02. Detention
Even back then we got ourselves into so much trouble.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Naruto exclaims grumpily, when he and the guys sit on their usual spot outside of school. "Why me as lab partner with the Hyuuga richie?!"
Kiba looks up from his spot on the ground. "You're not the fucking only one with a richie, Naruto," he huffs, just as grumpy as Naruto. "Be happy you got the shy one, and not the loud-mouth like me. Plus, Hinata isn't that bad." Kiba glances at him.
"Naruto!" the yell rings through the place and the guys look up. A certain pink-haired women is storming at the group. "If you only even dare to hurt her," she squints her eyes, "I will personally make sure that you're not able to walk for two, three, maybe four weeks!" Sakura looks angry, and not a little. And when she is angry, boy, you sure don't dare to misbehave.
"Yes ma'am!" Naruto squeaks, a little afraid of the women.
"Good boy. When you go home- Are you going to pass by Hana's animal shelter?" She receives a quick nod from Naruto. "Then say hi to Kurama from me too." She makes an attempt to walk away, but turns around again. "Oh yeah, and this weekend we're going to do something special, just the two of us. So be ready, it's going to be so much fun!" With that, Sakura turns around, again, and walks away, leaving a startled and confused Naruto behind.
"Wait, what did she just say?" he mumbles, utterly confused.
"You're in for a kinky weekend with Sakura... Dude, I'm so jealous." The boys laugh at Kiba's comment.
"Kiba, what the hell?! She's the sister I never had! No way in hell we would do something like that!" Naruto screeches. In the meantime, he has stood up to make his statement clearer than it probably already was.
"Let it sway. Women are troublesome. She's probably going to take you out for shopping or such," says Shikamaru. Naruto noticed he wanted to say something more, but he had quickly closed his mouth after he, probably, changed thoughts of doing such. He recovers himself and settles back down on the grass to take a nap.
"Let's hope not," Naruto breathed. He hates it when Sakura took him out for shopping. Last time, he had to hold twenty-one bags for her. No thank you, not again.
Naruto looks at the group of girls standing not that far away from them, the group where Sakura ran off to. All the richies together, standing there, probably talking about some huge fashion mistake someone made. He chuckled. In the past, Ino had said something about him and some other guys. Sakura had made sure that she would never say such things again about him.
"What do we have for next class?" Naruto asks them.
"Another hour of biology. Another hour with the loud-mouthed Yamanaka girl. Shoot me if you can, please," Kiba begs.
Naruto laughs as Kiba presses his hands together and almost goes down on his knees. "I feel you, man," he sighs. "Another hour with that shy Hyuuga girl. If anyone has a gun, shoot me too, please."
"Naruto, you got an easy one. I have to go with your so-called sister, Sakura," Sasuke grunts.
"But Sasuke, she's hot. Ever since she's growing her hair, she becomes prettier and prettier," Kiba says.
Naruto stands up and next to Kiba. "I have to agree with that. Did you ever look at her in the right way?" He nods and then looks up, noticing something. "Guys... Where's Suigetsu? I know that he doesn't have Biology with us, but he should be here, right?"
"He texted me, saying that he got sick. A cold or something. His mom didn't accept it to let him go to school. Mothers are such a drag," Shikamaru mumbles.
Pling!
Naruto looks up. That was his phone which pling-ed. He takes his phone from his pocket and sees he's got a new message. From Sakura.
Message from: Sakura
Hint for this weekend: I'm going to get something you already have.
Reminder: I'll kill you if you hurt her.
Love~
Naruto grunts. "Great," he mutters.
"Who's that?" Kiba asks. The curious bastard.
"Sakura," he replies. Sasuke looks up from his own phone. Oh, so now he's interested? "She gave me a hint for this weekend: I'm going to get something you already have. This couldn't probably be anything good."
"That's hot," Kiba says. "I bet for a haircut, since you got yours a week or two/three ago. Or she'll go bald. Or she wants a piercing through her nipple. Or-"
"I don't have a nipple piercing!?" Naruto screams out. Maybe a little too hard, because everyone surrounding them in a radius of ten to fifteen meters is able to hear him and has turned around. Kiba bursts out in laughter and almost falls on his back. "Fuck. Like I said, I don't have that!"
"Yet," Kiba adds and laughs like crazy, finally rolling on his back.
"I think she wants a tattoo." The boys look up.
