Hinata Hyuuga sat in the back of her father's car, shivering. She was wearing a puffy, cream colored jacket, over her casual clothes, its hood lined with fuzz. She hadn't wanted to wear such a showy coat, but her father and younger sister, who had picked out the jacket themselves, had insisted on it, especially since it was a freezing day in Konoha. Her cousin Neji, who was sitting next to her in the car, had only agreed with the jacket, even though he knew Hinata would not like it, for fear that she might catch a cold.

She sighed, and leaned back against the leather seat. She gazed out the window at the busy streets, already lined with people hurrying to work early this chilly morning. She caught some of them glancing up at the Hyuuga's fashionable, shiny black car as it passed, and smiled for they knew the Hyuuga's luxury vehicles well enough by now.

"Hurry up you two, or I'll be late to school," Hinata's sister Hanabi said as the two fifteen-year-olds collected their backpacks and climbed out the door. "See you later, guys."

"Have a nice day," said Hinata's father right before they closed the door. The two cousins smiled, and then left.

Hinata and Neji walked through the frozen school grounds silently, listening to the conversations of those gathered around the campus in little huddles, with people talking about this and that. Hinata rubbed her hands together in a desperate attempt to keep her hands warm.

"You didn't bring your gloves, did you?" asked Neji.

"N-no," Hinata shivered. Neji dug into his black hoodie's pocket and retrieved a pair of black gloves and handed them to her. "B-but they're yours, nii-san," Hinata protested.

"I won't be needing them."

"But—" Neji shoved the gloves into her hands, just as they heard a pair of footsteps behind them. They turned to see Sakura Haruno running up to them.

"Hi Hinata! Hey there, Neji!" she gasped for breath.

"Good morning, Sakura-chan," said Hinata, happy to see her friend. Neji nodded his head towards Sakura in greeting.

"Man, is it cold! I shouldn't have listened to that stupid Ino-pig," complained Sakura. "She tells me it's going to be warm today, and I'm wearing a tank top under this jacket!" She pointed to herself. "Ah, and here comes the stupid brigade now." They saw Ino Yamanaka, wearing a similar jacket like Hinata's, except plaid, dark jeans and white flats, chitchatting with Shikamaru Nara and Naruto Uzumaki as they walked towards them.

"Good morning, everyone!" Naruto cried cheerfully when they reached them. He was wearing a bright orange zip-up jacket with jeans and black shoes.

"G-good morning, N-Naruto-kun!" Hinata managed to stutter, a pink tint now covering her pale face.

"Sheesh, do you have to be so loud in the morning?" asked an irritated Shikamaru, poking his ear as though Naruto's outburst had somehow deafened him.

"I know, really," said a voice from somewhere behind Sakura. They turned again, and there stood Sasuke Uchiha, wearing a grey sports jacket, black pants, and black shoes, along with Tenten, who was wearing a red jacket, red scarf, jeans and white shoes at his side. "I could hear the idiot right when I got out of the car."

Naruto scowled at the Uchiha, who was, nevertheless, his best friend.

"Good morning, guys," said Tenten, just as the bell rang. "So…we getting to class or what?"

Hinata sat in between Sakura and Ino in first period math. Sakura and Ino were quietly arguing with each other about the fact that Ino had made a mistake about the weather, with Hinata listening and agreeing with both sides, but all three girls, nevertheless, taking notes on what they were learning. Meanwhile, in the classroom next door, Naruto was doodling on Shikamaru's math paper, while Shikamaru, not noticing Naruto's vandalism, dozed off. And, in the classroom across the hall, Tenten, Neji and Sasuke were seated together, with Neji making slight jokes at the messy bun Tenten had tied her hair into, and Sasuke attempting to ignore them completely as he worked diligently on a quadratic problem.

Second period came along quickly, with Neji, Tenten and Sakura in one class and Sasuke, Ino and Shikamaru in another.

Second period was pure torture to both Hinata and Naruto.

