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Minako arrived at the Academy but she couldn't seem to make herself go in, so she sat on the swing in the yard instead. She didn't remember much of her academy days considering she had graduated at the age of five with everyone almost twice her age, and what she did remember of it was how cautious everyone was around her because of her age and the fact that she was the Fourth Hokage's daughter made it worst with people treating her as if she were royalty. Truthfully Minako didn't remember much about her childhood as a Kunoichi other than her moments with her family and training with her Sensei, Shikaku Nara.
'Speaking of which,' Minako sighed and looked up at the clouds. "I wonder what he's doing now." During her seven years away, whenever she got lonely she'd gaze at the clouds and it brought her peace reminding her of her semi alcoholic Sensei and gave her a chance to reminisce about her late parents.
Giving one last look at the school Minako stood from her spot and began walking through the village, she could go to see Iruka at the Academy later. As she sauntered through town she smiled to herself again, nothing really did change in her seven year absence, there was a part of her that wish she never left but then there was the part of her that wished she had never come back, but she knew it was to happen sooner or later.
At that moment when the blonde decided to look up she caught sight of the Great stoned faces now covered in graffiti, this caused the smile to fall from the woman's face and she began to scowl. Next thing that happened caught her off guard, as kid in an orange suit with blonde hair baring a striking resemblance to her and her father ran past her followed by two Chunin.
"Naruto come back here, when I get my hands on you…" screamed on of the men as he past Minako chasing after the kid who just laughed at his threats.
"You crossed the line this time Naruto!"
"Naruto…" Minako whispered to herself and glared at the direction in which the three males ran off. Coming to a decision for herself, Minako headed back to the direction of the Academy. She'd much rather deal with Iruka anger than have something to do with that troublesome kid.
As she got to the Academy grounds again, she saw Iruka dragging the blonde boy back to the building as tell giving him a lecture the whole way.
'Damn,' thought Minako as she saw the kid then thought of an idea. Using a transformation Jutsu, Minako transformed herself into a twelve year old version of herself and ran to catch up with the Sensei and his student.
"Umm… excuse me," called Minako as the plot formed in her mind.
Iruka turned around and looked at the girl furrowing his eyebrows at the similar appearance. "Yes?"
"Are you Iruka-Sensei?" asked Minako in a shy voice.
"Yes and you are…?"
"My name is Mina, I just moved here with my family from the Village hidden in the Mist, Lord Hokage told me to find an Academy teacher by the name of Iruka and ask to join his class and the to tell you that Lord Hokage will be by later to explain everything," explained Minako with the most innocent smile she could master, snickering inside her head. 'Why wasn't I like this when I was younger, it's so much fun!'
Iruka thought for a few moments before he smiled at who he thought was a little girl and told her to follow him before he turned around and continued to drag Naruto with him.
Once in the classroom Iruka briefly introduced 'Mina' to the class and asked her to sit down before he turned to Naruto who was now tied up on the floor.
"I'm at the end of my rope, Naruto. You've failed the graduation test last time and the time before that. Tomorrow you've got another chance and you're messing up again!" explained Iruka with his arms crossed.
'Man he's pathetic, definitely took after Mom, she was horrible in school, I must have lucked out,' thought Minako listening to Iruka's lecture, she cringed at the thought of failing the graduation exam; it was the easiest thing in the world from what she could remember.
"Hmph," was all that came out of Naruto as he closed his eyes and turned his head away.
Iruka's eye twitch as he clenched his jaw and a vain became visible on his forehead. Stomping down and pointing to the class the teacher raised his voice. "Fine, because you missed it Naruto! Everyone will review the transformation Jutsu."
The students around the room groaned and complained as they stood up and lined up at the front of the class room. Minako only smiled sadly to play along, but really this was making her plan so much better and easier.
After everyone was lined up the first to go was a girl who was dressed in a little too much pink for Minako's liking. 'Ugh, I mean, even her hair is pink!'
"Alright, Sakura here let's do it," said the pink girl giving herself a little pep talk. "Transform!"
'Well… the name suits her colour choice.'
After the smoke cleared away from Sakura it was clear she decided to transform into Iruka himself.
"Teacher's pet," mumbled Minako without realizing it causing the boy and girl behind her to laugh.
Iruka approved of Sakura's jutsu and she began cheering. "Yes, I did it! Yes! Sasuke did you see that?"
'Damn, she's so fake… I feel sorry for this Sasuke kid,' thought the blonde as she watched the girl and looked to the boy she was talking to. Minako's eyes widened seeing as she didn't have a chance to look at any of the other students only concentrating on her plan and making sure the Jutsu didn't slip too soon. 'An Uchiha.'
"Next, Sasuke Uchiha," called out Iruka from his clip board.
