Lovelyanime: Hi everyone, and welcome to the second chapter. Sorry I haven't updated in weeks, but I was on vacation seeing my boyfriend. But now that I'm back I can finally update. I wanted to post something on my birthday but since I couldn't do that, I'll probably post something soon for my fourth anniversary here at fan fiction. So please look forward to whatever I decide to post up soon.
9-23-09
Chapter 2- Go, Go, Igo!
Naruto yawned, happy to finally get out of the computer class that he was supposed to take sophomore year, but was never able to. He headed towards Iruka's classroom as he promised Hinata. Earlier at lunch they decided to make a band together and he couldn't wait to make more plans with her. He was always rejected to join other bands, but now that he was making his own...He couldn't describe the words on how he felt about it.
On the way there he seemed to be walking side by side with another guy that was heading the same way as him. Naruto glanced at him. The boy was a bit taller than he was and had a spiky ponytail. He had a bored expression on his face. He recognized him as the guy from his world history class from his sophomore year. He was always falling asleep every time they watched a movie or taking tests.
"Stop staring at me." The boy said, not even looking at Naruto.
"Huh? Oh, sorry dude." Naruto apologized. "I just remembered you from history class last year."
"That was a troublesome period, but at least it gave me time to sleep." The boy said. "He did nothing but be on his computer everyday while he made us watch old movies about wars or based off some old famous novel."
"Yeah..." They were both quiet after that. Naruto wanted to hurry to see Hinata, but the halls were crowded as usual so he couldn't run. He passed the ninja's hut, the gym, music room, a couple portable class rooms and that's when he realized the guy next to him was still there. "Heading the same way as I am huh?"
"My friend made me join this club that he's in. What about you? Going to play some basketball or something?"
"No, this girl and I have some business to take care of."
"I see...That seems troublesome." He mumbled. Again it was quiet. They passed three portable classrooms and one of the basketball courts until they both made it to the same exact room they were supposed to be in. They both looked at each other; the guy looked him up and down. "Who exactly are you looking for?"
"Hinata, do you know her?"
"Of course, she's our vice president." The boy then took out his hand. "The name is Shikamaru."
Naruto took his hand and shook it. "Mine's Naruto."
"Well Naruto, you're about to be in a whole lot of troublesome things once you go inside that classroom." With that said, Shikamaru walked up the metal wheelchair type of stairs, his footsteps were loud.
Naruto stood there, not knowing what he had meant. He stayed out, two more people passing him by. He took a deep breath and entered the room. When he got in, he scanned the small classroom. There weren't that many people (eight or ten the max) sitting on top of the desks, others putting them together. There were a couple people getting out some kind of board with two sets of black boxes on top of each. The teacher was talking to another student while they got the projector hooked up to his laptop. The projector showed a blue screen on the white board so they must be getting ready to watch something. He wasn't sure what was going on, so once he spotted Hinata he went straight for her.
"Hey Hinata," he said as he came up to her. "What is all this?"
Hinata had a deeply surprise look on her face that Naruto didn't seem to notice as he looked around. She didn't expect him to actually come. "Th-this is the Go club." She told him.
"The Go club? I've never heard about it before. I thought you told me you were in the Anime club."
"I am, but...The Anime club is once a week at lunch and the Go club is after school Tuesday to Thursday, although a couple people play it during the Anime club meetings. We just formed the Go club a few weeks ago."
"Really? Interesting..." He stopped seeing what everyone was doing and now had his attention on her, making her blush deeply. "So, what should we discuss about first?"
"Hold that thought, I need to tell the teacher that I'm leaving."
"You don't want to talk here?"
"Well, they will be watching Hikaru No Go and during that time it will give us the time to talk. I will return later when it is all over...Um...That will give us enough time right?" She asked while already putting her backpack back on.
"Sure, I don't think it will take that long."
"Ok. P-please wait here for a second." She proceeded to walk over to Iruka and told him what she was doing while he continued to hook everything up.
