The day started out like any other. Kiba Inuzuka, typical high school athlete, was bored. Ten minutes into the day and he was already bored. Not to mention the end of August, early September heat had made its way into school. The fan on Asuma-sensei's desk only blew around the hot air. Homeroom was such as waste of time.

He sighed deeply blowing his messy brown bangs out of his face. It was going to be a long day. He was so used to tapping his pen on Tenten's shoulder he didn't even notice that she turned around. She stared at him, her grey eyes full of annoyance. He knew she didn't like him. It was a typical, cliché rivalry, she was a Perfect perfectionist and he was a jock.

"Kiba, would you stop touching me." She sighed smacking his pen out of his hand. He couldn't help but laugh. It literally flew out of his hand and landed on the other side of the room. Annoying Tenten was one of his favorite pastimes. She was normally a peaceful person but Kiba brought out the worst in her. Not to mention the intense heat and humidity only added to the tension.

"I didn't touch you…I'm hurt you would make such an accusation." He smiled showing off his sharp white teeth.

"Whatever you doing stop, it's annoying." She rolled her eyes and turned back around continuing whatever she was doing before. Asuma-sensei looked up from playing with his lighter. He didn't want to be there any more than they did. He would rather be outside chain smoking.

"Break it up or you both get detention." He replied uninterestedly. In truth, they probably wouldn't get detention. Filling out detention slips would take way too much time and way too much effort. Kiba chuckled to himself quietly.

"Yeah Tenten…down girl." This time he deliberately touched her sliding his hand down her back and he would have unhooked her bra if she didn't turn back around and slap the taste out of his mouth. No one around them noticed until he yelled out various curses. Asuma-sensei slammed down his lighter and angrily pointed to the door.

"I've had enough. Go to Tsunade-sama's office, now! And don't worry you'll have plenty of time to work out your problems after school."

"My word of the day is 'appalled'." She thoughtfully turned her head to the side wondering how she could use it in a sentence. She held of her phone reading out the definition. "Appalled, a verb meaning to be overcome with consternation, shock or dismay."

"You're the only one I know that gets new words texted to you every morning…" he said with a slight laugh. She placed her phone back into the pocket of her overly ripped jeans.

"While we're talking about new…I have the perfect prank…" Norika Tanaka's red lips curved in a mischievous smile. Her brightly dyed hair was cut into a concave bob and this week her chosen color was orange, her personal favorite to match her wildly outrageous makeup choice.

She held out the notebook and pen to her raven haired best friend, Sasuke Uchiha. They had been friends for as long as they could remember. She was one of the only people that he could tolerate at that school. His deep onyx eyes stared into her hazel ones trying to figure out what she was trying to do. The two of them were similar, both had a lack of motivation and low tolerance for anything and everything.

"Hn." he mumbled snatching the notebook from her heavily tattooed arm. "Why do I need this?" She could barely contain her laughter. If Nori wasn't laughing at other the expense of other people she was orchestrating a prank.

"I just need you to write a note in Naruto's handwriting to Hinata, it'll be easy." Everyone knew that Hinata Hyuuga was hopelessly infatuated with Naruto. However, Naruto was clueless; he didn't even know that she liked him for five years.

"How do you expect me to copy his crap handwriting?" Nori sighed dramatically and pulled a worksheet out of her binder.

"Here, take this and write something like 'I've been watching you for a while and I feel the same way too'." She smirked putting the worksheet on his desk.

"How long have you been planning this?" he asked not looking up from writing the note.

"It came to me this morning and I stole his homework on my way to homeroom." She said proudly. He pulled the piece of paper out of the notebook and neatly folded it. He shook his head like he was saying 'this will never work'. Stealthily Nori put the note on the floor and kicked it over a few rows where Hinata Hyuuga and Ami Akansuna were sitting. They were too busy talking to notice that the note wasn't already there. Sasuke didn't bother to watch her read it; he couldn't care less what she did. Nori on the other hand watched in anticipation as Hinata read the note to Ami. She could hear them excitedly talk about it.

"See? Told you it would be easy." She took Naruto's worksheet and ripped it up. "And look." She shoved her cell phone in his face showing him the time. "Class is over."

Off to gym, the best and worst class of the day. For the people that never played in gym it was the worst, especially when you had Gai-sensei as a gym teacher. "Uchiha, Tanaka!" He called out from across the gym. "Get in the game, you two are wasting your youth! You see, my poor misguided youths, dodgeball is more than just hurling balls at your fellow classmates it is truly an art form…" Leave it to Coach Gai to deliver a stirring speech about the deeper side of dodgeball. They tuned him out after only a few seconds of his rambling Sasuke and Nori exchanged exasperated looks and continued to sit on the bleachers. Coach Gai eventually gave up and went to go lecture someone else, apparently they were immune to his charm and good looks.

