Protege: Abandoned 3

I wanted to do more with this chapter, like make it longer but then it would have reached around 5k words and I was just really lazy and didn't feel like it so yeah.

~Protege: Abandoned~

Azula didn't wake up until Sho landed on the ground to walk up to use the bathroom in a town nearby. It was a rather rough landing which was why Azula woke up.

"Sho-San?" Azula questioned as she looked at the spiky blonde man.

"Hello Hime-chan. Have a nice nap?" Sho asked her.

Azula nodded, "I feel great now. Where are we? We aren't in the tent anymore..."

"We are in a town right by Konoha. We should be there in an hour. I just had to use the bathroom." Sho explained, "well... I still need to go to the bathroom."

"Yeah... Me too come to think of it... Where are they?"

Sho and Azula walked into the nearest store, a clothing store, so they could use the bathroom. Azula finished first, oddly, and decided to browse the store. Inside were mostly civilian clothes but there was a part dedicated to shinobi clothing. That was when Azula saw the typical shinobi sandals. They had a black pair and a blue pair. Azula, being the Crown Princess, instantly wanted the black pair because blue was just an awful color. The child looked down at her own shoes, they were getting warn out by the shinobi training.

"Like them?" Sho had appeared right behind her. "You'll probably get a whole new wardrobe soon, including shoes. Anyway, let's get going. I'll teach you to tree hop."

Those last few words excited Azula so the girl ran outside. Sho followed and led her to the edge of the town that was closest to Konoha. He leapt into the tree and Azula walked up the same tree to his branch.

"Very good. Now the trick with tree hopping is, of course, chakra. You are going to focus it in your feet for jumping purposes and to catch onto the branch in front of your feet. Not too much and not too little." Sho jumped to the other branch to demonstrate. Azula followed quickly. Tree hopping was rather easy and Azula caught on in no time and soon they were off to Konoha.

After thirty minutes of jumping, Azula had an interesting thought.

"Sho-San? Do you think that Chakra is the same thing as my Chi? Because after I used those jutsus, I found it really hard to bend and sometimes I couldn't bend at all."

Sho thought about this question for a moment. The little six year old posed a good point.

"Well maybe. They might be connected somehow. You said to create the fire doesn't cost any chi. Chi just helps you bend. So I think the more chi or chakra you have, the easier it is to bend. The power of the bender probably depends on the amount of chi the bender has. But I don't know." Azula just shrugged and kept quiet.

The two didn't speak again until the reached the gates of Konoha. Azula was in awe when she saw the leaf village. It was very large. Much larger than the Capitol city that Azula had called home for many years. The buildings were so interesting, they looked nothing like the Fire Nation buildings. Azula liked them. Azula bolted through the gates to get a better view but was stopped by two shinobi.

"State your business." The first guard said.

"My business is my own." Azula growled to him.

The guard had silver hair and a headband like Sho but it covered his right eye and he had a mask too. The other shinobi was female. She had red hair and red marks on her face.

"Now no Kakashi-Kun. Be nice to the girl. She is just a kid after all." The Kunoichi told her companion.

"I'm not just a kid! My name is-"

"Hime!" Sho had caught up to her. "Ah, Kakashi-San, Rin-San! Good to see you! Where is Hayate-San and Genma-San? Aren't they supposed to be working the gate today?"

"Ah! Sho-Kun!" the Kunoichi known as Rin exclaimed, "Welcome back! Genma and Hayate have a last minute mission with their team before the Chunin exams so we are here."

Kakashi nodded. "Who is this?" He pointed to Azula.

"Yuuhi Hime." Sho answered.

"My name is Azula." Azula muttered to herself.

"Azula?" The three ninja replied in unison.

"Cool name." Rin said afterward.

"So that's your name." Sho responded, "I like it... Anyway, we have to get to see Hokage-Sama."

Azula just nodded. The princess knew that the Hokage was the leader of the village and also the strongest ninja of he village as well. This Hokage must not be a person to be trifled with. Secretly the pricess wondered if the man was like her father. Did he strike fear into his citizens hearts? Did he punish them if they did something and it was not perfect? May questions such as these ran through her mind as she and Sho ran through the grand city of Konoha.

'Sure father isn't the leader of the Fire Nation... yet... but he might as well be.' The young kid decided.

They had taken to th roofs of the city... Meaning Sho threw Azula over his shoulder and sprinted to the Hokage's Mansion to report the mission. It took the man five minutes to make it to the mansion. A very impressive feat that was not attempted by many. He entered the office with a skip in his step. Sho was very happy to be home.

