*2013 update*

REMINDER italics are memories...
BTW doukeshi if i can recall means clown... so she's saying Clown-kun.

I was walking along the road on this very nice summer day. It was just a couple days after the Preliminary Exam, and I was just walking around minding my business. Many foreign ninja still wandered the streets as well, waiting for the month for the Third Chuunin Exam to start. I heard Sasuke was still in the hospital. I got a few dirty looks from some random passer byers. Bastards, walking around my village to glare at me. Tsh, how dare they! Of course I glared back at them all, that was until I ran into a familiar face. Oh how I would love to smash his face in dirt and then laugh because it stuck to the PAINT on his face. I saw the black suit with cat ears through a few people, I glared intensely at the being. The people between us separated, giving him room to spot my smaller form of 4'8''. It didn't take longer than a half a second before he noticed who I was and his eyes let out the same hateful glare. Dumb, face painting clown!

"You..."

"Me..."

"Tsh."

His face crumpled up in disgust as we found ourselves frozen in our steps, trying to kill each other with some unknown force. Oh what I would give to just mentally torture his poor soul, teach him a lesson on picking on children.

"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be doing some puppet show for old people?!"

"Shut your trap you annoying little runt!"

"Make me... Doukeshi-kun..." I smirked as I saw his face begin to turn red from anger.

"You are nothing but a worthless brat who doesn't know how to shut her mouth!"

"Heh, go make some balloon animals."

He grabbed a hold of my collar, by now; people are trying to avoid us as much as possible, scared of being hurt in crossfire if we broke into a fight. Many people whispered, hoping a fight would break lose. I smirked at the man as he lifted me in the air, bringing me to his eye level.

"If you don't watch your mouth I'll make sure you can't use it!"

"Tsk, tsk, what would Gaara say about that? Hmmm?"

His eyes narrowed at the name.

"Heh, like I care!"

I shrugged my shoulders bringing my feet up, running up his own body, kicking him in the chest. This caused him to let go and stumble back a couple steps. I landed carefully on my feet.

"I have this strange little feeling; you're all talk and no action Doukeshi-kun..."

"Stop calling me that you snot nosed brat!"

"Hypocrite!"

He charged at me with his fist, I crouched down, I pushed his arm away, sending my own fist, and he spun to kick my arm down trying to grab the back of my cloak. I dove forward sliding under his legs, I tried to push up and kick him, but the bastard turned and caught my foot. He smiled triumphantly as he held my foot in the air, He tried to throw me off balance but I just flipped landing on my hands and feet in a crouching position.

"You're pretty good for a runt."

"I'm surprised face painters can move so fast."

We smirked at each other as we dared each other to come at us with our eyes. I made the first move flickering behind him, sending a kick to his head, he ducked down sending his fist to my other knee. I bent forward grabbing his fist and pushing off of it to gain my footing back. He switched fists, sending an upper cut to my face which I barely managed to dodge as it brushed my hair up. I narrowed my eyes at the boy.

"Heh."

He had a smug look that I wanted to smack it right off his face. We stood and both went to punch each other in the face, both catching each others fists. We stood there glaring. We have caused quite the commotion and people had formed a large circle around us. We paid no mind to them.

"Give it up runt; you have no chance against me."

"Really, I was thinking the same thing."

"Amaya..."

I looked over to see a raven haired boy giving me a cruel look as he pushed himself out of the crowd. As my guard was down the purple painted man pulled a cheap move, pulling back to punch me in the face again. I noticed split second and moved, having it strike my shoulder instead, sending me back a bit, I took the momentum and sent my foot straight into his open ribcage, due to the fact I had a hold of his hand. We both staggered back, me cringing, holding onto my shoulder, him wrapping his arm around his rib as he hunched over slightly.

"Amaya, I have to talk to you. Now."

Sasuke had some sort of authority sound to his voice and I scowled. He still had a bandage around his head and one arm. One final glare and I turned away.

"Until next time Doukeshi-kun!"

"Tsh, bring it brat!"

I followed the Uchiha, people stepped aside rather fast, letting us get through. He led me through a few alleys before we came out toward the lake near the Training Grounds. Away from people he turned to glare at me with his coal colour eyes. I narrowed my green ones at him as I rolled my shoulder, trying to loosen it.

"What the hell do you think you're doing? Picking childish fights in the middle of town!"

"You have no authority over anything I do Uchiha!"

"I do when it's my ass on the line for this Chuunin Exam!"

"Who said I was even entering anyway! I don't care about his ninja shit! Find a new 3rd member you egomaniac!"

I turned to walk away.

"Selfish brat!" My eye twitched and I turned and struck the boy in the face. I stared at him, murder in my eyes.

"How dare you. I have put up with you and that baka blond long enough, you have no authority to call me that you hypocritical bastard!"

