Chapter 1: Banishment

Hey ya'll, Iskander Mandoraekon here, I am back with my Lioness Rampant. This will be a fic where Naruto is a girl and is banished after the successful retrieval mission for one Sasuke Uchiha. Unlike most of my fics this will not be a Sasuke bashing fic, though Sakura and council bashing will be as strong as ever. Also last note before I start, my Team 13 story will be updated in the close future, I have just been stuck on how to have them confront Tsunade and I am going to have Naruto piss off a lot of people on the council, also for Team 13 the last of the Kakashi bashing will be at the start of the Kumo chunin exams. I hope you enjoy the story.

Also so there is no confusion or hate since I forgot this the first time I put this up, I got the idea for the seals and fight scene next chapter from 'Wind Monk Banishment.'

I do not own Naruto.

The retrieval team that was made up of Nara Shikamaru; a Leaf chunin, Hyuga Neji, Akimichi Choji, Uzumaki Naruko, Rock Lee and Inuzuka Kiba; all Leaf genin: had succeeded in retrieving the most recent traitor of the Hidden Leaf Village, Uchiha Sasuke for Konohagakure no Sato. Sasuke was injured, but compared to Naruko's, who defeated him in his curse mark state, own. Sasuke's injuries were like comparing a light scrape from falling on pavement to a large scar. Naruko had two huge slowly healing scars from the two chidori strikes Sasuke had struck her with and a few large cuts on her hips and arms.

The whole team had been returned at various points of the mission with small or life threatening injuries from their respective fights with Otogakure's Sound Five, Lee had a few cuts, Neji and Choji were critically injured, Neji having had a large hole tore through his shoulder and several stab wounds in his back and Choji being highly malnourished from eating his family's pills, Shikamaru managed to return with just a broken finger, Kiba was suffering from a self inflicted stab wound to his stomach, Naruko was in the worst condition, but most of it wasn't visible thanks to the Demon Fox, Kyuubi, sealed inside her gut. Sasuke had a half strength rasengan rammed through his chest, and a couple of cuts and broken bones. Naruko had far more broken bones then Sasuke, two full powered chidori's to her torso and more cuts. Naruko's sensei Hatake Kakashi found her in the middle of her struggle back to the village while carrying her deserter of a teammate and the white haired Jounin had carried her along with the traitor all the way back to Konoha on his back, while the medics carried the rest of the team. When they arrived at the Hokage tower, Shikamaru reported the mission a success for the capture of Sasuke and defeat of the ones aiding him in his escape, while Kakashi carried his two injured students to the treatment ward, handing Naruko off to Shizune at the entrance.

Sasuke, the village's precious Last Uchiha, was strapped to a bed immediately and his wounds taken care of while he was still unconscious. Naruko was forced to walk back home and treat herself when the medic Shizune left in charge refused the 'Demon Brat' any treatment, though a nice young male medic with brown hair and orange eyes did give her a first aid pouch and directions of what to do.

On the way, she ran into her last teammate, Sakura Haruno, while walking to her rundown apartment, she put up a smile so Sakura could see that she had succeeded in retrieving their awol teammate.

"You did it Naruko! You got Sasuke-kun back!?" Sakura asked happily her eyes filling with glee. "That's right Sakura-chan, I always keep my promises, and I never go back on my word no matter what, cause that's my ninja way!" Naruko declared

"Can I go see Sasuke-kun yet?" Sakura asked, her eyes already assuming their far off glazed look of her imagining Sasuke finally accepting her proposal for a date or maybe 'their' marriage and the children they would have together. "Yeah, but I think that he's asleep right now." Naruko said as she continued down the road towards her small apartment to patch up her wounds, while Sakura didn't give any of the blood on her Kunoichi teammate or the blonde's limp a single thought and bolted down the road towards the hospital at speeds not seen before from the pinkette.

(Two Days Later)

The minimally injured members of the Sasuke retrieval team gave the report to Tsunade.

Naruko was waiting for her silver haired cyclopean sensei and conscious teammate at the bridge of the training grounds that was their usual meeting place, her face formed into a smile when her pink haired teammate Sakura came running towards the bridge, Naruko was going to give a cheerful wave until she saw her teammate's face, Sakura had a dark snarl form on her face when she caught sight of her blonde kunoichi teammate.

"Uzumaki Naruko you fucking bitch, I thought you were his best friend! How could you hurt him so horribly? It's a miracle all his limbs are intact." Sakura screeched as she began raging over Sasuke's 'delicate' health from when she saw him strapped to the bed in the hospital.

"But, Sakura-chan, he hurt me in the fight too…" Naruko said as she moved to show Sakura her own injuries, when the pinkette exploded in a screaming rage.

