IT'S NOT WHAT IT SEEMS
IT'S NOT WHAT IT SEEMS
KANKUROU
I…aww, WHAT!? We're back to ME again!? ME-EEG…
MEG: Shut up and lemme write!!
KANKUROU
Actually, I just had a major heart attack. So, why am I not in the hospital?
TEMARI
DON'T take Kankurou's metaphors literally, like Garaa does.
GARAA
HEY!!
KANKUROU
Ah, guys? This is MY POV time…
TEMARI
Sorry.
GARAA
Mutters something incoherent that MIGHT be an apology…
KANKUROU
Scowling
So, I was walking into class, and I see about seven girls standing on desks, holding their skirts.
A mouse? I think, as I stroll casually in. A snake? (Cool if it was). Some other third thing?
It turned out to be none of those things, it was just a harmless little bug. Oh, okay, it wasn't little or anything, it was about the size of a ten dollar bill, and it was bright green and had yellow eyes. There was something I remembered about it…
"GET RID OF IT SASUKE!!" Screamed the pink-haired girl from the hallway, and the guy called Sasuke, who had black hair and dark eyes, rolled his eyes and sighed. He took, like, two steps towards the bug, and it turned bright red.
"YEEEEK!!" Screamed the pink-haired girl, and another girl, with long blonde hair.
Get a grip. I thought wryly.
"Where's Shino or Mushi when you need em'," Said a boy with spiky very dark brown, almost black hair, to a girl who could've given my punk a brother a run for his money. "Aye, Kin?"
Kin just shrugged and went back to etching something in her desk with a compass. Several other compass-designs were already featured on the desk, and some were even creatively filled in with red and/or black ink. It reminded me of the shit Garaa is always getting in trouble for back in Suna.
That's when it hit me. Of course! This bug, I'd seen its likes in Suna before. Harumbug or something like that, a cross between 'bah, humbug' and 'harumbee' (or, something in Swahili). There was something about it that…
Just then, a short girl with short dark hair suddenly approached the bug in a different way then Sasuke had, and the bug turned a brilliant shade of blue.
I was looking at this girl, trying to figure her out, when she glanced up at me, and I saw something in her blue-rimmed hazel-green eyes…
OH MY GOSH!! OH MY LAND!! NO WAY, NO WAY, NO HOW, IT COULDN'T BE…
I realized what was about to happen, because I knew and, to save face, I suddenly ran to the window and cried: "WOW!! OH LOOK, I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!"
Several people ran to join me at the window.
"What!?" Cried a boy who was stocky…oh, okay he was fat, and he was eating CC's. "What did you see!?"
Of course, there was nothing outside the window, so I just said: "It was…oh, never mind, it's gone now…"
I turned back from the window.
A few people looked disappointed.
When I looked at the girl, the bug was gone, and she was sitting quietly at her desk as if nothing had happened.
She and I looked at one another.
We both knew where the bug was now, but no one else had to know it.
Hakunah Matatah… I thought wryly, as our teacher came in.
TEMARI
Wahaaa!! My brothers are younger then I am, so they're not in any of my classes!
Well, at least they can maybe look out for each other, since year ten and elevens sometimes take a few classes together (like sport and health).
My homeroom teacher's name is Kurenai, and she's really nice. I go in there and I'm standing around wondering about seating plans or whatever, and she walks in after me and goes: "You must be our new student, Temari. Don't worry about where to sit, anywhere's fine."
I'm thinking: Like, can she read MINDS or something? as I go and sit down in the middle of the classroom somewhere.
Everyone else trickles in, and I'm sitting next to a girl with strange brown sticky-outty hair, like she's had it electrocuted, and also a boy who looks younger then the other year twelves, and has a black ponytail and…wait a minute, is he asleep?
Yup.
Luckily, Kurenai's cool, and doesn't make me introduce myself.
I have maths first.
I don't particularly like maths (Kankurou hates it) and I wish Garaa were here because he loves maths, and he's really, really good at it.
"Twelve hundred sixty times ninety seven divided by eight added to the square-route of two million and ten?" Goes this really old male teacher.
We're all staring at him, open-mouthed and in shock. But then, suddenly, the guy next to me wakes up, and says in a really bored voice, like he'd rather be anywhere but here: "Fifteen thousand seven hundred and twenty four point seven two four seven seven five seven zero zero zero nine four six eight three three eight three six one five five eight one five five nine…"
"Alright, Shikamaru, thank you." The teacher interrupts him.
I'm the only one staring at Shikamaru open-mouthed, is everyone else used to it!? Does he always do this!?
"He probably has the world's most advanced calculator under his desk." The girl sitting next to me says.
I smile at her. "Proly." I say, as Shikamaru the calculator falls asleep again. "I'm Temari, by the way."
"Mushi." The girl grins at me, and I'm happy. I've made one friend and it's only the first real class of day one!
GARAA
Dear Diary,
I saw HER.
Yes, HER. She is HERE. At the same school as ME. In some of the SAME CLASSES too.
I NEVER thought I'd see HER again.
KANKUROU has seen her TOO. I don't know if TEMARI has or not yet.
But I HAVE.
This is a VERY GOOD thing.
Will she REMEMBER us?
Someone suddenly grabs the diary out of my hands. I know him. This is Neji Hyuga, and he's a member of this group calling themselves the Badd Boyz. Can you believe it? Sasuke Uchiha, Dosu Kinuta and Zaku Abumi are also members.
I also found out, just by listening, that there's a group of popular girls too, called The Plastics. They are Haruno Sakura and Ino Yamanaka (best friends and best enemies too), Dosu's sister Ai, and their foster sister, Sore Kaguya.
Anyway, so I stand up angrily. "Give it back." I say to Neji.
Neji smirks. "Little new kid's got a diary!" He announces to the class, and a lot of them laugh.
Neji's cousin Hinata, also with white eyes, doesn't, and neither does her friend Tenten (cute panda hairstyle) or my brother, Kankurou.
He charges angrily over to Neji, grabs him by the collar and growls: "Quit picking on my brother, Hyuga!"
Neji glares at him. "Make me." He challenges.
I've gotten my diary back by then, and I know what's coming. It's happened before.
Me and about twelve others watch Kankurou bloody up Neji's nose and blacken both his eyes, before our teacher, Asumo, comes in.
He immediately breaks up the two and sends them both to the office.
"Hey," Says a voice from behind me. "Was that really your bother?"
I turn around, and a girl who is about 4'8" is looking up at me intently.
I don't gape or anything, I just nod.
"He's tough, but not as tough as Hoshi." The short girl's green eyes sparkle. She has long red hair, almost to her knees. "I'm Musha, by the way. What's your name?"
"Uh…Garaa." I reply, just as the bell rings, and I'm thankful for it.
Saved by the bell!
I add to my diary page: WHO needs FRIENDS on the FIRST DAY anyways?