A/N: Don't own Naruto.
Field Trips and Farm-Girls
I shivered in the cool morning air.
"Damn, why do we have to go to this dang field trip thingamerbob?" I muttered. Several of my classmates chuckled. I recently moved here, and my obvious accent showed I still didn't fit in. I was surprisingly tall, for a girl. In fact, I was the tallest girl in our grade. I lived on a farm outside Konoha, but I still went to this private school in town. I am proud to say that I'm probably the only girl who knows a lick about cars. I have a Ford Four by Four pick-up truck. I usually get up this early to take care of my horses, but this is ridiculous.
"I had to get up early for this and pack!" Shikamaru complained. I shifted from foot to foot.
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference! Such as Shikamaru's laziness." I muttered. Neji snickered- I was the one true religious kid in our entire private highschool. Christian, for that matter. I shivered again, not enjoying the cold air.
"Here." Gaara shoved his hoodie at me. I blinked, but took it.
"O-kay?" I was confused. He rolled his eyes.
"Put it on, idiot." I quirked an eyebrow, but slid it on. Oh my gosh this feels so much better! I smiled at the slightly sadomasochistic boy. Apparently Naruto had really helped him, but the guy had his moments.
"Thanks, Gaara!" I grinned and gave him a hug. He stiffened, then relaxed and hugged me back.
I didn't notice the smirk on his face or the glares he recieved from Neji.
"Not a problem, Naomi." He said smoothly, pulling back. I saw Ino and Sakura complaining about their bags being heavy. I froze, and glared at them.
"Well, if you don't want to carry them, then you don't have to have anything. Or, don't pack as much useless stuff!" I snarled at them. They rolled their eyes at me. I smiled coldly.
"Just don't get blood on my hoodie." Gaara muttered. Then, he smirked. "Actually, I don't care. Just not your blood..." He added with a wistful glance my way that I ignored.
Neji grabbed my wrist.
"Don't." I sighed, conceding.
"Fine. But don't expect me to sympathize." I stalked off. I sat down, and Gaara sat next to me.
"Hey. Mind if I sit here?" He smirked, knowing I couldn't refuse.
"Yes." Neji snarled. I blinked.
"Uhm. He asked me?" I asked. Gaara smirked at Neji, and he turned away with huff. I shrugged, but pulled out a book. Gaara watched me read for a while until I looked up at him.
"Hmm? Need anything?" I asked. He blushed, looking away.
"No." I nodded and turned back to my book. Gaara slowly looked back to me, and inched his head closer to mine. "What're you reading?" He asked. I smiled, and showed him the book- Cassie.
"It's a Western Classic. I wouldn't expect you to know it. My mom suggested it to me..." I turned back to my book, and leaned against Gaara without noticing. He smiled, and wrapped his arm around my shoulder. That's when I realized what I was doing. I would have moved away, but I was still cold. I curled into him a litle bit, smiling.
"Comfortable?" Gaara teased.
"Mhm. I'm absurdly cold, today." I replied truthfully, my eyes closing. "And tired..."
"So, am I warm, then? A good pillow?" He smirked.
"Yes... And better than my actual one!" I teased back. He chuckled, and smirked at Neji, who was watching him like a hawk with an angry expression. I didn't notice that I had fallen asleep on Gaara.
"Hey, Naomi." I blinked awake, looking up at Gaara.
"Hmm? Oh, hi!"He smirked.
"Turns out we came to a museum of natural history." I yawned, standing up.
Let's just say the tour was very, VERY boring.
I sighed, curling up with Gaara again on the bus home. I still hadn't warmed up- but I didn't notice that Gaara didn't seem to care. When we had to go home, I realized my dad had dropped me off today because he was taking my truck on his trip to Kiri. I groaned, facepalming myself. My mom was having a convention at the house this weekend and needed my parents car.
"Something wrong?" Gaara asked, walking up behind me.
"Yeah. My dad went to Kiri for a month, borrowing my truck. My mom cant pick me up, 'cuz she's hosting this convention thing. So I have to walk seven miles to get home! Crud. And it's Friday. Yay~" I added sarcastically. "A whole weekend with strangers." Gaara smiled at me.
"Want a ride home?" He offered. I smiled at him.
"Sure. Is it just me, or are you super nice today?" I teased him. He smirked.
"Must be you." He noted as he led me over to a motorcycle.
"Nice bike. Harley Davidson, right? A Forty-Eight, I believe." Gaara looked at me in shock.
"You know what type of bike it is?" "Yeah... My dad taught me a lot of stuff. He basically taught me to be a tomboy." He smiled at me. We got to my house in no time.
"Thanks again- oh, hey, want your hoodie? Wait, I'll wash it for you!" I smiled at Gaara. "See you Monday?"
"Wait. Uhhh, what's your number?" I gave him a suspicious look.
"Why?" He smirked.
"You really want to be trapped with those strangers?" I gulped.
"No.." I gave him my number and he put it in his phone. He looked around.
"So, you live on a farm?" He muttered. I smirked.
"No freaking duh. But, anyways, yeah! What about it?" I asked.
