Okay, I think Naruto and Sasuke make the cutest couple in the world! So here is my REWORKED attempt. Um…the kids speak Japanese, but I'm to lazy to add on the suffixes…so I'm not gonna!! Also, um…there are going to be some religious issues…um, not that big but if it offends you then don't read it
"Hey! Did you hear?"
"Hear what?"
"There's a new kid transferring from India!"
"Really? When?"
"Tomorrow is their first day I think!" rumors and conversations similar to this were infecting the hallways of Konoha High.
There had been nothing interesting happening at their school since the transfer students from one of the Ryukyu Islands and the one from America. Okay…so quite a few interesting things happened at their school, but other than that it was just like any other high school. It had the popular kids, the computer geeks, the chess team, well actually, Go team in their case, sports teams, book worms and social outcasts. They were all excited over the possibility of fresh meat. Yes, a quite vicious term, but…it's high school…and as I'm sure you all know, high school can be a very vicious place. "So, I wonder what he'll be like! I hope he's cute!" a girl squealed.
"Who said it'll be a guy?" her friend argued. They laughed and walked away.
THE NEXT DAY
The final bell rang and students scrambled to get to their seats before their teacher walked in. They were all excited. The new kid was starting today and everyone was anxious to see if he would be in their class.
"Alright, settle down everyone! Settle down!" their teacher called. He wore a mask covering the lower half of his face and a headband covering one of his eyes.
"C'mon Kakashi-sensei! Take off that stupid mask! You can't be that good looking!" One of the girls called.
"If you say so Sakura…" he said.
She laughed.
"Now, I'm sure you're all just dying to meet our new student." He said and paused so the girls could relieve themselves of their excited squeals.
"Would you come on in please?" he asked.
The door opened and revealed a boy who was unusually short and skinny for their age. He had a mop of untidy blonde hair and bright cerulean eyes. His skin was lightly tanned, but stood out in contrast to the other student's pale Asian skin. He had three whisker like scars on each cheek. He seemed like he just wanted to shrink away and disappear from their prying eyes.
"Well? Are you going to introduce yourself?" Kakashi asked. The boy nodded unsurely.
"My name's Naruto Uzumaki…I came here from India, and I'm glad to be here…" he muttered.
"Okay, Naruto would you mind answering any questions?" Kakashi asked, trying to make him feel more comfortable. Naruto shook his head.
"No…I don't mind." He said.
"Alright, any questions?" Kakashi said. Someone raised their hand.
"Yes Kiba?"
"How come you can speak Japanese so well?" the boy, Kiba, asked. Naruto looked up.
"Well, my mom is Japanese…and my dad is from India, so my mom taught me when I was growing up." He explained. Another boy raised his hand.
"Go ahead Shikamaru."
"Why's your hair blonde if you're mom's Japanese and your dad's Indian?" he asked.
"Well, my dad is pure Indian, but my mom's mom was a blonde American, so I got it from her…" he said. A girl raised her hand this time.
"Go ahead Tenten." Kakashi sighed.
"Did you know you have gorgeous eyes?" she asked. Naruto looked taken aback.
"Okay! That's enough, no hitting on the new kid." Kakashi reprimanded. Tenten giggled.
"Are there anymore serious questions?" Kakashi asked. No one raised their hand.
"Well, thank you Naruto, now go find a seat and we'll get started." Kakashi said, Naruto walked up the steps and stopped at a desk occupied by books alone. Kakashi turned to the board and began writing some notes.
"Can I sit here?"
Naruto asked the pale-skinned raven haired boy sitting in the desk next to it. The boy turned and glared at him with cold obsidian eyes.
"My books are sitting there…dobe." He said coolly. The girls around him giggled. Something flashed in Naruto's eyes but it was quickly replaced by the uncertain look previously residing there.
"Oh…s-sorry." He muttered. The boy turned back to the board and saw Kakashi looking at him reprovingly.
"Go ahead…" the boy muttered and removed his books. Naruto gave a small smile and sat down. The boy ignored him.
"What's your name?" Naruto asked quietly.
"…..Sasuke…" he said, not looking at him. Someone tapped him on the shoulder and he turned around.
"Hey, I'm Kiba." It was the boy who had asked the first question. Naruto opened his mouth to say something.
