Alternative - Episode 1

<center>Alternative</center>



Disclaimer: Alternative is a project by Yami Jay. Although she doesn’t own the characters of Naruto, she owns the plot of the story and the Kamiya family.


<center></b>Alternative – Episode 1: New Life</center></b>

Walking down the street of Konoha with is portable CD player playing full volume, a young man was walking toward what would be his new high school; Konoha’s Academy.  The name sounded really stupid to him, but from what one of his older sisters told him, it was the best school around the town.

He continued walking and he was now in the school’s yard. He could feel the other students – the ones who noticed him – talking and giggling. He hated giggling. He had enough of that at home, no need it here. He continued to walk toward the school’s entrance when he accidentally walked into someone. He felt on the ground, but he didn’t really care. He pulled off his earphone and got up.

“You might want to be more careful next time” said the other boy.

“So sorry...” said Yukito, not looking at the one he had walk into. But the whispers he was hearing had to make him believe he did something he shouldn’t have. He looked and the first thing he saw was silverish white eyes.

Again, Yukito just let it past and decided to walk in the school, not caring anymore. He was supposed to get to the principal’s office to get his classes and his locker’s assignment. He heard someone yelling at him and turned around; it was the guy he walked into a few minutes ago. Yukito decided to wait and see what the guy wanted.

Neji had finally reached the new student; he noticed that the purpled hair boy hadn’t noticed he had let something behind him; a book. “You forgot something” he said, giving the book to its owner.

Yukito looked at the book and took it quickly; it was his writing book. “Thanks I guess” he replied. “Now, if you excuse me, I have to get to the principal’s office…”

“It’s alright” replied Neji. “By the way, I’m Hyuuga Neji.”

Yukito nodded to Neji. “Kamiya Yukito” he said simply, before leaving after waving goodbye to the Hyuuga teenage boy.

<center>Later</center>

All the students were at their seats. Most people didn’t like the science. Especially the young blond of Uzumaki Naruto; anything would be more fun than science right now. The class wasn’t really paying attention to their teacher when they heard a knock on the door. The teacher stopped his lecture to go check and, a few minutes later, returned with someone else.

Everyone looked at the new comer in the class; it was a tall young boy with dark purple hair and rich golden eyes. He had a few piercings also; one on his bottom lips and two on his left ear. You could tell by his looks that he was a gothic-punk type; dark blue jeans, black t-shirt that covered a fishnet shirt, black boots and red arm-warmers. He had a back-pack that he had put on his left shoulder.

Some of the girls were giggling and whispering about the new boy already. But no one, except Naruto, saw that the whispering and giggling was annoying the new comer highly. The teacher cleared his throat, making everyone silent. “Students, I would like to welcome to this class Kamiya Yukito” he said, giving a side glance to the new student. “He is new to this school and I hope you will be nice enough to show him around. Now… You will sit next to Uzumaki for now” he added.

Naruto got up, showing where he was. Yukito just walked down the row and sat at the desk on the right of Naruto. He got his books out and the class continued. After a few minute, Naruto noticed that the new guy wasn’t really paying attention and was writing something in a notebook. Naruto just let it pass and resumed on what he was doing; daydreaming.

It wasn’t long before the bell rang to indicate the end of the class. Everyone packed their books and left to get to their next class. Yukito was one of the last students out, along with Naruto. Yukito was looking at his schedule when Naruto came next to him.

“So, what’s your next class Yukito?” he asked.

Yukito gave a quick look at the blond boy before looking at his schedule again. “Math” he replied, deadpan.

“Me too!” he said, smiling. “I forgot, I’m Uzumaki Naruto!”

Yukito frowned a little; it wasn’t that he founded the guy annoying, but he didn’t want to get noticed right now. Walking to the class, Naruto talked a lot about people in their grade and some from the other grades until the name of Hyuuga Neji came up.

“Hyuuga Neji?” said Yukito.

“You know him already?” asked Naruto.

“Kind of walked into him this morning” he said with an indifferent voice.

“Oh!” replied Naruto. “But don’t worry, Neji is a nice guy. I’m pretty sure he already forgave you for that. He’s a good friend of mine.”

