Summary: Chiharu moves to Konoha with her aunt and starts in a new school. Many things happens when you start at a new school and Chiharu who hates math finds herself for the first time being on good terms with her math- and contact-teacher, Kakashi, after actually hating him. But developing feelings when being so much in contact with your young teacher, when teacher/student relationships are forbidden, is not easy to deal with. (Follows Chiharu's point of view mostly)
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Konoha high: Quiet dog bite hard
Summer was over, and school started again. Oh, how Kakashi, the math teacher was looking forward to see how they all (should have) had grown mentally during the summer. Currently he was on his way across the schoolyard which was filled with screaming, energetic and happy students who was greeting each other, happy to see their friends again. He held a torn and used leather bag by his side and felt how the student's mood made him excited about the day. He wore the same clothes as he had always done ever since he became a teacher at Konoha Secondary school – black pants, a white shirt and harnesses and of course the mask that filtrated all the bad air. Well it wasn't really his idea to begin with; it was simply just a habit now.
He was honored to teach at Konoha high. It was located in Japan (which was his birth country even though he didn't look Japanese), it was a highly prestigious school and it was multicultural… Kakashi was ripped out of his thoughts as a Japanese girl he remembered as Nagisa Mura came up to him.
"Hello Kakashi-sensei, how was your vacation" she asked, hands folded behind her back as she looked up at him with puppy eyes. He remembered her well enough to not forget that she was very, deeply interested in him which occasionally happened with some of the female students at school.
"Well hello Mura, it was very fine. How about yours?" he asked politely and kept walking towards the entrance while his girly student followed him enthusiastically.
"It was awesome! I really wished it would've lasted a bit longer" at first she looked sad, but then added happily " But I missed your classes" she said and send him a big smile. Kakashi looked away and was glad that she couldn't see his skeptical smile. It was entertaining for him to see how she kept trying to flirt with him even though she never got a reaction out of him. She was the type of girl who was used to getting attention from the boy students at the school, and was probably what you would call (sorry for language) a school slut. He (and she) knew very well that relationships between teacher and student were forbidden… And he really preferred older girls, than 16 year old girls who obviously were in some kind of 'get more guys'-phase.
"Well I'm glad to hear that" he said while he opened the door and politely gestured for her to go first. She squeaked victoriously and walked confidently first before Kakashi went inside. The hallway was just as busy as it usually was. Paper flying from one end to another, people talking loudly, girls putting on lipgloss, boys pulling pranks… How he had forgotten the hectic life of a teacher. He received a few 'hellos' and a few 'what's up Kakashi?' from the more brave ones.
"Are you calling that a prank? I could pull one right in front of Kakashi, and he wouldn't even guess that it was me!" Naruto's voice cut loudly through everyone else's voices which made Kakashi stop. First day at school and Naruto is already up to something he thought whilst he changed direction to Naruto. Naruto was the least forgettable person; you could say that he was imprinted in Kakashi's mind just because he was such an outstanding kid.
"I thought I heard my name come out of someone's mouth?" he discretely swooped himself into the circle of boys which included Uzumaki Naruto, Rock Lee, Sai and Inuzuka Kiba. His favorite students.
Naruto tensed up and he tightened his mouth into a straight line looking dumb-founded (as usual). The boys laughed insecurely while looking at their plain-expressioned teacher who awaited an answer.
"So good to see you Kakashi-sensei! How've you been doing?" Naruto said with a wide smile in his face. Kakashi cocked an eyebrow indifferently, deciding to let it go for this time. "Very well Naruto… Now don't be late for class" Kakashi said remembering that the principal wanted to see him, so he better had to hurry so he wouldn't be late for class on his first day. Receiving a "we won't" from the boys he began to walk to the principal's office as he watched how the hallway emptied. He brushed a hand through his spiky silver hair while trotting up the stairs, turning a corner and then entering the office. Shizune, principal Tsunade's secretary, was sitting by the front desk, eyes focused deeply on a computer while her fingers ran over the keyboard. He cleared his throat and noticed a girl sitting on a chair by the wall. She looked quite mature despite her approximate age, had long blonde hair, and normal green eyes staring off into space as she listened to music on her iPhone. He hadn't seen her before, so she wasn't here because of trouble. She was attractive looking, but there was nothing particularly interesting about her. Probably pretty popular amongst the boys of her own age, and she probably took advantages of that as well. He weren't really the type to judge, but he was usually right when analyzing people.
"Welcome back Kakashi, you're late. You were supposed to be here 15 minutes before time" The secretary said with a smile on her lips – and the only reason why she smiled was because she knew that Tsunade weren't happy.
"Unfortunately, Tsunade is quite busy, so she won't be able to introduce you to your new student" Shizune was interrupted by a voice coming from her side "Great, so this is my new – late – teacher… I'm already bursting with expectations to his teaching" the girl he had analyzed just seconds before said.
Kakashi moved his eyes to hers, unaffected by her attitude while he scratched his neck.
"Let me see. My new student thinks it's cool to pretend to listen to music, just by having the earplugs in… Your intelligence must be a higher level than of a monkey's. Congratulations" he cocked an eyebrow at her waiting for her comeback.
"I- eh" she stuttered proudly while taking out her earplugs, but Shizune cleared her throat loud enough for catching Kakashi's attention again.
"Her name's Toshiko Chiharu" Shizune handed Kakashi some of her files as she returned to her computer, leaving Kakashi with his new student.
"Fine" Chiharu collected her stuff with a sigh all while Kakashi just stood there, trying to figure out her personality. Her name meant 'A thousand springs wise child'. Quite the name to have and he wasn't sure if the name could live up to her actual intellect; what person would present themselves like she'd done to her new teacher? It was all the same with those teenage blonde girls. He sighed; he wasn't quite the one to talk. He WAS late, not the best first impression you could give a new student.
"Well, nice to meet you Chiharu" he said and smiled to her with his eyes, to ease the mood. She pulled up in her black school bag, and looked at him with surrender.
