Ok, so I know I have another story to write but I couldn't help myself. Welp, here goes nothing. Also they're all sophomores.
Tenten POV:
Well getting lost on the first day of school can't be the worst thing ever can it? I kept looking down at my map but couldn't find where the office was. That was until I accidentally bumped into a tall, blonde, girl with four ponytails in her hair.
"Hey watch it loser." She said.
"Sorry!" I quickly apologized. "I was just trying to find the office."
"You must be new here. Follow me. I'll show you where it is." She smiled and began walking. I followed her. "I'm Temari."
"I'm Tenten." I said as we walked into the office.
"You must be our new student. Welcome to Konoha High." A lady behind the desk said. "I'm the secretary Ms. Shizune but you can call me Shizune. Principal Tsunade is just in there." She pointed to the door. I walked in and saw a blonde woman behind a desk witha faint smell of sake.
"Ah. You must be our new student, Tenten." She looked at a file. "Here are your classes. Don't be late to them."
"Thank you." I said. She handed me a piece of paper and I went back out to Temari.
"Here, let me see your schedule." She took the paper out of my hands. "We have homeroom, chemistry and AP world history together." We walked out of the office and into the busy hallway.
"Wow. This is a big school." I looked around as many kids passed by.
"Let me give you some pointers. Do you play any sports or do extra curriculars? If not, find one. That's how you fit in to this school." She said putting an arm on my shoulders.
"I play tennis." I shrugged.
"Perfect. See you're already fitting in." Temari smiled. We walked to homeroom and found a bunch of students in there. There was a blonde kid with spiky hair in black jeans, a black shirt, and an orange jacket, arguing with a boy with dark hair in the style of a duck butt in dark blue jeans, a navy blue shirt and a black jacket near a pink haired girl in white shorts and a pinkish reddish top. "The two that are arguing are Naruto Uzimaki and Sasuke Uchiha. Their both on the baseball team. Sasuke is the pitcher. His pitches are super fast like a fireball. Naruto, the hyperactive knucklehead, is their best batter. They're rivals and friends. It's complicated. The girl near them is Sakura Haruno. She's the volley ball captain. When she's spikes the ball, look out. Its like a meteorite coming down on you." Temari explained and I looked around some more.
I saw a boy with dark hair in a spiked up ponytail in a dark green jacket, a white shirt, and jeans near a blonde haired girl in a ponytail with her face being covered by some of her hair in a purple top and matching skirt. "Those two over there are Shikamaru Nara and Ino Yamanake. Shikamaru is the smartest guy in the room and Class President but he's a total lazy ass. He's also a National Chess champion. The air head next to him is Ino. She's captain of the cheerleaders. People say she's the most beautiful girl in the school but I don't see it." Temari shrugged as I looked around the room some more.
I learned about others too like Sai. He was an artist and a talented one at that. I took a look at some of his drawings and they were really good. Some say he's the best artist in the their class. There was a girl with long dark blue hair and pale eyes with a hint of violet. That was Hinata Hyuga. She's the star softball player but she didn't like attention much. I was talking with her and she told me Temari was the top basketball player. Even better than some of the guys. Homeroom was beginning so I took a random seat. Little did I know that a tall, dark, guy with pale eyes like Hinata's was standing behind me. He was in khakis with a black belt, a white dress shirt with his sleeve rolled up to his just above his elbows and a tan vest on that matched his pants. He wore tan Vans on and a watch on his left wrist with his tan book bag on his right shoulder. His hair was in a low ponytail. When he sat next to me I jumped a little not expecting him.
"Hi." I said to him.
"Hn." Was all he said to me.
"I'm Tenten." I tried again.
"Hn." Was all I got again. It was getting annoying.
"Don't worry. He'll warm up to you eventually as long as you don't annoy him." A shy voice said. I looked to see where it came from and saw it was Hinata who spoke.
"Got it." I nodded. Just then the teacher walked in.
"Good morning class. Welcome to homeroom and your first period class. You all can call me Kakashi Sensei. Not only is this your homeroom but this will be your english class so please do try and behave."
"Oh please! You just want us busy so you can read your pervy book!" Naruto yelled.
"Must you be so disruptive on the first day?" Kakashi Sensei sighed. The teacher began talking and writing something up on the board. I ripped out a piece of paper and wrote on it. I then flicked it to Temari which landed on her desk luckily. She looked up at me and I gestured to the guy. She wrote back to me quickly and I read it. I had asked her who the guy was next to me.