"Pretty boy says what?" Naruto says. "Teme, I think that there'd be no way in hell Sakura, Miss Goodie-goodie, would want a tattoo. Not in a million years."
"Then maybe you don't know her that well after all. Think about it, dobe. She's lived with you forever. You, who's 'gone punk' or whatever you wanna call it, and got a bunch of tattoos. Don't you think she'd want the same?"
That got Naruto thinking. "Hell, I don't know." He shakes his head. "Probably not."
"You'll never know," Kiba commented.
Naruto sighed. "Do I even want to? Her parents already freaked out seeing me with my tattoos, imagine how they would react if they saw their cute little baby princess walking around with one." He shudders.
The school bell rings and it's time to get back inside again.
"Please, Lord, if you're there, be with me," he mumbles and walks inside the school building. 'This day is far from over.'
Kiba glances once again at him. "C'mon Naruto, Hinata isn't that bad."
"Yeah, yeah," Naruto mutters, feeling defeated. 'Maybe Kiba's right. Got to give the girl a chance.'
Coming inside the classroom, Naruto sees Hinata already sitting on their spot. 'Alright then, here we go.' He walks to her and sits down next to her.
"Hello, N-Naruto-kun," she says and he nods in response.
He turns around, facing the wall, and places his hand under his chin. Bored, he notices a sheet of paper under his arm. "What's this?" he asks.
"We have a test tomorrow," she says, a little shy. Naruto turns to look at her. "I… I thought you would need some paper to write notes down, so- so I grabbed it for you."
He shoots her a small smile. "Oh, I see, thanks." Hinata blushes and turns the other way. Naruto shrugs and faces the wall again.
"Okay, underlings." Kakashi-sensei walks into the classroom. "Today I'm going to give you the last notes needed for the test so be smart and write it down," he says and eyes each of his students. "I'm not going to say it twice. Oh, and if we have time left I want you all to do a little test with your new partner." He pinches the bridge between his nose. For as far as his students are able to see, his face looks exhausted. Standing in front of his desk with the book in front of him, on the desk, Kakashi-sensei starts talking about the subjects needed for tomorrow.
Naruto tries to make out words of it, but can't keep his mind on it. He only sees Kakashi-sensei's lips moving beneath the fabric hiding his mouth, his eye making a few expressions and his hands moving to 'explain it better'. Naruto shakes his head and faces the wall again. He's going to Ace this test either way, he doesn't really worry. The only thing on his mind is Sakura. What is she planning to do? Weekend starts tomorrow after school, and he's dying to know when she wants to do the 'special thing'. If it is going to be a tattoo, he could also just take a new one. He hasn't gone to Yahiko's tattoo shop Akatsuki in ages and he should pay Konan a visit, too.
He looks at the paper beneath his arms. 'What about drawing my own tattoo,' he thinks and starts to draw. He places his pencil on the paper and starts to draw lines.
After a few attempts, he gets a nice design and started to draw it over a few more times.
What he doesn't know is that Kakashi-sensei sees him not paying attention, and wants to say anything about it, but remembers we will get a good mark either way, so he doesn't really care.
"Okay, that was that," Kakashi-sensei says. Naruto looks up and turns his paper. "I want you all to prepare the stuff needed for your experiment. You all have five minutes." The start sign for the class to talk and walk around the classroom.
"N-Naruto-kun," Hinata says and Naruto turns from Kakashi-sensei to her. "If you grab the glass slide and the bacteria needed, then I will prepare the microscope." She fiddles with her fingers, and blushes a little.
Naruto grunts. "Fine by me," he says, and walks to the front of the class to grab the bacteria and the glass. A yawn escapes his mouth and sees Sasuke grinning at him. He points his middle finger at him and Sasuke returns it. Naruto grins and sees Sakura walking in his direction.
"Hey," she greets him.
"Hi," he says back. "How're things going with Sasuke?"
"Hush it," she says, giving him a whack on his shoulder. "Shouldn't you be concerned about Hinata? If you let her wait any longer, I'm gonna lose it and Kiba's gonna lose it." She points to Kiba, who's growling at him. "And if you'll ever hurt her in the future, remember what I said right?"
Naruto's confused. "What future?"
"Nothing." And Sakura walks away.
"Okay, that was strange," he says and eyes Hinata, who's already done preparing the microscope.