"Wow, just when I thought he couldn't get any weirder..." sighed Sasuke closing his eyes, preparing for his nap. It didn't last long; Nori's fist into his forearm woke him up quickly. "What are you doing?" he asked calmly not revealing how much it really hurt.

"Do you see that? I'm frankly appalled by what I see." Sasuke rolled him eyes. Nori couldn't wait to try out her new word of the day. She pointed to the other side of the gym where the Konoha Regional High School cheerleaders 'just happened' to be there when the boys soccer came for their uniforms. They certainly lived up to their reputation as the school sluts. Sakura Haruno was wearing next to nothing, Ino Yamanaka found the shortest shirt available, and Naruko Uzumaki (Naruto's twin sister) decided that cheerleading shorts could be worn anytime. They were about as slutty as it could get. Everyone one knew that they had been with the whole soccer and football team. Apparently they didn't care.

Sasuke knew that looking over there would be a bad idea. The second he did he caught eyes with Naruko. She waved at him like they knew each other and ran over to the bleachers. Nori immediately smacked him in the arm the same place she hit him before. "Why did you look at her? Now she's coming over here thanks to you." He was kind of hoping that she didn't notice that and he was really hoping that Naruko really didn't come over and sit between them. She looked exactly like her fraternal twin brother, same blue eyes, careless smile, and tan skin; the difference was she had the ultra feminine features and curvaceous body.

"Hi…are you Sasuke?" She smiled warmly. It seemed like a trick. He glanced over at Nori that was about five seconds away from pulling out her long blonde hair. He tried his hardest to ignore her but she just kept staring at him, her bright blue eyes shining.

"He doesn't want to talk to you so why don't you go finish pimping yourself out to the soccer team." Nori added pointing to the cheerleaders that were now showing the boys their latest cheer routine. Naruko seemed unaffected, either she didn't realize she was trying to be mean or she didn't care. She turned around flipping her hair into Nori's face.

"I just need to talk to him alone, it'll only take a minute I promise…" She was going to continue to talk to Sasuke regardless if she stood there or not. But Nori left trying to exercise restraint and not strangle her on the spot. Naruko turned her attention back to him. She looked at him for a moment trying to read his expression. It was bored or annoyed, either that or pissed off. "So…how are you?" she asked somewhat out of the blue.

"Why are you here?" He was completely serious but she was laughing anyway. He wanted to get up and leave so badly but even he couldn't do that to her. Well, not until he knew why she was there.

"Oh …I was just wondering about your brother." That would explain the random meeting. They had never spoken to each other and they have had classes together since the seventh grade.

"Itachi?" Itachi was in the grade above them and he was just as easily annoyed as Sasuke was if not worse. They too had similarities in more in appearance than personality. He barely showed up for school. Sasuke was partly wondering when she could of saw him since he came to school at least once a month.

"I was wondering…" She paused nervously twisting her hair around her index finger. "…if you could talk to him for me. I know it's stupid but—" He interrupted her, trampling over her words.

"You're right, is it stupid." She stood up adjusting her short shorts. Just as quickly as she was happy she was sad.

"…um…well, thanks for trying…or not I guess." You could tell she was trying hard to put what she wanted to say to him nicely. He could just let her walk away like that. As much as he tried to hide it he had a conscience.

"He'll be home tonight if you want to come over." She leaned down and whispered a thank you in his ear. He could see Nori behind her shaking her head. He could just imagine her saying her new word of the day, appalling.

"What was that about?" Nori asked watching Sasuke gather his things.

"We gotta go." He was not looking forward to seeing Itachi. The faster he went to go tell him the faster he could leave. Nori gave a pseudo gasp putting her hand over her mouth.

"Wait Sasuke…you're not suggesting that we…skip class." Was there every a time when Nori wasn't being sarcastic? She picked up her books and followed him out of the door. Coach Gai didn't even notice the two of them walk out of the gym, he was too busy showing someone how to do a thousand push-ups.

Nori was having a hard time keeping up with him. "Would you slow down? I don't even know where we're going…" He didn't stop or turn around to answer her. But she figured they were going to find Itachi. Why else would they be going to the east side of the school behind the labs? Itachi was there with his selling partner Kisame Hoshigaki. They were hard at work corrupting the young minds of the students that "accidentally" got lost and "just happened" to find Itachi and Kisame selling. That was the only reason he even showed up to school. He found Itachi sitting on the grass casually smoking a cigarette.

"Teme…I see you found you way back here…welcome." He said spreading his arms in a sweeping motion as if he was showing them something spectacular.

"I just came here to tell you that Naruko for some reason wants to talk to you and I told her you'd be home tonight." He strategically placed the cigarette behind his ear, a sign that he was bored as well as uninterested.

"No." he replied simply. He laid back on the grass, thinking that it was the end of the conversation. Nori's eyebrows furrowed in pure annoyance.

"What do you mean no? He never asked you a question!" She said exasperated by his response. Itachi was never one for a long conversation.

"Don't worry Nori," Sasuke said quietly to her, "He'll be home tonight…"