Naruko: The Story Redone
By: dbrame91
A/N: The main focus of this story is going to be Naruko, however I will have Kushina chapters from time to time. Those chapters will basically be Naruko on down time or just doing D-rank missions.
Chapter 1: Naruko (Age 15)
"Oi Sasuke, wake the fuck up!" Naruko had been slamming the palm of her hand on the door to his room for twenty minutes now. 'Why do I have to wake him up again Yoko-onee-chan? The blonde was ready to tear his door down, she had been up and ready to leave almost an hour ago. Crossing her arms under her chest, Naruko began tapping her foot.
She was dressed in her mission gear, black pants, a short sleeve jacket, with her hitai-ate on her forehead and her hair pulled back in a low ponytail. The pants were just tight enough to show the shape of her legs with her usual sealing scroll, to hold her sword as well as her shamisen, on her right hip with her weapons pouch. Naruko's jacket was short sleeved, black with orange on the inside, as well as orange on the bottom hem and cuffs, and hugged her curvy figure. Under her jacket Naruko wears a mesh armor shirt over the band style bra that supports her C-cup breasts. The mesh shirt has sleeves that reach to her wrists while the bottom falls to her waist.
'Because, Naruko-onee-chan, Kaa-san took him in after the Uchiha Massacre due to her being friends with Mikoto-san, as well as being his god mother.' Yoko had grown over the years as well. She was still a perfect reflection of Naruko, not counting Yoko's tail, ears, and hair color, but her hair had been left to grow out more. She tended to complement, yet hide, their mirrored figure in more traditional clothes.
The morning after the Massacre swam up from the depths of Naruko's memories. The academy was still in it's second month of her first year. The school day had been cancelled because every available person was needed.
Flashback start
Naruko was running through the streets, sometimes choosing to take shortcuts through alleys and over fences and walls. She had to get to the other end of town as fast as she could. 'I have to see if Sasuke is alive. He can't be dead, and Itachi couldn't have killed them all. Itachi was always so nice, maybe a little tired but that was because he was overworked.' Pulling herself to a sliding stop Naruko was now standing outside the massive Uchiha compound, which was more like an entire district of Konoha. Choosing to start on the streets around the compound Naruko circled the entire premises and couldn't find anyone other than the chunin and jonin cleaning up the area. Jumping over one of the walls, Naruko began her search around the inside of the compound. She had gone through a few rooms of the old main building unnoticed before Iruka came up to the still pajama clad girl.
"Naruko-chan? What are you doing here? This isn't a place for children right now." He approached her slowly and put a hand on her shoulder as he talked. She jumped at his hand on her shoulder and threw out her foot, catching him in the stomach.
"Oh no, I'm sorry Iruka-sensei you scared me." She helped her, now doubled over, teacher and calmed herself. "Did anybody find Sasuke?" Naruko may not be the biggest fan of the youngest Uchiha but he was a classmate, which meant he was a future comrade and deserved her worry.
"Yes. We found him this morning outside the front gates, he had been put under some kind of genjutsu." Iruka was still holding an arm to his middle and eased a deep breath into his lungs. "He should be at Konoha Hospital being examined. If you want to, you should go see him."
Naruko nodded and jumped over the walls again, back onto the streets before running towards the hospital. Along the way the blonde stumbled into her mother walking with an ANBU in a dog mask. When she approached and asked what was going on Kushina told her, "I am on my way to the hospital to pick up Sasuke." When asked why she was going to get him she smiled sadly and responded. "I was very good friends with Sasuke's mother, Mikoto, and before I left the village she asked me to be his godmother." The two Uzumaki women continued their walk to the hospital where they picked up the seemingly broken Uchiha and took him to their home in silence.
That first night with Sasuke there was rough on all three of them. Sasuke would wake up randomly, screaming, his dreams haunted by the genjutsu Itachi had used on him. Naruko's room was right next to the room he was in, so every time he woke up, so did she. Kushina had not even gotten to sleep once that night. She stayed on the main level of the Uzumaki residence, ready for any sign that her help was needed. When morning had come and Sasuke had not woken up after several hours Kushina went up to his room and found Naruko there, just talking to her sleeping classmate, her own head slowly nodding as she fought sleep.
