1 Naruto: Ninja Design

Ch. 1: Enter! Keiyu Mumichi!

GuardianSuSeGeBy23: I do not own Naruto

"LOOK OUT!" *Crash* A little girl looked up to see a figure buried under wood.

"Momma? MOM!" Tears fell down her cheeks as she woke up and looked around.

'It was only a dream, no, a nightmare' she thought clenching her fists as more tears fell down in remembrance of the incident that cost her mother's life and the life of her sister figure.

"It's all my fault, I shouldn't have been in there," she muttered before hearing the alarm clock ring and got out of bed.

Keiyu Mumichi, 8 years old dressed in some civilian clothes that she had gotten from her mother and quietly exited her room down the hall.

The day before had been her mother's funeral and today she was to enter the Academy, while the Hokage said that she could hold it off till a later date, she refused as she didn't want to be more behind being 8 while the rest of the class had been entered when they were 7. He had finally consented as her mother had already signed the papers before they went on a trip outside the village and so here she was getting ready for her first day.

'I should send a letter to Aunt Vivia, she doesn't know about it and maybe she could let me live with her' she thought hopefully before hearing footsteps down the hall and went out the door before the owner of the footsteps came into the kitchen where she had just finished breakfast. While she had a father, he wasn't a very nice one, sure he acted sweet around her, but she knew he had cheated on her mother with their maid who she suspected was now her stepmother but she never questioned them, not wanting her father ( she scoffed at the thought) to pretend that her real mother never existed just like he did with everything else.

'It's not like everyone her knew her anyways, so people will think Isuzu is my real mother and blame me for everything that she does, knowing that I can't do anything about it.' While most 8 year olds wouldn't think like this, Keiyu was strange for most, she was very intelligent and loved to read and was very well mannered because her mother came from a noble family from Snow Country even if people don't know that either. They had been in Konoha only for 6 months to get citizenship and for Keiyu to get enrolled before her mother took her on a trip with her sister figure who used to be a chuunin before getting into an accident that rendered her unable to use her arms very good. But she did teach Keiyu some basics of being a kunoichi, even going so far as to tell her about the harsh truth of being one when her mother wasn't listening.

'I'll be a strong kunoichi Emi neesan, I promise' she thought fiercely just as she reached the Academy. Taking a deep breath she walked in and was greeted by a chuunin who led her to her class.

"Class, we have a new student, please welcome Mumichi, Keiyu," said the sensei and she stepped in, immediately feeling the eyes on all of her and turned a bit red under the attention.

"Nice to meet you," she bowed like her mother instructed her to and was told to sit down. Biting her lip she looked around and saw that their were opened seats next to a black haired boy who looked bored and had that haughty expression that she didn't like and a seat next to a blonde boy that was sleeping. Picking her choice, she walked up and sat down next to the blonde boy.

"She chose to sit next to the dobe," someone snickered and she frowned inwardly at that, mother told her never to show her true feelings lest people take it the wrong way. Taking her notes out, she looked around to observe her classmates more and saw a indigo haired girl in front of her with pale lavender, pupiless eyes staring at the blonde boy with a blush and hoped that they could be friends. There were two other girls sitting together while staring at the black haired boy and being somewhat behind him but to the side she saw the symbol on his back.

'Uchiha' she inwardly winced, she knew about the massacre and also knew what the village was like towards the clans.

'Favourtism, but possibly he doesn't accept it' she thought but that sounded weak to her as well.

"Huh? What's going on?" a voice next to her said and she turned to see that the blonde was up.

"Mumichi Keiyu," she whispered out of the side of her mouth and he looked surprised to see her.

"Oh, I'm UZUMAKI NARUTO, NEXT HOKAGE BELIEVE IT!" he shouted that out before being hit with an eraser. "Shut-up Uzumaki!" the chuunin snarled and the boy just laughed it off but she caught a hint of pain in his eyes.

'That was a little to harsh' she thought looking at the chuunin and was surprised to see the hate in his eyes.

Throughout class she saw a pattern, when she or any other student asked a question it was answered, but when he did so the chuunin would cut him off and call him an idiot before moving on. Funny thing is no one else but her and she believed the indigo haired girl saw it or cared about it.

'This is' she clenched her teeth as the girls were dismissed for kunoichi class while the boys stayed. She nodded goodbye to Uzumaki who just waved at her with a cheerfully fake smile and exited the class.

After kunoichi class

"Oi Mumichi!" called a voice and she turned to see a pale blonde haired girl come up to her.

"Yes, Yamanaka-san?" she asked remembering the girl's name, they had sometimes met during the 6 months.

"Ino's fine, look it's in your best interest if you don't hang out with Uzumaki, my mother told me that we shouldn't hang out with him so it's best if we warn you right now to stay away, we don't mind competition for the Uchiha though," said the blonde haired girl. Keiyu just stared incredulously at the girl and saw Uzumaki near the bathroom and knew he heard them before she saw him run outside and felt anger within her.

