Don't Read This Fic

Chapter 9

Dream sequence/Flashbacks

THUTHUTHU is changing scenes

Shikamaru and Mego were on their last game of shougi, for the night. Mego had on a serious look and Shikamaru looked at her waiting for her to make her move. She did then said,

"Check."

Shikamaru moved one of his pieces and stated,

"Check mate."

"OH DARN IT!"

"Okay, you two." Mr. Nara said, "Time for bed. I'm sure your fully aware that the graduation exam is tomorrow."

Mego flashed a smile at her father and sighed,

"Night Daddy."

"Good Night Mego. Good night Shikamaru."

"Night."

Mego hugged her twin. "Night Shika-kun."

"Good night Mego."

THUTHUTHU

Winry and Naruto trained until their bodies betrayed them and they passed out. The next morning they both sprung up and got ready. Today was the graduation exam at the academy.

"You ready Naruto?" Winry asked.

"yeah!" Naruto shouted then dashed out the door. Winry chased after him then bonked him on the head.

THUTHUTHU

"Shikamaru, Mego Wake up!" Their mother told them. Shikamaru heard Mego mumble as their mother flipped on the light to Mego's room. "Mom, It's five AM" Shikamaru heard foot steps coming toward his room, his mother tried to turn on the light and he smirked to himself, remembering he'd unscrewed the light bulb in his room the previous night.

"Get up Shikamaru!" she went back down stairs. Then he heard a slight rustling then something crawl into his bed with him.

"Mego, what are you doing?"

"Tired, Niisaan." he sighed, allowing his twin to remain.

"Come on you two. Wake up. I knew I shouldn't have let you play shouji so late last night." Their father said screwing the light bulb back in. He looked down and smiled at his children. They'd curled up in the same position they used to get in when they were little.

"Maybe it's coincidence, habit or just a twin thing." Mr. Nara thought. "But they do look cute."

Mego had circled into a ball, snuggled into sycamore's ribs, her head under his arm pit and Shikamaru's hand was on her head (1)

"Come on you two wake up."

THUTHUTHU

Nemuri stormed out of his bathroom in a robe and a towel around his head. he stormed over to Taij and grabbed her by the shirt.

"What the hell did you do?"

"What are you talking about?" Taij pretended to be confused. Mea, who'd stayed the night tried not to laugh.

"What's going on?" Kakashi asked. Taij and Nemuri's fights didn't usually go strait to fists, usually.

"Nothing." Nemuri mumbled and released his hold. When he tried to walk away Taij grabbed the towel off his head to revile pink hair. Mea finally burst out laughing and Kakashi stared in shock. Nemuri turned around and punched Taij in the jaw. She responded in flicking him with the towel. A loud snap erupted and Nemuri felt a sharp stinging sensation in his leg that he ignored and lunged at Taij. Both began rolling on the floor fighting Nemuri pinned Taij to the ground and she kneed him in the gut then wriggled out of his grasp. She punched him in the face and he elbowed her in the ribs. Then kicked her in the shin. Taij fell to the ground then went out and bit Nemuri on the leg and growled. Nemuri kicked her in the head and she sat up and punched him in a very sensitive area and he was on the ground. Kakashi, extremely frustrated grabbed a random ruler and slammed it onto he table ans shouted, "THAT'S ENOUGH!"

Both froze.

Flash backs

Taij lay on the floor in pain unable to move as Mrs. Kango advanced on Shikajoe.

Shikajoe flinched as he felt a stinging sensation on his skin.

The walls in the torcher room began spinning.

Taij remained motionless as the warm red liquid ran down the side of her face.

Fear whelled up in the two children as they were dragged to That room.

"STOP! PLEASE STOP!" Taij shouted as she watched Shikajoe being beaten. Mrs. Kango glared at her and threw the battered boy at her. She fell over when the boys momentum collided with her. She listened as large boots stomped over to her. Before she could react Mrs. Kango had grabbed her by the ear, once again and smacked her across the face with her ruler.

The torcher stick.

The small children, only three years old followed the, what seemed like a very kind Mrs. Kango to a room.

"This room is completely sound proof. If you misbehave, or don't get your work done this is the room you'll be punished in. Is that understood?"

The two looked at her confused.

Very small Shikajoe and Taij where playing around the small foster home/orphanage unaware that Mrs. Kango was sleeping. When they awoke her, she stalked over to them with an evil look on her face and began shouting. She grabbed both of them harshly and threw them into the room, both children later named the "torcher room". and were beat senselessly.

Both children screamed and cried as they were struck. "SHUT UP! DAMMITT! SHUT UP!! YOU STUPID FILTHY WORTHLESS MONSTERS, SHUT UP!!!!"

