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Sunlight streams in through the molted glass doors, making a spotlight on my face.
Groaning, I roll over on to my stomach snuggling deeper into the mattresses and pull the blankets over my small child body.
"Hey! Don't steal the covers!" Naruto whines with a sleep filled voice. The bed creaks as he moves to pull the sheets away from me.
Cocooning myself in the warmth of the soft thin blankets, I start to giggle. "Make me!"
Naruto yanks on the blankets hard, causing me to fly through the air, and face plant on the wooden floor.
"OUCH! Naruto-kun!" Rubbing the sting out of my face with my left hand, I grab the pillow that fell on the floor with me with my right.
An evil smile take over my facial features as I look from the pillow to Naruto's face.
"J-Jade-chan...I'm sorry..." Naruto stutters, his face peeking out of the covers, that he took from me, nervously.
"HIYAH!" I scream, jumping onto the bed and pulling the covers away from him simoustanly, smacking him in the face with the pillow.
Naruto pushes past me as I raise the pillow for the next attack and jumps off the bed. I run after him so I can continue my weak assault.
Chasing the whiskered boy around the small apartment, I get a couple of really good hits in. Another one upside the face, and a few more right on his backside.
"Jade-chan! Come on!" Naruto says, ducking under the rickety table. "We gotta get ready for school! It starts at 8!"
I freeze.
School...We go to school?
I slowly lower my arm, and ponder my thoughts a bit longer. My head slowly turns to look at the clock thats hanging on the wall.
It reads 7:23am.
Yeah todays the first day. First impressions mean everything.
"NARUTO WHY DIDN'T YOU SAYS ANYTHING!?" I shout dropping the old pillow and running into the bedroom. I grab my fuzzy pink robe and slippers from my bag, and a large white towel out of the bottom draw of Naruto's dresser.
"Jade-chan, what are you doing?" Naruto ask emerging from under the table, raising an eyebrow at me as I trip on on the towel while trying to exit the bedroom.
"I need a shower!" I say picking myself up and rushing into the bathroom, slamming the door close behind me. Wrinkling my nose at the smell.
Never ever wait that long before cleaning the bathroom EVER again.
Quickly turning the knob of the small stand in shower to the side with the red line, I strip out of my sleepwear. I use the toilet before jumping in, hoping that the few minutes it takes for me to do my business is enough time for the water to warm up.
Its not.
Quickly walking in to the stand-up-only shower, the water is still freezing cold. The ice water soaks my hair and runs down the rest of my body, causing a shiver to run up my spine and a quite very girly shriek to leave my lips. Each drop of water is like an icicle sliding along my skin, sadly I can't wait for the water to become warm. I look at the three bottles Naruto has in the shower stall, and attempt to figure out which bottle is the shampoo.
Its written in Japanese...I can't read it...
Frowning at this realization, I start to guess.
These to bottles match, so these two must be the shampoo and conditioner.
I open up the two rectangular orange bottles. Both have a picture of a sunset on it. Quickly I decide that the one filled with a transparent orange liquid is the shampoo, and the creamy orange liquid is the conditioner.
Pouring some of the shampoo into the palm of my hand, I squish my hands together and start massaging my scalp with the citrus smelling liquid.
Soon my head is covered in a thick layer of foam. Leaning into the finally warm stream of water. I close my eyes as water rises the shampoo from my hair, down my face, down my body, and down the drain. It feels more like a warm caress now, and the water almost feels like a loving hand gently untangling the knots from my hair.
I tilt my head up so that the warm water can push my hair back from my face. I quickly rub my hands over my small round face, making sure that there is no sleep in my eyes.
Turning my head away, I lean my head out of the stream of water, and put the cool, pale orange conditioner in my hand, again rubbing my hands together so that I have an even amount on both hands. I shiver again from the lost of warmth on my skin.
A loud knock on the door resonates through the small bathroom. "Jade-chan? I need to pee!" Naruto calls, turning the doorknob as he does so.
"DON'T YOU DARE!" I scream in horror, my face flushing and stomach tightening in panic. Timidly I peek out of the door of the floor to ceiling frost textured glass of the shower just in time to see Naruto walk in, wearing a white shirt that is slightly to big for him, and has the Uzumaki symbol on the belly, and black capris. My heart drops into my stomach.
Quickly shutting the glass door and jumping back behind the glass, I turn so that he can only see the silhouette of my back. Huffing, I run my conditioner covered hands through the length of my hair, and try to calm my frantic heart.
"Thank you Jade-chan!" Naruto says happily as he relives himself.
