Chapter 4
On the day of the exam Luna sat beside the window near the back of the class room, trying to think through the dream, no nightmare, she had the night before. A strong chakra signal stopped beside her. Turning around she found none other than her most favourite person to annoy, the Duckbutt himself, Sasuke Uchiha. He had finally managed to get most of the extensions out, and all of the hair dye. Sighing, she glared at the boy.
"What do you want Duckbutt?" Sasuke glared right back at her.
"You're in my seat she-devil."
"What about it."
"Move." Luna smirked, leaned back and put her feet on the desk. Some guys got major nosebleeds when they looked up to see what all the noise was about. Luna was wearing a tight red shirt, and a black skirt, no shorts. (think Tifa from Final fantasy)
"No. I got here first and I see no name. Now go away loser." If looks could kill Luna would have died ten times over, however she just shrugged it off. Soon afterwards more students walked in. Kiba, Shino and Hinata saw where Luna was sitting and that the normal owner of that seat was glaring daggers at her back from the next row up.
"Hey Luna! Why are you sitting here?" Kiba shouted.
"Doesn't the raven usually sit here?" Shino added. Luna looked up at her friends
"Yeah, but I was faster today." Hinata sat beside Luna.
"So I guess that mean we can sit here then?" Luna had made Hinata loose her stutter in the few weeks she had known her, though it usually came back full force when she was around her father or was nervous. Luna just shrugged as a reply. The group groaned when a loud shriek announce the arrival of Sasuke's head fan girls, who quickly spotted Luna, Kiba, Shino and Hinata sitting where their beloved Sasuke normally sat.
"Oi! She-devil, dog breath, fretard (1) Move it! That's Sasuke-kun's seat." Luna glared at Ino and Sakura. She cleared out her ear with her pinkie before answering. The girls took an involuntary step backwards as her look darkened and at her dark tone.
"No. We're perfectly fine where we are, now leave us." The girls while terrified out of their wits stayed put.
"Why should we?" Sakura put her hands on her hips. Personally she had enough of this girl, walking in and thinking she owned the place, and then there was the way she treated Sasuke-kun. Luna slowly stood and glared at them, daring them to challenge her. She had been a little annoyed lately and was looking for an excuse to fight. Her hair seemed to move on its own, and her eyes seemed to glow darkly as she thought up ways to remove the parasites from her presence. Sakura froze as she saw the look in the dark haired girl's eyes. 'oh god why did I even argue? I swear she must be the spawn of the devil.' Sakura pushed Ino away, and the girls narrowly escaped Luna's wrath. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, as much as he hated her; he was impressed by her performance. 'She's good.'
"You really can be scary at times." Kiba shivered. Luna leaned her rear against the desk, her expression changing immediately to sweetly smiling as Naruto walked past.
"I know."
xXx
First they had the written exam; Luna was bored out of her brains, then the exam which tested their aim, that was boring as well. After a while Luna was called in for her ninjutsu exam. 'About bloody time.' Walking into the room she immediately spotted Iruka, who smiled weakly at her. Then she saw the other guy. Silver hair tied down by a bandana, and a strange look in his eyes.
"You must be Luna, my name is Mizuki. Now Iruka tells me you're pretty good, however we can't expect too much from you as you have only been here for a few weeks. But do your best, and please create 3 clones."
"I don't see why, other ninja can easily tell if it's an illusion or not. But if you say so." Luna said with a shrug. Within the depths of her mind she was choking the instructor with his bandana, among other things, while laughing insanely. She pushed away those thoughts for later, and channelled her chakra. She felt like showing off, probably not a good idea...but he was pissing her off. Forming the required seals, 6 perfect clones appeared within the black smoke that appeared. Three turned to Luna and they started some simple taijutsu exercises. The remaining three flashed through commonly known seals and small flames shot out of their mouths. When the flames dissipated the clones lined up, bowed and were released. Mizuki stared at the girl in front of him. 'My master could use her...' Mizuki shook his head to continue with the exam.
"Very good, now substitution." Luna rolled her eyes. Yet again Konoha shows how lame they were.
"You ninja should learn to pay attention more to your surroundings, but I suppose it is useful." She easily switched herself with a still surprised Iruka.
"Anything else?"
"Oh just one more, the henge." Luna sighed and shook her head.
"Once again stupid. You'd be amazed how far a little make-up and a wig will get you, and guess what? No chakra." She calmly and swiftly went through some sealed and with a poof Iruka was standing before them, another poof and the Hokage himself, one last poof and the two chunins nearly fell out of their seats. The Yondaime himself. Luna spoke, her voice easily matching that of the dead kage.
