Welcome to this new installment of Demonic Changes, hope you enjoy it :)
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-Demonic Changes-
Kakashi giggled from behind his orange book. He actually wasn't reading at the moment, but it was just so fun to watch his team antics.
Or rather, their annoyed faces.
D-Rank missions had started just the day after the team was forged, and it's useless to say that the initial excitement of the new genins was stamped out quickly.
After all, what ninja hopeful would ever think that his first mission would be to take dogs for a walk, or babysitting newborns or, again weeding out a garden?
Obviously not any genin of Team 7, if their disgruntled faces were of any indication.
Ah, this was a glorious feeling! Watching them slave off while he did nothing but laugh at their misery!
And he had such fun inventing bullshit after bullshit when they came to him asking for explanations. He could still see their faces, begging for a answer to their plea, which he gave with sage-like wisdom every time.
-Flashback-
"Why must we take these" Sasuke looked down in disgust "dogs for a walk? What's the purpose? It doesn't make any sense!" He was near crying in frustration.
"Why, can't you see?" At the deadpan face he received as an answer he shook his head in mock remorse "Ah, and here I thought the Uchiha prodigy" You could taste the sarcasm in that word " would be able to look underneath the underneath." He sighed "Well, can't expect everything I guess." He shook his head " Don't you see that you're becoming stronger? No? Well that's because this is a test of...leadership, yes leadership, I have to see if you can lead a team, and what better way than taking dogs for a walk? Now, do you see the purpose?"
"No"
"I'm sorry, did you say something?"
-Some days later-
"So we are looking after these babies because we are training for a escort-mission?" Naruto tried to rationalize the chore.
"Yes! Now why didn't I think of that?" Kakashi said amused, a finger on his cheek as if in thought.
-The day after-
"These are just chores, right? We are used by the village, are we not?" Sakura said with a defeated face, now resigned to her fate.
"Figured it ou- I mean, no! These are important training exercise, and you're even paid! You couldn't hope for anything better."
For some reasons, the three genins released a sigh of long suffering at the same time.
-Flashback end-
The joy of being a teacher! He would have already promoted a team from those countless he had failed if he knew it was this much fun.
Or maybe not, they were really useless as ninja, no talent whatsoever, and especially they couldn't grasp teamwork at all.
Instead his cute little students were really interesting, intelligent and, more importantly, better than those brats Guy called students. Team 7 could beat them hands down, no question.
Right now, after finishing another endless-for his genin- D-rank mission -weeding out the garden of a rather "happy" old lady- Kakashi and his team were headed towards the Hokage tower to debrief and finally go home, in fact it was already five in the afternoon, and considering that they were working together since nine in the morning, that was already eight hour of hard work, in which, other than the mission, they had also done a little bit of team training.
Hopefully they would get the hint and train personally after he dismissed them.
He was open to giving advice, but they had to ask. He wasn't going to be there for them every time they needed some help, so they had to man up.
Lately he was allowing -more like using- his students to report for him, to give them some experience. It wasn't because he was lazy, not at all.
"And that was when I, using the strength of a thousand suns, grabbed the traitorous weed and pulled, and even when it tried to resist me, I only pulled stronger, till with a great sound of wind being displaced I finally upturned it, bringing with it some of the mortal earth beneath it" Naruto reported monotonously, much to the amusement of all those present in the room, except for his fellow genin, who shared his pain.
"So everything went as expected?" The Hokage asked looking at Kakashi with a twinkle in his eyes.
Kakashi nodded, his eyes never leaving his precious book.
"Well then, you're dismissed. And Naruto, you'd make a good storyteller" He said holding back a chuckle.
"Thank you, old man" Naruto said in a excessively happy voice, after which he turned and, alongside his team walked out of the door and in the open.
"Well, I'm got to go now, see you tomorrow?" Naruto said in a disinterested voice as he walked away.
"Yeah/Sure" Sasuke and Sakura answered, just as much disinterested the first and shyly the second.
The blond haired shinobi walked to his favorite clearing, where, cloaked as best as possible from unwanted eyes, he started his training.
He had come quite far since he first started, that day three weeks and five days ago, especially in Fuuinjutsu. For some reasons, the art just seemed to click with him in a way that just wasn't normal. Fuuinjutsu was a art in which you couldn't jump from one subject to another, simply because of fear of blowing yourself up or the other brutal death that were brutally depicted in practically every book of the art in existence.
