Konoha High

Chapter 9

        “I didn’t miss it did I?” Kiba whispered to Hazuki.

        “No she’s in the next set. How is baseball going?”

        “We were in the lead before I left. Shino is going to text me when it’s over.”

Hazuki nodded as it was announced that the floor exercise was going to start. Reika moved over to the area to warm up because Suna was up first and she was next. The first girl wasn’t bad but Hazuki and Kiba knew Reika was better. An upbeat song started up as Reika made her way out onto the spring floor. She did a pose and a few choreographed moves before she started running and jumped into three flips. She landed right at the edge of the outline on the floor. Hazuki recently found out if you landed outside the box it was an out-of-bounds and you would lose points. Reika seemed to move flawlessly with dance elements, leaps and jumps. She made it look easy. Hazuki wondered if this is how it felt to watch her surf. Reika would always try to explain it to her but she never quite understood what she meant. Now she thought she did. Then she realized that she never actually saw Reika preform before. She was really sorry about that because that was something you really didn’t want to miss.

        Reika acted like no one was in the gymnasium with her but her mother. She was alive and healthy. Reika did this every time she competed and it worked. She tried to keep her mind clear of everything but her routine and her mother’s voice telling her the next move. She pretended all the cheers in the background were her mothers. The only other sound was the music playing. She let the music fill her and she moved with it. She only had a few more moves and there would be no more pressure. No chance of messing up. Then all she had to do was wait and hope she was the best.

        The gymnasium erupted with cheers and applauses. Reika father was the loudest and he was even doing a little dance and song that was something like ‘That’s my daughter. Oh yeah she’s better than anyone else. She makes me so proud. Yay’ and it would repeat. Hazuki was happy that Reika couldn’t see or hear him because she would want to die but so far she really was the best out of everyone. When she walked off the floor Kiba pulled her into a hug and gave her a little kiss before they jointed to others to finish watching the other gymnast.

        There was only one set left but Hazuki needed to head over to the tennis court to root on Sakura and Ino. She congratulated Reika again, gave her and her grandmother a hug and headed out. As Hazuki was walking through a crowd of people her phone went off. Choji was informing her that so far we won baseball, and we only won one with swimming. As she looked up from her phone she saw silver hair and a black jacket out of the corner of her eye. No way could that asshole be here. She thought as she looked around trying to make sure she was just seeing things. There was no sign of any Akatsuki jackets or sliver haired jerks so she continued on her way. She met up with Hinata, Naruto, Sasuke, Sai, Shikamaru, Choji and Lee. Hazuki had to do a double take when she saw Hinata and Naruto sitting next to each other. She leaned over Choji and asked Naruto what the deal was.

        He leaned towards her and put his hand up to cover his mouth. “Neji’s too busy with being class president that he won’t notice us together.” He had a devilish smile plaster across his face. “Plus he’s kind of laying off of it a bit. He probable realized it’s a pointless fight because I’ll win.”

        “If you say so,” Hazuki shrugged her shoulders. “Congratulations on the win Hinata.”

        “Thank you. I just wish I did both events. Then we could have been tied with Suna. ”  

        “Don’t worry about it there’re enough events we can still win.”

Both girls smiled at each other then waited for their two friends to start. Hazuki was never a fan of tennis and now she remembers why. It was pretty boring but she wanted to support her friends. She knew they would be supporting her tomorrow. The last two teams for the final were Konoha and Oto. The group figured it was in the bag because Sakura and Ino seemed undefeatable today. The only thing was this one girl from Oto. She had reddish maroon hair that was in one of the oddest hairstyles Hazuki had ever seen. It made her want to make it look normal somehow. It was short and spiky on the right side and long and straight on the left. She had crimson eyes under brown oval glasses, which she changed to spot glasses when she was playing. She was ruthless on the court. Hazuki wasn’t sure but she couldn’t help but notice that it looked like this girl kept watching Sasuke. Sakura will not be happy about that if she catches you and she’s only going to take it out on you when you play next.  Hazuki thought laughing to herself.