Chapter 8.
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4 years later.
Daytime.
Academy.
Karin, now 12 years old, her hair almost reaching a mid-back length, and in her new usual outfit, brown glasses, a short sleeved mesh shirt, a high collared light brown jacket that was open with a orange stripe going across the chest, a purple skirt, mesh stockings, and grey sandals, was sitting in her seat next to Sasuke, now 12 years old, his hair has gotten slightly longer over the years, and in his new usual outfit, a high collared short sleeved navy blue shirt with the Uchiha crest on the back, white short pants, white arms warmers with blue at the both ends of them, white bandages that covered most of his lower legs with blue at the ends of them, and blue sandals, had hands together in his usual way.
Iruka had left the classroom for a moment to deal with something.
She looked up to the right side to see Ino, now 12 years old, her hair was in a high ponytail and was at a waist length and had a bang on the right side of her face, and she was in her new usual outfit, small silver hoop earrings, a purple high collared sleeveless blouse, a purple apron skirt, white bandages on her abdomen and upper legs, white arm warmers with purple at both ends of them, blue sandals, and Sakura, now 12 years old, her hair now at a waist length with the red ribbon still in her hair, was in her new usual outfit, a red qipao dress that had a zipper on the front, the Haruno crest on the short sleeves and on the back, tight green bike shorts, and blue sandals, and along with some girls were smiling at Sasuke. She heard them talk admiringly about Sasuke.
Karin turned her head forward and sighed sadly. "Please return soon, Oniisan." she thought.
"What's the matter, Karin?" Sasuke asked.
Karin looked over at Sasuke. "Oniisan hasn't return yet and he said he was going to do another prank again before Graduation Exams start in a few days." she said.
"Hn, that's childish." Sasuke said. "Does he even act his own age?"
Karin looked at the door as she suddenly sensed Iruka and Naruto coming to the room.
"Oniisan and Iruka are coming back." Karin said.
After a minute past, the lower classroom shoji doors slid open to reveal Iruka, now 24 years old, and was in his usual outfit, and Naruto, now 12 years old and in his new usual outfit, green goggles on his forehead, orange jumpsuit with a little blue on it, white collar with a tassel on the left side the jacket with the Uzumaki crest on the back, and blue sandals. Karin immediately noticed that Naruto was tied up with brown rope on the upper part of his body. Naruto and Iruka walked in before Iruka slid the door closed behind them. They now stood in front of the wooden podium, Naruto looked annoyed while Iruka looked down at him.
"I'm at the end of my rope Naruto." Iruka said. "You failed the graduation test last time and the time before that. Tomorrow you've got another chance and you're messing up again. Don't you care what your father might say?"
Naruto just turned his head to the right as he made a annoyed look, causing Iruka to be be angry. Iruka turned towards the class and point his left index finger at us.
"Fine, because you missed it Naruto! Everyone will review the Transformation Mitsubishi!" Iruka yelled.
Everyone except Sasuke, Karin, Hinata, and Shino groaned.
Kiba, now 12 years old, his hair slightly longer, and in his new usual outfit, grey apparent plate of armour and brown fishnet undershirt, grey hooded fur-lined coat, with the hood placed on his head, dark greyish pants reaching to his calves and blue sandals, stood up with Akamaru, who has grown a little, in his jacket, then Sakura, Ino, some of the other girls and boys, Shino, now 12 years old and in his new usual outfit, round black glasses, high collared zipped up sea-green jacket, black shirt, dark brown pants, and blue sandals, Hinata, now 12 years old and in her new usual outfit, a dark purple short sleeved shirt, a cream-coloured hooded-jacket with a fire symbol on the upper sleeves and fur around the cuffs and hem, navy blue pants, and blue sandals, Shikamaru, now 12 years old and in his new usual outfit, grey hoop earrings, a brown-lined mesh T-shirt, short-sleeved grey jacket with green-edged sleeves and the Nara clan's symbol on the back and sleeves, long brown pants, and blue sandals, Choji, now 12 years old and in his new usual outfit, grey hoop earrings, a light-green shirt with the kanji for "food" (食, shoku) on it, a green, short-sleeved haori, black shorts, bandages around his legs and forearms, and blue sandals, Sasuke, Karin, Hiroki, 12 years old, had, slightly tan skin, grey shaved hair on his head, black pupil less eyes, wearing a brown bandanna tied around his head, short sleeved dark grey shirt, light brown pants with a white belt, grey short sleeved trench coat, dark grey sandals, and Shigeri, 12 years old, short brown hair, fair skin, grey eyes, wearing a black shirt, long black pants, long sleeved bluish grey jacket with 3 thin strings holding it the front, cream colored scarf wrapped around his neck, and dark grey sandals, all stood up from their seats and walked down the stairs and formed a single line on the lower floor.
Karin walked over to Naruto and stepped behind him and untied him from the rope. After almost 2 minutes the rope fell to the ground, freeing Naruto from it.
"Thanks, Karin." Naruto said smiling at her.
"You're welcome, Oniisan." Karin said smiling back softly.
Naruto and Karin went into the line, while they are standing together Karin stood behind Sasuke and Naruto stood in front of Shikamaru.
"When you are done transforming walk over there." Iruka said pointing with his left hand to the corner of the room.
"Let's get started." Iruka said as he grabbed his clipboard from the podium with his right hand and looked down at it. "First is Sakura Haruno." then he looked up.
Sakura, who was in front of Sasuke, stepped forward and made the hand signs of the Transformation jutsu, Dog-Boar-Ram.
"Alright Sakura here, let's do it. Transform!" Sakura said.
A puff of smoke appeared around Sakura and within a second it cleared up reveal she transformed into Iruka.
"You transformed into me. Good." Iruka said.
The smoke appeared around Sakura again and disappeared to reveal Sakura looked like herself again. Sakura put her hands together near her face and started cheering for herself. After a few seconds she put her hands away from her face and looked at Sasuke.
"Sasuke, did you see that?!" Sakura asked happily.
Sasuke didn't say anything.
"Next, Sasuke Uchiha." Iruka said.
