ok second chapter! This one is longer than the first, and i think Gaara is going to make his appearance in chapter 3! YAY GAARA! so anyway tell me what you think!

Chapter 2

I was about to mutilate my duffel bag. I had been walking up the staircase leading to the third floor, when it decided to get snagged on the fine wood railing. And.Would.e.Off.

Five minutes was my esitmate on how long I had been tussling with this stupid bag, and it hadn't budged.

I was at the top of the staircase, leaning all my weight on the balls of my heels, with my hands gripping the straps connected to the traitorous bag wrapped in a knot on the railing. My backpack had been discarded beside me, well away incase it got twisted on my feet and sent me to my death down the staircase.

I gave a final tug, only to lose my grip and land with a dull 'thud' on my rump. I winced and crossed my arms over my chest, glaring at the offending object.

"This day just gets better and better." I grumbled under my breath.

I frowned harder as I heard a quiet snickering from around the corner not to far away from where I sat.

Grumbling incoherent obsenities under my breath, I rose to my feet and faced the corner where the person continued to laugh.

"Ha ha, yeah it's so funny that my bag is stuck. Mind to help me immature baby?" my voice was annoyed and low.

The snickering turned to full blown guffaws of laughter that made my face go red with anger. A boy with messy brown hair and red fang tattoos stumbled away from the corner with a blonde haired blue eyed boy with whisker marks on his face clutching his shoulder.

They both had idiotic grins on their faces as they quieted the laughter back to snickers of amusement.

I glared at them from my place next to the staircase.

"Come on Kiba, let's help out the new kid." the blonde said happily, past his laughing.

The brown haired boy laughed and followed his friend over to my bag, still knotted into the railing. They seemed to stare at it for a minute, as if analyzing it, then the blonde grabbed onto the nylon handles and began to tug. The brown haired boy, Kiba, clutched onto his friends' waist and pulled with him.

It was a comical sight. One that made my anger ebb away. And to add to my amusement, they were in a very comprimising position. Backside to pelvis. Wouldn't the people on the internet love this, was the only thing going through my head.

With an evil grin on my face, I whipped out my phone and started to snap pictures, making sure to cut out the railing so that it just showed them. It actually looked like they were attempting something in my pictures. How I love blackmail, this will show them not to mess with me.

"Naruto! Pull harder!" Kiba grunted.

"I'm trying to but it's stuck!" Naruto answered past his clenched teeth.

My face was now red from trying to keep in my laughter. It was just so hard! I didn't want them to hear my laugh, just in case it was a little on the feminine side.

"Oi, why don't you stop standing there and help us out! It's your bag!" Kiba growled at me.

"Yeah yeah." I answered lazily.

I stepped closer to them with my hands in my pockets, inspecting the knot on the rail. It was twisted pretty good, and them pulling on it wasn't helping it, if anything it was just making it worse. I put my face closer to the bane of our existance and found, to my surprise, a small button that would unsnap the handles from the bag itself.

Without giving it much thought, I reached my hand out and pressed the button. True to its' making, the button unsnapped the handles from the bag and immediatly came undone from the railing.

Kiba and Naruto seemed to be suspended in midair for a fraction of a second, before they crashed on to the floor a with a look of udder surprise plastered on their faces. My bag plopped onto the ground, a few inches from the stairs, as innocent as could be.

I straightened after I had recovered my luggage, and looked at the two boys on the ground. Again with the comprimising positions. I couldn't pass up the oppurtunity of another picture, so I took out my camera and took another.

Naruto was lying on his back with his head rested on Kiba's hips. Both of them had a dazed look on their faces, and their clothes were rumpled so that just added to the effects. My grin split across my face again.

"What are doing?" Naruto demanded.

"Blackmail." I answered nonchantely.

Kiba looked confused for a second, before he looked down at his blonde friend, and comprehension overcame his features.

With a yell of disgust and surprise, Kiba shoved Naruto off of him and jumped up dusting his clothes off feverntly. Naruto rolled onto his face, before he to jumped up with an angry expression.

"Hinata is going to be so upset." Kiba muttered.

"Your worried about Hinata! Sakura is going to kill me, then bring me back just to kill me again."

I snorted and looked at them with an idifferent expression. "Worried about your girlfriends?"

