Oh No! Not another high school Fic.
Chapter 1
Gaara Subaka followed his siblings towards his new house. Their foster parents hosue, their father had given up custody of them because he was tired of the responsibility. He was to busy getting drunk and passing out on the couch.
"So what do you think Gaara?" Kankuro asked, the two had developed a very close relationship with the absence of their father. Kankuro was 17 and Gaara was 16. Temari was only a few months older then Kankuro and while Gaara and his older brother looked very similar, other then the 100 lbs weight difference, Temari was very skinny, pale and had blonde hair, split into four pony tails in each direction.
Gaara shrugged, he didn't talk much, and he hated being touched. He looked to be able 80 pounds and was only about 5 foot 3, but Kankuro knew not to let his small sature fool him, he had been on the receiving end of a few punches and he had felt it for days.
They walked in and the place was huge, it was a lot bigger then their own home, and thats when their foster parents walked, with a yellow haired kid about Gaaras age, he was a bit bigger though, bulkier. Kakashi and his husband Iruka, they had a soft spot for abandoned children.
"Well hi! I'm Iruka, this is my husband Kakashi, and our other adopted son Naruto. He's about your age if I remember correctly Gaara." The brown haired man said to the three siblings. The silver haired man saluted and just walked away no longer interested.
"Yo." Kankuro said, Temari and Gaara just nodded.
"Well Naruto can show you to your rooms, Temari you get your own room, Kankuro and Gaara you two can share a room if thats ok. Unless one of you would rather bunk with Naruto?" Iruka said, Kankuro and Gaara looked at each other and nodded.
"We can share a room." they said in unison. They would rather room with each other then someone they just met.
The blonde haired boy led the three siblings through the house, blabbering on about this and that, where the best food is at, where the school is, none of them where really listening. They were all in deep though about what they were going to do next. They were all out of their element, litteraly. They had grown up in a small desert town and now they where in a big city.
"So Gaara your in my grade?" Naruto asked, Gaara nodded and Naruto beamed a smile that Gaara swore would have blinded a lesser man.
"Thats great, the school is really big so just stick with me and no one will mess with you." Naruto beamed. Gaara and Kankuro looked at each other skepticaly. They both knew that he could take care of himself and even if he couldn't, his 180 pound, six foot tall, older brother could.
Naruto stoped at the first room up the stairs and it was Temaris room, since she was a girl she got her own room. He led them past a few more door before he stopped at another door. The room was the one of the biggest rooms they had ever seen.
It was almost like two rooms, there was a ladder that led to a platform with a bed and a nightstand as well as a few dressers, it was like having their own apartment. Gaara and Kankuro looked at each other wide eyed. Underneath the platform Gaara had called quickly as his own, where rows of book shelves that Gaara spent hours drooling over.
Kankuro was busy looking out the windows at the incredible view of the city. They where in a residential area, but they could see for miles from their room.
"So how do you boys like it?" Iruka said as they all surrounded the kitchen table ready to eat.
"It was amazing." Kankuro said flat out, Gaara nodded in aproval.
"I have to agree with them." Temari said, she had found her room to be to her liking, almost as if it had been picked out specifically for her.
They ate dinner and then they went each went back to their rooms. Gaara sat on the ladder leading up to his platform. Reading a book he had pulled off one of the shelves.
"What ya reading squirt?" Kankuro asked, Gaara responded without even looking up.
"It." he said simply, Kankuro had a confused expression on his face, he wasnt much of a reader. Gaara sighed, he should have known better then to explect his brother to know any good books. "Its by Stephen King." he said quickly inbetween turning pages.
"Oh." Kankuro said flatly, he still had no idea what Gaara was reading and Gaara didn elaborate further. "Well im going to bed kiddo. See you in the morning." he said walking off to the other side of the room when his bed was. Gaara marked his page and went up to his bed.
He layed in bed for hours it seemed staring up through a skylight above his bed. He could make out a few constelations, he suffered from mild insomnia and only slept every few days, or if he was lucky a few hours a night.
He rubbed his tattoo on his forehead. The Kanji Ai, it meant love in english. He had gotten it because he just wanted to see what his father would say, but like anything thing else he tried his father ignored it, then he realized this was the closest he was ever going to get to love. His siblings had still blamed him for their mothers death then. They have both since stoped blaming him, he couldn't had done anything to change what happened.
He layed in his bed and slowly driffed off to sleep, he was thankfull for the short rest. He woke up and his alarm clock read 6:30 school started in half an hour. So he hopped out of bed, slid down the latter and got a quick shower, pulled on a pair of black skinnies, pulled on a red tank top and a black button up shirt, and met his siblings at the front door, and waited for Iruka, he worked at the school as the English teacher. He had offered the four of them a ride, and they quickly agreed.
They pulled up to the school and Gaara was imediately itching for a cigarette. The vast number of people that were just outside of the school were making Gaara uncomfortable. They got out of the van and Iruka said his goodbyes and the Naruto and Gaara set off in one direction and Temari and Kankruo the other.
"You think he's going to be ok?" Temari asked, Kankuro looked her dead in the eye.
"It's Gaara so I honestly have no idea. I just hope he doesn't kill anyone on his first day." he said without skipping a beat.
Naruto walked towards the door of their building, the school was sepperated into two buildings, one for 9th and 10th graders and the other for 11th and 12th. Temari and Kankuro where in 11th and Naruto and Gaara where in 10th. When he noticed Gaara had stoped following him.
