A/N I'm still going to refer to Hinata as Kaoru, him/he, etc. just so it doesn't get all that confusing for me and for you. Okay?

Chapter 2

"H-how did you…?" Kaoru's mind was going a mile a minute, thinking about all the outcomes that would come from this. All of them ended in being expelled.

"It wasn't that hard. Especially since your shirt is half-open. I can tell there is something under your tank top. And then you just gave me the final answer. I was guessing until that." Kakashi stared right at him, giving a slight smile. "So why are you here?"

"Can you keep a secret?"

"It depends on how big of a secret it is." Kakashi gave a smile, his eyes showing truth. "But I won't tell this one."

"You swear you will keep this one?" Kakashi nodded and Kaoru sighed, looking anywhere but at Kakashi. "I'm Hyuuga Hinata."

Sasuke froze outside, wondering if he heard that correctly. The whole conversation was surprising to him, but that part stopped him short. "I should have figured." Kakashi took off his glasses, rubbing the bridge of his nose. "Just how did the daughter of Hyuuga Hiashi end up in our school as a boy, in my office after a fight on her first day of school?"

Kaoru shrugged. "You're going to let me stay? And you won't tell anyone?"

"Yes. I'm quite curious to how this will all play out." He glanced at the bruise that was forming on Kaoru's cheek from a punch. "Now that I know all this, can I make sure you are actually okay?"

"I'm fine. And I told you I would come back here if something happens to me." He went to get off the bed and finally was allowed. "I'll be going." Kakashi nodded and watched as Kaoru left, the bruise bright on his pale cheek, the ice pack sitting on the table next to the bed. What did I just get myself into?

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"So you're fine?" Sasuke pushed off from the wall across from the door to Kakashi's office as Kaoru walked out.

"Yes. Thank you so much. If you hadn't come, I probably wouldn't be. I'll take full blame for it." Kaoru dipped his head in thanks to the older boy.

"I didn't go for you. I'd just wanted to put my necklace in the locker. And I expected you to." Without glancing back at Kaoru, he led the way to the principal's office. But he couldn't get the bruise on Kaoru's cheek out of his mind.

When they entered, the four from before were still sitting in the chairs, so the two had no choice but to stand next to the coach. The old man behind the desk scanned the faces of all the students, stopping on Kaoru's. "Ah, Kaoru. It's your first day and you are already involved in a fight?"

"I'm sorry, sir." He dipped his head, not even bothering to say it wasn't his fault.

"Gai, would you care to tell me what happened?" He turned to the coach that broke up the fight, looking for an answer.

"I don't know, sir. I was preparing the class when was a bang from the locker room. By the time I got there, these two," he gestured to the two in front of him sitting in the chairs, "were trying to hit Sasuke and the other two were punching the new student." He looked down a little, but he still seemed happy for a teacher that just broke up a fight.

"Very well. Kabuto, care to tell me what happened?" He turned to the student right in front of Gai.

"We were just trying to get changed when newbie over there was getting all in our face about how cool he was since Uchiha likes him and hangs out with him. He tried to punch me but missed and then Uchiha came and punched me. We were just trying to protect ourselves." He seemed to be as good at lying as the principal was at sensing lies.

His eyes turned to Kaoru. "Kaoru?"

"I was changing and he came along and just punched me with his friends holding me so I couldn't do anything. Sasuke came to put something in his locker and ended up stopping them. They started fighting and then I was being choked and punched. That's when Gai-sensei came." He looked so weak telling the story, and Sasuke thought back to the conversation he had heard at the nurse's office. If they knew, would they have still done it?

"Very well." He placed his hands on the desk, clasping them as he looked at each of the students again. "Two weeks detention. All of you."

"Sasuke shouldn't get detention." Everyone, even Kaoru himself, was surprised at what came out of his mouth. "He didn't do anything wrong, all he did was try to help me."

"Kaoru, stop." Sasuke grabbed the boy's shoulder, turning Kaoru to face him. "I threw a punch, I'll take the punishment. However," he turned to face the principal, "Kaoru honestly did nothing but get attacked. He should not have detention."

"Why not just watch the security cameras, sir?" Gai looked at the man behind the desk as he nodded.

"Very well. Go get them, Gai. You six stay here." The four who were starting to stand sat back down as Gai ran out of the room, returning minutes later with a disk in hand. The faces of the four went pale as the disk was placed in a computer on the desk. A minute later, the computer was turned so that all of them could see. It started from Sasuke handing Kaoru the shirt and they watched as Sasuke walked away and the four jumped forward from around the corner. Kabuto tapped Kaoru on the shoulder while he was facing his locker and as the boy jumped and turned around, he was grabbed by one person on each arm, the final sending a fist flying right into his face.

The principal and Gai watched the screen intently while the four sitting in the chairs looked down, cursing their luck, and Kaoru closed his eyes, not really wanting to see himself get beat up. Sasuke watched the screen but also paid attention to Kaoru, glancing back and forth between the two.

As what Kaoru said to be true happened, the heads of the four went lower and lower. "I've changed my mind. The four of you," he looked at the four in front of his desk, "a month's detention and no special privileges for this semester. Sasuke, two days detention. Kaoru, none. You may all return to the locker room to change back to proper clothing. But Kaoru, you stay." As the others left, Kaoru stood there, finally taking a seat when they were free. "Why was Sasuke giving you a shirt in this?" He motioned to the screen to say what he was talking about, but Kaoru already knew.

"We were swimming today, and I said I don't like showing my chest. He gave it to me so that I could wear it." He tried to focus on the principal as he spoke, but the best he could do was look at the desk in front of him.

