HI!! fang here, so this is the first installment of my first fanfic. i used my OC because i'm a noob, and so i could get used to writing the real characters actions.
The time is in shippuden, only because of their ages, and i had to have them at 16 because of the romantic side of this story. BUT, all their clothes are still first part clothes, the original ones. so that means that sakura's hair is long too, ok!

i really hope you like the story, so please reveiw, i want to hear your thoughts on it. :) tell me your suggestions, any mistakes i made, ALL YOUR QUESTIONS, and your all around opinion.

Intro:

The countryside scenery of crawls by as I travel slowly towards the Hidden Village of Konoha. The day is warm, but a cool wind blows through my short green hair, and throws my long side bangs out. I sigh.

"It's a beautiful day, isn't it Toboe?" I say to my black and white wolf Toboe, who fights with me, travels with me, eats with me… basically with me constantly and my best friend. He barks a happy reply. I smile and rub between his ears, his favorite place.

As we continue along the path through the heavily wooded land of Fire, I fiddle with my Konoha headband, the last relic of my parents, who abandoned me at birth, but I soon get depressed, so I put it away and focus on tracking the birds in the trees.

Time flies by when your having fun right? Well I wasn't exactly having fun, but I was so focused on the birds I didn't hear Toboe bark or see the oversized door looming in front of me, that I simply walked into it.

"ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is why we live outside Toboe, not because we're wolves but because I RUN INTO DOORS!!!!!!" I scream at the top of my lungs and fall to the ground, clutching my head… almost. I hit my head on the door one more time on the way down and pass out.

Toboe Grabbed me by the sand headband around my neck and pulled me to the side of the road. I know this because he told me afterwards, when I had regained consciousness.

The next day I walk into Konoha warily. The sun is still shining, birds are still chirping and all those other supposedly wonderful things are still happening. But still it is a ninja village and I know I'm being watched, I'm not from here, how cold I not be? And besides I don't want to run into any more 50-foot doors… I walk in circles for about an hour until I come across something new….

Chapter ONE

I grimace at the smell of ramen from a place called Ichiraku's. I can see a boy in orange eating there alone. Around my age…I think.

"I'm lost so there's really no other way…" I murmur to myself and Toboe. "Hello! Can you give me some directions?!" I Yell to the orange boy, as I walk towards the ramen stand.

"You talkin' to me?" He asks incredulously, as if nobody ever talks to him.

"No, I'm definitely talking to Bob the donut guy who is sitting next to you." I say sarcastically, but he seems to take me seriously and continues to look dejected…until he looks next to himself and realizes he's eating alone.

"HEYY!! There's no Bob the donut guy here!!!" He yells pointing his ramen flavored finger in my face.

"Yes, I know. Get your nose pickers outta my face though, they smell revolting." and when he looks at me as though I had spoken in a foreign language I said " Don't point at me it's rude and your hands smell like ramen, my nose is really sensitive, and I just don't like ramen that much, so they kinda stink to me"

His eyes open up really wide as I say I don't like ramen and I quickly change the subject. "Look…orange-kun… I need directions to the Hokage's home so I can speak with him, can you tell me how to get there or show me the way?"

"Orange-kun??? My name is Naruto! And you don't know how to get to the Hokage's house?" He gets this hysterical look on his face and starts laughing. "You really must be an idiot!!"

I take a step back in shock. 'Did this kid really just call me an idiot?' I hear Toboe growl from a few feet away outside. "Well then if you think I'm an idiot then I have no need to be in your presence oh Loud and Orange One!!" I stomp outside and pick up Toboe. "C'mon Toboe, this fruitcake hasn't got a clue." I walk away as Naruto continues to point and laugh at nothing, completely oblivious to the fact that I have left.

I walk around the Village for a few more minutes and end up getting nowhere fast. I pull Toboe out of my bag and hold him up as I lean against a flower shop.

"At least it smells good here, Toboe, and it's quiet." I say to him and he barks in return. Inside the flower shop a blonde girl hears the bark. She walks to the entrance and frowns.

"I swear I heard Akamaru, and where he is Kiba is, but there's no Kiba, so why'd I hear Akamaru?" Then she looks over at me with my ninja-wolf puppy in hand and screams.

