At eight, I was up and started to make the snacks for others. As soon, I was finished, I went early to work, but my actual intention was to go the long way to the academy, to give myself time to walk there. Kakashi wasn't up, but he'll get up at his own time. I walked in deep thought, until my foot went up against something, I looked down; it looked like a piece of metal. I knelt down, and put my hand on it. It felt like paper and metal. I picked it up. It was a gun, this doesn't exist here, I thought. There was a piece of paper stuck to it with sticky tape, on it was written: Dear Surma, this gun has unlimited ammunition. You don't know me.

I looked around me. No-one.

I always hated guns, they linked to a lot of negative things, but due to the situation I'm stuck in; I guess it wouldn't be bad to have. Ninjas could probably dodge a bullet, so I guess it would be a good tactic to scare them at least, as I doubt they have would guns or at least guns like these. I looked at it, a normal handgun. Since I have never used guns before due to my views on them, I couldn't really tell if this one was any good. It looked a lot like the gun that the two girls in Noir use, so rather feminine. I stuffed it into my little zebra printed purple and black bag attached to my belt. I left and put little thought into it, just I'd better practise.

I was late, again at the academy. I give-up. I'll come never come on time. I came into the room and the complaining.

"Sensei, you're late again," said one of the children.

"Yea, ninjas are never late," shouted out another child.

I looked at them and said, "One, I'm not a ninja and two Kakashi-sensei is always late, just ask his students."

Then another boy piped up,"Yeah, Konohamaru says Naruto always complains about Kakashi-sensei always being late."

"Anyway, I wanted to have a wonder through the forest. There's no point in wasting life. Would you all like to go out into the forest. Then you'll understand why I was late."

They shouted a loud, "Yippe!" and left the grounds of the academy.

As we started walking towards the forest, a little girl tugged at my leggings. I looked down and said with a smile,"Yes?"

"What about our projects?" She asked quietly.

"We'll do them tomorrow."

"It's just that, I thought Iruka-sensei was going to come and look at them."

A big mental OPPS! I thought.

"Oh well! He'll have to come tomorrow." He'll murder me; I didn't even say that I left.

We spent the morning in the forest and the little ones shouted about, played ninjas and talked about their projects. I wish my childhood had been like this, well at least I'm giving it to them now. They don't need to worry about being ninjas the whole time. At lunchtime, I gathered them together and returned to the academy. When I arrived there, an extremely annoyed Iruka was waiting for me.

"Hey, let's have a competition, put yourself into two groups and see which group can pin down Iruka the quickiest." Before I knew it, there was a crowd of thirty three to six-year-old children climbing on top, needless to say Iruka was being suffocated. I know this was completely out of character of me, but being with children it gave me this new boast. This was evil of me, but Iruka was a ninja so he could get himself out of this.

"Hi Iruka," I said. I knew he was behind me as I was used to Kakashi.

The little ones all fell down onto the ground with a big 'THUMP!'

"Surma..." said Iruka, but was interrupted by the little ones.

"Iruka-sensei, Surma should teach us instead. She's more fun than you!" shouted a little one.

Then all the others shouted in agreement.

"Hey! Hey! Don't be so mean to Iruka. He was here before me and seemed have done a decent job without me. He taught you all those jutsus. I can't do that."

"I guess, but I bet if you were a ninja. You would be better than all the other ninjas in the world," said a little auburn girl.

"You'd better go inside and learn, so that you can be even better than me, if I was a ninja," I said.

"YEAH!" They shouted and all went inside.

I was left alone with Iruka. He looked exhausted and his upper part of his body was bent down and said, "I'll never understand these children."

He returned to the academy, in defeat. I followed him back into the academy and took-up my position on minding the older ones.

As I came into the outside area of the academy, I saw Kakashi sitting on the bench.

I walked up to him and asked,"Didn't you have a mission?"

"We finished it."

"Um, okay. What was the mission?"

"Pulling out weeds and picking-up litter from the rivers."

I sweatdropped. "Sounds more like community service, than a mission."

"Community service?"