Yukito just kept walking, while Naruto continued to talk. They reached the math classroom, where a lot of students from the previous class were, and some new faces were also. Naruto quickly walked to the back of the class, sitting next to a dark haired boy. Yukito just took a seat in front of Naruto and got his books out. He could feel someone glaring at him. He turned around and saw that Naruto’s neighbor was the one glaring at him. Yukito decided to ignore it and go back to his books. As the bell rang to indicate the beginning of the second period, the teacher came in.

“Good morning everyone” said professor Umino. They all replied at the teacher, happily. It was no surprised that the math teacher was one of the favorite teachers. He started to take presence until he reached Yukito’s. “Kamiya Yukito”

“Present” said Yukito, very bored.

Iruka looked at the young man, it was defiantly something new; this student was just different from the others, he seemed so indifferent to everything that it was scary. He continued to take the presence.

“Uchiha Sasuke.”

“Present.”

Yukito didn’t look, but knew it was the person who glared at him before. The teacher had finished to call everyone’s names and told them to take their notebooks out along with their books. Yukito knew it was going to be a long class.

Later

The class had gone smoothly, but Yukito had noticed he was behind the others in this class. He was about to leave when Umino-sensai had asked to talk to him.

“What is it Umino-sensai?” asked Yukito, politely.

“Yukito-kun, I want you to be honest with me” said Iruka. “Did you have the feeling you were behind in this class? I mean with what we are currently seeing in this subject.”

Yukito sighed; it was true he felt he was far behind the others. “Kind of…” he replied, hating to admit such a thing.

“I see…” said Iruka. “Would you mind if I assigned you a tutor to help you? It wouldn’t be another teacher, but another student.”

“Sure…” replied Yukito, hoping it wouldn’t be a certain dark haired teenager.

“Okay, I’ll ask Neji-kun if he would like to help you” said Iruka. “He is a year older and he is one of the students that we can assign students… I’m sure that someone had told you about the program we have created to help students.”

Yukito nodded and waited to see if he could leave. The principal had told him about the program and to be honest, Yukito had been impressed by the idea. Beside, it was a good way to learn something. After a few minutes, he got out, saying goodbye to Umino-sensai. He didn’t expect to see Naruto and Sasuke waiting. Yukito could tell that Sasuke didn’t want to be there.

“How did it go?” asked Naruto.

“Fine” replied Yukito, heading to his next class.

They all went to the next class, Naruto bothering Yukito about what happen in Umino-sensai’s class and Sasuke just glaring at the two. They entered the class and got the seat and the far end. The bell rang and the teacher was still not there; which annoyed Yukito somehow.

“He’s always late like this” said Sasuke, feeling like being nice to the new kid.

Yukito just gave him a glare and went back to his notebook; the same he was writing it in science. That really got Naruto curious and he was about to get up when the history teacher got in. Yukito groaned; and he thought his old history teacher was weird back in the Snow country, this one beaten it. The teacher did the call also and he started the class.

After awhile, some of the students were bored, like Naruto and Yukito, and others were actually paying attention. It didn’t take long before Kakashi-sensai noticed it and started to ask questions.

“Alright… Yukito-kun, can you tell me what was the seal that the Fourth Hokage used to seal the Nine-Tail Fox demon?” asked Kakashi.

This blocked Yukito; this wasn’t something he knew. Of course, the fact he was a new comer and he lived in the Snow country before didn’t help him, but he never learned that at school. Few minutes later, people started to giggle and whisper about it, mostly people saying how stupid he was for not knowing such a simple fact. Finally, someone spoke out loud. “Kakashi-sensai, I think it is a little bit unfair to question Yukito-kun right now” said the pink haired girl. “He is new to this school and the city from what I’ve heard…”

“I guess you are right Sakura-chan” said Kakashi. “Well, if anyone knows the answer, please tell me.”

Sasuke raised his hand. “It’s Shikifuujin” said Sasuke. “It’s a Fuuinjutsu, a variation of the Kuchiyose no Jutsu. But, unlike the normal summoning technique, it doesn’t require a sacrifice of blood since it’s the God of Death that is being summoned.”

Most of the girls squealed or giggled right after he finished the explanation, but Yukito was really annoyed; he knew this kind of information about the basic techniques and all, but the way that Sasuke said it was annoying him. But also, the giggles and whispers that he got before this… God he hated this.

