...Hi. Im incredibly tired right now. anyway, let me talk about my day. Ya see what happened was...*a few hours later*...and then for some reason it exploded! I was like *what tha fu-* but in any case, i think i better start the chapter now.


Ino dragged me around the village, showing me the sights. She showed me good restaurants, some hotsprings, a library, and some clothing stores. Especially the clothing stores. Ino wanted me to buy some new clothes, but that is where I put my foot down. I did "not" want new clothes. I told her the ones I had were fine. So going from store to store, Ino bought clothes and other stuff and made me carry them, all the while trying to make me buy new clothes. Was there something wrong with my clothes? It's a valid question at this point.

After all the shopping we settled down in a small tea shop. We ordered some tea, though I hate tea, I was forced to drink it in my old world, mother loved tea. I swear, I lost half my life drinking all that tea. "You know, going shopping, then having tea, this is kinda like a da-" Ino slammed her hand on the table really loud.

"Don't finish that." Heads turned towards us, but soon enough, they turned back to what they were doing. Ino's face was red, but she sat down and recovered. After a few minutes, she continued. "This is "not" one of those. You wanted to look around the village. I just helped you."

"And forced me to go shopping with you."

"I was going to do that anyway."

"Then why did you try to get me to buy some new clothes?"

"It's a "bit" embarassing to be seen around you while you wear that."

"Oh. Well, Imma just go then." I tried to stand up, but Ino quickly waved me back down. By wave, I mean forceably grab me and push me back into the seat.

"Don't go yet! You still have to carry these back home for me!" So, I'm like, a gopher?

"Whatever. Just hurry up." A few minutes later, we wee out of the tea shop and I was walking Ino back home, carrying all her bags. When we got there, she said thanks and took the bags from me and ran inside. I continued walking down the street until I found something to do. But in the end, I didn't know what to do. As I was walking, I ran into Naruto. He didn't see me yet, but I saw him. My eyes widened in shock and then I turned 180 degrees and ran back and down some side alleys. Hopefully he didn't see me.


I was laying down on the hokage statue at night, when I heard a noise. It came behind me from the bushes. The sound of bushes moving, was followed by the sound of hissing. 'Hissing? Like a snake?' I thought to myself as I sat up and turned towards the sound. I watched the bushes that were moving until something slithered into view. It was a small, red snake. Porbably a baby snake. My eyes wide and my body ready to move out of the way as fast as it can go, I approached the snake. The snake was completely red, except for a few patterns of black and white, going around the body like a circle. Red, black, white, black, red. I didn't know if it would be a poisonous snake, but I'm good with snakes. At the snake's size, it would barely have any fangs. So even if it "does" bite me, I would be alright. I think.

The snake stood up a little, looking at me. It flicked out its tongue, making a hissing sound. I approached slowly, in a crouch. I extended my right hand towards the snake, when the snake suddenly flug itself at my hand, mouth wide. I didn't see any fangs, but I'd rather not find out they were just growing, barely protruding from its mouth. I moved my hand out of the way, and then as it flew past me, I slide my hand onto its body and grabbed its tail before it completely past me. Uusally you don't grab a snake by the tail, however, I wanted to. The snake's skin felt a bit bumpy and scaley. Just like my pet snake. I let go of the tail and the snake landed on the ground and turned towards me preparing for its next attack. 'It's definetly male.' I thought to myself. The snake lunged itself at me, and this time, I caught its head. I stared into the snakes eyes. They were red, like mine. I liked this snake. My old one was green, this one matched my eyes. Plus, I could use him to scare Ino and other people. Especially Ino. To get back at her for today, this is the only way. I grinned and brought the snake home.


The next day, me and Ryu, bonded quickly. We went to sleep last night like friends. We awoke like best friends. The snake absolutely. I "think" I can bring a pet to school right? I mean, that one guy, Kiba, brings that dog. But I'm pretty sure his clan treats dogs like their brothers or sisters. Man, this world is weird. Atleast I have my snake. Since he's small, I might as well bring him. I'll show him to Iruka and ask if I can bring him on other days. If not, I'll just leave him home.

When I got to the academy, I made my way to Iruka to talk to him. When I found him, he looked busy, but I didn't really care. He was doing some paperwork when I barged in with a huge grin on my face. "What do you want?" Iruka asked, but then I showed him my red snake, Ryu.

"Hey Iruka, can I bring Ryu to my classes? He wont bite anyone. I promise."

