Yay Chapter 2. Hope you likies.

Chapter 2: Chasing Lights, Realizations & Getting Low./b

----------- (Shikamaru POV) -----------

Prologue: Shikamaru is still lazy. He finds many things troublesome but puts up with them. He excels in all his academic studies but isn't good at food technology. He does an exchange with Ino where he lets her copy science and she bakes his food in food technology. He has a good amount of money but is not as rich as Tenten, Hinata or Neji. Both his parents are alive but he rarely sees his father because he's away on business trips constantly. His mother is always out with friends at luncheons or out with her "workmates." She sometimes brings them home for a "talk" in the bedroom. He used to worry about this but seems to not care anymore. He takes an interest in music and is a skilled pianist having needed something to kill time. He is 16 and could easily be moved up years but does not want to under the claim that he's too lazy to be bothered. However he wishes not to move up because he doesn't want to leave his friends.

"Through a martyr's eyes I can see,
I've seen the best of love, the best of hate, the best reward is earned,
I've paid for every single word I've ever said.
Confetti rainfall and the quiet street.
The beauty is in what you make it,
So get up on your feet."

Shikamaru really hated the beginning of the year assembly. Listening to Headmistress Tsuande tell them that if any of them screwed up they would be severely punished got quite annoying. She also came up with these insane punishments like chewing gum until your jaw aches and sticking it on desks until it hardens then cleaning it off. What was the point of that? If the loud voice of Tsuande and the whimpering of freshman wasn't enough Chouji had somehow managed to sneak in a jumbo packet of chips and was noisily munching on them while Sakura on his other side was pulling out her compact and checking that she hadn't messed up her makeup when she moved, every five seconds. He scanned the assembly. First in the Hazumi row behind him to his far left at the start of the row he saw Tenten and Neji containing laughter as the watched Gai-Sensei jog past. He gave a weak smile knowing he'd hear all about their insane theory later and looked at the Kyuuka row in front of him. He saw the distinctive pointy blonde hair of Naruto whom appeared to be engaged in a rock-paper- scissors war with Kiba as Shino sat playing with his bugs.

Then in front of them sat the Fuyu row. Ino and Hinata were in a conversation. Ino was fiddling with a loose strand of her hair and Hinata was giggling. Suddenly he became aware of movement around him and realized Tsuande had finally dismissed them for their break. What school had a 2 period assembly? He walked outside, Chouji and Sakura trailing behind him. Ino and Hinata appeared before him still chatting about Ino's hair product. He looked around once more and saw Naruto approaching them with 6 cups of steaming ramen. He cocked his head to the oval and he nodded. He began pushing Ino mockingly in the direction of the oval. Sakura, Chouji, Kiba and Shino were finally shaken off them as they began the walk towards the back corner of the oval. There was a large tree where they all sat. They had assigned spots. They immediately all took their spot. Ino and Hinata leaned up against the base of the tree a spot for Tenten next to Hinata when she and Neji arrived.

Naruto hopped up into the tree and began passing out ramen.

"Itadakimasu!" they all chimed. They sat in a comfortable group eating ramen discussing their break.

"Mine was so boring!" yelled Naruto through a mouthful of ramen. Naruto had spent the whole time walking around Konoha occasionally seeing his friends. Ino nodded slurping her noodles.

"Mine too! I spent the whole time arranging flowers. I didn't even bake that much." She continued on the conversation. They heard approaching footsteps and turned to see Neji and Tenten smiling. Tenten was linking arms with Neji whom was looking content. She waved and gave a big goofy smile. They all knew only Tenten could get away with this kind of physical contact. Naruto handed them their ramen and Tenten plonked herself down next to Hinata and whispered,

"Itadakimasu." Before slowly picking at her ramen. Neji also mumble his thanks and began his ramen.

"Anyone gonna tell me about your latest theory?" he asked lazily flicking a bug away from his face. Tenten looked up from her poking of the ramen and began explaining about how they thought that Gai-Sensei had been diagnosed as a young child with a disorder that made him constantly need to be complete freak. At the end they were all laughing. Naruto messily finished his ramen and directed a question at Tenten.

"Oi Ten why aren't you eating your ramen?" she was caught of guard and stammered.

"Oh well I had a large breakfast." She said handing the cup to Naruto who took it with no complaints and gobbled it down. He surveyed his group. Tenten sat quietly fiddling her fingers, Naruto eating ramen, Neji looking curiously at the brunette, Hinata had began standing on her toes (practicing for dance) and Ino looked at the clouds, an unusual fete. She caught his glance and smiled pointing her finger at a particularly puffy cloud.

"I finally get what you see in them." She said happily.

-------------------- (Hinata POV) -----------------

Prologue: Hinata is rich and lives with Neji on their estate. She is 16 years old and after a long time finally has a good relationship with her cousin. She has he Hyuga aptitude for Maths and general studies but is terrible at Music. She is an amazing dancer having studied ballet since young. She still likes Naruto but is less shy towards him after she became friends with her group. She has many admirers for her kind personality and natural beauty. Her friends call her Mahou Onpu (Magic Music) when she is in music because of how terrible she is. She finds this funny. She is aware of how her father killed her uncle and secretly despises her father for it. With a deceased mother she does a lot of motherly things for her family. However she can cook basic things but often gets Ino too cook her meals when she has dance. She is clumsy and often causes a mess when cooking due to her clumsiness.

