Well I know I should probably be finishing my other Naruto fic but I got this crazy idea for another one! I thought ‘hey I’ve got a NarutoxOC so what about a SasukexOC?’ in fact it’s been in my head for a while now but I’ve been putting it off, I’m so sorry you have to experience what comes out of my crazy mind! XD Also I’d reallyappreciate it if I didn’t get reviews from SasuSaku or SasuHina fans who have just come to put a downer on my fic, if you don’t like this pairing don’t read it! :)

My OC’s name is Kaede which means Maple, if you put Maple into an image search you’ll notice the leaves are red/orange and then after you read this chapter you’ll understand why I picked that name! :D I suppose it’s kind of tight really…but it’s fitting! :)

Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto only my OC Kaede!

One girl walked alone down the streets of Konoha. Her light green eyes squinting in the sunlight, making the black eye-liner around her eyes look thicker, bright orange hair up into two pony-tails on either side of her head ending at her elbows, slowly swaying side to side as she walked; 2 green hair clips holding back 3 short bangs at the right side of her fore-head and long black sandals gathering dust behind her as she took each step. Wearing what she wore everyday a black combat skirt with fish-net shorts underneath and a bandage wrapped around her right leg, a boob-tube black top that stopped at her waist where the skirt began; over the top of this was a black pull-over with elbow length sleeves; two orange stripes ran from the back, around her shoulders, the whole thing stopped just below her chest, a simple fingerless fish-net glove on her left hand. This was Yamaguchi Kaede. Everyday she suffered the same abuse from the other girls but she didn’t mind she liked her orange hair; it made her stand out from the crowd…it made her different. Nobody at school seemed to really like her apart from Inuzuka Kiba, Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Chouji; of course they were all boys so they didn’t find what she looked like important, none of the other girls liked Kaede as she didn’t have a crazy fan-girl obsession over one certain boy, in fact she hated this certain boy, everywhere she went somebody would be talking about him, it made her sick to her stomach. ‘Yeah so he’s had a rough past, he needs to grow up and get over it’ that may have sounded harsh to other people, but it’s what she thought. Kaede could understand almost all of Sasuke’s pain, she’d experienced losing her parents, but she didn’t dwell on the past she’d learnt to suck it up and move on and she thought this was exactly what that boyneeded to do. Hyuuga Hinata was the only one out of the girls that liked Kaede and that was because she too didn’t have a crazy fan-girl obsession over Sasuke…she had a crazy fan-girl obsession over Uzumaki Naruto, Kaede realised she’d never really spoken to this boy before, he’d sit in the front row of her everyday at school but he just seemed to blend in; apart from when he would mess up on jutsu’s and everyone would laugh at him, Hinata and Kaede found this cruel and would usually be the two to tell everybody to shut up. Then afterwards Naruto would give the two a warm and thankful smile which Kaede returned even though it would be quickly forgotten among other things in her mind. This was the place that Yamaguchi Kaede was headed now; Konoha ninja academy. She didn’t mind school; apart from the teasing she actually found it interesting and enjoyed being praised by Iruka-sensei when she managed to maintain chakra or perform a jutsu, she didn’t get complimented much anymore. She had reached school now and had been rudely pulled out of her day-dream; which was overcoming the realisation she was late. Kaede was ready to be yelled at as soon as she walked into the classroom; she was late today because as she was walking down a back-alley to avoid a gang of girls who usually picked on her, she got caught in the middle of two drunken men fighting, she escaped from the men and the alley, only then to realise she had been accidently hit a few times; now there was a purple bruise occupying her cheek, she knew because as she touched her cheek to check for scratches a throbbing pain hit her. She also saw the bruises on her arms and the scratches too. ‘Great how am I going to explain this to Hinata, Kiba, Shikamaru and Chouji, they’ll get all worried…Iruka-sensei too…’ She pushed open the two big doors to the academy and walked down the hall until she saw the other door for her classroom. She slowly approached it and cautiously put her hand on the handle ‘Cue screaming in three…’ she grasped the handle ‘two…’ she began to slide the door ‘one!’ the door was fully open and she had stepped inside the classroom.

“Yamaguchi Kaede, where do you think you’ve…been…?” Iruka had begun to scream at Kaede only to turn around and see the bruises and scratches making his voice soften and slowly stop.

