Hello there readers! I hope you had hoped for more and here it is. The new chapter of your favorite story. Last time, our heroines was introduced to class.

Stage 8

Academy Time

Konoha, Academy

Everyone was looking at the girl in front of them. Her face was slightly hidden behind the fan, but some could see that she was smiling. Some were suspicious, because they didn't know why someone would be enrolled in to the last year to their class. Others ignored her and tried to pretend that they were interested.

Iruka looked at Naru with a smile and gestured to the class.

"Introduce yourself. What are you hobbies, likes?" he said. Iruka then grabbed a book to prepare himself quickly for the lesson. Naru nodded with a smile and turned back to the class. But before she said anything she was thinking.

"Yare, Yare. What to say. Reveal my strength or pretend to be girl with more money than brain. (Sigh) I think that the second option should be good, but how am I supposed to say that I can't use chakra. Lie? Perhaps. Or illness? Maybe some kind of wound. That could work. The youkai body healed leaving small, almost invisible scars. That should work."

"Naru? Are you alright?" Iruka asked. Naru looked at him with slight surprise and smiled.

"Yeah. I think I'm just a little nervous," she answered. She then turned her gaze back to class, with a small smile.

"As I said previously, I'm Naru Yakumo. My hobbies are danmaku. I like my family, shikigami and cat. I dislike arrogance, people with more pride than brain and some peoples. I think that's all," she said. Naru looked like she had tried to say something but in the end she didn't. One person raised his hand. Naru looked at him with a smile and a questioning face.

"What is a shikigami?" the person asked. Naru smiled like she had got more money than a friend.

"A servant."

"A servant?" the person asked once again. Naru nodded happily.

"A servant. Like a maid or something like that,"Naru said and pointed. Everyone started whispering between themselves. Naru could hear comments like 'she must be rich', 'I'm jealous', 'she must have more money than brain', 'she doesn't look strong'. Naru smiled mentally. Everything was going perfectly. Iruka groaned and pinched his nose. He clapped a few times.

"Okay, okay. Settle down. Everyone calm down," Iruka said, calming down the class. He turned to Naru and pointed at a seat at the end of the class which was free.

"You can sit there." Naru smiled and she ran careless to her seat , her smile never leaving her face. A few people raised their eyebrows at this but they just shook their heads. After Naru had sat down, Iruka started his lesson. Naru meanwhile smiled to herself because she was in a place where she could observe everyone without anyone noticing.

She opened a small gap behind her fan and looked through it. She saw a few people who caught her eye. First was a boy with brown hair and animal fangs, which she saw when he yawned. He had two tattoos on each check which were similar to fangs. His nails were slightly similar to an animal. He wore a gray jacket with fur on his hood and on his sleeves. He was also wearing standard sandals which exposed only his toes.

The next person was also a boy. He had brown hair as well but it was longer than the previous boy. He had his hair in a ponytail, which looked slightly amusing; like a fruit of some kind. Pineapple probably. Naru thought she would like to have meat with pineapple pieces.

The boy looked sleepy and probably didn't want to be here. His cloths were a gray jacket with short sleeves and under it was a T-shirt with green lines. He also had brown pants. Naru thought that this person was extremely lazy, and looking at his appearance it was true.

The next person was a boy with raven black hair made into a short ponytail. He had black eyes and a serious expression. He wore a blue blouse which had short sleeves, with a white-red symbol, which looked like a fan. He also wore short white pants. On his legs were bandages but it didn't look like he was hurt or anything like that.

Naru then closed the gap. It would do for now. Only these three people were interesting. She also saw a girl with dark-blue hair and lavender eyes but she didn't pay attention to her right now. Turning her gaze back to Iruka, she saw how he was explaining to the class what chakra was. Naru decided to take a nap and wake up when something interesting was happening.

Sometimes later

Naru woke up to the bell ringing. She blinked a few times and rubbed her eyes. She had had a good nap and it was not nice to be woken up. She yawned and looked around with sleepy eyes, but she didn't see anything interesting, except one thing.

She saw how a mob of girls were standing in a circle, looking at a raven-haired boy. She could ignore it, if not for the fact they were looking at him like some kind of god. Naru rubbed her eyes again and, grabbing her fan and parasol, she walked to the girls with a small smile.

