I don't own Naruto or any of its characters.
Hola people!
Sorry it took me so long to update. I know I've used the school excuse before, but it seems like everytime I turn around there's some kind of test waiting for me.
I've gotten high marks on all of my previous tests, so everyone is expecting me to get high marks on this one aswell. I do NOT do well under pressure, so I'm basically staying up all night to revise.
Ah, the disadvantages of being a nerd.
This is a random question just because I feel like it:
If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Again, I'm really sorry about the slow updates. Hopefully I'll find more time for them soon.
Now that I think I've said everything, onward with the story.
Morning seemed to come to quickly for Sasuke. After getting ready for school, he went out of his house. Neji was waiting outside in his car.
"I thought it was Shikamaru's turn to drive." Sasuke said as he got in next to Neji.
"It was but he phoned me up complaining about what a drag it was and could I drive instead." Neji explained.
"How am I not surprised?" Sasuke muttered as he spotted Naruto jogging towards the car.
"Hey guys!" He shouted.
"It's not normal for someone to be this energetic in the morning." Sasuke told him.
"Who ever said I was normal?" Naruto asked.
Neji sighed at the blonde's antics.
Shikamaru chose that time to make an appearance.
He yawned as he got in the car.
"Yo Shikamaru" Naruto greeted.
"Hi"
"Took you long enough." Neji said as he started the car.
"Yeah, whatever."
"Come on Neji. Pick up the pace or we'll be late!" Naruto shouted from the back seat.
"I agree with the dope." Sasuke said while covering his ears.
"Yeah, he agrees with the- HEY!" Naurto yelled once the insult registered.
"Took him long enough." Shikamaru muttered.
"Will you guys shut up!" Neji said and the car became eerily quiet. "Thank you"
They arrived at school not long after. D & T was their first lesson so they headed over to the workshop. Almost everyone was there, apart from their teacher.
After about ten minutes of waiting, Naruto got impatient.
"How long is this teacher going to take!" He yelled. Everyone in the class heard him and a girl who was sitting on a table near them decided to reply.
"Kakashi is always late." She stated.
Naruto thought about this. "He wasn't late last lesson." He argued.
"That's because he'd taught in this classroom the lesson before." The same girl answered.
"I guess that makes sense." Naruto admitted before shutting up.
Kakashi arrived five minutes later.
"YOU'RE LATE!" The class shouted.
"Yeah...sorry about that." He apologised half heartly before taking out his book and settling into the seat behind his desk.
"Aren't you supposed to tell us what to do?" Naruto asked him.
Kakashi peered over the top of his book. "Right" He began. "Finish what you started last time."
And that was all he said.
Naruto was beyond annoyed. "First he shows up late, then he neglects us all for a stupid book. What kind of teacher is he?" He ranted, unaware that Kakashi had heard him.
"The kind of teacher that can give you detention for the rest of the year if he so wishes. Now...what was that you were saying?" Kakashi asked.
"Nothing" Naruto said quickly.
He kept his mouth shut after that, but he would occasionally glance at the girls, Hinata in particular. She looking fairly amused by his behaviour and everytime she caught him staring, she would just smirk and look away.
"Aww, looks like someone has a crush on you, Hinata." Ino teased when she spotted Naruto looking at Hinata for what seemed like the millionth time.
"You can talk. I've seen the way Shikamaru looks at you." Hinata retorted.
"Pfttt" Ino made an incoherent sound and crossed her arms.
Tenten and Sakura laughed loudly and Ino just glared. "Don't you two start, I bet the two of you were cosy cosy with Sasuke and Neji yesterday." She said.
Sakura didn't say anything but Tenten scoffed.
"Please!" She exclaimed. "I could barely refrain from hitting him, he was that argumentative. Every idea I had, he shot down." She fumed.
"And vise versa I assume?" Hinata asked, joining the conversation again.
Tenten blushed. "So I said no to a few of his ideas, so what?"
"Were they good ideas?" Sakura asked.
"Some, but mine were better." Tenten stated.
"How did you decide in the end?" Ino questioned.
Tenten smirked. "Simple, I just added my wolfs to the debate."
The others laughed at this.
