alright for those of you following Prank Wars, I lost everything of my plot and chapter that i wrote because my computer is an asshole and decided to completely crap out on me! :D so i wrote this one in the mean time. Also they have switched to a HighSchool setting
Chapter Two: First Day
"Naruto! Wake up, you're officially late!" Iruka roared pulling the covers off of my bed; I groaned snuggling into my pillow….until a sharp pain erupted on my ass. I shot up, and glared.
"Did you really just spank me?!" I accused, Iruka looked at me pointedly, crossing his arms and nodding his head on the clock. "What the hell did you do that for?!"
He reached over and pinched my ear, "Language Naruto! This is still my house! You're thirty minutes late to your first day of high school, that's reason enough for yelling."
I rubbed my ear with a pout, "Still…you didn't have to do that…."
Iruka's features visibly softened, no matter how much he tries to play it off I can tell that he is somewhat upset about me growing up and already entering freshman year of high school. Iruka still treats me like a small child most of the time, which is sometimes annoying and other times extremely welcoming, but the point is he is sour about his "baby" growing up and putting on big boy pants. He couldn't even give me "the talk", Shikamaru had to which set the record for awkward conversations between us. Especially when I didn't quite get it and he had to use visuals….yeah…good times. *SMACK* "Naruto will you snap out of it! Get up, get dressed, and get to school before you receive some sort of punishment!"
This didn't count as punishment? Well, I guess not since Iruka really doesn't hit me that hard. Despite that thought I got up and did as I was told. Taking the same old toast from the waiting plate as I headed out the door, I couldn't help but notice a foreign pair of shoes sitting to the side of the hallway on the way out. I've started noticing more little things like that since just before middle school, but maybe it's just because I became more aware of just what Iruka does as his job besides working at the grocery store during the day, but then again I'm not really sure what that job really involves.
Deciding to ignore it and just leave it as it is, I went on my way to the High school part of my private school. Looking back at the tiny middle school building I wondered why I even bothered to look forward to this place, now that I'm here all I can think of is how many assholes I'm going to encounter within the next year. But at least I will always have my friends.
I walked into the class; Kiba was sitting in the front row, boldly texting in the middle of Ms. Kurenai's lesson. She appeared not to care as she waved me away to sit somewhere. I took the seat next to Kiba; he noticed my presence and cracked up. "Looking sexy, summer was kind to you! Well you made it just in time for lunch."
Kiba may have been a jerk through-out most of my middle school days, but in our last year we had to work together on a project and came out of the deal as friends. His other friends are still assholes though, especially Sasuke who I had no classes with thank God! "Shut up Kiba, who are you texting?"
"New girlfriend, I think I'm going to break up with her though, it's just not working out." I rolled my eyes, Kiba was always doing this. Normally Kiba would be someone to envy, but not in this case….he just blows through girls like they're lit candles and it bothers us, being my group of friends, just a tad because we can't get dates with him around.
Suddenly the bells went off; I didn't even have time to get out anything for notes. Yes, we have actual class on the first day, sounds crazy doesn't it? "I should sleep in more often." I commented following Kiba out of the door to head to lunch considering it was already 11:30, halfway over with school already.
After spending almost no time at all getting lunch from the main cafeteria we took a seat together at the table, Kiba eats lunch with me every other day in order to maintain his relationships with two very diverse groups of people.
"Look at what the cat dragged in, this time it's a dead dog." Shikamaru commented to a munching Choji who snickered just a little bit before taking one look at Kiba's death stare and falling silent. Shikamaru and Kiba had a weird relationship, they constantly engage in heated verbal sexual tension chats that could be sliced with a knife and served with a side of typical teenage angst. Despite their relationship, the two still behave as if they are friends and occasionally hang out.
"I'm not dead." Kiba commented, Shikamaru sarcastically clapped with a slight smirk on his face.
"Losing your edge Kiba?" I teased, stealing Shikamaru's line, I just couldn't resist. He turned away from Shikamaru to glare at me.
"I could beat the shit out of you anytime, anywhere Naruto!" Kiba commented, pointing a warning finger at me.
I shrugged, opening my ketchup for my hamburger, "You didn't beat me the one time we fought."
"You FARTED! In my fucking FACE!" Kiba outraged, Shikamaru and Choji audibly laughed at the memory, "That's practically cheating!"
"I don't know what you're talking about." I laughed, remembering every detail of the small fight to. Kiba grumbled into his cheeseburger, glancing around the room only to start waving at the one person I never want to lay eyes on, ever. Sasuke Uchiha of course, who ignored Kiba of course, because of course that's what he does best.
