Five months later
Jasmine's POV
"Give me back my tacos!" I yelled while running after Naruto with a chainsaw.
"What's a taco?!" Naruto asked, still running.
"It is mexican food with meat, cheese, lettuce, sometimes other yucky stuff and a tortilla! Now give it back, it took my five hours to get everything and make them!" I yelled.
"Tsunade told me to tell you that you have to take the graduation exam tomorrow or else you have to leave! Also, I'm gonna eat one of your 'tacos'" Naruto replied. I pounced him and ate the taco that was in his hand, took the tray and ran back home.
"Fine, just don't steal my food again!" I jump into a tree and slowly eat my tacos.
"Can I try a taco?" Naruto whined.
"My tacos! I'll only give you one if you help me 'study for the exam" I yelled down.
"It's the clone jutsu I always failed at!" Naruto replied and I dropped down a taco.
"Can you help me practice it?" I pleaded.
"I'm a busy ninja and have my own training, ask Konohamaru to help you!" Naruto said as he ran off.
"But I wanna practice with you" I pouted. I jumped down from my tree and walk home. Since I moved here so suddenly, I live in an old house in the forest. It's kind of peaceful and good if you don't mind nature or trash. Yeah, I live near the junk yard and in a forest in a broken down house. The house is two stories tall with just broken stuff everywhere.
The upsides to living near the dump are:
-No one wants to come visit unless forced to
-I can get anything from the trash yard
-I'm livin' in nature baby
-No one questions me if I haven't taken a shower for five days!
It might sound gross to anyone else, but I actually like living near the dump. Sometimes when I finish my homework from the academy(which I never go to, Anbu or Iruka send me the homework) or gardening, I'll willingly enter the forbidden place and organize the back. Don't worry, I wear gloves and never wear anything nice. I organize the things that can be composted in one pile and things that can be reused in another.
Another good side of my homes location, there is a river and a pond nearby! I like studying the plants there if the trashmen are around the dump, looking for hobos. So far, I found so much cool stuff there. Some people throw away their weapons because they broke and some women throw away their clothes from their ex's. I always wash them and take them home. Some people know I go in there, like Tsunade, Naruto, the head of the trashmen and Akamaru.
Sometimes Tsunade will personally stop by to tell me if I should look out for something like accidentally thrown away diamond earrings or sake from some places that over-stocked.
When I got home I smelt my hair and then felt it. My cleaning examination is if your hair smells bad and greasy, take a shower. If you are stressed out, haven't visited the dump and did a little gardening, take a bath. Shower it is. I run in and notice someone was here.
"Hello, anyone in my trashy home?" I yelled. After a few seconds, someone walked down the stairs.
"There you are, I was wondering if you have any bones for Akamaru" Kiba said.
"Yeah, I always leave them in the back, in a box with a bone drawn on it" I reminded him.
"You look like shit, flower-girl" Kiba said. Yeah, he still calls me that and I still call him mutt.
"Thanks, Naruto stole my tacos so I had to get them back" I replied.
"How much for the bones?" Kiba asked suddenly.
"Free, I find 'em in the dump, so they're already bitten into" I replied bluntly.
"You willingly go in there?! What if someone were to just walk on by like the Hokage?!" Kiba scolded.
"Tsunade already knows I go in there and the leader of the trashmen practically encourages me to go in" I stated.
"They're called garbagemen and that is the security guard" Kiba corrected me.
"I don't care mutt, now get out I'm gonna take a shower" I yelled.
"Smell ya later Flower-girl" Kiba yelled as he ran away.
"Maybe you should take a bath too, ya mutt! You might get fleas from comin' here" I yelled out the door. I laughed to myself and walked upstairs. I sealed, cleaned and modified a few rooms so they are better than the really broken ones. I jump into the shower after taking off my clothes and the water was already steaming hot. 'Christmas is coming next month and there hasn't been any snow yet. I should get everyone something.
"Knowing Tenten, she would want a cool new weapon, Naruto could get some of my special ramen, Akamaru gets a special bone and chewtoy. Lee and Gai would probably want something matching and colorful, so maybe a scarf? Neji would probably want some peace and quiet, so I'll stop bugging him in two weeks and on christmas give him some mittens" I thought aloud.
