How To Catch Someone's Eye

Ch. 12 "Competition?"

I don't own Naruto, but I wish I did.

The Next Day.

Naruto groaned as he trudged to the school building. Another day of nothing.

As he neared the front gate, he spotted a familiar color of raven.

"Hinata!" He immediately called out.

He saw her flinch before she turned around. Her expression of horror instantly relaxed to a small warm smile.

"N-Naruto-kun, good morning." He saw her cheeks get pinker.

For some odd reason, that made him smile. "Mornin'!"

Hinata gave a timid nod, not knowing what to do next. "U-um—."

"We're in the same homeroom, right?" Naruto interrupted her.

Hinata merely nodded.

"Great!" Naruto grabbed her wrist without thinking and pulled her inside the building. "We can walk there together."

Hinata gasped and felt like she was going to blackout any moment, but she willed herself not to.

Naruto, not knowing the affect his actions were doing to Hinata, searched for her hand and intertwined his fingers with hers, half dragging her into the building.

Ino and Sakura silently giggled when they saw their friend's reaction about the new seating arrangement.

It had slipped their minds yesterday, so they had forgotten to tell Hinata about it. They were glad that they haven't because her expression was priceless.

Hinata's eyes were wide and her whole face was red.

Naruto just had an idiotic grin plastered on his face as he led Hinata to their seats.

There were a few muffled chuckles when the class caught sight of their joined hands.

Sasuke personally glared at each and every single person he could get their eye contact on.

The couple was oblivious of course.

Naruto was just focused in going to the back, and Hinata was trying hard not to faint.

"Now, quiet down class." Iruka tapped the green board with a piece of chalk. "We have some matters to attend to. Firstly, we have to decide who the class representatives would be. It's already the middle of the year and we still don't have one."

When no one spoke, Iruka raised his brows.

"No one wants to volunteer?" He asked, but all he received were blinking eyes. "All right, well, today is the thirteenth, so that means—Ah, let's see who is number 13—Haruno Sakura."

A few girls tittered at that.

"And the other would be her seating partner."

Sakura, along with the rest of the girls, froze; besides Hinata, who was already frozen to begin with.

Before anyone could say a word, Iruka spoke. "Secondly, we have a new student."

The classroom then buzzed.

"I wonder who it is."

"Is it a girl? Boy?"

"I wonder if she's pretty."

"What if it's a boy?"

"Then he better be handsome!"

Iruka shook his head. "Come on in."

The classroom silenced when the new student stepped in.

It was a girl.

She had wavy black locks that reached just about half a foot from her shoulder. Her eyes were ice blue and she wore a peppy smile. Her skin was fair, but not as pale as Sai's, Hinata's or Sasuke's. She was as tall as Hinata was, maybe a few inches taller.

"Introduce yourself." Iruka sighed when he saw most of the boys' mouths in his class were open.

"Hello, my name is—." She smiled politely and gave a curtsy.

Did that girl just give a curtsy? Ino scowled.

"Sunny!" Naruto stood up, knocking his chair backwards behind him. "What are you doing here?"

The new student seemed surprised at first, but after a few time blinking her eyes repeatedly, she grinned. "Naruto!"

The new student ran towards him and jumped. Naruto caught her in a hug unintentionally.

The whole class gawked at Naruto and the new girl. He was nervously rubbing the back of his head as he awkwardly patted her back. His face was red. "Nice to see you again, Sunny."

"I missed you so much, darling!" Sunny buried her face on his chest and squeezed him tight.

Darling? Sakura wrinkled her nose.

Darling? Ino immediately looked behind her towards Hinata.

Hinata was wide-eyed and pale. The pinkness in her cheeks was long gone. D-d-d-darling?

Dun-dun-dun!

Oh the irony.

Hinata's name is roughly translated as 'Sunny' in English.

Sooo… yeahhhhh~!

Next Chapter:

No idea on what's next so far…

Thanks for reading~!

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