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Chapter Thirteen: Graduation Failures
'Heh heh heh! Now is the time to unveil the technique I've managed to perfect from the idea I got from that bar of soap...whatever happened to that bar of soap anyways? Whatever, it doesn't matter!' Naruto thought as he stepped up to perform 'the technique.'
Meanwhile, Sango was waiting for Miroku to get out of the bathroom yet again. This time she was getting really impatient. Her week hadn't been going so well. First she had found out that her team was getting another one of the out of the village missions. She was about to go rub it in Neji's face, when Tenten, a girl Sango actually saw as a friend, told them that HER team had also been assigned a mission outside of the village. Then while on the mission which was a youkai slaying one, the outfit that Kagome had given to her on her more recent birthday. The one that was made with black stretchy fabric and had light red armor was torn. Along with that her weights had been increased today and they had been training. So here she was aggravated and bathing in her smelly sweat. On top of that, she had to listen to Miroku's horrible singing in the shower voice!
"Kirara I'm going to go use Naruto's shower if Miroku gets out of the bathroom before I get back make sure you whack him in the face." Sango muttered to Kirara who had gotten out of her sad mood that she had been the day after they got back from their mission. Grabbing a fresh towel, her clothes and two hairpins she picked the lock on Naruto's door. Sango was already in the shower when she realized she had forgotten to bring some soap. Luckily she spotted a bar hidden away in the corner of the tub trapped in the shower curtain and shrugged. Making sure she shaved off all sides of the bar and ran it under boiling hot water for thirty seconds before she deemed it alright to use.
Miroku on the other hand was so happy their mission outside of the village had gone so well and he had been able to meet so many kawaii village girls. He was still in the shower and had just hit the highest note in the song he was currently singing. When this guy with a towel wrapped around his body, like a girl, kicked his bathroom door down. The other male was really buff and built this guy looked like he trained a lot, what had he ever done to offend such a person? He did not know.
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT MIROKU!" Sango screamed before violently smashing the bar of soap into his flesh as she ran it all over his body with her eyes shut tight.
"Ex-Excuse me but d-do I know you?" What happened to his voice? Why did he suddenly sound like a girl? Miroku looked down at his chest his eyes widening to the size of a bowling ball. WHEN DID HE GROW BREASTS?!
"It's me, Sango, but you wouldn't know that because YOU have been hogging up the shower for the last hour and a half singing that stupid song of yours! You always do this! So I had to use Naruto's shower and used this bar of soap! WHICH TURNED ME INTO A FRIKING GUY! THIS IS BECAUSE YOU'RE SUCH A BATHROOM HOG! NOW I HAVE TO SUFFER THOUGH WHAT KAGOME HAD TO!" Sango angrily threw the remaining scraps of soap at Miroku's body with her eyes still closed huffing before stomping out and slamming the broken bathroom door shut, only to have the door completely fall off its hinges.
'She's really angry this time.' Miroku thought his whole body shaking from fear and he looked like a deer caught in the headlight. Then got a perverted grin on his face and grabbed at the fatty lumps on his chest and started squeezing them. 'This isn't a punishment! Arigato Naruto!'
Naruto sneezed just as he was adjusting the green goggles on his forehead. Then getting into position he took in a deep breath. He was going to blow everyone's minds away when they saw this! He went through the hand signs before calling out "Sexy no jutsu!" The older- naked female Naruto with wisps floating around his-her naked parts winked and blew a giant kiss in Iruka's direction. Naruto only transformed back into himself when Iruka was shot back by his insane nose bleed. "Gyahahahah! How did you like that? I call it the "Sexy no jutsu!"
"YOU BAKA STOP WASTING YOUR TIME INVENTIG STUPID TECHNIQUES!"
"Ano, Iruka-sensei you seemed to enjoy it though." Kagome piped up looking slyly at the teacher before snapping her fingers. "Are you an ecchi da?" She asked innocently with a giant grin on her face, 'Iruka-sensei looks so funny with the pieces of tissue shoved up his nostrils to stop the blood from pouring out of them.'
"Okay you two troublemakers I'm not letting you leave until you finished cleaning off all this paint you used to vandalize this mountain." Iruka said watching over the children who were scrubbing the rocky surface. He wanted to make sure they didn't try and escape until all traces of paint were completely gone.