Sakura walked somewhere else as Sasuke stepped forward. Sasuke made the hand signs and a puff appeared and disappeared to reveal he transformed into Iruka.
Iruka stopped writing on the clipboard with his right hand to see. "Uh, good." he said.
The smoke appeared and disappeared from around Sasuke again as he transformed back into his usual self. Sasuke put his hands into his pockets as he walked over to where Sakura was at.
"Next, Karin Uzumaki." Iruka said.
Karin slowly stepped forward and made the Transformation jutsu hand signs. She doesn't want to transform into a male especially into Iruka, so she decided to transform into her gender, a girl.
A puff appeared and disappeared to reveal Karin had transformed into a 12 year old fair skinned girl that had dark brown hair, blue eyes, wearing a green dress with a red ribbon on top, and blue sandals.
"Great job." Iruka said.
The smoke appeared and disappeared from around Karin and she walked over to where Sasuke and Sakura were at.
"Next Naruto Uzumaki." Iruka said.
Karin stared at Naruto.
"This is a totally waste of time, Naruto." Shikamaru said, his hands in his pockets.
"We always pay for your screwups." Ino said, placing her right hand on her right hip.
"P-please don't say that about Oniisan." Karin thought sadly, putting her hands together near her chest.
"Like I care." Naruto said both hands on his hips as he stepped forward.
Karin noticed that Hinata had both of her index fingers together as she looked at Naruto blushing lightly.
"Does Hinata... really like Oniisan..?" Karin thought curiously before she turned to look at Naruto again.
"Transform!" Naruto said as blue chakra gathered around him.
Chakra and smoke appeared and disappeared from around Naruto to reveal that he transformed into a pale version of Iruka. Everyone except Karin, Sasuke, Hinata, and Shino laughed at Naruto's smoke appeared and disappeared from around Naruto and he stood there.
"At least.. he's getting better at it..." Karin thought.
Karin saw Iruka stood in front of Naruto angrily.
"This is your last warning!" Iruka yelled.
Karin looked sadly at Naruto. "Oniisan..." she thought sadly.
2 hours later.
Karin was walking back to the Uzumaki clan compound. She was thinking about at how most of her classmates laughed at Naruto.
"Why are they so mean to Oniisan like that?" Karin thought sadly. "What did he do make them treat him like that?"
As Karin continued to walk she suddenly sensed Sasuke quickly coming towards her location. She stopped and turned around to see Sasuke running towards her.
"S-sasuke..." Karin whispered.
Sasuke stopped right in front of Karin. "Karin, I want to talk to you about something." he said.
"Um.. okay.." Karin said shyly.
"Let's go to the Dango Shop first." Sasuke said.
Karin blushed furiously as her eyes widened. "As in.. a date?!" she thought. Her blush lessened, knowing is not like that, and she thought about something.
"B-but Sasuke... you don't like sweets." Karin said shyly, looking down at the ground.
"I'll just drink tea and I know it's your favorite place to eat." Sasuke said smiling.
"H-hai." Karin said shyly, looking at him.
Sasuke and Karin walked for less than 5 minutes and they made it to the Dango Shop. Sasuke and Karin walked inside and looked around. There were a few people sitting at some of the seats. Sasuke and Karin walked over to an empty table with Sasuke sitting on the left side and Karin sitting on the right side. Karin always loves coming here because the dangos here are great.
Suddenly a skinny lady with fair skin, who looked to be in her early 20's, had brown hair that reached a waist length, orange eyes with no pupils, wearing a short sleeved white shirt, long red pants, brown sandals, and a black apron, was holding a cream colored note pad and a pencil.
"Okay, are you 2 ready to order?" the woman asked.
Sasuke looked at Karin. "Karin you order first." he said.
"H-hai." Karin said shyly then looked up at the waitress. "Um.. I would like the tri colored dangos and green tea please."
"Okay." the woman said, writing Karin's order down and turned to Sasuke. "And what would you like?"
"Just green tea." Sasuke said.
The woman wrote down Sasuke's order and looked at them.
"Your orders will be ready in a little while." the woman said then walked off.
"So.. u-um... what did you want to talk about Sasuke?" Karin asked shyly.
Sasuke turned to Karin. "It's about the graduation, it's coming up soon." he said.
"H-hai." Karin said.
"How is it going to be organized?" Sasuke asked.
"Well... Aunt Kushina told me that everyone will be placed in a different room than our usual one and we will be called alphabetical order to take the test alone." Karin said.
"Do you know what we'll be doing?" Sasuke asked.
"Aunt Kushina only said that the last thing we'll be doing was the clone jutsu and she didn't say anything else about the graduation test." Karin said.
"I see." Sasuke said.
Less than 10 minutes later, the waitress came back with a brown circular tray that had their orders on it.
"Here's your Tri-colored dangos and tea." the woman said carefully placing the 5 tri-colored dangles sticks on a plate and a cup of green tea in front of Karin.
"Thank you, Miss." Karin said smiling.
"And here's your green tea." the woman said, placing the cup of green tea in front of Sasuke.
Sasuke didn't say anything.
"Enjoy." the woman said then left with the tray in her right hand.
"What will happen after the graduation?" Sasuke asked before he grabbed his cup of tea with his left hand and sipped some of it.
"We will be taking graduation pictures of being genins and a few days later we'll placed into teams of 3." Karin said.
Sasuke put down his cup of tea and said nothing.
Karin looked down. "I know you'll do great in the test Sasuke... unlike me..." she said.
Sasuke looked at Karin.
"You've excelled in many of the subjects over the years and I've.. always was.." Karin said.
Sasuke stood up from his seat and walked over to Karin and sat next to her on the left side. Karin looked at Sasuke and blushed softly at how close he was to her.
"Karin, you're great in the Academy for many years." Sasuke said smiling.
"Huh?" Karin asked shyly.
"When all of us were running out of chakra, you still had yours." Sasuke said. "And I've always knew since the beginning that you were going to be a great student. You've made higher grades than me in some of the subjects."
Karin blushed furiously before turning away from Sasuke.
"You'll do great in the graduation test." Sasuke said.
"Th-thank y-you, um Sasuke." Karin said shyly.
