Raven Uchiha flinched as the obnoxious blaring of his alarm filled the air.

"I really hate that piece of crap" he sighed as he rolled out of bed. As he hit the floor, he struck his head on the corner of the bed. He cried out in pain as he felt blood ooze from the wound.

"Well, this is shaping up to be a fantastic day" he said his voice dripping with sarcasm. He quickly dressed himself and wiped the blood from his face. As he finished there was a knock at the door.

"WHAT!" Raven shouted. The timid shy voice of an insignificant subordinate replied,

"Raven, sir? The Lady Hokage wishes to see you… sir".

"Fine, I will be there shortly!"

Lady Tsunade was furious.

"WHERE IS HE! I called him over an hour ago!"

"Looking for me?" Raven replied nonchalantly.

"Where have you been, Raven?" Tsunade screamed.

"Who, me? Nowhere, out with a girl" Raven spoke with a sarcastic and disrespectful tone, even though he was addressing his Lady Hokage, the royalty of the Village Hidden in The Leaves. Lady Tsunade spat at him,

"Don't feed me that load of crap! You don't even like people, much less dating them. You probably went to smoke, or maybe you went to Ichiraku for a glass of sake!" Raven shrugged,

"As a matter of fact I did both. Oh well. What's done is done, or so I hear. So what do you want?" Raven leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.

"I want you to teach a class at the academy today, Iruka-sensei is out with a nasty cold and everyone else is on assignment." Lady Tsunade said.

"Aw granny" Raven's tone was suddenly respectful "couldn't someone, anyone else do it? You know, you could give them the day off." Raven pleaded hopefully. Tsunade bit her lip to keep from screaming.

"No Raven, you are by far the most qualified ninja for the job and besides," she added with a cruel grin, "you kept me waiting" Raven reached in his pocket and slowly drew out a cigarette,

"If I sincerely apologize, can I get off with a stern warning?" Lady Tsunade could no longer control herself.

"NO! YOU WILL TEACH TODAY! GOT IT?"

"If you let me off, I'll get you a gallon of sake." Raven said desperately.

" You've got exactly 3 seconds to leave my office" Tsunade said with danger in her voice.

"but-"

"One!"

"Can't we work something-?"

"Two!"

"I hate kids, I-"

"Three!" She threw a paper weight at him.

"OK, OK I'm going!" Raven ran out the door within the blink of an eye.

"Lady Tsunade? Ma'am, Iruka-sensei isn't sick." Remarked Shizune, Tsunade's assistant. Tsunade smiled and said,

"I know that."


Raven made his way to the ninja academy of Konoha, muttering to himself as he went.

"Stupid Hokage, stupid school…" he stopped as a pedestrian looked at him weird. "What? You never seen a mad ninja before? Vanish infidel!" the man dropped his food and sprinted away. "That's right fool, RUN!"

Raven walked to the academy and entered the classroom. He was greeted by a mob of third-year students. Ninjas in Konoha study for three years in the classroom and then are transferred to a squad where they learn from their assigned sensei until they are determined ready to lead their own squad of students. Raven took a deep breath and addressed the students.

"Greetings… children" he said stiffly. "Umm, what was the last thing that Iruka-sensei taught you?"

A small hyper kid in the back piped up,

"Umm, dude, he was teaching us about blood inheritance limits and we were starting on Genjutsu."

Raven's eyes narrowed, "what is your name, half-pint?" he said in a teasing manner. "My name is Uzumaki Meile, dude" She chirped. Raven's voice was on the brink of shouting,

"Okay, one, try stopping with the hyper ness. Two, don't call me dude; my name is Uchiha Raven. You students will address me as Raven- sensei, Raven-sama, or sir. Anything else is unacceptable and will result in the whole class running 17 miles in five minutes."

Meile raised her hand. "Umm, is that all, dude?"

Raven screamed, "17 MILES ALL OF YOU!" The whole class groaned, almost in unison and Raven smiled and enjoyed every second of it.

Five minutes later the class was herded into the classroom for the lesson. "Okay you ridiculous genin, shall we begin? Where were we? Oh yes inherited traits…"