Chapter 5~ Odd
About five days later (Get ready, some pretty weird crap is gonna start to hit the fan here soon.)
You woke up and it was test day. You got into the habit of waking up around seven and starting breakfast. Only a few days out of the week would you have cereal. You ate your pancakes and got ready for school. You bid goodbye and said that you may be close to being late tonight because you’d be celebrating with Naruto and or Sakura. Kakashi gave you the okay and you were off.
You got to the school and you saw parents lingering around. You passed through the crowd. You took your seat and tried to pay attention to Iruka, who was
giving advice about the gennin level.
Iruka: Always give your all on missions, be respectful to your teammates, treat your sensei with respect also, never mouth off, and work hard, blah, blah, blah…
About five minutes more of this and he started to call up names.
Iruka: Shino Aburame. Come up here and I want you to do the shadow clone jutsu.
The kid named Shino got up and walked mechanically to the front of the room and completed the jutsu successfully.
Iruka: Kai Bigami (RANDOM NAME)
He kept calling and once again stopped paying attention until it came to Hinata, she passed and you gave her a big smile that made her feel that she succeeded someone‘s expectations for once, then the Uchiha. He passed successfully. Naruto was up next but, sadly Naruto failed. You were up very last after Ino Yamanaka only because Iruka wanted you to observe before you attempted to pass.
Iruka: I want you to complete the shadow clone jutsu.
You: Yes sir.
You did all of the hand signs and POOF a perfectly functioning clone was standing right beside you. Iruka smiled and handed you a headband signing you as an official ninja of Konoha.
Iruka: Class, as you know, the day is shortened because of the test. You are all free to go.
You walked out and thought that the day would last a lot longer than that.
Iruka: Come back class time tomorrow and you can see who is on what team. See you later!
The class rushed out. The only one who didn’t pass was Naruto, or so it seemed, it was his third time failing while the rest had either failed the first time or passed. You stayed behind to make sure he was okay.
You: Naruto?
Naruto: *Sad. * Congratulations on passing the test, Ren.
You: You’ll pass next time, Naruto! Don’t worry. “I’m being terribly unlike myself.”
Naruto: I appreciate your sympathy, but I’m not feeling too well, so I’m just
gonna you know head home. Bye Ren, see ya ‘round.
You: I’m sorry Naruto.
He ignored you and you slowly walked home with Hinata at your side.
Hinata: It’s really a shame that Naruto didn’t pass today, he’d been hoping on it for a while.
You: Yeah, I feel so sorry for him. It’s really sad that no one besides us sympathize with him.
Hinata: Yes, I wish he could talk to me though. I’m a really good listener.
You: I bet you are. You look like you could be a good therapist.
Hinata: I’d like to be one. But I want to impress everyone with my strength, or whatever I have or will gain.
You: You want to prove it to Naruto, don’t you?
Hinata: *Goes tomato red.* No, of course not.
You: *Chuckles.* Alright then!
Hinata: Oh! This is where I turn, good-bye Ren, see you tomorrow!
You: Bye!
It was noon and you had absolutely nothing to do. Just then you saw the Konoha Park.
You: “Hm, haven’t been that way yet. Let’s check that out.”
You started to walk through the peaceful park and started to relax and watch the birds play and with squirrels fight for acorns. You looked around and saw absolutely no one else in the park. You chose a nice green little area and sat against a tree and watched the calming lake and you started to drift off into a little catnap. You were woken up by poking.
You: God, must everybody poke me? I’m not a science experiment. *you opened
your eyes. * Hey Uchiha. What’s up?
Sasuke: Just seeing if you were alive. Human instinct.
You: Well, I’m breathing.
Sasuke: Tch. See ya.
You: Bye. “Odd little peanut that one is.”
