If you're here and you haven't read "unstoppable" (the replacement for the author's note chapter) please go back and read it. If you already have then please enjoy :)

The song is Right Before Your Eyes by Hoobastank. Kinda self explanatory for title and lyrics.

Neji POV

"Ugh.." Neji groaned slowly making his way to the dining hall to get some breakfast. His legs were killing him. He hadn't expected anything that Shinobu used for training would effect him because he normally trained with Hiashi or Gai who were both extremely tough in training.

But neither of them had ever focused on flexibility in their training and it was now obvious to him that the splits, as easy as they looked when Shinobu did them, were not something that came natural to him.

It had awed him to watch her train. While he couldn't keep up, though he'd never admit it, she had a grace and flexibility he had never seen before. She can practically sit on her head for Kami's sake!

"There, see? Just slide down your front foot until your muscles are too strained to go farther. After that hold for a minute or too and I'll show you a stretch to loosen the muscles a bit more before you do it again. If you can't get very far I can help push you a bit." Shinobu explained sitting in a front split, acting completely oblivious to Neji's look of pure horror and wonder.

"There is no way I can do that.." He muttered under his breath.

"Oh? But I thought you said you'd be able to keep up with my training." Shinobu responded with an innocent smirk. Curse her.. curse her to hell for this. He thought before warily inching his front foot forward. Before he could even get to a 90 degree angle Shinobu pushed his front foot out from under causing him to quickly slide into a full split, his facial features contorting in pain.

"Good! Now hold." She grinned, as continually winced, resisting the urge to grab at his crotch.

"This is completely inhuman!" Neji growled as he managed to get out of the torturous position.

"Really? I normally go farther than that." Shinobu stated simply.

"How is that even possibly?"

"Like this!" She grinned pulling the front leg of her split onto one of the bar steps leading to the monkey bars. "With a prop for your front leg you go farther, it's called an over-split." She laughed as he grimaced.

Neji shuddered at the image.

"Not human.. not at all human." He muttered.

"What was that Neji?" Hiashi grinned with a knowing smile from the end of the table. Shinobu sitting a little to his right quickly eating her food. She was still dressing in that ridiculous outfit. Is she going to train with him again today? Two days consecutively of full day training.. I'm not sure how she can even walk today.. let alone think about more training.

"Nothing.. Nothing at all." He murmured, sitting down gingerly, careful not to harm any of his aching muscles.

"So are we training again today after I'm done with Gai sensei?" Shinobu asked with a grin once she was done with the bacon on her plate.

"Depends.. are you wearing that again? It's hurting my eyes." Neji quickly retorted.

"Hopefully not.. but I'll take that as a yes. Hiashi-sama is my witness." Shinobu smirked before quickly bowing and excusing herself from the table before he could retort.

"Damn it.." Neji cursed under his breath earning a chuckle from Hiashi.

Shinobu POV

"What do you think you're wearing, girl." A voice growled from behind her. "Trying to shame us even more are you?" The voice continued in a sneer.

"Not at all Mika. I'm simply wearing something that helps me with training and is none of your concern. In fact, I hope to bring pride to the Hyuuga clan considering I'm now in the final area of the chunin exam along side Neji." Shinobu said with a sigh, hoping Mika would leave her alone.

"Yes.. under the name Uchiha. If you beat Neji that will do our pride nothing. You are from a different clan and I haven't the faintest idea why Hiashi is allowing you here or trusting you but believe me, girl, I am not so trusting. I'm on to you and your plans and you will not get away with it." Mika threatened.

"Yeah? And what exactly are my plans Mika? To help protect Hinata? To make the clan stronger? Because that is oh so bad for the Hyuuga clan, right?" Shinobu whirled on her. She had done nothing to deserve this and she was getting sick and tired of Mika. She was not a branch member and even if she was, she had not disrespected Mika in the slightest until she had been disrespected first, multiple times.

"Don't you play dumb with me girl, you're going to take over. You're changing our rules and traditions. Corrupting our leader. I won't allow any of it!" She shouted following Shinobu straight into Hinata's room as she went to grab anything she'd need for training. Hinata was visiting the hospital to keep Kiba company so she wasn't anywhere to be seen.

