NARUTO: Konoha gakurenosato no mesu kitsune

(The Female Fox of the Village Hidden in the Leaves)

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-Daiyonshō: Akademī e yōkoso-

Naruko was asleep peacefully on her bed, the sky still dark, the stars still twinkling far off reflecting on the snow outside as if the snow itself were the stars above. The morning was calm, still even, not a sound other than the hollow wisp of Winter winds which occasionally scraped the building letting out a dull whistling howl, barely audible to the human ear. Naruko's room was warm, at the perfect temperature for someone to sleep with a blanket on and feel like they had someone snuggling up against them, then suddenly Naruko stirred to a state of readiness, Naruko looked around with a scrutinizing gaze, nothing escaped her gaze only for her to find nothing, she looked at the clock only to see that it was exactly 04:30 the same time she has woken up every morning since joining the academy. Despite waking for no apparent reason again she wasn't angry, quite the opposite in fact, she was glad since it meant that she could go hunt, do some training, get a meal at Ichiraku's and still have some spare time before class. Naruko started her day by counting her tails to make sure both were there as well as to see if another one appeared, because Kurama explained the tails as extra Chakra pools that were only larger by a certain margin so the seals wouldn't recognize them as a major influence on strength, but also that each tail has an ability attached to it because of the demonic type Chakra as well as a mix of Yin-Yang Chakra.

Naruko may be smarter than your average bear but neither her nor Kurama had an exact idea on what powers she would get or why she would get them, all she knew is that more strength meant that she could stop pretending sooner, as it stood Naruko intended to pretend to be a boy as well as pretend to be dumb until she was at least Tokubetsu Jonin. Naruko chuckled to herself about the fact that she and Shikamaru are both the smartest kids in the class, but are either too lazy or just pretending to be dumb. Sasuke was smart, he was also a great friend. Itachi also hung around and trained Sasuke as well as Naruko from time to time, Itachi started spending more time with his brother in recent times which was awesome since that meant Naruko would be able to see some awesome things when they got to hang out. Naruko then quickly warmed up some water with a Chakra fire to speed it up, she got undressed in the steamy room and quickly washed up to wake up more and prepare for the day. Naruko thought while washing her hair after dropping the Henge to clean her entirety, about how shocking it was to find out that she had an affinity for all the elements, the paper even did things no one had ever seen before. First the paper split into fourths before one of the pieces burnt to ashes, one turned into an Earthen dirt, another was filled with water to a point where it was dripping water, while the last one crumpled so violently that it jumped from her hands. It was quite an interesting experience.

Naruko worked the Shampoo into her roots and scalp to prevent dandruff as well as give her hair a beautiful glow near the base since that is what most people saw of her hair. She then washed her hair out before getting the conditioner on her hair, especially around the tips to prevent split ends before continuing to clean her skin, which even though she had never gotten so much as a a dry spot before even when she'd go weeks without being able to get cleaned, she was NOT going to take any chances. Despite the fact no one else knows Naruko is a girl she still takes great care of her body, more so than most but at the same time not taking more than a few minutes for each thing, unlike some of Naruko's classmates, Naruko's left eyebrow twitched at the thought of a few people. Naruko was glad there weren't any fan girls or anything at the academy, probably because she'd heard horror stories about fangirls being absolutely mental, it made Naruko shiver if only for a moment. Naruko rinsed her hair again before getting dressed in her usual attire a black battle kimono, black ANBU pants, four ninja tool pouches, one on each thigh with two attached at the belt behind her, dark blue Shinobi sandals, her necklace and black gloves. Before she put the Henge back up she looked in the mirror, still surprised by how tanned she was, it was almost as if she'd been running around naked outside for years. Naruko quickly put up a Henge changing her appearance to be that of a shorter boy with the same skin tone, with short spiky blonde hair, normal pupils instead of her slitted azure blue eyes, her whisker marks less defined, teeth slightly less pointy, shortened nails instead of nearly two inch long claws, wearing a mostly orange jumpsuit with some blue highlights with the Uzumaki clan symbol on the back, as well as shoulder mounted white Uzumaki swirls, a necklace, orange pants, only one pouch on his right thigh, and blue opened-toed shinobi sandals. The only things that Naruko really kept the same was her skin tone and her necklace, but with that she set off before she fell behind schedule.

