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AN: I pretty much butchered the canon timeline slightly. I'm just warning you all now. Enjoy and read. Read and Review. Reviews make me happy. Now that's a good train of thought. Trollololololo

Warnings: Butchering of Canon Timeline and random jumps in time! I butcher timelines and ages for fun!

Chapter 8

Reina was bored. It was the summertime and she was bored. Her, a cute little child, bored during the summer. There must be some rule being broken out there.

She would have gone to harass Itachi but he wasn't in the village right now. Both he and Kushina were on a joint C-rank with another genin team. They wouldn't be back for another week or so.

Reina scowled. Kushina-neesan was in her sixth month of her pregnancy. As a result, Reina was usually Itachi's partner during the taijutsu portions of his (their) training sessions. Sometimes, Minato-sama sent Kakashi over to their spars. He had Kakashi take over the taijutsu teachings when he could since he didn't want anything to accidentally happen to Kushina or the baby.

She couldn't even visit Mikoto since she was due soon. Fugaku had placed her in semi-isolation and didn't want any unnecessary stress, like a hyper Reina, on her and was told to come back after the baby was born.

Reina pouted as she made her way to and into her house. The gurgling a baby caught her attention. Ooh, something interesting had popped up now.

The little Nara followed the sounds to find an even littler Nara gurgling in his father's arms.

"Good afternoon, Shikaku-sama!" Reina said before stealing the baby away from her clan head. "Hello, Shikamaru!"

Both his and her father looked at them in good nature. She cuddled with the baby and left the clan head to talk to her father. They usually did so over a shogi game and Reina didn't mind looking after Shikamaru a bit for them to do so. She settled down onto the floor and placed him down. She played 'wiggle worm' with his legs and arms, causing the baby to give out giggles and huffs of laughter.

Their fun was interrupted by a soft clearing of the throat. Shikaku and Ryuuta had been looking at their respective children in pride and amusement. Shikaku tossed her bottle and watched as she carefully started to feed his son and heir. He turned his attention back to the game.

"The latest batch of Academy students will be graduating soon," Shikaku started off. His attention was slightly torn between the topic at hand and the game against his cousin.

Reina decided to feign ignorance and focus on the baby. After all, for all she knew, Shikaku could be talking to her father and not her!

Ryuuta smirked at his close cousin. The message in his eyes clearly portrayed that Shikaku wasn't going to get off that easy. The clan head scowled when he realized he wouldn't be getting any help from that corner.

Shikaku spoke again since no one responded. "The deadline for new applicants for the upcoming year is approaching."

Reina continued to cuddle with Shikamaru. Ryuuta snickered before making his next move on the shogi board.

"Troublesome," Shikaku mumbled before speaking louder, "Will you be attending this time, Reina?"

Reina burped Shikamaru before getting up to hand her little cousin over to his father. The slightly heavier diaper she felt made her feel all the more vindictive.

"Nah, it's cool. I can join when I turn eight like most others do. Thanks for the offer though." Reina said before giving a bow to her clan head and her father. She left the room.

Shikaku tried to go after her but a suddenly squirming Shikamaru caught his attention. A very distinctive odor emitted from his diaper.

Shikaku turned to his opponent…only to find him gone. He scowled and sighed.

"Some hosts, huh." Shikaku grumbled to his son before proceeding to change his diaper. His heir's response was a fart to his father. The smell became even worse.

"Ugh, what are we feeding you?" the Nara head exclaimed mistakenly before clamping his mouth and plugging his nose shut.

Shikamaru gave him a happy gurgle.

Muffled laughter could be heard from the hidden, spying father-daughter duo.

=======-Uchiha Clan Compound-===========Fast Forward a bit============

Itachi held onto his new baby brother. He waited patiently for Reina to settle next to him. It was nice of her to deliberately make herself detectable since she usually was able to sneak up on him and scare him.

"He's so tiny." Reina said softly before stroking Sasuke's cheek. He was currently sleeping.

"He's only a week old," Itachi muttered. The two children and baby sat together in comfortable silence. All too soon it was broken by the sounds of Sasuke's crying.