Iruka studied the little snake. After a while of investigating it, he sighed and said, "Fine. Do whatever you want. Just make sure he doesn't wander off." I thanked Iruka, and placed Ryu on my shoulder, who curled around it, from my left shoulder to right. His tail was on my left, and his head was placed in the air so he could look forward. He slowly moved it down onto my shoulder, because he found that he was short enough to be able to place his head on my shoulder and look forward at the same time. I entered class, and found a seat in the back on the row next to the left. I was actually the first one in, so I waited for the next person. That person just happened to be Kiba. Wearing a grey-hooded fur jacket and black pants, with an akamaru on his head, he entered the room and instantly saw me. He also saw the snake.

"Yo! Why you got a snake?" He ran up to where I was and stared at the snake, who inturn, hissed at him. Akamaru started growling a nonintimidating growl at my snake.

"Oh, you know. I found him when I was laying down yesterday. His name is Ryu." My snake hissed at my ear at the sound of his name. His rough tongue tickled my ear.

"Well whatever. Akamaru is way better than your snake." He then went to his usual place and sat down. After several more classmates entered the room, Ino finally made her way in. She didn't see me, so I started my mission. I whispered a few words to Ryu, who reacted by hissing quietly into my ear, and then slithered off me and down the stairs, towards where Ino sat.

"Whahaha.." I said out loud, but quiet enough that Ino wouldn't hear me. Ryu slithered past several students and made his where next to Ino. He turned hs head back and looked at me. I gave him a thumbs up. He started twisting and sliding his way up Ino's chair, and finally, onto the desk infront of her. When she noticed Ryu, I could almost hear her eyes shooting out. Instead, I heard her shriek. That was when I started laughing loud enough for Ino to hear. Ino turned towards me and then it all made sense to her. She ignored the snake and walked up to me.

"YOU!" She said, still very angry. Ryu slid off her desk and slithered back up the stairs. Mission two, start. "What is with that snake?" She said pointing back to where she sat, to where she believed the snake was. "Answer me!"

"W-well, I found that snake the other day. I thought you'd like it so I..." I couldn't finish my words when Ino tried to slap me, but I leaned out of the way. Ryu made it to the top of the desk behind Ino.

Ino was giving me death stares. Any second now, she would turn around and see Ryu. Hurry up Ryu. "Is this how you treat me? I helped you yesterday with your stupid sightseeing!"

"Well, I'm sorry. I thought you'd appreciate him." I couldn't stop the smile that started spreading across my face. Ino didn't notice it. Ryu was now in place. "What can I do to apoligize?" I asked completely honest, though I still had that smile on my face. Everybody else in the room was staring up at us, and they definetly saw the snake.

"Well," started Ino as she thought about what would make it up to her. "You can start by getting rid of that snake from where I'm sitting!" Ino finally noticed my smile. "What's with that smile?"

"Oh. Well, Its already been done." Ino looked at me curiously. Slowly she turned around and looked behind her. And came face-to-face with Ryu. Ryu stretched his body, so when she turned around, they were facing eye-to-eye. Ino stared deeply into Ryu's eyes. Then, she shrieked for the second time that day. She fell backwards out of surprise, and landed on my desk. I looked down at her green eyes, trying not to laugh. Ino rolled off my desk, and angrily stomped down to where she was sitting earlier. Ryu slithered back onto my desk and up my arm and began resting back on my shoulders. I petted his head a few times saying good boy.


After classes were over, me and Ryu searched for Ino. I really wanted to apologize now. I didn't realize that doing what I did, would really freak her out. I also did "not" want to get fired from my job. Also, to not potentially get murdered by Mr. Yamanaka. That would be bad. After looking for her for a while, I finally found her walking in the street. I didn't really want to make a scene, so I'll just do it casually.

"Yo, Ino!" I called out to her. She barely turned around and faced me.

"Hey." As I ran up to the side of her, I noticed that she was looking at me very vehemently.

"What's wrong?" I asked innocently. Its like I don't know what I did to her earlier that day.

She stared at me for a few secons and then said, "Like you don't know."

"Look. I'm very sorry for what I did. I thought it was just a harmless prank. Didn't know you were scared of snakes." This stopped Ino in her tracks.

"I'm not scared of snakes!" yelled Ino. With her shouting like that, I'll be surprised if we "don't" gather a crowd.

"Okay. I'm sorry. I...just want to be friends with you." Its not like it was a "lie". It was a quarter part of the truth. I really didn't like people.

Ino judged me fairly. Or, rather, as fair as she could. "Then...I want you to go shopping me with."

"What? Didn't we go shopping, like, yesterday?"

"Yeah, but, I need to pick up a few more things."

"Fine. When do I have to go?"