“Kaede…”

“I’m fine Iruka-sensei, gomenasai for interrupting,”

“Make sure you stay behind after to catch up, I need a word as well,” She simply grabbed her bruised arm which had started throbbing and made her way to the 3rd bench and took her seat next to Hinata who had a worried look, she noticed Kiba and Shikamaru had as well; Chouji was eating. She gave them a re-assuring smile and mimed ‘no-biggy’ to each of them, then looked to the front to try and catch up on Iruka’s lecture. Even though her arms were throbbing she managed to cross them on the desk and place her face in her arms, she made a loud sigh and then lifted her head up so her chin was resting in her crossed arms and she could see the front of the class-room. ‘This is going to be a long day; oh Naruto’s looking at me, never noticed,’she waved to him and smiled, he then smiled back and got yelled at for facing the other way, he then turned back to the front, Kaede could hear Sakura and Ino snickering to her right, she simply gave them death glares and they stopped not before miming ‘whatever orange head!’ she sighed once again, only to hear movement behind her. Kiba had now stood up and slammed his hands on the desk, he was clenching his teeth with his fangs showing and slightly growling at Ino and Sakura.

“That’s enough! Haruno Sakura, Yamanaka Ino, Inuzuka Kiba, Uzumaki Naruto and Yamaguchi Kaede, you 5 will all stay behind during lunch-break,” All 5 groaned at Iruka and then turned to the front again, Kaede slightly giggling at Kiba who smiled, as she turned around she noticed Sasuke; who was at the front, had quickly turned around to view the commotion; he was looking directly at her though, they both caught each others eyes for a second before returning them to their sensei. ‘What’s his problem?’

“As you know tomorrow is your last day at Konoha ninja academy, you will all be taking your exam tomorrow to gain your head-band, and then when you do you will go onto to be put into groups the day after. If you fail this exam you will repeat your last year of school again!”

“Oh boy,” Naruto piped up from in front of her, and then Kaede turned to Hinata.

“Crud, I haven’t revised or anything! What do we have to do for it?” Hinata shrugged her shoulders and as if to answer her question Iruka carried on.

“For the exam you will have to create 2 perfect clones of yourself,”

“I’m the worst at that,” Kaede and Naruto said at the exact same time.

“Whoa, freaky,” They both said this at the same time again and laughed at each other.

“As not to do the exam today, as practice you are to transform into me, please line up at the front here and get in a single-file line, you will each step forward and perform it individually,” Kaede grabbed her injured arm and walked to the front with all the rest of the class, as they walked down the steps it seemed as though Ino purposely shoved into her so Kaede simply spat back.

“Get a life Ino!” Ino grunted and then walked to the front of the class, soon after everybody was in a line. At the front was Sakura followed by Sasuke, Naruto, Shikamaru, Kaede, Hinata, Chouji and Kiba with the rest of the class behind him. Kaede saw Sakura get called up and saw her say something to Sasuke.

“Watch me Sasuke,” Kaede crossed her arms slowly and rolled her eyes, Shikamaru saw this and grunted in response.

“Pathetic isn’t it, girls are so troublesome,”

“Hey!” Kaede shoved Shikamaru slightly “I’m a girl in case you didn’t realise!”

“Oh right, gomen, see what I mean you are troublesome! Now I have a bruise on my arm as well,”

“Ha!” Kaede said victoriously as she watched Sakura perform the technique perfectly ‘Kiss-up’ Then Sasuke was up he did the technique with no hassle and afterwards walked boredly back to his seat, trying not to look interested in the others. Then it was Naruto.

“Good luck!” Kaede said encouragingly and watched Naruto nervously step up.

“Transform!” A blue light en-circled Naruto and in a puff of smoke he didn’t turn into Iruka-sensei he had turned into a nude girl with blonde hair and only puffs of smoke covering her to make her decent. Kaede saw her sensei fly into the wall with blood shooting from his nose ‘hentai’. Naruto turned back into his 12 year-old boy self and was laughing very hard.

“How do you like that? I call it the seduction technique!”

“Don’t make up stupid techniques!” Iruka had now turned giant and was towering over Naruto, he began sweating and mumbling and then went back to his seat. Naruto smiled again and turned to Kaede who was trying to stop herself from laughing, when she caught Naruto’s eye she stuck her thumb up as if to say ‘nice-one’.

