Keiko: "We're here once again! It's about time." (Looks at Dragonstar22 and deadpans) "You're slow."

Dragonstar22: Bangs cover her eyes, "It's not my fault, that I didn't have time. Say it again, and see what happens!"

Keiko: Sweat drops, "Okay, okay! Sorry! I won't say it again." Starts to mutter under her breath, "Jeez! Snappy today aren't we?"

Dragonstar22: sighs, "Any ways... Here's Chapter 3. Keiko can you do the Disclaimer pretty please. I'll give you ice cream if you do."

Keiko looks at her with a 'WTF' face. Then shakes her head, "Sure, sure. I'll do it, just please go drink coffee somewhere. I can't deal with your mood swings.

Pulls out a big sign with Disclaimer on it:

"Okay, Dragonstar22 does not own Naruto. She only owns me and things she makes up. Any brand names mentioned are not made or owned by her. Therefore you cannot sue. Now let the story BEGIN!

'Thoughts'

"SHOUTING OR STRONG EMOTION"

"Speaking"

{Author's note}

**** = time skip or scene change you'll be able to tell which.

Inside mind person talking

Italics Flash back or memory.

/Telepath speech/ or /Respond/

Summary: What if someone helped Naruto at the beginning of the story? What if he had a Guardian Angel? It'd be easy right? What happens when a Teenage delinquent from another world becomes the guardian Angel of Naruto? Specifically our world, should be a piece of cake right? It's not that easy as it seems especially since you're a kid half of the time. Oh, and don't forget the most important part: You're a Fucking Ghost! "I don't know if it's more likely that I'm lucky or if I just greatly amuse someone up there."

Chapter 4: Are you serious?! Rookie 9 plus one!

I groaned in pain."Oh, you've got to be kidding me..."

I know I didn't have to push Iruka and Naruto out the way, but I did it anyways. I remember what Kazumi said about everything not going according to anime. I didn't want to take any chances and pushed them both. I really hope I prevented something because the pain right now is being a real bitch.

I looked down to see that I was cut in half. Literally, the bastard cut me in half! Instead of a hole that was just closing up, I had a complete void of space where my stomach should have been. And let me tell you. It. HURTS! I looked over at Mizuki and glared with pure hatred.

Only to see that he paid no mind to me and the anime was going along just like canon.

I stopped glaring and sweat dropped. 'Oh great, I get cut in half by coincidence. Grr... That's it! Let's see how you like this.' I whispered a spell I learned from one of the books I found in the pouch, and watched with amusement as Mizuki suddenly stopped his fight with Naruto and his clones.

He was frozen in place. His eyes were wide and his face was already turned to the right from being hit just before I placed my spell.

Naruto didn't notice right away and hit Mizuki hard in his chest. Mizuki fell back on the ground, still as a log.

I started to laugh but I had to stop. "Ow...Note to self: Don't laugh when your stomach is missing."

I was still cut in half, though not totally. I was just starting to regenerate, but it still hurt! "Man, this healing rate thing sucks!" I groaned as black specks started to appear and dance around in my vision. I was going to be knocked out soon. "Hehe. That's for cutting me in half and for messing with Naruto, ya bastard."

Iruka eyes switched from Naruto to Mizuki. At last, they landed on me and flew wide. "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!?"

My eye twitched, "What do you think happened? I got cut I half when I pushed you guys out of the way. Oh, and by the way tell Naruto ...not to worry... if I don't appear soon. I'm going to go to sleep... for a while. I'll be back later... g'night."

And just like that, I was out like a light. Or maybe a balloon when it pops, since I'm in half. Get it? No? Eh, well you get the picture.

Naruto's POV

I stared at Mizuki's still body and scratched the back of my head sheepishly. "Hehe...maybe I went a little too far." I looked towards Iruka-sensei and Kei-chan...Only to find that Kei-chan was gone. "Kei-chan! Where are you? Come on out! This isn't funny!" 'Hmm...Maybe this is one of her pranks? But I don't sense her around me anymore. She wouldn't leave me.'

"Naruto...come over here. There's something I want to give you." Iruka-sensei broke me out of my thoughts, and I walked over to him, a little confused. 'What does he have to tell me? I hope I'm not in trouble, I already failed at passing the exam to become a ninja...' His serious face wasn't easing my worry.

"Close your eyes and don't open them until I tell you to." I looked at him warily, still confused, but closed them as I was told. "Now, sensei?"

Iruka-sensei chuckled. "Okay, you can open them now."

I opened my eyes to see Iruka-sensei grinning at me, his hiati-ate missing from his forehead and my goggles in his hand.

He smirked. "Congratulations for graduating!"

My eyes widened. 'I-I passed. I-I'm a ninja now!' My eyes start to water a little. 'No! This isn't the time to cry. I'm a ninja now!'