"Ah Sho-kun! Very glad you are back. I was about to send a search party out to find you!" The Hokage said.

Azula didn't get a good view of the man. She did see white robes but then she was ushered behind Sho. His voice was ery raspy soundung.

'He probably doesn't get much sleep like father.' She thought. What she saw next shocked her.

"You must be Hime!" The voice said right when Azula was ushered behind Sho. The girl looked out from behind her escort to see this really old man. He had liver spots and gray hair. This was definetly not the leader she had been expecting.

'Maybe he is a scribe or something...' Azula thought

Sho pushed Azula in front of him. "Yup! This is Azula-chan, Hokage-sama!'

'HOKAGE! This is the Hokage!' To say she was shocked was the biggest understatement of the year. Probably of her life.

"Azula-hime! Nice to meet you! I am the Hokage of Konoha."

"Greetings Hokage-sama."

The old man laughed heartily. "No need to be so formal Azula! You can call me Ojiisan."

The word confused Azula. "O-Jii-san?" The Hokage nodded. "Of course, Ojiisan."

The Hokage smiled. Azula had never seen someone so old smile at her. Uncle Iroh wasnt that old... compared to this guy. This guy was ANCIENT. His face was all wrinkly and it fascinated the princess.

"Well, I won't keep any of you're time Sho-kun as I believe you must be sprinting to the hospital." The Hokage told the jonin.

"Hospital?" Sho questioned.

"Why yes! I believe you will soon be a father so you must be running." Sho jumped in shock. His baby was about to be born. He ran out of the door but not before grabbing the money he recieved from the mission. Sho sped down the hall and out of the building. From the mansion, Azula and the Hokage watched dust fly in the air as Sho ran. One could also detect people running out of the way of the speedy shinobi. Even other shinobi were having trouple getting out of his way. No matter, nobody was hurt in the jonin's trek from mansion to hospital.

"Siblings. So alike in many ways. He did that in a minute. That might be a new record." The Hokage thought aloud. Young Azula made a coughing noise to show that she was still present.

"AH! Azula-hime! Forgive this mind of an old man. I tend to forget things rather quickly." He said in a jolly manner which reminded Azula somewhat of her uncle. She wrapped her small fingers around the katanas that he had given her as a reminder of him. "I'm sure you are wondering what we will be doing with you, hm? No need to fret my dear. We have it all taken care of. Kurenai may not be here yet, as she is still on a mission, but she will arrive home soon enough. In the mean time-" he paused to think, "we will go on a walk and I will show you my village of Konoha. Does that sound good to you my dear?"

"It sounds perfectly acceptable Hokage-sama." Azula responded politely.

"Yes. I agree." the Sarotoubi clan leader stood up from his chair and led the young child to the edge of his office. "Oh, you can leave your things here, we can collect them later."

Azula hesitated for a moment but left her pack on the floor next to the door. The blades stayed with her. They crisscrossed across her back, the straps did the same accross her front too.

"Your swords will be safe here. I promise."

"I understand, but I would rather keep them with me. My Uncle Iroh gave them to me. He's the Dragon of the West." Azula replied.

Hiruzen shrugged but let the girl take them. It was obvious that she was home sick.

The two exited the building and walked to some of the well known places in Konoha. First they went to the were many children running laps around a track. On another part of a field, there were children throwing various weapons at targets. If she looked closely at the windows, Azula could see kids inside studying. They ranges in ages from six to twelve. Inside with the kids were ninja teachers.

"Lets go inside." Azula didn't respond, she just followed.

Hiruzen walked down the hall to the first classroom on the left hand side. The side closest to the field. The duo could detect yelling coming from the room and it wasn't a childs voice. It was a young man's voice.

"NARUTO!" The man screamed. Then there was much laughing. The Hokage opened the door and Azula watched the events play out from behind the Hokage.

Inside there were many kid sitting at desks. There seemed to be about 30 kids but Azula wasn't positive. The kid that stuck out the most was a boy with whisker marks on his face and messy blonde hair. The boy reminded Azula of Sho a little but not too much. He was standing on a desk and pointing at the teacher. His laughter was what stuck out the most to Azula. He was laughing for a good reason. The ninja that was acting as teacher was covered in water and had a bucket on his shoe and his head. He looked positively hilarious.

The sight before them made Azula bust out in a fit of giggles. Hiruzen smiled, "Funny isn't?"

"Yes very!" Azula replied gathering her self control. The laughter had died down and all of the students and the teacher were now looking at the new arrivals.

"H-h-hokage-sama!" The teacher exclaimed. He was bright read and he had a scar accross his nose.

