There's Something About Her
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
A/N: Hey, readers! For years I've been somewhat more of lurker on this site, always reading and admiring other people's brilliant & creative work, but that's all about to change! So I'm writing & posting my very first fanfiction. So, since this is my first one, constructive criticism is highly encouraged, but no flames please! Thanks! R&R
Summary: Dakota Rockwell isn't your average teenager, for more than one reason. However, due to her father's work, she's had to move across the country to Kanoha, in southern California, and begins to a find mutual attraction to a certain tall, dark and handsome senior. However, when Dakota's past slowly begins to come back to haunt her, Dakota learns that you must face your problems head on, rather that run from them.
Rated M (17 & Older): Obscene Language, sexually explicit scenes, smoking, underage drinking, recreational drug use and typical & not-so-typical angsty, teenage drama. If any of the subjects mentioned bother and/or offend you, then please click the back button on your browser, and find yourself another author's stories to read.
Chapter 1 - Dakota
Dakota awoke to the sound of her obnoxious alarm clock. Of course, it had to be obnoxious, for if it wasn't then there was no chance of it waking her up. Any other alarm she would sleep right through.
She buried her head deeper into her pillow as she fumbled my her hand around her night stand to find the off button for the alarm clock, or at the very least, the snooze button.
After reaching and pushing the said off-button, she slowly rose from the warmth and comfort of her comfy king-sized bed. she fluttered her eyes open as she saw a sliver of sunlight shining through the corner of the blind of one her window, wincing from the unwanted contact.
"Ugh, what day is it today?" she said with a groan, she was still half-asleep, tempted to just fall back onto my bed and return to her peaceful slumber.
She looked over toward the alarm clock, where the date read 'September 7, 5:30 A.M.'
"How the fuck can it be so bright out so early?" She thought to herself, but then she remembered, she was in a new town, and in a new school. She had moved to Konoha from her hometown in western New York state only one week prior to today, and she was still getting used to her new home and surroundings.
With that, Dakota swung her legs over the side of the bed and tried to stand up without falling over. She was never a very good morning person, as much as she tried to be. She glanced around her room, trying to remember where she put her clothes that she previously picked out for the first day of school yesterday.
She finally found what she was looking for on the chair that went with her desk, grabbed it and ran off into the bathroom. She locked the door behind her as she entered the bathroom, though their really was no need to. Like most of the year, Dakota had the whole house to herself, her father was gone for months at a time and was only home a few weeks out of the year, usually only on the holidays. He was an executive of a major corporation of some kind, Dakota didn't really know the details of it that much. As for her mom? Her dad and her were divorced, and she lived in northeast Pennsylvania, close to Dakota's maternal family, hasn't seen her since they moved. Of course, that didn't stop her from calling everyday.
Dakota shook her herself out of her reminiscing, thinking about her parents divorce was the last thing that she wanted to think about before her first day at her new high school. She pulled her t-shirt over head and pulled her shorts down and hopped into the shower, she stood to the side as far as she could to adjust the temperature, it usually took a while for it to warm up a bit.
When the temperature was to her liking she stood under the spout and let the warm water sooth her muscles. She was always so sore when she awoke, another reason that she was not a morning person.
"I hope people are nice here." Dakota thought to herself. back in New York, she wasn't a particularly popular or liked person, for more then one reason. When she was younger she was diagnosed for minor autism, and her symptoms of that began showing when she was in elementary school, so she was singled out at a very young age. She would always be by herself, whether it be in the back corner of the room, at a lunch table by herself, sitting against the brick wall of the building during recess, never invited to play or talk to the other kids.
After the third grade, her dad noticed how depressed that Dakota was, something that was not at all normal for a girl her age, and decided to pull her from public school and hired a tutor to home-school her, until her freshmen year of high school. Well, that wasn't the only reason...
Dakota snapped out of her daydreaming realizing the she was running out of hot water. She quickly rinsed the conditioner out of her hair, and grabbed two solid black towels from the large cupboard next to the shower stall, one for her body and one for her hair. She checked the clock on the small flat screen television in the bathroom, which read '6:00 A.M.'