"Better not keep her long." Naruto heard a voice. He looked over to his right and saw Shikamaru with another boy eating potato chips playing against each other. The people on opposite sides from each other seemed to either have black or white pebbles. "She challenged me today for a match so make she you hurry." He yawned as he placed a white piece on a line.
"Uh, sure..." Naruto wasn't sure if he liked it here. The game they were playing looked weird to him. Hinata came right back to him and they then both left the classroom. That was when they ran into Kiba.
"Where are you going? Aren't you going to the club today?" He asked Hinata
"Not right now, I will when you guys are done watching Hikaru."
"So after break? Want me to come get you then?"
"S-sure, that will be nice thank you."
"No problem." Kiba scanned Naruto up and down; similar to what Shikamaru did earlier. Just let me know if he tries anything."
Naruto gave the other boy a glare. "What is that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing," Kiba turned away and went to the classroom. "I'll see you later."
They continued walking after that. They passed the classes and went over to the ninja's hut. Hinata didn't want to bring out her guitar until there weren't a lot of people. Naruto thought she seemed a bit paranoid be the way she looked around. It wasn't that long before there was barely anyone, except a small group of friends in a corner just hanging out with each other.
"So first thing first, what will our band's name be?" Naruto started while Hinata got out a pen and paper.
"I'm not sure. I thought since it will be your band you were going to think of the name."
"No, I told you it is our band so we have to think of a name together.
"Ok...Then after that?" She said as she wrote down the words 'band names' on the paper.
"Then we'll try to find people that know how to play drums, bass or that can sing."
"WH-what are you going to be playing?" Hinata asked.
"I'll do whatever we have left. I can do pretty much every any instrument so it's ok."
"Right...Um...I-I may have someone in mind to play the drums." Hinata said as she bit her lower lip. She was sure the person would get upset with her if she were to say his name.
"Really? Who?"
"H-he's in the club right now...You've talked to him I believe." She remembered earlier what she saw and wasn't sure if it was a good idea or not.
"Hm...I'll just go with you back to your club so I can talk to him again then." Naruto said as he thought about that Kiba guy. He would probably be a nice addition to the group.
"Sure..." She wrote down the words 'possible band members' on a different piece of paper. "Do you know anyone that might want to join?"
"No, not really."
"Isn't there any of your friends that would like to help?"
"I don't really have any." Naruto said simply.
"O-oh..." Hinata stared down at the paper, feeling bad for asking. "S-sorry..."
"Hm? Oh, it's no problem, I don't really care." He grinned proudly. "Once we make this band people will be begging in line for me to hang out with them."
Hinata giggled quietly. "I'm sure they will.
Naruto laughed some more before going back to business. "Anyway, we should also look around for places that will let us play, like here at school during lunches. We should make reservations preserved now in case they get booked solid later on when we want to play."
"Right." Hinata wrote this down, writing places of names that she knew that could be a possibility on the paper after the other she just wrote on.
"And another thing, we should try to make up lyrics for songs that we can perform when we get the new band members. I already have a few, but if you have any we can talk about it."
"Sure." She then wrote again on the paper with 'lyrics' on the paper after the last.
"I think that should be good for now. Let's discuss about the names."
It was a long hour of talking of names. Neither of them thought it would take that long, but neither liked the other's idea. They almost got in an argument, if it hadn't been for the fact that Hinata is shy and is to afraid to speak her mind. Even if they were going to argue, they had themselves some laughs from the names they mentioned. Also, because Hinata did not listen to much music, only the kinds her father presented her with, she would accidently mention names that were already used, which made Naruto laugh harder until he got the hiccups for a couple minutes. He gave her, his mp3 to barrow so she could listen to the songs and see the names of all the bands names. As they talked about names, Hinata had written down a bunch of names. By the time Kiba found them, she had already used both sides of one of the papers.
"Ok Hinata, we're about to learn about forming eyes."
