A NejiTen Fanfic, my first one, so plz don't flame me too badly
Plz R & R
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters
Tenten nervously hugged her school bag, as her mother disappeared. It was the first day of her new school. Her mother had decided to move here, after her dad died a few weeks ago, in order to maintain a fresh new start to life.
She looked around the place. Everywhere, there were groups of people talking. She noticed, there were social rejects as well. A red haired boy stood out in particular. He was sitting away from the others glaring at no one in particular.
Everywhere she could see, there were people laughing, yelling and talking.
"Would I really fit into all this?" she thought to herself.
Before she could ponder about this any further, her mother reappeared and said, "Tenten, dear, why don't you come and meet Ms. Tsunade? She's the principal to Konoha High, and she's really friendly".
"Alright, I suppose" Tenten said, reluctantly, following her mother to the head office where the principal was currently at.
The first thought that appeared in her mind, when she had her first glance at the principal was; "Wow, she doesn't seem the organized type". Her office floor was covered in papers, and there were bottles of sake lying around the place.
"Now Tenten, I'm sure you'll quite like Konoha High, the people are generally good, and the lessons are interesting." Ms Tsunade said, smiling at the anxious girl. "Now, here's your timetable and your map of the school. I think it may be a good help in finding your way around."
"Thanks, Ms Tsunade" Tenten said, and walked off to attend her first class; Japanese.
After taking a while, she finally found it, and she burst into the room, prepared to apologize to the teacher for her lateness, when she found that the whole class was talking to each other, and there was no teacher to be found.
Tenten shyly took a seat in the front row, quite aware that everyone was staring at her.
Then, a girl walked up to her.
"So, who are you?" the girl asked. Tenten noticed that she wore heavy eyeliner, and a very short miniskirt. She had sandy colored hair and a white shirt, which was revealing too, and Tenten didn't know what to think of her, but she didn't want to sound rude either.
"Hi, my name is Tenten, I just moved to this area, and this is my first day" Tenten replied.
The girl smirked, "Well, I'm Temari."
"Hi Temari. Umm…why isn't the teacher here yet?" Tenten asked.
"Oh right, Kaka-sensei? He's always late…no one knows why." Temari answered.
"I see…"
"You want to hang round us during free periods and stuff?" Temari offered.
"Who's…us?" Tenten wondered.
"Oh. Kankarou, me and Itachi" Temari answered.
Tenten looked at them. Kankarou was a boy with heavy make up on and purple streaks on his face. Itachi looked like a Goth, with him wearing black all over. Tenten sensed a dark feeling about them. She didn't really think they were the best type of people to hang around with, but she didn't want to sound unfriendly, especially when she was new.
"Uhh…okay." Tenten accepted.
"Okay good, I'll see you in a while then" Temari smirked again, and wandered off to her seat.
Tenten realized that several other girls in the class were glaring at Temari, including a blonde hair girl, and a pink haired one.
"I wonder what's going on" she thought to herself.
Suddenly the door opened. Some people hurried to their seats, afraid it was the teacher. However, it was only a pale boy with long hair, several strands tied up. He was undoubtedly good looking and quite popular as some girls screamed with excitement and waved to him. However, he simply ignored them and wandered off to a seat in the very back row.
Tenten's first impression of him was that he was a boy who was quite anti-social and strange.
The door opened for a second time. This time it was an adult. A man with snowy hair and a mask on, covering his nose and mouth.
"Morning class!" He greeted cheerfully; unaware that he was half an hour late. "I saw a dam breaking today, and so naturally I had to go fix i-"
He was cut off by a blonde haired boy, who yelled, "A LIE!"
The man sweat dropped. "Anyway, do we have anything worth discussing today?"
Temari raised her hand, "I would like to bring it to the attention of the class and you, that we have a new student joining us today, Tenten!"
Tenten could see the pink haired girl and blonde rolling their eyes.
"Welcome to Konoha High Ms Tenten. I hope you find it very enjoyable. I am your Japanese teacher, Kakashi. You can just call me Kaka-sensei though." The man smiled.
"Hi…" Tenten muttered, quite embarrassed by Temari's introduction.
The rest of the lesson went by, quite quickly due to the fact that there was only 10 minutes left of the lesson.
