Happy New Year! I hope you had a nice start into this year. Unfortunately I hadn't because my computer really hates me and I'm going nuts! But at least writing still works…
Now here's chapter 5, enjoy!
Sins and Sunshine
Chapter 5: Exams!
3 months passed since I moved to Konoha. I found many friends, just as many fiends – *cough* fangirls *cough* – and by now I really fell in love with this village.
All in all I really enjoy my life here if there wouldn't be this little problem: final examinations!
"Argh! I don't get it!" Kiba whined and Akamaru yelped in confirmation, not that he had to learn he just wanted to go play. Because of the exams tomorrow our clique – consisting of Kiba, Naruto, Choji, Shikamaru, Hinata and little me – decided to learn together at Shikamaru's place. Actually it's just Shikamaru-kun giving us private tutoring. We also asked Shino to join us but he refused saying he's better off alone. Now I perfectly understand what he meant. The exams are tomorrow and we didn't even cover half of the stuff we needed to know, all thanks to the two retards who don't even get the simplest thing. Right now they were stewing some exercises while poor Shikamaru had to explain them the same passage for the nth time. Hinata and I finished these exercises already and were hitting the books. Choji went to buy some snacks about two hours ago…
"Why isn't Choji back yet?" I asked pondering where he went. The store must be far away…
"I bet he ran off with the snacks to it them all by himself." Kiba stated grinning.
"He probably went to Shino to ask him for private tutoring because you hold us up the whole time." Shikamaru retorted annoyed.
"I-I'll ask Mrs Nara if I can make a few snacks in the k-kitchen." Hinata suggested shyly.
"Good idea. I'll help you." I said happily, relieved to get away from the books.
Unlike Shikamaru's concerns his mother always was really nice to us, she even helped us making the snacks.
"D-Do you think N-Naruto and Kiba will pass?" Hinata asked while we were carrying two trays with onigiri and sandwiches to Shikamaru's room.
"I heard you only need to score 10 of 100 credits to pass. Then again, now I'm also worried if they'll pass." I answered grinning.
We entered the room but stopped dead in our tracks. I blinked once, twice, realizing that my mind didn't play a trick on me. In front of us were Naruto and Kiba lying on the floor, tangled together. Naruto, who was on top of Kiba looked up at us, shocked, and froze in his movement. Kiba followed his gaze then froze as well. Hinata's face turned bright red and my eyebrow started twitching.
"Excuse us." I said calmly and closed the door again, the two boys shouting a desperate "Wait!" while a food stopped the door from closing.
"It's not as you think." A calm but irritated voice stated from beside us. There was Shikamaru leaned against the wall next to us. He seemed to be there quite some time but I noticed him only now. Blame the two idiots cuddling on the floor.
"A while ago they started a fight over who would fail the exams." He explained with the two nodding frantically and us girls blinking in understanding.
"Both of them if they act like this instead of learning." I stated then put down the tray on the table after shoving away the books on it, Hinata quickly following suit. I took a sandwich a nibbled on it while watching Kiba and Naruto hungrily lunging at the food. Hinata heaved a sight of relief that her beloved isn't gay afterall and Shikamaru is simply relieved that the troublesome bickering finally stopped.
The next day (or how I'd like to say: Doomsday!)…
"Noooooo! I'm laaaaaaaaaaate!" I screamed while storming up to the academy. Today of all days I had to oversleep. You know this mysterious sickness when always something important is about to happen and you can't afford under all circumstances to be late, then you oversleep or the train is late or something like that? As a matter of fact I suffer from this strange disease. Yesterday I set about 5 alarm-clocks so this wouldn't happen, but three of them broke in an unexplainable manner, the forth one was set on pm instead of am and lastly I forgot to close the window and a fat bumblebee came buzzing in and sat down on the on/off-button for the alarm of the fifth one. Unbelievable? I know what you mean, but that wasn't all. This morning the way to school was filled with unusually many obstacles preventing me from arriving in time. For example all the pebbles on the road that made me trip or the stray dogs that randomly decided to chase me through the village just because I wanted to eat my breakfast (bacon and a sandwich) on the way to save time. Yep, I was truly unlucky today.
Panting I smashed open the door to the classroom and sat down on the only free seat that's left, the one next to Sasuke (Seriously: Why's always the seat next to the probably world's biggest heartthrob the empty one?). He cocked an eyebrow to the sight of this wasted form of mine.
"One word…" I threatened him irritably.
Then Iruka-sensei came in.
"Good morning class. Without further ado we'll start this written exam and while I'm handing out the test papers I'll explain a few things." He said and a moan passed through the seating rows.
"1. As from now talking is strictly prohibited.
2. This test will make up 1/3 of your total grade. 1/3 will be the practical test and 1/3 your progress in this school year."
Another moan echoed through the class.