"But we already learned that." She put away the notebook into her backpack, along with her pen.
"Yeah but these ones are more difficult."
"Right..." Hinata thought for a moment. "Maybe later you can teach me them. I'm still a little busy. I'll be back when you guys start playing."
Kiba looked at her strangely. "Are you serious? You rather be with him than learn about go? That sure is a surprise. You love go more than anything."
"Y-yes, well," she tried saying with a blush once again creeping on her face. "W-we're trying to figure something ou-"
"Wait a second." Naruto interrupted. "We can go now if you want."
"Are you sure? You'll have to wait at least twenty minutes for the teacher to stop talking."
"Oh, he said he's only going to show us one pair of eyes. One way to make one and one way to destroy." Kiba told her.
"I guess that's not so bad." She thought for a moment. She glanced at Naruto, wondering if he was truly ok with it. She shrugged her shoulders and got up for the picnic table. "Let's go then I guess."
The three of them walked all the way back to Iruka's classroom. Hinata and Naruto kept discussing about names while Kiba listened in and finally figured out what they've been doing all along. "How about Red Dog?" He mentioned, only getting a no from the both of them. "I called my dog Akamaru and no one has a problem it. Whatever though, I was just trying to help."
They made it back to the classroom just in time for Iruka to start teaching. The lights were turned off as the projector showed a game that he was playing on the computer. He discussed all the situations that you can use and even had people come up to the white board to explain how to create the eyes. Naruto had no clue on what they were talking about, but paid attention none the less. After a long time of just discussing about the single problem, the lights were turned back on and everyone started to play once again.
Hinata, who was sitting in the desk next to Naruto, turned to him while she was pulls out a camera. "Do you want to talk to him now?"
"Sure." He replied before they both stood up. They started walking towards Kiba, but the Hinata suddenly moved to the left from the boy and headed for someone Naruto never expected.
"No way." Naruto said aloud.
"Excuse me," Hinata said when she came up to the person. "Shikamaru, do you think you can do us a favor?"
The boy that Naruto met with earlier lazily looked up from his seat at Hinata and Naruto. "I'm already doing a favor for Chouji by being in this club. I can't do what everyone wants for every little thing. One person at a time." He then went back to playing his game with Chouji, who seemed to be losing by all the stones that Shikamaru had taken away from him. Hinata looked a little down, but understood. So she just turned around and gave Naruto a sorry face.
"Hold it!" Naruto pointed at Shikamaru, getting his full attention. He then slammed his fist onto the desk beside him. Something about the actions made Shikamaru think of a game series he used to play. "I object to that. You see, this isn't just any favor; this is nearly a dying wish! Hinata has told me that you can play the drums and we desperately are in need of a drum player!"
Shikamaru was silent, his bored expression never changing. "Don't think so." He then went back to his game. "Look for someone else Phoenix, I'm not interested.
Naruto gave a confused looked. "Who the hell is Phoenix?"
Hinata then tried to convince Shikamaru herself. "Please Shikamaru. I've seen you play the drums while when Chouji asked you to play something. You're very good and Naruto really need someone like you."
"No is no Hinata. Now, are you ready to play or not? I've already over killed Chouji here." He said while the boy across from here had tears pouring down his face.
"Thanks a lot Shikamaru." His friend cried.
Hinata shook her head. "I'm not going to play you today."
"Fine then, I guess I'll stay topped ranked and be president."
"Wait a second." Naruto couldn't believe it this. "You're the president of this club? But you said you're only in here for your friend."
"Yeah? And?" Shikamaru yawned. "I've defeated everyone in this club so that makes me the top player. The only real challenge is the teacher and Hinata. But she has lost to me so that only makes her the Vice President. Just look at the white board over there." He pointed to the very end of the whiteboard with a bunch of pieces of paper with people's names taped on. On the very top next to the word President was Shikamaru's name. Below his name was Hinata's, which was next to the words 'Vice President.' There were two more vice president positions below and then after that there were just names that reached to the bottom, which was Chouji's name.
