Emotional Silence 1- The Beginning
"Sasuke! Come on or we'll be late!" I bang on Sasuke's door and wait.
"I'm coming! Hold on!" I roll my eyes and go to the kitchen. "You forgot to put on your Hitai-ate, Nee-chan." I shake my head and tap my wrist.
"I'm wearing it. Here, I fixed breakfast and Bento for us to take." I toss him a roll and put the two box lunches on the table.
"You labeled them again?" I nod.
"Of course I did. I'm not going to let you steal my lunch again and switch it with yours."
"That was funny last week."
"What about yesterday when you did that?" He laughs.
"It wasn't funny, because you kicked my ass after school."
"Exactly." He shrugs and picks up his lunch.
"Let's go." I nod and grab my bag and lunch. We get outside and stop. "Fan girls!" I look around and smile.
"We can escape down that alley." We run to the alley and hide until the screaming girls disappear. They annoy me even more than the boys do. Everyone in my class except for Sasuke and Naruto has a crush on me. I could care less what they think, but having to get away from them is annoying. I look out onto the street. "We're safe, let's go the other way to the school, maybe we can manage to avoid them until school."
"Wonderful." I nod and check my watch.
"Oh crap! We're gonna be late!"
"The rooftops." I nod and scale the wall to stand on the roof.
"It's a straight shot this way. Let's hurry." We're really not going to be late for class starting; we just like to be early so we can get good seats, away from the fans. We run across the roofs and get to the school. "Here we go. I wonder what teams we'll be put on."
"Teams?"
"Three man-cells, it's basic Shinobi protocol for ninja to work in groups of three under a superior."
"Great, that means two people too many." I roll my eyes and we start walking to the classroom.
"Good morning, Uchiha-san."
"Good morning, Inuzuka-kun." It's started. Inuzuka grins and I walk past him, going to the middle row closest to the windows. I sit down and Sasuke sits beside me. The next person to sit on this row is Naruto. Then Ino and Sakura get here, fighting to get in first. Figures. Then, an argument starts among the girls about who gets to sit by Sasuke. Can't they tell that the row is full? I look over to say something to Sasuke when I see Naruto standing on the desk, glaring at him.
"Get lost."
"Naruto! Don't glare at Sasuke!" I sigh and wait for Naruto to give up on his glaring. Suddenly, he falls forward and kisses Sasuke. They both gag and I stand up, slamming my hands on the desk.
"Uzumaki you idiot! You're dead!"
"Nee-chan, don't bother." I glare at Naruto and sit down, arms crossed. Iruka-sensei gets into the room and puts a clipboard on his desk. The class goes quiet.
"I wonder who'll get put with the Uchiha twins." My eye twitches. I hate it when people refer to us like that. We may be twins, but we're still people that should be acknowledged for something other than looks or talent, or even the stupid last name. Iruka-sensei goes down his list.
"Team 7, Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, and Uchiha Karin." We got put...on the same team. Naruto jumps up and gets excited when he hears that he's teamed with Sakura, and then gets upset when the rest of the team is called out. Sakura was depressed until Sasuke was mentioned. Great, that means that we're stuck on the team with the top fan girl and the dunce. This should be interesting. Iruka-sensei finishes the list and Naruto gets up to complain about being teamed with Sasuke. I ignore it and start doodling on my hand.
"That's not healthy, you know."
"Shut up, I know that. I'm bored and I don't have any paper." Iruka-sensei dismisses us and I go out to the roof, I sit down and open up my bento.
"Itadakimasu!" I dig into my lunch of raspberry and blackberry onigiri (Note: Onigiri is a flavored rice ball with a flavor tab on the back, different colors label different flavors, usually fruit but other flavors are used as well) and shrimp. When I finish, I go back to the classroom. Sasuke and I are the first ones to get back from lunch.
"Guess what happened to me during lunch."
"You were attacked by fan boys?" I shake my head.
"Absolutely nothing! I had a peaceful lunch for once."
"Lucky you. Naruto attacked me and tied me up."
"Why would he do something stupid like that? No, don't answer that question, because I know the answer." The door opens and a stranger steps into the room. I don't recognize him or the woman that follows him in.
