Chapter 11:

Naruto walked through the corridors of Tiger Star school. He had began classes today and learnt all he could about the way studies is done here. There were three years, the first, second and third. After the end of the first year the student will have an extra class for them. The ones who will be trained to be a samurai will go to military school while the ones who wish to be a civilian will go to the civilian school.

So Naruto now walked to the first year class on the second floor with excitement and nervousness. Naruto looked calm and ready, but inside he was panicking. This was his first and only chance at impressing them. This was like a do over for him, where he doesn't have to fear them hating him because of the Kyuubi, where he can make some real friends.

The only bad thing was that Naruto had to wear a uniform. It was a white button up shirt with short sleeves and grey slacks. Over this he wore a grey jacket with the creators of the school, a grey tiger, on the right. Naruto hated the uniform, no color at all. He was starting to miss the lack of orange in the world and as a way of rebelling he wore orange socks. He also felt uncomfortable without his face mask and dark sunglasses. Sure there was no reason to hide his face, but still….

He stopped in front of the class room and sighed, this was it. He moved forward to open the door but as he did felt something move fast and quickly jumped back just in time as person was thrown through the door. The person flew back and stopped and hit the railing. Naruto saw the person who was sent flying back was a girl who looked like she was 14. She wore the school uniform for girls with a white blouse and a grey skirt, she had straight black hair that reached her shoulders and her eyes were blue which were narrowed and filled with hate.

Naruto gulped and stepped backwards and saw the girl get up quickly. She drew her blade, which was grey and five inches long like everyone else's and suddenly the blade lite up with blue chakra. She held it up and charged into the classroom again, "ARGHHH!"

Naruto watched as the girl went in full speed, almost faster than him and watched as she fought with another student a boy with bright blonde hair that looked like he got electrocuted and brown eyes. Naruto saw them try and hit each other over and over again as the blue blades struck each other with a crack. They moved like water in a stream, each aiming for their opponent's weak spot only to be blocked in the last second.

The girl then jumped back and drew in her blade, she then glared at the boy who was grinning like a madman. She then leant forward and withdrew the blade so fast it was seen only as a curve of blue light that struck at the boy, "Iaido!"

The boy moved backwards and dodged the girls strike within an inch, "wow Kia you sure are serious about this aren't you."

"No one insults my family!" the girl cried out and charged the boy she kept swinging at him with no sign of actually hitting him.

The boy smiled, "stupid girl. You don't even know how to perform the Iaido style properly. The students of the Himura style truly lack all sense of dignity." He then blocked one of the girl's strikes and kicked her backwards. He then resheathed his sword and charged forward, "Iaido," he drew the blade out so fast that the girl, Kia, didn't have time to defend herself.

As the blade neared her neck closer and closer it was obvious she wouldn't be able to stop it from taking her neck. Naruto however was already moving. He didn't know why, maybe it was a hero complex, but he needed to save this girl. He released every restriction he had on him and vanished in a blur of white and grey and reappeared in front of Kia with a kunai out blocking the other blonde boy's blade mere centimeters from Kia's neck.

The blonde boy's eyes widened in surprise before he pulled back his blade and attacked Naruto from above. Naruto however was much more faster. In a flash Naruto moved inside the man's defenses and held his kunai at the boy's neck and said, "stop."

It wasn't an order laced with chakra, it was a good old fashioned threat. Naruto pressed his kunai deeper to the boy's throat, "or I'll gut you."

The boy's brown eyes widened in fear and slowly he lowered his raised sword and Naruto let him back away slowly. "W-who are you?"

Naruto put his kunai back in a secret compartment in his uniform and smiled, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, pleasure meeting you, I think I'm your new classmate."

The whole class looked at him and dropped their jaws, "WHAT?!"

"You sure know how to make an entrance Uzumaki," said a rough voice from outside. All the students turned and there standing by the door was a tall man with a scar across his left cheek with black hair and black eyes. At his hip were three swords and he looked pissed. He walked in, his white coat waving to the side showing he wore a black yukata underneath. He walked to the Kia and looked her over, "you aright Himura?"

Kia nodded, "y-yes sensei. I'm fine."

The man nodded and turned to the electric blond, "and you Shenin?"

"Yes master Zenbu!" the blond then bowed his head, "I was just showing Kia how she lacked proper training sir."

