My College Life (a NaruHina AU fanfic)

Chapter Four

I am focusing on Ino's speech, but something caught my attention from my peripheral vision. I shift my eyes from our dorm head's face, to the man sitting in front of me.

My eyes fixed on Shikamaru's blazing gaze towards mine. He grin from ear to ear as soon as our eyes landed on each other.

I know he's looking at me from the very moment I enter Ino's room, but I don't imagine that it was intense as it is right now. It's like he wants to peel off my skin and devour me in.

I shift my eyes back to Ino, trying my best to avoid my awkward feelings toward this drummer guy. I focus my self on my notepad, writing down all the information Ino is telling us.

"So. That's all we need to know about the rules and regulations here in floor nine." Ino said, ending our first topic, "and now, lets introduce our selves to everyone! Let's start with room 902, then everyone will follow. The floor is yours!" She continued, opening the second discussion.

The girl sitting on her right wave her hand up, "Hi everyone, I am Temari Suna, 2nd year communication arts student. I am from room 902, nice to meet you all", she introduce herself. I can tell that she is a tough kind of person.

I jot down her name and room number, then came next the guy sitting on Ino's left side. "I'm Sasuke Uchiha from 903, 1st year." He briefly said. By the way He looks, Sasuke is a perfect description of an Emo guy.

The thought made me chuckle deep inside. I judge them by the way they look and dress. How mean of me. Please forgive me.

Sasuke leave a dead air after he finished his short introduction. Fortunately, The guy with red hair and Japanese character tattoo on the left side of his forehead cleared his throat, breaking the awkward silence. He then start introducing his self, "I am Gaara Suna from room 904. Also 1st year and yes, Tamari is my older sister." Gaara said, making our mouth pout an 'Ow', as he clarify his relation with Temari.

Ino then cut in, "We are the four persons who's occupying the single-tenants room. The room 905 is still vacant, as of the moment." She explains.

"Okey, lets now continue. Room 906 is also vacant, so let's give the floor to 907!" She clap her hands, giving the que to the next introduction.

I look at Naruto's direction, I know now is his turn. Naruto and the chubby guy beside him simultaneously raise their hands, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, 1st year." Naruto said, "and I am Choji Akimichi" the chubby guy said after him. They put down their hand, then Naruto speaks again. "We both occupying the room 907, nice to meet you all." He finished, then they both bow, a sign of respect.

After Naruto lift his head, he saw me smiling in his direction. He return my gesture with a wink and a warm smile. I blush, and instantly cover my face with my notepad. Sakura saw what Naruto does and elbowed my side, grinning like a lunatic.

Ino cut in again "room 908 is vacant, so let's move on to room 909!".

Hearing our Que, Sakura suddenly flash her very girly aura. Placing her hair behind her ears, she slightly tilt her head on the right before introducing her self, "Im Sakura Haruno, 1st year. And.." she said, pinching my knee under the kotatsu as a que, "Im Hinata Hyuga, also a 1st year." I said. "We both came from the same countryside, and we were classmates since daycare. We're best friends!" Sakura storied. She keeps talking, so I elbowed her side, telling her to stop already.

Everyone in the room chuckles, making Sakura blush and scowl at me. I just made a peace sign with my hands and smile at her.

Then, down with the last pair. Shikamaru speak for both him and Sai. "I am Shikamaru Nara, and this is Sai Danzo. We are both 2nd year students." He said, pointing to the quiet as ever, Sai. "and, for all's knowledge, Sai is Ino's boyfriend." Shikamaru added, making Sai and Ino jump up from their seats.

"SHIKAMARU!" Sai and Ino both said with a blush on their faces. They glare at Shikamaru, making him laugh harder. We all chuckled because of that, but the couple just sit back and look down on the table with a cute blush across their faces.

The party started after we all introduce our selves. We eat and play some games that Ino prepared for all of us, and everyone seems enjoying the night. Even Sakura started talking with the Emo guy, Sasuke, laughing with each other.

Shikamaru and I didn't talk that much, but we are giving smiles to each other everytime our eyes met. Same goes with me and the blond guy, Naruto.

The party makes me closer to the other girls, Ino and Temari. I am so glad I came here.

The fun keeps up, until it was time for us to go back to our respective rooms. We all need to get to bed early, because it's the first day of classes tomorrow.

Temari and Gaara excused themselves first. They were called by their older brother, Kankuro, down to his room in the 5th floor. Sakura said she's been invited by Sasuke for a coffee, so I let her go, too. Choji ate a lot and He needs to run back to their room. That means, Sai, Natuto, Shikamaru and me are the only left in Ino's room.

Sai and Ino started cleaning up, I count my self in with them. Shikamaru and Naruto didn't say any word, but they also start to pick up some trash on the tatami floor.

after putting everything in two trash bags, I offer my help to carry them out, so Ino can rest already. I know that she is the one who's very tired among us. She happily nods and hug me, giving me a big 'thank you' in return.

I was about to pic up the second garbage bag, when I saw Naruto walking towards my direction. He was about to pic the bag up from the floor, when suddenly, another hand coming from behind me take it out of His gasp. I spin around and saw Shikamaru, looking down on me.

"Let's go, Hinata. I'll help you with this." He said with a stoic expression on his face.

I look back to Naruto, and saw him smiling awkwardly. He nod as if he wants us to go. Then, I nod back to him, and exited Ino's room with Shikamaru by my side.

I don't want to think of anything about this two guys, who were both acting weird around me. It's too early to conclude anything by now. Even the classes haven't started at all, for Pete's sake.

I sigh as I think about Shikamaru and Naruto. I hope this two won't start anything bad anytime soon.

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Important Authors Note;

So we all know that in Naruto's original anime/manga, Sai and the Sand Village Siblings (Gaara, Temari and Kankuro) doesn't have any surname. In fact, Sai didn't even know what's his real name. So I think you have some concern about their surnames here in my strory. Let me explain it;

First, Sand Village Siblings comes from the town of Suna.

Second, The Japanese word "Suna" literally means "Sand" in English.

I took it and make it as the siblings surname, because it has the closest connection to them.

And here's Sai, which I gave a surname "Danzo".

I can't make him use the "Yamanaka" because on this story, Sai and Ino are still not married. (Spoiler alert; Sai took Ino's last name when they got married because he doesn't have one to begin with).

Also, we all know that Danzo is the one who give Sai his name, so I think that "Danzo" is fit for his surname (for my story only, of course).

So that's it, I hope you understand my explanation. If you encounter some errors starting from the first chapter, I promise I'll fix it later.

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-AnnefinityLove-