AN: chapter three haha, I had trouble with the time transition thing.. -sweatdrops- so if you guys have any better ideas, I'd be grateful and I'd probably end up changing the chapter to be better written xDDD

As usual I own only the plot and Kaiya.. and xMendoukusai owns Natsu and Kenta.. and the lyrics belong to the music artist, and the other characters belong to kishimoto-sama

There's a message in the wild and I'm sending you this signal tonight..
You don't know how desperate i've become and it looks like I'm losing this fight..
In your world I have no meaning though I'm trying not to understand..
And it's my heart that's breaking down this long distance line tonight.

I ain't missing you at all.. (missin you)
Since you've been gone away..
I aint' missin you.. (missin you)
no matter what my friends say..

And there's a message that I'm sending out
like a telegraph to your soul..
If I can't fix this distance,
stop this heartbreak overload!

-Missing you by Tyler Hilton

"This is troublesome." Shikamaru announced, sitting down behind Hinata and Kaiya.

"A-Aren't you excited t-though?" Hinata asked.

"Tch, it just means more responsibilities." Shikamaru grumbled.

"You're so lazy!" Kaiya scolded.

Before Shikamaru could respond, two kunoichi burst into the room. "I win again Sakura!" The blonde one announced, as a vein pulsed in her companion's forehead. "My toe entered the classroom a centimeter before yours did!" The pink haired one defended.

"There they go again..." Shikamaru muttered before folding his arms and resting his head there.

Kaiya shook her head, her gaze wandering around the classroom. "Nara Shikamaru; laziest genin in Konoha... but admittedly brilliant. Akimichi Chouji; eats a lot... and he ate most of my lunch one time when I offered to share with him. He's good with his taijutsu though. Yamanaka Ino; Sasuke-teme's fangirl. She has a scary mind transfer jutsu though... Inazuka Kiba; Easy to agitate... He has a superiority complex.. but he's pretty talented at the same time. Aburame Shino; He doesn't talk a lot.. and he has a weird fetish for bugs... He doesn't talk a lot, so I don't have many stats on him... Itou Kenta; a lot like Kiba actually... only more of a pain in the butt. Hyuuga Hinata; she's really shy, but if she'd gain more confidence in herself she'd easily be the most talented kunoichi here." At this, Kaiya shifted in her seat to get a better look around the room. "Uzumaki Naruto... dead last. And yet he still wants to be Hokage. Wazuka Natsu; Pretty close to dead last grade-wise. Although she does have an amazing talent with ninjutsu. Haruno Sakura; scary as hell, but she's nice as long as you don't get on her bad side... She doesn't seem to have any particular talents though as far as I can tell, but she's book smart. Uchiha Sasuke..." Her gaze lingered on him for awhile, before he became aware of it, and turned to look at her.

"What the hell..." Sasuke thought, his gaze locking with hers before he turned back towards the front, continueing to brood.

"No! I'm going to sit next to Sasuke-kun!" "First come, first serve!" "I was here before you were!" A group of girls had surrounded the area next to Sasuke began to shout. Amidst the growling and bickering of the girls, Naruto managed to slip past and land on the desk in front of Sasuke, glaring at him. Even as the class watched, sparks began to shoot between their eyes, until Kenta who was sitting in front of the boys, absorbed in his own conversation, leaned back and bumped his elbow into Naruto.

"Oh. My. God." Kaiya muttered burying her head in her hands to try and get rid of the image plastered in her mind.

The rest of the class was silent as what was happening finally registered in the Sasuke and Naruto's head and they quickly broke apart gagging from the contact of each others lips. "NARUTO I'LL KILL YOU!" Sasuke vowed as he clutched his throat, gagging.

"Naruto!" Sakura growled, cracking her knuckles as the blonde boy turned to look at the girls who all held death looks in their eyes.

"Naruto-kun..." Hinata thought, shaking her head.

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"Starting today you're all official ninjas..." Iruka began soon after Naruto had been beaten to a pulp. "but you are all still new Genins. It's going to get harder from here. You all will be in a group of three where you will accomplish missions under a Jounin teacher. We've arranged the groups such that overall abilities are equivalent. I will now announce them."

