Chapter 1 - chapter one

Naru is in class waiting for her name to be called, fiddleing with her pencil. She was the worst ninja in the class, this being her third attempt to pass the ninja exam.

"Naru Uzumaki!"

She perked up at Iruka-sensei calling her name. "Your turn."

She stood up, and followed Iruka to the exam room, talking to herself along the way.

"Yes. This time. This time for sure!"

She enters the exam room, eyeing the exam judges. Iruka-Sensei is just returning to his seat, with Mizuki-sensei on his left.

"The exam this year is chakra control. To demonstrate it, you need to create a clone." said Iruka.

'Crap, that's thats the one thing I suck at!' She thought.

"Here goes!" exclaims Naru as she makes the hand sign. "Aaaahh!"

*poof*

He creates a clone, however it looks extremely pale and pathetic.

"What the hell is that!?" Yelled Iruka. "You fail!"

"Now, now, Iruka. He did produce a clone." said Mizuki calmly. "I say we should pass him."

"Everyone else was able to make at least 3 clones. He can't even make one that looks half-way decent. No chance" Explained Iruka.

"But..." pleaded Naru.

"I'm sorry Naru, but, not this year..."

-------------------------After School--------------------

Naru is sitting on the swing just outside of the school, looking enviously at all the students who passed. And their parents, congratulating them. Meanwhile, she sits alone, no one even looking her way, thinking to herself.

'Why? Why again this year!? Why!!? Why can't I pass this damn test!!!?'
She thought. 'If only there was a shortcut, some way to-'

"That was rough."

"Aaaaahh!!" screamed Naru as she fell off the swing. "Mizuki-sensei! Don't do sneak up on me like that!"

"You say to a ninja?"

"Good point. Did you want something, sensei?"

"Well, this is your third fail. Must suck!"

"Yeah..." Said Naru dejectedly.

"There is a way to still pass, but it's kinda risky..."

Naru looked at him, eyes full of hope. "Really?! How!!?"

"You sure? You could die."

"Absolutely! I'll become Hokage, no matter what!"

"Alright, here's what you do..."

---------------------3 hours later-----------------------------

Alarms sound. Ninja gather in the square on top of the Hokage's building. Hokage Sarutobe awaits them.

"The vault has been breached!" Barked Sarutobe. "A scroll of forbidden techniques has been stolen. Find the thief, find the scroll, and bring the culprit back to me! I wish to take care of him myself!"

The ninja scatter. Some scout the town, others follow the roads. Iruka, who is among the crowd, heads tward the forest. After searching for a while he hears a familiar voice.

"Shadow clone Jutsu!"

He heads tward the voice, finding Naru, practicing a jutsu. She looks compleatly wiped out, and can barely stand.

"Once more!" She encourages herself. "Just one more time!"

"Naru!" Yelled Iruka.

Naru froze, and slowly turned to Iruka. "Oh, Iruka-sensei! Hi..."

"Hi!? You steal a forbidden scroll, the entire Anbu is looking for you, and Sarutobi-sama is ready to tear open a new one in whoever stole it, and all you can say is hi!!? What on earth possessed you to steal it!??"

Naru looks down sheepishly. "Well, Mizuka, sensei said if I could learn one of the techniqes on this scroll, I could finally pass..."

*sigh* "Naru..."

"Good job, Naru."

Suddenly, several shuriken flew out of the trees, aimed at Naru. Iruka quickly jumped in the way, allowing them to hit him in the back.

"Arrg. You ok Naru?"

"Iruka, sensei.."

"Ever the bleeding heart Iruka." Mizuki jumps into view on a tree branch. "The kid's a flop. He'll never get anywhere. He is easy to manipulate, though. Just tell him it will help him become hokage, and he's putty in your hands."

"Mizuki, you traitor!"

"Yep. I wanted the scroll, but there was no way I could get to it. Naru, however, was just small enough to fit." Mizuki said with a smirk. "However, Naru. You can't trust Iruka, either. After all, he blames you for his parent's death."

"What?? Why, I never..."

Don't you dare, Mizuki. Don't you DARE!!" warned Iruka.

"12 years ago, there was a giant fox demon destroying the whole fire nation. The forth hokage was only able to stop it by sacrificing his life to seal it in a baby. You. You ARE the demon fox!"

"Wha..."

"Naru, run. Get the scroll out of here! I'll take care of-"

While Iruka was distracted, Mizuki took a super shuriken off his back, and threw it at him, hitting him square in his back.

"Ack!" Iruka fainted. It's Super Effective!

Naru catches Iruka, and lets him down slowly, and chexks his pulse. "Whew, he's still alive."

"Now..." Mizuki says as he removes the other super shuriken. "Hand over the scroll, and you can walk away."

