Summary continued:
Welcome to a silly story about a couple of hotshots caught completely off guard when they encounter a couple girls that are just as witty and skilled in their own way as they are.
Can Itachi handle his own family drama along with all his advanced schoolwork, tutoring his younger brother, and while juggling a girlfriend? The pressure to excel even more is weighing heavily on him, will he break before the year ends?
Will Sasori ever be able to find the inspiration he's looking for to complete his final project that he needs to graduate? It will take some patients, which means waiting, and Sasori hates waiting.
Konoha-Suna Union High School
AU: Itachi-OC and Sasori-OC
Chapter 1: Only One Day
Welcome to Konoha-Suna Union High, the highest ranking High School that teaches all kinds of jutsu from around the world. Students that attend this school work to hone their skills and become top class ninja that will work in a variety of fields after they graduate. This school offers several focuses that students can choose to follow including combat, intelligence, stealth, interrogation, tracking, medical, teaching, leadership and more.
Despite being a school to train shinobi, many other things can happen here as well. They can make both friends and rivals, and they may spark young love or deeply rooted enemies. No matter what happens, these ninja will discover themselves and what they are meant to do when they leave and enter the real world with times of both wars and peace.
Those that do not complete the requirements of the school by the end of their senior year will not graduate and will not advance any further in the ninja world. It is a known fact that one will either pass or fail. While the coursework is considered challenging, sometimes it is not what happens inside the school that will break people. With family or clan pressures and time slipping away, one can realize they have more stress than they can handle. If those students do not say anything about this problem, there can be very little warning before something can be done to prevent drastic circumstances.
The school building itself is three stories high, the first floor is often also called the basement since there are no actual classrooms down there and it's partially in the ground. Since the first floor consists of one long hallway, it's also called the freshmen hallway as it contains the freshmen lockers. There is also the counseling office, faculty room, labs, a publications lab, and a couple multipurpose rooms used by classes and clubs. The student commons is also located on this floor.
The main floor of the building is the second floor, consisting of two main hallways, these two are also called the sophomore and junior halls. The main office is also by the main entrance on this floor. These halls have most of the classrooms and lockers. It's also where the most traffic is during passing times and lunch.
On the third floor is only one long hallway, called the senior hall, and consists of only half a dozen classrooms. It's here on the third floor that two senior girls are sitting in their third period class, the last class of the morning before lunch. The two were sitting on the other end of the classroom from the door so they were by the window. It was foggy outside this time of year in the mornings, sometimes it was a peaceful sight, other times it seemed just as bland and boring as the math room.
"Raven, it's still too early for Calculus…" Suki sighed sleepily as she turned to face her daydreaming friend. Only the first day of the second trimester and they already dreaded the required brain function needed for the midmorning class.
"Yeah," Raven's answer was short, but she agreed completely. Math in the mornings should be a crime, but they always seem to make the students do it. Only once has Raven and Suki ever had a math class in the afternoon. That was two years ago.
They both reached into their book bags to get their textbook and notebook which would also contain their assignments as the term progresses. They still had a couple more minutes until the final bell would ring for class to start and people were still shuffling about the hallways.
As soon as her stuff was on her desk, Suki turned to face her friend in the seat behind her. "Raven, I had such a weird dream last night…" The girls were so focused on their conversation that they paid no attention to the next two guys to step into the classroom.
~~~ Passing Time to 3rd period ~~~
Itachi and Sasori met up at the stairway by the back entrance of the building on the second floor. Itachi just got out of his Advanced Fitness class in the gym and Sasori came from his Advanced Arts, so next up was the math class they shared. The Calculus class at this school seemed to be dominated by the girls. Most of the guys seem to opt for taking other classes, but not these guys, though it was merely because they are quite intelligent and don't find higher level math much of a problem. Since most students decide to stop taking certain classes once they met the required credits in the subject, the higher level was offered in fewer timeslots, meaning that this one class was going to be everyone taking it and it's the only time it's offered.
The guys reached the classroom on the third floor without much of an issue. Not so coincidentally, they took the seats next to the girls by the windows.