"If you just realized what I just realized
Then we'd be perfect for each other
Then we'd never find another
Just realized what I just realized
We'd never have to wonder if
We missed out on each other now"

Hinata looked sheepishly at her core class list. She was happy but awkwardly so. She was with Naruto and Sakura. She was glad to have a friend but she was unhappy because Naruto clearly liked Sakura and she didn't want to watch half her lessons pan out into Naruto flirting with Sakura. Sighing she felt a presence behind her. Turning around she saw Naruto, his blazer hung over his shoulder as he scanned the list. Clearly he'd looked at the U's first being Uzumaki and was now looking at the H's.

"Hey Hinata you're in my class!" he said happily smiling at her. She returned the smile but almost wished she hadn't when he said,

"Oh alright Sakura too!" She faked a smile then jogged off in the direction of her locker. Once there an amazingly annoying realization hit her. She didn't have her key. She checked her pockets frantically and scanned the hallway. Damn. The bell went off signaling class. In an unusual bout of frustration she kicked her locker. She turned around angrily. Today had not been a good day. She was prepared to go and scour the oval if she had too. However someone got in her way. There stood Naruto looking quite shocked at her sudden outburst. Flushing slightly she decided to just keep walking.

She walked past him. However he was still in shock and grabbed her hand. She kept her back to him.

"Oi, Hina are you OK?" he asked genuinely concerned. She was pissed off. She didn't want to have a session of Q and A.

"Hai." She replied rather coldly to Naruto getting her hand out of his grip and continuing to walk. She walked around the corner through the quad and onto the oval. She swore she'd heard him yell something but at this point she really didn't care. It was not like her to be so cold. Maybe she'd spent too much time with Neji.

She sighed. She'd checked the entire oval and class had begun. She still had no key so decided to go to class like an idiot with leaves in her hair and no books.

'Great look Hina…' she thought.

------------------ (Naruto POV) ----------------

Prologue: Naruto is 16 and is obsessed with ramen. He brings it every second day for his friends and is oblivious to the feelings of his friends unless they are literally on the surface. He always ends up eating Tenten's ramen and usually has to discuss how he isn't in love the three hot girls he hangs out with to Kiba during his house meetings daily. His father is alive. He has a small amount of money but is well off. He does well in art mainly because when he gets older he wants to be a photographer. He is also good at sport but is below average in other classes usually resulting at a last-minute homework session with his friends who are now all in charge of one of his subjects. Even though he's oblivious Naruto cares for all his friends. He is unaware of any feelings towards his friends at the moment.

"Apple Bottom Jeans [Jeans]
Boots with the fur [With the fur]
The whole club was lookin at her
She hit the flo [She hit the flo]
Next thing you know
Shawty got low low low low low low low low"

Naruto was sitting in his History class. He had a spare seat next to him for Hinata, if she ever came. He'd made up some lie about feeling sick for her but as he flipped her key through his fingers he felt like he should go find her. He raised his hand. Eventually Kurenai-Sensei turned around and looked at him.

"Um…can I go to the bathroom?" he asked. Kurenai-sensei looked at him then briefly nodded before turning towards the board and continuing to write. He stood up still flipping her key in-between his fingers. However the moment he reached the door it was tugged open by a disgruntled looking Hinata. She had leaves through hr hair and a smudge of dirt on her nose. She looked pissed, like when Tenten had bad PMS. Or like the time the guys thought it would be funny to steal Ino's chocolate, bad idea. She barely acknowledged him as she walked into the classroom and took an open seat next to Shino Aburame of all people. Kurenai-Sensei looked at her oddly. Well who wouldn't her uniform was messed up, she had no books (he took personal blame for this) and she had dirt and leaves in her hair. She was also severely pissed off.

"Miss Hyuga, might I ask where your books are?" Kurenai-Sensei asked with genuine curiosity. He swore he saw Hinata's eyes gleam evilly before she spoke rather like Neji.

"It appears I've lost my key, Sensei." Her teacher looked at her with another hardened look before continuing to write on the board. He walked to her desk and placed the small key down before stepping back. By now they were the attention of the class. Only Kurenai-Sensei seemed to be not focusing on them.

Hinata glared at him. She clenched her hands until they went white before saying loudly.

"Why thank you Uzumaki-san for finally deciding to return my key. It's good to know that those 45 minutes of scouring the oval and getting covered in only God knows what was wasted." He flinched at the use of his last name and the bitterness in her voice as she snatched up her key. He fled the room only to hear the end of class bell go off. When he returned from the bathroom Sakura told him that Hinata had gone home with "cramps."

He sighed as he walked onto the oval towards his friends all looking at him strangely. He really didn't want to be questioned about Hinata's

Well here is Chapter 2. From now on all the characters have been introduced so yeah. It'll start getting more in-depth now. This chapter was so fun to write. Yew! Hinata pissed off is really fun. /b