Naruko quickly shot off to go to the forest again hoping that she could get a few more things this time around so she could get more meat ready both to take home and sell what she wasn't going to be able to eat in a timely manner. Naruko was also excited to get the pelts which actually garnered a lot of her income, the very thought of it was exciting to Naruko. Naruko started to look around a little to take in the look of everything, it was only 05:00 now the Sun still not in site, the only indication that morning was near was the light blue spotted near the horizon, the sky was clear of clouds, maybe a few Cirrus far out but other than that the sky was filled with stars. The cool crisp air would usually flick anyone who went out in it, especially someone as lightly dressed as Naruko, but something everyone with Chakra can do is keep warm using it, though many don't use this ability. Naruko always was curious about why, but then again for someone with a very limited amount of Chakra any use outside combat might not be worth it, and with that final thought Naruko reached the gates, "Hi Kotetsu, Izumo." Both were playing cards when she appeared, "Oh hey Naruko, going hunting again ay?" Izumo spoke up first, "Yeah," Naruko said while rubbing the back over her head and chuckling sheepishly, "Just remember to get back here before class starts," Kotetsu said, "I know, I know, I won't be here any later than six, Dattebayo." Naruko said while waving them off and heading out. With that Naruko set off at high speeds towards the forest again which wouldn't take more than a few minutes at this speed.

Naruko keeping pace noticed just how beautiful everything looked, from the trees covered in snow to the evergreens still showing color in an otherwise grayscale environment, looking closer she could see rainbows on every reflection of light in the snow. Approaching the clearing Naruko noticed some fresh tracks in the snow, they weren't human tracks so she ignored them for now, Naruko then made the crossing hand sign that was very identifiable, "Fukusū kage bunshin-jutsu" (Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu), quickly a puff of smoke nearly 2,000 clones appeared before Naruko. One hundred to work on each elemental affinity training, five hundred working on the Hiraishin to perfect it, fifty to capture her next meal as well as her main source of income, one hundred fifty to work on Ninjutsu as well as hand signs, one hundred fifty to work on Taijutsu, two hundred working on casting Genjutsu, two hundred fifty working on breaking Genjutsu, and the last three hundred working on Fuinjutsu. Naruko got all of them doing what they needed to do while she did her physical training, since the last major increase a few months ago she only added ten to everything every day except for the sprint, she only added ten miles to that once weekly, all the seals were also much tougher.


Naruko Stats (sealed):

Speed- Mid Chunin

Stamina- High Jonin

Chakra Control- Low Kage

Chakra reserves- Low Beast, roughly two times Sarutobi with just one of the pools.

Ninjutsu- Mid Chunin, due to amount of chakra, many Jutsus are hard to master.

Genjutsu- High Jonin, due to amount of chakra, making them is hard but hard to break.

Taijutsu- High Chunin, many stances even advanced stances

KenJutsu- Apprentice Genin, due to no teacher
Intelligence- IQ 130
Stealth- Mid Chunin

Reaction speed- High Chunin, her brain is still developing.

KI (Killing Intent)- Low Chunin


Naruko Stats (unsealed):

Speed- Low Kage

Stamina- High Kage

Chakra Control- Low Kage

Chakra reserves- Low Beast, roughly two times Sarutobi with just one of the pools.

Ninjutsu- Mid Chunin, due to amount of chakra, many Jutsus are hard to master.

Genjutsu- High Jonin, due to amount of chakra, making them is hard but hard to break.

Taijutsu- High Chunin, many stances even advanced stances

KenJutsu- Apprentice Genin, due to no teacher
Intelligence- IQ 130
Stealth- Seasoned ANBU

Reaction speed- High Chunin, her brain is still developing.

KI (Killing Intent)- Low Chunin


~Thirty minutes later~

Naruko's hunter clones came back with two large boars that dwarfed her, Naruko wondered how she would get them in the gates if it weren't for her scrolls, she shook her head at the thought, she had her all her clones but four dispel, the remaining clones cut small holes near a major blood vessel in the hind legs of the boars and then another slightly larger one near the artery in the necks of the boars. She then had two clones hold jars near the smaller holes while the other two pulled water from the snow and forced it through the circulatory system of the boar cleaning it out while collecting the boar blood to be processed into Chakra infused ink. After collecting the blood in jars the clones placed them in a scroll before handing them over to the original, and then they increased the pressure slightly to remove the blood vessels as well as remove any diseased tissue near them before placing them in a scroll as well. The process took all ten minutes for both the boars, she knew how to skin them and butcher them thanks to Kurama and one of the nice butchers at the Sabaku (Combination of Kanji for Great Meats) butcher stand, they always gave a fair price for the goods Naruko sold as well since she was the one who brought in the largest amount of money, and also because they were unaware of Kurama being sealed into her. Naruko snapped out of her thoughts after realizing that she had no idea how long she had been standing there, looking at her watch she realized that she only had ten minutes before she needed to be back at the gates.

