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Shining lights broke through the window in a spark, fighting the darkness away from the two bodies lying in the small room. The cracked walls gave permission to have shadows cast upon them as the sun rose through waking Haku.

The raven haired girl lifted her head slightly to wince at the painful sight of the sun. She turned her head away slightly and brought herself up to block out the offending thing with her free hand.

I wonder...

Haku looked down towards Naruto and gently touched his shoulder before attempting to shake him a tad harder. Haku furrowed her brow slightly and looked over towards Naruto's face up-close. Smirking Haku saw him silently snore with a little puddle of drool on his pillow.

Haku stood and looked towards the clock as she stretched.

Hm, six-forty five...

After she finished stretching Haku pondered for a moment on whether she should use a trick she picked up when she first started living there or if she should simply shake him awake. Frankly, it was obvious. She'd go with the former, just because she wanted to see how Naruto would respond. Whether he grew out of the habit or not was up for debate, but Haku didn't care.

Gently turning on the stove Haku put on a pot full of water and began making some ramen. If she made it well than she'd be killing two birds with one stone meaning an awake and fed Naruto. That wasn't to say he couldn't wake up on his own. She just enjoyed doing this more.

A few minutes later and the ramen was done Haku picked a bowl, filled it, and went over to a still sleeping Naruto. Haku placed the bowl on the nightstand beside the bed. Now it was a waiting game to see whether Naruto would wake up because of the aroma or if he would sleep through it.

Though Haku gave special attention to his nose. Whenever that nose of his started twitching sporadically and that special little sniffing sound would come out meant something good would happen. Haku smirked. Either way Naruto would end up awake and fed.

In the end, it didn't take long because once his nose picked up the scent and that magical little sniffing sound came his eyes opened wide.

"Hey Haku." Naruto said drowsily.

Haku just smiled coyly as he looked around. "Do you smell that?"

Naruto looked at Haku strangely and wondered why she wasn't saying anything until he noticed where she was looking. Turning his head to where she was silently gesturing to Naruto chuckled finally getting why. "Thanks" Naruto said as he picked up the bowl.

Looking over Naruto went up and grabbed Haku's hand and simply walked them over to his small dining table where he looked at the pot on the stove. "Did you make enough for yourself?" Naruto asked.

"I made enough for you, Naruto."

Naruto raised his brow in mock curiosity. "Aren't you going to have any?"

Haku shook her head. "I won't, though you enjoy! I'll make something for myself later!"

Instead of trying to convince her through normal means Naruto picked a more... practical one. He looked over to the clock on the wall and said, "How are you going to make something else in ten minutes?"

"I could just eat something during lunch."

"Haku please just eat with me here. Take some of the ramen you made and eat it."

Silent eyes just stared at him trying to find an answer. With a sigh and a nod of submission Haku trudged over to the pot and took a bowl before she started eating with him. "Thank you."

Strangely enough as it is after Zabuza essentially abandoned her she transferred her master-servant fetish to Naruto and ever since he had found her almost two years ago she'd developed this troubling mentality where she is essentially a tool and nothing more.

It didn't take much to assume that Zabuza had tried to make her an emotionless puppet, but after living with Naruto for so long she mellowed out. However every once in a while Haku would revert to her old self—a relapse of sorts—comparable to how Haku treated him a few months after his finding her.

Haku just looked at him in between one of her bites. "Well, after we're done eating we should get dressed quickly and head off to the academy."

"Alright."

Haku snapped her fingers at Naruto shortly. "And don't you dare wear that orange jumpsuit of yours." Haku said, "I know you love that color, but you won't be loving it long after people start making fun of you because of it."

He just nodded. Ever since she moved in with him she'd found that he favored the color orange for some odd reason, and after she found he wanted to be a ninja upon her asking she'd begun scolding him continuously in an overall attempt to rid her young friend of the 'kill me' color. If he said he didn't want to be a ninja... well she wouldn't have minded since there was nothing saying a civilian couldn't wear such clothing. On the other hand for ninja, it just wasn't in the job description to get yourself caught.

Her progress on getting him out of those clothes however was ultimately abysmal at best. Naruto just couldn't leave the apartment without some kind of orange hanging off of him.

Haku bucked her head after her last bite of ramen in rapt excitement. She had an idea.

"Naruto."

He turned from his trip to their bedroom and locked eyes with her in a questioning glance.

"Would you feel comfortable with not wearing the jumpsuit if you had something smaller to have orange on?"

Naruto shrugged. "Yeah, why?"

"In that case we can stop by a store real quick to pick up a necklace, or perhaps some bracers." Haku softly exclaimed. There was no hiding the excitement in her voice or the slight smile on her face.

Naruto chuckled, "Alright."

Walking down the road they weaved through the crowd with a slyness to them that some may think them to be master's of evasion, judging by how many people the two kids would slip by without so much as a light tap of the foot as the only evidence they were there.

