Pre-Orientation
"Hey Shikamaru!" greeted Chouji, as the students were stuffing themselves in the auditorium. They were there to hear some speech from the principle about the school year, before they scattered off to their division rooms and other classes of the day.
"Yo," he greeted back. Chouji made his way to the side of his best friend.
"So we're in the same division, that's gonna be good," Chouji stated as he was examining both his schedule and Shikamaru's.
"Yeah, I guess..., I hope the classes won't be too exciting. I want to get a good sleep in 2nd and 3rd period...," he replied followed by a loud yawn. They walked toward where their division class were sitting and found two seats near the back.
"Are you planning to just slip your way through all classes with minimum marks like last year? Shikamaru, you should try your best," he told him, as he opened his bag, and took out a bag of chips. He opened them up, and started munching away. Chouji offered his friend some, but Shikamaru just declined as he put a hand behind his head to relax on the chair.
"Doing that would be too troublesome..." he stated as he closed his eyes. He tried to sleep, but the auditorium was too loud for him to allow his mind to drift off. Plus his friend was eating his food pretty loudly, so that was another set-back on his goal to just relax.
There was also loud chattering coming from behind him, but Shikamaru tried his best to ignore.
"Hey Sakura-chan!" greeted Naruto as he sat next to her, "I thought I was gonna be late..."
Sakura just smiled as she looked around the auditorium to see if the raven-haired boy was near. As she continued to look around, she said "Didn't you get the letter? It said orientation would be delayed by an hour."
"Huh? Ero-sennin, probably forgot to give it to me! I'll tell him a piece of my mind once I get home. Making me rush out of the house. I didn't even have time for my ramen (among other things such as shower, brushing his teeth, put on deodorant, combing his hair, etc.)..." he mumbled.
"So..., uh..., what a coincidence you know, for us to be in the same division. It is like fate put us together in the same room so we can be together," he said followed by a small giggle.
"Who is this guy, Sakura?" Ino asked. She was sitting on the other side of Sakura.
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto!" he said with confidence in his tone. "Me and Sakura are well...," he added on with blush in his cheeks. He started twiddling his fingers in an embarrassed manner.
"Just friends...," Sakura finished. "He was in the same class with us for 3 years in junior high, Ino, don't you remember?"
"Oh...," Ino replied, "Well, I guess I never noticed."
"You were in the same class as me, I don't remember that at all," Naruto replied with a thinking face on. This angered her, since she was not noticed for 3 years by some nobody (and there was the vice-versa, but Naruto doesn't really care about popularity that much).
"How can you not remember this face with such elegance?" she said in a loud tone.
"I really don't remember," Naruto replied, while trying to concentrate harder.
"Pfft," Ino said as she turned to the other side.
"He's lying..., trying to make himself look like he's thinking real hard. He probably remembers me and maybe even have a crush on me, but is denying it so he can make me look bad!" Ino thought in frustration.
"Hmm, I wonder if Sasuke-kun is here yet?" wondered Sakura, as she continued to look around.
Naruto stared mesmerizingly at Sakura. "She's so beautiful today." Then his stomach started to growl in hunger.
"Damn, I didn't eat breakfast today..., I'm so hungry..." he thought in a weak inner voice.
"Uh, hey Sakura," he called her. Sakura turned over in annoyance (due to him interrupting her search).
"What?" she asked in a rude manner.
"Do you have any food with you? Anything will do. Preferably some ramen," asked Naruto in a hopeful tone.
"How can she have any ramen with her? Are you an idiot or something?" asked Ino in a rude manner.
Naruto gave her a wicked stare, and Ino just ignored it as she was looking in a mirror, fixing her hair.
Sakura quickly searched through her school bag and replied "No, I'm sorry." After that, she continued to search the auditorium again, in hopes of finding Sasuke.
Naruto pouted and faced the front. His stomach growled again in hunger, as he grabbed it. Then he took out his schedule and looked at it.
"Lunch time isn't till 4th period too..."
