A/N: Okay... I've been planning some things out and I've decided I'm going to dedicate chapters to people and let you guys be the ones who decide which character's first day I should post next! Please review and tell me if you'd like to have a certain character's chapter dedicated to you! AND also tell me what character's first day will be next. Arigato! Enjoy... (And if you'd like Naruto's chapters dedicated to you, just say so and I can update that!)
A/N2: I just proofread my last chapter and noticed A LOT! of spelling and grammar errors... so, sorry about that! I'll try to do better this chapter! And... someday... I'll fix the first chapter...
A/N3: I noticed that I had over 200 hits on this story, but only four reviews... may I ask, WHY? (thank you to all who reviewed, though) I just BEG of you all to review! (Anonymous and flames are both welcomed with open arms:D )
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.:Chapter Two- Naruto Uzumaki Continued:.
"Lee! That you?" Kiba asked, clearly perplexed by Lee's new appearance. Akamaru barked with approval.
"Yup!" Lee said proudly.
"Wow... you look different!" Naruto exclaimed. 'Lee actually looks... good!'
"A lot," Kiba added. "Well... we have lunch together. Wanna snag a table and talk for a bit?"
"Of course, my compadres!" Lee smiled happily at the thought of having friends to share a meal with.
"Why not..." Naruto shrugged. 'It's bad enough I have to be at this school anyways.'
So, the three Konoha genin went back to the ramen stand. Naruto ordered three more cups of ramen. (Akamaru ate the rest of his prior ramen to his misfortune) Kiba and Lee ordered one cup of ramen for themselves and they all sat down at the far table towards a large oak tree.
"So, Naruto... have you had Miss V yet?" Kiba asked, shaking slightly. Naruto shook also.
"Y-yeah... scary, ne?" He thought suddenly about the book. 'Don't forget about the book, Naruto! Don't you DARE stop thinking about the book!' He told himself in his mind.
"Miss V?" Lee questioned.
"Trust me... you don't want to know her!" Kiba shouted.
"Yeah... that book..."
"THE book!" Kiba corrected, suddenly startling Akamaru, who skidded to the back of the table.
"The book?" Lee looked oddly towards the two other nin.
"Yeah... trust me, you never want to stop thinking about the book!" Naruto and Kiba said at the same time as they pulled out both of their 'the books'.
"Uh... do I even want to know?" Lee cocked an eyebrow at them.
"No..." The other two sighed.
"When do you have science?" Naruto asked. 'The deadly period of hell is what they should call it!' He thought, folding his arms.
"Um..." Lee pulled out his schedule and scanned it over. "Ninth period," He responded, folding it back up and putting it into his pocket once more.
"Beware of ninth period! That is Miss V's room and she is the devil herself!" Kiba stated, putting his index fingers atop his head like horns. "I've even trained Akamaru to growl every time he hears her voice!" He laughed.
'And that is why I call her the devil woman,' Naruto mused in his mind. And with that thought, the three nin finished up their ramen and passed the time to the bell in their own little ways.
"Meet up with you guys tomorrow at lunch?" Kiba asked, collecting Akamaru in his arms and starting to walk in the direction of the main room.
"Yeah, sure," Naruto said. 'They're not exactly the two people I want to spend my whole lunch period with every day, but hey, if they're the only two I know in this period, then I guess I can put up with it.'
"Of course!" Lee struck a pose then took out his schedule. "Hold on! Just what class do you two have next?" Kiba and Naruto both followed suit with Lee and withdrew their own schedules.
"Study hall...or, as it says here, a free period," Kiba said, reading off his schedule.
"Yeah, me too!" Naruto said, surprisedly.
"Same here! We're together again my comrades!" Lee said, cry/smiling with sparkles around him. If Gai were here, they would've hugged.
'Greeeeat...'Naruto thought sarcastically. "Oh, great!" He laughed nervously. Kiba shrugged and they stuck together by the large oak tree. They talked the rest of the period until the bell rung.
"NAAAARRRRUUUUTTTTOOOOO-CCCHHHAAAAAAAAN!" A female's voice was heard as the given person tackled Naruto to the ground with hugs.
