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Kiba sat down at his table and said, "Hi." The girl next to him had pale eyes, and she was very shy.

She said quietly, "H-Hello, Kiba."

The dog-boy smiled, "Hey Hinata." Hinata was Neji's cousin and was friends with Kiba. She also had a crush on Naruto, she never told anybody, but it was painfully obvious to Kiba. Another boy at the table had dark hair and glasses; he was a very quiet person. "Sup Shino." Kiba smiled, Shino nodded in reply because Kakashi began to talk. After Kenshin introduced herself and Kiba yelled and got into trouble, he sat down and looked at his work so far. He was drawing his pet dog, Akamaru, but, decided not to draw him anymore. So he put a giant X threw the paper and got a new sheet out. He closed his eyes and immediately shot them open. 'What the hell?' He thought to himself. He looked across the classroom to see the new girl talking to Ino. They stopped talking then she was talking to Neji.

Hinata was watching her too, "I hope sh-she'll be alright, I-Ino looked angry."

Kiba looked at Hinata and smiled, "She'll be alright, and she had the guts to make fun of Gaara." Kiba laughed then. He looked at Kenshin again to see her concentrating on her work. Kiba thought that would be good to draw. He stared at her, making sure he captured all the details of her face. Kenshin then looked up at Kiba because she felt him staring. Kiba immediately shot his head down to look at his blank sheet of sketch paper. He didn't want her to see him staring, he'd look weird. Kiba decided to begin drawing.

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Kenshin had already finished and was satisfied with her work. She had always been good at art; she figured she would at least get a B on this. Kiba finished his too and was ready to turn it in. He was pretty good at art too. The bell rang and they both stood up to turn their drawings in. They got to the desk at the same exact time. They caught a glimpse of the other's paper. Kiba and Kenshin both gasped when they saw it. Kenshin quickly hurried out of the door to her next class, gym. Fantastic, her next class was with Kiba. It took her a little while to find the gym. She walked in a second before the bell rang. She saw Naruto talking to Kiba and blushed when they both looked at her. Naruto smiled and waved, Kiba lightly blushed and looked down at his feet. Naruto looked at the dog-boy confusingly, wondering what was wrong with him. Kenshin walked to the gym teacher, Gai, who was standing next to Lee. Lee looked almost exactly the same as Gai, just younger.

Lee smiled when he saw her and said, "Gai-sensei, this is the new student."

Gai smiled brightly and gave Lee a thumbs up, "Excellent, now Lee, go start the warm-up. 300 jumping jacks, then they will run the track 500 times."

Lee saluted him, "Yes, Gai-sensei." Lee ran off and Gai gave Kenshin a gym uniform. She went to the locker room, changed, and came back out to find everybody still doing jumping jacks. Naruto waved to Kenshin to come and stand next to him. She decided she would, there was really nobody else there that she knew, besides, Sasuke was busy with his fan girls at the moment.

"Hey Naruto," the girl said when she stood next to him. She started doing her jumping jacks, feeling lucky that she didn't have to do them all because she had to change. The blonde was tired of Gai and his stupid long exercises. Luckily, Gai decided to change it around a bit because he realized they were going to run out of time.

"Alright kids, how about we play dodge ball instead." He smiled. Everyone stopped and sat down so that teams could be picked.

Gai then said, "Lee, pick two team captains!"

Lee stood up and quickly pointed to two people, "Kuroarashi and Inuzuka are team captains!" Then he sat back down. Kenshin and Kiba stood up and walked to the center of the gym. Kiba told Kenshin that she could pick first.

"Alright, Uzumaki, come up here." Kenshin didn't know it yet, but Naruto was the best in school at dodge ball. Kiba pouted, he knew that his team was going to lose now. Kiba picked Sasuke, the second best in the school. Then Kenshin picked Lee, and so on and so forth. Finally the kids in the gym were all divided up. Kenshin's team was planning on how to beat 'Team Puppy'. (That's what Kenshin called them.)

"Alright, when the game starts, don't throw a single ball until I do. Once I throw the first one, you all can start. Got it?" Kenshin said.

"Are you sure? I mean, they'll all aim for you if you're the only one moving." Naruto stated. The blond noticed that Kenshin got an evil smile on her face.

"Trust me, I'll be fine." she said.

"Fine." Naruto shrugged. The team nodded and got into position. Kenshin in the front, Naruto just behind her to the right, and Lee behind her to the left. Kiba and Sasuke were standing next to each other in the front on the opposite side of the gym.

Kenshin smiled, "You're going down, Puppy."

"Don't call me that!" Kiba yelled back. Then Gai blew a whistle, indicating the start of the game. Nobody on team 'Dark Storm' grabbed a ball except for Kenshin. Kiba wondered what their team was up to. Kenshin threw the ball and it flew past Kiba, almost hitting him in the face, and hit some other kid. Kiba's eyes were wide open, she was really good.

Then Kiba yelled, "Get the new girl!" Everybody on 'Team Puppy' threw balls at her. Soon everybody else on her team joined in. As they joined Kenshin told her team to leave Puppy and Uchiha for last. Sure enough not long after saying that, Kiba and Sasuke were the only two left on their team. But Naruto, Lee and Kenshin were the only left on their team.

"Naruto, Lee, you get Uchiha. Inuzuka is mine." Kenshin said. Lee and Naruto nodded in agreement. So, after Lee and Naruto got Sasuke out (At the same time). Now, it was Kiba's turn. Kenshin picked up one ball and threw it at Kiba. She threw the ball so hard that when it hit him in the leg, he fell.

