The day was pulling, the teachers were all introducing themselves, seating-arrangements were sometimes made, other times the teachers didn't care and told them to just make sure they weren't too loud and paid attention to their lessons. One thing thought pulled through the whole day, nobody talked with her. It seems it doesn't matter where she is, she will always be the freak with no friends.
Sucks to be me…
As the bell rung and their teacher tried to get them to listen to him while he told them about their homework she fast scribbled down the information. It was time for lunch. She was a bit nervous about lunch. She took her sweet time to get to the cafeteria; most students seemed to do that and only a few stayed in class. She vaguely noted that her sister sat with a group of people and was laughing while she was the outcast. As she took a place in the row she scanned the cafeteria for any free tables, it seemed there were none, but then she caught one, it gave off the awkward atmosphere of loner and had people from various classes mixed. With a small mental note she went with the line and got food onto her bright orange tray.
After she paid for the food she slowly made her way over to the table, caution! It could all be a false lead and she could actually intrude on some club of weirdos. Her worries however were completely unnecessary as the people on the table scattered away as soon as she opened the mouth and asked if she could sit there. It was strange and she felt slightly insulted. Was she that much of an alien? Did nobody, even the outcast, want anything to do with her? With a shaky breath she put her try down and sat down, she had a really hard time with not simply starting to cry. It hurt. Even if she didn't know anybody, no BECAUSE she didn't even know anybody. What was their god damned problem?! Her sister didn't even look all that much different from her and her they accepted like she was just like them, what made people so cautious of her?
With a bitter taste in her mouth she began to eat. Life was a bitch to her. It felt unfair and again she held back her tears. Her spoon was unforgiving as it murdered the vanilla pudding and ripped a part of its yellow flesh out, brown chocolate-blood began to leak out and drop from the spoon as the pudding had lost the fight with the spoon. She didn't even feel better with the pudding! Now she really felt like crying. She was the outcast of the fudging outcaste outcasts!
A few tables further into the cafeteria there sat a group of other students of the first year, all of them knew the others back to their sandcastle-building days. But it seemed only one noticed the lone girl and the way she was avoided by all. The light gray eyes of her watched the girl as she slowly ate, not as delicate as she herself was brought up bit still with an undefinable grace. Even as she frowned and pouted at her food it seemed like she was a sad princess.
"Ne Hinata-chan! What are you looking at?!" The shy girl flinched and turned to see Kiba, one of her closest friends press himself right into her face, she pulled back a little while her cheeks blushed to a light pink.
"Eh?"
"You keep looking into that direction with that sad look, what's up?" he tried to find out what it was, sadly he seemed unable to see the sad princess Hinata saw. He even completely overlooked her.
"Oi, it's that alien-girl." Naruto didn't seem to overlook her, but he neither saw the princess.
"EH?! Naruto! Tell me you didn't say that to her face, that's sooo rude!" As Sakura began to stare at the blonde with shock he rubbed the back of his neck.
"I only asked her if she was, she didn't answer, only ignored me and read further, so if someone was rude, it was her!" He crossed his arms and nodded as if to confirm what he just said. His head fell forward as Sakura gave him a slap to the back of his head, Hinata smiled a little.
"That was rude you idiot!" She screeched angry at her blonde friend.
"What did Dickless do now?" Sai put his tray down, always happy when it was Naruto and not him that got punches from Sakura.
"He called some new girl an alien right to her face." TenTen provided while chuckling as Sakura reprimanded Naruto for rude behavior.
"Who did what?"
"So un-youthful!" Neji and Lee joined them at their table. They all were used to Sakura beating Naruto and Sasuke sometimes offering new insults for the pink-haired girl, it was no normal day when Naruto didn't do something to gain Sakura's wrath.
