Aerin's POV

As another Monday morning rolled around I parked my car in the student lot and headed inside Shinobi High. The stairs left me nearly breathless once again, the hike to the third floor not an easy one at 7:30 in the morning, but I made it and slowly continued towards Kakashi Sensei's classroom.

When I arrived in the class I noted that Shikamaru was once again asleep and rolled my eyes. This time however, Shikamaru was not the only one in class.

"Good morning," Sakura greeted with a smile and I smiled back, walking up the aisle to my desk, which was in front of hers.

"Morning," I replied and set my bag on the desktop, rummaging around inside. "Where do we put this essay?" I asked pulling out a stack of papers from my backpack –the same essay I had rushed home from Sasuke's to do yesterday.

"In the front," Sakura responded, pointing to a silver grated basket, "ours is the one closest to the door."

"Thanks," I replied with a smile and shuffled up front, setting the papers into the basket before heading back to my seat.

"So," Sakura said, leaning forward. "Did you make it home from Sasuke's alright? I heard the Kiba had to walk home and go back to get his car."

I nodded, sitting sideways in the desk so that I could face her. "Yeah, I rushed home yesterday so that I could finish the essays."

Sakura blinked, looking surprised as she leaned farther over her desk. "Yesterday morning? Did you spend the night at Sasuke's?"

I blinked back at her, wondering if I should've been embarrassed about it. "I…yeah. Sasuke stole my keys and after that I guess I just fell asleep, so he didn't bug me…"

"You could've slept over too," a deep monotonous voice said from behind us and we both turned to find Sasuke standing there. Sakura instantly smiled at him.

"Well thanks for saying so, but my mother nearly killed me for being home at midnight!" Sakura exclaimed angrily, slamming her face into her palm dejectedly. "The woman is outrageous, I swear! I'm 17 and she won't even let me stay out till midnight!"

I laughed awkwardly at her outburst and Sasuke merely turned and headed up front to his seat.

"It's only because they care," I interjected whole-heartedly, smirking at her, but Sakura only crossed her arms and narrowed her emerald eyes at me.

"Says you, whose parents let her stay out all night and even spend the night at a guy's house!" She said viciously despite the smile making its way to her lips. "What they'd say when you got home the next day, anyway?"

I felt my heart jump in my chest. Truthfully my mother didn't know – I called her one or two times a week, but conversation between us was lacking. She'd tell me she was doing fine and ask how I was and I'd reply the same. It's not like things between us were awkward…but it was clear that life still hadn't regained normality on either end of the spectrum…

"Aerin…?"

I blinked and looked up to find Sakura staring at me questioningly.

"Sorry!" I apologized, rubbing the back of my head sheepishly. "She wasn't very happy, but forgave me. It wasn't too big of an ordeal – my mom isn't too big on stuff like that so long as I'm safe."

"Lucky," Sakura pouted, folding her head into her arms once again. "I wish I had parents like yours…"

In the back of my head I heard my conscience angrily reply that she didn't, but instead I just laughed again, silencing myself when the bell rang. Of course, the bell meant nothing considering that the person teaching the class was never on time himself, but after another 10 minutes Kakashi walked in.

"Sorry I'm late," he apologized and he set his briefcase on his desk. The class stood in silence for a moment, waiting for his excuse to continue, but it didn't.

"What?" Naruto said looking shocked. "Why are you late?"

Kakashi blinked, and then his eyes creased as he smiled beneath his mask. "Well since you really want to know…this morning I was on my way to school when I spotted pretty young lady who had dropped her papers. Since I couldn't just leave her there helpless I pulled over and—"

He was cut off as the entire class groaned. Naruto buried his face in his arms.

At this Kakashi laughed and turned back to his desk. He reached a little out of sight and returned with a glass fishbowl in his hands.

"Today, class," he addressed, looking around the room. "We will be working on imagery."

There were a few groans and Kakashi rolled his eyes.

