Niko-chan: Hello all. This is my first story and I hope you all enjoy it. I've spent a long time planning this and writing this, so I hope to get many good reviews. OR constructive critism. Oh, and some of the characters would be a bit OOC, but it is supposed to be that way. =^.^=

Gaara: Niko-chan does not own any characters except her OC characters. All rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

Niko-chan: Thank you Gaara. Here's a cookie! :3

Gaara: ~eats cookie~

~Chapter 1: A new beginning. Enter Niko and and Karu!~

"… and this is your uniforms. I hope you enjoy Konoha High."

"Whaa..? Oh! *yawns* arigato, Principal Tsunade." responded the very tired Niko.

Her soft, shoulder-length brown hair drops to her eyes, and she blows away the strands of hair to reveal her luminous brown eyes. Feeling cold, Niko puts on a pink cardigan over her "Rawr 3" t-shirt and her light blue jeans. Yawning again, she could feel her eyelids getting heavy.

She just endured about half an hour of Tsunade going on about how you must respect the code of conduct and how to properly use your student manual. Of course, as being brilliant as she is, Niko already knew all this stuff, and already memorized the whole map of the school. In her tired state, she was still so very excited to start school where she was not alone, and she could be herself. No one knows about her past here, and everyone seems more than willing to be her friend.

As Niko steps out of the office, she notices the never-ending hallways illuminated by the pattern of leaf-green and grey lockers, obviously to represent school spirit. The sunlight seeping through the translucent glass of the courtyard windows reveal an imprint of the school crest. ''This wasn't in the handbook'' pondered Niko in amazement.

"Come on. Hurry up slowpoke." Niko glances at her left, and sees her cousin, who seems to camouflage with the cream-coloured wall, even though he is wearing a bright blue shirt. She smiled.

"Ohayo, Sasuke-kun!"

"Let's go to the dorms."

"Hai. Do you now wha-" shove

"Sorry" mumbles a boy that was walking to the office.

The boy had questionable good looks that made Sasuke look like a pile of poo. His messy brown hair contrasted with his cream skin. His eyes looked like beautiful round discs that reflected an energetic brown colour. He seemed well-built, and had a mysterious look on his face. He caught Niko looking at him, and the mystery on his face turned into a questioning look. Niko blushed, and turned away. As soon as the boy leaves, Niko glances at Sasuke.

"Do you know who he is?"

"Nope. Must be new. Just. Like. You." Niko chuckled at this bizarre comment.

Sasuke smiles "Come on. Let me help you with your bag."

"Hey guys! My cousin finally came!" yells Sasuke. He kicks the door open revealing a room with leaf-green couches and a television mounted on the wall facing a small kitchen with a table and chairs. Two separate doors saying "Girl's room" and "Boy's room" were next to the television.

"so, this is our dorm?"

"Yep. Good ol' dorm 13."

Just before Niko can say anything else, someone hugs her.

"Oh! Hi," the person says gushingly "My name is Temari, and this is my brother Gaara. We will also be you roommates."

Niko looked past the perky girl with the blonde pigtails and glances admirably at the boy with messy crimson hair and the kanji for "love" tattooed to his forehead. His sea foam eyes( A/N :yes. I checked. His eyes are sea foam.) looked at her mysteriously, and she could feel herself blushing. She was never the one to really care a lot for boys, but something about this one, made her heart melt at the sight of him. As a child, she always had the tendency to take anything alluring to her in the real world and change in to her liking in the fantasy world. In the back of her head, Niko is already fantasizing.

"Save me knight-sama!" A captured Niko-hime screams from the clutches of some evil kidnappers. Her once-beautiful pale pink dress is torn, and her hair is messed up.
"Don't worry, I'll be there to protect you," he slashes a kidnapper with his sword, " I will ALWAYS be there to protect you" Knight-sama says as he finishes off the wounded kidnapper. One of them slashes his arm, but he finishes them off with his ending blow move (A/N LOL Zelda reference). Niko-hime runs towards to wounded knight, and trips into his arms.
"Are you okay?" she asks worriedly.
"I am. Now that you're here." Knight-sama takes off his helmet to reveal the messy crimson hair and the sea-foam eyes Niko-hime knows and loves.
"Oh. Gaara-kun! You could have died trying to save me!"
"It doesn't matter. I love you Niko-chan." Gaara-kun says sincerely.
"I love you too!" Gaara-kun embraces her, and Niko turns her head to face him. Their noses are touching. They look each other in the eyes and move in closer, and they-

A hand is waving in front of her face. "Niko? NIKO? ARE YOU ALRIGHT?"
"Huh? OH, I was just… uhhh, yea" responded the really confused Niko.
Temari sighed "You seem really childish"
"yes, yes she is" responded a snickering Sasuke.
"wha-? HEY, sasuke-CHAN, STOP IT!" Niko whined.

Gaara watched in amazement as all 3 of them were bickering and fighting. And for the longest time in his life, he smiled. They all stopped and noticed Gaara. "Wow, 5 minutes here, and she actually made that guy smile. Impressive." Temari thought. She chuckled softly.

