I'm back! Haven't updated for a while now. Yay! Chap 5! Ok, so not many reviews but I'll live with it… 4… --;; Well, enjoy!

Weeks had passed since that awful day and Misanagi made sure she kept her distance from Sasuke. She still acted the way she did but tried to stay out of his way at all costs.

They were in the middle of a "mission" when Sasuke got into his bad moods again.

' Watch out, you idiot!' He hissed at Misanagi when she almost dropped the package she was carrying. Sasuke walked ahead, angry at her stupidity. Almost as soon as he started walking he heard a yell and a crash. Turning back, he saw Misanagi lying on the ground and a cyclist next to her. The package was clearly broken. Misanagi had a small cut on her forehead that was bleeding steadily but looked fine.

' I'm so sorry miss, I guess I was going too fast.' The boy on the bike said.

' That's ok I'm all right. Oh no, the package broke, I'm going to die.' She moaned. The boy helped her up and apologised for what had happened. When he left, Misanagi opened the box and performed a seal. Almost instantly, the glass plates inside had materialised and looked as if they had never been smashed. Sasuke was beyond pissed off.

' You idiot! How you have been so stupid to break it huh?'

' Hey, I'm sorry. I fixed it ok?'

' You stuffed up, a ninja isn't supposed to stuff up, especially when the mission is so simple!' He yelled. He stalked off fuming. When the two shinobi reached their destination, they left immediately. Sasuke was still fuming and ignored Misanagi's attempts to apologise.

' Look, I said I was sorry, ok? What more can I do to make you realise that?' She was nearly hysteric now. This boy had tormented her and belittled her at every chance he got now he ignored her.

' I don't care if you're sorry. You stuffed up.'

' I'm only human, I make mistakes sometimes, ok?'

' Look, just piss off would you? I don't need any of your crap right now.'

' If you think for a second that I'm going to back down and take it in, think again.' Sasuke turned and looked at Misanagi pointedly in the eyes.

' You usually do it anyway. Don't start again; I know your type of person. They say they're sorry when they're really not and they're too selfish and superficial. The type of people I hate. The type of person who acts like a child and has no regard for anyone else but themselves. You're the type of person who was a little spoilt brat when they were little. You annoy me ok? Just stay away from me.' He growled. Misanagi closed her mouth.

' What…?' Misanagi was at a loss for words and looked quite upset, but then, she had every reason to.

' You want me to go on? You're the type of person who'll never be loved by anyone because you're too annoying. You're the type of person who'll never be able to love because their head is too far up their ass.' This had struck quite a few nerves as Misanagi bolted down the street, tears cascading down her cheeks.

Sasuke sighed and walked off. Unbeknownst to him or Misanagi, Kakashi, Naruto and Sakura had heard and seen the whole thing. And each wanted to rip him apart.

Misanagi ran into the room she was staying in and sat on her futon, hugging her knees close to her chest, rocking herself every so often. Crying continuously, she kept thinking about what Sasuke said. She knew she should ignore him, but what if what he said was true? What if she was truly incapable of loving? Or being loved by another?

' It's true, he's right… I'm so pathetic…' She whispered as memories came flooding back to her.

' Nii-san, where are we? What's going on?' Asked a very young Hijikata Misanagi. She was only three years old but she had already seen death. Her older brother Kenji has carrying her and running past dark buildings. Their family had gone over to the Hidden Sand Village as their father had business to attend to. He was an ANBU squad leader but none of his children knew that is until they were ambushed.

' Kaa-san! Kaa-san!' Misanagi kept screaming. People were dying around her and more shinobi appeared seemingly from nowhere.

' Run Mi-chan, get out of here!' Came the voice of her father. He was being attacked by at least five ninja.

' Tou-san!' He killed the men around him and grabbed his only daughter.

' Get away from here Mi-chan. Don't worry about us. Try to get back to Konoha and warn the Hokage. Tell them about what I told you earlier on, ok? I trust you, go!' Misanagi was hesitant.

' But Tou-san…'

' Go!' Her father bellowed. Her father... no her adoptive father, she reminded herself. She ran, her hand tightly gripped her teddy bear and her other held the locket around her neck, bearing the picture of her real parents, and her little brother.

For weeks and weeks she ran, depending on the survival training her father taught her. She was about to drop dead if it weren't for a lonely ninja from Konoha that was near by. Seeing her collapse, he raced over to her and upon seeing her face, raced her back to the village.

' Who are you?' Asked Misanagi, regaining consciousness.

' Don't worry it's Kakashi. Don't worry, I'll look after you…'

Misanagi was still shaking and the tears still hadn't stopped. She kept her feelings about her family bottled up inside for far too long; she didn't even cry when their names were carved into the memorial stone she visited so often. She promised herself and her adoptive family that she'd be strong for them. Even if it meant being hurt in the process.

She trained hard as a shinobi ever since. Like her only friend Kakashi, she graduated and became a chuunin at a very young age. By eight, she was already a jounin and by nine, she'd killed her first enemy.

The kids knew about her and ignored her, so Misanagi decided to lay low so no one would pay any attention to her. She couldn't mingle with children her age because they all hated her.

There was a knock at the door but Misanagi chose to ignore it.

' You know you shouldn't be moping about by yourself.' Kakashi said.

' Stay away from my windows pervert.' Misanagi muttered.

' Mi-chan, please, just ignore Sasuke, he's a jerk anyway.' Naruto pleaded.

' He hates my guts and he's so mean.'

' But he's mean to me as well Mi-chan.' Sakura said.

' Does he make you cry?' At this, Naruto and Sakura fell silent; they couldn't really say anything to counter that.