"Mou...." Kagome sighed sticking her tongue out at Iruka as she squeezed the excess water out from the towel she was using. Her stomach rumbled from hunger and her stomachs cries were soon accompanied by Naruto's.
"Etto....ano guys," Iruka looked down to see both children curled up in the fetal position clutching their stomachs and groaning. "If you finish cleaning up I promise to treat the both of you two some ramen tonight. How does that sound to you?"
"Hai! I'll do it for the ramen!" Naruto was furiously scrubbing away now.
"Un! I'll race you Naruto whoever cleans up their side faster has to do all of the losers dirty laundry! " Was Kagome's reply as she challenged Naruto working extra hard to clean her side faster.
"I'm not going to lose Nee-san because I don't want to have to touch anyone's dirty underwear!" Naruto made a face when he thought about it. "Well I think you better get ready to wash all my clothes since I haven't cleaned them for at least a month!"
"THAT'S WHY YOU SMELL SO BAD!" Kagome hurled the soaking wet cloth at Naruto's face so she could stand there and point at him.
"IIE! IT'S JUST THE ODOUR OF A REAL MAN!"
'These guys....' Iruka thought fondly as they started bickering back and forth now throwing water at each other. "OI! GET BACK TO WORK! Otherwise I won't treat you to that ramen I promised to you!"
"No fair you can't break a promise!" Was Kagome's indignant reply, as she looked up where Iruka was sitting with a pout on her face.
"If you two get back to work I won't have to then!" Came Iruka's overly cheery response.
"Hai alright sensei!" Kagome saluted him with a giggle before picking up the washcloth to continue cleaning her side. "You're going to clean faster than that Naru-kun if you don't want to do all the dirty laundry belonging to Sango, Miroku and I! I'm almost done cleaning my side already. It's probably because Obaa-chan made me do so many pointless chores similar to this one when I was with her! Uh oh looks like you're going to lose!"
"IIE!" Naruto cried using his two hands to scrub the paint off even faster and harder with tears streaming out of his eyes. He hated doing the laundry!
"Why'd you guys deface the Hokage monument in the first place?" Iruka found himself asking as Naruto and Kagome sat to the left of him happily slurping their noodles away, only Naruto was the one sitting closer to him and had removed his goggles prior to him digging into his bowl of ramen. "You know who the Hokages are... don't you?"
"Of course we do Iruka-sensei, we're not stupid!" Naruto answered. "They're the strongest shinobi out of the entire village right??"
"Hai, and one of them, the Yondaime, is a hero who saved the entire village from a youkai demon who threatened to destroy the entire village!" Kagome said swinging her legs back and forth savoring the taste of the noodles. Kaede had told her this story among the many other strange tales and legends.
"So then I find myself having to ask you guys, why'd you do it?" Iruka asked sighing, he really didn't understand these to unique children he had the privilege of getting to know.
"That's because one day I'm going to receive the title of 'Hokage' and I'm going to be the best Hokage ever! I'm going to surpass them all in every way possible and make all the villagers realize how wrong they were about me! Then they'd have to recognize me because I will rule over all of Konoha doing all sorts of amazing deeds of kindness!" Naruto announced pointing his chopsticks dangerously close to Iruka's eyes. "Ano, Iruka-sensei I have...a request for you...."
"Nani? Do you want seconds?!" Iruka asked slurping up the noodle that had hung out of his mouth from Naruto's unexpected outburst.
"Iie! I just want to borrow your Konoha hitai-ite onegai [please]!" Naruto pleaded bowing his head and holding out his hands held together as if he was praying to Kami.
"Mou Iruka-sensei if Naru-kun doesn't want to have seconds can I have seconds?" Kagome asked turning around in her seat with the biggest saddest most realistic puppy dog eyes she could muster, she was still hungry. "On-eg-ai?"
"Alright Kagome-kun you can order one more bowl," Iruka said his eyebrow twitching he couldn't say 'no' to a face like that. He then turned back to Naruto touching the fabric of the Konoha hitai-ite on his forehead. "This is for only after you graduate Naruto-kun! It's a symbol that you're a responsible shinobi of Konoha, maybe you'll get yours tomorrow."
"YOU'RE SO MEAN IRUKA-SENSEI! I REALLY THOUGHT YOU'D SAY HAI [YES]!" Naruto yelled swallowing down the rest of his noodles while Kagome giggled at him already onto her second bowl.
