Hello peoples! It's Zumagirl speaking or writing…. Whatever you would call it. Sorry for taking so long with the update. One word, Finals, I will try to upload the next chapter by New Year. Oh and up until Chapter 41 or 42, will be the original that I cut up into manageable chapters. I hope you will be happy with this.
-ZG
Chapter 14 Reportcards
Tailor Narubi
"Please sit down Naruto." Iruka smiled kindly.
Naruto took a seat across from him in the empty class.
"Since you have no family," Iruka said slowly, "I thought it best to just talk straight to you. We're supposed to give mark updates to the parents so they know where their children are at in the class."
Naruto frowned not remembering having such talks before. Then he shrugged. The teachers had probably done that on purpose.
"As it is." Iruka said, "You are quite high in the marks regard."
Naruto perked up and listened attentively as Iruka pulled a sheet out.
"While you taijutsu is just barely average in form, you have power to make up for the sloppiness. I would suggest running through the kata more slowly and practicing every day."
Naruto frowned calculating where he could add that in his day. As he only slept around six hours a night (which was quite odd for a growing boy of twelve when he thought on it now) he had a lot of spare time. But he tended to use all that time for sewing.
"Your Genjutsu is not so good. You have no skill in that area I'm afraid. I would try to learn how to dispel them at least but you will probably never be able to make them."
Naruto nodded, having already figured this out.
"And as for you ninjutsu, you have the Henge down very well. Your clones are still a bit sickly looking but they're acceptable. As for your weapon throwing score, I'd have to say that's one of your best marks. You kunai and shuriken throwing is average, but you are very skilled with senbon. You also have a very in-depth knowledge on anatomy and how to use senbon. I would focus more on them to make them your weapon of choice."
Naruto nodded. He had worked hard on mastering his senbon.
"As for your stealth, traps, and planning you got a very high score, top of the class actually. How you hide so well in such restricting and bright clothing I'll never know." Iruka sighed. "And your traps are well thought out. You have a good amount of ability with using wire traps I might add. They never fail, even on the teachers."
Naruto hid a grin. He'd been quite a prankster before becoming so interested in sewing. He hadn't stopped his pranks over the years either. He just did them more secretly. He hadn't been blamed for a prank in almost two and a half years and he had done over a hundred small scale pranks. Some he had even done on ANBU members. Stealth was one of the things he excelled at. And while he despised long term battle planning he could come up with plans on the fly easily enough. And the wire? That was something he'd practiced as much as senbon, perhaps more.
"Next, you book knowledge. It is not the best." He winced. "Very low in fact, you miss many tests with how many days of class you miss and while you are very good with numbers and chakra you don't seem to be knowledgeable with very much else."
Naruto sighed. He'd ended up skipping quite a few days in his academy years because of meeting clients and trying to finish things by his agenda and deadlines. As he always practiced and exercises every morning he hadn't felt any regret over the skipping.
"Your Survival marks are high also. You know all you can about packing light, camping in most situations, and living off the land."
Naruto nodded and another sheet was shuffled.
"And finally, your chakra control. I must say for how large you chakra reserves are, I'm highly impressed at the amount of control you wield. It's about as good as I seen in most graduated genin."
Naruto beamed. That had taken a lot of work. Inu had said he had large reveres and started him on chakra control exercises as soon as he was aware of what chakra was.
"So in all, you're actually quite high in the marks. While you fail utterly at Genjutsu and book tests, you have enough higher then average marks in a few other subjects to bring you up. In class ranking you're in fifth place under Sasuke, Hinata, Shino, and Sakura."
Naruto frowned
"How am I under Sakura? I know she's smart but she's not the best at physical work."
"She's above you because she's got an almost perfect score in Genjutsu, chakra control, and theory for all subjects."
Naruto pondered this a moment then shrugged and stood giving a short bow.
"Thank you Iruka-sensei."
"You're welcome Naruto, he smiled kindly.
Naruto headed for the door but paused before he was fully out.
"Iruka-sensei, would you be interested in modeling for me?"
Iruka stared blankly and then blinked and gave Naruto a surprised expression.
"Model for you?"
"I sew clothes and such. You have a nice figure, and I can think of more then a few outfits that would look wonderful on you."
Iruka blushed cutely and hesitated slightly.
"I'll even let you keep a few of the outfits." Naruto cajoled, "And when you come by there will be tea and snacks."
"I suppose I could try it out." Iruka said slowly.
"Great! Would you like to come this Sunday? At noon. You can join me for lunch."
"Okay." Iruka smiled.
Naruto grinned and skipped out of the room, patterns flipping through his mind.