Chapter 6 : The Test!! Naruto Dissapeared… with The Forbidden Scroll?!

Risu P.o.V

2 weeks passed even faster than I thought it would be. Fortunately, I think I had had enough training from Kakashi. He even said that I would pass the test with a breeze. Hope he wasn’t lying to me.

“Then I will be going now Kakashi…” I said after finishing my breakfast. He was improving in cooking this several weeks. At least now what I ate wasn’t coal anymore.

When I almost went out of the house I heard Kakashi’s voice.

“Good luck…”

I smiled.

“Thanks a lot, Kakashi…” I screamed in reply.

“Risu-chan, morning…” Naruto greeted me from his usual place when he came early, which is very rarely, a swing on the academy playground. From there he could observe the other kids that were waiting for the test with their parents.

“Naruto, morning…”

He saw the other kids with sad eyes made me wondered why…

“Your parents don’t come?” his voice made me snapped from my thought.

Oh yeah, Naruto also didn’t know about my condition.

“They can’t” I said with a sad smile. I think he realized it. He suddenly gave full attention to me.

“Why?”

I got silent for a while. Should I tell him or shouldn’t I?

“They can’t. They just can’t though they want to…” I answered. I knew it was a really ambiguous answer. I shot him a plead look so he wouldn’t ask for further explanation. Looked like he understood it, he observed the other kids again. Seeing him like that made me sad. He must have a reason to have that longing expression.

“Ting… Tong…” the academy bell rang loudly. The test would start soon. I got nervous suddenly.

“Come on, Risu…” Naruto held my hand and dragged me to the class.

Iruka started to call our name one by one. It made me more nervous. And then he called my name.

“Amaterasu Risu”

I realized that my hand was sweating. A lot if I may add.

“Don’t worry. You will pass for sure… Good luck” Naruto whispered to me.

I lost my nervousness just by hearing Naruto’s calm voice. “Thanks a lot… Good luck to you too…”

Iruka brought me to the room next to the class room. There behind a long table sit some teachers beside Iruka. I barely recognized them except Iruka and Mizuki. For your information, I didn’t like this Mizuki-sensei. At first I thought he was a good teacher, but for some reason I just found whatever he did always smell fishy. Since then I had tried to avoid him whenever I could. And today too, he had that too suspicious smile on his face. I hope he didn’t plan any strange thing.

“Risu, made at least 3 clones and you will pass…” Iruka told me.

I gasped at the content of the test. Why should it be to make a clone why they didn’t do some shuriken throwing, or anything.

“Risu?”

I sighed. Then I do the hand signed.

Tiger.

Boar.

Ox.

And the last one. Dog.

3 clones stood next to me. I sighed in relieve. Thank God that I trained to make more than 1 clone without using my second chakra.

“Great… You pass…” Iruka said to me. I could sense his pure happiness and gratefulness in his words. He was a good teacher.

I made the 3 clones disappear then took a headband. I took the blue one because it matched most of my clothes color. Actually I had a dilemma to choose between the blue and black one.

“Congratulation, Risu…” Mizuki sensei said to me.

“Mnh…” I bowed my head slightly without looking at him at all. Then I went out of the test room.

I gripped my headband tightly. “Kakashi must be happy to see me with the headband. At least he won’t complain to me that I waste his time…” I mumbled. I just need to wait for Naruto. He must be nervous, seeing his last name started with ‘U’ and it was after that gloomy Uchiha.

I sat on the swing that Naruto usually sit on. I got bored waiting for him. Many kids have gone out of the Academy and were fetched by their parents. Both of them have that happy face, somehow I felt a little lonely. I shook my head in attempt to shrug that stupid thought.

“I have friends here and also Kakashi too and Grandpa…” I said to myself.

“What’s wrong, baka?” I almost fell from the swing when I heard a low voice from behind me. Fortunately, a strong hand held me tight before I fell flatly on the ground.

“Thank.. Kyaaa” before I could finish my thanks I was pulled into standing position. “Uchiha Sasuke??”

