'Beep, beep, beep, be-' I slammed my hand down on the snooze button of the alarm clock, groaning slightly. I didn't want to wake up, but I knew that I had to. Sleepily, I sat up in my bed and rubbed the sleep from my eyes before raising my arms up above my head, stretching them and yawning loudly. I kicked the covers off of me and swung my feet around, letting them touch the cold wooden floor. I stood up and walked over to my bedroom door, opening it and walking out into the hallway, moving over to the door across from my room and opening it, walking inside and over to the bed where a small lump laid, bundled up in the covers. Gently, I shook the figure.

"Konohamaru, time to get up." I shook him a bit more when he didn't even budge, just mumbled something incoherently. I sighed. "Konohamaru, if you don't wake up now, you won't get to eat any breakfast. You know how Ebisu-sensei gets when you don't get to your lessons on time. And if you're late again, I'll be the one that get's chewed out for it." When he only mumbled for me to go away and let him sleep, I lost my patience. "KONOHAMARU SARUTOBI, GET OUT OF BED RIGHT THIS INSTANT!"

This time, he shot up. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I'M UP! I'M UP!"

I only smiled, patting his head. "Good! Now, hurry up and get ready so we can eat breakfast!"

He saluted and I walked out of the room and back into my own, changing out of my pajamas and into my normal outfit, which consisted of a light purple top that had short sleeves, and a pair of blue-jean capris, along with my regular everyday shoes. I grabbed my hair brush and began to fix my hair, which just reaches my shoulders, tying it up into a messy ponytail, and smiling at myself in the mirror.

Today was just going to be another ordinary day anyway.

I quickly went and brushed my teeth before running into the kitchen and getting two bowls down from the cabinet. I grabbed the box of cereal in the pantry and poured it into the two bowls, getting the milk out from the fridge and pouring it into the bowls, putting the milk away and sitting back down and starting to eat. Eventually, Konohamaru came into the kitchen, wearing his ridiculous helmet and that way too long scarf, sitting down in the chair across from mine with a toothy grin on his face as he dug into his cereal. I smiled slightly as I finished eating my own bowl of cereal, standing up and placing it in the sink. I glanced at the clock on the wall, and it was only 8:15. Class didn't really start until 9:30, but I liked to get there early.

"Hey, Sis! Are you really gonna become a real ninja tomorrow?" Konohamaru asked, getting up and bringing his bowl over to me. I grabbed the bowl from him and placed it in the sink with mine.

I nodded my head. "That's right. After today, I'll be a ninja."

"Wow! That's so cool, Sis! I can't wait until I graduate to become a ninja! And then, I can finally beat Old man and become Hokage!" Konohamaru said, an excited grin on his face.

I sighed at my little brothers statement, patting him on the head while sending him a smile. "Ok, Konohamaru. You keep working on that, but we have to go." I said, grabbing his hand and pulling him out the door with me, being sure to lock the door behind me before we set off.

Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Hikari Sarutobi, Kari for short, of the Sarutobi Clan. I'm 12 years old, a resident of the Leaf Village, and the granddaughter of our Villages Hokage. Currently, I'm a student at the Ninja Academy, which I will hopefully be graduating from tomorrow and become a full fledged ninja. My younger brother, Konohamaru Sarutobi, is only 8 years old, and pretty much my everyday responsibility. Our parents died quite some time ago when I was only 8 and Konohamaru was just 4, and since then, I've taken care of him, much to many peoples objections.

We reached the Hokage Residence and found Ebisu-sensei standing in the front, apparently waiting. When he noticed us, he seemed somewhat happy. "Honorable Grandchildren! It's a pleasure to see you both up and early! Honorable Grandson! For once, you have manage to get here an hour before your lessons start!"

I sweat dropped as Ebisu-sensei went on and on to Konohamaru about how he would help him become a most honorable Hokage, and how he could only help him achieve such a thing. Of course, Konohamaru ignored him, moving off and waving bye. I waved back before walking off and heading to the academy, reaching it in just a few minutes.

I entered the Academy building and headed for the classroom, walking in to find it mostly deserted, save for two people, those people being Iruka-sensei, the instructor of our class, and a fellow classmate, sitting in his seat that was towards the back of the room, several strands of his black hair falling into his face while he wore his usual cold look upon his face.

This boy, is Sasuke Uchiha, a silent and a somewhat cold person in my view, and the "heartthrob" of Konoha, seeing as how practically every girl that see's him is instantly love struck. I mean, sure, he was very good looking, but he always ignored people, and even when he spoke to someone, it was either to tell them they were annoying, or to tell them to shut-up. Usually, he just ignored them.

"Good morning, Hikari!" Iruka-sensei greeted me, a smile on his face.

I glanced over at my sensei and gave him a smile. "Morning, Iruka-sensei." I greeted.

