A couple months after I returned to Konoha nothing really interesting happened. I went back to acting like my old self but I wasn't the same trouble making naruko. I only acted like my old self because I don't want people to get suspicious of me.

I pulled a couple harmless pranks for like a week then I stopped since, well, it was pointless because I don't want attention anymore. I also don't care about being alone anymore. Whenever I'm in class I'll act like I'm not listening but in reality I am. When I'm not in class I'll be training in the back hills and I'll work on controlling my chakra but because of my big chakra reserves I still struggle at it.

A couple days after I got back to Konoha I was a little shocked too see that nothing has changed, well I wasn't really surprised that the whole thing with the last surviving Uchiha didn't change.

Sasuke Uchiha is from the Uchiha clan. He possesses a technique called the sharingan. Only people who are a part of the Uchiha clan can possess this technique. His entire clan and parents were killed by his older brother Itachi so he's alone like me but sasuke gets praised from all his teachers. He's always the top student and every single girl except for me and another girl named Hinata fawn over him. They always make fools of themselves just to get sasuke's attention. It always embarrass me to be a girl and a couple of times I wished that I was born a boy.

I never got why almost every girl fell for him. He acts like he's the only person in the world who's lost someone important to him. Even though he's lucky, he only lost his clan. I lost an entire village and the first people who made me feel important.

After three weeks of living in Konoha again, one night I was training when I saw a girl from my class named Hinata Hyuuga spying on me. She had short dark purple hair and pupilless lavender eyes. She's from the Hyuuga clan and she possesses a technique called the byakugan like the Uchiha clan only the Hyuuga clan has the byakugan.

Naruko was training at one of the training grounds then stopped when she heard a shy giggle. "Huh?" Naruko said looking at the place the giggle was coming from. Naruko saw a girl from her class trying to hide behind a tree but naruko could still see her. Naruko, confused, thought 'what is she doing?'.

Hinata with her back up against a tree blushing 't-that was c-close' hinata thought. Hinata turned back around to continue to spy on naruko but she couldn't see naruko anywhere. 'W-where did she g-go? D-did she leave' hinata though as she turned around too leave. Suddenly she was face to face with naruko.

Hinata jumped back blushing like crazy and fell. "Oh oops sorry are you ok?" Naruko said with a warm smile extending a hand too help her up. Hinata's whole body went red and she passed out. The last time the girls had been that close is when they first meet.

Flashback

One night when hinata and naruko were little girls it was snowing. Naruko was walking through the village when she saw hinata being bullied by three boys. They were calling her weak, saying that her eyes were creepy, pushed her too the ground, and tore up her scarf. Hinata started to cry out of frustration.

Naruko couldn't stand there and watch anymore so she ran in front of hinata and said "hey! Leave her alone". The boys started to laugh at naruko. "Look at this pipsqueak trying to act all tough." "Why don't you go home girly." "Hah what a joke. Everyone knows that girls are just annoying brats who act all strong and everything but in reality they're weak".

This pissed naruko off so she grabbed one of the boys by the shirt and she punched him in the face. The second boy ran at naruko to attack her but he was stopped when naruko kicked him in the gut. Naruko broke the third boy's nose.

The boy that naruko punched in the face pointed at her and said "you're gonna regret this". The boys then ran away. Naruko scuffed and said "those brats had the guts to call me weak but when it came to a fight they didn't even try to fight back. They just ran away like cowards". Naruko then turned to hinata who was sitting there wide eyed.

Naruko walked over to hinata with a warm smile on her face. She extended a hand and said in a kind voice "are you ok? They didn't hurt or scare you did they?" Hinata started blushing, taking naruko's hand and stood up. Naruko looked at the torn scarf. She removed the scarf around her own neck and put it around hinata's neck.

Hinata didn't know what to say. One moment she was being bullied and the the next moment a strong and beautiful girl stood up for her even though naruko didn't know her at the time. "W-why?… Why d-did you help m-me?" Hinata asked. "Why wouldn't I? It's the right thing to do. Don't worry about giving me the scarf back. You can have it since they ruined your's".

As naruko started to walk away she stopped and turned to hinata. "By the way, I don't get why those jerks said that your eye's are creepy. I think there really pretty". As naruko was walking away she said "bye pretty eyes". 'S-she thinks m-my eyes a-are pretty' hinata thought, blushing like crazy with her heart beating fast.

Flashback End

Naruko was chanting hinata's name over and over again to get her to wake up. Hinata started to open her eyes. Naruko was relieved to see that hinata was ok. Hinata saw naruko above her with a big smile on her face. "I'm happy that you're ok hinata" naruko said. Hinata's whole body went red when she realized that she was in naruko's lap.

Hinata quickly removed herself from naruko's lap blushing from head to toe. She almost fainted again. "Hey are you ok hinata?" Naruko asked. Hinata got up and started playing with her fingers, "y-yeah I'm ok naru-chan" hinata said.

Naruko stood up and said "why were you spying on me?" Hinata was still playing with her fingers, got all flustered and said "o-oh umm… I w-was waiting f-for when you w-were done with the training grounds b-because I wanted t-to do some training". Hinata's explanation sounded reasonable but naruko could tell that she was lying.

Naruko always had this thing were if she looks into someone's eyes she could tell how the person is feeling, how strong they are, or if they're lying.

"If you wanted to use the training grounds you could have just asked or go to the other one. There's more than one training grounds" naruko said not giving hinata's lie too much thought. "Oh right s-sorry" hinata said. Naruko smiled at hinata and said "it's ok just remember to ask next time".

As naruko turned to leave hinata grabbed her wrist and said "w-wait". Naruko looked at hinata and said "what is it?" Hinata let got of naruko's wrist, looked down, blushing, and playing with her fingers again. "I-I was wondering I-if you wanna hang out a-after school tomorrow?" Hinata said surprising naruko since hinata is an extremely shy girl especially around naruko.

I accepted hinata's offer even though at first I was gonna say no but the thought of having a friend again, the memories of my old friends, and all the good times we had how could I say no. After a while we became friends.

Years later I'm thirteen. The old man had me retake the academy three times to get me all caught up with everyone else. Even though I already knew everything Iruka-sensei was teaching. When it was finally time for the graduation test I ended up failing because I couldn't get the damn jutsu required to pass down.

A little bit after that whole ordeal I was tricked by mizuki-sensei into stealing an important scroll. Iruka-sensei came after me. Mizuki tricked me into stealing the scroll so he can take it for himself. Iruka-sensei got badly wounded protecting me. I found out that when I see someone important to me is injured or their blood my muscles tense up, I can't move, and the memory of when Ikki was killed saving me.

Mizuki told me why the village hated me, it's because I'm the nine-tails jinchuriki. I was hurt that everyone kept this from me and the fact that they treated me so badly just because I contain the monster that ravaged the village years ago.

After a while Iruka-sensei was at mizuki's mercy. Mizuki called me a monster and he said that I was gonna use the scroll to destroy everything and Iruka-sensei agreed. I was hurt thinking that he never believed in me but then Iruka-sensei said 'that's how monsters are but that's not who naruko is'.

I was extremely shocked that he showed me that he cared about me. I didn't want to lose him too like how I lost Ikki. I couldn't do anything to save her at the time but this time I could do something to save someone. I came out of my hiding spot. I managed to finally do the shadow clone jutsu. I made a bunch of shadow clones and I beat mizuki.

Me and Iruka-sensei headed back to Konoha. He got all patched up and I gave the scroll back to the old man. After a bit Iruka-sensei walked up to me, gave me a hidden leaf headband, and told me that I passed.