Disclaimer: Really obviously not mine, just Hoshi
P.S. Sorry for changing from first P.O.V. to third I dunno I just like third better. I may shift back and forth ocassionally.
Obito picked her up ready to follow the 4ths orders. Shisui however put his hand out to signal to stop.
"How exactly are we going to take her there? It would probably seem just a bit weird that an academy student is floating to her class."
Yondaime stood there and contemplated this. He hadn't actually thought about that. Even if he's gotten used to being a ghost, the ten year old who can actually interact with them as well as those who are alive will take some getting used to. "Alright Shisui I want you to get a cloak and mask from this address and bring them back here. I'll take care of the payment later." Yondaime ordered and Obito laid Hoshi back in a soft patch of grass sitting there right in by her side. He was getting too attached too quickly.
It was only moments before Shisui got back, successful of course. He was an Uchiha after all. They don't fail, it's not in their blood.
"Good" Yondaime said taking the items. He tied the mask around Shisui's head and shook out the hooded cloak. "Wear this and you can carry her."
"Wont an anbu raise some red flags?" Obito asked slightly doubtful of this plan.
"Not as many as a floating unconscious girl." Yondaime replied smoothly hoisting Hoshi up and setting her in Shisui's careful hands. "Go with him Obito I want you both to watch after her, I have some things to look into around the village. I'll be back for her training again tonight."
Obito bowed a bit, but was hesitant.
Yondaime of course, noticed. "What is it?" He asked not in a demeaning way, but Obito flinched anyway.
"Its just..." Obito started his mouth turned down in a frown while looking at the ground. "Should we really be pushing her this much already? She's just a second year academy student and she just trained the whole night straight through, on top of her classes. Is it wise to push her so hard?"
Yondaime smiled at his students concern for the girl. "In most cases you would be correct Obito, but this girl has abnormally quick chakra restoration. She should be okay by tonight, do me a favor though and keep an eye out for me, look for any patterns of restlessness or abnormally quick healing, I would like to find out as much as I can about her clan."
Obito nodded to him respectfully. "Leave it to me!" He said before taking off to catch up before Shisui 'beats' him.
Yondaime smiled and shook his head. Obito never failed to amuse him. He just hoped that they weren't too late, for the sake of the village, the world even.
Obito ran after Shisui as fast as he could. He would not loose! That was just unacceptable! Shisui wasn't making it easy though, the moment he caught sight of the younger loud mouthed Uchiha he took of as fast as he could. It didn't take long at all to get to the academy. They arrived within milliseconds of each other, so it was hard to point out a clear winner.
"It would have been a landslide if you didn't have a head start!" Obito bragged dramatically.
"Your right, I would have run top speed from the beginning instead of lazily waiting for your short legs to catch up." Shisui countered.
Obito, not being able to think of a good retort, just huffed and followed Shisui around to the back of the academy. Shisui set Hoshi down in a patch of grass by a training post before pulling off his stolen garments.
"What are you going to do with those?" Obito asked, it would be weird for an anbu uniform to just be laying around in the middle of no where.
"Hide them of course dobe." Shisui said in a very classic, Uchiha manner. Shisui grabbed the garments and hid them in the forest behind the training grounds, kami knows where though.
The two dark haired former ninja's each took a seat by Hoshi's sleeping figure. All they had now to do was wait.
Pain... everywhere, it did not feel good. Hoshi hadn't even opened her eyes yet and was more than willing to collapse back into dark slumber. She was going to succumb to this want, except something was hitting her sides. Quite rude of whatever it was!
Hoshi groaned and slowly opened her eyes to be met with a lot of blue and white. Again, what was with all the white? NOT a pleasant wake up color! She mumbled a quiet "Go away annoying" before closing her eyes again.
"Wake up dobe." A gruff voice ordered. Hoshi groaned and turned away from who ever it was. Fuck em, she was happy NOT waking up!
"What are you doing out here?" The stupid voice asked her. She ignored the question.
As punishment the owner of said stupid voice decided kicking her in the side would be a good idea.
On the owners third kick she grabbed their foot and pulled making them loose balance and tumble to the ground.
"Leave me alone." She stated glaring at the person. Upon actually opening her eyes and the blurriness fading, she found it was the stupid Uchiha.
"Great, just what I need another dumb Uchiha." Hoshi mumbled to herself hearing a "HEY!" from Obito and a "hmph!" from Shisui, whom both were watching the exchange. Thus her point. Uchiha's were ass holes. Two were watching her sleep and the third was kicking her in her sleep.