"Oh, hey Akemi!" Naruto said, blushing slightly, but smiling nonetheless. 'Why does she always make a scene? It's really annoying, I mean, I appreciate her doing things like this, but it really doesn't help much.'
"Akemi?" Lee and Kiba both looked at them. Lee got sparkly-eyed as Kiba smirked down at the kyuubi.
"You sly dawg..." Kiba mused. Naruto blushed.
"Don't think like that!" Naruto shouted, blushing slightly once more. 'Dammit... why does he always have to embarrass me like this? He did the same thing at the academy!'
"Oh! Naruto-chan! Are these more of your friends?" Akemi smiled, as the two got up. She still clung to him like a leech.
"Yeah, uh... The fuzzy one holding the dog is Kiba. His dog's name is Akamaru, by the way. And the one with the beady eyes and the bowl cut is Lee," Naruto pointed at both of them as he said so. "And, guys. This is Akemi... who is going to stop clinging to me now..." He added, slightly pushing her away, but she held tight.
"No she's not!" Akemi smiled and just hugged tighter.
"Oi!" All four spun around at the sudden voice, only to see Sasuke, Neji, Sakura, and Hinata headed in their direction.
"Oooo!" Akemi cooed. "I've seen that one before!" She exclaimed, pointing to Hinata, who blushed and played with her index fingers shyly.
"Wow! You guys all have a free period, too?" Kiba looked at them.
"Look's like it..." Sasuke said in an annoyed tone.
"Yo! Sasuke-teme!" Naruto shouted, suddenly a lot more jubilant. He had one of those stupid 'I'm gonna become Hokage' smiles on his face.
"Baka..." Sasuke glared in his direction. Naruto twitched slightly.
"WHAT WAS THAT, TEME!" The kyuubi shouted, pointing at Sasuke. 'I'm gonna clobber him and prove that I'm better!' He thought angrily, while putting images of Sasuke becoming a peasant in his mind. He smiled slightly at this. 'Perfect...'
"Narutooooo!" Sakura yelled angrily, strangling the poor kyuubi in a lock-hold type fashion. Akemi gasped.
"You violent girl!" She shouted, pushing a, now very annoyed, Sakura off of the innocent kyuubi.
"AND JUST WHO ARE YOU?" Sakura shouted, her inner Sakura pushing forward, daring to break free. Akemi got a smug look on her face.
"Aww... Naruto, you didn't tell me you had a girlfriend," Akemi smirked in Sakura's direction. Naruto blushed.
"She... uh..." 'I wish she was my girlfriend...' Naruto blushed.
"I AM NOT!" Sakura shouted, now at a full boil.
"Oooo! Possessive!" Akemi laughed like a fox at the cherry blossom nin, who grabbed Akemi by the collar.
"Alright, girl! You're gonna tell me who you are and you're gonna tell me NOW!" Sakura shouted, shaking Akemi slightly.
"The name's Akemi! And you can't have my precious Naruto, even if I have to fight you for him, I'LL WIN!" She yelled, grabbing the helpless kyuubi by the arm and hugging him, and, to her pleasure, Sakura twitched slightly.
"Alright, you...!" She started to advance on Akemi with a fist raised, but was cut off by a voice from behind.
"Yo, forehead!" Ino, Chouji, Shikamaru, Tenten, and Shino were coming up behind them. Naruto's eyes lit up. He couldn't believe it! All twelve Konoha genin had the very same free period!
"Hey, guys!" Naruto beamed at them. 'This is great!...well, in some ways...' He thought, thinking of all the nin that he didn't want around.
"Oh! Naruto-chan! More friends?" Akemi pushed away from Sakura, who was now fighting verbally with Ino. 'Ne? Akemi looks kinda depressed...' Naruto noticed.
"Uh... yeah! Okay! Can everyone line up?" Naruto said, trying to introduce everyone. The eleven genin just stared at him like he was insane. 'What are they staring at me for? I can't introduce them to Akemi-chan if I can't keep track of them! They're so weird sometimes!' "Well...?" Naruto persisted, impatiently. They all stayed as they were as the kyuubi crossed his arms annoyedly. "Fine! Okay... well, Akemi, I know you're not gonna remember everyone's name seeing as your meeting them for the first time, but you know Hinata, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Lee... and, well, you've fought with Sakura a bit... oh! She's the pink haired one, by the way. And the blonde one who was fighting with Sakura after you is Ino, then there's the other female with the brown hair, her name's Tenten. And the chubby one is Chouji and that's Neji, he's Hinata's cousin, and the one with the attitude problem is Uchiha-teme..." Naruto finished, glaring at Sasuke, who glared back.
