A/N: I don't own Naruto.
Five people gazed up at a grey, seedy building, not seeming to notice the drizzle. They were silent for a long time, just taking in their surroundings. Finally, one of the two females in the group licked her lips nervously and began to speak.
"Well… this is it, I guess," she said, picking up the backpack that was resting against her leg. The other three nodded in agreement.
"Shall we go in, then?" she said, and once again the other four nodded. They all entered the building and the tallest of the group walked up to the receptionist sitting behind her desk.
"Yo. I'm Kakashi Hatake; I gather that you've been told that myself and my… students… would be arriving today?" The woman looked up, startled. She glanced at the man who was talking to her, and then peeked around him to see the others. There were two boys, one with dark hair, dark eyes and a surly attitude, one with blonde hair, blue eyes and what looked like whiskers. The other two were girls, one with short pink hair and the other with long blonde hair. The man in front of her seemed to be wearing a mask, and had a shock of silver hair. All five of them were wearing the same headband with a symbol on it. Part of the receptionist's mind was wondering what the symbol meant. The other, slightly bigger, half was feeling just a little intimidated by the whole group.
"Uh, sure!" she squeaked. "Um, the Headmaster's in his study. Would you like to follow me?" She got up and squeezed her way round her desk before bustling off down a corridor. Naruto, Sakura, Ino and Sasuke looked at Kakashi, who shrugged and they started following her. Pretty soon they were standing outside a large wooden door with a brass plaque on the outside. The receptionist knocked on the door. A gravelly voice said "Enter," as she opened the door and the six of them entered a small office. A man with thinning grey hair was working at a desk, but looked up as they came into the room.
"Mr Brightwell, these are the people from that other school… Konoha, I think you said."
"Ah yes. Mr Hatake, I take it? Are these your students?" The man had stood up and stretched his hand out towards Kakashi. The copy-ninja took it and they shook briefly.
"Yes. This is Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki and Ino Yamanaka." The three of them bowed when their respective names were called out.
"It's very nice to meet all of you. I am honoured that your school contacted us for this transfer programme. Would any of you care for some refreshments? Please, help yourself." He gestured to a pot of coffee on the table and an assortment of shop bought cakes and biscuits. Naruto reached for a chocolate digestive and was going to pour some coffee when he felt a sharp kick on his shins. He turned to Sakura, the administrator of the kick, who glared at him and shook her head. Meanwhile, Mr Brightwell continued to babble on about the importance of international relationship and how the whole school was so thrilled at being part of 'an important scheme of interschool friendship'. Each of the shinobi felt their faces glaze over, and Naruto entertained himself with a series of daydreams, mainly involving him winning many battles. Eventually a nudge in the ribs, curtousey of Sakura, Naruto realised that those around him were standing up.
"Let me show you to your rooms, and then I'll leave you to get settled before we introduce you to the other students." Yet again the five ninja were led down a maze of corridors until they came to a door which held a sheet of paper with 8 typed names on it and two more hastily scrawled names; Sakura's and Ino's names.
"Miss Haruno and Miss Yamanaka, you'll be sleeping in this dormitory. Your beds are over there, at the end." They were staring at a row of beds, 5 on each side. It was obvious that eight of them were currently occupied, and the two at the end were empty. Ino and Sakura walked over to them slowly, before placing their bags on them. They sensed the others leave the room, and Ino immediately broke the silence.
"Sheesh! And people say that I'm talkative! I swear, he did not stop talking." Sakura hummed her reply, and opened her bag, pulling out a pair of pyjamas and placing them underneath her pillow. She hesitated, and then undid her headband, placing it on the small table next to her bed. Ino watched, and grinned as she took hers from around her waist as well.
"I guess we won't be wearing them for a while, huh?" said Sakura in a small voice. Ino stopped grinning, and looked down at the headband in her hands.
"No, I guess not." They looked at their leaf forehead protectors in silence, lost in melancholic thoughts for their old school.
"C'mon," said Ino, breaking the silence yet again. "The other students will be here soon, and we need to change into the uniform before they show up." Sakura tore her eyes from the headband, and nodded. They opened the large wardrobe at the end, which was split up into sections for each student. And stared in horror at what was inside.
Meanwhile, in the boys' dormitory, a similar situation was occurring. Sasuke and Naruto had both started to unpack, and had each taken off their headbands. Naruto was just fixing his tie in place when the door banged open. A boy stood in the doorway, startled. Sasuke and Naruto looked up, bit having heard him when he was further up the corridor, they weren't that surprised.
"Who are you?" It was a simple question, if rather rude for their first ever meeting. Sasuke ignored the newcomer and instead focused on hiding as many shuriken into his school uniform as he could. Luckily the boy didn't notice the weaponry.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, and this is Sasuke Uchiha."
"Oh… are you the new transfers?" Naruto nodded. "Well then, I'm Fred Harris. Lessons have finished now, so if you want I could show you around…" he trailed off as Sasuke finally deigned to look at him and fixed the boy with a cold stare.
