Chapter One: I like girls

The wind pushed the empty swing. The school was uninhabited, for now. A child wishing to be early, raced by the unnoticed swing, only to go plowing into the newer ones on the playground. He let out a cheerful laugh as he threw his backpack off and swung high in the air. His brother had taught him the week before how to pump his legs back and forth.

Uchiha Sasuke loved his life at six years old.

Well just about anyways. He could do without the constant flocking of girls, and the annoyance of Uzumaki Naruto, but otherwise everything seemed grand.

"Ohh-kaah-saaan!" he heard a small girl whine. He had actually never heard that voice before, but the whining was a bad sign in itself. He turned his head to see if he could catch a glimpse of whoever might be there, he wanted to make sure it wasn't the cotton candy haired girl, or the pig.

"You have to go to school Ninta!" a woman dragged a blonde haired child up the walk grudgingly; "It's the only way we can live in the Uchiha complex!"

They lived in his complex? Since when? He had seen a couple people move in, but it had been a teenage boy and an older looking woman, not a girl his age! He watched the girl though. Although she had blonde hair like the pig, she wore it differently, and had a different eye shape and color. Her eyes were violet.

"I don't want to live in the Uchiha complex! I want to go back to Dragon Island!"

"How many times have I told you we can't do that?"

"Why not?" Ninta's voice was accusing as her Okasan stopped in the middle of the road. Sasuke felt tension between them, and wanted to say something to break it, but no words came to mind. After all they probably wouldn't have heard him either way. He only wanted to watch and see what would happen.

"Because I said so," he barely heard Ninta's Okasan say this, but he could still make out the words if he thought carefully.

"You always say that! I bet you're lying! I bet you hate me so much you're never going to let me see Otousan again or Peyton-o-sama! Well if you hate me so much Okasan I hate you too!" Ninta sobbed. Sasuke's mouth dropped wide open. No one he had ever known had ever spoken to their mother like that, especially a girl who was supposed to love them so much.

Ninta snatched her hand away from her mother and sauntered over to the playground with a dark cloud over her head. Sasuke wasn't so sure his morning was about to go as planned.

"Aishiteru," he heard her mother sigh, but Ninta gave no sign of hearing her.

Ninta marched rigidly to the spinning wheel Sasuke had watched the girls play on before while giggling and flirting with the boys in their classes.

Ninta just looked angry.

"Stop staring at me!" she snapped when she caught sight of him. She knew he had probably caught wind of the entire fight exchanged between her and her Okasan, and she couldn't have cared less. She didn't like boys yet, and wanted this one to go away.

Sasuke still stared though. The girl was different. He had gathered that much.

"Who are you?" Sasuke asked leaping off the swing. Ninta just glared at him when he landed on his feet.

"Who are you?" she hissed.

"Uchiha Sasuke. Now, what's your name?" Sasuke insisted stepping up to her. He wanted to know, before anyone else knew who she was. He wanted to be her friend before Kiba or Naruto could get a hold of her. He couldn't exactly explain the feeling in his gut, but he remembered his Nii-san always telling him to go on impulse.

"Uharuhi Ninta," her resentment seemed to inch a bit away, "Why do you want to know?"

" 'Cause," he smiled. That didn't give her the answer she wanted though.

Giving him a disapproving look she stood up and smirked over at the building.

"When does school start?" she asked.

"In about ten minutes. The other kids might get here in about five minutes. I'm always early. What classes are you taking?" Sasuke asked quickly, blushing because he never really talked this much, especially to a girl.

"Why?"

"Well don't tell me your taking all of the girly ones,"

"What are the girly ones?"

"There's flower arrangements and cooking. That kind of stuff,"

"I already know how to cook,"

"The teachers don't care,"

"I'm not taking any of the girly classes,"

"You're taking all of the boy ones?"

Ninta nodded.

Intrigued suddenly, he gave Ninta a small smile.

