Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Misashi Kishimoto. I am merely writing this for my own enjoyment, or pain.

Claimer: I own nothing. Except for one of the pies in the Konoha Academy cafeteria that appears in later chapters. And maybe one of Kakashi-san's pens. No, that's a lie. Anyone else want to own a character's stationary?

Summary: AU Hinata's been home schooled all her life and is now a newbie at high school. Will she be able to handle homework, friends and family at the same time? And what does pie have to do with anything? Your choice of pairings, though author wants to include KakaHina. Eh he he...

Author: One Who Rides On The Wind

Author notes: I'm bored. And I really want to write a KakaHina fic with other pairings. Combine that with not many school weeks left until holidays and you get this fic. You, as a reviewer, get to choose most of the pairings but I really want to write KakaHina and sorry, no pairings such as SasuOC and the like. Oh, and all the ninjas higher than Genin will be younger in the fic, except for the legendary Sannin and the parents of shinobi and so on and so forth. Just so you know.

WARNING: Random. Slight OoC-ness, in parts like when they are forced to say things that you'd thought never existed.

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Introduction to Konoha Academy

Konoha Academy is a small but prestigious school, with over fifty students and twenty university colleagues. Only the best students can register, and only selected few can attain scholarships. It is a boarding school, with large dormitories of different classes, depending on your payments for a parent's peace of mind.

It is located in at a secluded corner of the one and only Konoha Village, famously known for its wonderful Ichiraku ramen. All students get free weekends and excursions to various places each year, and to compete with other schools. Students are grouped into three different categories; an athletic team, the neutral group and the academical team. Each student will be put into an ultimate goal, working their hardest to fulfill their hopes and dreams.

The school specializes in sports and martial arts, but has its academical side too. Every year, eighty-eight percent of students pass the end of year exams with flying colours and graduate at the end of fourth term.

If you want your child to be able to perform to the best of their ability, enroll now! Hurry though, places are limited.

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Day 1: Periods 1 & 2

The first day of school had barely begun and Hyuuga Hinata was into the principal's office. Her home room teacher requested it because her family demanded too many privileges for her and complained to the principal, who was checking up on each class. Of course, being the meek girl she was, Hinata just nodded and followed along.

Throughout the years, there were different leaders for the school. The fifth and current principal was Tsunade-sama, a woman who was bossy, loud and rude and seemed to like gambling and sake. What she disliked were children. It made people wonder how she became principal, but they never asked. All they knew was if they decided to pick a fight with her, their children would get kicked out and for all they knew; there weren't any other schools within range.

"Yes, yes. NO! Hyuuga-san, you can't keep her armed with a bodyguard. People will avoid her! I know it's not the safest choice, but she can defend herself if needed. And that's a school policy. No, university students are separated from the school, and can only go through to the main school if they have a pass or are sent to me!" the principal argued. "Fine then. Another student will look after her at recess and lunch breaks, and in class the teacher's always there..."

Hinata sighed. She was hoping that her father wouldn't try to have bodyguards protect her. At the last school she applied to, everyone was afraid to go near her, fearing her bodyguards would kill them. Which you would be scared of too, if you saw two guys with a young girl holding swords with what looked like blood on the surface. She watched as Tsunade kept yelling into the phone, at her father.

"FINE THEN! A UNIVERSITY STUDENT! HAPPY!" Tsunade screeched. The other end of the line yelled something unintelligible to her back, and then Tsunade slammed the phone down. Tsunade sighed, and then turned to the Hyuuga she had to deal with. "Sorry about that. Here is your timetable, don't lose it. And at recess break, can you come here? I'd like you to meet someone."

Hinata took the card, and looked at the principal with her white eyes. She wondered whom she was meeting later on. Probably just some bodyguard, who would follow her to every class and scare all her fellow classmates. Oh well. She left the principal's office. Outside was a young woman with short, messy black hair and brown eyes.

