Chapter 1
You were the daughter of a junkie and you had no father. Always running away from your home, until one day you got hit by a car and well, you died.
You squint your eyes open and the first thing you see an unfamiliar yet familiar ceiling. You let your eyes wander across the small room-your heart skips a beat when you catch a glimpse of someone sleeping on the other side of the room. You stare at the small figure with wide eyes.
“I-Is this…” You jump out of the bed and look at the bewitching landscape through the closest window and a small gasp leaves your lips.
“Holy fuck...Am I in the Hidden in the Leaf?!”
Your eyes land on a small miroir at the opposite side of the room and you freeze in place at the sight of the reflection looking back at you..
You brush your finger through your scarlet hair, a pair of azure eyes glare back at you, confusion written all over your feature. You pinch your arm trying to figure if you were dreaming, but no, you’re truly a kid.
“Nora? Why are you already up at this hour? You don’t go to the Academy anymore and your new teacher asked you to meet him at the training ground 7 at six in morning, you know?” Naruto says in a cute morning voice.
“Wait...NARUTO?! What the actual fuck is happening here!” You try to answer Naruto, but the words get caught in your throat.
“Nee-chan why are you looking at me like that?”
“Nee-chan..” You squeeze your eyes shut when your head starts to pound-white flashes appear behind your eyelids. Memories of you and Naruto comes crashing down on you in waves. As fast as it came, the pain is gone. You clear your throat.
“Yeah, I know I wanted to make your breakfast before I went training.” You blurt out as an excuse, hoping he won’t ask any question.
“Oh, thanks! You’re the coolest sister in the whole world, believe it!” He says with a big grin across his face.
“How did I end up here...” You stare confusedly at your scarlet hair, but a small grin appears on your face. You love the series as well as the mangas-Naruto being one of your favourite characters.
“Hey, Ruto?”
“Yeah?”
“I know this might sound weird, but how old are we?” Naruto eyebrows frown slightly.
“We just turned ten like two weeks ago. Why?”
“Don’t worry about it.” His eyebrows crease even more but he doesn't push it.
“So in a little more than one year and a half, Naruto will be a genin and the story will begin for real. Mmh I wonder who my teacher will be…” You push the thought out of your mind, anyways you will meet them in about 2 hours, there’s no need to stress about it yet.
“I hope more of my memories will come back, because I will need to base myself only on muscle memory for ninjutsu and taijutsu until then…”
You cook some egg and bacon for breakfast. You eat quickly and hop in the shower directly after. There's only one hour left. You change your pyjamas for a black crop top with a long-sleeved mesh shirt underneath and a mid-thigh black skirt, slit on the right side, with some knee-length leggings. You put white tape on your thigh like the jonins in the show and two pouches filled with kunais, senbons and shirrukens attached on each of your hips. You put on your leaf's headband around your waist, the fabric is red like your hair instead of navy blue which puts a little color in your all-black outfit. You finish your look by putting on a pair of black boots and your hair up in two french braids. You leave even if you're early, either way, finding your direction is going to be quite a challenge.
Even if you left thirty minutes before necessary, you're still late. Well, it isn't really your fault, you struggled to find your way and no one wanted to give you direction. Not that you were surprised.
Strangely, the training ground is empty when you arrive.
“I guess I’m just lucky, if my teacher would've been there already, I could've been in trouble…”
Two hours and a half passed since you arrived and no one showed up.
“Maybe Naruto mixed up the dates and I didn’t have any training today? Or maybe I'm at the wrong training ground? It could be honestly, it’s really weird that-” A sudden mouvement close to you pulls you out of your thoughts.
“Sorry for the delay, I’m afraid I got lost on the path of life.”
You turn your head so quickly when you hear the voice that you almost snap your neck and your jaw drops on the floor in realization.
“IS KAKASHI HATAKE MY TEACHER? What have I done so the universe blessed me with such things..” A big grin spreads on your face.
“I'm Uzumaki Nora, nice to meet you. Sorry for my ignorance but, who are you?” You ask innocently as if you don't know who is in front of you already.
“Hatake Kakashi, but Kakashi-sensei will do the trick. Did you already stretch?” He says, as emotionless as you imagined him all these years.
“Yes, I have been here for the past two hours, it gets boring.” You say with a hint of reproach in your voice, but he couldn’t care less if his late arrival makes you upset or not.
“Good. I want you to run three laps around the village, starting now.” You stare at him as if he's mad, but he doesn't even look back at you as he pulls out his ‘Icha Icha’ and leans against the nearest tree. You sigh and start to run.
The second lap of your warm up isn't even done, but your legs already feel like they're made out of jelly and your stomach is grunting as if you're going to throw up. Even so you keep going, well it's not like you really have a choice anyways.
You finish your laps and head back. When you arrive at the training ground, Kakashi is still reading.