"Do you think the grown ups will let you?" he asked her as she began to move the wheel right and left.

Ninta was silent in thought. For one, boys never talked to her. Payton-o-sama only did because he was royal and she had Angelic's chakara in her.

"I hope so," she responded quietly. Sasuke sat down next to her on the wheel.

"Where'd you come from?"

Ninta stiffened on the subject.

"Why do you ask so many questions?"

Sasuke realized it was very unlike him to ask anyone but Itachi or Iruka-sensei questions. But the girl was interesting, and he wanted to know almost everything about her. He shrugged off her answer, and opened his mouth to repeat the question.

"Sasuke-teme, who are you talking to?" a familiar voice sounded as a small blonde boy stepped onto the playground. Sasuke groaned aloud as Ninta turned to the new boy.

"Go away Naruto," Sasuke sighed. He didn't like to be mean to anyone but the girls. And that was only to get them to go away. He definitely did not want Naruto taking interest in Ninta.

"Whatever Sasuke-teme. Hi," the boy named Naruto greeted Ninta with a wide smile, "Are you new here?"

Ninta bit back a sour 'Obviously moron', and tried to reflect his kindness.

"Yes, I'm Uharuhi Ninta. It's nice to meet you."

"You too! I'm Uzmaki Naruto!" he grinned sheepishly as Sasuke smirked beside them, "It's really nice here in the Leaf Village! I bet you'll like it! Iruka-sensei is pretty cool too! Although he teaches really boring lessons about chakara and everthing. You probably won't be interested. Most of the girls take flower arrangement classes and cooking and girl stuff. I don't know about you but—"

"Naruto," Sasuke warned as Ninta scooted closer to him in defense of Naruto's rambling. Obvioulsy she had never met someone as hyper active as him.

"I'm not taking any of the girly classes," Ninta explained expecting Naruto to break out into a new ramble.

"Oi! Naruto!" Two other boys were walking up. One was tan and had red markings on his cheek, the other wore a sunglasses and a shirt that covered half of his face.

"Bye Ninta-chan!" Naruto raced off without a second glance.

"He's kind of weird," Sasuke explained with a nervous chuckle.

"You think?" Ninta asked turning to him with a half smile. Sasuke laughed at that and marveled in his easy attempt of making her smile.

"W-Would you mind telling me who everyone is?" Ninta asked as more and more kids began to race onto the playground, "Just so I don't have to be introduced to absolutely everyone."

Sasuke gave a smile and agreed.

Ninta learned the boy with the red marks was named Kiba. The boy with the sunglasses was Shino. The girl who Kiba kept following around with short black hair was Hyugga Hinata. She was an heiress. The boy with the ponytail was Shikamaru. The chubby little boy with chips was Choji. The pink haired girl was refered to by Sasuke as 'Sakura-demon'. That had made Ninta laugh softly. But she went into hysterics when Sasuke had told her about 'Ino-pig'.

"That's mean Sasuke," Ninta poked him with a laugh. Sasuke laughed as well and poked her back.

"Sasuke-kun!" they both heard the cries, but only Sasuke scrambled up.

"What's wrong?" Ninta asked standing up after him.

"That's them," Sasuke explained looking around for a hiding place.

"Oh," Ninta turned around to spot two girls racing towards them with arms outstretched and love written all over their faces. She was suddenly grabbed by the hand and lugged off behind a near by tree.

"Isn't it good they like you?" Ninta asked quietly as they crouched down.

"No!" Sasuke growled waiting for the girls to stop looking for him, "I don't like girls."

Ninta hesitated as she watched her new friend. Didn't like girls? Well that was downright strange of him. But what could she do? It wasn't as if she actually…She didn't like him at all. She couldn't get attached here.

She wanted to go home.

But still…she couldn't help but wonder.

"I'm a girl," Ninta mentioned quietly looking away. Sasuke clued in suddenly and looked back at her with a flourishing smile.

"I guess I do like girls."