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Chapter 1: Teams

*EDITED*

Tsuki's POV
I'm in my room early in the morning packing my things into my utility belt that has several pouches, it has all my weapons and a few books to read and a riceball for lunch. I'm already dressed ready for school. As I'm putting in my book, my alarm clock goes off, indicating that it's, 'leave now and see none of my family or leave later and face my family'. I quickly pack up and run out the door, downstairs, and leave the house.

I make it outside, met by the bright shining sun. I readjust my vision away from the light and walk to the academy. I fix my pale short pink hair. My hair is a pixie cut with bangs covering my right eye. I wear a pair of thin rimmed glasses due to my constant reading. I wear a black tank top that has a turtle neck, then I have a pair of black arm warmers that go up between my shoulder and elbow, also I wear a pair of black shorts that reach my mid thigh, my headband is tied around my left thigh, and lastly a pair of black ninja boots that reach below my knees.

I make it to class and I find myself being the first one here. Oh well, the more time I have alone, the better, I thought in my head. I take out a book that has information about the basics of being a medical ninja. It tells me that you need to have perfect chakra control to be able to heal any wounds. I guess I'm lucky that the Haruno families have perfect chakra control.

I ignore everyone that makes it to class and continue reading, I need to train on this so I can be able to help those who get hurt. I memorize the information as I read, it makes it easier that I remember everything I read. I'm interrupted from my studies as stampeding comes into the room. I turn and see the all familiar head of bubblegum pink and platinum blonde, fangirls. Why do they become ninja if that's all they care about, boys and looks, I'm embarrassed knowing that one of them is my sibling, better yet, my twin.

I don't hate her, but I don't like her. It's always her, Sakura this, Sakura that. Why does she get all the attention? Why do I have to be the outcast? What did I do to be shunned by my own family? Why did she get all the love from both parents? Why do they hate me? Why is she the favorite? Why me?

I stop my train of thoughts, when I feel tears brim my eyes. My heart aches for the love I always wanted. I push my tears down and close off my heart making myself go back to wearing my emotionless mask. I look back down to my book and read. Today's the day we get teams, I wonder who's on my team.

Once again I get interrupted when I hear a chorus of gasps. I look up and find Uchiha and Uzumaki locking lips, so that's why Uchiha rejects every girl, he has a thing for the blonde? Never thought he was into yaoi. I turn back to my book and ignore the angered fangirls as they beat the Uzumaki to a pulp.

I sigh and close my book and put it back in it's reserved pouch as Iruka sensei walks in. He goes about putting us on teams that will be led by jounin leaders. He starts naming off squads, starting with team 1. I ignore all the name's until I hear my name and turn all my focus into the list of name's.

"Team seven, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno," Naruto cheers, my sister groans, please not me, "Sasuke Uchiha," the rolls reverse, I cross my fingers.

Not me, not me, not me, not me.

"And Tsuki Haruno," Iruka finishes.

I slam my head on the table groaning about my misfortune. Why do I have to be on the same team with my sister who's a super fangirl, a hyperactive blonde, and an egotistical jerk. I just hope our sensei isn't weird.

"Iruka sensei, why does someone great like me need to be with a slug like Sasuke," Naruto exclaims while pointing a finger at the Uchiha.

"Well, these teams are meant to be balanced, while Sasuke has the second highest scores, you have the lowest scores Naruto," Iruka explains while the class erupts in laughter.

"Wait, sensei!!! You said Sasuke had the 'second highest scores', who has the highest," my fangirl of a sister asks causing the laughing to stop.

Don't you dare say it, I thought while glaring at Iruka, but with my bad luck he says it.

"Oh! The one who got the highest scores were your sister, Tsuki Haruno," he states, making all the fangirls glare daggers at me for being better than their precious Sasuke-kun. Cue barf.