“Shikamaru, go,” He stood forward and mumbled tiredly, turning into Iruka with no flaws.

“Woot, alright Shikamaru!” Kaede cheered he just went back to his seat.

“Yamaguchi Kaede, your up,”

“Crap, crap, crap!” She said quietly to herself as she stepped up. She performed the hand seal and closed her eyes ready to concentrate. ‘Concentrate, it’s not your best jutsu but you can do it. Concentrate’ a blue light began to slowly surround her and circle her.

“Transform!” Iruka looked expectant as the smoke cleared but only sweat-dropped at her attempt. She had transformed into her sensei okay but he had two fluffy dog-ears on top of his head.

“Kaede, how did this happen! You’re as bad as Naruto!” He yelled at her making her cower back a bit, she turned back into her normal self and began to reply.

“Gomen! I was just thinking about if everyone else passes and I just happened to be thinking of Kiba at the time and then I thought about how kawaii Akamaru is, so you’ve obviously…somehow…accidently…got Akamaru ears,” She rubbed the back of her hair with her hand and laughed nervously. She could hear Akamaru barking and Kiba laughing, so she turned to them and smirked.

“Very well, take a seat, don’t forget to stay behind at lunch and after school finishes,”

“How could I Iruka-sensei,” She slumped back in a different seat this time, now she was next to Naruto.

“Are you sure you want to sit here Kaede? People will tease you for hanging out with the freaky demon-fox kid,”

“That’s the thing, I don’t care what people think of me I get teased all the time, plus I don’t think you’re a freaky demon-fox kid anyway! I think you’re a funny, cool kid who just happens to have a demon-fox inside him, that doesn’t mean you areone does it?” She smiled to Naruto and noticed that in front of her Sasuke had lifted his head a little to listen ‘Someone’s being nosey today’.

“Arigato Kaede, by the way your transformation was hilarious, I think Iruka-sensei should have Akamaru’s ears permanently!”

“You thought minewas hilarious? I thought yours was funnier, I had to bite both my cheeks and my tongue to stop my self from laughing out loud, and I’m already in a tonne of trouble today anyway. Oh yeah…like, I never knew Iruka-sensei was a closet pervert!”

“Me either!” She noticed that Hinata and Chouji had both done there transformation and had gone back to their seats. Now it was Kiba’s turn and he was up the front. She turned to Hinata and Chouji.

“Nice job you guys,” They both smiled in return, although Chouji’s face was half in a packet of some sort of food.

“Alright Akamaru!” Kaede turned her attention to the front again and noticed that Kiba had made two transformations and turned back into himself and Akamaru, he then decided to go and take a seat next to Kaede.

“Kiba that’s cheating! You used Akamaru to get more marks!”

“Earth to Kaede, you used Akamaru too!”

“Good point…but I didn’t use him on purpose; he was just in my mind!”Kaede tapped her head as she said the last part.

“Oh yeah Naruto, nice job with the transformation,”

“Arigato Kiba, good job on making two!” Naruto was surprised Kiba, or anyone had never really spoken to him before and now Kiba was talking to him out of free-will, Naruto thought all this was because of Kaede. All Kaede could do though was sit back and smile as the two boys on either side of her conversed in the funny way that boys do.

“Alright now that everyone’s done you may have your lunch-break, the 5 that I mentioned, can you stay behind please,” Sakura, Ino, Kiba, Naruto and Kaede all groaned as everyone stood up to leave. Sakura and Ino watched with longing eyes as Sasuke got up and jumped out of the window.

“Wow he’s so cool!”

“If I get out of here before the end I’m eating lunch with him!”

“Shut up fore-head girl, I’ll be the one eating lunch with him!”

“Want to bet Ino-pig?!”

“Man, those two need to get over him,” Kaede said to herself; or so she thoughtbecause Naruto and Kiba grunted in agreement. Those three sat staying together where as Ino and Sakura separated; Ino closest to the window; obviously planning to jump out and Sakura sat closest to the door; ready to run out when they were dismissed.