You chuckled because of these ‘human instincts.’ You were coming up with a list. Checking to see if something was alive, yes. Because if it wasn’t, back in the caveman days, you could eat it. Nowadays, it’s either ignored or mourned, or taken for science experiments. All three you didn’t want to have happen. Except for ignored. That seemed like a good choice. You obviously would’ve wanted to be left alone if you just let yourself die in a secret place like a forest or something. You kept thinking about these things and you looked at the sun and figured it was getting kinda late and you wanted to go home. You got up and started walking, then you tripped over a twig, but you caught yourself.
You: Argh! (Ha-ha, you’re a pirate!) “Stupid clumsiness.”
You kept walking on, looking out for things that you just might trip and fall over. You got home safely and saw the time was about six.
You: “Just how long did I fall asleep out there?” Hey Kakashi.
Kakashi: I thought you said you’d be out late?
You: I thought so. But Naruto didn’t make gennin and Sakura went to celebrate with her family. I went to the park and fell asleep. The Uchiha was there poking me until I woke up. He’s odd.
Kakashi: Why?
You: It’s like he doesn’t care about anything and then he’ll turn right around and be determined to do this or that. And then he’s a very cold person, yet he’s very curious. I’ve only met up with him twice. And I only talked to the guy once. All I can say is he’s a very, very odd little peanut.
Kakashi: *laughs slightly. * We’re calling people peanuts now?
You: You don’t have to, but I’ve always called weird people odd peanuts. He poked me like I was on an experiment table and I was about to be dissected. Odd, odd, odd.
Kakashi: I bet once you get to know him he’s pretty normal.
You: Nah, he doesn’t seem like a normal one. Once you’re labeled odd, you stay odd until proven otherwise.
Kakashi: Now who’s the odd peanut?
You: Actually, when my sister was around me and I was acting myself and my parents were around- thus she was acting perfect- she wouldn’t call me anything else except Renny or Odd little peanut.
Kakashi: I get more amuse out of Renny, to be honest. I use to know a guy named Ren from my youth. (FYI Ren is a unisex name.) All his friends would call him Renny to make him sound a little more masculine.
You: Kakashi, just how old are you? You just said “from my youth.” That makes you sound like fifty or something.
Kakashi: I’m in my lower twenties. The age of an adult should always be a mystery.
You: C’mon. 21?
Kakashi: No.
You: uh, 23.
Kakashi: Nope.
You: 26?
Kakashi: September 15.
You: I knew I’d get you. December 14th here. I’m going to go and uh, explore my computer! I haven’t exactly done that yet.
Kakashi: Okay, have fun.
You quickly went into your room and found a sign up thing for a chatroom for the fire country only. So, naturally you signed up. Name: (Last and First)
Takara, A Ren. Username: RenAyumi1214. Password: lookingforcookies Repeat password: (For confirmation.) lookingforcookies. E-mail address: [email protected] (;p) you clicked accept and then waited for about two minutes for it to accept everything. Once the chatroom popped up, you only saw a few people on there. You decided to stay logged on but go on the internet and figure out that whole deal. By the time it was nine, you were too tired to do anything else. You skipped dinner because you were too busy figuring everything out. You were very mentally tired. Then, you came across a sight by the name of
1. Frankie, the pole and a really bad skateboard. 2. Nerds with a football. 3. I’m So Sick (acoustical version)-Flyleaf. 4. Subliminal message in Stairway to Heaven. And 5. Lil’ Alexander the Great.
( for those of you who’ve seen Lil’ Hitler, you can only imagine what this one would be like!!!
) You decided to click on the third one because you were in the mood for some soft music that wouldn’t supposedly make you have satanic thoughts...
You clicked on it and it was showing a video of a woman sitting in the middle of an empty dull room with a guitarist right by her. She had the most beautiful voice you’d ever heard. You looked up the lyrics while opening another tab and decided to sing along at the second time. You thought you sang okay along with her.
You: “I’m never going to have a voice like that! And plus, who is a music artist these days besides the bums on the streets with their guitars asking for change. But then again, I was once homeless so I shouldn’t be talking.”