"The names' Sasuke..." Sasuke growled through clenched teeth with a deathly tone matching his death glare. Naruto noticed Ino and Sakura were drooling over him once again.
'I don't get it! What does he have that I don't? It's just not fair! I always get picked on and he always get's praised, not to mention he's one of the main reasons for all my problems!' Naruto thought angrily and glared at Sasuke, who noticed, and smirked, knowing he was getting the better of the kyuubi.
"Well...?" Tenten said out of the blue and Naruto snapped out of his current 'death to Sasuke' thoughts.
"Uh... what?" He questioned, stupidly.
"What's her name? Aren't you gonna introduce us to her?"
"Oh! Sorry 'bout that! Guys, this is Akemi! She'll probably be hanging with us from now on, right, Akemi-chan?" Naruto smiled slightly at her, but then remembered his dedication to Sakura and blushed.
"Of course, Naruto-chan! Don't worry everyone! I'll get to know your name's soon enough!" She smiled at all of them happily. Little did they know, she'd be major trouble in the future days to come.
'She's cute... but Sakura's mine! I promised myself I wouldn't get sidetracked!' Naruto whimpered slightly.
"So? Whaddoyou wanna do, you guys? I mean, we have a whole period together..." Tenten shrugged at them.
"Gee... I dunno..." Ino replied along with Sakura. They both glared at each other angrily.
"What was that, forehead girl? Did I just hear you copy me?" Ino snapped.
"I believe it was you copying me, Ino-pig!" Sakura yelled back.
"I take it they don't like each other?" Akemi stared at the bickering twosome. Shikamaru laughed sarcastically.
"They're so bothersome... They used to be best friends, but now they're worst enemies... it's annoying as hell..." Shikamaru stared lazily towards them. Chouji leaned slightly on Shika's shoulder, munching on chips from the food court.
"Alright, you guys! Enough with the depressing factorials!" Tenten urged, suddenly smiling. "Now... what did you all chose for your last block elective?" She asked. At this everyone took out their schedules.
"I've got astrology..." Naruto said absently.
"Me too..." Hinata cooed, quietly. Akemi growled slightly at this.
"I'm taking cheerleading..." Akemi said, quietly in an annoyed whisper.
"They offer cheerleading in this school?" Naruto asked, not remembering it being an option. 'It's not like I care or anything, I'm just curious!' He thought.
"Yeah, well about that... they are starting a tester class and asked a couple of us to fill in to see how it would go..." She responded, proud to be one of the few.
"Well, I know without looking, I'm definitely taking soccer!" Sakura smiled proudly.
"Ugh... great. I'll be on a team with you..." Sasuke groaned. Sakura perked up.
"Sa-Sasuke! You're taking soccer too?" Sakura exclaimed happily, then smirked towards Ino. "And what about you, Ino-pig?" Ino groaned with a long depressing sigh.
"I happen to be taking Drama..." She suddenly cheered up. "Being famous will be an awful bother..." She sighed dramatically. "I guess with all my fans, I won't be able to taunt you anymore, forehead! Oh well! I could always get 'my people' to taunt you for me," Ino's smirk increased tenfold as she laughed in a high pitched tone, which only made Sakura ready to kill someone. If this was a cartoon, steam would've been coming from every pore in her body and her eyes would've been boiling red.
"Ino-pig..." She growled with a death-like tone.
"I'm taking kendo..." Neji said in a lower tone than anyone else. He sighed.
"Oh! Me too!" Tenten piped up happily. "I guess we'll be partner's, then, ne? Neji-kun?"
"Sure..." Neji said, blushing ever so slightly. (so slightly, that no one could tell)
"Well, I'm doing tennis!" Lee sang happily, batting the air with an imaginary tennis racket.
"Tennis? You?" They all stared at him.
"What? It's a manly sport!" Lee replied, striking a pose. They all sweatdropped.
