Violet: Hi peeps! This is my first attempt to write something like this so sorry if it's not brilliant.I know everyone's read the warning I've given but it can't be helped...

Kakashi: This story includes...

Iruka: shounen ai content! Which means...

Kakashi: It's loving between men!

Violet:... Erm...that's Yaoi...

Kakashi: So you mean...

Violet: It means I won't be writing anything graphic about your sex life. So take the warning folks, if you feel uncomfortable with boy x boy relationships, then don't read...really, don't read and then give me some crap about how it's wrong etc. Oh, and I don't own Naruto because if I did...well, you wouldn't really like to know! On with the story!

Pairings: Kakashi x Iruka, Sasuke x Naruto (in future)

New year means new term. New term means new teachers and new teachers are never good news. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo. Naruto was never fond of the new term because he had learnt that ultimately, it just means more trouble for him.

He used to look forward going to school but after that incident with Uchiha; he somehow made a reputation of himself. And it wasn't good. He wasn't a total outcast, mind you. He had a select few friends and a few teachers that had actually ignored the reputation he had made from his first year.

He was after all, 16 years old and had matured throughout the years. He would never dream of beating that smug faced son of a bitch…well in public anyway. Truth is, he always knew he didn't hate the Uchiha. Sure he was impatient, hot tempered and easily provoked but he never really found that he hated anyone.

'I wonder if anything interesting would happen this year. Just don't let me be paired up with Uchiha again.' He'd let himself smile wryly at the thought of it.

Every year, whenever there was a project, he always had to work with Uchiha. He thought it was just a cruel joke the teachers played to entertain their sad lives, until he was of course, proven wrong.

This was proved by selecting random names from the 'hat' and what do you know? It seems fate really did want to screw him over as he held in his hand a piece of paper with Uchiha's name on.

Naruto was soon distracted from his thoughts when he heard a knock on the door. Mrs Brown sighed in relief as it seemed and made her way to open the door and revealed a girl not taller than 5 ft 6.

Excited whispers seemed to have erupted through out the classroom and Naruto strained to hear what was said. 'Isn't that Umire Meiko?' A group of girls not far from his left giggled. 'Yea, it is. I heard she was moving to our class but I didn't think it was true. She's like the most cleverest girl in our school.'

Naruto frowned at this and looked at the girl once again. 'So…why's she being transferred to our class?' He was so sure that Umire hadn't done anything wrong to be transferred to this hellhole.

His class mostly consisted of Uchiha fan girls and they could really be clever if they'd just stop thinking about Uchiha. Naruto snorted. 'Hah, like that's gonna happen soon.' And don't even get started on the boys.

It was well known his class was where all the perverted fucks are sent, or those who had an attitude problem granted that some of them are clever and athletic, blah blah blah but whatever.

'Why do I care anyway? She's probably an Uchiha fan girl.' Naruto grimaced at the thought. She wasn't exceptionally beautiful but there was definitely something about her.

She wasn't particularly tall and she wasn't stick thin but she wasn't fat either. She was somewhere in between. Her short black hair barely reached her shoulders and she smiled at Mrs Brown as she brushed her fringe out of the way.

Her eyes were deep brown, almost black and she exuded a warmth and kindness that seemed foreign to Naruto. No, she wasn't amazingly hot but she possessed an earth like beauty that none of the other girls he encountered had and he realised, he didn't know why, but he didn't want her to be the same as the others.

He didn't want her to fall under the charms of Uchiha because…because he didn't want her to despise him.

"Class, I have someone to introduce to you. This is Umire Meiko. I'm sure you all would have heard of her. As of now, she'll be joining us for the rest of the year. Please treat her nicely." Mrs Brown emphasised the 'nicely' in particular and once again Naruto was snapped out of his thoughts.

The smile on Meiko's face never seemed to fade. It was a soft barely there kind of smile and he decided he liked that. It wasn't like his forced smile nor was it sickeningly sweet like the other girls.