They were best friends, just as they were to the rest of the group, so of course they always naturally sat next to each other in history class. But what Naruto didn't know was that poor Hinata became faint whenever he'd scoot next to her in order to copy her notes or whenever he turned to face her in class discussion. And, what Hinata didn't know was that poor Naruto couldn't help but keep his gaze upon her so much that just the previous day their teacher had caught Naruto off guard and said, "Mr. Uzumaki, I know Miss Hyuuga must be fascinating to observe, but let me assure you that the French Revolution was indeed just as fascinating!" Poor Naruto's eyes had widened at the comment, and he quickly faced the board as the other kids in class began to jeer and giggle. Usually, whenever he found himself watching her intently and she turned his way, he'd pretend he had been playing with his pencil. Of course, innocent Hinata noticed none of his suspicious actions. And so, history for them droned on in happiness and yet, nervousness.

In third period science, Hinata, Sakura and Sasuke were together, with the others all in another class. They had an arranged seating chart, with Hinata in the first row, and right behind her Sasuke. Behind Sasuke and a few seats down the row sat Sakura. This seating chart annoyed Sakura. She wanted to be closer to her friends…especially Sasuke. She wished she had Hinata's seat, but they had a strict teacher and there was no use in hoping to convince him to move her somewhere in the front row, preferably beside Hinata. Perhaps then there was a chance of capturing Sasuke's attention…?

Sakura contemplated her thoughts of how she could somehow grab Sasuke's attention while she scribbled down notes. Hmm…it would be obvious that I'm trying to show off if I take off my jacket in this weather…besides, it's cold…She bit her lip. Surely there were some way to appeal to him? She sighed and looked over to the boy himself. There he was, in his usual posture, swinging the pencil in his right hand in boredom, his spiky black hair firmly in place, and his gaze on…Hinata? Sakura frowned. Yes…he was watching Hinata, not the teacher. And Hinata was watching the teacher and obviously trying to digest all that he was saying into her mind.

This wasn't the first time Sakura had seen Sasuke watching Hinata. She couldn't help but feel a bit uncomfortable and envious whenever she caught Sasuke looking at Hinata—which, these days, seemed to be all the time. She sighed once more, and this time was loud enough to cause the guy on her right to curiously turn his head. She realized this and sent him a death glare to keep him from staring at her. The boy immediately turned away again, and a sweat drop appeared on his face.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid…thought Sakura. But still…Hinata is a really nice girl and a great friend…and she's pretty, too…Why wouldn't someone like Sasuke fall for her? Ah well. She honestly didn't know why she herself seemed to want to impress Sasuke so badly. After all, they were only friends, weren't they? Good friends, yes, but nothing more. But then why did she always want to find him and make sure he actually saw her? Why did she start putting more make-up on and wore skirts like Ino more often? Could a single person actually cause this in a person? Did she really like Sasuke? Or was it his looks that seemed to attract his fans? Was she becoming a fan girl, too? She shuddered. She would never stoop that low. She found being a fan girl rather sad, with all the stalking and picture taking and whatnot.

Sakura looked back up to Sasuke and Hinata. His attention was now to the teacher, who was showing them how to correctly do their newest experiment. Again she felt jealousy hit her when she remembered that Sasuke got to be in Hinata's group, for that was the way the lab groups worked. For what seemed like the hundredth time, she sighed, made the guy look over at her again, sent him the death glare once more, and again caused him to sweat drop. Then she and her group began their lab activity. Hinata…you're rich, live in luxury, have an awesome and quite a good looking cousin, and people seem to be falling for you all over the place. She smiled to herself as she set up test tubes when she thought of the actions Naruto did when near Hinata and the reactions which she made in return. It was rather amusing to watch as these two nervously looked at each other and smiled and ate lunch uncertainly. She found it apparent that Naruto had feelings for Hinata since he was too much of an idiot to be able to hide it well, and just as obvious for Hinata. But, she never told a soul, for fear that her theory was not correct at all and that perhaps Hinata would rather keep that issue private.

After third period was finally over, the three met up with the rest of their friends and together proceeded to core class, for they had the same teacher. They sat in their usual spots altogether in a group, and the boys' fan girls slipped into seats where they would get a perfect view of Shikamaru, Neji, Naruto, and Sasuke.

