Hope
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto (its been a while since I've had to do that)
I back! Miss me? I've decided to continue Hope now since I have more time! I will warn you that I may not update as much as I usually do, but I will still try. I've just joined an advance math class so this may be a bad time to continue Hope…but I feel like I really should finish it. Oh and from now on I'm going to try and use past tense. Well, don't want to keep you waiting! Here it is, Ch. 6!
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Ch. 6 My Wonderful First Day
"So how was Social Studies?" Sakura asked me as we were on our way to Math. Gaara was a couple of feet behind us, and appeared not to be listening to our conversation. I bit my bottom lip as my grip on my backpack tightened. "I will not cry!" chanted in my head.
A look of concern appeared on her face. "What happened?" Sakura asked worried. "Ino," I mumbled softly. A scowl was quickly placed on Sakura's face. I thought I heard a growl coming from behind us, but I figured I just imagined it. "That filthy pig! What did she do to you?" she hissed. I looked down at my feet and begged in a small voice, "Can we um talk um about this ah later?"
Sakura nodded when she heard the tone of my voice. "At lunch, and we'll think of a way to get back at her," she promised. I give her a weak smile as we walked into a classroom. The room has posters up on the walls, unlike the other two rooms, and there were tables instead of desks scattered all around the room with some students occupying them.
Sakura walked towards the second to last table by the window as I approached the teacher. He had black hair along with a beard and brown eyes and was wearing tan pants and a nice thin dark blue sweater. I lingered at his desk for a while, till finally he finished his last paper and looked up at me in surprise.
"You must be Hinata Hyuga correct?" his low voice asked. I nodded once as a reply. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Asuma and I'll be your math teacher. I hope you're enjoying your stay in America," he conversant. "Yes, I um am," I replied politely. "That's good, well you may sit anywhere you want. Class will begin shortly," he said. I nod and walk toward where Sakura was talking with Gaara, who is sitting behind her diagonally.
As I approached them, Sakura looked up at me with a big smile on her face and said, "I saved you a seat by the window." I smiled shyly back at her and mumbled a, "Thanks." She waved her hand as though it was nothing. I barely noticed that I was placed between the wall, Sakura, and Gaara. "So continuing our conversation in homeroom. Do you play any instruments?" she asked while turning her body sideways in her seat. I mimic the action and replied, "Two. Piano and um alto saxophone."
"That so cool! Do you play more jazz pieces with your sax?" she questioned. "Um, I ah only do um a little bit of um jazz," I answered. "I wish I could play the sax. But don't get me wrong, I love playing my guitar!" the pink haired girl stated dreamily. I felt my heart grow a bit heavy. "She reminds me of Hanabi when she talks about her guitar…" I thought sadly.
"Settle down class. I know it's the first day of school but I would like to start teaching now since the bell rang, thank you," Asuma stated. The noise in the classroom died down, and I faced the front. Asuma eyed the class one last time before beginning.
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"You have page 5 numbers 1-20 to do for homework. And I could care less that it's the first day of school! Complain some more and I will add more problems for you to do. You have the last ten minutes of class to get started. I want talking to be at a minimum! Understood?" Anko, the science teacher asked threatening. The class nodded their heads quickly.
I took out my notebook and looked through the questions in the textbook Anko gave us at the beginning of class. Unlike the other teachers, we had assigned seats. Luckily, I had Gaara sitting next to me, making him my lab partner for the rest of the year. Like Math class, we had tables instead of desks. But out of all of my classes so far, this one was the most decorated you could say. It literally felt like you were in a jungle with all the plants in the room. Not to mention the snakes in the far right corner.
"I'm glad I'm not by the snakes…" I thought as I looked back to see who were the lucky people who had to sit next to the snakes. To my joy, it was Ino and Naruto back there. While Naruto seemed to love the snakes, Ino was completely grossed out. "Serves her right for what happened in Social Studies," I thought.
I turned back to my work and started my homework. This was one of those times I was happy that I had a quiet person sitting next to me, since it helped me concentrate on my work. As soon as I got done with number eight, the bell rang signaling time for lunch or fourth hour for others. I gathered all my stuff and shoved it into my backpack.
Slinging it over my shoulder I looked up to see Gaara waiting for me by the door. I smiled shyly at him and hurry to his side. We walk in silence towards the lunchroom, both in deep thought. "I guess I'm going to have to come clean about what Ino did…" I mentally sighed. As we enter the large room, we join one of the three long lines standing next to each other.
Two minutes of silence pass and we reach the front of the line. Gaara slowed down, letting me go in front of him. I smile, slightly touched, knowing that this is his way of being nice. Taking one of the tan trays, I grabbed a water bottle for a drink. I noticed Gaara mimicking my actions.
