Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or anything else that is used in my story, sadly. However, the character Kaiah is one that I made up with my own imagination.

Note: Everyone looks the same as in the show; just picture them in modern clothes. Doing some description of clothing and etc, but not too much. Imagine what you would like on them.

Chapter 1

Naruto Uzumaki is considered one of the best martial artists in Japan. At age 18, standing at an even 6 foot with spiky blonde locks, ocean blue eyes, and a lean and muscular body, he is very popular with the girls. This is why at Konoha High he is considered the biggest playboy around. Naruto loves the girls as much as they love him. It wasn't unusual to see in surround by a flock of girls that he had meet on one of his tournaments. And at this moment, Naruto was trying really hard to stay awake in class after his long and adventurous night with a very cute red head that he had meet at his latest tournament. '8 o'clock was just too early to start lessons; there should be a law passed that school can't start before 10' he thought yawing. However, at that moment Sakura Haruno walked into class with her one of her friends, Ino Yamanaka, looking as stunning as ever with her shoulder length pink hair up in chopsticks, her jeans hugging her every curve and a red, v-neck tank top. Now Naruto was wide awake! Sakura had only been at Konoha High for a few months now, but had been quick to make friends….. and a few stalkers. As she made her way to her desk, she saw Naruto eyeing her intently, nearly drooling. "Ugh" She groaned as she rolled her eyes.

It was going to be another long day dodging the pervert. Sakura and Ino took their seats near the back of the class with her other friends; Hinata, Neji, Shikamaru, Lee, Sasuke, Kiba, Chouji, Shino, Tenten, and Temari (all whom participate in martial arts for the school as well). Naruto use to be a part of this little group, until he turned jerk and started sleeping with any and every girl. Thankfully, at that moment Anko-sensei entered to start class, thus causing Naruto to turn away from Sakura and focus on the front of the room; Naruto, even as a player, was serious about his education, making him, not only the hottest guy in school, but the top student in their class. However, even after class had started, Naruto would steal glances at Sakura every now and then and wink at her. He just made her sick! He had a different girl each week, and sometimes multiple girls. Even though the girls knew he was a player, they still lined up to have their turn with him. He had been trying to work his charm on her and get her to accompany him on a date. He thought that he was so irresistible! Well, she was going to prove him wrong! And this stubbornness is what truly attracted Naruto to Sakura. He had never meet another girl like her, and actually preferred the chase compared to free giving girls. But still, who was he to turn down an offer when it was knocking on his door.

Usually, before school was over, Naruto would have tormented Sakura to death by asking her out about a thousand times or by making steady advances that would result in a nice red hand print over his cheek. However, the day had passed seemingly without any interruptions from the pervert. Sakura was elated to find that she had successfully made it through her day without having to pound the idiotic blond into a pulp. With a triumphant grin on her face, Sakura put her books into her locker and closed the door.

"AAAGGGHHH!" she screamed as soon as she shut the locker door.

The lecherous blonde had appeared out of nowhere from behind the door.

"What the hell!" she yelled as she punched the blonde in the arm. He just knew how to push her buttons didn't he!

"Oww! What was that for!" he whined, rubbing his arm.

"You nearly gave me a heart attack you idiot! I've told you before, stop sneaking up on me like that!" She shouted as she shook her fist in Naruto's face. Naruto just held his hands up in defeat and chuckled.

"What do you want anyway? And no I'm not going on a date with you." Sakura shot daggers at Naruto with her eyes, arms folded over her chest.

"Actually, I wasn't going to ask that, I just wanted to see if I could walk home with you" Sakura raised her eyebrow at this. "Really, that's all. I figured that we could walk together since we live in the same neighborhood and maybe even discuss our literature paper along the way." He stated. Sakura just looked at him like he'd lost his mind. "What?........... Come on Sakura, I'm not a perv all the time."

"Oh really, could've fooled me." She said rolling her eyes.

