Hello and welcome to part 2 of my favourite naruto Yakumo fic I'm still new to writing so thank you for staying with me through this learning curve

Anyways let's start the story.

Yakumo Kurama is the oldest daughter and only child of the main house of the Kurama clan. Born on a rainy July day her body was fragile as her first day on this earth was wet, and often sported injuries after her physical training. She had many duties from book studies to meeting future clan heads she hoped one day to work with on the Shinobi Council. In her one-track mind being famous as a Kunoichi was her only dream.

Kurama clan was once a prominent clan of shinobi in the hidden leaf village which wasn't a misnomer either. The large village was home to over two hundred thousand people, hundreds of respected Shinobi clans and hundreds of non-respected clans who just started pushing members into their careers in the village alone and out of the village walls were towns and villages and farming communities. Which stretch on for miles. Inside the woods, hundreds of miles were forest some used for training exercise of the genin crop and then there were trees in clan compounds or the many parks and the trees long streets there was easily over a million leaves in the village. Overlooking the whole village were the great stone faces of four great Shinobi who made many sacrifices for Konoha and her inhabitants and likely make more in the future as people continue to throw their bodies onto the will of fire to keep the village afloat and on top of the shinobi world. Each face was revered in a different way Hashirama and Tobirama Senju each changed and founded the fundamentals of the shinobi system, Genjetsu Hozuki led Konoha threw two world wars and changed the system of mission teams by making sure medical ninjas were trained from childhood picked out by who had the best chakra control and who wanted to be a medical ninja. Lord third also raises the pay of medical ninjas to be over fifty Ryo more than the income of a regular shinobi academy student. He also revamped the academy system creating a system which taught shinobi arts 24/7 364 days of the year from medical ninjutsu to skills such as espionage, traps, weapons and fuinjutsu for any brave enough to attempt the studies. Then the most beloved Hokage of the day Minato Namikaze. The man who saved the village from the nine tails attack seven years ago now his stoic face overs sees everything in the village.

Much like the farmland and forests along the roads of the land of fire which stretched on for miles her brown hair did much the same, she was known in the clan for it even at the ripe age of an aspiring future shinobi which in every hidden village was between six to twelve years old. Yakumo had her eighth birthday receiving gifts from clan members of the Kurama clan couple of months ago. She was a privately taught girl but her clan had raised a few jonin level ninjas who could had offer her the best training. They as jonin had duties to the Hokage, genjutsu was an art which was rare and its best users were always needed unless they were given a genin squad.

Even at the age of eight, Yakumo had a hard time with physical training as she has much of her life. Even with the extra strength and energy people got from chakra she fell behind her peers much to her shame. But book learning came easy most of all history of the ninja world or her clan. Her father is a clan head and sits on the shinobi Council alongside nineteen of the other top clans and Murakumo often spoke with his daughter about the political world of 1940s Konoha. The four strongest clans were Uchiha, Hyuga, Akimichi and Aburame clans each producing dozens of shinobi and each had at least ten join that anytime. Once the Kurama clan held such power that was til the greatness started to slip from out of their fingers. By the end of the second ninja war, they lost their place to the Aburame clan.

Even that eight she had a comprehension of the political life her father lead every day. each week meeting with the Hokage and nineteen of his peers. Were lessons in politics, he often talk about other clans and the power they held in the village.

The Hyuga were rich landlords who own both apartments building and shops in market squares all around the village. The Uchiha clan has lots of political power in the village being a founding member of the village but since the nine-tails attack, it slowly started to slip. They were the majority of the Konoha military police. They also made up a huge number of jonin and chunnin shinobi. By far the largest clan in the village they easily number two thousand people. The Akimichi clan owned multiple restaurants throughout the village. They also a large clan with close ties to the Yamanaka and Nara And the Hozuki clan, they were some of the more powerful clans in the village but didn't have the title a noble clan of the village even with the third Hokage hailing from this clan. They own the aviaries and are paid to use their hawks by the Hokage through this was a practice done long before the third Hokage was ever named the lord third.

