Don't own Naruto, I have a better chance of having a real living catgirl than owning Naruto.

I am so happy for those who commented saying they like how I've done Naruko! Honestly I don't do much but change Naruto's actual personality around a bit....and make her a bitch sometimes. This story will follow canon for the most part up until shippuden time where it will start to change greatly yet follow the overall storyline. And to those who can guess what favor Naruko will call in from Sasuke later on, you get a cookie!

Last time on Bad Romance:

'That little bitch!' Just as Zabuza was about to launch the shuriken he had caught at her he noticed it was stopped by something. He turned his head only to came face to face with Kakashi's sharingan eye.

"Now Zabuza...it's game over."

"Kakahsi-Sensei!" Sakura screamed happy to see her teacher joining the battle once again.

Naruko finally surfaced coughing as she gasped for breath.

"Naruko, good job, your scheme worked perfectly. You all have matured, I'm proud of you."

"Thanks sensei!" Naruko smiled, even in the heat of battle she loved being praised.

"Hmph, so you pissed me off enough that I ended up undoing my jutsu."

"No Zabuza, it was broken from without and just so you know, that same trick won't work twice on me. ..your move." Zabuza jumped back and with precision that only came from experience went through all forty-two handseals of Suiton: Water Dragon Missle. But Kakashi also was going through the same handseals at the exact same speed as Zabuza.

"Suiton: Water Dragon Missile!" Both shinobi cried out as the genin squad and Tazuna could only watch in awe as two large dragons made entirely of water emerged and crashed into each other.

'Holy shit! Kakashi has gotta teach me that!' Naruko thought as she watched her sensei and the missing-nin go toe to toe just seconds after the dragons collided.

'So many seals, and done so quickly. And Kakashi-sensei mirrored them all flawlessly.' Sasuke wasn't jealous of his sensei, he knew if he had his own sharingan he would've been able to copy them too. All it did was make him strive to unlock his faster.

Zabuza could feel something wasn't going right with this battle. For every move, every little gesture he did Kakashi mirrored it.

'It's like he sees--'

"--Through them all."

"Grrr You mimic me like a damn parrot! I'll shut your beak for good!" Zabuza hesitated the moment he saw a copy of himself behind Kakashi doing the same handseal he was currently on. Kakashi took advantage of Zabuza's hesitation and finished the final handseal.

"Suiton: Giant Waterfall!"

"What?! This is absurd!" Zabuza was helpless as the giant vortex of water carried him off, a single thought running through his mind.

'Before I could even finish my ninjutsu, he used the same technique against me! I cant keep up with him.'

Zabuza's body slammed against a large tree followed by a shuriken in each limb preventing him from moving.

"That eye of yours Kakashi, can it see the future?"

"Yes, and I forsee your death." Just before Kakashi could plunge his kunai into Zabuza's skull two senbon needles plunged right into the missing-nin's neck killing him.

"Your prediction came true." Said a young teen wearing a swirl mask with a mist symbol on it.

"Thank you for your help, it would have been difficult to kill him myself but you helped me with this admirably."

"Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't you a hunter-nin from Kiri?"

"My you are an observant one! Yes I am a hunter-nin from Kiriga--"

"OKAY WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?! WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!"

"Naruko, relax that's not an enemy."

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT SENSEI! ZABUZA IS NOW DEAD, WHO NEED I REMIND YOU WASN'T A DAMN PUSHOVER! YET HE GET'S KILLED BY A FUCKING KID MY AGE? WHAT DO WE SUCK OR SOMETHING?"

Kakashi walked over to his student and patted her head which seemed to calm her down for the most part.

"Naruko, I feel for you but this honestly won't be the last time we run into a kid whose younger than you...and stronger than me."

"Forgive me for interrupting your quarrel but I must dispose of the body lest it give up our secrets to our enemies. Goodbye leaf ninja." And with a simple shunshin the young hunter-nin vanished with Zabuza's body.

"Well I suppose it's safe to assume we can now take Tazuna-san home now."

"Yeah you kids can rest at my place!" And before any of them could take a single step Kakashi fell over flat on his face.

'Damn, must have used the sharingan too much.'

The team made it to Tazuna's home where his daughter Tsunami was waiting, upon seeing the state of the genin squads teacher she immediately had them put him to bed.

"Kakashi-san, are you going to be okay?"

"I will...in about a week."

"Rest sensei, you'll need to recover your strength." Sakura said worrying if their teacher would be alright.

The next day Kakashi was dead asleep, his genin squad huddled in a corner of the room whispering amongst themselves.

