Neji looked at his watch and tapped his foot with annoyance. His cousin, Hinata, was going to be late for her first day at high school. Since he was already a grade ahead of her, he was told to lead her around, show her the way around the 9th grade. This, he knew, was going to so hard to do since one, he didn't like his cousin that much, two he wasn't that very patient with her studdering and shyness. It always bothered him.

"Neji, are you coming?"

Neji turned around to see his cousin standing there, which annoyed him some more. He never figured out she did that, always appearing behind him whenever he was looking for her. It annoyed him the most that she would always incent looking with that confused look on her face, and how she looked so cute in that uniform that was wearing. The dark blue stripes on her skirt went well with the black stripes. Her blue shirt was baggy. And she had her jacket in one of her hands, her bag in the other.

Neji never could admit that he liked his cousin, expecilly since he was known to hate her. But he didn't but he never admitted it, not even to himself.

"N-neji-niisan?A-are you ok?" Hinata asked, her studdering not as bad as it use to be.

"I'm fine, let's get going," He mumbled, walking past her. Even though his voice was filled with bitterness, Hinata smiled at him and walked after him

"Ok, niisan!" She said.

Neji felt like hitting himself, he did it mentally but not physically. He always forgot that no matter what, Hinata respected him, maybe even worshiped him. But as always, he would shrug it off.

"Will you be able to get yourself out of trouble this year, Hinata?"

"Yep! And even, Tenten is always looking out for me, like she's my older sister."

"..."

"N-neji? I-i-is something wrong?" Hinata asked?

"You didn't stutter. I think you're getting better at that," Neji answered. He looked over to her to see that she was blushing and fiddling with one of her locks of the now long black hair she has. She has started to loose that studdering but whenever she is around that Naruto kid, she starts studderin like crazy.

"Come on, let's get going," Neji mumbled.

"Hai!"

Hinata was very happy today, she felt like nothing was going to go wrong, she had already gotten to school and nothing bad happened to her on the way and she also was able to find her classes easily. The bell for the last period to end rang and she went to her locker feeling so happy. Unfortenly that was going to get ruined.

"Sasuke teme! Where are you going?"

Hinata looked around when she heard her crushes voice ringing out. But when she did, someone had pushed her into her locker, and closed the door.

"Uh, h-h-hello?" She studdered, hearing nothing now. "I-i-is anyone out there? If so please let me out."

"Wow, first day of the school year and you already got yourself locked in your locker." Someone said from the other side of the locker.

"Tenten! Can you let me out?" Hinata asked.

So her day wasn't all perfect, but she thought the next day would be better, well it wasn't.

"Dang it, that piece of paper is just trying to get me in trouble," Hinata mumbled as she searched under her desk to look for the piece of paper, or her schedule to be more precise. She spotted it and went out to reach for it, but then a shoe stepped on her hand, making her yelp in pain.

The person lifted their foot and looked down at her, the person had red hair and a sign on his head that meant love in japanese. He frowned as he stared at her,"What are you doing?"

"I-I-I was trying to get m-m-my paper," She studdered, she pointed to where her paper was.

He spotted it and grabbed it. He handed it to her and mumbled,"Next time, make sure no one is going to step on that hand of yours, someone's foot might break it."

Hinata blinked as the red haired boy walked away. She looked down at her paper and then sat down in her seat when her teacher walked in. He put all his paper to one side of the desk and then cleared his throat.

"Today, we already have a new student. His name is Gaara."