*DISCLAIMER* I don't own Naruto or any of the original characters or the story this all belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, I only own my own character. Is rated will be fixed the deeper I get into the story.
"I really don't know why we come here so early… Kakashi-sensei is always late. You could've eaten the breakfast I made you a lot more peacefully." Masumi rants to Sasuke as they wait on the bridge for Kakashi. "I ate it just peacefully, it's the fact that you'd rather get training in when it suits you." Sasuke chuckles turning to look at the water with Masumi. "I didn't hear you complaining when I healed you on that bridge. All my training has led up to that." She turns her serious gaze at him. "Right… Sorry, that does seem like something you shouldn't neglect… I survived thanks to you." He got closer to her and she smiled looking over at him having his hand palm up on the guard rail of the bridge, he signals her with a look of his eye to place her hand in his which she does, though, they hear Naruto calling out "Maaaaasumi-chan!" and they quickly turn to him slightly blushing. "Huh? Masumi-chan do you feel unwell? Your face is slightly blushed." She quickly patted her face. "Oh no, it must be allergies or something." She turned to look at Sasuke who used his usual arrogance towards Naruto as a tool to look away from him long enough for the blush to disappear. Silence set in as they waited another hour for their teacher to appear. "Good morning, you guys… I got lost today!" Kakashi says announcing his arrival. "Its the same walk each morning…" Masumi said under breath. "What was that Masumi?" He asked. "Oh no just trying to remember if I left water boiling." She quickly came up with an excuse turning to Sasuke who wants to chuckle at her but she gives him a threatening look while Naruto was practically begging Kakashi for some type of hard mission for today. "Okay lets get going." She hears Kakashi say, Sasuke does an 'after you' glance at her and she nods.
Hours later the team was still doing a job of pulling out weeds from the flower bed of medicinal plants. Masumi was away in her little world where she knew full well which were plants and which were weeds. Around the time they finished Naruto was getting scolded by the lady who owns the field. "Not bad, seems you do pay attention to me," Masumi gloats to Sasuke and then turns to see the mess Naruto made plucking out weeds and everything. "You… I'm gonna have to teach." Sasuke smirks. "Do you believe he'll actually remember what you teach him?" He tsks making Naruto irritated but then turn to Masumi. "Ill learn!" He says lifting his hand up, to him even if the lesson is boring anything involving Masumi is a dream. He see's her as a very kind girl who most definitely deserves the attention she receives because she's not as arrogant as people with her prowess would be. Plus the attention from other male classmates to her really irritates Sasuke and he has to admit it satisfies him enough to see Sasuke upset. They move on to do other things like picking up trash and walking dogs with Naruto ending up with such a battered body at the end of the day. "Seriously, I feel like I need to carry around a luggage full of medical supplies. You get into real trouble so easily Naruto." Masumi scolds him, he apologizes and she gives him a small candy. "I thought this would happen, it won't heal you much but it'll help with the exhaustion." She says as he smiles and eats it. "You always make everything taste so good!" Naruto exclaims finally being able to bend forwards and back. "Team work hasn't been good as of late…" Kakashi expresses rubbing the back of his neck. "It's you who is bringing down the team if you don't like what I said then get better or ill be better in your place." Sasuke glares at Naruto and then walks off. "I'm going home." Sasuke says walking away. "I need to write a report on today's missions, I'll be off." Kakashi disappears. "I should be off to train a bit… I have more things to study at home." Masumi continues walking, Naruto watches as it looks like she's making a list in her mind. "Masumi-chan, why don't we train together?" Naruto asks finding her still being in her thoughts. "Ehh, Masumi-chan?" He waves in front of her face. "Oh sorry, my mind was off on other things, I would train with you but there are many jutsu that I plan on trying out, I hope you can understand. I don't want to be stuck between a rock and a hard place again." She smiles with an apologetic look on her face. She notices a box that looks like its disguised as a rock approaching behind Naruto. I don't have time for this…. Masumi thinks sensing the three little bodies under the box If I spend my time entertained here I can't possibly train on what I'm trying to add up in my mind before were looped into a new mission than none of us expect like with Tazuna-san… While she was thinking 3 little academy kids pop out of the box "...play ninja with us!" Is the last part she overhears the little boy saying. She looks at him pensive being that she must've seen him before, she hears Naruto call him Konohamaru. "Oh right, you're the 3rds grandchild." Masumi says out loud after remembering Tsunade mention him once talking about how he was named after the village. "Oh so you've been busy Nii-chan! She's your girlfriend!" Konohamaru says making Masumi look at him in shock and flustered. "Oh shucks you are pretty sharp Konohamaru!" Naruto says scratching the back of his neck while blushing. She's not shocked at the assumption of them being a pair, but hopes Sasuke is no where close to