A/N: I believe I am officially addicted to writing this story :D Also, I suck at writing fight scenes, but I'm trying. Enjoy!


Note: Run is by snow patrol


Shinobu POV

Shinobu felt her heart pounding in her chest. Everything was going by in slow motion. She could see her brother standing across from her as if she was looking into a mirror. His eyes held the same pain.. the same need to get stronger. Yet his face stayed emotionless. She felt like she was looking at herself. She watched as he darted from left to right before making his way to her. She ducked a punch and quickly twirled around to face him only to get punched in the chest, sending her flying to the edge of the ring.

"See? Sasuke-kun is better!" One of the girl whispered behind her.

"Ya, but Shinobu-kun has never fought before." Another girl whispered. Shinobu growled to herself before slowly standing. She walked forward and threw a punch to have him lean away from it and throw another punch which she barely dodged, causing her to fall over again. She leaned back onto her hands before springing to her feet and spinning into an arabesque, kicking him to the ring line.

Lowering her leg she swiveled to face him, sliding into a low stance. He looked at her with slight confusion before masking it with anger and blankness. He ran forward and she quickly front rolled under his punch, not wanting to get hit again. She turned to face him. He was readying to attack but was interupted.

"You have two more minutes before I'm calling a draw." Iruka shouted above the chatter of students watching.

"Hn.. fine." Sasuke grumbled. He ran forward and Shinobu soon found herself admist a parry of punches. She managed to get a hit or two in before she was back in the air. She spun so she was facing downwards trying to figure out where she was before she landed but she felt a hard kick to her stomache. She hit the ground, a circle of dirt coming up around her. A gasp leaving her lips as she felt her breath knocked out of her before a firm foot was placed on her back.

"Winner: Sasuke." Iruka muttered. A couple of girls squealed and swarmed on Sasuke while some of them ran over to Shinobu to see if she was ok.

"Shinobu-kun.. are you ok?" One girl asked, latching onto her arm.

"He's fine back off." She heard a voice from behind her. Looking up she saw Kiba standing there.

"What do you want?" Shinobu asked, shakily getting to her feet.

"I was just getting them off your back. Good fight by the way." He grinned.

"Ya.. not exactly how I hoped it would turn out." She let a small grin. Kiba seemed nice enough.

"You did really good Shinobu-kun!" Choji smiled, walking over with Shikamaru.

"Thanks.. I've never really fought before.. it was.. odd." She said with a grin. Looking over her shoulder Shinobu could see Sasuke storming off.

"Does he always act like he's got a stick shoved up his butt?" She asked, raising an eyebrow as she looked back at the group of boys who had decided to walk with her back to the academy for lunch.

"Pretty much." Kiba laughed. "Though I've never heard anyone mention it like that before."

"Well it looks like it!" She smiled.

"Sorry for being all Sasuke-ish earlier.. I just am not really good with people I don't know.. though.. you guys seem nice enough." She explained.

"Ah, it's fine. By the way.. was that an arabesque earlier?" Shikamaru asked curiously.

"Uh.. ya.. how do you know what that is?" Shinobu asked.

"Shikamaru is really smart!" Choji answered for him before taking another handful of chips.

"Ah, that explains it. But ya. I learned dance when I was younger and it's easier for me to incorporate it with fighting. It makes more sense. If you know what I mean." Shinobu explained.

"So that's why you looked so girly fighting." Kiba exclaimed.

"I'm a guy thanks, unless you want to admit getting your butt kicked by a girl." Shinobu smirked. She enjoyed talking with people her own age. It was different.. she liked having friends.

"Ok ok! You're a guy." He yelled. "I would never get beaten by a girl!" He grumbled.

"Haha, sure, but where did blondie go?" Shinobu asked.

"Who? Naruto? He's training, he never brings lunch so he's probably out by the target practice." Choji explained.

"Oh... ok." Shinobu muttered in wonder.

"So where do we eat lunch anyway?" She asked more out of curiousity than anything. She didn't actually bring a lunch.

"Just in the classroom." Shikamaru mumbled, his eyes drooping. Sheesh he's lazy..

"Ok. I'll meet you there ok? I just want to train a little more." She grinned slightly before runnin off leaving several confused boys.

She made her way outside to the targets. She wasn't going to practice with them, but maybe her fighting style and dance. She always did like dancing. Plus, she wanted to find out what Naruto was doing.

Once Shinobu was out there she saw Naruto sitting by one of the Targets, his head in his hands while tears dripped off his cheeks onto the dirt. She looked at him in slight shock wondering what to do. She never had to deal with someone else's tears before. "You look sad.. I know flowers always cheer me up when I'm sad." She looked around and saw a small daisy, it wasn't anything special, but it was a flower. She picked it and made her way over to him.

"Umm... Naruto.. hi.. um.. The one time I was sad this girl gave me a flower trying to cheer me up.. and it made me smile.. you look sad so.. here." She stammered, shoving the flower infront of his face. She felt it slowly disappear from her hands and looked down to see a smile on the boy as he wiped his tears away.

"Thanks.. But.. why'd you care?" He asked, confusion flitting across his face.

"Because.. no one deserves to be sad." Shinobu mumbled. Embarrassed.

"Thanks.. you're a little girly.. but I hope we can be friends. Dattebayo." He grinned, his blue eyes lighting up.

"That's because I'm a girl, baka." She said.

"Really?" He asked in confusion.

"Uh huh. Girls have to do flowers and stuff. I'm here to get strong not learn that type of stuff. So I enrolled as a boy." She grinned.

"I'm here to get strong too! I'm gonna be Hokage and then everyone will acknowledge me." He grinned.

