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Any confusion about the fact that Naruto called the mystery lady (who you all will meet in this chapter) mother, yet the lady called her little sister... well like I said in my profile, I like the sound of Japanese when spoken out loud and the fact the adopted families (as well as step-families come to think of it) can be a little strange in their titles for each other... beside I kinda like being confusing insert evil little smile

Chapter2: Morning Thoughts

'Nothing like a nice, warm shower to wake you up in the morning,' was the thought of the 12 year old girl, whose name was Naruto. The idea that she took 25 minutes to take a shower was not wrong at all. She loved to just sit there and think while the water woke her up slowly.

This morning she had a lot to think about, to see if she could reorganize her jumbled thoughts. Though she had already known about the Kyuubi and the Yondaime's their connection to her; having been told by Kageneko Namida, her Kaa-chan, who had adopted her at the age of six. That knowledge being the real reason she both attacked the Hokage Mountain and the reason she keep the truth about her being a girl a secret between her and her Okaa-san, as well as the Sandaime who had known about her secret from the beginning, which in turned allowed her to walk about the village with out fear. Yet, the fact that Mizuki-sensei had hated her so much and the idea that Iruka-sensei would hate her just as much still bothered her so.

She had known that stealing the Sacred Scroll was a trick, but it had been a chance to learn some of the forbidden jutsu, and Kaa-chan had said to take all opportunities given to learn and given so openly, that it was what a ninja does. No, what was really getting to her was that some one would attempt to kill her and truly believe that she, well as most thought he, was a monster. She knew that the secret of her being a girl was kept for multiple reasons, one being if no one knew she was a girl she could work in Kaa-chan's tavern, The Neko no Kage, as long as she covered her cheeks with no problem, as well as being able to walk around the village. Though now she was beginning to believing the reason Namida, a.k.a. Kaa-chan and Sandaime had always stressed for keeping the fact that she was female a secret, the reason that people might do something horrible to her physically.

'How could people be so cruel with out even with out knowing me,' was her agonizing thought. As she finished her shower, getting out to finish dressing and heading down stairs to eat breakfast, her thoughts turned to her Okaa-san, Kageneko Namida. Kageneko was now down to Namida and Naruto, though when Namida adopted her she gave her the name Kageneko Nami. The Kageneko clan had taken great losses in the shinobi wars, and then when Kyuubi attack the clan had lost even more members, actually they were down to only a handful. The deaths of the last few were contributed to Uchiha Itachi.

The Kageneko clan was similar in a lot of ways to the Inuzuka clan, in that they owned cats and could both speak to them and use them in battle. Though there were a few differences such as the shadow bloodline abilities the clan members had, similar to the Nara clan. Yet, the greatest skill the clan had that made them both feared and hated by others was the ability in respect to adopted people. The clan's ability to share both the clan's abilities as well as the adopted persons own bloodlines, with each other. The bloodline of the clan is some what sentient it chooses who was to get the clan bloodline and who was going to lose it; if a clan member was to betray the clan and was in position of the bloodline it would just leave them and most of the time destroys their chakra system along the way. A person adopted into the clan would be given the clan symbol a mix of the kanji for both neko and kage, and if the bloodline wished they would gain the clan's bloodline and the immediate family of those doing the adopting would gain a weaker version of the adopted person's bloodline if they were in possession of one.

Namida had been on the same team of Itachi, and was placed onto an ANBU team under Itachi-san as well. Kaa-chan was only four years older then Oji-kun, so when Itachi Oji-kun had made chuunin at the age of eight Namida had been 12. They had been come good friends during that time. The death of the Uchiha clan and the last members of the Kageneko clan were contributed to Uchiha Itachi, since most people knew of the hate between the two clans this was not totally unbelievable. Since Namida left the ranks of shinobi most people truly believed the whole clan had been whipped out, though Namida was not keeping the fact that she was a live a secret, she was not advertising it either.

'Kaa-chan still does not believe Oji-kun did all that killing. That belief is even why Kaa-chan isn't a ninja any more,' was the girl's thought.

'Maybe she's right you don't want to believe that about your Oji-kun did all that either,' Kyuubi spoke from the far reaches of the girls mind. She had been specking to Kyuubi ever since learning to mediate from her Okaa-san.

'Kyuubi Ojii-sama, you finally woke up! Well ohayoo, Ojii-sama,' was the girls greeting to the fox demon inside her.