"So, basically you set your positions on your guy's ranks?"
"Yeah. People can more up a rank if they challenge the person above their name." Shikamaru explained lazily as he put away the stones back into the black boxes. "If you defeat the person above you, you are allowed to go up. If you lose, you stay where you are."
"I see..." Naruto thought about it while Hinata continued to get the lazy ass boy to join. Soon, a grin appeared on his face like a sly fox. "I got it!"
Shikamaru groaned. "Just leave me alone, I want to go to sleep now." He laid his head on the desk after Chouji took the board with the two boxes on top.
"Not yet." He took the Board away from Chouji and went into the seat the chubby boy had been sitting in. He placed the board back onto the desk, making Shikamaru move away. That just made him more irritated than before. "What do you say that I play you?"
Shikamaru gave him a questioning look. "Excuse me?"
"Just hear me out. If I can defeat you, then you have to play the drums."
"And if I lose?"
"That can be entirely up to you."
It took Shikamaru a moment to think about it. "You have to buy me Shogi so I can have something better to play than play this boring game."
"That doesn't sound so bad."
"It's too troublesome to make you do something idiotic like streak all around the school. It would also be to disgusting"
Naruto's right eye started twitching, thanking the lord that Shikamaru did not choose that option. "A-anyway...Lets begin!"
"Wait a second." Naruto and Shikamaru looked up from their seats to see Iruka standing before them. "You can't simply just challenge him like that."
Naruto stared at him like he was crazy. "But why not? He was just playing chubby a bit while ago."
"I'm not chubby!" Chouji yelled at him. "I'm just...I'm just big boned okay!"
Iruka shook his head. "They were just playing for fun. If this is a serious challenging game, you must earn your way to Hinata's level to be able to challenge him. Besides, you don't know how to play. Don't you think it would be smart if you learned before going against someone that's an expert?"
Naruto face faulted, he knew it was true. He looked at Shikamaru who didn't seem to care about the situation. "Fine, I'll join this club and become president. Then you have to become our drummer."
Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "Why do you want me so badly? You've never even heard me play."
"That's true, but Hinata says you're good. I believe her and think that you'll be perfect."
"Whatever, you're just wasting your time. Now take this away so I can sleep." He pushed the go board towards Naruto so he would have more space to lay his head down.
"You just wait and see; I'll be on top in no time." Naruto stood with the board in his hands. He looked at Iruka. "Thanks for the save."
"It's no problem really. You just have to think before you act, which you will learn plenty of as you play the game." He told Naruto. "Besides, it'll be good to have you around again. I just hope you'll pay more attention than you did when you were in my class."
Naruto was set back a bit. He couldn't believe Iruka still remembered him. In the beginning of the year he had said hello to his biology teacher, but the teacher just smiled like he didn't know who he was as he awkwardly said hi back. Naruto thought it was because the bio teacher was old and Iruka still seemed to look young.
Hinata walked with Naruto over to a desk on the other side of the room. "Here, I'll teach you how to play. I can show you the basics."
"Thanks Hinata." They then put two desks together and put the board on them. They each had a black box. Hinata had the box with the white stones and Naruto had the ones with the black. It took an hour explaining how to play. Naruto figured out most of the problems Hinata presented him with. There were some he didn't know and wanted to give up on, but Hinata pressured him into solving them. To Naruto's surprised, he was actually having fun playing the little game. He wasn't sure if it was because of wanting to beat Shikamaru, or because Hinata was there teaching him, or simply it was just fun to play. Whatever the reason, he had fun none the less.
"Ok everyone, put the boards away." Iruka called out to the students as he finished a game with Chouji. "Be back tomorrow and we'll focus more on territory."
Naruto and Hinata cleaned up their mess quite quickly. He put the board where everyone else was putting theirs while Hinata went up to Iruka to hand him her guitar. Naruto went up to her as she put on her backpack. "Aren't you going to take your guitar home?"
