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Okay, as some can see this story will follow along the same lines as either the anime or the manga which ever I actually got to see or read, but with a lot of changes and I may even leave out some of the smaller events. I'll be calling Naruto by Nami most of the time though people will mostly call her Naruto when she acts like a male. Namida will mostly be called Kaa-chan by Nami and Okaa-san by those referring to her as Nami's mother.
Chapter3: Meet the Team
Nami sat down at the table in the kitchen to eat her breakfast. The one thing that really got her Okaa-san mad was when she skips a meal, a specially breakfast. Not wanting to wear weights for a week, have extra practice hours add to her schedule, or just plain get her ass handed to her during a sparing match, all for missing a meal, so instead she just made time to eat her breakfast.
"Kaa-chan, I just don't know if I can keep acting like an immature little boy for much longer. I've been doing it for six years straight, the only time I can be me is when I'm with you, even in the tavern or out in the streets I either have to be the annoying Naruto, or the quiet little nervous village girl. I just don't know if I can keep this up, Kaa-chan," Nami got out with a voice that showed that the other day's incident with the scroll had pushed her to her limits. She was just so close to tears and she never cried, being such a spirited, strong willed girl, she was never overly girly, but it had just now all caught up to her in that one moment.
"I'm not going to lie to you, Koneko, I don't know if you'll really get to be your self out in the open for a very long time yet, but you finally joining a genin team. Why don't you try toning down on the annoying-little-boy act, as you call it? Maybe you'll finally make some friends and if you find them trust worthy tell them you secrets; after all you are the only one exempt from the laws about Kyuubi-sama and your gender is your choose to talk about... with in reason that is," was Namida's answer. She felt horrible about how her daughter had to act. Yes, even thought she went around calling Nami her little sister, she did indeed think of the girl as her daughter. It was just that she was still young after all she was only 22 years old and had only been 16 at the time of the adoption, so had gotten into the habit of calling her Imooto-chan. Though that changed when ever she was greatly angered at Nami or when she was very worried about Nami that is.
"Alright," Nami took a deep breath to calm her nerves, "I think I'm okay now. I'll take your advice and tone it all down a bit, Kaa-chan."
"Now I think you better getting going or you going to be late. So put up your henge and start running girl!" Namida announced at the end of breakfasts. Then sat back to watch, with that small evil little smile on her face, as Nami now looking like her male self, Naruto, started to run out the door only to turn back to grab her, or is it his, kunai pouch setting on the table, while placing a kiss on her cheek just to run out once again shouting a "see you later" over her...his shoulder. 'Doesn't matter what form Nami is in, she'll always be Nami.'
Nami made it to class before anyone else really did and decided to forge sleep so as to not have to deal with any of her class mates. Not having to wait long before the room filled and Iruka-sensei. She didn't have to deal with any one asking what she was doing there since she supposedly failed the test. She listened to the first part of Iruka-sensei's lecture on becoming genni, but just toned him out during the time that he was announcing the teams. At lest she was up until he stated her name.
"Team 7 will be Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto," Iruka announced in a loud voice. 'Damn it, why'd I have to get Oji-kun egotistical brother and his fanatic fan girl!' Nami's mind was ranting; or at lest it was until the Kyuubi let out a loud growl at all the racket.
When Sasuke and Sakura had been announced Sakura had been celebrating, yet the minute she processed who her other team mate was she began to protest. 'How can Sasuke and I be parted with that moron?' inner Sakura was shouting, while alternating with jumping around in happiness with being placed with her Sasuke.
Going with the thoughts of his two brand new team mates, Sasuke was not happy with either of his two team mates. Not that he had wanted any team mates after that incident with the clan's mass slaughter he didn't really trust any one or even feel safe or strong enough to get close to any one ever again.
After, Iruka was done announcing all the teams and getting both Ino and Sakura to just except their teams, he gave all the students permission to go have lunch and get to know their new teammates. When Nami saw the way Sasuke just left and Sakura forgetting about her, well him... what ever moving on, in favor of harassing her Sasuke-kun, Nami decided to go speak with Namida giving her an update on the team and ask for some advise. Beside she figured that the other day's incident would cover her unusual behavior.