"NEVER CALL ME THAT AGAIN YOU DEMON WHORE! YOU HURT SASUKE-KUN SO MUCH THAT HE'S STILL UNCONSCIOUS, YOU'RE CONSCIOUS, YOUR WOUNDS ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO SASUKE-KUN'S! I WISH YOU WERE FUCKING DEAD YOU PIECE OF SLUTTY DEMONIC TRASH, DON'T EVER COME NEAR ME OR SASUKE-KUN AGAIN YOU DEMON!" The enraged pinkette roared as she slugged her injured blonde teammate across the face.

Naruko's smile quickly turned into a grimace full of pain as her back struck the railing of the bridge, opening one of her chidori wounds and causing fresh blood to flow, drenching the front of her orange jumpsuit and causing her to scream as a fresh wave of pain washed over her. Tears sprung from the blonde's eyes as she dodged a powerful kick aimed for her chest from the one she thought would be a good friend. Naruko quickly turned away from the bridge and ran away from her attacker, she didn't care anymore about missing the team meeting as tears fell from her face while she ran towards her apartment. Never noticing her sensei appearing on the bridge as she turned the corner.

(That Night)

Tsunade sighed as she took another swig of her tenth Sake bottle as she signed yet another document of the piles of paperwork on her desk, she had been having an already hectic day with the civilian and elder councils yelling at her about how she should kill the 'demon brat' for the 'large injuries' inflicted upon their precious Uchiha; even though the Uchiha only had minor wounds compared to the young Uzumaki.

The busty blonde moaned slightly as she picked up another piece of paper and stared at it through her drunken glazed over stupor, she sighed with a hiccup as she signed the paper and placed the Hokage's seal on the paper. The blonde Kage hiccuped again before she tossed the paper onto one of the many stacks, not bothering to read it all the way.

If she had she would have noticed the lines of, 'Indefinite Banishment of Uzumaki Naruko for assault upon fellow Leaf Shinobi' written in bold on the top of the paper.

(Hokage's Office Next Day)

Tears were streaming down her whiskered face from Naruko's wide eyes as she stared at her mother figure and the three elders standing in front of her. Her dream to become the Hokage had just been smashed to pieces by what the elder Homura read to her; she had to leave the village and could never be Hokage to finally be respected like she had long dreamed, in addition, she could no longer be a shinobi because of the new seals a sympathetic Neko masked Anbu was drawing on the back of her hands that would make sure that she would never be able to use any ninjutsu or genjutsu again either.

Tsunade was standing in front of her desk, staring at the girl that she considered a younger sister or daughter stone faced as her two advisors, Homura and Koharu informed Kakashi and the younger blonde of the punishment for her 'crimes' as they put it, making the cyclopean pissed, especially after finding out why his blonde student had skipped the team meeting the day before.

"One Uzumaki Naruko, Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, is to be banished from the Great village of Konohagakure no Sato and the Land of Fire immediately; and she is to be stripped of her ability to use ninjutsu and genjutsu of any kind, as well as being stripped of her summoning contract with the Toads as given to her by the Toad Sage Jiraiya. She will leave the village tomorrow morning at the first signs of the rising sun, where we'll announce her banishment to the rest of his village. If she refuses to leave, all shinobi of the village are permitted to kill her on sight." Homura said in a monotone voice, as he read from the banishment slip. He mentally sighed, while he had nothing against the girl, having been Kushina's sensei during the third and second war, he was forced to see the dangers she presented to the village via the Akatsuki and how the rest of the village would act once they found out about the Uchiha's injuries.

"Naruko-" Kakashi said as he choked up, his lone eye beginning to tear up. "I'm so sorry…" He never got to finish as the blonde turned away from them and ran from the office, tears streaming through the air behind her.

Tsunade excused the elders and Kakashi from her office and sat behind her desk as she stared at the four pictures on the wall hollowly, taking a sip of her Sake bottle. She sighed as she felt like the pictures of the previous Kages were glaring at her in disappointment, especially Minato and Hashirama's pictures.

(Naruko's apartment; an hour later)

Naruko just finished packing what few belongings she owned in her small, rundown apartment and decided to begin heading to the gates of the village, when suddenly Konohamaru and his small gang knocked excitedly on her ex-apartment's door. Prompting the young depressed girl to open the dent riddled door.

"Heya Nee-san!" Konohamaru yelled, having finally escaped Iruka's boring lectures for the day with Moegi and Udon. "Wanna come play ninja with us?"

"Sorry Kono-chan, but I have to tell you something important." Naruko replied with a sad tone that caught the immediate attention of her three little cohorts in the crime known as pranks.

