So, this is the actual story I was planning from the 2 little one shots I wrote before. I sat down and wrote it so hopefully you guys like it. I'm going to try

writing more consistently and regularly, updating this. If it goes well and I like where it's going, I'll rework the other ones and update them too. I know a

lot of people liked my Akatsuki Lemon story so I want to continue it for them. But idk. I know how it feels to fall in love with a story and it not be updated

ever again. I don't wanna do people like that. I especially liked my Hira story. That one was my baby 3 I will rework it probably in a few months.

Thanks for reading, here's hoping you like it.

Today was just another day. Well, that's a lie, a lie Ellainna kept telling herself hoping it would be true. She graduated from the academy 5 years ago but apparently her track record with missions means diddly squat without having any actual teamwork experience. She groaned as she silenced her alarm and sat up, vigorously rubbing the sleep from her eyes. She was thankful that at least today she could sleep in. She didn't have to arrive at the academy until an hour or so later.

A few months prior she let her old sensei and the 3rd Hokage know that she felt it was long overdue for her to graduate to Jonin and she was ready to advance. After about a week, they reconvened with her and explained that since she had graduated to Genin and Chunin without having to actually be apart of a real team, she was to join one of the new graduating teams and study with them for a year before she can qualify for a promotion. Of course, that didn't sit well with Ellainna and she stormed out of the office. She ended up walking around the perimeter of the village 4 times before she cooled down.

"Apparently my missions over the last 5 years doesn't matter," she said to herself, rolling her eyes. Eventually she went back to them, compliant but defiant, and agreed to their terms. She didn't want to wait any longer for a promotion so if this is what it took, she'd accept it and do it. Even if the new Genin were so much younger than her.

So here we were, the day all the graduated students were partnered off into teams. Ellainna took her time getting dressed and brushing her hair before she left her apartment and walked to the academy. Along the way she remarked mentally all the Genin she knew had graduated and critiqued them, judging if she would find them enjoyable teammates or not.

"Well of course there's that Jinchuriki child...He could be an interesting teammate. And I hear there's another Hyuga that graduated. She could be a good sparring partner if she's as good as Neji. Though I'd rather not be partnered with any girl if I can help it. They all seem to be obsessed with Uchiha." She paused to roll her eyes before continuing her thoughts. "Speaking of which, I'd rather not be partnered with him. That's a whole can of worms I'd rather avoid dealing with right now. Seeing him once or twice a month or so is fine with me."

Since she knew Sasuke and his family quite well when he was a child, she was charged with checking in on him regularly to make sure he was doing okay. Ellainna rolled her eyes again. If being cocky and determined were signs of him being okay, then Sasuke would be okay for decades.

Before she knew it, she was at the academy doors. She paused for a beat and smiled fondly, thinking of the memories she made while there, before walking in and reporting to her assigned classroom. She was surprised to see that there was no teacher in the room yet. It had to be at least 2 hours past normal class start time. She decided not to care and took a seat at the teacher's desk and put her feet on it. She leaned back in the chair, hoping to catch a few more Z's before team assignments were handed out.

She found it impossible to do so, however, since she could feel eyes staring at her incessantly. She opened her own eyes and sat up in frustration, expecting it to be nosy students watching her. Realizing that it wasn't, she studied the room slowly, trying to determine who it was. She quickly found the culprit: Sasuke Uchiha. He was staring at her, inconspicuously but intently, waiting for her to acknowledge him. Ellainna, refusing to do so, stuck her tongue out at Sasuke and turned away from him, folding her arms across her chest and proceeded to purposefully ignore him. She hoped he would get the message but she didn't have to wait very long because the teacher entered the classroom.

'Finally,' she thought to herself. 'We can get this show on the road!'

She moved out of the teacher's seat and sat on the desk instead, refusing to sit at the student desk with all the younger students. She leaned back on her two hands and crossed her legs, bouncing her foot casually as the teacher addressed the class and began partnering off everyone into teams. He explained that one 3-man cell would be a 4-man cell for a little while and Ellainna waved flirtatiously at the class and smiled, signifying she was to be the extra 4th man to someone's team. Soon, her team was called out.

"Squad 7: Ellainna Jinto. Naruto Uzumaki. Sakura Haruno." A blonde, spiky haired boy jumped up and cheered while a pink hair girl moped.

"Hmmm... That's the Fox Child, hunh?"

"And Sasuke Uchiha."

