I don't own Naruto, but on a better note, I do own this story.so…yippee.

Hey guys, I hope you like chapter 2…Sorry if the time skip is a bit early, it's just, well, what was I gonna do for 3 years hm? So- yeah. Here you go.

Shizuka woke up, and slowly sat up in her big bed. She was 8 today, but she didn't feel like it. This was how it always was, Shizuka thought. She would only feel like the age she was when she was about to be a year older. She shrugged it off, and walked towards the door. Just as she was about to open it, she heard her parents talking in the next room.

"How could this happen! Right now, out of all times!" Shizuka heard her father urgently whispering.

"I- I don't know. P-please, don't leave I-I need you! here!" Tsukiko pleaded, sounding on the verge of tears, and, was it possible? Desperate? What was her mother talking about? Shizuka had never heard her parents talking to each other like this. Shizuka pressed her ear against her door, forgetting all about her birthday.

"Get your filthy hands off me! Goodbye Tskiko." Shizuka heard her father stomp down the stairs, then a moment later, she heard a door slam. Tears brimmed the edges of Shizuka's eyes, and she let them flow. After a few minutes of weeping, which seemed like ages to Shizuka, she slowly opend up the door. She didn't even know why she was crying. Her father would be back, he probably just left for the market, and he and her mother were fighting about how they ran out of rice or something. Yeah, that was it.

Shizuka wiped her eyes, and after her vision wasn't as blury, she quietly walked towards her mother, who was still sitting on her nees, shocked. Tears were flowing freely from her eyes. It was like she was glued to the spot, unable to move. Shizuka hurried her pace. Once she had reached her mother, she embraced her in a tight hug.

"Mommy!" She whispered, feeling the tears slowly trace down her face again. Her mother returned the hug. They sat there, not saying anything to each other.

-3 years later-

Shizuka breathed in and out heavily. She had never trained this hard. Shizuka was 11 now, and had matured very quickly. After that fateful day when her father had left her and her mother, she was pretty much forced to. Her mother was pregnant, that's why she and her husband were fighting. After a few months, Tsukiko had no choice but to tell her little Shizuka that she would have a younger sibling soon. Like all 8-year-olds, Shizuka was extatic! She just couldn't wait to have a little sister, or brother. She had already had all of it planned out; if it were a boy, she would call it Daiki (great tree). If it were a girl, she would call it Ai, which meant love. Of course her mother wouldn't let her name her child, but Shizuka liked to think so.

A wicked grin met the face of Shizuka Kagami. She lept at her teammate, a ball of purple fire resting in her hand. She shot it at her apponent, he blocked it of course, but when he looked back to where Shizuka was, she was, infact, not there. He quickly turned around, expecting an attack from behind. Knowing he would do this, Shizuka jumped from behind a tree, from where she was hiding. She caught her opponent in a headlock, and held her finger to his neck. It immeidiatly lit with a small purple flame.

"Gotcha." She whispered into the boy's ear.

"Shizuka! Lay off!" Shizuka heard her sensei call, while he was preoccupied training with her other teammate.

"Fine. Goodness sensei, I wish you would let me kill him for once..." Shizuka muttered, and let the boy go. He backed up quickly, with fear of another headlock. Shizuka nodded, telling her teammate to come at her with all that he had.

Shizuka loved ninja training. It was the only thing that she looked forward to anymore except for coming home to her little brother, Isamu (bravery). He was 2 and a half now, and growing. She loved to see him stand up, and walk around. Of course, she loved to come home to her mother too, when she wasn't drinking. She would usually be out at a party with someone, but never told where that party was. Shizuka was usually in charge of taking care of the baby, putting it down for a nap at around noon, and then feeding it, and then letting it play.

Ninja training was like her gettaway, it took her to another world. A world where she was really good at something. Shizuka wasn't the most graceful of people, but when she is fighting, it's a whole other story. Her 2 teammates on her squad in the sound villiage were a boy named Katsu, (the one she was training with now) and another boy named Ryo, which her sensei was training at the moment. Shizuka loathed Katsu. He lived in a big mansion, while as Shizuka had to move down into a shabby appartment after her father left her and her mother to take care of themselves alone. He was rude, and to Shizuka, weak.