"What did you say?" Sasuke's stupid gruff voice said while he was getting up off the ground and in an attack position.
"I said, Great, Just what I need to be kicked by the dumb Uchiha." Hoshi said her voice almost dripping with sarcasm and annoyance.
His pose relaxed and his arms dropped down to his sides. "What are you doing out here, dobe?"
"Sleeping, what did it look like?" She asked not even looking at Sasuke as she pushed herself off the ground.
"Why?" he asked not specifying.
"Because I was tired of course, I'm not quite as lazy as Shikamaru." She said dusting the dirt off her clothes, it didn't do much. They were pretty worse for wear, coated in dried mud and fairly torn up.
Sasuke just stared at her, his real question floating in the air silently. 'why are you sleeping here, battered and bruised?' Of course he didn't say this. Anything that was longer than a five word statement could make him look uncool. Hoshi just rolled her eyes.
"Look, I was training out late and pushed myself too hard. Now leave me alone." Hoshi said walking towards the classroom. Her groupies (Obito and Shisui w) followed after with Sasuke not far behind.
She took her usual seat at the back of the classroom and closed her eyes resting against her desk before class actually started. She wasn't particularly tired just sore, she'd be fine in a few. Rest felt good.
It had felt only like a couple minutes, but poor Hoshi was woken once again by some commotion going
on to her left. She blinked, her eyes half closed taking in her surroundings.
This wasn't her seat... She looked up more alerted by the change and found she was in the third row back on the other side of the classroom.
How had she...?
Wait a second... Hoshi's eye started to twitch in disgust. She was seated right next to the stupid Uchiha and not the stupid dead ones, no this was the stupid alive one...unfortunately.
"What the hell-?" She began, but the noise to her left began to get worse.
"I WANT TO SIT NEXT TO SASUKE!"
"NO HE'S MINE!"
"NO I WANT TO!"
Several girls yelled all at once who was going to be by the Uchiha prick. Hoshi blinked at the scene. Was she ever going to get any real rest any time soon? It didn't appear so.
"THAT PLUM BETTER MOVE HER ASS!"
"THAT SLUT SASUKE'S MINE!"
Hoshi blinked again... what the hell?
"Look!" She said slamming down her hand to get their attention. "I have no fucking idea what you all are going on about and I don't even know how the hell I got here, I was sitting in my dark sleeping corner away from all you annoyances and I am going to go back there! Take the fucking seat!" Hoshi ranted ready to stomp away. Obito was cracking up in the background and Shisui just leaned against the back wall, arms crossed with a smirk, trying (BUT FAILING) to look cool.
Just as she stood up and took the first step, something really unexpected happened. In a flash of movement Sasuke grabbed her hand, preventing her from leaving "Stay." He said simply.
"OH MY GOD! SHE'S HOLDING HIS HAND!"
"THAT BITCH!"
"DOESN'T SHE KNOW SASUKE IS MINE?"
"Yeah right." Hoshi said trying to pull away from him.
His grip only tightened "Please." he said just above a whisper. Barely loud enough for her to hear. She looked back seeing him give slightly weary glances towards his fan girls. Don't leave me with them! She could see his silent pleas.
Hoshi just rose a purple eyebrow at the boy. "Hell no, you're on your own." She said about to walk away. He of course scowled at her.
Two came into the classroom laughing together having 'girl talk', both had mid length hair going just past their shoulders, one had blond hair pulled in a high pony tail and the other had loose pink hair. They talked as if they were the best of friends, that is until they saw Hoshi by Sasuke.
"Sakura! What the hell is up with your sister?" Ino shouted with fire in her eyes "Doesn't that tramp know Sasuke is mine?" This was actually the first time that Ino had actually voiced her affection in front of Sakura.
There was a long pause while Sakura glared at Ino.
"First of all, he's mine!" Sakura said glaring at her 'best' friend. "Second of all don't talk about my sister like that!" Sakura yelled back.
Hoshi just watched with an eyebrow raised as the two rushed in front of her desk.
"Hoshi you need to move, you're in my seat!" Ino said trying to stare her down. Ha like that would work. Sakura pushed her out of the way to get in her word.
"No Hoshi, she's just jealous because Sasuke rather sit next to a Haruno, now please move so I can sit-" Sakura said until Ino pushed back.
