A/N – So, I'm no longer hiding under a rock! Thank you to the people who voted on my poll, and here is the winner…

KUNOICHI COLLEGE!

I have kept the title, despite thinking that 'Bad in Bed' might be a better one. You should be aware that this fic contains teacher/student relationships, a great deal of heartbreak and some bashing of the Kakashi variety. Also, there shall be no actual sex until chapter three, unless I am bullied into doing a long second chapter. Yeah – I have this planned out! :P

This is not beta'd.

Kunoichi College – Chapter One

"So, I never thought I'd be going to school again." Ino reiterated for the sixth or seventh time.
Sakura rolled her eyes and stayed quiet as Ino's ramblings continued. She'd been complaining since the moment that Sakura had opened the door and yet the pink haired girl ignored it, knowing full well that Ino was as nervous as herself. She didn't quite know why, though.

"What do your gossipy girl mags say about it all?"

"Well, I've been reading up you know, 'cause although the instructors are probably going to be like, completely gross, I don't want to seem like an absolute novice, and it doesn't seem like anything beyond what we'd expect. Of course, these aren't aimed at kunoichi, they're just what civilians say about it but I think that means that for us it will be better. I just don't want to set foot in the academy ever again!"

Sakura felt a thud of air hit her and lodge inside her lungs, and tried not to let it show. She was far more afraid than she'd like, and she hadn't had the forethought that Ino had to get some of her questions properly answered beforehand. At the age of seventeen she supposed that she ought to have the answers already, and was too nervous to ask and yet she was still too shy to buy any type of material that might offer more insight.

"And what exactly were we expecting?" She asked hollowly.

"You know, slightly painful in the beginning, gets better. Don't forget contraception. Feels pleasurable, that kind of stuff."

"Right." Despite Ino's assurances she didn't feel any calmer. Probably had something to do with her blonde friend's blasé way of saying it. Before she could stop herself, the next question burst free with a flush highlighting her cheeks. "How far have you gone?"

Ino shrugged. "Well, I haven't gone all the way, obviously, but I've done some other stuff."

"Other stuff?" Sakura echoed.

"Yeah. You know, oral and stuff."

Oral? Sakura felt her throat close in a little more. Oral? Really? It seemed that everyone had a little more practice than she did. Tenten had lost her virginity a while back, and as shocking as it was to everyone who knew, so had Hinata. With her shyness and Naruto's sense of right and wrong, no one thought that they'd have sex before marriage. Of course, that was the opinion before the kunoichi had found out about their latest task, and none of them blamed her from wanting to have Naruto as her first. Kami knew she'd been chasing after him for long enough.

Sakura gulped. "Are we expected to do that straight away?"

"How should I know?" Ino shrugged for the fifth time in as many minutes. "They'll probably tell us once we get there. You know, give us a kind of syllabus."

"You think? They never gave us a real kind of syllabus when we became genin."

"No, but they did up until we had proved our rank. I guess that they will at least give us a list of things that we are to learn before we get missions. You know, like the pathetic d-ranks that we used to get before we proved that we could do better."

"Huh." Sakura reached for her arm and tugged them both to a halt as the academy came into view. "What's the time? We're not early are we?"

Ino frowned. "No, the class begins in about three minutes. Surely it is better to be early than late." She winked. "Better to appear eager!"

"I just want to make sure that we go in with everyone else." Sakura mumbled. "I don't want to draw attention to us."

Ino grinned and winked. "Maybe drawing attention to ourselves could be a good thing."

Sakura rolled her eyes. "I'm pretty certain we don't get to pick and choose."

"Wouldn't it be good if we did though?"

"Why don't we go inside and see who they actually are before you start plotting?"

"If you want."

The two young women felt immensely brave as they walked over to the doors, forcing themselves to keep at a normal pace so as not to appear more chicken than the other. In a way it was ridiculous, they both knew, when they were well aware that they were both scared, both of them wanted to dawdle, and both of them had thought at least twice about running home to cry to mummy that everything was unfair and scary.

Sakura felt like kicking herself. If she had ran to her mother earlier, at least she would have some real answers. About the course as well as sex in general; if all kunoichi went through this, then surely her mother would talk to her, regardless of the small note at the end of the missive that had told her to speak of it to no one. She'd talked to Ino and nothing had happened.

The doors to the academy were discreetly closed, making it seem all the more private to the girls, and so they relaxed as they opened the door and glanced around for any signs of life. There was a small bustle of noise coming from a classroom near to the door. Ino knocked quietly, and the two waited outside for someone to answer. They were too nervous to just walk straight in and ask.

