Author's notes: I made this over spring break, it was a quick sequel to I'm free another generation ahead
Disclaimer: I"M SAYING THIS ONCE BECAUSE I DON"T WANT SAY IT AGAIN! I DON"T OWN NARUTO!!!
Chapter 1
It was calm. There was no wind, the temperature was fifty degrees and it was sunny. It was a good day. Heiseki could hear the birds singing from a good distance away. He sighed and leaned back against a tree. Then there was the explosion.
He fell down and hit the ground running. He wasn't called "the warrior stone" for nothing. Despite that he had never been able to graduate the academy, he was good at fighting and was unshakable when anything came his way. His father gave him his name, wishing that he would be unmovable when any enemy came against him, but it was Heiseki's choice to grow in that.
Heiseki was called WS by all his closest friends, some called him Red Eyes, because of a genetic defect in his byakugan. His eyes weren't white, they were red. He wore a red shirt, a red bandana over his head, to hide his white hair, and black pants. Around his waist were several hira shuriken. They were fastened into a belt, but he could clip and un-clip them easily. He didn't wear the normal sandals, instead, he favored heavy boots with a steel plate in between the sole of the foot and the treads on the bottom.
He had been waiting for the explosion. His father and mother, along with his grandpa and grandma, on his mother's side, his father hadn't even seen his parents in over eighteen years, five years longer then Heiseki had been alive, were somewhere in this forest. His grandpa's friends were there as well.
His grand parents weren't that old, his grandpa had married at a young age, twenty, and his daughter was born only a few years after. She married at a young age too, eighteen, to an exiled ninja from The Village Hidden in the Rain, with whom she had been dating nearly four years.
He smiled as he began to sense his father's chakra, which was nearly indistinguishable under his grandpa's. He climbed into the trees using chakra control, something his father had taught him outside of the academy, and began to run through the trees. He had a bad habit of trying to go faster then he should, and would occasionally miss a branch, but usually quick thinking saved him.
Usually.
Today, he was on a roll. He smiled; maybe his mom had cooked today. Sakura's cooking was fine, but his mother's was even better then his grandma's.
Spurred on, he ran faster. He stopped when he felt a strong blast of chakra. His parents had tried to get him to notice the difference in chakras. They had succeeded in a way, but not to the extent his mother had hoped. He could only describe chakras in color; this one could only be described as red.
He knew it was his grandpa's. It was the reason why they were out here. His grandfather could control this chakra only a little, too much would cause it to shorten his life span. His father thought of an idea to avoid that, which was what they were practicing.
His grandpa had explained to him before, the last time he had 'dropped in' on them, that he had two chakras. One from a demon sealed in him, and his own. His father's idea was that if he kept a layer of his own chakra over his skin and the red chakra over that. If it worked, the hokage would be so much stronger then he was now.
It was already indisputable that Naruto was among the top three hokage, the fourth being first, the third being second and him the third, but that bothered him. He wanted to be the top, number one.
Heiseki drew strength from that.
Heiseki admired his grandpa more than anything. His dream was to be the Hokage too someday. He wanted to be the number two hokage of all time. Once his mother asked him why number two, he answered, "I'd like to keep it realistic, because no one can beat grandpa."
His mother spent no time wasting to tell his grandpa that.
Heiseki decided to move more cautiously, slowly and keeping an eye out for any stray weapons, but then he realized he was still over a hundred yards away from his grandpa, although that doesn't mean Dad won't necessarily hit me, he thought and laughed.
His Dad wasn't exactly a good aim. He had the skill to hit a human twenty feet away from him, but that was if they were standing still. Beyond that, he wouldn't even touch his throwing weapons for fear of hitting his squad mates, even if they were behind him.
Heiseki prided himself on being a better aim then his father, but when he bragged about it, his father would laugh, punch him lightly on the arm and say, "That's not a great feat," his father knew his weaknesses, and didn't lie to himself about them.
