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Chapter 4: Group
"Okay, now we'll do a group practice-" Iruka began, but stopped when some of his students stared sparkly eyed at him. Note that most being girls who wish to request for certain favors. "-of my choice."
They became depressed immediately. "Sensei, why can't we pick?" a girl asked.
"Because I know who you all will pick... Not to mention the same person..." Iruka said. "Now Group 1," he said proceeding to ignore any more comments. "Kiba, Hinata, Chouji. Group 2: Shikamaru, Sakura, Ino..." Asami was getting sleeper and sleeper as the list went on and though she turned to stay awake, her head drops down constantly. "Next: Asami, Naruto, Sasuke. And that's the end." Iruka announced reading off the clipboard.
"Ehhh?' Asami could hear from female voices whine from her half sleep. "Why can't I be with Sasuke-kun?"
"Right, right" a group of girls agreed.
"This is the sole reason why NOT," Iruka said.
"Why do I get to be with Sasuke?" Naruto whined.
"And this is the sole reason why," Iruka said turning to face the blond.
"Ehh?" the whined as a whole. Iruka put a hand over her head to contain his headache. Why does things always need to be so difficult for him? He decides on grouping together his students wiht the most fittting members, but it always ended up this way. They have too much desires for their own benefit. Most of his female students want to be grouped with Sasuke, but that's not going to be possible, not with the number. And even if they are grouped together, they won't even work well. And with them there, Sasuke won't be able to work well either. But while that, Naruto complains about being grouped in the same group as him. Iruka know that this won't work well either, which is also was he put Asami into the group. He hoped that they'll be able to help Naruto and Naruto won't annoying Sasuke like Iruka's female students' whose stilll currently complaining before him.
He sighed. Being a teacher could be really tough depending on who and what you're working with. "Okay, get to your groups," Iruka said in his teacher voice, despersing the group of people that circled before him for a change in groupings.
"~Uuu," Asami sighed tiredly as she got up AGAIN and walked towards her 'group'.
Iruka looked across the field, seeing all the groups together with their group mates. He was about to nod in approval on how well everyone could meet up when he sweatdropped look at the end of the field. That group wasn't at all grouped together!
Okay so here's the case: Naruto is at the rigth-ern end, Sasuke's at the left-ern end, and Asami stood in the middle between them, apparently about to fall asleep while standing up.
WTF? This was suppose to be gathering together as a group! Not separating each other to form a line across the field! If they're play "Making a Line Along the Field", it's okay! - ...Wait... Did such a game exist anyway?- But this was not "Making a Line Along the Field", it's "Gathering as a Group for Practice"!
Iruka slapped a hand over his forehead. He should've known that even with Asami in the group, it won't make the group any less troublesome than it already is. "Naruto! Asami! Sasuke! Come over here!" Iruka yelled to 10 metters away, 30 meters away and a eighth of a mile away.
Sasuke, Naruto and Asami's attention perked up and walked to Iruka. "What is it, Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked sheepishly, not knowing what's going on. All that he knew was that he's waiting for his group-mates to come to 'him.'
"All of you, work here," he said to the three as he walked off, trying to cool off' his headache.
Asami and the others stared at him as he walked off.
"I don't like you..." Naruto said, starting a conversation to end the silence.
Sasuke glared at him. Not participating in the 'I don't like you- Consersation' verbally, but doing it glaringly- if that's a word to describe his participation. The glare clearly shows that he doesn't like him either.
Asami stared at her two group mates tiredly as they engaged a non-verbal "I don't like you Contest."
"Aren't we supposedly to practice ~uuu?" Asami finally asked.
"Ah. Ah!" Naruto said, remembering.
"I'll go first." Sasuke said. He took the 3 shuriken that Iruka gave them and positioned himself to the post target they're using.
"~Uuu.," Asami breathed sleepily.
He crouched down a little and aimed before throwing each of the 3 shuriken. Hit. Hit. Miss.
"~Uuu." Asami observed the shurikens. Sasuke walked back as Asami walked forward to gather them.
