Welcome to the second part of my Naruto Fanfiction Story! Mika and Naruto Uzumaki: Changes. This is the part of the story where Mika will train her heart out, find the mysterious temple of monks who will help her control Okami's power and then Mika might find love? Who knows? Find out!

Also, there will a lot of flashbacks in this part 2 story as well for some filler lol Only at the end of each chapter though.

Enjoy!

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

"Demon"

(Flashbacks)

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Mika Uzumaki.

She has reddish-brown hair that falls just below her shoulders and has bright blue eyes just like her brother.

She wears a black undershirt with a mesh shirt over that and a jacket similar to Naruto's with the colors of blue and green instead of orange and blue. She wears her leaf headband around her waist.

She loves ramen, roasted tomatoes, rain, dogs, and drawing.

She hates pickles, raw vegetables, cats, snakes, spiders and her own anger.

Her dream is to one day become as strong as Lady Tsunade and to control the Eleven-tailed demon's chakra that resides inside of her.

How can she do it?

She has to find Okami's temple in the Land of Snow somewhere amidst the snowy mountains.

Is she doing that right now? No.

No. She is being forced to follow the sand siblings to their village by the recommendations of Gaara. Mika appreciates what Gaara is doing for her but really? She needs to train!

They had just left the Leaf Village two and a half days ago and will reach Suna by dusk in a few hours.

Mika was currently sweating her ass off as they ran through the desert on foot, but her sand ninja friends didn't seem affected by it.

"Gaaaaaaaara!" she whined and Gaara glanced behind him with a frown.

'She's been complaining for the last five fucking hours. Shut the fuck up!' Of course he couldn't say that out-loud in fear of hurting her feelings.

"What?"

"Will you carry me?"

Neither Gaara nor his siblings were prepared for that outrageous question as Mika didn't wait for an answer and jumped on Gaara's back careful not to unhook his sand gourd.

"Oof!" he grunted and Temari and Kankuro couldn't help but to giggle until Gaara sent a glare at them.

He kept walking but hissed at her, "Get off."

"Whhhyyyyyy? It's hot and I'm tired!" she complained in his ear.

"I know. You're sweating. Get off."

"You're no fun." She pouted and fell off his back to sit in the hot sand.

"Aw come on, Mika!" Kankuro kneeled beside her, "We're almost there. And besides, you'll be staying with us and our home has air conditioning"

"And we have a pool" Temari chipped in.

"I'll race you there!" Mika jumped up immediately and ran out in front of Gaara only to be caught by his sand.

"No racing. We'll be there in a few minutes if we walk. See up ahead? That's the Suna wall."

Mika followed Gaara's pointing hand to see a giant rock wall with a gate in front.

"Cool"

When they finally reached the gates, a few guards smiled as they watched the leaf ninja fall into the shade.

"Finally!" she shouted as she stretched out in the cool sand. The sand siblings rolled their eyes at her antics and Gaara lifted her up with his sand.

"Follow." Were his only words as he grabbed her hand and made her follow him to the sand sibling's estate.

They walked through the village, met by plenty of glaring eyes as Gaara led the leaf ninja to his home. It was obvious that the Suna villages still didn't care for Gaara but they hated the newcomer more.

When they finally reached the estate, it was dusk just as the sand siblings said when they'd arrive.

"Whoa! Your place is huge!"

"Well what did you expect for the Kazekage's kids?" Temari placed her hands on her hips as they entered the building. It was very clean and open in the room that Mika expected was the foyer and she nearly fainted when she felt cool air hit her face and body.

"Awwww! That's nice."

Gaara lightly smirked as he took her hand again and led her through the living room and up the stairs, "I'll take you to your room. You can meet the temporary Kazekage tomorrow morning and we'll start your training as well then."

Mika groaned but followed her friend without question. When they reached a new hallway at the top of the stairs, there were five bedrooms doors. Two on each opposite side and one at the end of the hallway. Gaara led her to the first one on the right.

"This will be our room. My room is right beside yours and Temari and Kankuro's is on the this side of the hall."

"What's that door then?" she pointed to the one on the end.

"That was my uncle's room. You can't go in there but if you need anything, don't hesitate to knock on our doors."

Mika nodded and looked up to her red-headed friend with earnest, "When do I meet the Kazekage and when are you going to teach me stuff tomorrow?"

