School of elites

Chapter 9

Naruto's POV

Seeing them arguing, I felt a bit unsure about going along with that white haired old man who seems to hold some authority. Hinata says,"See? We just caught up with some unnecessary drama." I couldn't help but keep myself quiet.

Jiraiya turns  to us not caring about the loud crowd behind him. He says putting his hands on his waist and huffing as if he has a lot of works to do,"Well, I'm going to pick two suitable horses for you."

He says coming a bit closer to us,"Keep a safe distance from them." Then he sends a wink in a joking manner. If we could take this situation as lightly as he's taking.

After Jiraiya left we kept standing in the middle stiffly. Apart from being nervous, I am feeling different emotions. All of them are perfectly connected to anxiety. I feel so pressured under their sinful gaze that I would just go into the earth being hammered by the amount of pressure.

Comparing to me, Hinata doesn't look all that different. Seems like coming from such a big family isn't any help in this case. Her own brother is her enemy.

We hear the klop klop sound of horses coming this way. Seemingly the horses are tamed by their master who is that while haired old man. He has a smug look on his face. He says,"What do you think about Belle and Judas?" Seems like he even fixed names for his horses.

One is red and the other one is brown. Jiraiya says,"Both are obedient." Saying that he starts rub their necks adorably. This man surely loves his horses.

I picked one without even thinking. This brown horse that is so tall and looking down at me as if I'm such a pitiful creature is Judas. Jiraiya chuckles. He says,"Well Judas is the most stubborn one among them but if you train him well, he can get pass to other ones in the field."

"Konohamaru, help that big brother to get up." Jiraiya shouts. I see a smaller guy running toward us. His hair is weirdly spiky and he has a muffler hanging onto his shoulder. He says cheerfully right after eyeing us,"Is big brother and that beautiful girl are new students?"

Jiraiya says,"Yes, they seemed to be interested. Would you help him to get up? It might be hard for him." Konohamaru bows his head to the point that he could almost bump it against the hard ground. Konohamaru says,"It won't be hard if I help."

Now I'm seated over the horse who is still standing quietly not even moving for a inch. I never have seen such an obedient horse in my whole life. That's what I was thinking admiring the seemingly calm horse until he started to act abnormally.

He started to shake his body vigorously and then starts to move his legs all of a sudden. Jiraiya yells,"Judas, what are you doing!" Judas doesn't listen. He starts to run making me clutch his body tightly fearing that I could hit my face against the ground falling hard.

The sounds of laughter and constant yelling from Jiraiya, Hinata and Konohamaru couldn't reach my ears being consumed by fear. I thought I could die falling from here and landing upon some hard rock. Such a lame way to die that can end up being a subject of being laughed at.

"Judas! Calm down!" Jiraiya yells but the stubborn horse who has already gone mad starts to run round and round. I felt dizzy and nauseous feeling like vomiting everything out from my already empty stomach.

Then suddenly I felt the horse calming down but the sudden change of speed made me fall off eventually. I fell hard on the ground but luckily it was filled with soft green grass. I hiss in pain. My head got hit after all.

"Are you okay, Naruto!" Hinata asks me coming to me running. I rub on my knees and tell her,"I'm okay now." Hinata says nervously,"I didn't have enough courage to ride Belle after all."  I tell her,"Thank god. You could end up being like me too." Hinata couldn't help but chuckle.