Normally when Naruto would begin to join the crowd on any other day they'd give special attention by giving him a wide berth accompanied with harsh glares or the guttural sound of swearing. That was not the case for them now. Since his birthday he received a blank mask almost exactly like Haku's and had taken to wearing it as often as he could. The mask was special, he guessed; the top had a Konoha symbol on top, and two apparent seals etched into either side of the mask. When asked, Haku said that she'd had it taken to some seal master far out and had intended to use it herself before his appearance. As for the Konoha symbol... she had painted that on herself because from her tales of when she traveled she'd said that her birthplace was named Kiri and she'd use to have the symbol on top of her mask, as well. Now though, her mask remained identical to the one Naruto wore.

Essentially when asked why Haku had even worn one in the first place she'd tell him that she'd need to wear a mask to hide her identity in order to avoid being caught by individuals looking for Zabuza, and by proxy her.

"Naruto, we're almost there!"

Snapping out of his own revelry Naruto grasped his mask and pulled it up. "How the heck do you breath in this thing!"

"You'll get used to it, but Naruto did you hear what I just said?"

"Yeah, we're almost there." Haku nodded.

Arriving at the entrance of the huge building they'd spotted several children walking in leaving several more outside. Taking the moment Haku brought herself to Naruto slowly before carefully adjusting the dark orange gloves in a ploy to settle it's unkempt look—and maybe her nerves a little.

Naruto smiled and looked down to her small pale hands. She'd always do this. Every-time she'd get nervous over something she'd start to dote on him in one form or another. This time though Haku apparently wanted to play the mother hen sending her child off to school, even though she was going too.

He chuckled and looked at her usual clothes. From what she'd told him in passing, apparently she'd always worn the same uniform and in fact had several pairs for some of those 'just in case' moments.

Looking at his own Naruto found that her hands had left his and had begun adjusting all the clothes on him in an attempt to make it look the way she thought it should. His black no sleeve shirt was first, then the standard shinobi pants were second, and finally going all the way to just glance at his sandals quickly before she took the orange necklace she bought him in her hands and strung it around his neck.

"Thanks." Haku said grabbing his hand.

Naruto just nodded slightly as he was led inside and to the office real quick to find out where his Jiji placed him.

"Alright class my name is Umino Iruka and for the next four years you will all be under my tutelage!" Iruka said. "In this class there will be lessons in overall theory, history, mathematics, language, taijutsu, weapons training, and finally ninjutsu. If you do this right than I promise that you'll all pass and go on to be great shinobi and kunoichi!"

This is gonna be a long four years then...

Naruto looked to his right to Haku sitting directly next to him. He was glad that Jiji had put them in the same class. It wouldn't have been much fun otherwise. Another bonus definitely was having Iruka as a teacher. He'd known him since he was much younger and had started to look up to the scarred man in a light akin to that of a brother.

Haku raised her hand and pointed at Naruto surprising him before she gestured back to the front. Naruto huffed a little before looking forward again, he must've lost himself for a while. Looking around again he saw several children he already knew of in passing. There names were... Tenten, Neji, Rock Lee, Kiba, Hinata, and Shikamaru. Any other's he hadn't met yet , but maybe soon. He'd seen one guy in particular have several girls around him squealing. That was one guy he didn't like. As far as reputations went he had the biggest, however he still didn't know his name.

That day was generally a course introduction day. The next—from what Iruka said—was for introducing the students to one another. More teamwork in bonds he said. "If you focus more on letting someone get to know someone than the relationship will be stronger. That's why we have one day dedicated to just introducing people and less on the lessons. It's an easier transition and makes the atmosphere much more comfortable to learn in later on.

After that the lessons had gone relatively fast with lunch time being even quicker since no one bothered to come sit near him or Haku. Though every few minutes he'd find a pair of lavender eyes boring into him from somewhere across the clearing where Haku and him sat. Creepy...

Naruto thought that maybe some may want to try and sit with him, but it didn't seem to be so at this point, even with the shade.. That in itself was disappointing to a degree, he sincerely thought people may get tired of the sun and may want to rest for a moment under the comfort of the dark. No conversation needed. Just someone to acknowledge them, momentarily.

Later, when Naruto asked his best-friend about why no-one was sitting with them she'd said, "Naruto, do you remember how people on the street treat you?" He nodded. "Well there's a chance that they've passed this on in one form or another to their children. Even though it's unlikely it's bound to happen when their child mentions you to them."

Naruto sighed, he understood. For some reason all his life he'd been scorned for something. He'd never known what it was but it certainly didn't help his confidence since every-time he made a friend they'd be gone the next day. He'd only pray that Haku didn't get taken from him.

"Well Naruto," Haku said, offering him a hand, "I think it's time we go."

He looked up from his position under the tree and nodded calmly.

A little later when Naruto started to open his door he heard Haku say, "You know, I'm wondering whether we'll be put under the same team."

"I hope so."

"Hey, just in case, do you want me to teach you how to use senbons?

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