"Simple, see?" Luna let go the henge and leaned against a table. After a painful silence Mizuki spoke.
"What else can you do child?" Luna glared full out at him.
"My name is Luna and I'm 15. Those idiots back there are children." 'Except my friends.' She added to herself.
"I am fully aware of that."
"Then talk to me as if I was 15 not 5." Luna raised the intensity of her glare. She smirked when Mizuki whimpered and shrunk back in his seat.
"I can tree-climb and water walk with a little difficulty; and I only know one jutsu, a katon. I was taught simple taijutsu by my mentor, and he also taught me how to use a variety of weapons...ah also..." Luna smirked and disappeared. The men looked around searching for the highly skilled student, the strange black smoke left behind fading away into nothing.
"Looking for me hot shot?" Mizuki jumped when her hot breath whispered past his ear and shrieked like a little girl. Luna chuckled darkly as she moved towards the door, swaying her hips seductively. She collected her headband from Iruka before turning for the door; she managed to grab the only black one. Mizuki's strained voice made her pause.
"H-how...who's you're mentor?" he croaked. Luna didn't turn around.
"Ask Iruka, he's seen my taijutsu enough. I'm sure you'll figure it out, it's not that hard." With that she walked out the door. Iruka and Mizuki were left alone, shocked how talented someone who should know almost no ninja arts could be.
xXx
On the other side Kiba was trying to listen in on Luna's exam. His had one ear and all of his weight right up against the door. He knew he couldn't, but that didn't mean he couldn't try. When Luna opened the door, Kiba wasn't ready and fell forward and into Luna, well into her chest. Both Kiba and Luna went red and stared at each other.
Luna managed to come to her senses and pushed Kiba away roughly.
"Kiba-kun!" Hinata gasped, as red as them. Luna tried to glare at Kiba but her embarrassment weakened the effect.
"If you ever do that again Inuzuka, I will castrate not only you but Akamaru as well." Kiba whimpered and hid behind Shino, Akamaru shivering under his hood.
"I-I'm s-s-sorry. I didn't m-m-mean it I s-s-swear." He whimpered. Luna ignored him and leaned against a table. 'Where am I going to put this?' she thought looking at her new hitai-ate.
"Hey Naruto..." said blonde looked up from his place.
"Hmm?"
"Could you tie this around my neck? I don't want my hair to get stuck in the knot." He nodded and took the headband from her. Luna held her hair out of the way, while Naruto tied it in place. Luna turned and smiled at Naruto.
"Thanks." Naruto nodded and went back to silently thinking with is head resting on this arms. 'I wonder what's wrong with Naruto?'
xXx
Luna kicked a stone with the toe of her boot, even the knowledge she was now a ninja wasn't enough to brighten his mood. Tonight was yet another one of those nights where she wouldn't be able to sleep without being plagued with horrible nightmares; and since moving to Konoha they had gotten steadily more frequent, more confusing...and sometimes less like nightmares. Sometimes they were harmless and were just memories of her travels around the world, others were darker. Those were the nightmares she feared, they displayed her more gruesome and deadly battles, amongst the memories she wanted to forget.
Tonight's was one of the harmless ones,thankfully; though it wasn't her painting or having fun at a village festival, it was...Luna paused and looked up at the moon. Actually she didn't know what it was; it felt like a memory, though things were missing and she couldn't actually remember it happening.
*Begin flashback*
A dark haired child ran through the dark corridors, giggling wildly. She grinned when she spotted the door that lead outside. Bursting through, she immediately ran over to the figure crouching in the small garden.
"Papa!" the man turned and smiled and caught the small girl when she threw herself at him. He spun her around, enjoying the happy giggles she made, ignoring the men that were meant to be watching her as they stood by the door.
"Have you been annoying your carers again?" the girl looked over her father's shoulder at the two men. Looking back her father's stern face she shook her head, her black hair flying everywhere.
"No papa." The man gave her a look, knowing otherwise.
"Then why do they look..." he turned to steal a look, smirking lightly at their predicament. "Like they do." They were covered in feathers and had cardboard beaks strapped to their heads.
"First I drop dis black stuff on dem, it really sticky. Den I add de feathers!" she stifled her giggles with her small hands. The man nodded, and turned back to the babysitters.
"Go wash up. I'll look after her for the afternoon."
"But Sir, Miss Hidori-"
"It's okay." The two babysitters didn't need telling twice and left. It wasn't like anything was going to happen to the girl while she was with her father. Turning back to his daughter the man put her down.
