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Hello fellow fan fiction readers! ItAcHiSWiFeY here with a story I'm hoping you guys will love. But of course, I couldn't possibly take all the credit for writing this story. So here's a special thanks to speakerzblown, my first fan fiction friend and supporter for helping me with this story. I couldn't have done it without you! So here my friends, is chapter one of, "The Konoha Seniors". Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Chapter One: A Fresh Start
The sun shined over Konoha one chilly fall morning. The color change of the leaves, as well as the people's seasonal attire, signaled the arrival of fall and the start of the new school year. For Hyuuga Hinata and many others, it was the last time they were going to Hidden Leaf High. The lavender eyed girl woke up feeling excited, yet saddened.
"Wow, my last year at Hidden Leaf High…" she trailed off while looking out her window. She stood in front of the mirror brushing her long indigo hair. After she had gotten out of the shower, she styled it in a simple low ponytail with her bangs brushed to the front and sides of her face. Then, she walked over to her closet and picked out her first day outfit; a long sleeved white blouse, a purple plaid, pleated skirt, long knee-high socks and black Mary Jane shoes.
Simple, yet conservative she thought. Once she was done getting ready, she looked at her bedside alarm clock that read seven-thirty.
"Good, just enough time to have breakfast." she said as she grabbed her backpack and glasses case. Hinata headed downstairs for breakfast, expecting her father, Hiashi, to be sitting at the table having his morning tea, however, the only person she saw at the table was her younger sister, Hanabi, eating cereal at the table.
"Good morning, Hanabi. Do you know where father is?" she asked, looking around.
"Father is having breakfast in his study today. But he told me when you come home from school, he wants to discuss something with you, privately." replied the younger Hyuuga sister.
Hinata gave her a puzzled look.
"Well, I dunno. He just told me it was important."
Hinata shrugged it off. But while she was eating her breakfast, she was very curious as to what her father could want to talk to her about that happened to be so important. It was strange considering how negligent Hiashi was of his two daughters. He was a very busy business man who never had time to bond with his children and he never wanted to be disturbed when he was in his study, unless he called someone in to discuss important matters with them.
"Well, I'm going to school. Bye Hanabi!" Hinata said as she went out the door.
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"Hey Sasuke, wake up bro!"
The raven haired boy rolled over and mumbled something that sounded like, "Five more minutes." and he continued sleeping. Then the older Uchiha brother pulled the blankets off his brother, which sent chills up his spine. Slowly, Sasuke got up out of bed and glared at Itachi, the brother that took custody of him after their parents had died. How he dreaded the first day of school.
"You didn't think I would let you miss the first day as a senior, did you?" asked Itachi.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at him.
"You can get out now. I'm up." Sasuke replied in a groggy tone.
Sasuke walked over to his bathroom, while Itachi got ready to go to work. He stared at himself in the mirror, scowling at himself with his tired eyes and messy bed-head hair. It was normal for Sasuke to act like this. It wasn't necessarily that he just wasn't a morning person or that he was never happy. Of course he was happy, back when he was younger and his parents were still alive. The fact that he was so naive to believe that nothing could ever take his loving parents away from him and Itachi was the reason he was so cold and distant toward some people. Yet, just like that they were gone out of his life. There was never a day in his life that Sasuke ever forgot about his parents, their death, or Itachi going to the law offices in Konoha to take custody of him.
Since then, he never really smiled. Although, there were good times spent with his best friend, Naruto, who had lost everything just as Sasuke did, yet he spent all his time fooling around. His humor always made Sasuke's grief go away for a while, but it didn't always last. Much was going through the mind of the 17 year old Uchiha while he took a shower and gelled his hair in its usual spiky hair style. He went back into his room and threw on some old baggy jeans that were torn at the knees and a dark blue hoodie.
Down in the kitchen, Itachi had made breakfast for them both and packed a paper bag lunch for Sasuke.
"Here's your breakfast, Sasuke." Itachi said, placing the plate of eggs and toast with a side of bacon in front of him. Sasuke made no reply. He quickly ate his breakfast, grabbed his lunch, and went out the door, with his hood over his head. Itachi sighed to himself, concerned about his little brother, just as he always was since their parent's death. He sat alone at the kitchen table, drinking his coffee while he watched his brother head to school.
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Hinata walked up the stairwell of the school while staring at the clock that was mounted on the face of the it. It was a bit blurry at first, until she put on her glasses.
"Eight-fifteen." she said to herself, fifteen minute before first period.
As she took out her schedule, she was walking in the empty hallways of the school until she bumped into someone.
"Oh, I'm sorry." said the lavender eyes girl.
But the hooded person just walked by and made no reply, walking with his hands shoved in the pockets of his baggy pants.
"That was weird…"
Hinata was taken aback by the reaction of the gloomy, hooded person. But she put it on the back burner of her mind and continued on walking toward her assigned locker, where she finally met up with her best friends since 8th grade, Temari and Gaara.
"Hey you guys!" Hinata said excitedly as she hugged her two friends.
"So I see you've met Sasuke Uchiha, huh?" Gaara said in his usually raspy voice.
"Is that who he was?"
"Yeah, he considered one of the popular guys and he's pretty popular among the girls in the school." Temari explained while pointing at the raven hair boy a couple lockers away.
Hinata looked at him. She wasn't exactly sure what the girls saw in him. With that facial expression, he looked like a walking dead person, which to her was pretty unattractive.
"Whatever, I don't see it." Hinata said.
"Oh, so I see you have your schedule, huh?" asked Temari, and Hinata gave her the schedule.