A girl noticed her and scowled slightly. Naru kept her smile.

"What are you girls doing? Something funny?" she asked and looked at girls with curiosity. They looked at themselves and one girl stepped forward to explain.

"You see that boy, sitting alone near the window?" She pointed and Naru looked in that direction to see the boy. She nodded.

"His name is Sasuke Uchiha. He is so cool. Top grades, the best in class, excellent in taijutsu and ninjutsu. He is walking perfection," the girl said. On her face appeared a blush and a strange smile; a perverted smile, Naru could say. Other girls were in a similar state. Inside, Naru was shocked and slightly disturbed that they were paying such attention to the boy. Was this what puberty do?

But outside, Naru still had her smile.

"So, he is good?" she said bluntly. The girls' expressions changed immediately and every one of them moved so close to Naru that she used her fan to separate herself from them. Naru saw that they were angry.

"Good? Good?! He is perfect!" one of them shouted.

"Nobody can match him!"

"Don't say such things bluntly!"

Naru was sweating. She hadn't expected these girls to react in such a way. She wondered if this boy got any more 'faith', whether he would be turned into a god. Naru knew that youkai could turn into gods if they got enough faith, but she wasn't sure about humans. She hadn't heard of anybody who was human to be turned into a god.

Naru chuckled nervously.

"So-Sorry..." Naru said, unsure what to expect. Would they stop or throw themselves at her? She could try to work out a few options. But the girls just scowled at her and got back to admiring their 'perfection'. Naru mentally sighed but she kept her smile. She would like to keep her mask till the end. She went back to her seat and started thinking.

The problem was chakra. How could you explain that you can't use chakra? Just say it.

Imagination

Naru walked to Iruka.

"Iruka-sensei, I can't use chakra."

"Then we have a problem," he responded.

End of imagination

Naru shocked her head. That wouldn't do. Definitely. Maybe she should talk with Hokage. But this would have the same problem.

Imagination

Naru walked to Hokage who was sitting in his office. He looked at her curiously.

"What can I do for you?" he asked.

"Hokage, I can't use chakra."

"Then we have a problem," he responded.

End of Imagination

Naru titled her head with confusion. She couldn't think of any ideas to deal with it. She crossed her arms with confusion and she started thinking intensively. Maybe talking with Hokage would be the best. She sighed and hit her head on the desk. She would deal with it later.

Later that day

Naru eyes twitched with anger. Right now she and her class were outside. Iruka and his assistance Mizuki had decided that they would train in throwing kunais and shurikens. Naru was angry because she would need to hold back greatly here. She could hit bullseyes even if she threw the projectiles without care.

Iruka was telling them the rules.

"Ok, me and Mizuki will give you five shurikens and kunais. Each one of you will throw them at the dummies. Areas close to vital points of the body are marked with red dots. You will throw them from this white line which is 20 meters from the dummies. The max point you can get is 1000. Hitting each vital point is worth 100 points. Now let's start. Kiba, Shino, Ino. You're first," Iruka called them.

Each got kunais and shurikens and started throwing them. Shino was doing a fine job and in the end, he scored 738 points. Kiba was slightly worse and scored 682. Ino was the worst from this three and scored 627 points.

"Ok, let's move to the next three. Sakura, Shikamaru, Sasuke. Your turn." Naru decided to look careful at these three. First was Sakura. She looked rather weak and her stance… crying to heaven for vengeance… it was so bad. In the end she scored 650 points. Slightly better than Ino. She shouted with joy and started cat-fight with Ino, telling her she was better.

Both of them started 'arguing' but nobody paid them any attention. Next was Shikamaru. He grabbed the tools and mumbled something.

"What a drag..." He sighed and threw them, getting a score of 692. He didn't care about it and walked away with hands in pocket. He soon laid down on the ground and started napping. Naru would probably do the same, if not for Sasuke who was throwing the projectiles. She wanted to see what was perfect about this person that made the girls act like they had.

