In one timeline, an eight year old Harry Potter awoke to a sharp rapping on his cupboard door, sighed, and resigned himself to his fate of chores and harsh words.

But, in this timeline, eight year old Haru Hatake awoke by himself with a grin. "Otou-san!" He yelled, running into his fathers bedroom excitedly. "Otou-san, it's my first day at the Academy!" Kakashi Hatake, the sixth Hokage and proud father, grinned under his mask (Haru could tell; he'd had plenty of practise) and lifted up Haru into his arms. "Maa, and so it is! Well, Haru, you'd better get ready if you want to get there on time." Haru nodded enthusiastically, wriggling to escape his fathers' grasp.

"But, on the other hand, if you arrive at the academy on time, you won't have time to have any of that leftover dango from last night. Such a shame. Guess I'll have to eat it myself!" He smirked inwardly when Haru hesitantly looked between the kitchen and his bedroom. "...Well... I guess being a /little/ bit late wouldn't hurt..." He said, playing with his pajama shirt.

"Aah, okay then! I guess I'll have to share! C'mon, my cute little Haru!" Kakashi grinned, ignoring the ignorant squeals of Haru saying he was /NOT/ cute, and relished in the thought of everyone's reaction to his son.

Today would be the first day alot of people would find out he had a son, as only a few people knew in the first place. Tsunade, Shizune, Anko (a complete accident), Iruka (also an accident) and obviously, all the ANBU.

Haru had been in high amounts of danger during the Shinobi war. Kakashi had taken the role of Haru's father after Naruto and Sasuke's battle at the Valley of the End, and had found it hard to give Haru a proper childhood, especially after the Akatsuki emerged, and then Obito. Haru had always been worried about his Otou-san when he left for missions or had to train his team.

Kakashi had tried to look after him as best he could and spend as much time with him as possible with him fighting the Akatsuki, Nagato, Sasuke and the Ten-Tails at different points in time. Iruka, Tsunade, Shizune and also many of the dog summons helped look after Haru when Kakashi couldn't, and even Anko helped out occasionally.

Anko and Haru were both too obsessed with dango, and that ultimately led to the loss of Haru's secret. Luckily, Anko seemed to find the idea of everyone's reactions highly amusing, so agreed to keep Haru's existence secret, and even helped out with some of Haru's training. They became quite close, and Anko often visited. This resulted in her being referred to as 'Onee-Chan!', which Anko definitely liked. Another outcome of Anko was Haru's growing proficiency in using Senbon needles, and other long distance weapons, though he did tend to prefer short hand ones.

Iruka had found out after Kakashi accidently mentioned his 'Cute little son' to Tsunade after returning from a mission, not realising Iruka had entered. (To be fair to him, Iruka wasn't noticed because Kakashi had been injured, and wasn't paying attention anyway. Tsunade would later tease that it was his laziness.)

Since then, Iruka had also become a big part of Kakashi and Haru's life, and though he wasn't referred to like a brother, he had been given the nickname 'Ruka'.

Tsunade had been dubbed 'Tsu-obaa-chan' by a stubborn two-year-old Haru, and it stuck, much to Kakashi and Shizune's amusement. It was like Naruto all over again. Shizune was 'Zune', which Shizune found adorable, and that left Tsunade grumbling over the unfairness of little brats.

Today everyone else would learn of Haru's existence, and Kakashi was both pleased and scared. His little boy was growing up, even though he was still only eight. He'd meet new people and make new friends. There would be chaos today, and he knew it.

Aki woke shortly after Haru. He barked in excitement, realising today was the big day of Haru's reveal, and rushed out to greet Haru and Kakashi downstairs at the table.

"Aki! You're awake!" Haru grinned, patting his lap to invite Aki to sit there. Aki did so, his mouth watering at the smell of dango. Hey, he may be a dog, but even dogs can enjoy the wonderful food that is dango.

"I sure am, Haru! I'm so exited!" He barked, licking Haru's cheek. Haru giggled and pet Aki's back, causing his tail to thump.