Kenshin ran to Kiba, "Are you alright? I'm sorry! I shouldn't have thrown it that hard! I'm re-"

Kiba put a hand over her mouth, "I'm fine. I might get a bruise though. You talk too much, did you know that?"

He removed his hand and Kenshin turned her head to the right, away from Kiba, and closed her eyes, "Sorry." Kiba laughed and Kenshin helped him up. Gai blew the whistle and everybody went to the locker rooms to change. Kenshin took too long getting ready and had to run to English class to make it on time. The thing was, she wasn't really paying attention and got lost. Kenshin was wandering around; sighing in defeat she leaned against a locker and looked up at the ceiling. She was about to start looking again when she heard footsteps.

"Skipping class?"

"Shut up, Uchiha, I'm lost." Kenshin said.

Sasuke put his hands in his pockets and said, "Well, I came to look for you, come on."

The black-haired girl got off the lockers and smiling she said, "Thanks, Sasuke." They walked together in silence; apparently she was on the other side of the school.

Kenshin was tired of the silence so she said, "In art class, some Ino chick told me to stay away from you because you're hers."

Sasuke sighed, "Sorry, Ino and Sakura are two of my biggest fan girls, they may give you a hard time."

Kenshin laughed, "You saw me in gym, I'm a tough girl."

Sasuke chuckled at the comment; then he asked, "Do you like me?"

Kenshin laughed, "Of course not, I hardly know you. I mean, you're cute and all, but I don't like you.

Sasuke smirked, "You sure, you're blushing ya know."

"Well, it's an embarrassing question!" Kenshin snapped. Sasuke stopped walking; Kenshin wasn't paying attention and bumped into him.

"Sorry," she whispered. She looked up to see Sasuke opening a door.

"Here's the English class," he said.

Kenshin smiled, "Thanks again, Sasuke." He just nodded because the door was open and Sasuke wasn't known to say 'You're welcome.' Sasuke and Kenshin walked to the front of the class to talk to Yamato-sensei.

"I found her wandering on the other side of the school." Sasuke stated. Yamato nodded and thanked him.

Sasuke went to his seat and Yamato stood from his desk, "Class, this is our new student, Kenshin Kuroarashi." Yamato turned and faced the girl, "There is only one available seat next to Sasuke." Kenshin walked to her seat and sat down to the right of Sasuke. She was stuck between the Uchiha and a window.

'I have an escape route…perfect.' Kenshin thought, looking at the window. She looked at Sasuke and he was staring at her. Kenshin just looked at him, hoping that he would turn away, but he didn't even flinch. The only time he moved was when he blinked. Right as she looked away, she noticed Sasuke smirk. Kenshin tried to pay attention to Yamato-sensei, but failed. She could feel Sasuke staring at her. Kenshin lightly blushed, 'Why won't he stop staring?'

She took a piece of paper from her notebook and wrote, 'Will you stop staring at me?'

She tossed the note on Sasuke's desk, he read it, wrote on it, and passed it back to Kenshin.

He wrote, 'What's the magic word?' in very neat handwriting. Kenshin was getting annoyed now.

She wrote on the paper, 'The magic word is NOW!' She threw it and hit Sasuke in the head. He read it and quietly laughed. Ino and Sakura were sitting right behind them. The two were steaming mad!

"The new girl is going to get it after school!" Sakura whispered to Ino. Sasuke heard this and got curious. Then the bell rang for school to let out. Kenshin left as fast as she could.

'Man, what a day…' she thought to herself.

When she left school grounds she heard a girl yell, "Hey new girl!" Kenshin turned to see Ino and Sakura.

"We're going to kick your ass!" Ino yelled.

Kenshin laughed, "What're you going to do?"

"Are you deaf? We're kicking your ass," Sakura mocked Kenshin.

"Sure you are… Listen, I'm going home, when you decide to act serious, I'll talk to you, k?" Kenshin said, turning around and leaving.

"So, you two plan on fighting her? Good luck with that." Sasuke said, stepping in.

"What, you think we can't?" Ino said.

"No, I know you can't." Sasuke said without missing a beat.

"Sasuke, don't waste your time, they're dumb, remember?" Kenshin said.

"Fine, whatever…" Sasuke said, putting his hands in his pockets.

"I'm going home now." Kenshin repeated and started to walk in the opposite direction. Ino rushed forward, she raised her fist. Kenshin stepped to the side and grabbed Ino's arm. Kenshin pulled Ino's arm and made her fall on the ground face first. Sakura tried to hit Kenshin but Kenshin just glared. Sakura backed down and helped Ino stand. The two girls left quickly. Now it was just Kenshin and Sasuke. Sasuke was about to say something, but was interrupted by laughter.

It was Kiba, "Hahaha! I can't believe they tried to fight you!"

Kenshin laughed, "I just wish they could've made it more interesting." Kenshin picked up her backpack that she dropped on the ground earlier. "Well, I gotta get home," she smiled.

"What's the rush? You're parents want you home?" Kiba asked, grinning. The girl's expression changed to one of sadness.

"No, nobody needs me home, no one at all…" she said quietly. She looked as if she was about to cry.

"Kenshin, I'm sorry, please don't cry." Kiba said quickly. Sasuke was silent this whole time, he wanted to slap the dog-boy for his stupidity, but didn't. Kenshin ran away, tears streaming down her face. When she got home, she tossed her backpack on the couch and went into her kitchen and sat down.

Running her fingers through her hair, she sighed, "What a day…"