"You do it Naruko."

"Screw you bubblegum you do it or better yet make the genius asshole do it."

"I say Sakura should do it, he will suspect her the least and will not see it coming."

"You really think so Sasuke-kun?" Sasuke nodded, he had to admit the girl was eager to please.

"Okay I'll do it." Naruko and Sasuke watched with smirks on their faces as Sakura crept as quietly as she could towards their sleeping sensei. They had all wondered since day one what he was hiding under that mask and both hoped she was successful. Naruko honestly hoped her sensei was hot, I mean sure she took her career as a kunoichi seriously but damn it all she was still a teenaged girl so she had every right to wonder if her teacher was a hunk under his mask!

Sakura was inches away from grabbing her sensei's mask, her breathing had quickened due to the chance of what her sensei would do if she were caught. Just a split second before her fingers could grab the stretchy material of his mask his hand shot up and grabbed her wrist.

"Sakura, what do you think you're doing?" His eyes weren't even open yet he could tell it was her. In fact she felt like his eyes were watching her underneath his eyelids which creeped her out more than when his eyes slowly slid open revealing his eyes actually were looking at her.

"Umm nothing sensei?" She tried to put on the most innocent look possible which only got an eye smile from Kakashi.

"Hmm well since you have enough energy to try and remove my mask perhaps I should start you guys with training." Naruko at hearing this was excited.

"Sweet! What are we gonna learn sensei? The shunshin? That bad-ass water dragon attack? Oooh I'm so excited!" Both Kakashi and Sasuke smiled at how girlish Naruko was acting, it was cute to see the normally tomboyish girl acting....well girly.

"When we get outside Naruko I'll explain the training but right now help me up please."

"Sure sensei."

As Kakashi led his students to a forest clearing he was wondering something about the hunter-nin from the day before. He felt he was missing a very important detail, something very vital, then it hit him. The "hunter-nin" didn't dispose of Zabuza's body immediately and used senbon needles to kill him which were tools normally used for acupuncture.

"Well I guess it's a good thing I'm going to train you guys since I just figured out Zabuza isn't really dead." All three of his genin looked at him wide-eyed while he simply smiled his eye smile and scratched the back of his head. There was a moment of silence in the clearing before Naruko broke it.

"Smooth sensei...very smooth."

Kakashi just chuckled ignoring his student's remark.

"So what are you gonna teach us oh forgetful sensei?"

"I'm going to teach you to climb trees." His team looked at him like he was crazy.

"Without your hands." Now they definitely thought he was mad.

"Sensei, did Zabuza kick you a little too hard? You feeling okay?" Kakashi laughed, both he and Obito had thought Minato-sensei was crazy when he first told them about the chakra control exercise. Rin being a medic-nin already knew about it so it didn't bother her.

"No Naruko, I assure you I am fine. I thought the same thing when I was your age, here it might be better if I show you what I mean." Kakashi put his hands in a ram seal and with the crutches walked up the tree until he was hanging from a branch by his feet.

"See? This is what I mean."

"That is so cool!" Naruko screamed, she was hoping for the water dragon jutsu but this would do....for now.

"How do we do that Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked, knowing they needed to find out before Naruko charged the tree. Which Sakura knew she would due to her impatience.

"I'm glad you asked Sakura, you need to channel chakra through your feet to allow you to stick to the tree. The feet are the hardest part of the body to channel chakra through so this will help you increase your chakra control which will help you use less chakra when using jutsus." Kakashi pulled out three kunai and threw them towards his genin each looking at the knife that landed at their feet.

"Use those kunai to mark your progress, I don't expect each of you to reach the treetop on the first try, also I would recommend a running start to gain some momentum."

"No problem! This should be easy!" Naruko said twirling the kunai on her finger.

"Less talk, more action Naruko."

Naruko nodded and all three formed the Ram handseal, the ground around their feet glowing blue from the slightly flaring chakra.

"Let's fucking do this!"

'...I really gotta do something about her foul language...how would Minato-sensei and Kushina-san handle that...oh right she's their daughter they could just simply punish her....sigh I never want kids.'

The genin of Squad 7 took off running towards their respective trees. Sasuke made it only a few steps before the amount of chakra he was using blew him off the tree with a small explosion of wood. Sakura made it to the very top while Naruko made it halfway up before having to mark her progress and leap down.

"She-hulk how were you and Sakura able to get so far while I simply blew off?" Kakashi cleared his throat at this point before Naruko could make a remark about being better.

