AN: Welcome to my first Naruto fic!
I really hope you enjoy it. Feel free to leave reviews, I highly appreciate them. Constructive critisism is welcome as well.
Since this story greatly revolves around music, I'd love you to listen to the songs I mention in this story. They will be listed at the beginning of every chapter.
Thanks to RmeGamr, my wonderful beta!
Warnings: This story is for mature audiences only. It contains bad language, drug and alkohol abuse, sexual interaction and other bad things.
Chapter 1: I never noticed...
A panting blonde on a skateboard came rushing on the school grounds and screetched to a stop mere inches away from a brunette guy with a dog and really skinny dark-haired girl.
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Name: Uzumaki Naruto
Age: 17
Date of birth: October 10th
Height: 6'2"
Info: plays rhythm-guitar and sings in a rockband named "Rasengan", does marital arts, is member of the kendo-club in his school, plays pranks, loves skateboarding and flirting with girls. Lives in a little apartment on his own after moving out of his Godparent's home.
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"Morning guys!" Naruto exclaimed cheerfully.
"You managed to oversleep on the first day after summer vacation?" the brunette guy snorted.
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Name: Inuzuka Kiba
Age: 17
Date of Birth: July 7th
Height: 5'10"
Info: best friends with Naruto since childhood, loves dogs and plans to work in his family's vet clinic.
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Naruto rubbed the back of his neck and smiled sheepishly "ehehe...well I discovered this awesome new anime last night and it was too interesting to stop watching it..."
"Idiot" the girl with waist-long black hair laughed.
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Name: Kawamura Mitsuki
Age: 17
Date of birth: April 10th
Height: 5'2"
Info: has two different personalities, really talented in composing and playing music as well as painting and art in general, rather secretive about her whole life.
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"Mitsuki, stop being mean in the morning!" Naruto pouted and the tiny female ruffled his hair playfully.
The three of them walked inside their school building for the assembly at the beginning of every new school year. (You said summer vacation just before. So you should change that.)
Many eyes followed them as always, but today, the freshmen who'd never seen the trio before were staring more curiously than others. There was Kiba, with brown shaggy hair, average height, toned body, mostly dressed in various shades of gray and brown (today it were light brown baggy pants, a loose fitting dark grey T-shirt, a light grey hoodie and dark brown lo-top converse), which itself wasn't really eye-catching, but the intense red triangle tattoos on his cheeks, his flirtatious smile and his dog-companion, Akamaru, made up for that.
Then, there was the petite, skinny and only slightly curvaceous Mitsuki, her black (with hints of blue and purple if you look closely) straight hair reached her waist and her frayed fringe ended right above her dark blue eyes, which were framed by lots of black eyeliner and contrasted heavily with her pale white skin. She was dressed in close-fitting, ripped black skinny jeans, black worn-out hi-top converse, a loose-fitting rainbow-coloured racerback-top with such low-cut arm holes, they ended right above the waistband of her skinny jeans. Her whole appearance screamed 'freak'.
Last but not least was Naruto. The loud, cheerful, tall blonde with the sunniest personality you will ever stumble upon. Dressed in a tight fitting, bright orange tank that showed off his muscled form, baggy blue jeans and orange hi-top converse he was already peculiar enough, but his hyperactive behaviour and his minor fame from being a guitarist and singer in a local rock band made it impossible not to know him.
Also, because of their legendary pranks, students as well as teachers called them the "chaos triplets".
"Oi! Chaos triplets! Over here!" yelled a female voice.
A brunette with her hair done up in two buns waved them over enthusiastically.
"Morning Tenten!" Naruto pulled her in a bear hug before moving on to greet his other friends, Shikamaru, Hinata, Choji, Shino, Gaara and Lee.
Assembly was boring, as expected. Afterwards, everyone fetched their timetables and headed to class while already chatting excitedly about what they should do next weekend. Naruto's rock band, Rasengan, was playing at The Fire Escape, a local club, and he had invited all of them.
