I was sitting next to Ino and Sakura when I saw my brother, Naruto, Kiba, and Choji trying to sneak back by the gate to the Academy. I saw Iruka-sensei standing and talking with Mizuki, they were too close to the boys, if the boys made the move Iruka would see them.

"Shikanai, what about you?" I was snapped back from my observations to reality by Ino's voice.

"Huh?" I looked at her with a lifted eyebrow and she rolled her eyes.

"We were talking about Sasuke, there's a rumor that he likes girls with long hair." she told me with a tone that told me I should have known all of that. "We're going to have long hair." Ino pointed at herself and Sakura.

Since when did eight-year-old children think about boys?

Geez, I had a fair share of boys in my past life. I didn't want to think about them ever again. I mean, not until puberty would hit… Again…

"What about you?" she asked me and I shook my head.

"I'll just leave my hair as it is." shoulder-length as it is. "I don't care about Sasuke." I told them and they looked at me with big eyes.

"What?!" they both shrieked.

"But he's so hot!" Ino argued, and I almost lost it.

How could an eight-year-old be hot? I was cracking up inside of me.

I shrugged and looked at Ino. "I don't really care about boys." I said honestly.

"Gah! All you care about is your stupid books!" which was true, I began reading more and more psychological books, sometimes even Inoichi gave me books.

"Anyways, how do you know that Sasuke likes long hair?" I asked and truly wondered about the answer.

"The other day he was looking at a girl, she's one year older than us, she has long brown hair." Hmm. One year older. Brown hair. Tenten?

I turned to see Iruka-sensei scold Naruto and the other boys. I looked past them and I saw the entrance door open and reveal students walking home. But then I saw Neji. I got up from the spot I was sitting and I ran to him.

"Yo!" I smiled and waved, heck. Did I act like Kakashi? Wow.

"What do you want?" he looked at me with narrowed eyes. Man, I loved his way of speaking. So regal and even adorable on his little face. Gosh, how much I wanted to hug him.

"I just wanted to say hello and ask how you are. I remember you from two years ago when we took the psychological test." I shrugged, but he didn't answer anything. "My name's Nara Shikanai, what's your name?" I smiled.

"Hyuuga Neji." he still didn't give me any hint of friendliness.

"And how are you today, Hyuuga Neji?" I looked him in the eyes. Oh. Cool. Those eyes had no pupils, cool. Weird and frightening, but cool. I'd so want eyes like that, but of course, I loved my blue eyes, so I might trade them for those pupil-less eyes for a week. Then get my own eyes back.

"Why do you care?" he sneered back, heck. He clearly was a moody little boy.

"Listen, I'm just trying to be nice." I told him honestly. "Plus, I really don't want to hear my classmates talk about 'how hot the genius of the class' is." I rolled my eyes. "Tell me, that your classmates are better than mine." Yup, Sasuke has gained the first of the year spot after Shikamaru left it for good and even Sakura claimed my genius spot. Shikamaru and I, both backed down and liked to slack and sleep during classes. It wasn't that we didn't know the answers, but we just rather slept during tests.

"They aren't." I didn't expect him to answer that.

"Poor genius of the class."

"I am that genius." I looked at him, oh right. He was the genius of the class. I completely forgot. I heard the bell and I knew I had to go back to class. Well, there goes my plan to befriend Neji. After we told our goodbyes I turned back and went into the classroom, but before I could enter Ino and Sakura waited for me at the door.

"You don't care about boys, huh?" Ino teased and I shrugged.

"A girl gotta do what she gotta do." I walked past her.


I was outside, in the garden, playing with my dog and laughing. I heard my father's voice, but it was distant and then I heard my mother calling me, but I didn't see her. Weird. So, I continued playing with my dog, who looked at me and began barking. I asked the little one, why was he barking, but my dog kept barking. I felt fright creeping in my heart and when I looked up I saw clouds forming. I heard my father talking some nonsense, I heard my mother calling the dog away, the dog kept barking. I turned, to tell my mother the dog didn't want to leave, but when I turned I saw nobody.

Then I felt it. Huge pain, erupting from my stomach, my mother's voice calling for me, my father talking to somebody, my dog barking madly. But the pain was there, engulfing everything and not letting me breathe. Then I felt the pain in my entire body, I wanted to scream, but I couldn't. I didn't have the force. And darkness engulfed me.

I woke up with a start. I looked around and realized I was in my room, then I sat up and I saw Shikamaru sleeping. Trying not to wake him I slipped out of my bed and out of our room and went outside. I sat down on the porch and looked up to the stars.

Why did I dream about it? It was my past life, it was my last moment.

Somebody once told me, that when we see dreams, we actually see different memory fragments that leave our brain. I was forgetting my past life and that thought filled me with panic. I went inside and grabbed a pen and two notebooks, then I went outside and I began writing my life.


Oh Gosh, I sooo wanted to get to the point, where she begins remembering her last moments. Anyway, sorry for the long wait, I had another hectic week... Yay for me... So, we're getting a little bit of Neji, a little bit of 'long hair fiasco' and a little bit of a nightmare, because we're entering another important part of the storyline. Those notebooks will be really important, and in due time you're going to find out why Kakashi is so friendly with Shikanai.

Yup, I still don't own Naruto.

The more closer we're getting to canon, the more canon parts will appear (I had to even write some dialogs down, but you'll see), and I'm gonna mix canon with my story and twist and stuff... I just remembered how fun it was to write this story XD

Have a nice day and I hope you enjoy this chapter!