"I-I should have more confidence in myself like Oniisan and Sasuke..." Karin thought.
...
30 minutes later.
Karin was walking back to the Uzumaki clan compound, she and Sasuke after they left the Dango Shop. Karin was about to pay for the bill but Sasuke paid for it, even though she insisted on pay. Within minutes, Karin entered the Uzumaki clan compound. She walked to her house and slid one of the main shoji doors with her left hand, she was about to step in when she heard her name being called.
"Karin." a woman's voice called out.
Karin sensed her Aunt Kushina coming towards her location, she turned to the right and saw her Aunt Kushina, in her usual outfit, walking towards her. She noticed a small frown on her Aunt Kushina's face.
"Hello Aunt Kushina." Karin greeted turning towards her, looking up at her.
Kushina stopped right in front of Karin and looked down at her.
"Karin... I need to talk to you about something important." Kushina said sadly.
"Huh, what is it?" Karin asked confused and curious.
"I'll tell you inside." Kushina said.
Kushina and Karin stepped in and took off their sandals. Kushina slid one of the main shoji doors closed behind them. Kushina and Karin were now sitting on one of the couches together, Karin sat on the right and Kushina sat on the left. Karin was looking up at Kushina, her hands together on her lap.
"So, what did you want to talk about Aunt Kushina?" Karin asked.
Kushina looked down at Karin. "Well... do you remember what you told me years ago about the Villagers glaring about you Naruto and saying something about the Nine-Tails?" she asked.
"Hai." Karin said.
"I think you're old another to hear this." Kushina said.
Karin just stared at her Aunt Kushina.
"If I tell you... will you hate Naruto?" Kushina asked.
"I would never hate Oniisan.. even if something terrible did happened." Karin said.
Kushina sighed before she looked forward. "As you probably already know by now that the Nine-Tails attacked Konohagakure 12 years ago you weren't born. But your cousin Naruto was born on that day." she said.
Karin became more curious about the Nine-Tails attack.
"The Nine-Tails rampaged through Konohagakure for awhile at night until it was sealed and placed into 2 people, me and your cousin Naruto." Kushina said.
Karin's eyes widened. "W-w-what, i-it's sealed into Oniisan?" she asked.
"It was split was split into 2, the Yin part and the Yang part." Kushina said then turned and looked down at Karin.
"S-split?" Karin questioned.
"I was the Jinchuriki before the attack, the Yin one was sealed into me while the Yang one was sealed into your cousin Naruto." Kushina said. "There use to be 1 Jinchuriki but now there's 2."
Karin looked in shock before she turned forward. "So.. that's why the Villagers were glaring at us." she said.
"Hai.. we were scared to tell you because we thought that you would hate Naruto and start avoiding him." Kushina said sadly.
Karin turned her head and looked up at Kushina. "Aunt Kushina I would never hate Oniisan. The 2 of us had a strong bond as long as I can remember." she said. "No matter what the Villagers say I think Oniisan is a great and brave person."
Kushina stared down at Karin for a moment before she smiled. "Those 2 really formed a bond no matter what people are saying." she thought.
A few days later.
Morning.
Academy.
Naruto and Karin were walking towards a room along with many other students. Karin was looking at the back of Naruto's head.
"I guess.. that explains why Oniisan looks like he has whiskers on his cheeks." Karin thought.
Naruto turned his head towards the right to look at Karin. "This is great we're finally going to become genin, dattebayo." he said, making his signature smile.
"I wonder what Uncle Minato and Aunt Kushina are going to test us with?" Karin asked curiously.
Naruto suddenly stopped smiling and frowned. "Wait.. what?" he asked confused.
"They're going to be testing on the graduation." Karin said.
Naruto started to get scared but covered it up immediately. "If Mom sees me doing something she doesn't like.. she's gonna kill me.." imagining his mother angry.
"I thought they told you days ago, Oniisan." Karin said.
"They didn't but said something about a surprise, dattebayo." Naruto said.
Another Room.
All of the desks were on the ground and the students were sitting in the spots they sat in their classroom. Karin looked to the right to see Naruto, who was sitting 1 seat beside her on the right. She immediately noticed that Naruto wasn't wearing his goggles today.
"I hope me and Oniisan pass together." Karin thought then looked at Sasuke, who has his hands tangled together in his usual way. "Sasuke is not worried at all."
Karin looked forward as she sensed Iruka coming to the other classroom. One of the class shoji doors slid open to reveal Iruka holding a clipboard with paper on it in his left hand, he slid one of the doors closed before he walked over to the podium and stood in front of it.
"We will now start the Final Exam, when your name is called proceed to the testing room. The Final test will be on the clone jutsu. Your names will be called in Alphabetical order." Iruka said.
"Just like Aunt Kushina explained to me..." Karin thought, she turned her head to the right to see Naruto silently freaking out. "I guess... it will be a little difficult for Oniisan..."
...
More than 2 hours later.
One at a time everyone left the to do the Final Exam. They finally made it to the U's, Sasuke left 10 minutes for his exam. Karin told him 'good luck' on it, Sasuke smiled at her and said 'Thank you're before he left the room.
As Karin waited she became really nervous.
"What if.. I fail..? What if.. I don't go to be with Oniisan and Sasuke..?" Karin thought sadly. "I don't want to leave Oniisan's side..."
Karin suddenly sensed Sasuke walking back to the room. "He's.. he finished.. already?!" she thought shocked.
Within a few minutes, one of the classroom shoji doors opened up to reveal Sasuke.
"You're next Karin Uzumaki." Iruka said.
Karin slowly stood up from her seat and walked towards the open shoji doors, as she was about to cross paths with Sasuke she she didn't see a Konohagakure forehead protector on him.
"Did Sasuke pass.. or is it in his pockets..?" Karin thought confused.
As she and Sasuke crossed paths she heard him say something.
"You'll do great, Karin." Sasuke said.
Karin gasped and watched as she as Sasuke walked back to his seat before she turned around and walked out then slid one of the shoji doors closed.
As Karin walked through one of the hallways to the testing room, she remembered what Sasuke said to her recently.
"You'll do great, Karin." Sasuke said smiling.
