New school, New teachers and new friends?
This was my first day at the new school. We moved to Konoha from a small village in the woods. The class teacher Kakashi already introduced me to the class and asked me to sit down at a desk in the back of the class. He was now introducing the topics in math that we’re going to learn in the rest of the year.
Just as Kakashi finished summing up the most important points, the door opened and a heavily breathing boy with blond hair entered the room.
Judging from Kakashi’s reaction and the reaction from the rest of the class it looked like this was a quite regular incident. The teacher said something to the boy, that I couldn’t quite understand because I was sitting on the only free desk in the back of the class and he hold his voice down. Probably he was criticizing the blond on being late.
His hair was almost the color of straw. Straw is actually pretty fitting, since it looked like it hasn’t been combed in a while aswell. Also His clothing was really conspicuous, since his jacket and trousers were both in bright orange, making him stand out pretty much anywhere.
Maybe he’s looking for attention? Oh well… I probably shouldn’t judge people on nothing but my first impression of them.
As he started to move in my direction I realized, that the only empty seat in the whole room was right next to me. “Alright”, I thought to myself, “There will be no way around getting to know him, when we’re going to be desk-mates.”
While he was coming closer it noticed some almost whisker-like lines on his cheek. Also since he was looking in my direction now, I could also see his blue eyes, that seem to mimic the color of the sky. He could almost be my size, maybe a bit shorter than me. All in all I think he would look quite cute, when he had enough time to take care of his appearance.
“Hey, I'm Naruto” he said, with a kind of rough, yet in know way unpleasant voice. Grabbing the hand he hold out to me, I answered: “Hey Naruto, I'm Kiba”.
He sat down next to me and Kakashi started his lesson. Math always was pretty easy for me and especially now, since I had to repeat the class after changing school. For Naruto on the other hand it seemed like he had his problems with the exercises Kakashi just handed to the class.
It took me about 10 minutes to finish, while Naruto was still struggling with the first part. The rest of the class was not as fast as me, yet considerably faster then the blond next to me.
Since I had nothing else to do, and because I felt bored pretty quickly, I asked the blonde next to me, that was just looking on his woorksheet in confusion: „Hey, do you want me to try and help you?“
He looked up to me, with a kind of shy smile. „Yeah sure, I definitely could use some help. For example right here” he said pointing his finger at a line on the paper. “I don’t see how to get any further from this point”.
After I took a quick look at his notes and the exercise I was able to tell pretty accurately where his problem was. I started to explain what his next steps should be. As I finished he looked at me with delight.
“That’s actually fairly easy…”, he laughed, “Teachers always seem to overcomplicate stuff. They express themselves really incomprehensible sometimes.” “And I can help you understand better, what you need to do?” I asked in disbelief, since I didn’t think I did a particular good job at explaining things. “Yeah, definitely. I seem to get things better if one uses really easy, maybe even stupid examples. And you manage to simplify things to exactly the level I need to understand things.”
The lesson went on without any other exiting things happening. Naruto sometimes asked me some more questions and I helped as much as I possibly could.
As the lesson finished I was on my way to the classroom door, when he stopped me: “Hey, Kiba, could you help me with my homework after school?” I had nothing to do anyway and making new friends wouldn’t hurt either, so I nodded and Naruto handed me a paper with his number on it.
“Why don’t you come with me right away?” I asked him. He told me, that Kakashi asked him to meet after class.
So I went home. Naruto still didn’t have my number, so I shot him a short message that he could text me back, when he finished talking to Kakashi. I didn’t live far from the school, only 10 minutes of walking.
As soon as I opened the front door, I was greeted by Akamaru, my dog, and shortly after by Kuromaru, my mother’s dog. Our family is well known for our dogs. We keep up a long tradition of breeding dogs, dating back many generations.
My mom already started preparing lunch. “Hey, mom”, I said as I entered the kitchen. “Welcome back Kiba, how was your first day in school?” Rolling my eyes on that redundant questions that seems impossible for parents not to ask, I answered: “Alright”. Same word as every other time the question came up. It’s almost like a ritual between me and my mom.
After a short pause I added: “Oh by the way, a classmate is going to come over later” “That’s what I call a strong start! First day at school and you’ve already made new friends”, she smiled at me.
I moved upstairs to my room to play a bit of PlayStation, while lunch was still cooking. Only a few minutes after the first match was won, my phone buzzed.
‘Hey Kiba, I just finished talking to Kakashi. I’ll get some lunch and after that I’d be ready to come over, if it’s ok for you. I just need to know where you live ;)’, Naruto texted me.
‘Alright. Just come over, whenever you’re ready.’ I wrote back and pinned a location to the message.
Shortly after my mom called me to lay the table for lunch. As we were about to start eating, my sister came home. She looked pretty exhausted. The hospital she worked in probably was pretty busy today.
“Hana come and have lunch with us, you must be hungry”, my mother said. With a weak smile she answered: “You bet”
Just as we finished eating the doorbell rang. “That must be Naruto.” I said and went to open the front door. Opening it I was greeted by a shy smile of the blond boy. “Hey, come in” “Hey, thanks. Nice to meet you again.”