Real Life Problems
Chapter 1
Nikki: -sigh- Sometimes I wish I didn't write so many stories...
Rachel: Tell me about it! -drowning in printed copies of stories-
Ava: -.-
Nikki: -.-
Yami: Only you, Rachel... only you....
Rachel: ?.? What? O.o
Nikki: . I do not own Naruto in any way, or any lyrics used. I'm basing the times and everything on what goes on in my school so that I understand what's happening. Basically, the Naruto characters are in real life and me and Rachel are in the story.
Rachel: Stop writing so much, you'll bore the poor ickle sweeties!
Ava: Rachel? Shut up.
Rachel: T.T
Yami: Read on! -.-
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"Did you hear?"
"Yeah. Two new girls are coming!"
"Gosh, more girls? This school is running low on guys already!"
"I wonder what they will look like and who they wanna hang with!"
"Do you know what room they're in?"
The chatter is a low tune buzz echoing through the school cafeteria. Sasuke sighs and Gaara pokes at the mush that is proclaimed, "Porridge". He eventually pushes the tray away with a disgusted noise.
"Why is everyone so excited about these new girls?" Sasuke grumbles, snapping his wristband back onto his wrist. He pulls the band away from his wrist again, and let's the elastic whip his skin.
"Eh. Who cares?" Gaara mutters, shrugging his shoulder loosely.
Sitting around their table are a few other people including, Hinata, Neji, Temari, Shikamaru, Tenten and Kiba.
Gaara has blood red hair, jade green eyes with heavy eyeliner around them, snake bite piercings and a couple of ear piercings. He has a tattoo just above his right eye that is a japanese kanji, meaning "Love oneself". He is wearing tight black jeans and a black t-shirt with red stripes, running vertically down the shirt. He has black fuzzy-ish wristbands around his wrists and black converses.
Sasuke has black hair with a slight blue shine, an eyebrow piercing and few ear piercings. He has black eyes and has eyeliner on. He is wearing a black shirt with fluro blue wings on the back and a ravens head on the front. He has baggy-ish black pants and black and fluro blue skate shoes on. He has elastic wristbands on his wrists.
They go to a school called Konoha High. It's a boarding school for both boys and girls and everyone needs to sleep there. The girls dorms are right across from the boys dorms, which is quite an inconvenience to Gaara and Sasuke, who have half the school's population after them.
"Hey, Gaara! Sasuke!" Ino and Sakura call from across the lunchroom.
Sasuke lifts his head up and Gaara ignores them.
"Have you accepted our invitations to go out yet?" They chorus.
"I'd rather eat a bucket of worms." Gaara growls into the silent cafeteria.
"I'd rather cuddle with a cactus, it'd probably be cuter." Sasuke sighs, turning back to face the others at the table.
Kiba is asleep across the table, Neji is sitting silently and watching the action and Hinata is slowly chewing on her food, Temari, Shikamaru and Tenten seem to have struck up a conversation to break the silence, failing miserably.
The tension and silence in the room is broken by the lunchroom doors swinging open, and the new girls finally revealing themselves.
The first has almost waist length hair that is jet-black with blood-red underneath and orange eyes. It covers her right eye and she has dark red lipstick on. She has black and red Pleather Pyramid Lace Up Arm Warmers, a red and black corset top, a short black skirt with red skulls, thigh high black socks and shiny black shoes on. She looks to have one nose piercing and a very temperamental attitude.
The second girl has just above shoulder length midnight blue hair, ice blue eyes, covered with a blue and black, kitty eared hoodie jumper. She has a short black ruffled skirt and spiderweb tights, leading down to chunky black boots. This girl has one eyebrow piercing and two ear piercings in each ear. She seems pretty shy, something like Hinata.
Neither Gaara nor Sasuke could argue that these girls were ugly. In fact, they were gorgeous. Their figures were curvaceous in all the right places, they had perfectly flat stomachs and they were just shorter than Gaara and Sasuke, as far as they could tell.... and the guys were quite tall.