Looking at the choices in front of me, I decided on a ham sandwich with fries. Gaara on the other hand took a hamburger and a bag of Doritos. When I reached the lunch lady, I dug in my bag to grab the five-dollar bill Temari gave me for lunch. "I'll pay for it," Gaara's deep voice interrupted my search. I blinked, then blushed as I mumbled, "You don't have to-" "It's fine," he cut in.
He gave the lunch lady his money and started to walk away, one hand in his pocket, the other balancing his tray. I quickly followed him, all the while making sure I didn't trip and fall. I quickly glanced passed him to see Sakura waving us over by a round table in the far back corner by the vending machines.
I waved back slightly as we approached the table. Setting my tray down next to Sakura and Gaara, I looked around the table to see who was sitting with us. Sasuke and Naruto were sitting across the table, along with a chubby guy with spiky long brown hair and brown/black eyes. He was wearing a green t-shirt and jeans. He smiled at me as I stared at him, blushing that I was caught.
"Hi! You must be Hinata. My name is Chouji!" the guy said kindly. I smiled shyly at him and replied softly, "It's um nice to ah meet you um Chouji." He smiled back before digging into his pizza. "Are you ready for another twenty questions?" Sakura teased.
Smiling, I tried to taunt, "Bring it." She laughed at my response before asking, "If you could have a super power, what would it be?" I paused, deep in thought before responding, "It's from a um Japanese manga, but I um would love to um have Byakugan." Sakura nodded her head and added, "I've heard of it before. I think super strength would be cool though. Anyways, so how many family members do you have?"
"Four, including um myself. There's um my younger sister um Hanabi, she ah is 13. Then um there's my cousin Neji um he's 19 and starting his um first year of college with um my best friend um Tenten. Then there's um my father," was the automatic reply I gave her. "What about your mother?" she asked curious.
I flinched slightly before a ghost of a smile appeared on my face. "She left when I was seven," I said quietly. Sakura realized this change and quickly changed the subject, which I was thankful for. "What's your dream car? And do not tell me you don't have one!" she declared. "I haven't really thought about what kind of car I want…but I guess my dream car would be a Toyota Yaris," I concluded. She nodded her head in approval.
It was when Naruto and Sasuke started bickering and Gaara and Chouji were talking about music that she asked the question.
"So Hinata…" Sakura asked. I turn to her and sigh. "Of course she wouldn't forget…" I thought to myself. "It really wasn't to bad…" I started but was interrupted by Sakura. "Just tell me what she did. Trust me, I know that she can be pretty nasty to people."
I nodded to show I understood that she would know more than anyone else. "I choose the um third desk in by the window and I um put my backpack on my um desk. I dropped something so um I reached down um to get it and I um heard my backpack fall um to the ground. I looked up um to see her standing by um the desk behind me smirking, talking to her um friend I assumed. I decided to um ignore it.
"That only made it worse though. She started to um talk loudly about me, making up stuff about um my life and family. I told her to um stop it and she started to um make fun of me some more, only to my face. She said some nasty things, but she stopped when the um teacher came in," I stopped to take a deep breathe, and glanced to see if the boys where listening. Thankfully, they were still talking and bickering amongst each other.
"She's a coward, acting all innocent when an adult is around, but as soon as they turn their backs she goes off again. Annoys the hell out of me. That wasn't the end of it right?" Sakura asked concern.
I nodded before continuing in a very quiet voice, "Her insults kept on getting worse. She even went as far as getting a guy to shoot a spitball at my head. But I ducked and he got the teacher. That's all that happened besides the note she gave me."
I looked at Sakura to see she was deep in thought. "Can I see the note?" she asked. I nodded and dug in my jeans for the note. Taking out the paper, I handed it to her. I watched Sakura as she opened the note then read what Ino wrote. When she finished, she folded it back up and sighed while giving it back to me.
"I guess I shouldn't be surprised at what she wrote. She gave me the same note in fifth grade. I need you to trust me on this. Do not dwell too much on what she wrote. Her plan is to make you so paranoid that you're practically asking her to just get it over and done with," she said coldly.
"Okay…" I said. Sakura sighed then stated, "That's enough depressing stuff for now. Why don't we plan a get together tonight? Like go out to eat or something?" I smile at her as I finish my last French fry and agreed, "When and were?" Sakura giggled and suggested, "How about at 6:00 and at Rhythm Blues. It's a cool jazz café in town."
"Sounds good. Are you going to pick me up?" I asked. She thought about that for a moment, and just before she could reply Sasuke interrupted, "I'll drive." We both stared at Sasuke in shock. "Where you listening to our conversation? Oh well, that means spending less money on gas for me," Sakura said cheerfully. "Hey can I come too?" Naruto asked while bouncy up and down. I giggled while Sakura sighed and said, "Sure, as long as you pay for your portion of the food. And Chouji's for the matter."