When she had them in her hands, she moved to the marked spot and bened her knees a bit. Her eyhes flickered to the post target as she focused on it for a second. She pulled her right hand, which held a shuriken, to her left side. She then swung it back over throwing the shuriken on the way. She continued the process two more times, just by aiming and throwing it whichle keeping her position the whole time. Hit. Miss. Hit.
Sasuke observed this and glared at her, who had one again rivaled his skill.
"~Uuu," she breathed as she walked over to collect the shuriken. She headed back and handed them over to Naruto, who happens to be the last to go in the group.
"Yoshi! It's my turn!" Naruto shourted while accepting the shurikens Asami handed him.
"Gambate," Asami whispered as she walked past him. Naruto turned back to look at her, surprised by someone encourging hime. But he deemed it as an imagination for she seem to be falling asleep any second now, sitting by the tree a couple of feet away.
"Go already, baka," Sasuke said impatiently waitng for his turn. He's going to get all 3 in this time.
"Okay!" Naruto said, annoying Sasuke's comment. He randomly took aim and threw it. It missed the target by far. It's a couple of feet before the post and couple of yards right of the post. He growled and threw it again. Once again, a missed. When he's about to throw the last one, he halted from Asami's call.
"Wait," she said. "If you release the shuriken when you're aim isn't exactly at the post yet, it won't bend to the right." she said as she walked up to him. "And if you move your ahnd a little faster, it'll hit farer because there'll be more strength put into it ~uuu." She took the shuriken from Naruot's hand and demostrated what she meant without throwing it. "Like this."
Sasuke side-glanced at the girl while Naruto stares plainly at her. They would've never thought that she's been paying attention at all to anything if she hadn't just made that comment. "Nani?" Asami asked softly as her vision left the shuriken in her hand.
"Nothing!" Naruto said. Asami stared at him with a bit of questioning tiredness before she handed the shuriken back to him. "Yosh! I'll do it right this time- dattebayo!" Naruto exclaimed determinedly as he accepted the shuriken once again.
He got into throwing position and took Asami's advice. The shuriken landed on the ground a foot or 2 from the target post.
Asami clapped tiredly. "If you continue like that you'll improve...-uuu," she yawned.
"Arigato, Asami-chan!" Naruto exclaimed as he ran up to her who began walking away to her previous spot.
Asami turned her head to look at him sleepy. "No problem ~uuu..." she said as she settled herself down once again.
"Asami-chan! Asami-chan!" Naruto called hyperly as he settled himself down next to her.
"Hmm?"
"Why were you with Sasuke-teme in the morning?" Naruto questioned. He's been wondering it the whole time. Asami doesn't seem like a person that cares about looks... because she seemed to be too asleep all the time to actually care about the appearance of other people But then why would she be with that 'teme'?
"~Uuu. Tsasuki-chi?" she asked.
Naruto sweatdrpped. '...Tsasuki...-chi?'
"~Uuu," Asami said as she put a finger on her chin and tilted her head deep in thought. "...Alarm clock... sleeping pole?"
"You used Sasuke as an alarm clock and sleeping pole?" Naruto literally shouted.
Sasuke, whoose a couple of yards away from them, didn't hear what they said but felt something invisible stabbed his back.
Asami nodded her head once to comfirm that that's what she had just said.
"Why?" Naruto asked, utterly confused.
Both of them are still oblivious to their surrounding.
"-Cause-" Asami began, but was cut off when she was shook by a hoard of girls, who had in the process, flung Naruto out of the way.
"Asami-chan, Asami-chan, what did you just say?" the girls roared.
"~uuu..." Asami stared at them distantly, seemingly oin the verge of sleeping in the chaos.
"Using Sasuke-kun as... a p-pillow?" the girls demanded.
=The Girls' Fantasy=
"Sasuke-tun, can I lay on you for a moment?"
"Yes, boku no hime," the dreamy Sasuke said holding the girl's face close to him. "I shall wake you up."
=End of Fantasy=
"Kyaa!" they cried with blood rushing out of their noses as they shoved Asami to the side.
'What the-" Sasuke thought as he looked back at the comotion. He had felt a sudden chill in his spine.