"Hime...did you have fun turning them into chickens?" the child nodded and clapped her hands. He raised his eyebrow and put his hands on his hips.
"I thought you said you didn't do anything to annoy them?" she only chuckled in response and looked up at the man that was her whole world.
"Oops." The man chuckled and attacked the little 3 year old monster, her giggles echoed throughout the garden.
"Come, let's go visit your mother."
*end flashback*
Luna shook her head to rid herself of the memory. It was strange, throughout the entire dream she couldn't see the man's face as it was always covered in shadow, however she knew who it was anyway, her father and she knew the emotions that showed on his face through the darkness. Luna shook her head sharply, and pulled at her hair.
'Knock it off! Stupid dreams. I have to get up early tomorrow.' Luna pulled on her hair, trying to keep her attention on her surroundings. She sighed and released her hair. Closing her eyes she leaned against the wall.
Her eyes opened in a flash and she hid in the alley behind her. It wasn't long before a team of jounin jumped past. Wondering what was going on she carefully followed the team through the streets; something had to be up otherwise they would have noticed. Or were they just that oblivious? Frowning she pulled back and hid behind a corner when one stopped; she was having trouble keeping up and staying hidden at the same time. She was lucky they weren't using chakra; otherwise there would be no hope in following them. Finally the jounin stopped and joined an already large crowd of ninja in front of the Hokage. 'I wonder what happened?'
"Naruto's stolen an S-class secret scroll." The group muttered amongst themselves, some even cursing the boy. Luna bit back the growls in her throat, she hadn't known Naruto or any of her friends very long, but she couldn't stand people who treated others lower than dirt for no reason. The Hokage frowned and yelled over out over the crowd.
"Silence!" The ninja jumped at his tone. "Find him and bring him and the scroll to me."
"Hai!" came the united response. The jounin scattered, off to find the demon, some thinking they would rather be at home. With a sigh Sarutobi turned his gaze to the shadows on his left.
"Either you're very good at hiding, or my ninja are getting slack. Either way, you still have a lot to learn." He smiled gently as Luna stepped out. She bowed, trying to hide the blush on her pale cheeks.
"Sorry Hokage-sama." Sarutobi just kept smiling.
"Don't worry about it. But I would prefer for you next time not to listen in on meetings you're not invited to. Other than listening in on private meetings, why are you here?
"I won't, as long as they aren't out in the open." Sarutobi chuckled softly. "And I'm here to see what had all your jounin's knickers in a twist."
"And?" Luna turned and walked off. Personally it had nothing to do with her, so why should she try and intrude; and anyway she could interrogate Naruto when she next saw him.
"Not my problem. I'll see you some other time." She waved over her shoulder before disappearing into black smoke.
xXx
(2)The next morning found Luna dozing in her seat next to, surprisingly, Naruto. Hadn't he failed yesterday? She sighed and shifted her head on her arms. After leaving the Hokage she returned to the Uchiha complex to meet a barrage of shuriken, a trap door, somehow a jet of flame, before finally a bucket of yellow paint. Luna had gritted her teeth, to stop herself from marching down the hall to her house-mate and killing him. She had briefly wondered how much trouble she would be in if she had. Even after cleaning up and getting a warm drink she couldn't sleep, so ended up painting all night.
It seemed like ages before it was early or late enough (however you saw it) so she could leave for the academy, and she was exhausted. 'I won't last through the day...' As she jumped over a cart a thought of possible insomnia past through her mind, but she ignored it at seeing the empty classroom. Closing her eyes she sighed happily and drifted off into sleep, only to be awoken shortly after by someone sitting beside her.
She nearly jumped out of her skin when she saw Naruto, but when he didn't say anything at her questioning glance she curled back up on her arms to doze again. He had a headband so he was allowed to be here, though how he got was a mystery. Maybe it had something to do with what happened last night, but why would he get a headband for stealing an S-class scroll? It was definitely time for an interrogation, but it could wait for a few minutes. She wasn't sleeping for more than fifteen minutes when she was awoken yet again, this time by screeching and yelling...of the fangirl breed.
"Move it Ino-pig!"
"You move it forehead." Luna wanted to cry. Why couldn't people be normal? Were all the weirdoes from Konoha?
"Naruto! What are you doing here? Only ninja are meant to be here." Luna opened one eye and glared up at the pink thing that was glaring at Naruto and dared to wake her. For once why couldn't she just ignore Naruto like she normally did?
"He has a headband if you haven't noticed. Now. Will. You. Shut. Up?" Sakura scoffed.
