Flowers and Detention

When I had arrived at school on Monday I gave Hinata her small wave and she promptly fainted. I had then used her comatose state to sneak the flowers Ino had given me into her bag along with a card the read 'From: Naruto'. I had then taken my usual seat and had waited for Shino. During the time in between I had thought about what to do for the future, or more specifically the Wave Arc. You see the bad thing about being sucked into an anime you've only watched all the way through once or twice is that some things become hard to remember fully as time passes. Which is why I wrote everything I could remember down in my notebook. But now it's all about Wave so essentially everything from graduation to the creation of the Great Naruto Bridge. 'It will be called that! That is one thing I refuse to change!' Almost everything in between that however... well lets do one thing at a time. First up the Shadow Clone jutsu. In the show Naruto is tricked by Mizuki in order to steal the Scroll of Seals and that's where he learned the technique. But like every other powerful jutsu that Naruto learns Canonically he does so by complete fucking accident, failing the test also isn't an option because if i can't preform a simple clone jutsu I'll never become a Genjutsu master but in order for that to happen i'll need more control, but until Iruka teaches us that stupid Leaf forehead sticking thing I can't practice it or people'll get suspicious and Ugh! I hate living with ninja!

Which leads to point number two the bell test. If things continue the way they have been then Sakura will be willing to work together with me. The real challenge is going to be getting Sasuke to put his pride aside for a bit in order to impress Kakashi. However I'd like to become friends with Hinata before I put Operation Broodchiha into action. Point number three is when the Demon Brothers attack and that... i actually don't know what to do there. I've never been in a fight before in my life and I'll probably just freeze up or do something stupid. Either way I suppose Kakashi'll bail me out of it so I won't have to worry. Well that is until Zabuza shows up. For this I'm just... not sure. To be honest I had no idea how Naruto and Sasuke pulled off what they did in canon, I only know what they did so I'm just going to pin it down in the list of things I won't get til I'm a ninja.

After that confrontation I'll need to learn how to tree walk quickly so i can guard Tazuna without being supervised by Kakashi. And by learn I mean figure it out in Konoha first so i can practice water walking in Wave since the only place I can learn to water walk in Konoha is near civilians and those guys are assholes. I can't do anything with those bastards around If I get to strong 'Lord Hokage the fox is strengthening the child!' If I get to smart 'Lord Hokage the fox is messing with his mind!'. It's ridiculous during Pein's invasion I'm going to spit on their graves before I make him revive them. Enough about Konoha's bullshit though lets get back on track. After I learn how to Water Walk and maybe some Genjutsu if I can get my hands on some It'll be time to face Zabuza again. Now this is where shit gets dicey. In order for this to work I need a way to save Inari, find Gato, kill Gato, get Gato's head to Zabuza without Kakashi getting suspicious on how I required it, convince the mist demon he wasn't planning on paying him, and convince Tazuna to name that bridge after me. But I suppose I do have a good two years to figure all that shit out.

But right now I'm going to have as much fun as I can because when shit does hit the fan I don't want to say that I didn't have fun while it lasted. Speaking of fun... "Hey Shino how ya doing?" I greeted.

"I'm feeling slightly nervous." Shino admitted "Why, because Iruka-sensei isn't going to be happy that we skipped class on Friday."

Oh yeah... huh I completely forgot that we did that. "I'm sure it'll be fine." I said waving him off.

Just then however Iruka-sensei entered the classroom. "Naruto Uzumaki, Kiba Inuzuka, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi," A few of the students chuckled at how the 'usual idiots' were getting in trouble again. "Shino Aburame, Ino Yamanaka, and Sakura Haruno get down here immediately!" and then they gasped that they managed to get three of the most level headed students in on their ditching efforts.

"So that's where you were blondy" Some bitchy girl Amy or Agi whatever her name was said "You and forehead were partying it up with those losers?"

"You wish Ami" 'That's what her name was!" Ino scoffed "unlike you me and Sakura know how to have a good time."

As I walked down past the girl I not so subtly coughed into my hand "cough cough bitch cough"

"Ooooo" Ami said "you used a bad word!"

"What are you talking about I was just talking about female dogs." I said matter of factly. Dumb thing didn't exactly have a comeback for that one. Luckily for me Iruka didn't seem to hear my bitch comment. Unluckily for me he remembered that I ditched. "I can't believe you all." He said "Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji, Naruto I 'd have expected you to learn your lesson by now. You guys know the drill detention all week. As for you three" Iruka shook his head disapprovingly "I expected more out of you three, you'll get the same punishment is there anything you'd like to say for yourselves?"