"Hello Hyuuga-san, I am Shizune," she said. "Do you want me to lead you to your next class?"

Hinata shook her head. "N-no thank you, but do you have a map I could use?"

Shizune smiled, and handed her a piece of paper with the directory on it. "Here. There's also a better one in your homework record book if you ever lose this one okay?"

"Hai." Hinata bowed to the young woman and headed to what she had second class: Maths.

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Five minutes later, she arrived in front of the classroom and had to introduce herself to the class. Luckily second class was in the homeroom. "O-ohayo, my name is Hyuuga Hinata. You can call me Hinata." The response she got was a warm welcome and her teachers smiled. Unlike other schools, most subjects were taught to students by older colleagues; in this case Kamizuki Izumo and Hogane Kotetsu. It also created bonds between kohai and senpai and gave the chance for them to ask questions they would not usually ask a normal teacher.

"Ohayo, Hinata-san. I'm Kamizuki Izumo, and this is Hogane Kotetsu," Izumo explained and gestured to his friend. Kotetsu smiled at her and then turned and spoke to the class.

"Minna-san, since me and Izumo are like nice and all, so most of this lesson is going to be spent on meeting one another and making friends, new and old," Kotetsu explained. Hinata was suddenly glad that she got kind teachers for at least one subject. She could now meet at least some people in her class. One girl with long blonde hair in a ponytail called out to her from the back of the classroom.

"Hinata-chan, over here!" she called out. Hinata walked towards her group. The girl obviously had friends. There was a pink haired girl next to her and two other boys. One of them had a bored expression on his face and the other was well, was eating. "Hi, I'm Yamanaka Ino, but you can just call me Ino." the blonde said.

The pink haired girl then spoke up. "Hello Hinata-chan, my name's Haruno Sakura. Sakura will do just fine." She really looked like a flower, but not only the obvious reason, she had this happy hardworking aura. Hinata nodded, and put their names into memory. She then took a glance at the other students. Some of them didn't seem as friendly as this group so she decided to sit with Ino and the others.

Then there was a problem. There weren't any spare seats so Hinata had to move over some other place. On the table in front of her were two males and there were a few spare spaces. The first guy had a small puppy on his head, had two red markings on his face and a confident attitude. The second male wore dark round sunglasses (?) and a large jacket. His hands were always in his pockets so Hinata wondered what he was like, as he seemed very mysterious.

"Um... Can I sit here?" she asked them. They looked at her as if to question her, and the dog boy nodded.

"Sure. Right, Akamaru?" he asked. "I'll introduce myself. I'm Inuzuka Kiba," he pointed to the puppy on his head. "And this is Akamaru. No need to be shy, just sit down." His dog barked approvingly, and she took that as a gesture to sit.

The boy with sunglasses addressed himself. "Aburame Shino. Nice to meet you."

Hinata nodded and sat down. She opened her homework record book and checked the map. Shizune was right, this map was easier to read because it was colour coded and all the rooms were grouped according to subject.

Kotetsu and Izumo looked at each other. Class wasn't really going as well as they hoped. Students were either too scared or couldn't be bothered talking to each other. That was going to be a problem. They looked at each other and nodded.

"Since you kiddies are too lazy to go along with what we asked for, we're actually going to do some Maths," Izumo explained, as many of the students groaned and complained. The two teachers then handed out sheets of paper.

Hinata looked at the sheet. It wasn't one of those normal Maths sheets, it was an activity one. One of the questions said: Find the student with the longest hair in your class. Ask for their name and approximate the length of his/her hair. Another wrote: Ask a student who you don't know the name of, and together find out the area of the room. It was obviously an activity to mingle with classmates and find out at least their names. She sighed and wrote her name in the top corner and proceeded with the task.

Twenty minutes later Hinata came across the final question which she didn't think she could do, which stated: Walk up to the class captain and introduce yourself, then say "I'm an elephant with a monkey for a friend! o" which the class captain will respond "And I'm a banana to be eaten by that monkey! "

Glancing around the room, Hinata could see that others were up to the same question. "Who's the class captain?" she whispered to Kiba.

