring the blood splattered across her tunic from the man's last breaths.
She knew that she would need a shower after allowing that sleaze of a man to get so close to her and letting him cop a feel of her ass, making her shiver in repulsion at just the thought of what that scum had intended to do with her. It might have been necessary to make them lower their guards, but damn if it didn't make her feel dirty to get groped like some two-cent whore.
Just as she slipped back through the window she had left through earlier she remembered the tape recorder in her pocket, and grinned to herself as she patted her pocket, knowing that even if the crime was traced back to her she had more than enough evidence to get the Hokage to drop the case, since she had learned early on how to abuse the system to her advantage.
Slipping into the bathroom and beginning to get undressed, Natsumi looked forward to a nice hot shower before she cuddled up with Anko and got some sleep for the night, since she was aware tomorrow was the day that she would finally be able to show Sasuke that he wasn't as great as he had been lead to believe in the academy because of all of the suck-ups they dared to call instructors.
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Waking up bright and early and practically kicking Anko out of bed as though it had become their routine the two quickly ate before setting out for the training ground that Kakashi had told Anko to meet them at when they set up the little "joint training session." They found a surprise though when the other graduates of the latest batch of Genin were hanging around the training ground talking amongst themselves for the moment as their teachers shot the breeze.
Growling as she looked upon the other students that had made the last few years of her life a pain while she was trying to learn to become a ninja wasn't a welcome experience for her, she realized what Kakashi's angle had probably been, and voiced her thoughts to Anko "looks like Kakashi thinks that his little star pupil needs everyone to see how great Sasuke is."
"Yeah right," Anko replied with a scoff, "if you do lose to that stuck-up little shit, I'll be running you into the ground for the next sixth months leading up to the next Chunin exams just to make sure that you can kick his ass in the next fight you have."
"Then it's a good thing that I don't plan to lose to the Uchiha," Natsumi muttered confidently to her teacher before strutting into the training ground like she owned the place, gaining the attention of the other Genin and their teachers.
"Hah, looks like the little bitch actually decided to show after all" Kiba was of course the first to comment about the pairs arrival, which didn't surprise Natsumi. Instead choosing to ignore the dog-fucker's comment Natsumi walked right past the boy to the tall woman standing next to the man casually smoking a cigarette and bowed to her.
"It's nice to finally meet you in person Kurenai Yuhi, Anko has spoken very highly of your skills in Genjutsu" Natsumi stated to the woman respectfully, her red eyes flashing out of sight of everyone as she took in the woman's profile.
Slightly taken aback by the girls polite tone and respect towards her, Kurenai took a moment to look at her best friend for confirmation, and when Anko only nodded in response the red-eyed woman at least cracked a grin and returned the bow to the younger girl "Anko has said you are a very talented student" The older woman returned.
Kiba, Sakura and Ino all scoffed at the woman's comment, making Natsumi turn to glare at the three. Both girls were smart enough to shut up for the moment because of the girl's harsh look, but Kiba just had to run his mouth and dig himself further into the ground "yeah right, like the dead-last could be anything but a failure."
"If I recall correctly you only scored slightly higher than Natsumi in the academy" Shino, of all people spoke up, startling dog-breath, who no one had even seen approach during the small confrontation.
Kiba spluttered for a few moments in an attempt to think up a retort to the bug-user, but finally he just scoffed and turned away, making Natsumi laugh at his failure. While Kiba walked away with his tail between his legs over to a creepy-looking boy that was unnaturally pale Natsumi noticed Hinata approaching and bowed slightly to her "lady Hinata, a pleasure to see you again" she stated with a small smile to the otherwise shy girl.
Unsure of what exactly to say tot eh girl that she had hardly exchanged any words with in the academy, Hinata just kind of stood there blushing and poking her fingers together until Shino once again broke the silence to announce the arrival of her opponent.
Of course Kakashi had to go for a flashy entrance, so he and Sasuke appeared back to back in the middle of the clearing, the one-eyed Jonin barely paying attention to anyone as he read from his stupid orange book that made both Anko and Kurenai growl at him.
"Oh sorry, are we late?" Kakashi asked obliviously, acting as if he hadn't known what time they had agreed to meet, and making Natsumi even more eager to make his student taste the dirt just to show the two of them.
Since everyone was here now they decided not to waste any time, and all of the non-participants cleared off to one side of the training ground while Natsumi and Sasuke took opposite sides of the ground to stare each other down, waiting for Asuma Sarutobi, the Jonin that had been smoking since her and Anko's arrival, to start the match.
