LC; Yay, time for more Spiraling Vixen!
Naruto; Can't we skip this and let you get back to the mutant turtles again?
LC; No, I already updated all my turtle fiction! It's your turn!
Sasuke; I don't know you.
Naruto; Teme, did you hear something?
LC; Hey! Don't ignore me!
Sasuke; No. Why?
Naruto; I don't know, it's this buzzing annoying sound in my ear.
LC; *Sniff* Wah! Don't ignore me or I'll kill you off!
Naruto; Ah! No, don't do that!
Sasuke; We're sorry!
LC; To my story!
Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto, now leave me to wallow in the emo corner!
Chapter 4: New Life Twists, Yondaime's Daughter?
Minato groaned quietly as he took off his coat and put it on the rack. He walked down the hall, made a stop at the bathroom, then continued to the end of the hall.
He opened the dusty door to the empty nursary that would never be used. He looked at the white cradle the baby would have slept in.
He saw the impossibly tiny dresses Kushina had bought. He looked at the walls, which he and Kushina had personally painted to look like the entire village from different view points.
There in the corner was the rocking chair Minato's own mother had used to rock him to sleep at night.
There were the toys he had bought for the babbling baby girl they'd been waiting for.
He sighed as he thought of all the firsts he had missed with Naru. He'd never heard her first word. Hadn't seen her first steps, not even crawls.
Hadn't been there on her first day of school. He hadn't given her her very first present. Had probably missed her first loose tooth now that he thought about it.
He looked at the picture, sitting on the nightstand next to the cradle. Yep, there was him and Kushina, a very pregnant Kushina.
She had looked so beautiful, as they both waited on their little girl. He had been the proudest father in the world, before she'd even been born.
Slowly, he packed away the never worn clothing. He pushed the cradle and rocking chair up the stairs to the attic.
He exchanged the diaper changing counter for a dresser. Where the cradle had gone he put a twin sized bed. Next he dusted the pictures and added one of Naru as a newborn, courtesy of the Sandaime, on the nightstand.
He hesitantly put away the nightlight, not sure if she would still be afraid of the dark or not. He put up a little calander, and marked the date.
He started smiling as he packed away the toys, imagining an almost seven year old girl playing with the teething rings. Soon tears began falling as he continued softly smiling, changing the room.
When he was done, the Sun had long since set and he still had another room to clean. He should have hired a maid or something.
He wasn't even sure if Naru would want to move in with him. She had been living alone pretty well for a while now, according to the old man.
Still though, he wanted to be ready, just in case she agreed. He knew that meeting could have gone better, but he would give her a couple days to get over it and then talk to her. He just hoped it wasn't too late to catch a few fleeting firsts of his little girl.
He wanted to meet her first friends, he wanted to meet her first crush, if she'd had one, and he wanted to bear witness to her graduation into a proud genin.
He wanted to be the father he'd never had. He just hoped he still had enough time to make things up to her.
He walked into his own bedroom and sighed as he saw clear signs of Kushina all over the place. He would need to find a box to put some of this stuff in.
More tears flowed as he looked over the memories he and Kushina had made. It was when he was cleaning out his closet that he found an old picture of when he was a genin.
It had his old sensei, Jiraiya in the back. Next to him on his right was Kushina, little red haired girl she used to be, and on his left was Fugaku, now head of his clan, and a father in his own right. He recalled all the trouble they used to get into.
How Fugaku swore Kushina was some kind of she-devil in disguise. In truth, half the time he believed him, that woman could pull some devious pranks.
Itachi had gone first to the Hokage's office to find that he had already gone home. His clone was still in place, so he went on to the Hokage's manor.
He had to find Yondaime, before the council members did something drastic.
He made it and rang the bell impatiently. He was only thirteen, he couldn't help but feel a little impatient during stressful times.
He was perfectly entitled to his minor panic attack!
"Itachi, what's wrong?" Minato asked after opening the door.
"Yondaime-sama, it's the council." He told him about being called away, stressing that he left a shadow clone with Naru of course, and about the sub-sequent meeting.
"I was afraid of this." Minato sighed, leaning against the door frame, obviously deep in thought. For a startling moment, Itachi wasn't sure even the hokage knew what to do.
"I've got it!" He suddenly declared, making Itachi jump.
"Instead of an assissination mission, I'll give you a search and capture mission. Capture anyone involved in the Uchiha plans and the council members and bring them to my office. Dismissed." He said tersely.
Itachi saluted before shunshining off to complete his mission. He had his work cut out for him.
