Turned out longer then the last chapter. A/N at the bottom. Hope you like this chapter. The next chapter is gonna be funny xD I need the first few chapters to introduce everyone to the story.

Enjoy! Reviews of any kind encouraged :)

He sighed in frustration pushing his blond locks back. They needed to be cut again as they where starting to get in his face. He had already had really wild hair. It made him wonder about his genes. I mean come' on! Blonde hair, Japanese shaped bright blue eyes. Not something you see everyday.

Thinking back to the talk he had with Sakura the day before on Friday made him frustrated.

'What the hell was I thinking?' Naruto thought looking very mad as he put books back in their respected shelves hastily.

He worked at the local library near his school on weekends and after swim practice on weekdays. He needed the money to buy the things he needed because there was no way in hell he'd go asking his foster parents for anything. Naruto was determined not to owe them a cent by the time he turned 18 so he could pick up and leave with nothing to hold him back.

'Just 5 more months.' He thought happily.

'Then I can pick up and leave town and make a life for myself.' He grinned as he put another book with some force in between two others. Naruto had been counting down the days on his school agenda ever since he could remember.

"Hello do you work here?" he felt someone tap his shoulder from behind him and he was greeted with a surprise as he turned to come face to face with a guy with silver hair that looked like a crows nest.

"Yes, do you need help?" Naruto said as he turned around to face the man who had a few inches on him. Why would a man who was not too much older then him already have grey hair? He couldn't be more then 30, though who could tell when half his face was covered with a bandana. Weirdo.

"Where can I find the new addition to Icha Icha Paradise?" he said while his black eyes where practically smiling.

'How can you make your eyes smile?' Naruto wondered briefly.

Then Naruto frowned. He never understood how people could enjoy that smut.

"Upstairs in the adult section." He said looking off to the side. He didn't want to be near this pervert.

"Thanks." The guy saluted him and slumped off.

"Whatever." Naruto went back to his work.

-Couple of hour's later-

Naruto stepped outside of the library about to walk home when it started raining. Thunder and all. Sighing he cursed his luck and sat on one of the benches outside that was covered hoping it would end soon. Someone next to him sneezed as they walked by and he noticed a pink mop of hair. Now whom did he know that had pink hair again?

"Sakura?" he said without thinking. The person was too tall to be Sakura and way to… developed. The person turned slightly and replied, "No, ha-ha! That's my daughter. My names Rin Haruno, are you one of my daughters classmates?"

"Yes actually I'm her friend Naruto," he smiled brightly as he said that, "Um, can I ask you a question?"

"Shoot." She said as she sat down next to him on the bench and smiled back at him.

"Is that hair color natural," he said in awe as he looked at the bright pink hair, "Sakura said hers is but I find that hard to believe.

She looked a little nervous and then replied, "Mine isn't but Sakura's is."

Changing the subject she turned her head to watch the rain, which didn't seem to be letting up and asked, "How far away do you live?"

"About 15 minutes if you walk." He shrugged as she frowned.

"Want to come over to my house for a bit till the rain stops and then I can drive you home. It's only a minute walk and if we run we won't be in the rain very long at all. Plus you can visit Sakura. She's sick right now, I was actually picking up a book for her to read in bed right now because she was getting bored." She offered with a friendly smile.

It didn't sound like a bad idea but he should be getting home...

"I'm also cooking some ramen if you wan-"

He agreed readily when she mentioned ramen (free meal) and she laughed heartily at his eagerness. His greatest weakness would always be ramen. Or maybe he was just so used to it. It was the only thing he could afford if he wanted to move out when he was 18.

Her room was yellow just like his hair. The shade of her walls and his hair were so close it was almost like camouflage for him. She had a plain singles bed with a dull looking blue blanket and no headrest. Two shelves packed to the bursting point with books that she had about 10 littering her otherwise clean floorboards due to lack of a better place to put them. One computer, some medical books piled upon her desk opened with notes scrawled on various parts of it as a reminder to her, and one window just big enough for someone to crawl through. It was on the 1st floor of a 3-story house.

A normal room by all respects.

But one thing he could never forget was the one thing that made this room so surreal to him.

The strong sent of cherry blossoms drifting through the air.

A smell he was sure he'd never forget.

He sat at the edge of Sakura's bed slurping noodles readily. Sakura laughed and she watched him attack his food.

"So you work at the library?" she asked innocently as she placed her half finished bowl on the table next to her bed and removing the covers from her and getting up to stretch.

He looked questioningly at her stretching and slurped the rest of the noodles from his bowl quickly and chewed and swallowed quickly so he could reply. "Yeah… should you really be getting up when you're sick?"

"No." she agreed turning her head. "But then again I'm not sick." She said smirking as she sat down next to him on the bed.

"What? Why would you fake being sick on a Saturday?" he asked perplexed as he scrunched up his nose.

"You shouldn't keep your face like that it might stay that way permanently." She said tapping his nose with her finger and he stuck his tongue out at her, which made her smirk and lean over closer as if to kiss him.

