Warning: mentions of child abuse and child rape. skip if this will overly upset you! If you or someone you know is being abused or raped call your local authorities and get them out! it is never okay for this to happen to anyone!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Ballet!

Chapter 7:

When I wake up in the morning it's usually to a sore throat. You see, I have what I call 'Screaming Nightmares', meaning I have such horrid nightmares I scream my way through them. It must be a subconscious thing, because when I was constantly being tortured, never once did I make a sound. Now that He's gone, however, it's like I can't stop screaming, at least when I'm asleep.

After the first night living next to Naruto, and having him come barreling into my room frantic and horrified, I learned to put silencing seals up. Ibiki, and I suppose the Hokage, are the only ones who know I still have them, I was only cleared for missions because of my silencing seals, and of course my tendency to fully wake at the slightest sound or movement, helped out alot in that case.

As I went through my morning routine I counted down the seconds before my front door flew open and a bright ball of sunshine launched itself at me. Huffing out a quiet laugh I caught Naruto around the waist and twirled us so we wouldn't fall, before setting him down and smiling my half smile at him. "Come on then, do you want some breakfast?"

At that Naruto whooped and was off talking a mile a minute about how he loves my omelets and how he's got to eat especially good now that he's an awesome ninja, among a whole list of other things. I was just content to have him there, after so long without him, it was still hard to believe he was back in my life, and according to him, "Not going to let you out of my sight ever again!" I had laughed and blinked away the tears that had threatened to fall and just hugged him.

The Hokage and to a lesser extent Ibiki, couldn't quite understand how I could tolerate hugs, flying tackles, and all other sorts of touches from Naruto, but when any other guys tried to come within even one foot of me, I would skirt around them with all of the fluidity of a ballerina. They just didn't understand, Naruto was family. The kind of family that you choose, the kind that you can trust unequivocally, without any reservations. He was like a little brother, though physically he was older, I just knew he would never hurt me, intentionally or otherwise.

Naruto's face was suddenly two inches from mine causing me to blink, "Yes, Naruto-nii?"

A beaming smile spread across his face and he said, "You were 'spacing out' again Umi-chan, and besides it's time to go! We get our new senseis today!" I quirked a smile and languidly followed after the bouncing energy ball.

Hearing the screeching voice of the pink and blonde haired girls fighting over Sasuke Uchiha, I grimaced and thanked my lucky stars that I had finally been able to break Naruto of his crush on the pink haired one. I didn't so much dislike her, as I didn't like how she treated my 'little' brother. When I had started pointing out all of the flaws she had and asking if someone had done those things to me if he would be okay with that, Naruto had balked and shouted, "NO WAY!" I merely looked at him calmly as he came to the rightful conclusion that it was not okay for Sakura to treat him the way she had been and that she didn't deserve to be put on a pedestal as she hadn't done anything in which to deserve that.

After that conversation, it was, as they say, history. When Iruka came in and executed his Big Head-No jutsu, everyone finally settled down. I tuned out his speech about how we were now adults and representing the land of Fire, and focused my attention on the resistance seal that I wanted to finally master so that I could use it instead of the less effective gravity seals that I was currently wearing. This seal had been particularly difficult for me to master for whatever reason and I was confused as it seemed relatively simple, well for the level I was at anyway, but nope, I couldn't quite get it right.

I looked up when I heard Naruto's name followed by Sasuke's name and patted the suddenly slouching and grumbling Naruto beside me before hearing my name, and the words, "Are now Team 7 under Hatake Kakashi." Blinking I looked up in confusion before Naruto yelled, "Yatta!" and side tackle hugged me. Finally realizing that I had been put on the only team I had wanted, but had not dared to believe I would get, I grinned and hugged Naruto back in elation ignoring the scowling boy that had moved to the other side of Naruto, because Iruka-sensei had encouraged/threatened everyone to move to sit in their new teams after he called them out.

Tuning out the rest of the teams I got Naruto to sit back in his chair and moved to sit down as well waiting for Iruka to dismiss us for lunch. When he did I nudged Naruto and sent a pointed look towards the retreating Uchiha. Naruto grumbled but called out, "Hey! Teme! We should all eat lunch together since we're a team now, come on Umi-nee chan makes the best bentos."

When the Uchiha looked back with seemingly blank eyes I made sure to catch his eye and hold it before motioning with my head and dragging Naruto behind me giving the Uchiha the choice of whether to come or not by himself. As I heard the light steps following I allowed a small smile before wiping my face clean.

