Author Note: I would like to thank everyone who added this story to their favourites and follows as well as everyone who reviewed the last chapter. For anyone curious to know why the shinobi isn't reacting to the name Minato, the reason is rather simple. No one in the room knows the truth and thinks that the name is rather common. That is why they haven't reacted to it.


Sero raised his hand. "I will do the next chapter!"

Uraraka offered a small smile to Sero and turned the page before handing the book to the tall male. Since the last chapter talked about the rules of the exam then now we are going to see the exam. Naruto rubbed her jaws and exhaled before flickering her eyes at the people in the room. Hinata had her eyes fixated on Sasuke and Sakura and a scowl played on her friend's lips.

Her best friend had always been right when it came to Sakura. But I'm the idiot that didn't stand up for myself. She exhaled and shook her head before flickering her eyes at the mismatch-haired boy beside her. He kept darting his eyes from her to Sasuke and Sakura before looking back at her. She raised a single eyebrow at him.

"I don't understand why you stuck around them if they hurt you," Todoroki explained. "Why would you harm yourself?"

Naruto blinked and stared at him. Does Pretty Boy actually want to know the story behind us? It made no sense because guys like Todoroki didn't care about people. Had she been wrong? No. She had never been wrong but it was rude of her to think that she knew him.

She might be wrong but that didn't mean she would open up about it.

"I'm not going to explain the action of my 12-year-old self to you," Naruto finally answered. She folded her arms against her chest and darted her eyes to Sasuke. Black eyes seemed fixated on her and her heart howled with pain like it always did. She had to keep up the front and not waver.

Todoroki nodded. "You are acting nicer to me now."

"I was taking my anger out on you," Naruto admitted as several people turned their attention on her. She forced herself to relax her shoulders and offered him a fake smile before looking out at the screen. I don't know why I told him that. Maybe it was the seals put on place or maybe it was because the anger was now slowly fading away from her body. "And that was a bitchy thing for me to do."

Sero cleared his throat and everyone turned their attention on the boy. The black-haired boy took a deep breath and said, "Chapter 3!"

How much money does this school have? Naruto stretched her back and stared at the numerous tall buildings behind the examination gate. The numerous city blocks, the buses, and the gates made it clear to her that Yuuei High was a school with a lot of funds. It made sense with two of the best heroes in the country coming from this very school.

Ino frowned and knitted her eyebrows together before sneaking a glance at Naruto. "If you get in then how do you plan to pay for the fees? Isn't a school like that out of your price range? Waitressing couldn't allow you to afford a high school like that."

Naruto pressed her lips into a thin line as everyone turned to look at her. For once, Ino is asking a valid question. She inhaled and exhaled as the impulsive need to rant came into her mind. She already blew off some stream and this was not a question that was mocking her. Anyone would question her about it.

"I still have the money from that A-rank mission alongside the other missions that Team Seven did," Naruto admitted. The Third Hokage frowned and relaxed his shoulders slightly while Tsunade blinked. Sasuke grunted while Sakura gawked at her. The whiskered teen sighed and raised an eyebrow. "Why the hell are you giving me that look?"

"How the hell did you not spend all that money from the Wave mission?" Sakura asked, knitting her eyebrows together. "It was so much money and you could have gotten some decent clothes or at the very least a better apartment. You could have eaten at a better restaurant so how do you still have that much money?"

Naruto rolled her eyes. "My clothes might not appeased you, Sakura but they were practical for me. I could have gotten a better apartment but that would cost more money, and unlike a certain someone here…I had to learn how to be thrifty. Besides, Teuchi makes the best ramen and that is all that matters to me."

"I can be thrifty," Sakura grumbled.

"You wasted so much money on one trip because you heard that this shampoo would give you luscious hair," Naruto deadpanned. Sasuke grimaced and bobbed his head. Oh and now you give your input? She raised a single eyebrow at Sasuke and her former teammate scowled before looking away from her.

She darted her eyes to the other examinees. Most of them had straight backs, chins up and smirks on their faces, while others fidgeted and kept glancing at the clock every few seconds. It made sense, considering how in the next couple of minutes their whole future was going to be decided behind those walls. All of their dreams might just come true or it would crumble like ashes.

"I don't know about the others but you just made me more nervous about the exam!" Kaminari cried. He ran his hand through his hair as everyone else bobbed their heads in agreement. "If I fail into getting into Yuuei High then my dream of becoming a hero will never come true!"

"We won't ever get a hot babe to date us if we don't become a hero!" Mineta cried. Naruto blinked and stared at him for the longest time. So you are going to become a hero because you want to date someone out of your league. That seemed kind of empty and a pathetic reason to become a hero.

Then again, she was no better.

Ino stared at Mineta. "With that personality? No one is going to date you, not even if you were the number one hero."

"Ino is right," Naruto agreed, bobbing her head. The purple-haired boy gawked at her while Ino stared at her with raised eyebrows. The whiskered teen sighed and rubbed her jaws. "You probably won't get anyone to date you because of that attitude but Ino…you shouldn't talk about personality."

The blond-haired girl's eyebrows twitched. "Are you going to make it about Sasuke?"

"He was the only boy you ever had a crush and his personality is as charming as a rock," Naruto retorted. Shikamaru snorted while Sasuke threw a glare at her. She shrugged while Narumi eyed her like she didn't know what to think of her. "There were so many boys who had a better personality then the bastard."

Sakura scowled. "Do you have to call Sasuke-kun that?"

"He calls me Dead-Last but I never saw you complain about that," Naruto retorted. Sakura blinked and blinked while Kiba snorted at those words. Hinata bobbed her head while Sasuke looked away from her. Is he laughing at my bad mood? If they weren't in public then she would throttle him. "And don't you dare laugh Bastard because you never defend me from Sakura!"

The raven-haired teen snorted. "We both knew you were anything but an idiot!"

"Then why the fuck did you make that long-ass poem in the Forest of Death?" Naruto asked. "It seemed like you had confidence that Sakura would remember but not me!"

Sasuke regarded her for the longest time as Sakura frowned before flickering her eyes between the two. Black eyes shone with no emotion but the little wrinkle around his mouth told Naruto that he was not happy with her accusation. Bastard can't even answer that much. She scowled.

"Between Sakura and you, you were the one that was more likely to leave our side for recon," Sasuke answered with a scowl. Sakura blinked while Naruto regarded the older teen with curious eyes. "And you wouldn't say the poem because you knew Sakura would never believe that you had that good of a memory. Anyone who tried to imitate you, wouldn't know that you are actually smart."

