Chapter SIX

Sakura spent around thirty minuted every night before she slept studying. She still had problems reading some of the words, but had greatly improved. Her books were full of post-its and handwritten notes. Sometimes Sasuke joined her and they studied together.

Sakura sat back on her chair and stretched. School started tomorrow. The Uchiha clan had supplied for everything she needed. Mikoto had insisted she carry a few hidden weapons with her and Sakura had gladly taken them.


Sakura woke up the next morning feeling giddy. She looked out the window and decided that it was around six. School started in around two hours. She got out of bed and changed into her Ōtsutsuki robes. She knew that it looked very impracticable, but she was the most relaxed and comfortable in the familiar material. She tired her green sash over her shoulder and got ready for the day. Her wardrobe now held three more sets of the Otsutsuki clothes, which Toneri had taken from the Haruno compound.

She wrapped bandages around her arms, scowling softly as she caught sight of her tattoo and remembered Toneri's harsh treatment the first time round.

'We should make him buy us lunch when we next see him.' Inner said. 'I forgot to mention it to him.'

Sakura nodded in agreement. She straightened out her hair and stepped out of her room. Mikoto had already set up breakfast. Sasuke was already sitting at the table, waiting for her. Sasuke was awake, and that meant that it was around seven. Had she spent an hour in her room?

Mikoto had taken it upon herself to walk Sakura to her first day at the Academy. She had decided to drag Itachi, who had the day off, along with them.

Sasuke had offered to stay with her for at least the first few days, as despite her cheerful personality, she was 'socially disabled', as Sasuke claimed.

Sakura had pouted, but had inwardly agreed; she had never interacted much anyways.

They left the house early, and made their way towards the academy.

"You'll make so much friends!" Mikoto told Sakura. Sakura smiled.

Sasuke shrugged. Instead, he turned to Sakura. "Are you sure you can move around in that thing?" He indicated towards her clothes.

Sakura nodded. "I've lived in this thing my whole life, and not once have I had any problems moving."

Sasuke nodded slowly. "Okay."

They entered the academy with half an hour to spare. Mikoto and Itachi bid them farewell and left. Sasuke led Sakura towards their classroom.


"Ruka-sensei!"

Umino Iruka, their teacher, looked up from where he had been going through the final teaching plans of the day.

"Hello, Sakura-chan." He glanced at her clothes. "Those are pretty different from what we see in Konoha."

Sakura grinned. "It's my clan's standard clothing." She told him.

Iruka had been introduced to Sakura by the Hokage a few days before the first day. Sasuke scowled, knowing that it was anything but 'a friendly meeting between future teacher and student'. Though the Hokage genuinely like Sakura, it was more to warn Iruka of her Inner.

"Can I sit wherever I want?"

Iruka smiled. "Sure, go ahead and pick a seat."

They were one of the earliest ones. Sakura turned to Sasuke. "Where'd you sit?" She asked.

Before Sasuke could reply, a couple of girls who had come before them ran up to him. They shoved Sakura aside, and crowded around him. "Good morning Sasuke-kun! How are you today?" One of them asked.

Sakura groaned from her place on the floor.

Sasuke scowled at the girls. He tried to get past them to help Sakura, but two girls blocked him. "Who's the pink weirdo? Is she new? Why are you hanging out with her?" One of them asked. "Why don't yo-"

"Get out of the way." Sasuke snapped. He roughly shoved past them and reached Sakura's side. "You okay?"

Sakura's eyes were narrowed, her fists clenched. "You think I'm allowed to tear-"

Sasuke nudged her shoulder in an attempt to make her snap out of it. "No." He was quite used to this side of Sakura. Itachi had told him a few things about the Haruno clan, and he had been interested. He had read several scrolls on them and while he couldn't find any clan jutsus or anything, but he knew that all Haruno's had things called Inners, and he also knew that their defense mechanisms weren't pretty.

There had been a time in the park when a boy slightly older than them had knocked her over the rail. Sasuke had only seen his brother move as smoothly as Sakura had when she had flipped neatly and had landed in a crouch. She had then proceeded to attack the boy, only to be stopped by Itachi.

Sakura sighed.

Sasuke smirked slightly and pointed wordlessly towards the window side, completely ignoring the complaining girls. Sakura pranced over. "You sit there?" She asked. "Window or outside?"

