Just Another High School Fic Chapter 1: Bad Hair Day:Good Grades, a naruto fanfic

CHAPTER ONE

Bad Hair Day - Good Grades

Ino Yamanaka woke up on Monday morning, and groaned. Ino, a year ten girl at Konoha High, hated Mondays almost as much as she hated breaking a nail. She had been out on the weekends, partying like there was no tomorrow but, unfortunately, tomorrow had come, and here she was, lying in bed on a Monday morning, waiting for the inevitable...

"IIIIINOOOOO!!" Shouted the unmistakable voice of Chouji Akamichi from the front yard. "WAAAAAKE UUUUUP!!"

Ino rolled her light green eyes, and got out of bed. Walking across her bedroom in her royal purple pyjamas, Ino opened the window, leaned out and shouted: "CHOUJI, DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!?" Brr, it's cold. Ino thought, watching hers and Chouji's breath come out in little white clouds. I hate winter, I wish spring would come.

"YEAH!!" Chouji said, nodding enthusiastically so that the two baubles on either side of his knitted hat bounced up and down. He was wearing this in conjunction to his school uniform - black trousers, a white shirt, a black blazer with the school's red and white insignia on it, a red tie and black shoes. Ino didn't understand, even though Chouji weighed more then five year eights put together, how he could wear anything less then a down-coat, snow boots, mittens and a scarf.

"WELL THEN, WHAT TIME IS IT!?" Ino shouted, feeling like she was in a movie or something.

"EIGHT FIFTEEN!!" Chouji replied.

Ino shrieked, and glanced at her clock. Chouji was right. And, they were going to be late for school! "CHOUJI!! WAKE UP SHIKA AND LET'S GET A MOVE ON!!" Ino yelled, closing the window again as she heard Chouji yell something that sounded like: "FINALLY!!"

Ino didn't care though, as she took off her pyjamas and changed into her school uniform - a white blouse with a black collar and a red bandanna, a black blazer with the school's red and white insignia on it, a black pleated skirt, black stockings and black shoes.

To this she added her own accessories - a bright purple scarf and matching fur-lined gloves. Then she brushed her long blonde hair carefully and pulled it up into its usual ponytail. Glancing at herself in the hall mirror, Ino admired her purple accessories.

"Hmph," She scoffed to the mirror. "Imagine wearing pink. Pink." She added, and rolled her eyes. She ran downstairs and into the kitchen, where her Father and her Step-Mother were eating breakfast at the table.

"Ino, do not run, it's not lady-like." Victoria scoffed, and Ino bristled. Why must Victoria correct everything Ino did!? "And why aren't you at school yet?" She added, as Ino grabbed a low-fat cupcake off of the counter.

"I'm getting there, I'm getting there!" Ino replied, finishing the muffin in about five bites.

"Don't sass your Step-Mother, Ino." Inoichi told her.

"Yes Dad." Ino replied. It wasn't that she was trying to sass anybody, but she was gonna be late! She ran into the front hall, defying Victoria, and grabbed her bookbag off of the coat stand. "Bye Dad, see you after school!" She called, running out of the house and slamming the door shut behind her.

She could almost hear Victoria's scolding, but she didn't care because her two best friends were nowhere in sight!

"Ooh, it's cold..." Ino shivered, hopping up and down. She looked around her, then sighed, and ran across the street to where Shikamaru Nara's house was.

Chouji lived next door to Ino, and Shika lived across the street. It was the perfect plan for three best friends.

Ino hoped that she wouldn't have to wake up the lazy genius known as Shika, but she knew without a doubt, when she saw the look on Shikaku and Yoshino's faces, that she and Chouji had their work cut out for them.

Well, sighing, Ino rolled up her sleeves and began to climb the staircase...

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"Hey!! Sakura!!" Naruto Uzumaki ran full-pelt towards his childhood best friend, who immediately put her hands up in the sign of the cross.

"Whoa! Back Naruto, back I say!" Haruno Sakura cried, a terrified look in her soft green eyes. "If you get any closer to me, then we'll clash!" She added, eyeing Naruto's orange beanie and matching orange scarf and gloves.

Naruto stopped running, glanced at Sakura's pink scarf and gloves, not to mention her sugar-pink hair, and he burst out laughing. "Ha, ha, ha! Trust you Sakura to think of that!"

Sakura smiled, and said: "Is Sai here yet?"

"Yeah, I just saw him go into the science lab." Naruto replied, as the two of them began to walk into the school. "He said something about having to make up for missing his dissection last Thursday."

"His dissection?" Sakura repeated, raising an eyebrow. Naruto grinned sheepishly. "Yeah, you might wanna rethink that Naruto." She added, as they walked into the school building, and the first person Sakura saw was there good friend, Hyuga Hinata.

Or, was it?

"Hinata!!" Sakura cried. "What happened to your hair!?"

"Whoa!" Gasped a voice from behind them, and Hinata's sarcastic cousin Neji smirked when he saw Hinata's haircut. "Nice buzz cuz, what happen? Get into a fight with a lawn mower?"

Hinata's gentle white eyes filled with tears. Her usually beautiful raven-coloured hair now resembled that of a French-Poodle's. "H-H-Hanabi wanted to t-t-try a n-n-new hairc-c-cut..." She stammered, and Sakura's heart just went out to her.

"Oh sure," Neji smirked. "Blame it on your little sister!"

"At least she's nice to her own family, Neji!" Naruto yelled, and Neji's smirk changed to a frown. His white eyes grew angry, and he stepped close up to Naruto.

"What did you say?" He asked Naruto, if his look wasn't Bayakugan then I dunno what it was!

"You heard me," Naruto said angrily, defending his crush's best friend. "And you..." Naruto stopped, because there was somebody standing behind Neji, somebody who wouldn't want Naruto to continue, somebody who was both feared eternally and respected utmostly by the entire school...

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"Congratulations Sai." Mrs. Kurenai said, glancing at Sai's notes from his sheep eye dissection. "You have successfully brought your grade up from an A+ to an A+x2!"

Sai was positively glowing, but he maintained his coolness as he thanked Mrs. Kurenai for letting him complete the assessment. He left the science lab, turned the corner, and walked right into the middle of the world's biggest make-out session.

Sai stopped dead in his tracks, but the two lovers barely even noticed him. One was Shikamaru Nara, fellow genius and also the world's most lazy person. The other was his girlfriend, Temari Sabaku, who was two years ahead of both Sai and Shikamaru (and about half the main characters in this story), but the girl with the four sandy blonde spiky pigtails had been going steady with the year ten boy for about two years now.

Sai began backing away, and he backed into somebody, who let out a yelp, and that startled Temari and Shika out of their make-out.

"Shika!" Ino cried, after apologizing to Sai. "So this is where you come after it takes me and Chouji ten minutes to get you out of bed! ... Oh, good morning Temari."

"Morning Ino." Temari replied, undaunted by the fact that people had witnessed her and Shika kissing. The whole school knew about their relationship.

"What's wrong Ino?" Shika asked her calmly. "Where's Chouji?"

Ino raised an eyebrow. "You needed to ask?" She replied. Then she added: "And as for what's wrong...Naruto Uzumaki just insulted Neji Hyuga..."

The others waited.

Ino said, dramatically: "In front of Tenten!"

Temari gasped.

Sai just sighed and shook his head.

And Shika groaned and said: "What a drag!"

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MEG: So, how was THAT for a first chapter!?

NARUTO: YAYS!! I was IN the chapter! No more sitting in the dark for me! Hey, Meg-San, can I be in EVERY chapter!?

MEG: Ah…we'll see Naruto-Chan, we'll see…