"In this bowl are little slips of paper – each of which contains the name of a person in this classroom. I'm giving you half an hour after everyone receives a slip of paper to write down a detailed description of the person you receive. You'll be graded on effort – not perfection – considering we're only a couple weeks into the year. However, I expect you all to try your best."

With that, Kakashi started around the room and offered the bowl to everyone. When he came around to me I stuck my hand in carefully and pulled out a single slip of paper, shaking away they others I had accidently grabbed. As Kakashi continued down the row I unfolded the paper and took in the name printed on the page.

Naruto Uzumaki

I glanced up to where the blonde was already digging into his paper, tongue stuck out from his lips as he worked.

I laughed slightly at the sight and then flipped my notebook open, twirling the pencil in my hands.

Imagery was a writing technique easily accomplished if done right. But at the same time, it wasn't easy at all. Writing in general wasn't easy, but shit, I'd try my best anyway.

Tapping my pencil on the page I let the words flow from my head, stopping every so often to read what I had written just to see if it had made sense.

Every time I finished a sentence I'd look up at Naruto again, trying not to be self-conscious about blatantly glancing at him so much. But when I looked around the rest of the room I noticed eyes shifting from papers to a person to papers again, which made me feel a bit better.

By the time the 30 minutes were up my hand hurt an there were eraser shavings scatter all across my desk – however, I was proud of what I had written, and that was all that mattered.

"Alright, put your name on the paper if you haven't and pass them up," Kakashi directed, standing at the head of the class again, and I hurried wrote my name on my paper as Sakura poked me in the back of the shoulder with hers.

After a minute Kakashi had a stack of notebook lined papers in his hands. He started to shuffle through them, eyes scanning each paper quickly, and as he did so everyone began to realize he wasn't just going to put them away for later, he would be addressing them now, in front of the entire class.

A student's worst nightmare.

"Shikamaru," Kakashi started, looking at the lazy pineapple-haired teen. "Your style of writing is ever present, but your syntax needs some work. However, you did manage to describe your person fairly well."

Shikamaru dipped his head in silent thanks.

"Sasuke," Kakashi said, shuffling to the next paper. His eyes scanned over the writing in front of him before continuing. "Just what I expected – nice work."

Sasuke's lips twitched up in a smirk, though he tried to force it back.

Kakashi flipped to the next paper and then the next, going through the class and giving good feedback to some and helpful feedback to others.

"Naruto," Kakashi addressed, his eyes turning to the blonde. "I can tell that after your years of hard work your writing has improved, but you've still got a bit to work on."

The blonde smirked and nodded his head, seeming to have known so already.

And then it came.

"Aerin," Kakashi stated, his voice sounding happy as his eyes scanned over my paper. I tried not to get my hopes up, preparing myself for the worst just in case. He looked up from the paper and smiled, his eyes creasing. "Good work. It's apparent in your writing that you've done this before."

Like Sasuke, I tried to keep my attitude in check at the praise, but couldn't help smiling, quietly saying thanks.

And with that there was only one paper left in his hands, and I heard Sakura straighten up behind me.

"Sakura," Kakashi stated, his eyes scanning over the writing in his hands. Kakashi's eyebrows creased. "I've got a couple problems with this paper…"

Out of the corner of my eye I could see Sakura's face drop.

"What's wrong with it?" she questioned, sounding a bit hurt.

Kakashi glanced at the paper again before looking Sakura in the eyes. "Your writing is perfect, as usual, but certain details you didn't capture right."

"Like what?" Sakura commented, her tone more serious and understanding than angry.

"Well…" Kakashi shifted his eyes from Sakura to me, and I blinked. "Aerin, can you please stand and come up here next to me?"

I nodded slowly and awkwardly slid out of my seat, shuffling to the front of the class. Kakashi patted my shoulder as I stood next to him.

"Not to point out your mistakes, Sakura, but in your writing you said that Aerin has "brown eyes"…what color are her eyes now?"

"Dark green," Naruto answered before Sakura could get the chance to, and the pinkette glared at him.