Point of the matter, DON'T skip ahead.
And that limited the use of his Shadow clones a little, but not enough that he couldn't just read everything with five clones while practicing afterward. The theory couldn't really hurt you, nope it couldn't.
So, in three weeks he managed to get quite far in his studies, and if he had to place himself he could honestly say that he knew at least as much as the ordinary chuunin.
On the other hand, his elemental training was proceeding tediously slow, progressing only with one element, wind, where he could now use his wind to cut interesting shapes on leafs. Fire was as uncontrollable as ever, lightning was still unresponsive, same as earth, while water was just difficult because it just didn't damp uniformly that damn leaf.
But he had made incredible progress in every jutsu he already knew, mastering them for battle and probably better than some jounin, and he had also been able to use a Shadow clone that sent his memories live at his mind, but it was more stressful then a normal one, so his idea of using it to train was shot. Still, it was something he created, so he would cherish it, just like the "Bunshin Army", which was basically a mix of the normal Bunshin and the Shadow Clone, which would hopefully surprise the enemy. His hope was to add every type of clones to the jutsu, so that it would truly be a unpredictable technique.
He was even improving physically, so he thought that he was practically ready for anything a genin is fated to encounter.
Still, training was such a chore, and even if he liked to get stronger, Madara Uchiha was a rather distant goal, and the repetitiveness of his work out was beginning to get to him.
But, as Kurama always told him, "You got to suck it up". And that's what he did.
And so, another long day of monotonous training was ahead of him.
Joy.
-Demonic Changes-
It was difficult to be a giant beast of destruction, Kurama mused.
Especially when your freedom was practically non-existent and you were sealed in a little boy, who wanted to be your friend at any cost.
Really, why couldn't he just get out and destroy something? All the pent up suppressed rage and hatred was really getting to him. Sleeping seemed to be the cure, but he couldn't very well sleep when that brat constantly wanted to speak to him, now could he?
Of course not.
Sigh. How low has the great Kitsune fallen.
On the other hand though, he was learning a lot in this brief period of enslavement, certainly more than what he was able to in his other two prison. Maybe Naruto didn't know, but he was learning everything the boy did, especially seals. This would assure that when he got out of here, he wouldn't be sealed anymore, no sir.
So, it could be said that he hadn't fallen that low, it was just a short period of hiatus in which the Kitsune was recuperating and improving his strengths.
Just a little pause of learning, hell, you could even call it a learning trip. Right.
It seemed lately that that was how he rationalized everything that happened that he couldn't justify anymore with "It's part of the plan".
He certainly wouldn't love humans, but unfortunately now he just had to respect them, I mean, first one had controlled him, the King of Bijuus, then another one had beaten him into the ground with fucking trees, and afterward one had summoned the Shinigami and sealed him in his newborn son.
Rationally, that meant that sometimes, beneath all the uselessness of the human race, there were some incredible personality who could grow to aspiring height under their own power, shaking themselves off the shackles which bounded to the mortal realm, ascending to other heights, because only an ascended being could beat him, of that he was sure, and if human had the capacity of doing just that, well, then they bear respect.
Only those who could naturally.
The rest were still useless trash which he could trash(ah, how witty) around at his own will, and no trash could ever order him around or stay on the same plane as he, who of demons is the king.
Or at least that was what his thought brought him to. He couldn't deny them.
And that was why Naruto, who naturally wasn't trash by virtue of being born and raised underneath his influence, could, slowly, maybe earn his respect. Because he was a genius, no doubt about that, and Kurama had no doubt. He will become one of the strongest shinobi in recorded history.
The great beast slowly rested his immense head on his just as immense paws, closing an eye lazily. All these thoughts were making him sleepy.
Well, some sleep couldn't hurt.
-Demonic Changes-
Naruto ended his training routine almost exhausted but not quite, in fact he was getting accustomed to it, and was feeling better every day he worked out.
Maybe a strong mind really did reside in a strong body.
Because he was slowly feeling calmer and more confident every day that passed, and that brought also a sense of peacefulness that bode well for his young mind.
Unfortunately that same sense of peacefulness was impaired by the depression he felt at having to do chores after chores for his village. He wanted to go on real mission, against real shinobi and having real battles.