"I live with no regrets" I said

"Bastard deserved it." Kiba muttered.

"It's troublesome but I agree with Kiba." Shikamaru muttered.

"I'm with Shikamaru here." Choji said through bites.

"I refused to let the fire ants go to waste." Shino said like it was the most normal thing in the world.

"I am willing to sacrifice my education to stop the fashion monstrosity that was Naruto." Ino said.

"I don't regret it either." Sakura agreed.

"You're supposed to be sorry!" Iruka yelled.

Hinata Hyuga wasn't sure if she had been dreaming or not for the past week. The reason for this being of course her all time crush Naruto Uzumaki had been giving her small hellos every morning. She always wants to say hello back but she her face gets all red and her judgement is clouded and before she knows it she had fainted and was laying on the floor. But today... she knew she had to be dreaming today. As the Hyuga heiress a multitude of lessons had been shoved down her through. Things that she would never have an interest in like origami, proper etiquette, and most ridiculously how to properly breathe. She knew her clan was trying to make her the best heiress she could be but proper breathing was a skill every living person had. Among the numerous lessons she was given one of the most prominent had always been on flowers and their meanings. That's how she knew that the bouquet she had found in her bag was definitely made of Yarrows the flower of Everlasting Love.

If it wasn't for the fact that the card that came with it was definitely in Naruto's handwriting and that she had pinched herself several times to insure she wasn't dreaming she would have never believed it. However Hinata knew that Naruto as determined as he is was not a master gardener and the most likely conclusion would be that he picked these flowers by accident still however... Hinata's face flushed red when she thought about the fact that Naruto had gotten her flowers.

"I should probably thank him.." she whispered "Since he got me flowers and all."

I smiled as the shy Hyuga heiress came inching towards our group's usual lunch spot which had recently added both Ino and Sakura. I was a bit nervous at first considering the fact that both aforementioned girls had been grinning madly ever since lunch had started. "Uh.. Naru-Naruto I've co-come here to th-thank you for t-the fl-flowers." Hinata stuttered.

'Oh Kami this girl couldn't be more adorable if she tried.' I thought "Did you like em?" I asked "I told Ino exactly what I wanted them to mean, so I hope she didn't give you any I hate you flowers or nothin."

"Don't you worry Naruto" Ino said trying to hold back laughter "I made them say exactly what they need to." At that point everybody but me had clued in on what Ino had meant by that and had shit eating grins on their faces... except for Shino but to be fair he might've been grinning I can never really get a read on that guy.

"Oh well that's great the-uhhhhhhhhhhhh" I said before my brain had turned itself off on account of a tiny adorable Hyuga girl hugging me.

"I-I'm s-so ha-happy Naruto." She stuttered happilly.

When Hinata had finally let go my mind still wasn't all there and sadly the first words out my mouth were "What just happened and can we do it again?" Ino couldn't hold in her laughter after that. She couldn't even stand after Hinata had processed what I had said and promptly fainted.

Once Ino had explained what she had done to both me and Hinata I wasn't sure if I wanted to slap her or hug her. On the one hand I really wanted to slap her because that was probably the most embarrassing moment of my life. But on the other hand Hinata gives out awesome hugs! Speaking of the shy girl we were able to coax her in joining our ever growing lunch group! Hooray! Now all we need is Sasuke and we'll have the whole Rookie Nine! But enough about stupid brooding Uchihas and more about awesome tiny Hyuggas!

"S-so what d-did you d-do to get in-into so much tr-trouble anyway" Hinata stuttered.

"Well you know that clothing store near the center of town?" I asked. Hinata nodded her head in confirmation "Well he was overcharging me by quite a bit so I decided to teach him a lesson."

"Speaking of lessons" Choji piped up "Do you have any clue what Mizuki-sensei was talking about in Genjutsu class today? He was talking about the five types of Genjutsu a whole bunch but he's never mentioned them before."

"Really?" I asked "The five types of Genjutsu is pretty important information so I doubt that Mizuki-sensei'd just skip over it like that."

"I mean I sleep in class a lot." Kiba admitted "But I've never heard of it before either."

"Neither have I" Ino muttered.

