Not really feeling like working on the fifth fight scene (out of
fourteen) for Chapter 11 of One Hundred Days, I churned this little
almost-a-spamfic out tonight instead. This idea has been in my head for
a while now, and I don't think it came out quite as well as it could
have, but it was written so I figured I might as well inflict it on you all.
All C&C is welcomed, of course.
Secrets and Lies
A Naruto Fanfic
By: Aaron Nowack
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Disclaimer: In the year 2525, it is possible that through some
improbable series of events Naruto will belong to me. Until then,
Naruto is Kishimoto Masashi's. The text of this fanfic, however, is
mine, and may not be used without permission.
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The Hidden Village of the Leaf's Third Hokage was an old man.
He tried to fight it, but more and more of the little duties he used to
perform as a matter of course had somehow wound up being taken care of
by the numerous chuunin who seemed to have nothing better to do than
hang around waiting for him to delegate a task in a moment of weakness.
When that happened, it was almost impossible to get them to let him to
the job himself again.
There was one task that the Hokage had made sure to never let
slip from his fingers. Technically, it should have been a simple
application of mathematics. So far as anyone knew, the new genin teams
were carefully chosen to make the average scores as close as possible.
In reality, the Hokage had set things up so that there was enough of a
fudge factor that he could justify any conceivable arrangement.
Grinning to himself, the Hokage put the finishing touches on the
assignments for this year's graduating class, then called in a chuunin
to deliver it to the academy. As soon as he was alone again, he took
out the crystal ball he used for scrying. This was going to be a fun
year...
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The next day...
Nervous was not a word that many would use to describe Uzumaki
Naruto. Bold, yes. Loud, yes. Brash, of course. Stupid... well,
everyone except for one Umino Iruka. Nervousness, however, was not a
trait that many had seen the young boy display. It was something he had
learned to hide at a far-too-early age, as with all signs of weakness.
Hatake Kakashi, despite his deliberately casual attitude, had
done more than a little research on his soon-to-be students. Naruto in
particular he had studied carefully, and he knew just how odd the blond
kid's open display of nervousness was. It was one of countless tiny
details that meant that his three students might have well have been
shouting that their little speeches on their likes, dislikes, and dreams
had been only slightly more revealing than his own information-free
example. He was actually sort of impressed.
"All right," he said, giving Naruto a serious stare wit his
visible eye. "You look like you want to say something."
Naruto shuffled his feet. "Umm... I'm... I... I don't know
whether to say it. Iruka-sensei said I should, though, so..." he
trailed off, taking a deep breath.
Kakashi's eye widened. Was he going to tell the other two about
the Kyuubi? Half of his mind quickly began to race through memory-
altering genjutsu, searching for one that could be applied without
damaging the Uchiha and the girl. The other half futilely searched for
less drastic damage-control strategies.
"It would probably be best to just show you guys," Naruto
muttered as he stood, his hands forming a single, strange seal. Kakashi
didn't waste time cursing, his mind shifting gears instantly as he began
to search for a non-lethal way of stopping the kid. He was too late
though, as with a sudden shout of "Release!" he vanished in a puff of
smoke. A moment later, the smoke faded and Kakashi blinked.
The changes weren't obvious, but there was something slightly
different in Naruto's face. Particularly given the baggy clothing his
student wore, it took Kakashi a moment to figure it out, but he hadn't
been the student of the Hidden Leaf's third-biggest pervert, the student
of the village's second-biggest pervert, for nothing. "Huh." Well,
that explained more than a few oddities from twelve years ago. It also
neatly explained how a twelve-year-old boy had learned enough of female
anatomy to create the Sexy Technique.
"You're a girl." Haruno Sakura, until a moment ago the sole
female member of the newly birthed Team Seven, twitched.
Naruto backed away nervously. "Please don't hit me, Sakura-
chan," she whined plaintively. When Sakura didn't say anything, or in
fact do anything but twitch several more times, he took a step forward.
"Sakura-chan?" he asked, worry plain in his voice.
"I'm sorry," the... other girl said flatly. "I'm trying to
figure out how I could have missed the fact that you don't have an
Adam's apple, given how many times I've throttled you."
"It was a transformation technique, sort of," Naruto explained.
"The Hokage used in on me when I was young. He said that it was because
I'd be safer being on my own as a boy." She grimaced. The third genin
on the team began to laugh, and Naruto turned to him, snarling. "What
are you laughing at, bastard?" she demanded.
