Hello everyone, this is a rewrite of my story Trust No One. I didn't like my old version so I'm rewriting it.
Enjoy Trust No One 2.0~
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Rays of sunlight sneaks through my curtains, into my eyes. My eyes flutter open, squinting at the light burying my head under my pillows to escape he sun's rays, I sighed. The weekends were over, I had to go to the academy like ever other future ninja. Though, I wasn't looking forward to it. Besides the education, what awaits at the academy is just girls who pick on me, every chance they get. It's so bad that I wonder if that's their reason to get up.
'...naw, they get up for the Uchiha. Making fun of me is just a bonus,' I thought as I got up. As much as I would like to avoid going to the academy, nothing comes from running away from your problems; that, and the fact that skipping would reflect badly on my records, especially since I'm apparently one of the top students. I let out another sigh before forcing myself to crawl out of bed. No matter what my problems at the academy are, becoming a successful ninja is my top priority.
'Why am I becoming a ninja?' I wondered to myself as I got up from bed, 'Guess it was better than staying at home and doing nothing. It perked my interest as a kid and I just continued.' I sat on the edge of my bed and stretched.
'...training children to become killing machines...this is basically what's happening,' I thought as I stood up, 'But you can't protect everyone, and you can't always trust someone else with your life. And if you can't trust anyone with your life, gotta make sure you can protect yourself.'
My bedroom was simple: a bed, a desk, a closet, and a dresser. The closet held my clothes, the dresser organized my throwing weapons, swords, and other weapons I've collected over the years. I quickly showered and threw on my everyday attire (cause everyone wears the same shit everyday). My outfit consists of a thin, somewhat translucent blue kimono shirt that reached my mid thighs. The sleeves were detached from the shirt, the sleeves started from my elbows and ended about an inch past my fingertips. A thin, dark black belt wrapped around my waist. I wore black shorts the reached above my knee. Once I was dressed, I went over to my closet. Crouching down, I opened it and was soon met by a pair of bright yellow eyes, peering from the shadows of the closet. The owners of the eyes crawled out of the closet, letting out a small 'mew' for attention. I ran my hands through his short, sleek fur, admiring the pure black coat.
"Morning, Akumu, my nightmare neko," I said softly. I filled his bowl up with food and went to the sink of my bathroom to fill his second bowl with water. I looked at my reflection in the mirror. Last night's insomnia really showed. Dark circles under my eyes, almost resembling a panda, my hair would be a mess if I didn't recently take a shower. I noticed my hair was still a little damp, so I quickly used my hair dryer to dry the rest of my hair. Pulling my black hair into a ponytail, I ran my fingers through the strands, stopping at the ends. Strangely, the tips of my hair were either dipped dyed blue, like the darkest parts of the surface of an ocean; or a bright, harvest moon red. My hair has been like this for as long as I could remember; when cut, the next day it would have either a red or blue tip. My bangs where dipped dyed blue, the same dark ocean blue, and side swept to my right; it was long enough to cover my right eye. I placed the bowl of water beside the bowl of food, grabbed my bag and left my room, making sure I closed the door. Before the door closed, I could hear a small 'mew'. A small smiled appeared on my face, it was Akumu giving me a goodbye. Once I was downstairs, my smile was gone with my resting emotionless face. I walked into the kitchen and was greeted by my guardian, Hatake Kakashi.
"Morning, Kyoko," Kakashi said, looking up from the orange novel that was always in his hand.
'Ugh, 'Make – Out Paradise', why does he even like that book?' I wondered. There was once a time, I was curious and decided to pick up once of the books from the series from the bookshelf in our living room. He panicked and took the book away. From that day, he kept those books in the shelf in his room. Also, I'm forbidden to read it until I was 18 or something.
"Morning," I muttered tiredly.
"Looks like you fell asleep studying," He told me, ruffling my hair, "Don't push yourself too hard." I gave a simple nod.
"I'm leaving," I said, grabbing an apple on the way out the door.
