Chapter 4
CHAPTER 4
6 AM the next day Naruto was on her toes. When Jiraiya had returned the previous night he woke her up and explained where he had been, who he was with and why he had gone to them. He spent some time explaining in great detail yet she heard nothing after he mentioned her parents were coming over for lunch.
So when she woke up she made as many clones as she could, only five, and got them to help clean the apartment with her. It was mostly clean with the exceptions being the bathroom, floors and windowsills. After ten or so minutes her and her clones finished cleaning and she released them, instead taking a hold of her god father made adoptive father and dragged him to the shopping district.
She had an idea of what she would be making them; onigiri, sashimi, ramen with chocolate and coffee flavoured cake.
When they returned home she made two clones and they, alongside Jiraiya, started to cook, although it was mostly Naruto cooking whilst the sannin helped cut ingredients.
By 11AM everything was done, save for the cake that would need some extra time in the fridge for the frosting to cool down, and not even a minute after Jiraiya set out the table did the doorbell ring.
As soon as the bell rang Naruto's nerves became on edge, unsure on how she should act. Should she act like a child? Or should she just act like how she is now? She was pretending to be some sort of a protégée so it shouldn't be a problem to act like herself, right?
She was not given any more time to go through her thoughts as her parents walked in. No not parents, brother and cousin.
The two were talking animatedly to Jiraiya till they saw her and she squired under their gaze. It was not a judging gaze nor a glare filled with hatred. It was a simple look you give a person when you meet someone, something all people did yet shinobi did in a more scrutinizing way.
Kushina was the first to stop the awkwardness in the room as she jumped and took a hold of the unsuspecting child and squeezed her to her chest, squealing sentences that Naruto could not make out as she was trying her very hardest to breath within the suffocating hold.
It had taken both Jiraiya and Minato to pry the red head off of the blonde and as she did so, the younger female took large gulps of air in and held a hand to her erratically beating heart.
After some time her heart calmed down and she looked at the two of them. They were very tall so she had to crane her neck up high to see them clearly. Seeing her struggle the two of them crouched down to Naruto's level, Minato extending him hand out with a warm and gentle smile on his face, "Hi. I'm Minato Namikaze, your older brother." When she took hold of his much larger hand she felt a small electric shock course through her body but did not allow that to stop her from forming a small and shy smile. When he released her hand he carried on with introductions, "And this very hyperactive woman who was squeezing you earlier is Kushina Uzumaki. Your cousin, as I'm told. It's nice to meet you."
There was a small lingering silence that Naruto noticed and realized she hadn't introduced herself to them yet, "Um… I'm Naruto Namikaze…" she wasn't sure how to introduce herself to them. These were her parents yet they were not at the same time. She couldn't say she was the rokudaime hokage because there wasn't even a yondaime yet. She couldn't say she was the jinchuriki to the kyuubi as he was sealed into Kushina. So she decided to change topics, children often did that, "I thought… someone else was coming, 'tebayo. With you, I mean." She gave a glance at Jiraiya, out of confusion that she didn't need to fake.
"Ah… You mean Kakashi. He doesn't do very well with strangers and asked to be permitted not to come… I hope that doesn't affect any plans you may have had?" he asked as he looked towards his sensei as well as his sister.
"Not really. I'll just put his plates and stuff away then." The white haired man moved to pick the extra table set away as he asked them all to sit at the table, Naruto refusing as she helped him in pouring the food into bowls for everyone to serve themselves. "The gaki and I made this, well mostly her. She didn't want me cooking, says it would give a person a bad belly for a week." He shrugged as if he took no real offence but there was a small glare pointed in said girl's way.
She shrugged, "It's not my fault you can't cook, ero-sennin." Minato and Kushina both looked at each other as she called the sannin that and when they both confirmed via looks that that was in fact what she did say, they let out belly churning laughs.
Within these laughs Minato was trying to say something but no one could make out what. After a few moments he realized he was making fun of what his little sister said. She could take offence and get really upset about it, so he stopped laughing and took large gulps of air and stood straight. When he fully calmed down he went forwards and ruffled her hair, causing her to shriek and try to fix it, in turn making the two males in the room to chuckle. "Sorry. I didn't mean to offend you or your… choice of name for sensei."
Naruto blinked a few eyes and gave a smile shaking her head that meant she took no offence and picked up the dishes to put them on the table so they could eat.
