A.N-Hey my readers. I tried to make this one longer because I am going on spring break and won't be updating. Thanks to my wonderful readers. I luv u all so much. Especially moonray9 who was my first reviewer.

Disclaimer-I don't own Naruto. I never have, I never will. The damn disclaimer police will make sure of that.

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.....beep.....beep......BEEP.....BEEP...beep....SMACK. I slammed down on my alarm clock. Roliing over to go back to sleep, I heard my cell ringing.

"Hello?" I answered sleepily.

"Hey Naruto, don't even think of going back to sleep. It's Monday." said the familiar voice on the other end.

"Kiba.....I wanna....sleep......"

"Dude, it's our first day being seniors, go get. I'll pick you up . Bye." It then hit me that we had school today. I jumped out of bed and ran to get ready. I threw on some black cargo pants and a white tee-shirt with an orange monster on it. Throwing on my orange hat and my necklace, I rushed into the kitchen. A note was sitting on the table so I reached over and grabbed it. It said,

Naruto,

I had to leave early because of work, so I won't be able to drive you to school. Good luck.

-Iruka

P.S. Don't eat ramen for breakfast.

"I DON"T EAT RAMEN FOR BREAKFAST" I threw down the note and went to grab a bowl of cereal. It was true that I like ramen, but I didn't eat it for every meal.

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I had just finished eating when I heard a knock at the door. Putting my dishes in the sink, I went to answer it. It was Gaara and Kiba.

"Hey guys." I said opening the door so they could come in.

"Hey Naruto." Kiba replied as he waltzed in and plopped on the couch. Gaara nodded at me and followed suit. I turned towards Kiba who smiled mischeviously "You need a ride?" he asked.

"What?" I asked surprised. "When did you get a car?"

"It's Hana's old one, she gave it to me yesterday. I had Anko sheck it and everythings good."

"Sweet. Let me grab my bag." I ran to get my school bag and shoes before following them out the door.

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Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of school, but I love the first day back. Teachers can be a little grumpy, because it means a whole new year of school, but they go pretty easy on you the first week, and you get to spend alot of the day with your friends. I was a little sad that this was my last year of high school.

As we walked into the high school that morning excitement tingled in the air. Students rushed around talking to friends and getting their lockers in order before homeroom.

"Hey, Naruto, who's your homeroom teacher?" asked Kiba looking around. I looked at my schedule,

"Kakashi-sensei." I responded. Kiba's face fell.

"Lucky you, I have Ibiki-sensei, he creeps me." he whispered the last part for fear of the ex-military teacher. Gaara just rolled his eyes before looking at me.

"I also have Kakashi-sensei as my home room teacher." the red-haired boy stated. He didn't show it, but I knew he was glad.

"Yay, I just hope we don't have assigned seating." Looking thru the crowd, I saw my friend Shikamaru. He was looking at some girls in a group around a locker. Bounding over to him I asked what they were doing.

"I don't know, I think they're surrounding the new guy." He looked away bored. Shikamaru may be a genius, but he was lazy and didn't like getting involved in ANYTHING.

"New guy?" I didn't know there would be any new kids this year. I heard a voice behind me and looked to see Chouji standing there.

"Yeah, his name is Uchiha Sasuke. Ino felt the need to tell me about him. He just transferred here from some big city." I recognized the name, but I didn't know where from. I waved at Chouji and Shikamaru before wading thru the crowd to get to my locker which happened to be on the other side of the crowd. When I got there I saw reason the girls where crowding.

"YOU!?" I shouted. Alot of people looked at me. It was the guy from the bus stop the other day. He looked down at me smirking.

"Hey dobe." Sasuke said before turning back to his locker which happened to be right next to mine.

"Oh man, why does your surname have to be Uchiha? Now I have to be around you teme." I muttered softly, but it was still audible. I felt the glare of most the female population on my back. I turned to see Sakura leaning on my locker trying to talk to Sasuke.

"So....you know Naruto?" He just looked at her before shutting his locker. Sakura looked upset, but I gave her a shove away from my locker.

"Sakura-Chan stop flirting with him." Sakura turned five different shades of red before slapping me upside the head and walking away. Sasuke, who was leaning against his locker glared at her before I felt his gaze on me. I had gotten my books out and turned to him.

"What do you want, Teme?" I asked sighing. He smirked at me before asking,

"Which room is Hatake Kakashi's class in? He's my homeroom teacher." I moaned at this. I knew I was going to have classes with him but still. Hearing the bell ring, I motioned him to follow me. He followed silently, but I knew he was still there as I felt him looking at me. Sasuke followed me into the classroom where the silver-haired teacher was standing against the wall reading. He looked up as we entered, got up, and walked over. He was taller than me, but not Sasuke.

