Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Naruto characters, only the OCs and even then they are based off of real people I know.

Chapter Two: Of Pancakes and Waffles

I woke up the next morning at 5:30 AM. I yawned and stretched before getting out of bed. I left my sister to continue sleeping as I went to the kitchen to get breakfast. That's when I noticed Hidan sleeping on one of the couches in the living room. So I wasn't just dreaming I thought before thinking about doing something that would be fun. I went over to the sleeping ninja and leaned down until my mouth was right next to his ear.

"WAKE UP YOU LAZY SON-OF-A-BITCH!" I yelled into his ear and then stepped back as I watched him roll over and fall flat on the floor. I was smiling as I watched Hidan sprawled out on the floor. Itachi,Tobi,Konan,and Deidara were now all at the top of the stairs, I guess coming to see what all the noise was about. Deidara was both trying and failing to suppress a smile at seeing Hidan try and get up off the floor.

"Well that was fun. Who wants breakfast?" I said as I left Hidan muttering curse words under his breath as I turned around and walked through the kitchen door a few feet behind me. I looked through a little open window/counter out at the ninjas as I brought out two boxes of cereal,bowls,and and spoons to the table beneath the space under the stairs. By now all the ninjas were watching me as I set out the bowls and spoons and turned on the TV hanging above the table. Spongebob Squarepants was playing in Arabic.

"What is it?" I asked.

"As long as we are stuck staying here with you, we want someone to accompany you where ever you go." Itachi stated flatly.

"So you want someone following me? Well, I guess that'll be ok, assuming that none of you mind going to school with me." I looked at them "And if you're going to do that then you'll need new clothes." I thought for a moment about who I should bring with me to school. Having at least two people there will be necessary. Konan will need to go because boys and girls PE is separated. Deidara would be fun to have around at school, and Tobi is a must because I would like to keep an eye on him. After all, he is really Madara Uchiha and what better way to keep an eye on him than if he's with me at school?

The next day Deidara,Konan,and Tobi came with me to school. How they were able to get enrolled in a private school in the middle of the year is not known to me, and personally I don't want to. They were all posing as siblings and cousins of mine from the USA who moved here to Kuwait. Since ASK (the American School of Kuwait) is an international school, no one will pay much attention to the fact that they've moved here in the middle of the year or that they leave before the school year is finished. At least, I hope they're gone by then. My schedule that I had written down on a piece of paper so I would know who I had with me when looked something like this:

A-Day

A1: LA – Deidara (Ben,name he's going by at school)

B1: Science – Konan (Taylor)

L1: Lunch – All

C1: ASK Radio – Tobi (Eric)

D1: Social Studies – Tobi (Eric)

B-Day

A2: AFL – Tobi (Eric)

B2: Ceramics 1 – Deidara (Ben)

L2: Lunch – All

C2: Pre-Algebra – Deidara (Ben)

D2: Girls PE – Konan (Taylor)

Today was an A-Day so we had Language Arts first. Deidara, now by use of a transformation jutsu (Konan and Tobi were using them too) looking like a thirteen-year old-ish version of himself – but with short hair – walked with me to Mrs. Matthews room. We sat down at the table where I have my assigned seat in the classroom right in front of the teacher's desk in the back of the room. Deidara sat diagonal from me as that is the only empty seat in our table of four desks pushed together.

At seven fifteen Mrs. Matthews introduced Deidara as Ben and randomly picked a boy from the class to come and start the idiom challenge. The idiom challenge is when a person picks an idiom from a box and then proceeds to act it out. Its much like charades. After we finished the idiom challenge Mrs. Matthews told us to read chapter 7 of Coraline in our groups. We had started a novel study of the book. My friend Dominique sat across from me and my other friend Zainab (A different Zainab than Aboss's sister) sat next to me.

"My gosh you know this book is so scary!" Dominique said.

"What do you mean scary? This book is anything but!" Deidara/Ben said. I had told him to, if he can, stop adding 'un' or 'yeah' or 'hm' to the end of all his sentences, at least while we were at school. I had said the same thing to Tobi about talking in third person. "Big chicken." he said.

"You waffle! How dare you call me a chicken? I'm a pancake! A pancake I say!"

Me and Zainab tried to suppress a laugh when we saw Deidara's look of confusion.

"Why is she calling me a waffle?"

"Because you called her a chicken. You see, before we had changed seats Dominique sat at a table that called themselves The Pancakes. They call anyone who they don't like a waffle or a pickle, or whatever and the people they like they call cupcakes,marshmallows,or whatever. But pancakes are the best."

"Hey, hey marshmallow!" Dominique said as she waved her hand in front of my eyes as I had started to zone out. "We need to finish reading chapter seven,and its your turn to read!"

"Huh? Oh, right. 'Art thou,art thou alive?'..."

Later on at lunch time me,Konan,Tobi,and Deidara went to the counselors office to eat lunch with my friends. Dominique,Zainab,Holly,Hannah,and a few others I didn't know were there.

"Hey waffle!" Dominique greeted Deidara as we all sat down on the sofas.

"Stop calling me that." Deidara replied

"But you are one!"

"You know, I personally love eating pancakes."

"You cannibal!" Dominique screamed. By now everyone in the room was staring at the two of them, watching them fight. I quickly filled Konan and Tobi in on what happened during LA so they wouldn't be lost.

"I can't be a cannibal because that would mean that I would have to be a pancake, not a waffle."

"All right! That's it! Your being demoted to a pickle!"

"Why a pickle?" Tobi asked.

"Shut up, cinnamon-bun!" Dominique said.

"Is being a cinnamon-bun a good or a bad thing?" asked Hannah, having been called one in the past by her.

"Just leave me alone you waffles!" Dominique shouted as she stormed out of the counselors office. There was a long moment of silence.

"Well that was certainly interesting." Konan said.