Chapter 1: The first encounter

"Naruto, hurry up you'll be late for school!" yelled Iruka from downstairs.

"I'm coming!" Naruto yelled back from his bedroom, trying to put on a pair of pants by hoping on one foot, "I just need to brush my teeth."

Naruto finally made it to his bathroom with his pants on properly. He looked in the mirror to see a blond, spiky haired boy with sapphire blue eyes staring back at him. Naruto quickly brushed his teeth, then headed downstairs grabbing his orange backpack on the way.

"What happened?" Iruka asked once Naruto finally made it to the kitchen, "I thought you wanted to be on time for your first day back?"

"Yeah, hehe, sorry I kinda slept in," Naruto said sheepishly, "On accident!" he defended quickly.

"Well eat up you don't want to miss your bus."

Naruto quickly inhaled his bacon, eggs, and toast. Once he was done he headed for the door. "Bye Iruka-sensei! Thanks for breakfast." And he was outside.

Iruka is Naruto's adoptive father and old elementary school teacher but Naruto never got out of the habit of calling him sensei.

Naruto made it to the bus stop just before the bus arrived and he quickly hopped on and looked for a seat. He spotted his oldest and best friend Kiba, so Naruto made his way over to him.

"Hey Kiba," Naruto said sliding into the seat next to him.

"Hey Naruto," Kiba yawned.

"Tired?" Naruto asked half laughing.

"Mmm just a little, stayed up to late last night. Didn't get enough sleeeep," he yawned again.

"Wow Kiba what were you doing?" Naruto asked slyly, "More like who were you doing?"

"What?" Kiba practically yelled making people stare, "I did no such thing!" he added in a quieter voice, "I was playing video games."

Naruto laughed, "Calm down Kiba I was only joking. So how was your summer?"

"Fine completely normal you know, nothing special, lots of video games though. How bout you?"

"Pretty much the same Sakura was on vacation the whole time so I never saw her. It was mainly just relaxing and playing video games."

"And drawing? Of course Naruto?" Kiba asked only half joking.

"Of course Kiba."

" You bring any of your new pictures to school?"

"No."

"Too bad, but oh well. So what your schedule look like?"

Naruto pulled out his schedule and they compared.

"Looks like we only have Algebra together, sucks!"

"Yeah," Naruto agreed. He hated not having Gym with a friend because it gave him no reason to slack off, considering how athletic he was. But he'd find out later today if he had gym with any of his friends, it didn't matter who, except Bushy Brows who tried way to hard.

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They finally reached school, so Kiba and Naruto made their way to the lunch room to meet up with their friends from last year.

In the cafeteria everyone was huddled around the same table they claimed last year in 9th grade. Naruto felt proud to say he had a lot of close friends, good friends at that. They didn't use him and were very loyal even if he wasn't that close to all of them. They would never laugh or hurt someone when they were being totally honest and serious. Like last year when half way through the year Kiba announced he was gay. No one laughed they completely supported him and even asked if there was someone special, there wasn't.

"Hey guys," Naruto said cheerily to the table at large. Nine faces looked back at him and a general "Hi Naruto, Hi Kiba" was returned. "So where are Sakura and Ino?" Naruto asked noticing who wasn't there. Who was there were Rock Lee, Gaara, Hinata, Shikamaru, Neji, Temari, Chouji, Tenten and Shino.

"No idea," Tenten answered. She was sitting next to Neji, her boyfriend. Actually almost everyone on the group was a couple.

The couples were Naruto and Sakura, Gaara and Hinata, Shikamaru and Temari, Neji and Tenten, and Chouji and Ino.

"Ino went to the bathroom," the ever observant boyfriend Chouji announced.

"Ok, and Sakura?" Naruto asked again.

"D-don't know probably n-not arrived at school yet." Hinata said. Her stuttering has improved quite a lot, probably from the relationship no one saw coming. Gaara asked her last year and she said yes. It had the great effect of making Gaara a little nicer and Hinata a little tougher.

"Oh ok," Naruto said a little put-out.

"Aww does Naruto miss his girlfriend?" Kiba teased.

"And what if I do?" Naruto asked a little defensively. "Nothing." Kiba laughed.

They argued until the bell rang and that snapped them out of there arguing. Saying goodbye to the others they headed to Algebra.

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Naruto's first two bells went by in a blur. In Algebra Kiba slept while Kurenai-sensei explained the rules and behavior she expected them to follow. Naruto noticed the second thing on the list was sleep during class.

In Chemistry Naruto did his everything he could to avoid, the creepy teacher, Orochimaru-sensei's gaze. All summer Naruto had been hoping not to get Orochimaru for his chemistry teacher. Things didn't exactly work out, not only did he get Orochimaru-sensei none of his friends did. Now he had to deal with the child molester on his own.

Page Break I choose you *pokemon ball*

Gym class was more exciting than his other classes for a few reasons, one it was gym class. Another was there was a new kid in class. Naruto could tell he was new because he had never seen him before and it was a small school, but what made Naruto notice the new kid was the weird duck butt shape of his hair.

