Moonstruck: Uchiha Itachi Story
Disclaimer: I really don't own anything….really….except Yae cuz I made her. So you can't have her!
Moonstruck: Mentally damaged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed (if you can't see why I chose this for the title… it makes me wonder how much you know about naruto.)
AN: ok I decided that since I made a really small prologue I was going to throw it in before chapter one. Nice huh? (Oh and everyone thank my unofficial beta Lady Hiroko. I know her form when I lived in another state, cool huh?)
Summary: Itachi's life as a high school student dealing with boring classes, crazy classmates, evil plotting family members and a slightly warped mind. What could go wrong? Itachi centric. Rated for later chapters.
Prologue: At the Beginning
Two dark haired boys sat in front of their father who had been silent since their arrival. He stared at his sons with blank expression before speaking.
"You will both be going to public schools tomorrow. They are both excellent schools and I expect you to do well in them." Sasuke looked like he was going to protest but Itachi placed a hand on his arm.
"If I may ask, what is wrong with our current schooling?" Itachi stared into his fathers eyes and not for the first time he wished his father wasn't home.
"Nothing. However, since our business is expanding, we no longer have time to teach you everything. You both start tomorrow. You may leave now." With their father dismissal, the two boys left the room.
"I don't want to go to a normal school aniki…" Sasuke quietly complained while they walked away from the room. "I know, but try to make the best of it." Inwardly Itachi was weary. 'Just what are you planning father…?'
Chapter One: Heaven's a Lie
The moment he stepped out of the car, the girls that had been watching gathered in groups of three or more and he could hear them gasp and coo at him. It was disgusting that he would have to deal with this day in and day out from now on. Brushing a strand of dark hair away from his equally dark eyes, he kept his gaze foreword. While walking toward the front doors of the school, most of the girls gawked but stayed away, except one.
She had very pale skin, from what he could see, and long black hair; there was so much eyeliner and eye shadow that she had the appearance of a raccoon. Her eyes were an unnatural piercing gold which he was sure they were contacts. She wore all black and one could not accurately say whether of not she was thin or heavy for her clothes were baggy.
"Yo! You must be new." she said with a toothy grin. Her four canines were sharp and gleamed brightly in the sunlight.
"What gave you that idea?" He wanted to finish this quickly and get to class.
"Because those skinny bitches only ever talk about their makeup and suddenly they are in a flock five minutes before class? Besides, I haven't seen you around before." He raised an eyebrow at that. Not only was she talking to him like she could care less that he was attractive, but it seemed that she hated the other girls in the school as well.
"Yeah I know I look weird, but if those bitches over there (she points to where a brown haired girl stood with two blond friends and a quiet blue haired girl) saw what I looked like without all this (she moves her hands around her face to emphasize her point) then they would try to convert me into 'bitchism' and I'm really fine on my own."
He felt his lips twitch upwards into a small smirk. "You're interesting." She laughed.
"No I'm 'Sakimotto Yae', let me see your schedule and I'll take you to your first class." He wordlessly handed over the thin strip of paper to her pale hands.
"Oh this is some poor luck you have, Orochimaru first period. I don't care if he is one of the Sannin. He's a fucking pervert. You better watch yourself around him since he like them pretty." She grabbed his arm and lead him into the building while the other girls looked on in horror when the self proclaimed 'dark one' walked away with the new hot guy.
The inside of the school was brightly lit and entirely too noisy at that hour of the day, or at least that's what Itachi thought. The walls were an off-white color and the floors were made of some sort of black tile. He didn't say anything while he was dragged down the hallway into the sixth door on the left; he made a mental note to remember where the classroom was.
"Here you are. Our first period." he looked at the girl or a moment before speaking.
"Our?" Nodding her head, she motioned for him to follow as she explained.
"Yup I'm here too; I know I don't look like ANBU material but don't judge me based on my looks. Anyway like I said, watch yourself in this class. If you're with me, he 'might' leave you alone seeing as he doesn't like me." They stopped in front of a rather large desk that was currently occupied by a silver haired man with glasses who had his hair tied back.
"Good morning Kabuto-san, I need you to pull out his schedule for the rest of the day." Kabuto looked up at Itachi; his eyes hidden behind the glossed look of the glasses as the light hit them.
"Uchiha Itachi" Kabuto looked momentarily surprised and looked from Yae to Itachi before getting to the task that was set.
"Here you are Uchiha-san, everything is explained on there but I'm sure that Sakimotto-san will tell you before you have to read it. You better take your seats. The lesson will begin soon." With what was an obviously fake smile, Kabuto waved them off and went back to whatever he was doing previously.
"You want to sit closest to the door but in the back or middle. Never the front." Deciding to follow her advice, he sat with her in the far back of the room. The desks were set up in rows with about fifteen desks in each row; there were six rows.
Konoha was a rather large high school. There was a whiteboard in the very front of the room behind what one would assume was the teachers desk. (It was covered in stacks of neatly organized papers and correcting materials)
"Can I see your full schedule?" Yae asked while taking the paper from his hands before he could really give a response. As she looked it over, he could hear her 'hmm' every once and awhile. He noted the way she would unconsciously pull down the sleeves of her black hoodie when they would start to ride up her arm; silently he wondered about that.
"Well it seems that we have a lot of classes together. You are lucky in that account since now you don't have to sit with the brown haired bitch and her friends once they decide to swarm you." Handing him back his paper, he noted small check marks next to the classes they had together.
