Blue Bird – Chapter four: True Hinata and Dad
Naruto was slowly walking to school in the early morning; he was listening to his IPod which was currently playing the song 'Flux' by Bloc Party. He was currently thinking of the last few days in his head; he had managed to meet a bunch of new friends, had fallen for two of them, and had ended up dating one of those two. Naruto had only ever had one boyfriend before Natsu and that had not gone so well, in fact Sasuke was straight by the end of that relationship.
Now the only thing Naruto could focus on was talking to Hinata. Everyone knew Hinata and Naruto were like siblings mainly because they had a lot in common, they were both openly gay, they were both considered to be one of the hottest people in their year, they both had an obsession with small animals, and both cared very deeply for each other. Hinata could relate to Naruto, her father never had time for her and her mother died giving birth to her younger sister Hanabi so she never really had a family until her cousin Neji moved in with them. He showed her father how amazing she really was and helped Hanabi open up to Hinata. It was the fact that she knew what having no family was like that allowed Naruto to easily open up to her.
Naruto had unknowingly walked all the way to school already and decided to quickly visit Iruka before going to first lesson.
Kiba was frustrated. Naruto had refused a lift this morning which had put a slight dent in his plan, but no matter Lee's little cherry blossom Sakura had already agreed to help, along with her blonde bitch fighter Ino. Now was the difficult part, getting Hinata to agree to it. If she didn't agree she might just go ahead and tell Naruto since their so close, however if she agreed she would play a crucial part in the plan.
"Hey Hinata, can I ask for your help with something?" Hinata turned to look at Kiba from the passenger seat "Sure Kiba what's up?" Hinata enquired while smiling sweetly.
"If I ask you for this you can't tell anyone, even if you say no, deal?" Kiba asked with a determined look in his eyes.
"Deal, now what is it you need help with?" Hinata was leaning toward him looking very curious.
"It starts with an 'N' and ends with an 'aruto'; I need your help getting his attention." Okay so Kiba wasn't telling the whole truth but that would do for Hinata and her fragile young mind.
"So do you just wanna get in his pants, or do you genuinely like him?" Kiba turned shocked at Hinata's statement; she however remained looking normal if not bored. "How can you just say that!"
Hinata looked at Kiba as though he was really thick and ended up sighing in annoyance.
"Kiba you can't possibly think you're the first and only person to ask me about Naruto, I mean he's a total hottie!" Despite being from a rather prestigious family Hinata had a tendency to be quite blunt at times.
Kiba felt kinda dumb after that comment. Of course other people wanna get with Naruto, why would I be special out of all of 'em.
"I don't just wanna shag Naruto. I honestly like him; it's just that he won't give me the time of day." Kiba said disappointedly; he was looking down at his lap, he had never had much trouble getting dates or shagging people for that matter, yet with Naruto he just couldn't get his attention.
"Kiba as much as I would love to comfort you right now I really feel the need to keep myself safe so how about this, I'll help you if you look up from your lap before we hit any other cars deal?" Hinata was looking over at Kiba with a sweet smile on her face and Kiba couldn't help but grin at her. He quickly pulled into a space in the car park and the two exited and began their walk towards the school.
Hinata then linked his arm with hers and walked them both up towards the school. He finally realised why everyone wanted to be friends with Hinata, she was sweet, funny, and genuinely nice person. Suddenly Kiba thought of someone who had said the same thing to him yesterday.
A cheeky grin slipped onto Kiba's face as he came up with a way to pay Hinata back for her help.
Iruka was sitting at his desk by the time Naruto arrived from the school gate; Iruka looked up as Naruto entered his room. One thought ran through Iruka's mind 'Naruto is in early, its official either the world is ending or ramen has just stopped being made worldwide.'
"Hey Iruka, it's a nice day today isn't it?" Naruto said with a huge grin.
Iruka just stared at Naruto for a few seconds before saying "Okay sit down already and tell me what you're obviously dyeing to say."
Naruto pretended to look hurt for a second before sitting down in front of Iruka's desk with a slight giggle.
