When Naruto heard that, his knees buckled and he fell. Kyoko caught his shoulders before he hit the ground face first. "Naruto, are you okay?! Naruto?!"

Naruto immediately shot up and began to stutter, he was worse than Hinata. "U-U-U-Uchiha?! A-are y-you s-s-serious?! Th-th-there's no way!"

Kyoko looked at Naruto and sighed, "Sorry, but it's the truth. Sasuke is my cousin." Naruto looked like he was going to pass out so the black-haired girl needed to think of something quick.

"Naruto, why don't we go get some ramen and I'll tell you everything." She smiled.

Naruto looked at her with his mouth wide open and drool falling out of the corner. "ALL RIGHT! I LOVE RAMEN! HOW DID YOU KNOW?!"

Kyoko laughed, "I didn't, and I just feel like ramen is all."

Naruto started to walk and he yelled, "LET'S GO!!" Kyoko walked after Naruto and smiled. She thought to herself how amazing it was that ramen could change his whole attitude.

Kyoko and Naruto were at Ichiraku's and Naruto was engulfing bowl after bowl. Kyoko sighed and it caught Naruto's attention.

"What's wrong?" Kyoko looked at Naruto and she looked kind of sad. All the blonde could say was "Oh."

Kyoko looked back at her cup of tea. "Naruto, Sasuke was my only friend. I didn't have anybody; he was more like my brother, him and Itachi." Naruto flinched at the mention of the older Uchiha's name. Naruto didn't dare to look at her because he knew that she was sad and he didn't want to see her like that. Then Kyoko clenched the glass so hard that it shattered. Kyoko quickly apologized to the owner of the stand.

The blonde noticed that her hand was bleeding, he quickly asked, "Are you alright, Kyoko?!" The black-haired girl looked up at him and forced a smile,

"I'm alright." Naruto knew that she wasn't telling the truth he also saw that she was crying.

Naruto looked down and sighed, "Can you tell me the whole story?"

Kyoko was quiet for awhile and said, "Sure. Before 'the incident' Sasuke and I were like best friends, we were inseparable. Sasuke always stuck up for me when kids picked on me. He was always there, like an older brother. After Itachi killed the family and left, Sasuke changed. He never wanted to see me; he never wanted to talk to me. I tried to help him, I didn't want him to be alone and depressed. After he got home from the graduation exam, I guess he was tired of me. I was trying to talk to him and he swung a fist at me. That's when I decided that I would leave. I decided that I needed to become stronger so that I could help him. So that I could stop him from the path he was on. I knew something bad was going to happen and I left."

Naruto looked at her like he was disgusted, "You left?! You knew that something bad was going to happen and you left?!"

Kyoko slammed her hand on the counter and stood up, "You don't understand! I couldn't stop him the way I was! I needed to train so that I could help him! I needed to be stronger!" Kyoko stormed away and Naruto felt stupid. Naruto put money for the tea and ramen on the counter and left.

"Kyoko!" Naruto was satisfied when he saw the black-haired girl stop and turn around. "Kyoko, I'm sorry."

Kyoko shook her head and said, "No, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled like that." Kyoko looked at Naruto like she had something to say, but she wasn't going to. She wasn't ready to tell Naruto her other secret, not yet. Naruto looked at Kyoko questionably but didn't want to ask her what was wrong. He figured she would tell him if she really wanted to.

Then the two adolescents heard someone lazily say, "Hey Naruto." They both turned to see a boy who had his dark hair pulled back and he looked bored and tired.

Naruto quickly said, "Hi Shikamaru!"

Shikamaru just sighed and said, "Why do you always have to be so loud?" Then he mumbled something about Naruto and troublesome. Shikamaru looked at Kyoko and lazily said, "I'm Shikamaru Nara."

Kyoko smiled and said, "My name is Kyoko Uchiha, it's nice to meet you."

Shikamaru's eyes got wide, "Uchiha? Seriously? How is that, I thought Sasuke was the last surviving member of the clan."

Kyoko giggled and said, "Apparently not."

Shikamaru's expression went back to the usual bored and tired. "It's nice to meet you too." Shikamaru then turned back to Naruto and said, "The Hokage needs to see you." Naruto nodded then waved to both Kyoko and Shikamaru and ran off. Kyoko noticed that her hand was still bleeding. She looked at it, then water surrounded her hand and the water began to glow. Soon the water dispersed and the wound had vanished. Shikamaru saw this and he was shocked. He didn't even see her use any hand signs. He wanted to figure out what that was about. He hated not understanding things. Kyoko turned to Shikamaru smiling.

Shikamaru looked confused and asked, "What?"

Kyoko grabbed Shikamaru's hand and said, "Come with me!"

Shikamaru pulled his hand out of hers and said curiously, "Where are you trying to take me?"

Kyoko laughed and said, "Well, I want to know how strong you are, I've heard that you're one of the smartest shinobi in Konoha."

Shikamaru put his hands behind his head and sighed, "Whatever, I'll go with you."

Kyoko smiled and exclaimed, "All right!" Shikamaru was really didn't understand this girl. She was much different from the other two Uchiha's. The only reason Shikamaru went with this strange girl was because he was curious about her fighting abilities.

Kyoko and Shikamaru got to the training field where Team 7 trained with Kakashi after they first met.

Kyoko pointed to the ground, "You stand right here," she pointed across the field and said, "I'll stand over there, alright." Shikamaru just stood in his spot and the black-haired girl went to her spot. When she got there she smiled and said, "Alright, you ready to lose, Nara?"