"Nothing, really... Hey, my brother loves animals. You got any?" I laughed.
"'You got any?' Heck yeah, I do! Come on- they ought to be in the barn!" I ran easily over to the barn, Gaara following hesitantly. I opened the barn door, and walk in. I spotted a fluffy creature, and picked it up. I held out the kitten to Gaara. He stared at it as if it were a freakish thing. I pulled it back, and it crawled up to my shoulder.
"It's okay, Kit-Kat. Ignore the kitten-hater!" I smiled playfully at Gaara.
"Kit-Kat? Really?" I shrugged.
"She stole the Kit-Kat I was eating one day." He shook his head, amused by my simple explanation for her name. I walked over to a stall and reached in, scratching a horse's forehead. Gaara looked around absent-mindedly. "Hey, no! My hand is not a treat, Pirate!" I snapped at a black horse who was trying to eat my hand. Gaara laughed lightly, and I whirled on him. "You think it's funny?" He nodded. I groaned, making him laugh more. I walked past him, grabbed a halter and lead-rope from the wall, and went back to Pirate. I slid his halter on, connected the rope, and guided him out of the stall. I smirked at Gaara, who was confused.
"Wait, why are you bringing him out?" Gaara asked. I snickered.
"He has to go out in the paddock." I brought said horse to a grassy field surrounded by an electric fence. I let the horse loose, and headed to the house.
"Want something to drink?" I offered. He shook his head. "Okay. Hey, Mom, I'll be in my room!" I called, leading him up. "Come on, I think I have a book series you might like!"
"Door open!" My mother called.
"Yeah, yeah." I responded, grabbing the rope that I used to get to my bedroom in the attic.
"You use a rope to get into your bedroom?" Gaara was annoyed.
"Nah, only I use this. I have a drop ladder for everybody else." I easily climbed the rope and released the ladder for him. I slid through the 'door' of my room, and helped Gaara up. He looked around my room in surprise. It was lined with multiple shelves full of books, notepads, sketchbooks, and pictures. I had a few of my drawings up on the wall along with some posters, and a few windows. I had my laptop on my desk, which was made of pine. My bed frame was also made of pine, and was rather like an old wooden wagon. He looked at my Mp3 player and dock, which were the only modern-looking things besides my laptop and alarm clock.
"Yeah, it's kind of... Old fashioned." I admitted. He glanced at a big poster/picture on my wall near my bed. It was of me and Pirate. We were behind my collection of trophies and ribbons from competitions.
"Woah... Is that you?" He nodded to another poster that my friend had made. I was doing barrel-racing with Star, another horse in the barn.
"Yeah, I've been competing in the equestrian world since I was pretty little. Part of my dresser is full of my ribbons and certificates."
"Do you have a good record? What level of competition do you do?" He seemed interested with my little library.
"I'd hope so, national level." I replied simply. "Anyways, I'd think you would like these books." I handed him a book- Pendragon: Merchant of Death. "It's fiction, but I thought... Nevermind. You'd probably like Louis L'Amore books." I walked over to a different shelf. "I have most of them right here..."
"You have quite the collection of books." Gaara mumbled. I shrugged.
"I'm an avid reader. I have not a lot of other things to do on the car rides to competition." I said simply. Just then, my phone rang. I smiled at his reaction to my ringtone.
"Uhhh... 'I must confess I feel like a monster'?" He asked as I opened the call.
"Hey, Hinata. What's up?" I waited, then smiled. "Sure! I can go to the park... If I can get a ride. Wait, you and Neji'll pick me up? Thanks!" I closed my phone.
"So... I wonder what they'll think of me being over here?" Gaara said. I shrugged.
"Big deal. Most of my friends are guys- except for my 4H friends."
"4H?"
"Yeah... It's really funny, we're all a big family- we call each other's parents 'Mom' and 'Dad'." I grinned widely. We both heard the gravel crunching as a car pulled up. I looked out, and sighed.
"Looks like our 'guests' are arriving." I muttered, heading towards my 'door'. I grabbed the rope and slid down, while Gaara climbed down on the ladder. I walked to the door, him following as Neji and Hinata pulled up. We exited the house and I waved. Hinata smiled at me, while the guys glared at each other.
"Gaara, what are you doing here?" Neji asked coldly.
"He gave me a ride home." I said helpfully. Neji smiled at me.
"W-we could have done that..." Hinata stammered. I smiled at her.
"Oh, it's okay."
"U-uhm, I d-don't mean to impose, but our parents kind of kicked us o-out of the house tonight... So.. Uhm-"
"I'm staying at Lee's, so could Hinata stay here?" Neji interrupted.
"Lemme ask- Hey Mom! Can Hinata stay over? She got kicked out for the night!"
"Yeah!" Hinata giggled at the fact that I had just yelled, not bothering to walk back to the house.
"Yup!" Gaara tried to stop himself from laughing as Neji just shook his head.
"Naomi, can you go take care of the horses?" My mom yelled at me. I laughed.
"YEAH! Man, I love how I communicate with my parents." I laughed. "Sorry, I can't go to the park I guess."
