Yay, an update!

Thankies go to krazee-kantan, KitsuneNaru (It made me laugh so much! literally, roflmao), ddd, and AnsemMesna

I got bored, so I put the poll up now. It includes ONLY male characters, which means it will be slash/yaoi. Just clarifying.

I don't own Naruto or other characters that you may recognize, which you should because this fic is OC free, except for one little, itty-bitty exception but I can explain that, after you read the chapter.

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Naruto ran out of the room and straight to the entrance hall where the rest of the new-coming freshmen were gathering. He got there just in time to escape as he heard from far away, Tsunade's enraged cry of "BAKA-GAKI! Sixty is the new forty! I'M NOT OLD!"

Laughing, he turned to face the new freshmen, who had turned at the sound of the crazy ladies voice, only to run right into someone and fall on his butt. He huffed and went to glare at the person (even though it was his fault in the first place). But instead, the person reached out a hand and helped him up.

"Dude, I'm so sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going." He said.

The guy had wild light brown hair. His eyes were slightly slitted and his teeth were sharper than a human's. He also had two red triangles on his cheeks.

"Nah, it's okay. Don't worry about it" Naruto replied.

"Oh, that's great. Hey, I'm Inuzuka Akamaru. Who're you?"

Naruto, slightly awkward, rubbed the back of his head with his hand and chuckled. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto. Nice to meet you, Akamaru."

Akamaru had taken a few seconds to look him over, and deciding…whatever, he clapped his hand on Naruto's back, almost sending him to the ground again with the force.

"Well this is great! New friends, new people.-"

"And what's wrong with the same people? Huh?" A voice from behind him said. Akamaru turned slowly to face… his clone? This boy looked almost exactly the same. The only difference Naruto could see was that the clone's skin and hair was darker and his eyes were lighter.

"Nothing is wrong, Kiba. I just wanted friends besides my baby bro." Akamaru smirked at his brother's enraged face.

"Four minutes, Akamaru! Four minutes does not make me your baby brother. It could have easily been me who was born first and you know it!"

"So? No matter how much younger than me you are, you are still younger. Four minutes might as well be four years."

Naruto decided to break up the argument before it became a full-out fight. They had obviously argued about this before, but this was school, not their home. Besides, some people were starting to stare.

"Hey, guys! Look! The orientation is about to start. We need to get seats."

The two looked up from glaring at each other to find there were only a handful of students left outside, saying their last good-byes to their parents.

"Right" "Of course." The twins said simultaneously.

Inside there were large groups of people standing in lines in front of tables. Each table had a set of letters over them: A-F, G-M, N-S, and T-Z. Kiba and Akamaru went to 'G-M' and Naruto headed over to 'T-Z'. At the table, Naruto got a thick envelope. Inside were packets and papers that he really didn't feel like reading yet, or ever.

Heading toward the auditorium, he met up with Kiba. Akamaru had apparently gone to 'save seats' while Kiba got the information for both of them. However, they were delayed by a group of people standing by the doorway. The group seemed to be made mostly of girls, with a few boys scattered in. They all centered around one boy, who Naruto immediately recognized. Dark eyes and pale skin, his face like a porcelain doll's; he was a vampire, and that's all Naruto needed to know in order to hate him.

"Oy! Get outta the way!" He yelled.

The vampire just turned slightly to glare at him, before walking swiftly into the auditorium, his pose of fans following.

"Bastard," Naruto muttered.

He and Kiba walked into the auditorium and found Akamaru instantly. He was sitting next to a guy who seemed to be asleep in his sleep. He didn't even open his eyes when Naruto greeted him loudly. The boy next to him laughed at Naruto's attempt to wake his friend.

"He'll wake up eventually, but for now, save your breath." He said

"Okay, then. I'm Uzumaki Naruto. This is Inuzuka Kiba, and you probably already talked to Akamaru." Naruto told him.

"Yea," He nodded to Akamaru, "I'm Akamichi Chouji. And this," he pointed to the sleeping boy, "is Nara Shikamaru."

"EXCUSE ME!" A shout interrupted the noise of the hall. Everyone was silent as they watched Tsunade stand on the stage at the podium.

"This is so troublesome" Shikamaru had apparently been awakened.

"Thank you," Tsunade started, "and welcome to your first year at Konoha Academy. I could easily give you a long-winded speech about how these are the best years of your lifes and how we plan to mold you into respectable members of society but you won't listen to that anyway. So why bother? Class starts tomorrow. In your envelopes, you have your schedules, rule books, class suggestions, room assignments and keys. Take this time to at least look at your schedules. I suggest that you walk around the campus and find where all of your classes are so that you won't get lost tomorrow. Dismissed!"

Tsunade then walked off of the stage and left the students to wander around aimlessly. The five new friends each opened their envelopes and took out their schedules and room assignments. Except for Shikamaru.

"Aren't you going to open yours, Shika?" Akamaru asked

"I'm in room 158." He replied.

"No way!" Kiba shouted and snatched Shikamaru's envelope from his relaxed hands. He ripped it open and as he looked at the paper inside, his jaw went slack and he stared at Shikamaru in awe. "B-b-b-but. H-how?" he yelled.

Shikamaru just sighed and said his copyright-only phrase. "You're too troublesome" and walked away, yawning loudly. "C'mon Chouji, we're roommates."

"I'll see you guys later okay? We will probably have some classes together. Bye!" He waved and followed his lazy friend.

"Well, that was interesting." Said Akamaru, "Too bad none of us are roomies. Now I have to make even more friends."

"I thought you were tired of the same old friends and you wanted more friends." Kiba pointed out.

Akamaru growled, "That's not the point. Let's go to our rooms"

The three of them walked to the large building that was supposed to house all of the freshmen. Naruto separated from the Inuzuka twins with a promise to meet up at the cafeteria at one o'clock.

Once he was alone, Naruto worried. The fact that the rooms were separated by raw power worried him. The Kazama Clan had many secrets that would surely show up with whoever he roomed with. He unlocked the door and saw a boy sitting on the bed on the left. He was just sitting there, staring into the opposite wall. He had blood-red hair and turquoise-colored eyes. On his forehead was the kanji for 'love'.

Naruto plastered a smile on his face and greeted his roommate, "Hi, I'm Uzumaki Naruto. Nice to meet you"

The boy did not move his body, only his eyes over to Naruto's grinning face for a brief moment.

"Sabaku no Gaara."

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And so now you know that I took a bit of creative license, because we all know that Akamaru is a dog and not a human (Well technically he isn't human here either, but you get my point.)

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Review please! It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.