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Chapter Eleven: Class Assignment

"We have to do something about that girl- Higurashi! I saw her turn around and talk to Sasuke-kun again. This time it was during lunchtime." Sakura said bringing up the issue with the other club members. She was so engrossed in getting Higurashi back for making her Sasuke-kun glare at her. A small part of her knew it was childish of her but the majority wanted revenge.

"I saw them talking too. I thought he did it so he could insult Naruto-kun." Ino said looking around for any of the other members' opinion. Despite what she had just said she had gained a slight respect for Naruto. His story had really had tugged on her heart strings. She would have never known he had such a hard childhood the way he acted around everyone.

"That's not important Ino-chan," Juri intercepted. "I think we need should have our scouts find out where Higurashi is right now. Then all of us should go pay her a nice visit. That way we can make it crystal clear to her that she needs to stop trying to have a conversation with Sasuke-kun and stay away from him because he's ours."

"I agree with Juri-chan's plan!" Sakura yelled pumping her fist into the air.

"Alright, so now we need to carefully pick the scouts. Remember you're doing this for Sasuke-kun!" Juri stated looking around at all the hands that instantly rose for the sneaky spy job.

'Why do I have this feeling that this isn't going the way they want it to?' Ino wondered deciding that she would go through with this plan, but if it failed she wasn't going to join any future plans which targeted the Higurashi girl. By no means did this mean that she liked the girl. It was just that she'd rather spend her time and energy on Sasuke.

"Those who are assigned to find Higurashi make sure you don't let her out of your site and are not seen. Then report back to us!" Sakura said with a grin on her face.

"Nee-san, soooo what exactly are you doing again?" Naruto asked his head tilted all the way to one side. His arms in his sleeves and his legs crossed with a dumb expression on his face as he watched her just sit there.

"Trying to meditate but it's hard when someone keeps trying to have a conversation with you. Naru-kun why don't you give it a try? All you have to do is clear your mind, then close your eyes and relax." Kagome said with her eyes still shut slowly slowing her breathing down as she relaxed, why were there five girls, two of which were from their class, in a tree watching them?

"Naruhodo [I see] like this?" Naruto had forced his eyes shut as he sat on the ground. He managed to do it for three minutes before his body twitched madly making him jump off of the ground. "I don't understand why you consider this training! It just looks like you're sleeping! I'm going to go to something much more fun than this. I'll see you later."

She didn't find the need to respond to Naruto, despite being watched by the girls she was still able to summon her reiki to flow through her entire body. She switched back to summoning her chakra going back and forth between the two. Kagome made sure she was able to tell which one she was using and when. A frown appeared on her face when she sensed a sharp aura, shrugging it off when she recognized it. Kicking out her legs she got out of her meditation position when Kirara came happily trotting along and jumped onto her thigh. The neko was holding two shiny bells in her mouth. Purring loudly as she rubbed Kagome's hand with her head.

"Rrew." Kirara wanted to play with them they chimed the most pleasant sound ever. They just made her want to paw at them!

"You want to play with these do you?" Kagome said with a laugh, rolling onto her stomach after taking the bells from the neko's mouth. Holding a bell in each of her hands Kagome waved them around in front of Kirara's face. Kagome laughed when the neko sat on her hind legs and a small black and beige paw reached up to give the bell a good smack. Kirara repeating the same adorable motion in regards to the other bell.

By the time Kagome had decided it was probably time to head back, there were now only three girls still there in the same tree. She ignored them, supposing that they wanted to use the clearing to do something and but they had been waiting for her all this time to leave. Kirara had jumped onto her shoulder, when Kagome had gotten off the ground. "Have Sango and Miroku come back from their second time ever, out of the village mission? The one Sango had been waiting a long time for."

She received a head nod as she left the clearing and was now on the forest pathway. She just couldn't understand why the girls still following her. It was getting annoying, especially their very loud whispers back and forth to each other that could wake the dead. Her situation got even stranger when Kagome sensed more girls; some of them were from her class. They were now making their way over in her direction.

"Higurashi! Just what do you think you're doing?" Sakura asked pointing her finger at Kagome, as if Sakura had caught her stealing a cookie from the cookie jar.

"Well, what does it look like I'm doing? I'm walking home, is that a crime Sakura-chan?" She asked a question back in the sweetest voice she could muster up, wanting to annoy the girl. Kagome felt indifferent about the pink headed girl.

