Flower in a hive of Bees
Disclaimer: I do not own naruto. I only own Hikomi.
Another lovely AU fic! My second one! And to those of you who read the first one. "Of Shadows and Blood" I'm sad to say it won't be updated for a while due to my lack of will to write it. Curse you writers block. Well anyways here the story!
Chapter 1: Whew!
Darius Westler boarding school for boys was a top marks school. It was located in a small valley at the extreme west of the Smokey Mountains. It consisted of three main, large red brick buildings. The center building was the largest and contained the many dorms. The slightly smaller building to the right was the academic center where all of the domestic courses such as English, Science and math were held. The third building with the small stadium behind it was the arts and sports building. All classes such as art, acting and gym were done there.
Yes Darius Westler was a fine school but it had many rules. One such rule was that you can not leave the grounds with out permission from the school and parent/guardian. The rest of the rules were the same as any other school. You know hair, warnings, no guns, ect, ect. But there was one other rule that you won't find at any other school. The last rule was never thought of much. In fact the students often joked about it existing or not. But it did exist and was a very serious rule. The rule states that no girl shall ever attend the school, no matter their reason. If a girl was caught attending the school then she will suffer extreme consequences. It was said that this rule was broken once a long time ago and the girl was punished by death. But then again… that could just be another myth. No more than a story made up by a board teen.
"Let's see. Suit case… check… shirts… check… uniform… check… uhh what else…." A slender boy with short brown hair was standing in his small room in tiny bungalow in a close nit-community of a small town in the Smokey Mountains. He was looking closely at a list of clothes. He had just moved here, into this tiny house. He was renting this room from the owner, an elderly lady whose husband had died and children had longed moved out. With her children busy with their careers and not quite having the money for a retirement home she decided to rent out one of the rooms for anyone who needed it and was willing to help look out for her.
He, Minoru Hikomi, was glad to do the job. Then again he couldn't afford not too. He was going to be the "new guy" at Darius Westler boarding school for boys. Just minus the boarding school part. The school had let him live off grounds due to his financial status. It cost a lot of money to stay in the dorm.
"Looks like everything is here!" he happily exclaimed, giving the list one last check . "Oh snap the time! I'm going to be late." The digital colc kon the bed side talbe blink 5:30 in digital red lettering.
Hikomi slapped himself mentally for not checking the time and for procrastinating the unpacking of his bag. He arrived that Sunday night. Now it was early Monday morning, which is also the first day of school. Quickly he threw on the schools uniform. A white long sleeve dress shirt with a burgundy over coat and navy blue trousers.
"I'm going now Mrs. Gema!" he yelled running out the door.
"See you later dear!" The sweet old lady called back, waving him goodbye from the porch.
"Whew! Made it!" He did a little victory dance as he hopped of the bus that passed by the front gate of the school. Doing a mad dash across the green, lush lawn he made a bee line to the large red building on the far right. He burst through the doors panting. The clock on the wall told him that he had three minuets to get to class. He was so glad that he took the time to study the school map before he went to bed the night before. With little difficulty he found his first period class with thirty seconds to spare.
Most of the seats were taken. He strained his eyes to find an empty one. But as his luck would have it he didn't need to. Someone bumped into him from behind pushing him to the floor.
"Oh my gosh! Tobi is sooooo sorry! Please forgive Tobi!"
Tobi, the one who bumped into him, in less a millisecond was in front of him helping him up.
"Thanks" Hikomi muttered shyly. He was able to get a good look at the boy now. In utter bewilderment he stared at the orange basketball mask Tobi wore. There was one eye hole were his right eye was.
"Hey! You're new right?" Hikomi nodded. The other guys in the room were either snickering and pointing at him or giving him weird looks. He noticed one group in particular that watched him intently. "You can sit with me!" Tobi was obvious the sinkers and stares. Maybe he was used to it?
Without another word Tobi grabbed Hikomi by the arm and dragged him right tward the group he noticed earlier.
