Ok so this chapter is kind of long, and I don't really like the beginning of this chap. the ending, in my opinion, is much better. There's also some slight OOC in this chap. Well I'll stop talking her is Chapter 2.


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*Sigh*

"Um… if you count the one that I was born in, than that's…." she pauses to do the quick math in her head, "… that's 20 towns/villages." At the sound of such a high number Naruto's eyes widen so much they look as if they could fall out. Once he recovers he breaths "WOW, that's a lot of places. Why so many is your dad in the army or something?"


She takes a deep breath preparing herself for the long explanation she is about to give.

"Well, no my father is not in the military, but then again I don't exactly live with him." Knowing the question that will soon be asked, she tries to think on how she is going to explain.

"Why?" Naruto asked the question Hinata was waiting for.

*Sigh*

"OK, so when I was about 3 my mom was diagnosed with cancer. She died when I was 5 and my father blamed me for her death. He then disowned me and sent me to go live with other relatives. But I would only live with a relative for a few months or so before they got sick of me or just thought I was a nuisance. Right now I'm living with my cousin Neji, So far he is the only one who doesn't see me as worthless." A small tear escapes her eye as she finishes.

Surprised at her answer, Naruto sits there speechless for a few moments as he processes what Hinata has just said. Once he regains his composure he just stares at her fidgeting form wondering why her family would just give her away. The thought that runs through his main is 'someone somewhere must love her, right?'

"O my God. I'm so sorry, that must be terrible."

"… Thanks, but it's not so bad. I've gotten used to it." Hinata softly whispers.

Thinking of a way to brighten her mood Naruto states "Hey look on the bright side… at least you get to travel all over the country for free." A small comforting smile creeps onto his face.

Producing a small smile of her own, Hinata looks him directly in the eyes and says, "Thank you Naruto, you're the first person to actually make me feel better about moving so much."

"….. Really, huh…… Well I guess we should start pla—"Brrrring "Dam, well then I guess we are planning tomorrow." Naruto says as the class begins to file out of the class room.

"Ok, that sounds good." Hinata replies as she starts to pack her English things up. While they are leaving the class room Naruto says, "Well if I don't have any other classes with you I'll see you tomorrow." Hinata nods her head and they walk in opposite directions to their next class.

Hinata rushes to her next class, Art, so she won't be late. Walking into the class room she recognizes Sakura and TenTen from her previous class. So se decides to sit next to them.

Upon hearing the chair next to her move, Sakura looks up to see Hinata timidly sitting down in said chair. Smiling up at her she greats, "Hey Hinata, so you have art too?" Hinata nods and becomes more relaxed.

"Alright class today we are starting our pottery/portrait unit. Half of the class will be working on the potter's wheel and the other half will be drawing portraits of a person of your choosing. Then at the end of the quarter we will switch," the art teacher known as Kurenai announces. "So, Sakura your table will be starting on portraits, along with….. Karin your table. The 2 tables I did not call will be starting on the potter's wheel. Ok? ... Go." She finishes and everyone either gets paper or clay, and starts to work.

As they think about who they are going to draw TenTen asks, "Hey Hinata, your cousins with Neji right?"

"Hai." Hinata answers, while starting on the eyes of her portrait.

"So that means you're living with him…?" TenTen asks with a slight blush on her face. Looking up from her drawing Hinata asks in return, "Hai, um….. do you happen to have a crush on Neji?"

TenTen nods and blushes even darker, and Sakura starts to giggle.

"Shut-up Sakura! At least I have an existing friendship with Neji unlike you and Sauske." This causes Sakura to stop laughing and glare at TenTen, who just smiles back, thus ending the conversation about Neji.

After a few minutes of glaring at TenTen, Sakura softens her eyes and turns to Hinata, "So, Hinata. Are there any boys that have caught your eye yet? I mean I know it's your first day and all, but there are a lot of cute guys here." She asks.

A small blush creeps its way onto Hinata's cheeks and she shrugs, "Um, I don't know yet, maybe one, but I don't know."

"!! Really, well who is the boy that makes—"Brrrrrrrr. Brrrrrrr. Sakura is cut off by her phone vibrating in her pocket. "Hold on."

Flipping her phone she sees…

NEW TXT MSG

INO

Opening the message she reads...

Hey forehead… so I was thinking that today after school we should go to Café Muse after school with the gang. We'll talk about it more at lunch. O and tell Ten, I'll text everyone else. ; p

~Hot Stuff

Shutting her phone Sakura tells TenTen. "Hey Ten, Ino wants to go to Café Muse after school with everyone, you in?"

Yeah sounds like fun…" turning to Hinata she says, "Hey Hinata do you want to come too? It would be fun."

"No I don't want to intrude, but thanks for the offer." Hinata responds.

"Aw come on Hinata, you wouldn't be intruding, we want you to come."

Sakura whines.

Yeah come on Hinata." TenTen comments.

"Ok class time to clean up class is almost over." Kurenai announces.

"… Um ok I guess I'll go with you guys, as long as you don't mind.' Hinata says as she starts putting her portrait away.

