Authors Note: Had to help out my coworkers in the workshop this week. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind helping them, but my whole body is sore now. My right hand partially useless (lost an argument with a machine - three flesh wounds, one probably infected, maybe a blood poisoning) and I totally lost a lot of writing time. So to finish this chapter I'm using the time this Saturday morning I usually use for corrections. Just because I'm happy that you are reading my story and I want to try giving you a chapter every weekend - but no promises on that one.
So, I guess you figured it already, but I'm trying to lead Hinata into her slave status really slowly. I think I wrote it already, but I want to repeat it again: They are just two young girls right now of 9 and 7 years. It might be mean from me to confront her with this topic in that way, but she will grow into it. I already have something planned for the close future (maybe in chapter 7 or 8 or so - I should totally check the date of her birthday).
Lastly something different and totally random: I'm not planning to overpower any character. Why am I writing that? Cause I read some fictions lately were Naruto was totally overpowered, like unlocking the Rinnegan as child or having multiple Kekkai Genkai and so on. Sure, you can still write good stories with that, the ones I'm reading are. But I'm not planning to walk in that direction.
Hanabi's let's call it "rare mutation" of her Byakugan is the only thing I've planned so far - and it's not really that big of an advantage in my opinion. It can confuse the enemy as best if she is fighting with closed eyes in the future. But I'm thinking of coming up with some self created jutsu. Haku will totally get one - one I'm unsure why nobody thought about it before (or at least haven't I seen it yet), even so it's just logical in some way. But I'm getting ahead of myself, am still far away from Haku right now.
Hope you enjoy this chapter. I'm personally not completely happy with it. It turned out shorter due to the reduced writing time and my mind was also slightly effected by the soreness my body is feeling. Please don't punish me for that, will ya?
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A Tale of two Sisters – Chapter 5: Payback
Hinata felt quite uncomfortable. Two days ago was her first day at the Academy and she was wearing her big brown jacket to hide her body. One day ago was she out without her jacket and felt embarassed by that. But today? She totally wanted to hide herself in her room and never come back out again.
"Why do I have to wear these kind of things, Hanabi?" Hinata asked quietly, watching herself in her mirror. She was wearing a tight black shirt that showed her for this age well developed upper body and a long purplish skirt that at least reached down to her ankles, but would reveal some skin from time to time, depending on her movements. Not to mention the worst case scenario a skirt can produce.
"Why? Because we want to get the boys back for what they did to you and Naruto, remember? And this outfit is part of our plan, on which you agreed, sis. Besides, I think you look good with these clothes!" Hanabi smiled at her sister, herself wearing an every day outfit with simple pants and a t-shirt. She could't help but being amused by her sisters reaction to her outfit.
"But... it's so embarassing..." Hinata complained. "What if they will see? I... couldn't stand that..." she mumbled to herself, putting a grin on Hanabi's face.
"Yeah, sure. But you wouldn't mind if it was Naruto getting a peek at your underwear, right sis?" her grin got even wider while her sisters face turned crimson red.
"Uhm... no..." Hinata shook her head before letting it hang in defeat. There was no way she could win this argument with Hanabi and she knew that. Her feelings toward Naruto were absolutely clear and she would basicly do everything for him, if she had the courage to tell him about her feelings at all. And it wasn't really helping her, that Hanabi liked to tease her about it.
"Maybe we should ask him to join us the next time when we are going to buy new one. Isn't that a great idea?" Hanabi was hardly able to hold her laughter inside when Hinata first turned even redder before paling white at the thought of buying underwear together with a boy, even if it would be Naruto.
"ENOUGH!" Hinata suddenly shouted out, surprising her sister with this outburst. "Will you please stop with this teasing and joking? I know well enough that it's no good if I'm not telling him of my feelings, okay? But it's no good either if you are constantly bring this topic up combined with all your teasing. How shall I ever get a step forward if you are holding me back?!" she was looking at her younger sister angrily, her breath at high speed because of this outburst of rage.
