The Iwa Shinobi Chapter 2
There will be a timeskip here
Vocab: Bakuyakugan: Explosive Eye
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to me! (Lightning speeds down from the cloudless sky and zaps me) Okay, okay I don't own Naruto
In Konoha
1 and a half months after the search for Akahana began, Mikoto Uchiha, wife of Fugaku Uchiha, clan head of the famed Uchiha clan, gave birth to a baby boy. They named him Sasuke Uchiha.
In Iwa
Akira was breastfeeding the 2 month old child when suddenly Deidara zoomed in threw the open window and came to a stop at the foot of her bed. Akira nearly fainted.
"What do you think you are doing? You nearly gave me a heart attack," she whispered angrily, "You're just lucky the baby didn't notice," fire was coming out of her eyes at that point.
Deidara rubbed the back of his head sheepishly(like a certain blond we know and love) and said, "This was the only time I was able to come when your husband wasn't home. It wouldn't look very good if a man he has never seen before popped up asking about the welfare of another's child now would it?"
Akira still didn't like that he was there but she understood his reasoning, understood but not accepted.
"That still doesn't excuse you barging in while I am nursing." She said, glaring this time.
Deidara rolled his eyes at this point. But then his face turned serious. "So, how is she doing?"
Akira's mood instantly brightened at the mention of her adopted daughter. "You daughter is doing very well, Deidara-sama. She is the joy of my life, I can't thank you enough for letting me raise her."
Deidara sweatdropped behind his head, Bi-polar much? He had almost forgotten that he was masquerading as the infant's father. Thank Kami he wasn't the real one or he would feel it was his duty to take care of her (and he definitely doesn't want to do that).
He plastered a fake smile of gratitude on his face, "Thank you for looking after her for me, Akira-san. I will be checking in on you two once every month until she is a genin and then I will be assigned as her sensei. But until then. Please take good care of her," all of a sudden, he called out, "Bakuyakugan."
Akira was about to respond when suddenly Deidara's eyes lit up in flames, he looked toward the front of the house and saw Minoru's heat signature. He looked down at Naruto and smiled, although it freaked Akira out because sparks were flying from his eyes. "Well, you're husband is home. So I have to leave. See you in a month." And then, to keep up the charade, he leaned over and kissed Naruto's head, after deactivating his Kekke Genkei of course, you don't want a fire starting spontaneously. He left the house the way he came. And not long after the front door opened. Minoru walked into their bedroom and smiled at Akira and Naruto. He walked over to them and kissed Akira and then Naruto on the forehead.
"So how have my two favorite people been doing today?" he asked smiling.
Akira smiled up at him, "We have been just fine. Little Naru here has been feeding like there's no tomorrow. I think I might run out of milk before he gets his fill."
Minoru smirked, "Well perhaps we should give him a break from feeding for a little while. He could use some rest."
Akira nodded lazily, "I think I could too, this whole mother thing is taking a lot out of me."
Her husband nodded understanding. He grabbed Naruto out of Akira's arms and walked him over to the crib they set up in an adjacent room. Setting him down gently he pulled the blanket over the tired baby and couldn't help but smile at how cute 'his' child was.
Walking back into his room he found Akira already asleep. He still had things to do before he went to bed so he left the room and quietly closed the door behind him.
:Timeskip:
10 years later…
A young blond-haired boy was running away from a group of Tremor's who were trying to get her after she pranked the Tsuchikage's statues. (kind-of like Mount Hokage-more except instead of heads carved into mountains they make bigger-than-they-actually-were statues of their leaders. In other words, they were all short)
:Flashback:
Naruto was walking thru the village when she saw the statues of the Tsuchikage's in the middle of the village. She had just had another argument with her father about her poor grades in school and he wasn't too happy with her. (A/N: remember: she knows that she is a girl, but her dad doesn't, so he thinks she is a boy) It's not like she didn't study, it's just that she didn't understand what she did. And then after that he made a comment about her not really being his child because his son wouldn't be this bad in school. At which point she yelled, "Well maybe I don't want to be your son!" He then turned extremely angry and ordered her out of the house for the rest of the day. And so there she was, with nothing to do feeling very bitter. So she decided to take out her anger on the nearest object she could find, and what better thing than the statue's of their beloved leader? She immediately went to the nearest store and bought a huge amount of paint and ran toward the statues.
Before anyone had a chance to blink the tree statues were covered in goofy drawings that made the men the depicted look crazy. For some strange reason Naruto thought that there should be four of them, but shook her head as it didn't make any sense and continued on her way. 5 minutes later a group Tremor's appeared in front of her and said, "Naruto Sakamoto you are to come with us to Tsuchikage-sama's office immediately for discipline."
At which point she yelled, "Only if you catch me!" And off she went.
:Flashback End:
Naruto kept running as fast and glanced over her shoulder to see that the Tremor had stopped, she thought that they had given up when she ran into someone. She bounced off of him and fell to the ground.
"Ow," she said rubbing her bottom. She looked up to see who she had run into and paled. "H-h-hi Deidara-san. " He glared at her.
"You are big trouble young man and I am going to make sure that punishment is served." He knew that she was a girl, but while out in public he had to keep up appearances. She gulped. He grinned, "You are going to clean the Tsuchikage statues until they are spotless and I am going to watch you the entire time to make sure you do."