The paper said 'Neji Hyuga: Captain of the martial arts team, Student Council President, Prodigy, cousin of Hinata Hyuga.' After that class went relatively quickly. Most of the morning classes went by without any events. I met up with Temari for lunch and sat at a round table. Soon some people from homeroom began to sit down with us. It went me Temari, Shikamaru, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Ino, Sai, Hinata, and then Neji.
"Hey you're new here, aren't you?" Sakura asked me looking over.
"Uh yeah. I'm Tenten." I said sheepishly. Mostly everyone said hi back except for Neji and Sasuke who just did a 'hn' kind of thing.
"Hey do any sports?!" Naruto asked or rather yelled.
"Pipe down dobe. The whole cafeteria doesn't need to hear you." Sasuke said to him.
"What'd you say teme?!" Naruto stood up.
"I said shut up dobe!!" Sasuke stood up too.
"Don't you have anything better to do than argue. It's such a drag and annoying." Shikamaru said lazily. Eventually the two calmed down all thanks to Sakura.
"But seriously? Do you play any sports?" Naruto repeated.
"Yeah. I play tennis actually." I answered.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing sitting next to MY Neji?" A girl with red glasses and red hair came up to me fuming.
"Oh great." I could hear Sakura say unamused.
"Ugh." Naruto groaned. Neji and Sasuke just did their 'hn' thing. Sai and Hinata stayed quiet.
"Your Neji?" I asked.
"Leave her alone. In all honesty I'd rather sit next to Tenten rather than you." Neji said in a deep baritone voice. In fact that's the first time I've heard him speak. And to be honest I'm pretty sure I blushed a little but lucky for me I wasn't facing my new friends.
"You already know her name?!" Karin exclaimed in my ear.
"Leave us alone Karin before you make a fool out of yourself. Although you don't have to do much for that to happen." Temari snorted. Karin then stomped off and I turned back to the rest of them.
"Thanks guys." I said gratefully. "No one has ever done that for me."
"Well you're one of us now. Besides Karin is just mad because Neji learned your name quicker than he learn hers. It took him nearly a whole year before he actually acknowledged her existence." Temari smiled.
"Aww, what's wrong Hyuga? Getting soft on us?" Sasuke teased Neji.
"Shut it, Uchiha. Don't forget I can still kick your ass." Neji countered.
"Not if you can't catch me." Sasuke shot back.
"Hn."
"Hey! You made my Karin cry you scum?!" A lengthy teen with light blue hair and spikey weird teeth approached us followed by a bulky guy with orange hair and looked like a body builder. "Hey! I'm talking to you!" He pushed me a little.
"It wasn't my fault. She came over here to us." I answered back to them quickly.
"Leave her alone Suigestu. It's not her fault Karin can't take an insult." Neji stood up and faced him. When he did he towered over the guy named Suigestu. I could see out of the corner of my eye that Sasuke had subtly made his way on the other side of me, while the others stood up.
"If you want to hurt her then you'll have to go through us." Sasuke said crossing his arms.
"Want to test that theory Uchiha?" The guy with the orange hair said.
"Oh please we could beat you guys senseless. Believe it!" Naruto exclaimed which brought everyone's attention to us. Luckily they began to get the idea that they were going to lose and the teachers were watching us intensely.
"Fine, you win this round but you can't be together all the time."
"Even if we weren't all together we'd still win." Neji retorted. Suigestu left and we all sat back down.
"Thanks again guys. I owe you." I said sheepishly.
"Not really. They've always done that to the new kids. But you're part of our group." Sakura reassured me.
"Yeah, we won't let anything happen to you." Ino agreed. We all smiled to each other.
"Who was that?" I asked and looked at them.
"That was Karin. She gets around to all the guys." Ino said.
"Everyone except for our two ice cubes, our hyperactive knucklehead, our silent artist, and our lazy ass here." Temari stated.
"Last year she was a big fan of Sasuke and tried to get me kicked out of school but didn't happen." Sakura reminisced.
"Yeah believe it!" Naruto yelled. We all sighed and Hinata blushed. It took a minute for it to sink in for Naruto but he finally got the insult. "Hey! Why am I the hyperactive knucklehead?!"
"Because you never shut up dobe." Sasuke answered.
"Perhaps we should change the subject. It would be less tense." Sai suggested.
"Hey, h-how's preparing f-for micro-thon going Neji?" Hinata stuttered.
"It's going well enough." Neji answered.
"Micro-thon? Whats that?" I asked.
