(Italics are Hinata's thoughts)
Welcome back...Doom
This is it. I stepped inside with my eyes closed expecting some rude comment made by one of my abusers. Nothing. Yet. I opened my eyes and saw Neji giving me a weird look.
"What?" I snapped.
"Why did you close your eyes?"
"Oh...I don't know actually..."
"Whatever. We should check the bulletin board to see which homerooms we're in."
We knew where the bulletin board was right away because of the crowd of people. I felt sick looking at the crowd. I was sure I was going to hear some nasty stuff. "Come on!" Neji encouraged. I slowly pushed past the crowd of people, their whispers stabbing me like sharp knifes.
"Hey look it's her." Someone whispered.
"Is that really her? Back away."
"Make sure she doesn't touch you."
"Look at her hair!"
I touched my hair. It looked fine to me. Long, straight, black and all in one length. With the exception of my bangs (or fringe depending on what you call it). I scanned the lists for my name. I found it. My homeroom teacher was going to be Kurenai Yuhi. I didn't bother looking at the other people in my homeroom. I was only going to spend 20 minutes in the same class with them everyday before classes started. Unless any of them were in any of my classes, of course.
"Who's homeroom are you in? I'm in Kakashi Hatake's homeroom." Neji announced.
"I'm in Kurenai Yuhi's homeroom." I muttered loud enough for Neji to hear.
"Okay, I'll be going then. See you after school." Neji waved.
"Yeah yeah."
I walked towards my new homeroom. Great. Now I'm going to have to find something to do for twenty minutes everyday so that I can ignore everyone. I could read a book. I could just stare off into space. I could draw...but then I'd need to sharpen my pencil before class starts...
I was so absorbed in my planning that I forgot to look where I was going. This caused me to bump into someone.
"Oh, I-I-I'm s-s-sorry!" I stuttered.
"Oh don't worry about that! It happens all the time right?" The person answered. He had blond spiky hair and the prettiest blue eyes I'd ever seen. He also had...whiskers. Like Tom's (Tom and Jerry) whiskers only less longer.
I nodded and walked away. That was the first time someone had actually said that to me in a long time. I was actually expecting him to say, "Watch where you're going loser."
I looked at the time. 7:59. The bell was going to ring in a minute. I quickened my pace and found myself standing right outside my homebase. I opened the door and searched for an empty desk. I sat down. Then the bell rang. Phew! I got out my book.
"Everyone should be in here now." Kurenai said. "Now I would like to start off by¬" The door opened and the principal came in. "Kurenai, there's going to be a new student joining your homeroom."
"Oh joy. Where is he?"
"Naruto, come along then, don't be shy. Here he is."
"Hi Naruto. I'm Kurenai and I'm going to be your homeroom teacher. Grab a seat and I'm going to give out your schedules and that sort of stuff."
Out of curiosity, I looked up from my book to see the new student. No way! It's the guy that I bumped into! No wonder he wasn't so rude. He was now sitting two desks away from me. Now his new friends would tell him that I was a loser and that she should stay away from me. I didn't know why I cared so much though. It really annoyed me.
"Okay now I'm going to hand out your schedules. Some of you might be in the same classes. I teach Social Studies, so if any of you are taking Social Studies, I'll be teaching you."
She passed out the schedules by calling names because she didn't know who each person was. I didn't blame her. It was the same with every teacher at the start of a new year.
"Kiba!"
"Over here!"
"Natsu"
"Right here."
"Temari."
I flinched. Temari used to be one of my friends. Temari raised her hand to indicate where she was sitting.
"Shino."
"Here."
"Hinata." The room became quiet. I could feel everyone's eyes on me. I slowly raised my hand.
"H-h-here." Kurenai walked over to me and gave me my schedule. She smiled at me and continued passing out schedules.
I looked at my schedule. I had art first. I smiled thinking about art. Art made me feel peaceful. It made me feel as if I could create another little world with a pencil or a paintbrush. I could create new objects out of clay and I could¬RIIIIIING! The stupid bell destroyed my train of thoughts. I cursed silently.
"I'll be standing by the door and I'll be handing out your locker numbers and combinations. DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT tell anyone your combination unless you wanna lose your stuff." Kurenai yelled.
Everyone gathered their stuff and started to move out with the little papers with the locker numbers and combinations. We all had five minutes after every class so that we could get the stuff we needed for our next class. My locker number was H3078. I think the H stood for High School. Last year in eighth grade we had M instead of H. I rapidly spun my lock until it opened. I stuffed by bag in. I didn't think I would need anything for art because the art rooms were stocked with supplies. I just took my schedule so that I would know the room number.
"Hey! You're that girl!" I spun around and saw Naruto.
"Oh. H-hi."
"Why did everyone in homeroom become quiet after Kurenai said your name?"
"W-well N-n-n-naruto, lets just say it's a l-l-l-long s-story. I-I'll see you in h-h-h-homeroom. Bye."
I turned around and walked away. I was really happy I had art next. In art I could be free.
Author's Note: Hey there people! That's the second chapter of my story! Wow! I didn't expect to have the second chapter done so soon! It's pretty cool! I guess you can get a lot of stuff done during summer when you don't have homework and tests to study for. :p Please review and tell me what you think. :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. Believe it!