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I yawned as I got out of my bed, put on my weights and ninja clothes, tied my brown hair into a bun, brushed the bangs on the sides of my head and then went downstairs. Shikamaru was already at the kitchen table, and mum packing up the bento.

"I am going out to train!" I shouted, but before I could exit the door,

"No, Shikanaomi, you are going to give Itachi-san onigiri. Shikamaru, you will accompany her there." Mum said sternly.

"Hai, hai" we said at the same time, and muttered, "Troublesome women."

"I HEARD THAT!" And after that, Shikamaru and I dashed out of the door.

Finding the Uchiha Compound was really easy; after all, it was one of the biggest clans in Konoha, but finding Itachi's house was the problem. We slowly walked into the compound, and most of the people ignored us. Everything there was an absolute beauty. The houses were made of wood with beautiful decorations. Sakura trees could also be seen in the garden of many houses. It was extremely relaxing. Before I knew it, I bumped into something really hard. I looked up to see an Uchiha lady. I took a moment to register and before she could walk away, I asked, "Excuse me, ma'am, but do you have any idea where Uchiha Itachi's house is?"

The young lady smiled, "Of course, let me take you there."

Shikamaru and I high-fived and followed the young lady. Within five minutes, we reached the house. The young lady opened the door and went inside. Shikamaru immediately asked, "Wait, we can go in without permission?"

The lady kindly smiled at us and called from outside the house, "Ita-chan! Someone's here to see you!"

"Hai!"

I mentally face palmed. Of course she knew where Itachi's house was. She was his mum! Suddenly, Itachi came out of nowhere. He looked extremely young, and his hair wasn't as long and not tied into a pony tail yet, and just as soon as he saw us, recognition flashed through his eyes. I awkwardly handed him the bag, with me outside the house and him inside. His lip twitched up a little bit, and said,

"You may come in if you would like to."

Before I could protest, Shikamaru rushed into the house. I sighed, and lazily followed him, but not before muttering a "troublesome". Itachi led us to the family's training ground which was in the house garden. Apparently, his dad was in the clan's meeting and his mum was now cooking food. The young Sasuke was practicing throwing shuriken, which Shikamaru and I had learnt years ago. He turned to us and smiled. He seemed nice when he was young.

"What are the losers doing here, nii san?" Sasuke asked innocently.

Both Shikamaru's and my mouths hung open. So much for being nice, Sasuke. Itachi immediately frowned and scolded Sasuke, "You shouldn't say that to the guests, otuoto. That is not nice."

Sasuke let out a 'Hmmph' and went back to training, but it was apparent that he was still smiling. Itachi sat down next to Shikamaru and me. He looked directly at me, and said, "You must be Nara Shikanaomi." My eyes widened.

"How do you know?"

"I know it from-" Before he could finish his sentence, a very familiar voice interrupted.

"Hello Ita-chan and Sasu-chan. I've come a long way to visit you two! Do you know how much I've missed you? Oh, Shikanaomi and Shikamaru, what are you doing here?"

Yep. He knew it from Shisui-sensei.

"Shisui, your house is just right beside ours and you just visited us the day before." Itachi deadpanned. The four of us turned to see Shisui-sensei leaning on the doorframe, grinning. Before I could answer the question, he ignored me and walked straight to Sasuke.

"Hey, Sasu-chan. How's your training? Do you think you can be the rookie of the year?"

Sasuke confidently smiled and nodded his head.

"Of course Shisui-nii, especially when Itachi-nii is training me!"

Shisui-sensei, please stop boosting his already high ego.

Out of nowhere, Shisui sensei said, "You know, Sasuke. Like Ita-chan, I am also training a student."

Sasuke's eyes widened. "Really? She must've been really bad since you're teaching her."

Itachi smirked while Shisui was frozen in shock and I was restraining myself from killing a certain person. Shikamaru was already fast asleep, finding the whole conversation really boring.

Shisui-sensei composed himself, and said, "Well, Sasuke, she is right beside Ita-chan."

Sasuke turned to me and looked really surprised, "You? You look too small to be a ninja!"

"Troublesome."

"Now, now," Shisui said, "this comes to an important part. I want you two to spar against each other. Taijutsu, Genjutsu, Ninjutsu all allowed, including weapons."

I highly doubt that Sasuke learnt to create genjutsu yet. I learnt how to throw weapons a long time ago with dad, so it wouldn't be much of a problem. This was getting interesting. I grinned as I stood up and walked to take my stance. Itachi looked interested but nonetheless said nothing, Shisui-sensei grinned, and whispered to Itachi, "Now we can see who's a better teacher."

He turned to us and shouted, "START!"

Sasuke wasted no time running towards me with an extremely slow speed- genin's speed, I guess. I took out my kunai and threw it to beside his head to distract him, which worked. Sasuke slowed down a little to look behind to see the kunai, even if it was for 1 second, it meant a lot. I ran behind him, still with my weights on, and kicked him square in the back. Sasuke composed himself quickly, quickly stood up and took out a kunai and threw it at my head. Itachi looked like he wanted to interfere, but no need to say, I was able to dodge the kunai easily. Before Sasuke could make one more move, I use body flicker technique to be beside him and pushed him to the ground, holding the kunai to his neck. That was just too easy. I didn't even put a lot of effort into fighting him.

Because of everyday training, using body flicker technique was now no problem for me at all. I would not get tired using it, about 20 per time, which was a lot, but after 20, I would get chakra exhaustion.

Back to the fight, Sasuke looked at me wide-eyed, possibly wondering who could be better than him. Itachi eyes widened and Shisui-sensei nodded approvingly. I stood up and dusted myself, held out my hand for Sasuke, in which he took, and pulled him up. After that, I went back to sit next to Itachi. Shisui-sensei put his arms around my shoulder, saying, "That was awesome, and by the way, Itachi, as you realized, she still has her weights on, and this was just 1% of her true speed, right? Shikanaomi-chan?"

"Troublesome, but yes." Sasuke's eyes looked like it wanted to bulge out.

Shisui-sensei continued bragging, "Ita-chan, I believe her speed is just as good as you, or possibly even better. I know this seems impossible, but it's true. After all, she is being taught by two of the best ninjas. Hey, I got an idea. Why don't you and Itachi spar?"

I grinned. That would so awesome! Sparring with the great Uchiha Itachi? That was my dream! Unfortunately, Itachi's mother called from inside the house, "Ita-chan, your father wants you in the clan meeting now! Please hurry!"

I immediately pouted. Aww… there went my chance. I felt a hand on my head, and saw Itachi ruffling my head.

I looked up hopefully, and asked, "Maybe next time?"

He smiled, "Yes, maybe next time."

With that, he shunshined to the meeting place. I smiled. I turned to see only Sasuke and Shikamaru left. Shisui-sensei had mysteriously disappeared. I shrugged, and went to wake Shikamaru up. Just before I could exit the training ground, Sasuke placed his hand on my shoulder, and said, "You. I will get stronger than you, and from now on, we will be rivals."

"No."

"What? Why?"

"Too troublesome"

"Come on, I have no rivals anyway, and I want to be as strong as my nii-san, but before I can do that, I have to be stronger than you! Come on, just be my rival!" He said while shaking my shoulder.

I sighed. His pestering was just too annoying and troublesome.

"Fine, fine. Can I leave now?"

Sasuke smiled and immediately let go of my shoulder, making me stumble backwards. I shook my head a little and took Shikamaru by the hand and walked out of the house, bidding Mikoto good bye.

And that was when the rivalry between Sasuke and I started. Well, more of one-sided rivalry.

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