Heiseki wanted to be like that.
Heiseki spent hours each day trying to grade himself on his skills, this was the order he thought of so far, chakra control, D, genjutsu, C, normal taijutsu, F, his father's Taijutsu, A, ninjutsu, D, weapon skills, D (which was still better then his father's) and spontaneity, A.
He considered spontaneity something to be proud of, it meant that in times when you needed it, you could pull an ace out of your sleeve when you didn't know he had one, like the ninja centerfold. He thought he had made it himself, but his grandpa shamelessly admitted he had come up with it first.
He had a knack for doing what people considered impossible. Once, he had escaped under the eyes of the anbu black ops while waiting for his grandpa to come and get him after he had smeared paint all over the fourth's and third's faces. He didn't like them because they were sometimes considered better then his grandpa.
Since he had managed to get back after repainting the faces while they still hadn't notice him missing, he got out of trouble, but his father knew. He just did, and it was slightly creepy, but it was so cool at the same time, he didn't even directly comment on it.
He lifted up some Sake to his lips and drank some, "Some prankster had painted the fourth's and third's faces today," he said calmly.
His mother looked up, "R-really?" she said shyly. She was a shy person, she never raised her voice. Not once, and Heiseki never thought she would.
"Yes, I wonder if they know what those two did…"
Heiseki had just grunted.
"Do you know?" his father said after taking another sip.
"Naw, not really," Heiseki said. He wasn't fooled, he knew his father knew that it was him who had done it.
"Well, they both died to save this village," he said, "The third died fighting Orochimaru, and the fourth sealed the Nine-tailed fox into the current Hokage, your grandpa."
Heiseki never once desecrated those two faces again. The others, sure, but not those two, he gained such a respect for those two. He often went up onto those two faces when he felt sad or upset in anyway and would think.
He found he liked to think.
Normally, not at all, but he made time to, during school mostly, Sakura often went straight to the Fourth Hokage's face to find him when he skipped. Sometimes he switched it up and went on the third's, but he more often went on the fourth, even if it meant he would get caught.
Heiseki soon got to where his father was training with his grandpa. Sakura, Hinata, his grandma, and his mother were on the side. Sakura looked bored. He snuck over and sat in the trees above them, "I'll never understand how those two could enjoy getting beat up like that…" Sakura said watching them.
Heiseki watched his father fight for a while, he fought almost on all fours, like a wolf. His father hadn't summoned his partner in battle, but that was fine, Kurofu didn't like being summoned during the day anymore, which was just fine for all parties involved. Especially Heiseki, Heiseki had to put a bed out for the wolf demon when he was summoned in his room, and Kurofu snored, loudly.
Kurofu had an annoying habit of sticking around longer then he should, but Heiseki could predict how that would work out to be an advantage, it meant less summoning, which meant less chakra used and also less time, a second in a fight could turn out to be an advantage.
He looked over his shoulder, "Hey, Tio-noro! They're there."
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that?" Noriko said shaking his head. Noriko sighed and summoned his sword, which looked like a sawtooth shark's nose over his forearm. Noriko was dressed all in a sea green color, he even wore gloves that were that color. His hair was black, and his head band was a circle of waves. He charged his father from behind. It was an underhanded tactic, but Heiseki let it slide.
Mostly because his father didn't let it slide.
His father held him down, "Yield," he ordered.
"I yield, what does that make it?"
"How should I know? It's over the hundreds at least."
"Want to just start over from zero? This will be the fourth time doing that," He said as Heiseki's father let him get up.
"Sure, but it's the fifth, and how did you find us?"
"A little spy," Noriko said, "You know him."
His father's eyes narrowed, "Heiseki!"
Heiseki knew that tone. He went down without any ado, covering his backside, "Yes, Dad?"
"Aren't you supposed to be in school?" His father said growling.
