Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, why on earth would I yell at my readers for not participating? T.T
How anyone survived World History was a mystery, but miraculously, everyone survived to see Drama class. Katsuko and Hinata made several attempts to pull Neji and Unari apart, but when that failed, they decided they shouldn't toy with fate and sat as far away from the two as they could get.
Unfortunately, they forgot that Sasuke and Aries were also still glaring at each other. They remembered it soon, though, when all the windows in the room shattered and the ground started shaking. Here we go again,Katsuko sighed, rolling her crystalline blue eyes.
Girls screamed, boys wet themselves, the sky got covered with purple and red clouds, it started raining snakes, yada, yada… You get the idea. It was Armageddon.
A chair whacked the two boys over their heads, knocking them out instantly. The snakes disappeared, the sky went back to normal, and angels sang as golden sunlight flooded the room. The students cheered and looked gratefully at their savior, their eyes doing that weird giant puppy eyes thing. Then their faces fell as they realized it was just Anko, holding a metal folding chair with one hand and studying the nails on the other.
Sasuke and Aries were lying in front of her, their eyes replaced with those stupid swirly things as large lumps formed on their heads where the chair had hit them.
"Will someone take these two to the nurse's room?" Anko tapped the stunned boys with her foot, as though she thought that would wake them up. "You can drag them if you want."
Katsuko and Gaara immediately raised their hands, Katsuko eager to drag one of the two boys and Gaara eager to get out of the room before something similar happened with Neji and Unari. Anko nodded at them, and soon they had dragged the two boys out, Gaara having no trouble hauling Aries out over his shoulder, and Katsuko having only minimal trouble dragging Sasuke by the arms.
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The first thing Sasuke was aware of when he woke up was the blinding white light. The second thing he was aware of was Katsuko hovering over him, looking less than worried.
"Hey, Sleeping Beauty's finally awake," she said sarcastically, leaning back to look at someone in the other room, "Only took five hours."
A normal person would have shot right up, freaked out, and asked what time it was. Sasuke, the Prince of the Emos (A/N: His brother is the King of the Emos. And no, in this story Itachi-kun is not evil, well not evil like kill people evil), merely sat up and asked, "What happened? And why are you here?"
Katsuko rolled her eyes, a trait she'd adapted from Unari, and said, "Your glaring contest with Aries was causing mass chaos, so Anko hit you guys over the heads with a chair. She had us drag you here." She jabbed her thumb at Gaara, who stood leaning against a doorway and staring at the ceiling tiles. "I dragged you here, and Gaara carried Aries like a sack of potatoes. Midoru-kun rode on your stomach while you were being dragged."
As if on cue, her stupid furball (A/N: Gasp! Sasuke! How could you? Midoru-kun isn't stupid!) mewled happily, batting Sasuke's nose.
"Get your paw off of my nose. Now."
"Mew." Bap.
Sasuke glared at the furball, who promptly gave him "The Look". It took less than thirty seconds for Sasuke to roll his eyes and turn his head to he side, signaling that Midnight had defeated the undefeatable (except by his "playfully abusive" brother) Sasuke.
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Aries was busy trying to figure out how and when to get Katsuko alone. He'd woken up a few minutes before Sasuke, and had left seconds before Midnight's impressive victory. He'd been awake and sneaky enough to see Katsuko's worried expression before she had hovered over that bird-butt Uchiha kid (A/N: Bad reference to Sasuke's hair). Her expression hadn't changed until Sasuke had twitched in his sleep; what happened after was both satisfying… and worrying. That fact that she hadn't sat back until the Uchiha's eyes were fully open came to Aries as a threat.
And then there was that strange fiasco earlier that day, when school started. Katsuko claimed she had tripped, but her face had paled even before she lurched forward. She looked more scared than in pain.
Aries shook his head and continued walking. Whatever was going on, he'd figured out the solution by now.
In the nurse's room, Katsuko felt an ominous prick settle in her gut.
A/N: Cliffhangers are people, too…
Chapter one of three that I promised would be out by Sunday. A little short, but it's a climax chapter, so ha.
Even I'm surprising myself with Aries's character development. Is that a good thing?
Next chapter: Katsuko confronts her fears as Aries catches her alone behind the school, and Sasuke and Midnight are nowhere to be found.
Trivia: Aries is named after the first sign of the Western Zodiac. The sign is associated with challenge, aggression, and competition, as well as several other things. I'm making Aries very aggressive and competitive, aren't I?