Chapter 06

So not Awkward

Disclaimer:

I do not own Naruto or the characters. The only characters I own the ones that will be listed at the end of the chapter. This story is a rewrite of an older story that I had posted called 'Fallen Angel'. It was made and the character was a huge Mary Sue. Despite having gone away from writing these characters, I wanted to keep true to the story so the character may seem (at least in appearance) to be a Mary Sue. This is also going to be hugely comedy based, though serious times will be thrown around.

Rated M for violence, language, graphical depictions of death, and other things.

I hope you enjoy reading this and don't forget to leave a like and review on how you think I can improve on this story, or my grammar, as I still have a lot to work on. Thank you!

Hello, my name is Katsuko and I'm the new student. It's nice to meet you.

Hello, I'm Katsuko, it's nice to meet you.

Hey, names Katsuko, I'm the new kid. Feel free to beat me up whenever. It's chill.

Sup bruh, I'm Katsuko and I'll be invading your classroom, have fun, fudgers.

"Good morning, class. This is Mighto Katsuko, she'll be joining our class as of today." Jesus fudging Christ he wrote down that we shared the same last name. I'm dead. Like totally dead. As in end me now. Again. I'm fine with a second death.

Let's rewind a bit, to earlier this morning. When this all began. I had been asleep in my bed when I was woken up by Gai, telling me I had to get ready for the morning routine. Nothing special about that. Except it was Monday. My first day of school.

I rolled to the side of my bed, pillows everywhere as I had an abundance. Fat chance I'd be getting rid of them, though. Gai said when I was an actual ninja there would be times I'd be sleeping on the ground or in a tree, so I might as well have some comfort when I'm at home.

Ningame, who had taken to staying in my room since the first day we met, looked up from his pet bed. It was originally made for a dog or something, but I convinced Gai that Ningame didn't deserve to sleep on the cold hard ground. He was more than happy to agree with me so we got a nice, green bed for him.

"You ready, kid?" Ningame asked me and I sighed as I rolled out, literally, and hit the floor. Well, I hit the other pillows that were thrown on the floor from that night.

"Yup, can't you see the enthusiasm radiating off me?" I asked in an overly sarcastic voice and moved my head to see Ningame had gotten up and was right next to me.

"You seemed excited about it yesterday night." Ningame pointed out and I groaned and nodded my head. I had. I all but kept him up for an hour talking about what I'm going to do when I first get to the school and make a dramatic entrance.

Then the anxiety set in later that night when I realized I was going to be a new kid in school. With tons of kids who were probably overpowered since I heard the Hokage wanted me to be put into the group of kids who happened to be clan heirs.

Did I mention they were also all nine at this point? Sure I was mentally older, but they didn't know that. I looked like I was seven, and so everyone assumed that's what I was.

The reason for this was because the moment the Hokage spoke to me for the first time he made note I didn't exactly act like a seven-year-old kid. I was more mature. Still a kid, but not one who was still twiddling her thumbs.

That's why he had said he was going to be having me go to the class that was filled with clan heirs. I had just assumed they were the same age as myself. I mean they had implied they'd be my age. No, they were two years older. When we went to give the paperwork to him I was given an intelligence test and got high scores in everything except literature.

So here I was, going to be entering a class filled with nine-year-old kids. Whoopee. I was nervous as to how I'd be treated. I don't exactly ever remember a time I had gone to school, as I had always been sick, so this was a new experience for me. What if they didn't like me? What if they picked on me because I was younger?

Now as much as I wish I could say I was up all night due to the anxiety, I was still training with Gai and was exhausted, so instead I passed out. In the morning, however, it hit me like a truck.

"That was yesterday night, Ningame," I said as I sat up and scratched the back of my head, looking away from the judgmental tortoise.

"What changed?" He asked, though he already knew the answer. He was one smart cookie, I'd give him that. I let out a sigh as I stood up and began grabbing my morning training clothes. I decided to wear something different for my morning training today so I didn't smell like sweat at school.

"They're going to be older than me, and probably know way more than me. What if they don't like me or something?" I asked with a small pout as I stared at the tortoise who was just looking at me.

