Rewind of the guardian chronicles (Konoha x Naruto)

by PuteriRaina

Uzumaki Naruto was going a trip camp. She have a boyfriend which be Todoroki Shoto. In the break of their training, Naruto and her classmates were getting a mysterious letter. It had take them to a room where they meet Konoha shinobi. What will Naruto do? What will their reaction when they find out that Naruto have a boyfriend?

3. Chapter 1

["That is a waste of a wonderful Quirk."]

"What the hell is a Quirk?" Kiba asked knitting his eyebrows together. He darted his eyes between them and Naruto took a deep breath before glancing at Midoriya who seem understand of her situation. She then look at Katsuki who assured her make her smile. Then she look at Momo who also share a same as Katsuki and Midoriya. Shoto had hold Naruto's hand as he rubbed her hand softly showing his support make Naruto smile. Since she didn't tell her classmates and Aizawa about her identity as shinobi who same as them, she has to explain it. The whiskered teen took a deep breath and exhaled as everyone from Konoha except Suna furrowed their eyebrows together.

The blonde then decided to lean her head on Shoto's shoulder before speak. "It is basically another term for Kekkei Genkei."

"Why is there another term for Kekkei Genkei?" Sakura asked. She furrowed her eyebrows together and glanced at Sasuke who only frowned and shrugged before looking back at her. The whiskered teen raised a single eyebrow while everyone twisted their heads at her. Their eyes shone with curiosity which make the whiskered teen scowled.

She exhaled. "Are you really asking me? I thought that you are supposed to be the smart one." Her word had made Lida and the other look at Sakura with a blank expression as they can feel that Sakura was the one who hurt Naruto. They already figure it out by Naruto's tone and judging by Shoto's expression, it seems that they were right.

"Naruto, I can't read minds and you are apparently living there!" Sakura reminded her. Her eyebrows twitched and her hands were bawled into a fist while the whiskered teen closed her eyes. Several eyes from Konoha stared at her while class 1-A seem concern at her. Only Hinata-chan stared at her with lips twitching into a smile. Naruto forgot that Hinata-chan never really liked Sakura. She just slumped her shoulders. Shoto just look blank on his face yet his hand clenched in fist tightly. Naruto can feel that Shoto angry and she decided to let him be. The whiskered teen shook her head. "What? Didn't you always say that you have better grades than me? Why don't you figure it out if you are such a smarty-pants?"

"Naruto, you know that you don't mean—"

"Oh, I really mean that." Naruto seem indifferent when she look at Kakashi as everyone shifted their gaze at her. "Why wouldn't I mean it? Sakura always talked about how much smarter she is from me, so if she is such a smarty-pants like you praise her then she can fucking figure it out for herself. Why would she need to asked me when she can figure it out since she was smart. Just because I stay in Japan doesn't mean that I have to explain everything! Figure it out by yourself!"

Kiba frowned. "I know that I call you a bitch but that is harsh even for you. You are supposed to be the cheerful one here, not the emo one here! That is Sasuke's job!"

"Inuzuka Kiba, you really have nerve to call me a bitch in front of my grandmother, my aunt, my uncle and my half cousin. You think that I will be a same person just like before after my battle with Sasuke? And you think that I will be good with that Haruno bitch after she showing her true colours three years ago?! You interfered something that you should not, asshole! You had digging yourself into a grave!" Yelled Naruto angrily make Kiba shocked.

The people from Konoha were shocked to heard that. "What are you talking about? You have a family? That's no way. You was an orphan, Naruto!" Said Ino which make Naruto glared at her which make Ino flinch.

"Oh, yeah? That's right. I was an orphan in the beginning but now... I already know who is my parents and found my father's family who stayed here. So, I had my family here. They were here already so prepared of yourself!" Said Naruto coldly.

Kiba seem sweating when he saw Katsuki's dark expression as he glared dangerous on him. "You dared to called my cousin a bitch, mutt dog? You think that you are a good enough to said bad about her? You are such a busybody! This is a real Naruto. The person you see in three years ago just a fake ones! You think that Naruto will be always cheerful person, huh? She just put a mask to prevent anyone to see a real her. Just like Akane said, you didn't know anything about NARUTO!" Yelled Katsuki in anger tone.

Konoha were flinched in feared when they look how scary of Katsuki except Sasuke, Hinata, Gaara, Neji, Tenten, Rock Lee, Might Guy, Kankuro, Temari, Jiraiya and Tsunade,

Naruto just silent as she didn't want to interfere with Katsuki's anger. Shoto also silent as Naruto know that Shoto angry at Kiba. Well, Shoto didn't like them except Tsunade, Jiraiya, Shizune, Hinata, Gaara, Kankuro, Temari, Neji, Rock Lee, Tenten and Might Guy. Because Naruto had tell him about Team Guy, Hinata, Tsunade and Shizune while Shoto already meet Gaara and his siblings when they were come in Japan to meet Naruto.

[Naruto slid her orange hoodie over her head as her neighbour marvelled over the Villain.]

The television roared to life and it was not long before the screen revealed a slightly younger version of Naruto. The chunins, Sasuke and their teachers as well as the Third Hokage blinked. I guess they are surprised that I'm not jumping up and downwards with excitement. The large villain would have made her pretend to smile and act happier.

"When you mentioned Villains, what do you mean?" Ino asked, furrowing her eyebrows together. "Are we talking about Villains like those in books or are we talking about something else entirely?"

Naruto sighed. "We are talking about people who break the law and use their abilities without the permission of the government. It is actually quite a bigger deal then it should be."

Aizawa glanced at them for the longest time and curled his lips into a frown. Curiosity shone through his eyes as his eyes lingered on the Hitai-ate that could be seen on various parts of the Konoha and Suna shinobi. He probably knows that there is something up. She exhaled and slumped against the couch as Shoto sigh.

"You come from a place where Villains don't exist. Am I right, Naruto?" Aizawa replied as he look at his student. Aizawa understand that Naruto seem worry if Aizawa changed his mind about her. Aizawa sigh as he need to assure her that he didn't care about her identity because he care of her as a person.

Naruto seem know what Aizawa said by a silent look from his expression make her felt touched and grateful at her teacher. She really care and adored her teacher.

"Villains are more complicated in our part of the world." Naruto admitted. "We see the world in shades of grey instead of black and white like heroes and villains do."

[She watched as the Villain wreaked havoc in the train station. The building cracked, sliding down till it crashed hard on the streets. The civilians gawked and whispered to each other, their eyes never straying from the Villain in front of them. There were a couple of girls in the front, cheering and giggling as a couple of heroes stopped the next block of broken building from crashing down on the ground.]

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow at her. "You didn't yell at them about having some dignity?"

"Nara Shikamaru, do you think that I will be a same person like three years ago?! After my fight with Sasuke, you think that I will going to yell at them just like what I did to Sasuke's fangirls at the academy? I'm not a same person! Naruto you see in three years ago just a fake! The person you saw in the screen right now was a true me! I had value my life! I'm not going to losing my ears because of those fangirls!"

Her words had make Shikamaru flinched as he wonder why he asked her about it. Narumi seem notice something from Naruto make her growled in annoyance. "Naruto, did something happen in academy that you have deal with fangirls? You know that you can tell me, right?" Asked Narumi softly as she look at Naruto.

Naruto just silent as she wonder how her grandmother can figure it out. But then again, she know what job of her grandmother. "I hate that you can figure it out, Narumi-Obacchan. To tell you a truth, I had got pummelled by Sakura because Shikamaru push me and Sasuke to kiss me. It was just an accident yet they hitting me for kiss Sasuke. It's not my fault that I kiss Sasuke, Narumi-Obacchan." Said Naruto as she look down with upset face.

She didn't admit that she got hurt for those accusation on her by stole Sasuke's first kiss. Shoto had notice of her hurt expression make him clenched his jaw as he glared at Sakura make Sakura gulped in feared.

Shoto growled in anger. "You bitch! How dare you hitting Naruto just because Sasuke's first kiss! It was just an accident! Can you see the situation?! The person who pushes her was Shikamaru! Shouldn't you be hitting him, huh? How dare you blame Naruto when she not doing anything!"

"I know but I can't help that! She stole Sasuke's first kiss!"

Katsuki then growled danger which make Sakura shiver in feared when she saw Katsuki's dangerous glare. "I will smack on your face right now! Don't you hear what Shoto said just now? IT WAS AN ACCIDENT! DO YOU THINK THAT NARUTO WILL KISS YOUR SASUKE? WHY WOULD NARUTO KISS A PERSON THAT SHE SAW AS A BROTHER FIGURE? WHAT PART YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND, HUH? YOU'RE SUCH A BUBBLEGUM BITCH!"

It makes Sakura flinched as she scared at Katsuki's rage.

[Two years ago, a sight like this would have caused her to jump in glee and clapped her hands in excitement. A part of her felt the urge to do it but Naruto held herself back. It was already bad enough she was late for class, if she spent anymore time marvelling about these Quirks then that homeroom teacher was going to scold her so badly.]

Sero sigh as he can understand of Naruto's situation. "Well, I can't say anything as I know what you have get through in your life, Naruto."

"Glad that you understand me, Sero. Well, in a truth, it was probably cool in the first year but I have been living in Japan for a whole three years right now." Naruto pointed out. Kakashi and Sasuke blinked at this piece of information while the other members in Konoha jerked their heads at her. Hiruzen frowned and paled slightly as he look at Naruto even he know that Naruto found her family from her father's side. "It kind of gets boring because it is happening a lot these days."

The Third Hokage cleared his throat. "Why are you in Japan and not Konoha? And how did you even know about it?"

"You should ask Tsunade-sama about the reason I'm not there." Naruto retorted and closed her eyes as she leaned herself into Shoto's shoulder while everyone blinked and knitted their eyebrows together. Sasuke frowned and stared at her while Hinata threw a glare at Sasuke and Sakura. "And the book is probably going to reveal the truth cause it is written in my point of view. I'm sure I'm going to think about it at one point."