Itachi froze. He didn't know what to do and just held Sasuke stiffly. This had been the first time Sasuke had ever cried in his arms. Reina took pity on him and carefully grabbed Sasuke out of his arms. She inspected him.

"Mmm, his diaper doesn't feel heavy or wet. He just woke up from a nap. This probably means that he's hungry." Reina rationalized out loud before leading the Uchiha brothers to a waiting Mikoto. The mother had heard Sasuke cry and had instantly made her way to them.

Mikoto carefully took her precious baby before leading the two children out the door. "Go enjoy yourselves."

The Nara and the Uchiha walked side by side until they made it to their (well Team Kushina's) training grounds. They did what they usually did in their spare time together: train.

The youngsters slowly went through their stretches.

"Shikaku-sama hunted me down again and asked if I want to join the Academy," Reina said, breaking the silence first. Itachi hummed.

"This makes it like the fourth time this summer, right?"

"Yeah," she agreed before a scowl appeared on her face, "For someone who thinks that a lot of things are troublesome, he sure is going out his way to get me to join the Academy, even though I've already declined."

"It could be the clan elders putting him up to it." Itachi suggested, "Mine did that same, only Father was all for it anyway."

Reina's scowl deepened as she remembered the tears Itachi had shown to her when he first told her so. A vindictive smirk replaced her scowl momentarily as she remembered the pranks she put the stuffy clan head through as revenge. No one is allowed to make Itachi cry but her.

"Argh. Anyway, let's do target practice!" Reina said after they finished their stretches. Itachi nodded in agreement. He took out two pouches of live kunai and shuriken and handed her one.

Technically, since Reina was not a genin, let alone an Academy student, she wasn't allowed to have live kunai, let alone be touching them. However, after much pleading, Reina got both her father and Kushina to agree to teach and let her practice with them. It was only under the stipulation that they only be used for target practice. Under no circumstances, barring enemy contact, was she allowed to used them in actual combat/practice without a supervising adult in attendance. It was rare for Kushina to let her use them against Itachi. It was only in the past few weeks that she had been allowed to do so.

"Accuracy/precision or speed/power?" Reina asked. It was common for them to choose either one or both as a means to see who would win.

"Both." Itachi responded after a moment of contemplation.

"Ready?"

"Set."

"Go!"

Both children launched into action. As quickly as they could, which was pretty darn fast for their age and those above them, they flung their bladed weapons to their targets. They zigzagged and ran across the field. They avoided hidden holes and leapt over obstacles like fallen logs and jutting rocks. Reina and Itachi alternately ran up and down trees using chakra and ran across the small ponds in the field with water-walking. It was a deadly dance that seemed as if they had choreographed their every move. It was sight to see.

Soon, they reached the end of the clearing and came upon their targets. They were both empty-handed. The two rivals, yet best friends, carefully compared their targets.

"I win!" Reina squealed.

"No, I did." Itachi argued. Although, if he looked just a bit more carefully, he could see that one of Reina's targets had just a bit more precision than his…of course, he wasn't going to tell her that.

"Mah, mah…looks like a tie to me!" A hand was placed on both their head to ruffle their hair. The two children looked up to see a familiar figure.

"Kakashi-san!" Reina squealed before glomping him.

Itachi pouted. Kakashi gave him an eye smile before picking Reina up to give her a hug. The pout on Itachi's face turn to a frown.

For some reason, it really irked him when Reina got all ecstatic whenever Kakashi came to visit. For some reason… (darn those stunted Uchiha emotions! Poor Itachi…tsk tsk)

"I had a bit of free time and saw these two terrors doing some training," Kakashi explained. "Thought I'd be a kind senpai and help them out a bit!"

Reina happily agreed and even Itachi was interested in his proposal. After all, it wasn't every day that a jounin would volunteer his time to train two children, despite them both being proclaimed genii.

"You guys can double team against me in taijutsu first, then we'll have lunch. Afterwards, it'll be one-on-one sparring, ok?" Kakashi suggested. Itachi nodded in agreement.

