Sasuke

Naruko's teacher was some man named Ebisu. He was the guardian for the Hokage's grandson. I didn't want her to be in Konoha by herself... but I had to go train. I'd have to wait a month until I saw her. I looked back a bit as I left for the forest with Kakashi.

Ebisu

Over confident. Distant. Rude. A brat. If I didn't narrow it down so much, I could use an abundance of words to describe the blond haired girl that was standing in front of me at my door. She didn't knock, as if hoping I would just ignore the presence outside. She didn't speak, she just handed me a piece of paper, one saying she was the Naruko girl I was supposed to be training. The run away. The ex-Akutsuki. 'The Phenomenal Fighter' that made herself known in the preliminaries.

Konohamaru. He had apparently been taking under this girls training. Unacceptable. Konohamaru would not be trained by this rouge.

It was time to start, yet you could tell by the look in the girls eyes that she would rather be somewhere else. It was as if she didn't care if she won or lost. She seemed to be ignoring every word I said. She was more interested in the sky, the stray piece of thread on her orange shorts, how fluffy the white collar of her orange sweater was. It was annoying and insulting.

If it wasn't for a code of honor I had, I simply would have hit her.

Naruko

Wow, I made a good choice with this outfit... just a stray thread here, and this sweater collar if so soft. Like a pillow. What was this guy saying? Who was he again? Ebisu?

"Are you even listening!?" He yelled. I put a finger in my ear. He was so loud.

"Not entirely." I admitted. He had this glare on his face. I rolled my eyes. "Can't I just go home? I mean, I'm pretty sure I can take you in a fight." I sat on the ground.

"Is that so!?" He was angry now. His head looked like a tea kettle.

So we were fighting now... I didn't move from where I was. Did I really have to do this? Well I guess so... he was attacking. I said I could take him in a fight. Not that I wanted to. I used some shadow clones. I left a clone in my place and pretended to be a clone myself. I ended up enveloping him in strings, not pulling on them so he'd notice. He tried to follow my movements. He looked like he was having a tough time.

"I win." I said, pulling on the strings. He was wrapped up and fell over.

"Oh you little-" I was thoroughly annoyed now. I crouched down and pulled on one string, unraveling the whole thing.

"This is what I'm teaching Kid." I said, letting the strings retract. Ebisu glared at me as he hastily stood.

"You're not teaching him anything! You over confident brat!" He yelled. I rolled my eyes. Then, a commotion started coming from the woman's bath.

Jiraiya

I ran outside.

"Research! It was for research! I swear!" I yelled as I was followed by a large amount of hair dryers, brushes, buckets, and other things. I escaped the bath on a frog, accidentally knocking into some other man and sending him flying. I looked to the side. It was Naruko. She was looking at me strangely and then she pointed to the pond where a man was knocked unconscious. I looked back at her.
"You knocked out my teacher." She said in a small voice. I stood on the frog.

"My apologies." I said.

"You have to take responsibility." She told me.

"What?" I was lost.
"You have to train me." She said.

I told her no. But she insisted. She was following me. I could barely sense her as she walked just out of my line of vision. She would intervene when I tried talking to women. Then disappear again.

Finally, she was sitting across from me at a dango shop. She was eating one after another. She seemed to enjoy the taste of sweets.

"So what exactly do you want?" I asked.

"You need to train me. Trust me, I would rather go home and take a well-deserved nap but that's not an option right now." she shrugged.

"Well, I'm leaving so I can't train you." he told me.

"I'll come with you. I can find my way back." I told him.

"How do I know you'll come back?" I asked. I expected her to become angry and yell about trust. But instead she got up and started walking in the direction I was heading,

"You don't." She said.

And that strangely made me trust her more.

Naruko

This man was supposed to be my grandfather. He was strong, well, stronger than me at least. He was someone I wouldn't mind training under. He finally agreed to train me after my persistent side reared it's head.

"Can we get some ramen before we go?" I asked. He looked down at me.

"Why not." He said, and we walked to Ichirukas.

I think I scared Jiraiya with my change of mood when I entered the currently empty shop.

"Hello! Old man! Hey! It's me!" I had a large smile on my face. Ichiruka looked over at me and smiled.

"Oh! Naruko-chan! How have you been?" He asked as I sat in a stool.

"It could be better. But hey! I found a teacher!" I was still smiling.

"That's great Naruko-chan!" he smiled, and we started talking away as I ordered.

Jiraiya

Naruko was actually opened up in the small shop. A dazzling smile on her face, she ate the ramen like it was her last meal. This was so different than the closed up girl I met in the hospital. She was so different in here than outside. Was it because Ichiruka has shown her kindness?

As if he read my mind Ichiruka turned to me.

"What would you like? A customer is a customer. No matter who you are." He said, I smirked knowingly and ordered some food as Naruko wolfed down yet another bowl.

"So where are we going?" Naruko asked with a mouth full of ramen.

"To a small city near here." I told her Naruko smiled as she swallowed.

"Wow! I've never been to the city before!" She cheered, spinning in the chair. I smiled. Maybe this little brat was different than what everyone thought.