Time skip- 2 ½ years

Naruko sat in the classroom, annoyed. Not annoyed at the class itself, in fact, she was rather happy that she hadn't been kicked out of the classroom yet, but annoyed at her adoptive older brother, as she saw him, Paul. Despite the fact that he was centuries old, she felt like he was just a few years older than her, a kind caring presence that knew the problems of a young girl trying to deal with the fact that no one seemed to want to admit the fact that she was even there… which was odd, considering he's a guy.

She let the words of the teacher flow over her, it's not that she hated learning, but she couldn't see the point of being stuck in a classroom, learning why certain ninja were famous. She could already feel her body loosing the conditioning that she had literally shed sweat, blood, and tears for.

She snorted; he was kind yes, but only while off the 'battlefield.' He refused to call it training, and honestly they were barely any similarities between what she was doing and the learning that most kids her age were put through. He seemed to actually be trying to end her life sometimes, but always stopped his movements whenever they were about to break her skin. His skills with a blade were phenomenal. She had seen him take on the Sword Master of Konoha, and win, with his dominate hand tied behind his back. Not only did he win, but he dominated and completely broke the style that Hayate Gekkou had used and defeated him in all of twenty seconds. Twenty seconds…while using his off hand.

Suddenly a rush of memories flooded her as her clone popped, letting her know that the prank had been properly set up. The mental feedback was a wonderful thing, letting her know all the things that her clone knew before dispelling…

"I'm an idiot." She muttered, before slamming her head into the desk, unintentionally drawing the attention of all in the classroom. She ignored them, letting them think whatever they wanted to of her actions. Naruko sat still,trying to push attention away from herself until her prank was realized, and then she would sneak off at the next possible second. She waited for a couple of hours until the lunch bell rang, before she came to suspect that one of the Hokage's messengers was waiting outside of the door for her, so as soon as the bell rang she opened one of the windows, and straddled the windowsill only to halt her motions as she heard the voice of her only friend.

"What are you doing, Naru-chan?" Hinata never stuttered around Naruko anymore, having grown comfortable with the other girl after their friendship started.

"Leaving before they catch me," came the reply as Naruko swung her other leg over the sill.

"How, we are on the third floor? Are you going to try and jump? You might break something!" Hinata's voice showed her concern as much as her words did, as they waivered in tone and rose at the end in shock and worry.

Naruko looked at her lavender eyed friend.

"Don't you know how to walk on walls?"

When Hinata shook her head, she felt her hand taken and dragged to the window.

"Time for you to learn then."

Hinata's face flooded red when she found her face between Naruko's breasts and their bodies pressed up against each other's as she felt herself basically laying on Naruko, with the only thing holding the two of them up was Naruko's chakra control… That thought was enough to drive away any others as she listened to Naruko's impromptu lesson. It took her a couple of minutes to learn the idea but they were at the bottom before she actually took her entire body weight onto her own feet.

"Come on, let's get out of here."

That was all that was needed to be said, and Hinata followed her. Naruko was actually surprised by that as the last time they had done something like this Hinata had gotten into a lot of trouble, not that Naruko hadn't, but there was only so much that the Hokage could do to discipline her. The place that Naruko lead Hinata to wasn't actually very far, but it was a very secluded spot. A gasp of surprise came out of Hinata's mouth as she saw the picturesque scene before her, seemingly straight out of a child's picture book.

A small clearing that had a brook trickling through the middle of it with butterfly's floating around, small bunches of flowers dotted the grass, and there was a blossoming fruit tree next to a small boulder, that sat at the edge of a small cliff, out of which the brook ran, pooling right under the cliff.

Another gasp came as Naruko started stripping.

"What are you doing?!"

"Going for a dip, care to join me?"

Hinata's face lit up in a dark blush.

"But I don't have a swim suit…"

"Neither do I."

Hinata looked the other way as Naruko took off her panties and tossed them onto the pile of her clothes and stepped into the pool, letting out a contented sigh as she sat down and the water covered her body.

"The water feels so niice…"

Naruko closed her eyes and relaxed, letting the cool water caress her body. A little while later she felt the water's ripples change and opened an eye to see a flushed Hinata join her in the water.

"So you finally decided to join me…"

"Y-Y-Yeah…"

The calm of the clearing swept over them, and all that was heard was the trickling of water and the swaying of the branches in the wind.

Several hours passed before she woke up, Hinata's face hovering over her's.

"School's out now, we should be heading back."

Naruko nodded and stretched, her body stiff from sleeping in the water.

"Why didn't you wake me up earlier?"

Hinata blushed and looked aside, "You looked so peaceful when you were sleeping. I didn't have the heart to wake you."

Naruko shook her head and got out of the pool, standing up and stretching again, her eyes looking up at the sky as she checked the position of the sun.

"You're an hour off Hinata-chan. School ended an hour ago."

"Oh… sorry Naruko-chan, apparently I'm no good at telling time by the sun." Hinata slouched in depression.

Naruko walked over to Hinata and hugged her friend.

"Hinata-chan, it's a skill and just like other skills, it takes time to master. Give it a while."

Hinata smiled slightly and returned the hug then turned and looked up at the sky.

"What will I tell my father?"

Nartuo's response was muffled as she was putting her shirt on.

"Let's spar."

Hinata frowned and turned and looked at her friend.

"I don't have time for that Naruto-chan, I have to figure out something to tell my father as for why I was late getting home."

Naruko turned to her as she finished straightening her shirt.

"Exactly, we spar some, then tell your father that we were training together. That way we tell him the truth."

Hinata's face light up with understanding, a smile forming on her lips.

"Naruko-chan, you keep that up and people won't believe your mask for much longer."

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