Broken Hearts, Shattered Dreams 2 - A Legend is Born

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto - if I did… I don't know what would happen, honestly. I don't really own Broken Hearts, Shattered Dreams, either. X) Lol.

A/N: I already asked pudgypudge if I could do this and he told me that I could. :) especially seeing as he hadn't intended to do a sequel to Broken Hearts, Shattered Dreams - from what he told me, and I hope I do the story proud with my sequel, and I also hope all of you enjoy. , The edit in this is very, very tiny - and all it solves is a continuity error, but I hope to not have to mention it in any of the other chapters. :) Oh, and that's besides the extra space I added between paragraphs or whatever. , Lol. Not to mention I changed Hikaru's shirt around slightly, and fixed some spelling errors, like 'especially' in the very beginning. :P Lol.

Chapter 1: Some Kind of Prologue

"Come on Hikaru - hurry up or you're gonna be late!!"

Sakura's loud voice came up from the first floor as she dealt with Juugo and Karin, getting them prepped and ready for the first day of their last year of class. Spikey, pink-tipped neon-yellow hair brushed slightly when the boy turned over, and was accompanied by a groan as Hikaru rose up out of bed and pivoted on his butt, heaving himself forward and onto his feet as he looked out this world yet again through unusual, deep blue eyes that had sprinkles of green, resting at half mast. He would've liked a few more hours of sleep, but that was not meant to be. He carried himself over to his wooden dresser sleepily, and opened up the top-most drawer with a slight sigh.

Unfortunately for Naruto, things had gotten progressively worse for Hikaru because he rarely ever got to see his father anymore, seeing as he and Queen Ino were tied up dealing with a war between summons, which he knew not much about yet, nor did anyone else for that matter.

Mikomi had grown quite well, but he didn't get to see her often; the times he did, she was either spending time with other girls or else training in the mortal realm.

Sakura's voice rang up yet again to his semi-messy room as Hikaru pulled out a pair of pants and a t-shirt. the pants were dark-blue, water-resistant, baggy sweatpants that fit snuggly and comfortably around his waist, while the t-shirt was nothing more than a simple, large, white t-shirt with a pink spiral on the front surrounded by a purple (courtesy of Ino) ring.

"I mean it Hikaru! If you don't hurry up I'm coming up there and dragging you down!!"

Sakura sounded as angry as she could possibly be, but was tied up with getting the other two children ready at the moment. The boy had been having some trouble with punctuality as of late, but to him it wasn't that big a deal.

With a slight 'shoosh' noise, Hikaru closed the top drawer and ducked down, pulling out the bottom-most drawer and pulling out a pair of long white socks and a pair of plain, white boxers. He slipped on the clothes quickly, starting with the boxers and socks, moving to the shirt and finishing with the pants.

Ever since Sasuke-'sama' had been killed and devoured by the shinigami, Hikaru had ended up getting split up from his half-brother and half-sister in school after they'd been told they should redo their final two academy years; although they were now repeating their final. Hikaru never told anyone, but truth be told, he got picked on a lot because of his whisker marks and odd fighting style, among many other things, but told no one because he didn't want to look weak, and didn't want to cause trouble for anyone; yet he was constantly getting picked on when no one was around. He had not yet met Shika's son or the odd one. Nor any of the other main children that would become a big part of his life this year.

Regarding the free-form taijutsu style Hikaru had developed (mixing Goken and Bestial)… He'd recently given it a name, calling it Miyabita Yajuu style.

Juugo and Karin had continued training the fighting techniques which they'd first been introduced to - Muay Thai and Capoeira respectively, and were definitely a force to be reckoned with - more so than normal, even though they still never showed it at school.

As soon as he had all his clothes on, Hikaru quickly darts out through the door, runs down the hallway with loud 'thump' sounds on the floor as he makes his way across, and proceeds to jump up while ducking and land on the railing as he floods chakra into his feet, sticking to the ramp and gliding down smoothly and with ease. When he reaches the bottom, he times his jump improperly and slips, falling to the ground in a tumble, just like his father's own klutziness.

The boy giggles slightly before picking himself up, obviously thrilled with the experience and slightly embarrassed that one such as he had failed so miserably.

"Where the hell have you been Hikaru!?"

"Uh, sorry."