“You 5 all know why you’re here! Starting fights,” He turned to look at Sakura, Ino and Kaede. “Interrupting whilst in the middle of a lecture,” He then turned to Kiba who hid from his eye-line by staring out the window. “And just being a plain idiot!” He then turned to Naruto, Kaede then spoke up.

“Iruka-sensei that’s tight you shouldn’t say that about Naruto! All he was doing was checking to see if I was alright after I came in late this morning covered in bruises and stuff! It’s hardly fair to call him an idiot just because he has trouble following!”

“Kaede, do you want to make those 2 days to stay behind after school?” She sighed in defeat.

“No sensei,”

“Good, now sit here in silence for 10 minutes you will then be able to leave,” She heard Sakura and Ino silently whisper a ‘Yes!’ So the group of 5 sat and waited for 10 minutes, the longest 10 minutes of Kaede’s life, of course she’d been in trouble and kept in before, but somehow it seemed different today. ‘Don’t get too excited Kaede, you get to stay behind after as well, suppose it keeps me away from home for longer! Which brings me back to the whole ‘becoming a ninja’ thing I need to pass this exam, I can’t stay at home…I just can’t…’

“Time up, you 5 are free to leave and I hope you’ve learnt your lesson, tomorrow is your last day of school, also let me just give an extra good luck to you, I don’t expect this behaviour again,”

“Yes sensei,” All 5 chorused together then as soon as the two girls had been sat there Sakura had run out the door and Ino had jumped out the window. Also before she knew it, Kiba had run out after Akamaru and Naruto had jumped out the window also; leaving Kaede and Iruka alone.

“It was nice of you to stick up for Naruto like that Kaede,”

“Yeah well it really makes him feel like crap when people make fun of him and you were making it worse by calling him an idiot, just making a point,”

“Okay, see you after school,”

“Oh Yay! I can’t wait Iruka-sensei,” She said sarcastically; she paused at the window but decided to walk out the door; jumping would only make her aches and injuries worse. Kaede wondered around for a while trying to find Hinata until she spotted her on a bench eating her lunch quietly and watching Naruto as he tried to perfect his clones again and again.

“Konnichiwa Hinata, is it okay if I eat my lunch with you today? I don’t really feel like eating on my own today, and my only other options were with the boys…” She pointed to the group of boys who were acting like complete idiots and stuffing noodles up their nostrils; which somehow they found hilarious. “Or the Sasuke fan-club,” She then pointed to all the girls surrounding a very annoyed Sasuke; who was just trying to eat his lunch in peace, he even quickly glanced at Kaede when he saw her looking at him, Hinata shuffled over and let Kaede sit down.

“Yes of course you can,”

“So why are we watching Naruto?” Hinata’s face went bright red and she began to stutter.

“I…uh…well…I was sat here and…”

“It’s okay Hinata, I don’t mind watching him, he’s so determined I really admire him, I wish I could be like that,”

“Me too, I will get confident enough for him to notice me,”

“You do that Hinata,” Kaede said with a smile as she opened her Bento and began eating noodles out of it.

“Oi Naruto, you’ve been practicing for a while, how about you come an eat something?”

“Sure,” He finished up what he was doing and took a seat in the middle of the two girls.

“Awww man, I forgot my lunch,”

“It’s okay, you can have the rest of mine, I’m full anyway, and oh wait a second…I just remembered I have to…go…somewhere else, ja ne!” Kaede of course didn’t mean this she just thought it would be funny to leave Hinata sat next to Naruto. With that she walked off and smiled as the two began to talk, although Naruto was probably concerned because her face was flushed. ‘Great didn’t think this through, where am I supposed to go now? I really don’t want to sit with Kiba and his friends, boy’s are idiots when there together and I don’t want to be with the boy I hate and the girls that hate me, I’ll probably end up dead…what about the swing at the front of the school?’She walked around until she came to the old swing shaded by ancient trees and she went and sat on it; swinging lightly. There wasn’t really anybody around this part so she was just staring at the birds through holes in the trees that were until a figure caught her eye. Upon closer inspection it was none other than Uchiha Sasuke he seemed to be running swiftly, Kaede wondered why but didn’t second guess it when she heard a rumble and girls screaming; Sasuke had escaped and the girls were after him so he was trying to find a place to hide. He obviously saw the trees and didn’t see Kaede on the swing and began to run over, even when he didn’t notice her he didn’t stop running he just ran and hid behind the tree that Kaede was next to on the swing, the fan-girls saw him head this way and began to head in Kaede’s direction. She looked to Sasuke who looked very out of breath leaning on the tree; he then looked at her with pleading eyes as if to say ‘help’ but why should she help him? He’s never helped her before in fact he’s done the opposite, half the part of her being picked on is because she didn’t fall all over this guy. The girls headed towards the trees and came to a halt in front of Kaede who was swinging gently on the tree.