hear. This would take their rivalry to another level… Masumi groans. "Sorry Naruto and you three, If I don't get started now I'll lose focus and I can't be having that! I'll see you all some other time!" She says hastily wanting to move on from all this small talk and in hopes that Sasuke isn't around here. She starts to walk to the training field by her house. All of them walk backwards in front of Masumi the three kids still teasing Naruto about her and Naruto trying to convince her to spare some training time for her. She's too busy detailing things in her mind while looking like she's writing things on her palm with her finger, not noticing when the kiddos run into two older looking ninja. "That hurt." The boy with face paint and a black outfit says bringing Masumi back to reality when he grabs Konohamaru by the scarf of his neck. "That hurt you little punk." He says. "Stop that, you'll get yelled at later." The blond girl speaks up not really making the situation any better. "I'm so sorry, I was in my thoughts we were all not really paying attention. So please let him go." Masumi's face tells a story of worry for the boy rather than really meaning her apology. In her mind, they should've been able to tell that these kids weren't paying attention and to walk to the side. Somehow she feels this is all entitlement on the two strangers side rather than wanting an apology. "Lets play with them before we get scolded, that's to have a reason to actually be scolded." He says with a grin. "Let him go!" Naruto shouts charging at the guy but stumbling on nothing. "As I thought Konoha genin are weak." He says internally upsetting Masumi but all she can tell is that she needs to find a way out of this situation fast before the little ones get hurt. "Let him go, I won't forgive you if anything happens." Naruto shouts Masumi stares over at him trying to process the situation. "Now is really not the time to be making threats Naruto." Masumi quietly says over to him. "Listen to your pretty friend, all your annoying nonsense is just making me want to crush this kid." The boy says. Masumi then quickly appears in front of the boy gripping the arm that he is using to hold up Konohamaru, hard. "Why don't we just end it here, i'll tell whoever you two are talking about that it's all a misunderstanding." Masumi tries to intimidate the boy Maybe that kids just weak, I didn't sense or see this girl come anywhere near me, He thinks. "So I should teach you a lesson instead of this runt. Ehh, it's on you." He announces ripping his hand out of Masumi's hold and drops Konohamaru, pulling his hand back in attempt to punch her with one hand and grab her by the throat with the other. The hand meant to grab her throat was instead struck by a rock making a little gash on the inner part of his hand. "What do you think you're doing in someone else's village?" Sasuke calls out from top of a tree. "Another punk to tick me off." The boy states. "If it wasn't me it would've been her." Sasuke says pointing at the only hand Masumi had down. They look to see her having drawn out a crystal kunai still spinning by the handle on her fingers. She looks up at Sasuke with a look that screams really? which send the boy staggering back. "When did she…" The girl asks trailing off. "A few seconds later and you would've been stuck in place until someone would kindly come to scrape you off the floor being if they could even scrape what that kunai is made out of from the floor." He grunts looking at the Kunai. "What is that." He looks startled, saying as if he was spitting venom. "Nothing at all." Masumi smiles quite embrarrased. "Though you'd know if I didn't catch her on time." Again she looks at Sasuke with her face reading really? again. He hits the kunai that's dangling in between her fingers to have it pierce the fence next to them. Immediately it encases that whole row of fences in crystal and Masumi now actually says out loud. "Really!? Giving away all my secrets here!" She looks to Sasuke then to the fence. "Their gonna have me clean this up though its not really a problem for me... aaaaand now I've lost my training time!" Masumi shouts startling the two strangers when they think she was moving to walk towards them but instead she walks to the fence. The boy turns to Sasuke instead seeing him as an easier target. "Hey come down here kid. If I'm getting in trouble it'll be to put a kid like you in your place." Masumi turns fast to look at that guy sensing that he is starting to channel chakra into something. "Hey you're not thinking of using that, are you?!" The girl asks quite shocked. "Kankuro, stop that." She hears a voice come from the opposite side of where Sasuke was. "G-Gaara…." Kankuro says with a nervous chuckle in his voice. "You're an embarrassment to our village why do you think we came here?" Gaara says making Kankuro stutter. "Listen Gaara…" He starts. "They started first." Masumi looks at him with a snicker making Gaara look over to her. She places her palm on the crystal making it retreat into her palm and back into the shape of a kunai. "Darn now this Kunai has little splinters in it, thanks Sasuke." She shakes her head. "See, that would've happened to me!" Kankuro looked startled. "Shut it, I'll kill you." He says. "Yes, okay, I'm sorry." He really acts quite with a panic making Masumi look up at the boy quite puzzled as to why they fear him. He himself is normal… his gourd is the one massing up quite a lot of chakra. It's overwhelming really. "I'm sorry about that." Gaara turns to Sasuke and apologizes. "To you too, I'm sorry." He apologizes to Masumi. "All that