"Look Yamanaka," she said enunciating the name with venom making the girl step back with surprise, "I can make friends with whoever I want, just because your mom might think something's wrong with him, doesn't mean you can treat him like trash without getting to know why, it's despicable. I thought you were nice when we first met, but it seems that your nothing but a bossy fangirl from what I've seen, I've got no interest in the Uchiha so stalk him all you want. Just don't speak to me again," she said fiercely and the girl just stared at her in shock before glaring and stomping away muttering about seaweed hair.

"M-mumich-hi-san," stuttered a voice and she turned to see the indigo girl from before.

"Ano-?" she said not knowing her name.

"H-hyuuga H-hinata desu," the girl said nervously.

"Hyuuga-san, is there something you need?" she asked politely.

"W-w-would y-you l-like to h-have l-lunch t-together?" Hyuuga asked shyly poking her fingers together.

"Alright, hey are the kunoichi classes always like that?" Keiyu asked with a frown, this had been bugging her since she found out all they did was flower arranging.

"H-hai, th-hey want u-us to k-know how t-to blend in," said Hyuuga.

"Oh, that's stupid though," she said and at the girl's shocked but questioning glance she smiled, "They should show the class what being a real kunoichi's like, that's what my sister figure told me before she died," she said with a sad frown. Hyuuga nodded at that though didn't question about her sister figure as they entered an empty classroom to eat. After much talking Keiyu found out that Hinata as the girl had asked shyly if she would call her by that Hinata had a crush on Naruto and the teacher's had been treating him like that for the past year or for as long as Hinata's been in the Academy.

"H-he would d-do m-much better if the s-sensei let h-him t-try, b-but n-now sometimes he p-pulls p-pranks t-to get p-people to n-notice him," said Hinata sadly.

"I noticed that you write notes during class," at the girl's nod she continued, "Do you still have last years, we could give it to him," she suggested and Hinata turned red before stammering out that she would faint and if her clan elders found out.

"Here, why don't you bring them tomorrow and then I can suggest we go to that ramen place that you said he goes to and give it to him," said Keiyu and after some thought Hinata agreed.

Next day

Naruto sighed as he sat down at his usual stool, today was a Saturday so they didn't have school and he didn't know whether or not Mumichi would like him after being confronted by those girls.

'It's not like she would've liked me anyways' he thought gloomily while trying to keep up an outward cheery aura.

"Uzumaki-san?" the voice surprised him and he whirled around to see her standing there with that weird girl from class holding a notebook.

"Oh hello," he greeted cheerfully before blinking as the girl sat next to him on his left and with much urging the weird girl on his right who was very red now.

"We noticed that you didn't write notes yesterday," started Mumichi but he laughed.

"Why does a great ninja in training like me have to write notes, their so boring and I don't need to know all that boring stuff," he said.

'Besides, it's not like I can barely write or read at the moment' he thought and something in his expression caused Mumichi to narrow her eyes.

"If the teachers don't teach you right, who taught you how to read and write?" she asked and there was a gasp as Ayame who was getting his usual ready stopped stock still.

"W-what do you mean?" he asked nervously laughing while rubbing the back of his head.

"Uzumaki-san," Mumichi said in a warning tone.

"Fine, I taught myself alright, the sensei the old man assigned me made me say that he taught me, and I'm only able to read the basics and write my own name," he said turning red in shame and embarrassment.

"Hm," Mumichi narrowed her eyes before hopping down..

"Where are you going?" he asked before she grabbed his hand and dropped some bills on the counter.

"Can you please deliver this to his address please," she asked Ayame who nodded still a little shocked and took Naruto's hand while holding the notebook.

"Hey!" Naruto protested but the girl just dragged him out onto the streets and towards where he lived, "Wait how do you know where I live?" he asked.

"Phonebook," she replied.

"Where's that weird girl?" he asked noticing she wasn't there.

"She'll be with us in a minute, I can't let something heinous like this exist any longer, I know we barely know each other but your just a kid and don't deserve to be treated like this, and if you can barely read or write, then I need to know how you live. It's not just me that's concerned either, it's Hinata, the other girl," she explained at his confused look, "She's worried about you but is too shy to approach you, but I'm working on that," she said.

"Wait! What about your parents, wouldn't they force you to get away from me?" he asked her and she looked away.

"My mother's dead literally and my father's dead to me figuratively, which means he isn't but the things he did to my mother before she died, I can't forgive him, and I won't let him control me either." she told him just as they arrived at his apartment and he led her up the steps this time and opened his door to a messy apartment. As she looked around he nervously stood wondering how long her concern for him will last.

Finally she turned to him and stated, "We've got a lot of work to do, and I'm definitely messaging my aunt," and left it at that before Naruto felt all the emotions of someone or two people caring for him and fainted.