DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto, but Masashi Kishimoto does.

Chapter 2: Lunches and Love

Big, white, and fluffy clouds slowly drifted across the expanse of the great blue sky, like big white boats slowly sailing across the great blue sea.

Shikamaru wanted to go watch the clouds. Unfortunately, class was in session, so he wouldn't be able to go outside. His eyes rolled up to stare at the ceiling, while he held his face in one hand.

What a drag…

Across from where he was sitting, he noticed that Kiba and the new girl were whispering to each other. His mouth went into a half-grin.

Oh…that's cute. Kiba found a girlfriend.

Now before we move on…At ten years old, what does love mean?

"I LOVE SASUKE MORE!"

"NO I DO!"

"SHUT UP PIG!"

"GO COVER UP YOUR FOREHEAD! IT'S TOO BIG!"

Poyo glanced at the girls arguing behind her, the ones who introduced themselves as Sakura and Ino.

"Why are they fighting?" she asked.

Kiba smirked, then rolled his eyes. "See that guy over there? In the blue shirt. With the black hair. His name's Sasuke. He's the reason."

"Oh…him? Oh…I just realized, I didn't let him introduce himself! Woops…I saw Akamaru and-"

"Haha! Don't worry about it, he probably doesn't care."

"Oh…"

Poyo thought to herself for a moment. Maybe I'll go introduce myself to him later…

"SASUKE IS MINE!"

"NO HE'S MINE!"

"HE LOVES ME MORE!"

"KEEP DREAMING!"

Poyo pursed her lips. "Is this normal?"

Kiba laughed. "You have no idea."

Rongi sat on the hardwood floor of a room in the ANBU black ops headquarters. He lazily lifted up his foot and began scratching his ear, waiting for his previous summoner before Poyo.

POOF!

And he appeared.

He wore the typical ANBU uniform, and his face hid behind a white and red cat mask. Unlike most ANBU, his eyes could be seen. He had very large eyes. Almost…scary eyes.

"Yo, boss."

"Hey, Rongi. Sorry I'm late."

"No problem. I just got here two seconds before you did. Well maybe a little longer than that, but you get what I mean."

"…Right," the man said, with slight sarcasm. "How's Poyo?"

"The kid's doing great. No signs of unsettledness so far."

"…Are you sure she's okay?"

"Yup."

Then, Rongi remembered when the young girl had to climb through the window because of the prank that could have potentially hurt her.

"Yup," he repeated. "Everything's fine with her."

The ANBU soldier sighed a sigh of relief.

"Well, that's good to hear. By the way, do you happen to know any of the kids in her class?"

Rongi tilted his head and squinted his eyes, while rubbing his head with one of his long, brown ears.

"I wouldn't have been able to answer that question if she didn't summon me into her classroom. She wanted to show me to one of her new friends. His name was…Kiba I think. Poyo was sitting next to him. He looked like a nice kid. The boy had a lil' pup with him too, about Pakkun's size. Then there was this other kid-"

Kiba?…Boy?…Sitting next to him?

"…who I accidentally smacked in the head with my ears. His hair was up in a spiky ponytail. There were some girls, one had pink hair, the other had light blonde hair, and they were fighting over some other kid. Now that I think about it, I think that that was the Uchiha boy. Sasuke, right? And there was this other kid who wore goggles on top of his head, and he had blond hair. Then there was-Yo, boss, what's up with you?"

"…My sister's sitting next to a boy?"

Rongi gave the man an exasperated look.

"Is there something wrong with that?"

"No, I'm serious, Rongi! Have you taught her what a crush is?"

Rongi widened his eyes and shot his ears back.

"At this age?"

The ANBU man face-palmed.

"I know it sounds ridiculous, but the other kids are going to make fun of her if she doesn't understand…I hate to say it, but it's almost one of the basic blocks of school!"

Rongi sneezed, then shook his head. Kids these days…

"Well…tell her about it later, okay? I trust that you've taught her everything else to prepare her for school life? Not to mention village life…"

"Yeah, don't worry about it boss, I got it."

"Thanks, Rongi. I've gotta go now." The ANBU man looked at a clock overhead, and added, "It must be close to lunch time at school. Did you pack a lunch for her?"

The dog stared at his previous master.

"I was supposed to do that?"

The ANBU man face-palmed again.

"Never mind. I'll just drop by and give her my lunch from today."

Rongi intervened.

"W-wait. I thought you said that-"

"I know what I said. She won't know who I am." She never has, he sadly thought.

The clock hit eleven thirty, (AM I'll have you know), and the lunch bell rang. Kids flew from their seats to the door, running outside for munchies and playtime.

Kiba grabbed a brown paper bag from his desk.

"See, clocks tell you what time it is for lunch, too!" he smiled, while walking side-by-side with Poyo through the hallways.

"Pft, still, who needs a clock? My tummy tells me what time it is to eat!" she grinned back.

The two laughed, and Akamaru barked.

They reached the outdoors, where small groups of kids sat down in circles, establishing their "spots." There was a bright green lawn, with full grown trees here and there. Dirt paths twisted around the lawn, leading to different areas. Kiba looked around to see if there was a spot for him and his new friend. And Akamaru, of course.

While he searched, a fight broke out in front of them.

"Forehead queen, you're gonna get fat if you keep eating like that! There's no way that Sasuke would like you then!"

"Shut up, pig! At least I'm not starving myself to look like a stick!"

"I'm the most pretty girl here! Sasuke only looks at me!"

"AS IF! You and I both know that he likes me the best!"

The girls began jostling around, pulling each other's hair. The girls around them began wailing about Sasuke, and the boys cheered on the fight. Not wanting to get caught in the crossfire, Kiba quickly took up Poyo's hand and ran.

