Author's Note: People reviewed, people liked it, and people said it could be better… well I'm still learning, if only I could write this stuff for my coursework…my grades would be so much better…

This chapter is dedicated to TellMeLittleWhiteLies, who said I was crazy for thinking my story sucked.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or my school, but I do own 67 percent of my best friend's soul! Mwahahaha! (Gaara-worthy manic grin) She sold it bit by bit for cookies…

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Murphy Hates Me.

Normal POV

Sun's shining, birds singing, the day was one of those autumn days that refuses to admit summer was over. It was the perfect day to start on. Naruto had all his uniform, a load of school supplies and Iruka had made a cooked breakfast which Naruto had happily eaten. He found the bus stop no problem; Iruka had decided that if he walked Naruto to the bus stop it would be extremely embarrassing. So during the summer Naruto had learned his bus route by heart.

At the bus stop there were several other kids wearing the same uniform as him, talking, messing about or zoning out with their iPods/mp3s plugged into their ears. Having plenty of experience of arriving in new schools Naruto opted to stay quiet, and observe them. One boy, black haired and eyed was being harassed by nearly every girl at the bus stop. Around him were more boys, all of which were receiving female attention. Standing apart from them were a much smaller group of mixed gender, who by the fact that everyone in the harassed/harassers group ignored them were immediately labelled as outcasts in his mind.

Naruto's POV

The bus journey sucked, I sat on my own near the front and it was as though I didn't exist, no-one paid any attention to me at all! As the new kid I should have been questioned by everyone. Then I realised, these guys have been together for four years they all know each other, I was too new too far into the school system.

Just in case you're wondering, the school I was going to was St Teilo's c/w high School. A Christian school and I was pretty damn sure I wasn't Christian. Iruka said it was the only school with openings, everywhere else was packed or 'a waste of government funding, filled with hooligans and future offenders'. Iruka may have been a mellow guy but he was going to let me go into a trashy school 'over his dead body'.

After getting off the bus, I found the reception pretty quickly and was told to wait for a council member to guide me round. I found myself imagining an old guy in a suit, who would blather on about 'his day' and shuddering at the thought.

Instead after about ten minutes a girl with black/brown hair in pigtails (seriously! Pigtails! What is this! Primary school!) who looked about ten. She apparently was in my form, a year council member and a school council member, as she so nicely told me. And then said any comments about her height, or appearance would be dealt back tenfold. Then she handed me over to one of the guys from the 'outcast' group at the bus stop apologizing about council meetings or something. Nice start to the year, ignored, implied insulting, and ditched straight away…

Normal POV

Naruto was grabbed by the arm and towed after the boy who talked non-stop. "Hi, my name's Kiba, your Naruto right? Your gonna like it here, there are some assholes here but most people are nice." It took about five minutes to tell Kiba that he'd left his bag in reception. Awkward…

After retrieving said bag, Kiba took Naruto to the office to get his new schedule. Then he gave Naruto a basic map of the school in case they got separated. Which they did. At that moment the bell rang and students flooded into the school from what seemed like every direction to Naruto.

He found himself lost in a sea of strange faces and people jostling him, then almost immediately the flood ceased and he found himself alone in the middle of a courtyard. Alone. No Kiba. He looked at Kiba's map and winced. Apparently Kiba had drawn it himself, and Kiba was no artist. The map looked like a spider had fallen into a pot of ink and had had its death throes across the paper.

Naruto's POV

I'd love to tell you some one came along befriended me and showed me to my form room. Instead I stood around for a few minutes having a panic attack. My thoughts basically were, 'Shit. Shit, shit, shit, shit, mega shit! Great now I'm lost. Right, calm down think logically. I need to retrace my steps, okay if I go back down that passage to the picture that looks like lots of faces and go left then I turn right and go down to reception again and tell the receptionist I'm lost.' I walked back down the passage, pleased that I was being so calm about it. Then I got to the end of the passage and saw instead of that weird picture there was a poster about field trips to some place called 'Llangrannog'. By now I was scared and EXTREMELY lost, so I yelled at the first thing that came to mind. "Damn you Murphy!" I didn't expect the voice behind me "Who's Murphy?"

Normal POV

Gaara smirked as the blonde visibly jumped, his sadistic-ness getting the better of him, and waited for him to calm down before asking "New guy?" and felt a twinge of pity as the new boy said yes he'd lost his guide and couldn't find his form room. "What form?" he asked, "Uh, not sure, wait…" Naruto paused and rifled through his bag until he found his schedule and read his form off the top,"10K!" Gaara just about smiled.

"This way." Gaara said monotonously, and turned around. Having no other choice Naruto followed him.

Naruto's POV

When that guy spoke right behind me I freaked, I hadn't heard him coming and he'd heard me yell at someone who doesn't exist. Great, by break time everyone in the school would be saying I'm a crazy boy who talks to himself. Brilliant, fabulous, supercalifragilisticexpalidousious! The guy freaked me out a bit on his own. Red hair and I mean really crimson, blue-green eyes thickly lined in black and the guy had no eyebrows! How weird was that! Did he shave them off or something?!?!? But he was taking me to my form room so he wasn't that bad.

We were walking down a corridor, and he stopped and opened a door for me, I walked in and stopped, everyone was looking at me. There were some of the people from the bus stop, the black haired boy was there, Kiba was and so was the weirdo girl who gave me to Kiba. She was sitting across from Kiba and I think she'd been yelling at him, because he looked miserable, but on seeing me evidently cheered up and he half stood up and shouted "Naruto! Over here!"

Everyone else stopped looking at me and went back to their conversations; now that someone had established my reason for being here I was of no interest to them. Nice to feel wanted…

Normal POV

Naruto walked over to Kiba trying not to stare at people, but turned back around to stare at him. As he sat down he realised they weren't just staring at him, the red headed guy had sat down next to him. "You in this form too?" Naruto asked

"Yes" was the reply.

"Oh, well my name's Naruto Uzumaki, what's yours?"

"Gaara." Somehow Naruto had got the feeling the conversation was over, turning round he was greeted with Kiba's stare, which freaked him out a bit.

"Dude, Gaara found you and brought you here! And he talked to you!" Kiba whispered, amazed. "Yeah, I know." Replied Naruto a bit confused by Kiba's behaviour.

"He never talks to anyone unless they're his friend, or he's threatening them! You are officially a member of our group! Coz if Gaara accepts you everyone else will love you! We hang round the upper courtyard at lunch and break, okay?"

Naruto's POV

This is great I haven't even had my first lesson yet and I'm already a part of a friendship group. Kiba seems okay and if the rest of that group at the bus stop are all like him this should be fun, I wonder if Gaara really threatens people? He seems okay, doesn't speak much but still, he was nice to me, I'd still be wandering around lost if it wasn't for him.

This year is going to be better, I can feel it, as long as I don't do something stupid like shouting at Murphy in public, this will be all good, believe it!

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