This chapter is 100% to establish friendships and for fun...kinda crack but not really

Shisui

I went back to the compound, and instead of sleeping where I normally would because I couldn't see Sasuke right now, I informed Mikoto briefly of the situation and she allowed me to go stay with Shisui. So now, I get to stay with my big bro, who was overly ecstatic to have a house companion. When I told shisui about the incident, he gave me a hug and made me laugh by telling about his missions and how easy it is to annoy Itachi.

The best was when he told Itachi he would make a good girl because his hair and features were so delicate when he was younger. Shisui also taught me how to make dango, which ended up with us just going to buy some. I don't think his kitchen will ever recover from our hurricane of batter.

Note to self: Shisui has no idea how to cook anything.

After constant begging, I begrudgingly let Shisui dress me because he used puppy dog eyes and said I am his

"Please, please, please, please my precious baby sister let me dress you up." Shisui begged, sitting on top of my stomach so I couldn't move away from him. Even if I got away, he's still too fast to actually escape.

"Hell no, you're going to make me look like a clown."

"I would never" he stated in mock offense. "I promise I will love you forever and ever, and I will tell you 'Tachi-chan's most embarrassing moment." I saw the glint in his eye, he knew he had me on the last condition. We exchanged mischievous grins.

"Fine I accept, I can't wait to know what the perfect Itachi uchiha has to be embarrassed about." Right then, Shisui blindfolded me, I promised not to cheat with my Byakugan, and led me somewhere. From the chatting of the people, I deduced that I'm in the civilian area of town.

Shisui led me into a store and told the clerk that I promised to let him dress me. The lady squealed saying how cool of a big brother he is. I rolled my eyes at that. After a bit of being led around the store and whispering between Shisui and the lady, I heard the door shut. The lady began to speak to me and told me she would help dress me.

I could feel the soft fabrics being put on me and tied up. I could also feel the shoes go on my feet, and from the feel they were small heels or something. I honestly have no idea what I'm wearing, I cant even fathom what Shisui would be so excited to dress me in. The lady began to do my hair and I could feel her place it into high pigtails. I was led out of the door and I could hear a bunch of 'awes' from around me. Shisui let out the most dorky squeal I've ever heard come from a teenage boy.

"Oh my gosh you are so cuteeee." He took the blindfold off and I was in the forest. I looked in the mirror he provided for me. My jaw dropped to the ground and my eyes were wide.

My hair was in really childish pigtails with pink bows, it worked since Im a kid but still. I was wearing a poofy light pink doll dress with black ribbons on the bodice. I looked: my age. I was reminded of a time when I used to play dress up. Before death and all of the weight I now carried.

I had knee high pink socks on and little black heels. I cringed at the terrible choice in clothing. I didn't even know they had this type of clothing here. I turned to Shisui glaring, I knew it wasn't working with my look but I tried. He just smiled bigger.

"What the hell dude?" Ignoring not understanding what a unicorn was, Shisui just shrugged.

"I can't wait 'til everyone else gets to see you, you look like a doll. Cute!"

"Nobody else is seeing this, I'd lose all of my street credit and don't forget that I'd never hear the end of it from the guys. Please Shisui-nii, give me my clothes so I can change back." Shisui smiled a smile I was beginning to fear, he only gives Itachi those smiles.

"Oh it's too late for all of that." He said before pointing behind me. I spun around quickly and almost had a heart attack. Standing there were the people I did not want to see me like this, some of my friends. Mikoto was taking pictures, Itachi was staring wide eyes, Sasuke had a faint blush, Kiba was laughing his ass off, Neji had a smug look on his face, Shika had a smirk, Naruto was gaping like a fish, and Choji had a small smile.

"Hinata-hime you should never let shisui dress you again." Neji deadpanned. At least he's on my side.

"You look like a freaking princess hahhahaha. I bet you hate this hahaha, I'm never going to let you live this down. Big Bad Hinata reduced to such a little girl" Kiba laughed out and wouldn't stop even when I glared at him, it only made him laugh harder at me.

"Wow freak, you l-look like an idiot." Sasuke stuttered out still blushing madly.

"Troublesome girl, this was worth waking up" Shika stated still smirking at my form.

"WOW I never knew you liked stuff like this Hinata-chan since you only care about fighting dattebayo!" Naruto shouted out.

"I think you look cute Hinata-chan" Choji said giving me his cute little smile, I gave him a smile back before glaring again. I activated my Byakugan and gave an evil grin to Shisui.

"Fuck you Shisui Uchiha. I am going to KILL YOU!" I took a step to run at Shisui but before I could get to him, I tripped in my shoes. I took them off and threw them at him, he dodged. I got up to send Shisui to Hell below, but before I could, Itachi grabbed hold of me saying he was taking me away from the day, everyone agreed if I promised to hang out with them each after my day with Itachi.

Itachi

Itachi stopped jumping through the trees and put me down. I noticed we made it to the training grounds in the Uchiha compound. He started walking ahead of me, and I followed after him.

We made it inside and I ran past him into our shared room. I began to strip as fast as I could. Getting out of the entirely impractical clothing, I put on a pair of black ankle length ninja pants a red shirt with my clan symbol on the back, and my ninja sandals. Exiting the room, Itachi was waiting for me. He took my hand and we walked to a tea shop.

"Thanks for the save 'Tachi, although you should have let me knock some sense into Shisui-nii." I said, taking a drink from some fruity tea.

98 percent of tea is gross, it tastes like dirty grass no matter what flavor, the only way to cover up the flavor is to add sugar, which still is nasty, but the amount of sugar needed is basically like me drinking diabetes, so I can only drink  fruit teas. My tea is like drinking an unripened orange, lightly sour sour with hints of fruit, it also has a dash of caffeine, like I need any, but still, its a good flavor.

