I've actually had this idea floating around my head for a while, but I just wanted until I got more chapters/plot points before I posted the first chapter. Welcome to, The Life and Times of Dick Grayson, or How To Deal With a Crush on Your Best Friend.

Warning: Slash (though the pairing is uncertain xD) perhaps mild swearing, maybe gore at one point or another; that being said, the rating is subject to change if the fic evolves.

Note: AU, no superheroes (honestly, this is my favourite kind of AU XD), and everyone in the DC universe goes to this one school~ By the way, despite the fact that my story takes place in America, it uses the Canadian school system (more specifically, my school system, which is not a semester system, but a Day1 Day2 system), mainly because I am a Canadian and hence more familiar with the school system, but also because ";P" So, if you have any questions send them in a review or PM, and I'll answer them the best I can ^.^

Also note that everyone is in the same grade unless stated otherwise, for example, at the time being I'm unsure if I will make Roy older or the same age as the Team, likewise, I may introduce Tim, Bart, etc. later on to be younger than the Team. However, to have a somewhat canon-esque feel they will be introduced at different times, so their introductory age will hopefully match up with their ages in season one (as best as I can, obviously, some corners must be taken, for example Wally and Dick are the same age and Wally's introduced at the age of 12 (his birthday being November 11, like on the show) whereas Dick is 13 (his birthday being April 11, matching his first appearance in the comics).

Beginning of Grade 8, and Everything Else

Meet Dick Grayson, he's a comparatively short, intelligent, kind, beautiful human being, having short black hair, dark, shining, blue eyes, fair complexion, and a slightly muscled body.

He would be perfect for any girl that was lucky enough to be his girlfriend. Except, he had as much interest in dating girls as Noble Gases did attempting to react with other elements, only under high amounts of pressure and temperatures- that is to say, Dick Grayson wanted not females, but males; specifically, his best friend, Wally West.

Now, I'm sure y'all are like, "Oh~ they're dating already, aren't they? And now you're just typing up a hot make-out scene as fan-service ;P" Well, I would do something like that, if life were fair. Except, life isn't fair, and it's about to get even worse for Dick Grayson; but, before we get into his current problems, we should see how he transitioned into them.

Transferring into a new school always seemed terrible. For whatever reason, kids always loathed being the 'new kid,' Dick Grayson was no exception. Entering the 8th grade in a completely different school district was not exactly the way he wanted to start off his high school career, along with having no friends. No one wanted to have no friends.

Of course, he could've also had the clichéd friendship and be best friends with one person for his entire life, but that also seemed boring to him. If anything, all he wanted was someone to stand beside him while he went through his first few days of high school, to not feel alone, to feel like he was a part of something, to at least not look like the lone kid in the corner that everyone made fun of.

As he mulled over these thoughts, he exited the black car Bruce was driving, gave his fleeting 'bye' and walked up to the large building he was hoping he'd stay with for the next five years; he'd already been to three different elementary schools and 2 middle schools, the longest he'd stay in a place was three years, the shortest being a year and one month.

Upon entering the large school, he searched for his name on a list labelled: Grade 8 Homerooms.

After asking around a bit, he finally made it through the large school to his homeroom, there was only the teacher and another student, both looking bored.

He sat down next to the redhead, "Hi."

"Hello," she replied, still looking bored.

"I'm Richard."

"Barbara. If your name's Richard, does that mean I can call you Dick?" she asked, though she was no longer bored after finally glancing at her conversational partner; her blue eyes glimmered with interest.

"Uh, yeah, I suppose..." Dick said, rolling his eyes at the prospect she might make a penis joke. The two made pleasant conversation as other scared-looking students trickled in.

The teacher finally saw he had a decent number of students and began calling out names so they could come up and receive their courses for the year.

"Cool! It looks like we have Socials and Tech/Home Ed together," Barbara said, snatching Dick's courses out of his hand and comparing them next to hers, "Why aren't you in any honour courses? You seem intelligent..."

"I kind of transferred in June, all the spaces were most likely taken by then," Dick replied calmly, eying her 4/8 honour course load enviously.

Barbara handed back his courses, "Anyways, it was nice meeting you Dick, I hope to see you soon."

She smiled at him, and he smiled back; maybe transferring wouldn't be so bad after all.

After they were dismissed, Dick spent the next hour exploring the school, being the largest in the state of New York was somewhat intimidating, so he figured if he knew the place better, he'd be less intimidated.