"No need to introduce yourself. But a piece of advice before you get mauled, don't talk to Sasuke for a while… at all…ever actually. I got myself a busted lip and sprained wrist the first week of school for that. He's got these girls that follow him around and constantly try to get him to go out with them. But you don't want to piss them off…they can get pretty vicious." He said. Naruto looked stunned.
"T-thanks…" he said.
"No problem! Hey, you wanna hang out later?" he asked. Naruto smiled.
"Sure, thanks…" he said.
"Naruto, Kiba, is there something you'd like to share with us?" Kakashi asked.
"N-no Kakashi-sensei…sorry." Naruto stammered, embarrassed at being called out in front of the class. A small wave of giggles swept over the room leaving Naruto with an even greater desire to shrink into his seat.
"Oi! Leave'm alone, it's his first day here for cryin out loud!" he snapped. Naruto smiled to himself. It was nice to have a friend.
AFTER SCHOOL
Naruto stood by his locker, watching the kids go by. He was waiting for Kiba to come and meet him there. They had talked and were going to go over to the Ichiraku Ramen bar, even though Kiba didn't like Ramen very much. A pale girl with strange lavender eyes and a rosy blush adorning her cheeks walked up to him and smiled in a friendly manner.
"Um…I-I just wanted t-to welcome you here N-Naruto…M-my name is Hinata H-Hyuuga, I'm a f-friend of Kiba." She stuttered. She was obviously very shy.
"Thanks…that's really nice." He said, grateful that he was at least a bit more confident than she. Kiba came up behind her and poked her in the side. She let out an ear piercing yelp and then smiled, her cheeks turning a darker shade of red.
"Hey Hinata! I see you've met Naruto. I knew you guys would hit it off cause you're both way to shy for your own good!" he said. Hinata's smile faltered momentarily
"I'm only joking Hinata…besides, it's one of the reasons you're so cute." Kiba said earnestly.
If it was possible, Hinata turned even redder. There were obviously some unsaid feelings between the two and they spent quite a few moments staring at each other before Naruto, as politely as possible cleared his throat. Kiba blushed a bit and grinned
"C'mon you guys, let's go." He said and grabbed Hinata around the shoulders pulling her away. Naruto moved to follow, but Kakashi stuck his head out the door.
"Naruto! Can I have a word with you please?"
"Coming sensei…Hey Kiba, can you wait up a second?" he called. Kiba however, didn't seem to notice and Naruto wasn't going to disturb him spending time with Hinata. It was a bit disappointing to miss his first chance to hang out with some friends but he could find another time. "Yes?" he asked as he approached the desk where Kakashi sat.
"Well, I was wondering if you wanted an escort for the first week or so, this IS a very big school." Kakashi said.
"No thank you sensei…I'm pretty sure I can manage on my own. If I need help though I'll ask." Naruto said, gave a slight bow and left.
He sighed and trudged home to the small apartment he rented. He and his mother had moved here a little over a year ago after fleeing his home country of India (His father had been killed over money). She had tried to home school him at first but soon realized that it wasn't going to work. She managed to find Naruto a place in the local high school…but she was hospitalized with a recurring disease and died a few months later. Naruto had spent quite a long time grieving and had received permission from his new guardian, a woman by the name of Tsunade, to start school later in the semester. After a few weeks it became apparent that Naruto fell into the 'social outcast' classification. He had made several new friends, aside from Kiba. There was Gaara, who, though he seemed to prefer being alone, was rarely found without someone following him. He, like Naruto had had an unpleasant past that resulted in insomnia. Gaara had revealed his disorder to Naruto after the blonde had asked why Gaara always wore eyeliner.
Then there was Shikamaru who was incredibly intelligent but was failing all of his classes. Whenever asked about this, he simply stated that it wasn't worth the effort to pick up the pencil and do the work. He learned what was taught and couldn't see a need to prove that to anyone else. He was going out with a girl named Temari, who happened to be Gaara's older sister.
Lastly there was Lee who was more of an acquaintance than anything else. He was the strangest person Naruto had ever met. He always spoke of youth and other such things and had a strange obsession with another of Naruto's teachers, Gai-sensei.
Of course not everyone Naruto met was eager to become friends with him. In fact, Sasuke Uchiha seemed to be making an obvious effort to impress upon Naruto just how much he loathed him. Although he never said anything cruel to Naruto, he had an obnoxious habit of smirking and looking directly at the blonde when someone did. Aside from this there was always a malicious glint in his obsidian eyes when they looked at Naruto.
