And now the real story begins…
As Naruto was making her way towards the academy, Kurama was inwardly fretting, 'I don't know if the kit can actually do this.'
"You need to calm it down Kyuubi. Our girl can handle this." Kumajiro told the fox as he appeared in Kurama's cage.
"But what if she can't? What if she decides to show off?" Kurama asked.
"When did you become such a momma bird? Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that you don't approve of her boyfriend. She'll do fine; remember she does have the maturity of a person about 4 years older than her." Kumajiro told the giant fox.
"I would not talk about her choice in mates! Unless it's that Uchiha… or Inuzuka… or the Aburame, but that's because I don't…" Kurama trailed off as the realization had suddenly hit him. "I really have become a momma bird, why didn't you guys say anything?"
"We didn't want to embarrass you," Kumajiro said as he gave the fox a reassuring pat. "I'm more concerned about what our girl is gonna do to that one teacher that tries to kill her."
"She'll be fine papa bear," Kurama laughed at him.
"Don't you start," Kumajiro said as he pointed an accusatory finger at him.
Despite the argument that was going on in her head, Naruto could not be happier today. I mean this was the day that she proved that she could be a ninja. Of course her happy moment would be a bit soured as two things happened; one, the two leading fangirls practically ran her over, and second, when said fangirls sped passed her, she had accidently bumped into a member of Team Gai. Now normally, this would not be a problem being great friends with both Lee and Gai, and not really knowing who Tenten, the token kunoichi of the team was. But no, she had to go and bump into the asshole of the team, Neji Hyuuga.
"Oh man, I'm sorry." Naruto said, without truly realizing who she had actually bumped into.
"You should be, commoner." Neji told her, "Just because you're fated to be a screw up, doesn't mean that you need to go around rubbing your stink of failure on everybody."
Naruto was shocked. Shifting her weight onto her left leg, putting her left hand on her hip and raising her right hand and index finger she said, "Now I know you did not just say that shit to me."
Of course, Guy having seen the whole thing had recognized the tell tail sign that a man had just entered fucked town, bent down and whispered to his student, "Okay Lee, you calm down Naruto-chan, and I will calm down Neji with my youthful spirit, got it?"
"Yes Gai-sensei." Lee surprisingly whispered back.
"You heard me fail…" Neji started as he was bumped yet again, this time by his teammate Lee and then he was whisked away by his teacher.
"Naruto-chan!" Lee shouted in an attempt to diffuse the situation.
"Oh hey Lee, how are you?" Naruto told him, calmed by seeing a familiar face.
"Oh I'm fine… Oh yeah," Lee told her as he started to leaf around his one of his packs. "I remembered that you are supposed to take the graduation exam today, so I got this as a good luck gift." He told her as he pulled out a random flower and gave her a cheesy smile.
"Oh…" Naruto said shocked, "thank you Lee, this means a lot," she said as she took the flower and braided it into her hair. "I don't know what to say, but thanks," Naruto said as she gave him a hug. Lee stiffened like a board at her touch, and then slowly wrapped his arms around her. "Ok," Naruto said breaking the embrace, "I got to get to the academy, or else I'll be late." And with that Naruto jerkily turned around on her heel and sped off towards the academy.
"Was that her Lee?" Tenten asked her spandex clad teammate. Lee just stood there with a dumb look on his face. "Earth to Lee," Tenten said as she snapped her fingers in front of his face.
"What! Who's… oh it's you Tenten. Let's go do our missions for today!" Lee said as he clumsily turned around and started to stumble off towards where Gai and Neji had gone.
"Honestly," Tenten said as she put her face to her palm and walked off.
"Oh god Naruto, come on! You can't go doing that shit; it might give him the wrong impression." Naruto cursed at herself. "Even if it was really sweet…NO! I can't think like that!"
"What the hell was that?" Kurama asked aloud.
"I think our little Naru-chan has her first crush," Beni answered, "that so sweet."
"When did you get here?" Kurama asked the new afro'd arrival.
"Oh, I just come and go, grab some drinks from the mini-fridge that's over in the corner and leave." Beni said as he pointed towards a corner.
"There's a mini-fridge in here?" Kurama asked, turning around to see that there indeed was a mini-fridge in the cage.
"Holy shit, this thing is loaded!" Kumajiro shouted as he pulled out two rather large bottles of alcohol. "Let's get loaded!"
"You don't need to ask me twice." Kurama said as he morphed into his human form.
