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It was a painstaking wait throughout the rest of the summer vacation because Naruto was literally checking his email five times each day for two weeks. He really wanted to get enrolled into KSA but he was afraid that he wouldn't be picked. Iruka got tired of telling him to chill and just watched as his pseudo son jumped nervously after each notification ding on his phone.
"IRUKA!" Naruto's screech was accompanied by the heavy footfalls of running footsteps. Said boy barged into the caramel skinned man's room where he was busy with his laptop, waving his phone nervously.
"What is it?" Iruka asked, not raising his head from his laptop.
"I got a mail from KSA." Naruto's voice was small, much so that Iruka almost didn't hear it but he did and raised his head.
"Well open it." He encouraged with an enthusiastic smile. Naruto nodded and did as told. His bright blue eyes moved back and forth as they scanned the contents of the message and glossed over, causing Iruka to get worried at once. "What is it? What's wrong? Were you accepted? Rejected? What happ-"
"I was accepted!" Naruto whispered as he brought up his tanned hand over his mouth. Iruka set his laptop aside and collected the orange phone from Naruto's faltering hand. He was startled halfway into reading the message by the teen's scream. "I WAS ACCEPTED!" Naruto hollered as if just realizing the meaning of the message.
"That's really good news! I am so happy for you!" Iruka cheered along with his pseudo son.
"Iruka, I was accepted! Accepted!! I am going to attend the school mum attended!" Naruto's cheery grin dropped at the mention of his mother and his eyes glazed over. Iruka took note of this and placed a hand on his head, tousling the blond locks a little.
"Let's have homemade ramen to celebrate and then we'd go get your uniforms." As expected, Naruto cheered up at the sound of ramen and nodded eagerly.
The uniform consisted of navy blue trousers along with a long sleeved button down shirt of the same colour and a darkish green waistcoat and blazer. The shirt and waistcoat had the leaf logo of the school embroidered unto it and a red swirly circle on the sleeve for the shirt and back for the waistcoat and blazer. He got two copies of each item except for the dark green cardigan for cold weather and red tie.
"Such boring colours." Naruto muttered as he tried the uniform on and gazed at himself through the mirror. "It's nice and comfortable though." He complimented. Wearing the uniform made Naruto giddy and nervous. He hadn't been to a proper school setting in years so he was afraid of not fitting in. He shook his thoughts off and smiled enthusiastically.
'KSA, here I come!'
Xxx symphony xxX
This was his second time of being in the school but Naruto still gawked at the size of it. It was huge!
"Good luck on your first day Naruto, I have to get to the staff meeting now." Iruka waved him off before going towards another direction entirely. He was a teacher in the school. That bit of information surprised Naruto a lot but the man waved it off like it wasn't something big.
Naruto made his way to the hall where the orientation service was being held. The place was filled with more people than the last time he was here for the auditions. It made him feel out of place, even worse when he figured that he knew nobody and was the only off standing person among the sea of people.
Not one to be nervous for too long, he set his feelings aside and made his way through the crowd making sure to ignore the stares and whispers shot his way.
He followed the signboard that said 'new students' and took a seat next to a dark girl who tied a bandana on her head. "Hi, I'm Naruto." He introduced with a grin. The dark girl's golden eyes glanced at him briefly before turning away, leaving his hand hanging. "Nice to meet you too." He smiled nevertheless, already used to people snubbing him, and faced the platform which a woman had already mounted.
She gave them a welcome note and quickly ran through the rules and regulations of the school. Some people came and gave speeches which Naruto's short attention span failed to grab before the principal mounted the podium.
The principal was a busty blond woman who had honey brown eyes and was very beautiful. Her every steps were majestic and the demand for respect oozed off her in waves. The way she talked made everyone want to listen to her and Naruto was one of those people.
"Welcome students, new and old, to another academic year in Konoha School of Arts. I am principal Senju Tsunade and you will refer to me as lady or principal Tsunade. This year, other than students who are enrolled on a scholarship based on academic standards alone, KSA gave the opportunity to talented students who are not academically sound.
I shall have you know that this grace is not to be taken for granted. Since KSA produces not only artists with great skill but individuals with great intellect as well, the board of directors came up with an effective way to build up the academic skills of the students that fall below average."
Tsunade paused and looked at the crowd before continuing.
"This is called the recuperative class. This class would be separate from normal classes and with different teaching methods for all students to carry along. Not only will the new students be in this class but old students which are struggling academically. This class is to help you to your feet and keep you stable. Note, however, that you can repeat grades or be advised to withdraw from school if you do not pass tests and exams."
Series of gulps reached Tsunade's ears and she smiled.
"Now I do not want to produce zombies, after all work and no play makes Tsunade a dull woman. Have fun but remember to study, strike a balance between play and work. I look forward to a fun academic year with you all. Thank you."
Tsunade was accompanied with a round of applause as she left, after which a tour commenced. If Naruto thought that the school was huge, the tour convinced him that the place was humongous.
After the tour, they were led to their classes and that was where the real fun started. He chose a seat by the window and a locker close to the wall at the back of the room. Other students chose their individual seats and lockers while waiting for the teacher to arrive.