"Window." Sasuke shrugged. "The dobe sits beside me. We're the only ones in that row." Sakura stepped back to let him pass. Sasuke entered the row first and scooted towards the window.

"And Naruto sits here." Sakura said, more to herself than anything.

More and more children pooled into the classroom. Sasuke pointed out a few of them. A boy called Nara Shikamaru sat behind them. Akimichi Choji followed his friend.

Naruto came into the classroom a few minutes later. He waved enthusiastically at Iruka before heading straight towards them. "Hey, Sakura-chan, teme!"

Sasuke scowled. "Dobe."

Sakura jumped to her feet. "Hi, Ruto!"

The glares Sakura had been receiving multiplied. Everyone liked Uchiha Sasuke and Namikaze Naruto. Girls liked Sasuke as the dark, mysterious boy, Naruto was popular for his cheerful personality, as well as his position as the Hokage's son.

And then there was Sakura, the new student.

A blonde girl flaunted into the room, a group of girls following her. She looked around, her eyes landing of Sasuke, and he let out a small groan. What had he done in his previous life to receive such punishments?

His fears were proven true when Ino came up to him, entering the row in front of him. "Hi, Sasuke-kun!" She then turned to Naruto. "You too, Naruto-kun?" She then looked at Sakura, who seemed to be in a world of her own. "And who might you be?" She asked. "Are you new?"

Sakura didn't reply. Her eyes were blank, and she didn't move as Ino waved her hand in front of her face. "He-"

"Ino!" Naruto called. "How's your day been so far?"

Sasuke let out a sigh of relief as Naruto successfully distracted the girl.

Ino moved over to flirt with Naruto, who shot back without an ounce of hesitance. However, she soon came back to Sakura. "Hello?" She scowled. "Hey! I'm talking to you."

Sasuke's eyes widened a split-second before Sakura blinked. His hand flew forwards, grasping for Sakura's wrist the same time Naruto did.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto tugged on her wrist.

Sakura blinked, and the blank look cleared from her eyes.

"Sakura, you can't just do that." Sasuke scowled gently.

Sakura blinked, and her arms relaxed. "Oh. Sorry."

Ino stared at Sakura, then at the girl's hands. Sakura's fingers had been centimeters away from her eyes. She fell back into her seat, taking a few deep breaths.

"Wh-what's with those clothes? You have no fashion sense whatsoever. I bet you can't even move around in those." Ino gasped out, still trying to sound brave.

Sakura sneered. "I don't fight in these unless I have to." She snapped back. "I'm wearing battle attire underneath!"

Not wanting Sakura to fly over and kill the girl, Sasuke scoffed. "How stupid can you be, threatening a person being housed by the Uchiha clan?"

"Wa-wait, Uchiha clan?" Ino turned to Sakura. "You live in the Uchiha compound?" She whipped around to face Sasuke. "Why is she allowed in your compound?"

"Tachi found me and saved me, and he brought me back to Konoha." Sakura growled. "Hokage-sama told me to stay with them."

"Don't call Itachi-kun random nicknames!" Ino snapped.

"Tachi let me call him Tachi!" Sakura snapped back. She then slapped her hands over her mouth. "I'm not supposed to talk to you. Inner said that I'll catch your stupid."

Ino looked ready to burst. "How dare you? Who do you think you are?"

"Who I think I am? Who do you think you are?"

Ino scoffed. "I'm the heir to the Yamanaka clan, one of the most powerful clans in Konoha!"

"And I'm the head of the Haruno clan. And as far as I know, a head is above a heir."

"You? Head?" Ino sneered. "Right. Besides, I've never even heard of the Haruno clan. I bet they're just a bunch of people playing ninja!

"Sasuke? Now may I tear her apart? First, she makes fun of Kura-chan, and now, she's disrespecting our clan! Under Senri-sama, it would be considered treason to not get rid of those rude to us!"

Sasuke stiffened. 'When Sakura starts referring to herself as 'Kura-chan', it means that her Inner has taken over.' Itachi had said. 'Watch over her carefully.'

"Ino?" Sasuke asked.

Ino turned to him. "Yes?" She asked sweetly.

"Shut up." Sasuke snapped. "The Haruno clan were a very important and well known clan in Kiri. You would have known that if you had spent half your time learning instead of being a waste of space. And didn't your parents ever tell you that it's rude to disrespect the dead?"

"What's going on?" Iruka stepped up beside them.

"She-she attacked me!" Ino accused, pointing at Sakura. "She tried to stab me in the eye!"

