A/N Okay so here's the next chapter, enjoy XD

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Winning Isn't Everything

Chapter 2

By AngelzGrace

A tall attractive girl knocked on the principles office door. She was dressed in a dark purple ankle length skirt that had a slit from the thigh down. She wore a black polo neck sleeveless shirt that fitted nicely and she wore dark purple gloves that were fingerless and reached her elbows she had gold bangles on both arms, which went, nicely on top of her gloves. She was wearing high-heeled sandals that were black and had her wavy golden blond hair held back by a black slide on the right side, the hair fell over her left eye slightly. She wore gold big hoops and shimmering gold eye shadow. She nodded at the two girls behind her. She had amazing midnight blue eyes that were rimmed with thick lashes.

"umm.um...what i-if.." The petit girl who was looked really shy started. Twirling her fingers together. She was dressed in a pair of blue jeans that widened at the bottom; she was wearing a fuchsia pink off shoulder top, which had a slightly darker shade of fuchsia swirls on it. It hugged her body but a long black knee length jumper that had a fuchsia pink fur lining the neck and the hem mostly hid the top. She had the jumper ties at the front by two buttons. She wore a simple silver ring and silver and pink earrings. (Her ears are pierced twice) her long black hair was open and was held pulled out of her with a black and pink clip leaving a chin length fringe out which frames her face. Her lavender eyes were framed with long lashes. She was wearing very subtle make-up.

"Don't worry Hinata, it'll go fine," the third girl said she had her brown hair up in two buns and were tied with white ribbon; she had a small fringe and beautiful brown eyes. She was wearing white jeans tight shorts. A maroon short sleeved t-shirt that revealed her pierced belly button. This had a pearl ring dangling from it. She was wearing white trainers and a white choker with a pearl heart dangling form it. Her ears were pierces thrice and once at the top of her left ear. She wore matching little hoops in all of them. She was wearing eyeliner and shimmering gloss.

These three girls were the best of friends they had moved to this town a week ago and had bought a small house together. All three girls were opposite from each other but all ways stuck up for each other. Temari was the oldest her birthday was after September so even though she was seventeen she was in the same class as Hinata and Tenten.

Temari sighed no one was answering, she knocked again louder still no reply.

"Ummm m-maybe w-we should w-w-wait" Hinata said timidly.

"But we have to get to class!" Tenten snapped, moving forward she pounded on the door inside they hear something fall with a thud and then a voice said

"Enter!"

Temari opened the door and they filed in. a blond big chested woman sat at a desk she seemed slightly sleepy which made Temari sure that she had been asleep.

"You must be, Subaku no Temari" she said looking at Temari.

"Yes" Temari said with a nod.

"Tenten" Tsunade said looking up from her file, Tenten stepped forward.

"That's me" Tenten said with a smile.

"And you must be Hyuuga Hinata" Tsunade stated looking at the shy timid girl.

Hinata just nodded blushing deeply. Tsunade looked at the three girls.

"First of all Temari, you used to model?"

"Yeas" Temari said "But that was some time ago"

Tsunade nodded "It says here you wish to keep that quiet, and since you and your two friends and I are the only ones who know about that I suggest it stays in this room"

"Thank you" Temari said looking down after 'that incident'; she didn't want anyone to know.

"And you Tenten wish to keep your surname out of this. So you will be known as Arisawa Tenten"

"Yes, thank you" Tenten said with a nod of her head.

"Very well, here are your class schedules and here are the combinations on your lockers which you may change if you so wish, now good bye and get to class" Tsunade said dismissing them.

"Well that went well," Temari said as she glanced at her schedule.

"Yeah" Tenten replied, "I have math with Asuma sensei room 5… second floor,"

"I have math too, with Asuma," Temari said looking at Tenten's schedule.

"I-I d-do to" Hinata said smiling slightly.

"Great!" Tenten said jumping slightly as they made their way up the two flights of stairs.

"Hinata, try to calm down when you're nervous you stutter, you have to show that you're brave" Temari said turning to Hinata.

"y-yes, Temari-Chan" Hinata said smiling slightly more confidently. "b-but m-my cousin might be i-in thi-this school"

"Oh yeah, the one you were talking about, the one who's family and yours got in to a large row and you guys moved away, right?" Tenten said walking backwards up the stairs.

