Staring into the mirror I was looking at Iruka from the waist up. I think his nose is wrong as all I see is the scar when I look at it, his skin was to white and my eyes were still purple, looking down I was unsure if his pants were dark green or dark blue.

Wishing for picture of him I changed it all.

I wonder how long I can hold this jutsu, could people tell I was not him easy? I will leave it up for as long as I can. I am almost out of time, four day's left of school and I don't know what to do without it.

Sitting in my window with my coffee and smoke I watched the road below when a kid looked up at me before giving me a second glance and looking down the road confused, is Iruka down there? With a smile I put down my drink in the window and landed on the ground, I moved as sneaky as I could along the roofs when I saw him, I hid behind a chimney and watched him walk away.

Lookout Iruka its Ava: the worst ninja, as I followed him down the road.

I just watched when he vanished making me look around the area fast, I saw him a few houses down and sped up and tried to stay at a good stalking distance when he did it again but I found him. I ended up stalking him back to the academy before he jumped into a window, after a few seconds I followed.

There he was leaning on a teachers desk with a smile and waited for me.

"Nice transformation, the nose is a little off." He said while tapping on his nose.

"So, I really am a bad ninja, you knew I was there?" I asked as I did the hand signs to fix my nose.

"Ya, but you did keep up fine." He said kindly. "You can transform and got the the body replacement down, but you still can't clone? got to figure out why." He said as he stood up, then bent over and wrote something down on paper.

"So today I wanna find out your elemental affinity." He handed me a tiny piece of paper. I just held it up in the air not knowing where he was going with this, he looked over at me. "You can get out of my form now."

"Naw, I wanna see how long it lasts." I mumbled as I sat on the long student desk, He looked happy with that.

I leaned back on my arms, scrunching the paper in my hand, after a small pause he looked at me and my hand like I should be doing something.

"Oh." I uncrunched my paper, and went to hand it back.

Looking a little annoyed he said. "You just push some chakra into the paper."

"Really." I looked at it. "Okay." It got really damp. "Ew." I dropped it. "What the fuck was that."

He laughed it was songful. "That means you are water affinity."

"Really! I love water." I had so much joy that I am water. Out of all elements they have here water was always the one I wanted, if not then wind.

I was so happy I jumped off the table and half hugged him in joy. He patted my back awkwardly, ah I am to close. "Sorry" I said while I bounced backwards and biting my lip. "I am just so happy to be water."

He was looking at me strange. "What?" I asked with confusion.

"I have just never seen me do that before, it is, odd."

Oh

"I forgot I was you." To make him uncomfortable, I leaned on the desk and winked at him. "Sup." as I gave him the head nod and making a silly flirt face. "How you doin?"

His eyes closed and a fake smile came across his face while he had an air of danger. "Well you are the hottest guy to ever flirt with me but we should get back to this." His face was getting a little red from anger but I was happy he gave me more emotion then he did at the start of all this.

"I have an idea, we will try a water clone tomorrow, maybe that is why you can't do a simple clone."

"A water clone, Is it different?"

"The water clone is different it can fight but it only has one-tenth of the original person's power, The range of the clone is limited, a regular clone is an illusion."

"Oh that is awesome." I said again sitting on the desk again, leaned back on my hands.

"But we will try it near water as it will help a beginner."

"Oh." I have not been near a decent pile of water since I was here however Guy did say there was some ponds I have yet to see, maybe we can go there.

"Well tomorrow we will start with a water clone, see if you can do that but today we are gonna try something outside." He sounded like a teacher, made me smile at him.

"Okay." I jumped up and followed him outside.

We walked outside when he came over placing a cloth over my eye's, it was nice to feel this close to someone as he tied it up behind my head. I adjusted it so I could not see. "You have a skill not a lot do, now its weak and pretty useless but give some time might become something." He backed up from me and I lost the direction he was in.

"Find me."

Understanding I cleared my mind and focused on his chakra. I could see it in my head, faint but it was clearly there, feeling far away and tiny I tried to figure out my range or direction but that is the point of this.

I tried to focus and find him but I was having issues as nothing was changing.

Focus more, where is he?

I walked around and spun in circles unsure of the main direction making me sigh.

This is hard.

I just continued to spin and take small steps, he made sure I could not hear him but that was good for this. After a minute or two I sat down making him make a disappointing sound.

I smiled.

I breathed in deeply and calmed down and just focused, I tried to push out my chakra but again doing nothing and it was useless. "Does that help?" He asked.

"Huh?"

"I can feel it when you push it out like that."