"I believe it." She giggled. "Wanna train? I haven't done targets but I need to work on my taijutsu." She smiled.

"Sure but I won't go easy on you!" He grinned.

They fought for the rest of lunch hour. Shinobu spouting advice on how to tell if an enemy was going to go in a certain direction. She finally got him to think a bit before he attacked. He told her how to use her muscles and hit at the right angle to add more power to her hits.

"How'd you get so flexible?" Naruto asked in between breaths. They were taking a break.

"I have a lot of free time so I tried out different hobbies. I tried dance and acrobatics but at one point I saw contortion and tried stretching. I'm not very good so I quit but I still stretch now and then to keep some of the flexibility I gained." She explained.

"Cool! Why'd you join so late though.. of the academy I mean." He asked.

"Because I didn't know ninja's existed until recently." She smiled sheepishly before giving him a hand up.

"Not knowing ninja's exist? How could you nnot know?" He asked, dumbfounded.

"I don't know I just didn't." She said. Naruto looked like he was going to say something but they were soon greeted by the rest of the class. Apparently lunch was over and they were going to work on target practice for now.

"Where'd you go?" Kiba asked as Iruka lined them up to their own targets.

"I was training. I think I got a little side tracked. Sorry." She apologized.

"No big deal." He said, throwing a fake shuriken and hitting just outside the third ring of his target. She watched everyone. Naruto had awful aim, Kiba was so-so. Choji was busy eating chips but he did manage to get a couple on target. Shikamaru was out of Shuriken already and was laying on his back. Sasuke's were all inside the second ring. There was a girl with pink hair who managed to hit inside the first ring once or twice. Ino-chan was missing some but one hit the bulls eye.

Shinobu looked at the weapon in her hand. She had never handled anything like this before and wasn't quite sure how to throw it. Watching Sasuke again she saw him flick his wrist to throw it almost like a frisbee. Ok.. I can do this. She thought to herself before throwing the first shuriken and missing the target entirely.

"Haha, you're aim is awful Shinobu!" Kiba grinned.

"Oh shut up! I'm new at this. I'll get better." She shouted before throwing her second one and just hiting the third ring. "See?" She smirked.

"Ugh.. are you good at everything?" He asked, rolling his eyes.

"Nope. The first time I tried doing a jutsu it took me days to learn it. It was awful." She grinned cheekily before throwing another shurken and hitting in between the third and second rings.

"Ha, nice to know nobody's perfect." He grinned.

"OI! SASUKE IS PERFECT!" A random girl screeched.

"Oh shut up! Train or beat it!" Shinobu yelled out. These girls annoyed her to no end.

"And to know that you're not a complete Sasuke. Those girls are annoying eh?"

"YES!" She groaned. They were getting on her nerves. She finished off her shuriken, getting one inside the second ring before looking around. "Hey, where's Naruto?" She asked, but before anyone could answer they heard a booming shout from behind them.

"NARUTO!" Iruka screamed. "You're staying after class to clean all this up!" He shouted. Shinobu looked up to see the entire academy was covered in toilet paper.

"Holy fudge monkeys.." She whispered in an awed tone as she looked at the school.

"Haha! That's the best one he's done yet." Kiba grinned.

"You mean he does this a lot?" She asked, looking at him.

"All the time. Last one he did was putting glue on everyones chairs. Over half the class went home without pants. Including Sasuke which was hilarious." He laughed. Shinobu couldn't help but laugh at the idea of Sasuke, pantsless, swarmed by fangirls.

"As for the rest of you! Class is up. Have a great day." He smiled.

"See you tomorrow Shinobu!" Kiba waved before running off with a girl who looked to be his older sister. She waved back before making her way to Iruka.

"Um.. sensei." She asked.

"Oh, Shinobu, is it ok if you learn the genjutsu tomorrow?" He asked, realizing he had forgotten about her.

"Ok.. that's good but.. I helped Naruto with this prank.. I should be helping him clean." She muttered, letting her hair hide her face now that it was longer since the genjutsu dropped.

"Ok.." He smiled. She had the feeling he knew she was lying, but that didn't stop her from starting to clean the toilet paper. She used the windows from inside the school to help her get the high bits.

"Oi.. Shinobu? Why are you helping clean?" Naruto asked after spotting her from another window.

"I helped make the mess didn't I?" She grinned. It sounded more like a promise though. He smiled at her, nodding in appreciation. Shinobu finally had a new friend.

It took them a couple of hours to get all of it gone and she couldn't help but here him mumble to Iruka something about having no where better to be. Once they were all done she met him outside by the swing. It was starting to get dark.

"So this is what you look like? You still look like Sasuke." He laughed.

"Ya.. it's a bit annoying actually. I've been mistaken for him before." She grinned.

"That would be annoying, dattebayo. I'll see you tomorrow?" He asked.

"Yup! Bye!" She waved before running off to her ally. She was so tired from the day, she was ready to sleep. As she made her way into her shelter she grinned to herself. She made new friends and learned new skills. This was fun.. she would get stronger. What she didn't notice was the blond haired boy who stood wide eyed at the end of the ally, watching her enter her make-shift home.


Naruto POV

"So.. she's like me..?" He whispered to himself.. staring in shock.. his brain slowly making sense of everything. Her free time.. her taking longer than normal to open up. Her willingness to clean toilet paper just to spend time with other people. It all clicked in his brain, slowly.

"She can come stay with me.. live in a house. Dattebayo." He grinned to himself as the idea popped into his head. She could be like a sister. He'd have family and she'd have a home. It's perfect!


A/N: This one strayed a little from the song but I still like the song so I'm not changing it. I hope you liked the chapter and I hope you managed to put up with my awful fight scenes XD