A petite, timid, and well behaved blonde girl jerks on the cottony sleeve of her mothers evening gown, the somewhat tipsy elder woman glimpses down and raises an overly plucked eyebrow at her daughter, this was the third time that the child had interrupted her in the last hour.

"What is it this time?" The woman barks out softly, after sending her friends an uncomfortable smile, all the mother wanted was a nice lunch with her friends to celebrate her engagement. Her life was a whole other story, her friends each have their own stories too. In their small, oblivious minds their lives were seen as important and 'worth living' but in reality why would they matter? They left no impact on the world asides from a name above a gravestone.

"I want some money," the daughter demands lightly and the mother raises her eyebrow further, this was new. Hopefully the girl wouldn't make a habit of money nagging, their family sure as hell wasn't made of money.

"Aren't you full? Do you need more to eat?" The middle aged mother asks in a hushed tone and the small girl shakes her head, pointing her small chubby finger to another girl, she looked to be around 10 years old and she was standing right outside the shop, the cloak covered almost all her face, the girl is slouching so all you could really see was her small frown and glowing green eyes. She held herself confidently yet the cloak seemed to suggest some form of self loathing.

"Her stomach is rumbling but she's not coming in, maybe she needs money," the girl suggests and the mum glances down at her daughter then up at the other girl. She couldn't believe how selfless her little girl was being, actually offering to feed someone else? Someone who is potentially homeless? The mother couldn't be any prouder of her little puffball of a child.

"Fine."

Then the woman fishes out some money, enough to buy a few full bowls of ramen and hands it to her 7 year old midget. The young girl showed adorable features, soft caramel coloured hair and big green eyes, the mother was glad to have such a beautiful offspring.

"But don't buy any toys or crap like that," The stern lady scolds and the little girl nods, taking the money and rushing towards the girl in the cloak. The mother looks at her friends and laughs sheepishly, her friends were all cooing over her adorable daughter which was a good sign.

"Excuse me, miss?" the child whispers shyly and the cloaked figure looks down, her whole face still shadowed by her clothing. What skin was visible was fairly bronzed and clear, her eyes were captivating though and stood out.

"There a problem?" The black haired girl asks lowly, the little girl had noticed how intimidating and scary the voice sounded. It was clear that the cloaked girl was older than her, their height difference and maturity suggested as such.

"I-I got this for you, if you'd like you can buy some food or anything else," The small girl stutters, suddenly feeling shy. It wasn't a new reaction to the cloaked figure, she was used to scaring children, so she quit trying to be friendly. The black haired girl seems to hesitate before slowly raising her hand, revealing it from her sleeve. Her skin was weirdly smooth and her nails were sharp like claws but well kept and clean. She takes the money finally and stares at the ashy blonde child. Said child squints to try to see the older persons face, her curiosity was too much to take.

"Thank you, kid," the mysterious girl mumbles, her tone sounding displeased, not that the other girl could notice such a thing at such a naive age.

"Where are you from miss? Where's your home?" The little girl asks, earning a laugh from the older one, though it sounded more like a snort. It feels so cold and venomous, it startled the younger child a lot.

"You're a bit of a stalker eh? I don't have a home," She explains quietly and the little girl groans in confusion, not understanding much of what the older person was saying.

All of a sudden a boy with blonde hair in an orange tracksuit shoves past, making the girls' hood fall off. It all happened so fast that the cloaked figure didn't even have time to be shocked. A series of gasps fill the room and the little girl slowly backs away. The blonde boy assumed that the gasps were because of him, this made his eyes lower and his soft but calloused hands shape into fists.

"G-get away! Leave!" the younger girl almost trips over her own feet, she was staring at the cloaked girl and blonde boy in horror. They were both different, yet also somehow so close to being the same that it was uncanning.

The emerald eyed girl was oddly boyish appearance wise, short raven black hair that stopped just below her ears and covered her left eyebrow and some of her left eye and her skin was, as said before, quite tanned, maybe even a tad darker than the blonde boy stood quietly next to her. She wore a mask to cover the lower part of her face to cover the few light glowing green scales that decorated her cheek bones and neck though some of the scales were visible, which is what brought on the shocked gasps. A sprinkle of small green scales under and next to her eyes, completely symmetrical and just as bright as her eyes.