I love sour and bitter things so its perfect, and it doesn't have that shitty taste other teas, even sweet fruit teas have. Nobody else likes tea like mine I found out, when I made myself tea. My friends took one sip of my tea and spit it out.

The type of tea people like and how they think about tea says a lot about them as a person, at least thats what Lady Seiko says, and when we all discussed tea, she said that my tea style suggests I'm an anomaly and thats about it. So I guess she was right, I am an anomaly in all forms, yay my freakishness.

Itachi likes black tea with extra sugar, the sweet tooth boy he is, which I think means he is a reserved person with an unknown kindness for people. Pretty spot on, maybe there is something to this tea shit, but I still hate it.

"Hn, I'll always be there to save you." He replied sweetly, while giving me a grossed out look because of how I can drink my tea so happily. Honestly, he's the gross one for drinking dirty leaf water. We sat and talked, mainly me doing the talking, for a few hours, downing cup after cup of tea.

Although Itachi and I spend a lot of time together, he doesn't talk all that often so I only know surface things and tendencies he has.

Drinking our tea, we finally got to know each other better. Itachi's dream is to have peace, when he was around for the 3d war, it scarred him and drove him to want to be a pafacist. He also wants Sasuke to surpass him in every way.

Itachi is really caring and sweet, but after making him actually have a conversation not just about ninja stuff, he really is one of the most terrible at communication people I've ever met. Every time he says stuff it's so proper and awkward, like he's never had somebody to really be himself around other than Shisui,
so he doesn't know who being himself is.

It's pretty funny that the badass Itachi is such an awkward person when he's not using his emotionless mask. Every once and awhile, I would say something and his eyes would glaze over and he would tense, it gave me the heads up that Danzo is already pushing towards the massacre and the coup is being planned.

To distract Itachi from the inner turmoil he must be going through because of this, I let him know more about my life and myself, he knows about how I want to save everyone (he doesn't know who) and my sadness over my fallout with Ino and Sakura.

I also told him about how I am a fangirl. He looked so confused at it until I explained it to him. I first told him about my love for Spider-Man, who doesn't exist here which confused him more, and how he is just the greatest thing and I would marry him.

He seemed relieved he's not real though, maybe he was worried I wouldn't marry him or Sasuke, which I still am not going to. I also told him about members of the Akatsuki, without telling him who they are cuz that would end bad in so many ways.

But seriously, I was a huge fan of the Akatsuki, I mean Hidan and Deidara and just everyone are just so hot, minus the fucked up mindset part, but I know I can help some of them.

Itachi also told me about how he had a crush on Izumi because of her dango, but is apparently over her. Sure.

After finishing up our teas, Itachi brought me to a clearing by a river. Ive never been here before and I was so confused on why we were here. Noticing my confusion, Itachi handed me a scroll. It was for a basic water jutsu.

He said he's been learning to teach me one since it's my main affinity. I squeaked, jumping up to press a kiss to his cheek. Then realizing what I did, I put an accusing finger in his face.

"You never speak of this or I tell everyone of the dango incident Shisui told me about." Itachi froze, his cheeks reddened and he nodded quickly. I heard him whisper something about feeding Shisui to the cats piece by piece.

Moving on, Itachi taught me the hand seals,Monkey, Rat, Tiger, Horse, Dragon, and showed me how to do the jutsu. It's a water style called Snakes Mouth. Its similar to the Water Dragon jutsu but way less intense and has a lot less hand seals. When Itachi did it, a snake head came out of the river and ate the nearest rock, throwing it into the air and crushing it slightly.

It was AWESOME! Right away, I practiced the hand signs, which let me tell you, feels so awkward. I could feel my chakra moving around and pushing it out through my handseals. I did each of them slow until after about 10 minutes when I could do them in a faster succession, and 5 minutes later when I finally had them fast enough to actually produce a jutsu.

I did each hand seal, and when I finished with the Dragon seal, water raised out from the stream in a skinny pillar but then it just collapsed back into the stream. Damn it, after just one practice, I felt pretty tired, I didn't use up too much chakra since I have basically perfect control, but doing an elemental technique had a different strain than any of my other training has. Itachi had me do the justu again and turned on his Sharingan.

When I failed at making more than a water pillar, which could be useful later, he explained how I am not controlling my chakra after it makes the pillar. I am supposed to keep focusing and mold my chakra with the water to make the snake head and have it move the way I want it to.

My next try I made the water turn into a snake head, but it still was a straight up and down. After a few more tries, my final attempt I made the snake and got it to move the way I wanted, drenching Itachi and myself, it isn't the most intense in strength yet but with practice and developing my own technique, one day it will be super strong.

After I finished the snake, I danced in victory, before passing out from exhaustion, leaving a soggy Itachi to carry me home.

Shikamaru:

I woke up in the morning still pretty tired from chakra exhaustion, so I decided today would be a good day to hang out with Shikamaru after the academy. Being at the academy was super boring today, we went over the founders of the leaf village: Madara and Hashirama. Most of the information is correct about Hashirama but there were a lot of errors about Madara and his role in the founding of the Hidden Leaf Village.

Madara was portrayed as a power hungry evil man who only wanted to be the best. Madara is power hungry and became somewhat evil, because of his steps to make good things, but I thoroughly believe that situations make people bad, they are not born evil.

A lot of information on Madara was missing too like how he actually got Izuna's eyes and stuff. It was really frustrating because Madara was actually a good guy before his family and village turned against him, making him hate the village he created.

I really wanted to fix the perception and tell everyone the real truth of the village founding and how even Hashirama wanted Madara as Hokage but nobody would believe me, and I'd get interrogated by someone scary like Ibiki until I confessed to how I got the knowledge.

That is a BIG oh fuck to the no.

At then end of the day, I walked out of school talking with Naruto when my hand was grasped and I was yanked away. I shouted a goodbye to Naruto before obediently following Shikamaru to wherever he was taking me. After him pulling me away from the other students, he released me and stuffed his hands in his pockets.

