Chapter 3: Welcome to School
About a month and a half later the three finally finished settling in. They cleaned up the place, painted the rooms, and got new furniture for the once bare apartment. It was finally a place they could call 'home'.
"Registered and ready!" Naruto grinned.
"We got a really good school too; one of the top schools in the nation huh?" Sakura nodded in approval. "And I can go visit my cute little Hana at lunch!" She hugged Hana close to her, crooning her.
"S-sakura," she blushed.
"So it seems we have to change our identities after all," She pouted.
"Right, Maya," Naruto snickered.
"I like my name as it is though," Sakura growled.
"Come on, it's fine. Yamoto is my new name, it aint any better," Naruto pouted.
"Shia is a cute name for Hana though," She pouted, turning to their cute little sister who was blushing. She stood up, her short hair tickling my neck. Sakura propped up her glasses, part of her disguise. "We should probably head downstairs to say good morning to gramps and nana," Sakura offered. "Time for our first day of school!"
Teuchi, gramps, was a rather old man. He had crinkles by his eye, forehead, and mouth, yet you could still tell that he was quite handsome when he was young. His wife, Aoi, or Nana, had a streak of orange hair remaining in her long hair and kind green eyes. She was most likely very gorgeous in her youth. As soon as we walked down they smiled kindly at us and waved us to come over.
"Ready for some noodles?" gramps grinned.
"Heck yeah!" Naruto chanted running to grab a bowl.
"Jeez slow down Naruto," Sakura sighed as he chugged bowl after bowl down. But Sakura wasn't any better and it made Hana sigh sadly at the two of them.
"You mean Yamoto?" Hana corrected Sakura.
"Oh, that's right Shia," Sakura smiled.
"Do you guys need a ride to school?" Gramps asked.
"Don't worry about us, we're just gonna take the metro, I'd hate for you to waste any time taking us in this traffic," Naruto laughed.
"Okay," nana nodded. "Make sure you guys have all your books!" She ranted. Just like a mother, the three thought, laughing.
"We have everything, don't worry," Sakura smiled kindly, holding up our book backs. Sakura looked at Shia (Hana) and Yamoto (Naruto). Shia (Hana) was wearing a big, white bow with blue strips on it in her silver hair that she curled for her. She had on a blue sailor dress on with a white tie with the dress. The moment they signed her up for class they sent her a uniform. Though Sakura wanted to dress her up, she was satisfied with doing her hair. She smiled at her like a doting mother and grabbed her hand. "We should head to school now, shouldn't we?" She couldn't wait till she turned 7 in October. But it was only August
"Yeah let's go!" Naruto cheered. The two of them would be Juniors in a new school.
I looked at what he was wearing. He had on a pair of black jeans and a grey shirt on with light blue stripes. He was trying to not stand out so much like he usually did at school. I had on a pair of black shorts, a white button up with a black vest over it. My thigh high black socks itched my skin lightly with my high top converse covering my feet. I pushed up my glasses; I was going for the punk look since I was as outgoing as Naruto. We needed to blend in. I grabbed Naruto's arm before he turned the other way.
"The bus station in the other way, dummy," I grinned at his peevish look.
"What would I do without you?" he laughed. I sighed, what would he do without me?
"Well let's just get to school," I sighed, getting on the bus, tightly holding onto Hana.
"And you guys must be Shia's older siblings?" A older woman asked. We were in a nice sized classroom with soft carpeting and a tree on the walls where each branch had the name of a student. A airplane hung from the ceiling and a rainbow was drawn on the walls. There was a cubby for each student's belongings. It was a typical second graders room.
"That's right, Shizune, right?" I asked.
"Yes that's correct, I'm her second grade teacher. It's very nice to meet you, Shia," Shizune said, shaking each of our hands.. She was a young teacher, which surprised me. Shia (hana) hid behind me, tightly holding onto my socks.
"H-Shia, it's okay. Shizune is a nice woman, she's your teacher from now on so behave," I pushed her towards Shizune. Shia gave me one more sad look.
"Can't I just stay with you guys?" she asked.
"No you need your education too! Only good girls who go to school and do well in class get dessert you know," I raised a eyebrow at Shia (Hana).
"Okay," Shia took Shizune's hand shyly and shook it. "I'll be good so please take care of me." I laughed at her behavior.
"Be good sweetie, I'll pick you up after school!" I said, giving Naruto a look and the two of us both kissed her cheek at once.
"Love ya," Naruto grinned, patting Shia's (Hana's) head.
"B-bye," Shia (hana) looked at us leave sadly before turning to the other kids and introducing herself.
"At least it wasn't as bad this year," Naruto laughed as we began to walk to our school. Last year we had to tear Hana off of us to go to school.
"Yeah," I laughed at the memory. The elementary was right by the high school, which was perfect for us. I remember how no one was able to see us off on our first day of second grade. I never wanted Hana to experience such feeling. "So you have your schedule?" I asked, shaking myself out of my memories.
"Yeah, but to think we could get all of the same classes," Naruto laughed.
"Well i'm a good hacker. At least now we can keep an eye out for each other," I winked at him, letting out a sigh. "I just want high school to be over so I can protect H-Shia." I needed to remember the names correctly.
"College is next though," Naruto grinned.
"We are geniuses, I don't think we even need to be here," I pouted. Naruto and I were top of our old school. Although Naruto was a oblivious kid, he was pretty intelligent. The two of us could've graduated by this year if we wanted to.
"Won't it make us stand out more if we didn't go to high school at our age though," Naruto looked at me with a raised eyebrow as we approached the school. It was like a huge castle that was three stories high and looked grand and important. We were walking in the middle of the school where the large courtyard was, trying to figure out where we were. I knew it was suspicious to not be in school at our age, but still. I pouted.
