Thanks for all the hits guys! I wanted me reviews, but hey you get what you get. I'm sorry for the late update, but I had testing. And now, I have to study for the damn finals. Damnit. But I'll try to update at least once a week or two. If it takes me more then two weeks, that means I'm studying hard for exams. I'll try my hardest. Hope you guys like this chapter .

Le Story!

Aiku stretched in her new bed. Blinking, she rubbed her eyes and glanced at her alarm clock. It read 3:40 am. "Damn, woke up a bit early.." She mumbled and got out of her bed. " I guess I could get to the bridge early..but something tells me Kakashi is going to be late..hmm..that's weird." She pondered, but shrugged it off and walked to her kitchen. There was a small bag on her kitchen table. " And what is this?" Aiku asked no-one in particular. The note read:

Hey Susu-chan!

Thought you might want some cup ramen if you're on the go. Don't worry, you don't have to be on-time for training, Kakashi-baka is ALWAYS late.

Bye!

-Naruto

Aiku chuckled and put the note down, opening up the bag to see two boxes of cup ramen. Her favorite flavor too. Chicken. Aiku squealed, ripping open one of the boxes,and pulling out a freshly wrapped ramen cup. She ran over and started to boil water,and tapped her foot impatiently while waiting.

" This stuff is very addicting.." She mumbled, and yelped when the tea pot whistled for her. Hastily pouring the water into the styro-foam cup, she quickly waited for the ramen to cook for three minutes. While waiting, she did some random dance moves. Then her ramen instincts kicked in, telling her that her ramen was done.

"Itadakimasu!" Aiku yelled as she plunged into the noodle-y goodness. After eating she decided to change and head to the bridge, maybe she could relax for a bit, before beating Naruto sense-less. Walking into her room, she picked out her clothes and slid them on. Her gray sweat-shirt, and her navy blue thigh-shorts. After tying her hitai-ate bandanna-style, she walked to the mirror.

"Lookin' good." She said and winked at herself, then started walking towards the door, and realized how corny that really was. Aiku shook her head and walked down to the bridge.

At the bridge, she saw Sasuke leaning on the railing, while Sakura was tightly clinging to his arm, blabbing about how Ino couldn't handle a man like Sasuke. Aiku rolled her eyes, and leaned on the railing across from them.

"I didn't think you guys would be here at 4 am." Aiku said bluntly, while leaning back on the bars coolly. She wanted to burst out laughing, but she remained so she could keep her 'kick-ass' aura.

"We're always here early, Aiku-san." Sakura said and smiled, still hugging Sasuke's arm.

"Hn.." Sasuke answered,being Sasuke. Aiku smiled.

" Just like his brother.." she whispered. Sasuke eyed her, having caught the word 'brother'. But then went back to his mental list of ways to kill that man, a.k.a , his brother. " Sasuke's just like a little Itachi clone.." Aiku thought, and giggled. "Itachi..." she whispered to herself, thankfully Sasuke didn't hear her,being to busy thinking. Aiku remembered when she first met Itachi. She was only seven, it was right after she had been...abducted..from Konoha...

Aiku cringed, the light hitting her eyes brightly. She sat up,and looked around. All she say was dirt and sand. A road that looked like it led to no-where, from both ends. She wanted to cry,and cuddle with her Naru-chan or Kyuu-kun. But she couldn't, she was alone, on the side of some dirt road that led no-where, with nothing except some knife wounds here and there. Aiku didn't even know how she got here. She sat for hours, staring into space. Aiku didn't know how she somehow kept her composure and didn't run somewhere to get help, she just sat there. Admiring her torn white tee shirt, and her worn out shoes and her olive green shorts. She played with her hair, but finally got bored. She layed down on the sand,and fell into a dreamless sleep.

She awoke to two large shadows standing over her. Aiku rubbed her eyes, and looked up. One guy, he had red eyes, with multiple dots in them. A bored look on his face, with a large black robe covered in red clouds. Aiku looked at the next person. Now, this guy looked like a very,very ugly and deformed shark. She 'eeped', but continued to look over him. He wore the same robe, a cross through his hitai-ate, and some wrapped thing in his back.

