OMG I MADE A NARUTO FANFIC! YAY!

Before we start, I've got some stuff to warn you about:

1) This is my first Naruto fic.

2) I haven't seen all that many episodes of Naruto.

3) This is a school fic that takes place in Middle School and not High School. I happen to know that there are a lot of school-fics floating around everywhere and some are either fantastic, okay, and terrible. My hope is that this would turn out to be one of the fantastic ones.

4) I have an OC in here, so please don't kill me.

5) I'm light on swearing. Actually, I don't really swear at all. So if you like swearing to a full extent then I suggest that you go and read an M or T-rated fic because there is no swearing here. I am pure. Thank you.

6) I'm trying to make sure people are in character. You can take that in a good way or a bad way. I prefer it in a good way.

Wow, with all these things that might turn my fic into a nightmare, it's hard to think that I'd get any reviews at all! Oh well! On with the show!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Hiroshi Nori stood in front of the principal of Konoha Middle School, a blond woman that probably had a few surgeries to make herself look way younger than she really was. Nori had an emotionless look on her face, though she tried to smile once in a while. She had just come to get her new seventh grade schedule for the year, but the principal just seemed to ramble on about who-knows-what. Nori was only half-listening to Principal Tsunade.

"Anyway, welcome to Konoha and I hope you have a good stay," Tsunade finished. "Here's your schedule."

"Thank you," Nori said, taking the paper and half-smiling.

"You'll be able to explore the grounds," Tsunade called after Nori as she walked out the door. "Maybe you should put some of your things in your new locker! The classrooms and lockers are on the other side of campus, just so you know. The grounds are pretty big, so don't get lost!"

"I won't," Nori answered. "Thank you."

When Nori had come to this school, she didn't pay much attention to her surroundings. She was too depressed to look at anything or anyone. But now, she decided that she should be more…optimistic, maybe. She looked around.

Tsunade was right, it was a big school. Bigger than any other school she had been to. There were large courtyards and greenery decorated the campus everywhere. The plants were probably the most numerous things in the school if it weren't for the many students. They were all happy, laughing and chatting with each other.

Nori looked up at the sky which was blue and crisp. There were a few white cotton candy clouds too. No wonder everyone was so hap—

"Argh!"

"What the—"

Nori had tripped over something and fell flat on her face. Her backpack (which was more of a large bag) was strewn to the side with all her supplies. Papers, pencils, everything was out of her bag.

The new student spat grass and dirt out of her mouth and blew a strand of auburn hair out of her face. Apparently her hair tie never caught every strand of her thick hair whenever she put it up.

She sat up, looked over her shoulder, and gasped. She saw her bag and supplies, but what made her gasp was a boy with brown hair tied in a ponytail that stuck up and an exasperated look on his face. He had been lying on his back gazing at the clouds when someone tripped over him.

"Oh geez, I'm sorry," Nori apologized, jumping up. "Are you okay? I can't believe I didn't see you there." She started gathering up her things. "I'm sorry."

"Hey, it's nothing," the boy said, picking up her notebooks. Even though she tripped over his stomach, he was still a boy and she was still a girl so he had to act like a gentleman, right? Right.

"I'm so sorry," Nori repeated. She still looked anxious. "This is so not a good time," she muttered.

"You okay?" the boy asked, raising an eyebrow. "It was just an accident."

"It isn't that," Nori said, wincing. "I mean…I'm fine. Really. Thanks."

"No problem," the boy said.

"I'm Nori," Nori introduced, gluing a small smile on her face. "That is, Hiroshi Nori."

"Nara Shikamaru," the boy said, shaking her hand. "Just look where you're going next time, okay?"

"Count on it," Nori smiled. "I'll see you later."

"Later." He nodded then spread himself on the ground again.

Nori turned extremely red as she walked away. No, she didn't have a crush in that boy, no matter how courteous he had been. No, she wasn't embarrassed. No, she wasn't mad at him for just lying down "in the middle of the road." She was just frustrated, extremely frustrated with herself. She felt as if her life couldn't get any worse. The school was nice, the people were probably nice, and the principal wasn't half bad either, so why was she so depressed?

Don't remind yourself, Nori, she thought. She sighed. But I can't stop thinking about—

"Akamaru, no!"

