Wow this took me longer than usual. I was actually trying to think of come things but it just never came to me. Luckily Fluffy no Danna helped me out. Thanks Danna.

Cookies to whoever guessed Chouji and Sakura. I might as well put the warning here, I will bash Sakura and probably Ino. It will be fun for me. Just wanted to warn you of that.

Well here you guys go!

~Protege: Abandoned~

Uzumaki Naruto and Yuuhi Azula ran through the market place of Konoha. The duo ran through the croud at an alarming speed for some so young and they didn't even hit anyone. The closest they came to running into a person was a few centimeters away, but they were very large and took up almost the whole street so anyone would probablu run into the man.

Finally Naruto came to a halt at this banged up little shack with only a few stools and a bar. The sign out front said "Ichiraku's Ramen." Nobody was sitting at the bar at that time and even the street was quiet and empty. Azula noticed Naruto was starting to salivate at an alarming rate.

"First stop on our tour today is the best ramen place in the whole world!" Naruto declared

Azula looked at him skeptically. She did have some of Sho's ramen and that stuff was the most delicious thing she had ever tasted. It made her stomach growl just thinking about it. "I don't believe you."

"Then why don't you try some?" Naruto shot back. She went throught the flaps covering half of the entrance.

"Because I don't have any money. Duh!" The concept of no money just dawned upon the young boy. He only had enough ramen for one bowl today, since he spent most of his allowance.

"Oh..."

Azula had now taken her seat at the bar. Now Naruto could get a good view of the girl. She had a simple red shirt on with black shorts and these very strange black boots. They were made of leather, Naruto thought. The shirt was made of silk but he did not know the materials for the shorts, possibly silk as well.

"I can tell... If you had money you would get normal shoes." Naruto responded.

"Hey!" She hit him, "These shoes are the best shoes money can buy!"

"If they're so good, why couldn't you keep up with me?" Naruto sassed back.

"because... they got worn out from my shinobi training!" Aaula practically yelling at him.

"Woah now!" An older man had appeared at the counter. "Naruto-kun, you need to be nice. How else are you supposed to get beautiful young ladies?"

"You call her beautiful, Teuchi-jiji!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Well duh, I AM a princess." Azula responeded.

Naruto's jaw dropped, "a Princess!"

Azula nodded and smirked. "Duh. Don't you see my crown?" Naruto shook his head. Then she remembered, her mother had taken it off when she left the Fire Nation. "Oh yeah... It's in my pack. I'll show you sometime."

"Okay... Princess." Naruto replied.

"Well..." Teuchi started, "Welcome to Ichiraku's, Princess."

"Thank you good sir. I would buy something but unfortunately I do not have any money." Azula responded politely.

"Oh I'll get you a bowl!" Naruto replied quickly. Azula looked at him shocked. "I have some instant stuff at home, besides, your stomach growled earlier."

"Um.. Okay..." She was about to say thank you but Princesses don't say thank you. "I'll have some Beef Ramen then."

Teuchi smiled and got to work on making her ramen. He noticed Naruto's mouth salivating at the thought of beef ramen but said nothing. He just decided that he would accidentally make too much and since he can't let it go bad, Naruto will just have to eat it. It was a pretty good plan. Yes, very good. Instantly he started his work.

While Teuchi was doing his work. Naruto just stared at the counter top awkwardly. Azula was snapping her fingers to see if she could make a flame come out of it. She made sparks but no frustrated her.

"Fire!" She whipsered after every snap but no fire came. After about ten snaps, Naruto finally glanced over.

"What are you doing?" He asked her. This shocked her enough that a six inch flame erupted out of her thumb.

"AGNI!" She shouted

"What the heck!" The boy yelled, "How did you do that!"

Azula looked at her hand, with the flame still on her thumb, to Naruto. "I'm a fire bender. Its easy. I've never snapped a flame though." She extinguished the flame and snapped again producing a smaller flame. "That shock must have been the kick I needed." She began to snap her other hand so she had two flames. Then the flames danced over her hands. She created a few other flames and conected them together to make flame strings. It was interesting as she did little tricks with her flames. This ammused Naruto greatly.