Brrrring

Standing up Sakura says "Sweet, I'm excited. I'll see you guys at lunch. See ya." And with that she leaves for her next class, Math with Iruka.

"Yeah me too, I'll see you later. Bye Hinata." TenTen said then walked to her next class she shared with Neji, Tai-justu with Gai. (A/N: Ahhhhh!!)

Hinata's next two classes were uneventful. Third hour she had Chakra Control with Asuma and fourth hour she had Music with the creepy Orochimaru. Now she is walking to her locker.

After retrieving her bento box from her locker, Hinata walks into the room she hated the most at all of her schools, the cafeteria. At her past schools she would always sit by herself. She never had any friends because she knew that she would just be moving again in a few months and never bothered. Lunch time was always lonely for her, there for she hated lunch.

As she walks to a vacant table she hears her name being called.

"Hinata, Hinata. Over here Hinata."

Turning around she sees Sakura standing up and waving her arm. "Hinata come sit with us."

Walking over to the table Hinata trips over something, it looks like a 5 inch, red stiletto.

"Whoops I'm sorry, I didn't see you there." A girl with red hair and glasses snickers at her. The next thing Hinata knows, Naruto is helping her up and Ino is yelling at the red head.

"Karin you BITCH! It's her first fucking day at a new school. Can you not be a bitch for like one day?! God Dam!" Ino yells.

"Hey, are you ok Hinata?" Naruto asks helping Hinata up.

"Hai. Thank you Naruto." Hinata says. She glances at the table that he came from and sees Sakura glareing murderously at Karin and TenTen holding her from pouncing on the unfortunate red head.

Hey Naruto, what's wrong with Sakura?" Hinata asks while they start picking up her things from on the ground.

Looking over at the enraged Sakura, he chuckles and reaches behind his head. "O ha, yeah she gets a little heated when Karin is being a bitch to our friends. There's some bad blood between them."

"…O…" Hinata states a little confused.

"… so you can take manicured little hands and –"

"Ino come on lets go. She's mot worth in." Naruto interrupts and walks with Hinata back to the table.

"Humph" Ino pout as she storms back to the table. Giving Karin one last death glare she takes her place next to Sai and TenTen.

"I hate that slut." Sakura states glancing over to Karin once more.

"Don't we all."

"IT SPEAKS!!" Kina exclaims aw struck to the Hyuga who has just spoken. "Dude, Neji, you never say anything other than 'hn'. You must be having a good day."

"…O…K… Well 1.) I do dislike Karin and 2.) When I comes to my cousin it pisses me off when someone hurts her. She's already been through so much."

"Wa–Wa–Wa–Wait, hold up. What the hell does your cousin have to do with anything? I thought we were talking about what happened to the new girl." A confused and completely oblivious Kiba asked. To his right Suki slaps her forehead with the heel of her hand and exclaims, "W…O...W, you are so dense Kiba."

"What do you mean 'I'm dense'?" Kiba complains.

"Honey… this…" she pulls Hinata by her,"…this is Neji's cousin. Remember… she's in our first hour class?" Suki explains to Kiba

"O… I knew that, I was just testing you guys…. Good job you passed."Kiba timidly says while scratching the back of his head.

Rolling her eyes at Kiba's comment, Suki turns to Hinata. "Here let me introduce everyone. So next to you, you already know Naruto. Sauske is next to him and then you know Sakura, next to her is Matsuri and Gaara. Over there," she said pointing to Kankuro, "that's Kankuro, Kata, Temari, Shikamaru, Sai, and Ino, and then TenTen and your cousin. I'm Suki, and this baka here, is Kiba." Suki says bending down and hugging Kiba around the neck, then giving him a small peck on the cheek.

"… Hey Naruto, do hear that?" Sauske says smirking. Everyone else looks at Sauske in confusion.

Pretending to concentrate on listening Naruto says, "Yeah it…it…it sounds like …like a… WICHHH." (A/N: He's making a whip sound) Everyone starts laughing except for Kiba and Suki.

"Hey man, who ever said that being whipped was a bad thing?" Kiba says putting an arm around his, now sitting girlfriend's waist.

"Yeah, you're just jealous that you don't have someone to do this with." Suki says as she leans in and gives Kiba a sweet kiss on the lips.

"Whatever man I still say you're whipped." Naruto comments, and then turns back to his food.

After several minutes of listening to Ino talk about what they are going to do at the Café tonight, Naruto turns to the person on his left and asks, "So Hinata what class do you have next hour?"

"Um, hold on…" fishing her schedule out of her backpack, "I have Pre-calc, with Ibiki." She answers.

"Pre-calc?! Wow you're smart. Well I have Algebra II with Iruka, so do you want to walk to class together?" Naruto asks with a slight blush only noticed by Sauske.

"Sure, thank you Naruto."

"Yeah no problem."

Brrrrrrrring


Well that's it for chapter 2. 7 pages that's a lot for me hehe. Stay tuned to see what happens on Naruto and Hinata's walk to math class.

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