Just then Kakashi popped into the room saying he’d be gone for a quick mission within the town, but he’d be back before it got too late.
You: Okay, see you later, Kakashi.
You read the comments below saying how beautiful the song was, but also some hateful flame mail and wanted to just think that people like that didn’t exist, but the problem was you knew people exactly like this. Finding every single wrong thing in something they don’t adore. After turning off the computer you fell asleep while singing the song and you dreamed it was you in the room singing along with the guitarist by your side. The words were playing in your head. “You sink into my clothes And this invasion Makes me feel Worthless, hopeless, sick I'm so sick, Infected with where I live Let me live without this Empty bliss, Selfishness I'm so sick I'm so sick I’m so sick. Infected with where I live. Let me live without this Empty bliss, selfishness. Let me live please Let us live please Let them…live.” Then you felt yourself fall from the chair and coughing up black blood and falling over and drowning in it. You woke up in an instant.
You: “Why must good dreams turn out bad?”
Your conscience or just some eerie inner voice spoke out to you just then.
Conscience: “Because there’s no such thing as a happy ending, dream or reality.”
You: Okay, creepy! (Even you get frikken creeped at stuff like that. You’ve never had that happen before.)
You glanced at the clock and saw it saw 4:36 a.m.
You: Urgh! 2 ½ hours of sleep I can’t get.
You were right, you couldn’t get to sleep until finally, ½ an hour later, and you start the simplest method and count sheep. This time when you fell asleep, (Around 67 sheep.) you had the same dream, only sheep were everywhere and you were wearing a white fluffy shirt. The guitarist was a sheep and after the song was over, (You couldn’t stop singing It.) you still fell over and coughed; only this time the blood was silvery and beautiful. The only thing was is that it was your blood. Before you ‘died’ someone came and picked one of the sheep and started to clean up your ‘blood’. It was scaring you badly. This was how you imagined your inner voice looked if it were an existing thing. A sort of mass of all sorts of colors that could shape shift from beautiful women to scraggly old men. It shifted into something like a little girl and it was her that picked up the lamb and started to clean up. As if you mentally asked her why, she said, “Because my Mommy told me to. And good little girls always do what their mommy’s tell them to do. Maybe that’s why Mommy didn’t like you so much.” This was Keiko when she was a little girl. She had her hair in a bright green ribbon to bring out her eyes, along with a soft pink dress that went to her knees. You were going to get up, but you kept on drowning in the already cleaned up blood. It had made a quick hole into the nothingness of your mind, you were falling. You asked Keiko to help, but she shook her head and simply said, “Mommy said to never get tangled up with strange people, and you most definitely are strange.” You yelled for Keiko to help and was grabbing onto anything but it all didn’t make any sense as you fell. You could barely breathe, or so it seemed. You felt like Alice going down the rabbit hole. You saw strange items but unlike Alice, all you heard was your family speaking of you and “that thing” as they called it. They also called you that for years. You grabbed onto a random object and held on. You were getting the feeling that you getting shaken. You finally snapped out of the dream and looked up at Kakashi. You gasped and saw you were covered in cold sweat.
Kakashi: What the he-
You: Really crazy messed up bad, bad, bad dream. I need to stop counting sheep. And never get sick. Or watch and or read Alice in Wonderland. No way. I feel like barfing. No, can’t get sick. I’ll barf up silver or black blood, maybe green this time. Then I’ll drown and die. I’m so messed up…
Kakashi just sat there, very, very confused.
Kakashi: Exactly WHAT were you doing on the computer last night?
You: Well, nothing that could’ve caused that dream except for watching this one music video. But all it was, was a girl singing in a plain room with a guitarist in the background. It got me thinking of what’s happened in my life and I started to drown, literally drown in my own blood, even after Keiko cleaned it up and I wasn’t bleeding as much. I fell into that scene where Alice is falling down from the rabbit hole only mine had no end and I was hearing all about how bad they thought of me.