Iruka glanced at Sakura, who bit her lip. "Inner told me that she was dangerous."

A girl who had been standing beside Ino gasped "You're the freak." She gasped. "The pink haired one who claims to have a voice in her mind."

Sakura narrowed her eyes. "Inner does exist. She saved me multiple times" She scowled.

Iruka raised his hands. "Now, first, Sakura, you cannot just stab people in the eyes." He said. "Please tell your Inner that." He then turned to Ino. "Ino, I don't know how much you know about the Haruno clan, but I can assure you that all Harunos did, in fact, had Inner spirits."

"Ino said all these rude things about Sakura-chan's clan." Naruto butted in.

Iruka turned back to Ino, a stern look on his face. "Is this true?"

Ino crossed her arms, attempting to look in control. "Didn't her parents ever tell her that it's bad to lie?" She asked. "She says she's clan head."

"It's not my fault I don't have parents." Sakura shot back.

"How can you not have parents? You're born and living, aren't you?" Ino scoffed. "That's just weird."

"We're all under Senri-sama. Adults are required to raise all children equally. Most don't even know which child is whose. I don't know who my parents are, and it they knew who I was, they never approached me." Then, her tone darkened. "And, please do not disrespect Senri-sama."

"Ino. That is enough." Iruka scolded. "Do not just automatically assume that someone is lying just because their situation seems different from yours. Apologize to Sakura, and come and see me after school. You have detention."


Once the class had, to some extent, calmed down, Iruka called Sakura to the front of her class.

"Why don't you introduce yourself?" Iruka asked.

"Introduce?" Sakura repeated.

Iruka nodded. "Uh, name, likes, dislikes, hobbies, stuff like that?"

Sakura grinned. "My name is Haruno Sakura. I'm the only Haruno left, and since I was the heir, that makes me the clan head. I like Suke, Ruto, Tachi, Shisui, Miko-san, Shina-san, Nato-sama and a whole other bunch of people. I also like the moon. I dislike chakra infused conflict. My hobbies are training and reading."

Iruka blinked. "Well, please make her feel welcome!" He said. He then sent her back to her seat beside Naruto and Sasuke.

"What's chakra infused conflict?" Naruto asked in his yell-whisper voice.

Sasuke decided to not even ask. Sakura lacked everything when it came to social skills, to the extent even Uchiha Sasuke called her antisocial. However, she was actually very, very smart.

Iruka then turned to the board and began the day's class. "Today, we will be continuing our lesson on hand seals." He said. "Does anyone remember why we need hand seals?"

No one raised their hand.

Iruka sighed, and took a deep breath. He had prepared a long lecture about hand seals, and how important they were. He had just opened his mouth when Sakura put up her hand.

Iruka paused, then indicated towards the pinkette. "Yes?"

"The exact amount of chakra required to perform a jutsu can be adjusted through the hand seals." She said.

Iruka slowly nodded, slightly surprised. "That is correct."

Once Iruka had turned back to the board, both boys turned to Sakura. "Uh...Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.

Sakura blinked. "Yes?"

"You're not Sakura-chan, are you?" Naruto blurted out. Luckily, only those around them had heard them.

"Well, that depends on how you view us. Do you consider a person 'one' through their physical body or their mind? To you, are we one being with two minds, or two beings sharing a body?"

Naruto nodded. "Yup, definitely not Sakura-chan."

'Sakura' narrowed her eyes. "Anyways, why would you like to know?"

"It's class time! Where's Sakura-chan?"

"Kura-chan is asleep." Came the blunt reply.

"Wh-what?"

Sakura sighed. "Ungrateful brat."

"What did you say!?"

"I just saved you from a lecture on hand seals." She said. "Besides, Kura-chan's read these kind of things in her books and on scrolls so many times she could probably tell you what it said word for word in her sleep." She chuckled. "Which, I guess, is what she's doing, in a way."

Naruto opened his mouth but Sakura's Inner beat him to it. "My job is to protect Kura-chan form everything. That includes boring lectured on things we already know."

Sasuke decided that having an Inner spirit that could switch places with you when you found something to be boring, would be an useful thing.


It was finally lunch when Sakura woke up, taking her place as the dominant mind of Haruno Sakura's body.

Naruto and Sasuke had never been more grateful when their friend returned. Though Inner Sakura seemed even more knowledgeable than Sakura, she was so short tempered that she didn't hesitate to run at someone who had mumbled a few words that may or may not have been an insult. She was very rash and violent.