"He probably just stole it." Luna snapped both eyes open and glared even harder from where she was. More people had walked in and watched on in interest. Whenever Luna was getting fired up it mean something interesting was going to happen.
"If he stole it, he would be stupid to turn up." Sakura opened her mouth to say something but Luna dismissed the pink eye sore with a wave of her hand and hummed softly as she lay back down in her arms. There were groans from around the classroom, disappointed there wasn't going to be a fight. 'Please, please no more. I want to sleep.' She managed to sleep uninterrupted, which was amazing because she had two pairs of eyes glaring at her from the back, until Iruka walked in and Shino shook her awake. Rubbing her eyes she gazed up at her friends. 'When did they get here?' Before Iruka got even a word in, Sakura was standing and yelling.
"Iruka-sensei, Naruto stole a headband and snuck in!" Luna could hear the whine in her yell. She leaned against the body beside her, not caring which one it was. Naruto, Shino or Kiba, though if the lack of fluffy collar was anything to by it was probably Shino...or Hinata. Nope it was probably Shino, Hinata didn't have sharp, solid shoulders. Iruka smiled at the group, surprised that Naruto was on time for once.
"You're on time today Naruto?" Naruto shrugged and smiled up at Iruka.
"This is important." Luna rolled her eyes and rubbed her face on the sleeve she was resting against. 'comfy...'
"But Sensei!" Sakura whined again seeing she wasn't getting the effect she normally would, namely Naruto in trouble. Iruka sighed.
"Naruto took another test last night, it does happen sometimes. Now drop it Sakura-san." Thankfully she did. Luna wouldn't put it past that this was the first time Iruka had refused to yell at Naruto after they told on him.
"And for once in your miserable life, be happy for someone other than yourself." was the mumbled response from Luna. She didn't care if Sakura didn't hear her, though she probably did because she was shrieking. Iruka chuckled to himself but quieted them down before a fight broke out.
"Okay, okay, quiet down. Now normally the class would be divided up into teams of three ninja, however with our extra student there will be a single four man this year." Luna groaned. 'Let them think for themselves.' Iruka began listing off names, but no one really payed any attention until they heard their names.
"Team seven will be Uzamaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, and Uchiha Sasuke. Hatake Kakashi will be your teacher." Luna patted Naruto on the shoulder in sympathy. Naruto hated Sasuke as much as she did however, sadly he didn't share the same feelings for the pinkette. 'poor guy.'
All of a sudden an unknown ninja poofed into the room, handed Iruka a slip of paper, and then disappeared with another poof. Iruka blinked, not quite sure what just happened. Shaking his head he looked at the slip before nodding, though he was worried about what the Hokage had planned. 'I hope they know what they're doing.'
"Luna, you will join them." Iruka heard a loud thump and found both Sasuke and Luna with their faces in their desks; the desks themselves had small cracks from the impacts.
"Please Iruka, don't put me with him, anyone and I mean anyone but him! It's bad enough I have to live with the guy!" Iruka caught the choked gasp from the female half of the graduates, but ignored them for now and stared at Luna. She had moved from her dejected spot to standing on the table, pointing a finger at him. Iruka glanced briefly at Naruto. Maybe Luna was actually Naruto and Naruto was Luna, they were acting strange enough.
"I am sorry Luna, but that's who you're stuck with. Take it up with the Hokage if you really that desperate." All the students stared at him. They all thought that once a team was called that was it. You either went along or dropped out.
"Though I doubt he will change anything." Luna sat down on the table and glared at the wall, the look getting darker and more murderous as more thoughts passed through her head.
"I hate my life." The rest of the teams were read out and nothing eventful happened, but they were all eager to leave once Iruka was finished. The dark aura Luna was giving off was making everyone nervous.
xXx
Everyone was quick to scatter the moment Iruka dismissed them, even Iruka made himself scarce. That left team eight to calm Luna down enough that she didn't choke everyone within the area with her fowl aura.
"Lu are...are you okay?" Shino had a hand slightly reaching for her. He wanted to put it on her shoulder, but the way her aura was making his Kikai bugs crawl nervously at this distance, he didn't want to get any closer. Luna took a deep breath and stop glaring at the wall. The aura seemed to lighten a little.
"Like I said, it's bad enough I have to live with him. Before I could escape him during the day, now I'll be stuck with him forever!" Kiba snickered from his spot by the door, and Luna rounded her glare on him, not finding this funny at all. It was pure torture, what was funny about that? She thought he was her friend. He held up a hand in his defence.