They had first period with Sannin Orochimaru who taught ANBU physics. Third period with Umino Iruka who taught ANBU Mathematics. Fourth period which was double the length due to it being their lunch period; that was with Hatake Kakashi with ANBU literature. Sixth period with Maito Gai which was Phys Ed. And finally seventh period with Sannin Tsunade who taught ANBU biology.
The two periods he didn't have with Yae were second (Mitarashi Anko for Economics, mixed class) and Fifth (Sanin Jiraiya for art, mixed class) Yae had the same classes but the time slots were switched, or so she had stated. Looking at the clock, Yea sighed and sank into her seat.
The students who where still lingering about the classroom were frightened when the door flung open and banged on the wall while a tall black haired man strode through. He had long hair and very pale skin that the purple suit he wore did little to hide.
"Everyone in your seats; turn to page 352 in the book and read the blue highlighted text silently while I take role!" Itachi spared a glance at Yae who was glaring at their teacher. 'I wonder what he could have done to get her so irritated...?' Itachi thought while opening his newly bought textbook.
He skimmed over the words and mentally sighed when he realized he already knew the material. Glancing at Yae again, he noted that she had yet to even open her book. She turned to look at him after sensing his gaze.
"I already know it too. He seems to think all of us are idiots." She smiled. "Yae Sakimotto" the bitterness in that voice filtered around the classroom making people shiver when her name was called.
"Yo!" she gave the Sanin a feral grin when he narrowed his eyes at her.
"The proper response would be 'here' or 'present'." He continued on with the other names while Yae flipped him off.
"Teme..." It was whispered so softly that Itachi had almost missed it.
"Itachi Uchiha...?" the Sanin's voice called out and he scanned the classroom like a child who had found a long lost toy; or perhaps a new toy. The yellow eyed stare landed on Itachi while he said
"Here." Those yellow eyes bore into him and he wondered if this was going to be the start of a problem filled year. Then the Sanin's gaze shifted next to him where Yae sat with her arms crossed looking at the Sannin with displeasure.
"At least he didn't ask you to stay after class yet. If he does, don't go into his office if possible." Nodding Itachi turned his attention to the board where Orochimaru was witting something.
He started speaking not long after the dry erase marker had been capped and placed on his desk. 'I still don't see why I had to be sent to this school even if it is supposed to be really great. I already know all of this. I wonder how Sasuke is fairing...' A soft tapping sound brought him away from his thought and he looked over at Yae.
One of the fingers on her right hand was gently tapping the beat to something on the desk in an overly bored manner. Only then did Itachi notice that she had painted her nails black. Suddenly her hand stopped and went to hear ear that was hidden behind her long hair. Turning to him she smirked defiantly.
"I never listen to him when he lectures, here," she whispered and handed him her right ear phone. Blinking he supposed he might as well listen to whatever she had playing. With one ear unoccupied he could answer any questions if the occasion arose.
Placing the earphone on his ear, the instrumental on what could be called a rock song was heard. It wasn't the worst thing that could be playing. He was slightly surprised when the vocals came back; they were not in English but Japanese.
Itachi and his family had long ago lived in Japan but had moved to the states at the chance of a better life. They still practiced the old ways in his family and he sometimes wondered if they remembered they weren't in Japan anymore.
Itachi allowed himself to relax just a little while the song played his native language. Never once did he question his own rather odd behavior.
'With her name, she has to be Japanese as well... Perhaps I will ask her sometime.'
The two of them were silent for the rest of the class until the bell rang. Taking back her earphone and packing up her things, Yae turned to him. "Better leave before he spots you. I'll see you in third ok, have fun!" With an animated wave, Yae walked briskly out of the class and headed left out of the door.
Gathering his things, Itachi managed to leave the classroom without Orochimaru spotting him; he had a feeling that Yae wasn't lying when she said those things earlier. Looking at his schedule, he noted that he needed to go back towards the front door to get to his next period. It was only four doors back on the right so it wasn't very difficult to find.
The inside of the classroom was very cold and as he sat down at an empty table the bell rang. A purple haired woman burst into the room with a scowl on her face. She was wearing a low cut skirt with a fishnet shirt and unbuttoned lab coat. Walking over to her desk, she sat on it and crossed her legs allowing her high healed shoes to kick the desks in front of her.
'What she is wearing can not possibly be allowed...'
"Alright maggots, we are going to do the two worksheets I'm going to pass out and then if you have time left you can start on the homework I'm giving you tonight!" she yelled and a few of the front row student whimpered. Her ruby eyed gaze swiveled until it landed on him.
"So you're the new student Uchiha Itachi. Well welcome to ANBU economics." Just as she said that a strange boy with blue tinted skin and dark blue hair walked in.
"Hoshigaki why are you late?!" The tall boy shrugged his shoulders and took the only other available seat which happened to be the one next to Itachi. The blue haired boy had dark beady looking eyes and what appeared like fish gill tattoos on the sides of his face. Sitting down and placing his things on the elongated desk, the shark boy turned to Itachi.
"So you're new here. I'm Kisame Hoshigaki." He placed his hand out as if expecting it to be taken. The boys smile faltered slightly.
"Or not..." Taking his hand back the boy sighed.
"Uchiha Itachi." Those black eyes were back on him the second he said his name.
"An Uchiha huh? There sure are a lot of you guys." A hand slapped the table causing Kisame to flinch slightly.