The pink-haired teen blinked. "Wait, you knew that—"

"—Naruto was pretending to be an idiot? Yeah," Sasuke grunted and looked away from everyone. A scowl played on his lips as his black eyes fixated on the screen before looking back at her. "Only a fool wouldn't have realized that her grades changed after the first semester."

Naruto's eyebrows twitched. "And whose fault was it that I had to changed my grades?"

Sasuke winced.

Naruto could only wonder what made these kids decide to become heroes. She knew what made the kids of her home to become shinobi. The kids might have never talked to her, ignored her or made fun of her but Naruto always listened to them.

It was just a side effect of being an outsider.

"You paid attention to that kind of detail?" Shikamaru asked. He blinked and knitted his eyebrows together as the whiskered teen looked away from him.

Naruto nodded. "I was always curious to know why you guys wanted to be a shinobi. Besides the fact that you guys never paid much attention to me means I know more about you than you realize."

"If that was the case then how the hell did you figure out my crush on Sasuke? I never told anyone about it!" Ino demanded.

I guessed it. Naruto bit her tongue from spilling those words to her former classmate and only offered her fellow blonde a shrug. Ino narrowed her eyes while Sakura blinked at this piece of information. The whiskered teen slid her hands into her pocket as everyone looked at her with raised eyebrows.

Some of her classmates become shinobi because of expectations. Their grandparents and parents were shinobi, so it was expected for them to have the same job. She knew most of the girls decided kunoichi because of boys. A few of the civilian boys wanted to become a shinobi because of money. Out of all the jobs in Konoha, the job of being a ninja was the most well-paid job.

"Why would you pick a job because of a boy?" Hagakure asked, knitting her eyebrows together. Several of the girls bobbed their head and flickered their eyes at the shinobi in the room. Ino quickly shook her head while Sakura knitted her eyebrows together into a single line.

Naruto sighed. "Because most of them wanted to find a good husband because if they bag a shinobi for a husband then they could live a life of comfort. Besides, their parents kind of brain-washed them."

"By the way, how much money are we talking about?" Mineta demanded.

Shikamaru sighed. "It depends on the rank of the mission but it is a decent amount of money if you asked me."

All of the shinobi in the room bobbed their heads in agreement.

It was also the most respected job and if there was anything Naruto wanted…it was to be respected and loved.

The Third Hokage frowned and closed his eyes while Tsunade glanced at the whiskered teen. I'm not going to deny it because it is obvious from my actions. Naruto exhaled and slid her hands into the pocket of her skirt as more and more eyes turned to look at her.

"Uzumaki, do you want to talk about it?" Narumi asked. "You do know that taking a job for those reasons, won't make you happy right? There are other ways to achieve what you want."

Naruto exhaled. "I know that there are other ways but I'm not going to talk about my childhood. It doesn't affect me and it is already too late for me to change my career path. Besides, I know it isn't a good reason but I have to be practical about how to make a living for myself."

The white-haired woman grimaced and shook her head at her.

Was it a good reason to be a kunoichi? Probably not but it was what drove her to try so hard when she started the Academy. She hadn't realized how naïve she was until Haku. The thought that a shinobi was a hero, loved and respected by the people changed when she met the boy.

"Oh, was Haku your first boyfriend? And how did he change your mind?" Ashido asked, yellow eyes glinting with curiosity. Naruto blinked and knitted her eyebrows before flickering her eyes to Sasuke and Sakura. The pink-haired girl had a grimace playing on her lips while Sasuke had a scowl playing on his own lips.

Naruto took in a deep breath and shook her head. "He was an enemy shinobi and no he was not my boyfriend. I think if things had been different then we could have been great friends. Haku was a really kind person and I think the book will talk about it."

"What happened to him?" Todoroki asked.

The whiskered teen stared blankly at the screen. "He died trying to protect someone precious to him."

He was the one to make her see how ninjas were tools to be used by the government and by other people. Sweet Haku couldn't even harden his heart to kill her or Sasuke, but would have been willing to do it if it meant protecting the person he loved. Haku made her realize what could make a person strong, but she doubted his belief.

"He tried to kill you and you think of him with fondness?" Midoriya asked, knitting his eyebrows together. "And isn't killing people a bad thing? So how can he be a good person? And why did he try to kill the both of you?"

"Even though he was an enemy shinobi, Haku wasn't very different from me," Naruto answered. She clasped her hands together and looked up at the ceiling before looking back at them. "Besides he had an opportunity to kill me but Haku never took that opportunity. Also we were on a dangerous mission and he was only trying to do his job. He was trying to protect Zabuza."

"…Did anyone tell you that you have a messed up idea of what makes a person good?" Bakugou asked.

Naruto only gave him the middle finger.

How could she get stronger if the people she loved didn't love her back? Could she grow stronger without having the same love and care being returned back to her? Did Haku's belief about strength apply to everyone? Or was it just special to him? Those questions haunted her mind whenever she lay in her small bed and stared at the ceiling.

"Naruto, we do care about you," Sakura said quietly. Naruto clenched her jaws together as Sasuke avoided looking her in the eyes. Kakashi frowned and the whiskered teen exhaled. "And we do love—"

"You blamed me for what happened," Naruto said flatly. "You never really loved me and don't try to act like you give a shit now, Sakura. Even if I egged you to call me useless, you should have never said it. You think that you are now a medic or that Sasuke is here that you are a good person? You are not."

"I'm sorry for what I said that—"

"—You are not sorry," Naruto said. "Because if you were truly sorry then you would have apologized from the very beginning. Instead you act like you are the victim and frankly…I'm too tired of your bullshit. You think I'm always going to forgive you? Because what you did that day…you crossed a line."

Sakura stared at her with wide eyes as Hinata stared at her with concern eyes. Are you doing okay? The whiskered teen bobbed her head as everyone stared at her with curious eyes. She grunted and ignored the concern eyes of Todoroki. They didn't know each other and she was not going to open up to him.

"Okay, start!"

Present Mic's voice boomed throughout the area. All of the examinees blinked and swirled their head up at the looming tower over them. What did he mean by start? Did the guy just announced out of nowhere the exam had just started? How could they start running through the gates if it wasn't open? Naruto flickered her eyes to the gate and frowned.

"I think they opened the gate when he announced start," Bakugou retorted. Naruto blinked and raised a single eyebrow at her blond-haired classmate. His red eyes kept flickering between her and Sakura. Did he break the silence because he want to change the atmosphere between us? She snorted at the idea.

"Well I see that now captain obvious," Naruto grunted.