Naruko sprinted harder than she did during training to get to the gates by the time she said she would be there, she hit a patch of ice and skid along the ground of a flooded part for about one hundred feet before getting back to sprinting blushing a little even though no one saw it, "Nice recovery kit," Kurama said with a chuckle making Naruko blush even more furiously, 'T-Tou-san, I thought you were still asleep,' Naruko said into the mind-link while she ran, "It was hard to sleep with your mind racing earlier." Kurama said matter-of-factly, 'My mind was racing earlier?' Naruko thought confused, not sure what she was thinking about earlier, Kurama smirked which Naruko couldn't see, as soon as it clicked Kurama was already speaking, "Oh yeah, you were thinking about th-" Naruko cut him off, 'N-no idea what you're talking about, now go back to sleep Tou-san.' Naruko said through the mind-link her face turned a deep red color. Naruko managed to get her blush under control just before reaching the gate, "Hi Kotetsu, hey Izumo." Both of the eternal Chunin looked up from their game, "Yo Naruko, Kotetsu spoke up, "Back already?" Izumo asked sarcastically, "I never go back on my word, that's my Nindo, my ninja way, Dattebayo." Naruko said with conviction, the Eternal Chunin smiled, "Hai, hai, now get ready for classes they start in just under an hour, that should be enough time right?" Kotetsu spoke out, Naruko just nodded before waving while heading off towards the butcher's.

Walking up to Subaku's Butcher Stand she got disgusted looks by a few villagers who happened to be out in the early hours of the morning, opening the doors to the rather spacious store Naruko called out, "Hello? Subaru? Emilia?" Naruko continued walking forwards into the store, "Hai!" A woman could be heard from the back, "Just a moment," she said while walking towards the counter, "Hi Emilia, I brought some rather large things this time around again." Naruko said while rubbing the back of her head sheepishly, "Oh hi Naruko, come on to the back and place it down then, did you skin it this time?" Emilia asked, Naruko started walking to the back with Emilia, "No, I didn't have time since I have to get to the Academy soon." Naruko said rather plainly but with a familiar tone, "Oh that's right, I wish you well on your studies, and look forward to working with you again, you really are our best business partner." Emilia said with a smile, Naruko brought out the two boar and placed them down both of them taking up a large portion of the storage room they were in, "You weren't kidding when you said that they were rather large," Emilia said with a slight chuckle, "Don't worry about the money for right now, just let me know how much they're worth after it's appraised." Naruko said with a smile, "Wilco," Emilia said while straightening her body, putting her heels together with her feet at a forty-five degree angle, with her left hand in a fist with her thumb in line with her joints along her pointer finger's joints with her right hand looking like a knife angled slightly at her brow. Both Naruko and Emilia laughed a bit from the over-the-top response.

Naruko waved on her way out, as she ran down the street she got an idea, an evil foxy grin spread across her face as she ran into an alley before making fifty clones, they all used a Henge to look like normal villagers when Naruko jumped to the rooftops while the others just walked out of the alley way or Shushined to other parts of the village, Naruko summoned a few foxes. One of the foxes had red fur with white ears as well as the tip of their tail being white, another was an all black fox with white eyes, the next an all white fox with black eyes, the last being a white fox with blue ear tips and a blue tipped tail, "Hello Aka, Kuro, Shiro, and Ao," Naruko called to them from left to right, "I take it you have good pranks in store for today Naruko-sama?" Kuro asked with an evil grin, "Oh you know it," Naruko said, her grin getting darker, "This is so exciting, everything you've done so far just seems to get more interesting as time goes on, I. LOVE. IT!" Stated a very, uh… Excited, that's the right word, a very excited fox by the name Shiro, "Yes, I want you to go to Iruka-Sensei's house and move some of his most used things, but not enough for it to be overly obvious they were moved, just enough to make him look for them." All the foxes stared at each other, "Naruko-sama that is evil, it's less of a prank and more of an inconvenience," Ao said, "Subarashi," said Aka, "Oh yes, I absolutely LOVE, when you make things harder for other people, even if it's only a little," Said Shiro, "Calm it down Shiro, please excuse her, you already know that she's a little… Loopy, but whatever you say kid, I look forward to seeing the results." Kuro said, "Hajime." Naruko said loudly and the foxes dispersed to get to their target, leaving a very happy looking Naruko on the rooftop of an apartment complex near the redlight district.

Naruko made her way to the academy slowly but surely meeting with Sasuke, Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji, Hinata, Ino and Sakura. Despite Hinata and Saukra's parents being adamant on not allowing them to hang out with Naruko, they all went to the same school and became quite friendly with each other over their few months there. As they walked while talking they somehow got to the topic of what they want their teams to look like, "Thinking about it is a real drag." Shikamaru stated, "They're going to stick Ino, Choji and myself together no doubt about that." Shikamaru finished, Choji continued eating while nodding slightly, and Ino nodded in total agreement since her father said something along those same lines. Hinata looked down at the ground without saying anything, Sasuke said that he didn't care who he had on his team as long as it was one of his friends, Kiba agree but he added something, "I agree Sasuke, but if I had to choose anyone I'd say Naruko here," everyone looked at him for a moment before looking at each other, and finally looking at Naruko who just stared back. The rest of the walk was mostly them talking about things like food, or the newest additions to the business district, well, mostly Choji was talking about the food at least. Closing in on the school they all got ready for the day.