"I've read about it" Sakura supplied "but I don't think he's ever mentioned it in class before."

That confused me for a second or two before I remembered who Mizuki had been working for. 'Orochimaru of course' I thought 'If he was planning on destroying the leaf village it would only make sense that he made sure all of the next generation of ninja were weaker.'

"Well how do you know about the five Genjutsu types?" Shikamaru asked "Since none of us learned it in class."

"Oh that's easy actually." I answered "I already told you that I wanted to specialize in Genjutsu so I've been looking into it recently."

"Then could you inform us on what these Genjutsu types are?" Shino asked "Why, because it would be helpful to know such important information."

"Oh yeah sure it's actually really simple. The five types are Self, Living, Object, Area, and Sense." I explained "Self Genjutsu affects the targets view of the user. For example you could make yourself appear invisible or like a completely different person. Living Genjutsu affects the targets perspective of other living things like birds, fish, or other people. Object Genjutsu is the same as Living Genjutsu except it affects objects instead. Area Genjutsu affects an entire area, and Sense Genjutsu affects any of the five senses."

Sakura made a face "It's weird though" She said "if the academy is supposed to get us ready to be ninja why would they skip such important pieces of the curriculum."

"W-well th-then what else ha-have we been m-missing?" Hinata asked finally deciding to voice her opinion.

"Well from Iruka-sensei's overly long lectures I doubt he's leaving anything out." I said "But the other classes are with Mizuki-sensei and Ago-sensei. I doubt it's possible to leave anything out in Taijutsu class so I guess we'll just have to see what were missing in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu."

"Well I say we stop worrying about it." Kiba said bored "Lets think about something fun instead."

"This talk has actually given me a great idea." I said mischievously "Lets prank Mizuki-sensei next."

Kiba and Ino seemed instantly on board however Sakura seemed to have doubts. "Now wait a minute." she said "wasn't pranking the whole reason we got detention in the first place?"

"No that's not why we got detention" Shino answered while looking though a bug encyclopedia "Why, we got detention because we ditched classes. Naruto do you think that house spiders would be an appropriate punishment?."

"Are they lethal?" I asked.

"No"

"What do they cause?" I asked.

"Dry mouth, nausea, weakness, lethargy hallucinations, double vision, blurred vision, joint pain..." Shino answered calmly.

"They'll be perfect." I answered.

"You guys are insane." Sakura whined.

"D-don't yo-you think th-that's a bit m-much?" Hinata asked.

"That depends are those all the symptoms?"

"Chest and abdomen pains, trouble breathing, rapid heart rate, sweating, fever..."

"Yeah he hasn't stopped since you first asked him." Choji sighed.

"Yeah Shino I think the spider's a bit much." I said.

The Aburame seemed a bit disappointed but quickly went flipping through the book again for a new solution. "U-uh I le-learned how to ma-make salves." Hinata chimed in "I cou-could prob-probably make som-something to he-help. Bu-but I'd ne-need som-some herbs to d-do it."

"I could help with that." Ino said "My family has all different kinds of herbs growing at the compound."

"We have some herbs at my place too." Kiba said "We use them for training our dogs noses."

"Troublesome, it's a good idea but how would be get Mizuki to use it?" Shikamaru asked.

"Well..." Sakura started before she stopped herself. On the one hand she really didn't want to get in trouble again but on the other hand she did have a lot of fun when they pranked Tensu. "I guess I could give salves out to all the teachers as an apology for ditching." Sakura suggested.

"And give the bad salve to Mizuki." Shikamaru finished "That might actually work."

"Alright then guys can drop the herbs off at my place after detention." I said "Then me and Hinata will get to work on the salves. If that's alright with you..." I turned to Hinata to see that her brain had failed her.

"Me go to Naruto's house." She muttered with a huge blush on her face.

"I'll just assume you'll be there..." I said as I stuck my address in her bag before handing a copy to both Ino and Kiba.

"I probably won't be able to bring them over today..." Kiba said before his face blanched "Mom's gonna rip me a new one for this."

"That's fine we can make the salves tomorrow." I shrugged.

"Oh yeah I didn't even think about that!" Sakura said "Mom's going to be so mad!"

"The punishment probably won't be too severe." Shino said "Why, because it's our first time getting detention."

"Shikamaru on the other hand..." Choji said snickering.