"I-It's alright... W-would you m-mind if I watch you with the horses?" Hinata asked. I nodded, heading to the barn.
"Later, Naomi. I'm heading home." Gaara muttered, getting on his bike. I waved over my shoulder.
"See ya!" I called, then entered the barn. Neji didn't notice the kittens stalking his long hair until it was too late. They ambushed him, and started chewing on his hair as he fell into a pile of clean hay. Hinata and I started laughing our butts off. Neji glared up at us, then chuckled. I knelt down and helped pull the kittens off. I stood up, and helped him up. I went out into the paddock, and grabbed Pirate and Star. I brought them back to the barn, and put them into their respective stalls. I smiled at the Hyuugas.
"Either of you know how to brush a horse?"
"N-No..." "Not at all." I smirked.
"Oh, okay." I heard a fierce yipping and a dog came running in. It tackled me and started licking my face. I tried in vain to get the massive Newfoundland-Great Perinese hound off me. "Sammy! Get off of me! Ahh!" I laughed as the dog rolled over on the floor after deciding she had covered my face with enough dog slobber. "Heheh. Gross." I wiped the spit off of my face with a loose rag.
"You okay?" Neji asked, concern in his pupil-less white eyes. I nodded, and coughed lightly.
"Blechh. Yeah, I'm okay. Well, I did what needed to be done, I brought Star and Pirate in. Hinata, do you have your stuff?" She nodded. "Alright. Come on, let's go inside." She smiled, then paused.
"N-Neji-san, isn't Lee waiting for y-you?" He started, running out after saying "Oh." We collapsed with laughter.
"God, it's like he never even thought about that!" I snickered. We walked inside. I introduced Hinata to my mom.
"Hey, Mom. This is Hinata. Hinata, this is my mom." Hinata blushed slightly.
"H-Hello, m-ma'am." She managed to say. My mom sighed inpatiently.
"Hello, Hinata. Please, do what most of Naomi's 4H friends do- call me Mom. And, stuttering isn't fit for such a strong young lady. While you are here, if you stutter, start over again. Am I clear?" Hinata stared at her, then smiled slightly.
"Yes, m-mother... I mean, Yes, Mom." I stood there holding back my laughter as my mom drilled the rules of being her version of a 'lady' into Hinata's brain, and made her speak fluently. After about fifteen minutes, we escaped to my room, and fell on the floor laughing.
"Oh wow. Mom's awesome!" Hinata said.
"So, how long are you guys kicked out?" I asked. Hinata grew serious, but smiled.
"I can now talk without stuttering- this'll help. But, when my parents fight, we get kicked out. So, until they resolve whatever issue they have. I usually end up staying with Lee and Neji.." She trailed off.
"Oh, you poor girl! Having to stay with them! Oh, great job on not stuttering!" I added. Hinata laughed again.
"Lee isn't that bad..." I gave her a skeptical look. "Okay, he's worse at home." I smirked, laughing. "Well, I don't know when I have to go home, or even if I want to." Hinata admitted.
"Oh! Don't go back! I always wanted a sister!" We started laughing.
"Well, won't everyone be surprised when you come to school and don't stutter?" I smirked. We went downstairs to the living room, and played videogames until dinner.
"Hey, Mom." Hinata and I called at the same time. She looked up.
"Yes, girls?"
"Mom, Hinata's parents fight, and while that happens she's kicked out of the house until they resolve it. Can she stay with us whenever that happens, for as long as need be?" I asked.
"Of course. It'll be like I have a second daughter." We smiled. "Want me to get the bed frame out from the basement, and take out the pull-out matress form under my bed?" We nodded, and spent the next twenty minutes setting up Hinata's bed on the other side of my room.
"So, Hinata, you are now a farm-girl." I teased her. She laughed, then my phone went off. I picked it up- a text from Neji.
[Hey. Lee's having a party, you want to come?] Hinata read over my shoulder.
[Can't. No ride. But we both want to go.]
[I'll pick you up. Sneak out to the end of your driveway.]
[Seriously?]
[Be there in a few minutes.] I grinned at Hinata.
"Party time." We whispered.
A/N: SO... let's see, where to start? Well, I do have experience with Equestrian stuff(horse stuff), so most of the names/items/random stuff is technically correct. I also am using actual horses that belong to a good friend of mine, as well as the kitten Kit-Kat(different person though). Sammy the Newfie-Perinese is my dog. I wanted to try a high-school type story, and I always thought it would be fun to have a farm-girl in the Naruto world. Uhm, the books I mentioned ARE real. I've read them, and enjoy the Pendragon series. I haven't tried many Louis L'Amore books but my family enjoys them, so. Oh, in case anyone is wondering what Naomi looks like, Naomi has violet eyes with red hair. She has blonde tips though.(her hair is naturally like that) Tan skin, relatively tall, but shorter than Gaara. Her momis like an older version of her. Me and my friends do the whole 'each others parents are called mom and dad' thing too.
Read and Review! Please and thank you! If you don't like, don't read.
Okay, bye!
~ShafiraHatake