I know I said that I would wait until I had the next five or so chapters before I posted them to bring it up to the old stories time line but I kinda thought screw it and posted the next chapter anyway.

So here you are. Please review once you've finished reading.


A short black haired girl stood at the front entrance to the villiage hidden in the leaves, two Jonin standing beside her and just smirked a little when she looked at all the hidden anbu ninjas that stood in the shadows their chakra signatures giving themselves away no matter how hard they tried to suppress them. They didn't know she could see them but they knew who she was. She supposedly was a little girl that had been found wandering the forests in the land of fire, her parents having supposedly died when they tried to protect her from nuke-nin. These particular nin were from the land of wind and due to the alliance agreement between the two villages, the hidden sand village and the hidden leaf village, ninjas from the leaf had been notified to take care of these nin.


FLASH BACK

On their way back to the village having killed the missing nin the two Jonin leaf shinobi had noticed telltale signs that the two people that had been killed by the nin weren't the only ones that were there and that someone had in fact escaped with an unusually high level of stealth. Only slight changes to the earth such as a little bit of unground earth were found that could have easily been passed off as animal tracks. However as being the nin of Konoha they had to make sure that there wasn't any escaped nuke-nin and followed these slight telltale signs of tracks left in the earth.

When they found the one who made the tracks though they were extremely surprised to find a little girl tired and hungry from the running she had been doing for the past two days that it took for the nin of Konoha to catch up to her. It only took this long due to the small tracks that the girl had left behind and this was understandable when they took in her appearance. She must have been extremely light and that would have prevented any proper tracks from making themselves visible to the untrained eye. To say that the Konoha shinobi were surprised was to say the least. The girl that was in front of them was quite something to have been able to evade the two Jonin that were tracking her for the past few days.

When the two shinobi first approached her she had been afraid and cowered leaning up against a tree that she was sitting next to. However what came next when she closed her eyes waiting for her final moments was a surprise to her. Instead of being killed like her two parents she was picked up from the ground, an arm supporting her back and the other holding up her legs. Much to her surprise they took care of her and slowed their trip back to Konoha slightly even if it meant being a little late back to allow her to recover and come to terms with her parents death. What the two shinobi didn't know was that this little girl had already lived one lifetime and was back from the dead so to speak and had already dealt with the death of close people even if this event still affected her just as much as then she recovered a lot faster than expected.

FLASH BACK END


The two Jonin ushered the little girl forwards and she complied following the one that lead the way as they moved towards the Hokage tower that stood at the back of the village, being close to the mountain that was used for the Hokage faces. The little girl felt surprised that she would be coming to a hidden village and could possibly become a ninja herself having wanted to become one most of her childhood. Her parents were strictly against this though not knowing what they would do if their only child were to die while out on a mission or protecting the village.

The little girl although much to the dismay of her parents had trained herself instead of becoming a ninja of a village, keeping to her parent's wishes. This had changed now though because they were dead and she wasn't strong enough to push off a few chunin ranked ninja, she was barely any stronger than any other ninja her age. She felt as though a change of plans were in order and was going to become a ninja of the village she was now in.

The little girl looked around continuing to soak in her surroundings and commit them to memory when she saw a head of orange with an all too familiar face scolding a blonde haired boy next to him. The face of one person that was hard to forget especially when in her previous life she had had a crush on this particular person, although as to whether or not it was the same person was another thing altogether. She'd find out later anyway was the thought she held as she continued to follow the two ninja to the Hokage tower with a barely noticeable blush on her face.


(Hokage office)

"…So you thought because you found this girl by herself you'd bring her back to the village as a potential ninja?" Sarutobi asked the two Jonin standing in front of him, one looking a little sheepish as he scratched the back of his head while his only visible eye closed, the headband covering his other.

"Yeah, hehehe." Kakashi laughed quietly.

"The first mission I send you on when you aren't doing work in anbu and you bring a child back." Sarutobi looked down at his desk as he sighed a little. "Very well bring her in." Sarutobi motioned for someone to open the door to allow the little girl who had been waiting outside patiently on one of the chairs provided while idly swinging her legs back and forth being too short to reach the ground while seated.

"This is her." The other Jonin Asuma said as he stood there cigarette in hand blowing out a breath of smoke.

"Please get rid of that while there is a child in the room." Sarutobi said almost tiredly to his son not even bothering to try and remember the amount of times he's already said the same thing to the man. "So," Sarutobi said turning to the little girl who only stood at about waist height of Kakashi, "how old are you?"

"Six." Said the little girl answering the question as soon as it came out of the old man's mouth.

"Hmm." Sarutobi hummed in thought as he looked over the girl in front of him wondering as to whether or not he should put her into the ninja academy. Her tiny body making her look fragile and harmless were factors he shouldn't be too worried about but still played at the back of his mind trying to influence his decision. Finally making up his mind he asked the girl a question. "How would you like to become a ninja?"

"Yes." Was the immediate answer that came out of the little girls mouth. It was a little unexpected of the rooms current occupants but Hiruzen was glad he didn't deny the girl outright of making her own decision.