Sasuke was looking at the blue and black girl, a little open mouthed. Gaara reached over and snapped Sasuke's mouth shut. Sasuke shook his head and went back to looking at the girls impassively. Gaara nodded and then also turned back to the girls, judging their next move.
(Gaara's POV)
The red and black girl, who seemed to be the more dominant one, looked from table to table. The jock and ditz table, the nerd table, the loner table, the anime lovers and finally to us. Her eyes locked onto mine and she smirks. I scowl at her. I can feel that this is the start of a rivalry. She finally makes her way over to our table, the other girl following behind her.
The blue girl finally looks at the members of our table, spotting Sasuke and blushing a little. She retreats into the shadow of her hair and hoodie. Sasuke smirks slightly and winks at her. I kick his shin. What a wanker. He doesn't even flinch.
The girls finally reach our table. I'm still glaring at the beautiful black and red girl as she sits down.
"Hi. My name is Nicole Peters. I like red and black, singing in my own space and annoying the crap out of people who deserve it." the red and black girl states, flicking her black nails, apparently not caring about what people thought of her opinions.
"Hello. I'm called Rachel Winter. I like blue and black, especially the contrast between fluro and black. I like reading and learning new things." the blue and black girl finishes as casually as possible. She then looks to Sasuke and notices what he is wearing. She blushes more this time and hides back in her jumper.
"I'm Sasuke, this is Hinata, Kiba and the one glaring is Gaara." Sasuke introduces, winking again at Rachel. Nicole looks to me and laughs and this makes my blood boil.
"What the hell are you laughing at?" I snarl at her.
She smirks knowingly at me. "You're not the only one that can't resist but look at me." she laughs.
I fume and am about to come out with a very rude comment when the music sounds overhead.
(AN: The Hunger by Fireflight)
Cut it out, cut it out
I know it's what you're wanting to say
Burning up, burning up
I know why you're feeling this way
There's an ache you can't erase
A yearning that you can't replace
And you want him, and you need him
But you act like he's not there
Yeah, you know that you're hollow
And something's missing here
So you push and you pull the hole in your soul
But you can't make the hunger disappear
You got a rusted out lock on your door
Getting ready to break
You've held back love long enough
I think it's time to cave
You're waiting for a sign
The fact is faith is blind
Do you want to spend your whole life jaded?
Stuck in a rut that you created
Why don't you break the cycle?
Let love win
I see Nicole laughing at all the off tune singing in the cafeteria.
"Couldn't sing to save their asses." Nicole chuckles, making the rest of the table laugh a bit.
"What do you girls have next?" Sasuke asks.
"English then math." Rachel replies, grabbing her books.
"Really? Same. Uh... maybe I could walk you... You know, to make sure you know where everything is." Sasuke stutters. I roll my eyes at his pathetic flirting.
"Sure. Ok." Rachel agrees, smiling shyly.
"Well... I've got music and drama, in case anybody cares." Nicole grumbles.
"With who?" I question cautiously.
"Mr Kakashi, why?" Nicole answers, giving me a sideways glance.
I groan. "Me too." I sigh, picking up my books.
"Geez, well sorry for living." Nicole exclaims sarcastically. She looks into her diary for the room and then up at the room numbers above the door.
I sigh sadly. "Follow me." I growl, shoving past her. I saw her in the edge of my vision sticking up her middle fingers at me and mouthing "Asswipe" at me. I scowl and then let it drop.
As she follows me, I can smell her strawberry scented shampoo in her hair. Huh. I like strawberries. I catch my thoughts at that spot, shoving them into the back of my mind and locking them away.
We finally reach the music rooms and walk in, a few minutes late.
"Who might this be, Gaara?" Kakashi questions, eying Nicole sort of pervily.
She gives a sigh and walks up to the teacher.
"My name is Nicole Peters and I just moved here." Nicole introduces, giving Kakashi a slip of paper, probably from the office.
"Well, you're very lucky. We only have one spare seat left, up there next to Gaara. I should think that you two are going to be very good friends." Kakashi observes, pointing to the seat just to the left of mine.
"Thank you, Mr Kakashi." Nicole thanks, heading up to her seat.