"Iie, baka she's talking about what do you think you're thinking when you're talking to our Sasuke-kun?" Juri hissed angrily as the girls from the club surrounded Kagome in a giant circle. They successfully trapped her. Now they would be able to teach her a lesson.

"Wakaranai [I don't know] I suppose I'm thinking that I'm having a conversation with him."

"Well you shouldn't think that!" Sakura yelled she was going to get Higurashi back for making Sasuke glare at her that other time.

"Okay, I won't think that. Now if you're done asking your pointless questions I'd like to go home and eat." Kagome said rubbing her grumbling belly. She really didn't understand the whole point of surrounding her like they were a pack of wolves and she was their poor defenceless prey...unless....UNLESS these girls were trying to eat her!

"We can't let you do that." A girl Kagome had never seen before said to her they all moved in a little closer making the circle too small for Kagome's comfort.

"Why not? I swear I don't taste good! I'll probably be hard to cook and then you'll have to fight over my crispy body. Save yourselves the trouble and eat at Ichiraku's they have the best ramen you will ever taste I promise! It will fill your stomachs up." She pleaded to them hoping that they had heard her.

"Baka! We're not going to eat you. We just want to tell you to stay away from Sasuke-kun stop talking to him. Stop trying to talk with him. Just stop doing anything that pertains to Sasuke-kun." Juri said moving into the center of the circle, the gap that she once stood was instantly filled in by another girl.

"Oh so all this is about Sasuke?" Kagome asked rocking from the ball of her foot to the heel of her foot.

"DON'T CALL SASUKE-KUN THAT! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT! THAT RIGHT IS RESERVED FOR HIS LOVER!" Yet another girl she did not know yelled at her.

"You're not worthy enough allowed to drop the honorific to Sasuke-kun's name none of us are privileged enough to!" Sakura stated looking at Kagome as if she was retarded.

"Honto ni? [Really?]"

"Hai, Kami! You really act like a baka! How are you ranking fifth out of the entire class?" Juri continued to yell at Kagome securitizing every inch of her body finding what she thought were imperfections and blew them up to be gigantic flaws to make Juri feel better about herself.

"I'm ranking fifth?" She was surprised, she didn't know that. 'Wait a second the heck did they know that….I can feel the hostility they have towards me but I've only played a bunch of harmless pranks on them before and they never found out who it was.'

"Anyways, are you going to stop addressing Sasuke-kun without any honorific, since it's making the members of our club really angry?" Juri asked glaring down at the shorter girl.

"Sasuke doesn't seem to care." Kagome said with a shrug. Instantly feeling like she was shrinking from the intense fires burning in all the girl's eyes.

"DIDN'T WE SAY NOT TO DO THAT? You're not allowed to refer to him without any honorifics!" Sakura yelled angrily.

"Let's ask him, since he's right over there." She pointed off in any old direction before jumping over the wall of distracted girls and running away. She accidentally dropped Kirara's bells on the ground in the process as she escaped.

"SASUKE-KUN?! Wait, I don't see him! Sasuke isn't over there- hey! Where'd she go?!"

"We'll get her eventually. We have something of hers." Juri said dangling the two silver bells evil laughter bubbling from the pit of her stomach to her mouth. The laughter was over the top, but Juri thought that it made everything more dramatic.

When Kagome got to school the next morning she found a letter addressed to her on her desk. (We have something of yours you dropped yesterday, if you want it back meet us in the clearing you were at yesterday at 6 o'clock. Don't tell sensei or bring another person with you. We still have to teach you a lesson. Otherwise you will never see these bells again.) What kind of threatening letter was- oh! Kirara's beloved bells… the neko wasn't going to be happy at all when she finds out someone has her bells.

"Nee-san what's that you have there?" Naruto asked trying to snatch what she had in her hands away from her. Only she stood on top of the table. This action kept the mysterious note out of his reach.

"This? This is just a friendly letter someone left here for me." Kagome waved it around keeping Naruto from grabbing it.

"From who? I want to read it then!" He kept trying to grab it. He knew if he reached a little further he could smack it straight out of her hands. 'Why is Nee-san so protective over it? I know! It might be some sort of love letter to her! Now I have to know what it says!'

"I don't know but you can't read it. It's one of those secret types of friendly letter! Hey-!" Kagome felt the paper torn from her fingertips when Naruto rudely whacked it out of her hands causing it to land behind them, right in Sasuke's hair. She couldn't help but laugh, his hair was so spiky at the back that it was able to hold a piece of paper!