"I was just thinking...every other female would think that was a blessing." He swung an arm around Hinata's shoulders, making Hinata break out into a blush.
"Except you and our little Hinata of course." Akamaru barked his agreement, and Hinata blush darkened. Luna paused at that before she started snickering as well. She kept snickering as she walked out of the academy, with her friends following, happy they pulled her out of her slump.
"That is so true." Luna glanced up to see a horde of female students, new genin and academy students alike, marching in her direction. They all figured they could take on the she-devil together, even if she was rumoured to be top kunoichi of the class.
"Speak of the devil and he shall appear." She leaned against the doorway, not phased at all by the girls hissing and yelling obscene comments at her. When she faced down bandits with her very life on the line, little lambs that pretended to be lions was nothing. When they finally calmed down enough so she could hear her own thoughts again, she addressed them.
"You banshees want something?"
"You do not deserve Sasuke, you will leave his house!" yelled someone from the back of the group. Luna looked from one girl's face to the next, almost like she was trying to figure out what they were thinking. There was silence till she started laughing, and for some reason she just couldn't stop.
"You...pfft...think?" Luna clutched her sides. Her friends watched on with amusement and slight nervousness. True she wasn't mad anymore, no, now they were being freaked out by her constant laughing. They'd never seen her laugh that hard and never thought she could. Finally Luna managed to get a hold of herself and confront the banshees about their ridiculous idea. She hadn't laughed so hard in years, and when she thought about it she couldn't actually remember when.
"You think me and Sasuke..." she made a gesture with her hands and the girls hissed at her, and she heard a sickened groan from behind her. She apologized to her friends in her head, she hadn't meant for them to see it, it made her slightly sick just making the gesture.
"Pfft. You girls are hopeless; you make me ashamed to call myself kunoichi. He's all yours for all I care, he isn't my type." She walked off laughing once more; she could help herself, leaving a disturbed group behind.
xXx
Luna stopped in what she would guess was a training area...or at least it used to be. It was all torn, and deep scars and burns marked the earth. Obviously this was one of the areas which were left so the earth could repair the damage training ninja had done on it.
Finding Naruto was proving to be harder than she originally thought. She had searched all the possible places, Ichiraku, the Hokage's office, under their tree, even his apartment, everywhere. How hard could it possibly be to find a loud, blonde ninja wearing bright orange? 'Maybe I should have kidnapped Kiba or Akamaru...well I haven't seen him in a while...' she looked around and hoped she was actually alone before flying through some seals and holding out her hands. Last time she did this in front of an audience, they had screamed and ran in the opposite direction, before returning and trying to kill her. She didn't exactly want a repeat. She grunted softly at the slight twinge of pain down her arm as the black smoke poured out her hands.
When the smoke cleared, the clearing remained empty besides her. Empty, nobody, nothing. She looked around the clearing. 'He should be around here somewhere, he's never refused my call.' Luna heard a shout before something heavy landed on her back, throwing her forward to the ground. She blew the stray strands of hair out of her face and glanced up. There sitting on her back was just who she was looking for, though she'd prefer it if he didn't sit on her. He was heavy.
"Hello to you too." Her attacker leaned down and gave her three big licks. Luna rubbed some of the slobber off her face.
"Yuck. Do you mind?" The thing nuzzled her neck. "Can I get up?" It growled and shifted on her back as Luna rolled over as much as she could, which wasn't much she ended up being squished sideways now. She pushed against the hairy chest, trying to force him off her.
"Get off ya big oaf!" She managed to get him off her enough so she could lie on her back. It growled again, but this time as a warning and she tilted her head back so she could see why. She smiled at seeing the orange clad ninja, looks like she didn't need him after all.
'Naruto!" Naruto stared at his dark friend, not sure what to make of the scene. He arrived just in time to see this large animal leap at Luna from behind. 'Why is she so calm? Doesn't she realise she got a monster on her back?' Oblivious to Naruto's turmoil, Luna turned her attention back to the creature standing protectively over her.
"Come on, time to get off. You're sitting on my gut." She flicked a nose and he slowly removed himself from her only to sit beside her instead, his eyes not leaving the strange brightly coloured person.
"Luna...what is that thing?" Luna looked down at her side; the 'thing' as Naruto called it sat there patiently waiting for instructions and watching Naruto carefully. She smiled lovingly at him.
"It's my...dog, I guess." Naruto blinked once, then once more. That thing did not look like a dog...well actually it did, just not a normal one.