"Correct," Kakashi said, and I could see him lean forward through the corner of my eyes, glancing at me. By now I was hoping my face wasn't as pink as I thought from embarrassment.

"You also state that Aerin has "10 piercings", did you guess that number?"

Sakura's face turned slightly red. "I did…"

Kakashi nodded understandingly and then turned his head to me. "You have 11, correct?"

I shook my head slightly. "12," I said before I could stop myself, and Kakashi looked a little surprised.

"11!" I quickly corrected, now sure that my face was red. "I've got 11 that can be seen."

I wanted to punch myself in the face. '11 that can be seen', what the fuck was I thinking? I was the only one who was supposed to know about the piercing under my tongue yet here I am in front of the class nearly telling them to their faces.

Kakashi coughed. "Well, what I'm trying to say is that if you don't know that exact information on the object or topic you're writing about, then use roundabout ways to state what you mean, don't assume." Kakashi picked up the rest of the papers and tapped them on his desk. "Sakura, I use you as an example because you understand you're a good writer, but just as an example to the class you could've said "dark colored eyes" instead of assuming they were brown, or said "multiple piercings" instead of inferring a number, get it?"

Sakura nodded, eyes considerate.

"Good. Well, the bell will be ringing in a moment," Kakashi stated, sitting behind his desk. "Since you had essays to write over the weekend I'll give you all a break. No homework tonight."

The class erupted into cheers and Kakashi smirked, shaking his head.

As I snuck back to my seat I couldn't help but feel bad for Sakura.

"I'm sorry," I apologized quietly as I packed up my stuff, and Sakura's eyes widened in surprise.

"What? You don't need to be sorry! Its fine – I made an inference and now I know better – it's a learning experience."

She smiled at me reassuringly as I hefted my bag over my shoulder, but soon her smile was replaced with a mischievous grin.

"12 piercings, huh?"

My face reddened all over again.

"Shut up!" I whined, stomping towards the door, and I could hear Sakura laughing behind me. Not a moment later did the bell ring and I stepped out into the hall to wait for Sasuke as students started flooding out into the hall.

As Sasuke and I walked towards the science hall I could feel eyes lingering on the side of my face. Knowing already who it was, I glanced over at Sasuke, raising an eyebrow questioningly. The Uchiha raised one back.

"12 piercings…huh?"

Clenching my jaw, I looked back forward, not needing to glance at Sasuke to be able to see his smirk.

If my mention of having a piercing not visible was able to capture Sasuke's attention, then clearly I was fucked.


Luckily, during Orochimaru's class we didn't have to dissect anything, and Sasuke didn't mention my number of piercings again. The topic wasn't brought up in art either, considering Deidara and Sasori didn't know about what had taken place in Kakashi's class, but as soon as I sat down at the lunch table all eyes turned to me.

"Don't even," I hissed to the people at the table, pointing my finger at them menacingly as I took a bite of my sandwich.

Kiba was the first to speak, a wide grin on his face. "Wasn't 11 enough?"

I rolled my eyes, trying not to smile. "Oh my god, shut up."

A couple people laughed.

"But really," Sakura smirked. "You say that you've got "11 piercings that can be seen", so where's the other one?"

I groaned, folding my arms onto the table and putting my face into them. "Noooooo~"

Shikamaru leaned in, not seeming quite as devious as the others. "You make it seem like this twelfth piercing of yours in a bad thing."

"Because no one knows about it!" I replied, throwing my hands into the hair. Naruto grinned wider.

"We do."

I groaned again, dragging my hands down my face.

"But you're not supposed to!"

"But we do!" Naruto continued exasperatedly. "So you can tell us!"

Taking the final bite of my sandwich I crumpled the bag into my hand and then grabbed my bag from the floor beside me, hefting it over my shoulder. "Nope."

I started to walk away, but Kiba called out to me. "Aerin—"

"Nope!" I replied louder, a smirk now on my face as I headed away from the table and into the building, preparing to finish my lunch in peace.