"Tenten, that's not very fair." Sakura scolded.
"Oh please, you would have done the same if you were in my situation." Tenten defended.
Sakura thought about this and eventually allowed a small "Maybe" to slip from her lips.
Their light banter continued until the end of the lesson. The four of them exited the classroom last and went to their tree for a while.
"What lesson have we got next?" Ino asked.
"English" Tenten answered before slipping her earphones on.
They all sat in relative silence for a while. The bell went to soon for all of them. They groaned as they got up from their comfortable positions under the tree.
As they made their way to English, they looked at their surroundings.
The halls were practically empty, indicating that the girls were late.
Oh well. Hinata thought. What else is new? She asked herself.
Those bitches try to steal our seats again and they're dead. Tenten silently ranted.
They reached their class moments later. To their relief, Karin and her 'Screw Crew' were on the other side of the classroom. Before they could head sit down, Iruka cleared his throat.
"And why are you four late?" He asked in a no nonsense tone.
Simultaneously, they all shrugged and continued to make their way towards their seats. Iruka scowled at their turned backs. Would it kill them speak once in a while?
"Alright, as I was saying before that interruption, I've decided to scrap the poem what we were doing. Instead, you're going to produce the speech that you need for Art or Drama."
"We've already finished ours." One boy stated.
"So now you work on improving it." Iruka told them. "You've got three weeks on this project; there's no need to rush it. I will be grading you on your speech, while Kurenai will grade you on your creativity. Get started." With that he sat at his desk and began marking some books.
After about five minutes of daydreaming, Tenten felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around to see Neji looking at her with a raised eyebrow.
"So...are we going to start working on our project now?" He asked.
Tenten looked and saw that Sakura, Hinata and Ino were still daydreaming, but she decided to agree anyway.
"Whatever"
That wasn't exactly the responce Neji was looking for, but it was a starting point.
Tenten switched places with Sasuke so that she was sitting next to Neji. She turned in her chair so that she was facing him.
"Alright, where shall we start?" Neji asked her.
"Hmm...we might as well list what the similarities and differences between good and bad."
"Okay" Neji agreed with her and then got a sheet of paper.
On one side it said good, in the middle it said both and at the end it said bad.
They took it in turns writting things down. They were so engrosed in what they were doing, they didn't notice they had five minutes till the end of the lesson until Iruka told everyone to pack away.
They looked at their sheet with satisfied faces. They had gotten a fairly long list, and it would be easy to write an effective comparison piece now that the hard part was out of the way.
Tenten pocketed the sheet and walked out the classroom with Ino, Hinata and Sakura. They glanced over their shoulders as they were walking out of the classroom and saw Naruto, Neji, Sasuke and Shikamaru staring at them.
Sakura saw Sasuke wink at her just before they were out of sight. She huffed. Did he just wink at me? The nerve of that guy. Although...he is really sweet at times and not to mention the fact that he's good eye candy. She was interrupted by Tenten's voice before she could go into a full on Sasuke fantasy.
"Ino? What did you bring for dinner?" Tenten asked. It was Ino's turn to make their lunches today, and Tenten wanted to find out what it was as soon as possible. She was starving.
"Sushi" Ino replied, grinning. She knew that sushi was Tenten's favourite meal and knew what kind of reaction she was going to get.
"Yes!" Tenten yelled and then proceeded to pull the other three towards their tree.
"Ino?" Hinata asked in an expectant tone.
Ino sighed, knowing exactly what Hinata was talking about. "Yes Hinata, I got you a can of whip cream, and I got sakura a bag of marshmallows."
Sakura and Hinata grinned at their 'Blood Sister'. Like Hinata, Sakura also had an addiction towards a certain sweet.
They both ate their dinner quickly, and then leaned back in contentment as they ate their treats. Tenten and Ino looked at them with raised eyebrows.
"I still don't understand how they can love dessert more than us." Ino muttered.
"Whip cream isn't a dessert on its own." Hinata corrected without opening her eyes.
"Yeah, and neither are marshmallows." Sakura agreed.
Ino grumpled before climbing the tree and laying down on a branch that was about 3 metres off the ground.