Lunch was as simple affair, Minato and Kushina asking questions, some of which Naruto answered but mostly Jiraiya did the answering, it was the wisest course of action since she wasn't sure what story he was going to make her follow yet. However most of lunch was filled with stories from the two jonin, from the different missions they did to what Minato was currently teaching team Minato.
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Once lunch was over the two lovers left and the remaining two sages made their way to the academy.
As they went, Naruto noted the various differences that had occurred after the war. Many shops that were there, currently were not there, trees were smaller, many she didn't recognize, houses she didn't recognise were everywhere but she thought that was most likely due to the Kyuubi incident and not the war.
When they reach the academy she noticed one very important object was not there.
The swing that was on one of the trees she would often sit on as a child as she watched parents or family come and collect their loved ones. The swing she would sit on as she heard the families whisper and glare at her for being the jinchuriki. People who she served to protect, who later celebrated when she returned after the war.
So lost in thought she didn't notice her surroundings and ended up bumping into another child, causing them to trip forwards thereby falling on top of the person that the first had been talking to.
Both of them groaned as they got up, as they did so her eyes grew wide as she noticed who they were.
Despite the fact they looked very young, they looked similar to the time during the chunin exams first unofficial test.
Izumo and Kotetsu.
It was when they started to wave their hands in front of her face did she notice a third person. Said person was laughing similarly to how she used to laugh when she was 13, yet this laugh was not covering pain. Seeing this last person made her heart skip a beat 3 times in a row and made her blood run cold.
Obito Uchiha.
The boy who started the fourth war in order to avenge the death of the girl he loved.
Thinking quickly she bowed to the future gate guards, "I am so, soo sorry! I wasn't paying attention to where I was going!" in turn the two of them chuckled and ruffled her hair. People seemed to be very fond of doing that today, she noted.
"No harm done. But you really should watch where you're going. Don't want to get in any trouble now do we, little miss?" said Kotetsu.
She shook her head, "Of course. Thank-you. I'm Naruto, by the way."
"I'm Izumo, and this is Kotetsu. The idiot in the back is Obito." Obito made an indignant noise in the back of his thoat which caused the two other boys to chuckle once again.
"You guys! You gotta stop with that! I am a genin after all!" whined Obito, causing Naruto to let out a small smile on her face as she allowed some ideas on how to stop obito from going psycho run through her mind. "Hey! I've got a question for ya', Naruto. Are you related to Mianto sensei by any chance? You look a lot like him, with the blonde hair and blue eyes. Don't really see much of those here. Well, we do, ya know, the Yamanaka clan have those colours but not striking ones like yours-"
Naruto cut off his rambling and said, "You're Obito Uchiha? The one on the same team as Kakashi and Minato?" she tilted her head to the side as she took in his attire. Orange and blue jumpsuit, most likely with the uchiha fan on the back and a very noticeable pair of orange goggles on. His outfit reminded her an awful lot like her own before she made genin and after, minus the goggles.
She made a mental note to burn all her orange clothes when she got back.
Obitos care free aura changed and his smile turned into a scowl. Like that he looked an awful lot like the Uchiha's she had known as a child. Mostly Sasuke and Itachi. "I am. So…?"
"Um…" she looked to Jiraiya for help. She was still unsure as to whether people outside of their little bubble were allowed to know she was his 'sister'. He gave her a curt nod, "Yeah… I'm his half-sister…"
"Cool! I get to see sensei later and say I met his sister! Hey, have you met Bakashi yet?" he jumped right in her face causing her to jump back and take a protective stance, out of reflex. Though with her none intimidating body, it most likely looked more comical than intimidating.
When she realised what he said, she furrowed her brows. She didn't lie how rude he was being in regards to her sensei but she didn't have any room to talk, she was often rude to Sasuke as well. When she looked back at him, she noticed Izumo and Kotetsu had gone somewhere else and the corridor was mostly empty. Class most likely had begun again.
"That's uh… You mean Kakashi right?" she asked and when he nodded it took a lot of restraint for her not to laugh again. He hadn't even made a comment on her stance.
Why oh why did no one ever think of that name? Herself included?
'Because you fantasized sleeping with him?'
'Once! Maybe twice! And come on! What self-respecting, heterosexual female did not fantasize having Kakashi in bed with her, huh?! Wait, I thought you were gonna be asleep for a while?'