"What is it Boss?" Konohamaru asked in slight concern as he looked at his older sister figure, finally noticing the sadness etched into her usually joy filled face. "I-I've been banished from the village for the injuries Sasuke was brought back in, I can't come back after tomorrow morning." Naruto stuttered as she tried to keep her tears from falling anew.

"WHAT!? I'LL FRIGGIN' KILL WHOEVER DID THIS!" Konohamaru roared in absolute anger that made the angry form of his Late grandfather, the Sandaime, look tame; scaring a few civilians that were walking along the road, Moegi and Udon both wore an expression of inconceivable rage at the news they had just been told, especially to find out that it had been their respective grandparent to issue the banishment. "Calm down Kono-chan." Naruko said softly as she placed her hand on her surrogate brother's shoulder

"CALM DOWN!? HOW CAN YOU EXPECT ME TO BE ANYWHERE NEAR CALM!? YOU JUST GOT BANISHED FROM THE VILLAGE BY THOSE RETARDS ON THE COUNCIL AND THAT OLD BITCH OF A HAG, NEE-SAN!" Konohamaru yelled as he looked set to murder every civilian on the council for banishing one of the only family members he had left besides Asuma and Kurenai; yes he knew about the two, he lived in the same damn house as them after all and they were hardly quiet in their nightly activities.

"It's because there is nothing I can do about any of it Kono-chan. Besides, I guess I already saw this coming." Naruko said, confusing her little friends. "The councils have always hated me, so I'm guessing that whether or not I was able to bring Sasuke-teme back, they would have probably still banished me either way." Naruko said as she then pulled her leaf headband that she had received from Iruka from her forehead and placed it around Konohamaru's head, tying it into place before leaning back to take in the image of Konohamaru wearing her headband.

"I am no longer a Kunoichi of Konohagakure, tell that to anyone who actually cared enough." Naruko said as she closed the door to her apartment for the last time and rubbed the three heads of the Konohamaru corps members, before she turned and walked towards the Northern Gate of the village.

Once she reached the Gate she got a pair of salutes from the two eternal gate chunin, Izumo and Kotetsu, both of whom always enjoyed her pranks, as she started walking past only to be stopped by her old classmates and their senseis.

The only ones to not show was Sakura and Ino who were visiting their precious Uchiha; and Team Eight that was out on a mission.

Mostly all of them were more or less angry with the council; each of them giving Naruko a gift to send her off. Kakashi, the only member of her own squad to show up, was first; he gave her the Hiraishin kunai that the Yondaime had given him when he had become a Jounin along with a few kenjutsu scrolls that he got from the Neko Anbu so she could learn to defend herself without the use of Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, though she never had any skill with the latter. Then it was Team Ten's turn, Asuma gave her a slip of paper saying that it would help her join any shinobi temple she came across if she wished to become one of the many Shinobi Monks, Shikamaru gave her the customary gist of how he was going to carve the troublesome members of the council a new one and Choji gave her several bags of his favorite Akimichi made potato chips along with several scrolls full of soda from his parent's restaurant in a storage scroll. Team Nine was the last of the group to see her off and they noticed the obvious absence of Sakura and Ino, both only caring about their Uchiha crush. Sakura and Ino were both in a pissed off fit about Sasuke's 'injuries' and Sasuke was still unconscious from their fight at the valley.

"This farce by the councils is a most unyouthful piece of trash, their Flames of Youth have been severely dampened, so we shall now train four times harder than before so that our own Flames of Youth shall become a blazing volcano in your honor young Uzumaki." Gai declared as he took his nice guy stance, light glistening from his pure white teeth.

"Oh Gai-sensei!" Lee yelled, fire blazing in his eyes that made everyone back away as they tried to hide from what they knew was coming.

"Lee!"

"Gai-sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-sensei!"

"AVERT YOUR EYES!" Neji screamed. Everyone covered their eyes in a panic as the two spandex wearers came together in a manly hug that had the indestructible Beach genjutsu spring up behind them to blind all viewers in the way of the Youth. Naruko heard a thud and everyone turned to look at Kakashi, who was spazzing on the ground from being too late to turn away, foam somehow appearing over his mouth through the mask.

"Naruko-san I was able to defy the path that Fate set for me thanks to the fight I had with you and you were a great person that does not deserve any of the crap the councils are making you put up with, I will miss you my friend." Neji said as he held out his bandaged hand to grasp Naruko's own.

"I may not have known you for long, but I just want you to know that I will miss you along with everyone else." Tenten said with a smirk as she hugged Naruko. "Also don't worry about those fangirl bitches, I have a good punishment for people who abandon their comrades." The bun haired girl whispered into Naruko's ear, sending shivers of fear up her spine as Tenten pulled back to reveal her face covered halfway in shadow and her eyes glowing a demonic red that she had only seen on Kyuubi.

