The next day I woke up and shuffled out into the kitchen. I saw Yumiko at the stove putting what looked to be burnt waffles on a plate. I walked over to her.

"Good morning, Yumiko."

"Good morning, Mai. I have tried to make us waffles." She said handing me a plate of black waffles.

"They look a little overdone."

"Yes. Maybe it is best not to eat them."

"Yeah." I replied as I heard a knock on the door. "I'll get it." And I opened the door to see Denka and Kami, Denka was holding a tupperware container that had pancakes and bacon in it.

"Oh hey, Denka."

"Hi Mai, me and Kami brought you and all the others breakfast." He said with a smile handing me the container.

"Well, thank you, Yumiko made some waffles but they were a tad overdone."

"Oh. Have I mentioned how different you look as a 12 year old?" He said smirking.

"Don't push it. Just because you brought us breakfast doesn't mean I won't bite you." I said, narrowing my eyes at him.

"Ok, ok. Anyways, we better get going."

"Ok, see you guys later." They both waved and I closed the door.

"Hey Yumiko, guess who brought us breakfast just now?"

"Not Densa I hope."

"No it was Denka."

"Oh good."

"Yeah pancakes and bacon."

"Great." She said as she scooped the black waffles into the trash. I put about 5 pancakes and 3 strips of bacon on my plate and ate it all. After we both were done I figured we didn't wanna be late so we better get dressed and stuff. I walked back to my room and took a quick shower. After I was done I dressed in my normal clothes. As I was lacing up my boots Yumiko came in my room (without knocking) and told me to hurry up. I quickly finished lacing my boots and walked out to the living room where Yumiko was pacing by the door.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"We have to go! Hurry!" She said literally pushing me out the door. So we ran back to the training arena where we met everyone there except Choji. I wonder where he was.

"Hey where's Choji?" I asked Ino.

"Oh! He's always late! " She said obviously discouraged.

"Ok, then." I said walking away. I had a feeling I wouldn't like Ino very much. I glanced at Shikamaru and found him looking at me, and he quickly looked away.

"Hmmph."

"Oh jeez, get over it already, you big baby." I said.

"I am not a big baby. And as I said yesterday, you cheated!"

"And again, I cheated, how?" I replied.

"I . . . You . . ." He tried to reply but couldn't come up with anything. Just then Asuma walked in.

"Hey kids, no Choji?" He asked looking around, lighting a ciggarette.

"Uh no I don't think he will be attending today." Ino said. I didn't know why, but I didn't like her. I narrowed my eyes.

"Alright, I don't have much planned for today." Asuma said, releasing a puff of smoke from his mouth. I winced.

"So just uh, practice, or something, y'know, do ninja-ey stuff." I rasied my eyebrows but saw this as an opportunity to fight with Ino. I ran over to Ino, and tried to act all peppy like she does.

"Hey Ino! Do you wanna like fight?" I asked, feeling completely ridiculous. Why did she act this way?

"Oh my gosh! I was like just gonna ask you like the same thing!" She exclaimed.

"Ok!" I glanced at the others, and Yumiko's eyes were wide, and Shikamaru stood open-mouthed. My god, was she retarded or something, even Shikamaru can tell behavior like this is out of the ordinary for me. Reguardless, Ino lined up directly in front of me about 10 feet away. But then she remembered she didn't have a weapon. What an idiot.

"Oh wait! I like totally forgot my like weapon!" She said bounding over to a bad. She dug in it for a while and brought out a kunai. This one was sharper than Shikamaru's thank god. Hopefully she wouldn't be as easy. Ino charged at me. I let her get about 3 feet away from me before I jumped over her.

"Wha-! How did you do that?" She asked, turning around to look at me.

"Magic." I said in my normal voice, smirking. She suddenly gasped, as if noticing that I wasn't a complete idiot. And then I had the back of her head to my chest, and a kunai against her throat. She gasped again. I let her go and backed up she backed up also, the look of fear in her eyes. She glanced over at Asuma, who was doing a crossword puzzle. I took the time to read everyones mind.

Shikamaru: 'She's using the same techniques with Ino as she did with me. Why would she do that?'

Yumiko: 'Wow Ino sure is an idiot.'

Asuma: ' a five letter word for cat . . . '

Ino: 'What is she doing? Why is she just standing there? Oh Ino what did you get yourself into. You saw what she did to Shikamaru yesterday. I should have known'

I smirked and looked over at Shikamaru, who was staring at me and Ino. He looked away again, pretending not to be interested. I took a step toward Ino. Her eyes locked with mine as her mind went blank. Controlling her was just too easy. I laughed, which drew attention from Shikamaru.

He looked over and seeing the blank look on Ino's face his eyes widened. Yumiko had grabbed a stick and was drawing in the dirt. I walked up to Ino until she was about 2 feet away. I backed up a little and she dropped to the ground face-planting in the dirt. This was an affect from my mind taking over hers. Whenever I take control of a person's mind, they lose all control of their body and drop to the ground, I can force the body to do things and say things but in Ino's case I decided not to. I walked over and took her weapon, examining it.

