Chapter 2

Classmate

Satomi sat worriedly at his desk, pressing his thumbs together in rough manner. His eyes quickly darted to Naruto's seat which remained empty. "What is he doing he thought to himself?" He silently whispered to himself. Iruka must have taken notice of this because he threw his gaze to the empty seat. The sensei narrowed his eyes as if to stare at an invisible Naruto. "Mizuki sensei, could you take over for me?" Iruka asked the gray haired young man sitting by the door. Mizuki smiled knowing exactly why Iruka was leaving. Satomi watched on filled with even more worry now than before. "I just know Naruto is out there, either pulling a prank or getting ready to." Satomi thought to himself as he covered his face with his hands hiding the redding cheeks underneath. He reached up and placed a hand on the fuzzy earmuffs Naruto had gotten him. They covered his ears nicely and were soft to the touch. With that Satomi determinedly raised a hand. "Mizuki sensei, may I go to the bathroom?" He asked in what he thought to be in innocent tone. Mizuki looked at him for a brief moment with suspicion, but relented as a smile crawled its way on to his face. "Sure just don't be to long." He answered in a sickly sweet voice. Satomi quickly got up and exited the room. He couldn't waste this moment, he needed to find Naruto before Iruka did. "I just know he's out there causing trouble." Satomi said aloud. "My thoughts exactly." Spoke a voice from behind Satomi causing him to jump. "I-Iruka sensei." He stammered in surprise.

"Listen I appreciate that your trying to help Naruto, but maybe you should try to help him by getting him to stop the pranks." Iruka stated in a stern tone. Iruka was glad that Naruto had found a friend but Satomi was too much of a pushover. He Naruto wouldn't bully him or have him do something bad. However he couldn't stop Naruto from pulling pranks either. "I'm sorry Iruka sensei I just didn't want Naruto to get into an any more trouble." He said in a worried voice. "I understand." Iruka kindly spoke back. Just then a loud voice was heard yelling not to far in the distance."let go of me that hurts, ya know." This was easily recognized as Naruto and with that Iruka was off. Satomi stood there worriedly but decided there was nothing he could really do. As Satomi slowly took his way back to the Academy he noticed something. There stood a beautiful girl with long long raven colored hair flowing down her back. Although Satomi could not see her face he felt himself wanting to say something any thing to this mysterious girl. He had never seen her before and she didn't appear to be from the leaf. Satomi swallowed hard and decided it would be best not to make a fool of himself. As he stammered away she took notice of him.

"Could you help me sir I seem to be lost?" She questioned innocently, looking down at the map in her hands. Satomi was frozen in place. This girl who he just met and appeared to be around the same age as him had just spoke to him. "S-sir." He quietly said to himself. Satomi didn't move, didn't blink. The girl took this as an opportunity to move in closer to inspect the apparently petrified boy. Just as Satomi began to descend back into reality he realized how close the girl had actually got to him. Satomi jumped to what seemed to him, like a couple feet off the ground. He however soon found his behind planted on the ground as he ended up like this a lot. The girl giggled and looked down at him. "Your funny." She stated simply, still quietly giggling to herself. Satomi's face burned with intense heat as it turned the same shade of red as his hair. "S-sorry." He apologized embarrassed as he stood up and began to dust himself off. "Why are you apologizing?" She asked questioningly. Satomi thought for a second why was he apologizing. It had become so natural to him to say he was sorry after everything. Soon once again Satomi seemed to find himself drifting off into thought. The girl blankly starred at him for a couple seconds before snapping her fingers in front of him. Causing Satomi to jump yet again in surprise. Although this time not landing on his rear. "So can you help me?" She asked holding up the map.

Satomi looked at the map for a couple seconds realizing there were places that were circled one being the Academy. "Are you a student here?" He asked curiously. "Yeah I just made it here to the hidden leaf and I came here to become a great ninja." She replied pumping a fist into the air. "I don't think that's how it works." Satomi replied a sweat drop forming. "What do ya mean?" She asked obliviously. "N-nothing never mind sorry." He apologized yet again. "There you go apologizing again, but for what?" She questioned. "I'm not sure." He replied. Satomi was beginning to wonder how much longer he could take this girls strangeness, without losing his mind. Satomi quickly gave the directions she was looking for and began to leave, eager to escape her. "Wait!" He heard her exclaim. Satomi stopped although he pondered if he might have been able to get away if he had kept walking. "My names Ruka Hirona, it was nice meeting you." She said happily before running off in to the opposite direction. Satomi scratched his head as be mulled over the events that had just occurred. After a couple seconds be spoke to himself. " Ruka Hirona."

It was the that Iruka found him and he was scolded for not returning to class sooner. As he sat beside Naruto his mind once again returned to Ruka. "I wonder when I'll see Hirona-san again?" He whispered aloud. Naruto however was occupied with other thoughts. "We just finished that stupid camouflage test and there's still lots of paint left over." The longer Naruto thought of this, the wider his grin became. As Naruto looked outside to the Hokage monument he snickered. Soon the bell was rung and the class dismissed. As Satomi walked home he was soon accompanied by Naruto. "So you seemed kinda out of it to day." He stated. "Hey Naruto, why do you pull all those pranks?" Satomi asked. Naruto stopped walking for a second and something showed in his eyes something different. But as quickly as it was there it was gone. "Cause its funny, ya know." He answered casually with a smile. Satomi looked down at the ground not quiet convinced, but not wanting to push the matter further he simply continued walking. "Naruto?" He said yet again in a questioning tone. "Another question?" Naruto asked back in a slightly annoyed tone. Satomi nodded and began to speak. "Are all girls weird Naruto?" He asked. Naruto began thinking his nose scrunching upward and his brow furrowing. "How the heck should I know?" He answered. "But I mean there are some that are ok right." Satomi asked grabbing Naruto with yet another puzzling question. "Well I guess there are some." Naruto said quietly as he scratched his head thinking of a certain pink haired girl. "Oh." Was all Satomi could say as he found himself confused. As they neared the apartment complex the two looked at each other. Both's thoughts on other things as they said their goodbyes.

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Auther's note

Since this is still my first story I would really appreciate some feed back constructive or otherwise.