Hi y'all!

I've only got…six more days of school holidays. Sounds like a lot right? Enough to get you a few chapters here and there no?

Yeah well, don't get your hopes up!

I do happen to have a social life, and family life will take up majority of those days. Add three tests of studying and this may be the last chapter for the hols + a week. School will definitely be chock-a-block!

On a note of the last chap, that scene between Naruto and Alice was originally not going to happen. I began to write Sasuke and get primed up for a HUGE argument when I realised that Alice wasn't really in the mood. She had already screamed and yelled. Put on a brave face and convinced Anko to be her sensei. And just cried about her family.

If I was her, fuck Sasuke's argument. I want some chocolate and hugs, not a scrawny, duck-ass twat to start screaming at me.

So for the sake of Sasuke staying a man, it was Naruto.

That was just to clear up any confusion or any of that shit. Now that I've blabbed on, here's a new chapter.

Disclaimer: DDOOON'TTT OOWWWWWNNNNN!

Warning: Language fuckrats

Alice P.O.V.

"Dear Kami Alice! You look like the dead!"

I managed a convenient zombie-like moan as I wandered into the training ground. I'd shuffled all through town to get here and I was still tired, normally moving woke me up.

"What happened to Alice!"

I winced at Naruto's piercing shout as I thunked my forehead against the tree trunk Team Seven was sitting under. "Cool your jets Naruto, I'm just tired. Now will you please be quiet?"

I heard an amused noise come from Sakura, "tired Alice is polite Alice."

I managed to roll my eyes before slowly sinking to the ground and curling up in a ball. "Can't I go back home?"

Sakura laughed, "you just got here and it's nine in the morning. Why are you so tired?"

I choked out a laugh, "you would be tired if you nearly stayed up all night." I sighed and tucked my head in further, "I shouldn't have slept at all. I function better when I get no sleep rather than just two hours. Screw Anko-nee right now."

The rest of my woeful tirade was smothered by Naruto lying over me, "I'll give you my energy Alice! It'll make you feel better!" I laughed again and rolled over so I could see Naruto lying across me. I pulled him towards me and hugged him to me like a teddy bear, "I'll get up after I grab some sleep with my teddy."

Naruto struggled under my arms and tried to wriggle out, "hey let me out! I don't want to be a stupid bear!"

"Shhh," I closed my eyes and hugged him tighter, "teddies don't talk."

A poke in the side made me crack open an eye. Sakura was standing over me with a slight smile on her face, "c'mon Alice. Let the poor kid up."

I stubbornly held Naruto tighter, "no he's mine! You can't take him from me meanie!" Sakura scowled slightly and grabbed Naruto's only free arm, "Alice…" She tugged on Naruto's arm to get him out, "let him go Alice."

"No." I quickly grabbed Sakura and dragged her down so that she was squished against Naruto in my arms, "yay! More teddies!"

Try as she might, Sakura couldn't get out of my grip. Both her and Naruto were very close and personal with each other, not that I ship them. I'm NaruHina all the way. I'm just trying to share some love between them and all that magic.

I'm also trying to get some sleep.

Stupid Anko….

It was close to three in the morning by the time I had memorised the top ten natural poison plants and their properties. Six when I had successfully made Hemlock into a sort of paste that could be ingested by someone. The cool part was that the paste killed in five minutes. Anko had demonstrated on a rat she had captured earlier. She had wanted to use a person, but they currently had no one in the I&T holding cell to be killed. The rat had eaten the paste-really Anko force-fed it-and around the four minute mark it keeled over paralysed. I got to watch as the body functions of the rat failed, it took thirty seconds for the rat to die after its respiratory system died.

It was awesome.

I snuggled into Sakura's soft hair and slowly drifted off into a light doze. I didn't even bother to wake up when the dipshit I was arguing with last night entered the training ground. How did I know Sasuke was there? That was easy enough to explain, chakra sensing.

It had become apparent to me after only a few days of having chakra. A lot of things made me able to sense people's presence and their chakra, the fact that I had chakra played a part.