"As soon as you leave that snake home." With that, Ino started pulling me towards where I live, in my little inn room. Maybe I should get my own house? I hear that you'll get one for free if you want to be a ninja, but most of your ninja pay will go to paying for it. Sounds great to me.


After dropping off Ryu, me and Ino entered a grocery store. "I'll get the stuff and you carry it. After this, we'll go get some tea, then we'll go to my place to drop the food off. Okay?"

"Sure." Ino led the way down the aisles, picking out bread, milk, and other food and cooking ingredients. Frankly, I was just bored. I should've snuck Ryu in, that would have been fun. After a while, Ino looked like she had everything, but wanted something else. "What are you missing?" I asked her.

"Ice cream."

"Ice cream?"

"Ice cream." Well. That was unexpected. Ice cream sounds great. I like ice cream.

"Well, lets go find it!" I started looking through the aisles until I found some ice cream. After a while of searching, and I can't believe it took so long, we finally found the ice cream. Ino searched through the ice cream and when she found the one she wanted, she through it with the other stuff. We went to the front of the store and paid for all the food. We left the store and Ino pulled me along to a tea shop.

I ordered some green tea and Ino did the same. At this point in our relationship, I was wondering what she would fell when I ask to go to the bathroom, but never come back...

"So. How are you enjoying Konoha?" Ino asked me waiting for our tea.

"It's pretty great. A lot better than my old life, but definetly worse in some ways..."

"Like what?"

"Well, you see, I really, "really" hate annoying people. They just drive me insane."

"Now I know why you insist in having a beautiful relationship with that snake."

"Hey! Leave Ryu out of it. He did nothing to you."

"What? He scared me! Twice!"

"Psh. It was my idea. I told him to do it."

"What? Can you talk to snakes or something?" Can I? That would be interesting. Maybe I should find a giant cobra and see if he'll talk to me. If he doesn't eat me, it means yes.

"Well. Looks like our tea is here, so better drink up." I quickly finished my green tea and began getting ready to go, but Ino stopped me.

"Wait! I want to know what it was like where you came from." Do I really have to do this? Well, I'll just keep this short.

"Hm. Well, I'm a genius. That's all you have to know."

"What? A genius? Then how 'bout you help me with my homework?"

"Yeah sure." If it will keep you from bugging me...

"Yay! Come on. Lets go."

"Go where?"

"To my house to do my homework." Shit. I should've never said I was a genius...

When we arrived at Yamanaka Flowers, we found Mr. Yamanaka tending to a customer's needs, so me and Ino went up the stairs and entered a room to the right. I could tell it wasn't her room, because there wasn't something to sleep on and the room didn't have anything to store clothes and all that. The room had a table in the middle, with four pillows around it. It seems like this is where the Yamanaka family discusses things. Or where Ino does her homework. Damn homework!

"Okay. How much do I have to do?" Maybe she already finished some of it...

"All of it." Curse my luck. Curse my life. No wait, not my life. Curse Ino. I started helping Ino with her homework, who argued that I should just do all of it, but I told her if I did it, Iruka would recognize my handwriting. That shut her up. Atleast now I just have to tell her the answers. I can just lie down and relax as Ino tells me the questions...Wait. What if, now follow me on this, Ino brought me here for a specific reason...maybe torture. To get back at me for the snake. What should I do? Jump through the window? No, she'd have it reinforced. The door? No, Mr. Yamanaka would hear me going down the stairs, and I think he already knows I'm here. What should I do?

"Say, Ino. Why am I here?"

"To do my homework."

"Anything else?"

"No. After this your leaving."

"What? No goodbye kiss?" Ino looked at me. She was kinda pissed. Change the subject.

"Well, I'll have you know I'm a busy man. I got things to do, so lets just hurry up." I sat up and read the questions for myself and told Ino what to write. It went a lot faster than Ino telling me the question and then answering. After about an hour and a half, Ino finally finished her homework, the homework I finished in about five minutes. She just writes so slow...

"Well, since we're done, I'm just gonna go. Bye Ino. Stay "Ino"cent." I chuckled at my lame joke and turned to go. Ino grabbed my shoulder.

"We're not done." She had her hand in a fist. I knew it would end this way.


I returned home with my face red from Ino punching it. Why did she punch it? Girls, thats why. You can never comprehend them. Mysterious beings. Unless your a girl, of course. Well, five months until I'm a genin. I wonder what waits for me after becoming a genin?


Hi. Girls. Thats all I can say. besides lame jokes get you punched XD. in any case, i hope your enjoying this, im not great with "romances" or "two characters talking to eachother". probably because i dont talk that much around other people.