Karin softly blushed then quickly shook her head.
"I'm sure he's saying that to be nice..." Karin thought. "I have to focus for my exam."
2 minutes later.
Karin finally made it to the testing room she sensed her Uncle Minato and Aunt Kushina in the room. She stopped and took a deep breath before she slid one of the shoji doors open with her right hand and stepped in before she slid it closed behind her.
"Hello Karin-dear." Kushina greeted.
"Nice to see you." Minato said.
Karin looked around the classroom to see chalkboard with a few sheets of paper on it, 3 by 4 windows, a brown desk in front of it, and brown chairs. She noticed her Uncle Minato was sitting on the right side of the desk while her Aunt Kushina was sitting on the left side. Karin noticed that they're were blue clothed Konoha Forehead protectors laying on the desk. Karin stepped in more and walked to a spot that was a few feet away from the desk but it was in front of it.
"Are you ready, Karin-dear?" Kushina asked smiling.
"H-hai." Karin said.
"First, can you do the clone jutsu?" Minato asked smiling.
"H-hai." Karin said.
Karin made the hand signs for the clone jutsu seal and a puff of smoke appeared and disappeared to reveal a clone of Karin right beside her on the right.
"Good job, dattebane." Kushina said smiling.
Karin's clone disappeared from the as the puff of smoke appeared and disappeared.
"Can you please do the Transformation jutsu?" Minato asked.
"H-hai." Karin said.
A puff appeared and disappeared to reveal Karin had transformed into the same 12 year old fair skinned girl that had dark brown hair, blue eyes, wearing a green dress with a red ribbon on top, and blue sandals.
"Great work." Minato said smiling.
The smoke appeared around Karin again and disappeared to reveal she looked like herself again.
"Okay that's the of the Final Exam." Minato said.
Karin waited for her Uncle Minato to say how she did, she could her heart beating rapidly.
"You've passed." Minato said smiling.
"W-w-what?" Karin asked shocked.
"Congratulations, Karin-dear!" Kushina said smiling.
Karin felt happy at what her Uncle Minato and Aunt Kushina said to her, she walked over to the table where they were sitting.
Kushina stood up from her seat and walked over to Karin and hugged her softly.
"You're Mom and Dad would be really proud of you Karin-dear, dattebane." Kushina said.
Karin hugged her Aunt Kushina back and felt tears forming in her eyes.
"Mother... Father..." Karin thought.
A few hours later.
Almost everyone was standing near the Academy with their parents or guardians, who were congratulation them. Karin looked down at her folded blue clothed wrapped forehead protector in both of her hands before she walked away from Minato and Kushina, who were now talking to other people's parents, she was looking for Naruto. She sensed that he was close by and went to his location. She saw Naruto sitting on the swing of one of the trees that was under the shade, she saw he had a sad face.
Karin looked at Naruto sadly, she heard he didn't pass the Final Exam. She walked over to where Naruto was sitting at and stopped right in front of him.
"O-oniisan." Karin said sadly, looking down at him.
Naruto looked up at Karin. "Oh, hi Karin." hen said smiling sadly.
"I'm sorry you didn't pass Oniisan, you've always worked very hard." Karin said.
Naruto slowly stood up from the swing and was in front of Karin. "Don't worry, I pass next time." he said.
Karin looked down at her forehead protector in both of her hands before she looked up and held to Naruto.
"Here Oniisan." Karin said.
"What?" Naruto asked confused, looking down at the forehead protector.
"I-I want you to have it Oniisan." Karin said.
Naruto pushed it back to Karin with his right hand. "No Karin, it's yours." he said then looked up at him.
"Huh?" Karin asked sadly.
"You've earned it and you've work really hard to get it." Naruto said.
Karin's eyes started welling up with tears. "B-but Oniisan... I don't want to be a Genin without you... we entered the Academy together a-and... I-I don't..." she said then looked down as she closed her eyes, tears streaming down her face. She suddenly felt hands on each of her shoulders, she opened her eyes as she looked to see Naruto smiling softly at her.
"You don't have to worry, I'll be fine with taking the exams next time and we'll be Genin together." Naruto said. "Until then, don't give up in being a Genin right now, okay."
"O-okay.. Oniisan.." Karin said sadly. "B-but I know you'll be a Genin soon."
Naruto hugged Karin softly and Karin separated her hands and hugged him back, the forehead protector in her left hand. After a while they pulled back and watched all of the students talked to their parents. Karin saw Sasuke talking with his parents, in their usual outfits. Karin suddenly heard 2 women in the crowd glaring and talking about Naruto.
"There you see him?" the woman asked.
"It's the Fourth Hokage's son. I heard he's the only one failed." the other woman said.
"Hm, well it serves him right." the woman said.
"Imagine what would happen if he began a Ninja, I mean he's the boy who-" the other woman tried to say but was cut off.
"Shh, we're not aloud to talk about that." the woman said.
2 women went back into the crowd to find their children.
Karin looked at Naruto to see that he was looking down at the ground, sad, angry, and confused. She knew why they hated Naruto and pretended to be nice to him because he was the Fourth Hokage's son.
"... Oniisan..." Karin thought sadly.
Night time.
Uzumaki clan compound.
Karin's (Ryo and Uzume's) house.
Karin was sitting on one of the couches with her new forehead protector in her lap. She was thinking about how upset Naruto was today.
"Oniisan... I wonder what you're doing right now..?" Karin thought sadly.
Karin remembered what Naruto said to her.
"You don't have to worry, I'll be fine with taking the exams next time and we'll be Genin together." Naruto said. "Until then, don't give up in being a Genin right now, okay."
She looked down at her forehead protector and picked it up with both hands from her lap, she stared at the blue cloth on it and realizing the color didn't go with her.
"I guess.. I should change the color.." Karin said to herself.
She stood up from the couch and walked over to the closet and opened it up with her right hand before she stepped in and picked up a small orange box from the top shelf and closed the closet door. She went to the coffee table that was close to the couch she was sitting on and placed the wooden box and her forehead protector on the table before sitting down next to it.