"Welcome you brats, to Drama 8, if I don't scare you off this year, I hope you have enough talent to keep up with next year," a tall, skinny, raven-haired male drawled, "If you bothered to look on your course sheet, my name is Klarion Witchboy, make fun of my last name all you like, I probably won't see you again next year."

Dick found a chair next to another redhead; apparently, this school was for gingers and Dick was let in because Bruce paid them. Anyways, the chairs were in a circular fashion and Mr. uh...Witchboy seemed to be talking to no one, as just about all the other students were talking to the people on either side of themself.

"Hi, I'm Dick," he said timidly.

"I'm Wally West, nice meeting you," the male said kindly, outstretching his hand.

Dick noted his lively green eyes and vibrant red hair, and his nice smile, Wally also had a firm grip.

"Are you in any honours classes?" Dick asked, hoping he might spend more time with this kid, he seemed cool enough; though, Dick still reserved judgement for after the class was over.

"Science and Socials; I love science, it's absolutely fascinating," Wally said immediately, his eyes shining brightly.

"Okay brats, stand up and let's do a vocal warm up," Mr. Witchboy said, standing up alone. He cleared his throat, and when he spoke again someone akin to a devil's voice came out, "STAND!"

The classroom of scared 8th graders stood quickly from their chairs.

The bell rang after several name-games and other various memory exercises.

"Well, that was fun, don't you think, Wally?" Dick asked as they grabbed their things from underneath their chairs and headed out the drama studio; which in all honesty was simply a large room, with two changing rooms, a make-shift stage, and room for plays even without using the stage.

Wally was practically jumping up and down with excitement, "Totally, he was cool! Did you see how he just deepened his voice and 'STAND' as if it were his normal voice?"

For some reason, Dick was already completely comfortable around Wally, as if they'd been best friends since they were three.

English was rather boring, aside from a somewhat silly teacher, "Okay guys, today I have a headache, so why don't you read for the rest of the class?"

He then made his way to one of the many gyms that the school had, the only other people in the gym was a tall dark-skinned, blonde male with green eyes standing with a tall, muscular Caucasian ebony with blue eyes.

When Dick walked up to the two of them, he was only at their shoulders, "Excuse me, do you know if grade 8's are meeting in this gym or another one?"

"We too are unsure," the dark-skinned male replied.

Dick was taken aback, "you're in the eighth grade too?"

"Yeah," his friend replied.

"Are you also in Mr. Grant's class?" Dick asked wearily.

"Yes, we are, are you?"

"He's too small to be in the eighth grade, look at him; he's barely tall enough to reach my shoulder!"

"Hush, Conner. I am Kaldur Ahm, this is my rude friend Conner Kent," Kaldur said, also outstretching his hand.

"I'm Dick Grayson." Conner stifled a giggle.

Kaldur elbowed Conner in the ribs, and gave an apologetic smile to Richard; this day just kept getting better and better, he slyly thought to himself.

He then made his way to Math, and saw -Wally! Dick rushed to sit next to Wally, "hey dude, 'sup?"

"Dick! How're you? What did you just have?"

Wally regaled a lovely story about his gym and English classes; however, if you asked Dick to repeat it, all he'd say is, "His eyes are pretty, aren't they?" in a far off, dreamy voice... not that Dick only looked into Wally's eyes.

Of course, Dick would argue that he stared at how nicely Wally fit in his skinny jeans (he also felt this ironic, for some unknown reason.)

"And that concludes your first day in high school, I hope to see you again soon," their current Math teacher, Mr. Luthor, bid them farewell.

"I'll see you tomorrow?" Dick asked, packing up.

"Definitely," Wally replied, smiling.

Well, this will certainly be interesting XD I'm thinking it won't be more than 10 chapters, and the rating may change depending on how I feel/other things I want to put in.

Also, please suggest certain characters you want to appear, aside from the main team and their respective mentors; I may include Rocket, but there's too little for me to go off of to have her as a main character, so she'll probably get an honourable mention or something, and I'm definitely including Roy, I'm just not sure when/how yet XD

Anyways, review and tell me how I did, probably not very well...but anyways, I just wanted to tell all of you that I am not dead, and that I will be updating. But not right now, since I'm going on a vacation, because of that, I will be inactive until I get back, around mid-July.

Also, to fellow staff members of the KF/Rob community, please refrain from adding this to the community, because I am unsure at this time whether or not I will actually have KF/Rob as the main pairing or not.