"Its an all night party where everyone that attends must be on their feet for a 12 hour period during the night. We raise money for children with childhood cancers and other diseases. All funds go to charities that support research for it." Neji summarized.
"And there are teams for contest and games and events." Naruto piped in.
"Yeah, the teams are based on color. So there are four teams and each team is a different color. For instance this year there's going to be a blue team, an orange team, a pink team, and a green team." Sakura jumped in as well.
"But in order to go you must raise a certain amount of money. I think this year it's 50 dollars." Sai states.
"Yeah, and Hyuga over there is running most of it." Sasuke gestured to Neji. "Some of the other student council helps him like lazy ass over here." He gestured over to Shikamaru who was asleep now.
"Sounds fun. Count me in." I smile at Neji.
"There'll be papers on them soon. Since it's the first day of school everything still needs to be settled." Neji said.
"Hey lazy ass. Its almost time to go." Temari said and hit Shikamaru on the hit. Shikamaru woke up slowly and groaned. "Glad you could join the land of the living you lazy bastard."
"Troublesome woman." Shikamaru said as he rubbed his head on where Temari had hit him. The bell rang and we walked out of the lunch room when I caught up with Hinata.
"T-told you h-he'd warm up to you." She stuttered to me.
"I guess you're right." I smiled as I thought anbout how he protected me. We then went our separate ways. Temari and I went to chemistry which was run by a dark haired man, with a beard. On the board was his name which was Asuma. I sat next to Temari and was just having small talk with her until a small explosion rang out and we all looked behind us to see a boy with long blonde hair near the chemicals.
"Really Deidara? Must you cause explosions the first day?" Asuma complained.
"Oh come on Asuma sensei. Art is an explosion." The guy called Deidara complained.
"Well you'll be glad to hear next week you have detention for your little stunt."
"Ignore them. They call themselves the Akatsuki. They're a bunch of juniors and seniors that cause a lot of trouble to people around the school." Temari advised. After more arguing between Deidara and the teacher the bell rang at last. I made my way to gym class then and I was happy to see I had Sakura in my class. When we walked out of the locker room I was met with a man with thick eye brows and a green spandex suit.
"Hello my youthful students! I am Maito Gai, but you can call me Gai Sensei. I hope you all had a youthful summer so now you can show off your power of youth!" He exclaimed and the smiled which made his teeth shine and gave up a thumbs up.
"Oh! Me, Gai Sensei! I had the most youthful summer. And to prove it to you I will do 100 laps around the gym! If I can not do 100 laps, then I will do 1000 push-ups." A kid yelled looking exactly like Gai Sensei.
"Lee!"
"Gai Sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai Sensei!"
They both hugged each other and somewhere out of nowhere a sunset popped up behind them while they were doing this.
"Ugh." Sakura groaned. "I forgot to tell you our gym teacher is a raging lunatic. His favorite word is youth. The kid hugging him is Rock Lee. He's basically a mini Gai Sensei." Sakura face palmed. Gym class was tiring after Gai Sensei made us do five laps around the gym as a warmup. Then he had us run 15 laps around the gym and 50 push-ups and 100 sit ups. That was really the only other eventful thing that happened.
I found out I have many classes with my new friends. My schedule is almost the same as Neji's but there were a few differences. Not much. I had a few with Shikamaru, Temari, and Sakura. I had three classes with Naruto, Sai, and Sasuke. I had one class with Ino, and Hinata. Once the school day ended most of us went to the locker room to change for our practices but most of the outside sports were cancelled due to rain. Tennis luckily was inside. The tennis coach was Anko Sensei from AP world history. Anko Sensei was different but her training and conditioning were good and effective. There weren't many girls that played Tennis. Only five and I knew none of them. Once practice was over I walked to the locker room to change but stopped when I saw Neji in one of the gyms with 2 other boys. One of the boys was on their back.
"Good job Neji! Well done." I heard Gai Sensei cheer. I looked in to see the boy on his back was none other than Rock Lee.
"One day, my youthful rival, I will beat you." Lee said getting up.
"Hn." Was all Neji said. The other boy had a chubby physique and brown hair.
"Choji, spar with Lee for the last round and then you all may go." The two nodded so I stood by the door watching them. Lee was fast in his attacks. The guy name Choji was able to block all the attacks and was able to grab Lee and pin him to the ground very fast.
"Woah." I whispered to myself.
"Ok. That's enough." The coach said. He turned in the light and I saw it was Gai Sensei. "Lee, it appears to me you need more training."
"You are right Gai Sensei."
"Neji, Choji, head home. Lee and I have some more training to full fill."
