Chapter 2: Tensions Arise! : The Reading of the Squads!
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Everyone was now back at their seats and sitting on edge. All but a few exceptions were undergoing their nervous ticks. From years of going without speaking and only observing, Kiyowa had managed to pick up a few of them. Sakura's nervous tick was her repeating. Whenever something was going on that made her nervous or feel intimidated, the first thing she would do was repeat words that were just said by another, namely one that usually relays the news of an event. Naruto's was his muttering. He would always mutter to himself as if he were telling himself to pull himself together, or giving himself a pep talk under his breath. This time, however, Naruto was laying his head on his arm, twitching at the sore spots after his latest beat down. Sasuke… even after so long of specifically setting her sights on him, Kiyowa had failed to find any sort of nervous actions he performed. It was like he was perfect under pressure… She quickly shook her head, trying to pull her mind out of its trance.
"Squad Seven."
Kiyowa's mouth fell agape, "Gah!" 'I can't believe I missed the reading of the other six squads! What if I missed my name!?'
"And Kiyowa Shinzo."
The flaxen haired female looked up from her mental self-bashing and glanced up. Her nerves popped, jumped, and raced all over the place, heart racing in tune with them. Now who was in her squad..? She looked around the room, attempting to grab a hint. All she could notice was that there were large masses of girls in the room directing a heavy glare toward Sakura... but what would that have to do with her?
"And we are now dismissed for lunch."
Kiyowa rose from her seat, tilting her head and glancing around for a little help. It was then that a finger gently tapped her shoulder, causing her to turn around in curiosity, "H-Huh?"
It was Hinata.
This was a big surprise considering Hinata rarely was seen speaking to others. It caused Kiyowa to really wonder what she needed from her.
"I n-noticed… Well.. You're squad um.. You seemed.. shocked and…a-and I.. Well.. S-Sakura-chan is in your squad.."
It was incredibly difficult to catch the gist of the sentence, but eventually Kiyowa was able to catch on to the fact that Hinata had noticed she hadn't found who was in her squad, and so attempted to assist her.
Kiyowa smiled lightly, feeling content in the fact that among all of her classmates whom she had never spoken to, she could find a friend in Hinata, "Arigatou, Hinata-chan."
The dark haired girl gave a quick nod then backed up slightly, turning to walk hesitantly toward her own squad.
Kiyowa's face was depicting utter sadness. It would seem as though she was one of the only people in the entire graduating class that did not eat lunch with her squad. Mainly because she couldn't find any of them… What a ninja she was turning out to be.
Even though hours had passed since then, it still stuck to the corner of her brain. She would attempt to drag something else into her mind, but her failure at becoming social with her squad members had hit a brick wall would recur. Her thoughts were suddenly broken off by Naruto's voice,
"Well this is what he gets for being late!"
Kiyowa turned her head to see Sasuke and Sakura were both turning their gazes up to Naruto, who was sticking an eraser atop the door to the classroom. It was not likely that anyone else would get caught up in the little stunt he was pulling considering the rest of the graduating class had departed with their senseis, and Iruka had decided to bail on them as well, but the pink and ebony haired shinobi still made a big deal out of it.
"Naruto! I really don't think you should do this. Don't be a baka!" Sakura scolded.
Kiyowa glanced over and acknowledged her hesitance. Obviously on the outside she was telling him to stop, but Kiyowa could tell that she was secretly enjoying this. Sasuke on the other hand, quiet as always aside from his 'words of wisdom', "She's right, dobe. Our sensei is supposed to be a Jounin. There's no way he'll fall for that."
The blonde haired girl nodded her head in agreement with his statement, although she couldn't help but wonder if it would work. It had a chance, after all, ninja of even a high level could make a careless mistake here or there. Something tugged inwardly at Kiyowa though. She could not exactly explain what, nor did she know what exactly it was herself. She just felt something. It was like a force that jumbled the butterflies in her stomach and gave her a nervous feeling. She turned her head over to the door and she could just feel that whatever it was, was on the other side of that door. "Hm.." She hummed to herself in thought, watching the door. Her breaths began to shorten and heart began to race, but she was unsure why. It wasn't noticeable, so the others had nothing to say about her reaction, nor any questions to ask. Abruptly, the door creaked open, and it felt like the same force that sent Kiyowa's insides on a rampage was about to walk through that door.
The eraser lodged between the tops of the doors wiggled free upon their opening and it fell through the cracks and onto a full head of oddly arrayed silver hair. At that time, whatever uneasy, heart racing feeling that had been sending Kiyowa into a strange state up and disappeared. She was just overcome with a strong feeling of disbelief, "I can't believe… it actually worked."
"Hahah! I know, right!" Naruto laughed loudly, holding his gut while doubling over to rest his other hand on his knee, "Oh man!"
With a wide eyed expression, Kiyowa looked at Naruto then down to her lap. She couldn't believe it. Did she jus... interact with them? Without feeling terrified out of her wits? A small smile spread over her lips and she couldn't help but feel a sense of happiness.
"KYAH. IT ACTUALLY-" Sakura raised a brow then pulled herself together quickly, having a humbled demeanor, "Ah… I'm sorry. I told him not to."
Sasuke's eye just noticeably twitched, likely with disappointment and disbelief. Kiyowa could only guess that he was maybe disappointed more so in their 'sensei' than in Naruto, and that he probably believed the silver haired Jounin should have been able to dodge that with ease, or at least sense that it was there to avoid it altogether.
"Ah, yes. My first impression of you all," The man spoke with a carefree attitude that seemed almost indifferent. Scratch that. It sounded highly indifferent.
Kiyowa stiffened. First impressions are everything, and after the stunt Naruto had pulled, who knows what his first impression of them was. 'He probably thinks we're a bunch of-'
"You're all a bunch of idiots."
+Boom+
Kiyowa's head and face area had forcefully collided with the table in front of her. 'How did I guess?' She thought ruefully to herself, not realizing until afterwards that the room had gone silent.
"Uh.. You okay?"
Kiyowa sat up at Naruto's question and placed the back of her hand, which was covered by the sleeve of her large blue sweater, over her the reddened mark that had appeared on her forehead, "Uh.. Y-Yes. No worries," That's what she said out loud anyway. On the inside it sounded a little more like… 'OWWIE OW. WHAT ON EARTH WAS I THINKING?'
Sasuke scoffed, muttering something incoherent under his breath and shaking his head before turning back in the silver haired man's general direction.
In response, Kiyowa lowered her hands to fold together tightly in her lap and looked down at them with a flustered face. She felt like an idiot... Slowly she receded back into her shell.
A/N: Heyyooo. So I noticed this story got some negative reviews. (;n;" Pretty quick too..) (Btw, thank you for the positive review, 211boyfriend.) I don't mind negativity, but at least add justification so that it can be considered constructive criticism, mkay? Thankssss so much~ Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter, although we're getting the basics and buildups to the storyline in here still –since this story does indeed follow storyline-, things will start to pick up in a couple chapters, so I hope you stick with me til then! *Gives all my lovely readers ice cream, because cookies are too mainstream xD*