Jiraiya looked surprised when I stepped into his classroom ten minutes early.

"Is something wrong?" he questioned, eyebrows furrowing in concern and I quickly shook my head, flashing him a smile.

"Not really," I said with a wave of my hand, and then held up the remainder of my lunch. "The pollen outside right now is just really getting to me – so I came inside to eat, if that's alright with you…"

Jiraiya grinned at me. "I don't have any problem with it, go right ahead."

"Thanks!" I replied and plopped down into my seat at the front of the classroom, digging into my food once again. With a small laugh Jiraiya turned back to his computer screen, doing whatever he was before I walked in.

As I finished up my lunch, in classic Aerin fashion, I hooked my iPod up and shoved the black buds into my ears, "Zetsubousei: Hero Chiryouyaku" blasting into my ears. As the song continued on, I began to rock my head with the beat, a large smile making its way to my lips. Music could either make or break a person's attitude, and with the day I was having this song was pumping me up.

Sure, it was kind of embarrassing that I had accidently corrected Kakashi after he had correctly stated the number of earrings I had, but I couldn't help it – I had 12 piercings in total, so the truth just slipped out. And sure, now everyone was trying to get me to tell them where the 12th piercing was located, but to be honest, I really didn't mind too much. It was a secret that I hadn't planned on letting get out, but at the same time it wasn't dangerous – just embarrassing – and I was having fun teasing everyone anyway.

As I thought this to myself my smile widened further, squeezing my eyes shut. However, a couple seconds after I did my headphones were ripped from my ears and my eyes popped back open in surprise. I assumed that when I'd look up at the culprit I'd find Kiba or Naruto standing there, playfully grinning at me, but instead I found magenta eyes and slicked back silver hair, yet a grin all the same.

"Yo!" Hidan greeted leaning back, his muscles clearly visible underneath his half-unbuttoned shirt. The teen's grin widened slightly as his eyes glinted. "Sorry I cut our interaction short at the store the other day! That fucker Kakuzu was waiting for me in the car and said if I took too long he'd cut my dick off."

I stared at Hidan for a second – thinking about how to respond. If I acted scared like the other night, which he seemed to enjoy, then I got the feeling he'd only become more interested. But if I just kind of brushed if off, maybe he'd just get the hint already – though I got the feeling that with Hidan there was no such thing as "hints". The thing was – I just didn't want my good day to end.

"You should've just gone with Kakuzu in the first place then," I responded, raising one of my eyebrows as if questioning him. "Our "interaction" wasn't that important in the first place."

Hidan's grin shrunk and he leaned in closer, placing his hands on the edge of the table roughly. "What? You think it wasn't fucking important? I'm hurt."

I rolled my eyes, crossing my arms. "Good, that's not my problem."

At that, Hidan's grin disappeared and he placed his forearms on the table, his face moving closer to mine yet again. Internally I wanted to scoot my chair back to create distance, but instead I stood my ground.

"Did I hurt your feelings?" I continued sarcastically. "Sorry – though I guess I shouldn't really say that considering you don't care about others feelings, right?"

The muscles in Hidan jaw clenched as his face creased with anger. "Listen here you little—"

"Oi, Hidan."

The silver haired man paused in his name-calling and looked to the doorway where Deidara and Kisame were standing. Kisame frowned as he tilted his head to the side, arms crossed.

"Stop messing with her already. Unless leader gives us orders to, don't fuck with people mindlessly."

Hidan straightened back up, his face once again changing back into a grin. "You should have seen her face the other night though," Hidan argued, his insanity showing a bit more as he motioned his arm towards me. "It was so fucking delicious!"

Deidara looked absolutely disgusted as he stepped past Kisame and headed back towards his seat. "You sadistic fucker," he said, voice flat. "Stop toying with people's emotion for pleasure, yeah."

Hidan snarled at the blonde. "Fuck you, she-male. All you care about is blowing shit up anyway; you wouldn't understand shit about Jashin-sama."

