Complicated

By FairyDustCloud

Disclaimer: I do not own Spider-Man.

Author's Note: Hi! Welcome to my first Spider-Man fanfic. I hope you enjoy it. This takes place during the animated series, not the movie. Although, I did watch the Spider-Man movies. They were totally awesome. Tobey Maguire is so cute! Okay, but enough babbling. On with the fanfic!

"Hey, Peter," Mary Jane Watson said as Peter Parker slouched into his desk.

"Hi," Peter replied, rubbing his eyes as he opened his backpack and took out a pen.

"Tired?" MJ asked, tilting her head.

"Very tired. I was up all night-" Peter began. "Uh, doing chores."

'Stopping crime is more like it,' he thought to himself.

"Good morning, class," the math teacher said. "We have a new student today. I'd like to introduce Zachary Anderson."

Everyone perked up their heads to see the new student. The guys looked up and then went back to talking while the girls had their eyes glued to Zachary. Zachary had dark brown hair and sharp blue eyes. He grinned and gave a small wave. A longing sigh was heard as well as a few giggles.

"Sheesh, what's the big deal?" MJ murmured.

"Don't ask me. But I'm surprised you're not making googley eyes at him, either," Peter joked.

"I guess he's not my type," MJ replied.

'And by type, I mean I prefer the nerdy and cute boy I'm talking to right now,' MJ thought, looking down at her paper.

"Zachary, why don't you sit behind Miss Watson. Miss Watson, please raise your hand," the math teacher said.

Peter nudged MJ who immediately jerked her head up.

"Raise your hand," Peter whispered.

"Huh? Oh," MJ said, quickly raising her hand. Zachary walked towards the empty seat, causing a few heads to turn. A bunch of girls glared enviously at MJ.

"Now I want everyone to turn to page 150 in their textbooks and do the first 50 problems in the next, oh, say, 20 minutes. Yes, I think that's enough time," the math teacher said in his usual monotone voice.

MJ flipped open her textbook and began doing the problems when she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around to face Zachary.

"Can I borrow a pencil?" he asked.

"Sure," MJ smiled and dug a pencil out of the bottom of her backpack. She handed it to Zachary and resumed working on her math problems.

Zachary tapped MJ on the shoulder again.

"Yes? Did the pencil point break? I have another one if you need it," MJ said, ready to open her backpack again.

"No, that's okay. I just wanted to see your pretty smile again," Zachary said, grinning.

"Oh, uh, thanks," MJ said, blushing.

Peter frowned. 'Who does this guy think he is?' he thought. Peter looked down at Zachary's backpack and saw a pencil poking out of the front pocket. 'Grr... So he did have his own pencil.' He didn't like this new guy. Not one bit.

After school ended, Mary Jane took out the books from her locker and stuffed them into her bag.

"Hey."

MJ turned around.

"Oh, hey, Zachary," she said, closing her locker.

"Call me Zach," Zachary said.

"Okay, what's up, Zach?" MJ asked.

"Well, I was wondering if you wanted-"

At that moment, a crowd of girls surrounded Zach, blocking his view of MJ. MJ just shook her head and left.

Zach pushed his way through the crowd but realized that MJ was already gone.

"ZACH!!!" Zach turned around to be greeted by a stampeding group of girls charging towards him.

Zach raced into the bathroom. He went into one of the stalls and closed his eyes. Slowly, his dark brown hair turned to horribly greasy blonde hair with a tint of green in them. He grew shorter, and thick glasses appeared on his face. His current clothes morphed into grey trousers and a checkered shirt. Zach had transformed into a completely different person. Literally.

Zach stepped out of the stall and looked in the mirror. He smirked and walked out of the bathroom.

He was greeted by a ton of girls waiting outside the door. But he didn't have to worry this time. He was prepared. The crowd of obsessed girls took one look at the geek in front of them and walked away in disgust.

"Ew! Like, that's not Zach!" a tall blonde cheerleader frowned. "It's a gross little nerd."

Zach smirked again as he made his way out of the school with ease, thanks to his disguise. He quickly ran down a few blocks and saw MJ. He slowed down his pace and kept a distance between them.

He watched MJ walk into her house. 'Great. Now I know where she lives,' Zach thought happily to himself. He walked behind a bush and transformed into a stray cat and walked home.

At night time, Peter pulled on his Spider-Man costume and began swinging around New York City.

"Uh-oh. Looks like there's trouble down at the museum," Spider-Man said, looking at the art museum surrounded by police cars.

Spider-Man swung inside the museum and immediately noticed that the golden cat statue was missing. He turned around just in time to see a platinum-blonde female in a skin-tight black costume jump out of the window.

"Black Cat," Spider-Man muttered. He followed Black Cat onto the roof of an apartment building.

"Here kitty, kitty, kitty," he said, playfully. He had to admit, he enjoyed these cat chases.

Black Cat tried to sneak away, but Spider-Man's spidey sense warned him about it. He popped up right in front of Black Cat.

"I should have known right away it was you when I realized that a cat statue was stolen," Spider-Man said.

"Oh, you again," Black Cat said, trying to hide her grin.

"Thanks for the warm welcome," Spider-Man said, sarcastically.

"No problem. Now be a good little spider and move out of my way," Black Cat purred.

"First hand over the statue," Spider-Man said.

"No way," Black Cat snickered. She was about to jump onto another building when she remembered something. "Nevermind. Here, take it," she said, tossing the statue to Spider-Man.

"Huh?" Spider-Man said in shock.

"There's something I forgot to do. See ya later, handsome!" Black Cat said, blowing a kiss to Spider-Man as she disappeared down the building.

"Okay, that was weird," Spider-Man said as he jumped down onto the street. He handed the statue to a police officer and then shot a web out of his hand and swung back to his home.

Afterwards, Black Cat climbed into her home through the window. She changed out of her costume and hopped into her silk blue pajamas. For the moment, she was no longer Black Cat. She was back to Felicia Hardy, a regular teenage girl.

She yanked open her backpack and pulled out her test paper which was scarred with a huge "F."

"Mom is going to kill me if I fail another test," she whined. "There's only one thing to do. I need to get a tutor."

Felicia picked up her phone. She needed help with science, and she knew just the person to call.

"Hey, Peter. This is Felicia Hardy from your science class. I was wondering if you could tutor me tomorrow afterschool in the library. You can? That's great. Bye," Felicia said as she hung up the phone. 'And after the tutoring session is over, I think I'll go and bother Spider-Man with another robbery,' she thought, smirking. 'At least I'll be able to see him again.'

What does Zach plan on doing to get near MJ? What's going to happen between Spider-Man and Black Cat? And will MJ and Peter ever get together? Tune in to the next chapter to find out!

Author's Note: I hope you liked my fanfic. Please read and review. Thanks.