"Liar!" Kia yelled out, "you insulted my family!"

Shenin got up with a fist held out, "you want to go again bitch?!"

"Enough!" Zenbu said as he knocked both of them up the head, "detention both of you! And you," he turned to Naruto and glared, "first day here and you're already causing problems. Useless foreigners. Everyone get to your seats!" As Naruto stood there and waited for everyone to settle in he noticed only a handful of the students had blades while the rest did not. "Now that all you brats are settled it's time to introduce a new student joining us," Zenbu turned to Naruto, "introduce yourself punk."

Naruto nodded, "I am Naruto Uzumaki, I am from the land of fire and I came here because my uncle wanted to move," the cover story Mifune provided from Naruto and Danzo, "I like ramen and training and hate bullies. My goal is to be free!"

The students all looked at him like he had just said the strangest thing in the world before laughing. Naruto saw everyone there laugh at him but he didn't care.

"Is this guy serious sensei?" one of the students asked, "he looks like he should be at home with his parents! The kid looks like he is 11 years old."

Zenbu simply sighed, "you got me kid. Apparently he is some kind of super genius or something."

"I'm not a super genius sensei," Naruto said beaming at him, "I'm just really good at working hard!"

The man looked at Naruto sizing him up before huffing, "whatever. Go and take a seat, you better be good Uzumaki or else you are going to be in big trouble. We only have one week until the end of this year and the finals come up."

Naruto nodded at the man and quickly took a seat in the back. While Naruto was alone in the back he didn't mind. These people were going to be his friend whether they liked it or not…..okay that sounded so wrong. Naruto shook his head clear of such thought and quickly payed attention to his teacher.

"Alright brats today is a full recap of chakra weapons. Ayame!" Zenbu said pointing at a girl sitting in the front with glasses, "tell us how they work."

The girl stood up, "a chakra weapon is made in such a way that it emits the users chakra out as a blade. The 'blade' of the weapon is able to absorb chakra easily but if the user is unable to properly use the blade and form the blade the weapon can be easily broken."

Zenbu nodded his head and waved the girl to sit down, "good. Now can anyone tell me why it is important for a samurai to make his/her own blade?"

Kia stood up and spoke, "when a user makes his/her own blade they infuse their chakra into the blade, causing easy flow of chakra. This is also the reason why it is difficult to use another person's chakra weapon."

As Kia sat down Naruto remembered how when he tried to use Garku's blade, while at sea training under the man, it refused to work for him, almost like the chakra blade had a mind of it's own. Naruto raised a hand and waited for the teacher to call on him.

"Yes what is it Uzumaki? Need to use the little boy's room?" Zenbu asked causing the whole class to chuckle.

Naruto laughed too, 'this man is so going to get pranked,'. "No sir I was just wondering why don't samurai's use a normal length sword to harness their chakra?"

Zenbu nodded, "good question red haired brat. Why can't the rest of you ask questions like him!?" Zenbu said glaring at the class.

Naruto smiled and then he wondered, 'red haired? What does he-oh right. My hair dye is still there.'

"Well Uzumaki the answer is simple. We mass produce the blades at an alarming rate, and a blade is a samurai's soul so we cannot reuse them. Hence to save metal on the average soldier we make the swords short. But that doesn't mean we don't have people using long blades as well."

Naruto nodded, "Commander Mifune."

"Right in one brat," Zenbu said, "samurai's that are a cut above the rest, or have special chakra, have different blades. Commander Mifune is a legend with the blade and a master at Iaido. Hence he carries a full length blade to be most effective."

Naruto nodded as Zenbu continued to talk about chakra control, all of which Naruto already knew. Then after an hour of lectures Zenbu finished the class and walked out. Naruto sighed and packed his bag, the next lesson would be in an ten minutes time, maybe he could get a quick nap in. Just as Naruto was about to lay down his head he noticed the whole of the class turn and look at him.

"Ah….hi?" Naruto said.

"So Naruto right," said a boy with brown hair which was slicked back with black box shaped glasses, "I'm Aizen, so tell us, what is a ninja doing in the Land of Iron?"

Naruto grinned, "and what makes you think I'm a ninja?"

Aizen grinned back, "the kunai you used."

"Doesn't mean I'm a ninja."

"Doesn't mean you're not."

