Ch.28
Naru groaned as she dragged herself from bed and staggered to the bathroom, where she lazily did her business until a cold shower hit her head. Rather than shriek like a girly-girl, the blond tomboy just shivered and then did a quick scrub of her hair before turning the water to hot. The 11-year-old then went about the rest of her morning constitutions with her usual vigor, the hot water having invigorated her. She would much prefer a bath, but there wasn't time for that.
"Naru! Don't you have a survival test today?" Ka-chan called from downstairs, the direction of which Naru smelled eggs rolls, rice and miso cooking. Thanks to her aunt Tsume and the training from hell her family had the Inuzuka put her through, her senses were as keen as an Inuzuka's, but without proper Inuzuka jutsu training, she was left to refer to instinct.
"Yep!" Naru backed down the hall towards the stairs before walking nude back to her bedroom to get dressed. Nudity was the family custom upstairs since everyone here was family, even that duck-haired dummy Sasuke. Thoughts of her best boy friend, who was not her boyfriend, shut up! Brain…uh…cold air on skin. Clothes! Right, gotta have clothes to leave the house.
She put on her pumpkin-orange kunoichi shorts, black T-shirt and put on her ninja sandals before quickly strapping her training ninja pouch to her left thigh. She was a rare lefty.
"Is big sis going to get a kissy face with a boy on the test?!" Naruko teased, since the sisters all shared a room. Naru got a bed all to herself, but her sisters had bunk beds, the 9-year-olds were frequently the bane of her existence. Well, Naruko was, the brat.
"Not Sasuke onii-chan though, ew! He's family!" Narue scrunched her nose in disgust. Narue was a complete sweetie. She and Naruko were aunt Tsume's daughters with mom.
"Ew, no, never Sasuke or Kiba or Shika. They're gross." Naru gagged at that thought. Naruko often teased Naru about all of the boy friends she has compared to girl friends, of who she only had Sakura, Hinata and Ino. Choji, Shino or one of the civilian boys were more attractive to her than her three closest male friends. It got weird when Kiba got flirty.
"Girls! Breakfast! Before your brother and cousins eat it all!" Mom shouted and Naru cursed boys and their almost nonexistent bathroom time! They're why she can't soak in the morning! Well, if she misses out, she could grab some breakfast on the way from Ayame.
"Ack, rush!" Naru declared before running out of the room, only to be overcame by her shapeshifting siblings. "Hey! I can't turn into a fox!" Naru shouted at her sisters, who yipped and howled playfully as they shot downstairs like liquid on legs. When Naru got to the table, she sighed at the lack of protein available. "Dang it!"
"Hey sis! I saved you a plate!" Naruto declared, uncovering a plate for her. Thank her little brother for being a saint! Unlike the rest of these uncultured heathens who let a girl starve!
"Isn't she on a diet for Shino or something?" Cousin Nobu Nara Uzumaki commented from his spot at the table while Aunt Kurama scarfed down three whole fish right next to him. Uh oh.
"Yes, it's the 'eat all I can' diet because I'm a growing girl and unlike stupid fangirls, I know better than to starve myself when I'm not done growing." Naru eyed her aunt, who was looking…bigger than usual, which was saying something when her aunt had more boob than five normal women combined. "Ba-chan, are you pregnant?" Naru bluntly questioned.
"Yep, your parent's and aunt Tsume's doing." Kurama told Naru with a greedy look.
"Ew!" All the children gagged at this new information, because nobody was spared the Birds and Bees talk due to how much the adults…do things, yuck.
"Did you find out how many?" Ka-chan asked as she sat down with her own plate, leading to a pout from Kurama.
"Three, one from each of you. Minato and his seals and demanding we don't overdo it." Kurama huffed. "At least you and Tsume are pregnant with me too." Oh no. Naru was glad she'd be too busy to help out much, as mean as it was to think. Her younger siblings get to enjoy helping with the new brats, she's had enough of that with Kana, Sana, Lana, Mana and Hanako.
"You came home from your first field mission half-dead then begged us to-."