Shikamaru's eyes widened "Choji can I stay at your place tonight?" he asked.

"You know that won't stop her." Choji laughed.

Choza Akimichi was proud of his son when he learned how to use the clan's Multi-size technique. He's proud of his son when he got good grades. He's proud of his son when he tells him about getting a perfect score in weaponry class. Choza Akimichi is not proud of when his son gets detention, but he's especially not proud when he doesn't even feel bad about it. "Choji what do you mean you don't care?"

"Ah I'm sorry that's not what I meant." Choji quickly rectified "I just meant that I feel what we did was worth getting detention."

Choza calmed down a bit "What exactly did you do?"

"Well you see there was this clothing store I think it was called Tensu's Threads or something. Apparently he was way overcharging people so we decided to teach him... not to do that anymore." Choji answered.

'That's strange' Choza thought 'I went there just last Tuesday and the prices were fine.' "Who gave you this information?" he asked.

"Naruto did." Choji answered "He was charged 90 ryo for a single hoodie! He even had the receipt to prove it!"

Choza frowned he knew people didn't like the boy due to what he had inside of him but he didn't expect it to go that far. "Hey Choji" he said "Next time you see Naruto let him know he's welcome at any Akimichi restaurant in Konoha."

"Alright dad." Choji answered "Does this mean I'm not in trouble?"

"No you're still grounded."

Inoichi Yamanaka was annoyed, ever since Friday Ino had become quite the trouble maker. It had all started after he had been brought into the Tensu's Threads clothing store to investigate a strange infestation of Fire ants. It wasn't a particularly hard case to crack there was a card on the door that was signed Naruto for crying out loud, and a quick talk with Shibi Aburame let us know that his son Shino was involved as well. What had surprised Inoichi the most however was the light blond hair they had found on the floor. Inoichi didn't want to believe it but after a quick DNA test there was no doubt in his mind that his girl Ino had been a part of the prank as well. When Inoichi had questioned Ino about it she had the audacity to laugh.

"I'm sorry daddy." She had said "It's just every time I think of his reaction." Ino burst out into another fit of giggles.

It hadn't stopped there either, ever since if you had wronged Ino in any way she would take revenge. Her most prominent target had been a girl from the academy named Ami. At first people were saying that Uzumaki was on a pranking spree but the people had caught a different blond instead. The people of Konoha had soon come to the conclusion that there were two blond pranksters in Konoha and when Inoichi had been told that his daughter had detention for the whole next week he had begun to accept that fact as well.

Like most veteran ninja Shibi Aburame could not be surprised by much. So when he was told his son had detention he was not surprised. He knew that spending time with the number one prankster in Konoha was bound to get him into trouble. However Shibi also knew that this was the first time Shino has had friends since Torune left and he couldn't take that away from him. So Shibi decided that the most logical course of action would be to let Shino do as he pleased and as long as it didn't affect his grades Shibi didn't care how many times he ditched or how many detentions he got.

Shikamaru Nara was currently getting an earful from his mother about how the academy was important and how he should pay more attention in school. He sighed "Hey dad" he said much to his mother's ire "why does everybody hate Naruto so much?"

That threw both Yoshino and Shikaku for a loop "Why do you think that?" Yoshino asked.

"Troublesome" Shikamaru muttered "It's quite obvious when you think about it he's thrown out of class for the most minute things, he's always given extra laps in Taijutsu, and mom has forced me to go shopping at the clothing store we pranked several times before and we've never been overpriced but the receipt he showed us was genuine. Not to mention the staff seem to be messing with the curriculum as well.."

"How do you know that?" Shikaku had but in becoming curious.

Shikamaru sighed "I had first become suspicious when Mizuki sensei had never told us about the five types of Genjutsu no one seemed to know about it, even Hinata who had never once missed a day of school. So I looked through the textbook and apparently there were multiple key lessons n both Genjutsu and Ninjutsu that Mizuki hadn't even touched upon."

Shikaku smirked a bit ever since the blond jinchuriki had shown up at their house Yoshino had been bugging him to find some way to help the poor kid out, and it looked like he finally had a way to do so. If the school really was messing with the curriculum then it didn't just affect Naruto but all of the children in his class. Meaning that he could bring it up during the next council meeting and from the hopeful look Yoshino was sending him she had the same idea. 'Good thing we agree on this' Shikaku thought 'Troublesome women can't get mad at me this time.'