Ch12- The hated child

"That monster is here again."

"Get out of here you Demon!"

A small blonde child was currently running away from a crowd. He had tried to buy some food, but everywhere he went they refused to sell anything for him. After trying at a few stores, a crowd had suddenly assembled.

Some started throwing stones at him, while others were just charging blindly before circling him and beating him up.

As he was already used to this, he was quick to escape. It seemed like he would once again go to Ichiraku to eat Ramen, his favorite food.

"Aunty, I want some Miso Pork Ramen."

"Again? I told you to eat something else. You need to eat more vegetables! Anyway, I'll tell Taichi that you're here."

***

In the last few years, Naruto had been living in the orphanage, which Nozomi had found out to be a cover to recruit kids for a still unknown organization called root. However, someday they kicked him out and the third Hokage gave him an apartment to live in, with a little pocket money each month for food.

He had no friends, as their parents would forbid most children to interact with him as he was known as the demon child. Some days, he would have had to go without food if it wouldn't be for Taichi and Nozomi.

She would sometimes check up on Naruto while no one was watching.

After they left him with an apartment and no food, he wandered into Taichi's food stall, where the man gave the hungry-looking child some food.

After tasting the legendary taste of Taichi's Ramen, he would come over every time he had no food for the day. Sometimes he could pay, sometimes he could not, but he would still get his food.

What he didn't know was, that Nozomi was using him for her mission. She had taken almost two years in which she had struggled to decide if she could throw away her whole identity.

Those years were painful. Yui had to save her from suicide more than 5 times and on some days she wouldn't be able to get out of her room, due to the feeling of guilt.

After two years of this back and forth, Pakura, Yui, and Namiko had decided this had to stop, forcing her to cast the previously prepared Genjutsu on Naruto.

Although they felt bad for doing this, they knew that it would help neither Naruto nor Nozomi if this would continue like this.

Although this helped with her identity crisis, her waves of depression due to the death of her friend worsened, until they had convinced her, that the Genjutsu could be extracted without any damage if she ever decided to throw her old identity away and start anew.

Having settled her mind on this, Nozomi was once again able to work for a few hours a day. Though regulars quickly noticed how much she had changed even if her face was emotionless most of the time.

Luckily for her, the Tsuchikage had not sent her any request for information, as this would risk her identity being found out.

The Genjutsu cast on Naruto, if activated increased his hatred for Konoha while giving him memories of Iwagakure supporting him, enough to stay loyal to them. To be exact, it would amplify the feelings of hatred he had while he was almost killed.

***

"Naruto, stop running!"

"NO!"

Nozomi had promised Naruto to go to the Ninja weapon store, where she promised to buy him shuriken and Kunai for practice.

She had noticed the stares of contempt, directed toward Naruto, in their previous outings. This was also the reason for Naruto always coming over to one of them if he was in the need of groceries since many civilians didn't even sell their wares to him.

Though she still didn't understand what those mindless civilians were thinking, beating up a defenseless child because of rumors. She had also realized, that someone had spread those rumors to make Naruto's life miserable.

'I'm sorry Minato, your child is suffering because of your death and I can't change it even if I wanted to.'

Here he will just continue to be orchestrated, and his life would only be similar to mine if I would take him back to Iwagakure."

"Aunty! I got everything!"

As they finished their trip, both of them went on their way with a few thugs cursing Nozomi behind her back. The first time she accompanied Naruto, those thugs came to beat him up like usual. They even dared to think about raping her.

She couldn't kill them without getting a problem, but almost all of them lost their ability to reproduce that day, scaring them from ever coming near her or her family ever again.

***

Today was her first day at the Academy. She had carefully prepared everything for this day, as she left her room and made her way to the big kitchen.

"Good morning big sis!"

"Good morning Namiko."

Nozomi had gotten Namiko enrolled in the ninja academy after realizing, that she couldn't teach very well at the beginners level. Coupled with the fact, that Namiko was an Uzumaki, which were famed in their Fuinjutsu, Nozomi decided it was for the best to let her enroll.

Although it was her original plan to let Namiko enroll alone, she had recently replicated the shadow clone Jutsu enough to create one clone which she modified to not let anyone below her level notice it. This made her plan C, as she decided to send a Henged shadow clone to the Academy as Namiko's twin sister.