"You sure don't look like you mean that. But… Nice to meet you too I guess" she said and reached out her hand to shake his. He noticed the glimpse in her green eyes and reached a conclusion; Nope, she's not the dumb kind he cleared his throat again and turned around to escort her to her new class. But she surely had an annoying teenage attitude.
"Come with me please" he said as he began to look at her files. Their footsteps echoed in the empty hallway but Kakashi didn't even notice the awkwardness that screamed out of Chiharu.
"So… You're not entirely Japanese" Kakashi had taken notice of that in particular. That also explained why her name only made sense when name and surname was in reverse. It was given to her in western style and…
"Explains why you don't look Japanese either" he said and took a finger to his chin.
"What do you mean by 'either'?" she asked dryly. Excellent Kakashi, you forgot to say the other thing out loud. He looked over his shoulder dumb-founded and noticed that she had to walk fast to keep up with his steps.
"What do YOU mean? I didn't say 'either'…" he said in a bored way like he usually did.
Convenient
Chiharu looked at her new teacher as if he was kidding, 'cause he had to be. But he looked dead serious when he denied saying 'either'. No teacher she had ever met was as relaxed and none-caring as he seemed. And she had only known him for a few moments. But still, he weren't the one to talk about looks. His hair was a silver-grey, and he was at the same time rather young (or so she thought), and he didn't look Japanese; now that was unusual looks! It ticked her off, and at the same time fascinated her that her new teacher was so… different from other teachers. Okay, she may already have checked him out but what could she do? When you see someone who looks fine, even if they're your teacher , you can't help yourself but to check them out. And if anyone denies that, they're just sad beings. Still, that sure didn't meant that she was going to be kind. 'Different' teachers was often more troublesome, so it wasn't necessarily a good thing.
Her mom and dad were both Europeans but her dad had grown up in Japan, which explained her name and her looks. Unfortunately her parents died when she was only 6 years old, in a car accident. Imaging a small girl, standing by the school waiting to get picked up until the girl would think that her parents had abandoned her, and then begin to cry. Yep that was Chiharu. Now she lived with her horrible (okay maybe not THAT much) aunt, who spend her life with work, work, work, work, work… and more work, which also was why Chiharu had gotten access to this school and had such good grades in the first place. This had also given her the attitude, no one could claim anything else and if they did; they would get their sorry asses kicked!
(Now on with the story)
"Eh, yeah you did" she said to Kakashi, suddenly feeling irritated.
"No I didn't" he kept talking as if he didn't have one care in the world. Chihura, felt that burst irritation that sometimes made her mouth go independent from her brain. She strode to his side with frown and opened her mouth but didn't get to say one word -
"I see your grades are very good. But math is pulling your grades down quite that much" he suddenly said, eyes focused on her files. This took her by surprise, 'cause she cared very much about her grades, and felt embarrassed as soon as his eyes shot to hers. She dropped the attitude and scratched her neck and turned her eyes to the files.
"I'm not that good at math… It has always been a problem for me" she said dryly and shrugged on her shoulders.
"Well, don't worry. I'll make up for that" he said, eyes smiling to her. She cocked her head a bit to the side and looked straight ahead. That was weird. No math teacher has that kind of approach to teaching. Yes, that was Chihura's judgment upon all math teachers.
"By the way, my name is Hatake Kakashi, if I haven't mentioned it already" he said and stopped in front of a door. She was sure that it was the kindergarten he had stopped in front of, judging from the shouts and moving chairs from in there.
"This will be your new class, and don't be frightened, some of the boys can be very loud from time to time" he said and gave her an ensuring smile (with his eyes!). He was a quite tall man and she could tell that he didn't waste his time at home cause there was no fat plopping out anywhere under his shirt.
"Ok, sounds like a fun class to me" she answered with a shrug as Kakashi opened the door, and the shouting became twice as loud as before. She walked closely behind him and dodged when a crumbled up paper flew over her head and hit the trashcan by the teacher's desk.
She looked around the class with amusement. In the far corner a blond haired guy was yelling out of the window, some was chatting and some was laughing loudly, no one taking any notice of Kakashi or her.
"Now look at this" Kakashi mumbled and looked at her with a glimpse in his eyes. She looked down at his blue office-chair which he held out.
"What? What is it?" she asked now curious.
"Notice the rip in the fabric" he said moving his eyes to a rip in the side of the chair.
Chiharu smiled widely knowing exactly what he meant. But she'd never stumbled upon a teacher who'd figured the prank out before it was too late. Despite his none-caring attitude, he seemed quite alert. "Naruto" he mumbled and pressed the fabric down as small needles of thumbtacks popped out of the fabric. Chiharu laughed shortly and smiled to Kakashi "Now that is old school" she said happily.
"It's slightly insulting." he said.
… Please, no teacher was underestimated if the prankster was good, and in this case it had been a seriously retarded newbie.
"Sit down and be quiet everyone" he simply said without raising his voice.
Chiharu noticed how his expression didn't change one bit, he didn't even look intimidating and still people obeyed without any protest. She checked out his side profile and noticed his grayish eye. He seriously had some unique genes. Her focus on Kakashi was slowly disrupted… This was the moment when people began to quiet down and everyone's gazes began to settle on the new student, Chiharu. Wow, really awkward… really really awkward. Now silence was filling the classroom and Chiharu was at the edge of blushing madly because of all the gazes set on her.
"Who's the blonde girl?" The guy Chiharu had noticed before, standing by the window, with blonde hair, stood up behind his desk and pointed rudely at her. She cocked an eyebrow at the loud blonde.
"Sit down Naruto…" Kakashi said – "this is Toshiko Chiharu, your new classmate, so take good care of her" Kakashi said. He put a hand on her back, which to her was quite irritating.
"You can sit over there by Naruto" he said, pointing to the blonde haired guy who'd pointed at her just seconds before.
Kakashi gave a small nudge on her back to make her go and she simply just began to walk down the rows of desks while trying to avoid all the stares. It was of her notion that some of the guys were rather good looking including the one called Naruto. Why the fuck does everyone has to be so silent? She caught the eyes of Naruto, the guy she had to sit next to, and suddenly didn't feel that insecure anymore. He smiled widely and his blue eyes sparkled with energy. She couldn't help but to feel a sudden warm welcome just by looking at his bright face. He would make an excellent friend, she could tell that.
