A/N: OOOOO!!!!!!! We get to meet some Naruto peeps in this chapter!!! BUUUUUUUUT... you must find out who it is on your own!!! :) Mua ha ha ha ha ha ha...

You know what I just realized? I NEVER told you what Shurika looks like!!! O.O Wow... I ish stuuupid... Mkay, she has long light brown hair that goes to her lower back, bangs in front of her face (she never does anything with them, unlike me!!), one lavender eye, one blood-red eye, she wears an outfit like Tenten's except it's green and it has big white cloths that hold it together (like those yellow things that hold Tenten's together, except they're wider and white), she wears kahaki colored capris, and big grey boots with random bandages wrapped around them. Yeppers... I guess that's it for her, until she get's older!! Which shall be explained in later chapters. o.o

Thank you for teh reviews, they all make me very happy!! I get overly excited about those kinda things, so make my day, take some times out of yours, and tell me what you think about my story!!

Reeeeeeeeeead the chaaaaaaaaaaaaapterrrrrrrrrrrrrr... NOW!!! o.o

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Chapter Four: A Whole New Day

Poke

Poke

"Hey, are you awake?"

Poke

"Hai. Please stop poking me."

Poke

"Sorry. What's your name?"

"Shurika."

Laughs

"What's so funny?"

"Your name sounds like shuriken."

"Oh. I never thought of that before."

"My name's Naruto."

"Naruto..."

Shurika could feel herself regain consciousness. She started to feel something wet on her forehead... and cold. She slowly opened her eyes and saw those same blue eyes starring at her from the corner of her eye. The boy who stopped her last night, from... well, you know. He sat there, starring at her. Her vision cleared and got better, and sge saw a small, hotel-ish looking room. It was quite small, but it still looked inviting. Better than the mess of her tiny little apartment. She glanced down at herself to see that she was in a nice bed, covered by a warm blanket.

"Wh-where am I?" Shurika whispered quite loudly.

"You're at my... apartment!" said the blonde haired boy, smiling brightly.

Shurika shot up from the bed quickly and suddenly, which made the poor boy jump away from her in surprise. She felt something flop to her lap. She looked down and saw a wet rag. She brang her hand to her forehead, to reveal that the wetness was gone, and now her forehead just felt cold. With her hand still on her forehead, Shurika looked at the boy now up against the wall.

Naruto.

"What... happened?" she asked him.

"Well, ya kinda passed out." Naruto answered, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

"Did you put the rag on my forehead?"

"Well, yeah! You felt a little warm, so I brang you here to help you, um... recover! I just did what I see in the movies!" Naruto replied.

Shurika gave a weak smile, showing her appreciation. Then, realitly dawned on her, and she remembered the academy. She began to look around Naruto's room for a clock.

"What's wrong?" Naruto questioned, finally getting up.

"What time is it?" Shurika asked frantically, still scanning the room with her eyes.

Naruto glanced over his shoulder at a square clock on the wall behind him, and his blue eyes suddenly got bigger and filled with panic.

"Oh man! I'm going to be late for the academy!" Naruto yelled, bolting around his room suddenly, picking up random articles of clothing he had lying around. Once he had them all gathered, he raced into the bathroom, and Shurika heard something smash. She flinched.

"What?" she was getting more panicked. "What time is is?!"

"It's--" SMASH "--seven thirty!!"

"No!" Shurika yelled. She shot up out of her bed and rushed around trying to find her cape and shoes. She spotted them in the corner of the room, neatly placed on a wooden chair. She raced over to it, placed her shoes on, and slipped the cape over her head, once again casting a shadow over her face. Once she was finished, she ran to the door and opened it to the hallway.

"I'm sorry, Naruto," she began, adjusting her hood again. "But I need to leave now!"

"Wait," he yelled from inside his bathroom. "Are you going to the Hidden Leaf Academy?"

"Hai."

"Then wait for me! I'm going too!"

CRASH.

"Ow!" Shurika heard Naruto yell out. The poor people who lived in this apartment building must NEVER get any sleep.

"Do you need help, Naruto?" Shurika asked worried.

"No," he began. "I'll be right out!"

In a matter of seconds, Naruto appeared outside of the bathroom door, bouncing up and down on one foot, trying to apply bandages to his other wounded foot. He stopped bouncing when he noticed she was wearing that same tan cape again.

"WHY exactally are you wearing that?"

"Not to be rude, but it's one of your buisness." Shurika answered. She walked over to Naruto, analizing his wound.

"Sit." she demanded, jumping out of her normal attitude.

Obeying her orders, he planted his butt on the floor. Shurika took off the tangled bandages wrapped around his foot, and re-arranged them correctly, covering the wound fully. She took his spare shoe that sat next to him, and placed it on his foot gently.

