Helloooo EVERYONE! I have decided to be responsible and TYPE! ENJOY!

-Awa-hime (Bubbles princess)


Tazuna's house

"Okay everyone!" I shouted. "Since we're all soaking wet and sweaty and nasty, let's go down to the river and practice water walking!"

Earlier that day I had pushed everyone into the river and jumped in myself. It was really fun! Naruto and Sasuke started wrestling in the water.

Sakura raised her hand. "What's water walking?"

I gaped at her. "You don't know what water walking is!?"

I turned to Kakashi. "What are you teaching these people!?"

"Ma ma, Aiko-chan. Calm down. If you had come to any of our team meetings you would know." He said.

I folded my arms. "Team meetings are stupid. You make us wake up so early but you never show up on time plus we probably only do stupid team exercises. Am I right?" I raised my eyebrow.

"Umm... Yes you are." Kakashi replied sheepishly.

"There you have it folks! This is why I only show up to missions!" I replied dramatically.

A random shout ruined my moment. "Why do you guys try? Gato's just going to kill you all! Go home!" A little boy shouted.

I rolled my eyes. "Gato is a fat man with money. Money can buy you people, but not loyalty. Gato will fall don't worry kid."

The kid marched back inside, not believing me. I shrugged my shoulders.

"Come on Naruto! Let's go do water walking!" I shouted again.

Kakashi held up his hand. "Wait. Naruto knows water walking? What about tree climbing? How does he know this?"

I groaned. "Ka-ka-shi. Deception is a ninjas best tool. If I told you Naruto already knew this stuff then you'd ask me how. I'd tell you I taught him. Then you'd ask me how I knew. I would tell you and then I would kill you. So there!" I smiled mischievously. "I bet you won't be able to teach these weirdos tree walking the wholetime we're here."

Kakashi eyesmiled. "Aiko-chan... Is that a bet?"

I twirled my hair around my finger, innocently. "It might be. Who knows?"

"I'll teach them tree climbing in 2 days!" Kakashi said.

I crossed my arms. "No. I'll give you one day. ONE day. Deal?"

"Deal." He said. He held out his hand and I shook it firmly. The bet had been finalized.

"LOSER HAS TO TREAT THE WINNER TO RAMEN!" I shouted running away as fast as I could. Kakashi sweat dropped.

"Okay everyone. Let's go win a bet!" He said cheerfully, causing Sasuke and Saukra to sweatdrop.

(Same as canon. Sakura gets it first and then Sasuke does. Kakashi wins the bet and Aiko has to treat him to ramen.)


At the river

"Okay Naru-chan! Do you remember how to do water walking?" I asked.

Naruto scoffed. "Of course I do! Do you think I'm an idiot?"

I nodded my head really slowly. "Yes I do..."

"Aiko-chan!" He shouted. "I'm not an idiot!"

I rolled my eyes. "Okay. If you say so."

He jumped onto the water and looked at me triumphantly as he stood there.

For about a second.

He slowly started sinking down into the water. His face was so funny! He had a look of disbelief and then he started freaking out.

"Aiko! Help me! I'm sinking! AHHH!" He shouted.

I just stood there laughing. "You said you know how to do water walking right? Then why should I help you?"

Naruto looked at me with puppy dog eyes. I groaned. I hated his puppy dog eyes. I lost most of my money to ramen because of it.

I threw my hands up. "Fine! But you owe me."

I stepped onto the water, concentrating on my chakra, grabbed Naruto and flung him onto the land, causing him to go face first into a tree.

I ran, did a cartwheel, and landed on the land perfect and dry. Naruto sat on the ground and snorted then crossed his arms. "I can do that," he said.

I rolled my eyes. "Sureeeee... Good luck..."

THAT NIGHT AT TAZUNAS HOUSE.

We were 'calmly' eat dinner at Tazuna's house. There wasn't a missing nin, or a fake hunter nin eating with us, and Sasuke and Naruto were not having an eating contest while throwing up everything in the end.

Earlier that day, Zabuza and Haku, had gone to Gato's place to 'rest from their fight.' They told Gato that the 'Konoha gakis' had Kakashi of the Sharingan and Kakashi had beat him up. They faked injuries so their lie would be believable.

Gato had tried to hurt Zabuza so Haku broke his arm. When I heard, I was sad he didn't break Gato's face or something (I'm secretly a sadist!)

Gato was still employing Zabuza and Haku, but he didn't know that they had already double crossed him and-

My thoughts were interrupted by another random shout.

"Why are you still here? This is none of you business! You can't waltz into our village and walk around like you know how we feel! You don't know anything about pain and suffering!" Inari shouted.

CRASH!

I pushed my chair back so hard, it shattered. "OI GAKI!" I thundered.

"Aiko-chan. Please sit down." A voice said.

