I really love Naruto, he's the best adoptive brother in the world, just give him some ramen and everything just goes away. He forgot that we had talked about Kiba at all as he down his fourth bowl.

Oddly enough Sasuke came with us, we ran into him on our way to Ichiraku's. He hadn't said anything except to ask why Naruto had yelled so loudly about a jerk earlier, which I just ignored. He also prevented the blond from having a fifth bowl by saying they had to be ready for a mission tomorrow. "See ya later, Kara!" Naruto called as he ran off, Sasuke gave me a brief nod in farewell before sticking his hands in his pockets and wondering off.

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"Kara! Why are you still asleep? Come on we have to go say good bye to uncle." I was woken up the next morning to be informed that Kakashi and his team were going to the Land of Waves on an escort mission. Akira dragged me out of bed without giving me time to get dressed or anything, I was lucky to have managed to get my slippers on.

"Wow, what happened to you?" Ah, my favorite chunin.

"Morning Kotetsu, Izumo. I have been forcefully dragged from my bed to bid farewell to my uncle and his team."

"Akira, she does realize that..." Izumo started to say something but was interrupted by her dragging me off to the group just by the gate.

"Akira, Takara. Come to see me off?" Kakashi asked looking up from his book.

"No I came to say good bye to my brother." Akira told him releasing me and rushing over to hug the Uchiha.

"And I came to wish Naruto good luck on his first c-rank mission."

I was suddenly grabbed from behind. "Ah, Kara, thanks."

"Um Takara." Sakura had come over and hit Naruto to get him to let me go.

I raised my gaze to meet her emerald orbs. "What?"

"Ah, it's just your hair is..."

"Very nice today." Kakashi interrupted her. "Don't you agree Sasuke? Naruto?"

"Sure Kakashi-sensei, it looks great." Naruto exclaimed way to quickly, Sasuke just rolled his eyes.

Suddenly the old man they were guarding spoke. "Is her hair normally that color? Not that it'd be surprising, what with pinky here."

I gave him a funny look. "Yes, of course my hair is naturally red. What of it?" Akira stated laughing as Kakashi sighed.

The Uchiha raised an eyebrow. "Takara, your hair is orange."

"What?" I quickly entered Naruto's mind to view myself. There stood a pale girl in a pair of blue pajama pants with white clouds on them, a pair of panda slippers and a black cami. Her dark eyes wide in surprise and a shock of orange hair pulled into a pony tail on top of her head. I revert back to myself. "Akira I'm going to kill you!"

"See you guys later. Stay safe!" She gave Sasuke a second hug before quickly hugging Kakashi and bolting. I had a blond haired ball of sunshine holding on to me to give her time to escape.

"Takara, you two behave while I'm gone. Don't kill yourselves or each other and keep an eye on Akira." Kakashi had got Naruto to release me and was hugging me.

"Whatever old man, just come back in one piece." I growled back.

When he let go I tackled Naruto. "Good luck, you better come back safely." I jumped up and pulled him to his feet as well. "Bye Sakura, take good care of my guys." I gave her a short wave as she looked at me funny. 'And remember just because Sasuke is there doesn't mean its okay to spend the whole time staring at him.' I winked at her. "Later, Uchiha. Don't let anything happen to my brother or my uncle or else I will make sure you never achieve one of your goals."

He shoved his hands in his pockets and turned away. "Hn."

"Takara that was uncalled for. I am a jonin and perfectly capable of keeping myself unharmed." Kakashi scolded.

"I don't care, if anything happens to either you or Naruto on this mission I am holding Sasuke personally responsible." I gave one last wave before skipping off to exact my revenge on my twin, after I figure out how to correct my hair color that is.

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"What do you mean you can't fix it?" I had gone straight to Shikamaru's, since he is a genius, woke him up and had spent the past two hours with him as he examined my hair. Oh I did go home first, I mean I like my pj's and don't mind wandering around in them but I did shower to see if that would fix my hair.

He rolled his eyes. "Takara, I have no idea what she even did to it to make it this color. I found no chemicals of any kind on your hair, there isn't a genjutsu being used. How do you expect me to undo it if I can't even figure out what it is?"

I sighed in frustration, sitting on the couch next to him. "What should I do then? Do you think it's permanent?"

He leaned back, closing his eyes. "I don't know, give it some time and it might just fade back."

"And what do you expect me to do until then, I can't walk around with my hair this color!"

"Why are girls so annoying?" He mumbled to himself. "Did it ever occur to you to ask your sister how she did this?"

I stared dejectedly at the ground. "Yes, I tried, she's blocking me."

