A/N:

Before you read this story, you have the right to know...this is a collaboration. My friend, Rotamis and I got together over facebook and wrote this via IM. We hope you enjoy this and tell us what you think of it so far. No flamers please, those will be deleted.

This is set after the Naruto timeline comes to an end and there are several pairings along with O/C's. I know it's a little short, but there is a reason why.

Once more, tell us how we are doing and excuse the grammar and spelling mistakes.

" One thousand six! One thousand seven! One thousand eight!"

The cool breeze rustled the leaves of the great lotus tree as Nendo Lee trained in the back yard of his home, jumping and kicking the dummy full force over and over again. His foot struck again and again in the perfect spot.

" One thousand eighteen! One thousand Ninetee-"
" Nendo!"
"Gah!"

Three Kunai whizzed through the air and hitting their targets, three different trees' spaced so far apart. The faint sound of huffing was all that could be heard in the backyard woods.
"Once more, I know I can do this." the girl muttered, concentrating on her targets.
Grabbing three more kunai, she readied herself then heard the rustle of leaves; the wind wasn't blowing in her part of the woods.
"Once more!" she yelled before releasing the kunai in the direction of the noise.
The sound of Kunai thudding in a tree trunk was all she heard before she felt someone pick her up and hold her upside down, surprising her.
"I know you can do better than that, Kyrie."

" Jeez! Ishi, you scared me to death!" Nendo brushed himself off, turning his face in the direction of the noise.

Nendo was the ten year old son of Rock Lee, one of the teachers down at the Hidden Village Ninja Academy. His mother was Hinata, and she had died giving birth to him.
Nendo was completely blind, though his other senses more than made up the difference. IN fact as he looked in Ishi's direction, he could "see" him perfectly fine.

Ishi scratched her head.
"hehe, sorry, Nen. I just wanted to know if, well. You want to hang out?"
Ishi was an orphan, a poor shinobi girl of nine whose mother was unknown and whose father, Gaara, had been missing since before she was born. She had her father's brick red hair, though her eyes held much more heart in them. And right now, that heart was in need of a friend.

Nendo blinked in his blindness, then smiled.
" Of course, friend. I would gladly play with you. Let us see what trouble Kyrie is getting herself into."

Ishi grinned widely.
" Okay!"

Kyrie saw only swaying ground and trees, making her giggle before getting dizzy. "Can you put me down, I wasn't even trying to aim for those trees."

The sky, once more, righted itself as her father let her down off his shoulder. "Oh really?" he asked, ruffling her blonde hair with his hand. "Well, I wasn't even trying to sneak up on you." he countered, giving his daughter a mega watt smile.

The sound of a door slamming shut captured both of their attention. "Kyrie, your friends are here." her mother answered before pausing and taking note of both her daughter and husbands grins. "Ok, Kyrie, Naruto? What are you two planning now?" the pink haired woman asked, giving them the 'look'.

Daughter and father looked at one another before yelling "Now!" and poofing out of existence.

A few seconds later, both greeted the ground with their faces.

"What have I told you about trying to sneak up on me? You know it always ends this way." Sakura admonished, crossing her arms while watching both daughter and father try to pick themselves up off the ground.

Kyrie was spitting out mouthfuls of dirt while clumps of grass and ground fell out of her hair.

Laughter was then heard across the clearing at this. "Wow! You sure ate the ground, Kyrie!"

Ishi laughed at her face, and Nendo had a mild grin on his face.
" How's training, Kyrie? You ready for our first lessons tomorrow?"
Ishi pumped her fist in the air
" Ooh! I'm SO excited! I'm gonna learn EVERY jutsu in the world!"

Kyrie gave a shy grin at her friends antics. "Oh yea, I want to be like Dad!" she yelled while tackling her father.

"Ha-ha, I wish MY dad was Hokage."
Ishi's grin faded for a short moment, before Nendo ruffled her hair.
" Every jutsu, huh?" he said, changing the subject.
" I dunno about that, but I wouldn't mind being a master of taijutsu, like my father!" He gave an enthusiastic thumbs up sign, his cloudy eyes shining with excitement.

Kyrie smiled widely as she watched her friend act just like her 'Uncle' Lee. She then notice her mother and father cringe at the exact duplicate way Nendo copied Rock Lee.

Kyrie laughed at them and looped an arm around each of her friends necks. "Soo..." She started, looking diabolically at them, "What are we going to do today?" she asked, trying to get her hint across to them.

Just like her father had been back in his youth, she was a trouble maker. No, she hadn't defaced the Hokage rock yet, but she was on her way there.

Ishi put a finger to her mouth.
" Hmm... How about we bug the ramen guy?!"
"Oh! Good idea, Ishi-chan!" Nendo smiled. He had been raised in both houses, and shared his uncle Naruto's love of ramen. Ishi just loved how red his face got when he was mad. She looked up hopefully at Kyrie, she considered her the leader.

