Disclaimer
I do not own Naruto or any of the character's shown. However I do own Hikaru and all other OC's unless otherwise stated. I also own her jutsu's.

Just a quick note. If you want any word translated that I use, just ask and I'll tell you what it mean's.

Seishun Kyousoukyoku
Chapter two
The tie's that bind us

Streaching, Hikaru let out a small yawn as she rested her chin on her hand. "Naruto! What're you doing here!" One of the kid's yelled as they walked past Naruto, who was sitting infront of Hikaru. "Class today is only for the student's who didn't fail."

"What!" Naruto yelled back as he pointed to his hitai-ate. "Can't you see the hitai-ate!"

"Excuse me," A voice intterupted as the pair looked over to see a girl with pinak hair and green eye's standing there. She wore a red dress like thing with short's underneath, and wore her hitai-ate like a hair ribbon. "May I pass?"

'S... S.. Sakura-chan!' Naruto thought.

Haruno Sakura. A total babe, but that's the problem...

Hikaru sighed and rolled her eye's at the younger Genin. She, didn't get on too well with Sakura, but they didn't not get on either. Hikaru just found Sakura, "Too obssesed with Uchiha". That's what she would usualy answer if someone asked why the pair didn't get on.

'No way..' Naruto thought. '... She want's to sit next to me?'

"Naruto!" Sakura yelled as she put one hand on her hip and pointed to Sasuke. "Move it! I'm trying to get around you!"

"Sakura," Hikaru said dryly. "If Sasuke wanted to sit by you, he would've saved you a seat, near the front. Now make like a fly and buzz off."

"Grrr," Sakura huffed glaring at her.

Hikaru-chan! A girl who doesn't get on with Sakura-chan well, she also tend's to compete with Sasuke to. She's second in the class, and from what I've seen she's really strong. She's sort of lazy at time's and doesn't really take being a kunoichi seriously.

Hikaru let out a long sigh as she rested her chin on both of her hand's and stared at the front of the room, a blank sort of look in her eye's. 'I hate being cooped up like this, hayaku, Iruka-sensei.'

'There he is!' Naruto thought as he looked to the boy he sat next to. He had dark blue coloured hair and black eye's. He wore a blue top and white arm warmer's and white shorts. 'The class heart throb!'

Uchiha Sasuke! Think's he's so cool, I hate that guy!

Sasuke shifted his eye's slightly and noticed Naruto staring at him. "You want something?"

"What's that supposed to mean!" Naruto asked. "Are you talkin' to me?"

Sakura grinned slightly and jumped on Naruto, squishing him down infront of her. "Good morning Sasuke! Is this seat taken?"

'Sakura look's like she's in total ecstasy,' Naruto thought, glaring at Sasuke. 'What's so great about him? I just don't get it!'

Jumping on the desk infront of Sasuke, Naruto proceeded to glare at Sasuke making Hikaru laugh slightly. "Don't get too close Naruto, you may get Uchiha cooties."

"Grr, urusai you!" Sakura glared at her, then at Naruto. "Naruto you jerk!" She yelled again. "Leave Sasuke alone!"

"Get lost," Sasuke growled.

"Hmph."

"Hit him Sasuke!" Some of the girls cheered as Hikaru shifted her chin onto a single hand, amused at what was going on.

"Hunh?" One of the boy's infront asked as he put his arm on the desk behind him, knocking Naruto forward. "Oh, sorry!" He said turning around.

"Um... umm," Sakura stuttered as Hikaru snickered at the scene of Naruto and Sasuke's lip's stuck to each other.

"Naruto you piece of crap!" Sasuke yelled clutching his throat. "You are dead!"

"Poison!" Naruto spat. "My mouth is ruined!"

'ACK!' Naruto thought stopping what he was doing. '.. Blood lust.'

"It was an accident I swear!" Naruto protested to Sakura who was cracking her knuckles.
"Naruto," she growled. "You make me sick."

"From this day forward you are no longer mere student's of ninjutsu but full fledged shinobi," Iruka said standing infront of the class as Hikaru sweatdropped at the beaten up Naruto. "But amoung, the rank's of the shinobi you are mere novices, lowest of the low. Your greatest challenges all lie ahead. The next step is the assignment of the official duties to you all on behalf of our village. We will now begin by dividing you into three-man team's and one four. Each team will be mentored by a Jounin, a more senior ninja. Who will guide and coach you as you become familiar with your various assignment's."

'Three man cells?' Sasuke asked. 'Sound's like too many.'

'It's perfect!' Sakura thought. 'I know they'll team me up with Sasuke!'

'So long as I'm partnered with Sakura... I'll take anyone else,' Naruto thought resting his chin on his hand. '... Except Sasuke!'

'.. Team's?' Hikaru sighed. '... How annoying.'

"I made the selection's so that each cell's abilities would be approximatly equal," Iruka explained as the class yelled. "Next cell number, seven! Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto."

'YES!' Naruto cheered as Sakura hung her head.

"Hikaru and Uchiha Sasuke."