“Oi baka, have you seen Sasuke?” Ino spoke up.

“I have a name, its Kaede,”

“Yeah whatever, have you seen Sasuke come this way?” Sakura asked

“Maybe, even if I had I wouldn’t tell you skanks,” They looked rather insulted at this and tried to think of a good come-back.

“Trying to act all cool and non-caring like that is just because you’re trying to be like Sasuke so he’ll notice you!” She didn’t know who said this but it was a random girl in the crowd.

“I’m really not, I just don’t happen to like people with crazy obsessions so I’m defending myself and trying to annoy you at the same time!” She replied with a smirk, she’d had plenty of practice at making comebacks and these girls obviously hadn’t.

“Fine, but don’t expect us to ever be nice to you, even when one of us is married to Sasuke and maybe I become Uchiha Sakura,”

“Or Uchiha Ino,” Kaede simply laughed in their faces, louder than she wanted to in fact but that comment was too funny from her point-of-view.

“I think Sasuke would be rather scared to marry one of you, think about it, you’d bring all your sad little pictures of him; which are covered in lipstick and stick them all over the wall, that might be enough to drive him mad, by the looks of it he’s not even interested in girls at the moment I’m sure he’s got more important things to be worrying about,”

“Oh…j…just shut up orange-hair, your just jealous because Sasuke doesn’t look twice at you!”

“Oh, now I’m really offended, don’t say anymore I might cry and last time I checked he hasn’t looked twice at any of you either!” She faked shock and opened her mouth wide placing her hand on her chest; she could see Sasuke smirk slightly from his hiding spot. The crowd of girls sighed in defeat and ran off to look for Sasuke with that he came out of his hiding place. ‘Wow, I’ve just lost my chance of ever making friends because of this baka’

“You owe me,” Was all she said and with that she walked away from the swing and jumped as high as she could through the window to her classroom just as the bell went. She sat at her desk next to Hinata again and noticed as Sasuke walked in; through the door this time, that he looked at her, then looked again ‘What was that about Sasuke not looking twice at me Ino?’ Then she smirked, leaving Hinata, Kiba, Shikamaru and Chouji looking very confused.

“Great another hour until we leave, oh wait…I’m not leaving because I have to stay behind for something that wasn’t even my fault!”

“Quiet down Kaede,”

“For crying-out-loud!” She sighed as she placed her head in her hands on the desk and without realising she fell asleep and only woke up when Kiba somehow kicked Kaede from behind which woke her up with a start, school had ended and everyone was leaving.

“Huh, what Kiba?” She turned around blurry eyed until he kicked her again for the fun of it waking her up properly.

“Okay Kiba, I got it the first time!” She shouted as she stood up and shoved a fist in his face.

“Just checking,” He smirked as Akamaru barked.

“What, I fell asleep and Iruka-sensei didn’t even shout at me or wake me up, or even rudely ask me a question when he knew I was asleep so I wouldn’t answer or even if I woke up I wouldn’t know the answer?” She drew in a very deep-breath at the end but Kiba only nodded.

“Hm, he’s nicer than I thought,”

“Actually, he uh…knew you were asleep but said since you had to stay behind anyway he wouldn’t punish you and just let you sleep,”

“Sweet! Did anything exciting happen, what did he talk about?”

“You didn’t miss much he was just going on about tomorrow and how to revise easier tonight for the exam tomorrow, but you missed the best bit!”

“I did, really, what was it?”

“After Iruka-sensei told you off for sleeping, Sakura and Ino made a smart remark about you to show off in front of Sasuke and instead Iruka said that they have to stay behind as they had caused more trouble than you and that you only have to stay for a few minutes so he can talk to you,”

“Wow even better! I should nap more often,” She said with a fox-grin.