"Me too," He admitted, "And I can't wait to make some friends and learn some cool new ninja things!"

Kakashi slid a dango stick to Aki, who greedily ate it down. "Thanks, 'Kashi!" He said after finishing. Kakashi's eyes turned into twin curves, even though only one was in view, "Maa, its nothing. But, you need to have some proper food, too. You can't live off dango, especially because you're a dog." Aki pouted but gave in when he spotted the meat on show. "...Okay," he pretend huffed, then bounded over to snaffle it down.

"That means you too, Haru," Kakashi said sweetly, causing Haru to groan but give in anyway. If Aki could, so could he.
Aki was a nin-dog summons pup that had grown immensely attached to Haru after they first met when Haru was the age of three, and in turn Haru grew attached to him.

The summons dogs all noticed the unusual bond, so agreed to let Aki become a permanent part of Haru's life by him living alongside Haru.

This was allowed because Aki's parents had died, so he wasn't really able to look after himself, and because of the fact the dog summons were very fond of Kakashi and Haru, and had had loyal links to the Hatake's for generations. Their bond was very similar to the Inuzuka clan's bonds, yet it still had its differences.

Aki had the appearance of a wolf, albeit a small one, yet one of a wolf nonetheless. Haru loved that addition, and in his eyes it only added to the awesomeness of him. They were a great team, and were each others' best friends, and Kakashi and his own dog summons cared for him, too.

Kakashi yawned, and glanced at his non -existent watch. "Oh dear, Haru-Chan! It seems you're late! Well, you should probably be going!"

Haru wiped his mouth with his sleeve and glared at his father. "/Don't/. Call me Haru-Chan!" Kakashi giggled, and stood up, shoving his hands in his pockets nonchalantly. "Sure thing, Haru-Chan!" He replied, causing Haru to sigh, and give up, picking up Aki and placing him on his shoulders. There was a minute of silence, before Haru said in a small voice, "Bye, Otou-san," revealing how nervous he actually was.

Kakashi walked over to him and ruffled his hair. "Bye, Haru. I know you'll do great. Show those other brats a true Hatake, okay?" Haru nodded, and hugged his father, who returned it as best he could. Aki barked excitedly and tried to join in, causing Haru to giggle, and let Kakashi go.

"C'mon, Aki," he said, making his way to the door. "We're already late, and we've gotta make our dramatic entrance!" He grinned at Kakashi as he left, then he shut the door and was gone.

Kakashi let the tightness that had balled up in his chest be released in a sigh. He scratched the back of his head and gazed wistfully at the closed door. "Good look, Haru," he whispered, well aware he was the only one to hear it.

Haru and Aki ran side by side through the streets of Konoha together, getting closer and closer to the Academy with every step. When they finally arrived, Haru motioned for Aki to wait quietly. He glanced around the windows of the different Academy rooms, quickly identifying the classroom he was supposed to be in by the figure of Iruka standing at the front of the classroom, looking mildly annoyed. Snickering slightly to himself, Haru motioned for Aki to follow him as he reached the door of the classroom.

Nozomi Kaneko was an unusual child. She had been born into a completely normal civilian family, with loving parents and two perfectly ordinary siblings. There was no reason for her to be born any different to them. But she was.
At first she was normal too. But then again, you can't really tell these things when the person in question was still a baby.

The first time something different with Nozomi was found was when her teeth started to grow in. This difference was that she had unusually sharp incisors and, at first, her parents thought nothing of it. After all, some people are born with sharper teeth than others, and that was a fact of life.

No, the first time they /really/ noticed something was different was when her eyes started to change.

At first it was subtle. The darkening of the bright baby-blue iris's. But that's what generally happens to the bright blue colour of a baby's eye. When the iris completely covered the whites of her eyes and the pupils became slitted, that was when the worry came for real.