'YAY!' Sakura mentally cheered.

'... Damn,' Hikaru sighed.

'.. Kuso,' Naruto cursed.

"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto yelled as he pointed at Sasuke. "What were you thinking of! Saddling a most excellent shinobi like myself.. With that loser!"

"Of the twenty-eight of you," Iruka replied standing with his hand's on his hip's. "Sasuke has the best grade's... Naruto you would be at the bottom of the class. The idea is to balance your different strength's.. That's why you ended up together."

"Hmph," Sasuke said looking away from Naruto. "Just don't drag me down, dunce!"

"What did you call me!" Naruto yelled.

"Naruto," Hikaru sighed.

'... Aww.. They'll work it out, even Naruto,' Iruka thought as Sakura beat Naruto on the head and Hikaru glared at her for doing so.

"Sakura leave him alone!"

"You stay out of this!"

"Make me!"

"Okay everyone," Iruka said ignoring them. "I'll be introducing the Jounin sensei's this afternoon. Until then your dismissed."

"Naruto," Hikaru sighed sitting on the desk next to Sasuke. "Stand still."

"Why are we the only team, whose sensei hasn't shown up yet!" Naruto asked, pulling his head in front outside the door. "All of the other team's have already gone off with their sensei's. Even Iruka-sensei already left!"

"Hey!" Sakura said as Naruto grabbed a chair and stood on it. "What are you up to Naruto!"

"Heh, heh, heh, heh," Naruto laughed, as he wedged an eraser in the door.

"Naruto," Hikaru sweatdropped.

"It's what he get's for making us late!" Naruto said as he jumped off the chair.

"Grow up," Sakura said with her hand's on her hip's. "I want nothing to do with it."

"Hmph," Sasuke said looking over. "Like a Jounin would fall for such obvious traps."

"Uh," Hikaru said as a hand appeared in between the door then opened it, causing the eraser to fall on his head.

Naruto stood there pointing at him, howling with laughter where as Hikaru jumped off the desk and snickered, while Sakura just stood there timidly. "I'm sorry sensei, I tried to stop him but Naruto..."

'Is he really a Jounin?' Sasuke asked as the Jounin held the eraser in his hand.

"Hmm... How shall I put this?" He asked. "Based on my first impression I'd have to say... I hate you."

"Now, I'd like you all to tell us a little about yourselve's," The jounin said to the four Genin.

"Like what?" Sakura asked from beside Sasuke.

"You know the usual," the jounin said putting his hand's in the air. "Your favortie thing, what you hate most. Dream's, ambition's, hobbie's, stuff like that."

"Help us out here sensei," Naruto said. "You go first show us how it's done."

"That's right," Sakura agreed. "After all you're a complete stranger to us, a mystery."

"... And you don't look much like a Jounin either," Hikaru added.

"Oh... Me?" He asked. "My name is Hatake Kakashi, I'm the kind of person who doesn't feel like talking about his like's and dis-like's. My dream's for the future are none of your buisness.. But anyway, I have lot's of hobbies."

"Hey, he said alot," Hikaru said flatly. "But all we really learnt was his name."

"Now it's your turn," Kakashi said. "Starting with you on the right."

"Me right?" Naruto asked fiddling with his hitai-ate. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto, what I like is instant cup ramen! What I like even better is when Iruka-sensei treat's me to ramen at the Ichiraku noddle bar! What I hate is the three minute wait after I pour in the boiling water. My dream is to one day be a better Shinobi than Hokage-sama and then all the villager's will have to acknowledge my exsistance at last."

'Well,' Kakashi thought. 'Hasn't he turned out interesting.'

"My hobbie's are prank's and practical joke's I guess," Naruto finished.

"I see," Kakashi said as he scratched his head. "Next."

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke," Sasuke started. "There are plenty of thing's that I hate. But I don't see that it matter's, considering there is almost nothing I do like. It seem's pointless to talk about "dreams"... That's just a word..." He paused. "But what I do have is determination, I plan to restore my clan and there's someone I have sworn to... Kill."

'Sure hope that it's not me,' Naruto thought pulling a face.

'I thought as much,' Kakashi thought,

'...' Hikaru however had no comment on it, she just kept her eye's fixated on the ground below her, with a somewhat distant look in her eye's; not that you could really see.

"Okay, next."

".. I'm Hikaru," She started as she looked up and sighed, before closing her light pink eyes. "I like.. training and I dis-like... well.. I don't like talking about my dis-like's," she said as she mumbled something after. Letting out a small sigh breaking the pause she watched as a bird flew over head. "To be as free as a bird," she started again. "To fly away from my ties that make me a kunoichi... That is my dream..."

'... Why wouldn't she want to be a kunoichi?' Naruto asked looking at her.

'... Naruhodo,' Kakashi thought.

'... To be as free as a bird?' Sakura asked. '... Why wouldn't she be free to do what she want's?.. Within reason of course.'

'.. There is one thing I dis-like,' Hikaru added in thought. 'Two actually... but their both connected.'