A/N: I do not own any of the characters! I own only my OC (Misaki)! And I owe this whole chapter to ShadowSoulSpirit, my Beta who has been like an angel! Happy reading! :)

Chapter 1 : The Welcome

Misaki ran through the corridor of her school. Actually she wasn't running, more like being pushed around by the crowd. Shifting from England to Japan wasn't an easy thing for her and the first day at her new school, Konoha High, wasn't making it any better.

'Oh my gosh! There are just so many people in here! Gotta get to class! Wait a sec, where is the class?! Damn! Why can't there be some signs in English?!'

"Ouch!" She yelled, as she banged into someone. She was holding her head in pain and crouching down trying to pick up her books.

"Are you blind?! Or are you just plain dumb?!" She looked up to see a pink-haired girl yelling.

"Oh no, Sakura! She was just trying to touch Sasuke-kun!" A blonde standing beside her said.

"Ino, Sakura, pick up my books. Some people are unquestionably naive." A male voice said, annoyance dripping from each word.

"Who do you think you're calling naive, huh?!" Misaki shot back and faced the male, the person who she had banged into.

At this, he just smirked and said, "I haven't seen you before."

That smirk of his just annoyed her more than she could handle. "Well how nice of you to notice that I'm new in here!" she retorted sarcastically.

His smirk just grew wider. 'Uh oh', she thought, 'something's not right.' Ino and Sakura had grins plastered on their faces as well. Everyone else had gathered in a circle around them. Sasuke got up, cleared his throat and said, "My apologies. I shouldn't have treated you that rudely. Perhaps we should try this again, I'm Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke. And you are?" He asked.

"Uh, Yazuka Misaki." She replied, uncertain.

"Misaki, let me formally welcome you to Konoha High. Sakura, do you have something that we can offer to our new mate?"

"Of course I do, Sasuke!" She chimed and gave him a can of cola that he opened and held in one hand while extended the other as a gesture for her to get up.

Misaki seemed annoyed and confused at the same time. She hesitantly took his hand and he helped her up. And all of a sudden the look on his face changed from empathetic to devious and he spilled the whole can of soft drink on her, first drenching her black hair and then her pink t-shirt.

"Welcome to Konoha High, Misaki-chan." He whispered in her ear and left her standing there in the middle of the crowd that had had broken out into hysterics.

She clenched her fists to prevent the tears from falling.

'Curse you, Uchiha.'

"Hey! Leave her alone will ya, you scums!" A loud and rugged voice came from the throng.

"What's your problem, Uzumaki? Can't bear it if someone else is made fun of instead of you?" someone else yelled.

Misaki had almost picked up her books and was starting to make her way towards the rest room. She had successfully managed to tune out the loud crowd and focus and let her bangs cover her eyes .This was by far the worst day of her life. Even worse than the day when Alex had almost... 'No!' She mentally shouted. 'I had promised myself, I'm never going to remember that ever.'

"Hey! Misa-chan! Wait up!" The same rugged voice shouted again.

Misaki turned around in full rage to tell whoever it was to just 'fuck off'. She had had enough of bullshit for the day.

"Misaki!" There was another voice this time. Of a girl.

She turned around to be faced by a blonde boy and a dark purple haired girl.

"Well, what do you want?!" She snarled at them.

They both flinched at her tone.

"Naruto-kun." The girl said as she inched closer to the boy.

"I know, Hinata, but I can't leave her alone like this. You of all people should know that." Naruto replied.

This was pissing her off even more; in a weird way. On one side it was bothering her that he was taking pity on her but on the other hand it was quite nice to know that maybe he does care.

"Misa-chan. I'm really sorry about what Sasuke did. He is an A-grade jerk! Just because he's an Uchiha, he thinks he can do anything he likes. Oh, by the way, I'm Naruto Uzumaki and this is Hinata Hyuuga. Let us help you." He said with a bright smile.

Somehow this little gesture made Misaki smile too. Hinata then led her to the bathroom to help her wash up while Naruto waited outside.

-In the Bathroom-

"Say, Misa-chan. Where are you from?" Hinata asked.

"England. I lived there since the past 10 years, I've just recently shifted to Konoha." Misaki replied.

She washed off her hair and Hinata gave her a fresh t-shirt from her locker. After changing, they went out and Naruto was standing there sipping some soft drink.

"You OK now, Misa-chan?" The blond asked. He really was concerned. His eyes said it all.

"Yep. Thanks a bunch you both. I was really off to a bad start in here." The black head replied as she shook her head.

"No trouble at all Misa-chan! Uzumaki Naruto always here at your service!"

This line made her giggle. The school bell rang indicating that it was time for lunch and that since this was the first day of school, they would all be allowed to leave after that.

Naruto's stomach rumbled and Hinata stifled a silly laugh.

"Naruto, don't you wanna hurry up and grab the lunch? I heard that they're serving ramen today." Hinata said.

"RAMEN?! AWWW YEEAAHHH!" All of a sudden, the hyperactive blonde became super-hyperactive and Misaki just stared at him wide eyed.

"Misa-chan! You have to try the Ramen here! It's just so good! And I'll also make you meet all of our other friends!" Naruto said as he dragged her and Hinata by their arms and off to the lunch room.

The lunch room was filled with so many people that for once Misaki was thankful that Naruto was holding her arm or else she would have got lost. And she did not want to stray around alone only to bang into the infamous devil, Sasuke Uchiha again.

Within no time they had their food filled trays in their hands and they were walking to a table where a group of people were seated. She glanced over at Naruto and her eyed widened three folds as she saw the amount of food that was there in his tray! It was so much that it would last four days for her! Naruto noticed this and just gave her a sheepish smile as they reached the table.

"Hey guys!" Naruto yelled at them.

There all greeted back with different names,

"Naruto."

"Knucklehead."

"Blondy!"

"Hello!" Hinata said. And they all reciprocated their 'hies' and 'hellos'.

"So people, meet Misaki-chan! She's new in here!" Naruto said holding her hand up as if he was introducing them to some champion.

"Uh, well, hiya people!" Misaki said with as much enthusiasm as she could muster in her nervous state.

"Hey! I'm Tenten. Nice to meet you." A girl young brunette said.

"Misa-chan! I am Lee. Rock Lee. Its really an honour to meet a beautiful maiden such as you!" a guy with shiny black hair and huge eyebrows said. Tenten instantly bonked him on his head.

"LEE! Stop scaring her away!" She yelled at him and everyone broke into laughter while Misaki just blushed and giggled.

"Kiba Inuzuka at your disposal, Misaki. You ever need anything related to pets or any help with any sport, I'm you guy." The brunette chuckled out as he flashed a grin and winked at her.

"I'm Shikamaru. Sorry I'm really not up for introductions, its a big drag." He yawned as he said so and was asleep the next instant.

"Well, excuse him; he's just... a really sleepy person." Naruto said as he sweat dropped.

Misaki just smiled and sat down silently munching away at her lunch and paying attention to what they were talking about. These people, they seemed really good. Unlike the Uchiha and his two pets, they seemed to have an identity and hearts. Maybe Konoha wasn't going to be that bad after all. But, she reminded herself that she had to take her time in trusting them.

Back in England, she was the Homecoming Queen and the most popular, classy and cool girl in the whole school, but here, here she was just a newbie and that felt kinda weird but nice at the same time. She felt happy that no one here would make up fake-scandals about her just to let her down, but if she only knew what a certain someone had in store for her...