Shades of Night
Summary: Hinata, the new transfer sophomore, hopes everything will be alright and she'll fit in to at least some extent. Oh how she was wrong. But her tour guide is barely ever there to do any guiding, and everyone's vying to get a look at the new transfer, she's left to fend for herself in the high school openly ruled by gangs!
A/N The main pairing is, don't hate me, HinataShisui. (You know, Itachi's closest friend) Normally I'm a total NaruHina but this is an exception because originally Sakura was going to play this part but I thought it too clichéd, plus Hinata better suited for the role.
WARNINGS: SPOILERS FOR ALMOST EVERY NARUTO CHAPTER ESPECIALLY THE ONES PAST PART 2!! First real fic, so again please don't kill me. Currently, nothing too bad, just occasional use of ass (aka so far once) I'm disregarding all deaths and screwing with the ages. (aka they're pretty much all at high school age) I tried to keep the order of ages correct. (Ex. "Tobi is a good freshman!")
DISCLAIMER:la, lalala, la, lalala, lalala, lalala. Come on people, you think I own this?!
"Before you go honey wear this," the woman at the front desk handed Hinata a white scarf. "Kabuto will explain, dear." The woman replied to Hinata's puzzled look. The gray-haired senior had a green armband,
"So what's with the scarves?" she asked.
"They're in a way, gang symbols." he answered.
"Gang……symbols?" the lavender-haired girl repeated softly. So much for being normal. She thought mentally sighing. "Wait, what do you mean 'in a way'?"
"Well, this school is how you say different. Every person, including the teachers, wears a scarf or armband. The people who wear scarves are gang members, the ones who wear armbands are supporters. Except for people like you who hadn't been exposed to anyone so you have a white armband, basically means 'gangless'."
"What are the gangs?" She asked curious.
"Well there's Thorn, an all-guys gang, I support them." Kabuto gestured to the green armband on his left arm, "Then there's Nightshade, an all-girls gang. They of course have pink scarves. Thorn and Nightshade are allied together forming the Leaf 'Lliance. There's also the Akatsuki." Kabuto said slightly more darkly than when he was talking about the 'Lliance but Hinata didn't notice. "They have the color black and are mostly made up of juniors and seniors. The fact there's a freshman in there makes this year especially interesting. Plus with you as a transfer student, this year promises to be interesting."
She noticed a very large person passing by wearing a purple armband. "What about purple?"
A look passed over his face but it was gone as fast as it had came, "The Sound, they're an…interesting group. They're not very well liked by the Leaf 'Lliance. A couple of Akatsuki dislike them as well, especially the Sound's leader."
"Well, here's your homeroom," Kabuto stopped in front of one of the many classrooms, "All that's left is for you to decide the next three years of your life based solely on who you decide to sit by here and now," he said cheerfully, smiling, "Good luck." And with the expertise of someone who has been deserting newbies for long time, he disappeared.
"KMAG YOYO" Hinata muttered, looking towards where the entire class, with a junk-load of upperclassmen, was all staring right at her! "Kiss My Ass Girl, You're On Your Own."
Too late she noticed a boy with a florescent orange spiral mask on stampeding toward her and was blind-sided by a glomp-tackle. "Hi!" he pulled her up just as quickly and towed her across the room. No-one intervened, like it was normal, "Sempai asked Tobi to get the new girl, so Tobi- Sempai! Tobi got the newbie!" he happily raised his hand that held Hinata's at a blond boy with hair covering his left eye.
'Sempai' sweat-dropped, "Uh…thanks Tobs, un."
"You're welcome!" the hyper boy skipped back to his seat on the left side of the other boy.
The blond smiled as she sat in front of Tobi on the tiers. "Yo-ness, I'm Deidara, yeah, I'm also a sophomore-" The teacher interrupted his introduction.
"We have a new student, so please welcome Hyuuga Hinata." The way he said it seemed to say 'Don't kill the kid'. A few people waved, including Tobi, who nearly decapitated Deidara in his enthusiasm. However an orange-goggled boy near the front called out, "Nice hair, toots!" A girl with a plum-colored stripe on each cheek on his left knocked him rather hard over the head. "Ahh! Holy crap, Rin!"
"Why'd you say that, Obito?!"