Hinata sadly shook her head no. "Remember I told you I can only play at school? My dad doesn't know that I play since he doesn't like it."
"Oh right, right." Naruto picked up his own bag. He didn't ask Hinata anymore questions in case she felt that she was prying into her business. "So do you take the afterschool bus or does someone pick you up?"
"I get picked up."
"To bad, I thought we would be able to talk some more about what we're going to do." They both headed for the door, only to be confronted by Shikamaru and Chouji.
"Shikamaru and I will look forward to playing a new game soon." Chouji laughed while Shikamaru didn't seem like he cared.
"We'll see about that when I challenge you tomorrow." Naruto grinned. "And seeing how you're on bottom, I think it's going to be a nice, quick victory."
Chouji stopped laughing at this and glared. "Hey! I'm not that bad! I just don't give it my all."
"Then you better tomorrow or else I'll beat you."
"Why you-"
"That's enough Chouji." Shikamaru finally spoke. "It's just a troublesome board game, nothing to get so worked up about."
Hinata tugged on Naruto's shirt, getting his full attention. "W-we should hurry to the bus ramp before the buses get full." She didn't want any tension between anyone. "We can talk on the way there."
"Right," Naruto gave Shikamaru and Chouji one last look before leaving with Hinata. They followed close behind, but he ignored them. "So Hinata, do you want to meet in the morning or at lunch again?"
"When ever you want, I hang out at Senior Square when I'm not in the club."
"Senior square? You're kidding me right?" Senior Square was a place that belongs to the seniors, but they never go there. So all the other grades hang out there instead. Naruto has seen many things he wished he hadn't at that wild crazy place. Such as boys humping each other in groups, or on objects such as a nearby tree. He has also seen everyone chase each other for no apparent reason.
"No, why? Is something the matter?"
"No, no. It's just I've never really hung out there before."
"Well it can be a nice place...It's just really loud."
"Right...Is that why you were playing your guitar by the music room? You couldn't hear yourself play or something?"
"Um...Y-yeah." In truth, Hinata couldn't carry the guitar from Iruka's room all the way over to Senior square. This was because the band her cousin was in was next to the cafeteria and Senior Square was past that. If she went past the ninja's hut with the guitar case and her cousin spotted her, she would be in deep trouble.
They both reached where the front office was, which was right next to the cafeteria and close to the senior square. Hinata turned towards down the hallway on the right. "I-I'll see you tomorrow."
"Seeya." Naruto watched her make her way down the short hallway and reach the front of the school. There, a car was waiting for her with another boy getting into the car. Naruto couldn't see who the boy was clearly because he was to far away, but he seemed familiar. He shrugged his shoulders, bothering to think too much about it. He continued his way to the bus ramp. He went through Senior Square, praying that some random guy won't come out of no where and start humping him.
End of Chapter
Lovelyanime: Alright, here are some fun facts for everyone. Even though I got the idea for this story from fat lip, I based Naruto's school from my own. In the first chapter, sometimes there actually were bands that played in the lunch area sometimes. Also the senior square in this story is also at my school. And seriously, ever since last year there were guys humping each other in groups. It was funny at first, but now it's just plain annoying. That's one reason I'm glad I got homeschooled. Anyway, I'm only telling these facts because school has started once again and even though I already graduated, my little brother is now attending. I told my friend that's a junior now to do what you do to freshmen, but he says he's to lazy to which I could understand since basically almost everyone I know didn't care about the little freshmen anymore as we went up a grade. To troublesome to deal with, except for the good ones that you meet. Now, I don't really feel like doing a skit with Naruto and Hinata (I'm lazy, I know) so I hope you send a review telling what you think of the story, or at least an encouraging, 'can't wait for chapter three. (Sniff) It touches me so to hear just those few words. lol I hope everyone has a great week, month, year, or whatever. Just come back to read from little ole me.
