A.N.: I do not own Naruto. Leave a review if you like the story, Dattebane! :D
They kept on running in the forest for some minutes before Naruto stopped looking around a bit. Nana was fidgeting behind him, clutching her left pant side pocket tightly so her knuckles were turning white.
"Corpse, corpse…Now where is that corpse?" Naruto mumbled as he kept on looking around.
"Naruto, Are you sure this is safe? I have a bad feeling about this. What if the enemy is still here?" Her voice was shaky and a whole octave higher than usually.
"I always play around here, so I know this place quite well… But it would be nice to have some specific directions…" Naruto kept on talking to himself not even hearing what Nana said.
"Naruto! Nana!" They both turned and looked up from where the voice was coming from.
"Iruka-sensei.." Nana mumbled as she looked up at him.
"What are you doing?! Hurry up and get back to the Academy!" Iruka said a bit of anger lacing his voice.
"No, I'm not going to the Academy anymore, dattebayo!" Naruto defended himself.
"There are dangerous people still lurking around here! " Iruka-sensei tried to reason.
You think I'll go back just because you asked me to?!" Naruto stepped back a bit grabbing a hold of Nana's wrist.
"Listen to what I say. I'm your homeroom teacher!"
"SHUT UP! Why are you suddenly starting to act like a teacher?!" Naruto yelled at him and Nana could see that Iruka-sensei was shocked.
"Sensei… You don't understand how I feel. Even if I go to the Academy, nothing will change. I'm always alone. I'm always without friends. Nobody gives a damn about me, except Nana and she is not able to make friends because of me. But this time it's different! If I bring back some spoils, then everyone will acknowledge me and Nana as their friend! If we do that, I won't be alone anymore and Nana will be able to make friends. That's why I'm definitely going to find some spoils!" Nana wrapped her other arm around Naruto's arm gently applying pressure as to show him her support and understanding of his actions.
"Please understand. For whatever reason, as a teacher, I cannot allow you two to go near the dangerous hills!" Iruka sensei defended his standpoint.
"You really don't understand…" Naruto looked down faking tears for a bit.
"Hissatsu! Oiroke no Jutsu!" Naruto grinned as he transformed himself in to a nude adult woman, making Iruka-sensei have a major nose bleed.
Nana however stared at him wide eyed, not really sure about what she should be thinking. Naruto grabbed her wrist again and pulled her after him laughing. They could hear Iruka-sensei yelling after them to wait.
"Man, adults are so simple." He grinned looking at Nana who just recovered and smiled with Naruto, even though what he did was inappropriate, inappropriate but effective.
They came to a stop a while after as the forest revealed the aftermath of the battle. There was blood on the branches and fallen trees, some explosive tags that didn't go off and a lot of different weapons embedded in to the trees.
"Then around here… Nana let's split up and search for it." Naruto said to her and made his way to the left side of the battlefield, as she took the right side.
Nana was still feeling nervous, she could feel something was in the air and it wasn't because of the smell of battle and explosives from yesterday's battle. Maybe she was just nervous, overreacting to things. She went with trusting her instincts and grabbed 3 different kunais with exploding tags and some shurikens. Not finding anything else she joined Naruto.
"Nothing…" They both murmured as they looked at each other.
"And I haven't eaten anything yet… Let's see… something to eat, something to eat…" Naruto chanted to himself as he climbed a tree.
"Ah… I just found lunch Nana" He told her and she looked up at him.
"Naruto kunai's are not eatable" She told him when she saw him drawing out a strange looking kunai from the nest in the tree.
"I haven't seen this kind of shape before." Naruto said jumping down and Nana ran to him to get a better look of the strange kunai.
"It's definitely a kunai used by enemy ninja yesterday. I finally found some spoils!" Naruto cheered rising the kunai above his head.
"Alright!" Naruto cheered grabbing Nanas head he started to run out of the forest.
"Naruto… I don't think it's safe. Shouldn't we find Iruka-sensei just to be on the safe side. What if there are still some enemy ninja's here?" Nana shouted behind Naruto.
Naruto suddenly stopped, making Nana bump in to his back. She looked over his shoulders and saw three ninjas standing before them.
"Hey, brats!" The middle one said making Nana clutch Naruto's arm.
"What? Who are you?" Naruto questioned as Nana stuttered one word: enemy.
"Would you kindly hand over that kunai?" The middle one whom Nana concluded was the leader of the team asked as they outstretched the arm.
"No! There's no way I'm giving you this!" Naruto said and put the kunai in his side pocket.
"I see…Then we'll just have to take it by force!"
"W-What? H-Hey, wait a sec!" Naruto said as they pulled out their swords. Both Naruto and Nana screamed and ran as fast as possible.
They were dodging shurikens left and right, and Nana's feet already burned.
"Oiroke no Jutsu!" Naruto screamed transforming himself in to a naked female again to both of their surprises the jutsu did not work.
"To bad, that technique won't work on us." They said as they pulled of their masks.
"No way! You're all women?! That's foul play…" Naruto screamed as the enemy turned out to be a full team of female ninjas.
"Naruto! Run!" Nana yelled as she pulled him with her.
"Well then! Bunshin no Jutsu" Naruto yelled as he made a really bad clone of himself.