Kakashi: Well, someone has a very large imagination. How about I give your mind a rest and you won’t have to cook today. Besides, all you’re doing today is finding out your team and going directly back home. They give you the rest of the day so you could possibly hang out with your new team. But I want you to get directly home, you don’t look like you’re feeling all that well either.
You: Ugh, I definitely don’t want to go back to sleep, that’s for sure.
Kakashi: No, just lie down. Maybe you shouldn’t watch that music video anymore. Maybe plain ones get your mind thinking and you can’t help but think of what else could be going on in the music video.
You: Yeah. Maybe, I could just lie down and… well I could train also. That normally takes my mind off of things.
Kakashi: Are you sure? I don’t think I want you to be doing a lot of things today. You look really shook up, kid.
You: I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just come home after all.
You got up and after Kakashi left the room, you started to get changed and you went out of the house directly after you were done brushing your hair and teeth. You were definitely not eating anything.
You: “Stop it Ren, it was just a dream. Nothing like that EVER happens. Stop.”
Inner Voice: “Keep thinking about it, it’ll be something to do for the day. Try to survive with that thought on the end of everything you do. You won’t be able to go near water for a while, will you? You’ll stay away from sheep. But you’re addicted to the song. Face it; you’re freaked for life, sport.”
You:”No! It’s just a dream and I’ll get over it. Besides, I kinda need water to live. And sheep aren’t that bad. But yes. I do like that song a lot. But I’m going to go insane if I don’t stop talking to my inner self, who’s probably my cursed self talking.”
Inner Voice: “Bingo! That’s right! You are now directly talking to you curse.”
You: “No I’m not! I’m ending this conversation right here, right now, and never talking to you again!”
You were going to add a little “hmph!” at the end and stick your nose in the air and walk away. Then you realized, you were walking already and you were talking to yourself. Plus it’d be rude. You were so glad to get to the school. When you walked in you saw Naruto sitting on a desk in front of the Uchiha boy. Then suddenly someone pushed him from behind, causing him to fall and crash into Sasuke’s mouth.
You: “This is my first time witnessing yaoi and I don’t enjoy it! Now I‘ll be in a bad mood all day.” *Furrows eye brows.*
You sat on the very far edge opposite of the others and waited for class to start.
Iruka: Well class, today you find out who your gennin teams are! I’m very happy that we have 28 graduating on but there will be some off balance to one team. They will have four and the rest of you will have three. So let’s begin shall we? Team One-
You stopped paying attention. Until you heard him say something different from team whatever number.
Iruka: This next team is going to be a special one. Since we had one kid left over, we decided to put them with another team making one full of four. Team Seven is Sakura Haruno, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Ren err Ren!
You blushed in embarrassment.
Naruto: WHY DOES A NINJA OF MY CAPABILITIES HAVE TO BE ON THE SAME TEAM AS SASUKE?!
Iruka: Because Sasuke had the best grades in the whole class and you were dead last!
Sasuke: Tch, dead last
Naruto: WHO ARE YOU CALLIN DEAD LAST?!
You:*Shakes head* This is gonna be rough. “I wonder what my placing was…”
Sakura: Yay! I’m on the same team as Sasuke-kun!!!
You joined your team. Shook hands and congratulated Naruto on his late entrance, as always.
Naruto: Gee, thanks Ren! Do you wanna grab a bite to eat at Ichiraku?
You: No, I’m sorry. I would but I got really shaken up last night by the weirdest dream. I’ll have to tell you when I see you next. Bye!
Sakura: Well way to go Naruto, you can’t even get your ‘friend’ to go to the ramen bar with you. *Mutters. * Hopeless loser.
Naruto: Well, why don’t you go with me Sakura?!
Sakura: Uh, eww. No. Not in this lifetime.
Sasuke: Tch. I’m out of here.
