MARI

I was still looking at where the boy ran off too, when sarah started shaking my shoulder.

"what!" I said facing her.

" I was saying, that you shouldn't of went up to that boy." Sarah said cleary irritated that I wasn't listening to her.

Before I cold reply a older man walked away from the group of angry onlookers and stood before us.

" If I was you, I would stay away from that boy." he said and started to walk away.

" Why would I do that, he has never did anything to me!", I yelled.

He stopped, turned around, opened his mouth like he was about to say something, but before he could say something another man came over gave him a warning look.

"You know the rules, Kelin,we can't say anything about it." the other man said.

Kelin nodded and looked at us for a second before saying," It's not what he did to you, but what he did to this whole village." with that he walked away. Now that left me with more questions then answers. I was about to follow him and aske what he meant when Sarah came over and pulled me the opposite way.

"Come on Mari", Sarah said. "we don't want to be late on our first day of school." I only nodded, questions running through my head. Why were they being so mean to that boy? What was it that they couldn't talk about? What did that guy mean when he said that he did something to the whole village? The only thing I knew was that I was going to get some answers.

I patted my hair and brushed off my shorts before following Sarah to the academy. We quickly walked to the school after noticing the time. the bell rang just we got there. Most of the seats were taken. I glanced around looking for two empty seats. I saw a couple in the back row, grabbed Sarahs hand and rushed towards them, not wanting to start a commotion. I took my seat and took out my notebook. The Teacher just gave us a quick warning glance and continued what he saying.

" Hello, my name is Iruka and I'm going be your instructor" he said. " Today we are going to focus on introducing yourselves and myself also. Now who wants to go fi-"

Right then the doors bust open and the boy from earlier ran into the room.

NARUTO

I rushed inside the classroom interruping whatever Iruka sensei was saying. My face got red with embarresment when I saw the students staring at me. "Sorry I'm late, I fell in a pot holeand hit my head." After I said it, I noticed how fake it sounded. Everyone just kept staring at me. I laughed loudly masking my stupidity. I quickly sat in an empty seat in the back row, not wanting to attract anymore attention to myself. I heard a gasp from my left and turned my head to see who it was. There was a girl who was slighty taller than me, me being the shortest excluding Hinata. She had Reddish brown hair that reached her waist, and had green eyes with flecks of blue in them.I then realized that this girl was the one from eairler .

She was looking at me with her eyes wide. She was very pretty I thought. Why did she have to be like the rest of them. I turned my head at the thought and looked up to Iruka sensei who was glaring at me intensely.

"Naruto, you have the nerve to come to class late on the first day of school and spew ridiculous lies at that!", Iruka yelled. "If you want to be a ninja you have to become serious like a ninja! We will continue this conversation after class." I only nodded, since I was still aware of the girls eyes on me. Wanting to break the silence I decided to say something.

MARI

I stared at the boy who was sitting by me. I couldn't believe that the same boy who had so much pain in in his feature this morning, was the one who was laughing and smiling sitting next to me. Now that I could get a closer look at him, I noticed he had scars on his cheeks that look like whiskers. He also had spikey blond hair that seemed to go everywhere but in the right place. He had piercing blue eyes that sparkled when he laughed or smiled. He resembled a cute, hyper, little puppy.

"Sorry about earlier." he said all of a sudden. He was facing me and had a grin on his face. I was a little shocked, since I thought he wouldn't want to talk to me after everything that happened this morning. "It's okay, It wasn't your fault. I should of seen you coming."

After saying that his mouth opened a little bit with suprize.

"What is it?" I said.

He closed his mouth quickly. "I wasn't expecting you to say that." he mumbled, his eyes casting down ward as if he was deeply thinking about something.

" What do you mean?" I asked confused.

" Well you see... no one has ever said sorry to me and meant it." he said looking back at me.

"Oh... well then I guess I'll be the first one." I said smiling at him.

" Thank you" He said smiling right back at me.

" For what?" I asked confused again.

" For showing me kindess." he said.

I didn't know what to say to that so I just put my hand on his shoulder saying " Anytime." smiling. Deciding to change the subject I asked what his name was.

"Naruto Uzamaki" he stated proudly.

"My name is Mari Alno."I said

"And my name is Sarah Hucha!" Sarah said bumping me out of the way holding out her hand. I rolled my eyes as she batted her eyelashes.

He blushed and hesitantly grabbed her hand and shook it. Sarah smiled at him sweetly and took back her hand .

"So Naruto, where do you live." sarah asked.

"I live by myself in some aparments" he said.

" Where's your parents?" she asked.

"Sarah!" I yelled shocked by how blunt she was.

" No, it's okay." he said. " They died before I could met them."

"Oh, sorry." I said glaring at Sarah after noticing how sad he said it. " My parents died before I could meet them too." I shocked myself by saying that since I never even try to think about it let alone tell someone else about it.

Before he could reply to her Iruka sensei said it was time for lunch. I picked up my things and brought out my bento box. I looked over at Naruto who was walking away looking depressed.

"Naruto!" I called. He turned around.

"Do you want to eat lunch with me and Sarah?" I asked a little bit embarressed. " Unless you have someone else you want to sit with..."

"No,no I'll sit with you. "he said with a huge grin on his face.

And this was the beggining of our friendship.