Yo, I got this story idea awhile ago! Whelp here it is. Summary: Kimiko is Sakura's older cousin, who should have graduated with Neji, Lee, and Tenten. But do to illness she had to miss her class's graduation exam as well as most of her last year. To make up the time she missed she is placed in Sakura's spot in the class behind hers, but Sakura's no longer in the class! Sakura managed to take the graduation exam early and graduated with Kimiko's class. What happens to Kimiko when she is stuck in with the rest of the rookie nine as the ninth rookie?


Kimiko Haruno grumbled as she walked up the stairs to her home. It was a long day at the academy with several of her fellow classmates picking on Rock Lee. Kimiko had to admit that Lee wasn't the hottest of the boys in the class with his bushy eyebrows and strange mannerisms, but for some reason Kimiko found them quite cute. She dropped her green messenger bag down beside the door as she took off her blue sandals. Kimiko gave out a yawn as she pulled her strawberry brown hair out of the ponytail that she always had.

She ruffled her hair out as she walked toward her room as the front door flew open. Kimiko cocked an eyebrow as she turned around to find her year younger cousin rushing into the house. Sakura's hair was very pink compared to Kimiko's and her eyes were a bright emerald green while Kimiko's eyes were an aqua green color. Kimiko wore a pair of green training shorts under a white spilt skirt with a light green single strap shirt. To top off her outfit Kimiko had a pair of green trimmed white arm warmers and a pair of dark green trimmed light green legwarmers. Sakura on the other hand wore a spilt dress that was dark pink in color the sleeves and skirt were trimmed in white and it had the Haruno clan symbol on them. Under her dress, she wore a pair of dark teal shorts. Lastly around Sakura's head, holding up her bangs, was the red ribbon that her best friend/rival gave her.

Kimiko was about to say something to Sakura, but a familiar voice stopped her, "I hope that's the sound of my little princess coming home?"

Kimiko smiled as she turned back around to face her father, "Of course it is. Oh yeah, Sakura's home as well."

"Hi Uncle Natsuki!" Sakura waved to her Uncle as she ran up stairs to her family's apartment.

Kimiko walked pass her father into the kitchen. She plopped herself down grabbing a riceball from the plate in the middle of the table. Natsuki was the one who gave Kimiko her sparkling aqua eyes, while her hair was a mixture of Natsuki's light brown and her mother's pink. Her father wore a pair of standard gray pants worn by the Chunin and Jounin of the village and a black sleeveless shirt. Normally Natsuki wore a green jacket over his shirt that had their clan symbol on the back of it. His leaf headband was tied around his waist as a belt.

"So anything new happen at the academy today?" Natsuki asked his daughter as he joined her at their kitchen table.

"Nah, just the same as always. We learn some stuff about the village, and some Jutsus. And in the end they all laugh and make fun of Lee." Kimiko shrugged her shoulders.

It was close to the last few months of Kimiko's last year, hopefully, at the ninja academy. She had shown great promise in her training. She was the best at Taijutsu among the other girls in the class. And she was showing a talent for sealing Jutsus just like her father. Natsuki always told Kimiko that her abilities in Taijutsu comes from her mother, but Kimiko wasn't sure about that seeing how she really didn't know her mother. Kimiko's mother had died when Kimiko was still a baby.

Kimiko stood up as she finished her riceball, "I'm going to do some training in the garden."

"Train hard." Natsuki told her as she walked outside.

In the garden, Kimiko had an old tree stump that she used to train with. She and the tree stump had some good memories of frustrations. Kimiko pulled on her training sandals as she walked towards her always listening training partner. She gave the tree stump a bow and began her training.

"It's been a while." Kimiko talked to the stump as if it was a person, "Let's see last time I vented all about those stupid jerks in my class. Man I hate the fact that the only person in that class that I'm willing to call my friend is Lee."

Kimiko gave the stump a spin kick before continuing, "Don't get me wrong Taka, Tenten, and Koji are pretty cool, but they hardly notice or talk to me. Man Sakura's got the best class. Shikamaru and Choji are awesome. Shika's really smart, but man is he lazy! He's always watching the clouds, and just last week he finally taught me how to play shogi. Choji's the gentlest person I know! And he's totally a good friend; I know he will protect his friends. And then there's Hinata, she's just as shy around boys as I am, well at least the boys we like. Oh how could I forget Kiba and Akamaru!"

Kimiko stopped talking as she sensed Sakura's charka in the garden. "What's up Sakura?" Kimiko asked her cousin.

"Um, I was wondering if we could spar together?" Sakura asked her.

"Sure why not." Kimiko shrugged, "Alright get into your fighting stance."

Sakura placed one foot behind the other as she brought up her fists. Kimiko on the other hand, placed on arm close to her chest while the other was closer to her waist. Sakura attacked first sending a kick towards Kimiko's head. Kimiko smirked it was an easy block as she moved her arm up to block Sakura's leg. The two spent close to an hour throwing kicks, punches, and attacks at each other.

The fight was drawing close to an end when Sakura delivered a surprise blow to Kimiko's lower chest. Kimiko staggered backwards clutching her rib cage. She had been fighting of some dizziness for quite a while now and didn't need it acting up now. Even if it was just a friendly sparing match between family members, Kimiko really didn't want to lose.

"Aw did I just get the upper hand?" Sakura asked with hopefulness.

"Cha! I'm kicking butt!" Sakura's inner personality kicked in.

Kimiko didn't answer her as she tried to stand up, but her dizziness wasn't going away. She had felt bad at lunch time when Choji offered her some of his riceballs. To insure safety Kimiko and Sakura always had a mercy word that would end the match no matter what. Kimiko always hated using it. She was one who liked to finish her fights to the end, but given how she was feeling she just wanted to lie down for a while.

"Neko." Kimiko muttered.

"Huh?" Sakura questioned her cousin.

"I've gotta stop Sakura." Kimiko told her.

"Are you okay Kimiko? You're really flush!" Sakura asked worrying about her cousin, who never used their mercy rule.

"Yeah I'm fine. I just need to lie down for a while." Kimiko lied as she pushed herself towards the door.

"You sure?" Sakura pushed as Kimiko stumbled forward.

Kimiko bit down on her bottom lip as she felt like throwing up. Her body felt hot to her, but she was freezing. Kimiko hated being sick, but this felt worst than anything she had in the past. One second she's light headed and dizzy, and the next she feels like someone is grinding Kunais into her temples. Kimiko felt the tears flowing from her eyes as her stomach felt like it was in knots.

'Sleep! Yeah that's what I need! I pushed myself to hard today and just need to sleep it off.' She thought as she felt the darkness sweeping over her.

"Kimiko!" The loud scream from Sakura caused Natsuki and Sakura's father to come rushing outside.

The two found Sakura kneeling down next to Kimiko, who was passed out in the grass. Natsuki knelt down next to his daughter examining her.

"What happened Sakura?" Sakura's father asked her.

"We were sparing for about an hour before I gave Kimiko a punch to the chest. After that she used our mercy rule. I asked her if she was alright, and she said she was fine and something about needing to lie down for a while. Next thing I know Kimiko was falling to the ground." Sakura explained as tears started to form in her eyes, "Is she going to be alright?"

"Kimiko's strong. She'll be fine, it's probably just a cold that she's been trying to hide from me for a while catching up with her." Natsuki answered his niece as he carried Kimiko inside.