There were also, hard to miss, red two dots on her forehead, meaning she's a member of the thought to be extinct Kaguya clan, a murderous clan that had basically killed themselves with their foolish roughness. Thought the short buff girl wasn't planning on following in their footsteps, the heiress wanted to fix their mistakes and be a protector.

The little girl backs away even more before running back to her mum. Her mother quickly holds her daughter, a look of disgust sent to the blonde boy. The Kaguya puts her hood on again, before turning around, she starts to walk off when the blonde boy grabs her sleeve. Naruto didn't catch her tense up under her cloak, all her hard earned muscles tensed and prepared to beat the snot out of any threatening characters.

"Hey, I'm sorry for bumping into you 'ttebayo!" He cheers half-heartedly, smiling bright at the confused and shocked girl, he was glad that she hadn't refused his company yet.

"Why are you apologising to me? Are you not scared?" She breathes out lowly and he laughs softly, smiling brightly at her. The Uzumaki was full of hope that there was a friendship in store for them.

"I bumped into you silly, and what is there to be scared of?" The boy asks her with curious shining eyes, the Kaguya heiress rolls her bright eyes and pulls her hood off, pointing at the scales.

"What isn't there to be scared of?" She grunts softly into, smirking slightly when the boys eyes widen but gasping when an awestruck smile grows on his whiskered face. The green eyed girl wordlessly strokes the markings at the same time the blue eyed boy lightly touched the hard cold scales. The two small young children both blush slightly and pull their hands away, the black haired one tilting her head curiously.

"Cool," They say in harmony, the blonde boy giggling softly and the girl smiles gently.

"I'm Naruto, wanna have some ramen with me?" He asks and the blacked haired girl tilts her head, pondering it before nodding slowly. The Ramen shop was completely empty, no one wanted to be near the two kid-freaks.

"Uh- yeah...and my name is Mika" she responds lightly, her voice filled with humour and interest.

"Sweet, oh and do you mind paying?" Naruto asks and she seems to smile to herself, catching on to the boys plan.

"I don't have a choice, do I?"

"Hehehe, quick learner."

Mika's Pov

This kid is either a complete idiot or he actually wants to be friends with me, a strange stranger from another land. I don't really know which I would prefer. I was watching him eat silently, mentally debating if I should eat and take my mask off or not eat and starve.

"Would you like mine?" I ask stubbornly, Naruto looks at me for a while without speaking, his eyes filled with confusion and curiosity. I cross my arms and glance away with irritated eyes, god, how dumb can he be? Just take the free food and spare me the kind boy act.

"You aren't hungry?" He asks with a small smile on his slightly tanned face, I start to shake my head but my growling stomach shuts me up before I could speak. Fuck shit fuck. I mentally punch my stomach but on the outside my face just lights up like a cherry.

Naruto giggles and shakes his head, playing with his goggles with both of his grubby hands. He looked to be around the same age or younger than me, his eyes were big and blue and from a distance he seemed happy but I could tell he was more than that. Everyone is more than just what they look like, I mean maybe not for the hot ones cause they're usually less.

"I think you should eat it." Naruto giggles and I decide not to argue, those were the wisest words he had said all day. I start eating, feeling a bit irritated since Naruto was staring at me intently from the moment I reached for my mask, still I pull the soft black fabric down my face and set it at my neck.

The boy stops eating and stares at me with awe, smiling smugly when my face heats up at the attention. I quickly force the food down my throat and slam the money on the table, pulling my mask up as the boy flinches with shock.

"Keep staring, I'll kill you!" I shout without thinking, pulling my hood over my face and storming out of the shops. I didn't think about how I was the cause of that hopeful smile on the boys face, that I was his only chance of a friend.

"Hey! where are you going?" Naruto asks, following along behind me, I turn around quickly and tense up when I see the smile on his face. What the shit?

"M-Mika-chan, I am sorry for staring. You're just really cool looking and I really like it," He lowers his head submissively as he apologises and I tilt my head with curiosity. He likes the scales?

"Awesome?" I mumble and he laughs, scratching his neck with a bashful grin.

"I was a little spooked at first, but who am I to judge you from your face right?" He says, blushing to himself, I smile slightly, closing my eyes and taking in a deep breath before staring back at him. Two sets of glowing eyes contrast against each other in a silent battle.

"Why aren't you judging me? I haven't done anything good to you, well asides from buying you food. I did threaten to kill you afterwards though," I point out and he shrugs, once again playing with his goggles.