"Why don't you stop talking and do you're work! You haven't handed in anything this week." Anko glared at the boy who appeared to ignore her. Leaving the two worksheets on the table, Itachi set out to do them. They were easy. Nothing really challenged him anymore making everything boring and chore like.
Kisame had tried to start a conversation a few times after that but Itachi concentrated on getting all of his work done instead. When the bell to third period rang, he had completed the worksheets as well as his homework and handed all of them in.
Getting to third in the allotted time would be tricky, with the packed hallways, and considering it was in another building entirely. The school was separated into eight different buildings. The four main ones for normal courses, the fifth one belonging entirely to Phys Ed, the sixth one was the cafeteria, the seventh one was for band and the eight was for all the different art classes that were offered at Konoha.
Turning the corner, he almost bumped into a brown haired girl who wore entirely too much makeup. She was one of the girls who had been staring at him when he had gotten out of the car that morning.
"Oh I'm so sorry!" Her face flushed in a matter of moments before her eyes got a rather predatorial look to them.
"Say, how about you let me make it up to you? You could sit with me during lunch- Hey! Don't walk away from me!" Rather than explaining that he held no interest in her and only wanted to get to class; he just walked away. Some of the other students in the hallway laughed at the girl while she growled angrily at the boy who had dared walk away from her.
Itachi walked into the classroom just before the bell rang and the teacher smiled at him warmly.
"Come over here and introduce yourself to the class. You're the new student I was told about." Motioning for Itachi to stand beside him in the front of the class, Iruka turned and addressed the class.
"Alright guys quiet down. We have a new student starting form today. Now why don't you tell us your name and something about yourself?" Iruka said while looking towards Itachi.
"My name is Uchiha Itachi. I like spending my free time with my younger brother." with the requirements filled Itachi looked at his teacher who nodded.
"Now where to put you...?" Iruka's eyes scanned the room looking for empty seats that were away from the girls or the troublemakers.
"Iruka-sensei, let him sit over here!" all eyes were on Yae who had her hand raised and was waving it slightly back and forth. Iruka looked shocked; Yae had not once spoken unless she absolutely had to.
"Itachi, do you know her?" Iruka asked. He nodded and made his way into the back of the room without saying anything else. With a sigh, Iruka fought a smile and began to tell his students about the days lesson.
"Aww, you like spending time with your brother!" Itachi mentally rolled his eyes while she smiled.
"Why do you address the teachers as though you are in a Japanese school?" The question left his mouth before he really had even thought about it. Laughing, Yae looked at him.
"I'm Japanese so I'm used to it. All of the teachers have long since gotten over me doing that, so if you started doing that it don't think it would bother them." Seeing Itachi's expression she continued.
"You really think I can't tell you are also Japanese? I'm in ANBU for a reason." Smirking, she smiled politely at Iruka who let them get away with talking for the time being. Sitting down beside Yae, Itachi placed his things on the floor and pulled out a notebook.
"If you know everything from Oro-sannin's class, you'll probably know everything in here too. Just make sure that if you aren't going to pay attention that it at least looks like you are. Iruka doesn't like people to slack off." Glancing at the board, she pretended to write down the information when she was actually completing the homework that was written on the board.
"So how was last period without me?" she asked while her head was down so Iruka wouldn't notice.
"Is Anko-san always like that?" Stifling a laugh, Yae nodded. "She is a friend of the principle's so as long as it's not too revealing she's allowed to wear it." Itachi could tell that she was far more amused then she let on.
"I met a blue skinned boy named Kisame. He is...annoying." Her head snapped up and she looked at him with an unidentifiable expression on her face.
"Really? I wonder what he wanted." Although he thought her reaction to him telling her about Kisame was more then a little odd he decided to ignore that for a while.
"So what else happened, I can tell there is more." her smile was back.
"A brunette nearly ran into me in the hallway, and then tried to get me to go to lunch with her. I was already walking towards class when she was yelling at me." Yea snorted but kept her face neutral when Iruka looked at them; he turned away when he found nothing out of the ordinary. Her shoulders began to shake with barely controlled laughter.
"This is great, almost no one ignores her!" Her voice was harsh for a whisper but was still low enough not to be heard.
"She is going to stalk you forever now that you did that! I hate to tell you, but your school year is starting to look very grim indeed." Biting her lip in amusement her fangs poked over the edges of her lips giving her a slightly animalistic appearance.
He actually sighed at that. 'I don't want things to become more complicated. My family is enough.' Raising an eyebrow, he looked at Yea who was currently poking him in the arm.
"Oh, good you decided to join me. You didn't look like you were enjoying your thought."
Looking down at her wrist, she pulled a black sleeve back and smirked happily at her watch.
"3...2...1..." she counted down until the bell rang for out 4th period. Itachi started to get up and gather his things when he felt a hand on his arm.
"There is no need to hurry even if his class in another building. Kakashi-sensei is always late." she emphasized the 'always' and he got the feeling that there were a lot of weird things in this school he didn't care to know about that he would end up knowing either way. That was one of them.
"We only really have him in class for about fifteen minutes before the bell rings for lunch. We have computers in that classroom too so if things ever got really boring we can use them. Oh and he reads Come Come Paradise all the time..." her voice trailed off as she walked slightly ahead of Itachi in the hallway.
They did end up having to walk to another building but since it was once of the main courses it wasn't too far away; they also missed the bell by five minutes and as Yae predicted the teacher wasn't even there. Neither was half the class.