"Y-yes" Hinata said with a small nod.

"Well don't worry, if your families didn't have a row, then you wouldn't have moved and then we would never have met you and we would never had decided to move to this town because we wouldn't have known what it was like here" Temari said smiling. "So just think that what happened was for the better and what will come we all will be together right?"

"Th-thank you, Temari-Chan" Hinata said feeling much better.

"Besides if he is in this school and he annoys you, I'll kick his butt!" Tenten said thrusting her fist out in an imaginary punch and spinning around.

"Tenten!" Temari said startled that her friend might fall.

"Sorry" Tenten said sheepishly stopping and continued up the stairs backwards. "But remember Hinata I'll protect you!"

"A-arigatou Tenten-Chan" Hinata said, they had reached the top and were looking around.

"This is room seven so five is…here!" Tenten said and knocked loudly on the door.

"Calmly Tenten!" Temari hissed as Hinata cringed as well.

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"Come in!" a voice said. Tenten opened the door and looked at a teacher who was smoking he was looking slightly annoyed for being interrupted which in turn annoyed Tenten.

"We're in this class!" she said slightly rudely.

Asuma frowned, 'how much more times am I going to be interrupted today?' he thought. "No your not, I haven't seen you before"

"Well duh! We're-" Tenten began but Temari placed a hand on top of her mouth.

"Gomen, Asuma sensei we just enrolled here that is why we are late, this 'is' our class," she said thrusting her schedule in front of Asuma so he couldn't deny it.

At the back of the class, Shikamaru winced 'that woman sounds so troublesome' he thought hearing her confident and demanding voice, 'she reminds me of my mother' Temari released Tenten.

"O-of course" Asuma said trying to collect himself, she sounded so stern. He went over to his desk and rummaged through the register until he found a piece of paper. "Subaku no Temari"

"That's me," Temari said stepping forward.

"Arisawa Tenten"

"Right here" Tenten said raising her hand.

"Hyuuga Hinata, Hyuuga… we have another Hyuuga in this class" Asuma said not looking up from his file. Hinata squeaked when she heard this.

From the back of the class Neji looked up when he heard that name Hyuuga Hinata, he knew who it was and he wasn't happy, He looked at the girl who had her head down and was shaking slightly. She looked up suddenly sensing someone watching her and their eyes met, the girl paled under the cold look of her cousin.

"N-Neji Nii-san..." she murmured in fear.

Tenten frowned as she heard Hinata murmur, she looked up at the boy Hinata was staring at he had the same color eyes as Hinata. Tenten glared at him putting a protective arm around Hinata. Neji was surprised no girl ever glared at him they were usually giving lovesick smiles. He looked away breaking the stare.

"Very well Subaku go sit next to Nara, Nara raise your hand so Subaku can see you," Asuma said glancing to the back of the class where Shikamaru sat lazily.

"How troublesome" he said raising his hand like it was the hardest thing to do. And he wasn't very happy with the fact that someone was going to sit next to him. Temari raised her eyebrow, smiled at her friends, and strode gracefully to her seat, heads turned as she passed. Two people weren't happy though: Ino and Sakura.

"Shit! The only three empty seats are next to Neji-kun, Sasuke-kun and Shikamaru-kun," Sakura thought angrily.

Ino stood up blocking Temari's path she laughed slightly "Temari-san, just to tell you, you can have my seat I'll sit next to Shikamaru-kun"

Temari smiled "Why I'm fine with that seat"

"But-but you can't!" Ino hissed quietly

Temari smiled at the blond "Like I said why?"

"Because he is a perv" Ino said in a whisper. "He gropes"

Temari raised her eyebrow "Well...if you're sure I-," she began not really believing the girl. Asuma was still busy with his file.

"No" both girls turned to see the lazy boy sit up straight leaning his elbow on the desk.

"What did you just say Shikamaru-kun?" Ino said sweetly.

"I said no, Yamanaka, I know you're making up some lie so that you can sit here, and that's troublesome so Subaku's going to sit here" Shikamaru said

"But-,"

"Forget it Yamanaka"

Temari just shrugged and made her way to her seat.

"Arisawa you sit next to Uchiha, and Hyuuga you sit next to Hyuuga Neji," Asuma said looking at the girls.