"And you are?" She asked, bitterly. The man with the red eyes raised an eye-brow. The shark man growled, and his partner put his arm closer to him in-front of him, to prevent him from getting closer. The man with the red eyes crouched down to be eye-level with the sitting girl. Aiku cocked her head to the side.

"Your eyes.." she gasped for a second, but her gasp replaced with a malicious smirk.

"Are the color of blood." She finished, while stretching, the red-eyed man eyeing her again.

"What's your name?" He asked in a monotone voice.

" Ahh..you wouldn't like it. I hate it." She said, standing up and stretching one more time, while eyeing the shark guy. The red eyed man stood up.

"What's your name?" Aiku asked and pointed to him.

"Itachi. Remember it." Itachi answered.

"I will. I am.." Aiku paused, thinking of a random name.

"I'm Aka. Remember that, Itachi." Aiku said while crossing her arms infront of her, smirking.

"Ugh, I don't like this kid Itachi. She's a smart-ass." Itachi's partner said while rolling his eyes.

Aiku scowled.

" What are you doing out here?" Itachi asked, boredly.

"Well..last thing I remember, is getting stabbed.." She mumbled and winced at the thought.

"Stabbed?" Shark man asked.

"Yea..I was..taken from Konoha, basically stabbed, and I guess dropped out here for dead." Aiku said, shrugging. Itachi looked to be contemplating something.

"You. Sharky. What's your name?" Aiku asked, pointing to Itachi's partner. He rolled his eyes.

"My name's Kisame, brat." Kisame spat at her. Aiku rolled her eyes.

"Are you hungrey?" Itachi asked her. Aiku shrugged.

"I guess. Why do you ask?" Aiku cocked her head to the side, not even remembering that this man was a complete stranger she'd just met, but she acted as if she'd known them for awhile. Itachi outstretched hand for her to take. She eyed for a few seconds, but took it any way.

"Where are we going?" She asked, looking up at Itachi. Kisame snorted.

" To get food, what else?" Kisame said bitterly.

"I wasn't talking to you, shark-breath." Aiku spat back. Itachi smirked.

"I think i'm going to like this kid.." He thought as he tuned out the verbal fight between his partner and the new found girl.

Aiku blinked, when she saw a hand waving infront of her eyes. She followed the hand, that was attached to the arm of Uzumaki Naruto. She growled.

"Are you ok? We were worried and.." Naruto trailed off when he saw the playful killing intent in his best-friends eyes.

" Susu-chan?" He asked innocently while taking a few steps back.

"Don't 'susu-chan' me, baka!" Aiku growled again, and tackled him. They rolled for a few seconds onto the grass, where Aiku had gotten a firm grip on him, and straddled him.

"This is what you get for running out on me, Naru-chan.." She said and smirked. Aiku heard Naruto wimper, but didn't care. "Why'd you leave?"Aiku asked, pouting playfully. Naruto mumbled something about being raped by his evil best-friend. Aiku growled again.

"Say it." Aiku commanded.She new Naruto knew what she wanted him to say. Naruto just stuck his tongue out at her. She grabbed it with her teeth, and let it go, as she let her lips brush against Naruto's, but she got up and walked to where Sakura and Sasuke were standing, awe-struck.

"What?" Aiku asked lifting an eyebrow. They immediately turned away while mumbling a small

" Nothing.." Aiku shrugged and turned all of her attention to her nails, not noticing Naruto was still laying there.

"Naruto, you might want to get now." Aiku called, still admiring her nails. After a few minutes of mental therapy, Naruto stood up and walked to the side of Sakura.

"Sakura-chaaaaaaaan! You look so pretty today! Let's go and get some ramen after training!" Naruto whined.

"Not in your dreams,Naruto." Sakura spat at him, giving him a glare and then returned her attention to Sasuke.

"But Sakura-chaaaaaaaaan!" Naruto begged her, putting on his best puppy dog look.