"I told you he's always late, so no one comes in until halfway into class." Since this was a computer lab the room was set up differently. There were desks all along the outside of the room with only a small island of five desks in the middle. Yae sat down in the one second closest from the door while Itachi sat next to her.
'Why am I even bothering with her. I am not normally this talkative.' Looking at her as a piece of black hair fell into her face he almost frowned.
'There is just something about her that intrigues me. It could be because she does not act like one would expect her too...' He was poked in the arm a few more times before Yea stated that he was thinking 'too much' and should stop before he hurt himself.
That was new to him; usually he was told to always think. Think things through, think about your future, think about how it will affect the clan. Always think.
"What did I just tell you? Sheesh. I've know you only for a few hours and your already starting to ignore me. Thanks a lot." she pouted and crossed her arms.
"So... Tell me about your family. Or about something about yourself." She bounced in the chair like a little child while waiting for Itachi to speak seemingly over her previous issue already. "I am seventeen."
"Wow that was great! I was hoping for something better, like favorite soda. Least liked month...You like being secretive don't you?" she paused and looked toward the door as a man with gravity defying silver hair and a mask walked into the classroom. He was wearing a dark blue turtleneck with black dress slacks. He had the lower half of his face covered by a black mask and his left eye was bandaged.
"Ok. Since we are now into our 5th month of school..." he trailed off lazily while waiting for everyone to look at him.
"I want to introduce a new long term project that you will be doing." There were groans from various students about work before everything fell silent again.
"Every week you will be recording any weird dreams that you have from now until the end of the year, then you will write a paper on one of those dreams and what you think it means. Any questions?" He looked around his one grey eye roaming the room.
"Good. Now do whatever for the remaining time." After that he sat down and proceeded to take out his orange book of porn as some people had dubbed it.
"But I have too many weird dreams to keep track of!!" There was a soft clicking sound as Yae banged her head into the computers keyboard.
"Grape soda. August." Yae looked up from the keyboard and stared blankly at Itachi before a look of understanding crossed her featured.
"Cherry soda. September." She mimicked Itachi's monotone and laid her head back on the keyboard where she promptly inhaled dust and sneezed. Itachi held a slight look of amusement when Yae sneezed twice more before whining that the computer was evil. She poked the screen and yelped when she was shocked; holding her finger she glared at the innocent looking computer as the screensaver came on.
"Technology is evil. It's going to cause our downfall one day... I like cheese pizza and soba noodles." she added as an after thought.
"So we are continuing this interrogation? Fine. chicken tempura and rice balls." Frowning Yae looked into Itachi's eyes.
"It's not an interrogation. You don't have to answer if you really don't want too." Pulling out her CD player and headphones, she only placed her left one in.
"What's your little brothers name?" She closed her gold eyes and moved her head to the beat of a j-rock song.
"Sasuke." Opening her eyes, Itachi noted that for once they were completely void of all emotion.
"I don't have any siblings. I live alone." The bell rang and her eyes were back to normal; as normal as gold eyes could get.
"Come on we need to get to the cafeteria before everyone else or there won't be a place to sit at all." Itachi stumbled as he was forcefully pulled from his seat and dragged down the hall.
"Walk faster, I'm not joking. There really won't be any seats left." Deciding it was better to comply rather then get dragged around like a rag doll, Itachi walked faster.
Upon entering the cafeteria Itachi realized just how huge Konoha High really was. The entire building was the cafeteria, he had only expected a small portion of it was the actually cafeteria and the other parts would be broken up into smaller sections for things like an auditorium. He was obviously wrong.
"Do you have money with you?" Itachi shook his head.
"Do you have a lunch for today?" He shook his head again.
"Why did I decide to make friends with such a difficult person." Pulling him to the first open table Yae found, they sat down. 'Is that what we are becoming? Friends?' Yae had propped her bag up on the table and was currently fishing through its contents and grumbling that it needed to be organized.
"There it is! I thought it had run off for a minute there." Placing a large container on the table she pulled out two pairs of chopsticks and placed them on the lid; closing the bag she left it sitting on the table. Opening the lid Itachi could see all sorts of different foods sitting on a bed of rice.
"Stop staring at it and eat some. Why do you think I brought out two pairs of these?!" Yae waved the unopened chopsticks in his face before he grabbed them. Smirking she slid the meal in-between them.
"I'm surprised you're not fighting me on this. It's either because you're hungry and it looks good, or because you know that I'd win the argument." Shrugging, she picked up a piece of shrimp and popped it into her mouth.
"Or it's because you are used to your family ordering you around so you don't fight it too much. I wonder which of those is correct?" she smirked behind another piece of shrimp when his gaze fell on her.
"YOU!" a screech interrupted their impromptu glaring match and the brown haired girl from earlier was standing behind the other side of the table pointing at Yae.
"Yes?" Yae choose to look bored and took some rice from the container after Itachi had taken a piece of chicken.
"Why is he sitting with you! You of all people?! And sharing food no less!"
"You're just sore that he ignored you in the hallway earlier. Now be gone demon!" she flicked a half eaten piece of shrimp at the girl and laughed when she screamed.
"Get it off of me! Eww! Get it off, get it off!!" She was turning in a circle screaming loudly so that all the tables nearby heard her and we also laughing.
"Wow, I didn't actually think I'd get it in her shirt! Today must be my lucky day, or maybe you're my new lucky charm Itachi?!" Shaking her head she continued to eat.