"It's when..." But then I was interrupted by one of the children.

"Can we play that game you and Iruka did with the little children?"

"I guess so, but you'll have to do with Kakashi."

Before I knew it, they were trying to pin Kakashi down, I was trying so desperately not to laugh, but Kakashi was the one with the last laugh, when he then tied the children up against the huge oak tree. He, still had that look of boredom in his face. Great motivation for them, eh?

"Can we play something, else?" asked a freckled boy in defeat.

I untied them and said,"I have a new game."

"No, we want to play the old games!" shouted the children in return.

"I guess, but don't you want to improve your teamwork."

"Teamwork is stupid!" shouted the dark-haired boy, who complained before about the game, we played yesterday.

Kakashi decided to step in and took a friend of his put a kurnai to his cut and said,"Steal the hidden scrolls or he'll die!"

They looked with fear and shock at Kakashi. I nodded towards him to let go and I'll continue our lecture.

"Now, do you understand why teamwork is important?" I asked.

They nodded.

I smiled, "Now here's the game!..." In the game, they had to stay in the same two teams as before and try to fight amongst each other for a scroll. I should receive it, but I made Kakashi to set up some traps for them.

I sat there and watch them play.

Kakashi stuck his head back into that book of his, he had improved a lot in his reading.

A little girl, who was crying ran from the academy building towards me. She jumped onto my lap and continued to cry.

"What's wrong?"

"Everyone makes fun of my eyes. They're not a normal colour!" She complained.

I looked into her eyes, they were a beautiful dark pink. It was such a pretty colour. I looked at her she was actually a beautiful girl. If I was her mother I would be so proud of her.

"Do you want to know my opinion? I have to say you are such a pretty girl and your eyes match my hair. I would want your eyes, you should be proud to be different. I always tried to be different, I dyed my hair different and wear unusal clothes. It's boring being the same. Sadly, being beautiful is a lonely life. That's what my mother said to me." I smiled at her warmly.

"But, all the boys make fun of me."

"Because they're shy, they really think you're beautiful and all the girls are jealous."

"But you're a girl, you don't know what boys think!"

I turned to Kakashi. "Kakashi, do you think she's pretty?"

He looked up from his book to her. "You're just as pretty as Surma-sensei."

A smile lit-up her face. I was rather surprised by his compliment, although considering last night...

Then Iruka came out and walked towards my direction. He stood in front of me and opened his mouth, but before he could say anything. I asked,"Isn't she beautiful?"

"Yes, she's beautiful," said Iruka half-heartily.

"How about her eyes?" I continued to question.

"They're very pretty," said Iruka, again half-heartily.

"Don't you like the colour?"

Iruka hung his head in defeat, "It's a very pretty eye colour."

I looked at the girl and said,"You'd better get inside, as I think Iruka-sama still has a jutsu to teach you."

She smiled and rushed inside with Iruka following her. He was muttering to himself.

I felt bad, that was out of character for me.

Finally one of the teams handed me a scroll, but we still had time, but not enough to play the game again. So we settled on playing the shuriken game again, after a little quarrel.

Kakashi started to snickered at my somewhat pathetic throwing skills.

"Here, I think I'll let a real ninja take care of the game," I said handing him the shruiken.

The break was over and I returned for the last hour with the younger ones, who just finished off their projects. Some of them started to show them theirs, because they were so desperately proud of their projects.

Kakashi said,"You're a great teacher."

"Um, thanks..."

I just sat there so...dumbfounded.

"Tomorrow, I'll be going on a real mission...so I'll be away for a while."

"Um, okay."

He left, just five minutes before the end of the lesson. This was really strange, why he was trying to be so friendly. At the end of the lesson, a very annoyed Iruka was waiting for me.

This is not good, I thought...

After a lecture from Iruka, I was feeling rather insecure. I shouldn't have acted like that today. What's wrong with me?

Kakashi wasn't home. I went upstairs and lay myself to sleep. I got up and went to Kakashi's room to say goodbye, before he left on his mission.

He was gone. I thought to myself, maybe this is the beginning of the end.

I left his room.