Hey guys. Yeah. Chapter 4- done. Uhm…Review please? Flame please? And uh…yeah. That'll do.

1 Month Later

Shizuka quickly and quietly slipped out of the small bed her and Isuma were sleeping in, careful not to wake him. She had woke from an almost sleepless night. Nevertheless, she jumped up, feeling more confident and started to stretch.

She and Isuma were staying in a small hotel on their way to the only place she knew how to get to-Konoha.

Shizuka walked towards the rather small bathroom, on her way grabbing her change of clothes; Black shorts that led down to just above her nees, a plain, shorth white t-shirt, and a black tanktop to go under. She tied her long, purple hair into a neat ponytail, with a red band.

Walking into the next room, she noticed Isuma sitting up in his bed. He looked at Shizuka, and then fell back down on his pillow. Shizuka slightly chuckled at this; They had barely had gotten any sleep last night, which caused her brother to be extremely tired. She walked to the door of the little room, and slipped her white, beat-up sandels on. She slightly grimaced, as she looked out the window, noting that she had beat the sun this morning. It was completely dark outside. She decided that it was best to train, considering that she would be left in peace at this time of day. Besides- she would only be gone for a bit, She just was going to jog around, and maybe practice her jutsu. She went to the bed.

"I'll be outside, Ok?" Shizuka whispered into Isuma's ear. He nodded and rolled over. Shizuka watched him do so, observing his every movment, though not really seeing him...

-Flashback-

"Ryo! Hurry up!" Shizuka shouted, running along in her usual peppy mood, heading towards her favorite place in the whole world.

"Wait up Shizuka!" Ryo replied, following his best friend. They were both 11 now, and just as close as ever. Shizuka quickly stopped, and Ryo almost ran into her. Shizuka then hastily stuck her hands out over Ryo's eyes.

"Shizuka, what is this?" Ryo questioned, trying to escape Shizuka's death-grip.

"Walk forward…ok." Shizuka took her hands off of his eyes, and turned around. Ryo managed to let out a quiet "wow" before Shizuka interupted his moment. She usually did this, saying he shouldn't waste precious time staring out into space.

"Do you like it?" Shizuka blurted out, quite hastily. They looked over almost all of the sound villiage, the little houses looked like ants from the hight.

"I love it Shizuka!" Ryo said, turning to see Shizuka, arms stretched out, and eyes closed. Ryo watched her, His eyes trailing down her well-trained legs, and then he noticed something. A cut, it looked like, near her ankle.

"Shizuka, what is that?" Ryo asked, curiousity obvious in his tone of voice. Shizuka opened her eyes and looked down at her ankle.

"Oh, it's nothing. I just got it on that mission we were on the other day, you know, the one where we had to rescue the cat or whatever." Shizuka lied. She was always a very good lier, considering she always lied to her mother about things like where she goes at night. Her usual exuse is "her sensei makes her stay late." But she wouldn't go to the training grounds. She would go to the little field about 20 minutes off from her house. She would go there and just lie down and look at the moon. She loved to watch the moon when

the clouds slowly trail over it. But now, she thought, she was too old for such silly things.

–Even if she was just 10-

"Shizuka, when we become ninja…I just want to say, we-we might…go our separate ways. And that's ok, so, when you go…your separate way- just, well, tell me. I don't want to feel blamed, or guilty or whatever." Shizuka raised an eyebrow at ryo.

"I would never leave. Especially without telling you. Promise." Shizuka whispered the last word with a bit of emphasis. They stood there, looking at eachother. Shizuka stepped towards Ryo and embraced him. Suprisingly, he hugged back. Shizuka knew what it was like to feel like everything that went wrong was her fault. It didn't feel good. There they were, hugging, and hugging, and hugging some more. Once they finally let go of eachother, they smiled.

"Come on, let's get home."

-Flashback over…-

-Later on that day-

It hurt Shizuka almost as it hurt her to leave her friends to leave right before her and her team were going to become real, official ninjas. Also she felt terrible for not following through with her promise. She always did, because it made her feel different, she felt that she was being honest for others around her. They didn't follow through with their promises, so she thought that if she did, it would make everyone else do the same. It didn't work.

She had always thought of running away, from that horrible life, just leaving it. Something held her back though. She never knew she would have such bad timing. She had always wanted to be a ninja, even when she was 6, she would find herself daydreaming about becoming one and fighting off the "bad guys" and protecting her villiage. That was back when her father had homeschooled her. She used to hate having to start school earlier than all of her other friends. She told her father how she felt about it, but he just said, "It's for the best, Shizuka." Or "You will thank me one day for this" or even "You will be a great ninja one day, Shizuka, this is just the first step." Back then, Shizuka always believed anything her parents said. Even if they said that vegtables were special ninja food that gave kids super powers, that would be all that she would eat for the next week.

Now, of course, she didn't trust anyone. After her father left, how was she supposed to? She never took anyone's word, never.

