Miku Tatsuki was like the wind to everybody in Konoha. Present, but invisible.

'What am I doing?' she thought to herself, her hand hesitating on the door handle. 'It's not like anybody will notice me come in anyways...'
Today was the day that all the new rookie's who had passed their assessments were to be assigned to a squad lead by a Jonin. Miku had passed her test with flying colours, as Iruka-sensei had put it, but nobody had congratulated her.
Nobody even acknowledged her existence.
It had always been this way, ever since Miku was 5. For some reason, everybody in Konoha seemed to ignore her.
All the other children her age never wanted to play with her, or even look at her for that matter, and if they did it was to make fun of her. The adults just strolled passed her on the street as if she were nothing more than a leaf that has simply fluttered down beside them. She never quite understood what it was that she had done to deserve such treatment.
As it turns out, Miku had done nothing at all to provoke the villagers. In fact, they weren't even aware that they were doing it. Miku was such a small, quiet girl who easily blended in with the background, that not a lot of people ever paid her any attention. In a way, she was sort of like a chameleon.
Miku had tried working on it. She had tried to be more assertive, like the blonde ninja who was always being scolded by the adults, and she even tried being vulgar and obnoxious like the girl named Ino, who went through a phase of consistently taunting Miku about her blue hair. But nothing had seemed to work.
Nothing attracted the attention of anybody.

So standing here, with her hand paused on the door handle in a nervous state, seemed utterly absurd. Didn't it? After all what was there to be nervous about, nobody would notice that she had even entered the room.
Taking a deep breath, Miku twisted the door handle, and cautiously took one step inside of the classroom, preparing to be ignored.
After two steps through the door, she had to duck to avoid a paper airplane from colliding with her face.
The entire classroom was in complete chaos.
Genin were throwing paper airplanes and wads of gum at one another, two boys had actually broken out in a full-on brawl on top of some of the desks, and there was an entire pack of girls shouting something that sounded like "My sauce! Get away from my sauce!" and judging by the venomous looks in their eyes, they were not happy with one another.
Miku swallowed her nervousness and continued into the classroom. She kept her eyes down, trying not to look at anyone else in the room, especially not the mob of angry girls. She did allow her eyes to lift up for a split second to scan the room for an empty seat, and she found one, but it was located beside the "sauce" that all the girls were shouting about.
Sasuke Uchiha.
There was another empty seat however, but it was located in the center of all the angry girls just a few feet away, and Miku decided to play it safe and take the one next to the renowned Sasuke Uchiha.
When she took her seat, as expected, he didn't look over or even acknowledge that anyone had sat down beside him. Miku had sat as far away from him as the seat would allow. She was practically slipping off the edge, and her body was angled in such a way that she could almost hear her spine screaming in pain. But she kept this pose, trying not to offend the Uchiha by sitting too close.
Even though nobody seemed to pay her any attention, she was aware of few people in the village.
She had heard Ino and a pink haired girl conversing with one another about how "hot" he is and how much they want in his pants, which wasn't very helpful information to say the least. She did however, manage to eavesdrop on a conversation between two jonin about how strong he is.
Apparently, he's the rookie to beat.
Miku grew very uncomfortable with the way she was sitting, and began to grow inpatient. She was praying that Iruka-sensei would show up soon so she could give her back a break. (Let me give your back a break, give your back a break, there's just so much it can take, let me give your back a break~)
She had tried switching positions a few times, and even twisted her body at a different angle to try and make herself more comfortable but it only made a very gross cracking sound which made her feel sick to her stomach.

"You can sit like a normal person. I won't bite you." A very handsome voice spoke from beside her. (I find Yuri Lowenthal's voice very sexy.)
Miku turned to see Sasuke, still in his original position, looking at her from the corner of his eyes. She had seen him plenty of times, but had never heard him speak. His voice was just as attractive as he was.
"Oh... Okay, thanks I guess..." She said, giving him a small nod, before moving over to sit in the seat properly. Miku had left enough space for two people to sit between them, just to be polite, but she was extremely happy to be able to sit like a normal person. Her back was now singing with joy.
Sometime during her short conversation with Sasuke, the angry mob of girls sat down in the seats across from them and were now glaring daggers, swords, kunai and other various sharp objects into the side of Miku's head.
All this attention was a little overwhelming for her, so she shifted her long, thick blue hair to her right side to create a sort of barrier between them. Even though she couldn't see them, she could still feel the heat from their intense stares through all of her hair.
The door suddenly opened, causing the classroom to quiet down, and Iruka-sensei came in, holding a thick stack of papers.
"Good morning class." He began, with his usual cheerful grin. "I can see that you're all a rather impatient bunch, Kiba, Naruto, please stop fighting each other and take your seats please, now, where was I.. ah yes. I'll cut right to the chase."
Iruka-sensei began listing off the names of who was in what group. After a while, Miku heard her name being called.
"Squad 7: Miku Tatsuki, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Naruto Uzumaki."
As soon as Miku had heard these names, she knew she was going to have a tough time trying to make it as a ninja.