He slowed his pace and walked in his lazy way only a Nara could. We walked in silence, I was doing some flips and twists when I would get bored. After about 6 minutes, we arrived to a grassy hill that had a single oak tree growing out of the top.

Shika walked up the hill and laid in the shade of the tree, I followed and laid next to him. He turned his gaze to the sky and his entire demeanor seemed to relax even more. He looked so tranquil and in his element. We stayed like that for who knows how long before he decided to speak.

"I've always wanted to be a cloud, to just float along however the wind blows."

"That is such a boring life to live." I responded closing my eyes to enjoy the cool breeze and the tickle of grass against my skin. I failed to notice Shikamaru watching my every movement intensely, memorizing all of my features.

"Life is a drag, I just want a simple life, nothing more nothing less."

"Nothing about life should be simple, if its simple then what is the point of living. I want to earn the best life possible for myself and others, only then is anything worth it. If you strive for nothing then whats the point of even living."

"Troublesome girl." I know Shika is smart enough to explain his opinions and probably argue with me on why his way is better, but everything is too much energy for him.

Lazy ass. I think he just sees life as if you don't strive towards a goal, then there is nothing to disappoint you with. He probably has a fear of failure like I do, but he's just going about his fear differently. Instead of overcoming his fear, he just ignores it and makes it so that failure can't even happen.

"Yeah yeah, you still love me Shika." I responded dryly. He gave a short chuckle and a quiet hum of yes. While Shika laid and watched the clouds, possibly sleeping, I meditated and worked on my plans in my head. At some point, I fell asleep for the first time in a while, unconsciously curling into Shikamaru's side. He's a nice body heater to sleep with.

I woke up from Shikamaru nudging me awake. The sly was brilliant hues of pinks and purples as the sun set. Deciding to go have dinner with Shika, we headed towards his compound.

When I entered the door, I was greeted with a hug from Yoshino Nara, who was wearing an apron on her small frame. She ushered me to relax on the couch while scolding Shika for whatever he did. I giggled at their antics, she really is a spitfire woman to keep the boys inline. Shika took off his shoes and slumped over to me grumbling about how troublesome women are.

"Shika, wanna play Shogi, I'm still mad about my last loss."

"Sure" He replied, losing his bad mood instantly at the prospect of playing his favorite game. Shika and I were in an intense battle for an hour until I ended up making a fatal move which played right into his strategy, putting me in check mate. Shikamaru gave me his condescending lazy smirk and I pouted.

Stupid super genius, I liked it better when I was smarter than him, now I'm not and it sucks. Just as I was about to say something to Shika about his win Shikaku walked in and informed us it was time for dinner. Shikamaru and I exchanged glances before rushing off to wash our hands and sit at the table. If we didn't hurry, Yoshino would kick our asses.

Dinner was so good, we had a bunch of noodle dishes and pork, yummy, I enjoyed every bite. The conversation was fun too, we talked about the academy and my Kunoichi classes. Shikaku also hinted to me that I would be able to see my father soon-ish which made me really happy, Hanabi and I miss him.

After we finished eating and conversing, Shika walked me home. We walked close together since its dark and were in a comfortable silence the entire way home. WE stopped at the entrance of the Uchiha compound and I gave him a hug goodbye, missing the way his cheeks tinted pink. I went to Hanabi's room, kissed her goodnight and slid into my own futon, waiting for the boys to go to sleep so I can scheme.

Naruto

I jumped out of bed, got dressed and ready for school and raced downstairs. I was so late so I skipped breakfast and just grabbed a ration bar. I was up planning so late and I was so in my own world, I didn't realize that Sasuke had already left.

Itachi was on one of his Anbu missions so he will be gone for a while. Fugaku was at work, and Mikoto was who knows where with Hanabi, so I was alone and so late.

I ran out the door, hopped on a rooftop and sprinted to the academy. Instead of running through the hallways, I chakra climbed up the wall and to the window of Iruka-sensei's classroom. Pushing open the window, I waited for Iruka-sensei to turn around and write on the board. I flashed to my seat making Sasuke flinch and Naruto topple out of his seat.

"What the hell Hinata-chan where did you come from dattebayo?" Naruto yelled, pointing his finger at me. I shrugged, damn he just had to announce that I just got here.

"I've been here the whole time."

"Hinata-san?" Iruka questioned to get my attention. I turned towards him. "You're LATE! After school, you will help Naruto clean the classroom."

"Damn" I muttered. Naruto gave me a huge grin and fist pumped the air.

You're on. I will show you I'm the better cleaner hina-chan."

"Probably blondie, cleaning is boring. After we finish wanna get ramen and go train?"

"Hell yeah dattebayo, Ichiraku ramen here I come!" We both shared a grin then busted out laughing. For the last year, I've been training with Naruto to get him stronger. Naruto is actually pretty smart and talented when it comes to training.

He works hard and does everything I do, even if he complains the whole time.I also tried to help him in school, but it doesn't work in my favor, he's just not meant for it.

His taijutsu is way less sloppy now, I'm super strict on him when it comes to his form and technique, when he does it properly, he is a force to be reckoned with. His kunai and shuriken training we get help from Shisui since I cant really explain how to do it. Sadly Naruto is way better than me at those too, especially when he was first learning versus me, he learned so much faster.

Even though I am teaching him, I make it more as a mutual training so he doesn't think I am trying too hard to be his sensei. I really just want him to acheive his goals as easy as possible. Hopefully by his side on team 7.

The way for that to happen is they put top shinobi and kunoichi with the last place boy. So since Sasuke and I will get top spots, even with my training, I told Naruto to not let anyone know how strong he is and to pretend to be dead last in everything.

He doesn't have to try for schooling since he doesn't even show up sometimes, but for actual training, he has to play weak, which he hates. It works though because there has to be team 7, with all of us on it.