Naruto didn't and couldn't reach for the paper because he was laughing way too hard. He started slamming his fist on the desk. Tears had appeared in the corners of his eyes. 'Sasuke-Teme looks so stupid.'

"Hn. What's this?" Sasuke yanked it out of his hair glaring at the two laughing people in front of as him he unfolded the note, hearing a bunch of girls gasping of to the side. His eyes scanned the material before he tossed it forward to Kagome. She caught it before Naruto could and shoved it into her mouth chewing it up and spitting it straight into Naruto's open hand. "What's that letter about Kagome? You haven't forgotten about tonight have you?"

'S-Sasuke-kun just called Higurashi by her first name….without any honorifics!! AND just what is Higurashi doing with our Sasuke-kun tonight?!' All the fan girls screamed in their heads thinking dirty thoughts.

"EWWW NEE-SAN! I don't want it anymore now!" Naruto waved his hand around trying to dislodge the giant slimy wad of paper stuck to his hand.

"Wakaranai [I don't know]… but I haven't forgotten about my promise that I made to you. Oi, I almost forgot to ask you. Sasuke do you want me to add any of those fancy honorifics to the end of your name?" The question puzzled Sasuke why was she asking this question now? It probably had something to do with the contents of that note- not that he cared or that it was any of his business. 'She must have been spending so much time around that numbskull. He's started to rub off on her. Especially if she doesn't remember that we've known each other since we were kids.'

"Iie, there's never been a need for you to." Sasuke said as he crossed his arms over his blue clad chest.

'NANI!!?' Every fan girl could not- no; they would not believe what they had just heard. They were all just having a very bad nightmare that they couldn't wake up from! That had to be it!

"Alright class settle do-........own…NA-RU-TO WHAT IN KAMI'S GOOD NAME DID YOU JUST THROW AT MY FACE?!" Naruto's gulped very loudly laughing nervously waving his hand back and forth as quickly as he could while he stuttered 'Iruka-sensei.'

"It's time to get those bells back. Un, I know I'm really sorry for dropping them! But you saw those girls. I know I could have fought them but that would have been a waste of my energy. Oh you're right, we here we are." Kagome had been talking to Kirara who was once again perched on her shoulder. Kagome had been right, the two tailed neko wasn't very happy about losing her two beautiful shiny bells.

"Now what's this I hear? Is it Kagome-'chan' talking to herself? Now why are you doing that Higurashi? Is it because you're a nutcase just like I thought you were?" It was an almost intimidating scene. Juri emerged from the forest with the same pack of girls from yesterday following close behind her. In an over the top fashion they all crossed their arms at the same time.

"Iie. [No.] I wasn't. Hey where's blondie?"

"She had some other matters to attend to. It's really too bad she's going to miss all the fun. Now don't try and distract me from the matter at hand. You want these things back, right?" The two bells chimed as Juri shook them. Grinning when she heard Higurashi hiss at her, it was a strange way to express anger. She had figured that these two bells had to be really important.

"Hai onegai, arigato [Yes please, thanks] for picking them up. So can I get them back now?"

"Iie! Higurashi, she's not going to just give those bells back to you. You first have to promise that you won't ever talk to Sasuke-kun again. Also you may only talk to him if he talks to you but when he does you MUST add an honorific to the end of his name!" Sakura demanded on behalf of all the club members.

"Didn't you hear what Sasuke said in class today? That there is no need for me to add any to his name." She was already tired of this game it seemed repetitive it always went 'Sasuke-kun' this 'Sasuke-kun' that, stay away, blah blah blah. She could mess with their minds right now- but she was tired from training prior to her coming to here.

"What are you think you're doing with him tonight Higurashi?"

"You shouldn't even be talking to him in class. He needs to focus so he can become the rookie of the year!"

"Sasuke-kun was just being sarcastic when he told you that. He really doesn't want you going to his house."

"I don't even know who you most of you people are. You aren't in my class so stop acting like you know what goes on. Now can I just have those two bells back so I can leave?" Kagome snapped feeling rather cranky. Her muscles were really starting to ache from the training she did earlier on in the afternoon. They throbbed with the familiar pulsing pain that only adding more weights to her arms and her legs could ever bring.

"That's too bad. I'm not going to give them back to you Higurashi. Since they seem to be soooooo important to you, not unless you promise never to go anywhere near Sasuke-kun or talk to him ever. EVEN if he talks to you, you won't talk to him back." Juri said her voice was rising as her demands becoming more ridiculous as she continued to swing the bells around. 'Maybe I should tell her not to breathe Sasuke-kun's air too.'