"Katsuko, you shouldn't worry about that. Trust me, when you finally meet your classmates, you'll realize you're probably the most mature out of the bunch." Ningame explained and I felt a bit better with that. I would be more mature, most likely. Sure I was sarcastic and childish at times, but I was most definitely more mature than a nine-year-old kid. I let out a small sigh then turned to Ningame with a bright smile.

"Okay, can you tell Gai I'll be ready in ten?" I asked him and he nodded as he left my room, slamming the door closed as per usual. I quickly tossed on some shorts and a t-shirt, putting my hair into a bun. I'd probably eventually get it cut once I became a ninja, but for now, it was fine.

I looked in the mirror I asked Gai to get for me and just stared and blinked a few times.

"Okay, Katsuko, today is the day. You're going to do your morning training, then go to school." I tried giving myself a pep talk and slapped my cheeks until they were a bit red and smiled. I would be just fine.

As I left my room and saw Gai I felt a sense of relief wash over me. The morning went like it normally did, me running around the village and such, then coming home to stretch, some yoga, and then finally some small workouts. We had a good breakfast of spicy eggs and rice. Ever since Gai found out I liked my food spicy he had been more than happy to get me a cookbook so I could make whatever spicy foods I wanted (mostly because Gai could only really make curry).

Gai had to go and wash the dishes (family rule, whoever doesn't cook has to clean) and then he walked over to me with that bright grin of his.

"You have about an hour before school starts, I'd go and get ready if I were you," Gai said and I nodded before running to my room and grabbing my clothes, then dashing for the restroom. I washed my hair and got the sweat off me as fast as I could, then decided to use a special shampoo I had Gai get me that had a little bit of body glitter and smelled like flowers. Something most ninja shouldn't be wearing but while I was still in training I decided 'why not'.

I went and blow dried my hair (I bet you guys can get the gist of this, I had Gai get a lot of things for me. I was a spoilt brat) and left it down for once. Throwing on some clothes and finally taking one more glance in the mirror before leaving to make some lunch for later.

Once all was said and done it was time. Time for me to go to school. I was still nervous about the whole thing as I walked next to Gai, the whole time thinking of ways I could introduce myself. By the time we had gotten to the door of my class (everyone was already inside as we were told to show up ten minutes late on my first day so they could do attendance) I had a mixture of good and sarcastic introductions.

Gai had left me and my instructor, a kind man named Iruka, told me to wait outside the door. I went over my introductions one last time.

Hello, my name is Katsuko and I'm the new student. It's nice to meet you.

Hello, I'm Katsuko, it's nice to meet you.

Hey, names Katsuko, I'm the new kid. Feel free to beat me up whenever. It's chill.

Sup bruh, I'm Katsuko and I'll be invading your classroom, have fun, fudgers.

"Good morning, class. This is Mighto Katsuko, she'll be joining our class as of today." I froze at hearing this. It made sense that we would have the same surname as I myself didn't have one, but hearing it being said to the class was shocking to me.

I inched my way into the class, looking like a deer caught in headlights. I'm pretty sure everyone in the class could see just how terrified I was to be there.

"She's starting a bit late and it two years younger than you, but I expect you to treat her with the same respect you show your other classmates," Iruka said as he put a hand on my back. He then turned to me with a smile.

"Anything you'd like to say, Mighto?" Oh gosh, he's referring to me by my last name. I had to do something to change that. Right now.

"H-hi, please call me Katsuko." Yes, I totally nailed it. Perfect introduction. A+. I should write a book on this or something with how amazing I am.

I sucked in my breath as I waited for the awkward silence to end. I spoke so fast I wasn't even sure if anyone could understand what it was that I was saying, but Iruka sure got the message.

"Okay, Katsuko, there's an empty seat next to Sakura." He said and a girl with pink hair and a large forehead raised her hand to show me where she was sitting. I quickly scurried off to my seat and plopped down and was stiffer than a board. First impressions were always important. Good thing mine showed how awkward I was so everyone knew.

