Yo. Yeah, my first Naruto fanfic, be nice, will ya?

Just so you guys know, the two OCs won't be coupling with the big, hotshot, main characters. I find that the most annoying thing EVER ; I might couple up ONE OC, maybe. Depends ;

Disclaimer: I barely have enough money to buy all the manga I want, let alone the copyright to this…

Oh, and I guess I should tell you their ages, eh?

Or at least, the ones that show up in this chapter XP

Majick-Artemis (OC) – 14

Cici (OC) - 14

Naruto – 15

Shikamaru - 15


Just because we can

High school. Not so great. Japanese high school. Eh, that isn't so great either. Canadian orphans going to a Japanese high school. Okay, that might be interesting.

Cue in Majick-Artemis and Cici, sounds like a magic group, right? Nope. Those are the orphans. Artemis and Cici, two fourteen year-olds with talents, brains, and… Well… Odd names. No, they did not name themselves.

Majick-Artemis, never made fun of because of her name. Why? Because it's just that cool… And because she can punch. Well. Not necessarily strong, just good at fighting. Her real name is Artemis, but when she was little, she only ever responded to "Majick", and so the ladies at the orphanage decide to add that to her name, and when she finally started acknowledging "Artemis", she was already convinced that "Majick-Artemis" was her real name. Shh. Don't tell her. Being 5'5, she isn't really sure whether she's tall or not, and therefore says "I'm not tall, you're just short" or "I'm not short, you're just tall" whenever someone makes a comment about her height. With her dark black hair, small, slanted eyes and golden, tanned skin, it'd be pretty obvious that she's some form of Asian; and don't mess with her fan, she'll kill you. Literally. Smart in many of the things that would get you kicked out of school, but somehow always able to scrape an A in every class, you'd find her sleeping on her desk whenever the teacher's back is turned. She's got a large appetite, and will eat just about anything… Almost. Somehow, she still keeps from becoming chubby, but that doesn't mean she's a stick. She's just muscular…No. She's pretty skinny, and she acts like a princess to give her a charming edge, but in reality, she hates you. She really does. Oddly sarcastic and prone to fire hazards, she has a tendency to resort to violence before she even thinks, which is where her best friend, Cici, comes in.

Cici, beauty, brains, and brawn, almost perfect. Almost. Noone's perfect, but we'd like to think that there's someone out there who is, right? A 98 average in school, she's the person Majick copies off of whenever she feels too lazy to think for a millisecond, which isn't actually very often. Not gorgeous, but cute. It would suck to be too beautiful, because then she would be surrounded by guys, and that would be annoying… But it'd be fun to see her dear friend beat them all up for her, yes. It's not that Cici's weak or anything; actually, she's about three times stronger than the star football player on any high school football team, she just can't fight. Ironic, eh? Shorter than Majick by about two-to-three inches, she makes up for all of it with her crazy cute-ness. No one can fight it… Well… almost… Also being the same race as Artemis, as the orphanage ladies claim, she likes to go shopping. A lot. So does Artemis, but it's not the clothes they're after, it's anime. Tons of glorious anime. You'd think that, being orphans and all, they'd be poor and miserable, but they're not.

Apparently, both girl's parents were close friends, and all died in a car crash, along with others, one night by some drunk driver. Pretty original deaths. Anyway, turns out that they were pretty loaded, and the only thing on either of their wills was for their kids to be sent to the best orphanage in the city, and give them their cash. Lucky ducks. Both gained a small fortune of around half a million dollars each. Some would say that it wasn't much, but they thought it was enough. And thus we see their beautiful posters and countless amounts of manga stacked up in one corner. But they're not spoiled, because they KNOW what's gonna happen to them if they don't wise-up and get scholarships into university. Yep, that's right. University, not college. So they don't splurge… more than twice a year…

And so we go on to what our dear friends are doing now.

Majick-Artemis decides that it'd be a good moment to call Cici over by chucking a blunt knife at her. Don't worry, it's only a dull kitchen knife, the scars'll heal.

"Oi! Cici! Naruto wants us to come over!" Majick pointed to the screen of her laptop, the most expensive thing she and her best friend own.

Cici, eyes wide as saucers, was to busy staring at the large slab of metal that was thrown at her, missing by an inch, but still pretty good aim for someone who wasn't even looking… Of course, when Cici doesn't reply, it means that her kind friend will most likely throw another object at her. And she was right, dodging the Mashimaro doll, she ran over to her friend before anything else was chucked her way.