"Tobi made a new friend!" The strange masked boy said cheerfully the others. "Friends meet!... What's your name by the way?" Before Hikomi could respond a blonde guy with long blonde hair partially tied up into an odd ponytail at the top of his head spoke first.
"Honestly Tobi, learn people's names before you start dragging them around, un." He spoke with an accent Hikomi had never heard before.
Tobi laughed merrily and rubbed the back of his head. "Tobi is sorry sempai! But Tobi just got all excited about meeting a new friend!"
"You get excited about everything Tobi." Hikomi couldn't help but stare at the next guy who spoke. He was tall and muscular with spiky blue hair that defied gravity but what struck him as odd was the teen's skin. It was a pasty white that had a blue tint to it. The teen also had tattoos of gills on his cheeks.
"Tobi is sorry new guy-kun!"
"Don't be!" Hikomi quickly said. "It's my faulty really! I shouldn't have been standing in the door way like that…" He looked away shyly.
"So what's your name?" Tobi cocked his head to the side in a cute manner. The two teens rolled their eyes at this. Tobi was always acting cute and cuddly.
"Minoru Hikomi." The "new kid" gave a little bow.
"Well pleased to meet you Hikomi-kun!"
"Pleased to meet you too Tobi-san."
"Please call me Tobi-kun!" Tobi jumped up and down in his seat. He was about to go into total rant mode when the teacher, a middle aged man with a brown comb over walked in.
"Take your seats!" He gruffed in a low voice. The few boys that were standing or sitting on the desks instantly grabbed their seats and sat down. They had heard rumors that this teacher dished out the worst and longest detentions.
All in all Hikomi ended up sitting between the blonde, who introduced himself as Deidara, and the blue haired man who also introduced himself. His name was Hoshigaki Kisame. Tobi sat in the seat in front of them.
"Welcome to Enriched English. Over the year we will be going over…"
As it turned out Hikomi had the next two classes-health and math-with Tobi, Deidara and Kisame.
"Come have lunch with us!" Tobi cheered as they left their third period class.
"Ok" Hikomi's eyes brightened at the thought of food. And to think that he was fretting the week before about not finding any friends or having no one to eat lunch with. Silly him.
Lunch was held in the dorm building in a militia purpose room. There were three lines at the far left and right sides of the room running leading to the wall with metal grates that lifted and closed. The lunch worked behind the grates would take orders and passes it through. Then the person would walk down along the wall to pay. Rows and rows of tables filled the wide space between lines.
They stood in the shortest line, not waiting long until they were up to be served.
"You're not getting anything, un?" Deidara commented when Hikomi walked thorough with them not even glancing at the food.
"It's ok, I packed my lunch." He patted the small brown paper bag in his hand.
"So that's what it was." Kisame laughed as they looked for a place to sit.
"Look! Over there!" Hikomi saw a group of five guys sitting at a table far away from the other students.
"Hey everybody!" Tobi yelled running towards the group his tray of food coming dangerously close to spilling. "Tobi made a new friend today! His name is Hikomi-kun!"
Hikomi gulped as the group all turned their eyes on to him. One of them, a tall-ish guy with bright orange hair and many piercings had creepy eyes that could make you wanna pee your pants.
"Is he that new kid everybody's been talking about? The one that's such a friggen Einstein that they got in by taking that stupid entrance test?" The one who spoke was a pale skinned guy with lavender eye and white slicked back hair. Hikomi also noticed that he didn't wear the burgundy coat and had his white dress shirt wide open, showing of his muscled chest.
"Y-yeah." Hikomi whispered just loudly enough for the group to hear.
"Looks like you got some competition Itachi." Kisame said to a slightly tanned teen with long black hair tied into a ponytail at the base of his neck. He just glanced at Hikomi blankly before taking a bit of his lunch.
"Competition?" Hikomi asked as he sat down next to a red headed boy, who didn't seem to notice his presence, and Tobi. Deidara sat down on the other side of the red head and next to another spiky blacked haired guy who has also yet to speak. He was counting a wad of cash.
"Itachi is known as the school's prodigy." The creepy orange hair man explained. Beside his creepy but still very handsome looks he seemed like a nice guy.
