Zazuken's P.O.V.
"Wakey, wakey." Someone said.
I slowly woke up and yawned. I opened my eyes and met lavender ones. We laughed as I pushed him off my bed. He got up and began getting dressed. I yawned loudly again and dressed up also. I saw Mikoto come in and open the curtains like every other day. Sasuke woke up shortly after. The alarm began ringing now. Mikoto shut it off.
"We don't need an alarm no more. Sano wakes up just on time." I said and Sano smiled. I smiled back at him.
"Yes but someday Sano will be sick and he won't be able to get up on time." Mikoto said.
"Impossible. I'm never sick." Sano said. I laughed. Mikoto smiled also and then left us. We all changed into our usual outfits. Then we left downstairs.
"Good morning!" Sasuke was the first to greet as we met up with the rest of the family. We ate our breakfasts.
"So when do you want to start on the training?" Itachi asked all of a sudden to Sano. Sano looked up to him emotionless like always.
"I was hoping as soon as possible." Sano muttered. Mikoto glanced at Fugaku which made me start supecting if we had said too much last night about our clan.
"Would you like to start as soon as you come from school?" Fugaku asked. Sasuke and Itachi both looked kinda suprised. I smirked. Maybe Fugaku was finally starting to like us...finally.
"Well,..." Sano began. Everyone was starring at him. Even Mikoto had stopped to watch.
"Well?" Fugaku asked. Sano looked up and frowned.
"Iruka said he wanted me to stay after school tomorrow for some reason." Sano responded. Mikoto looked worried.
"Did you get in trouble?" Mikoto asked. I looked at Sano, also curious to know.
"No, nothing like that. He just said he wanted me to help in something." Sano told us. I saw Mikoto smile.
"Did he tell you what?" She asked. Sano looked up at her.
"No. He just said to come." Sano said.
I nodded and glanced at the clock. It was already 8:49! I quickly grabbed both mine and Sano's packs and we hurried out the door. We ran to school, hoping not to be late. We burst through the door and all eyes were on us. The bell suddenly rang. We all sighed in relief. We made it just on time. Iruka smiled.
"Just on time. Take your seats. Today we're working with our partners." Iruka said.
We all went to our partners. I glanced at Sano and Nadare and saw Nadare blushing again. Sano was looking at her then he looked away. I almost fell off my seat at what I saw. Faintly but surely, there, on Sano's face, was the slight coloring of pink. I swear that it wasn't that noticible but it was there for sure! I looked away from him when Anko shoved me. I turned to her.
"We're suppose to be working on the project. Stop paying attention to those and start helping! I swore if I didn't know any better I'd think you were jealous of your brother since he gets to hang out with Nadare in which you seem to be showing you like." Anko said. I finally got what she ment and slightly glared.
"What gave you that impression?" I asked. Anko shoved the thought away and we began working on the project. I occasionly glanced at Sano from time to time.
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Sano's P.O.V.
I was now silently sitting by my desk. I knew that Zazuken had seen me blush but I just couldn't hold my embarrassment from what Nadare had said. I knew that another blush was creeping on my face again as I remembered. It was like a tape replaying over and over again in my head. I closed my eyes and saw it perfectly just like how it was.
Flashback
I was slowly making my way to my seat when Nadare looked at me. I sat down and ignored her until I noticed that she was starring. I glanced at her although she didn't notice. When I turned my head fully to her she blushed slightly.
"What are you starring at?" I asked. Nadare's blush darkened as she turned back to me. I saw her begin to bite her lower lip.
"I...I j-just rea-realized that w-we're t-the s-s-same." Nadare stuttered.
"How so?" I asked. She blushed harder as she moved her eyes to my own. We were now starring straight into each other's eyes.
"We both ha-have weird ha-hair and s-strange eyes. P-plus, we both l-lived th-through the s-s-same life. I can tell j-just by looking i-into your eyes that y-you lived a hard life. I-I have also." Nadare said. I was shocked. She knew so much just by looking at me. I realized also that I could tell she was unhappy.
"I see. I can also see that you lived a hard life. You lost someone...someone precious to you. Someone, say, your mother?" I said. Nadare blushed even harder and was now the color of a cherry.
"Y-yes. I can see that you have also." She said. I nodded slowly.
Her blush began fading. But it didn't completely. Only when we realized that we had been starring too long at each other, did we both look away and blush. I had also. The kids in front of us had looked back and watched. Luckily, they hadn't seen me blush for that would just ruin my life. I glanced and saw Zazuken surprised. I cursed at myself. He had seen.
