A/N: Hello everyone, so this is the second chapter and I'm sorry for taking so long, some school stuff came up, but I'm not planing to take so much time to update the rest of the story.
I want to say special thanks to Blaze Release, my very first reviewer, so thanks :)
About this chapter you should know that I have in my mind the classic style of japanese schools, the Π shaped buildings. Also the students don't change classes, they have one for the whole year and a specific classroom, with 2 doors, one on the front and the other on the back. The teachers are the ones that walk from class to class. Moreover, everyone in the building must wear uwabaki, the japanese school slippers, so in the entrance of the school building there are lockers for their shoes, the lockers for the student's books are inside the back of the classroom. All of the classrooms are on the second floor, on the first there are the library, laboratories and those kind of staff. Each class has 35 students, the desks are lined up on 5 rows, 7 desks each. Oh and school starts at 8:30.
Ok that's it, enjoy the chapter :) (warning this is a character(s) introduction chapter, might be kind of boring...)
Disclaimer: I own nothing, but the plot.
Friends
Chapter 2: Minna
The sun had been up for two hours now, sunning bright and powerful. The weather was warm, but not hot, with a light breeze. The streets were covered with the colour of pink, petals of the newly bloomed sakura trees were spread everywhere. The singing of the birds was muffled by the passing cars, but it was still audible from the pavement. It even smelt spring, the different kind of flower's fragrances, the slight sense of yesterday's rain and the fresh, recently watered grass.
Hinata enjoyed all those things during her walk to school with Neji. They could now see the building in front of them. The gates were opened, students were entering the school grounds for the first time this school year.
She closed her eyes for a brief moment, to feel the new breeze passing them by and inhaled deeply. She was listening to the birds, when their singing was covered by a dog's bark, followed by loud running footsteps.
"Hey!" A male voice shouted excited from behind them, as she felt another body colliding with her own.
Her eyes instinctively jerked open, in shock and she could see the pavement getting closer to her face.
However, she was stabilized by an arm wrapping around the back of her neck.
Hinata turned her head, to face whoever had nearly knocked her down, only to see Neji's black envelope school bag flying right in front of her, not hitting her by a few centimeters, and landing on the boy's face, who fell back and on his butt, due to the force of the hit.
"Goodmorning to you too, Neji" The boy groaned, while rubbing his face in pain.
He had short, messy, brown hair and sharp black eyes.
"Hn" Was all Neji answered to the boy despitefully, looking away from the huge white dog he was staring behind him and in the boy's eyes, which were throwing daggers at him, eager to start a small fight before school.
However Neji, instead of feeling threatened, just stood there, staring at him with his infamous, cold "Hyuuga death glare".
He didn't like people getting physically too close to him, even his friends, let alone one of them jumping on him and Hinata, randomly wrapping arms around their necks, this early in the morning. Not that if it was any other time his reaction would have been different, no, but still, it was too early…
"O-Ohayou, Kiba-kun, daijoubu?" Hinata broke the silent staring contest.
By just hearing her voice, Kiba's face lighten up and quickly turned to see her, offering him a hand to stand up.
"Yeah, fine" he answered, taking her hand and standing up. "Ohayou Hinata" he said smiling.
"Do not even dare do that again" Neji warned Kiba, as he turned and continued walking to school.
"As you wish, ice-queen-sama" Kiba mocked Neji, who just rolled his eyes in return, this nickname was getting old.
While Hinata and Neji entered the school grounds, Kiba stayed behind, standing in front of the gates. He turned around to face the white dong that was following them all this time.,
"Now remember, lunch starts at 12:05" he said and the dog answered with a bark. "And come from the left side, ok?" the dog barked it's answer again, perfectly understanding what Kiba said. "Good boy Akamaru" he praised Akamaru, as he petted his head. "Now go" and he walked back to his friends, as Akamaru run off.
The other two, after entering, made their way towards the board, next to the main door of the Π shaped building, where the names and classes of all students were written.
A few students had already arrived and were either spread around the grounds, talking to their friends or walking to their classrooms.