"I get it, so you removed your goggles just so you could ask me if you could borrow my hitai-ite? Ha ha!"
"Hmpft! SECONDS ONEGAI!" Naruto yelled slamming down his empty bowl to the table.
"HEY?! You didn't even ask!" Iruka yelled sounding very shocked.
"Nee-san you have to get up! Today's the big day!" Naruto said dragging a sleeping Kagome straight out of bed and onto the hard floor.
"MAGICAL TALKING ZEBRA I DON'T WANT TO HAVE A PENOR!- ughrgh what do you want Naru-kun...?" She asked as she was pulled off of the floor.
"Today's the big day remember!" Naruto yelled excitedly he quickly ran away and pulled his calendar off of his wall and brought it to her pointing at the day that was labelled 'graduation exam' and circled three times with a red marker. "The day I'm going to become a full fledged shinobi of this village and get the Konoha hitai-ite! Like the one Sango, Miroku, Iruka-sensei and sometimes Kirara wear!"
"Ohhh…Un [yeah]…So what did you do with those green goggles you always have on your head?" Kagome asked going to pour herself a bowl of cereal. Only to have everything she had taken out put back where it belonged by Naruto. He then proceeded to cram three breakfast bars into her mouth instead.
"I took them off! Didn't you hear me say that I'm going to get a hitai-ite today! Look you don't have time for you to eat breakfast! Come on and get dressed we're going to be late! This is really important and for once I want to be on time for the graduation exam!" Naruto said pushing her back into her room and closing the door so she could change.
"Alright Ikuzou! Ikuzou! Ikuzou! [let's go! Let's go! Let's go!]" Naruto ran carrying a half asleep Kagome on his back all the way to the academy. Somehow he had managed to slide both of them into their seats just seconds before Iruka-sensei arrived.
"I'm glad to see that everyone is on time and ready for the graduation exam. For the exam you will be asked to perform the Bushin no jutsu, you must create two perfect other clones to graduate. The order of the names that are called out are in no particular order. When you hear your name called you are to go into the next room and execute the jutsu to the best of you ability, alright everyone I know you can do this, good luck." Iruka said before stepping out into the next room 'I really hope Naruto practiced this jutsu.'
"Nee-san! Wake up! Iruka-sensei just said that we have to do the Bushin no jutsu in order to graduate! " Naruto yelled shaking her back and forth. "You know how that's my worst skill out of all the other jutsus. I'm not going to be able to pass!"
"Dobe, that's one of the simplest jutsus any shinobi without half their brain would even know how to do it." Sasuke insulted liking the look of terror on Naruto's face.
"Urusai na! [Shut the hell up!] Sasuke I don't have time for your insults today! NEE-SAN YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP!"
"Mouuuu…. Naru-kun you just have to remember to relax." Kagome said finally lifting up her head then patted Naruto on the shoulder.
"Uzumaki, Naruto."
"EEK! IT'S MY TURN ALREADY?!" Naruto yelled digging his fingers into Kagome's arm with an iron grip.
"Ganbatte! [You can do it!]" Kagome smiled prying his fingers off her arm before pushing him all the way to the other room. When she got back to the room she slumped back on the table and went back to sleep as other kids were slowly called one by one next door. Soon only Kagome was left in the empty class. She lifted up her head and yawned widely, she had just had the best power nap ever. Staying out training for most of the night probably wasn't the best idea.
"Higurashi, Kagome. You're the last person to go, onegai make your way to the examination room."
"Alright Kagome-kun is it you just have to do the Bushin no jutsu to pass!" Iruka said he was absolutely sure the girl was going to pass the exam with no problem at all.
"Iruka-sensei did Naru-kun pass?" Kagome asked curiously tilting her head to the side as she did. Looking at the table that still had a rather startling amount of hitai-ites left on it.
"Oh so you're Naruto-kun's friend, aren't you?" A man with jaw length hair asked her with a fake smile on his face.
"Un, I want to know if he passed." Kagome straighten out her entire body. She did not like the man one bit he seemed suspicious and his aura was tainted with a blackish purple color it swirled around malevolently. That was never a good sign.