Naru sets down the scroll, which is as long as his arm, and as big as his head. She then procedes through hand signs, preparing her new jutsu. "There is a reason you can't pass the exam, you know. It's because your not fIT TO BE A NINJA!!" He exclaims as he throws his super shuriken.

"Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!!" Suddenly 1000 copies of Naru appear, one in the path of the shuriken, taking the blow.

"Whaa... how did you!???"

"Turns out, all it took was practice. And being kinda pissed!" Naru says. "AAAAAARG" All 1000 Narus attack Mizuki at once, more than overwhelming him. 20 minutes later, Mizuki is laying on the ground, a bloody mess. "That'll teach you to make fun of the future hokage!" Says Naru as she disbands her clones. She hurries over to Iruka and carefully takes the shuriken out of his back.

"Arg!" Iruka, breathing hard, crawls to the nearest tree, and uses it to sit up. "Naru, I told you to-" He stops when he sees Mizuki. "Holy crap! Naru, did you do that!?"

"Yep, and watch this!" Naru focuses her chakra and... "Shadow clone Jutsu!" Another 9 Narus appear. "So, Sensei, do I pass!?"

Iruka chuckles. "Yea, Naru. You pass. Here." He offers Naru his own ninja headband "Your symbol of status as a ninja. come to class 105 Next monday for teams. Now, help me up. we need to take Mizuki and myself to the hospital."

Unknown to anyone, the entire scene was being watched by girl with long blond hair. "Chachamaru, do you copy? over." She says into her headset as she watches them leave.

"Yes mistress, I read you, over."

"Tell hubby, we found our target. over." she says with a grin.

"Very well, mistress. Shall I tell Neji as well?"

"FOR THE LAST TIME NO. I FINALLY GOT RID OF HIM, I DON'T WANT TO SEE HIM AGAIN, YOU STUPID ROBOT!!"

"I'm sorry mistress." 'Maybe I can change her mind tomorrow...' Chachamaru thinks.

-------------------------------3 days later, Monday------------------------------

Naru's alarm goes off...again. For the third time, she reaches to hit the snooze, only to fall out of bed.

"owchie. What time is it?" The clock reads 9:55 "Oh shit! I've only got 5 minutes!" She grabs her clothes, a black tracksuit with an orange collar, and runs out the door, dressing as she goes. "Shit! Shit!! SHIT! I'm gonna be late!!" She exclaimes as she finally puts her pant on. Still running while she puts on her shirt, she runs right into someone. "Ow! Sorry, I was in a rush and..." She stops, as she sees who she ran into. A girl with long pink hair, held back by her headband. She wears a red half-dress, and green shorts. She's in the middle of getting up, when she responds.
"It's ok. I wasn't looking where I was going either. But I don't have time to talk. I've got to go! See ya!" She runs off. 'Too bad too, she was really cute. Oh well, probably not my type anyway!' She thought as she ran.

Naru gets back up, and as she hurries to the classroom, she thinks 'What was that about? Sure was cute, though! Too bad. I'm probably not her type anyway.'

She runs through the door, just as the bell rings, but can't stop before she runs straight into the Iruka's desk. "Naru, just in time! Take you seat, and we will begin."

"Why no sympathy, sensei?" whines Naru, still holding her head. Suddenly a hand came into her field of vision. She looks up, and sees the pink-haired girl from earlier.

"Look like we're in the same class! My name is Sakura, what's yours?"

"Get seated you two. You can introduce yourselves later" says an annoyed Iruka.

"There's an empty seat next to mine!" said Sakura with a smile. Naru got up, and followed her to their seats.

"All right! Everyone will be assigned to teams of 3 genin and an instructor. I'll call out your names, and your instructor's name. Team one..." While waiting for Iruka to call their names, Naru and Sakura sized each other up. Naru had fair skin, long, bright blond hair, toned legs, and fairly large breasts, E cups. Sakura, as mentioned, has long pink hair, slightly pale skin, her most prominent feature being her forehead. 'Holy crap, she's cute!' they both thought.

"Team 7: Uzumaki, Naru; Haruno, Sakura; Uchiha, Sasuke."

"Forget it." Said a dark haired boy with a scary serious face. "I'm not gonna be in a team with a couple of bimbos."

"What did you just say!!?" Yelled Sakura. "Come here and say it to my face!!"

"Please settle down, Sakura. Fine, If you feel that strongly, I guess someone I can choose someone else." He says as he looks down at his chart. "Hyuga, Hinata, you're on team 7. Your instructor is... huh. That's unusual. You have two: one who focuses on taijutsu and one who focuses on other jutsus. Anyway, your instructor's names are Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez and Evangeline McDowell. Team 8..."

After all the teams were made, each were told to go to a place each, 7:00 in the morning the next day.

---------------------------after class------------------------

Team 7 was walking out of the building, talking.

"I can't believe I get to train with my cousin!" said Sakura.

"Cousin? I thought the Hyuga clan kept "purity of the blood" or something like that." said Naru.