"I'm taking band..." Chouji said, swallowing a chip. "I'm really good at the tuba."
"I'm taking troublesome Spanish!" Shikamaru rolled his eyes.
"Spanish, Shika?" Hinata asked quietly. "You don't seem like the type..." Her voice faded off as she ended her sentence.
"Yeah, well, there were no other elective that seemed any easier than Spanish, so I thought I'd give it a try..." Nara said, lazily.
"I'm taking swimming! I chose that so Akamaru could participate too! Plus, have you guys seen that pool?" Kiba smiled to them all as Akamaru yipped happily in his arms, wagging his tail.
"Yeah... it's really big! And, do they even allow dogs in this school, Kiba-kun?" Tenten asked. Kiba smiled nervously.
"Well... I convinced the principle that he was my seeing eye dog..." He laughed slightly.
"Shino-kun... what're you taking...?" Hinata said, looking at Shino with a hopeful smile of encouragement.
"Hn?" Shino came out of his trance and his deep hazel eyes met her byakugan white eyes, causing her smile to fade. "Robotics..." He said, glaring at all of them lazily. Silence followed. How long? For about five minutes.
'He's so creepy...' Naruto stared awkwardly at the Aburame.
"Uh... so... ahem..." Sakura cleared her throat, trying to break the prolonged silence.
"Y'know... I was really sad the academy was shut down just out of the blue like that... but I'm starting to like being here! I mean, of course, I'd rather be at the academy, but it's not as bad as I thought it'd be," Tenten smiled, helping Sakura with breaking up the silence.
"Academy...?" Akemi asked, confused. They all looked at her.
'Oh yeah... she's not a ninja...' They all thought in unison.
"Well... the academy was where all twelve of us to go to school for training..." Ino began.
"We're ninja, so we were all in different three-man cells, but we were in the same class when we were trying to become genin!" Lee said proudly.
"Ninja...? You mean, like...uh..." Akemi was thinking. The image of a person in a black one-piece outfit with only the eyes showing.
'I bet she's thinking of the stereotype...' Naruto thought, awkwardly.
"Well... anyways..." Tenten continued.
"Believe it or not... but I miss Gai-sensei..." Neji said randomly, sighing slightly. They all looked sadly at each other.
"Kakashi-sensei..." Sakura looked to the side. Sasuke even looked a bit depressed. Tenten gulped then looked at them all.
"Oh... c'mon you guys! Don't think about the jounin right now! It'll only make you sad..." She said, suddenly getting depressed herself.
"I mainly miss training..." Neji continued slightly, ignoring her, then looked to the ground.
"Yeah..." They all agreed in unison.
'I really miss Kakashi...' Naruto whimpered slightly to himself. 'And Neji's right... I miss training too... wait a minute!' His eyes suddenly brightened with his new idea. 'If we all have the same free period together, then...' "Hey! Guys!" He smiled happily at all of them. They looked up and glared slightly at his jubilant attitude in this time of depressing discussion. The kyuubi ignored it, and brought up his idea anyways. "You know how we all have our free period together? Well, we don't have to miss training anymore! We can train ourselves! WE can be the jounin!" Naruto exclaimed. 'It's brilliant!' He thought, beaming happily at them all.
"Naruto..." Sasuke started. "That's... that's actually not such a bad idea..." Sasuke admitted, blushing slightly. Everyone else nodded in agreement.
"We have the equipment... all we have to do is bring it to school..." Tenten said.
"And we have the knowledge," Lee continued.
"All we have to do is apply it, just like Kakashi-sensei said!" Sakura exclaimed, blushing slightly with happiness. At this, a buzz of excitement fled throughout the nin as they discussed everything from training materials to making a club out of it, specially made for seventh period.
'Wow! I never thought this idea would catch on so well!' Naruto thought smiling one of the biggest and most jubilant smiles he had ever smiled.
About five minutes later, every single genin was as happy. It was almost as if they were back at the academy. Awoken from their desire and chat, the bell rang and people around them started heading for the building. The nin were saddened at the sound of going back to class, but decided it'd be best just not to think about this until tomorrow, when they could look foreword to it.
"See you guys tomorrow!" They all bid their farewells and went their separate ways to class. Naruto pulled out his schedule. 'Maybe I should'a memorized this thing.. oh well... what's next?'
