Hi it's me with another chapter for Dancer, I hope you like this chapter! oh and when it says side swept hairstyle think of Ariana Grande at the premier of Harry Potter.

Dancer

Naru, Hinata, Shikamaru, Kiba, Choji and Shino walked into the Buta no Bansho, the restaurant where they usually ate barbecue whenever they went out together. They pushed back the flaps and walked in and looked around the restaurant for their parents even though they weren't that hard to find since Kiba's mom Tsume was waving up at them the moment they walked in.

Kiba blushed as the other people in the restaurant looked at him in pity. But he wasn't the only one as Shikamaru's mother jumped up with tears in her eyes and saying something hysterically since she had seen her boy's headband on his bicep. The two boys groaned and blushed and quickly walked towards the table leaving their friends at the entrance laughing at their misfortune.

When Kiba reached his mom, he grabbed her arm and pulled her down so she was at his level.

"Mom! Stop that it's embarrassing!" he hissed in her ear.

The fierce woman stood up straight and lifted her clenched fist and smashed it onto her son's head, making him fall onto the floor.

"You're a ninja now and ninjas do not know embarrassment so shut up" his oh-so-loving mother said to him smirking as he grasped his head in pain.

At the same time, Shikamaru grasped his mother's arm as well but got a different result from Kiba.

"Mom! Could you keep qu-ngh!" he said.

Yoshino had pulled him into a hug, pushing his face against her chest, effectively suffocating him.

"My baby boy is a ninja! He's a ninja! Oh honey, I am so proud of you!" she sobbed happily, moving him from side to side hugging him tighter.

"Mph-oomph-hmmp!" the pineapple haired Genin words were muffled by his mother's chest.

"I know! I'm as excited as you honey!"

As Shikamaru was trying to get out of his mother's embrace, Choji walked over to his parents who gave a normal greeting and a normal hug. His mother pulled out a handkerchief and started to dab at her eyes, mumbling about the hardships of ninja life and death and short longevity.

Shino walked over to his father who patted him on the shoulder and gave him a very short one armed hug. Hinata went over to her dad and bowed as the Hyuuga clan head put a hand on her head for a few seconds before taking it off and smiling quickly before his daughter raised her head.

There was nobody there for Naru, but as she looked out the window she saw a flash of red and as she stared harder, a note tied with a very long red strand of hair much like hers floated through the sky. The sapphire eyed girl gasped as she quickly moved towards the window without drawing attention towards herself and opened the window, reaching over and catching it before it hit the ground. She looked at the front of it with wide eyes seeing intricate writing she had seen from only one other woman and her name was on the front of it.

Naru hastily tucked the note into the obi of her outfit that she was wearing. It was a cream coloured mid-thigh high kimono with a black lining and a black obi with knee high kuniochi sandals and a black pouch on her left thigh. Though it didn't matter what it looked like, it mattered where she got it from. One day when she was six she was showing Hokage-jiji her new jutsu and he passed out from all the blood streaming from his nose and the young girl didn't know what to do. So, she had just scoured his office looking for things and accidently knocked down the Yondaime's picture. Her huge discovery was behind the picture, because behind it, there was a photo of a red haired woman that was wearing a blue kimono with flowers on it, but what most people wouldn't have seen was the tiny, unnoticeable seal in one of the little flowers.

The young girl already knew a little bit about seals -someone had been kind enough to teach her about it even if it was just a little bit- and she knew that was a blood seal. She decided to take a chance and bit her thumb making it bleed and as it did, she swiped her blood on the microscopic seal and soon after, a little chest popped up. Shocked, she picked up the Yondaime's picture from the ground and put it back in place, covering the red haired lady's picture and she picked up the chest, left the office and ran home. In it, she saw some possessions, clothes and a diary that belonged to a Uzumaki Kushina. After that she got curious about another Uzumaki so she went to the library and it all went from there. She found out that Kushina was her mother and she also found out more about her, her clan and their profession. When she had gone home late in the night after getting her new information, she pulled out her mother's diary and read it learning more about the woman who had given birth to her and she also found out about her multiple jobs, and after finding out about what her mother did, she decided to become just like her, which made her want to be a shinobi. And she was happy because she was closer to her mother. But she decided that wasn't enough and decided to get the other job her mother had. And she was even happier.

"Naru?"

The redhead blinked and turned away from the window towards her friends and their family. Hinata had called her name, beckoning her to sit next to her. The Uzumaki smiled at her best friend, forgetting about the note and just sitting down with her friends and their families which had –over the past few years become her family. She was happy.

After eating at Buta no Bansho they group had gone to the theater to watch the new Princess Gale movie and in Shino's words, it was 'Absolutely amazing! Like so damn fantastic!' It was an hour and a half after the movie and Naru was at home taking a shower. She lived in a nice flat and it was quite spacious and homey. She had two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a toilet with a kitchen connecting to the dining room and the living room. There was a sliding door that separated the front door from the rest of the house and it was decorated with flowers and hearts and stars.

The young girl got out of the shower and walked towards her bedroom with her eyes half closed. Once in her room she shut the door and walked over to her make-up table and sat down on the cushioned chair. She opened her make-up bag and put on her chosen make-up: light foundation covering her face, with pale pink lipstick, mascara and eyeliner. She was still noticeable but she just seemed a bit older, like fifteen, though people who knew her would be able to identify her straight away. She curled her hair and put in into a side swept hairstyle, so the majority of her hair was on the right side.