"What is it?" She says in a calm quiet voice, as if random objects had not been flung at her seconds before. Looking over Majick's shoulder, she sees her on MSN, chatting with someone who's screenname read "I am Kyuubi, hear me roar XD".

"You're chatting to a guy who thinks he's a nine-tailed fox demon?"

Majick-Artemis raised an eyebrow, but otherwise, her eyes never left the screen, "I don't even wanna know how you know that. It's Naruto Uzumaki, remember the guy we met way back last summer? The guy who was on vacation with that dude who had a scar on his nose? Remember him?" Cici nods. "He's asking if we could come to live with him at his boarding school for high school!"

"Where did he say he lived again?" Cici adjusts her glasses.

Artemis does the same, "In Konoha, Japan…"

Cici sweatdrops and falls over, "where do you think we're gonna make enough money!"

"We have lots…"

"No! We have to save up, because even if we do manage to get there, how long will the rest of the cash last if we hafta buy all the food!" The frustrated girl would've yelled, but she's not the type to, so she just raised her voice instead.

"Good point…" Majick's thoughts go to the realization of just how much she could eat within a day. Then she remembered something.

"Hey! What about that time when you saved those dudes from getting run over? Wasn't one of 'em a jet-pilot or something?" Cici shakes her head, "not jets, normal airplanes. But I don't think he flies to Asia…" But Majick just slung her arm around the girl's shoulders and smiles, telling her that everything is worth a try.

And so they tore apart their room, much to the dismay of the other orphans they shared the room with, and found Cici's lost address book.

Being much too shy to call, Artemis spent three hours on the phone, chatting with one of the men she and Cici had once saved from getting run over by a snowplow. That idiot. Well, turns out that the man only flies within North America, but he somehow managed to get them two seats to Tokyo, which, luckily for them, isn't too far from Konoha.

And so they packed up and took off pretty quickly, telling everyone that they were off to Japan, and having many sneer at them; whether in jealousy or doubt, they didn't know, nor do they care. They ended up paying for one ticket, they were prepared, of course, you can't get things like this easily. And they were off; you'd think this would be like some sort of fairy tale, two young orphans, going out into the world to find adventure. Naw, that kind of stuff would get you killed, and they had to have some happiness in their lives before that happens.

Uzumaki Naruto had bumped into Majick-Artemis on the streets of Chinatown once, a very long time ago, way back when she and Cici were but only sixth graders, and he a seventh. Soon becoming friends after they saved him from certain death, they all shared the many boxes of Pocky he had stolen, and went about looking for his dear guardian, Iruka. Sorry to say, it took hours before they found him, but it was no big deal, they had spent most of the time in Dragon City, the large mall, waiting for him to find them rather than the vice versa. The unsuspecting Iruka, oblivious of the Pocky flavoured breath the three all seemed to have, invited them to he and Naruto's hotel for the day, what a poor decision that was.

Once Naruto, Majick, and Cici had finally calmed down from the long lasting burst of sugarful energy, and washed the pink paint off the walls (god knows how they got that…), Iruka invited them to come over and stay for as long as he and his little blonde baka were staying.

And so they came. They ruined the hotel room, but Iruka's crazy cleaning skills fixed that. And after two weeks, Naruto and his sweet, caring guardian left Canada, but not before Naruto gave Artemis his email, promising to keep in contact.

A few days later, Cici suggested that they one day go to Japan to meet their hyperactive friend again. One day. And so they studied the Japanese language, and got nowhere. So Majick decided to sleep on her ten-inch thick book Japanese and ended up reading the entire thing in her sleep. Those kinds of things only ever happen on TV…

And now the two of them are sitting in two seats to Tokyo, didn't do much. Talk, sleep, eat. Repeat. And finally. FINALLY. They were there.

Of course, Naruto was there waiting for them, with a harassed looking boy beside him; the poor guy must've been forced to drive there at the last minute. Baka Naruto, he should've just grabbed the car keys and drove there himself. Ah well.

"So, what's the school called again?" Cici tugs on her sweater sleeve.

"Hidden Leaf High, it's a boarding school, so you'll be living in dorm rooms, just like in Collage!" Naruto's gave a trademark grin.

"You'll be killed if you try and become a cheerleader, so don't bother," the driver rolled his eyes.

The blonde just whacked him over the head, causing the car the nearly crash into another, screams and swearing followed. "Don't mind Shikamaru, he's a baka!"

