Thanks for your reviews, Rose Tiger, Alfredragon120 and werewolflvr147 Wow. I scored myself 3 reviews overnight. That's seriously like a record for me. I didn't know High School fics were so popular D:. I've read a couple, but not many. Anyway, let the randomness continue.
Disclaimer: Oh yes, I'm Masashi Kishimoto, writing about Ninjas in High School. Don't think so.
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Looked like there was nobody for Naruto to walk to class with after all. He wasn't surprised, Sakura never walked to class with him. It was just hard being a loner when you were in the eleventh grade. It really sucked.
"Hey Naruto-Kun…" came a little squeak as Naruto moved out of the door. He turned and saw Hinata there. She was so small. Probably the shortest in the whole class, but she had really big eyes. She was quite cute.
"Heya, Hinata," said Naruto flamboyantly. it was so damned nice to be recognized, even if it was by the biggest "failure" of a girl in the whole school.
"Wh-what class… have you got… n-now, Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked, holding up the door.
Good question. Naruto himself had no clue either. He didn't even know where he was going himself.
"Hold my books for me for a sec please, Hinata,"
"Sure… Naruto-Kun,"
Naruto pulled out his timetable, and looked for Monday Period 1. The school timetable was fairly basic, Four classes a day, Monday through to Friday. Actually, it was rather boring. The classes went on for such a long time, an hour and a half. One class before recess, two before lunch, and one after lunch. It was pretty easy to memorize though. Only thing was, Naruto still hadn't got it. Not even the first class on the list.
"Erm…" said Naruto, locating the first class, "I have… Art,"
He made sure to put some revulsion into the tone of the last word. Hinata's reaction was the exact opposite.
"M-Me too!" she beamed, "S-So does Kiba…"
Hinata probably knew Kiba's whole timetable off by heart, because Kiba was too stupid to remember his own.
Sometimes Naruto wondered why Hinata hung out with that guy, but he knew the real reason, Kiba was like some kind of security for Hinata. Quiet and shy but cute girls were always vulnerable to bigger stronger people either teasing them or kidnapping them. Hinata needed some kind of protection from that, and Kiba was just the man to do that. He was strong and he knew how to cause trouble, and so people didn't mess with Hinata.
"…Do... you want to walk together…?" Hinata asked quietly. Naruto didn't get a chance to answer before Kiba came bursting out of the room.
"HINATAKIPZ… thanks for waiting," he said, skidding on the floor with his feet. Kiba was one of those people who didn't do up their tie properly or anything. He also enjoyed skidding on wood. It was a habit of his, leaving the marks off his leather shoes all over the floor, "So what class do we have now?"
"Ah…art," Hinata squeaked.
"Oh yeah," said Kiba stupidly, "I knew that,"
Naruto rolled his eyes as Hinata and Kiba began walking towards the Art Department.
"Come on Naruto-kun…" piped up Hinata happily.
It was nice to get some invites. Even though it was just Hinata and Kiba, it was great to be part of a group.
"So Naruto has got art too?" asked Kiba.
"Duh, I'm in your class,"
"So how are your clay sculptures going? Naruto-kun, Kiba-kun…?" Hinata asked, trying to change the subject to something nicer.
"Mine's a fox," said Naruto.
"O-oh… that's nice… mine's a little bird,"
"Clay is useless except for throwing it at people," said Kiba, "But mine's meant to be a dog, I think I failed though,"
"No duh," Naruto replied. Kiba never seemed to care about any class either. It was mystery why he even came to school.
"'Least I'm not the only one. What did you say yours was again Naruto? A fox? Pfft, it looked like some retarded turtle to me,"
"I t-think it looks like a n-nice fox… Kiba-kun," said Hinata. Kiba rolled his eyes.
"Whatever. So are you joining the cheerleading team Hinata? I really think you should, you can like, hook me up with Ino,"
Hinata gave a small shrug and sighed.
There was a pause, and an awkward silence and as the there of them turned a corner.
"Hey, Lee!," Kiba randomly called. Naruto looked around. They were in the twelfth graders' corridor. Where all of the twelfth graders had their lockers. Rock Lee was at his locker, pulling out stuff. He was this twelfth grader who didn't seem to have any friends in his own year level, so he was often seeing hanging out with the Eleventh Graders.
"Ah, Kiba-kun," said Lee, looking out and around the corridor, finally finding them. Lee was one of those dorks who did up his top button and checked his shoe laces every five seconds.
"Where's Neji?" Kiba called out. Hinata stopped in her tracks.
"No… K-Kiba… don't…" she muttered quietly.
"I do not know," said Lee shrugging, "I think he has already gone to class, I have to run too," He shut his locker.