Lunch went as smoothly as having two such opposite personalities as Naruto, and Uchiha-san in the same vicinity could be, but I was able to calmly head off any arguments before they got too heated, so that was good. Throughout lunch and the walk back I made sure Naruto was always between me and the Uchiha, just in case.

Waiting for our extremely tardy sensei ended up not being so bad, currently we were in deep discussion on whether or not senbon, kunai, or shuriken were the best long range throwing weapon. Uchiha-san was saying shuriken, Naruto was all for kunai, and of course I loved senbon. Thus none of us noted when our sensei showed up and simply stared at us as I was explaining in detail why senbon was so much better.

"Of course senbon are the better choice! If you're going to throw a weapon you need to know what you're throwing at anyway, so why not just study a little harder to know what to pin point so that you can take them out or even if you don't do that you can simply apply a poison to the tips and just a scratch could take someone down! I mean you throw enough at someone they're not going to be able to avoid all of them if your aim is good enough!"

Uchiha-san then said, "Shuriken can be guided by ninja wire though, so even if you throw it you can still retrieve them and use them again. Senbon would be difficult to retrieve every last one of and you can always poison shuriken as well, you just have to be more careful since they're bigger."

Naruto scoffed and retorted, "You guys are both nuts! Kunai are soooo much better! you can throw them AND use them in hand to hand AND you can use ninja wire on them! And who needs poison! Stuff hardly does anything anyway!"

This caused Uchiha-san and I to stare at him incredulously, I slowly said, "Naruto, poison can kill in even the smallest of doses if its potency is strong enough. You do know this right?"

"But when that one lady gave me that tree frog poison, she said it was really potent, but I could get immunity to it if I drank it all in one go, but that it would make me just a little sick for the day, but it didn't even give me a stomach ache!" Naruto just pouted, but Uchiha-san stared in disbelief and I scowled and let out a curse.

"Naruto, when was this? And who was this lady, could you point her out to me?" I growled this out and Uchiha-san edged just a tiny bit away from me.

Naruto remained oblivious to the slight killing intent that was slipping through my iron grasp and said, "Oh it was when I was 9 and sure! I could point her out she's the lady tha, mph mmm!"

I tensed as the older shinobi eye smiled with a sweat drop and covering Naruto's mouth. "Ah haha well." He cleared his throat and eyed the slight green tipped senbon I held in my hand ready to let them fly at the person holding my little brother, and the shuriken that Uchiha-san was clutching in his hand, "Now let's not go getting revenge on civilians with out going through the legal system. I'm sure we can get this all straightened out at the Hokage tower after we have introductions." Here he coughed at the twin glares he received from the two new genin not currently being held in his grip.

"Let go of my Naruto, now!" My voice carried the threat of great bodily injury if he didn't acquiesce right that second.

Uchiha-san followed up with, "That is our teammate, you will unhand him or face the consequences."

The shinobi looked down in fake surprise before chuckling slightly and letting Naruto go with a slight push and straightening up, "Well now, you three are certainly a surprise. defending a guy you don't even like Sasuke-kun and Umi-chan such venomous hatred towards someone you don't even know."

I ignored the guy in favor of making sure Naruto was alright even as he shouted, "Well yeah! Of course they would! We're a team you big meany!"

I heard Uchiha-san snort and nod slightly reluctantly agreeing with Naruto. Finding Naruto unharmed I turned and glared at the masked shinobi and replied, "Whoever the hell you are, if you touch either of these two again I will skewer you with your own spine, you piece of gutless, mph mmmph mph" This time if was Naruto chuckling sheepishly and keeping me from spewing anymore vitriol.

Uchiha-san snorted again, but moved to the other side of me causing just the slightest tension to gather in my shoulders before I forced them to relax. The shinobi looked at all three of us before cheerfully saying, "You pass!"

Naruto was the first to break the cricket induced silence with a "Huh? Pass what?"

Masked guy replied with even more (fake) cheer, "My name is Hatake Kakashi, I am your genin sensei, and you three have passed the test deciding whether or not you can remain genin, you have acted as a team and shown me that you are willing to put your teammates before yourselves. So! Who wants to go tell the Hokage about this frog lady?"

The three of us looked at each other in disbelief before we turned as one and said, "Iie," and quickly walked out of the room leaving a slightly dumbfounded shinobi behind them.

"Ok I say we go and ask for a different sensei, as well as tell the Hokage about the frog lady how about you Uchiha-san?" The grunt and slight nod and Naruto's shrug being enough for me we took off at a sprint to the Hokage's tower.

A/N: And that's a wrap! lol stay tuned for more in the next few days! :D