Sasuke snorted. "If you saw that then you wouldn't be shock. You are always thinking of the past, Dead Last."

"Are you really the one to talk?" The whiskered teen grumbled. "Everything you have done so far is because you can't move on from the bloody past."

Black eyes narrowed at her. "Naruto—"

"Are you really happy with the decision that you have made?" Naruto asked. Sasuke kept quiet and the whiskered teen could see the waver in his black eyes. He won't even admit that he made a mistake. She exhaled and shook her head. "Talk to me again when you admit the truth to yourself because you still look fucking miserable. Mikoto-obaachan would have hated to see you like this."

He only kept quiet but Naruto could hear the unspoken words coming out from him.

When did they open the gates?

Naruto furiously shook her head and straightened her back. Naruto weaved her hands together, blood pumping through her ears as she summoned hundred copies of herself.

"You can make clones!" Midoriya gawked as several heads turned around to gawk at her. Naruto curled her lips into a frown when Bakugou only snorted like he knew that part of her abilities.

"Yeah, I can make them."

Mineta licked his lips. "So I can have a—"

"Finish that sentence and I will not be afraid to break your ribs!"

The purple-haired teen quickly zipped his lips as Tsunade looked at her with approval. Naruto quirked her lips into a smile before looking away from the blond-haired woman. She blinked as mismatch-eyes stared at her thoughtfully. Naruto raised a single eyebrow and the male only looked away from her.

"What's wrong? There are no countdowns in real fights!"

Kaminari groaned. "But we aren't in a real fight! We need a warning so that we can prepare ourselves! Now we need to pay attention to the door instead of waiting for them to tell us! It isn't fair!"

"You do know that he has a point," Shikamaru drawled, shaking his head at the blond-haired boy. Several shinobi bobbed their heads in agreement and the black-haired man frowned. "Will you ever have an opponent that will warn you before a fight? It is better to be prepared now."

Naruto snorted and sprinted through the gates as Present Mic attempted to snap her fellow examinees out of their shock. Her clones grinned and followed right behind her, making sure not to push any of the examinees out of the way so that they could have their fun.

With the numerous streets departing from the main road, Naruto barked at her clones to separate from each other and start searching through the streets.

Kiba frowned and knitted his eyebrows together. "Why do you have to bark orders to your clones?"

"Well I have to make sure that they aren't going to do their own thing," Naruto answered. Kakashi raised an eyebrow at her and the whiskered teen bobbed her head. "What? Clones are real people too and they can act like a drama queen! You know how much of a pain they can be?"

Narumi knitted her eyebrows together. "Do you ever suffer from dissociative identity disorder because of your clones? And how do you know if you are the real one if you think like that? This is actually quite an interesting ability that you have."

"I have no idea of what you are talking about but I don't suffer from those things!" Naruto said, folding her arms against her chest. Tsunade blinked and eyed the white-haired woman with curiosity while the elder woman frowned. "And it is kind of obvious to me on who is the real one!"

She weaved her way through the empty streets, blue eyes picking up for any subtle clues on where the robots might be. The roads were empty and none of the buildings looked destroyed, which made Naruto wonder where on earth could those robots be.

Naruto needed to get as many points as she could get, her future depended on it. The man never stated how many points they needed to get to pass and she had no clue about how well she did in the written exams. The chances she did well in the written exam was high but a part of her felt doubtful of her probability of passing the exam.

"If you don't get in then there has to be something wrong with Yuuei!" Bakugou growled, folding his arms against his chest. Narumi raised a single eyebrow at the blond-haired boy while Naruto stared at him with raised eyebrows. She pinched herself and bobbed her head as Bakugou glared at her. "Why the hell did you pinch yourself?"

"Because I must be dreaming that you are being supportive to me," Naruto replied. Mitsuki snorted and held back a laugh while Masaru sighed and shook her head. "Or maybe the world has ended because you aren't exactly the supportive type."

"I can be supportive!" Bakugou retorted.

Naruto stared at him. "Sure and I'm not a bitch."

Narumi frowned and knitted her eyebrows together before flickering her eyes to the Third Hokage. Naruto sighed and glanced at her surrogate grandfather figure, who kept glancing at her and Bakugou with confused and suspicious eyes. There is nothing weird about us. Except there must be something wrong if Tsunade kept glancing at her, Bakugou and Narumi.

Even though she did extremely well in school in Japan, Naruto always carried a sense of self-doubt about her capabilities in written exams.

"If it helps Uzumaki-san, I think you are going to do well in the exams," Midoriya reassured her. Naruto nodded and stared down at her hands while everyone else, except Hinata, looked at her with furrowed eyebrows.

Ino leaned closer to Shikamaru and whispered. "Are you also still trying to find it hard to believe that Naruto can doubt herself?"

"No," Shikamaru answered quietly as he snuck a glance at her before looking back at Ino. "Her cocky behaviour didn't mean that she was arrogant about herself. I always thought that Naruto was just using it to hide her insecurity."

You actually read my actions? The whiskered teen curled her lips into a frown and looked down at her hands. Then again, Shikamaru was probably one of the smartest guys that she knew. Of course he could read her actions but that did not mean anything if you asked her.

The walls of the building crumbled as the One-Pointer robot slammed out. Rubble fell down as it slid right in front of her. Its lone red eye directed at her, sparkling and twinkling as if mocking her and her abilities. Naruto curled her lips into a smirk, jumped up in the air and smashed her hand against the body of the robot.

The robot blew up with some of its pieces of it flying through the air, while other parts of the robot slammed against the other building. Naruto might not have a Kekkai Genkai (or a Quirk as these people call them) but she took great pride in her monstrous strength.

"Damn, remind me not to get punch by you!" Kirishima said, whistling as the screen played the scene. Mineta paled while Kaminari swirled his head at her like he didn't know what to think of her.

Naruto shrugged and stared at Kirishima for a good couple of seconds before saying: "As long as you don't perv in front of me, I won't punch you. I don't want to send another person to the hospital again."

Aizawa stared at her. "Don't you know how to control your strength?"

"Why should I learn how to control my strength?" Naruto asked, knitting her eyebrows together. It was not like she went out of her way to hurt someone. I mean I only hurt perverts and no one in the Academy saw any reason that I have to control it. She curled her lips into a frown as the man shook his head and mumbled something about having a talk with her about it.

She probably should keep her mouth shut.

The strength that earned her the nickname of mini-Tsunade in Konoha.

Ashido blinked and then stared at her. "Is Tsunade-san also really strong?"