He ducked down, sending a foot up into my stomach. My eyes bulged as I was thrown back a few steps. I narrowed my eyes at the boy.

"What's your damage Sasuke? I don't beat you when you and Naruto pick a fight! Hell the only thing I've tried to do is support you and your stupid dream!" I prepared myself for another attack. "Hell, if anyone is selfish it's you! You'll hurt anyone who cares about you just to kill your brother, then what Sasuke, what are you going to do when he's dead?! What are you going to do when you have no one to turn to because you abandoned them?!"

"What makes you think I'm going to abandon you?"

"Because that's the only thing a Uchiha is good for! Leaving!"

I could feel the tears wanting to break from the rims of my eyes.

"What makes you think you know anything about my clan!?"

"Uchiha's are nothing but bakas! Filled with hate and revenge! You're going to leave me alone, searching for power! Just like everybody else, leaving me, with no words..."

I collapsed on my knees, I just sat there crying.

"Amaya..." The raven haired boy walked closer to me. "What happened to you? How did you lose your parents?"

"I can't... I promised… I can't tell anybody."

I began to sound like a crazy person. Sasuke knelt down, putting his hand on my shoulder.

"I'm sorry Sasuke..."

"No... I'm sorry."

I wiped away my tears, I chuckled at myself.

"You can't tell Uzumaki about this... I can't believe I just killed my cool chick rep... It's just horrible."

"Yeah, you were doing so well too, showing up Kankuro and everything."

"Rats, well isn't that just my luck." Sasuke stood up offering his hand. I took it and pulled myself to my feet, my shoulder still kind of hurt.

"So, how are you? I thought you were supposed to be in the hospital?"

"I am, I decided to run."

"Haha, good idea, it's almost lunch, if you didn't die already, the food will get you."

We both laughed until we felt a presence behind us. We turned to see a silver haired, masked man, with a curved eye. He smiled at us and waved. An Icha-Icha series in his hand.

"It's nice seeing you two get along, but unfortunately, I have to take Sasuke."

I nodded.

"Good luck Sasuke, don't let me down, or I'll kill you!"

The boy smirked ever so lightly.

"Good-bye Amaya."

The masked man waved and they both were off. I stood there for a moment before I sighed.

I shifted, some sort pressure pushing at me with intense force. I clenched my teeth, unable to open my eyes, what was this feeling, it hurt so much. I can feel it swirling around inside and out. What is it...?

"Oh Amaya-chan!"

"Go away Uzumaki!"

The boy stopped his run, I looked back to see him bowing his head in sadness. I just sighed.

"What do you want?"

"I wanted to know if you wanted to go get some lunch, my treat."

"Oh?" I turned around with my arms crossed, an eyebrow raised. "And what is the whole meaning of this lunch Uzumaki?"

"Well, umm, uhh." He began to fiddle with his own finger, as he kicked at the ground beneath his foot. A light pink was across his cheeks. Oh how easy we he to mess with. "Well, I was hoping it could be something like a date."

"A date? Really?"

I stated in a 'are you crazy' kind of tone, narrowing my eyes at the blond.

"It doesn't have to be! I mean, we can just to get lunch!"

"Nah I guess one date won't hurt, you're paying right?" I chuckled.

Naruto pulled out a little green frog. I snickered at the wallet. It was so adorable. He ran up smiling at me.

"So where are we going?"

"Where do you want to go Amaya-chan?"

"I want dangos."

"Alright! Dangos it is!"

With that we began to walk to the little shop with the yummiest Goma dangos I have ever eaten! I walked, my arms dangling beside me within the flowing cloak.

"Why do you always call me Uzumaki?"

"Habit I suppose. I tend to call people by their last names when I'm annoyed. You always bug me so now it's just odd to call you Naruto..." I thought for a moment and shook my head. "See, strange."

He laughed lightly.

"Yeah, I am pretty used to it now. But, why don't you call Sasuke by his last name all the time?! He's so annoying! Always butting in, trying to play the cool guy, trying to be the main character of everything!"

"He does annoy me, just not when you're around, plus you just aren't meant to be the main character of a story."

"What?! You and Sasuke hang out without me?! What do you guys do?! Since when?!"

I plugged my ear that was about to burst from the voice that now echoed through my own head. I could feel his panic and jealousy, slowly flooding over with annoyance. I chuckled, trying to shove the boys over flowing emotions.

"Uzumaki, I swear, you shout in my ear once more... I'm going to use my dango skewers to skewer your mouth shut!"

His eye widen as he clamped his mouth shut, sulking as we continued to walk. This kid was ridiculous. But, I enjoyed his company; I could always feel his determination and optimism. I patted the boy on the back.

"If it makes you feel any better, I prefer you're company over Sasuke's."

The boy's grin was ear to ear as he began to jump around cheering. A young women walked up in an apron with a sweet smile.