"I don't know how you know me so well Iruka..." Naruto was unsure as to how he was going to tell Iruka that he had a boyfriend. Iruka had been fine with Naruto being gay, the problem was Iruka still thought he was kind of innocent and stuff and he was worried how his sort-of dad was gonna act.
"...yeah, !" Naruto decided fast and loud was the best approach.
"Say that again but slower and quieter Naruto, remember I'm not Sakura or Hinata." Iruka said giggling at Naruto's nervousness.
"I said, I have a boyfriend and he is a really nice person and I would really appreciate it if you didn't kill him, and really I'm old enough to know what I'm getting in and I already know about sex and stuff so please doesn't yell at me." Naruto slowed it down alright but in that case he needed to form a defence for himself.
"Okay... when do I get to meet him?"...Naruto hadn't expected Iruka to take it so well.
"Well when do you wanna meet him?"
"How about you and him come for a meal round my house with me and Hatake senpai." Iruka had a brilliant grin on his face which would've made it impossible for Naruto to say no even if he wanted to, there was just one thing odd here.
"Why is Hatake sensei gonna be there?" Naruto questioned, this resulted in Iruka gaining a slightly panicked expression.
"No reason, now get to homeroom to register before your first lesson...QUICK!" Iruka always got like this when it got close to any deadline he would become slightly panicky, however something was off today.
"...okay, bye dad." Naruto didn't realise what he said until 5 seconds after and then rushed out of the room.
Iruka continued to stare out of the door after Naruto "...Dad huh? I just wish I could be Naruto."
Naruto was sitting next to Natsu trying to figure out what on earth possessed him to say he would drop his classes to help someone else in theirs, Natsu took geography, zoology, and mechanics, three lessons Naruto knew nothing about.
"Hey Natsu do you only have three lessons each day, since you only take three classes?" Naruto was banking on getting to go home early and not having to be stuck for hours learning about stuff he would never use.
"Nah, I have two hours of zoology and mechanics, in fact I have those two hours of zoology now so let's go and don't worry you'll enjoy this one more." Natsu was grinning at Naruto with that over happy smile that meant Naruto would pretend to like it even if he didn't.
They walked down to the lower most field where all the animals for zoology were brought in and Naruto was treated with a nice surprise. Both Kiba and Shino were in zoology so now he had three...two people he could talk to, Shino didn't really talk so he hardly counts.
"Kiba, how comes you're here?" Kiba looked up from the book he was looking through and smiled widely at Naruto.
"I could ask you the same thing, you do realise this is a junior year course don't you? Sophomores can't take zoology." Kiba raised an eyebrow at Naruto and laughed at Naruto's sudden face of realisation.
Suddenly Natsu grabbed Naruto's waist and pulled him into a deep kiss. Naruto, Kiba, and Shino were all quite shocked and Natsu soon pulled away.
"Sorry you just taste sssssooooo good babe." Natsu grinned down at Naruto as a blush appeared across his cheeks at the whistles and barks coming from the rest of the zoology class.
Shino stared at Kiba as he began shaking trying to hold in his anger and stop himself from getting up and punching this 'Natsu' guy in the face. He knew he should've just told Naruto when he had the chance before this guy had come into either of their lives, and the nerve of this guy dangling Naruto in front of him like a piece of meat. He knew what was going on, he saw it in his family dogs all the time, Natsu noticed that Kiba liked Naruto and decided to secure his dominance over the younger boy and intimidate Kiba. Problem was Kiba didn't get intimidated, ever and he sucked at taking a hint when he wanted something.
For the first hour of the lesson, both Natsu and Kiba continually flirted with Naruto and even started feeling him up at points, however after an hour Shino had had enough and grabbed Naruto before walking off with the boy.
The two walked in silence until they got about two fields away from the school.
"I'm not as dumb as everyone seems to think Shino, but I'm unsure on this one so can I ask... am I just a trophy to Natsu and Kiba?" Naruto questioned while looking at the ground.
Shino raised an eyebrow at Naruto and decided not to answer his question yet and to first see how much he really had noticed,
"What makes you say that Naruto?"
