Heyyar! My name's Robynchan, yet all the cool dudes out there can call me Robyn, Rob, Robien, Robinio. Whatever you like really. Thanks for clicking on this fic, I hope you like it! I've enjoyed writing this so far so I hope some people out there will enjoy reading it, and hopefully, someone might review and make my day! Aha, so yeah. I hope you like this fic. This chapters just setting up the story, as all first chapters do so please bare with me!
DISCLAIMER: Don't own. If I did, why'd I write a story about it?
Chapter One
I hold back the tears that threatened to spill from my chocolate eyes as I hid my face behind my equally chocolate bangs. I never liked to cry at the best of times, but in public, it was a big no no! I shut my eyes tight, a final attempt to push aside the emotion that was threatening to run like rivers down my pale cheeks. I didn't want him to leave, not now, not ever! We had been together since forever, how could he stand there, eye twitching in annoyance as I stood before him, emotions churning, one minute shock, sadness, realisation and the next -
"SHIKAAAAA!" I yelled, raising my head to face him angrily. That's what I felt - anger. "Don't you dare even think about doing this! Don't you realise how much we've been through? How much of my time I've practically wasted on you, for you to go and through this away! This isn't-"
"What is 'this', exactly?" he said slowly, his eyebrows arched in what appeared to be amusement. That bastard.
"Shikamaru, I swear to god if you leave me now I will-" I mumbled, words spitting through gritted teeth as I felt the temperature rise around me. Damn, I could feel my face reddening from anger; not a good look...
"Dude, chill. You're sounding like you're my girlfriend,"
Twitch.
Twitch, twitch.
"EWWW SHIKA HOW CAN YOU EVEN SAY THAT! THAT'S NASTY!" I gagged on the very thought. Me? And Shikamaru? A couple? You have got to be kidding me! He's been my best friend since I can remember and nothing more. I couldn't even think about going there if I wanted to! I mean, we BATHED together as children for goodness sake! Urgh... "I'm still mad at you."
"I expected as much." He sighed, ploncking himself down on the grass beneath our feet. "It's not my fault you know."
I looked at him and I couldn't stay mad at him. I was just, maybe a little disappointed.
"Why can't you just say no? Say no, please?" I asked, knowing full well what the answer was going to be.
"You know I can't, Tenten," he sighed once again. "This is a scholar ship for one of the best schools in the country, it's not my fault it's a boarding school." He smiled weakly. I don't think he wanted to leave our home in Yuri. Even though the community was small, it was very active and everyone knew everyone. The idea of moving to a city like Konoha was something scary and even I would admit that. "Well, you wouldn't have a problem with the scholarship, you're very intelligent." Why thank you. "It's just that-"
"It's an all boys school." I said quietly as he nodded half heartedly. "When do you leave?" I asked, not that I wanted to know, I'd rather he'd just save me the goodbye and leave unexpectedly.
"Tonight." He mumbled, laying back onto the grass looking at the cloudy midday sky above us.
"Tonight?" I chocked, I didn't think it would have been so soon. I didn't know why it had to be so soon. School wasn't to begin in another two weeks. "As in tonight tonight? As in today's later? As in-"
"Yes, Tenten. Tonight." He sighed, before pulling himself to his feet, becoming a good four/five inches taller than me. " I'm sorry, Tennie." He smiled weakly at my childhood nickname. "Goodbye."
And with that he left me standing there. Alone. Left with nothing more than the light peck on the cheek he placed before turning his back and leaving the surrounding park and my sight. I didn't know what to think. He had left. My best friend in the entire world. One of my only friends. In fact, other than my sister herself, he was my only friend. Sure I had people I hung out with, but they weren't friends. Just acquaintances, whom shared common interests. No one I could confide in, or spill my secrets to. No one who would listen to my constant rambling nonsense. No one to shut me up when I needed it most.
"An all boys school, hey?"
"Say what?" My sister gaped from the bathroom door as I stood before the morror playing about with my hair.
"Come on, Narumi, it's not a big deal!" I rolled my eyes at my sister's disbelief.
"You are not, I repeat NOT, going to apply for a scholarship to The Academy, the prestigious ALL BOYS school in KONOHA, half way across the bloody country!" She cried like a mental woman, which I supposed she was, but I didn't expect much more from my family to be honest. "It's impossible! You're not even a BOY!"
"Geez, dude, look, it's too late because I already sent off all the forms for the late scholarship exam. It's this weekend, you'll be taking me," I smiled to myself and I reached for the shiny scissors, on the shelf beside the mirror, before they were snatched away from me.
"Oh, no! No, no, no, NO! Tenten no! No I'm not letting you do this! Mum and Dad will FREAK!" Her eyes bulged from desperation and I found it hard to hold back a giggle. I giggled slightly and to my surprise, her eyes grew even wider. She gasped. "THEY know?"
"Well, yeah! I needed them to sign the permission slips and such!"
"What about the all boy's part?" She said menacingly, stepping closing the gap in between the both of us.
"Slipped my mind," I smiled sweetly, as a look of pure disbelief washed her face. My sister had a face for everything, she was so expressing it was almost, what's the word... inspirational!
"Oh my God, Tenten," She slumped next on the bath corner, staring at me as if I should be in the wacky shack. She just stared silently before almost whispering, "why?"
"Because Shikamaru's going there," Simply put. I thought she'd gotten that point already. Geez.