Nori's thoughts were interrupted by a small weight on her chest that pushed her down onto the ground and started giving her big wet kisses all over her face. "Ack!"

"Stop it!"

The weight had been lifted and Nori wiped her face as good as she could. She opened her eyes to see a worried boy with messy brown hair and red marks on his face. "I'm sorry! Please don't tell! I'm sorry!" the boy exclaimed frantically.

"What?" Nori asked. "Don't tell what? About the dog?"

The boy nodded.

"I wouldn't dream of it," Nori said. "Don't worry about it."

"You sure? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Good, but I meant about Akamaru."

"Oh, your secret's safe with me."

"That's great," the boy grinned. "It's funny, he's not usually so wired. He usually obeys me. My guess is that he really likes you or you smell like dog food and biscuits. Or maybe it was that I just fed him his favorite treat and he was excited. Yeah, that's probably it. I'm Inuzuka Kiba, by the way."

"Hiroshi Nori," Nori said.

"Oh, he got your clothes stained," Kiba remarked. "Sorry."

"I don't mind," Nori said. "I think they were already stained from a different…accident." She winced at her words. "It's fine. Well, I really have to go."

"Okay. Hey, do you want to eat lunch with me?" Kiba asked. "I'll save you a seat."

"Okay, thanks," Nori smiled.

"Cool. Bye!" Kiba said, waving. He ran, hiding Akamaru in his hood. "See ya!"

Akamaru barked.

Nori waved slightly back. Maybe her day was brightening. Suddenly, a boy dashed past her.

SPLAT.

Or maybe her day was just getting worse.

"Ahahahaha! I mean, whoops!"

Nori's shirt soaked up the massive amount of water that was in the water balloon. The impact of the water balloon made her fall down for the third time today, not to mention it completely freaked her out. That hurt.

A blond boy with spiky hair and a loud orange and blue attire was trying to consume his laughter. It wasn't working so well. He had whiskers on his face as well.

Nori growled. She walked up to the boy slowly and glared at him. He looked up at her with blue eyes. He was short. Nori held up her hands to her shirt and wrung the bottom out. By this time, her shirt was entirely wet. Then she punched his lights out. Who wouldn't?

"Argh!"

The blond boy jumped back, covering his eye. "What was that for?"

Nori cleared her throat and made a gesture towards her soaked shirt. "For ambushing me with a water balloon!"

"It wasn't meant for you!"

"Well then you have terrible aim!"

"Hey!"

Nori just scowled at the boy. "You'd better watch it."

"Looks like you're in trouble again, Uzumaki," said a voice behind Nori.

She turned around to see a boy with night-black hair and gorgeous black eyes, but right now Nori wasn't focusing on his looks. This was probably the boy who ran past her and the person who that Uzumaki boy was aiming for. "Is this guy your friend or something?"

"Yeah right," the boy said coolly. "He's just on my case all the time because I'm better than him at everything."

"In your dreams, Sasuke!" Uzumaki shouted.

"Denial is a sad thing, Naruto," the boy called Sasuke said back. "And if you don't want another black eye I suggest you apologize to her."

"Oh, what do you care?" Naruto said, pouting. He turned to Nori and said, "Sorry 'bout the balloon. Here, I have some napkins. Let me—"

"No, no," Nori said, stopping his hand. "That's okay, I can do it." She took the napkins and attempted to dry herself off. Like her day, it wasn't working so well.

"Oh, and I'm Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto said, grinning.

"I gathered," Nori said. "Hiroshi Nori."

Sasuke was starting to walk away.

"Wait," Nori said, putting a hand on his shoulder. "You're Sasuke, right?"

"Yeah," Sasuke answered. "And if you want my number you can just forget it."

"Don't flatter yourself," Nori snorted. "I just wanted to say that I've heard of the great Uchiha Sasuke. That's you, right?"

"That's right."

"Well, it's good to meet you," Nori said politely.

"It's good to everyone," Sasuke retorted.

Nori narrowed her eyes. What a rude jerk. She was about to speak her thoughts when something tackled her and Sasuke to the ground.

"Sasuke-kun!"

"Argh!"

"Ah!"

Two girls had tackled Sasuke who fell on Nori who fell to the ground. Ouch.

"Oops!"