After Japanese, Tenten has visual arts, and so she went off to the visual arts room. Surprisingly, Temari, Kankarou and Itachi had art too, and Tenten sat next to Temari not wanting to appear as rude. She noticed, again, that the blonde and pink haired girl sat together on a different table with a shy looking girl with navy hair, a boy that looked like Itachi, only younger, and a boy with a high ponytail.
"Okay class! Listen up! We're going to paint a painting of objects that fancy us, and what we like. Any object/s can be used!" a female teacher this time said.
Temari put her hand up again, and introduced Tenten, again.
"Welcome to this class, dear. I am Kurenai-sensei and I'll be your visual arts teacher." The lady smiled and said.
Tenten felt that this teacher, at least, was nicer than Kaka-sensei and she didn't feel too out of place.
After moments of everyone getting paper, they started drawing.
Tenten used fine brush strokes to create a painting of kunais, shurikens and other weapons she liked using.
"Oh my goodness!" What on earth are they? They are disgusting!" Temari exclaimed.
"Umm…they are my favorite weapons and they come in handy" Tenten defended her precious weapons.
"It's so disgusting! How can you like it?" Temari complained.
"What are YOU drawing?" Tenten asked, changing the subject. She had a feeling she didn't like Temari very much.
"Fans! They are like way cooler than your weapons! I have about ten fans at home!" Temari boasted.
Tenten decided not to argue.
The rest of the period was spent in silence as everyone was concentration on their painting.
After the period was over, Tenten realized she had a free period and so did Temari. So she went off and followed Temari.
"Hi Tenten! Hey guys! This is Tenten, she's new" Temari introduced.
Kankarou simply muttered a "Yo." and Itachi just nodded and glared. Tenten felt quite uncomfortable and sat down on a seat.
"Oi! Not there! That's my usual spot!" Itachi barked out.
"Sorry!" Tenten apologized and sat somewhere else.
"Not there either! That's my spot!" Kankarou yelled at her.
"Okay, so where can I sit?" Tenten asked.
"There's the only position unclaimed. You can have that!" Kankarou offered with an air of kindness.
However the spot turned out to be a patch of nettles. Tenten chose not to sit and stood instead. She turned to Temari hoping she would stick up for her. However, Temari was just laughing at the boys' behavior.
Tenten really didn't like this group. She didn't know what to do.
"Umm…is it okay if I sit with some other people?" Tenten asked awkwardly.
"What's the matter? Don't like us?" Itachi asked, quite angrily.
"No…it's just that…" Tenten started.
"You think you're too good for us?" Kankarou yelled.
"No! It's because…" Tenten tried to think of a good reason.
"Look, you little bitch, when I invite you to sit with us, it doesn't mean you can just ditch us and leave a few minutes later. How could you? Just get the hell out of here and never come near us again! We'll bash you if you do!" Temari lost her temper, and shouted at Tenten who ran away after her words.
She ran to a tree where no one else was, and started crying. "How can I survive in a school where the people were this vile and mean?" she sobbed to herself.
"Hey, are you alright" spoke a male voice.
Tenten jumped. She hadn't known someone was there.
She looked up. It was the pale boy with long hair.
"Why are you crying? You're new right?" he asked.
"Yeah, and I'm crying because I made new enemies already, and I doubt I'll have any friends in this school because most people here are so vulgar." She sniffled.
"No, it's just Temari and her group that treat people badly. She's done it to a lot of people. You're not the first. She did it to Sakura and Ino when they were new. Do you know them?" he asked.
"Are they the blonde and pink haired girls?" Tenten asked.
"Hn" he replied.
Tenten took that as a yes.
"I'm Neji by the way." The boy introduced himself.
"I'm Tenten." She replied.
The bell rang.
"Oh! I better go to class! I don't want to be late! Bye! And thanks!" She smiled and ran off.
Neji leaned against the tree in deep thought; he had never said that much in his whole life.
"She's cute" he thought to himself and went off to class.
In her next class; modern history; she avoided Temari, Kankarou and Itachi and sat by herself. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see them glaring at her back. She felt uncomfortable.
"Is this what every day of school will be like from now on?" she asked herself. Then she gave herself a mental shake, and concentrated on the teacher talking and that is what exactly she did for the rest of the lesson.
After the lesson she was approached by Ino, Sakura and Hinata.
"Hey, did you get ditched by that Temari bitch too?" Sakura asked.
