[Rewritten] Out she came in...Naruto

Chapter 24: Goodbye and Hello

My cousin sent me a couple of books with the words, 'Sound familiar?' trailing behind. Brushing through them, my jaw dropped when I realised they were just like my book!

Now I don't really support plagiarism but I do respect inspiration. OSCIN was inspired by my mentor and role model's(in narutofanfic) Reincarnated: A bunny to a lion.

Being reborn and that too as a Hyuga wasn't really trending at that time so I took that opportunity to write something different. Although you can find some similarities in the book I tried to make it as unique as possible.

Hence the devil fruits and multi-rebirths. Some may read both books and find no problem with them but it still doesn't change the fact that the idea was drawn from another.

I'm not very pissed off at those who copied this book(since this is technically copied as well, with the author's knowledge of course) but a word of advise, please change the plot as much as possible. I did not work my ass off only for this to turn into a new cliche in the future. 

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For a second I think I got deaf. The words rang high in my ears and I had to ask her to repeat it, then say it again.

"You and Shikamaru are betrothed?" I whispered.

The nara heir blinked lazily, moving his attention to the clouds and ignoring us all together.

"What a drag." He muttered, closing his eyes.

"Seriously?" My throat felt dry. We were barely five years old and they'd already begun pairing? I suddenly turned green at the thought of marriage and the things that followed.

Barbara let out a small chuckle, eyes glinting with mischief yet still maintaining its dullness.

"I'm kidding Lu."

"What?" I asked confused at the joke.

"We're just cousins." She propped her elbow on his stomach and placed her head lazily in her palm, the other hand calmly brushed the grass beside his face.

I was at a loss of words. The scene seemed friendly enough but I couldn't help but see a little intimacy in it with Barbara in the picture.

Back at home, she was always reserved and unapproachable when the boys in our brother orphanage paid us girls a visit.

Barbara was smart and pretty, with no real interest in anything or anyone(except me of course) and studied books for the fun of it.

She was the ideal perfect daughter any family could ever want. But never made an impression when they came by.

And now here she was in Naruto, practically lying on a guy and cracking jokes. It all felt surreal.

"Cheer up Lu, you look like you just died and came back."

See? She was even making death jokes!

I opened my mouth, about to question if she was alright when my eyes caught on to her hand movement.

Her fingers played with the grass, drawing inanimate objects to everyone but me. I sat down and discreetly tried to read the english letters.

Her fingers twirled to create an 'S' then a straight line and curve at the top, forming a 'P' and the last made a 'Y'.

'SPY'

Someone was spying on us.

"Is that Jiraiya's book? I'd always wanted to read  it." I said as I picked it up to examine the contents.