Due to how the Jutsu worked, Nozomi decided to release double the amount of chakra she currently had from her seal.

This would enable her to use a clone all the time, while still showing the chakra level of a civilian.

"Big sis, how should I call you while we are at the academy?"

Thinking about possible names for herself, her thoughts slowly came to a halt on a day years ago. "Namaki, call me Namaki."

***

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I will be using Namaki when she is posing as a child and Nozomi when she is back to being the Purple Devil waitress. (and later also Kurai, it depends what identity she uses)

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"Please be silent as we have the third Hokage as a guest."

As the third Hokage stepped on the platform, cheers and whispers broke out as everyone was excited to see the legendary Hokage, whom they previously only knew from stories and the stone faces, in person.

"Congratulations to all of you for passing the entrance exams.

Now that you have entered the academy, we will teach you the ways of a Konoha Shinobi. We will make sure that you guys become full-fledged Shinobi of the Hidden Leaf.

This academy was created by the second Hokage and he himself taught a lot of students in the academy, including myself.

You who carry the will of the fire in you will be the future of the village. You will be taught how to protect yourself and especially your friends, family, clan, and the village.

Love your village and ensure that your will of fire preserves its peace and prosperity even in the face of danger.

With this, I welcome you to our academy."

After having to hear this bullshit about the will of the fire, which was only there to brainwash little children, Namaki was already having a headache. Unfortunately for her, the loud cheering of the little children around here only made it worse.

As they waited for their teacher to announce their class, Namaki started to observe the children around her. Around half were from Konoha's clans, while the others were children of civilians. However even considering the clan's children, the quality was average at best.

Although quite a few were decent, only a few were closely able to fall into her measurement of talent as of right now.

Even Obito, with his Sharingan, made it into that category quite easily. Despite Konoha being the strongest village, not even one person other than Namiko came even close to Kakashi's level. Though even she barely made it because she was an Uzumaki.

***

'Why did I even think this was a good idea?' The first few weeks of the academy consisted of nothing but brainwashing the children. Even after a month, they only had a few normal lessons.

'This bullshit is killing me! Even the cuteness of Namiko is unable to keep me here if this goes on.'

Though since I was trained to be patient, I quickly suppressed any urge to run away as I remembered my mission.

Coupled with Naruto and Namiko being my spies, I had decided to participate in the shinobi life as I was getting bored from serving food to others all the time.

At this rate, my skills would rust, and I would barely be able to fight little Kakashi.

"What a bother."

***

"Morning Namiko, Namaki. Are you going to the academy?"

"Yes sir!"

"Have fun!"

It had already been two years since their academy life had started and everyday customers would come to witness the cuteness of both of them. Though it was mainly Namiko. Their classes had also finally evolved, teaching them about Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, Dojutsus, history, and other important subjects.

There were not many subjects they had problems in, except two. The Kunoichi class was just boring and couldn't be ignored as they had tasks to complete, as well as the extension of the Kunoichi class, the seduction class.

Though the reasons are different in this one, Namiko wasn't very talented in this field as she was too straightforward due to being an Uzumaki.

Namiko had an entirely different problem, she was too good at it. She had been mastering this skill since she was five, with her current age being well in her twenties.

Although she tried her best not to ace it, her teacher had already told her she was naturally talented in this regard. Luckily she had made too many mistakes to get into the limelight any more than this.

Seduction wasn't a skill to be impressed about as it was a minor skill with few appliances, which were often morally frowned upon. Especially by normal civilians.

***

Meanwhile her Real-self:

"What is it this time Naruto?"

Namiko sounded annoyed as she looked at the small five-year-old boy. Yes, annoyed. She had discovered this emotion a while after entering the Academy. The blabbering children and the pure stupidity of her teachers sometimes just made her want to blow the whole building up, something she had never been able to experience before. One time she even got close to burning it down but was stopped by Yui.

This was also one of the main reasons why she continued to stay in the academy, even though it would take her maybe 6 years to achieve anything substantial.

"He-he-he, Look at the Hokage stone faces!"

Nozomi, even though she had an inkling on what happened got onto the roof and looked towards the stone monument.

There it was, Naruto's face painted next to his father's stone head. It's not like it was the first time something like this happened.

While gazing at Minato's face, Nozomi remembered his last words.

"Maybe you are right, your kid is definitely helping me. I just hope I can keep my promise to you two."