Ellainna's hands slipped and she became off balance and slipped to her side on the desk in shock as the teacher called out the teammate. "I asked for one thing! It's bad enough I have to basically repeat my Genin training but now I have to do it with him?!" She groaned internally as she regained her composure and sat upright on the desk. The teacher began calling out more teams before he was interrupted by the fox boy, Naruto, who stood in indignation, proclaiming his offense in being in a team with Sasuke.

'You and me both, buddy,' Ellainna thought to herself as she rolled her eyes. The teacher, who she now knew was named Iruka, definitely put Naruto on the spot.

"Well, Naruto, Sasuke had the best test scores of the entire graduating class. You, on the other hand, had the lowest. So we created a balanced group with the best student and the worst student." The other students of course laughed at this enlightenment, causing Naruto to get upset. This segwayed into an argument between Ellainna's 3 squad mates before Iruka quickly broke it up. He then dismissed them for lunch after informing them when they would meet their new Jonin sensei. All the students quickly filed out of the classroom to enjoy the beautiful and get to know their new squad mates. Ellainna hung back to speak with Iruka. She spun around on the desk to face his seat and dangled her legs over the edge as Iruka walked over to sit.

"Ah, so you must be the restart," Iruka said, addressing Ellainna. "It's nice to meet you!" He stuck his hand out to her. "I'm Iruka!"

Ellainna pouted and shook his hand loosely. "Actually, I'm not restarting so much as...training...for a promotion..."

Iruka chuckled at her attempt to spin the situation in a positive light. "Well, regardless, it's nice to meet you. Is there anything I can do to help you? You won't meet your new sensei until-"

"Sorry, no, I don't mean to bother you. I'm just hiding out. I'm not too hungry."

"Ah, I see. Well, you're free to wait here until-"

Iruka stopped in the middle of his sentence as the classroom door opened up. Both he and Ellainna looked up and saw Sasuke standing there. He made eye contact with Ellainna and motioned for her to follow him by nodding his head and left out, leaving the door open. She covered her mouth to prevent a giggle from escaping.

'Too prideful to be anything but stoic. I bet the sucker is bursting with excitement on the inside.' Iruka stood by his desk confused, as he had never seen Sasuke voluntarily interact with another student before, but assumed that this was the reason why she was hiding out. He watched Ellainna and the doorway to see what would happen, hoping to get some clues. Ellainna decided to wait cross legged on Iruka's desk and see how many times Sasuke would peek in and signal to her before he actually spoke. The answer, it turns out, is 5 times. After the 5th unsuccessful attempt, Sasuke fully entered the classroom and stood with his hands in his pockets, and spoke. "Ellainna."

She looked at him but didn't say anything nor made any intention to move. She wanted to see what he would do next. She definitely enjoyed teasing him. Unfortunately, this didn't last long because Iruka cleared his throat awkwardly, drawing her attention, and said, "Well, uhm, I'll be in the staff lounge room if you need anything else, Miss."

He then exited the room, making sure to close the door behind himself. He gave up on understanding his student, chalking his behavior up to the confusing ways of youth, and walked off to take his break.

Sasuke walked over to the desk Ellainna was sitting on and leaned against it. They remained in awkward silence while Ellainna picked at her nails before Sasuke finally spoke.

"So..."

"Soooo...?"

Sasuke mumbled something Ellainna couldn't hear so she leaned over so their cheeks were touching and said, "Hunh?"

"I said," Sasuke responded louder, nervously, before whispering again, "come have lunch with me."

Ellainna glanced at Sasuke and held back a giggle. She could see his cheeks turning red.

"That sounds like a demand, not a question."

"Will you have lunch with me?"

"Maybe."

Sasuke groaned. "Fine. Please?"

Ellainna smiled, enjoying torturing him. "I'll think about it. I'll let you know."

Sasuke growled and smacked his hand against the table. "Fine! Whatever! Bye." He shoved his hands in his pockets and stalked out the classroom and off to enjoy his lunch elsewhere. Ellainna chuckled after he left and then quickly went to check outside the classroom to make sure the coast was clear. She then scurried back to Iruka's desk and began riffling through it, hoping to find some paperwork to forge and convince Iruka that he just read it wrong and she can be on another team. As much fun as it is to rile Sasuke up, it'll get old soon and then she'd have to deal with the air between them and she'd rather avoid that as long as possible.

