Graduation arrives! [Part-30]

She had finally reached the room where her practical part of the exam would take place. She was worried that the teachers would ask too many questions about her absence for so long but didn't show too many of her emotions on her face as she continued to walk.

Doing the jutsus, Iruka praised her while Misuki had his fake smile plastered on. Veronica and, the two old people in her mind, were very creeped out by him as she hurried out the door.

Surprisingly, they didn't question why she was so late.

She saw that Naruto had passed the exam quite easily. It didn't come off as a surprise to anybody as the boy was known to have at least average marks in his exams. Although some people still called him a 'knucklehead' or an 'idiot' most of time. She didn't bother much with the rumors about her friends. She knew that they would tell her everything she needed to hear.

'After all, us humans and our brains are very predictable. You just show a good person some love and care in their dark moments they'll become so indebted to you they'd be willing to put their life in danger for you.'

[Would you do that as well?]-Matatabi

Veronica smirked a bit in amusement at the question.

'Am I a good person?'

*The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love and then we torture them.*

There came no response to her question as she resumed her peaceful walk to her new house with her guardian and parent, Kakashi.

It was safe to say that she didn't expect for him to buy a house as soon as she talked about moving in to a bigger place. He had told her that he bought a new house for the two of them and his pack of dogs. Also, the small poisonous insects and animals that Veronica had a habit of keeping and experimenting with.

Flashback~

"Veronica. Why are there poisonous frogs and lizards jumping in the kitchen?!"-Kakashi

Veronica who was petting her yellow snake looked up and Kakashi didn't know what to say. Lizards, frogs, insects and what not were in her room. Although all of them were nowhere near her bed and closet.

He looked quite shocked, from what was visible of his face.

"I was only gone for a day..."-Kakashi

Veronica ignored him as she continued to slowly pet a black rabbit which had pushed the snake out of his way.

"You need to throw them out."-Kakashi

His voice left no room for arguments but Veronica knew the man better than anyone.

She tried giving him her best puppy dog eyes. Kakashi however, didn't seem to budge. They both had a staring contest. Of course, Veronica won. Kakashi had grown to have a soft spot for her by now.

"*Sigh* Make sure they won't get out of your room."-Kakashi

His hand covered his eye to shield it from the bright light that seemed to have been produced out of nowhere.

Flashback ends~

Tobirama didn't seem to like her keeping those creatures near her. Although he was glad she was able to keep herself clean all of the time.

[I still don't get why you need those disgusting creatures.]-Tobirama

'Rude. And I need them for poison making you know. I'm also studying the antidotes too.

Nobody would really teach me because they say I'm 'the devil who hangs out with the monster'. I swear to god, these villagers have nothing better to do than gossip around. I hang out with Naruto and save children from bullies and that's the nickname they come up for me? And I'll get rid of them when I'm done with my research.'

Veronica grumbled a bit at the villagers tendency to babble nonsense. If someone looked closely however, they could see her eyes barely having any emotion while looking around the village however.

*I was a patient who couldn't tell the doctor where it hurt me. Only that it does.*

'Oh right, I'll also have to train Sakura on my own since Kaka-San will have his hands full with those two idiots. And hopefully he can stop Sasuke from being obsessed with revenge.'

[How do you know that you won't take Sakura's place in the team? And since Naruto's not really the 'dead last' anymore, will he be in the same team?]-Matatabi

'Well, I actually did a bit bad on the written exam on purpose. I lost around 10 or so points for that so Sakura took the lead by a couple of points. I held back on the practical part too. So, Sakura and Sasuke would be in the same team because they are at the top.

And well, Kakashi will request Naruto to be in his team. And the hokage will do it because he trusts Kakashi. Besides, I don't think there is anyone who can take Naruto on his team other than him because he meets all of the requirements. And the council will want to have Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi on the same team as it's rumored that the sharingan has the power to control the fox.'

Her lips had turned into a devil like smile when she saw that who she had been waiting for.

Shisui Uchiha.

He didn't know who had saved him. He had found out that whoever the person was, was quite thorough with their task.

They had killed the previous owner, of the house he was currently living in, who had barely information about his existence. The old house was in one of the worst places in Konoha. The slums. The people here usually didn't even have any sort of proof that they ever existed. There were some yakuza groups here made up of some academy drop outs and sometimes carrier genin which made sure that the crime rate never got too out of hands.

The Jonin of the village usually turned a blind eye to the yakuza groups as they always had valuable information and kept some sort of order in the slums and the red light district.

And whoever had saved him always sent their shadow clones made with a tailed beasts chakra.

He had only ever felt the nine tails chakra as closely as this one but he was sure after meeting with them for so long.

'So he's finally moving? Maybe he was waiting for Sasuke to pass then? Hmm, well... For now, I think it's best to just keep track of what he's doing and avoid him mostly.'