Broken Youth
(Life of Konoha Academy Teens)
CH2.5: Distance I
As soon as Hinata came to sight she was tackled down by two very worried girls and flooded with questions.
"Are you okay?"
"What took you so long?"
"Did you walk here all by yourself?"
"Did strangers try to lure you into dark creepy corners?"
"Did anyone touch you inappropriately?"
"You know we were just about to assemble a search party to find you,"said Ino and Sakura hugging the life out of Hinata.
"I'm sorry to have worried you, I'm perfectly fine, I'm happy to see you, but could you please let go of me I am having trouble breathing," said Hinata.
"Sorry," said the two girls letting go and stepping back.
"It's just we were so worried about you,"said Sakura.
"Yes, and we didn't want anything bad to happen to our little angel,"said Ino.
'Little angel?' thought Hinata. "I didn't mean to be late it's just for some reason I forgot to turn on my alarm clock and I slept in."
"That's so unlike you to forget something like that,"pondered Sakura.
"So how was your walk here? Did you come across any perverts?" asked Ino.
"No, I rode my bike to school today," said Hinata.
"That's a relief, at least we know you a bit more safe,"said Sakura.
"On a bike? Hinata-chan I lady like you should never ride a bike to school. Why didn't you ask your dad for a ride?" said Ino.
"Oh no, I could never do that I don't want to be a bother to him before he goes to work. It would also be to embarrassing." said Hinata.
"Embarrassing?" asked Ino a bit confused.
"What she means by that is she thinks it's embarrassing to first be a burden to her father and then to be seen by the whole school stepping out of fathers limo. You should know Hinata-chan better this by now," said Sakura.
"Oh, that's right. I keep forgetting that your father is a rich billionaire that owns half the city," stated Ino.
Hiashi Hyuuga (Hinata's Father) is the CEO of the largest importing and exporting company in the five great nations. His company's name: Konoha Goods and Services Corp.; their motto: Keep moving towards the horizon. The great and powerful company was established many years ago by Hiashi and his twin brother Hizashi. The two brothers worked very hard to bring this company up from nothing. Even if the brothers were both equally hard working the one in charge would be Hiashi for being the oldest and to abide by the strict Hyuuga tradition. The Hyuuga have always been a wealthy and noble clan, so it wasn't a surprise that they still remained on top.
"How does something like that seem to slip your mind? The company name is on practically everything." said Sakura.
"Well it does and so what? Knowing Hinata for so long I just forget simple things like that," said Ino cross armed. "Lets just go sit down and talk before we go meet up with the other girls."
"Okay," said Sakura and Hinata. Sakura reached into her book bag to retrieve her book. Sakura had a surprise look on her face when she felt a extra object in her bag.
"Weird," said Sakura as she pulled out the object out.
"What is?" asked Ino.
Sakura held a book in her hand, the title:101 Words and Reactions.
"Oh, it's the book Sai was waiting to check out, I just remembered I put it in here," said Sakura.
"A book for Sai-kun? " said Ino snatching the book. "What are we waiting for lets go and give it to him." Ino started dragging her in his direction.
"Okay, Okay hold you're horses lover girl," said Sakura. "Come on Hinata-chan lets go over there, and I'll be taking this." Sakura taking the book back.
"Okay," said Hinata. "But what a strange book choice."
"My thoughts exactly,"said Sakura. "Psychology is not really my idea of fun reading either."
"Don't judge my Sai-kun there is nothing wrong if he wants to learn and maybe one day he'll become a famous Psychologist," said Ino.
"Yeah, you keep thinking that," said Sakura.
At Naruto's arrival:
"Hey, guys look who's here," said Naruto as he approached the guys.
"Splendid, the Dobe is here, what fun," said Sasuke.
"I know deep down under all that sarcasm there is a speck of you that can't live without me," said Naruto poking Sasuke in the chest.
Sasuke slapped Naruto's hand and said: "Well it must be microscopic because I can't find it."
"So what took you so long Naruto were you hanging out with Hinata-chan because she seems to be tardy too," said Sai.
'Again with Hinata-chan. What is Sai trying to get at?' Naruto thought, his face turning red from Sai's comment. "No!"
"Sleep in then?" said Sasuke.
"Nice guess but no," said Naruto. "I was late because I couldn't decided what to wear."
"Really? It does seem like that would be the case because you are wearing you usual getup of trench coat, necklace, headband, and of course uniform. Why couldn't you decided it's just another assembly day, it's nothing special."
"That's where you're wrong my friend, and where the factor that I know something you not comes into play," said Naruto.
"What are you blabbering about?" asked Sasuke. "What don't I know?"
"I'm not going to tell you, it's a secret," said Naruto.
"Well, it's not like I want to know your stupid secret anyway,"stated Sasuke.
Naruto gave Sasuke an evil grin and said: "I bet you do."
Sasuke gave a huff then crossed his arms and turn his head away. "Whatever," said Sasuke.
Naruto chuckled at his supposed victory.
"I was also late because I couldn't find my bike," said Naruto.
"Typical," said Sasuke.
"So Sasuke on the subject on how we got to school. Did you come on your-" said Naruto.
"If you are asking if I brought my bike to school the answer is no. You have to be kidding if you think I'm going to bring my baby to school," said Sasuke.
"But why not?" asked Naruto. "First of all you decide to get a motorcycle for you sixteenth birthday instead of a car. Now that you have it you don't even want to show it off at school. What is the point of having something awesome if you are never going to use it?" said Naruto.
"I'm not bringing my baby to school for various reasons, one of them is I don't want her to get a single scratch. I also still have Itachi to drive me around everywhere. The only reason you want me to bring my motorcycle so badly is because you want to take it for a test drive," said Sasuke.
"So, maybe I do, but still it's pointless to have it if you're never gonna use it," said Naruto.
"Naruto, has a point," said Sai.
"Both of you stop pestering me and go converse amongst yourselves," said Sasuke glaring at them.
"I'll be happy to talk to Sai, he's a better listener anyway," Naruto said in a nasally tone. "So, Sai what happened when I was gone?"
"Nothing much, only that Sasuke-san finally talked to Sakura-chan without saying something completely random," stated Sai.
"I don't say random things," insisted Sasuke.
"You totally do Teme, or if it's not random it's at least mean," said Naruto. "I remember that one time you asked her if her hair was naturally pink. I can tell you now if that was another guy he would be beaten to a pulp, but since she respects you so much, she only answered the question with a smile," said Naruto.
"I don't remember ever saying that," said Sasuke.
"If you want proof I have a whole class as a witness," said Naruto. They continued to argue.
"You know speaking of Sakura-chan here she comes," said Sai.
Naruto and Sasuke quickly got quiet as they saw the three girls approaching them.
To be continued...