He thought that his talent was wasted doing useless D-rank missions. And he may have been even right, but he didn't know that his teacher was waiting for their teamwork to improve and for some basic skill to be learned before going out there against the real bad scary ninja world.
You had to be able to, for example set a fire in a way that couldn't be noticed when you camped, and there were so many subtleties that it took some time beating them in the head of young genin. It was a problem shared by teacher worldwide, and it wasn't resolved without real contact with the world anyway, so it was pretty much simply a problem of how much the sensei wanted to shield his students.
And Kakashi lately had had some stray thought about their capabilities in handling a C-rank, so he was near asking the Hokage for his approval for those simple missions outside the village.
And the last D-rank mission was the infamous search for Tora, or, more realistically, the demon cat, where in an amusing display of struggle the three genin fought against the numerous attempts at escape of the aforementioned cat, that somehow could wriggle it's way out of almost any grip, but finally, after a good thirty minutes, it was viciously captured and held in a vice grip by our blonde haired little menace, who was nearly suffocating the poor animal in such a tight hold that the eyes of the feline were bulging out, its breath coming in shallow wheezes.
But Naruto could care less when half an hour of his time and half of his face was covered by scratches. He was almost hoping it died, because there was no mercy for the cat, especially after the last three instances where it managed to escape because he was too lenient with the demon. No more mistakes, he had the throbbing of the scratches to remind himself.
The walk to the Hokage tower was long but hurried, Team 7 trying to get there as fast as possible, but being held back by a calmly giggling Kakashi, who was being as laid back as he could.
"Come on guys, what's the hurry? It's just a cat" He said with a mocking smile that more than seen was felt by his young three charges.
"Shut up, you don't know what it's like, so don't talk! And hurry up, lazy-ass!" Naruto said after Kakashi was glared enough for his tastes, his teammates nodding, one with a scowl and the other with a determined face.
Silence accompanied them on their walk, alongside the eventual squeal of the demon cat and the natural sounds of a bustling town.
After they entered the Hokage tower, they took the stairs and entered the Hokage's office, after getting the required clearance by one of the secretaries.
There the saw a rather fat lady, wearing rich jewels and a finely decorated dress, pacing this way and that, muttering under her breath. Behind her they could see the exasperation mixed with amusement of the Sandaime, who as soon as he saw them motioned them to come in.
"Come on in, Team 7. I trust you've done your jo-" He started to say before he was rudely interrupted.
"TORA! WHERE WERE YOU! Oh I was so worried my little sweety, that I didn't know what to do!" And the fat lady continued to ramble nonsensically, maybe without knowing that she had just interrupted one of the most powerful ninja in the world, but the Hokage took it in good spirit, only chuckling amused.
"Well, then, you've obviously completed the mission" Here he throw another amused glance at the fat lady, who in reality was the Daimyo wife. "Well, then are you here for another mission? There's weeding the garden, another babysitting mission, "TORA!" " And retrieving a cat" He said without blinking.
"Oh yes, I'm so happy. This is what I became a ninja for, to babysit brats and retrieve cats." Naruto mumbled sarcastically.
"Oh? What is this? A young genin thinks he has what it takes to be a real ninja?" The Hokage said, to which Naruto first winched at having been heard, but then a fire lit in his eyes.
"Yes I do, old man! What, do you think I can't do it?" He said challengingly, to which everyone in the room palmed his face.
"So that's what you want? Fine" Here he sent a look at Kakashi, who slowly nodded, though if he was conscious of it or if it was simply a show of affirmation to what he was reading and giggling about, nobody could say. "What do you think about a C-Rank mission? Yes, that's what you'll do, call the bridge builder." He motioned to one of the ninja nearby.
"Team 7" Sarutobi barked out, to which everybody in the room, even those who weren't called, stood to attention. He smirked. "Your mission is to protect Tazuna, a bridge builder from the Land of Wave, till the completion of his bridge, which will hopefully allow more trade to come to Konoha, so it's a mission of the utmost importance. Don't fail." He said imperiously.
For some reason, some of the more experienced shinobi rolled their eyes and had small smiles on their faces that were quickly extinguished when they were stared at by the Hokage,
Soon afterwards, a rather normal looking man, on his sixties, walked in, glasses on his face and a bottle of sakè in hand. He took a quick swig of the bottle, before lazily looking over the team that was to be assigned to protect him.