"Oh." I need to stop that. "No it does not, I will stop."

I cleared my mind and meditated on his blue, it took a while and I was unsure how long when I started to see what side of me he was on as he stopped moving during this long moment.

I pointed in the direction of nine o'clock. "No." I nodded and tried harder and I pointed at eleven, he made a noise. "Close but no." He started to move around again I think, I flopped on my back and pointed directly behind me. "Still a little off."

Now I made the the hmm sound. "How off am I?" He gave me some kind of measurement I never heard of before making me sigh again.

This time I got back on my feet and walked towards where I think he was. I started to chase him around the yard slowly like a crappy zombie with my arms out straight reaching out for him.

This is like hide and seek and tag all in one.

He stopped moving and I walked towards him carefully, I reached out to grab him but all I got was air. His hand grabbed my shoulder from my left. "Oh it is a bit off." But I was proud I got farther with this.

He moved around as I spun to stay on him and his blue was getting easier to see and the closer I got it would get slightly bigger. When I saw a small flash of kindness again, what is that? This is so confusing and new to me and I still had a depth perception issue with this.

We played this game for a while and I was getting better, even if I still was off. "You got so much better, keep trying, you could have a real prowess on your hands."

I smiled at him when he took off my blindfold blinking a bit at the sun. "That was fun."

We had some time left so he helped me aim with my kunai better but by the end my transformation was still holding and I headed straight for food forgetting about it.

I came across a cute food place built like the ramen place. They had the cutest small cakes on display, the menu was mostly fish but I wanted to try it.

"Iruka sensei." I ignored it. "Iruka sensei." This time I heard it, hmm is Iruka here?

I looked around, meat hanging from my mouth as I looked at three kids staring at me.

One kid was slightly creepy with glasses and a coat that blocked his face, next to him was a cute girl who looked scared with the cool eyes and I admired the way she wore her protector. Last was a boy with a cool coat and red marks as a tiny puppy sat on his head.

My eyes went from there faces to the cute dog startled at the strange place for one to be.

"Iruka sensei are you okay?" The girl asked in a shaky voice while staring at my face, oh shit, I was about to tell them I was not him but decided against it I want to see if I am any good at this so I swallowed me meat and gave his kind smile.

"Hey guys." When the dog made a noise and so did the kid under him, suddenly the creepy kid had a kunai to my throat so fast, the girl just looked between them scared.

That did not last long.

"Who are you, you do not smell like Iruka." The dog boy growled, ahh smell, I wonder if I could of confused someone if they had no dog

"He is not Iruka?" The girl asked quietly.

I was startled and slight afraid with the kunai to my neck.

I gave a small smile and calmly said. "Sorry, I was training with him earlier and wanted to see how long I could hold the transformation. I was gonna say something to you but I wanted to see if you could tell." I dropped the illusion at least it lasted a few hours.

"I am still a failed ninja, couldn't fool you for a second." I mumbled in my normal form hand behind my head.

He put his kunai back and backed back up to the group, they just stared at me. The boy with the dog looked proud, the girl looked amazed at her team and the other one.

Well, I just don't know.

I sat there unsure of what to say to them when the most beautiful woman showed up.

She had amazing long black hair, crazy red eyes but her outfit confused me. It was like she wrapped herself up in a scroll, as odd as it was it looked pretty amazing. I was feeling a little inadequate she was so pretty and I think my age.

She saw the whole exchange because she also looked at them proudly.

She looked at me with the same look as everyone else making me feel awkward as my face dropped and I turned back to my food.

She noticed and she decided to introduce herself to me making me look back at her with a smile "Kurenai Sarutobi." I looked back at her and happily gave her my name, smiling ear to ear.

She is kind, she then pointed to her students, Kiba, Hinata, and Shino.

We joked about my Transformation failure and that they were headed out to a mission when they spotted me. They did say that if it was not for the smell, it was pretty good.

I finished my food alone with a tint of happiness, she was nice and the kids are pretty good at detection, I hope I don't smell bad.

I woke up earlier today because we were meeting at one of the small lakes I heard about.

Passing through some training grounds with many young ninja's I did get lost and had to ask directions but I found it, the lake. It was beautiful but not a lake more like a big pond but it did look deep, grass surrounded it and it had a few small tree's were around, it was a charming area and I was all alone.

I took off my boots and stood knee deep in the waters edge, wanting to swim and contemplating if I should get my outfit wet or just stay like this.

I closed my eyes and enjoyed the quiet not knowing the hand signs for a water clone I looked down and wondered if I can walk on it.

