Chapter 2: Kiari and Sasuke: Friends or Foes
Kiari was now about twelve years of age and has become one of the best students in the Ninja Academy. During the past few years, Kiari's abilities in being a ninja have been improving since she trains under a daily basis. Her appearance of being half fox has also changed a little bit. Kiari's hair was now back lengthed and was dyed from orange to brown, and her fox ears and tail have grown a bit bigger than before, along with her sharp nails and teeth.
As the story continues, Kiari was entering the classroom as she looked for an empty seat for her to sit on since today was her first day as a genin. She was wearing a brown tank top with a navy blue hooded jacket over it, a knee lengthed black double slit skirt with her fox tail showing underneath it, white leggings that reached down above the knee area, a pair of black fingerless gloves, and a pair of black ninja sandals. Kiari was wearing her leaf ninja headband around her neck with the hood of her jacket over her head to cover her fox ears, and had her brown tools pouch strapped to the back of her right hip side.
"Morning Kiari!" Kiari turned around and saw Naruto waving towards her as Kiari walked up to her best friend.
"Morning Naruto. What are you doing here anyway? I thought you didn't graduate to become a genin." Kiari said as she noticed the ninja headband across Naruto's forehead. "Hey is that a…?"
"It sure is." Naruto said as he pointed his thumb towards his headband. "I got my official ninja headband, which means I'm an official ninja."
"I'm happy for you Naruto." Kiari said as she and Naruto noticed a group of girls arguing on who will be sitting next to Sasuke, who was a heart throb to most of the girls, except to Kiari. "I don't know what they see in a guy like him."
"And I don't get why you're not crazy for Sasuke." Naruto said as Kiari pulled back her hood since it was safe enough to have her fox ears showing.
"Why? Do you want me to be crazy for a guy like Sasuke?" Kiari said as Naruto shook his head. "Good, because I hate jerks like him."
"What did he do Kiari?" Naruto said as Kiari looked away as he suddenly appeared on the desk in front of Sasuke. "Hey Sasuke, why are always acting like a jerk to my friend?!"
"What are you talking about you dobe? I don't even know who this friend of yours is." Sasuke said as Kiari placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder with her other hand on the desk.
"Just forget Naruto. He's not worth fighting against." Kiari said as Naruto went to find an empty seat to sit on.
Kiari was about to follow Naruto until she felt someone holding her wrist down to the desk and saw that she was being held down by Sasuke, who was giving her an angry stare.
"What do you want Sasuke?" Kiari said as she glared towards Sasuke. "If you're not going to say anything, then I suggest you release me."
"You said that I'm not worth fighting against Naruto, who happens to be the worst in the class." Sasuke said as Kiari pulled her hand to free herself from his grip.
"So maybe I did say that." Kiari said as she rubbed her wrist that was in Sasuke's grip. "You think that you can be beat him in a fight?"
"How about I fight against you instead of Naruto, since I heard you're also one of the best students in this class." Sasuke said as Kiari just shrugged.
"I guess a fight against you won't be a waste of time. We'll spar during lunch at the training grounds." Kiari said as Sasuke nodded in agreement.
Iruka came into the classroom as the new genin sat in their seats. Kiari was sitting in front of Naruto, who was sitting next to Sakura, the pink haired girl who was sitting next to Sasuke.
"Hey Kiari," Naruto said while Iruka was mentioning who's in which squad as Kiari looked back toward Naruto. "Who do want to in the same squad with?"
"Of course I want to be in the same squad as you Naruto, but if I ended up in the same squad as Sasuke, then things might get difficult." Kiari said as Iruka started to announce the members of squad 7.
"Due to the uneven number of genin in this class, squad 7 will be having four members instead of three. In squad 7, we have Kiari Hikawa, Sakura Haruno, Naruto Uzamaki, and Sasuke Uchiha."
Kiari was glad that she was in the same squad as Naruto, but didn't appreciate having to be in the same squad as Sasuke. Naruto was glad that he was in the same squad as Kiari and Sakura, who happens to be the girl Naruto has a crush on, but didn't also appreciate being in the same squad as Sasuke. It was now time for lunch as the genin walked out of the classroom but will be coming back to meet their assigned squad leaders. Kiari was on her way out of the classroom until she heard Naruto calling her.
"Hey Kiari, do you want to eat lunch with me, or are you going to train some more?" Naruto said as Kiari pulled her hood over her head.