Choji frowned. "I'm more curious to know...Why do you care about being late? You were always late in the Academy."

"I was late 95% of the time." Naruto corrected.

Hinata sighed. "You know that it is close enough, Naruto-chan."

"But if we were looking at the context of the sentence then we know that I'm right, Hinata-chan." She observed. The other members of Team Eight alongside Team Ten and the Suna siblings blinked while Kakashi sighed and the Third Hokage shook his head. Tsunade only frowned and rubbed her jaws together. Tenten and Rock Lee were snorted as they understand her while Neji just sigh like Hinata. Might Guy seem amused at Naruto. "But well I don't like being called out by the teacher."

Katsuki eyed her. "Because you were acted as a delinquent."

"I'm truly innocent in the beginning until the book proved that I'm guilty." Naruto retorted. "And if I was acted as a delinquent then I guess that I do it well. Same goes to you, Katsu-nissan."

Katsuki's eyebrows twitched before he sigh in defeated. "I guess that you're right. You said that because of Midoriya, right Whiskers?"

"Yeah, right. That's because you call Midoriya a nerd when actually you are the bigger nerd than him." Naruto pointed out. Mitsuki coughed while Narumi nodded as everyone else only knitted their eyebrows together. They were playing that scene from one year ago which meant it was around that time when that teacher of hers convinced her to do the entrance exam.

Kiba eyed her. "Your cousin was...a nerd?"

"You might have a mouth that could put your mother to shame but Katsu-nissan has more brains than you are." Naruto said sweetly. Katsuki snorted while Shikamaru and Choji stared at her with wide-eyes. Hinata sighed as she shook her head at Naruto while Narumi and Mitsuki seem frown as they stared at Kiba. Naruto can guess that they confuse but she won't said anything. "At least, he still respects his mother. Unlike you." Said Naruto as she look coldly at Kiba when she remember of his mother and his sister who seem hurt by him who follow his father's attitude. Kiba winced as he avoid from Naruto.

[Still, she couldn't help but asked:

"What happened?"

Her neighbour still had his eyes locked on the criminal. "He tried to steal someone's bag and went out of control when the police cornered him."]

"Isn't that the day when made her debut?" Izuku asked leaning his body forward as the screen revealed Kamui trying to stop the Villain. His green eyes flickered to Naruto and the older boy blinked before offering her a tiny squeak as he feel embarrassed. The whiskered teen sighed. "I remember how Kamui got really upset with what she did."

Ashido sighed. "He might have been upset but the gossip columns claim that they might be dating now!'

"They are never going to reveal whether or not they are dating." Naruto shook her head as Hagakure bobbed her head in agreement. Ino and Sakura blinked and blinked while Hinata quirked her lips slightly. "No one has ever seen Kamui without his mask and he knows that his ranking depends on his popularity and those fangirls will leave him, the moment he reveals that he is taken."

Kakashi blinked. "Why would it—"

"It is almost a popularity contest," Naruto pointed out. Several people bobbed their heads and the whiskered teen didn't miss the way that Shoto stiffened slightly or the little scowl on his face before reverting to a stoic expression. Naruto sigh as she guess why Shoto reacted like that because of his father. "A stupid popularity contest because there are certain heroes that shouldn't be heroes."

Gaara frowned. "What do you mean?"

"There are some heroes who just give you bad vibes." Naruto answered. "Or they swear and throw temper tantrums like a certain someone I know. Y'know they are the type of people who will scare little kids... The example was Katsu-nissan."

"I don't throw temper tantrums, Whiskers!" Katsuki growled in annoyance.

Narumi sighed. "And you were an angel growing up."

"Wow, Narumi-obaachan seem agree with that."

Mitsuki sighed. "Not only her, I also have a same thought."

[That's all? Naruto glanced at her watch, eyebrows scrunched together as the watch revealed she had only twenty minutes to get to class on time. Was it really worth it? The man was going to be furious over the fact Naruto dared to bring a hoodie to school even though he told her not to do it. Besides, it wasn't like she made it a habit to be late every day and compared to some of her classmates, she was an angel.]

Sakura stared at her for the longest time. "You? An angel?"

"Oh yeah I'm the perfect, little obedient student." Naruto answered, shrugging her shoulders before she leaning again on Shoto's shoulder. "I learnt from the best teacher's pet: you."

Midoriya leaned closer to Katsuki as he understand of Naruto and whispered. "I can guess that girl was the person who cause on Naruto's suffering, Kacchan."

"You think that I don't know that, Deku? That bubblegum bitch will pay for what she did to Naruto and I won't let her get away from that." Katsuki grunted angrily make Midoriya sigh as he bobbed his head agree with Katsuki. Midoriya also feel a same as Katsuki but he was good control his anger. Midoriya was really care of Naruto. When he saw how Naruto get treated almost badly by those Konoha, it make him angry and want them pay for what they did to Naruto.

Naruto sigh as she heard from Katsuki and Midoriya. She knows how worry of them toward her.

["You can do it, Kamui!" The fangirls cheered as the wooden hero dashed through the water rope made by the other hero. He looked almost kind of cool, not as cool as her but Naruto would admit the suit was amazing. A quick glance to her side and Naruto was taken back by the sight of one of her classmates.]

Kirishima glanced at her before he smile agree with Naruto. "Well, you are right about that, Naruto. You are the coolest girl. The way you fight really inspired us, Naruto."

"Thanks, Kirishima. You can do a same thing as I do. Actually, all of you can do like me, you know." Said Naruto with a small smile as she look at her classmates. Her classmates seem beamed up in happiness when they heard of her words.

Sakura eyed her. "You still have an ego, Naruto! How can you think that you are even cooler?"

The happiness had gone quickly when they heard of Sakura's word. Their face were blank in their expression especially Lida. Naruto just sigh tiredly to handle a bitch like Sakura and Ino. Those two bitches never learns the situation and dare to said at her in a wrong time. The growl had become intense and scarier which make Sakura gulped in fear when she saw a murderous look from Katsuki, Shoto, Kirishima, Kaminari, Momo, Jirou, Lida and Asui while the annoyance look from Midoriya, Mineta, Ochako, Tokoyami, Shoji and Mina. Even so, Naruto quickly prevent them from lashing out on Sakura. "You really don't know how to read the situation, aren't you Haruno Sakura? If I have an ego, how about you? You are a bitch who think that she the better than anyone just because of the exam!"

Sakura growled. "Naruto! What the hell—"

"I will smack your face right now but I don't feel like it! So, you better shut up right now or do you want Katsuki and Shoto handle you? I will glad to let them do that. Or maybe my grandmother can do it." Said Naruto sweetly in annoyance make Sakura pale when she heard it. She looks at Narumi who have a dark on her face make her scared. Lida seems satisfied to see that expression before continue reading it. Naruto just shook her head anyway.

[Green hair? Who did she know have green hair? Naruto would be a liar if she said that she knew all of her classmates. She made it a point not to socialize too much with them. They were nice people, don't get her wrong but Naruto could see they had a habit of discriminating one of her classmates because of his lack of Quirk.]

"Wait, why the hell would they discriminate someone for not lacking a Quirk?" Kiba asked, knitting his eyebrows together. He darted his eyes to the blond-haired girl, who only stared at the screen with blank eyes. "It is really rare to find someone that has a Kekkei Genkei! I mean the only people from Konoha that have Kekkei Genkei are only Sasuke and Hinata."

Katsuki sigh as he know about Naruto. Yet he felt so annoyed at Kiba. "You should know that we are staying in different place. Why should you surprise about it when you know that we are different power."

It make Kiba silent as he felt that he was an idiot asking that. Naruto just rolled her eyes at Kiba before focus on the screen.

[Blue eyes widened when she realized who the bouncing classmate.]

Everyone blinked as the screen zoomed in to show a younger Midoriya. It could be seen by everyone that the boy was bouncing up and down with hearts in his eyes. The younger version of herself just stared at Midoriya like she wanted to be anywhere but near him. Sometimes I admired him and sometimes I just really want to smack some sense into him. Naruto sighed as she shook her head at him.

"Wait, you are also Quirkless?" Uraraka asked, knitting her eyebrows together. "But if you are quirkless, then how you have a quirk, Deku?"

Midoriya seem sweat when Uraraka asked him. "Maybe I accident active it. I just don't know that I have a quirk." His word seem not satisfied Naruto and Katsuki but she was sure it will be revealed it later.

"You know, it is kind of weird." Naruto commented. Everyone blinked and twisted their heads around to stare at her while the blond-haired girl looked up at the ceiling as Shoto looked at her with a curious eye. "If you go to Konoha then you get bullied for having a visible Kekkei Genkei but if you go to Japan then you are practically treated normally and vice versa."

Hinata nodded while Sasuke inspected her but the blonde only turned away from him. She noticed that Shoto scowled at Sasuke make Naruto calm him down which she did. Shoto seem relax himself make Naruto giggle before looking back at the screen ignore Sasuke who stare at her again.

["Your punishment is..."

The tense atmosphere changed to a comedic atmosphere as a giant blond-haired heroine smashed her leg onto the villain's chin. Silence reined throughout the street as both pedestrian and heroes tried to understand what just happened. Blue eyes just turned completely blank, not revealing to the world about the humour she found in this situation.]

Everyone from Konoha chuckled. It was kind of funny. She was going to chuckle when the screen did a close up on Kamui. The hero had his shoulders slouched as if there were dark storm clouds floating above them. She could only sighed and the Hokage cleared his throat.

"Naruto, do you want to tell us why you are being like this? I know that you already meet your family here but how come you get to the Japan?"

Naruto sigh tiredly as Shoto comfort her. The word might not have been said but the whiskered teen could practically hear it coming out of his mouth. She only shoved her hands into her skirt pocket as she let Shoto comfort her as she grunted lowly while Sasuke and Sakura exchanged furrowed eyebrows. Kakashi only knitted his eyebrows together and the blonde exhaled.

