A/N: The song is "Ugly" by Christina Grimmie. Great song for when you're in a bad mood or feel like dancing like an idiot. I recommend listening to it. Anyway, here we go! Shinobu's battle against Sakura. I know I've changed all of the matched but I did not want to follow canon here because if two more names were into the random match up the results just wouldn't be the same. I literally shoved all of the names into an online generator and then worked with the results. Like would really happen. I happen to like most of the results but battle is not my forte.. so ya.. ENJOY :D
Sasuke POV
"Sweet heart! It's time for dinner!" The young boy heard his mother call as he played in their backyard with his twin sister.
"Race you back!" The girl yelled before sprinting off in the direction of the house.
"No fair! You had a head start!" He cried after her as she ran. He won of course, a triumphant smirk covering his features. His onyx eyes sparkling.
"I did not!" She pouted.
"Ok ok. Enough. Let's go eat." A slightly older boy shushed them, rolling his eyes as he lead them to the table where their mother was waiting with delicious food. The girl sat between her two siblings as her mother went to get their father who showed up with a small proud smile directed at each of his children before looking at her.
"Sasuke.. we have something to tell you." The man said, knealing down with a small fake look of concern.. of hurt.
"What is it daddy?" The young boy asked, confusion flitting across his onyx eyes, he wasn't used to talking to his father as much because of his older brother, Itachi. It was no secret their father preferred him.
"Well.. when you were born.. you were born right with someone else.. a little girl. She was your twin sister, Sasuke." The young boy's mother started.
"Ya, I know.. I've met her! She's right-" The boy paused looking to his left to see an empty chair beside him. Where had his sister gone?
"What, Sasuke?" The mother asked.
"N-nothing.. nevermind.." He mumbled.
"As your mother was saying.. she died at birth.. your mother thought we should tell you.. anyway.. it's time for dinner." The father spoke sternly, quickly changing the subject.
"I'm not dead.. nii-chan.. I'm right here." The little girl said, her see through figure sitting on the chair beside him.. her large Onyx eyes pleading for him to accept her presence."
"You don't exist.. I'm alone.. you don't exist.." Sasuke growled to himself watching the other boy walk down for his fight. He knew he had a sister.. he knew that sister was dead.. as much as he had wished she wasn't, that she was here with him, to help him avenge their clan. She wasn't. She wouldn't never be. She is dead. Shinobu isn't my sister.. Shinobu is a boy.. Stop being delusional Sasuke.. He thought to himself biting his lip, trying to shake the thoughts from his head.. thoughts of what life would have been like had she been there. He wanted to hit himself but he wouldn't allow himself to look stupid in front of all these other people, he wouldn't let himself look weak.
Kakashi POV
Uchiha.. Hmm.. so this is the boy..er.. girl that the Hokage mentioned.. She's grown. I wonder how much she's changed since the academy.
"Shinobu-ch-kun is fighting Sakura-chan..?" Naruto whispered, catching himself as he watched the two girls make their way down to the ground level. Shinobu, of course, looked like a boy. Was he about to say chan? Why is he being so quiet.. I would think Naruto would normally be cheering Sakura on.. hm..
"C'mon Shinobu! You can do this!" Kiba cheered from the balcony, a loud bark accompanied him. Hitami barked back before quickly following along the girl's heels. Shinobu was a stand out in the academy and in the rookie shinobu.. so she has a good chance to win. Especially if she's improved any.. it looks like she has an Inuzuka ninken now and I've already heard from Kurenai that she's been training with the Hyuuga clan.. But she's fighting the girl who should potentially be in her place.. who gets to train and fight along side her brother.. will she be able to go full out? Sakura may be strong.. she has excellent chakra control and a firm knowledge of the basics.. but this may not be a battle she can win.
"Of all the people for Shinobu to go against.." Hinata whispered.
