Chapter Three: In which we play DDR
Rating: Still PG for now…
Pairings: Hints of Gaara/Hinata, Sasuke/Neji and Naruto/Sasuke
Beta: Dark Kaiser Ken Wolf
A/N: Sorry about the long wait for updating. I was working at a convention in Phoenix. We had a Naruto LARP much fun anyways… I couldn't update or anything and I couldn't even really write for the whole time so sorry for that... this chapter is longer and I plan to have the next chapter up with in the next few days… I am moving so in about a week I wont be updating for a few day because school starts around that time also but I will attempt to put up a few chapters for you before then.
Naruto watched as Haku left the room and went back to his meal, wondering where the other boy went and why it was so important to keep quiet. The rest of lunch passed in a blur of talking and getting to know the others at the table.
Hinata sat back and watched as her new friend slipped easily into their group of friends that had been there for a long time. She sat back and laughed at Naruto's antics. Soon the bell rang and they all went back to their separate classes.
Naruto followed Hinata back to the classroom. The teacher sat behind the desk, a lunchbox sitting in front of him, empty. All the students took their seats and waited as the teacher took notice of them and stood.
"My name is Momochi Zabuza; you will address me as Momochi-sensei and nothing else. Now I must take roll and then we will take a test to see where you are with your mathematic skills." Taking out the roll he noted who was who and then passed out the tests when everyone had answered.
Hinata glanced over at the boy sitting across the aisle from her and to the boy next to him. The red head looked interesting enough, all black and fishnet with eyeliner. 'Oooh pretty green eyes.' She thought to herself and resolved to invite him to go with everyone to the arcade. Turning back to her own test she finished it in no time, along with most of the class. Naruto was the last to finish. Hinata smiled a bit as the teacher collected all of their tests.
"Now sit still till the bell rings and then you may leave for your next class. Remain silent." Zabuza went back to his desk and started to grade the papers.
Hinata glanced back over towards Gaara and noticed Sasuke staring in her general direction. She smiled and waved a little and then turned back to her desk, sneaking glances in Gaara's direction, noticing that Sasuke was looking at Naruto. She smirked slightly and a plan formed in her mind. She might need Neji's help with a bit of it but it could work.
Their next class was computers and wasn't all that exciting as Mizuki-sensei just passed out log in sheets and internet permission papers. Their P.E. teacher, they discovered, was a complete nutcase named Gai-sensei who wore a green jogging suit and was very hyper. Rock Lee was his nephew and the two looked like twins. The rest of the class was scared at the prospect of the nutcase teaching them.
Finally it was the end of the day. As everyone filed out of the classroom Hinata caught up with Gaara and grabbed his arm. He flinched at the contact but turned and looked at her. She blushed and looked at her feet.
"Ano… Gaara-kun? Would you like to.. to come with a me and a few friends to play DDR after school?" She blushed harder and wondered why she even bothered.
"I will have to check with my sister but why not. I have nothing better to do. It's better than going home." Gaara just looked at her while she looked at the ground before turning and walking towards the front of the school where his 'sister' and 'brother' said they'd meet up with him. Standing beside them was a large group of people that included the annoying blonde from his class and the quiet boy that sat next to him. Hinata walked out of the font doors after him and walked over towards the group. Hugging a boy with long hair and the same color eyes as herself she stared talking rapidly and the boy looked over in Gaara's general direction as he walked towards his sister.
"Temari?" He asked the blonde and she turned around, fixing her skirt. Noticing her new 'brother' she smiled. He had been so quiet since being adopted by Yashamaru. She tried her best to get him to open up. Maybe being at school would help him.
"Hey, Gaara. Listen…" She trailed off as he held a hand up.
"I got invited to go play DDR with a few classmates." Gaara noting his sister's face light up at the suggestion.
"You already got invited. That's great! So who was it?" She smiled and looked towards the assembled group of people. Gaara pointed at Hinata and Temari smirked. "So do you like her?" She smiled at his slight blush.
"She's cute, but I don't know her." He looked a little sheepish as they all started to walk towards the arcade. Drifting away from his sister and over towards his classmates he caught the end of their conversation.
"He's chasing a teacher? What the hell?" he heard the blonde boy, Naruto, say as he shook his head.
"No clue and what's even worse is who the teacher is but I'm not going to tell you that." The girl who had invited him smiled and shrugged. "So what level do you all play on?" She asked directing the question to both Gaara and Naruto.
"Standard and some Heavy." Naruto answered looking proud of himself.
"Heavy and two songs on Oni." Gaara said smirking. Hinata smiled.