"If you want to know what my problem is then I'm sure that the book will talk about it." Naruto declared. "But since you really want to know what the root cause, then you can ask Sasuke or Hinata-chan. They both knows very well what is my real problem anyway."

The Third Hokage darted his eyes to Hinata. "Hinata?"

"I can't talk about it w-without getting angry, Hokage-sama." Hinata declared as her pale lavender eyes narrowing slightly at Sasuke and Sakura. Sasuke only winced slightly while the pink-haired girl clenched her jaws together. "But I can tell you that Uchiha-san is a cruel little boy, who is no better than his brother."

"Hyuga!" Sasuke growled. Shoto scowled at him as Naruto held him from lashing out at Sasuke as she know how much anger that Shoto have toward Sasuke.

Hinata stared at him with eyes radiating with coldness. "You think you are better than Itachi? That you are different from him? You are no better than him because just like he hurt you! You hurt Naruto-chan! If you want me to take those words back then I won't do it."

"Kakashi?" The Third Hokage asked. The silver-haired man blinked and looked away from the television screen to focus on the deceased man. His single eye leaked with guilt which make Naruto grunted in annoyance as she dislike Third Hokage asked Kakashi. "What happened after I died? How did Naruto end up like this? And would someone explain why Naruto went to Japan?"

Narumi look at Naruto as she remember of what she told her and then looked at Sasuke. Narumi seem can't angry at Sasuke for some reason. "Naruto did tell me about what happen to her after her battle. It seem like someone had make change her personality when she come to Japan. Thank goodness that she found someone that can make her happy and not going to that state she get through it."

"Kakashi?" The Third growled.

Her former teacher sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "You aren't going to like what happened but you have to understand that I can only do so much when it comes to Sasuke. If anyone here is at fault then it should be Sakura."

"What?" Sakura yelled. "Me? Why?"

Kakashi shrugged. "You were the one that knew Orochimaru bit his neck and you are the one that spends the most time with Sasuke. Naruto has her own problems to deal with, but if she knew Sasuke had problems then she would have told me. You did not. You were also the one that visited Naruto while I was out doing missions."

Sakura stared at him for the longest time in disbelief while Naruto raised a single eyebrow at Kakashi. Kakashi thought that she will believe in him when Sakura will told him when Sasuke the one told her to kept a secret? She want to said that but she had to hold it knowing that was not time for her to lashing out.

Shoto notice that as he hugging her shoulder to calm her make Naruto felt grateful at him.

[She did feel sorry that someone took away his spotlight.

"Gigantification, huh? She looks like she will be popular, and it is an amazing Quirk," Naruto blinked and robotically turned her head to her mumbling classmates. Blond eyebrows scrunched together as the boy jolted down a couple of notes. "But thinking about the damage to the city that will go hand in hand with that, its use might be limited."]

Aizawa nodded. "That's a very good analysis."

"That is only the beginning," Naruto and Katsuki said in unison. The two teens exchanged glance before they snorted together.

Hinata tilted her head. "The two of you have the same mannerism and Bakugou-kun, you almost look like Naruto-chan for a moment there."

"Don't compare me with him/her!" The two teens barked.

Hinata and Midoriya exchanged glances before looking back at Naruto and Katsuki. Midoriya just snorted while Hinata only shook her head in amusement.

[Words began appearing out of her classmate's mouth as he continued to deeply analyse what just happened. The

more and more Naruto heard, the larger her headache became. For a brief moment she contemplated about leaving her classmate to himself and just start heading back to their classroom.]

The television screen played the audio of Midoriya mumbling his analysis to them. I think he does this so much that I have now the ability to tune out his analysis. Naruto closed her eyes and let out a little yawn. She flickered her eyes to Midoriya, who covered his face and sunk even lower in his seat as more and more eyes turned to look at him.

"Don't you ever feel thirsty?" Kaminari asked, gawking at him. "And how can you analysis that quickly?"

Naruto snorted. "Don't underestimate the power of a Hero Otaku, Kaminari. You should know him since we're classmate." Kaminari seem embarrassed as he apologetic toward Midoriya which he accept his apology.

"Your father was also have the same habit." Narumi agreed as she smile bitterly. Naruto sigh as she understand of her feeling that she not meet her father. Even she was same as Narumi.

[It would be wrong of her not to remind him that they had a class to go to.

"Midoriya, snap out of it! We have to go to class." She waited for a minute to see if Midoriya made any indication that he heard her. He didn't even move his head. Naruto's eyebrows twitched but the girl held herself back. "Midoriya! Class!"]

"Why the hell didn't you hit him, Whiskers?" Katsuki asked as he raising a single eyebrow at his half cousin. Naruto blinked a little before she sigh at her half cousin. "You know he would never move whenever he is in his nerd mode! Smacking him would get him to move!"

Naruto nodded. "It would get him to move but I have manners...Unlike a certain someone."

"I have manners!" Sakura protested.

The blonde raised her eyebrow. "I never said your name."

"You implied it."

"I could have been implying my cousin, Katsu-nissan," Naruto retorted. Katsuki just snorted while Sakura stared at her with doubtful eyes. The blonde looked upwards before looking back at her gawking former teammate. "You really have such a big ego if you think everything is about you, Sakura. I mean...Can't I be talking about Katsu-nissan or even Midoriya? Hell that I could have been talking about Ino."

Hagakure seem scowled at Sakura as she leaned closer to Ashido and whispered. "That Haruno was so annoying. I don't like her."

"You're not the only one, Hagakure." Ashido whispered back.

Naruto sigh as she heard of what Mina and Hagakure talking about. Naruto took a deep breath and threw one last glare at her teammate before relaxing her shoulders. She disliked her behaviour but she have to control herself from lashing out on her. She was glad that Shoto with her.

[No movement.

She shook her head and snatched the book from Midoriya's hands. With his bright green eyes growing large, Izuku jumped up and flushed a light shade of red at the sight of her. She almost felt apologetic for her rude behaviour but Naruto didn't like being ignored. No one paid much attention to her when she was child, not when she carried a monster inside her stomach.]

Everyone blinked and twisted their whole bodies around to stare at her which make Naruto pressed her lips thinned. What is a good but reasonable lie? The Kyuubi was not something she wanted to reveal to them but then again it would be revealed eventually. Beside the only people who know about Kyuubi were Shoto, Katsuki, his parents, her grandmother, Jiraiya, Midoriya and Momo.

"Naruto, are you like—"

"Yeah." Naruto said blankly to Temari. Her fellow blonde froze and then knitted her eyebrows before glancing at Gaara. The red-haired teen only nodded as if to confirm whatever question that his sister might have for him. She rubbed her jaws together while Narumi flickered her eyes from her to the Hokage.

The Third Hokage grimaced. "Naruto, I paid attention—"

"For what? An hour every Wednesday?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow. Aizawa frowned while the other members of Rookie Nine became deathly silent at her words. The blonde clenched her jaws together and exhaled. "Or whenever I threw a prank because I couldn't stand having so many cold eyes directed at me? Even when we have that one hour, that was never enough but you are the Hokage so I couldn't be selfish and ask more of your time."

Mitsuki look sadly as she understand of her situation. "It must be hard for you, Naruto-chan." Naruto just hummed softly as she nodded her head. Shoto seem comfort Naruto whenever she felt upset.

[The only person that seemed to have paid any attention to her was Hinata-chan.]

Naruto nodded while Sasuke only raised a single eyebrow. Naruto just ignore the look from Sasuke. She didn't want to said anything because it was a true that Hinata the one who paid attention on her.

"So, it was Hinata that paid attention on you. I can tell that Sasuke wonder why Hinata the only one that can paid attention to you and not include him." Said Shoto quietly as he scowled at Sasuke. Naruto just silent before she sigh.

"He should know what he done since we're in a same team. He can't talk when he done something that make me upset of him." Her word just make Shoto understand before he look at the screen.

["Naruto-san, I didn't see you."

Naruto bobbed and tossed the book to her classmate. "I noticed. We need to start heading to class before Sensei becomes angry that his two prized students are late for school."]

"Prized student? Has the world ended for that to be a term to describe you?" Ino asked. Naruto's eyebrows twitched in annoyance while Mitsuki and Narumi were narrowed their eyes at the girl. Hinata clenched her jaws together while Sakura quickly shook her head. Katsuki had clenched his fist as he control his temper. He tried to do that while Midoriya and Shoto were clenched their jaw tightly.

The Hokage regarded her. "You are taking your studies seriously this time?"

"I want a future unlike bimbo over there and I actually have a chance over there." Naruto replied. Naruto didn't care if her word hurt Ino because she deserve it. She will let it off for a while before she lashing out on Ino when she did something that can make her angry. The platinum-blond haired girl growled and jumped up from her seat, only for Shikamaru to pull her back down.

Ino growled. "Shikamaru! Let me go and teach—"

"Don't bother fighting a fight that we all know you are going to lose." Shikamaru retorted. Class 1-A were nodded their head even they want to see how Naruto handle Ino while Asuma bobbed his head in agreement. "Naruto will have you smashed against that wall before you can even punch her. There is a reason that Naruto had the best score when it came to taijutsu for the girls. Or are you forgot that she win in the Sport day with her powerful jutsu? You will sure lost without any second."

Sero smirk as he already see how Naruto fight. "Well, I agree with that. You will no have any chance to fight Naruto. She had been trained by Jiraiya. Also have a training with us together."

Hinata smile and proud of Naruto. Naruto saw Hinata who smile at her with a proud on her face make Naruto felt touched and give a real smile at her best friend make Hinata beamed up in happiness. Naruto ignored how ashamed of Ino and Sakura when they heard of what Sero said it.

[Midoriya rubbed the back of his neck, redness crept up from his neck to his cheeks. Naruto just blinked and almost wanted to ask him if he was starting to get sick. If Midoriya was actually sick then his mother probably wouldn't have forced him to come to school; maybe he was just some kind of weirdo.]