"Hello Iruka-kun. I must say, that look suits you." He joked to the teacher.

"I didn't do this on purpose! It was one of Naruto's practical jokes!" The boy named Naruto turned bright red and tried to hide behind a rather large boy who was eating some chips.

Hiruzen just smiled, "I'm sure Naruto-kun just wanted to make the things that you are teaching them more memorable. You know that people tend to remember things better if they have a good memory to associate it with. Maybe it could be a picture or a song or in this case, Naruto's prank. I'm sure that was all he was doing. Right Naruto-kun?"

Naruto stuck his head out from behind the large boy. "Uh... Yeah Jiji, that's exactly what I was doing. Just tryin' to help everyone else!" He rubbed the back of his head but smiled at him.

A girl on the otheside of the lagre boy hit naruto in the head. "Don't disrespect Hokage-sama, Naruto!" Azula moved a little from behind ther Hokage to get a better view of the girl. She had pink hair with a red bow in it. It clashed with each other and the little princess rolled her eyes in disgust.

Naruto had noticed Azula behind Hiruzen and shouted, "Jiji! Why is that girl here?" The whole clas instantly focused on Azula, well what they could see of her.

Hiruzen pushed Azula in front of him so everyone could see her. "This is Azula-hime. She just came to Konoha today and I was just giving her a tour of Konoha. We stopped by to see what things everyone was learning today. Azula will most likely be joining this class in the near future."

Iruka nodded and approached Azula (after taking the buckets off). "It is nice to meet you Azula-hime. I'm sure you will find that I am a great teacher and an excellent ninja. I was actually about to demonstrate the substitution justu when I was pranked." Iruka proceeded to glare daggers at Naruto who just shrugged it off.

"If you're such a great ninja and a great teacher, why didn't you do the substitution jutsu to avoid getting pranked?" Azula asked in a snarky way.

"Well! The answer to that question is quite simple! The reason I didn't use the jutsu is... well... because I didn't think about it..." Iruka finished lamely.

"Aren't ninja's supposed to be alert at all times?" Azula questioned. She took a step forward for dramatic effect and looked the teacher in the eyes. It would have been more dramatic if she was actually eye level with him and not two feet shorter but she still got some of the desired effect.

"Well yes but-"

"What if there was an attack? And what if those buckets were bombs?"

"Don't start here with that. You might give Naruto some ideas."

"You suck as a shinobi." Azula replied. Iruka's jaw dropped. The kids around her started to snicker.

"Well if you're so smart why don't you do the substitution jutsu."

Azula shrugged. "Alright." She left one sword where she was standing and then walked to the front tof the room. She focused her Charkra so that she would trade placed with her sword. "Substitution Jutsu!" Just then, Azula had traded places with her sword. "Tada."

The whole class gave her a standing ovation. This irritaded Iruka to no end. If it was possible, there would be smoke coming out of his ears. Hiruzen saw this and decided that it would be best for the class to be over for today.

"Why don't you all run along home." The kids cheered and started to file out of the room. "Everyone except Naruto." Naruto turned beet red and slowly walked toward the almighty leader of his village. THe other kids gave the joker one last look before bolting out the door to enjoy the freedom of being out of school early.

When everyone left, Naruto looked up at the Hokage with a guilty look in his eyes. Azula decide that this would be a good time to go

"Now Naruto-kun. It was very rude of you to do that to Iruka. Apologise right now."

"Sorry Iruka-sensei..." Naruto muttered.

Iruka nodded so Hiruzen decided that the nod was all he was going to get out of him at the time. "No that that's out of the way, Naruto must be punished."

The boy's jaw dropped. "BUT JIJI!"

"No but's Naruto. You did something wrong and you must be punished. Now what should you're punishment be..." By this time Azula had come back and her swords were on her back and she was ready to leave. "Ah! I have it! Naruto-kun, you will give Azula-hime a tour of Konoha. We have only been here so you have a lot of ground to cover young man."

Naruto took one look at Azula before flashing his million watt grin to them. "You can count on me, Jiji!"

"Excellent. Now I want you to have her meet me at the hospital at seven tonight. And you must protect her with your life. Your life Naruto-kun."

"Got it!" Naruto shouted. He grabbed Azula by the hand and dragged her out of the Academy as fast as his little legs could cary him. Hiruzen watched the two run out and into the streets of Konoha.

"Like father like son." The Hokage muttered. "Well Iruka-kun, I must be going. Good day."

I feel like I made Hiruzen sound a bit like Dumbledore from Harry Potter. Oh well, Dumbledore is cool... And gay so HAHA!

Cookies to who ever can guess the character who I didn't name.