A/N: Okay okay, don't kill me. This is my second story and I'm not finished with the other one yet. My best friend and I came up with the idea of a story collab, and I think it's going to be awesome. My first chapters are always shorter than usual, don't worry chapter two will be out quickly! Enjoy!
~lilmissmindy
Two young girls swung on the swings in the park at the center of Konoha. One with dark skin, and the other with pale skin.
"Hey Emiko? Isn't that Naruto?" Emiko, the pale one, looks over to a boy who was leaning on a tree alone.
"Yeah, so what?" She responded. The dark girl shrugged.
"I was just asking.. I've heard a lot about him in the village since I moved here, the Hokage says we're a lot alike."
"I don't know, I can't talk to him." The other girl looked at her in confusion.
"What? Why not?"
"I don't know.. My clan won't let me.." The other girl shrugs and looks at back at Naruto. Emiko starts to swing higher on the swing she was on; she'd seen Naruto around the village, and she hated how upset he looked, and she wished she could change it. But she couldn't risk getting in trouble with her father.
"Hey Miko-chan, isn't that Kiba?" The black-haired girl looks back at Naruto and the new group of boys that walked over to him. She rolls her eyes as she sees her best friend run his mouth.
"Yeah, it is." She continues to swing on the swing, not really paying attention.
"Miko look!" The little girl looks again at the group. Kiba had Naruto pushed against a tree and was yelling in his face.
"Um.. I don't think we should mess with that.." Emiko looked away as she began to slow down, her friend was already at a complete stop.
"B-But it's wrong! I should say something.."
"Shiori-chan, it's none of our business." The girl now dubbed as Shiori jumped off the swing and started walking to the group of boys. "Shiori wait!" Emiko slows the swing to a complete stop and watches as her best friends confront each other.
"Kiba, what are you doing?" She overhears Shiori ask. Emiko bites her lip as she sees Kiba's harsh glare.
"What are you doing Shiori? You don't even belong in this village." He pushes more on Naruto's throat, making him gag. The other boys laugh.
"Kiba stop! You're hurting him!" He let go and Naruto fell to the ground.
"It's none of your business." Kiba slowly started walking to Shiori, causing Emiko to stand up and gradually walk over there as the argument went on. He pushed Shiori to the grass. "You're starting to piss me off just as much as Naruto."
"Kiba. Stop it." Emiko stands in front of Shiori, an upset look in her eyes, but she was stern, her arms crossed over her chest. Kiba rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.
"Miko-chan.. I didn't see you there."
"Stop it, please.." She looks down, her bangs falling in front of her face, hiding her tearing eyes. At the sound of her broken voice Kiba flinches.
"M-Miko-chan..? Are you crying?" Emiko glares up at Kiba through glazy eyes.
"Why are you so rude to people?" She steps a step closer to him. "Why can't everyone just be friends? Why do you have to be so mean..? What if that was me..?" She looks down again. "What if someone was treating me like that?"
"You know if someone hurt you I'd kill them Emiko.." He hugs her and her head falls on his chest.
"Why can't you be as nice to others?" Her arms were limp at her sides, she didn't even react to the hug. He leans his cheek on her forehead.
"I'm sorry Emiko.. I won't do it anymore I promise.."
"Pinky swear?"
"Pinky swear." He wrapped his pinky around hers.
"Now apologize to them both. All of you." She pulls out of the hug and crosses her arms again.
"I'm sorry Naruto, Shiori." Naruto glares at Kiba and Shiori walks over to him. "Do you wanna come over for dinner?" He directs this at Emiko. She shakes her head and gives him a big smile.
"No, Aniki just came home from a mission, so we're all having dinner."
"Alright, then I'll ask my mom if I can come over tomorrow, maybe." She giggles.
"Okay! I'll see you tomorrow then." They hug each other and Kiba runs to his house. She looks at Shiori and Naruto talking. "I'll see you, okay guys?" Shiori nods.
"Bye Emiko." Emiko walks away from the group of kids to the direction of the Uchiha compound. She frowns at the fact that she was walking alone, and thinks that she should've asked Kiba to walk her.
"Emiko." She looks up.
"Itachi-nii!" She runs up to give him a hug. "How was your mission?" He gives her a small smile as she climbs on his back.
"It was successful, as usual." She leans her head on his shoulder.
"You're really strong Aniki.. I wish you were home more so you could train me and Sasuke.. But that's okay." He chuckles.
"I try my best to be home quickly Imoto, but you know it doesn't always work very well.. Shisui told be that you've been seeing him to train, is that true?"