"You must be Sasuke." He said holding out his hand. He shooked Sasuke's hand before continuing,"I'm Kakashi-sensei. I won't make you introduce yourself because that's unnecessary. Seeing that your with Naruto, the whole school probably knows who you are." I glare at Kakashi-sensei who just laughed and ruffled my hair. "Go find a seat, gaki." I looked around and saw Gaara, but Lee had sat next to him and was talking about I don't know what, probably something about the advantages of youth. Chouji, trying to subtly eat a bag of chips, was sitting with Shikamaru, who was openly napping on the desk. I keep looking till I saw Shino sitting alone so I went and sat next to him. He looked up at me before nodding his greeting and looking down again. Sasuke had followed me and sat down on my other side.

I glanced at him, getting a good look. He was wearing tight dark denim jeans and a tight black t-shirt. His hair was doing that odd duck butt hairstyle that seems to work for him. He was actually pretty good looking. No wonder all the girls liked him. Sasuke looked over, and I turned my head so fast that I gave myself whiplash. Needless to say I think he noticed, he had that smirk on his face.

"Teme." I muttered under my breath before turning to listen to Kakashi-sensei.

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I thought my day couldn't get worse. It did. I had every class with him in the morning. Luckily, I got to the other side of the room most of the time. Come lunchtime I had lost him. Getting my food, I went to sit outside. I sat down under a tree. It wasn't long before Gaara came over and sat down next to me, Lee following him. Soon Kiba came and joined and he had Shino and Hinata, who sat a little ways away from us. Hinata was leaning on Shino. They were lucky our school didn't have a very strict policy on PDA. Sakura also joined, plopping down next to me. My friends talked while they ate, but I was silent. I kept thinking of the Teme. Why did Sasuke keep smirking at me. Looking up, who did I see but the teme I was thinking about. He was standing with Neji, who introdued him.

"This is Uchiha Sasuke." he looked at Sasuke and pointed to us. "This is Kiba, Shino, Hinata," he pointed at the person he was introducing."Lee, Gaara, Sakura,and Naruto." Sasuke's gaze lingered on me before nodding at everyone and sitting down.

"So Sasuke, where did you transfer from?" Kiba asked him curiously. "Why did you transfer here of all places?" Sakura reached over to smack him. "Ow...That hurt."

"It was supposed to, don't be nosy." she reprimaned. Sasuke smirked before talking.

"It's okay. I transferred from Otogakure. My brother lives here so I moved in with him." He spoke softly but it still had this commanding tone. One that made you listen to every word he said. I couldn't help but watch him, even though I wanted to look away. It was pretty quiet after he spoke, but Lee broke the silence,

"Oh...I hope you make many new friends during your time here in Konoha. May it be a youthful experience." I couldn't help but laugh at Lee. Sakura was giggling too. Sasuke just watched me as I stood up and offered Sakura my hand to help her up. She took it to my surprise. I turned to my friends.

"We have art class next. Then science." I pretended not to notice the glare Sakura was getting. What was with that guy. Oh well. Art was one class I knew we wouldn't have together. Walking into the classroom I immediately saw my friend Sai. "Sai," I ran over to him,"Man, I haven't seen you all summer, where were you?" He put on his trademark smile.

"Hey Naruto. I was at an Art Seminar out of town." That explained the summer disappearance. Sai was warm but still a mystery to me. The teacher walked in and we sat down.

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Sadly, after my art class, I walked into science a little late because I had been talking to Sai. The teacher, Ibiki-sensei glared at me.

"Uzumaki! You are late." I hung my head. Normally I'd talk back, but Ibiki-sensei was a little scary. "Go sit down. You're lab partners with Uchiha." I held in my groan and looked up. Walking to the back, I sat down next to Sasuke.

"Smooth Dobe." he muttered smirkingly. All he did was smirk, did he ever smile? I glared at him but said nothing because I really didn't want to get Ibiki's wrath on the first day. I only had study hall and homeroom left till the end of the day. After the bell rang, I jumped up and practically ran out of the room. I almost made it to the door when I was grabbed by Ibiki-sensei.

