Author's Notes: Thanks for the reviews. Only three, but those three did encourage me to write more.

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Haku gently brushed one of his two long bangs out of his face as he gave off a small sigh. He looked down at his paper to see that he had indeed doodled on it from boredom. No, Ms. Tsunade was not a boring teacher at all. Neither was the poetry that the busty blonde woman passed out to the class. It's just that he had too much on his mind, he supposed. He looked up at the front of the room to see Ms. Tsunade scribbling something on the board.

"May I have your attention class!" her voice boomed out. Once she had the class's attention she pointed at the board. "For tonight, you are to write a short poem about yourself. About your habits, your hobbies, your likes and dislikes... Anything you can think about yourself," she calmly stated. The whole class started to whine and grumble. "Oh please! This is a simple assignment! You don't have to research or even think about it! This is first grade homework!" Haku gave another sigh. A piece about himself. He didn't really think highly of himself and coming in with a poem that belittled himself, would probably make Ms. Tsunade concerned. God, it would make any teacher concerned. The last thing Haku needed was to be sent to the school's counselor's office to see if he was suicidal or something.

Haku turned to look at Zabuza. The only thing he had uttered to the senior thus far was a simple "Hi." Haku wanted to kick himself for doing that. Why didn't he start off with a cool slang like "Sup" or "Hey?" But noooo, Haku had to be a polite timid teen. He watched Zabuza talk to the other senior called Kakashi. Jeez, if only he wasn't so self-conscious, he might be talking to the senior right now. Haku was very much lost in thought that he was still staring at the spikey haired teenager.

"Yo Zabuza. Looks like the new kid has a crush on you," Kakashi stated as he pointed to the dazed Haku. Zabuza turned to look at the new kid in class and raised an eyebrow. He then waved his hand in front of the boy. "Hey.. Hey kid...?" Haku eyes suddenly widen and his face quickly turned pink. "Im sorry," was all Haku could utter at the moment without his voice accidently cracking from embarrassment. Haku turned away from the two only to have a hand grabbed his shoulder and turn him back to the face them. Haku let out a confused face when he realized the hand belong to Zabuza. "Kid, you need to stop being so uptight," Zabuza said in a gruff tone. Haku let out a small smile and quickly looked down to his feet nervously. " Im sorry," he said once more. Kakashi gave a small chuckle. "You're embarrassing him," the silver haired teen said. Haku once again turned away and the two seniors let him go.

"Hm... He's no fun," Kakashi stated boredly. No fun? What was that suppose to mean? Haku couldn't help but furrow his eyebrows and then the loug ring of the bell ripped him away from his thoughts. End of the period already? Soon everyone started to scramble out of their seats, pushing their way to the door. Haku gave a careless look and put the strap of his messager bag over his shoulder. He looked on over to see Zabuza and Kakashi casually talking and making their way to the door. Ugh... His first impression so far? ....Terrible. He soon made his way out and walked to his next class.

"Hey Haku! Hakuuuu!!!!" Came a booming energetic voice over the enormous crowd of students. Haku turned and gave a smile. So far the only friend he had made was a young blonde hyper boy named Naruto. Naruto had ended up being in all of his morning classes (literature, advance algebra, gym, and photography) and now it seemed the two had the same period for lunch as well. "Hey Haku!" Naruto yelled once more as he came to a halt in front of the raven haired introvert. "Yes, Naruto?" Haku said with a hopeful look. It seemed that he wasn't going to end up eating lunch by himself after all. "Haku, come eat lunch with meeeeeeee!" Naruto said happily, as he held out his little froggie change purse in front of the boy. "See? I saved all my money up so I can eat out, rather than eat the school lunches they serve here." Naruto then made a disgusted look and pointed to the mac and cheese they were serving today.

"Well... Alright then. It's a good thing I decided to bring my money as well." Haku said as he pulled out from his jacket's pocket, his wallet, which had some weird funky design, making a mask, on it. Naruto then let out a big grin. "Cool. let's get going! I can't wait to show you to all my friends!!!" Naruto exclaimed, grabbing onto Haku's hand, and pulling him into the foyer, near the theater. I can't wait to show you to all my friends? Naruto made it seem like Haku was a new little puppy that was there to make all is friends envious. Haku raised an eyebrow, but then stopped and instead, let out a huge grin. He had promised that he was no longer going to be the uptight social outcast he once was. He was just going to have to go with it. And soon a laugh escaped his slightly parted lips and he then squeezed the blond boy's hand.

"What the hell is taking him so long?" A tall black spikey haired teen muttered as he leaned against the school building. "Be patient, Sasuke. He had photography last, so it may take him a bit," A pink haired girl, wearing a red casual dress, said as she started to pick some flowers on the school ground. "Tsk, Tsk. Sakura, you should know that Sasuke is impatient when it comes to Naruto," Kakashi said right behind the pink haired girl, causing her to shriek. "When did you get here?!" She cried out as she pointed a fnger towards the silver haired senior. "Just a minute ago." Kakashi then look behind him. "Zabuza has this lunch period too." "Charming," was all Sakura said, "So does Gaara." She pointed at the red head, cloeaked in all black, that suddenly appeared next to Sasuke.

