A/N: Hello readers! This is my first fanfic, so please be nice to me when it comes to reviews!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or anything to do with the series. xD

And seriously, if you can make the effort to read it's not hard to review, right...?

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Sasuke ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. He was in Tsunade's recently constructed office, which was slightly smaller than the old one and was yet to be adorned with decorations, such as plants and furniture.

Yes, he had returned to the leaf village, which was currently under construction due to an attack from someone Naruto called 'Pain'. He had to admit, this Pain and his assistant did a good job.

Tsunade had been persuaded by many people to let Sasuke come back, after hearing about the many things he did for everyone in the war after fighting Naruto. The kid seemed to have finally knocked some sense into him, which was supposedly assisted by chakra Itachi had fused into him much earlier.

The elder of the brothers had appeared in the middle of their battle right before they both went for kill shots, apparently slapping some sense into Sasuke and changing his ways. That was the shortened version Naruto had given her, saying it was too long a story to go into details with.

She wasn't convinced, however; the entire thing seemed like a trick. Had the boy used a genjutsu to trick them all into thinking that? Why would he listen to his brother, the one that had killed his clan? It didn't add up.

After discussing these matters with the blond ninja, he cleared up some 'unimportant' minor details about Madara appearing and telling them much about Itachi's true story, etcetera.

Many others complimented on how much loyalty Sasuke had shown towards Konoha after his brotherly encounter, saving Sakura from being captured by Akatuski and the three of them teaming up to kill Madara themselves.

It reminded Tsunade of the good old days, when her squad was together. They had all grown to be pretty similar, she thought.

Sakura and Naruto weren't going to give up without a fight, that much was obvious. Why wouldn't they? The two of them had dedicated three years to finding and bringing back the teenager, which had proven a difficult task. Yet even when things seemed hopeless, they persevered, not once losing sight of the hope they shared. So it became impossible for her to say no.

Before she came to that decision, however, she consulted Kakashi. They both came to a reasonable solution.

-the solution-

"So what you are saying is you are going to send me to school?"

"A detention centre, actually." Kakashi interjected. The entire situation was overwhelming for him. He suffered so much when Sasuke left, blaming everything on himself. He was supposed to be the boy's sensei and lead him in the right direction. It seemed The Copycat Ninja had failed for once.

To find out he was back on Naruto's accord, or so it was said, made him feel ecstatic. He had finally trained a decent ninja, Sakura included.

Sasuke glared at his former teacher. "Detention centre, do you even have one?"

Tsunade smiled proudly. "It was suggested a while ago in one of our Jounin meetings, but we didn't have enough space to build such a thing back then. Times are changing, you see. People don't believe its right to kill other people anymore. Less and less children are being allowed to enrol in the academy due to their parents' concerns, and we need shinobi now more than ever. Kurenai had been speaking with a villager and they came onto the subject, when the woman thought of the idea. That way, we are forcing less innocent kids to kill mercilessly, which is considered 'unhealthy' now, and bring all enemy ninja to our little jail; some people excluded who have committed larger crimes. We figured it may not be a good thing to keep the younger criminals and the older criminals, who would be more powerful, in the same area. So the Konoha Detention Centre was born."

Sasuke blinked. "That's a nice story, but aren't my crimes considered severe?"

The Hokage dropped her grin to a frown, shooting daggers at his old squad members.

"I have been persuaded otherwise, if we were to eliminate you we would apparently lose two valuable ninja, also."

The Uchiha's eyes widened as he turned to face the two grinning in the corner of the room. They hadn't taken their eyes off of Sasuke the entire time.

They would do that for me? After everything I've done to them?

It didn't make sense to him, but Sasuke wasn't about to argue with his life.

"So... what is this detention centre?"

-this is-

Three ANBU ROOT members, whom were now under new management due to an unexpected mishap, escorted Sasuke through what would be his home until he worked off hid crime. He was followed by his old squad too of course, who were accompanied by a very pale boy who looked vaguely familiar.

There were already about fifty criminals inhabiting the compound. Some of them had only committed minor crimes like theft, where as others were guilty of far worse. The really dangerous ninja were kept in separate rooms away from each other so as not to start a rampage. Both of Sasuke's arms were kept behind his back by some sort of binding jutsu so he couldn't escape, not that he would.

He had returned to the village by choice, whether anyone believed him or not. Not many people were thrilled by the Hokage's decision to let him live. In fact, there were only about three or four who were. Sasuke himself was pretty glad to be back. He wanted to keep his older brothers' legacy alive by showing absolute loyalty to Konoha. It was a huge turn around and it was going to be tough, since he still really hated pretty much every person living within the Hidden Leaf walls. Regardless of the amount of hatred he beared, he knew he had to keep this promise to himself. For Itachi, of course, nobody but him.

They travelled through several tunnels and rooms, all of them heavily guarded and fitted with security systems. Sasuke knew he could break through every one of them.

The detention centre was surprisingly large and Naruto found himself lost in a maze several times. He would either be distracted by something, or start preaching to somebody in a cell in the hopes of changing their livelihood the way he had changed his friend's.

That was one of the things that bothered Sasuke; Naruto now thought he had some sort of hidden power that enabled him to put anybody on the right track. He had nicknamed himself "The Guidance Counsellor", and even attempted to help a cat that had been fighting with another of its kind. It was clear not much had changed when it came to him.

