Bleached

Chapter 8

The entire academy class was silenced and gaped at Aoji. Except for Naruto, who was just confused. Did she just make trees come out of her hands? ..Awesome.

Sasuke was knocked out cold, having been hit by at least a ton of tree. Aoji stood on the rink, blinking tiredly before walking off and back home. Not dealing with that-

She was actually pretty tired, though if she hadn't gone through Hayate's training, she would be hacking and dying on the ground she walked on.

Hearth reminded her that she had to meet up with Hayate when the academy ended. She walked out about an hour before classes stopped.

I'm gonna take a nap..

Hearth sighed.

Hagoromo was apparently having a drinking contest with himself, and loosing. 

Aoji really didn't want to know.

She reached her apartment and unlocked the door with her keys, which had a keychain of Hagoromo that he had somehow made appear in the air, and peer pressured Aoji into putting it somewhere. 

Aoji promptly passed out on her bed. 

~ 

"Testing testing 1, 2, 3" Aoji woke up to a random voice. It was a common occurrence. Uh.. yo, random voice. She decided to respond, since Hagoromo and Hearth were still asleep. 

It was nearly 4 am.

Aoji questioned her life quietly. Apparently the Anbu were assigned to her 24/7, since she could sense the customary 24 she had gotten used to. Yamato was there as well.

She tried sending subtle hints to him, though she probably successfully freaked him out. 

His wooden statue was stuffed in her closet and would stay there for eternity. It actually looked like more of a baked potato than him, but she was pretty sure he got the point.

"Guess the seal Hearth used works then." Aoji realized the random menacing voice was Kurama. Why he was up at 4 am, she would never know. 

"Oh, Kurama, what's up?" She shrugged, now that she was awake, why not have a conversation with the nine tailed fox? 

"..The sky. Are you Hearth's container?"  

"Yeah," she yawned "the name's Aoji, pleasure to meet you." Kurama seemed pretty confused about how casual she was being. 

"Ah, nice to meet you." Kurama nodded. He assumes that all jinchurikis were this strange. 

"Well, I'm gonna go back to bed, nice talking to you." Aoji went back to sleep immediately. 

Kurama decided to go back to sleep too, it had taken him days to find out how the seal worked. For the first time ever, he was glad that both his previous containers were Uzumaki's.

~ About a month later~

It was finally time for graduation exams and Aoji was bored. The questions on the paper test were way too easy, she was still getting down from her adrenaline high from painting the Hokage monument with Naruto the other day.

Hashirama really rocked a mustache.

Hagoromo cackled in her head, approving of what she had done to his son's descendant.  He had hired ghosts to do the same to the monument Ashura and Indra had built in their honor, and watched them burn. 

Aoji snorted at the mental image of Ashura's graffitied face as she answered a question. Something about the types of metals used in kunai's. 

The bell rang for the next exam, several students groaning in horror. It was the final exam for jutsu's, the one they showed in the anime. Aoji could not do regular clones, they were even worse than Naruto's. One actually came out as a rat, somehow. Hearth was convinced it was her spirit animal.