He's not that good looking, plus he's a jerk and so not my type, I'll worry about relationships when I'm older. I get up as Iruka dismisses us to lunch. We were told to return to our designated room, so we could meet our new sensei. I walk out of class ignoring the tragedy of a failed love triangle and walk towards the area of cherry blossoms. It's ironic, I don't like Sakura whose name means cherry blossom, yet I like the tree.

I sit down under the tree, watching the pink flower petals fall from the branches and dance in the air with the wind. I watch the beautiful scene as I eat my plain rice ball that I packed for lunch. Why can't I spend my days like this, sitting in my favorite spot enjoying the scenery in peaceful silence.

After several minutes, I get up and go back to the academy, deciding that I don't want to be late. I walk through the streets of the village, looking at everyone who were smiles along their families, kids running along the streets playing games with their friends while laughing, store clerks selling merchandise to the villagers while smiling and telling them to visit again, and elderlies walking hand and hand with their life long partners. What makes them so happy that doesn't make me feel the same way? Is it love for others that make them like that? Why can't I feel it? Why do I always need to be in pain?

I turn away, ignoring the lingering thoughts in my head and the aching feeling in my heart. I walk away with the mask I always wear, it's the only thing that hides my pain. I glue my eyes to my feet as I walk back to the academy, not daring to look up because I know that I'll just break down.

I make it back to the academy and go to the assigned room. I make my way to the class and I hear the voices of my teammates quiet down, what are they doing, I think in my head. I place my hand in the ajar door and open it. Thump. I cough as the chalk dust surrounds me as the eraser hits my head. I look up and see Naruto pale along with my sister. I narrow my eyes as I look between the two. Finally I decide to ignore them and throw the eraser off my head. I look around trying to find our new sensei, but I only see the four of us.

"Where's our sensei," I ask no one in particular.

"He's late, dattebayo," Naruto shouts in frustration.

Oh, so that eraser was meant for him, I thought, as I see Naruto place the eraser back to its rightful place between the door and the wall.

I sit on top of a desk in a criss cross position as I take out a book and read. In my peripheral vision I  see Sakura oogle Sasuke with heart shaped eyes, Naruto pace back and forward while pulling his hair in irritation, and Sasuke glare at a wall. What a lively bunch, I thought.

We all stop as we hear footsteps echo through the halls. We wait with our eyes glued to the door in suspense. I usually wouldn't do this, but I want to know who our sensei is. The footsteps stop in front of the room and we can see their hand on the door. They open the door and history repeats itself as they get hit on the head with the eraser. I see that it's a man with a mask covering the majority of his face, headband covering his left eye, and he has silver gravity defying hair, and dresses in the official jounin uniform.

"My first impression of you is, that your a bunch of idiots," his soft manly voice says, making us slump in depression.

"Meet me on the roof," he says before using a transportation jutsu.

Exiting the room, we go up the stairs that lead up the roof. We make it to the roof to see our sensei leaning on the rail reading an orange book, it reads, Icha Icha Paradise, huh so he's a pervert. We all sit on the steps, it goes, Naruto, me, Sasuke, and Sakura.

"Okay now introduce yourselves," our sensei instructs.

"What do we say," my sister says full of confusion. Really?

"Um, your likes, dislikes, dreams, hobbies, stuff like that," he informs with a bored tone.

"Ah, why don't you go first, dattebayo," Naruto implies to our sensei.

"Me," he points to himself, "my name's Kakashi Hatake, I have no intention of telling you my likes and dislikes, my dream...., hobbies, I have lots of hobbies," he says nothing about himself, but his name.

I sweatdrop, really.

"He just gave us his name," Sakura mutters what we were all thinking.

"You go," Kakashi says, pointing to Naruto.

He plays with his headband before saying, "my name's Naruto Uzumaki, my likes are eating ramen and when Iruka treats me to Ichiraku's ramen, my dislikes are waiting the three minutes for the ramen to cook, my hobbies are comparing the different flavors of ramen, and my dream is,TO BECOME THE GREATEST HOKAGE AND HAVE ALL THE VILLAGERS TO FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGE ME!!!!" Naruto exclaims surprising us all.