"Get off him, Ino-pig!"

"You're on him too, Forehead Girl!"

"Hey girls…you're crushing…me…a little…" Nori gasped.

"I'm so sorry," 'Forehead Girl' said. She had pink hair and green eyes. She was true to her nickname. "I didn't mean to hurt you or Sasuke-kun! It's just—"

"No one wants to hear you ramble on," 'Ino-pig' said, crossing her arms. "Maybe if you hadn't gone for him at the same time as me he wouldn't have been hurt!"

"I'm not hurt," Sasuke denied, rubbing his back. Then he glared at the two girls. "I'm annoyed."

"Who are you two?" Nori asked.

"Oh, I'm Yamanaka Ino," 'Ino-pig' said. She had fair blond hair in a long ponytail and crystal blue eyes. "And this is Forehead Girl."

"Stop calling me that!" 'Forehead Girl' ordered. "My name is Haruno Sakura. Ino-pig's just sore today."

"I am not."

"Hi Sakura-chan," Naruto said dreamily.

Nori looked at Naruto, puzzled. She waved her hand in front of his face. "Hey Naruto? Hello?"

"Save your breath," Sasuke said carelessly. "Whatever's left of that baka's brain always goes blank around her."

"Weird."

"Sakura…chan…"

"Get away, Naruto-baka!" Sakura exclaimed, knocking him on the head.

"Ow! Sakura-chan! Why'd you do that for?"

"Get away!"

"So, Sasuke-kun, do you want to do something together after school?" Ino asked hopefully.

""Hey Ino-pig! That's cheating!" Sakura exclaimed while holding Naruto back, her hand on his forehead. "Arm's length, Naruto!"

"Come on, Sakura! Why don't you ever want to hang out with me?"

"Because you're a troublemaking baka, that's why!"

"Aw…"

"Well, will you Sasuke-kun? Please?" Ino's eyes widened into puppy dog eyes.

"No."

"What?" Ino screamed. "Why not?"

"He already said no!" Sakura exclaimed, pushing Ino to the side. "Will you go with me?"

"No."

"Oh, but why, Sasuke-kun?"

"Move!" Ino jabbed Sakura.

"You move!"

The girls were squabbling and arguing, trying to get 'Sasuke-kun's' attention.

"I'm out of here," Sasuke muttered.

"Later, Sasuke," Nori said. Later, jerk.

"Yeah, you'd better run!" Stay away from my woman!" Naruto shouted at Sasuke, shaking his fist.

"Whatever, loser."

Naruto was about to blow steam.

Nori laughed. "This school is so weird." She turned to the girls who just realized that Sasuke had gone. They were walking away dejectedly. How obsessive can these girls be? Nori wondered. "Naruto."

"What?"

"Why do they fight over Sasuke like that? He doesn't seem all that special," Nori said.

"How should I know?"

"Must be his good looks, right?"

"If you mean he's a pretty boy know-it-all, then you're right."

"Hm, jealous?"

"Yeah right. What do you like him?"

"As if."

"Well, it wouldn't matter anyway," Naruto sniffed. "It only matters that Sakura loves him and doesn't love me! I'm gonna kill Sasuke for that!"

"I don't think you can make her love you. She seems pretty solid when it comes to Sasuke."

"So?"

"Whatever. I'll see you later, okay?"

"You will?"

"Maybe." She smiled. "You're a pretty interesting guy when you get past the whole water balloon thing."

"Gee, thanks."

Nori walked away. I have a feeling this guy will spark up this place big time. What a strange boy. As she got closer to where the field was, she heard a shout.

"Heads up!"

Nori looked up. "Ow!" She rubbed her head. A soccer ball had just bounced off her head. Luckily, she didn't fall again, but she felt like she had a Texas-sized bruise on her head. Why did people say heads up anyway? If you don't want to get nailed you wouldn't want to look up, would you? Of course you wouldn't.

The soccer ball dropped to the ground and rolled a few feet away from her.

"Are you okay?" a female voice said.

Nori saw three people: a boy with white eyes and long black hair with a hard stare, a girl with her dark brown hair in buns and eyes to match, and a boy with gigantic eyebrows, round, odd-looking eyes, and black hair cut into a Moe Howard style haircut.

"Yeah…" Nori replied, rubbing her head.

