"This is so boring" I muttered under my breath
I was watching Kiba, Hinata, Shino and even Shikamaru had joined them for today's training. I sat on a fallen tree log tapping my fingers on my leg as I watched them fight each other, honestly I didn't see how hurting each other was a good thing but that being said I wasn't a ninja so I guess it was just a ninja thing.
"Can't we do something else!" I called out to them
They all turned to look at me making me a little uncomfortable, even after all the years I had known everybody they still make me shiver when they looked at me, I guess that was a ninja thing to.
"I'm sorry Suki" Hinata quietly said playing with her fingers
Those eyes of hers, those hazy purple eyes that held so much emotion and the magical ability to make me feel incredibly guilty, even if I hadn't done anything to deserve that guilt.
"I just meant it would be nice if I could join in..."
"You?" Kiba laughed
"Yes me" I frowned standing
"You're not a ninja" he said facing me with a smirk
"Do I have to be a ninja to join in?" I asked walking towards him
We always butted heads and this was no different, we were only inches from each other glaring at one another.
"What a drag" Shikamaru sighed "are we going to train or not?"
"Not until dog boy admits I could join in"
"Not a chance fish girl"
Fish girl was what Kiba started calling me when he caught me swimming in a river one time, I loved swimming it was a passion of mine and I was good at it, I could hold my breath longer, swim faster, swim longer than anyone else in the village but because of it Kiba had nicknamed me fish girl.
"Why not settle this with a competition" Shino cut in
"What kind of competition?" Kiba and I asked together only causing us to glare at each other again
"Can't we all just train together?" Hinata asked
"I would love to train with you Hina" I said not braking the glare "but until dog boy here admits I can train to I can't"
"We used to all play together"
I could hear it in the tone of her voice, she was making those sad eyes again, just thinking about them made me feel guilty so with a groan I broke the glare and put my hands in my pocket.
"What about tag?" I asked closing my eyes
"Tag? Us ninjas don't have time for your silly games" Kiba huffed
"If you would stop barking for a minute and actually listen" I hissed "Hina, Shika and Shino will be it and if you last longer than me I'll admit I can't train with you guys BUT if I last longer then you have to admit I can train to, deal?"
"You're on"
We sealed the deal with a handshake each on trying to break the others hand.
"You two are so troublesome" Shikamaru sighed "well let's get this over with"
"And no holding back!" Kiba shouted
"I don't know if I could ever hurt Suki" Hinata mumbled
"You don't have to hurt me, the rules are if we get tagged then we lose, no one has to hurt anyone ok"
"Ok" she half smiled
Kiba and I got a 10 second head started before the others came after us, the only problem I would have is Shikamaru's shadow possession and Shino's bugs but if I just kept on my feet and kept my distance I should be fine. I may not have been a ninja but that didn't mean I was useless, my family owned and ran a traveling circus and I was born and raised in it. I quickly became the star doing flips on the thinnest wire you could ever imagine, my body was pushed to its very limit and beyond, I couldn't tell you how many times I had broken my bones from being too far. I was also fast, something that I have always been good at was running, probably from when I would steal things from the other members of the circus and they would all chase after me.
I was good a dodging things to, I had to be, because I was fast and could do flips and bend my body this way at that I was often used as target practice, thinking back on it now I can't believe my parents let them use me as target practice. In all I may not be a ninja but I can do everything a ninja can do if not better, well expect for the jutsu things.
"Whoa" I quickly lent backwards arching my back and landing with my palms on the ground "wow Hina you're getting fast"
"You really think so?"
I flipped over standing upright once more and smiled at her, she almost got me, I underestimated just how quick those hands of hers were.
"Maybe I should be worried about you and not bug boy or shadow guy" I smirked skipping off
We had been at it for a while so really in the end I did get to train with them but I was slowly getting tired, I wasn't a ninja and my stamina wasn't as high as Kiba so knowing when to quit before I lost I called a truce.
"It way past lunch, why don't we just call a truce?" I called out revealing my position
"You admitting surrender?" I heard Kiba shout back
"No! but let's face it by this rate were going to be here until next week, besides I promised Naruto and the others I would meet up with them for lunch"
"Let's stop Kiba" I heard Hinata call out
I giggled silently to myself, I knew Hinata had a huge crush on Naruto but he had a crush on Sakura who had a crush on Sasuke who had a crush on well I swear it was himself, a dead end really.
"Fine" a grumbled response eventually came
We all came out of hiding then walked into town together.
"Man how could you keep up?" Kiba asked putting his hands in his pocket
"Ah you know" I shrugged
Not many people here knew about my past, when I was 12 my parents sold the circus and we all moved here where they opened up a gym for both normal everyday people to ninjas. Being circus people we specialized in flexibility which helped out a lot of ninjas and we also did balance and mostly just endurance things nothing like lifting weights and that stuff. My dad would always tell me the body had all the strength it needed and mussels will just slow you down and after seeing all the scrawny looking ninjas here I can see what he means.
"Kiba you know her family owns a gym" Hinata pointed out
"Her family has helped many shinobi it's no surprise she would pick something up" Shino added in
"Or I'm just better than him" I smirked
We headed inside to see Choji had already started cooking the food; I looked around and noticed I wasn't the only one that bought people with me. Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were there but so was Choji, Tenten, Neji, Rock Lee, Ino and even Sai, deciding to have a little fun I squished myself right next to Sai then turned to face him.
"Hello" I smiled at him
He turned to face me looking a little worried and I didn't blame him, we kind of got off on the wrong foot so to speak. The first time we met it was Naruto who introduced us, he didn't say anything at first and I thought he was just shy until he called me callous. Now I'm not above admitting I was having a bad day and didn't have time to chat but still that was no need to call me callous so I snagged Naruto's ninja stars and chased him around throwing them at him until he hid in the male bathrooms and now he was slightly afraid of me.
"How have you been? You know I was thinking we should do something, just the two of us what do you think?"
He really started to panic now, I did feel bad for scaring the poor guy but I had tried to make it up to him a few times but still he remains the same, I guess first impressions really do stick.
"What about you Sasuke, maybe we should do something together" I said smirking at the frowning boy next to me
"I didn't know you liked Sasuke" Sakura said panicking
"Who wouldn't like Sasuke, he's so cool" Ino pointed out
I thought about ignoring those two and letting them fight but the thought about them fighting right in here made me change my mind.
"Come on you two, who would like Mr depressing over here"
"WHAT!" the both shouted turning on me
The only way to stop them two fighting was to turn them onto someone else, in this case me but I didn't mind, I found it rather funny how quickly they could work together when it came to defending Sasuke.
"What about you Neji? You want to go out on a date with me?"
He shot me a glare, his eyes where the same as Hinata but instead of holding kind emotions they were more hateful.
"I guess you only have eyes for Tenten" I sighed
I saw Neji's face soften and Tenten blushed, they hadn't admitted it yet but everyone knew they both liked each other.
"Shika what about you?"
"What a drag"
"Ok what about you Kiba? We could watch that new movie together"
I knew there was no way any of these guys would go out on a date with me, neither did I honestly want to go out on a date with them but it was fun putting them on the spot then making some of them feel guilty about it.
"Sure"
"Wait what?" I shrieked
"Been wanting to watch that movie for a while now"
Everyone was dead silent, I couldn't tell if he was joking or being serious, for once I had nothing to say back.
"Uhhh"
"We could meet out the front before the movie starts?"
"Uhhh"
"Why don't Sasuke and I come along, would you like that Sasuke" Sakura asked
"HEY WHAT ABOUT ME!" Naruto shouted
"What just happened?"