Itachi had noticed Suki right away. He had seen her a few times before during the year and he really wanted to get a closer look. All the other times he had seen her, she seemed to disappear or something would be in the way. Well, he wasn't going to miss her this time.
After Itachi took the seat next to the girl in pink, Sasori casually sat in the empty seat behind him and just dropped his bag on the floor in the aisle and propped his elbow on the desk to support his chin on his palm. Sasori could tell that Itachi was up to something, but he didn't care enough to ask what it was about, though he also thought it was none of his business anyway, if Itachi wanted to tell him, he would eventually. Of course, Sasori could usually figure things out on his own, once he cared enough to.
Soon after the final bell rang, Suki turned back in her seat to face the front. As soon as she did, she caught the sight of Itachi next to her. She quickly turned back around and looked at Raven excitedly.
"…What?" Raven blinked when her friend looked like she was going to start giggling because she was excited about something. Raven had been looking out the window as one of the other buildings caught fire again because of the freshman's fire jutsu training, so she didn't even notice Suki's biggest crush ever sitting next to them yet.
"Never mind, I'll tell you at lunch," Suki said as she turned back.
"Okay, you need to remember to do that cause I won't," Raven muttered as she supported her chin in her palm.
"Trust me, I won't forget something like this," Suki whispered with a smile.
"Alright," Raven nodded as her eyes drifted to her open notebook. It was time to get started on today's lesson.
While Suki and Itachi were distracted the entire class period, they still managed to complete the notes, but never met each other's eye. Both Raven and Sasori noticed their friend's odd behavior.
When the bell rang and released them to lunch, Suki practically ran from the room while Raven had to maneuver around people to catch up. Their usual lunch spot was just down the hallway so they dropped off their bags on the bench that was there and quickly enter the girl's bathroom nearby.
"You sure got out of there quickly," Raven mused as she went to the sinks and started washing her hands. It was something she always did before she ate her lunch. Through the mirror, Raven watched Suki pace the area behind her as she fanned herself with her hands.
"Did you SEE that guy sitting next to us!" Suki said almost breathlessly in her excitement.
"Hmm?" Raven thought. "In calculus?" she asked to make sure.
"Yeah!" Suki nodded and was about to say something right before another girl came into the bathroom.
Raven took a paper towel to dry her hands. She remembered seeing a guy with a black ponytail and a black jacket with a red and white fan printed on the back, but she didn't remember the guy's name from roll call. "I think so," Raven answered, "I take you like what you saw?" she smirked teasingly at her friend.
"Oh my gosh, that was the guy I was telling you about before," she said quietly before moving to enter a stall. All year she had been telling Raven about the guy she kept seeing in the hallways.
"Oh?" Raven said, indicating that she understood. She then waited for her friend to finish washing her hands before they left the bathroom together. They sat down on the bench and began eating their lunches that they bring from home. "Are you going to talk to him?" Raven asked.
"I don't know, maybe…" Suki blushed and Raven continued to stare at her until she spoke again. "He's just so dreamy, I might faint!"
Raven chuckled. "Will it help if I'm there for support?"
Suki laughed, "I don't think so."
"Well, I guess you can try it on your own first and we'll see if you faint," Raven said while trying not to laugh.
"What? I can't do that, it'll be SO embarrassing!" Suki squealed and blushed at the thought of even trying to be alone with Itachi and even talk to him. Raven started to laugh softly at her friend's antics, it was funny to her. "Raven! Don't laugh at me," Suki laughed too.
Raven took another bite of her sandwich to focus her mind on eating instead so she doesn't make Suki feel any more embarrassed. When she swallowed she took a long drink from her juice as she idly watched other students walk by carrying their lunches and meeting up with their friends.
"So do you like anyone yet? That red-haired guy sitting next to you earlier was hot too," Suki said, causing Raven to choke and sputter on her drink as she quickly tried to regain her composure and answer her friend's foolish question quickly.
"Nope," she coughed for the last time before continuing, "What guy? Who was hot?"