She gulped again. Deidara pulled Naruto to her feet and led her back toward the statues where the cleaning supplies were already waiting for her. Grumbling she set about her task.
Deidara noticed that she wasn't overly enthusiastic about her punishment and that at the rate she was going it wouldn't be done until well after nighttime. Guess she needs a little incentive. "Hey Naruto, when you finish this I'll take you out for ramen!" He said loudly. That got her attention. Despite being in a home not truly her own, she still had an appetite for ramen. It's like it's genetic or something. After all, both the Fourth Hokage and his wife are known for having a thing, okay maybe not a 'thing,' more like an addiction.
Naruto her arms in the air, "Now that's what I'm talking about!" And with that she hurriedly set about cleaning the three statues. Deidara couldn't believe his eyes, it was like she was everywhere at once. What he didn't know, was that she actually was everywhere. Granted they were shadow clones but no one had seen her do them before so she got away with it. The truth of the matter was that Naruto was really quite smart, she just didn't like to show off, kind-of like a certain Nara we all know and love.
She had tried to do the clone jutsu but found that she had too much chakra to do it without killing the clone. So she tried experimenting. The school required that the student be able to create 5 clones successfully, regardless of the type. There were some ninja families that taught their children the mud or rock clone. The problem with her was that she was given access to those jutsus so she was forced to improvise. So she tried experimenting with different types of clones until eventually she gave up after finding that none of them worked, for her anyway. But then one day she was looking through a history book and saw a section on the Yellow Flash, the Yondaime Hokage. In the section she saw that he used a different type of clone, the shadow clone. It was solid, and apparently required a lot of chakra because some of the Iwa shinobi tried to copy it but failed. Learning the handsign was easy seeing as how there was only one, but the chakra requirement was enormous, bordering on Kage-level. So she tried that one, little did she know it would become her signature technique later on. After hours of practice she was finally able to perform the jutsu successfully, calling forth hundreds of clones in the clearing she was training in. Of course as soon as she created them she dispelled them once she heard a lot of people coming. For whatever reason, she was able to hear, see and smell a lot better than most kids her age, heck most people in the village, ninja included. After she released the clones she got a massive headache. She swore she would never do that many again unless she absolutely had to.
After Naruto finished cleaning(the clones long since gone) she jumped down onto the ground and ran up to Deidara, bouncing up and down. "Ramen?"
Deidara chuckled, "I did promise you that didn't I? Okay, how about we go Ichiraku's eh?" (A/N: Pleas e bear with me, I promise it will make sense.)
Naruto jumped into the air, "Yay!" she cried happily.
She ran out in front of him as she sped toward the ramen stand. Deidara couldn't help but laugh at her enthusiasm for the food.
Naruto beat Deidara by a landslide, in fact, he was so far behind she couldn't even see him. Shrugging her shoulders, she jumped up onto the stool in front of the stand and sat down. "Hey old man, I'd like a Miso ramen please."
A man came out of the back and shook his head at her, "You know, one of these days you're going to get yourself killed for not respecting your elders, Naruto-kun." He burst out laughing, and Naruto joined in. The owner of the stand and said hyperactive ninja, or should I say student, were quite close, in fact, they had more of a father, son type of relationship than Naruto and Minoru.
"Whatever old man, I just want to taste the greatest food ever made in the world." She said enthusiastically.
Hiro Ichiraku shook his head again, still laughing, albeit quietly, "I don't make the best food in the world Naruto-kun." This drew a gasp from the number one unpredictable ninja-in-training. Hiro held his hand to stop the stream of protests flying out of the young 'boy's' mouth. "If you let me finish I would have said I don't make the best food in the world, but my brother does. He lives in Konoha , the village hidden in the leaves. If you ever get the chance to go there tell him that his little brother would like his book back. Now as for your order, one bowl of Miso coming up."
He placed the steaming bowl of noodles that he had begun to prepare the moment he saw Naruto running towards his shop at full speed.
"Itadakimasu, " she cried happily and dug straight into her bowl. Moments later Deidara arrived and sat down at the counter and asked for a beef ramen. He looked over at Naruto and shook his head; she was almost finished with her first bowl. . . Wait, first bowl? She should already be on her fifth by now.
"Hey Naruto," she looked up from her just-finished bowl, "Do you have something on your mind? You seemed distracted earlier."
She looked at her hands on the counter and sighed, "Is it that obvious?" He simply gave her a look that said, my-bat-could-see-it. And they go by sonar. (A/N: Yes, Deidara has a pet bat, and no, it is not a summons.)
She sighed again, "Okay, I guess you got me, My tou-san and I got into a fight earlier today about my grades. He said he couldn't believe that I was his child having such poor grades and then I told him maybe I didn't want to be. At that point he got extremely angry and kicked me out of the house. And well, you know what happened from there."
Deidara took all this in and sighed, "So that is why you did that to the statues?" she nodded, "Okay, now I can understand where you are coming from. But that doesn't excuse the fact that you shouldn't have done it." She lowered her head, "However Minoru shouldn't have said that either."
She looked back up at him with tears flowing somewhat freely, "Thank you," She whispered quietly.
Deidara looked at her smiling. He looked over at Hiro who was watching the whole thing with a solemn look on his face and asked, "Hey, Hiro, how about some more ramen, eh?"
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