"Have a good day," He said before the door closed. Kakahshi's been looking after me since I was five, and it's been a little over 5 years now, I'm now 10, almost 11 years old. The only time I see Kakashi is in the morning, sometimes during the day, occasionally at night, if I decide to stick around in the kitchen or the living room or if I want to be in my room. Over all, I don't really spend much time with him, or stay in the same room with him for a very long time. I don't hate him or anything, I just didn't interact with him very much when I was younger. He had went on a number of missions, since he was part of ANBU at the time. Kakashi had then quit ANBU to have more time to take care of me. Well, I assumed that's why he quit. But by the time he did quit, I had pretty much become a hermit, a shut in, and didn't want to interact with anyone at all. He had tried so many things to get me out of my shell. Toys, sweets, small talk...using stuffed animals to talk to me. I didn't have much interest except for food, took it and left. Not his fault I was like this, maybe my 4 year old self would have fallen for those tricks, but I was scarred for life because of earlier events before I started living with Kakashi. Long story short, I was an orphan, I was told that I was abandoned at birth, and the orphanage I was left that was brutally abusive. The orphanage was ways away from civilization, but the Leaf Village had been the closest. Well, I'm guessing it was, since I had ended up there pretty quick. I was able to run away and ended up at the village, I informed the Hokage and now live with Kakashi. I wondered why. I know Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto lived on their own and are about the same age as me (they're 11 and I'm 10 at the moment). But I'm grateful that Kakashi buy the groceries so I don't have to socialize. On another note, I think Kakashi has heard me speak clearly once, when we met, I had to introduce myself. The Hokage made me introduce myself, I wouldn't have said anything if it wasn't for the Hokage. But after a while, since I had to live with Kakashi, I had to talk to him. I soon started to interact with him more. Not to the point where we would have full on conversations, but it's like a yes or no game. I wonder if Kakashi thinks its his fault that I don't like to interact with others. It's not. After those unfortunate events, I didn't want to trust anyone, I don't want to create bonds, and the best way to avoid that is to avoid talking and interactions with others. I don't feel the need to.
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I got to the academy about 10 minutes before class. I would usually get to school earlier so I could get to my seat before everyone else, but I decided it would be okay to walk a slow pace today. It was a nice day, I like taking in some of the good things in life. Sunny days, morning dew on the grass, flowers that had just bloomed, small things like that. I walked into the building, towards my class. I walked into the classroom full of students. They were all goofing off, hanging with their friends. There were the group of girls huddling around a certain Uchiha, Uchiha Sasuke to be exact. The girls were fangirling and flirting.
"Sasuke – kun,~ can I sit next to you today?"
"In your dreams! I'm sitting next to Sasuke – kun!"
"Oh, as if he would want to sit next to you, forehead!"
"Get away from him, Ino – pig! Sasuke – kun is mine!
'...they must be aware that Sasuke knows what they're saying and that they sound completely mental and obsessed...right?' I wondered. I looked away from the scene and went across the classroom. I could feel stares from other classmates on me. The fangirls pierced me with their stares. I kept my eyes at my seat to avoid catching someone's stare by accident. I beelined to my seat and simply sat down. I could see whispers shared among the girls who were bickering just moments ago.
"Staple mouth is here."
"What's with her clothes? You can see her bra."
"Ugh, must be showing off her jugs, disgusting."
"And that hair, who dyes their hair like that?"
"Think she'll say anything today?"
"Ha! Yeah, right! The day she speaks is the day Uzumaki Naruto becomes Hokage!"
"I saw her look at Sasuke-kun the other day, does she really think she has a chance with him?"
'I do talk, just not often,' I shrugged. I looked out the window, feeling the glances, stares, and glares.
'...pretty chatty today...wow, I didn't know that people knew more about me than I knew about myself,' I thought in exaggeration, 'I'm such a bitch,' I almost snickered, 'And it's not my fault my boobs are a bit more developed than everyone else...they're still A cups...well almost B...ugh whatever.' I never fought back, I tried my best to not let it get to me. I admit, I acted very differently from everyone at the start. At first, everyone thought I was just overly shy. But it got to the point where you would call this social anxiety. But instead of respecting my space and privacy, people like to poke their nose into places they shouldn't. I guess I was too different and it got everyone to be wary of me. People don't like different things, and instead of possibly learning and figuring out certain explanations for it, they attack the unknown.
'I'm just not comfortable communicating with people,' I thought. At least they don't bully me as bad as Uzumaki Naruto, they actually act as if he's some sort of monster. They tease and leave him out at the academy. He became an outcast. The village looks down on him as if he's a disgrace to the village. I've heard from the Hokage that he's the Host for the Nine-Tailed Fox, all the adults knows this, I don't think any of the other students in the academy knows, let alone Naruto himself. People think he's a monster for containing the Nine – Tails inside him, but it's not like he had a choice. If anything, he's a hero for being a host. Though, I'd never say that to him. He's kind of annoying, I can agree with that. But he just wants attention, to be noticed. He lets the teasing get to him. Oh well, not my problem.