He smirked. I immediately tried to loosen his grip on my hand. But he just tightened it every time I tried.

“Let me go, Uchiha!!” I said plainly. He really started to annoy me now.

“What if I say No?” he said coolly. Maybe his fan girls would faint now, but not me. He was the type I would try to avoid at all cost. He was just too full of himself sometimes. And he mocked Naruto, I hate this part of him the most. No one could insult my friend.

“I have warned you, Uchiha…” I growled then I kicked him in the part where every boy would hate to be kicked.

“Aowh, damn you Risu…” he complained.

“Serves you right!!!” I shouted while running away from him. I sighed. My plan to wait for Naruto was ruined by that annoying Uchiha.

“I will just go home and tell Kakashi about the test…” I mumbled.

Sasuke P.o.V

I sighed. She was annoying. Why should I approach her in the first place?!

But, her face when she looked at the other kids attracted me to approach her. I didn’t know the reason. Maybe because her expression that time was the same as what I felt that time too. The feeling of yearning. The feeling of loneliness.

I just have a feeling that she was also in the situation that was almost the same like me. I even didn’t know why I thought like that. I just felt it. And it made me couldn’t leave her alone. Though, I knew this girl didn’t like me. Not like I had taken a liking on her or anything like that. Argh!! She made me confuse now.

“Just forget about that baka-girl…” I thought.

Kakashi P.o.V

I looked at the clock once more. It had been 3 p.m. and Risu still hadn’t gone home. Usually when the test finished you could go home immediately but why that girl still hadn’t come?!

I tried to distract myself by reading Icha Icha Paradise but I just couldn’t concentrate myself. In the end I closed my book and decided to look for that little girl. But then I heard my door being opened.

“Kakashi…” I felt relieved when I heard her voice but I hid it of course.

“Kakashi… Kakashi!! Guess what?!” she started. By the look on her face it looked like she passed the test smoothly.

“I PASS!!!”

Right?

I patted her head. “Congratulation, Risu… You have work hard.” I smiled to her. Then she hugged me.

“Thank you, Dad…” I got shocked by her word.

“Can I call you like that? At least for now…” she said softly, I could hear loneliness in her voice. Something must have happened.

“Anytime you want…” I replied to her then patted her head lightly. I couldn’t deny it. At first I didn’t really like this girl. But now, because of her I didn’t feel that lonely anymore. The loneliness after I lost my father, my teacher and my companies. She filled it for me even without she realized it.

 But suddenly I heard a knock on my door. I told Risu to stay hidden, in the living room.

I opened the door just to see Mizuki, one of chunin that taught at the academy.

“What’s wrong?”

He looked worried but there was something more hidden in his expression now, something darker and must be a bad news.

“Naruto… That Kyuubi boy ran away with the forbidden scroll..” he said. “Hokage-sama had ordered us to search him and drag him back to the village.”

“What?! But how could that trouble maker found out about the place? It should have been a top secret… What a bother…” I sighed.

“Okay… I will join the search.” I replied plainly. Somewhat I found out that Mizuki hadn’t told me the entire story. But I would just find it myself.

“Thank you, Kakashi…” he said before he jumped to the roof and ran to wherever it was I didn’t really care.

“Kakashi, what’s wrong? What’s happening to Naruto?” Risu suddenly asked me. “And Kyuubi?”

I think she had known what a Kyuubi was. The Juubi was well-known on the entire land, so she must have at least heard about it.

“Do you remember when I told you about the forbidden scroll?”

She nodded.

“Your friend has taken it and run away from the village with it…”

Her eyes widened.

“No way! Naruto won’t do something like that… There must be some misunderstanding here…”

I patted her head.

“Don’t worry… I also think there are something strange here.” I did the hand sign to call my dog squad. “Lock the door and don’t let any stranger in. Pakkun will take care of you. I’ll be back as fast as I could…”

She opened her mouth to protest but I didn’t let her.

“Stay here, Risu…” I said now more like an order.

Fortunately she nodded her head.