Back at Naru's apartment, she was busy doing several push ups and other sorts of excercises. Even though the day was Sunday, the day of rest, she worked.
"Naru-sama, it's getting late." Kisu commented sleepily from his position on his mistress' back as she completed push up number fifty.
"Yeah, time for bed." She panted, allowing herself to fall on the ground in pain. Her arms felt like her ramen. She'd never be able to eat ramen again!
At least not until tomorrow.
She lay on her bed several hours after this statement, trying to entice sleep to her eyes. Lately her life was just one big line of surprises and she didn't know what to expect next.
She supossed the next surprise would be Sasuke-teme is her brother or something! Ha! Or maybe her mother was princess of some long lost country!
Chuckling softly to herself, she thought about the Yondaime. He was her father, and she guessed she should have seen it coming.
She did look a lot like the guy.
She wasn't angry anymore, but she was still uncertain about all of this. She didn't know if it would be alright to move in with him, after so long of living by her own merits.
She had no wish to be locked in the shadow of the hokage, she wanted to be strong by herself.
She fell asleep around two in the morning, and woke late for class again. As she ran to the academy with Kisu darting alongside her, she thought more on her plans.
She wanted to make sure no one could out shadow her. She wanted to be where all the information was, so that no one could lie to her. She also wanted to be able to tell if someone did lie to her.
Didn't Iruka-sensei once say that their was a series of books that shinobi who wanted to be in the T&I department could read?
She'd have to look into those later, but for now she was really late and she had to get to class before the first bell. She didn't make it.
"Naru Uzumaki, your late!" Naru flinched, she had only just opened the door to her class when Iruka had yelled.
"Um, oops?" She tried kiddingly, sneaking over to her seat as he ranted and raved on the importance of being on time.
Sadly, there was only one seat left open. It was in the front row, next to Sakura Haruno, who was seated next to Sasuke-teme.
This day was off to a bad start but it could only get better from here right?
"Geez Naru-baka, can't you read a clock?" Sakura taunted her as she sat down.
"Were you trying to catch up on your beauty sleep? You know you'll never be as beautiful as me!" Ino put in her two cents from the row above them.
"No, I was just trying to put off seeing your ugly mugs again." Naru muttered below Iruka-sensei's super hearing. The mental countdown commenced!
"Nani!" Iruka swiveled around to see both Ino and Sakura standing up, and having no idea the instigater of the sudden outburst.
"Ino, Sakura, see me after class!" He ordered them sternly. They both groaned before sitting down and taking up their second favorite past time, glaring at Naru.
Their first favorite of course being gazing at Sasuke.
Itachi had already incapacitated the clan elders and captured Homura and Koharu, the Sandaime's teammates. He had even gotten his father. All that was left was Danzo Shimura.
He arrived at that particular council member's home to find him in the kitchen drinking tea.
"Danzo Shimura, the hokage has requested your presence." He stated demurely. He couldn't wait to see the look on his face when he figured out what this meeting was about.
"The entire council has been called." So it was just the advisory council, that didn't matter. What mattered was that the man hurry up already cause he still had another full time mission to get back to.
Danzo didn't panic, oh no. He did however subtly sign to some of his personal Ne guards to come with him, just in case.
The mission was within parameters and the chances of the Uchiha even talking to the Yondaime were fairly low. Besides, this was all for the good of the village. For Konoha, he would do anything. (Except just die already! Apparently!)
In the council chamber, he got a shock in the form of several, just awake Uchiha elders and the clan head, who was glaring at them all.
Something told him this might be bad, and he carefully checked to make sure his guards were in place. They were ready.
"Councilmen, elders, I'm glad you could join me this fine day." Minato greeted them cheerfully from his desk.
"Now, I hear that you have been giving my ANBU here some uncertified missions." He said gravely, all joyful banter forgotten in place of the man who took down 300 Iwa nin in one move.
"Karasu tells me that this mission was the extermination of the entire Uchiha clan. I can't condone that." The Uchiha elders sighed in relief, audible to everyone in the room.
"A select few of them however, have been plotting against the village, thus against me." Raido Uchiha, the elder among the elders, shivered in fear.
He had hoped that the Yondaime would remain asleep for a few more years so they could off him quietly. Now though, he wondered how he ever thought this plan could work.
"My old teammate Fugaku and I have been speaking about this clan's elder's plans to overthrow the village." He continued, standing up and moving to stand in front of these elders with his arms crossed, a rare scowl marring his features.