"Well," started Hinata, "I'm not really supposed to know this, but one of the branch families' sons fell in love with a woman named Sakeri, Sakura's grandmother. The clan banished him for it, and had a daughter, Sakura's mom. So, while not really being of the same clan, we are very distant cousins."

"And unfortunately, my mother and I are mostly non-Hyugan."

"What do you mean "Mostly"?" asked Naru.

"Play your cards right, and you'll find out, cutie!" said Sakura, blushing slightly, though Naru blushed deeply.

"Th-thanks. you're pretty cute too." Responded Naru, making Sakura blush as deeply as her. Hinata was blushing too, not only because she is unused to hearing such things, but because she thought Naru was cute too.

"Well, this is my house!" Says Hinata, as they are passing a mansion. Naru stops and her jaw drops to the ground.

"H-Hinata, your in the main branch family!?" Exclaimed Naru. Hinata nods shyly. "Awesome. You're so lucky, Hinata! you must be waited on hand and foot!"

"It-it's not really all that special. I mean, um, I've got to go before father scolds me for being late! Excuse me!" Hinata runs inside the gates and for the front door.

"Nice going Naru!"

"What?"

"You just scared her off! I can't believe you. *sigh* She's pretty cute though, eh?"

"Eh!!? What about me? You said I was cute!"

"Relax, I'm entitled to my opinion, besides, it's not like we're going out yet or anything!"

"Yet?"

Sakura starts blushing again. "Well, I mean, that is... oh, look! My house! See you tomorrow!"

Naru chuckles "Yeah, see ya!" Then his stomache growls. "Oooh, I haven't eaten all day! Time to stop by Ichiraku's!" She detours from home and heads tward their stand. As she comes close, she began to smell the ramen. Her stomach rumbled again. She sprinted the last few yards, and slid to a stop in front, and entered.

"Oh, Naru welcome! Your ramen will be ready in a sec!" said Ayame

"But, I just got here..."

"We heard about your graduation, and were expecting you to come, as always. Here!" She sets an extra large bowl down in front of her. "Graduation Special! Made just for you, on the house!" Ayame winks, and returns to cooking.

"Aaaah! Thanks so much Ayame!" Says Naru, just before she starts eating. Naru can usually down an entire bown within 5 minutes, but this one was big, and took her a whole 30! When she finished, she thanked Ayame, and headed home, not realising just how her intructors were gonna change her life."

------------------------Tuesday, 7:09---------------------------------

"I can't believe they're late!"

Naru, Sakura, and Hinata were waiting on a bridge, waiting for their instructors.

"Allright, munchkins! Listen up!!" They hear a voice coming from the arc above the bridge. They look up to see a wiry man with short blue hair, blue eyes, wearing a white shirt, pants, and open coat, with a black belt. Attached to the belt is a sword. "I'm your instructor! You will call me Grimmjow-sensei or Grimm-sensei. Are we clear."

Sakura made the first mistake. "Your the one who's late! why are you yelling at us!?" she yelled. Before anyone could even blink, he had her by the throat, writhing in the air.

"LIsten, little girl. I don't care how you treat your comrads, but I am your superior! And you will respect me as such. Understood?" Grimm said coldly. Sakura slowly nods. "Good." He releases her; she drops to the ground, gasping for air. "Come, we're going to the training field. Eva is already waiting."

"Eva, Grimm-sensei?" asks Naru as they walk.

"Evangeline. Call her Eva-sensei, or you'll wish I were as merciful as I was with Sakura." explained Grimm. "Also, by any means, DO NOT call her Kitty. You may not live if you do, understand?" All three genin nod, and walk the rest of the way in silence.

---------------------------later, at the training grounds-------------------------

As they reach the training ground, a blond blur comes at them, stopping at Grimmjow. "Oh, hubby! You're finally back! Chachamaru is such boring company!" She looks at the genin, as if noticing them for the first time. Each are staring questioning at her, wonder what's happening. They see she has long blond hair, blue eyes, and is wearing a thin, black, knee-length dress, the top ending just under her armpits.  "So, these are this years students?"

"Yeah. Should we do the usual?"

"Of course. Our most powerful students always come from it."

"Very well. Alright, shrimps. Before we do any real training, a trust exercise. You two, get directly behind Naru, and I mean close!" They do as they are told, nearly touching each other. Naru could swear she feels something hard in Sakura's pocket. "Now, close your eyes!" They do. "Eva here is behind you now. on the count of 3, I want you to fall back, and the person behind you will catch you. Ready? 1...2..." A 6th sense kicked in Naru, and she opened her eyes, just as Grimmjow said "3!!" She saw him just in time to see his blade go right through her chest to the hilt, piercing the other 2 as well. Grimm notices this. See you in a sec, assuming you live." He sais with a smirk. Everything starts looking fuzzy, until, finally, Naru passes out.