My brow starts to twitch as the sound of him peeing into the toilet bowl reaches my ears.
That is so gross!
Leaving the citrus smelling conditioner in my hair, I grab the large round dark orange bottle a pour the same amount of the creamy orange liquid into my left hand. Rubbing the liquid together in my hands its starts to bubble, and I rub it all over my body. Behind my ears, my neck, as much of my back as I can reach, my arms, my torso, my belly, my sides, my legs, feet, and hands. Once I feel that I am fully covered in the fruity scented body wash, I lean back into the warm stream of water, careful to keep it from rising the conditioner out my hair, and wash the soap suds down the drain.
"You almost done? We should hurry." Naruto says, mouth full of toothpaste.
"Yeah, I'm almost done." I state, leaning my head under the water. I don't fully rinse out the conditioner and I shut off the shower. Running my fingers through my hair I allow a few tears to fall from my eyes.
The dream I had last night haunts me. I was a ghost attempting to interact with my family, a family that doesn't even know I existed. My bedroom was an office, and I wasn't in any of the family pictures that line the hallway. It was like my existence in that world got erased.
Shaking off the unease, I squeeze the water from my dirt blonde hair. I don't have the pressure of being the perfect daughter anymore. In this life I have no father, so I don't have to fake so many smiles, and keep up fake appearances so that my dads job in the government can flourish. I don't have to let my mother verbally and physically abuse me when she gets stressed out for no reason. I don't have to deal with my enemy, Jake, anymore.
But he was also my best friend...And mom was only like that because Grandma has alzheimers and can't remember anyone...And dad...Dad got that job so that Jake and I have a good future ahead of us...
Taking a deep breath I shake my head to get rid of my thoughts, squeegee the water from my tiny body with my small hands. "Naruto can you please pass me my towel?" I ask, reaching my arm out of the glass stall.
Naruto spits into the sink, and I feel the fluffy towel get pressed into my hand. "Hurry up, we don't want to be late Jade-chan." The blond says, and I hear him move back to the sink and continues cleaning his teeth.
"I'm practically out!" I rebuttal, drying off my body with the towel. My legs aren't hairy so I don't need to worry about shaving them yet, thank the lord, and neither is any other part of my body that starts to grow nasty hair after puberty.
One good thing about being a little kid. I don't have to worry about pubic hair.
My toenails don't need to be clipped yet, but by next week they will. My fingernails are also short, not as short as usually have them, but not long either.
bending over, I pull all of my hair so that its hanging in front of my face. I place the middle of the towel on the middle on my head, taking the left side I pull it against my forehead, and overlap the right side. Then I twist it, making it wrap around my hair. When the towel is completely wrapped around my hair, I place it on the top of my head, giving me a cheap version of a turban.
"Sure. You want your robe now?" Naruto asks with his tooth brush still in his mouth. I move to the door of the shower again, reaching my small hand out of it.
"Yes please."
Naruto chuckles, and grabs the fuzzy from off of the bathroom counter, and hands it to me, also placing the matching slippers in front of the shower door.
"Thank you nii-san!" I say happily, pulling on the robe and tying it around me. My body now covered up, I exit the shower stall, and slip my feet into the fuzzy pink slippers. Standing beside Naruto, I grab my purple toothbrush from the small plastic cup. I wet the toothbrush, the place the mint toothpaste on it, and then wet it again. The blue eyed boy laughs at me.
"I do that too!" He says happily before spitting a final time into the sink.
"If you didn't we would not be able to be family!" I say with fake seriousness.
The taller boy laughs, and rinses off his toothbrush, placing it back in the cup.
I brush my teeth, my tongue, my gums, and just my whole mouth in general. Spitting a few times, I mentally decided that its been two whole minutes, rinse the tooth brush off, and place it back in the cup. The tap still running, I get my mouth as close as I can to the faucett. Slurping some of the water into my mouth, I swish it around, and spit it out, along with the excess toothpaste.
Cupping my hands under the running water, I splash my face, making sure that there is no tooth paste on my face.
My face clean of toothpaste and eye boogers, body and hair all clean, I leave the bathroom with a smile.
As I walk through the small kitchen to get back to the bathroom, an apple hits me in the head. "OUCH!" I shout at the painful contact, rubbing the small painful bump on my head that the evil apple caused.
"Um...Catch?" Naruto says nervously, making the statement sound like a question.
I place my hands on my non-existing hips, and stomp to my room. "You're lucky that we are in a rush or I'd be hitting you with apples!"