"I know," I turned to Naruto to say smething else when I accidently bumped into someone. Suddenly everyone in the courtyard seemed to shush as I looked around with a confused look. "Sorry man," I looked up to see bright red hair. There was a gorgeous guy in front of me who had black lines of insomnia around his eyes, and a permanent frown. He had a nice build and his face had a boyish, handsome look to it. He had on loose black pants that accented his long legs, a white t-shirt and a red and black jacket. The red on his jacket made his bright red hair stand out even more. To put it simply, I was awe-struck by this red head in front of me. "A-are you ok?" I shook my head, trying to snap out of my lapse of infatuation. He glared at me harshly though.
"I'm fine newbie," he walked past me. What the hell was up with that attitude! I apologized didn't i? I was fuming by his behavior.
"Sa-Maya, calm down, it's not that big of a deal," Naruto laughed nervously.
"I can't believe he didn't beat her up," Someone whisphered.
"I'm surprised she's alive, new or not," someone else scoffed.
"I'm fine, Yamoto, let's just go to class," I growled, trying to ignore everyone's words. I moved to leave when I heard someone scream in pain. Both Naruto and I snapped our head in the direction it came from to see a girl on the ground crying in pain as someone stepped on her hand.
"Watch it scum," The girl on top laughed. "Hey, it's good to see you Ino," the girl snickered.
"Seriously? It's the first day back to school," the girl called Ino cried out.
"So?" she laughed.
"Karin," a voice called out. The girl stepping on 'Ino' removed her foot to look behind her.
"Sasuke," she said.
"it's the first day back, let's not give a bad impression to all the new kids," he smirked. I suddenly felt his eyes lift up and stare into mine. I felt shivers run down my spine as I stared at this stranger. Something seemed off about him, something dangerous. He had on a bright red button up that looked pretty high class, with gold buttons. His pants were black slacks but even they looked expensive. All together he gave off a 'rich boys' aura.
"That's the type of guy we should avoid," Naruto whispered to me.
"But look at what they did to that poor girl on the ground," I growled back. As though answering my thoughts Sasuke spoke up.
"We aren't mean people. For all that are new here- it's best that you learn the rules to this school quickly if you want a safe and fun high school experience, that's all," he grinned and left with the Karin girl tailing him. I ran over to the girl on the ground to help her up.
"Are you alright?" I exclaimed. "what was that girls problem?" I growled.
"Are you new?" she asked, rubbing her sore hand, laughing lightly.
"Yeah?" I put a hand on my hip.
"Well you better listen up then. At this school the rich, powerful, and good looking kids own this school," Ino began.
"Well that's pretty typical isn't it?" I was pretty used to high schools.
"But it's worse than other schools. There is something called the 'king system' here. That Sasuke kid is the 'King'. They do what they want to students or teachers and no one can touch them. They can make a person's life hell for the fun of it. And no matter how corrupt they are, no one can do anything about it. Hence, why they're the kings." Ino concluded.
"Something like that-! that's terrible!" I laughed sadly.
"We can't do anything about it though," Naruto gave me a look. He wanted to do something about it too, but we weren't in the position to.
"I'm sorry, I'm Maya by the way," I introduced myself.
"And I'm Yamoto!" Naruto grinned.
"Nice to meet you guys, I'm ino," she grinned. "By the way, you do know that there is a uniform," she looked at our clothes with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh, they didn't send us one," I looked at my clothes with a peevish smile.
"here, I'll take you to the office to get them," Ino smiled. "What's your first class by the way?" she asked.
"Oh we have math with Kurnai-sensei," I said.
"Me too, we can go together," Ino offered.
"Thanks!" Naruto grinned.
"No problem," she laughed. "So are you guys related or something?"
"We're twins," we both said at the same time.
"Oh? But you don't look too similar…oh well," she laughed.
"is something wrong?" a teacher asked as we entered the front office.
"They weren't sent uniforms," Ino pointed to the two of us.
"Oh I'm sorry let me go get them for you," she left quickly.
"hey how come the Sasuke kid and the red head didn't have to wear a uniform?" I asked.
"Red hair? You mean Gaara?" Ino's eyes widened. "Because no one wants to mess with him, and Sasuke is king, remember?" Ino sighed. "You have a lot to learn girly."
"S-sorry," I pouted.
"So do any sports?" she asked.
"yes, I mean no. Well I used to do a lot of them. But I'm just trying to live a quiet life now," I shrugged.
"Well that sums up me," ino sighed.
"Why was that Karin girl picking on you by the way?" I aksed.
"Cause I refused to join their crew, my father is a senator of Virginia. But I didn't want to help them," Ino sighed.
"Why is Sasuke king by the way?" I asked as I began to change in the bathroom.
"His father is in congress too, he has a lot of political pull. His mother is owner of a big CEO too so he has her financial pull as well," Ino growled. "I can't believe they are bringing politics into a school," she sighed.
"How do I look?" I asked, stepping out of the stall. I came out wearing almost the same thing I had on this morning. The school uniform consisted of a red skirt, a white button up, a black jacket and a red bow for girls. I had a red tie on though, not wanting to wear a bow.
"The tie, and converse give you a rebel look but you look pretty damn good in the uniform," Ino laughed. I walked out to see Naruto wearing black slacks a white button up shirt and a red tie. Along with a black jacket. Our jackets had our school emblem on it. A flame.
"Looking good," I grinned.
"I hate ties," he whined.
"Get over it," I stuck my tongue out.
"We better head to class if we don't want to be late," Ino exclaimed, grabbing our hands and running down the hallways that were unknown to us. Unknown to us, our future at this school was only going to get more complicated from here on out.
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