Risu P.o.V

I waited until I couldn’t see him anymore then I took the door key.

“What are you doing, Kiddo?” Pakkun asked me. I think he had started to see my plan.

“Please, Pakkun just this once… You can tell Kakashi later, but let me search for my friend…” I said while locking the door then shoved the key into my pocket. I had packed some shuriken and kunai into my pocket and also some bandages.

Pakkun sighed.

“Kakashi will kill me for sure if something happen…” he complained then start sniffing around.

“Thanks a lot, Pakkun…” I said with teary eyes. I already had this bad feeling since this afternoon when Naruto just wouldn’t show up. And now this incident happened.

“What the hell was in your head Naruto… Please don’t do any reckless thing…” I said quietly.

“This way, Kiddo…”

Then we started running.

With Pakkun lead, we arrived in a forest not far from the village gate. We ran under the moonlight quietly until suddenly Pakkun told me to stop.

“Ssht…” he said and pointed to the abandoned house in the middle of forest. There I could see Naruto with a big scroll on his back and also Iruka and Mizuki on the tree. Iruka had a lot of scratch on his body and that Mizuki had lost his usual fake friendly face. Now I could see all the malice he had. How evil he was…

“After what happen in the village 12 years ago, there is a rule in the village…” Mizuki said.

“A rule?” Naruto asked. He looked confuse.

“But Naruto…” Mizuki continued while Iruka had that shocked expression on his face. “Only you can’t know about the rule…”

“Only me?! What’s the rule???” Naruto asked, his voice became louder he almost screamed.

“STOP IT, MIZUKI…” Iruka shouted now.

But Mizuki continued, “That rule is, we can’t tell you who you really are…”

Naruto eyes widened in confuse. I think I knew where this conversation would go. I couldn’t believe that Naruto…

“Because you are the 9 tails fox that killed many people in Konoha 12 years ago…”

I still shocked when I heard the fact though I had predicted it. Naruto’s face had become paler. His face was obvious, he didn’t want to believe it, me neither. He was far too warm and too kind to be the Kyuubi.

“Stop!!!” Iruka cried in desperate attempt.

“You even killed Iruka’s parent…” Mizuki said in cold voice, “The villagers didn’t tell you the truth. Don’t you feel strange why they hate you so much? This is why… They hate you because you are the 9 Tailed Demon Fox…”

Naruto muttered something but I couldn’t hear it. He must be sad.

“Nobody will ever accept you… Even Iruka hate you so much” Mizuki continued. I couldn’t take it anymore. I wanted to give that teacher a punch.

“Take it easy, Kiddo… We can’t… Not yet, so keep your cool.” Pakkun said though he already gritted his teeth. “This teacher has disobeyed the rule.”

Then Mizuki suddenly took his big shuriken behind his back.

“Go to Hell!!!” he screamed while throwing it, aiming at Naruto. He really wanted to kill Naruto.

“No….” I screamed. I didn’t care. I had to save him. I shielded Naruto leaving my back open. If I got hit by that thing, it would be easy for my blood line limit to heal it. But for sure they would found out about me and it wasn’t a good thing. But I didn’t care.

“Get down, Risu, Naruto…”

I just got down as I was told too. I shut my eyes tightly. Then I felt a cold drip on my shoulder. I opened my eyes slowly and saw Iruka just above us. His injury was even worse than before. His blood was dripping.

“Why?” Naruto’s voice trembled as some Iruka’s blood dripped on his face.

“Because we are the same.” Iruka started as a flow of hot tears fell on his cheek to Naruto’s and my face. “Since my parents died, nobody likes me nor accepts me. Because I’m not brilliant, I could only do foolish thing. I hope everyone would notice me, but since I am a fool I keep on doing stupid thing.”

I felt my eyes became hot. Naruto and Iruka, both of them had a really sad and painful past. I hope I could become their power. I wanted to support them.

“It’s so painful. Naruto you must feel lonely and painful like me. I’m sorry, Naruto, If I did better you wouldn’t feel this sad. I’m sorry…” Iruka continued.

