NOVEL NEXT Chapter 2: R.I.P Water bill.
Sleeping in a tiny bedroom in an apartment was a young girl in a cute little toad onesie. Her blonde hair was splayed everywhere as she twisted and turned. A few moments passed before a little yawn escaped her lips, and she tumbled out of bed. Barely landing on her feet with a stumble she rubbed her still-closed eyes while moving forward towards the bathroom.
A moment later the sounds of a shower being turned on, and the closing of a door could be heard... "Targets up. The day has started, on guard everyone." As the quieter than a church-mouse voice reached the rest of the members of the hidden squad.
-CHANGE-
'Owwwwww' Holding her head between her hands while sitting on the toilet Naruko slowly blinked as her brain struggled to process nearly three decades of memories, and an uncountable amount of time in the void being forced into it. A few moments passed before she very slowly stood up off the toilet. 'Thanks K-chan!' As she went to take a step toward the center of the bathroom to begin stripping she froze. 'K-chan... Oh, he's gonna be so mad!' A little giggle escaped her as she began to strip before hopping into the shower. 'Oh, I'm only gonna call him K-chan from now on!'
Not even reacting as the freezing cold water patted against her skin - something that the younger part of herself had long grown used to, thoughts would begin to fly through her head. 'What should I do? Especially with that guard that's constantly on me.' Indeed, whether this was a change from 'canon' due to her being a girl, or just Naruko being more aware of her surroundings because her physical and spiritual energies were more aligned, she had noticed a guard around her long ago, albeit one that would hide whenever she tried to get them to play with her.
In fact, there were quite a few of those little 'changes'. Her apartment and apartment building were of nicer quality than she would have expected, and there was a suspicious number of Shinobi that lived in the building. 'Almost like when K-chan destroyed Konoha, they relocated a lot of these shinobi here, perfect to guard and spy on your little Jinchuriki.' Humming a tune while washing herself just in case someone WAS listening to her 'Can never count out Danzo and Pedophiles!' she began to wonder about something truly important...
'If I just full tilt start training things I shouldn't know, what would happen?' Indeed, it was a common problem and worry among her fellow 'reincarnators' but the answer was quite obvious - nothing. Start training wall walking or water walking? She lived in an apartment complex full of shinobi! Start learning the elements? Same!
Invent crazy and wacky chakra control exercises? Oh, well, either she's the 'Demon Child' or she's the daughter of the Yondaime! Worry about Danzo scooping her up? Pfft! Let alone Hiruzen, Jiraiya would come around and slap him upside the head! After all, if the threats of a 13-year-old teen could stop him, what about the Toad Sage?
The tune she was humming turned more upbeat as she continued on. 'Honestly, all I need is regular Shadow Clones, it's not worth trying the 'Naruto Special' style training. My brain is 8 years younger, and so are my chakra reserves...'
Indeed, she was merely 8 years old, even for an Uzumaki Jinchuriki doing that kind of training would be too much, especially on the regular. 'So regular training, improve my theoretical grades a little, and...' Pausing in her thoughts as a memory struck her, she couldn't help but twitch slightly. 'Aah. They're real, huh?' Remembering the hours she spent learning about cultural studies, flower arrangement, tea ceremonies, traditional dancing, makeup usage, anti-seduction, and more she couldn't help but frown. 'These should be specialized classes not the standard for Kunoichi, and why aren'-' Pausing again realization struck her.
'Aah! They are specialized classes but only for the male shinobi. Everyone has to take anti-seduction, but the rest of the Kunoichi classes are purely based on whether they want to attend for the boys.' It was utterly stupid. Especially when you consider that the strongest Ninja to ever live the First Hokage, was in fact, a woman. 'Which more than likely means Asura was one as well.' Taking that in stride she couldn't help but roll her eyes. 'Either Tobirama or Hiruzen is a real idiot. If you wanted to make it mandatory, it should be mandatory for either everyone or for the assumed cannon fodder. Making your Jinchuriki waste time on Flower Arrangement instead of literally anything else is just a waste.'
Going past that she continued onto one of the more important things to think about. 'How should I go about pranking people?!?' Indeed - for when in Rome, act like a Roman. What better way to ward off any potential problems her 'enhanced studies' would cause, than to make everyone suffer her horrific wrath! 'Let's start off with...'
-CHANGE-
As the humming turned into a creepy chuckle the Squad assigned to protecting the Jinchuriki couldn't help but shiver. Hand signs flashed out between them as they prepared to be ready to shove their clones into the line of duty once more.
-CHANGE-
Stepping out of her apartment a little song would escape her lips, "Ramen ramen ramen! I'm comin'. Ramen ramen ramen! I'm gonna eat ya! Ramen ramen ramen!" Practically skipping through the village ignoring the varying looks that had a long-range of emotions contained within, she'd find herself in front of THE stall and would hop up onto a stool. "Ojisan! I want the breakfast Ramen with eggplant today!" 'Operation screw with ANBU starts with step one! Eggplants!'
"One moment!" A couple minutes later a middle-aged man with a chef's hat and a kind smile on his face, eyes squinted until they couldn't be seen appeared from the back with a steaming bowl. "Naruko-chan! I knew you'd be coming soon. Here you go."
"Thanks, Ojisan!" What followed could only be called the most brutal of maulings a bowl of ramen had ever received as much like a hoover, the bowl seemed to simply disappear such was the speed at which she ate it. 'Ooh. It's even better than my memories told me!' Contently patting her stomach her mouth would twitch upwards for a moment before she couldn't help it and burst out laughing.
"You- you should- You should see your face!" Doubling over at the sheer horror that was strewn across Teuchi-ojisan's face with a loud thud she crumbled to the floor, yet her laughter didn't stop. A sigh followed from Teuchi as she let out a wheeze of pain.
"Naruko-chan, what have I told you? You're getting bigger now, and you need to eat with more manners."
Her wheezing of pain and laughter slowly subsided as she pushed herself off the ground. "Right, right. Ojisan I'll remember next time!" A sigh escaped him.
"I hope so Naruko-chan now. Now your bill will come out too..."