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Episode name: Enter Naruto Uzamaki/ Enter Naruko Uzamaki

A great cry rang out into the stone room. The six candles flickered illuminating the face of the newborn baby girl. The Kyuubi container . . .

~Twelve years later~

"Naruko! Why did you do such a thing?!" The two shinobi cried as they chased after the blond. "You are in so much trouble!" Her pigtails flew behind as she laughed carrying the offending paint bucket. "Whatever!" She mocked somehow managing to stay out of thier reach. "You losers can't do anything I can! Cause, I'm just better Beleive it!"

*Hokage's office*

"Hokage-Sama! There's trouble!" The old man looked up from his painting agitated. His hand still held the brush as he spoke through the pipe between his teeth.
"What? Did Naruko do something . . . again?"
"Yessir! She defaced the mountain images!"
"The graffiti is everywhere."

*Konoha streets*

"Mate!" The men still chased. Naruko dropped the cloaking blanket after they had passed. She laughed as she stuck out her tounge to their backs, when a hand slapped down on her shoulder.

"NARUKO!!!" She jumped effectively landing on her butt.
"Iruka-Sensei? Where did you come from so suddenly?" The man glared down at her.
"Me?! What are You doing here?! You're supposed to be in class!!"

~10 minutes later~

Naruko grumbled as she sat tied up on the floor at the front of the class. "Naruko . . . listen." Iruka sighed. he crossed his arms and glared at the blond. "You failed the graduation test and the one before that. So you really shouldn't be goofing off."
"Tch!" She scoffed looking away.
"Allright then." Iruka said through his teeth as he turned to the class. "We will now have a retest on the transformation Jutsu! Even those who have passed must retake it!" The groan from the groan the whole class made.
One by one the classmates performed the Jutsu. "Harano Sakuran." The teacher announced. A tall boy with chin length pink hair stepped up. He performed the handsigns and winked at Naruko.
"This one's for you beautiful." The blond just rolled her eyes placing her arms over her chest. Sakuran smirked. 'Yeah. She's into me.' *poof* There stood another Ikura.
"Good." *Poof* Sakuran placed his hands on his hips with a smirk and turned to Naruko.
"I'm just that good. So . . . like what you see?"
"Not even if you transformed into a steaming pot of ramen." Naruko scoffed earning a laugh from the class. . . all exept for Sauske.

"Uchiha Sauske."
"Hai . . ." The raven sighed in boredom *Poof* another Ikura.
"Good." *Poof* Naruko rolled her eyes. 'Yeah that was pretty good . . .'
"Uzamaki Naruko." 'But now it's my turn.' Shikamaru sighed. "This is such a pain." Ino nodded. "yeah Naruko, this is all your fault." The yellow blond just flicked a blond pigtail over her shoulder. "As if I care!" She walked up and saw Hinata smile at her reasuringly. Naruko smiled back giving her a polite wave and turned back to Iruka. She performed her handsigns summoning her chakra. "Transform!" *Poof* But instead of another Ikura, there stood a taller, older, curvier, . . . and naked Naruko surrounded by smoke. She winked causing the brunette teacher to be blown back by the force of his nosebleed. *Poof* "Ha ha ha!" Naruko laughed holding her stomach. "What do you think? I call it my 'Sexy jutsu!' "

"You brat!" Iruka snapped stuffing tissue in his nose to stop the bleeding. "Stop wasting time on these Idiotic spells!"

~A few hours later~

Naruko sighed as she scruubed paint off of one of the Hokage's stone cheeks. "Bored . . . Bored . . ." She grumbled as Iruka watched her.
"I'm not letting you go home until you clean all of that up!" He warned. The girl's head snapped up to glare at her teacher.
"I don't care. There's no one at home anyway!" She retorted returning to her work. Iruka watched her a moment and sighed scratching his chin in thought.
"Naruko . . ."
"Now what do you want?!"
"What I meant to say was, if you clean up all this mess . . . I'll buy you ramen tonight." Naruko's face broke out into a wide grin.
"Huh?! Really?! Yosh! I'll be done in no time!"

~That evening~

*Crack* Naruko broke her chopsticks apart, and quickley dived into her noodles. "Naruko?" Iruka asked. "Why did you vandalize those faces? Don't you know who the Hokage leaders were?"
"Ob curs I boo." (Of course I do) She said mouth full of ramen. Ahe drank up the rest of her broth before continuing. "I know how they earned the title. They were the best ninja's of their time right? Espescially the Fourth Hokage who saved the village from the nine tailed demon fox."
"Then why did you do that?" Her teacher asked.
"Because . . . I'm going to be the Hokage!" She awnsered feircely. "And I'll be the greatest Hokage of all time! Then everyone will accept me!" This left Iruka with a noodle hanging out of his mouth. 'A Kunoichi as the Hokage? I highly doubt that.' He thought. "By the way sensei." She said a little louder snapping him out of his thoughts. He swallowed the noodle. "I have a favor to ask . . ." "You want another bowl?"
"Um . . . no. Can I borrow your headband for a while?" She asked pressing her hands together pleadingly. Iruka reached up to touch his forehead protecter.
"This?" He asked. He almost cracked looking into her big blue puppy dog eyes. But, in the end . . . "No, no this is worn only by those who graduate from the academy. Tommorow you wi-"
"You're so mean!" the girl huffed. he laughed.
"So that's why you took off your goggles."
"Humph. I want another bowl!"

~The next day~
"We are now going to begin the graduation test." Iruka instructed standing at the front of the room. "When your name is called, please proceed to the next classroom. The test will be on the clone jutsu."
'No!' Naruko groaned inwardly. 'Of all the . . . It just had to be on my worst jutsu!' Naruko's turn approached quickley as she entered the classroom filled with dread. 'I can do this.' she insisted in her mind. She stood in front of Iruka and Mizuku taking a deep breath. She tightened both her pigtails and performed the handsigns. She pressed her hands together trying to channel her chakra. "Clone Jutsu!" *Poof* She had managed to make another naruko . . . but it was pail, cartoony, and it couldn't even stand on it's feet. She bit her nails scared to face her teachers. Iruka's eye twitched making the blond flinched when she did look.
"Disqualified!" He shouted. 'Again?!' Naruko wanted to cry but she was quiet.
"Iruka Sensei." Mizuku said softly. She tucked a silver hair behind her ear. "She has good physical coordination and amazing stamina." She said soothingly. Naruko looked up. "And she did manage to come up with something. Isn't that enough to pass her?" Naruko smiled hopefully at her teachers but Iruka sighed.
"Mizuku sensei . . . All the others managed to make three or more clones. Naruko only managed to make one . . . and look at it. It's virtually useless . . . I can't give her a passing mark." The blond grit her teeth glaring harshly at Iruka so as not to cry.

~ A few hours later~

She sat outside on the swing leaning her head on the rope. The other student's parents came to pick them up, and naruko couldn't help but envy all the cheering families and smiling faces. It made her sick to her stomach. Two men began mumbling.
"Look at that one."
"It's that girl."
"I heard she was the only one that failed."
"Humph. serves her right.
"Imagine what could happen if she actually became a Kunoichi?"
"Isn't she the one who's actually-"
"Shh! We're not supposed to talk about that!"
Naruko fiddled with her goggles as she tried to choke her tears. 'Why? Why? What did I do?' She heard footsteps and looked up into the kind face of Mizuku.

"C'mon." The woman smiled holding out her hand. "let's go talk for a bit." Naruko looked at her a moment and nodded taking her hand. The silverette tensed once but released so fast that the student didn't notice.

TBC ~~~