'If anything, this year will be entertaining.' Itachi thought while quietly watching the chaos around him. 'And this is only day one.' After a few minutes everyone had gone back to the conversations at their own tables and had seemingly forgotten the outburst that Yae had caused.
"Should I bring lunch again tomorrow or are you going to bring your own?"
"I will have my own." Nodding, Yae placed her things back in her bag and threw away the chopsticks.
"Have fun next class. Jiraiya Sannin is a real pervert, he writes those books that Kakashi-sensei reads all the time. But he's kind of funny so you might enjoy the class as long as you don't comment on anyone's art. If you do, you'll know immediately what I'm talking about." Yea smirked knowing that whether or not he said anything he'd end up knowing about the slight war between the red head and his friend.
"Oh and watch out for exploding clay." The bell rang and she waved at him, and like usually left before he could reply.
'How does she always know? She didn't even look at her watch.' Thankful that he hadn't needed to take anything out of the small bag he had, Itachi walked out of the cafeteria and headed towards the art building. Which was in a completely different direction and behind building five for whatever reason. He felt an angry gaze on him and noticed that the brown haired girl was following him.
'She was right about the stalking.' Pretending that he didn't even notice she was there, he continued on to the Art building. It was the largest building the school had, even larger then the cafeteria. Konoha High was a well known Art school and catered to more then just the regular arts such as painting, clay works and photography.
(However, even though Konoha specialized in the arts it did not mean that it was solely devoted to them. Many other courses were offered outside of the Arts field and a lot of accomplished people had graduated from Konoha)
The moment he entered the building, a rush of freezing cold air greeted Itachi. Looking at his schedule, he got the class number and had to go to the second floor and the third room on the left. Surprisingly, the second floor wasn't really crowded so it took only a few seconds to get to the room once he was up the stairs.
The inside of the room was painted in different colors. One wall was a blood red, and had what looked liked kabuki masks covering half of it with small silver plaques underneath. Another wall was orange and had shelving for clay sculptors; the wall next to it was a dark forest green with numerous paintings hanging.
The last wall was white and completely bare; a desk was situated in front of it with piles of paper and small orange books falling off of it.
"Oh so you're the new student! Welcome to my art class!" A white haired man had come up from around the desk and had a sketchpad in one hand and a pencil in the other.
"You don't talk much do you? Oh well. Sit wherever you like. There are no assigned seats here." The white haired man placed the sketchpad on his very disorganized desk and walked over to the door as the other students began to file in, after the bell. All the tables in the large classroom were round so Itachi chose one closer to the door.
A blond haired boy, from what he could tell, came and sat across from him at the other end of the table followed by a boy wearing an orange mask who ended up sitting next to Itachi.
"I'm Tobi. Tobi is a good boy." The boy named Tobi who wore the orange mask held out his hand. Itachi blinked and ignored him.
"Deidara-sempai, he is acting a little like Sasaori don't you think?" Tobi spoke to the blond haired boy who nodded then frowned.
"I thought I told you to stop calling me 'sempai'! What the hell does that even mean?! Do you just go looking for words on the internet and start saying them at random or what, un?" He wore his hair up in a ponytail with the left half of his face covered by hair. His nails were painted a light purple color and he was wearing a blue ring on his right index finger. There was some writing on the wring but from his position, Itachi couldn't quite make it out, not that he really tried to either.
"No because Tobi is a good boy, Deidara-sempai!" Deidara sighed heavily and pulled a wad of clay out of a bag he held by his side and started to play with it.
"What are you going to make today?" Tobi asked excitedly from his spot next to Itachi.
"Hmm. I don't know, maybe a bird, un." Tobi reached over the table and stole a small piece of Deidara's clay and began rolling it on the table making a long thin line.
"Alright class, since we have a new student I'm going to explain a few things." the white haired man who Itachi now knew was the teacher was sitting on his desk with a grin.
"You can do pretty much whatever you want in this class as long as it has to do with art, and that you keep in mind I have to grade it. Other then that, there are only small projects assigned once a week that must be turned in by Friday or they don't count. Ok everyone, get to work."
'I guess I could work with clay.' he walked over to where a large bucket was with a sign over it that said 'clay' and grabbed a handful of clay and brought it back to the table.
"Oh Sasori won't be happy. Looks like someone else likes using clay." Tobi said while making his clay 'snake' attack a 'person' he had made or at least that's what he said; they ended up looking like a worm and a starfish but he at least tried.
"Sasori doesn't know what real art is, un!" Deidara smashed his clay into the table with a furious look in his eyes.
"Deidara-sempai and Sasori don't agree on what art is. Sasori says that art is everlasting and he likes to build puppets. Sempai on the other hand..." Tobi motioned towards Deidara who had made a small bird that suddenly blew up creating smoke all around him.
"Art is a bang, un!" There was a loud grumbling from behind Deidara and Tobi hid under the table.
"I said you can do whatever you want but I thought I told you last week not to blow things up in my classroom?" Deidara huffed and glared at the Sannin teacher.
"It was only a small explosion, and I didn't take out the wall this time so stop complaining, un." A vein twitched on the white haired mans face but he walked away after realizing he was being ignored.
'So that would be why the wall over there is white and not covered with art things.'
Itachi turned back to his mound of clay and began taking pieces off of it and setting them aside for future use. Taking the clay in his hands, he rolled it between his palms and began to mold it into a desired shape.