The Chaos Triplets parted ways, Naruto and Kiba hurried to their chemistry class while Mitsuki walked to her art class. Naruto and Kiba entered their class together with Gaara and Shino and quickly scrambled to the tables in the far back of the classroom after seeing who their teacher was. They all heard the creepy stories about Orochimaru. Naruto sat next to a tanned guy with brown hair, Dave, which he vaguely remembered from various classes last year. Dave leaned in Narutos direction and whispered "Hey, isn't that the teacher all those creepy rumours are about? What's his name again?"
"It's Orochimaru-sensei, I think" Naruto whispered back. After receiving a confused look from Dave he quickly corrected himself "Mr. Orochimaru, I mean". Naruto occasionally forgot that most students here didn't understand any Japanese words, save for a small amount of immigrants from Japan which choose this school because of it's name "Konohagakure High", even though it's just normal, public school.
Mr. Orochimaru was as scary as he was insane, but seemed to know a lot and even taught some useful things, but Akamaru kept whimpering from Kibas hood and Kiba said it meant the teacher can't be trusted in any way. Gaara, Shino and Naruto rolled their eyes at Kiba's understanding of dog-language.
Meanwhile, Mitsuki cursed under her breath after entering the art studio. In front of the class stood a hyperactive but handsome guy with blue eyes, long, blonde hair in a ponytail with a long fringe over the left side of his face, sending an equal amount of happiness and insanity vibes through the room. The petite girl sighed. Deidara.
"Helloooo Tsuki-chaaaaaan, what a pleasure to have you in my class again!" he exclaimed loudly. Mitsuki hissed and glared at him before taking a seat in the back. Deidara seemed unaffected and started his class with talking about the beauty of art, while the pale girl racked her brain on how she could have ended up in Deidaras class again, after specifically choosing a different course to avoid having him as a teacher again. And yet she ended up in his class. Not that Deidara was a bad teacher, her problem had nothing to do with his teaching. The hyperactive blonde artist was actually a friend of Itachi, Mitsuki's close friend (and the only other member of her band "Yokujou"), which itself also wasn't a problem. The real issue was the huge crush Deidara had on the small black-haired girl. And while the oblivious blonde never got tired of expressing his feelings for Mitsuki openly, he was blind to Itachi's longing stares. It made Mitsukis heart ache.
A butt on her desk ripped her out of her thoughts. Deidara had leaned in close, taken her hand and placed a light kiss on the back of it before she could react. Angrily, she swatted his hand away and glared intensely at him. "Is there something displeasing you, Princess?" he asked smirking.
"How did I end up in your class again?" she hissed under her breath, averting her eyes.
"Oooh the teacher who was supposed to teach this class suddenly transferred and me, being the generous and talented artist I am, offered to work here full time to fill in for him, un!"
"Stop being ridiculous, you love your free time way to much to work anywhere full time!" she snarled.
"But you know what I love even more than my free time? Being the sensei of my lovely Tsuki-chan." With that, Deidara hopped of her desk to answer a question of a student in the first row, who was doing whatever it was that the blonde teacher had assigned them to do, which Mitsuki had missed during her internal ranting. She pulled out her phone and wrote a message to Itachi.
[Tsukihime]: You knew about Deidara!
Not even 30 seconds later, Itachi replied. That guy really had too much free time.
[Tachi]: He told me last week.
[Tsukihime]: And you didn't tell me why?
[Tachi]: You would have ran off or canceled all your art classes and clubs. I can't have you do that.
[Tsukihime]: What are you, my mother?
[Tachi]: You shouldn't be so bothered by him. Maybe you should give him a chance.
[Tsukihime]: Tsk. Don't you dare to suggest that. Even if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't date him.
[Tachi]: Guess I can't relate to that feeling.
[Tsukihime]: I'm sorry. I should kick his ass so hard for not realizing what he's missing without you.
[Tachi]: It's fine. I doubt that would work anyway.
[Tsukihime]: You don't trust in my abilities to kick ass?
[Tachi]: I'd never dare.
[Tsukihime]: You better not.
[Tachi]: Are you coming over for practice tonight?
[Tsukihime]: Sure.
[Tsukihime]: Deidara just assigned a photography project for class, will you be my model?
[Tachi]: Depends on what I have to do. You'll never know what the insane bastard has in mind.
[Tsukihime]: Don't worry, I'll let you know the details tonight. Ja ne.