"I can explain that Sasuke, when you put too much chakra the surface's own energy will repel you off, too little and you'll never stick. The reason Sakura and Naruko were able to go so far is simple, females tend to have small chakra reserves which in turn means their chakra control is enormous, Naruko is an exception because she has much higher than normal reserves for a female so while her control isn't near perfect like Sakura's she has better control than the average male." Kakashi could see his blonde student smiling, he could tell she was soaking up his praise like a sponge.

'This is how it should always be for her in the village, praise and thanks, not scorn and hate.'

"You as a male tend to normally have high chakra reserves which means average to below average control. This is the main reason why most of the best genjustu specialists and medic-nins tend to be female though as seen with Naruko this is not always the case. Try again Sasuke but try to use less chakra this time." Naruko walked over to Sasuke and slapped his back.

"Don't worry asshole, you'll get it. I mean you are the rookie of the year." Sasuke would've smirked until he heard Naruko laugh, she had finally found something she was immediately better at than Sasuke and was gonna rub this in his face as much as possible.

Watching them from behind a tree was a young boy wearing a bucket hat watching as the three ninja went about their training before walking away the memory of a smiling man in his mind.

'Fools...their wasting their time...'

In a hidden base up in the treetops of a forest in wave Zabuza was resting his body, his faithful tool Haku watching over him and trying to speed up his recovery.

"Haku, you have all the finesse of a butcher. Did you have to hit my neck?"

"Zabuza-sama, I didn't want to scar your body besides the neck was easier to target during the chaos of your battle." Haku said with an innocent smile.

"You're a sadistic one that's for sure." Zabuza mumbled getting a giggle from his tool. A voice from the doorway drew their attention.

"It seems ninja from Kiri are overrated it seems, you got some nerve showing your face around here after taking a beating like that." Gato, a small pudgy dwarf of a man stood there in his pressed suit with two samurai bodyguards flanking him.

"You can't even clean up for your miserable subordinates, "the demon" yeah right!" Zabuza kept quiet though he palmed a kunai under the blanket covering him knowing he would have no problem taking the dwarf's arm off if he so much as even thought about touching him.

Both Gato's bodyguards reached for their swords only for Gato to motion for them to stop.

"Hold it you two, so what Zabuza? Got nothing to say for yourself? No last words?" Slowly Gato reached for Zabuza's neck inching closer and closer, Zabuza gripped the kunai in his hand and was about to swing before Haku grabbed Gato's arm and squeezed hard breaking the pudgy man's arm.

"You will not touch my Zabuza-sama." The look in Haku's eyes was pure cold-hearted muder. Gato's bodyguards both began to draw their swords but in an instance their swords were in Haku's hands and the blades against their throats drawing a small line of blood.

"You don't want to do that...not when I'm angry."

'This kid...is some kind of monster!' Gato and his guards thought before moving away from Zabuza and Haku.

"Zabuza there had better not be anymore mistakes! Understood?! If you fail again don't even think you can come back here!" All three left and for a minute no spoke.

"Haku...there was no need for you..."

"I know...but it's too soon to finish him off. If we cause a commotion here we'll have to run again. And besides, he doesn't deserve to touch you." Zabuza looked at the teen for a moment before snorting and trying to go to sleep.

Sasuke couldn't understand it, he was an Uchiha, not only that he was the rookie of the year....SO WHY WAS TREE-WALKING SO DAMN HARD FOR HIM?! He glared at the tree which he was sure was glaring back at him for all the foot shaped holes and slash marks that were now in it. Sakura was allowed to go in to eat while both he and Naruko weren't allowed until they made it to at least where Sakura had gotten. Naruko seemed to be doing much better than him which also annoyed him. Sure she tended to be better than him in taijutsu...mainly for the fact due to her super-strength taijutsu against Naruko was suicide but still he dominated her in everything else...until it came to chakra control it seems.

He looked over at his teammate who was now doing some side stretches before she tried tree-walking again. She had taken off her orange jumpsuit jacket and now he could see how well developed she was compared to the other girls in the class due to her black t-shirt hugging her body which made Sasuke gulp and blush. Contrary to popular belief the last Uchiha, like every growing adolescent male was interested in females but he was looking for a certain one, one that was strong enough to stand beside him, because while he would protect his wife from any threat it wouldn't be good if she couldn't properly defend herself as well. Plus he still had to worry about Itachi possibly using his wife against him so until his brother was dead he couldn't afford to be in any romantic relationship. He could hear Naruko mumble about hating her big boobs and had to look away so she wouldn't see his cheeks flush.