Her chair made awkwardly lots of noise as she pulled it out while Naruto grinned at her. Okay, he gotta stop that grinning thing soon; she sat down and glanced over at him with a cocked eyebrow. He kept grinning at her as if he was expecting something, until she began to feel uncomfortable about it.
"….." She cleared her throat and avoided his eyes. Someone must've shut down his brain.
"What?" she said after a moment, now he was a bit creepy.
"Nice to meet you Chiharu, my name is Uzumaki Naruto and I'm going to be the next—" Naruto was cut off by Kakashi "Naruto, you can introduce yourself after class. If you haven't done it properly already" the tone in his voice had a hint of sarcasm and Chiharu dodged her head slightly to get rid of all the stares.
She decided to herself that Naruto seemed quite like a trouble-maker, which could turn out to be a handy card to have on your hand. Yes, she was quick at judging people sometimes, so what?
First day at school, and her teacher started out with teaching the class about a whole new subject in math. Chiharu could already feel how the boredom began to take over her brain. When listening to math, her brain automatically blocked out the voice of the teacher, 'cause she couldn't understand what he was talking about anyhow. Instead she looked around the class and took notice of her new classmates. There were about five guys who looked partly Japanese; One slender boy with flat hair as if his mom had put a pot over his head and cut his hair after the edge of the pot. He had bushy eyebrows and rather large, round eyes for a Japanese. Behind him sat a handsome guy with his chin resting on folded hands. He had a regular haircut and was quite pale looking. He didn't look like a full-blood Japanese. Perhaps there was some European in him judging from how his side-profile which wasn't flat the way a full-blooded Japanese's face could be. She put her head in her hand while looking at him for a few moments, before her eyes fell to Naruto beside her who looked rather confused, while he wrote down what Kakashi was trying to teach… Or he was more just doodling. Naruto was definitely not Japanese, especially not with that hair color! She looked at his paper, filled with a few numbers and random drawings - and gave a big sigh. She was sitting beside the window, right in the sun which probably explained why she felt so hot. Chiharu smiled to herself; I'm so hot today she thought and looked out of the window while biting her lip. Not because she had bad humor, or because it was funny. She just thought that the sentence was so ridiculously lame, that it was funny. Okay… Erase that, just go with lame humor.
"Chiharu!" she was elbowed in the ribs by Naruto beside her, who looked at her questioning. She snapped out of her day-dreaming, and noticed that everyone was staring at her, snickering erupting around the classroom to her irritation.
"Seems like we have a day dreamer here or is it simply a matter of not understanding the question?" Kakashi was leaning against the teachers-desk as if he had waited a long time for her to answer.
Do something. Say something smart. Come on Chiharu you clown! She was usually so good to give a good comeback, but when in a new class and with a new teacher her mind just seemed blank. She opened her mouth to say something clever but no words came out. A few giggles became a snorted low laughter and the only thing she could do was to blush madly and look stupid. Freaks, why couldn't they just shut their traps, it was so rude to laugh!
"I eh…" okay, I'm getting my speech back! Watch out everyone! "No and no" credits to you Chiharu, that was a great comeback. IN KINDERGARTEN, she slapped her hand to her forehead. All she wanted now was run out of the classroom. Why'd Emi have to move to this stupid city! She thought.
" Well… Good if you understand what I'm talking about" Kakashi said as he continued. Chiharu cocked an eyebrow. Impossible to get a teacher off your back that easily she thought. What a lazy ass teacher, he didn't WANT to bother, she could tell that! (remember her quick judging?)
After some wasted time, Kakashi paused with a sigh.
"Okay that was about, what I could manage today" he said and looked at the class while resting at the desk again.
"So recess is up?" Chiharu asked now paying attention to what was happening (and quickly got embarrassed) around her and watched a guy in front of her (she was sitting in the back so basically everyone was in front of her) with brown, messy hair, and narrow, fierce eyes. He reminded her somehow of a dog but she couldn't really put a finger on what it was.
Kakashi turned around to look at the clock hanging over the blackboard. He scratched his hair a bit… silence… "We have ten minutes left" he turned around eyes resting solidly on Chiharu.
"Toshiko, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself for 10 minutes" he asked and went around the desk to sit down. Chiharu looked around the class, not really feeling like going up to talk about herself.
"Well?" Kakashi asked patiently and pulled out a book from… somewhere, she didn't quite catch where from. Perhaps he was a magician… Well that WOULD explain his hair color. Cause magicians have grey hair… Whatever.
"I guess" she replied and got up from her chair, and felt the burning gazes once again.
Awkwardness. She noticed the book in his hand, as an excuse for having something to look at instead of the people. Her eyes widened slightly recognizing the book all too well. Emi, her aunt read it from time to time. Note to myself: don't hang around him alone. Who would read that book in public? Obviously he didn't even care what people thought about him. Respect for that though. As she stood in the front, she glanced back at him to see if he was paying attention, but he was just reading his book. Oh well, what to do?
"Hi everyone" she cleared her throat "As you all know, my name's Toshiko Chiharu, I'm 17 years old and I just moved here because of my aunt whom I live with…" she stared at the many faces, some smiling, some just looking plain or bored. If you're not familiar with the Japanese school system then you should know that it's common to be 17-18 years when you're in your last year in high school / secondary school in Japan. She then glanced back at Kakashi who was reading his book.
"And that's about it" she said while she already began to hurry back to her seat.
"That wasn't 10 minutes" Chiharu stopped with tensed shoulders, now when she just had hoped that he wouldn't mind. She scowled over her shoulder, awaiting her next 'orders'.
"Oh well. I guess that'll be it for today. Your homework for tomorrow is page 15 to 16 in your work book. Class dismissed" he said with a shrug and took his book up in front of his face to read again.
