Random alien: Yellow fellow earthlings I am from plant Chion. We are now broadcasting another update to the story Phobia. Our supreme ruler Michi is lost in her own mind therefore we are in charge of the leading this update.

Me: Wait a second I'm not lost I'm right here.

Random alien: What do you see when you look around the room.

Me: Pretty colors and anime character...oh oh there's also a book that says best seller and it has my name on it.

Random alien: Guards its worser than I thought take her back to the chamber.

Me: * Shouts* No don't I won't be able to see the anime characters that I've gotten used to playing with. NOOOOOOOOOOO

Random alien: Don't worry everyone she will be fine sooner or later. In the meantime she's having a good time in her mind. Now do the disclaimer Naruto.

Naruto: * Tied up* The disclaimer you want me to do the disclaimer! How about untying me.

Random alien: * Points a giant galactic rocket gun at him" Just say the disclaimer

Naruto: Michi-chan does not own Naruto but she does own her characters and the plot along with a whole alien race.

Chapter 3 guarded stories and lunchtime voices

I stared at the hand that was out towards me. All the other time I others grabbed my hand then shook it. Ino stood still waiting for me to grab hers. I held out my hand and placed it in hers. The contact feeling felt weird when I had initiated it somewhat. When she finished she let go and gave me a smile. Her eyes let up as she saw me stare at her in question. What did she mean by phagophobic? What does it mean to be phagophobic?

"I bet your wondering what Phagophobic is." She stated.

My eyes widen. It was like she read my mind. It's one thing when Michi and others guessed what I was thinking. She saw it in my body language and made assumptions from there. But Ino knew exactly what I was talking about. It could be the fact that others ask her the same question. Whatever the reason was I was already writing something down.

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want too." I held my notebook up for her to see. She smiled at me again. Sheesh what is with this girl and smiling? Is she still upset about the door incident? Why is she the one apologizing anyway? I was the one who slammed the door in her face. Not that I'm inclined to apologies anyway. Why make a awkward conversation even more awkward.

"Eh but I want to tell you. You seem like one of those people who are very good listeners. You know the one everyone comes to for advice." She said.

Maybe that's why the others told me about their phobias. Wow, is this what I'm going to have to be expecting whenever I talk to someone new. They're going to tell me their names and then whatever their problems were. Was this because I don't speak back? Do people think I'm some good secret keeper or something? Ino was still smiling at me. I nodded my head in a way that shows for her to start speaking. I mean I was curious as to what her problem entitles.

"As you know I am phagophobic. That means I have a fear of food. But my fear goes deeper than other eating disorders. You see I have a fear of swallowing and being swallowed."

I looked at her with confusion written all over my face. Are those two things even related, or are they two fears that the doctors just came up with to satisfy someone. Ino saw my look and gave me a smirk.

"Yes the two things are related. You see when I am swallowing something I have a fear of dying. Like choking on the food. Now if I am being swallowed then I am in fact dying. How should I say this? "She paused in thought. Her index finger rested on one side of her face and she cocked her head to the side. After a while the hand that was on her face formed into a ball and a smile appeared.

"I got it. When I was around the age of…nine I had went on a camping trip with my friend and their family. While there we had went fishing. One of her family member chocked on the fish and I remembered how much it scared me. I was also a little bit skeptical of eating the thing. So fuse all that together made me not want to eat the fish again. But I remembered how everyone else was eating it and it made me feel sick to my stomach that I ended up throwing up. But that wasn't the only thing. Throughout the whole camping trip I was met with things that would eventually scare me for life."

She paused and seemed to be thinking of something. Her hand went back into her thinking position and her eyes became a little daze. She then turned to me and smiled.

"My reason for my phobia probably pales in comparisons with everyone else huh?" She questioned.

I couldn't help noticed that her eyes were guarded. I stared at her studying her. I then reach a conclusion. Picking up my notepad I started writing. And then I scratched it out to write something else, which also ended up being scratched out. Should I really write this? Would it cause Ino to become angry with me? My hands hovered above the notepad. Frozen in space. It stayed that way for a while until I made my decision. Then and only then did the pencil made contact with the paper and words appeared. When I finished I showed it to Ino. She read it and her eyes widen. She quickly took in an intake of breath. After that she raised her shaky hand in the air. The teacher called on her.

"C-can I go to the b-bathroom?" She requested. Her words had a stutter in them. The teacher nodded her head and waved her away with a dismissive wave. Ino quickly got out of her seat and ran out the room. After she left the room in a rush like the devil was on her heels I went to grab my notepad.

" I don't think that ... your phobia isn't …I mean I don't even know the full story so how could I …What I mean Ino is that you haven't told me the full story. I doubt you told me anything that could make me choose a decent conclusion. You left out certain factors Ino. I won't force you to tell me but just know that you can tell me anytime you want too. Besides who am I to say someone phobia is worse than the others. Your reason is your own."

I tore the page out the notepad and put it in my pocket. Later I would tear it up and throw it away. I doubted that Ino would like anyone else to see that. If she lied to me about her reasons then she must have lied to someone else as well. When she came back into the room she came to her seat and sat down. There was a smile on her face. She then looked over at me.

"Hinata you are too perceptive for your own good. Maybe that's why you're a good listener." She said, "Anyway how would you like to sit with us during lunch today?"

"I don't know." I replied. She nodded her head.

"Eh why don't you talk it over with Michi?" She said then went back to her work.