"Well then I give you either the choice of going into this years class and having to catch up or wait until next year. Which will it be?" Hiruzen asked the still unnamed little girl.

"This years." Was the yet again immediate reply.

"Very well." Hiruzen said and then grumbled something about paperwork for having new villagers. "Now all that's left is for you to tell us your name."

"My name is Shaolin Feng." Shaolin answered wondering if the old man was going to give his name to her.

"Well it's nice to meet you. My name's Hiruzen Sarutobi. Kakashi here will show you to the place you will stay." Hiruzen said pointing to the man beside Shaolin who seemed to be looking up in confusion from a book he was currently reading obviously not believing he heard the words he thought he heard. "Put that book away. It isn't appropriate for children to see it."

When Shaolin saw the title she was slightly disgusted with the man that was going to show her to her new home and looked at him with a frown while waiting for the man to lead the way. She obviously knew about the book and wasn't all too pleased that the man was reading a type of book that she had expected her old and now probably dead Fuku-Taicho to read. Yipee.


"Here," Kakashi said stopping outside an apartment block giving Shaolin the keys to the room she would be staying in, "your room should be in this building here somewhere." Kakashi paused in thought for a moment for some unknown reason before looking back at the little girl who had yet to stop frowning at him and raised an eyebrow. "What's your problem?" Kakashi said raising an eyebrow obviously confused as to why the little girl was giving him the expression.

"Your filthy." Shaolin said turning around in a huff walking into the apartment complex.

Kakashi just stood there for a solid minute trying to convince himself that the little girl hadn't just said what he thought she said. No, she couldn't possibly know what he was reading…could she?

Kakashi's thoughts stopped there however as Shaolin exited the apartment complex and walked past him, obviously having ignored him. She walked towards the shopping district where she would need to buy things if she were to go the night without starving. She also silently hoped that she'd run into the orange haired boy she saw earlier.


(Some time later)

Much to Shaolin's dismay she didn't run into the orange haired boy. However if her thoughts were correct she knew she'd run into him tomorrow at the ninja academy, his will to protect to great to pass off the opportunity to become stronger. The one thought that seemed to pass through her mind the most though was, would she be in the same class as him?

Shaolin continued to think about this all while cooking her own meal with her limited experience cooking for her family on rare occasion when she wanted to help and learn for herself. After all she needed to know how to make her own food to survive and it was only logical. Her cooking skill however was terrible, and even if the food she made was edible there wasn't much taste to it. She might have to resort to prepackaged meals if she doesn't learn soon, just to prevent her from accidentally killing herself.


(Next day)

Shaolin walked to the ninja academy the next day, map in hand. She hoped it was something like the shinigami academy and they did practical's most of the time because what was theory if you didn't know how to use it properly. Although the main reason of hers for wanting to do practical's is because the hand-to-hand combat would probably be her favourite subject amongst the entire curriculum.

Feeling a hand tap on her shoulder she spun around and looked into the eyes of the orange haired boy yesterday. Ichigo looked at her and saw an almost exact replica of the second squad captain. The same navy blue hair braided in two strands down her back and the rest cut short halfway down her neck except for the hair that framed her face, which only stretched just down past her chin. She wore black pants and sandals, the pants being somewhat similar to the shihakusho she wore during her time as a shinigami Taicho, just without the gap in the side exposing her thighs. Her shirt was covered in a yellow and black pattern.

"Ichigo?" Shaolin said and saw the boys eyes widen slightly. She went to say more but was silenced when he placed a hand over her mouth and shook his head drawing confusion from the surrounding adults who were taking their children to the academy.

"Soi Fon?" Ichigo whispered back to her confirming that he was in fact the person she thought he was. The same boy that had barely any control over his power that leaked continuously into the surrounding environment.

Shaolin reached up and pulled away the hand that was still covering her mouth much to Ichigo's embarrassment having forgotten what he was doing. "My name's actually Shaolin Feng. It was just changed to that when I entered onmitsukido."

"So no new n…" Ichigo trailed off looking around him realising that they had stopped walking. "We should finish this later. " Ichigo heard a snicker come from the usually emotionless person. Perhaps having a family that cared for her changed that. "Hey no laughing." Ichigo crossed his arms scowling at Shaolin.

"Still a strawberry." Shaolin laughed.

Ichigo's eye twitched, "We'll talk later." He ground out as he turned and continued walking up to the academy gates. Shaolin however caught up and walked at his pace beside him.

"Who was the blonde kid yesterday?" Shaolin said dropping the previous subject.

"I now have a brother." Ichigo said slightly shocking the girl next to him as they entered the academy gates. "He's not that smart either, so I have to do most of the stuff that's too stressing for him, like not getting ripped off at the shops."

Revalation aside Shaolin asked another question to which Ichigo just smirked. "What are we doing today you ask? Well today we're doing practical's, which mainly involves fighting in hand-to-hand combat. I'm sure you'll beat everyone except me."

"Challenge accepted." Shaolin said smirking.


(Academy classroom)

"Alright class!" Iruka said raising his voice just managing to make the class go quiet as they sat in their chairs chattering amongst each other. Iruka thought it was strange that he didn't have to raise his voice as much but shrugged it off as he continued to speak to the class. "Today we have a new addition to the class. You may come in now." Iruka said and watched as the door slid open.

