Foundation? Check. Eyeliner? Check. Mascara? Check. Eye shadow? Check. Lip Gloss? Check. Done with that, the girl placed the fillets into her bra to give her the A-cup sized chest that she lacked, and then shimmied into her orange dress with practiced ease and then zipped it up on the side. The dress had thin straps stretching over her shoulders to her back where the crossed each other to form an 'x', and a blue sash that matched her eyes tied around her waist. It ended near her knees to show off her smoothly shaven, tan legs. She slipped her feet into light golden flats as she expertly tied her long blonde hair into two high pigtails like she did every other day.
The girl did another once over out of caution and habit as she caught herself in the tall mirror her mother had given her years before. She exhaled loudly and tried to shake her nerves doing a small shiver that spread through all of her body. It was the first day of school. The same one she'd gone to since she moved when she was 6. She got nervous every year on this day but not because school was starting again. She always got nervous she'd suddenly be discovered and if she were, then no one would come near her.
No one had seen under her façade yet, but hers was one that could be discovered easily and at any time. It was no gigantic emotional secret nor was it deep depression she was hiding, although she tended to have relapses at times. But that was different. No. What she feared being discovered was the reason for her wearing a dress, for having to stuff her bra. You see, the flat chested girl with a small stuffed bra on, currently walking out of her room at this moment had a reason for being so flat chested. It was because she was really a boy. And his name was Naruto.
"Good morning Naruko," a tall woman with brown hair said as she put toast upon a plate. She refused to call her cross dressing son Naruto. It'd been her fantasy that she'd forced upon him to make up for his being born a boy. She'd always wanted a girl, and she'd been fine at first with him being a boy seeing as he looked very effeminate. That was, until his father, Arashi, was killed. She'd been even more depressed than Naruto at the time and began to dress him as a girl for comfort. It wasn't too long after that she'd dubbed him Naruko, and then refused to return to calling him his original name. Naruto hadn't cared then. He let him mother do to him as she wanted because it made her happy. If she saw him dressed or looking remotely as a boy, she pretended he wasn't there or went into depressive fits. And he loved her too much to even think about telling her that he wanted to go back to being a boy now.
"Morning mom," he said with a smile.
"I made you some breakfast. You better hurry up or you'll be late to your first day of school," she told him. "What took you so long up there?"
"The usual things mom. How do I look?" he asked, giving her a small twirl. His mom smiled at this.
"Very pretty, honey. Now hurry, eat!" she said, pushing the plate of buttered toast towards him. Naruto grabbed his already packed bag from the couch in the living room and swung it over his shoulder. Then he came back into the kitchen.
"I think I'll just eat it while I walk. You know I hate the bus," he said, taking the toast. His mom had already turned back to her cooking.
"Alright honey. Have a fun day at school," she called after him as he left the house.
"Naruko-chan! Hey!" a pink haired girl called out as she spotted the blonde. Said blonde flashed her that fox like grin she always had. Sakura returned the grin along with her other blonde friend Ino. Sakura and Ino were practically connected at the hips since they were almost never apart. The trio hugged, happy to see each other once again after the long summer away. Naruko unabashedly gave each girl a kiss on the cheek, but neither found it strange. It was just the blonde's habit to kiss her friends on the cheek either in greeting or farewells.
"So, how were your summers guys?" Naruko asked them. The three entered the building side-by-side, and making their way through the crowds. The Sakura and Ino told him almost the same story but each added their own mini adventures of when they weren't together. When they asked about Naruko's summer, she just said boring and switched the subject to their schedules. They found that they had two classes together, Health and gym. Neither of which any of them were very fond of. In gym they would have an over eccentric teacher that made them run somewhere near 50 laps as a warm up, and just to show his devotion to the class, he was do the 50 laps with them on his hands. And then his little mini-me Rock Lee would join him in running on his hands with enthusiasm. In Health they'd have a perverted teacher who was rumored to write porn of the side and said the pictures he kept of naked women were for teaching anatomy, even though he never pulled them out except to look at himself during a lunch period. Students always wondered why they had such strange teachers.
Sakura had opted to take an honors class for practically everything, and Ino had only chosen honor classes for English and Science. Naruko took only normal level classes, not thinking herself smart enough to take even one honors class. She'd never been good with summer projects or studying.
The bell rang, and the three left each other reluctantly, promising to meet up during free period for lunch.
"Hinata-chaaaaaaaaaan!" Naruko yelled, jumping onto the blue haired girl. Hinata's face blew up in red as Naruko landed a kiss on her cheek as well before getting off her.
"H-hello Naruko-chan," Hinata said. The pair had only met the year before when both had needed a lab partner in Science. Hinata was too shy to ask someone to be her partner, and Naruko felt bad to see the shy girl all alone. And so, the two became partners, and soon after, good friends. Hinata was still getting used to the kisses on the cheek from her new friend, but she didn't quite mind it. She smiled at the blonde and asked, "H-how was your s-summer?"
"It was so boring! It would have been better if I could have hung out with you or Sakura and Ino-chan. Oh, hey, you wanna sit with us at lunch during free period?" Naruko said eagerly.
"S-sure Naruko-chan. Where are you e-eating?" Hinata replied.
"We were thinking about going up to the roof. I'll pick you up on the way, so wait for me, okay?" Naruko said. The blue-haired girl nodded. "So how was your summer? How's your dad treating you?"
"It's been o-okay. H-he's starting t-to see things my w-way. I've s-seen N-Neji around more t-too," she told the blonde.
"Is he still being a bastard to you? If he is, I'll beat his ass-!"
"He's n-not Naruko," Hinata said, interrupting her ranting friend. "He w-walked me to school this m-morning and w-we talked a little. I-it was nice."
