Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruko The Hanyou Kunoichi ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2:

Slowly stirring to the sound of a bird happily chirping away, "Hmmm," moaned Naruko while rubbing sleep from her eyes.

"Damn bird, do you always have to chirp from right outside my window," she said softly in a tired voice while dragging her feet to the window.

Opening the window and waving her arms around, "Stupid bird and look the sun is barely up yet," she sighed.

"No matter what I try I always wake up just before the sun comes up," whined Naruko.

Impatiently tapping her fingers on the table while waiting for the three minutes it takes for the ramen to cook.

'Need to go and hunt today I've run out of meat. Need to thank Kyū-chan for the advice on hunting. Not only do I get free food but also the pelts I get from my catches really do help to bring in some extra pocket money,' Naruko thought while making a mental note to thank Kyūbi.

"No need to thank me kit you the one that come up with the idea after seeing those hunters wearing animal pelts. Beside you already thanked me two and a half years ago when I taught you how to hunt," replied Kyūbi impressed with the idea of selling the pelts.

'Oh you up, morning Kyū-chan and hey thanks is due where thanks is due. Though that reminds me I haven't thanked Inu-san. He offered to buy me my clothes for me, all I need to do is leave a note in the box by my front door saying what clothes I want along with the money needed and poof the next day I have clothes in the box,' Naruko remembered while getting ready to shower.

"Oh look I have my third tail now, wonder what I get with this one," Naruko said finally noticing the additional tail.

Naruko is now a fifty one inch seven year old. Her hair now reaches towards the middle of the back. She has lost all baby fat and is a bit more defined body build than normal kids her age, muscles on her carves and biceps are slightly visible.

Kitsunes tend to develop early on thus making her seem a few years old than she really is.

The last few years have been different she doesn't get abused as much as she used to now that she is able to comfortably outrun the mobs and few occasional chūnins, though luckily enough she doesn't get chased by jōnin thanks to Inu, Neko and Taka.

Neko has been the one that helps Naruko sell her pelts to the ANBU as they have plenty of uses for them. Her house still gets damaged fairly often more so on her birthday, which is also the same date which Kyūbi attacked the village.

Naruko and Kyūbi have become closer over the last few years, Naruko making it a habit of speaking to Kyūbi inside the seal every night or if there is nothing to say she just spends time with Kyūbi before she goes off to sleep.

Kyūbi has come to acknowledge Naruko as a friend though hasn't admitted it to her yet. Climbing out the shower while wrapping a towel around her she makes her way to her closet to change into her new regular attire.

"Kit you better hurry up the hunting because if you remember it's your first day at the academy today,"Kyūbi warned seeing has it looks like Naruko has completely forgotten about it.

"Oh shit, I totally forgot, thanks for reminding me Kyū-chan," Naruko said frantically, proving Kyūbi's point, while quickly putting on her clothes and running out her door while still tying her ribbons on to her pigtails.

Her new attire consists of a black long sleeved tight shirt with an orange sleeveless-jacket vest over her shirt (same design as Yoruichi from Bleach), with long black skin tight pants that reach to her ankles.

Her tails wrapped around her waist making it look like a belt with black boots that reach to her mid-carves, slim and tight enough that the pants and boots look like its one piece.

-Few hours later-

'I still have an hour before class starts. Should still go and hang around school and see all who is starting with me this year,' Naruko thought while making her way to the academy trying to imagine what her first day will be like.

"You should memorise the scents of all your classmates and teachers, you never know what might happen.”

“Also when your day is done go to one of the training grounds preferable one that is unoccupied as now that you have your third tail I will teach you what ability that comes with it and how to use it," Kyūbi half warned and told.

'Will do though the way you said that sounds creepy. So what is it you are going to teach me and I thought you said I had to figure out what abilities I get with each tail. I have only figured out that the second tail highly increased my agility and flexibility. Still haven't figured what other abilities I have just that with each tail my strength and stamina increase several fold,' Naruko replied.

"You will find out after school what I have in store," Kyūbi said in a voice that slightly scared Naruko, "And yes I did tell you to figure it out but this specific ability you might not figure out due to what they will be teaching you at the academy. Now go on get, class starts in about twenty minutes," Kyūbi said so he can go and prepare for this afternoon's training.