"No one's back from lunch yet?"
"Just us. Who are you looking for?" The woman smiles at us.
"Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, and Aburame Shino. I'm their instructor, Yuhi Kurenai."
"Well, I think they were eating lunch somewhere on the west side of the grounds, they should get back pretty soon though." She nods and sits down, to wait.
"Who are you waiting for?" The man sits down beside Kurenai.
"I'm Sarutobi Asuma. The team I'm waiting on is team 10." Ino, Chouji, and Nara. I nod.
"They're never gonna finish lunch, Chouji will be eating until he takes his last breath." The two Jounin laugh and I start doodling on my hand again.
"Here" I look up and take the paper from Asuma.
"Um, thanks?" He nods and walks back to the front of the room.
"You shouldn't draw on yourself. It's not healthy." I roll my eyes and start doodling on the paper. I'm not really paying attention to the drawing, but I think I might be drawing that scene again. That's usually what comes out when I doodle like this. I'll bet that those fan boys would run for their lives if they knew why I was so quiet and distant. The room slowly fills up and then empties, leaving me and my team last. We wait for an hour.
"Where is he? It's been an hour since Iruka-sensei left." Naruto looks out into the hall.
"Naruto, whatever stupid prank you're planning won't work on an elite Jounin. You'll get in trouble." He laughs and puts an eraser at the top of the door, holding it up with the door being almost closed all the way. Not even two seconds after he gets back to a chair, the door opens and the eraser falls flat on the white hair of a man.
"So this is our elite instructor?"
"Seems like a bit of a pushover."
"Sensei, I'm so sorry! I tried to stop Naruto!"
"You fell for that big-time!" He seems to smile, at least the visible part of his face lifts slightly in the appearance of a smile.
"Let's see, my first impression of you four...I hate you."
"That was a bit harsh..." He walks out of the room and we follow him to the roof. He leans against the rail and we sit down, Naruto, Sasuke, me, and then Sakura.
"Okay, I want to get to know you guys. I want you to tell me your name, dreams, likes, dislikes, and hobbies."
"Sensei! We don't know anything about you; you show us what to do!"
"Fine. My name is Hatake Kakashi. My dreams and hobbies are none of your business. And I don't feel like telling you what my likes and dislikes are."
"All that and all we know is his name."
"That was the point."
"Now, we'll start with the blond to my right."
"Uzumaki Naruto desu! I like ramen, especially cup ramen and miso ramen from Ichiraku! What I don't like is the time that you have to wait before you can eat cup ramen. My goal is to become the next Hokage!"
"Next, you on the right."
"Haruno Sakura desu. What, well who I like is...*Glance sideways* my dreams, well...*Glance at Sasuke and blush* and I hate...Naruto." That was cruel.
"Next, you next to Sakura." I sigh. That's me.
"Uchiha Karin desu. I don't like much, except art. I dislike everything except art and music. I don't really have any hobbies to speak of. And I don't have a dream; it's more of a goal that I intend to accomplish. That goal is to kill a certain man, whose name you don't need to know." Kakashi's eye twitches slightly.
"Next."
"Uchiha Sasuke desu. There isn't anything that I like, so it's pointless to list what I dislike. I also have a goal that I intend to obtain in the near future. To restore my clan and fulfill my vow to kill a certain man."
"That wouldn't happen to be the same man as Karin-san, would it?"
"No." Naruto looks worried. Was what he did earlier that bad that he would worry about being the one that Sasuke wants to kill?
"Tomorrow, we'll go on a mission that only involves the members of this cell..." I ignore the speech and think about that sketch from before. It was that scene, the day that our parents were killed. It was a year after that when Deidara showed up. He nearly killed Sasuke that day, and I will not forgive him until he meets the fate that he almost made my brother meet, death. "Be at the training grounds at five in the morning. Don't eat breakfast, unless you like puking. And bring all of your ninja gear." He disappears and we get up. Sasuke hands me a piece of paper.
"You spaced out while he was explaining."
"Thanks." Naruto starts for the door to go downstairs. I roll my eyes and run across the roof, jumping over the rail and landing on top of a tree. I run to the house and start working on dinner.