"What's up with these brats" And he had three kids scowling at him " Don't tell me they will be the ninja I hired to protect me? I want a team of real shinobi!" He said with a whine.
Naruto wanted to strangle the useless old man, but he forced down the impulse beneath a mask of face politeness.
"We are real shinobi, and you better watch what you say, esteemed client" Naruto said twirling a Kunai innocently in his hands.
"Don't mind him" Kakashi said with a sweatdrop when he saw that Tazuna started to become scared. "He won't kill you in your sleep." Now the bridge builder was really scared " And if he try I will protect you" Tazuna breathed a sigh of relief " If I'm not asleep"
"WHAT!" Tazuna shouted, while a lot of the shinobi present chuckled with amusement.
"I was joking, don't worry, I'm an elite jounin, any threat that we will encounter will be taken care by me personally" Kakashi chuckled.
"Ah! Don't scare me like that!" A noticeably humbled civilian said. "Meet me at the gate an hour from now, little ninja" Not humbled enough, it seems, if his mocking parting shot was anything to go by.
Tazuna turned and walked out of the door, closing it behind him, not hearing the sound that the kunai Naruto threw made against the just then closed door.
The boy had his head lowered, and an aura of darkness permeated the air behind him, making a lot of the people behind him sweatdrop.
"That man. He piss me off" Was all Naruto said, before storming out of the door, without even waiting for his dismissal.
The Hokage only chuckled, alongside Kakashi, while the rest of the ninja were left to stare after the retreating back of the boy weirdly.
Finally, Hiruzen dismissed Team 7, telling Kakashi to remain behind. Suddenly, all of the shinobi got the message, and they exited the office.
"So, how's Team 7?" The Hokage said casually.
"Pretty good so far, Hokage-sama, their teamwork is good enough I guess, and Naruto and Sasuke are already good shinobi, while Sakura is working for it" Kakashi said in a lazy drawl, the shadow of a smirk on his masked face.
"You know what I'm asking about. I want to know what you think of Naruto potential. I already know enough about the Uchiha "greatness" to last me for the rest of my years" He said a little exasperated, referencing to some of the more, ah, useless council member arguments.
Kakashi straightened up.
"Naruto... He's a strange one. He is strong, enough that I think he could make chuunin easily, and I even think that lately he's been holding back in training, it almost seem as if he think it's not worth his time" He mused "As far as physical ability goes, he doesn't really have a style, but he somehow managed to use the high level taijutsu skill of channeling chakra through the limbs effectively enough that he can move at jounin speed, so he may not have need for a style "He said with a sweatdrop" But his true strength lies in genjutsu, I can actually say that only Kurenai in this village can perhaps equal him in that field, because he had somehow discovered a way to use illusions without handsign, and there doesn't seem to be a way to discern how he's doing it. I personally think he has such a deep understanding of chakra that he can manipulate it to suits his every needs" The Hokage made a humming sounds "And in Ninjutsu the only thing impairing him is his scarce knowledge of jutsu. What else?" Kakashi tapped his chin in thought " Well, I have a doubt" He hesitated "I think that sometimes he is talking to the fox..."
"Oh, well spotted. Yes, I think he's been talking with the bijuu for years now, but it doesn't seem to have negative effects and he doesn't seem to have revenge impulses, so I'll let it go." The Hokage said carelessly.
"But what if-"
"Ah, there's also the fact that I made a Yamanaka scan his mind while he was asleep, and he only found that Naruto had a friendly relations with a strangely sentient and intelligent Kyuubi, or should I say Kurama? Yes, it has a name" Hiruzen clarified after seeing Kakashi's surprised expression.
"But, what you did, to Naruto no less..." Kakashi let it hang there.
"I know. But the village came first." The Hokage said with steely eyes. " And I just had to know if... If it was the fox who..." He ended in a whisper, his hat lowered to hide his guilt.
"I understand, Hokage-sama." Kakashi softly said, his head bowed.
"Dismissed"
-Demonic Changes-
Meanwhile Naruto lied on his bed, still a little angered by the mocking comments of the bridge builder.
"Yes, that's true, but I just hate being underestimated" Naruto was speaking in his mind with his tenant.