"Don't tell me you didn't notice again!" Suki pouted. "It's just like freshman year when that guy was proposing marriage to you and you didn't even look his way!"
"Hey, I noticed that guy, but he was crazy, what do you expect a girl do to?" Raven defended.
"But he was SO cute and you didn't notice," Suki repeated. "You know what, when we see that red-haired guy again in class tomorrow, you have to look at him! I think he could totally be your type if you ever want a boyfriend."
Raven sighed, "Fine," she said defeated. It wouldn't hurt to see what the fuss was about. So what if she wasn't checking out the hotness level of every guy that came within eyeshot? She has enough to worry about as it is and romance is just not on her agenda. It would have to take one heck of a guy to change her mind on that.
At the other end of the hallway by the stairway to the back part of the building, Itachi was sitting on the floor with his friends in front of their lockers. Kisame laughed when Itachi said he was going to try to ask out a girl as soon as he figures out how he should talk to her.
"You don't even know how to talk to a girl!" Kisame practically rolled. Kisame has always been the exotic guy for his unique skin color, but even at a school like this, he is accepted being different.
"Of course I do, I've just never talked to her before, how am I supposed to know what she likes?" Itachi glared. Being an Uchiha, he is naturally quite skilled and everyone expects a lot from him, so he kind of became an overachiever among his peers for always doing more and taking the harder courses. Even his friends seemed to be unaware of his lack of love life so far, even though he is almost always busy.
"Why don't you trick one of her friends to tell you if you don't want to ask her directly, yeah?" Deidara suggested. Deidara is the foreign exchange student from Iwagakure, so he's only been here since the beginning of the year. He still a junior, but has many of the same classes as the others because of the foreign exchange requirements.
Meanwhile Hidan was busy stabbing an orange with his pen. He's known for having… issues, and this group seemed to be the only group that could handle him and keep him entertained enough to not cause trouble for the other students like he did at his last school, that being the reason he was transferred here.
Itachi rolled his eyes at the blonde, though he had to admit that he had a point about asking someone else. He looked over at Pain and Konan, the two were always together, and they were the only couple he really knew at school. Konan was helping Pain fix a piercing on his face since apparently one was crooked. Really, the way they were so goth kind of creeped him and others out sometimes, but they were actually cool people and were only attending this school because their old school was being rebuilt due to flooding.
Pain had actually caught part of the conversation so he was able to help. "If you have a class with her, you could easily introduce yourself and she would follow suit," he said then put his arm around his girlfriend.
"Yeah, I think I might do that tomorrow when I see her again," he said. "Where's Sasori?" he asked after a bit.
"I think he might still be waiting in the lunch line," Kisame said.
Deidara winced. "Ooo, you know what that means, when he gets here, he's going to be all pissed off for having to wait for lunch and making us wait on him, yeah." As soon as he finished talking, Hidan threw the mangled orange at the back of Deidara's head, then laughed when it hit him. "Hey, what'd you do that for, yeah?" Deidara shouted at the white-haired teen who just continued to laugh while Deidara glared daggers.
Before anything else could happen, Sasori finally walked between the two and threw his book bag on the ground below his locker angrily and sat down without a word.
"Ha! See, I told you, yeah!" Deidara pointed at the red-head, who glared at the blonde's finger. Deidara immediately retracted his finger before he lost it to the irritable teen.
"Shut up, Deidara," Sasori spat before opening his water bottle, "I don't want to hear it today."
Deidara leaned towards Hidan and whispered, "Talk about a guy who needs a girlfriend, geez, yeah?" That made Hidan laugh outright, but he stopped when everyone else was glaring at them to shut up, which they finally did.
Soon lunch was just about over and Sasori took off to start his free period early. Normally he just goes back to the art room to work on a project. When the bell rang, Itachi grabbed his stuff and left for forth period, which was "Intro to Sensei". The senior students of KS are required to take a term of "Intro to Sensei" before they graduate. In the class, they go down to the junior high and take over a lesson each day for the term. Many of the high school students will do this before their senior year if time and space allows. For Itachi, the class would be pretty easy since he helps his younger brother all time with the same stuff he's going to be teaching for the class.