“Well bye Kiba, see you Hinata, Shikamaru, Chouji,” They all waved at her as they walked out the door. She then turned to Naruto who was still in front of her.

“See you tomorrow as well Naruto, good luck with the exam!”

“You too, bye!” He shouted as he jumped out the window and dashed across the buildings. Sasuke still hadn’t packed up his things and was just getting to it, obviously being irritated by Sakura and Ino who had purposely used the staying behind time as an excuse to talk to him, that’s when Iruka spoke up.

“Sakura, Ino get out! I need to talk with Kaede privately, you too Sasuke hurry-up please,”

“Hm,” Sakura and Ino got out and Kaede walked to the front as she passed him she glanced at him, time seemed to slow and he turned to look at her as well, they caught eyes for longer this time, Kaede was the first to pull her head away as she walked to Iruka. Sasuke then jumped out the window, the tiniest bit of a smirk on his face, so small that it looked almost exactly the same to his normal, blank expression. ‘That Sasuke, he’s so weird sometimes, what was with that look?’

“Now Kaede this is a serious matter, okay?”

“Yeah, I think I know what it’s about,”

“Probably, you’ve been coming in awfully late these past couple of weeks and you always seem to have some sort of cut or bruise on you somewhere,”

“Yeah well this morning, I was walking down an alley-way to try and avoid this gang of older girls who always argue with me, there were two drunken men fighting and I got caught in the middle of it, that’s all,” She said with a smile.

“That doesn’t explain the other days you’ve come in with bruises and cuts though, would you mind telling me why?”

“It’s nothing really; I’m just…clumsy,”

“Kaede…” Iruka said trying to sympathise her, he then placed a gentle hand on her shoulder and knelt down to her height. “If there’s something more going on here, I’d like to know about it so I can help you,” She shoved his hand off her shoulder and took a step back.

“I don’t need your help; I’m doing fine on my own, theres nothing you can do to help,”

“So there is something, please you don’t have to tell me but I know you’ll feel a lot better when you get it off your chest,”

“Promise? Because I’m not telling you because I want to, but because you’ve just told me it will make me feel better,”

“Promise,”

“Well the reason I’ve been coming in late for the last couple of weeks is because…well I know you and the Hokage and all the other jounin know that my parents just left me as a toddler and tried to kill me by setting the house on fire when they left…and all of you also know I was adopted by a very nice single women…well…recently…she got a boyfriend and now she’s pregnant. She doesn’t know this but while she’s out or resting…her boyfriend…tells me I should leave because once the babies born my adopted mother will have no time for me and she won’t want me anymore…I…I know this is all lies but he just tells me in a way…that makes me believe it…then it doesn’t help that I’m bullied all the time and so…before school I started getting really angry and taking my anger out on the training, I worked myself to hard and injured myself or got bruised everyday, I felt stronger and happy when I hurt myself…I got hurt so much I didn’t realise how badly I was hurt; if that makes sense, recently though now that her boyfriend is spending more time with her and away from me he doesn’t get me angry and I stop training,”

“Oh Kaede…nobody knew…she had a boyfriend or was pregnant…the boyfriend he never…hit you or did indecent things did he?”

“No way, I wouldn’t let him! He only hit me once, but it was a complete accident, I swear, he’s never hurt me he only tells me weird things and I can’t help believe them, then at night I have weird nightmares…” Iruka never really did this but he could see the tears in the young girl’s eyes. ‘She’s so cheerful at school, all the time she get’s bullied,’he pulled the girl into a quick embrace, Kaede didn’t think of it as weird, she just thought of it as a comforting gesture because he felt sorry for her.

“I don’t want to be treated any different because I told you this, I’m taking the exam tomorrow and even if I mess up make sure you don’t treat me any different, fail me if I do it wrong, I can live with 9 months of that guy, if what he says is true I can leave Konoha if my adopted mother wouldn’t want me anymore,” He released her from the hug and told her she could go.

“Oh Kaede, where will you go now?”

“Home obviously,”

“O…okay, see you tomorrow,”

“Don’t worry Iruka-sensei, I’ve been put through worse,” She smiled and went to leave; as she opened the door Ino and Sakura fell into the classroom. ‘Oh crap, I forgot these two were outside, bet they heard everything’they instantly stood up and both hugged Kaede as tight as they could, Kaede simply pushed them off.

