Me: Eh I updated earlier than I intended.

Hinata: What's wrong Michi

Me: Well theres this boy I like. I knew he had a girlfriend. I never saw her nor did i know he had one for sure. It kind of funny though because just this morning i was thinking of ways to get over him and i even had a thought of him kissing someone in front of me. And lo and behold just as i was walking home from school he and this girl kissed. Well I was trying to get over him maybe this was a kick in the right direction.

Naruto: Michi-chan that's so sad.

Me: Not really. I think i can come up with a few jokes about this... Eh whatever i'll get over it soon Anyway lets get on with the chapter. Though this could be considered another filter

Chapter 8 That's Ugly

Michi, when she had finished speaking, turned away from me in favor of looking at the door. It was exactly five minutes after her staring that the door opened and none other than the cooking teacher entered the cafeteria and walked over to us. There was something in his hand. Once at the table he put it on the table and smiled at us. My heart was beating loudly as my mind raced through different words he could possibly say. He then turned to look at Michi.

"Here you go. The dango you made in class today." He said then turned back to face me, "We haven't formally introduce ourselves. My name is Ebisu I am your cooking teacher."

I nodded my head at him yet made no move to introduce myself. Though he still nodded his head and smiled like I did before leaving to go wherever teachers go. By the time I turned around to look back at Michi she was already on her fourth dango. My eyebrows nearly shot off my head, which must have looked funny for Michi almost choked on her food from laughing. She put the fourth skewer down when she finished off the dango and gave me a serious but humorous look.

"I'm multi-talented." She said answering the question that never left my lips. Quickly as fast as my hands could go, words appeared on my paper.

"How did you know what I was going to ask?" The notebook showed. She chuckled and put down her fifth skewer. She shook her head like she was getting rid of some memories that popped in her head unexpectedly.

"That's a simple question." She said, "A lot of people ask me how I could make so much food in a short period of time. I went from telling them that I'm a really good cook to just saying I'm multi-talented. In layman's term, I know the signs when people are about to ask me something." I nodded my head. That made since.

Michi stopped eating and stared at me. She then cocked her head to the side and continued to stare at me. Unblinking and unmoving she was like a statue. I raised a brow at her she raised one back at me. I frowned she frowned. I blinked and…well I don't know if she blink or not because well my eyes were closed for a second. Finally she laughed a small one.

"Aren't we a pair." She laughed, "To tell you the truth Hinata-chan, I have no idea what we're suppose to talk about." Because of her skin tone I couldn't see it but I could tell she was blushing. A thought entered my head and I was already writing it down and showed it to her before I thought more on it.

"What's your race?" It was a stupid question but I was curious. It might not seem like it but I had no idea what she was. Her face scrunched up in confusion.

"Does it matter?" she replied back. I shook my head. She smiled.

"I'm American. If you want to be more specific then you can say that's I'm African American." She said winking at me. Her answer sparked another question for me to write.

"What are you doing all the way over here?" I questioned. My eyes, I could tell, held confusion in them. Though my face didn't show it.

"Honestly I was always fascinated by the Japanese culture. The food the landmarks the music, among other things. So they thought it would keep me calmer to be here, you know, somewhere I loved." She smiled sadly at me, "Sadly they thought I was prone to outburst and so going out into the real world would mess things up. And since my parents are still in America visits are few in between."

I felt sorry for her. She was living so far away from her family. Not only that but the place she was residing in is a place where she wants to see but can't get out of this place. She gave me a smirk before getting out of her seat. She came around the table over to me and her hands were in a clasps position almost as if she was begging.

"Please don't feel sorry for me Hinata-chan." She said in a very high pitch comical voice. Her eyes were so wide they would probably jump out her head if they got any wider. "I'm fine living here." I cocked my head to the side. Why was she fine living here? She stood up straight again and smiled at me.

"Because I won't have to see the disappointed looks from my family or the pity looks my friends would give me. And there are some people that I just don't want to see." She told me. She was once again sitting down and picking up another dango. I decided that it would be best to change the subject.