Itachi went to his classroom on the main floor and sat at the front of the room where the teacher began talking to him before the final bell rang.
"Itachi," the instructor started. "How closely related are you to Sasuke Uchiha?" he asked.
"He's my younger brother," Itachi answered. "Is there a problem?"
"Not at all, I was just going to ask you if you would prefer to have him on your team for the term, I'd understand if you don't too," he explained.
Itachi smirked, "That would be good for us, I've been meaning to help him more lately anyway," Itachi agreed.
"Excellent," the instructor nodded while writing something on his clipboard and walking back to his desk.
When class started, they were informed that they would only be getting their information today and wouldn't meet their teams until tomorrow. Itachi looked at his assignment, which said Team 7, followed by the names and what he was going to be teaching. His eyes settled on his brother's name and he wondered if he should tease Sasuke about it tonight, or surprise him tomorrow. Both seemed like equally amusing ideas.
Two seats behind him Suki also looked at her assignment. She noticed Itachi only seconds after walking into the room after parting with Raven, who goes to the library during her free period. Suki was not looking forward to taking this class without her, but since the students don't get to choose who they work with to teach the lowerclassmen, they might've not ended up working together anyway.
On that thought, she looked at the names of the other upperclassman she would be working with, and her eyes froze on the name, thinking she was hallucinating. After blinking and looking closer, the name read clearly. Itachi Uchiha. Suki just about squealed right there but contained her excitement. She couldn't wait to tell Raven next class period.
The rest of the class was spent daydreaming while looking at Itachi's back and occasionally the teacher as he went over the syllabus and possible teaching methods when they get to work the following day. After what seemed like hours, the bell finally rang and Suki quickly picked up her stuff without putting them in her backpack so she could get out the room as quickly as possible. She wanted to get to Raven before fainting if Itachi got close her since he would have had to walk right by her to leave the classroom if she didn't hurry. Having an academic focus in stealth helps when one wants to temporarily avoid their crush.
Raven was about to enter her next class when Suki came and grabbed her arm to pull her into the gym quicker. Suki panted with her hand over her heart.
"What's up?" Raven asked with a worried expression while also mentally debating the possibility that her friend had gone nuts.
"You know that Intro to Sensei class?" Suki began and Raven nodded and adjusted the shoulder strap on her book bag. "I'm in the same group as HIM!" Suki squealed in a hushed tone as she pointed to the name on the paper.
Raven looked at the name and recognized what happened. "Ah, I see… congrats."
Suki groaned and dropped her head, "I'm gonna die…" she said and placed her hands over her red cheeks. "And I have to talk to him, what if I make it too obvious that I like him?"
"I think a lot of girls have liked him, he might be used to the way girls behaved around him and think it's normal, just be yourself and don't think about it," Raven suggested.
"Easy for you to say, are you sure there isn't anyone you like yet?" Suki frowned.
By this point the bell was about to ring for class to begin and Sasori finally strolled into the gym from his free period. He had to slide pass a couple of blonde-haired girls that he assumed were gossiping to make it over to his friends that were standing in a circle talking about what he assumed were just as trivial topics. He approached them and the bell rang so the instructor started talking.
"Okay seniors, as you know, you can do whatever training you need or want to, because you're all at different levels in different skills, just make sure you sign in on this clipboard and you'll get credit for the class," the instructor quickly stated and placed the clipboard and a pen on the table for everyone to start signing in.
It wasn't long at all before Suki saw that Itachi was in this class too so she decided to make sure that she should continue to keep her distance until she can make sure she can keep her composure around him.
As people signed in, they moved to the locker rooms and then they split off into groups to do whatever they wanted. Naturally there was a group that would sit around and do nothing for the class, but when finals come around and they have nothing to show for their time here, they will most likely be leaving without their diploma.
Raven decided she was going to work on running speed and endurance this week so Suki joined her on the track. They paced each other and occasionally talked. Mostly just Suki admiring Itachi.