Heiseki sat down so he didn't have to worry about his rear, his father constantly reminded him that he wasn't too old enough to bend over his knee, "School's boring, I learn more from you then Sakura! Besides, it's a sub, they're so easy to trick!"
"Hey!" Sakura shouted from the sidelines.
"Who is the sub?" Zev said still glaring, his eyes beginning to turn yellow, mostly because Heiseki had just insulted Sakura even though it was the truth.
"Sashii…"
His father's eyes reverted to the normal blue, he tired to keep a glare going but burst out laughing, "Fine, fine, I suppose you can stay with us."
Heiseki jumped up, "Yeah!"
"But you're grounded from ramen."
Heiseki fell back down, "how long?"
"Only for an hour," his grandpa said getting up, his red chakra dissipating, "because I'm going to treat you when we get back."
"Naruto…" Hinata said shaking her head from the back.
"I am the parent you know," Heiseki's father said looking at him.
"Yeah, and I'm the spoiler, Zev, I mean, grandparent.
Zev sighed and shook his head, "Well, I must admit, I'm impressed, I'll let it slide, just this once though, if this happens again, I'll be very, very, very, upset, understand?"
"Yes sir!" Heiseki said jumping up. He looked around, "hey, where's Mr. Apathetic?"
Zev picked Heiseki up by the back of his shirt, "That's, Mr. Uchiha to you!" Heiseki laughed as Zev put him back down and patted him on his shoulder, "I just wish I knew what to do with you sometimes…"
"Feed me?" Heiseki said hopefully.
"Not a chance, hollow leg," Zev said laughing.
"Well, it is about noon, why don't we break for lunch?" Naruto said winking at Heiseki, "Your mother cooked today's lunch."
Heiseki jumped for joy and ran over to his mother, "Whadja' cook? Huh? Huh? Huh?"
His mother giggled a little. Heiseki noticed how young she seemed, if someone didn't know better, they might have assumed his mother was his older sister. She was so young. Once, Heiseki heard Sakura say to her that she was kept younger by his father. Something in his body kept her looking younger, which they had managed to deduce from the same thing happening to Hinata and Naruto, who, while were really over forty, seemed closer to thirty. Naruto's charka had amazing rejuvenating properties if used right, although, whatever was in Zev was much better. Sakura's life goal was to be able to copy it, which she had managed to a degree.
Heiseki asked once, "How did some of Dad get into you?"
His mother had blushed horribly and his father said, "I'll explain when you're married, okay?"
Heiseki sat down next to his mother as she brought out the food, with two extra plates then was originally needed.
Zev looked at her, "Leta, did you know Heiseki was going to come today?"
She smiled and looked at him. She looked down, as she put some food on a plate for him. He sighed, "I'd appreciate it if we didn't condone this behavior…"
Heiseki looked at the two of them, "What are you two saying to each other?" his parents had an ability to talk to each other through their thoughts.
"Nothing, Heiseki, nothing to worry about," Zev said taking the now loaded plate.
Heiseki took a plate and Leta dished it up for him. Naruto put a plate out in front of her, "Extra for me, please," he said kissing her on her forehead.
Leta smiled and gave him an extra big helping. Zev put out his plate, she looked at him, "Hey… if a kiss was all it took," she leaned closer to him and Heiseki strained to hear, "You'd be getting so much more for keeping me young."
Zev laughed and ate his food. Heiseki got up and sat over by Naruto, "Hey grandpa! How close are you to getting that new control down?"
Naruto shrugged, "Well, it still has a way to go, I was never good at chakra control. I just let my stamina take care of it."
Heiseki nodded, "Tell me when you get it, I want to be the one to shout it out!"
"Shout what?"
"That you've surpassed all the others, the hokages I mean."
Naruto smiled and took the hat that had the fire kanji on it, and put it on Heiseki's head, "Okay, I'll let you do that."
Heiseki gulped down all his food before Leta could notice and stammer out, "Heiseki… chew your food…"
Heiseki sighed contentedly, "I'm still tasting it."
