Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Author's Note: This is an AU High School fic. There will also probably be some OC's in it as well. Just warning you. If you don't like that, then… well, don't read.

This story will contain everything that goes on in high school, and I mean everything. Underage drinking, smoking, all that illegal goodness. If you want to read it still, then enjoy.

All the other girls liked the color pink, and pop music, and Sasuke Uchiha, so it only makes sense for Hinata to like those things, too… right?

Metamorphose

Chapter One

Hello. My name is Hinata Hyuuga. I am a junior at Konoha High, and I do not have a boyfriend. I live with my father, younger sister, and older cousin. I do not have a car, though I do have my license. My favorite color is… actually purple. I like purple for some reason. It's a nice color. I also like vanilla ice cream and steamed white rice. Something about it is very soothing to me. My favorite kind of animal is a panda bear, and I love going to the zoo to see them. I do not have any pets, though I do wish my father would allow me to have one.

When I grow up I think I want to be a nurse. I enjoy helping people and am very kind. I try to be nice to everyone I meet… but sometimes I can't help but dislike someone. Like my cousin for instance…

"Hinata! Hurry the hell up, would you?! If I'm late because your stupid hair isn't done you can walk your sorry ass to school for the rest of the year for all I care!" I cringed as Neji's very real threat reached my ears. It's not that my hair wasn't done… I just wasn't ready for school again.

It's the first day of school, you see. I am really nervous because I'll have all new classes this year, which means I'll be on a completely different side of the campus than I was last year.

"Okay! I am now walking out the door, Hinata!" Neji's being awfully loud this morning. "Have fun walking to school!"

"No, Neji! Wait, I'm coming!" I heard the door slam and nearly tripped down my stairs to get to the passenger side door in time before Neji started rolling down the driveway.

"'Bout time." He muttered and backed into the trash can. Neji really did abuse his car… He said a curse word that I didn't quite catch and shifted into park. "Go fix the trash can, Hinata." I looked at him a little incredulously.

"You won't leave me?" He gave me an annoyed look.

"Hurry up and do it and I might not." He looked at me through narrowed eyes and I prayed that he was joking. I got out swiftly and cleaned up his mess. I left the door open just in case he really was planning on leaving me, though.

When I got back in the car he scoffed and we took off. The school was only about a mile and a half away… so it wouldn't be terrible walking to school, but that's not something I'd like to do on the first day. Before Neji got his car, we used to have to walk to school and I guess I would complain sometimes about my shoes so Neji would have to carry me. But finally he got sick of it and just told me to take my shoes off. So I did. Then on our way home a strange dog approached us. Neji told me to throw my shoe at it. So I did. I completely missed the dog and Neji laughed. The dog sniffed my shoe, grabbed it and ran off. I have never seen that dog or that shoe since.

"What's your problem anyway?" Neji asked somewhat rudely after a while and I sighed.

"I guess I'm nervous." He looked at me from the corner of his eye and sighed.

"Well, don't be. Everyone you knew last year is still going to be there, alright?" I nodded and a small smile crept onto my face as I realized Neji was trying to console me.

Maybe he wasn't such a huge jerk after all…

"There she is…" Sakura Haruno heard their whispering. She always heard it. She simply chose to ignore it. To store away all the rage it gave her and save it for the day she snapped and went postal on all of their asses. "Ugh, look at her thighs jiggle."

"What a fatass."

"I know, right? Such a lardass. Did you hear how many guys she fucked over the summer?"

"Oh, I know! Like seventeen?"

"I heard it was, like, twenty, including some older guy."

"No way! What a whore."

"Total skank."

"Major slut." Sakura glared at some probably innocent freshman trying to figure out their schedule and walked faster. She was sick of all of their lies. Who was saying this shit about her, anyway? What had she ever done to deserve this bullshit? She was so sick of these wenches talking about her like they knew her. They're the backstabbing whores, not her. Sakura was just waiting. One day, she swore, she would go nuts and kill at least one of them.

"So, Sasuke, what'd you do yesterday?" Karin asked, sipping iced coffee through a straw. Sasuke ignored her for the most part. He didn't really like Karin, honestly. She was too… needy. She always needed to be by him and know where he was. She always acted like everything concerning him was her business.

And it wasn't.

"Bet he wanked off to his little girly magazines, ha! Bet you wish you could have helped with that, huh, Karin?" Suigetsu muttered in Karin's ear and she cooed.

"Hmmm, Sasuke whenever you need a hand… or a mouth… or anything else… You know I--"

"Shut up." He was tired of listening to their perverted ways of talking, but they wouldn't leave them alone either. Karin tossed her red hair, looking slightly miffed that he had told her to shut up. Sasuke wasn't really interested in… Karin. At all. He was looking for something a little less… loose and tainted. He was looking for a girl like…

Like that one.

"Hey, babe!" Naruto cringed when he heard Ino call his "name". "So, what class do you have first period?" She asked leaning against his locker. Naruto shrugged.

"Uh… Biology… with Asuma-sensei." Ino nodded, blowing a big pink bubble from her mouth, then sucking it back in and crushing it with her lips.

"I have Biology, too." She grabbed for Naruto's arm. "Walk me." Sometimes he just did not want to be around Ino…

Not that he didn't like her. He liked her a lot as a matter of fact. But sometimes he felt wrong for just using Ino the way he was.