"Okay enough!" yelled Suko as he walked up towards Naruto and drew his blade, "I am Suko Shenin. You ninja," he spat out, "dared to lay a hand on me and threatened my life. As such I demand a duel with you!"

Naruto raised an eyebrow, "why?"

"Because you have shamed my honour!"

"And I should accept this…..why?"

"Because denying it would bring shame upon your parents and your family!"

"I don't have a family and my parents are dead."

"Then…ah….because if you deny my challenge you are a coward!"

Naruto sighed, 'I really don't have time for this. I need to find a teacher to train me to be a swordsman, practise my ember release and then prank that stupid teacher of mine good.' "okay fine, yeah," the blonde swordsman smiled, "I am a coward."

"W-what?"

"What do you mean what? I said I am a coward. Meaning I don't want to fight you."

"Have you no honour?"

"Nope," Naruto said as he rested his eyes down for a nap while the rest of the class laughed at Suko's face which was filled with shock.

"B-but you must!"

"Why?"

"Because a samurai should not back down from a challenge!"

"Are you a samurai?"

"No, but I will b-"

"-I am also not a samurai, hence that rule doesn't apply. So….bye bye."

Suko blinked and then slowly turned around and walked back to his seat all the while thinking about Naruto's logic.

"That was a very logical way of thinking Naruto," Aizen said, "I must say I am impressed."

Naruto smiled, "thanks Aizen, hey by the way why is it that some of these guys have blades? I thought samurai training doesn't begin until next year."

"It doesn't but some of the people who are going to dojo's to train, and are strong enough are given temporary swords before they build their own. It's like an advance placement class, I myself am allowed to carry a blade," Aizen said pointing to the small grey blade by his side.

"I see," Naruto said, "know any dojo's I can join?"

"I would recommend mine but my father will not allow anyone who is not family to learn the family techniques." Aizen said with a sorry look.

"You sure are helpful Aizen," Naruto said smiling, "why is that?"

Aizen smiled, "you are interesting Naruto. And don't you mean big brother Aizen?"

Naruto blinked before realising he was just 11 years old again, sometime he forgot that. "Oh right, thanks big bro," Naruto said as Aizen sat back in his seat. Naruto didn't have any problem calling Aizen big bro, after all the guy helped him, least he can do is show some respect.

Soon the next teacher came and it was a woman with white hair and a figure that Naruto swore he saw on the cover of one of those dirty ero book the third Hokage always read. The woman was beautiful, something all the young teen boys in the room noticed and lusted after.

"Alright class," the teacher said, "today is a pop quiz!" The boys all shouted in happiness, even Aizen who always looked calm and collected now stood up with a big smile on his face.

Naruto watched all this in surprise and wonder and while he wanted to know why all the boys were excited, while the girls were not, he decided to ask later. Naruto was soon handed a sheet of paper with several questions and a black paper to write answers in. Seeing that all of them were theory and he knew most of them. So Naruto quickly began writing all the answers down, it was a good thing he had his clones memorise all those books Mifune had given him in advance.

Soon after the test was over and the papers collected the teacher quickly walked out with the papers giving Naruto the chance to ask his question, "hey why was every boy here so happy about the test?"

The girl sitting in front of him turned back, she had dark green hair with green eyes and a look of constant dizzyness on her face, "oh that? The boys were excited they got another chance to win their bet with Ms. Ayame."

'Ayame? That's the same name ramen sis has. Huh small world.' Naruto thought and then spoke, "what beat?"

"Oh something silly really. Ms. Ayame beat that if the we could score above 95% in one of her pop quizzes she would give that person one wish. So far no one has been able to do it."

Naruto nodded, "thank for explain that, I'm Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki!"

The sleep girl smiled, "hello Naruto, I'm Moe Aruka."

Naruto and Moe talked for a bit. Apparently the girl wanted to be a gardener but her parents said she should be a samurai, something about her being good at it. Eventually however Ms. Ayame came back in with all the papers and the class went quiet as the boys waited patiently for their papers.

"Now class I am very impressed with you all. You have taken one of the most dry subjects, something most people find difficult, and you have excelled in it. Sadly none of you have gotten above 95% yet," the boys all sighed, "none of you, except one."

Suddenly everyone was still and they waited with held breaths wondering who it was that would get that favour from Ms. Ayame. Most of the boys wanted to ask her out on a date, some of them had less….honorable intentions.

