OH MY GOSH! I am soooo SORRY. I've had HUGE writer's block on this story but I've had HUGE inspiration for other stories! Weird.
Anyways, new year – new motivation! I hope you all have had a wonderful Christmas and new year!
Thanks again BlackElement7 for editing.
This chapter is dedicated to:
All my reviewers – It was your words that kept me going.
Playlist: Nothing
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or glee
So, here's what you missed on gLee:
The race is on to grab seven more members for glee and everyone's having a rough time. Except for Naruto, who seems to be fine, chilling with his boys, and Hinata, who found three musicians despite only being in the school for three days. Weird, huh? Oh, and poor Rin, who has been pining over Kakashi, finds out she is not the only teacher he has dipped his toe into. Wow, Kakashi-sensei! You're not only a sadist, you're a manslut as well! Let's hope he has better luck with glee then he does with women or they are doomed!
Day 3: Wednesday Afternoon. Just another day…?
Naruto glared at the back of her head. She was sitting calmly in front of him, despite the obvious animosity towards her. Even Kurenai-sensei's eyebrow twitched violently when she saw a good chunk of the footballers and cheerleaders glaring at her first thing in the morning.
But Harade Hinata didn't even look bothered. She just looked through them again as she waited for class to end because she had finished the work assigned quickly.
She had her headphones in her ears and was texting a bit. She didn't even look concerned at Karin's empty seat.
Karin and the footballers had received a two-week suspension. Because of that, the football team lost some of its members just before they were supposed to play Suna High.
(So what if those football players were second string? They were football players, and if it wasn't for her, Karin wouldn't have gone mental…Though it was bound to happen sometime…)
All the cheerleaders and majority of the footballers blamed Harade. She was the easy target, after all.
(You can't blame Hyuuga Neji, after all. Karin is one of us. That leaves the intended victim… Harade Hinata.)
Sasuke was (again!) one of the few footballers who didn't blame Harade. In fact, he almost seemed amused whenever he looked at her.
(Speaking of which, I gotta talk to Sasuke at lunch…)
Ino was looking at Hinata calculatingly, Sai was looking at her with a blank face (which is NOT a good thing for her…) and Kiba was staring at her with a hostile face.
Harade just scrolled down her playlist to change a song.
(Enough of this!)
Naruto kicked her chair.
Hinata switched her attention to her messages and started to look through them.
Did Naruto mention how much he hated being ignored?
He kicked her chair harder. It actually moved a bit under the force.
She turned her iPhone sideways to a wider keyboard.
Naruto kicked her chair again and again.
She just kept tapping at the screen, not bothered by the jerky movements her chairs was being forced to make.
(Look up!)
Naruto held back a a growl. And just kept kicking her chair. He didn't even let up for a moment.
(Look UP!)
Hinata looked up at him.
Naruto was startled and happy that she was finally paying attention. But he didn't say anything. He was waiting for her to make her move.
But she just kept looking at him. He didn't even allow himself to look away, in fear of seeming weak under her stare.
Finally. "You might want to get that looked at."
(What?) "What?"
"Involuntary muscle movements. It could be a sign of Parkinson's disease."
(Annoying.) "I kicked your chair to get your attention."
Her eyebrow rose and Naruto could almost feel her stare become condescending. "You could have tapped my shoulder or called my name. The last time someone kicked my chair for my attention was in kindergarten."
(Bitch.) "Fine, then. Hahara-san-"
"It's actually Harade-san."
"Whatever. I think you owe Ino-chan an apology."
She looked back genuinely concerned. "What did I do to Ino-san?"
(You mean besides humiliating her in front of the class in the first day?) "You got Karin suspended for two weeks."
Her eyes became flat. "How exactly did I do that? She attacked Hyuuga Neji, after all."
Naruto leaned forward. "But you were the intended target."
Harade shrugged carelessly. "I didn't ask to be her target. I don't even know what I did to be her target."
(Are you serious?) "You're joking, right?" Naruto couldn't believe his ears. "You humiliated her on your first day. You basically called her a slut!"
"No. I just said her legs were too widely spread apart. I was stating a fact. Secondly, if Ino-san wants an apology from me, she should ask me herself."
"Fine," Ino said butting into their conversation. "I demand an apology."
