After a nice breakfast of eggs, bacon, and toast slathered in butter and honey- Naru found herself being led through the village with the elder's hand gently resting on the nape of her neck, just under her hair.
The press of his hand silently urging her to continue forward even though all she wanted to do was dig in her heels and grab him by his beard and throw him into the nearest building they happened to be passing.
Gad this was embarrassing!
And to make things worse, the closer they got to the center of the village where the school was located, the more people they ran into. Parents, the elder explained, of the children that would be her classmates and friends. And the more they ran into the strange creatures known as 'parents' the more she got peculiar looks from everyone who came over to greet the elder before they tried to talk to her, only to be startled away by her unsociable behavior.
Finally the elder stopped and grabbed the back of her jacket in his fist to keep her from continuing onward and mowing down several taller kids in front of her as two adults, both young men with papers in their hands looked at each other and subtly nodded their heads before an almost painfully loud sound startled Naru into quickly clapping her hands over her ears, and letting out a pained hiss which earned her some funny looks from one or two of the kids in front of her. As one of the men- A tall guy with long dark brown hair pulled up into a ponytail and a scar across the bridge of his nose said in a loud enough tone to be heard over the faint whispers and mutters of the group.
"Alright kids, my name is Iruka. And this guy next to me is Mizuki. And when we call your names, come forward and make a little group off to the side. That group will consist of your class. You will stay with them, quietly and without complaint until all of the other classes are sorted and the sensei's of those classes have come to get them. Then we will go inside and start our first day by getting to know one another. Are there any questions?"
Naru's hand shot up in the air almost automatically, drawing Iruka's dark eyes to her for a moment as she glanced over at her arm with a small frown on her face a moment before the elder pushed her arm down and smiled at the younger man, pretty much asking him to continue.
Naru took the next few minutes to look around her at all the kids and adults, at the buildings, the playground. She counted the windows and doors within her sight and before she knew it her name was being called.
Dark eyes swept the small crowd of little faces, waiting for a response as the elder knelt down and softly told her to go on and join the other kids. Earning a death glare from her.
Oh hell no. He was not just dropping her off and walking away like it was no big deal. Naru thought as she swiped at his hand with her own and made a low, feral growling sound. She didn't deal well with strangers dammit! As the elder should know from their first encounter. When she had tried to rip off his head...
She and strangers just didn't mix.
"Naru Uzumaki?" The man's voice called out again. The elder sighed and put his hand up in the air then replied for her,
"Here. He's right here..."
"I see. Well, can he come up here and get into place?"
The elder glanced down at her for a moment and saw the murderous look on her face. Oh dear, he thought as he tried to nudge her forward with the back of his hand only to find her feet firmly planted. And unless he was mistaken... Was she using her chakra to root her in place?
Now when and where had she learned such an advanced technique? He wondered before giving Iruka an awkward smile as he none too gently grabbed Naru up and tossed her over his shoulder hissing and spitting like a large cat and walked up front to where Iruka was- his expression a combination of comical horror and just outright horror- and set Naru down on her feet again in front of her teacher then stepped back as Iruka knelt down to see his student a little better as Naru pushed her hair out of her face and glared right at the man.
Iruka held his breath for a moment upon seeing Naru's little face. Good god someone must have made a mistake with the paper work he held! The child he was looking at in no way shape form or fashion looked like a male. Instead Naru looked like a- a well, girl. An impish and almost pixie like girl, sure, but a girl never the less.
And oh she looked so mad.
In fact he'd safely bet that if he were too stick his hand out to ruffle her silken hair- that he'd pull back a bloody stump where his hand had used to be.
Still, for some reason he felt his palms itch to try. So giving the child his most charming smile he said, "Well, well, I've always thought that there were pixies living among us but who would think they would become so careless as to leave one of their offspring to be raised among humans." He gently placed his hand on Naru's head and got a startled look on his face when tiny hands reached out and grabbed his vest and with a fierce and loud growl the child somehow managed to toss him several feet into the air.
Leaving him the only option of twisting around in mid air then deftly landing several feet away from the child as she was put in a headlock by the Hokage who was blabbering on and on about how she had obviously been raised by wolves or something in an effort to calm Iruka. Obviously thinking that he was upset by being thrown when in fact he felt the exact the opposite.
He wasn't upset. He was in awe that such a small, waif-like body had managed to strong arm him and throw him into the air like that when he weighed a good two hundred and ten pounds where as Naru probably didn't weigh more than sixty...when wet.
"I-I'm so sorry Iruka-san." The hokage continued on as Iruka waved off his apology and glanced at the child hanging complacent in his grip. Finding it odd that she wasn't trying to throw the elder like she had thrown him.
"That's alright Hokage-sama. I've heard that pixies were particularly vicious in their pranks. Still I must say, I've never been thrown by one so young..." Iruka said with a thoughtful undertone to his words as he picked up his papers and like he had with several other names before, put a red mark next to it.
The only difference between Naru's name and everyone else's was a little red heart.