Even now, the girls were shouting for Sasuke, cheering for him. He didn't care about their shouting. What he wanted was to be quiet and concentrate. He got into a stance and started throwing kunais. Every one of them was near bullseye, giving him top place with 899. He smirked and with his hands in his pocket, he walked away. The girls started squeaking and shouting how cool he was. Naru sighed but she hid behind her fan. She couldn't believe that these girl were so… fan-girlish. Iruka then called her, Choji and someone who Naru didn't bother to remember. First was the boy. He threw his projectiles and gained points worth 634.

Next was Choji. Naru was surprised that even with his body he could throw quite well. His throwing gave him a score of 656. Naru was really surprised. Then it was Naru's turn. She hung her parasol on her left arm and put her fan in her left hand as well. Mizuki give her the projectiles but gave her a glance, like he suspected something. Naru only gave him her brightest smile, which made him roll his eyes.

Grabbing the tools she stood in line and looked at the dummies. The vital points were its head, where its heart was, its elbows and its knees. One was also under its stomach and on its neck. Naru grabbed the first kunai and looked at it. It was just a piece of metal with a handle long enough to fit in one hand, with a blade and ring at the ends. Naru then prepared herself and, with one motion from bottom to top, she started throwing kunais.

With great effort she missed the vital points, one even managing to miss completely. Iruka looked at it and gave her a signal to throw shurikens. Naru looked at them and wondered how those were supposed hurt. Probably, those that were used by real ninjas were sharper and more balanced, but still. Naru then thew them as well. Iruka counted the throws, giving her 576 points, which was the lowest score so far.

Naru wasn't sad, moreover she had quite a happy expression on her face. Iruka walked to her.

"Naru, you are new in class, and maybe you don't know how things work if we talk about scoring. To pass the test, you need at least 600 points in throwing. In taijutsu you need hold against a teacher for at least a minute. In a writing test you need to have at least 60% to pass. In a jutsu test you need to successfully do three jutsu, which are Kawarimi, Bushin jutsu and Henge," he said. Naru nodded.

"I get it, but...I can't use chakra." Naru said with a nervous smile and scratched the back of her head. Iruka eyes were wide open from shock and he looked around. Apparently nobody had heard her, or had ignored it. He took her to the side to talk to her.

"What do you mean you can't? Everybody can use it, even to a small degree," Iruka said. Naru kept her smile.

"Then I'm first person who can't use it."

"You're rather calm about it, you know," Iruka deadpanned. Naru chuckled.

"I know." Iruka shook his head with resignation.

"I will need to inform Hokage about this. We will see how this would affect you," he said. He then vanished in a puff of smoke. Naru sighed and got back to the rest of the group. She saw that the dark-purple haired girl and the rest had finished throwing. Mizuki saw Naru.

"Hey, where is Iruka?" she asked her.

"He said he needed to go to Hokage. I don't know much more," Naru said with a face showing honesty. Mizuki raised her eyebrows and moved her face closer to Naru's.

"Are you telling the truth?" Naru just smiled. Mizuki sighed.

"We're heading back to the classroom. Someone grab the kunais and the shurikens from the dummies and leave them in the box near them, then join us in class. The rest fallow me," she said to the rest of the class. Naru and the rest followed Mizuki to the classroom. Naru opened a gap and saw Iruka in front of Hokage.

Hokage's office

Iruka was standing in front of Hokage, who was smoking his pipe and had his eyes narrowed at Iruka.

"Like I said, Naru told me a few minutes ago that she can't use chakra. But she didn't tell me why or how it was possible. But it wasn't bothering her. That's what caught my attention," Iruka said with slight worry. Hokage sighed and looked at the folder with Naru's documents. Right now it was simply some citizen documents. It was statement that she was a citizen of the Land of Fire and the Konoha Village.

Hokage put down the folder and rubbed his eyes. He looked at Iruka.

"This could be problematic, but it's nothing serious. I will write a special document which will exempt Naru from the chakra test and the jutsu test. Who knows, maybe she is skilled with interrogation. I wouldn't be surprised," Hokage mused. Iruka nodded and vanish in a puff of smoke

Back to Naru

Naru closed the gap and ran after the rest. When she reached the class, Iruka wasn't in class yet. She sat in her place and waited patiently. Soon Iruka entered the class and, saying apologies, he started with the lesson.