"Yeah, the Old Hag is naturally strong," Naruto answered. Narumi raised an eyebrow and glanced at Bakugou before looking at Mitsuki. The blond-haired woman frowned and then flickered her eyes between Naruto and Bakugou. "But I'm not actually anything like the Old Hag."

Shikamaru frowned and then bobbed his head. "You can only be considered a mini-Tsunade if you can do medic ninjutsu and you don't have any talent in that regard. The only real similarities between the two of you is the monstrous strength and the bad temper."

"That bad temper is what got you promoted," Naruto retorted. Aizawa blinked and raised an eyebrow while Shikamaru bobbed his head at her. Temari raised an eyebrow at her and the whiskered teen sighed. "He didn't want to fight you so I yelled at him before kicking him on to the arena. I wasn't going to let this lazy ass think he can skip the exam because he couldn't be bother to fight."

"Clones? And super strength? What the hell is her Quirk?" A fellow examinee yelled. "At this rate, we won't get any points!"

Naruto ignored the complaint and continued sprinting through the streets. Broken claws, broken heads and other pieces of the robots littered the streets. Who destroyed them? Was it the clones? Or were the other examinees responsible for this?

She slowed down at the sight of one of the robots raising its claw at one of the frozen students. The claw seemed ready to slash the student and Naruto dashed straight to the robot. She didn't know how many points the robot had, nor did she actually care. A fellow student was endangered and he was scared out of his mind.

"That is a very heroic thing to do, Uzumaki-san!" Iida declared, waving his hand at her. Naruto blinked and then shrugged while Hinata hummed and curled her lips into a smile. "Even though your actual job is less than ideal, you have a very good understanding of what a hero should be."

Naruto waved her hand. "Anyone would have done what I did."

"That may be true Naruto-chan but in this scenario, people are not going to care about saving someone," Hinata pointed out. The whiskered teen hummed and folded her arms against her chest. "You still have that desire to help and rescue people. You are still putting people's needs over your own need."

"That isn't true, Hinata-chan," Naruto commented quietly. "I can still be selfish and self-centred."

Hinata frowned while Sasuke winced slightly. And why the hell are you reacting like that? You pointed out my flaw and you are acting like you are the bad guy. She clenched her jaws together and exhaled while mismatched-eyes continued to flicker between her and Sasuke.

Naruto couldn't ignore it even if she wanted to.

The student's eyes grew wide as Naruto slashed through the robot, cracking it symmetrically in half. With her slender built, long blond hair and almond shaped eyes, Naruto wasn't the exact image of someone you would consider strong. It was the reason most people seemed to underestimate her when they first hear her dreams or learn she was a ninja.

"You know Uzumaki, you kind of look like Bakugou's mom and you share a lot of facial characteristic with his grandmother," Kaminari pointed out. Naruto frowned and tilted her head as Narumi inspected her carefully. The Third Hokage frowned and darted his eyes between them. "You sure you aren't related to them?"

Naruto nodded. "My parents came from Konoha…I think."

"Your mother came from Uzushiokagure," the Third Hokage answered. Naruto blinked and swirled her head at the white-haired man, who stared at her with some remorse. Now you tell me this! She knitted her eyebrows while the man continued to stare at the screen. "Your father was raised in Konoha but I don't know where he was born. Your grandfather refused to tell me anything."

She frowned. "Why are you telling me this now? I asked you a thousand times about them and you never answered me! What is the difference now?"

"You are older and I didn't keep my promise to you," The Third Hokage answered. He inhaled and exhaled before flickering his eyes to the television screen. "I would talk to you about your parents when the book is done. You will have enough time to process everything and it won't take up too much of the book time."

The whiskered teen eyed him. "You are really going to tell me?"

"You have the right to know, Naruto and I was going to tell you," he reassured her. Narumi flickered her eyes between them while Kakashi grimaced and looked away from either of them. "There are a lot of things that I have to tell you in regards about your father and even about your grandfather and his wife."

Kakashi blinked and knitted his eyebrows together while Naruto only frowned at him. My grandfather and his wife? Isn't she supposed to be my grandmother? The old man was going to tell her because she had every intention of getting the information out of him before his time here was up.

She never liked it when someone judged her by her appearance.

"Don't judge a book by its cover," Aizawa commented as his eyes fixated on her before moving to the other people in the room. The whiskered teen shrugged and nodded. I think that is the perfect description. She exhaled and closed her eyes.

"Thank you for saving my ass."

Naruto swirled her head around, blue eyes growing bigger at the sound of a stranger thanking her. The examinee smiled nervously, eyes meeting her own and the girl wondered what his game was. Was he trying to lower her guard and run away to get more points? Why would he thank her? No one ever thank her for saving their lives.

"Why wouldn't they thank you?" Hagakure asked. Naruto blinked as several people stared at her with confusion and the whiskered teen only shrugged her shoulders before pointing to Sakura. Why ask me? She didn't know everything. Mitsuki and Narumi pressed their lips into a thin line while Tsunade narrowed her eyes at Sakura.

The pink-haired teen frowned. "I was grateful for what you did."

"You thanked Sasuke," Naruto said slowly. Sakura frowned and glanced at Sasuke but the black-haired teen only gave her a pointed look. I told you to thank her. That was what that expression on Sasuke's face told her and the whiskered teen nodded. "Sasuke told you to thank me, didn't he? But you found it hard to believe I saved you from Gaara, didn't you?"

Sakura blinked. "Well yes I found it difficult to believe but that is because you didn't have a powerful jutsu and did Sasuke-kun tell you that?"

"I can read Sasuke," Naruto said slowly as if she was talking to a slow child. Sakura's eyebrows twitched while Sasuke snorted and looked away from them. Bakugou coughed and covered his mouth while Hinata chuckled. "You think I can be friends with him for that long and not be able to read him? And he clearly gave you a look that said you dug yourself into this hole."

Sasuke nodded. "I told her the truth."

"You might be an ass but you are no liar when it comes to events," Naruto agreed. "The only time you ever kept quiet was when I asked you and Hinata to be quiet or when you wanted Daddy's dearest love."

"I told you—"

"You have no excuse, Sasuke. When I needed you to help me, you stood back and did nothing!"

There was no way that person was being sincere with her not unless they wanted something from her.

Narumi grimaced and rubbed the back of her neck before throwing a glare at Sakura. The pink-haired teen winced and looked away from the white-haired woman. Wimp. The whiskered teen rolled her eyes as her former teammate inched away from Bakugou's grandmother and closer to Sasuke.

Sasuke inched away from the pink-haired teen.