The white haired teacher took out a single piece of paper which had a 97% on in in bright red ink. "Naruto Uzumaki congratulations."

The whole class turned as one again towards Naruto as the boy wondered whether they all practice this without him looking, "sweet."

"Are you aware of the deal I have with this class?" Ms. Ayame asked to which Naruto nodded, "good then ask away your request and I shall do it."

Naruto stood up and gathered his thoughts and finally spoke, "could you teach me to be a samurai?"

"You idiot!" screamed Suko, "you could have asked her for anything! A date! A night alone! Her hand in marriage!" The rest of the class looked at Soku as if he was mad before Ayame hit him with the handle of her blade.

"I'll have you know I am not that type of woman," Ms. Ayame said before turning to Naruto, "yours is a reasonable request Naruto Uzumaki, but unfortunately I am a teacher and do not have a dojo as such I cannot and will not be able to train you."

"Oh," Naruto said, "then can I ask for your favour later?"

Ms. Ayame smiled, "wise choice, use it when you need it. Now the rest of you all take your papers and try to do better next time, as of now the deal is finished, but I still expect you to keep your grades up."

And with that the woman left leaving the class to once again look at Naruto in awe.

"Did you cheat or something?" Suko asked, "it's alright if you did. I mean you are a ninja."

"Shut up Suko," Kia said, "he obviously didn't cheat. The boy is just smart."

"Hey stop calling me boy, "Naruto said, "I am just three years younger to you all!"

"Oh it doesn't matter!" Suko said as he held his face crying, "now I'll never be able to ask Ms. Ayame's hand in marriage!" He then turned to Naruto, "you should have at least asked for something nice! Like her phone number!"

"Oh back off Suko," Moe said, "Naruto is too cute to be perverted like you boys."

"What do you mean cute?" one of the boys said as he eyes Naruto panting, "I'm cute too!"

"Well he does look much cuter than you boys," said another girl as she pinched Naruto's cheeks, "especially his whiskers."

And just like that the girls suddenly started fawning over him as Naruto was pinched hugged and even crushed. It seemed the girls had taken a licking to him big time.

"Alright enough," Kia said as Naruto was finally let go, "give the poor kid space."

"Thanks," Naruto said as he caught his breath.

"No problem kid," Kia said as she smiled, "hey I couldn't help overhearing you wanted to get trained in being a samurai. Looking for a dojo?"

Naruto nodded, "yeah know any?"

"You're in luck kid. My parents own the Himura style dojo and they take students, but be careful it might be too much for you."

"I grew up in the ninja world with a ninja for a grandfather and a manipulative bastard for a mentor. I think I can handle it."

Kia nodded as slowly the rest of the class now became more and more interested in Naruto.

"Where are you from Naruto?" asked a boy.

"From Konoha, the village hidden in leaves."

"Oh so cool! Did you guys have ninjas for teachers?" asked another.

"Yup! We had the coolest teacher called Recap! He was awesome!"

"Sweet! I heard ninja students as called geenens. Are you one?" Asked a girl with a sword at her hip.

"What? Oh no, I'm not a genin. I'm just a student, a genin is somebody who is already qualified to be a ninja. I just went to the academy for a year before I left."

"Really? You are pretty fast, you managed to save Kia's life and in the blink of an eye managed to defeat Suko!."

"Hey I had it handled!" yelled Kia.

"And he didn't have me, I let him get close!" Suko yelled out.

"Yeah whatever Suko," said Moe as the entire class laughed at the flustered boy. Naruto smiled, he was starting to like it here. After spending the rest of the class answering their questions about the ninja world Naruto sat and listened as the other classes went on.

From these classes Naruto learnt a very important thing. Chakra levels here are based on numbers, not level, because there are no chunins or jonins here. There levels of chakra were, 1 for civilian, 2 for genin, 3 for chunin, 4 for jonin and 5 for kage level. This was something Naruto noted as it seemed it was skill level that got a samurai promoted, not necessary chakra and skill as is the case with ninjas.

This mean Naruto now had a 50/50 chance of controlling a reasonable higher up in the samurai army. It seemed Zenbu himself while a teacher and a captain of a squad, had only level 3 chakra, meaning Naruto could have controlled him.

