ANNOUNCEMENT: I revised this chapter a little. Not a lot of things changed, just a few typos to fix here and there plus I added some things. Just wanted to point that out, domo arigatou

Ok, please note. This is mah first Naruto fic. So PLEASE go easy on me. I don't like flames, and I will use them to burn your *censored* ass. So there. Ah well. It's not really that good though but it's not horrible I know that for a fact. It's AU, as if you didn't already know that; and it's also a bit of a YGO cross over not really, I'm just using the characters so yeah, it's a cross over.

So anyway. R/R Like I said, if you know me as a YGO writer, I fulfill all my threats. Ok, enough with intimidating you, let's get on with this damn story already!!

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Whispers in the Wind

NARUTO

High school. Senior year. Whoohoo. Not. The only good thing about senior year is that it's my last year of torture. My last year at hell. Before I'm free. Free to do whatever I please. I can run around, get drunk, and go to parties till eight in the morning. Not that I don't already do that mind you. But, when I'm out, it'll be different. I won't have to worry about anything anymore. Heh, that'll be fun.

Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I have spiky blonde hair and blue eyes. I'm not the top student in school, but I'm pretty smart. I LOVE ramen noodles, who doesn't? I'm a sixteen-year-old delinquent who has no regard of school rules. Or at least, that's what my teachers say. Wait, no just the ones I hate. SOME of my teachers say I'm okay and that I follow MOST of the rules anyway. See? I'm not that bad. I just don't like following all the rules. Besides, most of the kids at school see me as that. So basically, I've got no friends.

Wait. Scratch that out. I've got friends. A whole group actually. I guess you could call us a gang, but we're more like family because we live together and we look out for one another. And yeah, we do fight like brothers and sisters too.

Our "gang" is called Ninetales, because I guess, there's nine of us living together. Or, there used to be anyway. We've each got a bit of a tale to tell about our lives. Nine different tales. Hence, our name. We're one of the best-known party people downtown and in a bunch of cities round here. No one has not heard the name "Ninetales" lemme tell you that. We're the best of the best.

Well, I said there were nine of us right? Keyword is were. There's me, Nigisa, Kari, Yami, Jounouchi, Temari, Kankurou and Gaara.

Let's start with Nigisa who's 25. And her kid sister Kari, who's one of my close friends at school. Kari always stands up for me at school. She's on a somewhat more respected basis than me, and she can talk anybody into anything. Hell, she could talk you into jumping off a bridge if she wanted to.

Kari's a great friend. She's got really short hair, which she holds back with clips. Her eyes are kinda creepy grayish silver but they look yellow in the moonlight. She's got a bit of a dark attitude but is still friendly at the same time. Then, there's Nigisa. She looks exactly opposite of Kari. She's got long, flowing brown hair that she holds back in a ponytail or with a headband. Her eyes are a cool blue and she's got this weird sixth sense so that she knows when things might or will happen. She's got a job as an insurance salesperson, and she's probably the luckiest of all of us because she went to college and took a major in business. Without her, we'd all be in financial trouble.

Yami, the second oldest of us and at age 22, took only one year of college then quit because he didn't' have the money and Nigisa couldn't support him, even with her job. She had the rest of us to look after too. Yami's hair is even spikier than mine. He's got three colors in his hair, red, black, and yellow. And it's all-natural. He's also a nightclub singer and mostly performs on Fridays, which is Karaoke night and also when he gets the highest pay. Sometimes I sing with him. They say I have a great voice. It makes me feel good about myself. I just wish the others at school would see me for who I am.  But no one sees that in me at school. They just see the delinquent that respects no one and isn't afraid to kill.

I've never killed before. Just because I've got dried blood on a knife I bring everywhere with me doesn't mean I killed that person. It's my parents' blood. They were murdered. This is the only clue that was left of them. I never bothered to clean off that blood. And it never came off at all.

Then there's Jounouchi. Blonde, arrogant, always getting into trouble at school but still manages to pass school and very athletic. He's one year younger than me, he's going to be a senior next year, but for now he's a junior. He's also the youngest of us I guess. He often jumps into situations he shouldn't, and often, we have to save him just because he made a wrong remark or picked a fight with the wrong crew but most of the time, if he's not being ganged up on, he can look after himself. He never backs down from a fight and I respect that in him. So do a lot of people.

And last, but not least, Gaara, Kankurou, and Temari. Two brothers and one sister. (Can someone tell me if who's the oldest and youngest or are they the same age? @@) Next to Kari, they are my best friends at school. Gaara's got this sign on his forehead. I think it's the Japanese kanji sign for "love" He's also a killer. He's got the blood of all the people he's killed mixed with sand on his back. It forms a sort of design, which I can't decipher. But it's really cool. I guess, put it all together, he's saying to you "I love death"

Kankurou's pretty tough too. Though Gaara scares him. Kankuro's got all sorts of knives and sharp objects but he's never tasted blood. His weapons are only for defense and intimidation. Sure, he can beat up just about anyone if they really piss him off but he doesn't kill. Temari, she's well, a bit short tempered. She's a tough chick and nobody messes with her less you wanna get publically humiliated. She always carries this fan on her back, which is extremely sharp once she unfolds it and when she does, run. You're going to die.

