Here's the new chapter. I hope it's better than the last one. Ok here goes!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Chapter two.

Naruto had awoken thirty minutes after his alarm had went off and classes start in fifteen minutes. He was dashing around his apartment, trying to get drssed, but kept tripping every few seconds. The things scattered around the room kept somehow getting in the frustrated blonde's way. He couldn't be late again, Iruka-sensei would kill him! He had finnaly got dressed, mostly, and locked the door as he dashed out.

Jumping on the rooftops as fast as he could towards the academy, while pulling his orange jacket over his blue undershirt, Naruto knew the bell was about to ring. He yelled out in frustration and tried to push his chakra into his feet. It helped a little and the academy was only a few houses away. He pushed his chakra down and jumped as hard as he could towards the building. He shot through the air at the academy trying to figure out how to land. He suddenly flipped in the air and land at the door on his bottom.

He shook his head and threw the door open and rushed down the hall to his class room. The door swung open and he came in just as the bell rang. "Ha ha! Yeah! I made it! Take that Iruka-sensei! Yeaaah!" he exclaimed proudly. Iruka just shook his head,"Take a seat, Naruto, so we can start class." "Naruto-kun! Here, I saved a seat for you!" someone said from the middle section, third row. The twelve year old looked up to see the Uchiha girl waving at him and motioning him to sit next to her. He smirked, and walked up the steps to his seat.

He sat down next to her, not noticing someone from the upper left was staring at him, and as usual the girl intertwined her arms with his right. She hugged his arm and rested her head on his shoulder. "Naruto-kun, sorry about yesterday. I was headed over to our sparring area when I suddenly realised that I couldn't train with the clothes I had on, so I went home to change but then-" Naruto had just remembered about her missing their sparring match. He smirked and turned his head away from her pretending to pout."Aww, don't be like that, Naruto-kun! I promise we'll spar today and I'll let you win this time!" At this Naruto's expression dropped, then he smirked and leaned back in his seat. "Ha! This time will be different, I've gotten stronger since last week!" he exclaimed.

"Yea right, Naruto-kun, I can beat you in a sparring match with my eyes closed!" she said, enjoying his expression between embarrassment and frustration. She snuggled her head into his arm, knowing he was about to protest.

"Kanami-chan, today we'll have to see about that now won't we? I'll show you! Then after the match, when I win of course, you have to buy me as much ramen as I want!" he said confidently, imagining hundreds of bowls of ramen floating in front of him. Kanami just nodded, confident that she would win anyway. "And when I win, you have to eat only veggies for a week!" she giggled as his expression spaced out at the thought of no ramen for a week. His confidence returned to his face, and he opened his mouth to say something when Iruka spoke up before he could, "Naruto, Kanami, as fascinating as your conversation is, it would be nice if you... would pay attention to my lesson!"

"Now, as I was saying, we will be practicing henges today. You will all line up and one by one and you will perform a henge to appear to be an identical copy of me. If you can not do it on your second try, you will stay after class and practice it. Now, line up." Iruka said, looking at Naruto. Kanami had let go of Naruto's arm and followed him to join the line of students. Hinata was at the back, behind Kanami. Kanami was hugging her Naruto-kun from behind and resting her head on his shoulder, whispering into his ear. Since the start of the academy Hinata had a crush on Naruto, she admired the confidence he had in himself and admired the way he never gave up. Hinata stared jealously at the back of Kanami's head.

Sasuke performed the henge perfectly and walked to the back of the line, glaring at the back of Naruto's head. When Naruto was six years old, he had made a bet with Kanami that he could trick Sasuke into kissing a fish. Well... with a few henges and a dark room, Naruto had somehow pulled it off. It was a blurry memory to Sasuke but it still made him mad that he fell for it somehow. Sasuke didn't care that Kanami liked Naruto. Naruto was just an aggravating pest that was only there to anger him in Sasuke's eyes.

Naruto's turn was nearing, and he knew exactly what he'd do the first try. Naruto just kept moving up the line, and listened to what Kanami was whispering to him. She was taunting him about the henge that he was going to perform. She had learned over the seven years that he was going to mess up the first time trying to be funny. She never liked to see him mess up and make himself look stupid so she always tried to taunt him so he'd do better and stop acting dumb. "I'll show you! I'll make this henge even better than Sasuke's!" he muttered. Kanami smiled, he had fell for it. He stepped up in front of Iruka, smirking confidently. He formed a seal and he was instantly covered in smoke. When the smoke cleared, there he was. There was nearly no difference in their appearences. "Very good, Naruto." Iruka said proudly, he truly thought Naruto was going to mess up or try and be funny.

Naruto turned normal and stood there scratching the back of his head, grinning proudly. Naruto walked to the back of the line and Kanami soon followed, after performing the henge. Hinata did the henge easily and walked to the back of the line. "Good," Iruka said, looking down at the chart he had made, "you all got it right on the first try. Okay, you can return to your seats." After everyone had gotten settled, ready for the rest of the lesson, Iruka looked at them all and smiled. "Pop quiz!" he exclaimed happily, hearing their groans.

After class, Naruto headed to a training area to wait for Kanami. Naruto stopped, there was someone hitting the training dummy. He walked forward to get a better look, it was a girl. She had blue hair, and she stopped punching the dummy. She was wearing fingerless gloves with metal on the knuckles for more damage and to protect the user's hand. She looked over at him and hid halfway behind the dummy. "Hey, you're that girl that sits at the top left seat in class. You're always so quiet... What's your name again?" he said, scratching his head trying to remember.

