This is my first ever fanfic so please tell me what you think :D

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto


Chapter 1

This is my first day of yet another new high school. Everybody acts like it's so important but to me it's like any other day. I gave my alarm clock a death glare. I know it won't change anything, I just did it because it hadn't gone off yet.
"I just had to wake one bloody minute early." I cursed my alarm clock with a cold stare, then turned it off and dragged my tired body out of bed. I had a shower and got dressed and skipped down the stairs. Kurama ran round the corner with his food bowl in his mouth. Kurama is my pet. He's a fox; he acts like one cause he is one. I found him in a forest when I was younger. I nursed him and we became friends, now he's my pet. I love him but my neighbours hate him. They call him 'Kyuubi' because he is pretty evil and sly, just like the nine-tailed fox demon from the story tale.
"You're eager today." I took the food bowl from his mouth and walked into the kitchen. I poured the dog food into the bowl and placed it on the floor. Kurama just stared at me until I got a piece of chicken from the fridge and chucked it at him. He was satisfied. I ate my bowl of cereal, brushed my teeth, packed my bag, put my shoes on and watched some TV. Everything was under control, for me that is.
"SHIT! I OVERSLEPT!" Yume screamed as she realised it was 7:45am. I looked at the direction of the scream along with Kurama. Ten minutes later Yume ran down the stairs.
"Jeez Nagare-chan! You should have woke me up!" She complained as she buttered her toast.
"Sorry." I said with no sympathy. "I packed my bag so I don't waste time."
"With what?! You don't have any school books...yet..."
"Air." I smiled. "I've also packed our lunches. It's on the kicthen counter.""Shoes! Where are my shoes?!" She didn't to me because she was panicking too much. Kurama walked up to her with her shoes in his mouth.
"Thanks Kurama!" She patted his head and put her shoes on.
"Come on Nagare-chan! I don't wanna be late and neither do you!" She ran out the door. I picked up my bag and followed behind her and looked Kurama in the eye.
"Don't misbehave!" I wagged my index finger at him and smiled. I locked the door and followed Yume down the street.
"Calm down Emu-chan." I winked at her.

Yume has hazel eyes and is a brunette. Her hair goes a bit past her shoulders and has a side fringe to her right side. She's funny, intelligent and a bit of a tomboy and a daredevil, occasionally. Today she is wearing a green tank top and jeans. She loves wearing trainers, fashionable ones, unlike me. However we both have our ears pierced and Yume is wearing diamond studs.

I have dark brown eyes, so dark that you can't see my pupil. My hair looks black but in the sun light it's a dark brown, like my eyes. I tie my hair up in a ballerina bun, even though i don't do ballet anymore. My skin tone is mixed race so when i let my hair out some kids think I'm a younger version of Pocahontas; or sometimes when i have my hair in a french plait kids think I'm Princess Jasmine from Aladdin. Embarrassing, I know. I'm funny, smart...at certain subjects, sarcastic and I'm definitely a tomboy. I dress like a boy because of my past. Let's just say I grew up around a lot of boys so I got all the hand-me-downs. So basically, I'm wearing a navy hoodie with a raven at the bottom left. My hoodie is made for a woman because this is the Christmas present I got from Yume. I'm wearing jeans and trainers, normal trainers. I'm wearing odd earrings, one's an apple, the other's a pear, but I don't eat fruit. I'm not from Konoha, neither is Yume. She's from Iwa and I'm from Kumo. We've both travelled a long way. Yume has lived in Konoha longer than me though so she could get around this town with her eyes closed.

We finally arrived at school.
"Wow." I just stared at the crowd of students, swarming into the building.
"There are some fit boys here! Maybe you could get a boyfriend!" Yume thought aloud. My reaction: I sweat dropped.
"You're single as well you know." I reminded her. We followed the crowd into the building and we broke off when we got to principle Tsunade's office. Yume knocked on the door and a voice said 'come in'. Yume opened the door and walked into the room. I followed her in and closed the door behind me. I stood in front of Tsunade's desk she was doing paperwork which was literally surrounded by a wall of sake bottles.
"You must be Nagareboshi." She looked up at me. I nodded. She handed me a piece of paper, a PE uniform and some trainers. "There's your timetable and I believe you have PE today." She looked over to Yume if she was wrong. Yume nodded and Tsunade looked back at me.
"Welcome to Konoha High School." She smiled. I bowed and Yume and I were walking to our class, 1-A.