Chiharu jumped when the class suddenly burst out in noisy talk and despite being in a room with so many people she felt kind of awkward and lonely, standing there in the middle of the classroom like some statue that had been there since the beginning of time…. After a few moments of awkwardness she decided to go to her table and sit down beside Naruto whose eyes were fixed on some of the girls sitting in the other end of the classroom.
"…. Sooo" she said to get his attention… Nothing. She cleared her throat and leaned over the table take a look at the, oh' so exciting girls.
"Watcha' looking at… uhm, Naruto was it?" She asked as she cocked an eyebrow at one of the girls with pink hair. Seriously, Japanese girls could be so over the edge sometimes. There was no answer from Naruto. How annoying. Chiharu began to pout.
"Hello Sunny day!" she punched his shoulder lightly which seemed to wake him up.
"W-oh… Chiharu did you say something?" Naruto tore his eyes away from the girls with a pout in his face.
"Well… Not really, I just thought that you could, tell me something about the class or … whatever" she answered. Naruto's eyes brightened up and a wide smile appeared in his face. Chiharu couldn't help but smile at his simplicity.
"Sure I will! Because my name is Uzumaki Naruto and I'm going to be the next major in Konoha!" Naruto now stood with one leg on his chair while pointing at himself while his eyes proudly lay upon the… school window. Chiharu had already backed away a bit, because he was just a little bit frightening. But not many minutes (yes he waited for an reaction for that long) someone took a grip of his shirt and pulled him roughly backwards and down the chair
"NARUTO! You idiot! What're you doing, scaring the new girl off like that? That's so typical you!" okay, wait, I take my words back. SHE is scary. The pink haired girl Naruto had watched only minutes ago had a good grip in the neck of Naruto's white shirt. Only then Chiharu noticed the other girls that was gathering around the table.
"He didn't do anythin—" she was cut off by more yelling "Go over to the boys, where you belong Naruto!" the pink haired (and bad tempered) girl shouted, and Chiharu swore that she could see steam blow out from the pinky's nostril's. Naruto was as humble as a pitiful dog and basically took a very large path around the Pinky.
"Hi, my name's Yamanaka Ino" a blonde (almost white hair) girl with blue eyes reached her hand out to shake Chiharu's. She was a very pretty girl; that kind of girl who every boy would want on a poster at home – her wearing a bikini on a sunny beach. She looked like a popular girl
"Welcome to our school" she said and shook Chiharu's hand with enthusiasm. Quite outgoing and DEFFINETELY European... Or American
"Nice to meet you" Chiharu said, before another hand reached her.
"H-hello I'm Hyuuga Hinata" a girl with long, light black hair (how else to explain the color?) and bangs that covered her forehead was whom the hand belonged to. She looked quite timid and only smiled politely to Chiharu. Then, of course there was the pinky-head who smiled sincerely while waving with her fingers to Chiharu.
"Nice to meet you Chiharu, my name's Hurano Sakura" her green (almost emerald) eyes sparkled.
"You too. But… That was quite scary you know" Chiharu snickered and pointed to Naruto. Chiharu telling her this only lead to an apologizing snickering from Sakura.
"Sorry about that" she said.
The three girls gathered around Chiharu's table and began to chit chat with her. They seemed really nice, hot tempered, but nice. Chiharu liked the temper in them, but wasn't quite like that herself. She noticed though, that the other girls in the class didn't take any time to say hi to her. That was quite a drag that only three girls were kind enough to say hello. Her impression about the school (which Kakashi was the course of) began to change slowly as the girls talked eagerly.
Soon Chiharu found herself in the hallways of the school, the girls blabbing about everyone, and everything (well mostly Ino) at the school. Chiharu had a hard time with keeping up with everything, and preferred to make her own opinions instead of taking others opinion. Sometimes too much girl talk could get a little bit on her nerves.
"Chiharu, you have such a pretty hair color, where're you from?" Hinata asked with her squeaky voice. This question took Chiharu a bit by surprise but she answered calmly.
"My mom and dad was European. Soooo… What about you?" she asked evasively to get the questions off of her. Hinata looked a bit surprised as well.
"Uhm, both my mom and dad are Japanese." She said but almost stumbled over the words. Ino barged in to the conversation "You can call Hinata's family a clan, cause they all live in, like a huge mansion. They're very fine people who goes waaaay back, right Hina?" Ino said and put an arm around Hinata's shoulder.
"So" Ino continued before Hinata had a fair chance of answering.
"Do you have any boys in sight yet?" she asked seriously. Chiharu was a bit shocked by this early question since she hadn't really taken that good of a look at the guys in the class or at the school yet.
"Well uhm…" Chiharu looked around the hallway to catch any guy that would look good. Her eyes caught a boy who was currently putting something into his locker. He was quite tall, had long hair and the same lavender colored eyes as Hinata. He looks pretty good I guess she thought but she wasn't really into long hair, and his face was too young to look at, if she had to be picky.
"Well… That guy over there looks pretty fine" she nodded her head in his direction. Sakura smirked, Ino's eyes widened a bit, and Hinata's hands flew to her mouth as a blush crept across her cheeks. What?
"That's my cousin" she squeaked. Chiharu suddenly got a bit embarrassed about that and was about to apologize
"That's no surprise! Most girls in school thinks Neji's a cool guy" Sakura said happily. Chiharu raised an eyebrow while looking at him, forgetting that it was Hinata's cousin.
"Oh really?" his lavender eyes glanced to hers as if he had heard them. She cocked an eyebrow and kept her gaze at him. He looked quite unaffected and arrogant, the way he still held the door of his locker.
"Okay, so anyone else?" Ino's head popped in front Chiharu's sight to Neji; she had no sense of situation (obviously).
"Uhm" Chiharu had to think a bit. Most of the guys in the class looked good, but for some (sometimes annoying) reason she wasn't that easy impressed. She'd always been annoyingly picky about boys, which probably also was the reason why she hadn't had any boyfriend yet.
"There is Naruto… And that black haired dude, and that brown haired dude" she said and put a finger to her chin.