"Weirdo?" Izuku muttered.

Naruto shrugged before she grinned at him. "I like weirdos. Hinata-chan can be a weirdo too and I love her. I don't like assholes. So really I'm giving you a compliment."

Shoto glance at Naruto make her raised eyebrow. "Then how about me?" Asked Shoto playfully as he look intense at her make her squirm as her face started flushed before she look away.

"W-Well, you are same too, Shoto."

[She focused her attention on the notebook in his hands. The cover seemed to be worn down and the number 13 stood out to her as well as the large letters called Hero Analysis For The Future. Now, Naruto was not a genius when it came to books but she was observant. It was a side effect of being isolated as a child.]

Sakura frowned and then narrowed her eyes at her. "You weren't isolated as a child! You played with Sasuke, Hinata, Shikamaru, Choji and Kiba! How the hell does that make you isolated?"

"What you know about me, huh? Playing with someone doesn't mean you're not isolated." Naruto said indifferently make Sakura flinched at her words. Narumi just look at Naruto as she understand and let Naruto said it. Narumi saw a look from Shoto make her smile softly knowing how understand of Shoto. She was glad that Naruto meet someone that can make her happy and understand her. "I can be playing with someone and still feel lonely! Hinata is the only one I can call a friend because she connected to me! Shikamaru and the others only hanged out with me when it suited them."

Choji frowned. "Naruto, you know that isn't true—"

"Do you even know what I like to read or do in my free time?" Naruto asked calmly. Choji and Shikamaru blinked while Kiba knitted his eyebrows together. Aizawa looked at her for the longest time before he sigh in understanding as the blonde exhaled. "Do you know what my apartment looks like? Do you even know why I would skip class? Or why I hate teachers? You only hanged out with me when I am doing something that you like but are too scared to do."

They blinked and opened their mouth to argue but Naruto quickly waved her hand at Lida as she didn't want to heard any explanation from them. Naruto know that they will always give any excuses since they won't admit of their faults. Temari silent as she scowled at Shikamaru.

["How many weeks have you been working on that book?" Naruto swung her bag over her shoulder and stared out at the train station. He blinked and the girl turned her blank eyes at him.

"It took me two months to finish this notebook," Izuku admitted.

Naruto raised her eyebrows. "This notebook? How many notebooks do you have on these guys?"

"T-Thirteen."]

Lida paused and swirled his head at Midoriya. "You have a lot of passion, Midoriya! A good hero should always find the information about the villains!"

"Well Lida, sorry to interrupted but can you please continue the chapter?" Naruto asked with apologetic look. "Beside they didn't seem want to waste their time if you know what I mean."

The older boy quickly apologized as he understand her meaning words.

[She jerked her head at those words. Thirteen notebooks? If it took him just two months to finish one notebook then he must have spent two years and two months on making all those notebooks. It took a lot of enthusiasm to do something like that. The level of enthusiasm he had could almost rival the enthusiasm she had for pranking. God, the only time she would ever go to the same levels as him was when it came to jutsu.]

Kakashi stared at her for the longest time and offered her a half-smile. "If you can admit that much then why didn't you direct that energy to your teamwork with your teammates?" It make Naruto scowled at him.

"Should you really be the one to lecture me?" Naruto retorted. "You are the lazy teacher that is always three hours late."

Aizawa looked at Kakashi. "Does time mean nothing to you?"

"He says that he got lost on the road of life. That was always his excuses, Aizawa-Sensei. And I don't buy it of his stupid excuses that he given to us." Naruto replied.

"Seriously? Then how come he be a teacher if he always like that?" Said Aizawa with a frown as his eyebrows twitched in annoyance. Naruto just shrugged it.

"Don't know how he can be a teacher with that lazy personality of him. It was seriously mysterious if you asked me."

[Naruto used to have joy when it came to being a ninja but after what happened in Konoha, Naruto didn't have the same pride about her job. She furiously shook her head. Think of the positive. Japan was her new start. It was a new beginning for her, one she must never waste.]

"Well, it must be hard for you. And I can said that we're a same age as the other from your village, Naruto." Kirishima said quietly.

Naruto just sigh as she nodded her head. "Yeah, we're same age. Beside, we're a different culture, Kirishima."

Narumi eyed them. "You make children soldiers? Are you people fucking sane?"

"We are perfectly sane," Tsunade said.

Well Akimoto doesn't seem to think that we are sane. The older woman flickered her eyes from her to Sasuke and then to her fellow shinobi with blue eyes that screamed of disbelief. Naruto sighed as she understand Narumi.

"If you are perfectly sane then I'm going to quit my job," Narumi declared, shaking her head. "Child soldiers are always the most messed up cases. They have too much trauma from the losses that their brains aren't capable of handling just yet. Dear god, I'm going to have to request for more documentary videos for you people."

[Even if her nightmares and the voices didn't let her forget.]

Narumi eyed Tsunade. "Perfectly sane? Even Naruto tell it."

"I didn't say we were perfect," Tsunade defended.

["Why do you have so many notebooks?" Naruto asked as they crossed the street leading them to their middle school.

"I-It is going to sound stupid but I want to become a Hero." Izuku flinched and began to babble. "I know it sounds stupid for a Quirkless person like me to want to become a Hero...but I can't help it."]

"What about the fear of dying?" Mineta asked. "If I was Quirkless then I would take that into account! You can't become a hero if you have no Quirk!"

Naruto stared at him. "Seriously, Mineta? Can you just think positive? You sound like a dramatic one."

It make Mineta flinched.

[My dream? My dream is to become Hokage so that everyone can stop disrespecting me and see me as somebody!]

Everyone kept quiet and twisted their whole body around to look at her. Is that still your dream? That was what their eyes seemed to be asking her make her rolled her eyes. She had already have found a new dream to achieve. So the answer had been clear as for a 12-year-old girl but right now it was a question that she could no longer answer anymore. "You wanted to be Hokage so you can have people treat you nicely, Naruto." Aizawa stated.

Naruto nodded. "Yeah, pathetic right? But now, I had no longer dream like that."

"It is more admirable than what I saw from those two girls." Narumi said dryly, jerking her finger at Ino and Sakura. "It is nice to have an ambition that does not revolve around men, but you need to consider whether or not if you are doing a job for the right reason. There are people out there that gets their dream job, only to realize that their dream job doesn't make them happy. But it seem like you already have it, Naruto."

The blonde only bobbed her head with a small smile playing on her face.

[Naruto furiously shook her head and focused all her energy on her classmate, pushing back the nostalgia memory that threatened to consume her. "I think you can become a Hero as long as you work your butt off. People might tell you that you are an idiot, might bring you down but you should ignore it. If you really want it so badly then you should be willing to do anything to get it."]

"You believe that with the power of hard work then anything is possible?" Katsuki said as he narrowed his eyes at her while a couple of people turned to look at her. "Just because you work hard, doesn't mean that you can be a hero? You think being a hero is some child game?" He raised his eyebrow at Naruto. Naruto can see that Katsuki actually worry of Midoriya but he didn't want to admit it make her chuckle lightly.

Naruto stared at him. "Having a Quirk might help but if he trained his ass off and used some heavy weights then he can become a hero, Katsu-nissan. Lee had no chance of becoming a shinobi because of his disability and yet he did the impossible? Why should Midoriya be any different?"

"Naruto-chan, Lee-san had Gai-sensei training him." Hinata said gently. "And there were teachers that vouched for him that said that his taijutsu and theoretical knowledge is enough reason for him to pass. I don't know about Midoriya but if he hasn't been through the Academy then he would find it difficult."

Naruto nodded. "I know but if someone has the drive then they should work for it. Just because you lacked a certain ability, doesn't mean you can't be something...It just means that you have to work even harder. I respect Bushy Brows because of that drive of his."

"If you respect him then why do you call him, Bushy Brows?" Sakura asked.

"Should you be the one talk about respect?" Naruto retorted. "You are the last person to talk to me about respect. Beside, I give a nickname to the people that I respect and Bushy Brows already accept it. He didn't have any problem with that name. Not only him, Bushy Brow-Sensei also accept it. If anything, you're the one who should respect the people. If you think that you respect people, it was just an act. Bushy Brows, you don't mind me call you that, right?" Asked Naruto as she look at Rock Lee.

Rock Lee just shook his head as he give a thumbs up at Naruto with a grin on his face before it fades when he narrow his eyes in annoyance at Sakura. "No, I don't mind it. I already told you that I don't mind about that nickname, Naruto-chan. Do you have any problem with that, Haruno?" Said Rock Lee coldly.

It make Sakura flinched as she shook her head in embarrassment while Lida just rolled his eyes at her before he quickly returned back to reading the chapter. Naruto just snorted at Sakura as she felt that Sakura deserve to be ashamed by the people that she never respected or belittle by her. Naruto know that Sakura had never respected the people. Sakura only acted respect them but never truly respect them as she love to look down on them. She will make sure that Sakura. Ino and Kakashi along with Shikamaru, Choji, Kiba, Kurenai and Asuma will paid for what they done to her as they love to make fun of her.

[She felt her smile wobbled but Naruto pushed through it. It was hypocritical of her to say those words to him. There was a time when she dreamt so badly of becoming Hokage. A ninja like her could never become a Hokage.]

"Naruto-chan, you can become Hokage." Warm brown eyes stared at her and the whiskered teen stared at him for the longest time before flickering her eyes at Sasuke and Sakura. Really? I can't become Hokage if I couldn't even bring back my own best friend. She clenched her jaws together. "You only need the Will Of Fire."

Naruto stared at him. "The Will Of Fire? How the fuck can I become Hokage with that bullshit? It doesn't matter how hard I work or trained to protect the village because no one wants to acknowledge my effort! That bullshit? That bullshit works for someone like Sasuke or Sakura? Me? No one wants me to even become Hokage."

