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Problems

Fran opened the door to the apartment, and as he put on his slippers he noticed that there were a pair of ninja sandals next to the slippers. He paused for a moment as that registered in his head which was numb after being in a classroom with the teacher droning on and on about certain subjects he already knew. All of which he had to deal on his own since Naruto had taken to ditching class without him, and he had to deal with that moron of a sensei. God, he would take a lecture from his Captain any day, and having to go on a mission with Levi rather than spend his time in that class. However, he would have to bear through it, just like Yume did.

Speaking of Yume…"I see you're back Fran. Now what is it that I've heard from Mikoto-sama that you've both ended up with complaints, and detentions?" Yume asked with her arms crossed and her face blank, but with the tenseness in her posture and tiredness in her eyes he could tell she was stressed out. She wasn't angry at them though, he could tell and just simply wanted an explanation. She knows that they wouldn't act the way they did without reason.

"Good to see you too Yume-nee. And as for why we have to deal with detention and stuff, not that we actually go to it, is to put it simply. Hell." Yume raised her brow at that. He then made an illusion of a mini theater with red curtains and a wooden stage, with chibi's of him and the rest of his class.

"You see Yume-nee. Naruto and I are subjected to mind-numbing lectures, but that's not all." Chibi Fran and Chibi Naruto appeared to be doing their work on a test. Soon the chibi version of their sensei, appeared behind Naruto and Fran. In a sickeningly sweet, and obviously fake .high pitched voice she said. "Uzumaki, copying is not allowed during an exam." The whole class was deathly silent, while Fran continued to do his work. Chibi Naruto appeared to begin protesting but was stopped as she continued. "How disappointing, but not unexpected. You will not get a retest, and you will fail this exam." Chibi Naruto appeared mad.

"What?! But that's not fair! I didn't copy!"

"Oh? Prove it then?"

"Well…um…"

"See you can't even give me an explanation."

"Oi. Sensei can you be quiet. Can't you see I am busy?" Chibi Fran said and the sensei turned to give him a smile but it turned into a frown after seeing his paper. She ignored Chibi Naruto as he glared at her before deciding to stomp out of the classroom.

"Fran, what is this? This isn't what I was asking of you to do." Sensei said in a disappointed tone as she picked up his paper. "This…this isn't even appropriate for a child your age to be writing in such detail. What has your parents been teaching you?"

"…" Chibi Fran stared at her apathetically before sighing. "I don't have to answer a stupid bitch of a sensei anything." She froze and it could be seen she was holding back her anger as she frowned at Chibi Fran disapprovingly.

"Young man, that is not the way you should speak to the adults."

"Oh really? And here I thought it was normal, seeing as most of you 'adults' are idiots. Oh and if you give me detention or whatever. I'm not going to stay and you can't make me." He said as he stood up leaving the Sensei shocked as he left the room with his bag. The illusion then faded and he turned to look at Yume who was staring where the illusion had been blankly. Only the small twitch from her eyebrow signified she was angry.

"By the way, Naruto wasn't cheating. He was actually doing his work, and it's not the first time it's happened."

"I see…" She closed her eyes as she rubbed her forehead. "I suppose I will be needing to speak with the Hokage about this situation."

"...Why him?"

"Well…while I could go speak to her, it's doubtful she will be willing to listen to reason. I'm unsure if she comes from a civilian family but if so, that will make things even more problematic. It would seem that they are warier and hostile towards Naruto, and the Uchiha for some reason as of late. In extension, since we associate with them, we will be treated the same."

"Ah…I was going to ask you about that but I guess even you don't know why."

"No…" Fran shifted and leaned against the wall as he gazed up, his apple hat like the one he used to have when he spent time with his grandmother, stopped him from looking too up. Yume stayed quiet for a moment before she sighed and said tiredly with a small smile.

"I see you've taken to wearing that again."

"Mmhm." He nodded as his gaze turned to look at her. "So…anything about Shishou?"

"Ah…not quiet but it's likely he's here. I couldn't check since Lambo is also here." She sighed again as he stared at her for a moment, taking in the other things he hadn't noticed earlier. Her eyes had dimmed, worry filled them, as well as guilt, her clothes were rumpled, and overall she didn't look at all like the Yume-nee he had grown used to. "Things just got more complicated…and next time I'm out. I'm going to visit Gaara…I think I will be needing to split my time more now."