"Hey! Staple mouth!" I sighed and turned to the voice. Yamanaka Ino, or "Ino-pig" as Haruno Sakura calls her. I glanced at her from my seat. She walked up to me and...stared at me. I was faced to face with her.
'..if you were just gonna stare at me, you didn't have to come all the way here,' I thought, 'I wonder if she knows what personal space is? Guess not since she sticks her nose everywhere.'
She continued to stare.
'Being annoying won't get you anywhere,' I thought, I felt eyes on me and Ino. The class was watching. I just turned my head back to the window. An angry grunt was heard from the blonde's mouth.
"Can't you just say something?!" She exclaimed angrily, "Anything?!" I sighed and turned my head to face her. She gave me a hopeful but determined look. I opened my mouth, and in a soft, quiet tone that only Ino could hear, I spoke.
"...fuck off," I told her, my tone a little darker and lower than anticipated. She glared at me.
"Excuse me?" She growled. I sighed, pulling out my notebook. I wrote a simply note on it before ripping the page out and handing it to her.
I said something. You didn't say to say something specific. There's no reason for you to get mad. You got what you wanted. I do talk, just not a lot. I don't like being forced to do anything. If you're unsatisfied, it's your own fault. I am not an exotic animal or an unknown species for you to poke and prod. You don't know me, or who you're messing with. Heed my warning, or face the consequences.
Kyoko
Ino took a moment to read it. Ino's anger was easily seen plastered on her face. She crumpled and threw the note at me. I deflected her attack with ease. It hit Ino's forehead and flew across the room. Landing near the chalkboard in front of the classroom.
"Are you threatening me?!" Ino asked, almost challenging me.
'What a pain in the ass,' I sighed.
"You think I'm scared of you? What are you gonna do? You can't even talk back! Cowardly writing your words!" Ino continued.
'Where's your off switch?' I wondered as she yelled my ear off.
"You often skip out on spars, yet you're top of the class?! How could that be fair?!" she asked. I blankly stared straight in the front of the class.
"You sit there, staring into your books or into space. How are you suppose to be a kunoichi if you can't defend yourself in a fight?" She questioned.
'This ridiculous "fight" is very one sided,' I thought.
"Tch, that cold emotionless look isn't gonna protect you from anything. You act tough, but you're really just a -" I didn't let her finish. Done with her bullshit, in a blink of an eye, I was behind Ino, holding a kunai against the blonde's neck. Everyone was frozen in shock.
'W-what? She didn't even move! D-did she?' Ino wondered.
"You know, actions speak more than words," I said in a dark, hushed tone, "Is your ass jealous of all the shit that comes out of your mouth?" I pressed the kunai against her neck. No blood, just scaring her.
"I warned you. But you enjoy running your mouth too much to consider my threat. Look now, so quiet. Maybe I should keep you quiet..." I told her. I could feel Ino shake in fear.
"Good Morning everyo-WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?"
'Shit, Iruka-sensei,' I thought as he walked in. Iruka looked at me and Ino. I heard another girl's voice pipe up.
"Iruka Sensei! Kyoko is gonna hurt Ino!" it was the pink haired girl, Haruno Sakura, aka, "Forehead".
'Might? I was considering it.'
Iruka Sensei's eyes grew huge, 'Kyoko, you better not have done anything.'
"Kyoko, put the kunai down, let Ino go. I'm sure we can work out whatever happened," Sensei said slowly. ...'
'I understand what you're saying, don't talk slowly as if you're explaining shit to a child,' I thought rolling my eyes. I let Ino go and twirled my kunai before putting it back.
"I was only playing~" I said, sitting back down. I felt many eyes on me.
'Is me talking that surprising?' I wondered. I watched Iruka pick up the crumpled up note that flew onto the ground.
"Kyoko, Ino, you two are staying after class today."
"WHAT?!" Ino shouted, "WHY ME?!"
'This girl does not know how to shut up,' I thought, closing my eyes.
"AND WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE WITH HER?!" Ino asked, pointing at me.
'...everyone is looking at us...' I sighed. Oh how I wanted to get up and leave, right now.
"Ino, go sit," Iruka Sensei told her. I looked back down at my notebook. It was total silence in the class, I loved it. It usually got this quiet after Naruto would do something. Speaking of Naruto, the Uzumaki walked in.
"Sorry I'm late Iruka Sensei...did...did I miss something?"
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Class finally started, but I wasn't paying attention.
'Ino caused too much attention...watch the rumors grow,' I thought, looking out the window. My attention snapped back when I heard Iruka say something about a project.