"Iie, gomen. Naruto-kun failed he couldn't split himself up into three and he was only able to create one clone and it was useless and wouldn't help him in a shinobi battle." Iruka answered shaking his head. He felt sorry for the boy, he truly did- but he would feel a lot worse if he had passed Naruto who wouldn't be able to even defend himself in a battle.
"Even if this was his third time, I wanted him to pass….we still can't pass him Iruka-sensei?"
"Iie, you know we can't Mizuki-sensei it's not safe for him to be out there in the real world and not be able to correctly perform this jutsu, everyone else can do it so he should be able to do it to," Iruka replied before looking back to Kagome who was waiting their patiently. "Gomen, go ahead Kagome-kun…….whenever you're ready….is there something wrong?"
"Are you nervous Kagome-kun? Do you need a glass of water or something? I can go get one for you if you like." Mizuki said scooting his chair back causing the legs to scrape against the floor loudly as the noise echoed in the room, he watched as the girl just stand there. She appeared to be in deep thought.
"Arigato but iie. Gomen Iruka-sensei I can't do the jutsu." Kagome said bowing, if Naruto didn't pass she wasn't going to either and that was that, she had made up her mind.
"Na-nani?! Why not? Your grade in ninjutsu was one of the best out of the entire class!" Iruka stood up his hands placed on the table in front of him.
"I don't know why by learning ninjutsu was easy for me….and Naru-kun didn't pass, so I can't either I promised him I couldn't get in the way of his dream. I don't break the promises I make, ever," Kagome bowed again so show her respect. "Gomen. I'm going to go find Naru-kun now." She ran out of the building easily sensing where her depressed friend was.
"I'm telling you Mizuki-sensei that girl could have easily passed if she wanted to. She's too loyal to Naruto-kun I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad one. Well I guess there is nothing else to do other than to inform the Hokage of the kids who passed. I'll see you around." Iruka said sighing as he walked out of the examination room thinking 'she could have passed.'
"Good job on passing kiddo let's go get some ice cream together so that I can celebrate this occasion with you."
"You have no idea how proud you've made your family by becoming a fully fledged shinobi!"
"Look over there. It's that kid I heard he was the only one that failed the graduation exam."
"That's a huge relief I wouldn't want him to become a shinobi anyways because he has that-"
"Hush! You know we're forbidden about talking about that it's a rule."
"Well he must be really be a baka to be the only one to fail the graduation exam."
"Urusai na! [Shut the hell up!] I failed the exam too it's not only Naru-kun who failed so you can stop glaring and staring at him. You can look at me that way instead because I failed also." Kagome yelled at the people successfully shutting them up as she glared at them.
"Honto ni? [Really?] Nee-san you failed?! How could you fail though you could always do it in class! Your mark in ninjutsu was really high on your report card too. I saw your grade with my own eyes!" Naruto asked as Kagome made her way over to where he was sitting sideways on the swing.
"You're such a snoop Naru-kun, I told you to stop looking through my mail! Let's go get some ramen though, my treat okay?" Kagome said trying to steer him away from the topic of the graduation exam all together.
"Oh boy, I'd never pass up free ramen!" He said excitedly getting off the swing.
'Naru-kun put his goggles back on…' She thought to herself as they walked through the empty streets. Everyone was probably off celebrating their kid's graduation.
"Hey! You there, Naruto-kun and Kagome-kun!" Mizuki-sensei called chasing after them.
"Mizuki-sensei?!" Naruto asked turning around before remembering what had happened. "Iruka-sensei said that I couldn't pass because I created only one useless clone of myself. Mizuki-sensei tried to convince Iruka-sensei to pass me but he only said 'I'm sorry Naruto-kun but I can't let you pass.' How come you didn't pass Nee-san?"
"I just couldn't," Kagome replied giving him a sad looking smile before giving him an actual smile. "It's alright with me though ano…let's not go back home though Sango and Miroku will yell at me when they find out I didn't pass, more Sango than Miroku. You know how she is."
"You guys I want to talk to you, I know a really good spot to sit and have a conversation," Mizuki-sensei said motioning the two children to quickly follow him before he was spotted by anyone with these two gakis. "Naruto-kun I wanted to let you know that Iruka takes his job very seriously. His parents were killed when he was young and since then he's always had to do everything himself. You have to understand his feelings since you also have no parents."
'Mou, what a rude thing to say and in such a careless manner too.' Kagome thought sitting as far away as she could from Mizuki-'sensei' the dark purple swirls in his aura was slowly growing.