"Thank you all," Naruko said as she wiped away a stray tear, she looked towards Kakashi. "Kakashi-san, could you please tell Anko-neesan and Iruka-sensei that I said goodbye, I know Iruka-sensei is in class and Anko-neesan is on a mission."

The silver haired man nodded as he hugged the young blonde before she turned and walked out the gate of Konoha to start her new life, not looking back at the place that had once been her home.

(The Hospital the next morning)

Sakura sighed dreamily as she watched the unconscious figure of her crush lay on his hospital bed. Ino had to leave the night before due to having to get up early for something that Asuma said was hard training. Sakura smirked as she went to get some water, 'That just leaves Sasuke-kun all to me when he wakes up!'

The hormonal Pinkette's thoughts of seducing the lone Uchiha were interrupted as she heard a low moan coming from the bed behind her. She turned to see Sasuke slowly sitting up to look around the white hospital room. "What the Hell happened and why am I in the hospital?" Sasuke asked groaning as he held his aching head. Sakura was at her crush's side in an instant, somehow making it look like she used a pink version of the famed Hiraishin.

"That no name whore, Naruko-Ama got banished for attacking you, Sasuke-kun, because she hurt you so badly. Don't worry my Sasuke-kun, I'm here for you!" Sakura shouted in joy as she imagined the black haired boy taking her in his hospital bed in thanks for her services.

'What the… Naruko… Was banished?' Sasuke thought, his onyx eyes widening in surprise as he sat straight up in his bed. 'What the hell is going on!? I need to find Kakashi-sensei! He might know what is going on.'

"So maybe we can go out together on a date so I can help you heal from your traumatic experience, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked as she saw him moving to get up, thinking that he was going to take her into his arms. 'CHAA YES! Now that Naruko's not disrupting my plans with her ugly figure and posturing, Sasuke will finally be mine!' Inner Sakura yelled happily. "Shut the fuck up Haruno, all of you idiots just ruined any attempts I might make at reconciliation!" Sasuke snarled as he jumped out the window, leaving a hurt and confused Sakura sitting in her chair at the edge of his empty bed. While he went in search of his awole silver haired sensei.

As i said in the top, this will be a fic where Naruto is a girl and is banished after the successful retrieval mission for Sasuke Uchiha. Unlike most of my fics this will not be a Sasuke bashing fic, though Sakura and council bashing will be as strong as ever. Last part so you guys know, 'Ama' is the japanese word for Bitch. I hope you enjoyed the story.

Naruko's Profile for Next chapter that will be set Six years into the future; I know it is a spoiler, but I feel like filling you guys in so no complaining.

Name: Naruko Uzumaki

Aliases: Kyuubi Jinchuuriki; Golden Blade of the Land of Iron; Hero of Wave; Saviour of Spring Country.

Occupation: Ex-Leaf Kunoichi; Wandering Swordswoman

Hair Color: Golden Blonde

Eye Color: Oceanic Blue

Height: 5'6"

Age: 19

Affiliations: Formerly Konohagakure; New Uzushio; Sunagakure; Land of Waves; Land of Spring.

Rank: Ronin

Bingo Book Ranking: A-Rank borderline S-Rank

Armament: Broadsword, kunai, shuriken, explosives, scrolls, Armor, seals.

Special Abilities: Jinchuuriki Cloak and Healing, Uzumaki Solid Chakra

Signature Move: Chakra Chains

Specialties: Taijutsu, Speed, Tracking and Stealth, Kenjutsu, Fuinjutsu, Traps.

Chakra Elements:

Wind (Affinity)

Fire

Lightning

Strength: Elite Jounin

Endurance: Uzumaki/Jinchuuriki

Agility: Anbu Captain

Chakra Levels: High Kage

Genin Graduation Age: 12

Banishment Age: 13

Range of Attacks: Close, Mid

Likes: Dango, Ramen, Training, her new family, her friends.

Dislikes: Fangirls, traitors, Arrogant Nobles, Civilian and Elder Council of Konoha, Danzo, and those that betray their friends at the drop of a hat.

Hobbies: Training, helping others in need, traveling and making new recipes for Dango.

Dream: To become a powerful shinobi to protect her real precious people, to rebuild Uzushiogakure and build a home for everyone that is shunned for what they hold, their families mistakes or the way they look.

A little thing to point out for readers, I designed her initial character appearance design and love for Dango around Ferris Eris from Legend of the Legendary Heroes; mainly because she's hot.