Of course, since her parents had a fear of the shinobi of Konoha, and didn't want to bother them with their questions about their daughter of there was nothing really wrong, they didn't do anything about it.

They only took a happily and oblivious five-and-a-half-year old to the shinobi hospital when they found her clapping hands with a wide grin, bearing her pointy incisors, facing three wild cats who were looking at her in interest, surrounded in dead mice and covered in blood.

The only explanation that they received was that Nozomi was a genetic anomaly, and most likely a descendant of a clan tied closely together with cats the same way the Inuzuka were with dogs.

When the Kanekos fearfully asked what this meant for their daughter, the shinobi shrugged and said it was up to Nozomi, although, they said, if she did decide to take the ninja path she would most likely have an advantage and it would certainly help to have all of her wild, defiantly-more-than-civilian, amount of chakra.

When Nozomi was asked if she wanted to become a ninja in the baby-talk voice reserved for little kids that makes everything seem more exiting, she announced, "Duh! Of course!" With shining eyes.

And since then she couldn't wait to start the academy, and she knew that her many cat-friends were also brimming with excitement on her behalf. She had convinced her parents to let her join at the age of eight rather than later by reassuring them she would be learning mostly academic things at her age, though she didn't know of that was quite true herself.

On the morning of her first day of Academy she woke several hours early, full with endless energy. Realising that it was really happening, she squealed in happiness, and flicked a few of her red strands of hair from her face and sat up on her bed.

Her parents were most likely still asleep, and, judging by the loud snores coming from the room next to hers, her older brother was too, and from the lack of baby wailing, so was her little sister.

Feeling soft, warm fur rub against her arm, she turned her head to see a small tortoiseshell cat purring and rubbing its head against her. She smiled. "Hey, Chika! Are you exited too? I know I am!" She squealed, allowing Chika to curl up in her lap while Nozomi pet her gently.

"I wonder what it'll be like! Will everyone like me? I wonder if anyone else has different eyes? Will the teacher be kind? Will they be good at teaching? What do you think, Chika? That they'll be good?" She took Chika's purr of content as confirmation. "Me too!" She grinned enthusiastically, lifting Chika up to face height, looking into her eyes and bumping their noses together in a show of friendly affection.

Now here she was, sitting on the second row of the Academy classroom next to a scowling boy with brown hair and strange purple-y pupil less eyes that when she asked about he just looks away from her and mumbled something about nosy civilians. On the other side of her was another boy who looked about as civilian as you could get, and also hopelessly lost and nervous among the rest of the class.

After a quick interrogation she learnt his name was Hideo Hano, and he seemed unwilling to talk to her after she smiled brightly, showing her teeth while introducing herself as "Kaneko Nozomi!" While offering her hand. She figured he must have been scared by her teeth, and though he was polite enough to shake her hand, his palms were sweaty.

Sighing to herself, she kicked her legs back and forth, and looked up as her new sensei began to talk.
"My name is Iruka-Sensei and I will be your teacher for at least this first year of the Academy. Now, just-," she zoned out slightly as he started to speak, instead focusing on the annoying tune that would not get out of her head. When she started paying attention again, he was calling out names. She wasn't particularly interested in this, either, but she paid attention. Slightly.

"Hano Hideo!" Was called out, followed by a meek, "Here, Sensei."

Then Iruka said, "Hatake Haruchiki," which caused a slight murmur to ripple through the classroom. When nobody answered, Iruka tried again, in a sterner, more annoyed tone.

"Hatake Haruchiki," which was one again met with silence except for a few dull whispers. Iruka let out a long-suffering sigh and moved onto the next name, that happened to be,
"Hyuuga Hiroto," which was what the grumpy kid on Nozomi's other side answered with a dull, "Here, Sensei," in the complete opposite tone to Hideo.

After several more names were called out, Nozomi heard her own name cut through the class.
"Kaneko Nozomi,"
"Here, Sensei!" She replied enthusiastically, waving widely from her seat. Iruka's eyes briefly landed on her before moving onto the next name.