"But it has three heads and, and it's like HUGE!" as if three head wasn't enough, like Naruto said it was huge and he meant like lion size huge. What the hell do you feed a dog to get it that big? Steroids? And how the hell did you get it to have three heads. It growled, baring sharp teeth and took a step forward. Luna crouched and wrapped her thin arms around the base of its neck, drawing its attention to her.
"Play nice, this is a friend." All three heads immediately lost their threatening appearance. Happy that her animal friend wasn't going to attack Naruto she scratched two heads behind the ears.
"Who's a good boy?" tongues hung out of their jaws and they pressed closer to the hands. They felt so good. Naruto scratched his head and put away the kunai. He still had no idea what was going on. Luna had some explaining to do.
"What's he doing here? Did I have to nearly die of a heart attack?" Luna chuckled and scratched the head that pushed its way into her hand, wanting some of the scratching action.
"I suppose he's a summon...well that's what I think he is anyway, though I never signed a contract ... so maybe he isn't..." Luna shrugged and turned to Naruto.
"He once appeared without me summoning him...it's really weird." Naruto, seeing as the creature wasn't a threat at the moment, slowly walked closer.
"What the hell would you want a mutant dog for?" he nearly jumped to the opposite side of the clearing when a head pressed into his hand, wanting attention.
"To find you dummy." Luna made some sick cooing noise at it, like other girls did to cute puppies and kittens. There was no way Naruto could see how this thing was cute.
"You know you can disappear pretty darn good considering you wear that eye sore."
"Hey!" Naruto looked down at the head he was scratching, and then at the two Luna was. He hadn't noticed from across the clearing, but now he saw that each head was slightly different. The one he was scratching had large floppy ears that hung down like damp hair, and patches of scales under its eyes; the next one had stiff little triangles for ears, always at attention, and it's scales covered it nose. The final head had ears with a mix of the last two, its ears sat up but the tip drooped back over, the third head's patch of scales sat in the middle of it's eyes . Another thing he also didn't notice from over on the other side of the clearing was the patches of scales on it's shoulders, and knees. It had scales running down its neck to its long, skinny tail, like a lizard. The head he was scratching opened it eyes and nudged his hand again cause he had stopped scratching; and Naruto pulled his hand away. That wasn't a dog eye, it was slitted and Naruto swore there was another eyelid. (3) He slowly resumed scratching when the head pushed at him hand again.
"What's his name?" Luna grinned up at him.
"Fluffy!" Naruto stopped scratching and stared at his friend.
"Fluffy? What kind name is that? He looks more like a Killer, or Snapper." Fluffy growled and Naruto pulled his hand away from the large jaws.
"Careful Naruto, he understands everything we say, he's not just some common mutt." Naruto nodded and edged a little closer to her.
"Sure...and having three heads makes him common." Fluffy growled again but Luna pulled his heads towards her.
"I'm sorry I wasted your time, but I only wanted to find the blonde." Fluffy lowered his ears and whined, pressing a head against her head.
"I missed you of course, how about we go for a run tonight?" Fluffy made a happy yipping sound and bounced around her feet before rolling on his back. Luna smiled and rubbed his belly, happy to appease him.
What a better way to spend lunch, then to spend it with friends.
xXx
Sitting in a classroom waiting for their sensei was a big waste of time in Luna's opinion, they could have been out the back training while they waited, but no they had to wait in the classroom. She wasn't bored at least, she was playing cards with Naruto and Sakura, but the annoying blonde was winning. 'Good thing we're not betting, otherwise I'd be in debt I think.' Seeing she lost another hand, she threw the cards at the table; of course it could have had something to do with Sasuke glaring at her back the entire game. It throws off your game.
"Where the hell is he? Some ninja he is." Sasuke made that 'hn' noise of his and went on moping; half wishing he'd played with them, if only to put off the boredom. Even glaring got boring, mainly when people didn't take any notice or cared...like Luna.
"He's probably just busy." Luna glanced in Sakura's direction and gave her a pointed stare. Naruto had pleaded for her to play, and the only good thing Luna could even think that came out of it was that she beat Sakura in their game. It made her feel somewhat better. 'I didn't lose at cards to her.' That would have been a painful strike to her pride.
"We're the last ones to get picked up, even Iruka's left already." Luna crossed her arms as Naruto moved around the classroom. 'As long as he's not going to destroy the classroom I don't really care.' She was still a little tired.
"The Hokage isn't stupid enough to give the selected teachers missions when they need to pick up their teams, even if the bastard's skilled." Luna tilted her head as she watched Naruto fill up the board before erasing it all then balancing the full duster above the door.
"Naruto...what are you doing?" Naruto smiled and scratched the back of his head, obviously proud of his work.