Deidara threw his backpack on the carpet beside his seat and glared at Hidan, his mouth opening to reply, but Kisame quickly cut in.

"Both of you are idiots," the blue skinned teen said simply, massaging his temples. "Now shut the hell up."

Scoffing, Hidan relinquished his argument and stepped around the table I was at, heading back to where the other two were getting seated. As I blinked and turned back forward, thinking over everything that had just happened, Naruto skipped into the classroom.

"Aerin~!" he sung as he happily slid into the seat beside me. The Uzumaki crossed his hands innocently under his chin and smiled brightly. "Where is your other piercing?"

I grinned. "Not telling."

Naruto's face instantly fell and I started to laugh as Kiba stepped into the room.

"I told you that wouldn't work, idiot," Kiba said amusedly, slipping into the chair on my other side as he set his backpack on the ground. The dog-like teen smirked as I looked over at him.

"Are you ever gonna tell us where it is?" He questioned, and I smiled innocently.

"Nope!"

Kiba chuckled and ran a hand through his brown locks, rolling his eyes slightly.

"No fair."

I rolled my eyes back, smirking. "Well, life isn't fair, right? But maybe I'll tell eventually with the right encouragement."

Kiba raised an eyebrow, his amused look returning as he stared at me from the corner of his eyes.

"The right encouragement? What kinda kinky bullshit is that?"

I felt my face heat up a little as the perverted side of my mind started to catch on.

"Oh, shut the hell up," I hissed at him, pouting slightly, and Kiba howled with laughter.

When his laughter finally calmed down Naruto was asking us both what had just happen, he too lost in his world of sulking to pay attention to Kiba and I's conversation, but just as I started to explain the door slammed shut and Jiraiya Sensei stepped into the classroom.

"Good afternoon!" He greeted energetically, his attitude seeming happier than usual as he stepped up to the white board. "Today is the day I'm sure you've all been waiting for!"

The class remained absolutely silent, but that didn't seem to put a dent in Jiraiya's attitude as he pick up a dry erase marker and began sprawling big words on the board.

"Today we start -!" He stepped to the side of the board, his grin still present as he underlined the bold words on the white surface. "—the sexual reproduction unit!"

There was a few quiet mumbles throughout the room and I just stared at the board, utterly uninterested. As a female who was 17 years old, I wasn't the most innocent girl anymore. Dicks, vaginas, sperm, eggs – I mean c'mon. Nowadays kids knew about that stuff in middle school, yet here I am in the 11th grade learning about it all over again. Just what I always wanted.

"I'm sure nearly all of you are aware of the male productive organ and its uses by now," Jiraiya continued, and at this there was snickering throughout the room. "So we'll start off by learning about the female organs!"

After saying that, Naruto bumped me in the shoulder with a grin and I blinked in confusion. Why did he bump me when Jiraiya said that?

I glanced around the classroom, and a moment later realization dawned on me. I was the only girl in this class. After 3 weeks of school this was the first time I had noticed.

Well, shit.

"Time for diagrams!" Jiraiya announced happily, nearly skipping over to where his desk was, instantly beginning to rummage around. I just groaned quietly and placed my forehead on the table, shrouding my head with my arms.

This was going to be a very long class…


"So uh…," I glanced over Naruto as he scratches his cheek innocently. The two of us had just gotten out of health and were now walking down the hall towards the Gym. "Do you…is it down there?"

I tilted my head to the side, not really understanding what he was referring to, when all of the sudden I made the connection to all the information on females we had just learn.

"What?!" I replied, a little bit outraged. "Hell no!"

Naruto held up his hands protectively. "Hey, I was just guessing! Don't get mad!"

I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose. This was getting a bit out of hand now, maybe I'd just let everyone know that the piercing was under my tongue – after all, I didn't want people to start thinking I'd get a piercing somewhere down there.

As Naruto and I walked into the gym, the two of us took our spots on the floor and a moment later Sakura jogged into the gym.