"Iruka-sensei!" The pair gasped in surprise when his face appeared. "Do you know-"

"Don't worry, girls, you're in the right place. Come in and sit wherever you like. We are still waiting on some of the others to join us, so you may talk among yourselves until we say otherwise." He held the door open for them and the two entered slowly, the tension visibly fading as they spotted their friends.

Hinata and Tenten had arrived already and were huddled in a corner with an animated redhead with whom Sakura was not acquainted and a small blonde who looked as nervous as Sakura was feeling.

"Hey." She grinned as she took the chair next to Hinata and pulled the girl in for a hug. "How are you?"

"N-n-nervous." Hinata stuttered out, and Sakura felt a twinge of sympathy. Hinata spoke clearly most of the time; since she'd gotten together with Naruto her confidence had improved immensely. Her stutter only came back when she was extremely afraid. "I don't know what to expect." She whispered.

"It'll be fine!" The redhead chirped, and leaned over to stick her hand in Sakura's face. "I'm Claire!" She declared. "It's nice to meet you."

Supressing the urge to groan at the girl, Sakura politely took her hand and smiled. "You, too."

Thankful that she managed to get the words in before Claire began the speech that appeared to be dying to come out, Sakura turned to the mouse who sat on the other side of Hinata. "I'm Sakura."

"Akimi."

"I don't remember you from the academy." Sakura enquired. "Did you transfer?"

"No." The girl appeared very nervous. "I was too scared to start the course last year, so they gave me some extra time to think it through. Claire transferred though."

"Do you know where she's from?"

"No, but her mother is English. Hence the name."

"Ah." Sakura could feel the conversation dwindling already, not just with her but with Tenten and Ino, too. All of them were oddly thankful when another handful of girls were ushered into the room and Iruka stepped forwards to speak.

"Welcome ladies, to the beginning of your formal seduction training. While some of you may feel adept already, and others of you may feel like complete novices, here we shall be dealing with everything that you may need to know… from scratch. You may remember theory lessons from your last year here, but there is nothing to worry about if you do not. Any question that you may have will be taken seriously, and you trainers will teach you in a safe and professional manner. You- yes?" He asked, looking directly at a girl in the second row who still had her hand halfway in the air.

"Where are the instructors?" She asked, and a murmur swept through the room; she wasn't the only one wondering.

"I thought you may prefer it if we waited until you were all seated and any preliminary questions were out of the way before bringing them in. Trust me, they know the information in this talk already." He smiled. "Does anyone else have a question?"

"How long is the course?" A dark haired girl blurted out.

"We do not have a set time limit syllabus for this course, as it will progress when you are confident and ready to." A collective breath was released. "You do however have a rough guideline of three months, and progress with be checked regularly with your sensei. This is to prevent any impropriety in the training."

"I thought that the rules would different between us and a teacher now and before." The dark haired girl responded.

"The rules are different, or rather they will be once the course is complete. Once you have passed you training and moved on you will be on regular standing to any other adult shinobi, and this may include your teacher if at some point you wish it to do so. We do not, however, look on a relationship like that lightly. The rules are in place to prevent coercion or any emotional manipulations. We acknowledge that you will be spending a lot of time with your trainer in an intimate environment." He smiled again and a blush spread across his features. "You are expected to an extent to enjoy yourselves."

He appeared embarrassed by the giggle that met his remark, and cleared his throat. "Anyone else?"

"Can we meet our teachers now?"

"What are we going to learn?"

"Can we talk to our parents?"

Iruka held up a hand to halt the onslaught of questions. "You can meet your teachers in a moment. They will go over what you need to learn; and yes, this may be different with each instructor but know that they have to report their plans to the Hokage before, during and after your training. You may speak with you mothers if they are kunoichi, but if they are civilian then you are to remain silent. Regardless, you ought to not speak with brothers or fathers as most men will remain ignorant to this area of teaching. Same is to be said for male friends. Men are not informed of this unless they come to train a group containing a kunoichi, which leads me to my next point…"

Iruka clicked his fingers and with a poof several familiar faces appeared, signalling the return of Sakura's sense of dread. "You are to be taught by your genin team captain."

A gasp left Sakura and she stared at her sensei, who returned her gaze with a tilt of his head. "To make things easier for you, your mentor shall send you a message with a place and time to meet them tomorrow for training. I shall be here for the next forty five minutes in case you have any more queries, and until our next meeting- this time next week- you are dismissed."

Noise erupted, and drowned her. Movements of others were making her dizzy and when Sakura glanced away from her lively group, Kakashi was gone.

Until tomorrow. She thought wryly. And he'd better be on time.

"I-ah…" Hinata's stutter had returned full force.