'What a waste of my observing skills, I guess Shikaku-sensei's laziness rubs off sometimes.'
According to Minako he was also a teacher's pet seeing as he transformed into Iruka as well.
"Uh… good, next Naruto Uzumaki."
Minako's breath caught in her throat and she coughed a little at the sound of the name, she had no idea she had been standing next to the kid the whole time, she really wanted to turn to him and start yelling at him about the Hokage face's but she needed to keep up the act just a little longer.
"This is a total waste of time, Naruto," said the boy to the right of the girl but she didn't bother looking at him for she was too busy observing Naruto.
"We always pay for your screw ups," said a female voice.
"Like I care," replied Naruto in return in a bored tone.
What happened next almost made Minako lose control of her transformation jutsu because she was trying not to laugh but failed so instead she covered it up as if she were coughing. The kid had transformed into a sexy blonde naked woman with her private parts covered with clouds. This cause Iruka's eyes to almost pop out of his head and gave him a noise bleed.
Naruto began laughing at his sensei's misfortune. "Got'cha that's my sexy jutsu!"
'I must hand it to him, what the kid did was pretty amusing, and in a way it was the transformation jutsu.'
"Cut the stupid tricks, this is your last warning," screamed Iruka. Naruto pouted and walked away to stand to the side.
Iruka sighed and called for the Next but when he looked up he saw 'Mina'. "Oh, Mina, you don't have to do this, I mean you just got here I don't really know where you are."
"No it's alright Iruka-sensei, what do you think I did in the Mist Village?" giggled 'Mina' smiling to the man.
"Alright then, show us what you got."
Without another word Minako smirked at the teacher and was covered in smoke transforming back to her original self. When the smoke cleared Iruka's eyes widened the girl seemed so familiar.
"You know, you're a chunin… so… you'd think by now you'd know if someone had a jutsu on them or something," snickered Minako.
All the students stared at the woman in shock they didn't know what was going on and some of them began to whisper.
"You know, she looks a lot like the girl Naruto just transformed into," said the same girl who had just complained to the said boy.
"Minako?" questioned Iruka staring at the woman before him.
"Hey Iruka, long time no see huh?" Minako walked up to stand beside Iruka and turned to face the class.
A lot of students gasped and stared at the girl.
"She looks a lot like the Fourth Hokage don't you think?" said the girl Minako has now dubbed pinkie.
"She's the Fourth Hokage's daughter stupid, Minako Namikaze," called out the lazy boy who was behind her, causing her eyes to widen. The boy looked a lot like Shikaku-sensei and then she broke out in a grin and walked back over to him and pulled him into a hug, shocking everyone in the class mostly Iruka and the boy himself.
"What a drag."
"Awe Shikamaru, you remember me, you remind me so much of Shikaku-sensei~" sang the blonde woman happily as she hugged him to her chest and turned her head to look at Iruka. "Man Iruka you're sure lucky to have this kid in your class, he must be at the top right?"
"Uh…" everyone in the class said this at the same time including Shikamaru himself.
"No… Shikamaru Nara's grades are almost worst then Naruto's to tell you the truth," replied Iruka in shock, he had no idea Minako knew Shikamaru but he was more surprised of her showing up after seven years gone, and actually showing someone emotion.
Minako abruptly shoved Shikamaru away from her but she held onto his shoulders and looked at him. "You're telling me… that this kid, who continuously beat me at shoji at the age of four, is getting the worst marks in this class?"
"Uh… yes?"
Minako let go of the boy and walked back to Iruka shaking her head and looked back to the students. That's when she realized she knew half of these kids either personally or because of their families.
"Uchiha, Inuzuka, Hyuga, and an Aburame this is quite the class you have Iruka, some pretty famous clans in here and then of course you have my sensei and his team's off spring, Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi very interesting indeed."
"Uhm… ma'am how do you know our families?" questioned the platinum blonde beside Shikamaru.
Shikamaru turned to Ino and explained how he knew her. "How troublesome… My dad was her sensei when she graduated the academy, I don't remember that though seeing as I wasn't born when she did, but sometimes she would be called on missions with our mine, yours and Choji's Dads, but anyone sometimes my dad and mom would go out and somehow get her to babysit me… but she was emotionless from what I remembered she's definitely changed."
"Weren't born yet… Just how old are you?" questioned Ino again.
"I'm twenty," replied Minako smiling at the girl.
"But… that doesn't make sense we would have been four when you graduate, just what are you talking about Shikamaru?" called out pinkie.
Iruka snorted and shook his head; clearly they weren't going to get to the lesson today. The teachers snort caused the students to look at him in question where he just pointed to Minako. "Get her to explain."
"Well you see, unlike all of you, I graduated from the Academy at the age of five became a Chunin at the age of six and then six years later at the age of twelve I became a Jonin."
