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Chapter 10

The bell rang and the class rushed out quite thankfully. Sasuke let out a breath he didn't know he had been holding.

Shikamaru and Kiba looked relieved as well. Naruto however looked calm and composed as always as the three made their way to their lockers to dump their books.

"Man that guy was creepy." Kiba announced with a look of unease. Shikamaru and Sasuke nodded in agreement.

Naruto reluctantly did as well. They had all felt the tension in the air. And it had been suffocating.

"Did you see the way he was staring at you!?" Kiba continued addressing Naruto this time. Naruto glanced up from his locker.

"Yeah he was totally leering at you man! God I guess you attract guys as well as girls huh Uzumaki!" Naruto scowled and closed his locker with a resounding slam.

"It isn't my fault people are attracted to me," Naruto replied coldly, miffed.

"Speaking of which here comes your fan girls!" Kiba called with a smirk as Naruto paled at the sight of the approaching twelve girls.

He could deal with six but a whole crowd was just scary! Naruto considered his choices.

One drop his pride and run and live to see another day. Or two keep his pride by standing his ground and get possibly raped by his fan girls.

Naruto had never been one to just run from anything so he decided to stand his ground. Leaning coolly against the wall he waited for them to come to him.

Sasuke, Kiba, and Shikamaru watched from the sidelines with equally amused expressions. Naruto felt an uncharacteristic urge to slug them

"Naruto kun!!" They squealed out surrounding him before he decided to act upon that urge. He rolled his eyes as they blushed and talked amongst themselves while ogling him.

"What?" he asked politely. He decided to grace them with a manufactured smile to placate them.

"Eek!" they giggled and instantly they started bombarding him with exclamations.

"Your so handsome when you smile Naruto kun!"

"Eek Uzumaki kun just smiled at me!"

"No he smiled at me!"

Naruto rubbed his temples. God these bitches were giving him a headache.

"So did you need to speak to me about something?" Naruto asked with a bored stance slouching back and looking away.

"I'd hate to make you late on my behalf." He added politely thought he really didn't care at all.

This made the girls squeal even more. Saying stuff about how 'polite' and 'gentlemanly' he was.

Naruto rolled his eyes. They quieted down a bit though a few giggles erupted ever once in a while.

A short lean pale brown haired girl with a short skirt and a rather large bust addressed him.

"Um well we um." She blushed as Naruto focused his attention on her. "We were um wondering if you were still going out with Sakura."

"You weren't hanging out with her in lunch so…" The other girls looked on eagerly waiting with bated breath for him to answer.

Naruto rolled his eyes once more. God was that all they were interested in. He controlled his features however and gave them another polite smile.

"No." Naruto answered languidly. "It wasn't working out. Now if that was all you needed to know I'll be seeing you later then." without waiting for a response he removed himself from their tight nit circle and made his way to Sasuke and the gang.

Behind him he clearly heard the girls break out into excited chatters. Naruto mentally gagged. He glared at the amused looks on Sasuke's, Kiba's and shikamaru s faces and brushed past them.

Naruto heard them follow and sped up ignoring their calls to wait up. As Naruto turned the corner in a more leisurely pace he bumped into someone with such force that it landed both on the ground.

"Watch where you're going." Naruto said coldly dusting off his shirt and standing up.

The person merely smirked as he too stood up and Naruto took the time to take in the guys appearance.

Silver haired pulled up into a pony tail and gray eyes rimmed with glasses. I've never seen him before.

He was wearing black jeans and a green tinted black shirt. He was average looking but that condescending smile on his face was starting to tick him off.

Naruto also noticed how those eyes ran over his body and resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Why am I suddenly getting all this male attention anyways?

"Hello my name is Kabuto I'm new around here." Kabuto said with that damned condescending smile still on his face.

He held out a hand for Naruto to shake. Naruto glanced at it indifferently.

"Why should I care?" Naruto said coolly disregarding the arm offered to him. This only made Kabuto's twisted smile grow much to Naruto's displeasure.

"I think you should care." Kabuto said calmly pulling back his arm back once he knew Naruto wasn't going to take said offered hand. "You'll be seeing me a lot more often than you probably want I promise you that."

"Just seeing you once is more than I can take already." Naruto said with a cold smirk on his face.

"This year is getting more interesting by the second . I've never hated anyone on sight before but I can see your gonna change that aren't you?"

Kabuto merely smirked. The sound of footsteps alerted Naruto that Sasuke and the rest had finally caught up to him. Kabuto had already started walking though he pause when he had brushed past Naruto.

"I'll be seeing you around Naruto." Kabuto said and with that he was gone. Naruto gazed at his retreating back. He was brought back from his brooding painfully as Kiba slugged his shoulder.

"Hey man why didn't you wait for us!?" Kiba hollered seemingly missing the way

Naruto's eyes narrowed in agitation. Kiba grinned widely though when Naruto scowled and rubbed his shoulder.

Naruto resisted the tempting urge to beat Kiba to focus on Shikamaru who had just asked a question.

"Who were you talking to a second ago?" Shikamaru repeated when Naruto showed no signs of listening a second ago due to Kiba's jibes about finally hurting the "unhurt-able" Uzumaki.

Naruto's raised an eyebrow. Had Nara heard them. "Nobody really. Just an annoying new guy by the name of Kabuto." Naruto answered coolly.

"I hate his guts already." He added as an after thought.

Kiba whistled. "Damn that sure was fast!

Shikamaru nodded in agreement. "Yeah you've never hated anyone that fast before what makes this new guy any different?"

Naruto just stuffed his hands in his pockets rolled his eyes and continued walking giving them no answer.

Kiba hollered at his back about something about being an "ungrateful bastard."

Shikamaru and Sasuke just shrugged and followed without complaint.

The truth is I really don't know why I hate that bastard. I just got a really bad feeling. Something bad is gonna happen. I know it and that kids gonna be the cause of it.

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TBC…..