He knew he would never have a meaningful relationship with Ino because he was still hung up over Sakura. Not that he ever had any kind of relationship with Sakura… he could dream.

But then he remembered why Ino was with him and he felt less guilty.

Ino didn't care about him either.

She had her eyes on someone else, just like he did. Naruto knew it just as well as Ino did. But did that change things?

No. Of course not.

They continued to live their sorry twisted little lies, pretending they were happy and in love, and that they wanted each other. They would continue to live these hurtful falsities until it ate away at their very core, vying for the attention of another, knowing there was extremely little chance their real love would ever look their way, let alone give them the time of day.

Naruto wanted to pretend he could be happy with Ino. Ino wanted to pretend that it didn't bother her that she couldn't have the one thing she truly wanted.

But they couldn't. They were shallow and mean…

…And in love with someone else.

"I'm not walking in with you." I nodded as Neji got out of the car and walked away. I locked my door and followed his trail, trying to not look like the annoying little cousin lost and confused. Neji was probably just in a hurry to get to class.

"Hinata!" I heard a voice call my name and my day instantly seemed brighter. A warm arm wrapped around my shoulder and encased me in a welcome embrace.

"Kiba! I'm so happy you're here!" He released me and I noted that his hair had really grown from the last time I had seen him. "How was your vacation?"

"Fine, fine. Boring but fine. Too bad you weren't there, you could've kept me company when mom and sis wanted to go on all those awful tours." Kiba has been my best friend since the fifth grade. Well, the closest thing I could have to a best friend considering he was a boy and I was a girl, and you can only get so close to one of the opposite sex without crossing certain boundaries.

"How about your summer, Hinata? Were you lonely without me? I see your hair's gotten longer." He seemed to size me up and I knew my face was hotter than it should have been. "Hmm… but," He grinned, "You're still just the same old Hinata." I smiled back.

I was thankful for Kiba's lack of judgment on the little things, like the fact I had painted my nails yesterday. He may not have noticed, but I painted them a pearly white. It's the second time I wore nail polish.

The first time was in middle school when Ino decided to give me a "makeover". I looked horrible, and Kiba chewed her out for it. Ino of course smacked him for getting in her face about it, but… either way, I hadn't really ever worn any kind of makeup since.

"How's Akamaru? Did he enjoy the hotel you sent him to?" I asked and Kiba's face immediately went sour.

"No! He was so lonely without me! I missed him, too! You should've visited him, Hinata." I apologized.

"I didn't know that dogs were allowed visitors."

"Of course they're allowed visitors! People are allowed visitors, aren't they?" I shrugged. I wouldn't argue with Kiba's logic. Not today. I needed an ally and Kiba was it. "So…" I looked at him carefully. I knew what he was about to ask. "Whip it out already." I sighed and revealed what he was looking for.

My class schedule. He immediately snatched it and pulled his out to compare.

"Let's see…" I looked around at the other students and realized that I didn't recognize a lot of faces. It was getting empty and orientation was probably about to start.

"Kiba, we should head to the gym." He started walking, still comparing our schedules and frowned.

"Awww! We only have PE together! And those are separated!" I shrugged.

"There's always lunch…"

"Why did you take art? Didn't you take that freshman year?"

"Well… yes, but I failed freshman year, remember?"

"So you're taking it again?"

"Yes…" Kiba snorted and handed me back my schedule. "What are you taking as an elective?"

"Computer class, of course. Easy as pie. You pretty much just sit on the computer all period and look stuff up."

"I don't think it's that easy… Doesn't Iruka-sensei teach that class?" Kiba froze.

"No way! Really? Man… he's gonna bust me, I know it!"

"Well, Kiba, just do your homework… it's not that hard, I bet. I heard Computer class is just like study hall, only with computers…"

"Yeah, which leads me back to the first question," Kiba stepped in front of me, "Why are you taking art?! You've never been good at art, so why not take an easy class and just get it over with?" I snorted.

"Maybe I like art…" Kiba shrugged.

"Oh well… I hope you won't complain if you start failing again." He teased.

"I-I never complain!" Kiba laughed.

"I know, I know. Just messin'. Jeez, Hinata, I really have missed you." To some unknowing onlooker, my relationship with Kiba may seem romantic.

I guarantee you… it's not.

Kiba sees me as just another one of the guys…

Like that one time he forgot that I wasn't one of the guys and punched my shoulder a little too hard. Neji hit him even harder then Kiba hit me, but it still didn't bruise like mine did.

Or that other time when Kiba invited me to play Halo at his house. So I showed up, not knowing what Halo was and sat on the couch, bored out of my mind all day because Kiba forgot I didn't like these kinds of video games.

Or that other other time when Kiba told me to spend the night at his house, then he started strutting around in his boxers because that's what he would do if I were a guy… either that or he is incredibly shameless.

His sister hit him for that one.

Author's Note: Woo! I finally started this! It's been floating around in my head for a while you see. To be completely honest I started something like this a few years ago, but after rereading it, I decided it was trash and started anew. My old story didn't really have a main character and had a very important OC and I just didn't like it very much. The people were out of character and I really don't like that. So yeah! Here it is! New and very much improved!

Not that you would know since you didn't see the previous piece of crap. Anywho, tell me what you thought. Hinata's the main character, but it can't always just be about her, you know?

Also! That OC I was just talking about… she appears in this story, though much more minor than before. Like, she doesn't even show up for a… long time, actually.

Thanks so much for reading.