"Ano...Sasuke-kun, can I sit next to you?" asked a girl who popped up beside him.
"He's mine, Forehead!" another girl yelled showing the previous girl away.
"Buzz off, Ino-Pig!" the first girl yelled back as a battle of mercy began between them.
While that happens the other girls took the chance to advance.
"No," Sasuke said darkly, rejecting all of them at once and sent them away with a glare.
As the hoard of girls began to retreat in depression, he sent Asami a glare as well.
"Ah," Asami said as she began clapping lightly. "Congratulations, Sasuki-chi ~uuu. You're receiving lots of ai ~uuu."
He gave her a darker glare just as Iruka called time.
"Okay let's see everyone's progress," Iruka said with his clipboard in hand.
"I'm 5 feet away!"
"4 and a half, and I almost hit!"
"My landed 7 feet away, but I'm still better than Naruto anyway," someone declared proudly.
All Iruka thought was, 'They can't improve like that... Knowing that Naruto is always the lowest... They just satisfy themselves by knowing that they're better than someone else... At this rate, they won't take things seriously...' Iruka sighed.
"Mine is only 2 feet away -dattebayo!" Naruto declared.
Everyone went silent for a moment. Almost everyone, including Iruka, was thinking something along the lines of: Naruto? Naruto did that? That's unbelievable.
"No way!" was the only response that they made.
"It's actually 1 foot and 8 inches ~uuu," Asami said from the corner.
"Naruto? You serious?" they exclaimed. There's no way they could believe that Naruto did better than most of them.
"Heh," Naruto said proudly as he stood up.
"I see," Iruka noted. "That's amazing progress, Naruto." He gave a small smile when he said that, but it was unnoticed because the class is arguing about how such a thing is impossible. 'It's a right thing to put Naruto with Asami and Sasuke afterall.' Iruka noted to himself this time.
"How about Sasuke and Asami?" Iruka asked looking at the other two in the group.
"Tsasu-chi got 2 in ~uuu," Asami responded with a yawn at the end.
"'Tsasu-chi?'" Iruka gave her a questioning look. He had only been teaching this class for a while, but he doesn't remember there being a person named 'Tsasu' in this class. He flipped through the pages in his clipboard to make sure.
"Me," Sasuke said irritated.
"Kyaa~! As expected of Sasuke-kun!" the girls shouted. Others held the expression of being impressed on their face, while others held their normal expressions, too expected to be impressed.
Iruka noted the score down. He must say that he's impressed, but he had already expected that coming from the Uchiha. "And Asami?"
"Onaji," she said shortly.
The class stared at the girl in shock. Tied with Sasuke?
Iruka jotted this down on his clipboard. "That makes Sasuke and Asami the ones that has the highest score so far."
Sasuke glared at her and the white haired girl gave him back one of her tired glares.
"Okay," Iruka said as he finished writting all the notes and scores on the clipboard. "Class is dismissed for now. Have lunch!" Iruka was about to turn and go before he added, "-Within the Academy perimeter."
"Hai~!"
"Asami-chan, wanna eat together?" Naruto asked as he ran up to her.
"~uuu?" her glance slipped to the Uchiha walking away as she debated. "Mhm."
When they seated themselves on the ground, Asami shuffled through her pocket. "~uuu?" she breathed questionly as her fingers touched a piece of paper. She stared at it blankly as she heard it before her. "Naru," she said turning to Naruto whose preparing his ramen. "Do you know where the garbage can is ~uuu?"
"Eh? The clostest one is before the Academy entarance..." he answered as he looked up at her sheepishly. "What's that?" he asked, pointed to the small slip of finger in Asami's hand.
"A coupon for a candy shop... I forgot to throw it... It expired a month ago ~uuu..."
Naruto sweatdropped. '...A month ago..?'
"I'll be back in a moment ~uuu." Asami said as she got up.
Naruto nodded.
Asami took a few minutes to reach the Academy's front doors, mainly because of her slow and tired walking. She located the trash can and began clearing out her pockets. She had pass by many trash can, but often forgot to throw things out, which result to things, even from a 7 months ago, filling up in her pockets.