Right when Shikamaru parks in front of a rich looking school, Cici can be heard saying "wait a minute, isn't Hidden Leaf the all-boys boarding school?"

Tsunade handed them their schedules. "I've made it so that you both have almost the exact same classes as Uzumaki-kun, since he's almost the only student, save for the teachers, in this school who understands English." When they asked her how they were 'almost the same' and he was 'almost the only person', she just rolled her eyes and told them not to ask questions. It's not like they didn't understand Japanese, in fact, they were more or less fluent, thanks to Majick's sleeping-on-the-book-technique. She had also put them in dorm room 213, near the very top of the dorm building. When Cici asked who they were beside, the two of them just got the same answer and were shoo'ed out of the principal's office.

"So, what'd she say? Huh? What she say? Can I see your schedule? What room are you in?" Naruto tackled poor Cici to the ground, nearly crushing her under his weight, while Artemis stood to the side and laughed at the sight. Shikamaru was sleeping on the bench, and they left him like that.

"WHAT! ARE YOU SERIOUS!" Majick covered Cici's ears, she wouldn't want her best friend to go deaf from something as little as Naruto's yelling, "that's on the top floor! The BEST rooms are on the top floor! Mine is only on the sixth! But I DO kinda feel sorry for you., I mean, you're right beside Sasuke and Neji…" He made a face. Baka Naruto looks funny when he makes that face.

"Eh? Who cares? We paid for that, remember? I'm surprised you didn't read that enrollment form we sent, and the check too, you WERE the one who sent it for us…" Majick-Artemis whacked him over head, causing him to fall forwards, onto his face. That blockhead. Cici sweatdropped and dragged him up with a bit too much force, causing him to topple forwards and, since she had moved out of the way, fall once again. "You're an idiot, you dumbass." Artemis slung her backpack over her shoulder and grabbed her things, opening the door that lead into the dorm building, "you guys coming or what?"

Beautiful, luxurious, absolutely wonderful. That's how Cici saw the dwelling when she first laid eyes upon it.

Pretty, clean, big. Although being an expert in Writer's Craft, she didn't need to use big words to describe how she saw the place, "this looks a lot like our dream apartment, eh? Cici?" she looks to her right, her best friends is starry eyed and looking as cute as ever. She looks to her left, her blonde baka looks dopier than usual, also with starry eyes and drool forming in the corner of his mouth. She sighs and takes her things in, finding the largest bedroom, claiming it, and jumping on the bed.

"I never knew you school was so rich, Naruto!" Cici, face shining and an adorable smile plastered on her face, ran in and immediately went to examine the kitchen, being the master chef that she was.

"I knew we were rich, but you guys must've paid mucho yen for THIS kind of room!" The awestruck baka replied.

Artemis stuck her head out of her new room, "who's your roommate, Uzumaki?"

"No one, it used to be this nobody guy, but then he made friends and moved out."

"Then you might as well hang with us, go get your stuff, I think there's another bedroom in here… Yep, right there. God, I love the stuff money can get you…" Majick walked out, grabbing the Naruto's arm and yelling at Cici that they'd be back soon. The two were at Naruto's room within a few minutes, with many people sticking their heads out or their rooms and whispering as the blonde complained loudly that Artemis was hurting his arm. It wasn't everyday that Hidden Leaf got new students, and this one was DEFINATLEY new.

Quickly grabbing everything in sight, Artemis could be seen hauling a large bag of junk over her shoulder as she walked out of the small room, with Naruto following with nothing but his backpack, Artemis had taken everything else so fast that he was sure the room would now have an echo that could be heard all the way from the first floor!

In mere moments, Cici heard the door opening, "you guys were gone for barely ten minutes!"

"It took a bit longer than I expected, sorry." Majick dumped the heavy bag in the spare room, walked back into hers, and locked the door behind her.

Naruto fell onto the couch, "is she always like this?"

"Yes, just remember not ignore her, she'll fling anything within reach at you without even thinking about." Cici said without looking up from whatever she was writing at the moment.

The blonde groaned and buried his face into a soft, couch pillow.

"You'll learn to live with it."

Another groan.

Artemis' door opens and a large blunt knife is chucked at Naruto, the butt of it hitting him on the back of the head before falling to the floor. Poor Naruto had to be nursed by a compassionate Cici for the rest of the day.


Yep, that's about it for this chapter, it's so short O.o

I'm thinking of doing thirteen chapters, one for every month… and this one XP

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