A/N: Hey there everyone! How's it going? Here is my attempt with the Classic Boarding school Alternate Universe story. Please feel free to tell me how you feel and what you think of my story (come on! I never had more than 3 reviews for a story!)

Disclaimer: Naruto, His friend and everything belong to Masashi Kishimoto, that heartless son of a b*tch who never even let anything about Shikamaru and Temari and confirmed Kurenai/Asuma couple only after his death (what kind of person do that?) But right now I'm moving away from the subject.

Notice: In this story you will found:

-Fluff

-Bunch of OOC (most of it coming from Temari; which is by the way not really out of character since we all know that beneath her thought girl appearance lies a lovable and caring girl who just need Shikamaru to come out.)

-No graphical sexuality (or Lemon)

-No Yaoi or Yuri! (I'm not homophobic, I just don't think any of those character is gay (even Sasuke!)

Just to make thing simple:

The Konoha 12, Sai and Temari are all 15 (so if I'm right it make them in Somophore years in High school; Sorry, being a French-Canadian make me kind of oblivious to grade in the US (thanks Wikipedia for the info!)

Kankuro and Gaara are 14 and 13 (but they won't be important for this story)

By the way, The school is name like this because it is actually in the river country, which is between the Fire and Wind country.

Special message: thank you to xlilyunyun for being my first beta-reader. I hope you will like my story like you live the other one (even though they are so crappy!)

Well enough about me, Let this story started!

Riverside Boarding School

By MajorStranger (That's me!)

Chapter 1: New school, new friend

"Welcome to Riverside Boarding School! We are honoured to have that much Student for our first Year of activity. You will see that our installations are State of the Art. This includes our science and computer lab, our dorm, our Gymnasium. Even the paint is fresh!"The guide started to laugh, but quickly stop when he saw no laughing with him. "Well, ahem... Anyways I'm Asuma Sarutobi, the math teacher."

"What's with the toothpick?" A blonde girl whisper to her pink haired friend.

(A/N: This is a school so having Asuma with a cigarette in his mouth would be inappropriate wouldn't?)

"Don't know. Old habit I guess? By the way, which room are you in? I heard the girl dorm has 3 stories"

"I'm in 137. You?"

"140. At least we will be close."

Two girls joined them. "Hey girls!" The one with hair in two buns hug them tighly while the other just waved her hand. "We are sooo gonna have fun this year!"

"Hey Tenten. Hey Hinata." They both said "Which room are you?"

"Um... I am in 140 I think." Hinata said. "I'm in 139 so we will be close. Hey look!" She point in the other direction of the cafeteria. "There's the boys."


Sitting on a table, all nine guys were talking. At least some of them. Chouji was eating a bag of chips, Shino looked at the crowd without moving, Sai was drawing, Neji and Sasuke were too busy making sure they look mysterious to talk to anyone and Shikamaru was of course sleeping.

"ALRIGHT GUYS! This is the plan for this year: we must have a girlfriend by the end of the year! Believe it!" Naruto speaked.

"That the way of talking Naruto! Unleash your youth and no girl will resist you!" Lee replied.

"Shut up both of you, everyone can hear you." Sasuke said.

Shikamaru woke up and look his surroundings. "Guys, the girls are coming here."

"Not Sakura again!" Sasuke complain.

Lee went to greet the girls. "Sakura-chan! You are as beautiful as the last time I saw you!"

'Not him again!' she thought. "Out of my way Lee." She waved at Sasuke "Hey Sasuke-kun! How was your summer?" With those word Sasuke ran away, pursued by Sakura and a dozen of other fan girls.

'Lucky bastard!' Naruto, Lee and Kiba thought.


"This is so lame! I don't even know anyone here!"

"Me neither Kankuro, but this school was the best so keep it down. I'm sure you will find some friend."

"I still don't like this place."

"Better get used to it. We are staying here for a full year. Now excuse me but I must go to my room. I haven't unpacked yet.

