HI! So I'm back with a new chapter for Kimi Danso the Extrodinary! I know you're all SO excited for it! I am as well : ) Hopefully it won't take as long to update again!
I'd like to dedicate this chapter to my bestie Tesswithwings cause she made me write this! : )
Disclaimer: As always I do not own Naruto. The show and characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto. May he continue to make this wonderful series for my happy viewing : )
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"Hey Hinata. What's popcorn night anyways?" I asked Hinata as I sat on my bed, waiting for 9 o'clock to roll around. She looked up from her manga and put a finger to her chin.
"Well… I've only been once so I'm not sure if it's changed at all. It's basically the group of guys get together and have popcorn wars and that's all they eat and stuff. Ino once told me that none of us were ever-invited 'cause we weren't close enough to the people at the party. It's like a family get together for them. Almost all the new girls are usually invited once. This would explain why you were invited even though you just came here today." Hinata explained for me.
"Oh." I said quietly. I stood up and walked to the door of the bedroom.
"Where are you going Kimi?" Hinata asked me.
"Oh, just to the store. I'm feeling like I need a coke." I lied. She bought it-probably because I'd only known her for a few hours-and turned to her book again. I walked out of the bedroom, put my converse on, and left the dorm room. I actually left the dorms behind. Sliding into my jeep, I turned it on and drove away from the school.
I stuck in a random CD and turned it up loud and just drove around Konaha. I was thinking about the day, about the past, about what the future might hold for me. It was in that car that I decided I wasn't going to go to the popcorn night. I had just met these people today and they had already been together for years. I shouldn't intrude on their fun.
And so, with my mind made up, I headed towards a place I knew I would be able to think more.
"Dani! Your phone is ringing!" Sakura yelled. Dani walked out of the bathroom and over to where her phone lay on the table. The caller I.D. said it was Hinata calling.
Dani answered it. "Hello? What is it Hinata?"
"Well… I'm just letting you know that I don't think Kimi is coming with you guys tonight." Hinata informed.
"What makes you think that?" Dani gasped.
"She left about 30 minutes ago, saying she was going to get a Coke. But I don't think it takes 30 minutes to get a Coke from the store a block away." She explained.
"Did she walk?"
"No, she took her Jeep. I could hear the music all the way up here."
"Well, we shouldn't worry I guess. She could come back at any time. Just tell me when she comes back so I can tell her it's okay to come." Dani instructed Hinata.
"Alright, I will. Bye." And Hinata hung up.
Dani sighed and threw her phone on the couch, next to where Sakura sat painting her nails.
"What was that about?" Sakura asked boredly.
"If I told you, you'd laugh and say she doesn't want to hang out with us cause we're losers. So I'm not gonna tell you." Dani sighed.
"Whateeeever."
The park was the same as I had remembered it. A little slide in the far corner next to a public garden that grew fruits and vegetables, a park bench over looking a small pond in the center of the park, and the single swing hanging from the oak tree towering over the tiny park. A high hedge, shielding this place from the hustle and bustle of big city life, surrounded the entire thing.
How my parents found this place in the middle of a city was beyond me.
I had parked my jeep across the street from the park (ironically in front of a small mini-mart like the place I had lied about buying a Coke from). I sat down on the swing and looked at the park.
It had seemed much bigger when I was younger.
Before my parents had become drug addicts and almost murderers and before both of my grandparents died, we would visit my grandma and sometimes my mom and dad would bring me here. I used to think it was a magical place.
I would lie down in the garden and stare up at the clouds and imagine I was in a different time, where the city outside of that small garden didn't exist. I imagined a world empty of everything except me, that garden, and my loving parents. A perfect world.
Too bad perfect is impossible.
We stopped coming here when my grandma died. And when mom got herself into drugs. And dad started drinking. And then coming back here was totally out of the question when dad almost killed mom.
"Ah my family is screwed up." I whispered to myself.