"Sis... you..." Hanabi was still shocked by what just happened. "That's the first time you talked back to me. I think... you are improving pretty well." she smiled a little. "I'll stop teasing you if you remember what you just did, okay? That was a huge step away from your shyness, you know?" the grin got back to Hanabi's face.
Hinata blinked her eyes a few times, before calming down. "You... you are right. I... defended myself. Was that the reason why you were teasing me all the time?" she might have just learned something about her little sister. She is trying to help in her own ways, even if it isn't clear to someone.
"We should go and get breakfast, sis. Common!" Hanabi avoided the question and turned to leave her sisters room. "After all, we have some things to do before going to the Academy today. We don't want to loose too much time here, right?"
Once in the kitchen did the next surprising thing happen. Something both girls never expected to see. Their father was in the kitchen when they entered and the first thing they realized was that his jaw was opened and his eyes focused on Hinata in shock. It took them a whole minute to somehow get him out of this state and to get his attention.
"Hinata... that's... the first time I'm seeing you dressed like that. That's unexpected, but I think it suits you." Hiashi said, still looking at his older daughter in slight shock. Hanabi couldn't help but to giggle, while Hinata bashfully smiled at her father.
"It's... just because of... a... situation. Yes, a situation." Hinata nodded to herself. "Don't get used to it, father." her face turned slightly red again and she was sure that she would be blushing even more this day. After both girls sat down to get some breakfast did their father speak up again.
"Okay, I see. Anyway, I heard what you two did yesterday..." both girls looked at their father in slight fear, not knowing what would happen next. Was he upset that they went into the forest? That they nearly got killed? Or would he be impressed that they brought back critical information that was stolen by enemy shinobi?
"... and I got told by Hokage-sama to hand you these paychecks. He said he will add a C-rank mission to your records for that and is even paying you for one as well." he hid his own feelings about this matter like a professional and handed the paychecks to his daughters who simply watched dumb struck back at him.
"A C-rank mission? But... I thought missions won't be given out before someone became Genin?" Hanabi asked confused, expecting everything from her father but not this. "Not that I want to complain though..." she took her paycheck and checked the amount, getting wide eyes.
"Hokage-same explained it as if he would have sent a team to retrieve the information you brought back would it have been a C-rank mission. And while you weren't able to fight back against the shinobi did you at least show that you were having a plan, by scanning the surroundings, getting away from the danger and contacting someone for help. You had a tactic and it mostly worked. That impressed Hokage-sama." Hiashi explained, watching the expressions of his daughters, which varied from surprise to pride and fear.
"It was Hanabi who made the plan, father." Hinata said, also taking her paycheck and putting it away without checking the amount. She could do that later.
"I thought as much..." Hiashi sighed. "It always seemed like she was more talented then you, Hinata. One of the reasons why she also entered Academy this year. But from what I was told did you work good as a team and that is something I'm accepting. And I would be really surprised if the Uzumaki brat would have come up with such a plan."
The expressions of both girls changed slightly, showing that they aren't too happy how her father named Naruto just now. "Speaking of, Hokage-sama want you to give him that. He is getting a C-rank paycheck for yesterday as well." He handed the third paycheck to Hanabi who took it away.
"You have no reason to call Naruto-kun by such a name, father. As far as I know hasn't he pranked the Hyuga at all and it isn't his fault that the village is hating him. Also, he's our friend and as such should our father also recognize him." Hanabi was watching her father with slight anger in her expression while Hinata nodded on that statement. She just wouldn't voice her opinion against her father, but she stood behind Hanabi's statement.
Hiashi sighed again and nodded slowly. "I appologize. Yes, I heard that he is your friend last night as well. He was just a brat in my eyes and still is. Please don't expect me to change my view on him over night." realizing that his daughters weren't satisfied with his explanation yet did he continue. "Okay, I'm not having any grudge against him. And I agree that his treatment by the villagers is plain wrong. But I can't do anything against that. You might be able to understand that once you are older."