“Get off me!”

“Kaede, we’re so sorry we didn’t know,”

“Yeah, we wouldn’t have treated you so bad if we knew…”

“Now that you know this, nothings going to change between us, I still don’t like you and don’t want any of your pity either, so tomorrow after the exam if we all pass, even if I’m on the same team with one of you, my feelings will not change towards you, got it? And how come you bothknow Naruto has had a worst life than me but you don’t try and make friends with him because you feel sorry for him? Pathetic,” She pushed the two girls out of the way and ran down the hall, wiping away the tiny tear which was the start of a flood.

“Iruka-sensei…,”

“Don’t worry about it girls, you may go home, please if you know it’s going to upset Kaede, don’t tell anyone,” They nodded their heads and left, Iruka instantly jumped; so fast it was just a blur, and he landed outside the Hokage office. However as Kaede was running out of the school she didn’t notice a figure in the dark, they had heard everything and had now witnessed her running away, they jumped away, swiftly.

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“Hokage-sama,”

“We are aware of the situation already Iruka, an ANBU near-by had heard the whole thing and witnessed Yamaguchi Kaede running away from the building,”

“Then you’ll know we need to get rid of that man immediately? It’s his fault one of my students is in danger,”

“My assistants are on it now, turns out the man is not originally a Konoha villager but was posing as one, he was a dangerous criminal who was only after money and women, he seemed to have a particular attachment to Kaede’s mother though and stayed with her, trying to get rid of Kaede as he knew she would interfere with his plans,”

“Horrible, when she spoke with me a moment ago…she’s too young to be hearing those kinds of things after the thing with her real parents…it made her start to hurt herself…”

“Yes, turns out he’s a wanted criminal because he has a ninja ability that makes his voice almost ‘hypnotize’ if you like, the people he speaks to, so Kaede’s mother is probably not really in love with him but has been forced into it and the things he has told Kaede are hypnotising her to self-harm or injure herself,” At the end of this sentence an ANBU member jumped down and landed on one knee.

“Reporting in Hokage-sama, the criminal Takahashi Ganju has been captured and sent to the ANBU interrogation room where he is currently being questioned,”

“Excellent and how are Kaede and her mother?”

“Kaede’s mother has been taken from the house to the hospital, just to check nothing has been done to her physically and to check the baby, then ANBU will check to undo anything that has happened to her mentally,”

“And Yamaguchi Kaede?”

“Well she has not been home according to her mother, although other members of ANBU think she will be young, healthy and strong enough to fight her way out of the mentally harmful things Ganju had done to her, the injuries are only minor and will heal,”

“Thank you, you are dismissed,”

“Arigato,” With that the ANBU that had seconds before been in front of Iruka and the Hokage had now disappeared.

“Thank goodness she’s okay, she might be able to concentrate on passing the exam now, it’s a shame the teasing won’t stop,”

“Teasing? What do you mean Iruka?”

“Well because of her brightly coloured orange hair and the fact that she hasn’t got a strong ‘fan-girl obsession’ over Uchiha Sasuke the girls seem to treat her differently and insult her, she doesn’t seem to mind though she is good friends with Inuzuka Kiba, Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji, Hyuuga Hinata and she seems to be getting along nicely with Uzumaki Naruto,”

“That’s good to hear, you are dismissed,”

“Thank you, but would you like me to check if Kaede is alright, or alert her that her mother is in hospital?”

“Yes, that would be convenient,”

“Hai, sayonara,” Iruka then disappeared from the old-man Hokage’s sight and jumped out the window, he headed for the place where he thought she would go. The training grounds.

Wow, first chapter! :D I guess it got kind of depressing…but it’s all better now…I guess. I know there wasn’t a lot going on in this chapter because with these stories usually everyone starts on the day of the exam, but I wanted to get the day before in there as well, so next chapter is the exam and the teams and the first test! It’s also going to take a while for Sasuke and Kaede to warm up to each other because well they kind of…hateeach other and with Sasuke being Sasuke he won’t dare show any emotion…wait if he doesn’t show any emotion then why do people call him Emosuke, because surely emo’s only show there emotions all the time? Ah well…another question about Naruto that will haunt me! XD

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