"You need 10 of 100 credits to pass.
3. Cheating is, of course, not allowed. If you get caught three times you automatically fail.
The moment I tell you to turn over the test sheet you have exactly 210 minutes to work on it, after this time I'll collect them once more and you're allowed to go home. If everything's clear let's begin." He said after handing out the last sheet of paper and everyone turned it over and started reading the first questions.
Here's a summary just about how this exam went off:
The first half an hour passed relatively smooth. Then you could hear the first moans and swears. Naruto clumsily tried to copy from his seat neighbour but got caught instantly. So much to the oh-so-great ninja who wants to become hokage. Kiba started ranting about how difficult this test was, but sensei just replied that he just had to learn a bit more. I agreed with that, but keeping in mind that even Shikamaru couldn't cure his stupidity, then all mights residing on earth wouldn't be able to put some sort of intelligence in this screwed up brain of his.
Speaking of Shikamaru. He seemed to have finished the test within an hour and was now sleeping soundly on his desk. Shino's tutoring appeared to be really helpful, because neither he nor Choji seemed to have any troubles. Hinata, too, coped with it quite well and was sunk into the questions while the boy next to her desperately tried to copy from her but got caught by sensei. Fail.
Sasuke had already finished all the questions and was now starring out the window with a bored expression on his face. Next time I'll definitely ask Sasuke to tutor me. For my part, I'm doing so-so. Right now I was stewing over some math problem but couldn't bring myself to get a solution. Frustrated I hit my head on the table and sighted disheartened. A rustling voice let me look to the side. Sasuke arranged his test paper so that I could read the answers without any problems. Iruka-sensei was busy scolding Naruto for being caught cheating the second time and was standing with the back to me so I could copy from Sasuke without any troubles. I gave him a grateful look which he replied with a "Hn". I'll interpret that as a "No problem"…
After hell-I mean school *blinking innocently*…
As a reward for successfully surviving the final exams our clique went to a ice cream parlour to celebrate.
"Yeah! The horror is over!" Naruto and Kiba cheered in unision.
"I didn't find it this tough." Choji remarked and Shino nodded in agreement.
"Shikamaru-kun, I bet you have a perfect score as fast as you finished the test." I said happily.
"Naah. The test was just too troublesome so I fell asleep after the first half." He replied and I sweatdropped.
"N-Now we have t-to pass the practical test." My timid friend mentioned insecurely.
"Don't worry. I heard it's pretty easy." I consoled her.
"That's right! And with Akamaru her by my side I can't loose!" Kiba shouted, Akamaru once again barking in agreement.
"Speaking of Akamaru, why didn't you let him collecting the answers from the others. He surely wouldn't have been caught."
"Why didn't I think of this?" shocked Kiba shouted. Just now he realized that these two hard weeks of studying would have been completely unnecessary.
Looking on the other side of the street I saw Sasuke passing by. Would he want to spend some time with us celebrating? I wondered and then decided it doesn't hurt to ask.
"Hey, Sasuke-kun!" I called out and waved to the blackhaired boy who looked in my direction then strolled over to us.
"What do you want?" By the looks of my friends they wanted to know the same. I just kept smiling.
"I thought maybe you wanted you hang out with us." Kiba and Naruto starred at me with shock written all over their face, the others didn't seem to mind. Sasuke pondered a moment then nervously glanced to the side.
"No time." He simply said before quickly continuing his walk.
"What was that all about?" Shikamaru asked irritated.
He barely finished his sentence as a horde of squealing girls stormed along the street.
"Sasukeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
We sweatdropped as we watched the brutalized fangirls chasing the Uchiha-offspring.
"Somehow I feel sorry for him…" I mumbled then ordered another serving ice cream.
Yay, another chapter done! Hope you enjoyed it.
I really liked the part where Sasuke let Minari copy from his test. It made him look like he actually had a heart… To be honest I don't like Sasuke and I'm still wondering why I write a story about him… Well it's not like he'll get Minari, it's a Sasuke-Gaara-Story afterall! Mwahaha take that Uchiha! Mwahahaha *cough* uh yeah.
For all Gaara-fans out there: it's still some time till his appearance so please be patient, it's just… hmmh wait *looking through the chapters* Omg, so long? I, also Gaara-fan, would really like to beat me up right now for making the sweet hot redhead wait for so long… Err, I'm going to hide somewhere now.
While rereading the first chapter of Naruto I noticed something interesting: It says that Naruto already failed the graduation exam twice but he's the same age as all the others. He isn't some prodigy to try it earlier than the others but the only one who failed and still the same age. No matter how long I think about it I just can't make sense out of it!
Preview:
"Minari-chan, I did it! I passed!"
"Uh-huh."
"And you know how? First there was Mizuki-sensei who-"
WAMM
"Ouch, my nose!"
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