8 Chapter 8

Naruto stood in front of a room full of people, and he recognized two faces from the crowd as people he ran into yesterday.

Naruto looked behind him and saw his name on the chalkboard. "Umm… Hello. My name is Namikaze Naruto. Nice to meet you." He performed a small bow to the class.

A taller man with spiky silver hair walked up next to Naruto. "Well that was short and sweet. Now my name is Hatake Kakashi, Yamanka!"

The platinum blonde girl from yesterday jumped up at her desk. "H-Hai?"

The teacher pointed out the girl. "Ino back there is the class president. If you have any troubles just go see her and she'll work with you to fix them."

The girl looked like she was sweating. Naruto raised up a hand. "Uhh… Hi…"

Her eyebrow was ticking nervously. "H-Hi!... Nice to meet you!"

She tried to bow low but she went a little too low and smashed her head against the desk. The whole class erupted into laughter except Naruto, who was scratching the back of his head sheepishly then started walking towards and empty desk at the back.

He didn't notice that a girl with waist length pale blonde hair was staring at him. Shion remembered Shizuka's remark from the other day.

"Shion-sama! Did you see that boy? He was really cute!"

Shion blushed a bit and looked down at her desk. 'Shizuka was right…'

Her eyes widened when she noticed that he passed right past her desk to the desk behind her.

Naruto looked at his desk and was almost glad that it was the desk in the far corner of the room, not to mention it had a great view of the landscape where he could still see the mountains in the distance.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw a brunette with her hair in two buns stand up with an enthusiastic and innocent smile on her face.

"Hello! I'm… Ayame!"

Naruto rubbed his head. "Oh… hi."

The girl face fell. "What kind of reaction is that!?"

Kakashi cleared his throat at the front of the room. "A normal one."

The whole class erupted into laughter and Ayame sat back down at her desk with a goofy smile on her face. It was clear that they were used to her carefree and silly attitude. She stole a glance towards Naruto and her face saddened. Shion was watching carefully as she saw the emotion spill across the girls face.