I can't ditch any of my clothes so if I get wet who cares, bending over I pressed my hands to the calm waters and tried to regulate my chakra. I pushed my hands in but they stayed on the top of the water mostly making me make a small squeal in delight.

I moved back to be in the most shallow waters and lifted my left foot, I carefully pressed and it stayed there before I tried to add my right foot.

I was slightly off balance but I got them both up, I stood there trying to keep it with my hands out straight and my knees bent I am sure I looked ridiculous but I had the biggest smile on my face.

I was so glad the water did not move and I silently thanked Kuro again, without him I never would have thought I could do this kind of thing.

Now to walk!

Standing was easy compared to walking as I moved my foot I fell in, the water felt great in this hot sun but the shallow water sucks to land in as I moved back and tried again. I started trying in the deep area trying to pull myself up with my hands and knees before standing but again when I tried to walk I would just fall into the water, at one point I just floated and watched the sky.

I missed this, smiling I swam down to see how deep it goes, I could always swim with my eye's open so it was nice to see the small fish looking up I saw feet above me as I pushed off from the ground and flew to the surface.

"Iruka." I said catching my breath.

He smiled at me and I slowly pulled myself out of the water in front of him and tried to stand a little shaky, he stared at me surprised. "Don't look so impressed I can't walk on water, just stand." He made a noise and kicked the water to make a wave, knocking me back into the water.

I popped back up and laughed but so was he, I loved making him laugh. I gave a fake glare that was far from intimidating with a smile on my face. I climbed back up and he did it again.

We did this until I could stand through the waves.

Once I could stand he helped me walk while moving the water around, I held onto him like an old man on ice.

We laughed a lot and did for maybe an hour and I was getting better if it was not perfect by the end I could basically walk, sadly running will take some time. By the end we were both soaked.

We moved to the grass and sat down, I was fine being this wet but he was ringing out his clothes and fixing his hair, I just lied back and enjoyed the sun.

It was silent for a while so his voice startled me. "So, a clone." Making me sit up in excitement.

He showed me the hand signs and made a water clone himself before it poofed away and a splash of water hit the ground.

I watched my chakra and did the hand signs and then there was a second me standing next to the lake.

I got so excited and I jumped up as both me and my clone bounced on our toes, when I saw it act like me I stopped. "Man I look stupid." A snort came out of Iruka's mouth as he smiled and we both glared at him.

I had an idea so I sat down and my clone knew without me asking, she just walked behind me and sat down. "Cool." I said as she started to run my shoulders well making me moan a little. "Oh this is nice."

He stared at me interested and made his own water clone. "I never thought of that." We smiled at each other as his clone did what mine was doing. "It is nice."

Knock knock. "Hmmm." I rolled over in my bed. "Go away." I mumbled, putting my arm under the pillow and wiggling in. Knock knock. "Hmm, fuck off." The knocking got louder and I got out of bed angry as I walked to my front door and swung it open ready to glare at the person. It was so early in the morning the sun was not even close to rising.

No one was there making me growl a little. "What the fuck." I slammed my door and turned to go back to the bed when I slipped on a piece of paper, landing face first on the ground.

I sat up and looked at it. "Meet me in training zone 4." That is it? What the fuck is this bullshit. Well you are going to wait, I filled my coffee maker with water, I need coffee but for you I will only have one cup.

A paper flew into my into my window, I watched it float in the air and fall to the ground as I just stood there and stared at it.

Do I pick it up?

It is so far.

Sighing I stood up and and read it. 'Now!'

It is my last day for training, must be something special.

I sighed and got ready quick before jumping out my window and moved to find number four. I don't know where four is, I passed seven then eight as I moved to run the other way but then I found nine so fucking confusing.

I growled again, it is to early for this shit.

I sighed and closed my eyes and I barely saw his blue chakra making me yell out. "Fuck I am lost dude." Knowing he was watching me.

A second later I heard a noise I recognized making me jump backwards as a Kunai landed where I stood, He wants to fight?

Remembering what I was taught, hide!

I jumped up and ran into the more dense forest between 8 and 9 as fast as I could, Why?

I slid under some bushes and closed my eye's he was close and somewhere to the right of me, I actually recognized his chakra startling me.

"Since we are far away, I was gonna have you save a doll, but instead try and take my headband." He yelled, His headband?

He started walking farther away almost vanishing.

What do I do?

I need water.

I moved as quick and quiet I could go to find some water, I was out of range so couldn't see him anymore when I found some. It was the same size as the other one. It was so dark and I needed to get him near the water so I turned to go find him.