"Well if you wanna know it's because my mom's been badgering me to start working to continue the family business and I just wanted to distract her."

"Oh really? What business would that be?" he said as he scooted over a bit, she was leaning to close and invading his personal bubble. One should always respect the almighty bubble.

She scooted over towards him again.

Damn, why'd the bubble have to fail him now? It's as if she had taken a needle and popped it.

"Karate, I've never actually liked it very much so I avoid the practices my mother gives me a lot." She frowned. "My parents own a dojo. Their parents, came over from Japan around the same time and made quick friends so they both decided to arrange a marriage between their children before they where even born if they had a male and female. My parents inherited the dojo from my grandparents as a wedding gift or something. I found it all really odd. My grandmother on my mothers side always seems to talk in circles whenever I asked her about it." She looked thoughtful.

Still not noticing that Naruto could hardly concentrate on her face when he was to busy trying to not look at her chest. It was an inner struggle of Smart Naruto and primal instinct Naruto. They waged war for a few seconds when instincts gave in.

She then looked at his face and which had a heavy blush on it, as he was looking a little far south from her face. Busted.

"Like what you see." She said icily while grabbing his chin and made him look up at her face. He seemed to be trying really hard to imitate an apples color and frigidness.

"I- it's just you where so close. I well. Um, ya, well I couldn't help it?" he offered lamely and looked over at the now rather interesting yellow wall behind her. She sighed and shrugged, she was used to boys looking at other places on her body other then her face and at least he had the decency to look embarrassed about it. She then decided this was the time to ask the question she had been holding back.

"Look Naruto I've been wanting to talk to you about something for a couple of days."

He took a deep breath and then looked over at her, the blush on his cheeks diminishing somewhat.

"About what?" he said while secretly hoping it wasn't about his origins. Damn his loose mouth and his crush on her. He decided yesterday that he really did like her more then just a friend. It was hard not to. She was just a likeable person.

"Well, it's embarrassing to ask since you don't seem to like him very much?" he frowned instantly after she said this. She wasn't going to bring 'him' up was she?

"I know you don't like Sasuke very much but well I kind of have this crush on him and ya… I wanted to ask if you knew anything that could help me start a conversation with him? Since you're my friend I thought I could talk to you about these things?" she asked hopefully with a sparkle to her eyes.

'Ya sure Sakura! If I weren't male, didn't like you more then a friend and he wasn't the bastard brother that I liked slightly more then pooh and Barney. Slightly being the key word. The pooh sounds nice.'

But being the person he was he masked his real emotions and put on a fake smile. Might as well be friendly to his only friend.

He spent the next hour telling her about the few things he recalled of Sasuke and hearing her talk about all the cools things Sasuke did during Gym and ECT. Also entering a few brief words about how much of a bastard he was which she rewarded with a smack on the shoulder.

'Why couldn't she like me instead of that cold asshole? Does she even consider me male?' he thought depressed ad he slumped against the car seat of Mrs. Haruno's car as she drove him home.

(Ino's P.O.V)

Ino looked across the classroom and sighed. Why did the weekend ever have to end? Then she smirked looking at all the hot boys in her class as they joked around and talked.

'Oh yeah that's why.'

Then her eyes drifted over a bored looking Sasuke Uchiha. The son of the famous scientist who had headed many world runound projects and had the undying attention of her and half the girls in the class.

Then a loud clicking sound made her eyes quickly go from Sasuke to Naruto as he set up his daily pranks. Nobody batted and eye. They knew today was the day they where getting a new teacher. Naruto had scared about 3 off this semester alone.

They imagined the school was going to start hiring military generals if this happened again. Bets where quickly taken to see how long this one would last. It was common knowledge that the principal had tried suspending Naruto, even expelling him, but it seemed Naruto's/Sasuke's father had friends in high places. He never got more then a detention. If that.

He was unscrewing the doorknob as it was. He then quickly went to the desk and picked up the remote turning on the volume to the max for morning announcements and continued doing little things to hopefully scare the teacher off.

No one ever bothered ratting him out. It got them out of a lot of assignments and gave them a good laugh. What wasn't to like? Class 7 was behind every other class in the school in class work by a couple of months.

Then he sat down as the bell rang and everyone shuffled to his or her seats not even sparing Naruto a glance as he punched his fist in the air and yelled 'bring it on'.

Everyone always ignored him; he was a weird kid that had no belly button. She had already warned her best friend Sakura about him.

After 30 minutes the teacher was still not there and the class was chatting and whispering wondering if they couldn't find anyone. Kiba the self proclaimed wolf lover laughed saying that whoever they found must be to scared as he pulled out his dog Akamaru from his backpack to play with him. That's when they heard a rattling at the door as the person pulled the doorknob out of the door and they all laughed as the person had to stick their gloved fingers through the hole to pull the door open.

The person who entered made Narutos eyes widen slightly and he stood up yelling loud and pointing a finger at their new teacher accusingly, "You!"

Through the door entered the perverted guy from the library with the silvery grey hair.