"Hey quit staring!" he suddenly barked at poor Hikomi. Or not.
"Danna you should say hi, un." Deidara nudged the red head lightly in the stomach.
"Hi." He said dryly, not bothering to make eye contact with Hikomi.
"Don't be so rude danna!" Deidara scolded the red head. "At lest look at the guy and give your name."
The red head sighed and turned to face Hikomi.
"Sasori and I'm guessing you'll go insane in about 5 days from hanging out with Tobi."
"Umm…" Hikomi had no idea how to respond to that. Go insane? He liked his sanity thank you very much!
"Much better, un. Hikomi this guy right here." He jerked his thumb at the guy sitting next to him counting money. "Is Kakuzu and this guy right here." He pointed that the white haired man. "Is Hidan and that's leader but you probably could get away with calling him Pein."
"Okay…" Hikomi nodded his head already memorizing their faces and names. Tobi was shivering across the table from him. He masked boy exploded with hyperness.
"Tobi is so happy that Hikomi-kun and Tobi's friends are good buddies now!" He stared expectantly at Hikomi, hoping for a response.
"yeah Tobi-kun." Hikomi replied smiling. "I'm happy too!"
As it would turn out Hidan, Leader and Kakuzu were all in Hikomi's fourth period class. German 2. They all took a foreign language but different ones. Itachi took Chinese, Kisame and Tobi took French and Deidara and Sasori took Spanish.
Fourth period, like all the others classes was just the teacher talking about the class and when they would be doing. Not that Hikomi paid attention. He was too preoccupied with the heated money/religion argument Hidan and Kakuzu were having. A small smirk played on the corner of Pein's lips as they argued.
After German was science which he shared with Hidan. Sixth period was social studies with Itachi.
Seventh period was extremely odd for Hikomi. Apparently it was the only class that everyone had together. All nine of them sat in the corner of the room chatting. The teacher had an emergency to tend to and couldn't make it to class so a substitute stood in. They chatted carefree about what sports they would be doing this year. They decided that they would be doing Foot Ball and swimming the most. None noticed how pale Hikomi's face got when swimming was mentioned.
Finally last period of the day! Hikomi mentally cheered. His a slight spring in his step he walked into the room that taught is favorite subject, Art.
"Over here Hikomi!" Tobi waved joyfully from a high table at the front of the room. Deidara was slouched over the table next to the hyper boy.
"Hello Tobi-kun! Deidara." Hikomi let his back pack slid of his back and on the ground with a soft thunk.
The teacher came in moments later and talked about what they will be doing later. There art teacher a young bright eyed male with sun dried blond hair told them that they had the rest of the period to chat.
"Tobi is soooo excited! Tobi can't wait to do all that fun stuff!"
"me too" Hikomi smiled. "But I can't say I'm excited about the clay project Mr. Berronii talked about.
"Why not, un?" Deidara asked flabbergasted. "Clay's the best, yeah!"
"It's all right." Hikomi said thoughtfully. "I mean clay really isn't my favorite medium. It's fun to play around with but I really don't like making stuff with it like pots or figurines."
"That's it, un1" Deidara grinned. "I'm gong to make you enjoy using clay by the end of the year Hikomi!"
"Don't count on it." Hikomi laughed shakily.
Hikomi stared blankly out the city bus window. He replied Everyone's reaction to learning that he didn't live in the dorm.
"How come?" Tobi had asked curious as ever.
"It's because I'm poor. I didn't buy my way into the school. I had to work hard to get in."
And this was true. 99.9 percent of the guys at Darius Westly were stinken' rich. Even his new friends. Kakuzu's dad was the owner of a large bank chain that was international. Deidara's mom was a famous fashion designer. Kisame's parents were professional athletes. Sasori and Itachi's parents got their money from insurance. Sasori's uncle had 3 million dollars in insurance on him and Itachi's father's family was heavily invested on as well. All the money went to Itachi's dad when they were assassinated by a terrorist bomber at their family reunion that was in southern Iraq. It was unknown how Tobi's family got their money. When ever anyone asked or tried to bring it up Tobi would cleverly distract them from the topic or make some excuses to get away.