There only two seats left, and they weren't next to each other. Yume walked over to the seat next to a blonde boy with spiky hair. She plopped into her seat and was greeted by the the blonde.
"Hey Yume!" said the boy. He's like Kurama, full of energy and stamina.
"Hi Naruto." I think I was almost scared by his enthusiasm.
"I was wondering if I could copy some of your homework." He started pouting.
"As always, yes you can." They laughed. I however, took the seat at the back next to the window. I took my seat. It was next to a boy whose hair was in a pony tail. It sort of reminded me of a pineapple. He was sleeping.
"I don't know how he can sleep in such a noisy classroom." I thought. The bell rand and everyone took their seats. I nudged the sleep head to wake him up.
"Oi. Class is starting, if you didn't hear the bell." I tapped him. He looked up at me.
"Thanks. I'm Shikamaru. You must be new girl." He smiled.
"I'm Nagareboshi." I returned the smile.
"Your name means 'Shooting star'." He pointed out.
"This kid's smarter than he looks..." I noted in my head. suddenly, some woman just burst through the door. I had one of those mini heart attacks yet get from being shocked.
"Troublesome." I heard Shikamaru mumble under his breath.
"Yo! I've got some good news!" She had a huge grin on her face. I'm guessing she's a happy-go-lucky kind of person. She also must be our home room teacher, Anko-sensei. As some people cheered from the out burst, other people shrugged. And some people didn't even move a muscle, like me and Shikamaru. We are not amused.
"Let's get this over with"She continued and pointed to me. "We've got a new transfer student so be nice. Introduce yourself."
"My name's Nagareboshi." I said with non emotions. everyone was looking at me like I was some sort of killer. I blinked in confusion.
"Cool, mysterious, ME GUSTA!" Anko-sensei commented and gave me the thumbs up.

(A/N: Me gusta is spanish for 'me/I like.)

"Anyway..." she grabbed everyone's attention, again. "...I've got a project for you guys to do!" Everybody groaned.
"She's just happy because she doesn't have to do the damn thing."
"What a drag..." I heard Shikamaru moan.
"It's about helping the community. You'll be in partners and I've already picked them." The groans and moans became louder. Anko-sensei started transferring the names on a piece of paper to the board. Once everyone's names were up, three girls screamed and jumped out of their seats.
"NANI?! I'M NOT WITH SASUKE-KUN?!" They complained in unison.
"What are they, triplets?! And who they heck this Sasuke guy? Are those his fangirls?" Shikamaru looked up at me to she my confused and shocked face.
"Those girls are Ino, the blonde girl, Sakura, the pink-haired one and Karin, the red-haired on. They all love Sasuke, that guy." Shikamaru answered the unspoken question and pointed to a boy with sort spiky raven hair. I nodded and went back to my thoughts
"What do they see in him? I have to admit that Sasuke is kinda cute but I wouldn't scream at the top of my lungs because I'm not his partner. That reminds me, who is Sasuke's partner? I hope it's not me. Oh wait, it's Yume." I looked over at Yume who was blushing. "Why is she blushing? Wait a minute, Sasuke is the boy Yume keeps talking about! I remember now, she has a major crush on him. Aren't you lucky." I remembered that I also have a partner, Gaara. A red-haired boy with a tattoo on his left side of his forehead walked up to me.
"I'm Gaara, your partner."He said coldly. His eyes looked at me as if he wanted to stab me.
"Hi." I returned the coldness then decided to be nice. "I like your tattoo."
"Thanks." He turned to Shikamaru who had a triumphant expression on his face.
"Why is he so happy?" I thought.
"Don't you dare try anything on her or I will hunt you down, shred your body in a paper shredder and sell it as spaghetti. Do you understand?" he threatened Shikamaru. I couldn't help but laugh at what Gaara was going to do to Shikamaru, even though I don't have the slightest clue of who they're talking about.
"Ok I promise." Shikamaru's scared but was trying his hardest not to show he was. he then walked over to a sandy blonde girl with her hair tied in four bunches.
"Why did you threaten Shikamaru?" I giggled.
"Because Shikamaru has a c rush on Temari, my older sister." Gaara explained.
"He's an overprotective brother, I get it." A boy who was reading a book on puppets came up to Gaara.
"I see Shikamaru got lucky." The mystery boy stated.
"I've already told him the consequences so don't worry too much. Ok Kankuro?" Gaara reassured Kankuro.
"Ok. Fine." Kankuro walked back to his seat.
"Was that your brother?" I asked Gaara.
"Yeah. I'm the youngest and Temari's the oldest." He replied. I nodded. Once everyone had settled down Anko-sensei everyone what they would be doing. She said that some people would have to do their job during the weekend and some people would have to do it during the school day. Next to our names she wrote what we would be doing.

