"BEEP, BEEP, BEE-" Ugh how annoying, why did I even turn that thing on for anyway? Oh yea today is my first day at the academy. Joy. I thought sarcastically as I did my morning routine and got my new books and lunch together into my bag. "Ugh I hat mornings!" I moaned as I finished getting my stuff read at 7:45. As you can plainly see I really dislike mornings. I guess I have to leave now. I thought as I looked at the clock. I put on my boots and leave.
By the time I got to my classroom it was 8:00. Great now I'm late. People are so useless sometimes. And as though to prove my point everyone that I had asked for help in reaching my destination all gave me bad directions on how to get to the academy and to my classroom. Well here I go. I opened the door and saw twenty-something children and one man all turn their attention towards me. Oh God. I usually like to stay back and observe. The reason for this is too see beyond what is shown. At first glance you might find out little things about people, like the way they dress is because they feel insecure or because they can't afford new clothes, but if you observe someone for enough time you can understand what makes them tick, and in enough time you can get to know them almost as well as they know themselves, and all just by observing. "Hello you must be my new student. I'm Iruka, your new sensei. What's your name?" "Hitomi" I simply replied as I timidly glanced around the room at all the curious stares I was getting from my fellow classmates. "Well Hitomi you can sit over there next to Hinata." He said as he pointed over at a girl with short blue/black hair and lavender, pupil-less eyes. As I walked to my seat I felt eyes on me. As I turned I saw some of the boys in my class staring at me and blushing. Huh what's with them?
Half-way through class Iruka-sensei said "Ok kids lunch time." The moment those words left his mouth he class divided into two groups. One went outside to enjoy their free time. While the other group quickly swarmed over to my desk asking me questions and introducing themselves a mile-a-minute. "Hi I'm Kiba Inuzuka and this is Akamaru." Said a boy with shaggy-ish brown hair, slight fang-like canines, and a red triangle on each cheek as he held up a small white puppy who 'arfed' in response. "Hi" Came my reply to the boy and his puppy. "Hi I'm Ino Yamanaka and-" "I'm Sakura Haruno." Said two girls, one had short, blonde hair and blue pupil-less eyes, while the other girl who interrupted her had equally short pink hair and emerald green eyes. "Hey I'm Shikamaru Nara." Said a boy with his hair in a spiky ponytail, in a lazy voice. "Hi I'm Chōji Akimichi." This time a chubby boy came over and stood next to 'Shikamaru'. Another boy came over. Damn, how many people are going to come over? He wore round sunglasses and wore a high collar shirt. "My name is Shino Aburame." He said in an almost monotonous voice but still had that childish ring to it. "HI I'M NARUTO UZUMAKI!" Screamed a voice behind me. I quickly turned round in shock and found a boy with spiky blonde hair, cerulean blue eyes, three whisker-like marks on both cheeks and a huge smile spread across his face as he jumped up and down in the prospect of making a friend. Another boy came up next to him with a timid yet excited smile across his face. This boy had raven black hair that spiked up in the back, onyx eyes and pale skin. "Hi I'm Sasuke Uchiha." He said with a light blush that covered his cheeks as he looked into my eyes. Haha his hair looks like a duck's butt. I thought as I lightly giggled into my hand making him blush more. "Hi it's nice to meet you all." I said as I returned all their smiles with a small one of my own.
When everyone had finally left I started packing my books and taking out my lunch when a meek voice brought me to a halt. "H-h-h-hi I-I-I'm H-Hinata Hyūga." I turned around to look at the owner of the voice only to find the girl I was sitting next to in class. "Hi" I said a bit unsurely of how to approach the timid girl. "W-would you l-like to have l-lunch with m-me?" She said as she twiddled her fingers nervously. I was shocked to hear that, I mean yea the kids from before were nice but for someone to want me with them, me, the new girl, the girl nobody liked in my old village, to say I was shocked was an understatement. "I-it's ok i-if y-you don't w-want to, I w-was just w-wondering." She said in a dejected tone as she thought my stunned silence was me rejecting her invitation. As she started to leave I quickly brought my hand up to stop her. "Wait!" I quickly realized what I did when she turned around. "I would really like to have lunch with you." I said as I fought down a blush that was starting to rise from my previous outburst. "O-oh okay, f-follow me." She said surprised as I quickly finished putting away my stuff and followed her out of the classroom.