"I still wish I had graduated, do you feel the same way I do Nee-san?"
"Un… I wish I had graduated also."
"Well…I suppose I can tell the two of you a super special secret way of passing….only if you promise not to tell anyone else that I told you how." Mizuki said thinking it was just too easy to manipulate the two stupid children to steal the forbidden jutsu scroll of sealing from the Hokage tower. Since they were just children he would easily be able to kill them afterwards and take the scroll making everyone think that they had run away with it. It was really just too easy!
"I got it, I promise!" Naruto yelled excitedly, Kagome turned her body to face Mizuki to show that she was listening when he explained to them what they had to do if they wanted to pass.
"Let's see so the first jutsu here is the Kage Bushin no jutsu! Nee-san why does it start off with a technique I'm horrible at?" Naruto whined placing the scroll on the ground cursing as it almost rolled away from him, he caught it before the scroll unraveled itself completely.
"Naru-kun I don't have a good feeling about this," Kagome said feeling uneasily kicking around some dirt with the front of her shoe. "I don't like the feeling I get when I'm around Mizuki-sensei...."
"Why? Mizuki-sensei was really nice to us by telling us how we could pass! We just have to learn at least one of the techniques that's what Mizuki-sensei said to do and I want to prove myself to Iruka-sensei so that I can get my finally get my hitai-ite! Don't you want to pass as well, then maybe we can even be put on the same team together!?"
"Alright Naruto, move over so I can see the scroll too." Kagome said with a smile on her face as soon as her eyes connected with the page and she scanned it over the page the hand signs came to life right off of the page and where displayed right in front of her very eyes. She tried to refrain herself from rubbing them. They always felt this way, even in class whenever they learned a ninjutsu it was as if she instantly knew it right afterward. That's why her mark was so high in the class, she felt like a cheater because she didn't have to work as hard as the other kids. She couldn't stop herself and rubbed her eyes.
"Nee-san your eyes are all scary looking and red…" Naruto said her eyes had three commas in one eye and two in the other, both of them however looked really evil looking.
"They are? It must be because I keep rubbing them. Don't worry about me you keep practicing." Kagome asked stopping her hands from going up to her eyes and rubbing them again. Her eyes went back to the scroll and continued to look over the material.
"Okay. This sounds really hard, but- I'm going to try it. Alright here I go! Crap, I must have done it wrong. Why aren't you practicing? If you just keep reading you might not be able to pass! You should at least practice the Kage Bushin no jutsu with me." Naruto words fell on deaf ears as Kagome continued to move down the length of the scroll her eyes didn't want to tear themselves away from all the jutsus written down on the page.
Naruto's body flew back from a failed attempt and knocked her away from reading all of the contents of the forbidden scroll. Kagome gave her eyes another good rubbing. She had been put into some kind of trance that she couldn't seem to snap out of. Not only that, but for some reason she now had a pounding headache. She looked away as she kicked the scroll almost completely closed. The sun was starting to rise already; it meant that they had been out here almost all night…
"Nee-san I did it! And your eyes are back to normal too!" Naruto said proudly, dirt was smeared all over his clothes and the scroll was neatly rolled back and was now on his back. He looked rough around the edges but he was happy. "I'm going to be able to get my hitai-ite now! But how come you didn't practice? What If Iruka-sensei fails you again?"
"THERE YOU ARE I FOUND YOU TWO GAKIS! Everyone is looking for the both of you!" Iruka yelled jumping down from a tree branch. "You guys have really done it this time. You're both in big trouble. You're lucky I found you first. What the hell are you guys doing out here anyways?"
"I'm going to graduate from the academy once and for all! I only managed to learn one skill but that should be enough to pass right Iruka-sensei? Let me show you!" Naruto's feet slid down into position.
"… Where did you guys get that scroll, the one that you're carrying on your back Naruto?"
"Mizuki-sensei told us about the super secret special way to graduate. He also told us we should practice here in this place. He said no one would be able to find us here. What a liar! And he wanted me to promise him that I wouldn't tell anyone, but Naru-kun was the only one who promised!" Kagome said sticking her tongue out before her she sensed on coming danger, she knocked Naruto out of the way and jumped back yelling, "Watch out Iruka-sensei!"
