If I Could...
The After, The Now, and The Sorrow
Chapter 2
Iruka's classroom
"GOOD MORNING HIKARI-KUN!" Naruto screamed into 12 year old Hikari's face.
Being the tomboy Hikari was, she yawned out loud, scratched her chin, propped her feet on her desk and said is a lazy manner, "G-morning Naruto, say do you know what time it is?"
"Naruto! You should leave Hikari-chan alone, she don't want your gems!" A random girl yelled.
'Just because I'm related to the 'hot guy' doesn't mean you need to be all up in my space' HIkari thought to herself.
Since Hikari was related to Sasuke and people, being girls mostly, wanted to be on Sasuke's good side. To do that they would try to be Hikari's best friend in the world or try to do everything for her, which made her very mad cause having a flock of girls clinging to you 24/7.
"Look I don't care ok, and don't be mean to Naruto ok?" She asked of the random girl.
The girl looked at Hikari like she had five heads or something, "Fine"
Sighing in relief, she closed her eyes again waiting for Iruka-sensei to list the name of students that would be put together in a team.
10 minutes later
"Team 9 will be Takeshi Aburame, Hikari Uchiha, and Hideki Hyuga, your teacher shall be Kenta Akimichi. Now please go with your teachers and behave." Iruka announced to the class.
'I wonder how this will play out' Hikari thought to herself.
"Good afternoon students please follow me and then we'll introduce each other." Kenta-sensei announced too the three students.
Once their teacher started to run the three followed him to a meadow.
"Welcome to Team 9 now lets introduce each other. State your full name, likes, dislikes, goals, and your birthday. So I'll go first my name is Kenta Akimichi, I am from the Akimichi clan, I like food and fall, I dislike not being able to eat and seeing my friends, family, and now students hurt, my goal is to teach you as much as I can and my birthday is October 7th. Now it's your turn, lets start with you at the end." Kenta explained to us.
Hikari looked to the place Kenta was pointing to. A boy with a pair of googles over his eyes, long medium brown shoulder length hair and a overcoat that had a high collar to hide his face, spoke "My name is Takeshi Aburame, I am from the Aburame clan, I like to study bugs, I dislike the cold, a goal I do not have, and my birthday is May 17th."
"Ok, nice to meet you Takeshi, now its your turn." Kenta said while pointing to the one next to Hikari.
The boy next to Hikari had long dark brown hair tied at the end and had featureless white eyes with a hint of blue. He spoke in a arrogant voice, "Hideki Hyuga, don't like anything, dislike weak people, to become stronger, February 29th."
Kenta cleared his throat, "Ok well, um thats, nice to know, anyway it's your turn now dear."
Hikari saw her Team mates turned to her waiting for her to answer, so she replied in a normal voice, "My full name is Hikari Akane Makoto Kokoro Tsukiko Uchiha, I am from the clan of Uchiha and the twin sister of Sasuke Uchiha, I like night, water, and music, I dislike being alone and not being there for my friends and family, my goal is a personal goal but a goal that is not so personal is that I wish to be there for my friends, family, and now my team mates, while my birthday is July 23th."
"Very nice name, now that we know each others lets get down to business, I want you to meet me tomorrow at the training grounds near the forest." Kenta told the three students.
Later on in the day
"So Sasuke how was your day?" Hikari asked of her older twin brother.
"Stupid, how about you?" Sasuke asked of Hikari.
Hikari putted her hands behind her head and looked up at the now partly cloudy sky and muttered, "It was pretty good, meet my team mates got to know them and what nots, but it could have been better. So what was wrong with your day, don't like your team mates or something?"
Sasuke glanced over at his little sister, "That and my teacher is weird, the girl is starring at me 24/7, the other boy is loud, and above all no one strong is in my team."
Hikari looked over at Sasuke and said in a firm voice, "Look Sasuke I know that you want to become strong and fight Niinii but you must take things in steps even if they are small or large steps," she said is a firm voice.
As she walked on she noticed that Sasuke didn't continue to walk with her to their home. She turned around to face him and said in a quiet voice, "What's wrong Sasuke?"
Sasuke looked at her with rage only in his eyes. He couldn't believe that his own sister, his own twin, would stand up for that monster of a older brother and still call him by his nickname; while she does not call him Onii-chan any more.
Sasuke stared at her hoping that she would get the hidden message that was hidden beneath his eyes. Knowing that she would never understand the pain he was feeling, Sasuke said in a low tone, "Nothing let's just get home before dark and eat dinner."
Hikari stared at what use to be her older brother. To her, her twin older brother, Sasuke, was walking away from her and walking to a point of which one was to never return to those that love them the most.
Hikari looked down at the ground and felt tears prickle at the edge of her eyes, but then remembered the promise that she made to herself the day that she learned of what Itachi did.
'Never to shed another tear, to something that you had no control over. One must keep on walking never to stop and be lost in the past.'
Is what she thought to herself. With those words within her head Hikari ran over to the now distance Sasuke and yelled, "Wait for me baka Sasuke!"
Sasuke's and Hikari's home; Bedtime
Hikari looked to her right only to see that no one was sleeping next her any more, just and empty space.
She then turned to her left trying to let go of the memories that use to be. Hikari looked up into the window only to see the stars that gleam in the night. Hikari sighed to herself and looked up into the ceiling wondering what would happen in the future would.