"I didn't do anything wrong either but I still get treated like a monster," Naruto responds, looking a little down before smiling at me. He just ignored the whole 'I'll kill you' part then?

"How silly would I be if I did that to other people?" He adds and I nod, he reminded me of myself a few years ago.

"I guess you are right, but I'm not leaving because of the scales, I'm leaving because I have some other place to be." I lie, my mouth moving before my mind, he raises an eyebrow and smirks.

"Why are you lying? I remember you said you didn't have a home. So why not let this village be your home?" He asks and my eyes widen, he's not being serious is he?

"I'm sure Iruka-sensei would let you join in the academy, if you want to be a ninja like me of course. " Naruto laughs softly and I stand still, no one has ever offered me a home before. I open my mouth to reply but then I stop, scared, he could just be using me for some plan, it's happened plenty of times.

But that smile, so bright and trusting and those eyes...no one can fake being lonely. I think maybe I could stay for just a little while..

"Yeah I guess." I mumble, fiddling with the kunai hidden on the inside of my sleeve, my eyes looking everywhere but him as my face reddens.

Naruto cheers and grabs my arm, pulling me behind him, the wind making my hood fall off. The blonde turns and around and sends me a bright smile, it was one so bright that an unusual smile started growing on my own face. With the sun behind him he almost looked unreal, like this is all a dream. He's like some gift, sent to fix what was broken. This boy...I'll protect him with my life.

Skip of the time

"IKUKA-SENSEI IRUKA-SENSEI" Naruto shouts, pulling me into an academy class. He comes to a sudden halt and I almost trip over his feet. Everyone stops their talking and begin staring at me and Naruto, I quickly pull my hood back up, my whole face heating up as I stare at my feet.

"Naruto...YOU'RE LATE!" the man shouts and Naruto grumbles, mimicking the older man with a sneer.

"Yeah yeah I know, but listen. This girl, Mika, wants to become a ninja!" He shouts cheerfully, wrapping an arm over my shoulder and snickering when I blush and push him away.

"You mean your hooded friend here?" 'Iruka-sensei' asks and Naruto nods, suddenly pulling my hood off, his hand reaching to pull my mask down too. My face heats up with anger and embarrassment and I grab Naruto's hand and push him back before he could touch my mask. He smiles guiltily and I roll my eyes silently, scoffing.

"Naruto, is she even from here?" The brunette asks, and I glare at my feet, he's too scared to ask me himself huh? What a prick.

"I dunno ask her yourself." Naruto grunts lazily and my jaw drops comically, way to have my back Naruto.

"Mika-chan, where are you from? Do you have an ID?" He asks and I mumble a quiet yes and pull out an ID from my pocket. He stares at it for a while before sighing and laughing dryly.

"Naruto, you never told me your friend was a Kaguya." Iruka-sensei says and Naruto rolls his eyes stupidly. Well it wasn't stupid looking, he is just stupid. In a cute way. I suppose.

"What's that got to do with anything?" He asks and Iruka-sensei groans, I stiffle a giggle at the whole ordeal.

"If you actually paid attention you'd know that it has to do with everything, the Kaguya clan is extinct!" He says and Naruto gasps, then somehow more people start to stare.

"Mattaku, If I wanted to follow in their footsteps I would have attacked someone already," I mutter sarcastically, people slowly look away, no longer intrigued thankfully.

"But, I'm not one to leave a child on the streets." Iruka-sensei sighs before handing me back my ID with a weird smile on his scarred face.

"You will have to go see the hokage later today; you understand that right?" He says and I nod silently. I already had a pass to go through the village, so I don't really see the deal of being asked questions, but I guess villages have been snuck into before with this exact technique. I put my ID in my pocket and he points at a free seat between two girls. I slowly walk to the seat and sit down, too lazy to say anything to either of them.

"Sup?" the girl on my left greets, I look at her with furrowed eyebrows, she's got long bright purple hair with blueish grey coloured eyes. I nod at her, waving one hand lazily and she smirks, her eyes fill with a cheekiness not unlike Naruto's.

"My name is Jay," She says with a small smile, is everyone here so welcoming? No, thats impossible. Yet maybe I can deal with the small amount of people who are.

