At the village's gate in the morning

It was time for Naruko to leave. Having packed all her belongings into her scrolls, she waved one last goodbye, and walked out of the gates. She then headed toward the Land of Iron in hopes of getting a new sword to replace the one she had broken. She frowned in thought. 'It takes a week to get to the Land of Iron on foot by walking. However, even though I have a lot more ryo due to the bounty and the job payment, I still need to be careful with my expenses.'

Land of Iron

After a week of hard travel, walking and climbing up mountains, she reached the Land of Iron, and sought out Muramasu, the weaponsmith that had made her last sword. She knock on his door, and after she heard a little shuffling, he opened the door. Seeing Naruko, he exclaimed, "Ah, Naruko-chan! What can I do for you?" She smiled and said, "Muramasu, I need a new blade since I broke mine in battle. Even with all those seals reinforcing the blade, it still broke against adamantium. The old weaponsmith then said, "I can make the same blade, but make it fully out of chakra conductive adamantium so that it never will break again. We can discuss the price later. Come back in a week, and I will have it ready for you." She then nodded, deeply thanking the man before leaving.

One Week Later

Naruko marveled at her new greatsword, now made out of adamantium. She put her complex seals on it to make it even more indestructible and to make it easier to channel elemental chakra into the blade. When she asked for the cost, Muramasu just said, "You can repay me by using that blade to kill your enemies." With a deep nod of thanks and a hug to the old man, she left the shop, and started to walk out of the Land of Iron. However, before she could do so, a carrier pigeon arrived, having a message for her.

She read over the message, and her eyes widened in surprise. The Land of Vegetables was starting a shinobi corp, and they were requesting that she would be the first jonin of the village, and would teach others how to use chakra. The nineteen year old blonde smiled, and wrote a reply, saying she accepted their proposal. 'It's time I stopped being a mercenary, taking different jobs for money, and settle down in a more permanent location.' She then began the journey back to the Land of Vegetables, eager to get back to the village.

Land of Vegetables

A week later, Naruko finally entered through the village's gates, and headed straight for Zoro's office. She knocked, and then came in once she heard Zoro's muffled voice say, "Come in." His face broke out to a grin, and he said, "Naruko-chan, thank you for accepting our proposal to become the first ninja of this village, and to train other villagers in the use of chakra. Since you're the only person I'm assigning as a jonin, I'll start with a team made out of you and three genin." Naruko nodded in understanding. Zoro then continued. "Since you're the only real shinobi at the moment, you'll also have to handle the classroom too. You can probably use a kage bunshin to continue teaching while you're out with your team. I guess you can start tomorrow."

She sighed, as she hated the classroom, but knew it was necessary. Zoro then said, "One more thing. Take this." He gave a hitai-ate with the Vegetable symbol on it, and she tied it around her forehead, and grinned at the old man before leaving. It felt good to have a headband back on her forehead.

The next day, in the classroom

The people in the classroom were whispering to one another, wondering who their shinobi teacher would be. There were mostly guys with a few girls, and most of them were in their late 20s and early 30s, with a couple of 12 and 13 year olds. The door suddenly opened, and they were surprised to find Naruko walking in. She noticed the guys staring at her curvy but slim, athletic body, and was surprised how lustful they were. They all shouted saying, "Naruko-chan, you're our teacher and our jonin?" She then nodded, but then said, "As of right now, I am Naruko-sensei to you. I will be teaching you the history of shinobi as well as some techniques, and then we will hold practice spars. Am I clear?" The whole group nodded.

Naruko then went around, judging people by the amount of chakra they had and their skill level, and dubbed the 20 and 30 year olds too old due to their chakra coils. She then told them to report to Zoro, and they left the room. She then started teaching the children how to access their chakra by forming their hands into the ram seal. She smiled as they quickly caught on. This would take little time to get them into genin level.

As the weeks went by, she taught them the bunshin, kawarimi, and henge jutsus along with some basic taijutsu. She then picked her genin team, picking Fukuro, the dead last; Satomi, the top student; and Tanako, an average student. The rest she told they would have to wait and improve in the class, much to their displeasure, but she was firm with her word. While she operated her team, she would have a kage bunshin teach the class.

"All right, Team 1, let's start doing some missions, as we don't need to do introductions, since we know each other already. The genin nodded their heads. "Let's get a mission from Zoro." They went to the daimyo's office and walked in. Naruko then said, "Team 1, reporting for some D ranked missions." Zoro then smiled, took out a bunch of D ranked missions, and said, "Here ya go, Naruko-chan." He handed five or so D ranked missions, and she accepted them.

Team 1 then left the room, and started walking to their first mission. Naruko then said, "All right, on to these missions! If you guys do enough of them, then we can do C ranked missions." They groaned, but knew it was how things rolled. They quickly got started on the missions, painting fences, taking out the trash, and watering plants. They went on until dusk, trying to do as much missions as possible.