Gaara thought about it and unhooked his sand gourd from his back to straighten up. He was proud that he had grown taller and now he was a good foot taller than Mika, "You'll meet the temporary Kazekage at eight in the morning and depending on how long the meeting lasts, let's say ten for training."

He started to leave but she spoke again.

"What are you going to teach me?"

"Wind style jutsu."

"How long are we going to train?"

Gaara was getting irritated by the number of questions she had, "For as long as I say. Now get settled in and go to bed."

With that, he opened the door for her and left to go to his own room.

Meanwhile, Temari and Kankuro were downstairs talking about Gaara's peculiar mood around Mika.

"He seemed a lot more talkative around her, don't you think?" Temari asked her brother but the middle child just ate his hamburger steak peacefully.

"Kankuro!"

"What!? Yes alright?! Very talkative." He sputtered with the food still in his mouth.

"You just ate an hour ago, Kankuro, you pig!"

"So?! I'm a growing boy!"

Meanwhile with Mika. . . .

She laid down on her new bed and stared at the ceiling. She didn't mean to piss Gaara off but he had to learn to relax more. He seemed so tense anymore.

"Was it something I did?" she asked herself.

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The next morning, Mika woke up at seven and walked to her own private bathroom and took a shower and got changed and ready to see the Kazekage.

When she left, only then did she realize she didn't know where she was going but decided to just use her free twenty minutes to explore on her own. Not ten minutes later did she find the correct building and office.

"What do you mean she can't stay?!" a familiar raspy voice yelled in the Kazekage's office. Mika just stood outside of the door and waited for the person to leave. She didn't want to intrude. She sniffed and recognized Gaara's scent.

'What's going on? He didn't have permission to bring me here?'

"What I mean is that the Fifth Hokage has sent me rather worrying messages that Mika Uzumaki can be dangerous if provoked or angered. I don't think it's wise for her to be in this village with us. We put up with you just as it is!"

There was a low growl, "Listen to me. I'll keep an eye on her. Don't worry. Nothing will happen and if it does, I'll take care of it. I swear. You can trust me."

The authoritative voice that Mika thought was the Kazekage grunted and sighed, "Very well then. But she can only stay for one month and no longer. Do I make myself clear?"

"Perfectly Sir."

"You are dismissed."

Mika wasn't prepared to see Gaara open the door to leave. He stopped when he saw her with a momentarily shocked expression on his face. It disappeared quickly, "He's ready for you."

Then he just walked away, "You'll meet me outside the building when you're finished."

Mika narrowed her eyes suspiciously and walked in.

"Lord Kazekage? I was told to come meet you?"

An elder man with long white hair looked up from some papers and frowned, "Yes. You're Mika Uzumaki. I recognize you from your profile picture. I just have a few things to say to you."

"Yes sir?"

"If you dare to try and threaten my village, you can expect harsh punishment. You will not threaten any villagers or shinobi here and you will not let your 'liability' of being a Jinchuriki be known. If this happens, you will be cast out of Suna with no food, water or ration pellets. Am I clear?"

Mika was pissed off to say the least but nodded anyway, "Yes. Of course sir."

The old man grinned sickeningly, "Good. Now I believe that young Gaara is waiting for you."

Mika left quickly without another word and practically ran out of the building to meet Gaara.

The red-head was waiting for her a few yards away and Mika stomped over to him, "Your temporary Kazekage is a jerk."

Gaara smirked, "I know. But soon it will be me in that chair. I won't give up until I am. Let's go to the training grounds. Follow me."

Mika followed Gaara without complaint which the one-tailed Jinchuriki was grateful for.

Once they reached the training grounds, Gaara unhooked his gourd from his back and stretched a little. It seemed as though they were sharing the grounds with a few other shinobi that paid them no mind.

Mika waved her hand in her face, "It's so hot out! You mind if I take off my jacket?"

Gaara shook his head but wasn't prepared for when Mika flung off the heavy clothing and her two other shirts only to be left in a blue shorts bra and her baggy blue and green cargo pants and sandals. For once, she even put up her hair in a ponytail. Gaara had never seen her like this before but it sure was different. He felt his face heat up a bit.

'Strange. She's. . .'

Gaara stopped the thoughts right away before starting the lesson, "We'll start simple. Have you been taught any wind jutsu recently?"

