Hime-sama
by: Bakunawa
III. Dead Last 2
(Sasuke POV)
"What the hell is she doing in here?"
"Sasuke-kun, do you know that girl? They say she's the Hokage's daughter." A pink-haired girl sitting beside me heard me mumbling. What's her name again?
"Oh, Sakura, you're such a country bumkin," Ino, the girl sitting on my other side, interjects in a whisper, "Of course, Sasuke knows she's the Hokage's daughter. We all see her enough during annual festivities where the Hokage-sama needs to be publicly seen and Sasuke's older brother Itachi works very closely with the Hokage himself so Sasuke's bound to meet her sometime. Am I right, Sasuke-kun?"
Sometimes, it's scary how accurate the information girls can get from idle chatting alone. It's also equally annoying.
"But like Sasuke said," the Yamanaka girl continued, "What is she really doing here in school? Last time I checked, Hokage-sama had her forbidden to even step out of their house gate. This is the first time I actually seen her up close and personal too."
"Really?"
The girl in question is actually standing in front of the class with Iruka-sensei, who was introducing her and at the same time encouraging the class to help make a good experience for the Hokage's daughter.
"Yeah, but you wouldn't really know about it, Sakura, since you came from a civilian family."
"Y-yeah, you're right." The Sakura-girl agrees too quickly. I roll my eyes silently. None of the girls noticed.
"I guess one could get a bit lonely when you're all alone in such a big fancy house," Ino marches on, clearly she never tires of hearing her own voice. "But look at that outfit? Who wears neon orange on any given time and place? I guess that's what you get when you've been locked up all your life."
"I-I-I think orange r-really goes well with Naruto-hime," another voice whispers from behind. It's the Hyuuga heiress.
"Well, that's just your opinion, Hinata. Everyone knows you've been coming and going from the Hokage's house for years."
Only that statement from the Yamanaka girl perks my interest a tiny bit. Naruto did mention once or twice having another friend visit almost regularly. I never knew it had been the Hyuuga heiress though.
"What's it like in there anyway?" Another girl whose name I also always fail to remember asks the Hyuuga, of which the other girl stammers for a reply. And so the idle chatting commences.
How did I end up being surrounded by girls, you might ask? The reason is ironic actually. I wanted to get away from them!
Randomly choosing a table near the back usually deters the fairer population of the class. It might be because this is where the 'Uncool' usually take their seats. But for some reason today, the 'Queen Bee' and her pink-haired 'Side Kick' rolled their proverbial leaves up and nicely (and I mean sickeningly sweet 'nicely') demanded my earlier seatmates to take another table.
I should have seen that as a sign already because whenever things involved girls, particularly girls in my class, something bad-or in my usual case, humiliating-happens.
And now Naruto is here, looking very smug at me. What's up with that though, I have no idea.
Something tells me that it was going to be a long day today.