"Oh!" Sakura gasped as Hinata's behaviour clicked. "Was Kurenai there?"

Hinata nodded. "Maybe you will still be taught by her then. Do you want to go ask Iruka-sensei?"

Hinata nodded again, and Sakura walked her to the desk, paying little attention to the exchange in front of her. Forget learning to seduce a woman… how could she ever hope to seduce Kakashi-sensei? And what was the test that they kept mentioning?

"Sensei?" She asked when Hinata finally fell silent. "What kind of test do we get at the end?"

"Well, it isn't a written one." He replied. "I'm afraid I cannot give you any more information than that however. You should try asking Hatake-san."

Sakura nodded. "Thank you sensei."

"You're welcome." He replied, just as politely and Sakura moved aside to allow another girl to step forwards.

"I think I'm just going to go home now." She said quietly to Hinata. "We could meet up tomorrow, if we have enough time before the lesson?"

Hinata nodded. "I-I'll just t-tell Ino and then I-I'll be going home too. S-see you tomorrow Sakura-chan!"

Sakura ignored the girls that she passed on the way home and found her mother waiting for her when she opened the front door.

"Hey, mum." She greeted quietly, not really paying any attention to what she was saying. How could she think of anything else now?

"Are you alright love?" Sakura's eyes flicked up to see her mum looking concerned. Why had she been waiting for her? "Your father has gone out for a while." The elder woman added, and Sakura let a small smile slip out. Somehow her mother seemed to know already.

"And why precisely has dad gone out?"

"Because I have found that we are out of shampoo and it quite simply couldn't wait." Sakura's grin widened; she'd washed her hair before she left, and she knew full well that the bottle was full.

"Riiiggghhht."

"Yes, exactly." She smiled and ushered her daughter into the kitchen and flicked the kettle on. It quickly came to boil, something that made Sakura roll her eyes and she poured it into the two mugs that already contained teabags. She placed the mug, along with milk and the sugar that neither of them used in front of Sakura and sat opposite. She slid the little bowl towards her. "I think you need it."

"You think I'm going into shock."

"You look like you are. Now tell me all about it."

"I-uh." Sakura frowned. There were too many things that had been crowding her mind on the walk to and from the academy, and now that she was alone with someone who could help she could think of none. The tea and her mother's presence was soothing, and although the fear was still lingering, the reasons for it had become far too cloudy. "Did you do this too?" She finally asked.

"Of course, dear. Most kunoichi do. And if you wish to back out, then I don't blame you."

"I don't want to." Sakura said quickly. "I'm going to do this, I just want to know more. What was your teacher like? What did he teach you?"

"My teacher was lovely. He passed away a couple of years ago, actually." She sighed. "May he rest in peace. He was lovely." She reiterated.

"You said that bit mum. How about a bit more detail?"

"Impatient aren't we? He was gentle and caring in a way that someone who'd been the same age as me likely wouldn't have been." She covered Sakura's hand with her own. "There are benefits to having a teacher as your first. I heard from my friends at the time what it had been like for them; all fumbling and pain and… quick endings." She grinned, and Sakura fought down a blush. "The instructors are all told exactly how to go about it, although with their age and experience they would likely do well enough on their own merit. You don't have anything to be scared of."

"Except for the fact that I don't know."

"Everyone is scared at first, honey. Your teacher might be just as scared as you are. After all, your team is the first that he has passed is it not?"

"Well, yeah. But he's not going to be a virgin is he?" Sakura flushed, a deeper red than she had all evening. "I've heard… stories."

"Oh, we've all heard rumours about them all." Her mother laughed. "You should take each one with a pinch of salt dear. The point is that, he's never had to have sex with a student before, and as most kunoichi are still virgins at your age there is a high chance that he has never been with one before – it is quite probable that every woman he has ever been with had lost it when she began training."

"Great." Sakura grumbled. "So neither of us know what we're doing."

"Darling, there is nothing to be scared of. You will start lessons tomorrow I take it?"

Sakura nodded glumly.

"For me, and for everyone I knew at the time, the first real meeting got that little detail over with so that we could learn without panicking too badly to take any of the information in." She pulled out her purse and slipped some money into her daughter's hand.

"Mum?"

"Grab Ino and go shopping beforehand, if you can. There is nothing more embarrassing that your teacher seeing you in your Donald duck panties!"

"Mum, was Donald duck even around when you were my age?"

"Such cheek!" Her mother laughed. "And get a good night's rest. You don't want to get too overly emotional; the poor man won't know how to cope!"

"Thanks mum!" Sakura forced a smile and went through the motions of getting ready for bed, knowing full well that it would be a while before she got to sleep.

Thank you for reading!

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