So this chapter is dedicated to kikikool625 because she didn't give up on my story, but it also goes out to Nat_C94 and AcCideNtLy_Me for being my newest gakuseis!!!!

11 pages again WOOOOOO!!!

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Chapter 22-

A monster that loves only himself.

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Nudge... Nudge...

'Harmony, it's time to get and meet your team at the bridge.'

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'Seriously Harmony, you need to get up.'

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*Sigh. 'I didn't want to have to do this, but you made me...'

Crash!!!!

"OW!" I yelped in pain as I rubbed my now soar head and looked up at Nala, who was in our tree, and who had pushed me out of our tree. I wished right there that it looked like I was shooting daggers at her, because I was pissed now. I was finally having one of my rare nights were I can actually sleep, and not have a nightmare.

"You know you didn't have to push me out of the f-ing tree!" I yelled at her. She gave me a small cat shrug.

'I know, but you weren't getting up, and I felt like it. And besides, it's not like you would have woken up any other way.' She said back at me. I sighed and stood up, stretching my back, knowing she was right. On the nights I can sleep, I am usually out for about 2-3 days, trying to catch up, sorta. I looked around and saw that the sun was not very high in the sky.

"Hey Nala, what time did Kakashi tell everyone to meet up with him?" I asked her as I tried to stretch again, but the bandages that I still had under my clothes restricted me. I am fully healed, so I don't really need them anymore, but with the clothes I have on right now that are torn to shreds, the bandages are the only thing keeping me covered.

'He said at 8 o’clock, which is in 10 minutes.' Nala answered me. Don't ask how she knows the exact time it is when we live in a freaking tree, she just does. She's like my own clock! I placed a finger to my lips.

"Hmmm, Kakashi said to meet up at 8, and he now has the tendency to be late like Obito did, that means he should be there at about 11, three hours late." Nala jumped down from the tree and landed on my shoulders, noticing the grin on my face.

'What are you planning Harmony?'

"Oh nothing, just thinking we have just enough time to do a little shopping. What do you saw Nala? We do still have to find out a way to keep your bell intact when you change sizes."

'Shopping?!' Nala asked happily. Yeah, it turns out my little Nala loves to shop.... Who would have thunk it. I laughed a little and placed a hand on her head as we made our way to the shopping part of town.

"Yeah, it beats waiting for him and listening to the three genins fight the whole time." I told her before she drifted off to her la-la land or shopping land.

'you should so get a new top, and a pair of matching shorts, Oh and a nice hair ribbon that would show off your eyes. AND can I have a new ribbon for now, made a red one, or one that matches the one you'll get, or maybe...'

Nala went on like the whole time we were walking to the stores, and it didn't matter what we we're shopping for. She went from clothes to weapons to shoes and hair to plasma and food pills!

The first thing I did when we got to town was buy us some breakfast. I got myself some rice balls and I got Nala a small fish, which she happily ate. When we were finished we went to a clothing store. I would have liked to have just stared at the sheer amount of clothes they had, it scared me. I shook my head and made my way over to the female side of the store. I looked for a top first. Nala voiced her ideas a couple times, but none of them worked, they were either to girly or wayyyyy to revealing or the just didn't feel right.

'Hey Harmony, how about this one, it looks nice.' Nala said to me and put a paw on the shirt that she had just knocked off the rack. I held it up to look at it. It was a crop top like my old jacket and tank, which was good, and it was a very dark purple, almost black. Its left sleeve was long sleeved, and the right one was a simple tank sleeve. It did was a very low cut in the front so that kind of worried my thought. I turned it to look at the back. Part of it was open, to about half way down my back, but it had a cross of fabric going across, one side connecting to the long sleeve side, and the other connecting to the tank top side. All in all it did look nice, but only if I could find something to go with it.

(A/N, sorry if I suck at explaining, I not the kind of girl that likes to shop, so I wouldn't know how to really explain it really....)