"If ninjutsu won't work, then…traps." Naruto told Nana, as she followed him close behind.
She could feel her muscles burning, if that will go on much longer her legs will give up.
"I know all about the hunting traps in this forest" Naruto explained Nana and she looked at him with big eyes admiring her big brother.
"Here they come." Naruto grinned and activated a net trap. Not looking back they continued to run.
"Now where is the next one?" Naruto asked out loud a bit of panic showing on his face.
"Naruto! Nana!"
"S-sensei?" They both stuttered.
"We're over here!" Naruto yelled as he pulled Nana behind him through some bushes, successfully tripping over a root so they both fell down a small cliff.
Luckily they landed in some bushes so their fall was not as painful as it could be. They both didn't move for a second as they tried to catch their breath.
"Hey! Are you alright? Get a hold of yourself! Are you alright?" Iruka-sensei said as he picked up Naruto, seeing as Nana already stood up.
"You're awake" Iruka said relieved as Naruto murmured something.
"You outsiders! What are you doing, lurking outside the village of Konoha?" Iruka asked the three females.
Nana stopped listening to their conversation for a bit, trying to work out a plan. Naruto protected her from the fall, so it's her time to pack up the courage to protect him. She saw Naruto pass out and Iruka grabbed him and put him on his back, allowing some free hands to grab on to Nana. Nana snapped back as Iruka pulled her up in to the trees.
"Can you run?" He asked her and she nodded.
She grabbed her pant pocket and pulled out a normal kunai as she looked behind them. She saw the incoming shurikens so she fully turned around and deflected most of them with her kunai. With her other hand she grabbed into the other pant pocket pulling out one of the explosive kunais. She threw the kunai down between her legs and kept on running.
"Kai!" She shouted as soon as she saw one of them step on to the branch, releasing the explosive tag sealing.
"Hurry, surround them!" She heard the person screaming from the ground as she kept on running.
"Good job, Nana. Remind me to give you an A+ later on." Iruka told her as they kept on running.
"Die!" Someone screamed behind them and Iruka reacted fast, blocking the sword attack with his kunai.
"I will protect Naruto and Nana, no matter what!" He said as he deflected the sword and kicked the ninja backwards.
Nana blushed at those words and grabbed another explosive kunai quickly throwing it behind them. Both her and Iruka-sensei got scrapped by the enemies shuriken jutsu. Nana moved behind the tree with Iruka sensei as they saw another explosive tag going pass them in to the enemy.
"Are you three alright?" A ninja with silver hair asked. As Nana looked at him, she concluded his hair looks messy, like a scarecrows.
"Kakashi-san. What are yo doing here?" Iruka questioned the shinobi before them.
"Your students told me, and I became interested." He replied, Nana watched the enemy preparing a jutsu.
"Watch out sensei!" She said as Kakashi-san yelled for Iruka to get out of there.
They dodged the attack by jumping down behind some trees, and not soon after Nana heard the screams of all three enemies, cheering silently to herself. They joined Kakashi-san as she helped him tie up the enemies.
"Thank you very much. If you hadn't come Kakashi-san, I don't know what would've happened." Iruka-sensei thanked Kakashi.
"If I hadn't come you'd have defiantly protected Naruto and Nana-chan here." At that Nana bowed down thanking him herself for helping them out.
"For a seven year old, you did good. Quick thinking." He told her and after a moment he added with a smile "I hope I see you on my team when you are a genin." She blushed and hid her face in her hands, not hearing what Iruka told Kakashi.
At the end of the day Naruto and Nana had to wait by the academy for Iruka sensei to come back.
"Sensei! Why did you lose the item that I found?!" Naruto yelled at him.
"You idiot!" Iruka screamed at him for the first time, shocking both him and Nana.
"Who cares about that?! You were almost killed!"
"Well yeah, but…" Naruto pouted, making Nana smirk in her fist as she tried to hold it in.
"You're awfully obedient today." Iruka noted.
"Because this is the first time you yelled at me, it surprised me,…right? Nana?" Naruto pouted and Nana nodded still smiling into her hand.
"Ah, I see. That's true, your sensei has decided to be more upfront with you from now on. Both of you. Henceforth, starting tomorrow, I'm going to be stricter with you." Iruka said with a smile.
"Eh, that made me lose the feeling of wanting to come back to the Academy." Naruto complained.
"Naruto, Nana, do you have the Will of Fire?"
"Will of fire? What is that?" They both questioned him.
"The Will of Fire, is the strong desire to protect this village. As long as you have that you can become as strong as Hokage-sama." Iruka explained and they both fell in a conversation about Hokages while Nana's thoughts drifted of to count how many dangos are waiting for her at home to eat.
"Right! I'm gonna work really hard and show you!" Naruto yelled snapping Nana out of her dango daydream.
She looked up at the tree noticing the cut that Iruka sensei made, she smiled to them both.
"Alright! Nana let's go train! Dattebayo!"
"But my feet hurt Naruto" Nana complained as they made their way back home.
A.N: Done with that arc. There will be a short filler chapter after this one. After that we finally go with the original story line making her and Naruto genins! And chunin exams :D soon she'll meet Gaara ^^ I'll edit this later on tommorow when I'll have more time :P Stay awesome and eat dango ~