We walked into the forest nearby and into a clearing. We laid out our lunches and started eating while talking a bit when suddenly I hear two sets of footsteps enter our clearing. "Oh hey guys, mind if we join you?" We turned around only to be greeted by Shikamaru and Chōji. "It's fine with me, what about you Hinata?" I said as I turned to my finger-twiddling friend. "Um y-yeah s-s-sure."
We spent the whole lunch sitting in that clearing and talking. Thankfully they didn't ask me about where I used to live or what happened before I came to this village. We mostly talked about random stuff like what we liked, what we dislike, our hobbies, things like that.
I found out that Hinata was from the main house in her clan. She is very shy and has nervous ticks from time to time like twiddling her fingers, or putting her hands up in front of her when she feels nervous or in a hostile situation.
Shikamaru is a lazy guy who enjoys sleeping or watching the clouds. He often found things troublesome and would often point it out by saying 'How troublesome' or 'What a drag'. He is also incredibly smart and has won every match of shogi that he has ever played.
Chōji is a very kind, polite, loyal, and caring person. He was also more of a lover than a fighter. But if you called him fat he'd try and beat the crap out of you. He also loved food, especially barbeque.
What surprised me was that I was really opening up to them. In the short time I've known them I feel like I can really trust them. What probably contributed to this was that they listened to every word I said and didn't judge me just for being the new girl. Just then a bell rang clear throughout the area. "Huh, it sounds like lunch is over." Shikamaru said as he stood up and dusted himself off.
As we got up and grabbed our stuff we made our way out of the clearing, through the small patch of forest that lay next to the academy and went into the classroom. Only to be lead out and into the training grounds 10 minutes later with rest of the class and Iruka-sensei leading the way.
"Ok kids today we're going to learn how to aim and correctly throw a kunai. So watch what I do and try to copy it and I'll come by and help." Iruka-sensei said as he demonstrated by throwing his kunai at one of the logs that were set up. He went around and passed a few kunai to everyone as they found their stumps to train with. As he went around checking up on everyone's progress I walked up to my stump and carved a little target on it. I don't know why but it always helps me to have a target on what I'm aiming at. Hopefully it's just a phase that I'll soon grow out of.
As Iruka-sensei comes to me I get into my stance and threw all three of my kunai at the mini target. They all hit perfectly. "Wow Hitomi good job! How did you do so well on your first try?" He asked curiously as he looked disbelievingly at me and the stump. "I practice a lot." Came my simple reply. "Oh okay, hey since you've got it down so well why don't you go help the others?" "Ok"
I walked around looking at all the other kids trying and corrected some of them. Some of them would do alright, while the others would miss most of the time. All of a sudden I hear a frustrated groan a little farther down the line of kids. As I made my way towards the source of the noise I found out that it was Sasuke who had made the noise. He was standing up with his arms to his sides and his hands clenched. He stared angrily at his stump that had his kunai embedded into it very low, almost to the ground. "You're doing it wrong." I said. He jumped and whirled around looking at me with a startled look. "Huh?" He said as he finally snapped out of it. "Let me see how you throw it." "Uh okay." He said nervously as he plucked his kunai from the log without question. As he got into his stance I noticed that his upper body was at an odd angle. When he threw the kunai his arm went from his upper left to the lower right hand of his body, causing the kunai to fly lower. I walked over and retrieved his kunai and said, "Okay there's a few things wrong. First is your stance, don't move your upper body like that, keep it at a comfortable angle, it'll put less strain on your abdominal muscles." "Uh okay?" He said unsurely. "Your stomach." I clarified. The only reason I knew this was because Sarutobi recommended that I become a medical ninja in the future, which resulted in me spending hours reading medical books at the library.
"Next is your arm placement, it's much easier to stay in a straight, horizontal line. Lastly is your timing, wait until you're right next to your target then let it go. With your speed and your arm still in motion the kunai should hit its mark." I explained calmly as he looked at his kunai unsurely. "Here let me help." I said as I walked up behind him and put his body against mine. "Here, like this." I said as I grabbed his hand and went through the motions with him until he memorized them. When I stepped away I noticed that he was blushing again and was looking at the ground. I felt eyes boring into my back so I turned around and found some girls glaring at me. Huh, weird.
"Ok now try it on your own now." I said as I stepped back to give him some room. He nodded at me and got ready to throw the kunai. He went through the steps I taught him and threw the kunai. By the way he was smiling I could tell that he had hit his mark. "Good job, with more practice throwing will become second nature to you." I said with a small grin. Before he could voice his gratitude Iruka yelled, "Alright class good job, class dismissed." I quickly grabbed my stuff and left to go home to tell Sarutobi about my first day at the academy.