"Man, I wish I had at least half the fans you have, Shikamaru," said Ino, raising an eyebrow at a girl who seemed to be creating a flag which so far read "Shik."

Shikamaru groaned. "How troublesome," he mumbled, as he laid his head on the desk lazily.

Ino rolled her eyes. "So…" she turned to the others, "how was class?"

"Not bad," lied Sakura.

"Yeah, it was fine," said Tenten, leaning back in her chair. "Don't you think so, Neji?"

"Hn."

"Whatever."

"It was nice," said Hinata, smiling (at this moment, Sakura, Tenten and Ino caught Naruto give a slight blush, most likely because of Hinata's smile; they all smirked to themselves). "Sasuke-kun fixed our experiment without us having to tell Morino-sensei, and so we didn't get in trouble." She smiled at him.

"Yay, Sasuke," said Naruto glumly, looking to where Sasuke was reading a book that he was supposed to have read.

"Oh, so that's what the commotion was," said Sakura.

"So, how was your day?" Ino asked Sasuke, eyeing him.

"Hn."

"Is that all guys can say? Don't they have a sense of vocabulary whatsoever?" asked Ino, irritated.

"Hn."

"Good grief."

"HEY! I had a good first three classes!" cried Naruto loudly.

"Well, good for you," said Ino.

Sakura laughed. Naruto scowled at Ino.

"You dope, can't you ever keep quiet?" said Sasuke, looking up from his reading. "If your stupid head didn't get this already, I'm reading."

"I'M NO DOPE!" yelled Naruto.

Sasuke groaned. Shikamaru looked up. "Naruto, shut up."

"Why don't you?"

"Ughhh." Shikamaru lay back down.

"What book is that anyway?" asked Naruto, peering at the cover.

"Gee, I dunno, maybe the one our English teacher gave us all," said Sasuke sarcastically.

"Oh…which one is that?" asked Naruto confusedly.

Sakura and Ino slapped their heads. Sasuke sighed and went back to reading. Shikamaru began to snore. Neji shook his head. And Hinata giggled. Meanwhile, Naruto dug through his extremely messy backpack, throwing out ancient papers and trash out onto the table.

"Ew, Naruto!" said Sakura, watching as the heap of trash piled up.

"Do you ever clean your backpack?" asked a wide-eyed Tenten.

Ino looked on in amazement. "Wow…you know, he might have broken the world record."

Tenten and Sakura fell over their chairs anime style and a sweat drop appeared on Neji's face. "There's a flipping world record for the amount of TRASH in someone's backpack?" shrieked Tenten.

"Well, yeah," said Ino matter-of-factly, as though everyone in the world should have known.

"AHA!" shouted Naruto suddenly, causing the group to jump back in their seats. "I FOUND IT!" He grinned goofily. "Wait…I don't think I started—CRAP! CRAPPITY CRAPPITY CRAAAAPPP!" He yelled, and then flipped to the first page.

Everyone stared at him. The bell had rung about ten minutes ago, and just then Kakashi stepped through the door. "YOU'RE LATE!" the students cried.

"Naruto, you really should stop screaming," he said, ignoring his pupils. "But, then again, I'll give you an A for now, since you reminded me that I have a class to run."

"WHAAAT?" the class cried. "You're giving it to the idiot?!" (The Naruto fan girls cheered happily.)

"Well, yes," Kakashi said simply. "If he hadn't yelled, I wouldn't have gotten my head out of this book."

"Wait…" said Sakura slowly. "Kakashi-sensei, where exactly were you all this time?"

"Me? Standing outside the door of course. I was reading; it got really interesting. I would recommend that you all read it, but I won't say anything until you're all eighteen."

The class was merely silent. Until Hinata sneezed.

"Bless you," said Hinata's friends.

"Thank you."

"Bless you, Hinata-chan," said Naruto politely.

"Th-thank you, Naruto-kun." Hinata blushed, but to Naruto, her nose was only pink because she had sneezed.

Sakura took out her binder in order to finish some homework. As she flipped to her math section, she couldn't help but steal a glance at Sasuke.

He was watching Hinata again.

So, what did you think? I hope it was all right for my first fanfic. Please review!

-Tawny