Prologue

((You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.))

Tch.

I took long, powerful strides across the halls of KHS to get to my homeroom before the bell rang. Thankfully, this side of the school was bare of crowds as most here walked in groups of twos or threes, and so far no annoying girls giggling and squealing have come in my direction. I was least of all bothered by them as I had a lot on my plate.

I heard a loud crash behind me and swiftly turned around; it all happened so slowly.

A girl, with the long, vibrant red hair was hurtling towards me, and my eyes widened a fraction as we were indefinitely about to collide. Stepping aside or making any attempt to get out of her way didn't even cross my mind as I was so struck with how vivid she appeared. For a second, our eyes met and an electrifying pulse bolts down my spine as I come to see her eyes are as bold as her hair, a dodger blue. She noticed me a second before our inevitable collision and spun gracefully to my side. Her hair gently brushed my cheek as she spun by my stunned form, leaving a tingly sensation. Everything sped back up and she continued to run almost immediately as she avoided me.

"Sorry!" She waved without a single glance in my direction and continued her haste to god knows where.

I stood there frozen, mouth agape, the mysterious redhead clouding my thoughts. Who was she? Where did she come from? Why had I become so mesmerised and hadn't moved an inch?

Naruto ran to me, looking all sweaty and unkempt like he usually did.

"Hey teme, have you seen a very tiny girl with abnormally long hair anywhere?" He slurred in a rush, looking exhausted.

"Red hair, went that way," I pointed to the direction where she disappeared.

"Thanks man."

"Who...is she?" He froze a few steps ahead of me and slowly turned around, an amused smile growing on his face.

"Why would you care?"

Why did I even care anyways?

"Hn," I shoved my hands in my pockets and walked past Naruto to my initial class, sighing as I heard his loud and boisterous footsteps behind me. After being seated (idiot next to me), I stared out the window absent-mindedly. Kakashi walked inside, his nose in his infamous erotic book and mumbled a rushed 'do whatever you want, but keep it down'. A few bold girls decided to circle around me and plea whatever nonsense that I wasn't bothered to listen to.

"Hey Hinata-chan!" He turned around and exclaimed while most of the class cringing at his annoyingly loud volume.

"H-h-hi N-naruto-kun." I could imagine her red face without turning around.

"Hey why is your face all red?" I knew it. I felt him lean on his chair, most probably to get closer, and heard an ominous thud.

"Good going you idiot!"

Who the..

I turned around and saw the girl from before, miserably fanning an unconscious Hinata. Now that I had an up-close view of her, she was indeed ostentatiously bright. Guess I prolonged my gaze, because she met my eyes and stopped coaxing the girl to get up.

"What?" She raised an eyebrow as I narrowed my eyes. I didn't expect her to say that.

"Ehem. This is Sasuke, Kushina. Teme, this is my sister."

Sister? The 'twin' he told me about that I immediately stated would be a dumb blonde fan-girl slash cheerleader?

"Aha. The guy who called me a dumb blonde fan-girl slash cheerleader huh." She remained unfazed, no matter how hard I glared at her, then I felt something explode in my stomach.

"As you can see, I'm neither a blonde nor a cheerleader. And definitely not the slightest bit infatuated with you," Butterflies? Is that what it was? Fuck no.

"Mmmm...Kushina?" Hinata's eyes fluttered open and Kushina kept an eye on her ecstatic brother, in case he tried to make the girl faint again.

"Hey guys. Hello Sasuke-kun." Great.

"Hey Sakura-chan! What's up!" She smiled politely and brushed her short pink hair with her fingers.

"Just bored over there, nothing new. Hey, is that Pride and Prejudice?" She pointed to the book in front of the redhead.

"Yes, but it's boring." Sakura gasped.

"A-a there's nothing more amazing then this book. How can you not like Darcy? Why are you even reading it!"

"Hinata and I read random books every week or so and chat about it. A two-woman book club." She reads?

"And Darcy is too pompous and annoying. His whole character is irrelevant." Sakura shook her head and ran off, most probably to vent to a Darcy fan too. All girls in this school loved those kinds of people, unsurprisingly. The bell rang and everyone got up to get to their next class.

(Kushina's P.O.V.)

I hate unnecessarily spacious places. You get lost easily and subsequently become helpless, and there is nothing worse than a helpless girl in a short skirt. I even forced Naruto to get out of our old mansion and get this cosy and smaller house in a quiet neighbourhood.

Konoha high was annoyingly large and I was totally lost. A few passerbys stared longer than usual at me as I tried to find my way. Biology, 452. Come on come on!

I was shadowed by someone behind me and was about to get out of the way or something, when I was pulled roughly back by my wrist.

Uchiha Sasuke, in all his damn (and tall) glory snatched my schedule and held my wrist up and firmly above my head. His dark eyes scanned the small card, before dragging me along in the opposite direction.

"H-hey!" I tried to pull my hand desperately from his iron grip. After a few failed tries he stopped, apparently realising now that I was resisting and looked at me from his shoulder.

"What the-"

"We have the same class." And with no other explanation, he continued to pull me along, so I had to walk briskly to keep up. After we reached door 452 and his grip loosened, I pulled myself away.

"Next time, tell me instead of dragging me like a damn dog. And thank you."

With that, I walked past him and sat down. And guess what? He sat next to me and I sighed inwardly with frustration.

This is going to be a long, long year.

AN: Hello reader. Please excuse this slightly childish introduction as I've written and published this more than a year ago someplace else. The chapters get better as you go along, a considerable much, as well as descriptions. Thank you for reading of course, and please leave your thoughts. Flaming is not discouraged.