"You are hereby under arrest for treason against this village, to be presecuted at the highest level, death." With a snap of his fingers, two ANBU showed up and quickly slit their throats.
No one noticed that Itachi had subtly looked away when the blood splattered all over the ground.
"Now, on to less unpleasant matters." Everyone still alive sweatdropped as the Yondaime, now covered in blood from the spurt, started smiling jovally.
"It has come to my attention, that while I respect the Sandaime, he is just too old to effectively rule." He said, pacing the floor and coming to a stop in front of the advisory council.
"For the past few years you've apparently been gaining a lot of support. However, Konohagakure is a dictatorship, any way you slice it." Danzo opened one eye and looked hard at the young leader.
This man was strong and took no nonsense. He had matured from the brat Jiraiya trained. He might actually make a decent leader.
"Now, you are all the same age as Hiruzen, aren't you?" Koharu and Homaru couldn't tell where this was going, but they knew they would not like it.
"I'm sure you would all appreciate a nice relaxing retirement, but I'm afraid I'll have to keep you on a while longer." He said, much to their relief and Fugaku's amusment.
He knew this play, he had seen Minato use it to trick Kushina into their first date.
"Of course, a few changes will have to be made. For instance, I have to stress that you are advisors, and nothing more, I'm sure you agree." Itachi was bearing witness to politics at it's highest. He felt like he should take out a scroll and start taking notes!
"From now on all B-rank and above missions should be sent to me for my seal before being given to my shinobi. Second no missions may be given to my ANBU unless I am present." He listed them off.
"Finally, I believe that a certain secret organization should send in all information regarding it to my desk as soon as possible." He said this, eyeing Danzo specifically.
"I know about Ne Danzo, but I'll let you keep running it. It might come in handy. However I want all information regarding it to be sent to me, including numbers, ages, names, faces, training methods, and results." He ordered.
"If that's all, I think we can move on to the final reason for this meeting!" He chuckled at their stupified expressions.
"Fugaku-teme, I'll need people I can trust to help me keep this village at the top. I know I can count on you, so how would you like a position on the advisory body?" He asked.
"I'd be happy to Minato, but please don't call me that." He said, as respectively as he could.
"I've called you that since our academy days, old habits die hard." Minato said dismissively.
"Anyway, along with the usual responsibilities of being on the advisor council comes the paperwork that you'll have to fill out daily about whatever the council goes on about all the time." Fugaku could swear the man was holding his laugh in when he said the word paperwork.
"I already have a new idea I've been thinking about to give the village a little extra money! What do you think of the idea of academy students taking on the D-rank missions we get in every day?" Something told Fugaku he would have a lot of paperwork to fill out tonight.
At the academy, Naru could sense that someone was expieriencing an extreme sense of despair nearby but she wasn't the cause.
How dare someone try to muscle in on her tiraid! It was her job to make the people that bugged her miserable!
She was in the middle of a pop quiz and she was seriously wishing she could kill the guy who invented them just once!
These questions were impossible to answer! She had actually studied for once and found that the test wasn't on anything in the book!
These questions were the kind of thing that came later on, when they got closer to being genin. Things like the hand signs for the Bunshin jutsu!
Naru sat back and thought about it for a minute. She had an hour for the test, and out of the corner of her eye, she could see a lot of people struggling with this.
All of them it seemed, except for book worm Sakura who was sitting right next to her, Sasuke, Shikamaru, and Shino.
Naru knew they were the smartest in the class, even if Shikamaru usually didn't make the effort to be good at this book learning stuff. What she needed was a way to get the answers from one of them to get a decent passing grade.
Kisu gave a yawn from his spot on her lap, giving her a great idea. Maybe she could send Kisu around the room to get answers for her!
It was a worth a shot anyway, otherwise she'd be doomed to be a dunce the rest of her short life!
"Kisu, get answers for this test from Sasuke, Sakura, Shika, or Shino." She whispered urgently, shaking her kit awake and alert.
He nodded silently before moving. He had some work to do.
Over the course of the hour, he would get her the answers she needed to pass this test.
"Question one is 82 degrees." She heard a whispered yip behind her. She wrote the answer down, making sure to look as though she was just guessing.
"Tiger, ram, dog, ram, is for question eight." She heard from her right. It wasn't going in order, but none of them knew all the answers so she had to get bits and pieces from the others.
Naru was glad Kisu was so good at hiding, Iruka never spotted a thing.
