Yeah, I don't own anything unless proven otherwise. I'm broke anyway, so plz don't sue me.

A six year old Uzumaki Naruko watched from her hidden vantage point as the newly minted jounin practiced his new jutsu.

"Arrgh! Stupid Kage bunshin no Jutsu! It's so hard to learn!"

As the Jounin continues his futile attempts to create a decent shadow clone, the girl watching him silently mimics his hand sign and concentrates her chakra.

POOF! EEP! EEP! CRASH, POOF!

Upon successful activation of the jutsu, the little blonde girl is so surprised that she and the clone both fall from their hiding place in the tree, dispelling the clone and alerting the jounin to his company.

"Hey! Come out where I can see you!" he says, drawing a kunai and a hand full of shuriken. He isn't prepared to see a six year old blonde girl with whisker marks on her cheeks step out from behind a tree with her head bowed.

"Please don't hurt me! I was just playing in a tree and fell when I heard a noise and got scared." Naruko pleads. While she expects him to throw his weapons anyway, like any other villager would, she is surprised when he re-holsters his weapons.

"Oh! You're that Uzumaki girl, the Kyu... er, yeah. Um, listen, my name is Gekkou Hayate. I'm not going to hurt you. Why don't you come over here and tell me what you are doing out in this training field? You know it's dangerous out here?"

Naruko just shakes her head and runs off into the woods.

Xxx

"What the… where the hell did she disappear to! I've seen Jounin who didn't vanish as fast as that kid!" Hayate mutters to himself after a solid hour of searching. Little does he know that the target of his search was watching him the entire time.

Xxx

Five Years Later…

"Ahh, this is the life, Sarutobi Sensei!" a large white haired man says to the older man sitting next to him in the hot spring.

"Yes Jiraya, Thanks to your invisibility and silence jutsu, we can enjoy this bath in peace," The older man replies, with a slightly perverse smirk on his face. Neither pays much heed when a blonde girl wrapped in a towel enters the baths and, without removing her towel, steps into the water. A few seconds later, what appears to be a group of other girls and women enter, each heading to sit with a different bathing beauty, save the blonde. A minute after that, all but the blonde start to exit the onsen one after another.

"Aww, it looks like bath time might be over, sensei," the large man says, noticing the mass exodus.

"Hmm," one Sarutobi Hiruzen replies, getting the feeling that all is not as it seems. His suspicions prove correct when a moment later, the remaining bather looks straight at the two men, raises one hand in a half ram seal, and says, "Kai! (Release!)"

The two men are stunned when, instead of screaming in righteous female anger, the girl bows politely, and says, "Hokage-sama, Jiraya-sama, if I could have a moment of your time."

The hokage looks at her agape for a moment, then squints and says, "You look familiar somehow. Do I know you from somewhere?"

The girl blushes then apologizes and drops her henge, revealing an eleven year old Uzumaki Naruko.

Jiraya immediately turns and whispers to his teacher, "I thought you said you didn't let her enter the academy?"

"I didn't. She must have picked up what she knows on her own."

"Well, in that case, the deal's off. If she wants it, I'm training her. Those were shadow clones that extracted the other bathers now that I think of it, Henge'd ones too. She's too good to leave untrained at this point."

*sigh* "All right, Jiraya. If that's what she wants."

The two powerful shinobi then turn to the patiently waiting girl, noting that she now sports a noticeable tick mark on her forehead and her left eye is twitching in irritation.

"Ah, sorry about that. What is it that you wanted?"

"I want you to train me so I can be a real shinobi, and then take your job one day, hokage-sama!" is the girl's impassioned reply.

The Hokage nods, then says, "Very well, but I have not the time to train you. You will be going with Jiraya here. He has some business outside of the village, so you will be accompanying him for your training. Upon your return to the village in a year or so, I will set you up with a team of fellow genin, and you may begin your climb to hokage."

Naruko jumps straight up to stand on top of the water, her towel coming loose in the process, revealing a relatively modest two piece bathing suit underneath. She rushes over, hugs both men, and then exclaims, "I will be the best kunoichi this village has ever seen! Better than Tsunade-hime even! I won't let you down!" She then further surprises the two men by disappearing in a swirl of leaves, displaying her ability to use shunshin to stunning effect.

It's not until a good five minutes later that the two men realize that they were naked the entire time.

Xxx

Roughly one year later.

"Okay, here's your hitai-ate, and you know where the academy is. You'll be meeting your new teammates and Jounin instructor in room 201. Remember everything Tsunade and I taught you, and you'll be fine. Good luck! Oh, and before I forget, here's a little something for you."

Jiraya hands Naruko a leaf headband, and a scroll.

"The scroll has a full library of all of my literary masterpieces, as well as a few extra signed advance copies of my next book!" Naruko blushes and rolls her eyes.

After a heartwarming hug for her teacher for the last year, she runs off to start her shinobi career.

A.N. this is my first attempt at writing anything. Ever. Not counting stuff I did for school obviously. Anyway, I'm primarily doing this so I can fulfill requirements to help other authors by being a beta reader, and hopefully someone will pick up my story concept and run with it. I hope you like my first foray into fiction writing! Laters.