"Screwed up how?" A voice asked.
I screamed and did a back flip over the swing.
"Girls just keep getting clumsier." The voice said again.
I stood up and pulled a shiny silver pocketknife out of my back pocket. I slowly backed away from the male standing in front of me.
"Who are you?" I asked in a shaky voice.
"I'm Asuma Sarutobi. I'm a teacher at the school you go too." The man answered me.
I stopped backing up, but I didn't lower my knife. "How do you know what school I go too?"
He shrugged and lit a cigarette. "I saw your picture and name in a file in my office." He said it like it was normal.
How could stalking your student be normal?
"OK… but that doesn't explain why you're here."
"I like it here. It's quiet and gives me a place to think." He told me.
I lowered my knife, now believing him. "Alright, but if I don't see you in school then the next time I do see you, you might have a knife in your body." I warned him as I sat back on the swing set.
"Fair enough." Asuma said and sat on the ground in front of me. "So, how is your family screwed up?" He took a long drag on his cigarette and the smoke puffed around me.
"Ah, you don't need to hear that story. You're my sensei." I told him with a wave of my hand.
"That's exactly why I should know about it. Teachers are supposed to know a little about your home situation. It's part of the reason you're at the boarding school anyways right?" He pointed out.
"You really want to know?"
"Yes really."
"Fine. So it kind of all started when my grandma died. Mom was really close to her. It hit her really, really hard. My dad and I didn't really notice it at first. She was sad sometimes, but we didn't see anything wrong with her. Mom still did all her normal stuff. Ya know, dishes, hugs and kisses, making food. Stuff like that. But then she started staying out really late. And when she would come home, she'd be high and really emotional. It started out with her just crying about everything. Then, it was depressed. But that stage didn't last very long. The more she used her drugs, the worse she got. Her final stage was violence. She took all of our money for her drugs. And when she ran out of money, she sold our stuff. She used to get so angry with me. She never beat me or anything, mom was never physically abusive. But she was mentally." I explained to Asuma. My voice kept cracking.
"That must have been hard on you and your dad." Asuma commented.
"Oh, it was. Dad started to drink it got so bad. He became an alcoholic and they fought all of the time. One day, dad came home with a gun and was threatening to shoot mom. He did, he got her in the shoulder. It didn't kill her. He went to jail and mom was hospitalized and now she's in rehab. I don't visit either of them. They deserve to be punished for what they did.
"I moved in with my mom's sister, Hanatara. I've lived with her for… four months maybe. And it was with her that I decided to start a new life here, in Konaha." I finished.
"Sounds like you've had your ups and downs. But to me it doesn't look like you have been affected by any of this." Asuma pointed out to me.
I chuckled and shrugged a little. "I have a little bit. I've got a really short temper and I have trust issues. Not to mention I can't stand drinking alcohol or drugs. But I'm not uptight or anything like that, if that's what you were thinking."
He laughed and took a drag of his cigarette. "No not at all." He smiled at me.
We sat there, in quiet companion for another five minutes.
Asuma stood up and stretched. He dropped his cigarette and ground it into the ground with his foot. "It's getting late. You should probably be heading back to the school." With that, Asuma left my small little get away.
I glanced at my watch and could feel my eyes bugging out as I read the time. It was 12:37.
I jumped up off the swing set and bolted to my car.
When I arrived back at the dorm, it was a little past one o'clock. I snuck up the steps and quietly opened the door to my dorm room.
The lights were off and it was quiet.
The bedroom was quiet as well, except for the light sound of Hinata breathing. I grabbed my PJ's and got changed and climbed happily into bed.
I soon fell asleep.
The next morning I woke up to faces I barely recognized staring at me.
"Kimi, where were you last night?"
WOHOO! This chapter is DONE! If any of you want to know who was staring at her... I can't tell you : ) well... ok... I can tell you one person. DANI! WOOT!
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~Luna