"Look-" Hoshi started
"She's just delusional! Like Sasuke would ever want her!" Ino proclaimed
"He'd want me more than he'd want a pig!" Sakura aruged
"I didn't even-" Hoshi started again
"Like he would ever want you and your big forehead!" Ino proclaimed
Sakura started twitching how dare she! "Hoshi! You better not listen to her or I'm going to tell Dad!" Sakura threatened.
"If you don't give me the seat I'll never help you with flower arrangements again!" Ino threatened as well.
"SHUT UP!" Hoshi yelled and whacked them both on the head. "You both are being total bitches, I didn't even want to sit here! Hell I don't even know how I GOT her, but you are both being annoying and because you wont shut up now I'm not moving! Take that and shove it in your juice box!" Hoshi proclaimed and sat down with a loud thunk! Obito was still laughing and Shisui kept quiet. They were both annoying as hell.
"Thanks." Sasuke muttered quietly.
"I didn't do it for you." She glared at him for a moment before looking at the board and going off into 'Hoshi world'.
Another few minutes passed by with Hoshi ignoring all the fan girls comments about her. Ino and Sakura sort of became friends once again with Hoshi being the mutual enemy. They all glared down at her and gossiped pointing out every little flaw that came to their minds. Her dirty and disheveled appearance didn't help anything, but it probably didn't make that much of a difference in the end.
"So... you're a Haruno?" Sasuke asked in a low voice. He seemed genuinely curious. Hoshi wondered how long he had sat there thinking about it, before finally asking.
"Not by birth, I'm adopted." She said swiftly sparing him the slightest glance.
"What happened?" to them. Sasuke asked expecting her to be able to infer the whole question.
"Dunno, I was only five at the time. I vaguely remember their faces, but whenever I try to remember what happened I come up with a blank." Hoshi explained not even looking at him. She knew he was basically doing the same.
"Hn." He said went quiet from there. Probably brought up bad memories. Hoshi knew very well about the Uchiha massacre. She wondered If she would have to meet any more of them... considering the ones she met so far that would pretty much suck.
It wasn't long before Sensei came in, thankfully. Hoshi gave a small sigh of relief as everyone adjourned to seats. She was stuck next to the prick. Which sucked, but her pride came first! If she moved it would make her look weak. Damn pride.
Iruka walked into the classroom and looked upon his students with a smile on his face, that is until he caught sight of Hoshi.
"Hoshi! What happened to you?" He asked worried. Hoshi nicknamed mom behind his back.
"Uh just over did it while training last night." Hoshi said with small giggles of embarrassment.
Iruka's eyes widened for a second starting at her before they shimmered with pride. "You hear that students? Training all night and she still comes early to class~! That is dedication! You should all take a lesson from Hoshi!" He proclaimed to the whole class while Hoshi sunk further and further in her seat. She could hear people in the background murmuring about her being a "Teacher's Pet"
"I am so proud to be your teacher!" Iruka said and hugged her over the desk with anime tears coming out of his eyes. Hoshi sat there twitching, what the hell was wrong with everyone lately?
"As a special treat for working so hard I'm going to give you the rest of the morning off to rest!" Iruka proclaimed.
The moment the words came from his mouth she was gone like lightning! Uchiha's be damned! Dead or alive!
Hoshi sighed to herself as she trotted around the village. Finally! A break from the annoying paranormal. She put her arms behind her head and relaxed wandering. She didn't have a particular destination in mind, but it was nice to be by herself for a moment.
Hoshi just wandered for a while. It was pretty quiet. It was morning and not many people were out and about. It was nice.
"Hey, lil miss over there!" A man from one of the stands shouted. Hoshi looked to her left, then to her right before pointing at herself in question.
"Yeah you!" The older man proclaimed. "Shouldn't you be in class?"
"Nah I was given the morning off for competence!" Hoshi yelled back laughing to herself. She didn't actually do it for the reasons Mom-sensei thought, but that was okay. She was happy with the morning off.
"That's great!" The man shouted "Here, come have a bowl of ramen! On the house!" The man shouted with a kind smile. He seemed sincere enough.
Hoshi walked over and sat in one of the stools waiting as the man prepared it.
"People come for miles to enjoy my ramen." The man bragged.
"Sounds good." Hoshi said simply watching him work. Truthfully she was just glad to have food of any sort. She hadn't had anything since dinner the night before.
There was a rustle to her right and Hoshi looked up to see a lot of orange. Ew. More bright colors.
"Well mornin' Naruto!"The Ramen stand owner greeted. "Don't you have school?"