"Naruto-chan! What class do you have next?" Akemi walked up beside him.
'Oh! It's Akemi!' "Um... math! What about you?" Naruto looked at her as she squealed delightfully. 'She must have math too...' He sighed.
"I have math, too! Wanna walk to class together?" She smiled up at him in a kitty-type fashion. How could he say no to that?
"Sure... I guess..." Naruto said, forcing a smile. He liked her, just not that way... (as a friend, not a girlfriend!) 'My heart is permanently reserved for my darling Sakura!' The blonde thought defensively.
"Great!" They started on their way to math class. After a couple seconds, Akemi spoke up again. "Um... Naruto-chan? Can I ask... er, admit something to you?" She asked.
'What? Admit! What does she mean by admit? Oh no... what if she says she likes me? I can't possibly just turn her down!' Naruto's mind went wild with all kinds of crazy ideas, until Akemi cleared her throat, trying to snag his attention back to reality. "Uh... sure!" He smiled nervously. 'Dammit, Naruto! What did ya do that for? Why didn't you just say no? It shouldn't be that hard! It's just two friggin letters!'
"Well... um..." Akemi blushed and looked to her feet.
'Oh no.. here it is...' Naruto braced himself for something that wasn't coming.
"You know how I said I knew some martial arts earlier?" She continued nervously. Naruto let out a HUGE sigh of relief and smiled happily towards her, making her even more nervous.
"Yeah! Why?" 'Damn, do I have luck or what?' Naruto thought happily.
"Well... I don't... I've never even been that athletic either... But, I'd still like to hang out with you guys... if that's okay..." Her words faded as she saw the math classroom door in their midst.
"Aw, Akemi-chan! That's alright! Don't worry, how about I give you after school lessons?" He offered. 'I know I really shouldn't be doing this, seeing as I can't even say no to the girl! Uh oh... if I can't even say no, how'm I gonna tell her when she's doin' somethin' wrong!' He thought, walking into the math classroom with her and taking a seat in the back.
"Really?" She exclaimed, her expression brightened.
"Yeah, but I have detention today and tomorrow... so I won't be available until Wednesday..." The blonde sighed, suddenly remembering how long this day was lasting and would last.
"Aw, Naruto-chan! That's okay! I'm so happy you're gonna give me lessons, though! I really appreciate it..." Akemi smiled one of those 'irresistibly cute' smiles some girls can accomplish effectively. Naruto's cheek's went bright red as he tried to remember where his heart lied.
'Sakura, Sakura, Sakura...' He repeated to himself, trying to put her image in his mind. 'You idiot! You like Sakura! You only met this girl this morning!' He yelled at himself inside his head. "Aha... yeah. No problem..." He laughed nervously and cocked a smile. He noticed Akemi was about to reply, but was cut off when the math teacher walked into the classroom. 'Phew! Saved by the teacher!' Naruto exhaled with relief.
"Alright class..." A lazy voice exclaimed from the back as a female around her forties advanced to her chair and flopped down in it. "This is math class... I'm Mrs. Kurokichi... and... you will all call me Kurokichi-sensei. That's about it... So..." She stared at them all. Her eyelids drooped lazily. "Well... whaddoyou all wanna do now... I've covered all the basics, and, frankly, I don't feel like teaching today... so, you all'll have to do without a lesson..."
'Man... she's lazier than Shikamaru!' Naruto observed, making a mental note that he didn't have to pay attention during this class. 'Well, at least I like her more than Miss V...' He thought, shuddering slightly, thinking about the book and the dreaded detention with her this afternoon. He shook it off and suddenly was hit in the head with something that felt like crumbled up paper. "Ow..." He said, slightly looking around for the source. Looking to his right, he noticed Akemi was pointing to the paper ball now on the ground. "Ne?" He picked it up and uncrumbled it.
Naruto-chan,
What class do you have next?
Naruto stared at it, then took out his schedule without making a noise. Looking at it, he noticed next period was physical education. He scribbled something on the paper:
I have P.E. next. What about you?