My problem with Sasuke really has nothing to do with the one time, our first interaction, when he gave me that concussion. No, no it has to do with all the times he royally fucked me over after that. Pushing me into lockers in the hall, the one time when he ran into me, which I swear was on purpose, at lunch and made me get all of my clothes dirty. The second time he gave me a concussion in the hall. I've never had a class with the guy, never a discussion, and certainly have never received any type of apology. So there was really no reason for him to be bullying me other than just to bully, and that is what pisses me off the most.
"Always a ray of sunshine that guy." Shikamaru commented as we all watched Naruto sit with his friends, I sighed before turning my attention back to my food. We all sat around for a few minutes in perfect silence.
"Are you taking those pills again?" Kiba said suddenly, it was directed at Shikamaru who was busy looking at the ceiling with a far away expression. Kiba snapped his fingers in Shikamaru's face, "Hey smartass pay attention!"
"Kiba, what I do is none of your business." Shikamaru replied without breaking eye contact with the ceiling, "You were the one who introduced me to them in the first place remember?"
"Well….that doesn't mean I wanted you to get addicted to them…" It was Kiba's turn to sigh into his food, but his slight show of depression didn't last long before it melted into anger. He reached out across the table and flicked Shikamaru's forehead."Stop taking those pills, or I'll tell your parents."
Shikamaru raised his eyebrows, "Did you just play the parent card on me?"
Choji and I exchanged looks, both of us had no idea how we should handle this situation. I decided to just listen for now, and Choji followed my example. "I did play the parent card on you, yeah! Being addicted to anything is stupid, and you aren't stupid!"
"So you are stupid?" Shikamaru asked him, "Because you're a sex addict? So that makes you stupid. Or Choji's stupid because he's addicted to food. Or Naruto's stupid because he's addicted to pretty much everything but drugs. Everyone is addicted to something dumbass, your argument is invalid."
"I think that most of us at the table can agree there are things that are acceptable to be addicted to and other things that are not." Kiba replied, "So even though your argument is surprisingly smart, it's not very valid either."
"Well if I can still manage to argue while I'm high then it's not so bad is it?" Shikamaru said in a tone that I knew would finalize the conversation for now. Every time he used that tone with Kiba, if Kiba tried to continue the conversation Shikamaru would just get up and literally run away, then none of us will be able to find him for days.
He's done it twice now.
This time it was Kiba who got up and left the table, Choji sighed this time while Shikamaru decided to send an anger glare to the ceiling instead of just spacing like usual. I really don't like the pills thing and Shikamaru either, but there isn't anything I can do about it. Shikamaru is just one of those people who has to either help himself or ask for help, and considering he has done either of those things on this issue then there really are no options other than arguing.
I made it to my last class, science, intact despite the slightly horrible lunch and the fact that none of my friends where in any of my other classes. A blonde girl I recognized as Ino sat next to me at the black topped table; apparently she's going to be my lab partner for the rest of the year. I've never really talked with her before, but she is apparently someone special to hang out with considering that every time I see her around she's surrounded by people and smiling a ton.
"Hi Naruto! I've never talked with you before this is going to be so exciting! You look really good, what did you do over the summer to get that new look?" I don't believe it, she knows my name. Wait, what new look? Oh crap I thought out loud. Ino only smiled and continued with a response, "Well your hair has changed, you've gotten a little taller, and you look like you've been working out this summer some."
"Oh, it was probably because I spent some time working in my uncle's storage room this summer. I had to move out tons of heavy things and it took me almost the entire vacation to finish." My old uncle wasn't really my uncle, he was a good family friend, and it took even more time to do my job because his death was heartbreaking to me. But I didn't mention that because I don't like being a downer.
"Well good for you!" She said patting my arm playfully, "So how do you like high school?"
"Uhh…well…." How can I answer that question when it's only the first day, not to mention that when I think about it not only have I been here for about half the day, but my lunch was incredibly horrible? So it would be biased to answer when I'm having a bad day. I could just say I don't know.
Suddenly, before I could answer her first question, Ino popped out a second question for me to answer, "Naruto how would you like to come to the movies with me and some of my friends?"
"I-I really don't know if that's something I should do…." Would a crowd like that really mix well with me?
Ino laughed, slapping my arm with more force than I thought a girl could possibly muster, "It's not like it's a full fledge high school party you see in movies or something? It's just the movies! Calm down! The movie starts at 7 so be there at like 6 because it takes forever to get seats and stuff!" Then she turned around and ceased to talk to me for the rest of the class period, set on intently learning and paying attention to the teacher.
It's settled, I'm going to the movies…apparently.
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