The class had begun and I found myself looking around, a bit nervous. I could see some people looking at me, but most were actually paying attention to what the instructor was saying. I looked at my blank piece of stationary paper and tried to write down some notes, but soon got bored. It was pretty simple stuff. I'd be more interested when going over literature and such, however, with math, it was as simple as one-two-three.

I began doodling a little reindeer with a giant X on his hat in the corner of my note paper, spacing out a bit as I tried to ignore the anxiety bubbling in my stomach.

The girl next to me must've noticed this and shot me a warning glare that I should be paying attention. I mentally grumbled but outwardly I just looked at the blackboard. Long division. Fun. Wait, was this normal for nine-year-old kids to be learning? I wasn't sure but here we were, learning it.

By the time the math lesson was over, it was lunchtime. I had originally planned on heading outside and eating by a tree or something, away from everyone else, when fate had other plans for me.

A group of three girls walked over to my seat as I was pulling out my bento box and I blinked a few times, wondering what they could want from me.

"So you're the new kid, Katsuko? Awe, you're so cute. I'm Ino, and this is Kiri and Ayano." Ino introduced her two friends that were behind her. They looked more like her lackeys, but I wasn't about to say that out loud.

"Thanks…it's nice to meet you all," I said, my voice a bit quieter than I originally anticipated.

"So, how'd you skip two grades?" Ino asked, leaning in a bit closer to me as I raised my eyebrow. In all honesty, I didn't even know. Sheer dumb luck?

"I'm not sure," I explained and Ino laughed a bit and I smiled. She seemed to be pretty nice as she then went on to talk about how I was going to love it here, pointing out a few people and naming them, and then pointing out one boy in particular.

"That's Sasuke Uchiha, he's great, isn't he?" Ino said and I didn't have the heart to tell her he looked kind of like one of those emo kids in a bad teen movie. I just nodded.

"Um, ya, sure," I said and Ino looked at me as though I were crazy.

"Wait, do you not think he's cute?" Ino asked, suddenly hushed and I noticed the pink haired girl who was sitting next to me was now in on the conversation.

"Well…I mean I'm only seven so I think boys have cooties?" I said with a shrug. That was a huge lie but what was I supposed to say? 'Hey sorry I'm mentally sixteen and I'd feel like a pedophile if I wanted to go out with that kid.' I don't think that would go over very well.

"Hm, I guess you are kind of young. Don't worry, in a few years you'll see how amazing he is." Ino said with a wink and I mentally patted myself on the back for coming up with a 'good' excuse.

"Though it won't do you much good since I'm going to eventually marry him one of these days," Ino said with a dreamy far off look before I heard a sharp laugh.

"No you won't, Ino-pig. He's going to be married to me." The girl, Sakura, said as she stood up and looked at Ino with a glare. Oh gosh, I don't think they're friends.

"What was that, forehead." Oh, burn.

"I think I'll excuse myself, thanks for the lovely conversation," I said but I don't think they heard me as they were too busy bickering with one another. Okay, so don't mention Sasuke when both are around, got it.

As I got up and was ready to be alone for lunch, I decided to suck it up. I don't think it was normally in my nature to do so, but in a way, I wanted to become friends with my classmates. All of them. Perhaps it was to make things easier for me in school, or perhaps I just craved to have some form of friendship since I never really got to have that as a kid. Now was my chance, though.

The first thing I did was locate a large group of guys. If I could introduce myself to them, I could introduce myself to anybody. I noticed one of them had a dog and my mind was made up as I walked over to their group. I'm not sure what they had been talking about, but they looked at me once I was close enough.

"Oh, I wanted to come and say hello to you guys," I said as I rocked from heel to foot, as I noticed I did a lot when nervous. The guy with the pet dog smiled, making me notice the two red triangles on his face.

"You're the new kid, right? I'm Kiba and this is my partner Akamaru." Kiba introduced and the small dog in his lap barked a bit, making me internally melt at the adorableness. The other guys in the group introduced themselves and I even noticed there was one girl among them.

Once we had all become acquaintance I went on to introduce myself to others. I noticed two boys sitting by the window of the room. One seemed to be dozing off while the other was eating both of their lunches.