She was about to walk back to Naruto when a group of girls rushed pass right before her face. "Sasuke-kun~!"
"~uuu?" Asami breathed questionly looking at the group that just rushed pass. ''Sasuke?''
It was not hard for Asami to find the raven haired boy when she decided to do so. She actually found him right away since he's sitting on a branch of the tree where Asami saw him in the morning.
The boy had his back laid against the trunk of the tree and one leg up on the branch and the other leg dangling over it. He was staring at the sky from his spot when he was interrupted by a rustling below. When he looked down, he was meant with a pair of blue eyes.
"Ah. You alone ~uuu?" she said, stating the obvious of her observation.
"Hn," he replied, which seems to be a 'so what' in this case.
"A lot of people seem to like you ~uuu. Soshouldn't you be having a lot of company ~uuu. It's unexpected for you to be alone ~uuu." Asami said. From her experience the whole day 'till now, everything pretty much says that the raven haired boy is pretty much loved by all. Which is the reason why she didn't ask him to have lunch with Naruto and herself before. But it wasn't really expected for him to be sitting alone on a tree branch, evading other people.
Sasuke 'hn'ned her again, he closed his eyes and laid his head at the trunk of the tree to show her that he's ignoring her and that she's not worth his time talking to.
Asami examined him with her tired eyes for a moment before dropping down from the branch that held her up.
"Hn," Sasuke said. 'Took her long enough to leave.'
He heard a rustling sound below and a sudden tug at his ankle that hanged off the branch. His eyes quickly snapped open, but it was too late since he's already falling off the tree, straight to the ground 18 feet down that average to about 2 flights in the Academy building.
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Thud.
"Itai~uuu," Asami said rubbing the back of her head.
"Says you. You were the one who pulled me down," Sasuke said with a pissed expression as he stood up rubbing the back of his head as well. They had both fallen back, and head, first down the tree.
"~uuu."
"What are you doing here anyway?" Sasuke asked, annoyed.
Asami turn her head up to look at him for a long moment. He glared at her when she didn't say anything, engaging a star-glare contest between the two.
"If you got nothing to say then don't bother me," he said as he turned to the tree he had dropped off from, breaking off the staring, and attempting to climb back up to his spot.
Asami stared at his back of a second before using her palms to lift herself out of her sitting position on the ground. "Anatawa... sabishi, ne?" she said as she stared at him.
"What?" he said, his eyes widened for a brief second before he turned to look at her. She was staring at the ground with her usual tired expression, but there seems to be something more to it. Sympathy? Lonliness? ...Understanding?
Asami's eyes lifted to look at him for a blink of a second before she snatched his wrist. "Come with me for a minute," she said as she began pacing and dragged him along.
"Oi, dobe!" he called with a bit more loudness to his voice than usual so that she would hear him. But Asami ignored it and continued to drag him along.
"Asari-char?" Naruto looked up with noodle still in his mouth from his cup of ramn when he heard heavy panating coming from beside him.
His eyes slid from her to the person behind her. "Sasuke-teme-!" Naruto jumped to his feet when he realized who it was.
"Dobe," he 'greeted' him.
"What did you say?" he shouted again when he realized that Sasuke has just called him a 'dobe.'
"Hn," Sasuke said, not bothering to repeat what he had just said.
"-What are you doing here?" Naruto shouted afterwards, remembering what he was about to say before 'Sasuke-teme' interrupted him before.
"Dobe," Sasuke said again, not answering his question.
"You wanna pick a fight, Sasuke-teme?" Naruto shouted rolling up his sleeve as his previous question went into the trash can.
"Ask your friend over there, she's the one that dragged me here," Sasuke said fingering his thumb over to Asami.
Asami looked up from her spot on the ground feeling the course of the attention turned to her. Naruto looked at her confusedly and Sasuke was just annoyed with the situation.
"Sit-uuu," she said.
Naruto nodded and sat down beside her, continuing on with his cooling ramen, ignoring Sasuke momentarily.
As Naruto sat down, Sasuke 'hn'ned and sat down on a spt some distance away from them with his knee up and an arm over it.