Slamming the door shut behind me I choose my outfit. I empty all of my bags on the bed and sort through them.
No...No...Maybe...Not for a first day of school...Yes...Yes...YES!
Happy with my outfit, i quickly replace all of the articles of clothing back into their respective bags, leaving my first day of school outfit on the bed. I've chosen a light blue quarter sleeve shirt, made with a light material. I am assuming cotton. The red Uzumaki symbol on the shoulders. A pair of high waisted grey jean shorts that ends right above the knee, and a pair of greek style grey sandals.
I unwrapped the towel from my hair, and shake my head like a wet dog. I rub the towel over my head to dry my dirty blonde hair a bit more. I left the contents of the last bag that I decided to name the 'Everything Bag' on the bed, I run my hand over the small pile of randomness until I find what I'm looking for. Grabbing my red hair brush from its spot on the bed, I brush all of my damp hair out, and then I pull it up in a side ponytail with a light blue hair tie.
Taking off the robe and throwing the pink thing onto the bed, I use the damp towel again over my almost dry body, just in case.
Concluding that I am completely dry, I finally put on my outfit, kicking off my slippers before I attempt to put on the sandals.
Fucking sandals...
I'm sitting on the ground trying to figure out how to put them on, the the ankle strap it to small for my fat foot, and I have no idea how to loosen it.
"NARUTO!" I scream in frustration.
What girl is so helpless that she can even put her own shoes on!?
Naruto crashes through the door, a half eaten apple in his right hand, and the evil apple that abused me in his left.
My stomach feels tight, and my lungs hurt. Being this nervous can't be healthy. "I can't do up my shoes..." I say, my face probably more red then the ripe apple in his hand.
"Oh! I can help you!" He says with a smile, handing me the uneaten fruit, and biting onto his own.
I stretch my legs out in front of me, and Naruto kneels down and puts my shoes on me. For me. Like a baby.
Still chewing the first bite of my apple, Naruto stands up, happy with the job he did. I stare at my shoe clad feet.
The part that goes around the ankle its perfectly tighten around my small ankles, and my feet fit the small shoes perfectly. The part that goes over the top of my foot is also perfectly tighten.
Pulling my gaze away from my feet, I stare at Naruto, my mouth falling open.
"Ew! Jade-chan close your mouth!" The blond laughs.
Shutting my mouth I chew and swallow the apple in my mouth. Standing up, I jump onto Naruto.
"ACK! JADE-CHAN!" He screams, falling onto his back with me on top of him. Laughing, I hug him tightly, still holding my apple in my right hand.
"THANK YOU NII-SAN!" I scream in his ear, causing Naruto to cringe away from me.
"What are big brothers for?" The blond smiles in return.
This must be the happiest moment in my life right now. Also I am seriously considering never learning how to do up my shoes just so that I can make Naruto do that for me.
"Um... We still have school to go to..." Naruto says sitting up, me falling into his lap as he does so.
"Fuck! Lets go!" I say jumping off of the boy and onto my feet.
Naruto laughs and runs in front of me, beating me to the front door. I take another bit of my apple.
I follow the whiskered boy out the door, and down to the busy street still eating my small breakfast.
Its very hot out, and Naruto finishes his apple and throws it in a garbage at the end of the alley. Exiting the alley and entering the street, we have to weave our way around the villagers. It feels like someone has a magnifying glass right above my head. Naruto holds my free hand tight, and is practically dragging me.
"Naruto-kun! If I go to fast I might choke on my apple!" I whine attempting to eat and keep up with the speedy boy. Its a lot more difficult than it sounds.
He laughs and looks over his shoulder at me. "Then chew!"
I groan at his antics, and continue with my struggle of eating and running.
Having chakra would make this easier...I need another hit from the needle... OMG am I like a druggie now? Addicted to chakra?
The run is very quick, more than likely because I was to busy focusing on eating, and the fact that the villagers quickly made a path for us to run. Just so they would not touch us, and I highly doubt that any of them are germaphobes.
We make it to the school as I am chewing the last bit of the apple, the only thing left of it is the core. It feels like I've just ran for hours, and I sigh. My legs already hurt, and my eyes are already sore.
"Naruto-kun I'm done my apple." I say yawning.
Still pulling me in a light jog, he looks over his shoulder at me. "Oh, Iruka-sensei told me that I have to take you to th-" The blond's sentence is cut off, and he abruptly stops. I walk right into his back, which is like walking into a brick wall.
Um...Ouch!
Glancing over the slightly taller boy's shoulder I look to see what cause the stop in motion, and frown.
