Not What It Seems Chapter 1

School life in Konoha Private Boarding School was different to any other high schools in the country. In Konoha Private, everything was luxurious. Everyone that attended this college were all someone's in the public eye. Of course there were also those that are lucky enough to enter with only academic credits but not financial credits. Those 'lucky' few are called the 'commons', in other words, they were commoners that had no high ranking status, nor did they come from prestigious and loaded families. The 'commons' also had a different uniform to the rest of the students there, since they couldn't afford to buy the real school uniform that costs more than $3000, hence they were given an alternative uniform that were cheaper to produce since the school had to provide them with everything. Everything really meant everything; from tuition fees to uniform to boarding school fees to lunch money and even allowances, totaling up to more than $50,000 per year per scholarship student.

Our 'hero' of the story, the lead male character is none other than Uchiha Sasuke. You see, Uchiha Sasuke practically owns the school, literally. The legendary Uchiha family established this college more than 5 generations ago, hence Uchiha Sasuke was and still is the most eligible bachelor in the school and in the country. Not to mention he is practically sex-on-legs. Unfortunately our hero suffers from a condition called fangirlphobia-ism. As in since he was so rich, famous and HOT, he had more fansites and dedicated (and psychotic) fangirls (and boys) than Brad Pitt and George Clooney combined since he was in diapers, hence he developed this condition that prevented him from getting too close to the female (and some male) race. This didn't mean that our hero swings the other way though, no siree! In fact he was one of the most notorious playboys that walked the face of the planet. He's had more girlfriends in his 17 years of life than Hugh Hefner has in his entire lifetime. What most people didn't know about him was that behind his playboy façade, he was actually a decent guy, trapped behind a mask of cool (cold) ness and societal expectations.

Anyway, this story does not only revolve around one Uchiha Sasuke. Nope! In fact, the heroine or main character of this story is one Namikaze Natsumi, who goes by the name of Uzumaki Naru as her disguise. Why you ask? Well, it's because the Namikaze's are just as rich and powerful as the Uchiha family. Natsumi's father, Namikaze Minato was the sole heir of the Namikaze fortune and so happened to marry her mother, Uzumaki Kushina, a beautiful fiery red-head that came from a humble family that Minato stumbled upon when he did his cross-country adventure backpacking. Kushina had found him near the river, exhausted and nearly unconscious. She nursed him back to health and they ended up falling in love, the rest was history. The Namikaze's also were close friends with the Uchiha's, in fact, Minato and Uchiha Fuugaku, Sasuke's father were best friends since kindergarten. After Minato had started dating Kushina and brought her to the city, her best friend, Mikoto came to visit her when Minato, Kushina and Fuugaku planned to have dinner together, the two (Mikoto and Fuugaku) met and became inseparable. A few months later, both couples had a double wedding; it was the biggest event that ever took place in the century. Oops, my story telling is straying a bit isn't it?

Anyway, back to the original story…

This story currently takes place at the college, the one fateful day that changed the lives of the students there forever. It was a beautiful day, the birds were chirping, the students were texting and Sasuke was still followed around by his constant possy of fangirls, just like any other day. However, today was most definitely different from usual. Their homeroom teacher, Iruka-sensei had just informed the class that there would be a new student joining the class. Now don't get me wrong! It's normal for schools to have random transfer students coming to the school all of a sudden right? But not this school! And certainly not this class! For this school, as afore mentioned, and this class in particular (the one with Sasuke in it) was the extension class, reserved for the richest and brightest students in the country (and even for foreigners). To say the whole class was both shocked and ecstatic was a definite understatement. Jaws were agape, cellphones dropped to the floor, fangirls stopped their squealing (it's the end of the world!). Oh dear. But wait there's more! Iruka-sensei had also added that this student was a *gulp* 'COMMON'.

"Class, let's welcome our new student." Iruka-sensei chided, he turned to face the door and signaled the new student to come in.

The door opened and revealed… a geeky azure-eyed brunette girl with big, thick framed glasses, her hair in two long plaits. She wore the cheap uniform and her skirt even went down to her knees. The whole class was thinking the same thing… Eww

"Class, this is Uzumaki Naru, let's get along okay?" Iruka-sensei turned to her, "Naru-chan, why don't you introduce yourself?"

