"Breakfast seems better this year." Sakura said. She ate a piece of scrambled egg.

"How long has Tenten been here?" Ino asked.

"Since she was old enough to…8th grade." Sakura replied.

Ino nodded. She already loved hanging out with her 2 other roomies. Dorms were 3 to a room, with a bunk bed and a small twin bed, a mini fridge, a huge dresser and some other things like a desk and a mirror.

"Tenten what are you doing over there?" Ino asked. She and Sakura were sitting on the top bunk, eating cafeteria breakfast. Tenten was sifting through the mini fridge.

"Trying to find a place to put this," She replied. "I already ate."

Ino stared at the humongously stuffed fridge. It probably had 3 times the amount of food that it normally would have allowed.

"How did you accumulate so much food?" Ino asked. "It's the first day of school right?"

"Sakura and I have been roomies since she was in the 8th and I was in the 9th. This year is out 3 year. This summer we each spent 4 weeks at home at the beginning of the summer and then just came back and hung out here for the rest."

Sakura nodded. "We don't spend much time home really."

Ino nodded. She liked the fact that already they were acting kindly towards her. She didn't want to be an outcast.

"Sakura…I found Cherry Toad." Tenten said.

Sakura nearly fell off of Ino's top bunk. "What?!" She nearly screamed. The room was well lit. It was bright and the bed spreads were colorful and there was Tenten's art hanging on the wall, so when Sakura saw the pink colored thing in Tenten's hand, she nearly lost it.

Tenten held up the Cherry Pink little toad. "It was in the back of the fridge."

Sakura grabbed it. "How did it get back there?!"

Tenten shrugged. "Don't ask me, I just found it." She said.

"Oh Cherry Toad!!!" Sakura yelled. Tenten jumped up and covered her mouth.

"It's 4 A.M. in the morning, if people hear you screaming we'll get a dorm notice." She whispered harshly.

Sakura nodded. They often got up extremely early in the morning so they could have a bit of free time before school.

Ino smiled.

Tenten lay down. "I'm going back to sleep." She said. "I don't feel like being up this early today, remember school starts at 8."

Sakura nodded and hugged Cherry Toad.

Everyone fell back asleep sooner or later.

They all lay snoring on their beds. Tenten lifted up her hand and smashed her alarm clock. She looked at it before it broke. 9:30

"What the FCK!!!!" She yelled. "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

The yell awoke Sakura and Ino.

"What?!" They cried.

"It's fcking 9:30!!!!We are an hour and a half late on the first fcking day of school!!!!!" Tenten yelled.

"What?! NOOOOOOO!!!!" Sakura and Ino yelled they scrambled to the showers.

Tenten was ready a good deal ahead of them. She was wearing the same thing as yesterday. She was still freaking out. She couldn't abandon her friends. She ran to the bathroom and knocked on it.

"What the hll is taking you guys so long?!" She cried. She opened the door and Sakura and Ino stumbled out.

"What the-?"

"It locked from the outside!" Ino yelled. She checked her watch. "10?!!!!Oh my god, oh my god!!!!"

"Let's go before we get detention and end up shoveling sht all day."

Ino smiled. Tenten had used 3 different very bad words in the past hour or so. It was funny to hear her say them in such a manner.

Sakura and ino shared the same class. They waved Tenten good by before rushing off to 10th grade math. Tenten ran down the hall as fast as she could to the chemistry lab.

She stopped. She had arrived. Mrs. Shizutsune was teaching the class this year. Tenten had always liked her.

Tenten grasped the door handle and slipped inside as quietly as she could. She sat down at the only available seat. She hadn't been spotted, or had just been overlooked as usual. It was strange for a girl with so much personality to prefer to be invisible.

"Lab partners!" Mrs. Shizutsune called. "We are going to chose them today, with names out of a hat." There were several moans.

She smiled.

Tenten slid down in her seat. Not a lab partner. She couldn't partner up with anyone else but Sakura or Ino, and they were a grade younger. There was no hope. She chose not to pay attention to any of the names. Until she heard her own.

