Chapter three: Ain't locked in cells no more,

Naruto yawned as he entered his cell, "Man rough day today," he said, gently he laid Yakumo on the bed, "So this is my-, well I guess it's our cell now, it's got a window you can see the volcano the prison is built over,"

"Ooh," Yakumo smiled in amazement as she saw the window,

"Yeah," he said scratching his head, "Uh that's my sandbag," he said pointing to a scuffed sandbag that was hung on the wall, "And the others," He gestured to the busted sandbags on the left of the scuffed sandbag, and completely untouched sandbags on the right of it, "Feel free to use it if you need to punch something, I sometimes use it to sleep on," he said,

"Wow," Yakumo crawled over and rubbed her hand against the scuffmarks, "You must hit it hard,"

"Probably too hard," Naruto sheepishly admitted, then he pointed over to another corner, it had a poster on the wall of some film he'd never seen, and nearby was a bucket filled with posters "That's my poster collection, that's kinda our version of T.V," he said walking over, and put another poster up, this one was from a film he knew people talked about a lot, so he assumed it was popular,

"Cool,"

"And finally, my bookcase," he said, he pointed to a shoddily made bookcase with cat faces were carved into it, it had a few books on it, "Feel free to read any, when your stuff gets here you can put them on it since it's like the only thing here you could use to put things on,"

"Great, anything I need to know?"

"Yeah, uh there's no toilet in here, you need to call a guard and they'll take you there," he said, "Showers are communal but stick close to me and nobody'll bother you," he stated, she frowned but nodded, "And finally there are some people you should stay away from, one is a lanky blonde-haired woman with a snake tattoo on her arm, another is this meek looking brown haired ponytail guy who wears glasses, and I guess you should stay away from O'Conner but he's just kinda boring,"

"Uzumaki," Naruto turned and saw the Male warden, "I see you've returned as usual,"

"Yeah, with a cellmate," Naruto said showing him Yakumo,

The Warden frowned, "You know male inmates and female inmates aren't allowed to share a room,"

"Yeah, but she seems kinda vulnerable, so I figured it'd be for the best," Naruto said,

The Warden rubbed his chin, "I see," he sighed, "Well I can see why you'd think that, and it does seem like she wants to ask something," then he pulled out a pen and paper, "Something that I'll bet is related to your mental health," the two watched him sit down on a chair that wasn't there a second ago as he watched them back,

Naruto groaned, "Just ask Yakumo, he already knows,"

Quickly she turned to him, "How did you turn my dream Genjutsu into a death montage? Kurenai wanted to be a mother so hers worked fine, but you somehow changed yours,"

Naruto shook his head, "Not exactly," he crossed his arms, "I want to die,"

The Warden gasped, "No," as he wrote everything down,

"You want to die?" Yakumo asked, "Why?"

Naruto shrugged, "Who knows?"

"You do," the Warden stated,

"I do what?"

"You know why you want to die," The warden stated,

"Do I?" Naruto asked with a smirk,

The warden sighed, "You're really trying to get out of explaining anything aren't you?" he said as he stood up, "Very well both of you are to report for daily therapy-,"

"Ooh sorry man I'm slammed," Naruto said as he mimed pulling a book out of his pocket and idly flipping through it, "I've got busting out of prison to do, my usual picking fights with everything that moves, Thursday's rummaging through garbage," Naruto said as he 'closed' the imaginary book, "I'm booked all century,"

"I'm busy too," Yakumo said drawing over the walls with something she'd hidden in her pockets, "Can I have art supplies?"

The male Warden looked at Naruto who just shrugged,

"We only have chalk here, is that alright with you?"