Miku knew very little about her three teammates.
Sasuke Uchiha was a prodigy, as was mentioned earlier. Sakura Haruno was the leader of the "Sasuke Fan Club" and was also a childhood tormenter of Miku's. Naruto was constantly getting himself in trouble somehow, and spent most of his life being scolded or punished by the Third Hokage.
She knew at once that she was going to be the "fourth wheel" and probably excluded from the group after the first week.
Soon, all the other genin had filed out of the classroom except for squad 7, as their jonin was late.
Three hours late to be exact.
Naruto kept himself busy by boobytrapping the front door, and various windows around the room incase the jonin decided to make a unique entrance. Sakura was yelling at him as if she were his mother, while pausing occasionally to hit on Sasuke or to glare at Miku. Sasuke was completely uncaring, leaned back in his chair with his arms folded acrossed his chest, while Miku sat in the seat beside him with her hands nervously folded in her lap.
Nobody had really spoken to her the entire 4 hours they were alone together. At one point, Naruto came over and looked her right in the face with a look of total confusion, and asked her why she looked scared of everything. Sakura had done nothing but sneer at her, and Sasuke just kept on being Sasuke.
About 20 minutes had passed before the door to the classroom finally opened. It all seemed to happen in slow motion..
The eraser, slipping from it's spot on top of the door frame and colliding with their sensei's head. Naruto's insane laughter and the completely appalled looks of Sakura and Sasuke. The hate-speech their sensei gave them after he recovering from what happened.
Let's just say, their sensei does not like his new genin very much.

After an embarrassing first encounter, and much apologizing on Naruto's behalf, they all met on the roof of a building overlooking a forest.
"So." the jonin began. "Tell me about yourselves."
"Like what, sensei?" Sakura asked. "What do you want to know?"
"Your likes an dislikes. Hobbies, and dreams for the future. That sort..." He said, his only visible eye half-open in a lazy way. He looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here.
"Why don't you start?" Naruto suggested, sounding pretty annoyed. "Give us an example, sensei."
Their sensei let out a deep sigh. "Fine. My name is Kakashi Hatake. As for my likes and dislikes... well, I don't feel like telling you those. My dreams for the future... I never really thought about that. As for my hobbies? I have lots of hobbies."
Naruto and Sakura completely blew up over their new sensei's lame attempt at introducing himself. Miku just shrunk back, trying to blend in with the roof and become invisible. Sasuke just kept on being Sasuke.
"Right. You with the bright blue hair, you can start." Kakashi-sensei said, completely ignoring Naruto and Sakura.
Miku felt a heavy nervousness well up inside of her. This was the first time anybody had actually taken the time to speak more than a few words to her, and now she was required to do the same.
"Well..." She squeaked. "My name is Miku Tatsuki. I like um.. tea and training, and I also like to swim. I don't like.. I really don't know what I don't like. My hobbies are singing and, maybe training too. As for my dream for the future... I guess I don't know that either. Maybe, I want to gain more self-confidence, and have.. people actually notice me for a change."
She had said the last part very softly, but everybody had heard her as if she stood up and shouted it across the rooftops.
'Somebody else like me..' Naruto thought sadly, seeing the way her blue eyes glazed over with sadness as she spoke. 'Maybe, I should be nicer to her.'
'What a weirdo. My Sasuke would never like her, such a freak.' Sakura thought, making unpleasant faces in Miku's direction.
'What is she going on about?' Sasuke wondered to himself, leaving his thoughts at that. Sasuke Uchiha was far too proud to waste his time thinking about others, unless he was comparing himself to them.

