Even though it was only the first lunch out of the two that there were durning the day, Ino Yamanaka was amazed by the large amounts of students running around the courtyard and cafeteria area. She was having a great first day so far, it was a good thing she was apart of the dance team project during the summer. It basically put her on the team and gave her some friends for the first day of high school, it was similar to the boys football team. Her blonde hair bounced on her back as she walked across the courtyard and even though she’d made quite a few friends, she had found anyone she knew yet.
“So is high school everything you dreamed it would be?” a raspy voice came from behind her and the blue-eyed girl turned around. She smiled weakly upon seeing her childhood friend Shikamaru. They didn’t talk very much, in fact if they weren’t neighbors and their parents weren’t such good friends they’d probably completely ignore each other. Brushing her blonde fringe out of her face, Ino popped one hip out and gripped her purse strap. “Obviously it is, you aren’t crying.” Shikamaru snickered at his own joke. When Ino got stressed the waterworks always came on.
“Very funny, and yes it is,” Ino said snootily, causing Shikamaru to raise his brows and laugh lightly. He always knew she’d be one of those Queen B’s of the school when she got their. “And you’re still a loser.”
“Give me a break,” Shikamaru retorted with a roll of his hazel eyes. Ino would like Shikamaru if he wasn’t so lazy and was a little more buff. He was scrawny, lazy, and annoying to her. If they hadn’t grown up together she probably wouldn’t be able to handle him. “For a loser, you sure do like keeping me around.”
“You’re my neighbor, not exactly easy to ignore you,” Ino muttered with a roll of her eyes. Shikamaru scoffed and started walk and Ino followed after him. “Ok, I’m sorry we can be friends. This is high school, time to grow up.”
“Yeah we’ll see how that works out,” Shikamaru muttered as they walked towards the canopy for students who wanted to eat outside. Ino looked around, trying to see if she could find anyone else she knew aside from Shikamaru. She liked the boy, but she didn’t really want to be stuck with just him. “You can go, you don’t have to sit with me.”
“I know, but I don’t see anyone else I know.”
“Oh and here I thought you were staying for me,” Shikamaru commented with a roll of his eyes. Ino got a bit huffy and puffy, but she let it go and plopped down on the bench of the wooden table. The pineapple head chuckled and pulled out his cellphone to call some people, unlike Ino he’d rather call instead of wait impatiently.
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Meanwhile inside the cafeteria there was a bit of a disturbance. Sakura and Hinata had both located each other with ease and were currently in line to get some food, but things took a turn for the worst when two jokesters accidentally and unintentionally messed with an upper class-men. Sakura’s eyes darted back and forth as chocolate milk split down the back of the redheaded upper class men. He had moved so quickly and Sakura gasped when she was practically thrown against the wall by the huge football player. Hinata had her hand over her mouth and was shaking her head.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” the bulky redhead growled as he grabbed the spiky-blonde haired boy with bright blue eyes by his shirt collar. Sakura narrowed her eyes a bit and realized that was the kid that had just moved into her neighborhood at the beginning of the summer. He was always at the pool or basketball courts hanging out with Kiba. And no surprise that the other kid happened to be Kiba Inuzuka, who had been pushed up against the wall by the redhead’s friend.
“It was an accident,” the blonde explained, but the redhead only gripped his shirt collar tighter and started lifting him off the ground. Kiba was protesting and telling him to let him go, but the redhead wouldn’t hear it. Sakura was starting to panic and didn’t know what she was doing, but she grabbed a water bottle from the ice chest on the counter and chunked it at the boy’s head.
“Put him down!” Sakura snapped when the redhead turned to look at the person who threw the water bottle. He shoved the blonde against the wall and let him go, giving Sakura his complete attention. Her heart began to pound as his face turned beat red and his eyes narrowed at her darkly.
“Think your tough you little bitch?” he snorted, about to grab her arm, but he was grabbed by someone else.
“That’s enough Mr. Hiwatari,” said a teacher with silver hair. He had a mask covering half his face, which Sakura found a bit odd. The redhead glared at the teacher, but seemed to have relaxed a bit. “Go to the office to get a shirt to wear for the day.”
“Yes sir,” Hiwatari grumbled, shoving out of the lunch line.
“Mr. Tanaka, why don’t you let him go and go with Mr. Hiwatari?”