She opened the box with both of her hands and pulled out a dark brown cloth that was very similar to the one on the forehead protector, which was the color. She put down the dark brown cloth and she picked up and carefully removed the grey metal plate from the blue cloth then put down the blue cloth and picked up the dark brown cloth with her right hand. She picked up the metal plate and carefully stuck it to the dark brown cloth. When she was done putting the metal plate on the dark brown cloth, she made sure it didn't fall off before she held up the dark brown Konohagakure forehead protector.
"There." Karin said herself, smiling as she held it with both hands.
Karin suddenly looked confused as she sensed many clones coming from Naruto outside.
"Huh?" Karin asked, looking at the main shoji doors.
Karin put the forehead protector on the table before she stood up and walked over to the main shoji doors and put on her sandals before she slid one of them open with her right hand and stepped outside and slid it closed behind her, she sensed Naruto's chakra was coming from the forest.
"That's strange.. Oniisan couldn't do 1 shadow correctly let alone a Multi Shadow clone jutsu." Karin said to herself.
Karin also sensed her Uncle Minato and Aunt Kushina with Naruto as well. "What's going on out there?" she thought.
The mass chakra coming from Naruto had suddenly disappeared. She got curious and ran ran where she sensed Minato, Kushina, and Naruto in the forest, it took her awhile but she finally made it to there location. She stopped to see Minato and Kushina standing next to a tree while Naruto was sitting on the ground by a trees, she saw that his jumpsuit was a little torn and what made her gasp lightly is that she saw a forehead protector around Naruto's forehead and he was smiling.
Naruto, Minato, and Kushina heard footsteps and looked to the left to see Karin staring at them.
"Hello Karin-dear." Kushina said smiling.
"Hello to you too, Oniisan." Karin said, stepping a little bit closer to them. "What's going on?"
"Well Naruto is now a Genin." Minato said smiling.
"Huh? R-really?" Karin asked surprised.
"Yep, I'm now a Ninja, dattebayo." Naruto said smiling.
Karin just stared at them. "It must have been when he did the Multi Shadow clone jutsu." she thought then smiled softly. "Congratulations Oniisan, I knew you would be a Genin soon."
2 days later.
Morning.
Academy.
Everyone has taken their Graduation photos yesterday and were getting ready to become real ninjas. Today will be their last day in attending the Academy as they will be assigned into teams of 3 and tomorrow they will be assigned a Jonin to be their leader.
Karin walked down the hallway as her new dark brown Konohagakure forehead protector on her forehead with some of her bangs covering it, and was carrying her clothed wrapped bento box with the Uzumaki crest on it. She finally made it to the classroom shoji doors and slid it open with her right hand and stepped in before closing it behind her. Karin stepped towards her compartment and put her cloth wrapped bento box down at the bottom of it before going down the stairs then sat down in her seat. She looked around to see her classmates were talking to each other while wearing their blue Konohagakure forehead protectors on their bodies, Kiba was wearing his on his forehead with Akamaru in his jacket, Shikamaru was wearing his around his upper left arm, Choji's forehead protector was styled in a manner that allowed two tufts of hair to poke out at each side, Hinata was wearing her's around her neck, Shino was wearing his on his forehead, Shigeri was wearing his around his forehead, and Hiroki was wearing his around his forehead.
"Hello Karin." a male voice said.
Karin turned her head to the right to see Sasuke was smiling at her.
"H-hello to you too, Sasuke." Karin said shyly.
Karin looked to see Sasuke was wearing his forehead but his bangs were not on covering his forehead anymore. She wished that Sasuke didn't have to uncover his forehead because of his bangs.
"It's going to be our last day attending the Academy before we go on missions." Karin said shyly.
"But we have to know what teams we'll be in first." Sasuke said.
"I-I know." Karin said shyly. "I wonder if me and Oniisan will be assigned on the same team." she thought.
"I wonder if you and I will be on the same team." Sasuke said.
Karin blushed lightly. "W-why are thinking about that?" she asked shyly.
"Because I really like spending time with you and I'm going to miss our time in the Academy." Sasuke said.
Karin now blushed furiously at what Sasuke just said, she turned her head away from him to the left. "W-w-well.. I'm going to m-miss spending t-time with y-you too, S-sasuke." she stuttered shyly.
Karin's blush lessened to nothing when she suddenly sensed Naruto coming to the room. After 2 minutes, one of the classroom shoji doors open to reveal Naruto and he slid the door closed before walking down the stairs and sat in his seat.
"Hi Karin." Naruto said smiling.
"Hello to you too, Oniisan." Karin said, looking at him.
Karin looked to see that Sasuke was now looking forward with his hands tangled in his usual way again and was no longer smiling. She looked back at Naruto to see that he was laying on the desk and smiling to himself at his forehead protector on forehead.
"I really glad Uncle Minato and Aunt Kushina made him a Genin, he's going to be great." Karin thought, putting her hands on her lap.
Karin now looked to see that Shikamaru was walking down one of the stairs and stopped in front of Naruto.
"What are you doing here Naruto? This isn't for dropouts you can't be here unless you Graduate." Shikamaru said.
Naruto stopped laying on the desk to face Shikamaru and pointed at his forehead protector with his right thumb. "Oh yeah, you see this? Do you see this up here I graduated Shikamaru, it's a Graduation headband, dattebayo." he said then lowered his right hand. "We're gonna be training together. How do you like that?"
Shikamaru put his right hand on his right hip as he turned forward.
"Let me put it to you this way, I look great in this headband, like it was made for me, dattebayo." Naruto said putting both of his hands on his forehead protector then laughed.
Karin saw Hinata blushing lightly at Naruto before she looked up at the classroom shoji doors as she suddenly sensed Sakura and Ino were quickly coming to the classroom.
After a seconds one of the classroom shoji doors opened up to reveal Ino, who was wearing her forehead protector around her waist, and Sakura, who was wearing hers as a hairband, burst into the classroom and was trying shoved each other out of one another's way.
"I'm first!" Ino and Sakura yelled out.
Ino's right hand was on Sakura's left cheek while Sakura's left hand was on Ino's right cheek. Shikamaru continued to walk down the stairs and sat next to Choji in his seat.