Uchiha Sasuke shook his head slowly as he stood. "This is too
rich, dead last. I wasn't planning on telling you all this, but I
suppose I should. It'll end some annoyances, at least." He gave Sakura
a hostile glare before pointing at Kakashi. "You," she stated. "Turn
around, old man."
Kakashi complied, realizing what was about to happen. A moment
later both Naruto and Sakura gasped.
"Sasuke-kun..." Sakura breathed.
"You," Naruto muttered, disbelieving
"I hate taking these things off," Sasuke muttered. A few
moments later, he told Kakashi that he could turn around. The jounin
was not surprised to see the pile of bandages by Sasuke's feet, nor the
now-unbound breasts - rather large for a child her age - now visible on
her chest. "So you see why I find your attentions... displeasing," she
snarled at Sakura, who was blinking rapidly.
"Are you okay, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke crossed her arms under her breasts. "I suppose I should
also say that my name is Uchiha Sayuri." She grimaced. "It was decided
that a lone, female heir to the Uchiha Clan would be too vulnerable to
threats from inside and outside the village."
Kakashi's eye turned to Sakura. "Your turn, I suppose," he
stated.
Sakura paled. "You know?" she asked, horrified.
Kakashi blinked. He'd been joking. "You're a boy?"
"Not at the moment," Sakura muttered, standing as well. "I
suppose there's no point in hiding it now." She glared in turn at her
teacher and her teammates. "Never breath a word of this," she said.
"I'm not suppose to be telling you about my bloodline limit, since it's
not as useful if people know about it."
Kakashi's eye widened. Even he had never heard that the tiny
Haruno Clan had a bloodline limit. Sakura formed a rapid sequence of
seals, and then she... shifted. A moment after that, looking ludicrous
in the ill-fitting red dress, he grinned at the Uchiha heiress. "So,
how about a date, Sayuri-chan?" Sakura asked. The newly revealed girl
backed away, eyes widening in dawning horror as she clearly realized
that her revelation was not going to have the desired effect.
"Damn it," Naruto muttered quietly. "She... he still wants the
bastard."
"That's because you're still an idiot," Sakura snapped at her.
"Anyway," she said, turning to Kakashi. "I was born male, but it's the
tradition in the Haruno Clan for all children to be raised as girls,
since it's easier to train a girl to act like a boy then the other away
around."
Kakashi rubbed at his forehead. "What a coincidence," he
muttered. "I wonder how the three of you, of all people, wound up in a
team together."
The three new genin traded a look, then Sakura shifted back to
female form. "Hokage-sama, you pervert," the three girls growled in
unison.
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"I thought about not telling you this," Nara Shikamaru stated,
"but I decided it would be troublesome if I hid it and then you all
found out."
"What?" Sarutobi Asuma, his new jounin teacher, asked.
"I'm gay," Shikamaru answered.
"What, you too?" Ino asked suddenly. Asuma blinked.
"Wait a minute," Shikamaru asked. "What about Uchiha?"
"Oh, that." Yamanaka Ino waved her hand negligently. "Sakura-
chan had a crush on him, but she'd never have worked up the courage to
do anything about it if I didn't goad her like that, and I wanted her to
be happy, so..."
Shikamaru blinked. "You're in love with Haruno!"
"Oh, thank you for just shouting it out!" Ino snarled at him.
"You didn't see me telling everyone that you obviously have the hots for
Sasuke-kun yourself!"
Shikamaru was too engrossed in the ensuing argument with Ino to
notice the sudden look of crushed hope in Chouji's eyes, but Asuma
wasn't. "Damn old pervert," he muttered.
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Yuuhi Kurenai was presently vomiting, grateful she'd made it to
a toilet. Despite what her friend Mitarashi Anko loudly declared,
Kurenai was not a prude. Thank you very much, she was a well-adjusted
young woman with a healthy sex drive, even if she didn't flaunt it like
certain snake-obsessed kunoichi who were infamous for sleeping with more
people, both male and female, than anyone else in the village. Still,
this had been too much.
She'd decided to spy on her new students after letting them go
from their first meeting, wanting to see how they acted with each other
in the absence of an authority figure. The pile of naked, sweaty,
intertwining twelve-year-old bodies she had discovered was disturbing
enough. Then she had seen the dog, which had been enough to give her
nightmares for weeks. Then, the bugs...
Retching up a fresh wave of vomit, Kurenai swore to herself that
she was going to get revenge on Anko. Somehow, this had to be her
fault. It just to had to be.
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Author's Random Ramblings
Well, that's a wrap. Hopefully it was at least chuckle-worthy.