"Just Kakashi please, Miss Peters." Kakashi insists.
"Just Nicole then, Kakashi." Nicole retorts, making the teacher chuckles slighty.
Nicole finds her seat and I plonk lazily into mine. Nicole then proceeds to do something that would usually have her made into a loner, she talked to Rock Lee.
"Hi. Your eyebrows sure are huge, aren't they." Nicole observes, laughing.
Rock Lee looks amazed that someone's actually talking to him and turns in her direction.
"I could help you fix that you know, and maybe give you a haircut..." Nicole trails off looking at his hair and probably imagining all the different possible outcomes of his hair.
"Can I please have everyone's attention?" Kakashi calls from the front of the stage.
"I'll talk to you after class then...?" Nicole asks, gesturing with her hands for his name.
"Lee." he answers.
"Lee." Nikki finishes, smiling at him. He looks shocked and then turns up to the front.
"Okay class! Today, we are going to be talking about the Elements of Music......"
After first period.......
(Nicole's POV)
I find my locker at long last. I'll have to remember where my locker is. I open the lock and swing open the door. I put my books in my locker and get my books for next period out.
I swing the door shut and Gaara's face is suddenly in mine. I'm shocked. The douche actually made a move. I hadn't noticed the expression on his face until then, and I could tell he wasn't happy at all. I gulp slightly.
"What do you want?" I ask confidently.
He just glares at me. I huff and turn to walk away. A hand shoots out and spins me back around and pulls me closer to him. My eyes widen and I swat his hand away.
"What is your problem?" I exclaim.
"You talked to Rock Lee, that's my problem." Gaara snarls at me. I search my memory of any mention of "Rock Lee". I come up with nothing. Then I remember Lee.
"Oh, you mean Lee from music?" I ask.
"Exactly!" he growls at me.
"Huh...? Oh.. Oh! You're jealous! Ha ha!" I realize, giggling. Gaara looks taken aback.
"I am not jealous. I just don't want you to be an outcast by the people you talk to." he sniffs.
"Oh, I see. So you're just worried about me then." I continue, giggling again.
He huffs indignantly and starts walking away.
"And, Gaara?" I call after him. "I've organized to meet Lee after school."
He turns around and his jaw drops.
"WHAT?" he practically screams into the hallway. All movement stops, and I turn away and wave him off.
"See you, Gaara." I sigh, walking to the stage.
(Rewind and in Rachel's POV)
I see Nicole laughing at all the off tune singing in the cafeteria.
"Couldn't sing to save their asses." Nicole chuckles, making the rest of the table laugh a bit.
"What do you girls have next?" Sasuke asks.
"English then math." I reply, grabbing my books.
"Really? Same. Uh... maybe I could walk you... You know, to make sure you know where everything is." Sasuke stutters. I see Gaara roll his eyes at his pathetic flirting.
"Sure. Ok." I agree, smiling shyly.
"Well... I've got music and drama, in case anybody cares." I hear Nicole grumble.
Sasuke walks around the lunch table and to my side. We start walking towards one of the English rooms together.
I blush and hold my books closer to me, turning my head away from him.
"Uh... so... you like... fluro blue and black, huh?" Sasuke starts. I blush and nod slightly. Out of the corner of my eye, I see him smirk.
"I'm guessing you do too, then." I retort quietly. Sasuke looks shocked.
"How in the name of hell did you know?" he taunts sarcastically. I giggle shyly and he smiles a little.
We reach our classroom and I hand the English teacher my slip.
"Good morning..." she starts, looking at my slip. "...Rachel. You may call me Miss Anko. Please, take a seat, anywhere you can find."
"Thank you, Miss Anko." I thank, following Sasuke. I see that the chairs closest to him are taken by fawning fangirls. I look around and find one at the other end of the classroom.
He smiles apologetically at me from his desk and I shrug back at him. Can't be helped. I open my book and start to take notes like the good little nerd I am. I've always liked my writing. It's very curvy and looks like when they wrote back in the time of Titanic and times like that. Nikki hates her writing. She says it looks like scribbles threw up on her page.