"Wait what? You graduated at the age of five?" cried out Naruto, clearly upset. "I thought you couldn't enter that young."
"Listen, Naruto there's an entrance exam just like how there's graduation exam right?" Minako paused and Naruto nodded. "Well, being daughter of a Hokage and being well educated had advantages of taking the exam. Really there isn't an age limit on how old you are to take the exam, but normally people don't take it until they're older."
"And speaking of Hokage's," continued Minako her stare turning into a glare at the young blonde boy. "I believe you're the little brat who painted the stone faces. This isn't some festival where they're offering face painting now is it? I don't appreciate you putting graffiti on the great leaders of this village's faces especially my father! He was a great man who gave his life for this village and for you to live. People looked up to my father, and you would have too if you had the chance to meet him."
By now the students in the room were glaring at Naruto and feeling sorry for the woman yelling at him, a lot of people didn't like to talk about the day the Fourth died all because he gave his life just so their village could live in peace. Naruto was looking at his feet, kind of regretting what he did.
"I remember you from when I was younger… I was walking through the streets and you have bumped into this kid who had just become a Genin and for some reason I stopped and watched as you yelled at him for something he said to you. You said you were going to become Hokage one day and everyone will have to respect you. I think that's a wonderful goal, and maybe in the future you'll achieve it, but listen, you need to learn how to respect others and more importantly respect yourself before anyone will ever respect you enough to become Hokage," said Minako as her voice became softer and she smiled at the boy. "But then again you're just going to have to wait until I'm done being Hokage."
Never in their lives have the students who've grown up around Naruto seen someone show so much respect for the boy's dream as much as Minako, normally people just laughed at him, but for her to encourage him and give him that little speech amazed everyone in the room. Iruka was quite surprised at how much Minako had grown up during her seven years away, she used to so hostile whenever she saw the little boy in the streets, most of the time she wouldn't even look at him.
"And as for your punishment, you have to clean the Hokage Faces and Iruka here will supervise to make sure you do your job right, you understand?"
"What?" came Iruka's voice thinking he didn't hear her right.
"Yes ma'am," mumbled Naruto just as the bell rang to announce the end of school.
"Alright class, be sure to study for tomorrow," called out Iruka as the students began leave. "Naruto… please wait in the hall."
"I'm sorry I interrupted your class Iruka, but I couldn't help it, I guess I missed out on all this stuff when I was a child with all my training," apologized Minako.
"Yea… I can't remember how many times you criticized me on missions so what you did shocked me big time. Reminded me of someone," replied Iruka looking in the direction of the door. "What you said to Naruto… really touched me, I hope what you said got to him as well."
"You don't know… do you?" asked Minako following his gaze.
"Know what?"
"That Naruto is my brother," she simply stated.
"What?" said the teacher as he whipped his head around to look at the woman. "That's great! And it explains so much now, how you guys look so much alike and his determination to be Hokage; he takes after you and your father! Now he has someone to be there for him, this is awesome, but why didn't you do anything about it when you were younger."
"I can't tell him Iruka… the most I can do is get close to him an act like an older sister, but I'm still not sure if I can do that just yet, there are a lot of things people don't know about the night our parents died."
"But… why?"
"It's not my place to tell him, that's up to either Lord Hokage or Jiraiya-sensei," replied Minako with a distant look.
"The Sannin? What does he have to do with anything?"
"He… is in some technicality our god father."
"He is…?" said Iruka with an unsure face.
"Yea… listen Iruka, you have to promise me not to tell anyone you understand?"
"Yes, of course Minako."
"Thank you," replied Minako giving him a genuine smile. "I… you… look I'm sorry, for you know… what I said that day, before I left, I shouldn't have said it and I'm sorry. It was harsh and I am honestly surprised you're talking to me right now."
"It's fine, Minako," he answered with a reassuring smile. "I forgave you long before you probably even thought about saying sorry, I didn't hold it against you, you had a lot of pent up anger and that's the first time you had ever let anything out and it all hit you once."
"Thank you… again Iruka, I can honestly say you were the best friend I never really wanted," said Minako with a laugh.
Iruka gave a chuckle. "Yea, and you were the most pain in the ass mission leader I ever had, but you're one of my best friends to."
"Great, now I must go and tell the Hokage I have come to a decision on if I am staying in Konoha or leaving."
"Wait, what am I to do about Naruto, he's going to complain the whole time!"
"Bribe him… I don't know with ramen?"
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AN: Wow, this is the most I've updated a story :3! And that most likely jinxed it! Don't worry Minako will meet Kakashi soon :D! I promise, is it so hard to believe they've never met? And yet he was her father's student?
Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it! Please review, I know people have been reading, I've been watching you!