I had always been alerted to people's presence just before they came anywhere near me, a sixth sense you would call it. I always woke up minutes before my alarm, or I woke up a second before my parents opened the door to check on me or whatever.

And yes, I was awake when Sasuke put that blanket on me on the first night. As if I was going to say anything about that, it's better if he thought I was asleep. It was also better if I pretended he had no heart, it made ignoring him easier. Like I was currently doing.

3rd Person P.O.V.

Sasuke had barely any sleep last night, but he was feeling slightly better than last night. He had spent a lot of last night brood-thinking over what Alice had said to him and what she could mean by her words. She had said Naruto was the person with the most pain on the team, Sasuke found it hard to believe the Dobe had the worst pain.

Naruto may have lost his parents, but it wasn't like he had actually lost his parents. They were gone before he could even get to know them, therefore he had never lost them in the first place.

The only thing he had noted about Naruto was that the population of Konoha seemed to glare at him as he walked through town. Sasuke had noticed it when they were walking to Hokage's office or when they were doing a mission, but he just brushed it aside. Maybe there was something about that, something to do with Dobe.

Sasuke would have to ponder it later because he had arrived at his team's training ground. He also arrived to see a strange sight.

Naruto and Sakura were squished together, something that Sakura wouldn't willingly let happen. They were also tucked under…Alice's arms as she held them in a bear hug. Alice's eyes were closed and it looked like she was asleep, which was preposterous, the noise his teammates were making could wake the dead.

"Sasuke!"

"Sasuke-kun!"

Sasuke internally groaned at his teammates pleading looks and shouts, this was not going to end well. He could just feel it.

"Come help us Teme," Naruto made puppy eyes at Sasuke, "Alice thinks we're her teddy bears. She won't let us up until she gets enough sleep or something! She was muttering about only getting two hours sleep, what did you do to her last night?!"

Sakura gave Sasuke a disapproving look, "it's not healthy for someone to get such little sleep Sasuke-kun. What did you do to keep her up so late? And who's Anko?"

"I thought you weren't being a medic," Alice mumbled as she shoved her head between Sakura's and Naruto's. "Change your mind did you Sakura-chan?"

Sakura growled and blushed at the same time. "I-I just read up on some more medical books Alice! It doesn't mean I'm going to be an Iryo-nin or anything!" Alice made a disbelieving noise and curled up tighter. Sakura wiggled slightly under Alice's increased grip, "and what's with the chan part?!"

Sakura could feel Inner get fired up inside her, 'DON'T YOU GET AFFECTIONATE LIKE NARUTO-BAKA! DON'T BELITTLE US LIKE A LITTLE GIRL, CHA!'

Alice's mouth tweaked in a small grin, "mmmmn. You're just like what I imagined my little sister would be like. Fiery like me, but good at medical stuff like my mum."

A blush bloomed across Sakura's face, "like a lit-ttle sister?"

Alice's eyelid slid up and she stared at Sakura with her emerald eye, "not unless you don't want to be." Shaking her head vigorously, Sakura smiled at Alice, "no! I've always wanted a sibling!"

"Well it's unfortunate you've got one like me," Alice smirked, "or you could be lucky. I'm the little sister to my brother, how could I know what it's like to be the older sibling."

"Ne, ne!" Naruto beamed at Alice, "you have a sibling?!"

Alice rolled her open eye before releasing Sakura and Naruto. Sitting up she stretched and cracked her back, "yeah I've got an older brother. He's my favourite person the whole world, and he's the coolest bro ever!"

Sasuke scoffed as he leant against the tree the others were under, "what's so amazing about him? He's probably just as stupid as you are, and twice as ugly."

"I go to a smart school dumbass~" Sung Alice, "my brother is just as smart as I am. He's only a year older than me but he's skipped a year in school. Oh also, the girls at his school pine after him. He doesn't have fangirls, he has girls who reckon he's hot and awesome, and they don't stalk him. Therefore he's twice as cool as any Uchiha could be, especially you." She made a scoffing noise and crossed her arms, "you're jealous of my bro's mad skills."