"Looks like I still got alot of time." She thought to herself, she didn't have to even leave for school until seven-thirty, for some reason school in this town was strangely short, only eight o' clock to two in the afternoon. Dakota wasn't complaining though, she never particularly enjoyed school that much.
After drying off she put a pair of dark blue flare jeans that hugged her hips nicely, a white, strapless maternity style top with red embroidery and red tassels, along with a red and white flannel shirt, topped with a dark denim jacket that matched her jeans.
She peered into the mirror, and was met with a reflection of olive-toned skin and piercing light-gray eyes, which almost had a crystalline, silver appearance to them. Her hair was long & waist length, with three layers, the bottom most layer was black, the middle layer a medium-blonde tone, and the top most was a bright, auburn red with blonde highlights and lowlights, her heavy, blonde sideswept bangs covered her left eye due to her natural right-side part in her hair. She multiple piercings in her through ears, which she had her usually horseshoe earrings in, along with her eyebrow, septum & labret facial piercings.
After feeling that her hair and face were presentable and up to her standards, she glanced once again at the clock on the bathroom television. It read '7:00 A.M.'
'It's almost time.' Dakota thought to herself. She was really...nervous, to say the least, her old high school in New York wasn't a place that she was very found of, she was often the victim of cruel jokes and pranks, her freshmen and sophomore year weren't exactly the best years of her life.
'Not this time, things will be different here. Nobody here knows me or has even heard of me.' Dakota was caught up in her own inner monologue again, as she went to her room, opened her closet door, and found a medium-sized, black maple wood box, which had simple key-lock on and had an inscription, which read 'D.V.R. Dakota Veronica Rockwell.' She brought the box over to her to the large, three-seater black couch that was at the foot of her bed.
She sat down and grabbed her keys, and used the smallest one on the ring to unlock the box. Inside, were polaroid photos, small trinkets, expensive jewelry, important documents, paraphernalia along with a twenty bag of marijuana. 'It's been a while.' Dakota thought as she chuckled to herself. Lastly, there were two prescription bottles. She took the bottles, opened them, and popped one pill from each bottle into her mouth, dry-swallowing them both and stuck the bottles in her purse that was laying on the coffee table.
'Let's see, I've got my purse, my phone, my keys. Am I forgetting anything else.' Dakota glanced around her oversized room to make sure that everything was in order. 'I should probably take a notebook with me at least.' She walked over to her large desk where her MacBook Pro and Kodak printer were standing on, and grabbed a thick, black five-star notebook, and made her way downstairs to the double-wide garage that was connected to her house.
Inside the garage, there was Dakota's father's car, which was a large, full-sized, black Range Rover, which she was given strict instructions from her father not to drive under any circumstance, except for an absolute emergencies. Parked right next to it, was her very own, personal vehicle, a black Mitsubishi Eclipse GT, a going-away gift from her grandparents back in New York. Dakota walked over to the garage door and flicked the switch the open it, making a loud, grinding noise as the gears and mechanisms turned. She hopped inside her car and put her keys in the ignition. She heard the engine started reved it a little bit, pulled a cigarette from her purse and lit it.
'Okay, right from the driveway, and two miles down the road on the left should be Konoha High School.' Dakota thought to herself as she pulled out of her driveway. She drove at a steady speed of forty-five, as she lived on a main highway, it was nice because it was cose to downtown, but it was always so noisy due to constant traffic zipping down the road.
As she drove towards the veterinary office and coffee shop, and also passing kids walking to school. From what he could tell all of the other students seemed pretty decent and normal, and she did live in the fairly wealthy part of town.
As she pulled in through the gates of the school and found a parking spot, she simply sat in her car with seat reclined, she was parked in the back specifically so that she could finish her smoke in peace. As she took one last drag from her cigarette, she chucked out the corner of her window and got out of her car, locking it behind her.
She looked up towards the school, her hand covering her head like a visor to block out the sun, the school was so big! Much bigger than her high school back in New York, if she had stayed there, she would have graduated with about only seventy or eighty people.
She stood in front of the school and stared at the front of the entrance, people walking by her and chatting about their summers, she let out a loud groan. "DAMMIT!" She yelled aloud as she began to march into the school.
