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Mid afternoon. The sun was high in the sky by now, and Aiuke was almost positive that it was too hot to be outside for very long. He hadn't left his room sense mid morning, staring at his ceiling and imagining shapes in the popcorn was entertaining enough for him. He had absorbed the habit from his friend Shikamaru.

It was almost pathetic how kin to Shikamaru was Aiuke was. He was practically raised in his house. His mother had grown up at Shikamaru's side and seemingly against his will, the Nara allowed Ino to stay close contact with him over the years. He speculated it was himself that Shikamaru had become attached to. He didn't like to boast, but he considered Shikamaru his best friend, even if he was an old soul. The saddest part is, from the stories he had been told of his mother and father's teenage years, the Nara hadn't changed a bit. Once an old soul, always an old soul.

It was a truth Aiuke had come to accept. He had lived a lot of his life absorbing the mannerisms of his father and of his best friend. This made he young shinobi age rapidly in terms of personality. Even though he found himself surrounded by mature figures like Temari (Shikamaru's wife), Shikamaru, and Sai, he still had at least one young spirit in his life.

His mother Ino was no spring chicken, but she was by no means an old soul. She was just as she had been as a teenager, nearly. Demanding, cocky, conceited, and - if nothing else positive - somewhat perky and happy.

Aiuke was lucky enough to have inherited the maturity level of his father and other kin, and also the sweet, likable parts of Ino. He loved to talk, but he wasn't much for finding people to talk to. It was the conceitedness passed down to him by his mother coming out. He always made sure to put himself in situations in which people were forced come and speak to him, or at least in situations where it was apparent that he was willing to talk to people.

He took in a deep breath and sighed it back out, knowing that no one would gracefully stumble upon his presence if he stayed cooped up in his room all day. He sat up in bed and reluctantly made his way to the outside world. Maybe he'd grab a bite to eat.

"Ramen again." He sighed heavily.

((Thats totally fine Kitty, I was thinking the same thing lol xd and I just saw you were at the meeting too, we'll just say we totally missed each other in the room cuz their were a lot of people or something whee ))


Finally Mokuren left the meeting hall and started down the stairs on her way to get some real food for lunch. She had no clue as to where she wanted to go or what she was going to eat, all she knew was her stomach was grumbling by the end of the meeting so it needed to be filled or their was going to be hell to pay.

She wasn't the most likable person when she was hungry, as her mom reminded her often. She smiled and shook her head at the thought of the pink haired kunoichi. She should go home to visit more. Yeah, their were the Saturday evening dinners with the whole family in the Uchiha household, but those didn't count. Being the oldest child she saw it as being a good example to her younger siblings to move out, but she missed home.

While she and her mom were very close and she knew she could tell her anything, Sakura seemed busy with the kids who were still living at home and Mokuren didn't want to get in the way. Her dad... he was the best to train with and she secretly liked that he did baby her while no one was looking. Sometimes they spoke about serious things, but he had a lot to do at home as well as missions to keep the money coming in.

She was on her own of her own choice.

"Hm?"

Mokuren turned just in time to almost be tackle hugged by her younger sister in a whirl of unruly pink hair. She hugged her back, unconsciously smoothing the girls hair down as she always did when they were younger before letting her go.

"What's up Akari! Hey I'm going to get some food you want to join? My treat if you decide on a place!" She grinned at her as she took her wallet out from its hiding place tucked between the rope at her waist and her shirt.

((psst jem did u make a profile?))


Akari jumped up and down. "Thanks, onee-chan!!" she said, forgetting about her own plans. She stopped at the bottom of the stairs to tap her finger on her chin. "How about...that one place we used to go to a lot...with the really nice tea? I can't remember what it was called..." Akari continued, now tapping her foot as well.

((i'm too lazy to come up with a name XD))

((yesh))

Kentaro intentionally made his way down the stairs not wanting to go to far from the Hokage's office, but he was really hungry since he ate nothing at the meeting. "Alright, thats it, ill just go home and eat instead, besides, i need the money and i don't think mom and dad will be happy if i keep asking for money, especially because of all the other siblings." Kentaro nods and hops on to a roof and makes his way back to the house.

"Your eyes are as good as always Nee-chan, I've been following Kentaro to make sure he keep out of trouble." Walking up behind his younger and older sister still wearing his ANBU raven mask.

Removing my mask and putting a cloak around my ANBU armor so no one would know I'm an ANBU. "Yeah I just came back trying to hunt down Kabuto but with no luck, Father asked the Hokage for me to hunt him down by my self since Father had told me all about his tricks and routines. I thought it would be easy, but he is a slippery ninja.

I was always one or two days behind him when I got to one of his hide outs. No I haven't heard of any mission in lower fire country what is going on Nee-chan"

"Graaah, Nii-san your so lucky!" whined Akari. Akari, having only acheived chuunin status a couple of months ago and only gone on one chuunin-status mission, was highly jealous of her only one-year-older brother. "Three of the seven swordsmen of the mist were spotted in the lower fire country. Naruto-sama just reminded us to be prepared." Akari explained to Itachi. She suddenly remembered what Mokuren had just said and glanced around. "Hey...where did Kentaro go?" She said, frowning. 'Stealthy as always, Onii-sama...'

((Onii-sama would be a very formal way of addressing your older brother, Nii-san/Onii-san would be only a little less respective, not at all disrespective, nee-san would be a formal way of saying older sister, and nee-chan a casual way. imouto is younger sister, while otouto is younger brother. just thought i should clear that up.))