Naruto suddenly heard something in the front. He heard sounds of somebody eating chips right in front of him. How could he have missed those sounds before? He tapped on the shoulders of the fat person in front of him. Chouji turned around and looked at Naruto. He continued eating as he gave Naruto a questionable stare.
"Uh, mind sharing some chips with me? I didn't get to eat anything in the morning, and I'm really hungry."
Chouji looked at him deep in the eyes while continuing to eat his chips. There was a silence built around the two (other than the crunching of chips that is) as Naruto anticipated for the answer.
"No," Chouji replied emotionlessly as he turned to the front again. Naruto's eyes froze in terror for a while, before he shook it off. He tapped on the shoulders of the chubby young man again.
"Please! I haven't really ate anything since yesterday night, and I'm really, really hungry," Naruto pleaded.
"Just give him some food, or he will be pestering us the whole time here," said Shikamaru, who still had his eyes closed. Naruto nodded in agreement.
Chouji looked at Shikamaru, then at Naruto, then at his bags of chips. "Fine, but you have to sit next to me, so it'll be easier to pass the bag back and forth." Naruto glowed in delight as he sat up. He turned over to Sakura to tell her that he would sit in the row in front of them, but he noticed she was too occupied with her search.
Naruto looked at her and sighed. "Forget it, she's in too much in deep focus of Sasuke...," Naruto thought in a defeated tone. He just went on ahead to eat some food with Chouji.
"So what's your name? My name's Uzumaki Naruto!" he said while eating.
"I'm Akimichi Chouji," he replied as he continued munching the chips.
Shikamaru gave a look of annoyance as he heard them talking with their mouths full of food. "Haven't your parents ever told you it's rude to talk with your mouths full?"
"No, not really."
"Same here! So who's that other guy over there?" asked Naruto curiously, as he ate.
"Oh, he's Shikamaru. He's from the Nara family."
"I see," he said. They continued eating till they reach to the end of the bag. "Well I guess there's no more," stated Naruto sadly, because he still felt hungry.
Chouji smiled as he opened up his school bag. Naruto looked in it, and his eyes twinkled in delight as he saw the various snacks in the bag. Chouji grabbed another bag of chips, as both guys continued to eat.
"Next time I'll be sure to bring more food for us," promised Chouji.
"Would you? I'll bring some stuff too. I can bring some extra ramen cups I have at home, and we can eat them at lunch. Oh wait, what lunch period you have? I have 4th period."
"4th, same here," Chouji replied in a glad tone, "We can eat it with the leftover barbeque I always have."
"That'll be awesome! I might be able to get some tasty dumplings by Thursday to eat our ramen with."
As they continued to chatter, Shikamaru sighed.
"Just a couple of minutes ago, Chouji wasn't even willing to share his food. Now they're planning to eat together for the whole semester. Hmm, I wonder what lunch will be like without Chouji around, now that I think about it. Well it would be less noisy, and more food will end up in the garbage, I guess... How troublesome..."
Meanwhile, Hinata and Neji just got in. He left her, so he can walk off to where his division was sitting. He gave her a farewell before he left. Hinata stood there being pushed around by other students who are keen to catch up with their friends. Some guy pushed her a little bit too hard, making her fall over. He continued walking, ignoring the person he just knocked over. Hinata slowly got up, but before going up all the way, a hand reached out to her. Hinata grabbed it and pulled herself straight up. She bent over in a grateful manner.
"Thank you."
The young man, with the small dog on his head, rubbed his nose in delightment of gratitude for helping somebody. "It was nothing, really."
Hinata looked around, trying to find the place where she's supposed to sit at.
"Let's try to find our seats after we move out the way, so other people could get through easier," Shino suggested, who was next to Kiba.
Hinata nodded, as three of them, walked down the row, while chatting.
"So what division are you in, uh..., miss?" asked Kiba, trying to start a conversation.
"Uh...,Y-you can call me Hinata, and I-I think I' am in Division...," she said, as she searched her pockets for her schedule. She pulled it out and read out "785".