"Yo." He said lazily lifting a hand with a doorknob in it up in greeting.

He then walked over to the board and wrote his name on it. Kakashi. Just Kakashi? No Mr. Something? No last name, or was that his last name?

Weird.

Whispers erupted from the class.

Then Kakashi turned and pulled out his chair from the desk and bent down picking up a tack from it.

"Cute." He pointedly looked over at Naruto who just smirked.

Then he sat down in his chair, which gave way form under him. The class erupted in a new fit of laughter. Yelling 'good one', or 'that was even better then the peanut butter gag!'

Sasuke just said, "Idiot."

Naruto strode over to Sasuke's desk and yelled, "Who's calling me and idiot bastard?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes and just leaned back in his chair. "I wasn't talking about you Idiot."

"Oh." Was Narutos smart reply as Kakashi got back up from the floor.

"Guess I'll be standing." He said without missing a beat.

Kakashi did roll call and the rest of the day was filled with more pranks and Kakashi just looking nonchalant through it all.

"Tomorrow's another day," thought Naruto calmly. No one ever had lasted long against him. He was the best

-Lunch-

Ino sat next to Sakura who was already eating.

"What's up? You seem to happy to be normal." Ino said looking pointedly at Sakura who was smiling a childish smile as she ate the school lunch without complaint.

And let's just say. Sakura 'always' complained about the school lunch.

"Well it's just I got a few tips from Naruto-"

"What! Why the heck where you talking to Naruto!" Ino looked at her flabbergasted.

"Cause he's my friend." She smiled happily.

"Why and when? You know he's totally annoying and an idiot." Ino was steaming. After all the work she had done to make Sakura popular she went and made friends with someone like Naruto. Naruto who was a royal pain in the ass.

"Because we've been talking a lot lately during lunch when I go off to read. He's really smart by the way. I mean he knows everything that's in my medical books and then some! He's also really nice and anything but annoying. If you just have a conversation with me you'd agree. And his past is so interesting and sad! It made me want to cry. I want to help him!" she said letting out a breath.

Ino just frowned. "Tell me what makes him so interesting. I want to hear

'all' about it. You got 20 minutes to explain before the bell rings, shoot."

(Shikamaru's P.O.V)

He snored slightly as the class ended and everyone exited the class. He always fell asleep in class. The teachers didn't bother him though. Why would they? He got straight A's and was able to answer any question they gave him. He was offered promotions to the next level ever since he was in Kindergarten but he always declined replying it was to troublesome.

If he where to say the truth, which he would probably do a year of hard bone crushing work in a mine with no food and water before that happened, it was because of his friends.

A loud yelp came from his mouth as 3 books where dropped on his head.

"What the?" he said sleepily as he lifted his head making the book fall to the floor. Staring blearily at an angry and frustrated Ino he quickly shook his head to focus on her.

'What did I do now?'

Ino then began to rant about what Sakura had told her about Narutos past and whatever else, he only half paid attention while looking out the window of the classroom at the clouds.

'Today might be good day for cloud watching…' he thought lazily when she said something to snap him back to reality.

"So what do you think?"

"Oh I already knew." He shrugged nonchantly.

"What! Why didn't you tell me? I mean all these years!" said screeched while tugging on his ear.

"Hey watch it!" he pulled his ear out her grasp. "Look it wasn't my secret to tell. It was easy enough to deduce anyways. It was all over the news when we where babies and I just happened to come across an article in my mom's drawer about a year ago to confirm my suspicions." He sighed and laid back on desk chair making it tilt dangerously on two legs as Ino sat on the desk interrogating him.

"You still should have told me! And why the heck did your mom have an article of that in her drawer?" she asked perplexed and he just looked back at her thoughtfully for a second and then frowned.

"This is to troublesome…"

Whee, I love Shikamaru ;-P

Well I did everything I wanted to do in this chapter. This was my list.

1- Introduce at least one teacher

2- Give a few hints to what's going on

3- Get Sakura and Naruto a little bit closer without rushing their relationship.

4- Introduce a few plot devices subtly.

Well as the story points out Narutos 18 which means Sakura is also 18 so their relationship will be a little mature. Sakura's not going to get mad as easily as she would in the manga or anime but she'll still get mad. Naruto is somewhat the same person but a hell of a lot more mature. He's still a prankster and a big idiot when he wants to be though. Sasuke's cold but he'll get better as does he in the anime and manga. He isn't a complete bastard like Naruto seems to think. He's just jealous for reasons that shall soon be revealed.

Oh and theirs more! I wanna say! I do, their gonna be getting p-. Erg, I shouldn't. (Pouts)

To answer some review questions. This is set in America because well frankly… I like In America so I know more about it (which is me being lazy cause I know a lot about Japan to, I watch to much anime. It's going into the 100's mark) and that one thing I decided in the plot made it impossible for it to take place anywhere but America.

Or maybe I'm just saying that. Bullshitting is always fun.

No preview for the next chapter. I already started it, just know it's coming.