“Took you long enough. We will need to work on your speed if you ever wish to be my student.”. He throws you a water bottle and two protein bars.
“Catch your breath and we will spare. I want to test your skills.” He stands up as he closes his book and stretches. His arm muscles flex under his shirt gracefully-you drool a little at the sight.
“God he’s hot, I would jump him with no hesitation, well if I wasn’t goddamn ten years-old.”
You roll your eyes, going through puberty for a second time doesn't really sound appealing to you. You walk until you're in front of him about six feet away. Flexing your knees, your body unconsciously gets in a fighting stance.
“Start.”
He says simply before he's off without a second warning. You notice he already took out a kunai. Quickly, you reach in your left pouch for a few shirrukens-one in between each fingers-and block his attack with them.
“I’m so lucky that my body didn’t forget how to fight. Though, he is attacking me like he wants to kill me. I should also get serious, I died once and that's enough for me.”
He's aiming a punch at your stomach, but before he could hit you, you jump backward.
“I need to keep a certain distance between the both of us until I’m able to find a strategy, that's saying I can find one.”
You attach chakra threads on each of the shirrukens you used to block his previous attack and also attach some on four other shirruken in your left hand. You throw all of them at the same time.
Kakashi easily deviates their trajectory with his kunai, but you pull sharply on the threads and all the shirrukens implante themself in his back. You were anticipating at least a splash of blood, but he disappears, leaving only a log behind.
“Damn it!” You curse. “Where is that sneaky bastard...” You look around you, but you can’t seem to find him.
“I thought we were sparring, not playing hide and seek?” You say out loud with a bit of arrogance.
“Maybe provocation will make him come out of his hiding spot.”
Suddenly there's a sound of...Chirping. You know instantly that it’s his Chidori.
"Great. Fucking great."
Unconsciously, your hands join together and make seals. Tiger, Hare, Boar, Dog and slam your hand on the ground, smirking.
“Earth Style: Mud Wall!” You almost burst out laughing when you see his eyebrow frowned in total confusion.
“Wondering how the hell I have a jutsu that only a few people, including you and the Third Hokage, in Konoha can do, sensei?” You bite your tongue so you won't say it out loud.
You pour almost a third of your chakra in the ground, in an attempt to solidify the wall. When his Chidori come in contact with your defence, you can feel the ground tremble with the force of the impact. You jump back as he pierce directly through your jutsu.
“Okay, maybe provocation wasn't a really smart thing to do. I will admit, it wasn’t one of my brightest ideas, but it was down right hilarious though.”
He deactivates his jutsu and quickly starts running in your direction, making hand signs. Your mind tells you that it’s a fire jutsu.
“Not good, really not good…” You make the Dragon, Tiger and Hare signs as fast as you can manage.
“Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!”
“Water Style: Raging Waves!”
You both shout at the same time as your water collides with his fire. Even if you put almost all of the chakra you have left in your jutsu, his fire isn’t dying. You grunt, getting annoyed. You try to jump back, but it only results in you dropping on your knees.
“Damn it, I’m almost out of chakra. I probably won't have enough for a proper jutsu but I really need to move quickly or I’m soon going to be burned to the crisp.”
You enhance the resistance of a string by putting the last bit of your chakra in it. You swiftly attach one end to your right wrist and the other end to a kunai. You throw it as hard as you can, lodging it in a tree not so far from you and you pull on the string. You are propelled towards the tree, but you're unable to stop yourself mid-air so you collide with the wood-a grunt leaves your lips at the impact.
“Maybe I pulled too hard, huh?” You wince painfully as you try to sit up.
“Shit, I think I might have cracked a ribs or two…” You hear footsteps coming closer to you as you lift your head.
“Doing okay down there?” Kakashi asks with arrogance lacing his voice as he looks at you. A cocky smirk visible behind his mask.
You snort. “I’m fine but if you ask that to my ribs, you might receive a different answer. Not like you care anyways, huh?” He sighs.
“Go to the hospital to get checked up and drop the attitude, will you? I’m trying to be kind here.”
“You’re the one to talk. You almost sliced and burned my ass like five minutes ago.”
“Well I didn’t, did I? You got hurt by literally throwing yourself in a tree if you need a reminder.” You can hear him getting annoyed, but it only makes him funnier to upset.
“If I didn’t have to make a wall to protect myself from getting cut in half, then maybe I could have used another jutsu to escape, huh? Oh and by the way, how can you spit fire through your mask? I'm impressed.” You wink playfully.
“Talking about the mud wall. Where did you learn this jutsu?” He raises his eyebrown quizzically, completely brushing off your question.
“A magician never reveals her secret.” It’s now your turn to smirk, happy that you catch his attention.
“If you say so. I guess that if you have nothing else to say, I will take my leave. Meet me tomorrow morning at six on training ground 9.” He disappears in a cloud of smoke before you are able to respond.
“Great. Now I need to go to the hospital.” You huff as you stand up.