"You'll see how I play when we get there," she sprinted ahead to talk to Temari and Ten Ten.
"So you're new here too?" Naruto asked looking over the gothic boy. 'Not bad at all.' Naruto smiled.
"Yeah, moved here just last month." Gaara said, the blonde was starting to annoy him.
"I just moved here last week." Naruto smiled as everyone turned into the building that he assumed was the arcade.
Walking in the dark atmosphere was welcoming as they walked towards the back where a row of machines stood against the wall. There were four of them and everyone set their stuff down and went to get tokens.
Hinata and Naruto claimed a machine to themselves, the other two being taken by Neji and Sasuke on one, the other being taken by Temari and Ten-Ten. Naruto started to play a song that Gaara had never done before. He glanced over at Hinata who was playing on Oni on Legend of Maxx. He stared. Walking over and standing behind her he was looking at the arrows as they rushed past.
He looked over at Neji and Sasuke who were moving in perfect synchronization. Walking up to Naruto's machine he placed his token on the screen signaling that he was going to go next on that machine. Others moved forward to do the same. Temari and Ten-Ten were both on Light as they played one of the songs.
Soon Naruto had finished his last song and hopped off the machine. Gaara walked onto it placing his money in the slot and flipping through the songs. He started out on Light and played his favorite song, completely backwards. The others gathered around as he played with his eyes closed and finished the song, missing one step. He growled.
"Man! I missed one step. One!" They all went back to playing the games all of them on different levels, except Sasuke and Neji. After the two boys finished their second round of games Gaara walked up to them.
The two dark haired boys were leaning against each other speaking in hushed tones. Gaara stood off to the side for a minute before talking to them.
"Do you two play in competitions?" He was curious; the two of them were good enough to play.
"We plan to, we just got word of one in the city not long from now and we plan to enter it." Neji answered as Sasuke leaned against him, still breathing kind of hard. The older boy had one arm wrapped around the other's waist.
Gaara looked closely at Neji. "You and Hinata are related aren't you?" He asked looking the other boy over and noticing Sasuke giving him dirty looks for it.
"She's my cousin but we've lived together most of our lives." Neji said smiling and looking over at his petit cousin. She was watching Naruto as he spun around the pad during what he had shouted as 'The Spinney Song'.
"Oh. I'm Gaara by the way." He introduced himself to the other two boys.
"Oh I'm Neji and this is Sasuke." He smiled and hugged the other boy closer.
"We've met; he sits next to me in class." Sasuke said nodding his head at Gaara who nodded back.
Hinata looked up from watching Naruto make a fool of himself and looked over at Gaara. Noting him talking to her cousin she started to walk over but decided against it. Walking over towards where they had a water fountain she took a drink and noticed someone new enter the arcade.
Shikamaru entered the arcade hoping to find something to do and found the large group of people playing DDR consisted of many people he knew from school, including the new boy, Naruto. He walked over and put a token in one of the machines before walking over and watching those who were playing. The crowd around him were laughing and talking with one another. He focused on the small blonde boy who was playing his last song.
Iruka sat at his desk in the teacher's office and continued to organize his papers. His new classes were all nice and all the students seemed like they wouldn't be too much trouble. Writing notes in a notebook he became absorbed in his work.Not noticing the shadow cast over his desk he jumped when he felt a hand rest on his shoulder.
Looking up in surprise he saw Kakashi smiling down at him. He smiled back and rested a hand on his beating heart.
"You scared me." Iruka smiled and looked at the older man.
"Sorry about that I just noticed that you were still here and it's kind of late. So how was your first day of teaching here?" He smiled at the smaller man.
"Oh it was great all the students seem nice and it seems like I won't have too much trouble with any of them." Iruka's face lit up as he talked about his students.
"Well since it's so late would you like to go to dinner with me?" Kakashi smiled hoping the younger man would accept.
Glancing at the clock Iruka blanched and smiled at Kakashi. "Are you asking me out?" He smiled a bit more seductively at the other man.
"Maybe, depends on your response." Kakashi smiled back down at the seated man.
"Would it be if I said yes?" Iruka smirked a bit as Kakashi chuckled.
"Yes." Kakashi said backing up a bit as the dark haired man stood and gathered his stuff.
A/N: YAY finished chapter three! Next Kakashi and Iruka's date. Gaara discovers hormones and Naruto discovers a certain dark haired male student.
DDR has five levels of difficulty Beginners, Light, Standard, Heavy and Oni... Oni is really really hard. I thought I would have Hinata be able to do something cool. Legend of Maxx is one of the hardest songs to master... soo anyways.. I'm too obsessed