And of the Kurama clan? Well before its fall from grace, it own a few stores and the Kurama compound which was a street of houses on either side of the street. The largest was the house of the main house. A large courtyard stood just behind the gates which were two ten feet tall wooden doors. The house had enough room to house five small families and have extra space. Alongside it are the homes of the once much larger clan whose numbers have dwindled since the founding of the village.

At a young age, she was trained to hide her emotions even under the pressure of her father's expectations. Even if she was on the verge of tears she could hold a conversation without revealing her emotional state, her father tested her under multiple genjutsu to bring out different emotions. The pain was one of the few things that escaped her facial muscle control but when she pushes herself too hard in physical exercise.

Three weeks ago Yakumo learned the most interesting thing, an elite jonin took a boy with zero talent under his wing with the blessing of the Hokage Genjetsu Hozuki. Her father petitions the village leader to meet him and discuss an elite jonin sensei for her studies. The Hokage agreed to meet them and only them, today she will argue or watch her father argue her case. Due to her physical strength, she was booted from the ninja academy at six.

Yet she was more confident than ever before she worked not just on book smarts but her taijutsu as well. Her instructor is a Kurama chunnin named Senzo and sometimes help from her mother who although not originally from the clan is counted among their jonin population.

Today her father ordered her to rest not wanting her to overwork herself before the Hokage meeting, such things would look bad on the clan. "Lady Yakumo would you like some tea?" Nanako an old retired kunoichi asked, now she spends her days cleaning homes still occupied by Kurama but often on what seem like random days of the year she goes to the unoccupied and spends hours cleaning them. "No thank you Nanako, would you like me to help you with the choirs? I will be happy to pass the time"

The old kunoichi laughed and shook her head, Yakumo returned to her waited game reading the tale of a gutsy ninja. Such romanticized stories of shinobi life were much of the non-educational book's content she consumed day to day. This was her tenth maybe eleventh time reading this book since she got it two months ago.

She hoped to get a jonin sensei just like the main character of the gutsy ninja book.

Naruto Namikaze, is a hero to the people and great legendary shinobi or so the back of the book would read. Was she naïve? A little but she was aware of the reality of the shinobi world, death is only a co-worker. She was seven when she killed a rabbit name, Yuki. Even if she teared up she was still killing the pet that made her feel better after being kicked out of the academy. But like all the time she could have spent making friends she spend training herself to be the greatest kunoichi of all time, everything can be worth the sacrifice even her own life should be for the village to gamble away. She believed those words the first rule of conduct for shinobi is their first duty is the protect the king and they're last is to die. Yakumo wasn't like most girls who think about how they're going to kiss their first on their first date. She imagined how her death could help the village thrive and survive another day. Not that she was quick to die she wanted a long life but if war caused her co-worker to choose her to take to the afterlife.

"Lady Yakumo your father was requested you he's ready to depart for your audience with lord Hokage," said a genin member of the clan his name is Udo her first cousin. though if one put them side by side Yakumo's skin complexion was vastly different from Udo whose tan skin showed his years of d and c rank missions out in the sunny world of the land of fire and surrounding nations. Yakumo looked like a living ghost her skin was pale as moonlight on a top watery surface. She thanked him for telling her and was led to the front door of the house where Murakumo awaited her to accompany him to meet with the village leader.

The whispers of gossip always followed her ever since she could remember strangers speculated over her abilities. Her calm face hides her anger like grass under a snowy field. As they walked by a corner store they passed a sight of paint and the scent of children's stink bombs that had gone off hours ago. She could smell it down the street due to the breeze blowing into her face. She heard it was the demon child up to his Kitsune ways, it partly offended her knowing her clan history that they call the boy Naruto Uzumaki a nine-tail fox. She wouldn't pray to a little prankster, not like the family Guardian.

Her father asked her after they passed by what she thought about the said prankster. "He's an academy student and shows no signs of a selfless self-respecting shinobi playing pranks on the very people he's training to serve," Yakumo said although naruto's name wasn't said it was clear who they were talking about. " I see you have the mind of an Adult by you lack something that all adults have," Murakumo said. His daughter raised her right eyebrow in confusion and after a failed pair of guesses, he told her "the mindset of a child... those pranks are revenge for kicking him out of the store or overcharging the boy for his items you could buy for cheap" Murakumo continues his faithful daughter listen to the next words like orders from a jonin sensei.