"But you'll treat us to lunch right?" Reina asked with her puppy dog eyes. Itachi quickly caught on and gave his own pouty look to the older teen.

Kakashi crumbled faster than sandcastle torn down by a tidal wave. Twin terrors indeed. Kakashi shuddered minutely.

Needless to say, although both children put up a good effort, they couldn't beat Kakashi.

It didn't help that Kakashi had years of experience over them, was used to sparring against several members of both their esteemed clans, and had partially participated in the Third War as well. Of course, he was also more than twice their height and weight. Let's not forget that the Yondaime was his mentor as well. Yeah, they didn't really have a chance.

As the children caught their breaths and did their cooling down katas, Kakashi mentally catalogued the skills that they had both demonstrated today.

He had a report to give to his sensei after all.

"Well, it was fun ducklings, but I've got to run!" Kakashi said before ruffling the two head's again.

The Nara and Uchiha wearily waved him goodbye and walked away together. Kakashi directly shunshined to the Hokage's office. Waiting inside the office were the retired Sandaime and current Yondaime, Shikaku and Ryuuta Nara, Fugaku Uchiha, and Kushina Uzumaki. They were waiting on him.

"Report."

Kakashi stood at attention. "Both children participated against each other in a live kunai and shuriken target practice. They focused on both accuracy and precision as terms of the competition."

Sarutobi's eyebrows rose in shock. "Nara-san was using live weapons?"

"Hai, her skill and comfortableness with said weapons revealed that it was not the first time she handled them. Their actions during the practice have led me to believe that this is also not the first time they have held such a competition." Kakashi answered.

"She's been practicing with them when she visits Itachi and I during training," Kushina inputted.

"We thought it would be better that she learn how to use them in a controlled environment rather than one her own," Ryuuta added. He still remembered the few times he caught his daughter with a clan scroll or information much too advanced for one her age. The only problem was, he just couldn't tell if she was returning or taking them when he caught her.

Shikaku also remembered to the few times he caught the young girl ruffling through clan scrolls meant for genin and lower chunin. Nothing meant for children her age, let alone one not even in the Academy.

"Continue on, Kakashi." Minato said as he leaned back into his chair. They had gotten a little too sidetracked.

"hai. Both of them showed excellent chakra control. They demonstrated that they could alternate between transitioning from ground, to vertical surfaces like trees, to even the water with ease. Reina's throwing was a slightly faster than Itachi's, but he had more power behind his throws. I was able to sneak closer and found that Reina's targets also revealed that she had more precise throws than he. Again, however, Itachi's weapons showed more force as they were more deeply embedded than hers."

"How was their taijutsu?" Fugaku asked in a rough, yet still polite tone. He hated the fact that one of his clan's eyes were stuck in the hands (or skull) of an outsider. However, he didn't want to be kicked out of the meeting due to perceived rudeness.

"Together, they showed outstanding teamwork. When one went high, the other went low. I had to dodge blows from behind and in front simultaneously." Kakashi said and admitted, "They did get in a few good hits.

He rubbed his jaw. "Reina also has a mean left hook." It still ached.

Ryuuta and Shikaku snickered. Ryuuta, too, had experienced her left hook when he had dropped his guard during training with her. Shikaku had seen it happen when he had been passing by for a visit. It had made his day.

"What about their individual skills?" Minato inquired. He had heard so much about the Nara, but had only actually met her about three times or so. All of them when she was with Kushina.

"After lunch, I sparred against Reina first since Itachi can already be evaluated easily during training with Kushina-san. It's been two full months since our last full-out spar for her. Reina's speed has improved as well as her aim. It also took her much longer for her recovered strength to be spent than it had last time," Kakashi noted out loud. "Itachi, as usual, did well. He seems to have adapted part of Reina's strategy and added a little unpredictability to his moves. His moves aren't as stiff or textbook Uchiha style, which was good for him since he knows that I've fought against that style before. He's slowly adapting."

Kakashi continued to list his observations and trailed off as he finished his report. The adult ninja thought carefully over his findings. Minato turned to his Chief Strategist.

"Has she changed her mind about joining the Academy?"