"No thank you. We need to talk to our sensei first." Sasuke said before stalking out the room. Naruto flashed an apologetic grimace at the boy, before hurrying after him. The boy scratched his head. "Well they were… weird," he muttered before dumping his bag down and hurrying off to tell his classmates about the new arrival.
Sakura and Ino stared in horror at the uniform. It was… yellow, a colour that both of them detested, with a standard grey school skirt and white blouse. Both of them shuddered.
"It's… vile," said Sakura. Ino nodded, slightly pale.
"Do you think we have to wear it?"
"Unfortunately." Another shudder ran through their bodies.
"Well, we might as well put it on," Sakura murmured. Ino grimaced. They had fought against dangerous weapon wielding enemies, survived the forest of Death, and both had met Maito Gai, but this was the one thing that might just finish off the two kunoichi. Swallowing, Sakura reached forwards and tentatively picked up the uniform, before changing at lightning speed. Ino followed suit, and soon all that remained to put on was the hideous yellow jumper. Just as Sakura reached for it, the door clattered open and several girls stood at the open doorway, their mouths open. Ino and Sakura just stared. The girl at the front of the group was first to recover. She had short brown hair and brown eyes.
"Well well, you must be Ino and Sakura. We've been expecting you." Images of the girl sitting in a black chair stroking a cat entered Sakura's brain, and she shook her head to rid herself of the thoughts.
"Yes. My name is Sakura, and this is Ino."
"Hm. I am Gemma, and this is Ruby, Emily and Sophia." She quickly pointed out the rest of the girls, and there was a tense silence. Just as Sakura was contemplating on whether to get a kunai to cut the tension, and just as Ino was wondering whether she could use a mind control jutsu to get the girl to go away, they sensed Naruto and Saskue's chakra signatures. A second later, Naruto and Sasuke appeared in the doorway.
"Hi," said Naruto, his arm raised and a smile on his face. Immediately the girls were fawning over him and Naruto, leaving Sakura and Ino to stare dumbly.
"Uh, Kakashi-sensei needs to see us," said Naruto over the top of the cooing girls' heads. He gestured helplessly at them, and Sakura and Ino looked at each other, evil grins spreading out on their faces. Sakura sashayed up to Sasuke.
"Come on Sasuke-kun, let's go find Kakashi-sensei then," she said whilst wrapping her arm around Sasuke's waist and alternating batting her lashes at him and glaring at the other girls. Not to be outdone, Ino had made her way over to Naruto, and had possessively taken a hold of his hand.
"After all," Ino purred, "we don't want to keep him waiting." With that Ino and Sakura marched a confused Naruto and an expressionless Sasuke out of the doorway and down the corridor. Once they were safely away from the girls, both of the kunoichi bust out laughing, dropping their hold on the two bewildered shinobi.
"Di… did you see that brunette girl glare at me? Talk about if looks could kill," said Ino, wiping tears from her eyes.
"I thought her flesh would melt off her face!"
"I'm glad to see you two are settled in," came a familiar voice from behind them. Both girls straightened up, and turned to see Kakashi leaning against the door, reading his book. He put it away when he got their attention, and motioned for them to follow him in to the empty class room. They sat down on the desks, Sasuke closing the door as he was the last one in.
"Now, our mission here is to investigate a potential underground threat. You all know about it, right?" Kakashi looked around, and the others nodded their heads in assent. "Whilst we're here, you are undercover. That means no throwing kunai and shuriken at ANY student or teacher," here he paused to look at Naruto who scowled, "no punching, kicking or fighting with the students," here it was Sakura's turn to squirm under his gaze. "And NO JUTSUS." Ino smiled sweetly at him, whilst Sasuke glared. "Now that that's sorted, here are your timetables. You will be operating in pairs and so Ino and Naruto will have the same timetable, whilst Sasuke and Sakura will be having the same classes." He paused whilst he let that sink in, before delivering the final blow. "Oh, and yes. As most of the members in this threat receive counselling, you will all be assigned to see the school counsellor. Just for mission purposes, of course." His eye crinkled in to the half moon that indicates his smiling, and Sakura thought that the desk that Kakashi was sitting on would combust due to the combined intensity of several murderous glares.
Hello, welcome to my first ever Naruto story. This idea came to me whilst I was cutting up a tomato for lunch… don't ask. Anyway, various scenarios of Saskue sitting opposite a non-ninja world psychologist describing his… issues… made me smile, especially as it was done comediclly in my mind. Anyway, hope you enjoyed it. Or not. Tell me anyway. Oh, and by the way, I'm only a little way through Naruto Shippuden (anime) and haven't even started the manga… so this makes the whole timeline thing a bit hard, especially as I don't even know if Saskue comes home. Anyway, this is before he goes so I guess it doesn't really matter… and the reason why Ino is in it is because I couldn't leave Sakura in the dormitory on her own, and I dunno, Ino seemed to work. So yeah, she has temporarily joined team Kakashi. ^^
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