"I noticed how they both were flirting with me and every time they did they would look to see each other's reactions, not to mention they both started feeling me up trying to see who could get closest to my... package, and then there was that little show Natsu thought to put on when he saw Kiba. I can't believe I was stupid enough to think either one of them liked me, even Kiba, he told me he didn't like me and yet I was still sure he just covering something up or sommin, but oh well that's another relationship failed." Naruto finished with a heavy sigh before collapsing on his bum.
Shino was shocked. He knew Naruto wasn't as dumb as everybody said but he noticed everything that happened and even managed to see through Kiba's little act with ease.
"Wait if you thought Kiba liked you why didn't you just confront him on it?" Shino questioned,
"Yeah let me just ask the hot, popular, jock, who may not even be gay, who I just made friends whether or not he really likes me that's a great idea." Naruto said with sarcasm dripping from each word.
Shino saw his point, but still Naruto had no idea how much Kiba really liked him and as Kiba's friend Shino felt he needed to at least help his friend out a bit.
"How about me and you go to lunch a bit early, it starts in ten minutes anyway, that way you can think about this and not see either of them for a bit." Shino said holding out a hand to Naruto.
"Thanks Shino, you should talk more often, you have a nice voice." Naruto smiled up at Shino as the two of them walked.
Hinata was sitting next to Sakura on their schools field picking at her salad. She would normally have finished eating by now but she was too busy thinking to eat properly. Sakura, Ino and she herself had been trying to think of ways to get Kiba and Naruto together during their last class, this was however before they all learned that Naruto had a boyfriend and before they were informed by Shino that Naruto was feeling resentful towards both his boyfriend Natsu and Kiba.
Hinata had suddenly reached a brick wall. If Naruto was already in a relationship then she would have to call off her deal with Kiba, she couldn't bring herself to be a part of a plan to break up her little bro and his boyfriend, especially when he had waited so long to finally find someone. If this Natsu fucked up though then Hinata had fair game, and to be honest she currently felt like smashing the guys head into Naruto's and killing the both of them, Naruto for not immediately telling her, and Natsu for making Naruto upset already.
Kiba chose this moment to park his butt down next to her, quickly beginning to munch into his lunch.
"Kiba, if Naruto is already going out with someone I'm sorry but I can't help you." Hinata whispered to him, she had decided to just tell him straight away.
"I agree, I didn't know he had one otherwise I wouldn't have let myself like him. Now I'm royally fucked and I just fucked with him during my lesson and I'm gonna need to apologise which I'm gonna suck at it." Kiba had gone on some mad little rant and hadn't noticed Hinata rolling her eyes and turning to Naruto.
"Naruto, Kiba says his sorry for fucking with you, he would have said this himself but I was getting pissed off with his rant." Hinata loudly stated over the small group they were in.
All eyes turned to Hinata most of them with a gaping mouth to accompany it, after all it wasn't every day that you saw Hinata, the air to the Hyuga family, do something so blunt and seemingly stupid. The only one not looking at Hinata was Naruto who was looking at Kiba and smiled before simply saying.
"Its fine Kiba I know people can get carried away sometimes."
Kiba was shocked, he had been forgiven so easily and all thanks to Hinata's rashness.
The bell rung and they all started moving to their next class. Kiba quickly ran up to Naruto wondering how he was supposed to say this without being harshly rejected instantly.
"Did you wanna say something to me? I kind of have to meet Natsu at his next lesson." Naruto was staring up at Kiba as they walked.
"Do you wanna come to the mall tonight, you couldn't come last time cuz of Natsu unpacking but are you free now... you can bring Natsu too if you want." The last section was muttered as Kiba didn't really want Natsu there.
Naruto just stood there looking at Kiba for a few seconds before looking forward. "Sure I don't see why not, I have nothing else to do anyway and I'll invite Natsu too." Naruto grinned as he finally came to a conclusion.
"Great meet me in the school car park after school and I'll drive us there." Kiba was happy Naruto had said yes but was disappointed at the fact that Natsu was coming.
"Cool I'll see you later then." Naruto said before ducking into the mechanics classroom that Kiba had unknowingly walked them to.
Kiba walked off towards his private art lesson trying to think of some way to get over Naruto quickly and wondering how he was gonna survive with Natsu and Naruto for good few hours.