Chapter 11

-The Following Morning-

Misa and Nozomi were currently eating at a ramen shop they found across Nozomi's now favorite sushi restaurant. When they woke up they found Suoh and Ai sprawled across the floor. And being the "nice" people that they are they left them there. Although from the numerous protests from Nozomi, Misa left a note saying they were out.

'Well so much for training.' thought Nozomi. Misa was about to say something until some voices and some annoying yet still familiar voices filled the ramen shop. "Yes! Finally! My beloved ramen!" "Don't you think of anything else besides your "beloved" ramen?" "Yeah Naruto, I mea c'mon ramen isn't all that great." Then there was a huge silence. "WHAT… DID…YOU….SAY!!!"

"Ohhh, you did it now Kiba." "Hey get back here dog boy!" "Hell no! Noticing that the talking now somewhat became shouting, Nozomi and Misa (and Marco I guess but he wasn't really paying attention) looked up to see Naruto chasing Kiba around the whole ramen shop. While that, Shikamaru and Akamaru were just merely watching. "Gah! This is so somewhat troublesome."

But here came the interesting part. Kiba, not noticing where he was running, was headed straight for Nozomi. Luckily, she say this before hand and jumped out of her seat and Kiba made contact with the stool. But what Nozomi notice was Naruto running fast and had hit Nozomi head on.

-Here's how the scene looked-

Since Nozomi was holding her ramen when Naruto crash landed into her, the bowl overturned in the air, making a new fashion statement on her head and leaving her drenched with the soup. She was sitting flat on her bottom with Naruto next to her. He was exactly like her but instead noodles occupied his head and shoulders with some soup drenched on his head as well. And poor, poor Kiba, having crash landed head first into a stool rendered him coconscious. Kiba was lying across the floor, the stool not too far away, with little swirls in his eyes.

Misa and Shikamaru were laughing so hard, while Akamaru was trying to get Kiba to wake up. They were the only ones in the ramen shop. "If any of you say anything to anyone I will kill you….and stop laughing, or Kami-sama help me, I will choke you right where you're standing!" Misa and Shikamaru snapped their jaws shut at Nozomi's last remark. While Naruto was rubbing the soup out of his eyes, Nozomi took the bowl off of her head.

It was then Naruto and Nozomi looked right at each other that everyone went quiet at. Naruto and Nozomi never did see eye to eye so they never really looked t each other. But now was different. Both were staring wide-eyed at each other. "Umm…g-guys?" Shikamaru finally got to spit out, scared that Nozomi was going to kill him, he just had to say something after that uncomfortable silence and Misa was once gain eating poki… in a ramen shop, anyway.

Shikamaru instantly shut up when he saw glares from angry adolescents. But, he didn't just shut up from the glares, but the somewhat resemblance. Their eyes were both piercing blue, faces both in a circular shape, glare, sitting position, chin form to a pouting shape, and eyebrow posture. They ALOMST looked the same!! If Nozomi were to draw whiskers on her face, cut her hair down to Naruto's length and dye it blonde, she would be a perfect Naruto look-a-like.

It would be extremely hard to tell the difference. Now if Naruto were to grow his hair, dye it a brownish/black and get his whiskers off magically, he could be Nozomi's twin/cone. Although Nozomi's cheekbones maybe higher and her form more slender, that's the only thing their features don't have in common. "Well…what damnit?!?" Nozomi was now irritated. "Well, you just, um… Have you ever noticed you guys really, really look alike?" Nozomi and Naruto stopped glaring at the sweating Shikamaru and looked back at each other.

That's what sparked them both theirs, and Misa's attention. She was currently looking at Kiba's face, having realized the upside-down red fang-look a like on his cheek. 'The marks, they look like m-' but that was when Shikamaru made the remark. "Now that you've mention it, have umm… we've met before?" said Naruto. "I don't think so; this is our first time in Konoha so I guess not."

"Umm….maybe we should wake Kiba up now?" Nozomi first looked to Misa with a questioning look, then to finally notice Kiba sprawled across the store floor unconscious. "Right." Nozomi then stood up and kicked Kiba across the side. Akamaru started to bark at Nozomi but one glare pinned Akamaru dead silent. Then sound started to emit from Kiba. "Ahh, my head!" Then as he tried to get up h gasped in pain. "Ahh! My side!" But surprisingly Nozomi crouched down and patted Kiba's back.

"Yo, man you okay? That was a pretty bad crash, heck even the stool didn't survive." It was true, although it was almost okay, but one leg was broken completely while another leg la uncrooked. "Yah, I'm fine." Akamaru and Marc then started chasing each others tail. It was then Kiba looked up at Misa and forgot all about what his parents said what happened, everyone and everything in the room, his pains. He stood straight up and hugged Misa like a lifetime, tears rolling down his cheek.

-Flashback-

"Your sister, her name was Misa Inuzuka." His mother said, tears I her eyes. 'Misa what! How is that- How an that-' "What?!?!" "Please son, we'll explain." Said his father. When Kiba quieted down, aloe with Akamaru, his father continued, "When you were young, along with Misa,"-when he spoke her name, it was barley over a whisper" you were both playing outside and your mother and I were busy. We started hearing shouts and jutsu, and we were curious as what you two were doing. But, when we heard Misa scream, we ran outside. We came to find you blooded and tattered, and close to death. Along with no sight of Misa." Kiba noticed his father was close to tears. So his mother went on. "We tried and tried to find her, but nothing came up. That was until…" his mother went dead silent.

No one spoke and Kiba was annoyed, "UNTIL WHAT DAMNIT?!?!?!?" "Until we found out by an anonymous source that she was kidnapped by the…" his mother started sobbing. She opened the album and looked to a picture of Misa smiling on her father's shoulder, who was also smiling. "My Misa." She started to stroke the picture as if she was actually stroking her face. "Son, she was kidnapped y the Akatsuki."

-End of Flashback-

"Umm… Kiba are you okay?" Kiba finally looked at Misa, as Misa was surprised to see a tear-stained face. "Misa don't you remember me? Mom, dad? And how we would always pester them about getting a dog?" Misa's eyes widened to realize the familiar face. The way she knew Konoha so ell, why every face she's met looks like a picture from her past, how her dreams have looked like visions. Naruto had too gotten up and looked to Nozomi. She was looking at the floor with her hair covering her face. "Nii-san?" Kiba smile his sister once more, but lighter and Misa hugged back, crying her tears out. Akamaru and Marco were watching happily, wagging their tails.

While Shikamaru was smiling slightly. While Naruto looked to Nozomi's back, 'Am I really the last Uzumaki?' he questioned himself. He was about to lay a hand on her shoulder when he only thing his hand touch was………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...smoke.