To the left of the board, a boy was standing, leaning with his back on the it, one hand in his pant-pocket, the other covering a yawn.
He was of an average height, with jet black shoulder-length hair, that he tied up in a spiky ponytail. His brown eyes couldn't be seen, since he had them closed.
"Ohayou~" he said, while making another yawn, when they made a stop in front of the board.
"Ohayou" Neji replied.
"Ohayou, Shikamaru-kun" HInaa greeted.
"B-3 our classroom, I checked" Shikamru informed them.
"For which one?" Neji asked.
"Both, you are in the same class-"
"But-" they were about to ask how two family related students could be in the same class, however Shikamaru was faster.
"Well, you are cousins, not siblings, so I guess it is possible" he explained. They both nodded.
Shikamaru did a yawn that lasted for about tree minutes, which made Hinata to ask "Haven't you slept well Shikamaru-kun?", even though she knew nothing was wrong with him, rather than being his usual sleepy self.
"Or at all?" Kiba ask from behind the two.
"I did sleep and enough, *yawn* but school being troublesome and all just **yawning* has to start so early*" he answered.
"Enough is an understatement, I called at your house at seven and you were already asleep!" A chubby with long, spiky, light brown hair and warm brown eyes said, walking towards them, while eating some potato chips.
"Ohayou minna" he said smiling.
"Ohayou Chouji-kun" Hinata replied. Neji nodded and Shikamaru yawned, as their greetings.
Kiba went and wrapped his arm around the back of Chouji's neck.
"Yo, so how many of them have you eaten already?" he asked, taking a chip and eating it.
"This is the sixth one, but breakfast is the most important meal of the day" he answered, shoving a hand full of chips in his mouth.
"Breakfast lasts all day for you Chouji" Kiba mocked him, but Chouji just shrugged, he knew Kiba was just playing, not trying to offend him.
"Chouji, Kiba, you are in our class too" Shikamaru informed them too.
"Cool, then let's get going" Kiba said and started walking towards the building.
"I wonder who will be our advisor-teacher this year…" Chouji said to no one in particular.
"Anyone, but Gai-sensei" Shikamaru replied.
"Or Orochimaru" Kiba added.
"But what if….."
Hinata wasn't listening to this conversation though. She had stayed behind to find to find a specific name on the board.
"Hinata are you coming?" Neji interrupted her search.
"H-Hai!" she replied quickly, not wanting to rise any suspicions as to who's name she was looking for. Damn, she didn't have time to find it and she had to know if he was in the same class as her.
But what if he wasn't? She was lucky enough to be classmates with him during the whole elementary and middle school years, plus the previous one, what if her luck had run out by now?
Those were her thoughts while they took off their shoes, put their uwabaki on and walked upstairs to their classroom.
When they entered the room there was only one person in it. A tall, fair-skinned, guy with bushy, dark brown hair was sitting on the last desk of the raw next to the window (7th desk, 5th row). His eyes couldn't be seen, due to the small black sunglasses he always wore, literally always.
He nodded to them, as his way of saying 'goodmorning' and they did the same.
"Yo Shino" said Kiba walking towards him "did you check the video I sent you?" and took the sit next to him (7th desk, 4th row).
Shino nodded yes, not speaking. He had being taught that being observant and silent was a smart thing to do in this society, plus it wasn't his style to talk a lot.
"Ohayou, Shino-kun" Hinata walked up to them, after she had chosen her desk. It was the second one in the same row with Shino, right in front of Neji's (3rd desk, 5th row), who was smart enough to keep the desk behind him (4th desk, 5th row) for his best friend Lee. He didn't want anyone but a close friend of him to sit behind him.
Chouji had chosen the third desk in the second row, his favorite sit and Shikamaru sat on the sit behind him (4th desk, 2nd row), like always.
He was already asleep on it, while Chouji was opening a new bag of potato chips and mumbled something about the first day of school always making him hungry.
Neji was just sitting on his desk, staring outside the window nest to him, when a girl came running in the classroom.