Karin, Suigetsu - Konoha Zoo
Ino, Chouji - Meals on wheels
Sakura, Sai - Konoha Art gallery
Hinata, Naruto - Ichiraku's
Tenten, Neji - Martial Art Tournament
Temari, Shikamaru - Konoha Nature reserve
Nagareboshi, Gaara - Konoha Elementary School
Yume, Sasuke - Konoha Zoo
Kiba, Lee - Dog walking
Shino, Kankuro - Konoha Zoo

Anko-sensei walked up to every pair and explained to them what they had to do. Gaara sighed.
"Great. We have to babysit a bunch of brats." he frowned.
"I take it you're not kid crazy."
"How could you tell?" Every word was full of sarcasm. Anko-sensei came up to us, the last pair.
"All you two have to do is go to Konoha Elementary every Tuesday and Thursday and some activities with the kids." She smiled. "But you still have to come here for registration first. That reminds me..." She walked to her desk, looked around the classroom and then ticked something, the register. Then she walked back to us. "Anyway, the kids are about 8 and 9 years old so be nice." She smirked and walked off. The bell rang and we all left for our first class, Literacy.


Our teacher was a guy called Hatake kakashi, who wasn't in the classroom. I took the same seat I had in the other room, except this time Shikamaru sat in front of me. In other words, someone else was sitting next to, meaning I have to talk. I don't like talking, only when I feel the need to. I looked to my right and a boy with brown hair and red marks on his cheeks was sitting next to me. Our eyes met and he smiled at me.
"Yo. I'm Kiba." he grinned. I smiled.
"Hi. Nice to meet you Kiba." The bell rang but no teacher appeared. It had been almost 30 minutes since the bell rang. A man with silver hair and a scarf covering his mouth walked in.
"Sorry I'm late, class. I was late because there was a cat stuck in a tree and I had to help."
"LIAR!" Some people shouted. We didn't do much. We just, read books in silence. Kakashi-sensei was reading a perverted book called 'Makeout Tactics'. I know it's perverted. I found a copy of the book in the library. It was in the wrong section so I read it to find out where it belonged. That was a big mistake. I snapped out of my flashback when I got a note from Kiba as he slid it across my desk.

What book do you think Kakashi-sensei is reading? - Kiba
A perverted one - Nagareboshi
What make you so sure? - Kiba
Wouldn't you like to know :p - Nagareboshi
Maybe I'll find out soon enough - Kiba
What's that supposed to mean? - Nagareboshi
Wouldn't you like to know ;) - Kiba

"Kiba? Why are you passing notes in my class?" Kakashi-sensei didn't take his eyes of his book. The whole class turned to look at us and stared.
"I was wondering what 'Velleity' means so I asked Kiba." I answered.
"Oh really? Well then Nagareboshi, what does 'Velleity mean?"
"A wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action." Everyone turned back around.
"Thank you." Kiba whispered to me.
"It's ok but you owe me." I winked. The bell rang and everyone made their way to next lesson, Science.


Our teacher is Kurenai-sensei. She talks a lot and gives out lots of lectures. She's actually a nice teacher, most of us that is. We have our lessons in the science labs ini case we do an experiment. Sadly, she gave us a seating plan. The desks are in twos and I obviously had to take the empty seat.
"Hi there. My name's Suigetsu and we're partners for science." He smiled at me.
"Yo." I looked at Suigetsu and noticed something around his neck.
"Is that a shark tooth necklace?" I pointed to the cord around his neck.
"Yeah why?" I pulled out a shark tooth necklace from underneath my t-shirt.
"Snap!" We sang in chorus and high-fived each other.
"Suigetsu! Nagareboshi! Do your work." Kurenai-sensei shouted at us.
"Sorry." Again, me and Suigetsu said in unison. We went back to our work smiling like idiots. The bell rang and when I walked out of the classroom someone tapped my shoulder. I turned around to face Shikamaru.
"Can I help you?" I asked.
"Don't tell Temari I have a crush on her. Got it?" I was going to tease him about it but then I saw something crawl over his cheeks, he was blushing, especially when he said Temari. I nodded and smiled. He walked off when we noticed Yume walking over to me with her friends, one of them was Temari.
"Hey Nagare-chan." Yume smiled.
"hey Emu-chan." I smirked.
"I want you to meet my friends." She moved out of the way and three girls stepped foward.
"My name's Tenten." Tenten grinned.
"My name's Hinata. It's a pleasure to meet you. Neji's my cousin, he's in our class. He always acts like I'm bad at everything. But he's always a jerk. Lot's of people encourage me though." My guess is that Hinata likes someone, and she keeps going because of the boy she likes, but I don't know who.
"Hinata? Do you like someone?" The others grinned while Hinata was as red as Tenten's t-shirt.
"I l-like N-N-Naruto-kun." She whispered in my ear. I smiled.
"I think you and Naruto will make a great couple." She smiled back at me.
"My name's T-""Temari." I finished her sentence for her.
"How did you know?"
"Gaara told me." We walked and talked until we got to the girls changing room. It was time for my faourite subject, PE.