Beep. Beep. Beep

I groaned before I turned and hit snooze on my alarm clock. I slowly got up from my bed and walked over to the bathroom. My black hair looked like a bird's nest. I turned on the shower, the mirrior quickly fogged up. As I stepped in the shower I remembered the events of yesturday. I was a Genin now. The image of those two boys poped up. They looked no older then thirteen. Maybe I could become friends with them...or not. The blonde one was too loud, and there was something about the other one that made me uncomfortable.

Step two: make friends.

When I was younger I didn't have any friends, nobody seemed to like me. Not that I cared, all I needed back then was my fam-, stop thinking about them! I shook my head and turned off the shower facet and stepped out.

I thought that if I was able to make at least one friends, it would help me forget the past. But if I couldn't make friends back then, who would want to be my friend now?

As I finished drying my body and hair and I started putting on my everyday clothes. All this thinking was starting to hurt. So I decided to stop thinking.

As I finished putting my hair in a ponytail I tied my forehead protecter around my neck. I was ready. Ready for what? To put step two in action.

"Hey where's Kakashi-sensei?" Asked the blonde headed ninja while looking around.

"Late," answered the silent Uchiha. Just as he said that, there was a small poof.

"Hey, sorry I'm late, there was an old la-," he got cut off by Naruto and Sakura yelling.

"LIAR!"

Kakashi sighed, before raising his hands in defeat. "All right, I just needed to tell you three that I need to go on a mission for a few days, so you guys can take a break from training."

"You made us wait for hours just to tell us that!" Yelled Sakura angrily.

Kakashi just shrugged his shoulders and poofed away.

Sakura then turned to Sasuke and smilied, trying to catch his attention.

"Hey Sasuke, wanna hang out?"

Sasuke kept his emotionless face. He was about to say no before being dragged away by Sakura. He tried to pull away but Sakura had his arms in a death grib.

"Hey! Wait up!" Naruto quickly caught up to them, much to Sakura's dismay.

Soon, all three of them were walking along the streets of Konoha. Sasuke, having nothing better to do, decided to tag along. As they turned the corner they saw everyone else. And by everyone else they meant all of Rookie 9.

Unknown to them there was someone hidden in the shadows, observing them.

I was walking around Konoha when I saw the two boys from yesterday. And they weren't alone. They were with other people. I got curious and jumped to the nearest tree, still close enough to see and hear them. My eyes were on the blonde. He was laughing and smiling with everyone else. They all seemed comfortable around him…they seemed to enjoy his company...

"Naruto you baka!" Screamed the pink haired girl as she raised her fist to hit him as everyone laughed. So his name was Naruto.

"Ow Sakura, that hurt!" So her name was Sakura. She was arguing with Naruto and someone named Ino. The others looked slightly annoyed by their fighting. My eyes traveled to the another and I started catching their names.

Hinata, Shino, Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji, and Sasuke.

I felt like a stalker.

Sasuke seemed to be well liked but… he seemed to be annoyed by their company. Sakura and Ino were practically throwing themselves at him. I would be annoyed too. They all had different personalities and yet they were all friends. Well, as far as I could tell they were friends.

Something they all had in common though was that they were all…silly? With the exception of Sasuke of course. They seemed kind of easy going like they didn't have a care in the world. I hated that.

But maybe I could get used to it… I wanted know how it felt to have friends, to be surrounded by people that care about you, people that are like your second family. They could ease the pain.

I gave a small sigh. Sasuke's head snapped up and he looked right at me. I quickly tried to hide behind the trees branches. I didn't want them to think I was a stalker. After a few seconds I peeked out. Maybe he didn't see me.

A kunai flew right passed me and hit the tree bark right next to my head. I was so surprised and shocked that I lost my balance and fell out of the tree. I closed my eyes as I hit the ground. Crap!

I slowly got up and opened my eyes. Staring right back at me were bright blue eyes.

"Who are you?," asked Naruto.

I didn't answer him and instead I looked around to see everyone staring at me. Saying I felt uncomfortable was an understatement. I guess being away from civilization does that to you.

I looked at Naruto for a moment before smiling at him. A fake smile, but he didn't seem to notice that.

"Hello! I'm Atsuai! Nice to meet you!" Fake. To others I would have sounded happy. But I was being fake.

Naruto stuck out his hand. I stared at it for a second before taking it. He helped me up before he introduced himself. Then everyone came up and introduced themselves. To each one I smiled.

The only one that didn't come up to me was Sasuke. Not that that mattered to me.

"I've never seen you around before, but you have a leaf village forehead protector," said Naruto.

"Well I used to live here near the academy before I decided to move near the village walls," away from everyone, I added silently to myself. "I just moved back and yesterday I got this," I pointed to my neck, where my forehead protector was.

Soon we were all talking like old friends. I really enjoyed it. But somehow it felt wrong. I was tricking them in believing I was someone else. Someone happy, someone who didn't have a care in the world, someone like them. That wasn't me. But I liked this feeling of being with other people. Besides, if they knew how I really was. If they knew who I was, they would turn their backs on me and walk away.

And I would make sure that didn't happen.

Well that was chapter two! Please review, they make me happy!