"It's a trap. Payback for making us wait so long." Actually Luna was impressed, hardly anyone ever looks up. Sad, but true. Luna eye twitched when her housemate shared his (not wanted) thoughts on Naruto's plan.
"Our sensei is a jounin, the best of the best. What makes you think he'll fall for one of your tricks dobe?" Naruto hissed, and was about to let fly a retort but Luna beat him.
"You'd be surprised." With that she leaned back and waited.
xXx
Later found the young ninja sitting on the roof facing their new teacher, the masked ninja himself. When he had finally arrived Luna had fallen off the table from laughing so hard, while everyone else just sat there too shocked he had fallen for it to even blink. He didn't seem to impressed though.
They were lounging; well Luna was lounging on the ledge, the others were sitting to some sort of attention on the step. Luna rolled her eyes at their behaviour. Get to jounin and everyone thinks you're a god.
"So introduce yourselves and tell us a little about yourselves." He made this smile, where you'd only notice if you saw the crinkle of skin at the corner of his eye and his mask, and pointed at Naruto.
"What about you sensei?" Sakura interrupted. Luna leaned back to watch. 'If they expect him to tell them diddly squat they got another thing coming.' Luna smiled to herself when Kakashi gave up his name, but kept tight lipped about anything else. Kakashi pointed once again to Naruto.
"I'm Uzamaki Naruto. I like Ramen, Sakura-chan, and my friend Luna. I hate Sasuke-teme and the three minute wait for instant ramen to cook, and my dream is to be Hokage, believe-" Luna leapt up from her comfortable spot in the sun, darted over to Naruto and thumped him on the head.
"Don't say it! Every time you say it, Demyx cries because Chester dies."(4)Naruto rubbed his sore and head and looked up at his friend in confusion. What was she talking about? Why did she hit him? True it wasn't very hard, not like Sakura, but she still did hit him.
"Who's Demyx?" Luna actually paused to think about it for a bit. Where had that come from?
"I don't actually know, but none the less. Stop saying it!" She gave him a heated look before she returned to her sun heated ledge to listen to next teammate. When silence met her ears she glanced at her supposed teacher then her teammates. She scoffed and shut her eyes. Let them think what they like, she was going to try and figure out where that comment had come from.
"Well?" Kakashi seemed to brush off the strange event that just occurred and pointed to the next genin. Luna could tell it was going to be all hugs, kisses, and kids with the dark haired wonder beside the pinkette. It made her shudder just thinking about it. Sure enough Luna's prediction was correct.
"I'm Haruno Sakura. I like..." she glanced in Sasuke's direction and giggled. She got a hold of herself and continued with her introduction.
"I dislike Naruto and the she-devil over there, and my goal is to..." she glanced over at Sasuke again, broke out into another fit of giggles before sighing dreamily. Luna banged her head gently on the cement beneath her, trying to rid the disgusting introduction and giggles from her head. Sakura's devotion was enough to make her want to hurl. It was disgusting and degrading to kunoichi everywhere.
"And for those of us who don't speak fangirl, I'll translate." She braced herself. This was going to painful.
"You absolutely love, the wonderful and magnificent Sasuke-kun, and you will marry him...and produce him many pink haired brats." At first Luna had started out happy and giddy, sounding like the other sasuke fangirls around the village (shudder at the thought), but as she went on she slowed and changed to something of a monotone sound. She couldn't bear to keep up such a happy attitude about what she just said. Actually she felt like she needed to hurl, or maybe it was because she was half hanging upside down.
Sakura was seething. Luna scoffed, she couldn't help it, it was the truth; but at least Naruto was laughing. Kakashi seemed somewhat amused as well. She couldn't quite tell with Sasuke, he was a stick in the mud anyway.
"Since you seemed so eager, you're next." Luna leaned back so her head was completely hanging over the edge and she was looking at them upside down, and her feet hung off the side of the building.
"You don't remember me Kakashi? You break my heart." She even clutched at her breast for effect, a cheeky grin on her face. Kakashi took a second look, and yes it was the girl he met in the market, the next village over.
"I remember a young woman saying she wouldn't become a ninja." Luna chuckled, remembering saying such a thing to him.
"Yeah, who would have thought?" She chuckled some more and waved her feet in the air.
"I'm Luna. I like my friends Hinata, Shino, Kiba, and Naruto; painting, and relaxing in trees. I hate Duckbutt and his seemingly endless horde of fans, people who kill without reason or mercy...and birds." She nodded at her last admission, but burst out laughing at the confused faces staring at her. She couldn't help herself, they were so funny upside down.