"Naruto!" Naruto heard someone yell and he looked around for the voice he recognized. Sakura popped out of seemingly no where and hugged him.

"Hi Sakura!" Naruto said enthusiastically, "How are you?"

"I'm good! So good! I want to tell you all about my summer! We went to New Zealand! Can you believe it? It was so beautiful! I wish you could have been there. I missed you sooooooo much! But don't worry I took pictures just for you! Now you can feel like you were there as well! Maybe some day we can go together! Wouldn't that be so awesome? Just you, me, and the beach, so romantic! Anyway how was your summer?" Sakura said all this very fast and without taking a single breath but Naruto didn't mind. He liked having a girlfriend as energetic as himself.

"It was good. I didn't do to much. I played video games with Kiba. Oh and this one night Kiba and I snuck out and broke into the Okimora cemetery. It was super spooky we stayed there all night and told ghost stories. I almost made him pee his pants! HaHa!" Naruto said slower than Sakura and with breaths but just as enthusiastically.

"Well that sounds fun!" she said half laughing though Naruto couldn't tell it was fake. She was about to say more when Gai-sensei started talking.

He told everyone about the gym policy and how much the uniforms cost. Then he took role and realizing the duck butt was a new student had him go to the front of the 'class' and introduce himself.

"Hi," said the boy in a bored yet very smooth and deep voice, "I'm Uchiha Sasuke I just moved here from Tokyo."

There were many ooo's from the bleachers many kids were born in the small town of Konoha and had never been to a big city like Tokyo so the new kid held quite a fascination. Though it seemed more with the girls who Naruto heard chattering behind him at how 'hot' the new kid was.

Naruto was watching the duck butt. Then all of a sudden he turned around and smirked at Naruto, who quickly glared back. Naruto didn't think he was gonna like this Uchiha.

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After gym was lunch which was always fun. Naruto sat with his friends at their designated table. The whole group talked about insignificant stuff except Gaara who only spoke when spoken to. And whenever anyone would kiss the rest of the group would cover their faces and make fake ew noises.

Sakura hadn't kissed Naruto all through lunch so he thought something was wrong. He had made sure to compliment her lots and let her ramble about her trip to New Zealand. But no matter how many times she said she missed him it didn't seem that way.

"Hey Sakura wait up," said Naruto after lunch.

"What is it Naruto?" she asked stopping halfway out the door.

"I just wanted to talk. One on one you know."

"Oh ok." she said smiling, her smile was again fake, not that Naruto noticed.

Once they got into the supposedly deserted hallway Naruto turned to Sakura.

"So, Sakura I was uh, just wondering why you didn't kiss me at all during lunch. You do remember we're dating right?"

"Oh Naruto silly," she giggled, "Of course I know we're dating. I just don't like PDA ok? Especially in front of our friends who 'ew' every time someone kisses."

"Oh ok. That makes sense."

"See you had nothing to worry about," She said as she stepped in closer. Then she slowly gave him a soft kiss on the lips. "Bye Naruto. See you after school."

"yeah see ya." Naruto responded a little tipsy. He watched her walk away. Little did either of them know Sasuke had seen the whole conversation and had his own views on their relationship.

"She's using you, ya know," said Sasuke walking up to Naruto.

"What?" Naruto said, en noticing the raven he added, "How would you know Uchiha-kun?"

"Well isn't it obvious. Only a dobe wouldn't notice such an obvious parasite."

"Don't call me a dobe and don't call Sakura a parasite!" yelled Naruto 'Gawd this guy got under his skin.'

"It's just the cold hard truth. I would break up with her if I were you, dobe."

"I told you not to call me that! And what would you know anyway, you you Teme!"

"Don't say I didn't warn you dobe," said Sasuke as he started to walk down the hall.

"Teme!" Naruto whispered once Sasuke was out of his site. Then he headed to class.

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The rest of the day Naruto realized that the only afternoon class he didn't have with the Teme was 6th bell. They shared Japanese with Kakashi-sensei and Japanese History with Asumi-sensei. Naruto got a break in study hall but there he was gain in art class with Jiraiya-sensei.

As Naruto was walking to his locker he noticed the raven walking behind him. Again.

"Oh My Gawd! Would you stop following me!" Naruto turned round to yell at Sasuke.

"I'm not following you, I'm going to my locker. You do remember that are lockers are right next to each other." Sasuke responded calmly.

"Fine." Naruto huffed turning back around.

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"Ok now your definitely following me," Naruto yelled again as he headed to the bus, Sasuke was again behind him.

"I'm not following you. I'm going to my bus."

"Oh yeah? What's your bus number?"

"13."

"But that's my bus and you weren't on it this morning."

"That's because my brother drove me this morning."

"I don't believe you."

"Well believe it." (haha believe it!)

"Humph! I don't know how but you did this on purpose."

"Yeah sure I did, now walk dobe."

"Teme!"

Just as Naruto tried to turn back around he tripped and landed on Sasuke. Before either of them could stop it their lips met. And for only a few seconds the world around them turned gray and they were the only ones still colored in. Then Naruto stepped back took two seconds to look at Sasuke, then he ran.