"Neji Hyuuga and Tenten." She said.

There were several ooh's and aah's around the class. Most kids had a questioning look on their face like , who was this Tenten?

Tenten rolled her eyes. Now she had to be paired with a popular boy. What next? Auditioning for a talk show? She smiled. In her dreams.

"All right children, you will be meeting up with your lab partners during study hall." Mrs. Shizutsune said. "Tenten."

Tenten jumped, she was not used to having her name called on before.

"Please actually show up." She said. "I say pair up with your partners during study hall, please show up to study hall. No skipping."

There were several giggles.

The rest of the day went by quickly. Tenten, despite Mrs. Shizutsune's words, didn't even bother to show up to study hall. She couldn't bear working with a popular boy. She would make up an excuse later.

The day ended swiftly and quickly, well, the school day. Tenten met up with Sakura and a confused Ino in the main hall.

"Okay Ino, since you are now especially and eternally our best friend, " Sakura and Tenten said together. "We would like to invite you to work at our store."

"Eternally?" Ino said.

"A lot of people make mistakes." Sakura said. "We just want you to know that we aren't the kind of friends that seem like really good friends in the beginning and then turn into enemies later. We're those loving, forever lasting kind of friends."

Tenten nodded.

"So…what do you want me to do?" Ino asked.

"Work in our store."

"What store?"

Tenten smiled. "Me and Sakura have been running a store since she was in the 8th grade. Meme's Icrecream." She said. "We're probably the most popular store on all of the campus."

Sakura nodded.

"You would like me to work there with you?" Ino asked.

Tenten and Sakura nodded.

"O-okay I guess." Ino said.

Sakura grabbed Ino's hand and led her out the building door and onto the rest of the campus. All the school buildings were in a rather large circle and then there was a park thing in the middle and walk-ways and a huge stair and all that. The cafeteria was the main building, but the ice-cream shop was at the Student Shopping Center. Tenten lead the way. The Student Shopping was like a mall. It practically WAS a mall. It had all those open little stores and things. Tenten jumped over the counter of an icecream place with a sign, creatively drawn, that said "Meme's Icecream."

Sakura did the same and turned on all the lights, signifying that it was open. She pulled on a blue apron and threw one to Ino.

"What do you do Tenten?" Ino asked.

Tenten smiled. "I work the cooling machines in the back and bus boy all the stuff."

Ino turned to Sakura. "I take orders AND scoop, but I'll let you take orders since that's the easier of the two and I know what everything is."

Ino nodded.

Ino sat by the register, eyeing all the icecreams and different flavors that Meme's Ice Cream had. (May-may's Ice Cream.) "Where did you get all this stuff?" Ino asked.

"This is the Student Shopping Center, the school gave us the Ice Cream, we sell it."

"How was your first day Ino?" Tenten asked, coming out of a back door carrying a tub of rainbow sherbet

"I didn't know study hall could last so long!" Ino replied. "But my lab partner was cute!"

Tenten raised her eyebrows. "You got a lab partner too?"

Ino nodded, "Mine was Kiba Inuzuka. Who was yours?!"

Tenten shrugged, "Nobody."

"Awe come on, who is it?!" Ino pleaded.

Tenten looked down and folded her arms. "Neji Hyuuga."

"What?!" Sakura screamed bouncing off her seat. "Did you get to choose your own partner?! Did he choose you?!"

Tenten smiled. "Of course not! Mrs. Shizutsune drew names out of a hat."

"It MUST be fate!" Sakura said.

"No it's not. She chose."

"What did he do when you met him at study hall?"

Tenten shrugged, "I skipped."

Sakura's jaw dropped, "You SKIPPED a study hall meeting with the most popular guy in school?!"

"That's why I skipped, he's the most popular guy in school, all he wants is attention, and all I want is to be invisible."

Ino nodded. "I'll tradeja lab partners."

"I would, but this is 11th grade chemistry, not 10th grade science."

Ino pouted. "You're right." She said.

