Hiya, everyone! I'm Sastars429. I guess thats what you can address me as. This is my first Naruto fic, and I absolutely L-O-V-E ShikaxTema, Please tell me if they are OOC, i mean, i am kind of new to the whole Naruto fic thing. Please give me feedback on how to make them seem, well, more themselves if you think I'm doing an inadequate job. Thanks, much love, Sastars429.
Background information: Everyone is in the same grade (besides Gaara, who is one year younger) they're all in their second year of high school. Umm, if something doesn't make sense, then post a review about it and I'll clear that right on up.
Thanks :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but i do own Asura. My poppy little peppy OC.
Fights? Already?
I can't find a single damned thing around here! Temari groaned. Her first day at Konoha High School and she was already lost. At least it's pretty... She thought absentmindedly. "Not nearly as pretty as Suna's stars though," she said letting a sigh escape her lips.
When she reached the principals office, it was nearly noon. School started two hours ago, Temari thought grudgingly. She never liked being late, because tardiness always attracted attention, and from life back home, Temari hated attention.
Temari walked into the office to reveal a room with one scurrying receptionist. "Hello?" Temari said, trying to get the receptionists attention.
"Hello?" She said a little louder, growing irritated with the black haired woman.
"HELLO?" She finally shouted and the receptionist let out a squeal and lifted her head to look at her. In the receptionists arms was a small pig, and Temari really couldn't tell what she was supposed to get from the image. "My name is Tema-"
"Ah yes!" The receptionist exclaimed, dropping the pig. "Our transfer student from Suna Academy! So sorry about the mess," the receptionist said, waving to the paper-strewn office, "My name is Shizune. Tsunade has been making me worry like crazy, she said she might not have processed the papers for your transfer correctly. So I have spent all morning trying to find them and make sure Suna Academy was aware of everything. Oh, and this is Tsunade's pig, Tonton." She said, gesturing to the pig on the floor.
"SHIZUNE!" A grumpy voice yelled from behind a door at the far end of the room.
"Yes, Headmistress Tsunade?" Shizune asked in the nicest voice possible.
This TSUNADE is the HEADMISTRESS? Temari squeaked in her head. She was tough and all, but Tsunade sounded scary, even dangerous.
"Has the Suna transfer arrived yet?" Came the same grumpy voice, but this time less loud.
"Yes Headmistress, she has just arrived, she's coming in now." Shizune said, hurriedly gesturing Temari through the door.
At first sight, Temari wasn't awfully scared of Tsunade. She wore pig-tails, which made her look slightly childish, but otherwise was plain, but when Temari stared into Tsunade's eyes she understood why Shizune hadn't argued or yelled back. Tsunade's eyes were scary and heartless to Temari, and Tsunade was not one she wanted to get into trouble with.
"Here is your schedule, and here's your map." Tsunade said, and nothing further for a long minute or two. "Since it's your first day, I'll have someone show you around. Our school is fairly large, much larger than Suna's and it's easy to get lost in. We're very excited to have you as a transfer." Temari smirked in her head, she didn't sound pleased or excited at all.
Two knocks came from outside the door and Shizune's calm voice came through. "Naruto Uzumaki is here, sent from Iruka's class."
Tsunade's expression went cold, colder than before. "Send him in," she barked. A moment later a cocking smiling boy with blonde hair came strolling in. He was having the time of his life.
"Hey, Grandma Tsunade," He said casually before giving her a toothy grin, "What's up?"
"What's up? That's what you're asking me? NARUTO! Can you even go ONE DAY without getting sent out of class? You're always so immature!" Tsunade yelled, and Temari couldn't help but flinch. What had this kid done?
"Temari, your guide is here." Shizune's quiet voice came from a crack in the door. Temari hurried out of there and was met by a girl with the same toothy grin as the boy in the hallway.
"Hiya, the name is Asura." She chirped, turning on her heel and heading out of the door. Once they were outside she turned and asked for Temari's name.
"It's Temari," she grumbled, "So, what's up with Tsunade?" She asked out of curiosity.
"Dunno, she has kind of always been like that. I guess that's what you get from being such a slug all the time!" She exclaimed, giggling away.
At least she isn't the girly type... Temari thought. She despised girly girls.
"You're late, you were supposed to arrive an hour ago. It's noon," the girl stated matter-of-factly, "You've had the whole class waiting like puppies. I swear, when I got called down to the Slug Queen's office, some people cheered." She laughed putting her hands into her pockets. "Naruto got so loud that he was sent to Tsunade's too, but not for good reasons."
"Oh great," Temari sighed.
"What's wrong?" Asura asked, turning towards Temari.
"I hate crowds and attention." She stated, grimly looking at the door they had stopped in front of. The Konoha symbol was engraved on the door next to the room number.
The girl laughed, "Well then you're going to hate Konoha High School. Welcome to the jungle!" She shouted opening the door to the classroom.
The classroom was utter chaos. Paper airplanes were flung in every direction, spit balls stuck to the ceiling, books were on the floor, pencils were discarded everywhere, and the teacher just seemed to be reading a magazine.