"Hey!" he pouted. "Give me a chance. It's just a walk home. I promise that I'll keep my hands to myself."

Sakura almost laughed at the pout that adorned his face. The Naruto Uzumaki, actually having to beg for a girl's attention; it was a sight to behold. "Alright. Fine. But like you said, hands to yourself." Sakura finally gave in.

"WhooHooo!" Naruto shouted with glee, punching the air with his fist and a wide cheesy grin on his face.

That pout was almost irresistible. Almost.

Sakura actually found the blonde rather enjoyable as they walked home. They laughed and joked, talked about books, movies, their literature paper, and even about some of the martial arts matches coming up (Ino had actually convinced her to join after she had nearly punched Naruto through a wall). He hadn't said one perverted thing along the way, and true to his word, he had kept his hands to himself. Naruto wouldn't be so bad if he acted like this all the time.

"Earth to Sakura!" Temari said waving her hand in front of Sakura's face.

"What? Oh, sorry. Spaced out there for a bit." Sakura said as she was pulled from her thoughts of her walk home with Naruto.

"Geez, girl. How are we gonna finish our song if you keep going all spacey on us?" asked Temari, tapping her finger on the kitchen table they were sitting at.

Sakura had gone over to Temari's house after finishing her homework that afternoon. She played the keyboard for a little band that the girls had been getting together, so Sakura along with Ino, Hinata, TenTen, and Temari gathered once a week at Temari's house to jot down notes and words for potential songs and to even practice some. Temari's house was very comfortable, traditional with all the natural elements of Japan, and a lot of red. After throwing ideas around for another ten minutes, a tall red head walked into the kitchen sporting kaki jeans and a burgundy polo shirt, grabbed a canned drink and proceeded out the front door.

"Where are you goin Gaara?" asked Temari before he could escape.

"To Naruto's" he simply stated, and shut the door. Temari just shook her head, "I don't understand how he can still hang out with Naruto. He's the total opposite of Naruto, well now anyways. "

"Well, they've been best friends since playschool. It's almost unnatural to see one without the other." stated Tenten.

"But still, since Naruto went all jerk on us, I figured that Gaara would have backed off too." said Ino.

"You know that Naruto thinks of Gaara as the brother that he never had. Gaara's the only one that Naruto's actually let get really close to him." stated Hinata.

"Yeah, I know." said Temari with a hint sadness.

"Why's that?" Sakura asked, curiosity getting the better of her.

"Oh that's right, I keep forgetting you're the new girl." said Ino. "Better grab a drink and some snacks, this might take a while" she said as she got up to start grabbing some snacks, their music forgotten for the night.

As Sakura left about 2 hours later, she was torn. She didn't know what to think about Naruto. Part of her wanted to feel sorry for him, but another part was furious about how he had treated his friends when they only wanted to help. Mostly, she was confused. Naruto was an orphan, and when he was 5 Iruka Umino, a friend of his father's, had adopted him. Naruto's parents had been murdered in front of his eyes. His father had locked him in a closet to keep him safe from the intruders that had come after them. However, for Naruto, he had watched the entire thing from the key hole in the door. For a long time he wouldn't speak to anyone, not even Iruka. Later that year, Gaara and his older brother Kankuro and his younger sister Temari had moved to the area. Kankuro's mom had left them years ago, so their Dad began to see Gaara's mother and eventually they were married. Gaara's mother had been killed by a pick pocket while the both of them had been shopping, and Garra had to watch the whole thing. Gaara's dad remarried a couple years later, and Temari was born. Gaara then began to display violent behavior, and this lead to the family's move. Gaara's father had hoped that the move would help Gaara heal. Kankuro and Temari still had a mom, and could never even begin to understand what he had witnessed, so Gaara started to isolate himself from everyone, feeling that no could understand his pain. He had flunked 2 grades (making him a 20 year old senior) because he was always getting into fights, but then he met Naruto. Eventually, Gaara and Naruto began to open up to each other a little, and when they found that they had so much in common, a strong brotherly friendship had been born. Naruto and Gaara slowly began to warm up to others and soon had many friends. Naruto was very kind and had a very outgoing personality, and they all had gone together and started doing martial arts. However, Naruto turned 16, and after that day everything changed. Naruto began to seclude himself, and his friends tried to find out what had happened and help, but he just turned into a complete jerk and pushed everyone but Gaara away. Then he started to go girl crazy. He had sunk so low that they became disgusted by his transformation, and since then they haven't spoken much, unless it was in the form of insults. Naruto was very popular now and would hang around with the party crowd some, but he mostly kept to himself with Gaara by his side.