"They didn't have to rush here, class time starts in 20 minutes." Karin thought, looking at the clock then back towards Ino and Sakura, who had their hands down and were panting from running.
Everyone knew that Ino and Sakura were once friends when they were kids when they got older they became rivals.
Karin heard them argue about who won then started to turn forward until she saw Naruto turned his head around to see Ino and Sakura arguing, blushing and smiling. Karin knew that Naruto had a crush on Sakura but she didn't have feelings for him only for Sasuke.
Karin looked to see that Ino and Sakura stopped arguing, she saw Sakura turned around towards them and was looking at someone but it wasn't Naruto. Karin looked to see where Sakura was staring at see it was Sasuke, who was still looking forward and had his fingers tangled together in his usual way.
Sakura suddenly smiled ran down one of the stairs towards them.
"Hey, whoa where you going?" Ino asked, raising her left hand a little.
Karin turned back to Naruto to see him standing up from his seat.
"Hey Sakura, what's up?" Naruto greeted, raising his right hand high.
"Move it!" Sakura yelled, shoving Naruto out of the way, causing him to fall to the ground.
"Oniisan!" Karin said, leaning a little to see he was on the ground. "Are you okay?"
"Don't worry Karin. I'm fine." Naruto said, grunting in pain a little.
Karin looked at Sakura, who was now blushing and smiling, standing next to Sasuke and had her hands together near her chest.
"That wasn't nice of Sakura to do that to Oniisan." Karin thought.
"Uh, good morning Sasuke-kun." Sakura greeted smiling, blushing lightly.
Sasuke turned to the right to look at Sakura, not even speaking to her.
"Mind if I sit next to you?" Sakura asked.
"B-but that's Oniisan's seat." Karin thought.
Karin saw Ino walked down the stairs and stood next to Sakura and grabbed her left arm with her right hand, causing Sakura to let go of both of her hands that are together.
"Back off Forehead, I'm sitting next to Sasuke." Ino said glaring.
Sakura glared at Ino. "I was here first." she said.
"I walked into the classroom before you did. Everybody saw it." Ino said.
"Dream on." a girl with a green shirt on said, walking towards them.
"Actually I got here before either of you." a girl with the car green vest said, walking towards them.
"So did I, I'm sitting to Sasuke." a girl with the link shirt.
"No I am." a girl with the light blue dress.
Karin saw more girls walk up and started arguing about who's sitting next to Sasuke.
"They're all fighting over Oniisan's seat." Karin thought.
Karin turned to Sasuke.
Sasuke turned forward and closed his eyes.
Karin suddenly saw Naruto hoped onto their desk and and land in front of Sasuke, who open his eyes.
"Hn." Sasuke said.
Naruto and Sasuke were both glaring at each other.
"Please... don't fight..." Karin thought sadly.
"Naruto hey stop glaring at Sasuke!" Sakura yelled.
Karin saw Naruto turned to look at most of the girls glaring at him before he turned to glare at Sasuke again.
Karin suddenly saw Naruto was about to land on Sasuke because the boy behind them accidentally pushed him with his right hand.
"Oh no!" Karin thought, knowing what's going to happen next.
Not wanting Naruto to fall on Sasuke, Karin quickly grabbed Sasuke by the sleeves of his shirt pulled him away towards her. Naruto's head hit the seat, groaning in pain.
Karin closed her eyes as she sighed in relief. "Thank goodness..." she thought.
She opened her eyes as she suddenly felt the weight of Sasuke fall on her, causing both Sasuke and Karin to fall with a loud crash.
Karin's eyes were closed as she heard students gasp, she suddenly felt something warm on her lips.
"What's going on...? and what's on my lips...?" Karin thought.
Karin grunted in a little pain as she slowly opened her eyes, her eyes eyes as she gasped in shock to see that she was lying on the seats with Sasuke on her and his lips were on her lips. She blushed furiously as her eyes widened. She immediately noticed that Sasuke's right hand was next to the left side of her stomach and his eyes were closed peacefully.
"Sasuke's.. kissing me?!" Karin thought shocked.
Karin quickly raised the top half of body, making Sasuke rise as well, and separated her lips from him she released her hands from Sasuke's shoulders. Karin was still blushing furiously as she held her hands together near her chest while Sasuke opened his eyes and looked at her.
"I-I can't believe... Sasuke and I... kissed each other...!" Karin thought. "H-he's now first kiss...! A-am I his..."
Karin suddenly looked around the room to see that everyone was staring at her and Sasuke, she now heard growling and turned to see Ino, Sakura, and some other girls were now glaring at her.
"You shouldn't have done that Karin." Sakura said.
"I-it was an accident..." Karin thought sadly and scared, tears started forming in her eyes.
The girls were about to move forward to get revenge on Karin but Sasuke stood up and stood in front of Karin while he faced the girls. The girls stopped glaring and looked at Sasuke.
"Leave Karin alone and go away." Sasuke said serious.
"Okay, if that's what you want Sasuke." Ino said smiling nervously.
The girls started to back up and went back to their seats. Sasuke sat back down and looked at Karin.
"Everything's alright, Karin." Sasuke said softly.
Karin looked over the right side of Sasuke's shoulder and saw Naruto sitting in his seat and was looking at Sasuke and the girls glaring at her.
"I don't know about that Sasuke..." Karin thought.
...
15 minutes later.
Class has started and Iruka was standing in front of the classroom near the podium with a few sheets of paper in his left hand. Everyone was sitting in their correct seats, Karin had her hands together in her lap, Sasuke had his fingers together in their usual way, and Naruto was laying on the desk.
"As of today you are all Ninjas, to get her you've faced difficult trials and hardships. But that's not nothing what comes next will be far more difficult, now you are only Genin, first level Ninjas. All the Genin will be grouped into 3 man squads, each squad will be lead by a Month, an elite Ninja." Iruka explained.
All of the students (except Sasuke and Karin) looked at Iruka in surprise, Naruto raised his top half from the desk.
"I what Aunt Kushina said was true..." Karin thought then turned to the right to look at Naruto. "But.. I hope I be on a team with Oniisan..." then looked forward again.