As soon as she walked in, she had a few curious stares from some of the kids, along with whispers.
"Check out her hair." "Do you think she's got enough make-up on?" "She's so skinny, she must be anorexic or some shit." "check out her piercings, she looks like she got attacked by a stapler."
Dakota got wide eyed for a moment, and a blush rushed across her face, she ran to the adjacent hallway. Suddenly, she felt a tap on her shoulder. As she turned around, she was greeted by a girl with bright green eyes and strawberry blonde hair, she had big smile on her face which showed her bright, pearly white teeth.
"Hi, I don't think I've seen you here before, are you new here?" She asked with curiosity and leaned down so she could see Dakota's face, as Dakota's was still red from earlier.
"Um, yes, I moved her a few weeks ago." Dakota said shyly, she had her arms clasped behind her back and her one leg was bent to the side.
"No need to be shy." The girl laughed. "Wait a minute, are you Dakota?" She asked.
Dakota was surprised. "Um, yes? How did you know that?" Dakota asked.
The blonde girl jumped up and down and gave a squeal. "This is perfect!" She exclaimed, and stuck her hand out. "I'm Sakura Haruno, student class president of Konoha Central High School, and I'm here to show you around and make you feel welcome!" She said with a smile.
Dakota finally made eye contact with her and shook her hand, she gave a small, half-hearted smile. "Okay, thank you." Dakota said with a laugh.
"This is the math hallway, all the math classes are here. All the hallways are organized by subject, so it shouldn't take long to get used to." She said as she pulled Dakota by the hand through the hallways.
"Sakura." Dakota said as she stopped in the middle of the hallway. "Yeah?" She turned around to face Dakota. "Are...Are people nice here? I mean, for the most part, at least?" She asked with a bit of worry in her eyes.
"For the most, at least that's what I think. Of course, there's a couple of crowds that you should watch out for, but then, every high school has at least one of those groups." Sakura told her.
"Why do you ask?" She asked with concern.
Dakota looked down at the floor. "I, I just want people to like me, and, uh, I wasn't exactly, popular where I was from." She said softly.
"What? But you're so pretty! I mean, I can see girls being jealous, but I would think that the boys would be all over you!" Sakura said with a smile.
Dakota perked up at this, she didn't think that she had ever heard such a compliment directed towards her. "Um, thanks." She said with a bashful smile, twining her right handed, index finger through her hair.
"Don't you worry pretty little head! Stick with my friends & I and you'll be fine. Speaking of which, here's a perfect chance to meet my boyfriend!" Sakura exclaimed, pointing to a boy down the hall near her locker.
Dakota stopped in her tracks, Sakura's hand still gripped around her wrist as she was attempting to guide her through the wide hallways full of numerous students.
'...Boyfriend?...Tyler..." Dakota began to have random sentences from her memory playing through her head.
'When were you going to tell me?" "Did you think I wouldn't find out?" "Our entire relationship has been based on a lie!" "Who are the fuck are you? I mean, really?" "You're right, nobody could ever love you, you fucking FREAK!"
Dakota's lips began to quiver and her eyes began to become glassy, until was snapped out of her reminiscing by Sakura's gentle grip on one of her soldiers. "Dakota, what's wrong? Are you okay?" She asked with slight worry in her voice.
Dakota's head lifted up, her silver eyes meeting Sakura's emerald ones. "W-what? Oh! It's nothing, I'm fine." She said with a fake smile.
"If you say so..." Sakura replied with a slight bit of concern and worry in her eyes. "Where was I...Oh, right! Come with me. Sakura once again gripped Dakota's left wrist and tugged her through hallway. "Babe, come here. There's somebody I want you to meet!" Sakura shouted towards a random locker.
Sakura brought her over to a boy slightly taller than Dakota, he had bright blue eyes, golden blonde hair and light, natural tan. He was definitely the poster child for a wonder boy.
"Hey." The boy said towards Sakura, with ear-to-ear, goofy smile, dragging his greeting out while saying it. He stopped shuffling through the books in his locker, wrapping his one free hand around Sakura's waist, pulling her in for a gentle, affectionate kiss.