"Because Shikimaru's- What? Are you even thinking straight? You have other friends, what's so wrong about that? Why do you have to follow him?"
"It just feels right. I dunno, it just feels like I have to. He's my best friend, Rumi," I said sadly, I knew this would play her. Play the sympathy card and she'll give into anything.
"Aww, Tennie!" Score. "Look, I understand why you're doing this, I just don't know whether or not it's a good idea. Pretending to be a boy?"
"You always said I should be a boy anyway, and plus my style is way more boyish than girly girl, I'll pass easily." I said looking down at my casual clothes. Baggy jeans, and a tank covered in a huge hoodie, probably a man's anyway.
"I don't know, Tennie..."
"Trust me, Rumi." I smiled confidently. As I snatched the scissors back from her grasp and began to slice away at my lovely long hair. I wasn't quite sure what I was doing until Narumi took over, wordlessly and neatened it up to a suitable style.
"Done." She said half-heartedly.
I looked at myself carefully. I really did look like a guy. It kinda pissed me off that I looked so much like a boy without much effort but then again it was good for the situation. I still had my bangs falling into my face as the rest of the hair sat floppily over my head, not too long, but not too short.
"I didn't want to make you look too boyish, you've still got to be a girl at home." She smiled before leaving the bathroom only to return with her purse. I looked at her questioningly, to which she replied, "Clothes"
"Got your credit card, then?" I smirked playfully.
"Nope, you?"
"Nope." We gave each other a look before grinning at each other.
"Dad!"
"I can't believe our little Tennie is going off to boarding school! She's all grown up!" My mother cried, eyes welling up with pride or something stupid like that.
"Yeah whatever mum, I'm off now, thanks for the ride!" I said picking up my luggage from the carrier on the floor including all my new clothes me and my Narumi brought unknowingly with my dad's credit card. Aha, he won't catch on, don't worry, our parent's are so slow it's unbelievable they found each other.
"Be sure to call me or Narumi here at least once a week! Remember to shower everyday! And change your clothes before you go meet any new people, you look like a teenage boy!" She cried in disgust. Great, I thought, exactly what I wanted.
"Shu'up, mum. Come, Narumi, I've got to get my room keys form some manager person, come help me look!" I dragged her away from my teary eyed mother towards what was said to be my dorm. Dorm B. Didn't look too bad form the outside and seemed to hold alot of people. Didn't bother me one bit.
We walked into what appeared to be some sort of reception area. Strange, I thought dorms didn't need receptions, but I guess I was in luck. A guy appeared from behind a desk placed under a big banner saying "New Students Welcome!" in bold sparkly writing on a black background. He was fairly tall and slender, but it was obvious that there was defiantly muscle there when needed be. His eyes were a dark brown along with his shaggy just-above-shoulder hair. It looked like he was in the school uniform from what I could tell of his upper torso.
"New here?" He smiled warmly as I made my way up to him.
"Yeah, nice banner." I nodded, smirking slightly.
"aha, yeah. Not my idea. Gai-sensei made me do it. He was in charge of new students entering this year, and well, you'll see when you meet him," He said uncertainly. "The name's Reizo. I'm the dorm leader of Dorm 2. Welcome to the Academy! Prestigious school founded over 5 centuries ago here in Konoha Village. Not that you care, aha! You're name?"
"Kin." I smiled weakly at him whilst ignoring the confused stare from my sister as she mouthed 'kin?'. Ah, I forgot to tell her I changed my name upon signing up as a guy. Hmm.
"Ah yes, here by scholarship? Nice. Seems we'll have a few big wigs in Dorm 2 this year. Quite a few did very well on the entrance exams, and lucky enough I got 'em!" He smiled brightly to himself as he fumbled around with things behind the desk that I couldn't see. "The inter-dorm competition should be ours at last, after the last 4 years it going to Dorm 3. Gloating bastards, all of them. Well, here you go, Uniform size small and your key. Room 11, top floor. See you around, kid!"
I returned his smiled warmly as I continued down the corridor to where the residential room were held, or so I read from the signs on the cream bare walls. I climbed the stairs in silence, avoiding 'I have no idea what you're thinking' glares from my darling sister behind me. Finally, we came to a standstill outside Room 11 at the south end of the dorm. I turned the handle slowly and opened it onto my new home.
It was a small room, but mainly because of all the furniture that was included, spread out all over the room. Opposite to the door, slightly to the right was a window, flooding light into the room. The walls were a pale shade of grey contrasted against the dark grey accessories of the room. In the middle of the room was a small table, low enough to sit on the floor on the small ark grey cushions scattering themselves on the laminate flooring. To the right of the room was a long desk, big enough to occupy two people, considering the two computer stools tucked beneath them. To the left of the window was what I believed to be bunk beds, with dark grey curtains portioning them off from the rest of the room. It was almost as if they were built into the walls along with the built in wardrobe which stood nearest the door at it's end.
"I didn't know you'd be having a room mate." Narumi said quietly, putting down my luggage.
"Neither did I,"
Wooo, First chapter done! Hope you liked! Please review if you did and if you didn't maybe you could tell me why? Comments of all sorts welcome!
Might be a while for me to update, I'm currently oh so busy with GCSE's right now and freaking out but yeah, I got on study leave tomorrow (YEA BABEH!) so I'll have lots more time for you guys out there!
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