"Thank you. How did you get so GOOD at medical stuff?" Naruto asked.

"I, um, practice while I'm not doing anything." Shurika answered shyly.

Naruto quickly got up, grabbed Shurika's hand, and pulled her out the door and into the hall.

"If we don't want to be late, then you're going to have to go FAST!"

"O-okay," Shurika stuttered, trying hard not to trip over her own feet.

Naruto and Shurika ran down the dirt streets of Konoha, passing many people. Shurika noticed all the people looking at them, so she ran closer to Naruto and adjusted her hood more.

The academy finally came into view, and before they knew it they were bursting through the front doors, and running down the hall to their class. They weren't late!

Then, they burst into one of the rooms. All of the students looked up from what they were doing, and saw the crazy five-year-olds. Naruto let go of her hand, and put his arms behind his head. The students went back to their buisness, ignoring them.

"Heh heh, we're not late! The teacher isn't even here!" Naruto said.

"I guess not." Shurika responded.

Shurika looked at all of her classmates, and saw she was in a different class. Phew. She took off her cape and folded it neatly into a square. She looked around the room for an opening for someone to sit next to, and spotted a young boy wearing a black long-sleeved shirt with a funnel collar, with midnight blue hair in a spiked sort of style, sitting alone in the middle of the room starring at his desk. She decided to sit there.

(A/N: OoooOooOOOoooO!!! Can you guess who THIS is??)

She walked over to his desk/table thingy, and stood their sheepishly.

"Um, may I sit please?" she asked, a little nervous.

The boy turned his head to face her, and nodded slowly.

"Thank you." she said and smiled gratefully.

Shurika saw Naruto on the other side of the room, sitting next to a rather fat looking boy. (A/N: Another Naruto character!! Guess who!!) Naruto seemed to be glaring at the boy sitting next to her.

Shurika looked at the boy next to her again, and saw he was starring ahead of him. She turned her gaze to what he was looking at, and saw the chalk board.

She cocked her head, and asked politely, "What're you looking at?"

The boy just looked at her, and began to stare at the chalk board again.

"I'm just... thinking about something."

"What?" she knew she was being nosy, but she couldn't help it. Something about this boy was an enigma to her. (A/N: My English teacher would be so proud of me if she read this! That's her favorite word! 'Enigma':)) And she wanted to find out what it was.

"Just... never mind."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm being so nosy and barging into your thoughts. I'll... be quiet now." Shurika said, and beganto daze off into the beyond herself.

"No, that's fine." he said. "Everyone hets a little interested in other people's lives sometimes, am I right?"

"Yeah. A little more than once."

"That's okay. I like to talk to someone who's not either going goo-goo eyed over me, or just 'Aren't you that Uchiha kid? Your brother is legendary!'."

"Goo-goo eyed? Uchiha? Legendary?"

"My name's Sasuke Uchiha."

(A/N: Go ahead, scream my fellow fangirls!! Sasuke Uchiha at five-six years old!! You MUST admit he WAS cute when he was little!!)

"I'm Shurika Tamahaioh. It's nice to meet you Sasuke U-chii-haa."

"Uchiha."

"Right."

"I haven't seen you around town at all. Did your family just move here?"

"Well... my family... is dead."

"Oh... I'm sorry."

"I don't like going out that much. I'm more of an inside dweller. I like to stay inside of my house most of the time, if you could consider that dump of mine a house." Shurika smirked slightly to herself.

Sasuke smiled at her and laughed a little.

Then, Shurika felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned to see who it was and saw a bunch of girls. Angry girls. Glaring. At her. Sasuke looked at them and gave a disgusted sigh, then resumed his mindless staring.

One of the girls who tapped Shurika on the shoulder had bleach-blonde hair. (A/N: Again, another Naruto character. This time, it's a girl. Meh, I don't feel like pointing out anymore. You'll know who they are when they come... I hope. o.o) She was tapping her foot on the floor, giving off the instinct that she was ticked at something.

"Who are you?" the blonde haired girl asked.

"Shurika Tamahaioh."

"Okay then, Shurika, who do you think you are sitting next to Sasuke!?"

Shurika's eyes widened. What did she mean? Was Sasuke royalty? Man, she DID need to get out more. (A/N: Shurika, girl, you're just NAIVE!!!)

"Wha-what do you mean?" she questioned.

"Sasuke Uchiha? Like you don't know why!"

"Yeah!" some other girls yelled.

"Oh, if you don't want me sitting next to him, I can move." Shurika said quietly, starting to get up.