As he waited, Naruto looked around at his classmates and the people he would be together with for a year. There were more boys than girls and Naruto noted that the girl that sat next to him during the auditions was here. Sucking in a breath, he let it out in one go and smiled real big.
"Hello everyone! I look forward to spending the year with you dattebayo!" All he received were stares, nothing out of the usual.
"Me too, youthful classmate!" A boy with bowl cut shiny black hair yelled back enthusiastically, causing Naruto to smile.
"Me too...owie!" A girl with long black hair yelped as her friend hit her arm. Naruto recognized them as the duo that sang a soul acapella at the audition. Her friend scolded her for talking to him in hushed tones but it was nothing Naruto wasn't used to.
Minutes later, the teacher entered the class and Naruto was pleasantly surprised to see that it was Iruka. "Hello students. I am your homeroom teacher, Umino Iruka and I am looking forward to working with you all. Since we're all new, why don't we introduce ourselves?" Iruka asked.
"What should we say?" The girl from earlier asked.
"Hmm, your name of course, what you do, hobbies, dreams, things like that." Iruka listed. "Let me go first. I am Umino Iruka and I sing. My hobbies are reading and singing and my dream is for us to have a wonderful time together. So let's start from you up front." Iruka gestured to the girl from earlier who was sitting at the front.
The black haired girl wrote her name in bold letters on the white board and smiled real wide. "Hello!" She waved cheerfully. "My name is Yukata and I sing. I like singing and singing and singing! I want to be a really great singer when I grow up!" Yukata's friend face palmed at her incredibly childish and embarrassing introduction but Yukata didn't seem to mind.
Her friend was up next. She had short mouse brown hair and black coal eyes and a grin which wasn't as wide as her friend's but cheerful nevertheless. "My name is Matsuri. I sing and my hobbies are practicing with my javelin spear and practicing my vocal chords." Matsuri introduced briefly and assumed her seat.
"Yo! I'm Inuzuka Kiba and I dance." The wild looking boy that danced at the audition introduced with a big toothy grin. He had brown hair and unique slit eyes. Two red triangles decorated the skin of his cheeks that had Naruto wondering if they were tattoos or birthmarks.
The next person was a black boy licking lollipop. Unfortunately, the lollipop didn't sit well with the class rules so he was forced to thrash it. "My name is Omoi, I play the drums and bass and I wish I had my candy back." He introduced and turned towards Iruka with pleading eyes.
"No can do Omoi, it's in the class rules." Iruka refused.
"But sensei, if eating during classes is disallowed what if one day everybody forgot to eat breakfast? Then they would come to school looking dull and since eating is disallowed they would start chewing their fingers. And when they finish their fingers, they turn on the next person to them and when that happens we have a zombie apocalypse!" Omoi actually looked serious saying all of that which was funny because Iruka was disoriented just for some moments.
"Go to your seat Omoi. Next person."
The next person was a black girl, the one wearing a bandanna on her head. "I am Karui and unfortunately I am Omoi's twin sister. I play the keyboard." She said and hopped off the teacher's platform. At this point nobody was telling about their goals anymore, just their names and what they do.
"I am Konoha's handsome blue devil, Rock Lee!" Yelled a boy with black shiny hair in a bowl cut and the thickest eyebrows ever known to man. He was the one who replied Naruto when he introduced himself to the class earlier that day.
"Akimichi Choji." Munch munch munch. "I sing." Another munch and Iruka told him to trash the potato chips he was holding. Choji was a chubby boy with auburn hair and red swirls on each of his cheeks. The boy looked at Iruka like it was the end of the world when he was told to trash his chips but Iruka remained firm in his decision. Choji though, was smart and unable to part with his chips so he downed everything in three large gulps and trashed the wrap into the bin.
Iruka heaved a sigh and called the next person. It was Shikamaru from the auditions. Naruto could never forget his performance that easily because it was awesome. After Shikamaru came the girl with two buns. She wore sweat pants under her school uniform skirt.
"I am Tenten and I dance." Tenten introduced. Although her voice was adorably girly and maybe squeaky, the aura that radiated from her screamed 'mess with me and I'll dance in your grave.' She seemed to be a tomboy. It was finally Naruto's turn to introduce himself.
"Hi!" Naruto beamed and looked around at his classmates only to wish he didn't. Those eyes. They all looked at him with those eyes. It was annoying and unnerving but Naruto's smile didn't falter. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto and I dance. My goal is to be a greater dancer than my father was so that everybody would know that I am somebody, somebody important." He finished.
"Eh? So that was why you killed him?" Kiba sneered from where he sat.
"What was that?!" Naruto fumed.
"I was wondering why you killed your parents." Kiba shrugged as if he was talking about the weather. "I don't know why you were accepted into this school, after all you could kill us too."
Naruto fumed with anger as he jumped over the platform to Kiba's table. "I dare you to say that again, bastard!"