The boy then accidentally knocked down another child.
"I'm sorry! Here, let me..." Naruto trails off with his hand hanging in the air to help the girl up off the ground. The pink hair, green eyed girl starts screaming bloody murder.
My blue-grey eyes widen. Dropping the apple core, I quickly cover my ears with my hands.
Sakura Haruno...
Walking around Naruto I and stand in front of the screaming girl. "We are sorry Miss!" I said rather loudly, attempting to be heard over this girl.
What a pair of pipes! God that noise is giving me a headache!
She looks frightened but finally stops screaming. I slowly lower my hands and scan the area. All of the other kids are staring at us. Perfect.
Resisting the urge to roll my eyes, I reach beside me and grip Naruto's hand tightly. Black spots starts swarming in my vision.
Blinking quickly, I look back down at the little version of Sakura. If I announce that I already know who she is she might start screaming again. Urgh, now I have ask not only her but everyone information I already know.
"My name is Jade Uzumaki! What's yours?" I asked in my nicest little girl voice, making my face smiling invitingly.
"S-Sakura...H-Haruno..." She stutters.
My eyebrows scrunch in confusion.
Why the fuck is she stuttering?
I offer my hand, and wait. Sakura nervously glances from my hand, to Naruto's face. I could slap myself right now. Or her.
It's not that I have anything against Sakura, because I don't, in fact she is one of my favourite characters in Naruto Shippuden, but in the first season. Oh she angers me.
"This is my older brother! Naruto Uzumaki!" I say with the same tone, only a bit louder, raising our joined hands proudly.
Quickly glancing around me I start noticing all of the others. I see a child Ino, Kiba, Choji, Shino, Shikamaru, Hinata, and Sasuke. Actually thats just what I'm assuming, my eyes can't focus on them long enough for me to make sure. There is for certain a bunch of other kids that are not important to the series.
My face feels hot, and the black spots become larger.
Something cold touches my hand. I glance back to the pink haired girl and it takes me a minute to focus on her. I keep my smile on my face.
Grabbing her cold hand, I feel myself naturally smile larger.
"It's very nice to meet you Sakura Haruno!" I say softly, my voice quickly becoming weak.
I pull her up, leaning completely onto Naruto for support.
"Jade-chan? We should go see Iruka-sensei, you're still ill!" Naruto insists, wrapping an arm around my waist to keep me standing.
Nodding to Naruto, I squeeze Sakura's hand. "I'll see you later!"
She smiles back and nods.
Happy with what I was able to do, I let Naruto lead me past all of the gaping students, and into the school.
We meet Iruka in the hallway before we even reach the class. He has his nose in a file.
"Good morning Iruka-sensei!" Naruto says happily.
The scarred man closes his file and smiles. "Naruto you should already know that you wait in the front yard until I come to collect you!" He scolds us. With the smile. Freaking weird.
"But sensei! You told me to take Jade-chan to the nurse when we get here everyday, and she is about to fall asleep on me!" Naruto says exasperated.
Iruka blinks at him a couple of time, before turning to me "Jade-chan you need to get your needle before class starts..." Iruka gives me a once over. "Naruto help her there, and then help her back to class."
"Thats what I was doing!" Naruto says, obviously annoyed.
I groan loudly. My knees not able to support me anymore, I fall to the ground. Landing on my face.
"Quickly Naruto!" Iruka says walking towards the front doors. Naruto pulls me up onto his back and starts on up the hall. I do not know how he managed that, and trying to figure it out is making my head hurt more. Shutting my eyes a very small amount of the pain stops.
"We'll be there soon Jade-chan. Believe it!" Shuffling, the wooden floor boards creek under us. I hear the sound of children as we make it to the end of the hallway on the first floor. Large wooden double doors lead to the nurses office.
I didn't know they had a infirmary at the Academy! Makes sense though, they do train with weapons...
Naruto pushes open the left door, with his face, and helps me onto the closest light brown wooden chair. Forcing my head up I glance around the room, and my unstable gaze lands on a gray haired, dog mask ANBU flicking at a needle.
Kakashi!? What the fuck!?
"What are you doing here!?" I all but shout at him in surprise, my voice coming back just to yell that sentence. My ears ring, and my head throbs at the sudden my own sudden movement. He waves in a way that confirms my suspicion.
"I am your personal guard. Remember? Inoichi did tell you this." The Copy-Cat Ninja squeezes the needle, causing a bit of the substitute chakra to squirt out the actual needle part. A shiver runs up my spine. I shut my eyes, and will the throbbing headache to go away. I feel Naruto grip my left shoulder, giving me silent support.
