Kiba was on his way to pick his service dog, Akamaru, up from the school's pet center when he heard the sound of somebody crying. Akamaru whined beside Kiba, noticing his master's alertness.
"Come boy." Kiba commanded. The big white and brown dog following his master to where the crying sound was coming from. It got louder and louder with each step they took closer to it until they reached the garbage dump at the pet center.
Akamaru sniffed around a garbage bin and pawed at it while barking. Something or someone was in there. Sure enough when Kiba opens the bin, he finds a small brunette staring at him with scared green eyes.
The smell of the garbage was getting to him, this Akamaru noted and whined about, but Kiba shook the feeling off and lifted the boy from the trash. Said boy tried to scoot away from Kiba at first but after some persuasions succumbed and allowed Kiba to lift him.
When they got away from the dump to where the air was fresher, Kiba set the boy down and took a deep breath. The boy, upon seeing Akamaru, yelled in fright and started running down the pavement with an unbelievable speed.
"Oh come on!" Kiba groaned while Akamaru barked. "After him, Akamaru!" And so the race began between the elementary kid boy that Kiba rescued, Kiba and Akamaru.
It didn't take too long to catch up to the boy considering that his legs were shorter than theirs but what made Kiba and his exceed stop in their pursuit was the fact that the kid had ran behind a boy. Namikaze to be exact.
"Yota?! What happened to you?!" Naruto screamed in frantic worry.
"Dog, woof woof dog! Dog! Yota hates dog! Dog!" Yota cried and buried his head in between Naruto's legs.
"Dog?" It was then Naruto saw Kiba and Akamaru approaching and got defensive. "Oi, what do you want with Yota, dogface?" Naruto growled.
"I am not hurting him, I saw him in the trash and helped him. He suddenly started running away for a reason we don't understand!" Kiba defended angrily. If anyone was to call him out him on hurting someone, it should not be the person that murdered his own parents.
"Ha! So you are a nice person. Unbelievable." Naruto commented dryly.
"What was that bastard?!" Kiba being the hot head he was, started getting angry. Who was this Blondie to talk about being nice?!
"It is just as I said, jerk!" Naruto shot back.
"Naruto! Did you find Yota- oh there he is!" Sakura jogged up to where they stood unaware of the flying electric sparks between the two boys. The pinkette gasped upon seeing Yota's state and slapped the back of the boys' heads.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto whined.
"Ouch! What the fuck?!" Kiba yelped but got another slap in return for his cussing.
"No swearing in front of the kid and why the hell is Yota like this?! He could have developed an illness if I didn't come by! Poor baby! He is clearly afraid of the dog..." Sakura fussed over Yota and inspected his body for any sign of infections.
Ino soon found them and gave the boys a earful for 'leaving Yota to die of infections' before joining Sakura in fussing over Yota.
"What are they, his moms or something?" Kiba muttered to Naruto who shrugged. Somewhere along Sakura and Ino's fussing and Yota overcoming his fear for dogs, the animosity between Kiba and Naruto dissolved and they became friends.
None of Naruto's new friends seemed to bother about him being a murderer. As the days progressed with him, they all realized that it was impossible for the loudmouthed ray of sunshine to kill his parents. His classmates began to open up to him little by little and it was all Naruto could ask for.
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Deidara was elated, he was finally accepted as a scholarship student in KSA! Deidara was an artist and sculptor that always looked for a challenge and most times got into trouble for it. It was boring to keep on receiving the best art award every time so Deidara left his old school for greener pastures...literally because Konoha means leaf and leaves are green.
The school was as huge as it looked on the web and it only made Deidara excited that he would finally have worthy competition. "Yes hmm! Art is a blast! KSA would know Deidara's art and be amazed yeah!" The blond exclaimed with his fists in the air.
"You have five minutes to get to class, late comer." A deep voice sounded from behind him and Deidara turned around. There he was, the person Deidara had eyes on, Uchiha Itachi.
The Uchiha was KSA's ace student who had straight A records and many talents which included painting, instrumentals, dancing and singing. He was the walking embodiment of talent and Deidara could not help but be irritated by him.
The blond felt that his art was better than the prodigy's. No, he knew that he was better than Itachi. It was one of the reasons he applied for KSA, to defeat the Uchiha in his own game.
"You are not the boss- hmm shut up! - you are not the boss of me, Uchiha! Hmm!" Deidara crossed his arms across his chest.
"You are a Touretter?" Black eyebrows raised in mild curiosity.
""So what, hmm?!" Deidara shot back indignantly. His Tourette syndrome made it difficult for many people to understand his speech, some of which even take offense in his unintentional swearing, but Itachi figured him out at once. It was annoying! Those onyx eyes were condescending to a level though subtle.