"Crap. There's nothing in here." She shut the last drawer shut in frustration. "I guess I really am stuck with him," she said, sitting down in anguish and putting her head in her hands, accepting defeat and her team assignment. "Oh well..." She opted to just get it over with instead of walking on eggshells in front of everyone.

She left the classroom and began looking for Sasuke. She'd rather air it out right now in private instead of everyone else. She didn't like people in her business. She found him fairly quickly, in a nearby room, but he was in the middle of fighting with Naruto. She watched as Naruto gained the upper hand and won the fight. He tied Sasuke and transformed into him. Ellainna hid as Naruto ran off, transformed as Sasuke and waited until he was out of eyesight to hop into the room. She proceeded to laugh at Sasuke as she closed the window to the room for privacy, sat on the floor next to him and ripped the tape off his mouth.

"Ow!" Sasuke said angrily. "I'm glad this is hilarious to you. Do you mind untying me?" He began to wriggle around in his bondage.

"I do, actually," she responded. "You can't avoid this conversation if you're tied up."

Sasuke stopped wriggling around and looked up at Ellainna, noticing her serious expression and realizing what she meant. He clicked his tongue in annoyance. "If anybody should be tied up for this conversation, it should be you. You're the one who's always running away from it."

"I know..." She whispered.

Ellainna laid down on her back, her head next to Sasuke's and looked at him. Sasuke stared back, despite his face turning increasingly red.

"...I know." She picked up her hand and brought it close to Sasuke's face, intending to brush her fingers across his cheek, but changed her mind last minute. She quickly sat up and crawled over to untie Sasuke. "Let's go find Naruto and see what he's doing disguised as you! My money is on him being a peeping tom somewhere!"

Sasuke reached for Ellainna's wrist to stop her from running off and she looked back at him, a solemn look in her eyes. "Ellainna..."

"Later. I can't do this now."

She pulled her arm free and opened the window again, hopping out and waiting for Sasuke to do so as well. When he didn't she glanced back inside and found that he had left the other way and groaned in frustration as she went off in search of him. Again, she found him shortly after talking to Sakura. She sat in a tree, watching them interact.

"But if you don't have parents to tell you, how will you know? He's selfish and bratty; He's all alone-"

Uh oh...

"Hey, idiot, stop-" Ellainna jumped down from the tree and tried to cut Sakura off but she was too late, she had already crossed the line for Sasuke.

"Alone," he began. "Isolated...It's not about your parents scolding you. You have no idea what it means to be alone."

"Why are you saying that," Sakura asked in shock.

"Because you're annoying," Sasuke responded matter of factly. Then he gestured towards the school with his head, signaling to Ellainna to follow him, and walked off in that same direction. Ellainna looked at Sakura with pity and followed after Sasuke.

'That girl is such an idiot. She couldn't have not known...'

Ellainna caught up to Sasuke easily and they walked down a few hallways side by side but in silence. Shortly after entering the school, they ran into Naruto. Or rather, Naruto almost ran into them coming out of the bathroom.

"Sasuke! What are you doing here?" He asked. "How did you get loose?"

"I used the escape jutsu. No sweat, it's a very basic technique," Sasuke responded.

Ellainna made a face and stuck her tongue out at Naruto, though he ignored her. All his attention was on Sasuke and fighting him once more.

"Why did you do that, transform into me," Sasuke continued.

"I thought it would be fun to try out my moves on you, so I did," Naruto exclaimed before jumping back and performing another Shadow Clone Jutsu, the same as he used earlier in his fight with Sasuke. He created 4 more clones of himself and jumped into the air to attack Sasuke. Sasuke put an arm in front of Ellainna to protect and called out, "The same technique again?!"

"This time you'll see what I can really do," Naruto said.

"You're going down for the count," one of his clones said.

"Then you'll have to admit that I'm the best," another one shouted.

"Get ready, Sasuke," the real Naruto said.

Suddenly, Naruto and his clones stopped midair and clutched his stomach in pain. All 5 Naruto's ran off back to the bathroom door. Not realizing that he could cancel the jutsu, Naruto fought with his other 4 clones trying to get into the bathroom so that he could use it. Ellainna doubled over and burst out laughing. She found the incident exceedingly hilarious. Sasuke shook his head and said, "What a loser." Ellainna's laughter fit softened just enough for her to stand up straight and notice that Sasuke was reaching out for her hand. She stopped laughing and decided to link arms with him instead of letting him hold her hand and they walked off to eat lunch together.