Iruka put a hand on my numb shoulder with a comforting laugh. "Let's celebrate! I'll buy you a cup of ramen."

That was the last straw. I tackled him in a bone crushing hug, sending us both crashing down to the ground.

"Thanks, sensei!" 'And thank you, Keiko-chan, for believing in me. You knew I would make it.'

"You're welcome Naruto." He lifted me up and set me on my feet, though a thoughtful look settled on his face. "But, that ghost from earlier...how do you know it?"

I grinned at him. "Oh, you're talking about my guardian, Keiko-chan! Do you know where she is?"

His expression turned almost embarrassed. "She started to fade away after your last blow with Mizuki."

I froze in alarm. "SHE DIDWHAT?!" 'She can't leave me so soon! I just met her. This just has to be a prank of hers. It has to be.'

Iruka put both of his hands on my shoulders. "Now, calm down, Naruto. It's not permanent...at least from what she told me. I think it has to do with the injury she got when she pushed both of us out of the way. Before she faded away completely she told me to tell you not to worry about her if she doesn't reappear soon." He smiled, patting me on the back. "She said that she'll be back, Naruto."

I smiled at that. "As long as she comes back ...I won't worry." I wiped my damp eyes and lifted my chin, noting that we were only a few feet away from Ichiraku's. "Come on, Iruka-sensei, you've got to buy me three cups of Ramen. Dattebayo!" I ran off, grinning at the thought of the delicious pork ramen I was 'bout to eat. I ignored Iruka-sensei's shouted protests about him running out of money.

"Three bowls? Naruto, wait! I only agreed to buy one cup! But... fine, I'll buy it if you tell me more about this ghost of yours!"

Iruka's POV

I fixed Naruto with a questioning stare "... Let me get this straight. This ghost Keiko is your guardian angel that just appeared two days ago?"

Naruto slurping up noodles happily. "Yep! She's cool for a little kid. But don't call her little when she's around. Or she'll get mad and either hit or prank you. Believe me; you don't want to be in either of those situations. She knew I would be a ninja by the end of the day... even when I failed the exam before Mizuki had come up to me. And it came true didn't it?"

My eyes widened slightly at that. 'She knew it before Mizuki came...' "You're right, it did come true. And you say that she's been with you ever since the incident two days ago? Even when you took the exam earlier?"

He nodded his head and stuffed more noodles in his mouth. "Uh-huh."

I frowned, staring into space. "Then how come I couldn't see or sense her until now?" It would take a fairly advanced ninja to hide chakra from me that well, and the idea of someone with that power befriending Naruto was disturbing. The thought that it wasn't a ninja at all was somehow even worse.

Naruto just smirked, oblivious of my thoughts, his eyes flashing in amusement before he pointed his chopsticks at me. "Boy, sensei! I thought you would've figured it out by now."

I rose an eyebrow at him. "Figure what what? Naruto what are you talking about?"

He gained a thoughtful face, and I couldn't help but be wistful. 'If only he did that in class, instead of just when planning pranks.' "She can only be seen by me, since she's my guardian angel. My guess is that you probably only saw her last night because she wanted you to, because she used some kind of technique or something." He nodded to himself, smiled lightly in approval, and then attacked another bowl of ramen.

I sweat dropped. 'I guess Ramen comes before important conversations...'

Watching Naruto eat with gusto, I couldn't help but smirk and dig into my own bowl. '...I guess I can't blame him. It is Ichiraku's ramen. Hokage-sama's going to want to hear about Naruto's guardian... she seems to have already made a pretty big impact on him.'

Keiko's POV

I sat up and looked around me sleepily. "Where the fuck am I...?"

Seeing Naruto perched on a desk, my eyes widened and my jaw dropped. I woke up all the way and my memory finally kicked in, realizing the slow-motion scene before me was the infamous accidental kiss.

Yep, that was the first thing to greet me after waking up from the wonderful knockout. That's just peachy, right? I appeared right next to Naruto and Sasuke. The thing is, it was playing out in slow motion in real life. It had been fifteen seconds since I got up, and Naruto was still in the same falling position five seconds from kissing him.

I face-palmed and looked away from them, trying to figure the slow motion thing out, only to start laughing at Sakura, Ino's and the rest of Sasuke's fan girls' angry faces. 'Man, Naruto. They're going to be so~ pissed at you after this...wait a minute...'

I tilted my head to the side inquisitively, like I used to do when I was little. 'Maybe I'm supposed to do something to prevent Naruto from getting a beating? Is that why time's going so slow?'

/You're correct, kiddo! You know, I thought it would take longer for you to figure it out./

My eyes widened and I started to look around the room frantically. "What the hell?" I held Rico up to my face with narrowed eyes, suddenly suspicious. "Don't tell me you talk too, and have been holding out on me until now?" I sweat-dropped when I got no response. 'Just great, I'm hallucinating voices from bears now.'

