I woke up to find it wasn't even dawn yet. Sighing I got up and got ready for the day and dressed in my usual attire and headed to the training grounds where Aiki has been training me. After a few hours of practice I saw that the sun was finally rising signaling that it was getting close to the time that was set to meet our new sensei. I rushed over to the classroom where we were set to meet and looked around to see if any of my teammates had arrived yet. I realized that the lights weren't even on yet and looking up at the clock I realized that I had arrived a few hours early, I flicked the switch to the on position and watched as the room became illuminated.

Nearly an hour had past and there was nothing to do. Staring off into space I started thinking about how I had managed to become a ninja of the leaf village and started feeling rather depressed. My heart ached as I thought of my parents, I just hoped they were okay…or at least alive… Just as I was becoming consumed in my depression I heard the door creak open.

I looked over to see that it was Sasuke and he was wearing the same expression as always…he looked so hollow. He looked directly at me and without saying a word continued to a seat that was a couple of rows away from me. I mentally sighed thinking of how I needed someone to talk to so I could distract myself from worrying about my parents. I knew I was not going to get that distraction from Sasuke….he had barely said a full sentence to me since I had moved here. I really wish Aiki was here right now she had always known how to cheer me up when I got into one of these slumps. Then I recalled the conversation that we had the night prior. Sasuke…he had lost his whole family by his brother's hands…and I had made a vow to try to be a friend to him; albeit I made the vow to myself and the only other person who knew about it was Aiki but I made it none the less.

I got up from my seat and started walking towards him; he cautiously eyed me as I approached him. "Good morning!" I said with as good of a smile as I could muster up considering my depression that was only now subsiding into the determination that I needed to try to break the steely exterior which was Sasuke's personality. "Hmph" was all he replied while looking away from me. "I guess you aren't a morning person huh?" he glared at me like I had struck a nerve but didn't reply. Ugh… this was excruciatingly awkward. "Soooo… umm, you're early too?" I desperately grasped for a common ground between us but it ended up coming out more as a question than a statement. He looked at me strangely but still didn't reply. I could feel the anger bubbling up within me due to the current impasse of the apparently one-sided conversation.

Trying to calm myself down a paused for a few minutes to give him a while to contribute to any part of this conversation. He looked up at me with a glare and promptly looked away afterwards to pretend that I wasn't trying to converse with him. At that point I had reached the cap of my frustration. I grunted and started speaking in a menacing tone, "Can't you say anything?" He turned back to me with a glare and said "What do you want?" his tone was eerily calm and threatening. "Obviously to talk since that's what I've been trying to do for a half an hour" I retorted undaunted by his tone. His facial features contorted to an angry state before returning mostly to normal. "I have no interest in you, find someone else to be the object of your affection." He stated coldly. I felt my eye twitching from sheer annoyance, rage building up inside of me, "Let's get something straight you are not nor ever will be the object of my affection! You are such a pompous ass! I don't even know you so how can you even think that!" He looked at me bewildered and shocked so I took this as my chance to finish my little rant. "For crying out loud we are going to be on the same team so I just figured that we should at least be on friendly terms if we are going to trust each other on missions!" I stomped back to my seat and tried to think of anything to distract myself until the rest of the team arrived.