I'm just about to go back to dot all my 'i's and cross all my 't's when a paper airplane lands on my book. I look up quickly and see the teacher is still writing a passage on the board. I look down the row and see a mesh of girls staring at me with shock. I look through them and see Sasuke wave slightly. I blush... as per bloody usual.
I inconspicuously flatten out the paper and read what's on it.
I'm sorry about the seats.
Please don't be mad.
Sasuke
I look back down the row at him and find him staring at the board, lazily taking notes. I write my reply down on the paper and send it back up his way.
I'm not mad.
Girls seem to be attracted to you like bees to honey.
Some things can't be helped, Sasuke.
Rachel
I quickly write down the rest of the notes, trying to keep up. The airplane lands back on the edge of my desk again.
Does that include you?
Sasuke
I look back to what I last wrote and blush as I realize what I'd said. Before I could reply, the teacher called the class's attention and didn't give me another chance to reply to Sasuke all throughout the lesson.
"We will be reading 'Romeo and Juliet' this term, class." Miss Anko announces.
Over half the class groan while I secretly happy dance in my head. Romeo and Juliet is one of my favorite plays ever.
"Grab your diarys, everyone and follow me to the Library to pick up your copies of the wonderful play by Shakespeare." Miss Anko half sings pleasantly.
I pick up my black diary and head to the door. I step around behind the door frame and wait for Sasuke to come out of the classroom. He's one of the last to come out, swarmed by girls trying to get his attention.
I smile shyly at him and he weaves his way at of the girls and over to me. We start walking to the library with the fangirls practically crying behind us.
"You still didn't answer my question, Rachel." Sasuke suddenly states. I blush as I realize what he's saying.
"Uh... ummm." I begin quietly.
"Hurry up, children, hurry up." an excited Miss Anko insists, ushering us through the library doors.
I've never been in love before, but I think I know what it feels like now. I am in love with the school library. (AN: Heh. Not what you were expecting right? Come on, admit it. xD)
It was huge and had an ancient and modern combination. The walls, desks, shelves and roof was made of old pine and had pictures carved into them. The library had modern chairs and computers, the latest design of both.
I most definitely would come back here in my spare time.
As I try to soak up as much of the library as possible, Sasuke is leading me to the line for books. He goes before me to show it how renting a book is done. First, he grabbed a book, then the lady scanned a barcode in his diary and then the barcode on the play script. I mimick him, picking up one of the older copies of the books and letting the library lady scan it.
I prefer getting books that look more like they actually came from the time it was written than a re-done copy of it. It sort of authenticates the story.
I follow Sasuke out of the line and we walk around the library, waiting for the last people to leave. I absentmindedly look to one of the shelves and see a few pairs of eyes glaring at me and ogling at Sasuke. I giggle our dilemma to Sasuke and he looks to the shelves. We hear multiple squeals and the girls run out from behind the shelf and over to a different section of the library.
I laugh at there unbelievable desperateness.
We have just come in range of a spiral staircase that leads into, what I guess, is a patio sort of thing on top of the building. I can't wait to show Nikki that. The spiral staircase itself was beautiful. Made of a deep cherry oak, it has vines weaving around the smooth handle and the pictures were carved into it.
"Wow. It's beautiful." I whisper, letting my fingers trail along the railing as I walk around the staircase.
Sasuke stands a bit in front of the staircase, watching me with a slight smile on his face. I walk back to him and we leave the library together. I clutch my copy of Romeo and Juliet to my chest. We reach our classroom and go to our separate ends of the room.
I wonder how Gaara and Nikki are doing in their first class. Hopefully, Nikki hasn't done anything worth going to jail for. Not yet. I already know that Nikki ending up going to the police station is inevitable. I smile fondly as I remember all the times Nikki and I have been to the police station. That's why Nikki and my parents sent us to a boarding school. They hope it'll straighten us out.
We've made it very clear to them that if Nikki and I wore torn apart and not allowed to see each other again, neither of us would survive it.