"Are they different colours?" She asked,

"Yes,"

"Ooh yes please," Yakumo asked,

"Alright I'll have someone check storage," he said,

"Uzumaki!" The female warden cried pushing past her twin, "You have a-," she looked at the girl scribbling on the wall behind him, "Is she allowed to be in there?" she asked her twin,

"Yes," he said with a nod,

"Who are they Naruto?" Yakumo asked,

"These are the twin wardens of this facility, Fel and Irma," Naruto said gesturing at the man then the woman, "Fel takes the place of the prison therapist due to his understanding of the human mind and his specialised Genjutsu,"

Fel smiled, "I hope you'll reconsider Yakumo, after all I believe that with my help you could become entirely reformed,"

Naruto pointed to the other one, "That's Irma, she's a powerhouse and handles the discipline of those who act out"

Irma grinned and flexed, "Yep strongest in the complex, don't act up or you and I will have a problem" she warned,

Fel tapped his sister on the shoulder, "Didn't you say something about Uzumaki having-,"

Irma's eyes went wide, "Oh yeah," She turned to Naruto, "Prisoner 540 you have a visitor," she opened the door and gestured down the hall, "You know the way,"

Naruto rolled his eyes, 'Wonder what Neko wants?' he thought, "I'll be back soon Yakumo,"

"Okay don't get lost," she smiled,

Naruto entered the interrogation room, "What's up Nek-" but Hiruzen sat in the centre of the room rather than the purple haired Anbu, "Oh sup old man?"

Hiruzen smiled at the young blonde who lazily entered the room and flopped down on a nearby chair, "Well since you decided to bring a new cellmate back here, I didn't have the chance to see you"

"Yeah, sorry I guess," Naruto said insincerely as he leaned back in his chair pushing it off the floor,

"It's fine my friend," he said, "You've heard about the young miss Inuzuka haven't you?"

"Yeah, Kiki's chose her new name, she looks good, happier too,"

Hiruzen nodded, "Oh I brought your new cellmate's things," he gestured over to a duffle bag behind him,

"Thanks" Naruto stood up and grabbed it dragging it closer to him,

"it's mostly board games and underwear,"

"Wasn't gonna look anyway"

"Good," Hiruzen nodded, "good,"

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"I've entered you into the ninja program" Hiruzen stated seriously,

Naruto waved his hand, "Pass"

"Naruto," Hiruzen sighed, "you're strong enough to fight a chunin, you break through walls for fun, I can't ignore that potential,"

"I'm a convict Hiruzen, I'm too dangerous to be out there"

"Bullshit," Hiruzen tossed several files onto the floor, "every time someone poses the slightest threat to the leaf, you escape and beat them down,"

"Wasn't my intention to fight for the leaf," he said standing up grabbing the bag and turning to leave, "And you can't prove nothing"

Hiruzen frowned, he didn't want to do this, but Naruto had forced his hands, he took a small book out of his pocket, flipped to a random page and read, "Kiba's been down lately" Naruto stopped in his tracks and turned with sheer horror on his face, "Which sucks cause he doesn't wanna hang out, I've tried cheering him up but he's not laughing at my jokes,"

Naruto charged at the old man and swung a pipe at him, which Hiruzen blocked, "I'm starting to wonder if I'm gay cause I like Kiba, a lot, but then again Hinata's pretty cute too, gah fuck I need to stop thinking so much about this," Naruto tried stabbing him but Hiruzen dodged it standing up, and flipped to three pages later, "Turns out Kiba (is that even hi- er her right name anymore?) thinks she's trans, it's a tough process to find out if you are and she's scared of her mum knowing but she needs someone to go with her, it shouldn't be me, I already wanted to- no. she's my friend and needs my help, I know her mum will overreact and think I put the idea in Kiba's head but I'll get my ass kicked by her when Kiba finds out if she's trans or not,"

Naruto's face turned red as Hiruzen flipped to a certain page that Naruto knew he couldn't let anyone hear, "Kiba is so pretty as a girl, did I know subconsciously that she was a girl? Is that why I thought she was prettier than the other kids? maybe it was just cause of who she always was? whatever it is she's super cute she hugged me for helping her she was so close and my chest felt warm I almost kissed her, is that weird? gah! what am I doing? she trusted me with all this crap and I go thinking about dates and stuff? it wouldn't work out anyway, I'm dodging Neko and the others, and Kiba needs someone stable-"

"Stop!" Naruto pleaded,

"Will you willingly join the program?" Hiruzen asked, "I bet Kiki would like to know how much you've thought about her,"

"You twisted old man!" Naruto growled, "Fine" he glowered, "I'll join the stupid academy,"

"Good man" The Third smiled tossing the book to Naruto, who started ripping it to shreds, "I wouldn't bother, Neko had it photocopied before I brought it to you"

"Sh-she what?"

