I do NOT own Naruto! I only own Ayane, Honoka, and Kazuka!
-Honoka-
I was grinning from ear to ear when I got to my Physics class with a guy named Asuma Sarutobi as the teacher in room number 272. 'I love this new school!' I thought before I pushed the door open and walked in.
Asuma noticed me as soon as I opened the door. "Hello there," he said with a smile on his face. "You must be Honoka Honda, right?"
I nodded, "Yes I am, Sir."
"Well, tell us a bit more about yourself," He told me smiling.
"Well, as you already know, my name is Honoka Honda. I'm seventeen years of age, and I am a Nymph," I told the class as I looked out to them. "I am the middle child in the Harmonious Three. And before you guys ask, the 'Harmonious Three' are a trio of sisters that use sound to their advantage."
I noticed that two boys, who I could tell were shape shifters, looked shocked at the news. "Honoka, you will sit next to…" I waited for the next part. "Itachi Uchiha."
I nodded as I saw the older boy with long black hair in a low ponytail and onyx black eyes stand up. I made my way over to the seat next to him before the both of us sat down. When Sensei had told us to grab the books on the two-person desks, I gladly took the book from Itachi as he handed me my book. I opened the book to the page he told us to go to and grinned from ear to ear again. Nuclear Physics.
'Sooo easy!' I practically shouted in my head. 'Satoko would be so proud of me right now!'
I grabbed the packets that were passed around before passing the rest to the next table. I picked up my pencil and began to fly through the questions in the seven page packet. I was done before Sensei was done with the lecture. I noticed that Itachi looked over at me as I started to daydream. I was brought out of the daydream by Itachi poking my arm with his pencil. "Are you sure that its correct?"
"I know for a fact that its correct," I responded, relaxing and laughing.
"How can you be so sure? You transferred halfway through the year and haven't been here long enough to know that much about this to even fly through the packet," He told me, trying to listen to reason.
I rolled my eyes at him before Asuma walked over to us. "Are you done, Honoka?" he asked, shocked.
"Yep," I told him, smiling. "Take it and check my work."
I motioned to my packet. He nodded before picking it up and looking it over. "Try this, Honoka," He told me. "Go to the board and write the equation for Radioactive Decay and explain how to find the values."
I nodded as I walked up to the blackboard. I heard whispers from my classmates talking among themselves that there was no way I could figure it out since they never even covered that yet.
I began writing. I was using the elements Gold and Mercury to explain it.
"In the Radioactive Decay known as Beta Decay, a neutron inside the nucleus of an atom breaks down, changing into a proton," I explained as I turned to face the class. "The atom emits an electron and a neutrino. In which the neutrino, in simple words, goes zooming off. To show how to find the values of the symbols in the equation, I'll be using the element I used in the example on the board to explain it. Mercury, which has a mass number of 200.59, which you round up to 201, has an atomic number of 80. A equals the atomic mass number while Z equals the atomic number and X represents the element. The formula for the atomic mass number is 201=A+0 while the atomic number is 79=Z+1."
I was writing the formulas on the board while I was talking, "Mercury has an atomic number of 80 while the element Gold, which is right before mercury on the periodic table, has an atomic number of 79."
"Wait, so if gold has a lower atomic number than mercury, then why do they have the same atomic mass number?" I heard one of my classmates ask me.
I looked up to see a boy with long coffee brown hair and pale, pupil-less lavender eyes standing up. "Look at it this way, go from right to left when reading the equation instead of left to right," I told him. "It makes it easier to understand because when reading the equation from right to left, you are able to see how it adds up. By reading it backwards, you are able to notice how the negative one in the chemical notation spot for Z added to the atomic number of mercury, which is 80, equals 79. Gold's atomic number. The atomic mass number remains the same since all that is released from the atom is an electron and they are not used to determine the atomic mass number."
He still looked confused, but I paid him no mind as he sat down after I finished explaining it. Sensei looked shocked, "How-How did you know how to do that? That is way beyond undergrad college!"
"Easy. Satoko, a friend of my mother's, who happens to be a Nuclear Physicist," I explained, shrugging my shoulders before walking back to sit next to Itachi.
"How did you-?"
"Try being raised in a household whose friends are either astronomers, mathematicians, or even nuclear physicists," I told him, cutting him off mid-sentence.
-Itachi-
I was shocked when she was told to write an equation for radioactive decay on the board, but what shocked me even more was the fact that we hadn't even covered that topic in class and she had got it right without even having to go back to retry it. I noticed that Asuma's mouth almost hit the floor when she mentioned renowned Nuclear Physicist Satoko Uzanami.
"H-how?" he asked her, not able to move from his spot.
"Simple. Mother knew her when she was in college," She told him, shrugging her shoulders casually. "Satoko was always so care free when she wasn't working. But she always managed to find time every time I was at the observatory. Its like Kazuka and Manabu. Our parents would let us spend the day when they were at work with the two scientists."
He merely nodded as the young woman walked back to her seat and sat down next to me. "You were outstanding," I told her, looking through my Physics book.
"Thanks." She answered me so simply. So quietly.
It was almost as if she was shy about it.
A/N: Honoka is extremely skilled in nuclear physics like Kazuka is with Astronomy.