"At least it's not Naruto or Sasuke." Shino stated, watching his teammate. Kakashi, having overheard the conversation between Shinobu's two teammates could have facepalmed at his own stupidity. The ding of sudden realization was ringing in his ears. This is the girl Naruto lives with. Naruto lives with Shinobu.. that's why he didn't want to cheer.. no matter what someone down their fighting would feel abandoned.
"Begin." Hayate announced and as quick as a flash both kunoichi began into a flurry of punches and kicks, blocking and dodging each other in a dance where, while attacking, neither one made contact. Sakura is good with taijutsu.. but Shinobu is going easy on her.. it's as if she didn't want to hurt the girl. Shinobu's specialty is taijutsu.. while Sakura is much better with chakra control.. no real specialty.
No words were passed as they continued, Shinobu flipping backwards every once in a while so she wasn't close enough to cause any real harm. Shinobu managed to get in a hit to Sakura's stomache after dropping her stance a little so she was closer to the ground. As she went to follow up the hit with a punch to the head she froze.
"This girl means something to Sasuke.. something to Naruto.. will and you're going to hurt her?" A voice said to her and she visibly cringed before finding herself skidding backwards into the floor from a well aimed punch from Sakura.
Shikamaru POV
"Shinobu-kun.. are you ok?" A girl asked, quickly linking arms with the new boy.
"He's fine back off." Shikamaru watched as the boy looked up, confusion evident in her eyes as Kiba gestured for the girls to leave.
"What do you want?" Shinobu asked, shakily getting to his feet.
"I was just getting them off your back. Good fight by the way." Kiba had grinned, of course he'd try to make friends with him. Anything to avoid having two Sasuke's at the academy.
"Ya.. not exactly how I hoped it would turn out." He let out a small grin but was still cautious, it made him wonder.. why was he like that? Had something happened? Shikamaru felt sort of bad.. he looked so hurt that he had lost.. but it was only one fight.. and his first at that.
"You did really good Shinobu-kun!" Choji smiled, walking beside Shikamaru as they made their way over.
"Thanks.. I've never really fought before.. it was.. odd." He said with a grin before looking over her shoulder to see Sasuke storming off, his eyes immediately filled with pain and regret. Upon noticing Shikamaru looking he smiled.
"Does he always act like he's got a stick shoved up his butt?" He asked, raising an eyebrow as he looked back at the group of boys who had decided to walk with him 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!" He laughed, straightening his back and walking oddly. It really did look like someone had shoved a stick up his butt. But why didn't he look as happy as he was acting? Something was off about this boy.
"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." He explained with a soft sigh.
"Ah, it's fine. By the way.. was that an arabesque earlier?" Shikamaru asked curiously, raising an eyebrow. It seemed oddly girly, it wasn't often that a boy who wanted to be a ninja had also taken dance.
"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. Shikamaru sighed, great, the first thing the new kid was going to know about him is he's a smart ass.. for once he'd like to have a friend who thought he was stupid.
"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, Shikamaru shook his head but said nothing.
"I'm a guy thanks, unless you want to admit getting your butt kicked by a girl." Shinobu smirked. He seemed to enjoy talking with us, a first. Not many people who looked like Sasuke or had fangirls like that went anywhere near them.. then again.. the only person other than Shinobu who fit that requirement would be Sasuke himself. Not to mention no girls talked to them other than to yell or talk down to them.
"Uchiha.. Why didn't I realize earlier.. they look so much a like.." Shikamaru mentally groaned. He seemed so sad whenever the topic of Sasuke came up.. I doubt Sasuke knows anything about it.
"Ya.. that would explain why he was always so focused on Sasuke.. I wonder if he knows." Choji added, watching his old friend. "It also explains why he was so strong, it must be in their blood." Choji grinned as he ate more chips. A friend is a friend to both of us.. a last name doesn't change that.
Kakashi POV
"Sakura.. Shinobu.." Naruto mumbled to himself, eyes trained on the two girls.