"Don't worry old man! I'll go for the afternoon. For now I want some ramen!" Naruto proclaimed
Hoshi looked over to see the class clown in the flesh. He had blond hair and bright blue eyes, with a big sloppy smile. He kinda reminded her of Yondaime a little. It's probably just the stupid hair cut. Hoshi folded her arms and laid them on the counter in wait.
"So why you skipping out?" Hoshi asked suddenly, she didn't really know what brought her to question him. She'd known of Naruto for years and never really questioned anything he did before.
Naruto turned to face the purplette surprised, he didn't seem used to people just striking up random conversations with him."I slept in..." Naruto admitted sheepishly, scratching the back of his neck embaressed.
"Lame excuse" Hoshi said and rolled her eyes with a smile, just after a young woman placed a big bowl of ramen in front of Hoshi, Hoshi of course indulged herself in it. It was quiet, except of course for Naruto's loud slurping that made Hoshi giggle at his rough behavior. By the time she finished her bowl, Naruto had already eaten three. She could see why though, it really was delicious.
"If I order a second bowl what kind should I get?" She asked with a smile.
Naruto stopped mid-slurp and proceeded to animatedly tell her about all the different kinds. "Origional of course is awesome! Pork is good too, and miso is one of my favorites" he ranted on with his mouth still full.
Hoshi went pale and reconsidered a second helping. "You should um... swallow."
Naruto gave her a surprised look before swallowing back the food left in his mouth. It was disgusting!
An awkward moment of silence between the two passed before Hoshi stood up. "Well I should get going, I need to get cleaned up and ready for the academy."
Naruto whipped around and turned her way with a surprised look on his face. "You go to the academy too?"
Hoshi stood there twitching. Really? Yea Naruto, I'm in your class.
His eyes became sparkly as he stared toward her. "You even know my name! I knew I was going to become famous one day! I am the greatest ninja EVER!"
Hoshi looked at him and blinked. Once. Twice. Three times. "Riiiiight. Well I have to go..." Hoshi said about to walk away.
"Wait! You're my first fan! Don't leave yet! I'll give you an autograph!" He yelled running towards her.
"I have to go get ready!" Hoshi said trying to run towards her house. Naruto was insistent on tagging after. "Look if you want you can come over while I get ready, but you have to stay in the living room okay?" She asked turning back towards him giving him a stern glance.
"Sure thing!" He said with a big goofy grin on his face.
Hoshi rolled her eyes trying not to laugh. She grabbed his hand and pulled him along "Come on slow poke!" The two took off together hand in hand laughing.
Naruto's laugh didn't die out though. "This is so cool! I've never been to a classmate's house before!" He said "Whooping!" and taking off faster then Hoshi could quite keep up.
She looked towards him and laughed. His smile was so contagious! "Hey Naruto stop dragging me! We passed my house!" She yelled to him trying now to pull him in the other direction.
Naruto stopped and stared backwards "Which one?" He asked glancing back and forth between the neighboring houses.
"The one with the big green Haruno symbol on it!" She said before taking back her hand and heading the pale green house, red banner hung from the gate with a green circle in the middle of it.
Hoshi opened the door without hesitation. "Mooooom~! I'm back!" she yelled heading up the stairs.
White hair and green eyes popped out of the door way towards the kitchen. "Is school over already? Where's your sister?"
"Still at school, sensei gave me the morning off I'm going to go change clothes and head back." She said and started up the stairs.
"Whose your friend?" Her mom asked suddenly.
"That's Naruto! He's escorting me back to school. Be nice!"
Hoshi closed her door and gave out a huff.
"How could you just leave us like that?" She heard Obito's voice come from behind her, doing a 180 she found Obito and Shisui standing there. Obito glaring at her and Shisui observing, not having been here before.
"DO I NOT GET FIVE MINUTES OF PEACE WHILE CHANGING! GET OUT!" She yelled and proceeded to throw things at them, that just passed through their bodies and hit the wall.
"Did you forget we're ghosts?" Shisui asked with a smirk.
"The most annoying ghosts in existence." She mumbled before stomping over and pushing them both out her wall. She walked to her window and stared down at them. "AND STAY OUT!" five minutes... five minutes, was it really too much to ask? Hoshi glanced at the clock before rushing to her closet and throwing on new clothes. Apparently it was, they were going to be late!
Hoshi ran down the stairs to see her mom babying Naruto, giving him sweets and telling him stories of when Hoshi was a little kid.
"Her father pushed her in the water!" Her mom laughed loudly. "You should have seen her face, it was the cutest look of horror you could imagine!"
Naruto just sat there gorging on sweets and listening intently. He was paying more attention then she'd ever seen him pay to an adult before.