She looked into the mirror and she knew she looked stunning but she didn't pride herself on her beauty, in fact she never felt proud of her- she let other people be proud of her. The stunning Genin stood up and walked over to her huge walk-in wardrobe. She opened the huge door and rows upon rows of clothes, shoes and accessories were revealed to her. Knowing where to go, she went to the back, past all of the kimono's, ninja wear, casual clothing and whatnot, to go to all the clothes she kept away from most people. Still in her towel, she picked out a white diamante corset, white booty shorts, a short white tutu skirt, black thigh high fishnet tights and black heels.

She put the clothes in her hands and walked out of her closet, walking over to her queen sized purple velvet bed. She laid down the clothes carefully and then dropped her towel. She slid on the clothes except for the corset and the heels and stood up. A shadow clone appeared next to her wearing a blue kimono and it instantly picked up the corset and put it on Naru, tying it up with black lace, making a bow at the end.

Naru turned around and when she did, the clone was gone, since it had dispelled itself straight after doing its job. The now dressed up red head walked over to her closet again and closed the door so she could see the mirror. She looked stunning. She looked sultry. She looked untouchable.

'Just like mother' she thought happily, twirling around.

If being a dancer and a singer in a night bar in the Red Light District made her be closer to her mom, she'd do it without hesitation. That was one thing Naru had found out in her mother's diary, but she had found out much more. Like who her father was, what was inside of her, where she came from and more, but this piece of information was the one that she stuck onto and the one she didn't forget, because she knew that doing this was something she could easily do.

She lived in the Red Light District.

She could do this undetected.

She could go to the Ichatsuku no Neko most nights.

And she could most definitely dance her ass off in front of strangers.

Her mother Kushina had been in the business for ten years since she was eleven, because since she wasn't a Konoha native she couldn't really fit in anywhere except for in Ichatsuku no Neko. Kushina had been well loved and well-known in the bar, so when a little red haired girl looking exactly like her walks into the bar at 3:00am asking for help, what does everyone do? Take her to 'Mother' of course. After Naru had met 'Mother' she had been pulled into the business best left to adults and civilians.

Naru became a dancer. Or a singer. She does both at the same time. And she's proud of that. Many people older than her couldn't do what she did and even if they could do it, she would do it better.

20 minutes later, Naru was in her hallway, walking towards the door, wrapped in a beige trench coat that went to her knees and was ready to go on over to the bar to start her now second job –since she was now a ninja- when the doorbell rang. Naru froze in her tracks. Who was at her door? It was quiet before the bell rang again and the Uzumaki cursed. What did she do? She wasn't allowed to get caught or let anyone know anything.

She touched her forehead in stress and wondered what to do. She smiled as a thought came to her. She quickly but silently ran back to her room -with her heels on dattebane!- with the grace of a ballerina and jumped on her bed, climbing under the covers. Reaching for her panda decorated sleeping cap on her bedside table, she pulled it on and closed her eyes as if she were asleep. If it were anyone she knew, they wouldn't wait for her to come to the door for no more than two minutes before barging into her apartment.

As she waited she calmed herself so her heartbeat would go slower to give the illusion of unconsciousness. As she predicted, two minutes after the bell rang four people sashay through her bedroom door as if they lived there.

There were three girls and one boy. The first girl was 18 years old with black hair and wide ocean blue eyes -the present every guy wants for Christmas. She had pale skin and was about 5'5. She looked beautiful even with a charcoal trench coat over her. The next girl was also 18 but she had waist long straight purple hair that seemed to move even when she stood still. She had slitted light green eyes that glowed and her skin had a light tan. The last girl was 13 –the same age as Naru- and she had doe-like brown eyes and her white hair was to her waist in a side part like Naru's, making her look innocent and fierce and all the more irrestible. The first and only boy was 15 and he had shaggy brown hair that stopped at his shoulders and unusual purple eyes that seemed to follow you everywhere you went and haunted you whenever you closed your eyes.

They were her 'other friends'.

"Naru, we know you aren't asleep~" the white haired girl sang skipping over to the Uzumaki's bed and plopping herself down on it, making the bed bounce a bit.

The black haired girl walked over and got on the bed, lying down on it in a seductive way and the purple haired girl walked to her and sat next to her.

"Naru, if you don't get up, I'll force you to get up by pouring water on you" the boy said leaning against the bed rails.

The violet coloured covers flew off of the scantily dressed red head and she glared at the boy.

"You wouldn't dare" she hissed.

The black haired girl rolled her eyes.

"Naru, you know he would. He wouldn't be Kenta if he wouldn't" she said smirking.

The boy now identified as Kenta also smirked at the Uzumaki, crossing his arms and stood up straight.

"Come on Naru. Keiko, Aiko and Yukiko aren't just gonna wait for you forever, so get up or we'll leave you and then you'll be late. And you remember what happened to that girl Tomomi when she was late for a show" Kenta said with a bit of seriousness in his voice.

Naru rolled her eyes and Keiko got up from her position and rolled over, landing in an unusual crouch that involved her right leg in front of her and her left leg under her butt. Aiko got up in a more natural way, standing up to get out of her sitting position next to Keiko and Yukiko got up in the same way, leaving her seat next to Naru, and pulling the covers off of her friend. Naru herself shifted her body so her heels touched the floor. She looked up and smirked at her companions.

"Let's go"

Hi guys, I hope you liked this chapter, though I think it was all over the place! It's been a few days since I've last updated and I really hoped this lived up to your expectations. Anyways here are the translations for the names…

Keiko -happy child- black haired girl 18

Aiko -love child- purple haired girl 18

Yukiko -snow child- white haired girl 13

Kenta -healthy and stout- brown haired boy 15

Tomomi - beautiful friend- ? 16

I realised now that I should have named Naru, Noriko because Noriko means 'the child'. Please tell me if I should change her name, and thanks for reading and please R&R to tell me what you think.

Thanks,

Nosyniki