"How long are you going to follow me for?" Andrew spoke without looking at the girl following him. It was nearing the end of the day and throughout their breaks and lessons she was following him.
"I don't know." The girl replied, watching Andrew's every movement like it was a new scientific discovery. Each and every step intrigued her, his mannerisms and the way he spoke to push people away. She was intrigued with it all.

" 'sigh' fine." Andrew gave up with reasoning and left her alone. As long as she didn't disturb him, he wouldn't disturb her.

The end of the school day was coming up and the teacher's lesson on mathematics seemed to drag on forever despite an hour not passing. When the lesson finally finished Andrew was fast asleep on the table seemingly not aware of his surroundings.

Aozora took this as an opportunity and reached for a marker out of his bag while the girl simply watched from the sidelines. As he was about to draw a moustache Andrew woke up to see Aozora up in his face with a stupid grin.
"What now?" Andrew lazily looked up glaring at him as he tried to hide the marker behind his back.
"Oh nothing, you know just waking you up to tell you the lesson is over." Aozora looked into the distance to avoid Andrew's glare, only looking periodically to see his reaction.

"Cool." That was all Andrew said before getting up and leaving, ignoring Aozora's bizarre actions. He could tell what he was about to do but didn't have enough energy to care. School was draining and he just wanted to eat and sleep. As he got to the door he could hear a commotion and a student burst in talking about a fight in the hallway. Andrew just side-stepped him and planned to go home when he heard the name of who was in the fight. 'Emi'

He stopped, stunned momentarily as he took in the information but as soon as he heard that name his ears perked up and he ran out of the door searching for her tell tale blonde hair. It didn't take long as a crowd had formed a circle around her. She was being pushed around by two older boys with black hair like a crow's. They were Uchiha and with them was the younger Uchiha boy he had beat up before on the roof. He was back for revenge.
"That bastard!" Andrew muttered as he dropped everything and ran through the crowd pushing his way to the centre. Following behind was Aozora trying to calm Andrew down while the girl just watched with the same curiosity as before.

"Andrew, wait!" Aozora shouted but it was far too late.

"YOU BASTARDS!" Andrew yelled as he punched the first Uchiha in the face who was holding Emi by the collar. As the blow connected, Emi was dropped and landed on the floor. Looking up at what seemed to be a giant and her brother standing between them.
"Aozora get Emi out of here."

"You don't have to tell me twice." He already realised that it was too late to stop Andrew. The fight had already escalated and all he could do was escape with Emi. He grabbed her by the hand and opened a way through the crowd, losing sight of the Uchiha.

"Damn that hurt brat! What do you think you're doing!" The first Uchiha spoke up, sizing up his new opponent.
"That's him, the one who brought dishonour to the Uchiha name." The kid from before spoke up pointing at Andrew with a smirk thinking he had won now.

"So this is the one eh." The second older Uchiha looked at Andrew kneeling down to get a proper look at him. "Acting like hot stuff eh. Well, let's teach him a lesson." The Uchiha grinned while looking at Andrew. His size was smaller than the two of them and they felt that it wouldn't be a challenge to beat him. Before he could act Andrew already struck, although he wasn't pleased with himself it was the easiest place to strike and do the most damage.

The Uchiha hit the floor grasping his balls.
"THAT FUCK! KILL HIM!" The second Uchiha yelled out, still clutching his crown jewels, his face twisting in agony.

The First Uchiha moved in to strike.
"You won't get away with that!" He motioned to kick Andrew but he dodged. The strikes were slower than when he trained with Karasu. His vision was also so much clearer. He remembered the last times this had happened to him and lowered his head to try and hide his red eyes. He couldn't let others know. Too many already knew and if the Uchiha clan knew about his eyes they may not be as understanding as Karasu or Granny Izuka.
Andrew looked up at his opponent and jumped latching onto his neck and then back and strangled him. His rage overwhelmed any other emotions he might be feeling at this moment. They touched Emi and they would pay, that's all that he thought. The giant clutched at his throat and after a minute of struggling the giant collapsed with a purple face and gasping for air.

The second Uchiha had finally recovered from the previous blow and kicked Andrew in the back, sending him flying into the crowd. The impact froze Andrew from his frenzy and he began to look at the situation from a different viewpoint.

'Why am I doing this again? Oh yeah, they were picking on Emi. But why did I rush straight in?' At that moment Andrew questioned everything. He instinctively rushed in before his mind could examine the situation he was in. His body moved before his brain could think. He wanted to ask more questions but the situation wouldn't allow it and as he was frozen, slumped against the crowd the two Uchiha walked over preparing to launch a barrage of blows onto Andrew. The first Uchiha had finally caught his breath and began to get up. The younger Uchiha was watching his eyes gleaming and grin widening as Andrew was about to get pummelled. It was in that moment he finally comprehended why he rushed in.
"I understand now."
"Well good for you but it's too late to say sorry now you brat." The second Uchiha said, he was about to get back for being hit in the balls and was ecstatic to return the favour.