Obito mumbled something about 'Ka-Ka putting him up to it' earning himself a bump from the boy sitting next to him on his right. Rin then clocked that boy. "Please refrain from inflicting head wounds, Miss Rin." The teacher sighed like he's said it a million times. "Sorry, Madara-sensei." She apologized, looking innocent as the two boys winced when they saw each others' massive bumps.
"Anyways, un." Deidara continued, pointing to a verydecisively hot redhead on his right. "This is my bestfriend Sasori, yeah. He's a junior." Sasori smiled at her, "That's Tobi, un-"
"Tobi is a good freshman!"
"Err…yeah, un. And that's-"
"Konan, senior, nice to meet you," the blue-haired girl on her left said, "Finally another female sits here! I'd thought I'd have to listen to these idiots forever!"
"Hey!" Sasori protested
"You all are the Akatsuki, right?" Hinata asked.
"Apparently," Hinata had heard the dry reply come from two seats down to her right, spoken by a boy with long black hair and red eyes.
The boy in the seat between the two with a cute smile said, "Sorry 'bout Itachi, he's a junior, I guess he's sorta ticked Deidara didn't introduce him in the beginning. I'm Shisui; I'm a sophomore like you."
Madara-sensei started to call roll already, "Hakate Kakashi,"
"Present" The voice came from the previously mentioned 'Ka-Ka'.
"…Hyuuga Hinata"
"Oh! Here!" She had been listening to Shisui's jokes about how he screwed-up a 'decoding ancient symbols' section in history and came up with interesting results, mainly several inappropriate words. Shisui was quite cute, not like the famous Sasuke, who she's yet to meet, supposed boyishly-handsome which attracted a massive amount of fangirls, nor like Sasori's sizzlin' hotness which created stalkers, but somewhere in between.
"Nara Shikamaru" A loud snore served as a reply.
"Nobel Deidara"
"Yo, un." Deidara smiled proudly, "I'm a direct descendant of Alfred Nobel, yeah, inventor of the Nobel Peace Prize and dynamite, un!"
"Why would someone-"
"It's a long history lesson." Konan said in response to Hinata's unfinished question.
"Uchiha Itachi"
"Hn." He didn't even look up from the romance novel he was writing, why he was writing it, Hinata decided not to ask.
"Uchiha Obito"
"Ow! Here." The boy with the violent friends was gingerly rubbing his two goose-eggs he had got.
"Uchiha Sasuke"
"Hn." So that's the class heartthrob. Hinata thought Doesn't look like much; the only interesting about him is that poem he's writing…At least I think it's a poem.
"Uchiha Shisui"
"Hn." He answered then snickered. "It's always fun to annoy uncle Madara like that, he hates one syllable answers."
"Uncle?"
"Oh yeah, all us Uchihas are related." Shisui explained, "Sensei is my second uncle though. In fact the only ones who are brothers are Sasuke and Itachi-"
"Hey! Don't use me in the same sentence as that baka!" Sasuke yelled at the same time Itachi said "Don't use me in the same sentence as that brat."
Deidara, Sasori, Konan, Shisui, and Hinata all sweat-dropped… "Yeah, they may be a junior and sophomore in high school, but when it comes to each other they act like they're two."
"Uchiha Tobi"
"Tobi is here!"
"Oi! Obito's sleeping again!" Shisui said excitedly as he pulled out a slingshot and a misshaped paperclip. "Watch this." He whispered conspiratorially even though there was no need to lower his voice, they couldn't be heard anyways. She loved stuff like this; he'd never had a chance to do this because all the others had better things to do. He carefully aimed it at the sleeping Uchiha and was about to release when his 'uncle' shouted,
"Uchiha! Pay attention!"
This caused him to start and shoot wide, hitting Shikamaru instead. But this didn't matter because the intended target sprung to his feet and yelled,
"THE ANSWER IS 4,857, REPORTING FOR DUTY, UCHIHA OBITO!" even saluting at the finish. The brothers looked up from their work with an "Hn." Shisui used the commotion of Tobi jumping up and saying "Tobi is sorry, sir!" to hide his slingshot.
Hinata laughed at the antics of the Uchihas and Shisui's guilty face. "Is it always like this?" she asked Konan.
