Disclaimer: Yun Koga owns Loveless and Misashi Kishimoto owns the Naruto characters I put in here.
Claimer: I own the plot and OCs; nothing more, nothing less.
Pairings: NaruHina, SasuOC. I guess there's SLIGHT NaruOC and KibaOC, but it all depends on how you look at it.
Extra: The answer to selena23loveless's review: yes, Haruka DOES apologize a lot when she feels she needs to.
I set my tray down before I sit down and I look at my three other friends with a smile. Temari and Ten Ten grin at me while Hinata gives me an uncertain smile. I can only assume that she heard about what happened while waiting from Temari along with Ten Ten. I'm just happy that Ten Ten chose to pretend she doesn't know.
I lift my tail up so I don't sit on it and then sit down. I open my milk and take a bite out of my sub.
"A-Are you okay, Haru-chan?" Hinata asks quietly.
"Of course I am," I answer after I swallow my sub. "I'm eating, aren't I? I'm not throwing it up. I'm fine, you guys, really. It's nothing serious. I just thought I heard something that hurt my head and I can hear you guys fine so everything's alright. Don't mind me, really."
I hear a clink next to me and I notice my friends looking to my left with surprised expressions on their visages. I blink and look to see a blob of blond and a grin as the first thing I see. I back my head up a little and notice that it's Naruto looking at me with a grin. I hear another clink and I look before him to see Kiba sit down, too.
I open my mouth to say something but Naruto beats me to it, "When you're captain again you gotta get me on your team again."
"I think she should take me 'cause she kicked our team's butt in soccer," Kiba says. Kiba looks back at me and asks, "You are alright, though, right? You kinda looked like you were in a lot of pain and stuff while lyin' there."
"Um... yeah, I was okay," I say as I look at my sub, feeling my face burn up. I'm happy that I'm so tan because then everyone would've been able to see my blush. Unfortunately, they can see my ears tuck back with my embarrassed attitude as my tail hung around under my seat.
"We were good only because we had team effort," I say as an excuse to keep myself out of the spotlight.
"Don't be modest, Haru-chan, we were good 'cause you wanted to make a team effort and it takes a talented person to put in such awesome team effort as we gave out on the field today," Naruto said, patting my back rather roughly.
I glance at Hinata to notice that her ears are tucked back and she has a blush on her face. I also notice that she's probably trying to bring up her courage to talk to Naruto as he turns to his tray to begin eating.
I hear another clink of a tray and look to see a boy with black sunglasses with long-ish brown hair sit down next to Kiba. Kiba grins at him and greets him and I learn that he's the one named Shino; he's one of the guys that sits with Sasuke.
"Why are you guys here?" Temari asks as she gives them suspicious looks.
"Because we can be, that's why we're here," Kiba answers with a mischievous grin.
"Don't make me wipe that stupid smile off of your face," Temari threatens.
"Smiling is okay; it's not a crime," Kiba says while turning his head, smirking at Shino.
Temari shakes her head with annoyance and I just shrug. I hear another four clinks and I look to see who sat next to Naruto. I see Sasuke sitting next to Naruto while Shikamaru sits next to Sasuke and Chouji sits next to Shino. I sit back down and look seriously confused because I have no idea why they're sitting here. I look at Ten Ten for help but she's just ogle eyeing Sasuke along with Temari. I look at Hinata and she shrugs.
I finish my food as quick as I can and throw it away before putting my tray on a pile of trays. I wait for Temari, Ten Ten and Hinata to throw their food away before we walk into the hallway to wait by the wall for the bell to ring. I lean against the wall then my three friends make a square while standing.
"That was weird..." I say after a moment.
"Yeah, but you managed to get Sasuke-kun to sit with us. That was awesome," Ten Ten says while bringing her hands together into a ball giving a dreamy stare into space.
"I still don't understand how you can like that jerk," I mumble.
"You're still innocent and don't understand," Ten Ten says while glancing at me but keeping her stance. "You've gotta like someone in this school... his name starts with an "S" and ends with a "G", right?"
"Who? Sterling?" I ask which makes Ten Ten and Temari nod. "Oh, no, I couldn't like him. He's a grade above me and a lot of girls like 'im. I don't want to get any enemies."
"You kind of already do," Temari says. "There were some girls that saw you with Sterling at Sasuke-kun's party. You might convince them you're a nice girl, but that won't stop them from hating you."
"I hate high school sometimes," I mumble to myself again.