I stared at her again for a little while. She never looked up once though I was sure she felt my eyes on her. After a while I turned away from her and got on to my work. When the bell rung my body enter autopilot mode. Without me even being aware of it I was already out the room and moving on to the next one. Once in my next class I was met with the unruly blond hair of a boy named Naruto. He turned to look at me and smiled.

"Hinata-chan you're in my class." He shouted.

I in response to how close he was and how he put chan after my name, blushed a deep crimson blush. He chuckled and moved his things away from the desk. After that he pulled out the chair. He then looked up at me and smirks.

"We'll have a seat." He said ending with a chuckle.

I blushed again but did as he said. As the class went on I would steal looks at him whenever he wasn't paying attention. When he did catch me my eyes would quickly flicker to something else around there so he wouldn't think I was staring at him. Like I was doing right now. When he turned away from me I went back to staring at…I mean observing him. He looked even better today than he did the day before.

"Hey Naruto." Someone shouted. Hinata turned to see the boy who had shouted. He had a grey hoodie on and his hood was up. He looked feral and scared me a little.

"Hey I'm Kiba. You're that new girl Hinata aren't you?" He said. I nodded my head and blushed a little. Thank kami I wasn't afraid of blushing or the color red. He shot me a smile before going off to Naruto.

"Anyway Naruto we still on for that game?" He questioned. Naruto nodded his head.

"Hell yeah I wouldn't call that off for the world." He said. Kiba nodded his head then went back to his seat. I turned to stare at Naruto questions were swimming around in my eyes.

"What was he talking about?" I had written him. Naruto shot me a smirk.

"During gym today were having a rematch in basketball. Hey why don't you come and see us play?" He said. It sounded more like a question though. I nodded my head as I stared into his eyes. Most of the time I made it a point to looks away from people faces. But for some reason I'm drawn to his eyes.

I defiantly need to speak to Kurenai when she comes to visit.

When the bell rung Naruto offered to walk me to the lunchroom. I then told him that Michi and Diamond were coming to get me. He nodded his head and smiled at me before leaving the room. Michi and Diamond showed up a few seconds later looking as if they had just came up with a plan to take over the world. They both gave me a look and had a very creepy smile on their faces.

I thought only Michi had things like that.

They put me between them and we walked slowly to the lunchroom. Along the way they would talk about random things. Most of it involved TV shows, games, animes –which they argued over which is the best – mangas –that too they argued on – different type of hairstyles, the best types of trees to climb – which was mainly Michi – if your into jewelry which one would be best for your skin tone – that was Diamond – and lots of other things.

"So Hinata how would you like to sit with some people?" Michi questioned. Her wide smile was on her face.

"Let me guess Ino ask you to ask me to sit with them." I wrote then showed it to them, Michi looked at me with wide eyes.

"Oh my gosh, Hinata could read minds." She shouted. I shook my head then started writing again.

"Nope I had Ino in my second period class." My notebook explained to them. Michi nodded her head but made the I-Have-My-Eyes-On-You motion with her hand. Diamond let out a small giggle.

"So do you want to sit with them?" Diamonded repeated, "Just so you know sitting with them might wear you out and I personally don't think you're ready to sit with them yet but if you want to then we could sit with them."

I thought about it. Yesterday the group seemed rowdy. I mean that in a good way. Was I really ready to sit with people other than Michi and Diamond? I already met Ino and she seemed a little like me. She didn't tell the truth about what happened to her because she couldn't come to term with the truth. I can't come to term with mines. And Naruto seems alright.

Zoom zoom zoom make my heart go boom boom boom

And now I'm hearing voices. I thought that stopped. Michi and Diamond were staring holes into me. Not in a bad way but in a 'Hurry up and give us an answer' way. Well okay that was kind of a bad way but it depends on who you were. I opened my mouth but closed it quickly when I realized that I was about to actually talk. That would have ruined everything. So instead I raised my notepad and started writing on it. I had already perfected writing without a hard surface.

"Sure let's go eat with them." I had written. I really didn't want to go.

Michi smiled and started dragging down to their table. Diamond was following slowly behind. Man it was times like theses I wish there was a way I could show my emotions over the paper. And then maybe people would noticed when I really didn't want to do things because they would see it on the paper the same way you could tell from the sound of a person voice. People would think that I was straight forward because I had to get my point across in a way that doesn't allow people to hear the passion – or nervousness – in my voice. Well I'm Anthropophobia and I have no people skills – assertiveness – whatsoever so what are you going to do about it? Next thing I knew Michi was sitting me down next to Naruto while she sat on the other side of me. Diamond sat next to Michi. Ino was sitting in front of me and Sakura was next to her. I couldn't help but feel very aware of Naruto sitting next to me.

Zoom zoom zoom make my heart go boom boom boom my super nova boy

And once again the voice was back. When is Kurenai going to visit? I need to tell her about this major setback. Stupid heart won't stop that loud beating. I'm sure everyone at that table could hear it.

Make my heart go boom boom boom my super nova boy.

Me: I'm back everybody. The Zoom zoom zoom make my heart go boom boom boom my super nova boy, is from the song super nova girl. The only change I made in it was changing girl to boy in it. for some reason I just had to put that in there.

Naruto: Yeah Hinata's eating lunch with us.

Hinata: So who else am I going to meet.

Me: *Made a zipping motion over my lips* Sorry I can't tell you it would ruin it for everyone else and besides you should have read the screenplay.

Naruto: You have a scrip.

Me* Nods head* Yep I'm always a couple of chapters ahead. Hope you like the chapter next one should be coming soon.