The next few weeks went by the same as always, with a few minor changes. Sakura hung out with her friends, and they came up with some pretty good songs. Sakura was also walking home with Naruto every day after school when he didn't have martial arts practice. She found the blonde's presence to be rather enjoyable, and had started to actually look forward to their walks home together. They still bickered, he was still a perv (although that had begun to slacken off some to her surprise), and she still hit him, but that was only around others. Naruto acted like a completely different person when it was just the two of them. He was very intelligent and always seemed to be deep in thought. After Sakura had heard Naruto's story from her friends, she had made it her mission to find out what had happened to make him change to such an extreme. They had chatted about personal things, mostly about her, but Naruto never divulged too much information about himself. Day by day, she found herself more and more attracted to Naruto. After getting to know more about the real Naruto, Sakura was able to notice his physical characteristics. Today as they walked down the sidewalk, she just couldn't help but stare. Wearing baggy blue jeans, a white tank top that hugged his muscular chest and an orange button down shirt that was open with the sleeves rolled to his elbows, Sakura just couldn't take her eyes off of him. He was HOT! Oh no! She just did not go there! Did she? As Sakura was mentally arguing with herself Naruto eyed her suspiciously.

"Ummm…Sakura?"

'I can't believe that we just went there.' 'Why he's totally hot, and you like him.' 'Do not!' 'Do too'

"Sakura?" Naruto said as he inched closer to her face.

"Yikes!" she yelped as she tripped, startled by Naruto's face in front of hers.

Sakura skidded across the sidewalk on her right knee, causing a good amount of blood to begin seeping through the wound.

"Sakura! Are you alright? Here let me take a look!" Naruto knelt beside Sakura gently placing his right hand under the bend of her knee and leaned forward for a better look.

Sakura flushed at the contact. As Naruto ran his hand over her knee, shivers shook through her body, making her feel a little light headed and dizzy at the contact.

After Naruto had examined her knee, he stood up and extended his hand to help Sakura up as he said "Come on. Let's get you home so we can get that cleaned up before it gets infected."

Sakura took his offered hand, but as soon as she put pressure on her knee she fell forward into his chest. Naruto placed his hands under her elbows to steady her as she slowly look up into his face. Her breath hitched in her throat when she met his eyes, their noses almost touching. Naruto was beside himself, trying to keep control of the urge to capture her lips with his. As they stared at each other, the air between them became heavy, and Sakura felt herself drawn into his bright blue eyes. Slowly, unconsciously, their faces moved towards each other. They were almost there, when Naruto was the first to recover. He pulled back and placed his right hand on her upper back and his left under the bends of her knees and slowly lifted her bridal style.

"Naruto!" Sakura yelped as she was snapped back to reality.

"What?" he asked innocently.
"Put me down." Sakura growled as her cheeks flushed.

"What, so you can just fall again and bust open your other knee. I don't think so." He said as he started walking towards her house.

Knowing that she had lost the battle, and finding Naruto's strong body comforting, she grumbled half heartily "Fine. But keep your hands right where they are."

"Okay, Okay." He chuckled.