As the bad memories started to take over her mind she started to hum a song that she made up one day. She started out humming but then it led into a soft whispered song,
'I have done nothing to be blamed for and accused of. The sound of footsteps became louder everyday, then I noticed that there was not time. The whole world was at a complete standstill, and I was in fetters, at the mercy of the mob. The silent warning became louder each and every day. I kept pretending not to hear...
Her eyes began to feel heavy as she continued to sing, but the time she was almost done with the song she was in a dreamless sleep.
The next day at the training ground
"Good morning Takeshi, Hideki, and Kenta-sensei." Hikari said in groggy voice.
Takeshi moved his head in respond to Hikari, Hideki 'hm' her, and Kenta smiled up at her and said, "Good morning to you too Hikari-chan. I take it that you're not a morning person are you?"
Hikari nodded her head in response.
"Ok well the first thing I want you to do is give me your lunch and start running around Konoha until you feel like you can't run anymore." Kenta said with a happy smile on his face.
Hikari, Takeshi, and Hideki all shared a look at each other, then they all put there bentos with Kenta and started to run.
After what felt like 100 hours but was really 4 in a half hours later Hikari stopped running and went back to the training grounds, only to find her team mates already there.
"Ok so how many laps did each of you do?" Kenta asked of his three tired students.
"I ran 20 laps around Konoha." Takeshi said in a normal voice.
"I ran 19 laps around Konoha." Hideki said in a rude tone.
"I ran 33 laps around Konoha." Hikari puffed out.
"Ok so with this test we know that Hikari is the fastest out of all of us and has more stamina then the rest. So for the next test, I want you to play shogi with Shikaku Nara, so would you please say hello to Shikaku Nara." Kenta said with a smile on his face pointing to a very muscular tall man with a deer skin coat on him.
Takeshi stood up and bowed, "Hello Nara-san, my name is Takeshi Aburame."
Hideki sat there and said, "Hideki Hugya."
Hikari frowned at Hideki and smacked him on the top of the head.
"Owww what was that for?" Hideki said in an annoyed voice while rubbing his now sore head.
Hikari turned back to Shikaku, bowed, and said in a firm voice, "My name is Hikari Uchiha, it's a pleasure to meet you again Nara-san. I am also sorry for what my friend, Hideki, did."
Shikaku waved his hand, "It's ok don't worry about it. So Kenta who is the first person?"
Kenta chuckled and said, "Well since you know Hikari-chan, why don't you play against her, cause I don't know if the others know how to play."
After about 5 hours of playing Shogi all three students were tired and bored and starving.
"Ok so what I can see here too is that Hikari-chan is the best of thinking things through. So the rest of the test will be tomorrow after you eat your food. Oh and the tests for tomorrow is a test at how good you are at Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Taijutsu, Hand seals, and your strength." Kenta yelled at the three students who were inhaling their food.
Dinner time
Hikari sat at the right end of the table playing with the food she cooked an hour ago. Sasuke already went to bed and put his dishes in the sink. Hikari looked to her right only to see that it was midnight. She got up and put her dishes in the sink. She then washed, dried, and cleaned the table off. After that was done she got up and started to get ready for sleep.
As Hikari walked to the bathroom with a her pajamas in her hands, a two towels and a comb in the other, she started to hum the same song she sang last night to herself again.
As the water ran down Hikari's body she stared at the floor thinking to herself yet again. No matter what she thought of, there was no reason for Itachi to go and kill their family and leave them, her and her twin brother Sasuke, alive. She wanted to know and to ask him why, but no matter where she looked she could never find him. She checked every record about a sighting of a Uchiha, but no matter how close the details were it was not him just other ordinary person. Just as Hikari was thinking of other ways to find him there was a knock at the bathroom door.
Hikari turned the water off, wrapped a towel around her chest, and opened the door only to see Sasuke standing there with a concerned look on his face.
She blinked in surprised and said in a batter voice, "Oh, um, Sasuke, uh, what brings, you here?"
"It's morning," was all Sasuke said.
Hikari looked over at the clock at was placed upon the wall that was water-proof.
'Shit, if I'm late thats gonna be bad,' She thought to herself.
As quickly as Hikari could she dried off her body, put on some random clothes not bothering to wrap her chest but to wear a bar which was faster to put on, grab an apple off the counter, and run to the training grounds that she was to meet her team mates at.
Please write a review of this story, I don't care if its a mean comment but try to keep it constructive mean comment and tell me what I need to work on.
Well anyway that's about it so here are some important details about the story:
time setting when they get their teams and the chunin exams are coming up soon
Hikari is a tomboy, so she acts, talks, and dresses like a boy for the most part which is why almost everyone says kun at the end of her name instead of chan minus her teacher Kenta.
The meaning of the Title:
The after refers to how Hikari thinks about the Itachi killing spree
The now refers to how things are now in Hikari's life
The sorrow refers to well how Hikari feels about everything, her relationship with her brother, Sasuke, and what made Itachi do what he did
Song picked:
"Why or Why not" by Oshima Hiroyuki feat. Katakiri Rekka, the ending song to the first season of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Remember all rights belongs to the person who made Naruto I only own Hikari and the rest of the OCs that will appear later on.
Also all other stuff that is related to the story shall be on my D. Account which there will be a link to later.
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