"I hope you're ready to admit that you can't stand up to the power of an Uchiha," Sasuke stated smugly, grinning down at the short girl as if he had already won the fight, but Natsumi refused to give him the satisfaction of rising to his bait, so instead she simply slipped into her Taijutsu stance and waited for the chain-smoker to start things off.
With a cry of go the trained Jonin jumped out of the way as the match officially began, and Natsumi was not disappointed in the stupidity of the fan-girls as both girls began cheering at the top of their lungs for the last Uchiha. Looking over out of the corner of her eye Natsumi caught sight of Anko's hands twitching towards her weapons pouch as she fought back the urge to stab the damn fan-girls.
Sasuke on the other hand immediately went with the big guns as he began to try and rapidly go through hand signs that he had probably been trained in since his family was alive, and Natsumi knew at once the Jutsu he was trying to use, the little one-trick pony that he was.
By the time that Sasuke had finished his own hand-signs Natsumi had gone through the signs of one of the first Jutsu Anko had taught her after they discovered her elemental affinities, and both called out their attacks at the same time.
"Fire style-great fireball Jutsu!" was shouted by the last Uchiha at the same time Natsumi called out "Water style-water whip Jutsu!"
Thanks to the amount of chakra that Natsumi had because of the great fur ball in her seal, she had learned early on how to overpower some of her favourite Jutsu to great effects in certain situations such as this one.
While it took Sasuke more chakra than Sakura and Ino probably had in their entire bodies combined to form the Uchiha's signature Jutsu, it was barely a drop in a bucket of water for Natsumi to feed enough Chakra into her own Jutsu to counter the stuck-up Uchiha's attack.
Sasuke's large fireball came flying at the girl at speeds she could have easily dodged out of the way of with time to spare, but instead a veritable wall of water sprung up in front of the girl with a wave of her hand to dissipate the chakra-infused fireball with ease. She took pride in the way that Sasuke, as well as most of the other Genin and even some of the Jonin looked on with shock at how easily she had just nullified the attack.
"Is that really all you have Sasuke,?" Natsumi asked, yawning overdramatically just to further incite the Uchiha's wrath and taking great pride in the veins that began to spring up on the black-haired boy's forehead at being shown up by the dead-last.
"I'll show you my true power!" He announced, making Natsumi roll her eyes as he closed the distance between them and tried to throw a haymaker at the girl which she more than easily weaved out of the way of.
"You'll really have to try harder than that if you want to hit me "last Uchiha" Natsumi prodded the hornets nest as she continued to easily dodge the Uchiha's furious attacks.
Once she grew tired of simply dodging out of the way Natsumi took her chance when Sasuke overextended a punch and grabbed onto the boy's wrist, then pulled him in closer to throw him off-balance and nailed the black-haired boy in the gut with her knee, sending him flying away.
She had to at least hand it to Sasuke that he was resilient when he used his momentum to roll himself back up onto his feet and charge in at her again, but she couldn't say anything nice about his intelligence when he went for the same approach as last time.
Deflecting his fist off to the side to leave his guard wide open, Natsumi delivered three punishing strikes to his torso in the same place she had previously hit, making the boy double over gasping for air in an attempt to catch his breath from the painful attacks to his gut. She also had a feeling that he was trying hard not to lose his lunch from her strikes, since she had been intentionally aiming for his stomach.
Jumping back to give the boy a chance to regain himself and show a little bit of honour in this "spar," Natsumi turned off to the side to wink at Anko, who guffawed aloud and startled the other Jonin as Kakashi looked on in horror at how easily his prized student was getting his ass handed to him.
"You know you could just give up now Sasuke, I'm sure that the other villagers will still be more than happy to kiss your ass and never have to know about this embarrassing performance," Natsumi offered cheerfully to the doubled-over boy, putting her hands on her hips as she watched him, waiting to see what he would choose to do next.
"Go fuck yourself dead-last!" Sasuke choked out as he finally managed to fight through the pain to straighten his back, and once again began going through hand signs. This time Natsumi didn't allow him the time to finish his Jutsu though, as even faster than the Uchiha could manage she wove through a set of signs she had been practicing almost non-stop with her shadow clones to cut down the time it took to complete.
"Water style-great waterfall Jutsu!" She cried out, and a huge wall of water rose up in front of her which she launched in the Uchiha's direction with a shove, earning gasps of shock from the other Genin.
Sasuke was forced to disengage from his hand-signs in order to just barely dodge out of the way of the attack, which harmlessly broke once it hit the tree line around the training ground, but Natsumi didn't allow him time to get back to his feet as she closed the distance between the pair and used one of her feet to stomp down on his back, while she pulled out a kunai and held it to his neck.