While running out of class trying to avoid Iruka-sensei as much as possible, she was thinking to herself that her Okaa-san would definitely be the best place to start reconnaissance on her teammates. Because she was so deep in thought about how to gather information on her team she missed Iruka reaching for her until it was too late.
-Okay hello all who at lest bothered to even stay with this story so far. Okay to be truthful at first I forgot I even was writing a story. Then just a couple of weeks ago I had a rather depressing disappointment, which had me stopping in the middle of this chapter for a while. I hope that it didn't change my writing to much. Any ways the polls for couples is more or less open. No Itachi or Sasuke parings with Nami I'm afeard, as well as any parings involving any age different of more the five year in either direction. I already had these suggestions:
Nami/Gaara
Nami/Neji
Nami/Kiba
Nami/Lee
So far there have been no suggests for any other paring. I won't be doing any same gender parings seeing as how I'm not too good at even the type I'm going to be attempting as it is. Please vote and add more suggestions, even though the relationship parts won't show up for a while at lest.
-On another note, thanks to all that have been reading this story so far and I'm still holding to my hope of not abandoning it. See any problems with names, terms or translations please let me know. I still can't seem to get the format working the way I want so any one got any hits on how to get it working better, I'd really appreciate them.
Okay the older translations so no one has to go back looking for them, all newer ones are on the top of the list:
Koneko: Kitten
Sama: very high honorific title
San: kind of like Mr. Ms. Miss or Mrs.
Kun: polite yet friendly title, mostly used for males (yet can be used on girls as well)
Chan: kind of like Kun yet cuter mostly use for females
Sensei: title for a teacher/professor/mentor
Kakashi: scarecrow
Hatake: field (a field with crops, actually... I think)
Iruka: dolphin
Umino: Master
Uzumaki: whirlpool (or spiral... I think)
Sakura: cherry blossoms
Uchiha: Fan
Kyuubi: nine tails
Kitsune: fox
Kyuubi no Kitsune: Nine Tail Fox
Sharingan: the Uchiha bloodline (not sure of translation)
Kageneko: shadow cat (family name I came up with)
Okaa-san or Kaa-chan: are mother and mom.
Oji-san or Oji-kun: uncle.
Ojii-sama: Grandfather.
Imooto-chan or Imooto-san: little sister.
Otooto-kun or Otooto-san: little brother.
Ane-chan or Ane-san: big sister.
Ani-kun or Ani-san: big brother.
Ohayoo: good morning.
Kodomo: child/kid.
Neko: cat.
Kage: shadow.
Neko no Kage: cat's shadow.
Kageneko no Kekkon: the Kageneko bloodstain (this is the name for the bloodline limit).
Namida: teardrop.
Nami: wave.
Alright on to the ninja terms (I think):
Genin: first rank for a ninja just out of the academy
Chuunin: rank up from above reached after show of skill in an exam
Jounin: top rank with out being a legendary ninja or a Kage
Kage: (shadow) leaders and top ninja of the hidden ninja villages
Hokage: (fire shadow) leader of the hidden ninja village in the leaves of the fire country.
Kunai: the throwing daggers of a ninja.
Chakra: the stuff produces when mixing physical and spiritual energies.
Jutsu: the techniques the ninja do with their chakra.
Genjutsu: jutsu that are illusions.
Henge: a genjutsu that makes a person (ninja) look different.
Shinobi: ninja.
Alright now here are a few more facts I guess I should add:
Kageneko Namida: 22 years of age at the time this story stars, 14 at time of meeting Nami/Naruto, 16 when she had adopted Nami, 17 at time of Uchiha massacre, and 10 during the time of Kyuubi no Kitsune's attack.
Kageneko Nami/ Uzumaki Naruto: 12 at story being, 4 when meeting Namida, 6 when adopted, 7 when Uchiha clan was killed off.
Uchiha Itachi: 18 story start, 10 when meeting Nami, 12 at Nami's adoption, 13 when massacred his clan and 6 during Kyuubi's attack.
Uchiha Sasuke: 12 story start, 7 at massacre.
Hatake Kakashi: 26 at story start and 14 during attack.
Umino Iruka: 25, and 13 during attack.
Sakura: 12 at story being.
-Okay that's almost three pages of information. I'll most likely just alternate the type of information form chapter to chapter. Oh well that's all for now. Please Review...FlamingRose