After class, we had to stay and clean. Naruto made it into a competition to see who could clean the most fastest, I won since I'm faster. After finishing, we went to get ramen. It, just like always, is really yummy. Miso is my favorite. At the ramen shop, I decided to give Naruto my present. I handed a box to him and he looked at me wide eyed.

"Happy Birthday Blondie. Open it." I said with a smile. Naruto jumped up and hugged me tightly, tears streaming down his face.

"You remembered. You remembered! You're my best friend Hina-chan, you're the only person other than jiji who remembered dattebayo!"

"How could I forget the one and only Naruto Uzamaki's 8th birthday?" I said with a huge grin threatening to rip my face. His reaction made me so sad, but so happy that he knows I care. "Ok now open it." I said bouncing in my seat, so excited for him to see what I got. He ripped the paper off and opened the small velvet box. Inside there were two silver rings. He looked at them and his face twisted into confusion.

"Eh, rings? Why?"

"They're not just rings dumbass, they are weapons."

"Coool thats awesome! Wait, how?" He responded to me still confused on why I got him rings.

"Put them on and I'll show you." He put them on each of his index fingers. "They are basically brass knuckles. When you add any amount of your own chakra into the rings, they will shift and cover your whole knuckle in a metal plate that enhances your punched to do triple the damage, they also protect your fists when hitting other metal, you can also one day add your chakra element into them and make them work as blades too, pretty cool right?"

Naruto added chakra to his hands, another thing we've been working on, and the rings transformed into beautiful silver brass knuckles.

"This is so cool dattebayo! I'm totally going to kick ass even more with these now. You're  really the best Hinata-chan." He said giving me another huge hug and his foxy grin.

I chose brass knuckles as the perfect special weapon for Naruto because his wild hyperactive self is definitely going to be a heavy hitter and he uses his fists a lot, so if he uses brass knuckles it will make his power that much greater, also because they conduct chakra, when he learns wind chakra control he will be able to add it and make them like blades similar to Asuma.

It's a perfect hand to hand, versatile, easy to use weapon for somebody like Naruto.

They also look really badass, and the rings are pretty too. We finished eating and I paid for all of Naruto's bowls of ramen, emptying my wallet, and we headed towards out secret training ground.

Only a few ninja know about the secret training ground, Naruto and I created it far into the forest away from prying eyes. The Hokage, Shisui, and some ANBU that trail Naruto are the only ones who know about it's existence.

When we reached the training ground, Naruto and I started without warm ups, then moved into our own Katas. Training alongside Naruto is nice because other than the Uchiha, he knows I have my own style I work on. Since I don't show it in the Academy, I can only practice it around him.

We finished our run-throughs then I had him meditate and work on moving around his chakra within him to gain a better feel for his chakra. Finally, we sparred today, I made him use his brass knuckles to get a feel for them.

The spar was better than the others, he has finally been showing his progress. His speed is higher, his hits more controlled, and he was finally able to begin to assess and counter my moves.He landed a hit and damn it actually hurt really bad. He cheered at his success and we ended the spar there.

Based off Taijutsu, Naruto could now be top 4 in our class, he is just above Kiba in skill. After our training, since it's his birthday, I decided to pull a prank with him and pushed us going to the library to study sealing for next time.

"So Blondie who should we prank today?" Naruto gave me a mischievous foxy grin.

"Hokage-jiji hasn't taken me for ramen in forever. I think it's time for some payback dattebayo."

"The Hokage?! I like the way you think. lets do it." We huddled closer and began to discuss our prank. After 30 minutes of planning, I went to the shopping area of the village and bought all of what we need, since most of the bastards wont let Naruto in their stores.

I returned to our training ground, and together Naruto and I went to the Hokage's office. The office was empty, I'm guessing he was at dinner, so I helped cloak our chakras to nonexistent and we crept our way into his office and began to work. Getting in without getting caught was difficult, but surprisingly Naruto is a pro at stealth when needed and helped us get in unseen.

Naruto Painted the walls as high as he could reach a light pink and, using my chakra to stick to the ceiling painted everything else a hot pink. We threw glitter all over the room and added tons of Uzumaki spirals all over the office.

Not done yet, I placed cups all over the room so its impossible to step anywhere without stepping in pink or purple paint. Naruto filled his desk drawers with ramen and his chair had an invisible glue trap set up on it. At the door and window entrances, if they opened rainbow glitter paint will fall on the person.

Right as Naruto finished putting up the last trap, we heard footsteps so I put Naruto on my back and we hung to the outside of the building looking in to watch the show.

The door opened and the Hokage stood there in all of his glory, covered in rainbow glitter paint. Naruto began laughing uncontrollably so I covered his mouth with my hand. I was shaking trying to hold in my laughs.

He looked around his room shaking his head with an almost unnoticeable smile/grimace thing. The ninja with the Hokage blanched and started freaking out, taking out some bandages to clean off some paint for the Hokage.

"That demon brat did this Lord Hokage, I will find him and punish him for you." The ninja said pissed off. Naruto tightened his grip on me in slight fear, and I growled in anger.

"Bring Naruto to me unharmed." The Hokage said, stern yet with no hint of malice towards Naruto. No way am I going to let Naru go down for this when it was my idea for a fun birthday event. Right after the ninja left, an ANBU who follows Naruto began to close in on us. Damn it, they escaped our traps.

Allowing for a fast entrance, I opened the window we didn't rig and Naruto and I jumped in, ignoring as all of the paint seeped into my shoes. The ANBU in the room, standing on the ceiling, tensed but relaxed as the Hokage gave them a sign to step down.

The Hokage, standing on his desk while a person cleaned up the cups, looked at me in confusion and slight amusement, before he turned to Naruto, I kneeled down and bowed.

"Lord Hokage. I am Hinata Hyuga. You don't know me personally, but I am a friend of Naruto's. Please do not punish Naruto for this prank, it was my idea to have some fun for his birthday. I bought all of the materials and coerced Naruto into making the prank more bold. I was the one who trapped his ANBU guards and concealed our chakra to sneak in here for this. I take full responsibility and whatever punishment you have planned. Pardon Naruto as it is his birthday."