Flashback end
Naruko renewed her assault on the door in front of her, shaking the memories from her thoughts. Itachi had been a nice person and she still couldn't wrap her mind around the possibility. Since being taken in by the Uzumaki family Sasuke and Naruko had become like siblings. They acted just like normal siblings would, doing everything from petty challenges to messing with each others stuff. "I swear to Kami, teme, if I break this door down and find you on top of Sakura-chan again I am going to beat your ass all over Konoha!" It had been an unspoken understanding that, the recently graduated, Team 7's medi-nin and pretty boy were a couple.
Sasuke and Sakura had started dating in their second to last year of the academy, around the same time that Sasuke had begun to open up to the world again. It hadn't been until they had graduated from the academy that the two had begun to get more physically intimate.
Naruko didn't really care about them being together because she was currently attracted to her Jonin sensei, Kakashi, and had her own physically intimate companions as well. Her interest in the man was something that only she and Yoko knew, or so she thought though no one said anything about it. It was Yoko's apprehensions about it that had her always driving a shiver up Naruko's back when she thought about it. 'He is older than you Naruko-onee-chan, we don't know by how much though.' Naruko sighed, she knew that he was older but she didn't really care. 'All we know about him is his name from that dumb introduction two days ago. And today is some kind of survival test.'
'I know Yoko, I know. It's not like I can help it though, just like you can't help your preference to other women.' Naruko was fine with having partners of either gender, she was just picky on the actual person. 'And don't get me wrong Yoko-onee-chan, I like being naughty with Hinata and teasing Ino as much as you do.' The blonde and the Hyuuga heiress had been more of a friends with benefits thing, though Hinata often wished for more out of it, that had started one time when Naruko had snuck a bottle of sake from the Hyuuga estate when she was 13. After finally convincing her pale eyed friend to try some, Hinata had a little too much and got handsy with the equally drunk, and curious, blonde. Since then the two had frequent sexual encounters, especially after times of high stress such as end-of-year exams or after one of the Hyuuga heiress's sparring matches to decide if she was worthy of being the heiress to the clan.
Ino was just a target of teasing, during their last year in the academy Naruko's Infiltration and Ino's Interrogation classes were having a joint exercise in Konoha T&I to go over ways to gain information or keep information secret while working undercover. Before the class had started a woman in a large brown trench coat had asked them all to read and sign waivers that basically said they couldn't complain if they felt things went a little too far during the exercise. It also stated that no one could use extreme methods to gather information such as physical torture. During Ino's turn to try and hold back information Naruko had chosen to go with a seduction based strategy. She kept it reserved, just small nips on the ears, wondering hands across the chest, kisses to the neck, basically she just never touched anywhere between the other blonde's legs. Ultimately Naruko was able to get the info she had wanted out of a tired and panting Ino.
Unknown to the blonde her door hammering had mustered the black haired boy from his sleep. He still had days where he woke up and wondered why he wasn't at the Uchiha compound, and this was one of them. As a third wave of banging came, Sasuke was reminded of why and began to get ready for the day. "Hey teme, open the door or I am cutting it to pieces!" Knowing that his pseudo sister was not lying about doing this, he went to the door and opened it, his shirt still off and pants hanging off of one hip. When he opened the door Naruko had her sword in hand, ready to swing. "I'm getting ready now Naruko. Wait for me downstairs or something." Naruko nodded but scanned the room quickly before leaving.
"You're lucky Sakura isn't in there this time." Naruko said, walking away from the door and resealing her sword. Over the years, because of her growing up, it had gone from being as big as her to being an appropriate length for a katana but was still basically a slab of metal. She had asked a Konoha blacksmith to rework the blade a bit a few years ago. Knowing that the size and shape of her Kubikiribocho copy kept it from being an all purpose blade, kinda hard to stab someone when the blade is meant to sever, she had asked that the detachable handle be turned into something she could remove and use to stab with. Sadly none of the blacksmiths in Konoha were able to do anything to help her.
A few minutes later Sasuke walks down the stairs and into the Uzumaki kitchen. Kushina had left early for a village council meeting. Naruko was at the table cleaning a few of her kunai, for some reason she liked to use flat bladed knives instead of the normal standard ones. "Where is breakfast Naruko?" Looking at the table Sasuke can tell that there had been plenty of food, but none was left now. He also knew that Kushina always made enough for everyone in the house, since she was the only one that cooked. This meant that Naruko must have eaten his meal too.