"That is so cool!" He said after she made a little flame dragon. "Can you teach me?"

"Umm.. Okay. I'll teach you. If you can do it."

"Hey, I'm Uzumaki Naruto, I can do ANYTHING!" He declered.

"Well you guys go do that but be sure to fill up!" Teuchi called to the two. "Speaking of fill up. It looks like I made enough beef ramen to fill up two bowls!" The old man brought over two large bowls of beef ramen. "I can't let it go bad now. Naruto-kun, do me a favor and eat this bowl so it won't go bad okay."

Naruto grinned, "Yes sir!" He grabbed his chopsticks "Thanks Jiji!" Then he shovelled the bowl into his mouth as fast as he could.

Azula's eyes widened as she watched Naruto eat that ramen. He had downed almost an entire bowl in a bout two minutes. When he was slurping out the broth at the bottom, Azula broke her chopsticks and began to eat her ramen.

The first taste ws amazing. All of these flavors were bursting in her mouth and she had to get more. At this point she didn't care about being proper and perfact like she was trained to be. Right now she wanted more of the delicious ramen that sat before her. Azula shovelled the ramen into her mouth as fast as possible just to gat all of the flavor. It took the girl no mre than five minutes to eat the wole bowl.

"That was the best ramen I have ever tasted! You have to train someone else to make this like you so when I go home, I will have someone to make this for me!" The princess exclaimed.

"Why thank you Princess. I'm sure I can train my daughter to make this. She has always wanted to go adventuring." Teuchi replied thoughtfully. "But I would never let her go unless there was a strong ninja to protect her."

"I'll be the strongest ninja ever! And a Master Firebender! I already mastered the basics! I bet I will master the advanced sets before I even BECOME an ninja! I could protect her!" Azula declared with an arrogant smirk following.

"Well we will see, Princess." Teuchi smiled, "Have fun on you're tour of Konoha!"

Before Azula could say good bye, Naruto bolted out of the resturant (after he put his money on the counter) with Azula in tow. They ran through the market place again without hitting a soul until they came to a beautiful flower shop. The sign said Yamanaka Flowers.

"This flower shop is owned by a girl in my ninja class! Her name is Yamanaka Ino and hey-" Azula had decided to walk in and look at the flowers. There wewre many strange flowers that the Fire Nation didn't have and they interested Azula.

"Hello young lady!" A cheerful voice said behind her. The girl jumped and quickly produced a fireball in her had to attack the owner of that voice.

"Woah there darlin'!" The owner was a blonde ninja. He had long blonde hair that was tied up in a ponytail. "Did I scare you?"

Azula nodded curtly, but she still held the ball of flames.

"I'm sorry. My name is Yamanaka Inoichi. What is yours?" He had crouched down to her level to get a better look.

Azula stared at him for a moment and decided the man wasnt a threat. "Azula, I'm the Princess of the Fire Nation."

"Well it's a pleasure to meet you Azula-hime. You have very pretty eyes, you must be from the Yuuhi clan." Azula nodded, "Ah, who's child are you?"

"I'm the daughter of Prince Ozai and Princess Ursa." Azula answered him.

"Ursa-chan's daughter! Ursa-chan was a fine ninja. Very good. Shilled in the ways of healing and Genjustu. She had a very sharp mind. I guess Shikaku rubbed off on her a tad." Inoichi chuckled a bit.

"You knew my mom?" Azula asked

"Yup!"

"Oi! Hime!" Naruto had run inside the shop. "There you are! I though you wandered off! Jiji would have gotten me in trouble if I didn't protect you!"

"Hello there." Inoichi said to Naruto. He looked very suspiciously at the boy. Azula could see that Inoichi did not trust the boy. "And what is your name?"