Sasuke knew that Iruka had known of the transition of spirits, but was grateful that he hadn't said anything.

And so, when Sakura returned to her body in the school playground, she was greeted by Naruto with a huge hug and a smile from Sasuke. She yawned. "What time is it?"

Sasuke sighed and gently whacked the girl on her head. "If you hadn't slept through all the classes, you would know."

Sakura yawned again before rubbing at her eyes. "It was boring. And I knew everything he talked about."

Sasuke sighed. "That's not the point." He said, pretending to be serious. "The point is that you left me and Naruto to suffer through said boring class whilst you slept away."

Sakura grinned. "Then you should sleep too!"


"So, how was your first day, Sakura-chan?" Mikoto asked as she placed a plate of dango in front of Sakura.

"Thanks, Miko-san!" The pinkette smiled and grabbed a stick. "It was very fun." She said. "But I already know what Ruka-sensei was saying."

Mikoto smiled and ruffled Sakura's hair.


Sakura had been walking to their final class of the day, during their first break, when she had felt it. A warm, familiar chakra. She quickly looked up and looked around, but saw nothing that could have sent out the signal. It was there, she she couldn't detect the exact location. It didn't help that there were so many students walking around.


Hyuga Neji was a proud person, and he also had the skills to back it up. He lived on his hatred for the Main family of the Hyuga clan, but there was one person in the whole entire world he had admitted to be indebted to, and that was the guy controlling the puppet that had appeared before him just before the Cursed Mark had been placed upon his forehead.

He didn't know who the puppet belonged to, who the mysterious voice had belonged to, or what his purpose of helping him was, but to a young boy that had just lost his father, who was about to be branded and bound to the family he hated so much, it was like not everyone had abandoned him.

The voice had said that there was nothing he could do to stop the Cursed Seal from being placed on Neji's forehead, but there was something he could do to make things slightly better. He would bind Neji to someone else. Someone who the voice had promised would not hurt him.

All the voice had asked for in return was for Neji to be friends with said person. If the voice had approached Neji with this now, Neji would have found it very suspicious. However, he hadn't, and that was something Neji wasn't too bothered about.

And so, when he felt a warm feeling on his forehead, a feeling he had felt when the puppet had brushed it, he had to stop himself from ripping off his headband to touch the mark. He glanced around, but didn't see white hair of any sort.

He let out a sigh and turned to head towards the rooftop to spend his break there.


Sakura narrowed her eyes as she felt the Toneri's chakra move away from the crowd. She still hadn't managed to find the time to explore the rest of school, so she had no idea where the signal holder was going. She quickly told Naruto and Sasuke that she was going to go to the toilet, before she broke away from them. She chased after the chakra signal as it went up several numbers of stairs. She concealed her chakra before the crowd thinned out, in case the person was someone who could sense chakra. She didn't want to freak them out or anything. Deciding the guy was heading up to the roof, she body flickered up.

She stopped outside the door labeled 'Rooftop'.

'Summon Mirai.' Inner said. 'Toneri told me that Mirai had been the vessel used to tamper with the Cursed Seal. The Hyuga will surely recognize it.'

Sakura did as told, trying to adjust her chakra levels so that it couldn't startle the Hyuga with a sudden flare. She stepped out onto the roof and positioned herself, then nodded at Mirai.

The puppet moved towards the door and opened it quietly. Sakura activated her Byakugan and watched as the Hyuga jumped in surprise.

She watched as the Hyuga froze. Mirai flicked it's hand in the universal 'come here' motion. The Hyuga slowly walked towards the door. Mirai moved backwards. Sakura deactivated her Byakugan just as the Hyuga stepped through the door. Sakura raised her head and met the Hyuga's white ones.

"Hyuga-san?"

The long haired boy dropped into a stance. "Who are you?"

Sakura smiled. "My name is Sakura." She said. "Haruno Sakura." She raised her hand and Mirai floated over to her. "I'm sure you've heard of me before. From my friend."

The boy frowned.

"From Mirai and the mysterious voice." Sakura said, then brushed Mirai's arm with her own. "When they helped you, all those years ago."

Neji narrowed his eyes. "How do you know about that?" He asked.

"He told me." Sakura said. "I'm sure he has told you of the true person you are bound to." Sakura held up her hands. "That person is me."