"I don't know what happened but I can reassure you that—"

"—That there are people out there that believes I can become Hokage?" Naruto snorted as the Third Hokage gawked at her. "We all know that the villagers would rather see me dead then become Hokage. After that mission, I had people blaming me for what happened! Me! They don't blame Kakashi-sensei and they sure felt fucking sorry for Sakura-chan, but me? I got called a failure!"

She clenched her jaws together while Hinata clenched her jaws together. Tears threatened to come out which make Shoto hugging her as he glare at Hiruzen coldly in his face. Katsuki, Kirishima, Lida, Kaminari, Uraraka, Mina, Jirou, Midoriya and Momo were clenched their jaw tightly as they control their anger when they saw Naruto's tear. They dislike that Hiruzen trying to convince Naruto about the hokage thing. Narumi pressed her thinned lip as she glared at Hiruzen.

"Kakashi, we are going to need a talk," The Third Hokage said curtly.

[The council made sure that she could never accomplish her dreams. It was terrible that they forced her hand but Naruto didn't want Izuku to give up on his dreams. It would break his heart when he gave up on his dreams, all because no one was willing to look past his lack of a Quirk.]

"Naruto, what do you mean?" Hiruzen asked as everyone twisted their head around. Tsunade furrowed her eyebrows together and furiously shook her head as she need to explain at Naruto. Naruto sigh as she understand of Tsunade's intention because she worry of her. But she was grateful to Tsunade because of her, she meet her family and have a boyfriend. She was more grateful to Sasuke.

She exhaled. "Do not worry about it, old man. It was just temporary exile. Only six years. I will come back to Konoha after six years so I have still time for that."

"Tsunade, temporary exile for what?"

"I did that because of her emotional state after her mission! She was going to reaching a state that I haven't seen since my childhood and the last person I wanted her to become was my grandfather!"

Hiruzen blinked before swirling his head at Naruto. "Naruto, did you have another one—"

"I didn't have one and if I did have one of those strange episodes then it wasn't that bad! I was more than capable of doing my job!" Naruto grunted in denial as she never told anyone. Shoto seem worry of Naruto when he heard about her state through episode.

Hinata frowned. "Naruto, it was that bad! You wouldn't get out of bed and you weren't eating anything! You didn't talk and the moment someone brings up Uchiha then you will go into an even deeper shell! I'm sorry Naruto but you had a problem! A problem that Tsunade didn't know how to heal and a problem that Sakura made worse!"

"How did I make the problem worse?" Sakura asked, furrowing her eyebrows together. "Naruto was the one that was annoying me! I was trying to cheer her up but she wouldn't respond to anything so I said the words that she expected me to say to her! I thought that would get her out of whatever the hell was wrong with her!"

The Hyuga Heiress growled. "You think calling her useless would get her to snap out of it? It's funny but when Naruto told me when Sasuke told you bluntly that you were worse then her, you got upset and acted like you had a cloud over her shoulders!"

"I got over it." Sakura retorted.

Naruto stared at her. "Only that because Sasuke told you that you were better at analysing and genjutsu detection then us."

"You got upset because your crush told you the truth?" Katsuki asked Sakura with twitching eyebrows as he begin glowering in rage. The pink-haired teen gulped as red eyes glinted with irritation. "You need the validation of your crush to have some esteem? Either you have a huge ego or you have so low self-esteem that you need a man to reassure you that you mean something. Girls like you was such annoying bitch that I hate so much in my life! I will fucking kill you right now but I guess it was such a waste my time!"

Sakura seem flinched away as she scared at Katsuki who look murderous in his face. Naruto just smirked when she saw how terrified of Sakura. For once in her life, she seem satisfied and enjoy to see Sakura's fear of Katsuki.

[She would know just how heart-breaking it could be to give up on a dream.]

The words hovered in the air and everyone shifted their gaze to look at Naruto. The blonde only raised a single eyebrow at them and ignored the wide black eyes of Sasuke. I wish I can hate you because you deserve it. She wanted so badly to blame him but there was something in her heart that made it difficult.

"Did you actually give up on your dream of becoming Hokage?" Kiba asked, shaking his head. "You used to scream about how you were going to make us—"

"That was a past, mutt! Just because I give up on that dream, doesn't mean that I can't find any dream!" Naruto retorted harshly make Kiba flinch.

Hinata look at Naruto. "Do you found a dream that you want to be, Naruto?"

Naruto silent as she glance at Shoto and her classmates before she smile softly. "Yeah, I think that I did. I found a dream that can make me happy, Hinata-chan."

[Naruto slid into her seat, laid her head on the table and listened passively as her classmates chat to each other about their plans for the weekend. Blue eyes flickered to Bakugou, his lips pressed into a thin line when the boy glared at her. From the moment she came to this middle school, he always gave her those looks.]

The television screen revealed a slightly younger version of Katsuki who had his eyes fixated on the sleeping Naruto. His red eyes gleamed with irritation as it kept darting from a couple of boys, who kept glancing at Naruto. The whiskered teen on the screen only had her head resting on the table like she didn't give a damn about the world.

"Well, you had irritate the hell out of me that time." Katsuki hissed in annoyance. Naruto raised a single eyebrow at her cousin who glared at the screen. "How the hell can you just sit there like you are some kind of robot?"

"Do you want me to bounce and clap my hands together and cry out: Katsuki-kun!" Naruto asked raising her voice at the tone and clapping her hands together before fluttering her eyelashes at Katsuki. The blond-haired boy stared at her for a good couple of seconds before turning green. "Thought so." Naruto snickered.

"Never ever do that!" Katsuki growled.

Naruto hummed. "You don't want me to flutter my eyelashes like a bimbo and cry out: oh Katsuki-kun, I adore your shitty behaviour and I just wanted to ask...will you go out with me?"

"Go back to being a robot!" Katsuki growled. "And for the love of god: please don't ever do that!"

"I thought you wanted that from me." Naruto retorted.

Katsuki scowled at that as he sigh in annoyance.

[Sometimes it felt like he was looking at her very soul.]

"Kacchan does seem to have a habit of looking at you." Midoriya commented. "But he doesn't seem to like you in that way. That was before you found out that you two were cousin."

Kaminari frowned. "Yeah, that was good to know that Naruto and Bakugou were cousin. Too bad that she already dating Shoto right now. I lost a chance to asked Naruto out with me." Said Kaminari with a dejected face.

Shoto just rolled his eyes as he getting closer to Naruto make Naruto blush as she feel his warmth to her. "Well, just accept the reality, Kaminari." Said Shoto indifferently make Kaminari pouted. Katsuki just shook his head at him while Midoriya only laugh at him.

"How the hell that you got a boyfriend, Naruto? With that personality of yours? You are not pretty so how come you got him like you?" Said Ino in jealousy tone. Her word make the other glared murderous at her which make Ino pale as she get herself in trouble for saying that to Naruto. Naruto didn't answer her as she look bored at Ino. Momo seem had control her anger after she observe Ino and Sakura by their appearance and personality before she speak.

"Naruto is not pretty? Her personality? You must be blind or you just jealous on Naruto! Who said that Naruto not a pretty girl, huh? She was the most popular in our school and more beautiful than me, Jirou, Tsuyu, Uraraka, Mina and Hagakure! Her personality was more better than you and Haruno! She was more beautiful than you two! You and Haruno think that you are beautiful than Naruto? Don't make me laugh! For me, you two are the most ugliest woman who never like the other get their own happiness! Who will like a bitch woman that pretend as a nice girl like you two?! Your personality were more shittier than anyone!" Said Momo in anger tone with a scarier look on her face. Ino and Sakura were silent as they look down in a shame.

Lida seem satisfied at Momo for speak out toward a rude Ino.

[The homeroom door slid open and their homeroom teacher stepped in, carrying a huge stack of papers. Naruto lowered her hoodie, watching the teacher separate the stacks of papers into piles. Were those more forms for them to do? Or was it that piece of paper about their plans for their future school? The fact the old man kept glancing at her made her believe it was the latter.]

"I don't even know why he even bothered giving it to us." Katsuki grumbled. He folded his arms against his chest and kicked his feet onto the table as everyone raised their eyebrows at him. "Everyone already had their first choice as Yuuei High and almost everyone wants to become heroes."

Naruto nodded. "Well not everyone wanted to be a hero."

"Name me one person from that useless middle school who didn't want to be a hero?" The blonde blinked and opened her mouth only to closed it when he held up his hand at her. "And you don't count either! You are already has a job that requires you to fight."

Naruto felt her eyebrow twitched in annoyance. "You really want me to say the words that saying you are right, don't you?"

"I will definitely going to put it on the noticeboard that I got you to admit that I'm right." Katsuki retorted.

Naruto just shook her head at Katsuki's word. Mitsuki had hold her laughter as Masaru just shook his head while Narumi only look amusement.

[It probably didn't help that his eyes flared with disappointment at the sight of her.]

"Naruto-chan, what did you do? I thought you were trying to do well in school." Hinata frowned and furrowed her eyebrows together while everyone else knitted their eyebrows at her. Pale lavender eyes pleaded for her to explain things and the blonde took a deep breath.

"I might have handed in a blank form." Naruto admitted. "To be fair, I don't have much motivation on what to become if I'm not Hokage at that time. You know I kinda wish that I'm like Ino or Sakura-chan."

Sakura blinked. "Why do I feel like that is an insult?"

"Depends on how you see it." Naruto said sweetly. "I mean that my dream was to become the leader of our village while your dream is to marry Sasuke and have many babies with him. Such a pathetic dream if you asked me."

Mitsuki stared at Sakura. "Did your mother brainwash you into thinking that you should dream so low?"

"Why are you a shinobi?" Asui asked, knitting her eyebrows together. The other girls bobbed their heads while the frog girl continued to stare at Sakura. "While I find that there is nothing wrong with wanting to marry your crush but isn't that kind of dream empty? Shouldn't you dream for something higher?"

