Hey everyone! I know the first chapter was a little weird…This one probably won't be any better. I'm filing through how Kisame and Shaiya met along with their time together. So you can get a little bit of the picture of their past. There will be flashbacks in future chapters that will go further into detail on certain events when they pop up. There will also be ooc, but I will try my best to avoid that in the future. . I'm not making promises though. I'm a big romantic soooo….Anyway! Read! Enjoy! Please review! : D
Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own Naruto.

Kisame felt like he was on top of the world. He didn't need anyone as long as Shaiya was there with him. She had spent almost every waking moment of her time with him while she was in Kirigakure with her adoptive father Kakashi. She had been there for two weeks before she announced she had to leave and travel back to Konoha. That had been a heartbreaking moment for the both of them since they friendship had been growing. But she had a bright smile upon her face as she promised him she would write to him. Her smiles had become quite contagious; always finding himself smiling when he saw her smiling. With a tight embrace, she was gone and he was left staring after her for a few long minutes.

For the next week, he found himself constantly checking to see if any letter had come for him. His parents understood that he had made a special friend, but his behavior was unusual. Whenever they told him 'no' he would mope and trudge back outside to train. He wanted to be the best he could be not only for himself but for his newfound friend. After that one week, he finally received a letter from Shaiya. She had described her journey back home and what had happened when she arrived back home. She left nothing out. He found half of it to be irrelevant, but he still read every word with a smirk on his face before he started to write back to her.

Week after week, this proceeded and soon became a routine of theirs. She could not visit him as much as he wish she could, but she made it a point to see him at least twice a year and would spend two to three weeks with him. Eventually it came to the time when he would graduate the academy and she was there. Standing in front of his indifferent parents with an excited smile upon her face. Enveloping him in a hug the moment he came to greet her. Her showing up was a bit of surprised because she had never enclosed it in the letters she would be there, only that she was 'so happy for him.'

The years that passed had been kind to her, though she was still a petite girl with a slender frame. Her curves were starting to form and the plumpness of the child she used to be was fading away, presenting a young lady heading into her teenage years. Her eyes becoming almond shaped with angular facial features that were cut and sharp. She didn't let her hair get incredibly long as she had said it would get in the way of her training, so she kept it just below her shoulders and when she trained she would tie it up into a high ponytail. He had not change much. He had only grown taller and a little bulkier with muscle.
Whenever he reached an achievement and wrote about it to her, she would come to see him. Whenever he was having struggles, she always had the right words to reassure him. When he started working under Fuguki Suikazan, his letters became quite vague on any matters surrounding his new position. He strongly believed in loyalty and he was being trusted by his superior to guard their intel. Shaiya understood and simply wrote to him saying he didn't need to say any more about his job, just was happy hearing about how he was doing. Being older and able to travel on her own now, Shaiya did her best to come as often as she was able too.

She was not like the other kunoichi. She didn't even attend the academy in Konoha. If anything, Shaiya would go there just to listen to the lessons and watch the others practice. She would take part in training with weaponry, but otherwise had no such thing as chakra control. It was impossible for her to perform the simpliest of tasks like creating a clone. The Hokage, Kakashi and Shaiya were the only ones who knew why and the two men made it a point to make sure she knew not to share her secret with anyone. She was given another kind of tutor apart from Kakashi.

As she became older, she started to help out at the academy with weapon training since that was what she excelled at. Catching a time when she could visit Kisame was like playing a game of roulette. There had been times when they settled for a date and she would show up and he was gone. The Mizukage sending him on last minute missions. It hurt when she would realize that she had missed him, it hurt when she was in Konoha and missed him. But all her frets and fears dissipated the moment she was in Kisame's presence and a smile was upon her face.

Shaiya remembered having received a letter from Kisame that held a tone of struggle to it as he described that he had killed Fuguki after discovering he was leaking intel to other villages. She was packed up the next morning and on her way to Kirigakure. Arriving in record time and startling Kisame when she had launched herself at him and latching on with one of her tight embraces. It more or less startled him because she had done it with his back turned and walking down a street as she was coming into town. One would think he would be able to sense her chakra, but he never did…It was strange.

It was not lost on Kisame on how wonderful the years had been to Shaiya. Every year her beauty seemed to radiate more when she came to see him. It was hard to keep his mind on just remaining friends with her. He started tripping over words and stuttering, then there was the blushing. The rush of blood to his face making him look purple. She had only commented on it once, but he waved it off saying he was fine. Shaiya was not lost on the times either, but she had always fancied Kisame in a way. But her thoughts were not far from his and they were going about their feelings like children. Just when Kisame believed himself brave enough to confess, she was gone and on her way back to Konoha.

His mind dwelled on it until he became preoccupied with dealings with his village after a meeting with a mysterious figure going by the name of Madara. Though he learned the truth behind him soon enough. He wrote one last letter to Shaiya saying it would be, including that she had been the most precious person in his life. He never put down that he was going to become a missing-nin. That news became all too clear to her when she showed up days later after receiving the letter that had thoroughly confused her as well as made her concerned.

Everything felt like it crumbling around her and in the darkness she was starting to bury herself in she felt it stir. When she had returned to Konoha; Kakashi had noted the change in her immediately. He tried to pull her out of it, but she had constructed walls that not even her father could get through. It became easier over the years and she continued on with her life as it was before, just without Kisame in it. Duller eyes and faded smiles.

Okay! Well, that's it for this chapter. Breezed through it quite quickly, sorry about that. Points in their life will be put into fuller detail in later chapter, but I wanted to get one out as a brief overview. Kisame does not keep any sort of contact with Shaiya over the years after he became a missing-nin. That will be explained too later. Next chapter will take place around the time after Orochimaru attacks the village and Akatsuki make their first appearance; being Itachi and Kisame.