AnimeCrasherz: I didn't know this story would be liked so much... wow...

...wow...

Adventure 4, The New World

I hadn't met a lot of people on the ship. I was a natural loner, shy, and happy just being alone. (A/N: Or with a couple of sailors... haha...)

Now that's not to say that my sister or Father hadn't met anybody.

You already know the Yamanakas were only one of the families next to us. There was a wall behind our space, the Yamanakas to our right, a rather, should I say, fat family of Akimichis in front of us, and there was another family to our left that proved to be very kind and friendly. They were the Brown family, (Which will now be Tenten's last name) and the mother, Goodwife Brown, was with child. She was due very soon, about seven months into her pregnancy. There was only one other person on this ship that had The Skill of being a midwife, other than me. I had only learned a little bit of it from my grandmother, and I wasn't very confident in it, but it would have to do if Goodwife Brown gave birth on the ship.

Their Brown family's young daughter Tenten was sixteen, one year older than me, and she had chocolate-colored eyes and long hair that she usually kept in two buns. But even though she was my age, it wasn't me who had befriended her first. It was Hanabi. Her and Tenten both turned out to be smart girls and tomboys, and they had much in common. Sharing knowledge, memories of asskicking, learning and teaching moves... things I would never understand. But they lurved it.

Anyway, one day I was sitting in the room below. Father had heard the rumors about me being a cheap harlot (sister would use all of the new fighting moves she learned from Tenten on Sakura and Ino for that) and had forbidden me to go above deck until the rumors stopped.

There was really nothing to do below deck, sometimes I helped Goodwife Brown or Goodwife Akimichi with the cleaning, babysitting, cooking, many times I did it for my own family... and sometimes I wrote a little.

One day, when I was helping Goodwife Brown with cooking, she started having pains. Once the pains became ten seconds apart, I was sure it was her time. Tenten started panicking, and everyone seemed to be looking at the woman screaming in agony on the ground. Chouji, the Akimichi boy, had nailed a blanket to the ceiling creating a wall for privacy. I thanked him and told him to go summon the woman that had The Skill.

For now, it was all up to me. I did the best I could, getting clean rags and hot water, telling Goodwife Brown how to breathe until the midwife came. I knew I hadn't done very much, but when the midwife came she said that if I hadn't done what I had done that both Goodwife Brown and her baby would have died.

Goodwife Brown had a baby girl. Her name is Hinako.

After that day, Tenten always looked at me with respect and admiration. She told me that she didn't know what she would have done had I not been there, had her mother actually died... she wouldn't have been able to bear it.

That's how I met Tenten. She is probably the only girl, other than Hanabi, that I don't hate on this ship. She makes life without those "one-track mind foul-mouthed dirty sailors" much, much better. She's even taught me some fighting moves! Except... I really don't know if I learned them right.

Every night since that night I have prayed for our safe arrival, and to get there soon. They days were cold and harsh, food was scarce and illness was plentiful. It felt like it had been years, not months, since we had left England.

A couple of weeks after the birth of Hinako, I was finally allowed to go above deck again! I rejoiced like there was no tomorrow.

When I stepped out, it was even better than I had remembered! The smells, the sights, the very taste of the air was intensified a thousand times better than before.

As I stood, leaning over the railing so far I rivaled Naruto, I heard a voice shouting loud and clear. It's words striked fear in my heart and overwhelmed me with joy...

"Land ho!"

AnimeCrasherz: So it's not very eventful... bear with me please. They reached land, huzzah! -waves little land-ho flag-

Ok, so maybe we're taking a little break from Sasuke. It's just hate rushing into pairings, especially SasuHina. Patience, my readers!

And... uh... I don't know if introducing Tenten to the readers and Hinata and making Hinata become friends with Tentens is... good... I don't know.

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