It was orientation day for all the first year students at Konoha College. The time read 7:25am as a mass of students rushed onto the compound. The first year students all made their way to the assembly hall where the orientation was set to begin.

The hall was silent for the most part as the students were more or less complete strangers. Only a few people talked, Hanabi Hyuga spoke with her cousin Neji and her sister Hinata Hyuga and Ino Yamanaka spoke with her childhood friend Sakura Haruno but that was it for the most part. The group of students were then addressed by the principal Tsunade Senju, who went over the basics of the school such as rules, clubs, classes, schedules etc.

Tsunade was just about finished with the orientation when Naruto Uzumaki came bursting through the door."Hehehe sorry I'm late everyone I had some spoilt milk and I was stuck in the bathroom" he said scratching the back of his head with a big smile on his face. This caused a collective groan from the students in the crowd. Tsunade then called him over and punched him in the face telling him to sit down in the front row.

He then sat down muttering under his breath "You didn't have to hit me you know". This caused the person sitting next to him to giggle, he introduced himself still rubbing his face from the punch "Hey I'm Naruto". "Hinata" she replied blushing. Naruto then asked Hinata if he had missed anything important but Tsunade interrupted saying "It's nice you're making new friends Naruto but be quiet!" Soon after, the orientation ended. Tsunade wished them good luck for the school term and cast them off telling them to refer to the notice board if they have any further questions and with that she left.

The students left the hall with their respective schedule which they obtained during the assembly. Naruto though, was forced to remain a little bit longer as he had come late to the assembly. Eventually he was given his schedule and allowed to leave. He looked down at his schedule and saw that he had geography and with that he was on his way to class.

He got to class 15 minutes late, when he entered he apologized to the teacher. "Uzumaki, right?" he enquired, to which Naruto affirmed positively by nodding. "Well I'm Asuma Sarutobi and I'll be teaching this class. You can sit anywhere you like but please try not to come late to my class again". Naruto looked around the class and saw Hinata with an available seat next to her, he decided to sit next her since she was the only person he knew so far in the school.

"Hey Hinata, I didn't know you did Geo too. I should have stayed with you so we could walk to class together. This place was a huge pain to find" he said laughing. "Oh umm sorry Naruto" she muttered, her face red as a cherry from Naruto's previous comment. "Hahaha it's cool Hinata I'm not really mad or anything" he responded. Class flew by really quickly so much so that no one even realized what time it was until the bell rang. "Huh, well I guess class is over, that was pretty quick. Well it's your first day so you guys probably won't get that much homework." Asuma said. The class responded with an emphatic cheer.

"Wait you didn't let me finish. You guys won't get that much homework... except from me." He said with a wry smile followed by a groan by the class. "Don't worry it's simple and fun too. You guys have to make a paper mache volcano and it'll be due in three days. Isn't that great!" he added sarcastically

"Now all I have to do is put you guys into groups. Let's see Group 1 will be Hinata, Kiba, Sakura and Tenten. Group 2 will be Shikamaru, Naruto, Temari and Sasuke. Group 3 will have Ino, Neji, Lee and Sai. Well that's all for today make sure and complete my assignment." Asuma said. The various groups then began meeting up and exchanging greetings. It would be hard to work with a complete group of strangers!

Hinata then addressed her group saying that she would be totally unavailable on the last two days before the assignment is due. She suggested that they all meet up at her house at the end of school today and they could all finish it together. "Yeah that'll probably be best." Sakura said. Kiba added "Yeah and we won't have to worry about this stupid project later if we do it today". Tenten agreed also adding "That sounds good but how are we going to get to your house?" "Don't worry about it I can give you guys a ride" Hinata replied smiling. "Well it's a plan then" they all said as they left the classroom together. Eventually the bell indicating the end of school rang. Hinata, Sakura, Tenten and Kiba all assembled outside of school, they then entered Hinata's car and took off for Hinata's house.

Author's Notes

Well this chapter wasn't very romance intensive so I apologize for that. I think it'll start picking up from here because this is pretty much my first story... ever! I intend to cover most of the couples of Naruto it just so happened that this chapter was solely NaruHina.

-Cloud