The Secret life of Uzumaki Naruto

Mornings, Naruto’s least favourite time of day. First she has to wake up, Second she has to put on a complicated Henge (to keep up the illusion that she’s a boy), and the third and final reason Naruto hates mornings, is that she has to go out and face the world as the blond demon brat she’s supposed to be.

Stepping into the flowing water of the shower, Naruto began performing her daily morning ritual of cleansing herself of as much dirt from her body as humanly possible. After 20 minutes she finally turned off the stepped out of the shower, grabbed her favourite pink towel and dried herself off. When she was done she wrapped the towel around her waist and stretched.

After stretching she just stood there for a few minutes looking at herself in the man sized wall mirror. She looked like an average twelve year old girl, standing around four foot ten with narrow shoulders and a fairly slim build but not unnaturally slim. But there are a few thing that set her apart from other girls, the most prominent being her hair and attitude. Her hair is exactly the same as her henge she uses every day… because when she made the changes to the henge to make it suit her needs it stopped affecting her hair for some inexplicable reason. Plus whenever it gets much longer then it is now the tips slowly fade to orange.  And as for the attitude, what girl would have a normal attitude if they had to act as a loudmouth slightly obnoxious blond boy for their entire life?

It had been a good ten minutes that Naruto had been standing in her bathroom absently staring into the mirror, mentally going over things in her life she wished she could change but couldn’t. She snapped back to reality with a sigh, and started running through the hand signs for a henge, but added three extra ones. When she landed on the last sign she muttered “Advanced Henge” while mentally telling herself that their will be a day when she wouldn’t have to do this.

She disappeared in a poof of smoke, when the smoke cleared Naruto was gone and in her place stood a blond haired blue eyed boy of about the same age. Not having anyone’s appearance to copy for the henge, Naruto needed to pick someone to base it on. For this she chose the yondime because he looked a lot like she thought she would as a boy, it was mostly the blond hair and blue eyes. Her henge is exactly as she saw him in his genin team photo, except a little shorter and with the whisker marks on the face.

Inspecting the results of the henge, she searched over herself for any flaws. Finding none, she unwrapped the towel from her waist, chucked it in the laundry bin and left the bathroom to put some clothes on.

Entering the Kitchen/Bedroom part of the two room apartment Naruto glanced at the clock, which read 4:30 am. Seeing that she’s ahead of schedule she walked over to the stove to heat some water for ramen then turned to her desk to find clothes that are clean. The only presentable clothes she could find were a black sleeveless shirt and a pair of orange pants.

After applying her clothes and pouring her ramen she made her way to the ninja academy pausing only to lock the door.

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By now it was nearly seven and Naruto was holding sparring matches with anyone who want to try to beat her up. Surprisingly, all but a few of the boys were present and even a few girls joined in on the “Naruto beating”, even though it was Naruto doing all the beating. The reason most of them wanted to fight Naruto was to prove that they are better then the “top of the class” that nearly everybody, teachers included, refuse to help.

Naruto knocked down her most recent opponent, declaring that she had had enough for the morning. Sighing and looking around she realised that only five of the academy boys weren’t in the crowd of people that wanted to beat her up. The missing ones were, Choji, Shikamaru, Shino, Kiba and Sasuke-niisan. Choji, Shikamaru and Shino because its Choji, Shikamaru and Shino. Kiba because he’s late… again. And Sasuke, well Sasuke and Naruto are like siblings, and seeing as they are orphans it is the closest they can get. Iruka would call their relationship sibling rivalry, because they’re constantly competing for the top grades of the class.

The girls in the crowd on the other hand were there to try to beat information about Sasuke out of her, being the closest person to him in the class this is quite normal

Deciding that she could wait for Iruka she went to the entrance of the academy. When she reached it though she noticed a light on it her classroom, and decided to investigate. She slipped in quickly as to not be followed, and found none other than Iruka, alone, furiously working through a small mountain of paperwork.

“Hey, Iruka” Naruto said after walking into the room and sitting on a desk.

“Hey, Naru-chan” Iruka replied, looking up from his paperwork.

Naruto was going to continue, but froze when she herd a stifled sniggering from the back of the room. But she breathed a sigh of relief when she turned and saw raven coloured hair that was styled in the most awkward and complicated style possible for hair its length. It was the hair of Sasuke-niisan.

“Naru-chan, Eh? Why didn’t I think of that?” Sasuke asked while descending the steps to the front of the class. “Maybe I should call you that in class.” He continued with an evil smirk.

“You wouldn’t dare!” Naruto countered in a voice that positively oozed rage “besides the only in the academy who know are you two and I would like to keep it that way for the last two days.” She finished in a more cheery voice.

“Fine but if we’re on the same genin team then I’m making you tell the sensei” Sasuke said in a forceful voice.

“Why?” Naruto asked sounding a little confused.

“What happens if we’re on a long mission or something happens to get you knocked unconscious? That’s how I found out.” Sasuke explained, with a bland expression on his face.

“That’s also the day you found out that their’s a girl other than Hinata in this class who isn’t completely obsessed with you.” Naruto observed.

“Really, who?” Shikamaru asked as he strode into the room.

At this Naruto froze and Sasuke narrowed his eyes.

“How much did you hear?” Sasuke demanded with a hint of warning in his voice.

“Just what Naruto said about the girls.” Shikamaru replied, surprised by the threatening tone in Sasuke voice.

