I'm BAAAAACK! Miss me?

This chapter took a lot longer than usual because of this thing called writer's block. I have an outline about how things are gonna go down but I never really put a lot of detail into the beginning of Azula's life. I should probably go back and do that. Whatever. So, I'm back now, that's the important thing. These next few chapters are going to be a bit harder on me because I'm just pulling shit out of my ass right now. Enjoy.

The next morning Azula awoke at dawn, like usual, but decided that it was much to early to wake up. If her father wanted her, he come get her himself. She didn't realize at that time that she wasn't in the Palace anymore. It wasn't until Kurenai shook her gently to wake her that she realized that she was in fact, in Konoha.

"C'mon Azula, wake up." Kurenai pulled the sheets off of Azula to try and get her up.

"To early." The girl groaned before rolling over. She threw the covers back oover her head and tried to hide under them.

Kurenai sniled and pulled the sheets off again. "Come on. You need new clothes, new shoes and the sooner we get your new things, the sooner you see your friend in the hospital."

Azula sat bolt upright and jumped out of her bed. "Well lets go!" She ran to put some fresh-er clothes on and her terribly worn out shoes before running out of the room. Kurenai caught her by the collar of her shirt.

"You need breakfast first and I have to rebandage your injuries." Azula looked at her legs where some bandages were. They were almost all red and soaked with her blood. She sighed in defeat and sat down on the bed so that Kurenai (who was armed with bandages and a first aid kit) could fix her up.

Azula sat there in silence. She hated being weak like this and letting someone change her bandages and coddle her like her weak brother Zuko. It was a great pet peeve of hers. At least the ninja was gentle and didn't hurt her like anyone else would. She would the bandages tight, but not too tight. She would clean everything and disinfect it as well. The chunin eve put her hair up in her typical topknot, without the crown of course.

When she was finished, Kurenai nodded at her work and stood up. "Well lets go. You need some new clothes and now... When was your last bath?"

Azula racked her brain for that answer. She hadn't had a bath on the ship and surely didn't have one when she entered Konoha. The last time she had bathed was when she was still in the Fire Nation. "Before I left..." She asnwered quietly.

"Well that explains why you reaked last night. Don't worry, I washed you up last night so we don't have to delay today." Azula smiled, she really liked this woman. "Lets go. I can tell you're eager."

Kurenai and Azula exited the tiny apartment in search of something delicious to eat for breakfast that they would be able to take with them. Kurenai ended up wandering into her favorite Dango shop to quickly purchase some of the deliciousy goodness before the two went on their clothing hunt.

Kurenai directed Azula to the main market of Konoha that Naruto had showed her earlier. It was as busy as the last time she saw it but instead of speeding through the market place, Azula got to look at the stores. She noticed the stores that Naruto had mentioned earlier and started to make a bee line toward it but Kurenai pulled her away.

"Mine is better." Was all she explained to her. Azula shrugged and coninued onward. They turned on a street and got off of the Market. "It's not too far from here." They were now in a better part of Konoha, the houses were nicer here.

The first stop was a store that Kurenai always shopped at, clothes wise. It was a small store that had the basic things that Kurenai liked. Nothing too fancy. The young chunin slid the door open and a bell tinkled alerting a clerk that someone had arrived.

"Ah! Kurenai-san! Back I see! I have this fantastic design I would love to show you. I think you might like it better than your current outfit! It even works with that new Genjutsu that you created!"

Kurenai smiled, "I'd love to see it but currentlly I'm shopping for my niece who will be staying with me until she becomes a jonin. She needs an entire wardrobe."

The clerks eyes lit up. "Well right this way!"

Azula and Kurenai were led to a back room where there were some incredible designs on the walls and clothes were piled, neatly, to the ceiling. There were some maniquins with certian clothes on them. Azula was amazied at the variety of clothing.

"So what were you thinking?" The clerk asked the duo.

"Something red with the black ninja sandals. I hate the color blue." Azula said quickly.

"Alright, no blue for you." The clerk said quickly. "Any cloth preferences?"

"Silk." Azula said quickly.

"No silk." Kurenai replied. "It will fall appart while training. Same stuff that my outfits are made of, Haruno-san. It will last longer."

"I can do that." The man said, he was writing this down. "Any other colors that you like?"

"Gold and black." Azula answered simply. "All of the other colors are not colors the the Fire Nation uses so they are not important."

The male Haruno looked at Kurenai, who shrugged, before writing again. "Any gloves?"

"Are they fire proof?"

Both adults looked at the child curiously. "No..." They both responded.

"Then they will be useless. ANything that covers my hands and feet need to be somewhat fire proof. Maybe even my clothes." Azula told the white haired man. "They could burn."

"Why would they burn?" The White haired Haruno asked the young child tenitavely.