Shikaku shook his head, "No and she's gotten sneakier at avoiding me. If there's any hint of me or Ryuuta bringing up the subject, she's gone faster than a bowl of ramen in front of Kushina."

Kushina smacked his arm playfully. The others smirked. Kushina's appetite for ramen was legendary in Konoha. It was second only to Minato's, but he ate at a more sedated and neater pace. Watching Kushina demolish her beloved ramen ranked third on the list of Konoha's most horrifying experiences.

"Mmm…for now, just let her do as she pleases. Whether it is now or in a few years, Reina will still become a ninja of Leaf. More than likely, she'll be graduating early anyway," Minato concluded. "Although, it wouldn't hurt to bring up the subject if it happens to come up anyway when you see her."

The other shinobi nodded before leaving the office. Kakashi hand Minato a folded piece of paper.

"The duckling's lunch bill." Kakashi said before hurriedly escaping his sensei. He didn't want to be around when he saw the total.

Minato pondered over his remaining student's odd behavior before shrugging it off. He opened to receipt and his eyes went down the list. The Yondaime's eye bulged when he saw that total.

"KAKASHI!" Minato roared. His voice echoed throughout the Tower. His last student was already hiding out across town and pretended that he couldn't hear him. Who the heck buys over 23,000 yen ($200.00 US) in pocky!?

000000000000-Nara Compound-0000000000000

The main topic of their discussion sneezed as she got out the bathroom. It had felt like someone was talking about her. The whole time she had been soaking in the bath, her ears had been burning.

Reina just shrugged off the feeling. A nice hot soak always felt good after a training session like the one they had today. Cautiously, Reina looked around before sneaking carefully to her room. Her mother was on one of her fangirl modes again. If she caught her, she wouldn't hesitate to put Reina in a frilly pink and yellow death contraption called a dress to parade about in town in.

The last time she had done so, Itachi had laughed at her. She still wasn't sure if she had gotten all the pictures and negatives from him yet. Something inside her told her that she hadn't.

Her mother regularly lamented over the fact that her daughter was so ungirly. Her grandparents were just glad that their only granddaughter was taking being a potential ninja seriously. Reina's maternal grandparents just shook their heads as they considered the anomaly that was their only daughter whenever they came to visit. Thank goodness Reina took after her father's side.

Sometimes Reina felt bad for making mother feel sad. Maybe one day soon, she would voluntarily wear one of the dresses.

Yeah…right.

Get real. Reina debated that she'd probably only dress up if it was an actual fashionable dress…but she doubted that'd be anytime soon with her mother's fashion sense.

Reina snorted as she finally made her way safely to her room. She snagged a book off her stand and made herself comfortable on her bed. It was thin book that gave an overview and description of the different divisions that the ninja profession was divided into. The book was basic in its information and didn't go into much detail. It was, however, the first book of a series. The following volumes after it went into much more detail and some even gave examples of famous ninja who were in that particular division. Reina had already swiped the books and they were now on her bookshelf. She'd return them later to Shikaku-sama when she was done with them. The young girl burrowed herself on her bed and proceeded to read.

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Look below for birthdays; I butcher timelines for fun.

Born: Month (all in same year except Sakura was born in the previous year)

Sakura: May

Shikamaru: March

Shino: March

Ino: April

Chouji: Early July

Sasuke: Middle-Late July

Kiba: Mid-August

Naruto: October 10

Hinata: December

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Itachi: Early June

Reina: Late June

Both Reina and Itachi are 6 years older than the Konoha Nine, give or take a few months either way.

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Yes, I know, money conversions are off. Just ignore it please. I'm letting you guys know now.+

Ok, I just fixed the 2300 yen to 23,000 yen. Hope that's ok.

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Another 3,000+ word chapter. Sigh, it's tiring.

Tiny gift to leave you wondering: Reina isn't the only one with surprises. Who could get one-up on Reina of all people? Itachi had to know these people. Poor Itachi…if only he knew that insanity like hers was contagious.

Updated 7/3/13-Had this done a few days ago, but was relaxing on my few days off of school.