"I'm assuming you already heard my name but I'm Mika I guess, pleased to meet you,"

Time of skips

After the class ended Iruka took me to the Hokage, who is actually quite a nice guy, even if he did interrogate me. Basically I told him enough information to keep him satisfied, I said the scales were because of a snake bite. He doubted my answer but decided not to dig into it much more, since I looked exhausted. Then he told me to stay with Naruto for the night, so after looking around for an hour I found the blonde outside the ramen shop where we first met.

"Oh! hey Mika!" He smiles warmly and I feel a slight blush grow onto my cheeks as I dip my head in response, suddenly embarrassed for some reason unknown to me. Maybe I just wasn't used to people lighting up just at the sight of me like that.

"So whiskers, can I stay at yours for the night? Until I find my own place to stay?" I ask quickly, hoping that he would accept. The fact that I even approached him made the blonde smile like a child who was just given a new puppy and then further my request made his eyes glow. It hurt to know how low he had the bar set, he was shocked at simple human decency.

"Like a sleepover?" Naruto softly suggests and I smile back slightly, looking at the ground to hide my reddened face. I'm worse than him apparently, what the fuck is a sleepover?

"Whatever the fuck that is, yeah," I grunt with annoyance and he laughs, louder and happier than I'd heard all day during his little pranks. He takes me to where he lives and I look around, noticing how empty it was. This place was barely liveable.. He shuts the door behind me and starts running around cleaning up rubbish and dirty laundry, not that there was much of either.

"Its my first sleepover, so I have no idea what we should do..maybe play a game?" The blonde suggests and I look at him with confusion, what the hell does he mean by 'game'? Naruto rubs his neck and looks around, apparently something catches his attention 'cause he runs towards me, grabbing my arms and smiling warmly.

"You must be hungry? What would you like to eat?" My newfound friend asks and I frown awkwardly, which apparently bothered the boy, who pouts, pointing at my mask.

"In this house I like to have no secrets so could you take your mask off?" Naruto asks like its no big deal. I look away from him, my attention turned to the posters on his walls. Eventually I bring my hand to my mask, pulling it down so it rests on my neck. The second I do so some sort of sweet is shoved into my mouth. I shout out some gibberish and rip the overly sweet object out.

"Its a lollipop, have you never had one before?" Naruto questions with disbelief when he notices my dumbstruck expression. Naruto takes his own lollipop and pops it into his mouth, after he does that he runs towards the couch, sitting on it and grabbing a book and pencil. The blonde turns and smiles at me again, patting the spot next to him. Eventually I sit down besides him, chewing on the lollipop and earning a confused expression from the blue eyed boy. I take the stick like thing and bend it into a triangle before flicking it towards the bin, I shoot...and I score.

"Mikaaaaa you're meant to savour the taste," Naruto whines and I frown, tilting my head to the left as I stare at his unblinking blue eyes, having a short staring contest. Blue contrasting with green yet again.

"The purpose of eating is to get protein and vitamins, flavour has nothing to do with it," I grunt with annoyance with a small glare in my eyes and his eyes widen, he tosses the book onto the floor and grabs my face.

"DO YOU EVER ENJOY THE FOOD FOR ITS FLAVOUR?" He shouts and I slowly shake my head, like some sort of tiger Naruto pounces into the kitchen, turning on his kettle. Meanwhile I stare at the space he once stood with a dumb look of my face. I didn't know anyone could be so passionate about food.

"I'm going to make us some ramen ok? YOU HAVE TO SAVOUR THE BEAUTIFUL TASTE!" He shouts and I frown but deicide not to argue, I guess he owes me a meal anyway.

"Haha now that I can see your face I know how you react to stuff, its better for us that way," He says from the kitchen and I roll my eyes, grabbing the book he threw and skimming through the pages. My eyebrows furrow together as I try to decipher the scribbles.

"You like to draw?" I ask, but its not really a question, I already knew. Naruto shouts 'owowowowo' then he adds something about stupid hot water. I guess he didn't hear me. I look through his drawings, my eyebrows perked with confusion. Some of these drawings are really awful.

"Ahh aren't they awesome?" Naruto asks as he sits down next to me again, handing me a cup of noodles and some chop sticks. I frown, is he kidding? I could draw better than that when I was six. I guess its a personal thing to him, since he doesn't have any friends he needs at least one hobby. I decide not to reply to his question, instead I grab the chopsticks and start eating.