About five days later (Get ready, some pretty weird crap is gonna start to hit the fan here soon.)
You woke up and it was test day. You got into the habit of waking up around seven and starting breakfast. Only a few days out of the week would you have cereal. You ate your pancakes and got ready for school. You bid goodbye and said that you may be close to being late tonight because you’d be celebrating with Naruto and or Sakura. Kakashi gave you the okay and you were off.
You got to the school and you saw parents lingering around. You passed through the crowd. You took your seat and tried to pay attention to Iruka, who was
giving advice about the gennin level.
Iruka: Always give your all on missions, be respectful to your teammates, treat your sensei with respect also, never mouth off, and work hard, blah, blah, blah…
About five minutes more of this and he started to call up names.
Iruka: Shino Aburame. Come up here and I want you to do the shadow clone jutsu.
The kid named Shino got up and walked mechanically to the front of the room and completed the jutsu successfully.
Iruka: Kai Bigami (RANDOM NAME)
He kept calling and once again stopped paying attention until it came to Hinata, she passed and you gave her a big smile that made her feel that she succeeded someone‘s expectations for once, then the Uchiha. He passed successfully. Naruto was up next but, sadly Naruto failed. You were up very last after Ino Yamanaka only because Iruka wanted you to observe before you attempted to pass.
Iruka: I want you to complete the shadow clone jutsu.
You: Yes sir.
You did all of the hand signs and POOF a perfectly functioning clone was standing right beside you. Iruka smiled and handed you a headband signing you as an official ninja of Konoha.
Iruka: Class, as you know, the day is shortened because of the test. You are all free to go.
You walked out and thought that the day would last a lot longer than that.
Iruka: Come back class time tomorrow and you can see who is on what team. See you later!
The class rushed out. The only one who didn’t pass was Naruto, or so it seemed, it was his third time failing while the rest had either failed the first time or passed. You stayed behind to make sure he was okay.
You: Naruto?
Naruto: *Sad. * Congratulations on passing the test, Ren.
You: You’ll pass next time, Naruto! Don’t worry. “I’m being terribly unlike myself.”
Naruto: I appreciate your sympathy, but I’m not feeling too well, so I’m just
gonna you know head home. Bye Ren, see ya ‘round.
You: I’m sorry Naruto.
He ignored you and you slowly walked home with Hinata at your side.
Hinata: It’s really a shame that Naruto didn’t pass today, he’d been hoping on it for a while.
You: Yeah, I feel so sorry for him. It’s really sad that no one besides us sympathize with him.
Hinata: Yes, I wish he could talk to me though. I’m a really good listener.
You: I bet you are. You look like you could be a good therapist.
Hinata: I’d like to be one. But I want to impress everyone with my strength, or whatever I have or will gain.
You: You want to prove it to Naruto, don’t you?
Hinata: *Goes tomato red.* No, of course not.
You: *Chuckles.* Alright then!
Hinata: Oh! This is where I turn, good-bye Ren, see you tomorrow!
You: Bye!
It was noon and you had absolutely nothing to do. Just then you saw the Konoha Park.
You: “Hm, haven’t been that way yet. Let’s check that out.”
You started to walk through the peaceful park and started to relax and watch the birds play and with squirrels fight for acorns. You looked around and saw absolutely no one else in the park. You chose a nice green little area and sat against a tree and watched the calming lake and you started to drift off into a little catnap. You were woken up by poking.
You: God, must everybody poke me? I’m not a science experiment. *you opened
your eyes. * Hey Uchiha. What’s up?
Sasuke: Just seeing if you were alive. Human instinct.
You: Well, I’m breathing.
Sasuke: Tch. See ya.
You: Bye. “Odd little peanut that one is.”