After class that day Naruto waited for Kia's detention to get over before following her to her family's dojo. The girl was, in a few words, very very rude. She was also very prideful talking about her family's style of technique over and over again. But all in all she seemed like a nice girl to Naruto.

"So where do you guys live?" Naruto asked the excited black haired girl.

"Over there," Kia said pointing at a mountain far away from the city.

Naruto strained his eyes, "wow, that looks pretty far away. You sure we can make it in time, it's already getting late. "

"Well I usually run, but since you're tagging along I decided to walk," she said, "I'm a pretty fast runner you know. Fastest in my dojo!"

Naruto smiled, "is that so? Care to make a wager?"

Kia looked at him strangely, "you really think you can beat me?"

"Yup."

Kia grinned, "you're on," and with that she dashed ahead in a burst of speed. She jumped on buildings and ran as the street passed below her in a blur. She looked back hoping to see a struggling Naruto try to catch up to her only to find him not there. 'Did I leave him that far behind?' Kia wondered as she slowed down to find him.

"Why are you slowing down?" Kia heard Naruto's voice ask. She turned ahead and to her shock saw the boy far ahead of her, "I turn back to see how far behind you were and what do I see? Come on Kia I know I'm fast but don't give up just yet!"

Kia gritted her teeth in anger and quickly pushed ahead and ran until the wind howled at her ears, only to find Naruto right in front of her.

"Brat!" Kia screamed out and pushed herself forward and charged ahead. Soon they reached the base of the mountain and there they saw was a long flight of stairs that lead to the top of mountain. Kia quickly ran up the familiar steps and turned back to see Naruto fall behind her.

Smiling Kia quickly ran up and just as she was about to reach the top a shadow flew over her and landed right in front of her in the top of the stairs. Kia then slowly stopped to a crawl and panted. She saw Naruto there on the top grinning at her, 'who is this guy!' Kia screamed out as she slowly walked to the top.

"I-I got to admit Naruto," pant, "you are pretty fast!" Kia sasi as she smiled at the boy.

Naruto grinned, "thanks Kia." Naruto then turned and saw the building there on the top of the mountain. It was a classical looking building made of wood and paper. Naruto noticed it still had some color to it with some red paint on the side, unlike the rest of the Land of Iron. The front of the building was covered in snow with a pathway clearly cleared out form the steps to the front. There were two entrances. One was to a big long corridor, the dojo if Naruto was to guess and the other to a smaller two story house.

Kia pointed to the smaller house, "that's my house," and then to the larger building, "and that's the dojo. I'll go and change, why don't you go to the dojo and introduce yourself, my mom should be there right now teaching."

"Mom?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, my mom is the Himura style master. My dad doesn't really fight all that much," Kia said as she quickly went to her house, "but don't underestimate her, or it will be the last thing you do."

With that vague threat Kia left Naruto alone in the cold. 'If she is anything like Kia then I believe that,' Naruto said as he slowly walked to the dojo and opened it.

Inside was a long corridor with wooden panels with the sides filled with training equipments and a rack of wooden swords, bokkens. And in the center was a woman with black hair tied up in a ponytail and black eyes, she was thin but looked powerful with lean arms holding a wooden bokken over her shoulder. She was obviously Kia's mother. If the looks didn't give it away then her shouting did.

"Work you pathetic useless maggots!" the woman shouted, yup definitely Kia's mother, "you want to master the Himura style you better work!"

In front of her were five students all with white gis. They were all panting and crying as their arms were practising swinging their blades over and over again. Naruto understood their pain as Garku had made him do the same exercises over and over again while at sea, something about finding your center.

Finally after five minutes of staring at them the woman finally noticed Naruto there, "you there red haired boy what do you want?"

Naruto blinked, 'was she talking to me? But I don't have….right I dyed my hair,' "oh, I am a friend of Kia's I am here to join the dojo."

The woman blinked and then smirked, "is that so? So you want to learn Himura style do you? You sure? It's extremely difficult you know, not just anyone can learn it. In a few days time you will end up looking like these boys here," she said pointing at them with the end of her bokken.

Naruto simply nodded, she had to try a lot harder to scare him off. After all he was the kid that started pranking a city full of ninjas by the time he was 8.

Kia's mother smiled, "okay kid I like your style. What's your name?"

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki."

She nodded, "well I'm Kaoru Himura," she then went to the side where there was a large wooden box. She reached inside and threw him a white gi, "put it on, you can change in there," she said pointing to a room on the end of the dojo.

