The Masked Girl (Naruto Story)

Ch. 5- Getting Off To An.... Odd Start

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and Mashimoto Kishimoto does. I own Natsumi and Kumiko.

Recap:
I was mostly acting happy for Natsumi anyways.....

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2nd P.O.V.

The Hokage studied Kumiko's reaction to the piece of sad news that he had just delivered. He noticed her clenched fists, the tears dripping off the end of the mask, and lastly, he gently tugged off her hood, looking into her eyes. He saw that at first there was shock. After that, disbelief. One emotion after another. Sadness. Anger. And finally, the emotion that he feared. Revenge. He sighed, and hoping it was only a spur of the moment thing, pulled her hood back on, shaking his head.

"One day......."

Startled, the Hokage turned around. "What?"

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Chapter Five- Getting Off To An.... Odd Start

I walked all the way to school, wearing a blue cloak with the hood on my head, the shadow of it covering my eyes and part of my nose. Someone glared at me. Actually, when I look around, a lot of someones. All the adults were glaring, and I had no idea why. I stiffened up and glared right back at them, even though they can't see it. I guess... I guess things aren't going to change from the Sand village after all. I'll just put in the effort to learn, and don't try to make friends or be friendly, I'll just make a fool out of myself. The two other kids in the Prophecy will just have to come to me instead. I felt abrupt and withdrawn, and I let it become my shield, while on the inside I felt like crying.

I saw the academy, and sat in a tree to wait. I saw some other kids as old as me. One person on the front steps of the academy looked.... how do I say it? (think it?) Bored? Grumpy? Annoyed? Rather not be there? He was surrounded by a bunch of girls trying to talking to him. I inspected him curiously. He had black-bluish pointy hair, blue shirt, and- WAIT A MINUTE!!!! The sign of his clan.... looks familiar....like the sign of the murderer?!?! I was just walking towards him when the bell rang. Time for class! Dammit! Going to have to talk to that guy later, whoever he was!!! I went to the teacher there.

"Hi, I'm Iruka sensei. And you're Kumiko, right?" the teacher was smiling as he talked to me.

I nodded curtly. "Yeah."

He frowned, as if expecting a more enthusiastic answer (which he probably was) and said "Wait here for the rest of the students before I introduce you.

When all the other kids were sitting, he announced clearly to the rest of the class "This is our new student. I expect you to treat her with kindness, like you do among yourselves." He turned to me. "Now please, introduce yourself."

I grunted and surveyed the crowd. They looked slightly interested, but mostly uncaring. Then I said in a cold voice "I am Neko Kumiko."

Some of the kids slightly shivered, and Iruka sensei stared at me and said "That's it?"

I said "Yes." Some of them looked at me like I was odd (for some reason I was today), and Iruka looked uncomfortable. "Well, uh," he said. Please stand up and introduce yourselves one by one, class. If you have any questions Kumiko, just ask them."

I nodded.

"Now, starting with the top row, and continuing left to right, in a zigzag." commanded Iruka. That guy was getting on my nerves.

A blond haired girl stood up and said uncertainly "Uh, I'm Ino. Nice to meet you?" I nodded again at her.

A brown haired boy with a dog on his head (that was odd) stood up and said " I'm Kiba, and-"

I tilted my head slightly and said "Question."

He looked startled as he replied "Uh, okay, what is it?"

"Why is there a dog on your head?"

He was grinning as he replied "I was just getting to that. This is Akamaru, my dog partner." Well, that's odd and different.

I tilted my head back to normal and replied with "Hn."

A lot of girls looked at me in outrage and one pink haired girl shrieked "You can't say that!"

I slightly cocked my head again, which is what I do when I'm confused or puzzled. "And why not?"

The pink haired girl said "It's Sasuke's trademark sound and you're stealing it and-"

I smirked. What was wrong with me, and these girls today? "Listen. I have never seen him in my life, don't even know who that is, and I've been saying that since forever."

Iruka said "Err, moving on. Next!"

This time, the pink haired stood up and said defiantly (for no reason may I add) "I'm Sakura Haruno, and I don't like you!"

Geez, what was wrong with this girl? I said annoyed, "Well, I don't like you either, so yeah. I don't care."

***After nearly everyone goes***

The boy with the black-blue hair that I was trying to talk to earlier said "Hn." Hmm, we do seem to say the same thing. That's odd "My name is-"

A yellow haired boy shouted out "Duck butt hair!"

At this, the yellow haired boy laughed so hard that he fell, and there were snorts and sniggers from some of the other boys, while most of the girls looked like they were going to beat him up. I laughed, amused. At my laugh, the class besides the yellow hair boy (who was still on the floor) froze. "What?" I said, slightly annoyed. They (sort of) relaxed again.

I bent over the yellow haired boy and held out my hand.

"So, what's your name?"I asked in a slightly amused and friendly tone.

The yellow haired boy looked at me in amazement for a second, then he grinned as I helped him up and said "I'm Naruto Uzumaki! I'm going to be Hokage, believe it!"

I grinned at him underneath my mask, and said "Well, to do that, you need to put in a lot of effort then, hm?"

Then I noticed the rest of the class staring at me dumbfounded at this friendly side of me besides "duck butt hair". "What?" I asked as I shrugged.

Iruka stammered "U-uh-h, u-um, a-ah. Ahem. Naruto, that is not his name." Then he nodded towards "duck butt". Heh, that's getting stuck in my head, and I'm pretty sure that's what I'm going to call him, on purpose or not.

"Duck butt" said "I'm Sasuke." So this was the person the girls were obsessed over. He glanced over at me as he said "Uchiha Sasuke."

I gasped. Some of the class was startled/confused. Then I asked him very coldly, (it made Naruto's smile slightly falter), "Then are you familiar with Itachi Uchiha....... duck butt?"

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He he... does this count as a cliffhanger? ^_^'''

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