Kiba grimaced. "Uchiha Sasuke. Not the friendliest out there, but he's not anything to worry about. There go the fangirls, so I'll wait 'till later, if I were you."

Hinata watched as Ino, Sakura and all the other girls in their class run rabidly towards a dark indigo haired boy with onyx eyes. The class captain sighed. How annoying... Why would the teachers do this to him? He didn't do anything to them, did he? Unless they counted him trying to cheat with his Sharingan during last year's exam...

Anyway, back to the story: The fangirls were waiting for a signal to start. Sasuke sighed again and nodded, hoping it would end quickly, so he could get it over and done with. Unfortunately, the girls thought he had swooned over their own beauty, and so began Maths' first catfight of the year.

"Omigosh! Sasuke-kun was looking at me!" a random girl squealed.

"Was not! It was me!" another said.

"Yeah right, like Sasuke-kun would fall for any of you. There's only one girl for him, and that's me!" Sakura pouted, and flicked her hair back and it fell like a glossy curtain, it was the kind of hair that everyone would want to know was real. Not including the Uchiha, of course.

"Sure, like Sasuke-kun would like you, shiny wide-forehead girl," Ino sneered. It was then Hinata realized that they were not only friends, but were also rivals for love for the class captain.

"Lay off him, ugly Ino-pig girl. He's MINE!" Sakura snapped back. And there started the catfight. The Uchiha then decided it was a chance to back off to another corner of the room. But all the corners were blocked, so he chose to chance it with joining another group for the moment.

Let's see... Most of the groups had at least one fangirl in it, so cross those out. That left two gangs: the one with Kiba, Shino and the new girl Hinata, or he could join Uzumaki Naruto. Sasuke chose to join Kiba and his friend's group, because Naruto was a loner and would attract the fangirls attention towards them if he went with him.

He did so, and sat down quietly. Hinata noticed this, and wondered why he was avoiding the other girls. They just wanted to be friends with them, didn't they? Whatever the case, she talked to him.

"Ohayo, senpai," she said.

Sasuke smirked in reply. "Hmph. I'm Uchiha Sasuke."

"She's not that stupid, Hinata did see you agree to be class president during homeroom, you know," Kiba said casually, watching the two as if they were talking about the weather.

"Inuzuka," Sasuke gritted through his teeth.

"Me." Kiba replied calmly. "Behave, or I'll get those girls to notice you're not there."

"You wouldn't dare."

"Would I? Dare I will? Hey girls!" Kiba called out.

"No... Don't." the captain pleaded.

"Inuzuka-san, you don't have to stand up for me..." Hinata began, but Kiba interrupted her.

"Don't worry about it, that's what friends are for."

Akamaru agreed. "Arf! Arf!"

Izumo and Kotetsu smiled. The plan was working so far. All of the students had made at least one new friend. Except for two special students. Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto. The Uchiha was too cold hearted to open up to anyone, and Naruto was a loner because everyone thought he was annoying.

What to do... What to do? Naruto knew he would be rejected the moment he would try to make friends with the new girl. She was with Kiba and Shino, and that guy. Argh, the sight of that stupid so called genius boy pissed Naruto off to no end. He was soo cool, according to all those females in his class. Yeah right, Naruto's ass.

The two teachers watched him for a while, then decided that to make friends, you had to take risks. So...

"Hey, Uzumaki. Can you join that group over there? We're about to start a new activity soon." Kotetsu asked, pointing towards the back of the room, where Hinata and the others were.

"O-over there?" the blonde boy spoke up, as if uncertain of what the senpai asked him.

"Yep."

"Demo, do I have to?"

Kotetsu smiled. "Sure. Why not?"

Naruto protested, and loudly at that. "Can't I go somewhere else? Anywhere but there with that jerk."

"You were told to go there, so get your butt over there. Now!"

