More Friends

"Shikamaru!" yelled Rei as she jumped on her lazy friend. The others laughed.

Rei, Usagi, Ami, and Choji were at the Nara Compound because they wanted to hang out. They were in one of the rooms when Shikaku, Shikamaru's father, came in. His hair in its signature ponytail that spiked up. He wore mesh and a jagged sweater. He also had some ninja pants on.

He was followed by two people and a dog. He was about to say something when his wife yelled for him.

"SHIKAKU! GET OVER HERE! YOUR STUDENT IS HERE!" yelled Yoshino, scaring the children. Shikaku paled and ran out of the room, leaving the children and teen.

"Well, my name is Hana Inuzuka," said the teen. Hana wore a white jacket, mesh long sleeved underneath it, and dark blue pants that cuffed around her ankle. Her brown hair was in a low ponytail, like always. Her clan markings on her face. "This is my brother, Kiba, and his ninken, Akamaru."

The boy with the same face markings as Hana. He had short brown spiky hair and brown eyes. He wore a light brown long-sleeved shirt and gray shorts. A white dog with brown ears was on his head.

"Doggy!" said Ami as she and the other kids went up to Kiba and asked him about Akamaru.

Hana eventually got them all to sit down and play a random game they had found, when the door opened.

"Haruka!" yelled Hana as she jumped to get to the other teen. The girl had long dark brown hair that went a little past her butt. She wore a black long-sleeved shirt that had her clan symbol on the back. On her elbows she wore guards. For pants, she wore tight dark blue shorts that stopped mid-thigh.

"Hana. I saw you a little over an hour ago," said Haruka with a laugh, though she did hug her friend.

"Well, it's been an hour to long!" she then looked at the two other children with a smile, causing the two to smile shyly back at her. "And how have you two been?"

"We're better now," replied the girl as she shyly looked at Hana. She had on a long-sleeved blue, high collared shirt with the clan symbol on the back. She also wore black shorts that stopped at her knees. She had long dark blackish-blue hair up in a ponytail and dark eyes

The boy had on the normal blue Uchiha shirt with clan symbol and white shorts.

Haruka looked at the children who were watching them with a smile.

"Sup?" she said as the children looked away shyly, causing Hana to laugh.

"Well, let's start!" laughed Hana.

"What a drag. My name is Shikamaru Nara," said Shikamaru.

"My name is Rei Kumori," said Rei with a smile.

"I'm Ami Sora," said Ami with a shy smile.

"Hi! I'm Usagi Tenshi!" said Usagi with a smile. 'Yay! More friends!'

"My name is Choji Akimichi," said Choji.

"My name is Kiba! I'm Hana's brother!" said Kiba. He then pointed at Akamaru, "and this is Akamaru!"

"My name is Haruka Uchiha," said Haruka, shocking the younger children. "I'm sure all of you know Sasuke and Michiru already."

"Yeah!" said Kiba with a smile. "We have them in our class!"

"Well then," laughed Haruka. "I hope you will all be friends."

"Michiru would like to feed the deer. Does anyone else want to go?" asked Shikaku. The children buzzed with excitement, except for Shikamaru who was used to it, but went along with it since Rei would pull him along if he didn't go.

"We can?" asked Choji in surprise.

"Of course. Shikamaru, why don't you take the other kids."

"What a drag," said Shikamaru as he moved to go to the back, the others following him. Even Sasuke and Michiru left, excitedly talking to the others about seeing and petting deer.

"I've never seen a deer up close before!" said Usagi with a grin. 'This is so cool! And we get to feed them!'

"Me either!" said Choji.

"Can we ride them?" asked Kiba.

"No! You can't ride deer!" exclaimed Michiru.

"She's right," said Rei.

"Ah," said Kiba in sadness.

"Michiru, Sasuke, I know the two of you haven't been to school in a while, I can share my notes with you guys if you want," said Ami with a blush.

"Really?" asked Sasuke with a raised eyebrow.

"It's troublesome, but you guys are our friends now. I don't think Usagi would let you go," said Shikamaru as they looked at the blond.

"Nope!" said Usagi with a smile causing the others to sweat drop. 'I plan on being friends with everyone for a very long time. Hopefully forever.'

"Anyway, you guys have to be quite," said Rei as they walked toward a clearing in the forest. "We don't want to scare them."

The children all kept quite as they fallowed Shikamaru and Rei toward the clearing. Shikamaru turned around and gave them all some food to keep in their hands.

"Hold it out like this," he said as he showed them. "Don't be scared. Don't make any sudden movements. They will come, slowly."

"Right," said the others, besides Rei, in determination.

The children stood in small groups with their hands out, waiting for the deer to come. They waiting for several minutes and had thought that maybe they weren't going to show up, when a deer came into the clearing.

It walked up to Shikamaru who was standing with Michiru and Sasuke. It bent its head down and ate some of the food. After a minute, it turned to Michiru and ate some food from her, causing her and the other children to gasp.

'He's eating the food!' thought Michiru with a grin. The children then looked in awe as more deer showed up and went to them, eating the food.

'I hope it comes for the food I have too,' thought Sasuke with wide eyes.

After a few minutes, all the food was gone, and the deer were leaving. The children came together and chatted happily.

"Let's play Ninja!" said Kiba in excitement.

"Yeah!" said Usagi. 'Ninja is the best!'

"Who's it?" asked Choji.

"I can be it!" said Kiba.

"Is that fair? Can't you smell us?" asked Michiru. Kiba just laughed.

"My nose isn't as strong as my sister's or my mom's, but I want to do this to help with training," said Kiba as he rubbed the back of his head.

"That's a good idea! You and Akamaru can try to find us! We can all practice our hiding and other techniques, as long as they aren't dangerous," said Rei with a smile.

"It's a drag, but I have my Shadow Possession. It's not that strong yet," said Shikamaru.

"That's okay," said Ami.

The children then had Kiba and Akamaru count to ten as they ran off. They played for hours, switching who was it and giving everyone a chance. They laughed when Michiru talked Kiba to get him and when Usagi and Rei jumped on Sasuke and Shikamaru when they hid together, apparently getting them back for scaring them.

After some time, the sun started to set. The children all came back, tired from playing outside. Hana took her brother and Ami home. The parents of Usagi, Choji, and Rei came for them.

In the end, everyone was content with how the day turned out.