He heard collective gasps throughout the class when his name was mentioned. 'Oh great, another thing I'm going to be pounded for.' He sighed and gently let his head hit the table. It turned out that Meiko was supposed to be seating on the seat next to him.

He had no problem with Meiko, but he was hoping he'd be alone again because it was the only time he'd have peace from all the insults. Now he won't hear the end of it but it was too late as he saw her move towards her way with her satchel hanging off her right shoulder.

Once she reached the empty table beside him, she put her satchel down and looked at Naruto expectantly. This in turn confused Naruto and resumed to stare off onto space imagining the demise of the Uchiha.

"You know, it'd be nice to know who I'm going to be sitting with for the rest of this year." He looked at her and as he suspected, her smile was still there although a hint of playful annoyance was detected in her voice.

"Sorry, I'm just not used to people wanting to know me." Well, it was the truth. " Uzumaki Naruto and err…do you always have a smile on your face?" For a moment, he thought he had offended the girl but she broke into laughter instead. At first he was shocked at her outburst then slightly irritated as she continued laughing.

He was about to snap until she ceased laughing. "Ha-don't mind me." She said in between laughter. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and looked at him. "It's been a long time since I've laughed like that and I'm sorry. It was just I wasn't expecting you to say that. I thought you'd be like the others and ask if I was single or something to that effect.' She smiled apologetically and incidentally, that made Naruto smile as well.

She took her seat and scooted closer. "So what other questions do you have?" She said whilst checking her schedule. Naruto pondered over this for a while and decided to take a chance. "You're…you're not an Uchiha fan are you?" He asked, almost shyly.

Meiko looked up from her schedule and gave him a quizzical look. "Who's Uchiha?" Naruto nearly dropped from his seat and stared at her to make sure she wasn't joking.

If she was lying, there was no trace of it to be found. The look she gave him was innocent and genuinely confused. 'Yep, this girl is definitely one of a kind.' Naruto nodded his head in approval.

He pointed to the raven-haired boy across the other room and sighed as he saw a familiar sight. 'He has a crowd going again' He averted his attention back to Meiko and explained.

"That's him, everyone in this school loves him." Naruto said, ever so sarcastically. Meiko frowned and gazed over, Naruto watched her with interest and then her face lit up in recognition.

'Maybe she does like him. She just never knew his name.' He reasoned after he saw her smile widen. "Oh him…" She said casually. "Yea, I know who he is. Actually, I'm quite familiar with him." Naruto was now uncertain and decided to put his mind at ease.

"Are you…did you use to go out with Uchiha?" He had to know after all. He was aware of Uchiha's habit of going out with girls then dumping them as soon as he was bored with them.

Meiko looked at him playfully and he gulped. "No, I never went out with Uchiha. I was in his I.C.T class last year and I beat him. That's all." Now it was Naruto's turned to be officially shocked. Did he just see Meiko smirk? And…and did he just hear satisfaction at beating Uchiha?

"Oh, right…Ok" He was at loss of words. He wasn't sure what to say anymore. To this she laughed again. She does that a lot, Naruto noted. "He made the mistake of telling me to give up, I simply proved to him that he wasn't the best at everything." She shrugged nonchalantly and glanced at him.

"Anymore questions?" Naruto managed to get over the shock and coughed, trying to resume control. " Yea, how come you were transferred to this class?" She blinked and focused her attention on Mrs Brown.

"Moral support." And no more was said because Naruto understood perfectly. As the class gathered their equipments ready for the next class, he couldn't help but ask.

"What class are you in next?" he managed to sound fairly neutral about it but inside he was screaming in his head. 'Say biology, say biology, say biology!' He thought it was miracle when Meiko turned and uttered exactly what he wanted to hear.

He smiled as he made his way with his new friend. 'Maybe this year won't be so bad' he mused.

Violet: Whew...I'm done. Hopefully it wasn't too bad, please review!

Iruka: Yes, otherwise Violet here would be very sad and bang her head on the table repeatedly.

Kakashi: Erm...she's already doing it...(pointing to a very stressed out author)

Iruka: Kakashi! Stop her, you idiot! Please review! I don't want a dead author in my house!