I said as clear and calm as I could while kneeling in pink paint in front of the strongest man in the village. He also is in the knowledge of what is going on with my father.

"Wait Hinata-chan stop I-" I shushed Naruto from finishing his statement, still bowing.

"No Naru, you already have enough people punishing you for something that isn't your fault." At that statement, I could feel chakra spike with a minor KI from one of the ANBU.

"Rise child." The Hokage's coarse yet kind spoke out to me. I looked up at him and saw no anger so I rose and stood before him. "I had no intentions of punishing Naruto for this prank. I wanted to wish him a happy birthday. I also knew he had help, only somebody very advanced could sneak into my office unnoticed, it is surprising that it is the Hyuuga princess though. I do not plan on punishment for you either. On the contrary, I would like to give you a word of thanks."

My eyes widened at his statement, and I saw an amused smile grace his old face. "You were able to sneak into my office and do a prank of this caliber. It is amusing and takes real talent even if I am covered in glitter. It also shows how easily an enemy could have been here so I know what to fix with my security. I would also like to thank you for befriending Naruto and standing up for him even with all of the rumors going around about him. Naruto needs a friend like you, and I believe you need a friend like him."

I didn't miss the knowing glint in his eyes. I lost all of my composure at this and began to beam. I fist bumped Naruto who was grinning at me and his Jiji.

"Thank you Lord Hokage. Naru, why didn't you tell me your jiji was such an awesome dude, even when covered in rainbow glitter, he was soo coool. I so though my ass was had back there but he just smiled and thanked me."

"Heh, my bad. Hey Jiji, can we take Hinata-chan to get ramen with us for my birthday pleasseee." He begged. I rolled my eyes when he accepted, only Naruto would be able to talk to the Hokage like that and have positive results.

(I hate the 3d hokage but she is still a kid and she died as a kid so she don't know the real deal of hating him..plus he's got the old man magic that she couldn't fight.)

Kiba

I left for the academy early, allowing for myself to take a relaxing walk and to get some caffeinated tea to wake myself up after another sleepless night. The Academy was another normal day, we finally increased out physical training and moved on to shinobi rules.

Kunoichi classes are still the same, I'm still alone in them, Ino and Sakura don't speak to me at all, just glare. Lady Seiko seems to have noticed my discomfort with the other girls and makes sure they can't come and say things to me anymore.

At the end of the day, I was walking aimlessly enjoying the heat when I heard high pitched barking coming closer and closer. I turned to my left and watched as a tiny white puppy came rushing past me. It was then that I heard Kiba's worried yells and I put two and two together.

That cute little puppy is THE Akamaru. Not wasting a second longer, I chased after the puppy. For something so young and small, he's so fast and agile. It must come with being a special Inuzuka ninken. I finally reached him and tackled him making sure not to crush him in the process.

Little Akamaru started squirming around in my arms. I held him firmly and began to speak to him to calm him and let him know I wont hurt him.

I also scratched behind his ears and he finally relaxed, moving his small body to snuggle more into mine, letting out small whimpers of happiness at my attention.

Finally, Kiba caught up with me and skidded to a halt when he noticed I had Akamaru safely in my arms. He fave me a grin showing off his long canines.

"Akamaru there you are boy. Thanks for catching him Hinata. We were training when he just bolted." I giggled at Akamaru cooing at how he was a bad boy.

"No problem dude, he's so adorable. How long have you had him, and why didn't you tell me." I asked nonchalant. Kiba's eyes widened and he put his hands up shaking them in protest.

"Wait no, I just got him today. After some training I was going to come show him to you like I promised."

"Sureee it's not like you forgot or anything." I dragged out sarcastically.

"NO NO! I promise." Kiba shouted at me. Akamaru let out a bark seeming to be amused with the situaton. "Akamaru I did not forget."

"Oh well, I have nothing to do, can I tag along while you bond with him?" Akamaru gave a bark. It's so cool he can understand me, I wish I could understand him though, at least I have Kiba as a translator.

"Hai, Akamaru agrees too, we can make a day of it." Kiba said grinning excitedly. I put Akamaru on top of Kiba's head and we began to walk on a dog trail. Kiba was talking with Akamaru and doing some bonding through training so they can become one.

It was really cool to watch. Akamaru is already smart, so instead of basic commands, which Akamaru would ignore since he didn't want to do them, instead they were training on synchronization and using their sense of smell to find one another.

Every time Akamaru found found Kiba fast enough, I got to give him treats. He was so cute and his little tail wagged so fast when I would treat him. Even though they have only been together for a day, they already bonded and I can tell they are going to be the bestest of friends.

Their synchronization was messy and clumsy, but by the end of the 4 hours of training, it was pretty good. Nothing like in the future where they can basically read one another's minds, but it was impressive nonetheless.

When they finished training, I went to Kiba's house to say hi to his mom, the most badass female I've met so far, Anko has the top spot in my book though. We walked into the house and Tsume was nowhere to be seen. We walked into the kitchen as I laughed at Kiba's insult to some of the boys in our class.

When we entered the kitchen there was a really pretty girl who looked about 14. She had long brown hair tied up in a low ponytail, the same red markings as Kiba on her cheeks, and a wolfish grin on her face. Kiba let out a groan of fake annoyance.

"What a great way to welcome your wonderful sister home Kiba, you ass. Whose the small fry?" The girl, Hana Inuzuka said. I like her already too, she seems so cool and her sarcasm is funny. We'd get along just fine especially since she gives people nicknames too!

"Ugh Hana when did you get back?" Before they could converse, I answered Hana's question with a sly grin.

"Hinata Hyuuga, super badass shinobi in training who kicks your brothers ass all the time at your service Inuzuka-san." Hana's face flashed with recognition before she erupted in laughter. She stopped laughing, gave me a once over, sniffed me, then grinned.