"This is Uzumaki Naruto." Azula answered quickly, "he is my tour guide. He has been doing a very good job of it too. He even bought me lunch today."

"I see." The ninja responded.

"Yes. He is very strong too. I might just make him my guard." She said firmly. If anyone was going to pick on Naruto, they would have to go through her.

"I see then. You must be a very strong boy, Naruto. Good luck!"

"Thanks!" Both children replied and Azula ushered Naruto out of the store.

"So... now where to..." Azula asked him.

Naruto pondered this for a brief moment before he came up with some sort of plan. "Well we could go to the Hokage Monument. Well... Maybe not. You can see it all the time. See those rocks with the faces?" Azula looked to the rocks and nodded. "The Hokages are carved into the rocks. My face will be up there one day!" He beamed. Azula studied the rocks closely.

"The one next to Ojiisan with spiky hair looks like Sho-san. You look kinda like Sho-san too." The girl pointed out.

"You think I look like the Fourth Hokage? He's the best Hokage ever! He saved the whole village from the Kyuubi! He's so cool!"

Azula smiled, "Well now where do we go?"

"Lets go to the Memorial Stone. Ninjas who died protecting Konoha's names are on there. And we can pass through the market, thats where everyone gets food on our way there. And I'll show you a ninja store AND A clothing store so you can get some new shoes later."

Azula smacked him for the last comment but laughed along with him as it was pretty funny. "Well lets go!"

The two walked down the road and turned onto a larger road. Lines up along it were stands. Fruit stands, vegetable stands, meat stands, fish stands, clothing stands, ninja stands, they had every type of stand imaginable! It was like the Fire Nation Market but larger by far. Everything was there, like the Palace kitchen, but it was outside.

Azula never stopped to look at the stands and the merchants but boy did she want to. The only reason she resited was because it was beneath her dignity. What princess would show interest in such common folk? Not this one. Instead, Azula spent her time looking at the commoners. She noticed that most of them would glare at Naruto, whick earned them a glare from Azula. She did deduce that some, scratch that, many people did not like the boy. At all.

Naruto showed her a place where most ninja bought weapons. Azula grabbed her swords and explained that those were all she needed. The boy thought she was a bit weird but he continued a few blocks to show her the clothing store where a lot of genin and chunin get clothes. Inside they had some shoes, in black, like Azula wanted.

They escaped the hustle and bustle of theover crouded market place and contunied down a quieter road to the Memorial Stone. Before they got there, Azula picked some white wildflowers. Naruto questioned her but Azula decided to explain it later.

The two wandered in silence for many minutes until the reached the clearing with the large black rock standing there. There were many names on this rock, too many for Azula to read in one sitting.

"So what's with the flowers?"

Azula placed the flowers on the rock. "White represents loss and death in my country. I bet people really miss these ninja and I am sorry for Konoha's loss of these ninja." Azula explained.

Naruto nodded. "Thats nice. To do something like that even though you have only been here for a few hours."

Azula shrugged and stared at the rock. Then a name caught her eye. Uzumaki Kushina. She also saw another name. Yuuhi Zuko. The Zuko name caught her eye the most.

"Do you know of a Yuuhi Zuko?" She asked, Naruto shook his head.

"Where do you see it?" She pointed at the name which was a few away from Kushina's. "Those are people who died in the war... Or that's what Jiji said." Naruto shrugged and turned away. "We have to get going. I'll show you the training grounds where the ninja's train. It's not too far from here.

The rest of the two's time was spent at these training grounds though. Azula showed Naruto all of the Firebending Katas that she knew and the three jutsu that she learned from Sho. This impressed Naruto. Iruka hadn't started them on jutsus yet (that's what they were going to do before the Hokage and Azula interrupted) so he was eager to learn. Azula started him on the Substitution Jutsu since it was a very easy one. Within two hours he had it almost nailed but they quit because the sun was going down.