I stupidly attacked him head on, jumping down from a tree on top of him trying to kick him on the way down, he evaded easy. I jumped to kick him in the chest he blocked with his arm pushing my leg away.

I jumped backwards and got into one of the basic stances he showed me.

He was suddenly behind me, my eyes got big, in a split second I rolled away as he tried to slash at me with a kunai.

That was close.

I think I baited him enough as I ran towards the water making sure he could follow before I find a time to hide.

I can't fight him at all head on.

I made my way into a bush when I saw he was nearby but just standing there.

Can he see me?

I made a clone and sent it after him, it does not have range but neither does my sense, grabbing two kunai I snuck around while he fought my clone easy. Why wont he take it out?

I traded places with my clone as I slashed out my kunai in a swiping movement. He did evade it easy but looked a little shocked. While he stepped back I swiped out my leg to try and trip him while my clone went to grab his headband, he jumped away with a smile on his face as he destroyed my clone easy as it fall to the ground.

That was my only idea, I jumped back near the water and made a second clone, as it came out of the water he threw a kunai at me and ran towards me as I dodged it.

I shoved chakra into my feet pushing off at the correct time as I rammed into him, knocking us both into the dirt we slid for a bit. I was on top of him but he had arms in a tight grasp so I could not hit him. When we stopped sliding, I jumped to my feet quickly pulling out a kunai while my clone also jumped down with a kunai we both attacked him head on and he just vanished.

Confused after I could not see him with my eyes I closed them, my clone standing behind me back to back.

I see him, he was somewhere to the left of me, sending my clone to distract while I hid again, It was gone almost instantly.

I don't think I can do this.

I was way up in a tree watching his chakra move around trying to think of anything to do, He did stay in one spot a little to long, it gave me a weird feeling that I should not go there even if I don't know why.

How far can I see his chakra?

What do I do?

He has not even tried to attack me and I can't fight him, I stand no chance.

I grabbed kunai as I moved, throwing them towards his ball of chakra, I am sure I am not close to hitting him but I had to try something as after I tossed one I moved around with no real direction and tossed one again.

I made my way back to the pond and shakily ran across it as his chakra headed my way and I made two clones fast before he got here as one fell into the lake and the second crouched down next to me Kunai In both hands.

He landed on the shore and just looked at me as we both waved back. "Did any of them come close?" I asked.

He smiled at me. "Not even a little."

Then he ran at me quickly, me and my clone got into a taijutsu fight with him, he blocked every hit and barely tried to hit us but when he did they were painful.

He had me thrown across the water and I skipped like a rock as I tried to stay above the water before I splashed into the pond and quickly stood back up as my second secret clone grabbed his ankles and tried to pull him down while the first clone ran to kick him in the chest making his hand distracted and I quickly ran my ass towards them and went to grab his headband.

He was suddenly a log and all three of us paused mid move in shock, Looking again he was back hidden slightly in the treeline. I glared at where he was hidden while my one clone climbed out of the water and the second walked beside me.

We all started to run and parkour the trees around him in a circle while throwing kunai at him, he dodged most but with my aim it was easy. He was smiling but then I ran out of kunai.

I jumped up high in a tree while my clones ran around him, I sent them to grab some kunai. One tried to distract him as the other was going to collect but it failed, he took them both out so fast, I watched sadly as they exploded with water.

That was stupid. Note, leave kunai alone.

My chakra was low, three was my limit, I can't do anything else.

I stayed hiding in the trees for ages, moving from tree to tree quietly and watching his chakra so I don't get spotted.

I Don't know what to do.

The sun was rising.

Feeling tiered and done, I have no chakra, no kunai all I have left is taijutsu and I don't stand a chance.

Keep trying.

I looked over at the spot I was wary of earlier, maybe there is something there? I moved to the area carefully and quiet, watching his chakra to make sure he is not headed my way when I got far from him and I could not see.

What is here?

Looking around I found some kind of rope trap, I slowly disarmed it while looking at how to remake it. I got back to the water, with a small chance of him thinking I can make one more clone at least. I tried my best and put leaves all over it, it was the best I could do, the sun was almost all the way up by the time I was ready.

I went back into the middle of the pond and made some noises trying to not be obvious but loud enough for him to come. He was on the water almost instantly. We got into a fight as I tried to attack him while moving him towards the trap secretly.

Almost there, I hopped backwards trying to evade but most hit me, it was beyond obvious he went easy on me, I rolled under him as he tried to kick me and one more backward push he would be in the trap. Then he was about to step on it, when he smiled triggered the trap and jumped away. He was about 10 feet away when I just stood there in defeat.