"You have three minutes till classes begin." Itachi warned and walked past him down the third year building.
"Uchiha Itachi!"
The dark haired teen turned around and gazed at the blond with his intimidating eyes and aura. He was not surprised that this jumpy blond knew him after all he was very popular. "Yes?"
"I will defeat you hmm! Watch your- come on!- watch your back because I would defeat your- your your hmm!- your art with my art yeah!" Deidara proclaimed.
"Oh?" Itachi raised an amused brow. A challenger? How fun but... "You can't beat me." He stated the obvious fact. "It is only natural for inferior people to challenge me because of intimidation. Art of your level can't beat me."
Deidara barely registered his words because he was looking into the intimidating eyes of Itachi. The black pools held tints of red in them that made them unique. When Dei did register his words, Itachi was already walking away from him.
Fueled with anger, he fished out a ball of white clay from his pocket and flung it at Itachi. "I'll show you, hmm!" He yelled and was about to detonate the clay when Itachi suddenly flung a pen at it from his pocket without even looking.
The pen hit its target and pinned the clay blob to a wall, shocking and amazing Deidara to annoying levels. Itachi clicked his tongue in irritation. "Hn. Pathetic." And he left Deidara alone at the hallway.
Deidara stormed into his assigned class in fury. Who was that Uchiha to look at him with deigning eyes?! Well as he read, the Uchiha was worth a challenge. An evil smile crawled its way up to Deidara's face as he thought about improving his art and skills to rub his victory on Itachi's face.
"Whenever you're ready, you can introduce yourself." Dei was brought out of his trance by the teacher's voice and wow did the teacher look creepy. Long black hair, yellow eyes marked with purple eye shadow makeup and pale skin? What was he, a snake?
"Hmm! I am Deidara hmm and I have Tourette syndrome- fuck you- so I can't control, yeah, some words and movements I say and do. I am a sculptor and I believe art is fleeting, yeah."
Deidara got a snort from a redhead because of his last statement. "Art is eternal, brat." The redhead refuted and before Deidara could get the chance to give him a sermon about the beauty of fleeting art, a ginger raised his hand for questioning.
"Yes Yahiko?" The snake teacher asked.
"Question for the newbie." Yahiko continued when he was permitted to speak. "If you don't mind me asking, what happened to your eye?"
"Ah. It was a fire accident hmm. It affected my eye and the skin around it so I wear yeah I wear this gadget over it to help my sight yeah." Deidara explained and pointed to the gadget around the left side of his face and eye.
"Oh." Yahiko nodded.
"Okay no more questions. Go sit near Itachi. Ita-!" Orochimaru-sensei started but was rudely interrupted by Deidara.
"What?!" The blond screamed.
"Hn." Itachi voiced his disagreement but there was nothing they could do about it. They were stuck together as seatmates– not technically seatmates but their seats are next to each other so seat neighbours is the best word to use.
"Damn it. Hmm."
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Iruka noticed that for some days now, his class had been free during dance period and that a student and teacher was missing.
Looking at the student files, he shivered at the promise of a troublesome year with them. What more could he ask for?! (N: sarcasm) He was teaching dumb rocks for crying out loud. Iruka was probably the best teacher for handling their class though.
The brunet sighed and picked up his missing student's file. Sabaku no Gaara. The redhead was the living incarnation of trouble and violence. He was a truant, rebel and the bully of all bullies. Oh God, why him?!
He had Naruto, Karui and Kiba to deal with, them being hot heads and Shikamaru too. That boy was as lazy as a fart. Choji and Omoi would probably have heart attacks if they stopped chewing. Tenten was an unmotivated little shit who only gets riled up if dancing was involved. Matsuri and Tamaki were okay-ish when they weren't ignoring the teachers.
Lee was a whirlwind of energy, much so that Iruka wished he could throw him out the window and Yukata? Yukata was a lost cause. The girl was denser than a rock. And then there was Gaara who was everything in one.
sigh*
"This would be a long year!" Iruka groaned.
"I pity you, Iruka-sensei." Yamato laughed. He was the math teacher so he knew first hand how Iruka's students were.
"By the way, where is Kakashi-sensei?" Iruka asked the fellow brunet.
"Oh you didn't know? Kakashi resigned." Genma answered from behind Iruka. He was the literature teacher.
"What?!"
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The moment it was lunch break, Deidara started packing up to go to the cafeteria when he noticed that everywhere was dark. The long haired blond looked up and saw everybody in the class gathered around his table like it was a freaky cult...
"What hmm?" Deidara questioned.