You chuckled because of these ‘human instincts.’ You were coming up with a list. Checking to see if something was alive, yes. Because if it wasn’t, back in the caveman days, you could eat it. Nowadays, it’s either ignored or mourned, or taken for science experiments. All three you didn’t want to have happen. Except for ignored. That seemed like a good choice. You obviously would’ve wanted to be left alone if you just let yourself die in a secret place like a forest or something. You kept thinking about these things and you looked at the sun and figured it was getting kinda late and you wanted to go home. You got up and started walking, then you tripped over a twig, but you caught yourself.
You: Argh! (Ha-ha, you’re a pirate!) “Stupid clumsiness.”
You kept walking on, looking out for things that you just might trip and fall over. You got home safely and saw the time was about six.
You: “Just how long did I fall asleep out there?” Hey Kakashi.
Kakashi: I thought you said you’d be out late?
You: I thought so. But Naruto didn’t make gennin and Sakura went to celebrate with her family. I went to the park and fell asleep. The Uchiha was there poking me until I woke up. He’s odd.
Kakashi: Why?
You: It’s like he doesn’t care about anything and then he’ll turn right around and be determined to do this or that. And then he’s a very cold person, yet he’s very curious. I’ve only met up with him twice. And I only talked to the guy once. All I can say is he’s a very, very odd little peanut.
Kakashi: *laughs slightly. * We’re calling people peanuts now?
You: You don’t have to, but I’ve always called weird people odd peanuts. He poked me like I was on an experiment table and I was about to be dissected. Odd, odd, odd.
Kakashi: I bet once you get to know him he’s pretty normal.
You: Nah, he doesn’t seem like a normal one. Once you’re labeled odd, you stay odd until proven otherwise.
Kakashi: Now who’s the odd peanut?
You: Actually, when my sister was around me and I was acting myself and my parents were around- thus she was acting perfect- she wouldn’t call me anything else except Renny or Odd little peanut.
Kakashi: I get more amuse out of Renny, to be honest. I use to know a guy named Ren from my youth. (FYI Ren is a unisex name.) All his friends would call him Renny to make him sound a little more masculine.
You: Kakashi, just how old are you? You just said “from my youth.” That makes you sound like fifty or something.
Kakashi: I’m in my lower twenties. The age of an adult should always be a mystery.
You: C’mon. 21?
Kakashi: No.
You: uh, 23.
Kakashi: Nope.
You: 26?
Kakashi: September 15.
You: I knew I’d get you. December 14th here. I’m going to go and uh, explore my computer! I haven’t exactly done that yet.
Kakashi: Okay, have fun.
You quickly went into your room and found a sign up thing for a chatroom for the fire country only. So, naturally you signed up. Name: (Last and First)
Takara, A Ren. Username: RenAyumi1214. Password: lookingforcookies Repeat password: (For confirmation.) lookingforcookies. E-mail address: [email protected] (;p) you clicked accept and then waited for about two minutes for it to accept everything. Once the chatroom popped up, you only saw a few people on there. You decided to stay logged on but go on the internet and figure out that whole deal. By the time it was nine, you were too tired to do anything else. You skipped dinner because you were too busy figuring everything out. You were very mentally tired. Then, you came across a sight by the name of
You must be registered for see links
(not an actual sight, just something to replace YouTube for now.) one of the top videos that were being played were 1. Frankie, the pole and a really bad skateboard. 2. Nerds with a football. 3. I’m So Sick (acoustical version)-Flyleaf. 4. Subliminal message in Stairway to Heaven. And 5. Lil’ Alexander the Great.
( for those of you who’ve seen Lil’ Hitler, you can only imagine what this one would be like!!!
) You decided to click on the third one because you were in the mood for some soft music that wouldn’t supposedly make you have satanic thoughts...You clicked on it and it was showing a video of a woman sitting in the middle of an empty dull room with a guitarist right by her. She had the most beautiful voice you’d ever heard. You looked up the lyrics while opening another tab and decided to sing along at the second time. You thought you sang okay along with her.
You: “I’m never going to have a voice like that! And plus, who is a music artist these days besides the bums on the streets with their guitars asking for change. But then again, I was once homeless so I shouldn’t be talking.”