Throughout the lesson, Sasuke and I didn't have any contact, apart from a couple of fleeting glances.
At the end of the lesson (hehe... time warp.... -dances to time warp song- =D).......
I pack up my books and pens as quickly as possible so that I can try to find my maths class. I look in my diary and head in the direction my map says my room is.
"Bye, Sasuke." I call, glancing at Sasuke as I walk through the doorway.
Much to my delight and confusion, Sasuke is watching me leave and ignoring his fangirls that are swarming over him. I feel delight that he is paying attention to me and confusion as to why I'm so delighted. I blush and hurry out of the room.
I walk into the math room just on time and hand my slip to the teacher. He reads it and then points to a spare desk near the back of the room. I slide silently into my seat and set my things up, ready for a lesson of learning.
"Now, algebra , not to difficult if you understand it." The teacher begins, carrying on like this until the end of class music saves me from complete boredom. I whip my things away and rush from the classroom. I walk down the staircases until I get to my locker. Finally, a break! I ditch my books and head towards the lunchroom. I walk through the doors and see Sasuke sitting at the same table as this morning. He waves slightly at me and I nod at him. I get my food on a tray and then head towards them.
I sit down next to the black-haired, pink eyed girl I saw earlier this morning. I smile slightly at her and she smiles back.
"I'm Rachel." I introduce, holding my hand out.
"Hinata." the girl replies shyly, shaking my outstretched hand.
"So, where does everyone stay?" I ask, trying to strike up a conversation.
"Well... I stay with Temari and Tenten in room 104C. Neji, Kiba and Shika stay in room 105C, just across the hall from us. Gaara and Sasuke, on the other hand, stay in room 207B." Hinata answers.
"Huh. You don't say." I state, glancing at Sasuke quickly.
"Hey Hinata. Hey... Rach, is it?" the blonde girl from this morning questions.
"That's me." I smile.
"Rachel, this is Temari. Just call her Temi." Hinata sighs.
"Just call my Rach." I insist.
"Hi. Nikki's my name. Need a business card?" Nikki asks, putting her tray down on the table and slipping into a seat across from Gaara. She slides a card onto the table. It reads,
Nicole Peters
Problem Child
Phone: 1300 GETSTUFFED
'If Life was a person, It'd be as ugly as you. And that's pretty darn bad.'
Everyone laughs at Nikki's card and it's messy scrawl, except Gaara, who just scowls at her. She rolls her eyes at him.
"You're still not upset about the Lee incident are you?" she questions, looking frustrated.
"What?" I ask, confused.
"Meeting someone after school. Wanna come?"she suggests, looking at me.
"Sure." I answer, smiling.
"You so better not be talking about the Lee I think you are..." Kiba trails off, looking at Nikki as if she's given birth to a five-headed lion.
"Yes. She is. Rock Lee. She's made plans with fucking Rock Lee!" Gaara snarls.
"He's not that bad. Why is he so hated anyway?" Nikki insists, taking her card off the table.
"Well... look at the size of his eyebrows and you'll know." Shikamaru answers, picking his head up off the table.
"Only shallow people judge people by appearances. Shallow people trying to hide their own homosexuality." Nikki sniffs. Neji chokes on the lemonade he was drinking and coughs a couple of times before chuckling quietly. That is before almost everyone at the table glares at him.
"You need to cancel those plans, Nikki!" Temari insists, her eyes wide.
"Now, that would be just plain rude. I'll make him better. You'll see." Nikki states, giving a small maniac laugh at the end before taking a sip of her Coke Zero.
Everyone finishes before discussing their first rotations.
"I've got French and Biology next, what about you, Rach?" Nikki asks me.
"French and Biology." I squeal. Nikki grabs my hands and we happy squee quickly then go back to being impassive. Everyone looks at us strangely before talking again. Sasuke chuckles lightly at me and Gaara just continues to glare at Nikki.
She looks u to see him glaring and gives him one of her eye melting glares. I can literally feel the static of the glare between the two. The people sitting closest to Gaara and Nikki shuffle subtly away from the pair.