~Academy Main Entrance 06:50~

The group of four made their way to the entrance with time to spare, people were out front playing in the snow, while others were heading inside because they didn't know how to use Chakra to keep warm, or because they were tired. The group walked in to get to their homeroom class which they happened to have with Iruka while passing by some other kids, some of whom were older. Naruko received a few glares from some of the older students but nothing that really fazed Naruko in the slightest, so she pretended not to notice. Entering the room she took a seat near the back next to a window, next to her was Kiba and Hinata. After everyone settled into their seats Naruko spoke up, "I don't know why but I'm getting a feeling that Iruka-Sensei will be late today." She said with a dull expression, everyone stared at her for a second before everyone started laughing, "Iruka-Sensei is never late, not once since meeting him has he even been just on time," Said a short black-haired kid with black eyes near the door on the other side of the room, "You're right, I just feel like something's going to happen, but I don't know what," Naruko said with a slight shrug. Everyone just sat in silence for the next few minutes while the rest of the kids took their seats, filling in the entire classroom. A few of the students started getting antsy at the fact that Iruka hadn't shown up yet even though it was only a minute past the usual starting time, while others didn't have a care in the world.

After nearly twenty minutes of waiting the tension was palpable, lingering in the rather ornate classroom. A few of the kids actually started sweating, thinking about how right Naruko was. Everyone collectively stopped breathing when they heard footsteps approaching the classroom. The tension continued to sky-rocket with every step they heard, "D-do you think it's Iruka-Sensei?" One of the kids asked quietly, "N-no way man, Iruka-Sensei never stomps like that," another one stated. Soon all the kids started muttering to each other before they heard a loud scratch and a slam. Everyone froze as soon as they heard the scratching of the door being flung open, everyone kept their eyes shut and sat still hoping that whoever it was wasn't going to hurt them. The steps got to the front of the class before someone finally spoke, "Hey Iruka-Sensei," with a smirk Naruko continued her statement, "What took you so long?" Everyone started breathing again before looking at Iruka, he had brown hair, lightly tanned skin, a scar horizontally across the bridge of his nose, his dark brown hair that looks black was in a ponytail, his eyes were dark, he had bags under his eyes, his Chunin Flak vest was open, as was the fly to his blue ANBU style pants. Iruka stared at Naruko for a moment before speaking, "Why I'm late doesn't matter, what does matter is that I teach you all." He said with a tick mark forming on his head, "We're going to be working on Taijutsu this period, everyone walk towards the training area in the back single file on the left side of the hall." Everyone got up and did as they were told. "Iruka-Sensei is very upset about something," Hinata stated, "Looks like he's been stressed, Hell, he already looks almost like an old man." Kiba said with a chuckle.

As they got to the back they were surprised to see it was well shoveled, as if it hadn't snowed at all, "Alright, I'm going to call two people at a time to come to the ring, you lose if you make contact out of the ring, fall on your back for more than three seconds, or if I see that you otherwise would have lost the engagement." Iruka said loudly, "First up is Kiba and Tawama," both fighters got into the ring, ready for the fight while showing their respects as shinobi, "Hajime." Both Kiba and Tawama rushed each other, Tawama tried to hook Kiba's legs with a low sweep but the Inuzuka cross-checked Tawama before punching him in the face, "Winner, Inuzuka Kiba," Kiba helped Tawama up before Iruka spoke again, "Shikamaru and Natsu," Both walked into the ring, "I'm all fired up," said the pink haired boy, "Man this is a drag, can't I just forfeit?" Shikamaru asked, Iruka looked at him with an eyebrow twitching, "No, you have to participate," Shikamaru sighed upon hearing this, "Man, this really is a drag." "Hajime." As soon as Iruka started the match Natsu rushed Shikamaru while he backed up slowly with his eyes closed. Natsu with his fist outstretched was about to reach the young Nara until he suddenly realized that the Nara was no long in front of his fist, but about a foot to the left now, "Winner, Nara Shikamaru," Iruka said, with a tick mark on his forehead again, "Man, that was a drag." Shikamaru said while stepping out of the ring. "Sakura and Sasuke," They both entered the ring in a ready stance, "Hajime." Both eyed each other for a moment before Sakura moved in, she landed a hit on Sasuke's stomach before getting thrown from the ring at high speeds, "Winner Uchiha Sasuke," Everyone stared in shock for a moment, but then Iruka spoke, "Naruko and Choji," As they both walked up Naruko noticed another teacher in the hall stare for a moment before ducking away, "Hi Choji, don't hold back okay?" Naruko asked politely, "I don't want to hurt you though," Choji replied, "Hajime," Choji immediately came at Naruko with surprising speed for his size.