She forced herself to smile. "You're welcome, but anyone would have done what I would have done."

With those words, she ran to the next street, ready to fight the next robots. Explosions echoed in her ears as the head of Three Pointer flew at her direction. Pinks lips pressed into a thin line, Naruto ducked. She twisted her head around, blue eyes following the flight of the Three Pointer.

"Take that sucker!"

That answers who did it. Naruto glared at her copy, who feebly shrug her shoulders at her. Weren't her clones supposed to act like her? She scanned the area. Just like in the other streets, there were pieces of robots scattered around the streets. But unlike the other streets, there seemed to be more examinees in the area.

"They do but if you have been bottling your emotions up then the clones might try to loosen the bottle so to speak," Kakashi explained. The whiskered teen blinked and knitted her eyebrows together before rubbing the back of her neck. "You should have been more open—"

"I'm not listening to the man who reads smut in public and can't be bother to emotionally connect with his students," Naruto retorted. The Third Hokage grimaced and gave a pointed look to Kakashi. The silver-haired man grimaced and the whiskered teen continued. "And maybe I would have opened up if a certain someone opened up too or made me feel like my voice mattered."

"How many points did you get?" Naruto asked.

Her clone scrunched her eyebrows together, held her fingers out and tilted her head to the side as she counted the number of points that she got in total. "Thirty points!"

Thirty points from that clone. If Naruto was to consider the other clones then maybe she probably racked enough points to pass the practical exam with flying colours. Her possible bad score in the written exam might be overlooked when they considered her physical skills.

Ashido blinked and then twisted her head around to look at Aizawa. "Is that true? If any of us scores really well in the practical exam then the written paper won't matter?"

"It is an even split for people entering the heroic department," Aizawa answered. "But if someone lacks capability of even doing the physical exam then they will be denied entry into the heroic department. Even then, there is still a way for them to enter the heroic department."

Naruto blinked. "…Are you going to tell us?"

"I have a feeling that you are going to find out," Aizawa answered, fixating his eyes on the screen. Naruto blinked and knitted her eyebrows together while Bakugou eyed the relaxed man before them. Asuma regarded the screen while Tsunade looked at him before eying the screen. "But didn't your shinobi school have this system?"

"If it did then Sakura and me wouldn't have become shinobi," Naruto pointed out. "We would have been in a bigger disadvantage because neither of us have people that can help us prepare for the exam. I have no family members to train me while Sakura-chan's parents wouldn't want her to train from a young age. They are overprotective over her."

Sakura frowned. "How did you know that?"

"I heard you complaining about it to Ino."

"You ruined one of my traps!" A purple-haired boy complained. Naruto swirled her head around and raised her eyebrow. The scowl on his face faded as his beady eyes landed on her chest, saliva leaked out of his mouth. If she wasn't a kunoichi or had years of experience with perverts, she probably wouldn't know why he had drool coming out of his mouth.

Mineta blinked and gulped as several female eyes narrowed at him. I won't hit him even if I want to rip his eyes for staring at my boobs. She inhaled and exhaled before folding her arms against her chest. She had to keep her cool because now there were more potential customers and she couldn't give a bad impression.

"I can't help it if you look hot!" Mineta finally cried.

Sasuke and Bakugou's eyebrows twitched and Naruto felt her lips twitched when Asui smacked Mineta on the face with her tongue. Ino threw an annoyed look at the male while Sakura balled her hands into a fist. The other girls only clenched their jaws together at the male.

"You know perving on Naruto will get you send to the hospital," Kiba informed him.

Shikamaru snorted. "You are only saying that because—"

Kiba quickly covered the male's mouth and Naruto raised an eyebrow at the two males. What the hell was happening with those two? She frowned and glanced at Sasuke. The black-haired teen showed no reaction but the clenched fist told her everything that she had to know.

"Focus on the exam," She barked.

He is lucky that we are not allowed to hurt the other examinees or I would have punched him for that. It was bad enough she spent most of her Academy years being reminded that she had been one of the most fully developed girls. Now this asshole made her feel like something sleazy.

"It is a terrible time when you are the more developed child," Mitsuki commented, shaking her head. "I remembered feeling uncomfortable during my early school years."

Narumi sighed. "I still remember when you had your first period. You thought you—"

"Continue reading the book, Tape Boy!"

"You have got six minutes and two seconds remaining!"

Wow, was he trying to give them more pressure?

"Knowing Hizashi? No," Aizawa answered, shaking his head. The other students frowned and raised their eyebrows at him. "He just wanted to remind you that you have no time to be lazing around."

Tokoyami sighed. "We don't want that kind of pressure in already stressful exam."

Naruto shook her head and jumped over the broken pieces of the robots, trying to find the next robot that she should attack. There were so many examinees with her and there was always going to be a possibility that someone had more points than her.

She really wanted enough points to pass the exams.

"At the rate that you are attacking, I'm more worried about whether I will pass," Mineta cried, pulling his hair. He eyed the various robots being destroyed on the screen before looking back at her. "Can't you leave enough robots for ordinary people like me? I need to pass more than you! You already have a job!"

Naruto rolled her eyes. "Life doesn't work that way."

The sound of someone huffing and puffing snapped her out of her thoughts. To her right, an orange-haired girl had her leg crushed underneath the rubble. Orange eyebrows scruntched together as she tried to pull her leg from the spear. Blue eyes grew wide when she saw a Three Pointer rushing towards her.

Naruto took a deep breath and channelled her chakra to her hand. No one was getting hurt in her watch. She took a deep breath and launched herself at the Three Pointer. Her fist slammed the back of the robot and the robot denotated, splitting into several pieces and flying all over the air.

"That is not going to be pretty," Tsunade commented, shaking her head. "If that girl continues to pull her leg then she is going to end up making the injury worse."

Sakura nodded and flickered her eyes at Naruto. "You are going to help her, right? You would help her in that scenario right, Naruto? Because that kind of injury won't be easy for a person with no chakra to heal."

"You think I'm going to abandon a stranger because I need to pass the exam?" Naruto asked. Sakura paused and then slowly nod her head, earning a scowl from the whiskered teen. "Just because I have the need to pass the exam, doesn't mean I'm going to let her stay like that! I am not a heartless person!"

"Naruto, you have the habit of not—"

"—What habit? Do you honestly believe that I don't give a shit about people?" Sakura winced and the whiskered teen curled her lips into a scowl. "You actually believe because I'm in an exam that I'm going to let someone suffer like that? I am blunt and I might not be all that empathetic but I'm not heartless."

Narumi eyed her. "So you will admit that you are not empathetic?"