Mika nodded eagerly, "Yeah! Sort of. Jiraiya started teaching me the Rasengan but I can't seem to get the hang of it like I did the Chidori so well."

Gaara nodded, "Show me."

Mika rubbed the back of her head and shrugged, "Alright."

She held out her palm and concentrated on her chakra only to produce a puff of swirling warm air.

"That was pathetic."

"Shut up Gaara! I'm trying!"

"Not hard enough" he muttered, "Try it again. Put more chakra into it."

"Uuuuuuuugh!"

For the past eight hours, they trained nonstop until Mika was fed up with it.

"Gaara! We've been training since eight! It's four already and we haven't eaten lunch! All I've been doing is swirling chakra around!" she whined until Gaara had enough.

"Fine. Let's stop for the day then. Let's go."

They left and the shinobi that had been training earlier in the same training grounds sighed.

'Perverts' Mika thought.

Gaara took her hand and led her through Suna, "We'll get something to eat at Tagaya."

Mika hurriedly grabbed her shirts and jacket, putting her inner shirt back on to cover herself from unwanted eyes and decided just to carry her jacket under her arm. When they reached the restaurant, Gaara was greeted warmly by the employees.

"Wow. You come here often enough?" Mika teased him and the red-head smirked a little.

"Bout as often as you visit Ichiraku ramen bar."

"Oh my god! You live off of their food! No wonder they like you! You're their number one customer!"

Before Gaara could reply, a young woman came up to them, "Good after noon, just the two of you?"

Gaara nodded and let the blonde waitress seat them at a nearby table for two. Mika and Gaara ordered some ice water and waited for the woman to come back.

"So what would you recommend here Gaara?"

"Their Gizzards are really good."

Mika pulled a disgusted face, "Ew. No. Something I would like."

Gaara sighed, "Fine. Try the sweet red bean soup. I can see you eating several helpings of it."

Mika teasingly swatted his arm and the waitress gasped when she saw the interaction.

Carefully, the waitress placed their water in front of them, "W-what would you t-two like to order today?"

Gaara spoke for them, "I will have the usual and Mika here, will have the sweet red bean soup with some roasted tomatoes."

Mika blushed, "You remember my favorite food?"

Gaara stayed silent, however and sipped his water to wait for the waitress to come back with their food. It was awkward to say the least in the silence and Mika didn't like it one bit.

"So I heard you talking to the Kazekage earlier. What did you mean by you'd keep an eye on me? Did Tsunade put you up to this?"

Gaara stopped drinking his water and stared at the ice cubes floating in the glass, "Yes. She made me promise to get you out of the village and somewhere the Akatsuki would not think of finding you."

Mika slammed her fist on the table, "And you couldn't tell me this before?!"

The waitress reappeared with their food and quickly ran off. Gaara started eating his gizzards and Miso soup. Mika knew she wouldn't get anything else out of him so she settled for trying her soup.

"Mmmmmmm. You were right. It's good. I like it."

Gaara glanced up at her from his bowl of soup to acknowledge her words.

When they finished eating, Gaara paid for the food and they left to the Subaku estate.

After they had finished training, Mika felt so gross that she just had to take a shower.

'God I smell awful!'

She jumped out of her clothes and went to the shower again to get clean. When she was almost finished, she heard someone enter her room.

"Temari?! Is that you?!" she shouted but no one answered.

'Oh well. I guess I was just imagining it'

When she was finished washing she left the shower and wrapped a towel around her waist and chest to leave the bathroom. However, when she reentered her room, she was shocked and disgusted to see Kankuro going through her drawers. He looked a bit different without his black soit on but still wore his purple war make-up on his face.

"What are you doing?!"

Kankuro jumped up with a pair of her underwear in his hand with a guilty but pleased expression on his face, "Uuuuuuuhh"

Then he ran out of the room with her underwear.

Mika growled and ran out of the room, following Kankuro only to be shut out when he ran into his own room.

Mika banged on the door, "Kankuro! You sick son of a bitch! Get out here right now!"

"No!"

"Kankuro! I'm gonna kill you!"

"Go away!"

"No!"

"What's going on out here?"

Mika turned to yell at the newcomer until she saw who it was. Gaara had come out of his room to see what the yelling was all about. And apparently, he had just taken a quick shower as well and was wearing a blood red towel around his waist. His wet chest and stomach were visible to show his Jinchuriki seal and Mika just stared uncomfortably.