The boy stared at her in shock. "What?"

"Now, please tell me your name."

Neji flinched. Should he? He had seen how the Cursed Seal affected the Branch family members. So far, he had been spared of such fate, seeing as Hinata was so pathetic that she wouldn't even think of activating the seal, and even if she did, it wouldn't work. But now, if this girl was telling the truth, the person he was really bound to had appeared. The voice from before had promised that she would not harm him, but he winced as he remembered seeing someone from there branch family who had had his Cursed Mark activated. He had seen the raw pain in his eyes.

"If you don't want to, you don't have to. I can just refer to you as pretty hair."

Neji winced. "Hyu-hyuga Neji." He said before he could stop himself.

Sakura smiled. "Neji." She said.

Neji nodded. He didn't know the warm feeling in his chest when he heard the girl say his name, but it was a feeling he hadn't felt in a long time. "Yes."

Sakura bounded towards him. "Well, Neji," she stuck out her hand and Neji, whose brain was still short-circuiting, took it, "I hope we can be friends."

"Uh..."

Sakura giggled. "Come on, Neji!" She grabbed the frozen Hyuga's hand and dragged him out onto the roof.


"Where were you, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked. "We waited for you, but you didn't come back."

Sakura rubbed the back of her head. "Sorry. I wandered onto the roof and I sort of forgot the time." It wasn't really a lie.

Sasuke sighed. "Be careful." He said, and ruffled her hair. Sakura hummed.

"We have Taijutsu next." Naruto said. "Are you sure you can move around in that?"

Sakura huffed. "I can." She said.

The three entered the gym, where the rest of their class had already assembled. Iruka smiled at them as they entered the room. "Now, Taijutsu is a form of fighting style which doesn't require chakra. There are several forms of Taijutsu where attacks can be enhanced by chakra, such as the famous slug Sannin, Tsunade and her chakra enhanced strength."

The students began whispering to each other. Iruka cleared his throat. "Today, we will begin the practical part of our classes, and put the theories we have learned to use."

"Theories?" Sakura asked.

Naruto nodded. "Yeah. We did all these boring stuff before." He grinned. "You got to miss all that. You're so lucky!"

Sasuke sighed.

Sakura slowly raised her hand. Iruka nodded. "Yes?"

"You said that Taijutsu is a form of non-chakra infused combat. In that case, are all forms of combat with no chakra considered Taijutsu?"

Iruka frowned. "Well, when we say Taijutsu, we are talking of the form and style." he said. "So what we consider Taijutsu all have a proper form and structure."

Sakura nodded. "Oh."

"Jeez, Sakura-chan. Why are you complicated?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke huffed. "You're just too simple minded."

"Are we allowed to use any form of Taijutsu?" Sakura asked.

Iruka nodded.

Naruto glared at the Uchiha but Iruka quickly spoke up before their fight could escalate. "As I was saying, we will be putting what we have learnt into action. You will be put into pairs and will be sparring against each other." He said. "Giving up is allowed, and once the opponent has given up, you cannot attack them. Also, once you have given up, you cannot attack. Once your match is over, wait for the others to finish as well. We will go through the things we noticed."

The class burst into more conversations. Iruka sighed.

Sasuke smirked, feeling confident. Naruto glared at him one more time before looking the other way. Sakura just blinked at the two.

Iruka walked around, pairing the students together. He stopped in front of Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto. He glanced between the three of them. "Uh...Okay. Naruto with Ino." The blond groaned. "Sasuke, you're with Choji." He turned to Sakura. "You're with Ami."

Sakura blinked. "Okay!"


Ami smirked at Sakura. "Well, I'll have to commend you for scaring that Ino-pig." She said. "However, I wont forgive you for being so close to Sasuke-kun all the time. Get ready to face the consequence."

Sakura blinked and glanced around the area. Sasuke was pummeling Choji, albeit pretty lightly, while Naruto was moving around Ino's attacks. Neither seemed to be taking it seriously. Sakura grinned. For such an academic failure, Naruto would be very reliable on the battlefield. That was, if fighting Ino was comparable to a battle.

Sakura turned back to Ami. "Right back at you."

Ami snorted. "You sound very confident."

Sakura's smile vanished, being replaced by a blank, emotionless face. "That is because I am confident." Even her voice was emotionless.

Ami crossed her arms. "Well, let's get this started." She said. "I practiced the theories while you don't even know them." She bragged.