Sakura was another story. She had displayed unbelievable strength and endurance during their intense battle between Madara, and only returned with two broken fingers due to the amount of punches she had pummelled the Uchiha with. She was actually the one who delivered the final blow, killing him once and for all.

Naruto had displayed amazing abilities, too, proving that he really hadn't wasted three years slacking off and talking about how he would bring his friend back. There was a particular jutsu that had aroused his curiosity; the Rasen-Wind Shuriken? The blond had managed to hit Madara with it in between one of his jutsu, stopping the flow of chakra in half of his body. The aftermath of his technique was a demolished forest. It was very impressive, not to mention intimidating.

Sasuke knew he could beat Naruto in an instant. It was mainly because of his own awesome power, but the fact that Naruto considered them brothers helped, too.

Did brothers really care about each other that much? His own brother, Itachi, had given up his entire life just for his little brothers' sake. Naruto felt as if they were brothers, and he spent three years dedicated to him. The younger Uchiha couldn't wrap his head around the whole 'family love' thing. It was probably because he never really got the chance to experience it himself.

The raven haired boy had been so caught up in his thoughts, he hadn't noticed when they arrived at his new room. It wasn't exactly appealing.

It was small, about the size of the average kitchen, and had a single bed to the side. There was a toilet that was fully exposed and not a single window in sight. The only light source was the bright light above his head. The only upside was that the room was recently built, so the paint was fresh. Yes, he couldn't even touch any walls and he would reek of paint for the next few weeks.

"Good to be home, eh, Sasuke?" Naruto called nervously from behind him. Apparently he had been talking to the Uchiha the entire time, he just hadn't noticed.

"Yeah. Home."

-never realised home was so crappy-

A timetable was written up for all the criminals in the detention centre. They all had to take educational classes for some reason.

Tsunade had noticed that the other nations were getting ahead of her own academically, and she had started sending all children and teens to school. The ninja were an exception, but they still had to attend at least one day every two weeks. The school day pattern was different for them; the Hokage reasoned that if she were their age, she wouldn't want to go to school every single day, so she made them attend every second day. After eight weeks worth of days, they would get a three week holiday, then the process would start up again. It seemed pretty functional and she wouldn't be embarrassed about the kids' test scores anymore.

The kids were all very excited about the new program at first, but it was clear that some of them were under stress from assignments and such. She separated all the ninja into different classes without homework and assessments firstly, wanting them to put most of their free time into training. It was then that she had an idea; the teens in the detention centre would most likely be forced to become loyal to Konoha when their time was done, unless their home country requested they returned. So why not make them do it, too?

And they would have to go every day. It's not like they had anything else to do, right?

So that is why the criminals all had timetables, indicating where they would have to be and when. There weren't many classes.

The main ones were Japanese and Mathematics, along with Ninja Studies for those that were qualified shinobi. The villagers were all allowed to pick three other classes they could take on other days. The school hours were 10am to 4pm, so on one day they studied main subjects and the next they studied chosen ones.

It wasn't hard to find villagers to teach other villagers. There were plenty of people that didn't have much else to do, especially stay-at-home mothers, that volunteered. It was a problem, however, to find anyone gutsy enough to teach at the jail.

They would need a ninja to do it, of course. Someone that could control the wild pupils. They would probably need to be skilled in genjutsu, if things ever got out of hand. So several skilled shinobi were selected to fill in the spots, and thus began a new era amongst the village.

-new era's suck-

Sasuke examined the sheet of paper that was handed to him by a trembling Chuunin. Many of the people around Konoha seemed to be afraid of him, though he didn't have the slightest idea why. Maybe it was the way he glared at them all, or wrote death promises in his own blood across the walls. Whatever the reason, he was not pleased when he learnt what would be happening with the whole school business. Hadn't Kakashi established it was a detention centre, not an educational one?

The next morning he was woken by the sound of wood clashing into the metal bars of his cell. There was a new ninja waking him up this morning. Probably because he had killed the last one.

Now, readers, please try and understand. It had been many years since somebody had attempted to approach him when he was asleep for one, knowing what a short temper he had. Not even Orochimaru dared awaken the kid. So when somebody came and rattled the cell, it was a mere instinct to destroy them. Nothing more.

Though it had earned him more jail time, he didn't mid. Other than the fact that people stared at him all day from behind decorative masks, it was rather peaceful and easygoing. He had no responsibilities, no worries. He was completely isolated from the outside world, which didn't bother him at all. The only time he was interrupted from his solitude was when Naruto came to visit (every day he wasn't on a mission, right after his trip to the new tsukemen bar, so he had a nice story to tell him of the adventures that took place) everything was fine.

The fact that he had to go to school every day for the next four years was not fine. Yes, his sentence was four years long. It had been three, to make up for the time he was gone, but he killed a guard, so...

A neatly folded uniform in a plastic wrapping was slid underneath his cell door. There were multiple bolts and locks on the outside and not many people could be bothered undoing them all just to give Sasuke something, so he was pretty used to it. The Uchiha didn't like the uniform, either.

The outfit consisted of a white formal button-up shirt, with dark green rimmed around the tips of his collar. There were also black trousers that reached just past his ankles and a green tie, topped off with black leather shoes. He looked like a complete dork.

After seeing himself in the mirror dangling above his tiny basin, he loosened the tie and ruffled the collar, so the look was more relaxed. It wasn't as bad as before, he figured.

And so began the first day of Sasuke's school life.

-end chapter one-

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BTW the romance part is SasuXOC, just thought I should say that since it's not in the summary.