A/N: Chapter two of First Love! Well, anyway, please read and review.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor any of its characters. I only own the random and unknown, or not from the show, classmates of my favourite blonde.

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It was Monday, the first day of a new school week, the second one for the year. Naruto didn't enjoy Mondays nor any day of his life. He wouldn't wish to live longer. He wouldn't want to be living right now! He sat on his chair with his arms crossed on the table and his head on them. He stared at all his classmates playing while waiting for classes to start. Everyone always had fun...

Naruto looked to his right to see Sasuke on the other side of the room. He was alone, too. But Sasuke was probably happy alone. Naruto felt different about being all alone. Unlike the Uchiha, he wanted friends. Sasuke saw his classmate looking at him. and simply glared at Naruto. Naruto sticked his tongue out at Sasuke.

"That's enough, Naruto."

Both Naruto and Sasuke, like everyone else, turned their heads to see Iruka already in front of the classroom. Everyone of Naruto's classmates who weren't at their seats walked quietly to their assigned places and sat on their respective chairs. Once everyone was settled down, the class started, and Iruka began to speak.

"Okay class, just like anyone else, ninjas have to work together to achieve something. So then, I decided that, for the rest of the school year, you will each have a certain partner. You are to get along with that classmate, get to know him or her in one and a half weeks. We start today, and I have chosen your first partners. I decided to choose myself insted of you choosing since you might only choose your friends. So, first, Tahiru, your partner shall be Myu. "

As Iruka called out names and announced the different pairs, Naruto waited for his name to be said. This was going to be torture, he thought. He wasn't close to anyone in the class. He always sat on the swing during breaks, he ate by himself, walked home by himself, did everything by himself. He was going to fail this whole activity, getting along with someone from his class. At least he thought he would...

"Naruto, your partner will be Sakura."

Naruto bonked his head on his table. Maybe he would fail...

Sakura looked at Naruto and sighed. "Of all people, my partner is Naruto." she thought and rolled her eyes.

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Sakura waited for Naruto as he packed his things into his bag. So Sakura was supposed to hang out and even get along with someone she didn't expect to get as a first partner. Naruto didn't expect to be partners with Sakura either. What were they going to do? It was there first week and a half of the activity and the two were already hopeless.

Naruto placed his backpack over his shoulders and looked at Sakura. "So should we get going?" Naruto asked in a calm tone. "Uh, yeah, sure." came the reply. Sakura let Naruto walk ahead, but Naruto suggested they just walk side by side.

"So where do we go first?" Naruto asked when he and his classmate and partner had arrived outside the school.
"I don't know. Where do you want to go?"
"To go anywhere is fine with me. It doesn't really matter to me."
"Well, the most comfortable place I think we should go to is the park. A lot of people spend time there."
"Yeah. Maybe you're right. Maybe we should go to the park. I think it's nice there, too."
Sakura smiled. "You're not so bad after all."
Naruto smiled back. "Well, no one ever said that to me before. Thanks."
Sakura simply smiled while Naruto grinned.

At the ever so green park, Naruto and Sakura walked side by side around the place in silence. Wanting to start a conversation, Naruto spoke.

"Do you come here often?"
Sakura looked at Naruto who wasn't looking back at her, unfortunately. She looked back at the trees, adored the ones with beautiful flowers on them and gave her reply. "Well, if I have free time, I do. But I haven't been here in quite a while. How about you?"
"Yeah, I do." Naruto answered, staring at the younger kids running around, chasing each other. Naruto blinked and ended up lost in thoughts.

"Look at them. They don't have a single worry about anything. I can't imagine anything like it. They always play, they run, they enjoy whatever they're doing, and they laugh. I wish I could do that all day and not have a single problem. But no, I can't do anything like that. All the villagers never wanted me to have fun. It's not like I did anything to them. What if I did? What did I do? I've never done anything wrong to the villagers to make them hate me. I know I did so many tricks and pranks at them, but that was before they treated me like a toy. I'm fragile like everyone else. How could everyone do this to me?"

Before Naruto knew it, his toe hit a rock on the path they were walking on, and he fell face first to the ground. The adults who saw this merely laughed, snorted or chuckled at the sight. Naruto unmistakably heard a man yell "Serves you right!" It was no doubt that Sakura heard it, too.

Taking Naruto's hand, Sakura helped him up. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah. It- It's nothing." Naruto murmured and wiped the dirt off his face with the back of his hand. He continued to walk, making Sakura surprised a little. She had to take one huge step to go back to Naruto's side.
"Are you okay? Why did people laugh at you instead of helping you up? Do you know why?"
Naruto stopped in his tracks and gave out the answer. "I don't know why people laugh at me like that. I don't know why they act so mean to me. But what I do know is that they hate me. They've hated me, despised me ever since the day I was born and for some reason. Another thing that I know is that I hate it. I did nothing and yet they treat me so badly."
Sakura stayed silent. "I- I never knew." she said, looking down and feeling guilty.
"It's nothing really."
Sakura looked up at Naruto only to see him smiling.
"So do you think we should rest here? We should go, sit in one spot and talk. That's how I think we could get along. A lot of people do the same." Naruto suddenly said, cheerfully, as he walked to the nearest tree and sat on the grassy ground of the park.

Sakura was a little more surprised. Just one second ago Naruto had a cold tone in his voice and now he was happy-go-lucky. Sakura thought that it should be hard when nobody cares about you. It's a mystery to her how Naruto can just smile and act like nothing ever happened. Maybe she should talk to him about it. Maybe he would feel a little more comfortable or happy even. Either way, Sakura would have to do something. She walked to Naruto and sat to his left. She smiled.

The two had a good start of doing the activity by talking. They talked for the whole day. Only that for the first day, but little did Naruto know what is prepared for him for the next nine days.

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A/N: Well, this is the first day of the activity. A little humor will do well for the next chapters. I want this story to be not so mature but as cute as possible. The main characters here are only ten years old... Reviews are appreciated!