Sakura pulled away with a slight blush and a smile, putting her index finger to her blonde boyfriend's list and looking over towards to Dakota. "Dakota, this is my boyfriend, Naruto. Naruto, this is Dakota, she's new here." Sakura said, introducing her boyfriend and her new red-headed companion.
"Oh, so your the girl Sakura's supposed to show around." The blonde said, with an eyebrow raised. "Don't worry, you're going to like it here. We're good people!" He said with a laugh and another goofy grin. Dakota put her hand to her mouth and chuckled a bit at Naruto's charming demeanor.
"Hey, first period is going to start soon! Dakota, what class do you have first?" Sakura asked. "Hm, I don't remember, let me check my schedule." Dakota slid her purse off of her right shoulder and began shuffling through it, looking for her class schedule. "Found it." She smiled as she pulled her schedule out of her purse.
"Let's see, according to this I have I have English first period, with a Ms. Yuhi, I think." Dakota said, scratching the side of her head with her index finger. "Oh! That's right to the hallway adjacent to this one, just go around the corner and then take your second right." She said as she pointed down the hallway.
Dakota nodded, and with that being said, she took off down the hallway, dodging fellow student left and right as she went along. She went to turn the second corner on the right as Sakura had instructed her to do, until she collided into the chest of another person.
Dakota was knocked on her back, she leaned up and rubbed the back of her head. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry! I should have watched where I was going!" Dakota exclaimed, her face beat red and looking down towards the floor.
"Don't worry 'bout it, shit happens." She heard from a deep, husky voice. Dakota slowly looked up at the person she had apparently crashed into, and her jaw almost completely dropped the floor. The person she ran into was a guy, not just a guy, but an absolutely, breathtakingly gorgeous one at that. He had to be at least six-foot two, his skin was olive-toned, just as Dakota's was, and also, like Dakota, had his numerous piercings on both of his ears, along with his right eyebrow. His hair was dark brown, wild and unkempt, and he was wearing baggy, loose fitting jeans that hung low on his hips and a dark grey shirt, loose but fitted enough to see his definitive muscles.
"I, um, well I..." Dakota stuttered, desperately attempting to form a coherent sentence. "What? Did you hit your head pretty hard? Here, let me help you up." The boy said, offering his hand to Dakota. As she raised her hand to grab the boys, in one swift but gentle motion, he pulled her up. Dakota gasped a bit at how quickly the brunette pulled her up to her feet, and had rather evident blush across her face.
"So, are you okay?" He said as leaned down towards Dakota's face, with his right browed raised. Dakota slowly raised her head to face his, her grey eyes meeting his deep, brown ones. Even though he was leaning down to meet Dakota's face, he still easily towered over her.
"Oh, I'm fine." She said with a shy smile. "Hey, do you think that you could help me find Ms. Yuhi's class?" Dakota asked. "Ms. Yuhi? Hey, that's where I'm headin'!" The boy said, grabbing Dakota by the forearm of her right hand and pulling her down the hallway.
"Late on the first day, Inuzuka? You never change." the english teacher scoffed, as the brunette and Dakota made it into the class about five seconds after the late bell rang. The olive-skinned teen leaned against the doorway, left hand in his pocket and his right forearm propped up against the side of the door. "Yeah, yeah. I have a decent excuse this time, I was helping her find her way here." He said with a grin.
"Um, who?" The teacher asked with a raised brow. " The brunette teen looked over his left shoulder, peering at Dakota out of his eye, as she was hiding behind the his built frame. 'Why are you so shy?" He laughed at Dakota, turning around an grabbing the middle of her back, guiding her into the room. Dakota gasped at the brunette's light push, stumbling, and almost falling on her face in the classroom.
"Oh, you must be Dakota, right? From New York?" The teacher asked with a smile. "Yes, I'm new here. I'm Dakota Rockwell." Dakota said, bowing her head in respect. She glanced around the room at the other students in class, receiving blank empty stares from most people in the room, and a few glares and snickers from the rest.