"... Team 7," Iruka continued, "Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura... and Uchiha Sasuke." He cleared his throat before continueing.. "Team 8, Inazuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, and Hyuuga Hinata. Team 9, Itou Kenta, Aogiri Amaya, and Wazuka Natsu. Team 10, Yamanaka Ino, Akimichi Chouji, and Nara Shikamaru."

Most of the class grumbled about their newly appointed teammates, as Iruka continued to speak, "Class dismissed after a twenty minute break used for you to get to know your teammates better before you meet you new Jounin teachers."

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"Kenta you asshole!" Natsu shrieked as she fell face-first into the ground, causing the brown haired boy to chuckle and Kaiya to sweatdrop. Having a dreading feeling that this is how the rest of her genin days were going to go, Kaiya slumped against a tree.

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"Are you coming over today?" Sasuke asked, shifting the backpack on his shoulders.

"I dunno... I have a lot of homework from class... Our sensei gave us an assignment to arrange a flower bouquet.." Kaiya said, her eyebrows pulling together.

"'Kaa-san's making dango though..." Sasuke wheedled, a grin on his face, knowing his best friend's weakness for the sweet dumpling.

"Dango?" Kaiya asked, face brightening, "Race ya to your house!" She announced taking off at a sprint.

The energetic duo arrived at the Uchiha compound panting and out of breath. "Ohayo Sasuke-chan, Kaiya-chan!" Sasuke's uncle and aunt greeted as the two ran past, giving waves to the elderly couple.

"Ha! I win!" Sasuke announced.

"My toe totally crossed into the kitchen before yours did!" Kaiya exclaimed.

"Suuuure.." Sasuke said sarcastically.

Mikoto chuckled at the antics of the two children before offering them both plates of odango. "Itachi's in the back of the house if you want to have him teach you any new shuriken techniques or jutsus." She suggested with a smile.

"Arigato Mikoto-chan!" Kaiya exclaimed before dragging sasuke outside to find Itachi. The older Uchiha boy was outside sitting on the porch, cleaning his weapons. "Itachi-san!" she called with an excited wave. The dark haired male looked up and turned around to find the two energetic kids coming towards him. "Need another lesson?" He asked grinning.

"can you give us one?" Sasuke asked. "if you're not too busy." he added.

"Forgive me Sasuke.. Kaiya.. I need to prepare for an ANBU mission... Next time, ok?" He offered with a smile.

The two children pouted, but sat down next to the older boy, swinging their legs, as the sun began to set. "It's probably better that you can't.. My 'kaa-san and 'tou-san will be getting worried about me now.." Kaiya mused. "I should probably go... See you tomorrow Sasuke! Bye Itachi-san!" she said, standing up and grabbing her backpack before walking away with a wave.

"Bye Kai-chan!" Sasuke waved as his friend disappeared around a corner.

"Have you ever got it bad." Itachi smirked, rubbing his little brother's hair. "You'd think a smart girl like that would notice." he continued, "Well, I have to say that you have good taste Sasuke. She's smart, and she's getting better with her jutsus, not to mention she's quite pretty. Can't blame you in the least for being smitten." he teased, "Why I remember my first crush..." he began half-jokingly.

Sasuke briefly wondered if he was really related to Itachi. He had the sort of near-masochistic insanity that was more characterizable in the Hatake clan. "I don't like Kaiya-chan like that," Sasuke scowled, crossing his arms stubbornly. His voice was deceptively disgusted, but his older brother knew better. Giving Sasuke a small smirk, he walked off to scrounge for more sharpening tools.

"I don't." Sasuke muttered, mostly to himself.

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"You're annoying." Sasuke announced as he turned around to face his pink haired teammate. With that sentimental statement, he turned back around and walked away in an annoyed state.

The shocked female could merely watch as her love interest walked away from her. She was drawn from her state of depression by a shout of "Sakura!" and an energetic Natsu running over to her.