Iruka-sensei was like any other teacher around, except for the fact that he has to deal with us pretty much everyday. Although you really wouldn't guess it when you first meet Iruka-sensei, he's a very quick-tempered person, and usually if one of us does something to interrupt the entire class and take away time that could be used for learning, we all have to suffer for that one persons actions. And that's when he usually got mad. And he's actually pretty scary when he's mad…

I moved over to my seat near the back of the room, plopping down and sighing. Everyone else would be coming in a few minutes, so the wait wouldn't be long. But still…just sitting here without anything to do is pretty boring. I glanced over at Sasuke, deciding to take a chance.

"Good morning, Sasuke."

He glanced over at me, his eyes holding a bored look in them. "Hn."

I sweat dropped, dropping my head down onto my desk, making a thud. "Why do I even bother?"

I gave up on trying to strike up a conversation with Mr. Cold, and decided to stare out the window where I had a perfect view of the Hokage Monument. I frowned though when I noticed that there was something wrong with the faces. It looked like…someone had written on them with paint.

I was about to say something about it, when two other Academy Instructors ran into the room. "Iruka! It's Naruto! He painted the Hokage faces!"

"WHAT?"

"We can't catch him!"

Iruka-sensei clenched his hand into a fist, shouting something angrily before he ran out of the room, the other instructors going after him.

When he came back into the classroom, everyone was in their seats, talking amongst themselves until they noticed that he had come back, all of them becoming quiet. Iruka walked all the way into the room, dragging his biggest pain behind him. He sat Naruto, who he had tied up with rope, in the middle of the room, everyone mentally groaning when they knew what was about to come.

"I'm at the end of my rope, Naruto." Iruka began, crossing his arms across his chest and frowning down at the blonde. "You failed the graduation test last time, and the time before that. Tomorrow, you've got another chance and you're messing up again." The blonde turned his head away from him defiantly, as if he didn't care. And that was the final straw for Iruka. "Fine! Because you missed it, Naruto, everyone will review the transformation jutsu!"

"Awww!"

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"Sis, Sis, tomorrow, you're gonna become a ninja, right?"

I sighed as Konohamaru asked me the same question for the billionth time. "Yeah. And when I become a ninja, I'll be able to go on missions and stuff."

Konohamaru stared at me with admiration in his eyes as he put another dumpling in his mouth. "Missions? So cool! I wif I could gof onf miffins!"

I laughed at him. "Don't talk with your mouth full of food, Konohamaru. And you'll be able to go on missions when you graduate from the academy!"

He swallowed and grinned at me. "And then one day, I'll be the Hokage!"

I smiled at his dream, patting his head. "Well, Mr. Future Hokage, finish eating your dinner so you can get a bath and go to bed."

"Done!" He exclaimed, handing me his now empty plate and shooting off and into the bathroom.

I walked over and put the dishes in the sink, running some water and putting in some soap and grabbing a sponge, beginning to wash them.

Tomorrow was the big day, and I was excited.

The next day~

"We will now start the final exam. When your name is called, proceed to the testing room. The final test will be on," Iruka-sensei paused, reading the paper in his hands, "-the clone jutsu."

Several students around me all seemed to get hopeless looks on their faces. I mentally squealed in delight though. The Clone jutsu technique is one of the easiest techniques that I can do without fail, so for me, this was an easy passing grade.

"First up is…Naruto Uzumaki."

Although I wasn't really friends with Naruto, I was still hoping he would pass. I watched as he followed Iruka-sensei out of the room, all of us staying quiet. About 2 minutes later, we finally heard something.

"YOU FAIL!"

"GAAAAAHHHHHH!"

"Only took him two minutes to fail…" Shikamaru said, putting his chin in his hand, "This is such a drag…"

"It's not that hard, Shikamaru. You'll be fine."

Naruto came back in, looking a bit downcast as he picked up his goggles from his desk before he sulked out of the room. It was kind of disappointing because he looked like he really wanted to pass this year too.

"Next: Hikari Sarutobi."

I stood up from my seat and walked over to Sensei, following him out of the room and into the testing room, where another of our instructors, Mizuki-sensei, was seated at the desk, Leaf Village headbands lying on top of the desk. He smiled at me as I walked over to stand in front of the desk.

"Are you ready to show us what you've got, Hikari?" Iruka-sensei asked.

I nodded. "You know it!" I put my hands together and made a hand sign, closing my eyes and concentrating my chakra. "Clone jutsu!"

I reopened my eyes to find three perfect clones standing next to me, all of them grinning. I looked back over at Iruka-sensei and Mizuki-sensei, both of them nodding before looking at me with a smile.

"Congratulations. You pass!" Iruka-sensei congratulated me while Mizuki-sensei grabbed a headband and walked over to me, handing it to me.

"You're officially a full fledged ninja."

A/N: I've been wanting to write a Naruto fanfic with a Sasuke OC for quite sometime now, and I finally found the motivation to do it. I will admit that towards the middle, it got a bit plain and crappy, but I'm hoping that I can make it better! Leave a review! LATER TATERS!