"Hey she-hulk."

"What asshole?" Naruko said but her voice held no malice or anger, it was just simply her pet name for him like she-hulk was for her.

"Do...do you...um...do you think..."

"You want some help with this?" Sasuke nodded and Naruko had to hold in a squeal/laugh at seeing his cheeks blush, he looked so cute trying to ask for help but make it seem like he wasn't. Such a typical prideful boy...

"Sure I'll help you...if you do something for me." Sasuke gave a funy look. If it were Sakura or Ino or any of his other fangirls he would've expected her to ask him for a date but Naruko thankfully was not a fangirl which he respected her for.

"What do you want? Money? Ramen? One of my clan's fire jutsus?"

"Tempting, all very tempting, but no I don't want any of those. In fact I can't think of something I want right now so I'll take an I.O.U.. I'll collect my favor from you some other time okay?" Sasuke was worried what this favor would be and when she would collect it.

"Okay then, just remind me when you do call your favor in."

"Okay!" Naruko wrapped her arm around Sasuke and put him a choke hold which happened to place his face by her breasts making him blush but Naruko was too busy to notice.

"Alrighty then, now if I recall correctly it takes mental concentration to generate and manipulate chakra so you can't be all distracted, you gotta have a clear mind!" She said while still holding his head in the choke hold.

"Clear...head..got it." Sasuke said but his mind was far from clear as Naruko's left breast kept getting in his face.

'What is she, a C cup?! She's probably the most developed girl of our age group!'

Naruko let go of Sasuke and bent over to stretch reaching for her toes feeling her back pop a few times. Sasuke at this moment happened to look up and come face to face...with Naruko's behind. Sasuke's world froze as he felt his shorts getting tighter.

'Think about my revenge, jutsus, that old cat lady down the street from me, rotten food, Naruko's ass just a few inches from my face, NO, NO, NO!, shurikens, cold showers, kunai, cold showers.'

It was then Naruko stood up, crossed her legs over one another and bent over again, moaning as her back popped again.

'KAKASHI NAKED ON A COLD DAY! KAKASHI NAKED ON A COLD DAY!'

Both Naruko and Sasuke were eating at the table, Sasuke had been quiet ever since Naruko gave him that tip though she did notice he did do a little better after.

"Sasuke, Naruko, you both took an awful long time to finish today? What happened?"

Naruko swallowed her last bit of rice before speaking, offering her bowl for seconds as well.

"It's like you said earlier Kakashi-sensei, we got too much chakra and stamina. Plus Sasuke was saying something about feeling weird." Sasuke almost choked on his rice and began repeatedly hitting his chest before he could swallow properly.

Kakashi watched this and knew something happened between the two, but couldn't figure out what.

'I can't believe I missed possible juicy gossip. Just my luck.'

"Why do you all train so hard?! Don't you know Gato is just going to kill you?!" came a voice from the stairs. Team 7 looked and saw Inari standing there, an upset look on his face. Before Kakashi could speak Naruko cut him off.

"I train hard because I have things to prove, to not only myself, but to my team, to my village, to everyone."

"You don't know anything about us! You act tough but you don't know what it's like to suffer!" At that point Kakashi, Sakura, and Sasuke all went quiet.

That...was not a subject you bring up around Naruko.

Kakashi could see his student clenching her shaking fists and hanging her head low.

"I...don't know what's it like to suffer? You're telling me, that I don't know what it's like to fucking suffer?!" Naruko stood up a look of pure anger in her eyes, before anyone could do anything Naruko was across the room holding Inari up by the collar of his shirt.

"Listen up you little shit, don't ever fucking tell me that I don't know the meaning of suffering! You like having a mom and grandpa?! Good, enjoy them because I never got to! I never grew up with a mom and dad or any family whatsoever! You ever get picked by your village? No? Well I do, every single damn day, I deal with glares, hateful remarks, so much shit it would make you cry! I know full god-damned well what suffering is, in fact I still suffer! Ever since my birth I've had to suffer!" Naruko dropped Inari to the ground and gave him a cold look promising pain if he ever mentioned this again.

"Kid, don't ever fucking tell me that I don't know suffering. Enjoy coming home to your loving family every night...because I don't get that damn luxury." With that Naruko walked out of the house and slammed the door which with her super-strength caused the house to shake slightly. Inari began to sniffle before running up the stairs. Kakashi looked at Tazuna who he could see was shocked.

"I'm sorry Tazuna-san, that is a very touchy subject for her."

"I can see that, is it really that bad for her?"