Naruto grumbled, but did what he was told. Once there, he met the most strange group. Such different people, but they were in a group? Weird. No, weirder than weird. Let's see; a dog boy, the new girl, the sunglasses kid and that baka class captain.

He sat down next to Shino. Everyone looked at him, but then continued talking.

"Who's that?" asked Hinata, looking at the loud blonde. The others looked at each other, and the captain spoke up.

"Uzumaki Naruto. Loud, obnoxious and annoying. I don't like him. None of us do." the Uchiha said, without wrapping his words into honey.

"HEY!" pouted Naruto.

"Hmph. It's the truth. Deal with it or die."

The yellow and dark haired boys stared angrily at each other, and then turned in different directions. Fortunately for the captain, the girls were still squabbling and hadn't noticed his disappearance. The way that blonde boy acted... he was different to anyone else Hinata had ever met.

"Minna-san?" Hinata asked the people in the group.

Everyone there glanced at her and replied, "Nani desu ka?"

"A-ano... Why don't we tell each other about ourselves, like our pastimes, things we're fond and not so fond of, that kind of thing maybe?"

"Not a bad idea. Who wants to go first?" Shino said, and quickly scanning through the other teens' expressions. Most of them weren't that enthusiastic, and that included him, because quite frankly he didn't care.

Naruto jumped up from his seat. "Me! Me! My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like Cup Ramen! I especially like the Ichiraku Ramen Iruka-senpai buys me! What I dislike is waiting three minutes for the Cup Ramen to cook. And my hobbies are eating ramen!" he glared and pointed to Sasuke. "And to defeat that guy."

Sasuke just sneered and spoke, "Uchiha Sasuke. There's not much to like, so I pretty much dislike everything. Unless I talk to you, don't talk to me. It pisses me off." Everyone gawked at him. "Nice to meet all of you." he said and smiled what you would call warmly but they all knew it wasn't true, as if the last sentence wasn't even verbalized. They all faced each other. Scary...

The bell rang. "Class is over! Take a sheet from the teacher's desk as you leave the classroom as you have homework today. It's not much, that's all." the two senpai called out as the class started packing up. Hinata went over and thanked the teachers for being such kind teachers.

"A-arigatou gozaimasu..." she begun, but Izumo stopped her.

"It's nothing. Friends are supposed to help each other right?" he asked, and ruffled her hair.

She read the meaning of his words, and blushed. "H-hai."

"It's recess. You had an appointment with Fifth principal, correct? Better hurry, she doesn't like people who are late. I'll carry your books to your locker for you." Kotetsu said, as he just finished filing his school papers.

"O-okay... Arigato." the dark violet haired girl replied and quickly walked to the office, carrying her homework record book with her just in case. Once there, there was another student there as well as the person she expected to meet. He had grey hair that gave off a silverish gleam and was lopsided towards his left and, according to the school symbol on the headband covering his left eye, he was a university colleague student.

"Hyuuga-san, your father has requested protection at this school," Tsunade began, and then gestured towards the silver haired graduate. "This young man here is Hatake Kakashi. He is to follow you around during recess and lunch." Seeing the look on Hinata's face she added, "A fair distance, mind you so don't worry."

"Um... he has to follow me everywhere?"

"Not everywhere. Not the dorms or the little girls' room. Or the changing rooms." the principal replied, and Hinata had to fight an oncoming blush. It was hard to tell, but it looked like the grey-haired man was trying to hide a blush as well. He must have been worried about the 'everywhere' thing too.

"Well, if you want to go anywhere now, you'd better leave soon. Recess ends in about ten minutes." said Kakashi. Hinata nodded, and beckoned him to follow her.

…to be continued…

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Author notes: What do you think? Is it good? Do I need to improve in any way? Come on, gimme some constructive criticism or something! I really need it, I know. Also, I don't think I will continue unless I get at least 7 reviews; whether flame, critic or nice. So review, ok?