"Alright," said Kiba, "Tell him I said hi,"
There was something awfully nasty about the way Kiba said that. Lee nodded and walked off.
"Why on earth would you want to say hi to Neji?" Naruto asked. Hinata sighed.
Neji Hyuuga was the school captain. He was a twelfth grader who strutted around the school acting like he owned the place. His friend, and loyal Vice Captain, Tenten, always followed him around. Neji was the object of Cheerleader Captain Ino's affection, only Neji didn't play sport so he didn't ever notice her. He was also Hinata's cousin, but a lot of people fail to notice this, considering Neji and Hinata were so unlike. He was another of those top button people, only he wore clothes that were a size too small for him so he still wouldn't that bad, as opposed to the baggy style.
"Well, well," said Kiba cunningly, "This is an opportunity we can't miss,"
"P-please… Kiba… he'll kill me…" squealed Hinata, "Don't do anything…"
"Relax," said Kiba, who had opened his pencil case, "He'll never know I did it, alright,"
Kiba pulled out his trusty thick black marker. Naruto had a feeling that this was going to lead to something saying "KIBA WUZ HERE".
"Kiba, you're being an idiot. Of course Neji's going to know it was you. Nobody else goes around vandalizing things,"
"Be quiet Uzumaki, where was Neji's locker again?" Kiba looked around at the lockers. He eventually found Neji's. He opened his marker. Hinata bit her lip.
"K-Kiba… y-you'll get detention,"
"Pfft, Iruka-Sensei's already given me detention for today,"
With that, he scrawled something on the locker in big letters. Then he moved away, so Naruto and Hinata could read what it said.
I LUVZ INO
"Oh, like it's really going to matter to Neji if you love Ino or not. He probably doesn't even know who she is," said Naruto angrily, "Now you're not only going to be in trouble with Neji, but also with Ino. She hates your guts. Get that in your head,"
"She knows she loves me, don't doubt it Uzumaki," said Kiba, smirking.
"Oh no…" Hinata suddenly squealed. Naruto and Kiba looked around. They could see a couple turning at the far end of the corridor. There was no mistaking that ridiculously swishy dark brown hair and pair of buns so round that they looked like meatballs. Neji and Tenten.
"Now you're busted," said Naruto, starting to walk. Kiba chucked his marker back into his pencil case.
"Just play innocent, alright," he said, walking forward. Naruto looked around and saw Hinata's chest rising and falling very quickly. There was no way she could play innocent well.
As they continued walking closer to Neji and Tenten, they could hear Neji talking in his stupid loud and flamboyant voice. Tenten never talked, she just listened to Neji.
"I don't believe that I forgot my text book, I mean, seriously… how could I forget it? Hopefully Anko-Sensei doesn't get there before we do, I mean, I don't want to fail…"
Kiba snorted.
"…I mean, I spent all of yesterday revising for this physics exam. I have to pass…"
He spotted Naruto, Hinata and Kiba.
"Hello Hinata," he said casually in passing. Hinata gave him a very nervous nod and Tenten waved.
"Told you we'd get away," Kiba whispered as soon as they had passed. Hinata still looked as though somebody was going to shoot her.
"You're still an idiot, Kiba," said Naruto, "He is going to catch you,"
"Hey, I'm innocent until he proves me guilty," said Kiba, and they came to the corner.
"INUZUKA!" came a very loud shout from the other end of the corridor.
"Told you so," said Naruto. Hinata had gone as white and snow.
"Oh crap," said Kiba rounding on his heals. He dragged Hinata by the hand, and Naruto had no choice except to follow.
"Why exactly are you writing about your relationships on my locker?" Neji asked as they came closer. Tenten was standing next to him, playing with her shirt buttons. Kiba gave a large grin,
"How do you know that I wrote that?"
"Because I was in this corridor just five minutes ago, and I doubt anyone else has passed since then."
"Coulda been Rock Lee."
"No, it wasn't him. He doesn't like that Ino girl anyway. Only you'd have an IQ level so low to do something as ridiculous as this."
"Come on Hyuuga, do you really have time to tell me off… I thought you were failing physics."
There was a very large pause.
"Hinata, you and your friend go to class. Inuzuka, you're coming with me," said Neji, who had now totally lost it, "Don't wait around for him."
"Oh yes, because you don't have enough power to give me detention by yourself," said Kiba. Neji turned on heal and went to move down the corridor.
"Come on Tenten, Inuzuka, trust me, you have probably lost of your lunchtimes for the whole week. With any luck you'll be suspended."
"Like they're going to suspend me for that," said Kiba, sticking his tongue out as he followed Neji, "You two go to art class."