"Then you're obviously delusional. My intentions have nothing to do with harming this clan or the people in it. What could I possibly gain from it?" Shinobu retorted angrily.

"Stop talking back to me girl, you WILL learn your place. Hiashi-sama may not see it but I do. You got me in trouble and you're going to ruin this clan. You'll be punished for it all, if it's the last thing I do." Mika screeched.

"So that's what this is really about then? You getting in trouble with Hiashi for something YOU did? Your choice that you KNEW was wrong?" Shinobu asked.

"Shut up! You insolent little girl!" Mika yelled, furiously making an all too familiar hand sign.

"Wh-" Shinobu got cut off, her ear shattering screams echoing off of the room walls.

"You will never talk to me like that again! Do you hear me?" She asked with a slightly hysterical laugh. Shinobu's eyes clenched shut as she desperately tried to nod finding her entire body immobile.

"I asked you a question, girl. DO YOU HEAR ME?" She repeated viciously pumping chakra into the seal. I hear you damn it but I can't respond! Shinobu thought desperately, looking up at the woman through her pain. She could barely hear her own voice, only the blood rushing past her ears and the chakra in her system desperately trying to keep her conscious and alive. Mika's eyes flickered shades of pink among the lavender as she glared down upon Shinobu, still laughing.

Wait a moment.. pink.. I shouldn't be able to notice that.. but her eyes are so clear.. all of the details.. I can see them all. It's almost as if everything has been magnified then played in slow motion. Is this my Sharingan? She could see Mika's lips moved as she yelled words she could no longer here. Her vision blurring in and out. The last thing she remembered seeing was Mika's eyes widening in shock as someone entered the room and pushed her out of the way.

Then everything went black.

Omake

"Neh neh, Shinobu-chan. Do you think we could try a prank involving ramen?" Naruto asked with his usual goofy grin and tilted head as he held a noodle in front of his face, causing him to go cross eyed just looking at it.

"Sure.. but what? I mean.. wouldn't that be wasting ramen?" She asked, biting her lip to avoid laughing at the face he was making.

"Well couldn't we use fake noodles or something?" He asked before making a funny "nom" sound as he chomped down on the poor noodle. (It really never had a chance).

"Sure.. but then how would we make the prank ramen related.. what could it do?"

"We could make a ramen bath!.. but then no one would actually get in it so it wouldn't work.. Maybe we could clog everyone's plumping with fake ramen so that when they turned on their taps ramen would come out?" Naruto grinned.

"I'm not sure about you but I don't know how to work with plumping. Besides, most taps have little filter type things on the end.. I'm not sure the noodles would fit through." Shinobu pointed out, nibbling on her own noodles.

"Good point.. alright.. I'm officially out of ideas. You got any?" He pouted slightly, pushing more ramen half heartedly into his mouth.

"Well.. we could always make giant fake ramen noodles... and I know! We could turn all of Konoha into a giant ramen bowl! It could advertise for old man Tseuchi's shop!" Shinobu grinned as Naruto immediately brightened at the idea.

"That's perfect Shinobu! You're a genius." He grinned before pulling out spare map he always kept handy for pranks and set up the ramen bowl.

"If we turn the Hokage's mansion and the academy into pieces of meat, the book store and weapons shop can both be veggies. Then a couple of the compounds can be naru's and we'll fill all the streets with noodles!" Naruto exclaimed showing her the now ramen-fied map.

"But how will we get enough noodles to fill all of the streets?" Shinobu asked, mimicking Naruto's earlier head tilt.

"Well if we paint all the streets with a broth coloured paint maybe we could shred noodle coloured paper or cloth and fill the streets with that."

Shinobu nodded and so they both set off to get different things. Naruto went and got as much paint as he and his clones could carry, the paint store offering a large discount if Naruto promised not to vandalize it. Shinobu ran to the fabric store and got several colours of material for making noodles, meats and vegetables.

"NARUTO!" Iruka screamed from the top of the Hokage's mansion as he took in the site. From up their you could see clearly the ramen bowl along with big letters spelling 'Ichiraku Ramen'. "YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!"

Haha.. that last little bit made my day *wipes tear*. I noticed the chapter was a tad short so I threw that in for your lovely entertainment :)