"I'm going to spar with Sasuke to find out who's the better ninja. Do you want to watch me kick Sasuke's butt?" Kiari said as Naruto nodded.
Kiari and Naruto were walking to the training grounds where Kiari will be fighting Sasuke until they came across Sasuke, who was waiting outside the classroom door.
"What now Sasuke? I thought we were going to find out who's the better ninja with a fight at the training grounds." Kiari said as Sasuke walked past them and grabbed Kiari by the wrist to force her to follow, but she stood her ground. "Don't drag me like I'm a leashed animal! Just tell me where you're going to take me instead of trying to drag me there without saying a word you know."
"You mind if we speak in private?" Sasuke said as Kiari just shrugged as they walked down the hallway until the reached the end of the hallway that had an open window.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Kiari said as she sat on the window sill with her back facing outside, not knowing that Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji were listening from a nearby balcony.
"I wonder who that fox girl's talking to." Ino said as she noticed Sasuke sitting on the window sill with his back leaning on the window frame so he can face Kiari. "What the?! She's talking to Sasuke?! But Sasuke never talks to anyone, not even me! What does that fox girl have that I don't?!"
"Besides her fox ears and tail, it might be the title as one of the best students in the Ninja Academy." Shikamaru said as they saw that Kiari went inside the building and pulled Sasuke inside with her as the window shutter closed itself.
'That no good, Sasuke stealing fox! What is she going to do to my Sasuke?!' Ino thought as she had a really angry expression on her face.
What Ino doesn't know is that Kiari pulled Sasuke inside the building with her because she heard her yelling and knew that they'll try to listen into their conversation.
"You mind explaining why you pulled me inside without saying anything?" Sasuke said as Kiari used hear sharp hearing to hear if Ino and her squad were still outside but couldn't her them. "Well?"
"First of all, didn't you try dragging me here earlier like how I did to you?" Kiari said as she faced towards Sasuke. "And second, my sharp hearing detected Ino nearby, which means that she was trying to listen into our conversation, but she wasn't the only one since my sharp sense of smell detected the scents of her squad mates."
"Your sharp senses are quite impressive. Maybe having you as a squad mate might be interesting since my other two squad mates will be useless on the squad." Sasuke said as Kiari crossed her arms across her chest area.
"I appreciate the comment Sasuke, but I think you should be careful on what you say about our other squad mates, especially Naruto." Kiari said as Sasuke looked curious. "Naruto may be the worst student in the academy, but he's willing to do anything to fulfill his dream. Who knows, he might surprise us all."
Kiari pulled her hood down as she opened the window and left through it. She came across Sakura who was sitting on a bench with a Sasuke imposter. Kiari knew that the Sasuke imposter was really Naruto in disguise since the Sasuke imposter had Naruto's scent.
'I can't believe Naruto disguised himself as Sasuke in order to get Sakura's attention. I guess love can make people do crazy things. I just hope Sasuke doesn't find out, or he might beat up Naruto.' Kiari thought to herself as she detected Sasuke's scent coming towards where Naruto and Sakura were. 'Oh no, Sasuke's coming this their way. I have to try to stall him.'
Kiari managed to find Sasuke before he was almost to where Naruto and Sakura were as she appeared in front of him.
"Hey Sasuke, since we didn't fight each other yet, how about we start heading towards the training grounds and have that fight before lunch ends?" Kiari said as Sasuke had a feeling she was hiding something."
"What are you trying to hide Kiari?" Sasuke said as Kiari had a surprised expression on her face. "I can tell that you're hiding something by your tone of voice."
"What are you talking about Sasuke? I'm not hiding anything." Kiari said trying to convince Sasuke to think that she wasn't really hiding anything, even if she was.
Kiari detected Naruto's scent coming their way as she pushed Sasuke into some bushes to keep Sasuke from seeing Naruto if he was still disguised as a Sasuke imposter. Kiari noticed that Naruto was still disguised as a Sasuke imposter as Sasuke tried to leave, but Kiari pinned him to a tree and crashed her lips onto his in order to keep him from seeing Naruto as him. Once Naruto passed by their location, and the coast was clear, Kiari separate her lips from Sasuke's as she left in an instant. Sasuke was a bit shocked because of what Kiari just did as he left to find her so he can get an explanation about her strange action.
'Naruto, you owe me big time for what I had to do in order to save you from getting hurt by Sasuke.' Kiari thought as the lunch bell rang, which means that lunch was over as she started heading back to the Ninja Academy.
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