He sighed over dramatically. "Well, there isn't anything I can do to help you. Now I'm going to go take a nap." Recognizing this as my cue to leave I tucked my hair back up into my hat and departed the Nara compound.

I didn't want to go home, that much I knew. I had gone by to shower and get dressed before going to Shikamaru's and Akira was hanging out with Neji. Not that that is a bad thing, Akira needs friends and it's not like he's going to do anything to her. I just don't like Hyuga, well except Hinata the others make me uneasy. So I did something I rarely do, visited training ground 3. Okay, fine you caught me. I dropped by the cemetery to tell the fam that Kakashi was gone on a mission and that Akira was a meanie pooh faced turd monkey first, then I went to train.

Yes, I've already heard all the jokes. Is the world coming to an end? Did I hit my head when I woke up? And no, none of those things happened, I just felt like letting off some steam and what better way than training. Don't let Kiba tell you that it is a sign of the apocalypse, because I do train. Sometimes. Maybe. Fine, not very often but still that is no reason for the rude comments. Yes so Akira is the one that practices ninja-ing until she passes out from exhaustion and has to be carried home on a daily basis but that doesn't mean anything. I still do have to train otherwise I wouldn't be the awesome ninja I am.

Anyway, I have no idea exactly how long I was there but I certainly did work up a good sweat and was very hungry. Noticing that is was mid afternoon I went home to eat, finding the house empty. 'Hey Kira? Where are you?'

'Neji's. Not sure when I'll be home He wants me to spar with Tenten.'

I roll my eyes. 'That perv! I'm sure there is little he enjoys as much as watching you two fight.'

'No it's not like that, he said it's to improve my taijutsu!' She defended her man. 'I know what you just thought and there is nothing going on between me and Neji!'

'Right, I believe you. By the way, find your own dinner. I still haven't forgiven you for what you did to my hair.'

The false innocence shining through her last comment before blocking me out. 'I have no idea what you are talking about.'

After food, since I was starving to death, I threw myself onto the couch and settled in for some anime watching.

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"Takara." I ignore whoever it was, I was having a pleasant dream and didn't want to leave it, and they could call me as loudly as they want I was not going to leave my happy place. I was in ancient Egypt being called the Thief Queen and Bakura and I were in the middle of thrashing that ass the Pharaoh and his priests. "Takara, wake up." I became vaguely aware of being poked in the stomach, a bit harder to ignore, oddly enough what shocked me most was how warm the person was. I shivered and kept on dreaming, Bakura had just had Diabound devour Mahad. Regrettably that is where I woke up because I was being mercilessly tickled by something warm and fuzzy.

"Bloody hell, why is it so cold?" I asked opening my eyes to see a white dog curled up on my exposed stomach.

Akamaru barked and licked my face. "Well, if you weren't lounging half naked watching anime then you wouldn't be cold." Kiba rolled his eyes at me before focusing his attention on the TV.

I quickly looked over myself to see what I was wearing. "God Kiba don't scare me like that." I was still in my training clothes, a black sports bra with an aqua cut off tee shirt over it leaving my midriff bare and a pair of tight black shorts. "I have clothes on."

"Tch, not really." He scoffed still staring at the TV from his perch in one of the chairs in the room. I ran up stair and changed into a pair of warm pj pants and a longer shirt, grabbing a blanket before running back downstairs. He had moved to the couch and his puppy was curled up next to him. I skipped over to him, picked up the fluff ball and lay down with my head in Kiba's lap with the puppy on my stomach.

"Are you actually watching this?" I asked looking up at him.

He gave me a smile with that adorable little fang of his sticking out. "Well, you're watching it right? So if I want to hang out with you I have to too."

I flicked his nose. "No, if you want to watch something else I can turn this off." He just shrugged so I turned to watch Yugi duel Bakura. About half way through the episode he started running his fingers through my hair, probably a habit what with always having Akamaru with him. "You might want to stop doing that, it's putting me to sleep."

"Huh?" Kiba then realized what he was doing and stopped, blushing as he removed his hand from my hair. "So is this show really about a bunch of kids who save the world by playing card games?" He asked quickly to cover embarrassment.

I laughed. "Yep, a bit lame I know."

"How can you stand watching such crap?"

"I love the characters; it's a shame that the rest of it is so bad though."

"Man this show really sucks."

I sat up glaring at him. "I told you we could turn on something else." I snap giving him a shove.

"And I told you I don't really care." He nudged my shoulder.

"Then why are you complaining about it?" I asked pushing him again. Akamaru saw the fight that was brewing and fled to a chair. Kiba and I kept pushing each other until he stooped to tickling. Being immobilized from laughter I couldn't fight back and he wouldn't stop, no matter how hard I pled with him to.