was temporarily harmed was my kunai, but it'll be bettwer when im able to take out all these splinters." Masumi smiles at him. She could sense Sasuke feeling nervous for how casually she acts about things. To think he could hit Kankuro with a tiny rock, stopping her from using… whatever that was on him, they… are good. Gaara thinks. He moves off the tree and onto the ground with his team by the use of sand. "Lets go, we didn't come here to play around." Sasuke comes off the tree and grabs the kunai which had turned to a crimson red color from her hand and puts it in her weapon bag. She smiles at him when he pats her head, which is a thing he does when he tells her to cool off. By now its something Sasuke is all to familiar with. When her crystal turns to that color from its nice shade of jade it usually means she's angry and is plotting how she could get rid of someone. She can usually stop her own self if she has to concentrate on something else but with a free weapon in her hand, it's too deadly to leave her with it. "By the way, you three are from the hidden sand village, right?" Masumi speaks up looking away from Sasuke. "The land of wind and the land of fire are allied nations. But the treaty doesn't allow such coming and goings of shinobi according to the treaty. So, if you don't mind state your purpose." Masumi demands. "I guess, this is my pass." The girl shows them her name written down is Temari. "As you say, we are genin from the hidden sand village from the land of wind. We came to this village to take the chunin exam." Masumi nods looking at the boys confused faces. "What is that?" Naruto asks. "You all really know nothing…" Temari sighs. "Onii-chan, its an exam that makes you to chunin from genin." Konohamaru says. Sasuke looks over at Gaara. "Hey… you. I didn't catch your name." Gaara turns around. "Gaara from the desert. I'm interested in both your names too." He asks with a plain face. "Sasuke from the Uchiha clan." Sasuke states. Gaara turns to look at Masumi. "Oh me? Masumi from the Senju clan." Sasuke's face turns to a grin as Masumi sighs he reaches out to grab her hand. "Lets go." He says to her. "What about me!" Naruto asks. "Not interested." Gaara replies and the three disappear.
"You know, if the chunin exam is really happening you just gave away a LARGE piece of information of my abilities." Masumi scolds Sasuke as he sits in a chair at his house, an apartment a few walks away from Masumi's. She had been heating up and steeping some tea. "I was looking to scare them and it did." Sasuke says as she serves him, she also brings out some treats she had given him the other day and sets them on the table. "You know I don't like sweet food." She nods at him. "Does wonders for the soul. But still getting back to the topic…" He sips on his tea and sighs looking at her. "Do you think they didn't see that big bow riser on your back made of crystal. Now we have them wondering if that kunai could do that then what could that big thing do." She sighs. "It's not bulky, it's the slenderest I've made yet. It had to be slender, I don't like how heavy it makes the back of my dress. If I could only get that one jutsu down that I saw an Earth release user do." He smiles. "It doesn't need to look fashionable, just useful." He says with a chuckle. "I know but what can I say I'm a girl of taste, besides it would be far easier to shape the bottom end of the riser into a sharp weapon without messing up the bow quality." She finally smiles. "My training may have been ruined but at least we know about the chunin exam. I'm going home its getting dark and if Kakashi-sensei actually wants to let us do this, then we need rest." He stands and opens the door for her walking beside her. "I'll walk you over, I can't let you be on your own with these people showing up." He holds her hand rather protectively. "Thank you for before… you're the only person other than Tsunade that can help me not be so impulsive." He chuckles. "I heard Tazuna say that you made a crimson wall when you were healing me, I had a feeling it could happen again." She nods and looks over to him. "Luckily I was healing you, seeing up close the damage that Haku did on you was infuriating. But the boy made it his purpose to not hit any vital areas." Sasuke nods walking her into her house. "Id do anything so people won't see you as weak, if anything I want them to know to respect you… or else." She giggles. "Is this an or else on your side or my side." Sasuke smiles. "Why not both, we can toast them." She looks at him rather pensive. "You don't mean." He laughs, it's rare to hear him actually let out a healthy laugh. "I do mean," He places his hand on her shoulder. "If someone attacks one of us, they attack both of us." He says scooting her inside her house and before closing the door he whispers goodnight. "You hook em, and I cook em…" She whispers to herself.
The last line perfectly came to mind, it's from a computer game. If you know, yk. This part of Naruto will have to be split into several parts being that the Chunin Exam arc has way too many interesting points that need to be fully dived into and so much of Masumi's character creation came from this. A lot of secrets are going to come to light in this arc, but at the same time there are bigger secrets that can only come from the later part of Naruto. 10 years in the making since the war arc came out in Naruto Shippuden. That's how long I've been saving all this information in journals updating as the story updated. But here you go, for the later chapters if there is a need for an authors note like this then I will add.