"I'd strongly suggest you yield now, unless you'd like an extra air hole in your body," Natsumi stated in a sickly-sweet tone that made Anko nod approvingly and the other Jonin stare on in shock that the supposed prodigy of the Uchiha clan had been beaten so flawlessly.
Scoffing at the girl's threat, Sasuke began to struggle in an attempt to throw the girl off of him, but realized too late that all of the strength had been drained out of his body by the girl's precise attacks, and froze up when he felt the cold steel press against the back of his neck and just slightly push through skin.
"That's enough you de-brat," Kakashi caught himself at the last second, making Natsumi scowl at the man, "as his sensei I'm calling this sparring match finished with Natsumi as the winner."
What the one-eyed Jonin probably didn't expect Natsumi to overhear him mutter under his breath as he approached the pair was "fucking demon, I'll have to teach Sasuke much harder in order to avenge sensei," but brushed it off for now in order to put away her kunai and get off of the stuck-up boy.
She almost immediately had to duck out of the way as Sakura and Ino tried to take her head off of her shoulders in indignant fan-girl fury at making their dear, sweet Sasuke-Kun look bad in front of the Genin and Jonin. Rolling back up to her feet at Anko's side, she noticed that it looked like the two were contemplating charging her again in hopes of getting a strike off on the blonde, but finally thought better of it and stood down.
"You two ought to not try to attack a fellow ninja from behind after a spar has ended" Asuma commented as he approached the two girls and put his hands on their shoulders to stop them from doing anything that could make him look bad as their sensei while Choji brought up the rear of their "team."
Out of the corner of her eye Natsumi caught sight of Sasuke and Kakashi talking to each other in hushed tones, but unfortunately they were being quiet enough that she couldn't catch what they were saying over the sounds of Sakura and Ino arguing. She didn't like the way that the two scowled in her direction before they departed from the training ground, but opted not to worry about it too much, based on the pathetic showing Sasuke had made during their "spar."
Slapping her student over the back Anko grinned down at Natsumi as they watched the two men leave ahead of everyone else "you did good brat, that Uchiha prick didn't have a chance against you."
"Thanks Anko," Natsumi replied, honestly appreciating the woman's kind words as they watched the rest of the assembled ninja beginning to group up for their own spars. The two were just about to take their leave before Hinata approached, poking her fingers together once more.
"Ano, Natsumi I was wondering whether or not you and Anko might be willing to teach me a little bit about elemental affinities," She requested meekly, "I just spoke with Kurenai about it and she said that you were much more experienced in that field than she was, so I was hoping" she trailed off and ducked her head down in embarrassment.
"Yeah sure, meet us at the entrance to training ground 44 on I don't know, the weekend, and we'll find out what your elemental affinity is," Anko muttered with a shrug, obviously not all that bothered by the request, but also not sure about what she could really teach to the Hyuuga heiress.
"Thank you very much Anko," Hinata said with a small bow before departing back over to her teacher and Shino, while Shikamaru hadn't moved at all since their arrival while he napped under a nearby tree, making Natsumi scoff at the boy.
Wrapping an arm around the younger girl's shoulder and leading her away from the training ground Anko had a bright smile on her face as the pair made their way back to the main square of Konoha in the direction of Ichiraku ramen, "I wasn't lying before, you really did show that Uchiha brat that he wasn't all he thought he was, and I'm sure that Kakashi regrets inviting all of the other teachers and Genin to come and watch your match."
"I hope he'll regret it for a very long time," Natsumi commented back to her teacher "it was bad enough he wanted to practically broadcast the superiority of the last Uchiha and his ego, but I still had to show off a few of my tricks in front of the other Genin and Jonin during that fight, even if it was only two of the new Jutsu that you've been showing me."
"Don't you worry at all brat, by the time those two pricks repair their bruised egos I'll have taught you a ton more tricks to put them back into their places" Anko stated confidently, making both women grin as they made their way down the street, ignoring the civilians glares.
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I'm hoping that the combat in this chapter was acceptable for you guys, but while I wasn't entirely sure about everything I knew that I wanted Sasuke to lose from the beginning and make it look like a complete curb stomp, so I'd like to think that it was an acceptable first attempt at combat in a few years.
I will be making up a lot of Jutsu for Natsumi, but none of them should be ridiculously overpowered except in special circumstances, and I'd like it if you guys could remain open-minded on the matter.
Oh, I also don't condone any of the things implied during this chapter, just to get that out of the way. With all of that said, ja ne everyone!