Nendo put his hands on his hips, his own nice-guy pose.
" Do not worry, Kyrie's mom-san, I will keep everyone in line!" He winked blindly in Kyrie's direction.
" Believe it!" He added jokingly, getting a laugh from Naruto.
" Let's go already!" Ishi hopped into the air, landing nimbly on a tree bough. Nendo followed suit, jumping onto the branch above her.
" Come on Kyrie, it's almost lunchtime!" Ishi glanced at Nendo while he was looking at Kyrie. She had always thought of him as sort of a big brother. He was one of the only ninjas who really trusted her... and that she trusted back.
" Pleeaase! I wanna see him turn red like a tomato!"

Kyrie smiled warmly at her parents before jumping onto the same branch. "See you later!" she yelled before running off.
Naruto chuckled a little, "You know, by the end of the day, I will have a report about something they did, right?"
Sakura pinched the bridge of her nose, "She's your daughter."

Kyrie walked with her friends down the street towards the ramen place, she then deemed that they were far enough away from her home before bringing their heads together. "So, what's next on the list, Nendo?"
She knew Nendo kept a list of pranks that they pulled and haven't pulled: this only came about when they had accidently did the same stunt three times once. There had been hell to pay.

Nendo smiled, bringing out a scroll of parchment, handing it to Ishi to read for him.
" Um... Ohh! Next is..."
She fell silent.
" The big one. This time it's the Scroll."
Nendo stopped walking.
A few years back, when they had made this list, they made a pact, that everything on the list was to be done. Back then, they didn't understand certain things about the Hidden Leaf. This prank was one of those:

*Steal the Forbidden Scroll*

*and take a jutsu each from it*

" L-let's skip that one, do it some other day."
Nendo said.

Kyrie stopped walking and tapped her chin with two fingers.
"Let's think on this and agree after ramen." she muttered. She recalled a time when her father told her about what he did as a kid, and the scroll was one.

IN fact, that was one reason why they even put it on the list. There was at least one thing that their parents had done, that they wanted to do, to prove their worth as ninja to them.
" Yeah, I agree."
Ishi coughed.
" Hmm, okay!"

Ramen was as good as usual while the kids ate. They may have seemed like good little angels, they plotted how they were going to take the scroll while eating.
"We'll have to wait till night to try anything." Kyrie muttered as they walked to their favorite ramen Shoppe: her ramen addiction coming from her dad's

" Ishi, you can do your Dust-no-Jutsu to get in without being seen. I can cause a distraction by "accidentally" breaking something. Then when you get in, take the Scroll and give us the signal. When we do, Kyrie..."
Their whispers went unheard in the crowded ramen stand.

Finally after three bowls of ramen and a firm nod of their heads, they set the plan into motion, Ishi was to create a screen, Nendo the distraction and Kyrie the person to nab the scroll and high tail it.
"We only copy down one jutsu per person and then sneak the scroll back in."
"And how are we to do that?" Ishi asked, uncertainty laced her voice

" We say we nabbed the guy of course!"

" Just... give it back?"

" Yeah! we got the guy who took it, and gave it back!"

"Sounds like a plan, not well thought out, but a plan none the less." Kyrie stated while nodding her head firmly.
Ishi looked at Kyrie; she like the plan, but had a bad feeling about it.
"Is something wrong, Ishi?"

"I dunno... they're adults, and we're just kids. Can we pull it off?"

Kyrie looked at her friend for a second.
"After all that we have done, and you become skeptical about this?" she raised an eye brow.
"Ishi, I know it seems too much for us, but I KNOW we can do it, dad did it and he was by himself then. I know you can do it, it takes guts, courage, and brains to pull this jig off." Kyrie laid a comforting hand on her friends shoulder while looking at Nendo for support.
They had to do this for their own selves.

" I agree. We are the children of champions, it is in our blood. We CAN do this."
He smiled at nothing, patting Ishi on her head.
" And Kyrie, you'll need a disguise in case someone sees you."

"Aww, WHY?" I don't stand out THAT much,..." she paused while looking down at her orange attire. "Do I?" she asked in a small voice.

Hahahahaha!"
Laughter filled the small stand as Ishi and Nendo laughed in unison

Kyrie slumped in her seat, picking at her ramen while her friends laughed.
"I know I don't stand out that bad. Dad managed." she muttered.
Out of the blue Nendo felt pain in his arm before flying out of his seat. He looked up at Kyrie, who sat in her seat slurping her ramen, acting a little too cool for comfort.

" Kyrie!"

"What?"
Slurp. Another bowl being set before her.
Ishi's face betrayed her conflicting emotions that ranged from laughter to wanting to scold Kyrie.

I know it was you!"

"uh-huh." was his only answer, adding another slurp of ramen to the mixture.
"Kyrie, that wasn't nice" Ishi admonished.
Kyrie paused in mid slurp, "I know, I just...grr, really, I know I don't stand out." she replied, going back to the ld argument

Nendo sighed.
" I just meant so that we could follow you, you know? We caught the ninja, remember?"

"Not yet, Nendo. Tonight, it will have to be an 'in and out' job." Kyrie whispered.
They walked out of the ramen stand after paying and Ishi laughing her head off at the stand owners red face.
"Now, be ready, tonight we strike quick. No hesitation will be accepted."