The pink-haired girl opened and closed her mouth as her green eyes widened at the question being thrown at her. Naruto seem understand the point that Asui asked Sakura as she wonder what a reason for her to be a Kunoichi.

"No good man is ever going to take you seriously if you don't have ambition." Mitsuki commented as she squeezed Masaru's arm. The brown-haired man flushed a light shade of red before nodding his head in agreement.

Naruto just agree as she glad that she have a dream and have Shoto as her boyfriend make her felt happy.

["Quit the ruckus and go back to your seats." Their teacher yelled, slamming his hands on the table. The chatter died down and the students straightened their backs, their eyes growing wide with excitement and weariness. "It has been two weeks since school started and most of you are still acting like little kids. It is time for all of you to start thinking seriously about your future."]

"I don't know why they keep giving us those talks!" Hagakure pouted. "We all know what we wanted to be since we were kids."

Jirou shook her head and stared at Naruto. "Well most of us do but Naruto had changed her mind when it came to her dream and already found her dream right now while I changed my dream because I realized that I wanted to help people."

"Oh? What was your dream?" Kurenai asked, tilting her head.

The girl just rubbed the back of her neck with annoyed face. "I thought I wanted to work in the music industry like my parents but well I quickly found out that while I love music as a hobby, I didn't want to make it as a career."

"That is an interesting way to think about your career." Kakashi commented.

Naruto do not remember a reason why she wanted to be a shinobi. Naruto looked up at the ceiling and let out a little sigh. Did she become a shinobi because she wanted to be one or for another reason? She didn't know but she did know that she thought when she reached the first step of being a shinobi...She thought she would be happy.

That definitely did not happen when she already found her new dream that can make her happy.

[Naruto slid down her seat when the man focused his eyes on her as he stressed out the words thinking seriously. Okay it confirmed he read all the forms they gave him. This whole time she thought he was too busy drinking himself silly that he didn't actually care or read the forms they gave.]

"He did have a drinking problem," Midoriya admitted, bobbing his head. "He once slurred during homeroom."

Naruto nodded. "He stank of alcohol."

"But he was kind of good when it came to teaching," Katsuki pointed out. "He made the most difficult topic seem like even a kindergartener could understand it."

The two other teens bobbed their head in agreement.

["I should hand all of you the career forms but I guess from your school selections that almost all of you want to be heroes," their teacher levitated the papers towards them. Naruto covered her ears as her classmates cheered at his words. Did these people not realize some people were sensitive to sound? She sighed. "Yes, yes, you all have wonderful Quirks! But using your powers at school is against the rules!"]

"Is it?" Naruto asked raising a single eyebrow at her cousin. "There is certain someone that seems to have no problem with using their Quirk to threaten another certain someone."

Katsuki's eyebrows twitched in annoyance at the reminder. "And there is a certain someone that is being a hypocrite because that certain someone used their ability to skip school."

"That certain someone never bullied anyone." Naruto retorted. "If anything, that certain someone used their ability to protect a person's life and is a becon—"

"—Really who or what did you protect?" Katsuki challenged.

Naruto smiled. "My sanity and ears."

Katsuki gawked at her. "Seriously, whiskers? That's what you care about?"

Naruto chuckle as she nodded her head.

[You say this every time but you never do anything about it. Blue eyes stole a glance at her classmate. Midoriya didn't look bother about the fact everyone kept using their Quirks and when Naruto thought about it, she never saw him stare at these people with jealously or resentment. It really gave something for her to think about. Why didn't he ever resent them for showing off?]

"You get used to it." Midoriya admitted as several people turned to look at him with interest. "I only got the bad draw of not being born with a Quirk but that doesn't mean I should resent a whole group of people."

Kirishima whistled. "You really are something, Midoriya."

"Well, that show how nice of him. He never take the people's harsh word on him. Just like what Katsu-nissan did to him." Said Naruto as she whistle in teasing tone make Katsuki scowled in annoyance while Midoriya giggle a little.

"Whiskers!"

["Sensei! Don't lump us all in the same group," Naruto groaned as Bakugou leaned against his chair, not bothering to sound polite to their classmates. Sometimes she considered it a miracle that he had friends with the way he opened his mouth. "I'm not gonna be stuck at the bottom with the rest of these rejects."]

"Well, since you two a cousin, you two got similar with it, Naruto." Said Shoto in teasing tone. Naruto pouted at him.

"Shoto!"

[Five...

Four...

Three...

Two...

One...

Roars of outrage burst out of her classmate's mouths.

"That was uncalled for, Katsuki!"

"Yeah! Yeah!"

Naruto just snorted, pink lips almost curled into a tiny smile at the level of confidence that her classmate had. It almost reminded her of the times when she shouted to the world that she was going to become Hokage. There was a time when she would say the exact same thing in the Academy, except Bakugou had the skill to back up his claims. Those muscles and the fact she caught him jogging near her workplace made it clear to her that he wasn't talking shit.]

"Why are you looking at Bakugou, Naruto? Is there something get you interesting watching him?" Ashido asked, knitting her eyebrows together. Naruto just hummed when she remember a reason why she watching Katsuki.

"I only watch Katsu-nissan because he is the only one besides Midoriya that I can somewhat get along with. He doesn't pretend that he wants to get to know me which is why I like watching him while Midoriya is...well weird. Sorry for that, Midoriya."

Midoriya slumped his shoulders as he accept her apology.

["Oh if I remember correctly, you want to go to Yuuei High, right Bakugou?"]

"Yuuei? As in the school with that famous Sports Festival? Seem like you already get enter the school as Naruto." Kakashi asked, swirling his head at Katsuki. Katsuki just scowled as he dislike Kakashi. Well, he dislike the people who hurting his cousin.

"If I wanna be the best then, I deserve to go to the best school."

Naruto sighed. "Well, I can see that. You know no one loves a hero with a big ego. We don't need another Endeavor."

"And we don't need another Midnight," Katsuki retorted.

Her blond eyebrow twitched. "Did you just compare me to that hero? What the hell did I do to provoke—"

"Midnight has a lot of male fans and you had half of the boys in school panting over you. You're going to be like that hero who have fanboys." Katsuki retorted.

Naruto blinked before she pouted at him.

"Katsu-nissan!"

[Everyone became silent for just a few seconds before all hell break loose. Yells and screams of surprise echoed throughout the classroom with the only exception being Naruto. She could only knit her eyebrows. What was the big deal? It was just some fancy high school, wasn't it? She didn't see why they were making such a big fuss over it.]

"Do you not know about the prestige of Yuuei High, Naruto?" Lida asked, swirling his head at Naruto.

The blonde groaned. "Don't give me another lecture and read the damn chapter! I already got the damn lecture that day so read it, so that everyone from my part of the world can understand!"

["It isn't just some high school, Uzumaki!"

Naruto jerked her head up and flushed a light shade of red when everyone turned their attention at her. Was this right time to laugh and pretend that she knew this? They would believe her bullshit, wouldn't they? Well judging from the looks given by both students and teacher, they probably wouldn't believe the crap forming inside of her mind.]

"Not even your fanboys will believe the bullshit coming out from your lips!"

Naruto's eyebrow twitched. "Katsu-nissan! I get it now so stop saying about those fanboys over me!"

"Why the hell would they like Naruto?" Ino demanded.

Katsuki seem annoyed at Ino and glare at her. "Other then the fact that she is athletic, looks kind of hot and has good grades? How about the fact that she doesn't seem desperate? Men are turned off by girls like that. Why would they won't like her? You think that you and that Haruno bitch would have fanboys? Maybe in your fucking village that you have fanboys but in Japan, Naruto was the popular in our middle school and also our school. Even you two come in Japan, you will never get win against Naruto. Want to know why? The boys will not fallen in your charm with those ugly personality of yours. They were not fool like your village. Beside, you two are the bitches who love to badmouth on Naruto and want to make Naruto's life into a hell which I despise a bitches like you two! You two can go rotten in the hell!."

Every single male bobbed their heads in agreement. Ino and Sakura were look embarrassment when Katsuki insulted them.

Naruto just look at Ino and Sakura with a blank face. "Well, you deserve it."

["Yuuei High School was in the top 0.2% this year, you know!"]

Everyone from Konoha blinked.

[No, she didn't know that because Naruto had no plans of going to high school.]

"Then what do you plan to do before you join the Yuuei, Naruto?" Hagakure asked. Naruto hummed. "Oh I'm going to high school but at that time, I had no plans."

["Their acceptance rate is always really low, too!"]

"Dear god, don't remind us that day!" Ashido cried. "We have the entrance exam in a couple of days in that time! I'm still not ready for the written portion of the exam." Kirishima groaned. "Don't remind me too! I also haven't gotten any sleep!"

"Students generally struggle more with the written portion, I can see that." Aizawa acknowledged. "But you can't do well if you don't sleep enough that day." Every student groaned at the typical answer given by a teacher.

[She could guess that from the values that they just gave her. Wow, people were right to call her sassy at times because her own thoughts were starting to sound sassy even to herself.]

"Better than being a doormat." Hinata coughed and darted her eyes at Sakura and Ino. Naruto didn't mean to give off that impression but she really don't care about it. Naruto rubbed the back of her neck and hummed a small tune as the two girls threw dirty looks at her but stopped when Shoto narrow his dangerous eyes which scared them.

["It is the best high school for heroes," Midoriya spoke up. Naruto swirled her head at him, blond eyebrows knitted together at those words. Oh now that explained the reason for her classmates acting like this. Everyone in this class kept talking about becoming heroes, which sounds awesome in paper.]

Aoyama frowned. "What do you mean?"

"Well I thought being a shinobi was awesome until I was hit with the reality that shinobis are nothing but tools for the government." Naruto explained. Aizawa stared at her for the longest time while Kakashi nodded. "We are nothing but tools and that makes the job so much less awesome."

Kirishima stared at her. "That's kind of depressing, Naruto."

"That's a reality, Kirishima."