Naruto, mind still in turmoil over what had happened just a few minutes ago made her way to the academy and promptly sat down in her normal seat, which was incidentally right next to Sasuke.
"Naruto!" a shrill, high pitched voice shrieked, "Get up! I want to sit next to Sasuke!" a pink haired Kunoichi told her, "Why is there a flower in your hair? Did Sasuke give you that? Of course he couldn't have, he only likes girls who are ninjas. It was probably someone who didn't even graduate last year!" Sakura Haruno shrieked, her best friend knowing better than to fuck with the black and blond haired girl. Naruto, in no mood for her shit, just gave her a death glare that made a shiver run down Sakura's spine, enough to make her just walk away.
"I'll have you know that it was from a person who was twice the ninja your precious Sasuke is!" Naruto yelled at her, defending her friend, and that was it, yup, no romantic feelings for Lee at all, none. At least that's what she told herself.
While the glare had perturbed Sakura, it had intrigued Sasuke, 'Was that the Uchiha glare?' he thought, 'I thought only Uchiha had the eyes that could do it. It must have just been a fluke,' he reassured himself. Surely a no name, dead last ninja could recreate one of his clans more mundane tactics. But he was still curious as to who the ninja who was better than him was.
"Alright, sit down and shut the hell up!" Iruka said as he walked into the room. "As you know, today is the graduation test, so everyone out in the hall and we'll call everyone in by family name." Iruka pointed out into the hall.
When Naruto's name was finally called, she had finally gotten the incident out of her mind and could focus on failing the test.
"Okay Naruto, now you just need to perform the clone jutsu and you pass." Iruka said with a smile.
"Got it," she said as she formed the seals for the jutsu, which she never could actually get, despite being almost as good as she was when she was still a 16 year old he. "CLONE JUTSU!" she barked, and, lo and behold, a sick looking clone appeared where a healthy one was supposed to be.
"I'm sorry Naruto, you fail." Iruka told the seemingly disappointed blonde.
"But Iruka, maybe we could make an exception for her; I mean she did produce a clone." Mizuki suggested to the other teacher.
"No Mizuki, we can't. The clone she produced would be of no use in battle, and besides, all the other students were able to produce at least three healthy clones. I'm sorry Naruto, you still fail." Mizuki inwardly smiled at that.
Naruto was currently looking at the scroll of forbidden sealing, trying to find something interesting.
"You know Naruto; there still is a way for you to pass. Did you know that?" Mizuki told our friendly neighborhood Jinchuuriki.
"No way!" she responded to Mizuki, completely feigning ignorance.
"Oh yeah, you see, there's this scroll in the Hokage's library and if you were to learn a jutsu from it, Iruka would have to pass you." Mizuki told Naruto.
'You know, looking back on it, I can't believe I actually fell for that lie.' Naruto thought as she unsheathed the sword she brought.
"I know. I mean it was obviously a lie." Kurama told her.
'I don't know if it's the coming back in time, this new Uchiha body, or the training, but I just feel so much smarter now.' Naruto thought back.
"That doesn't mean much kit. Hey Kumajiro! 'Nother round!" Kurama said.
'Are you guy's drinking in my head?' Naruto asked the residents of her head.
"Shut up and train, bitch." Kumajiro yelled to his student.
"Taskmaster…" Naruto mumbled.
"I don't see you utilizing that wind element." Kumajiro told her.
Currently the Hokage mansion was in a state of panic, random chunin and jonin were assembled in the courtyard.
"Sound the alarm! Naruto made off with the scroll of forbidden jutsu!" a random chunin yelled.
"Yeah, this time her pranks went too far!" A random jonin shouted back.
"Alright now shut up!" the Hokage yelled. "I want both Naruto and the scroll brought to me unharmed! Dismissed!" and with that, the ninja assembled before the Hokage disappeared in a cloud of smoke. The Hokage pinched the bridge of his nose, "I'm getting too old for this."
Naruto stood up, sweat dripping off her forehead. 'There!' she mentally shouted, 'are you happy now? I can use my sword to cut through tree trunks, both with and without wind chakra.'
Kumajiro merely smiled at her, though being inside her mind, she could not see it, "Now all I need to do is to simply pop out and teach you a few… Do you sense them Kurama?"
"I do, it's show time kit but remember, just shadow clones, ok?" The Kyuubi told her.
