Well, there's still not one review… oh well. I'll keep writing these because they're fun for me, but if I get to chapter 10 and it seems that nobody likes it… I don't know what I'll do, hope you like chapter three.

Chapter 3

New Things Everyday

Asuka's POV (Point of View)

I was just sitting in the tree, finished with my drawing. People say I'm a good drawer, for a six year old, I still think I'm terrible though. The hardest critic you'll ever meet is yourself. I remember the Hokage saying that, he's seen a few of my drawings and thinks there good for a kid. I sighed, the cool night breeze brushing my neck, along with my hair. "I'm tired, I should be getting to the new apartment, but I don't want to move, maybe I'll sleep here for the night." Yawning, I just let my legs hang and my arms dangle as a rested.

It didn't seem that long, but something woke me up. What the heck's going on? An earthquake? It's not even vibrating much, just ignore it and go back to sleep. I was slowly going back to sleep, but then I fell of the branch and on top of something. "Ow! Who the heck-" I was on top of a boy with round, dark eyes, long jet black hair in a braid wearing a white robe. "Who are you?"

He blinked a few times before answering, "My name is Rock Lee. I could ask you the same thing."

"Um, I don't have a last name, so it's just Asuka." I studied his face a bit more and saw blood. "Did I make your nose bleed?! I am so sorry!" I got off of him and helped him sit up before he could answer. "Your hands and shins are bleeding too! Did I do that!?"

"Calm down!" Lee said, "First of all, you did cause the nose bleed, but I was the one who made my knuckles and shins bleed."

"Why would you do that to yourself?" I got out the bandages from my bag. "Here, let me help you." then I got a swab of cotton and gave it to him. "Stuff this up your nose, and hold the bridge of it, it'll help stop the bleeding." He didn't question me and did as I said as I started to wrap his knuckles.

"Why are you helping me?" he asked, "I haven't seen you at school."

"Well… I don't know, because I fell on you. I don't go to school, I work for the Hokage and starting today, I'm training with my sensei." I answered.

"Who's your sensei?" he asked.

"Might Guy, he's weird… but in a good way." I flashed him a smile, and he smiled back.

"Your… not going to make fun of me?" he asked, slightly confused.

I cocked an eyebrow at him, "Why would I make fun of you? You seem ok."

"Well… I cant do ninjutsu or genjutsu, only taijutsu, the other's make fun of me for it." he narrowed his eyes and let his head hang, letting go of the bridge of his nose and letting the cotton swab fall off. His nose stopped bleeding.

I held his chin up and locked eye contact with him, "Don't let the others get to you just because you can't do what they can do, everybody is different, whether it be size, shape, mind or color, they can't make fun of you because you're different, because they're different too."

We kept eye contact when he finally replied, "Th-thank you Asuka. Nobody has ever said that to me."

I smiled and hugged him. "I'm glad to be the first than."

He froze up for a few seconds before hugging back. After we both released, he tried getting up, but needed support of the tree due to his injuries. He cringed with pain.

"You need help." I said before putting one of his arms over my shoulders, helping him walk.

"No I don't," he said, "I've done this before."

"And how many times has a kid fallen out of a tree when you kept hitting it?" he narrowed his eyes and looked away. "Thought so. Where do you live?"

"That way." He pointed in a direction.

"How informative of you Lee, I know exactly where you live now." I said sarcastically.

"Sorry, I'm not good with directions, I'll just tell you when we're close." I nodded my head in agreement. "Where do you live?"

"In an apartment in the east, I haven't even gone there yet to see what the place is called." Hatsuharu must be mad… or worried. I thought to myself.

"Did you just move here then?" He asked.

"No, I've been here for two years now, I just moved out of my room in the Hokage tower and into an apartment today." I answered. "How old are you?"

"Seven, you?"

"Six, can't believe I'm helping a kid who's older than me." I smiled at him, letting him know I'm kidding.

He did a soft, near silent chuckle, "Shut up."

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"Lets see… D32 was it?" arriving at the apartment complex building, I got to the door that held my new home. I opened it to find an angry, grey wolf staring at me with daggers in his eyes. "Not a, 'welcome home Asuka', nope. It's 'where the heck have you been, I'm so mad at you' look." He just let his head hang and sighed before staring at me again. "I know, I know, I'll go to bed. Mr. Party-pooper." He stepped in front of me and stared at me again, then I heard his stomach growl. "Oh! Your hungry, well, I'm hungry too. How about noodles?"

He wagged his tail and grabbed some dry noodles from its container and handed it to me. "We'll have spicy chicken." I said as I put the dry noodles aside, boiling a pot of water and getting some spices.

An hour and a half past while they were finished eating our spicy noodles and heading off to bed. I couldn't go to sleep though.

That guy… Asuka thought. Lee was his name right? Why do I always run into the troubled kids? First it was Naruto, now it's Lee. They're both nice, I just wander what could have happened to them that make them outsiders to the others. Naruto, the misunderstood, and Lee, the 'weird' one as they say. I think we'll be great friends.

With a smile, I covered myself like a caterpillar changing into a butterfly, and fell asleep.

Yeah… it's shorter, but the next chapter will be longer for sure =)

The next chapter is called, "Things change"