"So you're Hinata, you don't seem to have a stick up your ass like the other Hyuuga. I like you small fry, you don't let Kiba's ego get too big and you smell good so we can get along. Tell me something that lets you earn food and to be able meet my dogs." Hmm, I know exactly what to say, I really want to meet her dogs. I love animals. I gave her a smirk, making Kiba and her look at me with interest.

"Have you seen the Hokage's office recently." That really peaked their interest. "I was the one who snuck in with Naruto and painted it pink and filled it with glitter and ended up unscathed. What better way to prank the big bad Hokage than to make his office fit for a princess." Kiba shouted at me saying how Naru and I are crazy. Hana smirked at me and handed me a plate of food, accepting my answer.

While eating, we conversed about Hana's previous missions. She also told me embarrassing stories about Kiba, like how he licked himself clean for a week to be like a dog. I also got to meet Hana's triplet ninken, they seemed to take a liking to me since they would all brush up against me a lot to get me to pet them.

I also learned about how they work as vet's part time since they know so much about animals, especially canines. When Hana left for a late night training session, Kiba and I played with Akamaru, did a quick spar, and just messed around the whole time.

It was really fun especially since Kiba is such a hothead and I could make him blow up and act like a wild animal.  When the sun was fully set, I bid the Inuzuka family goodbye and went home to play with Hanabi, who is my sweet little princess.

Neji

Today was a free day and nobody has the Academy. I spent the morning playing with Hanabi. I love everything about her, she is the most precious thing to me. I've been trying to teach her how to run better, but she falls down a lot. I feel like time has flown by with her, I can't believe she is 2. Hanabi loves dresses and kimonos and always has to have one on. She really is the girly princess I am not.

She deserves the title of Princess over me, so I always make sure to call her Hime which she loves. I also tell her stories from my past life, like cinderella and stuff, she gets so into them and swears she is going to be a princess like belle.Spending so much time with Mikoto, she is so well mannered and is going to be such a perfect lady when she is bigger.

After spending the morning with Hanabi, I rushed over to the branch member area of the Hyuuga compound. I turned on my Byakugan to search around for Neji, and I found him at one of the training grounds with Uncle Hizashi. Before they could see me, I went into their home and grabbed some water and snacks for them to eat after Neji finishes his training. I made my way back to the training ground and watched as Neji practiced in the gentle fist.

He was so excited to finally be able to learn it since he can finally use his Byakugan for a long enough period of time. He was sweating and breathing so heavily as he tried to land a hit on his father. For being blind, Uncle is still a kick ass fighter, he is a sensory type and can sense the hits coming so he is still able to fight at such an incredibly high level. Finally, Uncle called off the training and turned towards me. Neji finally noticed my presence too.

"Hello Hinata-sama, what brings you here?" Uncle said with a small formal bow. I hate how formal he is towards me, but he is still kind.

"Heyo," I greeted "quit with the formalities, we've talked about this. I just wanted to spend the day with Niisan, we haven't gotten to spend much time together and I'm missing him." Neji and Uncle both gave me a small smile at this.

"Yes , I would like to spend the day together too. Also, arigato for the refreshments." Neji said sipping down his water. I jumped up in excitement, I gave a hug to Uncle and yanked Neji to make him stand up.

"What are we gonna do? Nothing boring, no matter how lame you think things are nejiiii, I want something exciting." Neji rolled his eyes, still looking as fierce as ever.

"I would like to go to the library and work on a project for school." He said. Yes, I haven't been to the library in forever! I fist pumped and we ran off to the library. Neji grabbed us a spot to sit and we both went off finding out books.

I looked around trying to find books on how to use my daggers more effectively and books on chakra manipulation. When I sat down, I saw Neji had gathered books about the 5 main shinobi Nations.

We read in comfortable silence for a while, I stopped reading a few times to ask him questions about possible techniques for my daggers. Neji is so smart when it comes to combat and he thinks differently than Itachi, so when I can, I get his input on my ideas too to make sure I wont kill myself or epically fail trying to execute something.

Reading a more advanced book on chakra manipulation is so helpful, it's giving me ideas on so many things I can do with my chakra. Since I can manipulate my chakra into a point on my finger expelling it to block others chakra, it might be possible to expel it through different Tenketsu points and so when somebody hits me, it will still do the same effect as if it was with my fingers.

I also think I could try to expel my chakra out of a point when another Byakugan user or med ninja hits one of my Tenketsu points to make the damage less effective.

Like if somebody were to strike at my heart with chakra, if I put my chakra and expelled it as a protective coating around my heart, instead of a fatal attack, it would just send me to the hospital. Not that accurate and it is not fool proof but it is something that in a last ditch effort could mean the difference of me being dead...again.

I'll have to practice around with each thought for the next few months before I test it out, then if it works I can hopefully teach it and help it become more impressive with Neji's help.

Neji finished his work and he told me about the 5 Great Nations. Even with the show, there wasn't a super detailed explanation of the great Nations. It's interesting to see the nations and their relationships to one another.

Right now, Neji told me that Konoha has an alliance with Suna, and that Kumo and Kiri are neutral, and Iwa is not on peaceful terms. Iwa really hates Konoha because of the Yondaime Hokage. Kumo and Suna are not on peaceful terms so and Kumo's attempted kidnapping, there is no alliance, and Kiri is just to bloody and scary for us to ally with.

These topics are so interesting, and right before we left, I added a book on former treaties and their contents, at least the information we are aloud to know since ninja like to keep secrets and stuff.

After the library, Neji and I went to the grocery store and got a bunch of vegetables and stuff. Neji is the biggest health freak I've ever met, thank god protein shakes don't exist or he'd be living off of them. We bought his groceries and went home to cook.