"Your brain is probably just noticing that you ate something!" Naruto said holding out his plate and Heiseki's for more.
Hinata struck Naruto's wrist, "You're where he gets it from!" she said a little angry, "no wonder why he's always shoveling it in like you eating ramen!"
Naruto looked dejectedly at Hinata, "Aw… Hinata, we're just hungry!"
Hinata glared at Naruto as he leaned closer to her. He kissed her and then Sakura broke them two up, "No you don't, we let you get one in and then you go for hours!"
"You're still a monster sometimes," Naruto commented.
Heiseki got up and ran. He knew two things about Sakura, don't get in between her and Sasuke, she'll run you down like you weren't there, and two, don't call her a monster or make fun of her monster strength.
He hit the deck expecting his grandpa to go flying over his head, but instead heard laughter. He looked back as he felt a surge of red chakra go over his head. He saw his grandpa appear to do what appeared to be the rotation whorl, which members of the Hyuuga clan could do.
He laughed, "That's what we were just practicing, Sakura, you didn't forget already did you?"
Sakura sighed, "Yeah, but I thought Zev was weak compared to my punches, so I thought that would still get you."
Naruto glared at her, "It's the nine-tailed fox's charka… did you really think a meager blow like that could break it?"
Heiseki shuddered thinking of a blow that didn't constitute as meager compared to the nine-tailed fox's chakra.
Sakura bowed, "Yes sir."
Naruto put a hand on her shoulder, "Hey, I didn't mean to sound so mad, it just that I thought you'd know better."
Sakura nodded, "Yes, you're right."
Naruto picked up his and Heiseki's plates, "Now, how about seconds?"
Leta smiled and dished them both up.
-S-t-o-n-e-W-a-r-r-i-o-r-
Zev knocked on Heiseki's door, "Hei! Come on, it's almost time for school!"
Heiseki was just crawling through the window, "Shoot," he whispered to himself as he fell through.
"What was that?" Zev asked on the other side of the door, when Heiseki didn't respond he said, "I'm coming in."
Heiseki watched as Zev fiddled with the lock on the door, he had less then thirty seconds before he'd be through. He took of his shirt and did a handstand next to the wall and began to do push ups, "eleven, twelve," he said as his father came through, he waited until he was at fifteen, "I'm up already," he said standing up straight already.
Zev nodded, "Uh…huh…" he didn't sound convinced, "Well, put a shirt on and let's get going. your mother is making breakfast."
Heiseki grabbed a red shirt and then stopped. He dropped it and picked up a deep purple shirt, as well as a purple bandana that he tied around his neck. He'd be back for the red clothing after his mom and dad had left.
Heiseki ran down the stairs, "All right!" he shouted as he smelled his mother's cooking. He sat down at the table and left his father with very little. He ate it all in record time.
He got up, "Well, I suppose I should get going now."
Zev stood up, his food unfinished, "I'll be going with you."
Heiseki cursed inwardly, "I'll be alright."
"That's what we're afraid of."
"Oh…"
Zev opened the door and motioned out it, "After you," Heiseki walked out slowly, thinking rapidly. Zev sighed, "Hei, you have to do better in school."
"Why?"
"You'll never become a ninja if you don't," Zev said, he looked at Hei, "You do want to be a ninja don't you?"
"Of course!" Heiseki shouted, "I want to be the number two Hokage!"
"Number two?" Zev said before recalling, "You mean after your grandpa right?"
"Right!" Hei said nodding.
"He had to go through school too."
"He skipped a lot too!"
"That doesn't make it right!"
"So? It's more challenging then getting every question right on the tests!"
Zev smiled, "Want to know a secret?"
"What?" Heiseki asked, a little curious, but not wanting to know because it would be one more thing he'd have to explain away.
"You have a test today."
Heiseki groaned, "I didn't study at all."
"That wasn't the secret. The secret is, you don't have to study…"
"What?"
