"Uhm, err, no," said a very confused Choji.
"CUTE?!" asked Ino, standing up and looking nearly scandalized. "Why are you calling CHOJI 'cute'?"
"Well, cause he is," said Naruko. "I'm pretty good at people. You're just a big teddy bear, aren't you?"
"Uhm, err, Shikamaru?" asked Choji, who literally had NO idea how to handle something like this.
"Troublesome," Shikamaru pronounced. "Hey you. If you're making fun of him, you'll regret it."
"Nah," said Naruko, waving off the comment. "This is me just being friendly. Nothing more, nothing less. Unless you really prefer I sit elsewhere, cutey?"
"Uhm, no I guess, that's okay," said Choji, still looking very uncertain.
"Cool," said Naruko, flopping down.
"If you're quite done?" asked Iruka.
"Right, team assignments," said Naruko, giving the teacher a wink and a thumb's up.
"Can I ask something?" asked Kiba. "You're some kind of singer?"
"Musician, idol singer, and so on," said Naruko. "I hadn't realized until Hinata told me that I was banned in Konoha. After all, I visited every year until I was eight or so. Then I got kind of busy and Uncle Jiraiya handled that end of things."
"S-s-she's really popular outside Konoha," offered Hinata from her position.
"So, why are you HERE?" asked Kiba, not getting it. "I mean, if you're not a ninja, why get put on a ninja team?"
"Because I'm a ninja," said Naruko with a wink. "Apparently some people think I need to stick with this at least until I make chunin just to make it all official. My manager didn't have a problem with that, thought the hiatus from the singing career would actually be beneficial. So I'm an idol singer with an international repute as having a ninja village background. After I make chunin, unless something happens to change my mind, I'll probably go back to work as a singer."
Iruka didn't mention that Naruko was a spy, that she had apparently a fair number of contacts in a number of nations, and was part of an intelligence gathering operation that reported by encrypted messages to the Hokage. Other than the Hokage and Ibiki Morino (who was constantly flustered when Naruko referred to him as "cool" and "Chief") there were two other people in the Leaf Village who knew about Naruko's involvement. All Iruka actually knew was that Morino had signed off on Naruko being acceptable as a genin-candidate.
Iruka did speak up then. "Well, if you make chunin, great. In the meantime, I need to give the team assignments, so settle down."
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