He then threw it back to her when Kurokichi wasn't looking. She caught it and read it quickly, currently writing furiously on the paper. She crumbled it up and threw the ball back to him. He caught it:
Darn! I have language arts next! Sorry, Naruto-chan! I guess we'll have to leave each other! Other than extra curriculars, all our academic classes are finished for the day! This is our last class together today! (sob sob!)
Naruto wrote back after reading it and replied:
Yeah. Too bad, ne? Well, we still have tomorrow! And you can call me if you want to... here! I'll write my phone number below:P
After writing his phone number below his note, he threw it to her. He glanced at her in time to see her read it and squeal silently. 'Man... what if she's one of those obsessive girls who calls you all the time...?' Naruto thought to himself worriedly after seeing her get all giddy at his reply. He looked at her and noticed she had changed pen colors from black to pink.
Oh! That's great, Naruto-chan! I'll be sure to call you! Do your parents mind?
Naruto stopped there. 'Parents?' How could he possibly tell her? He kept his pen levitated over the paper for a couple moments. 'What should I write...?'
Okay. And yeah, you can call me whenever you want... I'm sure they wouldn't mind at all.
'Well... that's truthful! I'm sure they wouldn't! If... they were still here...' He sighed sadly and passed the note back to her. He saw her smile and write something down. He grabbed it when she passed it back to him and opened it:
Alright! Sounds good:D I hope we can maybe get together outside of school soon! Well, I guess we'd better stop passing notes! I could've sworn Kurockichi (sp?) just looked at me when I threw this to you last time! (lol) Don't pass this back! I'll talk to you after class! Akemi
Looking at her signed signature for the last time, the kyuubi stuffed the note into his backpack nonchalantly, hoping nobody noticed. Looking around, it seemed as no one did.
Now, Naruto couldn't stop thinking about his parents. At the academy, it was constantly on his mind, but now being in a public high school away from all Hokages, he had completely forgotten the existence of them. 'How could I have forgotten about them like that...?' Naruto was a bit worried now. Seriously! How could one forget about something he had been tracking to it's sources since the age of thirteen? He looked at the clock: five minutes till math ended. 'It's more like a discussion if you ask me...' The blonde mused in his mind. Akemi looked over, then, suddenly, started digging her backpack for something. Naruto looked over questioning at her. 'What's she doing?' She pulled out a blank sheet of paper and the pink pen again. She scribbled something down on it quickly and threw it at him. He caught it, surprisedly, and read it:
Naruto-chan... are you alright?
The given blonde blinked at these written words. 'Alright?'
Yeah... why?
She sighed loudly at his reply and wrote something down:
You seem depressed.
Naruto stared at the last word. Depressed...? He thought about what to write for a moment, then scribbled a few words on the paper.
No, I'm fine.
Akemi stared at it after he passed it to her. She clenched the paper in her hands firmly and looked over at Naruto, with a concerned face on. She then placed her pen tip to the paper and wrote some words down:
You're not fine! What's wrong?
'Gawd... she's so persistent!' Naruto sighed, but wrote back nevertheless:
Well... What would you say if I told you that I live alone currently? (Hypothetically, of course...)
After passing it to her, it took her a full two minutes to just stop staring at it. Another minute, and the bell would surely ring. Finally, she wrote back:
Is that a trick question...?
Naruto slapped his forehead. 'Trick question?' He scribbled furiously fast on the paper.
No! It's just a question! Now, answer it!
He passed it back to her. When she got she looked offended and shoved the note into her backpack, folding her arms and looking in the opposite direction than the kyuubi. Naruto sighed, realizing that must've sounded a bit mean on her end. He took out a piece of paper of his own and wrote two words on it:
I'm sorry
Akemi stared at these words as the bell rung and everyone around her got up. Neither of them moved.
"Did you really mean that...?" Akemi asked after a while, still staring at the near blank sheet of paper.
"I guess..." Naruto replied. 'Did I mean that...?'
"No... not the 'I'm sorry'... I meant, were you really serious about that 'living alone' bit...?" She questioned, now looking up from the paper. Her gaze strayed to his eyes.
"Serious...?" Naruto reiterated. "Well... I..." Lucky for him, they were interrupted with Kurokichi-sensei's lazy voice.