Urgh...I despise needles.
"Oh so you're my personal stalker?" I say, my breathing becoming laboured, and my chest beginning to hurt. My voice is so hoarse that it sounds like I haven't spoken in years, and talking made it feel like I was shoving a blade down my throat.
"I won't be the one watching you everyday, I do have a team and missions to full fill. But I guess to answer your question, I am nothing of the sort."
As Kakashi was talking, I felt a sharp pinch of pain on my arm. The injection happened quickly, and I exhale loudly in relief. It's not that I'm afraid of needles, they just hurt.
Slowly opening my eyes, I grin. The effects are instant.
Shooting the silver haired man a smile, I feel a rush of energy flood through my veins, making my fingers and toes tingle.
"You're weird." I said evenly, watching him watch me. He tilts his masked covered face forward slightly.
Not needing Naruto's help to move anymore, I shrug off the blonds hand, and walk over to the ANBU that is in charge of my safety.
I am so making him my BFF.
I pat his forearm. "But that is okay. All of the best people are."
With that amazing reference that none of these super smart ninja's will ever understand, I quickly leave the room, grabbing on to Naruto's arm as I exit. The large double doors slam shut behind us, causing me to jump.
"Okay lets go to class Nii-san!" With a bright smile on my face I start walking back up the hallway, and a flood of children enter.
The number of other students is overwhelming. Naruto slides his arm out of my grip, and replaces it with his already calloused hand. The blue eyed boy squeezes my hand.
Glancing at him I quickly take note of how pale his tanned face is.
As we continue to Iruka's class I realize why. The other students have been making a path for us to walk down.
I return Naruto's tight grip. I square my shoulders and hold my chin up. "Naruto, copy me."
The blond also stands tall as we continue down the hallway, quickly reaching the door the Iruka was waiting outside of, doing our best to ignore the ignorant children.
"Good morning Iruka-sensei!" I say happily entering the classroom, dragging Naruto in with me. There is four columns, the section closest to the door is the left section while standing at the front of the classroom, then the left middle section, the right middle section, and the right section by the windows, all separated by stairs. In each columns there are six rows of two leading to the back. Behind the last row is a wall covered by small cabinets.
Do I get a cubbie?
There are older students who look like they are in their last year at the Academy sitting in the back. The first row is all the newbies. I assuming that the students in between are also seated according to what year they are in.
Scanning the row of seats I find a free spot in the front row by the window. Lucky the seat in the row directly behind is free to.
"Naruto-kun lets sit there!" I say pointing while drawing him to the far side of the room. The desk where I was going to be sitting held a short dark haired girl.
We let go of hands as I politely say excuse me to the recognizable girl. "Is this seat taken?"
"O-oh, n-n-o, w-w-would y-you l-l-like t-to -s-sit?" The other girl asks. I nod, causing her to get out and stand beside Naruto on the first step. I'm able to slide in on the wooden bench that is attached to the desks behind me.
"Nii-san, there is a free seat in the spot behind me! Sit there!" I say pointing to the desk directly behind me, with the other free seat being beside the window as well. Infact that whole desk is empty.
Sitting down, I study the pale pupiless eyed, fair skinned girl. She slides back in beside me.
A pink blush cover her round cheeks. The little girl is wearing a light lavender kimo.
She sure does look like royalty...And I look like a peasant.
My own blush starts making my face and nose go red.
I offer her my hand to shake doing my best to not think of her with status. Or the fact that the Hyuga heiress is my all time favourite Naruto character for that matter. "Hello! I am Jade Uzumaki!"
"H-Hinata H-Hyuga..." The shy girl replied, taking my hand in hers.
"Oi! Jade-chan you already made a friend!?" Naruto shouts at me to be heard over the noise of small talk being made throughout the class. I note just a tinge of jealousy in his voice.
Not only did his yell get my attention, but almost everyone else attention as well.
"Yes Nii-san! Hinata-chan, this is my big brother Naruto-kun!" I said introducing the girl to her future crush. As well as quickly informing the rest of the class mates who I am.
I'm going to become Hinata's best friend, and then I'll make her confess to Naruto before the stupid Pein fight, and they will fall in love and have lots of babies and I'll be the reason for in all! I'LL BE A FUCKING AUNT!
I feel tears burn at the corner of my eyes, and my smile grows with my inner thoughts.
Naruto smiles brightly at Hinata. Her face colours more, and I swear that she's gonna faint. Or get a nosebleed.
