Saga of Tanya the Kunoichi

"Okay. Next up, Uchiha Sasuke!".

Sasuke holds his shuriken. The training he honed at home and with his brother far surpasses others.

Whoosh!

Thud thud thud!

All the shurikens hit the target.

"Sasuke-kun! Kyaaa!", the girls cheered for him. Including a certain pink-haired girl.

"Good job! As expected of the son of the Uchiha patriarch. Next, Naruto".

"Hehe! Sasuke! Watch me! This isn't so difficult-ttebayo!".

Sasuke just smirked, crossing his arms wanting to see Naruto's failure. Over the months Naruto has always been challenging and pissing him off for no reason. Well, because Naruto inwardly feels jealous of how great Sasuke is, how everyone is praising and gushing over him. 

Thud! Plonk. Whoosh…

One barely hit. One got deflected. One missed entirely.

"Is that it?", Sasuke mocked.

'You are just lucky! Just you wait!', Naruto retorted.

"Oi Naruto, just accept you can't beat Sasuke". Dai, an extra commented.

'Nnh… I can beat him alright!'.

"Okay enough enough, Tsuyu go ahead".

Tanya nods and comes forward. Sasuke's smirking expression turned a little serious. Naruto may be dumb and overestimate himself, but his twin sister is something entirely different.

Naruto stopped arguing with Sasuke and watches his sibling.

With a cold serious expression, Tanya throw the shuriken with accuracy.

Thud! Thud! Thud! The shuriken hits the target - pretty much already on the level of Sasuke.

Iruka sensei brightened up.

"Good job Tsuyu! You improved so much. You must have practiced hard".

'Yes, Iruka-sensei'.

"Keep up the good work! And Naruto! Follow your sister's example!".

Naruto grumbled, disliking being compared.

'I work hard too-ttebayo!', Naruto seemingly throws a tantrum with his face at Iruka.

Sasuke felt dissatisfied seeing Tsuyu who, in his mind, an orphan that shouldn't have any prior training or guidance had now stood alongside him as the class topper.

Especially in taijutsu. It's as if Tsuyu had years of life and death combat experience drilled into her bones already.

Her movements are ruthless. Each of her strikes has no resemblance to hold back at all.

Now even shuriken-jutsu that Tsuyu had zero experience with since starting academy had now reached a level equivalent to Sasuke that had been training a lot with his brother.

I can't let a nobody step on the pride of Uchiha. I have to train harder!

Sasuke firms his heart, not wanting to disappoint his father, his brother, and the Uchiha clan.

…

"Suge… Tsuyu-chan is so cool". The girls whisper among themselves.

"And she's also so pretty. Last exam she had 1st place too. And I heard she got all perfect scores…".

The girls look up at Tsuyu like she's the role model of a Kunoichi.

The boys are basically gushing over Tsuyu like how girls are gushing over Sasuke. But they are not so shameless to talk about it openly since boys are boys.

Kiba whispered to his group of friends, how Tsuyu is so cool and pretty. Their vocabulary doesn't amount to much to describe Tsuyu.

'I should invite her again… hehe…'. Kiba felt a rush of excitement at the idea.

His friends nudge his shoulders, saying how lucky he is that he's one of the guys Tsuyu actually talks to and even visited his clan with him.

Tsuyu is regarded as a cold beauty by the boys. A lot of them attempt to talk to her, but she always politely refuses. However there are certain people she particularly communicates more with.

Tsuyu watches as Hinata finishes his taijutsu training with the instructor. Observing the gentle fist of the Hyuga clan. The gentle fist may seem gentle but the power comes from chakra exploding from the tenketsu point upon hit. Though most of the damage is towards the chakra network.

Tsuyu realises an important thing as she interacts with the children of these big clans.

They had heritage and knowledge of jutsu and techniques that let them surpass civilians easily. Tsuyu is able to top the class in taijutsu because of pure skill, experience and mindset alone. But she knows that what she's able to do, it's something all civilian ninja with that much training and time can achieve at some point. She is aware she is a fake genius.

As for ninjutsu, she only mastered body flicker so far and she's still on the way to master substitution jutsu. Her experience to mold mana and cast spells in her previous life basically jump-started her skills in chakra molding. Iruka-sensei is utterly shocked seeing Tsuyu able to use body flicker on the first day of learning it albeit having no control over it and crash flat on the ground after. 

Tanya lost in her thoughts, pondering her plan. She wants to acquire jutsu other than the basics. The most direct accessible way is to do missions, gain merits, and exchange merit for jutsu available at the Mission Center.

But this will take too much time and effort; those from big clans already have those jutsu from birth compared to that of civilians that had to work their bones for.

For now Tsuyu wants to improve her taijutsu, wanting to utilise chakra in physical combat.