"Do you realise what you've done?" Andrew, still slumped against the crowd, asked his question looking up at his opponents without raising his head.

"Yeah, we're about to teach you a lesson, eh." The two Uchiha chuckled as they cracked their knuckles.
"Next time you touch my sister I'll kill you." Andrew finally looked them in the eyes, he was smiling but it felt sinister.
"It's too late, brat." The first Uchiha was about to punch Andrew and there wasn't much he could do about it. As Andrew's emotions calmed he lost the sharingan and his eyes returned to normal. However this didn't impede his judgement.

It was his first time to use this jutsu but he didn't really have much time to debate his options. As the punch was about to connect he burst into a cloud of smoke and was replaced with a log. It would use up a lot of Andrew's chakra and change the dynamics of the fight.

"So that's how you want to play, eh." The second Uchiha looked around trying to find where he could have gone. With ninjutsu now in play anything could happen. The two Uchiha reached into their pouches and took out kunai, they felt it overkill to need to use sharingan against a lowly brat and that it would stain their honour so they refrained from using it. Having to win a school fight with sharingan against someone younger than them wouldn't prove that they were stronger but instead show they couldn't handle someone younger than them without using Dōjutsu . However despite this it was clear they wouldn't mess around anymore.

Andrew burst through the crowd behind them but didn't target them, instead aiming for the younger Uchiha who had previously lost against him. He took him by the neck and used him as a shield. It was cowardly but Andrew didn't know what else to do. He couldn't win in a direct confrontation against the two older Uchiha who had trained longer than him and had more combat experience.

"Ha, brat you've done it now." The two Uchiha began to circle him like vultures. It was a last ditch effort to win and they knew it. Andrew wouldn't be able to win if he stayed. His only options in his mind were to lose or flee. And he refused either.

"Call off your attack dogs and fight me like a man." Andrew spoke into his shield who only laughed. He was sweating bullets but was still as arrogant as before.

"Ha, we've already tried that and we saw how it went."
"So you're bringing in the reinforcements?"
"You know what they say, if a fight is fair then you've done something wrong. You should always hold the advantage in whatever you do." Hearing this Andrew clicked his tongue. It was the only sensible thing that kid said all day and although he didn't like him the kid was right.

"If that's the case then you won't mind what I do next." Andrew grinned and he slapped an explosive tag onto the kid used for training purposes. He was allowed lot's of equipment from Karasu for independent training, he just didn't think it would come into use here of all places. Once tagged he pushed the kid into one of the Uchiha and detonated the explosive before attacking the other Uchiha.

"Eh, you're aiming for me now?" The second Uchiha smirked and let Andrew come to him before counter attacking. However as Andrew got closer he used his small size to his advantage and got close to the Uchiha preventing him from attacking without hitting himself.
"Eh?" Andrew circled the Uchiha and then struck once again aiming for the balls. Fearing a repeat of what happened before, the Uchiha instinctively protected his balls leaving other areas vulnerable. Andrew jumped up and let off simultaneous punches at the face, causing the Uchiha to stumble back and hold onto his bleeding nose. Andrew used the momentum and struck again using his entire body to put his weight into his punch. He struck the gut and caused the Uchiha to gag as he tried to not throw up. At this time the first Uchiha was closing in after the explosive tag was dealt with. Andrew picked up the kunai the second Uchiha dropped and threw it not at the older Uchiha but at the younger one. Seeing this he quickly moved into intercept leaving his back open to Andrew who used his spine as a ladder. The kunai was blocked but Andrew already began to strangle the Uchiha again.
"Not again." The first Uchiha muttered as he grabbed Andrew and threw him over his head and onto the floor.

The blow against the floor caused him to cough up blood and the fight was getting out of hand. Andrew put up a good fight but it wasn't enough. Andrew looked at the Uchiha's face and in a moment of defiance spat in his face.
"YOU BRAT!" This seemed to anger him more and he swung him away aiming to do more damage. Andrew couldn't hold on any more and his strength was weakening. He did what he could to lessen the impact but he couldn't avoid the floor as he got closer.

'THUD'

He hit the floor and was losing conscience. His eyes were showing all sorts of colours and all he could hear was his heavy breathing. He couldn't feel the movement of his muscles. All this happened and then it went black. He wasn't dying but was in a lot of pain. It was his first fight against a stronger opponent and he lost. The odds were against him in all aspects, numbers, experience, height, age. But he couldn't help but feel he had also won. He had protected Emi and had finally realised he had a new family now. He didn't want to acknowledge their relationship but he now had a sister. He also had granny Izuka and the two of them flashed before his eyes before he lost total consciousness.