/Calm down kiddo! It's me, Kazumi. I told you I was going to watch out for you, didn't I? I'm speaking to you through telepathy./

I sighed in relief and Rico fall back to my side. 'Yay! I'm not insane...'

/No, you are not insane... let me explain this slow motion process to you. This only happens when there is something minor that can change. Now you don't have to change anything when this happens; it's optional and any change won't create a huge impact...most of the time. These are rare, so it won't happen very often. Once you've made your decision in your mind the scene will play on in the normal paced time. That's all there is to it, so make a decision, Keiko! I have to go now./

I blinked. 'She basically just told me I'm going to end insane at some point. Great. Well at least I know what to do now.' I turned my attention backed to Naruto and Sasuke, then shifted my eyes back to Sasuke's fangirls. "I can only see this going two ways...on one hand I could shift Naruto so that he just misses Sasuke, which would save him from getting beat up by rapid fan girls. Or, I could just let it play out like normal, and let Naruto get his ass handed to him by said rapid fangirls."

I thought it over again and shrugged. 'At least I can tease Naruto about this later... the look on his face would be priceless. Eh, I might as well let it play out.' And just like that, everything was back to normal.

Well, as normal as this can get.

Naruto and Sasuke's eyes met at the same time as their lips, both widening before they quickly jumped away from each other, holding their throats and gagging liked they were poisoned.

Sakura's face was so hilarious I couldn't take it. I started rolling on the floor laughing. "Pfft...Ahaha! I-I can't believe I...hehehe... almost stopped this from happening!"

I continued to laugh until I heard Naruto's whisper. "Kei-chan?"

I stopped laughing and blinked twice from my position on the floor. Naruto was looking straight at me. I laughed sheepishly and hopefully, fixing him with an innocent childish face. "Um...Hi? Naruto, why didn't tell me earlier you were coming out of the closet? Congratulations!"

He frowned and looked about to yell something, before he looked over my shoulder and was gripped with terror. "Danger. Dangerdangerdanger!"

I turned around to face Sasuke's pissed off fangirl mob, Sakura and Ino leading it, and couldn't help but laugh anew. "Naruto... You are so dead!"

Apparently he believed me, holding out his hands in an 'I didn't do it' position. "Hey whoa, it was an accident."

They wouldn't buy it. I even started to get a little scared when Sakura cracked her knuckles, but then reminded myself that 1) this wasn't Shippuden, so she couldn't smash huge boulders to dust, and 2) she couldn't see me, being a ghost and all. I chuckled and patted Naruto on the shoulder.

'I want to help him, but this is something he's going to have to face on his own.' "Might want to run, buddy. You're on your own for this one."

Terror in his eyes, he didn't hesitate before taking off, the fangirls right behind him...

I got up and shook my head at the door Naruto had just gone through, placing Rico on top of my head before for taking off after them. "I might as well see if I can stop him from getting pummeled too bad."

I floated upside-down next to Naruto as Iruka announced the teams, bobbing up and down. I could tell he was brooding a little with nervousness, and from the glare he was sending Sasuke, I deduced he was worried they would be teamed up.

What an uncanny prediction. Stifling a giggle, I poked him in the head. "Don't be so grumpy! Whatever team you're on, just remember, I'll still be with you all the way."

Iruka got to Team Seven as Naruto turned to give me a small smile. "Squad Seven: Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno..."

Naruto sprung from his seat, fist raised in victory and nearly punching me in the face. "Yeah!"

My eyebrow twitched. "Watch where you're swinging your fist! You can actually hurt me, ya know." He blinked at me and sat back down, rubbing his head sheepishly. With the rest of the class glaring at him, he whispered, "Sorry about that, Kei-chan. I'll look out for you next time."

Iruka carried on. "...and Sasuke Uchiha."

This time, Sakura shrieked in happiness and Naruto hung his head. "We're doomed."

I patted him on the back reassuringly. "Remember, as long as I'm here it won't be too bad."

After that, everything proceeded normally. Naruto asked why he has to be on a team with Sasuke, and Iruka explained with infinite patience. I thought I would be done for the day, until-

"Oh, and Naruto... please come to my desk with your guardian before you leave. Sakura, Sasuke, you can wait outside for your late Sensei. Naruto will join you in a minute."

Naruto and I both stiffened. The rookie nine glanced at Naruto in curiosity as they filed out with their teachers. 'Oh boy. They'll be asking questions soon. Obviously, they can't see me.'

As soon as the door had closed behind them, Iruka looked directly at me. "Hmm... I can still see you, but only a little bit. In any case, Keiko, the Hokage will like to meet with you...now."

My eye twitched, Naruto taking the opportunity to get back at me with a snigger. 'What the hell have I gotten myself into...'