Well, that's us I guess. I've been living with them almost my whole life really. I used to be an orphan. Still am, but now, at least I've got something or rather some people who I can call family.

I'd been raised in an orphanage until I was about 11 years old. That's when I met Kari. She was a wild child, and would often sneak into the orphanage when she needed a place to stay. I'd always let her stay with me and she'd tell me the stories of everything I was missing because I lived where I did. She told me of the parties she went to, the freedom she had, and most importantly, the people whom she considered to be her loving family.

I was jealous of her. She had a great life. But she was most of the time traveling. Her older sister, Nigisa had to support the four of them. Back then; it was only Nigisa, Kari, Yami, and Jounouchi who lived together. But Kari grew fond of me. And she wanted me out of the hellhole where I felt so lonely in. I had no friends there. Everyone made fun of me because, you guessed it, I liked to spice things up. People just saw me a troublemaker and that's it.

One day, I was kidnapped. Or so I thought. A bunch of people whom I didn't know snuck into my room and just stole me out of my bed. One took the time to get some possessions of mine and though I wanted to scream for help, I was muffled. I passed out in fear.

The next morning, I woke up and found Kari sitting next to me. She smiled. I looked around and Kari said this was my new home. Now I belonged to the family. Right then and there I felt special. Nigisa just rolled her eyes when she first saw me. To her, I was just another burden. But eventually, she grew to like me, even care. She still does and she's like the mother figure of all of us. But that doesn't mean she doesn't have a wild side.

Since then, I've been living with them. A few years later, we'd picked up Gaara, Temari and Kankuro when we thought we could handle more people from the orphanage too. Gaara was my best friend there, still is at school besides Kari, and I couldn't just leave him behind. He couldn't leave his family behind so we took them too. And he we are. One big happy family. Strange aren't we? How we all tie together just because we care. Just because we love each other.

It's odd. We've all kept our own last names even though we all live together under one roof. Kari and Nigisa go by the name Kitsune, I go by Uzumaki, but since Gaara, Kankuro and Temari don't have last names, they go by Megamashi. We're all completely distinct to the public eye, but so close by ourselves. And the schools stupid cause they can't keep track of all their students so anyone can illegally enroll there and won't get caught. It's worked for us anyway. And Nigisa and Kari have stopped traveling. We've settled down. At least for now. Never know when we'll probably hit the road again. But why should we? We've got it all good right here.

I'm tired now. So tired. Tomorrow school starts. I don't know why but I'm always excited on the first day of school. I just got my schedule yesterday. I guess I'll go over it one more time.

Homeroom:

Mrs. Miyaki

Rm.106

Period 1: History

Mr. Iruka

Rm.113

Period 2: Science

Mrs. Miyaki

Rm.106

Period 3: English

Mr. Yoshimaro

Rm.130

Period 4: Physical Education

Mrs. Tsukarete

Rm.219

Period 5: Geometry

Mr. Takahashi

Rm.222

Period 6: Advanced Japanese

Mr.Ebisu

Rm.320

Period 7: Health Education

Mr. Kakashi

Rm.111

Period 8: Martial and Ninja arts

Mr. Kakashi

Rm. 406

Huh? I've got Mr. Kakashi for two classes straight? Cool! I heard Mr. Kakashi was one of the coolest teachers and that only HE picked the students he wanted in his classes. And I'm one of them! Awesome, wait'll Kari sees this. She'll be green with envy I know it!

Ok, time to hit the sack Naruto, before you faint standing up. Today's been a pretty hard day on me. I spent most of it trying to buy last minute school stuff and trying to find some ways to blow off my day-before-school-end-of-summer depression. Kari's a big help. She gets that a lot too. She says it's a good thing we're both smart. Nigisa can probably pay enough for us to go to a university for at least a year and a scholarship could keep us in for two maybe. Just maybe. And then, we can get out own jobs. When we get the cash we'll got back and get our diplomas. That way, we can help Nigisa out. We're doing pretty well right now, but Kari and me want to make it even better.

Goodbye summer. Hello, 180 days of hell. Least, I think that's how many school days we have. Oh to hell with it, more than 20 days is too much. I shrug it off and turn off my light. Night.

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-_- That kinda sucked. I'll make the next chapter better I promise. Just don't flame me or trust me, you're going to suffer very much. Don't' try me. I can be nice and happy go lucky, but I can change in a heartbeat. And, if you didn't notice, I only mentioned EIGHT of the nine members of Ninetales. The ninth will be introduced in the next chapter. Oh, BTW, Kari and Nigisa are MY characters. In my bio, I ask people to call me Kari, but trust me; the Kari in this story is not me. She's so much better looking than me. Lol. Anyway, R/R I wanna know if people like this or not

Buh Bye! ^^


s.S (aka sTaR SNipEr)