Mika gulped as she realized that she was only in her towel as well, "Uuuuuhhhh. . . .Kankuro took something of mine" she blushed horribly as Gaara sighed and came closer knocking on Kankuro's door.

"Kankuro, give her back what you took."

"No! Leave me alone!" was the reply and Gaara sighed and conjured sand from the walls to flow in his brother's room.

The effect was immediate, "Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh! Gaara! Quite it! Alright!"

Kankuro opened the door and threw Mika's underwear in her face, "There!" and he shut the door again in her face.

Gaara quietly walked away as Mika stood there blushing beet red and frozen with shock.

When Gaara reached his room, he pondered on what he had just seen, 'Hmmm. I felt strange after I saw her like that. Does it mean something?'

He shook his head and put some new clothes on.

When Temari got back from her own training at a different training ground, she stopped by Mika's room first and knocked on the door.

"Mika! Open up!"

Slowly, Mika opened the door, wearing blue and white doggy pajamas with cute little ninja dogs all over them, "Yeah?"

"Hey I hope you don't mind but I bought you some new clothes earlier that I thought you might find more comfortable. After all, what you brought isn't exactly desert appropriate."

Mika smiled lightly but Temari noticed her strange attitude and walked in her room, "Alright. What's wrong?"

Mika blushed again, "Nothing's wrong!"

"Oh don't give me that! You're blushing now! Something must have happened!"

Mika blushed harder, "Your brother is a pervert!"

Temari raised an eyebrow, "Gaara?"

"No! Kankuro! I caught him snagging my underwear earlier while I was in the shower but then Gaara made him give them back to me. . ."

She stopped talking when Temari started to laugh, "Ha! That's hilarious! But don't worry. Gaara puts Kankuro in his place on a daily basis. I'm sure you won't be having any more problems with him. But this isn't about Kankuro is it?"

"What do you mean?" Mika asked as she sat on her bed with her knees to her chest. Temari came over and swung an arm around her shoulders.

"You like Gaara. Don't you?"

"Of course I like him, He's my friend."

"No. I mean, you 'like' him." She emphasized but she still didn't get it.

Temari sighed, "You want Gaara romantically."

"What?! Ew! No!"

Mika stuck out her tongue and Temari laughed.

"Oh whatever! I forget you're still only what? Thirteen?"

Mika pouted and glared half-assed at Temari's leaving form.

Meanwhile, Gaara heard the whole conversation, 'She doesn't like me?'

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The next few days were pretty much routine after that day. Gaara would wake her up for breakfast, they would train for eight hours a day and then go to Tagaya for lunch/dinner. Then they'd come back to the Subaku estate to do their own thing. Temari and Kankuro questioned why Gaara set up this routine but received no answer.

Gaara's only objective was to help Mika somewhat master the Rasengan somehow and keep her out of trouble.

After the first week of being there, Mika finally learned the Rasengan half-assed and more people showed up to watch Gaara help train Mika Uzumaki. After all, it was rather unheard of that Gaara would take away his own time to spend it with anyone else but is siblings anymore.

Mika concentrated the wind chakra in her palms, causing the chakra to swirl violently in a tight small ball. She then ran to a log dummy, destroying it completely, sending splinters and chunks of wood everywhere.

When the smoke and sand cleared, Mika jumped Gaara, hugging him tightly, "Thank you thank you thank you! I never thought I'd learn it! And so quickly too! Thank you so much Gaara! I owe you!"

Gaara didn't really know what to do so he gradually just placed his hands on her waist and gently pushed her away from him.

That was when they heard a strange voice.

"Hey now! Don't feel put out because we're here! Go ahead and take her up on that debt little demon!"

Mika put her black under-shirt back on and effectively ignored the perverted man. Gaara, however, looked over at the elder man in confusion.

'What does he mean by that?'

The man seemed to catch Gaara's hesitation and shouted again, coming closer, "You know. . . Just fool around a bit. All you two have been doing is training. You two deserve to relax a bit, don't you?"

"Shut up, you pervert" Mika took Gaara's hand and started to lead him away from the growing crowd.

"Hah! That's it! Just go in an alley somewhere and fuck around! You caught a good one there you demonic little brat!"

Mika ignored the man's pestering, "Come on, Gaara. He's drunk. Let's just go back to your house."