After the lesson, Naru was going to leave the class to walk around aimlessly but Iruka called her. She looked at him curiously.

"What's the matter, Iruka-sensei?" she asked.

"I visited Hokage about your situation and he will write a special document which will allow you to ignore the chakra test, in the future. But that doesn't mean you can slack off, understand?" Iruka said with one eye closed and gaze locked on Naru. She smiled and threw her hands in the air.

"Hai~!" she responded and run out of the class happily. Iruka sighed. He smiled slightly under his nose and looked through the documents he had on the table.

With Naru

Naru sat down on the bench outside the building, gaze directed at the Hokage Monument. She looked at the four faces carved into the mountain; Hashirama Senju, his brother Tobirama, Sarutobi Hiruzen and Minato Namikaze. She knew who they were. Previous Hokages of Konoha, except the Third, who was leading the village right now.

Naru had her parasol open and resting on her shoulder. She was wondering how Sakuya and Kurama were doing.

At Naru's house

Sakuya and Kurama were doing house chores. Kurama was cleaning the house, while Sakuya was doing the washing. Sakuya sighed.

"I wonder how Naru is doing in school. Not that she needs anyone to worry," she mused to herself and shook her head. Kurama finished cleaning the salon and looked at her work. She smiled and was going to move to another part of the house but she noticed a letter on the table. She raised her eyebrows. She didn't remember that there previously.

She grabbed it and looked at it. It didn't say to who it was for. Kurama opened and read it.

"I hope you are doing well, because me and few people are going to visit you~. We're bringing quite a lot of people so prepare your fridge and sake~.

Your mother.

Yukari Yakumo.

P.S. Also don't forget to wash your teeth :)"

Kurama sweat dropped at this. She sighed and called Sakuya. She came a few second later.

"What is it Kurama?"

"We need to buy a lot of things. Yukari-sama wrote in this letter that they are coming to visit us. Also, they are bringing friends with them. She didn't said exactly how many or who, but knowing her, we must prepare a lot of food. Grab the money and we're going to the village."

Sakuya was slightly surprised but went for the money and soon both of them left to buy ingredients.

Back to Naru

She shook her head and mused to herself with a small smile.

"Probably nothing special~" she started swaying happily, enjoying the break. Then she saw how a few girls were walking towards her. She didn't know why, but she could guess. When they came, they were staring at her dangerously. Of course Naru didn't feel anything, still keeping her smile, but she stopped swaying.

"You're so happy. It's annoying me, especially after what you said earlier," one of them said with an annoyed expression and two girls nodded. Naru didn't know what they were talking about and just titled her head, showing a confused look. The girl clenched her fist and grabbed Naru by her dress.

"You think so highly of yourself, don't you!? Just because you've got money, doesn't mean you've got skill! I know your type: more money than brain. I can assume that because of that, you think you so important! And guess what; you're not!" she shouted in Naru's face.

Naru still had a confused look but she probably knew what the girl was talking about; when they told her about Sasuke. They were just fan-girls. Nothing more, they probably couldn't use chakra. Just girls.

"Ahhhh… That's right. I think highly of myself~" Naru suddenly said with her usual smile. The girl's face turned red from anger and she threw her fist at Naru face. But her fist never touched. Naru looked to her right and saw Iruka-sensei. Nobody knew, but Naru had sensed that Iruka was watching the whole thing from the middle of the farce. Naru didn't need to say anything.

"Just what do you think you're doing, Akina?" Iruka asked with a serious expression. The girl started sweating buckets. She knew she was screwed. She looked at Naru, who smirked at her. That make her even angrier.

"You bitch! You-!"

"That's enough! Every one of you girls are coming with me. I wonder what your parents will say about it," Iruka said and took them to the teacher's room, leaving Naru behind. She chuckled and went back to school. She looked at sky.

"I guess things are going to be interested in the future~ " she mused to herself.

Later, Naru's house

Naru was… angry. Maybe even mad. Her face was expressing great annoyance and her eyebrows and lip were twitching because of it. Why you ask? Well, after she saw how Kurama and Sakuya were cooking like mad, she could have probably left it be, but after reading the letter, she had almost fainted.