"One of these days you're gonna fall." Tenten told her as she made herself comfortable on the ground. She rested her hands behind her head and closed her eyes.
"Yeah, like the wind would actually let me hit the ground." Ino retorted.
Tenten grunted in reply and looked at her phone before closing her eyes again. We still have half an hour till the end of dinner. Might as well get some shut eye.
The next thing any of the girls heard was the bell going off. They groaned as they sat up.
They really didn't feel like going to maths and having to deal with Asuma. Fair enough, he was a good teacher, but he was constantly singling them out. So they daydreamed a lot in class...what did it matter when the girls were already smarter than him?
None of them could believe that Kurenai was his girlfriend. Grumpy, patronising, and constantly smoking a cigarette; what a catch. Kurenai had to obviously see something in him, so most of the time they tried to give him the benefit of the doubt.
After all, it was them who didn't listen, them who turned up late nearly every lesson, and them who always got 'special treatment'.
Special treatment...yeah right. No one knew about Tsunade's constant nagging at them to improve their behaviour, or Kurenai's constant attempts to help them get friends.
If they could improve, they would. They couldn't though. It wasn't a case of wanting to; they had to keep up the ice queen facade. People could get seriously injured if they got too close to any of the four girls.
Kurenai was always nagging them about how love could make everything better. Yeah right. They don't live in some kind of fairy tale. In fact, it was more like a living nightmare.
They all thought about when they spent with the boys. It was like all of their worries dissolved. How they longed for that kind of feeling constantly. How they longed to be normal and have friends, boyfriends, and just people who genuinly cared.
That would be nice. Sakura thought as they stepped through the classroom door.
We're late. How original. Tenten sighed. She hated being predictable. She hated the fact that she had to act a certain way infront of everyone. Being an ice queen is too hard.
Hinata heard Tenten's sigh. She gave her a small smile. She knew how Tenten felt; they all did.
Asuma cleared his throat. Here we go again. Hinata thought.
"And why are you four late?"
"Because we are." Ino answered and then followed the other girls to their seats.
"Hmm...now that class can begin, I want everyone to solve these questions. They're hard; suck it up. I want them done by the end of class." Asuma finished talking and went out the fire exit, lighting a cig as he went.
"Man, does that teacher ever stop smoking?" A loud voice asked. The one and only, Naruto.
"Dope. Why do you ask such stupid questions?" Sasuke asked in reply.
"Why do you give such stupid answers?" Naruto retorted.
Before the two of them could go into a full blown argument, Neji interrupted them.
"As much as I find this" He gestured to the scene that Sasuke and Naruto were creating. "Amusing, there are questions waiting on that board that aren't going to answer themselves." He then gestured to the board to emphasise his point.
Naruto and Sasuke shut up after that. The girls had listened to their conversation/argument and had to agree with Neji; it was very amusing.
They argue just like siblings.Hinata thought with a smirk before continuing to answer the questions.
It didn't take any of the girls long to finish. They sat back in their seats and put their earphones in.
Ino was bored. Even listening to music wasn't helping, and there was still twenty minutes of class left. She thought about what she could do.
Hmm...make the air temperature drop? No, too easy. Make a mini tornado? No, too conspicious. Make Asuma fall off his chair? Bingo.
She sat up in her chair and focused on Asuma. She needed to make everyone, even him, believe that it was an accident. I could brake one of the chair legs. Simple, but it would be effective.
Being as discrete as possible, she directed the wind towards back chair legs. Gentle applying pressure, she waited. Sure enough, a crack was soon heard, followed by the sound of Asuma hitting the floor.
The class was silent for a minute before they erupted.
"OMG! Asuma just fell off his chair!" Someone shouted.
"And he dropped his cigarette aswell!" Another added.
Ino had to place her hand over her mouth to muffle her laughter. Hinata, Sakura and Tenten looked at each other before turning their gaze towards Ino.
"You did that, didn't you?" Tenten whispered.
None of them needed an answer. It was obvious by the look on Ino's face that she was the culprit. They tried to look serious, but eventually they all cracked.
"You could have been slightly more subtle." Sakura whispered but couldn't help the giggle that escaped.