"NOOOO! Don't leave me with him!" Kaiya wailed, pointing to Kenta.

Natsu merely cackled before dragging a very confused Sakura away.. "C'mon, let's find Naru-kun or Ino-chan!" she exclaimed. "Suuure?" Sakura asked, still shocked at all the events that had happened in a few minutes.

Kaiya glanced wearily at Kenta. "Don't look at me like that!" the boy exclaimed defensively. "I'm going to find Kiba, or someone normal to hang out with. If you run into Natsu, just tell her we're meeting at the assigned place." He announced huffily before stomping away.

The black haired Aogiri shook her head, and walked off in the opposite direction as her teammate had gone. Passing food shops, clothing shops, and even the Yamanaka flower shop, she continued looking up at the clouds, and was abruptly brought out of her thinking as she collided with a person. As she landed on the ground, she looked up to find a surprised and annoyed Uchiha looking down at her. She quickly stood up, swatting the dust off of her clothes and she raised her chin up stubbornly. "Uchiha." She greeted.

Sasuke continued to observe the girl for a few moments before he finally spoke, "Aogiri."

"I have to go. Meet the jounin teachers, you know." She said hurriedly, silver eyes never leaving his face, searching for some hint of emotion, or clues about what he felt about the day before. She quickly dragged her eyes away and brushed past him, hurrying down the street towards the place where their new sensei was supposed to meet her and the rest of team nine.

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Months passed, and Kaiya and Sasuke continued to avoid each other. A night finally came when Kaiya couldn't sleep no matter how much she tried. The silver eyed genin looked up at the ceiling in her room. Finding no new patterns in the ceiling, she turned on her side, her glance falling on a picture of her and Sasuke when they were little, the biggest grins on their faces, and their arms around each other's shouldrs. "I should really get rid of the picture." She thought, and reached out to put it face down. She drew her knees up to her chest, and pulled her blanket tighter around her, closing her eyes and trying to fall asleep.

Finally having enough of the tossing and turning, she sat up and rubbed her eyes.. "...Might as well go walk around for awhile..." She thought sighing as she changed from her pajamas into her usual black capris, meshed top, and her red tank top with bandages wound around her chest and stomach over that. She quickly jumped into the tree next to her window, leaping from that onto the ground on which she landed silently.

Sasuke wandered around his room, packing provisions into his backpack. He stopped when he came to the pictures on his bookshelf. One with team seven... he was scowling, Naruto was glaring, Sakura was looking ecstatic, and Kakashi's visible eye was curved, signalling a smile while his hands rested on Naruto and Sasuke's headds. Sasuke looked at the picture wearily before finally turning it face-down. He came to the next picture... one with his family. A dark look crossed his face before he turned that face-down too. The next picture deepend his frown. It was the same picture in Kaiya's room, with the two of them grinning like mad, their arms around each other's shoulders. He quickly turned it over and walked out of his room, slamming the door shut. A satisfied sort of grin appeared on his face as the sound of the door slam echoed through the deserted house.

Kaiya sighed as she walked around Konoha, kicking rocks in the street. She walked onto the Academy bridge and jumped into her faovorite thinking tree, lounging on a branch. She looked up at the sky, observing the full moon. "Maybe that's the problem..." she thought, referring to her insomnia, "It's brighter than usual too..." She noted, closing her eyes as she began to softly hum a tune. A few minutes later, her humming was interrupted by a girl's desperate voice.

"Why?" it asked, "Why do you always shut me out?! Why don't you ever tell me anything!?"

Kaiya sighed, "Sounds like a breakup..." She whispered to herself as she leaned to the side of the branch to look down. You can imagine her surprise when she saw Sakura and Sasuke. She watched the scene play out. Heard Sakura confess her love for the boy, and saw Sasuke knock the girl out, gently placing her on a nearby bench.

"He's leaving?" Kaiya thought, standing up and following Sasuke in the trees as he continued walking off towards the forest.

AN: meeeep yeah.. I dunno about this chapter -looks at it skeptically- anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this.. I love all you reviewers!! -glomps- xDDD