"Not now Naruto! Me and Sasuke-kun are having a conversation! Go eat some ramen or something.." Sakura said, sending him a more venomous glare then before. Aiku raised an eye-brow.

"That's the chick Naruto likes? Geez..what a bi--" Her thought was cut off when Naruto sent her a glare.

" I heard that!" Naruto said, pointing at her stupidly. Aiku rolled her eyes.

"Naruto, come here." Aiku hissed. He immediately was at her side. She grabbed him by the collar of his jacket.

"Listen here,brat. Let's have a little chat, ne?" Aiku said, dragging Naruto behind her to a tree not far from the bridge. She threw him down, and stood over him.

"Naruto, I thought you had a better choice in girls! Do you really want a girl that treats you like dirt!" Aiku hissed at him.

"Trust me, there aren't any girls my type around here. Sakura-chan's the only girl that's atleast said more then 'stupid Naruto'.."Naruto mumbled, trailing off. Aiku sat next to Naruto.

"Do...Do the villagers still..call you..bakamono?" Aiku whispered quietly, looking at the clouds. She saw Naruto nod in the corner of her eye.

"Well, with me back in town, they wont. I'll make sure of that." She said, determination dancing in her eyes. Naruto smiled, a small smile though. Aiku smiled back and stood up, outstreching a hand for him to take.

"Come on, let's go wait for Kakashi-sensei."Aiku said. Naruto nodded, taking her hand and run to the bridge, leaving her behind.

"Baka.." Aiku mumbled smiling. Aiku walked to the bridge leaning on the railing, contemplating random things. Finally, after an hour or two, Kakashi appeared, giggling like a perverted idiot. Aiku rolled her eyes.

"Perv.." She mumbled. Luckily, he didn't hear and put his book away.

"Today, you're going to spar. Sakura against Sasuke, Naruto against Aiku. Mmkay?" Kakashi said, his visable eye curving into an upside-down U. Sasuke rolled his eyes, and Sakura squeeled and hugged his arm.

"Let's go Sasuke-kun!" Sakura said, dragging him off to another field. Aiku rolled her eyes when she saw Kakashi go back to his book, but decided to pull Naruto into the closest training field.

"Nothing serious, just play alright?" Aiku said, smirking. "Because, I wouldn't want to hurt my precious Naru-chan.." She felt like throwing her head back and cackling, but she controlled her urge and turned it into a small smirk.

"Shut up." Naruto said, sticking his tongue out at her while he got into his tai-jutsu stance. Aiku did the same while rolling her eyes.

"Ready Naru-chan? "she said smirking.

"Always am. " Naruto replied, and ran towards her and started a roundhouse kick. Luckily (for Aiku) she caught his foot and raised him above her head, and slammed him into the ground. Standing over the Naruto shaped crater, she yelled into it.

" I thought you were better then this, Naruto!" Aiku said. She heard a low growl and tilted her head, but before having time to calculate anything, she flew in the air from taking the harsh upper-cut Naruto had given her.

"Oh shi-- " She started, but got interupted by the fist of a mad jinchuuriki. Dodging sharply and doing a cart-wheel,Aiku got back into her stance a few feet away.

" Nice. You've been training. " She said smirking.

"Fuck yea." Naruto said while grinning his trade mark fox grin.

Aiku started doing some seals, that ended with the tiger kata.

"Blinding light of death!" She yelled and closed her eyes tightly. Okay, so the light wasn't even that bright, but she loved to intimidate her oponent by adding the death part. She opened her eyes and looked at the spot where Naruto..was.

"Where'd the little booger go?" Aiku asked the air.

"Up here." She heard a blunt voice say from above her. Looking up she saw Naruto's foot straight on her face. Smashing into the ground, Aiku groaned.

"You win you win!" She said, waving her hands in defeat. Aiku wiped the rivers of crimson blood flowing from her mouth and nose, and sat up in the Aiku shaped hole.

" I didn't mean to hit you that hard on the last one there, Aiku-chan. " Naruto said sheepishly grinning and rubbing the back of his head. Aiku sharply slapped him in the back of the head.