Toboe hates when people scream. Their voice lets off higher frequencies than humans can hear, but Toboe can, and it drives him insane, causes him pain. So as Blonde-san screams, Toboe starts writhing in pain, and I drop him. Which hurts him more and he starts howling. Which makes Blonde-san scream even louder. This goes on until I cant stand it any more (so immediately that is) and I rush over to Blonde-san and clamp my hand over her mouth.

"Please. I'm sorry if I scared you, but you need to stop screaming. It hurts Toboe's ears, and he wont be quiet until you are. I understand we frightened you but please, please, please be QUIET!" I'm forcibly whispering in her ear until I freeze and cannot move. Blonde-san get's out of my grasp and runs to someone behind me.

"Ino, what did this green-haired freak do to you?" a sleepy sounding male voice says quietly. Toboe had stopped howling when I put my hand over Blonde-san's face and quieted her down. He is now growling menacingly at Sleepy-san and looks ready to kill.

"Toboe, I'm not in pain, stop growling. It's okay, I'm not hurt." I say completely surprised that I can talk. "Whoever you are I didn't mean your friend any harm and Toboe is just protective of me, so can you please just let me go?"

"Not a chance. Not until I know who you are and what you want your not going anywhere. I want you to turn around and get comfortable, because this is an interrogation I'm not letting you back out on." Sleepy-can said. I could hear the menace and hatred in his voice, I know those emotions well. He releases me from immobilization and I can hear him walking up behind me.

"Toboe, c'mere, you have nothing to fear." I murmur to my wolf. And just as he is in my arms, a female voice says from behind me.

"On the contrary, freak, you have everything to fear." A threat. Laced with hatred and…jealousy? What in the world do I have for her to be jealous of?

I ignore Blonde-san and her threats and turn around to see Sleepy-san. He has his hair pulled up into a ponytail at the top of his head, giving it a faintly ridiculous pineapple look, and a fishnet shirt underneath a vest. Not only is his voice sleepy but his whole posture suggested that this whole fiasco was-"

"How troublesome." He says and sits down on the bench. "I said make yourself comfortable. I'm not leaving until this is over."

I sit down on the ground facing him and try not to blush. The moment I had turned around I was smitten by… I don't even know his name!!!!

"Before we begin, what is your name? I should think it is something I should know before we begin?" I cock my head to one side and look at him with the same curiosity Toboe was smelling his toes with.

"Shikamaru Nara, and yourself?" he lifts an eyebrow and stared me down. Shikamaru, huh….I LIKE IT!!!!

"Akane Miakatsuki , and this is Toboe Miakatsuki, my only family." I point to myself and Toboe as I say our names. "What can we call you?"

"Shikamaru-kun, and who is we?" Shikamaru replies, his eyes closed.

"Toboe and I. I understand him." I shrug my shoulders as best I can in my frozen state.

O_o. "Okay then, let us begin." Shikamaru places his hands in what I think is a hand sign, and I visibly tense up, it's been months since we were in a proper ninja fight, and our skills are rusty.

"Akane, what are you doing here in Konoha?" Shikamaru asks, blatantly getting to the point.

"I have something I need to do that requires the help of the Hokage, and the use of the family bloodlines, in the hall of records. My business is my own, I act independently." I state indignantly, shooting Blonde-san one of my trademark death glares, for laughing at me.

"Oh and you think that were going to let some foreign ninja just walk in and assassinate the Hokage?" Blonde-san says, flipping her long hair, which was totally unnecessary, considering it's in a ponytail. "If that's what you think you can walk your dumb ass and your mutt back out of- OUCH!!!!" as Blonde-san had been talking Toboe was getting more and more restless because of the hate that dripped form every word she spoke, so he walked over and bit her…hard. A menacing growl escaped from low on Toboe's throat, and he got into a fighting stance any threatened wolf would use.

"Ino, shut up and go back to work. Akane, come with me." Shikamaru wasn't even fazed by Blonde-san's overzealous hatred and her screaming. "We'll take this to the Hokage, she will be able to deal with it better." Shikamaru got up and walked away, I followed with Toboe, leaving a bleeding, fuming, pissed off blonde standing menacingly in front of a quaint little flower shop… I giggled at the irony of it all.

*giggle*