"But there's nothing wrong in being underestimated, maybe it's even an advantage!" Kurama argued. "I mean, would you prefer that your opponents underestimated you and gave you an easy fight or that they fought you at their top and beat you?"
"I..." Naruto knew the rational answer, but it would be a lie to say that he wanted easy fights. "Don't know. What I know, is that I want to be able to best anyone at their top, not because I was underestimated. But I also know that right now I can't beat everyone, so I guess I can let some misdirection do the work for me" He said hesitantly " But that doesn't mean that when someone tells me that I'm a little useless shinobi I can't be angry" He ended stubbornly, his arms crossed.
Kurama sighed. That kind of attitude wasn't planned, hell, it seemed a little like Naruto was taking after him in that regard, that kind of proud attitude was something he also shared. For some reason, the thought filled him with a bubbly feeling in his chest.
No way. Was he proud of the little meatbag?
Really unexpected.
"Then you simply need to become stronger, and remember that stronger doesn't mean simply being the one with more power, but also being cunning and intelligent, they are all factors that summed together make you strong. You can't be powerful without cunning, and you can't be cunning without power, if you want to be the strongest. So, using the situations that are presented to you doesn't mean that, even if it doesn't seems honorable, you aren't powerful, just that you're also intelligent." Kurama ended nodding.
"If you say so. But I'm already intelligent, and I know I'm strong for my age, so I don't need to use such underhanded tactics" Naruto said.
"Arrogant little ningen! Just the fact that you're saying something like that, mean that you didn't understand anything about what I just said! It doesn't matter, even if you're the strongest person on the planet it doesn't mean that you can simply stop to care about using a situation to your advantages! That would be so arrogant and stupid, not to mention childish! Grow up!" Kurama snapped his jaw once, a mad glint in his eyes that actually scared Naruto a little.
Then he seemed to return in control of himself.
"Listen, I want you to be strong, never doubt that, and I'm even starting to respect you, but you're arrogance sometimes need to be contained. You're not the strongest, you're not the smartest and you don't have nearly enough experience. You have to wait and grow up before you can stake claim to that, and I'm sure that you can do it!" Kurama grinned, a rather bloodthirsty expression for anyone who wasn't Naruto.
"Yeah I guess. Thanks Kurama, now I got to go prepare myself" Naruto grinned briefly, before he faded from the midscape.
"Tch. That brat" Kurama grumbled, but there was a small smile on his face.
-Demonic Changes-
Naruto met with the rest of Team 7 right on time, and, as usual, he had to wait for his lazy sensei to arrive.
After only ten minutes of waiting, Kakashi showed up, which prompted weird looks from his students and a relieved sigh and a "Finally" from Tazuna.
"Well, let's go" Kakashi said cheerfully, already behind the orange cover of his book.
He ordered for his genin to form a diamond formation around Tazuna, with him at the top, Sakura to the left, Naruto to the right and Sasuke to the back.
After some time of walking, Kakashi turned to his students and saw that they were still staring at him.
"What" He said in a deadpan.
"Nothing" All three genin said in unison, while still weirded out by the strange fact that was a Kakashi only ten minutes late.
After a brief lunch on the road, the five person group walked for another hour, till Kakashi noted something strange.
"Mh, a puddle, and it hasn't rained in days" Kakashi really wanted to roll his eyes, but he managed to keep his face emotionless.
He subtly looked behind him to see if anybody else noticed anything. Sakura was still busy looking around in wonderment, and she was obviously clueless of the danger ahead, while Naruto was not-so-subtly looking at the puddle and then at him, repeatedly, with a growing expression of comical dread on his face. He couldn't really see Sasuke from his position, because Tazuna was in the way, so he didn't know if the Uchiha was aware of the situation.
No matter, their opponent was obviously an amateur.
It could be a way to test his little genin, he thought, and so, just as two ninja -missing nin from the hidden mist, he noticed- wrapped their chains around him, he used a perfect Kawarimi interlaced with a genjutsu, escaping from their grasp and hiding in the trees surrounding them.
Naruto briefly didn't understand what happened, but then he found that he could still sense his sensei suppressed chakra, so he ignored Sakura screech of "SENSEI" and the monotonous and almost robotic "One down" that came from one of the ninja.
"SASUKE!" He shouted " Take the one on the right!" He saw the other boy nod from the corner of his eyes, but he was already dashing against his opponent, which he could see he had visibly surprised.