"Hello," I said while walking up to them with a smile. The boy who was eating looked up at me and then quickly turned his head with a blush. He was probably the shy type of guy. The one who seemed to be sleeping looked over at me.

"Hey." Was all he said while the other kid said a small 'hi' to me.

"I'm just going around and introducing myself to everyone and finding out everyone's names. What are yours?" I asked and the chubby kid who had cute little swirls on his cheeks finally looked at me.

"How troublesome…I'm Shikamaru and this is Choji." Shikamaru introduced himself and his friend and I could see the sense of relief wash over Choji's face. Perhaps he was really shy and his friend knew it? What a cool guy.

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you guys. I best be off, I'll see you around." I said in the most polite voice I could muster before once again heading off to meet some more kids.

I found a girl with a short and blunt hair cut eating by herself. She was really pretty, with dark blue hair and milky eyes. I wondered for a moment if she was blind as I walked up to her.

"Hello, who are you?" I asked her and a she looked up at me, obviously startled at me suddenly making an appearance.

"H-hello. M-my name is H-Hinata H-Hyuga." Her voice was so soft as she said this and a scarlet red blush crossed her face and I couldn't help but find her adorable.

"It's nice to meet you, Hinata. I hope we can become friends." I said with a smile and she seemed to perk up at this, clearly not used to hearing someone say those words to her.

"I-uh…it's nice t-to meet you too. I h-hope we c-can become friends a-as well." She stuttered a lot as her eyes moved to different locations in the room as though it was hard for her to make eye contact, and I thought it best not to laugh at the obviously adorable display.

"Well I best be off, I need to go introduce myself to some more people. Let's hang out sometime." I suggested and she smiled a bit and nodded before I headed over to the bright blonde of the room. A boy with spiky hair was sitting all alone; he had these cute whiskers like markings on his cheeks.

"Hello, who might you be?" I felt like I was a broken tape recorder at this point, but making connections was a very important thing to do at this age…I think. The boy looked up at me with wide eyes and I noticed how pretty and blue they were.

"O-oh hello! I'm Naruto Uzumaki, and one day I'll be Hokage, believe it." His introduction was loud and not what I would've expected from a boy who was sitting all alone. Still, I couldn't help but smile.

"Hokage is like the head honcho of the village right? Famous and all that? Respected? Sorry I have amnesia so I need to be reminded of these things." I joked around about the whole amnesia thing though I don't think he even knew what that was. Still, he was more than happy to tell me.

"Yes, the Hokage is the strongest ninja in the whole village, and everyone looks up to him and respects him," Naruto explained and I tilted my head a bit before coming up with an idea on how to get on his good side.

"Well, okay Naruto. How about we make a deal." I said with a small smile and he seemed uncertain but I think his lack of friendship made him want to know what I was going to say, as it wasn't often people came up to him and acted kindly. Or so I assumed, as I could see some people giving me odd looks and whispering things ever since we began talking. He must be the weird, bullied kid.

"What would that be?" He asked, curious and a bit on edge in case I suddenly grew a second head and attacked him. Luckily, I wasn't about ready to do that.

"If we become friends now, you aren't allowed to forget about me when you become Hokage, got it?" I said and held out a pinkie, so we could make a promise. He seemed shocked at this as he looked at my pinkie before wrapping his own around mine, smiling brightly.

"Alright! I promise!" Naruto said and I laughed a bit at how cute he acted. He was loud, I'd give him that, but he seemed like a good kid.

I looked over to see if I hadn't introduced myself to anyone else, and other than a few girls who were flocking around Sasuke, and the kid himself, I had met just about everyone. Since I had met everyone, I decided I might as well hang out with Naruto.

"So what did you bring for lunch?" I asked him as I put my bento next to me and he looked at the food, almost drooling when I opened it, before snapping back to reality.

"Oh, I didn't bring anything." He admitted and I smiled as I brought out my extra thing of chopsticks. I had initially brought it as I still dropped mine all the time, but now it would have a proper use.

