A/N okies, here is the next chapter, I firstly want to say a special thank you to SagaMoon for the review XD, it made me very happy so this chapter is especially for you, and secondly…. enjoy!
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Winning Isn't Everything
Chapter 3
By AngelzGrace
Tenten frowned she could hear someone banging on her door,
"Tenten! Are you planning to wake up! Its time to get going, we should be at school in five minutes, I've been calling you for our twenty minutes!" Temari shouted,
Tenten frowned groggily, "but it's not even eight yet…go away…" she grumbled glancing at her clock and shutting her eyes again.
"Tenten I am not joking, seriously I'll go without you, you can catch a bus! I don't want to get late on my second day!"
Sighing Tenten opened her eyes the clock still read '7:43' "huh? it said that before too" she thought, then she sat up suddenly "oh my god! My clock stopped!" in a rush she ran to the bathroom to wash her face,
"Finally, we're waiting in the car for you;" Temari said as Tenten passed her at the door, "Hurry up"
"ok, I am hurrying" Tenten said coming out of the bathroom and re-entering her room running her fingers through her hair and tying them up into buns with black ribbons. Looking around she searched for something to wear, since they had only moved in a couple of days ago, she had not really put her stuff to order unlike Temari and Hinata. Rummaging through a bag she pulled out a grey sweater with 'gorgeous' written on it in pink, pulling It on, she grabbed a pair of black jeans from the floor, putting them on, she slid her feet into a pair of grey sneakers. Grabbing her bag, she left her room, running out the door and to the car.
"Finally" Temari said starting the car the moment she got in.
"It's not my fault my clock decided to stop" Tenten protested as she put on a silver necklace, "I look scruffy" she said looking into the small mirror and trying to place her fringe out of her eyes.
"Umm Tenten-Chan, I thought you might want some breakfast" Hinata said timidly from the backseat as she past Tenten a napkin that held two slices of toast.
"Oh thanks Hinata," Tenten said happily accepting them.
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"My first class is English, what are yours?" Tenten said as all three of them rushed to find their class,
"Same" Temari said slightly out of breath.
"M-mine too, 'English, room 11, third floor, w-with Kakashi sensei" Hinata added her pale cheeks tinged slightly pink from all the running. They ran up the three flights of stairs praying no one would catch them running in the halls. Reaching the top they glanced around going down the corridor until Temari abruptly stopped outside a classroom.
"It's this one" she whispered as she opened the door and entered quickly looking around to see if their teacher was already there, "wow, we're in time" she said impressed
"Actually…your not, but Kakashi's never on time" Shikamaru said lazily from his seat which was near the front of the classroom, he had his head resting on his arms.
"Hmm, right," Temari said smiling slightly, Tenten and Hinata were watching her curiously. "What?" she said to them, as she grabbed their elbows and went to find seats,
"I'm not sure but I think-" Tenten began but stopped when someone elbowed her roughly, as they pushed past. Tenten raised an eyebrow, as her lips became a pout. Temari seeing this frowned slightly
"Tenten leave it," she said as Tenten pulled her arm out of Temari's grip. Hinata grasped Temari's arm slightly tighter.
"S-she n-not going t-to get into trouble is sh-she?" she said worried
"I have no idea. Lets sit down here" Temari said taking a seat and gesturing to Hinata to sit next to her.
Tenten frowned as she saw Temari take a seat, 'I am not going to let this pass' she said crossing her arms.
"Tenten" Temari said with a look that said 'grow up'
"urgh! Fine," she muttered taking the seat behind Temari, glaring at the black haired girl who had pushed her, the girl smirked slightly as she saw Tenten look at her angrily. Hinata tapped Tenten's arm lightly, Tenten turned to look at her
"Hinata?" she asked
"A-are you o-ok?" she asked quietly
Tenten sighed, "I'm fine don't worry about me," she said looking around the classroom, everyone was lazing about, it seemed that this teacher was always late. She could see Neji, and the Uchiha who had just entered take seats next to Shikamaru. Just then, a blond boy entered laughing loudly, "Kakashi sensei still isn't here, I made it before him," he said clasping his hand behind his head.
"Not by much Naruto," a grey haired man whose face was covered by a mask, apart from one eye, said in a lazy voice as he placed a hand on Naruto's head, "ok everyone take your seats"
Naruto walked to his seat grumbling, as he passed he saw Hinata watching him with wide eyes, flashing her a grin he walked to his seat, leaving Hinata blushing, "a-ano…" she said not sure why she felt a strange feeling inside her,
"Are you ok, Hinata?" Tenten said leaning down towards Hinata who was fiddling with her fingers, Temari looked sideways while keeping an eye on the teacher, he looked lazy enough but she was sure he was sharp.