"Can I help you to this afternoon?"

"Yeah, 3 Goma and 3 Bocchan for my buddy here."

She nodded and walked away as we sat down on a bench outside. The boy was still smiling like the dork he was.

"Those are your favourite right Uzumaki?"

"Yeah... How did you know?"

"You ramble, ALOT on missions... I just happen to have a memory for little details."

The girl came out with our food and we took it, thanking her as she retreated back into the building. I began munching on the dumpling food covered in sesame seeds. Naruto, scarfing down the ones in his lap, I'm surprised he didn't inhale the skewers themselves. I chuckled.

I opened my eyes slowly, the bright blue sky and green and brown of the trees were blurred. I looked over to see Pakkun sitting beside me, on the other side of me Sasuke knelt beside me.

"Where's Uzumaki?"

"He over there."

He nodded his head, as he helped sit me up. I looked over to see the blond on the ground, I couldn't feel Gaara around. Just the envy from Sasuke.

"What happened?"

"Naruto... He saved you..."

I laughed as I looked over at Sasuke.

"He did. I'm not surprised, the boy has a good heart."

"Hn."

"By the way Sasuke." I jumped down and went over towards Naruto. "If I have to chase you again, I'm going to make sure you can never move again. Do you understand me Uchiha Sasuke?"

He smirked, jumping down beside me, watching me as I picked up Naruto, pulling his arm around my shoulder.

"Hn."

"Don't give me that crap, I just saved you're ass, again."

He rolled his eyes and we took off, heading back to Konoha.

I walked outside, my white shorts replaces with a longer black ones. I still wore my cloak, but I left it open, the breeze went through, blowing it lightly around my figure. I jumped in the air and flickered away, meeting Uzumaki and Uchiha. I looked at the boys, we all had sad looks on our faces. The boys looked really good in black, though; Sasuke still had his longer hair so he looked pretty girlie. I nodded to them and we began our walk to the funeral. The Third's funeral. He died, fighting Orochimaru.

Everyone was here, except Kakashi, but of course he was probably just late like usual. The feelings of everyone around me was almost unbearable. If I wasn't used to grief and mourning I would have broken down. I stood there, my head bowed.

I sat on the ground glaring at the grass beneath me. A little girl ran away from me crying. She was just trying to be nice, but I don't want nice. I don't want anyone around me.

"Stupid girl... I told her to leave me alone!"

My once peaceful green eyes were cold, glazed over by sadness and hate. I could feel footsteps from behind me. I growled.

"Go away!"

"Amaya-chan."

I looked over my shoulder, my cloak wrapped tight around me, my hood draping over my eyes. I saw an older man, wearing a white and red robe and a cap that had the word Hokage written on the top.

"What do you want old man?"

"I know how much you're hurting. How you take it out on the people around you."

"HAH! I'm not hurting, I just don't need anyone! I was fine being alone before, I'm fine now! Now go away old man!"

"I didn't agree with them. I wanted to try a reasonable approach, but they, they didn't want to chance it, if things didn't go right there would have been another war. Many people would have been killed."

"LIES!"

I gripped my head and curled further into a ball. What does this man want, does he want to hurt me more!?

"No. I promise you, I never wanted this. It tore me apart, though it's true, I never knew that you existed. But, like Sasuke-kun. I promise I will protect you. You're a part of this village that I love, you are a part of this family."

I began to sob.

"My family is dead... Shishi couldn't see my mother, because of these stupid villages... Then, then Itachi. He killed him. He doesn't know I'm a Uchiha... Nobody can know who I am. I don't like to lie, but I promised Shishi."

The old man walked over to me and gave me a hug. It was very warm and gentle.

"If you need anybody. I'm here for you Amaya-chan."

I smiled at the memory; he really was a honourable man. I looked over the pictures of the faces of the victims to the attack. Even the attackers, many of them are hurt as well. I walked up, setting the white flower on the stone. I went back to my spot, staring at the ground. Sasuke stood beside me. I clenched my fist, my nails bit into my skin, causing the blood to pool and drip from my fists, on the ground beside me. The rain that had started seconds earlier washed down through the pavement. You could see the red swirls in the water. I could hear the sobbing of Konohamaru, he was standing beside Naruto and Iruka-sensei. I was a few people to the right of him. The ninja life is so cruel... My nails bit in harder. I guess it's just easier to feel the pain.

"Amaya, your hand is bleeding."

I looked down, the rain had stopped and the blood was dripping in a small puddle. I unclenched my hand and looked at the red marks in my palm. Maybe I should cut my nails more. People began to shuffle and move. I saw Kakashi and darted for him, following him out, Sasuke behind me.

"Bye Iruka-sensei!"

I heard Naruto call out as he ran toward us. I waved as well and we began our walk.