Naruko blocked the hit, and because of the seals her weight was more than everyone there combined, she barely even felt the hit, she then used an open palmed strike to Choji's stomach, which sent him out of the ring, "Winner Uzumaki Naruko," Naruko helped Choji up before Iruka said something, "Alright, we have to go back in for next period, you know the drill." Everyone shuffled in quietly through the halls getting all their stuff and getting ready for their next classes, Kiba, Hinata, Sakura and Naruko were in the next class together so they all walked down the hall to Mizuki's class on Ninjutsu where they all sat together again, Naruko yawned before class began as did a few other students, but then Mizuki pointed to her, "Since you find my class so boring, wait in the hall." Kiba and Hinata stared at him in disbelief, before they spoke up Naruko just patted them on the shoulders, all the while Sakura just sat in silence confused. Naruko walked into the hall where she sat down, Mizuki closed the door before beginning the lecture but Naruko just listened through the door, "Alright, you already know the fundamentals of Chakra, such as the two separate Chakra energies, Physical and Spiritual. Today we're going over hand signs, and a few basic Jutsu you can master on your own." Naruko could hear a pause with a few people shuffling some papers, "Let's start with the easiest of the three Jutsu, Henge no Jutsu. The hand signs are as follows. Inu. Inoshishi. Hitsuji. Now everyone practice the Jutsu at your seats, remember that this is a must have for graduation." Mizuki said the last part slightly louder to make sure Naruko heard it, "When you make a Henge you must have a very clear image in mind of what you want to look like, incomplete images or a fuzzy image will result in a sloppy Henge. The Henge is basically a mask made of Chakra, the control needed isn't very much since your thoughts directly influence the appearance, and you don't need massive reserves because it only masks your appearance, it doesn't change it." Mizuki finished as the other kids were trying to get the Henge right, then Naruko got an idea.

Roughly two minutes later Hiruzen entered Mizuki's classroom with Naruko behind him, "Mizuki," said a tired Hiruzen, "H-Hokage-Sama?" Said both Mizuki and half of the class completely exasperated, Hiruzen just raised a hand in a wait a moment gesture, "Why was Naruko here out in the hall?" Hiruzen said while motioning to Naruko, W-well Hokage-Sama, she was being a disruption during class." Mizuki said with a confident tone, "Is that so? Well then, I'll leave you to it, I actually came here to see someone else." Hiruzen walked out while Mizuki motioned for Naruko to return to her seat, albeit reluctantly. The rest of the class was spent with everyone learning the Henge, with Naruko giving quiet pointers to Hinata, Kiba and Akamaru, "Picture looking in a mirror, but change the mirror from seeing your own face, to the face of someone else," everyone within earshot of it got the Henge no Jutsu down immediately afterwards. A few moments later Naruko let a small grin reach her face, she just got the memories of the Henge Bunshin she made earlier, Iruka was now going to investigate all the teachers for a traitor as well as report behavior against her to Hiruzen. The first part was to get some laughs out of it while also getting some payback on the teachers who had always been mean to her. Mizuki continued with his lessons, "For those of you who already got the Henge no Jutsu down, now you're going to work on the Bunshin no Jutsu, the hand signs are, Hitsuji. Hebi. Tora." Mizuki said while writing the signs on the board and demonstrating, "After you push chakra out through your coils you make the hand signs shaping your chakra appropriately," He said while slowly doing the hand signs for everyone to see, "It doesn't take much control to use this jutsu since the Bunshin works no matter how much Chakra you put into it, only people with Chakra reserves lower than Low Genin, or above Low Kage have issues with this Jutsu." Mizuki finished waiting for the question he knew would be coming.

"But Mizuki-Sensei, how does having too much Chakra make it difficult to use a Jutsu?" Asked Tawama, "Good question Tawama, does anyone else know the answer?" Mizuki asked, looking over the class with a critical eye, when finally a hand went up, "Ah, Haruno Sakura." Mizuki said while pointing to her still raised hand, Sakura stood up and spoke, "It's because a Bunshin filled with too much Chakra can't form properly, because unlike a Bijuu, they were created using different means. The control required to make a Bunshin with anything more than Low Kage reserves is only seen in Low Jonin or above Medic-Nin." Sakura stated, Mizuki was honestly stunned by how spot on her answer was, "Very good Sakura, that's exactly right." Many people made a mental note to ask Sakura for help studying in the future, "Now everyone who is done with the Henge no Jutsu start on the Bunshin no Jutsu, if you have issues you can ask me or our all star student here." He said while gesturing to Sakura, a few people like Sakura got it right away, while some people weren't channeling enough Chakra, then there was Naruko… She was still pretending to be dumb and she knew she wouldn't be able to do a normal Bunshin. She instead made a Bunshin that had no color to it, and was more akin to a Cirrus cloud, a few people chuckled while Kiba tried to stifle a laugh while placing a hand on Naruko's Shoulder. Mizuki had a little glint in his eyes at this, though the reason why could only really be speculated