"Naruto, stay." He let me go but kept a close eye on me while he waited for the rest of the students to file out. Sasuke glanced at me as he walked by and went out the door. I was surprised that he didn't smirk, but I had bigger problems to deal with. Ibiki-sensei motioned for me to stand next to his desk. I walked over slowly. "Naruto. Will you try to behave yourself this year. I really don't want to tell Iruka that you've had problems in the first week." Ibiki-sensei was a good friend of Iruka's, but that didn't mean he went easy on me. "Why were you late?"

"I was in the art room talking to Sai. Club activities, ya know." I grinned, trying to ease my punishment. Ibiki-sensei just shook his head at me, but I knew the I wouldn't get in any trouble.

"Okay, just try not to be late again." He waved me off, but just as I got to the door he spoke again, "Remember Naruto, you can't mess up your record too bad or you'll have problems getting into college." I nodded and rushed out the door. Sasuke was in my study hall, but he sat on the other side of the room. Luckily for me, the study hall teacher was easy going so I could sit wherever. I looked for some of my friends and spotted Ino, Hinata, Chouji, and TenTen. I walked over to them and plopping next to Chouji, I looked around to make sure HE wasn't watching me. It turns out Sasuke was reading a book so I turned back to my friends.

"Share the love, Chouji." I whispered knowing he had a bag of chips in his backpack. Tenten and Hinata giggled while watching us trying to sneak out the bag and eat them without getting caught. We all ate some off the chips except Ino who was on one of her diets. Out of nowhere Ino decided to bring up the subject of the teme.

"I think he's cute," Tenten stated."but so not my type."

"Definately cute." Ino agreed."I'd date him." Me and Chouji both rolled our eyes at this. Ino was a little boy-crazing still.

"I can't believe you guys, he's a total teme." I might have said that a little loud because the entire period looked over at me. Except of course, the teme I was talking about. That book must have been interesting. Anyways, the teacher, came over to where we were sitting.

"Naruto. Shut up. I don't mind you talking but keep it to a whisper. Okay?" I nodded. As soon as he left TenTen and Ino started giggling.

"It's not that funny." I sulked.

"W-why don't you l-like Sasuke, Naruto?" Hinata asked softly. It still amazes me how she ever got a boyfriend.

"I didn't tell you about how we met did I?" I proceeded to tell the story to them. By the time I was done, study hall was up and Chouji and I headed for our homeroom.

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After we got dismissed, Gaara and I headed out to Kiba's car. He was standing there waiting for us. Sakura was with him and they were chatting. Kiba saw us and waved us to hurry up.

"Come on guys. We're going to drop Sakura off at home too." We all got in the car, me and Sakura in back, Kiba and Gaara up front.

"Hey Kiba, don't forget that I'm not going home." I reminded him,"I've got to go to the perv's." Sakura giggled remembering how my grampa is. Sakura and me grew up together, so I think of her like a sister. A rather violent sister, but a sister nevertheless. We dropped Sakura off first, then Gaara, and then Kiba dropped me off at my grampa's apartment. Jiraiya isn't really my gramps, but he knew my dad when he was still alive. He's known me since I was little. He would have taken care of me, but Iruka beat him to it. I used my spare key to get into the apartment because Jiraiya never opens the door. Walking into the the living room I saw him sitting at the coffee table with Tsunade.

"Hey gaki." she said as she I walked into.

"Hey Baa-chan." I ducked to avoid a projectile thrown my way. Looking back I saw a pen laying on the floor. Tsunade doesn't like when I call her that. Even though she's as old as the perv."How's work at the clinic?"I aksed. Tsunade is the head doctor at the clinic in town, which is like our mini-hospital. She glared before easing and answering.

"It's good, Shizune is a huge help, so I can take a break. How was your day at school?" Tsunade must have known something was up because that was a question she never asked.

"Ugh...this new kid is such a teme." I groaned while answering.

"Oh...that Uchiha kid? Heard he's a genius. He's brother is." Jiraiya threw in. He shrugged,"Oh well." Pointing to a stack of papers he told me. "Just look over those and I take you out to supper before you go home." I nodded and got to work with the pen Tsunade had thrown at me. All I had to was edit the writings. Needless to say, it wasn't the most appropriate topic matter, but reading his books didn't really affect me. While I worked Tsunade and Jiraiya talked. I finished before long and Jiraiya told me too pick where I wanted to go.

"Ichiraku's. I want ramen." Jiraiya moaned while throwing Tsunade some coins.

"You win. Ugh....I can't believe you will still eat that stuff every meal, Naruto." He ruffled my hair playfully. "Lets go."

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A.n. More Japanese terms.

gaki-brat

sensei-teacher

baa-chan-grandma