Still getting angry looks from his daughters was he uickly chaging topic and getting up from the table. "See, I got an important meeting I need to attend. Have a pleasent day at school." and with that was Hiashi gone, leaving his daughters alone in the kitchen.
"You think we should tell Naruto what father just told us?" Hanabi asked.
"I'm not sure... it wasn't much information at all. But we can tell him the thing about yesterday and give him his paycheck." Hinata smiled at Hanabi who nodded, before both finished their breakfast and left home. After all did they have a plan to work through before going to the Academy this day.
An alley in Konoha
Naruto was waiting for the girls for some minutes now and he got restless. They had a small time window to pull off the plan and the girls were late already. He was thinking about contacting them via the radio earpieces, when they finally showed up. They decided to leave the communication to a minimum, cause they were expecting the white haird Jonin, Kakashi if they remembered correctly, to listen to them. After all was he having the fourth earpiece and he knew they were planning something. That and he showed interest in Naruto at all.
"What took you so long? You are late and we are nearly out of time for the preparations." he looked at the approaching girls and went silent when he saw the outfit Hinata was dressed with. "Wow... Hinata-chan... you look beautiful."
She blushed and put her fingers together. "Uhm... thank you, Naruto-kun..." Hinata wasn't sure how to react or what to say. But that Naruto liked her look would help her to get through the day wearing this outfit.
Hanabi rolled her eyes before speaking up. "We are on the clock here, remember? Oh, but before..." she pulled the paycheck for Naruto out of her pocket and handed it over. "This is from Hokage-sama. He's paying all of us a C-rank mission for yesterday. That's yours."
"Hey, that's awesome! Tell me the details later, okay?" Naruto grinned widely. "But for now do we have a prank to pull through. I've prepared what we need." he stepped aside to reveal a school bag that looked just like the one Hinata was using. "I've put some surprises inside. If the gang will react the way we expect them to, they will soon be our victims. Hinata, you remember what you need to do?"
"Yes... it's embarassing, but... I'll do my part. They've done enough things to us and it's time that they get something in return." Hinata still had some doubts if she could do her part, but she was determined and made up her mind to complete it.
"Good. And I will check the whole surroundings. Keep an eye on our targets and check for any problems. If I see something will I contact you via radio. But only use them in emergencies. I'm sure the spooky white hair guy will be listening. I guess he won't interfere, but we should play it save and don't give him too much to listen." Hanabi said, getting nods from the other two.
"Do we have any plan if this one fails?" Hinata asked, not wanting to do the things she is going to do for nothing.
"Well... kinda..." Naruto scratched the back of his head. "Plan B is simply me running by them and throwing stuff at them. You know, like paint and water bombs and stuff." he shrugged. "But I'm sure that it will work just fine."
"We talked enough. They should be on their way and we should be going as well." Hanabi said, waving goodbye for the moment and heading to her observation point, which in fact was just a bench at the side of the park where she sat down and closed her eyes. She was quite happy about the fact that she could use her Byakugan with closed eyes and with that not everybody noticing it.
'Okay, let's see. There is Hinata, waiting for the boys. Naruto is... over there, good. He does have a good view and a short enough distance to help Hinata if something goes wrong. But where are the boys? Are we too late? Did they go earlier today? Or are they... ah, there they are. They are kinda late as well.' Hanabi thought to herself, oberserving everything she need to check.
"Shouldn't you be on your way to the Academy?" a voice suddenly said beside her, startling her a little, but she quickly relaxed after checking her own location without opening her eyes at all.
"Well, I'm sure I will be there on time. And you? Nothing better to do then scare children, spooky white hair guy?" Hanabi replied, focusing back on the target area. Her quick check of her surroundings had shown that it was Kakashi standing next to her, not really paying any attention to her and reading inside his book.
Kakashi replied without stopping to read. "I was just curious what you three were going to do. I figured it might be before the Academy starts. But since you haven't communicated yet, well, I just wanted to see for myself."
Hanabi couldn't help but smile. "We figured you would be listening into our conversations, so we decided to keep it down to an absolute minimum. But if you wanted to see us in action are you at the wrong place. I'm just observing, you know?"
