Chapter 1

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! A blonde haired boy jumped out of bed, a little frightened by the loud noise that his alarm clock had made. It read 6:30. 'Time to get ready for school.' He thought to himself before getting up to get a shower.

The boy's name was Naruto Uzumaki and today was going to be his first day at Konoha High School, one of the best schools in all of Japan. Naruto had moved to Konoha City from Ota

, Tokyo, where he attended Tokyo High School before the death of his father Minato. After Minato's untimely death, Naurto moved to Konoha City to live with his god-father Jiriya.

After Naurto got out of the shower, he threw on a white-T-shirt, baggy blue jeans, black sneakers, and a black and orange jacket. He turned to walk out of the room when he remembered something. He turned around and walked over to the nightstand next to his bed. There was a blue crystal necklace sitting on the edge of the stand. He picked it up, studied it, and started to cry a little.

"You remembering your father?" Someone asked. Naruto turned around, wiping the tears away from his face. Jiriya was standing at the doorway leading from the hallway to Naurto's bedroom.

"Yeah." Naurto replied as he threw on the necklace. Jiriya walked into the room and told Naruto to sit next to him on the bed.

"Now Naruto," Jiriya looked a little sad and a little irritated at the same time. "I know what your going through, but you shouldn't cry over Minato's death. He would want it that way."

"I know. It's just really really hard, knowing that Father was killed the way he was." Naruto whipped tears away from his face again. "I will do my best to keep my emotions in check though."

"That's my boy." Jiriya said as he patted Naruto on the back. "Have a good first day of school." Jiriya exited the room, leaving Naruto weeping a little bit. Naruto gazed over at his alarm clock; 7:13. 'Crap! I got to catch the bus in five minutes!' Naruto dived to the edge of his bed and grabbed his school bag and ran out the front door.

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Naruto walked onto the bus, looking over the seats towards the back. He found a seat in the very back of the bus, where he could see rats and a little bit of mold growing on the side of the seat. He was used to these types of conditions though. After Minato's death, he was treated like crap and was secluded from everyone and was always given shitty conditions. That all ended when he moved in with Jiriya though.

After a few minutes of driving, the bus came to another stop. Naruto eyed the people getting onto the bus; and old man, a finely dressed couple, and a girl with long dark blue hair. Naurto gasped, she was one of the prettiest girls that he had ever seen in his life. He watched as she made her way to the seat next to him. The girl was fine with the crappy conditions. Why would someone as pretty as her sit in the back of a rutty old bus, next to him of all people?

Naruto must have been staring at her for sometime because when he came back to his senses, the girl was staring back at him, open mouthed and beat red.

"My apologies." He said, taking his eyes off of the girl and turned to look out the window, blushing a little bit. For the rest of the bus ride, Naurto kept taking quick glances at the girl next to him, who had her hands on her legs and looking down at the floor. She was still blushing brightly. Naurto felt like such a creeper.

The bus took one final stop at the entrance of Konoha High School. Naruto and the girl who he had stared at were the only two people to get off of the bus before it took off down the road and rounded a corner. 'This place looks preppy.' Naruto thought as he studied the neatly mowed grass and the students. He looked over at the girl that he had saw on the bus. She was running over to two girls, one with short pink hair and the other with long blonde hair tied up into a ponytail. 'I really hope that I see that girl again.' He thought before walking into the huge school ahead of him.

After walking for a few minutes, he found the main office. There were two ladies sitting at a large desk towards the back of the room and three boys sitting in chairs lined up against a big window that showed activity from the entrance hall; one of the boys had red claw marks on both of his cheeks, another had black hair tied up into a weird ponytail, and the last one was morbidly obese and eating a big pack of potato chips.

"Excuse me," Naruto asked one of the ladies at the back desk. The lady looked up, eying him a little suspiciously. "My name is Naurto Uzumaki and this is going to be my first year at Konoha High School."

"Oh yes, you're the Uzumaki kid." She said irritated. She shuffled through some papers on the already cluttered desk and after a moment she pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Naurto. "This is your class schedule. We are going to have Inuzuka, Kiba show your around. Kiba!" The four boys in the room jumped. The boy that they called Kiba walked over to Naruto and the lady, smirking. "You are going to show Mar. Uzumaki here around the school and show him his classes and so fourth. Think of this as a way to get out of that detention that you almost earned yourself for removing the nails from Mrs. Tsunade's chair."

"Yes, Ma'am." Kiba said. He looked over at Naurto and stuck out his hand, smiling welcomingly. "Hello. My name's Inuzuka, Kiba."

"My name's Uzumaki, Naruto." Naurto replied as he took Kiba's hand. He was shocked that someone other than Jiriya was being nice to him after so long.

"Come one, lets get going." Kiba said as he waved his hand, guiding Naurto to follow him. Naruto was finally happy that he found someone who was willing to be kind to him after so long.