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Fox in a Forest

Chapter 2 First Day

Nicky's P.O.V.

After the assembly everyone started lining up to get their schedules, hoping to be in classes with their friends and hoping that noone they hate will be in them. 'Ugh, why can't they just mail our schedules to us? Then we wouldn't have to go through all this chaos.' I thought. When I finally got my schedule I turned to Amber to see if I had any of my classes with her.

"Hey looks like we've got 1st, 3rd, 5th and 8th periods together." Amber said, looking over my schedule.

"Where's Kat?" I asked, looking around for her.

"Maybe she went to class already?"

"Mmm…"

Shrugging we both made our way to our first period class, History.

"I hope our teacher isn't boring, I don't want to fall asleep," I said.

"I know what you mean, hey there's Kat."

"Hey Kat."

"Where were you two?" Kat demanded.

"It took forever to get our schedules," I explained.

"Well come on I've got some seats for us."

We all sat down and started talking about how we hoped our first day would go, Kat was to my right and Amber was behind me. Vaguely I wondered if any of the exchange students would be in this class when I had my answer.

"Oh great dog boy is in here…" Kat groaned.

I turned around, sure enough the boy named Kiba walked in with a backpack slung over his shoulder closely followed by Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, and Sakura. "I don't get it why do you hate him so much?" I asked.

"I don't hate him, I just don't like dogs."

"Aww man, Gaara isn't in here…" Amber whined.

"You never know Amber he might show up. Not everyone is here yet." I told her.

After a few minutes I picked up my book again and started reading. I was just getting to the part when they were about to enter Lucy's tomb when someone sat down next to me. I glanced up to see who it was, and saw Gaara staring straight ahead at the board with a blank look on his face.

I just stared at him. For some reason he looked familiar… 'Where have I seen him before?' Suddenly his gaze went from the board to me. I quickly buried my nose in my book. I could feel my face starting to heat up…

'Wait what am I doing? I hardly know him and I'm suddenly going to act like I'm afraid of him? I am not afraid of him!'

That's what I told myself but for some reason he unsettled me… I found it very hard to concentrate on what I was reading, and was really relived when the teacher called class to order.

"Hello everyone my name is Mrs. Edwards and I hope that we can be great friends this year. Now I want everyone to stand up and introduce themselves as we go around the room."

'This is going to be a looong day…'

*****Time skip to lunch*****

Amber, Kat and I were looking around for a place to sit when we noticed some of the exchange students sitting at a table together. "Why don't we sit with the exchange students?" I suggested. "We can find out some more stuff about them and introduce ourselves."

"I'm up for it," Kat said.

"Me too."

So we all walked over and sat down in some empty chairs. The boy with blonde hair named Naruto grinned in a friendly way. "Hi there!"

"Hey, Naruto right? My name's Nicky Fox." I told him. "That's Kat and Amber."

"What's up?"

"Nice to meet you!"

"Cool. This is Sakura, Sasuke, Hinata, Shino, Shikamaru, Kiba, Choji, and Ino." Naruto said pointing to each person in turn.

"Nice to meet you all." I said. Then I noticed something. "Weren't there more of you?"

"Yeah. But they're a grade higher and that red haired guy dosen't eat with other people."

"Oh." I said, "But aren't you all from the same school?"

"No. Well sort of. The Subaku siblings aren't, they're from a different school, but the rest of us all go to the same school back home." Naruto explained.

"That makes sense." Amber said.

"How are you guys liking it here?" Kat asked Sakura.

"It's pretty interesting and it's nothing like the school we go to," the pink haired girl told her.

"Yeah but it's pretty boring if you ask me," Naruto muttered.

"Naruto!" Sakura shouted.

"What? I'm just saying."

I laughed, "Well the first day is always boring but lighten up. It gets better as the year goes by. Most of the teachers here are really cool, and we have awesome parties. Especially around Halloween."