The class continued without problem until the bell rang. Yukito made sure he left the class before anyone could ask him anything. That didn’t stop Naruto to follow. Yukito went straight to his locker, get his lunch and went somewhere peaceful to eat alone. After the history disaster, he wanted to disappear badly. He looked around and settled for a tree far from everyone. He sat and started to eat, but he was really not that hungry.

“Are you alright Yukito?” asked Naruto, worried.

“I’m fine…” said Yukito, wanting so bad to just tell the blond to go away.

“Mind if I join you to lunch?” he asked, cheerfully.

“Whatever…”

Naruto just sat beside Yukito and started to eat his lunch too. They ate in silent until they heard footsteps. Yukito decided not to look, but Naruto was waving to the persons coming their way.

“You guys are joining us?” asked Naruto.

“As usual Naruto” said Neji, with what would be call a smile for the young Hyuuga.

“YATTA!!!” cheered Naruto.

Great thought Yukito, just what he needed; if Hyuuga opens his mouth about the tutoring in math, he was sure to get more nasty comments. He sighed and just stopped eating and put what was left of his lunch back in the bag.

“You okay Yukito?” asked again Naruto, this time really worried.

“Just peachy…” he said, with a cold voice.

“No really, what’s wrong Yukito?” said Naruto, serious this time. “You got out of history class really pissed off for what ever reason and decided to do the silence treatment for lunch.”

Yukito glared at Naruto; what would he know about this anyway? Sure, everyone knew he was new in school, but really calling him stupid for not knowing a thing was something else. He just had enough, got up and was about to leave when someone grabbed his left arm. He looked back and glared at Sasuke; the Uchiha was pissed off as well.

“What the heck is wrong with you Kamiya?” asked Sasuke. “Is it because you were that ignorant in history that you have to take your anger on someone else?”

“Leave me fucking alone Uchiha” said Yukito, really pissed off. “And as for the History class, I don’t bloody care what happen. How could I know a simple fact about Konoha since I lived in the Snow Country up till last week? Now, just let me go and leave me alone” he added, shoving Sasuke’s hand away and leaving the three boys really surprised.

“It’s actually the first time I hear more than five words from him” said Naruto, surprised.

<center>Later</center>

School was over and Yukito was walking home. The rest of the day went uneventfully. The gym teacher, Maito Gai, was really weird; it was almost scary. As for the art teacher, Hana-sensai was okay for once. She went easy on Yukito since he was new and even helped him since an art project had been given two weeks prior and they had to give it next week.

He was about to put his headphone on his ears when someone grabbed his wrist again. He looked and saw again Sasuke. He sighed; this was getting on his nerves.

“Uchiha, I hate to repeat myself…” said Yukito, wanting to just go home and forget about this chaotic day.

“Deal with it Kamiya” said Sasuke, annoyed. “You were really rude to Naruto, who was trying to be nice to you, to Neji, who’s supposed to be your tutor in math from what I’ve heard, and to me. Now, tell me why the heck is your bloody problem anyway?”

That really pissed Yukito off; who the hell was Uchiha thinking he was? He shoved his hand away and glared at him. “My problem? You really want to know that…” said Yukito, almost yelling at this point. “My problem is that I hate people giggling, whispering, gossiping and laughing at someone’s misery! People tend to forget that not everyone one is perfect and that maybe, just maybe I didn’t have the chance to study the history of Konoha before coming here! And the second one, it’s you and your damn annoying attitude! You think so highly of yourself that it’s annoying me!”

It took a lot to Sasuke to get, not only pissed off, but to be speechless at the same time, which gave Yukito plenty of time to walk away and put his headphone and his music. Naruto and Neji, who had saw the discussion, went beside Sasuke. They were also very surprised from what they heard from Yukito.

A few minutes later, Yukito entered the apartment he was sharing with his family. The actually slammed the door hard and took off for his room. A 19 years old punkish girl looked toward her younger brother’s door and just stared at it.

“Okay, that was odd…” said Yami.

“What’s wrong with aniki?” asked Mia, worried.

“Who knows?” replied Yami. “But my guess is that something happened at school.”

“Oh!”

<center>Yukito’s room</center>

Yukito had thrown his bag near his desk and he was now laying on his bed, looking at the ceiling right after putting his favorite album at full volume. He really wanted to forget his first day at school.

He sighed and closed his eyes.

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To be continued...