"You want to be a ninja right? Well, you don't necessarily have to know things, you just have to know who knows things…"
"I see…" Heiseki said rubbing his hands together, this could be fun.
Zev led Heiseki down the halls and opened the door. Sakura looked at him, "Oh, I thought Heiseki wasn't coming in today, is he feeling better?"
"What?" Zev said looking at her, "What are you talking about?"
"This," Sakura said holding a note out to him.
Zev looked at it, and then at Heiseki, "How'd you get my signature?"
Heiseki shrugged, trying to ignore everyone in the class room, "I always could…" he muttered.
Zev looked at it, "Uh…huh… that explains that two hundred dollar withdrawal from my bank account the other day…"
Sakura looked at Heiseki, "Heiseki! How could you copy your father's signature?"
Zev waived it off, "It's okay, we'll just have to be more careful in the future to make sure he doesn't do this again," Zev was fairly impressed by Heiseki's ability to come up with ways of skipping school, he just wished it was put to more practical use.
Heiseki walked up to a corner of the room. He winced as he heard someone shout, "Hey blood-shot! Couldn't come to school without your daddy holding your hand?"
Zev's eyes narrowed, "I would like to know who said that!"
"That was Akihito," Sakura said, "Akihito, stand up!"
Akihito stood up, he was an average height, he had black hair and brown eyes. All in all, fairly average, but one thing. He was considered the best looking out of the class by popular vote of all the girls.
Right now, Zev couldn't have cared less if he was the ugliest or the best looking, he looked at Sakura, "Does he always give my son problems?"
"Yeah, everyday that he shows, it's a problem."
"Heiseki!" Zev barked in his 'tone', "If I understand, that's well beyond the three times that I say you have to give."
Heiseki bit his lip and looked across, half of him wanted to smear the kid's guts along the walls, he was sick of having to let all the insults slide by. He was the reason why he didn't wear red any day he bothered going to school, but he didn't want to beat him up at the same time.
He was Emi's boyfriend.
She always stood slightly apart from him. She sometimes intervened on Heiseki's behalf. She was cute, intelligent, and very kind to her friends, but if you messed with her friends, that was a big no-no in her book. This was something Heiseki made sure never to do, not because of her rage at people who did that, but for fear of her holding a grudge against him. He had a monster crush on her.
Emi wore a black sleeveless dress that came down to her knees, it had two slits up the sides which revealed that she wore shorts underneath. Her dress had a white embroidered flower on it on the back. Her hair was jet black and came to the small of her back. She wore the standard sandals that most ninja wore.
"Heiseki!" Zev said in his 'tone' again, "You can beat the crap out of him if you want!"
Heiseki bit his lip for a moment later, he turned and then Akihito said, "See? He's a big chicken."
The thunder covered everyone's laughter.
The only kekkei genkais that Heiseki had mastered on his father's side were Relatzer no Jutsu, and Chidorian. Relatzer no jutsu was a move that made the user move like lightning, Chidorian was a more 'finished' form of Chidori, except it created a thundering sound and created four balls of lighting that were on the user's hands and feet. They made a crackling sound like lightning and were released when the user struck the target, causing a large explosion.
Heiseki only used Relatzer no jutsu this time.
The nervous gulp was audible in the room, almost as if everyone had done it at the same time. For that matter, they might have. Heiseki switched to a relaxed stance as gravity peeled Akihito off the wall, a room away. He had flown right through a wall.
Emi laughed, "I suppose he had that coming, good job Heiseki."
That made it worth it.
Zev growled, "Heiseki!" Heiseki flinched, "That wasn't nearly as strong as it should have been, did you just show pity on him?"
Heiseki began to think, truth be told, he did it because he was afraid that Emi would hate him for it, but he couldn't just come out and admit that. But he didn't want to say he had pity on him either, that would just make him seem weak.
"Uh… well… I didn't think he'd be worth the effort."