[If anyone asked Naruto her opinion about the job, she would say that you didn't need to go to a school to learn it. They could just practise it every day by helping other people and putting someone else's needs over theirs. Wasn't that the definition of being a hero? Not that she had any experience when it came to the job.]

"You did save Konoha." Gaara commented.

Naruto shrugged. "I did but it was also my job so you have to wonder if that makes me a hero? Besides I never got any credit for saving Konoha because there's someone spread a rumour that it was Sasuke that did it."

"Shouldn't you have gotten credit?" Kaminari asked with a frown.

"Yeah but I don't care about it anymore."

She couldn't waste a lifetime hating them. Shoto and Aizawa were frowned in annoyance while Katsuki clenched his jaw as he learning that Naruto's achievement had never be appreciate by those fucking village make him glare hatred at Konoha. It make them shiver in spine except Sasuke, Hinata, Neji, Rock Lee, Tenten, Tsunade, Gaara, Temari and Kankuro.

[She was a foreigner after all.

"Oh yeah, Midoriya wanted to go to Yuuei too, right?" Everybody whipped their heads at the green-haired boy; their eyes growing wide with shock. Izuku's response? He flinched and slid down under the table as if hoping it would be enough for everyone to stop looking at him.

If anything, it just made everyone laughed even harder.]

"That is really cruel of them!" Ino called out.

"You did the same thing when I declared I want to be Hokage," Naruto reminded Ino. The blond-haired girl froze while blue eyes stared at her with irritation. "You once told me that I would never be Hokage because I'm an idiot, yet when someone else goes through it then you find it cruel."

Ino frowned. "You are different, Naruto. You are not exactly smart or well-known for being able to charm a crowd."

"Not smart you said!?" Katsuki growled in annoyance. "Whiskers is really smart! You should have seen Sensei when he realized that Whiskers could solve the most difficult physics problem with her eyes shut."

Sakura jerked her head at him. "Are we talking about the same Naruto?"

"Naruto-chan was the one that tutored me in physics." Hinata admitted. Everyone blinked and swirled their head at the blue-haired girl who had her eyes fixated on Naruto. Are you really going to be backing them up? There is no point. No one seemed to actually believe that she was smart. "And if you actually pay attention to Naruto-chan then you know she has been messing with everyone."

Ino snorted. "If Naruto was that smart then why bother be dead-last?"

"Because why the hell I had bother trying in the Academy?" Naruto retorted. "I wasn't hiding my brains because of some idea of revealing it later...'Cause that is fucking stupid but you guys refused to acknowledge that I was smart. If anything you guys made my life even more like hell whenever I showed I had a brain."

Everyone blinked and then gawked at her.

"Wait a second. Are you seriously to said that-"

"—Yeah, right. What do you think about why I didn't show those stupid that I'm a smartest than them? Because they will make my life be more hell. That Haruno bitch will find anything to accuse me that I cheated when I'm not. I don't even care about that but Haruno bitch always betitle me saying that she smartest than me! It may annoying me but I just endure it because I had remind myself that I'm more smartest than that bitch!" Naruto informed Katsuki. It make Katsuki annoyed as he glared at Sakura.

Sakura seem growled at her. "What the hell, Naruto! Who said that you are the smartest than me? In the academy, you always get a dead last. Don't lie to everyone. You may get a good grades in Japan but not in Konoha."

"Dead last you said, Haruno? If that case, how come Naruto get in a first place with have a highest score in every exam? Will you explain to us, Haruno?" Said Midoriya with a scowled on his face. It froze everyone when they heard of Midoriya except Sasuke, Hinata, Tenten, Rock Lee, Neji and Might Guy.

"Highest score? What her score in her exam?" Asked Ino as she seem disbelief to heard it. Katsuki snorted as he answer her.

"100 mark in every subject except English. Well, it failed when she got 50 mark but it much better than that. Me and Midoriya never got a highest score every subject like whiskers. If you accuse her cheated by using her clone, I will smack your face. Because our school have a system that will caught the students when they cheated. I can said that Naruto was the smartest than you! In Konoha, she didn't show it because of your bitches! That won't count since she didn't try it. I guess that will make you more stupid, bitch! If you don't believe, how about you asked Sasuke and Hinata? Or you can asked Third Hokage? It seem like he know about Naruto's score in academy. Same to Sasuke and Hinata. They know Naruto since they were kid, am I right? So, asked them if you so hard to believe it." Said Katsuki in annoyance yet he seem angry.

It make everyone flinch except Sasuke, Hinata, Neji, Tenten, Rock Lee and Might Guy who already know how smart of Naruto.

["Why the hell are you laughing? Izuku can get into Yuuei High!" Naruto declared. She straightened her back as everyone swirled their head at her. Anger flared in her eyes and her classmates gulped. It was understandable why when she considered that this was probably the first time they saw her angry.

She never found a reason to be furious.]

"Naruto, you get set off by the littlest of things." Shikamaru pointed out. "Remembered what happened with Ami?"

"She was asking for it."

Ino narrowed her eyes at her. "What about what happened with me! You told everyone about my crush on Sasuke and that ruined my friendship with Sakura."

"And you ruined my hopes about my parents but you don't see me bitching and moaning about it!" Naruto retorted. Everyone froze as Ino stared at her with wide-eyes. Shoto had quickly calm her down knowing how angry of Naruto. "You want me to apologize? Not chance in hell. You dare to told me that my dead parents abandoned me because I was a bitch. Lucky that I had prove you wrong because my parents actually love me! Jiraiya told me about my parents. About that happen to you because you're the one started it. So, you deserve for your own consequence that you cause by yourself."

Kaminari looked at Ino with anger face. "Seriously, you are deserve it because you doing more shittier for saying that to Naruto. How can a person saying that to an orphan who didn't know who their parents?! You have a parents who love you yet you bullied Naruto and said those shittier at her just because she doesn't have a parents?! That will make you an evil bitches in the world! More evil than a villain! I hate the people like you who hurt an orphan who lost their parents! Such a disrespectful bitch!"

"With that personality, I don't think that you know about empathy." Mitsuki commented with a frown. "Because even if Naruto-chan talked about your crush, which was wrong... But what you did to her was so much worse. If I was your mother, I would have given you a smacking of a lifetime for that comment. You don't bring up parents with orphans. That is only something a heartless person would do."

Ino flinched as she look down when they insulted her while Naruto just rolled her eyes at Ino as Ino deserve for her actions.

["He's Quirkless." Bakugou snarled at her. "There is no such thing as a Quirkless Hero, Whiskers! He won't ever become a damn Hero!"]

"Katsuki." Mitsuki warned. "What did I say about how you should warn Izuku-kun or protect him?"

The blond-haired boy rolled his eyes. "If you fucking want me to talk like how Uncle Minato would talk then fat chance! The kind way won't get it through his thick, impulsive head."

"He loves you so much, Midoriya." Naruto commented with a teasing tone. "When should I write up the wedding invitation? And shall I put myself as the maid of honour or the best woman?"

Katsuki's eyebrow twitched. "Whiskers, if you want to keep your ears then take back those words!"

"But Mitsuki-bacchan just said that you were trying to protect Midoriya." Naruto smiled. "And since you love him so much, I thought the best way for you to protect him and his honour is through marriage."

Katsuki was growled as his face flushed red but didn't want to do anything to his cousin. He just huff as he look at the screen ignored the snickered from Naruto and Kirishima.

[Is that really what you should say to your best friend? Naruto narrowed her blue eyes and chewed the inner corner of her cheek to stop herself from lashing out at him. Her hot temper was the reason she always get into trouble. Hinata always used to scold her for releasing her temper on someone. Sakura used to yell at her whenever she used to unleash it on Sasuke.]

"He didn't deserve to be yelled at." Sakura retorted. "He was going through a tough time, Naruto!"

Naruto stared at her. "You think that he is the only one going through shit? We all go through shit but you yell at me when I'm going through the same shit! You have no fucking right to call me out on my behaviour when you do the same fucking thing to me! Was I wrong? Hell yes but he wasn't innocent at any point either!"

"You yelled at him and slapped him when he demanded that you fight him!"

"Well, he deserve it! He just recovered from whatever Itachi did to him!" Naruto snarled. "I wanted to know what the hell did that son of a bitch did to him but instead he telling me, he asks me to fight him! Everything was always about him! He didn't think that I went through the trouble of finding Tsunade and listening to Jiraiya have sex because of him! I wanted to save him and what did he do? He just tells me I shouldn't have gotten Tsunade!"

Sakura frowned. "You could have worded—"

"What? Be like you and be docile?" Naruto snorted as green eyes flared up with irritation. "I'm not going to be like you! And I'm not going to pretend that I'm going to be gentle with him not when he drew the line that day! Oh Sasuke-kun, do you want another apple? Oh Sasuke-kun, let me show you how much I love you by peeling those apples—"

"—What do you know about love?" Sakura yelled. "You never loved anyone before!"

Whack!

The ice had shot toward Sakura's cheek which got her a redden mark on her face. It was hurting her as she look at Shoto's furious face. No one stop him from doing that at Sakura. Not even Aizawa can stop him since Aizawa seem annoyed at Sakura. For once, Naruto felt that Aizawa had exception Sakura and allow anyone to hurt Konoha for what happen to her.

"You don't have any right to speak at Naruto about love. Are you forget that I'm Naruto's boyfriend? She may don't know about love or love anyone before but at least she have her own pride and drive so she will be strong than anyone. How about you and that Yamanaka bitch? You two more focus on love than training! You only started training when your Sasuke left. What a shame! And you deserve to get smack since Naruto didn't want to do that." Said Shoto coldly.

Naruto quickly calmed Shoto knowing how anger of him can be. Yet Naruto felt that Sakura deserve to get smack by Shoto for yelling at her because of Sasuke.

