Somebody just asked me to write more, so here you go.

That night Nuji and her team trained in the forest, their sensei sitting against the tree and judging them with her eyes. She was a tall and slender woman. She had dark brown hair and eyes that matched. Her hair was medium length and braided with her headband keeping her bangs out of her eyes. She was scary and not nice to the kids. She often paired up the twins to spar then she would battle with Nuji.

By the time training was finished around nightfall, Nuji was bruised and battered, her ankles were bleeding because of the weights and her wrist was broken again. Not that the others cared, she'd be healed by morning anyways.

Jiejie wrapped the youngest's wrist with the gauze she always kept in her bag. Nuji smiled then ran off through the streets of the Leaf Village, ignoring the yells from her sensei. She took a sharp corner and ran smack into a sand village ninja.

"Hey, watch where you're going!" The female said as she glared down at the girl. Nuji cradled her wrist against her chest as she stood up and brushed off the dirt from her back.

"Sorry ma'am!" She smiled to them, feeling the shift in their moods when they noticed her bloody, bare feet and ankles.

"Say, why are you weighed down that way? I mean, ankle weights are one thing, but these are used for prisoners."

She wanted so badly to tell them that's exactly why she had them on. She's a prisoner, nothing more. A monster that must be contained. A tool for the military.

That's all.

Instead her smile faltered for a moment and she began tapping her fingers against her leg. She decided to change the subject, not wanting to admit to the embarrassing truth that she was no more than a rich man's slave. "I heard there's an awesome ramen place in this village, would you like some? I could pay if you'd like."

"Well...I'm not sure…" The boy with...a puppet?...scratched his head and looked to his sister. The boy in the middle of them just stared at Nuji, his eye twitching as he tried to come up with a theory of what she was.

"She's strange...I sense something powerful but solemn in her. She's smiling though...how could she be so sad and still be happy? Must be..."

"It's not that complicated." Gaara's eyes widened and Nuji realized what she'd done. The other two just seemed confused.

"Um...it's a yes or no question, I mean. It's either you do want to go and get romen paid for by me, or no. It's simple and I'd appreciate it if you told me now because my sensei doesn't like it when I converse with ninja from other villages without her knowing."

"Your sensei seems kinda mean," the puppet master matched his sister's pose without knowing. His hand on one hip and he waved his hand around as he spoke to emphasize what he was saying.

"Um...So was that a yes or no, my team will be catching up soon."

"Yeah, sure." The girl spoke up and held her hand out. "I'm Temari by the way. And this is-"

"Gaara and Kankuro, yeah, I know."

"H-how? Your blind, you can't even see who we are."

"I can smell you. And one tails here has another mind filling his skull. I can hear Shukaku banging around in your head. No wonder you can't sleep."

The three ninja stepped away, causing Nuji to stop smiling. She stepped away as well, holding out her hands in surrender.

"My apologies, I see I should've kept my mouth shut. I can see dinner is off as well, I'm just going to go myself."

She turned and walked away as they stared wide eyes and hanging jaws.

She soon came to the ramen shop and sat alone. A boy soon entered. Naruto. He grinned at the store keeper and ordered without using a menu. Nuji asked for the same thing, just to make it easier.

"Hey, I'm Naruto Uzumaki!"

"Hello, I'm Nuji Emoxun. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Nine tails.

"So you must be here for the chunin exams! Oh, wait, I remember you! You jumped in front Kabuto when those sound ninja attacked him!"

"Um...so, you have any interesting places in this village that I should visit?"

"Well, you've seen the Kages carved into the side of the cliff haven't you?"

Nuji couldn't help but giggle. He scarfed down his second bowl as her giggling grew into a laughter like that of a child. I guess she is a child, actually, even if she was more mature than others took her for.

"Hey, what's so funny?!"

She pulled her headband up a little to show him her empty sockets. "No, I haven't seen it, sorry." And she began laughing again as Naruto stared at her.

"Well, I want to take you to them anyways!" She drank the broth of her bowl and they both had another bowl before Naruto took her hand, yelling back to put it on his tab. "Come on!"

Nuji gripped his hand tighter as he pulled her through the village and over the rooftops toward to the landmark. They soon came to it, standing on a house near the base.

"Naruto...would you describe the Hokage's to me?"

Naruto slowly smiled and sat down. For hours, the two kids sat on the roof as Naruto told the stories of the great Hokages. He told about how the first created the village, the second worked to keep the piece, and the fourth died to save it.

Naruto told about his adventures then. His missions. His friends. As the sun sank low, he asked about Nuji many times, but never got any answers other than "You're more interesting" and "You don't want to know that". Eventually, he got annoyed slightly.

"Come on! I've told you all about me, the least you can do is tell me where you're from! I've never heard of your village, it's about as mysterious as the sound."

"My village is hidden in a small valley in the mountains. It's hidden and only accessible through a large hole that was blasted through one of the mountains by a-" demon "-very angry enemy."

"Oh. But what about your eyes? That must be a very cool story!"

"No...no it's not."

Nuji stared at the ground as Naruto seemed to understand and drop it. He went back to watching the stars and admiring the hokages.