"About Karin?" Harade scoffed condescendingly. "No. I did nothing wrong there. Karin should be apologizing to you for letting your team down. Now, as much as I have enjoyed this conversation, I think class is about to end."
Naruto couldn't stop his left eye from twitching.
Chouji watched the minute hand, waiting for it to change. (Come on! 30 more seconds and this class is history!) He suppressed a smile at his little pun. He shifted his eyes to Matsuri beside him, gesturing to her to get ready to pack everything up.
He didn't dare start putting things away. Not in her class.
(Finally.) Chouji put up his hand.
"What?" barked Anko-sensei.
"It's five minutes till, ma'am."
Anko-sensei scowled. "Alright, you two may leave, then."
Matsuri hurried and packed up both of their things before wheeling them out of her class.
As the door closed behind them, they allowed themselves a sigh of relief. "Thanks, Chouji. I honestly hate staying in her class more than I have to."
Chouji chuckled. "I know what you mean. The scariest teacher plus the most boring subject is a deadly combination."
"Yeah, and she loves to pick on me. Even though I know the answers, I can't help but get nervous in front of her and start stuttering. Everyone always laughs, too…" Matsuri murmured unhappily.
Chouji frowned, upset that he couldn't do anything more for his friend. Anko-sensei seemed to get a bit of a sick pleasure from making Matsuri answer more questions than the other students. She claimed that it would help her get over her fear of public speaking, but with Anko-sensei's attitude, it just might reinforce it.
"Anyways, let's forget about that… Hey! Guess what?" Matsuri asked happily as she pushed his chair to his locker.
"What?" Chouji responded as he dumped his books in his locker and grabbed his lunch.
"I might have gotten at least one person from my student council to be seriously interested in joining glee."
"Really? Who? Lee-senpai?" Chouji asked, thrilled that someone he trusted had managed to get a recruit. Though Kakashi seemed to have faith in Naruto for trying to get the glee club more popular members, Chouji couldn't help but have his doubts. Naruto, for a good chunk of his high school stay, had ignored anything to do with music, especially glee. But for him to suddenly be interested in glee of all things was a little suspicious.
"Not really. He did want to help out with the dancing part of it, but apparently he couldn't hold a note if his life depended on it." Matsuri giggled, "He tried to sing for me and we both agreed it wasn't his thing."
"Then Shino-san?"
"Nope!" Matsuri said with a grin. "Hyuuga Neji-senpai."
"So, what's up? You're being super serious and secretive," joked Sasuke as he tossed his ball up in the air only to catch it moments later.
Naruto stood against the fence that surrounded the empty rooftop.
The words came out before he could even stop them. "Do you like the new girl?"
"Huh?" Sasuke looked at Naruto, bewildered and missed the catch. "Where'd you get that idea?"
Naruto shrugged despite the uncomfortable weight in his chest. (That's not what I was supposed to ask…) "You're the only one of us who seems to like her."
"Technically, she's done nothing wrong," Sasuke replied as he swooped down to grab his beany bag ball. "She just stood up for herself against Ino. The worst she said was to Karin and that technically was, like she said, a fact that she did spread her legs too wide. For all we know, she could have honestly meant that instead of the insult we were thinking of."
"You guys were flirting," Naruto accused.
Sasuke scowled, annoyance written on his face. "I've got a fiancée, baka. Plus, I've only talked once with the new girl and it was polite small talk."
"You didn't get pissed when she mentioned Uchiha," Naruto pointed out.
"Argh!" Naruto knew Sasuke was frustrated, but this was important. Naruto had to know. "I usually get pissed because people ask that to use it as a way to get close to me and use me for my family's wealth. The newbie was just commenting on the fact that our school has both Hyuuga and Uchiha, which is pretty impressive, with those two names alone. She'll probably be even more shocked when she learns your name and the others. I saw her eyes; there was no greed or anything fake in there. Only genuine curiosity, which I can deal with."
"I see," Naruto nodded, now satisfied.
"Man, are you sure you're not the one in love with her? You were practically interrogating me," Sasuke spat back out.
"What? Fuck no. This newbie pisses me off. Plus, I'm with Sakura."
Sasuke nodded, though there was still a slightly suspicious look on his face. "So was that why you called me up here?"
"No. I'm calling in a favour."
