Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ From Here to Eternity ❯ Drama, ho! ( Chapter 7 )

Kat: -sneezes- BAH! -clears throat- Ahem. Hi, all, and welcome to another exciting development in this story! I hope you've all enjoyed it so far! I've had fun writing it. But we're not even close to being close to being close to being half done. -sweatdrop-

 

Naruto: -dies- Good lord, woman! YOU'RE KILLING US!!

 

Kat: It's what I do best! Anyway, please review!

 

 

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“Where the hell are you going?!”

 

That was Naruto's harsh outcry as Gaara sped away from the classroom in the wrong direction. Naruto scowled, and then gave chase to the boy.

 

“Shop's THIS way, Dumb-“

 

Suddenly, Gaara froze. Naruto was so surprised, he almost ran into the smaller boy. Then Gaara reared around, and pressed his face so close to the blonde's that Naruto could feel his breath coming out in angry, hysterical heaves.

 

“Don't you call me `dumb',” he hissed. “Don't you EVER call me `dumb'!” His normally pale cheeks were flushed, and his eyes were wide. For what was definitely not the first time, Naruto found himself a little scared of his friend.

 

“O… Okay, I'm sorry. But you're going the wrong way!”

 

Gaara had turned, and was off again.

 

“I'm not going to class.”

 

“What the Hell?! You HAVE to go! It's the first fucking DAY!”

 

“I don't care.”

 

“Gaara…”

 

Again, the redhead stopped.

 

“I want to kill her, Naruto. I want to fucking KILL HER. I need to leave. I need to leave NOW.”

 

Naruto frowned.

 

“Who, Sakura?!”

 

“Don't say that THING'S name!”

 

“All right, sorry! God…” Naruto rubbed his eyes. “Listen. You're gonna get in the deepest shit possible if you skip on the first day. It's seventh period right now. Just stick it out for ONE MORE HOUR and then you can do whatever you want as long as it doesn't entail actually killing anyone.” He reached out, and grabbed Gaara's shoulder. He felt the muscles tense sharply under his hand. “Gaara…”

 

Gaara stood, shaking for a moment. He took several deep breaths.

 

The bell rang.

 

`Damn,' Naruto thought. But he stayed rooted to the spot.

 

Suddenly, Gaara said, “Fine. All right. One more hour. I can… do that. One. One more hour.”

 

Naruto sighed with relief.

 

“'Kay. Come on.” Naruto steered Gaara toward the shop room, and couldn't help but feel that he had just avoided a disaster.

 

 

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Itachi reclined in the auditorium chair, stared at the ceiling, and let his mind drift.

 

`Sasuke seemed really pissed off at lunch,' he thought, shutting his eyes. `God, I really wish I could talk to him. I just want my brother to be happy, even though he doesn't see it. I wonder-`

 

“BOO!”

 

“AUGH!!” Itachi flailed for a moment, then remembered his chair was attached to the ground, and stood up quickly. He glanced around. “What the Hell?!”

 

Someone was laughing. Hard. He looked down. Doubled-up with laughter, black kitty-eared hat and all, was none other than,

 

“Kankuro Kaze! Jesus Christ, you almost gave me a heart attack!”

 

“I'm-m-m really s-suh-sorry, Itachi,” Kankuro spewed out between bouts of laughter. “I juh-juh-just couldn't huh-help myself! HAHAHAHA!!!”

 

Itachi felt his face redden. He growled, and pulled Kankuro's hat off of his head, then held it dangling between two fingers. Kankuro shoved his hands onto the top of his messy black hair, and said,

 

“Woah, not cool, Itachi! Gimme back my hat, and no one'll get hurt!”

 

“And what, exactly,” Itachi said, his voice dripping with honey-sweet sarcasm, “do you plan on doing about it? Are you going to SCARE it away from me?!”

 

“I'm sorry, all right?! Gimme my hat! Seriously!” Kankuro reached for his hat, trying to push past Itachi, but the smaller teen held firm, and pushed the hat back with his right arm as far as it could go. He braced his left hand against Kankuro's chest, but didn't push.

 

“Kankuro!” he laughed. “I didn't know you felt so strongly about me!”

 

“Will you two stop flirting and get down here?!” a voice snapped. Itachi and Kankuro looked down the rows of seats to see Zabuza silhouetted against the poor lighting on the stage. His massive bulk greatly out-darkened Haku's small frame, which was standing beside him. Haku stepped down off the stage, and seated himself in the front row.

 

“Oh, come on, Zabi. Let them flirt.”

 

“I thought I told you to never call me that.” Zabuza's voice was laced with embarrassment.

 

“Call you what?” Haku sang out, his voice ringing with innocence.

 

“That THING you always call me!”

 

“What? Oh! You mean… ZABI?!”