"Mhmm!"
"Why is that?"
"Well, I need someone to train me.. You and Shisui-nii-san are both strong. So if you can't, I thought he could."
"That was smart of you Imoto." She giggles.
"Thanks." Itachi turns into the compound and she closes her eyes. "I'm going to be as strong as you one day Aniki. Just watch."
"Yeah yeah. Keep training." He sets her down and she takes off her shoes before entering the house.
"We're home!" Mikoto looks up from the stove.
"Welcome home. Go clean up." Emiko nods and runs to her room, picking out an outfit for dinner and going into her bathroom, to take a quick shower. She brushes her silky black hair before slipping on her clothes and walking to the dining room, kneeling on her cushion next to Sasuke.
"Hey Nii-san. What'd you do today?"
"While you were at the park, Aniki trained me." Emiko looks down.
"Hontoni..?" She looks up at Itachi as he seats himself. "You trained him today?" He glares at Sasuke.
"I told you not to tell her." Emiko gives him a small smile, hiding her disappointment.
"That's okay. I can train on my own." Mikoto places their plates in front of them.
"Wait for your father." Emiko nods at her and her father sits at the head of the table, Itachi at his right.
"Itadakimasu.." Emiko takes the chopsticks in her hand as she begins to eat her rice.
"Emiko."
"Hai, Otosan?"
"Shisui speaks highly of you." A light blush graces Emiko's cheeks as she takes another bite. "He says that your aim is precise and you have the beginnings of chakra control mastered."
"I try my best. I want to be as strong as Aniki. I'll beat him one day, I know it." Emiko looks at Itachi with determination in her eyes. Her mom laughs.
"Well you can't get strong on an empty stomach." Emiko took this as her cue to stay quiet and continue eating.
"So how was your mission?" Emiko drowns out the conversation as she thinks of earlier this year.
*~*~*~* Flashback *~*~*~*
"Emiko doesn't have the potential to be a ninja. She's much too soft." Emiko overhears her father's meeting with the Uchiha Police force.
"My daughter will be strong, just like her brother."
"Are you confident in that Fugaku?"
"Well.."
"My sister will be an asset to the clan." She hears Itachi speak up. "I will make sure of it. She has great potential and she will rise in ranks quickly." Emiko sighs in relief.
"Actually. I think she's walking by outside now." She gasps and makes herself presentable.
"Come in Emiko." The young Uchiha walks into the meeting room, bowing.
"Otosan. Aniki. Ojisan." She refers to all of her uncles at the last part.
"Emiko, we were just talking about you."
"What about me?" She feigns innocence.
"We decided that-" Shisui's father starts.
"We wanted to ask you if you want to be a ninja." Her father tells her. She bows slightly.
"It would be my honor to represent the clan as a Konoha ninja. I will not disappoint."
"Are you sure you'll make a good ninja Emiko? Wouldn't it benifit you to be a housewife?" She looks up, giving him a signature Uchiha glare, before dimming it down to a determined look.
"It will benefit the whole clan if I were to become a ninja." She sees Itachi smirk out of the corner of her eye.
"Good answer Emiko-chan." Shisui pipes in. She smiles.
"Arigato, Shisui-nii."
"You are dismissed." She nods, walking out and sliding the door behind her.
"She's very well spoken. If it weren't for Itachi and Sasuke then she'd be a good head of the clan." One of the men tells her father; she hears Shisui chuckle.
"Maybe one day she will lead the police force. Or become Hokage." Emiko rolls her eyes out the outrageous suggestions and walks to her room.
'Becoming Hokage is a lot of work. I think I'll just enter the ANBU.'
"Imouto?" Emilio's eyes snap to Sasuke's.
"Hai?"
"I didn't know you went to train with Shisui-nii."
"I didn't think it was important.. I don't spend all my time with Kiba you know."
"Yeah. Kiba wishes." He cracks his knuckles.
"What do you mean?" Emiko blushes lightly and eats more to preoccupy herself.
"Kiba and Emiko sittin in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love-" Emiko shoves rice in her older brother's mouth.
"Shh!" She blushes as she looks to the side to see her parents and Itachi staring at them. "Ano.." Her mom starts laughing.
"How is Kiba-kun, Emiko?"
"He's good! He wanted to know if we could go to the park after the first day of Academy tomorrow?"
"Hmm.. What do you think Fugaku?"
"Be home by dinner. You can invite Kiba if you want to." She smiles.
"Arigato, Otosan."