Shikajoe lay limply in the dark corner, numb, slipping in and out of consciousness.

End of Flashbacks

Kakashi realized his mistake all too late.

Taij got up and held her now bloody nose.

"Taij are you alright?" Mea whispered.

She nodded and grabbed a paper towel.

"What am I going to do with you two?" Kakashi mumbled.

Nemuri slid back to his room wordlessly. Taij and Mea left for school.

THUTHUTHU

The Uchiha's were completely silent that morning. Each of their minds heavy with thoughts of their night mares the previous night.

THUTHUTHU

The exams went by rather quickly and stress-fully. Most of the young ninja were extremely nervous while others, like the Uchiha's were confident in their abilities. In the end everyone but Naruto passed. Winry felt extremely bad for her younger brother. She went to look for him, but was unable to find him. She looked past the crowd and saw the blond boy on a swing looking very depressed. Winry felt like crying. Last year she'd been the only one that didn't pass out of her class as well, but seeing her brother in such pain caused Winry's heart to ache. She tried to push past the crowd. But by the time she reached the swing Naruto was gone. Winry gently touched the swing. Then took off in order to find her one and only family.

Later that day Winry was still searching for her little brother. The sun had set and she'd found herself lost in the middle of the dark woods.

"Darn it, this is a fine mess I've gotten myself into this time." she muttered to herself. "This really sucks!" Winry began running blindly through the woods.

"Great I'm gonna die out here now!" She thought. However because she was not paying attention to where she was going Winry bumped into something and fell down flat on her butt.

"Owww!!" She groaned. Then looked up not to the something she'd bumped into but instead a someone. Standing in front of her with an annoyed look on his face was none other than Uchiha Sasuke.

"S-Sasuke-kun? No!" Winry mentally smacked herself. "Hot sexy Uchiha is not important right now."

Sasuke quirked an eyebrow at her.

"Oh no you don't! You are not important right now! Little Brother is more important than you right now!"

Sasuke was confused by his 'fan' girls actions.

"Oh, KAMI!" Winry fell to her knees. "I promise I'll never be a fangirl again if you help me find my little brother!! Or at least get out of here in one piece."

"Do you want my help?" Sasuke asked.

"NO! I SAID YOU ARE NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW, SO SHUT UP!"

Sasuke was a little taken back. None of his class mates had ever told him that before. He admired Winry's nerve. However, Winry had blurted out her thoughts with out thinking and continued on her quest to find Naruto. All thanks to her one track mind.

"NARUTO!" Winry shouted then ran promptly into a tree. "OUCH!!" Winry fell on the ground again. Sasuke rolled his eyes and scoffed.

"Do you want out of here or not?" he asked in an annoyed tone. "If you do then come on. If not, then fine spend the night in the woods."

"Of course I do. But I'm not leaving until I find my brother." Winry looked at Sasuke and for once didn't feel like a fan girl.

"Thanks though Sasuke-kun." She finished then began to walk away, into another tree. (A/N which is besides the point!)

Sasuke rolled his eyes and said,

"At least let me help you get out of the woods. Or do you plan on spending the whole night out here?"

Winry turned and almost accepted Sasuke's offer when she heard,

"IRUKA-SENSEI!" a voice that was all too familiar.

"Naruto." she breathed and dashed off through a bush and tackled the two men. She began squeezing the life out of Naruto.

"Naruto you BAKA! You had me SSSSSSOOOOOOOO WOOOORRRIED!! Are you alright. Your not hurt are you? Why aren't you answering me? ANSWER ME DAMMITT!" Winry hadn't noticed she'd begun shaking the blond boy.

"Whoa! Whoa! Winry calm down. I just said I'd take Naruto out to ramen to celebrate his becoming a ninja. Would you like to come?"

"What? CONGRADULATIONS NARUTO!! I love you little brother! Oh my gosh, Iruka-sensei do you even need to ask that question? WE'RE TALKIN ABOUT RAMEN HERE!"

Naruto coughed a little and said,

"Dattabayou!"

Sasuke watched the group then went back home.

"Sasuke's back." Itachi told his sister. Botan looked to the door as Sasuke walked in.

"Bout time." she said. Sasuke shrugged.

THUTHUTHU

"All right, the names of the teams are posted right here. I'll read them aloud." Iruka told the young ninja. Everyone waited for their team to be called.

"Team 7: Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke."

Botan plugged her ears as the protests and yelling came from Naruto. Sasuke nudged her letter her know Naruto had shut up and they'd moved on.

"Team 8: Inuzuka Kiba, Abureme Shino, Hyuuga Hinata."

"Team 10: Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji."

"Team 13: Hatake Nemuri, Uchiha Botan, Uzumaki Winry."

Everyone present mouth's dropped except for Iruka's.

