"Ahhh! I'm late, bye Hamtaro!" Laura called as she ran out the door, tossing some seeds at his cage, most of which unsuccessfully landed on her floor.

"Heke? Late? But it's the weekend… Late for what?" Hamtaro called after her. He shook it off, climbing out of his cage. "Geez. Laura really needs to practice her aim. Oh well, I'll bring them to the Clubhouse, Bijou and me can share them then. And the leftovers can go to Oxnard. He would never turn one down!"

By now he was struggling through the gutter-pipe that led down to the ground.

'Note too self: Cut down on seeds!' he gasped as he got through the hard part.

Somehow, he got through the rest of the pipe without getting stuck again.

"Oopah!" Hamtaro cried, as he went flying through the air, and landed on the head of Brandy. "Hiya, Brandy." He called as he ran out the pipe, bag of sunflower seeds swooshing behind him.

Hamha, every…one?" Hamtaro called as he got to the Club House. Everyone was staring behind him, confusion clouding their gazes.

"Uhh… Hamtaro, zere iz zomebody behind zou…" Bijou squeaked.

Hamtaro turned around slowly, only to be faced with another ham. "Gah!" he cried.

"Eee!" She screamed, and fell over, a sunflower seed popping out of her mouth in the process. Hamtaro looked in his bag, seeing two empty shells and four non-eaten sunflower seeds.

"Hey! Those were for me and Bijou!" He accused, Bijou blushing somewhere in the background. Recently, Bijou had confessed her feelings, and when he didn't understand, she simply pointed at Maxwell and Sandy, and said 'I like you, more than a friend.'

He turned back to the hamster, which was now in the kushy-kushy form.

"S-sorry about the seeds. Umm, Hamtaro, right? The white ham said that. I just don't get fed a lot." She said, standing up.

She was yellow, had two ribbons at the side of her head, like Bijou, except they were violet. Her right ear was brown, and she had a splash of brown around her left eye and it spread along to her ribbon so her fur was brown to, she also had a brown bottom.

"Oh, well if your hungry, we have lots of seeds we could share... would you like to come in?" he asked.

She blushed and nodded shyly, "Thank you very much, Hamtaro."

Bijou padded over, "Hamha, my name iz Bijou. What iz your name?" She smiled.

"Si votre de la France?" came the reply.

"You zpeak French!" Bijou cried in delight.

"Oui, mostly English though. I'm Kari. Nice to meet you!" She said, extending a paw towards Bijou.

"I can tell were going to be good friends." Bijou chirped.

-------Laura Time--------

"Laura, come on! Aren't you ready yet?" Kana called at the Haruna house.

She heard a crash upstairs, followed by a "Ahhh! I'm late, bye Hamtaro!"

Kana sighed. "She forgot."

Suddenly the door opened, and Laura crashed into her.

"Hi, Kana. Sorry I'm late. He-he…" she said.

"Right. Anyway, lets go."

"Go…?" Laura asked.

"You did forget!"

"No… You didn't… tell… me?"

"That sounded more like a question than an answer. Remember? The school said someone new moved in!" Kana sighed again.

"Oh yeah! We were going to introduce ourselves!" Laura exclaimed, while Kana did a face-palm beside her.

KNOCK KNOCK

"Hello?"

"Hi! We heard you're new in town, and we thought we'd bring you a welcoming gift." Laura chirped at the woman that answered the door, holding out a basket full of toys and fruit.

"Oh, why thank you. Would you like to come in? I have a daughter about your age; she might be interested in meeting some of the kids from school. Vanessa, why don't you come down here?" She called the last part upstairs.

"Uhhg, what?" came a reply, from Vanessa, who was walking downstairs.

Laura gasped and Kana shivered at the sight of the girl.

----Hamtaro----

The three of them walked back through the entrance of the Clubhouse.

"Who's the cute ham-ham?" Kari asked.

"Aw shucks, I know I'm cute, but – Gaack!" Howdy started, but got pushed away by Boss.

"I think she means me, clown boy!" he chimed, getting a glare from Howdy in return.

"No not you! Him." Kari said, pointing at Stan.

Yes, normal Stan would have been all over the girl, but he had a chat a few days ago, and was trying to stop flirting.

Flashback!

"I like, don't get it. How do you guys get girls and me not?" Stan sighed to four boy-hams. One was Boss, who was going out with Gelato. The second was Maxwell, who was going out with his sister, the third was Hamtaro, who was going out with Bijou, and the fourth was Dexter, who managed to win Pashmina's heart after saving her.

"Well, it would help if you didn't flirt," Boss said.

"If you just be yourself, more girls would like you, Stan. You aren't acting like yourself, your masking your identity up and putting on a show." Maxwell chimed in.

"Bijou said she likes me because I'm kind, cute and brave." Hamtaro piped up.

"So… I should stop flirting and be myself?"

They nodded.

End Flashback!

Stan pointed to himself and blushed, "Me?"

Kari walked over to him, "I like your stripes." She said, petting her paw over one of them.

Stan shivered, "Um... Thanks?"

----Laura again-----

The girl in front of them, was a Goth, no doubt. She wore black make-up and black clothes.

"What? Who are these twerps?" Vanessa snapped.

"Vanessa! I'm sorry girls, she's a bit… snappy." Vanessa's mother voiced.

"Tell them to go away." Vanessa said, before walking back upstairs.

"We can here you!" Kana started.

"I'm sorry, she didn't want to move. But I needed to come here for a business thing… Vanessa, where's Kari? I have her cage here." Her mother called.

"Who cares! She's probably been stepped on." Vanessa yelled.

Her mother sighed. "I got her a beautiful little girl hamster, and all she does, is let it run around unsupervised. She didn't even name her, I did…"

"A hamster? Well I have one to, and so does Kana! Hamtaro and Oxnard." Laura said smiling at Kana.

" I thought I told them to go away!" Vanessa yelled again.

"Well, we should probably go anyway. Bye Miss… I'm sorry, what's your name?" Kana asked.

"How impolite of me! I'm Ms. Camberg." Ms. Camberg said.

"Okay, bye!" Kana called.

------Stan------

"And this is Snoozer." Stan finished. He had been showing Kari the place and introducing her to everyone, so she didn't get crowded, like most hams when they came here.

"I see why." Kari said, rolling her eyes. "Hamtaro said there was some more seeds, can I have some? My owner doesn't feed me enough." She asked hopefully.

"Oh she doesn't? Well that's to bad, can I ask why?" Stan asked politely.

"Oh… We're umm…. Poor." She answered hastily.

"You have a bruise. Are you alright?" he pressed,

"Um, fine. Just tripped. Seeds?" she asked again.

Stan motioned for her to follow. "This closet is full of 'em! Want to share?" he asked, blushing slightly.

"Um, sure." She said.

"Okay, backup, this closet will spill seeds on you if your not careful."

Kari backed away, just as Stan opened up the door, and hundreds of seeds fell out, piling on top of him.

"Stan!?" Kari gasped.

His head poked out through a pile, and he smiled at her, "Dig in!"

Wow. Four pages long. That's my all time longest chapter in FFN. Yayz. Anyway, this is my first Hamtaro fic, and I know it's not great, but I think chapter one turned out pretty good. I know Stan is OOC, but oh well. I tried to get everything good.

Kari is pretty skittish eh? You'll find out why, on the next chapter. I'll update ASAP, but I also have a Warrior Cats story going at the moment, so… yeah.

I wont be using much Hamham language except hamha.