"I-I'm fine Tenten-Chan," Hinata said quietly looking around the room shyly.
"That's good," Tenten said rather louder then meaning too. Hinata and Temari winced along with Tenten. Everyone turned to look at her.
"What exactly is good Arisawa?" Kakashi sensei said as he turned away from the whiteboard, where he had been writing something about 'plays' it was the only word Tenten could understand in his scrawly looking writing.
"Oh, umm you want me to tell you what is good?" Tenten said searching for something to say
"Yes obviously, if I believe correctly I did say Arisawa, and that is your name isn't it?"
"Oh of course, I was just uh saying that umm we're doing plays right?" she said hoping she had guess right
"Yes actually, I'm surprised you were looking at the board"
"Of course I was, I love plays that's why I uh said that's good, I'm really looking forward to it," Tenten said slightly hesitant, she was terrible at writing a script,
"Ah…right, well I'm glad you do, since this will be worth half your grade for the semester" Kakashi said turning back to the board, ignoring the moans and protests that had broken out.
"That was close," Tenten said leaning back in her seat closing her eyes, Temari smiled slightly.
"Arisawa," Kakashi sensei said startling Tenten as she sat up straight
"y-yes sir?" she said sounding a little like Hinata.
"Come here and take these squares of papers and give one to every boy in the class" he said handing her a small pile of square cut paper,
"Of course" she said taking them from him and walking over to a table where a boy with green jeans, green jacket and green sneakers was sitting, he reminded Tenten of a toad in a strange way. "Here" Tenten said smiling slightly feeling guilty of what she had thought, she handed him a square.
"Thank you Arisawa san!" he said loudly as he accepted the slip, as Tenten went around passing out slips of paper to the boys, not sure what they were for,
"Now I guess you're all wondering why you got those slips," Kakashi said slowly sitting down on his chair and putting his feet on the desk. "Well let me explain, this semester English and drama will be combined, which means your work will be worth not half but your whole drama grade for this semester" Kakashi said ending loudly as the students grumbled and complained. Sakura's hand went smoothly into the air,
"Yes Haruno, what is it?" Kakashi said
"What exactly is our assignment?" Sakura said with a toss of her head
"Hmm, yes I shall explain once the boys have written their names on those slips of papers," Kakashi said as the boys wrote their names now knowing what they were for. Once they were done, Kakashi told the boys to fold them and then sent Tenten to go gather them up into a jar.
"Ok, I know where this is going," Temari said slowly
Kakashi stood up shaking the jar he went around asking each girl to pull out a slip and not to open them just yet, when he was done he went back to his desk,
"Ok now, this is how it goes, you will be paired into to groups of two, you are to compose a script and then act it out, the writing will be for your English class and the acting out for drama, and on that slip of paper it says the name of your partner for the rest of this semester in this class and drama. So when I call your name come to the front, he said not even looking at the kids to hear their complaints or shock in a few cases. Glancing at his register, he said, "Haruno Sakura,"
Sakura was whispering to a friend of hers, she looked up as her name was called, she got up smiling slightly, walking to the front she handed her slip to Kakashi a confident look on her face, some of the boys waited with baited breath to see who would she be partnered up with. Kakashi opened it and after glancing at Sakura for a moment or two he said "Uchiha Sasuke" there was a ton of girls who sighed in defeat. Sasuke frowned slightly of all the girls Sakura was one of the ones who was at the bottom of his list to be partnered up with, Kakashi jotted their names down on a paper and told Sakura to return to her seat. Which she did smiling at Sasuke as she passed him, all she got in return was an 'Hmph' from him. As Kakashi went through everyone Tenten watched the class, the boy called Akimichi Chouji was extremely happy when he was partnered up with Yamanaka Ino, who in return was seething and annoyed that Sakura was partnered up with Sasuke.
"How lame…" Tenten said, then turning to see the black haired girl whose name was 'Kin' who had shoved her earlier walk to her seat, she had been partnered up with the frog like boy Rock Lee. She did not seem happy about it, "heh"
Just then Hinata was called to the front, as Neji was one of the boys left, she was terrified and as she handed her piece of paper to Kakashi she started fiddling with her fingers looking at the ground. "Uch- eh…" Kakashi broke off, frowning, he glanced at Sakura then at Hinata and then at Sasuke, after a moment he took up a previous slip of paper and the one in his hand, and folding them up he walked over to Sasuke, "Uchiha, which of these is yours?" Kakashi said placing the two slips of papers open in front of Sasuke, Sasuke raised an eyebrow and picked one up,
"Obviously this one," he said with a drawl,
"I thought so, it has the Uchiha symbol drawn under the name too," Kakashi said returning to his desk he said, "Uchiha Sasuke and Hyuuga Hinata, Sakura, do you have something to say?"