Then I heard an irritating laugh, Mizuki’s evil laugh. “Stupid! Iruka will hate you forever because you killed his parents. The reason he talked so much is just to take the book!”

I swipe the tears on my cheek. I seriously wanted to kick this teacher.

“Damn…” I turned to Naruto as he shoved both me and Iruka aside and started running deep into the wood.

“Naruto!!!” Iruka shouted. I wanted to heal him, but I think this wasn’t the right time. I stood up and ran toward Naruto. Pakkun joined me when we were deep enough into the wood.

“What were you thinking, Kiddo?! You could die jumping out like that!” He scolded me. I shook my head.

“No. I would survive with just being stabbed by that. But thanks for worrying, Pakkun.” I smiled to him, “Can you search for Naruto. It would be better if we found him and stay close to him now. He looked so sad before.”

Pakkun nodded his head and started sniffing the air. “Follow me!”

We leapt from some trees until I saw a familiar orange jumpsuit behind a big tree. Pakkun stopped, “Go there, Kiddo, and don’t get into too much troubles!” I nodded as I jumped down.

“Naruto…” I called out to him. At first he almost threw a kunai at me, but the he calmed down.

“Risu chan…” He said, I could hear a hint of sadness in his voice. I hugged him tightly. He stiffened but then he got more relax before he hugged me back.

“Why, Naruto?” We immediately broke our hug. Naruto and I peeked from behind the tree and found Iruka and… another Naruto?

“Why do you know it isn’t me?” A big smoke cover him and Iruka changed into Mizuki.

“It’s because I am not Naruto.” The fake Naruto changed into Iruka.

Mizuki grinned evilly, “I know it. Why do you want to protect the murderer of your parents?!”

“I won’t give you the scroll!” Iruka’s eyes were so firm.

“You’re a fool!” Mizuki screamed like a psychopath, “What Naruto thought is the same as me. If I learned all the arts in the scroll then I could do everything I want to do! It’s impossible for Naruto not to use the evil fox’s power.”

Iruka smiled bitterly, “You are right…”

Both I and Naruto were shock to hear Iruka agreed to that bastard Mizuki.

“See…” Naruto said weakly with obvious betrayed feeling in it, “Even in Iruka’s sensei heart, he doesn’t accept me at all…” I gripped his hand. Something must be wrong here. Iruka wasn’t someone like that! He just couldn’t betray Naruto! He must never!

“Maybe the evil fox will do it…” Iruka continued, “But Naruto is different. That guy, I think he is a brilliant student. He always does everything with all his heart. He knows the human’s pain so he isn’t the evil fox. He is Naruto Uzumaki, a ninja from Konohagakure!”

  I felt a tear dropped on my hand. I looked up just to see Naruto cried silently. I smiled. Then out of the blue, Naruto swept his tear and stood up.

“Let’s go help Iruka sensei, Risu” I nodded my head.

The thing happening after that seems like a dream to me. Naruto did a hand sign for Kage bunshin jutsu, but instead a normal amount of chakra I felt a monstrous huge chakra flowing out of him. Then a large number of shadows clone appeared. Naruto and his clones punched Mizuki till he passed out. While Iruka saw Naruto in awe I quickly gave him some of my chakra secretly on his fatal wounded so his life won’t be in danger anymore.

“Let’s go home, Kiddo, before Kakashi found out we slipped out without his permission…” Pakkun appeared out of some bushes shocking me. I nodded reluctantly. I still wanted to be with Naruto and Iruka, both of them reminded me of my family. But I don’t want to take the risk. If Kakashi found out I broke the promise he would punish me for sure. The worst case he could kick me out of his house.

“Okay, let’s go home…” I looked back once again and smiled. Iruka was giving Naruto his head band. Then that’s mean Naruto is also sucesfully graduate. They hugged each other happily. I overheard that Iruka will treat Naruto on ramen. I smiled. Maybe I could ask Kakashi to treat me too.

A.N. : Hi! Hi, dear reader!! XD

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