'Oh hell….why did I decide to go to university again? ' The brunette put his backpack on the windowsill to pull out his copy of a plan to check where to go. '102 EA. Where the hell is that supposed to be?' He sighed and sat down next to his bag, and looked outside the window. 'So troublesome.'

'No sitting on the windowsills!' A big busted woman crossed her arms making her breasts come up and look even more massive.

'Sorry…' He jumped down and looked at the woman closely. She was elder but looked great for her age and the brunette got the feeling she must be someone important here.

'Don't you have classes?'

'Probably I do... I just can't find the classroom.' He sighed preparing for another loud comment

'What classroom? ' She looked at him carefully .

'102 EA'

'Down the corridor and to the right. What's your name anyway ?'

'Nara Shikamru. Thank you madame.'

'I'm rector Tsunade. You're welcome Shikamaru. Better pay attention to your classes, just because you were one of the best before you came here doesn't mean things are not going to change.'

'Sure..' He took his backpack and went to his classroom. 'She surly is well informed about all of her students...' When did it happen everyone was counting on him? How come suddenly everyone expected him to be the next Einstein or Hawking? Shikamaru sighed to himself as again the burden of expectations dragged him down. He didn't want to be someone over the average, actually all he ever wanted was 'average' but that seemed out of his reach. What was more troublesome he turned out to be a good prospering project that might escalate into a masterpiece as his mother always colorfully described to her girlfriends when Shikamaru still lived at home. Two weeks ago he moved out and into his dormitory with his new flat might and his best friend since childhood Choji. Although the other boy's dream wasn't university but a cooking school his parents forced him to get a batchelots first before he would start working at his family restaurant. The restaurant was Choji's everything. He spend there most of his childhood and wished to spend there the rest of his life. Shikamaru never saw anything that would make this boy happier than his restaurant and the food they served. World class food by the way and Shika was glad that the Akimitchi family gave him a discount so that he could dine there pretty often.

Shikamaru smiled thinking of his friends joyful round face and entered the classroom . All eyes turned on him and he had to swallow loudly because that was one hell of an intimidating view. 44 eyes make 22 people who he didn't know and all of them were looking at Shika with contempt. Gladly the teacher continued the lecture and the sound of the black marker writing on the board caught everyone's attention. Shika sat down in the front right next to a red-haired boy who was taking some notes.

'Sorry is that way you've been doing till now?' He asked his fellow quietly wanting to catch up with what was going on.

'No.' The boy looked with his steel blue eyes at him. 'That 's... Private. ' He closed his notebook and looked back at the board.

'Private..' Shika mumbled as his brain put together that what he just saw was some Schrödinger equations and even though they were talking about the physics of atoms this surly wasn't that complicated like the boys equations .'An enthusiast.' He nodded taking one more look at his neighbor. The red hair really made his eye color pop out and in general he didn't seem like anyone you could miss. He was a very pretty boy. Yes, he was more a boy than a man comparing to the rest of the present . 'How come a younger boy is in his group? This is physics for ...' He sighed and felt embarrassed to have thought it was for 'genius' people. He wasn't genius, he was far from that but this course really didn't take the average student. 'If he is younger and was taking part in this he really must be a genius. That would explain his notes .' Shikamaru felt the deep urge to find out more about the young stranger.

'Hey, I'm Nara Shikamaru.' He gave him a friendly smile.

'Sabaku no Gaara.' He answered but looked at his notebook instead of him .

'Nic to meet you Gaara. You're my group? P2?'

'Yes.. Is there anything I can help you with? '

'Oh no.. I was just wondering if you wanted to hang out after classes . I don't know too many people here.'

'I can't I have to work on...' He looked at Nara.

'The private stuff?'

'Exactly.'

'Hey, I get it, no problem. In case you would want to chill a bit let me know. ' He smiled.

Gaara looked a bit surprised, he didn't seem to expect that reaction.

'Sure.' He added and sat down to look at his scribbles.

'You don't know any pub worth visiting I assume? '

'I don't but my sister surly does. She'll probably come check on me in a while, I'll ask her then.'

'Check on you?'

'She's a bit over protective and has too much time. ' He seemed to smile with the corner of his lips. 'She's studying biology.'

'And she's having too much time? Don't they have much to learn by heart?'

'PFF Biology? That's not even real science.. ' He laughed contemptible.

'If you mean...'

'Hey! Shika!' A big smile appeared in front of Shikamaru's face.

'O.. Kiba, hi. What are you doing here? '

'I was just passing by and saw your ugly face. How's your first day going?'

'Not that bad. Pretty boring I would say.'

'Yeah, mine too. Totally.'

'Whay do you study anyway?'

'Mathemathics with TenTen.'

'Right. Shino's doing biology ? '

'As far as I know. Sakura is doing nursing, Sasuke medicine and Ino does law but I think you know that.' Kiba gave him a wink.

'Yeah... ' he sighed. He really hated it that everyone thought they were flirting or even dating. They were close childhood friends that's all. None of the two ever thought about the other as of a potential partner, at least not since a few years, since Ino got more normal again. Before that she might have tried to seduce Shika without much luck as he was really not interested in girls that time. 'What's with Naruto? What is he doing? '

'OH I don't know.. ' he shrug his arms. 'He kind of disappeared when the summer begun . Oh right! I'm throwing a party next weekend, wanna come? I should invite Naruto too.'

'Yeah sure why not, it'll do me good to see some old faces. ' He looked around.

'Don't you know anyone?'

'In working on it. Kiba this is Gaara.'

'Hi pal, nice to meet you. ' Kiba smiled and put out a hand towards him but the boy only rose his head and looked at this hand, Shika would say, slightly terrified .

'Gaara...' He glanced at the fuzzy brunette and then continued working on his stuff.

'Wow.. You're genius people are really strange.' He laughed and looked at Nara. ' Don't get that odd, OK pal ? '

'I'll do my best. ' He smiled gently. 'No wonder he's weird when at the age of 16..' Shika guessed looking once more at the calm face of his new friend.' He's trying to overturn theories of the world greatest physics. '

The lecturer came back to class.

'Sorry Kiba I need to get ready now.'

'No problem Shika, see you later! Remember about the party! '

'Oh Kiba, where do you live now ?' Shika called after the boy as he was heading the corridor.

'I'll send you an invitation on Facebook. ' He smiled. 'Stay tuned bro!'