"Alright, Kiba. You and Dakota take the seats in the back." The teacher said. Kiba, nudged Dakota and gave her smirk as he directed her to the back of the classroom. Dakota walked directly behind Kiba, trailing behind him. As they took their seats, Dakota sat down first, Right leg crossed over her left one and sitting up as straight as possible. Kiba, on the other hand. simply plopped down on his chair, making it creak. He was slouching with his legs spread wide apart, and leaning on his right fist with his elbow propped up on the table. He had a typical 'I don't give a flying fuck' look on his face.
Dakota looked over at Kiba and chuckled. Kiba noticed this out of the corner of his eye and looked over at her. "I never probably introduced myself. My name's Kiba. Kiba Inuzuka." He said with a toothy grin.
"I'm Dakota." Dakota said with a blush. "So, you're from New York, huh? You're a long way away from home." Kiba said with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh, well you see my dad just got a representative position at the company he works for, but the main company is located here in Konaha, so that's why we moved here, but he's never really home, because he's always out of state for business trips." Dakota said with a whisper, as to not alert Ms. Yuhi of their talking during her orientation.
"Oh, don't cha' have any brothers or sisters?" Kiba asked. "I have my big sister Danika, but she lives in Colorado with her son, so it's usually just me in the house." Dakota replied.
"Sounds lonely." "Yeah, sometimes, but I'm used to being on my own." Dakota looked toward her desk as she said this, her hands clasped together politely. Kiba noticed Dakota's saddened face and lean over to whisper in her ear. "Hey, don't worry, you're not on your own here, not with me around." Dakota sighed slightly as she felt Kiba's hot breath in her ear, smiling a bit at Kiba's kind and comforting words.
Little did they both know, from the middle of the classroom, a bleach blonde girl was eavesdropping on their entire conversation, biting her them and glaring daggers at Dakota the whole time.
The rest of the first half of the day went by smoothly. After first period english, Dakota ran into Kiba numerous times in the hallways, Kiba looking down to smirk at her as they passed each other through the hallways, Dakota returning with a smile and giggle each time.
It was finally time for lunch, and Dakota began to make her way to the cafeteria, hoping that somebody she knew would be there so she could sit with them at lunch, rather than sit alone and by herself. As she walked into the cafeteria, she walked around awkwardly, looking to see if someone she knew was there.
"Hey, Dakota, over here!" She hear a feminine voice calling out to her from across the cafeteria, she turned to see that it was none other than Sakura, sitting with her Naruto a bunch of other people. She made her way through the large room, dodging students left and right.
"Hey!" Sakura greeted her with a hug and smile. "How are your classes going so far?" Sakura asked, still clinging to Dakota in a friendly hug. "They went good, no problems, a few dirty looks from some girls, but I'm used to that." Dakota replied.
"Don't worry about that, most girls here are petty and jealous." Sakura told her. 'Aren't they in every high school?' Dakota thought to herself. "Oh yeah, so what's this I hear that your getting all buddy-buddy with a senior?" Sakura asked, letting go of her embrace of Dakota to give her a curious look. "What, you mean Kiba? It wasn't anything like that, I ran into him on the way to first period and he helped me find the right room, we just talked a bit through class, that's all. I swear." Dakota said putting her hands in front of her, palms flat.
"Oh, really? That's not what I heard." Sakura smiled, putting emphasis on the 'I' of her sentence. "I heard that he's got the hots for you, Dakota." She said with a laugh.
Dakota froze where she was standing as her face turned bright red. "H-he does." She said with a giggle. "Oh my God. Oh my God! You're turning red, Dakota! You like him too, don't you?" Sakura said with a squeal, jumping up and down. "Okay, so I think he's cute, big deal." Dakota laughed.
"Oh, really? He's totally walking this way, girl." Sakura said, pointing behind Dakota. Dakota felt a hand gently grip her shoulder and hot breath in her ear. "Hey, gorgeous." A familiar, husky voice whispered into her ear. Dakota turned around to see it was none other than Kiba. "G-gorgeous?" Dakota said softly with a brush. "Yeah, I call em' like I see em'." Kiba said with a smile.
"Hi, Kiba! So I see that you've met Dakota already, huh." Sakura said giving Kiba a friendly hug. 'Does she do that to everyone' Dakota thought to herself with a laugh. "Yeah, she's awesome." Kiba said. Dakota, yet again, was blushing. "I, I am?" She said. Sakura nudged Dakota's shoulder, mouthing, 'Take the compliment!'