"Okay that's enough. Kiba, that wasn't nice of you to say and Naruto, we are in a class. Fighting on the school grounds is prohibited but I would let you two off the hook today. Go to your seat Naruto." Iruka broke the brewing fight but it was clear that there was still tension between the boys.
"Hi everyone! I am Tamaki and I like cats. I play the cello and I look forward to spending the rest of this year with you." The last person to introduce herself, Tamaki, smiled as she did so.
Iruka climbed the platform to start classes when he noticed something quite wrong with his class. "Hmm, I thought I was assigned to twelve students." He muttered as he counted their heads. "There are eleven of them here. Oh well." He dismissed his thoughts and began the lessons.
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"Sakura!" A girl with platinum blond hair and teal eyes squealed as her friend entered the class.
"Ino!" Her friend, a girl with pale hair that shone with a pink glint under the light and emerald eyes squealed with equal excitement as she sighted her bestie. Both girls ran to meet each other in the middle of the class and squealed with excitement.
"I missed you!" Ino said.
"I missed you more!" Sakura replied and both of them gave each other a hug despite having seen each other throughout the holidays... Their houses are practically blocks away from each other.
"Good morning!" A girl with red hair and matching glasses sang as she entered the class.
"Karin!" Ino and Sakura squealed in unison as they did a group hug with their friend.
"How was your long vacation?" Sakura asked.
"Fine fine. Nothing interesting happened. You?" Karin waved a dismissive hand at the girls as she chose a seat.
"Same here." Sakura agreed as she sat. "Just the same old ballet training."
"Yeah." Ino agreed. Th Blondie suddenly perked up as she remembered something. "Guys, did you see Sasuke-kun's instagram story?"
"Oh my God yes! The Uchihas are soooo hot!" Karin squealed.
"I know right?" Sakura agreed with a dreamy look on her face. "But Sasuke is the hottest."
"Norms." Ino sighed dreamily before perking up again. "Hair count! My hair is the longest here." Indeed Ino's platinum hair stopped mid back.
"Are you still on about that rumour that Sasuke likes long hair?" A new voice intruded their girl chat and the three of them faced the intruder, scowling.
It was their classmate, Suigetsu and his annoying way of crawling under the girls' skins. The boy had silver bluish hair and amethyst eyes along with sharp white teeth which gave him the look of an aquatic animal. His signature purple water bottle was in his hand while he had his other arm slung around Juugo.
Juugo had a big body build but was very gentle and quiet in nature unlike his best friend. He had ginger hair and gentle amber eyes.
"If that's the case, he has fallen hard for Neji or Haku." Suigetsu teased because Haku and Neji's hair was longer than most girls' hair.
"Shut up!" Karin yelled. "My day was going perfectly fine until I saw your face!"
"Oh? Disappointed that I am not your Sasuke-kun?" Suigetsu taunted. Karin was about to sock him in the gut when a calm voice greeted them.
"Good m-morning everyone."
"Hinata!" Ino squealed and ran to hug the startled girl.
"Hello Hinata." Sakura greeted as did Juugo and Shino who was in the class all along. The dark haired boy's quietness often made him melt into the background and left him forgotten.
"Eh Shino, when did you arrive?" Ino asked the guy in surprise.
"I was here with you the whole time!" True enough, Ino and Shino were the first duo to get to class and they did spend a few minutes together before Sakura arrived.
"You were?" Ino was dumbfounded.
"I was, that's because we were the first two to arrive."
"Oh." Ino said dumbly. Shino was too inconspicuous for his own good. "Anyway did you guys hear?" Always one for gossip, Ino had some juicy news.
"Hear what?" Suigetsu asked from his chosen seat behind Karin's.
"The murderer is enrolling here at KSA."
"Eh?!" Everyone in the class except Juugo, Hinata and Shino exclaimed.
"N-nani the hell?!" Suigetsu exclaimed.
"What?! Is that even safe?" Sakura expressed her fear.
"Who is the murderer?"
Everybody turned and gave Hinata the 'are you serious?!' look which caused the shy girl to retreat further into her seat, blushing.
Sakura was the first to speak. "You know the boy who murdered his parents, Namikaze?"
"Oh." Hinata realized and nodded. "School life must be difficult for him." She noted.
"Hinata, you seriously aren't concerned for the murderer's school life, are you?" Sakura scolded.
"Leave my cousin alone pinkie." A new voice interrupted them. Neji entered the class, blinding it with his 'I am your king, bow before me' aura.
"Yo Neji." Suigetsu greeted.
"Hello Suigetsu." Neji greeted back. "What is this I hear about Namikaze?" The long haired boy asked as he chose a seat behind Hinata. That way, he could monitor her without being obvious about it.
"He is in our school!" Ino exclaimed placing her hand over her chest like a frail damsel.
"I also heard that Gaara was demoted to the recuperative class." Karin piped from her seat.
"The scary redhead was demoted?!" Sakura gasped. "What a relief! He gives me the creeps."
"I know right?" Ino agreed
"Oh?" Neji raised a perfect brow at the news he was hearing. This year would be really interesting.
KSA is official! Get ready for the wild ride.