Ryuu: yeah, I've finally been created as a character!!!
Fluffystwin: yeah, now shut-up. Oh, yeah, you're welcome to you borrowing my characters.
Ryuu: Oh, yeah, thanks for letting me borrow characters.
Rinoa: By the way Hiiro-no-Ryuu does not own Naruto.
Fluffystwin: Oh, and your welcome to borrowing my introductions as well.
Ryuu: yeah, well I think it's a better way to say that I don't own Naruto, and for thanking you for letting me borrow stuff.
Fluffystwin: I just have one thing to say, DORK!!!
Ryuu: Thanks! I'll take that as a compliment. Enjoy everyone!!!!
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Dread consumed me as I walked up to my new school. I hated moving. Being a General in the United States Army, my dad always forced my family to move from base to base.
Once again, I failed to talk my parents into letting me be home-schooled. I hated that I was never in one place long enough to make friends that lasted longer than a few months. My parents insisted that having the experience of dealing with other people was going to help me when I went to college, but I knew that that was just an excuse for my mom to get some on the day to herself.
I opened the door, and was instantly consumed with the smell of disinfectant and copper. I looked down a small hallway on my left where I saw a janitor cleaning blood from the floor and lockers. "Oh great," I thought to myself, "another freak accident school. This should be fun."
"Hi, you must be Hiiro no Ryuu?"
I spun around to find a woman in a dinosaur skirt, a loose fitting pink top, and a grandma bun on her head standing there, smiling in await for a response.
"Yeah, Ryuu for short, though. How did you know?"
"Oh, lucky guess, and we don't get many new students here, " she said. The look on her face told me that she knew why as well. It probably had something to do with the janitor who was mopping up blood. "My name is Ms. Couts. If you follow me, I will show you to your, 'tour guide', " she said as she used finger quotes around "tour guide" when she spoke. This small jester made me only laugh at her more in my head. That was just the icing to the whole get-up she was wearing.
I followed her to the guidance office. Sitting just inside the door was a girl, with spiky hair, green and black Goth pants, and a black shirt covered in rainbows. I hoped to myself that this was just a juvenile delinquent, and not my "tour guide".
"Saeka, this is Hiiro no Ryuu. Ryuu, this is Saeka."
"Nice to meet you, Ryuu. I will be your tour guide for today. Well, I guess we will start with your locker. What number is it?" She asked with a fake smile, and cheesy enthusiasm.
"Ahh, umm, its A28."
"Well, now that I see you two have a heading, I will let you be on your way. Have a dino-riffic day!" She went and sat down behind her desk, humming to herself,
"Cool that's right next to mine. That's going to be easy to find."
And out the office door we walked. I was almost to the point of tears. Not only am I in a school that could be hazardous to my life, but I have her as a tour guide, and her looker is next to mine, and we a have a crazy old lady working in the office. "Oh I am just going to love this school!" I thought to myself.
"Thank god! I promise I am not that cheesy. Its just if I don't act like that in front of Ms. Couts, then she will think I'm suicidal and send me to Johnson County. I really don't want to go to the nut house again. You know what I mean?"
"Again? You mean you've been there before?"
"Yeah, last year. I made the mistake of being myself in front of Ms. Couts, and off they carried me. You'd think she should be in there, that crazy old bitch, but she has some major connections in this town. So be careful."
"Oh, so you're not nuts, she is?"
"Yeah, you couldn't tell?"
"Oh yeah, I could tell. I'm not stupid. I just wanted to make sure that I was getting your perspective right."
"Ok, Ms. Smart-ass, where are you from?"
"I don't know." I replied as I shrugged my shoulders.
"Seriously, where are you from?"
"Seriously, I don't know. My dad is a general in the army, and we have been moving every few months since before I was born. I don't even know where I was born. They never told me, and I never asked."
Saeka stopped dead in her tracks. "Holy shit. That must suck. I had to move to Arizona for a year a while back. And it was hard to leave my friends, going and coming back. It must really suck for you."
"Nah, its actually pretty easy. I don't really have any friends. So when I move, it's like leaving behind nothing. Its pretty easy once you get used to it."
"Man, that sucks even worse. But I'll tell you what. I promise that your time here will be fun. And you can hang with my friends. And when you leave we will give you our digits. Even when your gone, we can keep in touch my email, and phone and all."
"Thanks for the offer, but…"
"But what? You just said that you don't have any friends. And I know what it feels like to only have your rents to talk to."
"Rents?"
"You know, parents. Anyways, I'll be your friend. You can talk to me when you need to. Ok?"
"Sure whatever." This was strange. I had only been here 10 minutes, and already I had someone asking to be my friend. Usually I am at a school for 2 months before that happens. And then I move the next day. Maybe I should give this place a chance.
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After she showed me around a bit, and attempted to try and explain the social classes of the school, she showed me where she and her friends hang out when they're not in class. This should be good, a freak showing me around and introducing me to more freaks. But I had to hand it to her; she was funny, and nice.
"Ok, Ryuu, this is the shit hole. It isn't much, but if you ever need anything, this is usually where you can find us. Meet the gang. The blonde dobe over there is Naruto. Sitting next to him is his boyfriend, Sasuke."
"Um, boyfriend?" This was really weird. She is introducing me to gay people. I think I should start running.
"Yeah, you're not a homophobe, are you? Anyways that is soon going to change. Oh don't worry were not going to bite. Gosh. The one with the red hair, and a tattoo on his forehead is Gaara. His sister Temari, and his brother Konkuro, are sitting behind him. Then over there by the tree is Neji. Next to him is his boyfriend Shikamaru. Between them and the freaky siblings (Gaara, Temari, and Konkuro) are Shino, the one with glasses and a gray trench goat, Choji, the one who is eating, and Shikamaru's x-boyfriend, Kiba, the one with the dog. And the other girl over there, with the black hair, is my girlfriend, Rinoa. Everyone meet, Ryuu."
"Hey, Ryuu." They all spoke in unison. It was kind of scary.
"Heh, Hi." I really didn't want to be here, but the look Saeka was giving me, it looked like I didn't have a choice.
"There is one other person, Val, but you will meet her tomorrow. She had to go get her braces taken off. We all can't wait to see what she looks like. Don't be afraid of us. We are freaks, but when trouble comes along, and believe me in this school that's not hard, we always have each other's backs. And now that your one of us, we got your back, too."
I wasn't too excited about having all these freaks as friends, but considering what I just saw the janitor cleaning up this morning, these freaks were better than nothing at all.
I sat down and started talking to Saeka about different teachers, and things. It was amazing how much everyone accepted me instantly. Just when I was getting used to the people around me and my environment, a man with silver-ish white hair ran through the grounds towards the group.
When he got to us, he took a deep breath and then said, "Guys, we got a problem. Oh, you must be Ryuu, nice to meet you."
"What is it, Kakashi?" Rinoa asked before Saeka opened her mouth. The look on Saeka's face told me that she was surprised Rinoa said something that fast, but that's neither here nor there.
"I just got an email from an anonymous source, that Itachi is planning something big. This time it's not an alarm. He already has killed to people."
"Oh, god, what's he after this time?" Saeka said with a sigh.
"Well, he's after you." He pointed at me.
Ryuu: Ok, what did you think of chapter one? It's my first non-one-shot. Please review!!!!