When the name, "Uehara Eito," was reached, Nozomi's heightened senses picked up movement from behind the classroom door. She did think much of it until it stayed there rather than walking past, and one smelt strangely of dog. This caused a frown to appear on her face, and just as she was in the middle of glancing from Iruka to the door, the door burst open. And by burst, she meant it literally. It burst. There were splinters and chunks of wood all over the floor and broken glass also scattered here and there.

Standing in the doorway was a boy who looked about her age with silver-y white hair and looking incredibly smug. Next to him stood a wolf- no, a dog that looked like a wolf. Their scents were different, after all.

Iruka placed a hand to his forehead and muttered under his breath, before straitening up and yelling, "Haru! It is your first day at the Academy! I expected better of you, but instead you arrive late and /break/ the door to the class! You are interrupting, you know! Guess I shouldn't have thought that a Hatake could actually do something without drawing attention to themselves."

The boy, Haru, seemed to not like this notion, and was frowning. "Hey, 'Ruka! I /can/ do something dis-discre-discr-,"
"Discreetly?" Iruka offered. "The day trees walk," he mumbled. "Right. Haru and Aki, welcome to your new class. Find a seat please so we can continue with the lesson." Haru happily bounded to the empty seat on the back row, next to a civilian kid with blonde hair. "No," Iruka decided. "Haru, you're sitting near the front. I don't trust you back there."
Pouting slightly, Haru stood back up from the seat he had sunk into. Iruka focused his attention to the first two rows of the class, and asked friendlily, "Would anyone on the first two rows like to move to the back?"

In return he was greeted with blank faces, but eventually a hand was risen by Hideo, the boy next to her, who was looking at Nozomi like she wanted to kill him in his sleep. She frowned at this and sunk into her chair.

"Great!" Iruka said, "So, Hano-kun, why don't you go and sit next to Yoshikawa-chan at the back, okay? Haru-kun and Aki, you can come and sit next to Kaneko-chan at the front." Haru and Hideo swapped places without complaint; Hideo looking relived and Haru not really bothered.

Nozomi watched as Haru walked up to the seat next to her, accompanied by the wolf-dog Nozomi remembered that Iruka had called Aki.

Although she definitely preferred cats to dogs, she did find dogs quite nice and friendly, so had no qualms waving cheerfully at Haru as he took his seat. "Hiya!" She whispered while Iruka quickly finished off the register. "I'm Kaneko Nozomi!" She held out her hand for the third time that day, and beamed when, for the first time of all three, it was returned properly with a, "I'm Hatake Haruchiki, but call me Haru!" The dog peeked it's head up at her, and Haru laughed quietly. "And this is my best friend, Aki!" Smiling, Nozomi nodded, getting the feeling she had found her first friend.

"Okay, class! The first thing we're going to do is get to know each other! Working together is an important part of being a ninja, so knowing each other better will help prepare you. What I want you to do is to go around the class and get to know at least two people. Know their names and, umh, lets see... their favorite animal, and two facts about them. I'll be asking everyone to tell me who they learnt about, so don't think you can't just pretend to do it. Okay? Right. Now I've gotta clean all this wood up. Off you go!"

Haru began to talk to Nozomi first, relieved he had found someone friendly. "So, your name is, uh, Kaneko Nozomi, right?" She nodded. "So, your favourite animal?" She tilted her head.

"Isn't is obvious?" She asked in genuine confusion. Haru stared at her. "...Uh, no...?"
She frowned, then grinned. Haru noticed her incisors were very sharp like his own. She pointed to her eyes. "Look at these! Do you know know now?"

Haru hadn't really looked at them earlier, but now he did and he wondered how he didn't notice them before. "That's really cool!" He murmured, looking at them in curiosity.

"Soooooo~ what animal do I like best?" Nozomi questioned again.
"Uh, cats, right?"
"Yeah! And I bet you like dogs the most." Suddenly Nozomi seemed to realise something. "...Wait. Oh Kami! Hatake! That's the last name of the Hokage! You're the Hokage's son?! I didn't know he had one! Oh gosh! What? How- you- I- wha-? Oh my!"