"Imo so sorry," the girl said.

"Neji should apologize," the bushy-browed boy said, turning to the white-eyed boy.

"Sorry," Neji said. "I didn't mean to kick it that far and hard."

"That's okay. I get spiked by something all the time nowadays," Nori said. And that wasn't a lie.

"Well, we surely have learned a lesson today, haven't we Neji?" the Moe Howard boy said.

"Yeah," Neji said, glaring at him. "When I'm concentrating on a shot, don't start shouting that stupid cheer you made up."

"I thought it was a good cheer, thank you very much," the Moe Howard boy said, offended.

"Well, I'm just glad you didn't give her a concussion," the girl said, her hands on her hips. "Hey, are you new? I don't remember seeing your face around here."

"Yeah, I'm new. Hiroshi Nori's my name."

"That's great," the girl smiled. "Welcome to Konoha. I'm Tenten."

"I am Rock Lee!" the Moe Howard boy introduced, shooting her a bright, blinding smile. "And that is the prestigious Hyuuga Neji!"

The white-eyed boy nodded.

"Prestigious, huh?" Nori smiled.

"And don't you forget it," Neji warned.

"If you don't mind, why is your shirt so wet?" Lee asked curiously.

"Long story," Nori sighed.

"Well, we don't have time for it," Neji said sternly.

"That's okay," Nori said, thought she didn't know why. She wasn't about to tell them what happened anyway.

"Come on, you guys," Neji said, walking back to the field.

"Yes! We must continue our training!" Lee exclaimed enthusiastically. He jogged quickly to Neji.

"Don't mind those two," Tenten whispered. "Neji's big on sports and Lee's real excited about everything. They're both really athletic, and they both work themselves to the bone while we're practicing. They've got some kind of rivalry, mostly on Lee's part. I hate to say it, but sometimes I feel pretty inferior to them, but they're still—"

"Tenten!" Lee called. "It's your turn to be goalie!"

"Oh great," Tenten groaned. "Please come to my funeral. Later."

"Bye."

Nori watched the two boys blast soccer balls Tenten's way as she tried to shield herself and the goal. Poor girl. Now she was a few yards away from the building. Dang, this school was big. It was probably about ten minutes until classes started.

She saw a large boy searching around on the ground for something. He looked troubled. She couldn't really ignore that, so she squatted down next to him and said, "Looking for something?"

The boy looked up and blushed. He didn't really talk to girls all that much. "Uh…just my bag of chips…"

"Oh," Nori said. "Well, are you all that hungry?"

"Yeah," the boy nodded eagerly. "I had a small breakfast." Probably seven helpings of scrambled eggs, fifteen sausages, twenty slices of bacon, five pieces of bread, and a glass of orange juice.

"Well…I'll help," Nori offered.

"Okay. Oh, and my name's Akimichi Chouji."

"Hiroshi Nori. Nice to meet you."

They looked around for quite a while. Nori felt a little silly, crawling around in the dirt trying to find a bag of potato chips. After looking around some more, she saw a pair of sneakers. She looked up and saw a boy with sunglasses and black hair shaped in an afro-style. He had a huge collared jacket on. "Uh…hi?"

"What are you doing?"

"Looking for something."

"You're on an anthill."

"What the—oh crud!" She felt a few small sparks of pain on her leg. She shot up and started jumping up and down while wiping off her clothes. "Get them off! Get them off!"

The boy took her hand and set her down. "Are you afraid of bugs?" He carefully wiped off her leg and put some kind of lotion on it.

She shuddered. "Sort of. I'm fine when they aren't crawling around on me."

"You were the one who invaded their home."

"True," Nori sighed. "But it was really small. I didn't know."

The boy shrugged. "Just watch where you're going."

"I've heard that before. I'm Hiroshi Nori."

"Aburame Shino," the boy said hesitantly. He stood up and walked away.

That guy's stranger than Naruto, Nori thought.

"I found it!" came Chouji's voice.

"Well, that's great," Nori said. She felt her leg. Whatever the boy put on it, it sure helped. "See you later, Chouji."

She was answered by the crunching sounds of the salty snacks in Chouji's mouth.

Nori was finally in the building. Her locker number was number 156. Great. The first locker she saw was number 1. She walked for a very long time. About halfway there, she saw a girl sitting at the side of a classroom looking down and alone.