'Here, I know you won't wear it without this, or something like it.' Nala handed me a simple spaghetti strap baby blue shirt. The cut wasn't low at all, but it too was a crop top, so even if I wore it under the violet shirt, all you would see is a little bit in the front and a little in the back so my back wouldn't be completely exposed, but in the front you could still see my belly button. It's an old habit from the way my clan dresses. All girls like to wear crop tops that show our stomach and flowy skirts with ballet flats, but since I am a ninja, the shoes and skirt have to go sometimes. I took both of the tops and moved onto the shorts. I didn't want them to be a big change so I was just about to buy a similar pair of shorts to what I have on now when I saw THEM. They were a pair was beige shorts, just like I have on right now, but it looked like they had a secret pouch on the left leg. I looked down at my own left legs and saw that my pouch for my flute was about the same size, so they can easily stay safe on me, but no one would see them. I check the inside of the pouch and saw at it was lined with a protective fabric, so it wouldn't tear like ordinary fabric. I quickly grabbed them and ran off to the change room to try them on. I quickly unwrapped my bandaged and put on the tops and shorts. Both of the shirts felt like silk when I put them on and I can tell that they wouldn't restrict my movement, even if I took a dive in a lake again. I then put on the shorts and filled up the secret pouch, smiling that you couldn't tell that anything was there. As I was putting my flute in the pouch, my journal fell out. I quickly grabbed it before it hit the ground.

'Close one.' I noticed then that I haven't been writing much in my journal, and the last time I even looked at it was from the academy. I opened it up and looked on the inside cover to see it still covered with pictures. There was a picture of my Mom and Dad hugging with me as a newborn in their arms and a picture of my grandpa giving a nuggie to my older brother, both of them are laughing. There is my picture of team Minato, Obito and I are posed like idiots, Kakashi is faceplaming, Minato-sensei is sighing buy smiling with a hand on mine and Kakashi's head, and Rin in smiling nicely with her arm looped around my shoulder. It was our first picture, and then it got re-done, but I wanted the first one, I thought it showed who we really are, friends and teammates. The last two pictures I have is one of Kushina and Minato, holding hand and one of Kakashi as kids and we were hugging and smiling at the camera. These were all precious memories to me. I flip to the inside of the back cover and saw in the middle of it was a picture of team 7 in the center. Kakashi had both of his hands on top of Naruto’s and Sasuke’s head, I was leaning on one side of Naruto, giving a peace sing, and Sakura was in the middle, giving a cute smile. I sighed and hugged my journal a little and then placed it into the pouch also, making sure it didn't get ruined. I was just about finished changing when Nala got inpatient.

'Come ON Harmony! We only have three hours, not all year!!!' She yelled at me.

'Hai, hai.' I said back to her as I exited the change room. I walked up to the mirror and saw that something didn't look right. The shirts were amazing, they were both close to my clans’ colours, and the showed off my figure, but the blur tank under neither covered what I didn't want to show. The shorts I wore looked like plan ninja shorts with my headband on my waist. I looked down at my feet and saw that I was still wear the ordinary ninja shoes, so everything should look okay, but it just didn't. I looked at my face and realized you could only see maybe half of it because my hair was down in my casual look. I pulled it up in to a high ponytail and placed my side bangs so you could see both of my amber eyes. I tucked a small piece of hair behind my right ear. 'That looks better.' I posed for Nala and she agreed with me so I kept my hair up the way it was and went to the cashier to by the clothes.

Just as I was walking to the counter, I past the accessories table. I took a quick look at it. Most of it was just head ribbons, bracelets, necklaces, earing. I shrugged and walled away. Just as I was walking away, a sparkle of orange caught my eye. I made my way over to the back of the table and pulled out some orange goggles. They looked exactly like Obito's! I quickly grabbed them and ran back to the counter and bought the goggles with my new clothes. As we exited the store I put the goggles on so it hung around my neck.

'You know, now you can't see your pretty necklace with those big goggles there.' Nala said to me, making me think, before a brilliant idea came to mind.

"Hey Nala, I just thought of the perfect way to keep your bell, come one." I said to her before I ran into a certain shop.

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'So that was your brilliant idea, stick a needle through our ears?' Nala said to me as we walked out of the store, her belling jingling softly from her left ear. I nodded my head, making my necklace charm shack on my right ear. I have to admit, it did scare me a little bit, but now we don't have to worry about her bell or my necklace now. I tucked a stray hair behind my right ear again, wincing slight to way tender it is now.