"I'm not perfect."

"Thank you."

She ignored the girl's words and raced towards her. Blue eyes darted the arena and pink lips pressed into a frown at the sight of the other examinees charging through the remaining robots. Haven't they noticed someone was hurt? The Villain Points were important but so was rescuing people in danger. Wasn't it the whole point of being a hero to rescue people?

Iida's eyes widened and he swirled his head at Aizawa. "Aizawa-sensei, is there another point to the exam? Did Yuuei also add those dangerous robots to see how willing a person is to forgo their villain points?"

"You are quick to realize that," Aizawa replied as his eyes fixated on the screen before looking back at the remaining students. Bakugou blinked and then cursed under his breath while Naruto gawked at him. "There are Quirks that are not very good for battle but there are Quirks good for rescuing. There are students who focus on that aspect and they shouldn't be taken out for not being able to fight."

Tokoyami nodded. "Hawks is a very good example of that kind of hero."

She knew she wasn't meant to be a hero. The things she had done and the type of person she became made it impossible for Naruto to be considered a hero. But right now this wasn't a matter of being a hero, right now she needed to save this girl from the pain. These people were too self-absorbed with everything to realize they should be decent people first.

Sakura frowned. "What have you done for you to think like that? And what do you mean by the type of person that you have become? You are very different but that doesn't mean you can't be a hero."

"I haven't killed anyone but I don't exactly scream oh I give a shit about people," Naruto retorted. "And would you want to be saved by me if you know that I am not all sunshine and smiles right now."

Hinata eyed Sakura before glancing back at Naruto. The whiskered teen frowned as her best friend tapped her jaw. What the hell is she thinking? She can't be trying to convince me out of this mindset. Her best friend always seemed to see the good in her, even when she had been cruel to her.

"Naruto-chan, you might not be the same but you will always do your best to reassure people and protect them," Hinata finally said. The whiskered teen blinked as her blue-haired friend took a deep breath. "You might not be the same but isn't the fact that you are trying to help her mean that you still protect and save people. That is what a hero does and that is what you have been doing since we were six."

Naruto kept quiet and looked away from her best friend.

"Stop pulling your leg!" Naruto ordered. She knelt down and forced herself to smile reassuringly at the girl. Immediately, the girl stopped what she was doing and just looked at her. Green eyes grew large and confused as the blond-haired girl placed both hand on the large rubble. Taking a deep breath, she lifted the rubble high over her head.

"Damn, you are really manly," Kirishima said, letting out a little whistle as the screen played the video. Naruto blinked and raised an eyebrow as the black-haired teen offered her a smile. "That is so cool! You are lifting it like it weighed nothing and you don't look like you have muscles meant for that thing."

Naruto blinked and knitted her eyebrows together. "Thank you…I guess?"

Naruto lowered one hand and offered a hand to the girl. A warm smile broke out of the girl's face as she grabbed the free hand to crawl herself out of the way. If it wasn't for the rubble in her hand, she probably would have dropped it.

No stranger had willingly gave her a warm smile before. It took her a long time to get someone back home to even look at her with something, other than cold eyes. This girl was just offering it freely. Did the girl want something from her? Was she planning something? These people couldn't just give something that freely.

Narumi frowned and then regarded her something. "Uzumaki, I really do believe that you need therapy for your childhood trauma. This kind of thinking isn't very healthy for you because you don't need to do anything to get someone to be nice to you."

"I don't need therapy," Naruto grunted, shaking her head. "I'm not insane to think like this because this is my experience. People are not kind for no reason and if they are then…it is difficult for you to know. You don't know what is going through a person's head."

The Hokage sighed. "Naruto, perhaps you should consider it."

"I'm not insane and I'm definitely not lazy," Naruto grunted.

Narumi frowned. "Uzumaki-san, this is not about you being insane and anyone with eyes can see that you aren't lazy. But this lifestyle that you have is affecting you and we can't allow that. You won't be able to live to your future potential if you think that you can handle this by yourself!"

Oh wait, she was being repaid for her deeds by a smile. Technically, this smile hadn't been given so freely.

"You saved my life and my leg!" The girl declared, beaming and wincing at the same time if that was even possible.

Naruto didn't smile back. Blue eyes focused on the orange-haired girl, who cradled her leg. She was never good in the first-aid business. That part of the job had always been left to Sakura-chan; the girl always seemed to enjoy acting like the doctor in their team. But there was no Sakura-chan to check up on the girl and give her first aid.

It was up to her to do this.

"Since when did you know first-aid?" Sakura asked.

Naruto shrugged. "You think when I went to the nurse in the Academy that she would patch me up? The old lady would toss the box at me and tell me to do it. I'm not good at it like you but I do know enough things."

"Decent is an overstatement," Hinata said, shaking her head. "How many times did I have to scold you about doing your bandages?"

"I'm not that bad."

Naruto took a deep breath and pressed her fingers lightly against the lower part of her leg. Wrinkles formed around the girl's forehead as green eyes shut tightly at the pressure. A small frown played on her lips as she tried to come to a decision on what to do.

There was no way Naruto could leave the girl alone not with an injury to her leg. She didn't know if she was allowed to physically leave the exam and just looking at the rubble and the other examinees, there was no safe place for her to put her.

"Shadow clone," Sasuke stated. Naruto's eyebrows twitched as everyone else twisted their bodies around to look at them with curious eyes. Right, they wouldn't understand what he stated with just two words. She inhaled and exhaled before throwing a glare at him.

"I am sure that I would think of using the shadow clone jutsu," Naruto retorted.

Todoroki blinked and knitted his eyebrows together. "How did you understand everything from just two words?"

"I have a degree in speaking bastard," Naruto answered seriously. Bakugou snorted while Midoriya stared at her like she was a weirdo. Sasuke scowled while the other people stared at them with amusement shining through their eyes. Narumi frowned and flickered her eyes between them.

Naruto inhaled and pressed her hand together in a familiar hand seal. White smoke appeared, enveloping the small space right next to her. The girl frowned and green eyes grew wide as the smoke disappeared to reveal another clone.

"Told you so, Bastard!" Naruto retorted.

"Take her to the school's infirmary," Naruto barked. The clone grinned, saluted and scooped up the girl into her arms.

"Wait! Why are you doing this time? Don't you care about how much time you are wasting doing this?" The girl demanded, attempting and failing to get out of her clone's hand. "I know you made clones but every point counts!"

She scowled. "Points! Is that all you care about? Anyone would do what I am doing because you are hurt! I don't know what it means to be a hero but I know heroes don't ignore someone in distress. What matters to me is making sure you get yourself patched up."