"Why do I have to agree to your childish demands? Sasuke is my friend and I can talk to him whenever I want to and vice versa. You want to know something, it's about Sasuke so of course you nosy ecchi da [perverts] do. Sasuke and I are childhood friends. I've known him much longer than any of you have because I used to live in this village. Then I moved away and now I'm back. So, I'll ask nicely for the bells back one more time. Onegai can I have those bells back?"

"NANI?" All the girls roared when they learned this new titbit of information. It all kind of made sense now!

"Iie! You're a liar!" Juri said furiously closing her fist around the bells. When she heard another hiss, much louder this time an ugly twisted grin was brought to her face. Then she swung the bells from side to side. "How badly do you want your bells back Higurashi?"

"Juri-chan they're not my bells. I'm not playing your boring game. I came to get those bells back for Kirara because belong to her. If I were you, I'd give them back to her- right now." Kagome said rather glaring coldly at all of the girls. Then to add to the effect she let her reiki engulf her hands like blue flames would.

'Kowai! [Scary!]' All of the girls had started backing away making up excuses like 'it's getting late so I really have to go.' They scrambled away when some of that weird energy landed in front of them.

"Do-don't try and act so tough Higurashi! Yo-you're not fooling anybody! R-right guys?....Guys all of you are baka's. You know what none of you deserve Sasuke-kun like I do! Except you Sakura-chan since you're the only one still here. Alright fine, so where is this 'Kirara' thing you are talking about. I don't see anything and you know what I think you are Higurashi?"

"Iie, nor do I care. I came here to get those bells back not to waste my time talking to you."

"You're just a FREAKSHOW! But you don't know when to keep to yourself! Everything was going fine until you came along." Juri yelled out running up and slapping Kagome across the face. Then she furiously threw the bells on the ground and stomped them into oblivion. Juri's father was making her move to another village in a weeks' time. Her mother was never there for her and her parents loved her older brother more than her! All Juri had ever wanted was for Sasuke to pay a little attention to her but Kagome had found a way to take that all away from her.

"Juri-chan! You've gone too far! Stop it! You're just the one who is being a baka now!" Sakura yelled at her classmate pulling her away from the destroyed bells. Juri only turned around and glared at her. Sakura hated to admit it but the blue energy that Kagome somehow managed to summon was scary and seemed very dangerous. She had never seen anything like it before.

"I don't care she deserves it! She had it coming to her. Don't touch me and never call me a baka again! I don't like you one bit and I've only pretended to for the last year. Get your dirty hands OFF of me just go home. You're completely useless anyways. After all this was my plan. Unlike your stupid one, really ripping up her homework?! THAT was the best idea you could think of. My plan will work so- just GO HOME YOU PINK HEADED FREAK WITH AN ABNORMALLY GIGANTIC SHINEY FOREHEAD! YOU ARE A SPOILED ROTTEN NOBODY, WHO DOESN'T HAVE ANY REAL FRIENDS ANYWAYS! Look at yourself. At least Kagome has real friends unlike you!" Juri yelled back shrugging off Sakura's hands off of her shoulders. Watching as Sakura took her advice running off in the other direction with tears in her green eyes.

"If that's how you treat your friends, I can't imagine how you treat you enemies." She felt bad for Sakura who had just run off crying. Even the pink haired girl didn't deserve to be verbally abused since she was only trying to help. By this time had already Kirara jumped down from her spot off of Kagome's shoulder. Her fur bristled standing on end as she hissed loudly at the annoying ningen who had destroyed her shiny bells!

"Awww is that your kawaii little neko Higurashi? What's that little sewer rat going to do to me? Or are you too stupid to remember I'm a trained Kunoichi? One that is much better than you could ever be. Your little light show didn't scare me."

Kagome just watched as the flames surrounded Kirara's body and her true form emerged. The fire was burning a lot brighter, out of anger. Kirara opened her mouth and let out a ferocious roar. It was loud enough to scare the living day lights out of Juri, but not alert the villagers. Kagome knew how scary Kirara could be when she wanted to. Since her Obaa-chan often forced Kagome to spare with her. The look on Juri's sweating face said it all; she was scared shitless of the saber tooth neko.

"Th-that has to be….some sort of genjutsu you pulled when I wasn't looking Higurashi!" Juri stated after a scary monster had replaced the small neko. 'Ha ha, I know what I'll do. I can just dispel it......why didn't it work? Maybe I did it wrong? Let me do it again.....still! What is going on here? It can't be that, that neko really is…real-?'