Entering the class and stopping at the entrance, 'Interesting design I'll admit,' Naruko said while taking note of the design of the class.

The entrance to the classroom seems to be the back of the classroom with three rows of tables and chairs long enough to comfortably sit three people per table. Each row has four columns of tables each one being a step lower than the next the highest being the back row.

On the other side of the entrance are windows that give a view of a tree with a swing to the far right near the front of the class. Next to the tree on the left are six wooden figure posts with a target on the centre of the post, each post is about two human adults’ width worth of space between them, with a wooden fence behind them.

At the front of the class is a podium in the centre on slightly raised inch tall platform, the same width as the blackboard behind the podium. The blackboard takes up three quarters of the wall.

To the left of the podium near the window is a single wide desk with a single chair next to it facing towards the podium.

Heading towards the desk at the very back of the class in this case is in front of her near the window. Naruko takes a seat closest to the window and looks around the class and notes a few people, around eight in the class including her but only takes proper note of a few people.

In the front of the class on the far side next to the wall Naruko sees Hyuuga Hinata. Hinata is two inches shorter then Naruko; she has short dark blue hair with two braids in the front on either sides of her face. She wears a brown grey baggy jacket with navy blue baggy pants that reach her mid shins with blue shinobi sandals.

'So Hina-chan is in this class, it has been a while since I last saw her. Last time I saw her was two years ago when I her saved from those bullies,' Naruko thought while thinking of the time she saved her from those three bullies.

At the desk in front of his the row next his in the middle of the desk is the bug boy that she hears from everyone on how disgusting he is and that one should remain as far away from him as possible.

'Hmm that's Shino if I recall his name correctly don't know the family name though. Wonder if what everyone says its true about him, he seems normal to me, though does smell like bugs but that doesn't bother me smelt far worse things than that,' Naruko thought wondering what all the fuss is about him. From what Naruko can see Shino is wearing a light green jacket with the hood up.

Lastly the boy in in front of her has Black hair and seems to have a hint of blue to it as it shines and reflects the sun. He is wearing a short blue sleeve shirt with a symbol on the back that looks like a lollipop, the top half being red and the bottom half being white, along with what seems like white pair short pants from the view Naruko can see.

'So this is the Uchiha that I hear so often about, he seems good looking enough, not sure what the hype is about though,'Naruko thought while wondering why the boy is so popular and Kyūbi growls at this.

'Kyūbi is there something I should be aware of this boy?' she asked after hearing the quite aggressive growl from Kyūbi.

"No maybe not yet, though do keep an eye on him the Uchiha's and I do not have a happy history. And no I will not say anymore," Kyūbi warned and said towards the incoming question as to why their past isn't a happy one.

As Naruko finishes her thoughts two boys walk into the room. The boy on the right has black hair tied up making it look like a pineapple and also has brown eyes. He is wearing a grey short sleeve jacket that's not zipped up with green hems on the edges of the jacket.

On each sleeve of the jacket is a big blue open circle. Underneath is a chain-mail mesh sleeveless shirt with dark brown long pants that reach his shins with blue shinobi sandals.

His hands are in his pockets and has a lazy attitude look on his face and body language. The boy next to him is a slightly plumb boy with a packet of chips in his hands. He has light brown spiky hair that stands up and black eyes with a swirl mark on each cheek.

He is wearing an open plain grass-green short sleeve shirt with a white shirt underneath with his clan symbol printed out big on the front with a white scarf around his neck. On both of his forearms are bandages that cover the palm of his hands and reach towards his elbows.

To complete the outfit he is wearing short brown pants with bandages on both legs that starts at his knees and reach to where his blue shinobi sandals start.

They both make their way to where Naruko is sitting. The black haired boy sits next to her and the plumb boy on the other side. "Hey I haven't seen you around the village before our names are Nara Shikamaru and my friend here is Akimichi Chouji. Are you new to the village?" asked the now identified black haired boy known as Shikamaru said in a friendly tone.

"Oh hey no I was born in this village. I just tend to avoid contact and stay out of sight from most people. The name is Uzumaki Naruko nice to meet you," Naruko replied slightly happy that these kids don't actually know who she is.

