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Preview:

Gaara: No needles.

Author: I'll think about it.

Gaara: NO NEEDLES! Sand coffin!

Author: Ow! Not the face! Ahh...Exfoliating...ok, no needles.

Author's Note: I am bending Naruto's original time sequence here, but in this story the kids range from ages 5 to 6. And yes, I put them in a kind of pre-school. We'll call it a pre-academy, okay? This is going to end up being six chapters or so. Enjoy!

Rated: K+, Because I'm not going to try to take away Tsunade's sake. She might hurt me.

Chicken Pox

"OK class." Tsunade raised her voice to get the class's attention. A seated group of adorable five and six year olds looked up at the Hokage.

"How many of you have ever heard of the chicken pox?"

Fifteen blank faces stared at her. They were all seated on the red area rug in the middle of the classroom. The brightly decorated room was plastered with posters of famous ninja and other inspirational people from Konoha. It was first thing in the morning, and Tsunade wanted to get this chore of hers over with before the kids were awake and alert.

Suddenly Lee's hand shot up and his eyes bugged out. "Ooo! Ooooo! Oooooooooo!" He looked constipated as he scrunched his face up, begging to get called on.

Tsunade rolled her eyes 'Well at least someone knows.' "Yes, Lee?"

Lee cleared his throat and stood up. "Chicken pox are a mild form of measles contacted though an airborne virus. The person infected receives red itchy bumps all over their body, and they may get a mild fever. Once the infected patient recovers, they cannot contract it again. So far the only preventative measure known is quarantine.

"What?" asked Choji, not understanding a single word

"Huh?" asked Tsunade, forgetting to fake intelligence in front of the students.

"Hey, my sister has the chicken pox!" Kiba blurted out. "She keeps scratching all the time."

"That's because she has fleas." Naruto laughed.

"Shut up, Na-re-tard!" All the kids laughed and practiced their new favorite vocabulary word. Tsunade took a swig of saké to take the edge off of an already forming headache.

"Anyway, one of my colleagues cooked up a way to prevent it altogether"

"How?" Sasuke asked suspiciously.

As if five year olds would be impressed by advances in medicine, Tsunade said proudly, "With just a simple shot."

After a few seconds of confused silence, Sakura burst into tears. She whispered something to Ino through sobs. Ino loudly said "Tsunade-sama, Sakura says she doesn't want you to shoot her. Why do you want to shoot us? Isn't getting killed worse than getting the chicken pox?"

Shikamaru raised his hand and asked to be excused to the restroom.

"Sure. Anyone else gotta go?" Choji, Lee, Tenten, the three sand ninjas, Shino and Sasuke all jumped up and quickly left the room.

Turning her attention back to Sakura's illogical hysterics, Tsunade reassured them. "Look, getting a shot doesn't mean shot with a gun. It means with a needle."

Hinata suddenly let out a yelp and gave Neji a surprised look, who was sitting next to her.

"Excuse me, Tsunade-sama. Hinata just got bit by a huge bug." With a very serious look on his face, he held his hands out to his sides. "It was this big. I have to take her to the nurse's."

"You mean, may I take her to the nurse's'...Hyuuga!"

Neji had already dragged his disgruntled cousin out of the classroom.

"So, you're gonna shoot us with needles?" Sakura's eyes started welling up again.

"Good grief no! I'll show you the stupid needle. You get poked with it once in the arm. It's no big deal. I swear, you guys act like a bunch of little kids. Oh, wait..." Tsunade was rummaging around in her medical bag with her back to the class muttering to herself. One small syringe marked 'Chicken pox vaccine' rolled out of the bag without her noticing it. Naruto crawled over and picked it up. He showed Kiba, Sakura and Ino the small, thin tube. Noticing the plastic cap he pulled it off revealing a short, sharp needle.

"That's gonna go... in our arm?" Kiba asked.

They all stared at it for a few seconds.

"Twelve, thirteen, fourteen, I'm missing one syringe." Tsunade turned around to a completely empty room.

"What the?! Bathroom! Nurse's! I should have known! Dumb kids, what's the big deal anyway?!" Tsunade sighed and sipped her sake again, trying to think calmly. "I should dupe Iruka and Kakashi into helping me, this could take a while."

A/N- find any typos? is -sama the correct suffix? want me to continue?