"What are going to do with those pictures?" Kiba demanded, ignoring my question.

"I told you. Blackmail." I said while I put my phone back into my pocket and readjusted the straps on my backpack resting on my shoulders.

"But. . . But. . . But why?" Naruto whined.

"Cause."

"Your going to have to give us more than that!" They yelled together.

"Alright. BEcause."

I smirked as they hung their heads in defeat.

"Well, thanks guys for helping with my bag, but I have to go find my room." I gave them a toothy grin as I turned and started down the hallway looking for room 216.

"Hey wait! We are going that way anway, what room do you got? We probably know them." Kiba jabbed a thumb at Naruto and himself.

"216. Know the guy?" I cocked my head to the side as I talked.

Their reaction surprised me. Kiba seemed to get a little paler, while Naruto's sapphire eyes seemed to sadden a little as he glanced at his brown haired friend.

"Whats the verdict?" I asked lazily as I rubbed the back of my neck.

Truthfully, their reactions had me worried. They seemed. . . hesitant. Maybe that wasn't the right word, but it was like they didn't like the fact that my room number was 216. Who was my roommate?

"Well at least your a senior. You won't have to stay here but a year." Kiba muttered to myself.

"He isn't that bad Kiba." Naruto mumbled under his breath.

"Yeah, cause putting a kid in a coma for a month isn't bad." Kiba said sarcastically.

"It was Sasuke, and everyone knew he had it coming when he insulted Gaara's siblings." Naruto shot back.

Kiba stared at his blonde friend for a second before shrugging his shoulders. "Agreed."

My onyx eyes were wide as they stared at the two. Coma? COMA!? THEY ROOMED ME WITH A GUY THAT PUT A PERSON IN A COMA!

Naruto glanced at me as he started down the hallway, and stopped his steps.

"Don't worry about it. You just never insult Gaara or his family. Or what's left of it. He is really cool once you get to know him. Er... What was your name again."

"Mat." I got past the worry in my throat. "Zuma Mat." Even if Naruto was trying to placate me, it wasn't doing much. This. . . Gaara guy, had put someone in a coma? If he happened to find out I was a girl and lying to everyone...would he put me int the ER to?

"Mat uh? Well Mat, here is some more advice." Kiba said in a serious voice. "Don't get on Gaara's bad side, just stay out of his way. He is usually a pretty quiet guy and keeps to himself, he likes solitude. Do not interfere with his space."

Naruto nodded in aggreement. I could only move my head a fraction to show I had heard. Kami-sama, what the hell did I get myself into. No scratch that. What did my 'parents' get me into.

"Well come on! You want to get settled in some time today don't you!" Naruto asked impaitently as he grabbed my elbow and proceeded to drag me down the hallway to my room.

If I had not been so distracted with my own thoughts, I would have slapped his hand away for fear of him accidentally brushing his fingers against the ace bandage wrapped around my chest. But, I was distracted by my own thoughts.

What was waiting for me here? Would I even make it past the first semester? The first day? The first hour? Would I even live to make it to graduation?. . . That stopped my thoughts immediatly.

Graduation. How in the hell was I going to explain to everyone that I was a girl? If I made it that long. I couldn't just graduate and leave everyone here without an explanation as to why they would never see me again. I couldn't act like a guy on certain days, and then myself on others. I mean, I was already insane as it was, what with me actually going along with this school scandal, why stretch the little bit of sanity left to make myself scitzophrinic. More so than I am already.

I shook the thoughts out of my head as I registered that we were getting closer to my assigned room. Those thoughts could plague me at a later date, right now I had bigger things to worry about. Such as my physco roommate that might send me to an early grave.

Mmm. Physco roommate plus a girl disguised as a guy that was slightly scitzophrinic. Wonder how this year was going to turn out, I mused.

"Here we are Mat." Naruto said happily with a foxy grin. Kiba mirrored it with his own wolfish one. I could feel the side of my mouth lift in response, even if on the inside I was having a panic attack.

Naruto pushed open the door and stepped through with Kiba on his heels.

"Hey Gaara. Guess what?"

I was frozen on the outside of the room, clutching my bags. Struggling to compose myself, I took a deep breath and entered the room just as Naruto was saying:

"We brought your new roomate, Mat."

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