"What are you making?" Tobi asked after a while; he was sitting on the edge of his seat and leaning closer to Itachi to get a better look. Itachi remained silent and continued to work while he heard Tobi asking 'sempai' what he was making.
"Exploding spider, and I don't know what he's making now go back you your own seat, un."
"Weasel." Itachi said quietly but instantly regretted it as Tobi had practically leapt over the table at his voice.
"So you can talk! Tobi was beginning to think you didn't like him! Tobi is a good boy!" Itachi's left eyes twitched ever so slightly.
"You'll have to excuse Tobi. He's always been like that and none of us know why. So why a weasel, un." Inwardly his mouth wanted to twist into something akin to a frown but outwardly he did nothing.
"My name is Itachi, it means weasel." Deidara looked at him for a moment before breaking into a fit of giggles.
"W-weasel? That's funny!" Itachi's eyes twitched and Deidara noticed a rather dark feeling sweep across the table.
"Not that it's bad, but weasel? Kakashi is scarecrow. But at least he kind of looks like a scarecrow. I wonder why your parents name you that, un?" Deidara was waving his hands around trying to make his point and not get killed at the same time.
"Hn." sighing in relief Deidara sat back down on his chair even though he didn't remember standing.
"Ok brats it's almost time for the end of the class (hear someone say 'oh thank god' in the background followed by laughs) so put all your materials away. Don't be late tomorrow were starting a new project that will span outside of this class as well. That's all." Jiraiya said while he looked through his sketchpad, not at all paying attention to his students.
When Deidara and Tobi got up to put there things away, Itachi followed just to find out where to put it. All the way on the opposite side of the room there was a small rack for 6 periods of art work. Placing his mostly formed weasel on the correct rack, Itachi went back over to his current table and grabbed his things and sat patiently waiting for the bell.
'He should have a sink in here for us to wash our hands. I wonder if it was connected to the wall Deidara blew up?' With that last thought, it was finally time to leave; having checked his schedule beforehand he knew to go to building five.
Seeing as he already knew where building five was Itachi had no problem finding it; he even managed to avoid what he was beginning to think were his fan girls. He despaired at the thought of that unruly breed.
"Hey Itachi!" a familiar voice called out to him just as he was about to grab building five's door handle. Turning he was face to face with gold eyes.
"Yae." Smirking she backed up a step.
"Well shall we?" she motioned towards the door. Silently opening it and walking inside, he found that it was warm.
"Oh yea...I forgot to tell you. They don't have AC in this building which I think is the most possibly stupidest crap ever. A few people have passed out from over exertion and heat exhaustion already. And Gai-sensei is a little..." A loud boom echoed through the gymnasium and a green blur came running from the opposite end to stand by the door they had just walked through.
"HOW ARE MY YOUTHFUL STUDENTS TODAY!" A tall man in green spandex yelled as he struck some sort of embarrassing pose. His teeth shone brightly and his black bowl cut hair swayed.
"As un-youthful as ever sensei. And you told me to tell you when I found the 'new youthful spirit' that was entering school. This is Uchiha Itachi. Itachi this is Gai-sensei." Yae said it in monotone but Gai-sensei didn't seem to notice. 'She just directed his attention to me...'
"THANK YOU YAE! NOW THAT WE HAVE THIS NEW ENERGY HERE OUR CLASS TIME WILL BE EVEN MORE SPACTACULAR! WELCOME ITACHI UCHIHA!" The green beast as Yae would later call him, made a move to hug the stoic Uchiha but before he could, Yae intervened.
"Oh look Sensei, Lee-san is here..." Gai looked up from his new student and saw his miniature self come running to stand next to him.
"YOSH! I MADE IT HERE IN 7.3 SECONDS. 2 SECONDS FASTER THEN MY RECORD!" While lee was getting congratulated by Gai-sensei, Yae grabbed Itachi's arm and dragged him away from the duo.
"Quick, before they notice we're gone!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"I knew I shouldn't have taught Lee to say 'sensei'…" Yae cringed and made them walk faster.
"If they ever try to approach you in the hallway, run! If you don't, I can't insure that you will keep your sanity. He already corrupted lee, but that was about two years ago. We have all learned from Lee-san's sacrifice." Nodding her head, she broke into a grin at Itachi's passive expression.
"Admit it, he's creepy." Itachi took back his arm now that they were far away from them.
"Hn." Yae raised an eyebrow.
"I see, never admit your fears. Very wise indeed." she said in a slightly mysterious voice before laughing. Once again Itachi wondered how he had attracted such a strange person.
"I'll show you the way to the locker rooms. We only have to dress out on Wednesday-Friday. Otherwise we do other activities up here. Downstairs they have a pool and a small tennis court. Honestly who put a tennis court underground?" There was a small stairwell that was just inside the doors of the building.
"If you go down those steps you will be in the locker rooms, there is a sign that separates the girls one from the boys so you better figure out which one to go to. People have a tendency to swap the signs..."
"Oh and as for Gai-sensei's earlier comment. I did partially go to you because he told me to 'find our new student and share the power of youth' or some crap like that; but only because we rarely get new students since it's hard to get accepted near the middle of the year. If you had turned out to be a bastard I would have given you hell. It's a good thing you interest me, ne?" She cocked her head to the side and gave a small smile.
"ALRIGHT MY STUDENTS WE ARE GOING TO PLAY DODGEBALL TODAY AND LIGHT THE FLAMES OF YOUTH!" Yae scoffed.