She's already noting down the particular points that are needed to get the first few points of your grade. He walks back to her, carefully holding onto the glass with the bacteria.
"I'm back."
Hinata looks up. "Ah, N-Naruto-kun, perfect." She takes the glass from his hands and places it under the microscope. "Oh… I see you didn't grab the other glass…"
"There was another?" Hinata nods.
"Yeah, but it is okay," she says softly. "I will grab it, you should adjust the microscope to the right view so we can perfectly note down the things we see." He nods and she walks away. Even though she doesn't stutter much, she's really shy when it comes to talking to people that it almost looks like stuttering, he noticed.
He moves his head to the microscope and puts his eyes on the tubes. 'Ah, the shitty little bacteria. Gross.'He hears Hinata returning and sticks out his hand, for her to place the glass on it. Which she sees and does.
"What does it look like?" she asks.
"A gross blur," he answers and there escapes a small laugh from out Hinata's mouth. "Here look for yourself," he says to her and makes an attempt to stand up and to let Hinata look through the eye holes. When he notices Hinata is not reacting to his suggest, he sees that she has turned his paper, being amazed by his art. "Hinata! You're not supposed to look at that," he says, not angry, just a little embarrassed. Only a few people know that he can draw.
"I'm sorry!" she squeals and a little scared. He shushes her and she pays attention to him. "I will take a look," she says and moves over to the microscope. He sighs, it was not like her – and he knew – for her to act like that.
Naruto looks at the other slide and sees that those bacteria are with way more, since he's able to see them.
"Good," Hinata says. "If… If you want to, you can describe what you see and then I'll write it down? If you want to, I- I mean."
Naruto huffs a laugh. "Of course," he says. "Then we'll be sure that everything's noted down perfectly, right?"
Hinata nods and grabs a new piece of paper and a pen and Naruto starts to talk what kind of blurry, blobby substance he sees.
While Naruto's looking throw the tubes, Hinata takes a peek at his features, his concentrated face.
"Hinata, can you hand me the other slide? Then I'll describe that one, too."
No response. Though, a hand moves to get the glass slide.
"Hinata, can you give the other slide?" Naruto asks again.
Again, no response. Two hands bumping into each other. A slide falling and breaking on the ground. Glass is shattered all over the floor and the bacteria are running free.
"Hinata!" Naruto yells. The breaking of the glass made her wake up out of her thoughts. A scared look plastered on her face.
The whole class is silent. For a minute no one dares to say a thing.
Then it is Naruto who breaks the silence with his laughter and the two groups sitting next to them start to grin too. Hinata starts to giggle and Naruto is barely able to stand on his feet.
"Okay, what's so…funny?" Kakashi-sensei, who has just come back from getting coffee, asks. "What's going on?" His eyes land on Naruto, bouncing his head on the desk. "Uzumaki Naruto! I should have known it was you!" he yells.
"Sorry, sorry," he says between his laughs.
Kakashi-sensei grumbles. "What's broken this time?"
"A slide, sir!" Ino yells from the other side of the classroom. Naruto stops with laughing and turns to glare at her.
"I see. This is the umpteenth time again! There isn't one time where I can leave the classroom in peace, and you have to break something." Kakashi-sensei exhales. "This time I'm going to give you detention. I'm sorry, but you really reached my limit." The glass grins and some laughs are audible.
"Fuck," he curses. He eyes Kakashi-sensei, who looks back at him.
'Was that a wink? Or did he just blink?'
"And since Hyuuga is your partner, I guess I have – with pain in my heart – to send also her to detention, too."
Naruto's eyes almost bulge out of his cranium. "You've got to be kidding me," he exclaims. "Me, okay, I'm fine with that. But Hinata?" He emphasizes her name. "Not okay."
"I'm sorry, but I wasn't here when it happened, so I have to give the both of you detention," Kakashi-sensei declares. Naruto grunts. "And that's my final."
Hinata moves her hand to Naruto's arm. "It… It is okay, Naruto-kun…" she whispers.
"I am not going to let it end this way."
"I see it's also almost time. Class, clean your stuff, and I'll see you guys on Monday. Uzumaki, Hyuuga, please clean the mess that you made," Kakashi-sensei says and narrows his eye at them, while arranging his papers. "I'll see the two of you after school."
Naruto retrieves his hand through his blond locks. "Damn it."