Naruko, surprised and proud of their diligence, then said, "Ok, you guys have surprised and impressed me with your work. We'll take a break from missions tomorrow, and do something different and fun. Get your rest tonight, and see you at the training ground at 3 pm, ok?" They nodded in understanding and walked home. She then walked back to her home, plopped down on her bed and sighed. It had been a long day, being a jonin sensei was a lot of work. After showering and dressing into her night clothes, she fell asleep.

The next day, Training Ground

Team 1 made their way to the training ground to find Naruko already there waiting for them. "Hello there, Naruko-sensei!" they greeted her. She smiled and then said, "let's get started." She then brought out a clock from her ninja pouch and said, "I'll be giving you a test. You guys have one hour to land one hit on me. Come at me with everything you've got." She turned on the timer, and they rushed at her.

She smiled as they came at her. Fukuro charged at her with a punch ready, but she just caught the punch and threw him hard into a tree. She then tilted her head to the side to avoid some shuriken thrown by Takako, and then sidestepped a punch from Satomi. Satomi, not expecting the lack of resistance, stumbled forward, off balance, and Naruko stuck out a foot, tripping him. She then picked up Satomi by his shirt, and then threw him into Takako, knocking both down. She then yawned and said, "Is that all you guys have?"

Fukuro, Takako, and Satomi then grouped together, knowing and agreeing they couldn't take her down by themselves. They would have get her off balance together, and take her down. However, when they looked back at her, she was gone. They looked around, and they growled in frustration. "She's gone," Satomi said. "Let's have Takako lay out the trap while Fukuro and I lead her into it." They nodded and went their separate ways.

With Fukuro and Satomi

They found some tracks and raced to her, and found her sitting in the middle of a clearing in the woods. She smiled as they worked as a team, trying to take her down. As she dodged all their punches and kicks, she thought, 'I'm glad they understand the test of teamwork I was trying to get them to understand.' She let them drive her back, her hands behind her backs as she continued to duck or dodge them. However, she didn't notice the lack of Takako's presence.

With Takako

As soon as the others left, Takako began to gather materials to set up his trap. He set up launchers that would shoot out kunai when triggered, and then, with a great deal of effort, rolled a huge stone into place on a small cliff near the place so that it would roll down and hit the target in the middle of the training ground. Finally, he made one last trap, a log tied to some rope that would swing down and hit someone. After he finished, he then waited at the edge of the training ground, where he would join his teammates once they pushed back their sensei to the training ground.

Training Ground

Naruko emerged from the trees and into the training ground with a grin, followed by her an out of breath Fukuro and Satomi. It was fun toying with her genin. Takako finally joined them, and whispered to Fukuro and Satomi, "The trap is set. I'll trigger it while you guys distract her." They nodded in understanding. A hail of kunai and shuriken came at Naruko, and she plucked them all out of the air, much to their disbelief. Suddenly, she heard a whistling sound coming behind her. She spun on her heel, and widened as she ducked, kunai whizzing past her head, cutting a few strands of her hair. However, she heard a large rumbling sound coming from behind her. Turning back around, she paled as she saw a large rock came rolling down a small cliff. With little time to react, she held out her arms to catch the large stone.

She grunted as she caught the large rock, her knees bending and the ground cracking beneath her from the weight and force of the rock. She quickly channeled her arms with chakra and threw the rock to the side. However, since she was so busy with the rock, she didn't see the swinging log heading for her stomach, and it hit her hard. Naruko, not expecting to get hit, gasped in pain as the heavy piece of wood slammed into her soft belly. She stumbled back, grabbing her stomach to lessen the pain, and Fukuro, Satomi, and Takako raced to try and touch her first.

When she recovered, her eyes widened as she saw them coming at her, and instead of easily shunshining out of the way, she just stood there, for they deserved it for using teamwork along with their creativity of their skills. Naruko smiled as they tagged her on the shoulder, signaling the end of the test. She said proudly, "Now that you guys know how to work well with each other and have passed the test with flying colors, I'll give you a little reward. This right here is chakra paper." She held out a couple slips of paper. "These slips of paper will determine what elemental natures you guys have, and based on that, we can get started on your elemental jutsus."

The team's eyes widened in surprise before they smiled, eager to find out what element affinity they had. She gave each member a piece of chakra paper, and said, "Now push your chakra into the paper." When they did that, Satomi's burned to ashes, Fukuro's got wrinkled, and Takako's turned soggy. Naruko then smiled and said, "Satomi, you have fire, Fukuro has lightning, and Takako has water." Then Fukuro asked, "Naruko-sensei, what affinities do you have?"

She grinned a little and said, "I have a major affinity in wind, and lesser affinities in fire and lightning, with a minor affinity in water." They looked at her in awe and a little jealousy. She then said, "Don't worry, I got pretty lucky to get so many elements. However, since I have so many elements, it took me a while to master all of them." They then nodded in understanding. "However, it is getting late, so I'll see you guys tomorrow, and we'll work on elemental jutsus first thing, ok?" They nodded and went home.

After that, Naruko herself went home and sorted out a couple jutsus for each of her genin. After that, she ate a quick dinner, showered, and went to sleep.