"Come one, don't you like it Nala? And besides, now when you grow, you can place some chakra into it to grow with you now, so you don't lose it." I said to her making her nod her head.

'True.' She said before she paced some glass and checked herself out and her new hop earing with her bell attached. 'And it does look kinda badass, both of us.' I laughed at her and picked her up and placed her on my shoulder and walked to the weapon store to get some more kunias, shuriken and senbons. When we left I pulled out my journal and began writing in it about our mission in the Land of waves. Yeah I can write and walk through a crowd without looking, because I am just that skilled! Nala walked beside me and was the size of a medium dog, so she wouldn't lose me. I didn't know where I was until I heard someone shout at me.

"HARMONY!" YOU'RE LATE!!" I jumped from shock, and landing in one big heap on the ground. I looked up to see that everyone from team 7, even Kakashi was looking at me.

"Ummmm. I lost track of time?" I rubbed the back of my head and picked up my journal, giving them all a closed eye smile. I winced again as Naruto and Sakura yelled at me, calling me a liar and all. I stood up and brush myself up and walked up to Kakashi as they were still yelling at me.

"Yo! So why were you late?" I asked him when I got up to him.

"I got lost." He simply said back. I gave him a look and titled my head to the side.

"Really, I thought with a nose like yours Fang, you should have been able to just follow everyone scents here." I said back to him. Kakashi rolled his eyes, well eye.

"Whatever. Why were you late, you are usually the first one here, beside Sasuke."

I motioned to my new clothes. "I was late because Nala and I went shopping to a new outfit. I can't continue wear my old outfit if it's ripped to shreds." Kakashi looked at me for a few seconds and then lifted my new goggles slightly.

"New goggles?" Kakashi let go of them as he said that. I nodded my head and moved my hair a little so he could see my earning.

"Yeah, they looked just like Obito's, so I couldn't stop myself from getting them, and don't worry, I found out a way to kept the charm you gave me on me at all times. Nala got one too." I said to while fingering my new earning. I turned and looked at Nala. "Hey Nala, come here!" She came running over and jumped onto her usually spot on my shoulder, making her bell jingle a little.

'Hey Dog-sensei, how's life for you?' She asked Kakashi with a bored tone. Kakashi sweat dropped at her nickname for him, but said nothing of it. Me and Kakashi talked for a bit more while Naruto went off on a rant and did a weird pose with sparkles around him*. He was probably thinking about beating and making Sasuke look lame.

"Only my little brother..." I said under my breath making Kakashi laugh slightly. Both him and I turned around and started to walk to be our next mission is, with the other three tailing behind us.

"Hey Naruto, what are you doing? Let's go!" Well two tailing behind.

"OH YEAH!"