"Sakura will get some sakura stuff, like a bouquet with fake sakura, but smell like them and a hair accessory. Ino will get something similar but with blue roses. I could invite Chouji for dinner, but probably lunch instead. I am so giving Hinata a cute dress and a note that says 'Wear to my christmas party!'" I laughed.
"What to give the rest? Shino would probably want something...maybe some honey? Maybe a cd with the sound of different bug noises on it! And Shikamaru being lazy is totally getting an iPhone, he will thank me for sure! What would Kiba want? Beef jerky or as a joke a bone and dog tag with matching collar? I'll give him both, then laugh my ass off!" I said. I finished washing everywhere and grabbed my towel.
"Am I forgetting anyone? Oh yeah everyone in Suna and Sasuke's group! I'll give them stuff too" I said. I put on my blue bra and my underwear with blue forget-me-nots on them. I put on some old, grubby clothes I found last week in the dump. I got black boots last week, from a store, and they already have construction stuff on them!
I walk down the stairs and start working on the living room. A tornado must have come through and messed it up, because multiple things were fucked up-
It was huge, a chandelier used to lie broken on the ground with glass shards everywhere, there were multiple holes in the walls, the doors were all broken and bugs used to be everywhere. Apparently they were an endangered species so Shino's family came and used their chakra and no bugs have been seen since, minus a butterfly.
I'm currently fixing the holes in the walls. The house is made out of wood and I only know how to fix brick or stone houses! So I basically did what I would do with stone and hammered it in instead of cementing it to death.
I fixed all the holes up and looked around. The chandelier was fixed and now hanging again, the bugs are gone, the holes are gone! The only things to do now are to fix the doors, and make it sparkle! I got all the doors fixed last week, so all I have to do it but them back on their hinges.
'My party is in a month, and this room took me a month to finish on my own' I thought, finishing the hinges on the last door.
"I'll clean it tomorrow, for now I'm gonna go get some flowers to make paint!" I thought aloud and ran outside with a recycled-from-the-dump basket. I ran for a few minutes and found the most beautiful thing in my life(no it is not watermelon in watermelon), it's a meadow of flowers, that are either extinct or endangered. There were so many different colors, so I just left them for a few minutes and looked for seeds. I found so many seeds and picked all the flowers. I ran back home and placed them in a vase I made from clay.
"I love flowers~!" I sang. I looked outside and noticed the sun was still up and looked at the time, 8:49.
"I'll wake up early tomorrow, eat dessert now and then go to bed. I ran over to my freezer and pulled out a pint of cookie dough ice cream. I gobbled it all and went straight to bed.
-dreamland!-
"Welcome back, my beloved Jasmine" Grandfather said.
"S'up Gramps, what training are we doing today? I have to practice the clone jutsu for the exam tomorrow" I said quickly, but calmly.
"We will practice that first then I'll start teaching you the way to find home, Kakusareta Hana no Mura" Gramps said.
"Can I call it Hana no Mura? It's a really long name to remember" I asked.
"Sure, but just remember it 'cause I can only teach it to you here, in your dreams. First let's practice for your exam" Gramps said calmly. I perform the handsigns and look around to see three clones, two look exactly like me and one looks like a failure.
"You're putting in a little too much chakra and formed a failure. Relax, you'll pass the exam" Gramps stated.
"Ok, I'll try again" I mumbled. I relaxed myself and took in a deep breath. I performed the hand signs again and two of me appeared, looking exactly the same.
"Yes! I finally got it, thanks Gramps!" I jumped up and down and spun around.
"Good, now for the techinque of finding Hana no Mura. Please, sit down" Gramps instructed.
"The first step is clearing your mind, so it is only filled with the thought of home. Next you must do the following hand signs: bird, tiger, dog, hare, dragon. Finally you must chant Hana no Kakurezato ga hakken sa reru. You will know where the village is at that moment" Gramps explained.
"Can I do it now?" I asked.
"Not yet, you should first learn a lot of stuff in Konoha before going home, because you are the granddaughter of I, the founder of the village. So, you would be the princess" Gramps explained.