"Itadakimasu," Naruto sings and I look at him with confusion. He gasps and bops me on the head lightly when he noticed I had already started eating.

"You're meant to say thank you before you eat baka," He scolds, probably thinking he's some sort of Iruka, before scoffing down his ramen. I frown, that makes no sense. He made the noodles so why would he thank himself. Begrudgingly, I copy him, this time I eat the noodles slowly, allowing the taste to take over my tongue.

"Good huh?" Naruto asks when he notices the stars in my eyes as I eat the noddles as slowly as possible, as if it were my last meal.

"I have been eating food wrong my entire life, please Naruto-sensei, teach me your ways," I deadpan after I finish my noodles, I set the cup down besides Naruto's and sigh as he laughs at me.

"Hahaha that doesn't make me a sensei, Mika, what makes someone a sensei is how much they know and if they teach people stuff," He explains, flicking me on the nose before starting a really strange sketch in his book. I stare at him with my eyebrows furrowed, does anything this blonde say, asides from food related topics, make sense?

"What you just said...it proves my point. You are my sensei because you are teaching me stuff about eating," I explain and he stares at me again, an irritated look in his eyes.

"Nah, I couldn't be your sensei, I'm too dumb-"

"You said it depends on what you know, clearly you know a lot more about savouring flavours than I," I continue and Naruto throws his hands up in exasperation.

"WERE YOU BORN YESTERDAY OR SOMETHING?" He shouts and I glance to the left, grumbling and poking my tongue out at him with a glare on my scale decorated face.

"Is that how leaf shinobi say happy birthday?" Naruto gasps with shock and slaps his hands onto his cheeks, bowing and apologising.

"Is it your birthday today?" He asks dumbly and I roll my eyes yet again.

"Did I not just say that? You're a bit slow whiskers," I cross my arms and glare at him, he glares back and a sudden silence fills the room. Suddenly a huge smirk grows on Naruto's face.

"I dibs first shower!" He shouts, jumping off and running away. I frown, watching after him before sighing and doing my own drawing in his book, this one is a simple sketch of Gaara, the only other person who I considered a friend. It was obviously based of him from when he was little but I could sorta imagine how he looked now. I hear the taps turn on and then after 5 or so minutes I'm guessing Naruto got into a bath. By the time I finished my drawing Naruto had gotten into his pyjamas and was watching me.

"You're so good 'ttebayo, but who is he?" He asks and I smile weakly, setting the drawing materials aside.

"He's no one," I mumble and he makes a confused sound, his head on my shoulder. I ignore him and get up, staring at him with impatience.

"Could you please get me a towel and some clothes to change into?" I ask and he nods, rushing around again before chucking a bundle of clothes at me, I catch it and then stare at him.

"We'll be matching huh?" I ask and he giggles, playing with his goggles (why was he still wearing them?)

"Is that ok?" He asks, answering my question with another question.

"Mattaku, I don't care, I'm gonna go now," I respond with a blank expression, Naruto nods and waves at me. Whilst I walk away I hear him shout something which makes me freeze up.

"I'M GOING TO DRAW YOU FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY"

I smile softly, turning around and giving him a closed eye smile in silent response. So he's not as stupid as I first assumed.

Now Mika Is 12

After staying with Naruto for 2 nights, I got some money from the Hokage to get an apartment, I also got a job, only working after my academy lessons. Then after about 2 years I managed to pay him back. On the third year I started buying my own weapons and clothes, as well as secretly buying some gifts for Naruto. I have plenty of friends but my closest would be Naruto, Shikamaru, Jay and Kiba (that's probably in order from first to last too).

Surprisingly no one had asked about my clan, but people have always avoided me. Well anyway, it's the day of graduation and I passed, instead of being happy and full of joy I kinda feel pissed.

"Why didn't you let Naruto graduate? He tried really hard this time" I slam my hands on the desk and Iruka-Sensei's eyebrow ticks as he throws me a dark blue forehead protector.

