It was 6:15 in the morning and a small figure of me could be seen walking slowly and purposely up to the grand gates of Konoha and into the busy streets of the village hidden in the leaves. I pulled a small photograph from my pocket and studied it for a while. It was a picture of baby Naruto without his stripes. He was such a cute baby. I placed the picture back into my pocket and walked quickly towards the Hokage's office. I walked up a series of steps until halfway up the stairs, a young looking man with a long scar trailing across his nose bumped into me. "Oh, excuse me, miss…" he looked at me, searching my face to see if my name was written on it (it wasn't of course.)

"Oh, um…my-my name's Maye Uzamaki." I offered a shy hand but no other hand came to shake it.

The scarred man opened his mouth in shock and stuttered, "You-you're Naruto's sis-sis-sister?"

"Uh, yeah." I tilted my hat up, just like Naruto did with his head guard, and smiled widely. "Have you seen him anywhere?"

My hand got tired so I lowered it but the man suddenly took it and shook it warmly. "Un, my names Iruka. Here, let me take you to Lady Tsunade." He smiled bashfully and led me to the Hokage. We both walked along a wide deserted corridor before entering a silent room with an apparently sleeping woman on a desk. Iruka poked cautiously at the woman and asked, "uh, Lady Tsunade?"

The Hokage suddenly jumped up from her chair and shouted, "IRUKA, DON'T BARGE IN HERE WHEN I'M BUSY!" This woman is the Hokage? I asked myself. "AND WHO HAVE YOU BROUGHT HERE?!"

"S-sorry, Lady Tsunade, but this girl is very important."

The Hokage rubbed her temples and sigh. "Fine. Your name?"

"Maye Uzamaki."

The Hokage suddenly looked interested. "Naruto's relative?" I nodded whilst the Hokage hummed thoughtfully. "His sister?" I nodded again. "Well you've come at the right time. Naruto has just been spotted entering our village about ten minutes ago."

Iruka brushed in front of me. "Really? He's come back after his two and a half year training with Jiraiya?"

There was a small but audible sigh outside of the Hokage's window as the Hokage nodded. I blinked once and walked over to the open window. "Huh? What the…?"

A masked silver-haired man was squatting comfortably outside of the Hokage's office reading Come Come Paradise. He lowered his book slightly and peered over at me. "Hi."

I smiled back sweetly and greeted him back. "Hello, I'm Maye Uzamaki…and you are?"

The ninja with the gravity-defying hair stood up and answered, "I'm Kakashi Hatake." He gave me a closed eye expression, which I assumed was his smile seeing how his mouth and nose were covered by a mask, and added, "So what brings you back to Konoha, Miss Uzamaki?"

I looked away and answered, "I guess I felt home sick. But it's good to be back. At least there isn't a Demon attacking the village.

Kakashi hummed thoughtfully and lowered his head to read his book, which was rude, but I understood why he did because I knew it was a good book, and sighed. "Lady Tsunade, when will Naruto be seeing you?"

"Soon, I hope."

And soon was 5minutes later. A blond haired boy and some other people burst into the Hokage's office and started chatting about training until Lady Tsunade informed the boy that she wished to have him and the pink-haired girl named Sakura tested to see if there abilities have improved. The blonde boy raced up to me and squinted at my face, studying it. "Are you going to our opponent?"

I shook my head slowly and sighed. "No, Naruto, I'm not."

Naruto looked bewildered and asked, "Then why are you here?"

"She was here, Naruto, to talk to me."

Naruto nodded and turned back to face me. "You know, you look familiar for some reason."

I tried suppressing a smile but I laughed instead. "Yeah, I look familiar because I'm –"

"She's your sister, Naruto." Completed the Hokage.

The room went quiet. The famous pervy Sannin named Jiraiya looked at me thoughtfully and laughed. "Of course. She's got your ragged good looked and smile, Naruto, but boy, are those a pair of racks or what? Am I right?"

I smiled embarrassingly and blushed. I wish he didn't say that in front of Naruto I thought. A small cough outside distracted everyone and Naruto ran to the window to see who was expelling unnecessary carbon dioxide. The culprit was none other than Kakashi.

I side-glanced over my shoulder to watch the two exchanging a small greeting before Naruto pulled out something from his backpack to give to Kakashi. It was a small green book which Kakashi and I both gasped at. Kakashi looked at me strangely but I gave him a wink saying 'Don't worry, I like them too.' He laughed. Those books were for both genders. What a thoughtful Pervy Sage.

"Naruto!" the Hokage barked. "I want you to get some rest so you can fight Kakashi with Sakura in two days." Naruto bowed. "And also, get acquainted with your sister."

Naruto smiled across at me. "We have heaps to catch up on, you know?"

I smiled back and put his head into a headlock and ruffled his hair. "Yeah, baby brother, a lot." I released him from his headlock and walked up to the Hokage. "Uh, Lady Tsunade, I would like to sign up as Jonin. I have achieved the rank when I was trained at the land of Waves with my ANBU guards."

"Yes, yes, I know. You were already registered before you eighteenth birthday. Kakashi!" the Jonin outside the office jumped off the sill of the window and walked over towards us as the others were departing. "I want you show Maye around Konoha and allow her to temporarily lodge at your apartment until she finds her own."

Kakashi bowed a little. "Hai, Lady Tsunade." I smiled slightly and waited for orders to be given to me. "Maye-san, follow me."

I walked behind Kakashi on the way out of the Hokage's office and stopped me near a post in the hallway. "Uh, do you have any stuff you need to take over to my home?"

"Just some books and clothes." I made a summoning hand sign and summoned my only suitcase beside me. "Where to now?"

Kakashi's only visible eye gleamed. "You like the Paradise series too, don't you?"

"Yes…why?" I asked suspiciously.

"Hold my shoulder." I did so and we were both poofed to his apartment. "I've been waiting for this book to come out and really want to read it, so you can imagine why I'm in a rush." I nodded. "Come in."

I picked up my case and followed Kakashi into his house and towards my new room. "It's not much but you can decorate it if you want."

I nodded and allowed him to go a read. "Hmmm… what should I do?"