"Breakfast is for people who are up on time teme." Pocketing her kunai, Naruko got up from her chair and dragged the Uchiha to the front door. "Let's go, we will get you something on the way to the training grounds." Naruko slipped on her two inch heel shinobi sandals and let Sasuke get his men's sandals on as well. Taking to the rooftops, the two teammates stopped at a bakery on the way to let the late riser grab something to eat.
"Hurry up Sasuke, Kakashi-sensei will probably be late but I want to tune my shamisen for a bit." Naruko was standing behind Sasuke, her hands behind her back and leaning forward. The line in the small bakery was longer than normal. Looking around the blonde caught sight of the perfect reason for the long line, a hungry Hyuuga Heiress with a love of cinnamon rolls. Hinata was busy looking over the buns that had been selected by the staff and her face showed minor irritation. 'They probably gave her too many small ones.' Giggling, Naruko approached her friend and wrapped her arms around the blue haired girl leaning in to whisper in her ear, "You know, I bet you taste sweeter than those buns."
Hinata jumped in the blonde's arms and blushed violently. Looking back she puffed up her cheeks before stuttering out, "N-Naruko, p-please don't d-do that!" Smoothly sliding to her toes Naruko kissed the girl on the nose before letting go. The Hyuuga's blush only got worse before it settled down. Sasuke chose this time to walk up to the two and put his goods, bagels with bits of tomato in them, down on the counter and paying for both his bagels and Hinata's rolls.
"Hey blondie I thought you wanted to get going to the training grounds, and now you're hanging on your bedroom playmate like an oversized t-shirt." Sasuke said, bored and holding the box of buns for Hinata in his right hand. The two girls blushed and Naruko took a step back after giving Hinata a slight peck on the cheek. "You coming or not Naruko? I don't think Sakura, or Kakashi-sensei, will appreciate you skipping the test for a daylong quickie." This comment got the blonde moving, trying to take a swing at her adopted brother.
After returning to their rooftop route, the two young residents of the Uzumaki Compound found themselves at their assigned training field ten minutes after leaving the bakery. Naruko looked around, the grounds were simple; a couple dummies for shuriken and other thrown weapons, plenty of room with a couple different terrains. This was probably one of the better training grounds in Konoha. 'Probably for the last Uchiha, a gift from the kiss-asses on the council probably.' Naruko walked in a bit further and found a spot under a tree where she unsealed her shamisen and began to play as she waited. Sakura came out from one of the wooded areas further in the training field, she had gotten there about 20 minutes before her two teammates and chose to explore the area.
Kakashi strolled lazily into the field, his little orange book in hand, almost 3 hours late. They were supposed to be there at 5 but all of them had chosen to be on the late side, so instead of having waited for the full 3 hours, team seven had only waited about 2 and a half hours. "Today we will be testing just what you can do. If you fail, you go back to the Academy. To pass, you need to take one of these bells from me." Putting his book away as he finished Kakashi looked up at the three, "Oh and you better come at me with the intent to kill if you want to pass."
Chapter end.
Ending notes: Well, this is the end of my first step in my version of Naruko's life. Next chapter will be half Kushina's council meeting and half Team 7's test. I hope the chapter goes well. Please keep in mind, I am still taking PM's on the issue of pairings for Naruko. At this point my original plan was to make her focus on Kakashi, but I am currently thinking about making it more of a puppy crush. If I don't get any opinions I will be sticking with Kakashi.
Yoko related: The reason that both Naruko and Yoko call each other onee-chan is because they don't really know who would be the older between them as Yoko came into existence the same time as Naruko being born. No one has asked yet but I wanted to have it said before someone did. Yoko is not going to be a split personality in case anyone thinks that might be what I aim to do. Maybe in a filler chapter I will do something but for now, Yoko is just a facet of Naruko's chakra and emotions.
Age changes are in place too for a few reasons. I personally feel that in a time of "peace" like the one in canon Naruto would be met with a change in graduating processes for the ninjas, giving them more time in the Academy to learn what they need more and develop their own specialties. Because of this, I get to use a Sakura who is more helpful on missions than just stands there like a wall. She may not be Tsunade strong yet but she will be when the slug sannin returns to Konoha. The reason I want a healer Sakura at the start is because Naruko does not have Kurama sealed inside her so she won't have the regeneration factor provided by the fox. The age changes also allow me to have a Kakashi who isn't too old for Naruko, if that becomes the pairing.