"What is it?"
"First you have to agree." Naruto wasn't going to give him any chances to refuse.
Sasuke's eyes narrowed as his whole body turned and gave Naruto all his focus. "As long as it's not going to kill me or be too illegal, then sure."
(Social death doesn't count…) "Join glee."
"O.M.G! You'll never guess what happened this morning. It really sucks that you don't have Kurenai in the morning with the rest of us. You're missing all of the new girl's bitch moves," Ino gushed as she sat down at the lunch table to eat her salad.
Sakura smiled lightly at Ino's 'girly gossip' mode. It was pretty cute on the blonde, how her eyes grew large and her whole body practically quivered with suppressed excitement. Even though most found Ino annoying like those pampered sluts on movies like Mean Girls, Sakura found it hilarious. She even enjoyed acting along with her…as long as she still got the information.
"What did I miss?" Sakura asked, sipping on her V8 cocktail.
"Naruto, your ever-loving gentleman -"
"Of course."
"Well, he tried to get Harade to apologize to me, you know, for getting Karin and some footballers suspended?"
"Right."
"And she was like, you've got some disease with the way you can't stop kicking me. And if Ino wants an apology, she should ask for one. Gosh, he only kicked her to get her attention because the spaz was totally ignoring him."
"Geez~!"
"I know, right? We were kind enough to give her a second chance and she just threw it back in our face! But wait it gets worse!"
"You're kidding."
"Nope! So after, I was like, okay, I want an apology! And guess what she said."
"OH NO! She did NOT!"
"She did! She said no. Karin should be apologizing to us for letting us down and that as much as she loved this convo, she wanted to pay attention to Kurenai-sensei."
"Wow! She's not at our level."
"Course not."
"But she's certainly got a backbone and a quick mouth on her. It'd be funny, though, if it was against someone like Tenten."
"Course! Everything is funny when it's against that dyke."
"Right! This really makes me want to destroy her. I mean, you asked for an apology!"
"Which I never do."
"Right!"
"I was being nice for once. Thought I'd give her a break."
"And she just turns around and shoves it back in your face."
"Exactly. That's unacceptable. If we don't retaliate, others are going to think it's okay to do the same to us."
"Which cannot happen. So we should strike her where it hurts."
"So, this means I have research to do, right?"
"Yup."
"God, I love this type of research. If this was considered academic, I'd be awesome."
"Ino, if this type of research was academic, you'd be the smartest person. Like ever."
"Gosh, you're so nice."
"And so truthful."
Ino and Sakura laughed.
"You're angry at me."
Rin sighed as she shuffled the papers. She wanted to ignore the intruder but her soft heart was already trying to forgive her. That, and she wanted more information. She wanted answers. If only to heal her heart.
"What do you want me to say? I used to pour out my heart to you three constantly about him, never knowing that you and Shizune had slept with him too."
Anko huffed and walked inside the office and closed the door for privacy. "It meant nothing to Shizune. And it was just sex for me."
Rin gritted her teeth. "It couldn't be just sex if he was the only ten!"
"Actually, it was because it was just sex that it was a ten. If he was a normal man who was looking for a commitment, then it would have been like a nine. But he just wanted the horizontal mambo, so it was a ten." Anko plopped into Rin's chair carelessly.
"Normal?" This wasn't the answer that she wanted. She was not sure what exactly she wanted, but this was not it. Rin's heart felt like it was breaking all over again as she sat down on her guest's chair. This time, it felt like she was the one being counseled. But the thought of Anko being a counselor was laughable.
Anko's eyes were knowing. "Normal men want sex, but when they meet the girl of their dreams, they want to tie her to them. They'd marry even if they are deadly afraid of commitment. But Kakashi's not normal." Anko paused, looking deep into Rin's eyes – searching for something. For what, Rin did not know, but Anko must have found it because she continued, "If Kakashi found the woman of his dreams, he would run. He'd run and never look back – never regret. It's not that he hates women, he just doesn't trust them. Mother issues, as a shrink would guess."
Rin felt her heart break.
One of my new year's resolution is to update (at least one of my stories) weekly. So, let's see how long this resolution lasts…
Wow, ten chapters and we are NO WAY close to being finished! Does that make you excited or horrified?
Anyways, please read and review!
Love, Ramen