Sakura looked annoyed and slightly embarrassed, "No not at all, I'm not sure what you mean"
"very well, I guess the last boy left was the one who's name was on your actual slip" Kakashi said going back to his list, Ino smirked at Sakura who glared back. Tenten watched Sasuke shake his head at something Shikamaru said, all three boys smirked slightly. "Snobs" Tenten muttered quietly watching Temari pass her slip to Kakashi, "Nara Shikamaru" Temari who had been examining her nails looked up and smiled slightly as Shikamaru looked at her, "a troublesome woman" he said despite the smile on his face. As Temari made her way to her seat, Tenten gave her a small smile, and then returned to her gazing around the classroom, she saw the Uchiha say something to Shikamaru who smiled and shook his head slightly. Neji slowly tossed his long hair over his shoulder, as he glanced at Hinata a calculating look in his eyes, Tenten glared, Neji turned feeling someone watching him. He saw Tenten glaring at him, after a moment he turned away. Tenten started mumbling to herself and did not realize that she was being called,
"-ten" Temari said tapping Tenten on the shoulder.
"What?" Tenten said sitting up properly.
"You're up" Temari said quietly
"Huh? Oh uh right!" Tenten said standing up, her slip of paper fell from her hand she bent down to pick it up, Hinata reached down and picked it up, "H-here" she said passing it to Tenten.
"Thanks Hinata" she said smiling at her then making her way to the front, she passed her paper to Kakashi and lent against the wall arms crossed, foot tapping softly. "Hyuuga Neji" Kakashi said writing the name down.
"What?!" Tenten said startled, "sir are you sure it says that?"
"I'm sure Arisawa, the reason I made these papers were so there would be no problems," he said lazily
"Right," Tenten said going back to her seat in a huff. Taking her seat she put her head on her arms and began looking around the class, there was only a few people left, when it was finally over, and Sakura ended up with Uzumaki Naruto, who was extremely happy unlike Sakura. Kakashi sat down again; there was only about twenty minutes until the bell went.
"The plays you are to write will be based on Shakespeare 'Romeo and Juliet' but in your own versions and you can have it set in any time and era, make sure you make time to work on it," Kakashi said just as the bell rand all the kids started getting up, "remember this will cost you your grade!" he finished loudly over the noise.
"Oh god! Not that pretty boy Hyuuga" Tenten grumbled to Hinata and Temari. "I can't be partnered up with him again"
"I-I'm sorry Te-Tenten Chan i-it's my f-fault that you sit next t-to him i-in the o-other class" Hinata said quietly
"It's ok Hinata, I'm just complaining, I mean with that hair, I can just make him Juliet" Tenten said laughing, "guys, that was a joke?" she said not understanding the reason why Hinata had gone white and Temari had an eyebrow raised, smirking slightly at something behind Tenten. She turned around coming face to face with Neji,
"What do you want?" she asked roughly, she would never admit it but she felt slightly scared to see him standing in front of her right after hearing what she had just said about him.
"One thing Arisawa, my education matters to me, I prefer to come first, this project may not mean much to you, but it means a lot to me, after school today, meet me outside near my car," Neji said turning to walk away. Tenten not sure how to reply to that came out with "I wont know which is your car"
Neji did not turn back, "you will know" with that; he was lost in the crowd. Leaving Tenten feeling annoyed "argh! He is so annoying, let's go get lunch," she said linking arms with Temari and Hinata she made her way to the cafeteria not looking forward to the end of school.
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As the bell rang and Temari caught up with Hinata and Tenten outside their class, "listen, you'll get home later or would you like me to pick you up?" she asked Tenten
"I'll get home, you don't worry" Tenten said loudly over the noise is the corridor.
"ok see ya later Tenten" Temari said "come on Hinata"
"H-hai, bye Tenten Chan" Hinata said making to follow Temari, when someone called her,
"Hinata," Hinata turned to see Uchiha Sasuke standing there looking of to the window,
"y-yes Uchiha san?" Hinata said timidly.
"I'm serious about this assignment, I come nothing but top, so tomorrow at break meet me in the main hall by the entrance" without waiting for an answer he turned and left.
"Wow, how polite," Tenten said sarcastically, Hinata just smiled at Tenten, waved and ran to catch up with Temari who had gotten far ahead.
"Oh well, lets go meet 'Mr I am so cool" Tenten said slinging her bag over her shoulder, she made her way to the entrance of the building.
A/N well I hope you like it so far, XD drop me a review if you like, it makes me happy P
Ja'ne