"Asarri-chare, whe do yow inviue Sasque-tewe to jowon uss?" Naruto asked as he dug into his food. Asami-chan, why do you invite Sasuke-teme to join us?
"Eh?" Asami looked up as she took a bite out of her apple. "There's no special reason-uuu," she said sleepily.
"Oh," Naruto said as he continued to splurp on his noodles.
Asami adjusted her eyes down before mumbling, "It's just that he's somehow like us-uuu."
"Asarri-chawn?" he called. He wasn't able to make out what she just said.
"Nothing," he heard her say before something red and circular came flying at him. His eyes grew wide and circular to match the object flying toward him, he quickly slurped up the noddle hanging from his noddle before wincing as he caught the object between his hands, barely, just in time to prevent it from flying straight at his face.
Naruto revealed his blue orbs fully as he opened his eyes from the wince to examine the object. He turned it over. 'An apple?'
He looked up at Asami to find that she had one in her hands and began taking small bites into the fruit. Her line of version raised to look into his question gaze before going back to stare at her apple as she ate. Through 'eye language,' she's telling him something along the line of eating the apple, but it didn't seem like Naruto was able to caught on to that.
He continued watching Asami as she stopped eating for a moment and began rustling through something behind her. He looked questionly at her once again wondering what she was doing before revealing another one of the same fruit that's in both of their hands.
Naruto watched as she tossed the apple a couple inches into the air befrore she caught it in her hand. She turned a little and threw the apple in her right hand over her left side before continuing nibbling on her apple.
The blonde hair boy stared at the apple until his line of vision directed at the red fruit met dark hair. Sasuke's hair to be exact. Naruto gaped as he watched as the dark hair boy threw his hand back and caught the apple before it could connect with the back of his head.
Naruto looked back at his apple before looking at it angrily with frustration. Sasuke had caught the apple so easily without even using any effort, yet he had a difficultly catching the one that Asami had tossed at him. 'Damn you Sasuke! I definetly won't let you win!' he declared as he dug huge bites into the apple to satisfy his anger.
Sasuke, on the other hand, looked at the apple in suspicion.
"It's not poisioned ~uuu," Asami said.
He looked at her suspiciously. She having turned around to look at him. He looked down at the apple again and held it to his lips, prepared to test it, when he got interrupted.
"Just know that if it does happened to be poisionous, it's not my fault ~uuu. A poision fairy could have poisioned it ~uuu. Though there's 99.999999999% chance of it being not, you might just strike that 0.000000001% ~uuu. Just telling you that, so that if you do happen to be poisioned and die, don't come back and haunt me ~uuu." Asami warned, stopping her nibbling momentarily before going back to it at the end of her speech.
Sasuke gave her an 'are you an idiot' look when Naruto jumped up and declared loudly. "Ha! I finished before you Sasuke-teme! You may have won the first time by luck, but I won this time!" Naruto shouted, showing off the apple bitten all the way to the steam. "Ha! And you haven't even started yet!" Naruto said, seeing the untouched apple in the dark haired boy's hand. 'Beat that, Sasuke!' Naruto declared in triumph.
Sasuke decided to ignore the two idiots, one's ridiculous speech and the other's self-declared victory which he paid no mind to. He looked at the apple still in his hand and took a bite out of it. Might as well get rid of it. To his surprise, it was pretty good. Though the apple is hard, it contain a right amount of juice in it. It's not exactly sweet either, it gives off a sweetish-sour flavor, the sourness could be tasted clearly from biting into it, if one actually pay a little bit of mind to it. Unlike Naruto, who probably just stuffed everything into his mouth like a meat-hungry dinosaur, without actually tasting how it tasted like. The fruit was unlike what he had bought in the market and even he, a person that doesn't have the word 'good' in his book of vocabularies, have to admit that it contain a satisfying taste to it.
To Be Continued
Vocab (I might not be exactly right)
nani- what
teme- bastard
boku no- my
hime- princess
ai- love
onaji- same
"Itai" - it hurts
"Anatawa... sabishi, ne?" - You're lonely... right
"dobe" - dead last
"-teme" - bastard
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