"...this project will be done in partners." I heard Iruka said.
'...partners? Fucking hell,' I thought.
"I will assign your partners, when you hear who your partner is, go sit next to them and wait for further instructions," Iruka said, starting to call out the partners.
'...why must this be done with partners? Fuck!' I really wanted to just stand up and walk out of the room.
"I will assign you your partners, when you hear who your partner will be, go sit next to them and wait for further instructions. Also, there's an odd number of students so one group will have three people," Iruka Sensei said, starting to call out the partners.
'Yeah...I'm an independent worker, plus I think no one would wanna be partners with me after what just happened' I thought to myself, 'Also, why don't you make the third person work by themselves? I'll be the third person if that's the case,'
I've yet to hear my name, more and more people started to get worried.
"I hope I'm not partners with Kyoko."
"Me too..."
"Oh god, what if I get partnered with her?"
"I'm scared..."
"I don't wanna be with her or Naruto."
"I wanna be partnered with Sasuke-kun."
"...me too"
I groaned, slightly embarrassed with myself.
"Ino, and Sakura"
"WHAT?!" Ino and Sakura yelled both at the same time.
'...okay I get that they're rivals, but weren't you two wishing, just a second ago, that you guys wouldn't be partnered up with me?' I thought. These people, unbelievable. Iruka Sensei looked at his sheet again.
"Sorry, my mistake. Ino and Kiba"
"...w-wha...?" Ino looked like she was gonna die, again. Everyone laughed
'...Kiba, Inuzuka Kiba, the one guy who's almost as annoying as Naruto...this is going to be interesting.
"Sakura and Naruto"
"YES!" Naruto hollered.
"N-no..." It was Sakura's turn to die.
'Iruka Sensei, he's doing this on purpose, right?,' I thought, looking over at the dead Haruno, 'Honestly, I thought the Uzumaki was gonna be partnered up with Sasuke, huh, whatever. Iruka probably put him with the Haruno so he can't do anymore pranks, last time, he painted the Hokage mountains...idiot.'
"Sasuke and Shino"
...silence between the two guys. All you could hear was silence and some of the girls complaining that they weren't Sasuke's partner. Sasuke just got up and sat next to Shino.
'...right, Sasuke's the "Cold, dark, cool" person.' I thought. I knew about his past, through Kakashi, I remember when he was more opened...until the Uchiha Massacre happened. It was only two years ago when his clan was brutally murdered by his brother, Itachi. I remembered that I got along with him, and his brother...sorta...I still didn't say anything but their names but they accepted me. Unfortunate for Sasuke...though, he was probably spared for a reason. I thought for a moment, '...he's with Aburame Shino...the other quiet guy, interesting.'
"Kyoko..."
...it was really quiet, way quieter than the event between Kyoko and Ino.
"...and Shikamaru."
I silently sighed, there were sighs of relief from people in the classroom,
'Nara Shikamaru,' I thought. It's not like I didn't like him, it's just that I have to work with someone, and this someone was apparently the most laziest person in the class. I continued to look straight as Iruka Sensei continued with the names. Shikamaru just walked over to me and sat in the seat right beside me.
'...tch, this is wonderful,' I thought sarcastically. Shikamaru lazily looked at me.
'...Kyoko...haven't talked to her in a long time,' He thought.
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"Kyoko, come down for a second," Hatake Kakashi called the girl from downstairs. He looked over at Shikamaru.
"She's really shy, so bare with her for today, okay?" He told the boy. A girl with black, blue and red hair walked downstairs and looked up to Kakashi with a slightly annoyed expression. Kyoko was about 6 years old. She noticed Shikamaru and immediately hid behind Kakashi.
'What's going on? Who is this?' She wondered.
"Kyoko, this is Nara Shikamaru, he lives near here. His mom wanted you guys to meet and play with each other," Kakashi told her.
"Um...nice to meet you, Kyoko, you can call me Shikamaru," The boy said. Kyoko looked up at Kakashi.
"Go on, it's fine," Kakashi told her. Kakashi gently pushed the girl towards Shikamaru.
"Why don't you bring her over to your house? I bet your mother would like to meet her," Kakashi said to the boy.
"Okay," Shikamaru said simply, taking the girl's hand and walking her to his house. Kyoko waved bye to Kakashi before letting Shikamaru drag her away. Kakashi was apparently busy today with a mission and couldn't look after Kyoko that day. The kids soon reached the Nara grounds.
"...so...what do you wanna do?" Shikamaru asked. The girl shrugged.
"Do you know how to play shogi?" He asked. Kyoko shook her head "No".