"Yeah…but you need to rest too Yume-nee. You've been working a lot and now you look horrible." She chuckled a bit and nodded. "I expect I do…Funny how I didn't feel like this earlier."

Fran shrugged. "You have a lot on your plate, and you've been away a long time from Sawada." She gave him a confused look at the last part. "You depended and hung out with him a lot when you had the chance Yume-nee. Most would have said you had a crush on him." She blinked in realization.

"Oh…" A light blush formed on her cheeks and he took note of that but didn't say anything. "I guess so…but he was my first real friend so I guess I was a bit too attached to him."

"A bit isn't the word I'd use." He stuck his pinky in his ear as he picked out some earwax. "You were almost as bad as Smoking Bomb Hayato when it came to being loyal. If you were more competitive I think both of you would have been fighting over who's more loyal."

"Ehheh." They were both silent for a while once more and Fran started to make mini illusions of the Varia. 'Yume-nee isn't saying anything…I wonder if she's that concerned about everything.' His gaze shifted to her figure and he sweatdropped. She had fallen asleep while leaning against the wall. 'Guess not.' He then turned his gaze back to illusions to see mini-Bel trying to kill his mini-self, while mini-xanxus was sitting in an armchair with his eyes closed. Ignoring what was going on around him, and mini Squalo appeared to start blowing his gasket soon and the others… "Ah…maybe I gave them too much personality. It'd probably be better to just dispel them but…I don't wanna."


Yume stared outside the window while tapping her foot impatiently. She was needing to speak with the Hokage, but apparently she had to wait for a while for some reason. She doubted it was anything legit, with the look of disdain she got from the secretary. 'Honestly, I don't have the patience to deal with this right now.'

It had only been a day since she got back and already it felt as if so much had happened in that time. She wasn't exactly in the best of moods since Naruto refused to speak with her since the morning and that hurt her knowing she was at fault. She knew he was upset that she wasn't there their first day in the Academy, and while she had planned to arrive earlier, she couldn't exactly leave Lambo so soon. Then it was this hidden hostility between a lot of fellow ninja and the villagers when she had passed by. Well a lot would be exaggerating but certainly most of them had felt that way. Then there was the issue with Naruto's teacher, and the way he was treated. While she could tolerate, even if she disliked it, the way Naruto was treated whenever he was out in public, she certainly couldn't tolerate that he was treated the same way in school.

The academy should be able to teach him at least the basics of what he needs to learn, and expand his education, while being treated as just any other student. However, whatever prejudice there seemed to be towards Naruto, was also dominant there. Even if they didn't like him, they should at least handle things professionally when it comes to the education of one of their alumni.

She gazed as the kids were running around, and eating their lunches outside. She had spotted Naruto some distance away and he was talking to Fran, who was in turn conversing. Albeit, more nonverbal than anything. She could also see Sasuke some distance away, sitting on a tree branch. She smiled lightly at that, before her smile vanished as she glanced in the direction some of ninja that were supervising the children and stopped any roughhousing. Although when it came to Naruto being harassed earlier they did nothing. It wasn't until Fran appeared next to him and said something that they dispersed.

Children could be quite cruel, not that it was surprising. She tilted her head to the side as a figure approached her. She could see that it was a light brown haired teenage girl with grey, haughty eyes. "If it isn't little miss prodigy." She said snidely as Yume inwardly sighed. 'Oh great. Now what? Please don't tell me it's going to be like one of those drama scenes in manga where the protagonist gets verbally attacked.'

"I see you're still chunin. Not so great now huh?"

"…I'm sorry but…I don't believe I know who you are." She said tonelessly while wondering what the hell the Anbu and other ninja were doing watching this scene. 'Geez. Don't they have anything better to do?'