"Well, we needed some insurance you'd actually do what we said," he held up a page, "here's one that talks about your dream date with her would go,"

Naruto gritted his teeth at Hiruzen, "You old fool!" he spat at the aged Kage as he made a dash to grab the page only to be sidestepped,

"Class starts bright and early Naruto, I'm sure Neko wouldn't mind escorting you" Hiruzen laughed,

Naruto punched the ground,

"We'll make a ninja out of you yet," Hiruzen said patting his head,

When Naruto got back to his cell he handed Yakumo the bag filled with her things and went to sleep... on one of his punching bags.

When the morning came Naruto was woken up, and dragged into the shower room, in the shower Yakumo had done as he'd instructed and stayed close to him, and as usual nobody bothered him,

Naruto pulled on his new orange jumpsuit and frowned, since he would be part of the graduating class off Ninja he wondered what would happen to Yakumo now,

Regardless Naruto shoved his large adjustable wrench and his pipe down his back, his kunai in his pocket, and gave a grin to his reflection in the mirror before brushing his teeth,

As he collected a punching bag Yakumo stood with him to wait for his pick up,

Other prisoners watched from down the hall, but Naruto knew they wouldn't try anything,

The first time they'd tried against Neko alone most of them were thrown off the sides of the bridge, the rest begged for mercy and were thrown back into their cells, and when the bridge did start moving form the other side of the volcano to this one they saw Neko alone standing on the edge,

They moved back, not because they had planned to escape if it wasn't her, but to show they had no intentions of such before,

When the bridge connected the prison and the land Naruto slung the punching bag over his shoulder and started walking past Neko, only for her to raise a piece of paper,

Naruto rolled his eyes, "What?" she held out her hand for him to take it, he looked at it for a second, "you can't be serious,"

"I wish Ki-," she read loudly,

Naruto grabbed her hand, "Fine" he growled,

She raised another hand for Yakumo, "You want to watch him suffer?"

Yakumo smiled, "Can I?"

With the two of them taking so much joy in his misery Naruto couldn't even read his book as they walked over the bridge, waited for it to finish retracting before they continued on their way to school,

And unfortunately for the blonde, they arrived with other parents, so there he was, full convict clothes with Yakumo, holding onto the hand of a woman in full anbu gear, standing outside waiting for the school to open,

And he was being stared at, he tried to glare at one of them, but Neko twisted his arm, "Now Naruto, be nice," she stressed,

"Why would I?" he asked, "I beat these people up on a daily basis,"

Neko shook her head at him, "Oh Yakumo do you remember how to spell your name?" she asked turning to the girl holding her arm,

Yakumo pressed a finger to her chin, "Mmm," She nodded after a few seconds, "I think so," she said,

"Here," Neko gave her a piece of paper and a pen, "Try writing it on the dotted line,"

"Okay," Neko spun Naruto around and held the paper onto his back as Yakumo wrote her name on it,

"I'm dooone," Yakumo showed the paper to Neko who looked it over,

She nodded, "Good job Yakumo, you're so smart," she said patting her shoulder,

Naruto pulled the knife out of his pocket and stared at the arm held by Neko's grasp for a second, after a few seconds he shook his head and stuck his knife back into his pocket,

"Did you realise that I'd block it?" Neko asked him,

"That, and that even if you didn't I wouldn't get far with my blood leaking everywhere," he stated,

Soon the doors of the school were open and Naruto came face to face... with an old friend,

Iruka smiled kindly at all the gathered students today would be the last day he'd see them, "Alright every one gather rou-," he stopped, and his jaw dropped, apparently Sarutobi hadn't mentioned he'd be getting an extra student today, Iruka walked out the building, past his students and stared,

Naruto felt guilty, those kind yet stern eyes were on him, just like he'd seen them years before, less angry this time,

Naruto wondered briefly what if he'd listened to him back then, what would his life be like if he'd heeded the advice Iruka constantly gave him,

"That is you right Naruto?" Iruka asked,

"Yeah, outta prison but not outta orange," he said,

Iruka gave him a sad smile and placed his hand on his shoulder, trying to comfort him somehow, "Somehow, I always knew you'd be here while I was instructing,"