Azula smirked and held her hand up for the two to get a good view of it. Then suddenly fire was floating in it! "I'm a Fire Bender. I need fire proof things." In miliseconds, the bright orange flame disappeared.

The man nodded rapidly before dissappearing into one corner. He appeared with a large roll of cloth under his arms. It was white and looked very heavy to Azula. Or the man was just really weak and couldn't carry it.

"I can form all of your clothes out of this cloth. It has special qualities which makes it fire proof and it also has a thin layer of steel to protect from any projectiles." That explained the weight. "Just give me the colors and I can make you a few outfits by the end of the day. If you want any designs it will take longer."

Azula thought this over. "Red, Gold and Black. I'd like my pants or shorts or whatever to be black for sure... If that's not too expensive." Kurenai shrugged. She never really spent any of her money on herself or anything so she had enough for the girls clothing and any other things so she didn't really mind.

"Go for it kid. I don't care." Kurenai replied. She had finally started eating some of the dango. As much as she didn't like sweet food, that dango really hit the spot.

For the next hour, Kurenai ate dango and watched Haruno-san as he measured the six year old girl and started designing the custom clothing for her. Azula was measured, remeasured and re-remeasured just to make sure that these colthes that she would be getting, were perfect. The man let the clothes be a little loose fitting so that the child would have room to grow into it.

Her shirts would reach to her elbows and her shorts would go to her knees. This way she could grow and not have to get more custom made clothing. Azula would be recieving three red shirts, three gold shirts, three black shirts and one white shirt (At Kurenai's request). She also had five pair of black shorts, two pair of black capris and a pair of red training pants. The training pants were also Kurenai's request.

"Thanks for getting the measurments for all of that Haruno-san!" Kurenai said, "We will probably be back later today. Probably around Three. Will that be alright for you?"

The man nodded, "Of course. I'll have these made in a few hours. Feel free to get the shoes that you need too. She probably won't need anything special with them, they are pretty durable so she should be fine."

"Great!" Kurenai exclaimed, "Now we have to go get her weapons." Azula was about to respond when Kurenai quickly added, "More weapons." The girl shrugged, she always had her firebending so whatever. And her swords wouldn't break when she used it so she could bend with her swords too.

Azula pucked out a pair of shoes for herself. The were black, obviously. She quickly traded her old and worn shoes for the newer, comfier and much better shoes.

The duo waved to the great merchant as they left the store. The market was still crowded when they got back on go to the weapons store. This time they went to the store that Naruto had shown her.

"Is this store good?" She asked Kurenai.

"For what you need, yes. I'm not spending a lot of money on weapons that you will probably lose in your first few C ranks. You can get better weapons later."

Azula growled, she should be getting the best. She WAS a Princess, she should get the best!

"Besides, their stuff is the best for Fire Justus which I figure you will be using anyway."

The princess shrugged. I guess it was alright then. Besides, she had her swords.

The two walked into the already packed store. Shinobi from other counrties were in there looking at the things this place had to offer. Azula could tell that they weren't from Konoha because of their headbands had different symbols. Kurenai could tell that Azula was confused why other Ninja were in their country.

"Chunin Exams." She told the girl.

"All of these ninja are here for that?" Kurenai nodded, she didn't want to call any attention them. Both of them walked up to the counter and just waited for someone to get to them.

"What happens in the chunin exam?"

"Ninjas try to become Chunin." Kurenai responded.

"How?"

"By taking three different tests. But you can be disqualified or taken out in the middle of them too."

"What are the tests?"

"I can't tell you all of them, but the last test is a battle to show skillsa dn people form everywhere come to watch it."

Azula nodded. A battle between canidates sounded very fun. She could do that. For the next few minutes, Azula had a day dream about a battle like that.

"Why haven't they gotten to us?" Azula asked when she finished her daydream.

"Because others were here first." Kurenai explained.

Azula put her hands on the counter and hoisted herself up onto the counter. "Well they should be more focused on us."

This statement started calling attention to the two. Kurenai noticed this but kept her cool. "Why is that?"

"Because I'm a princess. Duh." The girl explained, "They should be attending to my every need."

This caused a boy from Grass Country to laugh, "If YOU'RE a princess, Then I'm King of the World."

'Fuck.' Kurenai thought. 'Here we go...'

"I AM a Princess!" Azula responded calmly to the ninja. Her legs were crossed and she gave off the I-am-so-much-better-than-you vibe at that point. She then held her hand out to Kurenai signaling for the young woman to hand over the crown.

Kurenai sighed and pulled the crown out of her vest pocket. She had taken it out of Azula's bag last night. Azula took the crown and put in her hair.

"Bullshit!" The boy yelled back. "Princess of what?"

"I don't have to disclose this information to a peasant such as yourself." The six year old peasant replied.