"Yes! I got barbecue waiting for me at home." Choji shouted and all but ran out of there and past me without even noticing me. Neji then started to walk this way and I scurried out. Although when I was running out I wasn't looking and ran straight into Sakura.
"Oww watch it." She complained as she rubbed the back of her head.
"Sorry." I apologized quickly and helped her up.
"Why in such a hurry?"
"Uh...uh...well I just remembered I have to get home and I was going to the locker room to change." I made up. Actually it was true but I needed an excuse.
"Well that's not much of reason for running." She said and put her hands on her hips but she dropped the subject. "Well I'm headed there too. Let's go." I nodded but took a quick glance back to see Neji walking into the guys locker room. Sakura noticed I wasn't following and turned to me. "Everything alright?"
"Oh, uh yeah." We walked into the locker room and changed. Once out of the locker room Sakura and I were just chatting when we saw Sasuke and Naruto walking into the school all muddy.
"This is all your fault dobe. If you had just paid attention and not missed the ball we wouldn't have had to run." Sasuke growled at him.
"This isn't just on me teme. Maybe you should throw more strikes." Naruto retorted back.
"What happened to you two?" Sakura asked.
"Ugh we had a scrimmage against the JV team and we lost." Sasuke growled. "The dobe lost it for us when he couldn't catch a fly ball."
"I wouldn't have had to catch the ball if you didn't give them such a good pitch!"
"Hn." Sasuke said to him. "Anyway we made a bet with the JV team. The losing team had to run laps around the school for twenty minutes and because the area around the field we either sank or fell in the mud."
Sakura and I laughed. Probably because we both imagined them falling face first into the mud.
"Well anyways I gotta head home. I can't keep my parents waiting any longer." Sakura said.
"Hey, a bunch of us are going to Ichiraku Ramen for dinner. Wanna come?" Naruto invited.
"Sure." Sakura smiled.
"Great! How about you Tenten?"
"Why not." I shrugged.
"Awesome! Meet us there at seven o'clock." Naruto cheered.
"Got it." I nodded. We said our goodbyes and we headed out. It was still raining but I had no ride home so I guess walking is the only option. I finally made it home after a grueling fifteen minute walk home in the pouring rain. Luckily I didnt have my book bag. It was in my locker and I was just too lazy to get it. After a shower and texting Temari, she came and picked me up to go to Ichiraku Ramen. We walked in and found the other sitting at a round table like at lunch.
"Hey Temari! Hey Tenten!" Naruto shouted. I laughed a little and waved. We walked over and sat down. The night consisted of mainly me, Ino, Sakura, Naruto, Sai, and Temari talking. Shikamaru just sat their lazily and ate his ramen. Hinata stayed silent when I noticed she glanced at Naruto every now and then and blushed. She probably has a crush on him but I'll have to ask Temari. Sasuke and Neji just did their 'hn' thing as usual. Geez if those two looked alike I'd think they were siblings. Everything was going fine until someone yelled over to us. Honestly now I'm beginning to believe that this group has enemies in every corner of the world.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here. A group of dead beats." A guy with a similar hair style as Shikamaru said. We all turned our heads to see a bunch of people looking at us.
"Beat it Kidomaru. You're not welcome here." Neji said.
"Shut it loser. Its a public place." A girl said.
"It may be public but that doesn't mean you have to talk to us, Tayuya." Temari scoffed.
"Heh. What's wrong Sasuke? Not going to help your friends?" Another guy said with glasses and gray hair in a ponytail.
"Sorry. I don't speak to trash." Sasuke belittled. The guy frowned.
"Look who's talking." A girl with long dark hair countered.
"How troublesome." Shikamaru lulled.
"M-maybe we should just c-calm down." Hinata stuttered quietly.
"What'd you say?" The guy named Kidomaru threatened and put his hand on the back of her neck. I've only gotten to know these people a day but I could tell Neji was furious, even more than the others. He had this frightening aura coming off him. Not to mention Naruto was growling at him as well.
"You have exactly three seconds to take your hand off of Hinata or I will break your hand starting now." Neji growled as he clenched his fist breaking his chop sticks.
"Ooh. Tough guy. You don't scare me." He laughed. That was the last words spoken before all hell broke loose in Ichiraku's restaurant. Neji had grabbed Kidomaru's wrist and twisted it making his release Hinata. Once Kidomaru let go, Neji side kicked him into a table. Naruto had literally jumped over the table to help Hinata up as Ino, Sai, Shikamaru and I got up to help her. All Sakura needed was one punch and the girl with the long dark hair was out cold.