Kakashi-sensei made a sort of "hmm" sound with the back of his throat while staring intently at Miku. "You're a Tatsuki, and yet you haven't drawn on your powers yet." He stated, scratching his chin.
Miku flinched and averted her gaze while the other three genin focused their attention on her out of curiosity.
"What do you mean Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked, pretending like she actually cared.
"The Tatsuki's are Konoha's oldest clan, and are rumoured to actually be the first clan to take refuge here. Their kekkei genkai is a legendary one at that, and only few women have been known to posess it. Their kekkei genkai is called the "Kyumeigan", which literally translates into "Life Saving eyes." They are Konoha's second most powerful clan, the Uchiha's being the first and the Hyuga's being the third." Kakashi-sensei explained, refusing to take his eyes off of Miku. "They also excel in elemental-style jutsu. Am I correct so far?"
Miku nodded her head, and began fidgeting with the hem of her kimono.
"However, most of them were either assassinated or murdered throughout the years, leaving only a handful left, am I still correct?" He continued.
Miku felt unbearable sadness creeping up inside of her.
"Actually, sensei." She began, holding back the river of tears that threatened to fall. She couldn't risk crying in front of her new team. "I'm the only one left now."
All eyes were on Miku once again.
"Up until last year, it was me my father and my aunt. My mother was murdered by her brother and my father had grown so depressed after my mother's death, he took his own life. My aunt packed up afterwards and moved away leaving me behind.." She trailed off at the end, unsure of what to say. She didn't think anyone was listening, or that anyone even cared.
Little did she know, the two men of her squad were feeling a sort of connection with her at that moment, because they too have been through similar experiences and share the same pain that she does.
Nothing else was said about Miku afterwards, the others introduced themselves and Kakashi assigned a mission for tomorrow, and then afterwards excused them for the day.

The next morning, Kakashi-sensei put them all through a difficult test, to see who deserves to become an official genin and who deserves to be sent back to the academy.
Their task was to try to take the bells from Kakashi-sensei, and while it seemed simple enough, it was actually a nearly impossibly challenge.
Miku was considerably weaker than the other three, and despite how socially awkward she was she had tried her best to team up with someone.
Naruto was too busy trying to tackle Kakashi-sensei head on to even notice Miku, and Sakura did little more than faint a dozen times and run through the forest telling for Sasuke. When Miku had asked Sasuke for help he just, well, kept on being Sasuke.
In the end, time ran out and everybody failed. Or so they thought..
Miku was the only one who had successfully passed, being the only one to even consider working as a team, even though they all had completely ignored her in the end. The three remaining genin were to retake the test, however only two of them could pass because squads could only be made up of three people.
Sakura was the only one who had failed, because while Naruto and Sasuke temporarily put aside their differences and tried to work together, Sakura just stood in the background cheering for Sasuke while throwing all kinds of harsh insults at Naruto. Kakashi-sensei said she cared more about boys than she did about being a ninja and that would cost the team dearly in the future.
Sakura wasn't very happy about being eliminated, infact she was completely livid. She had shot Miku a glare filled with so much hate it almost brought tears to her eyes.
After the big news, Kakashi-sensei told everybody to meet him by the Shirakawa stream, that flowed through Konoha all the way from The Land of Waves, tomorrow morning at 8am sharp.
Miku took her time getting home, stopping to admire a beautiful butterfly as it gently floated by. She had also stopped at a local teahouse and ordered some exotic blends for taste testing, as Miku had a terrible weakness for tea. She thought herself to be incredibly strange, and while Miku was perfectly content with herself, she was scared that nobody else would like her.
'Why did I ever decide to become a ninja?' She thought, working her way up the stepping-stone path that lead up to the Tatsuki's main house. 'I wonder what will happen next?'

Sasuke hated teams. When he heard he would be stuck on a team with the most useless genin known to humanity, the one female in this world who Sasuke would love to punch in the mouth, and a girl who was more shy than Hinata and who always looked scared, well he wanted to give up on being a ninja right then and there.
But once he got to know them, got along with Naruto for 10 minute, and then received the news that Sakura failed to pass the test, he didn't feel as angry anymore.
He still hated teams.

Kakashi-sensei ended up being 5 hours late.
He had instructed everyone to arrive at 8am, and by 9:30am Miku had given up and curled up on the ground to go to sleep while Naruto had a taijutsu competition against an invisible opponent. Sasuke just sat down beside Miku's sleeping form and contemplated moving to another village, as this one seemed to be filled with a bunch of defects.
Squad 7 had enough time to take a power nap, run to the nearby noodle vendor and grab some lunch, and watch the sun reach its highest point by the time that Kakashi-sensei had arrived.
"You're late!" Naruto yelled, pointing a finger in his face. "What's the big idea? Telling us to be here at 8am and taking 5 stinkin' hours to get here?!"
Kakashi-sensei didn't raise his eyes from his book.
"I got lost on the path of life.. and all that stuff. Anyways, time for your mission." He said, turning the page.