"Kushina, children." Tou-chan warned as he sat down. Wait, Tou-chan was a girl! A really pretty girl, like her wives! "And it's all of us. I can't believe you three convinced me to be a woman and bear your babies." Ew~! Also, kinda cool and Naru felt oddly fuzzy inside for some reason.
"It took?! Kya~!" Both mothers cheered.
"Great, more family." Naga Nara Uzumaki, Naru's second-eldest cousin, behind Nobu by a few minutes, grumbled irritably. He was very much like a 'typical Nara', according to the adults.
"Naga, do you want to help mommy bath?" Kurama said with a thin grin.
"Of course, oka-sama." Naga blandly agreed.
"Make sure to get all my fur when we bathe tonight." Kurama told him.
"*sigh* Mendokuse…" Naga groused and lazily chewed his fish.
"Well, unlike the rest of you, I have earlier class hours, so I'm off." Naru finished shoveling her egg and meat-dense congee down her throat, smooched her parents on the way out, tousled some hair of the youngers, then sprinted with all speed out the door!
"Have a good week!" Ka-chan called after her.
=Fox=
*splash!* Naru held up the fish she had just caught with her hands and then tossed it to shore, landing in the wicker basket she wove from cane. This test was less about covert survival than it was about long-duration survival. The fewer ninja-skill assisted survival skills demonstrated, the better. So Naru was using a neat fishing trick that her aunt Tsume taught her once, standing very still in the shallows with her hands loosely forming a 'hole' to trick the mudfish into-.
"Naru! You splashed me! Oh, what will Sasuke-kun think?" Ino wailed as she tried cleaning her purple two-piece 'dress' of water and fish oil. Naru rolled her eyes and bent back down to keep fishing for the dumb hole-dwelling fish.
"He'd think you need to focus more on being a ninja, not just a kunoichi." Naru snarked a bit bitterly, because Ino Yamanaka was unreasonably pretty for an 11-year-old. Even Sakura has a more girly figure than the toasty-skinned blond! Where were her Uzumaki and Senju curves~?!
"Yeah, Ino-chan, focus more on the surviving concept of this test." Sakura Haruno, who Naru had a bit of a girl-crush on, huffed while beheading, skinning and fileting the caught fish for smoking in the smoking tent made from deer hide. If the deer wasn't in the Nara Conservation, it was free game.
"You just want me dirty so you can have Sasuke-kun! Naru-chan and Hinata-chan are the only ones not after him." Ino grumbled with a pout that her cute face made cuter.
"He's practically my brother!" Naru gagged. Why do people even associate the idea with her? Kiba was her brother, well, step-brother. He still hit on her because his balls dropped early or something like that. Aunt Tsume wasn't one to sugar-coat anything. "Besides, he's all broody and quiet in an 'edgy' way." More like cringey way. She loved the boy as a sibling, but eugh.
"That's what makes him so cool!" Ino exclaimed and earned a fish to the face. "Kya~!"
=Fox=
…It hurts…why does it hurt? Naru has never felt such pain like this before, but she couldn't move or open her eyes. "Iruka-sensei!" Sakura's banshee shriek hurt Naru's head. "Someone g-g-gutted Naru-chan! She's healing, but she won't wake up!"
"Kuso, I'll track them down, stand guard! It's easy to forget, but she is the Hokage's daughter, after all. This is even more serious than usual." Naru heard Iruka say before he must've left. Naru weakly whimpered and moaned, drawing attention and she heard shushing while a hand stroked her brow.
"Naru-chan, please be okay." Ino whimpered and Naru noticed her head was in the girl's lap. Naru felt so embarrassed! She didn't want anyone to know she liked girls as much as boys and having a cute girl give her a lap-pillow was exciting her! Please, training-bra-san! Hide her nips!
"What is going on?! Kurama-sama ordered me here without explanation." Shizune-sempi huffed in exertion, having clearly sprinted here the whole way.
"Shizune-san! Someone gutted Naru-chan!" Sakura urgently informed and within moments, Naru felt the soothing sensation of chakra-healing being applied to her.