"He's seen by civilians as trouble waiting to happen and ostracize the boy, much the same way you were in the academy..." Yakumo asked if her father was trying to get her to make a friend. Murakumo sighed " your quick... you meet each heir of the twenty clans yet you continue to lack friendships I worry for you it's not normal"

"That's exactly who I am father the exception to being normal even that boy had a more normal life than myself, who can even choose what's normal?"

"I don't know Yakumo your right he could train all he wants yet he pulls pranks... but has anyone ever stopped him?"

The clan head's child thought about it and then said " when I meet lady Hinata her father lord Hyuga said he was caught trying to prank some member of the main branch, someone who insulted him, then they made him scrub the floors of their compound correct? Must have been more"

When Murakumo shook his head and explain that each week seven or more pranks would be reported most of the time they didn't know he was there. Like the cat food switch with the inuzuka ninja hound food or the painting of the Nara clan deers all colours of the rainbow. To say less he's talented remember Yakumo no matter where you come from talent isn't just for the noble clans or prodigy it can come from everyone and anyone"

"You believe that?" She asked to which he assured her. Walking past the Sarutobi clan they could a woman yelling at a boy so loud they could hear it outside the Sarutobi compound she was smart enough to guess who was the target.

'How does the pranking feel now? Young Mr. Uzumaki' Yakumo thought as she walked past the compound. She was smug but she remembered getting caught in a stink bombing attack in the markets last year she was happy he was getting long-awaited retribution.

The Hokage office sits just under the heads of the third and fourth Hokage faces. A massive building of six stories the bottom is where new ninja get their shinobi ID cards which are needed for shinobi housing and deals in stores. The second floor is where ninjas get paid after the completion of missions. third where shinobi worked and filed paperwork and the fourth floor was where lord Hokage hands missions the fifth had both an office a bedroom and three meeting rooms. One where he meets one on one and where he meets with the clan heads. And one to meet jonin as well. The sixth floor was the roof and is where academy lessons sometimes are held and also where the inauguration of almost every Hokage was held.

They sat outside the room of the one on o bee meetings. Yakumo felt the worries of being rejected fill her and a cold sweat creep down her back that the idea. Even if such things happen she'll overcome the obstacle. The door opened and the head of the military police exited the room. Yakumo knew his name Fugaku and his sons Itachi and Sasuke. Her father nodded to the other clan head and fugaku scowled that the man. Yakumo understood why he was acting like an ass, she was weak and the only child her mother could give birth to without risking death.

" Murakumo please come inside now, and bring your daughter along," Genjetsu said

He was sitting Chris cross on a pillow in front of him were two seats just the same. They were in case two clan heads had a dispute. Once they were seated genjetsu picked up a stack of files looking through them he found the file being searched for the Hokage remarked that she was a cute six-year-old and in time became the desire of many shinobi and civilian men alike.

" indeed lord Hokage, my wish is that she could be a desire not for looks but for accomplishment as a kunoichi," Murakumo said after a bow which was all Yakumo copied from her father.

Genjetsu flipped open the file and used his finger to help him keep track of where he was reading. "Interesting yes I can now remember being reported this when you were kicked out of the academy... you continue the training despite reoccurring injuries like torn muscles and sprained ankles or so said the doctor who wrote this part of the file" Said the aging Kage they remain silent which annoyed the Hozuki and Yakumo could read the tic mark on his face and surely Murakumo could as well.

"It came to my attention from my daughter that a boy who is without talent has received a jonin sensei, an elite jonin. I requested you allow my daughter a sensei she's remarkably smart and mature remembering all rules and conduct of shinobi law" Murakumo stopped talking with the look Genjetsu gave him.

