The loud ringing of bell quickly put the students of class 12-B into a hasty scramble as they hurried themselves to their own seats. They were well aware that the day was Monday, and the second subject of that day would be filled by Ibiki-sensei, and that particular sensei was the most punctual teacher, the most discipline, and the deadliest amongst the list of deadly teachers. When a single student was found doing a mistake during his class, whether it was intentional or not, it would lead into a punishment dropped onto the whole class inhabitants, without exception. That being said, everyone in the class had come to a silent agreement that they didn't want to encounter another punishment after their first semester of full sufferings on almost monthly basis due to some reckless behaviors of a couple of students.
Not even a minute later, Ibiki-sensei stepped into the class with his terrifying and intimidating face—from the students' point of view of course—just like usual. And Naruto didn't pay attention to the figure at all. It was highly likely that he wasn't even aware to the ringing bell prior.
Naruto was staring so lovingly to a young female who was seated at second front column next to his row, sitting so shy diagonally across from the young Uzumaki.
Sasuke who sat right behind Naruto tsk -ed with apparent sulky mood. He knew very well the person who had attracted Naruto's attention for the entire month. The said person had come as a new student since the first day of the second term, and the girl had immediately seized many students' general interest due to her delicate beauty and her shy but sweet nature, not to mention about the fact spiralling around about her returning back to Konoha after long since lived in the far-away land.
Hyuuga Hinata.
Hinata had just enrolled as a new student of Konoha High School more or less a month ago, and she had enraptured a longing staring from Naruto—which in turn made Sasuke's emotion churned into something so foreign within him.
Sasuke was his best friend since they were little kids, and Naruto had always openly acknowledged him as a bestfriend who would always stand by his side. While on the other hand, Sasuke was keeping a forbidden feeling towards the blonde, which from time to time had always been a nagging feeling inside. It was an emotion he had denied and disavowed before, but instead of dissipating away, it was clear that day by day his effort was to remain as a futile attempt. He couldn't avoid from his growing feeling toward that certain tangerine-lover boy.
"Uzumaki-san! I'll ask you this time to answer the question on the board. Uzumaki-san!"
'Shit. Naruto didn't even hear Ibiki-sensei at all. We're all doomed,' said Sasuke's inner conscious.
Thump…!
The innocent eraser created a loud thunder into the eerily quiet room as its hard side violently crashed against the whiteboard, startling as well unsettling most students occupying the room. Most of them, since there was one particular student who failed to see the obvious tension hanging so thickly in the air.
'Eeh! What was that sound? That shocked me I swear-,' Naruto thought after he was abruptly jolted by the loud sound of the eraser. But it seemed that he wasn't completely snapped out of his reverie yet.
"Uzumaki-san!"
'Eeeh! Ibiki-sensei is in class already?! This is bad!' his internal shrieked as he was starting to come back to reality. A drop of nervous sweat found its way to flow down from his forehead due to the sudden fear and panic attack.
"You didn't seem to be aware of me at all. Hmm… Fine then… Maybe you're still sleepy this morning, if that so, let me freshen you up all at once—,"
In that very second, almost half of the class was trying to swallow down the heavy lumps on their respective throats, the other half was sweating cold sweats, and a handful of them was silently praying that this year Ibiki-sensei had found a profound benevolence in his life and in turn had changed his sadistic antics into something more humanly acceptable. A wishful thinking that lived for a milisecond before it was burned mercilessly.
"—run around the school for one lap, go upstairs until the highest floor of the school, then get back downstairs to this class. I give you thirty minutes to complete it. Get up on your feet and start to run, now!"
Fantastic. They hadn't started on running yet, and they felt like throwing up already. Pairs of eyes automatically sent piercing glares to one bright orange spot namely Naruto. Just imagine, one full lap around the school could be counted for 500 metres, add up to the tiring trip up and down the stairs of KHS 4-stories building. Perhaps Ibiki-sensei was currently in search of someone to join the marathon running competition in the upcoming olympics. Damn.
After they managed to drag their feet out of the door, dark clouds had been dominating the sky. It was likely that in a handful of minutes, and the translucent drips of fluids would be ready to pour down onto the earth with great pleasure, soaking the students of class 12-B that on that day were made pissed off so bad towards a certain Uzumaki. How unfortunate.
It was unmistakebly due to his reckless act of only paying attention to the Hyuuga's girl.
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Making a certain Uchiha on that class to feel another slash within his heart as his chest felt more suffocated even more.