"That's it..? That's as good as kunoichi can get at hand to hand combat..?" Neji spoke quietly, also watching the fight.
"What?" Naruto turned around glaring at him.
"It's not because they're girls you know Neji.." Tenten started looking from her teammate to the two fighting girls. "It's just that they're both using kid gloves." She explained. It would make sense.. Tenten understands.. While Shinobu doesn't want to hurt someone who means something to both Naruto and Sasuke.. Sakura doesn't want to hurt someone who obviously means something to Ino and Naruto.. while they're not particularily close.. the mutual feeling is causing them to play at a lighter level.. this battle could last forever if one of them doesn't drop the gloves soon.
"It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman in battle." Tenten finished.
"Huh..?" Naruto hmmed, looking at her with wide eyes. It didn't really make sense to him but something seemed off here. Why did Neji call both of them kunoichi.. when Shinobu looked like a boy? "What do you mean using kid gloves?"
Shinobu growled, standing up and starting into a series of flips to get closer to Sakura, occasionally zig-zagging to throw her off before going to punch her.
"She's just like you.. she's trying to prove herself too.. are you going to shatter that for her?"
"Sasuke and Naruto are watching.. they'll think you're weak."
"No.. they'll be mad you hurt her.."
"Naruto will be proud of you no matter what.."
"Are you going to let down your team?"
"SHUT UP!" Shinobu screamed, slapping Sakura across the face. "S-shut.. up..."
"Huh...?" Sakura looked up, confusion flitting across her features as Shinobu paused looked at her.
"I'm not going to fight with you.. for Sasuke.. or Naruto.. or anyone else.. we're two shinobi.. and I'm going to fight you to become a chunin.. nothing more.. or less. Stop fighting me half heartedly.. if you're not going to go all out.. I don't want to fight you." Shinobu finally said, taking her own forehead protector and moving it to her forehead. While she didn't know about Sakura's arrangement with Ino she did know that the forehead protector represented being a ninja, it represented honor and your village and she was going to wear it on her forehead today to remind herself that she was fighting to become a chunin.
"I...I understand.. Shinobu." Sakura mumbled quietly before looking up to Ino and putting her own forehead protector where it belonged. "Let the real fight begin."
"This time we're going to do this right.. a fair fight.. and I'm going to win."
Neji POV
Neji sighed walking towards the branch house. He had finally finished his chores around the main house and he wanted to train more before the sun set. It was just as he was passing Hiashi's quarters when he overheard a voice talking. It wasn't someone he had heard before and as much as he recalled there was no one other than Hinata around their age.
"I..would n-never betray the Hyuuga clan.. I've already lost one.. why would I want to lose another, Mika-san.. You will never need to use that again.." The voice said, panting. What did the girl do? Where they training? It's none of my business anyway.. Neji quickly ducked into the kitchens so he could hear without being seen.
"Hmm.. we'll see." A voice he recognized as Mika's said before the sound of the door opening reached his ears. It wasn't until he realized the footsteps were coming towards him that he knew he was in trouble.
"You! Were you evesdropping on us?" Mika growled.
"I- no ma'am. I was just going to do some dishes." Neji spoke as evenly as he could.
"Well then you can come back and clean the entire kitchen tonight.. including your mouth for lieing. Leave. Now." Mika growled and Neji bowed quickly before obeying.
"but you are simply my new clan right now. Not my family. Don't get the two confused." The voice spoke sounding very confident, Neji found himself slightly envious.. she spoke to the head of the clan without fear of retribution.
"Interesting.. Well, I am glad to hear you are here for my daughter and will never betray us.. I hope that last opinion will change over time. You may leave now." A voice, Hiashi stated and the door opened yet again as Neji moved to leave. The girl leaving the office bumped right into him, knocking them both over.
"I'm sorry!" She bowed as soon as she stood, apologizing. Why is she being so polite?