"Naruto, that girl over there if I'm not mistaken." TenTen said and pointed her spoon at the girl, she was by now looking really miserable. Hinata felt bad, maybe she should go over and apologize for Naruto? She should, and she really wanted to talk to the sad princess! Ah… but what could she say? She was way too shy for this. Again Hinata cursed at herself for being too shy. Her pale gray eyes went back to the girl, however something else caught her eye, or rather, someone else. She watched nervous as he made his way over to her.
She had just finished with her pudding as a clank got her to look up, okay maybe she glared a bit but she had a bad mood right now. Her glare-glance was met by the strangest eyes she had ever seen. They were red, like, red-red with strange black musters in them. He didn't glare, so she slowly let her glare fall down. He simply sat down, not asking if there was a place free, was it that easy to see that she was an alien?! Another clank as yet another tray was put onto the table followed by a third one, now she felt like she was intruding, not them. She frowned again, she was losing her appetite. Ah but maybe she was really the strange one, maybe they just wanted to be friends? She glanced up yet again, another man with those strange red eyes had sat down, the third one had her blink, he was blue. Like, literally blue.
"You're blue…" Her eyes widened as the one that first sat down began to laugh and the other red-eyed one had the hint of a smile on his face. The blue one however, he now frowned.
"Ah, s-sorry! It just slipped out, I didn't mean to say it like that!" She fast rambled before looking back down at her food. She had no right to talk to them, they probably always ate at this table, so she should see to finish fast and then get lost.
"Ahahahaha! Ah, don't worry cutie-chan, Fishy here gets that often at firs meetings." She glanced up at the laughing one, he was the first one to sit down.
"I told you to not call me Fishy, you blind Sushi!" The blue one growled.
Wow, that's some dip shit deep voice… it's kinda hot, no! Bad!
"You are both making bad first impressions on the female part of this table. I'm Uchiha Itachi. This is my cousin Uchiha Shisui and our friend Hoshigaki Kisame."
"Uhm… Braun Lena." She squeaked out and fast shut her mouth again, looking down she blushed, hell was that embarrassing! She fast took a spoon full of carrots to not have to talk.
"My, the cutie has a cute name, Lena-chan, doesn't that sound nice, ne Tachi-chan?"
"Hn."
"Ignore the Sushi, he flirts with everything that has bust and butt when it's not on the tree at three." She shot a glance at Kisame. He didn't seem angry with her earlier blunter. Swallowing she pulled her crazy little self together, she could be shy some other time, she had thought she had gotten rid of that with the time?!
"I hope it's not rude but… how come you're blue?" He looked at her, then blinked and then laughed. She felt herself blush again as quite a few stares were shot into their direction.
"I honestly have no idea, some genetic mutation? I like you, you've got guts Kitten." He gave her a light slap to the shoulder, or she supposed it was light, but she still was jerked forward a bit. Deciding to try and eat some more she went back to her food, thought the feeling of crying thankfully had left her.
"Ne, Lena-chan, what class are you in? You look too young to be in high school." She looked up with her mouth full at Shisui? She wasn't all sure she got it right. She fast chewed and then swallowed. She found it rude to talk with a full mouth, it was the reason she didn't do it herself.
"I'm in first year of high school actually." His eyebrows shot up.
"You're darn small, sweetie!" He said and let a small whistle flow through the chatter of the cafeteria. She frowned.
"No really duh?" She deadpanned.
"Pfff-!" Kisame? She still wasn't too sure about their names, pressed his fist onto his mouth to hold in the laughter, the last one of them looked just like before, like he was just short of a real smile, but at the same time his amusement was clear, at least for her.
"Do you play any sports? Like, cheerleading?" he suddenly asked she leaned slightly back.
"No…?" She was a bit confused.
"You don't smoke, do you? Cause that could complain why you're so small." She narrowed her eyes at him.
"Is your attention-span this unfocused it has to nail itself to the next best topic brought up?" She snapped, sure, that was rude as fuck, but she didn't care right now. He was being rude too. She had made it obvious that it was not her most love topic, so why did he have to ride around on it?!
"So Lena-kun, have you already decided on a club?" She looked at the in the middle… Itachi?