End Flashback
Now Nadare and I didn't even want to look at each other. That was until we were forced to. Iruka was coming around making sure that everyone was doing what they were suppose to do. He saw that we weren't and came towards us.
"What's wrong guys?" He asked.
"Nothing." I quickly answered. He looked at both of us and smiled when he saw Nadare. I couldn't tell why since I didn't want to look at her.
"Listen, you two. Start this project now and forget about the rest of the things." Iruka said and left to another group. I finally got the strength to turn to Nadare after about five minutes. She wasn't looking though so I tapped her shoulder. She seemed surprised but looked at me. She blushed while biting her lip again.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to work on the project together. So we need to plan when and where to meet in order to study and train." I said. Nadare nodded. I sighed and leaned back into my chair while crossing my arms in front of me. A frown played at my face.
"What do you think we should do?" Nadare asked. For once she wasn't stuttering. I closed my eyes.
"We can meet at the training grounds close to the park to train." I said. She nodded slowly.
"When should we meet?" She asked. I opened my eyes and saw her writing something.
"Maybe on weekeds. We do have until the end of the school year for this." I said. I looked at what she was writing and only saw the faint image of a person. Iruka made the class stop so Nadare put the drawing away. We all looked at Iruka.
"Alright children! Its time for recess! Take the time to start your training for the projects." He said. All the kids ran out of the room and to the yard. I made my way quickly into the yard without letting Zazu find or catch up to me.
"What are we going to train on?" Nadare asked me once we had chosen our spot to train. I leaned against a tree and crossed my arms again.
"We can start on our nin jutsus. What do you know?" I asked Nadare. She looked at me and blushed slightly.
"Some jutsus from my dad." Nadare said. I nodded and walked over to her.
"Alright. Let's get started then." I said. Nadare nodded and she readied herself to perform her jutsus.
Nadare began performing seals and soon her hands were glowing white. I noticed that a strong force was coming from the ground and soon saw something like a white weasel with dark blue eyes come from the ground. Nadare moved her hands forward. The weasel leeped in that direction. The weasel became wind and all the trees close by were knocked down. Nadare's hands stopped glowing. She turned to me.
"Not bad." I said while smirking. Nadare smiled softly and blushed.
"What jutsus do you know?" She asked.
"I can only show you one since that's the only one not forbidden." I said. She nodded so I moved into my position.
I did my own handseals and a dark purple chakra came from me. It swirled around me. I then gathered my chakra to my chest. I blew out the chakra from my lungs as they became black flames. It was a giant fireball. The fire burned until about ten minutes. I saw that all of the trees were now burned. I then heard footsteps from behind us. I saw Iruka come.
"Great jutsu. I want you to bring your mother and father here tomorrow. I need to have a parent teacher confrence with the parents of all the students. Don't be late." Iruka said and left. The bell rang again so we left inside.
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Zazuken's P.O.V.
"Oh no. Parent teacher confrences..." I groaned. Anko laughed next to me. Iruka then made us all quiet down. We sat quietly as he began explaining why there were parent teacher confrences so early.
"Ya see, the Hokage has ordered these confrences so that we can tell your parents your success and some things that are expected of you for the rest of the academy. Basically it's like an ordinary confrence." Iruka said and laughed nervously. We all laughed. One girl raised her hand.
"Does this mean that we don't have school tomorrow?" She asked. Iruka laughed evily.
"You do have school." He said. Some kids groaned.
"And what's worse is that your parents are watching you all day..." I heard Sano mutter. Everyone was looking at him surprised. I saw that he was drawing like usual. He wasn't paying attention at all.
"Right!" Iruka said laughing.
"This can't be happening!" One kid yelled. The others soon joined in. I guessed they were afraid that their parents would be around. The bell rang a short while after. Man, the days go by fast!
"Lunch time!" Iruka yelled.
All the kids left to lunch still worried. I met up with Sano who easily showed that he was trying to avoid me. As soon as I met up with him he said he had to go with Nadare. I saw as the two left to the yard to eat. Sasuke snapped me from my thoughts. He made me join him and some other Uchihas and Hyugas. We ate and talked together. Soon the bell rang again so we left to the class again. Sano was sitting with Nadare and I had to go with Anko. We did a few worksheets and a lot of other work. Then we left home. I waited for Sano but realized that he had to stay after school like he mentioned earlier. I had to leave and as soon as I got home, Mikoto began nagging me about why I had come back late and all that stuff.
