Title: Konoha High
Author: Shiori-Haku
Beta: A-kun
Pairings: Kakashi/Iruka, Naruto + Sasuke, Sasuke + Naruto (for now)
Rating: T (again for now)
Summary: One Umino Iruka would rue the day he decided to work at Konoha High
School, where he will meet new students, love and weird occurrences.
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DEDICATED TO MY TALENTED FRIEND DARK KAISER! Happy birthday!

A/N: This is my first Naruto fanfic and the first fic I've written in a year inspired by late night ramblings online with a friend and the total slaughtering of my sanity…My muse is I am leaving the names in the order they are normally said in Japanese… Last name then first, just because everyone's name sounds funny if put the other way. Enough author ramblings now on with the story

Chapter One: In Which We Meet the Stars…

One Umino Iruka would rue the day he accepted the job at Konoha High School. At the age of 23 an early graduate and new teacher the poor man had no clue what he had gotten himself into. Bowing his way out of Principal Sandaime's office he clutched his filing folder with all his accreditations to his chest the young teacher smiled and walked out into the parking lot. Looking both ways he crossed the lane in front of the office and went to find his car.

A breeze ruffled his tied up hair and blew one of the papers from his grasp. Running after it Iruka cursed the winds, they always did this to him; stopping short when he reached the paper and found another hand reaching for it. Hesitating for just a second Iruka stared at the hand as it held the paper out to him. Eyes trained on the hand and trailing up the arm to the body and face that was holding the paper out for him to take. Iruka stared at the man who wore the headband given as a symbol that you either taught or attended the school.

Smiling foolishly Iruka grabbed the paper.

"Thanks. The wind blew it away." Iruka rubbed the back of his head with his
free hand once the paper was secure in the file that he clutched in his other hand. The stranger smiled and waved his hand in dismissal.

"It was nothing." The silver-haired man smiled.

"Can I ask your name? Since I suppose we will be working together." Iruka
smiled sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head still and smiling.

"Hatake Kakashi…Are you the new History teacher?" Kakashi asked, cocking his head to the side.

"Yes I am, Umino Iruka. It's nice to meet you." Iruka made a small bow to the other man and smiled. "It was great to meet you but I must be going now. I hope to see you around campus when school starts up!" Iruka smiled and waved as he walked over to his car and got in.

Kakashi stayed where he was and waved at Iruka before walking towards the school and the appointment he was about ten minutes late for, luckily the Vice Principal, Tsunade, knew him well enough to expect him to be late. Putting his hands into his pockets he made his way into the office and over to her desk.

"You rang, Mistress?" Kakashi said leaning on her desk.

The 29 year-old blonde lifted her head and stared at him. Resisting the urge to punch him she adjusted her top to cover her fairly large breasts and frowned at Kakashi.

"Sit boy." She smirked a little as Kakashi did as he was told. "I called you here to talk to you about the new History teacher, don't bug him too much this is his first teaching gig so don't be too mean…okay?" She smiled and fiddled with some of the papers on her desk. "And also, try to be on time to Staff meetings this year, alright?"

Kakashi nodded and smiled at her. "Sure thing, can I go now?"

"Go, go, and I'll see you next Monday when school starts up." She waved him off and returned to her paperwork. Kakashi stood, nodding and walked out of the office. Quickly walking out to his car and climbing in, he smiled and thought of the brunette teacher who he had run into earlier.

"Oh I won't be mean to him at all." Kakashi mumbled to himself as he started his car and pulled out into the exit lane. Dropping the car into gear he headed home for the next three day to prepare lesson plans.

"OH SHIT! I'll be late!" The hyper blonde rushed around his room and gathered his clothes. Hopping into the shower and quickly washing then hopping out, he dried off and got dressed. Spiking up his blonde locks and glancing in the mirror as he prepared for the day.

"Naruto! Hurry or you'll be late!" His foster father yelled up the stairs. Grabbing his bag and the few supplies he hadn't packed the night before and running out of the room. Checking his appearance in the hallway mirror the young man smiled, he was going to make an impression on his first day of high school.