"B-but…" Hinata said in a tiny whisper, which only Tenten heard.

'Shit!' she thought 'if Hinata sits next to her cousin she won't be able to handle it. She glanced up and saw Hyuuga Neji glance coldly at his cousin. He was holding his pen his left hand idly twirling it. 'Left hand! That's it!' she thought happily.

"Asuma sensei, I'm sorry I know you told me to sit next to Uchiha but I'm left handed and since so is Hyuuga perhaps I should sit next to him?" Tenten said in a rush. "You know so our elbows don't collide," she added hoping Asuma would agree.

Asuma sighed "Fine" he said

"Thank you sensei" Tenten said as she looked at Hinata who was visibly very relieved. She saw Temari giving her the thumbs up she nodded slightly and taking Hinata's elbow, she dragged her to her seat. Taking her seat next to Hyuuga Neji, she glanced at Hinata who was timidly taking her seat next to Uchiha Sasuke.

As Asuma continued the lesson, Tenten was about to start taking notes and remembered she was meant to be left handed, sighing she started writing wobbly and slightly messily. She felt someone watching her she turned and glared sharply at Neji who was watching her emotionlessly. She turned back trying to be casual about her writing,

When the bell rang and everyone was packing away, Asuma raised his hand and said from now on whenever you're in my lesson you're to sit where you are right now, to save us the trouble. Some peopled sighed not happy with their seats, and Tenten was screaming inside her head 'OH NO FROM NOW ON I'LL HAVE TO WRITE WITH MY LEFT HAND IF I DON'T WANT TO LOOK STUPID! WHY DID I COME UP WITH THAT LIE?'

Everybody got up to leave as Tenten stood there staring into space until someone tapped her on the shoulder; she turned quickly and saw that it was Neji.

"What do you want?" she said rather nastily, annoyed with him for no apparent reason.

Neji raised an eyebrow and ignored her rudeness, which infuriated her even more. If she was mean to someone, she liked it if they argued back.

"I just wanted to say, you don't have to pretend to be left handed" he looked away his hair blocking his face from view.

"Huh?" Tenten said clueless 'was her writing that bad?' She looked at her book and her eye started twitching 'hehe it was quite bad' she thought.

"You only said that so Hinata-san didn't have to sit here, unless your writing is always that terrible…" he continued with a smirk

"What! Yeah right whatever!" she turned away grabbing her small pile of books Neji had already made his way to the classroom door. She turned to se Temari slowly putting her books in to her bag as she chatted to Shikamaru. 'They seemed to be getting on quite well' she thought. Hinata was also slowly packing away. Suddenly a thought coming to her head she ran to the door just as Neji exited with Uchiha Sasuke.

"You!" she shouted grabbing Neji's shoulder and turning him to face her. Both boys looked surprised.

"What is it?" Neji said in his normal expressionless voice.

"Stay away form Hinata" she said with her eyes closed and her head turned away from him.

"Hn?"

"You heard me Hyuuga, don't mess with Hinata," she said.

"Whatever my cousin has told you is a complete lie"

"How would you know? Hinata doesn't lie!"

"Fine" Neji said and turned to walk away

"Wait-"

"We're done" Neji said and before Tenten could reply he walked away and it was time to get to her next class. Just then, Temari and Shikamaru walked out still chatting and a timid Hinata behind them.

"Tenten!" Temari said as she walked towards her Shikamaru stood there lazily waiting.

"What?"

"My next class is chemistry, what's yours?"

"Language,"

"Great so is Hinata's, so take her ok?"

"OK see you later!" Tenten said as Temari walked of with the boy Shikamaru talking. "Ne Hinata isn't Temari getting along really well with that Nara boy?"

Hinata who had just reached her nodded slightly "Hai" Tenten smiled at her thinking how different she was from her cousin. "Tenten-Chan, thank you for sitting next to Neji Nii san for me" she said with a small smile.

"It was no biggy, but you will have to let me copy your notes because my writing is so bad," Tenten said with a laugh making Hinata smile as she agreed, "lets get to class. With that both girls walked of to their class.

A/N I wonder if I will get a review even if it is not a positive one (lol)

Anyway hope you liked this chap!!

Ja'ne