Kakashi simply nodded. Sasuke and Sakura were worried. They had never, ever seen Naruko blow up like that. Even when called a bitch she never blew up like that. Sasuke was about to get up but Kakashi's hand on his shoulder stopped him.

"Let her go Sasuke, she needs time to cool off. Bringing her back now would just set her off again. If she doesn't return tonight I'll send you to get her in the morning." Sasuke didn't like it, but he agreed.

The last thing anyone wanted was Naruko destroying the house or Inari.

Meanwhile Naruko went back to the clearing where they started tree-walking and just as she got to the center of the clearing she took a deep breath before going off.

"STUPID FUCKING KID! WHERE THE HELL DOES HE GET OFF TELLING ME THAT SHIT?! RAAAAAGH!" Naruko slammed her fist into a tree and completely shattered the trunk, a large cannonball sized hole where thick wood once was.

"THE FUCKING NERVE OF HIM! HE'S LUCKY HE'S A DAMN KID OR I'D FUCKING KILL HIM! HEYAAAH!" Naruko swung her leg out and her leg slammed into a tree trunk seemingly caving the trunk in.

"HE THINKS HE'S GOT IT BAD?! I'M THE ONE WHO NEVER GOT A DAMN GOODNIGHT KISS FROM MY MOTHER! OR HAVE SOMEONE TELL ME THEY FUCKING LOVE ME! ALL I EVER GET IS BRAT, GO BACK TO HELL, SUCCUBUS, OR SOME OTHER SHIT LIKE THAT! ARRRRRGH!" Naruko slammed her fingers into the ground and pulled tearing an enormous chunk of earth out which she hurled at the tree she kicked making it break and fall into another tree.

Throughout the whole night the sound of Naruko's screaming and trees being destroyed were all that the forest heard.

The next morning everyone but Naruko was gathered around the table as Tsunami made breakfast.

"I guess Naruko stayed out all night huh?" Tazuna rubbed the back of his neck to get the kinks out before he had to go back to the bridge.

"Ever since that little argument with Inari." Kakashi said while reading his Icha Icha. He figured his student would be out all night. In fact knowing Naruko he was sure the area where they trained was completely and utterly annihilated.

"That idiot better be okay, with the way she overreacts it's possible she could kill herself."

"Don't worry too much Sasuke, Naruko maybe a temperamental, goofy girl but she is a full-fledged ninja. In fact why don't you go get her? I'm sure she's hungry by now."

Back in the clearing Naruko was on her back sleeping peacefully, covered in dirt and grass stains while a stranger crouched over her body. The stranger's hand looked like it was reaching menacingly for her neck but instead it grabbed her shoulder and shook it.

"You'll catch a cold if you keep sleeping on the ground you know."

"Huh? Whut? Who are you?" Naruko said rubbing sleep out of her eyes.

"Oh forgive me, my name is Haku."

"Uzumaki Naruko, at your service."

"Naruko, would you mind helping me pick some herbs?"

"Sure (yawn) it'll help me wake up."

About 20 minutes later Naruko grabbed a few more herbs and placed them in the basket Haku had brought.

"These weeds and such are really medicinal?"

"I'm sorry to have imposed on you." Naruko waved it off.

"I'll just think of this as beginner medical training."

"Training? So you're a ninja?"

"Yup, the best there is...or at least soon to be the best."

"What are you training for?"

"Many reasons, to get stronger, to be respected, to prove a point to a snot-nosed brat, to take over the world, you know the usual." Haku giggled, this girl even though she was the enemy was funny.

"Do you have anyone special in your life Naruko-san?"

"Like in what way? Romantically? I honestly doubt that will ever happen where I live."

"Tee-hee, no I mean do you have people who are precious to you? People you would gladly fight for to protect."

Naruko thought and immediately Iruka, old man Hokage, Teuchi, Ayame, Kakashi, Sakura, and even Sasuke came to mind.

"Oh special like that! Yeah I do."

"Then you will truly be strong, I know we'll meet again so you should know now..."

Naruko listened intently, Haku was kind to say that about her.

"I'm a...."

A/N: DUN DUN DUN! CLIFFHANGER! Okay not really but I felt this was a good place to stop because I have come to a slight dilemma, despite the fact I am a very avid supporter of the "Haku is a girl" theory I DID say I was going to mostly go canon with this. So I figured, screw this I'll let my readers decide. Should Haku be a boy? or a girl? Leave your vote in your review, majority vote wins. Also try and guess what favor she'll call in from Sasuke later on, I honestly wanna see what you all come up with.