The teen snorted and rolled her eyes. "Of course you don't. Little miss I'm more mature than you lot, and better than you wouldn't dare remember a fellow orphan. Well just to refresh your little mind. I'm Yūhi Hana, from the Yūhi Orphanage, same as you." Yume drew a blank, not recalling any children from there, not that it was surprising since she didn't really talk or do much other than chores and take care of the little ones when she was not out training. 'Err…looking back I suppose I was a bit too introverted kind of like back then…'

"Ah…Sorry. I still don't remember." She apologized as the teen rolled glared. "Hmph. I should have expected as much. You always hung around the Uchiha, and tried to get on the teacher's good side way too much to even speak to us lowly civilians. Honestly, that pissed us all off back then, but of course we couldn't do anything. And then you started hanging around the Uchiha, probably to get into their good graces. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if that's the reason you even made it as a genin. Well, I guess it doesn't matter now since they've proven their capabilities without you holding them back. Now we all have the chance to be around them!"

'…Sigh. Just my luck. Someone that hates my guts and a fangirl. ' Yume closed her eyes and turned away from Hana. "Then I apologize for that was never my intention of making you all feel that way." She responded emotionlessly. "Ah…and congratulations on making it to Jonin. However, make note that rank doesn't always define the capabilities of a person."

"Tch. There you go using that tone as if your so much better and older than us. The fact that I'm Jonin now must irritate you if you're using that tone." Hana gritted her teeth as she crossed her arms. Exposing more of her bust, from her sleeveless dark shirt. 'No. In fact, I could care less. My goal isn't to become a high ranking ninja, and the less I know about its secrets the better.' She thought to herself as she gazed upon the teen again. 'And technically I am older.'

"I see…If that is how you view things so be it. I'm not about to bother getting into a petty argument over a small piece of information that you misconstrued into another meaning." She turned to look away, dismissing her. This was the attitude that probably costed the rumors of herself believing she was better than them but in truth she only ever used it when dealing with fangirls trying to intimidate her for hanging around Itachi and Shisui. That and when she was tired, and had a lot on her plate she would behave more like this.

"Miscontrued?! So then-"

There was a coughing noise behind her and Hana turned to look before blushing slightly as the Hokage stood in the doorway. "There is no trouble around here I hope?" He asked kindly and Yume turned towards the Hokage and bowed. "None at all Hokage-sama." Yume responded as Hana followed suit and bowed.

"Yes. No problem. Now if you excuse me I'll be leaving now Hokage-sama." Hana then left in a hurry and Yume straightened from her bow. She glanced towards the Hokage who appeared to have been aware what was going on with the look of amusement in his eyes. 'Yeah. Go ahead and enjoy the show why don't you? And if you freaking knew why the hell didn't you stop it in the first place! And call me in too while you're at it.' She thought annoyed and sighed outwardly. 'Maybe Fran's right I need to rest more, but I can't rest I need to find the others and find a way back.'

"Come now, Yume, I expect you have been waiting for a while now." The Sandaime said and motioned for her to come in. She did as she was told and sat on one of the two chairs in the middle of the room. It almost felt as if she was in a hearing room, monitored from everywhere. Scratch that, she was being monitored.

As the Sandaime sat down he looked at her, observing her body language. "I see you were in a rather problematic situation earlier."

"Hn. Unfortunately, I was, however that is not the topic I wish to discuss Hokage-sama." He raised his eyebrow and sighed. "Yes, I was wondering about that earlier. I assume it concerns your family?" He asked as he rested his hands in front of him.

"No. Well yes in a way." He waited for her to continue. "I wish to speak in concern of Naruto's education." The Hokage's expression turned serious at the mention of Naruto.

"And your concern is?"

"That he is not getting the appropriate amount of education by his teacher." He gave her a look as if to say go on. "Fran brought to my attention that Naruto was being the center of discrimination for an unknown reason. It's not entirely different from the type he gets from the regular civilians and while I can tolerate that to an extent, even though I would love to question why they hate him so much. I find it intolerable as for him to be discriminated without good cause. I know he's done pranks, and I haven't really done much to stop him, but he's never done anything to severely or physically hurt someone. Other than striking down an ego, or humiliation, but that isn't enough to warrant him to be out casted by his own sensei." Her voice became slightly more rushed and higher as she continued. "He has a right just as the other kids to be taught the same knowledge, and even if they don't like him they should act professionally. It's not fair, or right."

The Sandaime sighed at her words. He looked sad as he spoke. "Ah, I should have expected this. However, I can't do anything to directly solve his problems. Some in the counsel would object to my interfering." Yume didn't understand why but she pursed her lips as she stood. Sitting down was not helping her feelings at the moment.

