Chapter 4:
The young girl walks up to the front of the classroom. All the students stare at her and patiently wait for her introduction. Hinata smiles to herself, Naruto finds this extremely cute and he blushes. She eventually musters up courage enough to speak, "Hello, my name is Hinata. Nice to meet you all, it'll be pleasure getting to know everyone here during the semester" she says.
As soon as she finishes her statement, she notices Naruto in the back of the class. She waves at him and smiles out of sheer happiness. Dazed, Naruto waves back. The attention of all the girls in the glass turns to Naruto, they can see that his face is shot red and blushing vigorously. The glances then change their focus to Hinata, jealously, all the girls murmur about her, but Hinata, innocently enough, notices none of it.
The teacher sees Hinata wave at Naruto and says, "Well, it looks like you're familiar with Naruto. There's an empty seat next to him, why don't you go ahead and take a seat?"
Hinata replies, "Thank you sir." Happily she goes up to the seat by Naruto and sets her stuff on her desk. She whispers to Naruto, "Looks like we'll be neighbors in school too, huh?"
Naruto can't even feel his toes from how nervous he is, "Isn't that something?" he replies.
The air in the room gets thicker and thicker the more Naruto burns up. The murmuring continues and gets even louder than previously.
Sakura, one of the many Naruto-crazed girls, turns to Ino and asks, "Why is Naruto being so indescribably nice to her? Why is he blushing? He never acts this way normally!"
Ino replies, "I can't say for sure", she adds, "Let's just hope that she's not the girl that Naruto talked about earlier."
Feeling the presence of girls gossiping, Sasuke jumps into the conversation, "Hello ladies!"
They all turn around in unison. Ino asks, "Hey, you're Narutos friend right?"
Sasuke proudly nods, "Why, yes I am! Why do you ask?"
"Does Naruto like that girl?" Sakura asks.
"Chances are..." Sasuke replies, "But, I'm probably not the one who should say, love is a fickle thing! A mere spiders web withering in a dust storm of unexpected feelings and emotions! It appears you must solve this mystery for yourselves. Until then, would any of you girls like to give me your phone number, email, fax? Anything? ANYTHING?"
The girls turn away in disgust and face the front of the room to pay attention to the teacher. "I get no luck" Sasuke says to himself.
Lunch Time
The sounds of the hundreds of students filling up the cafeteria resonate loudly after the lunch bell rings. Naruto looks at Sasuke who is pointing at the new girl, Hinata. Sasuke raises his eyebrow at Naruto signaling to invite the girl to eat with them.
Naruto looks nervously at Hinata as she gets her stuff ready for lunch. He picks at his pockets as she staggers toward her. She fixes her attention to him and asks, "Oh, hey Naruto. What's up?"
"Umm…."Naruto says, "I was w-wondering if you'd like to eat lunch with Sasuke and I?"
Hinata smiles and enthusiastically replies, "Sure! That sounds like a great idea! I think lunch is always better when you eat it with someone." She finishes her sentence when she notices Sasuke is nowhere to be found, "Wait a sec… where is this friend of yours?"
Naruto jumps and turns around to see that Sasuke, indeed, has disappeared. He thinks to himself, "Well that conniving little rat! He planned this all along. Just wait till I get my hands on him. I swear I'll..."
"Why don't we" his thought is interrupted by Hinata saying, "Why don't we just eat together that way afterwards you can show me around the school? This place is a maze, seriously. Where I'm from our school was really tiny compared to this one."
"Hey, that sounds like a deal!" Naruto says.
The both of them scramble the cafeteria for the food choices and go to the in-school courtyard to eat it. They sit in front of the fountain and begin talking about a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Soon, it gets to a point where Naruto asks, "So what kind of things do you like to do?"
She replies, "I really enjoy listening to music and cooking. I consider my self a pretty good cook, though theirs always room for improvement."
"I agree" he adds, "But isn't that the truth with everything?"
"Don'tcha find this kinda weird?" Hinata asks.
"What's weird?"
"The fact that we're both sitting and eating our lunch in front of a fountain, its kind of cliche."
And the conversation carries on for a while, up to the point where its getting time to finish up. Naruto looks at the clock near the inside of the school and says to Hinata, "Man, its almost time to go back to homeroom. We only have twenty minutes left, if we don't stop eating soon I won't have time to show you around the school. Let's head out."
Naruto helps Hinata up and they both go to the trash bins to toss their scraps away. They enter the building and Naruto gives her a thorough overview of the entire school. He's very detailed in his showings, he even points some students out to Hinata for her to steer clear from. Of course he also goes over some of the basic important rooms like the bathroom locations, guidance counselor room and many others.
"Looks like its time to return to homeroom, you coming?" Hinata asks as she takes a deep breath trying to soak in all the info she had just received.
"Oh, no" Naruto replies, "You go right ahead. I'll catch up with you in a sec."
Hinata joyfully says, "Okay then. Thanks again for showing me around this labyrinth. I appreciate it!"
She walks away towards the classroom, but Naruto goes the opposite direction in a rush to get into the bathroom. As soon as he steps foot in the restroom he runs to the sink and throws water on his face.
His heart was beating so rapidly and so violently that he thought he was going to die.
"Why..." Naruto asks himself, "Why does my chest get so tight whenever I'm just in her presence? I can't stand it!"
When this comes out of Narutos mouth, almost immediately he hears a ruffle come from the ceiling.
Naruto yells out in confusion, "Whats that sound? Is it coming from the ceiling?"
