Three years later:
"Shika-ni! Shika- ni! Guess what!" I shouted, while running into the room and finding my older twin napping on his shogi board.
"Troublesome," muttered Shikamaru, "What is it Shikaoi?" He asks straightening up, while remaining in his usual 'typical lazy Nara' slouched position.
"Tou-san is gonna bring us to Chouza-ojisan's home, so we can meet and play with Choji-kun. Inoichi-Ojisan said he might bring Ino-chan by too and make it a play date,"
I exclaim panting with effort.
"Aoi-chan, they are just trying to have us become the next Ino-Shika-Cho. We might not even like them", Shikamaru drawled, letting out a sigh.
I already knew that the playdate is more for Shikamaru than me.
My older brother is way smarter and more Nara-like than I am.
Even my eye color is wrong. I apparently inherited my maternal grandmother's blueish-gray eyes.
You didn't think I was named "blue deer" for no reason, did you?
Unlike my twin, I have yet to adopt the lazy demeanor of our father.
Shikamaru is too smart for his age he needs to interact with other kids our age.
That is why I begged our Father to arrange for us to have a play date with his best friends' kids. Tou- san had a strange twinkle in his eye when I proposed my idea, like he had found an interesting new puzzle and had just discovered another piece.
"Shika-niichan, you need Friends other than me. You should give them a chance before deciding that they are 'too troublesome'.
Choji and Ino are your future teammates so you need to get used to them.
Their friendship may surprise you one day," I explain.
It is not that I want to share my niichan it's just that being friends with other kids even the troublesome ones are better for Shika-ni.
Shikamaru looked at me lazily with his fingers pressed against each other in his typical thinking pose that he had recently taken to doing.
I found myself thinking back to the nightmare I had last night. I woke my family up with my screams.
Memories that aren't mine threatened to shatter the fragile fabric of my reality.
Not only am I not supposed to exist, but it in the years to come the shinobi world will never be the same.
I may have been born in the shadows, but with my new-found knowledge, and will of fire, I will protect my precious people. Starting with my pineapple headed Oni-chan.
Pft– I let out a giggle at the sudden train of thought. "What's so funny?" pineapple-ni asked.
"With your hair up like tou-san's you look like a pineapple," I announced.
The look that crossed my brother's face was priceless. He quickly readopted his usual bored facial expression and huffed out a sigh and dropped back onto the shoji board. I laughed fondly and sat across from my twin. Scrutinizing the shoji board I made my move.