Kiba attempted to make a Bunshin but instead of a clone he got a slightly off-colored version of himself that made a weird noise, only audible to those really close to it. It sounded almost like a duck farting, while to others it sounded like someone blowing through a straw while slightly pinching the other end. It quickly dispelled after turning its head to the person who created it, it had a somewhat sour expression. A few others put too little Chakra into their Bunshin making them otherwise off in one way or another. Everyone started to chuckle a bit at the amount of Bunshin failures and just how wacky they could get, one of them even had a rainbow afro for some reason. As the laughter died down Mizuki spoke again, "Now can anyone, other than Sakura, tell me why these E-Rank Jutsu are essential to a Ninja?" Sakura pouted at first before she realized that it was actually an honor to not be called on, a slightly older boy with brown hair and black eyes raised his hand, "Ah, Uchiha Shinsei." He said pointing to Shinsei, "The Henge Jutsu because it could be used to deceive enemy-nin, gather information, or infiltrate an outpost. The Bunshin is useful as a distraction, or as a means of making a deception more convincing, Mizuki-Sensei." Mizuki nodded, "That is correct, very good answer Shinsei." Mizuki stated as he checked the time, "Alright everyone, time for your next classes, I know it's a few minutes early but, I know that some of you also need time to go take care of things between classes," Mizuki said looking at Kiba, and a few other students who held in the urge to go to the bathroom for the class time, all looked relieved before running off.

Kiba was out of the classroom before anyone had time to say anything else, he was far quicker than the other students as well, 'What's with boys and having to go to the bathroom so much?' Naruko thought, "Hey Kit, keep in mind that the roles will be reversed soon." Kurama chimed in, only slightly startling Naruko, 'Oh hey Tou-san, I thought you'd be asleep at this time.' Naruko said through the link, "Actually kit, you thought about-" 'We get it!' Naruko screamed through the link, almost screaming out loud as she stood up. She had the next class with Sasuke, Kiba and Shikamaru, the only problem was their sensei. Naruko sighed at the thought of the next class which was just sad. She continued to walk to class where she bumped into Sasuke and a still sleeping Shikamaru on his back, Naruko raised an eyebrow before speaking, "Getting real friendly already are we?" She said with a cheeky smile, "Shut up, I lost a bet is all, and we're classmates." Sasuke said with a pout and a critical eye, "Hehehe, don't worry Sasuke, I was just joking, now let's get to class before Moena-Sensei chops us into bits." Sasuke frowned at hearing that teacher's name, if she could be called a teacher in their eyes.

By all means of definition, she was a bitch, a big, fat, stupid bitch, like Kyle's mom. As they got to the class Moena stopped Naruko from entering the class, "Stop. Right. There." She said, Sasuke stared at her before Naruko just nodded her head to the room, afterwhich Sasuke entered, "You're not going into that room, you're not going to listen in, you're going to go instead sit with your head down at that table," She said whilst pointing to a picnic table out in the snow, Naruko just nodded, leaving a smug looking Moena. Naruko smirked at this after turning her back, compliance can be malicious. Naruko had already set in motion her downfall, as she walked out she dropped a paper in front of a room, she also decided that some pranks were in order while she waited. So she placed a trap or two for an unlucky few before making her way out through the main door, laughing all the way.

Now that she was by the table in question she decided to use her element manipulation on the snow to make snowmen with her head down as instructed, all while channeling her Chakra to stay warm. She found that keeping snow as snow while manipulating it was difficult, while she tried to move it, it heated up for some reason. It was aggravating, slowly but surely she made a few snowmen which turned into icemen very quickly as the snow was packed while being slightly melted, freezing over again under compression. "Some target practice couldn't hurt," Naruko mumbled, Naruko made a total of thirty icemen which took almost the entire class time to do before grabbing some Senbon from her left thigh pouch, "Might as well try… Damn books though, why can't we have someone in the village who uses this?" Naruko muttered to herself, she channeled Chakra to her fingers and then connected them to the Senbon. She started moving her fingers slowly to figure out how to properly use the Chakra Strings she had attached to them, she missed the Iceman by at least a meter, the second one was two meters the other side of it the next time, so she started slower by just getting them to be able to move in a controlled manner. She could smell someone coming though so she retracted the Senbon to her and put them away before they could see her, "Naruko?" Asked a familiar voice, "Hi Iruka-Sensei." Naruko said with a smile aimed at the young Chunin, "What are you doing out here?" Iruka asked with a serious tone, 'Line and sinker,' Naruko thought, "Oh, Moena-Sensei told me to come out here with my head down for class today," Naruko said in a plain tone almost like she was asking a question, Iruka was visibly frustrated by this, "I see," is all Iruka said before going back inside.

