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Gaiden Two

One character that didn't appear so frequently in this story was Ashioto Miharu, one of the original characters invented to make the story seem more interesting and slightly more comical. Other than being mentioned to be one of Tsumi and Itachi's classmates with a scene here or there, she seemed to have been forgotten.

She was the prettiest—but definitely not the smartest—of the girls in their class. Then again, what she lacked in brains and skill was made up for in popularity. She ran for anything that would give her another boost up the social scale, even though she knew that she wouldn't need it, she still liked to be the teacher's pet, beating even the nerds at that game.

Miharu still had her posse of girl friends (Harawata Kawa, Yakume Hana, and Mokuroku Suru and Tamaru). After all growing up to stop pursuing their shinobi dreams and do other girly things, they do have the occasional slumber party.

This is their story, since they lacked screen time so severely before.

The telephone rang.

"Moshi-moshi?" a seventeen year old Harawata Kawa said sleepily into the phone.

"Hi Kawa, Miharu speaking. I was wondering if you wanted to have another get together at my place this weekend with the other girls."

"Oh cool! That sounds pretty great. I'm free all weekend and my parents are too busy with their crap to care about me."

"So that's a yes, then?"

"Of course it is!"

"Awesome! So I'll see you at my place anytime Saturday afternoon, alright?"

"It's a sure thing!"

"Don't forget to bring some of the old goods down, alright?"

"I won't!"

"Okay. Bye!"

"Bye!"

She hung up and started to pack up her belongings, even though she had a good three days to do it.

Elsewhere, a Mokuroku Matsu picked up his phone.

"Miharu, I'm not going to go out with you, alright?" he sighed after picking up the phone.

"I know there're plenty of other guys to go for!" Miharu giggled. "Can you get either Suru or Tamaru on the line?"

Rolling his eyes, Matsu complied and got his sisters on the phone.

"Miharu!" two voices said in unison.

"Hey girls, what's up?"

"Just talking to you on speaker," Tamaru laughed.

"Oh? Sweet! Anyway, I was wondering if you girls wanted to come on over this weekend for a slumber party. I know Kawa's coming, and I still have to ring Hana's number, so can you come?" Miharu said in one breath.

"Anything to get away from our darling brother," Suru scowled as she adjusted her glasses.

"Good! I'll see you anytime on Saturday afternoon. Don't forget to bring down the old goodies!"

"Are you serious? That might take a moving truck to bring over!"

"Uhh…I meant just the NA stuff," Miharu laughed embarrassedly.

"Oh. That isn't so bad then. We'll see you there. Bye!" Suru answered and hung up.

Hana, on the contrary, was the really shy one, but did end up getting more confident throughout her adolescent years. She too agreed to the slumber party.

When Saturday finally rolled along, the girls were all busy squealing in their houses over what they could and could not bring over to Miharu's place. After much fussing, they just decided to bring everything, which would have caused quite a storage problem if the Ashioto residence wasn't nearly the size of a mansion.

After eating some ordered in pizza, they started to watch some fluffy romance movies. Halfway through, Miharu decided that they should all pull out their boxes of memories at the Ninja Academy.

"Didn't we all have scrapbooks somewhere?" she asked the other girls as she dragged a huge trunk down the stairs to one of the several television rooms.

"I found mine!" Kawa squealed. "Remember Uchiha Itachi? He was gorgeous!"

"That he really was," Suru laughed. "Remember his sister, Tsumi? She was really pretty—"

"—and brave—"

"—and strong—"

"—and smart," Hana finished off.

"She was good at everything! They both were," Tamaru sighed.

"Plus they were perfect for each other," Suru piped in, though earning childish glares from Miharu and Kawa.

"That's not true!" they screeched before the five of them burst out into a fit of giggles.

"Oh my gosh, that's so cute!" Kawa wailed and pointed at the television screen where the main female and male characters started making out.

"Hey, he's pretty hot," Miharu sighed.

"Sasuke," Hana said suddenly; "their little brother! I saw him on the street the other day with that really hot Hatake-san!"

"Isn't he his sensei?"

"Hai!"

"Let's go spy on him," Miharu said devilishly.

"Wait, what?" Tamaru laughed nervously.

"Sasuke—cute—boy—visit—now!"

"Are you crazy? It's almost midnight!"

"So?"

"So? We aren't leaving this house at midnight. That and there are Akatsuki members on the loose! We can't go out at a time like this, Miharu! You must be insane! Plus, Sasuke's only twelve, I think. Are you a pedophile!"

"Of course I'm not, silly. Besides, he lives pretty close to here; he's just a street down. Come on, let's go!"

"…maybe some other time…right now I feel like drooling at the pictures of the ever so dazzling Itachi!"

"Good idea, Kawa!"

And so, the girls spent the rest of the night drooling over the pictures of their childhood heartthrob. Don't you feel ever so pathetic for actually reading that? Hah.