She has her headphones on, her cheeks were slightly pink and she was panting from her morning running. Somehow however, her dark brown hair was still perfectly held in their two buns, one at each side of her head. Her eyes were sunning a bright brown with excitement.
"Morning guys" she said exhaling loudly, while taking her headphones off.
Shino nodded again, he had obviously decided that this would be his way of greeting people. Chouji's mouth was too full with food to say anything at all and Shikamaru was still asleep. Surprisingly, Neji did answer to her, saying a simple "Ohayou Tenten" with Hinata.
"How can you run every morning with a skirt on?" was Kiba's way of saying 'goodmorning'.
"I'm always wearing athletic-sorts underneath, it's a lot more comfortable to exercise with it" she answered, still trying to catch up her breath.
"And why exactly do you care so much, Kiba?" a girl with hair, in the color of the sand, that she tied up in four small ponytails, asked. She was leaning to the backdoor with her right shoulder, glaring at Kiba with her piercing green eyes.
"Just curiosity, Temari" he answered.
"Curiosity killed the cat, remember that" Temari warned him.
Kiba gulped and nodded his head yes, Temari was pretty scary when she wanted.
"So, you are here too?" Chouji asked her, while throwing the, now empty, potato chip bag in the garbage bin.
"No, I'm in the next class, B-4, damn" Temari answered.
"That's too bad" Hinata said disappointed.
"Which jerk decided that!?" Tenten rhetorically asked.
"Tenten, swearing is not good!" A boy that had just came in said, standing behind Tenten.
He was thin and tall, with large rounded black eyes, that had prominent lower eyelashes and really thick, too thick, eyebrows. His hair was a shiny black, cut in the hairstyle of an upside down bowl.
"Ohayou gozaimasu, minna!" He half-shouted to everyone.
"Ohayou Lee" everyone said in union, even Shino. No one wanted to listen to Lee's monologue about manners… again. Though, someone, someday, should really explain to him that being overexcited, over-energetic and half yelling all the time, wasn't exactly in the book of good manners.
"I know it really sucks" Temari continued their conversation, before Lee had interrupted them. "I won't be able to torture sleeping-beauty, here, now!" She complained, referring to the million times she hadn't let Shikamaru sleep through the lessons, the whole previous year. That now, for Shikamaru, was a torture, for her, it was a funny activity to fight against boredom.
Shikamaru mumbled in his sleep something about a troublesome woman and Temari continued talking.
"But, at least you have my little brother with you this year" she informed them.
"Gaara?" Kiba asked.
"Yep" she answered "And don't you dare bully him Kiba" she warned him, again, and he shaked his head yes, not trusting his voice.
"Don't wary, if he even think about it, I will make him my punching bag for a week" Tenten reassured her "By the way Hinata, where are you sitting?"
"In front of Neji-nii-san"
"Ok" Tenten said and threw her bag on the desk nest to Hinata's. (2nd desk, 4th row).
Lee had already made his way to his desk behind Neji's (4th desk, 5th row) and was doing some weird working out exercises on it.
"Isn't Gaara the emo red-hair that wears a lot of eyeliner?" a guy with onyx colored eyes asked. He had black, chin-length hair, which went spiky in the back and had bang at either side hanging above his eyes. He was already sitting at the desk he had chosen on his own, the 6th one of the first row, next to the backdoor. Somehow he had sneaked in and sat there, without anyone noticing his presence.
"He is not emo!" Temari defended her brother "just 1,000% anti-social" she explained and rolled her eyes, remembering her brother's social skills, or rather, the lack of them.
"And you are not the one who can talk about social skills Sasuke" Kiba mocked the guy.
Suddenly, loud running footsteps were heard from the corridor. Less than three seconds afterwards, two girls bursted into the room.
The first one had sky blue eyes and long blond hair, tied up in a high ponytail, with bangs covering the right side of her face and had a blue clip in the left side of her hair.
The second one had bright, shoulder-length pink hair and sparkling green eyes.
Both of them had shortened their skirts from knee-length to mid-tights and wore long socks that went till their mid-tights, a few centimeters before their skirts ended. Currently, they were desperately trying to inhale more oxygen.