"Ino, she doesn't even know any of the guys yet, relax a bit with the questions… I'm sure Chiharu won't take 'the one'" Sakura put up two fingers as quotation marks "you like" Sakura rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. Ino's eyebrow quivered momentarily in annoyance and Chiharu suddenly fell as if she stood in the battlezone and moved a bit out of the way.
"I was just asking out of curiosity, forehead! And you don't dare to say anything about him!" Ino moved closer to Sakura in a very daring way.
"What did you say Ino-pig?" Sakura fired up and moved forward. Chiharu was quite confused, they seemed to be very good friends… Perhaps they just liked to argue with each other.
"Excuse me, but could you move a bit?" Chiharu looked to her side, and was met by the chest of a guy. She looked up to see one of the guys from her new class. He stood rather close to her with one arm at the locker behind her. She moved to the side so he could get to his locker as she muttered "Yeah sorry".
"No need to apologize." he said with a small smile on his lips. He was quite tall, had a pale skin color and a somewhat narrow mouth. He was the one she had been looking at in class. His eyes were black, calm and warm in some odd way. But the perfect blank features of his face was distorted when he elbowed his locker harshly and turned the lock with a sigh – the locker popped open and his face went back to normal. Seemingly the lockers here weren't that functional. A bunch of papers with drawings and a few pencils fell out of his locker and he grabbed it all in the last moment. Not realizing that she had been staring at him he spoke to her
"You're the new student in our class…" he stated, either to her or himself… She didn't know – while he propped in his ink drawings in again.
"I don't think we've been properly introduced." he said as he got his papers in place. Chiharu looked into his locker for a moment in amusement before moving her eyes to his.
"I'm Sai." he reached out a hand to her and smiled politely.
"Nice to meet you Sai. I think you're the first guy, besides Naruto, to introduce yourself." she said and smiled back to him.
"They're just shy. You're probably going to be very liked, especially with your looks" Sai smiled indifferently and totally unaffected by what he'd just said. Chiharu cocked an eyebrow, that was seriously the weirdest thing to say to someone you've just met.
"So you're saying that the guys here are shallow?" she asked and crossed her arms over her chest. Sai dropped his smiled and seemed to think about how it could be twisted in that direction. He opened his mouth to say something but he was basically attacked by the doggy-guy who put an arm around Sai's shoulder while laughing nervously.
"Don't listen to him, Chiharu, Sai doesn't always know what he's saying" he smiled reassuringly. He seemed quite cute in some way.
"My name's Inuzuka Kiba, nice to meet ya" he shook her hand enthusiastically and smiled big. He reminded her a little bit of her side comrade Naruto.
"What are you guys waiting fo—" another guy, who was in Chiharu's class as well appeared. He had a pineapple-ish ponytail and looked really none-caring or bored. His hands were buried in his pockets and his eyes only widened slightly when he saw who his friends were talking to.
"Oh… the new girl. What a drag" he muttered the last thing and looked into the ceiling with a sigh. He then tilted his head a bit to the side and looked at her out of the corner of his eyes as if he was taking a big decision about whether to be polite or not. He reached out a hand though.
"I hope you'll blend in well in our class. My name's Nara Shikamaru" he said and shook her hand once. Chiharu who still was taking in all the new impressions and new faces smirked at him.
"Why you seem excited" she said, and thought his attitude quite entertaining.
"I see you guys finally gathered some courage to say hi to our new classmate" Ino came over and stood beside Chiharu, looking mostly at Shikamaru. Chiharu had completely forgotten about Sakura and Ino's 'fight' and she couldn't see either Sakura or Hinata around.
"Women" Shikamaru muttered and crossed his arms
"Shikamaru, haven't the vacation made you just a bit more energetic?" Ino asked. Chiharu realized that she'd have to be put more into things in the class. She didn't know their humor or internal jokes.
"On the contrary…" he said and moved his lazy eyes to hers, starring intensely, without blinking – at Ino until she let out a slight cough and turned her attention sullenly to Chiharu who was following their 'conversation' with interest.
"Let's go to the classroom again, Chiharu" she swooped an arm around Chiharu's and dragged her along.
"W-what was that about?" she asked and let herself be dragged by the outgoing and social blonde.
"That's just Shikamaru, he considers most women bossy and troublesome, especially me, and I don't even get why! I think he's scared of women who say what they want to. " she muttered darkly.
"He doesn't sound very nice" Chiharu dared to say. Ino was silent for a moment.
"Well, he is really nice and generally courteous to girls doing us favors. But I think he just does it to avoid fights." she said now seeming to be a bit more at ease. Despite having known her for a few minutes Chiharu felt as if this girl was really easy to read. Her actions was quite questionable and Chiharu came up with following possibilities:
1 - Ino was easily pissed off
2 – She was easily pissed off, but she was not as mad as she showed. She was just being very dramatic
3 – Shikamaru could be that guy Sakura had talked about and that caused Ino's temper to fire up.
Chiharu excused herself from Ino when they passed by the girls restroom. She had to take a break from all the chaos of the high school life she was suddenly thrown into. She had to get herself a bit together; if Ino was the type to drag her friends around, Chiharu would have to draw the line at some point, cause she did NOT like to be dragged around! The girls' restroom was very nice, indeed. It looked quite new, but used in some way, and at it didn't have the nicest smell to it. She walked over to one of the sinks and began to wash her hands instinctively while she looked at her reflection in the mirror.
Her forest-green eyes looked back at her with a sudden boredom and her long sandy-blonde hair hang loosely and straight around her shoulders and back. She didn't have a heart-shaped face which always was the perfect description of a person in the books she'd read. She didn't even know what a heart-shaped face looked like, only that hers wasn't. Heart shape must look ridiculous, like, you must have a really weird forehead! She smiled a bit, looking at her somewhat square face with a strong and marked jaw line and broad (not high!) forehead. This made her look very fierce and sometimes intimidating to other people since her eyes was narrow but watchful and her eyebrows thick in the center and narrower in the end. They were placed perfectly (to her) high over her eyes. Her nose was straight, not as small as Hinata's but not large either. Her smile was broad and her upper teeth were in were in a straight line. She didn't like her lower teeth that much though; one was a bit misplaced in the straight line, and she felt as if she had reversed wolf teeth. She shrugged a bit in front of the mirror. No one was perfect… She then remembered the time and snapped out of her thoughts. Shit! Now she was probably late for her next class. In a sudden hurry she rushed out of the restroom and into the empty hallway, pausing to remember the way to her next classroom.