"How about Go?" Shikamaru asked. She shook her head again.
'...she's not making things easy, mom's gonna kill me for not "entertaining" Kyoko,' Shikamaru thought. He laid down on the grass and looked up at the clouds.
"Well...I like looking at the clouds...we can do that or something," He said, hoping she would copy what he was doing. She didn't. She just walked around, taking notice of the little things. She looked at ants, and how they worked. She stared at a flower, that had a bee pollinating it. She followed a butterfly, as it landed on a leaf. I observed the grass, as the wind made it dance. Shikamaru took notice of Kyoko's long hair, how no matter how strong the wind was, the bangs always stayed to cover her right eye, but the rest of her of long hair swayed with the wind.
'Her hair...did she purposely color it like that?' Shikamaru wondered, falling asleep, thinking about Kyoko's appearance, while she continued to wonder around the trees she was surrounded by.
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"Shikamaru! Where is Kyoko!? Why didn't you bring her in so I could meet her?!" Shikamaru woke up to his mom yelling at him.
"Mom, I'm trying to sleep," Shikamaru said as he turned over to his side.
'...wait...Kyoko?' Shikamaru shot up looking around for the quiet little girl who was with him. 'oh no where is she? I'm gonna be in so much trouble!' He looked around the trees where she was playing around. Then something hit his head.
"...Oww..." He looked at what hit him, an apple. He looked up, he saw the little Kyoko reaching her hand out, picking an apple, then taking a bite out of it. Her expression was still the same.
"Hey" Shikamaru called out to her. Kyoko looked down, then continues to eat her apple.
"You wanna come down? My mom wants to meet you." Shikamaru said to her. She froze when he said the word"meet". She shook her head "No" and continued to eat her red apple.
'Ugh troublesome girl' He thought. "Well just come down, you're gonna fall." Kyoko ignored him and continued eating. Suddenly, the branch she was sitting on breaks. Shikamaru quickly caught her before she fell. Surprisingly, for Shikamaru, Kyoko didn't scream, or make any sound, when she fell. She just looked at the Nara, with her plain expression, for an explanation of the branch breaking.
"Oh, um, all the branches on this tree isn't sturdy enough to hold people for a long time." Shikamaru explained. Kyoko just nodded, silently thanking him, as he put her on the ground.
"Oh my goodness, are you okay?" Kyoko and Shikamaru turn to see the young Nara's mother running towards them. She was looked pretty young, she was wearing a simple pink dress that went down to her knees. It wasn't hideously bright, but a nice dark shade of pink, almost magenta. Over the dress was a white apron. She was a brunette, her hair was tied back into a ponytail, along with her bangs if she had any.
"Shikamaru! You were suppose to watch after poor Kyoko! She almost got hurt!" Shikamaru's mom started yelling at him.
'Oh boy' Shikamaru thought, as his mom continued to yell at him.
'Uh oh...' Kyoko thought, before interrupting the enraged mother.
"Um, it was my fault," Kyoko said quietly to the Nara's mother. Shikamaru was shocked to hear Kyoko speak, her voice was very...cute, it was very sweet, unexpected to the young Nara.
"Shika-kun told me not to climb the tree, and that he would get the apple for me. But I didn't listen. But I'm fine now, Shika-kun caught me before I fell," Kyoko explained.
'...is this her way for returning the favor of me saving her?' Shikamaru thought.
"Really? Shikamaru usually isn't like that," Shikamaru's mother told Kyoko.
'Thank you mother,' Shikamaru thought.
"But as long as you're okay. Oh you're just so cute!" Shikamaru's mom gushed.
"Oh, thank you...um..." Kyoko started out, not knowing what to call the Nara's mother.
"Oh! Just call me Yoshino." She told Kyoko.
"O-okay, Yoshino-san." Kyoko said quietly.
"You're just so cute! If you kids need me I'll be inside." Yoshino told them as she went back inside.
''...that went well,' Kyoko let out a silent sigh of relief.
"Thanks for saving me back there" Shikamaru thanked. Kyoko nodded and continued her non-talking spree. She took his hand and dragged him to the spot where he was sleeping before and sat down. Shikamaru understood and laid down to watch the clouds again. Kyoko was deciding whether or not to lay down beside him. Slowly she did and looked up at the clouds with Shikamaru. There was a long silence between them until Shikamaru broke it.
"...why are you so quiet?" He asked.
"...I don't like to," She said simply, closing her eyes.