So tired, it failed. That's all I got.

I stopped, my arms dropped to the side. I am beat, my first real fight and man, I suck.

We stared at each other for a moment and he also stood up straight understanding my mood as I looked up at the sky, the sunrise was over but there was a small bit of orange and I was giving up.

When Lee passed in my mind, he try's so hard, more people entered my mind and how important this stuff was to them.

It is a toy to me.

I looked over at this guy, he was going out of his way to help out someone he hates and I do nothing.

I may have a low amount of chakra, can not make a clone but I can move, no weapons, I can move.

For the first time in my life I felt the need to do better, try harder and give it my all.

I charged at him with all my strength and speed, surprising him with my random attack. I ran up and punched him in the face, he blocked my arm as I spun to his side and tried to elbow him, I was almost successful when he grabbed my arm and swung me forward.

I need to hit something he would not expect.

I ran at him the exact same way, he made a face at the same move. I bluffed that I was going to punch him in the face when I pushed all my chakra into my foot and slammed mine down on his. He made a pained face and I tried to uppercut him in his face, he dodged but just barely I almost hit him. Almost.

He went to kick me in the side making me jump backwards into a stance the biggest smile on my face, it was just a foot but I hit him.

While he looked a little frazzled I ran at him again going in for a high kick he ducked as I landed on the ground and spun into a low kick as he jumped up and punched me, I blocked it for the first time and I tried to punch him in the chest. He went to kick my side I tried to dodge but I was to slow and went flying again, getting back on my feet I took a stance, breathing heavily my body was so sore.

Push.

I ran to punch him in the face but decided to kick instead, twisting my body for my leg to hit his head, he ducked but grabbed my leg and basically flipped me onto the my back, I hit the ground hard and went sliding in the dirt, the wind knocked out of me.

I had to lie there for a moment, a silent moment and I started laughing.

Laughing so hard my hands were wrapped around my sore stomach, laughing so hard I could pee.

He walked into my eye line and looked down on my puzzled, a question on his face. I just looked back slowly starting to calm down. "I don't know why." I slowly rolled onto my knees trying so hard to stand up, I was shaking and still giggling.

He reached out a hand and pulled me up.

I was leaning on him as the giggling stopped. While holding me up, he started to walk me toward the food district. "You did well."

"Really? I never even hit you." I chuckled as I let him go and started walking on my own.

We walked in silence till he showed me the cutest little shop and took me inside when the smell hit my nose, a smell that is now my favorite in this world.

Coffee.

I noticed they sold something like apple strudel as we sat down to eat, after about three coffees I was still so tired. "How did no one ever tell me about this place." I joked, then realized he is the closet friend I have, that is kind of sad.

"Thank you for showing me this place, the coffee is great, so nice to have real coffee." I smiled up at him. "I will be here a lot."

"So can I ask why you woke me up and fought me?" He smiled, hand behind his head.

"Well I had to test you, to see if you are ready to be a Genin."

I almost spit out my sip of coffee. "A Genin?" Oh there is no way I can be a genin.

I looked at him with fear in my eyes. "Don't make me a genin, that was my first real fight, I can't be a genin." I almost was gonna stand up. My sleepiness was replaced with fear. "I can not be ready for that I have barely learned anything." I leaned on the table when I saw a couple people look over at us. Feeling awkward I calmed down and faced him, Whispered. "Sorry." To him and lite up a smoke to try and calm down.

"Actually, you have done very well, you have learned most basics, you can do the required Jutsu's." I can't be a genin, I can't fight.

"But you do need more work in taijutsu and aiming." I nodded.

"I am also far from flexible." Just pile it on. "and I fall on my face far to much." He was about to say something but interrupted. "Also, I did not even hit you."

He kind of smiled as he rubbed his foot. "Well you did almost break my foot."

I tried to calm down. "You can climb a tree and walk on water, also you did knock me down remember that." I took a couple quick sips of coffee.

"But, but I can't fight someone I could not really hurt someone, I know I would not hurt you." I whispered.

The air changed and he looked at me with understanding.

He told me about all the different areas that one could get into, Healing, making food pills, teaching they even have ninja mail people or I could suck it up and fight, most genin missions don't involve any fighting.

But I have to become a genin to start somewhere.

We sat there for a while he talked and I listened, he had some points, it was the correct thing to do.

I guess I am good enough even if I suck.

So by the end I was going to be a genin.