a/n- Anyways, I actually have up to about chappie six written out. It just isn't ready for consumption yet. I'll get it up eventually, my pretties.
Summary- This is Naruto fanfiction, love if you will. There will be yaoi. I played with Neji and Daniel (my semi-OC) a little, but they are not a couple. I think. The only things I will not argue with as far as couples go is SasuNaru, Shino/Kiba and Shikamaru and Temari. I don't know if dat couple will appear at all, but I'm not putting Maru-chan with anyone else. You can offer anything else and if I don't hear any arguements it shall happen. It's also a reincarnation fic, with plot everywhere watch out for it, because it smells funny.
Disclaimer- This is a fanfic so I don't own any of the characters. I own the idea of Daniel, Jacob and Noah, bless their little souls.
Sakura brushed her hair down self-consciously. Ino glared at her hair with a sense of wounded indignity in the dank of the forest, but Sakura ignored her best friend in favor of her cousin.
"Sasuke?" The tree-soaked sunlight was absorbed by the Uchiha boy. He glanced down at Sakura, and his eyes narrowed. Ino pondered running all through the forest, the training grounds and back to her safe little dorm, but in the end she decided it was un-kunoichi like behavior. Women ninja never ran from an ally.
"Nani." The dark-haired ninja protégé stated gruffly, proving you could turn a question into an accusation. Sakura's eyes narrowed.
"What's with he attitude, nii-chan?" I just wanted to know what you thought of my hair." Sakura growled right back. Years of training against her cousin's icy attitude had given her a surprisingly firm voice of her own. Sasuke didn't like it because it sounded like his mother used to. Ino didn't like it because no one should be allowed to shout at the great Sasuke-kun. She didn't voice her rather high-pitched opinion because she didn't want to get in the way of her best friend when she was mad.
"It was fine before." Sasuke said eventually, completely uninterested in all the shojo-angst going on around him. Sakura sighed, tone hinting that she was equally defeated and exasperated. Ino looked on in awe, as she always did. No matter how much love she lavished on Sasuke-kun, he never responded to her like that. Hell, he never responded. Sakura was the only girl who could break through Uchiha Sasuke's chilling exterior. If they weren't first cousins, Ino would be forced to consider her serious competition. At one point Ino would have hated the thought of a boy ever coming between them, as it was she just thanked her lucky stars neither of them had any interest romantically.
Sakura stuck out her tongue at Sasuke, promising a rematch in her own friendly way. Ino delivered her traditional doomed plea for a date then they both vanished.
Sasuke stuck his tongue out at the way they had left.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura shouted cheerfully. After a minute or so of walking they had reached the normal training area, where Kakashi was lounging about reading an old porno. He'd stolen it from the antique shop in Konoha, said it had 'seminal value'. After Sakura called the teacher looked over his shoulder at the academy student. His face didn't change, but Sakura was surprised at the serious lit in his voice,
"Don't try to be something you're not." He said. The Uchiha girl's visage changed slightly. She nodded and turned away from her sensei, her body language heavy. Ino watched all this without a clue to it's significance.
"What did I miss?" She asked, wondering off.
"Uchiha Sakura?" A deep voice that would have startled Ino spoke, but Sakura turned on it, already upset.
"What!?" She shouted. She was disturbed by the boys facing her. Neji was standing next to a young man she had never seen before. He was smiling happily about being allowed to lean on Neji, but Sakura was drawn to his appearance. He was only an inch of two shorter than Neji, but his bright hair and sunny blue eyes put him in a completely different league. It was impossible to compare the two. The boy seemed to recognize her, and his grin shrank exponentially.
"Uchiha?" He yelped, sounding very much like a puppy someone had stepped on. This rubbed Sakura all wrong, since the subject of her clan had always been a sore one.
"Yeah. You got a problem with that?" Sakura barked, sounding like the puppy owner who stepped on him. Sakura started at the guilt that crossed the greyhead's face.
"N-no... it's just different." Daniel said, slowly gaining in confidence. "Your hair looks nice though. Really brings out your eyes. They look almost ..." Daniel faltered.
"Luminescent?" Jacob supplied, his voice strained with disdain. Daniel sent him a dirty look. Noah held back a waterfall of tears.
"Luminescent, yeah." Daniel agree grudgingly. Sakura beamed, and the boy's tension was broken. It was a well known fact that the only thing worse than an angry female is an angry female ninja.
"You really think so?" She said. Daniel nodded enthusiastically.
"Makes you look more mature. Much better than pink." He added. Neji's eyes widened in shock, but Sakura appeared pleasantly surprised.
"How did you know?" She gasped excitedly. Jacob jumped in again, this time to Daniel's relief.
"My brother has always been a lucky guesser." He said. Sakura'a bubbling came to an abrupt halt.
"Oh..." She struggled for something to say, and turned to a thoughtful Neji.
"You wanted something, Neji-san?" She asked. Neji shook himself out of thought again.
"I was going to introduce you to our new students. Daniel-kun, Jacob-san and Noah-chan Umino." Neji said, having finally remembered his duties as host, gestured to each boy as he spoke their name. Daniel waved pleasantly to Sakura, Jacob nodded acknowledgment- obviously distracted by something behind Sakura's head- and Noah smiled sweetly. Sakura clapped her hands together in delight.