Kakashi, Sakura and Naruto spent all night trying to cheer Misanagi up and actually made her laugh.

' She's feeling better, don't worry Naruto.' Said Sakura as they walked down the road.

' Yeah I know, but I have this bad feeling that she's not happy.'

In fact, Naruto was right. Misanagi was depressed. Almost suicidal, but she'd never say anything about it. She walked to her bathroom and took out a kunai, the one that belonged to her real father. Running her arm under hot water, she cut her arm and watched as her blood cascade down the sink.

Hearing Kakashi move something about in the kitchen, she cleaned up and put the bandages on her arms again.

' Hey, you feeling better?' He asked.

' Yeah, thanks.' Kakashi looked at her knowing something wasn't right. He had no right to poke around her business but this feeling he got wouldn't go away.

' OK, just make sure you get some sleep.' Misanagi nodded and went into her room.

The next day, Misanagi wasn't being her usual hyper self. She was still a little energetic but she had quietened down considerably. So much that it worried Kakashi, Naruto and Sakura.

' Misanagi, are you alright?' Asked Kakashi. Misanagi only nodded vaguely rubbing her arm every so often as she walked down the dirt road.

' Kakashi-sensei's really worried about her. Do you think anything happened to her last night?' Asked Sakura.

' I dunno but I still have that bad feeling. Like she's really hurting but it's different. I know she's really upset about what that Baka said to her, but there's something about her that's making me feel really weird. I don't think it makes sense, but yeah, something bad's going on.'

' I get you. I guess Kakashi-sensei has noticed too. I wonder what's gotten into Sasuke… He's acting really weird.' Naruto looked at Sakura.

' Sasuke? Don't you usually call him Sasuke-kun?'

' Yeah, but I've lost all respect for him ever since he started to be mean to Mi-chan.' Naruto nodded.

' So, what are you thinking about?' Sakura asked. Naruto was in deep thought, which was a little unusual, but seemed very preoccupied.

' Uh nothing. It's just that I've noticed… Mi-chan and I are very similar.'

' Naruto, don't tell me you like her more than a friend.'

' No, no. What I mean is, us, we're similar because we sort of look like each other, and we're both a little crazy. She's louder than me, but well, it's almost like we're related or something.' The two genins didn't notice that Misanagi had left Kakashi's side and slowed down.

' That's because we are related Naruto-chan.' She whispered.

' What?' Both genin shouted.

' You're related?' Asked Sakura.

' Yeah, he's my little brother. See…' She opened her locket to see a picture of a very young Naruto and a picture of the Fourth Hokage.

' The fourth Hokage?'

' Yes, my real father. He died while trying to save the village. Naruto-chan was only two months old so I don't expect him to remember a thing about him. Mother died in childbirth… So, uh… you're probably expecting me to explain everything to you guys, huh?'

' Uh huh.'

' You bet.'

' Oh good, story time.' Kakashi said, popping up behind the group.

' Well, sixteen years ago when I was born, my father was made the fourth Hokage. I remember that Kaa-san didn't really approve since I was still only a few months old and all but eventually things settled down. He still trained his team, which was Kakashi-sensei, and two others I won't mention. Something happened on one mission and he became very paranoid something bad would happen. Everyone thought he was crazy though.

' A year later, Naruto-chan was born and Kaa-san died while giving birth to him. That's when the Kyuubi was terrorising the village.

' By then I was smart enough to know what was going on. Tou-san was going to sacrifice himself to save the village. He'd spent so many weeks developing a new jutsu to seal away the fox demon; I knew it would be extremely painful, but I didn't realise that he'd die from it.

' After Tou-san sealed the Kyuubi inside Naruto-chan, I was sent to a foster family who adopted me. Naruto-chan was forced to stay with another family and sort of grew up by himself since he was about eight.

' Naruto-chan never knew he had a living relative and I wasn't allowed to tell him that I was his sister even though I desperately wanted to. So, yeah… that's pretty much it.' Misanagi said awkwardly. Naruto just stared at her before hugging her tightly.

' Thank you for caring all this time Nee-san…' Misanagi laughed.

' No problem Naruto-chan.' She said ruffling his hair.

' But what about when you were with your foster family?' Asked Sakura. Misanagi stopped walking and looked down.

' They were killed when I was three.'

' That means…'

' Yeah, I only lived with them for ten months.'

' What happened?' Asked Naruto.

' Well, my adoptive father was sent to the Sand country for a mission and since it was only C-ranked; he decided to take the family along. He was an ANBU squad leader and apparently quite a few people in the Sand country didn't like him. They killed him and the rest of my family after he found out that the Kazekage had sealed a sand monster into his son before he was born to use him as a weapon.'

' Gaara…' Sakura and Naruto whispered. Misanagi only nodded.

' Naturally, the Kazekage didn't want anyone to find out so he send some ninjas to kill my family when we were all sleeping. They didn't make it… I had somehow gotten back to Konoha in one piece before Kakashi-sensei found me. The Hokage found out and yeah… I've been living with Kakashi-sensei ever since.'

Misanagi blinked away her tears as she didn't want them to think she was weak or pathetic, especially Sasuke. Sasuke; he never said a thing, or looked put off anyway. Cold-hearted bastard… Misanagi thought.

' Hey, wait a sec. You're our age, right? And you're a good ninja when you feel like working but, why haven't I ever seen you at the academy?' Asked Sakura. Misanagi instinctively tensed up and gave the pink-haired girl a cold glare.

' That's none of your business.' She hissed before walking away, mostly likely to train. Kakashi didn't look too concerned so the others thought it best to leave her alone for the time being.

Ehehehe… I love Naruto… XD Anyways, please review!