"You bow for a branch member? Though you are treated like a member of the main house by Hiashi-sama.. You don't belong here.. this is not your destiny." Neji replied, trying to hide the smile for her kindness.
"Is it wrong to bow for someone in apology when you may have hurt them?" She asked, leaving before giving him a chance to answer. He was confused but quickly went back to his own duties. He didn't want to get into trouble a second time that evening.
Neji looked from the screen and back to the girl, now appearing as a boy who was in the middle of a flip, dodging a punch from Sakura. So that's what she meant by "I've already lost one." But.. why would we allow another clan into ours? Hiashi-sama really trusts her that much?
"YA! Magnificent movement Sakura!" Lee cheered to himself, clenching his fist.
"Aaaaagh!" The two girls growled as they clashed fists each catching the others punch.
"No matter how good Sakura is.. Shinobu is just as good.. this is going to be a long battle." Lee spoke.
"You're wrong Lee.. Shinobu hasn't gone full out yet.. while you haven't seen him in the academy we have and he's on our team. He can hold her own with Sasuke. He's being underestimated here." Kiba grinned, watching his teammate with pride, being careful with his pronouns.
"Hn.. hold her own with the number one rookie of the year?" Neji asked himself. Maybe he too had underestimated her.
Kakashi POV
"Sensei.. why did they do that?" Naruto asked looking over to Kakashi. He's clueless isn't he..
"It's symbolism.. for them being true shinobi.. neither one is going to back down or pull punches.." Kakashi rattled off watching the two fight. Sakura had reverted to another basic academy technique.. bunshin.
"This isn't some academy graduation exam Sakura." Shinobu shouted, what she didn't expect however was the sudden burst of speed that sent her flying backwards through the air.
"and I'm not some academy student Shinobu.. if you play with fire.. you're going to get burned!" Sakura retorted as Shinobu stood back up. They're being serious.. but.. why is it that they still seem like they're at the same level. Shinobu normally competes with the boys at our level.. I couldn't imagine her being in loss at a taijutsu battle of strength.
"Powerful strikes using chakra.. top notch for a rookie.. I've never seen Sakura this good." Kakashi spoke, his voice only barely showing his shock.
"Wait.. you're not saying she's better than me are you?" Naruto asked.
"Noo... you're the greatest." Kakashi chuckled. To do that in conjuction with a well timed jutsu.. I don't even think Sasuke could have done it better.. then again.. even from the start she was good with chakra control.. so this isn't much of a surprise.
"Why you little -aaagh!" Both girls shouted as the flew in opposite directions, each managing to connect a punch but forgetting to block their opponent. Fists simultaneously smashed againsts cheeks.
"Woah!" Naruto spoke in aww. At this rate.. this battle will never end.
"This has been going on for so long.. they've already been fighting for ten minutes." Hayate murmered, looking for any indicators of forfeit or even exhaustion. While both girls were tired neither looked anywhere close to being ready to give up.
"Sorry Sakura. It's time to end this.. I didn't want to hurt you but.. I can't lose here." Shinobu spoke, shifting stance causing many of the jounin the room to look on with widened eyes. She knows the Hyuuga fighting style? But she doesn't have byakugan.. how much damage could she cause?
"What.. that's Hinata's fighting style.." Sakura spoke softly stepping backwards. Without any warning Shinobu charged forward quickly slipping from the hyuuga stance to go into a series of flips, landing behind Sakura. She swivelled around changing stances before attacking and hitting many points on her arms. No way.. could she actually hit the points?
Sakura whimpered looking at her right arm which broke out into a yellow-ish bruised colour. While Shinobu had managed to block several chakra points she had accidently hit another point allowing a greater chakra flow at the same time. While this was effective in stopping an enemy it caused a kinda of build up which was bursting in Sakura's arm. Sort of like when you kink a hose when filling up a water balloon, the balloon stops filling up for a moment but then when you let the kink go the water goes out of the hose at such a rate that the balloon pops almost instantly.