'Oh goodness! Botan's on a team with Nemuri. That sucks. Even so, I'm sorta glad me and him are not on the same team.' Taij thought.

"Team 15: Nara Mego, Hatake Taijiya, Umino Mea."

"You'll all meet your sensei's tomorrow, for now your dismissed." Taij, Mego and Mea ran to Botan who had her head on her desk.

"Botan you alright?" Mea asked.

"I'm on a team with one of the Uzumaki's and Nemuri. I swear I'm in Hell."

"That makes two of us." Sasuke told her.

"Oh, Sasuke that really sucks you've got Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno." Mego stated.

"Hn. Thanks." He mumbled and left.

"Oops. I pissed him off again didn't I?" Mego stated.

"He'll get over it." Botan mumbled. "Dang you guys got so lucky." Botan hit her head against the desk again.

"No, Bad Botan!" Mego put her hand between the desk and Botan's head. But Botan just slammed her head on top of Mego's hand.

"OUCH! YOU HURT MY HAND!!!"

Mego wove her hand around frantically.

"Mego!" Mego looked around.

"Shika-kun!" she smiled brightly forgetting her hand.

"Mego your such a pain. Let's go. Mom'll skin us if we get home late."

Mego sighed in frustration.

"Sorry guys, Gotta go!" she flashed a peace sign. "Bye." then ran over to Shikamaru.

"Let's go Niisaan!" Botan, Taij, and Mea laughed at her actions.

Then they heard a very familiar voice and went to the window to see what all the commotion was about.

"Do you think that's funny Nemuri? SHUT UP INO-PIG!" It was Sakura.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! Nemuri's definitely got the hots for Sakura. He even dyed his hair for her!"

"I did NOT Yamanaka! SHUT UP!"

Ino began laughing harder.

Botan, Taij, and Mea began rolling on the floor with laughter.

"Hey I got an idea!" Taij stated.

"What?" Mea asked. Taij opened the window.

"Taij...what are you doing?" Botan asked suspiciously.

"Nemuri and Sakura sitting in a tree."

Mea joined.

"K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"

"TAIJIYA! MEA!" Nemuri and Sakura shouted.

"Oh my God you guys are idiots!" Botan laughed. Then the three dashed out the back door of the school to the Uchiha estate.

"Hey you guys wanna stay over?"

"Sure." the other two replied.

"Okay, let's go get your stuff."

They went to the Hatake house first. Taij grabbed the few items she needed and scribbled a note.

Went and stayed at Botans.

Taij

She put the note in Kakashi's room and they all turned to leave when Nemuri walked in the house.

"You little-" he lunged at Taij but Botan intercepted and punched him in the face. causing him to fall over.

"Shut up Loser." Botan said. Then the three left.

"Amas!"

"What'd I do?" Mea mumbled.

"Nemuri's an ass. Don't listen to him." Taij growled. "Dang I'm hungry!"

"Taij-chan, when are you NOT hungry?" Botan asked.

"When I'm eating."

"That's just ...yeah." Mea patted Taij's shoulder.

When they reached Mea's house Mea dug through her pocket, "Uh-oh."

"What do you mean, 'Uh-oh'?" Botan asked.

"Uh, I left my key at your house."

"Are you serious?" Botan complained.

"I'll get it." Taij said meaning the lock.

"I've got Edward Vincent." She continued pulling out her pet paper clip that had been unfolded.

"That is such a weird name." Botan said as Taij began picking the lock.

"What It's very...English."

"You're so weird."

"Hmmmm, ...Got it." Taij pushed the door open.

"Whoot!" Mea said and ran in to get her stuff.

Niisaan,

Taij and I are staying at Botan's tonight. See you tomorrow.

&heart& imouto

THUTHUTHU

"Stupid Girls." Nemuri mumbled and slammed the door to his room. After flopping down on his bed he noticed the small bottle with a sticky note on his night stand. He took the bottle in his hand and read the note scribbled on this paper.

leave this chemical in your hair for 15minutes, it'll take out all the pink and your hair'll be black again. Just follow the directions on the bottle you little brat.

Who do you think?

"Feh." Nemuri mumbled and began to read the directions on the small bottle.

(end of chapter)

well, this was not the original end of the chapter but I decided to stop here and post becuase it's been soo long since I've updated, for that I am truely sorry! It's been a very buisy summer for me and not to mention I was grounded for a while. Well I think the update is rather large so I hope it makes up, even a little. Reviews are loved, appreicated and accepted. (also missed, but that's my own fault) Okay i've got to go, i busted my ass trying to get this up so i really hope you enjoyed it! (when tennis is over I should have more time to update, i usually update better when in school anyway, dunno why though)

To all my readers: I love you all!

THU