I'm sooo sorry I haven't updated recently. Heck it's been seven months since I updated and I'm truly sorry for that. I'm just so horrible with this story. I've had the beginning of this chapter for probably four months with no idea where to go with it. But it's summer now and I can get more done! YAY SUMMER!

Anyway, I'm soo sorry. I've been messing up a lot of things with this. Let me clear things up for whoever was confused. From now on, Mina has long straight hair. Also in chapter one I spazzed out and said that Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were chunins… hehe. I should probable fix that. I also fixed the end to chapter 3 to fit the beginning of chapter 4.

ENJOY!

Disclaimer: I own Mina! And her attitude! As for Naruto… Heck who would want to own that spaz of ninja?

Chapter 4: Living arrangements

Sakura and Naruto simply laughed at her question. "Come on. Stop joking around." Naruto said.

"Okay, I'm completely serious," Mina stated. "What's a 'hokage'?" Mina asked again.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Leader of the village. Now walk." He said pushing her from behind.

"You better let go of me."

"Can't hear you."

"You better stop touching me."

"I'm sorry did you say something?"

"Let go of me."

"Nope, no can do."

"Don't care what's a 'can do'. You better let go of me."

"Nope."

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because if you don't I'm gonna punch you in the face."

"You wouldn't d-"

Mina punched him in the face.

Hehe. He thought I wouldn't do it. I showed him! XD Cheered inner Mina. (I felt like doing an inner someone. That probably won't show up again.)

"Now," Mina started. "To meet this Hokage of yours."

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Mina stood outside a room, by herself, waiting for someone to come out and say, 'Okay Mina, you can meet the Hokage now.' That wasn't going to happen anytime soon. So she started humming to herself.

About fifteen minutes later, a woman with short black hair and a purple dress on came out and let Mina in.

Inside, a blond woman sat behind a desk. She looked intimidating enough to be leader of the village. Mina bowed saying, "nice to meet you Lady Hokage." She looked at Sasuke to see if she had done everything correctly. Sasuke didn't comment to her so she assumed she did. I haven't even known him for 48 hours and I already know what he's like. Mina thought.

I heard that. A voice said in her head

You're loving this aren't you? Mina asked Sasuke mentally.

He just shot her a glance and focused his eyes back on the Hokage.

"Mina, arrangements for where you're staying have already been made. As for what team you will be training with until your next exam, let's just say you may do some team jumping. Just until I find the team you're best suited with."

"If you don't mind me saying something Lady Hokage, I think I'm fine with Kakashi-sensei's team." Mina said. By the look everyone made except for Naruto, she didn't think that was the right thing for her to do at that moment.

"Well, we'll find out later on what team you're most compatible with. Until then, you will train with Team seven. Now, Team seven, you may go wait outside. I would like to talk to Mina alone."

Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke all left leaving Mina alone in the room with the Hokage.

"Mina, you were the only ninja back at Kasai, correct?" She asked.

Mina nodded slightly.

Outside

Naruto pressed his ear to the door, trying to hear was Tsunade was saying to Mina.

"Naruto, what are you doing?" Kakashi asked his knucklehead of a student.

"Isn't if obvious?" Naruto asked. "I'm trying to hear what's going on in there," Naruto whispered to his sensei.

"Dobe, if Lady Tsunade wanted us to hear what she was going to say to Mina, don't you think she would have let us stay in there while she talked to her?" Sasuke asked to make him look like an idiot.

"Sasuke's right Naruto," Sakura added.

"Well I don't care who's right. I wanna hear what's going on in there," Naruto whined. Then as soon as he put his ear back to the door, it opened, knocking him over and revealing Mina once again.

"What did Lady Tsunade talk to you about?" Naruto asked ready to hear what she had to say.

Mina shrugged. "She asked me stuff about my childhood, my past as a ninja, my rank back in my village and my past medical record. Nothing big, you know?" Then she looked directly as Sasuke. "Lady Hokage would like to talk with us about something," she said.

Sasuke nodded and followed her back into the room.

As soon as the door closed again, Naruto's ear was up against it as it was before Mina opened it.

A few minutes passed in silence when it ended abruptly the two ninja yelling, "WHAT?!"

Inside

"Lady Tsunade, I'm sorry but I can't-"

"Yes you can Sasuke. And one more thing: If anyone asks why this is, you are to tell him or her that the two of you are cousins and that Mina is here to take an exam soon. Are we on the same page?" Tsunade asked raising her voice slightly.

"So we're expected to lie to the whole village?" Sasuke asked.

Mina looked at him and shrugged, "well, it's not technically a lie. I am here to take an exam."

Sasuke scoffed. "Whatever," he said angrily crossing his arms over his chest.

"The two of you may leave now," Tsunade said trying to calm down.

The two of them walked out, throwing Naruto to the side with the door again.

I can't believe she did that to me! Sasuke huffed mentally at Mina.

C'mon? What's so bad about it? I take my exam in a month or two and then I go pack to Kasai. It'll go by so fast you're gonna blink and miss it. Mina said trying to calm him down. She didn't let on how upset and annoyed she was. He was right. Tsunade had no reason to do that to them.

Mina sat down on her new bed and looked around what was now her room. The walls were starch white and the bed was even whiter. Simple hardwood floors with wood furnishings. Mina didn't know what to do to show how she felt about the bland room. If she thought some rude remark, Sasuke would hear it, and if she said it, he would have heard it. She settled on whistling.

Mina took her backpack off and plopped it down on the floor. When she heard something hard hit the floor, she remembered about the box her sensei had given her. She dug it out of her bag and ran out of her room.

"Why do I have to be here?" Sasuke asked, annoyed.

"Because Hideki-sensei said something about being with an Uchiha or giving something to an Uchiha. One way or another, I'm good as long as you're near by," Mina explained.

Then she opened the box and picked up a letter.

Mina, I know I have always told you that I didn't know where you birth certificate was and as soon as I found it I would show it to you. Well, I was lying. I just never thought you were ready to see it. I'm sorry. But now I believe you are more than ready to see you birth certificate and learn the truth. Please don't hold me to it. I was just trying to protect you.

Hideki

Mina gasped slightly and put down the letter. She looked in the box and mumbled, "my birth certificate."

Sasuke looked at her like she was crazy. "You've never seen you birth certificate before?" He questioned.

Mina shook her head and explained to him what the beginning of the letter said. Then she reached into the box and pulled out the yellow envelope. She opened and pulled out the piece of paper with caution, but what she saw scared her. Mina grabbed for the chair next to her as she stared at the name on the piece of paper.

Mina Uchiha