"Shh!" Haru whispered desperately. "Wait for everyone else to figure it out themselves, please?" He asked pleadingly.
Nozomi's cat eyes flickered around the classroom at the other oblivious students, and nodded. "Okay," she whispered, giggling. "But that's so cool! What's he like, y'know, the Hokage? I bet he's really cool! He's all mysterious with his silver hair and mask!" Before Haru had the chance to answer her, the boy who had been sitting on the other side of Nozomi shoved next to her and whispered furiously, "You're the Hokage's son?!"

Haru, slightly put off, answered with a, "...Yeah? And, uh, what's your name?"
The boy immediately tensed. "I am Hyuuga Hiroto," he answered incredibly snobbishly, then he awkwardly scratched the back of his neck. "...Sorry. I- uh- Otou-sama told me to, uh, act like that." He admitted meekly, looking quickly around the classroom as is his father would turn up any second to reprimand him.

"Hey, it's cool!" Nozomi grinned, reaching her hand out to him a second time. "I know I already did this but I was hoping you could do it better this time!" He nervously took her hand before shaking it firmly.
"I, uh, I like y-your eyes," he said to her, stumbling over his words slightly. Nozomi beamed at him.
"I like yours too!" She said in return. "They're cool and, uhm, pupil-less!" Hiroto laughed slightly. "Thanks." He replied, loosening up slightly. He focused his attention back to Haru. "So, /are/ you the Hokage's son? He whispered furiously. Haru grinned. "Yup. He's, uh, lazy. And eats alot. And sometimes stays up all night reading that orange book of his. I've still yet to find out what it's about, though." Hiroto seemed astounded.

"Did you just call the Hokage 'lazy'? Kami, you really are his son!" He said in awe. Kicking his legs back and forth with grin still in place, Haru nodded. "Yup," he said again, this time popping the 'p'.
"So, since 'Ruka gave us a task, we should probably do it," Haru admitted glancing at Iruka who had by now cleared up the broken door and was looking over the class making sure no one wasn't doing what he asked. "He'll be pretty annoyed if we don't."

Nozomi nodded seriously. "Well, then! My name is Kaneko Nozomi and I like cats the best, and now the two facts. Hmm, well, I have two siblings! I have an older brother and a baby sister. Onii-san isn't a ninja, he works at a bookshop, and my baby imouto is only, uh," she held up a finger, "One and a bit years old! Okaa-san always says her age in months but I think thats silly because she's already reached one year so you can just go 'Ayako-Chan is 1 year and something months' rather than just adding the extra months onto the 12 other ones. Plus I can never remember how many months old she is anyway. Another fact would be that, see these three dots here?" Haru and Hiroto nodded as she pointed to the collection of three circular black dots on her cheek, consisting of two on the bottom and a black one on the top in the middle like the three corners of a triangle. "These are birthmarks! No one else in my family has them and when my parents took me to the shinobi guy when I was little he told me they were probably a ninja clan mark even though I'm not /from/ a ninja clan! And apparently my Okaa-san or Otou-san (or maybe both!) are descendants of a ninja clan that was thought to have died out but then came back with me!" She grinned. "Cool, huh?"
Hiroto and Haru both nodded, Hiroto more enthusiastically, while Haru seemed to be petting Aki behind the ears simultaneously.

Nozomi gestured at Haru. "Your turn now, Haru. I wanna know what living as the Hokage's son is like!" Haru looked up. "Okay, then. My name is Hatake Haruchiki, but keep calling me Haru, and my favourite animals are obviously dogs. Two facts, well, my best friend is Aki, who is my dog right here, and he's actually a nin-dog from Otou-san's pack, which is really cool." Aki spoke up for the first time since arriving at the academy. "Hi!"