"Iruka-sensei, you kinda already did that for me." She sweatdropped, she turned to the class and sighed, "Hi, my name is Uzumaki Naru, as Iruka-sensei just said, douzo yoroshiku." She bowed.

"Naru-chan, why don't you take a seat beside Sasuke-kun over there." He pointed at him.

She looked back at Iruka-sensei and gave him a WTF? face. Iruka-sensei sweatdropped a little. She sighed and walked towards the assigned seat, awaiting her doom.

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After the 5th bell had rung, Iruka-sensei called Naru up to see him, Iruka-sensei had shied down a bit because of the glare of certain death that Naru was giving him.

"What did you need to talk to me about Ruka-sensei?"

"I just wanted to know how you're coping with the school here. I know it must be difficult for you to suddenly come to a school like this one."

"You mean how does it feel like to be constantly around rich and snobby people all the time?"

"Uh… yes."

"It's alright, although this getup most certainly make my life quieter."

"I don't understand why you wanted to dress like this Naru-chan. It's obvious you…"

"Ruka-sensei, I know. I just want to be normal and not always surrounded by pretenders all the time that tries to get close to me so they and their families can benefit from mine. I don't like how they act. I just want to be left alone so I can enjoy some peace and quiet. Besides, I want to know how the rich kids treat the scholarship students, I think I have a fair idea of how they are treated already."

"Well, alright, but just so you know Kakashi and I will always have your back."

She smiled at her teacher, "Thanks Ruka-sensei."

"Hmm. Alright, alright, you better go to your next class now." He smiled back

"Okay, bye."

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It had been nearly two weeks since Naru transferred in to the school. So far, she had been mocked, bullied and thrown at with paper balls and some other unidentifiable items. Once, when it was cleaning duty for the class, she had been left alone to clean the classroom by herself, and then after she had cleaned the classroom and headed to the storeroom to return the cleaning items, the classroom had mysteriously become messy again. Oh, she is most definitely going to chew someone's head off soon. And it will be the next person that she comes across!

Naru heard the door sliding as she continued re-cleaning everything. She looked up and saw four guys (all wearing geeky glasses) standing at the doorway, wearing the scholarship uniform, looking solemnly at her.

"Hi there." The short blonde called out.

"Hi"

"My name is Nobuo Yuuki."

"Uzumaki Naru."

"I'm Ichimaru Han. You must be the new common student." The tall raven man said.

"Common student?"

"It's what everyone calls people like us here. I'm Fuuji Haruka." The tall brunette answered.

"People like us?"

"Scholarship students. Students that are not from prestigious families that got into this school because they are smart but don't have money. I'm Akahiko Atsushi." The tall red-head chided.

"What? So all scholarship students get treated like this?"

"Yeah, but they're going easy on you since you're a girl." Haruka told her.

"I had to clean the boys' locker room once. With only a tooth brush. After practice. After all of them took a dump in all the toilets and purposely peed all over the walls and floor." Yuuki shuddered at the memory.

"There there Yuu-chan, you're in a safe place now. No need to remember horrible memories." Atsushi patted his head.

"There are only five scholarship students in this school including you, and there are more than one thousand of the other normal rich kids here to bully us."

"You're welcome to stick with us if you want; it reduces the risk of you being attacked like this if you're in a group rather than alone." Han told her.

Naru smiled at the boys, "Sure. I'll just finish cleaning this first."

"We'll help!" Yuuki grinned at her as he took a cloth and began wiping the grafittied desks, the others also following his lead.

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The next day, as Naru sat in class doing her work, she felt eyes staring at her from her right side. She sighed and continued working without glancing at whoever it was staring so intently at her.

"Would you lot stop glaring daggers into my skull?! If you have a problem, say so, I'm not a mind reader." She said monotonously while still doing her work.

"Hn." Sasuke smirked.

"Hn is not an answer." Such a typical Uchiha answer. I swear she is the only one that doesn't do it. Then again, she wasn't originally one of them.

"Would you like to go to dinner with me?" For a dare that I stupidly agreed to.

Naru put her pencil down and calmly turned her head, raising an elegantly waxed eyebrow, "What?"