Their mission ended up being more like a chore.
Kakashi-sensei had arranged for them to clean the Shirakawa stream of all the garbage and crud that had accumulated there over the years.
Sasuke and Naruto butted head a few times, actually they were constantly at each others throats, trying to out-clean each other. They even came close to breaking out in a full-out brawl a few times, that it until Kakashi-sensei broke them up.
Miku had been silently working on her own, controlling the water and making it empty all it's contents onto the riverbank. After Naruto and Sasuke refrained from killing each other for the twelfth time, they noticed what Miku was doing.
She was standing a few feet away from the, her long wavy blue hair was flung over her right shoulder, her arms were raised in the air as if she were conjuring up some wind spirits. The water from the river seemed to be obeying her, tossing out rusty cans, chip wrappers, soggy noodle bowls and water-logged paper.
"How are you doing that?!" Naruto yelled, dropping his basket of garbage spilling it's contents out onto the grass. "That is so cool!"
His sudden outburst had statled Miku, breaking her concentration.
"Oh, Naruto." She stammered, nervously tucking a stray curl behind her ear. "I was just.. nothing."
"How did you do that?" Sasuke was the one to ask this time, his tone a little more demanding.
Miku developed a sudden interest in the ground. "The Tatsuki's are good at controlling the elements and, using them to their.. advantage. Elemental jutsu's are, uh, our specialty I guess..."
This caught Sasuke's attention. The Uchiha's were known for their fire-jutsu, and the thought of Miku being able to manipulate and use fire to her advantage sparked an interest. He was suddenly curious about who's fire jutsu was better.
Before he the to raise the subject, Kakashi-sensei interrupted.
"I think the Shirakawa is clean enough. Let's move on, shall we?" He suggested, walking by casually with his nose still stuffed in his book.

After Naruto had cleaned up all the garbage he spilled, Sasuke burned it all with a fire jutsu and then squad 7 followed Kakashi-sensei into town for their next mission.
Over the next few weeks, their missions were nothing more than chores such as babysitting, cat sitting, kitty-cat search and rescue, painting, garbage clean up, and laundry. This didn't help develop their ninja skills any, nor did it help the team learn to co-operate.
As usual, Naruto and Sasuke constantly fought with one another, and developed a nasty habit of trying to prove who was the best. They held competitions to see who could babysit the best, or who could find the missing kitty first. Naruto tried to prove he could out-paint Sasuke and ended up spilling his paint all over some demon-lady's lawn, resulting in a beating that was so fierce Sasuke and Miku could almost feel it.
Sasuke had tried to clean up garbage from a nearby park faster than Naruto, and ended up spearing his own foot in the process. It wasn't a deep gash, and thankfully it didn't go all the way through, but after some ninjutsu from the local medic-nin, Sasuke was back to his old "I'm superior to everyone" self.
About a week after that, Kakashi-sensei had assigned them their first realmission.
Apparently a group of bandits was loose in the forest outside of Konoha and was terrorizing local traders, and the Third Hokage wanted something to be done about it. Team Gai's group originally wanted the mission, but after losing to a game of paper-scissors-stone, the mission was passed on to squad 7.
In the end, Naruto had to sit this mission out because he developed food poisoning from eating three-week old ramen he found in his fridge and was forced, literally, to stay in the hospital overnight under close watch.
This left only Sasuke, Miku and Kakashi-sensei to complete the mission.
"What do I do?" Miku asked herself, walking home after hearing the news. "It'll be just Sasuke, Kakashi-sensi and I, and I'm not good to anyone so really, It will just be Sasuke and Kakashi-sensei..." She let out a long sigh. "I'm pathetic."
"At least you're not like Naruto." A familiar voice spoke up from behind her. She spun around to find Sasuke Uchiha standing behind her, his hands shoved in his pockets with his usual expression plastered on his face.
"S-Sasuke-kun.." Miku stuttered, slapping a hand over her mouth. "Sorry I just, you startled me." She squeaked, trying to hide her embarrassment.
Sasuke did nothing more than "hn" at her and walked passed her, leaving her behind. Miku just stood there staring at him, wondering if she should continue on her way or wait until he was out of sight. She wanted to get home so she could get rested up for tomorrow, but she didn't want to seem like she was following him.
He took a few more steps before stopping, looking over his shoulder to see if Miku was following.
"Why are you just standing there?" He asked. "Isn't your house this way?"
Miku nodded, and sprinted to catch up to him. She wasn't sure if this was his invitation to hang out, but she decided to walk with him anyways. She was getting used to Sasuke and Naruto, and the small amounts of attention she received from them. She wanted to get to know them better, and to hopefully come out of her shell and grow more confident.