Temari went to the Hallway and turn to the left. She went out of the main building. Outside was a Tennis court, a giant pool, a small park with a fountain in the middle surrounded by bench and by the end of it the girls' dormitory. She went inside and searches her number. '125, 130, 135, 136. That's it, 137."

She opened it, the room was still empty. It had two beds, two closets on each side and a desk in the middle, just under a window giving a nice view of the park. They didn't have a computer in each room but they were permit to have one. After putting all her clothes in the right place, she opens her schoolbag and put her laptop on the desk. 'Thank god they have wi-fi!' She thought to herself. She never was the geek type, even if she was smart. Smarter than anyone in her class since third grade. She went to configure the connection and tried it. Temari opened live messenger to see if any of her friend were online when she heard the knob turning. A platinum blonde girl stood up in the open.

"Hi! I'm Ino. You must be my roomy! I hope we can be friends. I would easier to live if it was the case!" She said cheerfully.

Normally, Temari would have kick the ass of a girl like this but when she thought about what she said she understood it would really be a lot less awful if they at least get on. She smiled back. "I am Temari. It's nice to meet you." She said handing over her hand. They shook hand.

"Temari? Huh? That's not from Fire. You must come from Wind or something. Me and my friend are from konoha, straight in the middle of Fire's countryside! You should join us for lunch."

"That's sound nice. I will." She said half-convinced 'At least I could make some friend and maybe she knows a cute guy.' She was maybe a bit less feminine than most girls but she was still a fifteen year old girl! She had desire too. Most of all, even if she would never admit it, she was always dreaming about kissing a guy. She never saw his face but she knew she would find him one day.

After helping Ino unpacking, they both went outside. They were walking to the main building when Ino saw one of her friend lay down on the grass. "Hey Shikamaru!" She said waving at him.

Shikamaru, half-awake, only open his right eye. "Ino." His lay his eye on her friend. She was wearing a purple dress stoping at her midtight, had green eyes and had her hair put into four pigtails. "Who's your friend?" He said while yawning.

"This is Temari. She is coming from the wind country. And this Temari is Nara Shikamaru. He's one of my childhood friends."

"Nice to meet you." She said.

"Likewise."

After second of uncomfortable silence, Ino speak up "So we were going to grab a bite. Wanna join in?"

He stands up. "Sure."


When they enter the cafeteria, they saw a chubby guy waving at them. "Over here." He said.

"Hey guys! This is Temari, my new roommate. Temari this is the group." Ino start the presentation. They then went to get food.

"She's hot.' Kiba whispered to Naruto and Choji.

"I can hear you dumbass!" She said throwing an apple to him. Kiba dodge it and hit Shikamaru's face.

"What's that for? Troublesome woman!"

"What the heck did you call me?"

"I called you troublesome woman because you are a woman and troublesome!"

They kept arguing while everyone looked at them. "What's wrong with those two?" Ino said to Choji.

"I don't know. I never saw Shikamaru even bother to argue with someone. Too troublesome he says."

"Is that how you take care of everything? Something bother you? You throw a fraking apple! That's not a way to act!"

"I wouldn't need to if you and you damn friend weren't bunch of misogynist moron!" She replied.

"Come guys. Enough! Let's go Temari. Sorry Shikamaru about that apple."

"I don't need your apologies. I need hers!"

"I won't apology to a sexist idiot like you." With this she storm out of the cafeteria.

"Damn." Everyone was shocked. "What's her problem?"

"Pfff. Troubesome woman."


"What happened back there Temari?"

"I don't like when someone talk about like that."

"Just because Kiba said you were hot? Come on Temari! Even though it was a bit rude from him it was a compliment. But that's not the problem. Why did you fight with Shikamaru?"

"I just can't stand him! I don't know why but he gets on my nerve!"

"You will have to endure him."

"And why is that?"

"A: he's my friend and B: He's in our class so you will see him a lot this year"

To be continued

Next Chapter: first day of class


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