The senior laughed, "No, not even on the first day of school. I guess it's just all the change."
"Change?"
"Of course, you, we've never had a new kid sit here. Especially one escorted by someone like Kabuto."
"I take it you don't like him."
"It's not so much him as whom he hangs out with."
"Who he hangs ou-"
She was interrupted by Shikamaru stomping up to Shisui; it seems he found out who shot him. "Why'd you do that?!"
"I was aiming for Obito; I wanted to put another knot on his head."
"Well you hit me! Now I have a massive bump from where you pegged me with your screwed-up paperclip!"
"Maybe if you hadn't been sleeping it would have missed." Shisui pointed-out barely holding back a smile; he was thoroughly enjoying this, something Hinata took note of.
"If your second cousin-"
"fourth" he corrected grinning on the edge of laughter.
"-whatever, hadn't been sleeping, you wouldn't of shot it!"
"Well, I don't know about that-"
"Break it up, break it up!" Madara called at them after calming down the rest of the class. Shikamaru walked away muttering about 'troublesome Uchihas'.
"Aww man, I wanted to make a perfect triangle of bumps on Obito's head." Hinata laughed at Shisui's disappointed tone.
Deidara looked slightly shocked, "That's weird, un. Nara's never like that. Me thinks he doth dream of Temari too much…yeah." He made kissy-faces at the back of Shikamaru's head.
"Your mind is a badly-thrown bowling ball, ya know that Deidara?" Konan said seriously.
He laughed, "Ah, but if my head's in the gutter, your lightning rod is five lanes down."
"No," Itachi said without a flicker of a smile, "He's blasted into the next alley." Even Hinata giggled at the glare sent the two boys.
"Hey, Uncle-Sensei is giving back tests!" Shisui said.
"I told you not to call me that!" Madara said, ticked-off as he passed out their tests.
Hinata looked over to see Shisui's 87. He noticed this, "Yeah, I'm pretty average." He said rubbing the back of his head.
She snatched it from his hand, nearly giving him a paper-cut, to look it over. Raising an eyebrow she said, "Hardly, you got this killer extra-credit!" Shisui lightly blushed. "I would have never have gotten it. Math's like my worse subject." She finished.
"No way, un!" Deidara exclaimed causing the two to look at him, "How'd draw that graph so well, un?!" he asked Sasori.
"Manga artist." He answered waving his pen in his best friend's face for emphasis. He glanced to others' papers. Konan had 100 plus partial bonus. His gaze fell on where Hinata noted Itachi's left eyebrow was twitching and he was muttering about not seeing that last zero. "Holy crap!" Sasori shouted as he fell forward onto Itachi, causing Itachi's paper to fly upward where Deidara snatched it from the air.
He stared at it in shock, "Itachi got a 99, yeah!" The whole class stormed the rows to see, causing Madara-sensei to roll his eyes but allowed it to happen nonetheless.
"This coming from the one with the 38!" Itachi growled back, swatting at everyone, threatening bloody murder.
"It's not my fault; I didn't know a lightyear was a unit of distance, un!"
"Itachi isn't normally like this," Shisui explained the Hinata, "he usually gets 100s so this injured his pride-"
"Yes, his pride," Konan interrupted, "his pride was ever so bruised. More than it would usually be."
"Wh-"
"Sasuke isn't breathing!" Tobi said happily. True, the younger Uchiha brother seemed to be laughing so hard he faced death by oxygen deprivation.
The bell rang and the class stampeded out, laughing and chatting. Hinata was gathering her books when Tobi glomp-tackled her from behind, knocking them from her hands. "What does Newbie-sempai think of school with Tobi?!"
"Very…," she looked to where Shisui was laughing with Itachi over something on the test and Konan was folding a page of Sasori's manga into a swan as Deidara held back the redhead, laughing. Obito was running from Rin, hands protecting his head, and Madara was lazily tossing chalk pieces at the, again, sleeping Shikamaru, while a whiskered boy was helping Sasuke struggle to retain a straight face. "Interesting," Hinata decided, "this will be very interesting."
Info on Nobel:Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Peace Prize when the newspaper wrote an obituary for his brother, thinking it was him. "The man who invented a way to kill many people at once died last Tuesday..." Yeah, that turned his act around.