In fact, Sasuke's whole demeanor was an insult to the blonde. He was president of the student council, his grades never wavered from A's and of course, he was the height of popularity. Indeed, it was difficult to find girls who did not obsess over Sasuke or at least talk about him more than three times a day. Naruto on the other hand wasn't in any school clubs…or outside clubs for that matter, he struggled to keep B's and the only time girls spoke of him was to sneer at him. Sasuke's looks didn't help Naruto either.
Sasuke's skin was pale and without any flaws, his hair was a beautiful raven color and was always styled neatly (though Naruto thought it looked hilariously similar to a cockatoo's) and his clothes were spotless and smooth at all times. Naruto had tanned skin and scars on his cheeks, his hair wouldn't lie flat if you put a whole bottle of gel in it and his clothes were secondhand.
To add to all of this, at the beginning of the year, Kakashi-sensei had announced that these would be their permanent seats. The small amount of space between to two boys made their relationship, if it was possible, even more adversarial.
"That's my desk." Naruto said impatiently as he walked into the class room one morning to find Sasuke's school books sitting neatly on top of his desk.
"Well, I figured we could seat something more intelligent there…like my books." Sasuke said coolly.
"Asshole." Naruto muttered and pushed them onto the floor, taking his seat, a satisfied smirk on his face.
Something hit the back of his head and he turned to see every girl in the class glaring daggers at him. One stood up and walked over to him.
"How dare you!" she said and slapped him across the face.
"No one does that to Sasuke! You'd better learn your place around here." She snapped and sat down. Naruto's already chapped lips were bleeding and he stood up. He wasn't going to deal with this. He stood up and grabbed his stuff, running out of the room. He could hear them laughing behind him and heard someone say,
"Hey everybody! Look at the scaredy-cat run!"
Anger swelled up inside his chest and he tried to ignore it as he ran but it was proving difficult not the hit something. He ran out of the building and over to the tree in front of the school. He climbed up it and sat with his legs hanging down on either side. He sat there and began to absentmindedly tear off leaves. Before he knew it, his anger and frustration had turned itself to tears that fell silently down his cheeks. What had he done wrong? Was he being punished for something he did? Thoughts such as these drifted in and out of his head until he heard kids talking and laughing as they walked out of the building for lunch. He saw something move out of the corner of his eye and turned to see Sasuke staring at him, his expression unreadable. Naruto jumped out of the tree and glared back.
"You got something to say Uchiha?" Naruto snapped with as much ferocity as he could manage. He silently prayed that Sasuke would not notice his wet eyes and cheeks.
"You were crying." Sasuke said, but his tone was questioning.
"Why do you care? Just leave me alone…" Naruto muttered and began walking away. Naruto returned to the building after lunch, thankful that Sasuke wasn't in anymore of his classes. Kiba, having been worried about his friend, had saved Naruto half of his sandwich from lunch and in return got a kick out of watching Naruto sneak a bite every time the teacher's back was turned. Naruto again found himself grateful to Kiba after he had not pressed to subject of the blonde's disappearance and had evidently told everyone else to do the same.
After school Naruto began walking home when he realized that he was being followed. Suddenly someone grabbed his bag and yanked him back. With a spasm of fear he realized he was surrounded. He recognized some as Sasuke fan girls and others he didn't.
"Where are you going punk? You still have to pay for what you did to Sasuke." One said.
Naruto wanted to melt into the cement. He knew what was coming, and he knew it wasn't going to be pretty. He flinched as someone moved to punch him. Thus it began…he was on the ground before he knew it and people were kicking him and screaming at him. He curled up into the fetal position, praying for it to end. He made a resolution to keep quiet and it came as a shock when he heard someone cry out and shamefully realized that it had been himself. He heard a car door slam rather loudly and everything stopped. A sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach told Naruto that things were about to get much worse. A pair of black shoes appeared very near his face and he anxiously awaited a kick. He was surprised however to hear a calm, cold voice.
"Alright, beat it. I'll take it from here." The voice simply could not belong to anyone other than Sasuke Uchiha.
"But Sasuke, we'd much rather do it for you." A girl said in a sickly sweet voice. Sasuke's voice, if possible, became even colder. "I said I'll take care of it."
"Oh…Okay…S-sorry." The girl almost seemed scared and Naruto smirked as he imagined the look on Sasuke's face. He heard the girls walking away and braced himself for whatever was coming next.
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