Naruto wanted to brush him off, give him a snide remark, like he did everyone else, but he sighed, "Like I'd even listen to anyone else," he stated, "I barely listened to you,"

Iruka laughed, though judging by the tears in his eyes Naruto doubted it was out of joy, 'Probably feels guilty for me, thinking something like, if only I'd have made him listen,' The guilty pit in Naruto's stomach grew, 'I'm sorry Iruka,'

Iruka realised Naruto wasn't standing alone, "Oh, excuse my manors, I'm Iruka," he said,

"Neko," His anbu keeper said with a nod, "And this is Yakumo,"

Yakumo grinned and waved at him, "Hiiiii,"

"She hasn't been around people for a while," Neko noted,

"Ah I see," Iruka smiled, "It's nice to meet you Yakumo, and you Miss Neko?" he asked, "Sorry I don't know how to address you, this is the longest I've ever spoken to an Anbu member,"

"It's quite alright we're just here to drop Naruto off, then we're buying clothes," Neko stated,

Yakumo gave her an odd look, "Aren't you taking me back to prison?"

"No," Neko said, "I've adopted you," she said showing Yakumo the paper she'd wrote her name on, and yes, it was a fully filled out adoption paper "Or kidnapped you, depending on whether your adoption is legal,"

"Whuh?" Yakumo's head hurt,

"Bye." Neko leaned in, pressing the lip part of her mask to Naruto's forehead somehow leaving a purple lipstick mark, then she dropped a smoke bomb and vanished with Yakumo,

Iruka just smiled, "Well we'd better get into class," he said, he looked at Naruto's smiling face, an expression the blonde quickly schooled and replaced with his usual bored one, 'Thanks Neko' he thought, 'That girl isn't the type who could deal with prison,' the only reason she'd been taken there was because Naruto assumed he'd be there to protect her,

He'd already been planning to break her out, but now he didn't have to,

He shook his head as Iruka ushered him into the classroom,

Naruto stood behind the teacher as he was being introduced, "This Is Naruto Uzumaki," Iruka stated, "By order of Lord Hokage he's been entered into the Ninja program, yes that means two of you will be on a team with him," Iruka stated, "Anything you'd like to add Naruto?"

"Not really" Naruto said,

"Okay, normally I'd assign you a seat but.." he gestured to the class, "There are no seats left,"

"I'll just stand here I guess," Naruto walked into the corner near the windows, he saw familiar people looking at him, From his old buds to the people he'd met yesterday and couldn't remember the names of, Pink, Femboy, and Ponytail,

He noted the glares from Pink and Femboy, yeah he remembered punching one of them... both of them? okay he didn't remember punching either of them, but he probably had,

While ponytail gave him a small smile, it was. . . friendly of her, he turned and stared out the window, yeah he was already bored,

Of course he'd never admit that he took in every word of Iruka's speech to the class, and then when the teachers came in, and receiving a very pointed glare from... Ebony redeyes,

A glare he returned, He didn't remember her name, but he remembered what she'd done to Yakumo, if he ever got the chance he'd crush her, fortunately he was likely never going to see her again,

"Naruto," Iruka spoke, Naruto broke the staring contest with Kurenai off, and looked at his oldest. . . friend? Naruto felt like that appropriate, even though it caused him more guilt to realise how he'd worried his friend,

"Hinata Hyuga, and Kiki Inuzuka," He announced,

Naruto frowned, 'I should've seen that coming,' he thought, 'The second Hiashi found out the kid who saved his daughter and clan was being entered into the ninja program he probably ran straight to Hiruzen to request me on his daughter's team,' he nodded, that made sense, 'And I'll bet Tsume did the same, only with more demanding,' It made sense, but it also meant,

"-And your sensei will be Kurenai Yuhi," Iruka announced,

Naruto looked at Ebony Redeyes and noticed she was as shocked as he was, 'Alright, the old man has put me on a team with two girls he knows I like, and a woman he likely expects I hate,' he thought as Kurenai gathered her team, they walked through the schools halls silently,

OCTOPUS-The end-OCTOPUS

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