Seems like forever since I've updated this…though I really should update my Ghost Hunt story…I finally have a plot for it… sighs
Well, this chapter is kinda weird, just cuz I'm really tired and all, so, yeah, sorry 'bout that… hehe…
Being this is in the 'she/he' form, I think I had a pretty kick ass start considering I don't usually do this type, but I kinda lost my touch toward the end…so again, sorry 'bout that. I didn't really know how to change it so…SORRY!
WHY IS IT THAT DURING SUMMER VACATION WHEN I CAN ACTUALLY WRITE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO WRITE!?
Damn you Muphy's Law… growling
Also, sorry for any spelling mistakes, when I read them on the edit/preview thing it's harder for me to find them than when I'm reading it in story form...if that made any sense at all. So if you see any mistakes feel free to tell me.
So, enough with me apologizing, here's the chapter…if anyone is still reading this…
The first class of the day, Homeroom, had started, yet everyone in the room was acting as though they had not noticed. A blonde and a pink haired girl in the back were talking rather loudly, arguing about someone named Sasuke over the empty desk between them, to the left another, louder, blonde was busy throwing paper airplanes, yet a boy wearing a spiky pony-tail was drooling as he slept on his desk, completely oblivious to the racket the teens were making.
In the front of the room was their teacher, as well as a girl that no one knew.
"Class, this is Ayumi. She's our new student as of today." Kakashi "smiled" to the class.
Well, they assumed he smiled, they never really could tell because of the mask…
The students of the class gazed boredly at the new girl, dressed in pale jeans an and a dark maroon hooded sweater, in the front, slightly annoyed that their morning talks had been interrupted.
Her hair was long and copper, so much in fact, that it looked like it could be sold as money. She held herself closely, her thick-with-fabric arm caging the other, showing how self conscious she was, as she looked out shyly at the crowded classroom in front of her, who returned hers with a bored glance.
Nothing new.
Nothing interesting.
Kakashi stared out at his audience. "Any questions?"
"Yeah!" came the cry of the loudmouthed blonde. "Kakashi, why do you always wear that mask!?"
The masked teacher merely picked up an orange Come Come Paradise book and began reading while he answered the blonde. "That's because, Naruto, I have a bad cold, and I wouldn't want to spread it to all of my precious students now would I?" he said tiredly.
At first it seemed as though the loudmouth was going to accept that story; that was until…
"Kakashi that's BULL! I've known you for FIVE YEARS and never ONCE have I seen you without that mask!"
A smiling eye looked up from reading. "I've had a very long cold."
The boy called Naruto growled and muttered a few well chosen words, yet sat back down.
"So, any other questions?" the happified teacher asked, a bright smile like glow emitting form his single visible eye.
Nothing.
"Well then, Ayumi, why don't you go sit over there between Sakura and Ino." the silver haired man said sweetly, turned toward the shy girl.
She stared at him, confused, as well as scared.
"Ino is the blue eyed blonde girl," he started, placing a delicate hand on Ayumi's shoulder, "and Sakura is the green eyed pink haired girl."
Two girls in the room raised their hands slightly, signaling the girl where they were.
She smiled politely in reply, quickly walking over to the empty desk between them. She placed her books down on the desk quietly and was about to sit when she was called on.
"Ayumi, I'm sorry I forgot, but you are supposed to go to Kurenai's office to go over a few things with her." Kakashi spoke loudly, making sure everyone heard. "Please go now."
A slight nod was given to him in reply, and she soon disappeared out of the room.
Sakura and Ino began talking again, Naruto started complaining on how he wanted ramen to be on the school's breakfast menu, and soon the whole class was loudly chatting away.
Kakashi walked to the center of the white board, crossed his arms, and glared.
"I have a very important matter to discuss."
No one heard him.
His glare intensified, causing the students to turn forward, fearful of the dangerous aura he was giving off.
He cleared his throat.
"As you know, Ayumi is our new student this quarter, but she is different from the others." This got everyone's attention. "Because of certain circumstances in her past, Ayumi cannot talk."
