I have spent the past couple weeks training as hard as I could to make shadow clones. After I had one lousy clone it picked up fast and I was able to make three identical clones of me. Thanks to Aiki working so hard to train me I finally felt prepared for the exam today. As I got there I was met at the door by Hinata and Naruto came a few minutes after I had arrived. Naruto gave us a pep talk about how we should all try our bests and when the time for the exam came everyone but Naruto could make a realistic clone. He was so sad but told us that he would get it next time and told us that he was happy for Hinata and me. It was so disheartening to see him that way he usually was so cheerful and I could tell Hinata was down about it too. I rushed home after saying goodbye to my friends to tell Aiki the good news. As I ran in the house I saw three men and another girl standing in the living room, Aiki walked in seemingly from getting tea for everyone. "Mi-chan... soooo how'd it go?" she asked with enthusiasm in her voice. I pulled out my headband and showed her with a big grin on my face. "Isn't the power of youth beautiful?" said the older male in the group with tears streaming down his face. "It is Gai-sensei!" said one of younger males that looked exactly like him…he also had tears running down his face and I looked at the two in disbelief…. I mean I'm glad that they're happy for me but I don't even know them… I blinked a few times just to make sure I wasn't imagining things. I looked at the other faces in the crowd the last guy left was looking at me…observing me for what reason I didn't know but those eyes they were that of a Hyuga I'm sure of it. The girl looked over and smiled at me. "Say Aiki-chan are you going to introduce us to your friend?" Aiki smiled and said "This is Mi-chan. Mi-chan this is Ten-Ten, Neji, Lee, and Gai-sensei!" pointing at each one of them as she named them. I went to go get some tea and get ready for bed as they continued to talk about a mission they had to do tomorrow. After settling and bed I heard the door creak open and Aiki popped her head in "Hey sorry we couldn't celebrate more we just have a big mission coming up tomorrow." She said apologetically. I smiled and said "Don't worry about it! It was nice enough to have your sensei give you the last couple weeks off so you could focus on training me!" she smiled and just as she was about to leave I called out to her, "Hey Aiki?"
"Yeah?" she said waiting for me to finish my thought.
"So Neji is a Hyuga huh?" I asked. She looked a bit flustered at first but then she seemingly understood why I was asking.
"Yeah…" she said as she continued to tell me what she knew about him. It then dawned on me after listening to her talk about him why she had been so flustered earlier when I mentioned him. I looked at her with wide eyes to which she gave me a puzzled look. "You like him don't you?" I asked sticking my tongue out at her in a childish manner. "N-no." she replied stammering. "LIAR!" I yelled at her and she laughed at my tone seemingly defeated. "Fine I like him!" she admitted. "I knew it!" I yelled. The rest of the night we spent talking and joking around until we both decided it was best to go to bed.