Hey everyone! Time for chapter two! On the dark side...the only person that reviewed me was my co-author... WHERE IS THE LOVE, PEOPLE?! Oh, well, i decided to put up a second chapter anyway...

"Talking"

'thinking'

"YELLING"

Morgan sat at the bus station, waiting... like she had been for the past two hours. She had always been the type of person to come early.

' But, maybe coming this early was a mistake,' she thought.

Suddenly, and with a very loud and disturbing screech, a bus pulled into the terminal. And then, as if by magic, within minutes, people began pouring into the station. Morgan scanned the crowd for a few minutes, blew a long strand of light brown hair out of her face, and placed a pair of headphones on her head. Then, like a bolt from the blue, she felt a sudden tap on her black tee shirt-clad shoulder. She jumped a little bit, and turned around to yell at the idiot who had startled her... The words never made it out of her mouth.

"Are you Morgan, by any chance?" the red-headed boy said.

"Maybe... and you are?..." she growled irritably, before coming to a realization. "Oh! I get it!" she exclaimed. "You're the guy that's tagging along with me!"Morgan said, pulling out the description that Dayna had emailed her ' Red hair, check. Heavily lined eyes, check. Giant gourd on his back, check. Scary beyond all reason, check. That's him all right...' she thought

"Who said that I was tagging along with you?" The redhead, now identified as Gaara, said through a scowl.

"Uh...Dayna did...isn't that what Lee told you?"Morgan questioned.

"He said that you were tagging along with me... but it really doesn't matter. Let's just go already," Gaara sighed

"Whatever," Morgan said with a shrug. "I'll put our stuff on the bus... could you go get me a soda? Mountain Dew if they have it, please," she said while handing him a dollar bill.

(A/N: I don't know how much a dollar is in yen...let's just pretend that you can use American money in ninja land!)

"Mountain Dew...got it," Gaara said, while walking toward the soda machines. 'She might not turn this trip into a disaster after all... She looks like an Emo, but at least she isn't all "Oh, let's be friends!"' he thought.

Morgan was sitting in the bus when Gaara came back from the soda machines...And she had taken the window seat. She had her headphones back on, and looked absolutely oblivious to the world around her.

'Why not?' Gaara thought, and, rather than startling her again, just yanked the headphones out of her ears...hard.

"OWWWWWWWW! WHAT TH-" she yelled, before getting a cold bottle of Mountain Dew stuffed into her hands "Oh, uh, thanks for that... but you didn't have to pull my headphones out! What the heck did I do to deserve that?!" she said

"You took the window seat," Gaara stated, as if it were the most obvious rule in the book.

"Loser," Morgan shot back

"Emo"

"Loser"

"Emo"

"Lo- Oh, it isn't even worth the time," Morgan growled as the bus began to pull out of the station. "And by the way, I'm not Emo,"she snapped, an irritated gleam coming into her green eyes. "I just hate the world and most of the people in it!" And, without saying another word, she took a sip of Mountain Dew...and the insanity began.

Gaara knew something was wrong the instant the girl took a sip of Mountain Dew. Reason one: She smiled. 'She does have a nice smile,' he thought, ' But it is a bit creepy to see someone who was just furious beyond all reason at you smiling like nothing is wrong with the world...'

Reason two: Instead of taking a dainty sip like she just had, Morgan had now chugged the entire bottle of green liquid...and was now looking...dare he say it...hyper. 'Oh, no,' Gaara said to himself. 'What have I done?!'

"Wanna play the licence plate game?" Morgan asked.

"No," Gaara said. 'This has been going on for two freaking hours,' he thought. 'WHEN WILL THE MADNESS STOP?!'

"Wanna play tic-tac-toe?"

"No,"

"Wanna play bus bingo?"

"No,"

"I spy?"

"NO!"

Suddenly, the annoying questions stopped...just stopped out of the blue. Morgan had her headphones on, and was thumbing through a Series of Unfortunate Events book, not making a sound.

Gaara tapped her lightly on the shoulder and said "Hey, why aren't you asking me to play bus bingo...or anything weird like that?"

She just looked at him like he was from Mars, and said "Why would I do something dumb like that, Loser?"

"Emo"

"Loser"

"Emo"

"Loser"

It went on like that almost the whole way to Leaf Village. The last five minutes or so of the trip, the two just glared at each other with unadulterated loathing, until the bus screeched to a stop. As the two stepped off of the bus, a brown haired blur came running toward them yelling "MORGAN CHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Morgan didn't have time to say anything but "Help..." before the blur hit her at full force, knocking her back about five feet. The blur turned out to be a girl a little bit shorter than Morgan, and with darker hair.

"D-dayna... I c-c-can't b-breathe," Morgan choked through a lung-crushing hug. All of the sudden, a boy with a black bowl cut walked up and gently pried Dayna off of the spluttering girl.

"Geez, Dayna chan, she just got here, do not break her ribs first thing!" The boy said through laughter. "Sorry about that," he said looking at Morgan. "Dayna has been talking about you coming to visit nonstop for three days... she is just a bit exited..."

"No...problem..." Morgan wheezed, regaining breath. "You must be Lee," she said. "Dayna has told me a lot about you."

"I am not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing," Lee said, grinning. "Now, if you ladies will excuse me, I have a friend visiting too," and he walked off to talk to Gaara.

"So, what do you think?" Dayna said

"Oh, you two are such a kawaii little couple!" Morgan exclaimed, giving her pen pal a considerably gentler hug than she had received.

"Not Lee, baka, What do you think of the village?" the leaf kunoichi said, giving her friend a playful punch on the arm.

"Oh, that!" Morgan said. "It's really...uh...green..."

"No, you think?" Dayna replied sarcastically. "LEE KUN! COME ON!" She yelled across the terminal "I'm taking Morgan around town and then back to the hotel, OK? Why don't we take these two out for dinner around six!"

A cry of "Sounds good, see you then!" was heard faintly across the large room, and the two girls were off to see the village.