"Uh, I'll probably join the creative or art department, there isn't all that much else I'm interested in. Why?"
"Art? That's good, want to join our club? We do art. All different kinds thought, feel special, we're exclusive Kitten." Kisame said and grinned, his teeth looked sharp, Lena suddenly noticed.
"Exclusive?" She raised a skeptical brow at that.
"Yes, but if you show promise in the entrance test we might let you in, Cutie-chan." Shisui winked at her and she shot him a flat look.
"Entrance test…?"
"We have a lot of people wanting to join each year, so we do a test. Our club is for people who already have the ability and the talent for art. We each have different types of art we specialize in." Itachi calmly stated. Suddenly she felt the feeling of loneliness come back. They only wanted to recruit some people for their test, probably girls to have something to ogle. And now they were making fun of her. She lost her appetite and a look at her watch told her that lunch wasn't all that long anymore.
"Well, excuse me, but I have to get back to class now." She smiled and left the table, tray in hand before she threw the leftovers away and put the tray on top of the other ones already building a small tower.
She did not notice the gray eyes that followed her, thought sad that she herself couldn't do all that much, she was happy the sad princess had gotten away from those people. Sure Sasuke's brother was nice and all, but their club seemed to chew out people. She did not want that for the sad princess.
Lena sat on the stairs, school was out, only the afterschool clubs were here, she had no idea which to join, but she had to join one. So here she was, sitting on the loathed stairs to find a club she would maybe not loath. But from this it seemed impossible. There were way too many athletic-clubs and too little that were for the head. From the way things looked she would have to choose one of the athletic ones. Just which one? Track was out, she could run a little bit, but not fast and since her bust decided it had to grow that wasn't all that much up her alley anymore. Cheerleading was out of the question, she was not thin enough, and neither had she the braveness, to flash her belly like that. Rugby and those were out too, she was no fan of getting hurt!
She groaned as she let her head fall against the wall next to her, this was useless! Or maybe it was just she that was useless? Another groan left her, how stupid all this was.
"U-uhm…" She slowly turned to see who had tried to speak with her, the girl that was standing at the foot of the stairs had a bright blush over her cheeks, her pale-gray eyes were uncertain and hushed back and forth, while she pressed her index fingers together nervously.
"I-I uh… I'm…Hyuuga Hinata. I'm… uhm I'm… leading the litera-ature club…" Well, there was something interesting now!
"You…you l-look like you do-don't know which c-club to t-t-take." She didn't look into her eyes. Lena smiled slightly, she felt reminded of herself. That means, herself a few years younger than now. Years had obviously done something for her in the shy-department. Hey she could at least talk with people normal, she just didn't really like it. Ah, but now she through a bit about it, literature did sound quite nice, writing and reading, nothing where you could get hurt apart from a few paper cuts, but she could live with those.
"That actually sounds interesting." For a few seconds the black-haired girl stared at her with her mouth forming a small o, then she blushed and looked down.
"W-We are in charge o-of the n-newspaper for t-the school too!" She hastily stammered out before hopefully looking up. Lena smiled.
"Newspaper? Well, why not, thought I would need a bit of help in that department. I never wrote anything for any kind of newspaper." The black-haired nodded fast before she seemed to remind herself of something, opening her bag, it was one you would rather associate with businessmen than with students, as it was a shiny black with a golden metal clasp. She pulled out a sheet of paper and held it up, Lena curiously took it.
"I-It's a small chart of w-what we do." She explained and Lena curious let her eyes roam over the sheet.
"I-I was g-going to hang it u-up at the b-black board. F-for those that w-want to know w-what the c-clubs are l-like." She smiled a shy smile and Lena blinked, damn that woman was beautiful.
"Aa. Let's hang it up then."