"I made way too much to eat all by myself, want to share my bento?" I asked as his eyes widened. I had a habit of making too much food ever since moving in with Gai, only because he had an appetite so whenever I did cook I had to make a whole bunch. Even when I made a lunch for myself, the habit of making tons hadn't left so I had too big of a bento for only myself to eat.

"Are you sure?" Naruto asked and I just nodded, before quickly telling him something.

"Just a warning, the boiled egg cream is pretty spicy. Have to have at least one super spicy thing in my bento." I admitted. I had kept everything else pretty tame. That was a lie. As everything else was tame, most of the lunch consisted of the spicy boiled eggs. I planned on eating one with every bite of rice and vegetable.

"Okay, thanks for the warning." He said and we both dug in, savoring the flavors of the food. I was happy to see he didn't look like he was almost ready to die with the spicy eggs. I could still see a bit of discomfort, but his stomach wanting food made him continue. Once we were almost done I began speaking again.

"Do you ever bring lunch?" I asked him and he looked down and shook his head and I chuckled, "That's alright. I'm already cooking lunch for Gai so I don't mind making you something to eat as well. I'll be careful not to make it too spicy." I offered and I had never seen a kid look so happy.

After that we talked for a few more minutes and finished the meal, then eventually class began again.

We had a history lesson right after lunch which I was actually pretty interested in. Learning all about the ninja stuff. Ya, pretty cool if you asked me.

Once history was done, though, it was physical education. Something I honestly thought I'd excel in due to Gai's training methods. Boy was I wrong.

Perhaps it was the lack of experience, or perhaps it was Gai adding on a hundred pounds to my weight set this morning since I wouldn't be able to train all day. Either way, on the obstacle course we had to do, I was far behind everyone else.

Everyone was far faster than I was, not to mention nimble as they went through the course. Sure it was an easy course to do, but they did it with such ease and speed that I was almost embarrassed when I came in last. The only thing I beat everyone is was stamina since I was more or less used to it.

"You really suck at physical training." I heard Kiba say from behind me and I smiled a bit, rubbing the back of my head.

"Kind of, I guess. I mean I have great stamina, though." I pointed out as I could see he was clearly tired out despite trying to play it off like he was fine.

"That's because you only ran at half the speed as everyone else," Kiba said and I shrugged my shoulders. I found out it was pretty easy to talk to the kids in my class. I don't know why I had been so nervous about it before.

"Whatever," I said and then saw Naruto, who was a panting mess and walked up to him. He says I hadn't even broken a sweat (Okay huge lie but spandex covers up a lot) and frowned.

"Katsuko, how are you not dying?" Naruto asked in between breaths and I could only laugh at the irony.

"Been there, done that," I said, leaving poor Naruto confused.

"Wait, what?" He said but Iruka began speaking, saying that was it for the day. I waved goodbye to my new friend and even made the effort to say goodbye to Hinata. I'd probably try to instigate a friendship with her as well since she seemed like a nice girl.

At the gate, to the school, it wasn't hard to find Gai. He was standing in all his spandex glory. I waved over to him and then made a dash to where he was, stopping before I could run into him.

"Hey Gai!" I said and he didn't even need to ask if I had a good day, since he could tell. Instead, he asked if anything fun happened. I explained a thing or two as we walked back to the training field.

Despite having gone through all that at school, my training wasn't over yet. Oh no, we went on until it was time for dinner. I was going to be the best ninja ever…eventually…like in the far future…if you squint really hard…and there's a wall there…then you can see it.

Ah I love Sundays. It's the first day of the week that I have off. I'm also off tomorrow, so yay. That means I can get more writing in. So who enjoyed this chapter? Hopefully, it wasn't too boring. I always fear my writing is boring.

Anyway, we finally hit 20k with this chapter! I know it says more but I'm just counting the words written, not the disclaimer or the author's notes. So ya, 20k in and I started re-writing this like a week ago. I need help.

Well, if you enjoyed this chapter don't be afraid to follow, favorite, and review, it means a lot to me and helps me get motivated. Also if any of you have suggestions on future chapters or how Katsuko should progress, just let me know! We still have to find a romantic interest for her, but that will come in due time I'm sure.

Toodles~!