'Actually on that thought none of these kids have reacted to me in anyway so far unlike the rest of the adults. Wonder why?' Naruko suddenly realizing this.

"Yo good to meet you," responded Chouji while crunching away on his chips.

"Naruko huh? Nice to meet you to. You seem just like me, to troublesome to bother with anyone else," Shikamaru replied while holding his hand out.

Naruko taking hold of it and shaking it replies, "Yea something like that. So you want to be a ninja as well?" Naruko asked quickly changing the subject on why she avoids people.

Shikamaru noticing the sudden change in subject and decides to leave it at that. "Not really but my troublesome family said I must. Sigh and at least this way I can keep an eye on my friend here," Shikamaru replies while point his thumb to his friend next to him.

With class now full, the teacher walks in ending the conversations between everyone. As soon as the teacher takes his first step down between the rows a boy with a dog in his jacket coming running into the class nearly knocking the teacher over. The boy with the dog has dark brown spiky hair with black slit like eyes and on each cheek is a upside down red curved triangle making look like a fang. He is wear a grey zipped up long sleeved jacket, to keep the dog from falling out, with the hood up. The jacket has black fur on the edges of his hood and at the end of his sleeves. He is also wearing brown long pants that reach his shins with blue shinobi sandals. The dog from what Naruko can see is a white grey dog with long flappy ears and the dog is clearly small if it can fit in his jacket like that.

"You're lucky I only consider someone late when I'm standing in the front of the class, make sure next time you are hear a few minutes earlier alright," the teach calmly advised the boy.

"Yes sensei, sorry sensei won't happen again," the boy said sounding out of breath.

"Right class I'm Umino Iruka, please call me sensei or Iruka-sensei. You're life now begins at this academy where you will be taught all that you need to know on how to be a ninja. You're classes will include Ninjutsu theory, shuriken and kunai handling, Taijutsu, fitness and obstacle course training, mathematics, history and later the class will be split into girls and boys. The girls will have an additional class on being kunoichi and the boys will go to a class on being a shinobi and for the last year a sex-education class which will also split the class into separate genders," Iruka lectured to the class.

'So this is Iruka-sensei that jiji said he would personally make my homeroom teacher. Well I trust jiji's judgement on this, will just have to see how it goes,' Naruko thought remembering what the Hokage said to her about getting personally appointed homeroom teacher.

"Right well now we will begin class registration please respond appropriately when you name is called," Iruka said while picking up the class register.

"Aburame Shino?"

"Hai!"

'So it's Aburame Shino, the current clan heir for his clan,' Naruko thought hearing his name being called out.

"Akimichi Chouji?"

"Hai!"

Few names later…

"Haruno Sakura?"

"Hai sensei!"

'Haruno? A non-clan female interesting,' Naruko thought when the girl with pink hair sitting next to the Uchiha answered.

"Hyuuga Hinata?"

"Hai," Hinata said softly and nervously.

'Still lacks self-confidence I see? Wonder why, she seems stronger then she lets on and has more determination than any other kid I've seen,' Naruko thought trying to figure out why she is so abnormally shy.

"Inuzuka Kiba?"

"Hai!" replied Kiba with a bark following afterwards.

"Excited too ey Akamaru?" Kiba asked to the bark, followed by another happy bark.

'So dog boy there is Kiba. Inuzuka, explains the dog that follows him along with the traits and smell of dogs I pick up from him,' thought Naruko.

Few names later…

"Nara Shikamaru?"

"…"

"Nara Shikamaru?" Iruka said louder.

"…"

Naruko looks to her left right to see him sleeping, rolling her eyes she shakes and tries to wake him up while thinking, 'Damn lazy ass fell asleep already.'

"Oi baka wake up!" Naruko says while frantically shaking the lazy ass.

"Hmmm?" Shikamaru groans.

"Nara Shikamaru?"

"Hmm oh, hai," the Nara replies lazily.

"I advise not to fall asleep next time," Iruka warns while the Nara just nodes and mumbles something inaudible before putting his head back down again.

"Uchiha Sasuke?"