"Umm…yeah…" Tenten said awkwardly.
"Don't worry, you don't have to be embarrassed about it, we all got our shares of ditchings too" Ino smiled friendly.
Tenten smiled, sensing that these people were more of her type of friends to hang around.
"Temari does that all the time. She picks on new people, pretending to be sweet and kind, and then she bags them out after a short while." Hinata said.
"We wanted to warn you, but we weren't sure what you were like." Sakura added.
"Its okay, at least I know what she's like now." Tenten reassured her.
"Hey Tenten, do you want to hang round us?" Ino asked, with a smile.
"Sure!" Tenten willingly agreed, as she had taken a liking to them.
"Okay, we'll see you then" Sakura smiled and they all split in different directions for their next class.
The rest of the day proved to be nicer than the start. When Tenten had any classes with Sakura, Ino or Hinata, she sat with them.
As the final bell rang, for the ending of school, Tenten had exchanged email addresses with all three of her new friends. Then, since her house was nearer the school than most people, she started to walk back home. After she walked for about two minutes, she realized she wasn't alone.
The pale boy, called Neji was walking slightly behind her.
"Hi Neji! I didn't see you there" Tenten greeted, with a smile.
"Hn" Neji said.
"How was your day? Tenten attempted to make conversation, but it was rather difficult.
"Hn" Neji just said.
"Hey Neji…what does Hn mean?" Tenten wondered.
"Hn" Neji repeated.
Tenten gave up and they walked in silence. When she got to the gate of her house, she turned to Neji and said, "Well, bye."
"Bye" He bade farewell to her, and continued walking. As Tenten's house grew out of sight, Neji sighed with relief and asked himself, "Why does she make me feel so different?"
Meanwhile, as Tenten walked into her house, her mother greeted her, "Hi Tenten! How was your first day?"
"It was quite good" Tenten replied, and she did think that it was quite good, even with the Temari incident.
"Did you make friends, dear?" Tenten's mother continued to ask.
"Yes, I did" Tenten answered. "Mom, I'm going to use the computer"
"Okay darling." Her mother answered.
She went online and added her latest friends.
That afternoon they had a four-way conversation.
AN: purpl3fur3vah Ino
Ch3rrybl0ss0msakura
Midn1ght m1stressHinata
Luvf0rw3ap0ns Tenten
purpl3fur3vah: heyy guys! Wanna come to my house for a sleepover tomorrow?
Ch3rrybl0ss0m: kewl that would be awesome!! )
Midn1ght m1stress: sure, but only if Neji-nii-chan is able to walk me to your place
purpl3fur3vah: Hinata, your parents still don't trust you to walk by yourself?!
Midn1ght m1stress: strangely no
Luvf0rw3ap0ns: wait…NEJI's YOUR BROTHER??
Ch3rrybl0ss0m: plz don't tell me you've joined the i-love-Neji-fan club, ten...
Luvf0rw3ap0ns: no way! Its just that, I talked to him today…
purpl3fur3vah: WOW! You TALKED to him? Was it more of a one sided conversation or was he actually speaking?
Luvf0rw3ap0ns: well, the first conversation he was talking a lot, but the second, all he said was Hn.
Midn1ght m1stress: that's like Neji's favorite word, if it is a word that is.
Ch3rrybl0ss0m: wow, I cant believe you talked to him.
Luvf0rw3ap0ns: speak about joining the fan club, speak for yourself, sakura…
Ch3rrybl0ss0m: no, I don't like him, SASUKE-KUN is better, but like Sasuke-kun, Neji's known to only saying 1 word normally, not full length conversations.
Luvf0rw3ap0ns: strange…
purpl3fur3vah: so how bout it, ten? You reckon you can come over?
Luvf0rw3ap0ns: I don't see why not… it's not like I'm busy…
purpl3fur3vah: AWESOME!
Ch3rrybl0ss0m: okay, guys I have to go…my mother needs my help for something.
Midn1ght m1stress: yeah, me too
purpl3fur3vah: okay, we'll just disband this conversation then.
Luvf0rw3ap0ns: okay, Bye!!
Tenten logged off, and closed her computer.
Then seeing how late it was, she went straight to bed with a smile.
How was it everyone? Its my first pairings fanfic, so im not sure what to think of it…plz read and review