"Then don't look at it as interference. Look at it as a concern for student and future shinobi representation of Konoha. Naruto's dream is to become Hokage, and when he passes the academy to become genin he will be lacking knowledge in certain areas. And while he does have a creative mind, and is resourceful I'd rather he not be lacking in knowledge that might be of use for him one day. The way he would react in situations would also affect how clients would look at the trainings of Konoha."

He mulled over what she said and then gave her a small smile. "However, the true intention of all this is that he be given the same education like any other student."

"Well…yes. He's like a little brother to me…"Her blank mask, which had already crumbled a bit with the way she spoke, completely fell as she looked at the floor sadly. "I want him to have as much chance of a normalcy as he can, despite him being hated. He's a child, and because of how dangerous our career is. I won't always be here, or even give him a certain answer that I won't die." 'Of course I'm not just speaking about being a shinobi. I'm a guardian for a mafia boss, there is always a risk that I could die at some point. Not to mention…I won't ever see him or anyone else when we go back home.'

"We'll see what we can do then." The Sandaime said bringing her out of her thoughts as she looked at him gratefully. However, she knew that he would have tried to do something either way once he'd heard of what was going on. She doubted that word of what was happening wouldn't eventually reach him at some point.

"Thank you…" She bowed gratefully. He looked towards the ceiling before giving her a nod. "You may go now. I'd expect Naruto might want to speak with you now." As she straightened from her bow she gave a blank stare. Although, he could read the slight surprise in her eyes to which he smiled vaguely.

"Uh…yes maybe. Well, have a nice day Hokage-sama" Was her response before giving another respectful bow and leaving.


"If she knew you were eavesdropping I don't believe she would be happy with you both." Two young ANBU dropped one wearing a weasel like porcelain mask while the other's resembled a cat.

"The mission has been completed Hokage-sama."Both said as they kneeled.

"Well it wouldn't be the first time, but it was surprising to see her get worked up like that." Cat responded as he stood to hand over over a package to the Hokage. Weasel merely stayed quiet.

"Indeed, even not knowing her well. I have heard from others that she's not one to start or get in a fight with her fellow colleagues."

"Or associate much with them, at least used to." Cat said referring to the fact that she now and then made small talk with others if they ever asked her a question or started a conversation. Although, that might be because she was being treated mores as an adult than a kid when they conversed with her.

"However, if you noticed she seemed tired so that might have contributed to her behavior." Weasel pointed out. Both cat and the sandaime agreed silently.

"She is not the only one who is tired I expect. Both of you should return and rest as much as you can with the situation at hand." He sighed and both Anbu stayed silent as they nodded. "I'm doing all I can at this point, but the situation doesn't look so positive at the moment."

"We will do all we can on ours Hokage-sama. We will keep on notifying you if there's any development." The Hokage smiled tiredly. "For the sake of the village let us hope it is positive. You may leave now." Both Anbu bowed before seemingly vanishing in a single moment.


Far away from Konoha

"Oi! Shitty captain. When will we be out of these woods? The prince does not enjoy having to eat tasteless food every single day." Bel said as his usual grin was gone and he was frowning at the meat on a stick disgustedly. Or rather what was supposed to be meat seeing as it was almost completely charred. Squalo scowled at him. "The prince is also sick of having to bathe like a medieval commoner in rivers, or staying dirty when there aren't any."

Squalo's eyebrow twitched but held back from yelling at Bel as he had somewhat of a point. It didn't appear like they would be finding any of those guardians and Fran anytime soon. So unless they earned some money, it was doubtful he would keep himself from holding back from fighting Bel with all his complaining. "Tch. Then we'll be having to find a job then."

"But the prince doesn't want to work like those commoners."

"A 'job' similar to our own you piece of trash." That seemed to lift Bel's mood as a grin formed on his face.

"Oh. Then the prince is in." Squalo resisted the urge to roll his eyes and glared at him. "Yes, now all we have to do is actually find a job."

"Ushishishi. Don't worry captain I already have that covered. Although I never expected that we would actually have to do it." Bel took out a small black book detailing bounties on people as he tossed it to Squalo. Squalo caught it and opened the book to a random page and as he looked his face darkened.