"That'll do," Zev said walking away.
Sakura grabbed his collar, "No you don't! You're helping today!"
"Why? I have to go help the Hokage."
"He can wait!" The class flinched as Sakura hit the wall with her free hand, "You have to pay for the-" she trailed off as the wall crumbled and the other class on the other side noticed the lack of wall that their class now lacked.
"Damages? I think you just made more then Heiseki did," Zev said laughing.
Sakura reached back to punch him. The class was surprised when he caught it, "But if you want, I'll help with Taijutsu today."
Sakura brought the class outside for taijutsu practice, "Okay, today, since Zev is helping, the challenge is that you have to land two blows on him," she walked over to him, "go easy okay?"
He sighed and took a ready stance.
Student after student got their two blows, after some difficulty. Soon it was Heiseki's turn. He rushed and got punched in the face. Zev smiled as Heiseki wiped some blood from his mouth. Heiseki knew that smile.
"You really want me to come after you?" he asked as he stood.
"You're going to have to," he said laughing. Thunder rolled and Heiseki was in the air with Zev holding his foot, "Perhaps you can keep me entertained today, I didn't even bother going a quarter strength with these others at Sakura's request, but with you," he said as he threw Heiseki to the ground and took the stance for Ookami no kiba style taijutsu. His own taijutsu.
Heiseki copied the stance, "Fine! Get ready!"
Zev's response was, "Chidorian!"
Heiseki returned the shout and charge Zev. They matched blow for blow. Heiseki was good, he spent more hours training in this taijutsu then he did in school, which wasn't saying much but the point remains the same, the first one to pin the other would be the winner.
Although by the fury with which they fought you would have thought it was the first one to kill the other.
After they had burned off their Chidoirans, Zev grabbed Heiseki's hand and pulled him under him. Heiseki flipped over his back and on to Zev's. Zev jumped back and flipped so that he was over Heiseki, but Heiseki kept a grip on Zev's back when he had flipped and continued until he was over his back. Zev sent a small burst of chakra through his arm into Heiseki, his type was lightning and it made him cringe. Zev flipped him over and then sat over him. Heiseki flipped back so that he was over Zev. He sat up, "Yes! I beat-"
Zev grabbed his collar and pulled him over his side and Zev sat on him, "You're pinned," he said when he put his legs through Heiseki's and pushed his arms to the ground, "You can't get out!"
"No fair! I had won!"
"It's not over till the-"
"Pink haired kunochi goes on the rampage again!" one student shouted.
Zev and Heiseki both looked up after dodging the kunochi's attack, "What?"
"Zev! Look at the damage you did!"
Zev and Heiseki looked around; the training ground was in ruins from their Chidorians. Heiseki looked at Zev, "Now would be a good time to skip school."
Zev hastily agreed.
When they were far enough away, Zev looked at Heiseki, "You better get back to school."
"Are you crazy!" Heiseki shouted at him out of breath.
"Well, if your mother finds out, I'll be in the dog house."
"I doubt it," Heiseki said shaking his head, "I mean after all, your like her… her…"
"Husband?" Zev said laughing, "You're right of course, but I can talk to your mother from here, and she says you need to go back."
"I don't believe you."
"Well, your grandpa will be there."
"Fine, fine," Heiseki said reluctantly turning.
"One last thing," Zev said, "Is the reason why you never wear red to school because of that kid?"
Heiseki sighed and nodded, "Yeah…"
"If he ever does it again, don't hold back, actually," Zev said smiling, "Why don't you wear red tomorrow and tempt him."
Heiseki smiled and shook his head; the idea had its merits.
"Which reminds me," Zev said looking at him, "Why did you really hold back?"
Heiseki was slient, "Can we just drop it?"
His father was solid for a moment, "Okay," he said finally, "I'll just trust that next time if he didn't learn his lesson this time you'll go harder."
"I don't think I want to, Emi's his girlfriend and she gets mad at people who attack her friends."
