I am so embarrassed about the whole Nee-chan, Nii-san thing! Thanks so much for pointing it out, I'll try to fix it when I have the time. I'm not really sure how to fix chapters yet with out taking them down then loading them back up.. Also, Miso's name…. I know it soup, I did it on purpose because Naruto's name is also a food, fish cake or something. So I figured, why not…(I know Naruto is named off of one of Jiraiya's book characters) Plus when I was brainstorming this story and what to name my OC, I happened to be watching Naruto and Naruto said something about Miso soup…

So in my head a joked about her name being Miso…. Then it stuck and I couldn't imagine the character without the name. I could have found a different name with food meaning but Miso was just stuck in my head. Plus I thought it would be humorous… and I have a whole thing planned with the name later on with her name. Thanks to all of those who are reading my story;)

Chapter 6

Two figures walked down the lane at a leisurely pace. Both with slightly slouched figures with bored expressions on their face. Shikamaru's expression was more of one of bored doom then one of passive boredom that his father had.

"You could at least attempt to look happy," Shikaku said to his son.

"Does it matter?"

"You act like going to the academy is the worst thing in the world," Shikaku drawled with a grin on his face as he reached down with one of his hands to ruffle his son's hair. Only to receive an annoyed expression on Shikamaru's face.

The both returned to companionable silence, when a blur of orange ran by bumping into Shikamaru's shoulder causing the boy to stumble slightly. He gave an annoyed look to the blonde boy who was running madly towards the academy. "Troublesome," he muttered when he realized it was Naruto.

"Nii-san, wait up!"

"Sorry, Miso," The blonde and orange blur slowed his pace and turned around with a silly grin on his face.

Another blonde figure appeared at a much slower pace. She quickly turned towards Shikaku and Shikamaru and gave a deep bow, "Gomennasai". Her blonde hair in low tied pigtails almost touched the ground with her deep bow. Shikaku kept his expression neutral except for one eyebrow that was raised. He tensed slightly when he realized who the little girl was.

"Troublesome," Shikamaru muttered.

"No need to worry," Shikaku replied with a lazy drawl.

The blonde girl raised her head and gave a gentle smile that was unbelievable adorable. Now those of the Nara clan where never really people that admitted things were cute or adorable, but right now looking at the little blonde girl, both Naras had to admit that adorable and cute where the only ways to describe her. She had bright long blonde hair that went to her waist and was tied in low pig tails. A bobby pin with oddly enough a ramen bowl decorating the end of the pin, pinner her bangs to the side. She had large bright blue eyes that seemed slightly too big for her heart shaped face.

The little girl bowed again and gave a quick thank you as she began to slightly jog over towards the other blonde kid. Only to stop half way there to help an elderly lady who had dropped a bag of groceries and had her vegetables and other foods sprawled across the ground.

Shikamaru then noticed something odd. First off his Dad for once seemed oddly tense, the crowd of people around him seemed to have underlying anger for some reason, and they were whispering and watching the girl who was helping the old lady. His mind started absorbing information and filtering it trying to figure out why everyone seemed wary and/or angry at Miso. He'd been wondering for a while why the Uzumaki siblings where treated so bad. At first he just let it be as it was too troublesome to really deal with. But admittedly he liked Miso compared to a lot of people in the class. She wasn't loud or annoying, nice to Choji, and she left him alone. In his books she was great much better then pushy Ino. Of course he did realize she was slightly troublesome as she tended to always be in some sort of trouble.

Choji told him once that he had to help her out a tree because she went up to see a birds nest but got stuck. And believe it or not she was off doing things like that often. Shikamaru didn't associate with her more then he needed too, and more then he should, considering how troublesome she really was. Running off in the middle of class, constantly doing things for other people, her brother was Naruto (enough said), being around her would result and way too much work. So he settled with stepping in sometimes if her bully's became a little too much to handle and he even walked her home a few times at night. She seemed to always be walking home alone during the dark, luckily he was usually coming back from Choji's house when he found her so he didn't have to go too far out of the way to make sure she was safe. One word described Miso, Troublesome. His thinking was cut off as he heard the girl give a startled cry as the old lady slapped her.