"That isn't a genjutsu." A voice whispered into Juri's ear before her eye balls rolled to the back of her head.

"Rrrrrrerrrrr…." Kirara lay on the ground lightly pawing at the broken remains. Her ears remained droopy as she hissed at the girl Kagome had just knocked out. Then she disappeared off into the forest to vent her frustrations.

"I promise I'll get you some new bells as soon as I can Kirara!" Kagome called out to the neko. She then looked at the ground where Juri had fallen. All she had done was jab a reiki infused finger into one of her pressure points on the girl's neck. Which meant the girl was going to be knocked out, probably until tomorrow afternoon. Well sometime around there at the very least.

When Kagome spotted some rope one of the girls who had ran away must have dropped on the ground she got an idea. She walked over to a log on the ground carrying Juri's body over her shoulder. She wrapped the girl up like a cocoon placing her on top of an anthill making sure to secure the knot loosely enough for Juri to get free with a couple of wiggles. Some dead leaves were used to cover up the body from plain sight so no wild animals gnawed at her face.

"Kagome what are you doing here?" A sweaty Sasuke ran over when he had heard a loud roar coming from this general direction. Wanting a change of scenery from the Uchiha one for today he had been training in the Konoha training area. He thought maybe it was a stray youkai that somehow managed to get past the Konoha guards and figured that he could fight it. To test himself and see how strong he had become.

"Nothing much, I was just tying up some loose ends," She snickered at her own joke. "Are you done with your training today? I was just about to make my way over to your house."

"Un, I guess I have." Then Sasuke remembered that he had been too busy with his school work and training that he had forgotten to fill his fridge.

"Then ikuzou [let's go]….you did remember to buy things for your fridge….right?" Kagome said suspiciously as she saw a look quickly of 'uh oh' flicker on Sasuke's face.

"Iie…"

"Mou Sasuke….It's fine! Now you can tell me what you want me to cook and I'll pick out all the ingredients for it. Come on we still have time to make it before all the vendors shut their stalls for the day and go home." Kagome said grabbing Sasuke's hand running off in the direction of the market, blissfully unaware of how much larger Sasuke's warm hand was. The same could not be said for the person whose hand she was holding onto.

The corners of Sasuke's lips flickered upwards as they ran down the worn pathway. Kagome must have tripped on one of the many roots sticking up from the ground because he soon found himself being pulled to the ground. Sasuke firmly planted an arm on either side of her head preventing the weight of his body from crushing hers. It almost felt like the world had stopped as he starred down into her eyes. His heart pace had sped up a considerable amount. 'What is this feeling-?'

"Gomen!" Kagome laughed rolling out from underneath Sasuke. Jumping up and dusting her pants off while Sasuke remained frozen in that spot his body twitching. She continued down the path looking over her shoulder when she realized Sasuke wasn't following her. "Ikuzo! [Let's go!]"

"Quiet down you gaki's! For some of you this will be the last assignment, if you are able to pass the shinobi graduation exam." Iruka said with a massive grin on his face. He knew he would get all the children to pay attention to him when he said 'last assignment.'

"Does this assignment involve any writing?"

"Iie it doesn't. Good question, but let me continue explaining okay? So, for the last two months at the academy," 'for some of you' he added again in his head looking in Naruto's direction, pleasantly surprised to see him awake for once. "You won't have to hand in a bunch of written work. Which is why all of the writing assignments where given to you at the beginning of the year. Now I'm going to give you each two sheets of paper and I will explain them once everyone gets them. While you wait you can start filling out the sheet that asks you questions about yourselves."

The two sheets of paper were handed to Naruto and Kagome. Kagome instantly picked it them up and started to scan it over. One of them asked questions like: full name, date of birth, hobbies, habits, likes, dislikes, names of friends, duties, names of your family members, where you live, certain sayings and describe yourself in a sentence, questions like that. The other sheet was more like a letter to the parents. Talking about the assignment and to refrain themselves from attacking their child if they think that they are an imposter, for the next two or so months. It also said something about if you really don't want your child participating to send a letter in with your child. And they would get a different assignment, but this exercise was a really good learning experience for young shinobi's. Then it asked for their parent's or guardian's signature at the bottom of the page. Before she could read further the paper was yanked away from her.

"Nee-san will you sign mine for me? I'll sign your sheet for you!" Naruto slid his sheet over to her while scribbling his signature at the bottom of her consent form.