Hikomi got off at her stop and walked peacefully thorough his neighborhood. The ever so friendly neighbors waved at him. He waved back and smiled shyly. He wasn't used to being around such nice people.
"I'm home" He called as he took off his shoes by the front door.
"Welcome home dear." Mrs. Gema called back from the living room. She was watching the late afternoon soap.
"You could stay after school if you want to dear." The sweet old lady said as the commercials turned on. Hikomi shock his head.
"Maybe sometime but not today. I got to finish unpacking and g shopping for supplies.
"Do you need some money?"
"Oh heavens no1" he exclaimed quickly. "I could never take money from you! Besides I have plenty of the money in the bank!" This of course was a big fat lie. He only had a grand total of 100 dollars to his name. Every last bit of it in his pocket.
"If you put it like that…" Mrs. Gema tailed off mid sentence and stared at the screen. Her soap was back on. Hikomi sighed with relief and rushed to his room.
"Safe!" he whispered under his breath. "I can't believe I wasn't discovered!" Hikomi pulled off his shirt, tossing it lazily on the floor. He undid the tight clasp of the bra around his chest. "For the first time in my life I have never been more glad to be flat chest ed. But I was so sure. So sure that they would figure out that I was a girl."
Yay! First chapter is done! Whoooo! (dose a little dance) anyways If you have any questions please take a look at the stuff I wrote below. It has everybody's classes and info about the school I was too lazy to write into the story. Oh and no reviews means no new next chapter!
1st Period
Hikomi, Deidara and Tobi- English
Sasori, Hidan and Kakuzu- Math
Itachi, Kisame and Pein- Sociology
2nd period
Hikomi, Deidara and Tobi- Health
Sasori- English
Hidan and Pein- Religion
Kakuzu- Economics
Kisame and Itachi- Science
3rd period
Hikomi, Deidara and Tobi- Math
Sasori and Pein- Science
Itachi and Kisame- English
Kakuzu and Hidan- Social Studies
4th period
Hikomi, Pein, Hidan and Kakuzu- German 2
Itachi- Chinese
Kisame and Tobi- French 1
Deidara and Sasori- Spanish 2
5th period
Hikomi and Hidan- Science
Kakuzu, Deidara and Tobi- Different Science
Sasori and Pein- Social studies
Itachi and Kisame- Math
6th period
Hikomi, Itachi - Social Studies
Deidara, Tobi and Kisame- another Social studies
Pein, Kakuzu and Hidan- English
7th period
Hikomi, Deidara, Sasori, Tobi, Kisame, Itachi, Kakuzu, Hidan and Pein- Outdoor/Indoor sports
8th period
Hikomi, Tobi and Deidara- Art
Hidan- Metal shop
Kisame and Itachi- Acting
Pein- English
Kakuzu and Sasori- Analogy (study of the human body, however you spell it XD)
Whew this took me a while! It took a while to figure out everybody's classes! It also didn't help that I had English twice in Kisame and Itachi's schedule.
Facts about Darius Westler that I'm too lazy to mention in the story.
School starts promptly at 6 am. Ends at 2 pm.
Each class is 50 minuets long.
Five minuets to get to each class with two exceptions. Student's have 10 minuets to get from 2nd period to 3rd and 10 minuets again from 5th to 7th. This is because all of the Arts and sports classes are in the third building which is two buildings down from the academics building. It takes five minuets to get from the far right building to the far left.
The hair code is not really enforced. Pein's orange hair and Kisame's' blue hair an example of that.
Everyone has to be in the dorm building by 10 pm. Quiet time after 11 and all lights have to be out by midnight.
The library and two multi purpose rooms/gyms are in the dorm building.
Councilor's office is in the academic building
The nurse's office is in the arts and sports building.
The headmaster's office is in a remolded trading outpost far behind the dorm building. There are two court yards/ gardens. One to the right of the academics building and the other in-between the dorm building and the arts and sports building.