"I'm so glad I'll be seeing you every day!" So, Jacob-san must be the Chuunin, ne?" Sakura said. Jacob narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth do say something, but he was halted by a voice similar to Sakura's hollering,
"NO WAY! He doesn't look very tough!"
Sakura rolled her eyes.
"I'm sorry. Allow me to introduce my kid sister, Akane." Sakura grumbled. Akane jumped out of a tree right in front of Jacob, who didn't even flinch. This didn't particularly annoy Akane, as she was too busy starting an argument with her sister.
"I am NOT your kid sister! We're twins!" Akane shouted. Jacob watched both of them with something akin to confusion. He was sure he had seen this Akane before...
Akane's long green hair shook violently as she shouted at her sister. Sakura sighed, the perfect picture of the long-suffering older sister. The black-haired girl brushed imaginary dust off her pink top and midnight blue capris while Akane continued to ramble on about something or another. Her clothes were well-suited for training, unlike Akane's black Chinese dress with green embroidery almost as outlandish as her silky hair. It was obvious Sakura was the better ninja, but her feminine vibe had not suffered. Jacob noted Akane sounded like Sakura when she was much younger. Did she have a split personality?
"Hey, jerk-off. I asked you if Sa-chan was right!" Akane shouted, and Jacob blinked. They much have finished arguing. He turned to Sakura, completely ignoring her twin.
"You are most perceptive, Uchiha-san." He said, allowing his voice to deepen with respect. Sakrua blushed at the praise, but Akane glared at the both of them.
"I still say there is no way a pretty-boy like you could be so powerful." The greenette was sticking to her guns. Jacob paid her no mind, pondering the existence of another Sakura- an Inner Sakura perhaps. Daniel, on the other hand, rushed to his sibling's defense.
"He's the strongest there is! I'll prove it to you!" Daniel turned to his brother, his right hand fisted in his customary stance for challenges. "Fight me, Jake." He shouted. Neji looked worried for Daniel's welfare.
Jacob looked annoyed. Several thoughts flashed through his mind but he remained silent, hoping Daniel would leave him alone. Daniel picked up on this, so he whipped out a kunai from his old school uniform. Jacob and the kunai vanished.
"I can play rough!" Daniel shouted as he threw it, but he staggered once he wasn't supported by Neji. "It's just because he isn't here, isn't it?" The greyhead shouted to the emptiness, on his knees. A slow shower of sakura blossoms fell around Daniel.
"Huh? What the hell is this?" The older boy asked. Neji, overestimating the danger Daniel was in, rushed to his side and shouted,
"Kai!" And the glowing flowers were repelled. Sakura did this also at about the same time, and Akane followed suit. Noah stood by himself, unaffected. Daniel appeared not to have noticed the potential danger he had been in.
"Genjutsu's aren't fair!" He yelled. Laughter echoed through the trees.
"You can't use Taijutsu as you are." Jacob's form appeared in a tree nearby Noah. Carefully he walked down the tree trunk, and offered Noah a hand. Daniel fumed at being snubbed so completely, as well as completely forgetting about Noah in his haste to battle. The little boy scrubbed his eyes and allowed himself to be led over to Sakura and Akane by the hand. There was a pained silence while Jacob walked with the child, but Daniel made it quite clear he would never endanger Noah.
Once Jacob had handed over Noah with a promise they would protect him, he stepped away from the younger boy. Daniel didn't waste his chance- as soon as the albino's care was assured, he flung a shuriken at Jacob, who dodged. Once the shuriken was out of Jacob's line of sight, it turned into an exact copy of Daniel. Jacob spun around when the clone shouted,
"Sexy no Jutsu!" The clouds of censorship had barely begun to fall around a head full of midnight black hair when in vanished altogether. In a fury of mostly unseen action Jacob had deactivated Daniel's 'sexy' shadow clone and brought a kunai to the necks of Daniel and Neji. This was quite possible, as Neji was still kneeling next to Daniel protectively. The purple eyed boy revealed a basic weakness to Jacob's attack.
"Only one of those kunai is real- you only caught one of Danny's kunai." He said calmly. Jacob grinned at him, startling the brilliant boy.
"Ah. But which one is it?" Jacob asked. As Neji was not gifted with Byakugan, he didn't know the answer. The three boys stayed silent, before Jacob pushed both kunai home. Akane screamed, but Daniel's face broke into a grin as well when both weapons vanished in a poof of smoke. Jacob stood up and brushed away invisible dirt from his hands. Eventually he turned to a stunned Neji, who had just begun to help the grayhead up.
"They were both fake." He said serenely. Neji pondered this- that factor was obvious to everyone but Akane- who was being enlightened by her twin. The mind bender was this,
"Then what about Daniel's?" Neji asked. Daniel placed his weight back onto Neji, he was now as upright as he was going to get.
"Oh, mine wasn't real either. All the weapons we used were actually transformed Kage Bunshin- it's an exercise in multitasking." He explained. Neji stared at him in horror- multitasking with a strenuous jutsu like that? It was a wonder both boys hadn't been made Chuunin.
Daniel smiled at Akane.
"See? Nothing to be worried about, Akane-chan." He trailed off when he saw the reason Akane had screamed.
Noah had fainted.
TBC...