"Naruto!" She called and skidded to a stop in front of the blond, crouching down. "Did you find out where the 12th is?" She whispered to him loudly and I rolled my eyes at the fact that they didn't realize I could still hear them from a couple feet away.

The blonde shook his head, raising a hand to his mouth. "No, but I know where it's not."

He whispered to Sakura where it wasn't and the pinkette nodded her head. "Alright, let's start crossing options off then. We'll figure out where it is by process of elimination!"

"Aa!" Naruto agreed and I smirked slightly, reclining back onto the hard gym floor.

"Just by using sight they'll never find it," I mused to myself and was surprised when I heard a small chuckle a moment later.

"Oh?" Sasuke drawled, positioning himself in his attendance spot beside me. He had a devilish smirk on, something rarely seen. "If we can't find it by just looking, then how will we find it?"

I stared at him for a moment and then laughed, throwing my arm over my eyes. "I wonder…"

Sasuke's smirk widened, but he said nothing else for the bell rang and Gai Sensei was already front and center, ready to take attendance.

Gai went through the whole list and then dismissed us to get dressed. I split off into my section of the locker room, beginning to strip so that I'd be able to put on my gym clothes. However, after taking my top off I got this weird feeling and looked behind me to find Sakura standing in the doorway to my little area, watching intently.

"What are to doing?" I asked her quizzically, not too bothered by her standing there considering that all the essential parts were still covered.

"Do you…," she started, her eyes shifting from my face to my chest, and I followed her gaze, catching on immediately.

"NO," I replied hardly as I reached for my gym shirt and Sakura turned and left the area cackling. I just shook my head, smiling slightly.

After getting dressed everyone gathered back in the gym and Gai announced that we'd be playing tag. Everyone was surprised to hear this, but he explained that it'd teach us agility and also build stamina from running around, so we just went with it. Naruto was dubbed the first one it and he started chasing everyone around.

After about, oh, 15 minutes of the game I was beginning to feel the burn. Because of this, when I glanced around to see if Tobi, who was it at the moment, was anywhere in sight, I accidently tripped and went skidding onto the shiny wooden floors.

The burn stung a little, but I had felt worse, so I went to get back up when Sasuke was suddenly jogging up to me.

"You alright?" He questioned offering me a hand, and I told him I was. However, as I was reaching to take his hand I noted that his eyes weren't focus on my face and looked down to where he was, noting that my shirt had rolled up to reveal a section of flesh on my stomach.

"Stop it," I told him as I grasped his hand, and with a small smirk he helped me up.

"Well it's not there," he said simply before joining back into the game.

I just rolled my eyes and kept running.


When class was over I went back into the locker room to get changed. After getting all my stuff together and locking my locker, I headed back out to the gym, planning to head for the parking lot. But when I exited the locker room I was surprised to find Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto still standing around the door. I rolled my eyes at them.

"What? Shikamaru, Hinata and Lee didn't want to hear about all the places it's not? That's sad."

Sasuke rolled his eyes back at me, arms crossed. "They've all got other things to attend to."

I opened my mouth to respond, but before I could Sakura cut in.

"So you've got 11 ear piercings and one that we can't easily pinpoint…"

"And it's not anywhere naughty or on your stomach," Naruto continued contemplatively.

Sasuke took a step forward. "Open your mouth," he demanded.

I blinked, surprised. "Oh, c'mon guys. It's really not that big of a—"

"Does that mean we finally got it?" Sasuke interrupted, and I stared at him for a moment before laughing slightly and sticking out my tongue. The three all looked at it for a moment before I closed my mouth again, grinning victoriously.

"See," I bragged. "It's not there either. The 12th is just a myth – forget about it."

Naruto and Sakura began to pout at the realization that there was absolutely nowhere else it could be that they couldn't already see, and I clicked my tongue in victory, starting towards the gym doors.

However, I only got a step before Sasuke's voice stopped me once again.