'Yeah, yeah, gods you can be such a momma bird sometimes.' Naruto told the resident fox demon.
"I am not!" Kurama yelled back.
Iruka was not very happy. Not only did he learn that Naruto had stolen the forbidden scroll, but he also had to endure through the villager's shouts of 'Kill the demon' and 'Put her down like the animal she is' among more colorful phrases. Currently, he was desperately searching for Naruto, fearful of what would happen to the little girl if another ninja found her. He couldn't even think about the 'punishments' they would dole out for her supposed crimes; he just had to keep going. Feeling what felt like Naruto's chakra, Iruka immediately turned toward that way and took off at breakneck speed.
Iruka came into the clearing at what would be described as 'bat out of hell' speed and found his student just sitting around, as if she had not just committed treason.
"Naruto?" Iruka asked, completely dumbfounded at the sight.
"Oh hey Iruka sensei," Naruto exclaimed, "I guess you found me, too bad I only had time to learn one jutsu from the scroll."
"What are you talking about Naruto?" Iruka asked, even more confused at this. Was it not the scroll of forbidden jutsu? Jutsus that are too strong for some ninja.
"You know, the other way to pass? Learn a jutsu from this scroll and you can pass me." Naruto said with a smile.
"Who told you that?" Iruka asked, not having ever heard that line from a thief before.
"Mizuki-sensei told me that," Iruka's eyes flashed open. All of a sudden Naruto was being pushed forward and Iruka had a giant shurikan in his back.
"Aww, Iruka… you made me miss the demon." Mizuki said with a sick laugh.
"Mizuki! Why are you doing this?" Iruka yelled to his former comrade.
"Why? It's quite simple, power." Mizuki told him. "The leaf is holding me back and with this scroll, I can finally get the power I need. Now hold still while I kill you both."
"Run Naruto!" Iruka yelled to his student.
"No Naruto, don't you wish to know why the village hates you?" Mizuki yelled to the blond.
"No Mizuki, it's forbidden!" Iruka exclaimed.
"Everyone in the village hates you, because 12 years ago, the fourth Hokage didn't defeat the Kyuubi no Kitsune, a person can't defeat something that powerful, no he did the next best thing, he sealed it inside a baby girl. That baby girl was you Naruto! You're the Kyuubi!" Mizuki yelled.
Naruto, knowing full well this information already wasn't really perturbed by this, but on the outside, she looked as if she was shaking. She then took off, hoping that Mizuki would follow her, instead of hurting Iruka more. Of course he decided to take that time to gloat over Iruka.
"Why do you continue to defend the wild beast that killed your parents? You saw full well that it ran away just like any other wild beast would."
Iruka looked down, "Yeah, any animal would run away." Naruto, who was hiding in a nearby tree, was mouthing every word of Iruka's speech to Mizuki, having memorized it long ago. "But Naruto is not a wild animal or a beast or a demon, Naruto is one of my excellent students, she isn't the hardest worker, and she's clumsy so nobody accepts her. She already knows what it's like to have pain in your heart." Iruka at this time was looking right at Mizuki, "She's not the demon fox, she's a member of the hidden leaf village and she's… she's Naruto Uzumaki!" Iruka finished up his speech.
Naruto was crying, even still, those words resonated within her. "I can't let him hurt Iruka! No, no, NO!" she screamed, water and pain filling her eyes.
"Time to die Iruka!" Mizuki yelled as he readied himself to throw his last giant shuriken, "Say hello to your parents, in HELL!" He let the shuriken go.
Iruka closed his eyes and readied himself for the pain, but it never came, he opened his eyes only to see Naruto holding the shuriken right in front of him. "I won't let you hurt Iruka-sensei." Naruto said coldly. Forming the cross shaped seal, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" she yelled. In a cloud of smoke, hundreds of Naruto's filled the clearing, but all of these Narutos had one extra thing in common, aside from their appearance. In each and every one of their eyes was an incomplete Sharingan, two tomoe in each eye. "I think it's you that will die." Naruto threatened Mizuki.
Five minutes later Mizuki was a lump of bruises and Naruto had deactivated her Sharingan. Iruka beckoned her over.
"Naruto, I have something for you, close your eyes." Iruka commanded her, and she did. "Okay, you can open them, congratulations Naruto, you passed!"
And I think I'll end it there. Boo-yeah, what'd you guys think about how she unlocked her Sharingan? Pretty obvious right? Whatever, send me your reviews.