A hand grabbed her arm and stopped her from moving. She looked over to see that Sasuke grabbed her arm. He was still looking at the chalk board, but he looked a liitle mad. Sasuke pulled Shurika back down to sit.

"No, you can sit." He said with no emotion.

Shurika sat back down a looked around nervously.

The blond haired girl looked at Sasuke and blushed furiously.

"O-oh, S-sasuke! Y-you don't mind her s-sitting with you? O-okay! Well, I'll g-go now!" And with that, the blonde left, with the other girls going their seperate ways, sending Shurika evil glares.

"What was that all about?" Shurika said to no one in particular.

"Just ignore them all."

"Okay." Shurika nodded.

"SHURIKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Shurika jumped out of her seat shrieked loudly, which made Sasuke smile at her in amusement.

After regaining her breath, Shurika realized Naruto was calling her from the other side of the room. She got up calmly and walked over to him.

"Yes, Naruto?"

"I'd like you to meet Kiba, Choji, and Shikamaru!" Naruto pointed to three different boys standing around him.

"Hello!"

"Hi."

"Hn."

Shurika gave them her sweet smile that she gave people when she wanted them to calm down.

"I'm Shurika Tamahaioh. Pleasure to meet you all." Shurika said as she bowed politely.

The one boy out of the three who looked a little chubby said quite boldly, "Hey, aren't you that monster girl who brutall killed her parents and has two different colored eyes?"

Shurika then felt as if a kunai had stabbed her in the heart at the moment, and let out a tiny squeak. She looked sadly hurt at the fat boy.

"I think you're right Choji," said the one with a ponytail on top of his head. He put a finger under her chin, and lifted her head up more, as if examining it like a doctor. "Isn't she said not to have any scratched, bruises, cuts or anything?" The boy picked up her left arm and looked it over. "Nope, nothing."

The other boy, who had red makeup under his eyes picked up her oher arm thoroughly looked it over. "Not even dirt."

"Maybe she recently took a bath!" Naruto suggested.

The pony tailed boy took her face in his hand and showed her to Naruto. "Hello? Multi-colored eyes? Lavender and blood red? No cuts or nothing?" (A/N: Not so much of a GENIUS when you were little, HUH?!?!?! o.o)

"She's the monster girl." the fat boy named Choji said.

Shurika could feel a tear run down her face, and looked at Naruto to see his reaction. He also looked hurt by their words, like he couldn't believe what they said about Shurika. Her lip trembled, and she slapped the boy's hand away.

"You're all so cruel!" she practically yelled, and stomped back to her seat, holding back the tears.

Shurika flopped her body down on the bench next to Sasuke, buried her head in her arms and let her tears out.

Sasuke looked at Shurika and asked, "What happened, Shurika?"

She mumbled something about 'boys' and 'cruel'. Sasuke still didn't understand what she was saying.

"What did you say?"

Shurika lifted her head up slightly to reveal the fresh tears on her face.

"Ch-choji and the other two b-boys!" was all Shurika could squeak out, and she buried her head in her arms again.

"Choji, Shikamaru, and Kiba?"

Shurika didn't answer. She just cried harder.

"Don't cry, Shurika," Sasuke said as he patted her back sympathetically. "it couldn't have been too bad."

Shurika felt anither presence next to her. She lifted her head up to see who it was, and saw Naruto.

"Shurika, you shouldn't listen to the,," Naruto began. "They're idiots! The don't know anything! I don't care if you're this 'monster girl' or not! But you shouldn't listen to them-"

Sasuke looked confused. "Monster girl?" Sasuke lifted Shurika's head out of her arms gently to face him. "Is that what they called you?"

Shurika squeezed her eyes shut, and nodded.

"Why? Is it because you have multi-colored eyes?" Sasuke questioned.

"I think it looks cool!" Naruto added.

(A/N: Here comes the pathetic, sad, sob, sob part. Feel free to read another fanfiction that envolves more blood and violence, instead of some sad, solem girl in need of a friend! Unless, you enjoy it and want to keep reading, which I doubt that... --)

"No," Shurika said, giving a serious tone. "It's because I killed my mom and dad one year ago. The two demons inside me are blood-thirsty and force me ro kill anyone they want. But I can't see what happens, I can only hear them being killed. I go blind until that person's dead, and my body moves on it's own. And there's nothing I can do about it. That's why."

Shurika got up and pushed herself past Naruto. She walked toward the middle of the room and sat at an empty desk/table thingy. She sat down and lowered her head, keeping the same emotion-less attitude. She knew everything she said was right. And there's nothing I can do about it. Nothing at all. She sighed and stared at the floor. A rustling next to her made her look up, and she arched an eyebrow when she saw Naruto, Kiba, Choji, and Shikamaru all standing around her desk.