"Well not everyone would have done what you did," Kaminari commented. Naruto raised a single eyebrow and the blond-haired boy raised his hand at her. "Well none of us have inhuman strength and we are all focused on getting those points, so your idea does not have some truth."

Jirou bobbed her head. "Kaminair has a point because how can we think of helping someone when we are worried about how many points that we will get."

"But you should be focusing more…"

"I don't care about the points," Naruto declared. "Let me worry about getting more points and you focus on getting better."

"Three minutes left!"

The ground rumbled as buildings began to cracked and crash down to the ground. Screams echoed throughout the arena as the other examinees ran the other direction. Blue eyes darted to her clone. The clone nodded and charged the other way to where the gates were. Naruto had no idea what happened but that girl had to be taken away to safety.

"Naruto, do you even know where the infirmary?" Sakura asked, knitting her eyebrows together. Aizawa turned around to look at her and the whiskered teen shook her head. "So your clone is basically going to run all around the school like an idiot until she can find the nurse?"

Naruto bobbed her head. "Basically."

"Aren't we more concern about the fact that everyone is screaming?" Mineta cried. "What the hell is happening for the buildings to break like that?"

Aizawa stared at him. "You will find out."

Her ears throbbed as the windows, from one of the buildings ahead, fractured and splinted. The rumbles grew larger each second as the cries of distress of the other examinees became louder and louder. The smart plan would be to run away like the other students, but Naruto wasn't scared. She wasn't a coward and she would face whatever they threw at them with a smile on her face.

"What the hell are you doing? You should run away!" One of the examinees yelled. He didn't look anything special but the one thing that stood out about him, was the cylinder tape dispensers shaped elbows he had. Panic shone through those eyes. "The Zero Pointer is heading this way! The examiner wasn't lying when he said you should run away! That thing is monstrous and it is going to hurt everyone."

Sero paused and turned his head to look at Naruto. "I don't look anything special? Uzumaki, you know how to make a guy feel special."

"Would you want me to lie and say that you look special? In the world of Quirks, you just seem…ordinary," Naruto explained. Several of the girls bobbed their head and she knitted her eyebrows together. Should I have lied and make him seem look better? No, this wouldn't be her way.

"I'm more concerned over the fact that you aren't running from danger," Shikamaru observed. Naruto raised a single eyebrow and the black-haired teen raised his hands from her. "Troublesome woman, you know if someone tells you to run then you run! You don't go looking for danger!"

"But if I don't defeat it then someone is going to get hurt," Naruto pointed out. "I think that outweighs my safety."

Aizawa frowned. "You have no regard to your own life, do you?"

"Nope," Sasuke answered seriously.

The whiskered teen shot a glare at the black-haired male and Sasuke only rolled his eyes before folding his arms against his chest. I'm not going to contradict his answer. She curled her lips into a scowl and waved her hand at Sero.

Run away? But why? Those cries and screaming made it clear to her about what should be done. How could they ask her to run away when she know people were going to get hurt? If there were real civilians in this area then they were going to get hurt. These people were going to get injured if the things wasn't stopped.

"Running away would be the smart idea!" Mineta grumbled. "Everyone is running away except you, so no one is going to get hurt."

Naruto eyed him. "If that robot hits another building then someone is going to get hurt from the slabs of concrete falling down."

She couldn't let it happen.

Naruto focused her eyes on the large green Zero-Pointer heading their way. "All of you guys are scared right? You think that just because it is worth no points, because it is scary then it is better to run away. I don't think like that. A hero should be willing to sacrifice their life and destroy a villain because people are counting on them. If I leave that thing alone then people are going to get hurt."

"That is a valid point but your life still matters," Aizawa informed her. Naruto blinked and the black-haired man looked at the screen with a frown playing on his lips. He flickered his eyes from the screen to her. "You only have one life to live and to throw away your life like that…that's a waste. You have to value your life."

Narumi nodded. "You have a good way of thinking, Uzumaki but no one is going to be happy if you threw away your life. The people that care about you, wouldn't see it in the same way. The way you think about heroes is very dangerous."

"Naruto-chan, they have a point," Hinata commented quietly. The whiskered teen kept quiet and looked down at her feet before looking at the people around her. Gaara bobbed his head while Sasuke only looked away from her. The whiskered teen only sighed and shook her head.

Why would she ever expect Sasuke to feel guilty?

Black eyes blew up at her comment and Naruto charged straight towards the Zero-Pointer. Get hurt? Physical pain was easy to deal with, the scars would heal and eventually fade. She didn't care about the pain she probably would get. Why would she? Naruto never really cared about her own life. She fought Gaara even though there was always a possibility he might murder her.

"You nearly killed her?" Yaoyorozu asked, knitting her eyebrows together before swirling her head at the red-haired teen. I wish that I haven't thought about what Gaara had done. She inhaled and rubbed the back of her neck as Gaara winced at the reminder of his actions.

Gaara exhaled. "I did."

"He wasn't in the right state of mind," Naruto informed them. Temari and Kankuro winced and exchanged glances while Narumi raised her eyebrows at her. Sasuke frowned and looked at her like she was insane. You can't talk, you nearly killed me! She guessed her expression showed that because he winced. "He has been going through a lot. I mean asshole father and you know what."

Narumi sighed. "I have known a few people to crack from the pressure and abuse."

She tried fighting Orochimaru in the Forest of Death, despite knowing her chances of winning and surviving were low. Everything Naruto had done until she ran away, had always been to protect her teammates.

The Third Hokage closed his eyes and grimaced while Naruto looked away from the concern eyes of the people around her. Sakura stared at her with regretful eyes and the whiskered teen only grunted before looking away from her.

"You fought someone knowing that you could die," Aizawa said slowly. Naruto nodded and the black-haired man stared at her for the longest time before shaking his head. "I'm afraid to ask but were you dropped as a child? When you find someone that dangerous and you know you could die, you take your teammates and run."

Naruto stared at him. "But how could I run when he is faster than me and has a sick obsession with Sasuke? Even if I have run away, he would still come after us so I thought I should fight him. Sasuke wasn't happy about it either."

"You were going to get yourself killed," Sasuke growled. "Now I don't give a shit if you die or not."

The blonde stared at him. "You are still a terrible liar."

That thing is worth Zero Points? They have got to be kidding! The Zero-Pointer was larger than any building that Naruto had ever seen. Eights red dots shone down on the ground as the robot placed both of its claws on either side of the building. It gripped the building, causing blocks of slab to crash on the ground.