"We would be classmates for a year so it is only natural we introduce ourselves." A girl with light bluish purple hair spoke. She had beautiful golden eyes and an origami rose stuck in her bun.
"Okay hmm. You know my name al- yeah- already." Deidara said.
"I am Yahiko and I draw and paint." The ginger who asked him a question earlier introduced himself first. "I would love to open a tattoo and piercing parlour sometime. Hey, do you think a piercing would suit me?" Yahiko was pretty jovial.
"Yeah hmm. Across the bridge– art is a fucking blast!– the bridge of your nose would be awesome, yeah."
"Oh no. Now you've done it." A brunet muttered, giving Deidara the kind of look that was given to someone when they did something wrong. Done what? Deidara was about to ask but was answered by Yahiko's victorious yell.
"HELL YEAH! I told you guys that nose piercings would look really good on me and now the new girl is supporting me! In your faces, ha!" Yahiko exclaimed while Itachi snorted in an attempt to hide his laughter.
Deidara's eye twitched in annoyance at Yahiko's preposterous assumption. "I am a guy, dammit! Hmm!" He yelled indignantly, causing Itachi to chuckle a bit. Deidara met his laughing face with a sharp glare that caused the Uchiha to stop laughing.
"You're a man?!" Yahiko yelled in surprise.
"You do not look like a man." A muscular guy with brown hair spoke with a bored voice. He was the brunet that spoke earlier. "Or a woman."
"Why are you insulting me?" Deidara spoke for the first time today without a grunt.
"I'm sorry, man...woman." The brunet apologized but it only caused everyone to laugh much to Deidara's chagrin.
"Oh my God! Deidara, I'm so sorry about these idiots. It is kind of like a tradition to tease newcomers so please forgive us." The girl from earlier, she was the only girl in the class, apologized on everybody's behalf.
"Hmm!" Deidara hummed defiantly.
"I am Konan and I play the saxophone. I like origami art though because it is awesome." The girl, now Konan, introduced herself.
"Uzumaki Nagato." A quiet redhead introduced himself. He had been laughing behind his palm at Deidara's expense earlier as if he was trying not to laugh but couldn't control it.
"Call me Hidan No Fucking Last Name because last names suck major balls. So tell me, what blood type are you?" A boy with silver slicked back hair and magenta eyes licked his lips with a crazy grin. Wow, his speech so colourful.
"Don't listen to him." Nagato warned, earning him a betrayed (albeit playful) look from Hidan. Deidara listened and decided not to answer Hidan's question about his blood type. Why did he ask anyway?
"Kakuzu. Money is my hobby." The brunet that jested him earlier spoke up after Hidan.
"Kakuzu-chan, money is not everything in life." Hidan lectured, causing everyone in the room to roll their eyes as if they were expecting this to happen sooner or later. "Jashin would give you salvation and blessings if you just accept him."
Who is Jashin?
"No one wants to join your bloodthirsty cult, Hidan." Kakuzu muttered dryly.
"It is not a cult, it is a religion!" Hidan defended.
"Yeah, yeah, break it up you two." A black guy suddenly broke the argument between the both of them. "Sup? I'm Hoshigaki Kisame and I love marine things. Pleased to meet you." Kisame smiled which revealed his sharp shark like teeth.
"Yeah. Your skin is blue hmm." Deidara blurted. When he realized that his statement was rather rude, he apologized and tried to make amends but Kisame only laughed about it.
"It's okay, I'm used to it. I fell ill when I was young and barely survived. My bluish skin is a kind of reminder that I could have been dead plus I look more like a shark this way." Deidara relaxed hearing that. He didn't want to offend anybody on his first day.
The next person to introduce themselves was Itachi but Deidara huffed and stuck his nose in the air while the dark haired teen grunted.
"You two act as if you know each other." Yahiko observed.
"We crossed paths at the hallway before classes." Itachi supplied.
"Oh." Yahiko nodded.
"Akasuna no Sasori. I sculpt and hate waiting." The redhead from earlier introduced himself. While everyone else chuckled or laughed about the joke Yahiko and Kakuzu pulled on him, this guy only gave a small quirk of his lips and was otherwise blank. He had a blanker and emotion void face than even Itachi.
"You're the one that said that art- katsu!- art was eternal. Let me tell you something danna, hmm, art is meant to be short and a passing thing yeah. It is the most beautiful when it dies hmm!" Deidara refuted Sasori's opinion of art but the redhead could not be convinced.
"Brat. Art is long lasting and for eternity. It is meant for continuous appreciation which only happens when it is eternal." Sasori lectured with an equally bland tone as his face was.