A shocked gasp came out of Ino's mouth. She could not imagine how horrible it would be if one couldn't talk.
Kakashi carried on in a dead serious tone. "Since she is not able to talk, I get the disgusted feeling that some of you will harass her. So I am laying out all the cards. If any of you so much as shove that girl in the hallway I will have you expelled from this school faster than you can blink. If anything goes beyond that, let me just warn you now, there are far worse things than being expelled, far worse."
"Are you threatening us, Mr. Hatake?" Sakura asks quietly, though very seriously.
"No, Ms. Class Representative, I am merely giving you a warning. A threat is something that may or may not happen. I am assuring you that this will happen if anything goes wrong."
Silence.
"Well, it seems that you all understand the situation…" he sighs with false contempt.
Knock.Knock.Knock.
The door from the hallway opens up and Ayumi walks back into the classroom.
She glances around the room, sensing its tenseness. She brings her eyes to her guardian. "What's going on?" her glance says.
"Everything is fine. We were just discussing a very heated topic on our recently finished novel, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh."
Her face scrunches up in disbelief, hands him a note from Kurenai allowing her back in class, the walks down the isle to get to her desk.
"Rest of the class period…do as you like. Read a book: great, talk: great, do homework...not like anyone would do it…"
The copperhead newbie looks to the clock, let's the time sink in, then sighs in boredom.
They still had thirty minutes of class left, meaning only fifteen had passed.
"Ayumi, do you know your way around the school yet?" the girl named Sakura asks suddenly.
She gets a slight shake of the head 'no' as a response.
"Mr. Hatake?" she asks loudly, rasing her hand, trying to get the attention of the man in the front of the class who had his legs resting nonchalantly on his desk.
"Uh?" their teacher grunts, still not looking up from his orange book.
Ino chimes in now, "Ayumi doesn't know her way around the school yet, so could me and Sakura show her around?"
"I."
"Wha-?"
"The correct grammatical organization for that sentence would be 'So could Sakura and I show her around?' Jeez, not even knowing that little thing. The whole world doesn't revolve around you Ino, no matter how hard you dream." He grumbles something about being fired because this year's wave of students are all blubbering idiots… "Fine, you can go, just don't be late for the next class period."
"Yay!" the blonde shrieks in joy at being allowed to do as she pleased. "Let's go Sakura, Ayumi!" she adds with more enthusiasm than necessary as she bolts up from her desk and runs out the door.
"She's a little scary, isn't she?" calls the left over girl from Ayumi's side. "Sadly, she's usually like that, and it gets even worse when Sasuke's name is involved."
The young girl cringes at this new information, not liking overly hyper people.
"Well then, come on." The pinkette says sweetly, grasping the copperhead's hand and leading her gently to the door.
"And this is the cafeteria, though I highly recommend that you don't eat the food. I mean come on! It's not dietary, nor is it vegetarian, and the meat is either burnt or undercooked, and the fruits and vegetables are all mushy and tasteless. It's like old people food! I started a petition last year to protest for better food, we totally kicked ass with eight hundred signatures, yet all they did was give us more crappy food. Which is totally unfair because I got carpel tunnel from that stupid writing assignment we had to do for TV for our large boycott, which we did after the petition, and I wouldn't have had that if the darn school would have listened to us and given us great food, I mean there's nothing wrong with Dominos or Chinese food every once in a while! You know what I mean?"
The blonde was given a blank stare.
"Ah…haha… shall we…continue on?" Sakura hesitantly laughs, eye twitching, trying to find a "polite way" to make Ino shut up.
Ayumi nods her head vigorously, understanding the need for silence.
"But I was just at the good part!" the blonde squeals in protest.
Sakura's self control snaps.
"You need to shut up now, Ino-pig!" she growls, lunging for her friend and extending her mouth in ways it should hot have been extended.
"Wa wu wiwwle worwead wiwch!"
"If only they made bark collars for pigs!" the pink haired fury screams.