Ryo, on the other hand, had become quite fond of Shizuka, they had become best friends in the last few months Shizuka had been training.

Katsu lept towards Shizuka, and tried to kick her. She grabbed his ankle, and with a little twist, he was on the ground.

"Come on! Sensei, Let me train with Ryo, please! This is just too easy!" Shizuka called to her sensei, blocking a kick from behind her. She shot a glare at Katsu, and he quickly backed up.

"Oh, fine-" Her sensei said, but then was caught off guard, and was right where Ryo wanted him, he lept at his sensei, and took him down.

"Haha sensei, weren't you the one that told me never to be caught off guard?" Ryo laughed and jumped off Hotaka, their sensei.

"Ahem." Hotaka stood up and straitened his clothing. "Like I was saying, fine Shizuka, let's switch."

"Yes." Shizuka muttered. "Buhbye now little Katsu." Shizuka stuck her tounge out at Katsu and walked towards the part of the misty training grounds that Ryo was standing in.

"You're going down Shiz." Ryo said, smacking his hands together in a handsign, not very familiar to Shizuka.

Ryo always called Shizuka Shiz, it was just her nickname.

"Sure Ryo, sure." Shizuka grinned as she watched her best friend finish his handsign, and smirk.

"Prepare to go deaf, Shiz." Shizuna knew what Ryo could do to people, and immiediatly lept into action. She jumped towards him, avoiding the waves of sound he was shooting

Shizuka ran towards Ryo, then she saw it. In the midst of the intense training, Shizuka saw her dad.

"Daddy?" Shizuka whispered, and stopped dead in her tracks.

"Got ya shiz." Ryo was about

a kunai at Shizuka, but quickly stopped when he saw that she wasn't going to dodge it. Something was wrong with her.

"Shizuka? Are you all right?" Shizuka just sat there, and then burst into purple flame.

"Why did you leave us? Did you REALLY expect us to just to live through our lives and just forget all about the father that I used to have that just-left?"

Ryo backed away from Shizuka quickly, but it was too late. She had already shot two, four, six fireballs at him from her hands.

"Shizuka…" was all he could bring out before he was put into torturing pain.

"Shizuka! What have you done!" Hotaka yelled, forgetting all about the fight he was having with his student. He rushed to Shizuka's side as fast as humanly possible, and held her back from doing any more than she had already done.

"Get away from me! Get away…" Shizuka became quickly limp from the jutsu her sensei shot at her. It had stopped her, but Ryo was still in horrifying pain. He was screaming as loud as he could. Eventually he fell to the ground, starting to shake uncontrolably.

Sometime later on…

"I cannot have her in my class, putting her teammates in danger." Hotaka said.

"Yes, I understand. We will send her back home. There she will be fine; we can't have her exposed to anyone except her family. You two gaurds, escort Miss Kagami back to her home. Her mother will be worried sick." Said someone unknown.

"Yes sir…"

Meanwhile….

Shizuka slowly opened her eyes and tried to sit up. Her head was throbbing, and her legs and arms were aching. She immiediatly fell back down on her pillow. She looked at her arms; they were bandaged…but why? Then she remembered. She remembered what she had done to her best friend…Then she felt a wave of shame flow over her. What had she done? How could she do this to Ryo? Why did she see her dad in him? Before she could answer her haunting questions, her little brother walked in.

"Where momma?" He said. He had gotten used to saying those couple of words, seeing as his mother was usually gone at those parties. Isamu walked towards her sister.

Shizuka slowly sat up once more, dispite how beat up she was. She did her best to hide the pain through a smile, but it didn't look that convincing. Lucky for her, though, her little brother was only fixed on seeing his mommy. She threw her legs over the bed, and carefully stood up.

"Come on Isamu, Let's go find Mommy." Shizuka held his hand tight, and started to walk out of the room.

Well, I hope you liked it! If it's a bit short, well, too bad. Kayso. Yeah. Please review, and please criticise! So…yeah. : )

-Rachel