Eventually she got enough answers that she would pass with a C, one of her best grades ever! Kisu hopped on her lap again, and none but a few were aware he'd even moved.
From his spot, Shino looked down at Naru and thought of how clever it was that she used her fox nin-ken to gather information from her.
With thirty minutes left to the test, he decided to follow her lead and sent his kikaichu out on a search and retrieve mission for as many answers as possible.
In the end, he got enough answers to get a B if they were all correct. He nodded to himself before putting down the pencil.
Shikamaru had watched the interaction between the students and understood what Naru and Shino had been doing.
He thought momentarily of doing the same, but he didn't have a method for cheating and it was way too troublesome. Besides, while his classmates might not know it, this was actually the early graduation genin exam.
They gave this to the students every year to see if any were ready to be skipped ahead or graduate early.
Becoming a genin at seven wasn't on his agenda, so he held off. Besides, he found the lazy school days good for his sleep cycle and he wouldn't be able to sleep as much if he graduated early. Add the fuss his mom would make, crooning about her little genius, and he would do without it thank you.
Iruka took and graded the tests during their lunch hour and was amazed that two of his students had passed!
The most surprising thing though, was that one was Naru Uzumaki. Maybe they had underestimated her? He shook his head before thinking on the progress she had made. From not being able to read to passing the written part of the graduation exam. Who would have thought?
"Uzumaki-san, may I speak with you?" Naru looked up from the swing she was sitting on to see Shino, the bug guy from her class, standing in front of her.
"Sure, what did you want to talk about?" She asked, walking with him to where they wouldn't be over heard.
"I saw you use your fox, Kisu, to cheat on the exam. It was very clever." He said logically.
"Oh, uh, you saw that?" Naru chuckled, scratching the back of her head in an embarrassed fashion. She had thought they were being very sneaky.
"I won't tell. I used my bugs to do the same thing." He admitted, before walking away, leaving behind a very confused and grateful blonde.
"Alright class, next we'll have an accuracy throwing test." Iruka announced to them when they came back from lunch.
They lined up according to name, leaving Naru next to last in front of Ino Yamanaka. Sasuke was standing right in front of her as she watched as one by one, kids were lucky to get even one shuriken into the bull's eye.
"Looks like all that extra training will finally come in handy, eh Kisu?" Naru said happily, thinking back on how many times she had thrown the kunai and shuriken until they stuck.
"Right!" Kisu barked, wagging his tail in Ino's face, as he was standing on his mistress' shoulder.
"Ew, Naru-baka keep your mutt away from me! He might have fleas!" Ino cried, trying to get the nasty tail away from her flawless hair.
"What did you say about Kisu!" Naru roared. Kiba had been walking to the back of the line to talk to Naru when he heard what Ino had said and he decided to come in for support.
"What did you say about fleas and mutts?" He demanded, baring his fangs at the annoying fangirl.
"Your both a couple of mangy dogs." She declared to them.
"Better than being a prissy, stuck-up, weak, shit-faced, damned, fucking bitch!" Naru roared, trying her best to claw Ino to shreds with her short nails.
She had been filing them so they were more pointed, and Ino felt the results of it.
"Naru Uzumaki, Ino Yamanaka, both of you break it up!" Iruka ordered, pulling the cat fight apart, much to Kiba's dissappointment.
He had been hoping for some shredded clothing and seeing Ino get her pretty face messed up.
"Naru, it's your turn." Iruka sighed after finally getting the girls to calm down.
"Just watch, I'll beat Sasuke-teme's score no problem!" Naru swore, picking up her kunai and taking careful aim.
She let fly and watched as each one found a target. She missed the bull's eye at least twice, but they all landed within the inner ring in that instance.
Without missing a beat she took up the shuriken and hit the dummy's lying in wait, even the moving target.
She was better at the shuriken and managed to hit bull's eye with all of them. She turned around then to see the entire class staring at her in shock.
"Looks like my hours of hard work payed off, huh?" She said playfully.
Sasuke stood, gaping at the feat that the girl had just accomplished. He had never seen someone do so well, except his brother of course.
This girl was proving more and more surprising by the day. He wondered what she would do next, he almost couldn't wait.
"Alright, now we'll have a jutsu review. I want all of you to perform the two academy jutsu you've already learned and attempt a try at a new one." Iruka said, after herding them back to their class.
Like before, some kids could do it, but most couldn't. The clan heads did well, passing most of the requirments but hitting road blocks at the little details.