The guys went to the weight room. There are no other Physical Education classes during this period so the seniors have access to everything they could need. Itachi and Kisame spotted each other on the bench-press. Deidara and Sasori got some leg weights for the jump ropes, and the rest did other exercises.
When it was almost the end of class and time to clean up, the others looked over at Deidara and Sasori to realize that they hadn't stopped the entire hour and were silently challenging each other as they watched and glared at each other through the corners of their eyes. The guys were silently debating what to do about them when Pain returned.
"Guys, it's time to go," he said calmly and the two stopped without complaint, but threw glares at each other that clearly said that it wasn't over. After they were finished in the locker room, it was time to leave for the last class of the day.
Raven went to class as soon as Suki left to go home. Suki's free period is at the end of the day so she is able to leave early. Soon after Raven took her seat near the door, she saw that Suki's crush and his red-haired friend were in the class too. Seeing him, Raven wondered if he was the red-head that Suki was telling her about. If Suki thought he was good-looking, then that only increases Raven's curiosity so she had to take a look.
He wasn't bad, though she wasn't sure if there was anything really that great about him either. Since she doesn't know anything about him, she knew she could not make any real judgment about him. For now she was just going to find out his name during the roll call. At least then it wouldn't be weird to talk about him later the next time the conversation comes up, even though Raven didn't think she and Suki would be talking about him any time soon anyway.
Raven wondered how Suki would feel about this arrangement since she's not here when her crush is. She just might put this class in her schedule just to have another class with him. Somehow Raven didn't think that would happen even if that would be the result.
The class seemed dreadfully long, but Advanced History and Government would seem long by default. Raven found herself drifting in and out of focus and wondering why such a class was only offered at the end of the day. She blamed it on typical inefficiency, the school should know better than to put such a dull class as the end of the day, especially after their Ninja Training in the previous class.
The teacher was an older bald man that seemed stressed out all the time. The class was pretty small, since not many people could handle this level coursework and some others that can just didn't want to. Raven didn't want to either, but knew she should for the extra credit and benefits later on.
When the roll call was finished, Raven knew both their names and wouldn't forget them since she was going to tell Suki about this on the phone tonight.
Sasori doodled in his notebook while Itachi went back and forth between looking at the syllabus that the teacher was going over and writing everything he needs to do today in his planner. Itachi noticed that Suki wasn't in the class, but her friend was. At first he thought that Suki would come in later and sit by her friend so he purposely took a seat nearby. But she never came, indicating that she doesn't have this class with him. He thought about asking her friend where she was right now, since he might want to catch her after school and talk to her.
When the bell rang, indicating that the class, and the day, was over. Itachi reached for his bag and looked up to see that Raven was already gone. There went his plan of asking her about her friend, but there is still tomorrow. Itachi then looked towards Sasori, who is the only friend he has in the class, only to find that he was already about to leave the classroom too. Itachi caught up at their lockers. Again he only saw Raven for second before she disappeared again, he thought about trying to catch up to her, but got caught up with his friends who were already telling him to go get something to eat with them before they head home.
Sasori declined the suggestion quickly as he closed his locker and adjusted the strap of his book bag so it was positioned on his opposite shoulder.
"Com'on Sasori, live a little, yeah!" Deidara complained when Sasori was already heading for the stairs.
"Maybe another day," he shot back, "I have to go."
"Why?" Deidara called after him but didn't follow. Sasori's only answer was a wave without looking back as he continued walking. Deidara just sighed and looked at Itachi, "You guys had the last class together right? Did he say where he was going?"
"How should I know?" Itachi answered. "He's probably has to help his Grandma with something, that's usually the reason he leaves so early."
"Oh yeah," Deidara laughed at his own forgetfulness in the matter. As soon as the guys were done, they left for some fast food and goofing off.
When Itachi got home a little over an hour later, he was met by his younger brother in the entryway of their house. "Mom was asking me where you were," Sasuke said in a bored manner.
"I was with my friends," Itachi said as he took off his shoes. "Did you finish your chores?" he asked his twelve-year-old brother.
Sasuke looked away and folded his arms. "Of course I did."