"Tch! Poisoned, with chakra-dampening poison and tranquilizers! Good thing Kurama-sama sent me so urgently." There were moments of tense silence and she hissed. "Girls. Whoever did this, they extracted one of her ovaries. Thankfully, because of her Bloodline, she'll regenerate a new, functioning one, but someone just made off with the Uzumaki-Senju Bloodline."
"Will she be okay?" Ino asked in confusion. Naru didn't think Ino knew much about what made up her sexual organs. Their parents must have sheltered them, poor, innocent Ino. At least Sakura had some education from Shizune after Tsunade noticed her incredible Chakra Control.
"She'll be fine, Ino-chan." Sakura sighed in exasperated relief. Naru hoped after this, her dad loosened the seal so aunt Kurama can heal her more actively, this was so scary.
"Why would they do that?" Ino whimpered as she petted Naru's head.
"I believe the Hokage needs a word with your so-called teachers in your anatomy class." Shizune growled before placing her hand on Naru's forehead. Then, Naru sighed in relief.
"Most girls haven't started puberty yet. From what I overheard, the teachers were going to start next week. Naru-chan, Riku-chan and I are the only girls who have bled." Sakura stated.
"Well, you need these lessons earlier. Feeling better, Naru-chan?" Shizune queried and Naru tiredly nodded before sitting up with some help. "We're going to take you three back, this test is canceled."
"No, it's been a couple days, please, I don't want to have to redo this test again." Naru whined, because she has been working so hard not to let her grades slip. Hands-on tutoring has been especially helpful in keeping her grades up.
"It's not just you three, all students will be recalled. An attack on one student is the same as the whole class having been attacked. Until the threat is dealt with, this survival week is canceled and you will be graded based on the skills displayed thus far." Another teacher, Haruko, said upon poking his head into the tent. Well…that's okay, hopefully.
=Fox=
"Who did this?!" Kushina snarled at her husband who was still female.
"Iruka reported that it was Mizuki Suko, one of the Chunin instructors at the Academy. He hunted him down, but the 'sample' had already been delivered. From what T&I got from him, the man had sold several 'pieces' to one of Orochimaru's contacts before selling the majority to Root. Mizuki was going to use the money to propose to his girlfriend." Minato said in disgust.
"How fucking romantic." Kurama growled as she had the seals on Hurama's hands removed. After this, Naru was back at full constant rapid-regeneration. Naru has had fear put in her after being so thoroughly violated, so humbling her was no longer necessary.
"The man is a piece of work. His psych profile is that of a manipulative narcissist with a massive inferiority complex caused by Iruka surpassing him in their younger days. He believes everyone is beneath him and should suffer as he has. He also thinks everything he wants is wholly owed to him." Minato finished with removing the seals from his wife's hands. While Kurama was who they married, Hurama was his wife in all besides demonic heritage. Thus why she was anchor.
"Fuck. I'll be sure not to overdo it with Naru, but after this we're not using that seal ever again." Kurama snarled before Naru squeaked adorably loudly from her room. "Well, guess she's happy to have her old potency back."
=Fox=
Naru was practically sweating as she worried about something embarrassing. "Hey, Naru-chan, you look different. Do something with your hair?" Choji asked while munching on some of his fancy flavored potato chips, which he had to keep snacking on due to how intensely draining on the body even passive Akimichi techniques were.
"Y-yeah! I decided to try out a bit of Sakura-chan's headband with Ino-chan's ponytail." Naru used the convenient excuse to deflect from the real issue.
"She's gained weight." Sasuke droned and Naru delivered swift feminine retribution upon him! *Whack!* "Ow! It's in places you've always complained were too flat anyway!" *Whack, whack, whack!* Naru used her summoned paper fan of justice with her face glowing bright red!
"Asshole! Don't tell them my boobs and butt have gotten bigger!" Naru then realized what she said and died of embarrassment before crouching in a corner of the classroom to sulk. She was wearing baggier clothes to hide it and was even wearing a padded chest-binder she created from both Chakra Manifestation and sewing it herself. "I wish I was a roach, so I could hide…"
"I know how you feel." Hinata shyly consoled. The girl had been wearing a huge jacket lately.
"Hinata-chan, are we boobie monsters?" Naru sniffled up at her absolute bestie.