"Yakumo dear tell me what's your dream and why," The Hokage asked her

"To be not just a jonin Kunoichi but to be a genjutsu master my clan has not seen in generations... then take my place as the Kurama clan head and serve on the Shinobi council after a long career as a ninja, lord Hokage"

Genjetsu nodded "I thought you have been given one," he said closing the file

"Yakumo I commend your efforts to become a kunoichi but I'm afraid you are not strong enough to..." the kage was cut off by a bow from the young girl "Lord Hokage please don't rob me of my dream it's all I have! Please I have no friends I'm ostracized by the village for my lack of physical strength I want nothing more than to give my life to the village to do with as it sees fit please lord third don't pity me if I can't be a ninja I'll quit and return my headband but please before you rob me to give me the chance to prove you are looking that the next great kunoichi of the hidden leaf village." She had more to speak but she got choked up by the tears which had now filled her. He kept her face looking straight down on the wooden floor.

Genjetsu sighed" to be in the regular academy it focuses on physical strength but genjutsu classes can be provided to you along with a jonin sensei I will choose who... Murakumo would you eject to me taking Yakumo to meet some people her age?"

Yakumo couldn't believe her ears first she thought she needed to beg for her goal now she was a step closer to it. Her father told the Hokage he had no objection to her meeting children around the girl's age and with that genjetsu stood up quick as a rabbit dashing to his hole with a fox on his tail. "Wipe your eyes, my dear you got friends to make," he said walking past them.

Yakumo walked behind the Hokage who stood and talked with ninjas and civilians alike telling them about Yakumo and how she will have an elite jonin to train her. She had pink cheeks the whole time, it was a high feeling the looks on some faces were like payments for her to become a Kunoichi. She was relishing the face of a lady who just hours before was spreading rumours about her now just learn that she was given elite training. When the Hokage asked her what she thinks he meant by she was given a dream.

" I suppose cause my parents' whole clan is filled with ninjas, you obviously believe it's my family's wish to be a Kunoichi but you are wrong about it, I say respectfully lord Hokage"

"So do you know? Why Murakumo wants so desperately to make you a Kunoichi?"

The look of bewilderment on her face told the story "well if you don't know I shouldn't have a place in sharing secrets with you dear Yakumo" Genjetsu told her, she tried to press him but a girl who was at the age of the ninja academy wasn't going to make the kage do anything he didn't want to in the first place.

They stopped outside the Hozuki compound. A chunnin slept on a stool his back against the wall legs crossed and dangling on the side of the street.

" you meet Mangetsu correct the clan head and his brother who's the air but you may have not met my granddaughter Hideka Hozuki," Genjetsu said the kage also gentlest kicked the guard lag waking him and told him not to fall asleep on watch again. "Children with blood limits are big targets" the Hokage reminds the Hozuki guard before entering with Yakumo in tow.

They found a girl with red hair and bright purple eyes inheritance of her late grandmother. Hideka was about four feet and three inches in height. She practice with an older man with white hair that reach his shoulders Yakumo recognized him as the head of the Hozuki clan Mangetsu.

The Hozuki practice kenjutsu together Yakumo thought the honourable granddaughter was going well before her training partner turned into water and moved like a rushing undercurrent around her as he return to human form before disarming Hideka which got her to start cursing him that the training wasn't over that quickly but when Mangetsu turned her to face the Hokage her face of anger turn sheepish in a second "grandfather" Hideka said " I thought you were busy"

Genjetsu's face was not one could mistake as pleased "why are you not in the academy?"

"Cause I broke the noise of some pinky pie girly girl at the start of class but she..."

Hideka stopped cause she knew he didn't care that the girl accused her of wanting Sasuke Uchiha for herself, Hideka isn't violent... or any more than a Shinobi clan child would be that her age just found the girl annoying before she accused her of anything, ever since that current pink hair girl and blonde friend openly discussed how gross the boy Shino was, Shino Abruame is a soft spot for the girl.

