The Hokage wanted to assign me to a team. That made alarm bells go off in my head. Zetsu didn't react in any way. I was going to dive into his head but then The Hokage started talking.
She said that my Chakra had been activated for whatever reason and that it appeared that it was stable for the moment so she was going to enroll me in the school so that I could learn how to control my Chakra.
"My Chakra might have activated but that doesn't mean I know how to use it." My tone wasn't sharp, it implied that I was unsure of myself. I could use Jutsu, I just didn't want to use them. If I did that would just raise more questions.
Zetsu approved of what i'd done with that move.
The Hokage wasn't fazed. "You'll learn how to use it at The Academy. Its what its for."
I peeked into Zetsu's mind. I could use my mind reading and not give away that I was reading thier minds If I was careful, but the mind control was not an option unless it was a life or death scenario.
After that we left. A week later I went to The Academy. Things went badly. Iruka told us to use our most powerful Jutsu on the dummy. Sasuke and I both used Chidori. That should have blown my cover but for some reason the Leaf was full of idiots and insteas of alarm bells going off in thier heads everyone formed the assumption that either I was naturally good at Jutsu or that I'd had a great teacher.
Iruka wasn't sure where to put me since all the teams had already been formed. Sakura and Ino wanted me on thier respective teams. For a split second I allowed myself to beleive that it was because they wanted to be my friends. I peeked into thier brains and found the truth. They just wanted to use me to get closer to Sasuke.
Iruka didn't notice this at all and he thought that it was because those two actually wanted to be my friends and not because Sasuke had been spending time with me. After a while he said that i'd be moved from team to team until they found the team I worked best on. For some reason that made me feel like I was a throphy that was being passed arond from person to person. He put me on Team 7 first because everyone had notice that I Sasuke came to my house so they all formed the assumption that we were friends and decided to put me on the team with my only 'friend' so that i wouldn't be lonley.
They kept comparing me to Sasuke in the way that we'd both apparently had to grow up too fast. I was still a kid at heart but I wasn't going to let my guard down around these people. I didn't trust these people at all. Sasuke was the only one i trusted even a little bit and the only reason i did was because we had no other choice than to trust each other.
I don't know how it happened but I somehow got stuck sitting beetween Sasuke and Naruto with Sakura sitting on Naruto's side. She didn't agree with this at all but she told herself that Sasuke was just trying to be nice to me. Naruto was genuinly interesting in being my friend.
I would have paid attention in class but all those minds, all those thoughts, that kept bouncing around the enclosed room made it hard for me to concentrate.
At some point Ino tried to enter my mind, but at that exact moment something triggered one of my memories from my time with the Akatsuki. The screams of one of Hidan's victims and her desperat pleas for mercy. I screamed mentally at Ino to get out of my mind but she was trapped, trust me, she tried to get out but something had trapped her here. The two of us endured the horrod of the memory together. After that my vision focused again and I scanned the thoughts around me. No one had noticed anything amiss. Ino was still in my head but she was distraught. She'd already seen some of the horrors from my past. She knew it wasn't pretty.
The horror of the memory slowly faded away and I concentrated on what Iruka was saying because I didn't want to dwell on the blood and screams of that horrific memory.
Ino was mad at me for showing her that.
Your the one that entered my head! I screamed back mentally at her. Are you going to blame me because I had a rough childhood?
She had a retort ready but then another memory took me. A memory from the Mist Village, from my past before the Akatsuki. The memory of me and some friends stealing some food from a baker's shop and the injuries Sunka suffered because of it.
Get out of my head! I wanted it to be a menacing scream to scare her away but instead it came out a broken plea.
Ino stayed in my head apologizing again and again.
I clenched my teeth as a fresh wave of violent memories from my past came at me again. The past that I tried so hard to ignore.
After that Ino fled from my mind.
I spotted her in her seat. Her face was pale.
No one else tried to enter my mind in any way. After the lesson Sakura asked me something but Ino came running towards me and started apologizing again and again.
"What are you doing Ino-Pig?" Sakura demanded.
Ino ignored the insult and kept apologizing.
"Ino, its okay, you didn't mean to." I said quietly.
She stared at me. She'd expected me to be angry.
"Its okay, its not your fault." I told her.
She was releived that I didn't hate her for it.
I smiled at her.
She hugged me and walked away.