'The way she is talking to me is impressive. I'm basicly a stranger to her but it's like she figured out my intentions already. Only seven years old but smart indeed. You got a fine daughter, Hiashi.' Kakashi thought to himself before answering. "Well, I'm sure Iruka will tell me the details. And your reactions will tell me if your plan worked or not. I think I'm at the right place."
"I see. And it's totally random that Cat-san is observing the same area in which we are operating, right?" Hanabi grinned slightly. The ANBU was good at hiding, but her eyes still managed to find her pretty quickly.
"Huh? Cat-san? I don't know what you are talking about." Kakashi answered without emotions, wondering how good Hanabi really is. After he and Cat left the office of the Hokage last night did he ask her to have an eye on Naruto and the girls this day, because of the things that happened and the payback they wanted to deliver.
"Right. You sure don't." Hanabi was still grinning with her eyes close, before activating the earpiece. "They are coming your way, just as planned. Go get them, sis. And as expected do we have an audience. Put on a good show, will ya?" she could hear a frown from Naruto as response and saw that her sister was slightly nodding since she knew that Hanabi would see that.
Hinata was waiting behind a corner at the street the three boys were walking at toward the Academy. 'I really hope I can do that. It's embarassing, but I won't let Naruto-kun and Hanabi down.' she activated her Byakugan for a short time to see the distance between her and the boys, before finally deciding to take action.
The boys were close to the corner when Hinata came running around it. She turned in the same direction the boys headed, giving the image that she was on her way to the Academy as well but in a hurry. But all she managed to do was two steps forward, before tripping over her own feet and falling forward onto the ground. 'Please let them not have seen anything.' she thought to herself and slightly blushed, trying to get herself back up from the ground.
The leader of the gang was already at her side, kneeling next to her and pushing Hinata back down to the ground with his hand on her back. "Well, what do we have here? If it isn't the shy Hyuga. Reminds me so much on four years ago. Too bad we were interrupted back then." he brought his face close to her ear before whispering. "Oh, cute underwear, by the way. It was nice of you to show us." he grinned and his two friends laughed at this comment.
'They really saw it... it's so... embarassing...' Hinata thought to herself and her blush increased to crimson red. She tried to struggle free but was firmly held in place.
"Too bad there are so many people around us. Well, guess it's time for us to go. See you at class!" the leader grinned and got down from Hinata, catching her school bag while getting up and left with his friends.
Once they were out of sight was Naruto at Hinata's side helping her up. "You okay, Hinata-chan? They haven't done anything to you, right?" he asked concerned, seeing her crimson face.
She slowly shook her head and hugged Naruto. "I'm fine. It's just... they saw..." she whispered, not realising that she actually hugged Naruto. While she wasn't fainting for months now in his presence and her stutter was only there if she felt strong emotions were body contact something she still had problems with when it came to Naruto. But in this situation was she fine however.
"Saw what?" Naruto asked, not really knowing what Hinata meant. "Well, doesn't matter I guess. We should be going to the Academy now. Don't want to be late, right?" he let go of Hinata who nodded at him, both walking towards the Academy.
Five minutes later did the radio activate again and Hanabi was talking "Mission complete. Can't wait to see the results. See ya at class." Both Hinata and Naruto were smiling. They couldn't wait to see the results as well.
"You happy now, spooky white hair guy? Well, I'm off toward the Academy, if you'll excuse me." Hanabi was opening her eyes and getting up from the bench, noticing that Kakashi wasn't there anymore. 'Did he leave while I was deactivating my Byakugan? What a strange fellow. Well, anyway, I should get going.'
Kakashi sat atop a roof together with Cat, watching Hanabi go. "These kids are impressive. That's for lending me a hand today, Cat. She did see you, by the way." Kakashi handed her a bottle of sake for sacrificing some of her time.
"I thought as much. Anyway, I've gotta go, Kakashi. Til next time!" she gave him a wave and was gone while Kakashi continued reading his book, like nothing happened at all.