"So is dango your favorite Japanese food?" I said. She smiled at me. One filled with thanks and understanding.

"Not really but it's a close. Pokey is my favorite." She said then cocked her head to the side, "What's your next period?" she asks. I blinked before flipping a few pages back in my notepad. There was a schedule that was written in Sarutobi handwriting on there. Show it to her, my heart started to race.

What if we weren't in the same classes? What would I do then?

"Ah you have gym next." She said a smile found its way in her voice, "You're in luck I have that class next as well." She then handed me back my notepad. "You also have the last period of the day with me." She said.

"If you don't want to get stuck in the traffic I suggest we get a move on it now." With that said we both stood up and exited the room. The bag of dango was still in her hand. It turns out that the gym room was just passed the dorm house. We didn't walk through it just around it. My eyes nearly jumped out my head when I saw our gym teacher. He had on a green spandex suit with a vest over it. His hair was in a bowel cut shape and he had thick eyebrows. He ran at full speed over to me and Michi with a blinding smile on his face.

"Michi it is wonderful to see you again what have you cook this time." He shouted scaring me have to death. So much so that I fell on my bottom. He looked over to me and Michi helped me up. There was a smile on his face.

"You must be Hinata the youthful girl I have been hearing so much about. Well my name is Gai and you may call me Gai-sensei. Do not fret little one for you will like my class." He shouted and then continued to go on and on about the power of youth. Meanwhile Michi helped me up and gave me an apologetic look. Before shooting a death glare at Gai who was still speaking about something called the power of youth.

"I should have told you about him." She said giving me an apologetic look again. Once up I wrote her something.

"What's wrong with him?" My notepad read. She gave me an amused look.

"Nothing that the state thinks." She said, "They think he's perfectly fine and could teach a bus load of problem kids." She paused to laugh, "Anyway I thinks he goes on and on about the powers of youth because when he was a kid he missed out on the chance to do things like that so he helps problem kids get over their problems by telling them about the powers of youth." She then shot me a smirk.

"It might not look like it but lots of kids listen to his words. One of the kids here respect him so much that he dresses like him, though I thinks it more because Gai was the one who found the kid and that how they grew a bond." I nodded my head at her.

"Gai sensei I made dango." She said. Gai quickly jumped out of his powers of youth rant and came over to her. Michi already had a dango stick in her hand and was handing it out to him. He took it and ate it with gusto.

"I assume you are giving some to Anko." He questioned. She nodded her head and turned to me.

"Anko is a nurse here albeit she is good she isn't the one you would want to go to when you need to be put to sleep." She read my face and continued, "You see she's has a thing for pointy object. It's not uncommon to see her throw a knife or needle around sometimes. It was also said that she stabbed someone with a fork before and he had to do to the hospital to have it removed. Anko has good aim and when you need to have a shot she would be the one you go to if you're afraid that they could miss and something important gets hit but like I said she has a thing for needle and won't wait for you to get prepared before stabbing you sometimes. Especially if you are on her bad list." She explained. I was already writing something down and by the time she finished I showed it to her.

"So who is the best nurse here?" I inquired.

"Well Lady Tsunade is the best here. The next best would be Shizune who trained under Tsunade and after that it would be Rin then it would be Anko. There are some more but I don't see them so I forgot their name. Then after them it's the other nurses." She told me. Out the corner of my eye I can see people start to walk over to Gai-sensei. My heart was starting to race when Michi raised an eyebrow at me and I was back to looking at her from that sudden movement.

What were we talking about just now?

"The other nurses you don't want to visit. They're the ones who aren't that enthusiastic about their jobs. There has been some cases when they would sort of abused the kids here." She said. It was my turn to raise an eyebrow at her. She didn't even miss a beat.

"There's no evidence that something like this is going on but Sarutobi is running an investigation with the ANBU." She told me. I opened my mouth but quickly closed it. It was a reflex thing. Michi opened her mouth to say something else when Gai-sensei started talking in his loud voice.