"H-Hinata. H-Hyuuga Hinata."

"Oh, hey Hinata! Why are you here? Why are you training by yourself?"

"I-I don't u-usually ha-have a sp-sparring partner..."

"Maybe when Kanami-chan gets here we can all three spar?"

"Th-that would b-be great..."

"Are you okay? Why are you turning red? Are you hot? Maybe you should take that jacket off."

Naruto looked at her and was about to go check on her when he found himself held from behind. "Oh, hey Kanami-chan! Would it be okay if Hinata spars with us today?" Kanami just snuggled her head onto his shoulder, "Aww, but I wanted to be all alone with my Naruto-kun..." then she put on her cutest pout. He smiled, knowing she was only playing. "I-It's o-okay... I'll l-leave..." a downcasted Hinata said. Naruto looked up quickly at Hinata who was about to turn to leave, "Hinata, she was only kidding! You can spar with us, c'mon it'll be fun!" Hinata turned her head to look at Naruto. She saw Kanami still pouting on his shoulder and stared jealously at her. She shook her head sadly and walked away through the trees.

Naruto stared in the direction that Hinata left, confused. "I wonder why she left... Oh, well, why waste time? Time to earn some ramen!" Naruto stepped away from Kanami and turned around, "Ready Kanami-chan?" he smirked. She nodded and positioned herself into an odd, original taijutsu stance. Naruto charged at the girl, hands balled into fists. He was throwing rapid punches at her, which she fluently dodged. He crouched down and sprang up, swinging around to kick her in her face. She ducked down and as his foot swept above her head, Naruto twisted his body to be above her. He brought his foot down swiftly to kick her in the back of her head but she was quicker. Before his foot could make contact she had placed her hands on the ground and brought her feet off the ground, shoving her body off the ground and her feet collided with his chest. Naruto's eyes widened a little at the impact and was sent away from Kanami, landing on the ground and skidding across the dirt.

Kanami was back on her feet, a safe distance away from Naruto, in her original stance. One arm was at her side and the other arm was stretched at Naruto, hand balled into a fist. Her feet were placed even with her sholders. One foot pointed towards Naruto and the other pointed in front of her. She stood at an angle towards Naruto, not completely turned towards him. To many, this stance was foolish and no good, but it seemed to work against Naruto, and worked well with Kanami. She smirked at him, "I guess that ramen will have no one to eat it tonight. Giving up already, Naruto-kun? I thought you were stronger?" Naruto stood up and just smiled, brushing dirt off of his clothes.

He charged at her again, clenching his fists. He threw a punch at her stomach but she stepped back easily and poked him in his side. He spun around, putting out a leg, getting closer to the ground during the spin. He attempted to sweep her legs up from under her but she saw it coming and jumped. Before she could land back on the ground again, Naruto threw himself up at her, poking her once on her tummy. She had quickly reacted by putting a hand on his shoulder and fluently jumped over him, twisting around in a sweep kick that he jumped over, landing behind her.

He smiled, "See? I told you I got stronger!" She only smiled and quickly got up and turned around. "I went easy on you." He frowned. He stepped back, "Yeah, well, I went easy on you too!" When she was in her stance he went at her full speed. His arm pulled back, he dashed at her with increased speed. He threw his fist forward at her tummy, which she knew was too swift for her to dodge, so Kanami had blocked with both hands and was surprised when the force actually knocked her off her feet. Before she could recover, Naruto slid behind her and snaked his arm around her waist and jerked her sideways. He had her pinned down on the ground on her tummy. He smirked, he had a foot placed on her back and was standing beside her, "I told you! I knew I could do it!" She just smiled and turned her head so she could see him, "Okay, okay. I'll buy you some ramen!"

After Naruto's fourth bowl of ramen at Ichiraku's, he had decided he was full. It was nearing dark and Naruto was walking Kanami home, explaining why there was so many flavors of ramen and why they were all great. She was again hugging his arm and listening to every word he said. She saw her home nearing and sighed. "Thanks again for the ramen, Kanami-chan." Naruto said as they neared the Uchiha compound's entry gate. She just nodded and smiled. She turned to him when they reached the gate. "I had a good time sparring, Naruto-kun. Next time we spar, I'm gonna win for sure!" He smiled, "Oh, I forgot..." He leaned forward, his face becoming closer to hers. Kanami's cheeks were becoming warm. His face was so close she could feel his breath on her lips, then he leaned back and smiled. She hadn't noticed something had been put around her neck. She looked down and raised her hand to raise the metal to her face. Dog tags. She looked puzzled then read what was engraved in the little tags of metal. One of them had Naruto's name on it and the other had her's. Naruto showed her that he was wearing the same thing around his neck.

She knew it was definately something Naruto would give as a gift, and she cherished it. It wasn't jewellry, which wouldn't be appropriate for a ninja to wear, but it was a gift that came from the heart. "It's perfect, it won't reflect light and it won't break easily. I thought if we both wear it, we'll always be friends and never forget eachother no matter what. I hope you like it, it's not something many girls would want as a gift..." he trailed off at the end. She smiled and hugged him, "It's perfect. Thank you, Naruto-kun." She smiled and entered the gate and walked up the path towards the Uchiha clan's home. Naruto smiled to himself and started towards his home.

Sorry for the short chapter last time. I'm not good with openings. I'll try to make the chapters longer as I go. Anyway, thanks for reading and review please. Oh and if you're wondering, Sasuke and Kanami are twins. Kanami was born first by a minute and a half.