"Hai," Sasuke replies with slight happiness in his voice followed by a lot of love sighs and all the girls turning towards him the hearts in their eyes.

'What the? This class is filled with fangirls the only girl not to drool over him is Hinata. Honestly I don't get what is so great about him,' Naruko thought slightly annoyed and confused.

"Uzumaki Naruko?" Iruka calls out and instantly look towards her with a fake smile and cold hate filled eyes.

"Hai!" Naruko responds.

'There is that look again. Hmm so he is just like the rest, so much for the hope of a pleasant homeroom teacher,' Naruko thought sadly and with a bit of anger.

"Last but not least, Yamanaka Ino?"

"Hai~" Ino sings back.

'Wow she is pretty, wonder how long she spends on her hair,' Naruko thought while looking at the yellow blond girl who has her hair done in a ponytail that reaches to the middle of her back that is sitting next to Sakura.

'Wow seven clan heirs, this class seems to have the potential for a strong generation,' she thought looking at all the clan heirs in the class.

"Now that that's done. Right so I will be your homeroom teacher so if you need anything you may come to me for help. I will also be your Ninjutsu theory, shuriken and kunai handling, Taijutsu and obstacle course training teacher. Mizuki-sensei will be your mathematics and history teacher along with as the teacher for the boys' shinobi class. Suzume-sensei with be your sex-ed teacher along with being the girls kunoichi teacher," Iruka once again lectured to the class.

-During the Ninjutsu class-

"Can anyone tell me what chakra is?" Iruka asked the class. Only one person put their hand up.

"Yes Sakura," Iruka nodded to her.

"Chakra is the molding of two different energies within the body. Physical energy comes from stamina which can be obtained and increased through hard work and physical training. Mental energy or spiritual energy comes from the mind and one's conscious which can be obtained and increased through studying, meditation and experience. Molding these two energies in perfect unison is what creates chakra," Sakura happily and with pride answered the question.

"Well done Sakura that's a hundred percent correct but if the two energies are not mixed in perfect unison the jutsu being used will fail or not be fully effective," Iruka praised Sakura.

'Wow a book nerd, so she is rather smart in those terms but wonder how she will fair physical,' Naruko thought towards the textbook like answer Sakura gave.

-Later that afternoon-

"Well that was a down right crap day. The only classes I was actually allowed in were Iruka-sensei's class the rest kicked me out. At least with my hearing I could still clearly hear what they said. Need to take my texts book out with me next time," Naruko said with a sigh.

She really had a bad first day from being kicked out of the classes before they even began for no reason, though see knew what the real reason for it was. Coming up to an empty training ground she sat underneath a tree having a short rest from her daily exercise of running as fast as she can around the village until she could no longer move and then tries to complete a lap afterwards.

'Hmm all this running is paying off I can now run three times longer than what I could when I first started and now I can complete a lap around Konoha when I'm at my limit, Wonder if that's now my new limit,' Naruko thought happily and pleased with her progress.

"Kit I told you running around will be worth it. Running like that only increases your stamina and helps define your muscles, you only gain minimal strength from it. Now that you have started going to the academy you should start adding strength training to your schedule, ask Inu to get you some weights for your legs, arms and chest," Kyūbi said to her, "And don't think too much about you getting kicked out of class, there is not much you can do about it, you can go and speak with the old man though I think it might make things worse."

'Yosha I get to up my training routine, I can't wait!' Naruko excitedly thought.

'And thanks Kyū-chan, if they carry on doing that for the rest of the week I will go speak with jiji,' Naruko gratefully replied back to Kyūbi.

'So what is it you wanted to teach me?' asked Naruko.

"I will be teaching the thing that makes us kitsunes standout from the rest of the demons. Transformation or better as known as shape-shifting," Kyūbi replied with great pride in his voice.

'Shape-shifting? WOW THAT'S SUPER COOL! I can do that? Wow that's really cool,' Naruko Shouted in her mind while jumping around.

Shaking his head Kyūbi tried to calm down Naruko so they could get underway, "Alright calm down kit," and with that Naruko calmed down and sat back down underneath the tree.

