Ch 9
The birds chirped early in the morning and Jinou was smiling enjoying a butter bagel while sitting with Miyako, holding each other's hand. She was eating a small peanut butter sandwich. They were watching the sun rise together on the training grounds before school started. They wanted to hang out alone together for a bit.
"How did you sleep Miyako?" Jinou ask taking a small bite of the bagel.
"It was really good. I had a dream that we walked in a snowy forest and you were gently kissing me..." she slowly trailed off blushing. Jinou laughed and put his arm around her and kissed her cheek. "You're so cute Miyako." She blushed more and snuggled into him eating the last of her sandwich. They stayed like that in silence enjoying each other's company and warmth. Soon the sun was fully raised and Miyako kissed his cheek and slowly pulled away.
"I gotta meet my friends Jinou, don't want to leave them hanging just cuz I have a boyfriend." She said teasingly. Jinou gave an adorable pout; Miyako kissed it and got up smiling. "Okaaaaaaay." Said Jinou and they started to walk over to the main quad area. He kissed her sweetly and let her walk to the cherry blossom tree. She was dressed in black jeans and instead of the usual black shirt she had on a blue tank top, with her hair up in pony tail that looked cute on her. He smiled and walk to his hill side where is friends were smiling at him as he approached.
"So how was your early morning with Miyako?" asked Kiba with a smirk on his face. "Shut up." Said Jinou, blushing a bit and Lee said, smiling "Just don't get soft my friend." Jinou punched him in the chest, "That soft?" They all laughed as the bell rang. They quickly head to their classes and as Jinou walked pass the cherry blossom tree he gently caught one and looked towards the tree, where some of the Akatsuki were watching him. Jinou sped up to class evading there gaze. "Hiiii!" Said Miyako, excitedly waiting outside the class room. They hugged and kissed gently, and Jinou placed the cherry blossom in Miyako's hair. She giggled and blushed. He smiled and they walked into class holding hands.
Miyako was shyly looking around and people glanced in their direction. 'Looks like everyone knows we're dating now. Why does he have to do the cutest things for me?' She smiled and adjusted the cherry blossom. 'I do love the flower- it looks really pretty.' Jinou chuckled a bit at the staring faces. 'News does travel fast in Elvanor, but why are they watching me like hawks?' Thought Jinou. Sasori and Deidara were very quiet and he couldn't help but think they were watching him. Miyako brought out her paint and brushes humming a happy tune, giggling a bit when she would lightly touch the blossom. The assignment was to draw 3 dimensional figures. They drew in silence; Miyako shyly put her hand under the table and Jinou gently reached for it. They kept like that for the rest of the lesson.
The bell rang and the class packed up. Miyako and Jinou walked over to Advanced Combat 2 together. They kissed before they went into their separate locker rooms. The class filled into the gym and a Kakashi was leaning against a chalk board that said "personal weapons." Once everyone was in the gym he said loudly while putting his book away, "Okay class today I want you to bring out your own personal weapon. This will be a two week unit on how to use your weapon properly. I hope you know how to fight, because at the end of the unit you must fight me for your final grade." The class was silent as the news sunk in.
Miyako scowled as the information processed. 'We're going to fight Kakashi-sensei? We're so toast. At least we have two weeks to perfect our skills... But we can't let Kakashi get too familiar with our techniques so he doesn't form a pattern.' She snapped back into the real world as he began to speak again. She noticed Sakura talking to a new student by him- a rather energetic looking blonde. "By the way, we have a possible new student joining our class- rather late in by the way, but they excelled in the normal class. This is Uzumaki Naruto. He will be fighting with some of you to see if they qualify for this class or not." A murmur went through the crowd of students, speculating the late arrival. Kakashi called the class to attention, then split up the group by fighting styles. The new arrival was in Miyako's group, specializing in blades. Kakashi came around to each group and gave explicit directions and general rules of thumb that Miyako already knew before he paired them up to fight.
"Miyako, since there's an uneven amount of people in your style and you're on the more advanced side, would you mind taking on the newcomer one on one?" She nodded. "Sure, no problem." Glancing passively at him she simply said, "Come on. Let's finish this quickly." The other groups were watching since they had finished their work earlier that week and were being lazy. Miyako stated that she'd give him time to warm up as well, and he thanked her before getting in a defensive stance. 'Much different mindset... Hmm, he may prove a challenge. If his mindset matches his skill, that is.' Miyako briefly thought before the match started. She was sorely mistaken. The blonde was an extremely good challenge, blocking her blows and attacking her with relative ease. However they both landed brutal blows on each other, leaving bruises and cuts and blood splatterings on the floor. At the end of the match both competitors were panting and bleeding.
Everyone was shocked, especially Jinou. 'He did even better than I did against her, and I have to admit I did really good considering her training. I'm officially impressed.' Kakashi smiled- at least it looked like he was smiling behind his mask. 'Extraordinary! I haven't seen Miyako fight so hard since she fought against Jinou and Hidan. You, Naruto, are one piece of work. Welcome to Advanced Combat." Both competitors smiled before sinking to the floor in exhaustion. Two very frazzled nurses scurried over even faster than they already were coming and started to heal the two students. Miyako glanced over at the blonde. "You're amazing- I've never seen such a technique before." Naruto grinned, almost looking sheepish. "Thanks. I had to teach myself at a young age, so I've had time- like you- to perfect things. Hey, ummm.. Would you mind if Sakura and I hang out with you two?" Miyako laughed at the boy's awkwardness. "Of course not. Any friend of Sakura is a friend of mine. I'll introduce you to my friends first. They're... Good people to have on your side." Jinou's face darkened at this, causing his girlfriend to stop smiling and look worried. 'He's not happy... But why? They haven't done anything wrong... Excluding Hidan but he said he was fine with that... What could possibly be wrong?'