"I'm a C, you?" Hinata asked as she seemed to cup her booba through her thick jacket.
"A, *sniff*." Naru whimpered.
"Oh…" Hinata said with disbelief. "Um…that's not…big. At all."
"I had nothing before~." Naru whined and the boys were glad that their only girl friend had gone far from them to cry so grossly.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of!" Hinata declared while hugging Naru to her chest.
"I'm used to everyone thinking I'm a boy at this point~. You hide it!" Naru cried into her friend's bosom. Sawft~. She was in no way using this chance to press her face into her bestie's boobs!
"I…um…well…you see, I don't know if the person I have a crush on likes big…um…boob." Hinata said as she turned red and steam rose from her head.
"Aw, then they're not worth it if they don't, Hinata-chan~. My Ba-chan and Oba-chan have huge boobs and they're some of the prettiest women there are!" Naru declared, her own despair dead in the face of now comforting her bestie. She was always like this. The moment someone else's problems are known, her own become unimportant, at least for the moment.
"Eh~?" Hinata exclaimed before fainting.
"Kya! Hinata-chan's anemia has struck again~!" Naru wailed in dismay while holding the Hyuga.
Sakura and Ino rolled their eyes as they took Hinata away to the nurse. "Yeah, 'Anemia'." Sakura snorted and shared a girlish giggle with Ino.
=Fox=
"-Next, Naru Uzumaki!" Iruka announced and Naru, 12 now and hiding herself in heavy overclothes like Hinata does, approached the instructor to take her Genin Exam. "Now, Uzumaki-kun. Due to your massive chakra reserves hindering your ability to use the bog-standard Clone Jutsu, you have permission to perform any of the more advanced Jutsu in the same category."
"Oh, thank kami. My parents would have killed me if I failed." Naru briefly had trails of tears down her cheeks before holding up a two-handed crossed ram sign. "Shadow Clone!" *Poof!* The clone appeared next to her, looking exactly like her.
"Who taught that Kinjutsu to you?" Haruko asked with a raised brow.
"Ka-chan! She borrowed the Forbidden Scroll to teach me it. Tou-chan was angry!" Naru cackled and then performed a Henshin, then a Kawarimi with her Shadow Clone. "There, that's all three basics covered!"
"Congratulations, Naru-kun, you pass." Iruka slipped with how happy he was, using her first name instead of her surname. That made Naru beam even more as she took her headband.
"Oh, do you know what team I'll be on?" Naru asked.
"Seeing as you are placed last in class…" Iruka awkwardly laughed.
"W-what?!" Naru exclaimed in horror.
"You'll be on Team 7, which is traditionally the team holding the two top students with the worst student." Iruka finished.
"H-how am I last? I thought I was at least better than Kiba!" Naru pointed accusingly at her step-brother, who just smirked in enjoyment of her failure to best him in his worst area.
"We look over your whole record. Your first two years of Academy are what has held you back." Haruko told Naru plainly. "We knew before you passed you would be placed at the bottom because of those years." Naru collapsed at her seat next to Sasuke, who was grinning at his adopted-sister's antics. "That all said, here are the teams…"
=Fox=
"Well, at least we're together!" Naru cheered, hugging a scowling and blushing Sasuke and a smiling and blushing Sakura in a forced group hug.
"It's been hours…how long is our sensei going to be?" Sasuke groused, trying not to think about how his adopted-sister was squeezing him against her left chest. He's seen her naked, because of the 'clothes optional' rule in the upstairs of the Uzumaki house. He did not want Naru to know he found her very attractive. She was a shapely tomboy, with abs…
"Sorry I'm late." A man with white gravity-defying hair and a fox biting his rear entered. "I had a fox to avoid. Which, you can see, I failed to do."
"Inu-san~?!" Naru practically teleported in front of the Jonin. "I haven't seen you in years! I thought you died!" Naru gushed excitedly at the sight of her family's personal ANBU.
"Long term deployment." Their Jonin Sensei said as Sasuke and Sakrua blanched at the thought of an ANBU training them. "Now then, I am Kakashi Hatake, come with me."