"Stupid machine!" she looked to her right and saw a guy she thought was in her class, trying to get a soda out of the soda-machine. He was quite chubby, and he really reminded her of an American over fead Jap.
"What're you doing?" she asked him and he seemed to jump a bit because of her silent sneaking up on him. He pulled out his arm in a rush, and when he got a better look at her, he seemed to recognize her.
"new girl!" he stated before continuing " I've spend my last money on a soda, and now its stuck in the machine!" he looked sadly at her, with a slight pout . Chiharu debated with herself for a moment about whether or not she should help the poor guy. Her better half won over and smiled to the guy.
"I've done this before… Just without paying, I bet I can get it for you" she walked over to the machine as the guy moved away, amused by her helpfulness.
"I just have to force this door-thing a bit… more… open" Chiharu stuck in her arm and pressed strongly again the machine, trying to get her arm as far up as possible. She lowered herself some more, trying to prop in some of her shoulder as well, all while trying to see how far she'd come through the glass. She got a bit aggressive and cursed while she watched her fingers stretch as far as they could, only to barely touch the stuck soda. She forgot the pain that began to form in her upper arm and tried to make the soda move just the slightest. The guy from her class had begun to cheer at her and had the same expression as if it was him who had his hand in the stupid machine – following every single progress she made.
"Stealing from the soda machine, are we? And on your first day…" Chiharu ignored the voice of the teacher, which she suspected to be their math teacher – Kakashi.
"Chouji, I didn't expect that from you" the teacher said again. Chouji (obviously his name) had stopped cheering and now faced the teacher instead.
"Kakashi-sensei?" Chouji sounded quite shocked and suddenly nervous, but Chiharu kept fishing for that stupid can, she wasn't going to stop now when she'd gotten so far! Kakashi cleared his throat and stepped closer
"I suggest you stop… That's the normal reaction at least" he mumbled the last thing but sounded a bit confused about her behavior. Finally! She pocked the can hard enough for it to fall down while Chouji began to explain what they were doing.
"Got it!" she said happily and pulled out her arm from the machine taking the soda with her and held it out to Chouji. She looked up at Kakashi and the situation slowly sank into her mind. Kakashi looked down at her as if he couldn't manage to deal with anyone who would make his day less great.
"Listen, it's not what it looks like… "she said and brushed her arm where she'd pressed it against the machine. It'd left a small red mark but it was nothing. Kakashi's eyes landed briefly on her arm though. He cocked and eyebrow and looked back and forth at them both.
"Just ask one of the teachers next time…" he said and put up his book to his face again and began to slender casually down the hallway again. Chiharu looked after him for a moment, beginning to think less of her math teacher. To her it seemed like he was slacking a lot in discipline, and when being a teacher at such a prestigious school!
"We should hurry Chiharu, the classes has already started" Chouji said nodding for her to come. She nodded in agreement and stood up from the floor, suiting her school uniform a bit.
"That teacher is so weird" she said as they began to walk, looking indifferently ahead. Chouji shrugged and took a sip of his soda. He walked funny, like he was just too big for his frame, just over five fod but he weight above 80 kilo, judging from what she saw.
"Not really. He's a really good teacher. Or so, most of us think. There are exceptions though" he glanced over at her, unsure about what to say to a complete stranger, she could tell that by his body language. Chiharu decided to shrug her prejudices off, it was her first day after all.
"I'm sorry for causing you trouble" he looked into the floor, almost looking as if his stomach was hurting. She could sense that he was a really kind and smiled to him.
"Don't worry about that, I'm used to dealing with it" she smiled big and snickered confidently. This seemed to lighten his mood and he smiled back to her, cheeks the slightest red.
Chouji showed the way to their next class which was English. When they entered their teacher was already there and looked at the both with a cocked eyebrow.
"Sorry, Kurenai-sensei" Chouji apologized and hurried to an empty seat. Chiharu stood back, a little dumb-founded
"I was lost" she lied and rubbed her arm while smiling. Their English teacher was a beautiful, buxom and mature looking woman with long, black and messy hair and bright brown eyes that almost looked red.
"Oh, you're new here. Well welcome to our school. I would guess that you've already met the class then?" Kurenai said and shifted a bit.
"Yeah I have" Chiharu said, and felt the stares of people at her, and shifted uncomfortably while looking back and forth at the class and her teacher
"Well okay, you can just take a seat then" Kurenai looked somewhat suspicious and followed Chiharu with her eyes as she moved to take the only empty seat left, which was beside the Kiba-guy she'd met earlier. He smiled sincerely to her and brushed the hair in his neck up and down.
The class started out slowly, with Kurenai talking, and Chiharu followed eagerly, beginning to like her English teacher more and more. She was relieved that she had at least one good teacher that was passionate about her subject. In the last half of the class they had to work together, and of cause that would be your side-comrade. Kiba sighed big and leaned back in his seat, eyes narrowed at the ceiling.
"First day at school, and I'm already thinking about skipping classes" he said sleepy and yawned.
"You shouldn't skip school, Kiba… It'll pull down your grades" Chiharu said as she wrote a note by a line in a poem they were given. She glanced up at Kiba and saw ham pout and look out of the window sullenly knowing that she was right.
"I'm not really suited to sit still by a desk… I'd rather spend my time outside with my dog." he crossed his arms and cocked an eyebrow while looking at her. Chiharu shrugged, she could relate somehow. That was how she felt about math classes.
" If you say so. I can relate though, but if math didn't exist I wouldn't have been able to relate to what you were saying" she straightened her back and smiled to him sheepishly
"Actually it caused me a bit of a reputation, of being a troublemaker" she snickered and Kiba smiled admirably at her, suddenly changing his attitude a bit.