Gaara is, for once, the first to look away. Nikki smirks and I can see that she is pleased that she is victorious.
"Why are you such a jerk, Gaara?" Nikki demands.
"Why are you such a bitch?" Gaara replies.
"Oooo. Burn." Kiba cheers. Tenten hits him on the back of the head and he winces.
Nikki scoffs. "No need to be such a fucking prick about it." she stands up, grabs her drink and walks out of the lunchroom.
"Nice, Gaara. Real smooth." Temari scolds sarcastically. The girls get up and follow Nikki out of the lunchroom, abandoning the guys to the sea of fangirls.
(Gaara's POV)
"Nice, Gaara. Real smooth." Temari scolds sarcastically. I glare at her and she rolls her eyes before getting up and leaving the lunchroom, along with all the other girls.
"Why'd you have to go and say that, Gaara? Now Rachel left." Sasuke scowls.
I glare at him and from behind him, Ino and Sakura appear. I point to them and Sasuke turns around.
"What do you want?" Sasuke snarls at them. Sakura comes up behind me and puts her arms over my shoulders and pouts.
"Why are you guys playing hard to get?" Sakura asks, playing with my dagger necklace.
"What's hard to get about we're not interested?" Sasuke growls as we shove the girls off of us.
"Now that's not a very nice thing to say." Ino pouts. I take a sip of my Coke and ignore them.
"It's not very nice to go around molesting people's necklaces either." Sasuke smirks, looking in my direction. I swivel my bottle around in my hand and continue to ignore the two presidents of 'Annoy the crap out of Sasuke and Gaara and then they'll realize they love us' club.
I hear talking coming from the lunchroom doorway and see Rachel, Nikki, Temari, Tenten and Hinata walking back into the lunchroom carrying their books. Sakura and Ino see where me and Sasuke are looking and scowl at the two new girls. As soon as the girls sit down at our table, Ino and Sakura pounce on them.
"Just because you're in the same group as our Sasuke and Gaara doesn't mean you can be with them. They're taken. By us." Sakura snarls at the new girls.
"Huh. Failed to get the memo." Rachel answers impassively.
"That would definitely explain the way the guys lovingly look at you every time they see you." Nikki laughs. Everyone joins in, except me. Of course.
The robot clone bitches glare at them and then shuffle away with one last air kiss at us. I could tell they were planning something.
"Geez. There's nothing I hate more than people with no personality who never leave people alone." Rachel grumbles. Nikki agrees with her and takes a sip of her drink.
(Neutral POV)
The bell goes for the end of morning break and everyone heads to next class. Nikki and Rachel head down a corridor in a daze. They have no idea where they are.
"May I help you?" A slippery voice asks from the shadows. Rachel jumps in surprise.
"Uh, sure. Can you please tell us where the French rooms are?" Nikki asks while Rachel cowers slightly.
Then the principal, Mr. Orochimaru and his assistant Mr. Kabuto slip into the light. Nikki gulps and clutches her books tighter to her chest while Rachel freezes up.
Orochimaru has a bad reputation. A reputation for taking advantage of girls and boys alike. Nikki shudders.
"Of course we can help you." Orochimaru hisses. He heads of in the opposite direction in which the girls were heading with Kabuto following behind them. Nikki keeps her senses on alert and grabs Rachel's hand to stop her from whimpering.
"Don't show fear." Nikki whispers to her terrified best friend. Rachel takes a deep breath and squares her shoulders. They finally reach the French rooms, thankfully in one piece.
"Uh, thank you Mr. Orochimaru and Mr. Kabuto." Nikki thanks thickly, pressing down the urge to run.
"You're very welcome girls, anytime." Orochimaru states, his voice turning sickly suggestive at the end. Nikki shudders without them seeing and opens the French doors.
"Get me as much information on those girls as possible, Kabuto." Orochimaru snarls, watching the girls as they take their seats.
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Nikki: I hope you loveyd it! =^.^=
Rachel: Hehe... stalker pedophile bisexual ugly principal man... nice.
Nikki: Why thank you! =D
Gaara: R and R
Nikki: -squee-