Author's Note: This is a character introduction to a friend's fanfic I wrote. It's based on Naruto Shippuden, but the characters are in an alternate universe where there are new characters.

Depending on said friend and whether she continues the story from here, I may add a bit more, have a prequel, or do my own version.

Anyways, hope you readers enjoy... =)

"I'm heeerrreee!" a five foot six kunoichi hollered as she glided towards Might Guy's Team.

When her foot, which was off the ground by an inch, touched the land again, Neji stated in his serious tone, "You're late—and don't waste charka like that."

After a brief bout of anxious laughter, the kunoichi replied, "Sorries."

"Bet she was stuffing her face with Choji," Tenten teased, to which the kunoichi turned around like a whirlwind, her wavy pink hair flipped for a moment as she'd spun, before she faced Tenten.

In purposeful exaggerated fury, she responded, "I was not…eating that much."

Her expression became glum for a second.

Before it transformed to her mock anger face. "And I don't like Choji that way."

"So says the village flirt," Tenten joked.

"Do not make fun of Sekiya," Rock Lee said.

Before he not so secretly winked at her and added a thumbs-up gesture.

Neji was the one who'd brought the topic back to the reason why they were all meeting at the training grounds. "Where's Guy-sensei?" he asked Lee.

"He said he had to do an errand first and that we could start without him," Lee answered.

"Then let's start," Neji said, using his jounin authority to command them.

~*About thirty minutes later…*~

An enormous cloud of dirt formed from a distance and was rapidly approaching. The ninja who'd created the trailing cloud was…

"Guy-sensei!" Lee enthusiastically greeted.

"Lee!" Guy said with equal affection and eagerness before the two embraced each other in a tearful reunion.

~*About five minutes later…*~

His eyebrow twitching, Neji asked, "Are you two done yet?"

Though their expressions didn't indicate that they'd heard Neji, the two released the other.

"What errand took you thirty minutes to get done with?" Neji wanted to know.

Instead of answering him, Guy stared at the silent Sekiya, who was sitting down yet asleep on the base of a tree. "How long has she been asleep?"

"About ten minutes so far," Tenten supplied. "Though knowing how long she sleeps, it might be close to an hour until she awakes."

"If she didn't always use her wind ninjutsu, she wouldn't have to sleep so much," Neji stated before he turned back to Guy and said, "And you never answered my question."

Jumping to Guy's defense, Lee said, "I am sure Guy-sensei has a very good reason."

"I do," Guy assured them before he added, "Naruto's back."

"Naruto!" Lee exclaimed as he pumped a fist into the air. "It has been so long since I have seen him!"

"He then turned to Tenten. "Tenten! Let us go welcome Naruto!"

Before Tenten could object, he grabbed her hand and began dashing back to the village.

With his speed, all Tenten could do was hold on tight.

"I'll be off too," Guy said, to which Neji asked, "Should I wake Sekiya?"

"Of course!" Guy responded before he explained, "I'm sure she'll be glad to know that her brother (by adoption) is back."

As Guy left, Neji couldn't help but think in frustration, "We never got to do our team sparring practice."

He resolved to do a team training session later today as he then turned his thoughts to Sekiya. "Now, how to wake her? She sleeps through about every and anything!"

Neji then thought of something.

A cruel something, but at least it'd guarantee Sekiya waking up.

He bent down and, positioning himself close to her ear, and said, "There's a cute and fluffy baby bunny coming towards you."

He then jumped behind the tree she was leaning on.

At the same time, Sekiya shot awake, reached for her hoister, and threw six shurikens in multiple directions.

Safely behind the free, one of the few places the shurikens didn't travel to, Neji smirked in amusement as Sekiya breathed deeply.

Her lavender eyes darted in various areas before she said, irked, "There's no f-ing bunny."

As Sekiya started to pick up her shurikens, Neji showed himself from his safety zone and remarked, "Sorry."

Though his satisfied smile conveyed that he wasn't the least bit apologetic. "It was the only way to get you up."

Sekiya made a half pouty, half annoyed face. "There are other ways to wake me up, you know."

"But none as entertaining and as effective," Neji countered, a wide grin still plastered on his mouth.

She pointed the last shuriken she'd collected at him. "Stop smiling! Using my greatest fear against me—how MEAN!"

"I don't get how 'cute and fluffy baby bunnies' scare you."

"It's not just bunnies! And they are not cute! They're evil! Any 'cute' things are evil!"

"Like Akamaru?"

Sekiya shuddered, yet said, "I'm fine with him now."

"But a couple of years earlier…" Neji shook his head as he recalled the countless times Akamaru's life was threatened by flying shurikens or kunais.

Sekiya mumbled, "If Kiba's puppy wasn't so darn cute then…"

"You wouldn't have tried to kill him so often." Neji's light-blue—almost white—eyes bore at Sekiya, as if he couldn't believe that someone as friendly and well-trained as Akamaru could be so frightening to Sekiya.

Quite seriously, Sekiya said, "All cute things are disguised as so. They're all evil underneath!"

As Neji shook his head, Sekiya put the shuriken back in her hoister and asked, "Why did you wake me, anyway? You know I need to sleep longer."

She then rubbed her eyes while she yawned, as if to prove her statement.

"Naruto's back," Neji explained. "That's why the others are gone—to go see him."

"Naruto? Really?" Her lips started to form into a smile.

Before it changed into a semi-scowl. "He owes me BIG time!"

"What—?" Neji began in question, only Sekiya used the wind around her to send her flying to the treetops.

There, she continued to use the wind to send her gliding from branch to branch back to the village.

Neji stared at the direction Sekiya was heading as he said to himself, "I don't think I'll ever understand her. She could've been a jounin like me now, if it wasn't for her…particular characteristics."

A/N: Hope you-all like the introduction so far. Please review. It'll be much appreciated. Thanks!=)