"Hurry up and flee to your last class! Well... academic class, anyways..." She waved her hand at them, telling them to shoo. 'Well, ya don't need to tell me twice!' Naruto got to his feet and grabbed his backpack off the floor. Akemi stayed sitting. Naruto looked at her. Akemi looked at him. Silence fell between them.
The kyuubi knew the late bell would be ringing soon for their next class, so with one last longing gaze, he turned and fled to the halls. He could hear Akemi call his name once... maybe three times, but he didn't stop. Walking to the P.E. room, he sighed and slowed himself down a bit. 'Why am I running from her...? It shouldn't be that important! So what if I'm living alone? What does it matter to her?' He sighed once more and turned the knob to the P.E. room just as the late bell rang.
"Alright!" The coach blew his whistle and all the students lined up straight. Naruto walked wearily over to the line. He seemed to be in some sort of trance-like state. He wasn't noticing anything.
"Psst! Naruto! Naruto!" A familiar voice entered his ears, but he ignored it, completely consumed by the thoughts of Akemi, the notes, and his parents. He gazed on at the floor.
"Psst! Naruto!" The voice sounded slightly more annoyed this time. "Oi!" The given person the voice belonged to started snapping his fingers in front of Naruto, who sighed angrily and looked up. It was Kiba.
"What?" Naruto growled angrily through clenched teeth as the coach took attendance. Kiba withdrew his body slowly.
"You just don't look that well... you alright?" He said, now talking instead of whispering. The blonde looked surprisedly at the furry one.
"What?" Naruto stared.
"Seriously! You walked in here and didn't even notice me yelling your name! Akamaru even bit your pant leg!" The kyuubi looked at his jeans and noticed they were slightly ripped at the bottom. He glared at that for a moment, then looked back to Kiba. It seemed that the whole world was pissing him off right now.
"Maybe I'm just not in the best of moods right now, Kiba..." Naruto said, going back to thinking about the Yondaime Hokage once more. 'I wish I had written proof he was my father...' He thought to himself, groaning slightly.
"Woah! Since when do you call me Kiba, ne?" He looked at the strange kyuubi.
"I don't know..." Naruto's voice was distant now. 'Just leave me alone...'
"Uh... you wanna go to the infirmary? I'll take ya over there if you're not feeling to well..." Kiba looked concernedly towards the blonde, who looked up alarmed.
"What? Infirmary? Uh.. no I'm fine, really!" Naruto said, permanently withdrawing his current thoughts from his mind and placing them in the back of his head for later pondering.
"Okay..." Kiba sounded unsure, but let Naruto be, nonetheless.
"Alright everyone!" The coachs' voice boomed over everyone else's. "Get changed and meet me back out here in five minutes, stat! Boys to the left, girls to the right!" The genders split, left and right, to their designated areas. Naruto and Kiba stuck together with Akamaru at their side. Entering the changing area's, the two nin (and dog) found a vacant open area towards the back by one particularly long row of blue lockers. They changed into their gym uniforms and headed back out before anyone else did.
"Naruto... you sure you're alright?" Kiba asked, after not having talked for the past three minutes in the changing room. Naruto's face was quite red, but it wasn't from blushing, that's for sure.
'Woah... Kiba's voice sounds really muffled... what'd he say? Am I okay? Why, yes. I'm fine... I just need to sit down for a second...' Naruto thought to himself, feeling a little dizzy. He pretty much collapsed onto the seat.
"Naruto? I'm serious! You need to go to the infirmary, pronto!" Kiba demanded, now seeing a problem arising. "Naruto... can you hear me?" The poor little kyuubi was zoned out completely and wasn't hearing a word Kiba was saying.
'I feel really sleepy all ova sudden...' And with that thought, Naruto blacked out, falling forewords. Luckily, Kiba was there to catch him.
"Hn...?" Naruto awoke in the infirmary around thirty minutes later. As his vision cleared, he saw no sign of Kiba anywhere. "Ki...ba...?" He uttered. 'My voice sounds different... unhumanly, almost...' Looking up, he saw the nurse.
"Ah! You're awake!" She exclaimed, smiling jubilantly down at him. "You may leave whenever you feel up to it," She finished. The blonde sat up and looked at her questioningly. "Oh, hun! You had a high fever and just pushed yourself too much. Nothing too serious."
