Ch5

(Emily's POV)

"NARUTO! I AM GONNA KILL YOU IF WE ESCAPE!" I yelled over my shoulder as I ninja jumped around the village trying to escape the ninjas who were chasing us. I saw him pale slightly, but when the ninjas behind us started yelling at us he just laughed. I glared at him before speeding up.

"Emily wait up!" Naruto called as I widened the gap between us. I just glared at him,

"You are completely on your own now." I said coldly before using my chakra to help me speed up and get away. 'That idiot.' I thought as I landed in a crowded area hoping to lose them.

I was definitely on a completely different level of skill compared to Naruto but I still had no chance if I let the ninja's catch up to me. 'Why'd he have to drag me into this. I've told him a million times not to get me involved in his vandalism and stupid tricks' I thought, extremely irritated. Naruto had dragged me out in the middle of a class and then took me to the faces and started to paint them.

I had been sleeping before Naruto grabbed me and used Sasuke as a spring board to jump out of the window. So I don't know why we left but apparently he got in some sort of trouble. But none of that was the problem, I don't mind playing hooky occasionally, particularly when I'm tired. The problem was that he decided he wanted attention and started painting the faces. He had forced a paint brush into my hand so I would join him when fate decided that it would be a good time to let the Konoha ninjas notice us.

"There she is!" I heard a voice behind me and glanced back to see two of the ninjas that had been chasing us. 'Seriously? Don't they ever give up?' I thought as I ran into the crowd of people buying and selling stuff. 'Got to hide. Got to hide. Grrr this would so much easier if I could use my ghost powers.'

After my first day in school two days ago, Lord Hokage and I had decided that I shouldn't use my ghost powers unless absolutely necessary. So that I would focus on learning ninja skills. Unfortunately it was practically I possible to break the habit of using the powers that had so often saved me. So in the end the Hokage got Clockwork to send over blueprints and materials from my old home so that I could build a device that would suppress my ghost powers. I made one disguised as a pendant and slipped it onto a chain round my neck and this did the trick. 'But' I thought as I ran through the crowd. 'It's at times like this when I wish it didn't. What to do... what to do...Ah! Transformation jutsu!' I remembered and quickly made the hand signs before transforming into some random guy I saw and slowing to a walk.

My specialty is ninjutsu, I guess learning to control my ghost powers helped with that. I'm not very good at taijutsu, but right now I'm glad I'm better at ninjutsu.

I looked around and when I saw the ninjas I turned to walk in the opposite direction but then I saw the guy I had transformed into. I paused for a millisecond, 'better that the ninjas don't see us together' I thought before taking the risk and turning around again, casually walking past the ninjas. I walked as quickly as I could without attracting their attention and turned off the road as soon as possible. I gave a sigh of relief before running further away.

When I decided I was far enough I glanced around and released the jutsu. 'I should get back to the academy.' I thought as I began to walk again. 'I wonder if Naruto lost them yet.' I glared at a poor cat that was passing by, the thought of him made my blood boil. The cat ran away and I sighed before starting to walk towards the academy. I barely took two steps before I heard a certain idiot's laugh quickly heading towards me. I scowled when I caught sight of him, he was still being chased.

"Aho." I muttered before moving towards an area where I could see he would land and hiding in an alley that was nearby. The moment he landed I grabbed him and pulled him out of sight, clamping my hand on his mouth and wrapping my arms around him to make sure he didn't struggle and catch the ninja's attention. I heard the ninjas leap past then relaxed my hand on Naruto's mouth, but I stayed still just to be safe. After a moment Naruto spoke up,

"Hey Emily." He whispered.

"Yeah?" I said as I relaxed my arms.

"I can feel your breasts on my back."

"..." I felt a vein pulsing on my head. "Naruto." I whispered back.

"Nani?"

"I was considering letting you off with one punch, but now... YOU ARE SOOO DEAD!" I yelled before tightening my grip on him and throwing him over my shoulder with as much force as I could. He flipped over and landed safely but that just annoyed me even more.

"Wait! Wait! Gomenasai! Please don't hurt me!" He begged. I just smirked.

"You want to become Hokage right? If you can't beat me that's never gonna happen. Let me help you train." I said as I advanced.

"No I'm good! You don't need to help me! Wah!" I grabbed hold of his collar and pulled my fist back.

"There you are! What do you think you are doing during school hours!?" Iruka-sensei's voice yelled at us.

'Shoot. I forgot about school.' I thought as I stared at Iruka-sensei. My mind made a few quick judgments then came to a decision. My fist flung forward and slammed into Naruto's face. Simultaneously, I let go of his collar and he fell to the ground. All the while not taking my eyes off Iruka-sensei. Naruto fell with a heavy thud, his head hit the ground, hard.

