Naruto was scared that Eureka had gotten hurt and quickly opened his arms for her to catch her; Sasuke, Sakura, and everyone around him disappeared. When Eureka landed in his arms he held tightly to her, blue eyes wide with shock. Eureka had been too busy trying to block the punch that she hadn't once thought to just grab Sakura's hand and toss her.
"Hey… You okay..?"
Eureka rubbed her cheek and snarled, but nodded nonetheless. There was a red mark now on her once clear skin, but that wasn't the most of her concerns.
"How dare you…"
Eureka snarled as her lilac eyes landed on the pink haired girls face. Standing to her feet, a fierce look anger and murderous intent, Sakura took a step back in shock.
"I-I… I didn't mean to hit you! You jumped in the way! I-I'm sorry"
She tried to look around at the people around her for help, but none of them were willing to step up. Eureka didn't get angry often, but when she did it would never be pretty for the person who caused it.
"You should have thought about that earlier!"
Eureka went to lunge for Sakura to give her a reason to never risk hitting her again, but was stopped by Naruto wrapping his arms around her in a panicked attempt to keep the Kajiwara from going any further. The aquamarine haired female fought viciously in his grasp, causing everyone to jump back in fear. It was rare to see Eureka upset, and it was even rarer to get her so upset that she would even fight against Naruto to get to someone.
"Eureka! It's okay! I'm fine! You can stop!"
Naruto's voice rang out to Eureka in her fit of rage, and upon hearing them she calmed down even if it was just a little bit. She no longer was fighting against him but that didn't stop her from glaring angrily at the female who hit her. It made her angry that Sakura would even attempt to lay a hand on Naruto, in front of her no less.
"...Fine…"
Eureka ripped herself from Naruto's arms and sent a scowl in Sakura's direction before jumping down from the top of the table to sit back down in her seat, fingering a stand of her hair to try and keep calm. Naruto let out a sigh of relief before offering an apologetic look to his crush before sitting down once again. He sat a little closer to his friend to make sure that if she did decide to get back up again, he could easily catch her.
Shaken by what happened, everyone took their seats in silence and waited for the teacher to come in and start the lesson. They would all be placed into teams today, which everyone was excited about. Truth be told, all Eureka could wish for was to be on the same team as Naruto, and at this point, not Sakura. Despite not liking her before, Eureka would have been fine if they had been put on a team together, but after what she just pulled? The Kajiwara wasn't sure how cordial she would be.
"Good morning class! Today will be short. After I tell you about your team's your teachers will come get you individually."
Iruka came in, making the tension in the room less suffocating. With a smile, he pulled out his clipboard and began to list off students. Eureka felt like her heart would burst at any moment when he kept naming people. She had yet to hear her name or Naruto's, it was safe to say that she was nervous.
"Team Seven will consist of Sakura Haruno, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Eureka Kajiwara since there is an uneven amount of students."
Sakura cheered at being on a team with Sasuke, while she groaned at being on a team with Naruto who, on the other hand, was excited. When they called out Eureka's name, all eyes had landed on their team. It was clear that they all pitied Sakura, she was on the team of the person she had pissed off not even an hour ago.
"Wait, why do I have to be on a team with Sasuke?!"
Naruto was outraged, he hated the guys guts! He thought he was so cool, what was so special about him anyway?!
"Well Naruto, it's all based off of your scores and Sasuke is first place while you were dead last."
Iruka crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow at the blond haired ninja who growled and sat down in a huff with his arms crossed too. Eureka gave a tiny chuckle and gave Naruto a pat on the back.
"Don't worry about it Naruto, I still think you're one of the best shinobi there is."
She was trying to make him feel better, and by the way he grinned at hearing that, she could assume that it had worked. She gave another tiny laugh and went to face the people in front of her.
"Sasuke Uchiha; Sakura Haruno, it'll be a pleasure working with you. May we get along from this day forth."
She guessed that she could be nicer since she had gotten to be in a team with Naruto. Both of them looked at her with a mild look of surprise. They didn't know what they had expected but this certainly hadn't been one of the many things that it could have been.
"Uh… Y-you too…"
"Hn."
It wasn't much, but it was a lot for Eureka's standards. It was Naruto who decided to push it further than planned.
"Hey, since we're all a team how about we invite them over for dinner?"
Sakura was easy to read, hearing that her face had lit up almost as much as it had when she had saw Sasuke this morning, said Uchiha was more discreet about it but Eureka saw his ear move just a bit at the mention of it. She couldn't blame them for that, few to none had ever been inside the Fujiwara household. Not even the Hokage himself had ever been allowed in.
"I'm sure mother wouldn't mind. Grandmother wouldn't mind the extra sets of ears to listen to her stories either."
Naruto grinned and was back to talking about what all they could eat, even asking what kind of ramen Eureka's mother would end up making for the night. He didn't have to tell her that he wanted ramen, he wanted it almost every single time it was time for him to pick dinner. He talked on and on until finally they realized how late it was, and that they were the only four left in the classroom. Even Iruka was nowhere to be found, but then again he had left right after wishing them all luck.
"We've been talking for hours… Where is this guy?!"
Naruto had grown impatient, it was uncertain as to if he had run out of things to say, or was sick of saying them and wanted to go eat. As if he had made his mind up, he quickly went to work. Eureka watched him with a raised eyebrow when he had suddenly stood from his seat and rushed up to the front of the classroom to grab one of the chalkboard erasers. Grabbing a stool he placed the eraser where the next person would be hit with it.
"Naruto! You're going to get us in trouble!"
Sakura quickly stood and rushed over to him, hoping that she'd get him to stop. Eureka sighed and just crossed her arms.
"He'll regret it later."
"Hn."
Sasuke watched them with unamusement but made no move to stop them. Eureka would act if Naruto was going to be attacked, but she was well aware that Naruto was no child. If he did something, he would have to deal with the consequences of them. Naruto chuckled eavily once everything was in place, he quickly got down and moved the stool.
"Hello-"
A voice could be heard as the door moved, showing a man with silver hair. His sentence, however, had been stopped by the eraser dropping on his head, a small cloud of smoke coming from it.
"I'm so sorry! I told him not to do it!"
Sakura started to shout about it, and Eureka was fighting the urge to throw something at her. Did she really have no concept of an inside voice? It wasn't that hard of a lesson, especially if taught young. Naruto was loud too, so she couldn't really complain.
"Hm… My first impression of you all is… I hate you."
The man smiled at them as he said this. Eureka couldn't help but feel like this was going to be one hell of a rocky relationship.