"YOU ARE REALLY ANNOYING TODAY!!"

~~~~~After the missions~~~~~~

I don’t know how, but after a day of easy D rank missions, Naruto still managed to come out all beat up, All we did was pick some weed, get trash out of a river, and take some dogs walking. Naruto ended up picking all the weeds, and the lady's special herbs, falling almost to his death over water fall, and took the biggest dog walking, and ended up being up by the dog into a land mine field.

"Haa...” Naruto moaned in pain as Sakura was helping him walk down the road.

"It's because you push yourself to much." Sakura said to him.

"Pft... Can't you take care of yourself?" Sasuke asked him. I was walking beside Kakashi so I could see everything that was going one.

"GOD DAMNIT!' Naruto yelled at him and tried to get to him, but Sakura blocked him.

"IF YOU DON'T CALM DOWN, I'LL FINISH YOU!!" She yelled at him. I looked at the rest of my team. Naruto was waving his arms at Sasuke, Sakura was threating to punch Naruto, and Sasuke has he back turned to them like they are nothing...

"Hmm... Teamwork seems to be suffering lately..." Kakashi said from beside me.

"Not seems, it is Kakashi, it is..." I said and shook my head lowly.

"YEAH!! YEAH!! YOU'RE THE ONE RUINING OUR TEAMWORK SASUKE!! ALWAYS HOGGING THE SPOTLIGHT, YOU BASTARD!!" Naruto yelled, making me sweat drop. 'Oh god, they are at it again! Will this ever end?!'

"That's you. You moron. If you want me to stop making you look bad... Then just get stronger than me." Sasuke said back to Naruto, making the two of them have a stare down. 'Damn, they're some-how worse than before....’ I looked at the two of them, truly getting worried for them.

'Let's hope it stays at class rivals and nothing more...' Nala said, just as worried I watching the two of them when a small bird caught my eye my eye. I cracked a small smile. 'So it's time to do this again huh?'

"Ok, that's it for today. I have to go submit this mission report..." Kakashi said to all of us.

"Ok, can you say hi to Scarface and gramps for me?" I asked him and he nodded his head. I smiled at him and turned to watch the team. Sasuke seemed to be going home when Sakura stopped him.

"Hey Sasuke... How about right now... We work on our teamwork, just the two of us..."

'Ewww... Desperate much...' Nala said as she wrinkled her nose. I full agreed and walked over to Naruto.

"You're the same as Naruto." Sasuke simply said to her. "If you have time to bother me, practice a jutsu or two. Frankly, you’re below Naruto." I winced at what he said. 'Ouch.' Sakura looked completely crushed as Sasuke walked away.

"SAKURA-CHAN!! FORGET SASUKE, LET'S TRAIN TOGETHTER!!" Naruto yelled. I could tell that she was not happy, so I took a couple steps away from my brother. I looked behind me and saw that Kakashi was now gone, so I quickly jumped into a nearby tree. I watched as Naruto tried to figure out where Kakashi and I went, when I small moving box caught my attention. 'What in the hell?'

"OK!!! I WON'T LOSE TO SASUKE! TIME TO TRAIN!!" Naruto yelled, and then noticed the fake rock behind him. He stared at it for a few seconds, and then stared to walk away, making the box following, and then Naruto began running, making the box/rock run after. This went on for a little bit before he turned around and pointed at the rock.

"That is the worse disguise ever!' He yelled at it "What kind of rock is square with two holes!! I see right through that!!" Slowly three kids came out from under the box. One stood in the front, and had a really long scarf in the back; there was also a girl with bright orange hair in pigtails, and another boy with a drip of snot dripping out of his nose. They were all wearing green goggles on their heads, like the ones that I first saw Naruto wear before he got his headband.

"Oh, it's you Konohamaru..." Naruto said boredly with his hands behind his head. "Huh? What's with the goggles?"

"HeHe we're copying the old you, boss!!" The one with the scarf, Konohamaru said.

"THAT'S THE MAN I VIEW AS MY RIVAL!!" The one with the scarf yelled to the other two. It took me all my will power to not laugh and give away my hiding spot.

'Oh dear god, it's a mini Naruto! Everyone run! The world is going to end!!' I couldn't but laugh at Nala's joke, but I quickly stopped when Konohamaru and his 'gang' looked at my tree, but then looked back at Naruto.

"Ahh...” Naruto said to the three. Making little Konohamaru mad.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'AH...’?! HEY!! YOU'RE COLD LATER BOSS!!"

"So... What so you want?" Naruto said, making the little girl walk up to him, and asked him if he was free today. I could feel my heart melt a little when she did. Hey, I love little kids, so what?

"Nope! I'm training!!" Naruto said to her. Making Konohamaru yell, again.

"WHAT?! BUT YOU SAID YOU'D PLAY NINJA WITH US TODAY!!" I started to laugh even more this time, but luckily, I think it was unnoticed.

"Ugh, why would a ninja 'play' ninja?" Sakura said in her depressed state to him. They all started at each other for a little bit, before Konohamaru broke the silence.

Hey boss, who's this girl?!!" He asked Naruto while pointing to Sakura. Naruto didn't answer him, just laughed a nervous laugh and starched his head. Then Konohamaru seem to think that he got a brilliant idea and began nudging Naruto.

"Not bad boss, you’re a smooth operator." He said to Naruto, making him confused. "She's your... Girlfriend!" Konohamaru said while sticking up his pinky. Naruto laughed a little again, only to be cut short by Sakura punching him in the face, and sending him flying a couple feet.