(Well I wasn't too sure about the last chapter but there's nothing I can do about that now… I'm writing this during my creative writing class and hopefully this will go more into the relationship between Naruto and Umiko.

Hey I know that I first introduced Umiko as Sora but I did that on propose, can anyone figure out why?)

Okay I know that I already put this chapter up but after reading it again I decided that I really didn't like the way it turned out. So I'm rewriting this chapter but nothing going to change all I'm going to do is add more to it and tries to make it less confusing.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

'Voices in Sasuke head/ inner Sakura'

"Bijuu speaking"

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Umiko was very much enjoying herself. She had finally after hours of searching found Naruto and was now eating one of her favorite foods, spicy chicken ramen and made by Teuchi-san as well. She could tell that the rest of Naruto team was curious about her and most likely what relationship she had with Naruto.

'Well no surprise there, a lot of people think they know him just because they know his favorite food is ramen.' Umiko thought dryly to herself.

She didn't really like the rest of Naruto team even if she couldn't tell him that. First there was the Uchiha, the entire way here he had only responded with, "dobe," or an, "hm" or worst yet a glare. There was no denying the fact that he was very good looking, or as she would say, "pretty as a baby chick" which matched him perfectly with that duck butt hair of his, but he had the emotional capabilities of a brick.

Then there was Naruto female team mate Haruno. Does she really have pink hair or did she dye it? If she did, why in the seven hells did she? Umiko might not have known much about ninjas but weren't they suppose to blend into the shadows? Wouldn't that pink hair make it impossible to blend in anywhere? Then there was the fact that Sakura was a Sasuke fan girl. On the way here Umiko had seen her call Naruto a 'baka' at least twelve times because Sasuke disagreed with him, hit Naruto at least five for calling Sasuke a 'teme', and attempted to gain the ravens' attention at least twenty times. Then again she might just want to have talked to him about Naruto strange new 'nee-chan' and try to get his help to figure just what their relationship was. If that was the reason then it wasn't so bad since it meant that she was curious about her other team mate instead of only thinking about one.

Finally there was Kakashi. He actually wasn't so bad if it weren't for the fact that he seemed to favor Sasuke over Naruto. Kakashi was a weird one, since Umiko met him he had his head buried in that smutty book of his (yes Umiko knew what that book was about) and even though it seemed that he was absorbed in his book Umiko could tell that he was constantly scanning their surroundings. She wasn't really sure what he was looking for when he did this but she did know that his eye had stopped at her more than once and was pretty sure that he was also interested in her relationship to Naruto.

She didn't tell Naruto what she thought about his team because she could tell that even though Naruto didn't mean much to them, they meant a lot to him.

Just as she was about to dig into her fifth bowl of ramen (Naruto was on his seventh) she heard Sakura speak up.

"Sooo……How do you know Naruto?"

Naruto looked up from the bowl that he was eating from and locked eyes with his nee-chan who looked back at him with a mischievous gleam in her eye. Naruto knew that his nee-chan didn't like his team very much; sure she didn't say anything but that was the very reason why Naruto knew that she didn't like them. So long as Umiko liked them even a little bit she would have said something about them.

"That is a long story." Umiko answered.

Naruto hoped that whatever she was planning wasn't too bad, after she was a worse prankster then he was.

"……………" Kakashi flipped a page in his book.

"…………………"Sasuke snorted and then took a sip of his tea.

"…………………………" Sakura started drumming her fingers.

Ten seconds later Naruto caught on to what his nee-chan was doing and was trying his best not to burst out laughing while Umiko calmly took a sip of her tea. Then Sakura exploded and Naruto couldn't help but fall over laughing.

Sakura waited while Naruto strange new nee-chan sat there in silence trying to, what she thought, figure out where to begin. She was distantly aware that Kakashi-sensei had just turned a page in his book and waited patiently for the other girl to begin.

Some moments later she heard Sasuke snort but wasn't sure as to why. It was taking her a while to figure out where to begin. Sakura started to drum her fingers.

'Sharrano! What the hell is taking her so long?' yelled Inner-Sakura.

'Maa. I'm sure that it must be complicated or something, after Naruto did burst out crying when she showed up…' Sakura told her inner-self that would have worked to calm her down if it weren't for the fact that Naruto was trying desperately to not laugh. As more time passed Sakura irritation grew even more and when she saw Umiko calmly sip her tea she snapped.

"Well what the hell happened between the two of you?" she yelled. At that moment Naruto fell over laughing.

Sasuke twitched when he heard Sakura yell and quickly looked over at Umiko. He saw her smirk which meant that she had planned on annoying Sakura but then she frowned when Sakura kicked Naruto for laughing.

'So she likes the dobe but not us.' Sasuke thought to himself. Sasuke couldn't help but mentally sigh the two of them were both so similar. They both liked ramen and they both liked pulling pranks but the difference was that Umiko was a new person so therefore Sasuke didn't have enough information on her to know if this was all there was to the girl.