Naruto nodded and led Hinata off. Now she looked like somebody actually had shot her.
"K-Kiba… is a good friend and all…" she said quietly as the two of them walked off towards Art, "B-but, I d-don't know w-why he goes upsetting N-Neji… now I'm p-probably going to get in trouble."
"Yeah, the things some people do for love. Actually, I don't know where the logic in scribbling on Neji's locker was anyway," said Naruto, it was so strange talking to Hinata one on one, "What was he saying about the cheerleaders?"
Hinata looked away from him and sighed.
"Oh, w-well, Tenten, quit the c-cheerleading t-team…"
"Most likely on Neji's orders,"
"Y-yeah… and Ino… she wants, the team… to be… all eleventh graders…"
"That's just so that she knows everyone and feels even more in control,"
"Y-yes… I know…but she asked me, a-and Kiba said I should join…"
"He also scribbled all over your cousin's locker,"
"O-oh… I don't know what to do, and I h-have to tell Ino by Friday… and I don't want her to hate me…"
Naruto couldn't think of anything else to say. They had arrived at the art classroom.
"Shall we go in?" he asked, opening the door.
Hinata gave a shy nod.
As soon as they entered the classroom, they were hit by another wave of shouting.
"There you two are, you are both five minutes later!" came the angry teacher's voice. Naruto and Hinata looked at Deidara-Sensei, the art teacher. He was a fairly young teacher, but ever since he had taken over the art department they hadn't done anything other than clay sculptures. According to Tsunade, the principal, it was a nice change from the old painting and drawing curriculum, but it was getting very boring. A lot of people teased Deidara sensei, because he looked like a girl and he got angry very easily, but he was a very experienced artist.
"We're sorry, Deidara-Sensei," said Naruto, "Neji Hyuuga had to talk to us,"
Hinata gave a shy little nod.
"Alright, alright, you two sit down and work on your clay sculptures. You're already behind Uzumaki,"
Funny how he didn't seem to have anything to say to Hinata.
Naruto walked across the classroom, and looked at the others sitting there. Sakura was in this class, as was Ino. The two of them were sitting with Shikamaru. Sasuke wasn't in this class, he had dropped Art. He hated anything that seemed to involve creativity or bright colors. Sakura's art was so beautiful. It was a slug, but it still looked better than all of the Phoenixes and Wolves and other naturally better looking animals. Sakura was so creative. But Naruto couldn't go sit with her. Sure, there was a seat on her table, but even if Naruto did sit there, nobody would talk to him. He was better off going and sitting with Hinata. He couldn't let Hinata sit alone either.
The two of them collected their sculptures and went off to the table. Naruto's "fox" looked even worse than last time. Like somebody had squished it. Hinata's little bird actually did look remotely like one. It was cute, and had really big eyes, just like her.
"Your bird looks nice, Hinata" said Naruto, sitting down and shaping his "fox". Hinata shook her head.
"I don't like it! Your fox is cute!" she squealed.
"Nah, Kiba was right, it looks like a retarded turtle,"
"D-don't take w-what Kiba says too s-seriously…Naruto-Kun…"
"Speak of the devil,"
The door was thrown open and Kiba made a grand entrance, skidding into the classroom as usual. All heads turned his way. Deidara sensei looked up at him angrily,
"Inuzuka, that's ten minutes late. This is the third time in two weeks. Can't you learn to be punctual?" he snapped, checking his watch. The rest of the class exchanged smirks and looked at Kiba.
"Sorry, I had to deal with Neji Hyuuga. Won't happen again, miss,"
Everybody except Hinata burst out laughing. Deidara Sensei's eyes filled with such a fury, it looked like he was going to explode.
"What did you say Inuzuka?" he demanded. Instead of acting responsible and apologizing, Kiba flat out gave him the answer he was looking for.
"I said that it won't happen again, miss,"
"Detention Inuzuka. You can help me clean out the Paint Cupboard at lunchtime today,"
"Sorry, can't, miss. I've already got a detention today,"
"Tomorrow then,"
"Got them all week, lunch times, miss,"
It was getting old now. Everybody wished Kiba would stop using that m-word.
"Fine Inuzuka, you little brat. After school, every day this week," said Deidara sensei sharply. Kiba nodded and started to walk to his seat, blowing a kiss to Ino on the way.
"Ewww…" Ino mouthed, looking totally revolted. Kiba chuckled.
"You got that Inuzuka? Every single day this week," repeated Deidara sensei.
"Yes, miss,"
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That was…. even more random than the last one n-n. Lawl. I don't know where this is going to go, but it's so fun picking on Deidara. R/R. I'll try and update tomorrow if I can.