"I'm not gonna complain, it's nice to be around someone who isn't so chatty," Shikamaru said, "But you should talk more, you have a nice voice," he stated, with a pink blush forming on his cheeks. She opened her eyes, and turned over to look at him. She closed her eyes again.
"...maybe," she said quietly, not sure if the young Nara heard her or not.
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"Okay, everyone know who their partners are?" Iruka Sensei asked. I blinked, 'Oh...right the project...' I turned to Shikamaru, he was asleep.
'...I. Am Going. To. Kill. Someone. I was suppose to work with this?' I glanced at the sleeping Nara, his face was...sorta...cute.
'Cats are cute too,' I told myself before I faced Iruka Sensei who was talking about the project.
"This project is about teamwork, the person that you're partnered up with may be someone you don't know, or don't really know. Your partner could even be your rival, someone you don't get along with, someone you don't know, or maybe your best friend. But this project will let us see if you could work together with anyone. I made sure I didn't partner you guys with your best or close friends, and I made sure I partnered you guys up with someone who might kill you haha..." People slowly looked at me. I groaned, burying my face into my arms.
''Ugh...Stop looking at me.'
"Um continuing on, for a school week, five days, you and your partner will be cuffed together, to see how you guys will live attached with another person."
'...haha very funny, now whats the real project?' I looked at Iruka Sensei, hoping he would just say "Just kidding" or something. Everyone looked at our Sensei as if someone just shot him through the head.
"...24 hours a day?" Sakura asked nervously.
"How are we suppose to go to the bathroom?!" Someone asked
"Or changed?!" Another asked.
Questions were being thrown at Iruka Sensei, who was waiting impatiently for everyone to settle down. Which wasn't happening.
"I can't be stuck to Naruto for a week!" Sakura cried out.
"Speak for yourself! I have to be cuffed to dog breath!" Ino complained, motioning to Kiba.
'...everyone shut up so we can get answers...' I thought, waiting for everyone to shut up.
Everyone kept yelling and complaining, I could see Iruka Sensei getting impatient and tired with everyone. Shikamaru for some reason is able to sleep through all of this. I was getting tired of all this. I formed a fire ball in my hand, and threw it in the air and it exploded, creating a loud "Boom" sound, causing everyone to finally shut up. Everyone looked at me. I just gave them an annoyed look.
"...thank you, Kyoko...but no ninjutsu in class. If you guys were quiet, then you guys would have your answers," Iruka said.
"You guys aren't stuck with each other 24 hours a day, you guys are stuck with each other 20 hours a day. The cuffs will let you go at 6 pm to do whatever you guys have to do for the four hours. Then the chakra will pull you guys back to the hand cuffs. I suggest you guys be near the cuffs near the end of the last hour. This will continue like this for the five days, this will help you learn how to work together and get to know each other. Also, I want you guys to train with each other, not spar, the chain isn't long enough for you guys to fight each other, you can try hand to hand combat, taijutsu. Help each other with stuff like chakra control and target practice. Learn about each other, their strengths, their weaknesses, their hobbies, just get to know each other, it makes this project easier." He said as he started handcuffing each pair of students.
I looked back at Shikamaru, surprisingly, he was awake.
'...when did he...' I looked at him, he was just waiting for Iruka Sensei to come over here.
'...I'm gonna have to explain everything aren't I?' I sighed, I really didn't wanna communicate with anyone. I noticed Shikamaru turn to look at me, then turned away. He seemed like he wanted to ask something.
'...well? Just staring at me isn't gonna get you answers,' I thought to myself. Iruka Sensei came to my and Shikamaru and cuffed us together. My right hand was attached to his left.
'...he's right handed too, right?' If he was left handed, writing notes is gonna become difficult, no, everything would become harder to do. The chain that attached us together was about 15 inches long, at least our hands weren't actually attached with each other, the chain gave us some space.
Iruka Sensei started talking about chakra control, or something, something he's taught us before but decides to talk more about again. It wasn't anything too important to write notes about, I had enough information on the subject in my note book, but listens in to the lesson just in case there was something important. I looked over to see what Shikamaru is doing. He was sleeping.
'...how is he gonna become a ninja? If he's this lazy why is trying to become a ninja ?' I wondered, and turned to pay half attention to the lesson.
It wasn't even lunch yet, and I was getting bored of the lesson. But what bothered me was the fact that the kid beside me was still asleep and was not getting in trouble, and was somehow passing this class. It was driving me nuts. I looked at the sleeping Nara, 'Still sleeping anytime and anywhere, huh?' I continues to look at him, taking in his features. His face had his signature lazy/bored look, he was sorta cute.