"Oh, well I guess I am." Dakota said with a giddy laugh. "Oh, hey I wanted to give you this." Kiba rummaged around in his pocket, pulling out a small piece of paper and handed it to Dakota. Dakota un-crumpled the piece of paper to see Kiba's full name a numerous numbers. "It's my cell, text me tonight. I gotta' get back to class, I don't wanna' get detention again." He said with a laugh as he turned and began to exit the lunch room.
Dakota was speechless. This boy that she barely knew, and a really cute one at that, called her gorgeous, and gave her his phone number. "Did that just happened." Dakota said aloud. No sooner than she spoke those words, she was embraced into a tight, almost suffocating hug from Sakura. "Oh my God!" Sakura screamed, dragging out the last word of her sentence. Dakota herself couldn't help but smile as well.
"So, are you going to text him or what?" Sakura asked Dakota with a raised brow. "Dakota looked down at the paper, folded it up and stuck it in the inside, zipper pocket of her purse. "I am, tonight." She said. with a smile.
Dakota and Sakura began jumping up down squealing, while across the cafeteria, there was a slightly different conversation.
"Did he seriously just give that skank his number?" A bleached blonde girl said with a yelling whisper. "It would appear so, Ino" Said another girl with dirty blonde hair, pulled up into four separate ponytails.
Ino looked up and glared at the two, giddy girls jumping up and down.
"Have your fun while can, sweetheart. Kiba was mine before, and he will be again." Ino said with a devilish grin.
The rest of Dakota's first day at Konoha High School went smoothly. Sakura had introduced her to more people throughout the day, who all greeted her and welcomed her graciously to her new high school.
She was in her Eclipse now, blasting her music from her iPhone and taking long drags off her cigarette. She could hardly believe how well things went today! She met a total hottie, who obviously was into her and made a new girlfriend. She could help but laugh to herself and sing aloud to her music.
As she finally reached her home, she pulled her car into the driveway and into the garage, ran inside, and dug into the zipper pocket of her purse for the paper that Kiba had given her at lunch with his phone number on it.
She immediately put the number into her contacts and began texting him.
Hey Kiba, it's Dakota, you gave me your number at lunch today, remember?
Hey! I was waiting for u to txt me!
You were? lol. Good to know you like talking to me.
If I didn't, I wouldn't have given u my number, would I? lol.
Yeah, I guess your right. So, what's up with you?
NM, just working on some homework, I gotta' keep my grades up 4 football.
Woah, wait, you're a football player?
Yep, wide receiver.
'Oh. My. GOD.' Dakota thought to herself, he was football player, a jock, and he liked her!
You should come 2 the games, it's a good time, the whole city comes!
Maybe I will. :)
Oh, so I was wondering, r u busy Friday night?
No, not at all, why?
bcuz I wanted you to come with me to a party on Friday, Naruto's parents r out of town this weekend, pretty much the whole school will be there, lots of free food and booze. ;)
Dakota literally was about to pass out from shock, a football player, a jock, and a hot one at that, just invited him to an in-crowd party!
Yes! Definitely! It's a date! :D
I was hoping that u would think of it that way, well I better get going, I gotta' get this shit done before I go to work. TTYL
See ya' later, Kiba.
Dakota put her phone down on the kitchen counter and went to the living room, sitting on the couch, and literally collapsing onto it. She lay their, smile to herself while she bit her lower lip.
"So, Kiba, huh?" She said as she giggled to herself.
A/N: Well, that's it for chapter one! Please R&R! Like I said, this is my first fanfiction that I have ever written, so constructive criticism is encouraged, but no flames please. I'm writing fanfiction to try to refine & improve my writing skill, so I would appreciate your reviews on what you honestly think of my work!
Oh, and just so you know, this story will mainly focus around Dakota & Kiba and the other characters are just kind of, there, I guess. Do you guys think that i should have more interaction between the other characters? If so, let me know!
I will have the the next chapter posted as soon as possible, I just need to take some time to take some notes on the plot summary of the next one!
Thank you all!