At the Academy
Ino was talking to Sakura this morning. The topics were the same as always, meaning Sasuke on Sakura's site and the Hyuga sisters and Naruto on Ino's site.
"I tell you, Sasuke is cooler, stronger and better in any way than Naruto. He's the best in our class and will become the greatest shinobi ever!" Sakura proudly exclaimed. She had totally fallen for the black haird boy who always kept to himself.
"Yeah, and he isn't intrested in you or any other girl, if you might have noticed. Naruto is kind and lively and he cares for his friends. Also..." Ino stopped mid-sentence and fell silent, her jaw dropped.
"Huh? Ino-pig? You still with me?" Sakura asked, waving her hand in front of Ino's eyes. Ino still didn't answered and simply pointed toward the door to the classroom and Sakura looked in this direction, her jaw dropping as well.
Basicly the whole class went silent and looked towards the door, where Hinata and Naruto just entered. There were a few things differently compared to what they would expect. The first thing was that Hinata was entering with Naruto and not her sister. Academy just started two days ago, but Hinata was always seen with her sister outside so that's the thing the other students would expect.
The second thing was the fact that Naruto was totally calm. No grin on his face, no loud speaking, even his energetic aura that usually seems to surround him was missing. Some students inside the classroom got a shiver down their spine by that realisation, cause this can't be anything good at all.
The one thing however that shocked the whole class was the outfit Hinata was wearing. Even the children who knew her for a bit longer by now never saw her wearing something like that. She usually wore a big jacket to hide her body paired with a sort of baggy pants to keep everything kinda hidden. The tight black shirt and long purplish skirt were totally out of place with Hinata. Though the boys in the class had to admit that the look was nice and the girls kinda got jealous of her well developed body for her age.
Hinata blushed at the attention but got quickly distracted by Naruto who gave her a reassuring smile and led her to her desk. Once Hinata sat down was the class slowly awakening from their shock and continued their conversations. Ino quickly got over and sat down on her place, starting a conversation with Hinata.
"Hinata-chan, you look beautiful. Why have I never seen you wearing something like that? Oh, let me guess, you and Naruto are having a date after class, right?" Ino wasn't know as gossip queen for nothing and started asking several things at once.
"Don't ask for everything at once. You'll confuse me..." Hinata answered, trying to get some distance between herself and Ino. "And I can't answer your questions. We agreed to not tell anyone before a certain event happens." she smiled slightly at Ino, who gave her a confused look.
"What? What kind of event shall happen? I don't get it. Are you having a secret together with Naruto? Common Hinata-chan, tell me. We are friends, right?" Ino got desperate, she so wanted to know. That would make good gossip for sure.
"Stop bothering my sister, Ino. She won't tell you. But if you need to know, the event will happen in a few minutes, that I'm sure of." Ino looked up to see a grinning Hanabi who just arrived, being even more confused now. Hanabi sat down on her place, still grinning. "Just wait some minutes and keep your eyes on the door. You don't want to miss that, I'm sure. And knowing you..." she couldn't finish her sentence because the door opened and Ino couldn't help but to shout out in shock.
"Forehead! Since when do you have siblings?!" the whole class turned their heads towards Ino who was loud enough to be heard outside the building.
"What are you talking about, Ino-pig? I don't have siblings at all..." her voice went off-track when she realized what Ino was referring to. Her eyes were fixed on the three figures that had just entered the classroom. By the stature of them were it three boys. By their looks however was it hard to tell. All three of them were covered from head to toe in pink paint and they had very pissed looks on their faces.
The whole classroom was silent, looking at the three pink coloured boys. It took a few moments before the first one started laughing loudly, it was Kiba. "Oh my god, that's hilarious. Hey, Naruto, that's your doing, right?" Kiba was holding his stomach because of all his laughing. He didn't liked this boy gang much and this sight was just something.
"Hmm? I don't know what you are talking about, Kiba." Naruto answered calm and innocent, not even flinching. Suddenly some of his classmates understood why he was so calm this morning. They simply put one and one together. Naruto was absent the day before on which they received the information that he was in danger. Today was he attending class like nothing happened before the boy gang appeared coloured pink completely. So the boys sent Naruto to whereever he was yesterday and got payback for that.
