Yes I'm a horrible person and yes not updating for a month was inexcusable, but I am sorry and it will never happen ever again.


A shrill ringing woke me up the next morning. I sat up on the bed and tried to untangle myself from the sheets. As soon as I did, I stumbled out of bed and did my usual morning routine.

When I was done in the bathroom, I walked out of the bathroom with a big, fluffy, light orange towel around my waist and a smaller blue one on my head. I walked to my closet and picked out a black long sleeve shirt and white cardigan, black skinny jeans and black combat boots. When I was done dressing up, I walked to the mirror and ran a brush through my hair.

I walked out of the bathroom and went downstairs. As soon as I got downstairs, the first thing I noticed was Itachi and Kyuubi were doing…bad…things on the couch.

"Ew, you guys, not on the couch," I said wrinkling my nose, "That is so gross."

Kyuubi finally pulled away from Itachi, after pecking him on the lips a couple of times. "Itachi and I made you ramen," he said flatly.

I felt my face splitting into an unconscious smile. "Really? For me?" Kyuubi nodded, "Carry on then," I said as I was leaving the room. Before I left the room I heard Kyuubi say, "See, I told you that would take care of him."

I walked away before I could hear Itachi's reply. When I entered the kitchen, I saw Kakashi and Iruka sitting at the table drinking coffee. They were already ready.

"Hey you guys," I said to them happily.

They both turned to look at me. Iruka smiled and said, "I see you're cheerful this morning so I'm guessing you slept well last night?"

"Like a baby." I replied walking to him and kissing him on both cheeks. I walked over to Kakashi and we did our regular handshake.

"Why are you so happy?" Kakashi asked.

"Because, Kakashi, life is a beautiful thing and you've got to enjoy it while you can and app—"

"Kyuubi made him ramen." Iruka said rolling his eyes. Kakashi made an "oh" face, I think so anyway. His face was already covered. I don't know why Kakashi covered his face, because I have seen him without his mask and he was pretty good looking. Too good looking. Maybe that was why he covered his face, to make sure no one got distracted by his beauty.

The thought of it made me snicker which caused Iruka and Kakashi to look at me weirdly. "What's so funny?" they asked at the same time. I shook my head at them mumbling "nothing" and laughing some more.

"Hurry up Naruto, we have to leave in about thirty minutes." Iruka said.

"Okay, okay, whatever. Where's the ramen?" I asked rubbing my hand together in excitement. Iruka pointed in the direction of the oven. I walked over to the oven and brought it out, it was covered. When I opened it, I almost screamed in joy. It was my favorite: miso ramen with extra pork. If heaven had a taste, I'm pretty sure that that is what it would taste like.

"Itadakimasu." I said before wolfing down my ramen at an incredibly fast pace. I finished and put down my plate.

"Are you guys ready?" Itachi asked coming into the kitchen.

"Hm? Yeah, yeah we're done."

"Then, let's go. It won't do to be late on my official first day of school." Kyuubi said as he walked into the kitchen.

"Especially with Tsunade as the principal." I said shivering from past memories of Tsunade in the morning.

As we all got up to leave, Kyuubi came to talk to me.

"Naru-tan," he began and I groaned, I. HATE. That. Stupid. Nickname. "Is there anything or anyone you might want to warn me about?"

I did not even have to think of the answer to that question. "Stay away from Orochimaru and Kabuto. They are two very creepy people that will try to get in your pants the moment that they see you, even though they are in a relationship. Orochimaru is a teacher and Kabuto is his teaching assistant." I shivered as images of those two flashed through my mind.

I looked over to Kyuubi to see his reaction and noticed something that had definitely not been on him last night. I smirked. "Hey, Kyuubi?"

"Hm?"

"You might need to cover that up, if it's what I think it is." I said motioning towards his neck where a hickey was located.

"What?" he asked genuinely confused.

"Ask Itachi." I said and walked away from him.

****In School****

I was on my way to my first period class when I remembered that I had to go to the office to officially welcome the students from Sasuke's school. I sighed thinking, this, is going to be a long year. I plastered on a pleasant smile on my face as I reached the main office. Although I knew that no one had to knock to enter the main office, I felt that I needed to especially if the new kids were there already. Before I could raise my hand to knock, I heard a loud, "get yourself in here Naruto." I walked in.

Inside the office, there was barely an open place. It was full of kids that were in the student council and the new kids. I said hi to a few of them, checking who was in the office and who was yet to come in my head. Sasuke and Neji weren't here yet. Neither was Sakura, Shika, or Kiba. I looked at my watch. They still had about thirty minutes to get here before they were late. Knowing Sakura, Shika and Kiba, they were probably going to get here in a couple of minutes. Sasuke and Neji were probably already here.

"Tsunade, if I may, can I commend you on your school." I heard someone say inside.

"Sarutobi-sama as always you do well to flatter me." From the sound of Tsunade's voice, I could tell she was smiling. "Now, moving on to business, are all your students here?"

"Sasuke and Neji are here already. The last one, the one that was added last minute, is on his way here. Apparently, he got lost a couple of times before he could find the way here."

"He has a couple of minutes to get here, so it's okay."

They stopped talking so I decided to knock. "Come in." I heard Tsunade say. I walked in. inside the room, Tsunade and the guy, Sarutobi, were sitting opposite each other.