Zev put a hand on his shoulder, "I wonder if that's the only reason…"
Heiseki was glad he was like a rock, otherwise he would have blushed and his red face would have given him away.
Zev didn't push it any further, "Okay, I'll see you later today."
"See you!" Heiseki said running back. He climbed in through the class room window and sat down. He didn't mess up like this morning and was completely silent.
Sakura, with her back turned was writing on the board "Okay, now, let's see. Chakra, to put it simply, the energy that shinobi require to perform ninjutsu. Can you tell me what the two chakras are composed of?"
When everyone was silent for a minute, Heiseki blurted out, "The two energies come from those in the body, drawn from the body's cells, and those of mental and spiritual energy acquired over the course of much training and experience. The arts of shinobi are born of a combination of those two energies in what's called manipulating the chakras and focused in what is known as weaving the signs, or using hand signs to create a jutsu."
Everyone stared at Heiseki. Sakura most of all, "How did you know that? You have an F in everything because you never show!"
"He never shows because he skips to come see me," A voice broke out, everyone jerked to attention at the Hokage's arrival.
Sakura nodded and then pointed accusingly at Heiseki, "WAIT! How on earth did you get back in! I'm going to have your head for the damage to the training grounds!"
Naruto put a hand on Sakura's shoulder, "it's okay, I fixed it all up, that's why I'm here."
Sakura calmed, "Oh, okay," then her rage grew again, "WHAT ABOUT THE WALLS THEN!"
He pointed, "All patched up, and a genjutsu will do for the wall there," he said making a few hand signs that Heiseki couldn't see because of the speed at which he did them as he created a false wall.
Sakura grumbled and looked the wall, "Fine, fine," she pulled out a paper, "That reminds me, I made new seating charts."
Everyone groaned, usually because they got paired up with someone they didn't like, since Sakura only gave seating charts when she was mad and didn't get to fume.
Naruto turned to leave, "Well, since that's cleared up, I better-"
"Oh no you don't!" Sakura said grabbing him, "You're going to help with class today!" A log suddenly replaced Naruto, "NARUTO!"
"That's Naruto-sama to you!" Naruto said from the window sill, "I don't like class rooms, so, well, you're on your own!"
Sakura ran to the window sill and groaned as Naruto disappeared. She shook her head and went back to her desk, "Heiseki! Since you have the easiest time slipping in and out, I'm placing you at the seat farthest from the window! Third row!"
Heiseki knew better then to argue, she could have put him in the front, and he counted that blessing first on the list.
"Emi! Since you have the best grades in the class and a near perfect attendance, I'm putting you next to him, maybe some of you will rub off on him!"
Never mind, that was the first.
Emi sat down and put her books on the desk. Heiseki sighed and pulled out the chair for her seemingly apathetically, "Thanks," she said as she sat down and he pushed her back in.
"Don't mention it."
She smiled and stared at him for a long time. He matched her stare. At first he didn't mind, but then he realized that it was a little awkward. He brushed his face as if he was looking for something on it, "Something on my face?"
"Oh," she said snapping out of it, "It's just, red's my favorite color."
"Mine too," he said smiling, "I normally wear mostly red, just not to school."
"Well, look, Akihito needs to be taken down a notch or two, so don't worry about him, I won't be getting mad if you knock him around every so often."
Heiseki kept getting things to add to the top of his blessings, first on his list now was that Sakura had put him next to Emi, second was that they weren't in the front, third was Emi just asked him to kick Akihito around some.
"This day just keeps getting better and better," someone grumbled from the front, Akihito to be exact, "First, I get kicked through the wall by blood-shot," a kunai to his test paper in front of him made him recant it, "I mean, Heiseki, secondly, his father doesn't even consider me worth his time going all out on, third we have this test!"
"Enough talking, or I'll rip it up more then Heiseki already has!"