Naruto nodded and quickly left his sandals at the entrance and took him bag to the changing room. Inside he quickly sealed all the dangerous things he had on him, like several kunais and shurikens, and put them all inside his bag. He wore the white gi, which fitted him very well surprisingly, and covered his gravity and chakra suppression seals with a sweatband on each arm. He looked silly sure, but the fact he wore such heavy restraints would be the ace up his sleeve.

Naruto walked out and towards the center of the dojo where Kia was now there waiting talking to her mother.

"Ah Naruto, the gi suits you," Kia said smiling at the boy.

"Yes it does indeed," Kaoru said, "alright boy Kia has a lot to tell me about you, it seems you save her life today."

"Mom! I had everything under control!"

"Yes I'm sure you did dear, but the fact that you nearly got your head chopped off is not something I would like happening again, so you know what that means," the woman said grinning like mad to which Kia was slowly shaking in fear.

Naruto smiled at this and watched Kia get in line with the boys and go thru several kata's for sword play.

"After you're done going through every single kata you know and a 1000 strikes, then and only then will I teach you something new today! Got it?!"

Kia nodded in defeat and she along with the other students went back to work. Kaoru turned to Naruto and eyed him up and down, "looks like you got some trained before kid," she said noticing Naruto's shaped body, "body of a ninja if I were to say."

Naruto nodded, "yup. How did you know that?"

"I used to serve in the military and have fought my far share on ninja's in the past. Who trained you?"

"My mentor, who was a ninja and a pirate I meat at sea."

"A pirate? Sounds like quite the story. Anyway first things first," Kaoru then took out two armbands which Naruto was very familiar with, "these are g-"

"-Gravity seals," Naruto said as he rolled up his sweat bands showing his own seals in place, "I have my own."

Kaoru whistled, "nice kid. And here I was thinking those sweat bands was a result of poor fashion sense. Anyway how heavy are they?"

"Ah…20 pounds each?"

Kaoru nodded, "not bad. Okay double them, Kia herself has 30 pounds on her, but if you managed to beat her in a contest of speed you might be able to take more punishment."

Naruto nodded and adjusted his weights. It was instantaneous and he struggled to slowly get used to the extra weight.

"Okay now we go for the swing test," Kaoru handed him a bokken of his own and made him get into line with the other students, "a hundred swings, go."

Naruto nodded and quickly swung his sword with precision and speed, all the strikes had the same amount of strength behind it and they all were fast and aimed at the same spot. After ten minutes Naruto stopped, a little out of breath due to the added weight he now had on.

"Wow," said one of the students as Naruto now noticed everyone was looking at him in surprise and shock.

"Who taught you kid?" Kaoru asked, "that was a perfect set."

"The pirate I mentioned before," Naruto replied, "he was the one who taught me."

"Some pirate," Kaoru said, "anyway it seemed you are good at this, why don't we go for some stamina training now."

Naruto was then subjected to the same boring training ROOT had made him do, although in a less serious way. He ran around the dojo until he dropped, which took an hour, so while he did that Naruto took out a book from his bag and began reading it as a way of killing the boredom. After that he did push ups, chin ups, crunches and then high jumps until Naruto grew too bored.

"Alright this is boring!" Naruto yelled out, "I already did all of this! I need something new or else I'm going to burst!"

Kaoru laughed, "ya I do suppose this is getting a little boring for you. But I must say I am impressed kid, you're what 10? 11? You can already do more that what I could do at that age!"

Naruto nodded, "I have been training to be a ninja for a long time, now that I here I want to be a samurai. So yeah, this is super easy for me!"

Kia then got a little pissed, "really? Is this too easy for the ninja? I realise you are strong kid but don't push it. You need to take things slow once if you want to be a samurai."

Kaoru grinned, "yeah kid. I'll admit you are strong, and you can probably beat Kia too, but still need to pace-"

"What?!" Kia yelled out, "what do you mean he can beat me?!"

Kaoru shrugged at her daughter, "just that. While the kid is not skilled with a blade his reflexes are better than yours Kia. He has been trained to be a ninja after all."

"And I'm not trained to be a samurai?!"

Kaoru sighed, "all I'm saying is his reflexes are better than yours. And he has been trained harder than you, you can see it," she said pointing at Naruto's hands which were covered in scars from mishandling kunai and sharp chakra string.