One fangirl, when she performed the Kawarmii, left behind her skirt when she switched places with the chair. It was a very funny moment for the class.
Iruka's mind was elsewhere as he graded each student's performance after this part of the test. If things kept up this way in the final part, two of his students would graduate early!
This had never happened before, but he was proud to say he had taught them everything they knew!
Especially of Naru.
"Finally we'll be having a taijutsu tournament." He announced as they went to the school dojo. Here would decide who would pass and who would stay in the academy for another year before it came around again.
All Naru and Shino had to do was win two consecutive fights and they were golden! Or, silver like the Hitaite.
"First up is Naru Uzumaki vs. Sakura Haruno." Iruka knew that while Sakura was at the top in book smarts, Naru could run circles around her in physical things.
He had a feeling this fight wouldn't be long at all.
"Better leave that wild animal at the side lines Naru-baka, it will only hold you back." Sakura advised her snobbishly.
This uppity little jerk would finally learn her place! She was such an idiot.
"No, Kisu is my partner and we fight together." Naru said seriously, stepping into the ring.
Shino looked through his shades as the two seemed to size eachother up. Normally Naru would be bragging about beating her in no time flat, this was not the case.
It seemed Naru was unusually serious now.
"Kisu, are you ready?" Naru asked her kit. The little fox nodded and jumped from her shoulders to sit beside her.
"Ready? Begin!" Iruka said, slashing his arm downward.
Not one to wait for her opponent, Naru and Kisu charged forward first. Kisu was slightly faster and he took up a spot behind Sakura and waited for his chance.
The Trickster's Dance was still highly unrefined, and only had a few basic katas so far. Mostly it relied on Naru and Kisu fighting both seperatly and together to tire their opponent and knock them off balance.
Sakura dodged the first punch easily but didn't notice the fox in time to stop it from biting down on her ankle, in a very tender place.
"Ow! You stupid flea ridden rodent!" She screamed, kicking her leg back and forth trying to knock him loose.
Kisu did let go, but only not to get in the way as Naru came in with a side kick, sending Sakura back and out of the ring.
"Winner Naru Uzumaki." Iruka announced, seeing Sakura fall out of the line.
"What! But she cheated!" Sakura tried to protest.
"Nin-ken are classified as living shinobi tools, therefore it's within the parameters since technically they aren't normal tools." Iruka explained, shaking his head at the young girl's demands of a recount.
"And really, the fox didn't do anything but bite you." He pointed out.
"You are the one who left an opening for Naru to take." Sakura felt her self-respect plummeting as she realized, yes, Naru had won without breaking any rules.
She had been taken down in one blow, how embarrassing! Worse, Sasuke-kun had been watching!
The fights went on, with Shino winning his against Chouji with only a little difficulty. Kiba went up against Sasuke but lost, very narrowly.
He would have won, except he attempted a move he hadn't fully mastered and lost his balance.
Shino was drawn again, this time against Ino Yamanaka. The fight started normally enough.
"What just happened! I blinked and missed it!" Naru cried in laughter as she had just watched Shino trip Ino out of the ring without doing anything more than lifting his foot and moving to the side.
"It's not funny!" Ino screamed, having to be held back by Iruka to stop her from going for blood. Naru's to be exact.
"Final match, Naru Uzumaki vs. Sasuke Uchiha. Your up." Iruka announced the last round of the battle.
This would decide if Naru passed early or stayed with her classmates. Technically Shino had already graduated.
"Your good, but I won't fall for that trick as easily as your last opponent." Sasuke acknowledged her seriously, taking the Uchiha's taijutsu stance.
He was ready for anything now.
"Keep talking Sasuke-teme, it'll make it that much more satisfying when I win!" Naru declared, taking a strange stance he didn't recognize.
Her knees were bent, her feet spaced evenly, and her arms were like stone by her side. Next to her, the fur on her nin-ken was bristling, looking almost twice it's size.
"Go Sasuke-kun!" The fan club cheered.
"Naru kick his ass!" Kiba yelled from the opposite side. He and the rest of Naru's friends were on that end of the ring, cheering for their little blonde mascot.
"Begin!" Iruka commenced the battle royal, unaware of what he had just done.
"Time to move out of the lime light Teme!" Naru yelled, running forward to give everything in this fight, the one she'd been waiting on.
Sasuke moved forward and caught Naru's fist in his hand. He swept his leg around to try and knock her off her feet but she jumped over it and him!
He turned to face her, consequently turning his back to Kisu. Taking advantage of this, Kisu rushed forward, he had enough momentum now that when he hit it nearly toppled the boy wonder.