"Okay class today is a free day so you can do whatever you want." And with that Gai and the boy who looked just like him entered a race. I looked over to where Michi was to see her disappeared. Searching frantically for her I saw her over by a bin and she pulling out a ball. Once the ball was in her hand she made her way over to me quickly.

"Do you know how to play catch?" She asks me. I blushed and shook my head. When Kurenai found me she taught me everything I know but Kurenai wasn't one for things like that. She was athletic yes but she wasn't one to play kid games. And this seems like a kid game to me. Michi gave me an apologetic look. If it was anyone else, save Kurenai, I would have been upset but Michi look isn't out of pity. No, it's out of understanding. Even if she didn't know what was wrong with me or how I got like this she still understand some things so she doesn't pity me.

"Well to play catch is simple. All you have to do is stand still. I will be in front of you and I will throw the ball to you. You will then catch the ball and throw it back at me. usually people will play this with a smaller ball unless they are playing tips or out whatever you want to call it, or if their playing four square." She said with a smile. My face scrunched up in confusion. What was tips and or out and what was four square?

"To tell you the truth I only played four squares once so I can't tell you how to play it. But tips and or out, whatever you play it by plays the same. You can play it with more than two people. It's sorta like catch yet if you miss the ball you have the first letter of the words your spelling. If its tips you have a T and if it's out you have an O. You spell the word then you're out for the game. Anyway there's also a war when you pass it back and forth between two people and either you can continue until you or the other person miss or until you call an end to the war." She explained. I nodded my head.

"Well drop your notepad Hinata-chan because you're going to need two hands to play." She told me. I looked at her with an alarm look. She shook her head and chuckled.

"Don't worry Hinata. You can still communicate to me with facile expression and body language." I did as she said and dropped my notepad and pencil. She tossed the ball up in the air a few times before looking at me. I nodded my head and held my up waiting for her to throw the ball. When she did it came at me not in a fast pace but not in a slow pace either.

My hands quickly went up to face to protect it. The ball hit me on my stomach and I let out a surprise squeak. No one heard it for it was to quiet to hear. Michi stared at me like she was expecting me to do something. Her eyes then went down to the ball in front of my feet then back up to me. I got what she was saying and picked up the ball. I rolled it around my hand a few times to get the feel of it. I looked back up at Michi and she nodded her head. I then threw the ball at her. I was off and she had to move to get it. She shook her head and gave me a smile. Probably to let me now that it was okay. She then threw the ball back at me. This time I made a move for it but I still missed. Yet I was having fun. Picking up the ball and throwing it at Michi she caught it. She then threw it back at me and it hit my hand but didn't stay. I didn't fret over it thought.

I was starting to get the hang of playing catch and was about to catch it when someone crying caught my attention. The ball hit the ground beside me and rolled before stopping inches away. Turning my head I saw Karin and her gang messing with some boy. The boy had tears running down his eyes and he was breathing in a frantic manner. Karin's friends just continued to laugh at the boy as Karin taunted her.

"Ugly." Someone whispered closet to me. I jumped surprise to see Michi standing there. I didn't even hear her coming over. She gave me an apologetic look before turning to glare at Karin and her friends. I bent down to pick up my notepad.

"What do you mean?" I wrote. I then held it up to her face so she could see. She read the words quickly before cocking her head to the side.

"Well do you know why Karin is in here?" She questioned. I nodded my head and then started writing.

"Yes she has Cacophobia, a fear of ugliness." I wrote. She nodded her head.

"Well she claims she has a fear of ugliness and she very well might but she doesn't know what ugly is so how can you fear something if you don't know what it is." I was confused. I had no idea what Michi was talking about and I was sure she knew that.

"I know most people fear what they don't understand but in Karin case it's different. She doesn't know what true ugliness is yet she says she has a fear of ugliness. I can't really blame the girl for that but then again I can. She is ignorant to what true ugly is and so is the people who classified her with Cacophobia."