"Well, imagine math in every class, every day… Think about my reputation" he said leaning his elbows against the table.
"Honestly… I thought that every student at such a prestigious school would be really passionate about their school, and that there would be no troublemakers" she looked at him out of the corner of her eyes and smiled. Kiba shrugged with a smile
"Well that was mostly in the lower grades. Me, Naruto, Shikamaru and Chouji used to skip school and make trouble a lot. We drove our teacher – Iruka – crazy" he grinned and scratched his neck. Chiharu couldn't help but smile around this guy. She liked guys who were impulsive and a little bit rebellious. For some reason had she always fitted well in between those types.
"Okay everyone listen. If you will join the table behind or in front of you, to discuss what you've analyzed so far" Kurinai said and returned to helping someone in the front. Chiharu looked at the table in front of Kiba and her, and saw a tall guy with spiky hair and sunglasses turn around along with a guy whom Chiharu remembered from the math class. The guy with bushy eyebrows and a mop-top haircut. She looked to her side and saw Kiba with crossed arms and raised head, looking stubbornly at the tall guy who now sat by their table.
"It's so nice to meet you, Chiharu-san!" the bushy-brow grabbed Chiharu's hand and shook it violently and enthusiastically. It was unusual for a multi-cultural school to use the formalities as "san" or "kun" except for the sensei concept, but if he was so used to calling people that it was no problem really.
"My name is Rock Lee and I really hope that you like it here!" he said enthusiastically and smiled big to her. Seriously, what an outgoing guy she thought, a bit frightened by him.
"Nice to meet you Lee" she said beginning to get tired of the 'nice to meet you' quotes. The tall guy in front of Chiharu cleared his throat, scratched his black spiky hair once and then spoke
"So…" he glanced at Kiba briefly – "How far are you in the text?" he asked looking at Chiharu. There was an edge of something in his (he hadn't given her his name yet!) voice that she couldn't quite put a finger on. Kiba snapped out of his proud façade and snapped Chiharu's paper over to himself to take a look at it. This startled her a bit and she looked surprised at him.
"You're welcome" she muttered as Kiba began to talk
"Eh, the sun represents a young woman who—"Kiba began to read up what Chiharu had written. It trickered something in her to be suddenly pissed, that he had the guts to just take what she'd done and read it up like he was the one who'd made it. She was about to open her mouth when the tall guy spoke
"Did you make that, or did Chiharu make it?... Kiba" his voice was low and calm despite the obvious one-sided tension there was between the two of them (the tension coming from Kiba).
"What do you know about that? You haven't even introduced yourself yet. That's so rude" Kiba said and hurled the paper back to Chiharu. She sat, with raised eyebrows; that guy was full of surprises, he had such a gruff attitude despite being actually nice to talk with. He now looked offended but was trying to cover it up by looking proud. Chiharu couldn't help but smirk at this kind of one sided rivalry, cause the tallguy seemed utterly and completely unaffected.
"My name's Aburame Shino…" Everyone looked at him in silence, his black glasses preventing any hint of emotion.
"O-okay" she said and looked the side evasively, followed by silence. Lee laughed nervously and tapped his pen on the table
"Come on guys, don't be like that. Let's start, okay?" he said trying to ease the suddenly dark mood that lingered around their table. Chiharu looked at him in relief for breaking the silence and took her (now a bit crumbled) paper.
The mood eased quickly as soon as Kiba dropped his rivalry and acted as a nice guy again. Lee seemed to be a very nice and glad person, and had a very formal yet childishly eager way of speaking. Shino on the other hand was quite mysterious and tense in an awkward way. When a bug had crawled up to the table and Chiharu was about to poke it away, he had stopped her by taking her hand and looking intensely at her (even though she couldn't see his eyes). That was only tensified by Lee and Kiba sitting plainly while holding their breaths, obviously they knew something she didn't. Apparently Shino had some kind of thing for bugs, so Chiharu ended up marking Shino as 'avoidable' cause he seemed a bit creepy and questionable. But perhaps if she got to know him, he would turn out to be different. Who knew?
When recess was up, Chiharu had no chance to catch up to Kiba, cause he sprinted past her (almost knocking her over at the neighbor table) while shouting:
"Yo, Naruto wait up!"
Just wait; when he gets to know me better he won't do that again! Chiharu thought darkly and adjusted her backpack. She caught up with Sakura who was on her way to the cafeteria to get some lunch and told her about her 'encounter' with Kiba and Shino, and the 'blessing' of meeting Lee.
The cafeteria was a large and crowded place and it was now easy to see that it was a multi-cultural school, with the diverse mixture of different skin colors and looks. She followed Sakura – the pinky head – over to a table where Ino, Hinata and another girl of Asian origin, with brown hair put up in two panda-ears and brown eyes - sat. Chiharu had conveniently made her own lunch consisting of riceballs a.k.a. onigiri's with a small piece of salmon in the middle (there's nothing wrong with having your own lunch! It's healthy!). She took a seat beside the talkative Ino, and smiled to the brunette seated in front of her. The brunette narrowed her eyes a bit and pointed to Chiharu forming a 'who' in her mouth - Ino catching up immediately
"Oh! This is our new classmate, Chiharu… Chiharu this is Tenten from one of the other classes" she introduced them both nicely, and Chiharu could continue with eating her Onigiris. Despite being surrounded by so many people Chiharu felt lonely and insignificant. But that was only because everyone knew eachother, and she didn't know a single person in this school. If she had to admit it, her impression of her new class was rather positive. They all seemed very open and funny, especially some of the guys. The girls seemed like real girls, but as honest persons who probably would be a lot of fun to have a night out with.
Either way did the day run by fast with the electives; Chiharu had chosen gym classes with Might Gai as teacher who had freaked her out pretty much, starting his first sentence to her with;
"What do we have here? A new flame of youth!" he'd stated then swirled around and given her a thumbs up and a big smile
"I'm Gai! Konoha's green beast!" … ( No, seriously he WAS scary) and he reminded her a lot of Lee who by the way seemed to be the best of friends with Gai.