Naruto looked like he was going to have a heart attack at that statement. "As much as I'd love to make Naruto broke, I have family business to attend to tonight so I can't come," Chouji joked. I smiled slightly. "Chouji's a very good friend…" I thought to myself.
"You can pick us up at 5:45, Uchiha," Gaara said. Sasuke nodded in response. "I'll pick Naruto up at 5, that way we'll be on time," he added. "And you'll pick me up at 6," Sakura chirped as Naruto started to shout in the background. Sasuke 'hn' in response. Just then the bell rang, signaling lunch was over. We picked up our trays and quickly put them on a rack. Chouji said he had to go to the office so we waved him good-bye.
"I'll see you later guys. I have to go to Choir now!" Sakura shouted as she went the other way along with Naruto and Sasuke who both had Industrial Arts. I waved as I followed Gaara who was escorting me to Cooking. "Wait for me afterwards. I'll show you the way to gym," Gaara ordered as he speed up a bit. "Okay…what do you um have now?" I asked as I looked ahead. "Art," was the short reply that I got.
"Here's your class," was all he said before turning around and going the opposite way. I started to feel bad that he might be late for class because of me, but those thoughts vanished when I walked into the classroom. There were a total of ten stations for cooking, two people per station. Each station had a stove, sink, oven, microwave, and cupboards.
In the front of the room was a shelve with many cookbooks in it and a large wooden desk where the teacher sat behind. She looked up and gave me a big smile that matched her looks. She had long curly black hair with a white headband in and piercing red eyes. Her outfit contained a tight fitting red shirt that sleeves ended just before her elbows and a pair of nice jeans.
"First rule of cooking; make sure you're wearing comfortable clothes. The easiest way to get an A in my class is to follow the rules. So far you are passing dear. Hi, I'm Kurenai. I hope you will think of me more as an instructor than a teacher," she said warmly. I couldn't help but smile at this woman. "I'm Hinata Hyuga," I said shyly.
"It's nice to meet you Hinata. Your seat will be the first station on the far left. Your partner I believe will be Chouji Akimichi. Do you happen to know him?" she asked. I smile at my good luck and nod my head. "Yes, yes I do."
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"Let's go," Gaara declared as he walked me to gym. I nod my head, happy that he didn't forget to meet me. "He was kind of late...oh well, the teacher probably had to talk to him or something," I reasoned. He led me down a flight of stair to the basement, where the gym was. As we walked through the white hallway of the basement, I saw Sakura waving at me in the crowd of students.
I turn around and said, "Thank you," to Gaara before running off towards Sakura who was holding two sets of clothes for us. What I didn't realize was the set of eyes that stared after me as I ran towards Sakura. "Hey Hinata! I got us our gym clothes," Sakura explained as we walked towards the girl locker rooms.
As she handed me my clothes, we picked our lockers next to each other. I quickly changed in to my gym clothes and Sakura did like wise. I then threw my clothes in my locker along with my backpack. "I'd lock your locker. Ino's in our gym class," Sakura advised. I nodded in response and did just that.
"Uh, aren't these outfits hideous?" Sakura questioned. I looked at one of the mirrors on the wall and couldn't help but agree with her. We were wearing shorts that were made out of a stretchy fabric that was an ugly green color and a bit too short for my liking along with a white t-shirt that said the school's name on the upper left hand side of the shirt. The shirts, thankfully, weren't as tight as the shorts.
We walked out of the locker room to see that the guys had it as bad as we did. The only difference was that the shorts were longer. When we walked into the gym, we were greeted by a loud voice. "Yosh! Good evening my youthful students! Are you all ready for a game of football? Because that's what we are playing on this youthful day! Now since I don't have the teams done yet, you can just divide your youthful selves into four groups." What I was looking at was literally a bigger version of Neji's friend Lee. "This must be his uncle from America that he mentioned…" I thought.
The teacher, who I knew was Gai, was wearing a jumpsuit made of the same material as our shorts. "We'll be on the same team along with the guys," Sakura told me as she dragged me towards where Gaara, Naruto, Sasuke and Chouji were standing.
When everyone had a group, Gai announced, "Alright! We'll have Chika's group against Junko's group. Then we'll have Sakura's group against Ino's group. Now go and be youthful!" With that said, we all started to play a game that was suppose to be played for fun, but was now used for revenge.
And boy, that it was.
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So there you have it! I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. I will for sure update tomorrow, whether it kills me or not I will FORCE myself to sit in front of my computer and type. Well, please leave a review!