12 years later, the girl had still been under the care of the Third Hokage in the Hidden Leaf Village. The girl had been named Mina, as for the last name Mina thought of it at age 4, she decided it would be Mina Shirito. She was lonely, like Naruto but never really was friends with him, more like someone she knew. But they grew to be close.
"NARUTO! Come back here! Wait until I get my hands on you!" A Jounin shouted chasing the troublemaker after he painted all over the Hokage faces. Mina was walking by and saw it going on, she was a nice scrawny girl, yet strong, with the same skin tone as Naruto's. Her hair was a pure chocolate brown color, along with her eyes with just a tiny hint of black in it. She wore two headbands, the one with the unknown symbol and a Leaf Village one. The Leaf village was on her head and the other around her neck, not too tight. She wore a pinkish purple shirt with a swirl on it and red striped long sleeves. Her pants her a bit baggy and brown with the mini Shuriken holding tied on her left leg but there was a slanted star on the right side of the pants, stitched in golden color.
"Not again," Mina said disappointed.
"Lord Hokage! It's an emergence!" another said coming to a room where Third Hokage was painting.
"I hope you're not bothering me with some trivia and don't say it's Naruto again!" Third Hokage said.
"It IS Naruto again!" the Jounin said.
"He climbed up onto The Great Stone Faces and vandalized them!" the other Jounin said and Third Hokage sighed. Naruto had escaped the Shinobi after him but Iruka pulled him back into class, Mina waited outside while class was going on, smiling while on the swing.
"I wish you wouldn't make a fool out of yourself Naruto, But I know where you're coming from at this. No parents, not a single friend except me, like you, all alone." Mina thought deeply at this as she was swinging, waiting for class to be over so she can be with Naruto. She even waited for him to be done with getting the paint off of the Hokages' faces and after Iruka treated him to Ramen, she waited for him at his house.
"Man this day was boring!" Naruto said coming home.
"Hey Naruto!" Mina said smiling.
"Oh hey, Mina!" Naruto said, giving her a small smile, "how's it going?"
"Well I graduated from Hogake's training!" Mina said pointing her to new Leaf Headband.
"Aw man! You got out before me! That's not fair! Now you have two headbands!" Naruto complained.
"I only have this headband because Hokage-sensei said he found me with it, tied around my belly with tan cloth, he never did say anything else," Mina explained.
"It's still not fair!" Naruto said,
"Well, I hope you pass tomorrow, do your best, Naruto!" Mina said closing her eyes and smiling.
"I'll pass for sure this time!" Naruto said in confidence.
"Well I'll be routing during my Genin training!" Mina said.
"I hope you can have a squad, I'd be even cooler if you were in it!"
"Hokage-sensei said I could pick a squad to be in after my first Chunin Exam,"
"But that might be a long time!"
"I know, but I know I'll be sure to pick your squad, I promise!"
"Well then you got a deal! I'll see ya later! As a Genin!" Naruto ran up to his home as Mina smiled at him, she couldn't help at wonder why the other villagers rejected Naruto. Another mystery that boggled her mind during the night.