“Watch yourselves,” Tanaka growled, letting go of Kiba. Sakura watched the two walk away and looked back at the silver-haired teacher. She just now also took notice that most of the student body was watching the scene and that the eight lunch ladies were very annoyed.
“Okay, nothing to see here get back to your meals!” the teacher called out, waving for everyone to move on. It only took a few seconds for everyone to disperse and the chatter to start up again. “Let’s not have this happen again, shall we?” the man asked, looking at Sakura, Kiba, and the blonde boy.
“Yes sir,” the all replied together. Happy to hear that, the teacher excused himself and went back to monitoring the rest of the students in the cafeteria. Hinata let out a sigh of relief and walked up to Sakura.
“Are you crazy?” Hinata asked in bewilderment.
“I couldn’t just let him punch the kid,” Sakura defended and looked at the blonde kid who was adjusting his tie and blazer. Kiba was doing the same and dusting off his pants. “Kiba, it’s the first day of school.”
“Chill out Sakura, we didn’t mean for the milk to spill on him,” Kiba retorted, fixing his already messy and crazy dusty brown hair. Sakura scowled at him and looked at the blonde who was smiling like an idiot and rubbing the back of his neck. “You remember, Naruto?”
“Stupid, just stupid,” Sakura muttered turning around to grab something to eat and a drink. Hinata looked at her friend and turned back to Kiba and Naruto. She had known Kiba for a while because they went to elementary school together, but that Naruto kid was new. He was also somewhat cute, but she’d be too shy to ever admit it out loud. Waving goodbye, Hinata followed Sakura out of the lines and over to the tables by the windows across the room.
“She was really pretty,” Naruto commented, watching the two girls walk away.
“Who? Hinata or Sakura?” Kiba asked, grabbing a slice of pizza and putting it on his tray.
“Sakura,” Naruto replied with a half drooling smile, making Kiba gag. Paying for their food the two boys headed outside to sit under the canopy and hopefully they wouldn’t run into anymore trouble out there.
Once they were outside, Naruto and Kiba found and empty table and took a seat. They started eating and talked about the incident that had happened inside. Naruto started laughing and looked across the way. Sitting under a tree all alone was a kid with pitch black hair. He had headphones on his head and had his legs stretched out in front of him with his eyes closed. Naruto could tell he was awake though, because he was bobbing his head.
“Hey isn’t that the kid that worked as a life guard at the pool?” Naruto asked. Kiba looked over his shoulder and stared at him for a moment before turning back around and nodding his head in a yes gesture. “Is he an upper class men?”
“No, I think he’s our age.”
“And a life guard?”
“Naruto our pool is only five feet deep. And he wasn’t really a life guard, his brother was, he was just the kid at the concession stand.” Kiba looked back at him and tried to remember his name, they had lived in the same neighborhood for three years, but they never really talked to each other. “I believe his name is Sasuke or something like that.” When Kiba looked back at Naruto he was gone and making his way over. “What are you doing?”
“Hey, wanna come sit with us?” Naruto asked, standing in front of Sasuke. Obviously he couldn’t hear him over the music, so Naruto kicked his foot lightly. The boy sitting on the ground opened his eyes and looked up at Naruto.
“What do you want?” Sasuke asked, pulling his headphones off. He sounded rather pissed off and Naruto didn’t know if he wanted to invite him over anymore.
“Don’t have to be so angry, you looked lonely so I thought you’d like to come sit with us right over there,” Naruto explained, pointing to the table Kiba was sitting at. Sasuke followed Naruto’s hand and snorted, standing to his feet and dusting the grass off his pants.
“Leave me alone,” Sasuke replied and walked away, leaving Naruto annoyed and confused. That kid had apparently woken up on the wrong side of the bed. Shaking his head, Naruto wandered back over to Kiba who was holding in some laughter.
“What a grump,” Naruto complained as he sat down. “Is everyone around here such a stick in the mud?”
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Chapter notes: Thank you to everyone who read and commented.
So just to make sure everyone is aware this story doesn't really have a goal point, well I mean graduation of senior year of course, but we're only in Freshman year.
Remember this is an AU story and it has minor OOC-ness, which I am trying to keep to the minimum. Also if you guys have any suggests like couples or things you think are essential in high school life/stories please let me know I'd be happy to take it all into consideration.
-Nova