"Oh, you almost got us." The Uchiha said, his devilish smirk returning as he approached me. I blinked once again, not getting what he was hinting at. "You nearly got away without us finding out," he said, stopping a foot in front of me, and I met his eyes. "But then you clicked your tongue…"

My eyes widened as the realization suddenly hit me. When I had clicked my tongue they would've been able to see it…

"Dammit," I cursed and ran a hand through my hair. Sakura and Naruto, who had previous been dejected, now were highfive-ing at their victory, Sasuke still settling for his smirk.

"Alright, you got it!" I said after a moment, laughing. "Congratulations!"

Naruto laughed and rubbed the back of his head as he and Sakura approached Sasuke and I.

"Yeah. But Aerin was that really a big deal though?"

I grinning, sticking my tongue out playfully. "Not really. I just grew up hiding the secret from my family that was the only thing. So it was just natural for me to try and hide it."

Sakura nodded considerately. "I get it. But if you've had to hide if from your family for so long, how long ago did you get it."

I poked my cheek sheepishly. "When I was in the 9th grade…"

Sakura's jaw dropped slightly. "Are you serious?! My parents won't even let me get a nose piercing and we're in the 11th grade now!"

I laughed. "Yeah…it's just kind of my style so my parents were really leisurely about it – I just had to pay."

Naruto grinned. "Your mom and dad sound really nice!"

I smiled, trying not to let it be a sad one. "Yeah, they are!"

The gym was in silence for a second before Naruto started twirling his keys. "Alright, I guess we better get going then!" He declared and started towards the gym doors. Sasuke, Sakura and I all followed after him.

The four of us walked to the parking lot together and then went our separate ways to get to our cars. Sasuke walked with me for a bit longer, our cars being closer to each other, and once Naruto and Sakura were out of hearing range he posed a question.

"So…what made you get a piercing there?"

I shrugged my shoulder, smiling slightly. "I just thought it was a cool place that wouldn't attract too much attention." I replied, and Sasuke nodded considerately. Just as the two of us started to split apart though, I revealed the other half of the reason.

"Plus, when I ever get to make out with someone, I feel like it'd bring about something fun," I said with a wink, and I saw Sasuke eyes widen at that as he stopped walking completely. Laughing at his reaction I quickly skipped over to my car and threw my bag into the backseat, buckling myself into the front.

As I drove home, I couldn't help but think about the fact that I'd had fun today even thought the day had been a bit embarrassing. Maybe this was a sign that things truly would start to take a turn for the better.


AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

I'm back! :D IM SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING IN OVER TWO MONTHS REALLY I AM.

But lately I've had a little bit of time after finishing my homework, so I've been typing this up for a couple days! And here we are.

Anyway, a lot has happened in the past two months, but my life isn't too happy of a tale so I'll leave the personal stuff out. First, school started! This tri I've got: Pre-Calc, Drawing/Painting, Japanese 4, Symphony Orchestra, and AP English 11. Not to shabby - I've even got 3 electives. Also, I'm able to drive to school this year! No more dealing with the dumbass's on the bus!

Hmmm...also, went to a Friday the 13th party last, well, Friday, since my friend is weird like that and her family has a party every Friday the 13th. It was awesome! As always. And! I also found out one of my friends is gay (which I already assumed by kept quiet about) so I'm really happy for him!

Switching topics, I really am sorry to everyone who follows this story because it wasn't my intention to not update for over 2 months - it just happened. Like I kind of touched on earlier, my life isn't too happy of a tale right now (and if you go back and read the AN in the first chapter, I'm pretty sure I mention about why), but things are only getting worse before they can get better - so that's where we're at now.

But! What I meant to say is that I've got a storyline planned out now! Which means that when I finally do get time to write I won't have to sit around for ever and just think of what to write. Yay!

Also, this story will be being updated next before I start the final part of my other story. I haven't worked out the kinks with the storyline there anyway, so this is my first priority - considering I probably owe it to all of you anyway for having waited around this long...

Love you!

Yep, well, now you know, I guess. What? Well, who knows.

I gotta go and read some Thoreau now for English. Catch you guys later!

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