'...it's cute that he thinks that he can sleep and still be able to know this shit,' I thought to myself as I continues to analyze my partner. His black hair was kept in a ponytail, which for some reason spiked up, defying the laws of physics, disobeying gravity.
'I mean, come on, how the hell does it stay straight up? Pineapple head,' I glanced at his hair again, 'I wonder if it's soft...' I quickly turned to her Sensei again, pushing away the random urges to touch the Nara's hair.
'Why do I even want to?,' I took one more glance, 'He always has his hair up...I wonder what it looks like down...' I shook my head and turn my full attention to Sensei, again, only to see that the lesson was over and it was time for lunch.
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I put my things away with my left hand, and turn to the boy sleeping.
'...I wanna eat...get up...' I thought as I glanced at him. I decide to sit down, not wanting to bother the sleeping boy. I turn to the window, my right hand holding up my head, only to have my right hand tugged by the boy after a few minutes.
"Come on, I wanna go eat," Shikamaru says, with a hint of annoyance. I looked at him, annoyed.
'Yeah, I did too, but I was nice enough to not bother you. Appreciate that,' I sighed in annoyance as I grabbed my bag and followed Shikamaru out the class.
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Shikamaru dragged me outside, I held my bag in my right hand.
'She didn't even try to wake me up,' Shikamaru thought, sighing, 'If I don't get her to talk, this project will be impossible.'
'Maybe if I annoy her enough...' Shikamaru wondered, 'I know for sure, she wasn't gonna kill Ino' I dug through my bag with my left hand, looking for my bento.
'She isn't like that...right?' He sighed, 'This may be a big risk...bringing her to a group of people.'
I pulled my bento out as we went outside, feeling the sun cover me like warm blanket. I squinted at the bright light.
'Okay, got my bento, now gonna find my tree and...wait...I'm connected to another person...where is he taking me?' I looked up at the Nara, who was directing me to his group of friends.
'No. No no no no no no no no. No Please no. I'm already attached to you, I don't need to be around more people. Even though school makes me be around people, I don't sit and eat lunch to them. You're bringing me too close to them! Why couldn't this project be finding something in the woods with a partner or something? That's teamwork, right?' I thought to myself, and mentally yelling at Shikamaru. As much as I wanted to tug Shikamaru away from the group, I just continued walking with him.
'I already feel like I'm gonna fail this project...maybe I can chew my hand off?' I asked myself as he pulled me closer and closer to the group of loud people.
Shikamaru turned to look at me, I just continued to look annoyed.
'Really? You're not gonna try turning away from the group?' Shikamaru thought, 'I was hoping you would at least give me a light tug to turn me away.' He looked at me. I was getting a lot more annoyed.
"...what?" I asked in a low, annoyed tone.
"Oh, uh, nothing," Shikamaru said, not expecting me to say anything.
We got to the group who was sitting under the shade of the trees above them, they all had they're lunch boxes opened and were eating and chatting away with each other.
"Yo," Shikamaru greeted as he and I came to the group. Some greeted back or just gave glances. Ino, however shrieked at the sight of me.
"W-why did you bring HER?!" Ino yelled pointing at me.
'Yeah, I'm right here,' I thought to myself, 'This is gonna be a long lunch.'
"Do you think I really had a choice, Ino?" Shikamaru said, showing her the cuff and chain that was connected to me.
'Yeah, Ino, did you forget about the project? Or is your head too full of gossips and rumors to actually remember anything important? Idiot,' I sighed, 'Idiots, I'm surrounded by idiots.'
"Y-yeah...b-but...I..." Ino stuttered, and sat down in defeat.
"Don't worry, I don't think she'll be able to do anything to you, since I'm attached to her,"Shikamaru said, "Just don't be annoying. I know it'll be hard, especially for you-"
"Excuse me?!" Ino yelled.
"See? Something like that will provoke her," He told her. She looked like she was gonna say something but then stayed silent. He walked by a tree, and laid beside it, both hands behind his head. I followed and sat beside him with my lunch, not like I had a choice. I suddenly felt really domesticated, following a male around, but it's not like I had a choice. I opened my bento box, ignoring the eyes that stared at me. I grabbed my chopsticks, and slightly turned away from the group. I was getting even more agitated. Shikamaru waited to see if I was going to do anything. I quickly looked up, glaring everyone in the eye, sending cold chills down their spines as they looked away.
'They looked at me like I'm some new found species,' I thought as I started to eat.