"He couldn't do it-"

"Jay is no better than him, they're a hot headed idiot who almost broke Kiba's arm-"

"Mika, don't interrupt me, and besides, she passed because she excelled so greatly on genjutsu, you know that," He answers, the white haired guy next to him stares at me and I bite my lip, looking away from the two idiots and staring out of the window. After letting out a deep breath I wrap the dark blue forehead protector around my head like Iruka had his. The forehead protector covers my clan mark so people won't notice I'm half Kaguya, which is a plus. After I finish I send one last glare at Iruka, this makes him sigh irritably and then (after storming out and slamming the door) I start looking for Jay and Naruto. But of course Mika will never get want she wants because her idiotic dog friend practically drags her into a seat so he can brag.

A few hours later

"Narutooo!" I shout, running a hand through my hair and resting it on my hip. It was already dark out and he still hadn't returned from...well whatever he was doing. I sigh, jumping down from the roof of Naruto's house/ apartment. I land on my feet and continue walking as if I didn't just drop from a six story building.

I remember that when I first bought Naruto some posters for decorating his apartment, he and Iruka were cleaning up some new graffiti together. The teacher was helping me hang up some cool ones with animals and infamous ninja (like the three sanin and me) on them and almost screamed when he unrolled the life sized busty bikini model poster, the teacher smacked me on the head with rolled up posters like a hundred times. When I told him that I bought that for myself I earned another hundred. When he left Naruto and I snuck after him and when he fell asleep we stuck the poster on the wall right above where he slept. The next day at school the two of us had to do 100 laps of the village..

I yawn loudly, getting irritated and cold. I kind of wished I still had my robe. Thats right, my stupid friend Jay convinced me to 'ditch the rags' and she spent like an hour spending my money to get me a ninja outfit that she thought looked cute.

Basically it is a pitch black one piece that started at my mid thighs and ends just above my chest, my collar bones up was covered by my mask and above the dark clothing is a sleeveless mid thigh length tight yukata jacket, a light green shade with bandages tied around the stomach. I also occasionally wore elbow length gloves with chakra 20kg weights in the wrist and at the elbow. I didn't wear them much any more but I used to wear them constantly since I was 5.

I walk past a building to hear very loud snoring, a smirk finds its way onto my face and I quickly find a way to get to the roof. Laying there was obviously Shikamaru, why am I not surprised? I walk up to him, poking his cheek once I get close enough. He snorts and rolls over, making me snicker. I continue poking him until he grunts, smacking my hand away. I roll my eyes, pulling him off of the bench by his hand and giggling when he shouts with shock.

"Could you not? Troublesome Kaguya," He growls, glaring at me with his coal black eyes. He rubs said eyes and stares at me, I smile cheekily and he looks away from me, his face reddening slightly. I figured that waking him now would be a good thing, his mother would be worried if he stayed sleeping too long. I open my arms and pout, kicking his foot gently and grinning when he lazily stands up and hugs me.

"How was your sleep, troublesome Nara?" I mimic into his ear and he sighs, unwrapping his arms from me and glaring tiredly at me.

"What time is it?" The pineapple head asks and I shrug, he looks at the moon for a few seconds and groans, getting up and stretching.

"My mum is going to kill me, I'm so late...what a drag," Shikamaru groans and I laugh, watching him make his way towards the ladder. I was even happier when I saw the headband lazily hung on his bicep.

"Thanks for waking me up," He yawns, giving me a final wave before climbing down. I raise an eyebrow at his sluggish movements, he always calls me by my last name, its irritating but he's really caring in his own way, plus he tells the best stories. I start jumping from building to building, making my way to Jay's house, the place I was originally planning to go. I land perfectly in front of the door, as my feet hit the ground the door is slammed open and Jay knocks me over.

"Aren't we a bit young?" I tease, Jay snorts loudly and climbs off of me and helps me up. She sends me a grin and dusts herself off, a slightly pink blush on her cheeks.

"Age doesn't matter, if it did they wouldn't make you and Sasuke so damn hot." Jay punches my arm and I roll my eyes, she had her forehead protector wrapped around her waist, which made me roll my eyes for a second time, she just has to be 'hipster'. Jay's now darker purple hair was always braided and she had a small fringe on the right side of her face, barely covering her eyebrow. Her outfit is basically like Ino's except black and purple and minus the arm band thingos. I don't know, there are a couple differences asides from that but there's no mistaking that the clothes style is very similar. Oh wait, didn't I see Ino with her forehead protector around her waist too? Oh god. I glare at Jay's forehead protector, swiftly taking it off her and wrapping it on her arm instead. She glares at me and I poke my tongue out at her.