After hearing that both Naruto and Sasuke visibly relaxed, seeing this Shikamaru realised that they must have been talking about a big secret they have between them. Glancing at Iruka, who was still doing paperwork when he came in a d currently stretching. ‘He was here the whole time so he obviously knows too.’ thought Shikamaru as he stored this information away in the “investigate later” file in his mind.

Just after Shikamaru sat down the rest of the class entered, and every girl with the exception of Hinata swarmed around Sasuke as soon as they saw him.

Sasuke was trapped, he looked to Naruto in search of help. Naruto one the other hand, stood about two feet away from the swarm. She just stood their watching impassively for a minute before mouthing “If you promise” at him. When he nodded, Naruto reached through the crowd grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled. As soon as he was free of the crowd she placed herself between the girls and Sasuke, then pushed him off to their seats.

“Everyone to your seats, its time for the graduation exam” Iruka yelled from the front of the class. At the same time Mizuki was passing out the paper portion of the exam.

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The paper test took nearly an hour for everyone to finish, and by the end of it the test and by the end Naruto was nearly bored to sleep. The only thing keeping her awake being an iron will built up over years of not sleeping in public. But she perked up when Iruka stepped up in front of the class and cleared his throat, demanding everyone’s attention.

“We will now start the second half of the exam. For this portion we will be doing two ninjutsu of my choice.” Pausing for a breath, Iruka looked around the room to make sure that everybody was paying attention before continuing on. “Those jutsu will be the Kawaminari no jutsu and a bunshin.”

“We’ll start at the bottom of the list today,” Mizuki said as he snatched the clipboard out of Iruka’s grasp. Glancing at it he called out the name on the bottom “Yamanaka Ino”

Ino performed both jutsu almost perfect though she was nearly out of chakra when she finished.

“Uzumaki Naruto”

Naruto stood up and walked to the front of the class, right up to Iruka and said, “I can’t perform the bunshin no jutsu.”

“And why might that be?” Iruka demanded, though he could probably guess what the answer was going to be.

The bunshin no jutsu requires such a small amount of chakra that I can’t focus it properly and the jutsu fails. As soon a she said it about half the class looked at her like she was crazy, they had trouble performing the jutsu and having enough energy to do anything else.

“Do you have something else you could do instead?” Iruka asked, hoping that she would because he really doesn’t want to fail someone he regards as a brother. She may be a girl but she  acts more like a brother then a sister.

“Well I do, but you didn’t let me get there yet.” Naruto responded while performing hand signs, ending on a cross shaped seal. “Kage bunshin no jutsu”

When the smoke cleared their now stood seven where one stood only moments before.

Upon hearing the name of the jutsu Iruka felt a little worried for Naruto but when he saw the results he was a little amazed. Even he had some trouble with the kage bunshin no jutsu.

“Hey, Naruto who taught you that jutsu?” Iruka asked wondering who would teach that technique to someone her age.

Six of the Narutos disappeared in a poof of smoke and the remaining one simply replied “Dog.”

This caused everybody to look at a currently sleeping Kiba. This made Naruto chuckle “not that dog, an AMBU with a dog mask who I met up with a few times.

Forming a hand sign Naruto performed a Kawaminari, using Sakura as the object she switched places with, who was conveniently located in Naruto’s seat.

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When everyone finished they were handed a sheet of paper with their final mark and a bandana with a metal plate bearing the symbol the hidden leaf village, on their way out of the class. When Naruto received hers she was so happy she could have hugged someone, but considering the company she was in and what most people thought of her, she decided that it would be better if she didn’t.

Her cheery mood didn’t last long though, for the instant she stepped outside and noticed the crowd of parents waiting for their kids. It didn’t help that when they noticed the hitai-ate around her neck, they started accusing her of cheating or stealing.

Naruto was about to retaliate, when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Glancing back she saw that it was Sasuke-niisan.

“Just ignore them,” he told her in a quiet voice as he grabbed her  by the hand and forcefully dragged her through the crowd.

As they made their way out of the crowd of parents Naruto heard some of the comments of the more bold villagers like, “What’s the last Uchiha doing defending the demon boy?” and “The monster has poisoned the Uchihas mind, it should be dealt with!”

“So why do they call you a monster, Naru-chan?” Sasuke asked when they were a good distance from the academy.

“Sasuke-niisan! I thought I told you not to call me that.” Naruto replied angrily, while nervously checking behind her to be sure that nobody was behind them “and if you’re on my team tomorrow than I will tell you the answer but you won’t like it.

With that Naruto turned down an alleyway and disappeared. It took a few seconds for Sasuke to realise that Naruto was gone, and when he did he just sighed and took to the rooftops when he spotted fangirls.

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Naruto woke and abruptly sat up to check the clock, only to have her shirt’s collar to slip off her slight feminine shoulders and stop about halfway down her upper arm. The only thing stopping it from falling farther was that she was trying to raise her arms and stretch.

Pulling up her shirt and glancing at the clock she saw that it was almost four o’clock, meaning she was up early. Climbing out of bed she had to catch her shorts to keep them from imitating her shirt, at the same time cursing the fact that her female form is so much smaller than her male and that she has almost no clothes that fit her male form anyways. Waistband in hand, she made it about halfway across the room before giving up and letting go, letting them fall to the floor. Grabbing a towel she stepped into the bathroom for her daily cleansing.

Leaving the bathroom just over twenty minutes later, with a towel around her waist, clean and under a henge same as everyday. Arriving at her clothing pile she began searching for something presentably clean, finding a pair of dark blue shorts and a black sleeveless shirt she decided that that was adequate for meeting her new sensei.