Naruko wasn't sure what to think about that one, she wasn't sure if he was angry on her behalf, or because he had to deal with it now. But she could definitely feel his anger, despite still being a novice at sensing emotions, now that she was done sealing Moena's fate she continued working with the Chakra strings. Only a moment later did she smell food throughout the air, mainly people opening Bento boxes for lunch, Naruko just grabbed some meat from a containment scroll. Naruko just threw the uncooked meat into her mouth without a care, reveling in the taste of the meat, it was practically melting on her tongue. Naruko was still saddened though since she wanted to eat lunch with her friends, but they had to stay in their classes for lunch before they could move to their next class. Naruko didn't mind missing Moena's class since it was Calligraphy, a subject that Naruko was already okay in. It was her next class that she really wanted to be a part of, a stealth class.

Naruko could be very sneaky but they also learned a few things to help hide their Chakra and Aura, making them nearly invisible to Sensor-nin. Many other kids didn't care about learning that since they wanted to just fight because they thought they wouldn't be able to die or what not, 'Fools, everyone of them,' Naruko thought, to which Kurama agreed. Naruko made her way back to the building after a few more minutes in thought, maybe she'd get to listen in on this class, "Hopefully Shiraishi-Sensei will let me in this time." Naruko said with a sigh, knowing that it was impossible. The next class she had with Shikamaru, Hinata, and Shino, who for whatever reason is ignored by almost everyone. As she approached the door it opened, "Get in." Shiraishi said in his usual gruff voice, it took everyone by shock, but none more than Naruko herself. She stood there with her jaw loose, her eyes narrowed before she quickly entered the room before he changed his mind, "Most of you know the basics of erasing your presence," Shiraishi said while looking at Naruko, "The principle is simple, changes in air pressure, light, or sound are physical cues of your presence, but the other is your Chakra." He finished while closing his eyes, Shiraishi was a big man with a weird tattoo on his arm, he always wore short sleeved shirts, usually in the color black. He was at least six feet tall, lots of muscle, very stealthy, had gray eyes, shoulder length light-brown hair and a scar running down one of his eyes.

Shiraishi was one scary man, he was probably the second or third strongest ninja in Konoha at the moment, behind Itachi and Sarutobi of course. Shiraishi could tell that Naruko had already mastered physical stealth, he was more observant than almost any other Ninja in Konoha, "Today we're starting on hiding your Chakra, it's not easy, and this isn't graded." Shiraishi said the last part with his hand raised in front of him, "To reduce your Chakra signature, you must start by manipulating your Chakra in a way to pull it inwards. A Sensor-nin detects you by how much Chakra you send out, or are leaking; if you get good enough at it, you become invisible to a Sensor-nin, since they rely entirely on your signature." Shiraishi said before thinking for a second, "There is another way that they can detect you, but we'll cover that in another class, for now, we're all going to do Chakra control exercises." Everyone groaned a little at this, "Hey, Chakra Control is a major part of being a Ninja, the better your control, the more Jutsu you can use. Not only that, but if you get good enough at controlling your Chakra you can heal wounds." At that a few people actually got excited, Shiraishi however put his hand up again, "I'm not a Medic-nin so I can't help with Medical-Jutsu, but I can get you enough control to become one." Shiraishi said with a smile, not a smile that one would want to see, an evil smile which shouted danger to anyone with common sense.

Shiraishi spoke up, "Everyone grab a pencil," everyone did as they were told, not really sure why they were grabbing them, "Now, I want all of you to use your Chakra to hold that pencil to your body, the easiest place to do so is by your palms, then by your fingertips, then by your stomach, lastly the hardest is on your feet, preferably on the tips of your toes." Everyone was confused about why this would be hard until someone was being dumb, " That's easy, watch," Shiraishi stared at the young boy smirking at him. To everyone's shock he started on his toe, the pencil immediately exploded sending pencil shrapnel into the wall where he was pointing it, "Do you now see the error you made?" Shiraishi smirked even bigger than before, the kid with a horrified expression nodded, "Listen up, I'm going to say it only once, the secret is something so simple that once you know it you'll question yourself on how it wasn't the first thing to mind." As soon as he finished, he walked out the door, "I'll be back, don't kill each other while I'm out." Everyone was left speechless, confused even. Naruko started at her palm, using the least amount of Chakra possible, it stuck, she did the same to her finger, it stuck again, she put it to her stomach and it blew apart the pencil, luckily in no one's direction, 'Seems the stomach might actually be the hardest one for me,' Naruko thought to herself, she grabbed another one and placed it to her foot near the ball, it didn't stick when the used the minimum amount, it confused Naruko a little, when she put a little more chakra into it, the pencil cracked, not an explosion but still a little too much. She might be great at controlling and channeling her chakra, but she never expected such a discrepancy between a fraction of a percent. She thought out loud, "Why don't we just start at the minimum amount of Chakra possible and slowly work our way up?" Shocking everyone in the room, since she had never had such a great idea in all the time they knew her. Because of this, everyone stared at her for a moment, Naruko could sense the stares, "Did I say that out loud?" Some people deadpanned a few others just nodded slowly, and soon a few more pencils exploded, one person getting a little shrapnel in their foot.