I nodded my head and started writing.

"Then what is true ugliness?" She read it then looked back at Karin and friends.

"You see what she is doing to that little boy. She is playing with his fears and talking about it. Her friends are no better because they are laughing at him; though I promised not to tell what people fears are I will have to tell you his so you can see what the problem is. That boy Inari has a fear of people laughing at him. It's called Gelotophobia, fear of being laugh at. Karin is making fun of him and his already sensitive nature is making him cry because of that. But the people who are laughing at him are making it worse because that is his fear. That right there is true ugliness." She told me.

"Everything has a form of beauty to it. Yes someone might look better looking than someone else but it doesn't mean that someone else is ugly. I classify ugly people as people who do wrong. They are ugly. Right now Karin is being ugly which is ironic because her fear is of ugliness. As I said before everything has a form of beauty to it." She said.

I once again nodded my head. That sparked an idea so I wrote it down and showed it to her.

"You say everything has a form of beauty to it. Does that mean things like trees and inanimate objects?" She read it and smiled.

"You see that tree right there." She said pointing behind me.

I turned around and saw one lone tree. The tree I was climbing inside yesterday to hide from people sight. I nodded my head then turned back to her only to see that she was skipping over to the tree. I followed after but at a slower pace. Once she was at the tree she waited for me to show up. I stopped just inches away from her and she smiled at me. Before turning back towards the tree to hug it, she then started to speak.

"This tree is so beautiful. For even alone it spreads it branches and grows it leaves. It never moves from it spot when the wind blows and when it rains the leaves turn greener. That it beauty at its finest." She said then turned around to see me again.

"I have a poem you want to hear it?" I shrugged my shoulders before nodding my head. She laughed before nodding her head as well.

"Good answer." She said before starting her poem, "Like a tree I want to stand tall against the wind when it blows really hard. Like a tree I want to stay sturdy when the rain tries to bury me like my tears when I cry at night. Like the rain I want everything to be washed away no more fears no more tears." She then stopped to laugh.

"It's still in its experimental stage." She said in an apologetic tone. I shook my head and started writing as fast as I can while still making my handwriting readable.

"That's okay I thought it was very good." I told her.

"As do it." A voice shouted effortlessly scarring me and Michi making us both jumped. We both looked up to see Gai-sensei in a tree. He looked at us with tears in his eyes. HE FREAKS ME OUT. But in a good way I guess. Still though I'm on edge whenever he is around. Anyway he jumped down from the tree and gave us thumbs up.

"That's the spirit Michi your powers of youth were showing so brightly in that poem." He shouted. Michi made a humming noise and nodded her head. She smiled at him before it turned into a frown.

"Karin's at it again." She said. Gai also stopped prancing around and looked over at Karin. His face was actually in a serious expression as he made his way over to her. Once he was out of ear shot Michi started laughing. I looked over at her with a confused expression. She looked back at me with a smirk, her eyes saying watch this. I turned back to see Gai talking to Karin and Karin backing away slowly. At one point she actually said sorry and ran into the building her friends not that far behind her.

"The one thing that is scarier than an insane Gai is a serious Gai." She said then started skipping back over to the ball, "Come on Hinata we have to get you to catch the ball at least once before the bell rings." She said finishing it with a laugh. When she was out of ear shot I let a small chuckle escape my lips before running after her.

Me: What do you guys think? So now you know Inari. Poor Inari had to the victim to Karin and her friend torture. Now I know that you all know who the kid that respected him so much was. So tell me what you think. And don't forget about the other fics

Hinata: Ah it's good to speak again.

Me: Don't worry everything will work its way out in the end little Hinata-chan

Hinata: In the anime I'm older than you.

Me: Good thing this is just a fanfiction then. In here you're a few months younger than me.

Hinata: Whatever

Me: Anyway guys next chapter we get to meet Shino. I wonder what his problem is…