When the day was over and the class was dismissed, Chiharu went to her new locker to put some of her books inside. The locker was a bit hard to get up, but nothing like Sai's locker had been when she'd met the good looking guy. She sighed while closing her locker again, annoyed by the fact that there was one year left to the final exams, and she had some social catching up to do as well as some study catching up.
She looked at her blurry reflection at the dull metallic locker door, blocking out all the voices around her. But her ears caught a nearby voice, which belonged to her new math teacher. She looked subtly over her shoulder, her green forest eyes watching his side profile and how he explained something to a student – Something about teamwork… she didn't quite catch it. But what fell in her interest was his eye. It was a golden-brown color, and she was a hundred percent sure that his eyes were a black-grayish color. A chill ran down her spine as her eyes widened the slightest, and her mind began to put the puzzles together, cause it didn't make any sense… Unless he was a vampire! That would explain the weird hair-color and his plain behavior. Perhaps she had read too much twilight… NO, there was no other explanation! She rushed instinctively forward twisted her way in between the student and teacher, taking a peep at his face while pointing accusingly at him
"You! Your…" Chiharu caught her words before they got out of her mouth as two pair of different colored eyes stared puzzled back at her. Across his golden eye, brown eye was a scar, starting from the middle of his forehead and down across his eye, breaking the tan skin by his cheek. Her cheeks flushed red in embarrassment, cause she felt very bad about pointing out peoples 'mistakes', especially when it was something none-removable. Of cause he wasn't a vampire! She slapped herself mentally and began to stutter as her eyes flickered at his.
"Yes" he answered and removed her pointing hand "I have a grey and brown eye" he then smiled to her with his eyes and pushed her to the side to talk with the other student, leaving her completely flabbergasted. She lifted her finger again, but still there came nothing out of her mouth. She shook her head and blinked twice to come to her senses again. She'd just never seen eyes like that before. He moved his bored eyes to hers and turned to her, obviously finished talking with the other student.
"Are you still here?" he said, propping his hands into the pockets of his black pants.
"Eh… Sorry I've just never seen anything like your eyes before" she said taking a peep at his eyes again.
"Well" he leaned a little backwards, uncomfortable about her staring and continued –"that almost sounded like a compliment" he said with a small glimpse in his eyes. Chiharu stopped peeping realizing how inappropriate she was being and therefore cleared her throat while narrowing her eyes in a cocky way.
"I suppose it sounded like that" she answered dryly and tore her eyes away from his, turning away reluctantly
"Well I'm off… Sayonara" she said and trudged away bored, leaving her math teacher staring after her. Sometimes she would use Japanese words, of no reason really, only that some people liked it when their original language was spoken.
Chiharu lived in the far end of Konoha and had decided to walk to school every day, just because it was healthy for her and the environment. She looked upwards as she walked under the gates of Konoha High which cast a big shadow over her. She was amused by the fine work that was put into the big wooden doors that stood tall and silently open, as if no one had touched them for years. The weather was warm; at least 30 degrees and she enjoyed the sun to the fullest while trudging down the pavement. The combination of a low, humming chirping sound of cicadas and a breeze picking up a few strands of her long hair made her suddenly realized how glad she felt about the day. She breathed in the sweet scent of summer in the city; a spicy mixture of concrete, dirt and trees. The thin layer of sand on the pavement cracked under her sandals while she trudged in silence until the landscape changed from city to … The outskirts of a city; meaning more trees, sand pavements and narrow streets with wooden fences. A bicycle came from behind, cracking the sand under its wheels, and then bypassed with a man familiar to her; a grey haired man with his worn leather back on the hatch of his bike. She paused for a moment staring after him, not sure whether or not how to feel about her math teacher living so close by. Further on he turned a corner and she assumed that he lived in the small apartments a few blocks away from her house.
Her mood fell drastically when she'd made it to the little street with rows of similar small houses. The similarity between them was creepy and impersonal – but she was used to living in such kind of streets, not knowing anyone near, and when she was about to, Emi (her aunt) would come home and say "we're going to move"… For once Toshi deeply hoped that Emi could stay here for at least a year. Chiharu kicked a stone furiously which landed misplaced on the perfect grass of their small house. She stopped and looked resentfully at it. Fits that stupid stone well she thought, stomping up the four stairs, fumbled a bit for her key and forced the key aggressively into the keyhole, getting more and more irritated in line with her attempts to turn the key because of her sudden rising temper.
"Fucking shit key!" she hissed aggressively and finally got the key turned around. She sighed big in relief and pushed the plain white door open. She breathed in the scent of new furnitures while she threw her black bag with a thud on the floor. The house wasn't big, but the furnishing in the house was thorough and – to Chiharu – impersonal and she didn't feel home at all. It was like sorrow was just behind the door, like a black, transparent, cold person – greeting her into his sorrowful arms. The floor was of polished black granite and the walls where white. One of the walls ended midways, leading (to the right) into their kitchen and living room.
"I'm home!" she shouted with no reason, knowing that Emi wasn't home and probably wasn't going to be any time soon.
"Welcome 'home'" she muttered sarcastically to herself and wandered into their new and 'smart' kitchen which stood perfectly clean and untouched. She felt almost awkward in her new home; as if her every step echoed through the silence of the entire house. She sat down by their white dinner-table, resting her head in her hand while looking around, getting anxious because she had nothing to do.
She decided to go to her room, at the end of the staircase, which was opposite to Emi's bedroom. Chiharu liked her room more than the rest of the house because it was beginning to smell like her. Books were standing in randomly order on her shelves, her white plastic desk was clean for any mess and some pieces of clothes lay lonely on her messy bed. The floor was wooden, and besides from all the resent things in her room, did it still seem quite empty. She wished that she had a cat or a dog, or just something that was alive, but she didn't so she often turned to the next best… Her laptop.
I'm sorry if the spelling isn't the VERY BEST, but I'm danish, so I'm still learning. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.