"Hi." I said poking my head in and waving awkwardly with one hand before walking in. Sarutobi got up and walked towards me. I stretched my hand in formal greeting and he took it and pulled me into a hug.

"You're Tsunade's grandson, Naruto. Tsunade was my student." He said.

Before I could respond, Shizune stuck her head in the room and said, "Tsunade-sama, the transfer students are all here." She walked into the room. She bowed respectfully to the Tsunade and to Sarutobi and smiled at me. I smiled back at her. Shizune was kind of like an aunt to me. She bought me things and gave me relationship advice; she was basically like a female Iruka to me.

She whispered something to a rapidly nodding at whatever it was Shizune was telling her. Shizune stepped back and I saw her glance towards me.

"Thank you." Tsunade said to Shizune. To us she said, "Shall we?"

When we got outside, all conversation in the room died down and everybody turned to look at us. Tsunade cleared her throat.

"Welcome to Konoha High. We are all glad to have you here. I'm sure you have all gotten your programs, ids, and school handbook. If you have any questions, you can ask them to Naruto." Wait what? I thought as I was suddenly being pulled forward by Tsunade. "This is Naruto; he is our student council president. He knows more of this school than anyone I've met and he's plenty smart." She paused. "Boys and girls, he is also not currently seeing anyone so…" and with that, the tension was gone from the room as everyone chuckled.

"Ha, ha, old hag, hilarious." I said fondly to her. "Anyway, like the hag said, welcome to Konoha High. We are all glad to have you here. I know that it's going to be a little awkward for a while because you're new and all, but, I assure you, you'll fit right in. I hope you enjoy your stay here. Once again, welcome. Back to you old hag."

"Classes start in about thirty minutes, that should give you enough time to go around the school with your buddies and meet your teachers. Questions?" she looked around, "No? Good."

Tsunade and I decided yesterday that it would be a good idea to have people from our student council to have the same schedule with the new students so they could easily get around. Unfortunately for me, however, the one person that I ended up having the same exact schedule with was the one person that I actually hated more than anything, Sasuke Uchiha.

"Hey, idiot." I heard someone say beside me. I didn't even have to turn around to know who it was. At least he had the curtsey to greet first. I forced a smile on my face.

"Hey Sasuke. How nice to see you again." I said as pleasantly as I could.

"Please dobe, save it."

"You know, I'm actually trying to be nice here, the least you can do is pretend, teme."

"Why bother? What's the point? We haven't been friends since forever dobe."

I don't even know why I tried to be nice to him. We hated each other, had nothing to talk about, and couldn't even stand each other. We were like night and day. I sighed.

" Whatever. Let's go to class."

He started walking ahead of me. We didn't talk as we went to class, didn't talk as girls swooned as he walked past them, and we didn't talk when he got put in the seat next to mine. Occasionally we would argue or insult each other, but it was all civil. Civil hate. Wow.

****At Lunch****

"I can't be Sasuke's buddy." That was the first thing that left my mouth as I got to the table.

"Nice to see you too Naruto." Sakura said pleasantly. She seemed different. Like she was very, very happy.

"Are you alright Sakura? You seem…happy."

"She is. She's very happy because her buddy is a green loving, youth loving, bushy eyebrow, Sakura loving freak." Kiba said as he bit into his sandwich. I was confused.

"What?"

"You see that boy over there doing the push-ups on top the vending machine?" I nodded. "That is Rock Lee. He has been sprouting crap about youth and love and Sakura being a beauty queen." He-he, time to start the teasing.

Sakura turned to me and stopped smiling. She had a scary look on her face, "Don't even think about it." She said as if she read my mind.

"About what?" I asked, trying to act innocent and oblivious to what she was saying.

She looked at me pointedly. "Anyway, Kiba and Shikamaru managed to put a list of possible boys that you might have kissed from the party."

"Already?"

"Yes. Apparently, his 'special friend', (AN: insert air quotes) might have a little big crush on him." I looked at Kiba in time to see his face turn red as he blushed furiously.

"He doesn't like me like that." Kiba grumbled.

"Yeah okay, whatever you say princess. Anyway, he got the list of the people in the party and him and Shika," she pointed to Shika who had been quiet the whole time, most likely because he was sleeping, "hacked into the school district website and narrowed down the list. So now, there are only about fifteen people that could be your dream man."

"Are you serious?" I asked her totally mind blown.

"Yes." She answered nodding. "In fact, we have a meeting with one of them when school is over. His name is Mahiro Tokugawa. He's about 6'4" and he lives a couple of blocks from school. He is also bi and single."

"I'm meeting one of them already? Wait a minute. What if he's the one? I don't want to go there looking like a fool. What if he doesn't like me? What if he's found a boyfriend during the time since we last kissed? What if—"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down princess. I highly doubt he is the 'Mr. Right' but if he is, it's all going to work out fine." Surprisingly, it was Shika that spoke up. Guess I woke him up during my tirade of 'what if's'.

"Yeah, Naruto. It will all work out. Just wait and see." Kiba said.

I agreed with them. I guess we will just have to wait and see. Everything will work itself out in the end.

TBC


Next chapter: There is a new addition to Naruto's school. Naruto starts his man-hunt for 'Mr. Right.' A look into Naruto's and Sasuke's past.