First of all, they had lost a huge amount of money because of this party. Secondly, the house probably couldn't contain everyone! And knowing her mother she would probably gather a huge amount of people. The third problem was Konoha itself. How would people react to youkai and others when they saw them?

The last problem was quite easy to solve. Naru would put a few barriers around the house so that nobody would be able to leave the area and nobody would be able to see or hear what was inside. Even sensors wouldn't be able to sense a thing.

"That mother… Not even a week has passed and she already wants to throw a party… She didn't even inform me… well she did inform me but at the last second… I going to danmaku her so hard that she would feel like she's been hit by Fantasy Seal..." Naru hit the table with her face tiredly, irritated to no end. She sighed heavily. Kurama walked to her.

"Are you feeling alright?" she asked. She gently touched Naru's shoulder. Naru grumbled something, but Kurama couldn't hear her.

"That's just… unacceptable. We haven't settled here long enough and she is already throwing a party… Without my approval!" she shouted but immediately sighed and stood up. Kurama moved out of Naru's way with slight worry but didn't say anything.

Naru stood in the middle of the small backyard and looked around. She didn't sense any ANBU or shinobi near her house so it should be safe. She started muttering quietly and soon, orange light started emanating from her. She opened her eyes.

"Border Sign "Border of Hidden and Discovered!" she declared. From Naru an orange barrier started expanding like a sphere and soon the whole territory was wrapped in it. Nobody would be able to see what was inside the barrier.

"Border Sign "Border of Deaf and Noisy!" Soon after the declaration, the previous barrier emanated a small light and soon it faded. This barrier would stop everyone from hearing or
eavesdropping from the outside and also it would stop any sound from escaping.

Naru sighed. Now nobody would be able to tell if someone was here or if something happened. After checking if the barrier was fine she got back to the house and sat down heavily. Sakuya brought her a cup of tea. Naru smiled.

"Thank you, Sakuya-chan." Sakuya only smiled back and went back to the kitchen to help Kurama. Naru took a sip of tea and sighed in relief.

"You don't seem too happy about the party," Sakuya stated. Naru smiled slightly.

"It's not that. I'm happy but it's too fast. And she didn't even inform me about it earlier," Naru responded. Sakuya nodded and sat beside her.

"So how was school? Me and Kurama were wondering how it went." Sakuya looked slightly curious. Naru thought about it and responded casually.

"So-so. I can tell for sure that the children have little to no talent in the art of shinobi. A few are just strong enough to be called genin at least. Maybe some are just hiding their strength. That could be a possibility. But everyone is weak. Even this Uchiha. But girls adore him like a god. Shame, how this village has a weak generation," Naru said with a disappointed tone.

Sakuya chuckled.

"Well, they are still children. You can't expect much from them." Naru nodded with a smile.

"You're right, but still. Family should train their children. I know that Uchiha doesn't have a family, because of an event a few years back, but still he is stronger than most of them. And when you have teachers, like parents, a child should be stronger than he is now. A good example is me and Mom who trained me," Naru responded. Sakuya couldn't disagree.

They were going to continue but Naru saw a large crack in the air in the garden. It was quite large. Naru knew why this crack had appeared.

"Sakuya, tell Kurama to start taking dishes to the saloon and bring the sake. The guests have arrived," Naru said. Sakuya nodded and walked away. Naru walked to the garden and then the gap opened. From it emerged Yukari, Ran with Chen and a lot of other people, for example Reimu, Remilia and the rest of SDM. Even people from other parts of Gensokyo that Naru didn't recognize were there, but she did recognize Suika, thanks to the Chronicle she had read.

Yukari smiled.

"The party has arrived~!" she exclaimed happily. Naru only chuckled nervously because of how many people had arrived.

"I think we haven't prepared enough food and sake for the guests," Naru mumbled to herself.

Ok that's it. This is another chapter of your favorite story. The next chapter will be about a large party and… the consequence of it. Yeah… I can tell this won't end well, like every other party in Gensokyo…

Anyway stay sharp for another chapter in the future. NerDeath Out.

Btw, say your gratitude to the Beta Reader who corrected my gramma mistakes. He is doing a great job.