Iruka didn't have enough warning time to move out of the way as the onslaught of weapons where embedded into different parts of his body. A couple of them rebounded and one stray kunai managed to lodge itself into Kagome's right calf, making her cry out in pain. All of them were all thrown by Mizuki who was perched on a branch with two Fuuma Shuriken strapped to his back. "I know what's going on Mizuki and you can't get away with this!"
"Naruto-kun give me the scroll!" Mizuki yelled to the boy who looked confused sitting on the ground, Mizuki held out his hand wearing a fake smile on his face. "Onegai?"
"Iie! Naru-kun don't give it to him!" Kagome yelled out, pulling out the bloody kunai and tossing it to the ground. She continued looked back and forth between the injured Iruka and the person who had caused all of the injury.
"Kagome is right Naruto! That's a dangerous scroll has many forbidden ninjutsu sealing techniques! Mizuki only used you guys so he could get his hands on it!" Iruka yelled the kunai that were stuck in his body were impairing his movements.
"Naruto-kun, you don't need that scroll. How about I tell you a story in return for that scroll on your back?" Mizuki said continuing on with his silly façade. "Twelve years ago, you heard about that fox youkai attacking and destroying almost all of the village right? Well ever since then a new rule was made by the Sandaime. Part of this rule, was never to tell you the rule."
"Why not?" Kagome asked her curiosity was definitely peaked… could it be that the fox youkai Mizuki was talking about was the same youkai she felt inside Naruto? Blood was seeping past her fingers as she applied pressure on the wound that Mizuki had caused.
"Huh?! Un! Why not?" Naruto cried out indignantly, why was it apart of a rule not to tell somebody else the rule? How would that person know if they broke it, if they never knew the rule existed? His head started to hurt from thinking about it. "What kind of rule is it?"
"Oh nothing really, it's just about the fact that we were never to tell you that you are the nine tailed fox youkai." Mizuki said narrowing his hate filled eyes at the gaki.
"STOP IT! MIZUKI STOP!" Iruka yelled in hopes that others would hear his cry.
"You are the youkai that killed Iruka's parents and destroyed the village! You were sealed up! Didn't you think it was strange that everyone in the village hates you? Even Iruka-sensei hates you because you're responsible for killing his parents! And do you want to know the real reason why Kagome-kun didn't pass her graduation exam? It was your entire fault she said she didn't want to get in the way of your stupid dream because she promised you she wouldn't. She wants to stop being your friend because of that you for that you know? She told me so herself. I mean really to think the reason she didn't want to pass because she pitied you when she found out that you had failed!"
"URUSAI NA! M-maybe the part about Iruka is true bu-but Nee-san will NEVER stop being my friend." Naruto said fiercely with a slight growl.
"Un! I don't hate Naru-kun and never will! And you're a baka, because he isn't that fox youkai. Even if Nau-kun was one, I would still be his best friend!" Kagome yelled, this man was really starting to make her angry! Her reiki was making her skin tingle.
"You have been told lies your whole miserable life! I'll be glad to put an end to it," Mizuki yelled as he spun a Fuuma Shuriken around. "Want to hear something really funny? That scroll you're carrying around is the exact same scroll was used to seal you up!" He let go of the spinning weapon watching with a sadistic grin on his face as it made its way to the where the fox youkai gaki was standing….Iruka was running to protect him, but where had the short girl-?
"Don't you dare tell Naru-kun things I never said!" Kagome said rolling on the round and picking up six kunai that she held in between all of her fingers and threw them at Mizuki. He tried to dodge them but in doing so he slipped off of the branch when one landed to close to his foot. Kagome watched as he fell and then sent a well aimed reiki infused punch into his stomach, just as he was about to hit the ground. She dropped her fist and with that his body fell to the side and he lay there rolling around on the ground in pain spitting out a buildup of saliva. His organs felt like they were going to spew out of his open mouth at any given moment.
"Kagome-kun! You have to go after Naruto!" Iruka yelled to her on his hands and knees with a Fuuma Shuriken sticking out of his back.
"Iruka-sensei are you going to be-"
"GO!"
