More Than a New Friendship
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Warning
Me: I don't own Naruto
Gaara: My kids gonna kick the crap out of your kid
Sasuke: You wish looser
Gaara: If you weren't dead, I'd kill you
Sasuke: Oh, I'm shaking
Me: Oh my gosh was that actually sarcasm from the great Uchiha Sasuke
Gaara: There is nothing great about him
Sasuke: Threatened by a dead man, oh god you're pathetic
Gaara: Shut it Uchiha
Sasuke: Make me sand man
Me: You guys both better shut it or I'll erase you all together from this story
Sasuke & Gaara: ………..
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Hi- normal speaking
Hi- thoughts
Hi- demon or inner self speaking
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Chapter XI Sibling Rivalry in action
Three years after they began training (the boys are fifteen and Susurie is twelve)
Akane and Kenichi each have two kunai in each hand, pacing around; sizing each other up. They circle around the arena, both giving their own inherited death stares. Kenichi activated his newly formed sharingun. Akane uncorked his sand gourd. "If I win you have to leave me alone." Akane sneered. This was his chance to prove that he was not as weak as Kenichi always made him out to be. Kenichi smirked. "You can't win looser." Kenichi said in reply. "You guys don't fight. You are fifteen and yet you are both acting like you are three." Susurie stated trying to get between them. Akane used his sand to gently push her out of the way.
"Hey Akane, what do you think you're doing, pushing me out of the way." Susurie screamed at him. Both boys winced and looked at her fuming form. "Susurie this isn't your fight or your business." Kenichi said smirking at the funny expression on her face. The two shrugged it off and charged at each other to be rebounded off a sand wall. "I'm officially making it my business. The only way that I'll let the two of you go at it is if you can beat me." She snarled. The boys burst out laughing. "What, you too scared to beat a little girl?" She said crossing her arms across her chest. "Susurie, you can't be serious?" Akane said wiping the tears of laughter away from his face. "Come on Susurie, you can't honestly think you can beat either of us let alone both of us." Kenichi said seeing her expression hadn't changed from the dead serious death glare she had plastered there from the very beginning. "I'm dead serious. I'm tired of you fighting. I promise if you beat me then I won't interfere. Deal?" she said, more like yelling but not as scary. "Fine Susurie, temporary truce Akane?" Kenichi asked. Akane nodded and they got in fighting stance. Susurie took her own.
Kenichi charged at her with a kunai in hand. Sand rapped around it and removed it leaving him unarmed. She tripped him with sand and sent him hurling back towards Akane. Kenichi stumbled, trying to regain his footing. Akane pulled him up strait and they both charged. Akane sent sand to trap Susurie's feet but she punched the ground underneath her with a chakra packed punch sending the sand back in the other direction. Akane placed a sand barricade around himself and Kenichi to absorb the impact. He than lowered the shield around them to find a wave of sand coming towards them. Without time to react, the sand locked them in place in two giant cocoons.
Kenichi couldn't do anything but squirm but Akane attempted to release them from her hold. "It won't work. The sand you are trapped in is reinforced by my chakra. You guys really should pay attention and train more instead of hating each other. If I were sent to kill you, I could have done it several times." She said softly smirking as she approached. "Team work is important. Now, since you are defeated, the only way that I shall let you go is to promise me you won't fight anymore." She said giggling at the looks on their faces. "No way Susurie!" Akane said. Susurie tightened the cocoon in grip, squeezing the air out of them. "Fine Susurie, you win." Kenichi said in between gasps for air. "What I didn't hear you. You'll have to say it again." She smirked as she released them from the sand prison.
They panted for air and attempted to stand up. The lack of air caused them to fall back down to the ground hard. "You win." Kenichi said once he regained his normal breathing pattern. "No more fighting." Akane said hanging his head in shame from loosing to his sister, not to mention his younger and only sister.
"Oh and by the way next, time don't hold back because if there is a next time, then I won't either." Susurie said walking away, shaking her head. The two looked at each other for a second and smiled. "We're idiots." Akane said shaking his head smirking at his sisters retreating form. "Yeah, I'm sorry. I meant what I said about the deal if you meant it." Kenichi said quietly. Akane just nodded and helped pull his brother up on his feet.
"Well, she sure kicked your guy's butts just now, and that's not even half her power." Temari said jumping off a nearby house. "Aunt Temari, how long have you been there?" "Enough to know that you'd be busted if your father found out about you fighting again." She said smirking. "Oh I saw it all." Gaara said appearing in a dust cloud. The boys took one look and tensed to receive their punishment for fighting. "I normally would punish you two, but it looks like Susurie has already done that. She'll definitely grow to be a fierce kunoichi." He said crossing his arms across his chest, smirking inwardly. "She gets it from me you know." Sakura said as she approached them. "Is there anyone in the desert that didn't see us get creamed?" Akane screamed. "No, not really, but you'll get over it." Sakura said smiling. "Now go home and change; you two are horribly dirty. Funny, Susurie didn't get a speck of dirt on her." She said smiling ushering home. "Thanks, my confidence just shot up ten fold." Kenichi with the most sarcasm he could muster.
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They went home and ate dinner. It was the first peaceful meal they had ever had. Akane and Kenichi kept their promise and didn't continue to fight. Susurie sat and ate in silence smiling and mocking their loss from across the table. The boys hate to admit it, but it was better not to fight. They continued their lessons every day but all on the same schedule. They did most training on their own now. Akane and Kenichi learned different ways to combine their strengths in battle. They were the best tag team in the entire desert though didn't hope to compare to Susurie. She sparred and taught them some tips she had learned but all on her time off. She spent most of her time training on her own, and would come home at dusk wiped out and hungry. She'd be the first one to bed at night and the first up in the morning. She continued more advanced classes with both her parents in their spare time. She grew way out of her brothers' league in all Tai, Gen and Nin jutsus. She was a very fierce and growing to be a very attractive young kunoichi. She had a similar build as her mother with the main difference of red hair. She was now slim with the right curves and could walk with all the grace of a kunoichi.