Kia saw it too and for a moment she wondered, 'just who is this kid?' She shook her head and focused her mind, "I still say I can beat him."

Kaoru raised an eyebrow, "care to make a wager on that?"

Kia mimicked her mother, "what's the bet?"

"If you win, I'll do the dishes for a week, if Naruto wins you will do them."

Kia grinned and so did her mom, and slowly the two started laughing scaring the students and Naruto, the two Himura women were truly a force to be reckoned with.

"Deal," Kia said shaking her mother's hand.

"Naruto!" Kaoru shouted.

"Y-yes ma'am!" Naruto stood straight.

"Lose and you're dead meat," Kaoru threatened as she and the other students walked away to the side. Kaoru grabbed a wooden bokken and threw it at Naruto, "alright I was a proper duel. No biting or scratching."

Naruto grabbed the bokken and stood in the center opposite to Kia, "ah, is chakra usage allowed?"

Kaoru nodded, "yes, only for enhancement, no jutsus!" Kaoru narrowed her eyes at Naruto who grinned back.

Kia got into position and replaced her grey sword with a bokken. She held it forward and the two eyed each other. Naruto noted the way she moved, the what she looked at, what she might attack first.

"Begin!" Kaoru shouted and the two were off.

Kia swung downwards at Naruto only for the blond to dodge backwards and charge ahead with a swing from the left.

Kia saw the attack and quickly moved back and was quickly thrown into the defencive by Naruto's numerous strikes each aimed at one of her vital points. Finally Kia managed block Naruto's strike with the blade and then held it for a minute trying and failing to push the boy back.

Naruto then stopped the stand still by moving backwards with a quick kick at Kia, which missed. Kia then drew back her blade and held it to the side and charged at Naruto, quickly drawing it, "Iaido!" The blade moved in a blur of brown but Naruto was already moving.

He knew what the attack was, how deadly it could be, but also how to avoid it. He was shorter than Kia, so the girl was attacking at an angle. So Naruto flipped backwards, avoiding the angled strike all together. As soon as his feet hit the ground and Kia's blade was away from her body, leaving her defenseless, Naruto charged ahead with the tip of his blade striking Kia's left knee.

"Ah!" Kia shouted in shock more than pain and dropped to one knee. She held her left knee and looked up to see Naruto's blade under her chin with the panting boy smiling, "I win."

"Told you so," Kaoru said smiling, "that's dishes for a week!"

Kia grumbled as she got up and grabbed her bokken, "how the hell did he beat me?"

"I told you Kia you really to much on your techniques. You don't trust your instincts at all," said a gentle voice from the entrance. Everyone turned and there standing with a basket at his side was a man in a light pink yukata with a white bottom. The man had red thick and spiky hair that came all the way down to his back. The back of his hair was tied in a ponytail will his bangs fell freely over his forehead. He had light purple eyes that shined with happiness and a cross shaped scar on his left check that stood out more than anything else.

"Daddy!" Kia shouted as she hugged the man so hard he dropped the basket, which contained clothes, "you disappeared for two days! Where were you?"

The man smiled, "oh you know how old man Nake is. He threw his back out again and refused to go to the hospital. I stayed with him for some time until his wife came back and she dragged him by the ear to the doctor."

"Geez dad there is a limit to how nice you can be you know," Kia said pouting, "you care about others more that yourself!"

"Oh leave him alone Kia," Kaoru said smiling at the man, "your father had always been like this and probably will never change."

The red haired man smiled, "now now there is nothing wrong with helping your neighbors from time to time," he then looked at the dojo and the students, "but it seemed like you were busy enough by yourself."

Kaoru nodded and grinned at Naruto, "yup. We got a good students this time. Naruto this is my husband."

Naruto nodded, "I am Naruto Uzumaki sir," he then started to bow only for the man to stop him.

The man's smiled warmly at Naruto, "There is no need for you bow Naruto. I am Himura Kenshin, it is nice meeting you."

Okay I'm going to be honest with you guys I don't know many Japanese names so I am honestly going to just wing them all okay. And also updates will be slow from now on, not because I can't write them, but because my laptop is being a little bitch.

Also REVIEWSS! I realize things are a bit slow, but from the next chapter on Naruto will be doing a lot more in life.