 

Zabuza's shadow visibly stiffened, and he hopped down off the stage.

 

“If you weren't so cute, you'd be dead by now.”

 

“I know…” Haku laughed.

 

Itachi rolled his eyes, and slammed Kankuro's hat back down on his head. Backwards. Kankuro gave a muffled, “You bastard” and spun his hat back around.

 

“Thank you so very much,” Itachi said, skipping past him. He went down the sloping floor to the first row. “Where is everyone?”

 

Haku shrugged.

 

“Screwing around, probably,” was Zabuza's reply. Haku gave him a look.

 

“I suppose they aren't here yet,” Haku said. At that moment, the door opened.

 

“Hello? Is anyone in here?”

 

“Come on in!” Kankuro cried, joining the four teens at the front. He was greeted with the sight of three people. One girl, and two boys, one of the boys obviously greatly out-weighing the other one.

 

“Hi,” the girl said. The boys remained silent.

 

“Neji, nice to see you, too,” Haku said, grinning at the silent boy, who was also a sophomore. Neji raised one hand in greeting, then put it back down.

 

“Ten-ten,” Haku said, acknowledging the girl as well.

 

“What's up, Haku?” the pink-shirted girl said, crossing her arms. “This is Chouji, he's a freshie.” She jabbed a thumb at the large boy behind her.

 

“A pleasure to meet you Chouji, I'm Haku,” Haku said, standing, and offering his hand, palm down. “To answer your question, yes, I am a boy.” Chouji blinked in surprise, then shook his hand awkwardly.

 

“Uh… hi,” he said.

 

“This is Zabuza, don't mind him, he doesn't bite, “ Haku said, pointing at Zabuza, “Itachi, Kankuro, and… that's it.”

 

“Is this EVERYONE?” Kankuro cried in dismay. “Only seven?! We had, what, ELEVEN last year?”

 

“Yeah,” Ten-ten said, “but Vinnie and Angelus graduated, Philip moved to Florida, and Zel got that infection and had to go to the mental hospital. Remember?”

 

“Oh yeah.” Kankuro sighed, and flopped down into on of the seats. “Damn. We're gonna have a small troupe this year, then.”

 

“I guess so,” Itachi put in. Zabuza just grunted.

 

At that moment, there was a loud `BANG'!

 

“HELLO! DRAMA CLASS!! I AM HERE, YOUR AMAZING TEACHER!!”

 

Itachi, Kankuro, and Haku glanced at each other, then said, “Gai's here.”

 

“…Who?” Chouji said, scratching his head.

 

“You'll know soon enough, Dear,” Ten-ten said, a distressed look on her face.

 

All of a sudden, a tall, black haired man, in what appeared to be green spandex, pranced into the room, followed closely by what could only be described as his clone.

 

“HELLO, YOUNG YOUTHFUL DRAMA STUDENTS!!” the man bellowed, striking a rather disturbing pose.

 

“Hello, Mr. Maito,” everyone droned dutifully, except for Chouji, who was looking quite confused.

 

“NOW, NOW, CLASS! WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT MY NAME?! I WANT YOU TO REFER TO ME AS `MR. GAI'!”

 

Kankuro took the liberty of approaching `Mr. Gai'.

 

“Hello, Mr. Gai. It's good to see you again,” Kankuro said. “We've got one new student with us, Chouji. Chouji… what's your last name?”

 

“Akimichi,” Chouji said.

 

“Chouji Akimichi. Uhm… who's… that?” Kankuro said, gesturing to the `Gai Clone'.

 

“I AM ROCK LEE!!” the Gai Clone answered, striking an equally disturbing pose.

 

“LEE! YOU ARE A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART!!”

 

“MR. GAI!!!”

 

“LEE!!!”

 

Then they embraced as if they were in a sappy love story, leaving the rest of the drama class in bafflement. Kankuro turned to Chouji.

 

“Welcome to Drama,” he said with a grin.

 

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Kat: Feh. It's short this time, to make up for the ginormous smokin' hunka hunka burnin' chapter I had last time. -sneezes- BAH! ALLERGIES!!!

 

Naruto: Ha, ha, ha.

 

Kat: -glare- Anyway, I JUST saw `Interview With the Vampire', (I read the book a while ago.) and MAN! THAT WAS FREAKING AWESOME! Brad Pitt's sooooo hott. I love Louis! And Lestat. Yay for Lestat! -waves flag-

 

ANYWAY! I decided to have Chouji be in drama. I love Chouji. He's so freaking awesome. CHUBBY PEOPLE UNITE! -laughs- Yup. Gai's teaching drama, so why else would Lee be there? There's actually going to be plot development in the next chapter. It's going really slow right now, but it will get better. Trust me. I KNOW these things. -cough cough- So, please review, tell me what you hate, what you like, yadda yadda. Peace out, foos!