"Aiyeeeee!" His hands flew to his head and he clutched his scalp while manically rolling around on the floor. "Why did you do that?" Iruka asked sighing. "He was pissing me off" I replied matter-of-factly and stalked off towards the academy.

When I got back no one seemed to be studying. They were all talking. Except Shikamaru, who was sleeping, and Sasuke who was ignoring a bunch of girls who had crowded around him. I moved towards my usual seat next to Sasuke but Sakura had sat there so I went to sit in hers. Then Sasuke noticed me,

"Hey, Emily is back. Give her her seat." He said with his usual grumpy tone. The girls all glared at me.

"It's okay to sit on my seat." Sakura told me before turning and hugging Sasuke's arm "Right Sasuke?" I nodded.

"I don't real..." Sasuke's eyes were begging me to rid him of the swarming fangirls. Those eyes had stopped my words but the thought ran on in my head '...ly care where I sit'. I gave up on my sentence and sighed, shrugged and turned to Sakura.

"Give her the seat back." He repeated.

"But Sasuke.." Sakura whined. I didn't give her a chance to finish and put my hand on the desk in front of the seat.

"Sumimasen. Please move." I said firmly. She glared at me but moved anyway and at that moment Iruka-sensei carried a tied up Naruto into the room and dumped him on the floor. Everyone hurried to their seats, and pretended to be studying whatever Iruka had been talking about today. I glanced papers in front of Sasuke. Genjutsu. 'Man, I probably should have been paying attention' I thought. Iruka-sensei was lecturing Naruto so I looked out of the window and let my thoughts drift.

"-Emily." I heard Iruka-sensei say my name and turned to face him.

"Huh?" Iruka-sensei twitched in annoyance.

"I said 'that includes you' but you weren't paying attention to anything anyway." He told me. I shrugged.

"If you were mad at me for the faces, I had nothing to do with it. If this is about playing hooky the 1. It wasn't my fault Naruto took me, and 2. I was sleeping anyway so what difference does it make? If this is about punching Naruto you can't tell me you didn't want to and he seriously deserved it."

"You punched Naruto?" Sasuke questioned quietly and I nodded.

"Yeah, and by the way you owe me for sitting here." I whispered back. Sasuke smirked at the thought of me punching Naruto but I just ignored it.

"That's it!" Iruka-sensei yelled, obviously infuriated. "Everyone line up and practice the transformation jutsu for the exam tomorrow. Turn into a copy of me." Everyone groaned and glared at me and Naruto. I let them slide over me, completely used to it by now. Naruto on the other hand glared back at everyone and just made matters worse for himself and everyone started blaming him and forgot about me. 'Wait. Exam?' I thought. 'I wasn't told about any exam. Or did I just miss that part of information?' I glanced around. Apart from the annoyed looks no one seemed disturbed by the statement. 'Great now I'm gonna have to attract attention.' I mentally groaned as I raised my hand.

"What?" Iruka glared at me and I frowned at the gesture.

"I thought I had explained that I had nothing to do with Naruto's tricks." I complained. Iruka-sensei sighed,

"You were still playing hooky. Now what did you want?" He asked.

"I was never told about an exam." I said though the frown didn't leave my face.

"Oh yes that's right. The Hokage said you didn't have to take this exam. You can wait for the next one because you've only been training for a week at most."

"WHAT!" I exploded, "I don't have time for that!" Murmurs of surprise went around the room. Though I may have been rude to just about everyone, I was usually pretty quiet and only Naruto had heard me even raise my voice, let alone flat out yell at a teacher. I realized I had slammed my hands on the desk and stood up when I had yelled, so I sat down again.

"Gomen" I apologized. As much as I hated people I still had some respect for any one older than me... so long as they aren't trying to kill me like the GIW. Iruka-sensei suppressed the look of surprise on his face,

"Well, you could most likely pass the test anyway" he said. "so I don't mind if you take it." He paused as he turned the thought over in his mind. Then nodded and looked at me. "Yes, I don't mind, but you need to talk to Lord Hokage about it." I nodded.

"Ok"

"Right everyone line up!" He said and everyone groaned. Obviously they had hoped he had forgotten about the sudden review.

Mini-dictionary-like-thing

Aho = moron (note: aho and baka are basically like idiot and moron the same thing but different, so take your pick.)

Nani = what

Gomenasai = I'm really sorry

Gomen = I'm sorry

Sumimasen = excuse me