He back tracked to a picnic table Gaara was sitting at alone smoking a cigarette.
"What are you doing? You can't do that here!" Naruto cried. Gaara looked at him in amusment.
"I don't see anyone other then you stoping me." he said with an even tone, and then he motioned to the crowd of people who were not even going out of their way to hide their cigarettes. He had never noticed how many people stand outside the school in the morning and smoked.
Naruto gave up and had a defeated look on his face and he sat down next to Gaara on the table. Gaara blew the smoke from his last hit in Narutos face and smirked until he heard another person snicker. He looked over his shoulder to find a boy who was a few inches taller then Naruto and just as muscular.
He had jet black hair and oynx colored eyes. He sat down on the other side of the table with his back to Naruto.
"What are you doing here Teme?" Naruto demanded.
"I can go just about anywhere I want Dobe." The raven haired boy responded without missing a beat.
"Wheres your Hyuga friend? Why don't you go bother him?" Naruto spat at the raven haired boy, Gaara was almost laughing at how easily Naruto let this boy goad him.
"He came in early to get some help with something from Zabuza-sensei." the raven haired boy responded once again not missing a step in the conversation.
"Well why don't you go find him and leave me and my friend here alone." Naruto was fuming, it felt like smoke would come out of his ears at any moment.
The boy looked at Gaara again, and looked him over, Gaara could feel his eyes roll over his body, and he took a drag off his cigarette and flicked it away.
"Well we should get going Gaara if I'm going to show you around the school before class." Naruto said noticing the other boys hungry eyes that seemed to be drinking in Gaara. The red head nodded and waved goodbye to the raven haired boy.
"That was Sasuke Uchiha. He's the quarterback for the football team, ever girl wants him and ever guy wants to be him. His friend Neji Hyuga is pretty cool though, he is more down to earth, he's the captian of the Hockey team. He has his own fan club to but he doesn't let it go to his head. Sasuke is all that bad either I guess. He isn't anywhere near as bad as his older brother." Naruto said like he was giving Gaara a tour of the African jungle.
The two walked into their first class, they found out they both had all the same classes after a stop to the office to get Gaara scedual. Naruto walked over to a group of people and Gaara just followed him quietly.
"This is Kiba." Naruto said pointed to a guy wearing a big fluffy hoodie with short spikey brown hair. Gaara waved awkwardy at the boy not wanted to be rude. "This is Chogi." he said motioning towards a fairly cubby boy sitting next to Kiba, he had his hand in abag of chips and was eating as the spoke, he waved and went back to his bag of chips. "This lazy guy is Shikamaru. He's some kind of genious but he's to lazy to do anything but play chess and sleep." Naruto finshed. Gaara sat down behind Naruto and they went through the rest of the class in silence.
Lunch was an entirely different spectical. Just seeing that many people eating made Gaara quickly loose his appetite. He quickly left the cafeteria and went outside to the table he smoked at earlier this morning to find Shikamaru sitting at the table smoking a joint, he could smell the weed from a mile away.
"Aw shit, you aren't going to say anything are you?" He said when he saw Gaara sit down next to him.
"Well ill have to think about it, but in the meantime you should let me get a hit." he said with a smirk.
"So troublesome." was all the response he was given as the joint was passed his way. Gaara smiled and took a hit off the spliff.
"This is some pretty decent stuff." Gaara said through some coughs after passing it back.
"If it wasn't I wouldn't be smoking it." Shikamaru said after taking a monster hit off of the joint.
They sat there for what felt like hours even though when Gaara checked his phone it had only been fifteen minutes. He pulled out his headphones and started listening to radiohead. He had liked them for awhile, and he really liked them, he didn't just listen to them to be able to tell people he listens to them.
Shikamaru looked at him, and thought to himself, 'is he listening to Radiohead? I think I might actually be able to stand this guy' he laughed to himself and Gaara took out an ear bud and gave him a questioning look.
Shikamaru looked at the head phone as if to ask if he could listen as well, Gaara smiled and handed him the ear bud. The two sat and listened to the "Ok Computer" album all the way through not caring about class when they saw they where late. Just enjoying the others company and the good tunes.
It was the end of school and Gaara found himself asleep, his head leaning on Shikamarus shoulder, who was still asleep. Gaara shook the lazy boy who sighed.
"How troublsome." he said once more, he had missed his bus and Gaara had noumouris missed calls from Naruto, Kankuro, Temari and Iruka. He quickly called Kankuro and told him he stayed after for a class and forgot to mention it to Naruto and it wouldn't happen again.
Shikamaru it seemed lived pretty close to Gaaras new home and the two decided to walk, it wasn't that far, and it was a realitivly nice day. Gaara pulled out his pack of Newport 100s and Shikamaru looked at him with the same look earlier, they had known each other for one day and already they could talk without speaking. Gaara felt strangely comfortable with Shikamaru.
He handed the taller boy a cigarette and his lighter after sparking up his own. They walked in a comforatable silence for about an hour before they got to Gaaras house.
"You want to come in?" Gaara asked as they walked up the steps to his front door.
"I think I'll take a rain check. I gotta get home before my mom kills me." he said with a smirk. "I'll talk to you tomorrow though." he said and walked off, waving to Gaara over his shoulder as he walked away.