Kagome frowned looking back at that battered Iruka before she went tracked down Naruto. She slid into a clearing darting behind the trunk of the tree where Naruto was clutching the scroll to his chest. She could sense Mizuki and Iruka coming in this direction. "Nau-kun," She whispered quietly making sure she didn't touch him, because he was in such a state of shock that it was unnecessary contact at the moment. "It's me." She hid beside him when Iruka and Mizuki were talking in the small clearing she had passed. Kagome felt angry with Iruka when he had started to agree with what Mizuki said about Naruto.
"Nee-san…even Iruka-sensei doesn't acknowledge me! Even though he just told me that he was just like me…"
"-The fox youkai would have done that, but Naruto-kun is different. He is, I've even come to acknowledge him as one of my best students. Course he's not the hardest worker and he's clumsy and can act like a real baka sometimes. However he isn't the fox youkai, he's….he's a member of the village and he's Uzumaki, Naruto, the number one trouble maker in all of Konoha!" Iruka said sitting at the base of a tree unable to move from the pain and the blood loss.
'Naru-kun….' Kagome thought watching as her friend had tears pouring out of his eyes…and snot leaked out of his nose. He made was such an attractive site right now. She patted him on the shoulder and he turned to her and whispered in her ear his plan.
"Iruka, I said I would kill you later but I think I've changed my mind. I'll put you out of your misery and tell everyone that you helped those gaki's escape once I kill them too." Mizuki said taking his last Fuuma Shuriken off of his back and began twirling it around and around ready to throw, but he was head butted away by someone's thick skull causing the Shuriken to veer off course.
"…You gaki you'll pay for that!" Mizuki said struggling to get up off of the ground.
"Don't touch Iruka-sensei, I'LL KILL YOU." Naruto announced tossing the scroll back, knowing that Kagome could catch it before it hit the ground.
"I'd like to see you try and kill me you're nothing more than a loud mouth weakling. I can kill you in just one go you're just a wimpy no talent gaki." Mizuki hissed finally standing, he clutched his stomach in pain, what did that short gaki girl do to make it hurt so much?
"BAKA! Run away! Why did you both come out of hiding?! It's dangerous this isn't fun and games anymore!" Iruka yelled wincing as Kagome ripped out the kunai that were embedded in his arm before tearing out the weapons from his chest and continued until they were all gone. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING KAGOME?!?! I'M GOING TO BLEED OUT NOW THAT YOU'VE TAKEN THEM ALL OUT! I'M GOING TO DIE AT A YOUNG AGE FROM BLOOD LOSS!"
"KAGE BUSHIN NO JUTSU!"
"Iruka-sensei urusai ne? Trust me," Kagome said with a smile on her face, making sure he was looking into her eyes when she first started to run her hands over all of his wounds which were almost instantly healed over, taking a couple of minutes each. She was sitting on top of her legs as her hands stopped glowing light pink. "See you're all better now!"
"Kagome-kun…sugoi…." Iruka whispered poking his fingers through his torn uniform to poke at his flesh, grunting in pain as his finger jabbed into the sore pink flesh.
"I thought you were going to kill me in just one go Mizuki, come on why don't you do it then?" All the Naruto clones asked at the same time making Mizuki drop to the ground crawling on his back in fear as his head spun around, he could see that he was completely surrounded. "I guess that I'll just have to show you how it's done then!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Mizuki's cries of pain could be heard throughout the village.
"Etto…. I think I went too far." Naruto lightly nudged his foot into Mizuki's beaten side.
"He only got what he had coming to him Naru-kun even if it was a thousand complete clones of yourself!" Kagome said laughing.
"Un! I guess so you're right Nee-san!" Naruto said joining in her laughter.
"Iruka-sensei, lean down I have to tell you something," Kagome whispered into Iruka's ear making sure Naruto, who had his eyes narrowed in suspicion, didn't hear anything. Then she sat back down on the ground, "Don't you think he deserves it?"
"Hai, okay Naruto close your eyes I have something to give you," Iruka said and once he had made sure the boy's eyes were closed he removed the goggles from his head and tied the Konoha hitai-ite to his head. "Alright you can open your eyes now. Congratulations, to the both of you, on passing. You have shown tremendous skill and courage here today! I'm very proud of you guys."
"I think we should celebrate this moment with some ramen!" Kagome cheerily announced.
"Hai, I'll buy you one bowl of ramen each!" Iruka said laughing and patting the two children on the back, who had tackled him, hugging him tightly around the waist.
If you could create a jutsu or a weapon what would it be and what would it do?
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