When they reached Sakura's house, no one was home, so Naruto carried Sakura to her bathroom and placed her gently on the toilet. Sakura sat there looking like a bright red cherry as Naruto rummaged the cabinets looking the peroxide and band aids. After he found what he needed, he carefully cleaned Sakura's wound. As Sakura sat there, she felt a tingle coarse through her body from Naruto's soft touches and his close proximity. Soon both of their breathing was a little heavy, and Naruto began to gently caress the area around her knee as he finished up, causing Sakura to suppress a shudder. Slowly, Naruto leaned forward and placed a slow, soft kiss on the now bandaged knee. Sakura's eyes fluttered shut and Naruto, fighting a mental war, wanted to do nothing more than to take her right then and there.

However, Naruto rose from his crouched position saying "Alright. It should be okay now."

Sakura nodded as she followed Naruto to the front door, slightly embarrassed.

" I guess I'll see you tomorrow at school." He grinned as he made his way out the door.

"Yeah, see ya tomorrow. Thanks Naruto" she said as he walked away.

"No problem. Later" he waved as he made his way to his own home.

As Sakura closed the door and leaned against it, she touched the bandage that Naruto had placed. Naruto walked with his hands in his pockets, and at the same moment both looked up and exclaimed out loud "Just what the hell are you doing to me."

Naruto was still deep in thoughts as he made his way into his house.

"Hey Naruto" a cheerful Iruka exclaimed as he came into the living room.

"You're mighty peppy today. What's up?" laughed Naruto. Naruto loved Iruka just like a father, and whenever Iruka was happy, it thrilled Naruto. Ever since the incident at his 16th birthday, Iruka had become a little depressed and down, so seeing him cheerful truly made him happy.

"Not much. Got someone I want you to meet." Iruka grinned.

"Really, who is it." teased Naruto, with a little smirk.

"Get your head out of the gutter, it's nothing like that." Iruka said as they both began laughing.

"So who is it then?"

"Well, you know that your school does the transfer student thing and I volunteered to host the transfer student this year." Iruka said, excited. Iruka has always loved kids and helping people, so to have the transfer student stay at his house was very exciting for him.

"That's great!" exclaimed Naruto, but in the back of his mind 'Great, someone else I have to worry about.' But he wasn't about to voice his concern. He hadn't seen Iruka this happy in a while, and he be darned if he ruined it.

"Come on up, she's in her room unpacking, I want you to meet her." Iruka tugged on Naruto's arm.

"Her?!" asked Naruto, getting a little panicked. 'A girl… staying here… with us?! This can't be a good thing!'

Iruka knocked on the door and a feminine voice sounded from the other side, "Come in."

They entered, and Naruto froze as striking blue eyes met his.

"Kaiah, this is my son, Naruto Uzumaki." Iruka introduced.

"Hi!" she said sweetly as she extended her hand to shake Naruto's. "I'm Kaiah Somerset. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Like wise." Naruto shook her hand as he discreetly examined her. She was about 5'6, looked athletic, her heart shaped faced framed with dark brown hair falling in waves to her waist, which intensified the blue of her eyes, and she wore snug blue jeans and a teal, flowing tank top. Her name suited her, rare beauty indeed. And she had one heck of a grip!

"Kaiah will be with us until the end of the school year." said Iruka as Naruto stepped back.

"Wow, you look just like my little brother!" exclaimed Kaiah with excitement.

Naruto just giggled at her remark, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Well that's interesting. Maybe your stay here will feel more like home after all." stated Iruka. "Now while you're here, you're family. So feel free to be yourself."

"Oh, I will." Kaiah smiled and looked at Naruto out of the corner of her eye, which made Naruto flinch. Naruto caught the mischievous glint in her eye as she smiled, giving Naruto the impression of an imp, which sent chills down his spine. What the hell had Iruka gotten him into?!

Well, there's the first chapter. Who is Kaiah, and what does she have planned for Naruto? Review please, and let me know what you think so far. Will post again soon if I get some good reviews.