"VOI! You shitty brat. You planned this all out didn't you?" Bel's grin widened as he leaned back, throwing the rest of the charred meat to the ground some ways from where they were. "Who knows. "

Squalo gritted his teeth. "It was fun anyways to see you hold back from yelling at us. It's surprising you had so much self-control. Who knew." Squalo stayed still for a moment before looking at Bel with a murderous look.

"You brat. You're lucky boss ordered me to watch over you or else I'd kill you right now."

"Ushishishi. I'd like to see you try Taichou."


Konoha Academy

"Maa~ I'm so bored." Fran said as he rested the back of his head, without his hat since they made him stop bringing it. Now he was stuck outside in the hallway for being blunt at Watanabe-sensei. Or Baka-sensei as he dubbed her for now. Sometimes he called her Bitch-sensei and she got angry each and every time.

'Hm…you know instead of standing here I could just leave.'Fran thought to himself as he looked down the hallway prospectively. 'But if I leave now that Baka-sensei will come after me.' He quietly cursed under his breath at Naruto who had ditched him earlier. 'Stupid Fishcake. Leaving me behind to deal with that hell.' He was referring about the classwork and surprisingly a few girls who found him attractive even after that class incident.

He shuddered a bit. They were still too young to be dealing with those types of things. 'Stupid ninja and their ninja senses.' He mulled over what he could do and then he heard footsteps approaching. An idea then popped into his head. 'This will get me into more trouble but does give me a chance to escape.'


He then took out a marker from his shorts and quickly started vandalizing the wall. Writing some mean things about his teacher and drawings. And as expected. "Oi. That's against school rules." A male teacher said as he got in the line of sight of Fran. Fran looked up for a moment before dropping the black marker and making a run for it. The teacher stared at where he was a moment ago and before he could leave the classroom door opened.

"Is something the matter Kei-san?" Aiko asked as she gazed at her colleague in question. Kei was about a year older than her, and had a scar that ran from his eye down to his chin, and had messy brown hair, with chocolate brown eyes. He was also an excellent teacher but perhaps she was biased because she had a small crush on him. 'Gah. No not the time to think like a little school girl.'

"Yes. One of your students was writing on you wall and well looking at it. It wasn't anything nice except for those little drawings." He pointed out as she turned to look at what Fran wrote. She froze and smiled blandly. "Ah…yes. He ran off yes?"

"Yes I was about to give chase just a moment ago."

"I see…if you would please go ahead after him. I will be doing the same shortly. Um…that is if you're not busy." She said remembering he was also a teacher. He smiled charmingly, in her opinion anyways.

"Of course I don't mind. But I will have class in half an hour."

Smiling gratefully, she went back into her classroom as he quickly left. She would have to leave her students unattended for a while so they would have a short free period. After all how hard would it be to find an Academy student.


'Now that I'm far away…what should I do? I don't know where Naruto is, and if I'm with him I'm definitely getting caught.' Fran thought as he jumped from tree to tree silently, his illusions making him invisible to normal civilians. Training with the Varia had led him to learn things, and from watching Yume he learned how to do certain things too. It also helped that she gave him pointers and advice on what he got wrong sometimes.

'Hey maybe I should go see Yume-nee.' He thought as he stopped on a tree branch and looked around where he was. 'Now where did she say she usually trains by herself? Maybe she's there and she can help hide me.' He tried to remember where she said she was. 'I believe she said it was training grounds two.' He looked around trying to figure out where that would be.

He inwardly sighed as couldn't figure out where that would be either. 'Or maybe not.' He sat down on the large tree branch and looked at the sky. The large trees and vegetation reminded him of the forest surrounding Varia's headquarters. Although, not the same there was a likeness in his opinion.

'I'm bored now but it beats having to hang around class.' He then began to entertain himself as he created illusions of scenarios of how he and Bel would die. Like the time he tricked his enemies that they died when they were actually alive. He made it as realistic as could be with guts, blood and other appendages broken in each different scenario.

He stopped when he heard someone jump down next to him. He turned to look and saw Yume looking down at him. "I knew I wasn't crazy when I sensed your chakra here." She said and he shrugged. Her gaze then shifted to his illusions and raised her brow in question.

"Shouldn't you be in school?"

"Yeah but obviously I'm out."

"…Okay. Just don't do anything dangerous or get caught if you're going to play hooky."