"Hey Old Man! I'm leaving now!" He yelled and sprinted out the door grabbing his orange and black jacket on his way out the door. He ran down the street and slowed as he reached the school parking lot. Walking into the cafeteria he smiled and waved at a few people who he knew. He walked to the tables set up to pass out schedules and walked over to the table marked with a 'T-Z' sign. Walking forward he stood behind the only other person in the line, a boy slightly taller than Naruto himself with black spiky hair, Walking up to the boy with long hair next to the girl with pigtails who was handing the boy his schedule Naruto smiled.

"Name?" The boy behind the table asked grinning at Naruto, the boy was just to pretty for his own good. The only reason Naruto knew it was a boy was the skintight shirt that the boy wore.

"Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto smiled at the boy and winked. The boy on the other side of the table smiled but didn't react to the wink. Naruto was distracted as the boy next to him bristled.

"Don't compare me to him, we may be related but I am nothing like my brother." The dark hair boy glared at the girl who smirked and handed him his schedule.

"Here you go your schedule and a map of the school." The longhaired boy smiled and handed the papers to Naruto.

Naruto accepted the papers and smiled. "Thanks." Turning and walking away Naruto smiled, maybe school this year would be fun.

Glancing down at the paper he held in his hand he noted he had English first, hurrying off in that direction Naruto smirked. This year just might be more fun then the last.

Walking to the classroom he noted a crowd of students standing outside the door. He joined the queue, looking around. A gothic looking girl with short hair smiled at him and waved a little. He smiled back but didn't wave. She was cute but not his type. Scanning the crowd as the bell rang he noticed the boy from earlier leaning against the wall; he studied the dark haired boy. The other boy wore white shorts that hung past his knees and a blue tee-shirt, also matching arm warmers white with blue ends and buckles to make them stay on. Naruto smirked. Oh this boy was his. Walking over to the boy he leaned against the wall next to him.

"Hey, do you know why the teacher is late?" Naruto smiled a bit as the boy glared at his from under his long bangs.

"No, no one else does either." The boy went back to staring at the floor. Naruto smiled at the other teens' voice.

'Even his voice is hot, score!' He thought to himself still scanning the crowd and noticing the girl form earlier still looking at him, this time with and understanding look in her eyes. Naruto pushed himself off the wall and walked over to where the girl stood.

Holding out his hand and smiling, "Hi there my name's Uzumaki Naruto. I
guess we'll be in the same class… any idea why the teacher is late?" He smiled a bit as the girl shook his hand.

"Hyuuga Hinata. Nice to meet you, I have no clue why the teacher is late." She smiled. "I know this would be considered rude but, are you gay?" She cocked her head to the side and those around them quieted a bit. Naruto smiled and laughed slightly before rubbing the back of his head.

"Uh, yeah. How could you tell?" He asked a bit nervous.

"Your reaction when I waved earlier. Plus I'm good at guessing." She smiled a bit wider. Naruto smiled back.

"You're pretty cool. Mind if I hang with you like at lunch or something, I'm new and all." He smirked a bit as the people standing around him all started talking again. The teacher was now about five minutes late.

"Sure, why not I'm not so new here, my cousin Neji is a junior here and I already know all his friends and their siblings." She smiled more.

'I thought Goths were supposed to be all creepy and sad all the time?' Naruto thought as he noted a silver haired man walking down the hallway. 'Whatever I bet this is our teacher.' He nudged Hinata and nodded towards the man walking down the hallway.

The man walked through the crowd of students and unlocked the door; all the students filed in and took their seats. Once everyone was sitting the man smiled at all of the students.

"Sorry for being late, I had to help a lost dolphin find its way." Kakashi smirked at the disbelieving looks on all his students' faces. But his story held some truth. He did help Iruka find his way to the staffroom and set up all his stuff before coming back to his own classroom. Looking down at his roster he smiled. "I'm going to call your name and if you're here say 'here' or something like that." The class sighed.

"Aburame Shino?"

"Here." A spiky haired boy with glasses answered in a bored voice.

"Akimichi Chouji?"