Kiba POV
"To clarify.. there are three living Uchiha's and you are one of them but you were abandoned by your family because of your gender. You covered it up to become stronger and now you're living with Naruto?" Shino asked, Kiba looked between his two teammates in slight confusion. How did Shino understand so quickly? It's confusing.
"Yes."
"S-so you're a g-girl?" Hinata asked.
"Yes."
"You're related to that bastard?" Kiba asked dumbfounded still, trying to look at her at different angles. She sure looked like a guy. How had she managed to fool them all for all of this time?
"Yes."
"Does the Hokage know you are living with Naruto?" Kurenai asked, concern showing in her eyes.
"Yes."
"Wait.. so.. how come you don't have boobs?" Kiba finally asked after another moment of silence, his eyebrows were furrowed. Was she really that good at acting or was this some prank?
"Kai." Shinobu said simply, letting the jutsu drop. She didn't have a particularily large chest area but she was only twelve and she was so muscular.. she barely had any fat on her. But she did have enough for Kiba to notice, he looked awestruck as her long hair fell around her shoulders.
"You still look like Sasuke.. you have the same face.. just.. prettier eyes.. and a smaller jaw." Kiba muttered, digging a hole in the ground with his heel and quickly shutting up.
"Well.. we are identical twins.." Shinobu smiled half-heartedly, Kiba felt his heart breaking slightly. She looked so sad... how had she managed to smile for so long around him and her other friends when she was hiding who she really was? How could she be around her own brother every day without letting slip to them how much it hurt her.
"Wait... what a-about Ino-chan?" Hinata asked, having realized the girl's crush early on.
"Oh my.. and all your fangirls.." Kiba sat wide eyed before bursting into laughter, the idea of all of these girls having mental break downs cracked him up.
"I'll have to tell them eventually I guess.. but not yet.. right now it can remain between you guys, the Hokage and Naruto.. oh.. and Moegi." She grinned. Her teammates looked confused but didn't say anything.
"What about Akio?" Shino asked.
"I'm telling him I don't like him like that and I'm sorry.." Shinobu sighed and Kiba couldn't help but feel slightly happy. He would admit he was protective over the girl.. even when he thought she was a boy. They were fairly close friends since they were little.. but everything seemed to click into place now.
"You know he has an issues with women right?" Kiba asked, not wanting her to get hurt in the process of telling Akio.
"Ya.. I kind of wish I knew why but it's his business and my nose isn't going anywhere near it." She smiled.. she looked a lot prettier when she smiled.. compared to when she cried. He hated how she looked when she cried.
"So does this mean you're going to start being a girl around us now?" Kurenai asked.
"No.. I don't want to be under-estimated, I don't want people asking questions and I'm too used to fighting as a girl now.. thinking of the number of times you've punched me in the chest it's probably safer on my part to remain a guy during combat." Shinobu grinned and Kiba's face flushed. The group exited the tent and Shinobu quickly put on some clothes that were her own before switching the genjutsu back and exiting herself, heading towards Akio.
"One last question.. why were you crying..?" Kiba asked, stopping her before she could reach Akio.
"Nightmare.." She mumbled.
"Of what..?"
"My father killed everyone in team eight because I was too weak.." She replied quietly, looking away.
"Now everyone knows she's related to him somehow.. but she still has to hide so much.. she's stronger than people give her credit for. I know I wouldn't be able to hide all that for that long. Yet she manages to do it with a smile.. even when her heart is breaking and she feels like crying.. she smiles so she doesn't worry the people around her." Kiba thought to himself as he watched her continue to fight, a fierce determination in her eyes. She's still trying so hard to win everyone over.. trying so heard to prove herself to people who don't even notice her. He looked over at Sasuke who was watching her with an odd intensity. He's watching you now Shinobu.. he notices now.
