Chapter 2
I stare at Sasuke with a blank expression. My eyes slowly lowered to my chest, though my strap hadn't come loose. Had he looked me up? Did I drop my ID card? How did he know? While these thoughts whirred around in my head, I failed to notice him waving his hand in my face, he snapped his fingers, taking me out of my dazed state.
"How did you know?" I asked, feeling my face heat up with embarrassment at the fact I couldn't keep it a secret.
"I know all the best kendo players, including the Kyubbi Knight." He answered, though I could tell he wasn't letting everything on. Gritting my teeth, I deiced to press further.
"How much do you know?" I snapped, grinding my teeth together, as I tried, and failed, to keep the anger out of my voice.
"Not a lot." He said, giving in. "I know you're a girl, Kyubbi Knight, and a part of the host club."
Breathing in sharply, I said he was to never speak of this to anyone else, which he agreed to, and, in return, I would give him kendo lessons when I could. We went our separate ways after that. I pushed open the doors to find the room full of women after only five minutes of start. Sighing, I went around serving tea. I was about to pour the last cup, when the door shot open and stood there was the one and only- squid head. He scanned the room, finding me pretty quickly. He marched over and said something inaudible.
"What?" I asked in confusion. Sasuke walked into the room and took over the spotlight, earning a bunch of 'ooh's and 'ahh's.
"What might bring you here, Sasuke Uchiha?" Tamaki asked, seemingly surprised that such a respected man would come to his Host Club room.
"Naruto, the Hokage needs you." He stated, ignoring Tamaki, who was now sulking in the corner. He then gestured to Squid Head. "It's about some recent events with this one."
"He started it." Squid head grumbled.
"You were flipping a girl's skirt." I shot back.
"So?" He questioned, not even trying to keep the anger out of his voice.
"Not even ero-sensei was this bad." I said, pinching the bridge of his nose with my index finger and thumb. "He at least admitted when he was a prev."
"I am NOT a pervert!" He shouted, grabbing my color roughly and lifting me into the air, so I was staring down at him.
"Dude, put me down." I said calmly, trying not to break his arm in half with all my Kyubbi force.
"Listen here, shrimp-" He was cut off by getting whacked in the head with Sasuke's katana, which Kakashi-sensei was holding. He dropped me, making me land with a thud, and rubbed his head in pain, while glaring at Kakashi.
"Hokage won't wait all day." He explained, helping me up as Sasuke-literally-dragged Squid Head out, who protested, saying he needed to give me a piece of his mind. I dusted myself off, as people began staring at me. Suddenly, Kyoya walked up to us, introducing himself to Kakashi.
"I'm sure Naruto would love to be on the Kendo team, but she'd have to balance that and this club, and I'm afraid most commoners can't handle that much." He explained in the kindest way possible. Note the sarcasm. Tamaki stood in a victory pose, but I made it crumble down.
"I'm an honor student. I know what I know what I'm doing." I said as Tamaki came crumbling down and began to sulk again. I explained I was here for a reason, and that reason is that I am smart and organized. He said it was ok as long as I was only one to five minutes late to the Host Club. I agreed to his terms, before following Kakashi-sensei out the door. We soon arrived at the place I just left, like, ten minutes ago. A boy with messy brown hair and red triangles on his cheeks walked up to us and blocked our path.
"Hey, Kakashi-sensei, who's that kid?' he asked, pointing at my small form. Kasha explained why I was here and who I was, though he didn't say my last name. what seemed to startle the poor boy, Kiba I think, is that I was old friends with the Hokage. He scurried off, and began gossiping with a group of kendo people. We continued our journey, soon finishing. I slide open the door and closed it behind me, before sitting down and waiting for Hokage-shou to start.
"Naruto, Tokaya say you attacked him." He said, gesturing to Squid Head, Tokaya, who nodded.
"Yes, I did." I answered.
"Why did you attack him?" Hokage-shou questioned, staring at me intently.
"He was flipping a girl's skirt with a katana." I stated bluntly. Hokage fell anime style, before recovering with one huge tick mark. He turned to Tokaya, and took in a deep breath.
"You, what?!" He yelled, absolutely appalled that one of his students would do such a thing. At first, Tokaya denied the accusation, before giving in after receiving a famous Uchiha glare from Sasuke. I smiled as he was screamed at for such an act, but what made me laugh, was his punishment- cleaning the boy's bathrooms and showers. He had a look of absolute disgust, and I swear-if I had my phone, I would have taken a picture. I could hear the shuffling of feet and murmurs flying around outside. So, I stood up quietly, and flung open the door. Kiba and the group he was with came plunging in, lying at my feet like lap dogs.
"Hello." Kiba greeted awkwardly. A boy, who seemed big boned, stood up. I could see red swirls on each cheek, making me believe he's Akimichi.
Um, hi." I replied to Kiba as the others stood up, before bowing in apology.
"We're sorry for ease dropping." Akimichi said, apologizing sincerely. I forgot what he said and asked bluntly-
"Your clan is big-boned, right?"
Some fell over in surprise, some looked up, like him, others sweat dropped, etc. He stared at me while straightening his posture. He then leapt at me and pulled me into a hug.
"Thank you for noticing.!" He exclaimed, anime tears running down his face.
"Um… your welcome." I stated, though it came out in a questioning tone. It took five minutes of crying, comforting, ice packs, and struggles to get him off me. The Akimichi, Choji, sat next to me, and smiled at me. I smiled back. The rest of time flew quickly. I learned the people were, not, in fact actual people on the kendo team, but in fact people training for the exam. Itachi, Kakashi, and obviously, Hokage-shou, were already on the team. This was the first year the kendo club was open for more than one team. We were trying out for the Leaf team. A few minutes in, Ibiki, a man whom I know well, showed, up and it became deathly quiet.
"Ibiki-sama!" I exclaimed in a cheery tone, surprising everyone I was being so nice to a 'stranger'.
"Naruto-san? You've grown!" he said, laughing heartily at me.
"Don't make fun of my height! Itachi already does that." I mumbled the last part. I told him to sit down, though he declined, saying he was meeting with the Mist team. We shared our good-byes. After he left, everyone but Itachi, Sasuke, Kakashi and Hokage-shou stared at me in total amazement.
I returned to the host club on time and began serving drinks, before being called over to Tamaki.
"you need 100 people to request you, so, let's get you into the hosting business."
You have no idea how much I wanted to slap his sparklingly face.