Sasuke looked on bewildered, Alice was colder sounding to him and she hadn't made any eye contact with him either. She was giving Sasuke the silent treatment. It was meant to be the other way around! He ground his teeth quietly as Naruto asked Alice another question about her amazing brother.

"So what's he like Alice?!" Naruto cocked his head in curiosity, "is he an insane ninja who knows really strong jutsus?! Oh I bet he's the best warrior of your village! C'mon Alice! Tell me! Tell me! Tell me!"

"Okay!" Alice shoved Naruto's puppy eyes away from her face, "I would be happy to." She sat down cross-legged and faced a curious Sakura and Naruto, her back to Sasuke. "Where should I begin….Hm well firstly, he's not a ninja. Where I come from we don't have ninjas. Or even chakra for that matter."

"No chakra!" Sakura gasped, "but how are people still alive then?! How are you able to do jutsus then?!"

"My mum answers questions similar to that first one," Alice smiled softly, "but she's never found any evidence of any sort of energy inside of us."

"What's your mum do to ask those questions?" Sakura asked, "you said she's good at medical stuff."

Alice looked thoughtful for a moment, "it's hard to explain. She's a scientist who specialises in Biology, but she also dabbles in Physics for her job. She specialises in Neurobiology but also is adept at other areas of science. As a part of Biology, she knows a whole heap about the human body and what it can do, along with several diseases and how to treat them." Alice stared at Sakura suspiciously, "I thought you were asking me about my brother and not my mum. Hmm Sakura-chan?"

Sakura blushed slightly, "sorry!"

Alice just laughed again, "nah it's cool. My bro is someone I love, but I'm also insanely jealous of. He's good looking, smart and the bloody best at sport. Like fucking hell I'm so inadequate compared to him."

"You don't seem sad when you say that," commented Sasuke, "you say you're jealous. So why aren't you more-"

"Angry?" Alice finally looked at him. "I would never feel angry about my brother in that way. I am told I have talent and all that shit, but honestly, I don't care. I'm fine cruising through life just asking stupid questions about it and fucking stuff up. My brother is different, he acts tough but he's rather fragile. He's hard on himself when he thinks he hasn't done well, it's the complete opposite of me. I've built up a I-do-not-give-a-fuck attitude so I don't feel disappointed ever. I'll never blame my brother for doing well at what he does. I just never said I wouldn't make fun of him along the way."

Alice smiled a soft smile, "he's my Dobe, and I love him greatly."

"Dobe?!" Naruto squawked, "why do you call him that if he's so good?!"

"Because he spent one year choking at sport," Alice drawled. "I can make fun of him for that 'cause it's ironic and frankly hilarious in my family."

Sakura tugged on Alice's arm, "you said he was older than you by a year. Is he fifteen?" Alice nodded before freezing, "what's the date?!" She looked around frantically, "guys what's the fucking date?!" She almost screamed out the last part she was so frantic. Sakura placed her hand lightly on Alice's arm, "calm down Alice it's the twenty fifth. What's so bad about that?"

"Wh-what so bad?" Alice asked shakily, "what's so fucking bad?!"

Sasuke instantly began to back up, he knew one of Alice's blow-ups. And judging by the way her whole body was shaking, this was the bad feeling he had earlier. Although he was surprised when tears began to pool up in Alice's eyes. The shaking wasn't from anger, it was from sadness.

"Alice!" Naruto grabbed the trembling girl by the shoulders, "what's wrong?! What did we do? Was it something I did? Or was it Teme?"

Sasuke slapped Naruto away, "Dobe it's obviously something to do with the date you idiot!" He knelt down in front of Alice, "what the hell is wrong?"

"My bro-other," Alice gasped, "I missed his birthday." She let out a small sob a clenched her shoulders, "he was turning sixteen and I missed it! That's the most important part of your teens either than eighteen! He was going to get his L's. He might find a girlfriend while I'm gone. I just….I just missed an important part of my family's life."