"CHAA! TAKE THAT KIN!" She yelled. Sasuke was fast. He was able to take out the grey haired, eye glass wearing person but he got back up. Temari was a force to be reckoned with. She was tough. She took a direct kick to the stomach but it only took her a second to recover and throw the girl called Tayuya away. While I was watching the others fight I hadn't noticed Kidomaru sneak up behind me and grab my neck and use me as a shield. Apparently Kidomaru was able to shake Neji and get over to me.
"Come on, tough guy. What are you going to do?" Kidomaru boasted.
"I don't need saving." I grunted and elbowed him in the ribs. He instantly let go and I pushed him away. Neji then came flying by and gave him a flying knee to the face. Kidomaru fell into another table.
"Come near any of my friends or family again and I will put you in the hospital." Neji growled. Temari had just finished off Tayuya by flipping her into a table and Sasuke did a move I saw on TV. I think it was called lion's barrage or something like that. Anyways their friends who didn't fight help pick each other up. Kidomaru was up with the help of his friends and looked at Neji.
"Don't get too comfy. Things are just getting started." He wheezed and left with his friends.
"Hinata are you ok?" Naruto asked.
"Y-yes. I think so." She stuttered. Later the owners came down and saw the mess. Luckily, Naruto had a good relationship with them and told them what happened while Ino and Sakura made sure no one was seriously injured. I walked over to Neji to make sure he was ok after Sakura left to go check on Sasuke.
"Hey, thank you for today. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine." Was all he said. I looked around at the mess in the restaurant. Fortunately for us no one else was there except for us. I began to worry about the damage cost until Neji spoke. "Don't worry about any of this. I'll pay for it."
"Are you sure?" I raised a brow at him. He just nodded to me. "You're not a man of many words are you?"
"Hn." Was my answer back.
"Guess not." I sighed. "Who were those guys?" I asked.
"They're from the Sound Academy. One of our biggest rival schools. They don't play fair in anything." He answered.
"The guy I was fighting was Kabuto. Each one we fought has a bone to pick with us. For example, Kabuto doesn't like that I can strike him out. Once he even charged the mound when I threw an inside curveball. He tried to pass it by saying I was trying to hit him but it was called a strike by the umpire. So one time he paid off the umpire to make it an unfair game. Even then they lost." Sasuke explained as he held an ice pack to his lip.
"The girl I was fight was Tayuya. She hates me. We guard each other in basketball all the time. One hear she tripped me and punched me in the nose so on the way down I dislocated her knee. Ever since then we've hated each other." Temari summed up.
"I was fighting Kin. Like Kabuto she tried to pay off the referees and get away with cheating whenever we have a volleyball match." Sakura said as she put a bandaid on Sasuke's cheek. In fact it looked to me like Sasuke blushed a little when her hand brushed his cheek.
"Kidomaru is a dangerous fighter. He cheats and does anything he can to win." Neji spoke. "Any weapon we use, he weights it with sand. Any time fight without weapons, he targets illegal spots subtly."
"We should get out of here. It's getting late and we have school tomorrow." Naruto spoke up.
"For once I agree." Sasuke said. Just then a man that looked like an older version of Neji walked in and began speaking with the owners.
"That's my uncle." Neji stated grimly and walked over to him.
"That can't be good." Sasuke told. "Anytime Neji speaks with his Uncle it's usually his Uncle critizing him or punishing him and given what happened here he's probably in trouble."
"His uncle?" I asked.
"Yes. Neji lost his mom when he was very little. His father was murdered when he was four." Hinata said. I frowned at the thought. "Don't worry though. I'll explain what happened to father." Hinata said and walked over to beside Neji.
"The rest of us should get going though." Shikamaru suggested.
"Come on. I'll take you home while those two deal with this." Temari said putting an arm on my shoulders. The ride home was quiet. We talked very little, but I think it was mostly due to fatigue.
"See you tomorrow Temari." I said.
"See ya Tennie." I smiled at the nickname as I had a feeling it was going to stick. Once inside my apartment I could help but think over the events that had happened today. Although, one thing really stuck in the back of my mind. It was Neji, but I wasn't sure what this feeling was. I got in the shower and changed as I just kept thinking of my new friends and my new school. Eventually though I was able to shake it off and drift into sleep.
Well there's chapter one. Not sure when I'll have the next chapter up. And yes Micro-Thon is a parody of mini thon. If you dont know what Thon is go look it up. Anyways until next time!