"Get away!" the women hurriedly grabbed her bags and began to walk away. The blonde girl had tears in her eyes and a large red mark on her face but that didn't deter her from picking up a bag of chips that old lady forgot and going over to her and hand the bag over. The old lady just shoved her away, "Get your filthy hands away from me".

"Hey! Get away from my Imouto you mean old hag," Shouted Naruto. He was now standing between his sister who had fallen on the ground and she was oddly fingering the pin in her hair as she sat. The lady just sneered at him and walked away.

"Hey Miso, you okay?" the boy asked as he crouched down in front of his sister examining her cheek. The girl continued to finger the ramen bowl bobby pin in her hair.

"Hn," she replied as she then sat up and hugged her brother, "I'm okay. As long as my Nii-san is here".

Another thing Shikamaru knew about the siblings was that Miso had a big brother complex. Troublesome. The two siblings stood up and began walking, only to have Miso stop again and walk back to the Naras she quickly held up the bag of chips and gave it Shikamaru before running back to her brother.

"Dad," Shikamaru drawled in a question with a raised eyebrow at the bag of chips. Yet both knew his question was actually about the Uzumaki siblings and the treatment they received.

"You'll understand when you're older." Shikaku replied as he watched the blonde siblings with a calculative look.

"Troublesome".

He didn't really want to think about why she gave him the bag of chips, it was too much work, so he left it be. When he got to school and Choji asked why he had a bag of chips and if he was going to eat them. Shikamaru understood that she didn't give the chips to him she gave it to him to give to Choji. He was slightly annoyed that he had to play messenger with chips but he knew why he was the messenger. Miso didn't have friends, she had her brother, and sometimes Shino. She didn't like being around other people. Granted she seemed to be always doing something and she was constantly doing little things for people but she never stayed too long in their presence.

Choji adored Miso, not because he liked her or thought she was cute. In fact Choji was pretty indifferent about how Miso looked. It was because she was constantly giving him food. If Naruto didn't show up for lunch, Choji got Naruto's lunch. If she couldn't finish hers, Choji got it. Sometimes she would just bring snacks for Choji to eat. It was slightly amusing, it was almost like Choji was her pet as she was constantly feeding him food. Not that Choji minded.

While Shikamaru went on with his day as usual. Miso's day became rather irregular. Firstly Naruto was in a rather foul mood and was now being extra loud and then Shino was acting strange. After Miso had been slapped she and her Nii-san continued to school. When they entered the classroom everything that's when things got weird.

"Listen up! I'm going to be Hokage so if anyone messes with Miso or me you better watch out! Believe it!" Then Naruto started arguing with a few other kids in class. Miso decided it would be best to stay out of it and walked over to Shino.

"Good morning Mi—" Shino had stopped talking immediately. Miso gave him a confused look when she started feeling Shino's charka pulsating angrily and she could feel a dark aura coming off of him. She took a step back in surprise.

"A-A-Aburame-san what's wrong?"

"Who did that to you?" Shino sad darkly the light around him started to darken and the insects in his body began to vibrate.

"Who did what? Oh! Don't worry about it, things like this happen all the time," Miso waved her hands frantically in front of her.

"Tell me who did it, and I'll give swift retribution," Shino said as bugs began to come out of his sleeves. He immediately regretted letting his bugs come out.

"Bugs… lots of bugs…" Miso's eyes rolled back in her head and her body fell backwards hard unto the ground. Naruto who was in the middle of yelling at Sasuke when he stopped and ran over as soon as he heard her buddy hit the ground.

"Miso! Don't die! Crap! What happened? Elevate her legs or is it her head…. Not good, not good…. Maybe we should do the Heimlich…"

"Calm down she just fainted," Iruka said as he walked over to the crowd that was no gathered around the poor girl lying on the ground, "…again…"

By the time Miso woke up class had already started so she quickly got out her work and started taking notes. By the time lunch rolled around Naruto had stopped hovering by her side making sure was okay and was now running amuck. Miso had to admit she was sad her brother left her and briefly contemplated fainting again just to have his undivided attention. What stopped her from doing it was the sulking Aburame.

"Aburame-san?" she gently asked Shino who was standing in the shadows away from everyone facing the wall.