Karin heard Ino and Sakura arguing again but this time it was about 'Who's going to be a team with Sasuke?' , but she didn't look back and continued to look forward.
Sasuke groaned a little bit in annoyance. Karin turned a little to look at Sasuke sadly, knowing that he was annoyed about being in a squad. She suddenly thought their conversation earlier.
Flashback.
"It's going to be our last day attending the Academy before we go on missions." Karin said shyly.
"But we have to know what teams we'll be in first." Sasuke said.
"I-I know." Karin said shyly. "I wonder if me and Oniisan will be assigned on the same team." she thought.
"I wonder if you and I will be on the same team." Sasuke said.
Karin blushed lightly. "W-why are thinking about that?" she asked shyly.
"Because I really like spending time with you and I'm going to miss our time in the Academy." Sasuke said.
Flashback ends.
"I sensed that Sasuke was telling the truth... But it seems he doesn't want anyone else on his team... not even Oniisan..." Karin thought then looked forward again.
"We want each squad to have a balance of strength and abilities, so that's how we set them up." Iruka said then raised his left hand to look at the pieces of paper he has.
"I will now announce the squads." Iruka said.
Almost 5 minutes passed. Iruka was now going to announce who's going to be on Team 7.
"Squad 7, Naruto Uzumaki.. Sakura Haruno.." Iruka said.
Karin looked to see Naruto stood up from his seat and raised his arms cheering and Sakura sulking sadly.
"I'm doomed." Sakura said sadly.
"I hope Iruka calls my name.." Karin thought then looked forward.
"And Sasuke Uchiha.." Iruka finished.
Karin gasped softly as turned again to see Naruto sulking sadly and Sakura stood up from her seat and raised her arms cheering then looked up at Sasuke then sat back down.
"I guess... me and Oniisan won't be on the same team..." Karin thought sadly as she turned forward.
"Next Squad 8, Hinata Hyuga.." Iruka said.
"Yes Iruka-sensei..." Hinata said politely.
"Kiba Inuzuka.. and Shino Aburame..." Iruka said.
"Next Squad 9, Karin Uzumaki.." Iruka said.
"So.. who is going to be on my team..?" Karin thought, still sad about not being on a squad with Naruto.
"Shigeri.. and Hiroki.." Iruka said.
Karin looked to see Hiroki on the far right and Shigeri on the lower middle row.
"They are my team members.." Karin thought.
"Now Squad 10, Ino Yamanaka.. Shikamaru Nara.. and Choji Akimichi.." Iruka said.
"Those are all the Squads.." Iruka said then lowered his left hand.
"M-maybe Oniisan and Sasuke might get along in the process..." Karin thought.
Naruto stood up from his seat angrily. "Iruka-sensei, why does a great Ninja like me has to be in the same group as a slug like Sasuke?!" he asked, pointing his left index finger at Sasuke.
Karin looked at Naruto sadly. "Or.. maybe not.." she thought.
Iruka looked at his paper again. "Sasuke has the best scores of all the Graduating students." he said then lowered his left hand again. "Naruto you had the worst scores.. to create a balance group we put the best student with the worst student."
Some students were laughing at Naruto.
Naruto groaned in annoyance.
"Oniisan..." Karin thought sadly.
Karin turned to look at Sasuke, who was starting to say something.
"Just make sure you don't get in my way, Usuratonkachi." Sasuke said to Naruto.
Naruto groaned angrily. "Hey, what did you say, dattebayo?!" he asked.
"Hard of hearing." Sasuke said.
"Please.. don't fight again..." Karin thought sadly.
More students started to laugh at Naruto.
"Knock it off Naruto! Sit down!" Sakura yelled annoyed.
"After lunch you'll meet your new Job in teachers." Iruka said.
"Huh? But.. Aunt Kushina said tomorrow... I guess that was wrong Information..." Karin thought looking forward, surprised.
"Until then class is dismissed.." Iruka said.
5 minutes later.
Sasuke and Karin were walking down one of the hallways together to eat their somewhere. They decided since it was going to be their last day in the Academy they should somewhere else than their usual spot. Sasuke was holding his clothed wrapped bento box that had the Uchiha crest on it with his right hand and a green wooden cup filled with tea, while Karin was holding her clothed wrapped bento box with the Uzumaki crest on it with both hands.
Karin was looking down sadly as they walked through the hallway, Sasuke noticed her behavior.
"Karin, what's the matter?" Sasuke asked concerned.
Karin looked up at Sasuke. "W-well it's about the squads we were chosen to be on recently." she said. "I don't know what kind of people they are going to be on the team."
Sasuke looked forward. "I'm not excited to be a team with Naruto and Sakura, both of them would be useless in battle." she said.
Karin just stared at the ground, knowing that convincing Sasuke herself that Naruto isn't weak would be pointless.
"I still wished that you and I could be on the same time." Sasuke said then looked at Karin again.
Karin looked up at Sasuke again.
"It would've been great if we were assigned to the same squad." Sasuke said lightly.
Karin blushed softly.
"By the way.. about the kiss that happened-" Sasuke said but was cut off.
Karin's eyes widened as she blushed furiously. "P-please Sasuke.. p-please don't mention it right now now..." Karin said shyly as she turned away embarrassed.
Sasuke immediately knew that Karin didn't want to talk about at the moment.
"Okay, it will wait." Sasuke said.
When Sasuke and Karin finally made it they stopped at one of the room that the teachers weren't using. Sasuke slid the door open with his right hand as still was holding the bento box and let Karin in first and stepped in before sliding it closed behind him. Karin's blush lessened before they made it.
Sasuke and Karin looked around the room to see it only had a brown wooden, a basket full of grey rocks, and one window that was open. They walked over to the desk.
"This should do it." Sasuke said as he and Karin placed their bento box and a wooden cup on the desk.
Karin gasped as she suddenly remembered something.
"What's wrong, Karin?" Sasuke asked, a little worried.
"I almost forgot I have to return a book back to the Library." Karin said. "I will be right back."
"I'll watch your lunch." Sasuke said.
"Th-thank you, S-sasuke." Karin said shyly before walking over to the room's shoji doors and slid one of them open with her right hand and stepped out then closed it behind her.