"Hopefully most of you have at least looked at the two sheets by now. While I talk you can fill in the question sheet. However, make sure you are also paying attention to me. The reason why you're filling those sheets out is so I can match you up with someone else in the class, who acts completely different than you do. Girls will be matched up with another girl and boys will be matched up to another boy. You are going to be another person for several days. That's how long you have to stay in your role. This assignment will test you on many different levels as a shinobi. Over the next two months people from this class may be acting differently because of this assignment. I will be giving everyone of you, one of these. I will walk around now and place it on your back." Iruka held up a small sticker and did his best to show it to the entire class before he began going around the classroom.

"Sensei what does it do?"

"This is a counter. It is activated when it comes into contact with your skin. For the next two months it will stay on your body, until I remove it. It is waterproof and shouldn't cause the wearer any discomfort whatsoever. Every time the phrase 'you're acting: strange, weird or different' any words to describe behavior that normally does not belong to the person you are trying to impersonate it will go up by one. You will be able to hear it make a clicking noise. As a shinobi it is important to gather the correct information before going on a mission. Once I've decided who you're going to be matched up to. You will be given a day where you are to stay after school. I will give you thirty minutes before you trade each other's clothes and I switch your appearances. During that time the two of you can then talk about anything you think will help you succeed on this assignment. You are not to tell your parents or anybody else when you are switching, who you are switching to and when you have switched. If you do, this counter will turn completely silver and you will fail. Did I miss putting a counter on anybody? Iie, okay good"

"What do we do with these when we're done?" Naruto asked waving around his sheet of completed questions that he had answered.

"I'll come around in fifteen minutes to pick them up, until then you can talk quietly amongst yourselves. Tomorrow I will be calling you up one by one and telling you the name of the person who you're turning into. This will be the same person who is turning into you. Remember that you are not allowed to discuss who you're turning into and do not come up here and ask me to change the person I paired you up with. Like I said earlier I am going to try and pair you up with a person that has a completely different life style than you."

Kagome looked around for the address where the girl she had traded appearances with lived. She had given her a list that had certain times to leave tea out for her father. The list had almost everything thing she did, right down to the very last minute of every day. She chewed on her lips looking around again. Kagome couldn't find the place for the life of her. It would be very unlike the nervous girl she had transformed into to ask someone if they could help her find where she lived. She had traded places with an extremely nice girl and Sango's rival's cousin. Her name was Hyuuga, Hinata and she was the first daughter born to the head of the Hyuuga clan. No pressure….right? Kagome wanted to laugh nervously when she finally found the Hyuuga district and stepped inside. It felt like she was sneaking into the place in plain sight to pull a huge prank on them.

'Their eyes are giving me the creeps. It's as if they already know I'm not Hinata-chan.' Kagome thought to herself walking with her head down so she didn't look into the other clan member's creepy snow white eyes. She supposed she too had creepy snow white eyes now. It took her a moment to step inside Hinata's eerily quiet pristine home. She removed Hinata's shoes from her feet and quietly stuttered, from her slight nervousness, "Ta-Tadaima! [I'm home!]"

'What was next on that list? Make tea or go back to room first? Etto…I'll go to her room….wait where the heck is her room. Oh! That's right I remember seeing that she wrote it down on the paper. I'll have to thank her for this later. I hope she's doing okay and nobody is causing too much trouble for her….' She slid open the door to Hinata's plain looking room that had a few things here and there and a picture of her when she was younger with what appeared to be her Kaa-san.

Looking at the list that Hinata had so painstakingly made, it even said how many tea spoons of tea leaves to put in the tea! Kagome promised herself that she would do something to repay the nice for the quiet girl. She stepped into the kitchen and boiled the water for the tea and made sure she got the correct amount of tea leaves for the tea pot. She double checked the list hidden away in her pocket just to make sure.

"Hinata." Hiashi called to his first daughter who was busily making his afternoon tea his voice cutting through the silence.

"H-hai?" Kagome stopped placing the cups on a wooden serving tray to bow. She observed Hinata's father. Sango was right. It did appear that everyone from the Hyuuga clan had a thirty foot long metal pole stuck up their asses 'except Hinata'.

'This isn't Hinata, the act is much better than that boy Neji switched with. Good thing they started giving out notices about the switches before they happen.' Hiashi abruptly walked away with his hands in his sleeves without replying to the girl. He wasn't going to waste his precious time talking to nothing more than an unworthy commoner.

Which Naruto character would you trade places with if you could and why that person?

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