"Hey, what a coincidence. We're in that division too! I'm Kiba, and right here is Shino."
Shino nodded at the call of his name to Hinata.
They eventually found out where they were sitting and walked over there. All three of them sat together, at the front row. They sat their in silence for a while, till Akamaru's bark broke the silence.
"Eh?" Hinata asked, while she petted the dog.
"Oh, he's just cranky that nobody introduced him to you yet. No patience at all, I tell ya," Kiba stated, as Akamaru gave him a cold stare, "He's Akamaru. Been with me since he was a pup."
"Y-you mean h-he's a grown dog now?" Hinata asked, in a worried tone.
"Hmm, I just noticed, he isn't very big for his age, is he?" Kiba wondered.
"Are you telling me you just noticed?" Shino thought, in utter confusion.
"But for lack of size, he sure is one hell of a dog. Surpass any other dog that is outside the Inuzuka clan. My clan breeds dogs into our partners, you know?"
As Kiba continued to talk with the other two listening, outside, another pair of people entered the school through the entrance.
"Very well done Lee!" Gai said very loudly, "We managed an extra 50 laps, and 15 minutes left till orientation starts."
"Thank you sensei, we could've done more though, you know?" Lee said in a confident tone, followed by a bright smile.
"I know, I know, but this light training was enough for the morning," Gai replied with a bright smile of his own.
As they continued to walk, Tenten ran up and squeezed in between the two. "Hi Lee, hi Gai-sensei."
"Oh, if it isn't one of my other student that I'm deeply proud of," he said in a loud voice.
Tenten blushed as she said "Thanks, Gai-sensei."
"So Tenten, how was your summer?" asked Lee as the three of them walked down the crowded hall.
"I went to this one camp that trained me in the art of weapons and accuracy. I think I might want to major as a Weapons Master," she said proudly.
"Oh that's great. I'm not very good with weapons, ninjutsu, or genjutsu, but I know I' am great in taijutsu. So that's why I want to prove that I can be a great ninja with only the use of pure hand-to-hand combat!" Lee stated with determination in his eyes.
Gai stared at his student proudly as tears filled his eyes. Their surrounding disappeared, as there only stood Maito Gai and Rock Lee on a beach.
"Lee, did I ever tell you that I'm very proud of you?" Gai said in a soft voice.
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!
"Lee!"
As they ran closer to each other about to hug, a hand each held them back.
"At least let me get out of the way first!" pleaded Tenten very loudly.
As they reached the door to the auditorium, Gai left them to go to his classroom. Lee and Tenten continued inside and walked to where they were supposed to be seated.
Meanwhile, Sasuke was outside about to go in the door. He meets up with the Sand siblings.
"Hn, what are you guys doing here?"
"None of your business. So get lost! We only have 10 minutes left," demanded Kankurou.
"Naruto didn't finish the job on the freak, maybe I should!" Sasuke stated.
Gaara was about to step forward, but Temari stepped in front of her brother. "I can take care of him!"
"No..., we will not waste our time here. Ignore him and let's go on ahead," Gaara said. He moved to the side and walked forward and toward the entrance of the school. Sasuke rushed in front of him, blocking the door.
"You think I forget easy..." Sasuke said in an intimidating voice.
It was the final exam for their junior high school. The test was a tournament, where their skills were observed in a fight among themselves, to see if they can use what they learn over the session in school in the heat of battle. As the final battle came down, with Sasuke vs a guy by the name of Yin. During their heated battle, an explosion suddenly occurred.
"What the hell?" Sasuke said, as he saw shinobi of both Sand and Sound landing in the stadium where the fight was held.
"What's the meaning of this?" yelled Iruka, who was the principle of the school.
A man jumped over to a member in the audience and picked up Konohamaru, the 3rd Hokage's grandson. He held him as hostage to bring out the Hokage.
Once the Hokage arrived, a heated battle occurred between the Hokage and Orochimaru, his former student. In the end, the Hokage sacrificed his life in order to finish off the enemy. But to their dismay, although Orochimaru was very wounded (to the point of death in at most 5 minutes due to major blood lost), he escaped by the help of 5 masked man and a traitor of Konoha called Kabuto, and his survival is unknown.