"Quick! We can go over by that tree over there!"

Poyo didn't hesitate and followed him. She didn't want to get caught in between either.

They sprinted away, with Akamaru hanging onto Kiba's head, and Kiba holding onto Poyo's hand. Their clothes billowed in the wind, and their feet made soft pat-pat-pats as they ran on the grass. About three-quarters there, they began slowing down. From the door of the school building, the distance between them and the tree was…a bit far. As they slowed down to walking speed, Kiba realized he was still holding Poyo's hand. Some pinkness spread on his cheeks, and it wasn't from their little sprint.

"Your hand is warm," Poyo said.

Kiba turned more pink at this, then shyly replied, "Ahh…thanks."

"Do you pee on it to keep it warm?"

Now at this, Kiba's eyes bugged out, and he dropped her hand at the question.

"Just kidding!" she grinned, giggling at his reaction.

He hung his head in embarrassment, not that he did pee on his hand to keep it warm, but the whole thing was…unexpected, at the very least. He decided to change the subject.

"Man…those girls back there. They're crazy! Their crushing on Sasuke is crazier."

Poyo raised an eyebrow. 'What's does it mean to crush?"

"You don't know what it is?"

"Erm…"

She knew that crushing something meant to squeeze something really hard into something smaller, or into smaller pieces. But in this case, this was a completely different use of the word.

"…Nope. I don't know."

Kiba gave her a curious look. But everyone knows what a crush is! He decided to ignore his mental comment and tell her anyways.

"Well, it's like this."

As they made their way over to the tree, he explained to her, as best as he could, what a crush was. He finished by the time they got underneath it. Then Kiba looked over at Poyo and noticed something.

"By the way, where's your lunch?"

"My…? I was supposed to bring a lunch?"

"Yeah, we eat lunch at school."

"Oooooh…Well, uh…"

POOF!

Kiba jumped and Akamaru yelped. Poyo tensed up her shoulders, balled her fists, and scrunched her face while her hair was blown back.

A mysterious man walked out from the smoke, a brown bag in hand. His attire declared "badass ninja whose face cannot be seen, but you can see his bare arms to compensate."

"Hey! Looks like I came in time. Here's a lunch for you."

The man bent down to Poyo's height, and handed her a bag.

She was skeptical at first, squinting her eyes at him while pursing her lips.

"Your eyes are big and scary. You could give someone a heart attack."

The man turned his head aside and cried to himself, "Why does everyone keep talking about my eyes?"

In a slightly nicer tone than her greeting, if you could call that a greeting, she asked, "Hey mister…who might you be? And…why are you giving me free food?"

"I'm a friend. I heard you didn't have a lunch, so, I thought I'd bring you some."

He nudged the bag a little closer to the girl.

Poyo eyed the bag, then looked at the man again. His eyes were really big.

"Well, okay then. Thanks, mister."

The man behind the cat mask smiled, satisfied with her reply.

As Poyo slowly reached for the bag, she changed the game plan and decided to kick him where the sun don't shine instead.

"TAKE THAT!"

"AURGH!"

Poyo booked it, and as she ran, she yelled back, "RONGI TOLD ME TO NEVER TAKE STUFF FROM STRANGERS!"

Kiba was speechless. This whole time he was unsure of what to say, think, or do. He knew the man was from ANBU, but he didn't realize how…strangely?-No, that wasn't quite the right word…How differently Poyo had reacted to the man's outstretched hand.

"Uhh…"

Kiba spun on his heel and ran after Poyo. Sure, the ANBU were good guys, he knew who they were. But man, this guy had scary huge eyes.

As the mysterious man lay on his side, holding his man area in agony, he couldn't help but mentally laugh at himself.

Rongi, you taught her well.

He sat up in the tree, alone, away from everyone else. It was quieter here, and he liked to keep to himself whenever possible.

Sasuke ate lunch here everyday. Nothing usually happened, but today was an exception.

He saw Kiba and the new girl walk towards the tree, talking about something. He decided to listen in on them.

"It's when you like someone a lot. You get this feeling inside your chest whenever you see them, and your heart beats faster and faster. You think about them a lot, and you want to talk with them everyday. And when you're with them, you feel like you're the happiest person in the world."

Poyo widened her eyes as Kiba went more and more into his explanation.

"So this Sasuke, he must be really something if all those girls crush on him!"

Kiba stuck his lower lip out and side glanced at the air.

"Well, I don't know. He's so cold. He doesn't talk to anyone and he doesn't let anyone get near him."

"Maybe he just wants some space! It must be a lot of pressure to have so many people crushing on him!" she giggled, thinking about all of the girls from before.

"Yeah, well, he should at least show that he cares."

Sasuke watched the boy and girl down below talk about him. He already knew that the other boys didn't exactly like him, and it was obvious that all the girls liked him. Well, except for this girl, Poyo.

He was puzzled. It wasn't because he couldn't get her, although it would have helped him move closer to his goal. It was because he wanted to know how she used a summoning jutsu, to summon that huge dog from before. He wanted her to teach him how to do it. It was a common jutsu, but most ten-year-olds couldn't pull it off.

POOF!

There was a commotion underneath the tree. As Sasuke watched from his branch, he witnessed the power of a blow to the balls. He saw Poyo and Kiba run away, then looked down and saw the ANBU.

How pathetic…

He noticed the ANBU wailing something to himself.

"OHHH EVEN THE WILL OF FIRE CAN'T STOP THE PAIN!"

This…was a very long chapter. I apologize to those of you whom I may have bored…but I tend to write long chapters :X But I hope you like the story so far! It'll progress, I promise! Review please? :D