"Wow Shikamaru, she has a better weapon then you did. I thought you were smarter than that. " I said smirking. I let Ino go and she rose from the ground, I threw the kunai at Shikamaru's feet causing him to jump and make a little squeaky noise. I walked back to Yumiko and sat next to her. Ino walked over to a rock and sat on it. She looked at the ground. And I again read everyones minds.

Ino: 'What the hell just happened? Why is there dirt on my face?'

Shikamaru: 'Woah. What just happened?'

Asuma: ' . . . five letter word for cat . . . wait! I got it! Kitty!'

Yumiko: 'When will they learn?'

I smirked and took one of the longer kunai that I hide in my boots and began to draw swirls and other random things into the dirt. I drew a picture of a cat and added little 'mews' near the cat to show that it was meowing. I giggled quietly at the picture and Yumiko looked over my shoulder at my picture.

"A cat huh?"

"Uh yeah."

"Why a cat?"

"Um . . . I . . . don't . . . know, I just like cats I guess."

"Hmm. Actually cats meow more than they mew, just saying."

"Suddenly a cat expert are ya." I grumbled as I added more details to the cat drawing.

"Asuma-sensei, do you have anything planned for today?" I asked now drawing a bunny.

"Kinda. We need to help an old lady with something."

"Oh ok! When do we do that?" I asked, in a hurry to do something because I was bored. I had such a short attention span when I was 12.

"I don't know. We'll go later."

"When is later?" I asked.

"I don't know, around 2 ok?"

"2! But that's such a long time away!"

"It's only an hour away." Yumiko said.

"Exactly!" I said in a hurry.

"We will go later." Asuma said, returning to his crossword puzzle.

"Fine." I said, I finished the bunny but what sound does a bunny make?

"Hey Yumiko?"

"Yes, Mai?"

"What sound does a bunny make?"

"You mean a rabbit?"

"I call it a bunny! Anyway what sound does a bunny make?"

"Um I don't know, like a chittery sound?"

"Hmm. Screw it this bunny can talk in english." I said as I wrote 'I want a carrot!' next to the bunny. "Oh Yumiko! Next I'm gonna draw a farm!" I said laughing. First I drew the farm itself drawing a X on the door like most farms did. After that I drew a duck and then a cow and next a sheep. I giggled as I finished with a horse.

"Ok! Let's go!" Asuma yelled. His sudden outburst had caused me and Yumiko to jump.

"Ok!" I said hopping up from my spot on the ground. I looked at my little zoo of animals and giggled. I pulled up my headband from my hips up to my ribs and followed the others into the village. I hummed a song, feeling better today then I did yesterday. I saw Yumiko glance at me suspiciously but then she quickly looked away.

Asuma stopped at an old looking place and an old woman came to the door.

"Oh you must be that young group of ninjas."

"Yes, these are my students."

"Very well. I need them to get that my cat out of that tree." She said pointing to a tree in the forest. I heard a 'mew' in the distance.

"Are you serious?" Shikamaru asked.

"Oh my! That poor kitty!" I exclaimed, and Shikamaru rolled his eyes.

"We better go get it!" I yelled sprinting towards the tree. Yumiko came to the tree immediately after me and the others arrived next, with Asuma being the last. He was huffing and puffing trying to catch his breath.

"You know Asuma, if you stopped smoking so much you would be healthier."

"Whatever. . . (wheeze)" Came his response.

"Ok who wants to climb the tree?" Shikamaru asked.

"Uh hey, Mai didn't you climb that tree yesterday when me and Ino were practicing?"

"Well yeah." In the next minute I found myself shimmying up a tree to get that kitty. I climbed until I reached the kitty. I reached out and grabbed the kitty.

"Well hello there kitty. Why did you climb up here?" I asked.

"Mew."

" Aww." I said as I climbed down the tree. When I was about 5 feet from the ground I jumped, but a tree branch scraped my cheek.

"Ow!" I said as I landed. Why are trees so evil? I walked back to the lady's house and handed her the cat.

"Here's the cat."

"Oh thank you."

"No problem." I walked back outside to meet Asuma and the others. Me and Yumiko walked back to the apartment soon after because we had nothing else to do. I went into my room and got a piece of paper. I quickly made a rose out of it with my chakra and set it on my desk. I brushed my hair across my face and hit the cut, causing a sharp pain.

"Ow." I said, I got up and went to the bathroom once agian finding the peroxide and cleaning it. I walked back to my room after that, making more flowers out of paper. I found a box of crayons and began to color them. I giggled as I hung up the flowers with tape. After that I decided to go to sleep. But then Yumiko woke me up for dinner and I ate and went back to sleep.