"Oh... arigato..." He muttered and let out a sigh, relaxing slightly in the warm fluffy bed. The nurse started to walk away. "Oh! Wait a minute... um.. if it's not too much trouble, could you possibly tell me if ninth period ended yet...?" He stammered.
"Why, yes. It ended nearly ten minutes ago, dahlin'," She responded and walked off for good. The kyuubi lay in bed for another five minutes, thinking of everything he did not want to think about. Feeling slightly depressed he sat up and looked around him. 'I wish everything was back to the way it was...' He sighed, starting to feel the ever-so-slight urge to cry, thinking about the academy and Yondaime. Pushing the tears back, he sniffed lightly and got to his feet. Swallowing hard, he checked himself out of the clinic and walked down the empty halls to the astrology tower.
'Why is this happening to me...?' He thought, swallowing once more. 'Why am I even here...' He looked from side to side, seeing sudden flashes of memories run before him. He shook them off and continued on wearily.
Once in front of the large oak door to the astrology tower, Naruto placed his hand gently upon the doorknob. 'I wonder if I should knock... they're already at least twenty minutes into class now...' Pushing the door open, the words of a female professor fill his ears.
"...and that is why- Oh! Uzumaki! Feeling better, darling?" She had an Irish accent. Naruto looked around at the faces of the students, who were all now turned back to stare at him. He noticed there were no desks, but merely enlarged pillows on the ground.
"Uh... yeah..." He said, his voice sounding small in the large room. The lights were out and on the ceiling was the image of the night sky and all the stars and constellations.
"Good! Then take a seat, there's one over there next to Hyuuga!" She piped happily then continued with her lesson.
'Oh yeah... I forgot all about that. Hinata said she was gonna have astrology classes with me,' The blonde thought and lugged his backpack over to the giant blue pillow next to Hinata. He sat down next to her.'Why does she always do that... that thing around me...?' He looked sideways at her. She was blushing wildly and playing with her index fingers, placing them together then apart, then repeat. "Um... hi, Hinata..." Naruto said, trying not to be so distant from her. She perked up and whispered back in a slightly shy voice.
"Um... Naruto-chan... I heard... you were sick and... well, are you alright? I talked to Kiba and he said that you just blacked out in P.E." She looked concernedly towards the kitsune, who was blushing.
"I... I did...? All I remember is being in P.E. class and then waking up in a bed in the infirmary..."
'Woah... does that mean that Kiba carried me all the way there?' Naruto blushed slightly at this.
"Yes... are you alright?" Hinata looked towards the kitsune sadly.
"Yeah... fine... just a little perplexed, that's all..." He replied, looking back at the teacher, pretending to pay attention so he didn't have to talk to Hinata anymore. He was doing it again. He was thinking.
As their astrology teacher droned on and on and questioned were answered by students, Naruto continued to think about the academy. He just couldn't keep it off his mind now. He wondered if it would ever reopen. 'Probably not...' He thought, sadly. 'Boy... being on this pillow sure makes a guy wanna fall asleep. Not to mention, this whole dang room is pitch black with holographic stars plastered all over the roof.' His eyes began to feel slightly heavier. Nodding off slightly, he was awoken by the sound of a bell ringing from above. The room was light once more and the stars had disappeared. "Ne?" Naruto looked around him to see Hinata getting up.
"Oh! Naruto-chan... I was just about to wake you... maybe you should get some rest tonight..." She cooed softly. Naruto got to his feet also.
"Uh... yeah. Thanks Hinata-chan..." And with that, the Hyuuga passed him by and he was left alone in the room. 'Lesse... what class next...? Oh! Wait! It's the end of this freakin' day! Thank the Lord!' Naruto cried happily. His jubilance was brought back to reality as the painful feeling of disappointment leapt to him. "Damn... I have detention with the devil woman..." He cursed mildly and walked as slowly as possible towards Miss V's room.
A/N: Phew! That was a long chappie! Yay! Well, I'm terribly sorry, but it seems that Naruto's first day will be lasting for three chapters... so make sure to tell me who I should write on next so I can update! I will try to update faster, but I need some time... Arigato gozaimasu! Ja ne!
P.S. This is unedited yet, too... so sorry 'bout all the mistakes...