"YOU! That's all your fault!" the leader of the gang approached Hinata angrily, ready to strike her. "You tricked us and you'll pay for that!"
Kiba looked confused between Naruto and Hinata, just like Ino did. She thought as well that must have been Naruto's work. Hinata was way too shy to pull something like that, or even any prank at all.
Hinata flinched and tried to cover herself for the upcomming punch, but it never connected. Hanabi jumped up in order to block the punch for her sister and catched the wrist of the boy. "What? You think that my shy sister is responsible for your situation? Do you know how long I needed to talk her into wearing this outfit? She is way too kind for this world and won't harm anyone. Besides, do you think it was correct to threaten her after she tripped and fell to the ground? You even stole her school bag! Honestly, you deserve the way you look right now!"
Hanabi was shouting angrily at the boy who in return entered a rage, trying now to hit her instead of Hinata. "Oh, I get it now. It was you who pulled this prank on us. In that case will I teach you a lesson to not mess with us!" he tried to punch her with his other fist but got blocked by her again. She was now holding both his wrists.
"A lesson to not mess with you? I could say the same. It were you who tried sending Naruto to his death and if it weren't for us would he be surely dead! Hell, we all nearly died, you know?" Hanabi was entering a rage not even Hinata knew she could reach. The class was silent, listening to the exchange. Did some classmates nearly died because of other classmates of them? "Do you know how painful a fire style jutsu can be? The doctor said my arm will be scarred forever from that attack!"
Ino sitting closest to Hanabi just now realized by her words that there was indeed a scar across her right arm, where the fire style jutsu hit her the day before. She started shivering and held back her tears. Sure, she got the same information as everyone else yesterday about the dangerous situation her friends were in, but seeing this scar now hit her hard. She could have lost her closest friends.
"I should hurt you the same as I had to suffer because of you!" Hanabi still shouted at the boy leader, activating her Byakugan in order to see where to hit him to inflict maximum pain. However, she wasn't able to finish her attack, cause now it was her turn to be blocked.
While the whole class watched the scene with worry did their teacher Iruka arrive and seeing what was happening decided to interfere. "That's enough, both of you! Calm down and take your seats. NOW!" he shouted angrily and all hostilities died down right away. They just learned that their teacher could be really scary, if he wanted to.
After all of them took their seats, some of them still angry at each other and three of them still covered in pink paint, did Iruka speak up. "Listen up. I got all informations regarding the events yesterday and also what happened this morning. There will be consequences for all who are involved." Ino and Hinata comforted Hanabi who still was enraged, trying to breath deeply.
Some of their classmates were intrested in the details of the events and hoped that Iruka would tell some of them. They knew the rumours about Naruto and how the village was treating him but most didn't knew how much of that were true. But after what happened the day before they started thinking on their own. Academy just started and Naruto was in their class, they couldn't help but to build their own opinions about him and his actions now.
"First of all, Naruto, Hanabi, Hinata, you three will appear at detention for a whole week for skipping class yesterday. I am aware of the circumstances, but you still skiped class and I won't want that to happen again." Iruka started with addressing the easy part of his punishments.
Hinata simply nodded, accepting this without complaining. She still was too shy to talk back at her teacher at all. Naruto frowned mumbling something that sounded like "I knew that would happen..." but kept quiet beside of that.
Hanabi however, still in rage, spoke up. "That's not fair sensei. They were the reason that we weren't here and we nearly died!" She stood up, putting her hands on her table for support, glaring at Iruka.
"While your argument is legit and these boys baited Naruto to the battlefield, did all three of you still skip class. You could have decided to go there once Academy was over." Iruka calmly explained, waiting for Hanabi's reaction to this information. She wanted to reply something before paling, realizing that Iruka was right. She quietly sat down again, letting her head hang.
