Hime-sama

by: Bakunawa

II. Dead Last

(Naruto POV)

I hate studying. Period.

The reason you ask? I could probably give you a list that could measure the diameter of the Hokage mountain. Twice. And 'diameter' is already a big word for me, mind you.

Let me just give you one to sum it all up why I don't like getting an education...

Studying requires.

It requires time. It requires attention. It requires effort. It requires attendance. It requires actually sitting still for hours and hours inside a bland room with with tutors who had more time chastising me for one little thing or another rather than actually making me learn something. It requires so damn much that sometimes it just makes me want to scream until my eyeballs pop out.

I hate it when people force me to do something because they deem it 'necessary'. And that goes for my education and basically almost everything concerning my life.

They would say "Naruto-hime, please, follow these instructions" or "Hime-sama, don't do that" or "It's important you learn this because your Hokage-sama's child."

The last one is my personal favorite.

I blame it all on Daddy. He has my keepers and/or those freakin' tutors with me 24/7 and would never allow me to go out of the house without at least one ANBU escort visible. I don't know how more there are hidden in the shadows but I could guess. He would never let me out of the estate without valid reason in the first place. Seriously, does a kid ever need a 'valid reason' to even just want to play outside with other kids of her age? I'm already seven for crying out loud!

I know I'm going off of the main issue but being forbidden to every go out of the estate is one of the sub-reasons that gives me more time to spend studying whatever poop they require of me. I mean, who wants to stay cooped up indoors with books that talked about geography when your locked up from an entire world waiting to be explored? Who would want to talk about Konohagakure's magnificent history and its famous dead ninjas when no one has ever bothered to teach me how to do a proper bunshin?

So when Sasuke told me that he was already attending the academy, practically bragging how he's likely the top rank student because the lessons were so easy for him and that he was going to be as strong as his brother Itachi someday... I just snapped.

He thinks he's better than me just because he goes to the academy and he has all the opportunity to compare his skills with everybody else while I'm just home-schooled. Who does he think he is?

I couldn't take it anymore! I want a life like his. I want to do things on my own because I can and I want to, not because I'm required to do it. I want to actually go beyond the estate gates, even beyond this puny village, without a dozen guards trailing behind me and watching my every move. I want to do things with my own hands without people breathing down my neck if I made a mistake. I want to meet people on my own and not because its necessary. And I want to be a real ninja just like everybody else in this village.

Scratch that. I want to be the greatest ninja that ever lived!

Well, Sasuke won't be laughing at me now. A deal had to be established, of course. As Sarutobi-jiji as our witness, my Daddy and I had arrive at a 'compromise' (another big word for me). After a weeks of temper tantrums, death threats, kowtowing and threats of suicide thrown my Daddy's way, I going to be an official student of the academy so long as I make do with a promise that I have to study and pass like what a regular student should.

Piece a cake as long as the get the sweetest part of the damn cake!

I can't wait to see Sasuke's face when I arrive. The entrance test Sarutobi-jiji gave me placed me in the same class as he is. He's going to be sorry he ever mocked me.

I still hate studying. But I think it just got a little more interesting.