After a while everyone continued with their lunch, eating, chatting, joking around, even Shikamaru was pulled into the group as I continued to eat alone. I was used to being alone, but I wasn't exactly alone. I'm just not used to having people only a couple centimeters away. I looked up at the school, '...I wanna go to the roof to eat...' I thought about my original place at lunch. There's usually no one on the roof.
"Sakura-chan! Quit being so mean..." I looked over to see Naruto holding his head, assuming that Sakura hit him for being annoying or something.
"Stop begging people for their lunch! You should have packed your own!" Sakura nagged him. I looked around, it seemed that Naruto people had accepted him into the group, sorta. Most of them were still kinda cautious.
'...huh...' I looked at my bento.
"Oi, Kyoko-chan! Why are you so quiet?" I looked up to see who called me. I looked up to be faced to faced with the Uzumaki.
'...I have a feeling, that no one in this school knows what personal space is,' I thought, being annoyed about the yellow haired boy directly in front of me.
"You're lunch is really cute, Kyo-chan," Naruto complimented. I was a little taken back. Sakura quickly pulled him away from me.
'...he's got guts, I'll give him that,' I thought.
"Don't even try, Naruto, Ino tried back in class and almost got killed," Sakura told him.
"Is that why Iruka Sensei didn't give me detention for being late today? Whatever, and she probably did that because Ino was being an idiot," Naruto said.
'I suddenly like this idiot,' I looked over at Ino.
"You're the idiot! What makes you think you can talk like that!?" Ino questioned.
"Watch you're mouth, Ino! You're talking to the future Hokage!" Naruto said, fist pumping in the air.
"Ha! The day you become Hokage is the day I decide to shave all my hair off!" Ino laughed.
"Well, now I really want Naruto to become Hokage now," Shikamaru grin, joining the conversation.
"And as order of the future Hokage, I order you to talk!" Naruto said, pointing at me. Three kunais went passed him, purposely missing him, piercing the tree behind the yellow haired boy. Naruto's eyes were huge. Everyone looked at me.
'...the current Hokage can't make me talk, even if you do become Hokage one day you still wouldn't be able to,' I thougt. Naruto quickly backed down, giving up. His stomach let out a loud sound, indicating his hunger. He laughed awkwardly. I sighed. I held my lunch to him. All eyes were on us.
"..huh?" Naruto looked at me, confused. I gave him a glance, nudging my lunch towards him. His eyes widened happily.
"Really? Thank you!" He said, grinning widely, taking the lunch. People continued to look at me with surprise.
'So I can't be nice?' I thought, getting up, looking at Shikamaru.
'She wants me to get up, huh? Well, I'm not gonna get up that easily,' Shikamaru thought.
"What?" Shikamaru asked me, giving a lazy smile. I just looked at him, motioning him that I wanted to go.
"What do you want?" He asked me, smirking.
'...is he fucking around with me?' I thought to myself, giving a light tug to the chain, trying to get him to get up. "I'm sorry but I don't understand," Shikamaru said smirking. I was getting annoyed, then noticed that everyone's eyes were on us. Shikamaru leaned on the tree with a smug look.
'Shit, everyone's looking at us, I need to go, right now,' I thought, looking at Shikamaru.
'Doesn't look like he's gonna get up, ugh why am I stuck like this?' I felt the urge to kill everyone here, right now. Before I could do anything, lunch was over.
'Thank god, I'm saved,' I thought with a sigh of relief. Everyone was leaving, going into the building.
"Thanks Kyoko – chan!" Naruto grinned at me, giving me the empty bento box. I took it and simply nodded.
"Come on, Naruto!" Sakura said, annoyed, dragging Naruto into the building. I looked down at Shikamaru, waiting for him to get up. He looked up at me.
"I'm tired, I think I'm gonna skip this class," Shikamaru said, still determined to make me talk.
'Why am I trying to make her talk again? I could end up in Ino's situation. Such a drag,' Shikamaru thought, 'So much work too.' He suddenly remembered the girl before when they were young.
'...her voice,' He thought, 'N-no, it's just for the project.'
'Ugh!' I pulled the chain with all my strength, making him topple over.
"Get the hell up," I growled, "And if you dare say anything about me talki-" He patted my head while getting up, catching me off guard.
"I'm not one to tell secrets," He said, standing, "Come on, lets go to class." I followed him, kind of surprised and shocked.
'...what just happened?' ~.~
If not...oh well?
Anyways, I hope to update regularly...maybe once a week? I dunno, I don't wanna set the bar for anything lol
Well, til next chapter!
~ Yukiyosh