"Good, I'll go do mine now," Itachi smiled and poked his brother in the forehead and watched as his brother glared at him and pouted. Itachi could hardly believe that Sasuke still lets him do that.
Later that night, Sasori arrived home with his grandmother. "Thank you for helping again today, Sasori," she told him as they entered the quiet home.
"It's nothing," he said as he started to make his way to his room.
"But you're so young and full of life, wouldn't you rather go out with your friends than spend the day taking care of people in the hospital?" Chiyo said.
"It's fine," he said.
"You're going to be all grown up soon, you should enjoy being young while you can," she said.
Sasori wondered where all this was coming from but simply shrugged. "Sure, Grandmother, if that's what you want."
Chiyo sighed as she watched him go to his room. He was always so serious and focused. Maybe giving him more free time will encourage him to go out and do something. "Sasori! One more thing!" she called.
"Yeah?" he called back from the hallway.
"Do you have a girlfriend yet?" she laughed when she heard the sound of something falling followed by his muffled curses.
"What! Why would you ask me that?" he ran back into the front room with a shocked and slightly disturbed expression.
Chiyo continued to laugh, "Just wondering, I want you to have some fun, but not too much fun!"
"Grandmother!" Sasori's palm met his forehead. Chiyo laughed at him more as he went back to his room, planning on not emerging from it until he has to go to school in the morning so he doesn't have to face his grandmother and that kind of conversation again. He's already had to sit through 'the talk' once with her and his great uncle, and he'd rather not go through anything like it ever again.
Meanwhile, Raven and Suki were on the phone. Suki was complaining about not having that last class with Itachi while at the same time saying that she probably wouldn't be able to handle it since she has to be so close to him in three of her other classes.
"So what did you think about that Sasori?" Suki asked to change the subject to Raven.
"I don't know, fine I guess," she answered.
"Like just fine, or FINE," Suki laughed in the receiver. She could hear Raven sigh and just picture her shaking her head. "Oh come on, Raven! You have to admit he was at least cute."
"Sure," Raven said, "I can't really say much since I don't really know anything about him."
"I know, but I'm asking on looks alone, would he be your type?" Suki pressed.
"I guess so," Raven finally admitted.
"See see, he's cute!" Suki said smiling.
"…Yeah," Raven said making Suki squeal on the other end.
"You should talk to him!" Suki said delighted.
"Whatever, I don't really care about trying to get a boyfriend right now, Suki," Raven reminded.
"Yeah, but would you be willing to go out with someone if they liked you and asked you out?"
"Sure, I'd give it a shot, but the chances of that are unlikely," Raven said.
This time Suki sighed, "But it might happen…"
"Doubt it," Raven said.
"It's gonna happen~" Suki sang.
"Whatever, if it does, it does," Raven said.
"Hehe, I think it will, at least I hope it will," Suki said. "But I should get going now, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Alright, talk to you later," Raven said and after the last goodbyes they each hung up.
Back at the Uchiha residence, Itachi was getting ready for bed. At one point his thoughts drifted to her and how he hasn't talked to her yet. Then again, it's only been one day of having class together, and there are many more days to come. Surely it will happen soon enough, even if he chokes and can't talk to her tomorrow, there will still be the next day.
Itachi plopped himself on his bed and sighed. Never did he imagine he would be in this situation. He is Itachi Uchiha, he should be a lady's man if anything. Yet here he is, senior year and still has troubles talking to girls he likes. This time it will be different. There is no way she could reject him with his good looks and great reputation.
"Thinking about a girl?" Sasuke's voice came from the door, causing Itachi to jump up into a sitting position. He had to admit, Sasuke was getting good at that.
"What? No!" Itachi lied.
"Whatever, Dad said you have to help him with the roof tomorrow before school," he told his older brother.
"Okay, I'll get up earlier and do that, now go away and close the door," Itachi told him.
"Heh, I knew you were thinking about a girl," Sasuke taunted and closed the door just as a shuriken hit the frame at the same level as his head.
Itachi plopped back down and put his arm over his eyes then moved it to his forehead so he could look out the window. Was it really that obvious?