"I'm a princess...I'M A PRINCESS?! I ain't girly in anyway or royal" I protested.
"Yes, I can tell. But you have my blood in you, and your brother is currently at the village, being the leader and such" Gramps said.
"My brother is alive?" I asked.
"In this world yes, in the world your parents escaped to, no" Gramps said.
"My brother is alive" I cried.
"Yes, now it's time for you to wake up, you did want to wake up early, didn't you?" Gramps laughed.
"K, thanks Gramps. Talk to ya later!" I said as I woke up.
-Real world(Narutoverse)
"What to clean first? I'll clean the rest of the rooms, stop at 8:40 to change and stuff, then go to the academy to take the exam!" I quickly put on some torn up clothes and looked at the time. 5:03.
"Gramps woke me up really early, I'll eat on my way to the academy" I rambled. I ran downstairs and went to the living room. It was almost as bad as the dining room, but it was smaller, less doors, no bugs and no chandelier. So basically broken doors and holes, but there were also some stains on the wood. I started to fill in the holes as fast as I could and thought of something.
"What if I got someone to teach me the shadow clone jutsu! That way I could work on three things at once!" I said. I called Naruto and he picked up after a minute.
"*Yawn*Hello? What do you want?" Naruto asked.
"I will make you any flavor ramen you want for two weeks if you teach me the shadow clone jutsu today" I said.
"Ah, Jasmine. You wake up really early. Any flavor? Two weeks? Hm, make it two and a half weeks and for three meals a day" Naruto demanded.
"Deal, but you have to teach it to me ASAP" I replied.
"Ok, I'll be over in ten" Naruto hung up and I sprinted up the stairs. I striped off the ripped clothes and changed into a sky blue, no sleeve turtleneck, tan cargo pants and black combat boots. I ran back downstairs and started boiling some water as I started eating some cookie dough ice cream. I heard a knock on the door and put my ice cream away.
"Ok, I want ramen when we're done" Naruto said.
"I already started the water, the broth is cooking and the noodles just got in" I replied. Naruto smiled and I invited him in.
"Ok, I've never taught anyone this before, so it might suck" Naruto admitted.
"As long as I learn it once and am told what it's like, I don't care how much energy it takes" I said determined.
"Why do you wanna learn it?" Naruto asked.
"I can do more things at once, like cook food, clean four different thing AND I'll visit the dump less often" I replied.
"So basically to get things done quicker?" Naruto asked.
"Yep" I nodded.
"Ok, the hand signs are ram, snake and then tiger. You do the same thing with clone jutsu and your chakra. They should appear then. You will get very hungry after you disperse them, so make sure to eat a lot of food" Naruto explained. I made the hand signs for ram, snake and finally tiger and four shadow clones appeared, looking exactly like me.
"You, go make Naruto his ramen. Other me's, we are going to work on the living room!" I demanded.
"Ok!" They said and we all split up. I still have to work on the wall, me number 2 works on Naruto's ramen, me numero 3 is splattering paint on the floor, me number 4 was cleaning the dining room and the final me was working on the doors.
"Wow, you got it on your first try" Naruto grumbled.
"I was determined and I've seen you do it a lot on the tv show" I said. Naruto seemed to perk up when he heard that.
"So it would've taken you longer if I never did on tv?" Naruto smiled.
"Yep" all of the me's said.
"Naruto, your ramen is done. What do you want me to do now?" 2 asked.
"You are me and I am you, so YOU do what you wanna do" I replied.
"I'm gonna repaint the dining room!" 2 ran off and started mixing different paints.
"Do it in here, if you mess up none of us have to clean it then" 3 said.
"Wow, you have a lot of work to do. It's 7:39 now so, you might wanna leave at 8 to get to the exam on time" Naruto said.
"Tsunade told me I don't have to be there until 9:35, that is the time for my exam" 5 said.
"Did you finish cleaning the dining room?" 4 asked.
"I got everything but the walls done, but 2 is gonna be painting them" 5 replied.
"Well, when I disperse you, I'll be hungry so how about you make some food" I asked.
"Sure, anything specific?" 5 asked.