"Aburame-san…" she said his names a few times but didn't get a reaction out of him he just continued to sulk, "Listen… it's not your fault that I fainted, I just have a weak constitution…. And I'm sorry if I offended you for fainting at the sight of your bugs… Oh! I know what will make you feel better, I made a batch of cookies last night. Your favorite, let me just get them". Miso then took her back pack off and began rifling through it for white chocolate chip cookies. Exclaiming in delight when she found the bag she hurriedly gave it to Shino who was now at least facing her. He took the cookies and muttered a thank you.

Miso was about to try talking to him again when a small piece of paper fell out of her back pack. When Miso bent down to pick up the colored paper she gasped, "I completely forgot! There's a sale at the General Store! By Shino-chan," Miso said hurriedly as she wrote a note for Iruka-Sensei explaining why she was ditching class, grabbing the coupon that had fallen on the ground she quickly fled the building. Shino for the rest of the day was in an oddly happy mood that worried the rest of the class as he was smiling to himself and eating cookies and his bugs where twirling around him at one point. One kid even swore he heard the Aburame mutter "Shino-chan". Needless to say the class gave him a larger birth then they usually did.

Iruka had to let out a sigh of exasperation, he didn't know whether to be annoyed with the girl or not. It wasn't her first time ditching class and she was defiantly not disturbing the peace like Naruto usually did. But for some reason the girl had it in her head that it was okay to ditch school as long as she left a note. Some of her excuses could match Kakashi's explanations on why he was late. But what frustrated Iruka the most was that her excuses where actually true.

One time Miso gave him a note when she walked into class drenched in water, the note read something along the lines of 'saw a black cat cross my path and didn't correct my path so I fell into a pond…who knew…'

Miso of course was on cloud nine with her find at the market. Her arms where filled to the brim with bags of groceries as she hummed along the dirt road back to her apartment. Her progress was stopped when she heard a distressed noise, looking up the blonde girl saw a little black cat trying to get down from a tree but failing to do so. Before Miso could really think she somehow was already up the tree with her groceries and backpack laying at the base. Yet by the time the girl was high enough to attempt to help the poor cat the cat had already figured out how to get down. Miso then decided to climb back down but one problem hampered her… She was stuck….

So she was left clutching to the large branch for dear life as she waited for someone to stop and help her. She hoped Choji came along again, he was always nice about helping her out of trees.

Shikamaru had mostly forgotten about the incident earlier that today till he happened upon a scene that was troublesome.

"Choji," he drawled as he sluggishly walked up to his friend.

"Oh, hey, Shikamaru. Let me just help Miso out of the tree and then we can go". Choji shoved a few more chips in his mouth for preparation for the jutsu he was going to perform.

"Again? Didn't you already help her out of a tree?"

"This makes the third, I think". Choji said as he extended his enlarged hand towards the tree allowing Miso who was clutching the branch like a koala to let go and fall softly in Choji's palm.

"It's the fourth.. Thank you Akimichi-san…" Miso blushed as she began to hurry pick up her things.

"How did you get stuck in there anyways," Shikamaru asked through a yawn and a quirked eyebrow.

"I was helping a cat…"

The two boys remained silent as they gazed at her. While she just shrugged weakly. Shikamaru raised a hand before he could stop himself and began pulling leafs out of her hair making the girl an even darker shade of red at the close contact, "what a drag," he muttered. Then when he let the last leaf fall to the ground he watched with slight amusement as the girl began to giggle.

"What's so funny?" Choji asked.

"I'm re-leafed that it's over, I was stumped how to get done, I wooden have expected such help…. I willow you one," Miso's face was red from laughter at her own puns. She was still giggling as she waved to the boys and continued on her way. Leaving two deadpanned looks at her antics.

"Those aren't even funny… troublesome…."

"Shouldn't we help her with her groceries?" Choji said through a mouthful of chips.

"….What a drag…."

Shikamaru and Choji then spent the next ten minutes carrying Miso's bags back to her apartment. Shikamaru was also revaluating how he felt about the girl as the whole way back she kept giggling and making those stupid tree puns. She was defiantly worse than Ino. Troublesome.