"Can't he just say things rather the yell. And why dodge ball! Why?!" Yae hung her head and whined softly in despair. Turning, she trudged ahead solemnly as though she were going to her death.
'Perhaps this year will be different then my other schooling. Things are a little crazier here then one would expect for such an esteemed school.' Gai had all the students line up and then once Lee had counted how many there were the line was split in half and those were the two teams. Itachi was naturally on Yae's team seeing as they were the last two to get in line of the left side.
"Place your things over there with mine; it will be time to go to our next class before we can get to them again. Unless you want to keep it on?" Itachi wordlessly walked the five feet to the wall and placed his things beside Yae's.
"So are you any good at dodgeball?" Yae asked will barely constrained curiosity.
"I have never played it." Itachi answered her honestly.
"This will be good then. You can really work your reflexes in it! Just don't get hit by a ball or aim for anyone's head since it won't get them out of the game."
"NOW THAT EVERYONE IS READY, START!" Gai blew into a whistle and with that people began to throw balls at each other. Itachi noted that since both himself and Yae were in the back, they only had to dodge a random ball everyone and a while; it was rather boring.
After about five minutes a stray ball made its way into the back and Yae grabbed it. The grin on her face made Itachi rethink his earlier assessment of the game.
Yae took off towards the line that separated the two teams, weaving and dodging out of the way of stray balls. Stopping a foot form the line she drew back her arm and let the ball loose; it nailed an unsuspecting victim directly in the chest and they were flung backwards onto their ass.
The slightly gleeful look that graced Yae features was enough to make some of the other players back away from her.
Someone threw a ball at her and it hit her chest but she caught it causing them to curse and step off the playing field. Now that the other team wanted her gone she was more alert and used others a shield to get to the back, along with the stolen ball.
Tossing it to Itachi, he caught it effortlessly.
"Hey I just got two people out, it's your turn. And make sure they can't catch the ball or you will be the one out."
With a mental sigh, Itachi walked calmly out into the battlefield. He dodged balls thrown at him by mere inches and ignored the other players stares when he stopped only inches from the line. Picking his target, he let the ball loose and watched in slight amusement when they cried out as the ball struck their side.
He didn't bother to duck as a ball was thrown at him catching it instead and nailing another player with it. He walked calmly back to stand beside Yae.
"I looked cooler..." she grumbled. For the rest of the game they took turns in taking people out of the game neither of them having nor wanting to exert themselves in that warm gymnasium.
"It's time to go." Yae said just before the bell rang for seventh. Rolling her shoulders to relieve some build up tension, she quickly put the strap of her bag on her left shoulder; looking back at Itachi she noted that he was ready.
"We have to go to building one and get there by the bell. Tsunade-hime does not like people to be late, even new students." Itachi nodded and followed Yae as they weaved their way through the hordes of students milling around outside and in the buildings.
"We need to hurry we only have like 15 seconds before were late!" They raced up the flight of stairs and made it to the third door on the left just in time.
"Yatta!" Yae mumbled weakly. Walking only a few steps, Yae sat at the desk closest to the door and Itachi sat beside her. The desks were so close to each other that they were almost touching. The reason for this was that there were only a few desks in the front of the room while the lab tables cluttered the rest of the room along with supply tables and shelves. It was a biology classroom after all.
(But not just that; since it was ANBU biology there was also human development lessons thrown into the mix as well.)
"Well Yae, you seem to have actually gotten here on time today, good for you. Now I don't have to write you up and file all that paperwork." She fake smiled at Tsunade and turned to Itachi.
"I told you she doesn't like late people." Tsunade had long blond hair that was parted into two pieces at the base of her neck. She wore a white v-neck shirt with a light green jacket was thrown over it and tan colored pants. A lone student stumbled into the classroom after the bell and Tsunade gave him a withering look.
"One more time you're late and I'm writing you up." The silver haired boy's mouth dropped open and his fists clenched.
"It wasn't my fucking fault that a group of brain dead fuckers decided to block the fucking hallway!" he growled out.
"You have detention tomorrow for that." Stalking over to his desk the boy could be heard muttering things like 'oh, for fucks sake' and 'those fuckers better not get in my way tomorrow or I'll fucking kill them' as he crossed the room.
"That's Hidan. He swears a lot and made up his own religion or cult called 'Jashanism' or something like that. I'd stay away from him." Yae said quietly. Itachi noted that when the boy had walked past he also had a red ring; but this time it was on his left index finger.
"Now that everyone is here, I want everyone to pair up and when that is done I want the names of those together." Tsunade had a slightly evil look on her face and it made Yae and Itachi suspicious of her. After a few moments everyone was done.
"I will start here and work my way to the other side of the room." She looked over at Yae and the boy next to her.
"I think you know who I'm working with." Yae said in irritation.
"Oh really, well enlighten me." Tsunade did, in fact, know who she was working with but it was so fun to torment her students.
"Uchiha Itachi. Or if you prefer, the new student." Murmurs went around the classroom at that confession and Yae rolled her eyes.
"So are you going to tell us why we are paired up?" Tsunade smiled and shook her head.
"Nope, you'll find out in a week or two." Continuing on to take the other groups down Yae let her head hit the desk.
"I have a bad feeling about this, just like if Tsunade ever won the lottery she would have a bad feeling..." She felt Itachi's dark gaze on her and continued.