Nozomi squealed in delight. "He can speak!" Haru nodded, "Uh, yeah? He /is/ a nin-dog."
"Can I pet him? Aki, can I pet you?" Haru shrugged and looked at Aki. "Whatever Aki says," to which Aki just jumped onto Nozomi's lap in answer. Giggling, she began to scratch him between the ears, and looked at Haru, silently telling him to continue.

Hiroto, while this was happening, discretely moved closer to Nozomi, blushing slightly. "Okay, well, my favourite food is dango, and sometimes me and Anko-Nee-Chan have dango eating contests, but I've never won. Yet." Determination flared up in his eyes. "Yet," he repeated. It died down and he continued to talk. "Anyway, Anko-Nee-Chan isn't my real sister, but she might as well be! Otou-san says I met her because when he was buying dango one day, I was impatient and saw her eating some and tried to steal it. She didn't like that." He laughed awkwardly and scratched the back of his neck. "But she's really nice!" He pondered this slightly and grinned, "Mostly," He turned to Hiroto and said, "Your turn!" In announcement.

Hiroto coughed as all the attention from Nozomi, Haru and Aki all turned to him. "...Uh... I'm Hyuuga Hiroto and my... Uh, favourite animal would probably be," after seeing an encouraging smile on Nozomi's face his confidence seemed to boost. "Would be, ah, rabbits." He looked at his hands as if expecting to be jeered at, but all he received was a, "And two facts?" From Haru. Looking up, Hiroto beamed, feeling unwanted tears build up in his eyes in happiness. He felt that he had finally made true friends who wouldn't mock or jeer him, or reprimand him with harsh words when he couldn't do anything right. He thought for a moment, "Well, I'm from the Hyuuga clan which means that my eyes can see chakra. Otou-sama can do it really well, and he wants me to get better at it 'cause I can't do it that well, so I, uh, do a lot of training with him and my cousins. Because I'm not from the main family branch I've gotta work even harder 'cause we're gotta protect the clan heirs, Hyuuga Hinata-sama and Hyuuga Hinami-sama." Nozomi nodded thoughtfully, "That sounds like a pretty important job! I'm sure you'll be really good at it eventually,"

"Yeah!" Haru added, "After all, you're only, like, 8 years old and I bet its hard to do your eye thingy anyway."
"Thanks," Hiroto replied, cheeks heating up slightly from their vote of confidence towards him. He quickly changed the subject. "Another fact would be that, uh, my favourite food is lemon cake." Nozomi perked up. "Really?! I love lemon cake, too! I mean, its not my favourite /food/ but it's my favourite kinda sweet food! That's pretty neat, huh?" Flushing as she briefly pushed his shoulder in a 'Cool, right?' manner he responded with a stuttered, "Y-Yeah!" Giving another care-free laugh, Nozomi titled her head towards Aki. "Hey, your turn!" She announced.

Looking up in slight surprise from Nozomi to Haru, and seeing Haru nod in affirmation he grinned as best he could and jumped off Nozomi's lap. "I'm Aki! And my favourite animals are humans!" He giggled, "Since I can't say dogs 'cause I am one." He licked Haru's hand. "I'm a nin-dog! But I'm also Haru's partner since my parents died when I was a pup. My favourite thing to do is play with Haru and 'Kashi-San and when 'Kashi gives us dango for breakfast," Seeming to find this introduction sufficient, he jumped into Haru's lap this time, his tail thumping wildly.
Nozomi laughed. "I wish /my/ Otou-san gave me dango for breakfast," Hiroto nodded in agreement, "Yeah," he mumbled.