[Tachi]: Later.
The Chaos Triplets reunited in their next class, English. Kiba and Naruto picked up on Mitsukis foul mood, but they wouldn't be Kiba and Naruto if they could hide their curiosity so they lasted excactly one minute and 42 seconds before Mitsuki let out an annoyed sigh and snapped. "What?"
"What crawled up your ass and died?" Kiba eloquently questioned.
Mitsuki muttered something under her breath before mumbling, "Remember my annoying teacher from advanced art history class last year? He's now my teacher in all my art classes and clubs."
The two boys exchanged a wary glance.
"Yeah, you were occasionally complaining about him being troublesome. You sounded like Shika." Naruto chuckled "But aren't you kinda friends outside of school?"
"Hell no!" the pissed girl hissed, narrowing her eyes.
"But you're friends with that Itachi-guy, who happens to play the guitar in a really cool rockband and your teacher is their singer." Kiba stated "So you know each other outside of school, spend some of your free time together occasionally and you go to most of his gigs."
Mitsuki's left eye started twitching "Kibaaa" she growled "You know that the only time I spent with that insane blondie happens to be the time I'm with Itachi and he's around!"
Kiba put his hands up in defense "Yeah yeah I get it..."
"But..." Naruto chimed in "Usually you just kick people's asses or do that creepy ..thingy.. you do" he emphasized his words with wiggling his fingers "to get rid of them, if you don't like them. What's different with him?"
The expression on her face would made people run for their lifes, but not her Chaos Brothers. After glaring another minute, she gave in. "I can't. He's important to Itachi."
A big white piece of chalk flew across the room and hit Kiba on the forehead which made him yell "Hey who threw that?! And what was that for?!"
"You're disturbing my class with your talking." a man with silver gravity-defying hair, an eye patch and a scarf covering the lower half of his face who just entered the room, said.
"WHAT! I wasn't even talking in the first place! And you just walked in here 15 minutes late!" Kiba screeched.
The teacher ignored him completely, wrote his own name on the blackboard and let a student pass out some papers. Kiba sat silently fuming in the back with Naruto chuckling beside him and Mitsuki relieved she could change the topic.
The black-haired girl quickly scanned through the list of books they were reading this year, rose her hand and waited for their teacher named Hatake Kakashi to notice her, but he kept reading a small orange book not even looking up once. Her patience lasted for 10 seconds before she spoke up "Hatake-sensei, how much time do we have to buy all those books?"
Kakashi looked up in suprise "Oh I have Japanese students in my class?"
"You haven't even checked through your class register?" Naruto asked accusingly.
Kakashi mumbled some lame excuse and then turned to the petite Japanese "The books have to be purchased three weeks from now on, Miss...?" "Kawamura." The teacher nodded lazily, giving them time to read through their information papers and burying his nose in his book again.
"What a lazy bastard.." Kiba muttered under his breath for only Mitsuki and Naruto to hear. His eyes widened in shock as another piece of chalk hit his forehead. They didn't even see Kakashi looking up or moving at all.
At the end of their English class, they hadn't done anything English-related. Kiba had brushed Akamarus fur who yipped happily, Naruto learned the lyrics of his band's new song by heart and Mitsuki had taken out her sketchbook and pencil to draw something.
"What a weird bunch of teachers we have this year..." Naruto shook his head.
The day went on with minor interruptions and when classes finally ended, their little gang of Japanese kids gathered in the front lawn on the school grounds to chat for a bit before heading home or to their club activities. While everyone sat in the warm grass, Shikamaru lied down and watched the clouds and Mitsuki followed his lead, but closed her eyes. Lee jumped up and exclaimed loudly that he and Naruto had to leave for 'youthful taijutsu practise', while Hinata followed Kiba to watch his practice with the track team. Shino, Ten Ten and Chouji left to head home, which left Gaara, Shikamaru and Mitsuki to enjoy the peaceful silence until Temari appeared at the front gate to pick up her boyfriend Shikamaru and her brother Gaara.
Phew, that's part one of the first chapter, part two will follow soon.
SYTM-Fact: The title of this story is inspired by Billy Talent's song of the same title.
Love,
the Moon, our Witness.