"I was bored." Ino defended. "And anyway, air is the most subtle element there is."
The other three just glared at her. By this time, Asuma had recovered and he had decided to dismiss class early.
Ino walked out of class with a bounce in her step. The other three just looked at her in disbelief.
"What" She asked once she noticed the looks that they were giving her.
"We're in school, Ino." Sakura hissed. "We can't have people seeing you all jolly and suddenly thinking that we're no longer ice queens." She explained.
Ino calmed down at once; they were right of course. She knew how important the facade was.
They all sighed and had one thought simultaneously. I wish I could just be me.
It was a simple wish, something that most people took for granted. However, most people couldn't destory an entire country with the flick of their hands.
Due to them being lost in thought, none of them realised that they had reached Kurenai's classroom.
They were greeted with a warm smile when they walked in. Most likely because they were on time for once. After greeting Kurenai with a nod, they made their way to their seats. Kurenai stopped Hinata as she went by.
"I'm coming over tonight." She whispered so that no one else could hear. "Just thought I'd tell you so that you can make sure you're in. Tell the others."
Hinata gave one swift nod and then went to her seat. She got out her phone and texted Tenten, Sakura and Ino. They all read the message and nodded once to Kurenai.
She acknowledged their nods with a small one of her own. Everyone was here by now, so she started class.
"Alright, everyone is to work with their partners on their projects. Don't rush; you still have two and a half weeks. If you need any help, just ask. Get started."
Instead of neglecting the class like Asuma and Kakashi did, Kurenai walked around the classroom. She looked at people's ideas and suggested ways to improve them. The only people that she didn't go to were Tenten, Hinata, Sakura, Ino and their partners.
She wanted to be surprised by what they manage to come up with. She wanted to know whether or not the girls would learn to work with the boys, and eventually become friends.
As she looked at them, her hope grew. They actually talked to their partners in civilised ways, not answering in one word sentences.
This could actually work. She thought before directing her attention to the pair that had just raised their hands for help.
Naruto looked at the girl infront of him.
She's so smart, and pretty, and hot, and cool. I REALLY want to kiss her right now. Hmm...I wonder what she'd do if I did. Probably throw me over the other side of the classroom. Naruto looked at Hinata wearily. Yeah, I'd better not chance it, yet.
"So have you got any ideas on how we're presenting this?" He asked Hinata.
She thought for a moment. "We could build two models, kind of like solar systems, with hate and love each being a sun." She suggested.
Naruto considered this idea. "Alright" He agreed. "And we could put one thing in place of each planet that represents or associates with love or hate."
Hinata nodded at that and they began to list what materials they would need to build their models.
Ino and Shikamaru weren't getting anywhere.
"Come on lazy ass, wake up so that we can work on our project." Ino whinned as she shook Shikamaru.
The latter groaned but raised his head regardless. "It's too much effort."
"I don't care" Was all Ino said in reply.
She got out the work they did at Ino's house yesterday and started spreading the sheets over the table.
"How are we going to present this?" She asked.
Shikamaru sighed. "How about we do the presentation in the dark, but use torches to show the light aspect?"
"That's a good idea. We need to think of ways to be more creative though, build off that idea."
Shikamaru hummed in reply and the both of them got to work.
Because they were so engrosed in what they were doing, they failed to notice that class was almost over.
"Alright, enough for today. Once your desk is tidy, you may leave." Kurenai told the class.
Sakura, Tenten, Ino and Hinata took their time, knowing that Kurenai would want to speak to them after class.
"The four of you both know that I'm coming over today." She began once everyone was out of the room.
They all just nodded in reply.
"Alright. Just make sure you're in." She told them.
They exited after that and made their way towards their car.
Hinata was absentmindly rubbing her wrist. Sakura noticed this.
"Your wrist starting to hurt even more?" She asked Hinata.
Hinata nodded.
"Yeah, mine too." Sakura told her as they reached their car.
They were all silent on the drive home, and it took longer than usual. Finally, after what seemed like forever, they arrived at home.
Again, I'm really sorry about the slow update. I'm making a promise to myself to improve that.
Another shorty. I'm seriously trying to make them longer.
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Adios mi amigos. ;)