Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but I do own the OC, Maiko.
Chapter 2
"You'll never catch me, Sasuke!" yelled a 6-year-old Maiko, as she ran from Sasuke.
"Wanna bet!" shouted the 6-year-old Sasuke.
The two kids kept on running they stopped at a river. The only way across was to jump on each stepping reach lead all the way to the other side.
"I've got you now, Maiko!" announced Sasuke.
"Don't count on it!" Maiko replied, as she started to jump from stone to stone.
She landed on another, just a few more. Maiko jumped to the stone, her landing sucked, she began to lose her balance. Maiko struggled to not fall in, but it wasn't good enough. She fell into the cold river, luckily the river was calm that day, but the bad part was that Maiko didn't know how to swim. She slashed around in the water, trying to keep her head from going under, another failure. Her vision turned blurry.
"Maiko!" she heard Sasuke yell.
Maiko woke up, back on land. Itachi and Sasuke both were siting beside her and both were dripping wet. Maiko coughed.
"Are you ok Maiko?" Sasuke asked.
Maiko nodded.
"Thank you Itachi-kun, for saving me," Maiko said.
"You're welcome," Itachi smirked.
Sasuke shot an evil glare at Itachi.
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Maiko woke up from her dream; she was shivering. She thought back to the dream/memory she had just had.
"I knew Itachi saved me," she muttered to herself.
Maiko repositioned herself on the couch and fell back to sleep.
- Sasuke's dream -
"Maiko!" Sasuke yelled, as he jumped into the water. (He was a good swimmer for his age.)
Sasuke swam in the river and grabbed a hold of Maiko; he swam back to the edge of the river. Suddenly, Itachi came around and went jumping into the river to help his brother and Maiko. Itachi help Sasuke bring Maiko on land; they both sat by her.
Maiko's eyes slowly opened.
"Are you ok Maiko?" Sasuke asked.
Maiko nodded.
"Thank you Itachi-kun, for saving me," Maiko said.
"You're welcome," Itachi smirked.
Sasuke shot an evil glare at Itachi. It wasn't Itachi who saved Maiko; it was Sasuke. The only thing Itachi did was take the thanks for it.
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Sasuke woke up in a sweat; he hated getting all these memories back through his dreams. It was starting to get annoying.
Sasuke looked at the time, it was 5:50am. Sasuke got up and changed, he walked past the living room where Maiko was sleep and walked into the kitchen. He got something to eat and well… ate.
Sasuke walked into the living and knelt down by the couch.
"Maiko?" he said. "Maiko, wake up," Sasuke repeated, as he started getting irritable. "Wake up already!" ordered Sasuke.
Maiko opened her eyes; Sasuke started to shake her.
"Ah! I'm awake! I'm awake!" she announced.
"Good, then go get changed," Sasuke replied.
"Why?" Maiko asked.
"I have training with my team," Sasuke answered.
Maiko yawned, as she sat up.
"What time is it?" she questioned.
"6:00am" Sasuke replied.
Maiko shot an evil glare at Sasuke.
"Hahaha… HA!" she laughed. "You've got to be kidding! I'm going back to sleep."
Maiko covered herself with the blankets; Sasuke pulled the blankets away. Maiko curled up and shivered.
"Fine! I'll go," she gave in.
Maiko got up and grabbed her bag; she walked into the bathroom and got changed.
Sasuke waited on the couch; Maiko was suddenly in front of him.
"Ready?" Sasuke questioned.
"Hmph!" she pouted, tiredly.
Sasuke and Maiko walked into the training grounds, there were two people already there. A boy with blonde hair and was wearing an orange jumpsuit. (Yuck, somebody get the fashion police!) And there was a slim girl with pink hair, who seemed to have a slightly overgrown forehead. The girl seemed to have noticed Sasuke.
"Sasuke-kun!" She yelled, as ran over to Sasuke and practically glomped him.
"AH! What is she doing to my fiancé?"
"Oh no! I've have another voice in my head!" Maiko freaked
"You're an idiot!" the second voice screamed.
"Shut up and leave me alone!" Maiko hit her head a few times.
"Gasps! That girl is all over your future husband!"
"So? Oh god, I'm talking to myself!" she screamed.
"True… very true… but that's not the point! Pinky over there is glomping your man, stop her!" the voice screamed.
"I don't care what she does to Sasuke!" Maiko yelled.
"Lies! All lies! You like him! After all he is your betrothed!"
"Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!" Maiko yelled out loud. "It's not true! You're wrong!" Maiko began to hit her head and try to get the voice to leave her mind, cause it obviously wasn't her conscious! It was an intruder!
Sakura finally saw Maiko.
"Sasuke-kun, who's that?" she asked. "And more importantly, what's she doing?"
Sasuke sighed.
"That's Shizuka Maiko," Sasuke answered. "And I don't know what she's doing."
Maiko notice Sasuke and Sakura looking at her.
"Umm… hi," Maiko said, to Sakura.
"Hi, Maiko, I'm Haruno Sakura. It's nice to meet you," Sakura introduced herself.
"So her name is Sakura, eh? Attack her, Girly."
"Ah! Don't call me that!"
Maiko sweat dropped, due to the voice.
"It's nice to meet you too," she replied.
Suddenly the blonde-haired boy ran up to everyone.
"Hi Sakura-chan… Sasuke-teme," he muttered.
"Hn, shut up dobe!" Sasuke groaned.
"Teme!" Naruto shouted.
"Dobe!" Sasuke growled.
"Teme!" Naruto shot.
"Dobe!" Sasuke snapped.
"Naruto, stop being so childish!" Sakura ordered.
"But… but…" Naruto started.
"No buts!" Sakura replied.
Naruto caught sight of Maiko.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked rudely.
"Shizuka Maiko," she answered.
"HI MAIKO, I'M UZUMAKI NARUTO! I'M GOING TO BE THE NEXT HOKAGE! BELIEVE IT!" Naruto shouted.
Sweat drop.
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Team 7's sensei, Kakashi had finally arrived and they started training. Maiko sat in the grass, under the shade of a tree, watching them train. They were pretty good. Maiko started to become restless; she stood and decided to do some training of her own. Maiko faced the tree; she focused some chakura into her legs and attempted to walk up the side of the tree, a failure. Maiko kept trying just for the heck of it, but every time she tried, fell she fell back down. She sat back down and starred at the tree.
"What do you have against me?" Maiko asked the tree. "Was it something I did? Something I said?" she asked.
The tree remained silent. (Well no duh!)
"So that's how it's going to be, eh? The silent treatment! Well two can play that game," Maiko went silent.
"You realize you're talking to a tree, right?" asked a voice from behind her.
Maiko turned around and saw Sakura.
"Oh, hi Sakura," Maiko said.
"Hi," Sakura replied.
"Here's your chance!" screamed the voice. "Attack Pinky for going near YOUR husband!"Maiko tried to ignore the voice.
"So, Maiko are you stay in Konoha permanently?" Sakura asked.
"No, I'm just visiting," Maiko replied.
"Who?"
Maiko scratched the back of her head, she thought it was obvious that she was visiting Sasuke.
"Sasuke," she answered.
"Why? Did you used to know him or something?" Sakura questioned.
"Well… yeah, I'm visiting him… well because we are…. Umm…" Maiko stumbled over her own words.
Sakura gave Maiko a questioning look.
"You two are what?" she asked.
"Umm… well… me and Sasuke are betrothed," Maiko answered.
Sakura went silent and her mouth dropped open.
"YOU TWO ARE WHAT!" Sakura yelled, as her word echoed.
Well that's the end of chapter 2… sorry for the stupid ending and PLEASE review.