"Katon! Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" Shinobu's voice echoed off of the walls as Kiba sheilded his face from the heat of her jutsu. Blinding fire filled the entire are below and smoke made it nearly impossible to see. Even when the flames were gone everything was coated in smoke.
"Hinata.. can you see them?" Kiba asked, noticing his teammate had activated her byakugan.
"Yes.. Shinobu is still attacking Sakura but Sakura can't defend herself all that well in there..." Hinata explained, concentrating on the battle.
"Hinata.. can you tell what she's thinking?" Kiba asked one last time, looking away from the smoke pit.
"If I were to guess.. I'd say she's thinking 'I am not going to lose'." Hinata smiled slightly. Kiba nodded turning back to scene before him. That does sound like her.
Naruto POV
"Shinobu? What happened to you?" Ayame cried in worry when the young girl walked in and placed herself on a stool.
"Training..!" She tried to exclaim but it was mixed with a gigantic yawn.
"Training for what?" The ramen assistant asked in confusion.
"To get stronger! I was practicing a.. what was it called.. a jutsu?" She told her uncertainly.
"So you want to be a ninja, now, do you?" Tseuchi asked with a chuckle as he brought her a bowl of ramen.
"What's a ninja?" Shinobu asked, her eyebrows knitted as she racked her brain, trying to figure out where she had heard the term before.
"A ninja is someone who fights to protect their village! I'm gonna be the Hokage some day! The strongest ninja there is!" A boy yelled with a grin as he sat on the stool next to her, quickly recieving a bowl of ramen.
"Hi, Naruto-kun! Shinobu, this is Naruto, one of our regular customers." Ayame smiled.
"Hey, Shinobu! Are you in the ninja academy?" He asked while shoveling ramen into his mouth.
"Hn. No." She said monotonously, her expression going blank.
"You sound like Teme... whatever.. see ya 'round." He grinned and ran off, leaving money on the counter.
"She always did act like him.. why didn't anyone look close enough to notice?" Naruto mumbled to himself with a bittersweet smile as he looked over at Sasuke. His eyes trained on the fight before. Maybe he would notice.. maybe Sasuke would be happy.. and they'd be family.. Shinobu could go live with him.. But what about me..? She's my family too.. He sighed, his thoughts switching gears as smoke filled the room. There wasn't a doubt in his mind that Shinobu was going to win, Sakura may be smart and good with chakra controll.. but Shinobu was strong.. strong in mind.. strong bodied and extremely strong willed. She would never give up. Sorry Sakura...
Everyone watched in silent anticipation as the smoke cleared revealing a yipping dog running back up to the stands to meet Kiba while Shinobu stood, carrying an unconscious Sakura over to the medical staff.
"Winner, Shinobu!"
A/N: And there goes the first emotional fight. :D I hope you enjoyed, stay tuned for the next battles. Sorry about all the flash backs but I felt like they were necessary to know where each person's head was at.
chibichibi98: Haha, sorry about that XD Hmm.. so many possibilities eh? Thanks for the review :D I will/did lol.
XxInuzukaxX: Haha, alright thanks for answering :D That would definitely be traumatizing for her. Thanks so much I try my best with Naruto. Oh really? :D Thanks! I always thought I was rather weak with battles but I'm glad you liked them so much XD
miscellaneousSam: Haha, I'm glad you like it so much. I haven't seen you review before but on the bright side I'm on my super spree weeks (Christmas holidays) not even a day later and voila an update XD Thanks so much for the review :D
Alpenwolf: Ya those, I think what I'm going to do is delete the ones for the people who say it's fine and then keep the ones up for the people who think they should stay. I think.. I dunnno. Haha. You should :P It would be awesome I can imagine. I love the voices XD All characters have their un-noticeable moments in the beginning, but you learn to love them all xD I remember when I couldn't remember who tenten was now it's like, how could I forget? I always like Shikamaru though XD He just seemed so lazy XD Definitely hard to write but totally worth it to the story line, especially if you write them well XD Thanks for the review :D
