In the chapters labeled, not so weak will contain the following:

⚠️ smut (only last chapter)

⚠️ VIOLENCE

⚠️mentions human experiments

⚠️ mass killings

⚠️ Mass blood loss

⚠️ Slight bullying

⚠️cursing

(Due to Wattpad's new guidelines that were put in effect early, all characters will be 18 years or older, for the age of consent has changed effective April 14th, 2024. However, it went into effect on April 9th, 2024

You were very different from everyone else around you. You were overpowered, and you hated it, so you hid it and pretended to be weak. Rock Lee was your very first friend, followed by Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. You had more friends, but you mostly stuck to them. You never spoke a word since you met them and Sakura thought it was strange you never did or ate with them, went to the bathhouse with her, never went swimming with them, or even really trained with them. You did train, but Naruto noticed you were holding back.

The truth was you were a lot, but you liked your friends and knew what Naruto went through as a child because you were there for it. You knew the same thing would happen to you, which you didn't mind, but the thought of losing your friends was worse than anything else. You protected Naruto with your life from assains all the time, and no one knew about it because of how good you were at it. Kakashi knew, and it was fine, but he didn't even know your true strength.

You saved the pervy sage, Jiraiya from certain death without even trying because you were secretly there with him. You had to remember to let your friends struggle because your powers were just overpowering, and they would never know how to grow and use what they would have with you around. When you were younger, you were terrified of your powers, and now you accepted them as a part of you even though they weren't yours they were bits of other people.

You were now eighteen, along with everyone else in your friend group. You loved your friends dearly and ended up doing a lot of great things together and even saved each other from doing stupid things you excluded.

"Hey, Y/n!" Rock Lee yelled, making you look at him.

You wore a covering over the bottom half of your face as Kakashi did, and you oddly enough had similar facial features to him and Naruto's father. You also wore metal boots, and your right hand was also encased in metal as well to hide your real powers. No one really could put two and two together about your powers or what you were, which shocked you, but all the higher-ups knew. There was no way to conceal all your powers, but most of them you could. Ÿou waved, and he grabbed you by the wrist.

"Are you excited? I'm excited!" He said as you looked at him confused.

"Oh right, um, we are supposed to go on a mission tomorrow. I mean, I know we do that all the time, but you have been doing a lot of missions by yourself recently, which is amazing. We should keep training every day to make sure you keep building up your strength!" He said as you smiled.

The truth was you never needed to train for anything, and the only reason why you were doing tons of missions on your own was because you were secretly that dangerous. You wished you could talk to him, but your voice was odd due to your powers, and the only time you made a noise was when your shadow clone turned into a black shadow monster and almost killed Sasuke while you were training. You screamed, and since then, you have never made a sound, not even when walking. You had to go to your friend's houses a lot to get rid of this shadow demon that kept appearing every night for six months. You ended up being at Shikamaru's house, so often his father and mother had a bed ready for you even though you only slept for two hours a night total.

For some reason, that shadow clone would just end up going to your friend's house, and you would have to kill it or make it go away. Every time you did, it would drain you of all your energy. After a while, you learned it was just protecting your friends for you while you slept and it was showing you through its eyes it wasn't trying to do anything it was a piece of you that wanted to protect them.

You were now able to control your shadow and were able to use different ninjutsu, which no one knew about. You could even use ninjutsu without making any signs. All you had to do was think, and it would happen.

You nodded at him but took out a pen and paper and started on it.

It would be nice to do that again. we haven't done any missions together in about a year. I do hope I get to train with you. I miss when we used to," you wrote and gave it to him.

"Likewise, hey, we should throw a party tonight! I know you won't eat or drink anything, but it still would be fun. We barely get to hang out as much as we used to. I still have the poster you made for me during my tests and training," he said as you looked at him shocked. You hadn't used that old poster in about three years now.

"I guess I can go only if you're going Rock," you wrote, making him smile.

"You know I will, secret handshake!" He said as you two started to do your secret handshake you made up on the first day of being friends with each other.

"Bye, I'm going to make a list and invite people!" He said happily as he took off.

"Just like his dad," you thought as you started walking around looking for any danger. 

You liked walking alone because it gave you time to think and see if there was anything new. There wasn't usual, and if there was, then you would inspect it carefully. You were normally a suspicious person anyway, but if it was a person you never met, even with your shadow clone lurking around, then you would be on high alert. You walked around carefully watching everything. Nothing seemed out of the usual until you felt the ground underneath you rise quickly, and you were thrown into a bathhouse.

You were soaking wet, and you sighed, annoyed, but when you heard guys yelling, you knew you were thrown into the men's bathhouse side.

"Y/n?!" Naruto yelled, shocked as he tried to cover up as well as everyone else.

You got up slowly pretending you got hit hard, even though it barely hurt at all. You stood up only to see Shikamaru not wearing anything at all. You looked at him shocked, and you didn't know what to do with yourself. You tried to keep your eyes on his, but you didn't know what to do.

"Seriously? You aren't going to say anything?" He asked as your face kept turning into a deeper red as you were trying to process what was going on.

It was as if you had forgotten everything you ever knew. You just looked at him oddly, then turned only to get dragged and slammed back into the bath over and over again.

"What the hell is that?!!" A guy yelled as you cut yourself free and started fighting the monster.

You had to put on a show to show how weak you were, so after a couple of minutes, you were again slammed into the ground. You lay there annoyed. You had to pretend to be weak while the guys were rushing to put on their clothes. But before you knew it, Rock Lee quickly took out the monster.

"Ow," you thought as you lay on your stomach, and Shikamaru looked at you, unfazed by what just happened also, he was still naked.

"Shikamaru!!!!! Put on some clothes!" Rock yelled as he covered your eyes. Then, I helped you up.

"She hasn't said a word. I thought that being naked would make her say something!" He said.

"She has a speech impediment she won't say a word to anyone ever because she's ashamed of it! She doesn't have to say a word if she doesn't want to. Y/n, are you okay? I was so worried about you. I saw it in the air and I got there as fast as I could. It didn't hurt you, did it?" He asked as he looked you over.

You looked for your pad and paper, but in reality, you were making sure all the weights you wore were gone. You sighed weakly as you found the pad soaking wet so you couldn't write anything down.

"Hey, it's okay. Don't worry about it. How about I get you out of here, and we go get something to eat," he said as you nodded.

"Good! Let's go!" He said as he helped you navigate through the rubble even though you didn't need help.

You were just pretending but loved how careful Rock Lee was with you, and he always made sure to help you if you needed it. You trained together all the time, and when he was feeling down, you tried your best to help him even if you were watching from afar. You tried to be there for him. It was one of the main reasons you pretended to be weak. Yes, you won against monsters, but you never overdid it. You were underwhelming in defeating all the monsters and people you fought.

"Why didn't you put on a towel?" Sasuke asked.

"Too much work, plus it looked like she got it. Guess not though, oh well," he said as he put the towel on finally.

"I have so many questions," Naruto said as he went to the monster shocked.