"Now that this matter is dealt with, do I want to congratulate you three on completing your first C-rank mission. You are the first to ever complete a mission while still in Academy, and then a C-rank nonetheless. I'm very impressed."
"WHAT?" Kiba shouted out loud, pointing at Naruto. "You mean this idiot got a C-rank record for skipping class? No way! That's not fair at all." He was totally upset by that information and several other students stated a similiar opinion.
"Troublesome..." it was Shikamaru. "Now will we be compared to them the whole time in the Academy. What a drag..." Ino heard his statement and chuckled to herself. Now that was intresting gossip to spread.
"If you would all please calm down. I'll tell you why this was decided by Hokage-sama. The first reason is that they worked well together as a team and confronted enemy shinobi. They didn't went there blindly but kept an eye on their surroundings the whole time, spotted the enemy and managed to confuse them to get away. While they were hunted did they still manage to inform a Jonin of the situation we could clear the area of all threats."
The class listened carefully. Some with awe, some with disintrest, some in rage. "That's bullshit. They are just Academy students who simply fled!" it was the leader of the gang who got evil glares for that statement, shrinking down in his seat.
"I'll attend to your punishment soon, so please just wait." Iruka said before sighing. "Uhm, where did I got interrupted? Right. The second reason is that they retrieved two sets of critical information for our village. If it weren't for them would we be facing a massive threat now and an unknown enemy, which we are at least aware of now because of them."
"Uhm... two sets of critical informations?" Hanabi raised her voice. "But we only brought back the kunai with the information attached. There wasn't any more..." she clearly was confused and both Naruto and Hinata nodded to that.
"I assume they learned something about the shinobi you were facing after examining their bodys, am I right?" A boy with short black hair, black glasses and a trenchcoat spoke. He usually was one of the quieter boys in class, only speaking if necessary but then talking his thoughts right away. A good observer and able to build pretty accurate conclusions.
"Yes, you are right, Shino. While the details are classified is this what happened. Hokage-sama is thankful for all these informations and their deeds to the village and that's why he decided to give these Academy students the C-rank record already." Iruka smiled, he had indeed an intresting class this time. So many promising children with so many different abilities. It might become the best generation of shinobi the village ever had.
Iruka laid his eyes on the three pink coloured boys who shrunk in their seats, fearing what might come now. "Now for you three. I am allowed to speak any kind of punishment that I see fit for what happened. And I already decided on it as well." he spoke firmly and the three boys shivered by his calmness. "You will be banned from Academy for thee whole years. You have proven that you are mentally not ready to become ninja by willingly sending a comrade to his death. Now pick up your stuff and get out of my classroom at once!"
The whole class was shocked. The kindness of their teacher disappeared completely and he was dead serious right now. They learned a valueable lesson this day. Even the kindest person can reach a point at which you don't want to be around them anymore cause they will have had enough. They saw it just minutes ago when the usually happy Hanabi got enraged and they saw it again just now, when the kind Iruka turned deadly serious, releasing an aura that promised nothing good at all.
While the three boys were leaving the classroom did Iruka address them one last time. "I wouldn't bother to wash the paint of. It's a pretty resistent one." he smiled at his class as soon as the door was closed again, returning to his kind self. "Naruto, nice work with the paint bomb inside the bag. It seems you are talented with traps, we will try to improve that during the next three years."
Naruto's jaw dropped and he watched his teacher in disbelief. "H-how can you... know that I created it?" Kiba and Ino grinned. They knew it must have been Naruto.
"I think I already said that I'm fully informed about the events that took place. Plus you used this kind of paint in previous pranks already. Oh, I nearly forgot. Hanabi, I shall give you regards from Cat. She said she was impressed that you found her." Hanabi smiled slightly and nodded. "So, now to start class. Today I want to talk about chakra. What is it, how does it work, why do we need it." half of the class frowned cause they learned these things already from their families. The other half listened intresting to what their teacher had to say.
Two sisters weren't listening and thought about their future together and the situation they were in while one blond haird boy completely paid attention to his new teacher. There was finally someone willing to teach him something...