During the death fight of the 3rd and Orochimaru, small battles occurred everywhere throughout the stadium. In center stage, there was another big fight. 3 Sand siblings vs Naruto, Sasuke, and Yin. Both Sasuke and Yin were knocked out quickly in the match from Gaara's sand due to not receiving much time to heal from their big fight.
It was all down to Naruto vs a weakened Kankurou (with his puppet Karasu), a little bit tired Temari, and a Gaara who was showing signs of being a little bit too much bloodthirsty.
As the battle went on, Naruto just kept growing stronger and stronger no matter how many hits came at him. Gaara got a little too excited, and he used his sand to knock out his two other siblings in the midst of battle, in order for him to enjoy it all by himself.
Gaara doubled the stakes by grabbing a random person in the audience and set a time limit in which she would be a victim of 'Sabaku Sousou'. This victim happened to be a person Naruto held close to hear, Sakura. He grew stronger at the witness of seeing Sakura suffered.
As both fighters continued to fight with everything they got, the demons inside of them got the better of them. Soon, it grew to be Shukaku vs Kyuubified Naruto (Naruto still had some control over the demon). Naruto finally got the best of Gaara/Shukaku with a '2000 Punch Naruto Rendan'. Even though at lost, Gaara learned something. He realized what he did was wrong. He held Naruto's words to him close at heart.
"People who treat their comrades like they mean nothing to them are trash. Although we are the same, I will never allow my friends and family to suffer by anybody!"
After the fight though, it is shown that the people from Sand were fooled from the start. Sound said that Konoha was a threat to the world (their evidence was the recent events in which Konoha ANBU men were attacking small villages around the world) so they need their assistance to destroy Konoha, but it was proved false by tough interrogation to some captured Sound nins. They were part of the elaborate scheme devised by Orochimaru, who made his men dressed as Konoha ANBU.
Although the mess was cleared up by the leaders of the villages, some, who still remembered the incident that is (will be explained later), still thought the Sand as enemies to their village. Even with all this international mess, Konoha still accepts the Sand Village ninjas in Shinobi High (the first ever ninja school opened to all countries). Although, most adults in Shinobi High are Konoha jounins and chuunins, they have some other teachers from other countries.
Kankurou stepped up and pushed Sasuke out of the way, as he allowed his younger brother and older sister to go in first. Sasuke activated his Sharingan while on the ground, in fury. It momentarily stayed on him, but suddenly it disappeared.
"What the hell?"
"Not very bright for being known as a genius, are you?" he stated as he saw the expression Sasuke had after his doujutsu disappeared.
"What do you mean?" he demanded to know.
"Chakra usage is only limited to certain areas once you entered the school grounds, baka..." he said before he went inside.
Sasuke just got up and dust off his shirt. "Sabaku no Gaara..., you won't make a fool of me again like last time! This time, I will be the victor!""
Author's Notes: Hah, you thought Sasuke's enemy was Itachi, didn't you? Naw, I'm not sure how I'll go with this, but Sasuke hate Gaara for kicking his ass so fast in their fight. Sure he was weak from his fight with the other guy, but Sasuke didn't use that as an excuse to lose. Apparently in my fic, Sasuke never lost so badly before. Will Itachi be in this story at all then? No clue...
I'm not sure if I'll put a jealousy thing with Sasuke/Naruto going on when it comes to skills and power. Let's just say, he accepted Naruto as a worthy rival, and doesn't want to kill the bastard. Because building something like that is so troublesome for me.
Now regarding the future plot of the story, I'm not sure how I'll bring it to be. I'm not sure if there would be 'fluff', pairings, lemon, poontang pie, and all those works. All the ideas come to me during the typing process, so this story may take many twist and turns that I don't even know about. So basically, I'm making chapter by chapter out of my ass with no sort of planning how it will turn out.
Anyways, read and review! And stay tuned to see if another chapter will happen!