Naruto pressed her fingers together and summoned another fifty clones. With my clone's combined strength and the Rasengan , that robot won't have a chance of surviving. She took a deep breath and held her palm out as her clone helped her form the Rasengan. The energy swirled and whirled, forming a small ball of energy.

The Third Hokage blinked and turned his head to look at her. "You learnt the Fourth's jutsu?"

"She mastered it in a week," Tsunade commented, nodding her head before glancing at Naruto. The whiskered teen shrugged her shoulders as everyone knitted their eyebrows together. "It surprised me as well but Jiraiya probably had an idea that she could learnt a difficult jutsu. I was surprised that she did it in a week."

"It took the Fourth three years to make the jutsu," The Third Hokage commented. His black eyes gleamed with amusement and he darted his eyes at her. "But it took you only a week to master it?"

"You know if I make a bet then I would do anything to win that bet," Naruto explained, shrugging her shoulders at the Hokage. Everyone blinked and knitted their eyebrows together before looking back at her. What? It isn't that weird! She rubbed her jaws and then let out a sigh.

Midoriya blinked and stared at her. "How could you master something difficult? Did you use your clones to help you?"

"It was all hard work," Naruto answered.

She knelt and launched herself straight up to the ground as her clones charged towards the Zero-Pointer. The Rasengan cracked the head of the robot as her clones punched and kicked all the available parts of the robot. Pieces and parts of the robot smashed, flying through the bright blue sky or crashing down on the ground.

"Now that is one way to end the exam," Hagakure commented, shaking her head. "But are the people from your exam site going to be able to get into Yuuei?"

Naruto shrugged. "We are going to find out sooner or later, won't we?"

If I can be willing to save the lives of my teammates then being a hero isn't going to be much different.

Naruto might never have pictured herself as a hero and maybe she didn't deserve to be a hero. Heroes should inspire trust and trust the people they vowed to protect. People had hurt her in so many ways. People, she considered to be her friends, betrayed her. People called her so many terrible names, but Naruto was willing to become a hero worthy of this country.

"Naruto, we didn't know that you felt that way," Choji said. "But we didn't betray you."

Naruto stared at Choji and shook her head. "You and the others didn't betray me because we weren't really friends and we didn't even work together, but you aren't the people that I'm talking about. But you and the others did hurt me every single day."

"Naruto, what did we do to hurt…oh," Shikamaru trailed off. His black eyes widened slightly and he raised a single eyebrow at her. "You think we hurt you by keeping silent, didn't you? I know it is no excuse but we were kids, Naruto. You know neither Choji and me can do anything with Ino! Even if we told her parents, it wouldn't change her attitude!"

Ino frowned. "What the hell did I do?"

"Your parents abandoned you because you were a monster. Those were the exact words that you told me," Naruto reminded her. Ino froze as everyone twisted their heads to look at the blond-haired girl with visible disgust and anger. She curled her lips into a frown and stared at Ino with very cold eyes. "You told me that my parents never loved me. Do you even know what those words did to me?"

Ino flinched before glaring at her. "Look I'm sorry for saying that shit and yeah I might have said something terrible but you aren't a victim! You told everyone that I like Sasuke! How the fuck do you think I was going to retaliate! If you wanted to be a bitch then I could be a bitch too!"

"Do you want to know how the fuck I realized your little crush?" Naruto asked. Ino blinked and kept quiet as everyone watched the brewing fight between them. "It is because you asked me if my parents abandoned me because I caused trouble. Do you know the type of girls who would say that to me? Bitches who like Sasuke and who fucking think that I'm the reason Sasuke would never look at them! That is how I know! I made the rest of it up but you blushed when I made up that story!"

Ino growled. "You are the reason that Sakura and me stopped—"

"—Don't put the blame on me," Naruto growled. "Maybe I'm one of the reason but if Hinata and me like the same guy then you could bet your little ass that Hinata and me wouldn't break our friendship over a boy! If you wanted to get even then you could have done a lot of things but you ruined whatever hope I had on my mother and father!"

"I don't know your parents Yamanaka-san," Mitsuki said quietly. Everyone turned around to look at the blond-haired woman, who had her eyes glowing with irritation. "But I'm sure that they are going to be disappointed with you if they knew what you said about an orphan's family. Did your parents tell you that it was okay to hurt someone like that?"

"Her parents would kill her if they knew what she said," Shikamaru commented. "But that wouldn't stop Ino from hurting Naruto. If anything it would make the problem worse because Ino would blame Naruto for what happened, because that is what Ino does."

Narumi frowned. "You can't accept when—"

"—I think we need to finish the chapter and book before you can go on a rant, Akimoto-san," Sero said.

The old woman scowled and waved her hand at him.

But her idea of what a hero should be and nothing like those heroes that she saw in television. Most of those heroes never seemed to put the people first. None of them seemed to tackle the children who had been abused by the people that were supposed to care for them. None of them had done any deeds that didn't bring up the fact young kids got discriminated for things that wasn't their fault.

The words hovered between everyone as they turned to look at her. Narumi stared at her with eyes filled with horror and sadness but the whiskered teen only looked away from her. I hate that the stupid book brought up the truth to them. She inhaled and exhaled as mismatched-eyes looked at her with concern and some form of understanding. The Third Hokage only grimaced and closed his eyes.

"Naruto, I'm sorry," The Third Hokage said. "But you know I tried—"

"It doesn't matter anymore," Naruto grunted. "You can't change the past and I know you did the best you could do, considering how you felt about me. You did a lot better than some of the shitty people in the village."

The Hokage frowned. "What do you mean by what I felt towards you? Naru-chan, I always cared about you."

"Did you?" Naruto retorted. "I'm not stupid and I'm not blind, Old Man but I'm not going to talk about my feelings to you. You are dead and you can't change anything. What the village did to me only made me stronger."

Aizawa frowned.

Naruto was going to show them that even a child with her background could become a worthy hero.

She would prove it even if it killed her.

"Well after that depressing line, who wants to read next?" Sero asked, waving the book at them. Everyone blinked and then raised their eyebrows at him. "This was the end of the chapter."

Sasuke grunted. "I will read the next chapter."


A/N: Please do review and tell me what you think about the chapter. I will probably have Minato and Kushina come in either the first memory chapter or in Book 2. If Naruto is reacting differently from the books then she was during in that period of the book then let me remind you that this isn't fully serious and that Naruto doesn't think she has to see them again. She is just releasing the pent-up emotions at them. By the way how would you feel if Mikoto comes in? Or Dabi?