A few hours later…(AN: Sorry for the freaking time skips you guys…)

Shizuka let her little Isamu rest his head on her shoulder, as she carried on, walking towards Konoha. She had been there once when she was a little girl, with her father- her father. Shizuka refused to speak his name anymore, not even think of him. But nevertheless, she would catch herself thinking of his short black hair, and his eyes, like the ones Shizuka had. She would quickly switch the subject in her mind to something like where Her and Isamu were going to stay over night. It was the same with her mother, she just didn't think about it. She didn't need her! She and Isamu were doing just fine the way they were. Shizuka liked to think that, but sooner or later, she would have to face the reality of things. She was running out of the small amount of money her mother hade left her, and she knew that her backpack was getting lighter every second of the way towards Konoha. She knew she couldn't afford to buy some more food, and that she had no chance of surviving without any food.

The small hotels she was staying at were very cheap, but very shabby. Isamu hated the cockroaches that came out from their little hiding places in the walls of their room. Shizuka didn't really care for them either.

As Shizuka slowly and grudgingly walked towards a sign she saw up ahead. On it it said Konoha: 20 miles. Shizuka groaned as the sun beat down on her neck, but kept walking nevertheless. She then heard her brother softly breathing on her neck. She smiled, and felt her confidence, which had been reduced to almost zero, slowly rise. The only thing that kept her going was the fact that soon she would be able to relax for a bit with her little Isamu. Before she could start fantasizing about the future though, something corrupted her thoughts. She quickly turned around, a speck of green and blue coming into view.

"Come on Hideki! I'm going to beat you this time!" Said the green-headed girl, the two children coming into view now. The blue haired boy increased his speed, and was coming in so fast, that Shizuka was sure he was going to run her over. She quickly stepped aside, sorta jerkingly, causing Isuma to jump, and wake up. Shizuka just moved out of the way, but not fast enough to get away from the girl. She was just about to run into Shizuka, but she immiediatly stopped, slipping, and falling on the ground.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! I wasn't thinking at all, are you ok?" She said, very fast. She then grinned sheepishly.

"Yeah, we're fine…Hey, Are you guys from Konaha?" Shizuka asked, brushing her clothes off. The Blue-haired boy stopped and quickly turned around.

They both looked about 10. The girl had a soft feature, but seemed a bit spunky. She wore a plain black shirt, a plaid skirt, and some white sandels, which looked a bit beat-up.

The boy, on the other hand, sported a tight black shirt, white shorts, and some plain black sandels.

"Yeah! My name's Izumi! And this guy's name is Hideki." She said, gesturing towards the boy with bright blue hair. The boy raised a hand.

"Where are you from?" Izumi asked, blinking at Shizuka.

"U-Uhm…Suna!" Shizuka blurted out. She didn't want to start any trouble…and to accomplish this, she knew she couldn't tell anyone about where she came from.

"Oh, cool! What's it like there? It must be like- awesome!" Izumi said, the she started rambling on and on about how she would die if she lived somewhere that dirty.

After a while, hideki stuck his arm out in annoyence, and shoved his hand on Izumi's mouth to get her to stop talking. He glared at the girl.

"Izumi, it's time for us to go…" He said quietly, then turned and grinned sheepishly at Shizuka, scratching the back of his head.

"Yeah, I'd better get going too, I hope I see you again!" Shizuka said, smiling widely at the two. Hideki took his hand off Izumi's mouth to wave a goodbye to Shizuka. They walked their separate ways, and Shizuka couldn't help but to think it was a bit odd that two 10-year-old children were just wandering about, 20 miles from their home. Shizuka shrugged the thought off, and kept walking towards her destination.

"Do you know how close that was? She was about to figure it out! Good job Etsuko." The so-called "Hideki" said to Etsuko.

"I think that was just her bordom, Kenji…" Etsuko said, slightly laughing at her guard-mate.

Then they formed a handseal and transformed into an older version of the kids they were pretending to be.

Both wore leaf villiage headbands. Etsuko wore short white shorts that went down to just in the middle of her thighs, with black leggings underneath. She also wore white sandels and a bright orange quarter sleeved shirt, her curly green hair pulled back into a lose ponytail, her bangs that had fallen out tucked behind her ears.

Kenji on the other hand wore dark blue shorts, A plain white t-shirt, and a black jacket, also sporting black sandels.

"Looks like we need to report this one to the hokage imeidiatly." Kenji said. Etsuko nodded, her expression becoming more serious now. They jumped off, the shorter way towards Konoha.

"Aw man…how long is this going to take?" Shizuka said, this time jumping towards Konoha in hope of a faster way to reach her destination. After a little while, she could see Konoha's front gate coming into view. She smiled at this site. She tightened her grip on Isuma and increased her pace.

BUM, BUM, BUM. Ok. So. Uhm. Yay. Chapter…uh…4? Whatever. Yeah, uhm. Review, flame, please, I don't really care…and-yeah. Thanks for reading you guys.

-Accesorized