I love Neji but I want to punch him in the face sometimes. He is literally so perfect, like a real prince. He has super nice hair, how come I'm the only one without brown hair, is smart, has perfect diction, is a prodigy without extra knowledge like I am, is pretty handsome, is graceful, and is a really good cook even if its all healthy.

I sat and watched as Mr. Perfect moved around the kitchen gracefully cooking us dinner. He put a bunch of vegetables on a pot and seasoned them with god knows what. The aroma of food filled the air and I could feel my mouth watering.

He set down the bowl rice and assortment of colorful cooked veggies. We broke our chopsticks and thanked Kami for the food. One bite and I was in healthy people heaven, only Neji, and maybe Mikoto, could make vegetables taste like heaven. The food was spicy and savory and I ate every last drop. I complimented Neji and he just smirked, seeming pleased with my praise. It wouldn't be him though if he didn't drop an insult about how it's my destiny to be a terrible cook forever.

I pouted and he continued to 'playfully' insult my failures as a chef, in a super dick-ish and honest but not mean way. I also made him tell me more about his classmates and he had nothing good to say about anyone, to him they are all destined to be failures.

I can't wait until he gets his team, then hopefully they will show him the BS in his destiny crap when Lee becomes super amazing and strong despite looking like a dipshit. Not wanting to leave, Neji and Hizashi allowed me to sleep in Neji's room, his comfort and my exhaustion let me have my first night of full sleep in months.

Choji

We went through the beginner obstacle corse today with Iruka-sensei. Instead of real kunai, they were wooden, but they still bruised when people got hit. Sasuke and I finished it with a breeze, Naruto could have finished easily too after all of our training, but he remembered to pretend to suck still, so he made sure he was klutzy and came in last doing it. It's so funny to watch Naruto pretend to suck, he over exaggerates everything and I tried so hard not to laugh at him, especially when he gives me that knowing foxy grin.

Shikamaru could tell something was up when he watched Naruto with a suspicious gaze, but I don't think he's figured out what mischievous thing Naru and I are up to yet. After the obstacle course, we worked on going through basic academy katas, boring. Finally it was lunch time. Instead of eating lunch studying in the classroom like normal, I went and found Naruto, pulling him away from his stalking of Sakura. I'll never get why he likes her but oh well.

"Agh, what the hell Hinata-chan, I was just about to go talk to Sakura-chan." He pouted. I continued dragging him, ignoring his pouting.

"We are going to study sealing, I have been reading up on so that you can become a master. It's in your Uzumaki blood so you already have an affinity, you just have to learn how to use it." Naruto looked at me blankly, tilting his head to the side, then his face lit up and he fist pumped in happiness.

"! I'm going to be a seal master dattebayo. Hinata-chan, what is sealing?" I deadpanned, leave it to Naruto to be excited for something he doesn't even know about. For the next hour I taught him the basics of what sealing is, forgetting to eat.

Finally, at the end of the day I left the school and went to find Choji. Today was the big BBQ eat off and we both entered. Looking around the front of the Academy, I finally saw the wild mane of Choji's hair. I made a beeline right for him and he smiled at me when he noticed my arrival. Munching on his chips, we began to walk to the town.

"Are you ready for the BBQ Hinata-chan? I am, I cant wait to enjoy all of those delicious meats." He said basically drooling. I cant blame him, the meat here is, especially from Yakiniku Q, is really, really good.

"Fuck yeah I am, I about to out eat all of those old geezers." I said confidently. A fire lit in the normally sweet and timid boys eyes.

"No way Hinata-chan, I am going to be the champion, I refuse to lose." I laughed at his ferocity. Choji always can make me laugh and feel good, he's just so sweet and caring. We continued our journey, talking about life. Choji told me more in depth on how he and Shika became besties and what his goals for becoming a shinobi are. Choji is too sweet, his goals are to become strong and protect the people he loves.

We have similar goals, yet they are very different. It feels good to know that I will have Choji to watch my back, not many people I can truly say they will protect me forever. Choji is one of the few I wholeheartedly believe he will do his best to protect me straight up.

Finally making it to the competition area, I noticed I was the only girl there. The area was filled with old chunky men, they looked at Choji and I before laughing at us. They were totally underestimating us.

I could see the desire to win burning in Choji's eyes, we shared a glance, the unspoken message to win was spoken. Finally the bell signaled for us to start wolfing down the gigantic plate of various meats rang.

I could hear the scarfing down of food around me and after some time, people collapsing out of their chairs from being too full. I ignored the burning of my stomach and continued, until the announcer told us to stop.

I made it about 1/2 way done. I looked over to Choji and noticed his plate was empty. He won! I praised him bowing down to the master. I'm never doing that again though, I feel like I'm going to explode. I don't have the same impressive ability to convert my food into chakra like Choji does so I cant eat as much as him and I cant eat a ton without feeling like I'm going to be sick. Man that would be so useful so I could eat more.

Choji noticed my green face and helped me get home, lightly chastising me for eating too much. I just responded with the simple fact that I wanted to hang out with him doing something he liked so I did it to the best of my ability. That got me a big hug from him.

Instead of going home, I was feeling better so Choji decided to take me to one of his favorite places. We went to a daycare for babies of on-duty shinobi. Choji really likes babies and must visit them a lot. When we walked into the place, some of the guardians there welcomed him back with happy smiles. Choji led me around and told me about each of the babies he knows as he cradled them. He's really good with kids and everytime they cried, he would hold them and they'd stop, it was magic.

I was enjoying watching him look so happy with the kids when I saw a small baby with green hair and blue eyes. He was such a cute, exotic looking little boy. We locked eyes and had a staring contest until I smiled at him, he smiled back. I went over to him and held him in my arms, his name tag said his name was Hydeoshi.

I cooed to him and made my way back over to Choji, holding Hydeoshi securely in my arms. This is just proof that Choji has one of the kindest hearts, he loves so much it's beautiful to see, one day he is going to make the best husband and father for someone. The rest of the afternoon, Choji and I spent playing with the babies.