Akihito took the kunai and glared at Heiseki, "Well," he said chucking it back and missing horribly, "He started it."
"Wow, you're worse then my dad," Heiseki said getting up and retrieving his knife.
"How bad is he?" Emi asked.
Heiseki was a stone and didn't huff up impressed that she had asked him, "He couldn't' hit the broad side of Akihito's ego inflated head."
Emi laughed and Akihito freaked out, "Emi! Whose side are you on!"
"Well, you are pretty narcissistic."
Akihito was silent. Heiseki almost laughed when he realized that Akihito was flipping through a dictionary. He sighed, "She's saying you're egotistical."
Akihito grunted and began flipping to the E section.
"How about, conceited?" He began flipping to the C section, "pompous?" Akihito grunted again and flipped to the P section, "That dictionary have a thesaurus? Look for an antonym of humble."
Everyone laughed the dictionary suddenly very apparent in everyone's eyes. Emi laughed too. Akihito shoved the dictionary in his desk and began to work on the paper.
Sakura shouted, "All of you! WORK ON YOUR TEST!"
"Pink haired kunochi goes on the rampage again," someone muttered.
Heiseki looked at the test, he knew the fourth, fifth, and seventh question on the test. He noticed a fly buzzing around, but it wasn't an ordinary bug. He wrote on his paper, Gaichuu, I know the answer to four and five, give me the answer to all of the others, and I'll give you them, and waited for the bug to notice.
The bug flew over his paper for a moment and he didn't chase it away. The bug went back to Gaichuu and Gaichuu held out his finger underneath the table and it landed on it.
Gaichuu wore a black short sleeve shirt that was a little small for him, you could clearly see his muscles underneath. It was a little disturbing sometimes, but not because of how tight his shirt was, sometimes you could catch a bug crawling under his shirt and it would vanish as it went back into his body.
His full name was Aburame Gaichuu.
He talked to it for a moment after he had written down a few answers and it went back over to Heiseki. It spelled out by flying, "I don't know the answers to two, three, nine, and eleven but I can give the rest." The bug then began to give all the answers in the same manner.
When it came to seven, Heiseki knew Gaichuu wasn't pulling him around. He gave Gaichuu the answers to the ones he promised and then the bug came back after relaying the message. It spelled out, "Nice on Akihito, by the way."
Heiseki smiled, today was turning out to be a good day.
He looked around, Inuzuka Oke, one of the students who had a small dog with him all the time, had his dog on his head. The dog would bark occasionally and he would start scratching with his pencil.
Heiseki memorized one and then erased it, he wrote out after erasing his marks to Gaichuu, "give me the answers to one, two, three, nine, and eleven, and I'll give you the others."
When Oke's dog noticed, he barked and Oke set him down on the table. He scratched under his collar and then the dog hopped down and began to run about the room. He hopped up onto Heiseki's desk and the dog barked in his face.
Heiseki scratched in the same spot and after retrieving the note, said, "I'll give you the answers when I write these down, okay?"
The dog jumped down into Emi's lap and waited. She smiled at him but then gave a cautious glance toward Heiseki that said, "Don't trust him," but Heiseki didn't need to be told that.
He knew they were all wrong.
He wrote them down and smiled. He took out a sheet of paper and gave all the wrong answers to the dog and it ran over to Oke. Oke nodded and gave a wicked grin.
Heiseki smiled back and erased all the answers, after Kanshin's gaze was finished on his paper.
Emi looked at him, "if you want," she said sliding her paper under arm, "I have the answers, I know seven's been giving you some trouble."
He smiled and looked at seven, everything appeared in order, except for four.
He copied them all down, "Your four is wrong," he warned as he wrote the correct one and leaned back so she could see.
She laid her head on her desk, "No it's not, this is right."
"Emi! Heiseki! If you two are done, I'd like your tests!"
"Right, sorry Sakura-sensei!" Emi said jumping up and giving her the paper. Heiseki did so as well.