"Okay, class! Please sit back in your seats now!" There was a few minutes of shuffling as the class complied with Iruka's request. Surveying the class, Iruka nodded in approval. "The next task that I want you to do is write down what you have learnt about your classmates just now. After you have done this, please write your name on your paper and hand it in on my desk. Then you can go and have a break, okay? Good. Don't rush, no one's leaving until normal break time has started. Hano-kun, would you please hand out the paper?" Nodding, Hideo stood up and grabbed the stack at the front. Iruka nodded in acknowledgment, "Arigarto, Hano-kun. Kaneko-Chan, please help him out," nodding, Nozomi took half of the paper from Hideo who was eying her cautiously, and began to hand it out. Iruka sat down and seemed to be marking several exam papers as Nozomi and Hideo handed the paper out.

Haru looked down at his blank sheet of lined paper. The first thing he did was write his name on the back. Then he wrote down the name 'Nozomi Kaneko' on the front. Next to her name he listed her favourite animal as 'cats' and wrote that she had two siblings, a little sister and an older brother, and that her Onii-Chan worked in a bookshop. He then wrote that she had a birthmark in the shape of three dots that were kinda like a ninja clan mark.

He moved onto Hiroto by missing a line and writing 'Hiroto Hyuuga'. Favourite animal, rabbits. Then he wrote the fact that his favourite food was lemon cake and he had special eyes that could see chakra.
After this, he placed his pencil down and looked around the class. Everyone else was either still writing or clearly finished but not wanting to be the first to give their paper in.

Haru saw no problem in being the first, so he stood up and placed his sheet on Iruka's desk. Iruka looked up and smiled. "Thank you, Haru. You can start break now," Haru nodded, but rather than leave the classroom he walked back to his seat, where Nozomi and Hiroto were still writing. He glanced at Nozomi's and saw she had also written about Aki. He felt a warm feeling rise up in his chest as she finished writing, acknowledged Haru waiting for her with a grateful smile, and walked over to place her paper on the pile Haru had started, which was now piling up. Hiroto was quick to follow, and soon all three of them walked out of the class doors to the outside area of the academy. It was a hot day, so Haru lead them to the shadowed area beneath a tall oak tree. Aki immediately lay down, watching them from his position on the floor.

"I'm so happy to have found you guys as friends," Haru admitted. "I thought It'd be hard 'cause I'm the son of the Hokage and I've never really had a friend before. I don't know how it works. You're my first friends."
"You're my first proper friends in ages," Nozomi added. "I had one when I was younger; her name was Ai. I liked her, but her parents didn't let me see her a while. It was kinda lonely and I missed her, but I had my Onii-Chan," Hiroto added a, "Well, you're my first friends," to the conversation.

Haru took all of this new information and smiled. "Well, we have friends now! And, I don't know about you guys, but it feels really nice," The two of them nodded in agreement, sitting in a row underneath the tall oak tree content with their new friends.
(Not knowing the huge difference their lives were making.)

A/N:
Chapter 1 done! I am incredibly sorry about how long this took. I am not abandoning this story- I just kinda forgot about it? Sorry. I had no idea which direction I wanted this story to go in, and when I finally settled on the time period I decided you deserved a long chapter to make up for my long absence. Once again I'm so sorry it took so long! I had to write this on my phone as my laptop has had some trouble with Word recently, and thats really annoying- /BUT/- I will try and update more regularly. I need to thank all you guys who followed, favourited, and reviewed my story! I had no idea it'd be as popular as it ended up and I'm really thankful. Thanks for being patient with me and I really appreciate all of you ⌒.⌒
Sorry if the ending seems a bit rushed but I just wanted to get this up asap. So- Haru has new friends! A Hyuuga and an OC. I literally had no idea how this was going to play out so I kinda made it up as I went along. I think after this is complete (which will be in a while- I plan for this to be a long fic!) I might rewrite it in a different time period? I'm not sure yet. I'm sorry if this chapter isn't the direction you wanted the story to go in but I figured this would be more fun to write. Pairings will come later but I might have one in mind. So anyway- I hope you enjoyed this long overdue chapter!
Also - I fixed some issues with spacing! Thanks for pointing that out- I wrote this on my phone so it was hard to transfer it. I've fixed the problems with my laptop so the spacing should be fine now! Thanks again!
~Yuri out~