"PEASANT! I COME FROM THE GREATEST CLAN IN ALL OF GRASS COUNRTY!" He yelled before he chared Azula with a kunai in hand. Azula was shocked but reacted by pulling out her Dragon Katana to stab him. All of the older ninjas saw that this could end badly and luckily for them, Kurenai, who was going to proctor the exams, stopped the boy.

"Name." She said with athority.

"Jun. Jun of the Kusajin clan." The boy growled.

"You're behavior will be reported to your team jonin, country leader, the Hokage and to the Exam Proctors." Kurenai said to him.

"So?"

"That means that if you did something bad, Jun, then you just got the whole team banned from partaking in the Chunin Exams this time around... Or ever, depending on how badly you fucked up." A man who just walked into the store replied.

"Sensei!" The boy turned around quickly and the color drained from his face.

"Lets go. You've caused enough damage today." The boy left the store but the sensei stayed. "Sorry ma'am."

"Apologize to the princess." Kurenai replied. Azula had now gotten off the counter and her sword was back in its sheath.

The man knelt down to Azula. "I'm terribly sorry Princess. My studet overreacted. How can I make it up to you."

Azula thought for a moment. Making the boy her slave would sound nice, but she didn't want to deal with him all the time. She could say that there was nothing he could do. That might get her in trouble with the Hokage. There was alway the possibility of executing him. He did attack royalty with intent to kill. But that also would probably get her in trouble. Kicking his ass sounded good too. It wouldn't get her in that much trouble. Then the idea came to her.

"I don't want him or his team to compete in the exams." She said simply. "Ever..." Then she amended her last statement a little. "Well, I don't want this team competing this year. But they can compete other times, just not him. I want that boy to never get to take part in the exams."

"But Princess-"

"DO NOT interrupt me while I am speaking!" Azula growled, some sparks flew off her hands. "Anyway." She growled, "the only time he can compete in the exams is when I take them myself. And only then."

The sensei weighed his options. Take his team out, and keep Jun from the exams for a few years and be stuck with him, OR leave them in the exams and face war with Konoha.

"Sounds reasonable." The man replied.

"It damn well better. I could have him killed under attempted assassination." Kurenai growled. "In her country, that is instant execution."

"Thank you for not executing my student then Princess."

"Now, leave my sight and take that worthless peasant away too." Azula growled. The man nodded and fled the store as fast as he could.

When he was out of sight, Kurenai high fived the six year old. "Nice acting."

"I wasn't. I serioiusly thought of insisting to the Hokage that the boy be turned over to us and executed." Azula said calmly. "But I'd rather beat his ass."

Kurenai nodded, beating people sounded more fun. Both females went back to the counter and purchased the required weapons for Azula and a few things to take care of her swords with.

After that was all said and done, Kurenai left with a lighter wallet and Azula left with a shuriken holster, kunai pouch and a back of weapon care items. The only thing that would complete the girl's outfit were her new clothes and a headband.

Kurenai walked down the street with Azula in tow. The Princess had no idea where they were headed and Kurenai wasn't going to tell her. It frustrated the princess but she just went with it. She couldn't do anything about it anyway. Kurenai was her guardian now and to be honest, her orders meant nothing here... except to certian foreign ninja.

They continued down the road and Azula started to notice things. The first thing was that she thougt she had been there before. Naruto had probably dragged her down this road during her tour but she was quite unsure. She didn't know where she was until she reached a familiar building.

"Why are we at the hospital?" Azula asked. Kurenai gave her a look that just said you-are-so-retarted. "Are we here to visit Sho-san?" The chunin shook her head. "Uh... Nao-kun?" More head shaking. "Um... Oh! NARUTO!"

Azula took off running. She was fast for a little kid but Kurenai caugh her before she entered.

"Calm down!" She said after she grabbed Azula's arm.

"Oops..." Kurenai sighed and released the girl.

Both females walked in the hospital. Kurenai approached the front desk, looked around and whispered to the medic that was there. Azula, who was next to Kurenai, couldn't hear what they were saying but she assumed it was about her new friend. Finally, after a few minutes, they were given Naruto's room number and the duo went on their way.

That whole thing with Kusajin or whatever I named him was something I pulled out of my ass for funzies. Probably sucked, whatever. It was fun writing Azula being all bitchy. Best part I'd say.

So I'm warning you now, there is going to be some Age Bending happening here. You see, as the author, I have special bending abilities, like the Avatar, but more awesome. So a few of our loveable characters will have their ages changed... by like 10 years but whatever. It makes them look a little more awesome... And I love those two (even if they are just Tsunade's errand guys). I wonder who I'm talking about? XD

Well later.

-TR

If I fucked up on something major, please tell me. Will I fix it? Maybe.