"N-nice t-to m-m-meet y-you." The dark haired princess stutters out.
"You too! Lets all become friends!" Naruto says, his smile some how becoming bigger. His face must hurt.
Nodding my head enthusiastically, I hug the already blushing girl. "Let's become best friends Hinata-chan!"
Slowly she returns the hug, and nods into my neck. "O-okay Jade-chan!"
Moving back, I smile in a way that causes my cheeks to hurt.
Her stuttering isn't as bad as it is in the anime...and she hasn't passed out from Naruto yet...I wonder if something happens to make it so bad...And she obviously gets more attracted to Naruto the more mature she becomes...Naruto does become quite the sexy beast...he he he...WAIT! EW! HE'S MY BROTHER! NASTY!
"Settle down everyone!"Iruka says as the last kid enters. The skinny boy sits in the only empty chair left in the room, beside Naruto. Iruka moves to the chalkboard and writes his own name. "For those of you who do not know, I am Iruka Umino. I will be your sensei from now to the day you graduate. Lets start with introductions, then I will tell you the class schedule. The schedule will change sometimes, but it should stay pretty much the same." He draws the seating arrangement as well. I squint at his name.
I can't read this writing...Fuck!
As Iruka spoke, I couldn't help but turn and give Naruto a panicked look. His arms where already folded on the desk and he stared out the window. Turning back, I can feel my heart start to race and my palms start to sweat.
"Jade, we will start with you! Please come to the front of the class, write you name on your desk, and introduce yourself! Tells us a few things about yourself as well, like your hopes, your favourite things, goals for the future, and what not." Iruka says, holding out the piece of chalk.
HE FUCKING KNOWS! FOR FUCKS SAKE! Where's the Nope-Right-Outta-Here button!?
My eyes widen, and the air around me disappears. The urge to puke becomes stronger than I've ever experienced. Slowly standing, my knees trembling.
Quietly I say excuse me to Hinata, she brings her knees up so that I have to squeeze between her and the table. I walk down the one step that leads to my row, and the few steps it takes to the tiny teachers stage. I can almost feel the eyes of the other students burning holes in my back. Tears burn in the corner of my eyes.
I step up on the little stage thing, and walk behind the podium. Standing on my tip-toes, I reach the square that represents the desk that I'm sharing with Hinata.
My hand shakes with the chalk in my hand, and I look back at Iruka's name, written in Japanese. I try to swallow, but my mouth feels like its full of sand.
I do not know how to read his name, it looks like scribbles to me. My heart speeds up.
Do I ask for help, or write my name in english? Why the fuck can I speak Japanese, but not read and write it!?
Taking a deep breath I decide that asking Iruka for help spelling my name is much more embarrassing than writing it in a language they don't understand. Why I do not know, it doesn't help that I am panicking and not thinking clearly.
So in perfect cursive handwriting that I've been using since grade school in my old life, I write my first name, and my new last name, making sure I leave enough space in the box for Hinata to write her name as well.
Slowly walking to the front of the podium, I immediately notice everyone is either staring at my name with a bewildered look on there face, or snickering at me.
I lock my eyes with Naruto. Assuming he heard the snickers of those around me, the blue eyed boy gives me a toothy grin, and a thumbs up. I try to swallow again, and calm my nerves. Doesn't help.
Taking a deep breath I force myself to start my verbal introduction.
"My name is Jade Uzumaki! The younger sister of Naruto Uzumaki. My favourite colour is baby blue, my favourite animal is a monkey, and my favourite thing to do is make music. Um..." I glance at Iruka, and he swivels his hand on his wrist, singling me to continue. I take a deep breath my stomach launching, hands clammy, breathing shallow.
My dad was a public icon, so we did lots of family and individual interviews. My mother wrote me a little speech to say for all of them, and I almost started saying her favourite one. The fact that my father is an Politician really controlled everything I could do and say.
But thats not who I am anymore. They don't even exists. I can be whoever I want..I can be me...
A small thrill runs through me. "I've always wanted to learn how to use a sword, and how to save people." A smile makes its way onto my face, my heart rate picking up even more at my new found freedom.
"I really want to know how to protect those I love and how to make sure they all stay happy, and I want to be able to stay happy myself. And I want to be free! I want to be able to be anything I want to be." I start start talking with my hands, throwing them out beside me, and waving them in front of my body. My nervousness over my name making its way to the back of my mind.