"Ah… That's all. You may return to class as well." Without needing to be told again, Kaoru got out of the room as fast as possible.

And standing outside was Sasuke. "I was told to show you the way. Come on." Maybe he wasn't as pissy as Naruto said.

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"Did you two know each other before Kaoru came here? You seem so close." Kaoru choked on the water he just drank while Sasuke simply looked up from his plate, staring at Naruto's chopsticks so close to his face. Around the table, the others nodded, agreeing with the blonde for one.

"No. He's just less annoying than you." Sasuke returned to eating while Kaoru tried to remember how to breathe again, still coughing slightly from the near-death experience he just had that went ignored by everyone. "Hey, are you okay?"

"Y-yeah." He finally caught his breath. "We actually went to the same elementary school."

"Did we? I don't remember." Sasuke ate a piece of egg, trying to recall any memories of elementary school, any at all. None came.

"Yeah, you were a heartbreaker, even in first grade. What was her name? Sakura? Something like that." He smirked a little at the memory but returned to his own meal.

"Tell me about that!" Naruto almost jumped up at the chance to learn more about Sasuke.

Kaoru glanced at Sasuke out of the corner of his eye, but he seemed just as interested, if not more. "She was this really annoying kid and she followed him around everywhere. I'm pretty sure she even had gotten pictures of him somehow and hung them on her walls. But one day, she told Sasuke how much she loved him, telling him she had ten dollars for him if he liked her back. He took the money and then told her how much he hated her. She didn't come back to school for weeks after that." Naruto snorted, looking at Sasuke, who was smirking slightly.

"I remember that. I had needed five more dollars for my first high jump bar, so I took it from her and then told her I didn't like her. She ran off crying from the playground and locked herself in the bathroom. One of the teachers had to break down the door to get her out." That memory seemed to open more from his childhood. And, deciding to be the ass everyone knew him as, he decided to mess with the person sitting next to him that was not who they said they were. "Do you remember Hyuuga Hinata? She was such a weird kid. Always alone."

"Yeah… I remember her." He didn't say anything else, but someone else quickly took the conversation over.

"Isn't she the daughter of Hiashi who went missing?" Around the table, everyone nodded to Kiba.

"I heard Hiashi's going insane looking for her." The boy paused to stuff his face with food. "Hey Neji, how's everyone taking it?" Choji looked to the nephew of the leader they were talking about, but the boy didn't respond at first.

"It's pretty crazy at the house. I'm glad I stay here, let's just leave it at that." He shrugged, pushing the food around on his plate but not eating any of it.

Kaoru stopped eating to stare at Neji. "She is your cousin. Don't you care that she is missing?"

Neji stopped too to stare back at Kaoru. "Learn your place. You know nothing about her or my family." Kaoru went to argue back, but something dawned on him before he could say anything. Angrily, he leaned back in his seat, not eating anymore. As the others talked around him, he stayed silent. When Sasuke finished, the two cleaned up and walked out together.

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"Are you going to the practice today?" Sasuke leaned back in his desk chair, taking a break from studying to look across the small room at Kaoru.

"I don't know. Am I even allowed? It's the middle of the track season. Should I join when the next begins?" He didn't even bother looking up from his math book, biting the eraser on his pencil as he stared at a problem, wishing it would solve itself.

"Just come. Even if you aren't actually on the team, you can still practice with us." Sasuke stretched backwards, using it as an excuse to see the problem that was stumping Kaoru. "What are you stuck on?"

"Nothing. I just don't feel like doing it." The younger boy sighed, closing the book and opening a laptop instead. "When's the practice?"

"Ten minutes." Sasuke stood, not even bothering to close his book as he left the desk. "You better get ready." Kaoru practically jumped up from the desk, slamming the laptop shut as he did so. Without saying anything, he took the stairs two at a time to climb faster. "I guess you are coming?" He got no reply, only the slamming of a drawer. A few seconds later, the curtain that surrounded the small floor was dragged shut. "I'll take that as a yes."

Getting into his own workout clothes at a much slower pace, Sasuke barely held back a chuckle when Kaoru came down the stairs looking everywhere but at his part of the room. The boy grabbed his running shoes by the door and put on his normal shoes before leaning against the wall. "Are you done yet?"

"Yeah. Come on." Sasuke walked around the corner with his shirt thrown over his shoulder, running shoes on top of it. Sliding another pair on easily, he led the way out of the room. As they walked, he put the shirt on, noticing the way Kaoru looked anywhere but at him the whole time. So I guess he really is a girl.

"What do you normally do at the practices?" Kaoru seemed like such an innocent little girl with how he glanced at Sasuke from the corner of his eye, hair falling into his face and a curious look in his eyes.

"Things." Sasuke didn't even bother elaborating on it, just heading into the gym. When Kaoru entered, everyone in the room stopped their warm-ups to stare him as he walked behind Sasuke to Gai.

"Ah, a new face!" Gai stood in front of Kaoru, studying the boy and making him feel smaller than he already was, especially compared to the giant of a coach. "Why are you here?"

"He's a runner." Sasuke didn't say anything more, walking over to the other boys and starting to stretch, leading to them copying one by one.

"A runner? You seem pretty tiny for that… Oh, well you have to be good to get into this school, so will test that in a little." Gai clapped Kaoru on the shoulder, and the boy stumbled from it, his eyes closing from the pain of it.

"I-I also high jump." The clapping on the shoulder stopped and when Kaoru opened his eyes again, all the students and Gai were staring at him. Even Sasuke had frozen mid-stretch, still reaching for his foot, to stare at Kaoru. What did I just do?