Honestly Sasuke had no clue how to answer to that. Naruto wasn't much help either. Luckily Sakura had relatives and being a ninja and completing her duties made her miss important times in her small family. She gathered Alice up in a hug and gently soothed her until her sobs turned into hiccups.

"You know I missed my mum's birthday while we we're on a mission to wave."

Alice peeked her head up at that. Seeing that she has Alice's attention, Sakura continued to talk about her family. She talked about how her parents threw a small party when Sakura had come back, and that her mum hadn't opened her presents until Sakura was home. She talked about what it was like to be a civilian in a clan's profession. And as she talked, she didn't realise that she had the attention of both Naruto and Sasuke as well. The two boys were often so caught up in their own loneliness and hardships that they hadn't even asked about their female teammate.

Sakura had to juggle clan stuff, although her clan wasn't big they still had obligations. There was also dealing with stuff at home, and managing to squeeze in any family time between training and missions. She hadn't had a proper sit down dinner with her family for more than two days in a row since training took up her time. Although she was a civilian and hadn't faced many hardships in her life, Sakura had to juggle more stuff than a year twelve studying for their HSC (A/N: Graduating high school and all that shazzam)

Alice was content to listen to Sakura talk rather than listen to the voice inside her head that kept saying she had betrayed her family by missing out on her brother's birthday. She knew she was going to have nightmares tonight. If Anko let her sleep that is.

Alice P.O.V.

I stared at Kakashi, "I can do the wall walki-what? Fine!-tree walking exercise already." Kakashi just watched me suspiciously, "prove it then." I lifted my head up proudly, "fine! I will. Watch this scarecrow and feel stupid."

Man I was so glad that I did the exercise right then, it would've been so embarrassing. Thank you chakra control god!

I grinned cheekily down at Kakashi from the top branch I was on, "is this sufficient?" He merely nodded and gestured me to come down. I stalled slightly, I knew what was going to come next. And I'm sure I wasn't going to like it.

Kakashi tucked away his ever present book and sat down on the grass against the tree I had climbed. I dropped down, hesitantly sitting next to him and prepared myself for what came next. Unfortunately Kakashi was content for me to sit and squirm a little before he talked. After what seemed forever, Kakashi turned to me with a serious glint in his eye. "I've noticed you've stopped calling me Kakashi-sensei."

"Mn." I fiddled with the bandages that were always present on my left arm. "I have no need since I already have a sensei, one who has taken me on like a apprentice. I guess she could be my shishō, but that doesn't really seem to be her style, and I call her nee-chan anyway."

Kakashi looked curious at that, "you have a new sensei? May I ask who she is?"

"You may not," a smile tugged at my mouth, "it's a super secret, something you'll never know." I full on smiled at Kakashi's annoyed expression, "yeah, I'm an ass aren't I? The identity of my new sensei will never be found."

"You can call more than one person a sensei," said Kakashi quietly. He wasn't looking at me anymore, his gaze was directed forward and away from me. "Mn," I didn't exactly know what to say here. It seemed like Kakashi needed to be comforted, but was trying to act cool about it. Well….when in doubt, hug it out.

He instantly stiffened when I lightly put my arms around his shoulders. He lifted his arms up to actually look at me, "Alice what are you doing?"

"You can call more than one person chan," I retorted as I now hugged him around the waist. I gripped his waist tightly and buried my face into the soft material of his shirt so I wouldn't see his hesitant face. I was surprised though, when an arm was slowly placed around me. Taking it as a small victory, I grinned into his shirt, "thanks…Kakashi-sensei."

"Thank you, Alice-chan."

"So you kissed and made up with Scarecrow eh?"

I snorted at Anko's 'delicate' way of putting my hugging session with Kakashi. "Yeah Anko-nee, we totally snogged and all that shit."

"I fucking knew it!" Anko grinned at me to show she was playing along, "now let's see if you can get you mind out of the gutter and into ninjutsu!"

My mouth dropped open in surprise, "ninjutsu?! Oh my fucking Kami! We get to do that already?! But we did poison last night, I'm pretty sure I haven't learnt everything about poison yet Anko-nee."