I never left Hydeoshi, something about him made me form a bond, I know I will come back to see him and hopefully meet his parents sometime. Seeing all of the babies helped me put into perspective all I am working to save, it helped ease the stress, knowing I am working for something bigger than myself and my fantasies. I bid farewell to Choji and we made plans to come back to the daycare as many times as we can together.

Sasuke

Today with Iruka-sensei, we did the basic physical training and tested on types of Chakra and chakra natures. Easy peasy, the real surprise came from my Kunoichi classes. For some reason the other girls in my class have taken it upon themselves to make my life sucky. The worst part isn't even the bullying, its that Ino and Sakura just glare at me all of the time.

At least with them they have a sort of friendly rivalry, but with me its like they hate me every time they see me. It hurts and makes it difficult to even want to show up to class. It also sucks on the ninja aspect of class that I am so far ahead of the other girls, it just makes their tormenting worse.

Somehow I cannot use the grace I have when fighting and dancing into my everyday life, and I just don't want to use proper language, I like the way I talk and don't want to change it just because it's unbecoming of a young lady. I also know that I could possibly learn this stuff, but I'm so afraid that if I do, I will never regain my friendships, jealousy does bad things to people.
They didn't get how I wished to be them. To be their friend and pretend to have bo worries but boys. I wanted them to want to be with me too.

Lady Seiko noticed my issues with the other girls, and because she is a scary and too smart woman, she figured out my failures and problems quickly. Taking that into consideration is why today was so wild. Lady Seiko had me stay after class and offered to personally train me for the next few years, until I become a Chunin.

She said I have potential and that she sees herself in me, how I have no clue. She explained how she will teach me all of the things I will lack without a mother and she will not force me to change my personality, she will just help me become adept at being the ideal woman whenever I need to use skills like those, ninja wise instead of wife wise like the other girls.

She also comforted me with my issues with the girls and tried explaining how jealousy works in their minds. I still don't fully understand why boys seem to matter so much, but whatever.

I accepted, Lady Seiko is a badass and was one of the top Jounin of her time, denying her would be a waste. So now, I have a strong female figure (besides Mikoto who I will always see as my surrogate mother) to look up to.

I left my meeting with Lady Seiko and had a wide grin on my face. It feels so good to have a woman, especially one scary and perfect like her, to want to train me and take care of me on the girl stuff boys just don't understand. I was surprised to see Sasuke waiting for me when I made it to the Academy to pick up my stuff.

"Whats up with the dopey smile freak?" Sasuke questioned me with a smirk, as soon as I came into his view.

"None of your business duckbutt. Whats up, why did you wait, usually you go off training after school?" Sasuke turned from me and shrugged, pushing his slight blush down.

"I need a training partner today since big brother is gone again, and I was going to find some cats again and wanted to see if you could come, only if you don't fangirl though." He said in his snarky joking tone. I just gave him a mocking smile.

"Oh my gosh, THE Sasuke-kun is inviting me to fight him and find cats. How romantic I might die, eep" I fake fangirled, making him laugh and cringe at the same time.

"You sound just like them." He then started walking away from me. He turned his head and with his little smile said, "You coming?" I did a few fast steps to catch up with him. I jumped on his back and made him carry me, which he did so wonderfully.

It's pretty easy because I'm short and he's tall for our age. Sasuke told me all about his and Itachi's last training session and that he got slight praise for learning a lightning jutsu called "Electromagnetic Murder."

Even though I live with him, we don't have a ton of time to talk and train together anymore so it's nice to just hang out with the Sasuke I know, before all of the Uchiha craziness goes down. Sasuke and I did some training together, me working on my Snake jutsu and him working on his lightning jutsu. It was fun and we were both drained after.

Then we made it to the 'crazy cat ladies' home and she gave us a booklet and ink to stamp the paws of the cats down for ID purposes. We were given cat ears that allow us to understand the cats and were sent on our way.

Sasuke and I bantered the whole way, me making fun of his cute kitty ears and him making fun of me for being a klutz. We caught a few cats, it's really amusing. Since I met Sasuke and Itachi, they have gone off and done this together, its fun to actually be doing it.

The first time I heard a cat talk, I almost lost my mind. It was so weird. My bewildered expression made Saskue laugh at me for a long time, calling me dumb for not expecting the cats to talk even when we were given the headbands.

I just grumbled in defeat and kept looking for cats. Some of the cats are so funny and talk so badly, they curse as much as Hidan. When we were chasing a particularly fast tabby cat, I heard shriek of "Sasuke-kun!" Sasuke and I stopped, turned to each other fear evident in both of our eyes, then looked behind us.

There was a herd of about 12 girls all with hearts in their eyes for Sasuke. They saw me and glowered, I saw my life flash before my eyes. Sasuke grabbed my arm and we both yelled.

"RUN!" For girls who are so slow and weak in the Academy, damn can they run fast. Their endurance seemed endless when chasing their precious Sasuke. After what seems like forever, Sasuke pulled me into a tree and the fangirls gave up searching. I looked over to Sasuke and he looked so pale and frightened, I busted out laughing.

"You should see your face, you look terrified." His face turned from fear to annoyance.

"You were scared too, fangirls are crazy." I laughed harder especially since he's right and fangirls like his are terrible and frightening creatures that will rip you apart.

"True, that was still fun though. Nothing says bonding like running away from crazed girls." Sasuke gave me a quick snort at that and then pushed me out of the tree before jumping down after me. Deciding its safe, we walked home together, me on his back yet again, Sasuke walking with a pep in his step.

I think he feels macho when he carries me around. We made it home, took turns showering and played with Hanabi together while talking about stuff to study for with the upcoming tests to pass to the next year. We laid close to one another, ready for bed, and I decided that I could take a break from planning before my mind implodes so I fell asleep with the warmth of Sasuke.