"I really want to learn about chakra control so that I can walk on water, because thats just way to cool!" I bring both of my small hands up to my face and push them against my round baby cheeks. "And I want my brother to reach his dreams without a lot of heartbreak and assho-"
"Jade! No swearing." Iruka shouts at me before I even get the whole word out, a slight twitch in his forehead.
I nod at him, and decide to wrap it up. Taking another deep breath, I can't slow down my racing heart, my knees are still weak, and my hands still sweaty. "My goal for the future is..." Trailing off I start to really think about it.
I only want to make Naruto happy...But I can have a life too...I'm going to have a future too because I now live here...So what do I want most of all?
I cross my left arm over my flat chest, placing my right elbow on it, and my face in my right hand. I feel my face scrunch up in concentration, completely ignoring the class and all of the stares.
Well I'm Naruto's sister, I'm making Hinata become my best friend...I will make the rest of Rookie Nine my friends as well...I shall force Sasuke to stay in the fucking village and not be a complete dick head...And I want to meet Gaara and make him happy...I also want to have cute babies...I want Naruto and Hinata to have cute babies...And Sakura and Lee...Tenten and Neji...Ino and Sai...Shikamaru and Temari...I want all of them to have babies! Oh my god, what is something I can freaking say!?
"Um..." Looking back up, I drop my right hand back to my side, and scratch the back of my head with my left hand. Everyone is leaning forward slightly, staring at me. My face burns even more.
Scanning the first row I see a small pale kid, with black hair. The way his hair is styled makes it look like a duck butt.
I lock my gaze with the dark eyes of Sasuke Uchiha. He seems so happy, and his eyes are so bright. He has such a innocent face. It's almost like he has never experienced pain or heart break.
He hasn't...His whole clan is still alive...Which means...I can protect Itachi too! THE SHIPS!
Feeling breathless I look back at my new brother I quickly realize that Naruto's eyes are not as innocent as Sasuke's. Naruto's eyes already hold a world of hurt and pain with in them. That hurts my insides. Naruto has known pain way longer than Sasuke, and Sasuke is the one thats all butt hurt.
The perfect thing to say pops in my head.
"My future goal..No, my goal is to rid everyone of the sadness, pain, and hatred that the hold in their hearts. I want to replace it with happiness, pleasure, and love. I also want to prevent anyone from ever feeling those negative emotions. My goal is to make people happy, and to keep them happy." I say with a smile, looking up at Iruka. Relief floods through me.
I'm done! Time to go back to my seat!
The older man smiles at me. "Very well done Jade! Now if you can write you name properly, you can go back to your desk."
My whole face turns red. My world feels like it just ended. "I...I don't know how..." I mutter quietly, tears burning at the corners of my eyes again.
I tilt my head wishing I wore my hair down so that I would be able to hide my burning face.
"Pardon?" Iruka says, walking closer to me.
Sighing loudly I realize that there is no way for me to get out of not announcing my incompetence to the whole class. "I don't know how to read and write." I say in a loud and strong voice, a scowl settling on my face as the class breaks off into a hysterical laughter. All of my pride completely vanishes, and I feel the need to cry.
Like full out, snotting everywhere, type of crying.
Iruka nods, and walks over to the chalk bored, erasing my beautiful english written name. "Jade, come here so I can show you how to write you name."
The class starts laughing harder, and I feel my face heat up even more. Embarrassment runs through me, and I started getting angry. My little hands turn into fists shaking with anger.
Those assholes! It's not my fucking fault! I bet I'm bloody smarter than most of them!
"Oi! Shut up!" Naruto yells at everyone.
"HA HA HA HA HA! YOU CAN'T EVEN WRITE YOU OWN NAME!" A kid with messy brown hair and sharp black eyes yell. The most noticeable thing about him was the small white dog on his head, and the two red fang markings of the Inuzuka clan on his cheeks.
"Kiba..." I growl out, angrily walking towards him. The closer I get seems to cause him to laugh harder. The tears slide down my cheeks, causing me to get even more furious.
The saying 'seen red' has never made sense to me until now. I am so angry, and honestly I want to hurt this boy. Walking to the stairs between the left section and the middle left, I stand beside his desk thats in the middle left. Not being able to control my actions, I grab the collar of his light gray t-shirt with my right hand. "Say that again I dare you!" I growl out. His eyes quickly look me over, his smile turning into a sneer. The challenge must be easy to see in his eyes.
"Do you know who I am!?" He growls out, leaning closer to my face, showing his teeth like a dog.
I sneer back at him. refusing to back down. "Yes. Does it look like I care!?"