I finally succeeded in getting him off me by rolling off the couch. I landed on top of him glaring down at him, he smirked before rolling so he was above me. He didn't resume tickling me, instead he stared at me with a slight blush on his face, leaning down closer. "Um, Kiba?"

He didn't answer, closing his eyes. Hoping this was headed the way I dreamed it would I closed my eyes as me brought his face closer to mine still.

"Takara!" I opened my eyes to find myself on the couch with Kakashi leaning over the back of the couch.

"Holy crap." I bolted up right. "Back from the Land of Waves already? Where'd Kiba and Akamaru go?"

Kakashi reached out a hand and placed in on my forehead. "Are you feeling alright? I haven't left for that mission yet, we set out today."

"Huh?"

"Takara, you came home from hanging out with Naruto last night and past out on the couch." Akira called from the stairs.

"My hair isn't orange is it?" I asked.

"No." Kakashi answered confused. "Would you please make my breakfast before I have to go meet my team?" He asked giving me that cute smile of his.

"I guess."

"Me too." Akira called heading for the bathroom. "I'm hungry."

I smiled. "A true sign of the apocalypse."

After breakfast I quickly showered and walked with uncle and Akira to the main gate, Kakashi had his team waiting there for him with their client. "Hey, I never told you how angry I am that you interrupted my awesome dream." I pointed out to my dear uncle.

"Right, what were you dreaming about anyway?" He asked pulling out his book.

"None of your business." I blushed.

He glanced briefly at me before focusing on his book. "It seemed very interesting."

Akira scoffed. "Actually not really, Takara has the strangest dreams. Remember that one where Pakkun took over the world?" She asked Kakashi, laughing.

"Yes, that was unique." He conceded.

Pouting I shoved him. "It was nothing like that one! You had left for your mission already and Akira somehow magically made my hair orange and Shika couldn't fix it."

I could tell he was smirking. "Right and what was the rest? You know the part about Kiba?"

"I have no idea what you are talking about." I ran ahead and reached the gate before them. "Good morning guys." I called to the guards, Kotetsu and Izumo.

"Seeing your uncle's team off?" Kotetsu asked scratching his head.

"Yeps." I then spotted my yellow ball of sunshine. "Naruto!" He spun around just in time to catch me jumping at him.

"Hey, Takara! Came to wish me good luck? Just wait till I get back, this mission's going to be awesome! Believe it!"

"Oh I do! You're going to be great." I threw my arms around him again.

"Hey Kakashi-sensei, you're actually almost on time today." Sakura pointed out as he and Akira appeared. My twin made a bee line for the Uchiha, hugging him.

He rubbed the back of his head. "Right, that does happen." Then turned to me and Akira. "Girls, no destroying the house, no killing yourself or each other and no boys. Takara is in charge."

"Yes Kakashi." We said in unison. "Stay safe." Akira hugged him then left mumbling something about meeting up with Neji.

"Make sure she doesn't starve."

"I know." I threw myself at him. "Come back safe, please."

He patted my head giving me a smile. "I always do."

Naruto then spotted something behind me and gave me a smirk. "Kara, turn around." I raised an eyebrow but listened only to find myself face to face with Kiba.

"Hey, Akira said I could find you here." I gave him a quick hug, blushing brightly and looking away. "I was hoping to get a group together for a game or something." He said trying to catch my eye.

"I know, how about tag or something at the park, since it's so nice out." I looked at him now, still blushing.

He gave me a crooked smile. "Thought you'd say that so I already have Shino, Hinata and a bunch of others meeting us over there."

"Good luck guys!" I gave Naruto another hug. 'Sakura just because Sasuke is there doesn't make it okay for you to stare.' I reminded her, she just glared before turning away huffily. "Sasuke, don't forget you are on a team and you need to work with them. Oh, one more thing Pinky," I waited till I had her attention. "don't let anything happen to my guys." I said dead serious. Sasuke gave me a questioning look, an eyebrow raised. "I'm not kidding, if anything happens to Kakashi or Naruto I'm holding you and Sasuke personally responsible." I grabbed onto Kiba's hand about to leave when I noticed the Uchiha watching me. Seeing that he had my eye he smirked, sauntering over he made sure Kiba was watching as he hugged me.

"Hey what the hell Sasuke?" Naruto yelled pointing exaggeratedly at the dark haired teen that just shrugged and walked out of the gate signaling he was ready to start the mission. Sakura looked ready to kill me, but I hadn't done anything.

Walking with Kiba to meet up with the others I replayed Sasuke's farewell over in my head. What the hell was that about? And what was up with my dream? Why didn't I get to kiss Kiba? It's so unfair!