"Oh crap!" Naruto exclaimed, "we gotta go!" He took off running with Azula in tow. Azula had figured out that is she put chakra into her feet, she could keep up with the speed demon.

"Naruto-kun, we won't make it before the sun gets down!" Azula yelled as they dodged on coming pedestrians.

"What do we do?" The boy asked her as he dodged an old man.

Azula thought for a moment until an idea came. "Hold on to me and keep running!" She held her hand out and Naruto grabbed it. She then ran at the nearest wall.

"We're gonna crash!" He yelled at her. But the didn't. Azula ran up the wall and onto the roof. Lucky for her, Naruto was still running when they came to the first jump.

"JUMP!" She yelled at him. Both jumped at the same time and landed on the next roof and kept running. They repeated the process many times until they landed on the ground in front of the hospital.

When they landed, Azula fell to her knees and started panting. Naruto fell flat on the ground and started to pant. A moment later they heard claps.

"Bravo. You made it on time, and you learned something new it seemed." Both kids looked up to see the Hokage.

"Azula-hime did it, not me Jiji. I just told her where to go." Naruto said between breaths.

Both kids were pretty tuckered out. Hiruzen could see that. The topknot on the Princess' head was starting to come undone and Naruto was still laying on the ground. Another big give away was the fact that they were both panting.

"Well good job to both of you, for teamwork. Teamwork is the most important tool that a Shinobi has. Anyway, we must be getting inside so we can meet the newest member of Konoha."

Azula looked up quickly, "Sho-san's baby?" Hiruzen nodded. Azula jumped up quickly and even picked up Naruto, who made her stop because a princess sholdn't help people, people should help her. "Let's go Ojiisan!"

The Hokage smiled at Azula's excitement. Only a few hours ago she was very arrogant and made snide comments about everything. Now she was acting more like a normal child.

"Just us Azula-hime. Naruto-kun needs to go home and rest for school tomorrow."

"But Jiji!"

"But Ojiisan!" Both naruto and Azula whined at the same time.

"No buts. Naruto, you have to go to bed for school. You will see your new friend soon enough." Naruto sighed and slowly turned to walk home.

Azula was quickly ushered into the hospital to meet Sho's child.

The two walked down the long hallway to a hospital room where a blonde spiky haired ninja was sitting with a bundle in his hands.

"Sho-san?" Azula asked quietly from the door.

Sho tore his eyes away from the little bundle to look at the visitor. "Azula-chan! Hello!"

Azula smiled and walked into the room. Sho gestured her over to him and the small bundle.

"This is Namikaze Nao. My son and heir!" The baby looked had Sho's hair for sure.

"He's cute." Azula commented. "He looks like my new friend, Naruto. You look like my new friend too Sho." Azula knew she struck gold because Sho tensed up for a moment. She decided to play the innocent child and press forward. "He showed me around today. We got some Ramen, he payed for me. We went to the Yamanaka Flower Shop, uh, to the training grounds, to the memorial stone, I have a story about that too."

"What is your story?" Sho asked her.

"Well Naruto and I were at the stone when I saw a Yuuhi Zuko. Who is Zuko? I have a big brother Zuko but he is alive and he would be a very bad ninja."

"I thin I should answer that." Sho and Azula looked at the Hokage. "Yuuhi Zuko was the oldest of the Yuuhi line. He had gold eyes like you, which is rare for a Yuuhi, and he was a ninja lost in the the attack on Konoha. The Kyuubi killed him. He was a very promising jonin. By this time, your mother had already left to go to the Fire Nation. When she learned of her brothers death, she was devistated."

"So he died after my brother was named."

"I would assume so."

"Okay, I have another question."

"Ask away dear child. Questions are how we learn." The Hokage responded.

"Who is Uzumaki Kushina?"

wooooh Cliffhanger, ish. What happens next? I don't know... Y'all will find out in like three to four days.

What justu should Naruto learn next (After he masters Substitution.) Body Flicker or Clone (Like the normal clone)

Later!