"She's quite the gambler and never wins. The only time she ever wins is when bad things are going to happen. It's kind of ironic actually…"
"Alright now that all of that is out of the way, I will give you a clue as to what the project is. It has to do with an extra lesson. Other then that I'm not telling you anything other then the fact that it counts as 33 your final grade at the end of the year. But don't worry too much it's only a month long project, including the written portion." Most of the students groaned at the sound of written work.
"After that lesson you will be doing a section on diseases and viruses where you will have to research one and make a presentation board or a PowerPoint presentation. Other then that you guys can get to work since it's on the board."
"She does, at least, let us talk in class while we work, so long as we are working." Pulling out her book she looked at the lesson and sighed.
"I already did this lesson. I knew I shouldn't have gone ahead because I was bored. At least I can just get to the questions and be done with it. What about you Itachi?" She didn't bother looking at him since it wouldn't aid her in getting an answer from him.
"It's an easy lesson." Smirking, she grabbed a pen and began doing the vocabulary and ten questions. Finally finishing nearly ten minutes later, she put all of her things away and looked at the clock.
"Another twenty minutes and were free...until tomorrow..." Tsunade watched the interaction of her two students and was surprised by how much Yae was talking; and when both of them handed in their completed assignments far ahead of time. She supposed there was a first for everything. Leaning back in her chair, Yae glanced over at Itachi.
"So what do you do at home? Anything interesting?" she waited for a moment before giving up on the hope of him answering.
"Studying or clan duties." his voice was a soft monotone.
"That's it?" Her gold eyes fixed onto Itachi's form as he nodded.
"I work and sleep so I guess I don't do much either." She stayed quiet after that, seemingly to completely digest the information she had uncovered.
'I don't have time to do anything else.'
When the bell rang, everyone rushed to gather all of their things and head to the bus ramp or to their cars in the parking lots or some other destination. Yae quietly placed her bag on her shoulder before waving at Itachi.
"I'll see you tomorrow ok? Bye." With one last smile, she walked out of the classroom while Itachi was getting up. He walked calmly out of the classroom and headed down the stairs even though they were packed with students. Finally making his way out of the building, he headed toward the parent pick up spot where he had been dropped of earlier that day.
He was not expecting either of his parents to be there; his mother would most likely be with Sasuke and his father at work.
He didn't mind any of it in the slightest. After being picked up by his cousin and finally arriving home Itachi found himself being herded into the kitchen by his mother.
"Aniki!" A small black blur latched into his waist and he smiled at his brother.
"Ototo, did you have fun today?" Sasuke nodded his head franticly and pulled his brother over to sit next to him as their mother made them a snack since dinner would be much later on.
"How was your first day there?" Uchiha Mikoto asked both of her boys who sat at the table eating. Sasuke was the first one to speak up.
"It was really weird at first since everyone was staring at me and the girls wanted to do was hug me (he makes a face at that) but it got better when I met this blond haired boy who has whisker like scars on his face. He's really cool and does pranks all the time!" Mikoto laughed quietly at Sasuke while looking to Itachi for his answer.
"It was fine." She frowned but didn't ask him for any more information. He hadn't always been like that, but as his skills and mind developed so did the growing quietness in him. If she wanted something to blame for that she might blame the clan but she would never dare to say as much.
"Aniki, will you play with me tonight?" Sasuke looked up expectantly at his older brother. Itachi was about to answer when Uchiha Fugaku walked into the room just then getting home from work.
"Itachi, I need to speak with you." Fugaku walked past the kitchen and into another room entirely not saying another word.
"Not today Ototo, perhaps tomorrow." He poked Sasuke in the forehead and smiled slightly when he pouted.
"But Aniki, you always say that..." Itachi's smile slowly dissipated.
'I do say that all the time don't I...' Excusing himself from the kitchen, he walked into the room that he knew his father to be in. Sitting down in front of him he waited.
"I expect you to study more then you have been at home. You can't let your education slide just because of a sibling. Now how was your day there?" Fugaku looked at his son with dark piercing eyes.
"It was fine. There will be no problems there." Nodding, Fugaku turned away from his son.
"You may leave now." Itachi left without another word and went to his room. If he went out with Sasuke now, his father would know and that would not be advisable.
'It's always like this. I don't even need to study I know everything already.'
Sitting on his floor, Itachi closed his eyes and tried to block out the fact that he was still home and that his father wasn't at work.
-OWARI-
-Quick AN 8/11/08-: OK, my beta fixed a few lingering problems with this chapter so I reposted it, and don't worry chapter 2 is already written but needs to be finished by my beta and I'm working on chapter 3…very slowly…
Author: ok….I know I said I was going to start "red as embers" on my fictionpress account but… I really didn't mean to start this!! All I did was open a blank word document then the next thing I knew there was like half the chapter written… Anyway I have always wanted to read a story where Itachi was in high school and etc etc. I can't tell you anymore because it would ruin the surprise. But I'm sure if you look at the interaction between Itachi and his family you'll see what's to come… hehe.
I also plan on making long chapters like this (lets see if that actually works...) and I have a sequel or two I'm thinking of already seeing as i know how this fic will play out for the most part. Hehehe
Itachi: I'm going to kill them all…
Author: -gasp- no you are not!! -Covers Itachi's mouth-
AN: review please. Don't be like me when you read a fic and think its good/bad but fail to leave a review cuz you are lazy… I knew doing that was going to come back at bite me… o0))