"How'd you do in the test?" I finally ask, even though I knew she only barely passed. She groans and pushes me away from her house, her hands on my shoulders.

"It was sooo hard~" She cries and I pat her back comfortingly, in my head I was laughing evilly, that was what she said.

"Oh Jay, at least you passed-"

"And that stupid Kiba somehow got higher grades than me!" She shouts, a fire in her eyes. I roll my eyes softly and pat her back.

"He did? Wow what a surprise." I mock shock, I already knew, Kiba bragged about it to me for like an hour.

"Yeah, that jerk Iruka was so mean. Sometimes I wish he would eat a rotten tomato and get so sick that we have a new hotter sensei," She whines and I laugh, she acted much more coy when we first met, oh how the seasons change.

"So how'd you go?" she asks me with a pout and send her a shit eating grin.

"I came 3rd out of the whole class, Sasuke can suck these nuts," I sneer loudly, knowing that there was always a fangirl within a metre of me, because they were every fucking where.

"Huh? No fair" Jay anime cries, pulling me into the ramen place, whose name I can never remember. When we eventually sit down she sends me a toothy grin, creeping me out.

"Guess who talked to me today?" She asks, wiggling her eyebrows like a pair of caterpillars, this makes me smack my hand over her eyebrows, she knows that creeps me out.

"Me?" I ask, feigning stupidity and smirking under my mask.

"Well yeah, dumbass, who else?" She tries again, not catching on, I smirk even more, humming with fake confusion.

"Iruka-"

"YEAH YEAH, WHO ELSE WOMAN?!" She shouts and I laugh sheepishly.

"Kib-"

"ARE YOU BRAIN DEAD?MIBAKA!" She shouts, punching me on the head. The owner tells her to be quiet and I start laughing, making her glare at me with even more fire.

"Anyway," She mumbles, her face turning slightly pink from embarrassment and from who she was thinking of.

"It was Sasuke who talked to me," She finishes and I groan, I had hoped she wasn't going to say that.

"Listen Jay, I love ya, I really do but-"

"I was walking out the class after getting my forehead protector, he was about to go do the test. We locked eye contact and I said 'good luck' then he shrugged and said 'ok'...so dreamy~" She fangirls and I face palm, she's just as bad as Sakura and Ino, in fact one time she called them senpai, I made sure that didn't last long.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't hate the pinky or blondie, but Jay was taking it too far, I mean I thought those three were rivals!

"Hi again Mikaa-chann," Someone says and I notice Jay's expression fill with jealousy and anger and she turns her face from the approaching boy, her nose covered by her hand because of the 'feral homeless dog smell' which I honestly thought was a bit exaggerated.

"Hey Kiba~" I sing with a smirk, he sits next to me, Akamaru barking at me with irritation. I growl at him and he glares at me. Apparently (Kiba had told me) Akamaru thought I was trying to rival him as Kiba's best friend. To piss the small dog off further I pull the brunette closer and rest my head on his shoulder and my arm around his waist, plus I loved the jealous look Jay sent us. The brunette laughs bashfully and ruffles my short hair, his petting skills very good.

"So, I'm guessing you didn't find the dead last?" He ask and I roll my eyes, punching his arm lightly but still sighing in bliss at the hair petting.

"I hear you barely passed the written test, so you have no right to call him a dead last," I tease and he growls, glaring at Jay, who was playing with her finger nails with a huge grin on her face.

"I bet I know who told you that, and for both of your information, I got 43 on that test," He says with a proud smile. Rei slumps over with a depressed groan, slamming her head on the counter 50 times, while I just laugh slyly.

"Oh yeah hot stuff, I got 98," I cheer with a smirk and his eyes widen. He pokes his tongue out at me and pulls his hands away, I pull his hand back and he rolls his eyes before continuing to pet my short hair. Three bowls of ramen are placed in front of us and we all fork up our money in harmony. We talk amongst ourselves for the rest of the night, eating Ramen, bragging and what not.

I slept at Jay's that night, the purple haired idiots family wanting to celebrate with me. I couldn't say no to that. Though after a few board games and stupid yet cute family things I was exhausted and took off to my friends room, falling asleep on her bed the second my head hit the pillow. I only woke up when she crawled in next to me, lifting my arm up and sliding into my embrace. If there was one thing everyone knew about me it was that the best way to get to my heart was with affection, especially hair petting.