On the other side he could see Sasuke opening with shuriken, that impacted against the strange chain-like weapon that linked the two ninja they were pitted against, ironically bringing them with it till the shuriken hit a tree, and also distancing Naruto from his enemy, making him overextend his punch.
Meanwhile the two Demon Brothers freed themselves by breaking the chain in two, and one was quick to act on Naruto moment of imbalance, bringing his bladed gauntlet dripping with poison near his chin.
Just as it was about to hit him though, the blond haired ninja managed to pull a Kawarimi which brought him behind his enemy, a log in his place.
He spared a moment to scowl in Sasuke direction, before he launched himself at his opponent, a right kick rapidly sent at the missing nin mid-section, which made him crumble on himself, but he wasn't a chuunin for nothing, and another fist was sent at him, which he had to use his left leg to deflect, leaving him standing on his arms.
Here he had a strange idea.
He twisted himself and added a little wind natured chakra to his twist, which had the effect of pushing the enemy's arms away, while the missing nin obviously anchored himself with chakra at his feet, but the suddenness of the move was enough for Naruto to land two square kicks on the man jaw, which were strong enough to send him to the ground, spittle and blood flying off his mouth.
He rapidly got up, but by then Naruto had the time to ensnare him in a distorting genjutsu, which made him stumble for a moment, but it was enough for the Konoha ninja to land a powerful punch his head, along with something he improvised at the moment. A simple chakra pulse in the brain, with the intent to shut down his consciousness.
Somehow, he had successfully combined taijutsu and genjutsu.
He looked to his right, where Sasuke was locked in a power struggle with the other ninja, and quickly sent a kunai in that direction.
The two jumped away from each other to avoid the projectile weapon, which sailed uselessly in the void created by the two.
Naruto went near Sasuke, and prepared himself for the struggle, exactly like the Uchiha.
But just then, Kakashi jumped from his hiding place and in a show of terrifying ease knocked out the missing nin.
"Well, I hope that I won't need to find answer from these rogue ninja, right Tazuna-san?" Kakashi asked politely, a tinge of Killing Intent to show he was serious.
The bridge builder started to sweat.
"I don't know anything about them!" He blurted out.
"Really, do you take me for a fool?" The killing intent grew.
Silence.
A sweatdrop slowly descended the side of Tazuna's face, till he lowered his head and consequently make it fall.
So he wowed a tale of a tyrant, named Gato, who was one of the richest men in the world, about how he subjugated Wave to his will by taking control of the sea and the trade, leaving the nation at his whims and poor, about how the bridge he was building was the only hope of his country and about how they would cry if they didn't get help and blah blah blah.
As one Team 7 sighed.
"Now my conscience won't let me refuse to continue" Sakura mumbled.
Meanwhile Sasuke and Naruto were arguing.
"Who do you think you are! You almost made me get killed!" Naruto shouted in Sasuke face, their forehead touching.
"What?! I was simply trying to get them both in one move, what's wrong with that?!" Sasuke rebutted.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe I said you were supposed to handle the one on the RIGHT! NOT BOTH" Naruto started mocking and ended shouting.
"Well, you're not the squad leader, you don't order me around." Sasuke scowled.
Naruto bristled, and then they were forcibly separated by a smiling Kakashi.
"Don't mind them, they are just so happy to continue the mission." Kakashi smiled at Tazuna " Well, let me officially say that Team 7 is happy to continue your mission, even if you don't deserve it." Kakashi said cheerfully, while a sweatdrop formed on Tazuna's head.
Author Notes:
It's been some time, but I'm just too lazy and my mind is too full of ideas. Anyway, what I'm really interested about is what you think of the general relations between my character, are they believable? Are they stupid? I don't know, because I'm the author I'm too biased to give a honest opinion.
And I really want to know what you think about the fight, short as it was. I didn't really have enough material from the Demon Brothers to make it as exciting as could be, but meh, I tried.
You could have noticed that it was a little short this chapter, but that's because this is setting for the Wave Arc, which I really want to hurry to end and get on finally with ideas more my own and less canon. It's obvious that my Naruto is different than canon Naruto, and even Sakura is (if you have noticed that she didn't ask useless questions that she should already know, a cookie for you :), so it's impossible that the story would go exactly the same as canon.
I'll fucking change it a lot after this.