"I made it first" the pink hair one stated.
"No way deco-chan, I did" The blond one snapped back.
"No you did not, I came in first, Ino-pig, ne Sasuke-kun?" The first one retorted.
"Are you kidding me!? I was clearly f-" The blond named Ino was going to continue, but was interrupted by a grumpy Shikamaru.
"Will you ever stop!? You noisy women woke me up!" he grumbled.
"Hey, that's my job!" Temari complained.
"Women are so troublesome" Shikamaru said yawing and fell back at sleep, within less than seconds.
"And for your information, you both came in the exact same time" Neji informed the two girls, preventing the continuation of the mini-fight.
"But I'm sure it was an excellent race!" Lee excitedly popped into the conversation, though all of them new this was not a race, only a usual morning for those two girls to be competing in everything.
"Whatever" the pink-hair said and chose the fist desk of the middle row as her sit and Ino followed, taking the desk behind her, next to Tenten (2nd desk, 3rd row).
Temari cleared her voice and Tenten said what was in both of their minds.
"Aren't you two forgetting something, Sakura, Ino?".
They both looked puzzled at her, so Hinata decided to help them refresh their memories.
"Ohayou….?" She said and it finally clicked to the girls that with all their fighting they had forgotten to, at least, greet their friends.
"Oh! Ohayou minna" they said simultaneously and everyone rolled their eyes.
Loud running footsteps were heard again from the corridor and another blond came running inside. The boy was panting, his cheeks were red and his spiky hair messy.
"Did I make it on time?" he asked between breaths and not more than two seconds had passed before the first bell rang.
"Guess so" Shikamaru groaned, still half asleep.
"Barely, usuratonkachi" Sasuke said.
"It's still on time" he retorted with a smile of achievement that he had managed to run all the way from his house to this classroom.
"G-good m-m-morning Naruto-kun" Hinata whispered so silently that no one heard her, let alone Naruto, who was in the other side of the room.
"Morning guys" Naruto said, as he took the sit next to Sasuke (6th desk, 2nd row).
Other students were entering the classroom now, choosing their sits. Among them, was a fair-skinned, with short, blood-red hair guy with a lot of black eyeliner around his green eyes, who chose to sit right behind Sasuke (7th desk, 1st row). Temari by now had left the room and gone to her own classroom.
"Hey is that Tayuya!?" Ino whispered in Sakura's ear from behind her, nodding her head to the left, towards a red-haired girl with light brown eyes that had just come in.
"No way! She is not in our class!" Sakura retorted.
"Apparently she is" Tenten whispered back, indirectly telling to the girls that they were too loud, even though they were trying to whisper. The three of them watched as Tayuya sat on the desk to the left of Shikamaru's.
Hinata however, was watching another girl. A light blond one, with hair that went past her waist, which she held tied at the end with a big red bow and bright lavender eyes. Her name was Shion and she had a crush on Naruto, since last year. And that's what made Hinata worrying so much whenever Shion was around. She was beautiful and confident; she had far more chances to win Naruto's heart than herself.
She watched as Shion took the other sit next to Naruto, great, now she was going to be next to him for the whole year, Hinata was getting even more worried…. Wait or was this jealousy…?
The second bell rang and everyone stopped talking waiting for their advisor-teacher to enter the classroom and the school year to start.
Glossary
ohayou=goodmorning, minna=everyone, hai=formal yes, uwabaki=japanese school slippers, ohayou gozaimasu=really polite/formal goodmorning, usuratonkachi=literally hammer, in case of Sasuke&Naruto usuless.
About those things in the end of some names, they are japanese honorifics:
-san: Mr. or Mrs.
-sama: to show respect, inferiority, can mean lord, master ect.
-kun: puts distance between two people, shows respect for the person you don't know well, only used for boys
-chan:1)same as kun, only used for girls
2)used for little children (girls&boys)
A/N: So that was it, hope you enjoyed it.
Have a good day or night,
Ilianna :)