As the class was about to end, she noticed that almost everyone else got the hang of it, even the people who had no interest in doing so at the beginning, minus a sleeping Nin. Naruko rolled her eyes at Shikamaru who had not woken up since getting to class, Shiraishi walked through the door and congratulated everyone for working hard, "Alright, time for your last class of the day, be on your way, go." Sasuke carried Shikamaru out which got him some weird looks from the other Uchiha, and Shiraishi, "I need to speak with you Naruko." Naruko froze when she heard this, "Hai, Shiraishi-Sensei?" Her nervousness was building, but she didn't let it show, "Are you smart, or just incredibly dumb?" Shiraishi asked dead serious, Naruko looked at him for a moment before responding, "What?" Shiraishi smiled, "Listen Gaki, I've seen many people come through here, no one has ever come up with that as quick as you did. Not only that, but your test scores, sure you're not particularly a high scoring individual, but you know things that you weren't there to learn, on top of all that, the stunt you pulled earlier to bring us down if we messed with you was ingenious." Naruko started sweating when she heard this, "Don't worry Gaki, I like your style, beforehand I only knew you through the dumb little pranks the others get caught in, but now I see you're a Ninja through and through. I won't tell anyone about you, but a friendly reminder, the more Chakra you use on something the more likely someone will pick up on it, ANBU have been watching from a distance since that little Bunshin stunt earlier." Naruko's eyes widened at hearing that, she didn't even notice them, and even though he spoke at barely a whisper, those words echoed in her mind like he screamed into a canyon. Shiraishi then stopped her once more before saying, "If you want to hide your true strengths you need to make a mask in a metaphorical sense, become someone different, at your level a novice actor for a movie could tell when you're faking, now go the others will be here soon." As soon as he finished his statement the halls were completely flooded, 'Why do my teachers keep dismissing us early?' Naruko thought to herself when she made her way to the last class she had on a daily basis, Arithmetic.

She walked into the room just before class started, the teacher was a younger woman who hated life, children, and most importantly Naruko. Instead of having her wait outside, she gave Naruko the hardest things she could, meant for people who were graduating even. As everyone got into their seats the crazy woman appeared, the one, the only, Miss Chokesondicc, Terisa-Sensei as she has us call her. She was a nin from the Hidden mist, she left the village after it turned into a shitshow, she got refuge in Konoha, but why they made her a teacher afterwards really confused Naruko, "Alright class, I'm going to throw a few easy questions on the board, one person will answer it," she said with a smile, "What's nine plus ten? Yujiro" She pointed to a tall kid in the back with red wavy hair, thick black eyebrows, and red eyes. The muscle brain kid said, "Twenty-one," the teacher said, "You're stupid," everyone was used to her attitude by this point, she then handed out papers to everyone and gave Naruko her's last, as it was a different paper. 'Trigonometry?' Naruko thought about it real hard, 'Hey Tou-san, have we covered Trigonometry yet?' "No way kit, even you're not ready for that yet, give it a year or two and you very well might have it down assuming we use a few clones for it." Kurama stated, Naruko sighed, 'I guess I still got a lot to learn then,' "You're very smart for your age, don't get me wrong kit, but remember, you need smarts more than you need strength, a cunning enemy is a dangerous one kit, remember that." 'Alright Tou-San.' She then proceeded to fail every question, Chunin level questions are hard. The teacher smirked seeing the defeated look on Naruko's face, "Alright everyone, pass in the papers." Everyone handed in their papers at the front of the room, "Alright, time to go home everyone." Everyone thought the same thing, 'Time to go at last,' everyone started filing out, Naruko headed straight to the swings to wait for her friends. After a few minutes everyone was able to gather up and head out, ready for their next adventure, or misadventure.


-Daiyonshō Owari-

Sorry this chapter took so long; I've been very busy and distracted. I want this story to be Quality over Quantity in how many chapters I throw out, don't get me wrong I intend to have at least fifty chapters in this one at this quality or greater. I'm also going back through each chapter since I was looking back through them and noticed a LOT of errors, grammatically at least.

Note that when she uses the Henge on herself, she looks like Cannon Naruto as well as the voice, when she drops the Henge all of her features come back.

The chapters just get longer as I go, I know, also enjoy the little references I put in there, call 'em out if you see them, heh.

Chp.4 Fixing Bold issue.