All the exchange students, minus Shikamaru, gave me a weird look. "What's Halloween?" asked Naruto.

"You don't have Halloween where you come from?" Amber exclaimed.

"No. Not at all." Sakura told her.

"Well Halloween is when you can dress up and get candy, but the kids at this school don't usually do that." Kat explained.

"Why not?" Ino asked.

"Because I have really awesome parties at my house during certain holidays. I always invite all my classmates when they happen, and sometimes the upper classmen if they want to come." I told them.

"Wow, sounds like fun." Kiba said.

"You got that right," I said mischievously. "They're a blast!"

Everyone started to eat and talk with each other about a few random topics. I finished my lunch and got up to head to my next class, which was art, so I could have a few minutes alone.

I sat down at one of the tables close to the wall next to the window. I could see one of the trees outside. Suddenly I saw Naruto and a bunch of high school boys were ganging up on him.

I immediately jumped out of my seat and ran outside. "Hey jerkwads!" I yelled at them. One of the boys turned towards me and laughed.

"Look guys, the shrimps so weak he has to have a girl fight for him." That started to make my temper rise. 'Calm down, calm down…'

"Why don't you run along and play with your dolls, little girl."

All right that did it. "Why don't you run off before I have to hurt you."

One of them got right up in my face. "Yeah? Like you could hurt a fly. I'm twice as big as you are; I could crush you like a bug."

I smiled, "Oh really?"

"Yeah really."

I punched him as hard I could in the nose. He immediately grabbed hold of his nose, which was bleeding, and backed up into one of his buddies. "Argh! My nose! That little bitch broke my nose!"

"Yeah and unless you want me to break your arms or legs you'll beat it!" I yelled.

The idiots got the message and ran off like the cowards they were. "You ok Naruto?"

"Yeah… Thanks by the way."

I smiled, "You're welcome. I couldn't let him hurt one of my friends could I?"

Naruto gave me a surprised look, and then his face broke out into his big goofy grin. "Hahaha. You're a great friend Nicky. I didn't know you would break that guys nose. You don't look like the kind of person who would do that. Not that I'm trying to be insulting."

"Ha! Ever heard 'Don't judge a book by its cover?' I'm a prime example of it."

"I guess so."

"Hey what class do you have next?"

"Art, why?"

"Me too! I just wanted to know. Come on let's go." I grabbed hold of Naruto's arm and started dragging him toward the classroom, much to his protest.

*****Later*****

'I think the universe is trying to tell me something' I thought to myself in English. 'Every class I'm in He's in it too, and he's always next to me…' I heard someone sit down behind me. I was pretty sure who it was but I looked anyway…

'Yep. Gaara.' Once again, every class I have he's in it too. I swear whatever Gods there were, they want to screw my life over. I know I said I wasn't scared of him but I felt slightly nervous with him behind me. He always had this blank look on his face, predatory almost. It was unnerving… And I could almost feel his gaze on the back of my head.

I gave an involuntary shudder. 'I can't wait till I can go home… Wait he's staying at my house... Crap.' I fought the urge to bang my head on the desk. My life sucks…

*****45 minutes later*****

When the bell finally rings I pick up my books and turn to Gaara, "Um…" He just stared at me. "…Follow me." I turned around and walked out of the classroom so I could find his brother and sister. I found them at the front doors arguing with each other. I don't know what it was about but they stopped when I walked up.

"Hello, my name's Nicky. You guys are going to be staying at my house while you're here." I said.

"Hello Nicky," the girl said, "I'm Temari, and this idiot is Kankuro."

"Hey!"

"And I see you've already met Gaara."

I glanced behind me to see that Gaara had followed me after all. I didn't know if he had or not, he was so quiet… "Well if you'll follow me we can catch the bus."

This was going to be the weirdest year ever…

A/N: Ok I know this is way overdue, and I'm sorry. But please don't kill me I just had a lot of stuff happen over December and I didn't feel inspired to write… Anyway please R&R!