"Birds?" Sasuke felt like laughing, but it wouldn't do for his image now would it? Of all things in the world to be hate, birds? Luna nodded and shuddered. In actually what she felt for the feathered rates was a mix of fear and hate. if she could she'd kill any she saw.
"Nasty little buggers. They poop everywhere and make so much noise." Luna looked to the sky, hoping none of the horrible creatures were there.
"My dream...hmm..." Luna made a face at the thought in her head, disgusted with what she was about to say, but said it anyway. What did she have to lose really?
"I suppose...I want to know about my family and my past." She shook her head and shrugged. "But I need to remember them first. What can you do?" Sakura stared at her female teammate. For a dream she didn't seem to care much.
"You don't seem to care very much." Sakura went pink when Luna started giggling. What was her problem?
Luna held her ribs to try to hold in her giggles. There was just something about looking at Sakura upside down that she found funny, but then she found a lot of things funny today.
"If I don't ever find out," Luna shrugged "oh well. It's not like finding out about my family will drive me insane and make me try to take over the world. I just would like to know what happened." Kakashi did that annoying eye smile and turned on the last member of his so called team of newbies.
"Finally, Duckbutt I suppose." Sasuke growled and sent a glare at Luna. It was her fault for creating that stupid nickname, and now their teacher was using it!
"Uchiha Sasuke. I don't like many things, and I hate many things. My dream, no my goal is to kill a certain man." Sasuke stared out at nothing, no more like glared at nothing. Luna tilted her head. Maybe this had something to do with the massacre. Her friends hadn't told her much when she asked about it, and she knew hardly much to begin with, just what she heard from gossiping women in a few towns in the other countries. Luna tuned out what the other were saying trying to think of a way to learn more about the killings. 'The files? I could try but they're probably S-class, and it'd be difficult to sneak in. Asking Duckbutt is a dead end, we're not going to have a heart to heart anytime soon. Maybe...hmmm. I wonder if oculd get the ingredients?' She vaguely heard a 'ja ne' before she was covered in smoke. Coughing and trying to wave the the smoke away she turned to Naruto.
"What's going on?" Everyone turned to stare at her in surprise, even Naruto couldn't keep the surprise off his face. Was she really that tired that she blacked out?
"We need to meet at training ground seven at seven tomorrow morning. He also said not to eat..." Naruto was unsure if he should take Luna to the hospital or not. Luna blinked as the information registered.
"So seven at seven...thanks." Luna rolled over and got off the ledge, she had places to be. "See you guys tomorrow." With that she walked off, waving over her shoulder but stopped at the door to the stairs.
"Naruto...you wouldn't happen to know where I could get a few...special items?" Naruto tilted his head.
"like what?"
"Herbs...you know science stuff." Sasuke eyed the evil female that he had to share his home with. 'What's she up too?'
"What do you want herbs for?" he hadn't forgotten her last prank and since had found her stash and burnt it. He refused to eat anything she made now. Luna smiled at him, but for some reason it made him want to run away screaming.
"Oh, no reason." She had an odd tone, and it promised pain and humiliation, or was he just being paranoid? Naruto grabbed her wrists and pulled the rest of the way.
"I know of a place." With that Naruto and Luna left Sasuke to him pink haired doom.
(1) Freak + Retard = fretard. Courtesy one of my uni friends, Lauren. (while i was at campus...2 years ago) Thanks ^^ I know that was cruel...but well if they were insulting the group; I needed a good insult, but nothing common.
(2)I'm ignoring the little bit about ninja registration. Why bother. No one else really does anyway.
(3)I did find a picture that personified Fluffy the best. I got permission by the artist to use it as a reference. Go to my profile to find the link.
(4)Sorry about that people, I've gotten hooked on the wonder that is Demyx Time from Parle Productions, based on the characters from Kingdom Hearts. This was something I had to just put in. ^^'
Quick question, I've been wondering if Luna should have a love interest? I did have one in mind, but after a lot (and I mean a lot) of thinking I've changed my mind. Any ideas? I might put up a poll...Got any ideas, please mention it in a review...
Sorry for the wait guys, but I seriously had this finished on the 15/08, but as I was explaining some of my plot points and ideas to my sometime beta Jim-bob-son-of-god he started shooting awesome ideas at me and I couldn't help myself. He helped tie up loose ends of my story and I had to go back and change a few things. So a few small detail back in the first 3 chapter have changed, but nothing major.
I hope this is good enough for you guys, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter and the new stories I've put up. :3