The teacher looked rather nervous. "Uh, guys...please sit down..." He said, shaking, a tone in his voice.

Finally managing to struggle free from the other girls grip, Naruke saw everyonesit close to eachother, to make such that there was no room for Naruke to sit by them. Hanami and Yokiro, in the high back row looked around, but Yokiro soonly scooted close to her other neighbor.

"Hurry Hanami, you don't actually want to sit by him, do you?" She asked the pink haired girl like she was crazy.

"Uh..." Hanami blushed and also began to move close to Yokiro, but being at the end of her row, there was still the ending space for Naruke to sit at. and his 'friends' were in the middle, so he couldn't sit by them, because they were accidenly crammed in.

Naruke sat down in the back row by Hanami, finding it the only place avalible. He put his elbows on the rim of it, and cupped his hands folded over his mouth, much like Sasuke. But soonly he removed them, sending Hanami a smile. "Hello..." He whispered, still smiling.

"Uh, hi..." Hanami shyly said, blushing.

She turned her head once, no, twice, and began to laugh quiet enough for the teacher not to hear. Soon Naruke regreted his thoughts, and just looked at her.

"Shes kind of...wierd." He thought, just looking at her in an odd way. Hanami soon turned her head again a lip syniced something, pointing her finger at the teacher. Naruke couldn't read lips, so he couldn't understand exactly what Hanami was telling him.

"Weirdo..." He thought, but kept trying to search for an answer on what the girl was telling him. Yokiro, also sent her a strange glance.

"And since we don't have another student in the class, there will be a group of two, Hanami and Naruke, are our lucky team 10!" The teacher said. Both Hanami and Naruke suddenly snapped back into reality hearing their names called. Students began to whisper about Naruke, how he had gay parents.

"That poor Hanami person has to be with him..."

"I pity that boy, in an odd way."

"And they don't even KNOW eachother."

Hanami managed to blush a bit sadly that she wasn't with Yokiro, who was her best and only friend in the classroom. Hearing what the other students were saying about Naruke and her, she ducked underneath the wooden barline, blushing from embarrasment, and sadness.

"Hanami, we'll still keep in touch, right?" Yokiro held out her hand.

Hanami got up from her duck, and clumbsly shook Yokiros hand. "Yeah, I promise." She stated with a smile.

Naruke watched them, also very sad that he wasn't going to pair with his friends. When everyone left he managed to spring up to Akizakura and Kaikokou. Meanwhile, Hanami, Yokiro, Naruke, Akizakura and Kaikokou were the only people in the room.

"Are we allowed to trade partners?"

"I'll trade myself so we can all be happy,"

"Yeah, we don't want Yokiro on our team..."

"Well I don't want to BE on your team!"

Guess who said who.

They all glared at eachother.

"Here, Hanami, ask the teacher if were allowed to trade partners. That way you can trade me for Yokiro, so you and Yokiro will be the team of two, and I can be with my friends. Deal?" Naruke asked Hanami, turning to her.

"Uh, okay..." Hanami said, slightly confused.

"You know that won't work, the wierdos too shy to talk to the teacher like that!" Akizakura snapped.

Yokiros anger went up. "Don't call Hanami a wierdo!"

"Well she is!"

Naruke put a hand in front of the twos faces, closing his eyes, once again acting much like Sasuke. "Stop fighting." He said, turning to Hanami, who was blushing extremely.

"Look, if nobody will have the courage to face the teacher and ask him such a question, then I will." Naruke said to everyone. They all nodded.

"So...how are we going to put up with our partners though? The survival test is only a week away." Akizakura explained.

"Well maybe we can all get used to eachother, you know, like go to their house or something..." Kaikokou said. Everyone looked at him.

"Well how about the males with the males, and the females with the females? A sleepover!" Kaikokou added to his comment.

"Thats just, uh...sick." Yokiro said, rolling her eyes.

"I thought I was the one with gay parents..." Naruke thought, but he took a deep breath. "You know...lets just spend the rest of the day with our partners." He said, simply.

Eveyone nodded. "Deal." They all said at the same time.

And with that,Akizakura, Kaikokou, and Yokiro exited the room. Yokiro stopped suddenly, lip synicing something to Hanami. Being a well lip reader, Hanami knew exactly what Yokiro had said to her. "Good luck..."

Naruke sighed. And then Hanami and him also walked out.

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They both sat in the shade of a tree. Naruke leaned againest its trunk standing up, playing with a peice of kunai. Hanami sat down againest its trunk, with her arms wrapped around her legs. She was first to break the silence.

"I'm Yadashi Hanami...who are you?" She already knew what Narukes name was, except she was trying to be polite as possible.

"Uchiha Naruke." Was all Naruke said in reply, closing his eyes.

"So...your the new student, right?" Hanami asked, this time having no clue for an answer.

Naruke smirked, and began to sigh with a funny expression. "I'm not new...I think your the new student. I went to the academy...three years ago..." He replied.

"Three years Hanami asked him, amazed.

"Yeah, i'm fifteenteen. I started twelve..." Naruke replied.

"I'm twelve, its my first year at the academy." Hanami said.

"I would of taken survival training...it's just that I ran away." Naruke replied.

"How?" Hanami asked. "And why?"

Naruke suddenly froze, his dream coming to his mind again. He remembered everything clearly...learning the jutsu, testing it on mice he used to catch in traps...suddenly he clutched his head, under pressure. Hanami looked at him, with a worried look. "Naruke...?"

He opend his eyes, also looking at her. "I'm fine...just please don't ask me that question..." He replied to Hanami, finally removing his hands from his head.

Hanami smiled. "Okay, Naruke." She said, in a friendly tone, now standing up clumbsly.

Naruke just starred from her, recovering from his memories. "Why can't you stand up normally?" He asked out of curiosity.

"Hm?" Hanami looked at him. "Oh, it's a leg problem I was born with. I can only sit down in one kind of posistion, you know, stuff like that. My legs can't function properlysometimes." She said, still smiling.

"Yeah..." Naruke replied, also smiling. "Maybe she isn't so wierd after all..." He thought.

"What do your parents do about it?" Naruke asked.

Hanami suddenly got nervous, or so it seemed like to Naruke. "Well, uh...I don't really...have...parents." She said choppy, her smile disapearing.

"What do you mean? Everyone has parents. Do they live far away or something?"

"Well...yeah, I do have parnets except...well...theyditched me around five years ago." She said.

"Oh..." Naruke said, wishing he hadn't of been so curious. He was afraid that he would flood back memories into Hanamis head. "Well then...how did you live?"

"Myself, and my dog. We took great care of eachother." Hanami said in reply.

"Nope...shes STILL wierd." Naruke thought, sighing aloud. "But how did you learn human stuff?"

"Before they ditched me at the house, my parents taught me."

"Oh, I see."

"Except they'reagressive..."

"Like my parents."

"Who are your parents?" Hanami already knew, but she was once again trying to be polite.

"Well...my parents are...well...er...how can I explain this?" He asked. "You know, when a boy really likes a boy and they...you know..."

Hanami fought back laughter. "Yeah, I know what you mean...your parents are...eh..gay...no offense!" She said.

"None taken at all, i'm used to it." Naruke smiled.

Hanami also smiled in return. Both children...Naruke was onlythree years older then her. They both contained "haunted" pasts...

Naruke once again began to regret his thoughts. "You know...I can't really decide if shes wierd or not...maybe being Hanamis partner won't be so bad afterall. We have a lot in common."

Chapter 2, please review. (Hah, that ryhmes! X3)