"Hi."

The girl jumped at the sound of Nori's voice. "H-Hello." The girl had short blue-black hair and white eyes.

"What are you doing in here alone?" Nori asked.

"J-Just s-sitting," the girl said softly.

"Well, you shouldn't Nori said. "You can come with me if you'd like. I just have to put some stuff in my locker. My name's Hiroshi Nori."

"H-Hyuuga Hinata," the girl said shyly. "And I'd l-love t-to come."

"Good, I'd like some company," Nori said, offering her a hand. "Nice to meet you, Hinata."

Hinata took her hand and stood up. The girls walked while having a few snippets of conversation.

"What's your locker number?" Nori asked.

"S-Seventeen…"

"Oh. Um, by any chance, are you…related to someone named Neji?"

"Y-Yes," Hinata said quietly. "H-He's my c-cousin…"

Nori nodded. "I thought so. You have very unique eyes."

"Th-Thank you."

"Nori got to her locker. "So, Hinata, are you new here too?" She opened it and put a few things inside. She also found that there were textbooks for each subject that was placed inside.

"N-No. I was here in s-sixth grade," Hinata stuttered.

Nori smiled. "There's no need to stutter around me, Hinata."

Hinata turned red. "I'm sorry."

Nori was about to tell her not to apologize, but she heard something that stopped her. There were footsteps that seemed to echo down the hallway quietly.

Nori and Hinata turned to see a boy with red hair and a love kanji tattooed on his forehead. The red-haired boy walked over next to Nori and opened the locker next to hers. He placed a few items inside and closed it. He glanced at the two girls with penetrating green eyes. His eyes had black lining around them. Either he was some kind of Goth boy or he seriously needed some sleep.

Hinata made a small sound and stood back behind Nori a little more.

"Uh…hi," Nori said uncertainly.

The boy stared at her. "You're new here."

Nori nodded. "Yeah. My name's Nori."

"I see." The boy looked at her again, then turned and left.

Nori let out a breath when he left. "Phew, that kid's scary."

"I would keep away if I were you," Hinata said quietly. "Mostly everyone does. His name is Gaara."

"Gaara, huh?" Nori said, observing the directing he had gone. "Interesting."

BRING!

The bell that signaled that class would begin in two minutes rang.

"Oh, Hinata," Nori said. "What homeroom do you have to start?"

"Um…Math class," Hinata said, checking her schedule.

"Oh," Nori said. "I have Social Studies…shoot. Well, I'll see you later, then."

"Bye," Hinata waved.

As she walked to class, she reminisced over her morning. She couldn't believe she had been at school for only thirty minutes. She had tripped over a lazy genius gentleman, had been tackled by a small white dog who gave her kisses all over her face, water-ballooned by a psychotic strange blond, gotten crushed by two obsessed girls and a cocky heartthrob, hit in the head by a soccer ball by a white-eyed boy, seen the biggest eyebrows on Earth on an enthusiastic guy, met a new friend who hung out with both guys, searched for a bag of chips with a kid practically ten times wider than she was, gotten bitten by several ants, met a boy with sunglasses with a huge collar, befriended a girl with white eyes and a confidence problem, and was almost scared to death by a red-headed mysterious boy with a love tattoo on his forehead and creepy eyes. (A/N: Geez, that was long.)

She felt her bruises, grass stains, seemingly small and stiffer shirt, and ant bites, which weren't as bad thanks to Shino.

Wow. It was only the first day of school. It wasn't even the first day. It was more of the time before the first day and she had already learned something. First days hurt.

Hope it wasn't bad. Or worse. Or terrible. Or--well, you get the point. Usually intros are boring, but I tried to make it as NOT boring as possible. This is what I came out with.

I don't have anyone that Nori could have as a potential love interest. And even though I'm pretty light on the fluff (yes, aren't I completely not fun?) I'll give you lucky readers the choice of her love interest and I'll try not to screw anything up! You are such lucky dogs! So, tell me in the review who you want Nori to end up with. It could be anyone except for anyone of the same gender or WAY older age. That's just wrong. The limit is three years older, okay? Yes, I know I'm no fun. Sorry.

R&R please! Hope you liked it!