"I-If it makes you feel any better, you've made some friends, too," Hinata says quietly. I give Hinata a confused look and she looks at the door to the cafeteria and says, "Naruto-kun, Kiba-kun, Shino-kun, everyone th-that sat with us seems to be your friend now."
"That's only because Naruto and Kiba sat there to tell me that I'm good at soccer and that I should pick them whenever I'm a captain. Since the others lost some friends they decided to follow after 'em since there was room," I explain. "It still makes me feel uncomfortable. It gets crowded and small so it's a little nerve-racking."
"Well speak of the devil, look who's comin' now," Temari says while looking away from the cafeteria doors.
I glance really quickly only in time to see Naruto, Kiba and Chouji come through the doors. I have a feeling that the others aren't that far behind. Naruto shoves himself in-between Hinata and Ten Ten then shouts, "Separation!"
Ten Ten rolls her eyes while Hinata seems shocked and ecstatic that Naruto chose to stand by her out of anyone he could've stood by. Kiba slides into our square standing to my right and Shino stands next to him. Chouji comes in and goes in-between Ten Ten and Naruto then Shikamaru squeezes in to stand next to Chouji and Naruto. Finally Sasuke and Neji squeeze in to my left which means they're now in-between me and Temari with Neji to my left and Sasuke on Temari's right.
WHAT is going on here?! I asked myself while glancing at everyone here.
"Hey! Haru-chan, maybe you can teach me some soccer moves after school!" Naruto shouted more than asked.
"Er... sorry, but I have swim practice after school. I can't since it's every week and everyday except for the weekends. But on the weekends I spend time with family," I explain as my ears twitch nervously.
Naruto's blond cat ears tuck back and he looks downcast. I notice his tail isn't that long, but it's pretty fluffy and it falls down limply. Naruto sighs and mumbles, "Alright, I see how it is."
I immediately regret what I say so I make up for it by saying, "But swim practice ends at six so I get home around seven. I could meet you here at about seven ten and we can practice until it gets dark."
"Yes! I'll take that!" Naruto says while punching the air. He then turns to Kiba with a triumphant grin and brags, "I'm gonna learn to be more awesome than you!"
"Can I come, too?" Kiba asks as he gives me these puppy dog eyes.
"Er... sure," I give in. "If anyone wants to come then they can go ahead."
"I'm so there," Temari butts in. I knew she would because she loves soccer almost as much as I do.
The bell rings and everyone that was at B Lunch moves to the doors which forces us to do the same thing. I glance at Hinata to see that she's looking at the ground and flinches when Naruto passes her. I walk next to her and tilt my head along with an ear. Hinata gives me a small smile and I smile at her back. I know that she's not happy with the fact that Naruto hadn't even noticed her, but my smile was a way to tell her that I could try to fix that.
Hinata and I are the last ones of our now large group to go through the doors. She goes straight and I take a right at the first hallway so I can get to Economics. I stare at the ground and grab my tail as I begin to pet it since it's nice and soft.
I feel as though someone is walking beside me so I take the quickest glance I can and notice some slightly tight black pants and a dark blood jacket with a hood along with black hair with a blue tint.
"What? Do you wanna come to practice soccer, too? You don't have to ask," I mumbled.
"You don't have to give in to that dope you know," Sasuke says while looking straight ahead. I shrug and he sighs then says, "So, um… you did really well in soccer; I didn't really expect that. I mean, I knew you were good at tackling, but I didn't know you were actually good at being a forward… and a midfield… and a defender. You kind of played everything at once in a way."
"I'll tell you what I tell everyone… it's because I'm so passionate for the sport," I explain. "But thanks for the compliment anyway… I think."
"I'm sorry if I confuse you about my… compliments. It's hard for me to say just as it's hard for everyone else to say "I'm sorry" or "I need help" and stuff like that."
"There's one more thing that's really hard to say," I add. "It's "I love you" that's the last one."
"Yeah, that one, too," Sasuke says as we go up the stairs to the second floor. "Alright, we're at the classroom. Talk to you later… I guess."
I nod at Sasuke as we come in and then I look as if I wasn't even talking to him at all. I take my seat and Sasuke does, too, and then the teacher comes in and class begins again even if the bell hadn't rung.
I can't help but find it odd that Sasuke keeps attempting to talk to me even though he's been mad. I just keep thinking that it's his real name that's doing the talking and not him.
Alright, so I would really appreciate reviews since that's what keeps me going. I would've updated sooner, but my laptop got some virus so I had to update this series now just when I'm about to go to sleep.
Hope you like this update even though it's a little short... love you fans!