"First there are a few things you must taking note. While you are able to shape-shift into just about anything you can think of you must remember what you change into you will only look like that and will not have its abilities unless it's an animal. So to better explain this, the Hyuuga as you know are known for their use of the Byakugan. If you change into one you can make it look like you have the Byakugan active but you will not be able to see what they see when it is activated you will still have your normal vision. Do you understand so far?" the Kyūbi asked.

'Yes I do so basically I can change into anything I will still have my own abilities but will not gain any of theirs?' Naruko confirmed.

"Yes that's correct. Now if you say change into an animal you will gain their unique traits on top of yours. Example if you turn into a hawk, you will be able to fly and your vision will be greatly increased, or if you turn into a fish of any kind you will be able to breath underwater, or if you turn into a chameleon you will be able to change your skin colour to match your surroundings. This is because when we change we change at a cellular level and not at DNA level. There was only one kitsune I have seen that could change at a DNA level though never did change in fear for not being able to change back," Kyūbi continue his lecture.

'I see that's pretty cool and sounds very useful,' Naruko replied impressed with what she will be able to do.

"Yes this is what makes kitsunes standout from the rest, other demons can also shape-shift but they don't get anything for it. The last thing you must take note of is these shape-shifts are not indefinite you will change back to your original form. The time you are able to stay in another form is directly related to your stamina and the size of the form is inversely related, this is the price for gaining unique traits of other animals. That being said other demons are able to indefinitely stay in another form. The only form you can stay indefinitely stay in is a fox as it is the natural form of a kitsune. While you are a fox your speed, senses, agility and stealth abilities are increased several folds equal to the number of tails you have not including the first tail. While in any form that does not have hands you will be limited to what you can do with your chakra," said Kyūbi in a serious lecture tone.

'Wow ok that's definitely something to remember,' Naruko said taking heed to the final fact of the limits to what she can do.

"Yes it's very important so remember it as can come back to bite you. The great thing about changing is that it doesn't require chakra or anything as it is a natural ability for a kitsune, other demons require chakra to change. So to change is pretty simply all you do is will yourself into a form you picture in your mind. If you will yourself to change without thinking of anything to change into you will change into a fox, so go ahead and try to change into a fox," Kyūbi ordered.

So Naruko tried and willed herself to change. Slowly her body absorbed her clothes leaving her naked before her body started to contort and crunching could be heard. After around five seconds Naruko was a gold blond fox with three trails. She was the size of a normal dog fair bit smaller than a wolf.

"Well done and in five seconds as well that's very good, the average first time for a demon to change is around seven to ten seconds let alone a hanyou," Kyūbi said impressed with how she quickly she was able to change.

'Wow this is cool, though I'm a bit disorientated with my senses being increased and this feels a bit weird and it hurt quite a bit when changing,' Naruko thought to Kyūbi while admiring her form and walking around a bit trying to get used to the new heightened senses.

"It always hurts when you change the first few times. So for you to get used to this form you should explore around for an hour though don't enter the village no good will come from that,"Kyūbi warned knowing that wild animals don't go wandering into the village and with the village not taking a liking to foxes walking into the village in the form of a fox with more than one tail is bound to cause chaos and trouble.

-An hour later-

"Now that you are more used to this form and increased senses make you way back to the training grounds so we can continue getting you used to changing forms," Kyūbi said seeing that Naruko is a lot more comfortable in this form.

While Naruko was walking towards her destination the Kyūbi explained more details about the shape-shifting ability, "As you change more often and get the hang of changing you will be able to decrease the time it takes to change. The fastest I seen someone change was faster than I could blink. Because you are able to change as fast as you are now I expect you to reach the same level. Knowing you, you would want to try and surpass that level," Kyūbi said with a bit of laughter in his voice.

'Hehehe, you know me too well Kyū-chan and of cause I'm going to surpass that level I always love a challenge,' Naruko shot back with pride while finally making her way back to the tree she originally sat under before the training started.

She quickly reverted back to her human form before sitting down and said, "Well at least I get my clothes back when I change back and don't have to pick them up when I do change that would be slightly annoying."

"That is one of the perks of shape-shifting also any additional weight you have on you when you change will still remain, so only your shape and natural body weight will change so if you do change into a bird you should remove the additional weight if you wish to fly. When you become physical stronger then you won't have to worry about extra weight and if anything it will just help with your training,"Kyūbi add to the list of things that one needs to know when shape-shifting.