Naruto look at Sakura who seem hurt by Shoto's ice on her face. "Well, you deserve it. You're the one who yelling at me because of that bastard. You said that I don't know about love? I may don't know much about love before but someone had teach me about a meaning of love. I may like Shoto and dating him because of my feeling but doesn't mean that I don't know about love. What do you know about love, huh? You only want Sasuke's attention because of his clan and his look! You had never want to know a real Sasuke! You only want to know of Sasuke's clan but never think of his feeling! Are you sure that you and Ino love Sasuke? Or you two just want his clan and his look so everyone will respect you? I was ashamed of you two be a girl with this behaviour of yours! Sasuke will never like girls who want his clan or his look. But why would I have to told you? It's better if you find out of yourself!" Said Naruto as she insulted Sakura and Ino with annoyed expression on her face.

Sakura and Ino were flinched in embarrassment as they got insulted by them.

[He deserved it.

Naruto stared hard at the older boy. "He might be Quirkless but he works hard and he is smart. I think he has a chance of entering Yuuei High! If you can get in then so can Izuku!"

"You are delusional if you think he can get in."]

Kaminari cleared his throat. "Well, he already get in so that mean you are right, Naruto."

"Yeah, I guess so" Naruto answered him shortly as she know how tense the atmosphere because of Shoto who hitting Sakura by using his ice on her and Naruto's insulted toward two bitches.

[There was a storm of emotions inside of her. A part of her wanted to punch him for making that comment, not only because it hurt Midoriya's feelings. Those words reminded her of the Academy. Those words mocked her and her old dream of becoming Hokage.]

The members of Rookie Nine winced and Naruto only rolled her eyes at them. I'm not going to become Hokage anyway. She already going to become hero since it will be her new dream. Heroes was good enough for her and she would be able to do her work without people giving her cold eyes.

The Third Hokage grimaced. "Naruto, what is your dream now?"

"Become a hero. It make me felt happy right now."

[They always tried to bring her down but Naruto would always push herself back up. If she gave up on a dream then she wasn't Naruto Uzumaki.]

"Really because it sounds like you are giving up on being Hokage!" Kiba commented.

Naruto rolled her eyes. "No, it means I found a better dream. And I will smack you if you said it again! You already heard that I give up on Hokage yet you still mention it? You're such an idiot mutt dog!"

Kiba flinched.

["Delusional? All of you are fucking assholes for not believing in him!" Naruto yelled. "If he works his ass off and if someone just believes in him then he can do anything."]

"You were the first person to believe in my dreams, Naruto." Midoriya admitted. Naruto blinked a little before swirling her head at the smiling green-haired boy. He looked down at his hands before looking back at her. "Not even my own Mom believed in me like you did."

Naruto rubbed the back of her neck. "Yeah well you have a decent chance because you are smart. And you already did it, Midoriya."

[Everyone looked at her like she was an idiot but Naruto wasn't going to back down. She had seen the rewards of hard work, of having someone that believed in them. How many times did someone look down on her? Too many times for her to count. It hurt like hell for her friends and teammates to only see one side of her.]

"We can definitely see that now." Choji observed. Naruto grunted and folded her arms against her chest as brown eyes looked at her with alarm. "You never went off on Sakura before and then suddenly out of nowhere you are throwing all of your anger at her. I know what she did was terrible but this isn't like you, Naruto."

"Choji, I have been torn away from my training camp with my classmates and Sakura acts like she has done nothing wrong." Naruto retorted. "If I did have an episode like Hinata claimed I did then Sakura made things worse. Sakura also had been acting like she knows me when really she knows nothing about me. She acts like Sasuke can do no wrong while I'm the demon that corrupted him! You tell me how would you feel?!"

"Pretty pissed off! That was a right answer you should said it" Shoto answered it with a pissed off on his face.

Naruto sigh again as she calm him. "Well, he already answer it!"

[She was so much more than just the prankster.

It was just too bad that no one wanted to see that side of hers.]

"But hiding aspects of yourself isn't healthy for you, Naruto-chan." Narumi said. The blue-eyed woman frowned and rubbed the back of her neck before looking at everyone. "That puts a lot of strain to your mind and you will eventually forget where you start and the mask end. Have you ever talked to a therapist about your problems? About these strange episodes?"

Naruto stared at her grandmother. "I'm not weak, Narumi-obaachan! And I know it isn't healthy but no one accepts me for who I am! Hinata-chan does but everyone else? The moment I want to be selfish, I'm had been denied the fucking right because my problems seem superficial! So tell me what the hell should I do?"

"Not give a fuck to them?" Katsuki retorted.

Lida cleared his throat. "Can you refrain from your language until I'm done with the final part of the chapter?"

"Should I refrain of the way I talked when they were pissed me off with their shitty attitude toward Naruto?! I won't fucking care about my language when they deserve it! Naruto was more mattered than them!"

["You asked for me?" Naruto took a seat on the empty chair, eyebrows knitted together in confusion as the man pulled out the empty form. He raised his eyebrow at her, waiting for the answers that Naruto didn't want to provide.

"Why did you hand me an empty blank form when it comes to your future high school?" He finally asked, eyes flaring with irritation. Naruto rubbed the back of her neck and forced herself to smile at him. It wouldn't be wrong for her to act dumb since she actually had no idea what to do with her future.]

Katsuki had swirled his head at her. "With your grades and athletic abilities, you were planning not to go to any high school that time, Naruto?"

"I didn't know what I wanted to be and I had a job in the café." Naruto retorted. "So I kinda thought well school has never been fun and I don't have any ambitions that time...So why not continue working in a café? I mean if I want to be a writer then I don't need school. If I want to be an artist then I don't need high school either."

Uraraka sigh. "That was more excuses you make, Naruto-chan."

[Doctors didn't seem to suit her and being an engineer sounded fun, but Naruto doubted she would have free license to be creative. A job as a writer was also good for her. Iruka-sensei used to say she had too much imagination for her own good...of course he was talking about her skill in the art of lying.]

Hinata nodded. "Your excuses were brilliant but the way you hide your evidence was even better."

"My excuses made everyone laughed and you know how difficult it was to make everyone laugh!"

["Too many options."

Her homeroom teacher snorted at her response, not looking like he believed one bit about her bullshit. Her smile didn't waver one bit even though those judging eyes made her want to stop smiling. There was always something about those eyes that made her want to admit future.]

"I can't believe that he talked me into applying for high school that day."

Midoriya frowned. "Naruto, you are smart and for you not to go to high school...Well that pisses me off too."

"I mean if you were the dead last then I wouldn't give a shit!" Katsuki grumbled. "But you and Deku gave me a run for my money when it came to the exams! And you're my cousin! I will not letting you dropped school just like that!"

["Really now?" She smiled sheepishly and her teacher sighed. "Uzumaki, why don't you start taking things seriously? You are a bright girl that clearly has a bright future ahead of herself. It will be a shame for you to decide just to continue working full time in a café."]

Sasuke blinked. "Is that why you are wearing a—"

"You think I would be wearing this if I didn't work or have school?" Naruto retorted. "Skirts are my enemies!"

[But what do I want to do? Naruto knitted her eyebrows together and stared out at the window. The bright blue skies and white clouds didn't reflect the confusion she felt. At the age of six, she decided she wanted to become a kunoichi. I will become Hokage! I will be the strongest kunoichi this world has ever seen! She yelled out those words so everyone knew what she wanted to be.]

Naruto sighed. Even so, she already know what she want to be. Another thing is, she want to know what will she become in the future? What hero she can be?

[How could she accomplish this dream now?

"I like our art classes but I can't see myself an artist," Naruto lied. "It is too artsy if you ask me; it doesn't have enough action. Doctors are cool and I respect them but I am just too hot-tempered for the job. So I have got no idea what to do."]

Narumi hummed. "Well, if you not be a hero, how about you join modelling? Mitsuki will love if you become her model, Naruto-chan."

Naruto sigh. "No, thanks. I don't felt like it."

[Her teacher tilted his head, his eyes regarded her for a good couple of minutes. He nodded, looking as if he had one of those eureka moments that Naruto heard her classmates talked about. What could he have figure out from her words? Even for her standards, she sounded like an idiot.

God, had she always sounded like an idiot?]

Kiba nodded. "Yup!"

Naruto rolled her eyes at Kiba make Kiba gulped as he quickly looking away from Naruto.

["Then what about becoming a Hero? Or a policewoman?" Her teacher suggested lightly. A small smile played on his lips and the sincerity shone through those eyes made her throat clogged up. A part of her was grateful for the sincerity but a huge part of her felt doubt about the man's kindness and need to make her choose a better future.

No one could be this nice without any reason.]

"Naruto-chan, may I ask...Were you abused as a little girl?" Narumi asked softly. The words hovered between them as everyone swirled their bodies to look at the blonde Naruto stiffened.

Naruto sigh as she look away from Narumi. "I won't told you but I was sure this book will tell it. I will explain it when the past reveal, Narumi-obacchan."

Narumi just sigh as she nodded her head. Shoto had look at her as he know of her past since she told her. Naruto just smile at Shoto.

["Think about it, Uzumaki." Their teacher took a deep breath. "You want adventure and I know you have a desire to help even the underdogs. Isn't that enough reason for you to become a hero? You will just be protecting more kids and people like Midoriya from cruel Villains. You might be busy with work but you make the time and effort to protect the weak. I think you have just as a good shot of getting into Yuuei as Bakugou...so think about it."]

"That should be your signal that you need to change...Even he thinks that you are crap." Naruto declared to Katsuki.

Katsuki rolled his eyes. "Don't look into thinks."

[Naruto stared at her hands, clenching and unclenching it as her teacher slid the piece of paper to her. A hero? If she couldn't become Hokage and if she couldn't be a kunoichi, then it only made sense for her to be a hero.

She couldn't keep living in the past because that wasn't her.

Uzumaki Naruto was and will always be the girl that always looked forward to the future.]

"And that's the end of chapter 1!" Lida declared. "Who wants to read the next chapter?"

Uraraka raised her hand. "Me!"