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Chapter 2

"... Oi, Makoto" *poke* "Think we can go practise a bit before school starts?" *poke* *poke*

Makoto tried to keep his eyes open, beginning to see a vague figure of his friend "eh... what?"

"Iruka-sensei's gonne test our shuriken skills, and you said you're not good at it, so we should go train for a bit ... I'm not aaalll that good at it either."

Makoto tried to get up, pushing himself from the bed with his hands behind his back "Shouldn't we like eat first or shower or change ou-"

"I already packed some riceballs, and we'll be all sweaty after training anyway, now let's go!" Naruto jumped on the bed, full of energy, succesfully firing Makoto from the bed like it was a trampoline.

"Lemme just get in my training clothes" Makoto whined

"OK, meet me at the training grounds near the memorial in 2 minutes!" Naruto stormed outside

'Definitely ADHD.' Makoto thought 'Maybe something worse.'

After about 2 minutes of changing his clothes, grabbing his shuriken and finding out Naruto took all his riceballs, Makoto took off to the training grounds.

"YOSH, so let's try to hit these trees with 6 shuriken at once from eh... this distance."

"Okay, you ready?" - "YOSH" - "GO"

Sounds of shuriken flying through the air, some plumping in the trees, some sticking in the ground, some hitting other shuriken.

Naruto looked up and saw he only hit a tree twice, but the second one was sticking in a tree about 5 yards away from his target. The four others were randomly sticking in the ground. He looked at Makoto and saw he hit his tree 2 times, and he could only find 1 other in the ground.

"Bwahaha, where are your other shuriken?" Naruto laughed

"I only used 3, I'll use 1 more each time"

They trained for about 20 minutes using Makoto's technique. Eventually they were at about the same level and could hit the target with 6 shuriken (not in a perfectly straight line, but they were both happy with their progress).

They ate the riceballs on their way to school, still talking about their progress and Naruto was already planning how they could spend their free time that evening.

They arrived at the academy about 5 minutes early. And Makoto was walking uncomfortably.

"Ah that's right, you haven't met any of these people, have you?"

"No, and I'm not good at meeting new people... there weren't all that many where I used to live."

"Hehee, relax Makoto-kun, I'll introduce you to some of the boys from our class."

Naruto sounded very confident but deep inside he wasn't sure if he could really call all the others his friends. He only met them at the academy, if you had to form pairs, he was always the last one to be chosen, if he was chosen at all. He only ever got their attention if he was doing something really stupid, and making a fool of himself. But even that attention was overwhelmed by the hatefull glares from all their parents, even though he'd never even been rude against them.

Naruto introduced him to Chouji, Shikamaru and Kiba who were sitting in the shadow of a tree.

Makoto was happy to meet some new people though he had to admit they were all kind of ... special? Not in a bad way, they just all had very distinct personalities. Chouji was eh, big boned to say the least, and in the 5 minutes they talked he ate more riceballs then he and naruto did this morning. Shikamaru was one of the laziest people he'd ever met, and you could hear he carefully planned what to say so he wouldn't use any unnecessary syllabils, but he seemed like a nice guy nonetheless. Kiba seemed rather normal until he noticed the boy had FREAKING CLAWS AND FANGS, but other then that he was a lot like naruto.

Eventually they heard the signal to get inside, and Naruto showed Makoto their classroom. It was the same one Iruka had led him to the first time, but now there was a huge swarm of estatic girls, their epicenter being an annoyed black-haired boy, who was clearly trying too hard to look cool.

"Eh, what's going on over there, Naruto-kun?" Makoto asked

"Argh, for some reason all the girls like that bastard. I really don't know what's so good about him, he never even talks."

"Hehe, there's no reason to be jealou-"

"I'M DEFINITELY NOT!"

"Good, cause there's no reason to be, he's probably not veen enjoying all the attention anyway."

"Pft, yeah right, he's just trying to act cool so the girls hang around him even more."

"Well I don't know about you, but I wouldn't like to be surrounded all the time."

"Che, I guess you're right- but he's still a bastard."

Iruka entered the classroom and signaled Makoto to come to him.

"Hello class, as you might've noticed already, today we've got a new student, please welcome Makoto-kun and be friendly to him, he's only just transferred to Konoha"

"Hello Makoto"

"Eh... Hi everyone" Makoto said uncomfortably

"You can all get to know him during playtime, because right now we're going to start with a test. All grab your shuriken, go outside and line up."

"Ok, we're going to throw 6 shuriken and to pass, at least 5 of them have to hit the target. You all get 3 tries, the best one counts. Ok, you go first Shikamaru."

*Mhrg* was the only thing he 'said'.

*woosh* He'd only used 5 of his shuriken, but they were all sticking in the target somewhat random.

"Eh okay, good job, you've got 2 more tries."

But it didn't seem like the boy cared, bercause he was already going back inside.

Iruka Sighed. "Okay Sasuke, it's your turn. Sakura, give him some space please... "

"Yeah, more room for his gigantic inflated ego." Naruto whispered.

"Shut up, dobe." (Naruto wasn't all that good at whispering...) "Teme!"

*woosh* Sasuke threw his shuriken and they all landed in a perfectly straight line on the target.

All the girls were cheering hysterically and saying how awesome their sasuke is.

Next was Makoto.

*woosh*

"Yosh!" He got about the same result as shikamaru, but was sure as hell going to use all his tries,

He quickly got his shuriken back and tried again. *woosh*

He got 5 again, but in a straighter line this time, the 6th one barely missing.

He was getting quite nervous now; *woosh*

"YEAH! Awesome." All of them were sticking in the target, though it was a really sloppy line again. Not that he cared.

"Very good, Makoto-kun. If he can do it after only 2 weeks of training, you should all be able to pass this test, mkay? Okay, Hinata, your turn."

Eventually it was Naruto's turn, and he was getting quite nervous because everyone had passed already.

*woosh* he got 4 on his first try.

"Hehee, that was on purpose, only trying to keep it exciting." He gulped.

*woosh* he got 4 on his second try.

"eh... see, it's like I said."

He wansn't sure what to do now, he knew he should be able to hit the target 5 times if he really concentrated, but it wouldn't be as good as Sasuke or Makoto or Kiba or.. eh, most living creatures, and nobody would even notice him. He looked at Makoto and saw an encouraging smile, one he hadn't seen in a long time. Whatever.

*woosh*

Five shuriken were sticking in the tree, though they weren't in a straight line and after a couple of seconds another one fell down.

"It was close, but you passed Naruto." Iruka said

"Hahahaha my Sasuke is still soo much better then you are, dead last" The crazy pink haired girl yelled.

Most of the other kids were laughing as well, but Naruto didn't care. He was only looking at Makoto, who was still smiling and giving a thumbs up.

Sorry if I sounded like a total bitch last time :P. Of course I do care about what you think, and how I might write a better story, I'm just not prepared to drastically change the story or my writing style.

Happy new year to y'all :D!