'I was going to but I felt the need to comment. Goodnight, brat.'
"Um no… I haven't met anyone besides you and Minato from your team…"
Before he replied he raised both hands in the air with his hands fisted, clearly happy about something, "Yes! I get to rub it in the temes face!" Naruto used every ounce of control in order to not punch him.
Team Minato and team Kakashi seemed to be very similar, yet they had the roles reversed. Where the Uchiha on team Minato was a load mouthed idiot, the Uchiha on team Kakashi had a stick up the arse, which she assumed Kakashi had. She had heard stories from many people about Kakashi's 'Uchiha slash emo' faze.
To add to the similarities to the two teams, Rin was a medic who happened to have a large crush on the emo of the team. The only difference was that the loudmouth of team Kakashi was sleeping with the emo, which she believed was not the case with team Minato.
She hoped.
Jiraiya chose that moment to interrupt and mention to Obito that Naruto needed to fully register for the academy, so he had let them leave, giving a wave as he left. That left the two of them to finish any paperwork that was required for Naruto to join the academy.
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Obito was late. Not surprising considering he was always late. The question was, what would his excuse be today?
The three of them sat under the shade of a tree, each reading a scroll on different things; Kakashi about lighting release, Rin about medical ninjutsu and Minato reading both about wind release and fuinjutsu.
It was half an hour after the set meeting time when team Minato heard a very loud shout. All three heads turned to look where it came from and were happily surprised to see it was Obito.
"Hey! Sorry I'm late. I was at the academy when I got side tracked talking the Minato sensei's sister."
Kakashi scoffed and gave a glare, "Out of all the lies you have come out with that is by far the worst. Sensei doesn't even have a sister."
"He does! She looks exactly like him! Yellow hair, blue eyes! And she has, like, three whisker marks on each of her cheeks as well!" he replied giddily.
The mark of annoyance was on Kakashi's face, yet before he could reprimand the Uchiha for making up another lousy excuse, Minato spoke up, "You met her? Did she mention me or Kushina at all?"
All three of his students looked at him, Rin and Kakashi with surprise yet Kakashis was better hidden and Obito looked happy.
"She did. She's the one that told me she was your sister. I asked her if she was related to you and she said yeah… see Bakashi! I wasn't making up an excuse!"
He pointed to the Hatake who gave an indifferent look before replying, "Just because you met a new person does not give you the right to be late. There are rules and regulations for a reason-"
"Rules are made to be broken. Besides, there is an exception to every rule, we learnt that in the academy remember?" Obitos usually warm aura suddenly turned cold as he glared at his team mate. Said team mate was unfazed as he turned his back to his team, requesting they start their training for the day.
Minato decided to get them to spar each other, leading to both Kakashi and Obito being heavily bruised and injured, Obito a bit more so than Kakashi.
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The next day Naruto was enrolled in the academy and came to class on time. She would not make a bad impression on the first day. She also had to remember it wasn't only her own reputation on the line but also Jiraiya's and Minato's.
As she introduced herself to the class she looked around to see if she recognised anyone, and was not surprised when she realised she didn't recognise a single one of them.
If her memory served correctly this was the year Itachi was born meaning sometime during this year the third war would start, and Akatsuki would catch Danzo's attention, yet he wasn't going to do anything about that till later.
Having been sent back in time there were many things she wished she had thought to ask about in more detail, but since she hadn't, they had to make do with the information she currently had at her disposal.
Given her current power there was very little she could actually do herself in order to prevent a great deal many things but that did not apply to Jiraiya, who was free to go around as he pleased as long as he kept the hokage updated.
She had told Jiraiya to either go or send word to the Ame three to not trust Hanzo nor Danzo, even if they claim to be there by orders of Konoha.
As soon as she was introduced to the class she took a seat in the back of the room near the window and paid half of her attention to what was going on in it. She already knew all the information they were teaching anyway, after all she was hokage, which is something she wouldn't have gotten if she didn't know the history of the five nations and everything else important.
It was going to be a long and slow year, the only things she would increase was her body strength and capabilities. Of course there were cases where children were pushed up a year, Kakashi and Itachi had been prime examples of that statement, but the person must have the right endurance and capabilities in a fight. She doubted she had very much of either or those things in her five year old body.