Hikaru grins sheepishly, really embarrassed, after Sakura picks him up by his collar and screams into his face, obviously ticked at having to wait for her son. Striding up to greet them was a familiar kitsune no akurei face, Genmaki, trying to diffuse the situation.

"We can deal with that later, Sakura-san. Right now we have to get them off to the academy."

Genmaki bows slightly, trying to appeal to Sakura's more dominant side, and Sakura buys it easily, grinning slightly. Over the time he'd spent here, especially seeing as he was the senior, had come to learn how to deal with Sakura's dangerous fury, and how to get on her good side, even if he still wasn't entirely keen on doing what he needed to do. In this case, it was for Hikaru's well-being after all, even if the fox demon felt he deserved some of it for his tardiness.

"Alright – but hurry up."

Sakura was quite hard on the kids when they did something wrong, and every one of them were scared of her wrath - even the foxes at times - but like father, like son. Even if manners had been drilled into Hikaru's head when he was real young. With deft movement, she released her hold on Hikaru, letting him drop to the ground with a slight thud and grunt. He wasn't really expecting the movement, but nonetheless, he recovered quickly, and forced a cheery face onto his exterior.

"Well come on guys, let's go!"

With that, and Hikaru was up and running for the door, throwing it open and running outside followed by his brother and sister, Juugo and Karin, and their own familiars, Gin and Shin respectively, and Hikaru's own familiar, Genmaki.

Sakura called out after them, obviously caring about all three of them despite her momentary anger.

Constantly when the kids got in trouble, especially the one with the pink-tipped hair, she had to remind herself that Hikaru was not yet as strong as Naruto, specifically physically, and she was much stronger than she was in the past, so that made it even worse. She had to constantly force herself not to send them through walls. Thankfully Hikaru had more manners than Naruto did at his age, and more control, in more than one way; even if that had been lacking as of late due to Naruto's absence, or so they thought was the case. It was possible he was just growing up or something.

Juugo was still quite rambunctious, and taken up a bit of an obnoxious streak that garnered attention like Sasuke had, but not through being broody like he had.

Karin had come quite a-ways with her familiar Shin, and had opened up quite a bit more, and, believe it or not, had some fan boys now because of what she was like. It amused her, and she kept up the act that seemed to keep some of them magnetized to her, and Shin actually enjoyed it. Karin wasn't as quiet anymore, but she still tended to keep to herself, though thankfully she wasn't insane or broody like her father Sasuke had been, or so they thought. They were quite sure that was the case. But only Karin knew for sure, and maybe even Shin.

No matter what though, Sakura loved them all, and it was pretty easy since they were all her children biologically. The pink-haired kunoichi called out to them as they ran off, to have a good day and to make sure they kept up their grades and their ninja skills.

Sometimes Juugo and Hikaru, along with Shin and Genmaki (though he was the one who helped keep some semblance of control on the pranks, lest they be much more dangerous), came up with pranks for the school and sometimes the people of Konoha. But no one could ever prove it, seeing as they were so damned crafty. Gin and Karin were often left out; although they sometimes joined in on occasion to give their own little spice to the tricks and pranks, but they tended to hold the others back more often than not, and thus were left out as said prior. Genmaki tried to hold them back using logic, and subtle pushes.

Hopefully soon they would grow out of it to some extent, even though Genmaki actually enjoyed matching wits against Hikaru. They were all just kids at the moment, after all.

End of Chapter 1

A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed that. I tried to outline the basics while not giving away everything - and I hope I succeeded in that to some extent. And I know this was a little short - next chapter will hopefully be about their day at school and their journey to the academy as well. After that I might have time-skips for those if you enjoy them. I don't know. X) Lol. Well, we'll see what happens, no? :) And in case you want Kaoru and Mikomi and all the others I didn't mention, as well as their descriptions and such, you're going to have to be patient and wait for it. :) I also hope I did a very good job in adding some hint of suspense and mystery as to what the plots could be about. I have a feeling you'll definitely enjoy them when it gets into the swing of things. :P Lol. Even though there are only three main areas I intend to use for this story, I might even have them going on missions when the time comes, to different areas. I enjoy detail, and I hope you guys do too. , By the way, I also intend to do the Chuunin exams, and trust me when I say some stuff will be happening in it. ;P The question is though, what? ;)

A/N: Did you see the very, very minor-ly tiny changes? :P Lol.