Naru saw her chance and took it, aiming a shattering blow to his rib cage. Sasuke lost his breath and was pushed back a couple feet, but still in the circle.
"Nice shot, but not good enough." He scowled. This time he'd make sure to keep both in his line of sight.
"Sorry Sasuke-teme, but your run is over and done with!" Naru said, a grin on her face. It wasn't hostile, he realized, it was happy.
She wasn't happy at his pain though, it was the fight itself. She loved this feeling!
He rushed forward, intent on taking the upper had in this fight. It was so sudden that it through Naru through a loop, letting him get a lucky shot to her jaw.
He kept up the crusade, first kicking Kisu out of the ring.
"Kisu!" Naru cried, seeing her fuzzy buddy fly through the air. Luckily Kiba jumped and caught him, saving the kit from injury.
"Thanks Kiba!" She called over, before dodging another punch and circling around. Without Kisu now, she'd have to go to the singular approach and hope she was good enough.
She caught Sasuke's next punch and twisted her entire body until she was standing behind him, they were back to back.
Next she gave a huge shove, pushing him forward. Without his other arm he couldn't balance the new weight on his back and he face planted on the ground.
Naru had him pinned on the ground, with no leverage to push her back off. If he were an enemy, he would be dead.
"Winner, Naru Uzumaki!" Iruka shouted for all of the class to hear.
Later in the class, just an hour before they would go home for the day, Iruka told everyone the true meaning of this little test.
"This was part of the early graduation program, letting students with great potential graduate to genin earlier than the usual twelve." He said, before holding up two sheets of paper.
"For the first time in a long time, two students passed the early graduation exam! Shino Aburame and Naru Uzumaki, congratulations!" He said, holding up two silver hitaites.
Naru Uzumaki summed it up quite nicely when she said-"NANI!"
A half hour later both she and Shino had been brought up to speed and taken to a room full of twelve year old newly graduated kids to be sorted into teams.
They would just be getting to know various people in the older class for now, but tomorrow they would be seperated into teams.
"What do you think Shino?" Naru asked, feeling a little nervous as she could see several of the older kids looking at them.
"I think we should put on our hitaites and bear with it for now." He answered monotonously. He tied his on his forehead and waited to see where she would put hers.
After a moment's hesitation, she put it on her forehead as well. Looking down at Kisu, who was sitting by her feet as she stood next to the door, she couldn't help but think one thought.
'I should have bombed that test!' She never whined, not aloud anyway. She only did that in the comfort of her own mind, where none could hear and judge.
Besides, she needed some kind of outlet without ruining her reputation and she couldn't leave for another half hour.
"So we got two early graduates? Weird!" Naru looked up to see a boy with black hair and onyx eyes, who resembled Sasuke.
"My name's Ichigo Uchiha, nice to meet you!" He greeted them both kindly.
"Naru Uzumaki, pleasure's all mine!" Naru said kindly.
"This is Kisu, my fox nin-ken, and my uh, friend Shino Aburame." She continued, hesitating a little, unsure what to call Shino.
He was nice to her, had talked to her, so she guessed he qualified under friend now.
"Not often someone graduates at seven, you remind me of my cousin Itachi!" Ichigo said.
"He's basically this hero among Uchihas, graduated at seven, sharingan at eight, chunin at ten, jounin at eleven, and now he's an ANBU!" He said, clearly walking on the line between infatuation and hero worship.
Naru was leaning more towards hero worship since he didn't have the same gleam in his eye as the fangirls did with Sasuke.
"It's nice to meet an Uchiha without a stick up their ass." Naru muttered, not looking anyone in the eye.
"Oh, do you mean my other cousin Sasuke? Actually, his entire immediate family is like that, save his mom." Ichigo murmured, making sure no one heard him.
END OF FOURTH CHAPTER SO NOW I HAVE TO MOVE TO SOMETHING ELSE NOW!
LC; Okay, now we got to the part I love! Early graduation!
Naruto; You just singlehandedly, in four hours, messed up the entire Naruto timeline!
Sasuke; Hey, I've been wondering, how do you know how old the Sandaime is?
LC; Oh, I just added and subtracted the years important to his shinobi career. He is seventy nine right? I forgot!
Naruto; Hey, can we get back to the important problem? This screws up everything!
Sasuke; There won't be a team seven!
LC; Yyyeeeaaaaahhhh. You'll see, it's better this way.
Sasuke; Whatever.