"So..." Miku began, tugging on her kimono sleeve. Sasuke didn't pay attention to her. "You're pretty strong huh?"
Sasuke let out a deep sigh. "Is this seriously what you want to talk to me about?"
She slowed her pace. "I'm sorry I just... don't know what else to talk about."
"How about you don't say anything."
Miku lowered her eyes to the ground, embarrassed that she even tried to talk to Sasuke. She should have known he was way too proud of himself to notice a creature such as her.
Sasuke took a few more steps before stopping once more to look at her over his shoulder.
"What's wrong now?" He snapped, obviously irritated.
"I'm sorry Sasuke-kun.." Miku said, walking towards him. She stopped in front of him and gave a very small bow. "I'm sorry that I bothered you, and that I tried to talk to you. It, it won't happen again." She said, before turning and sprinting towards the Tatsuki compound.
Sasuke watched the girl run passed him, down the street before dissappearing behind a corner. He was stunned at what she said, he hadn't even realized he was being rude. He never realized he was rude to people, he just.. was.
Guilt ate at him the entire way home. This girl was obviously very timid and scared to talk to others, he should have known not to be so rude to her, after all she was just trying to talk to him.

Sasuke has known about Miku Tatsuki for some time now. He first noticed her when he was 6, and she was 5.
This was around the time that all the girls around their age began obsessing over him, stalking him and driving him absolutely insane! Miku was the only girl in Konoha, besides Hinata, who didn't throw herself at him. This is what made him notice her.
He had actually saw people treating Miku rather coldly a few times growing up, and once or twice he felt incredibly sorry for her. The one time that he remembered as clear as day was when Ino and Sakura, when they still liked each other, had decided to make Miku their target.
Miku was shorter than most people, and was very small compared to others. On top of that, her hair was a very noticable blue in colour, not like Sasuke's that was a raven colour and could be interpreted as either dark blue or black. Ino and Sakura often bullied her about her hair colour, and about how timid and small she was.
Sasuke seemed to be the only person in Konoha who knew she existed. When she tripped and fell in the streets, scraping her knee, he was the only one who heard her cries. While she sat at the back of the classroom, or went up front to answer a question on the board, he was the only one whose eyes followed her.
Everybody in Konoha was oblivious to her growing up. All but Sasuke Uchiha.
Sasuke didn't have a crush on Miku, he wasn't the type to become romantically involved with a female. He just, noticed her. He knew she was there.
And because he noticed her, he knew what she was like when she had to talk to people. She was socially awkward, so much that even simple everyday conversation was difficult for her to pull off.
Letting his guilt get the better of him he decided he would apologize to Miku tomorrow, and maybe try to talk to her.
After all, she wasn't annoying like the rest of the girls in this town. He could probably learn to tolerate her in the future.

This is my Sasuke story. Yes, a Sasuke story.
I wrote this when I was 11, that was 7 years ago mind you, and I figured it's about time to post it online. I worked on it for 3 years so I've grown rather fond of it. With that being said, I'm probably not gonna change much, aside from my spelling and grammar.
If you don't like it that's perfectly fine, this story was written by 11 year old me so I'm not expecting a bunch of fans.
Anyways, enjoy the story folks. Please give reviews!
Also, you probably noticed Sakura is not a part of squad 7. This is because I hate the whole "Squad 7 randomly has 4 people while the rest have 3" thing a lot of writers tend to do, and also I don't like Sakura.
She makes me angry... very, very angry.
So I took her out. ^_^;
I'm also not going by the storyline (much) however there will be some random switching back to the original storyline from time to time.

The theme for this fanfiction is the song "Hana" by "ORANGE RANGE" because 11 year old me said so. The summary is the translated version of the song, the title of the story is part of the song lyrics (Which translates to "It was a dream-like miracle that I met you.") and it's wonderous lyrics shall surface amidst my story numerous times before the end.
Anyways I'll shut up now.

Just one more thing.

Should I keep the writing like this, in the middle?

Or like this? Way over here? To the left?