"In your dreams! He's this guy at school that every girl fawns over. Kami knows why..."

"You sound jealous."

"Not even. They're all over him, but he never shows interest. Sometimes I really believe he's gay."

"He's not gay!"

"Are either of you close friends of his?"

"Not really."

"Then who's to say if he is or isn't? I mean, most guys are straight, but who knows?"

Karin seemed upset at my answer, and Suigetsu chuckled. We sat there chatting about random stuff for about half an hour before the bell finally rang. Suigetsu and Karin invited me to sit with them at lunch.

We had plum pierogis with carrots, broccoli, pecans, chocolate pudding, and the choice of milk or chocolate milk. I went and poured some ranch dressing on my vegetables before I followed the two to their table. Since the gym was next to the cafeteria, our few were the first ones there. I was about halfway finished with my food when another redhead approached our table.

"Geez, Rori. You eat fast," Suigetsu commented.

"More like I eat a lot. I'm used to eating like every hour, so I end up having an appetite and getting hungry quicker and more than a person usually would."

"Hey guys."

"Hey Jugo."

"Hey Jugo. Meet our new pal, Rori. This is the person we met after the flight."

I waved to him since my mouth was full of food.

"Oh yeah. I remember you."

"So Jugo, do you think Rori is a guy or girl?"

Both Karin and I choked on our food.

"Will you let that go?!" Karin demanded as I began to laugh.

"Rori said she was a girl," Jugo said, a bit confused at the question.

"Yeah, but like Rori also said, you never really know."

"Ha, dude, that was applied to a totally different situation," I chuckled out as Jugo continued.

"I don't know. I thought it was pretty obvious."

The three of us looked to him in disbelief.

"You're kidding."

"That would make you the first person to not have mistaken me for a guy."

"Really?"

All three of them turned to me, expressions in surprise. I just smirked in a style to let them know that it was a long story for another time.

The bell rang and I headed off to science class with Orochimaru. ...I guess he seemed sweet, in the creepiest kind of way possible. Every creepy teacher has their crazy idolizing student. Orochimaru's happened to be in the same class as mine. His name's Kabuto Yakushi. Everyone else in the class seemed normal and seemed to be sitting far away from Kabuto, so I ended up sitting next to him.

He glanced at me with an uncaring look on his face and took notice of my presence. I only nodded at him, and he turned back. Too bad there was a glare on his lenses, I love looking at poeple's eyes. It's a weird kind of quirk, I guess. Orochi, the nickname I subconsciously gave my teacher because his name was so long, wasted no time in getting to work and took us straight to the library to check out textbooks. On the way, I was approached by a blonde who was also in my class.

"Hey, you really shouldn't hang around Kabuto, ya know?"

"And you shouldn't tell people who and who not to hang with. We can figure it out on our own."

"But I-"

"Later," I cut him off, walking faster.

"-But Deidara!"

"Tobi, go bug someone in your own class and leave me alone!"

"Oh ... Okay ..."

We were behind another class that was headed for the library to get textbooks. The boy turned to me. He had short black hair and black eyes.

"Hey, I know you!"

I smirked as I caught up to him, and we ended up walking together.

"I doubt it."

"Oh, but I do. You're the new guy, right? Rori Summers?"

"Hmm, looks like you know your people."

"Only what I hear from others. People don't like me very much, so I don't have many friends."

"Why not ? You seem like a nice guy."

"Would you like to be my friend?"

Who is this joker? He serious?

"Sure Tobi."

"Oh, I'm so excited! I haven't made a new friend in quite a while!"

We ended up getting our books and returning to class with time to spare. Everyone went back to the seats they were in before we left class, except Tobi decided he would sit next to me in the seat that wasn't behind Kabuto. We had a good long conversation all the while with mostly Tobi speaking and me adding in when it was necessary. Class finally ended.

"Hey, so what class do you have next? I've got PE!"

"Math."

"Awe, we won't have class together. Wait, I think you have class with Deidara-sempai!"

"Hmm?"

"Hey, Deidara-sempai!"

"Tobi! Go to class, hmm!"

"Wait, I want to introduce you to my new friend Rori!"

"Who? Tobi, quit bothering me with your imaginary friends."

"What? No, he's real! He was just here, I swear! Deidara!"