"Sorry lord Hokage I felt it was wasted time thus I gave her a private lesson" Mangetsu as he nodded to Yakumo said Genjetsu sighed and shrugged his shoulders "well nothing last forever even our problems, Hidaka I brought young Yakumo Kurama here you should meet her before returning to the aviary where falcon shit won't clean its self"

Yakumo watches Hideka face contort and twisted to a look of not defeat but acceptance of her punishment. Then the Hozuki walked over to her and extended her hand. "Hey I'm Hideka Hozuki please to meet you Yakumo Kurama" They shook hands then the Hozuki offered to teach her the basics of kenjutsu while the older clan members spoke.

"Sorry again lord Hokage," Mangetsu said but Genjetsu dismissed any need to be. Then Mangetsu asked why he brought the Kurama heiress to the compound.

"So how do I say this, I'm solving a problem I've seen in her life, she lacks friends," The kage said "then she will receive a jonin sensei to privately train her"

Mangetsu asked who that be and Genjetsu shrugged his shoulders, "a genjutsu user clearly she spoke to me about it, kids these days think they can do anything... if peace wasn't so great I say the war was necessary to mature the youth, eh becoming a ninja with just taijutsu, or just genjutsu what wild children, how suigetsu?"

Hideka blocked the wooden sword swings trying to read her clan head and grandfather's lips and at the same time keeping the Kurama girl from hitting her with the kendo stick. Hideka comments that Yakumo is very good with a kendo stick for what she knows about her.

"Thank you Hideka you are an excellent tutor"

"Oi my dear time to leave Hideka to her work with the bird shit," the Hokage said

After a bow and quick goodbye Yakumo dashed off to the Hokage and followed him through the village, he stop and talk and ask questions about naruto, where was the last place you saw him where was he going what was he up to stuff like that.

Genjetsu stopped as they closed in on a ramen stand that the blonde was eating at "Understand he's been ostracized far more than you might have been so pleased be kind, he might be one of the most loyal people you'll meet"

Yakumo didn't wonder why he was treated that way. No law prevented people from speaking about his status, she only wonder why he made things worse with his pranks.

"Hello, naruto my boy wants a bowl on the Hokage? I'm buying two anyways"

Naruto smiles warmly that the kage "hell ya you old man clam how are you... and who's the pretty pale girl with you?"

'Was I pretty when you made my hair stink like cat pee for two weeks?' She asked herself when he said that compliment.

"Oh, this sweet dear? She's Yakumo Kurama heiress of her clan... I'm introducing her to some people I think need some friends like herself."

Naruto nodded and asked how the kage was again til he asked if the Hokage thought he needed more friends and started to list off his friends "there's Choji and Shikamaru and Kiba then Suigetsu and Hideka never been mean to me, not that I don't want to be your friend Yakumo I'm just saying I have friends"

Ayame then mentioned that he had herself, her father and lord Hokage to count among friends. Genjetsu nodded and explained that he didn't introduce them cause they both lacked friends but cause people in the village ostracizes both of them for separate reasons. "Why?" Asked the blond

"Because I'm weak I have a weakness and the idea of me being a clan head insults current clan heads... I can't physically keep up with my peers but I can put think a lot of them if you asked my father"

Naruto understood her and said " well don't mind those old farts they're past their prime anyways"

Genjetsu laughed a deep joyful laugh as if he was in a comedy club in a big city outside of Konoha. "Well let's not say such things about Mangetsu in front of his face unless you wish to wake up in a hospital bed"

Naruto chuckled "yeah after Hideka broke Sakura's noise I know not to piss off your clan ya old clam" both boy and old man laughed as if this is a long-running joke among them. Yakumo couldn't believe Naruto had insulted the Hokage twice and the old man had said not a word about it. Partly amazing partly insulting to her, name-calling her village leader.

"Why does he call you those names lord Hokage? I didn't take you as the self-deprecating person"

The oldest Hozuki smiled and said "oh that my dear he means no disrespect just how he is, like I said he's loyal before all else"

Ayame placed a bowl in front of the kage and Kurama heiress, they thanked them for the food and began to eat.

A longer chapter I know but I was in the mood to publish this today another chapter should come out soon I promise I'm loving this story a lot. Please review this share it with friends. Your truly DW.aven