For the next hour Naruko continued to change from human to fox and back, practicing and shortening the time in which she is able to change.

"Well done kit you've reduced your transformation time to just under a second, at this rate you should have mastered this within the next few months," Kyūbi said amazed at the rate Naruko is able to decrease her transformation time.

"Enough changing for today for the next hour turn in to an eagle and practice flying and be ready to change into your human form so you can minimise the damage when you fall," Kyūbi warned.

And so for the next hour Naruko was flying around and falling shortly after take-off on the first five to six times. While flying high in the sky, after finally being able to fly without falling like a small rocket, and enjoying the wind rushing past her face, 'THIS IS THE BEST EVER!' Naruko shouted her thoughts at the thrill and rush of flying.

-Naruko's apartment-

Landing in front of her door and changing back into her human form she unlocks her door and heads in. The first thing she does is writes a note to Inu and places it in the box by her door.

'Dear Inu-san

When you have the time could you please buy me a pair of wrist, ankle and chest weights hopefully the same colour as my vest? As I have no clue how much they will cost when you buy them just leave the receipt and I will pay you back the amount.

As for the weight could you give me a weight you think would be best for me to start with, just please also keep in mind that I am a fair bit stronger than most humans my age, if I would guess I'd say I'm as strong as an adult. Could one pair please be double the weight of the first one as I have recently acquired a form that doubles, almost triples my strenght and can stay in that form for as long as I see fit.

I would also like to deeply express my gratitude for the past few years and for all the buying of clothes and other needed things I've need. I would like to thank you in person though, so in the meantime thanks.

Thank you so much!

Your favourite kitsune ninja!'

'Hope Inu-san gets this soon, really looking forward to adding to my training scheme,' thought Naruko happily with yawn towards the end while removing her clothes and wrapping herself with her tails before falling asleep on top of her bed.

-The next morning-

Just as Naruko gets to the door she notices that her delivery box is full so walking up to it she sees that the weights she asked for last night are in the box along with two notes and full ninja weapon set with a two pouches to hold the weapons in.

'Wow that was fast honestly didn't think it would be here already,' she thought surprisingly, seeing that there are two notes from Inu and Taki.

Naruko firsts opens the note from Taki.

'Hello Uzumaki-san

Want to wish you luck for the next few years at the academy. I have left you a full shinobi's gear and pouches as a gift for entering the academy.

I also would like to ask you to look after my bother for me when I'm not around. My brother sat in front of you yesterday, he is also the boy that as bit of a fan group.

Thanks

Taki'

'Oh it's from Taki-san. Your brother does he mean the Uchiha kid?' Naruko wondered who Taki's brother was. Little did she know that the note would be the last one from Taki she ever received.

'So Taki-san is Itachi-san, who knew,' she continued her thought while opens the second note.

'Foxy-chan

Here are the weights you asked for hope you like them. I'm really happy that you are taking your training seriously. The wrist and ankle weights are 20kg each and the vest is 25kg and as you requested the other pair is double the weight. No need to pay me back for the weights they're on the house. The weights work on chakra so if you ever need to increase the weight just feed chakra into them to increase the weight.

I presume the fox and eagle are the new forms you were talking about, I saw them yesterday when you were training. No need to worry only myself, Hokage and the other two ANBU will know about this until you choose to reveal them.

It's a pleasure I'm more than happy to help and I'm sure you will get to thank me in the next few years.

Your favourite shop keeper

Inu'

"Thanks you guys," Naruko said with a happy and wide grin on her face.

"So Inu-san is my shadow for this week?" she observed.

Naruko put on the weights and happy with how they looked. The chest weight looked exactly the same as her normal jacket vest and her weights or the same colour. She puts the on and definitely notices the weight. The wrists weights are orange like her vest they start at her wrists and end halfway up her forearms. Just like her wrists weights her ankle weights are orange and start by her ankles and ends just above halfway up her carves. With her new attire along with the added pouch on her bottom on the right side and a small pouch on the side of her right thigh Naruko heads to school for her second day hopefully it will be better than her first day.