Just then Kakashi popped into the room saying he’d be gone for a quick mission within the town, but he’d be back before it got too late.
You: Okay, see you later, Kakashi.
You read the comments below saying how beautiful the song was, but also some hateful flame mail and wanted to just think that people like that didn’t exist, but the problem was you knew people exactly like this. Finding every single wrong thing in something they don’t adore. After turning off the computer you fell asleep while singing the song and you dreamed it was you in the room singing along with the guitarist by your side. The words were playing in your head. “You sink into my clothes And this invasion Makes me feel Worthless, hopeless, sick I'm so sick, Infected with where I live Let me live without this Empty bliss, Selfishness I'm so sick I'm so sick I’m so sick. Infected with where I live. Let me live without this Empty bliss, selfishness. Let me live please Let us live please Let them…live.” Then you felt yourself fall from the chair and coughing up black blood and falling over and drowning in it. You woke up in an instant.
You: “Why must good dreams turn out bad?”
Your conscience or just some eerie inner voice spoke out to you just then.
Conscience: “Because there’s no such thing as a happy ending, dream or reality.”
You: Okay, creepy! (Even you get frikken creeped at stuff like that. You’ve never had that happen before.)
You glanced at the clock and saw it saw 4:36 a.m.
You: Urgh! 2 ½ hours of sleep I can’t get.
You were right, you couldn’t get to sleep until finally, ½ an hour later, and you start the simplest method and count sheep. This time when you fell asleep, (Around 67 sheep.) you had the same dream, only sheep were everywhere and you were wearing a white fluffy shirt. The guitarist was a sheep and after the song was over, (You couldn’t stop singing It.) you still fell over and coughed; only this time the blood was silvery and beautiful. The only thing was is that it was your blood. Before you ‘died’ someone came and picked one of the sheep and started to clean up your ‘blood’. It was scaring you badly. This was how you imagined your inner voice looked if it were an existing thing. A sort of mass of all sorts of colors that could shape shift from beautiful women to scraggly old men. It shifted into something like a little girl and it was her that picked up the lamb and started to clean up. As if you mentally asked her why, she said, “Because my Mommy told me to. And good little girls always do what their mommy’s tell them to do. Maybe that’s why Mommy didn’t like you so much.” This was Keiko when she was a little girl. She had her hair in a bright green ribbon to bring out her eyes, along with a soft pink dress that went to her knees. You were going to get up, but you kept on drowning in the already cleaned up blood. It had made a quick hole into the nothingness of your mind, you were falling. You asked Keiko to help, but she shook her head and simply said, “Mommy said to never get tangled up with strange people, and you most definitely are strange.” You yelled for Keiko to help and was grabbing onto anything but it all didn’t make any sense as you fell. You could barely breathe, or so it seemed. You felt like Alice going down the rabbit hole. You saw strange items but unlike Alice, all you heard was your family speaking of you and “that thing” as they called it. They also called you that for years. You grabbed onto a random object and held on. You were getting the feeling that you getting shaken. You finally snapped out of the dream and looked up at Kakashi. You gasped and saw you were covered in cold sweat.
Kakashi: What the he-
You: Really crazy messed up bad, bad, bad dream. I need to stop counting sheep. And never get sick. Or watch and or read Alice in Wonderland. No way. I feel like barfing. No, can’t get sick. I’ll barf up silver or black blood, maybe green this time. Then I’ll drown and die. I’m so messed up…
Kakashi just sat there, very, very confused.
Kakashi: Exactly WHAT were you doing on the computer last night?
You: Well, nothing that could’ve caused that dream except for watching this one music video. But all it was, was a girl singing in a plain room with a guitarist in the background. It got me thinking of what’s happened in my life and I started to drown, literally drown in my own blood, even after Keiko cleaned it up and I wasn’t bleeding as much. I fell into that scene where Alice is falling down from the rabbit hole only mine had no end and I was hearing all about how bad they thought of me.