Deidara was about to say something more when Konan stopped them. "Something tells me that this argument will not end until Kakuzu parts with money." She ignored the brunet's indignant snort and clapped her hands. "Let's go eat guys! They're serving curry rice today."
Konan dragged Yahiko out of the class while Nagato followed quietly beside them. Hidan pocketed his hands and walked in stride with Kakuzu who kept threatening to kill him while Kisame and Itachi walked like civilized humans to the cafeteria and Deidara and Sasori continued their argument as they walked to the dining hall.
The long haired blond did not see that he was walking into somebody because of his argument until it was too late. He collided with the person who was thankfully not holding food and was happy when neither of them fell.
"Sorry, un..." He started to apologize but froze at the sight of the girl before him.
"I am sorry..." Ino, whom Deidara bumped into, started but also froze.
A sky blue eye met a teal eye.
"Oh..." Deidara started.
"My..." Ino continued.
"GOD!" They chorused. "Love the hairstyle (hmm)!" They both had the same hairstyle which consisted of a high ponytail and a side fringe. The only differences in their hairstyles was that Deidara left the lower part of his hair flowing down his back in sunny waves while Ino left hers over her shoulders. Their fringes also differed because Deidara's was on the left side while Ino's was on the right.
"May God save us from the blond apocalypse." Sasori muttered under his breath and went to take his lunch while Deidara and Ino fussed about their hairs.
"Your hair is so long!" Ino gushed as she reached out for Deidara's hair. "Can I touch it?"
"Yeah, hmm." Dei nodded.
Ino gently took his ponytail in her hands as if it were gold. "So sooft! What hair treatment do you use?" She asked.
"Shea butter, onion juice..." Deidara started but Ino cut him off.
"...coconut oil and aloe vera. Omg, I use it too!"
"I like you, hmm." Deidara patted his junior's head like every other good senior would.
"This is a meeting of destiny. I'm Ino!" Ino grinned.
"Now you sound like Neji." Sakura, who was beside Ino and waiting for her all along, muttered. She was getting impatient already but that was before she saw Deidara's nails. "Whoa!" The pinkette gasped. "This nail art is awesome!"
Deidara's left nails were painted red with white nail art birds on them. The blond flaunted his nails to Sakura and Ino, revelling in the attention from two cute jhokais. "Call me Deidara, un. I did them myself hmm. It's more like -excuse you- more like a hobby of mine hmm than anything."
"Can you do this for me please? I want cherry blossoms." Sakura begged.
"Sure." Deidara chuckled. "If you'll excuse me ladies, un, I have to go yeah."
"Oh right, Deidara-senpai!" The best friends bowed and giggled away while Deidara went to take some food and sit at his classmates' table.
"How did you get their attention? They're so cute!" Yahiko exclaimed the moment he sat down in the space between Sasori and Itachi. The ginger got a jab on the ribs from Konan because of his comment. "Oof! You know you're the only one for me, babe."
At this, everybody at the table made gagging noises except Konan, Sasori, Itachi, Nagato and Deidara, who was surprised that Konan fell for such a goofball as Yahiko.
"Your fucking PDA is giving me a mother trashing load of cringes." Hidan shuddered.
"For the first time in my life, I agree with Hidan." Kakuzu muttered.
"Ditto." Kisame added.
They started a conversation that they all joined in except for the silent ones in the group (namely; Itachi, Nagato and Sasori). While they were getting into the conversation and in some instances throwing rice grains at each other, a loud "Fine!" startled them suddenly from their discussion.
Heads turned to see who made the noise. It was a first year with golden hair and ocean blue eyes. The whiskers on his cheeks gave him away instantly to be "Namikaze?!" Deidara exclaimed in surprise.
"Eh? So the rumours were not bullshit after all." Hidan sneered. "That guy has big hanging balls to come to freaking KSA. What a load of crap!"
"Hidan, your mouth needs some soap." Kakuzu mumbled and brought a spoonful of rice to his lips.
"Nagato, are you okay?" Konan asked upon noticing the redhead's agitated state. Nagato held his spoon so tightly that everyone at the table were convinced that it would break into two. "Nagato?!" Konan called again.
This woke Nagato up and his grip on the spoon went lax. "Yeah." Nagato's purple eyes were trained on the retreating blond. The look was malicious and downright scary, much so that it got everyone at the table quiet for fear of him snapping. "I am perfectly fine."
First day of school from the Akatsuki's point of view. Why do you think Nagato was agitated?
QOTC: If you were to be reincarnated as an animé character, who would it be and why?
Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
Thanks for reading. Please review, I'd like to hear your thoughts about this chapter.
Watch out for Gaara in the next chapter!
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