Hinata's Schedule
Period 1: Calculus AB, Teacher: Mr. Umino, Iruka Room: 211
Period 2: Chemistry, Teacher: Mrs. Yuuhi-Sarutobi, Kurenai Room: 314
Period 3: History, Teacher: Mr. Hatake, Kakashi Room: 222
Period 4: English Literature, Teacher: Mr. Sarutobi, Asuma Room: 139
Period 5: Gym, Teacher: Mr. Gai, Maito Room: Gym
Period 6: Lunch
Period 7: Computer Tech., Teacher: Ms. Mitarashi, Anko Room: 323
Period 8: Human Development, Teacher: Mr. Jiraiya Room: 112
Period 9: Study Hall, Teacher: Mr. Ebisu Room: 121
"Wow Hinata, our schedules are almost exactly the same." Temari said happily. Hinata smiled.
"We can all sit together during lunch." said Gaara, equally happy, yet his facial expression didn't show it.
The three friends all headed to first period together and met their first period teacher, Mr. Umino.
"Good morning class. I'm your teacher, Mr. Umino and welcome to the first day of Calculus." the teacher said as he was taking attendance.
"Gaara." he called, then got a "here" in return.
"Temari."
"Hinata Hyuuga."
"Here!" she called out.
"Shikamaru Nara."
"Here…" he answered in his lazy voice.
"Sakura Haruno…" he paused, waiting for an answer. Then he called her name again.
"Ms. Haruno! Is Sakura Haruno here?"
Of course, there she was sitting in the back of the room, staring into her mirror, fixing her hair, and doing other typical, superficial girl things while talking to her best friend, Ino. Then, Mr. Umino walked up to her desk.
"Ms. Haruno, if you don't want to be marked absent, I suggest you pay attention and say, 'here'." said Mr. Umino in his strict voice.
The pink haired girl sighed.
"Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Umino. It won't happen again." she said in her fake, suck up voice. Mr. Umino just rolled his eyes and continued with the attendance.
"Hey Temari!" Hinata whispered to her friend sitting behind her.
"Yeah?"
"Who's that Sakura girl sitting over there?" Hinata asked.
"Oh, Sakura Haruno? You don't want to get mixed up with her and her friends. She's nothing but a selfish, manipulative, superficial, cocky, son of a--"
Suddenly, the door burst open and there he was again; the mysterious and hooded, Sasuke Uchiha.
"Nice of you to join us, Mr. Uchiha." Mr. Umino said sarcastically while marking him late. Sasuke ignored his comment and sat all the way in the corner of the room.
"Oh, and please take your hood off. They're not allowed in school." the teacher added.
"Fine." said Sasuke in his monotonous voice. As he pulled down his hood, revealing his face and messy raven hair, all the girls in the room, except Temari and Hinata began swooning over Sasuke, the "heart-throb" of Hidden Leaf High. Temari scoffed at how typical and stupid all the girls were being and Hinata giggled at how much it was annoying both Temari and Gaara.
Sasuke on the other hand, was royally pissed. It made his day go from bad to worse, but he just ignored all the, "Oh my god, he's so hot!" and the sighing and swooning.
Second period was when Gaara, Temari and Hinata split up, as least until they met again fifth and sixth period. That was when Hinata saw Sasuke at his locker, surrounded by girls watching his every move.
'Maybe this could be my chance to apologize for bumping into him before.' she thought to herself. Hinata pushed through all the surrounding obsessed girls to get to Sasuke. But then she froze when she saw Sakura again.
'...Oh, Sakura Haruno? You don't want to get mixed up with her and her friends…' she remembered Temari saying. But she decided that now wasn't the time.
When she finally got to Sasuke, she saw Sakura talking to him.
"Sasuke-kun, why? It only happened last year. Would you go out with me if I promised to be a better girlfriend?" she asked in a flirtatious voice.
"No, now let me go to class." he said while closing his locker. Sakura scoffed at him for being so stubborn, but she reassured herself that Sasuke would be hers soon enough as she walked away. Now was Hinata's chance.
"Ummm…Sasuke?" she said in a soft voice. He turned around.
"No, I won't go out with you. Now will you please leave me alone!" he said, his voice getting increasingly louder.
"W-wait, that's not what I wanted to say." she called out to him, just before he was leaving to class.
"Then what is it?"
"I just wanted to umm…apologize f-for bumping into you earlier." Hinata said bashfully.
Sasuke was a bit taken aback since this girl wasn't trying desperately to flirt with him. For once, he felt a bit calmer than usual around her.
"It's okay, you didn't have to apologize."
Hinata was surprised by how sincere he was at the moment. She thought by now he would have sent her away, just as he did with the other girls. But he accepted the apology and walked off to class. Maybe he wasn't as bad as she thought he was. The rest of the day seemed to go by quickly. Mrs. Yuuhi-Sarutobi had immediately become Hinata's favorite teacher. She was smart, pretty, and kind to all her students. Sixth period, Gaara, Hinata, and Temari went out to lunch and after that they went through seventh, eighth, and ninth period together.
Finally, it was time to go home. Just as she closed her locker and was headed for the doors, Sakura and her friends came walking up to her, not looking very happy.
"Listen, you! I saw you talking to Sasuke before second period today." Sakura said, seething with anger.
"Yeah, I was talking to Sasuke today. What's your point?"
"Stay…away…from Sasuke, and we won't have a problem."
And with that, Sakura walked away with her friends following behind.
"Well, that just made my day a whole lot better." Hinata said to herself sarcastically, and then she went home.
When Hinata arrived home, she went straight to her father's study. She knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Hinata saw her father sitting in his big office chair with his hands folded at his desk.
"Hanabi told me this morning that you wanted to speak to me about something important." she said.
"Indeed." he replied in his deep voice.
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So there you have it. The first chapter of "The Konoha Seniors". I hope you liked it. Please review! If I get 10 reviews, then I will update. Well, ja ne for now!