"Sorry Naru-chan, I didn't mean to hit you so hard on the last one there." She said grinning as Naruto rolled on the ground holding the back of his head.

"Serves you right. " Aiku mumbled sticking her tongue out at him.

"Let's go, Dobe" Aiku said snickering while Naruto exploded behind her.

"I'm not the Dobe, baka." Naruto mumbled as he caught up with Aiku who was already with the team.

"So, Kakashi-sensei, are you going to treat us since we did so good sparring today?" Aiku said, giving him her own version of Naruto's foxy grin. Kakashi put his Icha Icha away.

"Politely saying, No." He said smiling. Aiku pouted.

"So if you weren't being polite, what would you say?" She asked curiously.

"Hmm...I'd probobly say..Hell no.."Kakashi said, rubbing his masked chin and looking to the sky thoughtfully. Aiku rolled her eyes.

"Teme.." she mumbled. And walked back to stand next to Naruto.

"Nice sparring today Team 7. Be here tomorrow, 5am sharp." Kakashi said smiling and walked off.

"Naruto, let's go eat." Aiku said, grabbing Naruto and walking off in the direction of Ichiraku. Sasuke started to walk off the bridge, but he got interupted by a large fore-headed girl.

"Come on Sasuke-kun! Let's go get ramen!" Sakura said squeeling. Sasuke gave her a death glare.

"No,for the last time." Sasuke said coldly and walked off the bridge and disappeared in the crowd. Sakura frowned, and walked off in the direction of her own house.

(---)

Sitting down on a the stool, Aiku ordered a bowl of chicken ramen. Naruto started to ask her a question, but before he got time to start on the second word, Aiku answered him.

"Just cause i'm here with you doesn't mean i'm paying."Aiku said, staring straight in front of her. Naruto pouted and turned his attention to the steaming hot bowl of Miso ramen he orded and started slurping away. Aiku shook her head and mumbled a small "Itadakimasu." And silently started eating her ramen too.

"Ne, Aiku-chan?" Naruto said, finishing his third bowl. Aiku looked up form her meal and slurped up the noodles hanging from her mouth.

"What?" She asked taking another scoop of noodles into her mouth.

"Why'd you want to come eat with me?" Naruto asked, declining the fourth bowl served to him. Ayame looked astonished.

"Is something wrong with the ramen, Naruto-kun?" Ayame asked.

"No no, i'm just not really in the mood to eat ramen I guess.." Naruto said, traveling off as he put the correct amount of money on the table and slid off the stool.

"Come on, Aiku let's hang at you're place. Don't worry, I paid for you." He said as Aiku slipped off her stool.

"Okay." Aiku mumbled and walked in stride with Naruto.

"Naruto..I..I need to tell you some things.." Aiku mumbled, her green eyes filled with distraught.

"Like what?" He asked her with concern.

"When I was gone..I met..some..people..." she said biting her lip out of nervousness, and started walking up the stairs to her apartment.

"What kind of people?" Naruto said, following her up the stairs.

"Like...enemies..dangerous..enemies.."Aiku said while fumbling with her keys and sticking them into the lock.

"Enemies from where? Are they going to attack?" Naruto asked impatiently, concern in his eyes.

" They are..a group of people. And they wont be attacking...anytime soon.." Aiku said, mumbling the last part and pushing open the door to her apartment.

"What do you mean? They don't have a village?" Naruto asked following her into her apartment.

"Ehh..they did have a village..but not anymore.. Look, Naruto..these..people are a group of S-class criminals, and are dangerous." Aiku said, putting her hand up to stop Naruto from talking.

" And one of them, is Uchiha Itachi."

FINALLY! It's finished! Again, sorry for the late update. I had it finished and ready a couple days or even two weeks ago, but my Internet's been screwed up and just got fixed today The fourth chapter..is coming..soon..I can't guarantee it..-takes a deep breath- Gaiaonline, has been unusually addicting these past couple hours, that's why I haven't posted the story. Peace

--TCC