Lovely #25
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Kiba was pretty damn sure he'd never seen a prettier girl in his life, and he'd certainly seen his fair share of attractive girls. She was so pretty he couldn't even move. It sounded stupid, and somewhere in the back of the mind he was aware that he should keep tying his shoe because stopping like this made him looks like he'd forgotten how to, but somehow, he just couldn't. Only his bright, sharp eyes moved; following her making her way along the walkway between school buildings. And he could swear he saw the season's cherry blossoms pick up from the path and float in her wake, catching in her long, deep blue hair that lifted up and down just so between her shoulder blades as she bag bumped evenly against her thighs as she carried it with both hands in front of her. As she turned her head slightly Kiba marveled at the unique lavender colour of her eyes.
He took a long deep breath through his nose and didn't stop staring even as he noted the light blue bow on her uniform. She was his sempai, same year as his two friends, Sasuke and Naruto, on the baseball team. The boy's mind scrolled through a million different things inside that moment as he watched her, from 'she's older than you, she's way out of your league!' to 'should I approach her later? What can I impress her with? "Hey, I'm the only junior on the baseball team, pretty cool, na."?' and 'I wonder if Naruto sempai knows who she is…'
All of a sudden, the girl, with her long sweeping hair, cute navy skirt and strange eyes—they were so very endearingly unusual, disappeared through a door and Kiba was left without deciding what he would do, holding his shoelaces stationary in his frozen hands.
'Geez, she sure was beautiful…Real pretty…'
"Oi! Kiba!"
The boy was snapped out of his trance with the loud call of his name from above and then—
"AH! WHAT THE FUCK, SEMPAI?! DON'T THROW YOUR DRINK BOTTLE AT ME, DAMMIT!" The plastic bottle skittered and clattered onto the concrete as it bounced off Kiba's head. The junior roared again as Naruto, leaning lazily out of the window of his senior English class two floors up, giggled devilishly and responded with:
"Well don't look so dazed then, sitting there pretending to tie your shoelaces. Whadaya slackin' off for? You're doing P.E., Idiot. It's piss easy for kids with no academic talent who only play sports!"
Kiba got to his feet, scooping up the bottle as he went and threw it back up at Naruto, but it didn't reach and just bounced back off the building.
"Look who's talking, Uzumaki!" Kiba called up at the blonde boy who replied with grin that matched Kiba's own, despite the harsh words being exchanged.
"That's 'Sempai', you brat!"
"Yeah, well-!"
"Oi, Naruto, pay attention." Kiba heard Uchiha Sasuke's voice from Naruto's window and then the raven was there, leaning over Naruto's next door desk to drag him back inside by his ear. As he did Sasuke raised a hand to Kiba in greeting and then shooed the junior as Naruto struggled next to him. He pushed the blonde down with a heavy shove to the top of his head to speak over him.
"You got a class, right?" The Uchiha called down softly, somehow raising his voice over Naruto's 'oiii!'s and 'Temeeee!'s without really lifting it at all. "This idiot's gotta pass this class so see you at lunch," he told Kiba and the junior nodded and saluted the other boy with a wolfish grin before turning to run over to his class.
"Oh-! Kiba!" Naruto broke free and leant back out the window. Kiba stopped to look back. "By the way, we raced in P.E. today but Teme, me and Shikamaru drew so you gotta go get lunch today, since, ya know, you lost."
"What! I wasn't even there to race!"
Now both Sasuke and Naruto were leaning out the window, looking down on the boy in the courtyard, all smarmy smirks and too-wide grins. Sasuke's hand still rested in Naruto's hair from the previous struggle, now a comfortable and almost fond sort of gesture.
"Not our problem~"
"Ehhhh..." Kiba slumped his shoulders in exasperated defeat before flipping the two seniors off (making Naruto roar with laughter) and starting back to his class, grumbling about lack of money and Naruto eating like a horse. The only good thing was that behind and above him he could hear both Naruto and Sasuke being told off for disrupting the class.