"What?"Gaara asks innocently.
"Nothing Gaara," Temari brushes off, "Niko, let's get you unpacked."
"Sure!" replied Niko, and the two new friends made their way to the girl's room with her bags.

"Your cousin is… interesting."
"Really? And this isn't one of her bad days!" Sasuke replies, jokingly.

In the next room, Niko says "Hey Temari, your brother is… interesting"
"Really? And this isn't one of his bad days!"Temari replies, jokingly.

Gaara and Niko both sigh "I wonder…"

"Hey Temari and Niko, are you ready? It's time for lunch!"Sasuke shouts.
"Hold on, we're doing girly stuff. Your cousin is safe in my hands, Sasuke!" Temari shouts back. Their constant shouting started to annoy Gaara. Before he can say anything to reflect his anger and possibly humiliate both Sasuke and Temari in front of Niko, the girls finally come out. Gaara notices Niko's change in appearance. Her gorgeous brown hair is loose and has a white bow in it. She is now wearing a hello kitty t-shirt and dark jeans. He also notices that Temari tried to copy Niko's appearance with the bow and the cute t-shirt and the jeans.

Of course, he thought, just like my sister to never come up with an original idea! Gaara rolled his eyes.

"Alright. OFF TO LUNCH! I'm STARVING!" Niko says abruptly while pointing at the door.
"Just where do you think YOU'RE going?" asks Sasuke in a serious tone as he steps in front of Niko.
"To lunch, silly!"
"Uh-huh. Not without a sweater you don't!"
"It's 31 degrees outside, Sasuke-chan!"
"Don't you dare call your oto-san Sasuke-chan!"
"You're not my oto-san!"
"Uh-huh. How do YOU know that?"
"I..I…I.." Niko starts whimpering at Sasuke's little mind game. Smirking in victory, Sasuke said the faintest "ha". Niko knows Sasuke likes to joke with her, but when she is tired, her brain doesn't function at all!

Gaara and Temari sweatdrops from a distance.

"Do WE act like that?"
"Of course not. WE're toooo loving!"
"Uh-huh.."Gaara whispers.

After half-an-hour of constant arguing, Sasuke, Niko, Temari, and Gaara FINALLY make it to lunch where the rest of the gang is.
"…and that's why penguins are actually ninjas in disguise."
"No they're not!"
"Yes they are!"

Our lovely ninja group sweats drop, knowing in their mind that the girl arguing with Sasuke MUST be his cousin. After all, they're both good-looking (A/N: Sasuke? Good-looking? OH well, just for you narutards out there!), stubborn, and, well ya, that's basically it.
"Oh. Hey guys," Temari says as she approaches them sitting on a picnic bench under a cherry blossom tree, "This is Sasuke's cousin. She came this morning. Her name is Niko!"
"Hi Niko" they all say in a cheery voice. Suddenly, someone hug attacks Niko from the back. She lets out a soft gasp.
"HI NIKO-CHAN! MY NAME IS NARUTO. BELIEVE IT!"
"Oh. My. God. Naruto, you dobe. Don't give her a heart attack on the first day!" Sasuke says stressfully.
Niko chuckles "it's alright." She smiles brightly.

"Niko-chan," says Temari as she pulls her away from Naruto and Sasuke, "This is Sakura, Ino, Shikamaru, Kiba, my pervy brother Kankuro, Chouji, Shino, Hinata, Ten-ten, and Rock Lee. Neji is not here at the moment. He would be the kid with a long ponytail."

Niko starts giggling at Temari's comment, trips backwards into a girl. As she turns to say sorry to whoever it is, an extremely red face with a matching colour of hair is revealed.

"Oh." Temari says sheeply, "This is the school slut—I mean head cheerleader, Karin."

Karin growls at Temari's comment, then faces Niko again. "You just spilled my lunch all over my beautiful body!" She screeches. "And you've been stealing my Sasuke-kun the second you've arrived! You're gonna pay!"

Niko-chan tries to explain that she and Sasuke are just cousins, but Karin slaps her in the face, before she can say something. Everyone gasped.

"Sasuke, why don't you do something, she's messing with your cousin!" Sakura exclaims.
"Don't worry, she can handle herself." He replies.
"Niko," Sasuke smirks, "Why don't you show her what she gets for messing with an Uchiha?"

As Karin's deductive skills are a flat zero, she finally put two and two together. "Wait a minute—you're- "

Niko roundhouse kicks Karin before she can finish her sentence, just like Bruce Lee did in that movie! Then she pins her on the ground and starts punching her face until it bleeds blood.

Karin runs away, crying, while holding her cheeks. "I'll make you PAYYYYyyyy…" Everyone else, was watching in shock and amazement.

"What?" Niko asks innocently.
"Are you okay Niko?" Sasuke asks worriedly, hugging her protectively.
"Don't worry, I'm fine" She replies, letting go of Sasuke's grasp.

"Well, we're finally here!" Everyone turns around to see Neji talking to the same boy with the brown hair and eyes from this morning.

"Everyone, this is Karu-kun. He is new."
"Karu-kun?" Niko whispers, as she enters a flashback.

Niko-chan: Well that's basically it! Join us next time in "Chapter 2 : Secrets revealed!"
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