"Here." A boy that was slightly overweight answered.

"Haruno Sakura?"

"Here." A perky girl with bright pink hair smiled.

"Hyuuga Hinata?"

"Here." A Goth looking girl with short hair answered.

"Inuzuka Kiba?"

"Here." A boy with his hood up answered while looking at the front of the
classroom.

"Nara Shikamaru?"

"…" Kakashi looked around the room.

"Nara Shikamaru?"

"…Here." A boy answered from near the window.

"Rock Lee?"

"Here!" A boy with a bowl cut and large eyebrows answered.

"Sabara Tobio?"

"Here." A boy that looked like a younger version of Iruka answered.

"Sugaka Gaara?"

"Hn. Here." A boy with bright red hair and a Chinese symbol tattooed on his forehead answered.

"Uchiha Sasuke?"

"Here." A boy with dark hair answered over his steepled hands.

"Uzumaki Naruto?"

"Physically but not mentally!" A boy wearing bright orange jacket and black pants smiled and waved.

"Very funny…Yamanaka Ino?"

"Here." A girl sitting next to Sakura answered. She had blonde hair up in a high ponytail.

"Okay, since you're all here let's get down to business. My name is Kakashi-sensei and you will address me by that name. Welcome to freshman English. This year we will study the stuff listed on your syllabus. Which is sitting on your desk; also there is a sheet with the classroom policies and I will need that signed and back to me by the end of the week." Kakashi continued on as the students' minds started to drift.

Naruto took out a pencil and wrote on the back of the classroom policy
paper'So what around here is there to do? And who should I avoid?' Naruto pushed the paper over to the girl who sat at the table next to him.

'Well there's an arcade near by, me and some friends go there every Thursday and play Dance Dance Revolution. And people to avoid… hmm…no one in this class that I know of, most of them went to middle school with me. That Gaara guy didn't. So I don't know about him but I know my friends Ten-Ten and Temari will love you, they're sophomores here, and you'll get to meet them at lunch. But other than that we just hang out at each other's houses.' Hinata pushed the paper back towards Naruto who read it and wrote back.

'Sounds like fun, think we go to the arcade today since it's the first day of school and all?' Naruto pushed it back to Hinata.

'Sure why not? I'll ask the rest of the group at lunch.' Hinata smiled and passed the paper back to Naruto. They both looked back at the front of the room where Kakashi-sensei was reading the rules and policies of the school. Sighing both looked around the room.

Naruto looked over at the boy who was sitting across the aisle from him, Sasuke, if he remembered correctly. The boy was staring ahead and Naruto was staring at him, along with a majority of the girls. Naruto looked back down at his papers and glanced at Sasuke from the side.

Hinata looked around and spotted a few of her other friends on the other side of the classroom, she'd have to introduce them to Naruto at lunch. Looking back at their teacher she noted he was on the last page of the rules and that meant that soon he would probably have them do an exercise or something. This being English and all, she knew that it would be a breeze. She glanced at the boy next to her, 'He's looking at Sasuke again, man that sucks that he's gay, he's hot too! Oh well, he's a cool guy.' She thought and looked around the room. The other new guy, Gaara, was looking at Sasuke too and kept looking around the room. 'Wow, he's hot too! I like the tattoo and the piercing...' Hinata smiled to herself and looked over at Gaara. He was dressed in all black, baggy skater pants, and a small tee-shirt. He turned and looked over towards Hinata, glaring. 'Oh my Goth, he's wearing eyeliner! Oooh pretty green eyes!' She thought to herself. Noticing the class all looking back towards the teacher she caught the end half of what he was saying.

"And the seats you are in right now are your seats for the rest of the year. Your other teachers will have you stay in the same seats. I hope you all enjoy the rest of the year, I know I will." Kakashi smiled and the bell rang. He walked out of the classroom and as he opened the door ran into Iruka.

"Oh Iruka! Hey didn't know you had this class now. Well anyways the whole class is here and they're not very rambunctious...catch ya later!" Kakashi walked off down the hall with a small wave. Iruka blushed and walked into the classroom.

End Chapter

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