Naruko smiled to see how happy this made Hinata. The shy girl had been trying to be friends with her cousin for years, and he'd treated her badly by taking his anger at her father out on her, causing her low self-esteem. When Naruko had challenged him about it and made him see there was no sense in taking it out on an innocent girl, he'd stopped. Neji avoided Hinata for the rest of the year, and Naruko was troubled about it during the summer, knowing the boy lived on the same estate as the shy girl. She was relieved to know the boy was trying in an awkward attempt to earn the forgiveness that he knew Hinata would give out easily.
"Alright. But just tell me if he starts acting like a jerk to you again okay?" Naruko said. Hinata grinned and nodded.
"Okay class, time to start," the teacher, Iruka, said above the din of the class as he walked in. Groans were heard at this. "I'm just going to hand out some papers and forms that your parents have to fill out, explain some things about what we'll be doing this year, and then you can all go back to socializing."
"Hey guys! I brought a friends, so I hope you don't mind!" Naruko announced as she burst through the door to the roof with Hinata following behind. Sakura and Ino looked up at the shy girl with smiles.
"Hey Hinata-chan. I didn't know you and Naruko-chan were friends," Sakura said.
"W-we only met l-last y-year," replied the blue haired girl.
"And you never invited her to sit with us before? Shame on you Naruko-chan," Ino said, clicking her tongue. But a smile covered her face to show she was only joking.
"Sorry. But you can sit with us whenever you want Hinata-chan. Okay?" Naruko said with a pout. Said girl only nodded her head with a small smile and whispered a light 'arigatou'.
A blonde girl sat on the stairs of the school, waiting rather impatiently (she was already tapping her foot in random beats to keep herself entertained) for a tall brown haired man. Just as she was about to go all out and dance around to the beat in her head, the person she'd been waiting for arrived…and walked right past her. This irked her a bit, plus the fact that she'd had to wait so long. Rushing down the steps and jumping on the man's back, she cried out,
"Irukaaaaa-senseeeeiiiiiiii!!"
The teacher nearly fell flat on his fact at the force. Poor man.
"Hello to you too Naruko-san," Iruka replied, a sweat drop forming on his head at the girl's obnoxious introduction. Naruko grinned and climbed off the man's back. They started walking together.
"Why were you waiting for me?" Iruka asked.
"You don't remember? Last year you said you'd take me to ramen after the first day of school!" she replied with a pout. Iruka scratched his nose sheepishly.
"I guess I did forget. But I haven't made any plans, so I can still take you out. I'll pay for everything to make up for forgetting, alright?"
"Yatta!" Naruko shouted with glee. Oh, Iruka's wallet was in for a rough ride today.
Naruko slurped her ramen down quickly, already on her fourth bowl. Iruka was just finishing his first by this time and was already regretting not giving his student a limit.
"So are you and Kakashi-sensei together yet?" the blonde asked. Iruka sputtered at the question, his face turning a dark red.
"How-! Wha-what gives you the idea I want to be with that pervert?" he stuttered. Naruko gave him a fox like grin.
"That just confirmed it sensei," she replied. "You know, denial isn't a very healthy habit."
The brunette man didn't know what to say to that, and so simply poked at his cool noodles.
"So now that I know you two aren't together, how are things between you two?" Naruko asked, finishing her fifth bowl.
"W-well I…he…were just barely friends right now. There's really nothing between us at the moment," Iruka replied in a somewhat saddened voice. His face was still covered by a blush, though it was lighter now.
"Nothing between whom, Iruka-san?"
Kakashi sat beside the brunette whose face blew up in red once again.
"N-nothing, Hatake-san. W-wh-what brings you here?" he asked with a nervous smile.
"Someone told me I should try the ramen here, so I decided to stop by and see," Kakashi replied. The eye that wasn't covered by the square eye patch was closed in a semi-circle to show he was smiling. One was never too sure since a mask always covered his face. At this statement, Iruka realized just who it was that had told Kakashi to come here. He turned to his other side growling out his student's name…only to find an empty seat. He glared at the empty seat heatedly. That girl was just too quick. She may not act it at times, but she could be pretty cunning. Iruka sighed heavily. And he'd still have to pay for the bill…
"Anything wrong Iruka-san?" Kakashi asked from behind him. The brunette turned back to the silver haired man with a tired smile.
"No, no. Everything's just fine Hatake-san," he replied. He signaled for the bill.
"Ah, alright," Kakashi said, turning to his bowl of ramen. "And you know, you can just call me Kakashi, Iruka-san." The brunette blushed again. Well…maybe one more bowl couldn't hurt.
"R-right," he said. He knew he'd regret this extra bowl of ramen later, but right now he really couldn't care. Naruko was still going to get an earful about this later…
A/N: Alright. Soooo…yeah. This is my first story, and I expect that this is crap. I hate how I've written this first chapter, but I don't really want to change anything in it either. This is basically an introduction to some of the characters that will be more prominent in the story (except for Sasuke and Itachi of course, although I'm not sure if Itachi will play a very big part. But anywho, they're coming next chapter I think…) and shows some of their daily life before Sasuke appears. I'll let you all know now (if anyone at all happens to be reading this), I've always been a lazy-ass, and will always be a lazy-ass. Expect random intervals between chapters. Reviews help motivate me, but I can never be too sure when I can update this since school is in full-swing now. I will try my best though for you, the readers. And hopefully I will like how the next chapter comes out better than this one. Anywho, I hope all you who've actually read my crap liked it. Reviews are appreciated, and flames are used to burn homework and projects. Have a nice day.
Disclaimer: um, let me think…nope. I don't own it. I am not worthy… (falls over…)