Chapter 8
Inojin's P.O.V
"Inojin, you're late," Shino Sensei said when I entered class. "Yes, I'm sorry, Shino Sensei. I overslept," I said. I gave a piece of paper with something written on it to Shino Sensei and took seat at the back of the class. I'm glad I'm not in trouble today, because I'm always the first one to get in class...
And about the drawing challenge from yesterday, everyone was right. I won! Everyone loved my drawing of Boruto. Shino Sensei will send the prize home, so I won't know what it is. That's a bit sad, though. But, I enjoyed the challenge. And so did everyone, I guess. Actually not, because some people thought it was unfair. I'm good at drawing, so they didn't join, which us pretty sad. They could have won, but they didn't want to, I don't force them to enter the challenge. I'm not like that. I just want to be nice in class and everywhere else. I still wonder what I got.
And of course, Boruto is jealous at me. He always was. If it's food, I need to share it with him. I'll share it with everyone, by the way. But if it's something else, we'll decide together what we will do with it. But what if it's a sketchbook? Guess we are going to do drawing challenges then. I'm so excited about it!
"Inojin! What do you think you got?," Boruto asked me and I shrugged my shoulders. "I don't know to be honest". "Oh... but you know, you still nees to share food with me," Boruto said and I nodded. "Why wouldn't I?," I asked. Boruto shrugged his shoulders. "You always share stuff with us and give us flowers for free, so," he said and I smiled. He's right about that. I just want people to be happy. And some parents are only happy when their child(ren) is (are) happy, but we didn't talk about that, now. But back to reality, what Boruto said was right.
And, do you sometimes have the feeling that you don't want to get home, just to be with your friends longer? Well, I have that now. I didn't want to go home. I just wanted to stay outside with my friends, but sadly enough I couldn't. Maybe when we're older. Or never. We would not find out until later. It's just waiting. But, I don't want to get older too, you know? All this stuff and that... you need to take care of your child(ren) and that sort of things and I don't want to do that. But I can't. Age goes up, no matter how hard you wish for it to go down. That's life and I need to accept that, and I do too.
The bell rang and Boruto sighed, as he does every lunchbreak. "Well, we need to go to boring class again, huh?," he asked and we nodded. I agree. You may not know it from me, but I also think class is boring. It takes very long for someone to become Genin. The Seventh Hokage is still a Genin too, did you know that? And Uncle Sasuke is also a Genin. I wonder how he became that strong. Maybe because he was a Rough Ninja? He is a 'Shadow Hokage' now, so maybe that's one of those reasons.
I'll explain what a 'Shadow Hokage' is, if you don't know. The 'Shadow Hokage' is someone who protects Hidden Leaf Village from the outside. Like, he will encounter enemies who want to enter Hidden Leaf. And a normal Hokage protects the ones who are inside of the village. Like us. I never saw Uncle Sasuke in person. He and the Seventh were friends (and still are?) so I'll ask him about the Rough Ninja someday.
But it's sad for Sarada that she was raised without a father. And some people aren't happy with their parents. Like Boruto. Sometimes. Sometimes he is so mad or upset that he doesn't want to speak with anyone and forgets the world. With that, he also ignores his parents, or he'd wish they weren't there. But I always let him alone if he wants to. I don't want him to get more upset or mad. But mostly he's just happy. He's a happy person and I like that.
He always says he'll be the strongest shinobi one day. I believe him, of course. Since he knew what fighting and that was, he wanted to be strong. The strongest. Some people say that he won't be that, but I don't believe that. I know Boruto has courage. He just wants to acchieve his goal and that's everything. Those people are just haters. I think so.
"Inojin! Pay attention!," I heard Boruto saying and I came out of my fantasy world. "What did I miss?," I asked. "You missed the explanation," Boruto said. "Oops, I'm sorry. I'll pay attention from now," I said. That is a bad habit of mine. I daydream too much, just as Boruto and Shikadai. I can't do anything about it, it somehow happens and I only get out of it when someone is calling for me. Oops. And mostly it's in class. Now I need to listen to the explanation of Boruto... I hope I will understand it...
The bell of the last lesson rang and we put our books away. "It's Friday, so that means we're free! We're free!," Boruto said and I smiled. I looked into his blue eyes. "Are you okay, Inojin?," he asked and I nodded. "I'm fine. And you?," I asked. "I'm also good, and you?," Boruto asked and I laughed. "I'm very good," I replied and we laughed even harder than before. "That's good," Boruto said while we were snickering. I love our relationship so much. At times like these, I feel so happy.
"So what are we going to do? School is almost over," Boruto asked. "We're probably going to do nothing, as we always do," Shikadai said. "Doing nothing is something we always do? Okay," Boruto said and we laughed.