Gaara let her pull him away, somewhat confused on the whole conversion.

"And you're just a masochistic little bitch to hang around someone like that fucking monster!"

Mika stopped and glanced behind her. Gaara was the first to recognize her golden glare.

"Mika." He warned, "Don't. Just ignore him."

Mika shook with fury and Gaara's eyes widened as her sealing bandages were starting to smoke.

"Mika!" he did the only thing he could think of. He slapped her across the face, jolting Mika out of her anger and stared shocked and scared at her friend.

She held her red cheek, "Gaara" she whimpered and the red-head suddenly felt guilty as he watched her run away on her own to the Subaku estate.

He sighed and slowly followed, ignoring the villager's frightened stares. They had noticed her eyes changing color and right then they knew.

Mika Uzumaki was a Jinchuriki as well.

(flashback)

Mika was five years old.

She ran through the village, trying to find her brother but she couldn't find him anywhere.

'Brother! Where are you?!'

The villagers glared daggers at her and Mika wasn't too sure of why.

She finally stopped in front of a ramen bar that read 'Ichiraku' and sat nearby the stand with her knees up to her chest.

People walked by and glared at her.

"Monster" she heard them muttering about her.

"Demon"

"Freak"

Mika felt the tears sting her eyes and she sat there in the dirt crying in fear.

'Where's my brother? I miss my brother.'

"Hey there little one." A kind voice reached out to her and Mika looked up to see a boy about eleven years old with another boy about her age. They both had black hair and looked eerily similar.

Mika buried her face in fear in her knees. The older boy chuckled.

"Sasuke, why don't you try talking to her?"

"Okay big brother! Hey you!" the smaller boy got on her level and tugged on her baggy shirt.

Mika flinched away in fear and Sasuke's eyes widened, "Why you crying?" he asked but Mika said nothing.

The older boy pat her head and thought quickly. She was sitting in front of the ramen bar and he had seen her looking at it long-fully for a while while him and Sasuke were on the other side of the market shopping for their mother, "If you tell us why you're crying, I'll buy you a bowl of ramen." He coaxed her and Mika raised her head carefully.

Her big blue eyes almost startled Sasuke and she whispered, "I can't find my brother. And the villagers won't help me. They don't like me and I don't know why."

Of course, Itachi knew why as he was a Chunin and knew of the nine-tailed fox demon that wreaked havoc on Konoha five years ago, October 10.

Itachi smiled, "Well don't worry little one. We'll find him. Come with us."

"Yeah!" Sasuke shouted and pulled Mika up with him, "We'll help you find your brother no problem! Come on! Then we can get some ramen!"

After spending an hour trying to find Naruto, Sasuke and Mika talked animatedly about being a ninja, their hobbies and their favorite foods. Of course Sasuke remembered that she was in his class but she was so quiet compared to her brother that no one hardly ever noticed her. Itachi smiled fondly at the two.

Finally, they found Naruto swinging on a swing set by himself.

"Brother!" Mika shouted excitedly.

She ran over to him and hugged him tightly, Naruto hugging back, clearly worried about where his sister had disappeared to.

"Mika! I thought you left me!"

Mika cried in his arms and buried her face in his orange hoodie, "Uh-uh! We stick together! Right?!"

Naruto grinned, "Yeah!"

Sasuke smiled at the now happy little girl and Itachi pat the children's heads, "Would you kids like some ramen now?"

The children all agreed excitedly as Itachi took them to Ichiraku's. Naruto didn't know who this man was neither did he really care. He was going to treat them all to ramen! He knew Sasuke from class but they never really met before. Itachi was one of the first people to not glare hatefully at the twins except for very few of villagers like the Nara family.

Of course there were many villagers who stared at Itachi as if he were insane.

"Why are the Uchiha's with those monsters?"

"Maybe the demon twins hypnotized them or something?"

"Those freaky beasts!"

Itachi turned and glared at the villagers, earning many frightened gasps and murmurs.

After that day, however, Mika and Naruto didn't associate with them anymore as Itachi and Sasuke were both in trouble with their father for being around the twin demon brats.

Since they were so young, the twins forgot all about who exactly Itachi was and began to focus on becoming great ninja who would be respected by the whole village.

Sasuke never forgot, however, Mika's pained face that day they first truly met. That pained face they began to share not even two years later.

(end of flashback)

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