Kiba grabs my wrist and squeezes. The pain forces me to let go of his shirt, and I freeze, staring at my now purpling wrist thats still trapped in his clutches. I start to whimper. Fear and regret coursing through me. He smiles happily. My body starts to tremble
Fuck, I fucked up! I should know not to fucking challenge Kiba like this. He is way to much of a dog. He probably sees this a fight for dominance. Great to I have to fucking submit!? Am I already submitting!?
"Jade please come- Kiba let go of her! Naruto sit down!" Iruka shouts from behind me. I bet he's shaking in rage.
Naruto is suddenly beside my shaking form, grabbing Kiba by the front of his shirt. "DO NOT TOUCH MY SISTER!" Naruto yells, punching Kiba in the face.
The tattooed boy lets go of my wrist, and falls backwards onto the boy he is sitting beside.
The quickness of Kiba falling backwards, cause the small white puppy on his head to fling forwards. I catch Akamaru right before he contacts with my face, and wince, my wrist is still in a lot of pain. His white little paws seem to hang on to my left should like hands. I hold onto his butt with my left hand and place my right around his back. I am holding this dog like a baby.
"He's so cute..." I whisper, completely focused on the little puppy thats in my arms.
The white dog sighs, and places his cute little muzzle on top of his paws.
"DON'T YOU EVER TOUCH MY SISTER AGAIN!" Naruto screams, completely furious that Kiba bruised me.
"TELL HER NOT TO CHALLENGE PEOPLE THAT ARE STRONGER THAN HER!" Kiba screams back.
The two boys have a fistful each of each others shirts, punching in the face each other with their right hands.
"DETENTION! AFTER SCHOOL, THE THREE OF YOU!" Iruka shouts, Causing the three of us to look at him.
"NOT FAIR! THAT GIRL STARTED IT!"
"OI! THIS JERK STARTED IT! NOT ME!"
"KIBA STARTED IT! HE WAS LAUGHING AT ME!"
The three of us screamed in unison.
Urgh first day of school, and my first day of detention EVER!
"The three of you, and thats final! Go back to your seats!" Iruka demands, the veins in his forehead very pronounced. Naruto mutters curses under his breath as he walks back to his seat.
Shuffling my feet, I take a few steps closer to Kiba, my face aflame.
"Urgh...I'm sorry for grabbing you...I made sure your puppy didn't get hurt though..." I mutter softly, eyes down cast, knowing he will hear me. An Inuzuka has eyes, ears, and nose that are as strong as a dogs.
I feel the small dog get lifted from my arms. Looking back up at Kiba through my eyelashes, I'm surprised when he smiles at me. "Thanks Jade-chan! You and your brother are alright!" Kiba fucking winks at me. I met his gaze completely and just blink at him for 1.2 seconds.
"Return to your seat Jade. I will not ask again." Iruka commands.
"Jade-chan! Come on!" Naruto shouts from his desk, still glaring at Kiba.
Mentally shaking myself I start muttering under my breath as well. "Fucking weird ass mutt." I walk away from the wild boy, and back to my shared seat. My face is set in a pout.
"Okay, now that is over with, Hinata please come on up." Iruka says,his voice filled with annoyance.
Passing the nervous girl I sit back in my spot, pretending that I don't notice all of the whispers, and all of the stares. This is something I am skilled at. Ignoring ass hats.
Hinata diligently writes her name beside my name. Iruka ended up writing mine for me. Again I am unable to read either of them. My hands itch to rip out all of the dirty blonde hair on my head.
I fold my arms on top of the desk, and rest my round chin on top of my arms, looking intently at Hinata.
"M-my n-name i-is Hinat-ta H-Hyuga. M-my m-mother i-is v-v-very pr-preg-gnat-t, a-and I-I h-hope I-I ca-an b-be a-a w-worth-thy ol-older-er s-sister. I-I al-also h-hope t-to b-be th-the fu-fut-ture h-head o-of m-my cl-clan." She finishes with a small smile.
Before anyone can laugh, I stand up and clap, wanting to save her from the same embarrassment that I just faced. I hear Naruto clap behind me, glancing over I see Kiba just in time as he whistles at the blushing girl.
Soon everyone is clapping for her. Hinata bows deeply and runs back to our seat.
I pull her in for another hug. "Good job Hinata! And I bet you'll make an amazing older sister!" I say encouragingly.
"Th-thank y-you J-Jade-ch-chan." The pale eyed girl stutters.
A rush of happiness fills me head to toe.
Defiantly becoming best friends with this one!