I sat down on the floor, unhappy. That kid was messed up. I'm happy a lot okay, but in my while entire life, I have never been truly happy. I sealed away my true emotions and my demon when I was 9. I could never let them come out.

EVER.

"Inari," Naruto said. "You are lucky. You come home everyday and you have your mom and your grandpa. Imagine coming home everyday to a lifeless apartment with cold water, no food, broken windows, and no parents or anyone to love you. Imagine, on your birthday, you get beaten up by everyone in your village. Don't talk to me like I don't know pain and suffering."

With that, Naruto stormed outside.

"Naruto. Where are you going?" Kakashi called.

"Training. Don't bother me." He said.

Inari burst into tears and went up somewhere upstairs. Sakura looked horrified. "Sensei. That's not true! Why did Naruto lie?"

Kakashi shook his head. "Naruto didn't lie. In fact, he sugar coated it. When he was little, I was the ANBU that protected him from mobs, especially on his birthday."

Zabuza groaned. "God dang. Kakashi. He's got blonde hair and blue eyes and says dattebyo. He's mistreated by the villagers and has whisker marks. God dang."

Haku nodded. "Yes Zabuza-sama. I noticed that too."

Kakashi shook his head. "Not in front of the kids. But yes it's true."

I nodded too. "It took you guys a while to figure it out. I mean like he's a carbon copy! And I used to live with an Akuma. I know my relatives. So dumb..." I muttered.

Kakashi gaped at me. "Aiko-chan! You know?!"

I shrugged. "It's a little too obvious." I got up and dusted off my butt. "Well, I'm going up to console Inari."

SOMEWHERE UPSTAIRS WITH INARI

I walked up, onto the roof where I saw Inari on the edge. I walked towards him. "Hey kid," I whispered. "Can I sit?"

He nodded. I sat down with my legs hanging off the roof, like Inari had his legs. I wrapped my arms around him and gave him a hug.

"Naruto has a tough life. Everyone he knows, hates him because of something his parents did. While everyone hates him, everyone loves his parents. His parents are dead. Naruto should be living in a mansion but he's actually living in an apartment in the worst part of Konoha. " I said softly.

Inari's eyes widened. "Really?!"

I broke our hug and nodded. "But he doesn't know who his parents are. You see, almost everyone downstairs, knows real pain. Sasuke saw his entire clan be murdered in front of his eyes... By his brother. Kakashi saw both of his teammates die and his dad committed suicide in front of him. Zabuza watched all of his comrades die and Haku was nearly killed by his father, the man who killed his mother."

Inari's eye widened again but then he looked curious. "How about the pink lady and you?"

I laughed. "The pink lady thinks getting a paper cut is pain. She doesn't know what real pain is. She was bullied many times because of her pink hair and big forehead. But now, she does the bullying. Sakura has a good life. She has a mom, a dad, friends, and a nice house."

Inari nodded. "So pink lady is Sakura, awesome guy is Naruto, weirdo is Sasuke, orange book is Kakashi, bandages is Zabuza, and the girly boy is Haku."

I laughed. "Yup! That's all of them!"

Inari looked up at me. "Onee-chan. What's your name? Everyone calls you Aiko, but you don't look like an Aiko. What's your pain?"

I froze. My NAME. My PAIN.

THUMP.

THUMP.

My heart beat loudly. What was my name? Ai- something. My pain. My... Mother? Mother gave me a name! Yes! What was it? Aini? Aifo? Aido? Aijo? Aiko? AIKO!

My names Aiko!

All my memories came back to me. I knew who I was! That was good. I didn't know what happened for a while.

I looked at the little boy that was looking at me with interest. "Onee-chan? Are you okay?" He asked.

I smiled. "I'm fine Inari!"

"Then why is your hair turning silver Onee-chan?" Inari asked. He looked scared and worried.

"My hair? Silver?" I gasped. I grabbed a lock of my hair. It was a pure silver, shining in the moonlight.

"AHHHHHH!" Someone let out an ear piercing scream. I turned and I saw Sakura with Kakashi, Sasuke, Zabuza, and Haku.

"Sakura! What's wrong?" I asked. I cautiously stepped towards her. She fell on her butt when I came within a foot of her.

"A-A-A-AKUMA!" She screeched when she pointed at me? Or was it behind me?

"What!?" I asked.

I looked at everyone, confused. Zabuza's face was white and his mouth was open, just like Haku's. Sasuke and Kakashi both had a kunai ready.

"AHHHHH!" She screamed again.

Wait.

My hair's turning silver but my scars aren't showing. My nails aren't longer, my teeth aren't razor sharp, and I can't feel my left side. I had a flash of memory loss.

Oh shit.

These are symptoms of-

I whirled around and spoke one word.

"Mother."