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Sano's P.O.V.
"It's so great that you decided to come." Iruka told me as I walked to his desk.
"Not like I wanted to stay at home all bored." I responded.
"Don't you do your homework?" He asked. I smirked at him.
"Yeah but your lessons are too easy. I finish them in minutes." I said. Iruka looked kinda surprised. Then he smiled.
"Moving on then. I wanted you to help me clean out the students' lockers. They leave a bunch of things that really need to go in their desks." Iruka said. I nodded.
"So what am I looking for?" I asked.
"Such things as notebooks, pens, pencils,etc. Things that should be in desks." Iruka said. I nodded and went to the lockers. I began cleaning.
I soon got to Zazuken's and decided to see what he had. All I found were some notebooks, lots of gum, weapons, pens, and my absolute favorite, a love note. I decided to read the love note and found out that it was from a Hyuga girl in our class. I placed it back in the locker when I sensed Iruka coming close by. I took the things that should have been in the desks and put them there. Then I went back to the lockers and continued. I was at Nadare's locker now. I checked if the things were her's. As I looked over her notebook I found a page with a picture of someone in there. I realized that this was actually her sketchbook like my own. Can't hurt to take a peek, I thought. So I began flipping the pages.
I realized that Nadare wasn't such a bad drawer. I saw that she especially loved to draw things such as sunsets, trees, and just plain nature. I then came to a page with a person. I think it looked like the Kazekage from Sand. I turned the page and saw someone that kinda looked like me. Iruka was coming so I closed the book and continued working. I wondered why Nadare had drew someone that looked like me?
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Zazuken's P.O.V.
"My goodness. What could be taking him so long?" Mikoto asked for the hundredth time that night. I stopped and looked at my fingers, boredly. I then looked at Sasuke and Itachi who were next to me. They looked bored also.
"I lost count. Anyone wanna tell me how many times she's said that?" I asked. Both Sasuke and Itachi began looking at their fingers. Itachi then looked at me.
"That's the one hundred and twenty eighth time she's said that." Itachi said. I nodded and we all then looked at the television that was turned off.
"I don't know why anyone made the rule that we aren't suppose to watch TV after eight." I said.
"I'm missing my favorite serie." Sasuke said. We all sighed. Then we waited and waited and waited until finally Sano came in. Mikoto obviously ran to hug him. Sano looked bored also.
"What took ya so long?" I asked. He sat with us.
"Iruka made me go to a meeting with him to see the Hokage." Sano said bored. I had no idea why he thought that was boring but I just left it at that and we all then sat watching the blank TV.
"Can we please turn it on?" Sasuke asked again.
"No." Fugaku simply answered. Sano sighed.
"If I give you my medal, will I be able to turn it on?" Sano asked. All looked at him. He looked bored. Fugaku looked surprised.
"What medal?" Mikoto asked. Sano lazily reached into his pack and pulled out a giant, well not giant but kinda big and it looked heavy too, medal from his bag and showed it to us. He placed it on my lap. I just stared at it.
"Where did you get that from?" Itachi asked. Sano sighed as he searched in his bag again. This time he pulled out an envelope and handed it to Mikoto. She began reading it then looked shocked and handed it to Fugaku. He read it also.
"It says here that the Hokage gave it to you." Itachi said after he was handed the letter. All of them looked surprised. I fingered the giant medal. I couldn't stop starring at it.
"Why?" Sasuke asked. I could hear a bit of venom in his voice.
"I don't know. They just gave it to me saying something 'bout them being glad I was in their academy and village. Oh and they wanted me to give this to you, Zazu." Sano said and handed me a medal also. Sano took his and handed me my own.
"I wonder why." I heard fugaku softly say. My ears were like a bat's so yeah.
"By the way, Parent Teacher Con-"
"Don't bother. I already told them." I interupted Sano. He smirked.
"I hope all of you got more than satisfactory grades." Fugaku said.
"You can expect that from me, Dad." Sasuke said. I glared at him. I saw that Sano was also.
"What are you trying to say, Sasuke?" Sano asked. Oh no. Here we go again.
"Nothing. I'm just sayin-"
"What? That we ashame your name?" Sano quickly interupted. He then went upstairs like nothing had happened. I slowly moved my eyes down to the medal and without knowing, pulled it up and held it to my chest. I knew my face looked like I was about to cry. I always looked like that now a days. I then realized something. My lips became a smile.
"That kinda rhymed."