"Mom, do you mind if I go to bed early? I'm a bit tired today." Susurie asked as she entered the dining room later than usual due to over training again. She had been up since dawn and only had a fifteen-minute break for lunch so she had every right to be tired. "Sure you've had a long day. Did you want me to send up some dinner for you?" her mother nodded in reply. "Na, I just want some rest." She said dragging her aching body towards the stairs to her room. "See you in the morning mom." She waved without turning around. Sakura watched as her daughter walked up the stairs, flinching on occasion from over doing her training again.
"Ma, I'm going to bed now too. Thanks for dinner." said Kenichi as he trailed after his sister. Akane was sitting attempting to have a conversation with his father about the up coming Chuunin exams that they were going to enter the next time they were held in Sunagakure. "I think you should wait a little longer for your and Kenichi's skills to sharpen a bit more. I have no doubt that you can all pass but if you aren't as prepared then it could prove harder than necessary." Gaara said in response to the mini him sitting across the table begging for the chance to become a Chuunin. "As you wish father but mind you that we are about the same age as when you took it." He said before bowing out and exiting the room. "He's just like you Gaara looks and personality." Said Sakura as she sat be side him at the table. "If he had your tattoo I'd swear I would see two of you." She said kissing him on the forehead. He gave a slight smile reserved for her and his children. (Gaara smiling is cute, no?)
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Kenichi was lying in bed looking at some pictures on his nightstand next to his bed. The boys now had separate rooms to give them their own space but he still got lonely on occasion. He stared at a picture of his siblings in their Genin team picture when the first started out. He stared at another picture beside it. He noticed similarities between the two. The second picture was a picture of Team 7 with Sakura in the middle, Sasuke on the left smirking, Naruto on the right pouting, and Kakashi behind smiling under his mask with a hand on each of the boys' heads. Their own team picture was similar with him on the left, Susurie in the middle, Akane on the right, and his father behind them with his arms crossed. All the males were smirking, while Susurie had a big smile on her face that was, not that he'd admit but, was horribly cute on her because of her young age.
He had one person in particular that he was interested in. The black haired boy in the Team 7 picture was of utmost curiosity for him. He looked identical to him and from the mannerisms shown in the picture showed they were probably more similar than in just looks. He always wondered where he got his looks. Akane looked like their father, Susurie like their mother, but he… he looked like the boy on his mother's Genin team. "I wish I could have met you. You could have given me help with this sharingan thing."
Flashback to eight year old Kenichi
"Mom… how come I don't look like you or dad? Akane and Susurie look like you and dad, why not me." Kenichi asked as Sakura tucked him in bed that night. I wondered when he'd ask. Should I tell him? Yeah right! Lie through your teeth. He's way too young for the truth. He won't be able to handle this kind of news, not now anyway. He'll figure it out eventually, and boy will he be mad I lied. I don't know if I could manage if he hates me when he finds out. Cross that road when we get to it. After a pause to think through an explanation, she calmed down and began to explain it to him.
"You look like your uncle, Sasuke, he was my brother and I guess that you got his look though I didn't. I have a picture here somewhere. I'll be right back." She got up and left the room to return with a picture of Team 7. "See this is who you look like. My brother was on my team too. It's kind of like you and Akane. We were twins but obviously don't look the same. I think you'll grow to be just as strong as your Uncle Sasuke." She ended with a sad smile. "Can I meet him?" Kenichi asked staring at the picture in his hands. Sakura bit her lip to accompany the sad smile she had tried to hide. "No… he died before you were born on a mission." She said quietly. "Sorry." He mumbled. "It's okay, you remind me of him so much it make things easier. I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up getting his sharingan as well." she stated to her self more than to him. "Sharingan?" he asked meekly. "I'll explain it later you need to sleep now." She kissed his forehead, placed the picture of Team 7 on his dresser and exited the room after a quick 'good night'.
End flashback
He was lying in bed thinking of his mother's explanation from years ago. As far as he knew and was concerned, what she had told him was true and he had no doubts. He looked like his uncle Sasuke and that's what he believed. Why would he suspect her to be lying to him? The last thing he saw was Sasuke in the picture and a flash of red from his window before falling asleep.
End Chapter XI
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Sorry it took so long to update. Writer's block! But I found a way out of it. Yay hope you liked it. Sorry their wasn't much Akane and Kenichi kickn each other's butts but I thought the younger sister beating the older brothers would be more funny. Hope you liked it read and review please.
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Chapter XII Why me?
A week after they past the Chuunin exams three, years later, (sorry for so many time skips) boys are eighteen and Susurie fifteen
Susurie, feeling quit content with her self was sitting on a branch of one of the trees in the market watching the people go about their business. Her mother told her to take the day of to celebrate becoming a Chuunin. The boys were happy that they finally advanced to Chuunin level but were upset they had to wait this long. They were overly ready to take Jounin exams in a month as they past to Chuunin level with flying colors, finding it to be overly easy. It was a warm day out and she was content to just sit there all day. "Congratulations on making Chuunin. How about our pretty Chuunin gives us a flash?" Oh great, my fan clubs here. Damn! The group of boys she had lost a half an hour ago finally spotted her red hair. "Get lost. I'm not in the mood and I'm rather tired." She spat with the most ferocity she could manage without breaking her relaxing façade.