"Customers!" Sakura whispered harshly.

Ino and Sakura straightened up and smiled at the group of girls passing by.

Tenten ducked behind the back door and began to work the machines.

Hinata, Temari and Kin passed by. Populars. Tenten thought as she looked through the glass hole in the door. She then turned to all the freezer machines and started pushing buttons and dials.

"Hey girls!" Kin called. She walked up to the counter. "You caught me in a good mood today, I'll have a Mocca Whip with extra cinnamon." She looked back at her two other companions.

Hinata walked up, "Zap Frap with half as much ice as you usually put in there and a shot of sugar free vanilla."

Temari smiled, "You two are too complex." She said. "Dos scoops of chocolate icecream on a waffle cone."

Sakura couldn't help but smile. "You've always been a sucker for plain old ice cream haven't you?"

Temari nodded. "That's where me and Neji are alike. We don't like getting complex drinks, just a whole ton of chocolate!"

Sakura bit her lip and then said, "Mocca Whip with extra cinnamon, Zap Frap, half the ice, shot of SF vanilla and two scoop chocolate on a WC, got it."

Ino smiled at her ice cream lingo.

It must have been just a minute and Sakura had all 3 ready and waiting at the counter. Kin took hers and paid, Hinata took hers and paid and Temari did the same. They walked off.

"Hinata!" Ino called. "You gave us a lot more than you needed to."

Hinata turned around. "Keep the change!" She called back and the three continued strolling down the shopping center.

Tenten stepped out with a huge tub of chocolate in her arms, "Temari alone has eating about 3 whole tubs of our chocolate this month!"

"Doesn't bother me." Sakura said. "As long as she pays."

Tenten placed the tub down and then opened the freezer ice cream bar thingy. She put the tub in and then closed it.

"I think it's getting over frozen." Ino said.

Tenten looked at it. "Oh fck you're right!" She scurried away and came back with a box of tools. "The freezer breaker broke again!" She said to herself. The freezer breaker was on the other side of the room from the ice cream, behind Sakura and Ino on the opposite wall from the counter (which was also the ice cream.)

"Do you know how to fix it?" Ino asked.

Sakura and Tenten nodded. "I'm the mechanic." She said.

A group of boys was walking up just as Tenten lay down on her skate board and disappeared under the breaker. It was an interesting device that some nerd on campus had invented, it broke off the cold so that the ice cream did not have to be kept on a manual temperature Letting different amounts in and then breaking it off so that the temperature could be changed. But when it broke, it let a lot of freezing liquid out and cooled the ice cream too much.

"Hello." Sakura said. "If you could wait for a minute, we're having a machine fixed. It should only be a minute."

The boys nodded, willing to wait.

Tenten slid out from under the breaker, everyone looked at her as she grabbed a wrench and slid back under. She did that for a few times. "CRAP!!!" She yelled.

Everyone jumped.

She slid back out, holding a little charge box that she had snapped off. "It's up and working for today, but that's how long it will last. We need a new part."

Sakura nodded as Tenten disappeared behind the door.

Sakura turned back to the boys, there was Gaara, Naruto, Sasuke, Kiba, Shikamaru and Neji, more populars.

"Who was that?" Neji asked.

Sakura smiled. "Uhhh no one."

"Yes It was." Gaara said. "She's really weird."

"Tenten is that way." Sakura replied.

"Tenten?" Neji asked.

"Oh crap!" Sakura whispered. She fixed some of their orders. Not wanting to continue the conversations.

"Hey Neji!" Sasuke said. "Tenten, isn't that your lab partner that didn't show up?"

"Yeah." Neji replied. "She was also really late to class."

"Wonder what she does…" Naruto said.

"Don't talk about my roomie that way." Sakura said, setting down their orders.

"What? She's a freak, and always will be." Neji said, he paid for everyone.

Ino growled.

The boys walked off.

"I ought to just punch that boy in the face." Tenten said, emerging from her door. "This is why I hate being notice. Because that happens. All he wants is attention. I'm fine with that, just leave me out of it!"