Kakashi: Well, someone has a very large imagination. How about I give your mind a rest and you won’t have to cook today. Besides, all you’re doing today is finding out your team and going directly back home. They give you the rest of the day so you could possibly hang out with your new team. But I want you to get directly home, you don’t look like you’re feeling all that well either.
You: Ugh, I definitely don’t want to go back to sleep, that’s for sure.
Kakashi: No, just lie down. Maybe you shouldn’t watch that music video anymore. Maybe plain ones get your mind thinking and you can’t help but think of what else could be going on in the music video.
You: Yeah. Maybe, I could just lie down and… well I could train also. That normally takes my mind off of things.
Kakashi: Are you sure? I don’t think I want you to be doing a lot of things today. You look really shook up, kid.
You: I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just come home after all.
You got up and after Kakashi left the room, you started to get changed and you went out of the house directly after you were done brushing your hair and teeth. You were definitely not eating anything.
You: “Stop it Ren, it was just a dream. Nothing like that EVER happens. Stop.”
Inner Voice: “Keep thinking about it, it’ll be something to do for the day. Try to survive with that thought on the end of everything you do. You won’t be able to go near water for a while, will you? You’ll stay away from sheep. But you’re addicted to the song. Face it; you’re freaked for life, sport.”
You:”No! It’s just a dream and I’ll get over it. Besides, I kinda need water to live. And sheep aren’t that bad. But yes. I do like that song a lot. But I’m going to go insane if I don’t stop talking to my inner self, who’s probably my cursed self talking.”
Inner Voice: “Bingo! That’s right! You are now directly talking to you curse.”
You: “No I’m not! I’m ending this conversation right here, right now, and never talking to you again!”
You were going to add a little “hmph!” at the end and stick your nose in the air and walk away. Then you realized, you were walking already and you were talking to yourself. Plus it’d be rude. You were so glad to get to the school. When you walked in you saw Naruto sitting on a desk in front of the Uchiha boy. Then suddenly someone pushed him from behind, causing him to fall and crash into Sasuke’s mouth.
You: “This is my first time witnessing yaoi and I don’t enjoy it! Now I‘ll be in a bad mood all day.” *Furrows eye brows.*
You sat on the very far edge opposite of the others and waited for class to start.
Iruka: Well class, today you find out who your gennin teams are! I’m very happy that we have 28 graduating on but there will be some off balance to one team. They will have four and the rest of you will have three. So let’s begin shall we? Team One-
You stopped paying attention. Until you heard him say something different from team whatever number.
Iruka: This next team is going to be a special one. Since we had one kid left over, we decided to put them with another team making one full of four. Team Seven is Sakura Haruno, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Ren err Ren!
You blushed in embarrassment.
Naruto: WHY DOES A NINJA OF MY CAPABILITIES HAVE TO BE ON THE SAME TEAM AS SASUKE?!
Iruka: Because Sasuke had the best grades in the whole class and you were dead last!
Sasuke: Tch, dead last
Naruto: WHO ARE YOU CALLIN DEAD LAST?!
You:*Shakes head* This is gonna be rough. “I wonder what my placing was…”
Sakura: Yay! I’m on the same team as Sasuke-kun!!!
You joined your team. Shook hands and congratulated Naruto on his late entrance, as always.
Naruto: Gee, thanks Ren! Do you wanna grab a bite to eat at Ichiraku?
You: No, I’m sorry. I would but I got really shaken up last night by the weirdest dream. I’ll have to tell you when I see you next. Bye!
Sakura: Well way to go Naruto, you can’t even get your ‘friend’ to go to the ramen bar with you. *Mutters. * Hopeless loser.
Naruto: Well, why don’t you go with me Sakura?!
Sakura: Uh, eww. No. Not in this lifetime.
Sasuke: Tch. I’m out of here.