...
3 minutes later.
"Great job returning the book Karin." the lady librarian said.
"Sorry that I didn't return it earlier." Karin said.
"It's alright." the lady librarian said smiling.
Karin left the library and walked through one of hallways to get back to the room when she saw 3 girls coming her way. Karin stopped in her tracks and saw they were glaring at her.
"Those are... the same girls from the classroom..." Karin thought sadly.
The 3 girls stopped right in front of Karin.
"How dare you kiss Sasuke!" the first one said.
"Yeah, I was going to be his first kiss!" the second said.
"No I was going to be his kiss!" the third one said.
Karin put her hands together near her chest. "It was an accident, honest." she said scared and sad.
"What do you mean it was an accident?" the second one asked.
"W-well I-I moved Sasuke out of the way so Oniisan wouldn't bump into him." Karin said sadly.
The 3 girls stared at Karin suspiciously for a moment before the first one spoked.
"We did see that Naruto could have landed on Sasuke." the first one said, looking at the second and third one.
"You sure you didn't kiss that on purpose?" the second one asked
"N-no." Karin said, nodding her head.
"We'll let this one slide, but you better not do it. Got it." the first one said.
"H-hai." Karin said.
The 3 girls walked passed Karin to another hallway. When they were gone Karin sighed in relief then continued to walk through the hallway to the room, she let her hands down.
"I mean to kiss Sasuke... but... it was kind of nice..." Karin thought, blushing lightly.
Karin closed her eyes as she shocked her head then stopped and opened her eyes. "N-no.. Sasuke and I are friends.. and the kiss was just an accident..." she thought.
After a minute Karin made it back to the room she could tell that something was wrong because she didn't sense Sasuke's chakra in the room anymore. She slid one of the room's shoji doors with her right hand and stepped in before closing it behind her. She walked in further to see some rope, a log, and 2 pieces of tape stuck together that made an 'X'.
"Huh?" Karin asked confused as she moved forward.
Then she noticed that Sasuke's bento box and lunch were all over the floor next to the open window along with his wooden cup. She walked over to the window then stopped.
"W-w-what happened while I was gone?" Karin asked herself then she gasped. "Where's Sasuke..?" Karin looked out of the window and looked around. "I hope he's okay..."
Outside.
Sasuke's POV.
Sasuke was walking on a concrete pathway find Naruto for tying him up in the room. "I have to find Naruto so I can get back to the room before Karin comes back." he thought.
As Sasuke continued to walk he noticed Sakura sitting on a light grey bench with her bento box and dark purple cup next to her on the left. She looked like she's waiting for someone but Sasuke didn't care as he rarely paid her any attention.
Sakura smiled at Sasuke as she stood up and put her hands together near her chest. "Sasuke you're back, don't be so shy you bad boy." she said, her cheeks lightly blushing. "Are you ready now, you know mentally prepared because I am I mean I'm raring to go."
Sasuke ignored Sakura as he walked passed her, looking around.
Sakura stopped smiling as she opened her eyes and turned to look at Sasuke. "Hey, wait a minute." she said.
Sasuke stopped and turned to Sakura a little. "Where's Naruto?" he asked.
Sakura smiled her eyes closed and put her hands together behind her back. "Oh see there you go changing the subject again." she said then opened her eyes as she stopped smiling. "Anyway Naruto just picks fights with you." then she placed both of her hands in front of her and put her right index and thumb up and her left hand near it. "You know why he's so annoying cause he probably wasn't raised right with the Fourth Hokage and his Mother." she folded her arms as she closed her eyes. "He isn't like them at all."
Sasuke stopped looking at Sakura and looked around for Naruto.
Sakura opened her eyes and smiled. "But what's more annoying is that sister of his, Karin." she said.
Sasuke quickly looked back at Sakura angrily and annoyed but Sakura didn't noticed as she continued talking.
"I mean she's shy and quiet but I guess she doesn't have parents anymore like us to teach her how to speak and stand up for herself. Why did she decided to become a Ninja anyway?" she said putting her hands on her hips.
Sasuke silently glared at Sakura even more as continued to talk negative about Karin.
"She thinks she's better than everyone because she gets to do what she wants and lives all alone." Sakura said. "I still don't know why you hang out with her."
Sasuke suddenly remembered the times he spent with Karin, from the time they met and now, then started to remember the time she cried when her parents died, her depression, and the Massacre of half the Uchiha and Uzumaki clan. The leaves start blowing as some wind came by.
"Alone. Isolated." Sasuke said, looking forward.
"Huh?" Sakura asked confused, taking her hands off of her hips.
"You have no idea what she went through and what struggles she had to face over the years because of that." Sasuke said. "You'll never understand it.."
Sakura made a sad face. "W-why are you saying that?" she asked, holding up left hand near her chest.
Sasuke glared at Sakura. "Because, you're annoying.." he said harshly.
Sakura gasped in shock as her eyes widened.
Sasuke looked forward and went back to walking forward, leaving behind a sad Sakura.
...
15 minutes later.
Room.
Karin was standing next to the window, looking down at the floor. She finished eating out of her bento box and cleaned up the mess that was near the window. She raised her head up she suddenly sensed Sasuke coming back to the room, she stepped forward a little.
After a minute the door slid open to reveal Sasuke and he stepped in and closed it behind him.
"Sasuke, what happened..?" Karin asked, looking at him worried.
Sasuke looked at Karin as he walked forward. "You've returned, Karin." he said then stopped right in front of her.
"Um why was room a mess when I came back?" Karin asked.
"I promise, I'll explain it to you later." Sasuke said. "But we should head back to the classroom right now."
"H-hai." Karin said then tried to walk forward but Sasuke stopped.
"I want to tell you something first." Sasuke said.
"Okay." Karin said shyly.
"Even though we're on separate teams that doesn't make us enemies or rivals and if you're in trouble I'll help you if you want to me too, okay." Sasuke said.
"H-hai." Karin said shyly, blushing lightly.
"Now let's go back." Sasuke said then turned around and walked to the room shoji doors again with Karin following right behind him.
End of Chapter 8.
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