"Hmm, next," Kakashi says, pointing to Sakura.

"My name's Sakura Haruno, my likes are *blushes and looks at Sasuke* I mean the person I like is *looks at Sasuke and giggles*, my hobbies are *looks at Sasuke and giggles*, my dream is to *looks at Sasuke and squeals*," Sakura says while glancing at Sasuke for the majority of the introduction.

"And your dislikes," Kakashi informs.

"Naruto and Tsuki!!!" she shouts making Naruto slump in depression and making me sigh in sadness.

What did I ever do to her, I thought.

"Next the brooding one," he points to Sasuke.

"My name's Sasuke Uchiha, I don't particularly like anything, I hate a lot of things, I don't have any hobbies, and my dream isn't a dream because I will make it a reality, I want to revive my clan and kill...a...certain...someone," Sasuke finishes making the atmosphere go tense.

Kakashi clears his throat, "now you," he says, pointing to me.

"My name's Tsuki Haruno, my likes are reading and learning new jutsus, my dislikes are fangirls, idiots, arrogance, and attention, my hobbies are reading, studying, and training, and my dream is to help others accomplish their dreams," I finish making everyone look at me in awe.

Really, what did I just say about not liking attention, I said in my head. I turn away, avoiding their eyes.

"Well, each of you are unique in your own ways. Tomorrow we'll have our first exercise as a team," Kakashi says, informing us while complimenting us.

"Really, what is it, huh, huh," Naruto asks full of curiosity.

"A survival exercise," Kakashi simply states like no big deal.

"A survival exercise, but we already did that back at the academy," Sakura explains to Kakashi.

"But this isn't like the ones you learned at the academy," Kakashi says, confusing us all.

"So what's different about this exercise, dattebayo," Naruto asked. That's when Kakashi broke in a fit of laughter making him sound insane, is he on something, I thought.

"What's so funny, that was a normal question," Sakura asks in confusion, also stating what we all thought.

"You don't want to know," Kakashi says confusing us even further.

What's he up to?

"Tell us," Naruto demands.

"Out of the 28 gennin that graduated, only 10 get to pass, so there's a 66% chance that you'll fail and be sent back to the academy," he states, informing us of the real reason of tomorrows exercise. We all sit in our spots full of shock, but with determination as well.

"See this is why I didn't tell you. Now go home and rest, meet me at the designated training grounds at 5 am. Oh! I suggest that you skip breakfast unless you want to end up puking," he said before disappearing.

We sit there, all turning pale at the news he just gave us. Waking up early? Skipping breakfast? What is he trying to do? Torture me? I don't wake up early, sure at 6 ,but not at 4. Plus not eating, that's just not cool. I love food. I said all in my head, ignoring the tragedy of the love triangle fail once again. I get up, walking past the depressed Naruto and Sakura.

I walk back home not wanting to deal with anymore problems. My parents should be at their grocery shop, so that means I have the house to myself until Sakura comes back. I go to the kitchen and cook some ramen for myself and grab a box of dangos to eat later. I grab my food and go upstairs to my room and lock myself in, not wanting to deal with the outside world. I eat my ramen as I'm reading more about medical ninjutsu. I finish the ramen and I throw away the chopsticks and the cup in my mini trashcan that's in the corner of my room.

After hours of reading and a finished box of dango, I get up and take a shower. My shower doesn't take long, as I have short hair and don't apply different kinds of hair products like my sister does to make her hair shine. I don't really care about my hair or my looks, I care more about my intellect and knowledge along with my strength. After changing into my pajamas I jump into my queen sized bed and cover myself in my black covers. I then set my alarm to go off at 4 am tomorrow. I then close my eyes and drift off to a dreamless slumber.

Well, that was the first chapter! I wrote this in a day on my cell phone, 2,569 words, that's a lot for me. Anyways, comment on what you liked, disliked, or just state your opinion. I hope you enjoyed it, it is my first time writing so it might suck. Thanks for reading, also don't forget to

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