"ALRIGHT! EVERYONE BACK TO YOUR SEATS, I WANT THIS ROOM EXACTLY LIKE IT WAS BEFORE!" The teacher shouted, setting down his magazine. The classroom was suddenly encased in a shroud of silence as people scrambled to their seats, picked up pencils and books, and scurried to throw away all the spit balls.
"Wow," Temari gasped to Asura, but then realized she was alone standing outside the door, and to make matters worse; everyone was staring at her.
By everyone, she meant over fifty students and a teacher. They all seemed awestruck about something. Temari self consciously looked down to make sure she was wearing pants, she had had a nightmare about that once.
Whispers broke out among the crowd, like "We have competition for Sasuke now, girls." or "She's hot", and she swear she heard something like "What a drag".
"Silence!" The teacher shouted, and the class immediately obeyed. Iruka wasn't nearly as scary as Tsunade, but he still held the aura around him that if you better do what he says.
"Why don't you introduce yourself? We've long awaited our Suna transfer student." Iruka said politely, gesturing her to the front of the class.
"My name is Temari." She said dumbly. She wasn't sure what else to tell people, she came from a barren wasteland of a desert where the only pretty things were the stars amongst the never-ending sand.
"Hobbies? Siblings? Dreams for the future? Likes? Dislikes?" Iruka prodded. Temari was already growing annoyed of him.
"Well, I don't really have any hobbies. I have two brothers, I don't like a lot of things, and I haven't really thought about the future." The whole class sighed, and she thought she saw a couple of people smile. Temari knew that she wasn't sounding very interesting, but that's what she wanted, and she got it.
She was assigned to sit in between a rather chubby individual, and a lazy pineapple-headed guy who only seemed to stare outside at the clouds or nap. In. The. Middle. Of. Class.
When class finally let out, she was exhausted and was glad it was her lunch break. She hated Earth Science. It just seemed stupid to her, why learn something she was never going to use?
She was about to exit the main school ground for the courtyard when she heard chanting from the opposite direction. She walked toward it until she was able to make out what they were saying. It sickened her to find out.
"Fight, fight, fight!" Lots of boys and girls were shouting as they formed a crowd around three people. She could only make out the tops of their heads, and Pineapple-head and the other boy who sat next to her were right in the middle of it.
Why did it have to be them? Temari sighed and walked toward the possible fight. She wouldn't be able to live with herself if tomorrow they came to school with cuts in bruises, everyone at this school was just so annoying.
"What the hell is going on here?" Temari shouted above the crowd making her way to the middle of the crowd. Everyone went silent, what was the new transfer student doing getting involved with other peoples problems already?
"A fight. Fatty thinks he can take me!" The redheaded boy with freckles shouted in the middle, promptly earning cheers from the crowd.
Pineapple-head sighed and shook his head. "Please tell me you did not just call Choji that."
"What? Fat? FAT! FAT! FAT!" The redhead teased, again and again. Choji's face grew redder and redder with frustration, but he didn't make any move to defend himself. By the time the redhead opened his mouth again, he was shaking Temari could see the anger and frustration in his eyes, that he was resisting every urge to lunge at the boy.
"To scared now? To nice to throw a punch at me?" The boy teased, and Temari had had enough. What had Choji done to this brat of a boy? He might have a health problem for pete's sake! He didn't deserve this kind of harassment, no one did.
"Well luckily, I'm not!" She said winding her fist back and hitting the boy. There was an awful smack that was heard throughout the open grassy field, and Temari just stood up straight, brushed herself off, and turned towards Choji.
"Are you alright? I don't even know what the hell his problem was." Everyone was awestruck. The whole crowd was silent. The crowd immediately dispersed when Tsunade came into view, though. They all seemed to have one excuse or another.
"Y-you stood up for me?" Choji asked so quietly that Temari barely heard. "But you don't even know me."
"I don't have to to know that that boy was disturbing the peace." Temari said, shrugging. "By the way, Pineapple-boy, what's your name?"
"Oh, that's Shikamaru." His friend answered for him, and they both turned to face Tsunade. Her face was red with fury.
"SHIKAMARU, CHOJI, and..." Her face changed from furious to blank, Tsunade just couldn't remember Temari's name.
"Temari?"
"Yes, Temari. Go eat lunch and then STRAIGHT TO CLASS. I expect you all to be on time. After school, detention. Three PM sharp." She said in a huff walking off.
Temari sighed and shrugged. She picked up her lunch from where she had set it a moment ago and walked off. "See you at three, Choji!" She called over her shoulder before disappearing from sight.
It took a whole two minutes for Shikamaru to process everything that had happened. "Pineapple-boy?" Was the only thing he could manage to ask though.
"She was talking about your hair, Shikamaru. You know? It kind of looks like a pineapple." Shikamaru didn't reply. This girl... she was so different.
Just like my mother. So troublesome. He just sighed and laid down to watch the clouds.
I hope that was an A-OKAY first chapter, the updates wont come till about 7 days after each other, but you can probably expect the next update to come a little sooner than that.
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