Hello! Here is chapter 4! Edited by my beautiful-wonderful-best-sister-ever Yumi-chan. Enjoy!

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Impossible! How? He was the very last person she wanted to see.

My polite smile melted into a fierce glare as a little blonde kid jumped in front of me. His face was definately too close for comfort. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto! And I'm going to be the next Hokage!" He stood straight and proud putting a thumb up. He reminded me of someone.

"You?" I stopped to look at the pictures of the fourth. What similarity...

"Hn... I see. Good luck with that." I smiled softly again, forgetting about the boy still in my presence. A pink haired girl with bright green eyes stepped forward and pushed Naruto back. That was quite rude. We were getting off to a bad start already.

"Naruto! Don't bug her with your stupidity! Hi, I'm Haruno Sakura!" She put on a smile. I could tell it was fake.

"Uh... hi. I'm Kobayashi Mizuko. Nice to meet you." Yeah right. Truthfully, I didn't like this girl, at all.

"And this is Uchiha Sasuke!" She dragged him forward. "He's going to marry me! Right, Sasuke?"

What? This is where I got lost. Sasuke-teme and pinky? I don't see it. He's a cold hearted bastard and she is a perky prep. The relationship is probably only skin deep. It usually always is.

I was in a trance while Naruto and Sakura babbled on about themselves and Sasuke. Actually, a lot of what Sakura said was about him. Anger bubbled up as I fought to keep it down. She just made it so hard not to make herself a living kunai target. While this was all happening, Kakashi and Hokage-sama were discussing a mission that they would be doing soon.

I glared harshly at Sasuke who was in the middle of these discussions saying nothing at all. He thought he was so great. His eyes met mine and hardened into a stare that matched my own. Slowly, my lips formed into a smirk.

"So, Uchiha. Looks like you're pretty popular with, um, both genders."

His stare turned into an angry glare as he grit his teeth. He was still trying to act like the cool guy. Naruto then took time from arguing with Sakura to listen to the insult being thrown.

"You think I like HIM!? EW! HE'S- HE'S SASUKE!"

"Oh, but EVERYONE absolutely loves Sasuke-kun. He's the earth, he's the sun." I moved my arms dramatically in the air to stress my point. Everything in their life revolved around Uchiha Sasuke. His raven hair, onyx eyes, and his oh so cu--Woah! I cursed to myself. Those thoughts still appeared in my head, even after everything he said.

Sasuke continued to glare. He was probably trying to think of something to retort with.

I turned back to my new sensei when he had finished his conversation with Hokage-sama.

"Is there any reason for me to be here anymore?" I was anxious to leave. After thinking those thoughts, I knew I needed some sense knocked into me. Or perhaps...carved into me.

"Just a minute. Tomorrow we will do grocery shopping for Higarashi-san, babysit for the-"

"NO! No more! I won't take any of these idiotic missions! Babysitting, groceries, weed pulling! That's enough! I want to be a ninja not a housekeeper!" Naruto shouted jumping infront of Hokage-sama, making an 'X' symbol with his forearms.

"Hn... fine." Hokage-sama grunted. I was in total disbelief. Had Hokage-sama just caved to the whim of Uzumaki Naruto?

"I don't want t- What? Yes!?" Naruto's face lit up with excitement.

"Yes. You will get a C-ranked mission."

I brightened up a bit as well. I had done a couple of C-rank missions back in my old village. I had also done some B rank. My parents got the Eldars to let me, probably hoping that I wouldn't come back.

"It's nothing big. You will be protecting someone back to the mist. His name is Tazuna." Hokage-sama puffed on his pipe once more, with an amused expression on his face.

"Yosh! This'll be easy!" Naruto punched the air. To me, he was an idiot, yet for some strange reason, I was drawn to the blonde boy.

"Good. I'll be there tomorrow..." I turned towards the door, finally ready to plunge the kunai in, but a flash of orange went before my eyes, making them widen significantly.

"WAIT! You want to get ramen!?" Naruto screamed.

There was a long pause as I blinked a couple of times, a bemused expression on my face.

"I can't. I have to be home in 20 minutes." I really didn't have to go. My parents didn't care about me at all. I just needed the familiar sensation of pain. It made me shiver with anticipation thinking about it. It was my way of letting it out, my way of happiness.

"Then we spend that time together! Come on! It'll be fun!" He grabbed me by the hand gently, but firm enough to keep a good grip. It was different than what I was used to, but I liked it.

But what made me want to pull back, were the words. They were so much like the words the day before we had left. Just like his words. I stared into the blue eyes of the ninja before me, and slowly, they faded to onyx. A gasp was itching to escape from my mouth. I blinked back tears to see Naruto's cerulean eyes.

I could do nothing but surrender to the feeling of sudden nostalgia and take him by the hand.

What I didn't realize at the moment was a certain Sasuke's expression...

Pure Envy.

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