Ch4

(Emily's POV)

I slipped my key into the lock on my flat and locked the door. I turned around and sighed, 'Today's the day.' I thought as I walked away.

I had arrived in Konoha five days ago and had spent most of the time studying, though I had spent the first day buying things like cloths, the flat and other supplies. So I spent four days studying so hard I think my brain died a couple of times, but now I knew what every normal fourteen year old kid in Konoha should know about the world.

Annoyingly my ninja skill's...or at least, my Taijutsu wasn't amazing so the Hokage decided to enroll me in the academy. I scowled, it wasn't that I was a rubbish ninja, in fact I had managed to pick things up really well considering it had only been five days, I think learning to control my ghost powers had helped with Ninjutsu.

The Hokage probably saw the advantage of having me make friends more than the fact that I would get better, though both were a reasons he had in mind when he enrolled me. I sighed and started walking away from the flat.

'If I think about it, it's not the school or the making friends that bothers me.' I thought ten minutes later as I walked up to the school. I stopped at the door and sighed. 'It's the fact that everyone is gonna be two years younger than me. Man this is gonna be kinda embarrassing.' I thought before walking inside. I had been here once before with Iruka-sensei so I knew where to go, and I made my way towards my classroom.

"Emily!" I heard Iruka-sensei call from the door of the classroom. I could hear lots of chattering inside so I guess Iruka hadn't gone in yet. I greeted him with a nod as I walked up to him.

"You're just in time." He said as he opened the door. When everyone inside saw Iruka-sensei they began to spread out among the seats and settle down. As I glanced around the room at my new classmates, my eyes picked out a few of the kids who stood out.

There was a boy with whisker-like-things on his face and a girl with pink hair who was arguing with another girl with blonde hair. There was a guy who was sleeping, while another guy with plenty of obvious fangirls, and raven black hair, was staring into space There were plenty of other kids but Iruka began to talk so I turned my attention to him.

"Morning class." He said. "We have a new student who will be joining us today. I hope you will make her welcome." Iruka pushed me forwards slightly and I took that as my cue to introduce myself.

"My name is Emily. Hajimemashite." I said.

"Ok. Let's find you a seat." Iruka began. "How about..." He glanced around the room and I saw his eyes land on the two girls who were arguing. They were still arguing and it seemed they were arguing over who would sit next to the guy who was staring into space. Iruka sighed at the two girls,

"Sakura, Ino. Stop arguing and sit down." The girl with pink hair turned to Iruka.

"I'm trying to sensei." She said sweetly. "But Ino won't let me." The blonde looked at her with an incredulous look on her face.

"Hah?! No, Sakura won't let me! I'm obviously the one who should sit next to Sasuke!" Ino exclaimed, and the two girls began arguing again but they stopped trying to be quiet.

"That's enough." Iruka stated. "Seeing that you can't decide quietly and quickly, Emily will sit next to Sasuke and you two can go sit somewhere else." The two girls stopped arguing and glared at me, before I registered what Iruka said.

"What?!" I exclaimed "Why are you throwing me into the middle of their cat fight!? I don't have time to deal with any more death threats. Particularly ones from crazy fangirls."

"What! We're not crazy!" Sakura and Ino yelled at me, and I just ignored them.

"Sorry Emily." Iruka stated. I just scowled and walked over to the seat next to Sasuke.

"If you do anything to my Sasuke-" Sakura started but was interrupted by Ino,

"Your Sasuke!? He's my Sasuke!"

"What!? No he's mine!" I sighed and cut in before they could continue.

"Don't panic, I'm not interested in guys or people right now." I said as I sat down heavily on the seat. "I'm too busy to be bothered with anyone other than the Hokage or Senseis." The two girls glared at me and opened their mouths to retort, but Iruka interrupted them.

"Hurry up and sit down please."

"Hai Sensei." The two girls said before moving away and sitting down. I leant forward and propped myself up with my head resting on my hands as I listened and Iruka began talking again, but I could feel the glares from Sasuke's fangirls. 'Ugh.' I thought as I let my head hit the desk with a small thud 'I really don't need this.'

"You ok?" I heard Sasuke ask. I turned my head to look at him without bothering to lift my head off the desk.

"Why do you ask?" I questioned. Sasuke pointed behind me in the direction I could feel the glares coming from, so I turned to have a look. Behind me was a group of girls, Sakura and Ino included, who were openly glaring at me. You could almost see the hatred and bloodlust rolling off them in waves and heading towards me. I groaned and placed my head on my arms before turning towards Sasuke again.

"I'm perfectly fine, just annoyed. I've had enough hostility directed at me to last me forever." Sasuke raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything and turned look out of the window. I sat up and looked back at Iruka but with the glares stabbing into my back I couldn't concentrate so instead I occupied myself by looking past Sasuke at the trees outside. After a while I found myself looking at Sasuke and wondering what had made me think he was something like me. He turned and looked at me,

"Are you staring at me?" He asked. I blinked then shrugged.

"Yeah, but don't get cocky I'm not interested in you." I answered. He just grunted and looked away. After a moment I spoke again.

"Ne, Sasuke?" He glanced at me and I opened my mouth to continue when a bell rang and cut me off. Two seconds later I was dragged off the seat by a bunch of girls,

"You said you weren't interested in guys!" Sakura complained and I raised an eyebrow at her.

"I'm not." I stated.

"Don't lie we saw you talking to him." One of the girls retaliated

"He started it." Was my slightly annoyed reply.

"You didn't have to reply!" I sighed, 'seriously?'

"I get the feeling if I didn't you would still get mad at me for ignoring your precious Sasuke." Sakura opened her mouth to object but the boy with yellow hair and the whisker marks cut in.

"Yeah! What's so good about that guy anyway? He isn't all that!" He yelled. 'What's with this guy?' I thought.

"Shut up Naruto." Sakura said angrily.

"Uh that's not what I was trying to imply but I guess that works to. Either way I'm not interested in him so you girls have him all to yourselves." I said, before casually stuffing my hands into my pockets and walking away from the mob of girls, who quickly started flirting with Sasuke. I walked towards the window and jumped out into the training ground outside. 'Our next lesson is going to be here' I thought as I looked around.

"Hey! Emily right?" I turned to see the guy with whiskers walking towards me. 'What did Sakura call him again? Naruto?'

"That's me." I said.

"Nice to meet you! I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and someday I'm gonna be Hokage!" He said loudly. 'Why is he so loud?' I thought.

"Nice. Good luck." I said almost in monotone. He seemed to brighten up at those words.

"You think I can do it?!" He said excitedly. I raised an eyebrow then shrugged.

"I didn't say that." He became obviously depressed and I panicked slightly.

"That doesn't mean it's not possible" I said hurriedly. "I mean five days ago I didn't think I was going to be a ninja, but here I am." He visibly brightened. I sighed, 'he's so easy to read.'

"Of course I would have become Hokage whether you thought I could or not. Believe it! I just thought I had made a friend." I stared at him. 'A friend? Already? I barely talked to him and he thinks I'm his friend.' I chuckled slightly.

"What's funny?" He asked and I smiled.

"Nothing." I answered. 'I was told to make a friend anyway. And he seems trust worthy. Actually he seems to much of idiot to turn against me. The most he'll do is probably just abandon me. After all, there's no one he can run to, for once the authorities are on my side.'

Dictionary-like-thing

Hajimemashite = Nice to meet you

Sensei = Teacher

Ne = hey