'Lies!' Inner snapped.

"I have perfect form and accuracy." Ami gloated. "I'll punch you so hard!"

Ami flew at Sakura with what the girl thought was 'perfect form and accuracy'.

Sakura eyes the girl's sloppy, unbalanced form with distaste and moved neatly to the side. Ami ran right past her and after taking a few stumbling steps, fell flat on her face.

A few of the students who had already finished their matches laughed as Ami got to her feet.

"That's cheating!" Ami cried. "Meet me head on!" She charged again.

Sakura, meeting the annoying girl's challenge, moved forwards as well. She focused on the girl's undefended spots, which was everywhere. It wasn't that hard, as the girl was moving at the speed of a snail.

Sakura dodged a poorly thrown blow and slipped right underneath Ami's non existing guard. She shoved her had against Ami's chest. Her Byakugan wasn't activated, but she had studied the human body structure enough to know the general location she would have to press.

She shoved just enough chakra to disrupt Ami's heartbeat for a second.

Ami screamed in pain and stumbled away, clutching her chest. Tears were pouring out of her eyes.

Iruka rushed over to them. "What's wrong?" He asked.

Ami clutched at her pain. "My chest hurts!" She wailed.

Iruka turned to look at Sakura, who already had a half lie ready on her lips.

"You said any form of Taijutsu." She said. "In your list of Taijutsu examples, that should include the Hyuga clan's gentle fist. In my clan, we used a similar technique. We learn the locations of the tenketsu by heart."

At Iruka's look, Sakura frowned. "Inner knew them. She taught me." She curled her tongue around her canine tooth, like she did when deep in thought. "Besides, it wasn't a lot of chakra. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the chakra's already gone."

Iruka concentrated for a second and nodded. Yes, Sakura's chakra was nowhere to be seen in Ami's system.

Ami had finally calmed down enough to stop screaming. She eyed Sakura hatefully, as well as with a hint of fear. Iruka helped the girl to her feet. He called out to one of Ami's friends and told them to go to the nurse, just in case. The two girl quickly left.

Iruka then turned to Sakura. "No more life threatening moves." He said gently.

Sakura blinked. "She wouldn't have died." She said simply.

Iruka sighed. He turned and shooed the gathered students away. "Continue with your spars. If you're all done, gather in the middle again!"


"That was so cool, Sakura-chan!" Naruto cheered. "You just went shove, and Ami was screaming." He grinned. "That was awesome!"

Sasuke hn'ed. "It was impressive." He admitted, trying to channel his inner Itachi.

Sakura grinned. "Thanks!"

After they had discussed the simple things such as how good form helped with strong attacks, Iruka had dismissed them. He had told them that in a few says, he would be splitting the class into pairs and would be assigning them a project. Sakura was excited about this 'assignment', having never done one before. Then again, there were a lot of mundane things Sakura had never done before.


Sakura had been reading through a scroll from the Haruno compound when she had sensed it. She slowly lowered her scroll and glanced around her room. Who was it?

'Sakura-chan, the wall behind us.'

Sakura slowly reached into the sleeve of her robes and pulled out a kunai. She whipped around just in time to block a blow aiming for her head. She jumped back just as her attack did and held up her kunai. "Who are you?"

Her attacker, who...or what Sakura categorized to be a black blob, straightened it's humanoid stance. "I see."

Sakura straightened, something telling her that she should recognize this chakra signal. "See what?" She asked. She raised her head and narrowed her eyes.

The black blob dropped into a crouch. "Sakura-sama, I, black Zetsu, acknowledge you as the head of the Otsutsuki clan, and in turn, will pledge loyalty to you."


Here's chapter six.

Aaaannnddd here's Neji! :):):)

We'll go a bit deeper into the kind of relationship we plan for the two to have later on, probably in the next chapter.

PS: The curling the tongue around the canine tooth thing is something Darque does all the time :)

Darque: I failed all my exams. I am sure.

Raven: Yay! I didn't expect much from you in the first place.

Darque: Thanks :)

Raven: Uh...are you okay?

Darque: Why wouldn't I be?

Raven: You...er...thanked me for an insult?

Darque: Did I? I'm perfectly fine.

Raven: WARNING! DARQUE'S MIND HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN CRUSHED BY THE PRESSURE FROM HER EXAMS. I REPEAT- DARQUE'S MIND HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN CRUSHED BY THE PRESSURE FROM HER EXAMS.

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