A very ladylike snort came from Anko, "you know fucking shit about poison girly! We're doing ninjutsu today because, A. I feel like it. B. I want to see you actually use that mimicking skill. And C. I actually have a schedule you need to follow. Actually it's more like a training regime, but whatever. Now let's get started!"

I cheered happily, "yay for ninjutsu! It's fucking awesome!"

"You fucking bet it's fucking awesome," Anko flicked me on the nose, "but shut up and listen. You're going to learn an E-rank ninjutsu called the Henge. E-rank basically means even you should be able to do it with your shit control. Now it's a 'transformation' technique, but it basically is a minor genjutsu that changes how you look. What people don't realise though, is that when you put on a henge, if you come in contact with someone they can feel the fabric, skin and shit of you. So don't get cocky with it, it's not a fucking shape shift or anything."

I nodded easily at Anko's explanation, I already knew all of this but something was bugging me. You aren't meant to be able to properly transform into the person, or, object that you henge into. Like Anko said, it was a minor genjutsu. But in the series, Naruto transformed into an actual girl when he did his oiroike no jutsu. He also transformed into a Fūma shuriken that Sasuke could actually catch and toss. That definitely was no illusion. Either than being a jinchurriki, the only difference between Naruto and any other person, was his insane level of chakra.

Well Kakashi said I had a fuck load of chakra (not that he put it that way exactly), so maybe I could overload the jutsu with chakra to make it real. That was, after I learnt how to do it safely.

Anko clapped her hands together, "this is the hand seals. I'll only show you once, so watch this closely and don't fuck up." She twisted her hands into three signs I already knew. "That's dog, boar, tiger. Is that right Anko-nee?"

"So you're not completely useless my little girly girl." I scowled at Anko's comment, "call me anything but girly girl. It insults my entire being."

"Yeah, yeah," Anko waved me off, "now are you going to do the jutsu or what?"

"Well what am I turning into?"

"Who do ya think?"

"Some sexy chick. Unfortunately I don't know anyone I can turn into."

"Why you little!"

I began to go through the seals of a Henge as I ran away from Anko, "first try's the charm!" A white cloud obscured my vision for a second and I quickly wheeled around to Anko, "did I do it?!"

She began to laugh obnoxiously, "not even close! You made your hair purple and that's about it!" I scowled and grabbed the end of my hair so I could pull it around and see what I did. Anko was right, my hair was a deep purple, just off Anko's own colour. The cool thing was, it looked spikier than before.

"Anko-nee!" Anko looked up at me from where she was curled over laughing, "what is it loser child?!"

Ignoring her comment I showed her my hair, "even if it's not a full transformation it's changed colour." I made her grab my hair, "and look! It's spikier than before! Just like yours!"

"So what?"

I rolled my eyes at her bored question, "so! You shouldn't be able to feel the spikes or anything!" As her eyes widened in realisation I continued, "this means it wasn't a henge. If you overload the technique with your chakra it makes it real!"

Anko grabbed me by the shoulders, "kid you have just revolutionised ninjutsu as you know it!"

I grinned at her, "nah you can thank Uzumaki Naruto for that. He was the first person I realised who could actually do that. I simply copied what he did, but I think you need really big chakra reserves so you can do it."

She looked thoughtful for a moment, "I think you're right girly. I know that Kyūbi brat has a fuck load of chakra and I could sense that you had heaps to. I'll run some tests with the other jōnin and see who can do it, hopefully Scarecrow can't do it that bastard."

I rolled my eyes, "whatever Anko-nee, let's just perfect this ninjutsu already. I want to actually get some sleep tonight."

Haha yep it's getting onto the actual mimicking part now.

Every time I finish a chapter, it'll most likely finish with Alice learning something from Anko. There was softy moments and all that stuff, but hopefully at least one of you laughed.

I'm nearly up to forty reviews though! Happy times guys!

I also have a cover to this story. It was drawn by me so that you know what Alice looks like. Hopefully it was good.

See you soon!