"I-I already have t-the first three f-floors." She said and Lena nodded, standing up and waiting for the black-haired to join her, she soon heard the steps next to her and glanced to the side, she was a bit taller than average, she would guess, but that only underlined her beauty. The blonde haired felt reminded of a princess, she only missed the frilly clothes and the knight protecting her. The two went up to their own floor of classes and to the resident black board, pinning the sheet.
"W-we are always o-on the second floor. R-Room 302."
"Okay, did you start today?"
"N-Not yet… but I-I was going to g-go now."
"Then I'll come with you if it's okay." The black-haired nodded. Lena smiled and took a first real look at her Uniform, it was blue with a long white and frilly button-up jacket over it in the snowiest white she had ever seen with baby-blue accents set.
The obviously older girl lead her down the two floors and to the room, inside there were tables pushed to the walls, computers ordered and a few second and third year students ruffling around with paper, some with ink for the printers, those were always right next to the computer. The tables pushed to the wall by the window spotted a lot of half-boxes with kanji for names on it, some already had paper in it filling the space, others only had a few papers inside and one part of the half-boxes was entirely empty. The empty ones didn't have kanji for names yet.
Sitting at a desk in front of a big white-board was an old man, he had already gray hair and wore a black haori over his white button-up shirt. As the door opened he looked up and smiled as he saw Hinata, putting the papers he had read down.
"Ah, you brought us a new addition to the club. I'm Sarutobi Hiruzen."
"Braun Lena." She offered and was led by Hinata towards the boxes, she pulled one of the cards out from behind the plastic holding it and went over to a small machine.
"T-Tip in your n-name please." Lena stared at the strange device, still unused to writing her name in kanji she had to search a bit before she found the right one and got her name down, she gave the machine back to the black-Haired. Said one was now pushing the Paper in and pressing some button, the paper was slowly sucked inside the machine as a small rattling noise was created and the paper got pushed out of the other side, now with the kanji for her name on it.
Hiruzen-sensei, as he refused Sarutobi-sensei saying that would be his son, had Hinata show her how to work with the computer, she got her own one assigned, thought it was in the adjoining room, there were pretty many computers, but with the mass of students probably joining it had to be. The printers were smaller in that room, but just as good as the bigger ones in the main room of the club. After getting her used to the computer, which from now own would be hers she got told, she was asked what she thought of photography.
"Uh… I like it?" she had shrugged and Hiruzen-sensei had smiled.
"Good, want to make the photos for us? Our last photographer graduated last year, so we need a few new ones."
"Uh, sure, why not." It seemed the school provided you with everything if needed. Hinata gave her a camera which she just knew from the looks to be an incredibly good one that cost quite much. To the camera she was given a bag for it which contained SD-cards to save the pictures as well as an adapter to get the pictures on the computer.
"Oh, you will need this too, when you decide to write at home, sometimes it's just better there." Hinata smiled and gave her an USB-Stick, thought it had quite some space on it.
"We never let much on it, as we copy everything into our folders here at our computers, but you never know."
"Okay… this is quite incredible." She had to sign a paper, first for joining the club, then one to make sure she would treat the given materials with respect and care.
"Aa… but everybody i-is so much f-fun." She smiled with Hinata.
"Hinata-kun, Lena-kun how about you two get going around the school and make the photos for the clubs? We could use a few interviews from the heads too. So the students will know what awaits them tomorrow."
"Hai!" The two girls chorused. Lena slung the camera-bag around herself and took a small block and a pen, Hinata would do the interviews, she had told, to show her how it was done. Like that they left the room and Hinata lead her through the school, it was fun making photos of the club, the sports or athletic clubs made sure to show either their members from the higher years or what they did if possible. The school had a lot more interesting clubs she had to say, now that she had a real look over the things. When you only had a list it was quite hard to decide on something as you didn't know what it all entailed.
Hinata was really good at interviewing and it seemed she slowly lost her stutter the more the two went around. During the interviews she didn't even stutter once, only jotted down the answers of the head of club. It was fun, until they reached the football curt and a loud screech made itself know over every other noise.
"It's the alien-girl!"