'Ohayoo kodomo,' was Kyuubi's responses. 'You know your Okaa-san has a good reason for believing in your Oji-san. You know very well that she adopted Itachi-san as an otooto and he did gain the Kageneko bloodline, just as you and your Okaa-san gain some of the Sharingan abilities. Yet, he was still fighting when he ran away. The Kageneko no Kekkon would not of let him keep the ability and total control of his chakra system if he had done such an offence with out a really good reason.'

Nami of course knew Ojii-sama was right, and that she should know better then to judge others, since most always seemed to judge her wrong, well when she was a he that is. Beside she had known Oji-kun for a whole year before he left.

Namida had been 16 when she had taken in the unwanted beat up Uzumaki Naruto and given her a new life as Kageneko, a life as her self, not the demon boy that all thought her. She had taken Itachi as her Otooto-kun when he was nine and she had been 13, he had such a bad family life and she already thought of him as an otooto that they had seen no problem. Yet, the Uchiha clan had been furious about the whole thing.

"So I should have no doubts about Oji-kun, besides he knows I'm a girl and he never told any one. I was his imooto-chan just like I'm Kaa-chan's it's my job to always have faith in them!" Nami said out loud to herself in resolve. With that thought she finished all she had, so she grabbed her necklace, which was both a family symbol and the thing that kept her henge from being discovered, and her backpack.

Since she wears a henge she did not have to wear the actual orange suit. Oh, no, she dressed in a dark, indigo blue sleeveless sweater with all the stitching done in orange, which had the neck pulled up to her nose to hide her whisker marks, fingerless black gloves with four diamond shaped pieces of metal attached at the knuckles that went up to the middle of her biceps, along with a silver mini skirt of medieval like mail there her Okaa-san was dressed in, over black tights with bandages reaped around her right thigh with her kunai pouch, and black military boots with silver buckles just like her Okaa-san. She was also wearing dangling blue stars on either ear, along side post type earrings that were made of an orange colored gem made to look like stars, with one silver hoop on the cartilage of the right ear and two on the left ear.

All this was topped off with the necklace; it had one large stone of indigo blue, surrounding this center stone was a ring of small pieces of onyx. Surrounding this stone was a silver sun with four large, triangle shaped rays at the four compose points, with the kanji for north at the top, east to the left, south at the bottom, and west to the right and above these were four diamond shaped pieces of emeralds. Between these are four smaller rays with four round, pieces of ruby on them. Then between the eight triangle rays were eight ray that had a slight 's' shape to them, a curve, and running up these from the base, almost to the top was a line of gold in the center. In the center of this all was the clan symbol, of the kanji for kage and neko mixed, in silver superimposed on the center of the indigo stone.

"Imooto-chan come on time to eat breakfast if you going to meet you new genin team and jounin sensei at the Academy on time," called Namida from the kitchen a crossed the apartment, which was located above the Neko no Kage tavern came.

"Okay, I'm coming," Nami called back, as she took off running down the hall to the kitchen.

Hi again all, I probably wont up date at a particular time every week, cuz I'm really, really forgetful, but like I said I don't like abandoned stories, so I'll try really hard not to abandon any of mine. Well any ways if any one finds I'm misspelling any of the words from Naruto please tell me and I'll change them.

Well any ways I figured I'd better write the translations for the Japanese words I'm using just in case any ones having any problems.

Okaa-san or Kaa-chan: are mother and mom.

Oji-san or Oji-kun: uncle.

Ojii-sama: Grandfather.

Imooto-chan or Imooto-san: little sister.

Otooto-kun or Otooto-san: little brother.

Ane-chan or Ane-san: big sister.

Ani-kun or Ani-san: big brother.

Ohayoo: good morning.

Kodomo: child/kid.

Neko: cat.

Kage: shadow.

Neko no Kage: cat's shadow.

Kageneko no Kekkon: the Kageneko (shadowcat: family name I came up with) bloodstain (name for the bloodline I just made up).

Namida: teardrop.

Nami: wave.

These words I'm not to sure I'm translating right so please help!

Chakra: the stuff produces when mixing physical and spiritual energies.

Jutsu: the techniques the ninja do with their chakra.

Genjutsu: jutsu that are illusions.

Henge: a genjutsu that makes a person (ninja) look different.

Shinobi: ninja.

Okay see any problems let me know and I'll try to fix it. Any ways this ramble seems to be at an end, so please, please review... I need the help; P

FlamingRose

Not to make excuses, but for the last two days wouldn't let me upload the new chapter... not that I'm a very punctual updater. Yet, does any one think they know what I might have been doing wrong?