"Was I supposed to answer that question?" she asked with a frown.

"Of course! I wouldn't have asked if I didn't want to know!" Sakura yelled.

"Well I met him on his fifth birthday and I defended him from a bunch of oversized bullies. After that I found out it was his birthday so I treated him to some of Teuchi-san ramen. After that he started calling me nee-chan and wouldn't leave me alone so we sort of just became family." Sasuke noticed that Naruto had flinched when she mentioned the 'oversized bullies' and briefly wondered what that was about when Naruto asked her in a hard voice,

"Why did you leave?"

Naruto picked himself off the ground just in time to hear Umiko response to Sakura.

"Well I meet him on his fifth birthday……"

Die demon!

You killed my brother!

You don't deserve to live!

How dare you try to come to the festival!

"……and I defended him from a bunch of oversized bullies……"

I'll teach you what it means to show your ugly face here!

You god damn brat should just die!

Hey! What the hell are you doing! Stop or I'll scream!

"……After that I found out it was his birthday so I treated him to some of Teuchi-san ramen. After that he started calling me nee-chan and wouldn't leave me alone so we sort of just became family."

Naruto couldn't help but flinch when he remembered what happened on his fifth birthday but felt happy when she called him family. As quickly as that happiness came it went, if she considered him family then why had she left? An emptiness that Naruto thought he filled up opened again and he knew that he just had to find out why she left.

"Why did you leave?" He asked not noticing how hard his voice had become. Umiko looked at him with a slightly surprised look on her face which quickly melted into a slightly hurt one before answering.

"Family problems." She murmured quietly not looking at Naruto.

'Family problems? But she can't have any…'

"Liar, you can't have family problems when you're an orphan." He said coldly and saw her flinch confirming in his mind that she had lied to him. He watched as she took a deep breath before responding.

"I left because I heard that I might have a still living relative and I had to leave because my parents weren't from Konoha to begin with, so my only chance at find him was to go back to my parent's hometown."

Naruto now felt guilty but didn't know what to say. Then he thought that if she was gone for five years then she must have been with this relative of hers meaning that she still had a real family, a sudden sad feeling stuck itself to the bottom of his stomach. Was she going to disappear again like she did so long ago?

"So did you find your relative?" Naruto asked feeling slightly sick.

"Nope, when I got there the entire town was in complete ruins, but then again my mom did tell me that her hometown was destroyed ten years before I was born." Umiko replied with a carefree grin. Naruto was instantly relived but then wondered what she had been doing the past five years if she wasn't with her relative, before he could think about this some more Kakashi interrupted.

"Ah it's a shame that you didn't learn anything, what town did you go to anyway?" he asked without looking up from his book.

"I did learn something, I learned that my Otou-san name ended with a 'to' and that he wasn't from the same clan that my mother was. I went to Whirlpool by the way." Naruto noticed that his sensei had started to grab his book a little bit harder but didn't give it much thought and voiced his next question.

"If you didn't spend the last five years with you relative, then where were you?"

"I was going on one wild goose chase after another wild goose chase. Sure a lot of the document in Whirlpool was destroyed but I did get a few hints from what was there. So I traveled from place to place trying to find my relative and got so absorbed in trying to find him I kind of forgot about you. That was until I saw 'it'."

"'It'?"Sasuke voiced out, deciding to join in the conversation.

"Yeah 'it'. The Great Naruto Bridge in the land of waves. When I saw it I realized how long I've been from Konoha and knew I had to come back right away. I needed to see if our promise still stands." Whatever pain Naruto felt at being forgotten was quickly replaced by the awe he felt at finding out he had a bridge named after him.

"Naruto said that you disappeared after making a promise, what was it?" Sasuke asked with only a small hint of curiosity.

Naruto face flushed crimson as he remembered their promise at the same time Umiko face flared up as well. Naruto had no clue what to say. On one hand he was happy that Umiko stilled remembered their promise, on the other hand he wasn't too sure if he still wanted to keep that promise.

"Th that's a secret!" Umiko blurted out. Naruto noticed the devilish look on all of his team mate faces and knew that this would only end badly. He started to frantically look for a way out when he heard Umiko say something completely wrong.

"Fine I'll tell you."

Horror filled Naruto, there was no way that he could tell his team of their promise.

"Matte! Don't you dare tell them our secret." He yelled while still trying to find a way out.

"I have no choice Naruto, I got to tell them"

"No! Don't you dare…" he lunged forward to stop her from saying anything but Sasuke had jumped in front of him and stopped him from getting any closer.

"I promised to marry Naruto."

"……tell them………" Naruto felt embarrassment fill his entire core as a stunned silence over his team.

Translations:

Otou-san= dad

Matte= wait

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