"Hello," was all Gaara said as he took a seat next to the black haired punk. "Where is Naruto?" the red head then said as he looked around for the hyper young blond. "Should be here any second now, actually," Sakura said as she glanced at her black with hot pink trimming wrist watch. It was then silent, for no one knew what else to say, but soon a pair of quick pacing thuds upon the ground could be heard.

"SAKURA!!!!" Naruto yelled as he pounced upon the young sophomore and glomped her. She shrieked once more and soon stopped when she realized who it was. "NARUTO!" She shrieked, "Don't scare me like that, idiot!" She gave a playful punch to his head and was about to continue on talking, when she noticed a very beautiful timid girl standing behind him. When did Naruto get a girlfriend? The pink haired sophomore girl looked confused. "Naruto... When did you get a girlfriend?" Suddenly, Sasuke and Gaara rised to their feet. Their eyes flashed with jealously. Haku turned red at the comment and quickly stared down at the floor. Naruto turned to look back at Haku. "Uhhhh.... Sakura..." Naruto began, but was soon cut off by Kakashi. "That's not a girl," the lanky tall senior casually stated. Sakura could only remain flabbergast as Haku gave an embarrassed nod.

"This is Haku," Naruto stated mirthfully as he gestured his hands toward the long raven haired sophomore. "He just moved here from Greenland, but he was born here though." Naruto continued to ramble about the new student, when Sakura stepped in. "Shouldn't we get going now? I am starting to get hungry." Naruto suddenly stopped blabbering and started to agree as well. "Where shall we eat?" Zabuza said boredly, but managed to sneek a peek at Haku. "Ichiraku!" Naruto shouted as he grabbed Haku's hand once more, leading the way. Sasuke and Gaara growled with jealously as they and the rest trailed behind the two sophomores up ahead.

Haku didn't know whether to be shocked or impressed. Naruto had ordered three bowels of miso ramen and three more bowels of pork flavored ramen, same with Sasuke; Gaara only ordered two bowels of ramen, claiming he wasn't very hungry and Sakura did the same as well; then Kakashi and Zabuza ordered three bowels of soba noodles for themselves; while Haku just ordered some tsukimi udon, feeling very weird about it. As soon as they recieved their orders, they all agreed to sit at a booth. Gaara sat inside, Naruto in the middle, and Sasuke at the end on one side, while Haku sat inside, Zabuza in the middle, and Kakashi at the end on the other side. Sakura decided to grab a chair and once settled, they all began to eat.

That's when Haku was flooded with a million questions. What was it like where he use to live? Did he have any pets? What was his favorite color? Did he miss his friends? What were his friends like? Just a whole bunch of questions and Haku answered them as best as he could. Then came the more personal questions: Did he have any fetishes? If so, what were they? What did he look for in a person? Was he single? Haku was turning red as more questions flew at him.

"S'ok if you're single." Naruto said with a mouthful of miso ramen. "I guess you can say im sorta single, but sorta dating," He then glanced at Sasuke and Gaara and gave off a sly smile. Haku gave a confused look. "Those three are fuck buddies," Zabuza suddenly leaned closer to Haku and whispered. Then Zabuza glanced at Kakashi who was being babied by Sakura. "And those two are dating," the tall senior whispered once more. Haku nodded as he slurped down some noodles. "What about you?" Haku suddenly asked curiously. This caused the older teen to chuckle. "I'm single. Why do you ask? Interested?" Zabuza smirk a bit. "No... I'm not..." Haku stuttered but went silent when a rough hand rested on his thigh. It obviously belonged to Zabuza. Haku turned bright red and looked down at his bowel of noodles. The hand began to caress his thigh, moving upwards toward his crotch. Haku let Zabuza continue, not knowing whether he should tell the senior to stop or not.

It continued, till it was time to leave. As they all walked in the school, Zabuza stopped and grabbed his arm, causing the others to look behind. "It's okay, I just need to talk to him for a second," Zabuza said. Once the others left, Zabuza turned to the younger teen and gave off a heated hungry look. "You need to stand up for yourself or you'll have many people taking advantage of you," He stated roughly. "You should have told me to stop." Haku looked down at his feet, only to have Zabuza lift his chin up so that Haku was looking at him rather the floor. "Im sorry," was all Haku could choke out. He was embarrassed and he stared into the eyes of the senior in front of him. Zabuza let go of his arm. "It's fine. You're just... too nice. You're the type that ends up hurting themselves for others." Zabuza then walked off.

"Wait," Haku said as he ran to catch up with the senior. "I guess I owe you one." "Owe me? What for?" Zabuza questioned. "Well... You showed me that I should stand up for myself more. I owe you one now," Haku said and gave off a smile. "Well... Okay," Zabuza said. "Besides... I don't mind owing you one since we carry the same eyes." And with that Haku ran off, leaving a confused Zabuza. "Same eyes..?" Suddenly a flash of Haku's eyes entered his mind.

"I guess we do."

To Be Continued...