Inuzuka's taijutsu, for example, uses chakra to mimic canine form and attacks. Kiba is quite generous in explaining his clan technique to her during her visit. But she finds them, not fitting her unfortunately.

Besides, there's also the fact that Tsuyu's own body is still that of a child, and she's a female that has lesser muscle mass and thus her physical strength is limited.

She decides to approach Hinata, the heir to Hyuga clan again, hopefully gaining something. The use of chakra expulsion from strikes seems like a perfect start for her to explore. Hinata is quite friendly to her despite her introverted nature. Though somehow the conversation always steered to Naruto. She noticed Hinata would always ask about Naruto, Naruto this, Naruto that.

Is Naruto that handsome in her eyes? 

Tanya looks over at Naruto who's now trying to join a group of guys to talk with them, as usual, trying making new friends but he ends up just making them uncomfortable and causes the opposite reaction instead over time. 

Sigh… I have told him many times he shouldn't act so desperate. Why can't he understand he should simply act like a normal person, not too excited, not too clingy, shouldn't always interrupt others or join in others conversations and instead be a good listener - and people would naturally be inclined to get to know you and let you into their circle?

Tanya even had made notes based on a book in her 1st life on how to get people to like you and gave it to Naruto. But it's as if her effort is futile. Tsuyu had a sense of exasperation perhaps for her brother. It's like her advice entered his left ear and went out instantly from the right. 

There's also the fact that Naruto often is boastful about his abilities but his actions and achievement does not prove his own words. This only makes the classmates just think he's an annoying obnoxious person. 

Tanya tried to hammer it down into Naruto's head, that words have to match both his effort and result, and as much as she really wishes to see Naruto achieve great results and achievements, she does not put illogical expectations on him and had assured him it's fine to do according to one's best abilities already and she knows well what talent Naruto has and does not has. 

But somehow she felt like Naruto only ever gets angry at her…

And perhaps, there's some slight distance between them already. Tanya shook her head, erasing her thoughts and coming back to the main point.

Hinata likes him. It works in her favor. I should ask Naruto to pay attention to Hinata more to consolidate the connection to the Hyuga clan and my brother can also gain a proper friend - maybe that can help him.

After settling her thoughts, she returned her focus to class. Lunch time comes finally.

"Nii-san, join me and Hinata-san for lunch", Tanya called out to Naruto who had just woken up from a nap in class.

"Eh? Okayy~".

As Naruto sat down, his eyes widened seeing Hinata's bento that's filled with so many things.

'Suge…', Naruto eyed Hinata's bento - prepared by chefs of the rich Hyuga clan. His own bento is simple, only having rice, grilled mackerel and some sides of stir fried veggies. Tanya is strict about budget after all.

"N-n-naruto-kun… y-you can… have th-this…", Hinata uses her chopstick to give Naruto a big shrimp tempura.

'Uwa! Thank you Hinata-chan! So good!'.

Hinata blushed hard and seemingly about to faint. Hinata seemingly shrinked in size and is unable to talk anymore. Meanwhile Naruto is oblivious and keeps eating.

This won't work…

…

Naruto finished eating and thanked Hinata and just stormed out of class to find a playmate outside. Hinata turned to normal again as she breathed a sigh of relief.

'Thank you, Tsuyu-chan…', Hinata said shyly.

"Hm?".

Oh. It was not futile after all.

"Of course. I support you and my brother. You two only need more time together".

Hinata blushed, silently thanking Tsuyu for her acceptance and support over her feelings.

"By the way, Hinata-san. I have always been curious about Gentle Fist. I don't know if…".

With Tanya's scheme and effort over days, she finally gets Hinata to show her how she uses gentle fist and teaches Tsuyu the basics.

To begin with, gentle fist only is useful with Byakugan that lets them target the exact tenketsu point. If others use gentle fist, it won't be effective. That's also why Hinata doesn't feel anything wrong teaching Tsuyu just to satisfy curiosity.

Tanya also figured out along the way when she visited Hyuga clan to have tea with Hinata that she was already taught how to do water walking and tree walking. She is the heiress to the Hyuga clan so her father is especially strict.

Hyuga Hiashi also took interest in Tsuyu. As the clan head, he knew Tsuyu is the daughter of the late 4th. He does not know about her status as jinchurki though.

In fact, no one except Hokage and the Konoha council knows Tsuyu is a jinchuriki as well. Because having 9 tails split into two and then sealed into two twins is something too far reaching.

He knew from her daughter that Tsuyu is the class topper especially in Taijutsu. He wanted to see it.

"Tsuyu-kun, I would like to know how far you are in taijutsu. We from the Hyuga clan pride ourselves as one of the clan best in taijutsu, and I would like to see your potential my daughter always speaks of. How about a little spar with me?", Hiashi spoke with a calm smile.

Cursed Being X! Did I offend the Hyuga by being better than his daughter? He wants to beat me up?

Tanya reluctantly agrees… 

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