Being too busy in their fighting, they did not notice the scared/freaked new girl slowly and quietly backing away from them.
"You're such a loser, Forehead! Sasuke will never like you, even if you are class representative!" the now freed Ino yells as she pulls on her "friends" hair.
Sakura head butts her. "Well I know he at least likes brains over brawn, you airhead!"
"Who are you calling an airhead, Forehead!?"
"I bet you didn't even know the word gullible was written on the ceiling!"
"Is it?" the blonde asks, looking up, "Hey, you liar, I don't see it!"
"THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE A GULLIBLE AIRHEAD, INO-PIG!"
"I AM NOT! Right, Ayumi?"
Both stop fighting when they realize the mute was no where in sight.
"Shit!"
Ayumi walked aimlessly around the hallways, looking for a place she recognized.
Nothing.
Her pace increased as she rounded another corner, desperate for someone to help her.
Arms incasing her, providing a sense of security to the dread and cold that she suddenly felt upon realizing she was lost.
Empty doorways and classrooms passed her by, and not even one person was visible no matter where she looked.
Her fingers went up to her mouth in worry, so soon she was nervously biting her fingernails.
"Ruff!"
She stopped suddenly, long hair swishing form the sudden lack of movement.
Her face turned to where the noise had come from, trying to talk herself out of thinking it was just her imagination.
"Ruff!"
A true smile of excitement spread across her pale skinned face as she started running to where the barking had come from.
White brick walls passed her with incredible speed as she got closer and closer to her destination.
A door.
Slamming her entire body into the stationary object she forcibly swung the door open in order to see…
Her eyes widened.
Blue skies dotted scarcely with white puffy clouds.
The roof.
She had made it to the roof.
Her face scrunched up in confusion, she didn't remember going up any stairs, and she was sure that their classroom was on the first floor, and the school was four stories high…
"Ruff!"
Snapping her attention to the ground by the railing of the roof, she found an unusual sight.
She smiled again, walking over to the small puppy before her.
Leaning down, she reached out her hand to let the animal sniff it, ensuring that the dog knew she could be trusted.
'How adorable' her eyes sang.
Tired from all the running she did, Ayumi sat down next to the puppy, only to find the small creature jumping onto her lap.
Her hand reached out again, this time to pet the dogs small head.
Its fur was soft and well groomed, and slightly short, though you couldn't call it a short haired breed, meaning the dog just had his hair cut.
Another smile made its way onto the copperhead's face as the small pup began to gently lick her other hand, which was resting on her knee.
"Who are you!?"
Ayumi snapped her head up at the sudden burst of the gruff voice.
"Ruff!"
The small dog leapt off the girl's lap and ran to the gray sweater/parka wearing boy.
"What's wrong, Akamaru?" he asked with concern to the dog, who responded with barks and yips. "Is that so?"
Feeling a wave of nervousness pass over her again, the girl stood up, one hand clenched in front of her chest, trying and seem less suspicious.
"Who are you?" the boy asked again, this time with kindness to his voice.
He watched the girl lean forward and open her mouth, but then she stopped, returning to her original position.
"You're pretty weird, you know that?"
She nodded.
He gave her a distrustful stare, yet tried to be friendlier toward her.
"Sorry 'bout yelling at 'ya before, it's just I'm not supposed to bring my dog to school, so I was worried you were going to steal him or something since I wasn't here." The boy stated, looking away slightly to hide an embarrassed blush.
The girl leaned forward, a bright smile replacing her nervous expression.
"I'm Kiba, my dog's Akamaru. What 'ya doing here?"
The girl bit her lip.
"Well?" he probed, lifting an annoyed eyebrow, allowing a tone of anger to infiltrate his voice.
Ayumi backed toward the railing as the boy walked closer, an expression of pissed off-ness apparent on his face.
"YO! KIBA!" an annoyingly loud voice yelled as its owner burst through the door leading to the roof. "IT'S LUNCH TIME! I BROUGHT YOU AND AKAMARU SOME FOOD!"