Hoshi sighed "Mooooom! Please don't embarrass me! We're going to be late Naruto lets go!"
"Let me bag up the rest of the dumplings for him first!" Her mom insisted.
"Look you do that and I'll just bring it to him later! We have to go!" Hoshi yelled. Naruto stayed fairly and unusually quiet. He looked a bit perplexed on what to do or say.
"Okay sweetie! Have a good day! I love you!" Her mom said and made sure to kiss Hoshi's forehead before letting the purplette free.
"Thank you miss Haruno!" Naruto said with a big grin and a bow.
"Oh your very welcome! Do come by soon! I worry never seeing Hoshi's friends." Her mom said hugging Naruto a bit too tight.
"Mom he can't breathe! Let the boy go!" Hoshi yelled trying to pull Naruto out of her mom's grasp. She pulled him along running down the street, but yelled back loud enough for her mom to hear. "I love you too and sorry, but we have to go!"
Naruto was laughing again and Hoshi's face was red with embarrassment. "I'm sorry about her. She gets attached rather quickly."
"You're mom was so cool!" Naruto idled with bright eyes. "I wish my mom was like that!" he exclaimed laughing happily.
"Yeah? She's okay I guess. Shes a mom. Why, what's your mom like?"
"...I dunno... I never met her. Both my parents died when I was very young."
"Oh... I'm sorry... If it makes any difference I'm adopted. I don't remember my real family. I wish I did."
"You're lucky" Naruto replied with a grin trying to lighten the mood. "I wish I was adopted like you."
At that Hoshi realized how lucky she really was. She had a family. Not everyone was quite so lucky. Especially in the shin obi world. It may not be her birth family, but it was her's and that's what really mattered. The academy came into view and they both stopped at the building's doors. "Tell you what Naruto I'll adopt you as my brother! You can be my family now." Hoshi said looking Naruto in the eyes.
Naruto's eyes became watery and he started sniffling, before he started to completely bawl. Leaving Hoshi at a loss at what to do. "Uh Naruto? Are you alright?" she asked with an eyebrow raised. Is he crying?
"I-I'm fine." he stated rather nasally. "Ju-just something in my eye!" He proclaimed with a loud sniff.
"Um, if you say so."
The bell signifying the end of lunch rang and Hoshi quickly pulled Naruto towards the classroom before they were late.
"Feeling better Hoshi?" Iruka asked with a 'motherly' smile on his face the moment he saw the purplette. His eyes were closed after in the smile.
"Much, thank you sensei." Hoshi said with a small bow in respect.
Iruka's eyes opened and he smiled wider at Hoshi before he saw Naruto. "NARUTO? WHERE WERE YOU THIS MORNING! YOU SKIPPED CLASS AGAIN?"
"Uh about that sensei... I mean... its just..."
"What Naruto's trying to say is he was up late training with me and felt so exhausted he passed out." Hoshi said cutting him off. "He worked so hard that I took him home and turned off his alarm, he seemed to need the break. My apologies sensei." Hoshi said bowing lower.
Iruka hugged the both of them and started bawling out. "OH MY BEAUTIFUL STUDENTS WORKING SO HARD! NARUTO I AM SO PROUD OF YOU! THANK YOU HOSHI YOU ARE SUCH A GOOD INFULENCE ON HIM!"
Hoshi and Naruto both sweat dropped at his affection and tried to inch out of his grip. After a moment Iruka leg go, regaining his composure. Hoshi just pulled Naruto away before Iruka started again. To much lovin!
As the two walked to their seats Hoshi saw Sasuke sitting with a bunch of his fangirls fighting tooth and nail for the seat next to him. Apparently she wasn't the only one getting too much lovin. He gave her a pleading look, but also an angry one, she abandoned him this morning! Hoshi just snorted and continued to pull Naruto to the back and passed him with a wink. "Later loser." She said before chuckling her way up the stairs. Naruto grinning wildly behind her.
She and Naruto took two seats in the back row on the right, being her original seat from that morning. As she settled in her seat she felt presences emerge behind her. Sure enough there was Shisui and Obito.
Obito hugged her middle and bawled out whining at her about being pushed out the window with a few "HOW COULD YOU"'s and even a couple "YOUR SO MEAN!"'s all the while sniffling with cute tears.
Shisui on the other hand stayed quiet and just leaned against the wall and shot her a look that said 'You will pay for that.'
Hoshi just had one thought. "Oh jeeze..." This could be bad.