The entire class watched in a silence that Iruka wasn't accustomed to and could only hope that it stayed like this. In came a little girl that was slightly shorter than a majority of the class and stood in the centre at the front of the room, her eyes quickly surveying all of the children in front of her. She smiled a little when she saw Menma seated close to the back with an empty space on all sides of him, the other students obviously not liking him or were too scared for some reason or another.

"My name is Shaolin Feng. It's nice to meet you." Shaolin said. What came next surprised everyone a little as she partially bowed in front of the class and walked up to sit next to Ichigo when she was told to find a seat.

"I thought you said we were doing practical's today." Shaolin whispered obviously annoyed that they were already outside so she could assess herself against the other students.

"Yeah, I did say that," Ichigo rolled his eyes thinking it was obvious, "but we've gotta have roll call and introduce you to the class before then." Ichigo explained looking around at the other students who looked a little wary of the new student thinking that she was brave to sit next to the orange haired boy. It had also probably killed most of her chances to make friends out of some of the people that didn't like Ichigo particularly due to his strength and abilities to beat up the bullies that scoured the streets with ease. Some of them could probably do the same but they didn't want to take their chances.

"I think you just butchered your reputation." Ichigo said drawing a slightly confused look from Shaolin as she turned her head to face him. Ichigo saw this and sighed a little, "Never mind. Come on we're going for the practical's now." Ichigo stood up and walked out into the aisle and towards the door.

"Shaolin," Iruka called out which she turned to and listened, "you don't have to participate if you don't want to, after all bei-" Iruka was cut off before he could finish

"I'll be joining in. There's no need to hold back." Shaolin said walking out the classroom door following after Menma.


(Outside practical)

"And now we have Sakura Haruno and Shaolin Feng." Iruka said looking at the marking board he held. Iruka held pen at the ready to mark the children's skills in taijutsu hoping that Sakura would ease off of her strength if only a little as she was probably one of the strongest girls currently in the academy.

Shaolin saw Sakura smirk a little when she heard that she was called to go against the newbie thinking that she could win. Together the two stepped inside the area in which they'd been given to spar and faced each other, Shaolin having a false sense of insecurity show making Sakura believe all the more that she would win.

"Begin." Iruka said and watched as Sakura dashed forward as fast as her small legs could carry her and went for a straight punch at Shaolin's face to force her out straight away. She didn't believe her eyes however when her fist was used as the momentum to flip her over the other girls shoulder and fall face flat into the ground, an audible crunch being made notifying all the others of Sakura's now broken nose.

"The winner is Shaolin." Iruka said as he filled in the recording sheet a little shocked as to how fast the fight ended. Looking around up from the sheet he could see all of the other students thinking the same thing…Wait, no, Ichigo wasn't shocked at all. He looked perfectly calm and even seemed to be smiling a little as he watched Sakura pull herself off of the ground her nose bloody. He was obviously pleased that the new girl had won, but for what reason?

Iruka shook his head to clear himself of the thoughts and continued down the list onto the next pair to face each other. "Naruto Uzu...Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha." Iruka frowned when he read the name. He could have sworn that he marked the little brat as absent, having to clean the Hokage faces of the new paint job they'd received from him. "Actually, Naruto isn't here so onto the next fight…"


(End of academy day)

"So," Ichigo said walking next to Shaolin, the day at the academy having ended, "what do you think of the academy?"

"Unbearably easy. Pity I didn't get to fight you though. Why didn't you tell me it was like that?" Shaolin replied in a bored tone wondering just how the students were going to kill people if they kept them acting like kids all the time. The poor kids would die the minute they stepped into a fight to the death if they didn't learn how to kill. Then again, the skill at which the children handled things greatly varied from ok by standards that Shaolin expected of their age and pathetic. She expected that most of them wouldn't even graduate.

"That boring huh." Ichigo said arms behind his head, as he looked skyward, not paying attention to the path he was walking as he just listened to Shaolin's footsteps as hard as they were to hear to walk beside her. "Well maybe sometime then we could have a sparing session. They didn't exactly allow the boys to go against the girls at the academy until we're a little older even as stupid as that is. They need the experience and they don't have it."

"I agree, and yes, I'd like to have a sparing match sometime. Perhaps we could have minimal attendance to the academy and train between ourselves and get notes off of your brother." Shaolin said stopping suddenly and looking to her left where Ichigo stood and the direction of her apartment.

"Ahh that might not be such a good idea. He has a nack of not attending either." Ichigo laughed sheepishly scratching the back of his head while now looking at Shaolin who had her arms crossed and a slight frown adorning her face. "Although I suppose we could do self study and just learn all the stuff at a library or something."

"Yes that sounds good." Shaolin agreed. "Well for now, good bye, this is my stop." As she said that she walked past Ichigo, a growing blush on her face as she realised about all the time she and Ichigo would be spending together.

"See ya." Ichigo waved and left to go home to see whether or not Naruto had gotten in trouble for anymore pranks.