"Shouldn't you be more concerned that I'm skipping Yume-nee?" He asked and she chuckled a bit. She gave him a nod as well.

"I should but you're not entirely a little kid anymore. You're mentally older too so there must be a reason why you left." Fran hummed as she sat down next to him. He then leaned into her side and she stared playing with his hair as he continued to make illusions.

"Then aren't you going to ask what happened?" She shook her head.

"No. I have a feeling I'll be hearing about it soon." She stated as she watched his illusions unflinchingly, and while the thought of killing others didn't sit well with her. This type of thing was part of her life so she had become slightly desensitized with death scenes. Other people, those not used to this type of thing would flinch and look away in disgust.

Fran looked up at her and noticed that she seemed to be lost in thoughts now and gazing without actually seeing what was in front of her. 'She misses home a lot.' He then looked forward and changed his illusions to something different. It was her and everyone else, as they were originally in age. Lambo and Ipin were talking to one another as Fran was watching them from a point away. Tsuna was calming down an annoyed Gokudera and trying to stop Mukuro and Hibari from fighting while gazing nervously in the direction where a preteen Reborn was gazing at him. Silently telling him to calm them down while he enjoyed his coffee peacefully. Ryohei wasn't helping as he was cheering on the extreme fight as he would say.

Bianchi was near Reborn and fawning over him. Chrome, Kyoko, Haru and Yume were engaged in a conversation. Ken and Chikusa seemed to be annoyed with everything too, as Yamamoto was next to them smiling with what was going on.

It wasn't technically everyone but it was definitely a scene that would have occurred back home. Yume blinked as she was brought out of her thoughts as her mind registered the whole scene, as their voices had broken her thoughts.

"Fran…"

"Yeah?"

"I'm grateful for this but you have to be careful where you do this okay? No one's coming right now but still." She said as a fond smile formed and she watched the scene play out. Fran nodded. "Sure. Just help me figure out how to sense chakra and we're good." She gave a nod as she continued to watch. They stayed like that for some time watching as the illusions acted so much like their real counter parts.


Time passed and it was now well into the afternoon now. Yume looked down at Fran's sleeping figure. He had started to doze off, tired from keeping up so many illusions at once. It would seem the more lifelike and normal sized the faster he got tired. It probably had to do with his physical age than anything.

She sighed as she gazed back where the scene of her friends had been. It felt as if it had been a lifetime ago that she had last seen and heard them, even with Fran's illusions, seeing Lambo and her dream's involving them kept that from fading. It almost made her feel hopeless in ever finding a way home but she knew that wasn't the case.

'Tsuna…everyone. Let's meet up soon and enjoy those times together again. Then I can tell you about all the great people I've met here.' She smiled a bit as she picked Fran and placed him on her back. She decided not to focus about the repercussions of her leaving for now again. Letting her guilt and regret overwhelm her would make her falter.

"Yume-nee…fine…" Fran mumbled sleepily and she chuckled as she jumped from tree branch to tree branch heading back to their apartment. "Fish…cake…" She hummed as she figured on where Naruto might be at this point in time. Usually he would be playing with Sasuke at the compound. She should go check if he was there and hope that he was not so upset anymore.

M:That's that! Chapter finished finally! Although it had been mostly finished before and then my laptop crashed and I lost the whole chapter a long with another that I had already planned! TT-TT I lost everything. And this whole chapter was different and similar but I suppose this second version was a lot better.

Anyways it's also been a whole year since I started this fanfic! O.O A whole year! Thanks for all of you for taking your time to read this fanfic too. Ya'll are awesome!

And now till next chapter! Ja ne~

animagirl: She does but I forgot to ever even put that part into the story. Itachi and Shisui are way too popular with the female crowd for their own good. And although Yume hasn't done anything to the teacher directly right now she might in the future. Well, again hope you enjoyed the chapter!

Glambou Jones: Eh that's a iffy subject since I know that there are people that don't like that part of the Naruto plot. I'm one of those people but since Yume hasn't really done much to change anything at this point. So as far as that goes it might happen, might not, or lead to diverging a bit as to what happens to the Uchiha massacre. But I'm leaning more to the last option at this point since her being there has caused some changes but not as much to being able to diverge that whole event completely. However, that could change depending on how things progress in the future chapters. Although the massacre event is still some chapters away from now.