"Whatever you feel like eating" I replied. I finished the last hole and looked around the house. The majority of it was done. All that was left was the first floor bathroom, and three empty rooms. On the second floor were two empty rooms, the attic and lastly the porch would need some work before I call the house okay. All the rooms need new paint jobs, the floors need to be waxed, the kitchen needs to be scrubbed and the bathrooms will need miniature gardens outside the windows. Everything needed cleaning, re-colored and modified.
"Hey, let's take a break, the paint needs to dry here and you should disperse us and eat" 4 said.
"Ok, I'll call you guys back later" I said as they all waved goodbye. I dispersed them and I am starving! I ran to the kitchen and thank god, there was a lot of food. I started to eat the teriyaki chicken and drank some apple juice with a hint of lemon and lime. After that was all gone, I put the rest away and started eating three different flavored taiyaki at once while running to the academy.
"Hey there Jasmine, ready for your exam?" Kiba asked. I swallowed the last of my chocolate and strawberry taiyaki and took out the vanilla one.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Tsunade decided that everyone who met you in your world from Konoha will be examining you" Kiba replied.
"Naruto told me to study the clone jutsu though!" I pouted.
"Then you aren't prepared, 'cause I hear you have to fight a few people" Kiba laughed.
"Don't ninja start at with d and c rank and when they are chunin they can go on b and a and jounin get s ranks though?" I asked.
"Well, yeah. But you're special 'cause you aren't from here" Kiba replied.
"Well actually I am, my parents just left this world to go to one without chakra and I'm actually a princess" I said.
"Stop lying, the village you mentioned is mythical and you could have learned it from anywhere" Sakura said.
"Hana no Mura is not mythical, my brother is there" I said.
"The grandfather you mentioned is probably a figment of your imagination, wanting to belong" Sakura said.
"My grandfather has taught me enough, and if you insult my family one more time things will get very ugly" I threatened, obvious venom in my words.
"Uglier than you?" Sakura asked.
"Really, if I am ugly then does poetry die?" I asked.
"Poetry has nothing to do with you" Sakura said.
"On the contrary, my dear Mary. One can simply rhyme any time, but to call it poetry is poultry. The most beautiful flower can have it's blade hidden, for beauty is painful. The most beautiful colors and songs have true emotion. But when I see you there is never poetry, just brutality and force. The most beautiful things know of true pain, of sadness, of loneliness, the feeling of rejection. You do not even show a slight petal to your name" I rambled. Sakura was taken aback from my sudden poetic ramble. She then blushed and ran ahead.
"That was a...nice poem?" Kiba said.
"It was just something I thought of off the top of my head. I had to take a poetry, art and creative writing class in middle school" I waved off.
"I heard your poem and it was truly youthful!" Gai and Lee cried.
"Thanks, I have always had a knack for dark poetry" I smiled.
"Dark poetry?" Lee asked.
"Dark poetry speaks of sorrow, anger, death and negativity. I made a man made of stone break down into grains of sand and waterfalls with one poem" I explained.
"A man of stone turned into waterfalls and sand?! That is truly amazing" Lee said.
"It was a metaphor, it basically means a man that looked tough broke down into tears after hearing it" I explained to Lee.
"It is still amazing. Could you teach me how to write amazing poetry and tell me some of yours?" Lee begged.
"And take Mighty Gai and teach him to make such beauty as well!" Gai sparkled.
"I'll tell you one of my poems from a while ago now if you want, but I won't be able to teach you anything until I finish working on my house" I said.
"We will come help you later then, we will love to hear and learn poetry as soon as possible" Gai volunteered.
"A rose may be only a flower,
But it still gives people the power to smile
To cry, to laugh, or to die.
Flowers may be only plants, but they have meaning,
A red rose for love, like a pure white dove from above,
A mistletoe for christmas, this kiss of holiday,
A hibiscus for warmth, listless feeling from everywhere" I recited the poem.
"That was a very meaningful poem, full of youth and emotion" Gai said.
"I should really go start my exam now" I said. Kiba nodded and I ran to the testing room.
"Welcome Jasmine of the village hidden in the flowers, your first examer is Kakashi Hatake" Tsunade said.