"Yeah, whatever Naruto…" Kiba answered, not even looking at the orange and gold boy.
The girl he was looking at glanced at the boy called Naruto quickly, a calmness coming over her face.
"Hey, where are ya-" the dog baring teen growled as the copper-haired girl bolted past him, running to the new comer.
"Ah? Ayumi? What are you doing here?" Naruto asked, an oblivious sense of what had happened.
Kiba turned around to watch the two.
He knows her?
The girl clung onto his arm, turning to look back nervously toward Kiba, then back at Naruto.
"Him? Oh, don't be worried about him, he just looks scary, but he's as harmless as a bee."
She cringed.
"Well maybe that wasn't the best comparison…"
"Who the annoying bitch, Naruto? She won't answer me, it's really starting to piss me off."
The blonde's face wrinkled into a look of disgust.
"Well of course not you idiot! She's a mute!"
Kiba froze, his anger turning into a mass of shock and horror at how he'd acted.
"She…is…?" he breathed, turning to the frightened girl.
"I'm sorry!" he bowed, showing his sincere apology. "I didn't know!"
Naruto started laughing. "What are you doing, you idiot? Can't you see you're making yourself look like a loser?"
Kiba returned to his original posture, Akamaru still securely in his arms.
"So, Ayumi, what are you doing up here? Ino and Sakura are already in the lunchroom…they're acting kinda scary with their guilty expressions…did they kill someone?" Naruto asked, completely serious.
Ayumi shook her head no.
"What happened then?"
He got a stare.
"Oh, sorry. Here…" he placed the trays of food on the ground before he started rummaging through his school bag. "You can explain everything with this!"
He handed her a notebook and a pencil.
She nodded, accepting the utensils.
"So Kiba," Naruto asked the dog boy, who had reached for his tray of food and began eating in grievance for his actions, "Kakashi didn't even notice you weren't in class, so I don't think you have to worry about that anyway…it's just homeroom anyway, and it's not like we have homework…"
"Yeah, whatever…" he mumbled back.
The blonde was going to ask another question to the parka wearing boy, but was interrupted by a slight tapping on his shoulder.
"Ya done?"
Ayumi nodded, handing over the notebook.
"So…" he began reading.
Ino and Sakura were showing me around the school since I didn't fully know my way yet, but they started fighting each other and I got scared, so I tried going back to the classroom on my own, but I got lost and ended up in a place where no one was, when I heard a dog barking. Thinking it was with a person I followed the sound and wound up here with Akamaru…and then Kiba came and…I think you know the rest…
"Ah, I see. Well if it makes you feel any better Kiba was always an idiot…"
"Hey!" said boy yelled in protest.
Naruto shrugged his shoulders at the comment, not even bothering to take it back, knowing it was the truth.
Ayumi was smiling now, no longer scared, or nervous, or alone.
Kiba placed his empty tray down on the cement floor again and stood up, letting out a small mumble. "I could show you back to class…"
Nodding in agreement, both Kiba and Ayumi left, leaving Naruto and Akamaru on the roof.
"Look, I really am sorry about before…I didn't mean to offend you…or scare you…" Kiba announced once they reached the hallway.
The voiceless girl just nodded in understanding, giving his hand a small gentle squeeze with her own as proof.
Having arrived at the door to her previous classroom, the two separated.
"There's still time to grab some lunch if you want it!" Kiba called to her from down the hall, turning himself around so he was walking backwards.
She nodded, a shy grin replying to him.
"See 'ya lat-" he lost his footing and fell. "I-I'm okay!"
A small giggle made its way out of Ayumi's mouth.
Had someone been watching her, they would have noticed the phrase her eyes were saying in a teasing tone.
'That boy really is an idiot.'
GAH! THIS CHAPTER SUCKED! cries I'M NOT EVEN AT THE MAIN PLOTLINE! I'M DOOMED! THIS STORY IS DOOMED!
Someone just kill me now! has coffin and flowers prepared already
Bye!