•Nariko Uzumaki•

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I grit my teeth in anger. 'Calm down...' I breathe in and out slowly, closing my eyes, I felt the wind blow through my red hair.
My grip on the katana tightened as I felt a presence behind me. Quickly throwing my elbow back, I felt the hilt make contact. Once I heard the person let out a breath I knelt down swinging my leg out, kicking their feet from under them.
A smirk appeared as I pointed the blade to their throat stopping them from moving. "I win!" I panted slightly my smirk turning into a grin.
His eyes were narrowed at me until a smirk formed on his face. The grin that was on my face slowly dropped as an arm came from behind me trapping me in a head lock with a kunai pointed at my chest.
"Tsk.." A frown clearly on my face as I watched the clone on the ground disappear.
He dropped his arm, which held the kunai, to his side and he pushed me forward. I stumbled slightly before catching myself.
Turning around I glared at him. "Seriously?!" His onyx eyes were taunting me.
"Hn....expect the unexpected." He put his kunai into his weapon pouch.
My blue eyes rolled, as I sheathed my katana. "Whatever....Uchiha." I wiped the sweat from my forehead and wiped my hand on my black pants.
Walking over to the stump, I picked up my white button up shirt and put it on over my black sports bra. Leaving it unbuttoned, I pulled my long red hair into a high ponytail letting my bangs hang slightly in my eyes.
Sasuke already started to leave from the training grounds, most likely on his way home. Which is what he usually did after training.
'Speaking of home...' My thoughts trailed off as I walked in that direction.

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Unlocking the door, I was greeted with silence. I closed and locked the door behind me and started untying the strap of my katana from my pants. I held it in my hand as I walked past the living room, through the hall and opened the door to the right leading into my bedroom.
I placed my katana on my bed and laid next to it, tired from training. I don't know how but I managed to get the 'almighty' Sasuke Uchiha to train me...granted I was bothering him non-stop. I can be quite annoying when I want to be.
A small smile appeared on my face, quietly laughing to myself. I rest my arm over my eyes and yawned slightly, sleep quickly overtaking me.

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I jumped slightly as I heard a scream coming from the kitchen. I quickly grabbed my katana and ran into the kitchen which was connected to the living room.
A sweat drop formed, as I see an orange jumpsuit looking through the cabinets, I could barely make out his blonde hair with how far his head was in the cabinet.
"WHERE DID ALL THE RAMEN GO?!!" His voice echo'd slightly from the empty cabinet.
I relaxed slightly as I put my katana on the couch and grabbed a pillow, "Naruto..." He jumped and slowly turned to face me his blue eyes filled with terror.
I threw the pillow at him, throwing him off guard and dashed at him, his eyes widened.

•Outside, 3rd person•

Yelling could be heard from the Uzumaki apartment, causing people to stop and stare, wondering what was going on inside. Their eyes widened as they heard things shatter from the inside and a boy screaming and a girl yelling, they could barely hear the boy but it sounded like, "..sorry!!..Nariko!! Off..me!!!" The boys yells suddenly stopped causing the small crowd to stare at one another.
All the a sudden the door slammed open and they saw the blonde hair boy dash out of the apartment, with the red hair girl on his heels. "You better run!!!" She yelled as she stopped running.
The girl finally noticed the small crowd, turning slightly red she took her hand and rubbed the back of her neck in embarrassment.
"Good morning!" She laughed nervously and ran back into her apartment, slamming the door shut as she entered.

•Nariko's P.O.V•

I finally picked up the last of the glass. When I grabbed Naruto's foot earlier as he tried to run he grabbed the end table knocking it over causing the lamp to shatter.
I threw the pieces out and headed into my room. I grabbed my blue towel and walked into the bathroom which was located across my room door.
Once I took my 15 minute shower, I put on my black sports bra and matching black underwear. I threw on my black pants and grabbed a orange button up shirt leaving it open.
Walking to the front door I slid on my black sandals. I rested my hands on my hips, which caused me to look down. My katana was not tied to my left side. Glancing around, I spotted it on the couch.
I grabbed it and secured it to my left side and headed out the door, locking it behind me.
I rest my hand on the hilt of my katana as I walked slowly. The sun was shining brightly causing my eyes to squint slightly.
"Oi!" I continued on my way, it was far away so I assumed they were calling for someone else. "Nariko! Hey! wait up!"
I stopped in my tracks turning around, Sakura was running my way. "Did you forget?"
I gave her a confused look. "We have to meet Kakashi-sensei..." She reminded.
"Oh I thought it was something important..." I muttered, I could feel her getting annoyed by my statement. "He is always late anyway."
"Yeah but you can spend time with the team.."
I laughed slightly. "My brother, who I live with. You, who would just pay attention to the Uchiha, and finally him, who doesn't even want to be around us."
No one knew about Sasuke training me, I didn't want to get bugged by Naruto or Sasuke's fan girls. And it took me a while to even convince him to train with me outside of Kakashi's training.
She rolled her eyes and grabbed my right arm, dragging me to where team 7 would be meeting for today. I gave up half the way and just walked next to her so she would let go. Besides we were getting weird looks from the villagers, more so me then her...
We finally made it to the training grounds we meet/train in. Naruto had his arm folded facing his back to Sasuke, Sasuke looked liked he didn't care either way. It seems like they do this everyday.
I walked over to them and took my usual seat between them. Naruto grew nervous and inched away from me.
A grin formed as I jumped from my place on the ground and tackled him, we rolled around for a bit but I won and sat on his back.
"Losers.." Sasuke muttered, I glared at him but I quickly eased up as I saw an unknown emotion pass his eyes.
"Did you want to be next, Uchiha?" I warned jokingly.
He rolled his eyes, "Hn."
"Hey! Don't be rude to her!" Naruto yelled. I bonked him on his head. "Ow...Nariko..." He whined as he rubbed his head in pain. "That hurts more then usual.."
"You'll be okay." I patted his back as I continued to sit on him. "This is payback for this morning."
"What did he do now?" Sakura questioned.
"He screamed in the kitchen about Ramen, scaring me awake. And from him doing that we ended up breaking a lamp in the living room." I laughed slightly.
She shook her head at us. "My parents would kill me..." She whispered.
Ignoring her comment, I got off of Naruto and headed for the trees, "Nariko?" She questioned.
Building up my chakra to my feet, I walked up the trunk to the branch and sat on it with my back against the trunk.