"Yes?" she demanded.

They all just stood there and said nothing, until Naruto elbowed Choji, and he flinched.

"Um, Shurika, we're uh... sorry that we called you..." Choji couldn't think of the last word.

"You know, a monster girl. We didn't mean to hurt your feelings." Kiba finished for Choji.

"Yah, what they said." Shikamaru said lazily.

Shurika was glad they were apologizing, and showed a smile. But she had a feeling that Naruto nade them do it. Kiba seemed like he meant it, though. Shikamaru seemed like he had better things to do. Choji just looked hunngry. (A/N: As USUAL!!)

"Thank you guy guys. And apology excepted." Shurika said, smiling thankfully.

"Your welcome." said Kiba. "And... we really are, truly sorry!"

"I know you are."

Not.

Shikamaru, Choji, and Kiba walked back to their seats, as Shurika watched them. When they sat down, she sighed mentally.

If they're so sorry, then why do they act like they don't even care? Shurika thought.

Maybe the blonde bot paid them. Takai suggested.

Or he just threatened them! Gukai added.

Shurika sighed and lowered her head to the floor again. The floor was becoming QUITE an interest to her today for some reason. Maybe it was because the floor was just so plain, that you could point out all the little dust particles that lyied there. Then, she squeaked when she felt her seat bounce. She saw Naruto had sat down beside her, with a rather big bounce.

"Hello, Naruto," she said faking the worst happy voice.

"Shurika, you don't feel too happy, do you?" He asked, frowning.

"What do you mean?" she asked. "I feel f..." she sighed. "I feel crummy. I'm not always happy, like those other girls." She stated flatly, pointing at the other girls in the room giggling over Sasuke - who was staring at the board. She honestly didn't know what they thought was so amazing about him staring mindlessly at a chalk board. Well, as she just said, she wasn't like other girls. (A/N: Ha ha... Sasuke joke... oy, I'll explain at the end, now keep reading!!!)

"Well, you're different. I guess... you show emotion differently." Naruto answered, like he knew everything.

"Yeah..." she sighed again. "I guess."

Naruto seemed to get, because he scrunched his eyes up, and gripped her shoulders tight, and spun her right around to face him.

"Listen, you better stop being so dang NEGITAVE all the time! I just met you, and everything you've said about yourself is NEGITAVE!!! You know what's gonna happen eventually? You're going to loose ALL of your self-confidence and you're going to live in the shadows for the rest of your life!" Naruto almost yelled.

"I already live in the sh-"

Naruto niolently slapped his hand on her mouth, making her eyes shoot wide open.

"Don't you DARE finished that sentance! I DON'T want to hear it!" Naruto said seriously.

Naruto felt Shurika's mouth curl into a smile. Now, Naruto knew she was happy for his commitment to her. Then, Naruto felt a warm slime on his palm that slowly got cold the longer he kept his hand to her mouth.

"EUEW! Shurika!!" he yelled as he grabbed his arm back and whiped his arm on his leg vigorously. "You LICKED my HAND!!"

Shurika giggled, like those girls, and smiled. "Yeah, I did, didn't I?" She said slyly.

"Well, at least you're not blabbering on about how PITIFULL your life is. It's not as bad compared to some other people's." Naruto said quietly as he also turned his gaze to the chalk board. What was so amazing about that chalk board that Shurika was missing?

"What do you mean?" Shurika asked.

"Don't worry about it. Just... stop thinking so badly about you life, okay?" Naruto said.

Shurika smiled and flung her arms around Naruto's neck (A/N: Hug:3). He widened his eyes and blushed twelve different shades of pink.

"Sh-Shurika! You're gonna suffocate me!" Naruto squeaked.

Shurika let go of him and blushed at the word 'suffocate'. Then, she heard laughter from Kiba, Shikamaru, and Choji. Shurika thought the rest of her day was going to be just fine.

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A/N: Awww! Happy ending to the chapter!! How sweet. 3

Okay, I KNOW Sasuke and a lot of people or so OOC, but I needed them to kinda be like that for mah story!!

The whole thing about the joke? Yah. You know how Sasuke's line thingy is "I'm different from other people"? Well, I'm always saying stuff like that, like I'll say "This class is different from other classes." And stuff like that. So it's kinda a Sasuke joke... get it? Anyone? At all? Uh... you're supposed to laugh now!! -rolls eyes-

Ah well, review please. Constructive critisism is welcomed and wanted, tell me what I'm doing wrong and what I need to improve. Just nothin telling me "Your story sucked.". Tell me WHY it sucked!! Give me a reason to why you thought it was bad!!! You people are my voice of REASON!! Help this poor pathetic writer!! Pwease??